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advantage »hv'_ enco.nagiyg emn.i
graitou, bulta-. r- must oe s"iue ii;eil* s
od in it : {avia 4bt» community a-»
Uiu. ... EfetabUU c muiuiiiuus a «•
gel people >%i ii common lit 8 "to poltl«
together. IV trier taiiri i§u»t ih«\hiei
courideraiioq. by any m; ans. ' The
Gerinsns. the SwiB3, the Swwlee and
the Pirioitiuteec' iui ra ou-ft Siuall scab-,
and wrest froia^ihe- poorest soil u
substance which would absolutely
astonish our people. Ao»l another
thing ol ihrt greatest importance' is
that we assure these peop’e, whether
from Europe or the Northwest, that
they wifi have the utmost protection
ot our laws. They look tor the co
operate >ii ol the citizens ol the com
munities in which they locate. Col
onization will r.oi -be a success eo long
as our peop-'e take no Jurher iuterest
in the settlers than to sell them. land.
Probably the be9t field to draw ernmi-
granta iron) is the Northwest, where
the climate is so severe that it would
satisfy the Esquimaux iu winter The
people who have settled there are
turning in other diiections.' So are
farmers of the thickly settled middle
west. California, by expending §30,
000 in adverting, attracted the tide,
A stream ot new settlers arc pouriDg
into Missouri, 1 exas and the south
west from Illinois, Indiana and Oni<».
Georgia has excellent la; ds, good
railroad facilities and an inviting cli
mate or raiher ah sorts of climate.
This 8late should draw immediate
and large benefits from auy develop
ment enterprise.
The Cotton Danger
It seems an utterly hopeless task u
. impress upon the farmers of the sou 1
the wisdom ot curtailing the piannn
of cotton, on which they arc now ei
tcring, ai d in ihc face of the inerca-
cd acreage r*. pored trom several
states, forth r j.r t.» s wiil very likcl>
prove useU>s
Nevertheless, we venture to ca l th>
attention t;f oui co lon planters to the
fact that Mr Ei 'un, the emm
English authorny on cotton statistics
has revised his estimates of the prob
able suopiv tor ihc balance of the crop
year to the basis of a yield
country ot 6 500,000 bales. Th s,
from the prc.M nt outlook for co
sumption, would icavc a surplus
the close of Si ptember of 950,o<
bales.
It we are to have a surplus of net
ly 1,000,000 bal-s at the close of
year of comparatively small produc
tion, it is certainly inviting low prices
to extend the area planting at this
time. The farmers see the d-nger.
Jf they fail to heed the .varoing, they
need not be surprised if the price of
cotton goes to lo-v-water mark this
fall.—Atlanta Journal
And This in Kansas
Salina. Ivan., April 21.—Ray
Stent, the Uuion Pa« itio agent here,
was seriously and perhaps fatally cut
by a negro named Pan Adams, yes
terday.
Adams was arrested aud found
guilty of attempted manslaughter, and
sentenced to seven years in the peni
tentiary. Stent’s friends, not satisfied
with the sentence, took the negro
from the officers and lynched him.
W Georgia department
- AsricaUure—Selection. Published In the *e.t. ▼•*•. *" «• “• ***. In
Monthly Reports. ! S * nth ‘
I The census office lws Ksue.1 a lmUrtiu 0 Th» Esytura gitton seed purchuod by
entitled "Statistics of Farms, Homes Secretary Busk, through th. Uuit^t
and Mortgages.-’ In it is a chapter on States consul genial at Cairo, Egypt,
ownership and debt. The leading, re-, J»E 1 f. en re “" ed st the department of
suits in Georgia are given as follow,: . agricu ture_ The purpose of this Im-
- •loconeinsionisthit CS 1 portatlon of seed is as set forth m Busk »
report as secretary of agriculture,
state hire tlieir lands, and 42 ner cent
own the farms they cultivate. Toother
words, among 100 families, 58 hire their
farms with an incumbrance, and 43 own
without an incumbrance.
On the farms occupied by the tillers
who are owners, there are liens amount
ing to §1,691.500. with an annual iator-;
est charge of §57 to each family; - _ ,
Each incumbered farm is presumed
to be worth §1,627, and is subject to. o
debt of §881. There are seven cities in
the state having*a population . of 8,000
and less than 100,000,and in these-80 per
cent of the families hire their homes
and the rest rent - ’
It is gratifying to know that 04 per
cent of the city population who do own
homes titles free of incumbrance. - Fig
ures in this remarkable paper show that
the yearly interest charge on each in
cumbered city home in- the state is
about §07.
There arc 832,059. families in the
state. Ther»are 175,688 frbro families.
There is an apparent-increase- in farm
tenancy irom 45 per cent in 1880 to 55
per cent in 1890. A curious feature of
this paper ir a statement that city,
homes are hired and incumbered in a
greater degree than is-found outside of
cities.
In the seven cities of Georgia having
a population of 8,000 and less than 100,-
000, there are 41,282 families, of which
33,131 hire and only 8,151 own their
own roofs. ’
Don’t Feed Cotton JSeed to Ilogs.
One of the most important subjects to
swine raisers has been tested and de
cided at the Texas station, and iii Bnllo-
tin 11 it is definitely proved that cotton
seed is poisonous to swine. This article,
though valuable for feeding purposes to
many animals, is positively, deadly in
its actions when fed to swine. As many
farmers have been giving more or less
of it to their swine in the past it
quite important that the matter.should
be decided for them.
_ In the southern states of the union
especially is cottonseed meal given to
hogs, and from §10 to §20 per ton are
often paid for it. Several epidemic dis
eases among swine have been traced
back to cottonseed meal, and the truo
theory now is to leave it out in t’
swine ration. It is a poison to them,
matter how fixed or mixed with other
articles. At the station shoate and pigs
fed on the meal died within a few
months, while others, though they lived
longer, showed evident signs of poison
ing quite early.
to undertake, with the co-operation ol
the experiment stations in the cotton
states, experiments with a view to pro
ducing a cotton of home growth which
may servo as an efficient substitution
for the Egytian, of which dnring the
last fiscal year more than §3,000,00(1
worth was imported into this country,
an increase of 15 per cent over the pre
vious year, and of considerably more
than 100 percent over the year ending
The cotton seed received at. the de
partment consist of two of the best
known Egyptian varieties, “Afifi” and
“Bamiah?* The distribution will be
made to the experiment stations in tho
cotton ^tates and also through the sen
ators for those states to planters whom
they may recommend aepersons qual
ified and willing to give the Egyptian
seed a Careful trial and report the con
ditions of Gotland climate and methods
of cultivation.
Right
tie and colts need close attention. If not
given some dry food and salted regular
ly, they will get down before you
know it. Feed them well until the
grass is tough enough to sustain them,
and they will be all right. The younj
grass and buds are too laxative am
weakening to be relied upon yet. Now is
the time to give your stock a fine start
for the season.
In ‘ The Medical Magazine’’
Blackman says that the effect ol music
is transmitted by ihe reflex action oi
the nerves which govern the blood
supply; that it directly affects the cir
culation of the blood, the blood pres*
sure sometimes rising ar.d sometimes
falling; and that the action ot music
on animats and man expresses itself
for the most part by increased fre
quency of the beats ol the heart.
H-uce, that music is needed for the
invalid, ana becomes an important,
factor in restoring the nervous invalid
to health. How about the fellow
who is practicing on an accordeon,.or
''the girl who is taking lessons on
piauo ?
Nashville, i enn\, April 20.—
At 3:30 o’clock this morning the can
nou at the capitol was deed as a signal
for the troops to proceed at once to
Tray City. The occasion of the gun
firing was the receipt of a telegram
from Tracy City announcing that a
battle was in progress. Battery A
of the Washington Light Artillery
had gathered at the capitol over night
and bad been awaiting orders. They
left there a little past 4 o’clock for
the scene of the trouble. Gen. Fite
and about 100 of the state guard,
with two pieces of artillery, also left
at 5 o’clock.
President Cleveland has written
as a sentiment for the New York
Press Club souvnir book, to be publish
ed at the World’s fair : “The people
must be educated, for the people
must rule,” This is an aphoristic truth
self-evident-enough to appeal to the
most snpeficial reader or the deepest
- . thinker. But the precept conveyed
ia one far more disregarded than it
should be, and especially with regard
. ? to; educationjn the privileges and
responsibilities of citizenship.—Pitts
burg Dispatch.
The Pensylvauia Steel Co., with a
paid: jap : capital of five million, has
idled, JThe company employed five
thousand hands. "■ '
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The Monroe Advertiser, in a strong
editoria 1 , calls tor more people. It says:
“We have for some years contend
ed that one of Georgius greatest
needs is more population The surest
and quickest way to develop our
state’s resources, as they can and
ought to be, ia to multiply her popu
lation, and thereby fill up the watte
placee.
The history of the past establishes
the tact that iu all deusely populated
agricultural sectious lands are brought
to a high state of cultivation, and
indeed, to the highest state ot produc
tiveness. This is what Georgia ;
agricultural country needs to-day.
Her present farming population are
scattering their labor over too much
territory, and 'cultivating too many
acres ot land that yield no profit to
them.”
Chicago, April 22 —It is said on
good authority that on :next Monday,
when President Cleveland stanch iu
front of the administration building
and places the middle finger of fiis
good right hand on au electric batton
and gives it a push, there will follow
such a buzzing and whirling of wheels
and flashing of lights as was never
seen before. The tittle button which
the president will touch will be con
nected with a wire extending from
the platform on the grand plaza to
the machinery hall.' There the wire
connects with an electric *valve. This
valve is very delicate and has to be
protected with the greatest care. It
will fly open ou the slightest provoca
tion and let the steam escape which
will set things going. A very slight
toneb of Grover’s finger will suffice.
The current Will start when the valve
will open, the steam will escape and
the great Allis engine will begin to
move. At the satne time 100,000 in
candescent lights will flash all in the
twinkling of au eye and in the pres
ence probably of upward of ha f a
million people. The big engine cov
ers au area of thir<y-seveu by sixty
two feet and weigh* four hundred
tons Tue large We-tinghouse switch
toward oi the electric plant, ia said to
be tbe moat guanuc tbi> g ot the
kind ever attempted
“YVheu the President is interested
and is realty giving a caller or callers
his earnest atteniiou.” says au observ
am. Virginian in the Charleston News
aud Courier, “will test each one of
hts bands carelessly above the hip,
Will smile, answer questions, and ask
ad about the subject matter. If tbe
visitors hang on too long the Presi
dent will begin to elide bis bauds
down, and swing his arms to tbe rear
just a little bit. That means he is
gening tired, it he puts his hands
entirely behiud his big body so you
can’t see them, then it is time for tue
congressman and office-seekers to cut
the conversation short. It they do
not the President then squarely locks
his bauds bebiud him closes his bps
and frowns gently, which to the
observant caller means that the lime
has arrived for disappearing.”
Tho Value of Pine. j
‘*Ge< rgia pine has cure to he a v«*iy ■
t:;hlt:oiiM>iV wood l..r interior dcora^i
• i-m in Ihe buildings of to-day, aiuM*
emis'ftTitiy. growing in popularity S8
building material. It h;»t, always
i he main building staple in the
South. I*ut not until recent ye&ra
has the .beauty of the .natural wood
when oiled and po!i>di<d come so
prominently imo public favor.
But now itietms tf-aUhejvueis
to have new commercial valua frotn
the finding ot chi tain comhdpsiohs
aod the report from official siurcrs
6nnceming Vs adaptability not Oaly
building material, but for use in
tbe construction ot many implements
tor wh*ch oak, ash .and hickory have
beretof..re been conri Jered indi-peuS'»
ab!$.” ' V ‘
The above, ffbm ibe Augusta
Chronicle, contains information.valu
able to owners of pine lands. A few
years from now primitive pine forests
will be at a premium, and a big pre
miom at that Sonth Geoagia has
a mine ol wealth in her pine forests.
PRACTICAL TESTS CAREFULLY
EXPLAINED.
Selection and Comments on Bulletin
No. 20 by tho Georgia Agri
cultural -Department.
Bulletin No. 2) of the Georgia experi
ment station. which has just been is-
O’ne day a Lie broke out of its
closure and started to travel. And
the man who owned the premises
it after it had started, aud was sorry
he had not made the inclosure Lie-
tight. So he called to his swiftest
Truth and said: “A Lie has got
loose aud will do much mischief if it
is not stopped. I want you to go
after it and bring it back or kill it.’
But tbe lie had one hour the start. A
the end of the first day the Lie was
going lickety split.' The Truth was a
long way behind it and it was getting
tired. It has not yet caught up. And
never will. —Exchance.
New York World: It is time for
the intelligent people of every commu
nity in which.lynch law in any form
survives' To recognize the truth that
so far from checking crime it makes
criminals of the whole community
and cultivates savage instincts most
dangerously. Its complete suppress
ion is an essential condition to peace
and progress. To tolerate it even in
tbe most exasperating cases, and
even-wbeu it is certain that the law
must fail to work justice, is to invite
lawlessness as a system and to encour
age savagery as a sentiment.
President Cleveland, who' has been
under bard and constant official pres
sure for the last six weeks, excepts
to take a week off from routine exec
utive duties lor the purpose of attend
ing the Naval Review in New York
harbor and the openingof the Colum
bian Exposition in Chicago. Both
functions eminently deserve his pres
ence, and fortunately, there is nothing
in the condition of public affairs to
make it essential that he should
“stick close to his desk.” He will be
in much better shape after his outing
for the performance of the duties of
his office, although it can scarcely
be called a holiday after all.—Ex.
Georgia is great and growing great-
. The News says:
Georgia ranks first in the prod ac
tion of naval stores, first in that of
watermelons, second in that: of rice,
and third in that of cotton. Before
many years she will be at the front
in the production of peaches, pears
and grapes. These are facts to be
remembered.
The gold reserve fund in the treas
ury is exhausted. Bonds may be
issued..
Mrs. Varina Davis, wife of Jeffei
son Davis, write* an interesting ar
ticle for last Sunday’s Constitution
the condition of things during aud
after the war at the south. Here is a
brief and pathetic picture of how
southern women bore and suffered:
“One heart-broken woman wrote
to her husband: “Twenty graios of
quinine would have saved our two
children; they were too nauseated to
drink the bitter willow tea and they
are now at rest and I have no one to
work forTmt yon. Do you think of
coming. I am well acd strong and am
not dismayed. I think day and night
of your sorrow. I have their little
graves bear me.”
A notable wedding took place in
New York on Wednesday. Miss
Cornelia Bradley Martin, an American
heinss, was wedded . to ihe Earl of
Craveo, an English nobleman. Re-
fering to the scenes at the church the
dispatches thus touches up the actons
of the crowd, after the ceremony wa:
performed:
“No sooner was the ceremony con
cluded than pandemonium reigned in
«he church. Women jostled each
other in a strtlggle to reach the chan
cel aod pluck the roses. The few at-
endants left in charge by the ushers
could do little with the women. Those
who reached the chaccei had hard
time getung away with their prizes.
Women along the aisle waited for
them and when the opportunity offer
ed snatched thetr flowers. Then
scrambling over tbe pews became very
-opuiar. It looked like a gigantic
hurdle race, where the jumpers wore
impede and not to hide their
r isioos of pink and blue and
gray ankles were frequent as rays
su** ignt in an April thunder storm.
Tfe crowd going out met the crowd
imng in at the door. In the shoving
uiatcn nat fo4owe« the masses out
side won. Tuey pushed their oppon
back into thechur"hand crowded
mem forward toward the altar,
co. gregauoo massed itself and shoved
ton a and hard. Slowly the crowd ot
ruders was forced back out of the
c urch aud sought the open air. As
the congregation went *out ot the
mam doors the outsiders
tnrough the side entrances. In the
street the contusion was as great al
most as in the churcn.
It took the guests two houis to get
it Silk hats that were smooth and
smuey at i o’clock came out
’c*>ck crushed and rumpltd.
s *ere torn, coats rent and clothing
generally, was roughly treated.
a crush the like of which New
York’s -.well society has never before
seen.”
That’s a picture of New York's lour
hundred for you.
Tbe Enquirei>-Sun says: “North
Card! in a has passed a law against
the baggage smashers. It provides
for the careful handling of all baggag6
to which a check may be attached.
North Carolina deserves to become a
popular summer resort.” r
Yea, the law against the baggage
smasher is all right; but what about
the “masher” about the summer
resorts? fhey’ll be on bond.
Poet—“I have a poem written on a
grand old elm tree in my father's
front yaid.”
Busy Edits.r-r-'T am glad to hear
it I was afraid yon had it with
you,”—Detroit Free. Press.
^‘Parker never can be induced to
study up his genealogy because ot the
scandal in his family.” “Was there
one?” “Oh, yes, indeed ; Adam and
Eve never really married, yon know.”
—Brooklyn-Life.
The region between the first and
second cataracts of the Nile Is the
hottest on the globe. It never rains
there, and the natives do not believe
foreigners who- tell them that water
can descend from the sky. ~ _
Douglas?, the shoe man, is spoken
of as the ‘democratic candidate for
governor of Massachusetts. Pat n's
down for Douglass. He believes in
printer’s ink.
“You say he left no money?” “No,
yon see, he lost his health getting
wealthy, and then lost his wealth fay
ing to get healthy.”—Montreal
Gazette. - : ;
We repeat it.: Back should be
bounced.
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fertilizing-corn; tho. effect of
fodder-pulling; deep vs. shallow cul
tured corn; variety test corn; compost
ing in the heap vs. mixingin the furrovr
corn; variety test of cotton; distance
experiment on cotton; ’ effect of increas
ing amount of fertilizer-cotton; general
fertilizer experiment on cotton.
- As presented in the bulletin, elaborate
tabular statements,of the experiments
are given, furnishing a very complete
and comprehensive view of the work.
In this report we do not consider it
necessary to reproduce these tables, aa
those who desire to* closely inquire into
the work of the station can do so by an-
dyingto the director, Mr. B. J. Reci
ting, Experiment, Ga. We would ad-
’ise our farmers to avail themselves of
the benefits to be derived from a 'study
of the experimental work concluded at
tbe station and to have their names
placed on the mailing list. '
FULTON EXPERIMENT ON* CORN.
Inthhrasin the other experiments,
we give the general with the results
and conclusions reached by the station,
with such experiments as is necessary in
the absence of the tabulated statements.
The experiment was located on a piece
of fairly good clay soil following a good
cron of cotton in 1891. The land was
divided into 28 plots, each containing
three fonr-foot rows 105 feet long. On
24 plots, eight combinations of/super
phosphate,muriate of potash and nitrate
ofsodawere qsed. each combination
being applied to three plots. On two
plots cotton seed meal was substituted
m the place of nitrate of soda in such
proportion as to furnish corresponding
■rcentages, and two plots were nnfer-
lized. For ascertaining the results,
the average of plots similarly fertilized
was taken. The different combinations
Were formed on 813 pounds superphos-
ihate, 89 pounds muriate of potash and
5 pounds nitrate of soda as a normal
auon. The changes being made by
doubling the ration of one or more or all
the ingredients. It will he seen that
the. normal ration gave a fertilizer
which showed now about 8.10 phospho
ric acid, 4.68 potash and 2.79 ammonia.
The amount of potash contained in the
normal ration being from two to three
times the amount contained in the aver
age commercial fertilizer should be
borne in mind in considering the poor
results obtained by doubling this mate
rial. It should also be remembered that
muriate of potash, running about 50-per
cent, actual potash, doubling this ra
tion rapidly increases the percentage of
potash in the mixture.'
The highest increase in yield was
given qti those plots on which tho acid
pliospjfate only was doubled. A strik
ing feature of the experiment was that
this soil iu none of the experiments
did the increased yield pay for the fer
tilizers used, the highest increase being
8.02 bushels with a cost for fetilizers oi
§7.16. The average yield on unfertilized
plots was 18.90 bushels per.
that of fertilized 24.88 bushels, and tho
average cost of fertilizers was §7.30 per
acre.
The following are the results and
elusions as given by the station:
„ ; RESULTS.
1. The Effoct of Muriate of Potash- 1 -
This form of potash seems to affect the
yield injuriously when the normal
quantity is doubled, especially those
plots on which the other elements were
applied in only normal quantities. This
effect is not apparent in every plot
where muriate of potash was applied in
double rations, but it is so iu 10 out of
14 plots.
2. The Effect of Nitrate of Soda—In
seven plots out of 12 on which the ni
trate doubled, the other elements re
maining the same, the yield was in
creased.
8. The Effoct of Superphosphate:—In
eight plots out of 14 on which the super
phosphate was doubled, the others re
maining unchanged, the yield was in-
TtEStJLTS.
A careful study of the tab'
iow any significant difc'eren
tho jrields of plots on which
were all applied at one time
planting and those which received
same formula in two or more succes
sive doses. The average yield of plots
on which the formula containing ni
trate of soda as an ninmoniate was ap
plied at one time—-before planting—was
less than five pecks per acre greater than
the average yield of the plots on which,
the formula was divided into two and
three doses. But this difference, small
as it is, is not sustained by the results
of the interculturally fertilized plots
compared with each other. The yields'
of the plots on which cottonseed meal
wbs substituted for nitrate of soda is
unexpectedly low as compared with tho
nitrate of soda plots. • Plot 12, on which
the whole was applied at one time,
shows an exceptionally high yield, but
there is reason to fear that some error
was committed; or there was undiscov
ered cause for this excess. The' aver
age yield of all the cottonseed meal
plots, however, was nearly two bushels
less than the average yield of the nitrate
•f soda plots.
CONCLUSIONS. „ _
The results correspond substantially
with those of similar experiments made
I in 1890’and 1891, hence we conclude:
1. There is no material advantage to
the current growing crop of corn iq
dividing the fertilizer into two or more
doses to bejappljed successively during
Lthe growing period.
2. This experiment indicates that for
corn nitrate of soda is a somewhat bet<
] ter form of nitrogen than cottonseed
meal. I
■deep vs. shallow culture—corn.
■The object of this experiment was ■
find if there is any advantage or loss in
cultivating corn deeply. A number
of experiments of a similar nature have!
been conclued at the station and they
all confirm the condusion that after
| thorough preparation no. advantage is
to be obtained by deep culture, the
shallow cuLore plots yielding more
fodder 1n mort experiments. In the last I
experiment. there was an increase of
0.29 of a bushel in deep culture plots!
which did not pay for the.extra plowing.
■ VARIETY LIST—CORN.
Jin this experiment tho following va-l
rieties were used, resulting in the yields
Igiven:
Bushels
Per /
. _ IplQ
more productive and of better staple
than any of the class tested on the
station. ' :
The yield of lint per 100 pounds of
seed cotton was found by carefully gin
ning the entiro product of each' variety.
January 20. after thorough air drying.
It may be said by way of caution that
there is no' necessary ^.relation between
the yield of lint per 100 pounds of seed
cotton and the actual yield of lint per
acre. A variety may yield a high per
centage of lint, calculated on a given
weight.of seed cotton, and yet yield loss
lint per acre than another variety, It ia
probably more a question of seed than
of lint. As the seed contain nearly all
of the valuable elements taken from tbo
soil, it is but reasonable to expect that
a large yield of seed per acre will be at
tended by a corresponding largo* yield
of lint.. Wo hnvo-but little doubt that
some varieties that are popular with
the'mass of farmers because of their
large percentage of line compared to
seed simply produce less seed per acre
instead of more lint per acre’, It re
mains truo, however.' that a small
seeded variety—small in size aud small
in percentage ot tjie whole—is better for
poor land and low culture tlrnu a varie
ty having naturally large seed and a
smaller percentage of liuh
For farther remarks on this line, and
in regard to large boiled varieties the
reader is referred to Experiment N'
N. B.—Two elaborate experiments
that appear in the bulletin of tho sta
tion. Effect of increasing nuvmht of
fertilizers on cotton, and general fertil
izer experiment on cotton will appeal
in the uext report of tho den f.-rmont
space not permitting
in this issue.
The Morning Now8 has this item
about a young man from the wire-
grass who has made his mark in Sa
vannah :
• Colonel John R. Young, of Sa
vannah, is expected to arrive in
Macon in a few days when the reor
ganization of the Macon and. Atlantic
road may take place. Colonel Young
came to Macon this week to reor
ganize the road,.it is said, but owing
to the absence of certain . .parties the
reorganization was deferred. It will
be^'remembered that Colohel Young
bought the Macon and Atlantic a
short time ago at public sale for §410,-
000. The property is easily worth
over $1,000,000. The project is to
build the road from Macon to Savarn-
nab. Already much grading bus
been done and consideiable track has
been laid. The general idea is that
the Macon, Dublin and Savannah
railroad, and the Macon and Atlantic
will unite and build one common fine
to S^vannah^
And so they have promoted John
to a colonelcy. Well, he is entitled to
be a Georgia colune'.
Nashville, Tenki., April 20.—Tht
brauch prison at Tracy City was at
tacked at U o’clock last night by an
armed,body of miners, who numbered
probably one hundred, their, object
being to release the 500 convicts there.
The attack had been expected and
the guards were prepared. Firing
was quickly commenced, but the
miners were repulsed with one ol
their number, Bob Irwin killed, Matt
Parsons wounded, and another is
thought to be wounded.
Suits and suits, and counter-suits
are obscuring tbo fnture of the old
Central. It is a badly tangled web.
The end is not in right. It is a har
vest for the lawyers.
A Pittsburg woman fasted 31 days
for a purse of $1,100.^ That’s nothing.
The average country editor fasts 365
days for on & half the money.—Quit-
man Free Prefs.
On May 2nd an important suit
involving the Central will come up.
It will decide the fate of Mr .Comer
-- receiver.
Home rule for Ireland is, at last,
almost in right. The bill has passed
its second reading in parliament.
seed meal was substituted for
ration of nitrate of soda. In one (plot 9)
the yield was increased, and in the
other (plot 10) the yield was decreased
by the substitution.
conclusions, t
1. The use of muriate of potash was
of doubtful benefit on this land. Even
if beneficial in small doses, a limit is
soon reached beyond which an increase
in the amount is certainly injurious.
2. Tho effect of superphosphate was
certainly beneficial.
3. The effect of nitrate of soda was
also of decided benefit.
4. Cotton seed meal did not seem so
decided in its effects.
5. In genernlrthe results of this ex
periment do not favor the use of con
centrated chemical fertilizers on corn.
o caso did th? increased yield of the
fertilized plots over the unfertilized pay
for the cost of the fertilizer.
[See “Results” and “Conclusions” un
der Experiment No. 7, Table VI.]
SUBSOILING FOR CORN.
In considering the results of the ex
periment, the effect of thqjjharacter of
the season should be borne in mind, as
in a dry season great benefit might
be derived, while in a wet season its
effect might hardly be perceptible.
The effect of nitrating is also given in
this eperiment. -Tho nitrate was ap
plied on Aprjl 27, at the time of tne
first plowing, and on June 13. The
quantity was 130 pounds per acre. .
RESULTS.
The effect of subsoiling amoudted
practically to nothing, the increased
yield being only 23-100 of a bushel, or
less than one peck of corn per acre.
This increase would not pay the cost of
the extra laboT employed in subsoiling.
Effect of Nitrating—The most re
markable feature in the results on this
acre was the effect of the two additional
applications of nitrate of soda. The in
creased yield of com was only 2.98
bushels—not enough to justify such ap
plications—but the effect on the af ter-
tional doses of nitrate were applied, was
very marked, giving a yield of 866
pound? of crab grass per acre. "
c6nclusions.
1. Subsoiling on this land does not
pay for the extra labor required.
2. It is a good practice to apply ni
trate of soda to corn dnring the early
Stages of growth, in view of the extra
growth of grass that it induces. This
is in confirmation of an experiment per-
fartned'-on an adjourning section in
1890. In that case the plots manured
with stable, manure (8,000 per acre) and
chemicals produced no aftergrowth of
grass; while adjacent plots on .which
nitrate oi soda and cotton seed meal
were used as ammoniates, iustead of
stable manure, gave a very luxuriant
aftergrowth, equivalent, probably to
one ton of hay per acre.
«. intercultural fertilizing—corn.
This* experiment is a repition of simi-
E^sby the station in
1890-91, with but a slight change in the
details. The object of- the experiment
was to ascertain the benefits to be de-
nved by applying fertilizers-during^the
growth of the plants 1 The readily
available character of, nitrate of soda
irenders it superior to cottonseed meal
as an interculturJd fertilizer. While as
a general ammoniate cottonseed meal
is superior as it remains ldng in the soil
and not lending out what is not taken
up by the plants one ydar remains for
subsequent crop?.
1 Southern Wlilto.... JIi.60. .Good—uniform.
2 Shaw's Improved.. .W.4». .Fine ears.
3 Shoe Peer . :5.t8. .Irregular.
4 Himjins r Improved..-T.71. .Good.
5 Patterson’s Select.. .25.11. .Irregular.
6 Banks’ Improved... .28.16. ,Mix d colors.
7 Henderson’sProlific.23.lW. .Very goed.
8 Shannon’s Yellow...2 .Very lino.
9 Shannon’s White....27.24..Very good.
10 Golden Beauty 3‘».68..Inrr—not sound.
11 Bloont’s Prolific 23.89. .Sound and good.
As has been remarked in commenting
on variety tests of corn in previous
years, such tests are by no means con
clusive to which of several varieties is
the best.
Such tests can only compare the rela
tive productiveness of such varieties as
are very similar, if not identical, in
their habits of growth and ^periods of
fruiting. As between two kinds ot
corn, one of which silks and tassels sev
eral weeks in advance of the other, it is
manifest that the seasons may be very
unfavorable for the earlier variety at
the most critical period (silking time),
while the later variety may “strike the
seasons” exactly right, and vice versa.
So of two varieties that differ very
much in size of stalk and ears, the “dis
tance” given to both being the same,
one may have just the right number of
plants on the land, while the other may
be too thick or too thin. Practical
farmers understand this.
It is but fair to say that the nine first
named seemed to be much alike in size
of stalk and iar, but not exactly, while
numbers 10 and 11 were smaller in stalk
and ear, an a little earlier. Hence the
test is not strictly fair to these two,
especially Blount's Prolific, as they
should have been planted closer. Nos.
1, 7,8 and 9 seemed most desirable on
the score of yield, uniformity in size of
and colorgrain and soundness.
COMPOSTING “IN THE HEAP” VS. MIXING
IN TIIE FURROW—CORN. •
The object of this experiment was to
find the comparative results of compost
ing stable manure, cottcn seed and acid
phosphate in the heap, permitting the
mass to ferment for some weeks, and
mixing the same quantities of the same
ingredients in the opening furrows just
beefore planting.
The propositions adopted correspond
with a formula that is popular with
farmers in some sections, viz.:
Superphosphate 200 lbs.
Green cotton seed 1,000 lbs.
Stable manure J,000 lbs.
2,200
Two lots, each containing the above
respective amounts of tho three ingre
dients were carefully weighed. March
8 one of these lots was thoroughly
mixed, wetted with water, aud thrown
into a loose mass into one of the cow
stalls, under shelter. The other lot was
kept dry until April 1. On that day the
two lots were distributed in the opening
furrows and covered with turnplows,
and this small bed was opened with a
shovel plow, the corn planted and cov
ered with a hand hoe, the next day,
April 2. Subsequent treatment was ex
actly the same on both series of plots.
The land was naturally thin, sandy soil,
underlaid by yellow clay - very similar
to much of the branch hillside, gray
soils of middle Georgia. It had been in
cotton fertilizer experiments the two
years previously, the plots and rows
running at right angles to those of the
present experiment, But the land was
poor. On all the plots the corn grew
off well and throughout the season v
the best on the form; bnt there was
perceptible difference betwe?SA tho dif
ferent plots. It was very uniform ; **
every respect over tho entire section.
The yield, carefully gathered and
weighed, Sept. 23, shows no difference;
Unfortunately no unfertilized plots
were left,.ana therefore , the increased
yield of cotton due to the composts does
not appear;, but Mr.. Kimbrough, ■ agri-
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CON . - JSIONS.
1. ' That there L-iio material advant
age, if any, in composting and ferment
ing a mixture of cotton seed, stable ma
nure and acid phosphate several weeks
beforehand, compared with applying
the same qantities of the same materials,
unfermented, one day before planting.
2. Incidentally, it appears that on
thin, sandy land, deficient in bnmus a
mixture of cotton seed (crushed), stable
manure and acid phosphate gives better
results on such land than a mixture of
cottonseed meal, muriate of potash and
acid phosphate. This may d4 in part
due to tbe excess of acid phosphate—in
creasing tho cost—and the presence of
muriate of potash in experiment No>6.
This point will be more clearly elabor
ated next season.: •
VARIETY TEST OF COTTON.
In this experiment 25 varieties of cot
ton were planted, and for a full concep
tion of the results the tabulated state
ment of the station must bo seen. We
give here the comments of the director
of the station on special varitics.
Varieties.—-Bates’ Big Boll is a new
variety (to this .station) and verv p;
ising, giving the largest yield of th
both in seed cotton and percentage of
lint. It has large bolls, a symmetrical
stalk and fair staple.
Okra Leaf—Q;ut) early and suited to
the nch lowlands and prairies of high
latitudes. It ia deficient in foliage.
Hunnicutt's CUoice-An excellent
prolific vari/ty.
Southern^Hone—Good, productive.
Tennessee's Goll Dust and King's—
Very early and moderately productive.
These two aro remarkably similar , in
because of their extrei
yielding more than three-fourths of their
total crop before the 1st of October, al
though planted April 18.
Pittman’s—This was the most prolific"
variety in 1801, but did not maintain its
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