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Newspaper
Jackson Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1894
Page
4
Commissioner Nesbitt urges Georgia farmers to abandon speculative cotton farming and adopt sound business methods. He warns that continued overreliance on cotton, high debt, and poor soils threaten livelihoods, and calls for crop diversification, soil rest, manuring, and better planning for future seasons.
George F. Payne explains why market fertilizers carry low plant food percentages. He details phosphoric acid sources, nitrogen from cottonseed meal and blood, and potash forms. Higher grade acids and salts yield more plant food per ton but cost more, while freight and handling favor quality over price.
A Georgia farmer writes with household remedies for mites on chickens using sulphur corn meal and sassafras, and notes on lice on ducks. The column also covers saving pea vines as hay, weevils in corn with bi sulphide of carbon, and multiple farm questions from readers with practical, region specific answers.
The commissioner stresses timely farm maintenance including fence and terrace care, clearing leaves, hauling litter for bedding, and overhauling plow gear and wagons. He warns that procrastination leads to regret when spring work begins.
Advice from Cass Station suggests rubbing the affected cow with cod liver oil at night and giving 25 grains of iodide of potassium in half a pint of water each morning before feeding. For horse scratches mix white lead with linseed oil to form a convenient application, with two or three treatments expected to cure.
By order of the court of ordinary of Butts county the property of S P Goodrum and Lucy Goodrum will be sold at the courthouse door on the first Tuesday in January 1894 between legal hours. The tract contains 18 13 acres more or less and adjoins lands of John B Cole and L Goodrum. Terms cash. December 4 1893 L L Goodrum Guardian of S P and Lucy Goodrum.
Appraisers report to set apart twelve months allowance for Prudence Kinard widow of B C Kinard with creditors and kin warned to appear and show cause why allowance should not be confirmed. Mortgage sale notices describe E A Fincher heirs option to bid, land of 125 acres in Butts County to be sold at Jackson Georgia by virtue of mortgage decree. The sale will be cash with title deeds in the name of E A Fincher, December 1898.
In Georgia Ball County and Butts County creditors of deceased E S Wynn and F B Weaver are urged to present demands with details and amounts within the legal period. Executors J W Carmichael and Samantha M Weaver request immediate payment from debtors.
Petitioners led by James A. King and associates seek charter for Farmers Union in Butts County to form a general mercantile manufacturing warehouse and commission business. Capital stock $10,000, ripening to $100,000, with 400 shares of $25 each. Principal office in Jackson. corporate powers include sue and be sued, own property, issue bonds and stocks, and regulate bylaws not conflicting with Georgia law.
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Fragmentary OCR text mentions names like Janta and H Gay and a date near 16, with scattered references to seeds, flax, wagons, and rewards. The passage is highly garbled and lacks coherent events or notices to summarize into a full item.
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