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Ocala. Fla., Dec. 13. .
THE NEWS OF THREE STATES.
HAPPENINGS IN GEORGIA, FLORIDA
AND SOI Til C AROLINA.
liny Accused of Poisoning; Ills Fntli
er—-Sensational Case nt Statesboro.
LeC onte Pears Are Selling; Well.
Florida's Constitutional Amend
ments—Tain in Need a More Work
men—Flagler* Millions—New t or
poratlons in South Carolina.
Former's Wife Assaulted—New’ Cot
ton Mill for Charleston.
At Warrenton on Friday Hon. J. C. Jar
nagin was nominated over Hon. Matachl
Norris for senator from the Nineteenth
district. At the Democratic primary held
in Forsyth county on Friday Col. H. P.
Bell was nominated without opposition for
senator from the Thirty-ninth district,
and George L. Heard was nominated for
the Legislature.
How He Announced It.
Fitzgerald Enterprise: The enterprise
of our business men is truly wonderful.
A certain business man on Pine street
desiring to announce the advent of a son
and heir, removed all the merchandise
from one of his store windows with the
exception of a large doll carriage. In which
there appeared a doll, said to weigh ton
pounds and a half. We will not mention
any names, “of course."
A Queer Parnterslilp.
Bulloch Herald: A novel partnership
business is transacted by a couple of old
gentlemen In a town not far from States
boro. At the close of each day's work
they divide the cash equally and each
takes his part. One puts his silver in a
shot bag and the other uses an old sock.
When the collector comes around on the
first of the month, each goes down in his
treasury for half the amount of the bill,
but not a cent more will either pay. By
this method of transacting business there
is no danger of defaulting cashiers, and
no trouble about declaring dividends at
the end of each year.
Will Dnild to Dnvvson.
Dawson News: The second survey of
the Central Railroad from Arlington to
Dawson has been completed. The route
of this survey is practically the same as
the first, diverging at no point more than
a few hundred yards. Engineer Prendi
vil of the surveying squad says that an
other survey may be made before the
route is permanently located, though it
is probable that the new road will be built
along the line of one of the surveys that
have already been made. He seems to
think there is no doubt of the road being
built, saying “the Central is not spending
this money for nothing."
(cfn>ril of Parricide.
Mr. John I. Tindall, who died at hi?
home, at Gordon, Thursday, and who was
thought to have committed suicide, was
buried Friday after an investigation by a
coroner's Jury. The verdict of the Jury
was lo the effect that he died from
strychnine poison, and that his son was
guilty of putting the poison in medicine
already prepared by his physician. Jusi
after taking the medicine he said it was
bitter and that it was not so before. Af
ter breakfast he snid it was still bitter
and began to complain of cramp and went
into a general spasmodic Jerking of every
muscle, and died in about forty minutes.
It was his daughter that was shot and
killed by her brother just one week ago.
Pears gelling Well.
Amerieus Times-Recorder: The much
derided and despised Le Conte pear Is
outstripping the Elberta peach just now
as a shipper and most excellent seller. Re
turns for shipments made by Amerieus
growers Indicate a pear famine in the
East, and fancy prices are the result. Mr.
Kt D. Ansley, one of the largest shippers
In Amerieus. has sent forward several
carloads within the past week, finding an
excellent market at interior points in
Pennsylvania and New York state. From
one orchard out near Rees Park he lias
shipped nearly 2.500 bushels, and has not
yet finished harvesting the crop there.
The prices paid are most satisfactory,
sometimes being as high as (3 per barrel,
less freight and expenses. Pear blight has
injured the trees here to a considerable
extent, but even wilh such a backset the
yield of fruit Is very large and will net
the growers more money than did lire
peach crop in this section of the slate.
More attention will be given the partly
neglected pear orchards another season.
On Trlul for Poisoning:.
The trial of Tom Waters and his
mother, Hester Waters, charged with the
prisoning of Mrs. Sallie Waters, wife of
Tom Waters, which has been in progress
In the County Court ai Statesboro before
Judge Branart, lias caused a sensation in
which the entire county Is interested. All
the parlies connected with the affair are
among the most prominent in this section,
and the outcome of the trial, which will
end to-morrow, is watched wilh interest.
The evidence of Dr. Slack of LaGrange,
who analysed the stomach of the young
woman, to the effect that her dentil was
due to poisoning, seems to establish be
yond question the fact that she either
committed suicide or was poisoned. Mrs.
Waters died very suddenly on July 2, and
the charge against her husband and
mother-in-law Is that they put strychnine
In plums ond apples and gave them to
her with the result that she died. While
the evidence against Tom Waters and his
mother Is only circumstantial, the fact
that they are among the most prominent
people in that section has caused the mat
ter to become a profound sensation, and
the court room has been crowded during
the trial.
FLORIDA.
Titusville Advocate: The seasons have
been very fine so far on orange trees. Rain
has come right at the nick of time In
every Instance, and the oranges are hold
ing to the trees well. If the August and
September gales are not severe the crop
will be usually large. The gales are the
only dinger that can now confront the
grower*.
Demand for Workmen.
Tim pa Tribune: The demand for work
men In Tempt H now so great thit con
tractors are finding It necessary to ad
vertise In other cities for men. As an
Instance, Edenfleld and Jetton are adver
, rising In Jacksonville, Savannah and other
! Southern cities, for fifty first-class car
penters. needed for the construction work
a-. Mullet Key.
They Like Carson.
Miami Metropolis: Senator C. A. Car
son will be returned to the Senate from
Orange and Osceola counties, notwith
standing the fact that it was Orange
county’s time to name the senator. The
people of both counties were satisfied wi'h
Mr. Carson's work during this past term,
and that is sufficient. Brevard is acting
in the same wise manner by asking th.it
Senator Dlmmlck be nominated to suc
ceed himself, and it will be done.
Shipping; to Baltimore.
Gainesville Sun: The hardwood factory
at Fairfield is now doing a large business
in the matter of crate manufacture, and
Is filled up with orders for parties in the
peach section of Maryland. During the
past month these people have shipped up
wards of 35 carloads of crate material to
the above state. It Is said that they make
as line a crate as can be found anywhere,
and their prices are certainly low, or they
would not be getting orders from places
so far off.
New Military C ompany.
The Lake Worth Rifles Is the name of
anew military company organized at
West Palm Beach lost week, officers as
follows: J. E. Chambers, captain; H. B.
Yarborough, first lieutenant; Ed. A. Gra
ham. second lieutenant. The com{*any
numbers thirty-five. The atrocities of the
Chinese Boxers may be responsible for
this sudden uprising, though it is possi
ble that the state encampment. Just closed
at St. Augustine, may have quickened
the military spirit.
Cos n* lit nt ional Amendment*.
The voters of Florida are to vote on
several proposed amendments to the state
constitution at the election in November.
The proposed amendments are for the
changing of the boundaries of certain sen
atorial districts, for the change in the de
sign of the state flag and seal, for the
incorporation of useful companies and as
sociations and providing for the election
of county commissioners by direct vote
of the people. The official notice of these
proposed amendments, from the Secretary
of State, has been issued.
Will Spend More Million*.
Gainesville Sun: Mr. Flagler has ex
pended millions of dollars in developing
interests in Florida, and if reports aro
true, he will spend millions more. He is
doing more than any other citizen of the
state to develop its resources. It is cer
tain that he has not yet been reimbursed
for the large sums invested. He has
exhibited the strongest possible evidence
that he has faith in the future growth of
Florida. Let us hope that his brightest
anticipations may be fully realized. In
many respects Mr. Flagler has been a
benefactor to the people of this state.
If Florida hed a few more such citizens
in a few years this state would be trans
formed int<* a paradise.
Capital Removal.
The Executive Committee of the Capi
tal Removal Association of Ocala held a
very enthusiastic meeting Friday. Secre
tary Williams read the reply of the com
mittee to the Jacksonville Association's
letter, in which that body seemed to fail
to understand Ocala's proposition. An an
swer from St. Augustine’s association said
they \yfre willing to meet representatives
of the Ocala Capital Removal Association
and discuss the project of holding a pri
mary to determine the strongest place
east of the Suwannee. Messrs. Thagard,
Miller. Sistrunk. Harry Eagleton and Nu
gent were added to the Finance Commit
tee, and Mr. Flshel made chairman of the
committee, vice D. E. Mclver, resigned.
Gen. Bullock was called before the com
mittee and detailed the action of the State
Executive Committee at their late meet
ing in Jacksonville, which was nil.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The flag of the heavy battery serving on
Sullivan's Island during the war with
Spain has been sent to the Adjutant Gen
eral to be placed in the state library. Ac
companying the banner is o large gilt
frame, in which it is to be placed, along
with photographs showing the command
on parade, its officers, etc. It Is elegant
ly got up.
The Senator's “Bocks."
Greenville News: Senator Tillman
heaves one of hie “rocks" which he is so
fond of throwing at the preachers in
their pulpits. It falls harmless, but is
in their way, and they do not like its
looks onyhow; and they roll it back upon
the Senator's head. Instantly he sets
up a cry against preachers' "coming down
out of their pulpits to engage in poli
tics." They haven't come down: ihey
have only rolled his rock back upon him.
I.ftt h tiling',, Work Kntnt.
Friday afternoon, at 2 o’clock, during
a thunder storm, lightning struck the
Baptist parsonage at Westminster, In
stantly killing H. M. Simpson, a deacon,
and shocking J. M. Hull, M. A. Terrell
and William Bibb, and three other dea
cons. A series of meeting is In progress
in the Baptist Church, and the Rev. N.
G. Christopher, the pastor, had invited his
five deacons. H. M. Simpson, C. C. O.
Mitchell, W. M. Bibb, J. M. Hull and
M. A. Terrell, to dine with him. Messrs,
Terrell and Bibb soon recovered from the
shock.
Equipment for Military. •
It Is not unlikely that Adjt. Gen. Floyd
will soon make a trip to Washington to
see if he cannot persuade the War De
partment to furnish the South Carolina
Military Academy with anew supply of
rifles and cartridges. The academy has
not bad anew equipment for about fif
teen yeors and the guns are utterly unfit
for service. Atteniion has been called to
the matter before, hut though efforts have
been made, nothing has yet been accom
plished. Gen. Floyd thinks If the matter
is pronerly presented the authorities In
Washington will see the necessity for pro
viding the equipment.
Carolina Trust Company.
The Carolina Trust Company Is anew
financial organization, which Is soon to
open for business in Columbia. It is
a home enterprise and home money will
back it. The capital stock Is to be SIOO,-
000 and the corporators are JSdwtn W.
Robertson, T. H. Wannamaker and Will
iam D. Melton of Columbia. The com
pany proposes to do a general trust, guar
antee and security business, to negotiate
loans on cotton, act as guardian and ad
ministrator. issue surety bonds for offi
cials and other employees. An applica
tion for a chagter hos # been made and
the company will lie organized as soon as
CASTOR IA
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Signature of
VV.F.HA >IILTON,
Artesian Weil Contractor,
OCALA. t'U.
Am prepared to drill wella up to an*
depth. We uae flnt-claas machinery, can
do work on *urt nolle* sod guarantee
aatlßfactlon,
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 1000.
THE JOYS OF
VIGOROUS MANHOOD.
A.ronndltic Sucre*, of Or. Hathaway In
Restoring the Shattered Nerve. Of Men
to Their Original Healthy Conditioo.
His Treatments for Other Weak
nesses of Men.
Dr. Hathaway's treatment for that terrl
i ble condition of mental and bodily weak
ness, brought about by youthful igno
rance and folly,
tor by excesses
unlike all oth
as most others
are, simply a
stimulant which
acts for a few
days and then
leaves the poor,
deluded patlentt
,in worse condi
tion than be
j* fore. Dr. Hath
away’s treat
ment cures; it
J.Newton Hathaway,M.D. ac,s on eveiy
weakened por-
The Longest Established t j on 0 ( the
Specialist In the South, tody. It builds
up nerve, tLsue and muscular
strength, and revitalizes the whole body.
The hitherto miserable victim becomes
fitted for a husband ar.d a father.
This is what Dr. Hathaway's treatment
does, and it doe' It invariably in every
case, never mind how serious the condi
tion of th' patient.
Dr. Hathaway aiso treats, with the
same guarantee of success. Varicocele
withoue operation, Stricture (by a pain
less home treatment). Specific Blood Pois
oning and other chronic diseases of men,
including all Urinary and Sexual
ders
Absolutely private and confidential con
sultation wilheut any cost can be had
in Dr. Hathaway’s office, if you live out
of town, or cannot for any reason visit the
office, he will send you free his latest
book and self-examination blanks.
J. NEWTON HATHAWAY, M. D.,
, Ur. Hutlinvvay A Cos.,
25A Bryan street. Savannah. Ga.
Office Hours—9 to 12 m.; 2 to 5 and 7 to 9
p. m. Sundays. 10 a. m. to 1 p. m.
possible. It will have offices In the Ken
dall building.
Former's Wife Asannlted.
Mrs. Haley R. Brown, wife of one of the
most prominent farmers around Green
ville, is reported in a dying condition as
the result of a brutal attempt made to
assault her Friday morning about day
light by an unknown person, believed to
be a negro. Farmer Brown lives about
two miles from Greenville. He whs not
at home when the assailant visited the
house. The man entered the house by
breaking a lock, it is presumed. He was
in the bedrocm occupied by Mrs. Brown
before any one knew of his presence. In
attempting to strike a match Mrs. Brown
was awakened by the intruder. She
screamed and attempted to rush from the
room. He caught her and choked her un
til she was black in the face. He then
struck her two fearful blows with his fist
in her face. She fell back on the bed.
unconscious. Mrs. Brown is in a criti
cal condition, suffering from nervous
prostration. Because of her delicate
health, and the great shock, the attending
physician does not believe she will re
cover.
Charters and Commissions.
Several new enterprises were commis
sioned or chartered at Columbia Wednes
day. Among them is a $150,000 cotton mill
at Marion. Corporators: J. C. Man, E.
A. Gasque, W. G. Mullins, Henry Buck,
B. R. Mullins, all of Marion. The mill
is to be known as the Ashby Cotton Mills.
The Spartanburg Warehouse Company
was chartered. Capital stock. $15,000. W.
A. Law, president; J. W. Nash, secre
tary. A commission for a charter of a
somewhat unusual character in the slate
has been applied for. The Woodward-
Warren Theatrical Company asks for a
charier. Greenville people are backing
the enterprise, some of them being own
ers of the proposed new opera house to
be erected in that city. The company is
well known in the state, having played
In the principal cities of the state for
several seasons. The capital stock is
SI,OOO. W. P. Mcßee is president; R. C.
Foster, vice president; Wilbur Atkinson,
secretary. The Camden Lumber Com
pany of Camden, with a capital stock of
$2,500. and the Cash Grocery Store, of
Sumter, with a capital of $4,000, received
charters.
A New Cotton Mill.
Charleston News and Courier: A meet
ing was held at the office of the Royal
Bag Manufacturing Company, in Hayne
street, yesterday and anew company was
organized for the manufacture of cotton
goods. This new company, while com
posed chiefly of men Interested in the
Royal Bag Company, will be, wheiT regu
larly chartered, a separate and distinct
corporation, which proposes to erect a
cotton mill in Charleston. The full de
tails of the matter were not fixed upon
at Ihe meeting yesterday, but will be de
termined at a subsequent meeting.
Enough of the generni plan was made
public to show that this new enterprise
will mean a great deal for Charleston. A
suitable location will be sought, after
which a fully equipped cotton mill will be
erected. While some of the signers for
stock In this company are large owners
in the cotton mill now in operation here,
tire new mill will not in any way be con
nected with the old one, and the proprie
tors assert that Ihey Intend to prove that
a modern mill can be successfully operat
ed by white labor in Charleston. Nearly
all of the stock was subscribed at the
preliminary meeting, those present having
been quite ready to take it all if the
amounts had not been limited by resolu
tion.
CHOPS IN PI IN AM COUNTY.
Are in Good Condllton In Spite of
Contrary Reports.
Eatonton, Ga., Aug. s.—The account of
crop conditions in Putnam, as given in
the Atlanta Constitution a few days ago,
is misleading, to say the least. Asa
matter of fact, Ihe prospect has not been
more favorable in a decade than it is to
day in this county. The Atlanta paper
said that the crops had suffered first from
a deficiency of rain and then from a sur
feit. With the exception of the heavy
rains in June the seasons have been pro
pitious and the planter who hasn’t good
crops must lay the blame to other sources
than the rainfall. The cotton crop will
have matured by Aug. 15, and if no unto
ward circumstance arises the crop will
be a large one.
Col. R. 11. Thomason of the Third Reg
iment of state troops will inspect the Put
nam Rifles of this place next Wednesday.
Negro llftilly Cat up.
Eatonton, Ga., Aug. s.—Terrell Mtlllrons
and Wash Clemens, two negroes living
near Meda, Ga., a station on the Central
Road, three miles south of Eatonton, had
a difficulty Friday afternoon, which will
no doubt result seriously. It seems that
Terrel had been at outs wilh Wash for
some time on account of remarks made
by Wash, which reflected on Terrel's sis
ter. and numerous threats had been made
by both parties, and the natural reault fol
lowed when they met. Wash struck Ter
rall with a rock, after which Terrel be
came enraged and proceeded to carve up
hit antagonist in great shape. Wash was
llterall cut to pieces, from his waistband
up. He was brought to town at once and
the doctors thought at first examination
that he was In s dying condition, but af
ter probing the wounds It was thought
that he might pull through. Terrell has
left for parts unknown.
THE FARM AND THE GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO AORI
OLTIRIST AND HOI SEWIFE.
Flrnn Growing; in Florid* Pho
phorSc Arid and Potash—Advant
age* of Sub-Soiling—'The Coming
of Alfalfa—Some Point* on Rape
f ulfnre The Japanese Grn*e*.
Angora Goat*—Scrap*.
S. G. McK.. Dutton, Fla., writes: “Will
you please give me your opinion of grow
ing paper-shell pecans In the South fy
profit and especially in Middle Florida.
"At what age do the trees begin to bear
and how fast do they increase when the
trees are well cared for? What kind of
soil is best suited to the pecan?”
You understand, oi course, that pecan
planting is chiefly for posterity, except
when the planting is made by the young.
The possibilities and probabilities have
been greatly exaggerated by many, es
pecially by those who sell seeds or trees.
The facts, how-ever, are the paper-shell
or any other pecan will grow in Middle
Florida, and. according to the nature of
the soil, will bear good crops of nuts in
the course of years. On rich soil, such as
grow the hickory or other hard woods,
the trees will begin to bear fair crops in
about fifteen years, perhaps* a year or two
earlier under very favorable conditions of
fertilizing and cultivating for several
years after parting.
It will be a waste of time and money to
plant the trees or seeds on poor sandy soil;
soil that has been cultivated for years in
cotton until all the humus has been ex
hausted. Moist cotton land is best suited
to the pecan and such land, we presume,
is rather scarce in your section.
Whatever good land may be devoted to
pecans will still allow of certain crops be
ing grown on it for several years and to
the advantage of the pecan trees. Setting
the pecan trees 35x40 or 40x40 feet a nearly
full orchard of peach or plum trees can
be grown on the same land, and can oc
cupy it for ten or fifteen years when they
may be destroyed if they do not die out in
that time. It is a good thing to plant for
posterity, and it may not be a bad thing
fbr one to establish pecan trees wherever
there is a fair opportunity to do it,
hut. as remarked, it is useless to attempt
it on worn-out land. On even medium land
it will be necesasry to grow some crops
on it like peas, or clover, or beggar weed
to supply the humus that is essential for
the best growth of the trees as they ex
tend their roots from year to year.
Phosphoric Acid and Potash Both
Essential.
That eminent chemist, Justus von Lie
big, among other elementary laws, laid
down the following: A soil can be termed
fertile only when it contains all the ma
terials necessary for the nutrition of
plants, tn the required quantity, in the
proper form. An excess of nny one of
tile) leading elements of fertility, let that
excess be of nitrogen or phosphoric acid,
or of potash, does not constitute fertility,
and by no means conduces to productive
ness. In order to constitute a really fer
tile soil, these elementary substances must
each and all be present, but they must be
present in the iequiied quantity, duly pro
portioned and properly balanced. One
sided fertility Is neither a profitable nor
desirable condition for soil to be in, and
the same may be said of one-sided fer
tilization, It Is ne'ther profitable nor sat
isfactory.
We ourselves are the fortunate posses
sor of some lands that contain an excess
of nitrogen. This excess works an actual
Injury to each and every crop planted
thereon. We have found it profitable to
balance this excess by liberal applica
tions of phosphates and potash, on this
class of soils the two last named sub
stances form a complete fertilizer, and It
woulei be utter folly to make nny further
application of nitrogen to these soils, it
would likewise bea waste of both time and
money and could not fail to actually de
crease the yield.
Now, if we eou’d find soils that were
rich in potash and nitrogen, and deficient
in phosphoric acid, then in that case
phosphates alone would form a complete
fertilizer, nothing more would he neces
sary. So also, if we could plant crops
that would abstract from the soil phos
phoric acid alone, leaving the nitrogen
and potash behind, intact In the soil, and
the original supply of these substances
undimirdshed, then In that case, the use
of phosphates nlone, to the utter exclu
sion of potash and nitrogen wouid be Juoii
fiabie, but not otherwise.
We ore pretty intimately acquainted
with southern soils, in their virgin state,
and after they have been denuded of their
fertility by continuous cultivation in cot
ton, corn and other clean-hoed crops, I
fee] entirely safe in saying we have never
found soils of above character, nor crops
that were obliging enough to do ail their
feeding on a single article of diet, let
that article consist of nitrogen, phos.
phoric add or potash. We don't believe
we ever will, and we also don’t believe
any one else has either.
Take, the single southern product—cot
ton—and we see that there Is an annual
production of over 4,000,000 tons of seed,
to say nothing of the lint. This seed re
moves from the soil 125,000 tons of nitro
gen, worth as fertilizer $37,000,000. It also
removes from the soil 46,800 tons
of potash wortlj as fertil
izer. $3,744,000. Who has the hardihood, the
utter disregard for veracity and lack of
self-respect, to assert that the application
of phosphates alone will be found all-suf
ficient, or that it can be made, even in th<-
most remote degree, to supersede or take
the place of the other leading elements of
fertility? Echo answers, "Who." As tsome
of our phosphate-stricken friends seem to
have phosphates on the brain and can see
no virtue in anything else, nor no neces
sity for anything else, and who, we sup
pose, are In blissful ignorance of the fact
that there was a soil that contained an
actual exeess of phosphoric acid; and
furthermore, that this same excess of
phosphoric acid, instead of causing tha;
self-same soil to be immensely productive,
rendered It absolutely sterile, barren and
unproductive, we subjoin two tables, one
of fertile and productive soil, and another
of a sterile and unproductive soil, for com
parison:
Fertile Soil-
Nitrogen 16,000 pounds
I'hosphoric acid 4.000 pounds
Potash 8,000 pounds
Sterile Soil-
Nitrogen 1,750 pounds
Phosphoric acid 5,555 pounds
Potash 3,045 pounds
Lime 2,275 pounds
Above amounts of fertility were found
stored up in the surface foot of an acre
of ground; In the fertile soil by Prof.
Roberts, and in the sterile soil by Prof.
Hllgard.
Now, if phosphoric acid is the panacea
for all the ills \f a poverty-stricken or
semi-exhausted soli, as would seem to he
the case from its over-zealous, though of
tentimes mistaken advocacy', by its-of
course, disinterested (?)—friends, then
the tables should have been turned, ;he
sterile soil should have been by far Ihe
more productive and fruitful of the two
for the reason that It contained 1.535
pounds more phosphoric acid than did tile
fertile soil.
Comment on this would seem to be Idle,
superfluous snd time wssted, but It will,
at least, furnish food for thought, and that
is all we hope to accomplish by the pres
ent article: let the eoll tiller do hie own
thinking, each for hlmaelf, and not truat
too lmpllclty on th* other fellow's knowl
edge box; If he does, he le liable to get
left, and wtlh the bag to hold, and the bill
to foot.
We are perfectly willing, and even glad
.10 accord to phosphoric acid all that 1*
its due. but no more. We Use it and use it
freely, but not to the exclusion of other
plant foods that are equally important,
equally indispensable, and equally valu
able. G. H. Turner.
Strawberry Culture—Miilanmmer.
O. W. Blacknall. Kittrell, N. C.: There
are two vital points in strawberry cul
ture at this season—the prompt destruc
tion of weeds and grass and the conserva
tion of moisture. Fortunately both of these
can be achieved by one and the same
means—two birds killed by one stone, as
it were.
Frequent and shallow culture are the
means. This we accomplish by means of
a small, five-tooth horse cultivator and
light hand hoes. The cultivator Is run
down the middle once or twice as may be
necessary to stir the soil well within a
reasonable distance of the plants. Up to
about July 15 we plow within six inches
of the plants, using a small tooth one
inch wide on the side of the cultivator
next to the plants. This small tooth cuts
not over an inch and a half inch deep
and throws no dirt on plants. Later, as
the plants get older and larger, we drop
back a little farther with the plow.
The strip around the plants that the
cultivator does not reach we stir with
hand hoes, cultivating very shallow Just
around the plants and a little deeper far
ther off.
We make it a rule to cultivate this way
every two weeks. Timely done, such cul
tivation is rapid and inexpensive. It is
when cultivation Is delayed and grass and
weeds intrench themselves that arduous
and expensive work is necessary. In my
callow days I have hod crab grass get
such dominion over a field of matted rows
that it cost nearly as much to subdue
ir as it should have cost to hoe thot field
all summer. The time to kill grass is be
fore it comes. Crab grass, the great foe
of the Southern strawberry grower, has
the lives of a cat, once that it bunches
well. There is a saying among North
Carolina farmers that you can’t kill crab
grass in August. This is in the main true.
This grass bunches if allowed to get its
growth, which It does in August, till it
resembles a crab, hence the reason.
In August the sun power weakens,
heavy dews increase and showers are
heavier, or at least, more lasting in their
effects than earlier summer. Under these
conditions crab grass is almost invulnera
ble to any force that perspiring agricul
ture can bring against it.
I have in my time witnessed some ex
ceedingly humorous battles of behind
hand growlers against this invincible foe.
First would come one or two desperate
attempts to smother, by means of a turn
ing plow, the huge bunches as they waxed
and grew among the berries. This fail
ing an onslaught with hoes would follow,
In which the bunches were dug, chopped,
belabored and shaken without mercy but
without avail. Harrowing was arrayed
but simply to pile the grass draw earth
on it and give it a fresh start. Then
comes another charge and belaboring with
the hoes. Thus varying his modes of
ons’.ought the helpless grower kept up
the battle till driven to surrender and to
leave the plants to their fate. Nowr and
then I have known a plucky, irate fellow
to finally lug the grass bodily from the
field and leave It to grow in the road and
along the fence corners. One-tenth of
the labor done or time would have killed
the grass before it came.
And, as before intimated, all this culti
vation is worth all it costs as a conserver
of moisture. In fact weeds and grass,
in that they force us to give the culture,
are really blessings in disguise.
The JapancMe Grasses.
Japan continues to supply us with won
derful products of its gardens, which
through centuries of culture, they have
brought to the present high state of per
fection, sa>*s an exchange. Japanese
plums, morning glories and lawn grasses
are now quite common in every orchard
or garden, and they are not excelled by
anything that the Western nations have
been able to produce. The Japanese
grasses have only been introduced in this
country a few years, but wherever plant
ed they receive more than common notice.
For ornamental grouping on the lawn
there is no palm or plant that quite equal*
them, no* even excepting the celebrated
pampas plumes. When once planted these
grasses flourish so abundantly that it i3
a question whether they may not have a
commercial value as w r ell as an ornamen
tal one. In Japan, they are dried and
woven into mats, and if one cares to
imitate the Orientals in this respect, dura
ble home mats can easily be manufac
tured.
The Japanese make many ornamental
wicker-work articles with the stems of
the Eulalias, and if they are properly
dried in season, they will prove very stiff
and strong.
The Eulalia japonica variegata Is a va
riety that greatly resembles the old-fash
ioned ribbon grass, but it Is prettier and
taller. The green leaves are brightly
variegated with white and yellow, which
colors do not disappear as the season
advances, but remain on the foliage un
til frost kills the plants.
There are infinite uses to which these
tall slender grasses may be put. They
are not a tough as the Japanese bamboo,
but for light work they answer almost
the same purpose. We cannot raise the
bsml>oo in this country, but the Eulalias
will flourish and we might endeavor to
employ them about the house in useful
and ornamental ways.
Advantage* of Salllnu.
Feeds! uffs grown on the farm fall Into
two general classes, one being the con
centrates, or grain crops, and the other
the coarser feed, such as pasturage, hay
and other crops grown as "roughness,”
says a Western journal. These latter
crops are handled in a variety of ways.
They may be pastured off, which is the
easiest, but most extravagant' way, so
far as the returns from a given area are
concerned. The crops may also be cut
and cured for hay or coarse fodder for
winter keep. A third method, and one
which gives the largest amount of returns
from a given amount of land, is soiling
By this method the crop is cut from day
to day ns needed and fed green. It in
volves the largest amount of labor, but
secures the largest use of land. It is
consequently in the direction of intensive
farming as opposed to extensive. Very
little complete soiling has hitherto been
done ui the West, for the reason that here
land has been cheaper than labor. A
good many farmers, however, and es
pecially those engaged in dairying, have
practiced partial soiling with good re
sults. The motive for the practice has
usually been, not so much a desire to
economize land and find employment for
the labor of the farm, as to bridge over
the dry midsummer period when the pas
tures are short and burned down and
when stock does not thrive if | relies
upon grazing only. While the absence
of thrift, due to dry pastures, affects all
kinds of live stock, it is more keenly and
more immediately felt by the owners of
dulry herds whose cows shrink in milk
production when subsisting upon midsum
mer pasture, and who find It difficult, if
not impossible, to bring the yield hack
to what it should be when shrinkage has
once been permitted. It is for this rea
son that partial soiling has been prac
ticed principally by dairymen, although
the losses by other kinds of live stock,
due to short pastures, have not been In
considerable.
Soiling Is quite common In the East,
where land is expensive, and as Eastern
conditions creep westward soiling to meet
ihe conditions extends in the ssme direc
tion. It Is. of course, adapted to small
farms rather than large ones, and to lo
calities where population Is dense and
markets srs close at hand. But these
are conditions that are coming westward
as the states become more thickly settled
and their industries grow to be more di
versified. For these reasons we may ex
pect from this time on. In the no-dlstant
future, to find the number of those who
can advantageously practice soiling In
crease from year to year. Prof. Shaw,
who has given a good deal of attention
to the subject, thus states some of the
more important advantages of the soil
ing system:
“The more important benefits resulting
from growing soiling crops are that food
supplies are Increased in a marked de
gree; in various ways the waste in feed
ing is lessened; animals are sustained in
better form than where soiling is not
practiced; injury to the land through
poaching is prevented; a salutary influ
ence is exercised on weed eradication; a
saving in land is affected; a saving in
fertility is effected; a saving is also ef
fected in the item of fencing; animal pro
duction is greatly Increased, and the cost
of keeping the family cow is lessened.”
These being the advantages, the prac
tice of soiling will extend as the import
ance of securing its advantages becomes
more urgently felt by the individual farm
er. There are large wastes of forage
now in the way the corn fodder crop is
managed, and the excuse for the waste is
the amount of labor necessary to save it.
Of course, the same objection appl 4o
soiling:. As long as labor is scarce, as
compared with land, the fact will have a
controling influence on the exten4 of the
adoption of this or any other of the more
intensive methods of farming; but in this
respect there is a gradual change in prog
ress, and land is gradually becoming dear
enough to render it important tha< the
most should be made out of it.
Recently published experiments at the
Kansas Kxperiment Station in soiling
cows last year are not wllhout interest
in this connection. Twenty-one cows were
divided into two lots, giving a practi
cally equal yield of milk and an equal
average test. One lot was pastured on
prairie and mixed grasses, the season be
ing an exceptionally good one for pas
tures. The other lot was soiled on alfalfa,
oats, corn, cane and Kaffir corn. Some of
the results are rvorth noting: It required
0.71 of an acre to support a cow on soil
ing crops for 144 days. During the same
period it required 5.63 acres to keep a cow
on pasture. Practically one acre soiled
did the work of five acres that were pas
tured. The returns showed thnt the pas
ture brought tn products $123 an acre.
Calculated on the same basis, the alfalfa
brought $25.26 an acre, the oats $6.81 per
acre, corn $22.79 per acre, cane $15.60 per
acre and Kaffir corn $13.83 per acre, the
average of the several soiling crops being
S!B.OS per aere. These are large returns,
probobly greater than most crops bring,
and yet they do not mean that soiling al
ways pays. It will all depend upon the
cost of labor, the amount of land one has
that is suitable for pasturing only, and
other like considerations. Still the re
sults are valuable to those who feel in
clined to Investigate the subject of spil
ing. for they show what may be done by
this method where a limited supply of
land is relied upon to keep a large amount
of stock.
Angora Goat Breeding.
As civilization advances it is always ac
companied by closer settlements, and a
tendency towards better of cul
tivation, which, of course, include* clean
ing up and'improving pastures that may
be overrun by weeds and brush, says the
Homestead. It is natural that farmers
should wish to do this cleaning up at the
least possible expense, or at no expense
at all, if possible, and so the Angora goat
has been enlisted as a scavenger against
the weeds and brush. For ourselves, we
have a very kindly feeling tow-ards the
Angora goat, but too much should not be
expected of it. Like other workers in a
good cause, the goats have their limita
tions. For instance, sixty head of them
eannot do the work of a hundred, nor can
a hundred do the work of 500. Moreover,
the brush may have grown too strong
and be too far advanced for goats to work
upon and effectively keep down. This is
said not with the intention of discourag
ing farmers from keeping a flock of goats,
but with a view of emphasizing the need
for helping in the scavenger work if it
is to be made effective. Where the brush
is large it must not be left entirely to
goats. Farmers pretty generally know
that a great amount of brush has to be
grubbed out and trees must be cut down
before shaded pasture land can be well
Improved for grazing purposes. Yet when
ail this is done there is still enough ten
der brush left for the goat as a browser,
and too much should not be required of it
or it will not do the work well, although
goals are good helpmates.
Angora goat breeding, however, may
well be placed on a higher plane than
that of merely supplying farm scavengers,
although incidentally the goat is a good
aid in this respect. In a certain way
they are more in favor with many Amer
icans than sheep or common goats. They
are freer from disease than the former,
and not by any means as mischievous as
the latter, neither are they of a very rov
ing disposition. The real point in their
favor, however, Is that they cost little to
keep and sell readily at from $5 to $7, iheir
meat being delicious and wholesome. Of
course pastures where they arc kept
should be fenced, and, like other live
slock, they can he Improved by selection
in mating for breeding purposes, and by
good care and humane, liberal treatment,
all of which can be provided at small ex
pense. It is asserted by those who know
whereof they speak that well-bred goats
of this breed will shear five to seven
pounds of mohair, worth from thirty-five
to forty cents a pounds. The sum thus
realized for their fleece so far exceeds the
cost of keep that they cannot fail to be a
profitable Investment wherever they- are
properly looked after. At the present
lime it is but natural to expect that the
Angoras will gradually assume a much
more prominent position in farming oper
ation than they have yet done, as an
American Angora Goat Breeders’ Associa
tion was formed some time ago. composed
of live men who have already made their
mark with other breeds of live stock. The
goats will undoubtedly attend to scaven
ger work on the farm to a profitable ex
tent. Let the association do the goats full
Justice and they will do more and become
still more popular.
gome Points on Rupp failure.
One of the marvels of the latter day
husbandry Is the progress of rape culture
In this country. Formerly the cultiva
tion of rope was for Its seed from which
an oil was expressed. But during the last
five years the attention of farmers and
especially sheepmen has been called to
this crop as one that would practically
solve the question of summer forage,
says the Indiana Farmer. It is without
a rival in nil the list of succulent summer
and autumn foods, by furnishing more
and better green food to the acre, and ut
less expense.
A number of difficulties relative to its
culture will vanish as the farmer learns
to manage it. In selecting ground for
rope, some attention should be given to
the character of the soil. It requires con
siderable moisture and hence should be
sewn on ground that retains moisture the
longest. It does quite well on recleaned
marshes. It will not succeed on foul
ground where It would be choked out by
weeds In its early growth. Rape Is a
heavy feeder and requires good soil—can't
be too good.
To insure a paying crop against the
counteracting influences of the most un
favorable season of the year for a grow
ing crop, should be liberally supplied
with artificial plant food. We have had
splendid results by using 400 pounds of
fertilizer per acre containing $ per cent,
available phosphoric acid, 8 per cent,
potash and 3 per cent, nitrogen. Rape,
like clover, enriches the ground in nitro
gen to a certain extent. It therefore re
quires but o small per cent, of that cot>
!>' ingredient. For early summer grazing,
rape should be sown about oat seeding
time In April or May. but when late sum
mer and fall feeding is desired, it can
be sown during July or early Auguat, on
ground plowed and well prepared.
The beet variety of seed Is the Dwarf
Essex and the amount used Is about four
pounds per acta If aown broadcaat, and
from two to three pounds if a drill or seed
er is used If there is a desire to culti
vate it, drill in rows from 26 to 30 inches
apart. It is sometimes sown on stubble
ground, without plowing, and harrowed
in with a small tooth harrow.
Asa supplemented crop, however, it is
more extensively sown in corn. This is
done at the last cultivation by sowing the
seed ahead of the corn plow. The corn
blades protect the plant during its early
growth, and within six or eight weeks
the lambs may be turned in for weaning!
Rape in a corn field is a regular paradise
for lambs, end small pigs not weaned, ri
val the rape itself in immensity of growth.
It was at first thought that rape was
essentially a sheep food, but It had since
been learned that it is valuable for cattle
ond swine, especially calves.
It has practically revolutionized the
sheep industry in this country. It tides
the sheep farmer over the last dry sea
son. when the fieltts are covered only with
harsh weeds and dead grass, furnishing
an abundance of green and nourishing
food. “
It is the feed per excellence for ewes
and iambs during the nursing period and
for weaning lambs is incomparable, earn -
ing them from mother milk to self susl
taining lambhood without stunting or
shrinkage Rape is not a feed of a week
or a month, but one that carries the flock
in perfect “style" from spnny June to
bleak December. Allow fifteen sheep to
an acre. It is, however, like clover liable
to cause bloat, and in pasturing care must
be exercised, until the stock become ao
customed to eating it. D. I. Duncan.
The Kingdom of Alfalfa In Coming.
New and great thoughts seem now to ha
agitating alike the farmer and the states
man, says the Farm and Raneh. For
while the politician would expand and en
large his territory—would extend the
sphere of his action, and would place the
Filipinos and all the nations of the earth
under the paternal care of his great mind
and big heart. The farmer, on the other
hand, is aiso reaching out; he would diver
sify the products of the earth; he. ;oo i
clamoring for more, something better ilian
he now lias; some beautiful spot beyond
the borders that he may call the oasis cf
his pilgrimage, some outgrowth of the soil
that may countervail the great command
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eit
bread, ' some product of the vegetabia
world that he may crown king.
The fleecy staple, cotton, way down
South in Dixie, long has been standing tip
toed on his snow-white throne, crying
himself hoarse, vainly proclaiming him
self king. At the same time the golden
sheaves of Kansas, clasping hands with
the great granaries of/ the North their
very walls, bursting abd falling beneath
their own weight, with deafening roar
are claiming the kingdom of the vegetable
universe. And yet. methinks, the course
of the empire is ti!l westward in its
flight. Out of the arid, parched regions of
the West, watered by no vernal showers
nor summer rains, has come to stay the
king of vegetation, under the prosaic name
Lucerne, and under the Arabic and more
poetic nom de plume, alfalfa, and wear
ing a crown of tinted green and
royal purple. exhaling fragrant
perfumes and baimy cdors, alluring the
prancing steed, the cattle, upon a thous
and hills, and herds of swine, crying
'Come unto me all ye that labor and'are
heavy laden and I tviil give you rest ••
He proclaims rest for the plowshare, the
noe, the self-binder and the spinning and
the threshing machines. He is rescuing
from slavery the little boy and girl, who
in the production of alfalfa, can perform
no other labor then eat and grow into
vigorous man and womanhood, upon the
delicious honey (nectar fit for the fabled
gods), which the bees gather from its
purple flowers, or drink the brimming
pails of m;lk from the cows feeding upon
its meadows. And he bids these littlo
boys and girls exposed to the chilling
blasts of winter, or sweltering beneath
the burning suns of September, come out
of these .otton fields to find rest in the
shadow of the school room, and bathe
their sun-scorched brow and quench their
thirst at the fountain of learning.
This majestic Western crowned king of
plants has issued his proclamation of
freedom of all implements, except the
keen sickle blade, ever clipping the green
sward from April to November, for as
“ower has clipped to one
ah f i/ h ? tled ' * he other wiil be ready.
Alfalfa is one of nature’s choicest gifts
to man. It is peculiarly adapted to a re
publican government, for it smiles alike
on the rich and the poor. It never dies
from old age. In the place of the long
horn steer, it places upon the market the
sjmmetrical shorthorn at two years. Up
on it the Poland-China may be marketed
at six months, and upon alfalfa pastures
lie disdains all other food, and he will
cither answer the summons for grain with
an audacious grunt, or go bounding over
the purple flowers of'the alfalfa, with his
tail curled in ringlets and beautiful fes
toons over his back.
When some Sheban Queen shall come
,h i' granaries of the North, or the
cotton fields of the South to prove thia
king of plants, she will exclaim, “I have
neard of thy wonders and greatness, of
thy roots snentiy subsoiling and enrich
ng the soil, and boring and perforating
er. ea ’,' h u ‘° r Water lo n ande P th of thirty
teet. with an unbroken perennial growth
of a hundred years, but behold, the half
has never yet been told of thy prosperity
so full and so free.”
The Scrap Bonk.
Resistance to Frost.-They are trying a
peculiar experiment at the Rhode Island
station. In the spring of 1899 they plant
ed three varieties of beans in a hotbed,
and one cold night they removed a sash
so that most of the plants were killed,
a few were injured, but did not die, and
a few escaped wllh but little injury. From
these last few they saved the seed, and
made a similar test this spring. They
removed the sash the night of May 10.
when the weather records near by show.d
a temperature of -8 degrees. The results
were similar to that of the year before.
Many of the plants were killed outright,
nearly all lost their leaves, and one stood
as if nothing hod happened. They pro
pose to continue the experiment, and see
If they cannot from thnt one plant, and
perhaps from some of the others that only
lost their leaves, develop a strain of
beans that they can warrant as hardy as
peas are now. We wish them success.
To Dehorn Cattle.—The best way to de
horn cattle Is to take them when they
are calves not more than ten old.
and shear the hair away from the but
tons where the horn Is to appear, and
with a moist cloth rub the oil off tht
buttons, says the Ranch nnd Range. Do
not wash a spot larger than the end of
the little finger. Get from the apothecary
a stick of caustic potash and moisten
one and so as to dissolve It slightly, and
rub the little spots of moist skin four or
five times in as many minutes, moisten
the potash each time. This will destroy
the cuticle of the skin, and check th
growth of horn. Do not use too much
moisture on the potash, for If the solu
tion runs out Into the hair it will leave
a bare spot wherever It goes. Keep the
calves In out of the rain for several days
for the same reason. The operation Is
simple and practically harmless to the
animal.
Aotlc-e.
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greet comfort,” eald the Cornfed Philoso
pher, “to find that the Ten Command
ments read ‘Thou shalt not.' Instead of 'I
shall not.’ "—lndianapolis Press,