The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-10-12
DIVERSIFIED FARMING.

The low prices paid for cotton few
wears ago gave diversified farming
which had made so little progress In
the south. a wonderful impetus which
now seems likely to be lost. This ls
misfortune that cannot be deDlored too
strongly. Diversified farming and
cotton raising should go hand in hand.
Animal industries must be the right
arm of cotton growing, because they
provide the bone and sinew for the
nourishment of the soil and the main
tsuance of the quality and yield OF cot.
ton. Diversified farming means
cheaper living for the planter ana ten
ant. It means utilizing the soil and 30
prolonging it's life and dessenlng the
strain 10 which it is subjected through
the one-crop system. If there is any
means by which the value OF dtversl-
fed farming can be impressed on the
cotton grower let it be done forthwith,
because it will be an unmitigated mis-
fortune to go back to old methods
Diversified farming with cotton as
paramount industry should be the
watch word of every Georgia farmer.
THE fact cannot be questioned that
in this campaign the millionalres are
banded together to purchase the pres
idential election as it was purchased
for Mckinley in 1896. They are giving
their money freely, knowing that In
return for it if Roosevelt is elected
they will get such privileges from the
administration as they desire.
CAPTAIN BOB HITCH, who refused
TO make a lot of widows and orphans IN
Bulloch county at the time OF the
lynching OF the two negro fends who
murdered and burned the Hodges fam
INV, received a good many votes for
governor in the recent state election.
There has been no hitch in his popu-
| larity.
WITH the people of Albany giving
Chief Westbrook vindication baroe'
cue and the people of Atlanta re-elect-
ing Jim: Woodward mayor, it is the
opinion of the Augusta Chronicle
that Rev. Len Broughton ought to
feel in the humOr to bite himself.
WHAT a paradise that western coun'
try is for.Cuffee! A watermelon grown
in Oklahoma exhibited at the world g
fair, weighed 1919 pounds, but Texas
came up withone weighing III pounds,
which is the largest ever grown In
any part of the world.
THE Albany Herald notes that
Hesrst's newspaper, the American If
doing about the best newspaper wcrE
that is being done for Parker in New
York; and Bryan is doing about al
. that is being done for the democratic
candidate in the west.
A BIG part of Georgia will heat
T towards Macon next week to see th'
sights of the big state fair. 1t will b
one OF the best ever held in the south
and is an enterprise that appeal
strongly to the pride and support o
Georgians.
JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES is to make
come cam DaiEn speeches for the demo
, cratic party. Under his bonhardmen
of rhetoric .and facts the uDregener
ated renuhlican wiz either have u
Surrender or skeedaddle.
Up ia the fifth district REPUBLICAN
candidate Goree pounded the phYslog
nomy, of Congressman Livingston To-
calling him a liar. Uncle Lon will
more than even up with him on cleo
tion day.
BOOKER WASHINGTON was the stat
guest at banquet in Boston fe"
nights ago. OF course the Bookerite'
in Georgia are delighted at this recog
milton OF their special pet.
ATL ANITA seems to have been 'saV
ed" from Candidate Stockdell instead
, of the other fellow. StOckdell was
very boisterous and breezy aspirant.
JOE OIL, who does the politica
stunt for the Atlanta Constitution
sees nothing In the situation that il
encouraging to democrats.
MCINTOSH county returns its Negro
re preventative to the legislature
Mcintosh is hard to break of baC
habit.
THE Savannah Press SAYS zee
Wateru' Good advice, but not popular
in Savannah.
NEW BETHEL NEWS.