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NEWS OF 3 STATES.
SEWS NOTES FROM GEORGIA,
FLORIDA AND SOI TH CAROLINA.
Gordon Haines, 22 years old. son of a
prominent farmer of Merriwether
county, was accidentally killed Friday
afternoon. Young Haines was clearing
out a syrup mill when in some manner
his head was caught between the lever
and the cap and mashed to a jelly.
A CHATHAM ARTILLERY VETERAN.
Tifton Gazette: Mr. W. B. Corey
went to Savannah last week to obtain
some necessary signatures to his ap
plication for a pension Mr Corey was
a gallant member of the Chatham Ar
tillery, and the visit to Savannah, his
old home, was full of interest and fond
recollections. He was able to find only
three of his surviving comrades. Dr.
Falligant. Capt. H. S. Dreese and T. N.
Theus, but had no trouble in securing
the necessary affidavits. His reception
by his old comrades was a most cor
dial and hospitable one, ail'd he ex
presses many thanks to them for the
host of kindnesses shown him.
GET READY FOR THE NEXT FAIR.
Americus Herald: Our county tailed
to get either the first, second or third
prize at the State Fair, but along with
six other counties received a prize of
S2OO. Altogether Sumter made a very
creditable showing considering the
short time in which to work it up, and
every citizen should and does teel
proud of the exihibit. Sumter county
should commence in the spring to work
on her exhibit for next year. Have a
county fair just before the State Fair
and then ship the whole exhibit ana
walk off with the first prize. The Her
ald offers its help at the start and will
be at the finish. Sumter is one of the
best counties in Georgia and we should
all bend our energies and let the out
side world know it.
ANOTHER KILLING IN BI RKE.
Waynesboro News: There was a mur
der out on Mr. William MoElmurray’s
Byrd place about seven miles from
here, on Thursday night. Jerry Dent,
a negro, was shot through the heart by
Isaiah Lawson, another negro. Dent
was asleep in his bed at the time that
Lawson fired upon him. and. although
he lived for 30 minutes after he had
been shot, it is probable that he never
knew- what happened to him. Dent was
asleep in the house of a woman with
whom Lawson was infatuated. Lawson
went to the knocked at the dovr
and demanded that it be opened. Dent
and the woman were both asleep. Law
son broke open the door and stood in
it while he struck a match to see his
victim. He then emptied his pistol and
fed.
GOES BACK TO BE HANGED.
Carroll Free Press. Will Lanier,
alias J W. Bennett, was tried before
Judge Alvan D. Freeman on habeas
corpus proceedings at New nan with the
result that he was ordered placed in
the charge of Deputy Sheriff M. G.
Hidings of Aberdeen, Miss., to be car
ried back to that state to be executed
for murder. Lanier's father and his
two brothers are in the penitentiary of
Mississippi, serving terms as accesso
ries to the murder, and Will Lanier
was under conviction to be hung for
the murder. Six day's before the time
of execution he escaped from jail, and
w-as never caught until last week. *vhen
Chief of Police J. D. Brewster arrest
ed him in Newman as he alighted from
a Central Railroad train, having come
from Carroll county. The greater part
of the summer Lanier spent in the
neighborhood of Sargent, a station six
miies west of Newnan. where he had
a sister living Sheriff J. L. Brown
and Chief of Police Brewster, both of
■whom were Instrumental in Lanier’s
capture, will receive the S3OO reward
offered for his return to the jail from
■which he escaped. He broke jail last
April and soon thereafter made his
appearance in this county, making
himself so conspicuous as to take part
in a school exhibition last summer near
Sargent.
FLORIDA."
The Florida State Fair at Jackson
ville closed Friday night after a most
successful exhibition of four days. The
crowds, especially during the last two
days, were very large, and the city
had all it could do to accommodate
them. The exhibit of the agricultural
resources of the state was a magnifi
cent one. that of the orange and fruit
crops generally being probably the best
ever made. The Fair will probably be
repeated next year.
Jacksonville Metropolis: A big
crowd attended the races yesterday,
and witnessed the finest sport of the
week, and decidedly the best racing
ever seen on the track here. The free
for-all pacing and trotting rate was
the most attractive number on the
programme, and w'as won in magnifi
cent style by the game *little pacer,
Sherman Clay, in three straight heats.
The second heat of this race was made
in 2:143*. which broke the record made
here by Effie Powers last year of 2:1534-
Border. the handsomest horse seen at
the track, was a good second. Wil
liam Mac. with a record of 2:0534. was
driven by his owner, George Castle,
to beat the track record of 2:1534. The
effort was a successful one. and was
the crowning feature of the meeting.
The time for the mile was 2:09?4, which
is the fastest for any half-mile track
In the South, and gives Jacksonville
that distinction. Bettie B. and Queen
L. also broke the track records for
runners during the week. Yesterday
the former horse ran a half mile in
0: 49 34. which is the best time for that
distance on a Southern track. Last
Thursday Queen L. covered a three
fourths mile dash in 1:18, which adds
another record for the track. The 2:30
class trotting race was won by Idlerim,
the fastest heat being made in 2:2934-
SOUTH CAROLINA.
< 'heraw. Nov. 24.—A body of 6,000
s< res of timber land In this county has
been bought by a large lumber con
cern here and mills are now being
placed on it. Up to two years ago there
was not one mill in this county that
shipped lumber to the North, now
there are four large planing mills,
three shingle mills and 30 saw mills.
A majority of these mills are on the
extension of the Seaboard Air Line be
tween here and Camden. Since the
construction of the Chesterfield and
Lancaster Railroad through the inte
rior of the county many mills have
lin n established on Its right of way.
PI.A4 ED Ml SK ET IN BED.
Beaufort Gazette- Joseph Myer*. col
ored, aged about 16 years, was instant
ly killed by tin- discharge of a musket
In the hands of his cousin, Wm. ]>asv
rence. a youth of about the, sains age,
Wednesday night. The latter, when
about to get into had. discovered the
gun between the ijuIIU. and. In the at
(tjtipt to pull It mi, th# wruiMjn f|.
<l* ntully 41#'harK**) Th* suti
pined In the bed some urn- during th
day by the grandfather of the boy*.
IHU* dreaming of the tragedy to result
hum the thoughtless act
WOM4I lllllMi TO DKAt H
ft */t 0 I *C <m §t l /Ml f* (uj i.. a |, * |iitt uD (Mi
hfrfr tfruit)* t to f)<, •
iu hmt
\ heme in Beaufort Wednesday. Louisa.
! Hammock, the mother, left the house
about 9 o'clot k a. m.. and no one but
j the unfortunate victim was in the place
at the time of the accident. The wo
man is supposed to have had a fit and
| to have fallen in an open fire place.
Her screams attracted the neighbors.
1 several of whom rushed in and dragged
her out of the roaring flames, but not
until one of her eyes and her nose and
breast were literally consumed. Dr. T.
O. Hutson, who resides in the same
block, was summoned and administered
chloroform as the poor creature’s suf
fering was frightful, and it was the
physician's opinion she could not possi
bly survive.
editoriaTcomment.
Abbeville Chronicle: The State Fair
that closed its gates last week at Sa
vannah was one of the most successful
in every respect that was ever held in
Georgia. At a meeting of the Stock
holders last Saturday it was found
that $15,000 was needed to pay off all
the obligations of the association.
Within ten minutes after this an
nouncement the amount was raised by
subscription. The association holds the
buildings and race track and a five
year lease of the fair grounds, encum
bered only by a mortgage of $15,000 to
those who subscribed the money to
cover the deficit. The track and build
ings alone are estimated conservatively
to be worth $37,000. Thus it will be
seen that the Fair Association, instead
of losing money, are ahead $12,000.
Vidalia Press: It is understood that
Savannah wants the State Fair again
next year. We see no reason why it
should riot have it. It was well man
aged this year, the exhibitors well
treated, all premiums paid in full, and
the list was a liberal one. The busi
ness men of Savannah went to heavy
expanse in preparing the most suitable
buildings and grounds any state fair
has had in Georgia, and it is nothing
but right that they should be given an
opportunity to get their money back
by holding another fair.
Darien Gazette: The Savannah News
believes in lower Georgia and never
fails to boom this section. The News
is a great paper, and more popular
than ever.
Waynesboro News: Savannah is to
be commended for her desire to keep
Burke in the First Congressional Dis
trict.
Oglethorpe Echo: The praises of the
State Fair, which closed in Savannah
Saturday, is on the lips of all who at
tended. But it did not make expenses.
That seems to be the fate of fairs and
expositions these days.
South Georgia Home: Seab Wright,
once the high priest of populism a.nd
prohibition, is the father of a dispen
sary bill—the last effort of the devil to
perpetuate the whisky traffic in this
state. How hath the mighty fallen!
Thomasville Times-Enterprise: That
$1,500 premium taken by Brooks at
the State Fair, while valuable, doesn’t
measure up to the value of the adver
tising which the county will get from
her exhibit. It will be worth many
thousands to the county.
ESTILL IN THE MOUNTAINS,
Dawsonville Advertiser: Editor Ad
vertiser—Although the death of the la
mented McKinley and instalation of
his success>r in the presidency seems
to have banked the fires under the
cauldron which contains our guberna
torial hash, yet one finds evidences of
an awakening, and the people are be
ginning to ask the question who will
be the next governor of the Empire
State? I have been circulating some
what among the good people of North
Georgia recently, and I find them di
vided into three camps, two of which
are quite aggressive, not iu say fa
natical. One of tehse, the Prohibs,
of course, will go teeth and toe-nails
for Col. Guerry. who is the ideal rep
resentative of the fanatical no liquor
party. On the contrary Gen. Terrell
seems to be generally accepted by the
whisky men as an antidote for Guer
ry, and they will rally to his standard,
too. But I find between these two ex
tremes. and merging into either edge,
the great mass of thinking, intelligent
and conservative men who are neither
for or against prohibition or whisky,
but who believe in every man exercis
ing his own judgment, following out
his own sweet will and attending
strictly to his own individual business,
and for this class, by far the most
numerous of the three. Editor Estiil
seems to be the ideal man for Gover
nor. They are not caring whether a
man takes a drink or is a total abstain
er. what they want in a Governor is
a clear and level-headed, conservative
and successful business man, one who
can carry on the state’s affairs in a
business like and successful manner,
and Col. Estiil is by common consent
the man. They don't want Guerry at
any price, and are not falling over
themselves in a mad rush after Ter
rell. In fact, not being fanatics or ex
tremists, they •will deliberately make
up their minds and it will not be much
use to try to change them or rush them
into any particular camp.
If, Mr. Editor, you can get Col. Es
tiil to make a tour of these mountain
counties he can get nine-tenths of the
votes up here next October. Judge.
ESTILL ON NEWSPAPER MEN.
Waycross Evening Herald.
At the Savannah banquet to the edi
tors, Col. ,T. H. Estiil said during his
remarks: “I have been and am proud
of the association I have had with
you, for you belong to a profession
ihat does more for the state of Geor
gia, and whose members receive a
smaller return for their labors than
any other. You work early and late,
day and night, to build up the towns
in which you live and the surrounding
country. You receive but very scanty
and inadequate encouragement and as
sistance from those you serve, and
whose interests you advance.”
EDITOR EST ILL'S ENTERTAINMENT.
Quitman Free Press.
A distinctive feature of the State
Fair was the charming hospitality
shown by the jwople of Savannah to
their visitors. A happy instance of
this was Editor J. H. Estill's enter
tainment for the Georgia editors when
they visited the Fair in a body. They
were invited out to Col. Estill's sum
mer home at the Isle of Hope, where
a luncheon and oyster roast, ‘with
speech-making on the side, was en
joyed. Col. Estiil was formerly pres
ident of the Georgia Press Association
and has the friendship of all the edi
tors and the spirit of the occasion was
very genial and happy.
Thomas County News.
We note that Col. Estiil will be at
the horse-swappers’ conventions soon
to meet at Adrian. That’s one way
to win over the bov*. and we suspect
that’s what Col. Estiil expects to do.
West Point New a.
Estiil seems to be gaining atrength
every day In his race for Governor of
Orotgla.
Mylvania Telephone
<‘ol J H. Estiil of Savannah, was
tn Screven this week, and met a num
ber of our people while here Cot.
Eatlll’a (sndida* y for Governor la
growing. The peopia raiogniae in him
a safe, sound business men who would
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THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. NOVEMBER 25.1901.
THE FARM AND GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO AGRI
CULTURIST AND HOUSEWIFE.
Some Obervatlona Respecting John
son Grass— Hotv to Get Hid of
Motes—The Forestry of the South.
How to Make Fine Cane Syrup.
Whitewashing for Sente Insects.
"N. M.’’—There is considerable dif
ference of opinion as to the merits of
Johnson grass. Much that is said of it
in the papers is purely theoretical.
Many writing of 1t more from “hear
say 1 ' than from actual experience with
it. 4
To the stock raiser, who is in it for
a permanent thing, Johnson grass is
one of the most valuable grasses that
can be used by the Southern farmer.
A few acres of bottom land properly
set in it would afford an immense
quantity of forage in the course of five
or ten years, and at times, consid
erable grazing. When once well es
tablished. it is almost indistructible.
it is not easy to exterminate. It
should be sown very thickly to make
the best quality of hay. If too thin
the growth will be so rank that it
would not make the best of hay.
Many of the seeds gathered are im
perfect from some cause or other, and
not more than one in ten will ger
minate. To insure a stand at the
start, 25 or 30 pounds of average seeds
should be used to the acre. A surer
way to get a stand Is to plant the roots
if they can be had. These should be
scattered along in furrows, 2 or 3
inches deep, and about 2 feet apart.
It is well to roll the land in either
case—whether seed or roots —to insure
speedy germination. When thus
planted in rows the crop can be culti
vated several times and it will prove
beneficial in establishing the crop—and
when it is established it is good for
many years.
Only on a “corn and cotton" farm
would this valuable grass be liable to
be regarded as a “pest.”
llow to Get Rid of Moles.
An esteemed correspondent at Savan
nah asks "Will you advise me how to
get rid of moles? There is a colony of
them in my yard—judging from the re
sults, and I am anxious to get them
cut before they turn up the entire
place.”
There are several ways of ridding a
place of moles—by using traps which
are set in their runs; by poisoning
pieces of dough with strychnine and
placing it in their runs, and there is
slill another way which we have found
effective. Some years ago our own
garden was so overrun with moles it
was almost impossible to grow some
crops on account of them. We were
advised to plant here and there a plant
of Palma-Christi (castor oil plant), We
did so. and it is a fact that we have
not seen a mole in that large garden
since. Every year since the first, plants
come up every spring from self sown
seed and one plant is allowed to grow
in each section of the garden. Why this
plant is so destructive or offensive to
the mole we know not, but we can tes-
Ufy as to its efficacy. Before the moles
were banished from the garden we
found some litle sport in going out af
ter a shower with two spades and
catching one or two alive. The freshly
made “run" was looked for and a
spade was quietly placed in behind
them, thus cutting off their return.
With the other spade the fluffy little
rodent was dug up. We repeat they
can be caught with a trap (deadfall),
or with a large-mouth jar placed under
the run or they can be killed with poi
soned dough, rolled into small balls
and inserted into the runs at intervals.
In a small way nothing puzzles us more
than why the Palma Christi plant
one or two to the half acre, should be
a perfect protection from the depreda
tions of moles.
Hovr to Make Fine Cane Syrup in
Georgia.
There are crops that are influenced
more in quality than other crops by
the soil on which they are grown, and
the fertilizer used, and sugar is one of
them, says C. W. Morrill in Southern
Parmer. Por instance, stable manure is
not a, proper fertilizer, although it
contains all the elements of plant food.
The trouble is it gives the cane and
syrup a sarty taste. Without proper
treatment, low, black, swampy, peaty
soils will not produce light colored
syrups, such as is produced on light
sandy soils, with heavy fertilizing. The
soil in question is a low bottom, com
posed mostly of vegetable matter, and
some sand, of about an acre in area,
and at one time covered with water
the greater part of the year, and over
grown with sweet gums and willows,
which were cut down and all roots and
stumps dug out. The land was ditched
and underdrained, throroughly plow
ed and cross plowed, then treated with
one ton of hard wood ashes and har
rowed in. Ashes contain from 3 to 7 per
cent, of potash in the, form of carbon
ate, and from 1 to 2 per cent, of phos
phoric acid, and about 1,200 pounds of
lime to the ton. There are thousands
of just such low, swamp places here
in Georgia as here described, of more
or less area, that by proper treatment
could be made to produce fine cane.
Soils of such nature that are compos
ed of vegetable matter of humus, gen
erally have sufficient nitrogen, which
is not always available, and to hasten
the decay of humus, should have lime.
Then again such soils as water has
covered any length of time, become
sour, and require lime to sweeten them
and make the plant food more availa
ble. It is a popular belief that sour
soils are found only in low places,
where more or less water stands; but
sometimes dry uplands become so sour
that plants will not thrive and grow.
Sugar cane is generally planted in
from four to six foot rows; furrows are
made with a double shovel plow. The
cune is then laid In bottom of furrow
and listed over this by running a small
plow on each side. Some make a
practice of cutting the stalks up into
foot lengths, as they claim this meth
od gives them a better stand. When
the new growth begins, rake off the
top of ridge, that lets in the heat and
warms up the soil. After-cultivation
consists of keeping the crop free from
weeds and grass and the crust broken
up by plowing at least once in two
weeks until the cane laps the rows.
The proper fertilizer for sugar cane,
as experience teaches me. Is fine ground
bone and two hundred pounds sulphate
of potash. From my experience with
different fertilizers, where ground
bone Is used there seems to be less
acid in the Juice, and where sulphate
of potash is used there is s finer flavor.
Sugar cane is an exhaustive crop, and
the Louisiana planters follow cow
peas with sugar cane. The cow peas
furnish the nitrogen and leave the soil
In a fine mechanical condition. Aa
sugar cane Is a crop that takes from
spring to fall to grow, bacterial nitri
fication Is going on during the summer
mouths, transforming nitrogen already
In the soil into available plant food
tor the growing crop, therefore, th
nitrogen furnished by the <ow peas
and ground bone Is sufficient for this
exhaustive crop Yet It la not advisa
ble to plant can# on the eame land
year after year There should be a
rotation followed pienting cane not
oftener than ogc# tn three years.
Uleanllneee Is one of the main fea
tures that should be followed in mag
n> a diet- ctee article of e>iup Faina,
should be taken to have all barrels
( lean and kept clean during the en
tire period of evaporating the cane
juice into syrup, and to keep the juice
well skimmed while boiling. Syrup to
be refined should be evaporated to a
density of thirty degrees. Refining will
show a density of thirty-two degrees,
and syrup of this density after refin
ing with this process will not grain
or sour. After reducing the juice to
a density of thirty degrees it should
be run off and put in a clean barrel
and allowed to cool. A refining pan
four and a half feet long by thirty
six inches wide and one foot in depth,
should be prepared on a brick arch
for this purpose; the syrup should then
be strained into this pan through a
flannel cloth, and then a slow fire
started sufficient to bring the syrup
to boiling. Have ready at this time,
supposing that you have fifty gallons
in the pan. one pint of sweet milk, the
w hites of two eggs, and one gill of lime
water, well beaten, and as the boiling
increases, over the entire surface, pour
this into the pan, stirring it from
end to end. Of course the boiling will
cease until it is brought to a boiling
point again, which it will do in a few
moments. If the fire has been kept
up. when the boiling does take place,
all the impurities will rise to the sur
face; then skim for dear life, until
you get the surface clear. The pan
should be made with a faucet in one
corner for draining off into jugs or
one gallon square tin cans which are
the best. This process is used large
ly at the North for refining maple sy
rup. It is a well known fact that the
syrup made from cane grown at Fair
view fruit farm was the finest flavor
ed syrup produced in Rutland district,
and was grown on sol! as black as
ink. It could never have been pro
duced without liming the soil, and the
use of proper fertilizers. This syrup,
after refining, was sold in Macon mar
ket at 75 cents per gallon, under a
guarantee that it would not grain or
sour. This process or refining syrup
is within the means of the smallest
farmer. A pan of the dimensions giv
en. made from galvanized iron, should
not cost over $lO. and any ordinary
bricklayer could build the arch at a
small expense, and by following this
method, there should be no such abom
inable syrup as we find offered for sale
throughout the country.
Give More Attention tn Making Hay.
It seems that the South has never
given that attention to growing grasses
for haying purposes which has been
and is now the custom among farmers
in the North and West, writes J. Ca
bot. There are. no doubt, reasons that
might be put forward why the planters
in the Southern states have not devot
ed more time and attention to the pro
duction of hay, but space and time to
day forbid the statement of facts rel
ative to the matter. With these intro
ductory remarks. I would now state
that the time is propitous, and a be
ginning should be made on every well
directed farm in the South for the pur
pose of growing hay producing grasses.
There is no longer any doubt, well
attested experiments having proven it,
that alfalfa will grow luxuriantly -in
our soft climate apd warm soils. When
planted in a rich and properly prepared
seed bed, alfalfa will yield per acre
from five to six tons of excellent hay
during the season. A well established
fact with regard to alfalfa is that
when cut and not thorougly cured
while yet in the field, rain falling on
the partly cured or freshly mown grass
will not injure it to the extent that it
does clover and timothy, and in fact
really injures it very slightly, which
should cause alfalfa to be all the more
highly prtzed in the South.
German millet is another grass that
will yield a heavy tonnage of hay to the
acre. Millet should be sown toward
the last of March, or earlier, near the
coast. Select a pieces of land that has
been fall plowed, rebreak it, to freshen
it, harrow down level, to form as per
fect a. seed bed as possible. If the land
is thin, give it a top dressing of rotten
stable manure, then sow the seed
broadcast and harrow them in, not too
deep. In the short time of two or three
weeks the surprise will come when be
holding the fine stand of green and
growing millet, which will mature
early and should be cut when the grain
is in the milk, cured and stacked in
the barnyard.
The same piece of land may then be
turned with the plow, row's thrown up
five feet apart and at once planted to
Mexican June corn, which will grow
and mature a heavy yield of grain be
fore frost has come and injured it,
thus making not one, but two profita
ble crops on the same piece of ground
during the season.
There should be more attention paid
to building up pasture lands in the
South than is at present the custom,
unless the Southern people prefer to
go West for their butter and cheese
rather than to produce the same at
home, on the farm.
To the question, how 'to make a pas
ture? I will call attention to the fact
that one acre, or one hundred acres,
set to Bermuda grass will, as soon as
it forms a sod, afford the best all
around pasture for grazing purposes
that can be grown in the South. Such
pastures should be made permanent.
The heavier the sod the more luxuri
antly will the grass grow.' Never neg
lect to top dress grass lands with a
coat of manure at least once a year,
twice would be all the better, provid
ing, of course, it is desirable to keep
sleek horses, fat kine, good miik and
butter. J. Cabot.
Wliitrna>li for Scale Inncrtn.
Ever since our old friend, the late
William Saunders, than whom Scot
land never sent a better horticulturist
to America, first called our attention
to the fact that a coat of whitewash
would smother any scale Insect in ex
istence, we have been trying to induce
fruit growers to use this simple rem
edy, says the Practical Farmer, 'rime
and again we have seen its efficacy in
cleaning trees from the dreaded San
Jose scale and other forms. But the
remedy was not proposed .by a pro
fessional entomologist and is too sim
plp to suit those who want to appear
scientific. Hence slight attention has
been paid to the remedy and the en
tomologists have persistently pushed
the expensive and dangerous use of
hydrocyanic -acid gas. Knowing the
ease and safety with which the white
wash remedy can be applied we were
greatly pleased to read In the report
of the Central Experimental Farm of
the Canada Department of Agricul
ture. from the horticulturist. W. T.
Macoun, an account of the experiment
there made with whitewash. Mr.
Macoun states that apple trees were
sprayed with whitewash in an experi
ment made to test its value as a re
tarding Influence In the spring. The
trees were infested with the ovster
shell bark louse, one of the hardest
scales to kill, and when the white
wash cami* off during the summer It
was found that scales had disappeared,
and the bark of the trees was brighter
und cleaner than those which hud not
been sprayed.
The formula used was, lime. 80
pounds; water, 24 gallons, and sklm
mllk, • gallons It made a thick mix
ture and rather hard to spray, but
made a isd cover. Experiments wert
then md with the same for scale dl
’*■. ( p tth'iut the milk and It was found
that tt did not sth k so well, but It
was found that two sprayings were
quite sufficient when using two pounds
o' lime and one gallon of water to
five tree* Later on It was found that
it a the <uui< property of the lime
that loosened the scales ana that re
peated sprayings were not needed It
wae shown that the time for the ap
plus*ton m In the autumn The Canada
iMgti says that whitewash did not
h,h the haa Juee ocaie We are of the
opinion that this was from the wash
not b*ing made so as to stick long
enough. Here it has destroyed every
scale on which it was applied, San Jose
Included. Dissolve a little glue in the
hot lime as it slacks, and make the
wash with this in the same proportions
a* advised and apply it in the early
spring and we do not believe there is
a scale of any kind that will not be
smothered by it. But if the whitewash
killed only the oyster shell scale or
bark louse, it will be a valuable appli
cation and well worth the making, for
there Is more damage being done to the
apple trees all over the country by the
oyster shell scale than by the San
Jose. It is a little slower in killing the
trees, but it will kill them all the same.
Such a homely remedy as whitewvash
may not suit the ultra scientific work
ers, who cannot be satisfied with any
thing less than the expensive gas treat
ment. but we urge theaplaln farmers to
try this simple remedy. Even if your
trees have no scale on them they will
be cleaned and helped by a coat of
whitewash. If the white color is ob
jectionable mix some sifted hardwood
ashes with it to darken the application
and the wash will be all the better for
it. A friend who attended the horti
cultural meeting at Buffalo said that
the whitewash remedy was the only
sensible thing he heard expressed there
in regard to the scale.
Maintaining: Fertility.
The permanent and continuous suc
cess of any given farm depends upon
the degree with which its fertility is
maintained, says the Homestead- Crops
and methods should always be ohosen
with this purpose as one of its leading
objects. In other words, one should not
allow an immediate temptation, prom
ially the future usefulness of the land,
to the adoption of a plan or the selec
tion of a crop that will sacrifice mater
ially the future usefulnes sof the land.
Often the problem that confronts the
farmer goes even beyond this, and it
is not merely maintaining fertility that
constitutes his task, but it is the restor
ation of exhausted fertility that he
must consider. The variety of circum
stances under which farming is car
ried on makes it impossible to prescribe
any hard and fast rules by which eith
er the maintenance or restoration of
the condition of the land is to be ac
complished. One plan will answer weil
under one set of conditions, while at
seme important point it might fail un
der others. A chief element in all plans
where the land is under cultivation
should be a suitable rotation in which
clover, or some substitute for clover,
should have its regularly recurring
place. Circumstances may require that
the rotation be long or short, from two
years up to as high as six or seven,
and the disposition that can be made
of the crops grown often makes a ro
tation consist of one series of crops un
der a . certain set of circumstances,
while another set of crops may be nec
essary under other conditions. This is
a poiint at which the farmer must do
his own thinking, and upon the intelli
gence he brings to the problem will de
pend, in large measure, his success.
Another point looking toward the
maintenance and improvement of the
fertility of the soil is the keeping of
the farm well stocked with all the do
mestic animals it will carry. Of
course the idea here is the removal
from the farm of as little of the fer
tilizing elements as possible and the
making of as large an amount of ma
nure as possible, and this latter point,
of course, implies that the manure
shall be well saved and properly ap
plied. It is well nigh impossible to
keep up fertility under any system of
farming that depends upon the making
of grain or hay crops for the market.
Such a course removes too much and
restores too little. Ofter when a farm
is run down, if other conditions be
favorable, the shortest way to restore
its value is to stock it well with cows
and go into dairying. It may not be,
of itself, a highly profitable kind of
dairying, but in connection with the
purpose in view, that is, the making of
the land fertile again, it may be found
to be the most advantageous course
that can be pursued. Dairying re
moves very little from the land, and
as it almost always requires consid
erable purchases of feed stuffs, mainly
of the nitrogenous kind, there is be
ing constantly added to the place the
fertility that has been skimmed off
other farms. It is by much the short
est road to the restoration of the fer
tility of the worn down place.
During the approaching winter the
farmer who really desires to make his
work successful will, of necessity, do
a large amount of thinking along many
lines, and the preservation of the pro
ductiveness of the farm is one that
should not be neglected. He should
constantly ask himself, “Will this plan
keep up the land?” If not, it is not
the best plan for his farm. Let the
planning be done with a view to keep
ing up all the elements of fertility,
of keeping the soil well filled with
humus, and with an eye to making the
place more productive each successive
year.
Foresting in the South.
American Gardening says: The Bu
reau of Forestry of the United States
Department of Agriculture continues
to receive requests for advice and as
sistance in the management of private
Woodlands in the South. One of the
latest requests is for a working plan
for 1,000,000 acres of long-leaf pine land
in Southeastern Texas, the property
of the Kirby Lumber Company and
the Houston Oil Company of Texas.
The holdings of these companies cov
er about 80 per cent, of the virgin for
est of longleaf pine in Texas. The
officials state that they are anxious
to exploit their forests on scientific
lines, cutting the merchantable timber
in such a way as to insure protection
to the young growth. A preliminary
examination of this large tract will
be made during the winter, by agents
of the bureau. All things considered,
this large area of ttmberland, if han
dled on the lines which the bureau
will advise, should prove to be one
of the most interesting undertakings
In the line of forestry by private own
ers yet attempted In the United States.
The industrial development of the
South on all sides during the last ten
years has been remarkable, but no sin
gle industry has made greater strides
than the lumber business. This is not
surprising when it is considered that
the Southern state* contain a greater
percentage of forest area than any
other section of the United States. The
South has become a very important
fector in the lumber markets ef the
world, not only through Its wealth of
forests, but from the fact that It has
unusually good transportation facili
ties.
Within recent years many lumbermen
from the North have been attracted
to the Southern field; the forests of
Pennsylvania. Michigan and Wiscon
sin having been almost exhausted,
many of the leading woodmen of those
states are now engaged In cutting tlm
her In the South. The forests of the
three states just mentioned were once
considered Inexhaustible, but once
lumbering begins In earnest no forest
urea Is Inexhaustible. The presetft con
dition of the forests In many North
ern and Eastern states is sufficient
evidence on this point.
Matte*.
We solicit articles for this depart
ment The name of the writer should
accompany th letter or rtlc|*, pot ne
cess* rtly for publication, but as aa
evidence of good faith
Qusaiton* and communication* rata
t|v# to agricultural and horticultural
oubjacta. If addreaaad to Agri Editor
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uirt Le mediate attention ,
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Ythe y The Up-fo-Date
PLANtI System.
v,. I Commencing
/system December 1, 1901,
Pullman Dining Cars
Leave Savannah Daily 2:05 p. m., City Time.
Arrive Washington, Daily, 7:39 a. m.
Arrive New York 1:43 p. m.
LESS THAN 24 HOURS.
This train carries Pullman Sleeping and Drawing Room Cars
and Day Coaches; also U. S. Mail Cars.
Another comfortable train, with through Pullman Sleeping Cars,
leaves Savannah 1:30 a. m.
For tickets, sleeping car reservations and other information, see
ticket agents.
WARD CLARK, T. A.. De Soto Hotel. Both Phones No. 73.
R. C. BLATTNER, D. T. A. Georgia Phone 911.
J. H. D. SHELLMAN, T. P. A.
B. \V\ WRENN, Passenger Traffic Manager.
♦ FOR
: NEW YORK. BOSTON AND THE EAST.
♦ Unurpaed cabin accommodations. All th comforts of a modern Hotel •
♦ Electric lights. Unexcelled table. Tickets Include meals and berths aboard ship ♦
♦ PASSENGER FARES FROM SAVANNAH. *
♦ TO NEVV XOiiix .-w, c lrst Cabin, round trip, $32; Intermedia!*,
.cabin. sls; Intermediate Ctbin, round trip, s2l; Steerage $lO •
♦ TO BOSTON—First Cabin, $22; First Cabin, round trip, 's36; Intermediate Csb-•
♦ In, sl7; Intermediate Cabin, round trip, S2B; Steerage $1176 *
I ™ e , *tea msh ip s of this line are appointed to sail from Savannah.:
♦ BAVANNAH TO NEW YORK. , < , 1
; CHATTAHOOCHEE, Capt Lewis'KANSAS CITY. Capt. Fisher, SAT-*
♦ riTV a i 5:30 P' In ' j e ’RDAY, Nov. 30. at 7;00 p. m.
CITY OF AUGUSTA, Capt. Daggett,
, WEDNESDAY. Nov. 27, at 6:00 p.m! ,
. NACOOCHEE. Capt. Smith, THURS-I
♦ DAY, Nov. 28, at 6:30 p. m. j ♦
♦ ’Steamship Ctiattahoochee will carry first cabin passengers only. !
♦ Steamship City of Macon, Capt. Savage, will leave New York for Boston *
♦ at 4 p. m. every Saturday, and leave Boston for New York, at II a. m. *
. ® ver y Wednesday. Sailings New York for Savannah, Tuesdays, Thurs- :
. days, Saturdays, and Friday, Nov. 23, at 5 p. m.
.This company reserves the right to change Its sailings without notice and without.
< liability or accountability therefor. .
♦ 7 1 ' ?■ p- T * p A.. 107 Bull street,, Savannah. •
♦ \ A*ent, E. W. SMITH. Soliciting Frt. Agt., Savannah.
♦ A JK r T EI ij? A ,? VKINS ' 0e " A(rt Traf - Dept.. 224 W. Bay. Jacksonville, Fla. *
. p - E. LeFE\RE, Manager, WH. PLEASANTS. Traf. Mrgr., N. P. 35, N. Rh.
.New York. , .
EXCELLENT TRAIN SERVICE
-between-
SAVANNAH
—and —
BRUNSWICK .
LESS THAN 3 HOURS.
Via PLANT SYSTEM
Leave Savannah. 3:J5 p. m. (Standard Time)
Arrive Brunswick 6:10 p. m. u
Leave Brunswick 6:00 a. m. ** **
Arrive Savannah 9:00 a. m. ** u
Through Coaches between Savannah and Brunswick without change.
For further Information apply to
WARD CLARK, Ticket Agent, De Soto Hotel. Both Phones 73.
R. C- BLATTNER. D. T. A. Georgia Phone 9||.
B. W. WRENN, Passenger Traffic Manager.
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