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6 X TEXAS WONDER. Hall’fi Great Discovery. One small bottle of Hall’s Great Dis covery cures all kidney and bladder troubles, removes grave], cure* i .i>-?• s. seminal emissions, weak arid .■inu i hacks, rheumatism and all irr-grul.ri-i of the kidneys and bladder in boCi in n and women, regulates bladder trouUc.-' in chil dren. If not sold by ycur druggist will bo cent my mail on receipt if $1 One small bottle tw month in.-itm-nl. and will cure any cas above mentioned. Dr. E. W. Hall, sole manufacturer. P O. Box 629, S* Louis. Mo. Sri testi monials. Sold by .11 drugi;ista and Solo mons Cos Savanna 1.. Ga. Rend Thin. Dr E W. Hall. St. Louis. Mo : Dear Sir—-Please shin me three dozen Hall’s O eat Discovery bt f; t • xprotf." I have tod over one gross. It give- perfect sat isfaction. and I recommend it to my customers. Yours truly, H. C. GROVES. Prop. Anti-Monopoly Drug Store. Ocala. F!a Dec. 13 THE NEWS OF THREE STATES. IIAPPEMVGS IN GEORGIA. FLORIDA AND SOI Til < IROLIN \. Atlanta Received l* First New Rale. IMucon looking; tor n HriliiHinii in Fire Insurance Rates—Coffin Fac tory at .Jnniper llurned—- V nattier Murder Accredited to Hall—.JacU aonvillc Light Infantry’* \>w Lieu tenant Complimented Campaign Litera ttire for Florida—l rops in South Carolina in Need of Rain. New bales have been coming into towns and cities all over Georgia for a week or ten days, but Atlanta did rot get her first bale of new c< ;on unni 1' l ay. If came from Yatesvilk*. on th<* Atlanta and Florida division of tho Sent ho it, Railway and was consigned io E. S. Ehney & Cos. Fire Insurance Rates. A special representative from the South eastern Tariff Assoviat >n will be sent to Macon to Investigate the claims of im provements that have been made in the fire department end waterworks, in order to see if Macon can i- given a reduction in fire insurance rates. llurned Coffin Factory. The coffin factory of Posey & Sons at Jasper, was totally dtstroycl by fir" Thursday morning. The entire plant, in cluding building, machinery and stock, was consumed. It is thought that the tire was of an incendiarfy origin. The total loes is said to be $5,000. with ss<>o insur ance. The building was th*- property of the Lummus Gin Company of this city. Wnterworki \ll Right. The Atlanta waterworks system is again in perfect condition. All of the bro-ken machinery has been removed and new pieces substituted. Mr. Milne, the expert hvdrauA engineer, who was brought to Atlanta to make an examina tion of the system, visaed the pumping station. He says that the two engines ei work are as fine as can be built, and that the only trouble that he can see In the system is that th** demand for water has outgrown the capacity of the engines. Met at Arlington. Delegates from the three counties com posing the Ninth Senatorial District met in convention Friday at Arlington and rat ified the action of the primary election held in Calhoun. Baker and Early counties by nominating Hon. J I. Boynton. This means his elec ion. v~ he had no opposi tion in the primaries and will have none at the election in October. Hon. Clark Howell’s candidacy for president of the Benate and Hon. John D. Lb i.v’s for speak er of the House were unanimously in dorsed by the convention. Added Another Muriler. Last Saturday night Berry Hall, with out provocation, shot and kill' and a young man named Herrington, in Emanuel coun ty, and immediately took his Winchester, mounted a muU* and rode away. An account of the killing appeared in the Morning News. Further new? has it that the same man held up two peddlers some where on the line of Laurens and Eman uel counties, shot and killed one of them, rifled his pockets, took hi- pack of goods end went journeying on. The other ped dler ran off, hid himself in the bushes, where he could watch Hall as he rifled the pockets of his dead partner. Cotton Men and Officials. The railway officials who were in Ma con to discuss terms end forms of con tract with the cotton compress men at the principal ports and interior ; Tints for the current year, reached an agreement and adjourned. The contracts are sub stantially the same as those of last year. Except as to unusual sized or shaped bales, the compress companies agreed to press cotton to a density of pounds to the cubic foot. The standard or rec tangular bale will he 24 inches in width by 54 inches in length. The contract also provides for the placing of eight inch iron,bands on till cotton intended for export. Dtihlfn’M Firemen. For some time there was strife and bickering between the two hose com panies of Dublin. Each company thought that i was entitl'd to the chief. Re cently the City Council reorganized the two companies, and now peace reigns. It was also decided by Council to compen sate the men for their services as fire fighters. The pay will net be large, but ftlill will be something. It was also de cided by the City Council to build a reel bouse upon the vacant lot between the Hicks building and the rtore of J. E. Bmith, Jr. This is something the boys have been working for a long time. The following is the reorgunizcnl company: Chief, W. O. Ogburn; foreman. L. V. B*one; assistant foreman, H. M Kirk; secretary, F. A. Thomas-; treasurer, F. F. Scarborough. Florida! Hon. Frank Clark, chairman of the State Democratic Executive Committee. Las secured tho names of every member of the various county committees in the state and will from time to time forward them instructions. The headquarters will also be provided with campaign literature by the National Democratic Committee, and these documents will be distributed to the members, who. in turn, will distribute them throughout their respective pre incts. For ( lilting I . S. Senator. United Stales Commissioner Fred rub ber! y at Bronson had before him fast week C. H. Knight. S. S, Davenport and James A. Brown. They ar* citizens of Lafayette county, and were charged with cutting timber on government lard. Tho charges were preferred by (J. A. Paul, special agent of th* general land office, who is engaged In investigating timber trespass cases for the government. All the defendants were bound over to the United States Court at Tailahaaaee. J. L. I'm. Lieutrnait. Macon Telegraph: It will be of inter est to the friends of Mr. W. A. Jones who for some time made his home In Macon, to know that he ha* been elected lieu tenant of the Jacksonville Light Infantry, the leading military company of Jacksen- Yllit, Fla. For the past year or two Mr. Jones has been in Jacksonville as soliciting agent of the Louisville and Nashville Railway, and w’as a private in The ranks of the Light Infantry until his I election to the position of lieutenant. He ; was <'fp!ain in Col. Ray's Immunes and | went to Cuba with them. AVIII Stay in the Fight. Jacksonville Metropolis: Whether Gainesville and Ocala remain in the capi tal removal fight or not, Jacksonville will continue th#- aggressive fight it has inau gurated until the close of the election. The primary to decide this question will prove expensive, and it will devolve on the aspirants to pay their respective por tion of this expense. Those cities that be lieve they have any chance of winning will gladly pay for this work. Those that arc in the fight merely for the ad vertisement will, of course, drop out. There is no use of getting around this question, as this expense must be equally shared by all the cities that expect to re main in the race. It will take several thousand dollars, hut the capital will be worth that to any city in the state. Jack sonville is willing to spend several for tunes to secure It. because its removal to this city means a great deal for Jackson- . ville and the entire state of Florida. It j is willing to pay its share of the expense j of the primaries. SOUTH CAROLINA. E. H. Addy, one of Lexington’s most prosperous farmers, sold the first bale ot n* iv cotton at Leesvllie on last Tuesday. The bale was sold to C. D. Barr for 10 cents and weighed 526 pounds. Storin /! Eat l'nlon. Last Tuesday o severe storm blew over East Union, uprooting trees and com* p’.etely demolishing L. D. Smith’s grocery store, just completed. The storm raged over that portion of the town In the neigh borhood of the Monarch mills and did no other damage. Rongh on the Crops. A special dispatch from Columbia, da/t --ed Aug. 17. says: “This was the eleventh day of torrid heat and the eighteenth since rain fell. The damage, to the crops, particularly cotton, is great. The aggre gate of maximum temperature in the shade for eleven days is 1,102 degrees. The coolest day was 98 degrees. The av erage mean daily temperature has been K 7. All previous records fall far below'. The cotton Is opening prematurely and shedding.” Militia Inspection. The regular inspection of the tniliMa companies in the state will begin to-mor row. when Col. Foster will go out on his annual tour. Two companies will be inspected at Orangeburg to-morrow, the company at Bamberg on Tuesday and on the. 23rd Col. Frost expects to inspect the companies at Abbeville, Honea Path and I’e.lzer. Other announcements will he made of inspections, but in all cases com pany commanders will he notified by telegraph when to expect the inspection officer. Crops Need Rnfn. A dispatch from Spartanburg says the rain-; k#;op far away from that town. Il is rertainly gloomy outlook for most formers, especially those living in the rainless belt. After a great surplus of rain in June come Fix weeks of very warm weather with only an occasional light shower. It is now too late to help (he early corn, w'hich is parched up. The farmers were generally too busy killing grass in July to plant a late crop. The outlook is that a very short corn crop will be made and that hundreds of car loads of Western corn wili be shipped in next year. Fought About n Team. Abraham Stevenson, a negro, hired a team from Timmons & McColl at Flor ence on last Monday, to go to a picnic. When he returned that evening the horses were driven down and abused. L. A. Mc- Coll remonstrated with the negro for abusing the horses, whereupon Stevenson struck Mc.Coll with a stick. McColl drew his pistol and a scuffle ensued, during which the pistol fired. Stevenson then dashed fo run. McColl followed and fired two or three shots at him. but the balls missed their mark. Stevenson left and has not been seen sine. Invited Them to Scratch. From Spartanburg cornea the following: "The county candidates finished their first week’s work Saturday night. It was in the main satisfactory to them, for each one has a superfluity of hope. So far ns the senator and members of the House arc concerned, while they talk much about the dispensary, the voter* will not make prohibition on issue. A few may vote according to their convic tions on that subject, but the most of them will vote for personal friendship or on the merits of the candidates. Sena tor Tillman, feeding assured of his nomi nation. invites his enemies to scratch his name from the ticket and he seems to *hink that 10,000 to 20,000 voters will do it A citizen and voter of the county, who went with his neighbors when the people were wild for Tillman, said Satur day that he had lost much in thi* county by his abuse and vindictive declarations. Others have expressed themselves in the same way. As near as the writer can judge, about one-third of the voters of rhis county are still ready to d* Till man’s bidding, and they will vote for him or any man he may select. There is another third that once supported him that would now prefer a better man to represent them, but they feel that scratching would do no good, so they will put in the tickets as printed. Two years ago this county voted about 5.000. One third of that number may scratch bis name off. ns they like him less and less the longer he is in office. That is about the way the county stands to-day as to Tillman.” ling; Nearly Made llim Mad. From the New York World. Winsted, Conn., Aug. !B.—A bug nearly drove John O’Meara, a Canaan, a brake men on the Poughkeepsie bridge route, crazy. While switching cars at Canaan, twenty miles west of here, the insect flew into O’Meara’s ear so deep hi® comrades and Dr. Ix>e were unable to get it out. O'Meara vvas taken to Hartford yester ady. and Dr. St. John extracted the bug. which was still alive after fifing imprison ed nearly tw r o days. O’Meara said the noise in his head sounded like a buzz paw. He was unable to sleep and suffered great pain. Half Intereat In Xew*. Thomasville. Ga.. Aug. 19.—A. P. Jour dan of Leesburg. Fla., has bought a half interest In the Thomas County News and will move here and assist In running ihe j newspaper and job office. CASTOR IA Por Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the SW Signature of C J-COtC+U/i/. W. F. HAMILTON, Artesian Well Contractor, OCALA, FLA, Am prepared to (lrtli **•!!* up to any depth. We uac firat-claa* machinery, cart do work on abort notice and guarantee ■atlßfaction, , THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, AUGUST 20. 1900. THE FARM AND THE GARDEN. MATTERS OF INTEREST TO AGRI - LTt HIST 4>D HOUSEWIFE. Note* on Rnat of Aipanigtit-Thp En croachment of niioaso And In - Meets—Gl ohe A rtf choke*—Fertilise r and Stable Manure—Plants in Pots. Angorn Goats, etc. Rust has again attacked the asparagus ! plantations in the South. The small bed j in the home garden and the hundred-acre plants along the coast of Carolina and Georgia are alike affected. We referred to this blight of asparagus last fall in this I column and reported the measures adopt ed for the cure of the disease. Later and in the spring we reported the results of | the treatment as indicated by the appear ance of the plants at the opening of the growing season. Though the plants were badly rusted last fall none died during the winter and this spring made as fine a yield of sprouts as It was possible for healthy asparagus to yield. After the cutting season was over (well along in May) the plants made a fine growth of brush and up to th#' middle of July were as green and healthy apparently as need be. Towards the close of the month, how ever. rust was observed on occasional plants aiG by Aug. 12 the whole bed was yellow with th#' rust. The plants had been well limed when the rust was first discovered, but it had no effect in ward ing off the disease from the rest of the crop. As was done last season, the brush has been cut down leaving a stubble of one foot in length. As soon as this dries so that it will burn the brush and stubble will he burned off, burning he stubble down to the ground. Then another heavy dressing of air-slaked lime will be made to the surface with nothing more to do than to await th#* result next April. Though the plants were badly affected with rust last year the crop was not at all diminished this spring and it may be that the plants will still survive a second attack of the rust. It is possible, the rust may disappear and the plants be restored to a normal condition of health. Or it may be that it will require a presence of the disease for several years to entirely destroy the plants. We can only wait and watch, applying such remedies as may be suggested by past experience as being likely to check or cure the disease. Bfsdes 1 ming and turning over the beds in the' fall, the Bordeaux mixture tlim#* ard Milestone) shou'd b,‘ sprayel on the beds as scon as the cutting season s over next spring. That is as soon as the plants have made some growth, the fl-st of June or middle of May, possibly. ThD spraying should he repented several times from June to August. It was evi dent this season that the rust cf la*t fall dkl not affect the yielding qualities of the roofs after the first attack of rust. What this second attack will do can on y he discovered next March or April. There is ro question that this multi plication cf blight and insects in the plant world is affording abundant cause for very s rious reflection as to the future welfare of this new world. Every econ omic plant is being infested with disease of some kind and likewise injurious in sects and their combined influence may at any time now produce entire failure of a s: ason’s planting of everything that is grown. We would not be an alarmist, but we would in?/1 up n every one who plants, under® aifding how serious the matter may possibly become, if energet.c measures are not taken to protect their crops from disease and insects before it is too late to do any good. The enemy may get within the gate? before we are aroused to the danger that threatens. There is no doubt that much of th#* suc cess to result tr m tiling the soil herue for ill is to be the result of certain reme dial or preventive work that had no part in farm work 50 or 25 years ago. Any ore. even fairly acqualn'ed with the pos sible dangers that lie in the planter’s path cannot but feci profound anxiety for the future; for very f< w of our South ern farmers appear to und# rstand a? yet that there i? urgent need for doing any thing towards warding off the threatened clangers. , i . Poultry Raising. N. N. L., Attapulgas, Ga.. propeses “embarking in poultry raising, establish ing a regular hennery in fact.” He ‘wants to be informed of every thing re garding it before entering into the busi ness.” It would require a good deal of space to answer a question put in such a gen eral way as this. There have been writ ten many books upon the subject and there are a dozen or more Journals de voted to the exclusive task of enlighten ing those who engage in the busi ness or are already following it. If. N. N. L. proposes to engage in the business extensively we would advise him to buy o book or two and subscribe to the same number of periodicals w'hich besides the text will give him n great many diagrams Snd illustrations of houses and appliances thet tviH aid him In deciding many ques tions that may confront him in the be ginning ond possibly continue to the end. However it is quite possible for an in telligent. practical man. fairly endowed with common sense to go*into the business and do very well without once looking into the publications we have suggested. We will throw' out a few brief eugges tions for N. N. L.’s immediate use and will follow these by a few more later on. nil of w'hich with what N. N. L. already knows may be quite sufficient for giving him a fair send-off in the way of es tablishing his regular hennery. Now the very first thing to do is to get a good breed. There is none better than the barred Plymouth Rock. It is a com bination fowl and is bound to give satis faction. The second essential is to provide am ple accomodation for the fowls, good runs and good houses for winter houses (hat can be made tight enough during the win ter to protect the fowls from draughts of air. The runs or yards must be large enough to allow' of raising something green on them the year round. The fowls must have plenty of pure wa ter. Hens expected to lay and lay well must not be fed much on corn, but should be supplied with wheat and oats and wheat bran with a small supply of bone meal. The houses and surroundings must he kept clean. All wood work should be whitewashed occasionally. Shallow boxes of good size half full of clay dust and ashes should be provided for their dust hath. Do not overfeed. Never feed lay ing hens as much aa they can or will eat. If the nests for setting hems do not. rest upon the ground have three or four inches of soil under the straw. Do not place | nests for setting hens upon top of one j another. Set with thirteen or fourteen eggs. For merely laying it does n&t mat. I ter. Make and keep your fowls gentle and fearless. Have one good robust cock to every seven or eight hens. Ten or twelve days after Netting a hen put a thimbleful of sulphur In the nest. Do not cut the wings of hens or cocks. Keep on hand a little pyhethrum or insect powder to dust on the nests. Give pure water In iron vessels, or if in crock®, keep a few nails in the vessel. Study these rule® and go ahead and later specify the information desired ihut Is not covered by the foregoing. The AVlilte Velvet Okra. Okra is one of the stand-by In Southern garden* Th re are eeverai kind* and all are good enough, in their way, but the white seeded sorts are pre ferable The “black” and “white’’ okra j terms apply to the nerds. Black okra ha* [ dark purple seeds that impart the dark color io gumba or any dish of okra, bu. the white-seeded sorts are free from this objection. It is advisable to reject the black seeded, and pant only the white see led sorts. Among the latter, the wnite velvet okra is ihe champion. The pods ought to be cut every morn ing. alternating the p arts in the row. s? that every other plant is cut every other day. Ti i•* will prove itself one cf the n 0.-t prolific vegetables that pan be grown. The hrtter the stinrmer sun gets t e tet ter this okra bear?, and there will be no cessation until late fall. When other vtgetables have burnt up and gone to seed, whi'e velvet okra will be full of pods blooming and bearing with out a barren day; no okra pods ought to le allowed t> ripen ?#ds, except for see l saving to plant from. Cut off all th* pois regularly every other day ar.d tie plants will bloom more freely. It is sensitive to c Id when the p an s ere ycurvg; tcwird frost-fell in autumn the large stalks will bear considerable cold. The market gar deners in New Orleans sow' okra seed two or three feet in rows and thin the plant? wh n up to 12 or 15 inches apart. A valuable feature of this excellent veg etable is the ease wi h which it can be put up for winter use. Take the larger pods w’hile still terder and cut into inch pieces end dry in the sun fer a few days. Then put away in pap r bags. White House Whitewash. Uncle Sam's recipe for whitewash that is used about his place in Washington. D. C., and the best he knows of, is as fol lows: “Take a half bushel of unslacked lime, slack it with boiling water, cover during the process to keep in steam strain the liquid ihrough a fine sieve or strainer, and add to it a peck of salt, previously dis solved in warm w-ater; three pounds of ground rice boiled to a thin paste and stirred in while hot: half a pound Spanish whiting and one pound of glue, previously dissolved by soaking in cold water and then hanging over the fire in a small pot hung in a larger one filled with water, add five gallons of hot water to the mix ture, stir well and let it stand a few days covered from dirt. It should be ap plied hot. for which purpose it can be kept in a portable furnace.” This can he colored as desired by add ing Venetian red. lampblack, burnt um ber, ocher, etc. It is mor#' durable than ordinary paint and is much cheaper. Different Ways of Feeding To get best results from feeding corn to cattle is deemed advisable ly many prac tical men to soak the grain during the spring, summer and fall. One of the most successful feeders in lowa tells the Drov ers Journal that he gels very satisfactory results from having tanks on his wagons by which the grain is soaked twelve hours before feeding. The process softens the grain to euch an extent that cattle get much more benefit than from cron fed dry. During the freezing weather when waking is not practicable It is a good thing to grind the corn, but the cost of this operation is considerable and is by many considered to be about an offset to the benefits derived. One of the largest feed ers In Nebraska has experimented on grinding both corn and corn stalks, and while the results are satisfactory he is by no means sure that the gain is worth .he cost. There are a great many feeding propositions that round up in about that way. and a large share of the best beef cattle ihat come to market have only the old-fashioned style of feeding shock corn on grass with hogs to pick up the undi gested grain. The Tomato ns Food. The profession and the public are by no means agreed as to the dietlc value of the tomato. The classical authorities on food, such as Chambers and Atkinson, dismiss the claims of this vegetable very curtly, simply placing it among the anti scorbutics and allowing it little, if any, nutritive value. The public, on the other hand, believe this ally of the potato to be not only a highly nutrient vegetable, but a stomachic, a cathartic and general ly a potent Mood purifier. That the toma to is thought too little of by the profession generally is true, but it may be donate 1 whether it those wonderful al terative# powers’ ascribed to if by some waiters, many of whom would have us be lieve that sufferers from certain ailments are never really we 1 except during the tomato season, says the Fruit World. This fruit, as it may be called, exhibits, ho we r. one remarkable property in con nect.# with plant diseases, which sug gests its use as a germicide and a prot A for against those diseases, so many of which we now know derive their origin from bacteria ar.d al led germs. If a toma to is uprooted at the end of the season and allowed to wither on the bough of n fruit tree, or If it is burnt befienth fhe tree, it will not only act as a curative, but nlso as a protective, against blights and similar attack®. This hostility to low or ganisms is due to the presence of sul phur. which is rendered up in an active condition during the decay of burning. Remembering that digestion also splits up the tomato into its chemical constitu ents and re eases sulphur, probably in a nascent condition, and probably in the In testinal canal, it may have as great po tency there as experiments prove it to have outside the body. Summer diarrhea. English cholera and typhoid fever are due to low organisms. As the diarrheal and typhoid seasons are foitunately contempo raneous with the fruiting of the tomato, it is not unreasonable to assume that to mato eaters would be more than or dinarily likely to escape such diseases. It is worth noting that typhoid fever is more prevalent among the poor. who. in most countries of Europe, are not able io pur chase much of this expensive fruit. Sail ors. too. just after landing, are irflcu‘- larly liable to typhoid and in them we may always assume more or less scorbu tic condition -But the question of the pro tection against diseases afforded by cer tain diet® and by such habit las the use of alcohol, tobacco and opium has yet hardly been inquired into. Experiments are now being made on tie tincture of the tomato, which will help in determining its therapeutic value. Meanwhile, eaten, cooked with hot meats and in the form of a salad, after a coll lunch, if is pleasant and useful to our ordinary regimen. The fruit acids it con tains. combined with the mechanical ef fect of the seeds and ®kin, render it to some extent ar enemy to scurvy, a? well as a laxative: and the sulphur, with its known power over septic conditi*is. would probably * contribute to make its ue a protection against the poison germ of these diseases, like typhoid, tfeit find their way into the system primarily by the alimentary canal. In tlie Current of I’rogrclve Agrl onltnre. The importance of pure water for hu man consumption has long in n general way been appreciated. A knowledge of the reason why dates but a short time b. ck and introduces us to the microbe It is now well known that some of the most fatal diseases me communicated to both man and the domesticated animal? through the medium of water, and so propagated and spread. On every farm there ahould l#e full provision made for an ample supply of pure water. It should not I*' very hard to do rhis on most farms; the situation as it bears on this for each farm is or can readily be known by the farmers, and so the source of contamination can largely, if not wholly, be known and avoided. A supply of pure cistern wa ter—for most purpose* the purest and safest kind of water—can be secured out In the country in it* finest state. It is doubtful if more importance should, where good health is the idea, be at tached io food and shelter than this, and yet results point to a very different atat* of oase in the general practice. Some ex periment* and mvesufuiioiui recently con- ducted in Canada make this strikingly clear. In the report published of what way done it is stated that sixty-six sam ples of water, all from farm homestead?, were tested to ascertain their sanitary con.*/1 lon—“on#- from British Columbia, six from the Northwest Territories, twen ty-right from Ontario, eight from Que bec. seven from New Brunswick, und seventeen from Prince Edward Island. Of these 50 per cent, were reported dan gerously polluted and unsafe for drink ing purposes, 25 per cent, as suspicious and in ell probability as unsafe*, and 25 per cent, as unpolluted and wholesome,” —Home end Farm. Grain Food for ||o<*n, A certain amount of grain feed is needed to grow' fogs with the greatest profit, and still .more U n ed el to fat en and tit tin in for market, but it should te u-ed only io supplement the feeds w'hich the hogs harvest for ihem sMv'os in the fie.ri. Perk cannot be made economically when all, or even a larger proporiion. o' tbe Led comes from the crib or the mill. The hog is an omnivor u? anirra’ and ru eels “rough ge ’ and fresh green fee 1 for his lest h .il h and growth and to produce meat rf die best quality. V\ hen young bis grain feed shc-u and be such as will fu:ni h mat rial for ben 1 an 1 muscle, and not siioh as wi 11 produce mi # xcess of fat; while, a? ihe animal ap proaches maturity, fat-producing foo s should be gi\eu more liberally. No one kind of grain teed can be used economi cally from weaning until the •full-grown animal is slaughtered, and there sou and be a gradual change from the nitrogen ous. muscle-making foed given to the pig to the carbonaceous, fat-making food, which is mere profi able for the last few weeks bef re killirg. The young animal must have good l one and muscle befo e it can carry th< heavy lead of fat d?fir_- be* for the butcher or develop the strong h, vigor, and health necessary in a good breeding animal.-S. M. Tracy. I*Lints en Pots. I #lo not believe there is any great vir tue in soil selection for the culture of plants in pots. We get much minute ad vice on that line, and from it the infer ence would be that every plant, to grow in a pot, must be provided with a very exact variety of soil, or it will not do we.l, says the Country Gentleman. This is true in a minor way. We all know that certain plants, with the ferns lead ing, prefer light, peaty soil, and that others lik#- something more sandy. But this is all by (he way. Whnt plants all demand is rich soil with some sort of tex ture, so that it will not become muddy when it is watered. If it has nothing of this sort, it will have a tendency to smother h* roots of the plant by the ex clusion of air. Asa rule few plants are watered to death in soil that has no tendency to be come muddy. The old cautions against overwarering have driven us to the oppo site extreme, and we water with a dish that wets the surface of the pot and al lows the main ball of soil to become sol id. and fhe plant slowly starves to death, often so slowly that we do not suspect whnt is the matter. Never water spar ingly, either outdoors or In. A watering that goes to the bottom of fhe roots will keep them growing as they should; a scanty watering sets them to reaching to ward the surface for moisture, and Vhey are soon incapable of maintaining vigor ous growth. Pot soil is very subject to acid condi tions. In some cases a bit of lime or charcoal will correct that, but many plants do not like lime in quality, and neither treatment is a sure safeguard. Better let the root do its own work of sweetening the soil by making sure that there is never much more soil in a pot than is needed. Where the soil is found to be wrong in some particular and the plant is •suffering, wash nil of it fr#>m th#> pots and repot, using n rather scant sup lly. Often the plant will thrive again at once. Some plants will do w. 11 with more soil than the roots < an work over, but usually they will no*. Angora Goins. E. H. Jobson. s. cr- i iry of t ■••■ .Sierra County Goat and Sheep Grow# tion of New Mexico, says in the Shep herd’s Bulletin: The Angora goat is probably destined to beeoT# ore of the most valuable of the domestic animals, and the recent manifestations being shown in behalf of them are something that th-y have long deserved, and the growers of goats have quickly grasped fhe opportu nity to demonstrate the merit? of th#* goat, and they have now almost entirely al>ol ished the prejudice which has so long ex isted against the Angora venison as a food. There are more goats in this immediate vinicity than (here are in any other one community, there being nearly 18,000 head, ranging from 300 to over 2.fXK> head in each flock. The average price obtained for our mohair, for a six months’ clip, was 23V6 cents per pound. This is a good av erage and is self-evident as to grades of our g# There are four grower? of goats who are paving special a i tention to the breo#ling of fine stock, and the result during the past three years has developed some very fine stock, and for which good prices have been obtained. In the writer’s opinion, there is a great future before the Angora goat, because of its many fine points, and the valuable uses that can be made of them on a farm. The hair from an Angora goat makes a fabric that rivals that of the silk. A good goat will produce from four lo ; ix pounds of this class of mohair, which ranges in price from 25 to 40 cent® per pound, according to the length, quality and luster of the hair. The most valuable service that can he had from an Angora goat on a farm is in < learing brush land. There is nothing that kills brush and trees quicker than the constant nibbling away of the teflder leaves and bark which constitutes the best food for a goat, although they will cat any class of food, that is fed to do mestic animals. There is no reason to believe in ihe world why the Angora goat venison should not be considered as dainty n meat as that of the deer. If th#* health of an animal is a criterion as to th#' pur ity of he meat, there is no meat as pure as that of the Angora goat. We have no doubt that in the near fu ture the Angora goat will occupy a consid erable share of attention from Soiflhern farmers or land owners. Asa money maker they are superior to sheep in sev eral important respects. The cheap lands of the South afford a splendid opportunity for cultivating the Angora goat. A Chicago Chinese Garden. Within an hour's ride, by electric cars, of our office three Chinamen, each of whom inFiats that "m no Boxer, me Cllstian China boy,” are conducting a vegetable garden # n The two acres at th * southwest corner of Seventy-fifth street and St. Lawrence avenue, Chicago, siv? the National Rural. They ar. Chin Ke *. Sam L e and Wo Gaun, all three practi cal gardeners. During the past five months three G in in n have bten bu y in Hie garden, plowing und cultivating at first, then sowing ac and p anting and now i\ aping, though thy continue to sow and cul ivaie. and last Thursday when I - tin* ga den the, were thinning out what ® #ni and to be the fifth planting of Chinese cabbage. The work was done by hand, ina'cad of w;ih a ho , ns an up-to-date American market gardener would da it. The worker sa on a low- ?eat between the rows a? he (.artfully yet quickly re t ov and ihe super fluous pant? hitching his seat along a* he pro- c ted t ward ihe end of ihe tows. The garden su' ; 11 s Chi aga chiia town with all ihe vcge-ib e delicacies *o dear to the Mongolian heart that can b* raised in this climate, such as <’hlne#e cabbage, Chin# se radishes. ”ouka*Je,” •’aia-bvay ’ and other succulent vegeta- bles known to the American market Each morning two wagons are caled wi h vi getabl s from the garden and b - fore daylight they are on their wav Ij Clark street, wh-re they are sold at price that would gladden the hrar'.s of the n ighborirg market gardeners w'ho sup p y the geneial m. k,t w.th garden tiu.k -live or ten conts a pound. Ch i ese £ar2ner dees rot pull a whole head ol lt'tuce at a time, bur instead plucks the ripe haves, leaving the plant to grow others. “Melican farmer, he foolish,’ ventured Wo Gaun. "He pull u > wnclo tir g all ?a me time. We no do it. We pull off one lea , two leaf, three 1 af, or like that, then p an* him grow some leafs, then we pull of; them some mere. Same thing with ccheir things; we no hurry, we take li:tl \ it at tim ; good for plant; good for we.” This is h second v<ar thse Chinamtn have worked tNir two ac*-es, wh’ch they rent fi om a German v ho has 14) ai res i it j gani n rruck, and the #nly objection the Chinamen have to their loratinn is tne l'lcui-i iveness of the small boys of the neighborhood, who insist on trampirg over the n< wly plarted g ounl in their eifor-s to s lve the mysteries of Chims? farming, ro withstanding ‘he sign. "No Quam H re," meets your eyes as scon a? you approach tho garden. Fertilisers and Stable Mannre Education of the farmers in regard to fertilizers is largely retarded by their preferences for farm manures, and it is only when the supply of manure is de ficient that some farmers can be pre vailed upon to even consider the advisa bility of the me of fertilizers, says a writer on fertilizers. It is this preference for home-made manure and compost, the result of centuries of practice, which cre ates a prejudice against commercial fer tilizer.* The average farmer will shake his head ominously when the advantages of fertilizers are presented, and affirm his faith in “plenty of manure.” In the be lief that “plenty of manue” will enrich his soil he is correct, so far as it goes, but there is not one farm in a thousand which receives one-half of the manure which should be bestowed upon it, and e\ n when the farmer is blessed with an abundance of it he has simply adulterated his heap with much that serves only as absorhnnt material and which requires one or two years before becoming suffi ciently soluble to serve ns plant food for the immediate use of crops. Agricultural writers have taught that stable manure was a “complete ferti lizer." nnd has thus enoouraged farm ers to the belief that commercial fer tilizers were but partial substitutes for manure, when in fact all scientist® know that if there is any “complete” plant food it can only be provided by ferti lizers. Nothing on the farm is as vari able in composition as stable manure. Its value, depends entirely on the mater ials entering into its composition, while the manner in which it is kept also large ly influences ite quality. Exposure to rains, degree of fermentation, proportion of bulky constituents, and other factors, control it to a marked degree. Experi ments made to ascertain the correct value of manure, by the use of many samples for that purpose give the following com position of horse manure: Per cen*. Water Nitrogen Phosphoric acid 21 p o*ash '.'....h The value of the above Is about $2.00 per ton; and if we deduct the water tie? actual weight of the dry matter is a frac tion over SS4 pounds, the value of which is abour one-half cent per pound. When ;t is considered that this manure is not produced %vithout an expenditure for feed, labor and liability of loss, its cost is much greater than that of the average fertilizers. 11s the farmer must handle the great mass of water composing the ma nure. not only in the heap but in haul ing and spreading it over his fields, fort.v tons of such manure, not being excessive on an ncro if the Itjnd is expected to give such results as is often obtained by the use of commercial fertilizers. When it is considered, however, that manure heaps are composed mostly of ab sorbents. and that w'hen the farmer uses his teams to haul the contents of the ma nure heap 10 ihe fields he must, not only handle a large proportion of bulky and iinderomnosed material, and bestow a urge amount of labor in collecting, turn ing over, hauling and spreading, there is ■ippli.il to the land really but a small proportion of plant food, the cost of which is greater than can be estimated by the farmer, hut as he has been taught to be lieve *hnt stable manure is a “complete fertilizer," he plods his way, year after year, and ignorantly endeavors to im prove his land, yet making mistakes ow ing to traditions and customs which are difficult to overcome because he sup poses the one kind costs nothing, while the other is expensive. He will haul his straw to the city and then haul :t. bock to his farm from the livery stables, un der Ihe supposition 'hat he Is hauling val uable plant food, when in fact he is sim ply exchanging new straw for that which has been used for bedding. The variability of manure is a matter for consideration, a so. Only the host food produces the highest grade of ma nure. If the food Is deficient In any par ticular the manure will he similar. Where cows are in full flow of milk, and the products ore sent to the cl'ty markets, there will he a large loss of nitrogen and phosphoric acid, and even in the com parison shown above, in the compo sition of horse manure, phosphoric acid was deficient. Thn* such variations of quality are at all times possible is too well known to be discussed, but they should he convincing that stable mannre is the most incomplete fertilizer used upon the form. Are we attacking stable manure? We would not willingly place ourselves in such a ridiculous position. We advise farmers to use all of it that they can procure, but we desire to point out the way to better results with It. The diffi culty is tha* Ihe farmer does not have one-tenth enough of It. He Is compelled to spread over ten acres the manure that should he concentrated over a single acre of land. He Is compelled also to wait for months in order to have his manure become soluble, after It Is applied on the soil, and he is subject to loss of crop, or decreased yield, because his reliance has been placed wholly on his manure. What Is necessary is not only to use fertiliz ers and manure, but also to supply any deficiency in the manure by the use of such ingredients as will serve to "balance the ration" for the plants according to the kind of crop, Its requirements and the adaptability of the soil to supply plant food from the soluble substance* which It contains. We believe that when the farmers as a class understand that fertilizers and ma nures are (he same, and that they can apply in a concentrated form, the plant food desired, rather than to handle hulk and entail labor, no manure will be con sidered complete unless it has been in creased in value with the aid of the sails that are always available when placed in the soil. Kollee. We solicit articles for this department. The name of the wrl.er should accom pany the letter or article, not necetwarliv for publication, but as an evidence of good faith. Questions and communications relative 10 agricultural and horticultural subjects, If addressed to Agri. Editor, Drawer Milledgevllle, Ga., will receive immediate attention. For Over Fifty Years. Mrs, Winslow’s Soothing Syrup has been ! used for children teething. It soothes tii; child, softens the tumi, alleys all pain cures wind colic, and Is Ihe best remedy (or Diarrhoea. Twenty-Ova cent* a bottle, —ad. OFFI riAI.. By Alderir.an Dixon— An ordinance for the improvement of * portion of Bolton street, under the t# : . and provision* of an act of the L#. . iature of Georgia, approved Oet. 1, iv Section 1. Be it oraained by the Mqv and Aldermen of the dry of Savannah Council assembled, under the terms a ) provisions of an act of the Legislate . of Georgia, approved Oct. 1. 1887. T . the director of public works for th i of Savannah and the Committee on Sr* end Lanes, of the said city, be. ar.d - are hereby authorized and directed to b .r | and construct on Bolton street, in e. city of Savannah, beginning ai the w, side of East Broad street, and exten to the tracks of the Savannah, Flor. and Western Railway Company, a r< t way of thirty-nine (3&) feet in widm Augusta gravel, and they are also auti r ized. ar.d directed to enclose the said r . way with stone curbings, and lo do n 1 the work in the way of grading, the j , ing of catch basins, drains, crossing and all other things incident to the ■ fl struction and completion of the said r* ad way on the said portion of Bolton sti • Sec*. 2. Be it further ordaim-d. Thu ti railroad company having tracks rum.;* through the said portion of Bolton str • to be improved under this ordinance hereby required to pave the width of tracks and two (2) feet on each side f every line of tracks of the said railr, \.\ company with Augusta gravel as the s, j work progresses, and, in the event ti;, 3 is not done by the said company, the i director of public works and the said com mittee shall see to its being done at <• expense of the said railroad company. Sec. 3. Be it further ordained. That af ter the total cost of the said work, ex clusive of that done by or for a railroad company, shall have been ascertain.!, one-third of such <otal cost shall be pai l out of the city treasury and the other two-thirds from the persons owning hi the date of the adoption of this ordinal;.■# the real estate abutting on said port on of feolton street to be improved under this ordinance according to frontage, and t: • pro rata amount of the cost of such work is hereby assessed against (he said ba ting real estate, and its owners a? i: >r. said, according to the frontage. The front age of intersecting streets and lares is assessed as real estate abutting upon hi portion of Bolton street to be improve i. and the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah shall be, for all the intend and purposes of this ordinance, the . v. er of the real estate so abutting, and shall pay from the city treasury i<s ju?t pro rata as such owners of the cost of s,;hi work, according to frontage, in addliUn to its one-third of the entire cost, ns h re inbefore provided. Sec. 4. Be it further ordained, That af ter the improvement hereinbefore provid ed for has been completed the director < ‘ public works for the city of Savannah and said Committee on Street.- and Dun shall prepare and submit to the Council of the city of Savannah a statement show ing the cos 4 of the improvement herein provided for and also an assessment ro.! showing ns <o tw*o-thirds of the cost to bo apportioned how it is apportioned among the several abutting parcels, including the street and lane intersections nnd giving (he sum charge able *o each parcel, with the name of th** owner. Upon the consideration and adoption of said statement and as sessment roll by the Council of the icy of Savannah, it shall th#>n become tho duty cf the city treasurer to send to the abu.ting property owners their proper bill for the same a? t may 1 e a*cer’ained by the Ci y Council, and if such bill so sent be rot paid within thirty (30) days after the present at on or sending of the same i shall then become the duty of the city treasurer to issue an execution for the amount, together with costs, against the person and property aforesaid, which ex . cution shall be made and levied out of the proper’y described th#r;in as are ex ecutions for cty taxes. The said state ment ard asses ment roll shall also show the amount rayabl * by a railroad com pary and should such comp .ny fail r. i i efuse to pay a bill for the ame thirty (30) days, after the presentation or send ing of the same, it shall b the duty of the city treasurer to issu** execution against raid c mpany and property for said bill, together wi h costs which shall be made and levied as are executions for city taxes. Sfc. 5. Be it further ordained. That all ordinances and parts of ordinances In con flict with this ordinance are hereby re pealed. Ordinance read in Council for th" first time Aug. 8, 1900, and published for inf or mation. W. P. BAILEY Clerk of Coun il. ORDINANCES. By Alderman Dixon— An ordinance to amend an ordinar. . pasesd Feb. 18, 1891, and entitled "An Ordinance to amend an Ordnance pa - 1 June 1. 1887, and codified in Section 759 of MacDonell's Code of Savannah.” 6ection 1. Be it ordained by the Mu .or and Aldermen of the city of Savannah, in Council assembled. That Section 1 of the above-entitled ordinance, passed Feb. IS. 1891, is hereby so amended that hereafter it shail bo ihe duty of every occupant of any building, residence or place of busi ness in the city of Savannah to place the boxes or barrels referred to in said (*• ■- lion (in one of which shall be deposited ad matter and material of a non-combusiiV'l:- character, such as dirt, ashes, manu: tin cans. etc., and in the other matter ar.d material of a combustible character) ou - side of the gate in a lane a* or be* re seven (7) o'clock a. m., city time. and. where (here are no lanes, at the o: r t-dge of the sidewalk at or befor* (he time mentioned, and also to remove i ) eepiacles as soon as they are emptied >y the Scavenger Department. Where there are narrow alleyways, on which abut three or more houses, It shall be the du y of the owners of the said houses to pro vide a box or barrel at the point where the alleyway opus on the street, in which box or barrel it shall be the duty of (he occupants to deposit th#? matter and mat" rial as provided for in said Section 1 ar 1 this amendment. It shall be the duty of the sanitary inspectors to see to the -a RK.nt. Sec. 2. Be it further ordained. That any person violating the provisions of ihe above-mentioned ordinance, or of (- ie amendment thereto, or any one of them, shall he subject,upon conviction before the Police Court of the city of Savannah, to A tine nor to exceed fifty (50) dollars ni 11 imprisonment not to exeoed ten (10) day-, either or both in the discretion of ‘be court, and each day's violation or of the said provisions or any of them dnU constitute a separate and distinct offen* 1 Sec. 3. 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