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THE SOUTHERN WORLD, MARCH 16, 1882.
|ptf Southern ffarld,
PaMUhed on the lat Mid 13th ofcmeh Month
BY TUB
MOUTH EBN WORLD PUBUIHHING CO.,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
Incorporated—Pnld np Capital, $38,000.
D, C. BALENTINE, President and Manager
J. B. CARTMELL, Secretary and Treasurer.
W. O. WHIDBY, Editor.
£& NEWMAN,’ [contributing Editors.
HOYN COimTINtt FOB PKIKEN.
The following boys under sixteen years of
age have registered their names as contest
ants for the special prizes offered by the ed
itor of the SouthEBit World for the best
half acre in cereals, cotton, etc.
FOR ALL THREE PRIZES.
Eugene E. Camp, Covington, Oa.;
Grier Q. Livingston, Newton Co,, Ga.;
John E. Moore, Grenada, Miss.; _
W. E. Cottle, Ward’s Station, Ga.;
Walter Horton, Elkville, N. C.;
M. J. Mathews, Wallace, Duplin County,
N. C.j
John Perry Byne, Hepbzibah, Ga.
FOR BEST CORN.
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and Is the best advertising medium in the South.
TO CORRESPONDENTS.—It is our aim to make
the Southern World a medium for
practical Information upon all Agricultural and
Mechanical subjects, and to this end we Invite com
munications upon all rural subjects, experimental
results, crop news, domestic economy, etc., and upon
topics of Interest to Mechanics, Manufacturers and
Miners. Address all letters to
MOUTHERN WORLU PUBLIMHIWG CO.,
Atlanta, Georgia.
ATLANTA, GA., MARCH 15, 1882.
Let every day count its full worth in the
field now.
Chilton Garret, Pontotoc, Miss.;
Robert A. Cliett, Grovetown, Columbia
County, Ga.;
Marcus 0. Williams, Afton, Berrien Co.,
Ga.;
A. P. Farr, Farrsville, Newton County,
Texus.
FOR BEST COTTON.
« Billy J. Fryer, Perote, Ala.
Edward Briginon, Grovetown, Ga.;
Jimmie D. Marshall, Talbotton, Ga.;
Master McConnell, Social Circle, Ga.
FOR BEST 8UOAR CANE.
Cornelius V. Timmons, Peru, Hillsboro,
Co., Fla.;
BEST CORN AND COTTON.
Micliaux Gnerry, Americus, Ga.;
BEST OATH AND CORN.
H. P. Starr, Orchard Hill, Ga.!
FOR BEST SWEET POTATOES.
Mark Battle, Thomasville, Thomas Co.,
Ga.;
J. E. S. Lee, Union Cross Roads, Roane,
Co., Tenn.;
FOR BEST OATS, CORN AND POTATOES.
J. W. McGee, Orchard Hill, Ga.;
Small grain crops arc booming just now,
and the prospect for a good grain crop is
cheering. _
The hoys are coming up nobly in colli
ding for our premiums. The girls will
buve a showing soon.
As the list closes on the 5th of April, hoys
wishing to contest should send on their
names without delay. Every states hould
be represented.
A Notable Meeting.
A Kirkwood Granger outs his rye with a
case knife, in order to give a picturesque
scollop to the stalk. He is an (esthetic.
“Hold while I skin,” is the forcible cap
tion of an advertisement by a dealer in fer
tilizers. He leuvesita matter of inference
as to whom lie will skin.
"Uncle Remus” says that judging from
the popular verdict, oats is the corn-u-copiu
of the farming world at this time. But be
observes, they ought not to sow the wild
variety.
The K. K. Corn advertised in the columns
of the Southern World, is a superior arti
cle of seed corn; fine grain and prolific, und
■nukes a beautiful bread corn. It has been
tested for several years in South Carolina
and is highly recommended.
Mr. A. II. Peacock, of Sherman, Texas,
desires to secure a man competent to take
charge of a Fruit and Vegetable Farm of 40
acres. Permanent employment will be given
at reasonable wages, or an interest in the
business. __
The Mobile (Ala.) Chronicle, forcibly says;
"Let the farmers of the South plant corn
and turn it into meat, instead of keeping
their cereal cribs and their smoke-houses
away in the West. This will assure them
comfortsand leave their cotton us so much
surplus cash, which can he used to enlarge
or improve their farms, add luxuries to
their households and educate their children.
Let them, if so disposed, put this surplus in
cotton mills or other works, the materials of
which lie by their side. This policy within
ten years, will make the South the most
prosperous of any land that lies beneath the
sun.” ^
Worthy of Imitation. *
It is a common remark, that as a general
rule, there is a seeming want of courtesy on
the part of mankind in neglecting to answer
letters addressed to them for information or
advice. This neglect does not so much arise
from discourtesy as from procrastination
and a disinclination to write. They are
discourteous in deed without intending to
be so. Among other striking traits of char
acter Senator Joseph E. Brown, of Georgia
offers an example worthy of imitation, in
his frank and manly courtesy to all who ad
dress him on any matter, without regard to
their pecuniary circumstances. He answers
all letters fully and promptly. Official sta
tion neither imposes upon, or relieves a
m.n of, the duty of exercising this spirit of
courtesy to his fellow man.
In 1870 three notable men met at the
corner of Pryor and Alabama street (now
Dodds’ corner) Atlanta. They were Judge
John P. King, then President of the Geor
gia railroad; Col. Richard Peters of this
city and Hon. D. W. Lewis, then Secretory
of the State Agricultural 8ociety. Lewis
und Peters had stopped and were discuss
ing the pleasing reminiscences of meeting
at fairs in olden times when the prize
bull was chained to a stump fend the
prize pumpkin placed in a tree out of
liis reach. Judge King started to pass
by when lie was called in to the seance.
All three had been in active life for many
years— the youngest over 30 years—and still
hale and hearty. Lewis thanked Judge King
for having granted the society every request
ever made of him, and referred to the new
and enlarged privilege granted by the rail
roads of carrying three delegates from each
county society, to and from their meetings
free of charge. Judge King straightened
himself up, and with a tone of voice full of
meaning and not without emotion said,
"Colonel I am dead aguinst dead heads”
(Lewis began to wilt) “but when it conies
to agriculture, I am dead in for it." They
arc still living, and their ages will aggre
gate nearly 225 years.
An Evidence of Civilisation.
Good roads are evidences of civilization.
Judged by the standard of the roads in the
South we give faint evidences of a high or
der of civilization. While the South has
made progress in many directions, in the
matter of roads, she is far back in the ages.
The road laws as they exist|upon our Statute
books, and are executed, are a farce and an
Imposition. Little practical good is accom
plished by the working of our roads. The
people are taxed indirectly in the diffi
culty of transportation, and the damage
to vehicles over bad roads as well os by tak
ing from the farm the force at inopportune
times, and without material benefit. Better
levy a direct tax and have the roads con
structed under the direction of a skilled en
gineer in a thorough manner. The convict
force should be utilized in this way in each
county. In this way we can secure good
roads at actually a lesser rate of taxation.
The speech of Gov. 0. M. Roberts before
the Texas Stockmen’s Convention was one of
marked ability and strong conservatism.
He went to the merits of the questions of the
hour, and advocated in his forcible style a
proper regard for the interests of ail classes,
and the liberal education of the youth of
the State. His speech is pre-eminently
sound and sensible.
Tea Can be Haloed In Georgia.
In demonstration of the fact that tea can
be successfully raised in Georgia, the Hines-
ville Gazette, Liberty county, says that
among the first experiments in this country
in the cultivation of tea, was made by Capt.
Win. Hughes, Sr. Twenty years ago Capt.
Hughes procured two plants from Mr. Jones,
who had begun the experiment with a few
plants bronght by a returned missionary
from China, and set them out and demon
strated that an excellent article of tea could
be produced in this country. His son,
Capt. W. Hughes, Jr., has kept up the little
tea farm started by his father, and he has
now over two hundred plants of very vigor
ous growth. He has besides furnished any
quantity of seeds and plants to friends in ail
parts of the country. It takes but very few
plants to furnish, leaves enough to make all
the tea a family will need for home con
sumption. There is no question but that
this tea of home production, is not only
equal, but superior to any of the imported
article. This latitude is identically the
same with that portion of China where the
best tea is made. Such is the testimony of
Rev. Young J. Allen, and others.
To go below the frost-line for tea-farming,
is a mistake. Experience demonstates that
the leaves are purer and better after frost,
which instead of retarding the growth of the
shrub only partially obviates the necessity
of pruning. It was a great mistake to aban
don tea culture here.
Our worthy confrere of the Milledgeville
Union and Recorder gives the following ex
cellent advice: "It is getting rather late
now to risk the sowing of oats unless thesoil
is rich beyond question. Half way rich soil
wont do at all. A very fine crop to take up
now is ‘Fodder Com.’ Any one likely to
run short of provender during the summer,
could not do better than to sow an acre or
more towards the latter part of March or
some during April. Prepare the land and
sow in three feet drills 2A or 3 bushels per
acre, or the seed may be dropped In the
hills 10 or 12 seed every 2 or 2% feet. In this
case so much seed will not be required and
the amount saved in seed may be invested
in manure or better cultivation. This is a
great crop and ought to be more generally
appreciated. Cut justafter tasselling it is a
perfect food and stock require very little
grain when they have plenty of fodder corn.
It is certainly the easiest crop after all.”
In reply to numerous enquiries as to the
“Kickapoo Beauty" corn offered by Mr. T.
F. Kinsel of Ohio, we would say that it
bears a fine reputation in Ohio for its pro
lific qualities. Mr. W. L. Cook of Belmont
county, Ohio in an affidavit properly attest
ed testifies that on one acre of ground in
1881 he raised 180 bushels of this variety of
corn. The land there is very rich and the
cultivation is thorough. We have no doubt
that in our genial clime with thorough cul
ture and liberal fertilizing, this com will do
well. We are having it tested and will be
prepared to speak from actual experiment.
It is worthy of a trial.
We adopt and endorse the following golden
sentiments of the Sparta Islinmeiite: "If
the Southern farmers will raise less cotton,
and more provisions they will be blessed
with greater prosperity than they have ever
yet known.”
There is something real about the inde
pendence of the Southern farmerwlio raises
his own supplies. Such a man isn’t apt to
be worried with mortgages on allliiseartlily
possessions.
The man who lives hundreds of miles from
his smokehouse and granary will sometimes
necessarily go to bed hungry.—And it is
right that he should.
An Emphatic Compliment.
Rev. A. J. Battle, D. D., President of
Mercer University at Macon, Ga., one of
the leading instructors of the South, long
identified with the training of girls as well
as boys and a gentleman of the highest cul
ture pays the following compliment to the
Southern World:
Macon, Ga., March 6th, 1882.
W. G. Whidby: Drab Sir: Accept many
thanks for the papers you kindly sent me. I
find them very interesting and especially
your beautiful articles on aesthetics of home
and farm, and woman’s culture. The South
ern World is very handsomely gotten up
and is a credit to Georgia and the South.
Very truly, your friend,
A. J. Battle.
The Southern Would is unsurpassed as an
advertising medium.
Experiment as to Fertilisers for Corn.
Gen. W. M. Browne, Professor of Agri
culture in the State University at Athens,
proposes to make an experiment this year
as to the utility or the reverse of ammoni-
ated fertilizers on corn.
To those who will aid him in the experi
ment, he gives the following directions:
First. Select one acre of level land as
nearly uniform in quality as possible. Di
vide it into twenty equal parts, and let the
plats be as long as practicable. Mark each
plat by strong stakes, numbered X, 2, 3, Ac.,
corresponding with the number of fertili
zers, “worn out” lands—if it be uniformly
worn out—is preferable. Leave an unma
nured strip, 1-20 acre, at each of the long
sides of the experiment acre, with a space
of three feet between it and the manure
plat next to it, in order to show the capac
ity of the natural soil. A piece of land,
160 square rods, 10 by 16 rods, will be a
good shape. This soil will give 50 plats,
each A rod by 16 rods, equal to 8 square-
rods—1-20 acre.
Second. Apply the fertilizers in the hill
or broadcast as may be preferred, taking
care to apply them evenly, and to mix
them thoroughly with the soil. If they are
well mixed with three or four times their-
bulk of good earth before using, they can
be more easily distributed It is of the last
importance that they be applied ecenly, con
fined each to its proper plat, and thoroughly
incorporated with the soil. Let not the-
seedeeme in close contact with the fertili
zer. Apply the fertilizer several days be
fore planting.
Third. The following are the fertilizers
and the quantity of eacli to be applied:
“ 1—Nitrate of soda . . . 7 A
“ 2—Superphosphate ... 15
“ 3—Muriate of potash . . 7A
“ 4— (Nitrate of soda . . 7At
(Superphosphate . . • 15 ■
“ 5— | Nitrate of soda . . . 7A
1 Muriate of potash , .7 A
“ 6—I Superphosphate .... 15
( Muriate of potash ... 7 A
( Superphosphate .... 15
" 7—j Muriate of potash . . . 7A
(.Nitrate of soda 7 A
(Superphosphate 15
“ 8— < Muriate of potasli ... 7 A
(.Nitrate of soda 15
(Superphosphate .... 15
“ 9—< Muriate of potash ... .7 A
(Nitrate of soda .... 22A
“ 11—No manure
{ Superphosphate .... 15
Muriate of potash . ... 7A
Sulphate of ammonia . .. OA
(Superphosphate .... 15-
“ 13—< Muriate of potash . . . 7 A
(Sulphateof ammonia . . 11A
(Superphosphate .... 15
“ 14—< Muriate of potash . . . 7A
(Sulphate of ammonia . . IGA
(Superphosphate .... 15
“ 15—( Muriate of potash . . . 7 A
(Dried blood 11A
I (Superphosphate .... 15
“ 16—■{ Muriate of potash .... 7 A
( Dried blood 22%
{ Superphosphate .... 15
Muriate of potash .... 7%
Dried blood 33%
{ Superphosphate .... 15.
Muriate of potash . ... 7A
Cotton seed meal . . . IGA
{ Superphosphate .... 15-
Muriate of potash ... 7 A
Cotton seed meal . . . 33%
(Superphosphate .... 15.
" 20—-j Muriate of potash . . . 7 A
( Cotton seed meal .... 50%
“ 00—No manure.
Fourth. Buy the material from a relia-
able dealer, to insure getting them genuine.
Weigh and mix them with perfect accruacy.
They can be bought for about $10.
Those who experiment are requested to
so inform him, and he will then give them
directions as to noting the growth of the
crop, seasons, culture, &c., for report of
results in the Fall.
The linseed-oil works in Pittsburg and
the West generally obtain their seed from
the West, large quantities being raised in
Iowa and Kansas, especially. Flax is re
garded as a good first crop for new land, but
it rapidly exhausts the soil, and hence the
region of largest supply gradually moves
Westward. The eastern producers gather
their seed mostly from Calcutta. The East
Indian seed is larger than the domestic and
richer in oil. Tne latter yields about 2%
gallons of oil to the bushel of seed; the for
mer more. There is no waste product in
the manufacture of linseed-oil, as after the
seed is ground and the oil pressed out of it
the residium—flax-seed meal—is worth
about $26 per ton in Pittsburg and $30 in
New York. Large quantities are exported.
It is chiefly used as feed for horses, making
them sleek and fat, and if fed moderate is
thought to be wholesome for them; but it is
also sold by druggists for medicinal uses.