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NEWS OF 3 STATES,
NEWS NOTES FROM GEORGIA,
FLORIDA AND SOITH CAROLINA.
The Cordele News quotes Mr. S. C.
Stallings, local representative of the
Janies T. Stewart's Son Company of
Savannah at that place, that his com
pany will shortly begin the erection of
a $20,000 hydraulic compress at Cor
dele.
TO LONE PROF. Gl ILLIAMS.
Prof. J. M. Gulliams. principal of the
Southern Normal Institute at Douglas,
has been elected president of the East
Florida Seminary at Gainesville. The
people of Douglas will regret to part
with Prof. Guiliiams, who has bade a
marked success there. Speaking of this
change the Jasper, Fla., News says:
"Asa thorough and successful educator
Prof. Guiliiams is unexcelled by any
one in the United States and the peo
ple of Gainesville are to be congratu
lated on his services having been se
cured for their institution of learning.
Ke will give that Seminary a boost
which it has never experienced before
in all its history.”
HI NG HIMSELF FROM GAS JET.
Atlanta Journal: Hanging from a
gas jet the body of P. B. Turks, a man
60 years old, was found In the back
hall of the Morris Hotel at 5:30 o'clock
Saturday morning by Mrs. G. A. Mur
phy, the housekeeper. Mrs. Murphy
was dreadfully frightened at her un
canny find and her screams soon
aroused the occupants of the hotel.
Parks for the last ten days had been
night clerk and watchman at the hotel.
He went about his duties as usual last
night and nothing out of the ordinary
was noticed in his conduct. To hang
himself Parks cut oft a piece of an old
rope that was in the plunder room in
the back of the hotel. He then took
a chair and placed a small box upon
it. Climbing to the top of the box. he
secured the rope to the gas pipe and
then adjusted the noose about his neck.
He kicked the box from the chair and
dropped the length of the rope. The
man evidently expired without pain,
judging from the expression of the fea
tures when the corpse was discovered.
The body was perfectly cold when
found, but had not become rigid.
FLORIDA.
The municipal election at Tampa last
■week resulted in a sweeping victory
for the Good Government Club, the
Citizens' League, which has had con
trol of affairs for the last two years,
being completely swept out of office.
Capt. James McKay was elected mayor
by a large majority over his opponent,
J. A. Wunsett. The contest was about
the hottest Tampa has ever known.
Apalachicola Times: A few days
since Sheriff Neel arrested and locked
up in the bastile one Jones, alias
Wade, colored, who has been a resi
dent of Old Woman's Bluff. It is said
that the prisoner killed with a light
wood knot, a white man near Thom
as vllle, Ga., some ten or twelve years
since. Sheriff Nee! Is in communica
tion with the authorities of Thomas
county, Ga. He thinks he has the
right man for whom a reward of S3OO
has been offered.
CLOTH FROM PINEAPPLES.
Tampa Tribune: George D. Munsing.
the pineapple magnate of Ballast Point,
leaves to-night for New York city, on
an Important mission which will en
gage his attention for the entire sum
mer. Ideas advanced by Mr. Munsing
and several mechanical experts are to
be- incorporated into a machine for the
purpose of extracting fibre from pine
apples and utilizing it in the manufac
ture of cloth. The other people inter
ested in the patent will meet Mr. Mun
sing in New York and they will work
together to get the proposed machine
into shape for a patent and for practi
cal use. Mr. Munsing has but little
doubt that they will be able to perfect
the machine, which will practically
double the value of the pln“apple crop.
A plant for the extraction of the fibre
will be located in Tampa as soon as
practicable, and all the pineapple grow
ers in this section will be able to de
rive this additional revenue from their
product. Mr. Munsing has also several
other inventions, which he will work
upon while in New York. The fibre
machine, however, is much more im
portant than the others and he will
give chief attention to this.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
A correspondent at Tillmann, S. C.,
requests the Morning News to make a
correction of the published account of
the affray at that place Sunday last,
when James H. McCrary was shot by
11. S. Box. The correspondent asserts
that Box was assaulted by McCrary
in the church yard and shot the latter
In self-defense. Box did not attempt
to escape, but immediately surrendeted
to the sheriff. McCrary is a railroad
section master at Tillman.
1.1F.l T. GOT. TILLMAN IX THE R U E.
Columbia State: In the last few
days, in fact ever since the State Con
vention, it has been generally report
ed that Lieut. Gov. James H. Tillman
would not be a candidate for governor,
but would stand for re-election as
lieutenant governor. None knew where
the report originated, but al' doubt
about his being in the race was dis
pelled yesterday when he came to the
city and in person filed his pledge with
State Chairman Jones and paid his
assessment, thus officially becoming a
candidate for governor. In talking
yesterday Col. Tillman said that he
was in the race to the finish and pro
posed to make his first speech of the
campaign at Donnalds at a meeting to
be held there just prior to the open
ing of the regular campaign series.
He says that at this meeting he will
answer charges made against him
soon after the adjournment of the leg
islature in regard to that ruling, in
accordance with his statement that
he would answer those charges at the
proper time. Col. John T. Sloan, who
came so near being elected lieutenant
governor two years ago. has also de
termined to enter ihe x*aee and yester
day filed his pledge.
KVMJKTAINI4D *T IHKI.ONKI.V.
Dahlonega, Ga., June 6.—On Friday
afternoon from 4 to 6, Mrs. R. H. Baker
gave a “progressive visitation’’ in honor
of Mrs. Ed Meatiers and Mrs. George
Bell of Swalnsboro, Ga. The form of
entertainment was very unique and
entertaining. Dainty refreshment* were
served from small tallies, being so
served that some of the guests, after
remaining at one table for a few min
utes moved on to tin- next, ju.-t as in
some progressive game, and by this
means gave all the guests a nice social
chat. The color s> heme of decorations
w ere red and green. The guests ere
Mrs H. D. Gurley, Mrs. 11. C Mea tiers,
Mrs F. M Mcarters. Mrs Dr. Grove,
Mrs Dr Whelchel, Mrs G N Steed. Mrs
B P. Galllard. Mrs. E. IS Vickery,
Vri Frank Moore, Mrs. John Moore,
Mrs W A. Charters. Mrs. W P.
Price. Jr. Mrs R D Deweese, Mrs.
J> J Black welt, Mrs James j. Stew
art of Dahkrnegn: Miss Willie May
fteulf*. <'amlila Mies Lula M- Multan,
llartweii. and Misa Parka, Swalnsboro
THE WEATHER.
Morning News Barometer June 8,
16:30 p. m 25.75
Morning News Thermometer June
8, 10:30 p. m 73
Forecast for Monday and Tuesday:
Georgia: Showers Monday, warmer
in northeast portion. Tuesday fair,
variable winds.
Eastern Florida: Showers Monday
and piobably Tuesday; light to fresh
winds, mostly east.
Western Florida: Showers Monday.
Tuesday fair; variable winds.
For South Carolina: Partly cloudy
Monday, with showers on the coast and
warmer in the interior. Tuesday fair,
warmer in the interior; variable winds.
Yesterday's Weather at Savannah—
Maximum temperature 2
p. rn 94 degrees
Minimum temperature 6 a.
m 69 degrees
Mean temperature 82 degrees
Nor Dial temperature 78 degrees
Excess of temperature 4 degrees
Accumulated excess since
June 1 3 degrees
Accumulated deficiency since
Jan. 1 133 degrees
Rainfall 12 inch
Normal 21 inch
Deficiency since June 1 1.16 inches
Deficiency since Jan. 1 5.06 inches
River Report—The hight of the Sa
vannah river at Augusta, at 8 a. m.
(75th meridian ,ime) yesterday, was
8.5 feet, a rise of 6.5 foot during the
preceding twenty-four hours.
Observations taken at the same mo
ment of time, June 8, 1902, 8:00 p. m„
73th meridian time.
Name of Station. |T. V. R
Boston, clear .‘I 58 24 .04
New York city, cloudy.. 60 34 .10
Philadelphia, clear !64 14 .00
Washington city, clear 6S Lt .00
Norfolk, cloudy j 70 , Lt j .22
Wilmington, raining 68 10 j .28
Charlotte, cloudy : 72 20 j T
Raleigh, cloudy j7O 6 j .04
Charleston, cloudy { 78 ] 18 j .10
Atlanta, clear 78 24 .00
Augusta, cloudy 64 Lt .60
Savannah, clear j 72 12 .12
Jacksonville, cloudy 1 82 Lt .00
Jupiter, clear {7B 10 .00
Key West, ptly. cldy 78 j 6 .16
Tampa, clear 80 i 6 .00
Mobile, clear 'B4 • 6 .00
Montgomery, clear I 88 Lt .00
Vicksburg, clear ! 88 jLt .00
New Orleans, clear | 86 Lt .00
Galveston, cl£ar 184 J 6 .00
Corpus Christ!, clear !82 10 .00
Palestine, clear j 88 !Lt .00
Memphis, ptly. cldy i 70 ' 6 j .00
Cincinnati, clear 1 66 Lt .00
Pittsburg, clear ! 58 j Lt ] .00
Buffalo, clear 54 18 .00
Detroit, clear 58 ! 8 .00
Chicago, clear 58 I 6 .00
Marquette, 50 Lt T
St. Paul. * clear 70 . 8 .00
Davenport, clear "0 Lt .00
St. Louis, clear !72 10 .00
Kansas City, clear '72 !Lt .00
Oklahoma, clear ! 74 i 10 T
Dodge City, clear ; 70 ! 12 i .00
North Platte, clear j 72 | 12 i .00
Hatteras, missing.
H. B. Boyer,
Observer, Weather Bureau.
FLAYED GAME IN DAYTOX.
Hughes of ISulliauore Fractures
Right Arm, hut His Tenin Won.
Dayton, 0., June 8. —The Cleveland-
Baltimore game scheduled for Cleve
land was transferred to this city.
Hughes of Baltimore sustained a frac
ture of the right arm in the fifth in
ning and retired In favor of 'Howells,
who was invincible, not a hit being
made off him. In the eighth Balti
more began to hammer Moore a little
and succeeded in batting out a victory.
Attendance, 4,876. Score: R.H.E.
Cleveland 1 1 (1 0 00 0 0 o—2 6 4
Baltimore 0 0020004 o—6 8 1
Batteries—Moore and Wood; Hughes,
Howell and Robinson.
AMERICAN LEAGVE.
A Home Run Game at Detroit.
Detroit, June 8. —Powers' home run
drive over the left field fence this af
ternoon, which also scored Cross, won
the game for Philadelphia, Four of
the five runs scored were home runs
over the left field fence. Score: R H E
Detroit 0 0 0 1 001 0 o—2 9 2
Philadelphia ...0 0000102 o—3 10 2
Batteries —Yeager and McGuire;
Plank and Powers.
Harper a Good Tiling for Boston.
St. Louis, June B.—Boston knocked
Harper out of the box in the third
inning. He was replaced by Sudhoff
and the visitors failed to score after
that. Score: R.H.K.
St. Louis 001 00000 o—l 5 2
Boston 0 1600000 o—7 12 4
Batteries: Harper. Sudhoff and
Donodue; Young and Criger. Attend
ance, 11,000.
Chicago, lit Washington, 7.
Chicago. June B.—The Chicagos won
a hard-hitting contest by superior
work on the bases and taking full ad
vantage of the visitors’ errors. Score:
R.H.E
Chicago 1 3043210 o—l 4 19 3
Washington ...1 2130000 0— 7 12 a
Batteries—Callahan, Platt and Sulli
van: Carrick. Townsend and Clark. At
tendance 17,200.
Southern Leugse.
New Orleans. 2; Chattanooga, 0.
Shreveport, 7; Birmingham, 2.
Memphis, 1; Nashville, 0. .
TO FORM II.VTG DEMANDS.
Southern Machinists to Meet in At
lanta ToLday.
Atlanta, June 8. —The striking ma
chinists of the Southern Railway, w ho
have recently returned to work, will
meet here to-morrow to formulate
their demands, in accordance with the
agreement, and appoint a committee to
confer with the officials of the road in
Washington. This is tlse programme
mapped out when the strikers were
given their places again. The prin
cipal effort will be devoted to securing
a nine-hour day.
PRESIDENT liALL. NEEDS gg.OOO.
Must Have That Sum Tills AYeek,
Which Means 9211.(100 for Tech,
Atlanta, June B.—President Lyman
Hall says he must raise the remaining
$2,000 of the SIO,OOO fund needed by
the Teehonclogiral School, in order to
get a like amount from the General
Educational Board, during the present
week. Already JS 000 has been raised,
and he believed the balance will be
forthcoming promptly.
—Pope Leo Xll! has received two
be.iutiful pieces of tapestry from the
French government.
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SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. JUNE 0. 1902.
THE FARM AND THE GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO HOISE
WIFE AND AGRICTLTI RIST.
I plnn.l Riee a Neglected but Y'nl
itablc Croj*—Tile Four Side t rolls
That Every Farmer Shuiild Have.
Sorghum Growing—Profits of the
Hen —The 4 nine of flood Roads.
If there is any crop that the South
ern farmer neglects to his undoubted
disadvantage it is upiand rice. This, by
all odds, the greatest cereal yet dis
covered or improved by man, should
always be the most important side crop
on any Southern farm. At any rate,
it should stand only second to sweet
potatoes. L?c the r.iam crop continue
to be, if you will, cotton and corn, but
no real good farmer should ever fail
without the best reason possible to de
vote a certain area to sweet potatoes,
upland rice, sugar cane and field peas.
These four side crops should be worth
to any farmer as muf-h as his corn
and cotton together. There is no
head grain in the world quite so avail
able as rice. A bushel of it is worth
more than two bushels of any other
grain or bread producer that is culti
vated by man. Alone it will sustain
life and strength indefinitely. As food
for children it is unsurpassed. It yields
abundantly. Its straw Is an unsur
passed forage for animals. It will grow
on any good corn or cotton land re
quiring less cultivation than either of
those crops. No farmer, however
small his venture, should fail to have
at least one acre in upland rice, fertil
ized and cultivated in the best man
ure possible. As food, he should culti
vate a liking for rice on the part of
every member of the family.
It is sow n In 20 or 24-inch drills in
April, sowing the seed thick enough to
have a plant every inch or two in the
drill. A bushel of seed will sow an
acre. If preferred, the seeds can be
dropped in hills six to eight seeds every
12 inches apart and letting all grow
that come up. On any soil badly in
fected with grass or weeds it will be
better to thus plant in hills so that the
hoe can do better work, but on rich,
clean land we prefer to sow the seed
evenly along in the drill, as suggested.
Good land will yield anywhere from
thirty to sixty bushels of "rough rice.”
It is worth cultivating for twelve or
fifteen bushels.
It is tedious cleaning by hand, but
there are small hullers made that an
swer for family purposes.
When grown in quantity it must be
shipped to a mill to be hulled. But it
is well worth all the trouble involved.
Surely the day is near at hand when
neary every Georgia farmer will raise
all his rice and almost live upon it, so
far as bread goes. It is as easily rais
ed as oats or rye.
A Aanlable Plant.
There is another crop that the
Southern farmer neglects and to his
loss. That crop is sorghum. Every
farmer should grow some of it; if not
ten aches, five; if not five, two or even
one. To the small or one-horse farmer
one acre of sorghum well fertilized and
cultivated will be worth considerable
in the shape of syrup, and the seed
and refuse of the acre will make a
thousand pounds of pork. Sweet po
tatoes, upland rice and sorghum are
three great "side" crops for the South
ern farm. Fully valued and given the
attention that they well merit they
will come very near solving the prob
lem “how to make the farm self-sus
taining.”
The actual value of an acre of
sorghum if fully utilized is worth as
much as five acres of corn. On good
land It yields two to forty bushels of
seed besides the syrup that is extract
ed from it. The pressed stalks, too,
have a value for feeding or fertilizing
purposes. Of course it is an “exhaustive
crop." It would not be so valuable per
acre if it were not. I do not remem
ber how much syrup comes from a
crop that yields thirty bushels of seed,
but it is quite a number of barrels,
and as good syrup as one needs to have
if it is properly made.
Twenty years ago the best varieties
of sorghum did not yield more than
seven t,o eight per cent, of sugar. Now
adays the best kinds, like the “Cole
man" and “Collier,' yield from 15 to 20
per cent, of sugar. A peck of seed
will more than plant an acre—planted
in rows three feet apart, and a stalk
left every few inches in the drill. To
secure improvement in the quality of
sorghum a row or two should be set
apart to grow seed for another year.
In these rows the stalks should stand
fifteen to eighteen inches apart, and
be made by good culture to produce
large heads of fully matured seeds.
Sorghum, like upland rice, should be
so planted that there will be little
chance for grass or weeds to get a
hold amongst it at the start. To do
this the land should be put in proper
condition to receive the seeds early in
April, and as soon as a rain falls pro
ceed to sow in shallow drills made
with a garden plow covered' lightly
and rolled. In a few days the plants
will appear, and can easily be kept
ahead of spontaneous growth of any
kind. If ever the latter gets a hold
amongst the young sorghum plants it
will be a job getting the rows clean.
There is nothing gained by planting
before the soil has warmed up. We
only wish we could impress every
farmer in Georgia how valuable sor
ghum may be made in its varied qual
ities of a syrup maker and produce of
forage for cattle and of cheap pork.
It is worth all the attention that may
be given it.
Profile of tile Hen.
There are some things so seemingly
insignificant in this world that they or
dinarily attract little or no attention.
We look upon them as filling some
niche in life's great architectural de
sign, but that is all. They are useful,
too, all are forced to admit, but thev
are not indispensable, says the Rural
Homestead. Such is the hen —the
peaceful. clucking, cackling, barnyard
fowl. When young her flesh is excel
lent food, and at all times she fur
nishes us with eggs, the uses of which
are multifarious. But who ever stops
to think of the hen and her product
as preponderating articles of com
merce? Who would think that these
would sum up more in value than all
the breadstuff’s exported in any one
year? Impossible' We surely must be
drawing upon our imagination for our
facts in making such whirling state
ments us these we have intlrnat*d.
When the last census was taken in
7900 the value of poultry on hand in
this country on Bine 1 of that year
was $85,794,996. "i the year 1899 the
poultry sold amounted to $116,891,877,
and the value of the eggs In th< same
year was $144,296,158, making in all the
sum of $281,178,1135.
In the year 1901 the breadstuff* ex
ported from this country equaled in
value nearly one-fifth of all our ex
ports of that year, and yel the figures
showing the value of poultry and eggs
for the year 1899 were almost $, 000 000
in exiess of th<- breadstuff* exported
in that year, that is. in the year 1901.
Our 'sport trade is enormous, and yet
the hen produces more ihun one fifth
as mist in value as the whole of our
export trade amounts to. And the
product is yearly growing There were
111 !*99 V) per cent more eggs produce J
than in 1689, wttd in this I Oinccc icon
there is something for the chicken fan
cier to congratulate himself upon. In
1899. which showed an increase in eggs
of fifty per cent, over 1889, the in
crease in hens was not so material —
the increase. In fact, was not nearly so
large as to naturally account for the
increase in the number of eggs pro
duced, and it is in this particular that
those who by culture cause a greater
production of eggs receive credit for
their efforts.
In 1899 we imported 259.300 dozen of
eggs: in 1901 we imported but 162,918
dozen. This shows a large increase in
egg production, as, notwithstanding the
increase in the consumption of eggs,
our decrease in importation, as seen in
the above figures, clearly demonstrates
the increase in the native product.
Shallow Deep flowing by Corn.
The time was. when, to advocate
shallow plowing for any crop was con
sidered the rankest kind of agricul
tural heresy, and I remember, says a
writer in Ohio Farmer, when Horace
Greely was publishing in the the New
York Tribune his series of celebrated
articles, entitled "What I know of
farming,” that'one of the other New
Y’ork papers, to ridicule his sttenuous
advocacy of deep plowing, published a
cartoon representing Greely standing
on the beam of a plow to which a yoke
of steers was hitched, grasping a steer’s
tail in each hand and yelling over his
shoulder to the man holding the plow.
"Put 'er down! There’s moisture and
fertility down there.”
Since that time farmers have learned
that to bring the cold subsoil up on the
surface is not only ruinous to the first
crop but that it takes several years to
get the soil back again to its former
state of fertility.
A few years ago I was plowing a
piece of stiff timothy sod for corn when
one of my neighbors—a German and a
good farmer—came into the field and
the first thing he said was, "Why you
ton t blow dis teeper? You yust ought
to see me vere I been blowin’; put him
town eight inch.” ‘‘Well,” I said, “you
just wait and see the difference in the
way the corn grows on this field and
on yours. His corn came up spindling
and yellow and made a slow' feeble
growth. The last of July it was little
more than knee high. Then we had
some fine rains that pushed it along
but it only made about half a crop
while mine came up and made a rank,
vigorous growth right from the start
and all through the season it had that
dark green color and kept up that
rank, luxuriant growth that delights
every corn grower. My neighbor was
ready to acknowledge his mistake long
before the growing season was over.
He said: “Dat been the foorst time I
blow so teep for corn and I guess I
don't do it some more.”
I suppose there are deep alluvial
soils like river flats where deep plow
ing is allowable and perhaps preferable
but on land underlaid with a cold stiff
clay subsoil, deep plowing for any
crop, especially if it brings up much
new subsoil, is detrimental and espe
cially so for corn.
I know that writers often advocate
the bringing up each year a little of
the subsoil, submitting it to the action
of the elements and thus gradually
deepening the soil. I believe there are
several better, quicker and mere ef
fectual ways of increasing soil fertility.
Success in I,ife.
In these intensely practical days we
are apt to count the success of a man
by the amount of wealth he has ac
cumulated, and to overlook what the
man has done for the world, says the
Practical Farmer. Among the many
wise and beautiful things Ruskin
wrote, the following is admirable:
“There is no wealth but life—life, in
cluding all its powers of love, of joy
and of admiration. That country is
richest which nourishes the greatest
number of noble and happy human
beings; that man is richest who, hav
ing perfected the functions of his own
life to the utmost, has also the widest
helpful Influence, both personal, and
by means of his possessions over the
lives of others.” The man who is en-
in doing something to uplift
humanity and to make the world bet
ter and happier is leading a successful
life, though he may not be laying up
dollars in his coffers. The man who
makes a happy home for those he is
the means of bringing into the world,
and who develops them into wise and
useful men and women, is making a
success in life more valuable to him
self and his family than by laying up
wealth that may curse his children.
Wealth, wisely and honestly acquired,
is not to be despised, but it should
never be the sole aim in life, and
should be valued more for the power
it gives for doing good than for
itself alone. The man who teaches his
fellowmen a better use of the soil the
Creator has placed in their keeping is
doing a good work for humanity that
will live after him. for one man en
abled to use his land better is an ex
ample to all around him. Plence, the
far-reaching work of the real agricul
tural paper. The real aim of such a
paper should not be the mere financial
success that attends it. valuable as
this must be in its work. Its real
mission is the elevating of the men
on the farms to a better appreciation
of the nobility of their calling, the
importance of their work, and their
responsibility as stewards of the Al
mighty for the care of their farms.
The Bible says that “The earth is the
Lord’s, and the fullness thereof," and
the man who wastes it is really wast
ing what the Creator placed in his
hands "to dress and keep.” Looked at
in this way there is a great responsi
bility on the tiller of the soil to dress
and keep it properly, and not to hide
his talent in the earth, but to increase
and multiply it. You may not make
a great fortune, but if you leave the
farm better, and the home better tor
' your life, you will have done your part
and made a success.
The House Ely Text.
Until recent years we were rather of
the opinion that house flies were more
beneficial to mankind than injurious,
says the Homestead. There may be
instances even yet when they act as
useful scavengers, although it is now
believed that the extent to which they
carry disease, together with their abil
ity to cause annoyance to the human
race, renders them an out-and-out pest
to mankind. The season is now ap
proaching for their annual visitation,
and we feel assured that they are hail
ed in hut few instances with any de
gree of delight.
The life history of the house tly is as
follows: The eggs are laid in decaying
vegetable matter, or in manure around
stables, especially around horse sta
bles. In a few hours after the eggs
are dejioslteil the larva comes forth.
This lives about five days in the form
commonly known as magot, after
which it goes into the pupa, or dor
mant state. It passes four or five days
In this condition, after which it comes
forth as a perfect insect, commonly
known is the hou“< fly.
H is believed by those who have In
vestigated the matter that much may
be done to lessen the number of these*
pests. tine method is to treat all ma
nures with chloride of lime during the
spring season. It Is also recommend
ed that all manures should t- taken
tci the field, where they will become In
corporaU and with the soil, thus bring
ing about the destruction of millions of
these insects home Idea may la* ob
tained of ihe rat* at which these pest*
multiply when It is said that Instances
are known where 1.00 flies were hatch
ed from one fa und of manure It is
also known that one fir will lav about
120 eggs, while as Many a* ten or
twelve generations pass through their
life history in one season. Many cit
ies are waging war against these in
sects by Jhe exercise of more vigilance
in cleaning up all decaying matter and
manures. In this way much has al
ready been accomplished, and we be
lieve that it would be practicable on
the average farm to still further carry
out this work of destruction. We have
no hesitation in saying that If far
mers of a certain neighborhood would
combine in this matter and treat their
manures with some kind of lime or re
move them to the fields early in the
spring that much would be done to
bring about the destruction of these in
insects.
Good Ron<!* Onr Greatest Need.
A recent bulletin of the Illinois Sta
tion says: “All over the country there
is now a great deal of interest mani
fested in the subject of good roads.
The great importance of good roads
to farmers is becoming appreciated,
and there is a great deal of inquiry in
regard to the best methods of construc
tion. Hard roads, formed with rock
and gravel are, of course, best, but
there are extensive districts where
these materials are unavailable, and
in many places earth roads must for
a long time be the means of communi
cation. Earth roads during certain
seasons of the year are inferior to
none and more pleasant to drive over
than hard stone roads, but during oth
er parts of the year they may become
practically impassable. It is a serious
question, then, whether anything can
be done to improve earth roads at all
seasons of the year. As to location,
the bulletin well says that the roads
are mostly already established and
the locations cannot easily be changed.
The right of way in Illinois is 66 feet
for public roads, one-tenth of which
the law' requires shall be reserved for
foot travel on each side, between the
property line and the ditch. This
makes the wogan road 53 feet wide.
Grades on steep hills should be re
duced in the improvement of a road,
and when an embankment is made,
the earth should be deposited in lay
ers so that it will settle uniformly.
These layers should be kept lower in
the middle than at the’ sides, so that
there will be less liability of the sides
sliding down. Each layer should be
spread and rolled with a heavy roller.
The ordinary farm roller is too light
till well loaded with rock. The most
important thing in an earth road is the
drainage. No road of any kind can
be permanent without good drains.
Drainage alone wdll often make a bad
road good, and the best road will be
destroyed by bad drainage. Water is
the destructive agent in earth roads.
A well made road will have three sys
tems of drainage, underdrainage, side
ditches and surface drainage. Most
roads need underdrainage, though wa
ter may not stand in the side ditches.
The object of the underdrain is to low
er the water table in the soil. If the
subsoil is dried the road will sustain
almost any' load, but # soft substratum
will always be a muddy road. The road
needs underdrains more than the farm.
A second object of these underdrains is
to dry the ground quickly after a freeze.
When the frost comes out in the
spring it thaws as much from the bot
tom as from the top. If the road is
underdrained, the water, when re
leased by thawing from below, is im
mediately carried away, and the road
will then remain solid. A th’rd ob
ject is to carry off what is called, the
underflow. Water rises in the soil
after it freezes, and if not drawn off
by underdrains it saturates the sub
soil. Removing water the underdrains
prevent damage by frost, since frost
cannot leave a dry soil. All roads ex
cept on pure sand, can be Improved by
tile drains. Roads tiled, without gravel,
are better than gravel roads without
tiles. The tile should be on the side
of the road and not under the mid
dle, since the roadway being puddled
by hoofs above will not drain as well
as the side. The manne.r of laying the
tile is shown in a simple diagram
which shows how a single line of tile
may be better than two tiles. The
manner of making these drains is well
described. The side surface ditches
are of importance for ctfrrying off the
rainfall rapidly, by having a free out
let. They can be well formed with the
ordinary road machine. The center of
the roadway should be high enough
to carry the water freely to the side
ditches, and it is of the greatest im
portance that the water shall not
stand in the side ditches, but will pass
off with a free outlet. No earth road
can be good with water standing in
the ditches. Even on a steep bill
there should be side ditches so that
the water may not run down the cen
ter of the road and form gullies. No
road will remain good unless kept
good. It will not care for itself, wheth
er built of earth or stone. The secret
of success is in keeping the surface
free from holes and the side ditches
clear. If the surface of the road is
properly formed the water will run
into the side ditches, but if it remains
on the surface it will be worked into
mud and make holes. Ruts, holes and
depressions of all sorts should be filled
as soon as made. Mud holes are made
by water standing on the surface, and
water is the great enemy of roads. A
hard road cannot be made of soft
mud, so the w'ater must be gotten
away before the mud is made. In
brief, it means that the making and
care of roads should be in the hands of
men who understand the work and
should not be done in the old slip
shod way of working out taxes and
making the roads worse in doing it.
Notice.
We solicit articles for this depart
ment. The name of the writer should
accompany the letter or article, not ne
cessarily for publication, but as an
evidence of good faith.
Questions and communications rela
tive to agttcultural and horticultural
subjects, if addressed to Agri. Editor,
Drawer N. Milledgeville, Ga., will re
ceive immediate attention.
Sunday Excursion*
tu
Charleston.
Via
Plnnt System,
Round trip tickets SI.OO, limited to
date or sale. Trains leave Savannah
at 8:00 a. m. (City Time), arrive
Charleston 12:30 p. m. Returning
leave Charleston 8 00 p. m. (Eastern
Time) Tickets good also to return on
train No. 23, leaving Charleston 11:33
p. m.—ad.
siis. 10
Hound Trip Savniinnli to ’Washing
ton, n. c.
Effective May 15 and continuing daily
until Sept. 30, the Seaboard Air Line
will sell excursion tickets either all
rail or via Norfolk and the N. and W.
S. B. Cos.. Savannah to Washington, at
(he rate J 25.40, limited returning until
Oct. 31. A splendid opportunity for
reaching Eastern cities at a small cost.
Full particulars at the city ticket of
fice, corner Bull and Bryan streets.—
aJ - .
$28.10 to Wash Ihk tou und Hetnrn.
The Southern Railway offer* rate of
$28.40, Savannah to Washington apd re
turn. Tii ket* will be sold through
Sept. 30, with return limit of Oct 21
Two train* datly, each carrying dining
cht* and Pullman sleeper*. City ticket
office, 141 Bull street, phone* 850. —ad.
t ale 4 an
Are operated by Seaboard Air Line
Railway on their train* 31 and 34, tie.
tve.a n* varnish and llain(ei. aerviug
luiuh and dinner “ala cart*."— ud.
. HEALTHY CHILDREN.
- U Ml . . What children need is a
'll! M V* 4lf strengthening tonic, and thenffa
111 “l ■iflllj fl nothing so good for them as
• A 1 zkw II > f> BLOOD WISE, which is pleasant
in to the taste and perfectly sa{e
ttfvi JiSMk j a . Mrs. Sam Fanning, 226 Halts tree*'
h " Fa “ m ver, Mase.j writes: “I caa ;
i 7-Fgy aA. * cot say enough in praise of von.
1 BLOOD WISE. I was very weak
W-V&gff' ai:d Buare <i from fearful back
t aches after my last baby was horn t
if ™ told tha * blood 3 wise wa
strengthening, and I bought a bottle
# iv- 11 braced me up wonderfully and i
]' y" 60 Phased with its results that
1 bou F ht BIX bottles, and have
W# "L g™* £“7 four little children
-i Wx I & keeps them healthy, and T
eider it the finest medicine I ever
b h S d , in the bouse. I enclose yo'u"
\Sf-m I* 21 photograph of my babies, that v™
s4 may see how healthy they look “
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LirPMAN BROTHERS, DRUGGISTS.
DO IT TO-DAY!
Give us your order for an Awning that keeps
out the sun, the heat, the glare, saves the eyes and
“looks nice”
Let u.s furnish you with a Japanese Curtain, a
Bamboo Portiere. They are good too.
Leave us your order to take up, clean and stow
your earpets, and relay when ready.
Be sure to see our new patterns in Fiber Car
pets. They are beauties and wear well.
Select a room or two of Matting from our big
stock.
Stop in and buy a good Hammock, Mosquito
Net, Dixie Frame, or anything else in our line. “DO
IT TO-DAY.”
LINDSAY & MORGAN
Phones No. 50. 110 and 112 Broughton St., W.
$34.00
SAVANNAH to NEW YORK
AND RETURN
—VIA—
Seaboard Air Line Railway
To Portsmouth, thence Old Dominion
Steamship Cos.
SCHEDULE
Leave Savannah n:55 p m
Arrive Portsmouth 5.35 p m
Leave Portsmouth 7:00 p m
Arrive Pier 26, New York 2:15 p m
Tickets on sale daily at above rate and limited to return six months
from date of sale. Ticket Agent, corner Bull and Bryan streets, will
gladly make all reservations desired and furnish complete information.
C. B. WALWORTH, JOS. W. STEWART,
Asst. General Pass. Agt. C. P. <£- T. A., Savannah, Ga.
OGEAN STEAMSHIP CO. of SAVANNAH
For Mew York, Boston and the East.
Unsurpassed cabin accommodations. AH the comforts of a modern hotel.
Electric lights. Unexcelled table. Tickets include meals and berths aboard shik
PASSENGER FARES PROM SAVANNAH.
TO NEW YORK—First Cabin, S2O; First Cabin, round trip, $32; intermediaD
cabin, sls; Intermediate Cabin, round trip, $24; Steerage, sl9.
TO BOSTON—First Cabin, $22; First Cabin, round trip, $36; Intermediate
Cabin, sl7; Intermediate Cabin, round trip, S2S; Steerage, $1175.
The steamships of this line are appointed to sail from Savannah, Central
(90th meridian) time.
FOR NEW YORK.
KANSAS CITY., Capt. Smith, MON- *CITY OF MEMPHIS, Capt. Savage,
DAY, June 9, 7:00 p. m. WEDNESDAY, June 18, 3:00 p. m
•CHATTAHOOCHEE, Capt. Lewis, KANSAS CITY, Capt. Smith. FKI
- June 11, 10:00 a. m. DAY, June 20, 4:30 p. m.
tCITY OF SAVANNAH, Capt. Fisher, CITY OF BIRMINGHAM, Capt. Berg,
FRIDAY, June 13, 12:00 noon. MONDAY. June 23, 6 p. m.
NACOOUHEK, Capt. Askins, MON- CITY OF SAVANNAH. Capt. Fisher,
DAY, June 16, 2:00 p. m. WEDNESDAY, June 25, 8:30 a. m.
“Steamships Chattahoochee and City of Memphis carry first cabin pas
sengers only.
iCity of Savannah (formerly La Grande Duchesse) will not carry interme
diate passengers.
Sailings from Now 5 ork for Savannah every Tuesday, Thursday and Satur
day, at 5 p. m., after June 7, except the Nacoochee, which sails ’Wednesday,
June 11.
The City of Macon, Capt. Johnson, leaves New York for Boston Satur
days at 4 p. m. Leaves Boston for New York Wednesdays at 12 noon.
1 his company reserves the right to change its sailings without notice and
without liability or accountability therefor.
L. M. ERSKINK, L. R. VANDIVIERE, W G BREWER.
Agt. O. S. S. Cos., wharves. Com. Agt. 13 East Bay. C. T. &P. A.. 107 Eull
SAVANNAH. GA.
WALTER HAWKINS, General Agent, 224 West Bay St. Jacksonville, Fla.
P. E. LeFEVRE, Pier 35, North River, New York. E T CHARLTON.
Manager, Gen. Ft & Pass. Agt
PAPER HANGING,
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Hardwood Finishing, Varnishing,
Gilding and Decorating of all kinds.
JAMES F. BUTLER,
F. O. Box 270. 117 York. W et. BpII Phono 1149.
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