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SEPTEMBER
CROP REPORT
Cotton Has Suffered For Want
of Sunshine.
PICKING GREATLY RETARDED
Complaints Reach the Department of
Rust, ROtting and Ravages of
the Boil Worm-FOdder
Will Be Scarce.
PICKING GREATLY RETARDED
AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT.

ATLANTA, Sept /, 1901.
The characteristic features of August
weather were very heavy rains in most
of the counties of the state, while the
temperature ranged slightly below the
normal, as a result of which the cotton
crop suffered materially for the want OF
sunshine and warmer weather. Hence
many complaints have reached the de-
partment concerning injury from rust,
rotting of bolls and ravages of the
boil worm, so that the crop condi-
tlons on Sept. l are far from satisfacto-
ry. The average condition of the cotton
crop has fallen from "a per cent on June
to 70 per cent on Sept l.
In addition to the fact that the cotton
crop is Is days late, picking has been
very materially retarded, owing to the
August rains.
The condition and prospects of corn,
which on June l were 80 per cent, were
on Sept. 1 n per cent. This de.
crease in the prospects of the corn
crop was caused in many cases
by overfows of the creeks and
rivers, resulting from the excessive
August rains. A large per cent of the
fodder also has been damaged by the
same agency and this forage will be
unusually scarce the coming year.
Most of the cane, sweet potatoes, peas,
ground peas, upland rice and the grasses
promise well.
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Thus you see, by study of these
analyses, that you find in the soil the
same elements which we found in the
plant we analyzed in our first letter and
also in this wheat plant. The carbon,
hydrogen and oxygen which we find In
the soil are Of little or no use as plant
food because the plant gets its store Of
those foods out of the atmosphere. 1t
derives it's carbon from the carbonic
acid in the air. You will remember
that I wrote you in one of my letters
last year about the Importance of water
and carbonic acid, and as it is apt here
will repeat the paragraph:
''The water from which the hydrogen
and oxygen come is given US free in the
form of rain, and the carbon also in the
form of carbonic acid which is breathed
out continually into the atmosphere by
every living animal on the surface of
the earth; by every chimney and hearth
stone which warns happy family; by
every factory smokestack and locomo-
tive which minister to our wants and
necessities. Carbonic acid forms the
principal part Of all this smoke although
it is not the black part which we see,
but the invisible part which is clear and
oolorless like the air. Vast streams OF
it are pouring out constantly into the
air; why does it not stifle and suffocate
us as it would if poured into the rooms
where we live? 1t is because all plant
life lives on it, the great forests absorb
it. The crops of wheat, corn and cotton
consume it; the lilies and the roses eat
| it and drink it. They take this deadly
gas into their wonderful little bodies,
and work it over and over, together with
the water which they suck out of the
soil, until they have separated the car
bon from the oxygen with which 1t is
combined in carbonic acid, ,liberating the
oxygen and appropriating the carbon
in building the cells and tissues and
organs of which the plant is composed.
This process of the plant in taking its
carbon out of the air is most wonder
full one, and goes on only under the in
fuence of light or in the DAY time, and
the leaf of the plant is the only active
organ concerned in taking the carbonic
acid out of the air. The leaf of the
plant is formed of very numerous little
cells placed side by side; on the under
side of the leaf there are air spaces be-
tween the cells, and over the whole leaf
there is thin skin. In this skin there
are numerous small holes through which
the air passes. When it passes into the
leaf whilst the sunlight is shining upon
it, through some strange vital power the
little cells of the leaf, under these con-
ditlons break up the carbonie acid of the
air, retaining the carbon and setting the
oxygen free, which passes out again into
the air. When night comes the carbon
thus obtained undergoes a change and
passes into the circulation of the plant,
going to the various parts of the plant
where it may be needed.
So we see that growing plants tend to
purify the air by consuming its carbonic
said gas. which is injurious to animal
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ELEr1ENTS OF
PLANT FOOD
Letter From the State Chemist
In Regard to
ANALYSIS OF A RICH SOIL
Every Farmer Has 1t In His Power TO
Improve His Soil by Proper
TiIlage and Fer
tilizing.
ANALYSIS OF A RICH SOIL
LETTER NO. q.


Whilst few farmers ever find such a
perfect soil as l described to you in the
last part of my last letter, yet every
farmer has it in his power TO improve
the soil he starts with however poor it
may be or whatever it's nature may be,
by judicious tillage, fertilizIng, drain
ing, ditch1ng, lining, sanding, claying
and terraoing, according as the con-
ditions of his soil may indicate. He
should especially consider his soil and
decide to what crops 1t. seems to be best
suited, and then devote his energies to
raising those crops rather than others
which thrive poorly.
If now we proceed to analyze
a soil as we did a plant a short
while since. We should expect to
find in it some of all the elements we
found in the plant, more especially in
the ash of the plant. Let us take the
analysis of quite a rich soil; here is
about what we should have; taking one
hundred pounds of the dry soil, we
could, by mean of careful and skillful
chemical analysis, separate 1T into the
following parts:
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as follows:
Sections Consolidated.

Cotton, compared to an average, rs. l,
per cent? corn, compared TO an average
1884 per cent; rice. compared to an av
erage, 3d. 80 per cent; sugar cane, com
pared to an average, 88 90 per cent
sweet potatoes, compared to an average
CLOS per cent; tobacco, compared TO al
average, 8732 per cent; pea crop, com
pared to an average, 88.53 per cent; pea
nut crop, compared to an average, go. 81
per cent; hay crop, compared to an av
erage, $500 per cent; number of stool
hogs, compared to last year, 81 per cent
condition of stock hogs, compared with
an average, go. 81 per cent.
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Joke In a Needles Point.

Some 80 years ago a firm in San
Francisco sent to a Chinese house in
Canton the smallest and fEast kind of
needle as q sample of our skill in deli
cate handicraft 1t was returned to
them with hole through the point,
which could only be seen with a micro
seope.-Ster sscopic Photograph.
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life. and by giving off pure oxygen gas
in it's place, which is beneficial TO am
NAL life. Animal and plant life thus
stand in mutual and beautiful relations
TO each other. Plant life inhales OAR
bonic acid and exhales oxygen; animal
life inhales oxygen and exhales carbonac
acid.
The animal, in his lungs and blood
causes carbon to unite with oxygen 90
form carbonic acid; whilst the plant IN
it's cells causes the carbon Of the carbon
ic acid to separate from its oxygen.
Analysis shows the percentage Of care
bonic acid in the air to be small. Thus
a hundred gallons Of air is composed of
Oxygen. ....... 30 90 gallons.
Nitrogen 78 9S gallons.
Carbonic acid. o08 gallons.
You gay this is very small
amount of carbonic acid.
seems so. but when you c4
consider the enormous bulk of
it actually is very large. Their
much of 1t that the volume Of al
rests on one acre of your farm, q
ing for height of only 90 feel
the farm would contain 90
of carbonic acid gas, and this q
never grows less, even when the
are feeding on it, because it ls
constantly renewed from other
Therefore, whilst you 80 eys
any lack Of the essential eIenA -
bon, it is well for you to ar
where it comes from and how n
ant it is I have said the oxyge
hydrogen found in the plant CAM
from the air; really they do not M az,
from the air itself, but they come fsxnad,
the water which floats in the air in Nrom
form of clouds. These descend as rN-IG rs
upon the soil and are drawn up through
the roots of the plant, and the oxyge4 t,
and hydrogen, of which water is comA f
posed, are appropriated by the plantNr
You, of course, appreciate the impertlgE
ance of these two elements of p mt lifeA'
because you know only too we how
crops suffer in a dry season. W. will
consider the other elements in our next
letter. Yours truly,
JOHN M. MCCANDIEss,
State Chemist.
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One Kansas law says the person
property of dead man, when Y
claimed by relatives, shall be soIdk
auction,
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w. MCOANDLfhS5s
State Chemist.
SIMPLE REMEDIES.
uted ammonia is good for insect

Diluted ammonia is good for insect
bites and stings.
A raw egg swallowed at once upon
getting a fishbone in the throat beyond
the reach of the finger, it is said, will
dislodge it and carry it down,
A simple remedy for indigestion is
the white of an egg beaten to stiff
froth and stirred into a wineglassfuI
of cold water This should be taken
after each NEAL
For burns and scalds, when no other
remedy is at hand try the effect Of a
piece of rag STEPPED in vinegar and
bound round the scar. This Is espe-
cially useful when cooking, for the
vinegar is generally at hand.
To cure a severe case of collie take q
teaspoonful of salt in pint Of water;
drink and go to bed. This is one Of the
speediest remedies known. 1t will also
prove eficacious in reviving a person
who seems almost dead fraza- :. ..aazaas,szsss
fall. khe ma
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Sober second boueb4

Il thought l was. siding il k.4o ofdce on
wave of popular enthusiast W
''Yes?' u
But after I'd paid the NlM !. felt aa
II Ia footed it in, so to a. De-
troit Journal.
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P0tflIOe|

Always seeks to fnds,ofe exfzEEgsasAa
for itself, and womanly gratitude will not
keep silence. Cynical people sometimes
say Why do women write these testirno-
malls to the value of DR.. Pierce's Favorite
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hrtrscf enm Lsher asted
0rasayLns. S. 6. Aggust %. LasQ.

"a tAs axs ef 50, wfth 3 years Of aetivs
pEasttoa, am . careful observer and eau
sssas n snd1EzinE proprietary medicines, bua
s&a C1nssisntiOuEHy endOrssy 'RJOHEBOF'a
CHILL AND FEvER TOXIC as o. OF ths bast
eouzA8aasl0a rensdsa fog Chms and Fever
haRs ever gss4 Is eOrrSGas us v4ttatea So
sEsassaa sf Eas HvsEs Fsiisves 0osttvsasm, ana
pEszsotss a2aogvEtoz and az41zSIlas4nnaf fead,
sasns haIanaux al tAa ha6laasas@s SlaAnnsA Ter 4,
Y0aB tFaly,
4. p. RDWAE2a, H p.
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Preparing For a .Tournew

Jerome X. Jerome recalled.
reverence, a habit Of his methl fainted
uncle who, before packing Tor capitol.
ney, always made a list" Thiss
the system which he followed, aa
ed from his uncle's own lips: m
Take a piece of paper and put a ds7TT : AAo
on it everything you can possibIyRa "a
quire. Then go over It trdn trn see feeE
contains nothing you csn posi- sClark g
without. nS IN
Imagine yourself in bed WhaA AhN
you got on? Very WELL put it
together with a change You g& e@N
What do you do? Wash vol ~.
What do you wash yourself 9hA
Soap Put down soap. Go on IT,
have finished. Then take your 6 N
Begin at your feet. What do yJ
or your feet? Boots, shoes, socLso1 eAA
them down. Work up till youS w.
your head. What do you want* 9WM
clothes? Put down everything.
This is the plan the old gentleman al
ways pursued. The list made, he would
go over it carefully to see that he haCa
forgotten nothing. Then he would
over it again and strike out everyt
it was possible to dispense with I'm
he would lose the list.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-09-18

SOUTHERN SECTIoN-Appling, Baker
Berrien, Brooks, Bryan, Bulloch. Cal
houn, Camden, Charlton, Chatham,
Chattahoochee, Clay, Clinch, Coffee
Colquitt, Decatur, Dodge, Dooly, Dough.
erty, Early, Echols, Ef9ngham, Glynn,
Houston, Irwin, Lee, Liberty, Lowndes,
Macon, Marion, Mcintosh, Meriwether
Miller, Mitchell, Montgomery, Pierce,
Pulaski, Quitman, Randolph, Schley,
Stewart, Sumter, Tattnall, Taylor, Tel.
fair, Terrell, Thomas, Wilcox, Wayne
Webster, Ware, Wilkinson, Worth.
The report of crops for this section is
as follows:
Cotton, compared to an average, IS. IL
per cent; corn, compared to an average,
78. Al per cent; rice, compared to an av.
erage, 1924 per cent; sugar cane, oom-
pared to an average. 81. 80 per cent
sweet potatoes, compared to an average
90.8 per cent; tobacco, compared to an
average, 60 so per cent; pea crop, COM
pared to an average, "a. "a per cent; pea
nut crop, compared to an average, SO. II
per cent; hay crop, compared to an av-
erage, 85. so per cent; number of stock
hogs, compared to last year, co. AZ per
cent; condition of stock hogs, compared
with an average, 9l.24 per cent
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MIDDLE SECTION - Baldwin, Bibb.
Burke, Butts, Carroll, Clayton, Colum.
bia, Coweta, Crawford, Emanuel, Fay.
cite, Glascock, Greene, Hancock, Harris
Heard, Henry, Jasper, Jefferson, Jones,
Johnson, Laurens, McDufie, Monroe
Muscogee, Morgan, Newton, Pike, Put.
nam, Richmond, Screven, Spald1ng
Talbot, Ta1iaferro, Troup, Twiggs, Upson,
Warren, Washington.
The report of crops for this section is
as follows:
Cotton, compared to an average, "a. 19
per cent; corn, compared to an average
72.09 per cent; rice, compared to an av
erage, 1920 per cent; sugar cane, com.
pared TO an average, 84.sS per cent
sweet potatoes, compared to an average
SO ~ per cent? tobacco, compared to an
average, 90:88 per cent; pea crop, com
pared to an average, 90 10 per cent; pea
nut crop, compared to an average, 81. "a
hay crop, compared to an average, 80 81
per cent; number of stock hogs, com
pared to last year, 81. II per cent; con
dition of stock hogs, compared with an
average, 90 33 per cent.
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Begin
t. -
Right!
JOHNSON'S TONIC.

The sickest is not always in bed. The meanest kind
of sickness be able to attend to ones duties With
blood your veins you perform, with pleasure the
that becomes arduous task for half we'll people
Why don't you take J0HNS0NS TONIC7 1t is the
Worlds Greatest Medicine The dealer makes less money on
JOHNSONS TONIC than any other kind Now remember
that your health your business and making money his
business.
It would pay you better to drive twenty-five miles to get
bottle 0HNSONS TONIC rather than the cheap kind
that pays more profit to the dealer
Money ymakng and Lesavng don't very close togeth-
0HNSONS TONIC the kind that It is 100 times
better than Qunne. Does in day what slow Qunine
cannot do in ten days
Better do your thinking when your health at stake
Insist upon having the Worlds Greatest Medicine,
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An Excellent Combination.

The pleasant method and beneficial
effects of the well known remedy,
SYRUP OF FIGS, manufactured by the
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP Co., illustrate
the value of obtaining the liquid laxa-
tive principles of plants known to be
incidentally laxative and presenting
themin the form most refreshing to the
taste and acceptable to the system. 1t
is the one perfect strengthening laxa-
tive, cleansing the system effectually,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
gently yet promptly and enabling one
to overcome habitual constipation per-
manently. It's perfect freedom from
every Objectionable quality and sub
stance, and it's acting on the kidneys,
liver and bowels, without weakening
or irritating them, make it the ideal
laxative.
In the process of manufacturing figs
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taste, but the medicinal qualities of the
remedy are obtained from senna and
other aromatic plants, by a method
known to the CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP
Co. only. In order to get it's beneficial
effects and to avoid limitations, please
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NORTHERN SECTIoN-Banks, Barlow
Campbell, Catoosa, Ohattooga, Ohero
kee, Clarke, Cobb, Dawson, DeKalb
Douglas, Ebert, Fannin, Forsyth
Franklin, Floyd, Fulton, Gilmer, Cor
don, Gwinnett, Habersham, Harralson
Hall, Hart. Jackson, Lincoln, Lumpkin
Madison, Milton, Murray, Ooonee, Ogle
thorpe, Paulding, Piokens, Polk, Rabun
Rockdale, Towns, Union, Walker, Wal
ton, White, Whitfield, Wilkes.
The report of crops for this section il
as follows:
Cotton, compared to an average, 76. II
per cent; cora, compared to an average
80 per cent; rice, compared to an aver
age. 1888 per cent; sugar cane, com.
pared to an average, SO per cent; sweet
potatoes, compared to an average. 93. II
per cent; tobacco, compared to an aver.
age, 8l,15 per cent; pea crop, compared
to an average, 80. 66 per cent; peanut
crop, compared to an average, 81. 10 pei
cent; hay crop, compared to an average,
SO. II per cent; number Of stock hogs,
compared to last year, 90 80 per cent
condition of stock hogs, compared with
an average, 90.07 per cent.
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IOHNSON'S CHILL and FEVER TONIC.

1t has been on the market for the
past seventeen years, and stands
higher to-day as a curative agent
than any other medicine made.
Take thorough course of JOHN
SONS TONIC and enjoy that keen
pleasure in life that only belongs to
thoroughly well people.
Cssts so cents q bsttls. Get it
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SAVANNAH GA.
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GUNNER is here, and those who start
- right will go through the whole summer
season with little trouble. A taint of Mala-
rial poisoning in your blood to-day will last
until the Fall unless you drive it out now.
Blood Medicines can't cure Malaria poison
ing. The antidote for Malaria poisoning is
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Prescription The
answer can be
put in one word,
Gratitude. When,
after years of
agony a woman is
freed from pain.
whers the W e ak
woman is made
strong and the
sick woman we'll,
the natural inn
pulse is to writes
word af grateful
[ n q II X s 1Ox the
medicine W hfch
caused the curc.
DR.. Pierce's FM~
vorite Prescription
cures diseases
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1t establishes regu-
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&c Having used Dr.
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scription and Csoldem
IA e dieal Discovery
during the past year >
of Pfouts Valley. PERRY
recommend the nnedi-
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writes Mrs. Matte Long, of
Co., Pa. VI can truthfully re-
cines for all female weakn,
several bottles of Favorits
I consider a great blessing
was so nervous and discouf
knew what to do. Your HI
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DR.. PIERCE
Doctor Pierce'a
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sl,.,,5zS Pierce's Pie
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use of
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Now let us analyze one hundred
pounds of wheat plants.
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An early oat. crop rarely fails ArnAn
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-25
EXPLORATION PARTY.

Seattle, Wash, June 25.-A United States exploration party arrived in Dawson early in June on the way to Northern Alaska to explore one of the widest unknown areas In the vast ter 1itory. It is headed by W. c. Menden- hall, geologist, and L. B. Reaburn, to- pographer, who are accompanied by five men. The party was to leave Daw- son about June 10 going down the Yu- kon to Fort Hamlin by steamer, thence overland by the Dahl river trail to the middle fork of the Koyokuk to Berg man, where supplies were shipped for the party last year. Thence they go up one of the southward floating tributar- ies of the Koyokula, by the Alashuk, thence over the train to the Kowak and down the Kowak to Kotzebae sound opening into the Artic ocean short distance north of Bering strait. This is the first government party ever detail ed to this field which has been visited by but few white men. Mendenhall will gather geogical information and Reaburn will make maps of the country traversed.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-25
EIGHTY WITNESSES PRESENT. Man Charged With the Murder of
 Three Men in Seattle.

Dawson, June 14, via Seattle, Wash. June 25.--The trial of George O'Brien, charged with the murder of Lynn Wal lace Relf and Fred H. Claysen, both of Seattle, and Ole Oleson, Dawson Skagway telegraph 1ineman, Christ mas day, 1899, on the winter train near Minto, south of Dawson, which was begun here this week, is the most absorbing and sensational ever held in the north.
 Some idea of the magnitude of the case as presented by the government may be gathered from the fact that the estimated cost already of the prosecu- ton is more than $100;000. Eighty witnesses have been gathered here by the crown from all parts of the Yukon and from the states and lower Canada. Captain Scarth of the Northwest mounted police, who has conducted the search for witnesses and evidence for eighteen months, has left not the slightest clue unturned, and thousands after thousands of miles have been traversed in the Yukon and on the out side by his big corps of | sistants. The work of searching for O'Brien's supposed accomplices and in gathering clues to evidence, has entailed the most extraordinary detective work ever done in the north. Much was done in the dead of the Arctic winter. Men have trailed the supposed accom- plices the full length of the Yukon, up tributary streams of the river and per haps to points beyond not yet made public. Some of the special detectives went down the Yukon and out by the way of Nome and Seattle last fall.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-25
TOTAL CLAIM 400, ,ooo TAELs.

Pekin, June 25.-The China Mer. chants Go, owners of the premises in Tien Tsin at first occupied by the ma- rines and afterwards by Liscum's conn mand as barracks, have completed their claim against the United States government for yaluables which they aver were carried off by the marines. The list comprises many valuable furs, rugs and jewels, including diamonds. The total of their claim is 100000 taels. The company says that the premises being a part of the foreign concession, were willingly lent for mil itary necessities, but that they were not subject to footing, as they would have been if they had been in the Chi snese city.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-25
INIuRED AT FIRE.

St Louis, Mo, June 25.-Fire broke out early to-day in the building No SOP Morgan street, occupied on the ground floor by the J. Edwards Paint ing company, and quickly spread to buildings adjoining, the upper portions of which were used as tenements. A panic, followed and a number of the occupants jumped from upper win dows. Mrs Anna Zola received in- juries which resulted in her death within half an hour. Her daughter Camille had her hip dislocated and sustained a fracture of the skull; her son Edward was seriously injured by jumping. Loss to buildings nominal.