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jOEtlN HODGES, Pr opr. DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE. $1.50 a Year in Advance.
VOL. XXXT.
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1902.
NO. 15.
eggs and dairy products.
Macon Telegraph.
Bradstreet’s has been collecting
some figures from the census re
ports on the production of dairy
products and eggs in the United
States, which will be of interest
to our Georgia farmers, and which
ought to stimulate a greater in
terest in these things on our
farms. These statistics show that
of the 5,739,657 farms in the Unit
ed States, 4,514,210 report dairy
cows and dairy products,[and that
in 1899 the total dairy product
had a valuation of $472,869,255.
Of the farms reporting dairy cows
and products 857,578 were classed
as dairy farms, having derived at
least 40 per cent, of their gross
income from dairy products. The
number of dairy bows was 17,189,-
674. The receipts from dairy
products sold aggregated $281,-
629,958 and products consumed
on the farms were valued at $190,-
789,297. There were produced
from the dairy cows reported a
total of 7,266,392,674 gallons of
milk, an average of 424 gallons
per cow. Of this milk 2,134,915,-
842 gallons were sold, for which
the farmers received $184,842,292.
The farmers also report the sale
of 20,768,662 gallons of cream,for
which they received $8,838,776.
Farms numbering 8,617,440 re
port the manufacture of butter
and 15,670 report the manufac
ture of cheese. The farms report
ing butter manufactured 1,071,-
745,127 pounds, of which 518,139,-
026 pounds were sold, for which
the farmers received $86,606,446.
Farms reporting cheese manufac
tured 16,872 830 pounds, of which
14,692,542 pounds were sold, for
which the farmers received $1,-
842,444.
In regard to the output of eggs
these reports show that of the 5,-
789,657 farms in the United
States,5,096,255 reported poultry.
The total number of fowls three
months old and over reported
were as follows: Chickens, includ
ing guinea fowls, 288,598,085;
turkeys, 6,599,876; geese, 5,676,-
868; ducks, 4,807,858. The num
ber of nearly all these classes of
poultry are smaller as reported in
1900 than in 1890, owing to the
fact that in 1890|they reported
all fowls of whatever age, while
in 1900 only those three mouths
old and over were reported. The
eggs produced in 1899 were 1,293,-
819,186 dozens, against 819,722,-
916 dozens in 1889. An increase
in the number of eggs', produced,
rather than an increase in the
number of different kinds of
fowls, marks the progress of this
branch of industry. The value of
poultry on hand June 1, 1900, was
$85,794,996; the value of poultry
raised in 1899' was $186,891,877,
and the value of eggs produced in
1899 was $144,286,158. The total
income derived by the farmers
from their poultry industry in
1899, representing the total value
of the eggs produced as well as
the poultry raised, was $281,178,-
035. This total makes the poul
try industry of the largest con
uected with agriculture. > The
foregoing figures do not include
any statistics.on poultry and eggs
raised outside of the farms and
ranges. .
THE SCHOOLS OF THE SOUTH.
Atlanta Constitution.
The Philadelphia Press is but
one of a score of inflqential north
ern journals that rejoice with sin
cerity and sympathy in the ef
forts that we of the south are
making to improve our education
al systems. The Press encour
ages the idea that those who are
seeking chances to employ their
surplus means and philanthropy
in fallow and fertile fields should
turn their eyes to the south and
help a people who are doing so
sensibly to help themselves.
But not only from the north
come the words of cheer for the
new forward movement. The
press of the southern states show
that the desire for effective, prac
tical schools is as wide-spread as
the section itself. There is a
growing feeling that the past
thirty years of experiment have
been enough to teach us that our
need is for a broad, well-taught
aud well-equipped system of com-
HlJn schools. These should not
be merely the limited primary
schools that initial a long sysfem
of graded grammar, high and col
legiate schools that culminate in
a university course and degree.
We must understand from the
start that we are making schools
for millions of children who will
never be able to go beyond what
can be taught them under those
local roofs. Their necessities will
compel them to graduate from
the rural school house into the
fields, the shops and the other
bread-winning work of their gen
erations. ' .
That they may obtain' the best
education for their limited time
and future needs our common
schools must be uncommonly well
devised-and taught. We must
make them work shops as well as
book shops. The children must
be taught how to put objects to
gether as deftly as they put let
ters together to build words.Their
neighborhood reeks with materi
als that are of tremendous teach
ing value. And the wisdom that
can devise a course of study that
will teach the children of the soil
how to till the soil and to under
stand tbe process and powers of
the plants it produces is the sort
of wisdom we need to-day in the
planning and propagating of the
southern school system.
TOBACCO HABirS.
Composition By Susie Jones, a Pupil of the
Henderson School.
Tobacco is used in various forms
such as chewing smoking, etc.,
but I consider none of them
commendable. Physiology states
“that tobacco used in any form is
very injurious.” Why do we form
such habits when we know there
is no real good effect? We geuer-
erally form such habits in child
hood. It is then they are easily
formed, but in after life, they
have us so completely under their
control that it is impossible for
us to get away—-and consequently
our lives are very much shorten
ed. Habits of drinking and to
bacco using go hand in hand. It
is a habit in its effect next to
drinking. The diminutive chain
of the cigarette is seldom heavy
enough to be felt until .it is ,too
strong to be broken.
Smoking cigarettes is beyond
controversy the most heinous
dissipation, having a tendency to
injure the body, mind and soul.
You can more easily avoid suoh
habits than you can conquer
them.
God has been good enough to
make it just as easy to form good
habits as bad ones. Therefore let
us strive to not form any habits
that are not improving.
A Raging', Roaring Flood
Washed down a telegraph line
which Chas. C. Ellis, of Lisbon,
L., had to repair. “Standing
waist deep in icy water,” he
writes, “gave me a terrible cold
and cough. It grew worse daily.
Finally the best doctors in Oak
land, Neb., Sioux City and Omaha
said I had Consumption and could
Not live. Then I began using Dr.
King’s New Discovery and was
wholly cured by six bottles.”
Positively guaranteed for Coughs,
Colds and all Throat and Lung
troubles, Price 50c and $1.00, at
Holtzclaw’s Drugstore. /
A VALUABLE MEDICINE.
For Coughs* and Colds In Children
“I have not the slightest hesi
tency in recommending Chamber
Iain’s Cough Remedy to all who
are suffering from coughs P or
colds,” says Chas. M. Cramer
Esq., a well known watch maker
of Colombo, Ceylon. “It has
been some two years since the
City Dispensary first called my at
tention to this valuable medicine
and I have repeatedly used it and
it has always been beneficial. It
has cured me quickly of all chest
colds. It is especially effective
for children and seldom takes
more than one bottle to cure them
of hoarseness. I have persuaded
many to try this valuable medi
cine, and they are all as well
pleased as myself over the re
sults.” For sale by all dealers
in Perry, Warren & LoweRyron.
The
Remarkable Story of Miss
Stone.
The first authoritave article on
the remarkable experience of Miss
Ellen Stone, the American Mis
sionary, will be contained in the
May number of the . Woman’s
Home Companion,with heretofore
unpublished pictures. The au
thor is the Rev. Dr. James L. Bar
ton, corresponding secretary of
the American Board of Foreign
Missions, which organization took
foremost part in securing her re-
lease from the Bulgarian brigands,
He tells in a graphic and thrilling
manner of the events which led
up to Miss Stone’s captivity, the
awful fate which threatened her,
how the ransom for her release
was raised, as well as the state
meat of the curious part the af
fair played in the diplomatic his
tory of the world. It is an ai*'
tide of more than ordinary inter
est.
—
Saved Many a Time
Don’t neglect coughs and 'colds
even if it is spring. Such cases
often result seriously at ’ this sea
son just because people are care
less. A dose of One Minute
Cough Cure will remove all dan
ger. Absolutely safe. Acts at
once. Sure cure for coughs, colds
croup, grip, bronchitis, and other
throat and lung troubles. “I have
used One Minute Cough Cure sev
eral years,” says Postmaster C. O
Dawson, Barr, 111. “It is the
very best cough medicine on the
market. It has saved me many a
severe spell of sickness and
warmly recommend it.” The
children’s favorite. Holtzclaw’s
Drugstore.
Oom Paul Kruger never lacks
for a Scriptural quotation. When
the Boers were routed in battle
some time ago ho exclaimed,
“Whom the Lord loveth He chas-
teneth.” When the death of his
arch enemy, Cecil. Rhodes, was
announced,he replied, “The Lord
gave and the Lord hath taken
away, Blessed be the name of
Lord.”
the
To Cure a Cold in One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quiniy,,
Tablets. All druggists reMF 1 . 0 -^
money if it fails to aJ; W.
Grove.’s signature on e" Jii box.25c.
The war tax repead bill, it is es
timated, will reduce the revenues
$70,000,000. The taxes come
off on July I next, except the tax
on tea, which is retained until
January 1st, 1903. The tea tax
raises about $4,000,000.
A factory at Magdengburg for
making fodder for, cattle by dry
ing the leaves heretofore wasted
by beet sugar makers has proven
a’financial success.
CASTOR! A
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Bears the
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If you are, you will be better satisfied if you
will try 1 a pair of
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New styles now on sale. All leathers—
Kid, Patent Kid or Russian Calf, Oxfords
- ■ , t
or High Cuts.
Call on or send your orders to
The Macon Shoe Go.
BOOKS AND STATIONERY
For HOLIDAYS and aU other days. M?il or
ders prompily filled,
CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED.
T. A. COLEMAN,
* Bookseller tin cl Stationer,
808 Second Stbbet,! MACON, GA
Weber, Brown, Russell and Thornhill Wagons cheaper
than you ever bought them before, to make room and re
duce storage and insurance.
MACON,
GA.
1 W. SHINHOLSER,
MACON,
GA
C. HUHiK,
DEALER IN
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