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GEORGIA.
Judge Alex S. Erwin of Athens ha? been
appointed master in chan: •ry by Judge
Emory Speer, in an important mi l case
in t,h© city of Augusta.
Staesboro Star Mr. Ell A McCroan
died at his home at Halcyondale on Tues
d- y, a long illness with oonsumpt’on.
His remains were interred on y©*i* rjuy at
the family burial groun.l at Bliteh, in this
county. A Masonic funeral will be held
over the grave on the second Sunday in
January.
Eastman Times-Journal: Dr. E. II Ba
con owns a cow which we think should
have the blue ribbon. so far as prolific
stock is concerned. This cow has given
birth to four calves within eleven months,
twins being born in January and again in
"December. She is a thoroughbred regis
tered Jersey.
Statesboro Star: There was a serious
row down at Enal on Monday between
Thomas Waters, Jr., and Russell Wilson.
WilFou is manager for R. Simmons’ mer
cantile business ot that place. There arose
some diapu'e over a business matter wh n
Waters struck Wilson over the head with
sausage mill inflicting an ugly gash in
the young man’s head.
The colored people of Macon are prepar
ing to celebrate in an elaborate manner
Ftaanc pation Day to-day The principal
f Mure of he or aslon will be the eman
cipation address delivered at Central City
Park by Booker T. Washington, president
of the Normal Institute at Tuskegee. In
tbe evening at 8 o'clock, he will deliver a
lecture at the First Congregntional
Church.
Americus Times-Recorder : Cupid’s
shafts fell to the right and left in Sumter
county during the year now ending, and
the number of marriage licenses issued is
a record breaker, if not a heart breaker.
Judge Speer has not balanced up his mat
rimonial bureau accounts yet. but stated
yesterday that the number of licenses is
sued would approximate 300. This means
that 600 people have been retired from the
list of “eligibles” and now bear the yoke
through which they deliberately put their
necks Of course the large majority of
these are colored, though the white side
of the account shows up this year even
better than usual.
Messrs. J. W. and Z. XV. Oglesby of
Quitman were greatly delighted Friday by
the arrival of their brother, Capt. S.
Oglesby, of Camden, Miss., whom they ha 1
not saen for twenty-nine years. Capt.
Oglesby was a captain in the Third Geor
gia Regiment and acting colonel of he
reg'ment in the battle of Gettysburg.where
he was wounded and captured. After his
r* lease be returned home to Cobb county,
Georgia, tmd soon afterwards went to Mis
sissippi Borne years ago the brothers lost
sieht of him and did not know whether he
was ally© until now. Cap t. Oglesby now'
finds his brohers—whom he left young,
single men —with families of grown chil
dren who have never seen him. Mrs.
Oglesby, the mother of the four, died only
three years azo at an advanced age.
Atlanta Constitution: A significant inci
dent and one which is worthy to hold n
place on the pages of Atlanta's history oc
curred yesterday. It was the burning of
the last of the bonds the city issued in
1859. wt*en W. H. Hulsey was Mayor, to
aid in building the old Air Line •Railroad,
af'erwards the Richmond nnd Danville
find now a branch of the Southern. An is
sue of 9900,000 in thirty-year bonds bearing
7 rer cent, interest was made by the city
in 1859 to promote th<* construction of the
road. The city was not overly prosperous
nt the time; he disastrous effects of the
war were stiil weighing upon her and
there was a vigorous fight against the
measure, hut the progressive spirit pre
vailed, the bond issue was made and the
road was built. That he construction of
’he road helped materially in the upbuild
ing of Atlanta no one will now deny.
A well known politician is authority for
the statement that Hon. E. L. Wight will
be n candidate for the House of Represen
tatives of Georgia next year from Roueh
erty county, and in the event of his elec
tion. which seems assured, he wi 1 be a
candidate for sneaker. Col. Wight has rep
lesented Dougherty in the House before
nnd is the present senator from his dis
trict. He was the Senate's chairman of
tie Tax Commission, ♦•reap'd during the
recent term of the Legislature. He has
been Mayor of Albany, colonel of one of
the volunteer regiments, and has held oth
er r osb Jons of public honor and responsi
bility. There nre now two certain candi
dates for the speakership of the next
Hou c e. Hon. John D. Little, who seeks r'-
ele tion. nnd Hon. F. W. Copeland, of
Walker, and two possible candidates, Hon.
E L. Wight and Hon. Wiley Burnett, of
Athens. %
KILO It ID \.
Anew postoffice will be established at
Central, Marion county, four and one-lialf
miles west of Micanopy, on or about Jan.
1.
The orange crop this season promises to
be 500,000 boxes. Next season, as grove?
are now protected from heavy frosts, the
erop will be over 1.000.000 boxes. Pineap
ples are going forward and promise a
large yield.
Epplnger & Russel!, sawmill men of
Olustee, gained a verdict in the United
States Court in Jacksonville Saturday in
a suit against <\ K. Tufts, a sawmill man
of Sanford, for $39,800. This- suit was
brought by the plaintiffs against the de
fendant for al * g<d trespass on timber
land belonging to them and cutting logs
therefrom and for whic h damages in the
sum of SBO,OOO was asked.
Jacksonville Call: M j. fbadford Dun
ham. general superintendent of the Plant
System, who recently passed through the
city on hia way to Tampa, entered the so -
viet* of that road some live years ago and
in all that .time he ha sp nt at home onlv
the fractional parts ♦ f sev. n Sundays. In
the words of a well-known ra lro .and min.
“the major is a worker frem way ha >k!
and he don’t want anybody b, t wo kers
around him.’’
Two young men. who gave their name?
as Charles J. Pomeroy and Thomas Tobin,
are under arrest at Pensacola ns suspicious
characters, pair resembling somewhat
two photographs held by police for crim
inals wanted in Boston on serious charges.
The prisoners claim Boston as their home,
but are much surprised at being arrested.
When searched n quantity of paper money
was found, some evidently having been
tampered with, the officers say, living ol
new manufacture nnd badly mutilated.
Pensacola News : Hon. John Denham
nnd wife, late of Key West, ami Mr. Wal
ter Graham of Sumter county, are among
the guests at Hotel Escambia. Early in
the New Year Mr. Denham will begin the
publication here of anew dally paper to
be known as the Press, with full Associat
ed Press dispatenes and other up-to-date
features. Mr. Graham will be editor of
the new Journal. A building on South
Pa la fox str t has been based for the of
fit*. and the plant wilk soon be placed in
position.
Jacksonville Met repo is: The State
Fait to be given by the United Daughters
of the Confederacy in Flo Ida will be an
event of unusual interest to ih< pub ic It
is fitting that in the opening of ci New
Year and the ending of a century the wo
men should sci the example of loyalty to
| our forefathers and their id *s f right
and patriotism by making this gret ef
i fort, not only to raise m>-ney with which
to erect monuments to those who have
i passed away, but also to proviJe for Hi -
ve* fare and comfort of those veterans who
nre stiil among us. In a suburb of Ja k
sonvllh is located the Hofri© of ConfediT
■ ate Soldiers who are unable i > suppo't
themselves without some assistance, nl
| these old men look to the Daughters for a
i large part of the comforts they enjoy. Tiae
I fair will open on Tuesday. Jan. Pi. and
j will continue four days, ending * n Friday,
| the 19th. On Friday night the annual ball
will Ik- given by Martha Reid Chapter
! This is entirely a local affair, the pr coeds
of which belong to Martha Reid Chapter.
m i TH ( lltoi.iN \.
The State Railroad Commission’s last
annual report is now ready for the s:al -
printer. There is no report to appear this
year that will be reid w.ih more real in
terest. in view of the great iides mad*
in railroad building in this state durin x
the past year. The commissi re s d'al
with this upbuilding of the iron highway*
and estimate the new taxable property's
valuation at $3,000,0**. The commission
also officially announces the facts as to
Columbia's new union depot.
Three negroes, walking on the Po t
Royal Railroad a few’ days ago near Barn
well. came to a trestle and, hearirg a train
coming in the distance, one of them made
a wager with another that he could get
across before the train reached the tres
tle. The wager was accepted ard the
money placed In the hands of the third a*
a stakeholder. The one who stared across
lost his bet, but did not regre the less of
the money, as the “subsfquen-t p oc ei
ings interested him no more.”
The principal undertaker of Greenville,
S. <\, while not claiming a monopoly in
his business, has kept a record for th© past
six years which shows the cause of death
of tho?e bodies he has buried. This shows,
that seventy-three persons interred by
him in that time met death by violent and
unlawful means. There were, of course,
many persons killed in the county not
buried by this city undertaker, but the
same record in the other counties would
represent 500 violent deaths a year.
Congressman Stanyarne Wilson is en
deavoring to secure a public building for
Spartanburg costing not less than $75,000,
and also to obtain an appropriation of
$154,000 for the clearing out and deepening
the channels of the Oongaree and Santee
rivers, so ns to obtain six-foot navigation
to Columbia. He believes that he will.
secure boah appropriations, but that it is
probable that neither the public building
nor the river and harbor bill will be se
cured before the short session, which con
venes next December, ns that stems to be
the policy of the Republican managers.
He has already secured $230,000 for con
struction of a lock and dam at Granby,
two miles below the union depot at Colum
bia, anl the work will begin in February.
The second annual session of the present
general assembly is to begin Tuesday
week and on all sides preparations are b'-
ing made in Columbia for the opening of
the forty-day session of the so lons. It is
very generally conceded that the session
will continue till the cons'itu* forty
day limitation is up. A 1 the state offi
cers and the state institutions are ha and at
work putting the fin shing touches to the
several annual reports, but there wifi b?
only n few of them that can be placed on
the desks of the members on the open n?
day of the session. Attorney General
Bellinger and the Secretary of <S*a<e have
their reports about ormn'.ete, the Adju
tant General’s was crmple’ed Friday, and
so was that of the railroad commissioners
There are several cf the oth* rs that can
not be completed until the first day cf the
new year has come and the books have
been closed for the year.
COMPRESS FOR TlfOM \SVILI.E.
Mays Will I*nt l|> n barge and Pow
erful Plant at That Place.
Thomasvllle, Ga., Dec. 31.—S. W. Mays,
the Thomasville cotton buyer and ex
porter, has purchased u new 2,000-ton Webb
cotton compress, which he will erect at
this city and have it ready to the
next crop. Mr. Mays has also tot the con
tract for Kie lumber for the buildings and
coi ten sheds.
The plant will cost $50,000. nnd will be
the largest of its kind on the Plant Sys
tem, making Thomasville a great central
cotton point and drawing many cotton
buyers and cotton handlers here. In
fact, the compress will be the most pow
erful at any interior point in Georgia. It
w il squeeze the bales so small that 100
of them can le put in an average box
ear. whereas with the common compresses
forty or fifty bales will fill a car.
The new press wll have a capacity of
12* bales per hour, and Mr. Mays says
he will compress at least 60.000 bales the
first yeor. His payroll will be SSOO per
week.
H. J. Blalock was run over by a negro
In a buggy yesterday on Jackson street.
He was knocked down and senseless, tfie
wheels running over his head. He is se
riously hurt. The marshal and sheriff
i-hased the driver for three miles, but he
made his escape in the same vehicle that
rnn over Blalock.
Col. W. W. Dews, he author of the dog
1 tw, Is visiting his daughter, Mrs. A. G.
Miller, in Kilty city.
Two Houncm Burned nt Darien.
Darien, Go.. Dec. 31.—Fire last night de
stroyed two dwellings in the central por
tion of the city, occupied by colored peo
ple. The fire was discovered about 10
o'clock and the houses were burned to the
ground in a half hour. Good work on the
part of the tire department and c tisena
saved t'ae Methodist Church and other
valuable property nearby. The burnt
property was owned by Matilda Wilson,
colored, end wos insured for S9OO.
Dnlilouejura New* Notes.
Dahlonega. Ga.. Dec. 31.—The work at
the mines has progressed steadily, moat
of the workmen stopping only one day.
The new building, the Bostwiek Half, is
rapidly nearing completion, and will l>*
ready for occupancy early in January. It
is a handsome bu lding nnd adds much to
the appearance of the campus.
Slart tfis New Year with
Good Resolutions and
EAT WELL.
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, JANUARY 1. 1900.
THE FARM AND THE GARDEN.
M \TTKR.*( OF INTEREST TO %GRI
( I I/I t RIST iID HOI SE WIFE.
So manifold, all-pleasing In their kind,
A l healthful are the employs of rural life,
R* Iterated a? the wheel of t rrw?
Runs round, still ending, ad begin ing
still.
Strength may wield the ponderous spade.
May turn the clod and wheel the comfo t
home;
But elegance, chief grace.the ga den thaws
And most attractive is the fair result
Of thought, the creature of a polish©V
mind.
H* therefore who would see his plants dis
posed
Sightly and in just order, ere h? gives
The beds the trusted treasure of their
seeds,
Forecasts the future whole: that when the
scene
Shall break into its j recon reived display
Each for itself and all as with on© vo ce
Conspiring, may atttst his bright design.
—The Garden.
Tin* Onion in the South.
W. H. IL, St. Simons' Mills, Ga., asks:
Fiist. What is the best onion to plant?
Second. What fertilizer is best for making
a crop and how much to apply to the
acre? Third. How many bushels of onions
can be made on an acre of good ordinary
land?
We doubt if there can be found any
lift ter variety of onion for the Southern
the Bermuda variety. Grant
ing that goo 1 fresh seeds can hx- procuted
t a reasonable price. There are, however,
Mexican or Spanish varieties of onions
that w.U do as well ns the Bermuda. A
\artety known os the Creole Is very gen
eral y grown by truckers about New Or
-1 nns and Galveston. For many years we
1 a\e grown the Italian varieties with great
satisfaction and especially a variety
known as the New Queen, a small, flat
onl n, and another sort called the Giant
Roc a. All seedsmen keep these Italian
♦ n ons, but very few ever have the Ber
muda kind or the Creole. These latter are
only to he had of first class Southern
seedsmen. All the onions we have men
tioned are as easily grown from wed as
a turnip. The only thing is ro get fresh
(hat will grow when sown proper
ly. We find it a difficult matter indeed
to get first class seeds; such seeds, for
instance, where 90 per cent, will grow and
make ti good onion.
After securing good seeds of the right
variety the next consideration is to have
ti e land properly prepared, *lt should b©_
well pulverized and should he made just
as rich as one can possibly afford. There
is not much satisfaction to be had out of
growi-g onions on poor land. In the possi
bili'U© of the crop there is a vast range.
Very poor land may not yield over 25
bushels of salable onions per acre, while
\ery rich land suited specially to onioris
may easily produce 1,030 bushels. More
than I,COO bushels have been produced on
an acre.
In manuring for the crop apply all the
stable or lot matiure broadcast, spreading
it evenly and letting it be as near the
surface as {possible. It is not likely that
you have enough of this kind of manure
to enrich even as much as an acre as it
should be to render possible n crop of 5 or
600 bushels, that is If the land is poor,
such land ns will not make 10 or 12 bushels
of ro:n without manuring. Of course,there
is plenty of land in the South and plenty
right a' out you that will produce 500 bush
els of eniens to the acre just as it stands
if one only knows how to plant and culti
vate the cron. Good seeds, good prepara
tion of the soil and good cultivation are the
three essentials with this crop.
If one knows how ? to dispose of the onion
crop after it is made he should not be
grudge all the manuring and work that
will enable him to make a big cron while
he la nt It. The-se large crops are the
kind that pays. One h.nd better prepare
and enrich one acre so that it will make
500 bushels, possibly 1,000, of onions than
to spread out the manure and work over
several acres, possibly five or six. to pro
duce that many bushels. One ton of av
erage “complete” fertilizer per acre is
not specially liberal fertilizing for so val
uable crop as onions. Two to five tons can
be economically applied if you own the
land to which you apply it. Succeeding
crops will make use of whatever ferti
lizing elements ore left unused by the
onion crop. If you are engaged In grow
ing for sale the vegetable crops you name
and you own the land you can afford to
put on all the fertilizer you can possibly
pay for, and especially if your land is
convenient to n good market, or if you
know how to ship to a distance to good
advantage. There is no satisfaction in at
tempting to grow vegetables on i>oor or
even half way rich soil. Pile on the ma
nure and fertilize/to the utmost limit.
* * * ******
Your questions about potatoes *and cab
bage are not specific, but In following is
sues we will give you the necessary infor
mation how to grow these two vegetables.
In the meantime plow and plow and plow,
and manure, nnd manure, and manure.
Cover Crops.
The experiment stations have been ey
ing various crops to keep thetr fields and
orchards covered during the winter, to
prevent washing and to save the nitro/e-v
or nitrates in the soil that might other
wise be wasted. At the New York sta
tion they found mammoth clover to form
a dens© covering which remained alive nil
winter, and it compared favorab’y with a
mixture of winter vetch and winter lye.
which remained green all win.or and form
ed a perfect mass of vegetation. At Cor
nell station they found European vetch
eown early to make a thick cover by Sep
tember, remaining green and glowing
some time afier frost, and standing two
feet high at the beginning of winter.
When freezing weather came it fell, form
ing a carpet-like cover, nnd by spring this
was so decayed that it could b* easily
plowed under. It should be sown in light
soil last of June or early in July, bu* in
very good soil last of July is not to> late
They also found field peas, sown* the mid
dle of August, remained green after frost
and made a good mulch. Both s a ions
found cow' peas sown the mi idle of Au
gust made good growth, bit they were
killed by frost, the leaves fell riff, aid th?y
gave but little protection in winter. The
field beans resulted much the ? am?i | ni t
the state station had satisfactory remits
where they sowed buckwheat with Cana
da peas or blue peas. Field peas nr©
thought the best cover crop in Nebraska
while cow peas and soja beans did very
well in Connecticut and in many o' th?
Southern states. Crimson cover proved
hardy in New Jersey and Delaware, an 1
cheaper ft? a nitrogenous fertlizer than
stable manure. In Delaware it is la r g ly
grown In peach orchards, but it has no*
proved hardy at Cornell station and other
stations farther north. Where ti Is hardy
cow peas may he grown in summer, an 1
:he clover seed sown in August among the
pea vines. This I? recommended by the
Virginia station. If sown from July 15
to Aug. 1 the rrlmooti clover has done ve-y
well in some parts of New York If sown
earlier it matures nnd dies before winter,
and if gown later it winter kills.
* Method* of n Hutt ->Vnkcr.
Shop require no expensive shelter; a
dry place and protection from storms, an
open shed with a roof flat will turn thi
rain, ia all that is required, says Farm
and Home. Nature has provided th© cov
ering for (heir bodies that protects them
from wind and cold. Sheep will not He
down in mud. and no matter how warm
and commodious the barn, unless clean
ami dry, they will seek n knoll or dry spot
of earth, no matter how fierce the storm.
So, when we say a dry place for them
to stand or lie down, as nature suggests,
that covers the requirement for shelter.
Confining them to inclosures is less diffi
cult than is generally supposed. 1 never
know a sheep to attempt jumping a barbed
wire. It is a common mistake to build
fences too high, and not low and close
enough. I believe a flock of sheep that
have never been taught to climb or creep
can be successfully restrained with four
barbed wires, properly strung and kept
taut. Their wool is such a protection to
tiiem against the viciousness of the barbs
that when taught to creep the building
of impregnable fences becomes a neces
sity.
While sheep require but inexpensive
winter quarters, says H. M. Kirkpatrick
of Wyandotte county. Kansas, in the
Modern Sheep, their protection from the
heat and flies of summer is a matter of
greater importance. This opinion may not
be; generally held, but I consider a cool
shade, a cool, dark place for them in sum
mer, of more value than the most expen
sive barn. If you have a thicket of brush
or wooded sp-a. *--p* Hally if well grain
ed, save it if you contemplate ever rais
ing sheep. The price of one good ewe in
200 will buy bells enough to amply pro
tect that many ewes from the depreda
tions of both dogs and wolves. Up to four
years ago we had more or less trouble
every year from both dogs and wolves,
notwithstanding we live within the shades
of the smoke of a great city. We be’led
50 per cent, of our ewes, later 75 per cent.,
and have never known of any loss or an
attempted attfv-k.
Stagnant water is the best vehicle for
conveying the parasites that infest sheep.
If you have not an abundant supply of
clear, pure water, easy of access for
sheep, we hasten to advise you not to
attempt sheep raising. Low\ marshy or
spouty land is an abomination to the
flrokmaster; but Kansas is so free from
this character of land that the caution
seems uncalled for.
Sheep, ns well as other live stock, love
a greater variety of feed than Riey usu
ally get, but sheep especially are fond of
change and variety, even unto apparent
fickleness. They adapt themselves quick
ly to a change of conditions, and no mat
ter how luxuriant the pasture, they will
leave it daily and frequently <o nip the
sprouts and eat the weeds—in fact, I have
sometimes thought that the more good
grass they eat the more noxious and bitter
weeds they will consume. Thus, by chang
ing them to different fields, by turning
them, especially the lambs, into the corn
fields after you have laid them by, or
Into the clearing when the sprouts are
young and tender, they will thrive and
wax fat; end, unless the size of your farm
is greatly in excess of the of your
flock, two blades of grass will grow whtfe
one grew before, and you will have lo
mark the price of your land up in order
ro keep it. The profits will be, or should
be, 100 per cent., with a fighting chance
for more. The fleece always has paid,
and will now more than pay the cost of
keep.
How to Get W inter
We are often prone to lay to “th© per
versity of nature” things which are large’y
our own fault. We often complain of bad
luck, or calmly accept it without com
plaining. feeling that we must take * the
inevitable.” when the truth is. if we look
about us a little, we might very easily
remedy that which troubles us. Jr ot
en seems to be a hard provision of nature
that our hens should lay plentifully in
summer W'hen eggs bring 10 cents a dozen
and go back on us comp’etely in the win
ter when eggs are worth from 25 to 50
cents a dozen. But the truth is that it is
the fault of neither nature nor the hen-.
The wliole trouble is that we do not get
out hens into the proper condition to lay
eggs. We afe not fair to the hen.
When we send a man to do a piece of
work we are usually careful to g elect a
man who Is in working condirion an i ro
a man who ought to be in the hospi ah
Somehow or other wc* never seem to think
about that with our hons. Anything that
wears feathers and goes on iw'o legs ?eems
good enough to us to lay eggs, no matter
what its condition. Here is where we mis
take No. 1.
Then, when we send n man to do a
piece of work we are apt to see that he
has tools to work with. We are hot like
Pharaoh in demanding bricks without
straw’. But hew about our hens? Do
we not demand eggs without proper fool?
We do that very thing, over ard over
again.
If there Is one fact established in hen
ology it is that the fondness of fowls for
bugs and worms is not on unnatural
taste. The ftnimal matter thus secured
supplies a most important element in the
fowl’s food. And it is largely because the
hens cannot procure this food in winter
that they cease to lay eggs.
Another reason for few eggs in winter
is that the hens are not only not in the
best physical condition, but the food they
get does not contain the proper elements
for egg making, and, as has been hinted,
a hen cannot make bricks without straw.
Food com lining the necessary elements
must be supplied if w’e are to have full
egg baskets.
It is for this reason that the feeding o>f
green cut hones has become so popular
among money-making poultry men and
women. Green cut bone supplies this
needed element as does no other food,
and at a less expense than grain can be
fed. It keep® the fowl’s health, it makes
egg's, and R, in short, an indispensable
food. No person who keeps fowls, l>e
they few or many, can afford to be with
out a green bone cutter.
Flower*! in the If nine.
Few women realize the refining influence
of flowers in the home until they see the
delight with which children “watch it
grow.” Given a broad shelf in a sunny
window, the children will soon have n sau
cer garden that will flourish free of ex
panse all winter. The knowledge demand
ed of the lit lie gardeners is very simple.
Gentle heat and moisture cause fresh
seeds to germinate, during which process
they require dnrkne-s. When sprouted, in
troduce to the light by degrees, and keep
constantly watered, but net wot.
In a deep china plate, place n layer of
cot*on wadding cut to fit. Soak with warm
water and sprinkle with kernels of fresh
corn, raw peanut*, dried peas or even
orange sods. A dozen acorns will soon be
n forest fit for the fairies. An onion, a
sweet potato or a turnip will thrive in a
wide mouthed botllc filled to the brim. A
sponge dripping with warm water and
sown wl'h Il3xs ed will soon form a ball
of green.
Moneywort only asks a pretty vase fill
ed with pebb'es nnd water. Nasturtium*
and morning-glory seeds kept for a day
in a cup of warm water and then planted
In the deep saucer of a flower pot will
flourish. A parsley plant in a shallow pot
is as o-nemental ns It is useful. In a shai
!< w 1 ox sow watercress for * he family use.
Geranium slips take root quirkly in wa
ter. Cut holes in a piece of cardboard fitted
to cover H e mouth of n glass. Support the
slips in this frame and watch the rootlets
glow.
Mo t children have se< n the Chinese Lily
growing in i*s bed of pebbles. Better still
is the hyacinth bulb set in the mouth of
a gla?s Jar full of water. Soon the waxen
roots will almost fill the Jar; then the llow
i r blocms.
(11l 111 UN In th( .Moll.
Investigation© of experiment stations
aid of farmers seeking to find the cause
of soil depletion have brought to fight a
vqr * important and interesting fact con*
ceri ing this question, positive t knowledge
hav ng been acquired through careful ek
peri mentation and investigation that the
seri> us loss of humus and decline in the
ferti ity of the soil as a sequence ore duo
to c uses which it is possible for every
farm r to remove to at least a large ex
tent, -ays the Farmers’ Voice.
As illustrating wtiat is meant by the
term ‘minus we may mention an island
sand nr, which formed In a river and
each year took on additional verdue and
plant growth until it was a perfect forest;
in about twenty years or more the soil
of that island was as fertile and produc
tive as tny soil could be, particularly in
humus, that all essential element of fer
ti} ty which decomposed vegetable and
animal matter form. For instance, the
leaves c-f the trees and the grass when
partially decomposed are humus, and the
leaf crop dropping to the ground every
year in ime will fill the soil with BiD
element. Old. rotten or partially decom
posed log . rails, stumps, etc., are humus,
and som farmers will go as far with a
team and vagon to get a load of this stuff
as if it ware high-grade barnyard or hen
house mar ure.
There er- soils that need humus more
than they need other fertilizing material,
and there are soils which have a sufficient
percentage for several crops yet ro re
grown; the question, therefore, which con
fronts the farmer is w’hat kind of soil
needs or do s not need humus? Ordin
arily, prair lands for the first ten or
twelve year after breaking contain a
good supply of this substance, and swam
py. peaty and muck soils are seldom de
ficient in humus. A sandy soil is likely to
lose humus rapidly and soon be In serious
need unless manures, farm manures
and other humus-forming materials are
applied, which have the power, when de
composed, of ombining with the potash
and phosphoric acid of the soil, rendering
them available by plants. A naked soil
exposed to the oxygen of the air loses
humus very rapidly; fluids from which
the grass has been burned, plow’ed under
or otherwise removed suffer considerable
loss of humus, a? it is this material which
makes humus.
Any system of cultivation which leaves
the soil hare or the growing of a crop
which returns no residue to the soil are
well-known causes of the loss of humus,
w h ch is not only the principal source of
nitrogen in the soil, but the means of ren
dering. to a large extent, the phosphoric
acid and potash content of the soil avail
able for plon-t us*-. It has been noted
by the stations w’hieh have experimented
along this line that the retentive power of
the soil for water and fertilizers declines
in proportion to th-- loss of humus, and
that the more humus the soil contains th©
greater its drought-resisting power.
For the farmer to make a practical ap
plication of the advice given by the sta
tions concerning humus is Just what th©
soil conditions on many farms require in
order to make them profitable, and any
farmer wdll find he has ample material to
•d> this with. All kinds of green ma
nures—with a systematic rotation of crops
In which grasses, preferably clover, and
cow pees and soy beans form important
factors—will furnish this great plant balm
in abundance.
One of the things not to do if It is de
sired to keep the soil replete with humus
is to burn off the grass or leave the fields
hare through winter. This statement re
fers to fall plowing for corn. In order
to avoid loss of humus by fall plowing,
rye should be sown, wh ch makes splen
did pasture for calves and other stock
throughout the winter, besides furnishing
a covering for the soil.
Cattle Raising In (he South.
William La Croix, writing in the South
ern Planter Journal, say cattle raising
in the South has, practically speaking,
been worse neglected than anywhere in
the Un'ied States, and that, too, in the
very face of the fact that it has been
a very necessary, and in s ime instances,
profitable part of our agric iltural life. I
say necessary, for to properly farm in
this section, or any other p irtion of the
South, that is, to do so successfully, it
has always been strictly neossary to own
or raise some cattle to consume our forage
or pasture crops, particularly uch of these
crops as have not been easily gathered
or housed, and where the | asturing of
cattle was decidedly more to ihe farmer's
advantage than gathering would have
been.
While it is true the South ha from time
immemorial raised a certain class of cat
tle. and in instances in good numbers, still
it is no less a fact thal In the raising and
breeding of these cattle our Southern
farmer has been wofully negligent, and in
stead of producing something that would
demand Ihe respect and admiration of the
lovers of animal life, and last. Put not
least, bring good, strong, profitable prices
when ottered on the different markets of
the country, he has gone along all these
years and raised the other kind.
Raising of cattle In the South or any
other country for that matter, to be suc
cessful and profitable must be done strict
ly, according to good business principles,
the acumen of a live, energetic business
man must be always displayed just aa
much so as in any of our large commer
cial houses. And not only (hi se traits
are necessary, but those showing a decided
love of nature and animal life, the patient
care and attention, the watching of Ihe
calf from the very time of its birth to the
time it Is ready for market, are just as
essential as those of the agriculturist
watching, protecting and caring for the
growth of his plants.
The lack of proper attention o'n the part
of our Southerners in the growing nd
raising of cattle has cost this fair South
land of ours millions of dollars. It has cost
us dollars and cents In tribute to other
more fortunate and practical sect'ons th in
there ever was any necessity of. and only
time itself has been able to awaken some
of our more energetic farmers to the noe is
of the hour, and instead cf continuing r e
old slip-shod, root hog or and e method ,
some of them at least are endeavoring t ’,
turn over anew leaf and put the cattle in
tereet of the South where it rightfully be
longs.
People of the South as a rule have utter
ly failed to observe anything like business
ideas in the raising cf cattle, and while
this Is a very broad assertion, still I could
even add and strictly be within the hounds
of propriety, that they never even exercis
ed sensible methods in their treatment of
their cattle, the most profitable an! lova
ble part of farm life, and events of the
past, prove it against them.
Instead of looking up, trying to reach a
higher plane and commercially endeavor
ing to build up our bank accounts and our
reputations as a cattle producing country,
we have done just the reverse—looked
downward as it were and bred to rums,
scrubs and Jerseys, leaving them to shift
for themselves In some old Stubblefield or
wornout pasture, and after about a year
to three years of this kind of treatment,
we marketed them and got what? The
lowest possible price of the markets and
the name of raising undersize!, Jersey
ized runts, something only suitable fir
cheap beef or common Stockers.
If the South were unsuited for the rais
ing of the very last of cnttle, If we did
nol have the facilities for undoubted suc
cess along tlu sa lines, (here would be
some excuse for our slip shod methods If
our people were totally Ignorant of things
lp general there would also he some ex
eus •, but on the contrary our Southern
farmer is just os a live. Just as up-to
date as ihose of any other section, and the
only ihing you can charge him with is
that In his hurry to grow cotton—lots of
cotton—he has simply neglected to Im
prove the m In chance, the chance that
would have kept his head above water at
nil times, no matter how the cotton mar
ket was manipulated. The old adage "a
tr ip had better have more strings than one
to his bow," tievir was more aptly proven
"THE GIFT OF HEALING.”
PEOPLE SAY DR. HATHAWAY
HAS THIS POWER.
Ilia llro.lirr Phyalolnim, However, Say
It la Hia Moat Thorotwli Sclentltle
Tralulnv in Collette anil Hoapftnl,
Coinbinrtl ~'itli Ilia Enorn-Otia
Practice, which Knablea Him to
Perform Such Wonderful Cure. —
Free Trial Treatment.
A record of more than twenty yeirs of
invariable success has made Dr. J. New
ton Hathaway
the Ij-opleut' AV.itfca afcs; p
bid also •" . *
that It Is bis ——
thorough scientific training:, together with
the largest praclice enjoyed by any spec
ialist in the country, which have enab ed
him to bring about such seemingly marvel
ous cures.
Undoubtedly Dr. Hathaway was born
with that pecliarly keen insight which en
ables him to diagnose diseased conditions
with absolute accuracy; but it is also none
the less true that his most thorough col
lege training and hospital practice had
very much to do toward making the Great
Physician.
There is no town or city and hardly a
hamlet in this whole country wheie there
are not those who daily bless Dr. Hatha
way either for a life saved or at least tor
rescue from some form of painful or seri
ous malady, from those dread disea-es of
the blood, nerves, lungs, etc., through all
manner of minor but distressing com
plaints which make life such a misery for
so many men and women.
“ UR. HATHAWAY & COT/
The greatest specialist of this
country in the treatment of
Chronic and Private Diseases of
Men and Women can be con -ul
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J. SEWTOJi HATHAWAY. M. D.
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Office hours—9 to 12 m., 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.
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than in the present condition of the South
ern cattle industry.
The South has gone along year after
year growing end producing an undersiz
ed runt called cattle, without any atten
tion whatever to the economic or sensible
lines of breeding and growing of Ujese an
imals, and that too in the very face of the
tons of litersiure published showing us
that we were wrong, that to become pros
perous and known as a cattle raising conn,
(ry we must do as they do in other places,
breed up, treat the animal with care and
common sense and that animal would then
grow Into dollars and cents, remunerating
us for our foresight and showing to the
world what we could do.
I have heard some people say that the
Southern farmer has not been in a posi
tion financially or otherwise, to raise good
cattle, which is the veriest rot and noh
sense and the amount or numbers of cat
tle. or rather runts, raised by the South
ern farmer is S refutation of this nonsen- '
sical statement, for any man or set of ;
men of ordinary intelligence will say to ,
you and rightfully, too, that it is Just as
easy to raise the good animal, and if any
thing cheaper In the end, as it is to raise
the scrub. The good one eats as a rule
not any more than the runt, and in feed- j
ing or grazing the good one properly, the
same amount of feed or grazing will pay
much better than in the runt. Of course
this may be hard for some people to see, !
but when it is a known and tested fact
that the good animal will always take on
more flesh and fat and grow faster and
sell better than his brother, the runt.
is easy to see which is the cheaper to feed
and raise. With all these things before
us where Is the claim justifiable that we
cannot do as well here in growing cattle
as elsewhere?
Some people say that the'Southern farm
er has not sufficient means to raise the
best of cattle, and I say again that this Is
n poor assertion, and that statistics will
not hear out any such statements, partic
ularly when one considers that other
farming seolions have had their vicissi
tudes as well as ours, and yet have been
able to raise good cattle, in fact the top
notchers. and are doing so yet to their
satisfaction and profit.
MAGAZINES,
Continued from Seventh Page.)
ter-mind of the Mormon Church. It is a
graphic article, ond contains considerable
inside history of Mormonism's zigzag pol
itics. We have almost a forecast of the
future In a very original article by Mary
Holland Kinkaid on the "Women Legisla
tors of Colorado." A strong plea is put
up for extension of “The Trade of the
Mississippi," by Theodore Dreiser. The
most impor'anl crop in the world, accord
ing to John Gilmer Speed, is "Cotton,”
which contention he proves in a most read
able manner. Smith & Street, 238 Wil
liam street, New York.
The important Van Dyke Exhibition at
Antwerp is fully criticised and described
in a paper which the Living Age of Dec.
20 reprints from the Nineteenth Century.
Mr. Claude Fhilllps, the author of the pa
per, wrl es in a manner to interest all lov
ers and students of art. Readers of the
Living Age are pr ml ed anew shori story
ly felma Ligerlof In the number for Jan.
13. It Is called "Our Lord and Saint Te
ter.”
The richest woman In the world has tak
■ n up her pen to contribute to the Wo
i tan’s Home Companion. In the February
lumber of that magazine Mrs, Hetty
f reen will discuss "The Benefits of a Bus.
it ess Training for Women," writing from
Lr own wide experience as n woman of
affairs and a successful fins" 'or.
The Coming Age for Jai. aiv has a
splendid table of contents. VI.• original
essiys are written by some of the best
known men in their respective profes
siot s.
Gathering at Valdosta.
Vatlostn, Ga„ Dec. 31.—'The Christmas
seas ,n has been notable here for mnny so
cial attractions. One of the happiest
crowds in the city was a party of stags,
comiosed of "old timers" who held a re
union here and have been having gay
even.ngs ever since. The parly was com
pose I of Messrs. John R. Young, of Sa
vanrah, Dr. A. L. Smith of Cleburne,
Ttx, Den W. Rounlree of Atlanta, 8. L.
Varvdoe of Florida, and a number of
Vnl loatans. They had an enjoyable week.
—Mr. Northslde:. Who wns that friend
you had with you this afternoon?
Mr. Shadyslde: That wasn't a friend.
T 1 at was my fatherdn-law,—Rittsbury
Cl ronlcle-Tclegraph.
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