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The Nervous System the Seat
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No mystery has ever compared vrith that of
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But notwithstanding this fact it is not, gener-
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which they supply with nerve force.
Two-thirds of chronic diseases are due to
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KHVKNUE UNDER THE BILL- j
There Will Be More Than Enough to Meet the
Expenses.
The passing of the tariff bill has
led tq various eslimales as to the.
effect it will have upon the reve
nues. The following figures from
official documents are of interest •
The treasury estimate for the fis
cal year 1895 aggregated revenues
ot $454,427,718 from these sources:
Customs. $ 190,000,000.
Internal revenue, $160,000,000.
Postal service, $84,427,755.
Miscellaneous, $20,000,000.
The estimate of revenue under
the tariff bill as passed the house
made a total 0f5442,085,177,32, divi
ded as follows:
Customs, $124,657,429.
Internal revenue, under present
laws, $160,000,000.
Internal revenue, additioual un
der house bill, $53,000,000.
Miscellaneous items, undet pres
ent laws, $20,000,000.
Postal service, under present
laws, $94,527,748.
The estimate of revenue under
the house bill as amended and pass
ed by the senate July 3, 1894, ex
ceeds in the aggregate botb tfhe two
previous estimates and gives the
following showing:
Custom s, $179,251,142.
Internal revenue, as above stated,
$213,000,000.
Miscellaneous items, as above
stated, $20,000,000.
Postal service, as above stated,
$84,427,748.
T0ta1,5496,678,890.
Under the house bill the ad valo
rem rates of duty showed a decrease
of duty amouting to $73,716,023, and
under the senute bill the decrease
of duty is shown at $19,122,310. In
this computation articles that are
free from duty are excluded. The
following table in this connection
shows the duiable value under the
present law as $400,609,855,48, with
a duty of $198,373,452, the ad valo
rem rate being 49.58 per cent. Un
der the house hill dutiable value,
$351,041,963; duty, $124,657,429; ad
valorem rate, 35.51. Under the
senate hill dutiable value, $463,447,-
163; duty, $179,251,142; ad valorem
rate, 38.68.
MILLIONAIRES MUST PAY-
William Waldorf Astor Heads the List With
a Probable Tax of £178,000.
It is estimated by treasury ex
perts that the revenue derived from
the income tax will be $30,000,000 a
year. Other estimates vary from
I $25,000,000 to $40,100,000. Of this
New York’s men of wealth and
others not termed wealthy, but who
live comfortably on more than
$4,000 a year, will pay a large pro
portion.
The tax to be paid by some of the
leading millionaires will, in many
instances run up in the thousands.
William Waldorf Astor will un
doubtedly lead the list. His income
is estimated at $8,900,000 per year,
and on this he will have to pay a
yearly tax of $178,000. John i).
Rockefeller, whose income is esti
mated at $7,811,250, will have to
pity the Gould estate SBO,-
800, and poor and unhappy Russell
Sage about $90,000. Cornelius Van
fderhilt, with an estimated income
of $4,048,000 will have to contribute
a yearly tax of $80,960, while Wil
liam K. Vanderbilt’s contribution
to the national exchequer will be
about $75,000. John Jacob Astor
will be let off on a payment of
$600,000.
Other millionaires and their prob
able income tax are Henry M.
Flagler,s6o,ooo; Frederick W. Van
derbilt, $35,000; Louis C. Tiffany.
$35,000; Collis P. Huntington,’s2o,-
000; William Rockefeller, $60,000;
Moses Taylor estate, $50,000; Rob
ert Goelet, $25,000; Ogden Goelet,
$20,000.
There will be some fair hands,
too, that will count out cash to the
internal revenue collectors. It
will cost Mrs. Bradley-Martin, Mrs.
Anson Phelps Stokes, Clementina
Furniss and Sophia R. Furniss
about SIO,OOO each if the bill goes on
the statute books, and if .Mrs. Het
ty Green doesn’t succeed in dodg
ing the collector it is estimated
that she will have to part with
$40,000.
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When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria.
"When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria.
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria.
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BY WALTER BESANT.
lUopyr ght, P-91, by the Authors’ Alliance.] j
CHAPTER VI.
A few days later the patient, able to
sit for awhile in the shade of the ver
anda, was lying in a long cane chair.
Reside her sat the colonel’s wife, who
had nursed her through the attack. ,
She was reading aloud to her. Sudden
ly she stopped. “Here comes the doc
tor,’’ she said, “and Florence, my dear,
his name, you know, is Claude. I think
you have got something to talk about
with Claude besides the symptoms.”
With these words she laughed, nodded
her head and ran into the salon.
The veranda, with its green blinds of
cane hanging down, and its matting on
the lloor, and its easy chairs and tables,
made a pretty room to look at. In its
dim light the fragile figure, pale, thin,
dressed in white, would have lent inter
est even to a stranger. To the doctor,
I suppose, it was only a “case.” Me
pushed the blinds aside and stepped
in, strong, big, masterful. “Yon are
much better,” he said. “You will very
soon be able to walk about; only be
careful for a few days. It is lucky that
this attack came on when it did and not
a little earlier when we were in the
thick of the trouble. Well, you won’t
want me much longer, 1 believe.”
“No, thank you,” she murmured,
without raising her eyes.
“I have had no opportunity,” he said,
standing over her, “of explaining that I
really did not know who you were, Miss
Vernon. Somehow I didn’t see your
face or I was thinking of other things;
I supposed .you had forgotten me, any
how it was not until the other day
when I was called in that I remem
bered. But I dare say you had forgot
ten me.”
‘:No, I have not forgotten.” ‘
“I thought that long ago you had be
come Lady Duport.”
“No, that did not take place.”
“I hear that you have been teaching
since your mother’s death. Do you
like it?”
“Yes, I like it.”
“Do you remember the last time we
met —on the seashore—do you remem
ber—Florence?” his voice soflened sud
denly, “we had a quarrel about that old
villain. Do you remember?”
“I thought you had forgotten such a
little thing as that —long ago—and the
girl you quarreled with.”
“The point is rather whether you re
member. That is of much more im
portance.”
“I remember that you swore that you
would never forgive a worthless girl
who had , ruined your life. Did I ruin
your life. Dr. Fernie?”
He laughed. He could not honestly
say that she had. In fact his life so
far as concerned his work had gone on
much about the same. But then such a
“IF YOU GIVE ME YOUR HAND I SHALL
KEEP IT.”
man does not allow love to interfere
with bis career.
“And then you went and threw’ over
the old man. Florence, why didn't you
tell me that you were going to do that?
You might have told me.” "
She shook her head. "Until you fell
into such a rage and called me such
dreadful names 1 did not understand.”
“Why didn’t you tell me, Florence?”
he repeated.
She shook her head again.
“Y’ou were but a little innocent child
then,” he said. “Of course, you couldn’t
understand. I was an ass and a brute
and a fool not to know.”
“You said you would never forgive
me. You said you would never shake
hands with me again.”
lie held out his hand. “Since,” he
said, “you are not going, to marry the
old man, and since you are not engaged
to anybody else, why then —the old
state of things is stiff going on —and —
and—Florence, if you give me your
hand I shall keep it, mind.”
“Dear 'me!” said the colonel’s wife in
the doorway. “Do quarantine doctors
always kiss their patients? Hut you
told me, doctor dear, that your Chris
tian name was Ciaude. Didn’t you?
That explained everything.”
The ship, with those of her company
whom the plague had spared, presently
steamed away, and after living repaired
made her way to Portsmouth dock
yard. But one of her company stayed
behind, and now is queen or empress of
the island of which her husband is king,
■captain, commandanland governor gen
eral and resident quarantine doctor.
I THE END.J
Investigation Invited..
Of course it is proper to inquire about
what any man says, Is it true?
The most ridgid investigation is invi
ted into the testimonials publisned in
behalf of Hood’s Sarsaparilla. Special
attention is called to the high character
of the persons whose testimonials are
published by the proprietors of this
medicine, as evidenced by their occupa
tions or indorsements. In fact, no mat- j
ter where a testimonial in behalf of
Hood’s Sarsaparilla may be from, it is
reliable and as worthy of confidence as
if it came from your most trusted neigh
bor.
FARMERS’ COLUMNS.
TIIE GEORGIA EXPERIMENT STATION,
EXPERIMENT, GA.
State, Dairymen's Association.
The growing interest, in the business
of dairying, the success attained at Hie
Experiment Station dairy in the man
ufacture of cheese as well as butter,
and the great need of organization
among dairymen for the dissemination
of information, and for other purposes,
have suggested the expediency of form
ing a State Dairymen's Association.
Circular letters have been sent to hun
dreds of persons in the state who are
engaged in dairying for market, with
a view to finding out what they think
of the expediency of organization. The
following questions were asked in the
circular letter :
1. Do you approve the proposed organization!
Answer:
2. If you approve, at what place do you think
it would be most convenient and expedient to
hold the first meeting for the purpose of organ
ization ?
Answer :
S. On what date (some date in August Is sug
gested.)
Answer:
4. Will you attend the first meeting and take
part in its organization and deliberations ?
Also give names and address of others who
will attend from your county.
Answer:
5. Will you authorize the Director of this sta
tion after considering suggestions under 3 and
4, to appoint the time and place arid issue a
call for such a meeting ?
Answer :
Sign your name
Post office
County
The replies to the circular received so
far are uniformly favorable to the
scheme —many of them enthusiastically
so—and the proposed meeting will prob
ably be called. A plurality are for
Griffin as the place of meeting, because!
of its proximity to the station dairy,
and the middle to the last of August as
the time. The replies also, without ex
ception. authorize the director to decide
upon the time and place, in accordance
with question No. 5. There are doubt
less many persons interested who ha ve
not received copies of the circular let
ler. as it has been found impracticable
to secure a full list of names. It is the
object of this notice to invite each and
every person who feels interested, and
especially those who will attend the
meeting, to write at once to the “Direc
tor of Experiment Station, Experiment,
Ga.” a reply to the questions as above
given, by number, so that there may be
as full an expression, as possible, of the
views of all. If, therefore, you feel in
terested and wish to attend the meet
ing and take part in the organization
of the association, write at once to the
director. Efforts will be made to se
cure red need rates of fare on the rail
roads. —li. J. Redding, Director.
ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES.
[Under this head short inquiries from farm
ers on practical farm topics will he answered
by one of the station staff and published, if of
general interest otherwise the answers will be
sent by mail. Make your inquiries short and
to the point, always give your -name and post
olflce and addressed to the 'Director Georgia
Experiment Station, Experiment, Ga."]
Curing Pea Vines.
TBy the Director.]
Several inquiries have been received
as to the best method of curing pea
vines, and an answer haqr been promised
in “The Farmer’s Columns.”
1. The proper stage at which the
vines should be cut in order to make
the most nutritious and valuable hay is
when they are in full bloom. This
stage may be indicated by the presence
of a few full grown pods, and occasion
ally a ripe one. Cut at this time, or
earlier, the vines are rather more diffi
cult to cure (because the stems are more
succulent) than w’hen cut at a later
period. Hut it will also be found that
the earlier cut vines will not shed their
leaves so readily. The later the cut
ting the more woody will be the stems
and the less nutritious and palatable.
Yet the product is good even if the
vines be not cut until loaded wdth ripe
peas.
*3. It is better to cut with a regular
horse mower, but a short, strong scythe
blade will answer for small areas.
8. Commence cutting in the morning,
after the dew has dried off, and con
tinue until noon. In the afternoon, say
four or five o’clock, rake the cut vines
into sharp cocks about live feet high.
Next morning, about eight o’clock, open
the cocks with a fork and spread the
hay around on the ground. In the af
ternoon of the same day, gather into
cocks again, at the same hour, putting
several cocks into one. If the weather
continues clear and hot, these cocks
may now remain without disturbing
them, until the hay is dryeenough to
haul and store away in the barn, which
will be in the course of three or four
day’s, varying according to circumstan
ces. If the weather should become
showery, stack poles about twelve feet
high should be erected at convenient
distances, and the hay should be stack
ed around them. Care should be taken
to lay rails or poles around the base so
as to form an elevated platform to keep
the hay entirely off the ground. In ad
dition three or four long rails, or sap
ling poles, should be placed around the
center stack pole two feet apart at the
base and extending to within two feet
of the top of the stack pole, where the
ends may be secured by nailing, or oth
er convenient way. The hay should he
placed arouna the staekpole, dressed
down as smoothly a* may be, and the
top capped with long straw, or crab
grass, or with a patent, wood-pulp hay j
cap. The object of the side poles, or !
braces, is to keep the center of the
stack open, and thus admit the air. In
our experience at the station we have
had pea hay to remain in such stacks
five or six weeks, embracing a period
of showery weather, and with very lit
tle loss. The principal points of cau
tion to be observed are (1) to avoid
mowing the vines when wet with dew
or rain, and (2) to avoid handling the
cured, or partly cured, vines when the
leaves are crisp and dry. Wait until
the moister air of the late afternoon
causes the leaves to be pliant and tough,
and they will not fall off so readily.
The hay may be known to be dry
enough to keep in the barn when the
larger stems will not show moisture
when twisted between the fingers.
The above is the general method that
has been successfully employed at the
station for the past four years.
One ton of well cured pea vine hay is
an average yield per acre, where peas
have been sown on small grain -stubble.
-Fall Oats in North Georgia.
J. H. F..-Kensington. Walker county. (3a.:
Kindly inform me whether I could safely sow
oats in this section in the tall. I know of no
fanner who sows in the fall. The spring sown
Is generally a failure. I am located in Me Fe
rn ore's Cove, between Lookout and Pigeon
mountains. I want to sow 250 or 300 bushels,
but wish your advice before Ido it. I moved
here from Lincoln countv where the custom
was to sow oats in the fall, and I see no great
difference between the condirions here and
there. Our lands are rich and*produce thirty
to forty bushels of corn per acre without maa*
urts of anv kind.
Answered by Director Redding; The
fact that no one in your section sows
oats in the fall might be held as pre
sumptive evidence that the inexpedien
cy of doing so had been long ago de
termined by experience. But 1 would
not let such evidence deter me from
trying the experiment for myself.
When it does escape winter-killing a
fall-sown cTop is so much more product
ive that 1 would sow every fall—at least
half of all my crop—even if not assured
of success more than one year in three.
But every reasonable precaution should
be observed.
1. Secure a hardy, winter variety
such as the “Winter Tuoat, or the
“Henry county” (Va.) oat. The first
named has generally been sold by Mark
W. Johnson Need Cos., of Atlanta, This
is a slow maturing variety, and should
be sown early. It has proven to be the
most hardy to resist freezing than any
of the varieties tested at the station
during the last five years, and is quite
productive.
_2. Now early in the fall—in your sec
tion early in September.
3. Asa rule avoid low-lying, wet bot
tom land. Your dry, valley lands are
not objectionable.
4. Sow liberally, say from two and a
half to four bushels of seed per acre j
and if the land is thin manure well,
using 400 to 800 pounds of good guano,
or a mixture of acid phosphate and cot
ton seed meal per acre, two thirds of
the acid and one third of meal. About
the Ist to loth of March, or even later,
top-dress with 100 pounds of nitrate of
soda per acre, sowing it just before or
just after a rain. This will greatly in
crease the yield of both grain and
stra w.
The above are the special precautions.
The land should be thoroughly and
deeply plowed and harrowed until
smooth and mellow. The seed may be
sown by hand and covered with a cut
a-way harrow, or Morgan spading har
row, or any good harrow, and the sur
face smoothed with a smoothing har
row, or, better still, put in the seed
with a grain drill. The fertilizer
should be applied at the same time the
seed are sown, excepting, of course, the
nitrate of soda, which should be applied
after growth starts in the spring.
The above suggestions will apply to
any section of Georgia, with such mod
ifications as will occur to any thinking
farmer. Farther south the Texas Rust
proof and the Appier (a sub-variety of
tlie Texas R. I*.) may be sown, and the
sowing may be later according as the
latitude is lower.
Big Strawberries.
J. W. K, Columbus, Ga.: What, are the lar
gest varieties of strawberries and what is tho
very best manure for them ? What are the
earliest and best varieties of tomatoes, and
manure for same ? Also same for cantaloupes?
Answer by’Hugh N. Starnes, Horticul
turist: The most uniformly large berry
I know is the Sharpless, It is also ear
ly and of excellent flavor, requiring lit
tle sugar, as it is not acid. It is irreg
ular in shape, but always large and
outsells any other berry two to one in
a home market. Its drawbacks are that
it is not a good shipper, is not a heavy
bearer and is soon over. With all these
taken into consideration, I would nev
ertheless recommend Sharpless unhes
itatingly for a home market. Its ap
pearance alone will sell it, and, after
all, this is what the trucker wants.
Its appearance is not deceptive, either,
for .the buyer, purchasing by’ looks,
gets a good berry in quality.
Next to Sharpless perhaps Havering
comes in as a good second. It is large
and regular, very handsome, deep red,
and mid-season to late. Not of first
quality but sells well on account of
size. Rather soft for shipping. It is a
pistillate (that is, does not self-fertilize)
and must be planted near some per
fectly flowering variety, as Sharpless,
Wilsbn, Michel or Hoffman. One-Tow
of Sharpless, between six of Haverland
will do, though, if planting both kinds,
it Rfmild be best to alternate.
Crescent is another good berry.
Large, bright scarlet, of good flavor
and a prolific, vigorous grower. Pistil
late.
Gandy is another good, large, late
variety, regular, of excellent quality
and ships well.
Hoffman is best large early berry’
for long shipments ; carries ’well;
quality good.
liubach (No. 5) while not so large as
the,others mentioned, should not be
omitted. It is of mid-season and of
good quality. Bederwood, Wolverton,
Jessie (P) aud Charles Downing are all
good berries.
The best manure you can use is a
complete fertilizer, with an addition of
potash either in the form of muriate
of potash or wood ashes. Use all the
stable manure you can command and
in addition from four to six hundred
pounds of any good standard fertilizer,
with the addition per cwt., of twenty
pounds of muriate of potash or one
hundred pounds of unleaehed ashes.
You can make a good formula for
yourself with 820 pounds superphos
phate, 100 pounds nitrate of soda,
and 150 pounds of muriate of potash.
The chemicals can be bought from any
fertilizer house.
Early Tomatoes.
Let it be • borne in mind that the
earliest tomato is not necessarily the
best for the trucker. Methods count
much more than varieties. Skillful
handling by one man may make a small
early tomato a large early tomato,
while in the hands of another it may
lose both in size and date of maturity.
The earliest tomatoes are probably in
their order: Faultless, Puritan, Par
agon, Optimus, Dwarf Champion, Cum
berland Red, Atlantic Prize and Hors
fford’s Prelude, though the latter is
/mall. I think, however, that better
satisfaction would be derived from the
following list, which, though not quite
6o early, naturally, could be made by
the free use of superphosphate, practi
cally as early, and which would give a
larger yield of better aud more market
able fruit for a longer time: Acme,
Trophy, Ponderosa, New Stone, Match
less. 'table Queen, Mikado, Paragon,
Optimus.
For a fertilizer use same formula as for
strawberries, to wit. either a complete
fertilizer ready made, with the addi
tion of tw’enty pounds muriate of pot
ash per cwt:; or 320 pounds superphos
phate, 160 pounds nitrate of soda and
150 pounds muriate of potash. A good
plan would be to use only half the
afhount of nitrate of soda when first
applied, and the remainder in inter
cultural applications, thus prolonging
the bearing season.
Cantaloupes.
Formula for cantaloupes, per acre:
400 pounds superphosphate, 200 pounds
nitrate soda and 100 pounds muriate of
potash. If desired, substitute 450
pounds cotton seed meal for the nitrate.
Earlier melons may be obtained by giv
ing half the ration of nitrate when
land is prepared and remainder inter*
culturally.
Hackensack is the safest cantaloupe
yno can plant, all things considered.
That or Extra, Early Hackensack. Mon
treal Market is also good.
Tomato Hot.
W. B. E., Columbus. Ga. : I write for infor*
mutton regarding certain kind of tomato rot—
for instance, a kind of dry rot affecting the
bloom end of the tomato arid not injuring the
stem end at all. The tomato will begin to rot,
heal over and then ripen, but is not salable.
1 have had ripe tomatoes all along since the
12th of May and would have had several hun
dred dollars wortli hut for that terrible disease.
Have lost about two thirds of my early crop.
Please let me hear from you as I would be very
glad to find out the cause and remedy. I have
spent a great deal trying to raise early toma
toes and would have succeeded admirably had
it not been for that rot. Plants all looi
healthy.
Answer by Hugh N. Starnes, Horti
culturist :
Description is quite meager, but from
what you write the affection is proba
bly a fungus disease called “Phytop
thora Infestans” which also affects the
Irish potato. The Aliments of this fun
gus having gained access to the fruit,
spread rapidly, filling the cells and
robbing them of their substance. This
will result in “dry rot” unless there is
considerable moisture present, when
the ordinary processes of decay come
in, and “wet rot” is the result.
Another fungus—a species of “Ma
crosporium” produces roundish.decayed
areas, becoming black, upon the fruit.
Still another, ‘-Tusarium lyeopersici”
attacks the ripe fruit only, forming a
thick mold over it, at first white, then
reddish.
The remedy for either disease is the
s;i me:
1. Trellis or tie up vines to stakes.
2. Remove all affected fruit at once
and burn to prevent spreading of
spores.
3. Before the fruit has set, while
plants are in bloom, and thereafter at
ten day intervals, for two applications,
apply Bordeaux mixture, using a knap
sack sprayer with Vermorel nozzle.
Formula for Bordeaux Mixture ;
5 pounds copper sulphate (Milestone)
5 pounds lime (must be fresh, not air*
slacked.)
50 gallons (1 barrel) water.
Dissolve copper sulphate (pulverized)
in clean wooden buckets (2 14 pounds to
bucket) 2 gallons water to each bucket.
Pour in a 50 gallon barrel and add, say
20 gallons water, stirring thoroughly.
Ntrain into barrel from buckets,
through the gauze sieve accompany
ing the knapsack sprayer, and buy no
sprayer without the sieve." Slack the
lime in another vessel, diluting, when
cool, to a thin whitewash, and strain
into the Milestone solution through the
gauze sieve, stirring thoroughly. Af
ter this fill barrel with water. Stir
always before using.
The perfected Galloway Knapsack
Sprayvr, of 5 gallon capacity with Ver
morel nozzle and strainer, manufac
tured by the Deming Uo., Salem. Ohio,
price about sls, is perhaps the best
form and cheapest instrument for the
purpose to be found. The Deming
nozzle will probably do as good work
as the Vermorel. Possibly a consid
erable discount could be obtained oa
list price as given above.
Wine Grapes.
H. K. W., Jerusalem, Ga. : Am thinking of
planting, with a view of making wine tljrea
acres in grapes. The land is high, dry, red
land, exposed to the sun at all times of the day,
being a rather round kuoll. It is not rich, but
I expect to improve it. Will such a piece of
laud be suitable for grape culture ? What kind
of grape would best suit this section (Pickens
county)? How thick should they he set?
Should they be trained to a scaffold or confined
in a bunch upon a stake? How much wine
would be a moderate yield to the vine when in
full bearing ? Where can 1 get the vine you
would recommend and what would they cost in
large quantities ?
Answer, by Hugh N. Starnes, Horti
culturist. ,
1. The land described will do very
well, especially on south and west
slopes.
2. For wine in your county (Piekens)
Norton’s Virginia would be the best
grape you could select. It is only suit
able for wine, however, and is not a ta
ble grape.
8. Plant in rows, circling around your
knoll, twelve feet between rows. This
will allow free passage of vehicles. Set
the vines ten feet apart in the rows.
This distance is not too great for ram
pant growing vines of the Aestivalis
species, to which Norton's Virginia be
longs, and will give you more satisfac
tory results than closer planting.
4. Train on a trellis of three wires on
what is known as the “Fan” system*
This is fully described by L. H. Hailey
in a little work entitled “American
Grape Training’’ published by the Ru
ral Publishing Company of New Y'ork.
It is impossible to sufficiently condense
a detail in the limits of this paper. An
excellent and economical method of
training is the “M .nson” system. This
vqu will find fully described in “Our
Native Grape” by Charles Mitzky, pub
lished by Charles Mitzky & Cos. , Roch
ester, N. Y. In this connection [ would
also advise you to purchase “iluss
man’s “American Grape Growing and
Wine Making,” published by the
Orange Judd Cos., New Y’ork. A peru
sal of these three books —none of them
large—will render you pretty well up
in the theory, at least, of grape culture
and wine making. Practice and expe
rience must do the rest for you.
5. Norton’s Virginia ought to yield
you, the third year, an average of live
pounds per vine, if properly eared for.
The fourth year this should reach eight
pounds, and a yield of ten pounds per
vine be reached the fifth year and
maintained thereafter. The latter yield,
would give you per acre, if vines are
set 12x10 as suggested, 3570 pounds of
grapes, on a basis of 857 vines per acre.
This may he considered a medium
yield. At 7 pounds to the vine, 2,500
would of course be the yield. The
amount of wine obtainable depends
considerably on the method of treat
ment ; that is, the amount of water ad
ded and the number of pressings
through which the husks are passed.
California grapes yield only about 180
gallons per ton, but American grapes
will turn out, under skillful treatment,
from 200 to 250 gallons per ton, of fair
ly good claret. Hussman’s “Grape
Growing and Winemaking,” previously
cited, will give you full information on
this head.
6. For vines, write for special prices
per thousand to either of the following
parties: P. J. Berekmans, Augusta,
Ga. ; G. H. Miller & Son, Rome, Ga.;
Rush & Son & Meissner, Bush berg. Mo.,
or Elewanger & Harry, Rochester. N. Y.
On your acreage you will require some
thing less than 1,500. They ought to
cost you not more than §35 per thou
sand, if so much.
If you keep your milk in the cellar
along with turnips, potatoes and rotten
pumpkins, and have no other plaee to
keep milk and cream, sell your cows.
In nearly all cases three feeds a day
is all that a cow can eat and digest, and
giving her more than this is usually
more or less-of a waste.