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FARMERS’ COLCMN3.
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*HB GEORGIA KXPKKIXtVT BTATIOX
EXFKKIMEXT, GA.
St*t Dai rTßfa't A**rxriatioa.
The gTOwinflr interest in the business
of dairying, the soeces* attained at the
Experiment station dairy in tue man
tifaeture of cheese as well as butter,
and the great need of organization
atn-mtr dairymen for the dissemination
of information, and for other purposes,
have suggested the expediency of form
ing a State iJairymen’s Association.
Circular letters have hen 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 th
circular letter :
1. Do you approve the proposed organization?
Answer:
St. If you approve, at what place do you think
U would be most convenient and expedient to
bold the first meeting for the purpose of organ
ization 1
Answer :....
X On what date (some date in August is -mg
s' ••HX.)
Ans wer:
1 Will vou attend the first meeting and take
part in its organization and deliberations f
Also give names and address of others who
will attend from your county
Answer:
5 Will you authorize the Director of this sta
te n after condderinz suggestions under t and
4 to appoint the time: and place and issue a
call for such a meeting ?
Answer :
Sign your name
Poet office
County
The replies to the circular received so
far are uniformly favorable to the
scheme —many of them enthusiastically
ao —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 So. 5. There are doubt
less many persons interested who have
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 aIL If, therefore, von 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 reduced rates of fare on the rail
roads.—R. J. Reddiso, Director.
ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES.
[Under this bead short inquiries from fann
•o, on practical farm topic* will be 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
office and addressed to the "Director Georgia
Experiment Station. Experiment, Ga."]
Curing Pea Vines.
[By the Director.]
Several inquiries have been received
as to the best method of curing pea
vines, and an answer has 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 hav 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 I because the stems are more
succulent) than when 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 Snore 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 with ripe
peas.
2. It is better to cut with a regular
horse mower, but a short, strong scythe
blade will answer for small areas.
3. 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 five 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 dry enough to
haul and store away in the barn, which
will be in the course of three or four
days, varying according to circumstan
ces. If the weather should become
showery, stack poles about twelve feet
high s nould 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 foam 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 be
placed around the staekpole, dressed
down as smoothly as may be, and the
top capped with long straw, or crab
grass, or with a patent, wood-pulp hay
cap. The objeet 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 readfly.
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 Oat in North Georgia.
J. H. F., Kensington. Walker county. Ga.:
Kindly inform me whether X could safely sow
oats in this section in the fall. I know of no
farmer who sows in the fall. The sprintr sown
i-. generally a failure. I am located in McLe
m. 're’s Cove, between lookout and Pigeon
m untains. I want to sow 250 or 300 bushels,
bi I v. ish your advice before Ido it. Xme red
hr. <- :ri>m Lincoln countv where the custom
v.'.’s to sow oats in the fall, and I see no great
difference between the conditions here and
t>-xe. Our lauds are rich and produce thirty
t* forty bushels of corn per acre without man
ure of any hind.
Answered by Director Redding: The
fact that no one in your section sows
cats 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 I would
not let such evidence deter me from
trying the experiment for myself.
\Vhen it does escape winter-killing a
fall-sown crop is so much more product
ive that I 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 Turf” oat, or the
“Henry county” (Va.) oat. The first
named has generally been sold by Mark
W. Johnson Seed 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. Sow early in the fall—in your seo
tion early in September.
3. Asa rule avoid low-1 ving, 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 ;
and if the land is thin manure well,
using 400 to 000 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 15th of March, or even later,
top-dress with 100 pounds of nitrate of
soda per acre, sowinsr it lust before or
just an.tr a rain, xms wm greauy in
crease the yield of both grain and
straw, * s
The above are the special precautions.
The land should be thoroughly and
deeply plowed and harrowed until
xm:.->th and mellow. The seed may be
sown by Land 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 sowp. 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 anv thinking
farmer. Farther south the Texas Rust
proof and the Appier (a sub-variety of
the Texas R. P.j may be sown, and the
sowing mar be later according as the
latitude is lower.
Bis Strawberries.
J. W. L., Columbus. Ga.: What are the lar
gest varieties of strawberries and rfhat is the
very best manure for them f What are the
earliest and best varieties of tomatoes, and
manure for same ? Also same for cantaloupes?
Answer by Hugh X. btaraes. Horticul
turist: The most uniformly large berry
I know is the Sharpless, ft 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 eonrideration. 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 berrv in qaality.
Next to Sharpfess perhaps Haverland
comes in as a good second. It is large
and regular, very handsome, deep ryd,
aEd 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 selT-fertilize)
and must be planted near some per
fectly flowering variety, as Sharp]ess,
Wilson. Michel or Hoffman. One row
of Sharpless between six of Haverland
will do. though, if planting both kinds,
it would 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 fe best large early berry
for long shipments ; carries well;
quality good.
iiuhacb (No. 5) while not so large as
the others mentioned, should not be
omitted. It is of mid-season and of
good quality. liederwood, Wolverton,
Jessie IP) and Charles Downing are all
good berries.
The best manure you can use is a
complete fertilizer, with an addition of
potash either in the forin 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
ponnds of muriate of potash or one
hundred pounds of unleached ashes.
You can make a gf>od formula for
yourself with 390 pounds superphos
phate, 160 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
ford’s Prelude, though the latter is
small. I think, however, that better
satisfaction would be derived from the
following list, which, though not quite
so early, naturally, ‘could be made by
the free use of superphosphate, practi
cally as early, and which would give a
larger yield of better and 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 twenty 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
amount 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
cuitu rally.
Haskensack is the safest cantaloupe
yno can plant, all things considered.
That or Extra Early Hackensack. Mon
treal Market is also good.
Tomato Rot.
W. B. Ik, Columbus, Ga.: I write for infor
mation regarding a certain kind of tomato rot—
for instance, a kind of dry rot affecting the
bloom end of the tomato and 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 worth but 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 tor that rot. Plants all look
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. “Fusarium lycopersici”
attacks the ripe fruit only, forming a
thick mold over it, at first white, then
reddish.
The remedy for either disease is the
same:
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 Verinorel nozzle.
Formula for Bordeaux Mixture :
5 pounds copper sulphate (Bluestone)
5 pounds lime (must be fresh, not air
slacked.)
50 gallons (1 barrel) water.
Dissolve copper sulphate (pulverized)
in clean wooden buckets (2>i pounds to
bucket) 2 gallons water to each bucket.
Pour in a 50 gallon barrel and add. say
20 gallons water, stirring thoroughly.
Strain 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 bluestone solution through the
gauze sieve, stirring thoroughly. Af
ter this fill barrel with water. Stir
always before using.
The perfected Galloway Knapsack
Sprayer, of 5 gallon capacity with Ver
morel nozzle and strainer, manufac
tured by the Deming Cos., Sslom, Ohio,
price about 815, is perhaps the best
torm 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 cquld be obtained on
list price as given above.
A DETECTIVE’S STORY.
“A!though the law protects a police
officer in the execution of his doty,*’
said one of Mr. Byrne s detectives tie
other day, “yet there are occasions
when the officer makes himself per
sonally liable by arresting a citizen.
I have had several experiences which
left me in doubt for a long time as to
my personal responsibility, and I re
member particularly one case where
it looked as though I would get my
self into a heap of trouble by refusing
to take the advice of my friends. That
was a very peculiar case, one that I
will not forget.
“I had become interested in trying
to work out the solution cf a mysteri
ous case of theft, and had become so
absorbed in my work that my curi
osity and desire to come to some defi
nite conclusion impelled me to go be
yond ordinary bounds. I had nothing
but suspicion and a sort of intuitive
feeling to act upon, and had against
me a threat of suit for personal dam
ages and the opposition of all those
persona who were interested in the
matter in one way or another. The
facts were simply these :
“A wealthly family living on the
west side, not far from Central Park,
lost a number of valuable articles in
the most mysterious fashion. I was
acting as the detective in that precinct
at the time, and the captain sent me
around to ferret out the thief. I
found that the people lived in a beau
tiful house, which was just full of
valuable articles that could easily be
stolen by a person who had access to
them. On the other Land, it was
difficult for a burglar or a sneak thief
to get in, as the place was not only
guarded by good locks but had also a
burglar alarm, which was set when
ever the family and servants retired.
During the day and evening there
were enough persons about the house
to soot any thief that might effect an
entrance.
“The family consisted of husband,
wife and baby, aDd there were four or
five servants, including a nurse. The
latter had it about as easy as any ser
vant could wish for. Her employers
were Canifornians, had lots of money,
doted on their child, and were liberal
to its caretaker. They had been ab
sent for about a week, and it was
during their absence that the thefts
became so alarmiDg as to cause them
to complain to the police when they
returned.
“I was so well satisfied, after a
short preliminary examination of the
house and surroundings, that the thief
was inside and not outside, that I de
voted all my time to watching and
cross-examining the servants. I had
no difficulty with any except the
nurse. She was very uppish and short,
and acted as though she considered
my questions insulting. In this atti
tude she was supported by her em
ployers, who said that there was no
reason in the world for suspecting her,
while they were Bot so certain of the
other servants. The latter, however,
were so direct and frank in their re
plies to all my questions that I be
came convinced that they were inno
cent. I therefore turned my atten
tion to the nurse, and watched her
whenever I went to the house. Al
though I could get no evidence against
her, I became thoroughly convinced
that she was the thief. Try as I
would, however, I could not find any
thing to support my belief. Finally,
my ardor led me into formally arrest
ing her, although her master and mis
tress protested against my doing so.
I took her before a police justice sit
ting at Yorkville. Now, I had known
this justice for a number of years,
and, as a matter of fact, it was through
his influense that I had secured my
place on the force. He had always
treated me like a son, and I was
therefore very much amazed and put
back at his conduct on this occasion.
“I had no sooner arraigned the wo
man and started to explain my charge
against her than he became very in
different, and said sharply:
“ ‘You have made a mistake, man.
I know that this woman is not guilty.
Why, she was employed in my own
family for a number of years, and I
know her to be as honest a woman as
ever breathed. You had no right to
arrest her, and if she brings suit
against you I will have to testify in
her favor Whore is your
against her?’
“I still felt confident that I was
right, and so I braced up and said to
the judge:
“ ‘I will get the evidence if you will
remand her.’
“‘I won tdo it,’ 6aid the judge,
very hotly. ‘I will discharge her.’
“ ‘lf you do,’ said I, getting a little
excited, too, ‘I will re arrest her.’
“My manner must have impressed
him, for he finally did remand her,
although very unwillingly. I worked
all that night trying to get some clue,
and visited forty or fifty pawn shops
in the hope of finding the missing
articles. Still I was unable to get a
single bit of evidence. The next day,
when I was taking her to court, I no
ticed that she carried a pocketbook in
her hand, which bad eecaped my ob
servation when she was searched in
the police station. I asked her to let
me see it, and she appeared unwilling
to do so. I took it from her and ex
amined it carefully. There was noth
ing in it but a few dollars in money.
I watched her closely while I went
over the pocketbook a second time.
I Mtw tfcht she was watching me out
of the corners of her eyes. That con
vinced me that there was some story
which that pocketbook would tell if I
only could get at it. Of course I had
no right to destroy her property, but
again my feeling that sh* was guilty
and that I must prove her so over
powered my sense of discretion, and
I began to pocketbook apart.
Finally I came across a pawn ticket,
which had been slipped in through a
slit in the outside cover, which had
then been pasted down so that it was
not noiicable.
“The woman didn't seem alarmed
even then, but I felt that I had come
upon a tangible clue.
“ ‘Where did you get that?' I asked
her. ‘Oh, it belongs to my sister,"
she said carelessly.
“ ‘Where is your sister ?’ asked L
She gave me an address and I said
nothing further.
“The judge was angrier than ever
when I brought her up in court the
second day, and had to confess that
I had not secured any further evi
dence. I had to argue with him a
long time before he would consent to
remand her again, and again he
warned me that if the woman brought
a personal suit against me he would
testify in her favor. After I took her
back to the station I went to the ad
dress at which the woman said her
sister lived. It was bogus. I then
went to the pawnbroker and looked up
the article represented by the pawn
ticket Although it was not down in
the list of things taken from the house
of the Californians, I knew at once
that it did not belong to the nurse,
and that it must have been stolen from
somebody. I tried anew policy then.
I went into the cell where the woman
was and I said to her:
“ ‘I am sorry that I have caused you
so much trouble, but I see I have
made a mistake.’ ‘Yes, and you’ll
pay for it, too,’ she said very Bharply.
‘Well,’ said I, ‘I hope you won’t be
too hard on me ; I was only trying to
do my duty. I went to-day to the ad
dress you gave m*>, but I found your
sister didn't live there. I caught her,
though, at your master’s house this
afternoon when she came there to in
quire for you. I got her dead to
rights, as she bad a lot of pawn tick
ets for the stuff, and she said that she
took it when she came to visit you.’
“The woman caught her breath,
gasped, clenched her hande, and yelled
out in fury : ‘She lied, she didn’t
take it! I took it!’
“TheD, supposing that I had really
caught her sister, and that the latter
had confessed in order to save her,
she broke down and gave away the
whole story. She had been stealing
all the time, had pawned the stuff,
and left the pawn tickets in the care
of her sister. She told me where the
stuff was pawned, and I got it to
gether that night It included all
sorts of thing 3 , and made a big cart
load. I had it ell in court the next
morning, and compelled the Californi
an to identify it against his wilL The
best of all, however, was the fact that
I got evidence that she had stolen
from the Polic Justice, too, when she
was in his family, and I had the pleas
ure of returning to him the things
which she had takeD, but which he
had never missed.
“Once I actually had suit brought
against me by a woman. She brought
one suit against me for $25,000 for
defamation cf character, and another
for SIO,OOO for false imprisonment. I
had arrested her, and she had been
discharged for lack of evidence. I
followed her for four months after she
was discharged, aDd finally caught
her entering a pawn shop. It was a
little place out of the usual run, and I
had never thought of going there be
fore. I got all the evidence I wanted
then, and re-arrested her. Her suits
were never brought to trial.
“In each of these cases, however,
it was only my persistency and deter
mination that saved me from trouble.
If I hadn’t stuck to it I probably
would have got into serious difficulty,
for I was not acting strictly within
the lines of my official duty.”—New
York Sun.
BAB.
LUCY DAYTON PHILLIPS.
In a sheltered bit of cove on the
Pacific coast, just out of reach of the
treacherous waves and shielded from
the stormy winds by the rugged cliff*
that encompassed it, stood some years
ago the small, rude hut of a fisher
ma-\
It was almost hidden from the eight
of man by the grey rocks on one side
and masses of strangely lovely eea
weed and mosses on the other ; and
altogether was as lonely and desolate
a habitation as could be found on that
barren, tempest-beaten shore.
Yet Bab, the old man’s only daugh
ter and solitary companion, who had
never been away from the cove more
than a single day in all her sixteen
years, cared nothing for companion
ship. Loneliness, like fear, was a
stranger to her dauntlees young
breast. She had grown used to soli
tude—to living alone with her own
thoughts—scarce lees free, wild sr.d
pure than the winds that tossed Lor
hair and fanned her cheek—and in
that fanciful ear of hers voices b? emed
to speak in the weird moan of the
restless waves, in the lapping tide
that came and went with the monoto
nous days and silent nights.
But gladly would she have been
deaf to those mysterious voices, since
they ever seemed whispering to the
poor fisherman's lass of the cruel
wrecks and perished crews with which
her young heart —tender as well as
brave—had grown all too familiar on
this dangerous coast- There were
certain terrible sights and sound?,
fearful happenings close to this hid
den shelter she called ‘'home,” the
girl would fain blot from her memory
forever. She had often been sadden
ed—sickened—by the false glitter of
those crested waves and the deadly
evil wrought by the rocks beneath—
rocks concealed only by the sapphire
beauty of the sea that laughed so
lightly above them.
And Bab knew, too—none better—
the signs that boded ill to the passing
ships. And when a day begun
stormily—as this had done—when the
air grew heavy and the fitful sob of
the wind had changed into a Bullen
roar, as now, she was restless and de
pressed.
As she watched in the wild dawn
, from a high ledge of rocks her father's
boat speed away over the foaming hil
lowg that morning, the child wonder
ed at the heaviness of her own heart.
A nameless dread of death and danger
possessed her.
“What is it fashes me so the day?*’
she asked herself in the quaint dialect
of her people, as she climbed down
the ledge after a last anxious glance
at the receding boat “Is’t father
I'm tfcinkin’ on? But he knows the
sea, the coast, the rocks an’ an—
No need fashin' for father the day,
and yet”—
She stopped and caught her breath
in a quick gasp.
What was that black speck in mid
ocean, close to the Magyar rock-bed p,
that rose and fell, and rocked on the
swirling waters?
Bab flew to the hut and returned
with her father’s glass. The “black
speck” was a ship—but to the girl's
trained eye a doomed vessel, soon to
sink out of sight forever, the mere
wreck of a cutter-yacht, her timbers
parting, her masts gone, a forlorn and
desolate thing. Yet living creatures
were clinging to the ropes—to the
decks—in the turret; of that fact Bab
was sure.
Oh, for her father's byat! Yet long
hours must elapse before they entered
the sheltered harbor at her feet.
The Btorm grew more and more
furious as the day advanced, nor had
it ceased to roar and rage at night fall
when Bab clambered down from her
lofty perch to greet the returning
boat.
“Father,” she began with quicken
ed breath, “you’ll no’ put up yo’ boat
the night sin’ there’s a ship—”
“I know, I know, lass,” he answer
ed, impatiently ; “I ha’ made her out
long sin’—a ship started thro’ by the
sharpers, and ready to sink to the
bottom. The rocks have finished her,
my lass, if she’s no’ all to pieces fro’
this gale. Get yo’ home, quick!
Ooant yo’ sea Tm drenched thro’ ?”
She too was drenched through, and
cold and shivering, but the light of
some high and noble resolve was
dawning on the pale young face.
“I’ve taken the boat out alone
father, yo’ mind I have,” she said,
turning her pleading eyes to his;
“once in a storm lik’ this. Let me
try to save one life, father, on the sink
in’ ship. Will yo’ no’ let me tak’ the
boat, an—”
“The boat’ll no’ leave her fastening
the night, lass,” declared the old man
grimly ; “d’ye hear ?”
Bab wrung her strong brown hands
and then girl-like fell to sobbing
wildly.
H )w it happened he could not have
told. Bat a mement more and he
was putting out to sea again and Bab
was beside him, bending all her brave
young strength to the oars.
It was a desperate scheme. To
reach the wreck in the teeth of such a
gale was far more difficult than the
girl dreamed. A boat like this w&s
not likely to live on such a sea, much
less become the means of saving
otherp. Yet Bab smiled as she shot
swiftly over the black waters and in
spite of the tempest that raged above
them and the winds that howled
around them they reached the side of
the wrecked vessel in safety.
Bab's cheeks grew white at the
sounds that came from the turret,
and here the rescuers found three men,
officers of the ill fated ship who had
heroically refused to endanger the
safety of the life boats by crowding
themselves into their narrow limits—
already packed to their utmost ca
pacity, and were now clinging pain
fully to the ropep, calling on God for
help, praying for courage to meet
death with a brave and tranquil heart
Scarcely had they been released
from their perilous position and
helped tenderly in the fisherman’s
boat with Bab and her father strain
ing at the oars again, when the in
jured vessel sank out of sight forever.
It was a moment the brave girl
could never afterwards recall without
a strange uplifting of the soul.
And is this the end, do you ask ?
Did the fisher-lass go back to her
old eventless days in the cove just as
if nothing had happened “to make
her name remembered ?”
The story of her dauntless act was
never told to the listening crowds in
that great world of which she knew
nothing. No poet chose the “thrill
ing incident” for his theme; no royal
hand extended as a reward for her
daring courage the medal of the Le
gion of Honor. Even the tender
fame, ever hovering over the unfor
gotten names of Florenoe Nightengale
and Grace Darling, did not once
reach Bab’s.
And jet, since this world is but
the preiude* of an immortal harmony;
since every action of your lives here
touches on some chord that will vi
brate througn eternity, the fisherman's
lass is sure of full recognition of the
service sue rendered—“the Book of
Life the Binning record tells."
And he who understood the needs
of that young soul far better than
men, saw to it that the child did not
go unrewarded.
The episode of that stormy night
widened the circumscribed environ
ments of her monotonous existence
She no longer felt severed from, but
united to her kind—a Ehartr of the
common lot.
And Paradise itself is here on earth
when self is lost in loving, and the
narrow confines of personality are
beaten down by the spirit that counts
not his own life dear, but another's
as well.
Wine <;rapes.
It. K. W.. Jerusalem. Ga.: Am thinking of
planting, with a view o? making wine three
seres in grapes. The land is high. dry. red
land, exposed to the sun at all times of the day.
being a rather round knoll. It is not rich, but
i expect to improve it. Will such a piece of
land be suitable for grape culture ? What kind
of grape would best suit this section (Pickens
county) ? How thick should they be 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 hearing ? Where can I 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 (Pickens)
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.
3. 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 eloser planting.
4. Train on a trellis of three wires on
what is known as the • Fan” system
This is fully described by L. 11. Hailey
in a little work entitled "American
Grape Training" 1 published by the Ru
ral Publishing Company of New York.
It is impossible to sufficiently condense
a detail in the limits of this paper. An
excellent and economical method of
training is the ‘‘Munson” system. This
you will find fully described in "Our
Native Grape” by Charles Mitzky. pub
lished by Charles Mitzky & Cos., Roch
ester, N. Y. Iu this connection I would
also advise you to purchase "iluss
man's "American Grape Growing and
Wine Making,” published by the
Orange Judd Cos., New York. 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 t.he rest for you.
5. Norton's Virginia ought to yield
you, the third year, an average of five
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 357 vines per acre.
This may be 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 nrUat about 130
gallons per ton, but Ame™an 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 oil
this head.
6. For vines, write for special prices
per thousand to either of the following
parties: P. J. Berckrnans. Augusta,
Ga. : G. H. Miller & .Son. Rome, Ga. ;
Bush & Son & Meissner, Bush berg. Mo.,
or Elevvanger & Barry. Rochester. N. Y.
On your acreage you will require some
thing less than 1,500. They ought to
cost you not more than 535 per thou
sand, if so much.
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