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Cassara—Typographical Error,
In our last Issue in first column near
center, the word "Cassara” occuring sev
eral times in question and answers should
read Cassava. Doubtless the reader
chiefly Interested (J.* M. C.) saw and cor
rected the error.
In this issue Is a brief letter regarding
Cassava from Mr. J. B. Wight, which
will interest some of our readers. This
plant deserves attention from our far
mers south of Atlanta, as Mr. Wright
says. For growing succulent food for
milch cows, especially a well grown acre
of It would go a long ways during the
winter. We have plenty of testimony on
the subject from practical farmers, and
we urge any farmer or dairyman who
reads this column to try at least one row
of Cassava the coming spring. It will
yield more food than Artichokes or sweet
potatoes, Bone Meal, Ground Bone, Bone
Dust—A reader (11. M.) asks if (1) bone
meal and ground bone are the Same, and,
(2), if so, does it uniformly contain the
same, or about the same, quality of fer
tilizing material—somewhat like acid
phosphate.
Bone meal, bone dust, ground raw-bone
are terms applied to the same substance-r
animal bones ground to varying degrees
of fineness. This ground raw-bone con
tains nitrogen and phosphoric acid, and
there is more or less difference in the va
rious grinds, especially in respect to ni
trogen. One cannot bu'y it promicuously
on the basis of any particular brand or
make. A fair average, perhaps, would
be 3’/j per cent, of nitrogen, and 25 per
cent, phosphoric acid. Now the very best
quality of ground raw bone may and does
contain almost twice as much nitrogen
as the above average. When prepared
free from all fat. But few brands or
makes contain more phophoric acid than
25 per cent. In purchasing, it becomes
necessary to buy of the proper persons
and when a large quantity is bought it
must be or should be by analysis. The
finer the bone Is ground the sooner the
plant food Is available. Unlike nitrate of
soda and like substances the raw-bone
must .become decomposed (we 11-rotted)
before It can yield up Its enriching ele
ments. The average farmer is readily
imposed upon In buying this material. If
possible he should buy from well-known
and reputable dealers. Bought right,
there Is no other substance that gives
greater value for the money than irone
meal or ground raw bone, in the orchard
and vineyard it is almost indlspenzible,
and the coarser grinds (one-twelfth inch
and larger) can be used almoat as advan
tageously as the finer (pne-flftfeth and
smaller). We will refer co this question
again and at an early date.
Editor Morning News: Last spring a
bulletin on sweet cassava, Issued by the
United States department of agriculture,
fell Into my hands. Encouraged by this,
and also by an occasional article on the
subject In your columns, I decided to try
>i it. I found it had been grown by a few
persons In this section, though only for
the purpose of making starch, in which
it is very rich. My purpose was to ex
periment with It with reference to its
value as a stock food.
Securing a few stalks, (it Is propagated
by planting the stock In the same way hs
sugar cane) I planted it In fairly good
ground, though securing only a poor
stand. It grew vigorously. Recently, I
dug a few of the hills, the best one yleld
. ing twenty pounds of roots. My horse,
cows and hogs eat it with a relish, though
as to Its food value I have not sufficient
to determine. The bulletin above spoken
of says that It has twenty-five per cent
more nutritive valtie than the same
amount in weight of potatoes, in addi
tion to this, it will produce a greater
number of tons of tubers per acre than
potatoes. I consider it a plant well
worthy the attention of farmers south of
the latitude of Atlanta. It requires a long
season in which to grew, and would hard
ly prove of much value north of this line
The culinary value of cassava is also im
portant. It constitutes one of the chief
articles of food both for man amt beast
in tropical countries. I shall plant It
more largely another year. I haxe no
seed for sale. J. B. Wight.
Cairo, Ga.
Roup tn Fowls—Treatment.
Editor Morning News: Can you tell me
what this disease is, and its cause, that
has broken out among my flock of fowls.
It has so far attacked principally the
young pullets and cockerels. A small scab
forms usually on the comb, grows larger
and extends to the eyes, in some instances
closing on® or both eyos. It finally extends
over the entire head forming a hard scab
or warts that can <be peeled off. Last year
in October, I bought wfne Barred Ply
mouth Rock pullets from Tennessee und
this disease attacked tlvem and I lost 4 out
of 12 that had H. I am now treating my
fowls the same way I treated those last
year, to wit— one teaspoonful lard; one
teaspoonful vaseline; two drops carbolic
•eld, and enough sulphur to make It u
t*aate; all mixed and rubbed up well und
applied to the worts or sores.
wo far, I hove not lost a single fowl and
I have had them blind In both eyes and
for two or three days had to feed them all
they got. Those that wore at first attack
ed. say about ton of them, have so far re
covered that 1 have turned thorn out of the
hospital and they are doing well. 1 think
the disease must be chicken pox. I have
heard it comes from Inbreeding, but such
is not the case with my fowls as I have
raised these young ones from cocks from
Atlanta, Augusta and hens from Nashville
and from eggs gotten from different
plaoee. Surely there must be some preven
tive for this disease and I hope some of
your readers will come out and tell what
they know. I »m told the disease Is quite
common south, but no one can tell me ex
actly what IQ is and what causes It. My
fowls are well housed, have dry eoo;*i.
pure artesian water, crushed shells and
grit always before them and I feed n va
riety of food. 1 have my fowls ip differ
ent runs and strange to say that so far
only thaw® of two yards have been afflicted
while those in tho other yards as yet
»Ih»w no signa of the disease.
It may be well to state that my fowls
are of the following breeds, which goes
to show tha-t no fault lies in any one breed:
Brown Leghorns, White Leghorns, Barr
ett Plymouth Stocks. White Plymouth
Rocks, Buff Cochins, Black Langshans.
Nlack Minorca*, anu cross between the
White Plymouth Kock and the Bla.k
latmnban. Enquirer.
Our correspondents asks a question and
answers it himself, in a measure, giving
some very good information at the same
time.
The disease was the first form of
premonitory symptoms of roup—a disease
In fowls similar to diphtheria in human
kind. The first stage, the first symptom
of which la virulent Infiuvnaa,
The cause Is chiefly atmospheric, but
may be. and Is, magnified by bad sur
roundings. Impure water, eta. Tour treat
ment WM good, but It the disease had been
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more virulent it would have been advan
tageous to have given a tablespoonful of
Epsom salts in a quart of water (for the
fowls to drink) and mopped the throats
with kerosene and inserted into the
mouth a pinch of sulphur additional to
the external application. An ointment
which is made ont of vaseline
and powdered bluestone is quite fre
quently used for external application, but
the ointment of vaseline, carbolic acid
and sulphur is probably unsurpassed. Lo
cality has much to do with the dreadful
disease, and it is always desirable to give
the fowls water in an iron vessel in which
is kept a few nails. The iron Imbibed will
have a good constitutional effect and tend
to ward off the disease.
This disease should always be promptly
treated and one should be very careful In
handling fowls affected with it. Fowls,
as well as cats, may impart diptheria to
children, especially. This has been clear
ly established, and one can not be too
careful to stamp out the disease of roup
instantly on its appearance in the poultry
yard.. See that the fowls have no access
to anything impure, either liquid or solid
matter. The fall of the year is the most
dangerous season. Old fowls are more
susceptible at the moulting season. _
Planting Mulberries for Hoffs.
I have eight or ten acres of rather poor
land turned out seven or eight years ago
and now grown up in saplings and mis
cellaneous growth. I have an idea of
i clearing off the growth and planting mul
| berries to make a hog pasture of it. Tell
me the best kind to plant; when to plant,
and where to get the young trees. After
setting out trees and getting them well
started, couldn’t I sow some permanent
grass on the land? The land is poor, and
in some places badly gullied. The soil is
washed off of several acres. How many
years would it be before the trees would
bear freely. J. M. L.
Nov. 7.
Such a thing as you suggest has been
done with more or less success. The mul
' berry Is about easy a thing to grow
on such land as anything. If you could
get a good growth It would be a profitable
thing for you. The mulberry, as you may
know, makes the finest post in the world.
The HickS' Everbearing is perhaps the
best, but there are several kinds and you
might Include a few,of each of the others
r far the sake of comparison If you have to
bdy the. idling tvees to start with, they
will cost you $lO to sls per 100, according
to size, if you have access to any old
trees you can make a plantation more
cheaply. You can either use cuttings of
the branches or of the roots of the former,
take cutting about three feet long, taking
off a joint of old wood, the previous year's
growth. Bury these cuttings In light
loamy soil, leaving about half the length
out of the soil. Pack the soil firmly about
them and water. Apply water from time
to time and hasten the throwing out of
roots. Set out early in the spring and
cultivate sufficiently to keep down weeds
and encourage growth. Some manure
should be applied around each plant. For
two or three years the young trees should
be cultivated with plow and hoe. Then
after having attained some size the land
can be seeded down to grass and clover
or beggarweed, and the result should be
a very valuable eight or ten acres in the
course of a very few years, carrying the
matter to the anticipated conclusion of
making It the basis oi extended pork pro
duction. There are several nurserymen
in the south who raise the trees for sale.
Hire in Florida.
Few people realize the profitableness
and ease with which rice can be cultivat
ed in Florida. Experience has proved
that in nearly every section of the state
the soil Is adapted to its cultivation.
According to the statistics of the bu
reau of agriculture, the total crop of the
state for the years named below was as
follows:
Years. 'Acres. Value.
1889 1,769 $37,691 45
1890 ...... ....... 1,523 38,813 10
1891 3,115 43,740 03
1892 2,868 93,831 50
While, therefore, the average value of
the product per acre for the four year ft
was $20.|)2, the,value per acre for the last
year reported was $35.73. This Indicates
a wonderful improvement In methods of
qultlyatlon and Increased profit.
Referring to recent experiences in rice,
culture in Grange county, the Orlando
Reporter says;
"No country that can produce fifty bush
els of rice- per. acre should long remain
unprosparpfip. That -Is what Is being done
right hqre under our noses. Half thtft
amoqnt per acre is a paying crop, and
thousafidg, of acres in this section will
do that and more without fertilizing. Yet.
in the face* of these facts, there are croak
ers that insist that, leaving out oranges,
nO remunerative crops can be made in
this soil. Bosh!”—Florida Citizen.
, , Starch From Cassava.
E. W. Codington contributes to a local
journal the following in reference to
Cassava: He states that his own experi
ence "indicates that a good quality of
high pine land will produce, with fair
cultivation and no fertilizer, about 40,000
pounds to the acre the first year.” Our
own experience was on first-class flat
woods land which had been heavily fer
tilized for strawberries for three years,
and a good application of manure was
given to the cassava, yet it did not pro
duce one-Imlf the above amount. A yield
of 60,000 pounds represents 8,800 pounds
of pure starch, and we are very much
doubt if any high ptne land will give
that without fertilization.
He says it "may almost wholly take
the place of potatoes and the cereal grains
for the human family.” it might do this
! in the form of tapioca, but no house
keeper who was not forced to do it by
very short allowances would be willing
1 to spend an hour or more in cooking
I this refractory* root.
Mr. Codington gives the price of Flor
ida lands to be' used in its cultivation
I at $1 to $5 un Acre, M compared with SSO
j an acre far corn land in the north. He
overlooks the fact that it; costs sls or S2O
■ an acre to clear the Florida pine land.
Wb quote the following paragraph:
“The manufacture of glucose is to-day
1 an immense business tn the United States,
; with corn as a base of the product. One
l acre of the best corn land In the world,
perhaps (the valley of the Ohio river),
can Ih bought for, say SSO, and the
I will be BO bushels (excessive estimate*
= of 56 pounds each, or $.360 pounds of corn,
i of which 78 per cent, is starch, or 2.630
I pounds of starch to the acre. An acre
I of '-‘aseava*. estimating lowest experi
mental results yields 40,000 pounds of
I root, of which 2$ pet rent, is starch, or
, 8.300 poufids of starch peT acre. The land
for growing the casjwt.va will cost from
•$1 to per acre. The cost of planting
THE WEEKLY NEWS (TWO-TIMES-A-WEEK):.iTHURSDAY. NOVEMBER 28. 1895.
Value.
and growing the crops are so nearly Iden
tical that it need not be considered.
“With Interest: rate at 6 per cent, the
corn farmer must make $2.70 per acre
on his crop more than the cassava grower,
to cover im-terest on his land investment.
At 45 cents per bushel for corn, the crop
would yield to the farmer $27 gross, or
$24.30 after deducting interest on land val-.
ue, and, as long as competition has practi
cally fixed the value of corn, we may'
assume that the cost of production can-.
not be materially lowered. The manu
facturer then must expect to continue
to pay for his raw material, corn, the
equivalent of $27 for 2.600' pounds of
starch, or about $4 per 100 pounds. But :
the same labor that grew the acre of
corn, transported from the SSO land of
Ohio to the $5 land of Florida, would for
the same or less wages grow and- deliver
to him for $24.30 the raw material, in full
as good form for 8,800 pounds of starch,
or something under 28 cents per 100
pounds.
The Scrap Book.
Hog Raising in the South.—lt is simply
astonishing the; interest that is being tak
en In hog raising in the south during the
present season. The writer scarcely pass
ed a day Without receiving inquiries in
regard to purchase or care of swine. The
few pigs he breeds are sold before they
are born, while if he answered fully all
the questions asked as to the matters ot
management and feeding and in regard to
the merits of the different breeds he
would indeed Arid it no small task.
Beggarweed a Soil Rene we r.
Young, owner of a 100-acre orange grove
at Interlachen, in a private letter, says;
"My superintendent writes me that the
beggarweed between my orange .rows le
so high that he Cannot see the mules
twelve feet away. This is very encour
aging to me, as it indicates a relief from
the vest-pocket style of commercial fer
tilizing.” Maj. Campbell, in a letter to
the Farmer and Fruit Grower, speaks of
hundreds of tons of beggarweed, cow
peas and crab-grass grow-ing in the or
ange groves, not only feed for stock, but
nature’s own fertilizer. The freeze has
been a valuable lesson to the Florida
farmer in the discovery of home produc
tion and home fertilizing. In beggarweea
particularly, we have all the advantages
of red clover as a fodder crop and land
fertilization, and its acreage is annually
increasing.
Rye and Barley—Rye is a good erop to
sow for winter grazing. It does not re
quire the richest soil to grow satisfactor
ily. It stands the abuse of stock hoofs
well. It is a hardy plant. Well rooted be
fore winter, cold will not kill it out. In
the spring stock should be taken off and
the plant permitted: either to mature a
crop of grain, or when in the blooming
stage turned under for fertilizing purposes.
Growing rye for winter pasturage and for
the grain—the latter to be sold for seed
ought to prove profitable to the farmer.
As ’tXN barley, Jt-feas been said by one in
whom we have confidence as a judge in
such matters, that one acre of barley, on
rich soil, will afford more winter grazing
than the combined one acre each of wheat,
rye and oats. The soil must be rich or it
is useless to sow the seed with any expec
tancy of profit from the crop. It is a crop
too scantily grown in the south. As with
rye, there is nearly always a scarcity of
home-grown seed, and home-grown seeds
are the best.
Both crops ought to be sown in the fall
as early as practicable in order to give the
best returns.—Southern. Farm Gazette.
Fall Top Dressing—lt used to be
thought that much of the value of manure
left on the surface was washed away by
rains in winter and spring, and evapora
ted during dny weather in summer.
Farmers have learned better now. Ex
cept on land which 4s overflowed and
while the soil is frozen there is no waste
of manure from washing, away. The
rains which fall dissolve what is Soluble,
but they carry (his fertility Into rtie soil,
where it is taken up by particles of
earth. The more thoroughly this is done
the greater good will the manure do. A
dry clod of manure burled in the soil in
early spring often does not receive mois r
•ture enough to do any good the entire
growing Reason. 4,ca/e it over winter
on the surface of grass land or winter
grain and the fertility In the lump of
manure will be washed into the soil and
thoroughly Incorporated with it. Top
dressing does most good when applied to
winter grain. It not only helps the grain
crop, but it insures a good catch of clover,
the seed germinating under the manure
and soon getting a strong root hold in
the rich soil beneath it.
Starting Onions—Though it is very late
to do the work, yet seeing that the weath
er has been gueh that it was almost im
possible to set out onion sets with suc
cess earlier, a few may yet be planted.
If the winter is mild, they will live and
come in earlier than spring set ones.
Onioji seed may be sown In cold frames
to make plants to set out in early spring.
Sow thinly, so that the plants may have
room to grow through the winter, if
seed of the Italian varieties was sown in
the early fall, the plants should now be
ready to set out In the permanent rows.
Set out six inches apart in the row and
the rows twelve inches apart. The land
should be made very rich.
A Vigorous Plant.—l saw during the
past summer in a New Hampshire farm
house a magnificent wax plant full of
bloom, in a teh-lnch flower pot, and the
owner of the plant told me that the
plant had not been repotted nor a par
ticle of soil added to the pot for fifteen
years! Nor had the plant ever been
moved from the window tai which it was
growing. The reason for this was the
plant had been potted by the only son
of the lady who owned It, and a few
weeks later he died. The mother felt
that she would like to keep the plant as
long as passible exactly as It had come
to her from her son. As it never showed
any sign of having exhausted the soil
she did not repot it, and I do not think
the plant coul be any finer than ft is
if it had been repotted every year. This,
however, is no argument against the re
potting of plants, although I am con
vinced that a great deal of unnecessary
repotting is done, and that plants are
often shifted from small to large ppts
when it would have been better to have
kept them In the small pots. A florirt
once told me that some of his finest
plants had been brought into full and
perfect bloom without any repotting at
all. A florist, however, can do many,
things and bring about many results en
tirely beyond the scope of those who
have only ordinary window garden fa
cilities.—Success With Flowers.
When Cattle Suffer From Bloating.—
They must be relieved in some wav, and
whatever aid Is given them will have to be
rendered promptly if It is to do any good.
The trouble is of such frequent occurrence
and so dangerous in character, that every
stock owner should be prepared at oil
times to deal with a case in his herd. Va
rious methods are commonly employed to
help animals attacked by this distressing
complaint, and many of them are barbar
ous in the extreme; 9o much so in fact
that It is hard to understand how* intelli
gent people can expect any benefit to fol
low such illogical and brutal practices.
Even If a cure can be brought about by
thrusting a pointed stick down a cow s
throat for the purpose of "letting out air”
or from other prevalent methods, equally
inhuman, and of doubtful value, there is
no excuse for resorting to any of them
when safer and more reliable remedies
are available. There are several decoc
tions recommended as very useful for re
lieving cattle suffering from the effects
Doctors Say;
Bilious and Intermittent Fevers
which prevail in miasmatic dis
tricts are invariably accompan
ied by derangements of the
Stomach Liver and Bowels.
The Secret of Health.
The liver is the great ” driving
wheel” in the mechanism of
man, and when it is out of order,
the whole system becomes de
ranged and disease is the result.
Tutt’s Liver Pills
Cure all Liver Troubles.
Over Thirty Years
Without Sickness.
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Mr. 11. Wettsteesf, a well-known,
enterprising citizen of Byron; isl.,
writes: I paid inneh atten
• t?on to regulating the * bowels, I
’ltardly knew a well day; I
r ft- ' ’ s TL**’'|
that did not readily yield to this
remedy. My wife had been, previ
ous to our marriage, an invalid for
years. She had a prejudice against
cathartics, but as soon as she began
to use Ayer’s Pills her health was
restored.” •
AYER S
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To Restore Strengih, take Ayer’s Sarsaparilla.
of over-eatihg. One of these consists of
three Or four drops of colchicum, stirred
in a glass of water. It is said that the
bloating will cease in 16 minutes after this
mixture has been poured the ani
mal’s throat, and that a second dose is
never required.
Kiln-Drying Sweet Potatoes.—An Illi
nois subscriber asks for instructions in
regard to kiln-drying sweet potatoes, and.
then goes on to explain his position. He
says: • •
“We can keep them'all right from fall
till spring by putting them in bins, and
keeping in warm and steady temperature,
but the trouble comes in when we under
take to move them, as they will rot and
fall to piefees in two to five days.
The growers of New* Jersey have away
of kiln drying them, w*hich seems to pre
serve them for a reasonable length of
time. Can you tell us how they do it?
The process of kiln drying is probably
similar throughout the sweet potato grow
ing regions. In Kentucky and Alabama
the following- is the mode employed. The
potatoes. are spread on racks in a closed
room or building and a fire placed therein
till the temperature is raised to 60 degrees.
This continued for three days drys them
sufficiently -to keep them some rrionths.
This heat for this'length of time will
not prevent germination 'of tubers if
wished for seed purposes.
If the heat is greater and longer con
tinued the keeping qualities may be pro
longed, but the germinating qualities im
paired. Thi drying out process is best
done as asta as harvested.
If the smoke from the fire is allowed
to circulate among the racks holding the
potatoes during the drying, some claim
Jt-is a rather than otherwise.
The above Is the custom of one of the
most successful ”£weet • potato raisers of
the south, Mr. S. K. Asfcley, Fruithurst,
Ala. His crop this year Drought 60 cents
per bushel when ordinary potatoes were
bringing only 35 cents per bushel.
Upland Rice.—(Lome and Farm.)—l ride
into the arena again on my hobby, upland
rice. My short letter last spring received
so much attention tiiar I am
constrained to write again on the same
subject, especially as the largest crop of
upland rice ever khow*n in this country
has just been harvested. The subject Is
worthy a much abler pen than mine, for
this cereal has proven itself of more value
this year than all the others in this sec
tion, and 1 shall deftm myself a public
benefactor if I can bring upland rice into
general use. Until the common cane or
reed produces seed annually in as great
abundance as it did this year In East Ala
bama, upland, rice will be the greatest
cereal that can be planted for several
reasons. It produces more per acre than
corn, wheat or oats, with less work than
either, except oats, and w*ill do well on
poorer land than any of them. I demon
strated the last fact this year by raising
a good crop of rice on a worn-out hill
side that would hardly sprout cow*-peas,
and the first by getting a better crop on
better land, but with hoeing onlv once
and never plowing It at all, so that all
the work expended oh that piece of ground
was bedding the land, planting the rice
and hoeing It once, One of my nearest
neighbors raised this year 400 bushels of
rice on between ten and eleven acres of
rank new* ground,s and all of< my neigh
bors plant more or less rice for stock
feed, as it is a surer crop than corn, pro
duces equally as well, if not better, and
with much less work. It is just as good
feed for all stock, cattie and hogs, as
corn, some declaring the straw superior
to fodder as forage. There was plenty of
it cut in the flatwoods this year, that
the entire field would average - fiVe feet
high, with heads from ten* to fifteen Inches
long. ’ ’
What Twelve Hens Cost n Year.
There is no surer way of getting at a
thing than by trying to ijo it. As fowls
eat so many different kinds of food, ft is
difficult to get at the exact cost. O. M.
Todd of Kansas City, Mo„ in the Midland
Poultry Journal, relates what he did with
twelve fowls, and he mentions the cost
of every article. Horejs;his statement:
In 1894, twelve full grown fowls (yarded)
dispensed with a pound of wheqt a day—
at 1 cent a pound—
For the year $3 60
Corn (only in winter) .....j.V.' 30
Kerosene for roosts 1 00
lime ....... ............. 20
Carbolic acid : jo
Bone meal ........... .. oq
Condition powders .... . ». l<so
Insect powders ~ ...., 2b
Grit .... .! I. .! 30
Corn and Indian meal ... 60
Scraps from the table 00
Raw meat scraps from butcher. 00
Cut clover (In winter) ... ... 25
Straw for nests ....... ...... 25
Sulphur 10
Total y ' $9 00
or 75 cents per hen. It will be seen by
these figures that wheat, kerosene and
bone meal were used liberally, while corn
and Indian meal were used moderately.
When you figure that a hen costs you 75
cents a year you may safely say she will
lay in eggs twice what she eats. Most
any hen with good care and management,
will average 150 eggs a year, and it Is a
very poor hen indeed that will not lav sev
enty-five eggs in a year.
DIVERSIFIED FARMING.
Practical Examplea ot the Advant
age of Having Many Thinff* to Sell.
The tendency in farming for a number
of years has been toward specialties
rather than a diversity of crops of farm
products. If the farmer lived Jn a grain
growing section, every effort was male
to produce more and more grain. If, on
the other hand, dairying was followed,
no stone was left unturned to keep more
cows. Whatever may have been the wis
dom of this policy in the past, it is a
question worthy of out* careful consider
ation at present whether or not we should
further conQeue, it. With a view to,il
lustrating the .of having a lit
tle of everything to. sell instead of de
pending solely on one-thing a< correspon
dent of Country Gentleman gives $->pra*>.
tleal example of what he once saw done.
He writes:
A farmer of my early acquaintance
kept a herd of and as the custom
was injhose days made most of big but
ter tr. the -summer.’hi? Ji eld tut' No
vember <nti sold tqt ..wjiaffey.rt price it
brought. During, th< summer months.
> whenever he -went to town to tto ally
teamed the tevil re
sill t i? bf colTStTpiitfon,
and the efficacy bf
AYER’S
Pills, I have not had
one day’s sickness
for.over thirty years
not one attack
trading, he did not go and run a bill at
the stores, to be settled 1 “when she but
ter was sold,” but always took something
from the farm. In jhe spring, during
house cleaning tlffie, he would’ have
aboard a number, of bundle's of straw for
filling beds.. Selling 'these 'for tjhfs tour
pose, his straw brqfigtit fotff* t>r five tfines
as much as it would sell fbr by the*ton.
A well cared for flock of poultry furn
ished eggs In exchange for the family
groceries. A few early vegetables ,or
fruits were always selected iri their sea
son. A few cords of wood were prepared
in winter, neatly piled, and when he was
going (never on purpose), he took;a load
to pay his blacksmith’s bill. By this
means he had his hiittey <no©exKto flen
pend upon-to pay oar his; d(?jjt in .fthe fall.
I was greatly internsth.il in the
employed by the■ Germa# .fattnilfefCwfyO oc
cupy a.great shar&.Af me uairy h&bis in
the vicinity of El gm. nre/iThSBe "Wnants
pay more rent for thg. bare farm than one
will refit -for in
full line of stock ami tqp®.- I-saidiXo a
German farmer whom T met. “You all
seem to prosper here;, will yqu,inform me
'ho w you do it?’f 1
"Well, we'milk 40*cow. 1 and there, are
■ myself and wife:and eight, children. The
women 'and children tend pie pl£t of cu
cumbers and pick them. We ’men take
care of the cows ,arid farm crops; We put
In two or three acres of cucumbers, and
they are sold at the ca-rinlng factories, and'
wife and children get enough from them
do pay ail our living- expenses, fio We, have
toil the profits from lour milk to pay rent
and lay by to buy a farm in a few years.”
We cannot raise cucumbers on Such an
extensive scale, but one-who has. not tried
it will be surprised-at the income frpm 25
hills of cucumbers Well eared for and kept
closely picked. Ten dollars’ worth of cab
bage can be grown, on a very small space.
I have heard a friend MH of Ms little girls
picking and selling oyer. S4Q, .>worthof
strawberries on a very small space. If I
remember correctly, the plat was one rod
wide and five rods long. Apples may be
fed to cows in the fajl with great profit.
I consider sweet apples, say of “pound
sweet” variety, nearly as valuable as
potatoes for either milk cows or for fat
tening any kind of stock. I believe if every
farmer had enough of . this variety of ap
ples to feed his cows a peck apiece every
day they would prove more valuable
than grain in keeping up the milk flow.
Os course apples can be sb fed as to be
come an injury. In connection with
dairying the potato crop is one of great
importance.' There are few ’ years in
which at some h ime potatoes will not
brjng 50 cents. At this price they are a
paying crop, and are worth this to feed
cows in winter. I know this -will aston
ish many, but, as in other things, there
is a right way and a wrong way of do
ing it. Suppose cows are receiving an
average of ten pounds of grain a day, if
two days each week t'en pounds of cut
potatoes are substituted for the usual
grain .feed there Will be no decrease In
quantity of milk or butter; in fact, cows
will keep in better thrift for this semi
weekly change of diet.
In choosing what we will sell from the
farm thought should be given to the
amount of fertility we are removing from
the farm. A very small piece of ground
will furnish $lO worth of cucumbers, and
the fertility removed will be simply noth
ing compared with that contained in a ton
of hay, which will only sell for sl6.
linking ChickenM Pay.
I would like to. know how* to raise chick
ens to make them pay. What kind is most
profitable? Will they pay as well by
keeping them confined in a yard as by
giving them free forage? How big a yard
should I have for 200 chickens; and how
many males among them? * W; E. S.
(Reply by T. Greiner.)'
Some people can make chickens pay,
and others will have td pay to keep chick
ens. It is like any other- business. ‘ A
good manager is sucfeesSftil, and a bung
ler is not. At present jjfiees of corn,
wheat and Oats, and with small pota
toes to be had at one’s figure, it seems
that there is a most excellent chance to
make some profit in the poultry business,
as long as the prices of eggs and chicken
meat remain almost stationary at, the ( oid
figures. The essentials to tore
cleanliness, warm buildings, proper food
and drink, with sharp grit at all times,
and, if possible, a free range. I would
want at least an acre of land for 20u
fowls, and more if it could be had. Con
fining fowls Into small yards is risky busi
ness. One male to. from twenty to forty
pullets is enough. The selection of breed
depends on the purpose for which you
keep them. If for eggs alone,. Leghornt,
and other small non-sitting breeds will
fill the bill; if for broilers, Plymouth
Rocks are hard to beat; if for eggs and
caponp, Black Langshans will give satis
faction. I like the latter as a general
purpose fowl, but they are not good for
broilers or spring chickens. Feed wheat
and oats mostly, with pome corn or other
grains as an occasional change, and per
haps boiled small potatoes or roo,ts, etc.,
mixed (mashed) with a mixture of bran,
oat and corn meal, linseed meal, etc. Ra
tions of meat scraps, or of cut bone and
meat, etc., should be given frequently,
and sharp grit be kept within reach of
the fowls at all times.
Boar Hunting,
From Outing.
Here we found a still much larger boar,
the center of a well tramped circle, per
haps twenty feet in circumference, cleared
by the dogs in their frantic attempts to
get at the hindquarters and escape his
tusks. In this the maddened pachyderm
wa:? circling, wheeling suddenly aiMl strik
ing from side to side ih a wild attempt
to do his Tormentors to the death, as he
described long curves through the air
with his villainous looking tusks, all the
while keeping up an odd combination
of growl, grunt and squeal. The noise
made it possible for us to get within fifty
yards before being discovered by the
enemy. Then, just as each of us was rais
ing his rifle for a shot, without a mo
ment’s pause, entirely forgetting the
small fry at his heels, he rushed upon
me, head down, with seemingly no thought
but to deal the dreaded upward • thrust
with his tusks. Just then (I had better
confess), I devoutly wished myself back
on my "safety” Wheel, oh a hprd stretch
of the Jamaica highways. However, the
Martini-Henry firm must know what their
rifles are needed for, and, wittt a firm
conviction in their judgment, I« almost
instinctively pulled the trigger. Isl a
heato. almost at our feet; the boar strug
gled for a few seconds in ! -‘ Che death
throes, with the now emboldened pack
I doing their best to hasten his departure,
i The# trophy, with its six-inch tusks of
I perilous sharpness, was one to be’ proud
of, and came up in a few moments. Wh&
; they were twitted with the fact that they
j had not done as well, w*e werto' amazed
I to learn that they had, discarding their
guns, slain the boar that we' had misse l
by receiving him on long lancewood
spears, steel tipped, which to them is
by reason of Its extreme danger, a far
more sportsman-like and enjoyable mode
of dealing death to these brutes.
—Lord Rosebery is following Disraeli’s
example in putting his political experi
ences in the form of a novel, which he is
now writing.
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Positively cured by these
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They also relieve Distress from Dyspepsia,
Indigestion and Too Hearty Eating. A per.
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Pain in the Side, TORPID LIVER. They
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of carpets 5
y them up. That is a specialty
sarline. After a thorough
>ing, you simply scrub them
earline and water. Then you
them off with clean water, and
down and enjoy their new
; and freshness. • /
Vou ought to be able to do a
>od deal of sitting down, if in
ill your washing and cleaning
you use Pearline, and so
save time and work. Use
it alone —no soap with it.
A COMMERCIAL INVASION.
ORIENTAL CHEAP LABOR THREAT-
ENS TO TAKE THE FIELD.
JapaneKe Factory Agents Offer Sta
ple Gooda at an. Unprecedented.
Cut to Merchants of San Francisco.
Alleged Prices That Would Soon
Close the Doors of Every American
Concern—Buttons, Bicycles, Sash,
Doors, Blinds, Matches and All
Kinds of Wooden Ware the Articles
Mainly Affected—Are We to Be
Swamped by the Rice-Enters, Men
Who Work, for Nothing and Board
Themselves?
San Francisco, Nov. 24.—Under the cap
tion “A Japanese Invasion,” the Daily
Report, last evening, published a story
calculated to startle American manufac
turers.
Japan is about to invade the United
States with the agents of her factories
whose ability to produce articles of ne
cessity more cheaply than the rest of the
world can no longer be ignored, Japan
at last recognizes its power, its ambition
has been aroused and it is now inaugu
rating an irresistible commercial cam
paign.
This new and aggressive invasion com
menced a few weeks ago when the agents
of a powerful manufacturing and com
mission house, whose headquarters are
in Kobe and Iliago, arrived in this city
and offered such inducements r> to San
Francisco merchants that they were com
pelled to place large orders with the new
commercial giant. A canvass of the San
Francisco mercantile trade reveals the
fact that an unprecedented cut in almost
every line of staple goods has
been, made by the ’ oriental t , bid
der. Buttons by the great gross
are delivered duty free at a fraction less
than actual cost per gross of the Ameri
can article. Bicycles, guaranteed equal
to the best high-grade, are listed at 512.
Japanese matches are to be Igid down at
a price which is' destined to close every
match factory in the United States.
Sashes, doors, blinds, and all kinds of
wooden ware can be delivered, duty paid
at 30 to 50 per cent, less than the wholesale
prices of local manufacturers. After'plac*
lug huge orders in this city the agent
left for the east where agencies will be
established in New York, Chicago, St.
Louis and elsewhere for the purpose of
underselling American and ■ European
manufacturer as fast as possible.
PECULIAR in combination, pro
portion and preparation of ingredi
ents,Hood’s Sarsaparilla possesses great
curative value. You should TRY IT.
THIRTEEN YEARS.
My Wines and Liquors Have Been
Considered the Best in Quality and
Price Offered to the Trade.
Convince yourselves by sending me an
order with the following prices enclosed:
Best quality 1-year-old rye whisky, $1.50
per gallon.
Best quality 2-year-old rye whisky, $2
per gallon.
Best quality 3-year-old rye whisky, $3
per gallon.
Best quality 4-year-old rye whisky, $4
per gallon.
Best quality 1-year-old gin, $1.50 per
gallon.
Best quality 2-year-old gin, $2 per gal
lon.
Best quality 3-year-old gin, $3 per gal
lon.
Best quality 1-year-old corn whisky,
$1.50 per gallon.
Best quality 2-year-old corn whisky, $2
per gallon.
• Best quality domestic port wine, $1 per
gallon.
Best quality domestic Catawba wine, $1
per gallon.
Imported Port wine, $2, $3 and $4 per
gallon. .
Imported Sherry wine, $2, $3 and $4 per
gallon.
Without charge for package. Nicholas
Lang, 19 Barnard street, Savannah.—ad.
STRATEGY OF AN AGED LOVER.
Col. McGllvroy Winn a Fair Young
Bride by Unusual Tactic*.
Fr6m the Chicago Times-Herald.
St. Louis, Noy. 20.—C01. Luther Me-
Ollvray, one of the oldest and best known
iron merchants in St. Louis, the father
•of nine grown children, was married this
evening to Miss Clara FleschCrt, the
young and pretty assistant secretary of
the Missouri State Sunday School Asso
ciation.
Miss Fleschert’s office is just across
the hall from that of Col. McGilVray in
the Laclede building, and there she
writes her reports on the typewriter.
One day the colonel came in and asked
her if she would write a letter for him.
‘‘She would be more than pleased,” and
so she was, when the old gentleman hes
itatingly confided to her that he wanted
to dictate a proposal of marriage to a
young woman. That would be great
fun.
Miss Clara was just the least bit warm
as she sat down to write. She didn’t
know the proposal was for her, nor guess
even when the colonel said, “Now put
yourself In my sweetheart's place and
wiije just what you would like an old
lover like myself to say to you.” So be
tween the colonel’s apt suggestion and I
Miss Clara’s discriminating judgment
the proposal was drawn up. Os course
there was a blank space at the top where
the colonel was to write in the fair one's
name.
The next day she received the proposal
with her name filled in. She objected to
the strategy, and said, "Nay.” Then the
gallant colonel sat down and wrote a
proposal with pen and ink, which Miss
Clara liked better, and after waiting
several months, accepted. The colonel
is in some doubts as to how his five grown
daughters will receive his young wife.
A Hearty Welcome
To returning peace by day and tranquility
at night is extended by the rheumatic pa
tient who owes these blessings to Hostet-.
ter’s Stomach Bitters. Don't delay the
use of this fine anodyne for pain and puri
fier of the blood an instant beyond the
point when the disease manifests Itself
Kidney troubles, dyspepsia, liver com
plaint. la grippe and irregularity of the
bowel* are relieved and cured by the Bit
ters.—ad.
I ’ ...' ’ •■'
TRUCKERS!
I have secured about
1 , 5,000 barrels of Pure
Second Crop VIRGINIA
SEED
POTATOES. SKKD “
POTATOES—
I SECOND
Rn „ Comprising al l the most
prolific and early favo-
nties, and am. in posi-
ABOOSTOOK tion to offer superior
and inducements over all
BOULTON others, and am now
MAINE, ready to BOOK OR-
and DERS for above, and
NEW YORK also for fine
STATE Maine Seed.
SEED.
Aroostook and Houl-
ALL PURE ton
g Teat ly
TRUE your interest to see me
To before buying SEED.
NAME. Selling agents for
Commercial Fertilizer
============== Company’s Fine Truck »
Fertilizers.
173 and 175 Bay St.,
SAVANNAH, GA.
W. D. SIMKINS -
BY THE TRAIN-LOAD.
A Big Consignment of Seed Potntoe*
From Virginia.
The largest lot of straight seed potatoes
ever brought into Savannah by rail at one
time, by one house, has just arrived by the
Savannah, Florida and Western railway,
and consists of twelve solid ears of Vir
ginia second-crop seed potatoes.
This big block of seed is consigned to W.
D. Simkins, the largest dealer in fancy
seed potatoes in Savannah, and comprises
Early Rose, Crown Jewel, Bliss Triumph
and other early varieties that are in faVor
with the truck farmers of this section,
who plant for the early northern and west
ern markets. '
The second crop of Virginia potatoes,
which is planted almost entirely for seed
for the following spring, was almost a
failure this fall, and it was only by fan
sightedness and the most strenuous ef
forts that Mr. Simkins was able to secure,
probably the largest lot of selected seed
that comes out of Virginia this season as
many farmers in that state have not made
enough seed for their own planting.
Our farmers are certainly to be congrat
ulated on Mr. Simkins enterprise, which
has obtained for them the seed so well
adapter! to our soil, and which his suc
cessful experience for several seasons past
has demonstrated, answers the require
ments of those who want early crops and.
large yields.
He will also of course handle the best
and purest Maine seed potatoes, such as
the genuine “Aroostock and Houlton,” as
well as selected New York state stock.
Mr. Simkins is also selling agent this
season for the well-known and reliable
fertilizers manufactured by the Commer
cial Fertilizer Company. His advertise
ment in our special notice columns this
morning, will be found of interest to all
who plant or contemplate trucking this
season, and who desire the best results,
—ad. * b
—The Duke of Westminster himself has
not anything like an exact Idea of what
his London property, If it were realized
would be worth. He does know, however,
that the amount would be considerably
in excess of $60,000,000.
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A Pleasant Lemon Drink—Regulate*
the Liver, Stomach, Bowels and
Kidneys.
For Biliousness, Constipation and Ma
laria.
For Indigestion, Sick and Nervous Head
ache.
For Sleeplessness, Nervousness and
Heart Failure.
For Fever, Chills, Debility and Kidney
Diseases, take Lemon Elixir.
For Blotches and Pimples on the face,
take Lemon Elixir.
Ladies, for natural and thorough organic
regulation, take Lemon Elixir.
Fifty cents and $1 bottles at Druggists.
Prepared only by Dr. H. Mozldy, At
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Lemon Hot Drops.
Cures all Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness,
Sore. Throat, Bronchitis, Hemorrhage, ana
all throat and lung diseases. Elegant, re
liable.
Twenty-five cents at druggists. Pre
pared only by Dr. H. Moxley, Atlanta,
Ga.—ad.
—Mrs. French Sheldon, the explorer, is '
about to depart for Russia to secure con
cessions from the imperial government for
a Boston capitalist, who wants to intro
dnee valuable electrical appliances- In the
Russian railway system.
FOR - DYSPEPSIA* - *
Use Horsford’s Acid Phosphate.
Dr. B. B. Pettitt, Sherman, Tex., says:
*‘l have used it in dyspepsia, with great
success. I think it is a fine remedy.”—ad.
—"Did you ever stop to consider,” said
i an employe of the bureau of police, of
Philadelphia to the Record, "how much
rope is required by the police department
to properly ‘rope off’ tne streets. on tlqe
occasion of big parades or similar otit
door events? Well, it requires 48,320 feat,
or about nine miles of rope to properly
•rope off' the street for big events. In
former times the rope was distributed
from reels attached to patrol wagons;
but now two-horse reels do the worn tn
one-half the time formerly taken. These
reels were used for the first time on Sat
urday night and proved a success. Each
carries about 7.000 feet of rope, and is
manned by a driver and patrolman. The
feels also take up the rope, which is stori
ed in the department stables, at Eleventh
and Wharton streets. It is the intention
of the police to send the reels to fires
where great crowds must be kept out of
danger.
For Over Fifty Years
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup has been
used for children teething. It sooths the
child, softens the gums, allays all pain,
cures wind colic, and is the best remedy
for diarrhoea. Twenty-five cents a bottle,
—ad.
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