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. GEORGIA.
Snm Carter, a negro, was bound over
by Justice Smith of Buchanan, under a
S3OO bond, charged with an assault on
a white woman in the northern portion of
the county. The people are greatly excit
ed. The defendant will remain in Jail un
til the July term of court.
Darien Gazette: During the month end
ing on April 30 there was measured at the
public boom in Darien 6,800,000. feet of
square, scab and sawn timber. This does
roc include the sawn timber and lumber
which came in during the month and was
carried direct to the private booms.
A negro supposed to be the murderer of
Robert F. Davis near Decalur was cap- !
tured in Madison Saturday. He says his
name is Will Williams and that he has
been working pn a farm near Madison.
He told several conflicting s:orles about
his movements for the past few days.
He claims to be 20 years of age, and is
very black.
It is said that the hard wood mil! of
Abbeville is one of the largest and most
promising of the many industries that
make South Georgia hum. Ten thousand
feet of lumber a day are sawed from
fcweetgtim, tupelo, ash, cypress, oak and
pine. The lumber is shipped North, where
it is converted into furniture ami then sold
back to the Georgia merchants.
The city tax rate in Athens for 1833
has been-fixed by the City Council at 1
per cent., the same figures as Inst yenr.
This has been accomplished despite the
recent issuing of SIOO,OOO of bonds, the In
terest and $3,(1C0 of the principal of which
is payable annually. The city finances
were never in better condition than now,
and there is a cash balance in the treas
ury of $22,000.
Miss Annie Adams, an aged and very
estimable lady residing., near Americus,
is in a critical condition, the result of a
stroke of apoplexy received a day'or two
since. It is feared that she cannot recov
er. Miss Adams is 55 years of age and
the only remaining member of a large
family once residing ttiere. She is a sis
ter of Mr. George W. Adams, who died
only a few weeks since.
From present indications there will be
a lively fight In Atlanta's Council this
afternoon over the question of the Bale
of tobacco, cigar*, cigarette* and pipes on
the Sabbath day. An ordinance was in
troduced at the last regular session of the
Couucll allowing the sale of these goods
on Sunday, but in considering the mat
ter the ordinance committeemen widely
differed as to the solution of the problem.
Indications point to a large attendance
upon the University of Georgia next year.
The university has been more widely ad
vertised this year than usual, and the in
stitution is in closer touch with the peo
ple. The examinations for entrance re
cently placed in the hands of the different
school commissioners in Georgia will be
taken by a large number of young men,
more than one hundred having ulready
signified their intention of so doing,
Ed. Smith, a young white man, has
been arrested in Atlanta charged with
assaulting Garnett Norwood, the young
painter, now in the lunatic asylum. Nor
wood’s insanity is said to be due to a
blow on the head from a pnlr of brass
knueke, and Ed Smith is charged wiih
being his assailant. The warrant charges
Smith with assault with intent to mur
der. Smith has been released on a S2OO
bond. His trial has been set for to-day.
A special to the Morning News from
Sumner says: The seventeenth annual
celebration of the Worth County Sunday
School Association was held at the Tab
ernacle Poulan yesterday. Judge Frank
Park of Pouiaii made a very appropriate
address of welcome. The music furnish
ed by the congregation, with the assist
ance of Mrs. Dr. Walker of Sycamore, or
ganist. and J a Dean of Ty Ty. cholater,
was excellent. Dr. C. H. Hyde Of Cuth
bert and Hev. W. B. Davis of Albany
made good nnd Interesting Sun<iay school
speeches. In the singing contest banners
were awarded to the infant class at Syl
vester, the choir at Isabella and the
school at Sumner.
The well known case of Cutts against
Scandrett, which involves the mayoralty
of the town of Cordele, and brings up a
heated contest over the recent munici
pal election held In that town, was reach
ed on the docket of the Supreme Court
Friday morning. The case was continued
at the afternoon session nnd argument
was concluded Saturday, the court taking
•he ease under consideration. In the elec
tion In Cordele recently for Mayor and
for the officers of the aldermanic board,
C. C. Cutts, one of the candidates for
the former office, received 274 votes, iiiid
was declared elected over his opponent,
S. D. Scandrett, who received only 220
votes. It was discovered, •however, that
there had been fraud in the election and
the friends of Scandrett claimed that 156
of the votes given Cutts were Illegal. A
contest ensued before the ordinary of
Dooly county, which was thrown out fqr.
some reason. Receiving no satisfaction
from the ordinary, the Scandrett faction
took the case to the Superior Court, and
before Judge Felton, at Macon, March 13,
Cutts was called upon to show cause. The
case was finally carried before a Jury
in Dooly county with Judge W B. Butts
presiding, and the Jury decided In favor
of Scandrett. Cutts. who Is at present
actihg ns Mayor of Cordele, refused to ac
cept the decision of the oourt, and the
case was brought to the Supremo Court
on a writ of error.
FI.ORJDA.
Capt. Padgett of Leesburg Is organizing
a stock company for the purpose of grow
ing strawberries for market on a large
scale!
Pensacola's exports for May promise to
far exceed those for April. The suipnwr
season is by no means a season of com
mercial dullness there,
A special to the Morning News from
Tallahassee says: The El Frovedo Com:
Parry will begin next week to build an ad
ditional brick building and also put anew
brick wall on the .east side of Its cigar
factory.
The Tallahassee liquor dealers are com
plaining about dull business during the
present session of the legislature. One of
them was heard to say last week: "This
ts the poorest logis.ature I have ever seen
in Florida. its members are so sung •
they won't buy a glass of whisky or play
a game of card?.’* t ** *
Gov. Bloxham congratulates the Demo
cratic party of Florida upon and
harmony, nnd says there is but one ole .
h,SanTa r* Democra,s GlfTer. and that is tn
Rosa county, and he hopes tliut will
I soon end. The Governor is very much op
posed fo anything tending to destroy the
gfood feeling among citizens of Flor.da.
Leesburg Commercial: The market
price for velvet beans has been $1.5) per
bushel. Next year they will sell for *2
j per bushel, due to the increase n the de
mand, which will be a result of the more
general knowledge cf their value as a
sn-ok feed and fertilizer. The acres u|xm
acres in velvet beans in this vicinity and
throughout the county will prove profita
b.e to ihe growers. Next year It Is safe
.to predict that a much larger acreage will
be planted.
Jacksonville Metropolis: One of the i„.-
culiar afflictions wrought by rheumatism
was to be seen to-day n a countryman,
living nine miles west of the city, by the
name of Connor. The disease attacked the
back Of his neck and had bent his heal
forward until his chin nearly touched his
breaai. He said he had a brother similar
ly afflicted, and both attributed It to hard
work and exposure. They are reported to
be very industr'ous men.
! The Quincy fire department at a recent
j business meeting decided, after mature de
liberation, to have a gala day in Quincy
[on June 21. While the programme has
not been fully mapped out it will consist
of firemen's drill and contest, baseball,
etc., lies ides a number of other novel and
interesting features. The town* of Madi
son. Tallahassee and Bainbridge will be
invited to participate, with good reason
to believe that each will accept, as noth
ing so tends to encourage the volunteer
firemen as friendly contests of this na
ture.
sot I II CA ROBIN %.
Gov. Ellerbe has been carried from Co
lumbia to his home in Marlon county, and
it is reported that he has continued to
lose ground. He is now very weak and
emaciated, and the best Informed among
his friends have very Utile hope of his
recovery.
The state penitentiary is short on con
victs. The recent act of the legislature
requires all convicts for five years nnd
less to work in county chain-gangs, and
at the meeting of the board of directors
last week it was found that not near all
the contracts for convicts made by Col.
Neal could be filled.
Greenville News: It looks as if Green
ville is going to get an electric street rail
way system, either from the Boston party
of capitalists who were here this week or
from the Philadelphia party represen ling
ihe American Pipe Company, who have
Just purchased the local electric plant;
though no final result of either scheme
will be known under a week or ten days.
What the Southern Railway is going to
do with the South Carolina and Georgia
has not yet appeared, says the Yorkvilfe
Yeoman, hut it is possible that instead of
building their new Florida line direct
from Columbia south, they will take up
eons!ruction at Branchville and work from
there south, making the road always in
operation between Columbia and Branch
vllle a part of the Florida line.
Barnwell Sentinel: A party of survey
ors were in this vicinity last Saturday
morning. In view of the many railroad
rumors which are afloat, and which have
been discussed, the presence of the sur
veyors in Barnwell was the cause of a
good deal of curiosity. Their manner in
dicated that they did not care to do a
great deal of talking, but it was learned
they were making a survey to Port Royal
for the proposed Black Diamond Road.
Walterboro is gradually waking up from
her long sleep, and will soon be the peer
of any town her size in the state. She
became a manufacturing tofcn about two
months ago. Her council has Just com
pleted an extensive system of drainage In
the southern suburbs that will insure thc
heallh of the town, and now the trustees
of the graded'school advertise that an
election will be held on Mv' 27 to deter
mine whether or not an additional tax of
4 mills shall be levied to supplement the
constitutional school tax.
James M. .Dickson of Greenville is a
great fnrmer. The other day he carried
some friends cut to look at his magnifi
cent oat patch, and his friends were de
lighted with the crop, but were convinced
it was wheal. Mr. Dickson was satisfied
there was no corn or rye aboard this grain
inspection, bqt he didn't see how the oats
he had certainly sown could turn into a
promising wheat crop. He remembers
now that there was wheat with the seed
oats. The oats were killed by cold and
he is going lo have a good crop of wheat.
Mid DeLoach, a young white man, and
George Grice, became involved In a diffi
culty about two miles west of Saluda Sat
urday evening, and as a result Grice is
said to be in a dying condition. It ap
pears that Grice invited DeLoach to take
a drink with him, which at first he refus
ed to do, but finally consented. The bot
tle was passed lo DeLoach, who Instead
of taking the drink sat down and placed
the flask on the ground beside him. Grice
Insisted that he. lake the drink and give
Idm back the bottle. DeLoach refusing to
do either, Grice reached for Ihe bottle,
and the former grabbed tt. DeLoach re
mat ktd that If he didn't mind he would
cut him and reached for his knife. Grice
moved away a little, but DeLoach made
a lunge toward him and slashed the knife
UUP Ills body, making an ugly wound
across Ms left side. The left lung was
seriously cut, and the physician's opinion
is that death is only u matter of time.
MAHY ANDERSON.
She States In an Interview n Few
Tilings About Her Life.
In an interview In the World, Mrs. Na
varro (Mary Anderson) talks of the pleas
ure she experienced on returning to this
country. The following is an extract from
the interview:
If beauty of exterior be proof of inward
beauties, Mary Anderson de Navarro has
Indeed found the ideal living. Time has
passed lightly over this world-wide favor
ite. She is still a girl—tall, willowy, the
soul of grace, of animation, of wit.
Her beauty is Just as ravishing as when
ten years ago, midst the clamor of ap
plause and admiration such us rtever were
showered upon any other actress in Amer
ica, Mary Anderson looked down from the
pinnacle of success, and realized the pow
er of youth and beauty and talent, and n
mrtgnetlsm which is greater than all of
these.
The same gift of magnetism still em
phasizes her personality and makes her
beauty potent. At a reception given by
her mother-in-law Thursday afternoon she
was the magnet toward which all eyes
THE 31 OWNING NEWS: 3IONDAY, 3TAY 15. 1899.
turned and around whom every one crowd
ed.
When It was over the imperious dignity
which Is unconsciously a part o: her melt
ed away in true democratic fashion, and
her cheeks grew flushed and hec, eyes
grew bright ard soft as she chatted gboUt
her life and the blessings that have come
into it to make it beautiful.
"When 1 was a little girl," she said,
seriously; “yes, a very little girl, I be
gan to have Ideals; Ideals about the sort
of home I should like to have, the sort of
woman I should tike to be, and the 1
should like to lead. When I grew to be
a big girl and came in contact with the
world and Its realisms, I think my
suffered some.
Then I filled my life with work, With
study, with ambition. Such success as
came to me I was grateful for. But as
> ears t lapsed 1 realized this cot/ld not
is? all of life; that here must be some
thing sweeter even than fame. Laurela
are becoming to most heads, bul they
are not the crowning glory.
“My present life has realized for me
all the old Ideals and hopes and a multi
tude of new ones that grew as 1 grew.
1* is possible, you kr.ow, for the real
and ideal to converge. I have found it
so. And for the blessings that follow
in the wake of that knowledge. I am
thankful to the Giver of all good things.”
Mary Anderson de Navarro looked very
earnest and very lovely as she finished
speaking. A Jardiniere of American
Beauties that stood behind her seemed to
bend toward her brown head to lend beau
ty to its selling. It was scarcely neces
sary to hear her say she was happy.
There are some things which cannot be
concealed. A happy neart and a con
tented mind are among them.
Mme. de Navarro’s lips that radiate
happiness when they smile, her blue
eyes that shed the Joy within to the
world without, her voice, her manner, as
well as her words, tell the story of true
contentment.
"When I left public life ten years ago
I left it permanently. I find suflicer.t
opportunities to make use of my voice
in entertaining my husband and friends.
Ohce only 1 sang in public—at a benefit
given in London. I am very fond of my
vocal studies. The opera is my greatest
weakness We often run up to London
for it during 4he season.
"Theaters? Yes, I like them, but not
so well. After my marriage there was
a period of nearly seven, years when I
did not go to a single play. I don't
know that It was because 1 tired of the
play through my own experience, but I
felt no Inclination to go.
"1 was finding other things to amuse
and interest me, and they Interest me
still. Since we arrived here, two weeks
ago, I have seen but two plays, Maude
Adams In 'Romeo and Juliet’ and Julia
Marlowe in 'Collnette.' Both are charm
ing women and artists."
TO-DAY’S WEATHER FORECAST.
Washington Forecast for Monday—
For Georgia and South Carolina: Fair
Monday; Tuesday fair, except showers in
mountain districts; fresh, easterly winds.
For Eastern and Western Florida: Gen
erally fair Monday and Tuesday; fresh,
east to southeast winds.
General conditions May 14, 1599, at 8 p.
m: An area of high pressure, with the
center over the Lake region, covers the
greater portion of the country east of the
Mississippi. It has caused somewhat
cooler temperatures generally over the
section. A storm has developed in the
southwest the past twenty-four hours,
Ihe center of which is at Dodge City, with
a pressure of 27.68 inches. A few scattered
showers fell to the cast of this low area.
It has caused higher temperatures over
Kansas and Oklahoma. The maximum
at Dodge City to-day was 96 degrees.
Thunderstorms occurred at Davenport
and Jupiter. High winds: Hatteras, 40
miles, north.
Yesterday' Weather at Savannah-
Maximum temperature 2 p. m,.., 83 degrees
Minimum temperature 6 a, m... 68 degrees
Mean temperature 7g degrees
Normal temperature 70 degrees
Excess of temperature g degrees
Accumulated excess since
May 1 82 degrees
Accumulated deficiency since
Ja "- 1 38 degrees
Rainfall 00 inch
Normal inch
Deficiency since May 1 25 inch
Excess since Jan. 1 74 jq c h
River Report-The hight of the Savan
nah river at Augusta, at 8 a. m. (75th me
ridian time) yesterday, was 8.5 feet, no
change during the preceding twenty-four
hours.
Observations taken May 14. 1899, 8 p. m.,
76th meridian lime, at the same moment
of time at all stations for the Morning
News:
Name of Station' |-;-T. *V. |RITn
Boston, cloudy 71 ~.|~58 j jjj 1 1 (g~
New York city, ptly oidy.j 62 12 o
Philadelphia, ptly cldy...| 66 I L I 00
Washington city, clear ...1 66 1 L 0) '
Norfolk, clear | 60 I 8. ,'oo
Hatteras, clear | 58 I 12 | 00
Wllmlngion, clear | 64 1
Charlotte, clear 1 04 j L I 00
Raleigh, dear j 72 L | 00
Charleston, clear 172 1 , n ,
Atlanta, clear j g 4 L
Augusta, elenr [ 82 | L |OO
Savannah, clear j 74 1 r. m
Jacksonville, blear ....'....1 74 g m
Jupiter, clear |76 LI. CO
Key West, ptly cldy jso 1 g T
Tamph, cloudy j g, | 10 _ O2
Mobile. clear j 82 | L .00
Montgomery, clear | 86 | L 00
Vicksburg, clear 1 8 g r and
New Orleans, clear I 80 6 rfio
Galveston, clear j7B 6 00
Corpus Chrlsti, ptly cldy.l 74 I l ! no
Palestine, clear | BO h
Memphis, clear |B2 LI 00
Cincinnati, raining 1 gg 1 '
Pittsburg, clear |64 6 .00
Buffalo, cloudy 46 „ ~
Detroit, cloudy jgo j* ! ™
Chicago, cloudy |44 , 4
St. Paul, cloudy 54 *2 'V?
Davenport, cloudy 1 4 g n '.,
St. Louis, ptly cldy 174 „ ™
Kansas City, ptly c1dy...1 82 a 'no
Oklahoma, clear 8 18 "7?
Dodge City, ptly cldy | B i j 28 00
North Platte, raining ...j 44 | 12 ; t
Marquette, missing.
-i-T, temperature; *V, velocity of Wind.
H. B. Boyet*
Local Forecast Official, Weather Bureau.
-The trade in mammoth ivory still flour
ishes In North Siberia, and, like that in
amber, is. If one thinks at all. among the
most curious in the world.- Here are two
substances, one part of a long extinct
henst. the other the gum of vanished and
extinct trees, sought and used in modern
life for ornaments and works of art for
the human race or to-day. The sambyeds
of 'Siberia, among other odd beliefs, ho’d
that mammoths hurled In the frozen soil
were a race of gigantic moles frozen to
death when burrowing,
CASTORIA
For Infants and Children.
Th 9 Kind You Have Always Bought
Signature of
W® solicit articles for this department-
The name of the writer should accompa
ny the letter or article, not necessarily
for publication, but as an evidence of good
faith.
Questions and communications relative
lo agricultural and horticultural subjects,
if addressed to Agrl. Editor, Drawer N,
Mllledgeviile, Ga., will receive immediate
attention.
Iniliortance of Maintaining an Equi
librium of Fereiility tn Solis.
The inefficiency of chemical analysis o'
soils in dc-term nlng the productiveness
thereof has leng been known. The chem
ist can analyze the soli, and in so doing
can demonstrate, without the slightest
chance of n mistake, the exact mineral
content of any soil worked upon, but the
state of preparedness, the degree of avail
ability of those same mineral elements the
chemist, no matter how carefully, exact
and laboriously painstaking-his efforts
may be, is not able to determine. Right
here we wish to disclaim ttll intention of
underestimating or undervaluing the sci
ence of chemistry, or the labors of the
chemist, for none realize to a greater ex
tent thqn ourself, our utter reliance on
that exact science" for the major portion
of the reliable, trustworthy and positive
knowledge'of maintaining, restoring and
of indefinitely increasing the fertility of
our soils, that we even now possess, and
the far greater degree of knowledge we
expect, by their invaluable aid and assist
ance, to possess on this all Important, all
absorbing subject in the very near future;
we do especially desire that our soil till
ers of the country would minimize hnnd
labor by a greater expenditure of brain
labor, nnd depend less upon the brains and
brain-labor of others, and more upon their
own thinking qualities. Aside from chem
ical analysis, (here are two ways in which
one can test their soils and thereby find
out what the soli is deficient in, or whut
is in exeegs.
The one ts by the pint system of expert
mentation; the other by the plant test, the
which we are trying to describe. We have
not a word to sny against plat experimen
tation, except that i( is too sjow and too
expensive for the ordinary soil tiller, re
quiring as it does the expenditure of at
least some money for things the soil does
not actually need and requiring to be
kept up for a series of years before cer
tain, definite and positive.conclusions can
be arrived at, and although we realize
the fact that every farmer should be hts
own experimenter, wo yet think the plant
teat the best for the ordinary soil ttlle**;
and the plat-test as pre-eminently suit
ed lo experiment stations and experiment
al farms. The plat-test being compara
tively expensive, while the plant-test costs
absoluttdy nothing. Quite an important
desideratum In this era of universally pre
vailing low prices for fattn products. The
plaht-tept is reasonable, feasible, practi
cable by thg soil tiller hjmself, without
the aid *if the chemist, and, in. our opin
ion, and aedokllng to our observation and
experience. Ihe most speedy, economical
reliable and positive plan that ever has
or ever will be devired. It is the simplest
because In accordance with nature's laws,
and the rules of ordinary common sense;
the most economical, because the exact
element needed may, in each Individual
case, be employed consequently there is
but little if any waste, and no actual dam
age done the crop by apoiytng a some
thing that may already be present In ex
cess. The most jgjeedy, because the lack
ing Ingredient may be readily discovered
by any intelligent and observing soil tiller
during Hie growth of the very first crop
planted on the land, sometimes, in fact. In
time to double the crop (by the applica
tion of quick-acting Flrtillsers of the right
kind) the present season. Neither plat
experimentation nor the plant-test are
thoroughly mid completely reliable and
conclusive in abnormal seasons, and tinder
abnormal conditions the results of the
most pa.lnstals.lnK and precise experimenta
tion would be to n great extent nullified
nnd vitiated, and conclusions deduced
therefrom .erroneous. A normal growth,
under normal conditions, is what is es
sential in order that we may arrive at
conclusions of value. Now a few words
on plant color as a soil-test, cold weather,
too dry weather, and water standing
around the roots of most cultivated crops,
as well as the allowing soils to become
compacted and run together, thereby cut
ting off the supply of life-giving and
health-preserving oxygen from the roots
will each and all cause the foliage to take
on a pale, sickly yellow color, but aside
from these influences, whenever this pale,
sickly yellow , color Is present,
tt may be safely assumed that
nitrogen Is deficient, nnd probably po'ash,
and especially so wherever there is a de
ficiency of stalk growth. When a plant
is healthy and abundantly supplied with
plant food, the growth is luxuriant, and
the foliage of a dense, deep, dark green
(in fact, almost bluish) colqr; a deficiency
of nitrogen will manifest Itself by a yel
lowish green; a deficiency of potash by a
pa’e green; and a deficiency of phosphoric
acid by a still lighter shade of green; an
exi>erlenced eye can detect the differences
in shade of color vry readily, and more
especially as the growth of the plant Is
normal, abnormal,or below the normal.and
fructiverous or inclining toward barren-'
ness. An excess of nitrogen evidences It
self by an abnormal growth of stalk,
straw, vine, and woody growth generally;
and this abnormal growth Is Invariably at
Ihe expense of the fruitage of the plant,
let the crop he what it may; whether po
tatoes with all-vine, but with no tubers,
the <•< reals—ex.-os of straw* With but a
small yield of very light grain; fruit trees
with an abnormal growth of wood and su
per-luxuriant foliage, but with little or
no fruit; a mammoth corn Btalk, but min
us the ear; and overgrown cotton stalk,
minus the fruit; each and all-these cases,
together with other similar ones that
could be dted. but which will readily oc
cur to the mind <vf every thinking farmer.
Indicate a decided defleisney of phospho
ric arid, and potash; which deficiency
must be made good, to the extent of cor
recting or balancing the excess of nitro
gen present, before best results can be
obtained. Stable manure alone, cotton
seed or cotton seed ma) alone, nitrogen
gathering crops ns peus or clover, when
used alone, and the phosphoric acid and
potash actually essential In order to
properly proportion these various sub
stances, preserve a Just balance, and ob
tain und maintain as perfect an equlU
brJum of fertility as practicable, omittel,
neglected, or Ignored, brings US own re
ward In the way of, an excess of nitrogen,
an excess which, previously stated,
never fails to wogk an injury: an excess
which is not an excess, but actually u de
ficiency: a deficiency of phosphoric noil
and potash.
When land ;s abundantly supplied with
the latter agents, crops ore invariably
fructlveroas; If the crop, whatever It may
be, is frulctiverous, we gtouid infer it was
not lacking phosphoric acid; where
fruetiverous, but the fruit light, infe
rior, and of poor quality generally, potash
Is lacking; phosphoric a eld Increases the
quantity of fruit, as well us the number of
fruits that are set on each Individual
plant; but it takes potash to so Improve
the quahty as to make by far the greater
portion of the crop plump, heavy, bright
and, where color Is an Important deside
ratum, high colored, as in the peach, etc.
Where fruit is abundant but 6ta'.k
growth deficient, nitrogen is lacking;
rvhere stalk growth is excessive but fruit
deficient, phosphoric acid is lacking, and
probably potash. Where the fruit is of
poor quality, potash is Invariably lacking.
When each of the leading elements are
present in any given soil. In abundance,
as well as being in due proportion, the one
to the other, and climatic conditions, sea
son, rainfall, etc., being favorable, truly
mammoth specimens nnd Incredible yields
are the veriiab'.e sequence. That Is the
way they oorr.e, and the only way In which
they can come. They are not the result of
chance, but of skillful, will-directed ef
fort. G. H. Turner.
reucli Culture in houtliern Georgia.
Varieties for Succession—Time to
Plant.
"Subscriber.” Ware county, Georgia:
Like every other farmer in this section
of the county, I am at a loss what to do
to make my land, or at least, a reason
able part of it, of real value to me In the
future. the very best management
it is a bare living that can be had out of
corn and cotton, if present prices are to
rule. Few- of us are prepared to go into
stock raising of any kind; that Is, on a
scale sufficient to get any returns from
the business under three or. four yearß.
We are Just compelled to plant such
things as make the quickest returns.
Even with the orchard crops, peaches,
plums, pears, we have to wait several
years before we can get any money back
on the investment, and It is a fact there
are few of us that ore able to invest in
such, especially on an uncertainty. But
the old saying, "Nothing venture, noth
ing win,” must spur us to make some
ventures within reason.
“I have decided to establish a small
orchard of peaches and I would be glad
to knotv what are the best kinds to in
clude in a small planting of six or eight
acres; a half dozen kinds, say, that
would give a succession of fruit from June
to October; and is it best to plant in the
spring or in the fall. I would be glad
to have the benefit of the experience of
some of your South Georgia readers who
have had a fair success with this fruit.”
***•*••
In replying to the question of our cor
respondent, we have to admit that we
are not informed as to the results at
tained in peach growing in the past ten
or fifteen years In his Immediate locality.
It may be that there are some there who
have made a fair success of growing
peaches. If so, Subscriber should make
it his business to make such inquiry of
these between now and November what
varieties have produced the beat results
on the particular soil of that Section. As
with every other plant, there is n vast
difference in the characteristics of the
Various varieties of pcabhes. W r hen one
kind is adapted to a certain soil another
kind will not do at ali. If Subscriber plants
out eight or ten varieties of peaches he
is quite sure to find that here is a va3t
difference between the best and the worst
of the several kinds. If every tree did as
well as the best ho would be well satisfied
with the result. If every tree does as
poorly as the poorest variety of the lot
he would probably cut every tree down
and use them, for firewood in the course
of a few years. This would be the result
almost invariably.
Seme varieties are much more suscepti
ble to disease, to injury from late frosts,
to damage from wind, to attacks of in
sects. Some are much better keepers than
others.
And then one man will succeed in get
ting good results out of peaches or other
fruit when another would fall. A steady
energetic, persistent man doing every
thing possible to prevent injury from in
sects or disease, taking the trouble to thin
the fruit on overcrowded- trees and using
care ir> gathering the fruit Just at the
proper stage for the table or to ship, such
a man is apt to succeed where a careless
man would miss ih
The average Soutliern-born man Is not
a thrifty, energetic man and manager. He
does not know what economy means when
it comes to compare him with the man
who comes here from Europe. The p od
ding but steady-plodding Gorman ' a
Seothman, knows hpw to economize
money, time, labor and product. This com
bination of the economics will produce suc
cess when it is to ho had at ail even
under apparently unfavorable conditions
So t nuc *’ by way of parenthesis as an es
sential requisite in successful fruit-grow
ing.
As to the best varieties to commence
with by one who has had no practical
experience or any observation of the mat
ter we can name a few varieties that
generally give satisfaction anywhere In
Georgia when properly looked after First
and foremost, is the well-known Elberta
that would ripen in your section about the
middle of July or a little later. An earl
ier peach by two weeks Is the Hale's Ear -
—ripening the first ' week in Julv
Still earlier than this variety 1 ore
the Sneed and Triumph varieties, the one
ripening about June 10 or 15 and the Tri
umph ten days or two weeks later. The
Emma is a good July peach and the Sal
way. said to lie a good variety for South
Georgia, ripens in August. Crawford's
Early and Crawford’s Late arc two well
known kinds ripening; in July ar.d a’-out
two weeks apart.
The old Indian Blood tW forty or fifty
years ago was famous in Georgia is rarely
seen now. as It rots very badly, it is claim
ed.
It Is the variety of all others to grow
directly from the Iseed, nnd If one can get
good seed of this variety it is advbable
to plant some of them as a part of the Or
chard. There are other varieties ilk*
"Stump the World” and Reeves' Favorite
and Old Mixon Free and CUng that may
be included in a list of ten sorts. We
cannot name any reliable September or
October -peaches, though there are a few
perhaps that may give fair results.
In your section the best time to set out
the young trees, ig in November qnd De
cember. though it can he done much later
even. In conclusion, we would advise you
to secure the various tmlietinp issued by
the several Southern experiment stations
upon peieh (trowifg and stqdy them well
between now an* fall. You will have
much to learn from experience and obset
vaMon inter, but you can learn much from
the practical experience of the stations if
you will. It is Important to know just
how to put the trees in right, how fo
prune and fertilise them for the best start
Esßace.
Farm anil Garden Nates.
Hogs In the South.
A farmer in the South who has a few
acres of good bermuda pasture (that once
set will endure for many yfcars, if properly
cared for), and will plant a few acres in
sorghum, can not only raise his own beef
and pork, but a good deal to sell to others
besides. What a quantity of pork can
be raised on bermuda grass betweep May
and October. A fall pas Miro of sorghum
and then a few acres! in turnips and arti
chokes. The capabilities of the iSouth At
lantic states in the matter of pork ami
beef are simply prodigious. With a little
care, there is no need for disease inter
fering with success. With plenty of pure
water, stock raised upon the articles nam
ed will rarely contract disease of any
kind. Impure water and too much corn
are the two things that have “laid out"
pork raising in the South. The West rare
ly has no advantage over the South in
raising hogs if we would only utilize our
own superior advantages.
Do got Store Hay in Stable.
A stable in which one or more valuable
horses are kept should be kept entirely
free from combustible matter of any kind.
It is a serious mistake to keep hay. shucks
or fodder in the same building with either
horses or cattle, whether these substances
are kept in the loft or on the same floor.
By all means build a hay bam separate
from the stable and far enough oft not
to endanger the stable. If by chance lhe
hay barn catches fire, either from light
ning or through carelessness or design, as
frequently happens. The lives of many
valuable horses and cows are lost every
year just in this way. And many horses
are made blind by the dust when hay Is
stored in the loft nbove them. Wherever
possible It is well to store hay either in
large or small quantity in bales. Of
course. It is not possible to always have
it bailed, but we would pay $2.50 per ton
more for good hay in bales than when
loose. It Is a genuine economy to have
it so for the majority of horse owners.
Permanent Bermuda Grass band for
the Southern State*.
It was my lot, says a correspondent of
the Southern Planter, when a young man,
to live In a country famous for its perma
nent grass lands, and I know, from expe
rience, their importance and value, the
humid and moderate cllmale of Great
Britain and Ireland is very suitable to tne
growth of the true grasses. The sods
there, hundreds Of years old, are a pride
and glory. It is almost impossible to get
such grasses in this drier and more sunn>
dime, but there is a grass of great nu
trition and palatabUlty that will grow
well and remain forever, if it is once
started; this is Bermuda grass. Why not
plant land in the Southern states in this
grass? There are thousands of acres, now
almost worthless, which would become
valuable If (hey were in permanent Bermu
da. If an acre will support a calf, say of 400
pounds, during ihe grazing season of six
months, and it gains in weight ISO pounds,
this gain, at 3 cents per pound; would
brjng a gross revenue from the acre of
$5.40. After deducting, say SO cents for at
tendance, taxes, etc., we would get a net
income of s4.id per acre. All the rough
and hilly lands on the farm, the worn-out
fields, and hinds alongside creeks subject
to overflow In summer, would be much
more profitable to the owners if in Ber
mude grass, and a great check would be
put to erosion, which is now going on to
a frightful extent over large areas. Such
lands as above described pay little, if any
thing now. If half the cleared lands were
In permanent grass and well grazed, and
the other half well attended to and prop
erly cropped, the net returns from South
ern lands might be doubled. With lands
so fixed, farming would take on a papioral
character much needed, the stock kept
would be greatly increased to the benefit
of the cultivated lands and the grain
crops, and a mixed system of farming es-
tablished, which has always been con
sidered the most desirable and economical
way of using lands.
In this neighborhood, the woven wire
and picket fence- has proved a perfect dog
stopper. This fence, five feet high, with
four wires, costs about 25 cents per rod
to build, the wood being found on the
land. A farm surrounded by this picket
fence is dog proof, and no one need fear
for his sheep when so protected. This ap
pears to me a very simple way of curing
the trouble of sheep being killed or wor
ried by dogs.
I agree with you that the South is very
suitable for the pioduction of sheep. Ber
muda grass for summer pasturage, and
corn and cow peas grown together, and
used as silage for main winter food,
seems to me almost an ideal feeding for
breeding ewes. We eannot grow turnips
here as in the "old country,” but we
can grow to perfection corn for siiage,
and I would rather have one ton of silage
than two of turnips. Who can imagine
a better chance? And then we have the
highly nitrogenous concentrated foods,
such as soy beans, cow peas, and cotton
seed meal to give (in addition to the sil
age) to our lambs, wethers or old ewes,
to make fat mutton. Really, the oppor
tunities are most favorable not only for
raising sheep in great numbers, but also
to finish such as we wish for the butcher.
Mutton would be eaten much more if a
good article were supplied; and I feel
sure it could be, and at a handsome prof-
Dciiornlngr.
As the calving season is on, those who
desire to behorn their calves by the caus
tic potash process should remember that
it ought to be done when the calf is quite
young; say, from five to twenty days old,
says the Homestead. The process is a
simple one that anybody can pursue with
the exercise of a iittlo care, and if prop
erly performed is attended with very lit
tle pain. Caustic potash can be bought
in sticks at any drug store, aud when
nol in use should be kept in closely stop
pered bottles; otherwise they will attract
moisture and "mush down.” The hair
should be clipped away from the budding
horn, and then, after moistening the skin
with a stick of potash, should be rubbed
on the spot until it is thoroughly covered
taking special care, however, not to touch
the skin except on the one spot and not to
have so much moisture there that drop
charged with the caustic will run down to
make the face or neck sore. Another
method of using caustic is to take fifty
parts of caustic soda or caustic potash
twenty-five parts of kerosene ami twenty
five parts of water. Make an emu'slon
of (hese ingredients by heating and thor
ough stirring, and then place the mix
ture in a bottle having a rubber cork
Clip the hair from about embyro horn
with a pair of scissors so as to expose
a spot about the size of a nickel, drop two
or three drops of the mixture on this spot
and rub it in thoroughly with the rub
ber cork. The fluid must not be al
lowed to spread, however, nor run down
the side of the face, for if carelessly used
the horn may not only be killed, but the
face of the calf <lisflgure<cl.
While the easiest way to dehorn cattle
next to breeding them that way is to do
it with caustic potash, U ; is very question
able whether it renders the cattle when
mature any more docile than they would
have been had they not been dehorned
Asa dull animal that has always relied
on its horns as weapons of ofTense atid
defense is cowed and made to fee” hem
less by the loss of them,. It, therefore
t 0 “•*. whereas q
calf that has never known horns learns
to do its fighting by butting Just as ani
mals of the polled breeds do
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