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EXPERIMENT STATIONS.
Their Probable Value to the Farming
World.
If the agricultural experiment stations of
this country rise only half way to the level
of tbeir opportunity for doing good how
great will be the advancement of our agri
cultural interests in the next twenty-five
years! Our government has in the past
fifteen years evinced a hearty interest in the
advancement of the farmers, and,
despite the allegations of many
pop-lists to the coutrary, onr “men of au
thority” are as a class ever ready to do any
thing that they reasonably and constitu
tionally can to put our agriculture on a
higher plane. We cannot expect those
populists who entertain the belief that our
government could properly lend the furmers
all the money they needed at 2 per cent, a
year, and yet won’t do it, to concurln any
statement of this character.
It must be admitted that our government
was either slow to recognize the fact that
it could do anything for agriculture, and
that arose in all probability from the fact
that American agriculture needed no help
until within the past fifteen or twenty years.
Prior to the war it would have been taxen
almost as an insult to have intimated to the
American farmer, the southern one espe
cially, that he needed any assistance. If,
yrerohance, he needed any a tual cash for
any purpose he bad the “securities” to back
his application for it.
In the “progress of events” the time came,
however, when southern farming, along
with that in every seotion of the country,
entered upon a decline, that one misfortune
and another has led up to a obronio condi
tion quite the reverse of prosperity.
Ily degrees legislation was appealed to to
do something in behalf of the farming in
terest, Our government is not paternal
enough in its character to authorize it to
give assistance in the way of cash loans or
bounties, It proceeded, however, to do all
that it could afford to do legitimately. It
gave the farmers a representative in the
cabinet, whose sole business is to study the
farmers’ interest; to act as their leader and
Biggest euoh measures for relief as may be
legitimate. Among other things done, and
in our judgment to prove rich In value to
the coming generations of farmers, was the
establishment of a fully equipped experi
ment station in each of the forty-four
states.
We believe that time, and not a far off
time, either, will sustain the statement that
these experiment statio s will be the means
of reviving onr dr oping agriculture, of
giving an impetus to farming in new and
broader lines of effort. If they do their
work fully and conscientiously there is no
reason why they should not arouse in the
breasts of the younger generation the live
liest interest in an occupation that has been
greatly divided and brought into considera
ble disrepute in the past ten or fifteen years.
We use the pronoun •‘they.” It is not the
Georgia station alone that will be in3u
ential in setting the stakes for the new agri
culture that is to restore Georgia to agri
cu tural prosperity. At least six or seven
stations are engaged in the work that will
elucidate ihe great questions (1) of grass and
stock, which is the best for our lands, (2) of
rest ring cheaply fertility to our soils
so that they will produce large and profit
able crops; (3) howto grow the various
vegetable crops to ship o uorthorn mar
kets; (4) what fruit atid nut trees we will
find profitable to grow. They will secure
for ua the practical information whioh as
individuals we are not able to acquire.
We confidently look to the experiment
stations to lead the march of progros . l.et
us co-operate with them to the fuliestex
tent possible, not expecting anything un
reasonable, but giving all the encourage
ment possible.
In conclusion, we would be glad to have
an expression of opinion from our intelli
gent readers as to what subjects they esteem
most important for the experimeutal field.
14 hat subject do you desire to receive in
formation upon In preference to all others,
the next and the next? We would be glad
to have your statement.
Do you get the bulletin of your state sta
tion? You ought to have It. It is pub
lished for you and you can get it if you
want it.
Keeping Soil Fertile.
The prominent idea of a farmer’s practice
should be that of maintaining the fertility
of his soil up to a point that with ordinary
seas us will give him a fair profit for the
cultivation of it. it is certain that If he is
imbued with the idea that the correct thing
for him to do is to get everything pos-sitde
out of the la .and without giving anything
baok to it in return be will have a worn-out
farm some day—a farm that will not return
him a living in bis old age nor be of any
value to his children after be is dead.
There was a time in this country when a
niau could open up the best laud in its
favored section and make a fortune out of
its cultivation before it be ome x must <d,
then sell out, if he chose, and open up an
other rich nlantati. u in some other locality.
These conditions no longer exist in Georgia.
The best part of the laud has been opened
and has been cultivated uutii it bas been al
most impoverished (not counting such as
will have to be diked and draiued before it
can be profitably cultivated), and the farmer
of Georgia is iu pretty much the predica
ment that the Hew England farmer was
and is now. The Georgia farmer has got to
change his methods to conform to the
progress of events, Like the New Englaud
farmer he hes got to study closely the science
of manuring and renovating ihe old lands,
the adaptation offhis crops to his markets.
Furthermore he will have to learn to prac
tice a higher economy than he ever did be
fore, regarding any time wasted at certain
seasons as so much money thrown away.
He must appreciate all these things fully
before be can take any great stride toward
prosperity. He must learn this: If be has
any laud that with fair seasons produces a
bale of cotton this year be must look to It
that enough is returned to the soil to enable
it to make a bale the following year. His
land is his capital stock, end ho must not
allow his principal to get impaired. This
is the correct principle for the farmer to
aot upon if he would have his farm life
fairly progressive. For the exhaustive sys
tem that bas been so long prac iced the
restorative system must he s instituted. The
southern farmer has squandered the fertility
of bis soil in the past as no other class of
farmers have ever done probably, but he
'J*“ have to learn to husband it in the future
if he would make his farming a self-sup
porting business.
Our worn soils are to be rejuvenated only
by a liberal restoration of the humus that
has been wasted from them. A liberal pro
portion of the form must be devoted to
grass and clover, which will be converted
into beef and pork (aud maybe. Borne day,
mutton; who knows*). Once upon a time
it was the idea that clover could not be
grown in the south. That erroneous idea
has been dispelled. We have species of
clover that thrive on our soils as readily as
peas or crab-grass, and e can make use of
them to restore lost fertility of our soils, if
we only will do it.
It is rot practicable to bring Door land in
one year or two toa condition that will en
able it to make large and profitable crops,
but with the aid of grass and clover we
can get it In very fine shape in three or four
years, and while doing so get very satisfac
tory returns year by year.
The question of maintaining fertility is a
very interesting and important one." Let
us discuss it fully and consider the clovers
especially in relation to the subject.
Carden Notes.
In Middle Georgia gardening work has
been much set back by continuous wet
weather, and this season a great deal of the
work that is usually done in February has
necessarily been deferred uutil March. As
a consequence there will be more gardening
done in March this year than usual. If the
weather permits there should be no further
delay in planting the Irish potatoes, the
cabbages, beets, carrots, parsnips, onions,
radishes, turnips, etc.
In the lower latitudes of the south it is
time to plant the tender vegetables, in fact
they are already planted perhaps. Above
the 32d parallel, however, it is not safe to
Dut out plants or sow the seeds of such
plants as tomato, pepper or egg-plant.
These should be growing in tha frame s > as
to be of good size by April. In Middle
Georgia we usually set out these plants, for
the mam crop about April 10, or a little
later.
Our first planting of beans squashes, cu
cumbers, melons and the like is generally
made the latter part of March and reoeated
in April.
Care should bo taken that the plants
grown in the frames are not allowed to get
spindling by being allowed to stand too
thickly in the frames. The productiveness
of the plants will be greatly impaired if
they do. They should be thinned very
promptly and made to grow stocky and
have an abundance of roots.
RAISING EGG-PLANT PLANTS.
It is not every amateur gardener who
succeeds in growing these plants. While
they can be grown successfully in frames
on tbe level ground, it is only a few who
succeed in growing them in this manner.
The flea-beetle is a most destructive insect
to this vegetable, and appears to be always
on the watch for the young plants, and
oftentimes dest’-ovs every plant in a frame
in a single night.
Years ago we adopted the plan of sowing
the seed of egg-plant (and pepper too) in
frames elevatel about 4 feet above the
ground. We have had no trouble since
adopting this plan. Posts are put in, stand
ing out 4 feet and on these a frame 3x3 or
3xi> (according to the number of plaa;s de
sired) is set. The frames have a
solid bottom with auger holes
bored in different parts for drainags.
The frame is made higher at the back than
at the front so as to give a slope to the sun
and allow ttie water to run off freely—sav
12 inches at ttie baok and 6 or 7 at the
front. About 4 inches of good soil is put
iu the frames and pressed firmly down. The
glass sash is put on a week before planting
time, leaving a crack for any insects to leap
out us they get warmed up. A rag satu
rated with turpentine will help to expedite
their departure. Sow the see a in shallow
drills 4 inohes apart. Cover lightly and
press the *oil firmly to the seeds.
Water freely with a fine hose and put on the
sash closely. In a few days tne young plants
will appear. Give them plenty of fresh air,
leaving off the sash on all mild days. When
the soil gets dry give a good watering that
will extend to the bottom of the box, but
do not water again until the soil gets dry.
As soon as the third leaf develops thin out
freely and set those drawn out in another
fame to got stocky. Have a little clay
dust on hand that is tainied with kerosene
oil to dust on the plants when they are first
set cu’. This will protect the plants until
they get too tough for the beetles. It is a
very easy crop to grow after it is onoe well
started, and we believe it is a fairly profita
ble crop to the truckers. The eggs should
be gathered and sbl ped when tender.
Properly prepared for the table, there is no
more delightful dish, whether fried, broiled
or baked. The latter way is by all odds the
best way to prepare the egg-plant.
Soil Moisture.
When ground is plowed in the spring
and a stratum of soil four to six inohes iu
depth is shaved completely from that be
low, and reversed in a loose condition upon
it, there is piovided a covering which acts
as a strong mulch, says the Grange Home.
it has for a long time been believed by
studious observant farmers that this
checks, in a marked degree, the loss of
water by evaporation from the undisturbed
soil.
Precise figures have been lacking, how
ever, until recently the Pennsylvania ex
periment station made careful investiga
tions.
One plot was plowed April 28, 1892, and
the soil was carefully tested in comparison
with a similar unplowed field, May ti. The
uuplowed ground contained in the upper
four fest9.l3 pounds less water per square
foot than did the plowed ground, as equiv
alent of 1.72 inches of rainfall.
When it is observe i that the amount of
water available for crop and production,
on almost ail lands, is less than that wnich
can be used to the best advantage when one
year is taken with another, such a fact hns
an iinp< rtant bearing upon problems of till
age. It teaches that where corn and potato
ground is to be plowed in the spri g,ibe
plowing should be doue as the soil is dry
enough to permit it, aid that where corn
is to be planted upon fall plowing, the disk
harrow, or similar tool, sh u)d be used upon
this ground as early as practicable, to avoid
ale ss of water by surface of evaporation.
The prevention of excessive wane of soil
water is not the only important gain [
which results from early spring tillage.
With all clay soils and clayey loams there
is n certain degress of dry ess at whic > they
w irk with the least resi a c , ai:d mo at
tne same tune in the bos- possible tii.„; as
those soils pass from the exces-ivo wet stage
through the 'age <>f best moisture to that
of too little, they shrink and draw together
i ito the luigiT or smaller clous which are so
a .noying, so produ i eof labor, aud so
p eventive of large yields.
The ground referred to in the above ex
periment was plowed on April 28, was left
in excellent tilth, but that which, side by
side with it, laid eight days longer without
plowing, had developed in it during that
time great numbers of clods of extreme
size and excessive hardne-s, and, consa
queutlv, it became necessary to go over this
gro md twice with a loaded harrow, and
twice with a heavy roller before it was
brought into a condition of tilth only ap
proximating that whioh it might have had
had it been plowed 011 April 28. Not only
did the delay in plowing increase fourfold
the labor of tilting the ground, but at the
same time it resulted in au unnecessary
waste of water, which was very large and
greatly needed.
We are last coming to believe that surface
tillage diminishes the rate of evaporation
from ti e soil, hut as yet we aro without
positive data in regard to how great this
saying may be. It was found that during
sixty-four days, for each columu of soil one
square foot iu section and six feet long, the
uncultivated ground had dried 8.84 pounds
more ti an cultivated.
A saving of 8.84 pounds per square foot
is equivalent to a rainfall of 1.7 leches;
301.49 pounds of water are required for a
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, MARCH 2ft, 1893.
P* und cf dry matter in corn, and the above
saving of water in times of shortage should
im-rease the yield of dry matter per aoro
1.277 pounds, which is about 14 per cent, of
a good yield.
It should be obrerved that the returning
of water already in the ground, to tbe ex
tent indicated above, must be much more
serviceable to crops than to have an equiva
lent added to the service in the form of rain,
for in all such cases a very large portion of
that, especially in dry times, is returned at
once to the air without passiug through tbe
crop.
Ashes and Salt Upon Potatoes.
J. M. Smith of Wisconsin, in the IVac
tical Farmer, says: I am asked to respond
through the columns of your paper to the
question whether or not it would be advis
able to use ashes and salt upon potatoes,
putting it in the hills or in tbe drills* I
have experimented some with salt, in con
nection witti manures, as a fertilizer, but
with me it has not been a success. I am
getting large quantities of both ashes and
other manures, anil spread both upon the
ground after plowing, and harrow them in.
I prefer this, because 1 wish to keep my
land in a very higb state of fertility, aud
by using my fertilizers in this way, toe soil
is being constantly enriched for future
crops. But do not put the manure and
ashes together, for the reason that tbe ashes
release tbe ammonia, the most valuable
portion of the manure, and it passes off in
tbe air, instead of remaining in the soil
where we need it to aid tbe growing [ lantt.
I rarely use any other manures at the
same time that I use ashes; but in case both
are used, put on one and harrow it in very
thoroughly, and then the other, and har
row that in. I put on ashes at the rate of
seventy-five to one hundred bushels of un
leached ashes per acre, and rarely fail to
got very large crops by so doing. But by
using it in the drills, I presume that twenty
tive or thirty bushels per acre, would pro
duce a good yield, if properly haudled. Let
me give you an instance of improper hand
ling. A good many years ago 1 wished to
test the yield of a number of varieties
of potatoes. If I remember correctly there
were some seven or eight varieties. I
marked off the ground and had it well ma
nured and plowed in. Ido but very little
of that plowiug under of manures in these
days. After driving and marking tbe
stakes, and having everything as I thought
oil right. 1 told my men to go to the ash
heap and get soms ashes and put a little In
each hill. I had to leave home for the day
and the potatoes were planted during my
absence, aud grew nicely all the
season. In tbe fall when we dug them,
we bad a tremendous yield of about the
worst looking potatoes that I ever saw.
They were all shapes, almost covered with
the scab and utterly unfit to eat. If my
recollection is correct, some of the varieties
yielded at the rate of 600 or 700 bushels per
acre. Some of them had never touched the
earth but bad grown in a bed of ashes. My
men, knowing iny love for plenty of fertil
izers. bad put from one to two quarts of
unieaohed ashes in each bill and
left it in a heap upon the potatoes
after they were dropped. That was fer
tilizing with a vengeance. Btill I could not,
and did not complain of my men for being
so stupid, but have had many a laugh over
it since when L think of those heaps of
ashes in the nills as we dug them. I prefer
ashes in tbe quantities that I have named,
to any fertilizer that I have ever tried for
potatoes upon my soil, which by the way is
a black, sandy loam, with a yellow, sandy,
subsoil.
Dy ip g lor Lack of Nitrogen.
William P. Neeld, writing on the value
of nitrogen in the orange grove, says in the
Florida Farmer and Fruit Grower:
“A neighbor owns an old seedling grove
of some 900 trees, 18 or £0 years old. They
are in perfect health, no scale, no spider,
nothing but neglect and starvation. They
are full of dead limbs and are scant of
foliage and look a pale green. He was not
fool enough not to try to reclaim it as it
stands here on the coufiues of Bt. Peters
burg. For the pist two or three years he
has bought four tons annually or semi
annually, and applied it, but tbe grove is
slow to respond.
“Now what is to be done? Is it judicious
to pile on this complete fertilizer when it Is
evident that tbe master spirit is wanting?
Two other groves alongside show the effects
of nitrogen. Why is it tuen that the e fer
tilizer en insist on selling a complete arti
cle while they must know, or know noth
ing, that the one constituent is lacking?
Oris it possible that I am mistaken? 1
mad 6 one mistake that cost me over £I,OOO
by relying on tbe beautiful bone meal theory
—raw bone uieal and potash. My grove
nearly died as I was away. I
went back and made a dead run
on nitrogen for two years and, Jo!
the beautiful green foliage and snowy
bloom. Isn’t it a waste and an injury
to buy more than is needed of one element?
Let us start with the theory that nitrogeu
gives color aud vigor and makes wood;
phosphoric acid makes fruit and potash
bardeus the wood and gives tone, beauty
and sugar to the fruit. Let experiments
run on these lines and note that excesses do
harm or prove a total waste. A man must
try at least to understand his business or be
must get out; he will he runout bvsome
one who does.
“Let me say before o'odng that our mango
crop wilt be abundant this summer as we
have ha no damaging frost. The season
so far is good and we glow in ‘prospects’—
as ever.”
Poultry Raising a Business.
Poultry raising is a business, and unless it
is conducted upon business principles it will
not be apt to pay well. Wherever we find
a neat, olean and orderly chicken house,
where feed bins a< and troughs, water vessels,
dust boxeß and other necessary arrange
ments are found, contributing to the health
of the fowls and tne convenience of the at
tendant, it will be pretty certain that, if
there is any money in raising fowls, this
sort of au establishment will be apt to suc
ceed, aud it certainly has a great advantage
over haphazard attendance and poorly
equipped poultry buildings end yards.
6ays Poultry Herald. But there is
a sense aud reason in all things, and
there is a business point in this that
we wish to call attention to. If the outlay
for buildings and accessiries goes neyond a
certain limit per head of fowls raised or
kept there will be a loss that the bens can
makeup. For example: If a man
puts up huil lings, fences, etc., to the amount
of $5 per head he must calculate that inter
est on this sum, together with wear and tear
of buildings, etc., will cost him C least 60
cents a year for every hen, or nearly as
much as it will take to keep the bens a year.
A gentleman In the city who keeps fowls for
amusement can go to any extravagance he
chooses, but this has nothing to do with the
mm who keeps chickens for what he can
make out of them. Too many of the
chicken house plans we see in poultry pa
pers are designed to make a pretty effect
rather than pructtcal utility. A sod build
ing, kept dry. Is appreciated Just as highly
by her henship as u lath and plastered two
story mansard affair surmounted with a
turret and gilt lightning rod. The point
we wish to make is that while thers is a
positive necessity to convenient arrange
ments, warm, dry and well ventilated
quarters, the oost of these things should
tear some sort of proportion to the busi
ness; but this business forethought, it ap
pears, is a very rare quality.
A Message to Young Men.
Ee sure that every one of you bas his
place and vocation on this earth, and that
it rests with himself to find it. Do not be
lieve tbose who too lightly say nothing suc
ceeds like success. Effort, honest, manful,
humble effort, succeeds by its reflected
action, especially in youth, better than suc
cess, which, indeed, too early gained, not
seldom serves, like winning the first throw
of the dice, to blind and stupefy. Get
knowledge, ail you can. Be thorough in
all you do and remember that though
ignorance often may be innocent, pretea-
BOV AMI.
From The Hotel Heublein, Hartford
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find it
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fact,
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kinds
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Sion is always despicable. But you, like
men, be strong and exercise your strength.
Work onward, and woik upward, and may
the blessing of tbe Most High soothe your
cares, i lear your vision and crown your
labors with reward. —W. E. Gladstone.
Peach Trees in the Yards.
We have some peach trees in the hen yard
and some trees outside. The trees In the
hen yard have made wonderful growth,
and are as healthy as can be wished. The
hens have kept the ground around the treos
clean, and no grass and no cultivation has
been required, in fact, the trees have given
us no labor at all. They will afford excel
lent shade the coming summer, and no
doubt the hens will partially protect them
from insects. The trees outside have had
more care, but they do not compare m ap
pearance with tbe thrifty, large trees in the
poultry yards.
Multum In Parvc—Chips.
Experiments with bisulphide of carbon
show that it will destroy all stages of tbe
insect known as bean weevil eggs, larva* of
all sizes, pupai aud adults.
The cross fertilization of raspberries and
blackberries has received much attention
the post s-asnn at the Illi ois experiment
station. Results are, of course, problem
atical as yet, but it is hoped to produce
fruit having less seed and more flesh,
Oregon seems destined to take placo among
the fruit-growing states soon. Bile has
100.000 acres of growing orchards, and 36
nurseries with 9,000,000 growing trees.
Guess she shall continue to be able to fur
nish England with apple pie a for years
longer.
At the meeting of tbe Western New York
Horticultural Society the fact was brought
out that but few pear orchards Lave done
well in fruit yield when only one kid was
grown, by reason of imperfeot pollomza
tion. Betting several different kinds obvi
viatea this difficulty.
In testing milk with the Babcock machine
it has been found that the morning’s milk
is richer than the nignt’s, because the cow
goes through less motion at night, and all
motion robs the milk of fat. This is a great
argument for kseping theoowi stabled all
winter, If not all the year round.-. -
It Is said that whether the white part of
asparagus be soft or stringy depends in a
great measure on tbs depth of plu’ ting.
The farther is has to grow beneath the
ground, the more stringy tbe sprouts be
come. Tender white n-pnragus is rather
the effect of blai.cuing thau of mere growth.
The tlrno that a heifer is allowed to go
dry after her first calf is dropped affects
her habit in this respect all her life. It is
not nee* ssarv for a good cow properly cared
for to go dry longer than from three to four
weeks. The very best cows oan bardly be
dried off, the inbred tendency to milk pro.
duotion having been developed so strongly.
The popular idea that water is purified by
freezing has been again disproved by recent
careful experiments, which show that tbe
average amount of impurity retained by
tbe Ice is 34.3 per ceut. of < rganic matter,
and 21.2 per cent, of inorganic matter. As
urganio matter is the more objectionable of
the two, the case is worse than was formerly
supposed.
It costs from $1 to $1 30 per box, pack
ing and freight, to take a box (t oranges
from Florida to New York. Unless the
grower sends a good article and gets it
through in good condition, be does nut get
much for his oranges, and many are sold
for less than the expenses. Bkillful packing
is the most important feature in getting
good prices.
Exclusive corn feeding Is the cause of
more losses of hogs thau any other thing.
It is because corn is perhaps one of the hard
est graius to digest unless ground and
cooked. Even then it is too ncu and liable
to be overeaten, thus causing indigestion.
It is better to feed growing pigs milk with
a mixture of oats and fine heat middlings
until tney are ready to fatten. The Lest
pork is made in this way.
The section from one of the big California
redwood trees, which the United States
government will exhibit in its building at
the world's fair, has arrived at the fair
grounds. Eleven freight cars were required
to convey It across tbs continent. It meas
ures 30 feet long ly 23 feet iu diameier.
The section is hollowed, and when placed
on end, divided into two stor ei.euil lighted,
as it will be, it will t rm a rustic house large
enough for a family to live in.
A writer in the Texas Farm Journal
tells of having been at a Kentuc :y husking
some years ago, when he was surprised at
the uniform size and good qualiiy of the
ears and kernels, and lie made inquire as to
where the seed was obtained. The farmer
who ra sed it said bis father gave him the
original seed forty years before, and since
then he had made a practice every year of
going into the field before the corn was
gathered and sel cting the best ears for
seed. In this way it had not run out. but
had improved until it yielded more than
double the average in tnac section. Com
ment is unnecessary.
Co-operation is the farmers’ sheet
anchor. Together, a community of farm
ers present au influential and powerful
body. Individually, one farmer caunot
cope alone with contending forces. The
banker, the merchant, the manufacturer
and the railway king make their profits
from the farmers’ labor. How important,
then, that such labor should be performed
under the best conditions and with fair re
muneration. Farmers should seek counsel
one with another. They should hold con
ference on common grievances and publlo
questions of the hour. Sustain those insti
tutions which have at heart the farmers’
welfare and prosperity.
As onlor.s grow best In cool, moist land,
so they do it) coo!, moist weather, and the
earlier the ground can be fitted and the
seed sown, the longer will be the season of
growth, the larger ttie onion and the heavier
the crop. They will ripen up at about the
same tune if sown in May as when sown fi
.March if the ground is rich enough to keep
them growing, and an extra month to grow
in makes a great difference in their size.
Coarse, strawy manure plowed in is not
good for onions, as it makes the soil too drv
if rains are not frequent. Well rotted
tra* ure, good fertilizer or wood ashes
should be used for onions, and there should
be euough of it.
Inlets a horse has brains he is not teach
able. A horse that has bread ti and full
ness between the ears and eyes will not act
mean nr hurt any one. Toe eye should be
fud and a hazel oolor, the ears small and
thin and point forward, the face straight
with square muzzle and large nostrils. The
under side of the head should be well out
under the jaw, with jaw bone broad ad
wide apart under the throttle. Tbe beck
short and straight and square rump, t igh
withe; a. shoulders well sot back and broad
but not deep into the chest, fore feet short,
hind legs pretty straight, fetlocks low
down, pastern joint short, with a rouLd,
mulish foot. There are all kinds of horses,
but the auimal that has all. ttieas points is
almost sure to be sightly, graceful, good
Matured and serviceable.
Running water is not absolutely neces
sary for geese, but is an advantage, as it
savi s considerable labor in caring for them,
i hey are successfully kept, however, whore
there is no running w ater available. They
will do well in large flicks If they have
amide pasturage and proper care, but not
so well as they will do in smaller flocks.
The largest breeds are tbe Toulouse,
which is gray and white, aud the Embdeu.
which is pure white. For raising feath
ers. however. irrespective of other
dualities, there is probably no goose batter
than tbe c* melon goose which is found
about many farmyards. Tbe conditions for
the greatest success, would be best where
land was abundant, cheap, and afforded
rich pasturage, where running stream af
forded opportuuity to bathe and removed
the necessity of watering the flock, where
climate was mild, enabling the fowls to be
kept out of doors the year around, and
where labor was cheap and transportation
convenient.
Tbe question how near a farmer must be
to a city or village before he can affort to
draw stable manure ratber than make it in
his own barnyard is not easy to settle. It
depends on the richness and availability of
the mauure, what is to be grown with it,
and a number of other conditions that may
effect the result. Market gardeners must
use so much manure that they always locate
close to the city or village which Is their
market. Farmers usually make much m re
stable .manure tbau they would tbiuk of
buying. What thev purchase cotnos at odd
spells, and in return loads after marketing
farm produce. The farmer who takes a
load of grain to market can generally afford
to load up with manure on his return trip.
But in transporting long distances It pat s
better to purchase well-rotted manure at
f 1 a load than to take unfermented nianuro
as a gift. Tbe rotted manure can be spread
nearly twice as far, und will do more than
twice the good. Far from market means
generally far from places where stable
manure can be bought, and this means an
excess of coarso fodder, which can be worked
up into the manure pile and mado as rich as
desired by adding some concentrated com
mercial fertilizer.
SOLVING A GREAT PROBLEM.
Tbe Financial Question Occupying the
Attention of the Administration.
One of the things which President Cleve
land bas set out to accomplish, says the
Philadelphia Press, is that of solving the
currency problem, so os to stop further
agitation. It is a pretty big task, but be
feels himself equal to it. Horace While
one'of the editors of the New York Evenin _
Post, was the author of the plank in tin
Chicago platform favoring the repeal of the
tax on slate bank notes. That plank was
written after full and free consultation
with Mr. Cleveland, and this administra
tion proposes to do what it oau toward car
rying that plank into effect.
HORACE WHITE’S BILL.
Reoretary Carlisle has already given
attenti m to the subject, but Mr. Whits has
been making a special study of it and a
scheme has been devised by him which will
be put through congress at the next session
as an administration measure If it can be
done. Exactly what shape the measure
will iake is not yet fully known, but for one
thing, it is proposed to retire the greenback
circulation, and to allow national banks to
issue circulation on bonds other t ban those
of the United States. Stale banks are also
to be allowed to Issue notes, but it is pro
posed to put some limitations, on them as
on the national banks. 1 bat is, state baDks
can issue circulation free from tax
on certain conditions, but where these con
ditions aro not c mp led with a tax will he
i pored. The great object, as explained by
one of the gentlemen who lias been inter
ested In working out the schema, is to make
the currency uuiform as nearly os possible,
and lo give it elasticity. President Cleve
land is said to hold that the great defect in
the present system it the lack of elasticity.
It may ha said, however, with certainty,
ibat the present Intention is to frame an act
that will give the federal authority some
power to egulate the circulation issued by
state banks.
THE VOTE IN CONGRESS.
Exactly what would become of such a
proposition in congress it is not easy to de
termine. On June 7 last Mr. Iticbards n
of Tennessee moved In the H >u etisußpend
the rules and pass a bill repealing the tax of
10 per cent, on the state bank and bankers.
A majority of the denu orals in the House
voted in favor of that motloD. The vole
was: Yeas, 84; nays, 116; ad
every one of the 84 votes were cast by
democrats. This shows that the sentiment
of the party in congress lavured
state banks, as it did in the national con
vention. Had it not been for the repub
licans in the House there would have been
a majority of votes in favor of repealing
the tax on state hanks in the last congress,
without any limitations whatever, and as
the democrats m tie ne t House were
elected on that issue it is fair t < assum that
the sentiment in favor of it will be muoh
stronger. At anv rate there is no ques
tion that the administration intends to do
what >t can in the way of solving this ques
tion according to the ideas of Horace VVnite.
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AT
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PEARLIVE.
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, 11 with your washing and cleaning, if
1 you don’t use Pearline. And you
can use ‘ t ’ great gain, upon
1 anything that you want made
W clean. In washing clothes, per
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{/ 1) * \' proved so to millions of women,
r * \\' over and over again, but perhaps
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can’t be hurt. Use it for washing dishes, for instance,
and save work. When you come to know it better and
let it wash the clothes, you’ll find that it saves the wear
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Q? p,f| Peddlers and some unscrupulous grocers will tell you “ this is as good
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Cl E 1 VVaWx $4.00 ami $5.00 Pine Calf, Hand-Sewed,
Of Bpy wßk JHHkJ yTJ|Q $.130 l'ullcc, Farmers and Letter-Carriers,
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FURNITURE AM) CARPETS.
DO YOU WANT
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If so, come and get one of the SANITARY SPRING PILLOWS, ns shown in the
above cut. Our stock of Furniture, Carpets, Shades, Refrigerators, Carriages, Cedar
Chests is now quite complete, and we want your trade when you get ready for same. Ac
commodating term" given.
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IRON WORKS.
KEHOE’S IRON WORKS
WM. KEH O E <te CO.,
IRON AND BRASS FOUNDERS, MACHINISTS, BLACKSMITHS AND BOILERMAKERS. EM
(IISES, BOILERS AND MACHINERY, SHAFTING, UPI.LEYB, ETC.
Immense reduction in price of Sugar Mills and Pans. Special attention to Repair Work.
Fstlmntes promptly furnished. Broughton Street from Reynolds to itaudolpb Streets. Tele
phone 268, Savannah, Oa.
MACHINERY.
McDonough! Gallaatyoe
IRON POUNDERS.
Machiaiits. Biackiraithi and toiler Maker;
Also manufacturers of Stationary and Portable
Engines. Vertical and Toprunning Corn Mills,
Sugar Mills and Pane. Have also on band arid
fo- sale cheap one 10-Horse Power Portable Kn
>ln •; also, one 30. one 40 and one 100-Horse
l ower Stationary Engines. AU orders promptly
at tended to.
STABLES.
PULASKI HOUSE STABLES^
13S anil 140 Bryan Stret.
ELEGANT LANDAUS VICTORIAS, T CARTS,
BUGGIES AND SADDLE HORSES.
E. C. GLEASON.
Telephone No. 12.
HARDWARE.
HARDWARE.
Bar, Band & Hoop Iron,
WAGON MATERIAL
Naval Stores Supplies,
For Sale by
EDWARD LOVELL’S SONS.
155 BR iUQHTON AND 138-liO STATE STS.
PAINTS AND OILS.
JOHN G. BUTLER;
Headquarters for Plain and Decorative WaU
Paper, Paints, Oil, White Loads, Varnish, Glass,
Railroad and Steamboat Supplies, Soanes,
Doors. Blinds and builders’ Hardware, Calcined
planter, Cement and Hair.
SOLE AGENTS FOR LADD’S LIME
110 Congress street and 132 St. JuUau street
Savannah, Georgia.
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