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The Search-Light. 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- ’. <* *