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NEWS OF 3 STATES.
IHPPEMXCS 1% GEORGIA, FLORID t
AND MIL Til CAROL IN A.
Editor Russell Brinson of the Bainbridge
(Search Light had the misfortune to cut
off the end of one of his thumbs while
operating a paper cutting machine a few
days ago. The injury Is very painful, but
not jikely to prove serious.
VERDICT AGAINST CENTRAL.
A Macon Jury rendered a verdict iast
week, awarding Mrs. Joseph L. Durden
18,300 damages against the Central Rail
way for the killing of her husband, who
was killed while in the discharge of his
duties as a switchman in the Macon yard.
TWENTIETH CENTI R.Y METHODISTS
Twentieth Century Methodist, Mcßae:
We have long regarded the Savannah
News as one of the best papers in the
ttouth and would call the attention of
our readers to the fact that It arrives
here six hours earlier than the other
morning dailies.
KILLED IN THE PHILIPPINES.
Mrs. G. A. Corley of Atlanta has ro
celved a letter from the War Department
stating that a cablegram had been re
ceived from the Philippine Islands an
nouncing the death of her son. J. L. Cor
ley, of the United States Red Cross Hos
pital Corps, who was killed Jan. 28, 1901,
at Jlminez, Island of Mindanao.
NEW BANK AT VIDALIA.
Twin City News: The new bank at
Vidalia will have a capital of $23,000, $17,000
of which has been paid In. They will
immediately apply for a charter, and as
soon as that preliminary is complied with,
wli! be ready to elect officers and proceed
•to business. The stockholders are: J. F.
Cook, Mcßae; G. N. Mathews, \V. J. Jen
kins. S. B. Meadows, J. M. Meadows, W.
J. Shumpert and Leader & Rozansky o£
Vidalia.
REGAINED HIS REASON.
Swainsboro Pine Forest: Mr. Rountrae
Barwick, recently adjudged insane and
gent to the state sanitarium, has regain
ed his reason and is now at home at .end
ing to business as though nothing had
ever gone wrong with him. except th.it
he is weak from long physical suffering.
Several years ago Mr. Barwick re.elv and
injuries on the head by a runaway team,
which, it is supposed, caused him to be
come deranged. On the night before he
was adjudged insane, in an effort to kill
his wife, he * fell and struck his head
against a bedposi, which must have
brought him around again, as Mr. Bir
wick himself says that from that time
he began to remember things.
BULLOCH’S FAIR EXHIRIT.
Statesboro News: At a meeting of the
Plneer Agricultural Club, held last
Thursday, at the residence of Mr. P. R.
McEiveen, the cl'tb passed a resolution
requesting the farmers of Bulloch to meet
with them at Statesboro on the first Mon
day in April to take up the question of
an exhibit from Bulloch at the State Fa'..*
to be held in Savannah this fall. Every
body is invited to turn out on that day
at Statesboro and Join with the Pioneer
Club in getting up a first-class exhibit
for the fair. This is one of the oldest
clubs in Georg'a and they are progressive
farmers and are always doing something
to aid and encourage improvement* on
the farm. Mr. J. A. Warnock is at pres
ent the president.
W. M. TOY'S NEW RESIDENCE.
Statesboro News: Mr. W. M. Foy has
purchased ten acres of land from the Zet
trower estate. Just east of town, and will
build a handsome sixteen-room dwelling
on It during the summer. This land ad
joins Mr. Foy's other property, known
as the Tillman place. We are Informed
that the purchase price of the ten acre*
was $2,000. This, when comp'e e, will
perhaps be the best and most costly re I
dence in this section of the state. Mr.
Foy expects to finish up all the rooms
In different kinds of hard wood and no
expense will be spared in tinlshtng the
structure and grounds. It Is estimated
thal the cost of the dwelling will be $7,900.
TO HANG SUCCESSIVELY.
Judge Felton of the Macon circuit Is
evidently no respecter of tradition. Three
hangings are slated to take place in Ma
cen in the near future, and the Judge
has arranged them in one, two, three
Older, none of the dates falling on Fri
day. Isaac Minder, the white tailor, who
murdered his friend, Andrew Mahomed,
isysentenced to hang Tuesday. April 30.
Levi Carroll, the negro boy, who mur
dered his father ar.d his paramour ir.
one night, without rhyme, reason or ex
evse, Is to hang Wednesday, May 1. Ar
thur Taylor, the negro who murdered his
nephew, Frank Taylor, was sentenced
Friday to hang Thursday, May 2. The
achedulo Is very nicely arranged ar.d un
less the lawyers break into It with sp
irals to the Supreme Court, Macon will
soon have the record of having accom
plished something new in the hanging
line.
FLORIDA.
Mr*. R. A. Dekle, an old and much
loved resident of Mariana, died suddenly
Thursday night at 11 o'clock.
Tarooa's Doard of Trade has made u
hid of $lO,OOO for the Florida State Fair
to be held this fall. Jacksonville Is also
In the field.
THE DISSTO.Ai LAND KALB.
Tampa Herald: When 2,000,000 acres of
Florida land sell for $70,000, It Is time for
the prosperity puffers to give us another
chapter on how rapidly the state is grow
ing and developing under the benevolent
and fostering care of the railroads. Three
end a half cents per acre Is rather a
small price, but then the mortgagees
bought It tn. They will probably take an
other whirl at the colonizing business,
and If they will make a specialty of vel
vet beans, cassava and cattle, they will
score a success.
AEGIIO FIE MVS DEED AT MIAMI.
Miami Metropolis: In all probability
there will soon be a legal banging In Mi
ami. A negro who has been known as
Oalnevllle. but who gave his name as
Rich McCloud when he was arrested, is
now In Jail to await the next term of
Circuit Court, to be tried for the brutal
murder of Rosa Lee Davis. The murder
occurred on Monday night at the house
occupied until then by the dead woman.
It appears from the evidence developed
at the preliminary trial on Tuesday be
fore Justice R. M. Smith, that McCloud
gained entrance to Rosa's house by
stealth end that he knocked her In the
bead with a burning lamp and that the
bed and the woman's clothing were set
on fire and she was literally burned to
deatn.
IXII* THE IHITHMIAIAA IWIiTITE.
Kissimmee Valley Gazette: Maj. Edgar
A. Mearna, a surgeon In the L’nlied
(Hates army, of Fort Adams. K 1., who
la now down the river with Jim Han
cock, la a skilled taxidermist, and Is col
lecting specimens of rodents and anlmais
of all kinds for the Bureau of American
Ethnology of the Vmlthsonlan Institute.
Mia room at the Graves House b fitted
with aiuffwd creatures, rats, of which
lia has a dossn different kinds: ‘possums,
mens, rabbits, molaa. salamanders, etc.
)!• has mad* several shlpinvoti tv Wash
irgton already. All his specimens are
j either trapped or stunned by a shot from
Ia small percussion eortr.dge. He has dor -
I . ns of small traps of all sizes with which
, ho found it easy to catch a basketful of
j specimens every morning within a mile
of Kissimmee. A look at his work gives
i one the impression that the woods ore
swarming with animal life that people
who live here never notice.
HADE COUNTY'S COURT HOUSE.
Miami Metropolis: Dade county will
have at Miami in its county court house
a public building which will be an object
of pride, not only to the people of the
county, but to the state. Plans wll be
prepared and bids will be solicited for the
construction within the next thirty days.
Designed, as ft will be, to meet the pur
pose of a county public building, and with
nothing omitted that would add to com
fort and utility, its architecture is ex
pected to be an inspiration and a lesson
to the future construction of such edi
fices in Florida. The building is to cost
about SIO,OOO and will be erected on a lot
presenied to the county by H. M. Flagler.
The lot is 300 feet square; is located a
little to the west of the center of the
city, and is worth about SIO,OOO. The
building will be monumental in charac
ter. and a classic structure. The main
offices will be on the ground floor, num
bering eight, with the vaults and other
equipages. On the second floor the court
room will be located, and it will be large
enough to accommodate about 500 people
comfortably. The other rooms on this
floor will be two Jury rooms, a grand Jury
room, the circuit Judge's chambers and a
witness room. Over the center of the
building will be a massive dome.
HAZING IN BRADFORD COUNTY.
Bradford Telegraph: Speaking of haz
ing, West Point Is not in It any more.
Bradford county has carried off the palm
along that line. Wm. Muse and family,
who live twelve or fourteen miles north
of Starke, in the Pine Grove district,
were the victims of the Bradford county
hazers, and have had live men_arrested
on a charge of defacing and marring
their dwelling house and fence. Mr. and
Mrs. Muse, were not subjected to any
personal injury, but their home was well
nigh wrecked. They moved a short while
ago into the neighborhood in which the
incident occurred, and on the night of
March 3, their place was visited by a
party of marauders, who smashed in the
doors and windows and tore down the
chimney to their house and wrecked the
yard fence. After doing this damage the
men fired off pistols and made the night
hideous with profanity and yelling. Mr.
and Mrs. Muse state that there were six
tren in the party and claim to have iden
tified five of them. Warrants were issued
ior Martin Taylor and his son. Henry
Taylor. Lawrence Griffis, James Griffis
and Shippie Sapp. The men were arrest
ed by Sheriff Johns and were given a
preliminary hearing liefore Judge Gardi
ner Tuesday morning. At the hearing
the Muse family swore positively to rec
ognizing these men and each of the de
fendants undertook to prove an alibi. Af
ter hearing the testimony, the Judge
bound the men over to the Circuit Court
in bonds of SIOO each.
HORRIBLE END OF A COW THIEF.
Kissimmee Valley Gazette: Last week
we told of the escape of Wilbur Shiver
and u fellow convict named Corbett from
the phosphate camps, the encounter they
had with a deputy sheriff, and how they
crossed the Kl.-sin.me river at West Gard
ner. On Saturday the new? reached town
of the death of Corbett under the most
horrible conditions, it appears that In
the brush with the deputy sheriff near
Haines City, Corbett was shot In the
wrist and In the thigh. After they cross
ed the river they made their way to Tur
key Hammock. By this time Corbett was
suffering so from his wounds that he
could go no further, and lay down in a
blanket to die, cureless of detection- or
capture. He was without food or help
of an£ kind except the attentions of some
people living near. Dick Bass and Bud
Sullivan, who did what little they could
do for him. Here W.lbur Shiver destrt and
him and continued his flight. The wound
ed man refused to be disturbed or sent
to Kissimmee by steamer, saying he pre
ferred to be picked up by buzzards to be
ing sent back to the phosphate camps.
After lingering for several days through
rain and cold, without fire or shelter,
he died a miserable death, his wounds
having mortified till the flesh dropped off
his limbs. Rull Bass arrived the day. he
died and among them they held a sort
of informal inquest and buried the dead
fugitive right where he lay. Corbett is
said to have come from De Soto county,
and was sentenced to the penitent’ary for
cow stealirg. Both he and Wilbur Shiv
er complained bitterly of tbelr treatment
In the phosphate camp, saying that they
were flogged often and bullied by the
guards. Both men swore that they would
never go back alive. Wi.bur Shiver is
reported to have left the country.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Greenville News: W. B. Webb, a plum
ber, while placing pipes In the court house
between the colling and roof, found a cof
fin containing a number of bones, sup
posed to be those of a human being. The
coffin is made of wood, well preserved and
about four feet long and a foot wide. The
bones found in It are considerably de
cayed and resemble the bones of a dog
more ithan those of a human being. No
one seems to be able to account for the
presence of the coffin and Its contents.
The affair Is shrouded in deep, impene
trable mystery. Upon the discovery of the
coffin, Tom Boss, who was assisting Mr.
Webb, seemed to become somewhat
frightened and at once left the premises,
saying that he did not care to work in
that dark hole with H>fflns on every side
of him and ghostly creatures protruding
from every corner. Boss cannot be found,
and It is said that if he does not appear
a search warrant will be issued for him.
CAPT. V. E. Me RISE'S MOTH Em.
Of the late Mrs. Harriet B. Mcßee a
Greenville special to the Columbia State
says: Mrs. Mcßee was the daughter of
Mr. Frank Butler, and was a native of
Edgetteld. She was a first cousin of Gen.
M. C. Butler, whose father lived-wlthiu
a few miles of Greenville for many years.
Gen. Waddy Thompson married the aunt
of Mrs. Moßec, and losing both her par
ents at an early age, she was reared by
this aunt, and was a member of the
Thompson household until her marriage to
Thus. Pinckney Mcßee in IMS. Her hus
band died about 1860 and she has con
tinued to live at the beautiful home to
which she was carried when a bride, sur
rounded by children and grandchildren
who were devoted to her comfort and wel
fare. Mrs. Mcßee was a woman of un
| usual intelligence and extensive informa-
I tlon, ami was always tthe attraction of
I the family circle, while her friends were
almost without number and gave to her a
most loyal devotion. Mrs. Mcßee had Just
] entered her 79th year, and saving her
| igiyslcal disability she was much younger
in appearance. Her manners were un
usually animated and pleasing, and her
conversation sprightly and engaging. For
many years she was an active and de
voted member of the First Baptist church,
but her attendance upon the church ser
vices la recent years his been only now
and then, though when she came the ev<-nt
we noted by the warm greetings of the
congregation.
CASTOR IA
For Infant* and Children.
I The Kind You Have Always Bought
THE MORNING NEW S: MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1901.
THE FARM AND THE GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO FARM
ER AND HOUSEWIFE.
Growing Onions—Number of I’lanls
to the Aere—The San .lose Senle.
Early Celery Fodder Corn and
Corn Fodder—About Certain Cot
tons.
In the cultivation of any crop, of course
one of the most essential things to know
Is what is the appropriate number of
plants per acre to produce a maximum
yield of that crop. This applies in every
case, whether it be pecan trees, or peach,
or cotton, or corn, or potatoes, or onions,
or what-not.
Under conditions alike in every other
respect—such as exist in variety, in prep
arat.on of soil, fertilizing and cultivating,
etc.—it will be found that the acre that
has the proper number of plants (meas
ured by the requirements of a single plant
for its most complete development) will
be the one that will produce the largest
aggregate yield. That is, no plant Is to
be allowed any more space than is needs 1
for its perfect development and the land
must be made to bear every plant that
it can develop perfectly. The nearer we
come to a perfect allotment of plant to
area the nearer, therefore, we should
come to the best results. It is much eas
ier to obtain a satisfactory answer to the
question as to the proper number of
plants per acre with some crops than
with others. With the most of plants the
best that can be done is to reach cer
tain approximations. We cannot deter
mine the matter to such a nicety as to
wan ant the belief or assertion that 3,190
plants per acre are better than 3,200, or
vice versa, but we can by experiment and
observation, arrive at a point where we
can asset t that 3,000 are better than 4.000,
or vice versa.
Though the fact is ever constant, still
different plantets will attain frequently to
different conclusions in reference to this
question. Their conditions were not alike,
perhaps. Applying these remarks to that
very humble, yet highly important vege
table. the onion, let us ask the question
that it is well for the grower to se tie
before he plants and lays by a crop that
may be profitable or otherwise in pro
portion to the settlement of the question
how many plants, approximately, should
be allowed to grow on the acre. We have
frequently asserted that It was not a very
difficult matter to raise 500 bushels of on
ions to the acre. Having made such a
crop a number of times, our claim Is
based upon experience.
Such a crop will rarely or never be
grown, however, if the rows were laid at
three feet and a plant allowed only every
twelve inches in the row or even ten cr
eight.
In a number of varieties of onions, as
is the case with the tomato, carrot, po
tato, etc., there is a decided limitation in
size of bulbs, and a plant having 240
square Inches of space to grow In will not
grew much, if any. larger than one that
has 150 square inches or even less. We
are assuming that the soil Is uniformly
rich and the cultivation perfect.
Especially is this true of the Bermuda
onions and varieties of Italians, such as
“Queen” and “Nocera.” With all of these
an onion gerwing 12 inches apart is not
likely to be much If any larger than
those that are only 4 inches apart in the
rows.
Even with kinds lik£ the Prlzetaker and
others similar to it, and that grow to
weigh two or three pounds on very rich
soil, this rule applies, though not with
equal force perhaps. With these mam
moth sorts It wiil also be found that
single plants at twelve or fifteen Inches
distance will not average a great deal
more than other bulbs having only four
or six inches distance in the row.
As remarked, however, some varieties
are more marked in their size limitations
than others. Of,course, if four onions, or
even three or two will attain the same
Individual size In the same space that one
would. It would be a great waste of space
and labor to have only one grow where
four could grow in the some space. To
make the largest yield per acre the max
imum distance for onion rows is twenty
four Inches, but in some soil and a cer
tain painstaking mode of cultivation the
rows need not be further apart than
eighteen inches, or even fifteen inches.
Some few cultivators have their rows only
twelve inches apart. The further apart
the rows are the closer the plants can
stand in the rows as a rule.
A maximum crop is possible. We believe
with rows twenty inches apart and a
plant to average three Inches in the
rows. This for land in the finest tilth
and properly fertilized, of course. At
twenty inches by three inches a perfect
stand would aggergaie 103,168 onions. To
make 500 bushels this number should aver
age about four ounces each. This is a
very desirable size for either home or
market. Very large onions are to be de
sired neither by the merchant nor the
housekeeper. They are more liable to de
cay, and they are not so readily cooked
perfectly.
How to prepare land and cultivate this
crop will follow. S. A. C.
The San Jose Seal*.
There is considerable excitement among
the fruit growers in Missouri. The San
Jose scale has appeared in large numbers
In the orchards of many counties—those of
St. Louis, Carroll, Randolph. Cole, Web
ster, Girardeau and perhaps others. He
roic remedies are advised and insisted up
on by the atate entomologist.
Our Georgia fruit growers should be on
the elert.
The small farmers or peasants of Cala
bria, in Southern Italy are disposed
to make trouble with the landowners.
They are In a distressing condition of pov
erty and are hopeless of Improvement.
They are demanding the parcelling out
of the lands so that they can be culti
vated and thus yield something for the
support of on ingreasing population.
A Pent or n Blessing f
This Is what Johnson grass Is under two
circumstanoes. It is a pest of the worst
character when It exists where it Is not
wanted. But when in the right place
just where the stock-raiser wants It for a
never-ending pasture, It may prove a very
great blessing. There is plenty of land In
Georgia that had better be growing this
grass instead of being planted to cotton
and producing a bale to three or four
acres. Truly such land had better be in
Johnson grass than In cotton year after
year.
Burly Celery.
What Is known as early celery is very
easily grown anywhere in the South. It Is
the late crop that requires genius to grow
to perfection. The early crop is that that
can be brought to maturity from May to
July. For this crop the plants are raised
In cold frame** and made ready for selling
out Ju*l as soon as severe cold weather Is
over—in February or March, as latltudi
governs. With good seed* of u good va
riety and the soli proper.y enriched and
preisired and cultivated there I* little
trouble in producing the very nicest cel
ery for summer use. But it I* not such
plain sailing with the late crop to mature
Ui November. But with a certain car*
even thl* crop can be made.
Fodder Corn v*. Corn Fodder.
It has come to be understood that
when we say "Fodder Corn" w# mean
torn raised for forage (green or cured)
by at,wing It thickly In drill*. Corn fod
der t* the forage made by pulling the
, Mad** 11 o*n the stalk* after the corn
l.as been laid by, or after the ears have
set In the summer. It is an old lime
piactice of the South to save such fodder
though it will soon be obsolete with all
progressive farmers. On the other hand
the growing of fodder corn will doubt
less become an estab.ished practice with
all sensible farmers.
Fodder corn fills a niche and there is
not a small farmer anywhere in the South
that should allow himself to neglect so
valuable a crop as it may be made to
l.im. Just as early as the season will
permit the said small former should sow
an acre (may I* oniy a half acre) of the
richest land lte has. Lay oft drills 30 or
•'1 Inches apart and sow 3 bushels of*
seeds to the acre. Sow the seeds as even
ly and regularly as possible. If small
grain corn is used two and a half bush
tis wiil suffice. Do not lay off furrows
deep, but rather shallow. Cover by list
ing close. Just as the wed begins to come
up knbek off the ridge with board or
harrow. If the soil Is light and has been
well plowed at planting time, all the
cultivation can be done with sweep or
barrow If soli Is stiff, break out middle
geod when the corn is about knee high.
Cut and shock and cure when the corn
is in the silk or soon thereafter. Some
I refer to wait until the little, ears are
fully developed. We prefer it cut when
the corn is “in silk. ' In any case it makes
a royal crop of fodder and it is a very
lew valuation of it to say that ICO pounds
of it Is worth 60 or 79 pounds of the best,
timothy hay. The soil cannot be made
too rich tor this crop, but very little
fresh, unfermer.ted stable manure should
be put in the furrows with the seed. It
would do damage in dry weather.
I'eterkin Cotton.
Peterkln Cotton— B. L C„ Ethel. S. C.:
Can you inform me where and at what
price procure a few bushels of genuine
Peterkin cottop seed?
Do you know of any other variety bet
ter than the Peterkin?
Reply—The Alexander Sedd- Cos., Augus
ta, Ga., advertise for sale the Peterk n,
and several other good varieties of cot
ion. The Clemscn Experiment Station
of your state recommends very highly a
variety known as ' Excelsior Prolific.”
Ether of these will cost you about $1
per bushel.
The Georgia Experiment Station recom
mends very highly Russell's Big 801 l
prolific.
Then, there is Hawkins Extra prolific.
Of course, they are all prolific.
Broom Corn Culture.
lour readers have doubtless heard of
the broomcorn farms of Illinois, which
bring their owners such handsome profits.
The fact that broom corn may be grown
more generally in the state would seem
to warrant a few hints regarding its cul
ture and handling, says the Country Gen
tleman. It recently was my privilege to
visit, in Central lliino.s, a broomcorn farm
consisting of 105 acres. The crop was be
ing harvested at the time I saw the farm,
and I was thus able to get from the
owner considerable ihtormaUon regarding
the process, being shown by practical il
lustrations right in the field.
The corn was planted from the middle
of May, until the middle of June, there
being two plan lings made, one of about 50
acres in May and another .of about that
area in June. The leason for this is that
the erop was too large. •If matured at
the same time, for the grower with smal.
facilities to handle. Tile difference in the
planting, of course, made a similar dif
ference in the time for harvesting, which
was done ninety days after planting. A
bushel (forty-five pounds) of seed will
drill eighteen acres.
An ordinary two-horse corn planter or
check-rower is used for dulling the seed,
plates being used to distribute the same
uniformly. After the corn germinates and
appears above the surface, It is given a
harrowing, which is followed by two cul
tivatings with common cultivators, small
tongues or shovels being used. These
plowings are given about ten days apart.
The grower thought he would have ob
tained more satisfactory results had bo
plowed the crop three ttmes; but from the
looks of the field, think the two plowings
kept down weeds pretty well. In the opin
ion of several broomcorn growers with
whom I have talked, It Is well to give
the crop good tillage, thus Insuring a vig
orous growth of the many weak a"d
small stalks found among the larger and
stronger ones, that made severe competi
tion for plant food and mo'sture.
The crop Is ready to harvest when the
seed turns reddish brown. No tim** sh-uM
be lost, but the crop should be harvested
with dispatch and placed in the dry'ng
sheds as eo~n thereafter as possible. T e
harvesting proceeds about as follows Two
rows of the corn are broken, or, rather,
bent down together, forming a sort of ta
ble. One man does this work while an
other, with a sharp knife, follows, cutting
off the “brush” or broom part of the
stalks and placing them with the bu'ts
one way upon the “table” formed as de
scribed. The breaking down of the com
Is done because the cutter could not
otherwise very easily get at the brush.
After cutting, a wagon follows and on
it the brush is loaded, two men doing this
work. The wagon box is made especiaL
ly for the purpose, being so arranged as
to work on rollers on the running gear
of the wagon. This admits of rolling the
bed until the rear end strikes
the ground, whereupon the load Is re
moved In Its eomiwct form—a sort of cord
or square pile. From the pile it is Intro
duced into a thresher, which takes out the
seed, leaving the brush ready for storing
In the drying sheds. The brush Is cut
so that the stems are about six Inches
long, making the entire length about two
feet. When threshed the brush goes Into
the sheds, and undergoes a drying pro
cess for ten days, when It is ready for
baling.
By means of a baler made particularly
for broom corn, forty-five or fifty bales
of 300 pounds each, may, by force of five
men, be baled dally. The baler Is worked
by horse or mule. The thresher Is run
by an engine—a gasoline engine would
do the work nidely. The seed threshed
from the brush is used by many as chick
en feed, but it has little general utility.
The vast lot of fodder remaining In the
Helds after the crop has been harvested,
makes splendid forage for all kinds of live
stock, and where there is a second growth,
which is very generally true of early
harvested fields, the succulent food af
forded is a very good one. If It Is not
utilized for forage, and it is desirable to
use the land the next year for the same
crop, the fodder may be dragged down
enre PLAIN FACTS
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with a heavy roller during the early
spring, and when the wind is "right,"
burned clean and clear, leaving the
ground perfectly free from all pieces of
stalks, etc.
When ready to harvest, broom corn very
much resembles sugar cane. It has simi
lar habits of growth, and at a distance
Is likely to deceive the uninitiated. Illi
nois is the largest producer of the crop,
and the area devoted to it has largely in
creased in the past two years, during
which the price for the product has been
unusually high. The grower whosq crop 1
have mentioned will realize a clear profit
of $1,900 to $2.0i)0 for his 105 acres, the
yield being about a ton to every three
acres. The price per ton Is from S6O to
SBO and It Is thought SIOO may be had by
waiting a few months. But notv there is a
"corner on the market," and the good
prices quoted are by no means perma
nent. The advice of all growers of the
crop Is to be careful, experiment lightly
with it. and weigh well market quota
tions before engaging in the production of
the brush on an extensive scale. The
growers do not seem to think the high
prices will be stable, but expect a very
material decline sooner or later. This
being true, it is probable that broom corn
growing may offer no better Inducement
than other crops for which there is a
wider demand.
Sugar Cane In the Sonth.
Much interest is now being taken to
sugar canc culture In Georgia. It seems
that Georgia was the original sugar cane
producing state of the Union, but tne
industry was displaced by- cotton and
rice culture until now it is of small pro
portions, says a writer in the Epltomlst.
It was from Georgia that the seed and
plants were obtained with which the
Loisiana industry was started. Sugar
cane, however, has long been and is now
cultivated in a small way and over a
widely scattered area In Georgia, from
which syrup is made for home use and
to some extent for market. It is esti
mated that 10,000 acres are devoted to the
crop and that the total production of
syrup is 3,750,000 gallons annually. Thi3
syrup is of very crude manufacture, the
juice being expressed from the cane to a
coarse way, probably half of it remain
ing in the cane after grinding. It is
boiled in various ways, often in open
kettles, and goes to market in all de
grees of strength and purity, often being
burnd and full of impurities. There is
r,o standard of excellence, and each plan
ter makes his own grade. The prices
received vary from year to year.
Samples of Georgia bane from 60 coun
ties. analyzed by Prof. W. C. Stubbs at
the Louisiana Sugar Experiment Station
show-ed an average of all tests as follows:
Total solids (brix) 18.34, sucrose 15.11, glu
cose 2.04, solids not sugar 1.19, glucose
ratio 13.50, coefflciency of purity 82.38.
■ T°f- Stubbs reported: “These canes suf
fered by inversion in transit. It is fair
to presume that had no inversion occur
red the average analysis would have
shown at least 16 per cent, sucrose and
1 per cent, glucose. This analysis would
indicate 225 pounds chemjcally pure su
gar per ton upon a 75 per cent, extrac
tion, and 240 pounds on an 80 per cent,
extraction. The best sample indicates a
yield of 219.6 pounds c p sugar per ton
of cane with 75 per cent, extraction and
266 pounds per ton 80 per cent, extrac
tion. ’’
Sugar cane has been grown in such
a careless way in Georgia that it is not
possible to definitely estimate the yield
per acre under intelligent and careful
cu.ture; but ordinary crops, roughly han
dled, are generally supposed to give 10
or 12 tons per acre, but yields of 30 tons
per acre are obtained by some growers,
it is successfully grown in all parts of
Southern Georgia and in fully half the
fiiate. It grows on all kinds of lands, up
lands and poor clays as well as low and
the percentage of sugar being larger
from upland cane.
The Trlfolintn for a Hedge.
Would the trlfoliata be a desirable or
namental hedge plant? If *>, how far
apart would plants have to be set? And
how long would it take 1-year-old seed
lings to make a solid hedge two and one
half feet high?' How long would It take
to make a tree ten feet high to be pruned
down to six or seven feet before allowing
branches? Does the tree look as well as
an orange tree?
The citrus trlfoliata makes a handsome
hedge. It has not the splendid beauty of
the orange, but the bright, vivid gree.i
of Its trunk and limbs and of its smallish,
fox-eared leaves impart to it a clean
wholesome look, and Its numerous trucu
lent tho.ns give it a thoroughly business
like aspect, very appropriate to a hedge
which is expected to bid defiance to the
razor-back. In the fall and winter Its
fruit is handsome—yellow gloves not quite
as large as billiard balls, Inedible, tast
ing like a persimmon dashed with tur
pentine.
Set the plants a foot apart. You ought
to have a tolerably solid hedge In three
yeais, depending largely, of course, on the
soil and on the care you give them. The
tree would be formed nearly as soon as a
seedling. The Japanese consider that It
grows as fast as the orange, and our own
nurserymen believe so, too, for the first
three or four years; but after that it be
gins to fall behind. Our own observa
tion in the Baker county nurseries Is that
it grows just about as fast as the orange
for some years.
It stands trimming like the privet, which
it so far surpasses that there is no com
parison. Its compact habit makes It eas
to keep in good shape without hard prun
ing. It makes no suckers, and its roots
spread only a short distance, and are
not exhaustive of a broad, strip of soil
Mke some other shrubs used for hedges.
It bears a profusion of the sweetest or
ange flowers, and loads Itself with an
abundance of Its pretty fruit, ripening In
October.
In many of the leaves have an
autumnal appearance, turning red and
sometimes hanging for months. Even in
winter, when all the leaves have fallen,
the hedge Is as brightly gTeen as a cu
cumber. In the spring it starts late, and
is. therefore, safe against freezes—lts
early shoots have a reddish tinge.
The foregoing, from the Farmer and
Fruit Grower, answers the question of
"Inquirer." The Ca'lfornia privet is a
very good hedge plant, but the trifoliata
Is better for the purpose. ,
Formation of Soil.
There are two natural agencies at work
In the process of forming soils from the
crystallne and other rocks. The first
agency Is that known as decomposition,
called also disintregalion. says the
Furthers' Bcvlew. A part of the process
Is known as weathering. This is supple
mented by animal and vegetable life.
Weathering acts through a number of
minor agents, among them being frost and
drouth. Other sub-agents acting chem
ically are water, carbonic acid and oxy
gen. In all rocks there are crevices. They
may be too small to be seen, but they are
there all the same. These become filled
with water, and when the water expand*
by freezing, minutes particles ore chipped
off. These particles are generally too
small to be discovered by the naked eye,
but they are so numerous and are so con
stantly being created that they become
a great factor in the formation of our
soil*. By the same force, that of expand
ing water, the crystals themselves are
gradually dtslntreguted.
All climatic changes cause contraction
and expansion, ami these alternate
changes also loosen the particles of ruck.
In countries where little changes take
place there is little wearing away of the
rocks, in Egypt, for Inatano*. the ctl
mats Is eo dry and mild that the attrition
of stone Is almost nil. Bo It happen*
that monument* stand there for thou
sands of years #n<l retain their Inecrlp
tlone clear rut. Some of iheee monij.
msnte have been carried to England. and
one wee brought u the United lhatee.
After a lew years it was found 'hat
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the inscriptions on the removed monu
ments' were being effaced by "the
weather," and steps had to be taken to
preserve the monuments by covering them
with a coating of a substance that would
keep out the moisture. The writer re
members seeing an Immense block of coal
that stood in front of a coal dealer's office
for a generation. There were on it several
large letters In phlte paint. The •weather
ing” had reduced the entire surface—ot
the block except where the coal was pro
tected by the paint, and each letter stood
out on an eminence of its own. When we
consider such examples we can form some
idea of how enormous must be the new
soil annually created over the surface of
a whole continent. This new soil con
stantly brings into the old many elements
that plants demand as food.
The crude food elements in the soil are
changed very materially through the
agency of water. Water unites chemi
cally with a good many minerals and
forms compounds, called hydrated com
pounds. Thus, water combines with sili
cate of alumina and forms clay. These
hydrated compounds are softer than the
original rook, and are more readily worn
away. Most minerals are soluble to some
extent In water, though most of tnem
only slightly so.
Plant life helps the deterioration. Cer
tain classes of plants grow on almost
bare surfaces of rocks and ledges and by
their decay furnish a thin film of soil
which in time is occupied by larger and
more highly organized plants. These first
plants are the mosses, lichens and the
like. The larger plants that follow them
attack the rocks with their roots and
accelerate the removal of the particles.
The plants in decomposing also set free
carbonic acid gas, which assists in the
decomposing of the mineral substances.
The animal life begins to make Itself
felt in this work. The smaller forms
of animal life do much to assist In pul
verizing the soil to a greater fineness than
it had at first. Consider the innumerable
millions of birds and the fact that each
one of them can live only by the assist
ance of stones and gravel which they
use for grinding their food. In a few days
a stone In the gizzard of a fowl is Itself
worn Into powder and Is oast off through
the alimentary canal. This process has
been going on for immeasurable ages and
Will go on as long as the world lasts. An
other great factor Is the earthworm. The
earthworm swallows the earth as it moves
through the soli and brings a part of it
to the surface where It is cast off. Charles
Darwin calculated that the earthworms on
a single acre of land will pass through
their bodies in a single year ten ton* of
dry earth.
Poultry null Truck.
I have twenty acre* of second bottom
land, sand and gravel. I am a carpenter
by trade, but I concluded I would much
rather work for mynelf than work ior
somebody else and wait unHl the hog ■ fJ *t
fat or wheat come* up for my pay. *o I
went to raising truck and poultry. ■>*> a
writer In Practical Parmer hme sail
poultry and truck do not go welt to.
gether, but i find they do, and have b*n
W. H. PLEASANTS.
Traffic Manager,
New Pier 35, North River, New York.
very successful. If you feed your poul
try enough they will not trouble the truck
patch. I scatter corn among my c-b
--bages and melons and the chickens gather
lots of bugs and worms. I keep about 150
head, and with free lange they do well. I
have pure-bred Buff Deghorns, Black Mi*
norcas and Barred Plymouth Bock?. I
have a yard for each variety, and I mate
them off, each breed by themse.ves, and
do not hatch from the outsiders that are
kept only for laying, i mate them up the
first of I’ ebruary. I get new males every
year, and find that when they are penned
up and well cared for they lay better
than those that are out. I put twe've
hens and one cockerel In each breeding
pen. I have two houses. 12x30. and small
houses for the breed'ng pens. Of the
12x30 houses I have one end, 10x12 for
roosting room and the rest for scratching
and laying. The roosts are three feet
high, with plenty of straw under them,
and plenty of straw In the larger room
to throw grain into. I feed wheat, com
chop and clover chopped, scalded; and
whole corn in the evening. 1 ciem out
pens every two or three weeks and haul
out onto the truck ground. The manure
there is very nearly worth the feed. I
use air-slacked lime in the house; lo's
of lime, coal oil and chlodde-napthohum
and have no lice. If you have no lice
your poultry is all right, and will pav
well with good care. I use hens for
hatching. I move them to where I want
them to set. where I have b-xes fourteen
inches square. I drive stakes around the
boxes and make a little yard for feed
and water. I wait until I know thev
want to set, then make a nice nest and
be sure there are no lice, thn I put the
eggs in and in the evening move the lien
out and put her on the nest, put a lid
on and in the morn'ng slip is down to bus
iness. I do my own carpentering work,
and it Is a great convenience to k-O"
how to do it. My poultry keeps the tabic
going, besides clothing for the chll’pn.
and there are seven of us. Before I com
menced poultry and trucking my grocer/
bill was from SSO to SBO three time* •
year, when I commenced it. five years ag l
Since then I haven't bought a dollar's
worth on time, and have paid what $
owed before I cou’d take mv eggs to t ’Wi
and pay cash. Now. I buy where I pie"*
T sell my old stock off every year and
keep young stock for laying and breed
ing.
Holler.
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