Newspaper Page Text
! TIMELY TALKS WITH FARMERS
Conducted By C. H. Jordan
♦ Subscribers are requested to ad- ♦
+ dress all Inquiries for Information ♦
♦ on subjects relating to the farm. ♦
♦ field, garden and poultry to the ♦
♦ Agricultural Editor. AU Inquiries ♦
♦ will receive prompt and careful at- ♦
♦ tention. No Inquiries answered by ♦
♦ mail. Please address Harris Jordan. 4*
4» Agricultural Editor. Monticello. Ga. +
♦ ♦
»•»»♦♦♦■! I' $ i H4I I I > I t 44 4 »■»♦»
THE PACKING BUSINESS.
Forty-fire years ago the south produced
and furnished to the trade of this country
• about one-third of all the cattle, hogs and
sheep required for consumption in the
United States and for export to other
countries. Since that time we have grad
ually lost in their livestock industry, sur
rounding It to other sections of the union,
ually lost In the Uvestock industry, sur
largely dependent upon outside sources
for all classes of food products. This
was done too. in face of the fact that no
other portion of the United States pos
sessed superior advantages for raising
cattle and hogs. Within the past few
‘ the farmers of the south have been
up to the position of affairs and
are now ?ngagc<iln effecting a change for
t i.-e better which if persistently adhered
’ to, will at least place the south within
the next decade or two upon a self-sus
taining basis.
The greatest Incentive to the develop
ment of any farm product is a good mar
ket at uome. That is the attractive feat
ure in the production of cotton. A bale
of cotton can be carried on the streets of
any town in Georgia and sold in five
minutes for the cash, and for about as
good prices in one place as another. We
have no such markets for cattle and
hogs, there being no extensive packing
houses at different points in the state,
which forces the seller of cattle to ship
a long way off and depend upon a distant
market which is always unsatisfactory.
As the business of cattle and hog raising
grows and broadens out however, there
can be no doubt us to the location of
packing houses in our midst and the
development of other needed facilities for
the better handling of this line of busi
ness.
A Chicago Industry.
During my recent trip through the
northwest. 1 stopped over at Chicago for
a couple of days and took advantage of
the opportunity to inspect the big cattle
yards there and to make a personal in
spection bf the immense packing estab-
Zishment of Swift A Co. The stockyards,
located in close proximity to the packing
or slaughter houses, cover many acres of
land, whereon are constructed hundreds of
pens or lots which hold the hundreds of
thousands of head of cattle, hogs and
sheep shipped into Chicago for sale by
the producers. Immense barns are erected
for holding the sheep, as they are not
allowed to remain outside and take the
weather like the cattle and hogs. Hogs
have been recently selling at 7 cents per
pound on foot delivered at Chicago and
cattle and sheep in proportion. If the
prices of beef, mutton, pork and lard have
been advanced to quite high figures dur
ing the past few months the western farm
ers have fully enjoyed a goodly portion
of the advance. Hogs selling in the stock
yards at 7 cents per pound gross must of
necessity come high to the consumer after
passing through the hands of the packer,
the Joober, the railroads and the retail
merchants each of whom must have a
commission above the cost of handling.
Swift A Co. extended to me every cour
tesy and facility for the inspection of the
various departments of their mammoth
establishment. I went first through their
slaughter department, where I saw a large
force of men engaged in butchering and
cleaning 24# steers every hour during the
day. week in and week out. I visited their
establishment on Saturday afternoon, and
the close of the week's work showed that
aside from the average of 240 steers butch
ered per hour, making a total of nearly
15.000 for the week. Swift & Co. had also
slaughtered during the six days just
passed 3.9C0 head of sheep and 4.800 head
of hogs. This Is an enormous business to
be done under one roof within the short
spac, of a jsreek. particularly when we
consider that every particle of these an
imals is utilised in one way or another
from hoof to tip of horns. I was informed
that the only part about a hog which
they failed to utilise was the dying squeal
of the pig as he swung along over the
butcher's head. With one of Edison's
phonographs this. too. might be preserved
and used to entertain listening ears in
future generations. Swift & Co. did $170.-
000.000 worth of business at this packing
establishment during the past 12 months,
which is more money than a man could
count tn a thousand years if he could
keep at it regularly every hour in the
day during that time. The office force
alone, which looks after the correspond
ence of the business, numbers more than
7» young men, all engaged on one floor
>f the building.
In order that no time shall be lost going
out to meals the flrm keeps up a splendid
restaurant under the same roof where
these thousands of employes are at work,
where a first-class breakfast or dinner
can be had for 25 cents. A long lunch
counter is also adjacent where coffee and
sandwiches can be served at a lesser
’ price.
Storage Departments.
Tn the large cold storage departments I
found in the first one the carcasses of
, 3,000 steers, cut in halves and swung up.
Steers that would dress from 1.000 to 1.200
pounds each, the finest, best beef *n the
world. In other cold storage apartments
I noticed thousands of mutton and hogs—
PURE RYEfiWHISKEY
4f =u ll for $ »20
Quarts LX sgfaXfe TT
Direct from Distilier to Consumer. ZjILLuL Exprew Charges Prepaid,
Our entire product is sold I A Our Distillery was estab-
dlrect to consumers, thus Mshed in 1866. We have
avoiding middlemen's profits enjoyed 33 years continual
... w growth until we now have
and adulteration. If you want Sne hundred and sixty-five
pure Whiskey, our offer will HAY Nt fO thousand customers through
interest you. • Jc.n-oJ) out the United States who are
• using Hay tier’s Whiskey,
We wii send four full quart YtTv which is an evidence of true
bottles of Ha> tier’s Seven- zlk merit. We give you absolute-
Year-Oid Double Copper Dis- fY b P« r ® Whiskey at the lowest
tilled RveWhiskev for 53.20, possible cost. Such Whiskey
Express Prepaid. We ship «s we offer for $3.20 cannot
in plain packages-no marks purchased elsewhere for
to indicate contents. When less than
--- te —-t z. 'XCL - --reS’Sw Seierences—State Hoti Bank,
you get it and test it, if it f B St. lowm.Third Sat'l Bank, Dayton,
is not satisfactory return it i| ».j£f HE KI » B or an> of the Hpreas Companies,
at our expense and we will K*MS?ew M.'x"
WRITE TO NEAREST ADDRESS.
THE HAYNER DISTILLING
mutton that would dress 100 pounds and
literally covered with fat. These animals
never stop moving hardly from the time
they are butchered until they are cleaned
and hung up in the cold storage.
Running alongside the front of the cold
storage apartments are tracks on which
are placed the cold storage cars, and the
beef, mutton and pork are, after the ani
mal heat has been frozen out. transferred
to these cars and shipped out to all parts
. of the country for supplying the trade.
I One large department is devoted entirely
to cleansing the entrails of animals
slaughtered and into which is put the
sausage meat. Small, medium and large
i sausages are there in thousands and
I thousands of pounds. It was in this de
. partment that I came up on a group of
l government inspectors, dressed In neat
white uniforms, inspecting the meat and
I seeing whether it was in proper order
for the consumers to trust in their stom
achs. If this inspection is properly car
ried on. these packing firms cannot ship
out to the world impure meats.
The soap department of Swift & Co.
■ covers several floors of a mammoth build
ing and the visitor can see all kinds of
soap in process of manufacture, from the
cheap laundry kind to the finest variety
of toilet soaps. A large number of girls
are employed in the sausage and soap
departments. The soap is made principal
ly from tallow, low grade entrail fats and
South Georgia rosin. I noticed several
thousand barrels of South Georgia rosin
which was being used in the manufacture
of cheap soaps. The soap when cooked is
cooked down in receptacles holding sever
al hundred pounds in one block. These
blocks are then cut with machinery, and
the finer grades are wrapped and packed
into boxes for shipment. Swift & Co.
have, perhaps, the largest glue factory
in the world, and this glue is made from
the pieces of bone and joints cut from
the animals in preparing the meat for
market.
Fertilizer Department.
In the fertiliser department of thia firm
there is manufactured annually about 75,-
000 tons of fertilisers, made out of the
blood, tankage and bone of the animals
slaughtered. Swift & Co. use cotton
sacks principally for th* guano they man
ufacture and told me they preferred cot
ton bags to jute.
The bones after being steamed are
ground up, treated with phosphoric acid
i in order to make qulcaly available the
phosphate contained in the bone. Ine
blood is dried and ground up, which with
takage gives them the source from which
they derive the ammonia in their goods.
It is an establishment worth the time of
any man to visit and inspect, yet this is
but one of many other packing houses lo
cated at various points in the northwest.
We need similar establishments in the
south, and when the business of raising
cattle, hogs and sheep becomes more gen
eral the investment of capital in south
ern packing houses will be a reality. We
have all the facilities for the live stock in
dustry in the south and there is no coun
try in the world that could make the
business more profitable.
HARVIE JORDAN.
INQUIRY DEPARTMENT.
W. C. N.. Hamilton, Ga.—Please
me where I can get the pure black winter
oats for fall sowing.
Answer—Write to H. G. Hastings & Co.,
of Atlanta, and if they do not keep them
in stock, request thet they order them for
you.
R. A. P-. China Hill. Ga.—Please give
me the address of some one who has thor
oughbred game chickens or eggs for sale.
Answer—Write to Messrs Ginn & Co., of
Royston. Ga.
W. C. H.. Bronco. Ga.—l am in the fruit
business to some extent, and desire to go
into it on a larger scale, My lands are
red. with a deposit of iron running
through them which is regarded as fine for
peaches. Please inform me where I can
secure a good fruit journal, as I desire
a jountal devoted intlrely to fruit culture.
Answer—Address the Southern Fruit
Grower. Chattanooga, Tenn., and West
ern Fruit Grower. St. Joseph. Mo.
R. P. R.. Cumming. Ga.—Please inform
me through The Journal whether I can
buy Bermuda grass seed or not. and if so,
where will I find them, and what will be
the cost? Also, when and how to sow and
how many pounds to put per acre.
Answer—Bermuda grass seed may be
purchased at about $1 per bushel from
some of the good seed houses in Atlanta,
Augusta or other cities, but the seed are
unreliable, and I never advise their use
to obtain a sod. You had best get the
Bermuda rootlets and next April or May
drop pieces in furrows three feet wide
and two feet apart. Cover lightly, and by
raising a crop of peas planted in the mid
dles the first year, you can soon obtain a
perfect sod. You can secure the rootlets
easy and at small cost. The rootlets should
be chopped up into lengths about two
inches long, and one piece dropped in a
place. I have considerable Bermuda on
my place, and if you will write me next
spring I will send you any quantity
sired at the cost of gathering and **.-.p
ping. It will not be safe to plant it in the
fan.
EXCHANGES.
Fall Plowing.
Exchange.
Now is a gooc. time to plow land for
spring crops. Turn it up and leave it
rough. It will freeze a few times, and
that will break it up nicely and a disk
harrow at the proper time will smooth it
down and level it nicely. By leaving the
plowed ground rough, as suggested, more
[surface is exposed to frost and the more
perfectly it will pulverise ’ afterward.
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1901.
Every farmer knows the advantage of a
thoroughly pulverised soil over the same
soil in a lumpy condition.
Value of Investigation.
Exchange.
Many farmers make a practice of pok
ing fun at the scientific farming done at
the experimental stations. They call it
"book farming." "whito shirt farming"
and other equally significant names to in
dicate that it is not practical. They think
that a man who has been brought up on
the farm knows all there is to be known
about the business, and that no man who
goes into the business on such a small
scale as does the professor at the experi
ment farm can tell them things they do
not know about their work. It is human
that it should be so. The Chinese look
upon the attempts of the western world
to •‘civilise" them in the same light, but
that does not alter the facts that in each
case the parties are laboring under a
mistake. There is no Industry under the
sun that is more complicated than farm
ing. The diversity of interests, the num
ber of different things that the farmer is
expected to know, the number of "irons
that he has in the fire" call for a vast
amount of knowledge on his part if he
would make no mistakes. It is true that
a man may farm all his life, make a liv
ing and die respectable without having
fitted himself by special education for his
business. All that signifies is that he has
chosen a very lucrative occupation or he
would have become bankrupt. It does
not show that he would not have made
more money if he had been better fitted to
conduct the work he had before him.
The fact that some farmers have better
success with their cattle than others is
not a piece of luck, but because of better
management. It may be that the suc
cessful feeder and breeder did not learn
his methods in an agricultural school,
but it does show that he had better meth
ods than the man who raised nothing but
scrubs. The man who always raises a
good crop, year after year, while his
neighbors, with just as good soil and
other things equal, fails evpry two or
three years to raise half a crop and nev
er raises as good yields as the good farm
er. may not be a college graduate, but he
has methods that the others haven’t
learned. These things show that there
are better methods than the ordinary
farmer uses.
IN CASE OF ACCIDENT.
Accidents will happen. Mother strains her
back lifting a sofa. Father is hurt in the
shop. Children are forever falling and bniis
ing themselves. There is no preventng these
things, but their worst consequences are
averted with Perry Davis' Painkiller. No
other remedy approaches It for the relief of
sore strained muscles. There is but one Pain
killer, Perry Davis'.
RUINED BY LOVE.
For Shame of Dual Life Man and Wo
man Resort to Poison.
CHICAGO, Oct. 21— While grieving over
the dual life she was leading with Dr.
Orville Burnette, a prominent Chicago
dentist, Mrs. Charlotte Nichol, wife of
W.’ L. Nichol, Jr., commercial agent of
the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis
railway, committed suicide yesterday in
the Marlborough hotel. Burnettte also
tried to end his life at the same time,
but was unsuccessful.
The two were found in their rooms,
both stretched across the bed, the woman
dead and Burnette with his neck pierced
with a hat pin, a bottle of morphine
clutched in his hand, and the gas turn
ed on from every one of the six jets in
the suite. Dr. is still alive and
has been arrested. •
In one of the rooms was found a note
written by the woman which told of her
reason for the act. She said:
“To Whom It May Concern: I did it
because I loved him better than anything
on earth and he loved me and we could
not be separated. Goodby.
“CHARLOTTE.”
The note, supplemented with a state
ment made by Dr. Burnette, tells of the
tragedy enacted by the two lovers.
According to the dentist's story he met
Mrs. Nichol while yet a young girl in
Nashville, Tenn., and fell in love with
ner. Burnette moved to Chicago and mar
ried several years afterwards.
“Our love was still strong for each oth
er,” said Burnette, “and she moved to
Chicago to be near me. We were together
nearly every day,. There seemed, howev
er, to a constant remorse on her part on
account of the dual life she was leading.
Saturday we went down town together
and after having several drinks she pro
posed suicide to me, and we went to the
Marlborough hotel and she produced a
bottle of morphine she had hidden in her
dress. She agfiin asked me to die with
her and I consented. Then she swallowed
nearly all the contents of the bettie and
handed it to me. I drank what was left,
but believing that I had not taken
enough to prove fatal I tried to end my
life by sticking the hat pin into my neck.
I saw this was also going to be a fail
ure. so I turned all the gas on and lay
down .to die.”
Burnette stated that his wife knew
nothing of his attachment for Mrs. Nichol.
A policeman who was sent to the Nichol
home at 6518 Minerva avenue last night
to notify Mr. Nichol of the tragedy, found
no one there but the two little children of
the dead woman, one boy of eight and
the other a little girl of four years. They
told the policeman that their father was
out looking for their mother, who had
been missing all last night and today.
OLD VETERAN DR oTFdEAP.
W. C. Bannon Goes to Macon to Re
union and Dies Suddenly.
MACON, Oct. 21.—Mr. W. C. Bannon, an
uncle of the late J. C. Bannon, fell dead in
the home of Mrs. J. C. Bannon on High
street, this city, yesterday at 1:30 o’clock.
He and his sixteen-year-old daughter had
come from Hudson. N. Y., to attend the
reunion of the Confederate veterans here
on the 23d and 24th. He had just been to
church and returning found several of
his old comrades awaiting him at the resi
dence. He talked with them for a time,
seemingly in the best of health and spirits.
When they left he took out his watch and
remarked that it was just 1:30. He started
into the doorway and without warning fell
forward. He was dead within less than
two minutes. His widow and eldest son
were notified by telegraph at once and the
son will be here tonight to make arrange
ments for the funeral. It is thought the
remains will be sent to Hudson, N. Y., for
Interment.
Mr. Bannon was sergeant major in the
Twelfth Georgia regiment at the close of
the war. He enlisted in company H of
that regiment at Marshallville when he
was a sixteen-year-old boy. He was at
that time living with a relative, Mr. Newt
Johnson. He rose rapidly in the esteem of
his superior officers and was especially
beloved by his captain, Mr. Oliver F.
Evans, of Macon.
He was several times wounded while
campaigning with the army of Northern
Virginia and was at one time taken pris
oner and kept in Port Lookout barracks.
After the war Mr. Bannon went to New
York and married. He has reared an in
teresting family of children.
Uncle Lon Livingston is now trying to
select the chaplain for the new Federal
prison. It Is well for an expert like Uncle
Lon to have a hand in these little mat
ters.
Our Best Offer.
TWO LOVELY PICTURES FREE I
rr | ~~—
• mW” 1
M -
7
ilii
every new subscriber who will send us $ i a
1 for one year’s subscription to the Semi-
Weekly Journal we will send post paid one
picture of our martyred President and one of
Mrs. McKinley; renewals to count the same as
new subscribers. *
The pictures are mounted on black velour
mats 11x14 inches and are beauties.
Now is the time to get two good pictures free.
Send at once before the supply gives out.
Address
The Journal,
Atlanta, Ga.
I THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. I
The great twice-a-week weekly, printed on Monday yp
® and Thursday of each week, presents the following list V’
of premiums to subscribers. w
Subscribe now and make your selection of a pre
uk mium so we can begin your subscription to the paper
this month. X
Rand, HcNallay & Co’s. Atlas of the World. Two
Yv descriptive pages and one page devoted to the map of w
vn each state and country, with THE SEMI-WEEKLY one
® year only $1.50. Atlas alone SI.OO.
Grt Rand, McNallay & Co’s. Map of Georgia on one side
divided into counties with index of each town and city yk
with the population, and on the other side the flap of
W the United States with the 1900 census and population
I of each state and principal city, also of all foreign pos- Wo
sessions. This map given free with a year’s subscrip
tion t® THE SEMI-WEEKLY. Flap alone 50c.
■ .q,.. -
Two elegant Pictures, one of the late President rA
McKinley and the other of Mrs. McKinley given free
with one year’s subscription. » ®
0 I $
The five Vaseline Toilet Articles manufactured by Mg
the celebrated firm of Chesebrough Manufacturing Co , ®
of New York City, and THE SEMI-WEEKLY one year
only SI.OO.
§ 0
THE SEMI-WEEKLY and Munsey’s Magazine one @
year $1.85, ®
THE SEMI-WEEKLY and Thrice-a-Week New
York World one year $1.50. m
THE SEMI-WEEKLY and McClure’s Magazine one
year SI.BO,
THE SEMI-WEEKLY and Rural New Yorker one
|. y e.r $1 ,5. _ o _, I
Any of the following papers with our SEMI
gk WEEKLY one year without extra cost:
American Swinherd, of The American Agricul.
Chicago, 111. turist, of New York City. ®
® The Home and Farm, of ®
® Louisville. Ky. The Commercial Poul- vg
The Gentlewoman, of try, of Chicago, 111. V
New York City. g
• Conkey Home Journal,
Tsk Tri-State Farmer, of 3
w Chattanooga, Tenn. of Chicago, 111.
Now is the time to subscribe to THE SEMI-WEEK
LY JOURNAL, making your selection and sending SI.OO
to get two papers for the price of one. rA
By special arrangements and advertisting, we are
W enabled fora short time to give you the low rates for V
® such valuable reading matter. Upon application a
sample copy of each paper will be sent you free.
For $1.40 we will send THE SEMI-WEEKLY one
A* year and any one of the papers offered with THE SEMI-
S? WEEKLY at SI.OO, and the Vaseline Toilet Articles.
V? This is the offer of the day and you should take advan- V
tage of it at once. W
® w
WILL FIGHT FEDERAL RING.
Negroes of North Carolina to Wage
War on Pritchard.
CHARLOTTE, N. C„ Oct. 21.—The ac
tion of President Roosevelt in appoint
ing a Democrat to a judgeship in Ala
bama was quite a shock to the white Re
publicans in North Carolina but that will
not have as bad effect as the entertain
ment of Booker T. Washington at dinner,
if the story which comes from Releigh
regarding the ousting of the negro in this
state is true. A special contributor writes
The Observer as follows regarding the
passing of the colored brother in Tar Heel
Republican circles:
It has Anally leaked out, although it*
was attempted to be kept a secret, that
Pritchard and his federal ring served no
tice at Greensboro on Col. James H.
Young and John C. Dancy that all the
negroes now in office Jn this state must
get out immediately, before their term
ends. Dancy has notified Pritchard that
he will not ask for a re-appointment and
Dancy Is promised something equally as
good In Washington. Vica, the negro
postmaster at Wilson, has nine months
yet to serve and tie has been told that he
must resign very soon* Deaton, a clerk
in Collector Duncan's office, told Dr.
Shepherd, colored, one of Duncan’s clerkfe.
that it was m tended that Shepherd and
Col. James H. Young shoud retire from
Duncan’s office and be provided for in
Washington. If Pritchard and his ring
can keep control it is intended that no
negro shall be a delegate from this state
to .the national convention in 1904. The
negroes fully understand the situation and
they are organizing every day, and they
intend to make a desperate fight next
year to bring up delegates to the state
convention against Pritchard. The dis
crimination against the negroes because
they are negroes by Pritchard and his
ring Is fully equal to and as intense as
ever proceeded from the Democrats. The
only question now bothering Pritchard is
how to arrange the precinct primaries
next year so as to exclude the negroes.
The negroes expect to be led *n tneir at
tack on Pritchard and his ring by Russell,
Mott, Lusk, Cobb, Cook, Harris and other
white Republicans Who are opposed to
the federal ring; and if Pritchard should
succeed in packing the state convention
next year with a majority of delegates
composed of his officeholders, the oppo
sition will bolt then and there and then
set up another state organization and
fight it out on this line if it takes ten
years to down the ring.
Note premium list in this Issue,
make your selection and subscribe at
once.
| Horticultural Topics I
Conducted By P. J. Berckmans
♦ Inquiries upon subjects relating ♦
♦ to Horticulture are invited and an- +
+ swers will be given, whenever pos- ♦
•fr stble, through the columns of the ♦
♦ Semi-Weekly Journal. Insertion ♦
♦ will also be given to all communi- ♦
•fr cations of general Interest and free ♦
♦ from animus. The opinions there- ♦
♦ in expressed are in every instance ♦
those of the writers and not our ♦
+ own. Address all communications +
♦ to The Semi-Weekly Journal. At- ♦
4* lanta. Ga. 4*
®4444-4444 »♦»»♦♦♦ 11114 4 »♦♦♦
Camellia Japonica.
In reviewing the many horticultural
books where the camellia Is mentioned,
cultural directions are given only for
greenhouse purposes, which lead many
persons to infer that these beautiful
plants can only be grown under glass.
Consequently we do not see as great an
abundance in our gardens as could be
grown were more general Information
given as to their adaptation to open
ground culture throughout a large area
of the south. Those who have visited the
magnolia gardens on the Ashley river 18
miles from Charleston, have seen what is
unquestionably the most favorable spot
in the southern states where these admir
able plants have attained the greatest per
fection, and where the largest number of
varieties are brought together. The wealth
of flowers produced during January to
March is marvelous, and the visitor car
ries with him a recollection of a wonder
fully beautiful flowery scene. Here are
found plants from a small size to enor
mous bushes 15 to 18 feet high, and pro
ducing myriads of flowers; not only did
the late Rev. J. G. Drayton collect almost
every variety contained in European nur
series, but he has originated numerous
seedlings, whose flowers are unsurpassed
by the best Italian sorts. Among the most
striking of these southern seedling camel
lias we mention “Professor Sargent," with
flowers of fiery scarlet-crimson, of the
anemone class, or with the center petals
narrow and erect, and with broader mar
ginal petals; "Mrs. Drayton.” a most re
markable large flower, of the imbricated
or flat shape, center petals bright crim
son, with dark blue outer petals; "Ella
Drayton,” an exquisite bright rose-colored
flower. These are only a few of the scores
of excellent seedlings which to the true
amateur grower form a most interesting
study, snd shows what is possible to pro
duce in our coast belt regions of the
south. Camellias delight in a climate
where the extremes of heat and cold do
not prevail, the coast of South Carolina
and Georgia, lower Alabama, Mississippi
and Louisiana are the most favorable to
their, vigorous growth. They will adapt
themselves to various soils, hut thrive
best in loamy formations where leaf mold
or humus predominates. They do not suc
ceed so well Jn dry, sandy soils, and if
planted in such situations an ample sup
ply of humus must be mixed with the soil.
Those requisites of soil and climate being
found on our coast belt admits camellias
to attain these unusually larger propor
tions than further inland. We do not re
member the exact size of the single red
flowering camellia which was the first
that was planted at the south, but a few
years ago, when visiting the old Lucas
place on the neck at Charleston. That re
markable tree reached above the windows
of the chamber floor of the house and
measured 18 inches in diameter at the
stem. It is truly a giant of Its class, and
was planted in 1808.
The outer limit in Georgia where camel
lias cannot be grown successfully in open
ground is at Atlanta, where we are told
that only a few specimens of the single
red have survived severe winters. While
any good garden soli will suit these
plants, it is desirable to select a situation
where protected from the greater heat of
the summer sun, the colder blasts of win
ter and where surrounding buildings af
ford a partial shade. They should never
be planted too near large trees, where the
roots of the latter take up the plant food;
neither should they be too close to a
building, as the plants will then grow
one-sided. Give them ample room that
their shape can keep symmetrical. A well
formed camellia, when in full bloom is
the noblest hardy evergreen plant of our
southern gardens, and blooming at a sea
son of the year when hardly another flow
er is seen, makes this plant the more val
uable.
But every variety, and there are sev
ers. hundred now described and in culti
vation, will not give the same results
even under similar cultured conditions.
Some are not profuse bloomers, others
are apt to cast their flower buds before
they expand should a sharp frost oc
cur; again, some don’t fully expand their
flowers until late in the spring, when the
plants start in growth, and then drop
before reaching full size. Some varieties
with white grounds and delicate rose pen
cillings are very easily injured by frost
and don't give as perfect flowers as when
grown under glass. We cannot recom
mend for open ground culture such sur
passingly beautiful varieties as “Contes
sa Lavlnla Haggi,” “Queen of Beauties,”
"Duchesse d'Orleans,” and as a rule all
delicately veined and penciled flowers with
white ground. Still, that grandest of all
white flowers, the old "Albaploena.” ob
tained near Milan, in Italy, in 1844. by
Jean Cassozetti, has never been surpassed
by later comers. It is of robust consti
tution, very profuse bloomer, exquisitely
shaped pure white flower; begins to open
as early as beginning of November and
frequently giving flowers until February.
It is one of the hardest sorts, whereas
the “Fimbriata” (which is only a form of
the "Albaploena,” but with the edge of
the petals fringed, seldom perfects its
flowers except when protected under
glass. The semi-doublc varieties, of
which there are many, give an abundance
of flowers with large petals mixed with
yellow stamens, giving them the appear
ance of a large loose paeony are among
the most desirable for open ground. Such
varieties as "Gunellii,” “Chandelli,”
“Elegans,” "Donkelaerii,” "Mammoth,”
etc., are striking objects when planted
singly and laden with a profusion of
flowers. The “Single Red,” which is the
type of the genus “Camellia Japonica,”
while giving a rather indifferent flower
as compared with its double flowering off
spring, has the merit of being the heaviest
of all. as well as the most vigorous, and
deserves to be more extensively planted
than it is, because it will often succeed
where all other varieties fall.
Another species of the Camellia, “Rosa
flora;” this is a small shrub with slen
der branches, small foliage and producing
a great profusion of beautifully shaped
small rose colored flowers. It is as hardy
as the single red, but is seldom found in
northern greenhouses because of its
small flowers. South, it should be con
sidered among our desirable sorts.
The beat seasons for planting Camel
lias south, below the 34th. or 32nd de
grees of latitude, are from early Octo
ber to beginning of November, and from
the end of February to the end of March-
Do not transplant in midwinter. After
the plants are set out mulch the ground
around them with well-rotted cow ma
nure. and during severe cold prqtect with
bagging or an empty barrel; remove pro
tection when the weather moderates.
Plants set out in spring must be protected
from direct rays of the sun and kept
carefully watered; they should also be
mulched with straw, leaves or any non
heating material, and that will prevent
rapid evaporation.
For pot cultivation in greenhouses the
following suggestions are given:
As stated for open ground cultivation,
the temperature should be as even as
practicable during winter, being also care
ful to give as much light and ventilation
as possible. Camellia must not be con
sidered as hot house plants, but being
frequently so treated many failures fol
low. Give a cool greenhouse or - pit and
unless during very cold weather, fire heat
is not needed, but the plants must not be
allowed to freeze, especially when the
buds are swelling. Do not let the temper
ature fall below 40 degrees or run up
beyond 75 degrees during winter. Con
siderable difference of opinion prevails
among camellia growers as to the best
potting compost, but one composed of
equal parts of rotten sod, peat and cow
manure, well mixed and allowed to stand
six months has given the best results.
Ample drainage must be given, if water
stagnates in the pots the roots will de
cay, the foliage assume an unhealthy col
or and the flower buds drop. Highly stim
ulating fertilizers are to be avoided, but
an occasional dose of weak manure water,
when plants shqw lack of vigor will be
advisable, but should be used only during
the growing period. Repotting depends
upon the condition of the plants, but as a
rule the best time is soon after blooming
and before the new growth begins. This
occurs in middle Georgia about March
Ist.
Watering must be very carefully done.
Keep the soil evenly moist, never let it
become too dry or too wet. both extremes
will cause the buds to drop.
Keep the foliage free from dust and es
pecially from the oyster shell bark louse,
a small scale insect which frequently in
fests the leaves. The scale should be re
moved with a soft brush dipped in a solu
tion of whale oil soap or lemon oil. Black
fungus is also a frequent annoyance and 1
never allowed to spread. No other care is
required for successfully treating ca
mellias in pots. When the blooming pe
riod is over and the new growth becoming
hardened the plants may be plunged in
open ground and shady situation during
summer and while in full growth daily
watering and spraying the foliage will
keep them in good condition. The flower
buds begin to appear during July and Au
gust. Forcing camellias for early bloom
ing has not always proven successful. It
is best, therefore, to select such varieties
as will bloom in succession, thus flowers
can be had continuously from No
vember until March.
Pruning to give a good form is frequent
ly required when plants grow very vigor
ously. This Is done by pinching in the
ends of shoots during the earlier stages
of growth, or after the blomlng is over
and before the new growth begins.
Among the most desirable varieties for
open ground, we mention the following:
White—Alba plaena, candldissima, no
bilissima. Lady Hume's blush.
Pink—Sacco, Wilderll, Sarah Frost.
Red—lmbricata. Reine des Fleurs, Pro
fessor Sargent, William Penn, Pomponla
Rubra, Gunellii, single red.
Striped and Blotched-Henry Favre.
ChandlerU Elegans, Tricolor, Donkelaerii,
etc. ' 1 .
For pot culture the selection may b*
left to individual preference.
„ P. J. B.
For $1.40 we will send The Semi-
Weekly one year and the Five Vaseline
Toilet Articles and any one of the
premium papers offered with The
Semi-Weekly at SI.OO. Thia Is the
greatest offer ever made and you
should take advantage of it without
delay.
Hon- Joseph M. Terrell.
Savannah Press.
Among the visitors in Savannah today is
the Hon. Joseph M. Terrell, the well
known and popular attorney general. He,
comes here In his official capacity to r*p- •
resent the state In an important matter '
which has been submitted for arbitration.
Mr. Terrell has for the past eight years
filled the office of legal counsellor for the
state of Georgia and has discharged the
duties of that position with zeal and abil- i
ity. He Is a safe counsellor and a vigorous }
advocate. Mr. Terrell has ably seconded (
the efforts of the governor and comptrol- i
ler general in bringing a large amount of i
railroad property upon the assessment list
of Georgia. He has worked hard and suc
cessfully to bring increased values under
the taxing power of the state.
Mr. Terrell has been prominently men
tioned by his friends for the position of
governor of Georgia. He has made no an
nouncement of his intention and seems to
be pretty well occupied with his profes
sional duties at this time. He has not
started anything like a campaign, but
those in a position to know declare that
Mr. Terrell has a large following in every
part of the state. He has numerous friends
in south Georgia and Chatham. Mr. Ter
rell is an eminently level-headed man, in :
whose care the state’s interests have al
ways been safely guarded, and those of '
his friends who are pushing his canvass |
for governor believe that he will make a
chief executive of strength and singular
sagacity. Mr. Terrell has served in the
Georgia legislature. He was a close friend
of the late Governor Atkinson, and was
prominently mentioned as a successor of
that gentleman three years ago, but he
preferred to remain in his present posi
tion as legal adviser. Mr. Terrell is mod
est, but a man of merit, and has been true
to every trust reposed in him by the peo
ple. His opinions upon important legal
matters have been clear and have been
defended with skill. His convictions are
honest and his character in public and in
private life is above reproach. Mr. Terrell
has always been fond of Savannah and
has more than once been a welcome guest
of friends in this city. '■
ARE WE PROSPEROUS?
This question comes to every citizen
and to give a Yankee answer, if not, why
not? Never before have so many
people cut the usury of credit pri
ces. This saving alone is the first step
toward thrift and independence. When
we see the largest and most successful (
merchants doing business on strictly cash
terms, we can well believe a business ba
sis is no bar to prosperity. Perhaps the
most noteworthy success on this line
is the J. K. Orr Shoe company of Atlanta.
In the six years since they abandoned the
credit system their business has many
times doubled—reaching today well to
ward the seconu million. Their last stroke
of enterprise is a beautiful catalogue giv
ing the cash price of many popular brands
of Red Seal Shoes. You can get one by
sending them a postal request, mention
ing this paper. •••
—IL | I IK’IFII*
$3.75 BUYS A $30.00 WATCH.
Th* handsomest and best watch in the world for
the money, so per bl t engraved, double hum tog
caae.sura wind and stem set, jeweled movement,
absolutely guaranteed.
Cut this out and send it to us and we will sand
yon the watoh by express far examination. Maa
represented pay our special price M.TI snd
axpreas chargm, and •’» yonra. Ladles’ sise.
Order today, ae wr will tend out samplM at thia
reduced priMfsrfO uaye only. KELLKF JXUT..
XLRY OO H 14 Whitehall SL. Atlanta, Ga
NO CURE. NO PAY.
MIK.—If yon hare until, weak
gPf V organs, lost power or wiablUgg
■fift drains. our Vacuum Organ Developer
frf -%T IM will restore you without drugs or
ly \ j electricity; Stricture aad V artcocoie
IV permanently cured In 1 to 4 wacks;
J TS.OM tn use; not one failure; not
A —one returned; effect immediate; no
5% C.O.D. fraud; write for fro* partteu
x lars. sent sealed In plain envelope.
LOCAL APPLIANCE CO. iOS Ibsrp Ilk.. isAlsupslls, l»4.
5
