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THE SOUTHERN WORLD, MAY 1, 1885.
The North and South.
foroivem-foroiviko.
[The following beautiful Une«, written toy Un.
Borah Matbewa, of Kinaman, Ohio, were fug-
geated by reading in the Gbawd Abjtt Bzwti-
naL,of Chattanooga, Tenn.,an account of the
organiaatlon of the Battle Monument Aaalcia-
tion of the Blue and Oray, of Atlanta, Go., the
object of which la to re-inter the toodlea of un
known dead heroea of both armlea, and erect
over them a auitable monnmentl
What place in onr country can be half ao aacred
Aa that where our heroea fell faat in the frayT
And falling together, with graver intermingling,
They peacefully alumber—the Blue and the
Oray.
Ve heroea of freedom, you ahow greater valor
In that you forgive, than in that you could
alay;
Your atrifea are forgotten.your battler are ended,
And peace reigna about yon—the Blue and the
Gray.
Bouaeholda whore hearth-atonea left deaolate,
dreary,
Still mourn for the member who fell on that
day;
And motboraof Georgia, and wlvea of Ohio,
Weep over one grave—of boya Blue, and Gray.
Tread lightly above them, you who would inter
them,
Speak aoftly, and guard all the worda you
would aay;
I would that the living might learn the aweet
lesion—
Forgiven—forgiving—the Blue and the Gray.
Growing; Friendliness.
The organization of the Battle Monu
ment Association of the Blue and Gray,
in Atlanta, Ga., is calling oat some very
kindly expressions from the old “vets”
of both armies.
Writing to Major Sidney Herbert,
corresponding secretary, Mr. W. W.
DeHaven, of Macon, Ga., formerly first
Sergeant of Company K, 16th Wiscon
sin Infantry. says; “Allow me to assure
yon of my hearty sympathy with the
objectB of the associaiion, and that I
note with pleasure the growing friendli
ness of the Gray towards the Bine,
assure you the feeling is reciprocated by
me, and I believe by All true ex-Federal
soldiers.
“When General Joe Johnston’s heroic
little army was disbanded, his oppo
nents on a hundred contested fields
were willing to let the curtain drop on
our family quarrel; and had the momen
tous question of the re-establishment of
fraternal relations been left to the Blue
and the Gray, there had been no ripple
in the onward march of good fellowship
felt at that time. In many instances then
the Blue said to the Gray: ’Here, John
nie, take your mules, horses and wagons
home, and we will divide rations and
blankets with you too, and may God
bless you in repairing your wasted for
tunes and in rebuilding your desolated
homes.’
“That was my feeling then, and I
have not felt like changing it during the
twelve years of my life and associations
with these noble-hearted people.”
The reading of this letter at the last
meeting of the Battle Monument Associ
ation called for the heartiest applause
from the old veterans present from both
armies.
Similar sentiments were read in let
ters from Generals Joseph Wheeler and
P. M. B. Young, the noted cavalry com'
manders of the Gray.—Army Sentinel.
flooring mills, or send me some leading
Southern papers?
Are many Northern men coming
South? I served through the war in the
“Army of the Potomac,” in the One
Hundred and Twenty-first Pennsylvania
Volunteers, and am Post Commander of
John Koch Post 354 of the Grand Army
of the Republic. Quite a number of old
soldiers in this vicinity talk of going
South, and any information that I may
obtain will be read by many old com
rades.
If you cannot answer this, will yen
please ask some of your readers, who
are posted in the matter, to drop me a
line in regard to the advantages of their
localities? Alfbbd Koch.
Eaet Sandy, Venango county, Penn.
A Response From ttae South.
X find from my Northern correspond
ence that the Southern World is highly
appreciated by the people of that sec
tion. I hope that it will have a larger
circulation in the Northern States as
well as at the South. It appears that
the tide of immigration is going to flow
business, as they are shipping cotton
goods to Europe and the Northern States.
Our Alabama iron furnaces are making
iron at a cost of six dollars less per ton
than it is made in Pennsylvania. Now,
taking everything into consideration,
we have reason to be thankfa! to the
Giver of all good, lhat we are so bounti
fully blessed. I feel confident that the
late civil wsr was a blessing to us in
disguise. We have no war prejudices;
we heartily extend the right-hand-of-
fellowthip to all our good Northern
friends who may wish to make homes
in the Sunny South, the “Garden Spot”
of the world, to help us develop our
great farming and mineral resources and
share with us the profits, etc. The in
dications are very clear now that we are
bordering on an era of greater peace
and prosperity than for one hundred
years in the past.
J. H. Vandiobift.
Branchville, Ala.
Duncan's Mammotli Prolific
Cotton Illustrated.
We present on this page the represen
tation of a stalk of Duncan’s Mammoth
A Voice From tbe North,
Having a desire to obtain i information
from Georgia or Alabama, with a view
of going there to live, I take the liberty
of writing to the Southehn Wobld for
that purpose. 1 would like to kuow if
the churches are in a prosperous condi
tion, the schools well attended, and the
people generally interested in moral and
intellectual matters.
What is the average price of land, and
what wages are paid to laborers? Hava
the streams much fall, and is the water
for house use good? I r>n a miller by
occupation, and lhat is why I desire to
know about the water-power. Can you
give mo any information in regard to
The Apiary.
duncan’s mammoth prolific cotton.
South this year. They are fast learning
—that we have no war prejudices against
Northern men—that we have the most
genial climate in the world—that our
mineral and farming resources cannot
be surpassed—and that we offer the
groatest inducements to capital and la
bor to come here to stay. We feel that
the war is over, and that we can breathe
easy and rest in peace. We have an
abiding confidence in the administration
that justice will be maintained and la
bor protected. We have had a very hard
time, two bad crop years in succession,
and money the scarcest to get I ever
saw. Bat, thank God, the winter is
over and onr prospects are very flat
tering for a good crop this year. Owing
to the scarcity of money, our people are
learning to economise, the cotton cards
and spinning wheel are getting in posi
tion again,and respectable men are will
ing to wear patched clothing. We now
feel that we can live independent of the
bloated bond-holder and National banks.
We can make our “hog and hominy,”
and we are going to do it. Our people
are finding that It pays to raise early
fruits and vegetables, and shipping
them to the North, and that it pays to
plant less cotton aid raise more corn,
wheat, oats, rye and hay. Our manu-
Prolific'Cotton. The stalk is six feet
high, and contains two pounds of cotton
in tho bolls. This variety of cotton has
strong stalks, long limbs, very broad
leaves, of a dark green color, bolls very
large, sometimes roaching six inches in
circumference, strong spreading roots,
four to five locks in a boll, lint long, lus
trous, creamy white. Thirty-five choice
or fifty average bolls will make one pound
of seed cotton. It is claimed to be
equally proof against drought, rust and
storms. It opens a little late, but well,
and is easily picked. The highest yield
per acre,reported, is 6,590 pounds of seed
cotton and of a single stalk, ten pounds.
It derives its name from Hon. F. M. Dun
can, of Dallas, Ga., its introducer and
grower, who has sold it for. several sea
sons past, with unexampled success.
Mr. Duncan ie a thorough planter, and
a gentlemen of high character, and the
public can pnt full confidence in his in
tegritr. He will mail catalogues free to
any parties desiring them.
Me Tbanks His Paper.
Mr Editor:—I was induced by read
ing your good paper to try Dr. Harter’s
Iron Tonic for debility, liver disorder,
and scrofula, and three bottles have
cored me. Accept my thanks. Jos. 0.
factories In the Bouth seem to do a fine (Boggs.—Ex.
Fiom tbe Southern Cultivator.]
Spring Management of Bees.
It may be a little late to make known
to the readers of The Cultivator my plan
for spring mantQemcnt of bees, as your
issue will not be out before the first of
May. Nevertheless, sonfe may be
benefited by considering my sugges
tions.
The swarming season in Middle
Georgia begins from the middle to the
end of April; lasting, generally, a
month or six weeks. As the bee-keeper
is kept busy during this time, every
thing should be in perfect readiness—
previously, however, the hives should
all have been over-hauled and cleared of
trash, as mice frequently slip into the
hives to winter, carrying much not nec
essary in a bee hive. Weak colonies
should have been strengthened, frames
properly adjusted and jiroods so ar
ranged as to compel the bees to work
on upper and lower stories. I do not
allow my bees to swarm, but manage
that for them, thus controlling instead
of being controlled by them. When a
colony begins to build queen cells, thus
showing its intention to swarm, I build
up weaker colonies with frames of their
brood,. giving them empty frames in
place of those containing brood; cut
ting out the queen cells and extracting
all their honey: giving them something
else to think of instead of .seeking new
quarters. Or, I move a new hive np to
it, if I wish to increase my number of
colonies, and transfer to it several of
the frames with their brood and adher
ing beeB, and the queen also if she can
be found. To find the queen is no
easy job, as she is sometimes hidden
among the multitude. If she cannot be
found, put one of the frames, containing
a queen cell, in the new hive. If the
a ueen should be removed along with
le queen cell, the first colonies will
rear another from remaining eggs, if
not too old—though this occasions much
delay in an important time.
Artificial swarming should never be
begun until the drones are out. If
there are. several colonies ready for
swarming, I add to the new hive a frame
of brood from each, making it strong
and ready for the honey harvest. Once
a week, during this season of four to
six weeks, I make a tour of my hiveB—
checking the swarming, adding empty
frames and extracting honey. If the
colonies are strong and honey aew abun
dant all the honey may be taken; care
and judgment should be exercised in
this, however.
I _jad rather abandon the business
than depend on natural swarming; for
the anxiety and the inconvenience of
watching my bees would counter-bal
ance the pleasure of the business,
although it has its advantages. Noth
ing is more terrifying than the cry, “the
bees are swarming,” when dinner is to
get, the house to be cleaned, company
expected, and perhaps a sting in pros
pect. But well managed, it need inter
fere with no household duties, and 1
think no farmer’s family should be
without this luxury. Honey-making,
together with the other luxuries of the
farm, fruit and flower culture, garden
ing, dairying and poultry, should be a
part of the duties of the farmer's wife.
VVe should look to woman for every
thing that is a luxury, leaving to the
husband cares of more importance.
Bee culture is profitable, and there is
no woman but loves to have money to
Bpend, about which no one has a right
to question. No gentleman would be so
angallsnt as to demand aught of what
she had won at the point of a thonsand
lances. A neighbor of mine made fifty
dollars from one colony, Belling the
honey at twenty-five cents per pound.
In these hard times we cannot hope to
realize that price, but there is profit in
bee-keeping with honey a£ twelve and a
half cents, to say nothing of the sale of
queens and bees. The bee gathers
mat which not only costs nothing, but
would otherwise be lost.
If farmers at the North, with their
short summers and long freezing win
ters, can make bee-keeping profitable,
what arc our possibilities with our sun
ny clime?
There iB nothing more interesting or
elevating than the study and science of
bee-keeping. For surely the bae, in ts
instincts, wonderful skill* indomitable
energy and valor,glorifies the mind that
taught, equipped and inspired it for the
good of man. Mns, M. M. N.
Hancock county, Oa.