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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1899
Page
6
A Georgia Department of Agriculture field note discusses animal breeding for speed and dairy cattle. It details training calves, proper nutrition with skim milk and hay, and penalties for early maternity. It cites historical yields and emphasizes humane, informed husbandry and farm practices.
A Georgia Commissioner replies with historical crop reports from Thomas, Brooks, Spalding, Carroll, Wilkes and other counties. The letter cites yields per acre for corn, oats, cotton, cane syrup, rice and hay from the 1870s to 1878, including cents and dollars in net profits, to illustrate practical farming results for an investor with about $1,000 cash.
Advertisement touts Hall's Great Discovery as a universal remedy for kidney and bladder issues including gravel diabetes and rheumatism. One bottle costs 1 and provides two months of treatment by mail if not sold locally. Testimonial from W B Tyler claims permanent cure and high value of the remedy.
The speaker revises August forecasts to 9 to 9.6 million bales for the United States with acreage down from 1896 and 1900 figures. He notes October conditions, compares past years, and suggests prices may reach 8 to 9 cents per pound by January. He urges farmers to consult debtors, considers local cotton mills, and endorses cooperative factory investment.
O B Stavers urges a cooperative system to finance cotton farmers through year by year subscriptions and factory stock collateral. He argues advances secure lower rates, shifting farmers to buyers and producers, benefiting producers if cotton prices rise or goods pay fair prices. Turpentine and kerosene threats to pests are advised as insect control for poultry. details from The Poultry Farmer.
Three twenty-five pound grasshopper fed turkeys will grace Thanksgiving tables for three prominent Americans in Westerly Rhode Island on Thanksgiving day. One turkey goes to the president, another to George Dewey, and the third to Dyer of Rhode Island.
William F. Miller and Cecil Leslie, his secretary, of a Brooklyn syndicate promising 10 percent weekly returns, have not been arrested. The piece notes the Franklin Syndicate’s broad operations and widespread bank-held dividend dramas.
A vintage medical ad touts Green's August Flower as the top selling remedy for indigestion biliousness and related ailments. It promises to clean the system regulate the liver and boost nervous and organic function with a few liquid doses. Sample bottles are offered at H. R. Palmer & Sons.
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