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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-02-12
Mr. Hartman s Georgia Plans
Birmingham Age-Herald.

In his recent tour of Georgia, e. H.
Hartman distinctly promised that he
would spend $1O,0OOOOO I'm undermining the
Central Railroad of Georgia, provided the
people of Georgia will cease their hostil-
ity to railway interests. Georgia is will
ing to quit hostilities-in fact has quit,
for has not Little joe been elected gov
ernor.
Mr.. Hartman had not word to say
about taking over the Seaboard, but he
did discuss at every opportunity his
plans concerning the Central Railroad
of Georgia He stands ready to expend
$40, 700, 600 in improving the latter railroad
always provided the state of Georgia will
repeal some of its anti-corporation acts.
TAis really raises a great moral issue-can
a state afford to be bribed in this man
ner? The election Of Joseph M. Brown
to the seat now filled by Governor Hoke
Smith is gratifying to the railroad mag
nate, but he seems to want some repeal
acts at the hands of the legislature next
summer. To get them he hangs UP a
tempting purse of $10,00OOOO.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-02-12

gets plenty of fresh water. Any sugges-
tions you can give me will be apprecia-
ted.
II YOU are certain that your hog has
mango, you might proceed as follows Tor
the treatment of the disease. The animal
should be isolated and the hair covering
the infected region clipped closely. Green
soap may be applied and allowed to re-
main on for five hours. Then, 1t should
be washed off with warm water when the
scabs and scurf will be removed. wipe
the parts dry and apply the following
solution: Creolin / ounce, oil of tar L
ounce, flowers of sulphur l ounce; lard
or vaseline 8 ounces. These materials
should be thoroughly mixed together and
applied to the skin three or four times a
day.
The trouble with your milk foaming
when placed in the churn is due to us
temperature. Cotton seed meal raises the
churning temperature very. considerably
When corn, bran or other foodstuffs are
fed to COWS you can probably churn sue
cessfully at a temperature of 50 degrees
In cold weather where cotton seed meal is
the chief concentrate feed. it will often
be necessary to raise the temperature
of the milk to 60 or so degrees before you
can churn satisfactorily. Milk from
COW we'll advanced in lactation is some"
times difficult to churn. 1 think If you
will heat the milk before churning by
setting it in a can or tub which contains
water at a temperature of about so de-
grees, you will overcome the difficulty
The milk should be stirred thoroughly so
as to heat it uniformly, or else that near
the sides of the vessel may become
cooked, as it were, and that in the center
only partially heated. Some cows milk
is much harder to churn than others,
and in herds where difficult churning is
experienced, the practice of having the
cows come in" in succession is followed
to obviate the difficulty.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-02-12

Cotton is the principal crop grown in
Georgia and alabama. The former state
devoted about 47z4.Oo0 acres of land TO its
cultivation in 1907. and the latter, SsSs.Ooo
acres. Georgia's crop amounted 10 1,Sl5.Ss4
bales. and Alabama's 20 1.II2.69 bales
That commercial fertilizers play an i'm
portant part IN the production OF the
cotton crop In these two states Is shown
by the fact that the amount manufactur-
ed I'm Georgia and largely used within
that state amounted TO $4,000 tons last
year. The fertilizer industry has prac-
ticaIIy developed within a period of forty
i've years. and there are few farmers
now who would attempt to cultivate cot
ton without the use OF some commercial
plant food. though the amount used even
vet Is relatively small The use OF 800
pounds per acre would represent an ap-
plicatfon OF l77,so0 tons in Georgia That
the fertilizer business Il still In its in
fancy Is evinced by the fact that the in
vestfgatIous OF the experiment stations
indicate that from 900 to 1000 pounds
should be used per acre, and these ind
ings OF scientific workers are being sub
Stimulated BY the practical experience of
the most successful planters.
That the use of larger amounts of fer
tilizers win prove profitable IS illustrated
port OF the Georgia Experiment Station:
go pounds OF fertilizer gave an increase
over no fertilizer Of 1SS pounds OF seed
cotton; so pounds OF fertilizer gave an
increase OF 80 pounds; 400 pounds OF fer
tiIizer gave an increase OF 16s pounds; 500
pounds Of fertilizer an increase OF go
pounds. and 600 pounds OF fertilizer an in
crease OF as pounds. or 75-5 per cent
That potash is an essential element OF
a fertilizer formula for cotton is shown
by the fact that where II was withheld
from certain mixtures there was de-
crease Of I13 pounds Of seed cotton per
acre. The fact that much Of the land de-
voted to cotton culture is of a sandy ma
ture makes II imperative that potash be
used IN considerable quantities. It has
also been shown that potash. when used
either in the form OF muriate or kainit.
is a remedy for cotton rust. which is now
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clothing material. But it still offers room
for saving

clothing material But it still offers room
for saving.
One or the biggest economical features
Connected with the production Of cotton
and cotton cloth is the utilization of the
by-products. Where cotton seed was once
dumped on the ground as a waste that
was greatly in the way and that was
fenced from too curious cattle because II
was considered a great poison, it now
forms the chief feed supply OF hundreds
of thousands of head of stock. The meal
from the seed fertilizes the land from
which it was once grown, and the oil has
become a product that has Melted mil
lions to the manufactur. The cotton adj
herring to the seeds has been carefully cut
away and has added thousands of bales
annually to the bales direct from the gin
houses.
Tnen came the utilization of the waste
from the mills. There was no waste in
the olden days when the spinning and
weaving were household industries. Nor
was the cloth they produced what 1t is
today. The mill of today is rich in odds
and ends of cotton waste dropped from
the opener machines, from the dOffeT
cards, from bobbin wastes and spinning
machines. Ihls waste Is sdlHereu anu
either consumed in home manufactures,
or is exported, the amount sent to for
eign factories varying in the past three
years from nineteen and a half million
to thirty-seven and a half million
pounds annually. Germany uses most o.
the IS per cent of exported waste, spin
ing it into coarse yarns, making it into
toweling, imitation wooden goods, wad-
uIng for surgical purposes or jeweler S
packings. into gun cotton. Irvine, wicks
for lamps and candles and into mats,
blankets and tablecloths. In this country
it is used chiefly in making a coarse yarn
that is used in the manufacture of heavy
socks and underwear.
A recent wrIrer shows that without cot
ton modern war would be almost i'm
possible, for even as gun cotton produces
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-02-12

the high explosive that causes the wors1
wounds, so these wounds could not be
healed without the cotton bandages for
the antiseptic dressings nor could the
soldiers fight in certain climates unless
clothed in khaki cloth made from the
staple plant Of the American states.
Tne COTTON mill. which in its advance
has invaded the south nntiI North Car
olina and South Carolina stand now as
fair rivals to New England with its CEN
tury-old monopoly of the industry, has
given work to the woman from the small
farm, and has become a peculiar fac
tor in the uplift work among her people.
Her mother and grandmother before her
had spun the cotton and then woven it in
to cloth for the family wear. She hnds
that as the mill has amancipated her from
that task it has given her work that win
pay her enough, not only to buy this
same amount of cloth that her ancestors
made but to buy what to her had here
tofore been luxuries. She finds too that
through the influence of the mill her fam
lily is being elvated intellectually and in
dustrially beyond the old status, AMI
though the rapidity with which manufac-
turing has developed in the south has
swept her children too into factory life.
IL is only temporary servitude that is
disappearing with the manufacture of la
boT-saving machinery and with the mark
ed advance Of modern philanthropy.
Copyright, 1909. by Frederic 7. Haslsin.)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-02-12

have a piece of land that has spots OF
Johnson grass on II which 1 wish to get
rid Of. VIII cows XIII Johnson grass by
running on it in the summer time?
Johnson grass is one of the most per-
sistent forms of cultivated plants with
which the farmer has to deal. This is que
to the root stalks which it develops our
ing the process Of growth. These root
stalks are fieshy in nature, as you nave
no doubt observed from an examination
of the plant. and the only successful
means of graduating Johnson grass must
therefore be based on a plan by which
the root stalks can be destroyed. Ordl-
nary cultivation by which the root stalks
are severed or cut up into small pieces
simply means to promote more Vlgot-
Gus growth of the grass than before.
Various methods have been advised for
the eradication of Johnson grass or
which the following are the best sug-
gestions which we can offer from our ex-
perience and from what we have gath
cred from others who have studied how
to destroy this pest. First OF all, turn
the land into meadow or pasture, and
keep the grass as closely cropped as pos
sible either by grazing animals or NOW
ing il for one or more seasons. If you
do not let it go to seed this will tend to
exhaust the vitality of the root stalks.
Hogs may be penned on the infested spots
If they are not too large, and If kept on 1t
a whole season will clean 1t out. They
burrow into the soil and gather the root
stalks of which they are very fond. Cows
would hardly prove an efficient class of
stock for the eradication of this pest.
Where the sod has remained undsturbed
for year pillow shallow. and subsequent
cultivation should be shallow and per-
sistent, with the idea of bringing the
root stalks to the surface as completely
as possible when they should be gathered
up and burned. When blowing land to
bring the root stalks to the surface, the
turning should not be over three or fouI
inches deep. After the root stalks are
we'll cleaned out use another crop on the
land, such as cowpeas or velvet beans.
Another good plan is to put the land
in a cultivated crop like cotton or corn,
and any stray shoots that appear as the
result Of leaving a root stalk can Their
be dug up and removed by hand. This
may take some time and trouble, but II
will pay you to eradicate the grass unless
you are willing to turn the whole field
over to 1t. II spreads rapidly as you have
no doubt observed. and while it can be
eradicated by persistent effort on the part
Of the farmer IT is not an easy task, and
we are of the opinion that one who has
only small patches % it to deal with
should make an effort TO destroy It al
once.
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coTToN SID

1000 bushels Cooks Improved Cotton Seed at
81 90 per bushsl. with 10< OF for 50 bushels
Why Ii Cooks bestf Just look up the variety
They ars vel fixed for finding out which IL best
We select cur seed annually, and allow nothing
bat Cooks ginned on cur gin. We have never yet
grown enough 70 supply the demand The govern
ment sent an agent 60 our farm in 1871 and pur-
chased our entire supply for distribution They
have since given as nice order to 80 to the Philip
pines for experimental purposes. This showsthey
are grown. ginned and handled right, as Uncle
Sam doesn't handle shoddy stuff. IL win ain 800
pound bale from 125o pounds seed cotton
We make specially Of Cook Cotton, Marlboro
Corn and Appier Data Selected Marlboro seed
corn 50 90 per bu- Nothing better. Oats sold out,
but wis have 900 bu. In early fall at slo0 per bu.
VINEYARD FARM. Griffin. Ca.
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Keen Up to Date.

You owe 1t to yourself and your family
to keep informed on all that affects your
well-being and theirs. Bad judgment is
but mother name for ignorance. The
Semi Weekly Journals advertisers are
live business men, and offer you the best
and newest of appliances. They have de-
scriptive matter which they viii be glad
to send you on request. Keep informed.
Ask The Journals advertisers for their
catalogue. ~"S
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-02-12
JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES
CHEST OF ROOSEVELT

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.-John Temple
Graves is in Washington and was a well
come guest at the capitol today He
called on President Roosevelt this morn
ing and says he was received with de
lightful cordiality," as usual. He has an
appointment to meet the president tomor-
row morning and discuss with him his
foreign policy with which the Hearst pa
pers are in hearty accord.
Colonel Graves sends to Georgia his
best wishes.
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Mr.. Harrriman's Endorsement
Springfield Republican.

According to Georgia reports, E. H.
Hartman threw himself boldly into state
politics while there the past week or two,
with the result of raising quite a storm
against him. He is said to have declared
at an Augusta banquet that If the state
would lift 1.-The embargo which has been
laid on railroad interests he would spend
$10 0OO, 900 on the Central of Georgia road
and show the south what a real railroad
was like. This was soothing to Georgia
pride, to be sure; but worse came when
he complimented the state on electing
Joseph NJ. Brown governor over Hoke
Smith.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-02-12
THOMAS OLIVER DEAD;
INVENTED TYPEWRITER

CHICAGO. Feb 1O.-Thomas Oliver, in
ventor of the Diver typewriter. died sud
deny yesterday of heart disease while
waiting with his wife at a railway sta
ton TO start for Pine Bluff, Ark, to test
a machine which he had recently invent
ed, which he declared would revolutions
lie the cotton Industry.
The machine was a cotton picking de-
vice, which was to do away with the work
now done by hand.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-02-12
Treatment of Mango i'm Hogs

@. B. Miner, Ga. writes: I would like
to know what to do for a NANCY hog
also have COW whose milk will foam and
fill the churn and If the butter comes at
all. IT takes from one to two hours. She
is fed on cotton seed meal and hulls and
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-02-12

Fleas may be destroyed on live stock
by taking proper precautions First of all,
the quarters should be thoroughly disin-
fected and all rubbish and trash burned.
Then, the house should be we'll coated
with whitewash, so as TO fill all cracks.
After the first application made for the
destruction of fieas, second one should
be made within eight days. The animals
to be treated should be washed thorough
ly with a soTd-son of one part of creolin
to so parts of water. ANY of the coal tar
preparations may be used for this pur-
pose. Another remedy is TO use tar soap
with warm water The animals should
be thoroughly lathered, and the lather
left on for ten minutes. Insect powder
will also be found serviceable. Give the
animals salt and sulphur to lick, and
keep them I'm clean quarters.
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ALABAMA wonderful CottOn-EarlIest. uross
productive and largest bou cotton known. Send
for price and testimonials. J. I. Johns. Logan.
Alabama.
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FREE TO FARMERS.

BY special arrangement Ratekins big $50
see& catalogue. with sample Of Diamond
Ioe's Big White seed corn that made is
bushels per acre. viii be mailed free to ever
reader Of this paper who are interested in thu
crops they grow. This big book tells how "a
make the farm and garden pay. It's worth
dollars % all who plant or SOW. Write for II
and mention this paper. The address is Rate
kin's Seed House. Shenandoah. Ia
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-02-12

Eighty per cent of the worlds cotton
is grown In the southern states Of the
United States, practically fourteen fur
nishing the product. The other 20 per cent
is grown in the Orient, in India and South
America. Foodstuffs vary to fit the needs
of the various peoples of the world, but
in the matter of clothing, cotton will al
ways be pre-eminent. The natural re-
souces of a country may be depleted in
few years, in a century, at most China
is an ever present reminder of the fate
of nation that will destroy its forests
and make a desert of it's valleys and its
once fertile fields. Minerals may some
day be exhausted. Forests may be per-
manently destroyed. Cotton is perma-
nent product. 1t is said that the land
on which cotton is grown is practically
inexhaustible, that the rich alluvial lands
of the Mississippi valley, where crops
have been grown for years without rota-
ton, are as good as they were at first.
On the uplands the tillage of a century
has begun to tell on the land, for i'm
proved machinery is not in the reach of
the small farmer, and he has not yet
learned the value of fertilizer and of
building up the soils He has too hard
struggle with nature for the existence OF
himself and his family.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-02-12
THE COTTON
INDUSTRY
BY Frederic j. Haskin

A few months less than one hundred
years ago the secretary of the treasury
submitted to congress the first official re-
port on cotton manufacturing. This show
ed that there were then 2S9 cotton man
ufacturing establishments scattered
through eighteen states and territories,
and that these operated $1,000 spindles
The majority of the cloth then used was
of home manufacture, the homes putting
out sixteen and a half million yards a
year against a possible million and a
half yards of factory made cotton goods.
The motive power was chiefly water
though many of the southern mills and
few of the northern ones, used animal
power.
Today the number of cotton-using man
ufactories is given as 1874, and the active
number of spindles as over twenty-seven
and a half million. With the exception
of remote mountain regions and far ru-
raj communities of the south, there is
practically no home spinning and weaving
done now and the amount of cotton cloth
made in the home is a negligible guam
tity. Now over 2OO,OO0,OOO square yards
of cotton goods are exported annually,
to say nothing of the amount used with
in the states. Beside the amount made
by its own factories for home use, the
United States imported last year manu-
featured cotton goods to the value of
over S6S, 900, 900, the most of which had
been made from American cotton shipped
abroad and returned in the shape Of
laces, embroideries and fine cloth.
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Destroying FIeas on Live Stock

F. L. T., Bluffton, Ga, writes: Can
you give me some information as to how
TO get rid of leas on stock?
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-02-12

At last cramp collie has been apotheo-
sized. The doctors now call it pellagra
Wonder IL IL will hurt less, or cost more
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-02-12

EVERY MAN T. !. ,5 me s.g'h /. who 1so
hicles should obtain our eatalos. IL II interest
ing and Instructive Ask your dealer for one
OF write rs direct. White Hickory Wagon
Mfg Co. Atlanta. Ca.
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Finest Lot Cotton Seed
in South

Grown on own farm. ginnsd on own
private gin: absolutely sound and pure.
Broadwell Double-pointed. $3.50 bushel;
Cooks Improved. s1.00g Cleveland's Big
Boil. $780, Kings Early. 800; Mort
gage Litter. 500: Tatum's Big Boil.
SI.o0 (ane); Schley. S5c; Culpepper. s5c;
Peterlxin. ssc: Texas Burr. s5c.
Write for special prices large lots =
- d. TATUzs, Fairv1ew FArrn.
PaImstto, Ca
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Destroying Johnson Grass

c. S. c., Logansville, Ca, writes;
have a piece of land that has Spots OF
Johnson grass on it which I wish to get
rid az VIII COWS XIII Johnson grass by
running on ii in the summer time?
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-02-12

Mr. SulIy shows the need of improve
ments in ginning well as in planting,
tilling and harvesting cotton. He de-
clares that IL all the years the cotton
gin has been in use, that it still tears the
fibre, and, by failing to make it clean,
decreases the value of the product by
millions Long before the days Of the cot =
ton gin, when each negro slave must
pick his own shoe full of cotton lint each
night before he went to bed. such labors
totaued ABOUT a bale a year for each
worker. The gin made cotton the worlds
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-02-12

The majority of the cotton raised in
America is grown on the land of the
small farmer. the share-cropper, the rent
err. 1t is a peculiar satire on American
industry that the men who produce the
most stable and the richest product of the
nation are, as a rule, it's poorest, its most
Handicapped, its most unenlightened citi-
zens. Each farmer who rents a piece of
land from some more affuent person has
a hard row to hoe. His land will prob
ably produce a half or a quarter of
bale to the acre in some of the uplands,
where humble bee cotton is more noticea-
BILE than the better kind Generally half
of this cotton must go to the landlord.
Another generous amount must go for
provisions and that leaves very little
for the care of his stock, for the cloth
ing and proper care of his family.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-02-12

Daniel ]. Sully, writing recently in a
popular magazine, declared that the
waste in planting, cultivating, ginning,
handling and marketing cotton costs the
south 500 100000 annually. What better
argument than this can be offered for
revolutionizing the methods in cotton
planting and cotton marketing? The re-
moteness of many of the small farms in
that land OF magnificent distances below
Mason and Dixon's line, is responsible
for the slow arrival of the improvements
known to the farmer who is nearer social
centers and in closer contact with the
national and state departments of agri-
culture. There are many hundreds of
these small farmers who still use the
pillow with wooden stock, who have rare
ly seen two mules put to one pillow, or
who know the value of a sub-soil plow.
The need of these methods and tools is
unknown, and as they have only the pre-
cedent of pioneer fathers and GRANDPA
theirs to follow, it is not surprising that
they have not progressed to that point
where they can make the soil yield to its
fullest without impoverishing itself in any
way The national department of agri-
culture has had its representatives in the
south for several years showing farmers
how to make two good bolls of cotton
grow where one inferior boil had grown
before. and who are teaching the proper
use of fertilizers and the proper selection
of seed. But these emissaries of science
are few, and the farmers who need their
help are many, very many.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-02-12

gets plenty of fresh water. Any sugges'
lions you can give me will be apprecla-
ted.