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Roses from Slips.
In my article on rose cultivation I prom
ised to tell how I raised them from the
slip. I will give my method now. Au
gust and September are the best months,
but I have started some as late as Decem
ber in my pit.
A pit is without doubt a better place to
raise them than on window edges or
shelves and in boxes in a room and far
less trouble, as requiring less frequent
watering; and as the moisture is more
regular in the pit the chance of living is
greatly increased. .
Take any size box desired (eight inches
deep is enough), have it sufficiently open
at bottom to drain off when slips are wa
tered, put in about two incues of well
rotted cow-pen or hen-house manure, then
about four inches of elean sand Wash
the sand until the water runs off clear
from it. When dry enough for handling
pat in the box on the well-rotted soil and
it is ready for the slips.
The best way to get slips is to take a
stem that has borne a rose and break it
down from the main branch, leaving a
kind of knob at end, pinch off the leaves
and top, leaving the slip from four to live
inches long, and some shorter than this,
sticking them about half their depth in the
wet sand and about two inches apart each
way and straight up and down. They
live as well straight as on a slant and
make a better and nicer looking plant.
After all are set out give the box a good
watering so as to firm the sand about the
slips, and set it on one of the lower shelves
in your pit where the sun will not shine
fully on them, and keep them there for a
week or ten days, then move up a little
higher, and as soon as they seem to be
taking root (the buds beginning to swell)
•move into more light still, where the sun
will shine well on them. Keep the sand
moist all the time.
Now, set out this early they will be
ready to transplant in the fall, which I
generally do into the tin cans as I direc
ted in my last article on rose cultivation.
I like to transplant when the young roots
first begin to put out, before they have
become many and long and therefore in
more danger of breaking off. I take them
up carefully with a spoon, trying to leave
a Dall of sand adhering. Have well rot
ted cow pen manure about half way in
the can and sand on top of this, for when
the roots are so young and tender they
still do best in sand. As they grow dur
ing the winter I add fresh ricti soil. I
have had roses started early this
way to bloom during the winter. These,
too, are ready to be transplanted early
to the ground and to give you a profusion
of lovely blossoms all summer. I wish
you could see my young roses that I set
out as I wrote about in previous article
(after a long dry spell, when all the gar
dens are drying up and without any
watering) how well they look and what
lovely roses they give me all the time.
•eta Marie Von Hontle and Mane
Guillot in your collection; they are per-
fectly beautiful. Goode and Reese sent
out a beautiful §1 60 collection, twenty in
number, last spring; they were small
Slants but healthy and vigorous. By the
y, small plants live better than large
•hm.
Make a rich light place in your garden
in October, stick in your rose slip and
turn over it an old glass jar or tumbler or
goblet, any glass thing without a hole in
it; pull up the earth around and firm it
down so it won’t fall over easily and leave
it so until spring, when you will find a
rooted rose. I have never tried this plan,
as the other way suits me best, but several
of my neighbors have with success. —
Home and Farm.
, Does Not Understand It.
Mr. Morris of Jacksonville Texas
s ays he does not see how we sell so
good a maohine at such a price. We
really do not make any money on it,
but we save our subscribers money
> and they in turn appreciate our paper
all the more and talk it up to their
neighbors, so that in the end we are
the gainers.
Jacksonville, Tex.
The Bouthebn Farm,
Atlanta, Ga.
The premium High Arm Sewing Machine I
bought from you in February last has been
thoroughly tested on nearly aU grades ot house
hold family sewing, and gives entire satisfac
tlon and I believe it to be fully as good in every
respect as tbe machines selling in this country
for $55 to 860 1 can cheerfully recommend
The uouthhrn Fabm Machine to any one in
need us a hist class sewing machine. All who
have seen it in use say they oon’t see how you
can sell so good a machine for such a low price.
I think you will get oraers for several more
machines from this place in a short time.
Fours truly,
M. D. Morris.
Eight-Acre Vineyard Enough.
A correspondent of Grape Belt, who
calls himself Dennis, is in the position of
many men who have bitten off more than
they ean chew.
He says:
I began with about eight acres of vine
yard, and that was just about my size, but
I didn’t know it. I thought if eight acres
was a good thing 30 acres would be nearly
four times better, and I, like an ass that 1
am, increased it to that area. A funny
feature was, that all the time I was put
ting out more grapes, I was howling about
the business being overdone, and some
how I felt that everybody ought to stop
planting but myself.
Verily, consistency is a jewel, and I can
now see that I talked mucu better than I
knew.
When I had my little old vineyard of
eight acres I was practically out ot debt.
Now lam not. It is true that I am as
sessed more than I was then, and at an
honest valuation I may be worth more,
but lam just enough in debt to have no
spare casn, and feel all the time hard up,
so that I feel like a poor man. If I were
back again to the old vineyard, my wife
and the oldest boy and I would have gone
to the World’s Fair. As it is, I was hust
ling around to get some money to pay off
some help that "flared up" and quit in
August. I would then bo fibie to do my
work on time and have my vineyard in
apple-pie order to the queen’s taste, but
no wit is a foot race from All-fools day in
the spring until election day in the fall. I
do no. claim that I was getting more
graphs then than now, for I was not, but I
do know that my graphs were costing me
less p«r basket then than now. Then what
1 received for my crop gave me some fun.
Now it goes into a rat hole.
I would not have you think that I am
hopelessly in debt, but I am loaded up so
I feel it when I go to btd at night and
when I get up in tbe morning. I realize
that I have bitten off enough so that mas
tication is embarrassing.
If I could find some sucker to buy tbe
newly-planted vineyard, he could have it
cheap. He could have it for what it has
cost me to put out the grapes, and the land
at pasture prices, and I would stick to the
little eight-acre vineyard. I might be
thought small potatoes in the business,
but all the same I would occasionally get
a day off to go fishing. If I were back
there I would not borrow any trouble
about the business being overdone. The
oth»r fellow would then do that.
With the small amount on my hands I
would give best of culture and in return
get the best of yields, and by doing much
of the work mj self I could grin and bear
as low prices as any one, but so long as I
am in my present fix, low prices hurt, and
there are several carloads of wen in the
same boat.
I believe the grape business is all right,
and the best feature most of us farmers
can take up if we take it up right, but I do
not believe it is good enough so that every
Tom, Dick and Harry can catch on in all
sorts of ways and conditions, and some of
them not be left.
Testimony From Alabama.
Miss Dill of Alabama purchased one
of our machines and we saved her $25
on it, of course she is pleased, why
shouldn’t she be?
Dillbuboh, Ala.,
The Southern Fabm,
Atlanta, Ga.,
Deab|%bs lam very much pleased With the
machine 1 purchased of you, and think it just
as good as the $45 ones agents are selling.
Respectfully,
Miss alios C. Dill.
Bean ana Pea Weevils.
The peas are often found in the spring,
when planting time arrives, entirely hol
lowed out by a little bug in a manner
which would seem sufficient to prevent
their germination, yet they grow.
A writer says; the request for informa
tion how to preserve navy Deans from the
attack of the weevil, is one of the ques
tions much more easily asked than an
-8 Wered*
My early-planted peas are invariably
attacked by the disgusting creatures, and
we are compelled to eat our share of wee
vil eggs,and perhaps minute weevil larvae,
or go without early peas.
The early beans also have to suffer
sometimes, but as we use them mostly for
snaps, when quite young, we eat them
without suspicion.
Both weevils can be destroyed by contact
with fresh insect powder, and I sometimes
spray my early pea vines, when the pea
weevils are present in large numbers and
busy depositing their eggs, with water,
into which a quantity of the yellow pow
der has been stirred. If this is done a few
times, I think the vines can be kept rea
sonably free from the insects. The reme
dy is well worth the trial in the kitchen
garden, but it pre-supposes the possession
ot a spraying maohine. I use the knap
sack sprayer with the Vermorel nozzle.
Late sown peas and beans usually escape
the attack of weevils, and wherever the
season is long enough, planting may be
deferred until the period of danger is past.
We plant navy beans first half of June;
Jeas for seed, during the latter part of
lay.
Bat, after all, we cannot always succeed
in keeping peas and beans free from wee
vils, and if we examine the freshly gath
ered seed closely, we may discover in
part of them the germ of mischief—eggs
or small worms. It is always advisable
to subject the suspected beans and peas to
a course ot treatment, consisting of ex
posure to heat, or to the fumes of bisul
phide of carbon, in a closed vessel. You
can heat the seed beans or peas to 145 de
grees Fahrenheit for an hour without in
juring their vitality, while this will surely
Kill the eggs or larvae contained in them.
If yon prefer to use bisulphide of carbon,
put the beans or peas into a tight barrel
or box, place a saucer containing some of
the drug upon them, put on the cover and
leave closed for twenty-four or thirty-six
hours; but let me say it again, keep away
from it with a lighted lamp.
Fertilize Your Orchards.
Says The Granger: Half a century ago
when every farm had its large apple or
chard, three-fourths or more of the trees
were of the cider-apple bearing variety,
and occasionally .here were some varie
ties of grafted fruit, such as Seek no-fur
thers, Jelly Flowers and Greenings. The
orchard, if on a good spot of ground us
ually did fairly well, but there was a
theory that the trees bore abundant fruit
only about once in four years. Indeed, in
one section of Litchfield county it was
said that an abundance of fruit need be
expected only on the years when there
was a presidential campaign. Whether
this was or not a coincidence it was|a faot
that in 1840 when William Henry Har
rison for president and John Tyler vice
president were the successful candidates,
the apples in all parts of the New Eng
land and Middle States were very abun
dant, and as a consequence cider was very
plentiful. There are now people living
who were boys and young men then who
remember the “Log Cabin and Hard Cider
Campaign," of that year. In 1876 and in
1880 as well as in 1884 there was a much
lai gar crop of apples than in other inter
vening years.
In those days orchards were set out in
virgin soil stored with the accumulated
fortuity of many previous years and this
was tbe chief reason why the trees grew
FARM.
and bore fruit so profusely. But the land
on which the trees are placed grows poor
er and poorer each year, and if proper at
tention was paid to fertilizing the land
there is no reason why the trees should
not bear as profusely as of old.
Where wood is used *s fuel it is a good
plan to put the ashes on the ground under
the trees and it will pay an excellent per
centage in the increased supply and ex
cellence ot the fruit
Stable manure and the plowing under of
clover is an excellent thing, and if as
much attention is paid to the orchard in
the way of fertilization it will pay as big
a profit, if not larger, than any other field
on the farm.
KWJCKr E.A-DH •
Heb Own Physician— A Lady who for many
years suffered from Uterine troubles.—Falling,
Displaoements, Leuoorrhesa and Irregularities,
fiuauy found remedies which completely cubed
her. any lady can take the remedies, and thus
cure herself without the aid ot a physician. The
recipes, with full directions and advice, sent
ebee to any sufferer, securely sealed. Address
Mbs. M. J Hbabie, 621 North Sixth street,
Philadelphia, Pa. (Name this paper.)
The Outlook for Wheat.
The production of wheat and tbe deficit
(amount needed above the domestic sup
ply) in each importing country is given as
follows:
Product in bu. Deficit.
Great Britain 56,750,000 184 427 000
France 283 764,000 45,818 000
Germany 90 795 000 25.537 000
Italy 122 012 000 22 700 000
Netherlands 6,384 000 8 512 000
Switzerland 4 539,000 12 768 000
Belgium 15 605 000 24 118 000
Denmark 4 256 000 3 688 (TO
Norway and Sweden 4 823 000 2 270 000
Spain 76,612 000 8 512,000
Portugal 5 675 000 5 675 000
Greece 4 255 000 7 377 000
Austria 45,40U,000, 39,725,000
The production and surplus in each ex
porting country are given thus:
Product in bu. Surplus
Russia 342 965 000 97 893 000
Hungary 141,870 000 45 400 000
Ronmania 46,818 000 34 050 000
Turkey • 23 875 OCO 5,875 000
Bulgaria 31,977 000 10,782 000
Servia 8,512 000 3 406 000
United States 387 250,000 69 518,000
Canada 43,980,000 9.931.000
India 274,885 000 42,562 000
Rest of Asia 65 262 000 7 098 000
Africa 36,716 000 3 688,000
Australia 39 725,000 19,295 000
Argentina 56,750,000 26 105 000
Chile, etc. 19,862,008 6,526,000
The Times. London, England, concedes
that England will require 224 000,000 bush
els of wheat. A quarter is 8 bushels of 60
pounds each. It says in the course of a
long leader on the dismal agricultural
prospects of Great Britain, that foreign
competition depresses the price of cattle
and corn. The imports of animals and
meat, it says, will swamp the markets
this year. Great Britain will be more
than ever dependent on foreign supplies,
and will require at least 28,000,000 quar
ters of wheat from abroad.
France, it adds, must import more than
twice as much as she usually does. As to
Germany, that country has already begun
to draw on the American market for sup
plies
When nations thus bid agairst eash
other, the article says, there is a fair
chance that prices will advance.
Raising Wheat at a Loss.
America was once known as the land
where poor men ate meat twice a day
—if they wanted to, says the Country
Gentleman. Now Europe should be
placarded with tbe astonishing state
ment that in the old settled Ohio
Vally, close to markets, five day’s la
bor In the harvest field at wheat
stacking, or eight days at any labor,
will provide bread for a family for a
year I
Surely the staff of life should be in
every man’s (or woman’s) bauds for
this year at least.
There is no profit in wheat-raising
in Ohio. The average crop of the
State is grown at a positive loss. 1
know poor men who have rented land
at $4 per acre, bought drill and bind
er, and put in wheat crops, who will
be nearly ruined by this year’s prices.
Let us look at the figures of an actual
case of which I know.
The land is clay—fairly good wheat
land. The wheat was sown on corn
stubble, not fertilized. There was in
the eontract a requirement that clover
should be sown on the wheat one half
to be bought by landlord :
DR.
Harrowing and drilling per acres 1.50
Seed 1.50
Twine and cuttiug 1.00
Shocking 0.50
Stacking 2.00
Threshing 100
Hauling to market 0.50
Clover seed ...... 1.00
Rent and interest 4.24
Total $13.24
CR.
15 bushels per acre, @ 25c..57.30
Straw 1.00
Loss per acre $4.44
A problem for farmers quietly to
think out is now before them. Is
wheat a standard pf value? Is land?
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Is there a better than land? Has land,
Wheat, silver, slumped? Are these
things more plenty in proportion to
the world’s civilized population than
before? Or is gold becoming dearer?
I remember well when an acre of good
Ohio land could be exchanged for 80 to
100 gold dollars. Now it can be ex
changed for but 40 to 65. Have our
legislators been blind leaders of the
blind?
There is ohance there for a good
deal of quiet thought, and the thing
should not be considered along party
lines, bat with a malice toward no
class and charity for all —the greatest
good to the greatest number being
sought.
There was a quiet shower last night,
tempering sligncly our drouth, which
was fast approaching a serious con
tinuance.
A Hog Cholera Remedy.
Dr. T. J. Dodge, of Hamilton, 111.,
writes as follows to the lowa Homestead
on the subject of bog cholera:
As the price of hogs is sufficiently high
to pay the farmer to use every means of
protecting them from the ravages of tbe
cholera, I deem it my duty to give to the
public, free, my recipe for the cure of
what is termed hog cholera. I have used
this remedy for thirty-five vears, and rais
ed hogs on my ranch in Nebraska, and
never lost a hog.
Have experimented by placing one well
hog with a lot of siok ones and Keeping it
well by the use of this remedy. You will
confer a great favor upon the farmers of
our country by publishing this recipe in
full in your valuable paper.
lam now engaged in other business,
and have been for sixteen years, and am
willing to let others prosper by the long
years of experience ot miae with a reme
dy I discovered myself for the cure of this
disease.
The prescription and directions are as
follows:
Arsenic, one-half pound; cape aloes,
one-half peund; blue vitriol, one-fourth
pound; black antimony, one ounce. Grind
and mix well the remedy before using.
The following are the directiens for
use:
1. Sick hogs in all cases to be separated
from the well ones and placed in dry pans
with only five large hogs or eight in each
pen.
2 Feed nothing but dry feed, but no
water, only the slop containing the rem
edy until cured.
3. When hogs refuse to eat turn them on
their backs, and with a long-handled
spoon put the dry medicine down their
throats.
4. Dose for large hogs, one teaspoonful
three times a day for three days; then
miss one day and repeat the amount until
cured. Shoats or pigs one-half the
amount.
5. As a preventive one teaspoonful
once a week will keep your hogs in a
healthy condition to take on fat. I ean
place one well hog in a pen with ene hun
dred sick ones, and with this remedy
keen him well.
6 *Let ne other stock but hogs have ac
cess to this remedy, as it is to them a
deadly poison,
Dr. Dodge adds that for many years he
sold this recipe for $5, and treated thou
sands of hogs at the rate of $1 per head,
paying the owner 10 cents a pound fer all
that died after treatment began.
Hires* Rootbeer at the Fair.
Chicago, Oct. 30. 1893.—The Chas. E.
Hires Company, of Philadelphia, have
been awarded the Highest Prize Medal
for Beotbeer by the World’s Fair Com
mission.
Stay on the Farm.
Tbe eload of business depression
which has darkened the hopes of so
many people this year, has been ne re
specter of persons, bnt, like the rain,
has fallen on the just and unjust alike.
Few persons in all this broad land
have escaped the dullness of the times,
and those of anarchistic tendencies
may draw some consolation from the
fact that the rich have felt the blow as
well as the poor. But there are some
people who have been rendered desti
tute and to whom a helping hand of
aid mast be stretched. The ranks of
the great army of unemployed have
been abnormally swelled by the clos
ing of factories and shops, and until
these great commercial agents begin
there is bound to be a decided surplus
of idle labor. From some sections
csme the report that farm help is need
ed. No doubt this is true, for in late
years the tendency has been growing
mere noticeable of tbe march of labor
from the country to the city. Attract
ed by the glare and glamour of a big
city, and misled by false stories of high
wages many a farmer’s boy has been
induced to leave a comfortable home
and seek employment in a big city, full
of vice temptation and sad disappoint
ments. Chicago contains hundreds
now attracted here by the World’s
Fair who wish they were back on the
old farm.—Exchange.
quality
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Bitter Weed
Editor Southern Farm:
I enclose a plant that I would like to
know the name ot. It has come up all
over my bermuda pasture and makes the
land present a very unkempt appearance.
If it continues to increase as it has done
for a year or two, it will ruin my pasture
I fear. What can be done towards exter
minating this weed? B L.
The plant yon send is first cousin to the
common May-weed. It is common to the
autumn and has the same bitter qualities
that the May-weed has. Its botanical
name is Heleneum Autumalis. -The only
way to exterminate it is to mow It down
in the early autumn just after it gets in
full bloom and before any seed have be
come matured —early fn O itober, say. By
mowing the weeda down carefully two or
three seasons you may exterminate them
on your land, but unless your immediate
neignbors do the same thing, you may be
troubled with the weed io some extent
for some time yet. Still you can do a good
deal towards keeping your own laud clean.
It is a very objectionable weed in the cow
pasture especially, for it appears that an
accidental bite or two of it causes a bitter
taste to the milk and buttermilk.
How to Succeed With Sheep.
Whether a man can make money at
raising sheep the next few years depend)
a great deal whether he takes pleasure in
handling sheep. One's likes and dislikes
determine, to a great extent, the care he
will give to a crop or an animal.
An energetic man will work till he is
tired at whatever he has in hand. There
is a great difference between getting tired
at a thing and getting tired of a thing. As
with other occupations, so with sheep
raising, the man who engages in it must
take an interest in it. We are all not
built alike, and what a good thing that we
fire not.
Some men prefer the orchard and berry
patch, soma the apiary or poultry. The
dairy appeals to others, fine stock breed
ing has its votaries, while general farm
ing catches many more. All of these in
dustries are profitable in the hands of the
right men, and the raising of sheep tor
wool and mutton will be renumerative if
a man brings to it the liking that will
insure the necessary attention and study.
—Farmer's Guide.
Grass far Name.
Editor Southern Farm :
Can yon tell me what tbe enclosed
grass is. It came up_with some oats
sown by one of my neighbors last
spring.
It is almost 2% or 3 feet high, and
will grow I am' satisfied, 5 feet on
good land. Is it valuable for hay, or
is it too coarse. The roots are con
siderably like cane roots, as you will
see by enclosed specimen and it
spreads very fast. Please answer
through Southern Farm and oblige,
Ashland, Miss. E. C. K.
The grass sent by our correspon
dent is Johnson Grass (Sorghum Hal
apeuse.) When grown properly it is
a very valuable grass, furnishes a
very large amount of nutrious hay.
If used it should be sown very thick
ly else it will not give satisfaction. A
large per cent of the seed is infertile
and a perfect stand is not likely to
be secured with less than ten bushels
of seed.
Cotton Producing Countries.
Will you please inform a reader what 3
countries produce the most cotton after
the Southern States. R. F. L.
India, China and Egypt are the 3 that
come next in order ot production of cotton.
The United States furnish nearly 80 per
cent of the total product of the world.
India about 30. China about 11, and Egypt
about 5. South America comes next with
about 21-2 per cent.
Grinding Green Bones.
Editor Southern Farm :
Seeing in The Southern Farm of Octo
ber 15th, an article taken from tbe "Amer
ican Farmer" in regard to feeding poultry
on green bone, I write to auk where [ can
get a bone cutter as I cannot find one ad
vertised in any of the papers. I will ap
preciate any information given.
Longtown, 8. O , Oct 25sh. L. T. W.
Writeto F. W. Mann, Milford, Mass.,
who manufactures an exo silent mill for
grinding green bones.
At beautiful Wensleydale village the old
custom of the blowing of a horn each night
in winter is still carried out Its purp >se
was to guide belated travellers in the for
est, just as the foghorn guides the mariner
who is nearing the coast.
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