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THE SOUTHERN WORLD, DECEMBER 1,1884.
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PREMIUM LIST OF FIELD
CROPS.
Offered by Georgia state Fair As*
socialism, 1885.
1. For largest and best yield wheat from
one acre | 50 00
2. For largest and best yield oats from
one sere 50 00
3. For largest and best yield rye from one
acre 25 00
4. For largest and best yield barley from
one acre 25 00
5. For largest and best yield mllo-malze
forage from one acre 25 00
6. For largest and best yield corn from
oneacre ‘ 25 00
7. For largest and best yield milo maize
seed from one acre 25 00
S., For largest and best yield lucerne hay
from one acre 25 00
9. From largest and best yield Bermuda
bay from one acre 25 00
10. For the largest rnd best yield Johnson
grase hay from one acre 25 00
11. For largest and best yield pea-vine
hay from one am^B..-. 25 00
12. For largest and boWylelsi clover hay
from one acre... ' 25 00
13. For largest and best yield native crab
grass hay from one acre 25 00
14. For largest, and best yield upland rice
from one acre 60 00
15. For largest and best yield lowland
rice from one acre 60 00
16. For largest and best yield upland corn
from one acre ,, 50 00
17. For largest and best yield lowland
corn from one acre 25 00
18. For largest and best yield sweet pota
toes from one acre 25 00
19. For largest and best yield Irish pota
toes from one-half acre 25 OO
20. For largest and best yield ground peas
from one acre 25 00
21. For largest and best yield field peas
from one acre 25 00
22. For largest and best yield buckwheat
from one acre 25 00
23. For largest and best yield turnips
from one acre 25 00
24. For largest and best yield of *beets
from oneacre 25 00
25. For largest yield clean lint cotton from
one acre 60 00
26. For one bushel cotton seed that has
made largest per cent, of lint cotton
from one acre. 20 00
27. To the county that makes the largest
and best display of products grown
~ or produced In the county 150 00
28. To the county making the second
largest and best display of products
grown or produced in county 75 00
29. To the county making the third largest
and best display of products grown
or produced in county 50 00
80. To the individual making the largest
and best display of products grown
or produced by him or her, orunder
his or her direction 75 00
■gl, To the individual making the second
•- best display, etc 25 00
32. To the individual making the third
best display, etc 25 00
NOTE.
All premiums contested for by parties
must give satisfactory evidence that the
stipulations have been complied with,
and samples of crops entered for prem
iums must be presented to superintend
ent of field crops on fair grounds for dis
play. The samples of cereals or tubers
not to be less than one bushel.
All information desired in this depart
ment can be, obtained by addressing
J. M. Mobley,
Hamilton, Harris county, Ga.
All papers in the State, friendly to the
cause of agriculture, are requested to
publish this premium list.
The premiums for the other depart
ments of the fair will be published in
ample time.
The Georgia Fair Association, having
determined to permanently locate fair
grounds, propositions from any city in
the State desiring the fair grounds to be
permanently located within or near
their limits will please confer with the
undersigned committee.
L. F. Livingston, President,
Covington, Ga.
J. H. Fannin, Vice-President.
John O. Waddell, Ex. Committe.
J. M. Mobley, Ex. Committee.
For Executive Committee.
We return our grateful thanks to the
large number of our subscribers who
have promptly sent in their renewals,
and the subscriptions of their friends.
Let the good work go bravely on.
Raafl me card of 8. W. Goode, Real Ketate
Agent.
Georgia's Grand Thoroughfare—
the Western and Atlantic
Railroad.
Of all the great highways of Georgia
which link her people together with
bands of steel from the mountains to
the seaboard, and from the Savannah
river to the Chattahoochee, there is not
one more important, or that has exerted
a greater influence for good upon the
commonwealth than the Western and
Atlantic or State Road.
Until quite recently the only gateway
from the North and West through which
continually poured a stream of travel,
and the almost illimitable productions
of those opulent sections, even the
slightest impediment like a burnt bridge
or sudden freshet caused such an accu
mulation of business and blockade of
freights as to seriously disturb the oper
ations of commerce.' And even now,
albeit, the Cincinnati Southern and a
new route to the sea opened up by the
extension to Atlanta and Rome of the
Macon and Brunswick road, have di
verted an immense amount of traffic into
other channels, still so rapid has been
the material progress of the country
that all the lines of railroad find abund
ant occupation, and the Western and
Atlantic continues to pay its monthly
rent into the State treasury with clock
like precision, and has lost nothing of
its prestige. Indeed, to the eye of the
observing passenger, the road bed, rails,
cross-ties, bridges, rolling stock, depot
buildings and all the paraphernalia of
the concern appear to be in almost per
fect condition.
The trains move without a jolt, and
the time table is wonderfully uniform,
while the officers and employees all
seem polite and attentive.
The lease was a most fortunate operar
tion for the State, and it would be well
if it could be renewed upon the same
guarantees and specifications. Experi
ence has shown that no public work
should be undertaken or run by the
State. Sooner or later it will become a
factor in politics, and moreover will
always prove far more costly than if
constructed and managed by private en
terprise.
The history of the Western and At
lantic Railroad furnishes the best possi
ble illustration of this trueism.
The writer can recall after many years
a lecture delivered by that master mind,
Prof. C. F. McCay, to the Senior class
of Franklin College, on Civil Engineer
ing, in which he took the broad ground
that internal improvements by govern
ment was always expensive and demor
alizing, even if considered constitu
tional. *
He proved his position by the conduct
of the builders of the State Road then
in process of construction. Although
passing through a wilderness with hard
ly the symptom of a village at either
terminal point; in order to reap greater
profits, the road bed was made broad
enough for a double track by the con
tractors, which would not be needed for
a half century. A short detour, too,
might have saved the heavy expense of
the tunnel, while the road was made as
crooked as a ram’s horn in order to en
able the bridge makers to construct
seventeen bridges over one stream, if
we recollect aright, the Chickamauga
river. See the ruinous condition of the
same highway, too, when turned over
to the present lessees. What a con
trast in the status of the road between
then and now ? In regard to the sale of
the road at the expiration of the present
lease, we think as suggested above
that a renewal of the lease would
be very much preferable, provid
ed the same, or equally reliable
parties can be found who would give
satisfactory guarantees and security for
the performance of their obligations.
The income from the road forms an im
portant item in the revenues of the
State,while the eplesdid property affords
a sure basis for the maintenance of her
credit.
If no proper lease can be effected,
then by all means let the State sell the
road in preference to running it upon
her own account. The latter course
would be pregnant with mischief to the
commonwealth. H. H. J.
God Be With You.
Good-bye 1 It is a God speed. There
is a hearty shake of the hand, a tremor
of feeling in the friendly tones, but no
hint of parting. They two are friends
standing together on the deck of a ship
that is outward bound. Both are on a
journey—a voyage on unknown seas—
the one who goes and the one who stays.
Full of life, of hope for the future, there
is no hint of sadness in the ringing
good-bye that seems the announcement
of a bond of union rather than of sepa
ration, the assurance that come weal or
come woe with them it will be well. It
is the good-bye of victory rather than of
defeat.
Good-bye 1 It is an admonition. The
words say plainly to the lovers: “Be
true,” “remember me,” “until we
meet again.” They may not salute each
other as even strangers may do at part
ing. They must be oblivious to the cere
monies of even ordinary friendship.
Their love is too new and sacred a thing
to be brought out to the public gaze.
They can only clasp each other’s hands,
and look into each other’s eyeB and
stammer one passionate, regretful, long
ing good-bye.
“Buttho heart feels most when the lip moves
not
And the eyes speak the gentle good-bye!"
Good-bye 1 It is a benediction. An
aged couple are parting now. “Oh
when to meet again?” They do not
know that other eyes are upon them.
They are alone with each other and God.
There is a solemn, tremulous good-bye.
They have no word to say. Each known
what is in tne heart of the other; dis
tance cannot separate those two.
"Our hearts ever answered in tune and in
time, love,
As octave to octave, and rhyme unto rhyme,
love.”
Good-bye 1 It is a prayer. God be
with you 1 The words can have no other
meaning for those whom death parts.
They all have need of this prayer who
are going out into that limitless future
where iareweliB and good-byes are
Bounds unknown. Fold the pale hands,
kiss the sealed lips and the marble brow.
It is but one who crieB out in passionate,
pleading agony: “Good-bye.” The
voice of the other is mute. Dear trav
eler to the far-off country, God be with
you!
A Superb Compost.
Mrs. Joe Bailey, of Scott county Mis
sissippi, in an address to her Grange,
gave one of the best formulas we have
ever read, and we give it with our spe
cial commendation:
“ The best fertilizer on a farm is good
common sense. A well educated mind,
a good heart and willing hands are the
principal ingredients; without these all
you' labor is Bpent in vain. You might
have all the fertilizers in the land at
your command and if not judiciously
applied what would it profit you ? How
ever, we beg leave to submit the follow
ing, earnestly requesting our brothers
to try it, as we can assure them it will
prove to be the best compost heap ever
invented.”
Take 40 pounds of good, strong resolu
tion, and place in the bottom of a pen,
made of good intentions. Next take 20
gallons of self conceit, 10 pounds each
of impudence and intolerance and mix
with 12 pounds of indolence, mix thor
oughly and pour over it 20 gallons of
misapprehension, 30 of pride, 10 of folly
and 75 of vanity. This will do for the
first layer.”
“ Then take the Kent and effects of
all the cigars and cigarettes and mix
them, with the scent and effects of all
the whisky, wine and beer used during
the year, and mix them with all the
eiglis and groans and tears of mothers,
wives and children, which have been
caused by the use of the above, and pour
over this as many gallons as you please
of vain regrets and broken promises.
This will do for tho second layer.”
“ Next take 35 pounds of watt awhile,
25 pounds of it will do for a while, 45
poundB of I can’t buy it for you, wife, and
mix with 10 pounds of impatience, 15 of
grumbling, 30 of fault finding and 40 of
swearing, pour aver this 10 gallons of
suspicion and 20 ol jealously. This will
do for the third and last layer.”
“ Now, enclose this in 3 inch plank
made of determination and fastened
with spikes made of perseverance, and
forever let it remain undisturb'd.”
“ Its value will be developed in a few
months. Tho serene countenance, the
sweet breath, the sunny smiles, the
elastic tep, the loving words, the quiet,
peacefu, home, and above all, the clear
rippling stream of joy for ever flowing
through the heart, will convince the
most skeptical of its inestimable value.”
Tbe Eddy Process and Electric
Sodium Amalgam for Saving
Elite or Elour and Rusty
Gold In Mining.
Editor Southekn World—Ever since tbe dls-
covery of gold lu Georgia in 1828 and the estab
lishment of a branch • f the United States Mint
at DAblonegs, Ga., In 1880, at which was coined
over |26,C!}0,tiOO In twenty years, from the gold
taken from the suifsce washings of the mines
of Lumpkin aud adjolng couutles, numerous
efforts have been made to discover a process
whereby tbe fluo or flour and rusty gold, with
which the mlues abound, could be saved. The
creeks and rivers of North Georgia are full of
this fine gold, which for centuries past has been
washed by the melting snows and rains from
the disintegrated oro of the quartz leads; and
from the milling operations, which have been
carried ou during the past forty years on the
Uhestatee and other streams. Its specific grav
ity, in comparison with that of the coarser par
ticles, Is so small, that It floats In the water an<J
passes over the inlll-plates and through! the
sluice-boxes, without being precipitated and
uniting with the quiCKSiLVRR. •*«
In ordinary sluicing, the heavier paitlcles of
gold are precipitated and either unite with the
quicksilver c-r rest ou the bottom of the boxes,
but the m. > gold cannot roslat the notion of tbe
body ol the water required in the operation,
and Is curried away by the current aud lost.
To obviate this difficulty, a plan known as the
Eddy Process, has been recently Invented,
which, with tbe aid of the Electric Sodium
Amalgam, has effectually solved the problem
of saving fine or flour and oxidised gold. The
Eddy Process Is based upon the principle of
eddies In rivers mid streams, which receive the
gold which is lost in mining operations. The
Electric Sodium Ama gum, In contact with the
quicksilver iu the batteries and sluice boxes, or
wherever It may be used, Imparts to It life and
activity and causes it to amalgamate readily
with the gold.
All the processes heretofore discovered are
complicated and costly, and fail to save more
than one-half ol the gold contained In the ore
and debris of the mines. But the cheapness of
tbe Eddy Process aud Electric Sodium Amalgam
Is such, as to place It in the power of every
miner to adopt the new process for saving line
gold.
The Electric Sodium Amalgam has been
thoroughly tested, and has been found to save
2o per cent, more of gold than Is ordinarily
realized from mining operations.
Yours respectfully,
Wm. W. Habersham, M. E.
Tbe jicsrons Disagree.
God bless our dear old friend Whidby,
who is just as pure and good as he is
ugly.—Deacon Blackburn, of tbe Madi-
Ionian.
Our old friend, W. G. Whidby, editor
of the Atlanta Southern World, should
take down his fowling piece and go gun
ning for the Bcamp who chiseled out
what is called his picture in the last
issue of the World. While we have
often, in the course of our travels, ran
upon better looking men than Whidby,
yet we have too much respect for the
genial old typo to allow this cartoon
pass unnoticed. Call him out, Whid !—
Deacon Moore, of the Augusta Newt.
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