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BAINBUIDUK, MAY 18, 1901.
A PERSEVERING MONKEY.
Profeasor Cnrufr' Bury of Neill*
Anti tlir MnH'lilios.
Monkeys ore ill ways happy If they
lime plenty to cat and something to
piny with. Professor It. I-. Garner, In
his “Apes and Monkeys," says tlmt he
reenlls no investment which ever yield-
e l a greater return In pleasure than a
certain little pocket match safe, which
cost St cents. lie gave It to n little
monkey. Nellie by name, after putting
li to It a small key to make It rattle
and some lilts of candy.
She rattled the box and found much
pleasure lu the noise. 1 showed her
how to press the spring In order to
open the box, but her little black Au
gers were not strong enough to release
the spring.
However, she caught the Idea and
knew that the spring was the secret . . . . „ , 01 , ,, vpr .
which held the box closed. When she cro P bas in thi ® ««« e ' beeu 60 °' er
found that she could not open It with shadowed by cotton and rice ns not to
SUGAR CANE INDUSTRY
ITS lJEVlVAt, IN IiOWh.lt COUN
TIES OK t.EOKGIA PUOJIlfcKS
UHKA r RESULTS.
ITS SUCCESS IN THE PAST
The Painoti* Hopeton Plantation In
Uiyuu Oouaty—Succes-ful Results
Acute veil There Year. Ago.
The Department of Agriculture has
made constant and earnest efforts to
brity about a revival of the sugar cane
industry in Georgia. The revival has
come and promises great results. This
industry has never entirely ceased, and
for the last few years has grown much
in importance.
Although Louisiana obtained her first
sugar cane from Georgia, this valuable
lier lingers, she tried It wltlr her teeth.
Falling In this, she turned to the wall,
and. standing uprlrht on the top of
her cage, she took the box In both I ,
bunds and struck the spring agulnst 1“ cotton, and in this section the nin--
receive the attention which its merits
deserve. Yet in the lower counties
there is morn money in sugar cant than
the wall until the 11 1 flew ..pen.
She was perfectly delighted lit the
result, and for the hundredth time at
least I dosed the box for her to open
,lt lignite.
The next time Nellie received the
match safe she was In her cage, and
through its uieshes she cpttld not reach
the wall. She hod nothing against
which to strike the spring to force It
open.
After looking around and striking the
liox several times ugalust the wires of
the cage, she discovered if block of
wood ill ion l six Inches square. She
took this olid mounted her perch. Bui-
iniclng the block on the perch, she held
It with the left foot, while with the
light loot she dung to the perch. With
her lull wound around the meshes of
the cage to steady herself, she care*
iully adjusted the matchbox In such a
Ui.mner us to protect her lingers from
the blow. Then she struck the spring
ugalust the block of wood, and the lid
lug of syrup from sugar caue has doubled
In the last two or throe years.
As far back as 1829 there was built on
the plantation of James Hamilton Uou-
per a large sugar house, which at the
time of its erection was in advance of
any similar plant in Louisiana or the
West Indies. This Hopeton plantation,
under the management of Mr. Couper, a
gentleman of wealth and of the highest
culture, was declared by Editor J. D.
Legare of The Southern Agriculturist of
Charleston, S. O., to he decidedly the
host plantation that he had ever visited.
Here the raising of caue and the manu
facture therefrom of syrup and sugar
gave the most satisfactory results.
Sir Charles Lyell, the distinguished
English geologist and scholar, who vis
ited Hopeton in 1840, bore testimony to
the successful management of the plan-
flow open. . ...
She fairly screamed with delight 09 I talkiu in every detail
•Bln* hell u;> the I ox.
The cotton nud rice industries after
the war so absorbed the interests of the
people of southern Georgia, that the
cultivation of sugar caue was neglected,
ICrnumua, the ' and the magnificent sugar mill, once so
successfully operated by Mr. Couper,
was allowed to fall Into ruins, and a
few years ugo the machinery was sold
for scrap iron. I
This noted plantation is in Glynn
county, 5 miles by wuter from Darien,
1C by land from Brunswick and 15 miles
from the Atlantic ocean.
What Slim Hus Hone Man Cun l)u
Again.
A full account of the Hopeton planta
tion and its great sugar plant is given
in a new book on Sugar Caue, published
by Captain D. G. Purse of Savannah, !
Go. This useful little work has at
tracted the attention of “The Louisiana
CAME IN TO BE HANGED.
A Story ToKI or A.l>rl
dorr, niul lord Wolseley.
A good (dory Is told of the old Boer,
Abel Erasmus, and Lord Wolseley,
ttiiii Sir Garnet Wolseley. In couitcc-
tlon with the part .Erasmus took lu
Wolschy's campaign in 1871) against
SckuUtml, the chief of the Bapedla. on
the holders of Swaziland After the
capture of Sckukunl he was Immedi
ately brought before Sir Gurnet Wolse-
U-,v. who asked him bow be, a misera
ble Knltlr, lit lug in a cave, dined to
defy the great queen of England. The
chief replied that he.had been Insti-
Riiied to do so by Abel Erasmus.
Sir Gurnet lu describing the neene at
« public dinner given to him at Preto
ria on his return from.the campaign
said that tie wished there and then to Planter and Sugar Manufacturer," a
t^t Abel Erasmus know that If ever be | weekly paper of New Orleans, La., and
tn"! '* 1 a 1 Erasmus had been Inciting ! the leading sugar journal of the world,
mi l chic! to levy win against England ^ieh in a recent issue republishes Cap-
mu' "e was able to lay hhmls on him | taiu Pur „- S -Recollections of Hopeton
Abel Erasmus would hang ns high nx:
|, |1|n||t| Plantation, with the accompanying il-
A few days after the dinner sir Hen | lustratlcm ^ r - Conper’s sugar mill,
ry Bracken bury Sir Garnet s military | umi utters these encouraging words:
necreiury. was sitting In his office i "It may be that Georgia will again
wt en a lull, bearded Boer entered and engage in caue sugar production, and
■kited permission to speak with him. ; the experiences of its own past, as re-
I aii| Atiei Erasmus, lie said, "and corded at Hopeton plantation, indicate
1 have very Important business to do
here."
He explained that he had come to
see Sir tiiiruel Wolseley for he had
heard I lull Sir Gurnet hud said that If
lie could In.: hold ot him he would hang
him. and so be had come to be hanged
Sb Garnet was m the next loom, nud
Sir Hctirv Bracken bury thought It
would lie advisable to consult him on
ti e subject Sit Garnet, however, hap
petted lo lie too busy at life moment to
see anybody, nod Sir Henry after re-
Ihvllon persuaded Ills angry visitor to
take ills leave and allow the hanging
lo stand over for the time.
the certainty of industrial suocess,
should the experiment be again made. ”
To those happy predictions of an ed
itor iiviug in the grea\ city of New Or
leans, the commercial center of a vast
sugar industry, may be added the still
more encouraging fact that a section of
southwest Georgia has for'several years
past been furnishing undoubted prouf
that Georgia has in her power the abil
ity to add a new orop, which will pour
untold wealth into her treasury and
into the pockets of her people. Captain
Purse has recently interested United
8tates Agricultural Commissioner Wil-
An Alderman!? null, I * ou 111111 Dr - H - w - Wiley, chief chern-
Some Him- ago a follower of one of ist of the U IlitBd States dspartmefit, in
the city aldermen cast covetous glances the sugar caue of Georgia and Florida,
upon a desirable newsstand under the and In furtherance of this end he is
elevitiod rullruad stairs. Straight lie gathering samples of soils to be nualyz-
uciu to Ins friend, the alderman, and ed for their sugar producing qualities,
made known Ids wishes, which were au d a9 the cane matures in the fall
ti nt the tows dealer should lie evicted
from tbi* locality.
"All right, me boy. leave It to me," . , . ,
wild the cltv father and began lo pull lu th,s sreot 8toto tbau ulau llas 7*' a °-
wires Finally lie got an order direct- ( eowplished or formed a eonc-'p.ion of.
Ing the newsdealer to show cause why j Cassava,
be should not get out. but that obstl- Our excuse for speakiug agaiu of su-
nate Individual still remained. Then gar caue and cassava is that the only
hi drew up a formal complaint, which wny t0 nrouse w ?ctiou ou au ' y
line is to continue appenlmg to them
many hundred samples will be sent him
for analysis. Vastly more can be doue
>1ul v In til in Wore one of the |i d-:»-
Tie euaiplnitit ..ftei te'ibi. r- A the
l v vvsdealel l.,i v b--v*o ordeled to leave
aim had tint dv.nc so concludes
"And now we have to complain,
vein honor tint u»t only is tbs same
It I" '. still there, but the defendant hits
r-p’ii cd '1 Ivy a hi veer one."- New
\ i i .* • v.mtti. mul Ail > c. i s,. .
mid Keeping them ever reminded of
those things which pertain to thttr pros
perity. The late couvuuttou ur Lruus-
wick has arcused a spirit ot inquiry,
mnuilested by letters received by the
Department of Agriculture concerning
bo h -agar o.itic uud cassava
When the farmers of southern Geor- i
gia go extensively into the cultivation of |
these two important crops, sugar mills j
and starch factories will join the cotton j
mills in giving employment to thou- ;
sands and adding to the wealth and |
greatness of the "Empire State of the i
South.” Exhortation should follow ex- '
honatiou and line upon line aud pre
cept upon precept be added, until every .
industry in Georgia has been established
upon an enduring basis. We do not ad
vise the planting of large areas in cas
sava until proper tests have been made.
But we do urge our farmers, as far as
possible, to plant small patches of it aud
make a thorough test of its adaptability
to South Georgia. ,
Diversity Your Crops.
We have uttered many warnings
against planting too large an acreage of (
cotton. Of course no warning -.vhioh is j
unheeded by the majority of planters j
can result in immediate good; but the ,
repeated exhortations on this line have
been sent torch with ilie hope of some
day bringing about umoug southern j
planters such co-operation as will de- I
liver them from their present thraldom
to unscrupulous speculators. 1
But encouraging progress is evidenced
by the rapidly increasing number of I
those who raise sufficient home supplies |
to make them independent of the west- |
ern corn crib and western pork aud beef, j
On many a farm the well-stored smoke- I
house aud commodious barn tilled with j
the in-gathering Horn the fertile fields j
bears testimony to the thrift and euter- i
prise of the owner, whose pride it is to ■
point out to the visitor at his hospitable i
home not only his fields of snowy cot- •
ton, but also his broad acres of corn, I
wheat, oats and other grains, th* luxu- |
riant grass or pea vines just ready for
the hay maker, his garden planted with
many kinds of vegetables suggestive of
varied and wholesome fare, and his pas
ture beautified by cureiully reared stock
of the finest breeds. '
As the proprietor of an estate like this
sits at sunset on some little spot of ele
vated ground, with delighted eye he
views the landscape o’er, and to bis ear
there comes the distant music of the
tinkling bolls as his lowing herds “wind
slowly o’er the lea." Then, as he turns
his footstep homeward and hears as he
draws nigh, the cheerful song of his
wife and the merry voices of his chil
dren, he knows there are loving eyes
that will greet him at the door aud look
brighter for his coming.
Diversify your crops; practice econ
omy and thrift; make evetj cultivated
acre pay. Then, even though your farm
may now be small and an humble cot-
tago your homo, the day may come
when competence will reward your la
bors. With fertile fields aud an attrac
tive home, there will be no trouble
about keeping your ambitious boys on
the farm.
Early Cultivation of Corn.
In these early days of May most of tho
corn has been planted, and now care must
be taken to give it proper cultivation.
Early working, so that no grass or nox
ious weeds may hinder the growth of
the tender stalks, is the essential thing
for the expected harvest. Good aud
faithful work now and careful supervi
sion of the hands employed will give
your corn a good start, and the same
kind of work persevered in to the end
will, with favorable seasons, secure a
paying crop.
Plant Peas Now.
; Now is the time to plant your peas,
between the rows of corn, or, if you
huve laud to spare aud prefer it. in a
, field^apart. Our soil produces uo better
1 orop. It enriches the laud ou which it
grows; the succulent peas afford excel
lent food for stock aud also for the ta
ble, besides the pea vine makes an ex
cellent hay when it has been properly
cured and housed,
j Cotton.
Every farmer in Georgia knows that
cotton must have plenty, of sunshine
aud must be so managed as not to over
task the laud by requiring so much of
its strength for the stalk that there will
not be enough left to nourish the fruit.
The plants must not be allowed to
come up too close together, for iu that
case there will be too much shade aud
, too much of the plant will run to stalk,
j Be sure to clean out the cotton well,
thinning out so that the young plants
i niay be from 18 inches to 8 feet apart in
the drill, being controlled as regards
distance by the fertility of the land,
i Of course the intelligent farmer’s ex-
; perieuce, obtained by years of careful
planting aud attention, will greatly aid
him iu his decision as to the proper dis
tance.
lb-* s-renr thine to b" desired is that
tile stains w.iea grown »a.;li bare.v
meet ui rue row. X'ht-u the plants will
be m coui'.it.ou to secure the ■‘iretigtu
o' tee (and tor the trait, and rhe uv-
prove production to the ucre will be in-
t.-ea—li.
O E. t?T"Vvxs. ' on muNie :«r.
FERTILIZATION FACTS
IN I'ERK' : TING©BSKRV A I’lONS OK
AS EXPKHIKXl ED A.iKlCLL»
1 URAL CHEJllsT.
made, some white sancf
oughly burned, to destroy ;h
ble matter there might be j,
then thoroughly washed with
water v to remove any soluble
matter and just leave pure jjjYT
being put into a box, a seed 0 f
j planted and watered with distiijL
i ter, or water containing no •
The seed, after sprouting and ^
as long as it conld subsist on th e f'
the original grain of corn, was«
dried, all the water being driven i.
ou oven kept at the temperature J3
ing water, and then the renminbi
To Georgia Farmer: I wrote you last j matter was weighed. It was foundJ
year a series of letters devoted almost : the weight far exceeded the w f ,j
exclusively to the feedlhg of live stock, ; the original grain of corn, aud a | w
PLANT LIFE IS ANALYZED
Valuable Information Learned From
the Books aud I- rom an Extensive
Practical Experience.
the preparation of scientific rations and
to the general principles underlying the
scientific feeding of stock. As you have
asked me squinny questions about ferti
lizers, I propose now to write you a se
ries of letters on that subject, giving
you the benefit of what I mny have
learned from boobs and from my exper
ience as an agricultural chemist.
As rhe prime object of farming and
of fertilization is the raising of crops,
this excess weight consisted emit
carbon hydrogen and oxygen-
qneutly, they must have come In
air aud water, a9 they could
from uo other source.
The atmosphere contains i
abundance of these elements,
hydrogen and oxygen, which are, 0 |
essary to plant liie, so that it will»
neeessarf for us to trouble abouuka
studying the subject of fertilizer*,j
we will begin by considering briefly I they aBt given "without moue;
plant life.
What is a plant? Let us examine and
make a rough analysis of one. Full up
a green and vigorous plant, brash
the dirt from the roots and throw it
down upon the ground with the rays of
the sun beating upon it. Soon it as
sumes a peculiar appearance, which
we call ••wilted.'’ Had you taken the
precaution to weigh the plant when you
first pulled it up aud then weighed it
agaiu after a few hours, when it looked
badly wilted, you would find that it had
lost weight. By putting the fresh
plant under a specially constructed
glass vessel aud setting it in the sun,
you could prove to your own satisfac
tion that the cause of the loss iu weight
was due to the loss of water. The wa
ter in the plant heated by the sun rises
as vapor, aud if you had tho special
glass vessel I speak of you could see the
water of the cotton plant condense iu
the cool part of the vessel in drops,
which you could collect and weigh; aud
if you were provided with sufficiently
delicate instruments, you would find
the weight of this condensed water
from the cotton plant was exacrly
equal to the loss in weight which it
sustained alter being badly wilted.
Young plants’ and vegetables fre
quently contain as much as nine-tenths
of their weight of water.
Iu making hay we dry out the water
of the grass iu the sun, aud when the
grass has lost all the water it will iu this
way, it is said, be • ‘cured, ’’ and becomes
hay. This air dry grass or hay still
contains from 8 to 12 per cent of water,
which can be driven out of it by heating
it to the temperature of boiling water.
If we should do thut, what was loft
| would bo the "dry matter” of the plant.
This dry matter of the plant contains
all the valuable elements for which the
plant was grown. If we examine this
dry matter further, we find in a general
way that it is composed of two binds of
bodies, one of which will burn, or the
combustible, and another kind which
will not barn, the incombustible or the
ash. That purt of the plant which burns
or goes up in smoke is derived very
largely from the air, and is gaseous in
its nature.
j If, now, we were to analyze these
I gnses which escape on burning the
plant-, and then analyze the ash which
was left* we should find that, besides the
nine-tenths water which the original
plant contained, the remaining tenth
contained these elements—carbon, hv-
drogen, oxygen, nitrogen, potash, mag
nesia, lime, iron phosphorus aud sulphur
as essential elements; that is to say, we
should certainly find all those elements
present, as no plant could exist without
| them, eaoh one being jnsc as necessary
as the other to the growth aud life of
tho plant; and if any one of them were
cut out, the others being present, the
plant could not develop.
Besides those elements just men
tioned, however, we should also find iu
the ashes of the plant silica, chlorine,
soda and manganese, and sometimes a
few other elements, though none of
these last are absolutely necessary to
the growth aud development of plant
: life.
i These ash elements, as we may call
them, are all derived from the soil.
I Ninety-five per cent of the dry matter
l of the plant comes out of the air. and is
derived from the gases which exist in
the air, the remaining 5 per cent of the
dry matter being the asnes which come
out of the soil. So yon see the mineral
part, which comes from the soil, is only
a verv small part ot the original plant,
but vet it is just as essential to rue I>J?-
un.i gr -wtnoi tbe plant ns any or ail
of the others.
Pvrnaps you would like to know how
it was discovered that rhe air iurnisiiLd
ahr g j arr ot rue drv marter or the
I 1 ’--■ ■ A.. x., :l._viil .ixe .his was
without price."
The ash elements which make*
per cent of the dry matter of
will coucern us very nearly, amiaji
come out of the soil, I will write t
my next letter about the soil anl
elements—those which are
and those which are scarce.
Joins M. McOaxdle
State Cheat
THE LUSCIOUS STRAWSElj
Can Be Cut ivated In Difl’ereotlj
and Temperatures.
Among the spring luxuries of
ble is the strawberry, which is i
to such widely different soiUfund^
peratures, that those possessing i
the sunillest garden patch mayl
enough for rheir own use, if then
desire’ A plot only 20 or 30 feet g
will with proper attention prod*
supply that will surprise those uatj
customed to tho cultivation of thi
licious fruit.
There is great demand for strati
ries in all our larger towns,
raised in Florida begin to come u]
ward the middle of March, and t
they begin to grow scarce the Gs
berries are ready to come in. Tliei
ket gardeners of oar state would 8
profitable to raise this favortto frui
the states north of ns.
It is too late now to plant furl
season, but not too late to get.reada
another. Those set out in the sfl
will produce very few berries the I
year. The chief aim for the first j
should be the production ot
plants, which will be less liable i
killed by the cold of winter than (
set out iu the tallT If such plana
secured they will with proper oarej
duce an abundant supply iu tlief
season.
Strawberries should be cultivate
hoed at least three times the
But, if this is done every two or ^
weeks from early in April until C
ber, the weeds will be thoroughly |
down so that they will
wedged in between the plants,
the season for berries comes tbt
this care aud attention will
rewarded.—State Agricultural
meat.
liritmrksoti Cattle Qii«ra»<l ae l
Dr. Rice P. Steddom, United I
cattle inspector for the district
the Mississippi, a few dayi-
pressed himself as highly p!<
the work doue by the uepurtu.-’J^
riculture on the line of gettmi 0
tie rid of the tick and seeurmf
ing of the quarantine hue. Be:
Georgia was perhaps doing 'witiej
any of the other southern luattf
that in appreciation of the work
this state the United States ." v *
had decided to appoint a sp e ; al
tor for Georgia, his salary to be
the government of the Unit •
It has been the aim of the AH"
ral Department to encourap
of the cattle raisers of Gi- : 'o 15
destruction of that daugernu=
tick, known as the boophiius
encouraging success, which ut»
ed these efforts, is very grant' !D "1
and l'ead^ us to hope for still
suits in the future.—State -i
Department.
Not Peculiar.
Tess—I see a notice in tJf
the wedding of Mrs. Nubr.w
Jess—Yes; I know her very
Tess—Do you? What v . ■
on mime?
Juss—I xuppose her tun■
to get n:nnit*d.—Fhi'.i’.ili -i'" -
Captain John Smith r.c
lifetime succeeded In <
English that Ylrviuln v
Ini: 1. la v- ’. <* *