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NEWS OF 3 STATES.
HAPPENING* IN GEORGIA,
A-ND SOUTH CAROLINA.
Thomasvilie Times-Enterpriset Savan
nah has selected a site for the State Fair,
and from now on, she will bend all her
energies toward making the next State
Fair one of the most brilliant and inter
esting in the history of these fairs. That
city will be on her mettle, and no one
doubts her ability to do what she has
undertaken.
A RECEPTION TO STUDENTS.
A formal reception wilt he given lbs
student body of the North Georgia Agri
cultural College of Dahlonega by the fac
ulty and their wives on Wednesday eve
ning. the 22nd tnst., from 8:30 to 11. The
young ladies of the city will be ivited to
be present and assist In the entertain
ment.
HAILSTORM AT BARTOW.
A hall and rain storm passed within
one mile of Bartow at 4 o'clock Saturday
afternoon. The entire cotton and corn
crop of S C. Evans was destroyed, he
s.des blowing all fencing down. Mr.
Evans had hi.- entire crop destroyed two
years ago by bs.iL .Douhtless, other crops
have been seriously injure.!. The hail
was several inches deep on ground.
A FIXE STAY-AT-HOME LAWYER.
Telfair Enterprise: Hon. Joe Hall of
Bibb is a shrewd politician. He never
fails to fill the ears of the masses with
rorne sort of stuff like, “saving the peo
ple's money." He fought the Atlanta de
pot matter vigorously; was it because he
was afraid the state would lose her
money? As long as such sharp fellows as
Hail lie around the lobbies, who would
dare think the state could lose anything?
No, sir, we are against his doctrine be
cause we divine the motive. Mr. Hall
makes a fine stay-at-home lawyer.
RECRUITING SERGEANT DESERTS.
E. C. Benjamin, a recruiting sergeant
at the Macon station, has disappeared.
Benjamin is not only a deserter, but a
forger. During the absence of Capt. Jones
he filled out blank warrants or orders on
the government and had them cashed by
parties In Madon. Benjamin is a native
of Hickman. Ky.. and enlisted in Ken
tucky Jan. 25, 1699. for three years. He
has spent nearly his entire time in the
recruiting service. The penalty for deser
tion in time of peace is two years.
A FATAL SAWMILL ACCIDENT.
Miller County Liberal; Thursday after
noon while running a button saw at the
Babcock Bros.' Lumber Company's mill
just below Boykin, Mr. B. F. Grimes,
popularly known as “Hutch" Grimes,
was struck squarely in the stomach Just
below the short rib by a piece of lum
ber which threw him violently against a
post. He fell and was having some dif
ficulty in rising when discovered and as
sisted to stand. He walked, or was ear
ned to his own residence, which stood
near the mill. He nor those around him
had any Idea that he was fatally hurt.
Friday morning he very unexpectedly be
gan to grow worse and in less than an
hour he was cold in death.
THE MERCER COMMENCEMENT.
The commencement exercises at Mercer
wM begin on the evening of May 31 with
the annual debate between the literary
societies, and close on June 5. Rev.
Sparks W. Melton of Augusta will preach
the commencement sermon Sunday morn
ing. June 2, and Dr. P. S. Henson of Chi
cago will deliver the address before the
Alumni Association and the literary so
cieties on Tuesday morning. June 4, at
10 o'clock. The chief features of the com
mencement will be the triennial alumni
reunion and banquet. All former students
as well as all graduates are invited to be
present at this reunion and banquet In
the new alumni gymnasium Tuesday eve
ning, June 4, from 6:30 to 10 o'clock.
HIS DYING REQUESTS GRANTED.
Macon Telegraph: The funeral of
Greene Whitehurst, one of the best
known negro men in Macon, took place
yesterday afternoon. Greene had been In
the employ of Mr. D. A. Keating In the
undertaking business for over fifteen
years, and just previous to hie death he
called several of Iris friends and relatives
to his bedside and told them three things
he wanted them to do when he died. First,
to put his body in a black covered cas
ket, to carry his remains to their last
resting place in a hearse pulled by a pair
of grey houses covered with black drap
ery. and notify his friends of his death
through the columns of the Telegraph.
A WEDDISiG BY TELEPHOYE.
Carrollton Free Press: A wedding a;
once novel and romantic came off Wed
nesday evening in Carrollton and How
don, for people in both towns witnessed
, the. marriage. Mr. Lewis and Miss (Ger
trude Jones of Bowdon were accepted
lovers, but there was some parental ob
jection. It was decided that wedding
such as Carroll county had never had
before should signalize the union. On
Wednesday night at 11 o'clock Rev. H. J.
Ellis was summoned to the long distance
telephone in Carrollton where he was
told that twelve miles away, at Bowdor,
there were two fond hearts that desired
to be ore heart. In the office there were
twelve witnesss anil at the Bowdon office
were thirteen witnesses, and In eleven
minutes by the watch, Rev. H. J. KHm
- had pronounced the words that made the
two one. J. E. Ixjvvorn, the operator at
Bowdon, repeated the words to the can
didates for matrimony.
THE UCY COBB IXSTITITE.
The follow ing ‘programme has been an
nounced ff4ha tlva daya'.oommencemeut
of the Lucy Cobh fnslltute- at Athens:
1. Senior .dramatics, 1 Twelfth Night."
Friday evening, June 7. H o'clock. 2. Chil
dren’s day, "Alice in Wonderland," Sat
urday evening, June 8, 8 o'clock. 3. Bac
calaureate sermon, Sunday. June 9. 11 a.
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m . Rev. B. Wilmer, rector St. Lukes.
Atlanta, Ga. 4. Vespers. Sunday. June 9,
6 p. m.. Rev. B. Wilmer. 5. Piano con
test. Monday, June 10, at 11 a. m. 6. An
nual concert, Monday evening, June 10. 8
o'clock. 7. Alumnae reunion, Tuesday
morning. June 11. 12 o'clock. 8. Class
night, Tuesday evening. June 11. 8 o'clock.
Literary address, Mr. Lucten L. Knight,
Atlanta. Ga. Valedictory. Delivery of
honors. Mrs. M. A. Lipscomb. Delivery
of diplomas, Mr. A. S. Hull. Tuesday
evening, 10 p. m., senior reception in honor
of alumnae, parlors of the Lucy Cobb In
stitute.
DISTINGUISHED EDUCATOR DEAD.
Dawson News: The following notice of
the death of Prof. Henry William von
Aldehoff is taken from the Dallas, Tex.,
News of (May 5. Henry William von
Aldehoff died at his home in this city yes
terday. He was born in Dussledorf. prov
ince of Westphalia, Prussia, March 12,
1818, and was aged 83 years, 1 month and
24 days. A graduate of Bonn University
at the age of 18, he came to America on
a visit. Filled with the spirit of adven
ture. he drifted to Texas landing on Gal
veston Island, then a mere strip of sand,
the day Gen. Sam Houston was inaugu
rated President of the Republic of Texas.
Remaining in Texas, he became a trans
lator of Spanish titles in the land oflue
under Secretary Borden. Tiring of this
new West he shortly returned East, to
Kentucky; from there he moved to Ten
nessee, and at Athens began the profes
sion of a school teacher, finally locating
at Kingston, where he married Miss Row
ena J. Sevier, grand-daughter of ex-Gov.
John Sevier. In a short while he became
recognized as one of the ablest scholars
of the South, many of whose public and
prominent men, among them Senator
John T. Morgan. Gen. George L. Gillespie
of the United States army, and Hon.
James Sevier of Tennessee, owe to him
their education. He graduated with the
degree of A. M. He was an ideal gram
marian, and having perfect command of
nine languages he was easily one of the
ablest etymologists of his time. In 1873
he returned to Texas, where, until the
time of ills death, he lived in almost com
plete retirement at Dallas. Prof. Alde
hoff was the grandfather of Miss Jess’e
and Mr. Walter Jones, fo merly of Daw
son. but now living in Macon, and Mr.
'j liomas W. Loyless, also a form r Daw
sonian. but now of Atlanta. Prof. Alde
hofT taught in Dawson for several years
Just after the close of the Civil War, and
the news of his death will be read with
much sorrow by his many friends and
former pupils here.
FLORIDA.
The handsome home of Capt. and Mrs.
Robert Lilly, at Fort Myers, was totally
destroyed by fire Tuesday afternoon. The
loss is about 83,000. wtth no insur
ance. The Baptist Church and several
neighboring cottages were in danger, but
were by hard work on the part of the
part of the volunteer firemen, saved. This
is the second large fire Ft. Myers has had
in the last two weeks.
STOCK STEALING IN BREVARD.
According to the Kissimmiee Valley Ga
zette stock thieving Is rampant in Bre
vard county. The Gazette says: "Judg
ing from the report of MaJ. Alex St. Clflir-
Abrams, attorney for the Stockmen's As
sociation of Osceola county, published be
low, Brevard county is several years be
hind Osceola county in the protection of
its stock industry. The report discloses
a deplorable state of affairs. Cow steal
ing seems to he condoned by the juries
of our sister county. The people of Bre
vard seem to be indifferent to a class of
crime that has aroused the conscience of
most of the other counties of South Flori
da. Osceola and Polk have Organized
against cow stealing, so have Volusia and
Orange, Clay. Sumter, Pasco and Lake.
In all these counties the courts are sus
tained In the suppression of cow stealing
by strong and wholesome local senti
ment. What is the matter with Brevard?
Are the stockmen of Brevard Incapable
and powerless to protect themselves? Is
the stock industry of Brevard so insigni
ficant as to be unworthy of Justice at the
hands of Titusville Juries? Are the peo
ple of Brevard so backward and ignorant
and prejudiced that they will tolerate
abuse of an organization like the Stock
men's Association, when the whole ten
dency of modern Industry is towards the
organization of mutual Interests? Stock
men's associations are recognized as pow
ers for good wherever operated. Is Bre
vard to be allowed without protest to
abuse a system that is approved through
out the United States? Brevard county
has supplied this circuit with a strong.
upright and learned Judge. It had now
better Improve It* Juries, for the strong
est Judge is helpless without a strong
Jury and a strong public sentiment.”
In his report to the Stockmen’s Associa
tion MaJ. St. Clair-Abr.ims says of a re
cent acquittal: "The verdict was as pos
itive a disgrace to the county of Brevard
as was the verdict In the Feaster case.
For some time past not a single case of
cattle stealing has been convicted In Bre
vard county. In view of the rumors that
are In circulation In that county, I think
your association should consider whether
or not any action Is necessary looking to
wards the protection of cattle In Bre
vard. 1 have been Informed (hot since
the extraordinary verdict In the Roberts
case, more cattle has been stolen In the
Fort Dj-um district, and the owners of
this property have declare,! that they
will not even take the trouble of Inves
tigating. as they cannot get protection
from a Brevard county Jury."
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Winston McElveen, a 13-year-old boy,
was drowned In the canal at Columbia
Friday. McElveen and some companions
were plating on the banks of the canal
and someone dared the others to sec who
could WHde In furthest. Several look
the dare, with McElveen In the lead. The
canal Is quite wide, but with n narrow
channel of 15 feet depth. McElveen struck
the deep water and disappeared, and the
other boys drew back frightened. The
alarm was given, and the boy's father re
sponded with others. Efforts were made
to find the body with rakes, but without
success. When the mill shut down nt
tl;30 p. in. the water was drawn off. ami
the body was discovered In the mud about
10 p. m.
Clinnue In llarton lintels.
Mrs. Tartrldge. formerly of the Ray
nard House at Guyton, has opened the
Central Hotel at that place. The Cen
tral Is new and newly furnished, and Is
a complete hotel and a credit to Guy
ton. Mrs Partridge knows how to run a
good hotel and under her management the
Ceuttal will rank with the beat hotels In
the state.
—"Mamma. Is heaven like a circus?"
"Why, of course not. Bobble!" "Well, I
have always been afraid 1 should be dis
appointed In It."—Life.
THE * li. ' EAT, MAY 20, 1901.
THE FARM AND THE GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO HOUSE
WIFE AND AGRICULTURALIST.
The S-nreet Potato—A Yalnahle Crop.
Best Pasture Plant—The Velvet
Rcon—Ulme on Solla—Cow Peaa.
tirowing Onions—A New Spraying:
Liquid,
The sweet potato Is usually a field crop
with Southern farmers, as it is rarely ad
mitted into the precincts of the garden,
but sometimes it is a good plan to treat
it as a garden vegetable.
On good garden soil it is not a very
difficult matter to make from 300 to 500
bushels of sweet potatoes on an acre. This
is a crop that intensive culture pay's on.
Five dollars to $lO worth of suitable po
tato manure, with two to four extra cul
tivating®, beyond what the field crop us
ually receives, will make a difference of
tentimes of several hundred bushels on
one acre.
How to manage an acre to make it pro
duce severed hundred bushels may he
stated as follows: Take fair, gray sandy
soil and lay it off at three feet, making
the furrows broad and shallow. Some
weeks before planting time come3 make
n mixture as follows: Five hundred
pounds of pure hone dust, 600 pounds of
oak or hickory ashes that have been
rotted, but not leached, one hundred
pounds of common salt. Mix these ingre
dients together thoroughly, and spread the
compound over the furrows, and then list
upon it. Do this sometime in March or
early April. When the potato plants are
nearly ready for setting out. repio.v the
land, splitting open the bed with a scooter
and bedding back on this furrow with
four furrows. Set the plants fifteen inches
apart on the bed. It will take a little
over 11,(00 plants to set an acre at this
distance: to-wit: three feet by fifteen
inches.
There is no reason in the world why
these hills should not average at the
lowest calculation one quail of potatoes
to the hill, anl this would give a total
product of 340 bushels per acre. Good
land, properly fertilized with mineral fer
tilizer and cultivated as it should be can
be made to double toe yield—which is to
say two quarts to the hill.
We have no doubt whatever that a pre
mium of SI,OOO offered for the largest
yield of sweet potatoes on one acre
would produce a yield of 1,900 bushels per
acre if twenty-five or more pe-sons com
peted for a premium.
Sweet potatoes can be grown in tne
same land for maay years, needing only
fair apulication of the mineral elements
from time to time There is no cro.i cul
tivated that .-a thoroughly shades the
soil from July to October as does the
sweet potato. This dense shading of the
soil, as is well known, is productive of
the formation of nitrate (nitrogen), and
after the first year or t-.vo the poorest
soil will be fo and to rosscss an ample
supoly of nitrogen for the further pro
duction of sweet potato crops, any fur
ther application of fertilizer heing con
fined entirely to the minc-al elements,
phisphoric acid, potash and lime
There arc a great many more "va
rieties'’ of sweet potatoes planted in the
South than there should be. Many grow
ers are satisfied with some very inferior
kinds that have crept in gradually during
the past twent-five or thirty years, and
grievously adulterated once splendid va
rieties that were so generally cultivated
forty or fifty years ago. We have no doubt
if is the case elsewhere os it is here,
that it is a very difficult matter to find
any large quantity of the old Georgia
yam with the pink skin Spanish.
These two varieties are unsurpassed by
any other as to quality, though perhaps
not quite so productive as some others.
The potato most extensively grown in
this section now is the kind generally
known as the pumpkin yam.
which, though inferior for table use to
the two just mentioned, is much supe
rior to several other kinds that are large
ly planted In Georgia. Avery Inferior
potato, known as the “Hayti yam” or
San Domingo yam, is very extensively
grown in Georgia It is a good kind lo
grow for stock, but for table use it is
very inferior, inferior even to the white
yam (pink skin) that Is euphoniously des
ignated as the “nigger killer.”
As we have remarked before, there is
no better work for our Southern experi
ment stations to do than that of reduc
ing to order the now very much confused
nomenclature of our sweet potatoes and
separating the poor from the better and
more desirable varieties. Our several
Southern stations co-operating together
can, in the course of eight or ten years,
weed out all Inferior varieties and classi
fy all such as are worthy of culture,
perhaps Introducing to cultivation some
new and desirable kinds from the seeds.
The sweet potato is no doubt subject
to the same deterioration that the Irish
potato is from long continued cultivation
from cuttings or sprouts and new varie
ties started from the seed Is something
to be sought after. Surely our stations
in the Southern states will not neglect
this very important matter. The station
that fully accomplishes this work will
cover itself with glory and make full
compensation for the money expended
upon it. As it is now, some varieties are
much more productive than others. Some
are much better keepers. In these re
spects such as are Inferior should be dis
carded as soon as possible.
Industrlnl Aspects of Cassava.
The Florida Times-Unlon and CltUen
says: A renewed Interest Is Imparted to
the subject of cassava by a request for
information lately received by the Agricul
turist of the Florida Experiment Station.
This request emanates from a Chicago
company, who own 40.000 acres of land
near Pensacola, and who desire, among
other things, to grow cassava and estab
lish a starch factory, if the Information
seems to warrant It.
There has been really only two years’
growth of cassava raised In Florida for
starch making purposes on a commercial
scale; previous crops had been grown
only In an experimental way. There are
two factories In Volusia county, one at
Delnnd, one at I-ake Helen; and one at
Lake Mary. Those at Deland and Lake
Mary have manufactured and shipped
starch of a high quality, which has been
taken at satisfactory prices by Northern
dealers. The one at Lake Helen Is of
comporjtlvely recent establishment, and
has handled chiefly the Dade county
starch plant, coontle, but Is In good shape
and prepared to work up a growing crop
of cassava next fall in a business-like
way.
The results thus far achieved are en
couraging. considering the fact that
cassava Is a plant hitherto entirely un
known to modern manufacturing pro
cesses cither In tills or any other countfy.
While contributing to commerce one of
the most delicate and dainty desserts
known to the tables of the highest house
holds of the land—taplocsi—and a farlne
which might well be ogHed'thA Hour of
South Atnetiia and the Wear*lndies, yet
It haa been subject chiefly’to the manipu
lations of the Ignorant peons'of Cuba and
Brazil—muPtprlctlonz as crude as the ag
riculture which plows with a forked stick.
Our Florida people have taken hold of
this valuable plant which Is to South
America what corn is to North America.
In a characteristic American way, and
have subjected It at a bound to the cul
ture of steel and the ragp of Iron. It la
quite possible that our vigorous tritura
tion with metal rollers driven by steam
will not obtain as great a quantity of
those soli, delicious grains wlidh consti
tute tnplaco as Is evolved by the gentle
beating of the placid barbarlnns along the
Amazon. But of starch we have secured
the highest per.entagc, falling only a lit
tle below the absolute starch content ob
tained In the laboratory processes, be
cause the extraction of stalvh requires
the reduction of the tubers by zteel grat
ers to an impalable powder.
In short, therefore, the chief obstacle
encountered thus far in Florida has been,
not on the manufacturing side, but on the
agricultural; not in the reduction of the
root, but in the raising of It. Our farm
ers have hitherto not had marked suc
cess in preserving through the winter the
canes which constitute the seed; and the
result has been with most plantations an
imperfect stand and a fight yield. Doubt
less Ihelr brethren of Louisiana, wtth
their experience with wintering sugar
cane. could have given them valuable
pointers.
But Florida farmers have seldom failed
to come up to the mark when summoned
by the dollar which we are all after.
We are pleased to learn from private
sources that the extensive cassava plan
tation at De Leon Springs now presents
an almost perfect stand, few plants miss
ing in rows a mile in length, despite the
uncommon backward weather this spring.
This seems to indicate a marked success
in wintering the seed canes.
■ i
Beat Pasture Plant.
To those who are so enthusiastic over
every new weed that the seedsmen intro
duce as forage plants, and tvho are al
ways inquiring about the value here in
the South of this, that and the other
millet or sorghum or Kaffir corn or what
not, I would recommend a careful perusal
of Bulletin No. 69 of the Nebraska Agri
cultural Experiment Station, says the
Southern Planter. This station has been
making a series of experiments including
two years, for the purpose of finding out
the value of certain forage plants for
summer pasturage and soiling. For this
purpose they sowed plots of one-fifth acre
each in rye, Canada peas and oats, Indian
corn, German millet, sorghum. Kaffir
corn, cow-peas, alfalfa. Milio maize, Soy
beans, and Hairy vetch. As each plot
came ready for pasturage, a portable
fence was put around it, and one of the
station cows turned in, and notes taken
of the length of time the forage sustained
her, and the effect it hod on the milk flow
and butter fats, as compared with a pas
ture of good mixed grasses. Without go
ing into the details of the work, I wis>h
to call attention to certain crops grown
and their vaiue, as thus determined after
two years’ trial. In regard to sorghum,
the bulletin states that the one-flfth acre
planted to this crop gave an average of
twenty-five days’ pasture In the two
years.
It was available at the same lime as
millet. Kaffir corn and cowpeas. It fur
nished more food than any of these, and
had very little less favorable effect on the
milk flow and butter fat production than
Kaffir corn, somewhat less than the mixed
grasses, and very much less than the
cowpeas. It makes a rapid growth after
being eaten down, but under some condi
tions it is fatal to stock, and its use as
pasturage, when injured by drought or
frost, cannot be said to be safe. Millet
gave inferior results to other things. The
results from cowpeas were obtained from
one year, as the first season they were
sown there was so large a weed growth
that the test was not made. But in 1990
the seed was sown in rows and furnished
twenty days' pasturage. That is, an acre
would pasture a cow fully for I(K> days.
Alfalfa came nearest to the cowpeas, but
was dangerous on account of tendency to
bloat. Soy beans had a good effect on
the milk flow as the cowpeas, but made
less food, and the bulletin sums up in the
statement: “The experiments indicated
that cowpeas produced an actually great
er quantity of milk and butter fat from
a given area than any other crop. Cal
culating from the average results of the
two years, a cow would have produced
more milk in twenty days on the cowpeas
than she would in twenty-five on the sor
ghum, In other words, the experiments
show that an acre of land planted to
cowpeas would produce more milk than if
it were planted to sorghum.”
The Velret Bean,
The difficulty of shelling the velvet bean
by hand, or stick, or flail is so serious a
matter that It does not seem practical ex
cept to a limited extent. Threshing up
hulls and beans together make a good
feed for stock or poultry, and seems the
most practical way of using them unless
by shelling in an expensive mill.
The following by a writer in the Flor
ida Agriculturist gives information that
should be of benefit. The bean has come
to stay for stock feed and soil renewer,
and all information about its growth and
harvesting will be of interest:
"The plan with me that has given the
best satisfaction is to have beans picked
for so much per flour barrel. The price
lias thus far run from fifteen to twenty
cents per barrel, owing to how plentiful
the beans were, if beans were thick on
the vines children from ten to twelve
years old would gather from three to five
barrels per day, which, you see, gives
very good wages for such hands. A flour
barrel of beans in hull, if tvell shaken
down, will give, if all the beans are se
cured in hulling, a bushel of sixty pounds
of clean beans.
By the means I have thus far been able
to use, I have lost or left in the hull front
one-fifth to one-fourth of the beans. How
ever, where a party does his own hulling,
or retains the benefits of the hulls, the
amount of beans left in the hulls would
rot be of any great loss to him. The hulls
should be fed to stock or cattle, or used
as a fertilizer. I know of a party who
had beans and hulls ground up together,
and used it on a watermelon patch, and,
he claims, with better results than from
best cottonseed meal. The hulls are un
doubtedly a good fertilizer, even when no
beans are in them. I have seen them scat
tered over the ground, and rank vegeta
tion followed. Where these hulls were
thrown, the soil was discolored after sev
eral rains, and had the same appearance
that follows the application of good to
bacco stems.
Now, as to cleaning or hulling beans for
commercial purposes, I have had poor
success. II know of only one machine that
h3s been used In the state for hulling
that has given satisfaction. This ma
chine Is made outside of the state, and
sells here from $l2O to $l5O, according to
size. These prices do not include a 10-
horse steam power, which is required to
run this huller. The cost of machine and
power is too much for the average far
mer to Invest in, and it does not pay to
haul the beans to a mill more than five
miles from home.
I have tried the best Georgia pea-huller
and find It a failure with the velvet
beans.
For home use beating on a good close
floor Is about the cheapest way of getting
out beans. If the beans in hull are expos
ed to the sun for a few hours, they will
hurst open easily- when struck with the
flail.
Compess as Hay
The cow pea merits connideratlon 9 a
hay-producing plant. Of the many
legumes adapted to Southern conditions,
this one stands peerless as a forage or
hay-ylelder, ns—
First—lt makes an enormous growth of
vines.
Second—lt may be termed a "sure crop"
and a prolific yleldcr of a hay marvel
ously rich In protein.
Third—lt l thus superbly adapted to the
production of muscular energy, milk, and
flesh In the various classes of domesti
cated animals.
There ore many varieties of cowpeas.
Those best adapted for hay are the Un
known. Blackeye, and Whip-poor-will.
Cowpeas may be divided into two gen
eral classes, runners and bush varieties
The runners are especially valuable where
the crop Is to be pastured off the land by
hogs or other live stock, or plowed un
der. The hush varieties are especially
useful for need. The running varieties
are valuable for hay when bulk Is con
sidered. but they are difficult to harvest,
owing to the tangled nature of the vines.
If planted early In the season the bush
varieties will produce a vigorous growth
of vines, and aa they are upright In
growth, they are much easier to harvest
and oure Into hay.
The cowpea is a gross feeding plant,
and as many of our cley subsoils are
stiff, the land should be deeply broken
and thoroughly pulverized. A fine tilth
is of the utmost importance in any soil.
The amount of food in the seed is limi
ted. but this most sulfic until the plant
establishes itself in the soil. Tbe failure
of cowpeas on some soils may be traced
to indifferent preparation. As the cowpea
is a heavy feeder, it draws freely on the
phosphoric acid and potash of the soil. It
is necessary, therefore, to supply these
fertilizing elements in a liberal manner,
especially on thin lands which it is pro
posed to improve systematically.
Lime ou boll—lt'a Valne
The Rhode Island Station has for a
number of years been making a study of
the effects produced by liming an acid
soil. The effects of lime on the growth
of a great many plants had been studied
and the results given at various times.
The present bulletin is a continuation of
these results from experiments begun in
1893 and continued to the present time.
These experiments have aroused a wide
spread interest among soil investigators,
and the results in many' cases are of im
portance to the practical cultivator. Like
quantities of phosporic acid and potash
have been applied annually to the plats,
in the form of muriate of potash and dis
solved bone black. Each plat has also
had like quantities of nitrogen, but the
form on some plats has been nitrate of
soda and on others the sulphate of am
monia. Sincfe 1896 the amount of nitrogen
used has been but one-third as great as
in previous years. Sulphate of magnesia
has been applied annually to each of the
plats since 1894, the first season at the
rote of 200 pounds per acre and each sub
sequent year at the rate of 400 pounds per
acre. Air slacked lime was applied In
1893 to one of the nitrate of soda plats
at the rate of 5,400 pounds per acre, and
another application at the rate of 1.000
pounds per acre was made in the Spring
of 1894, and none since. Most of the plats
are in fruit trees and the statement of
results with these is deferred.
The Orange quince. Black Tartarian
cherry and the Burbank plum have been
helped by lime in a striking degree. Nor
way spruce did better without lime. Rhu
barb. among the garden plants, was help
ed by the lime. In one season the nitrate
of soda seemed best, but the next year
the sulphate of ammonia was ahead. Lime
was very helpful to hemp in its growth.
Whether the fiber was affected or not was
not determined. With Concord grapes
there was a smaller yield on the limed
plat with nitrate of soda, but larger on
the plat where sulphate of ammonia was
used. Blackberries found sulphate of am
monia better that nitrate of soda. Wheth
er lime helps them or not is, as yet, un
certain. Lime was of great value on as
paragus. and nitrate of soda was the best
form of nitrogen. Black cap raspberries
found lime of uncertain value, but liked
the sulphate of ammonia best. Rep rasp
berries were helped by lime, and here,
too, sulphate was best. Currants were
helped by lime and nitrate of soda was
best. Barley was decidedly better with
lime, and nitrate of soda was best in the
last season, though little difference was
seen before. Oats were helped by lime,
but less than wheat or barley. Spring
rye gave conflicting results and can do
well on a sour soil. Spring wheat does
best on limed land, and preferred nitrate
of soda. Cowpeas are better without
lime. Serradella, formerly injured by lime,
has now been helped by it. This plant
does well on an acid soil and if lime j
used It should be a few years in ad
vance. Carrots stand in great need o£
lime, and do not prefer one form of nl
trogen to another. Mangels are largely
benefitted by liming, and prefer nitrate
of soda.
Chickory likes lime and sulphate of am
monia. Onions have been helped in a re
markable degree by liming. They have
also shown that nitrogen in the form of
nitrate of soda is the best for them. Eng
lish turnips have been moderately helped
by l.ming and have given the best re
sults where nitrogen was applied in the
form of nitrate of soda. Flax has dem
onstrated its ability to succeed on an un
limed acid soil, and as has been observed
in the case of certain other plants exhtt
ing similar characteristics, it has succeed
ed best when nitrogen was applied in the
form of sulphate of ammonia. The ef
fect of liming on the quality of the liber
was not determined. Sweet peas were
helped by liming, and nitrate of soda was
the best form of nitrogen. Balsams were
helped by liming and succeeded better
where nitrogen was furnished in nitrate
of soda than in the sulphate of am
monia. Shirley poppies responded won
derfully to liming, and nitrate of soda
proved decidedly better for them than the
sulphate of ammonia. The Early Rich
mond cherry, American linden and Amer
ican elm are decidedly helped by an ap
plication of lime, though not in so great
a degree as the Orange quince, the Black
Tartarian cherry or the Japan plums. The
result with the popples was particularly
striking. On the unlimed plat with sul
phate of ammonia there were no blos
soms at all. while on the limed plat with
the sulphate there were 501 blooms, and
on the limed nitrate of soda plat there
were 3,113 blossoms, a striking evidence
both of the value of lime and the su
periority of the nitrate as a source of ni
trogen.
A Xew Spraying Liquid
Saccharate of copper Is now being men
tioned as a coming competitor of Bor
deaux mixture. The latter, strange to say,
was simply a chance disoovery, and the
receipt has never been materially improv
ed upon since the first ma:ke-up. Hie
formula for the new liquid is as follows:
“For tweny-five gallons of the spray
ing liquid slake and make into 'milk of
lime’ four pounds of quicklime; dissolve
four pounds of molasses In one gallon of
water and mix with the milk of lime.
This will make a solution of 'saccharate
of iime.’ Stir thoroughly, and let stand
for a few hours. Next dissolve four pounds
of bluestone in eight or ten gallons of wa
ter, and pour into it the lime-molasses
solution while stirring brlsk’.y. The mix
ture becomes very turbid with the gypsum
formed, which may be allowed to settle,
leaving a clear, greenish solution of 'sac
chnrate of copper,’ which may be drawn
off from the sediment, thus obviating all
danger of clogging the spray-nozzle and
leaving no discoloration on leaves or fruit.
If It Is to be used on leafless trees it may
be at once thinned down to the twenty
five gallons wonted, since even thus the
liquid is much thinner than the Bordeaux
mixture of equal strength."
Slse of Seed Potatoes
We have always obtained better result*
from the use of seed potatoes "about the
size of a hen's egg," or as near that as
we could Judge by the shape of the po
tato, und cut in halves, as from any seed
we had and we have tested them against
larger ones cut In halves and In quarters,
against smaller ones used whole, and
against pieces cut to two eyes each. Yet
the pieces of two eyes were so nearly
equal that we would use that method if
the seed cost a high price, by which we
do not mean the early price of the Early
Rose at a dollar a pound, but if they cost
$3 a bushel. But the potato of that size,
scarcely marketable, unless there was a
season of scarcity, is s well matured as
the potato that weighs a pound, and we
think throws as strong a shoot and pro
duces as nluch. IV e never made a teat
by comparing the use of pieces of large
potatoes against pieces Of about equnl
weight of the smaller ones, and to learn
anything from such a test one would need
to continue It for n term of years, using
the largest from the largest seed each
time. It might be well after selecting ns
we would, for some years, to change to
pieces from the large ones for a season
hut we are not sure of It.
Growing Onlona
The use of good seed for the onion crop
Is most Important, as the labor of pra
pr.ring the land, weeding tba rows and
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other care necessary Is as great for the
part of a crop as for a full one. while
the cost of fertilizer is not lessened, nor
are the onions better or In as good de
mand If they grow too large. The onlo.i
seed deteriorates very rapidly In germin
ating properties If It Is kept until more
than one year old. excepting that In very
small quantities It may be kept In some
thing practically airtight, as In a tin box
with snugly fitting cover. We would not
aow onion seed without having It tested,
and making sure that not less than hi
per cent, would germinate. Those who
sow under glass end transplant have nt
least the advantage of not having to care
for any rows that are not 'filled, and If
a patt of the seed ta to oold to sprout
the only loss la the price paid for the
aaed. This practice Is growing In favor,
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MONDAY, June 17. 5:00 p. m.
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WEDNESDAY, June 19, 7:00 p, m.
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June 21. 9:30 a. m.
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and fast taking the place of the old meth
od of setting out the dry sets In t •*>*
spring to grow the early onions f ,,r
bunching, as It requires but little more
labor to tit the land for one than the oth
er. and the new plants seem to grow aa
rapidly as the dry sets.
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