Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-04-08
STEVENS ANNOUNCES
FOR RE-NOMINAT TON
Reviews Record of HIS De-
partment For The Past
Two Years.
HAS PUT INTO TREASURY
$1O,134.6 s MORE THAN
DDRnENECC
PREDECESSOR

of Fertiiizers-Practical Work Done
by the Department for the Advance
ment Agricultural Interests of State.
Hon. o. b. Stevens makes formal an
nouncement in this issue of his can
didacy for denomination to the office
of Commissioner of Agriculture. Mr..
Stevens fully and clearly reviews the
work of his department for the past
two years, and upon this record alone
he basis his claims for denomination.
The announcement follows:
TO THE PEOPLE OF GEORGIA:
In announcing my candidacy Tor
Commissioner of Agriculture for Geor-
gia, subject to the action of the Dem
ocratic primary to be held June 5th,
| feel that it is due to the people OF
the State who have before intrusted
to me the affairs of this important
Department, and before whom | ap-
pear for their endorsement, that |
should give an account of my stew
ardship
Before entering upon a detailed re-
view of the record Of the Department
over which | am now presiding, and
upon which record alone | rest my
claims for reelection, | desire to say
that | shall endeayor to conduct this
campaign, as have all others, with
out bitterness or Ill feeling, and shall
accept the result, as | have always
done, with perfect confidence in the
righteous judgment of majority of
my party.
When ! first went before the people
asking for this office l based my can
didacy upon the solemn promise Of a
faithful. honest. economical, and above
ALL a practical, business administra-
tion of the Department of Agriculture.
How vel l have Kept that promise
my record must show, and to that | re-
fer. as it has been made from day to
day during my incumbency.
| submit that have give to the af-
fairs of this Office every moment of my
time, every particle of energy that
was in me. and whatever of ability
possessed. feel that it may be claim
ed that the Department has been
alert and active in every movement
that looked to the protection and up
building of the agricultural interests Of
Georgia. some OF which | may be par
doned for here referring to-
The Association of Southern Commits
siorers.
In the first place, | refer with spe-
cial pride and satisfaction to the fact
that, through the initiative of this
Department, there was formed the
Association of Commissioners Of Ag
riculture OF the Southern States
through which great good has already
resulted to the agricultural interests
of the South. and in which Georgia has
shared One Of the main objects of
this Association has been the procure
ment of uniform laws for the inspec-
ton and analysis Of commercial fer
tillzers, in which Georgia has already
taken the lead. 1t is easy to under
stand, therefore. that marked ad
vance has been made in this highly i'm
portant branch of work. Even more
important still has been the concerted
effort on the part of this Association
to secure and make public each year
accurate information as to the cot
ton acreage, the crop conditions, and
reliable estimates of the YIELD there
by forestalling unreliable statements
of speculative agents, so often put
forward with a view to influencing the
market against the interests of the
farmer. AS a result of this concerted
effort, We have had the satisfaction,
during the past two seasons, of seeing
the price OF cotton advance materially,
when it was demonstrated that the
facts and figures presented by the
Agricultural Commissioners were
based upon accurate information and
truthful conditions.
Horticulture.
1t has been the pleasure, as well as
the duty Of the Department to give
much OF Its time to the advancement
of the horticultural interests of Geor-
gia, and We have had the satisfaction
of seeing fruit-growing in this State
advance within the past few years
into a remunerative and highly i'm
portant branch of industry, putting
in circulation hundreds of thousands
of dollars, and giving employment to
multitudes.
Dairyine.
The Department has devoted much
attention to our Dairymen's Associa-
tion in Georgia, through which this
important and highly promising indus
try is SO greSsly encouraged and bene-
fitted. and we feel that We NAV well
watch the progress of dairying in
this State with great hopefulness.
Sugar Cane Growing.
Within the past two years the De.
partment has devoted itself to the en-.
encouragement of the sugar cane in.
dustry, and it has already witnessed
most gratifying progress. The grow
ing of cane and the manufacture OF
syrup in the southern section of ou.
State has almost doubled within the
last two years, and We have every
confidence that it will soon be one OF
our greatest money crops.
Tobacco.
Another striking evidence of pro
gress along agricultural lines is the in
terest that has been aroused and the
results met with in the growing of to
bacco in South Georgia, where the best
grades have already been successfully
and profitably produced.
CassaVa.
Cassava is a new crop from which
We believe good results may be ex
pected, giving, as it does, an opportu-
nifty to our farmers in the southern
section of the State not only for al