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THE SOUTHERN WORLD, SEPTEMBER 1,1882.
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ATLANTA, GA„ SEPTEMBER 1, 1882.
WEATIIER_BULLETIK
In the Cotton Belt from Aug. 0 to Aug. 21.
OnsBRVKB’e OrncE Sional Service, U. 8. A.,
Kimball House, Atlanta, Oa.
TKer.
AvMax Av. Mtn. JligntMcu Low'etitax
Atlanta
Augusta
Charleston....
Galveston
Mobile
Montgomery..
Memphis
Little Rock....
New Orleans.
Vicksburg
Savannah
Wilmington...
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67°
91 on I6tb.no on llth
94 on lOtb'M on 19th
95 on 9th 85 on 20th
91 on 16th 86 on loth
96 on 16th 88 on 21st
95 on 16th 85 on 11th
94 on 17th'81 on 10th
95 on Zid 182 on 10th
94 on 17th 85 on 20th
95 on 17th 81 on 10th
96 on 16th 85 on 2lat
91 ou 23d 182 on 19th
Average maximum ot cotton belt from August 9th
to August 24th—90°. •
Average minimum ol cotton belt from August 9th
to August 24th—70°.
Note.-Average maximum means heat In tbe day;
average minimum, heat before day.
BAINVALL.
Atlanta 1.66 In. greatest fall
Augusta 1.70 In. " “
Charleston 3.01 In. " "
Galveston 1.42 In. " “
Mobile 1.53 In. •* “
Montgomery 1.66 In. “ “
Memphis 1.44 In. •' “
Little Rock 1.70 In. •• ••
New Orleans 2.54 In. •• “
Vicksburg 1.32 In. “ ••
.43 on Aug, 17th
.42 on •• 18th
.99 on
.40 on
.33 on
.62 on
.32 on
.72 on
.52 on
.53 on
At on
A3 on
IHlh
13th
21st
23(1
18th
Total rain (all In cotton belt 22.94 lncbea.
Greatest (all at one place—Charleston—3.01 Inches.
Greatest fall one day—August 13-3.77 Inches.
CHARACTER OF WEATHEB—NUHBBE OF BATA
CUta. Clear. Cloudy. Ihtr.
Atlanta................................. 7 4 4
Augusta.. 7 6 2
Galveston..— 6 7 3
Indlanola... 6 3 6
Key West™- 6 6 6
Mobile 4 6 6
Montgomery ..... 4 6 6
New Orleans 6 8 2
Pensacola - 3 10 2
Palestine — „ 3 2 6
Savannah 8 2 8
Mr. Mark W. Johnson, of Kirkwood, has
a fine crop of Ivory wheat.
The Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louia
Railway is in splendid condition.
The crop outlook in the South continues
to be very fine, although worms have made
their appearance.
Mr. Thomas W. Holloway, Secretary of the
South Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical
Association is a live worker and. urbane offi
cial.
We have received from Master E. W.
Swann six stalks of Minnesota Early Amber
Sugar-cane. Tbe stalks are 12 feet long and
very fine. ^
The Rural A’eie Yorker says of the Man'
chesterstrawberry advertised by Mr. J. Batey
In the Southern World, that it avenges
above medium.
The preliminary meeting of the Southern
Sunday-echool Assembly, at Tullaboma,
Tennessee, was a success. The matter of
location waa left to a competent committee.
The September 2d issue of the Bartow
(Fla.) Informant will be devoted exclusively
to Polk county matters. A large edition
has been printed for general circulation.
Send Them In.
Will our friends in the Southern States,
send in at once, the names of the Presidents
and Secretaries of each Agricultuml, Hor
ticultural, Pomological, or Live Stock Asso
ciation in their county, and officers of the
Grange.
We are in receipt of the Illustrated Cata
logue of the Bookwalter Engine, giving
description, prices and testimonials. Tbe
book is complete, giving satisfactory inform
ation and is handsomely printed. Those de
siring engines should send to James Leffel &
Co., 8pringfield, Ohio, or 110 Liberty street,
New York, for a catalogue.
Itradstrect's Commercial Agency esti
mates that there are six million miles of
fencing in the United States, tbe cost of
which has been near $2,000,000,000 or about
$325 per mile. This imposesa heavy tax upon
farmers. According to the census returns
the cost of repairs in 1877, was $78,629,000.
In 1881 sixty thousand miles of wire fencing
were erected at a cost of $10,000,000—a sav
ing of about one-half. Even this cost can
be reduced.
A Young Bilk 4,'ulturlit.
The editor acknowledges the reception of
an instructive' little pamphlet on “ Silk and
the Silkworm,” accompanied with a pleasant
note from the young authoress, Miss Nellie
Lincoln Rossiter, of Philadelphia. She is
now fifteen years of age, and commenced tbe
industry under the instructions of her
father at the age of thirteen. In the fail of
1880 the Pennsylvania Agricultural Society
awarded her their special and highest prem
ium for that class, a handsome diploma for
theexcellentqualityofsilkandcocoonsraised
by her. Since that time she has been raising
silkworms with considerable success, averag
ing 100,000 yearly. Miss Rossi ter sets an ex
ample worthy of imitation.
Cotton Plainer*’ Convention.
The Convention of the National Cotton
Planters’ Association, which la to be held in
Little Rock, Arkansas, on the 16tb of Octo
ber, will be aided and supplemented by tbe
annual exhibition of the Arkansas State
Fair Association, which ia to take place at
the same time. The session of the Conven-
tioir promises to be of vast importance to the
cotton interests of the South, and aa the
counties of nearly all the Cotton States are
moving in the matter, It is to be hoped that
Georgia,.which carried the Atlanta Cotton
Exposition to success, will be fully repre
sented in the body. To give a bare hint of
tbe importance of the Convention, it is only
necessary to say that arrangements will be
made for a moel thorough and complete sys
tem of organization of the agricultural and
industrial interests of the Cotton States. If
this organization can be perfected, and there
is absolutely nothing in the way, the Associ
ation will prove to be the most beneficent
organization that has ever been devised in
the South.
It is thought that the Fair to be held at
Little Rock, will be the largest ever held in
the 8outh, with the exception of the Atlanta
Cotton Eposltion. Among other things, it
is announced that the display will Include a
plantation cotton seed oil mill, the first ever
exhibited.
Georgiaahould be largely represented there
and it has been suggested that the Conven
tion be invited to hold ita next session, in
August, 1883, at Tallulah Falls for ten days.
Aleabol from Acorns.
Scientific American.
It is said that alcohol equal to that made
from grain can be produced from acorns.
The acorns are freed from the shell and
ground finely; then they are mashed with
malt, and allowed to ferment. Acorns con
tain about 20 per cent, of atarch, and 18 per
cent, of gluten. They would be a valuable
article for human food if it were not for the
tannic acid (about 3 per cent.) which they
contain. Vast quantities which go to waste
every year, where bogs are not fed In the
woods, might gathered by boys and convert
ed into alsohol for use in the arts, thus free
ing an equivalent amount of grain for use as
food. Or some young student of practical
chemistry might make a good thing for him
self and for the world by devising an eco
nomical process of separating the atarch,
gluten, and tannic acid, the last for techni
cal uses and the others for food.
The fruit fair at Qreenesboro, N. 0., was
productive of much good. Dried fruit has
had a big boom ever since, and the heart of
the producer waxeth glad.
THE FABHEBS OF NOUTH CAROLINA.
It was a source of pleasure to the editor of
this paper to be present at the joint summer
meeting cf the South Carolina Agricultural
and Mechanical Society and the State
Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, at Anderson,
South Carolina, on the 15th and 16th of Au
gust. While the attendance was probably
not as large as at Greenville the preceding
year, the delegates present were representa
tive men and women and would have honored
any constituency. Anderson is a thrifty and
progressive town, and gives evidence of sub
stantial prosperity. It was here that the
famous stock or no fence law originated and
its beneficial results are seen on every band.
The stock all are in better condition than
usual, and the farms and farmers far in ad
vance of their class in other sections.
The meeting was held in the Court House.
Hon. B. F. Crayton, (who will in all proba
bility succeed Gov. Hugh 8. Thompson,) in
behalf of the citizens, welcomed the dele
gates in his whole-souled liberal style. Hon.
D. P. Duncan, President of the State Agri
cultural and Mechanical Society responded
in behalf of that society in a handsome
effort. Col. E. M. Rucker, “the Demosthe
nes of the mountains,” in behalf of Pomona
Grange, of Anderson county, welcomed the
State Grange in strains of melting eloquence.
Hon. J. N. Lipscomb, Master of the State
Grange, one of South Carolina’s most solid
citizens and gifted speakers responded in a
style that brought down the house.
Col. W. H. Evans, of Darlington, delivered
a very effective address on Farm Machinery.
A man, he said, should not do by human
labor what could be done by a horse, and by
a horse, what could be done by steam. Ma
chinery not only systematized and cheapen
ed labor, but cheapened the cost of labor.
Two things were to be considered in the se
lection of machinery: fitness for the work
and cost. The cost, and inability to use
them, retarded tbe use of machinery. Ma
chinery could be classified as follows: Ma
chinery for preparing the soil; machinery
for planting; machinery for cultivating the
soil; machinery for harvesting; machinery
for preparing for market.
He amplified these several points, conclud
ing with the remark that the shop and ma
chines were too far apart, and that the shop
must come closer to us, and we manufacture
fer ourselves. This led to an interesting
discussion.
President Duncan stated that more ma
chinery had been sold in the South since the
Atlanta Exposition than for ten years pre
vious.
Hon. J. N. Lipscomb denied tbe truth of
the assertion that man loved to labor. Man
does not want to do himself what anybody
else or machinery can do for him—machin
ery was the multiplication of muscle. He
had heard of sowing cotton broadcast, chop
ping it out with a Thomas' Harrow, and
gathering 1,800 pounds of seed cotton per
acre. He expected next to hear of machin
ery to mow and thresh it out. It was right
to use machinery, but caution should be
used in purchasing them, for humbugs were
roosting among them thicker than buzzards
over a dead hog.
Governor Johnson Hagood briefly ex
plained the principle of the Dowlaw Cotton
Planter.
W. G. Childs, of Columbia, South Caro
lina, a young man of great power and prom
ise, the largest grass farmer in the State,
used improved agricultural implements as a
matter of economy.
Hon. B. F. Crayton used the Chicago
Screw Pulverizer. With six horses attached
to it he could put 12 acres in peas per day,
sowing at tbe same time, thus dispensing
with six hands. He could plow with it
when it was too dry to use other plows. The
land must be free from rock and stumps. It
will go to the depth of from five to six
inches.. Can prepare land set in Bermuda
for oats.
An Interesting discussion ensued upon
the depth of plowing. Hon. J. N. Lipscomb
questioned attaining a depth of six inches.
Mr. W. G. Childs stated that he measured
the furrows after the pulverizer and it was
six inches, and could substantiate it by the
statementa of the Governor and an elder in
the Presbyterian Church.
Gov. Hagood remarked that the pulverizer
was not a turn plow. The weight (1,800 lbs.)
drove the spiral screws into the ground.
Hon. T. J. Moore, of Spartanburg, observed
that it was not difficult to attain six inches.
With a Syracuse Chilled Plow, drawn by
three horses, a furrow one foot wide and six
to seven inches deep, could be obtained.
Hon. John 8. Richardson, a pleasing and
interesting speaker, addressed the Conven
tion on the interest and duties of the South.
Her Interest lay in the performance of her
duties. This was embodied in the education
of her people in its broadest sense. He ad
vocated tbe attainment of general knowl
edge in every branch of farm life, and in
everything relating to the rights, privileges
and duties relating to citizenship.
Mr. C. H. Moise, of Sumter, South Caroli
na, urged the importance of educating our
boys so that they will be fitted for the vari
ous pursuits of life. South Carolina ex
pends more per capita for education than
Pennsylvania or Massachussetts.
Mr. A. F. Edwards, of Darlington, said that
man's true interest is in the discharge of his
duty. One great duty devolving upon us
was to educate and rear our children. Prac
tical experimental knowledge is what we
want.
Hon. J. B. Humbert, of Laurens, read a
very instructive essay on cotton seed and its
uses. As it embodies pretty much the views
of Prof. H. C. White, we omit further ref
erence to tbe subject until we publish Prof.
White’s address.
W. G. Hinson remarked, that eight years
ago, Dr. St. Julien Ravenel, of Charleston,
had suggested the value of the branches and
burs of the cotton stalk as plant food.
B. F. Crayton stated that he had cut the
cotton stalks up with a mowing knifeand
turned them under with a Dixie plow, and
on land that ordinarily would not yield over
thirty to forty-five bushels of oats per acre,
he had secured seventy to seventy-five bush-
els of oats, and now bad a fine crop of peas
on the same land, without the uSe’ of any
fertilizer.
A delegate inquired if the cost of trans
porting cotton seed to the oil mills was not
too great, and if the bulk could not be re
duced by taking off the hull and shipping
the kernel.
Hon. T. J. Moore said, that in shipping
the kernels in sacks, there was danger of
heating them.
The opening address on Wednesday, was
delivered by President Duncan, on “Pro
gressive Agriculture as aided by tbe Agri
cultural University and the two Societies"
then convened. It was an earnest, dignified
and practical address.
Prof. J. M. McBryde, recently elected a pro-
lessor in the University of S. C., (a native of
that State,) followed in a philosophical and
pungent address on “ Agricultural Educa
tion." He is eminently a practical man.
As he has promised to furnish the Southern
World with a copy of It for publication, we
refrain from any synopsis of it.
Hon. D. Wyatt Aiken, Hon. J. N. Lips
comb, C. H. Moise, G. E. Heard, ef Georgia,
B. F. Crayton, and A. F. Edwards, discussed
the subject in earnest and pointed speeches.
W. G. Childs, of Columbia, presented an
interesting paper on ” Cereals, Grasses, and
Forage Crops," full of strong points. He
will furnish the Southern World with a
copy for publication.
Hon. J. W. R. Pope, the gifted editor of
the Columbia Register, one of tbe best statis
ticians and orators of the day, considered
the subject of transportation, in a very able
effort.
Hon. Thomas J, Moore, of Spartanburg,
discussed “Live Stock—Varieties, and Eco
nomical Feeding on Southern Products."
As it appears elsewhere, we call attention to
its elaborate and instructive character.
Marion was selected as the next place of
meeting.
After discussion by Messrs. Lipscomb,
Humbert, Rucker, Moise, Edwards and Ev
ans, a resolution expressing tbe sense of the
meeting that the Lien Law be repealed, was
adopted.
Gov. Hagood presented a resolution rela
tive to the death of Dr. St Julien Ravenel,
which was adopted.
The Society took measures looking to mak
ing it a more thoroughly representati ve body
and thereby increasing the area of ita use-
ulness.
While there, we were domicilled at the
residence of D. 8. Maxwell, the Mayor-elect
of the city of Anderson. Mr. Maxwell ia a
young man, full of life and energy, and will
reflect credit upon the city. Mra. Maxwell
dispenses the hospitality of her superb home
with the grace of a queen.
A visit to the residence of Hon. B. F, Cray
ton, will repay a trip to Anderson from any
point His place is the Hrad Centre—the
starting point of the no fence law—and the
thrift and pleasant surroundings fail to sus
tain the allegation that where the stock law
prevails agriculture is slovenly and stock is
starved out
We noted a Bermuda grass pasture on
which were graxlng ten or twelve head of
milch cows, all in fine order. The pasture
yielded to its owner a revenue of $25.00 per
month.