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A NOVELJEPARTURE Agricultural Oourie For Ru ral District Schools. AS NOW TAUOHT IN OBRMANY There the Common School! Havo a Garden Attached and Pupils art divan Practical Inc true tl on In Ag- rlcultura. Moat at the common achoola In tbo smaller Oorman rlllaara bare attached to them a small cardan. Though these gardens are general!/ for tbo uae of the teachsr and his famil/, occasion- all/ some wideawake teacher uses bla as a means of Instruction. Hare he takes his puplla to show them how plants grow from the seed to full ma- turtt/. The nature charts used In the schools to teach plant and Insect life are supplemented b/ observation of real plants, flowers, fruit trees. Insects, birds and bees. Mr. C. B. Smith, of the offleo of ex- perl moot stations, United flutes de partment of agriculture, has given us the benefll of his observations at dif fer, a village of 2,000 InhablUule, la the German Rhine province, between Bonn and Cologne. Mr. Smith, who visited this village In 1*99. gives the following account of It: "The whole region lying about the village Is Inten sive!/ farmed and forma practical!/ one vast garden. VegeUblrs alternate wit borchards, with occasional strips of grain or forage plants. The school Is what Is known as a 'people’s school.' This Is the common school of Ger man/. Onl/ the fundamenUI branches are taught In these schools, and the whole course Is completed In eight /ears. Aba Alfter common school con- tains 400 pupils and sis teachers. In this school, as In all others In this province, two hours Instruction week ly In fruit culture, gardening and gen oral farming during the last two /ears of the oourse Is required. This has been ootapnlaory b/ law since 1*99. Outline auggeatlnns for this work are sent the principal of the school by the provincial government, as follows: First Year. "April and Ma/ (1.) Inner structure of planta, plant cells and tissues and their functions. (2) Other divisions of planu: (a) the roots, their function In the nourishment of plants by the ab- sorption of mineral matter, as phos- phoroua, potassium, sodium. Iron, chlo ric and water; (b) the trunk. Its branches and buds, the structure of the cambium and the occurrence at ring growth." The course goes tm through every month of the year, describing plant Ufa In all Its stages, the Improvement of the soil, the using up of plant food and Its replacement by fertilisers of various kinds, the Influenoe of the cli mate on planta, fruit culture and the management af fruit trees, the mice of fruits and vegetables and how to get rid of them. In February and March of the nest year's course the various minerals are discussed. In April, May and June gvden work la discussed from the lay ing out of plats to the utilisation of vegetable*. In the latter part of June of the second year’s course the puplla study Said work, plowing, harrowing and rolling. "In July they study the various Held crops. Including clovers and i In August crop rotation and methods of manuring. In September and October they dls- cues the vartoaa enemies of the differ, out crops In December the subject of study Is domestic animals, and In January, February and March the physiology of man. The plan thus laid down la meant to be suggestive, the teacher being al lowed to aserclae his Individual Judg- ment as to Uae and method of pre senting the different euhjccts and to make hi* Instruction conform to the agricultural needs of the district In which hta school to located. Thus at this German rtllaae nearly every owner or renter of even k small piece of ground to an nepertenced ear- dner. understanding thoroughly the value of culUvatlon and the money worth of every pound of compost. The (prmer's wife and children assist him lb his labors and the children at an early age have a very clear unden Standing of garden operations The school garden to Intensively fanned and made a source of revenue. The bees are also mad* a subject of special study. . It Is not to be Inferred that every German neighborhood I* fortunate enough to have such a school, and the teachers who make uae of the school nrdea for Instruction an the sleep tihn. But tho success of the fee echSols of this sort prove their worth. TkKjiteresting article of Mr c. B. Smite vs* recommended for publica tion by Mr. A, C. True, director of ex periment natieei, and Its publication waa authored by Hon. James Wttoon United States vetetary of agriculture In view of th.- fh.-t that the deatra blllty of an axrlc.ht.urnl , ,>ur*e tor th< schools In rural dl^rict. to* being so generally discussed V* thought that some useful hint* nt-ht be derived from the account of thtepncUcal Gsr man school. cane sirup. Overproduction of either sugar or strop need not be feared. The consumption of sugar In the Unlb ed flutes exceeds the home supply. Raising sugar cane ooata less than raising ootson, and to the planters of many parte of southern Georgia there Is more moaey In It When this crop receive* the attention due It aagor re- fineries will Increase in bomber. As w* have said before, there to no rea son why the sugar and sirup business of Georgia should not at least approxi mate that of Louisiana. The sugar refineries at Baxley, In Appling county, and Dupont, In Clinch, are doing good work for their respec tive sections. At Cairo. In Thomas county, to a large sugar plant of the best modern construction, where the juices of the case are being chemical ly treated In the moat scientific man ner. Within n radius of IS miles from this town there are 2.000 acres plant ed In sugar case. The shipments of sirup from Cairo amounted last year to lOfiOO barrels. At Quitman. In Brooks county, one firm sells on an average SJOO barrels of sirup a year. The sirup to pronounced by Professor Har- W. Wiley, chief of tho United States bureau of chemistry, to be of a high trade, and the market for It ex tends from Massachusetts to Tesas. Aa a result of Professor Wiley's visit to Georgia an appropriation of 111,- 000 has been recommended by the con gressional committee on appropria tions for the purpose of promoting the development of the sugar Interest In Georgia and other southern states. Credit to due to Major D. O. Purse, president of the Bavaanab chamber of oomerce, who waa very active in Inter- eating the United States department of agriculture In this work and who took personal charge of Professor Wiley during his trip. Professor Wiley re ports having seen near Klnderton, on the McRae plantation..stalks of ssssr cane more than * feet long and weigh ing from four to sis pounds each The United flutes department of axricul- ture Intsnde making experiments to ascertain what kind of fertiliser will give the heat result* upon soil* of dif ferent sections In Qeorgla and other southern stele*. Henoe we are about to see the realisation of the hopes that have Inspired the efforts of this department ever since our accession to ofllce. that In tha great sugar cane In dustry Georgia would find oven a bet ter, because a more permanent, source of wealth than In her rapidly disap pearing forests of pine. JARRING FOR THE CURCULIO OF THS PEACH AND PLUM. Th«.»ab emu* of the nearly through planting some are waiting for di The importance of thto be overestimated. Thrrs Increasing demand .'pr tha Nearly every one knowa that peach es and plums. Is common with certain other fruits, ate apt to be "wormy, and though fair externally, worthless within; but not nearly so many know how these worms gained entrance In to the fruit or realise to what a serious extent the grqwsrs and marketers of fruit are Injured by them. These worms are the young of a small, gray ish beetle called the plum curcullo, be longing t& the great group of weevils or snout beetles. In which the head Is prolonged Into a snout This par ticular species to about one-eighth of an Inch long and has all parts of Its body protected by a vary hard, rough ened shell. It has In soma sections of Georgia become aa much of a necessity to protect th* fruit crop from the cur- cullo aa from the San Jos* scale or brown tot. and the problem which thus confront* th* fruit growers to as per piexlng aa any other. Small home or chards of from one to one hundred tress often suffer a much greater pro portionate loss than those of commer cial stse, and oftentimes It to, on a sin gle tree. Impossible to find a peach that has not been Injured or rendered en tirely worthless by thto peat. The beetles pass the winter In shel tered situations amongst tha grass and around the orchard and In the fallen leave*, etc.. In some neighbor ing woodland. They appear on the tree* with th* first blossoms, and dur ing the first few weeks, before the young peach** have formed, the bee tles obtain their food by nibbling the opening buds. Later they transfer tbolr atotntlon to the tendor fruit, and aa soon ne this has fairly begun Its growth the process of egg laying be gin*. The female deposits her small white agg In an Incision through tbo skin made by bar snout, in front of which she also cute a crescent shaped silt The minute whit* grub hatching from this egg works Its way to the center ot the fruit and there feeds and grows, the scar sometimes growing over so as to he almost unrecognisable, at oth er times remaining open, and conspicu ously marked by the growing extenu- atloa which forms there. When the fruit la stung during the younger stage* of growth It to very apt to drop from the tree* before halt grown, but th* worms continue to feed within It until full fed. when they work their way out. burrow Into the ground, re main la the resting stage for a week or two aad than emerge as aduR bee tles exactly like their parents, aad ready perhaps to lay eggs for a asc end generation In th* later varieties That than are at toast two genera tions of th* Inascta annually seems a practically assured fact, as the adult beetle* have been reared from the In fested trait as early as May. and the worms found In lata peaches as late aa IT. Th* eariteet "stung' peaeka*. aa has already been stated, newly always drop; those attacked a utile later after the stoae has begun to show signs ot hardening, cling'to tree and are the first to ripen. Wis those stung Inter still ripen with i . f the bulk of th* crop and often show no sign* of the Injury received until they are out opoa had the trus state of af fairs discovered. The bulk of dam age, however, is don* by thosa which sting th* fruit from the lima it la no larger than an scorn until two or three weeks before ripaalng, and It to daring this period that remedial measures must he applied. • Spraying th* trees with some poison ous mixture has hosa reoomsnaodod. but I* not gsssrelly recognised sa of any very great value. To be effective the 1 asset must actually eat a portion of tbs poison, aad aa It la not a very voracious feeder, th* chances are good for It to do considerable damage be fore taking a poisonous dose. There to another method, however, which has long been In use. and though tedious and expansive, appears to be quite effective. This consists In jarring the trees gently with a padded mallet or bumper and catching the insects as they drop In sheets spread below tbs trees for thto purpose. Sev eral growers nave carried oc thto op eration with seemingly very profitable results during the past few years, and as thto appears the most promising method of treating thto pest some ac count of operations ns carried on may bo of value. Apparatus Necessary. Many form* of frame upon which the sheet for catching the curcullo as they fall have been devised, but those now In use among some of the large I sowers at Fort Valley, and apparently first Introduced there by Major G. T. Jons*, appear to be the bqgj for the purpose, especially la a conflherelal or chard. Two frames aro constructed d by II feat, with a notch midway In the side of on* to receive the body of the tie*. These are then covered with cnees doth, cheap sheeting or anything of that sort. The bumpers are made of a piece ot thick plank, about 6 Inches wide by 2 inch** long. One eod of this to thoroughly padded with rubber or sacking, and In the canter of the other end a hole to bored Into which the end of a light and strong pole, about 8 or 10 feet long to fitted. Each Jarring gang consists of five hands. Four of them which cal' ry the shoot may, he woman or chil dren. the fifth, who handles the bump er, must be a man and able to act with some Judgment The frames are then lifted by th* carrlors and brought to gether around the trunk of a tree. The man gives It ono quick and decisive, but not too bard. Jar with the padded end of his pole, and the carrying gang Immediately walk to the next tree, where th* operation to repeated. One Jar of the tree Is sufficient, and It should be sa Just stated, not necessari ly so vary hard, not by any means bard enough to bruise the hark of the tree, bu( quick and without any pre liminary shaking. Under these cir cumstances the curcullo will be taken unawares aad la practically certain to curl up Its legs, drop ana "play ’pos sum," feigning death, aad lying mo tionless on the sheet until th* end of th* row to reached, when the Insects walch hare been collected can be swept off Into a tub of water to which a little kerosene has been added or otherwise destroyed. It may be found help to carry a small stone or weight In the center of the frame In order that thto portion may be kept depressed and to prevent a sudden gust of wind or other agency from lifting It and scattering th* contents. Tim* of Jarring. Considerable depends on the time of day In which these Jarring operations are carried on. as during the warmer hours the curcullo are much more ex cited and harder to catch than either early In the morning or late In the afternoon. It 1s always advisable to begin aa soon as it becomes light enough to see and work until 8. Then In the afternoon from 6 o'clock until dark, though not so good a time aa In th* morning, to better than during the middle of the day. To obtain the best results the Jarring operation should begin soon after the bloom is abed and repeated every day or two aa long aa any number of the beetles ure caught. Result* of Work. Th* results of thto Jarring process, when carried out systematically throughout the season have In every ease which has come to oar attention been satisfactory to the fruit grower. Mr. J. H. Hale, who spent very consld- erahle sums last year In thto work. Jarring some blocks or section* of blocks In his orchard nearly every day from before the middle of April until nearly June, hhs stated most em phatically that he felt much more than repaid for th* expenditure of labor and money, and an examination of his fruit In the packing shed and on the trees as compared with that In nearby orchards not Jarred showed a very de cided difference In his favor. This year somewhat extensive ex periments have been planned whereby the spraying aad Jarring treatment win be carried on side by side, and at th* close of the season further re sults may be expected. -Board of Entomology. Winter is Goins:, # Summer is Coming. Now is the time to make your arrangements for- ICE in order to keep cool. We can furnish a* single block or a car load Sash, Doors and Blinds are a specialty. Send us a trial order. We make Screen Doors and Windows, which will keep out flies and mosquitoes. FLOORING, CEILING, ETC., in stock at all times. Mouldings and Cabinet Work at Lowest Prices. Satina manufacturing £»., PHONE NO. 30. WAYCROSS, CA. 1 Cotton. In arranging lauds tor cotton, break K witk a large riding plow, cutting from twelve to fourteen Inches: then bed with riding cuSSvetoea end uae the harrow freely. Remember that cotton la a great money crop to hint who raises hto own food supplies, but will keep the farm er** nos* to th* grindstone If be makes It hto only crop aad buys Ms corn and JUDGE ATKINSON FORGOT. Left HI* Grip With Large Amount of Money to Doctor Hls Dog. WaysB8VILI.K, Ua , April 14— Judge Sam Atkinson met with quite on adventure here Saturday last. He bad been on a wild cat hunt, and returning, arrived at the depot with his dogs and a satchel containing a large amount of money and valuable papers. One of the dega was very ill, and interested in doctoring him, the train pall out, the Judge got on forgetting in his harry the satchel Upon his arrival in Brunswick, be wired the agent to take care of the satchel, but it waa gone. Next day a lady sent the satchel to the agent, said she had taken it by mistake, from one of the benches in the wailing room. Jndg» At kinson come back Sunday after noon and waa delighted to get his satchel back. Mr. and Mr*. R. E. Dart of Brunswick spent Sunday here the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. M. Wiggins. Mr. D. B. Sweat waa shaking handi with his many friends here Monday. Mis* Letaie Hall of Gainesville Fla., who is visiting Mrs. J. A. Ward at Bladen, and Mita Lily Paine, spent Tuesday, the guest of Min Carrie Wiggins. The Southern Express office, baa been moved from the (tore of Mr. Wm. M. Wiggins, to the Plaul System depot. Mr. Jasper Highsmith continues dangerously ill. J. R. KNIGHT, DEALER IN Pianos and Organs AND ALL KINDS OF . Small Musical Instruments, VIOLINS, GUITARS, BANJOS, MANDOLINS, ETO., ETC. Alto the Ball*bearing Domestic Sewing Machines, NEEDLES,OIL aud all MACHINE 8UPPLIES. NEXT DOOR TO THE POST-OFFICE. WIELDS A S1IABP AX. Million* marvel at the multi tude of maladiea cat off bv Dr. King’s New Life Fiiis—the moat distressing too. Stomach, Liver and Bowel troubles—Dyspepsia, Lost of Appetite, Jaundice, Bil iousness, Fever. Malaria, all fall before these wonder worker*. 25c all Druggists. KgHHSgE Ttftftttfft^tt^fffftftfftffftttftfttnfiMOggoggggiij If Interested la Oood Poultry sad More of It, Call at the QUARTERMAN PLACE, i-. I can lurnlsh you INCUBATORS tor hatching, at factory prices,. ' / freight paid. Eggs to fill them, from prlxe-wlnnlng stock, (Buff t’ 1 " Orpingtons, Rose Comb White Leghorns, White Plymouth Bocks, White Cochin Pelcln Bantams aim Imperial Pekin Ducks. I keep constantly on hand > Ti < The Midland Poultry Foods, 1 a perfectly balanecd ration for all ages, sixes and conditions of fowls. Brooders to rear the chlcka In, Panhosst's Liquid Uce Killer to diatroy their natural enemies, Derby Disinfectant to purify yards and runa. Little Aspinwall Spray Pumps, to spray liquid over Poultry, Pet Animal* and all varieties ot xtock. Sanitary Feed Boxes and Drinking Fountains, and M. M. S. Poultry Fencing to keep them from destroying flowers or gardens. Call and let me tell you about these things, and show you my Imported Belgian Bares, bred and raised by Lord Stretkden, la England. Circulars mailed "to any address. MRS. ELECTRA MERSH0N CRAIG, of tha J.W. Bastes P. and B. H. Co., Wavexoas, G*. V' ■