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8 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. TEBHM OF NUBNCHIPTION« One year, postage paid, • • - * • l'- 00 Hubscriptlons can commence at any time during the year. Hample copies sent free to all who send us their address. BATES OF ADVERTISINGS We Guarantee a Circulation 0/ 38,000 eoplea Every letue. Legitimate advertisements will be inserted at the following rates; Inside pages, each insertion, per line - - ®ctt. SXXloa “ The tJouTHKKN World has the largest circulation 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.