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FARM, GARDEN
AND HOUSEHOLD
The Onion an a Market Crop.
The onion is readily grown from seeds
In the South, but it seems that this
Is not generally known. For twenty
five years we have grown various va
rieties experimentally, and have found
certain kinds more profitable than
others. The Italian and Bermuda va
rieties are much better adapted to our
■oil and climate than those kinds
usually grown at the North. And as
a rule we have found the flat kinds
to give better results than the round
or globular sorts. There is no better
kind for Southern use than the Ber
muda where genuine, fresh seeds can
be had. The Italian variety, "New
Queen,” is excellent. Most of the
Spanish and Italian kinds will give
satisfaction, but specially' the fiat
kinds.
October and February are the months
for sowing onion seeds in this sec
tion.
The soil need not be deeply plowed
but the surface soil should be well
pulverized to the depth of several
Inches.
At least a ton of first-class com
mercial fertilizer should be broad
casted to the acre, and lightly har
rowed in. The same quantity of bone
meal and ashes is also good. Fresh
stable manure can be used as a top
dressing after sowing the seeds. The
soil should he prepared for sowing by
the lllth of October or a little earlier
and as soon as it rains sow. Press
the soil firmly to the seeds. Sow
evenly in 20 or 24 inch drills, using
four or five pounds of seed to the
acre. There will be no need for thin
ning out, unless the seeds fall in
bunches. If they are fresh and are
carefully drilled along at the rate of
twenty-five or thirty to the foot there
will be need for little thinning. Those
thinned out can be set out elsewhere.
Onion-plants are much to be preferred
to onion-sets. Too many of the latter
shoot to seed without making market
able onions, whereas few or none c.’
the seedlings do this. A crop grown
from sets is very uncertain.
Now and then we have freezes in
January, severe enough to damage se
riously or destroy completely the fall
sown crop. In such case the sowing
will have to be repeated early in Jan
uary. If the onions can be gotten
up by the 20th of October they will
get sufficiently rooted by January to
enable them to withstand pretty se
vere cold and freezing of the soil. It
Is only the heaving of the soil that
hurts them. A little mulching will
prevent this. On very rich soil it is
wonderful how thick the onions may
stand and make salable bulbs, if the
plants are not In clumps, but are
evenly strewn along in the row. While
the flat onion is smaller they can make
it up in numbers. Five hundred bush
els can easily be made on an acre of
rich lartfl—with rows twenty inches
apart and ten or eleven plants to the
running foot. If every seed could be
counted to grow and make a plaTTt
there would be no need for sowing as
thickly as suggested, but many will
fall through one cause and another.
It Is safer to sow twenty-five to tJhe
foot and thin out If necessary.
Onions can be sown In seed-beds or
cold-frames all through the winter
and the plants be transplanted In Jan
uary or February. This is the most
profitable way to grow this most ex
cellent esculent.
S. A- C.
Brief Bemlii(lrr.
The most humane way of killing
hogs is to shoot them with rifle or pis
tol, but give the Job to the right per
son—one whose aim is true.
A thing much overlooked by South
ern farmers is providing water for the
stock in periods of freezing weather
and much harm some times follows the
oversight. A twenty-five to fifty-gal
lon kettle placed near the well and
under which a fire oan be made is a
handy way of providing water for the
stock, poultry, etc. A drink of warm
water in freezing weather is equal to
a pint of meal as a matter of susten
ance.
Farmers, and dairymen especially,
should never lose sight of the fact
that while cotton seed meal is a safe
and economical food under certain lim
itations, yet in careless hands is very
easily misused or abused. Its injudi
cious use has caused, we have no
doubt, a very great loss altogether
since it first came into use. Many a
fine milk cow has been rendered
worthless by the excessive use of cot
ton seed meal. It is altogether unfit
food for hogs, horses and mules in any
quantity. It should never be fed un
mixed even to cattle and sheep. Prop
erly mixed with oarbonaceaus mate
rials, such as corn meal, hulls, husks,
corn-fodder, poor hay and anything
containing little or no nitrogen, it be
comes a cheap and safe food for those
animals that chew the cud —but for no
others.
The new year opened warm and wet.
The lowest temperature of the winter
was 1.5 degrees in the morning of Dec.
27, but the wave was of short dura
tion and by the first day of the new
year the mercury rose rapidly to 60
wtlh a slow falling rain. Keep a
sharp eye on the "Russian influenza."
Treat it promptly. It Is the parent
of many ills. We venture one word
of medical advice to our country
friends; Keep a bottle of sulphume
(liquid sulphur! handy. It is the great
discovery of the age for catarrhal
troubles.
“Compost" making has had its day,
so to speak—that is, making compost
under shelter as a rainy day employ
ment for the farmer. In a way It
may be all well enough to stir up the
accumulated matter of the stalls and
stables aVid mix it with more or less
acid phosphate, kainlt or what not,
but as a matter of real practical value
it has long since ceased to be a fea
ture of farm work.
The practical farmer and truck
er has found out that the
most economical way to make
"compost" is to make it right in the
furrows. In this way the manure is
handled only once. With furrows laid
off at proper distances, three feet say,
it is hauled out with cart or wagon
and the manure is distributed in there,
carrying three or four furrows at a
time. Asa section of land is com
pleted the mineral matter—acid phos
phate and potash mixed together—ls
then sprinkled evenly along on the
manure and later the furrows are list
ed upon and the land left ridged up
for the beneficial effects of any freezes
occurring afterwards.
There is no better way of disposing
of the rough materials of the stable
and cow lot. It is the way to make
compost.
Drilling and Cultivating Wheat.
Small farmers—the one and two
horse farmers—will never come to
know how little they have known
about wheat culture In the past until
they have once tried the plan of sow
ing the wheat in drills and cultivating
it several times during the season.
No farmer would think of sowing hi
corn broadcast and attempting to grow
it without cultivating it and knowing
too that with the three cultivatings
given it he will not make more than
ten or twelve bushels per acre and yet
wheat Is a far more valuable crop than
corn and a crop that will pay three
times more for the cultivating. He is
willing to sow just any way, you might
say, and be satisfied or apparently so
with the seven or eight bushels that he
will get if the seasons are fairly fa
vorable. It is something to wonder at
that he Is not willing to give to the
more valuable crop the same care and
attention that he is willing to bestow
upon the inferior. It is a fact easily
demonstrated that wheat will pay far
more for cultivation than corn does
and any farmer can find this out for
himsedf merely by giving It one good
trial. He can prove it for himself that
wheat sown so that it can he cultivated
three times, just as corn is. will pay
him far more proportionately than the
corn does. A bushel of wheat is worth
two bushels of corn as an average
thing. A farmer that can make twenty
bushels of wheat (with three cultivat
lngsj, on the same land that yields him
twenty bushels of corn, with three cul
tivatings, will be the gainer evidently.
He can do this by drilling one bushel
of wheat in drills fifteen to twenty
inches apart and cultivating it. It is
well understood that any Southern soil
that will yield twenty bushels of corn,
planted the usual way of 6-foot rows,
and a stalk every three feet, is good
soil. It is good enough to produce
twenty bushels of wheat too if the
drills are only made fifteen inches
apart and an unbroken stand of wheat
is secured along these drills. Such a
stand as one bushel of perfect wheat
seed evenly sown will give. Some day
the smtall farmer of the South will find
out how easy a thing it is to raise
twenty bushels of wheat on medium
soil, and simply by giving it the same
cultivation that he is willing to give to
corn, undeniably the most unprofitable
crop ever grown or likely to be grown
on Southern soil.
In our next issue we will give minute
directions for preparing, fertilizing,
sowing and cultivating one acre in
wheat and with the hope that many
of the small farmers will be led into
making one of the most interesting ex
periments of their lives, so far as prac
tical farming Is concerned. Essace.
The Cultivated Dewberry.
J. W. Ham let t of Alvin. Tex., who
has made a success of growing dew
berries for market, gives his method as
follows:
By request of several interested par
ties, I give below a few pointers on
growing dewberries for profit. The
most important thing for all com
mercial fruit-growers to consider is
the earliness, flavor, yield and ship
ping qualities of the fruit he intends
to grow. It is hardly necessary to say
that, all things considered, the ex
tremely early berry always commands
the highest market prices, and when
cne cun secure a variety of fruit that
possesses these four great requisites—
surliness, fine flavor, heavy yield and
good shipping qualities—he has all the
necessary means of realizing handsome
net returns from bis commercial ven
ture. Of course, proper cultivation has
a great deal to do with the yield of
any crop.
There are various opinions as to
how best to plant and take care of
the dewberry. I have found that rows
six feet apart, with plants three to
three and one-half feet In the row, ac
cording to quality of soil, give the best
results. This will give ample space to
cultivate and still have a three-foot
row of berries. The dewberry requires
a moist, fertile and well-drained soil.
Will do as well on heavy clays as on
the lighter loams, provided it gets the
moisture, especially during the fruit
ing season. Mark off row's six feet
.-part; then throw out with turning
plow, getting well down into the sub
soil. Then, If you want the best re
sults, scatter in the water furrow raw
bone meal at the rate of 1,000 pounds
per acre. Bed on the meal, harrow or
drag off rows to smooth them and
crush clods. Use trowel in planting. Be
sure that plants go in ground at least
six Inches, and be careful to firm soil
around them. Do not pay any attention
to tops of plants, as new shoots will
come out from roots. A cheaper and
quicker way to plant on a large scale
is to lay off a straight furrow six (bet
ter eight) inches deep on top of row,
drop plants at proper distance and
cover with turning plow, rolling ground
afterwards. Alter the berries have got
a good start, one man with a team and
cultivator can take care of forty acres.
Berries should be plowed the same
way so as to make runners lie in the
proper direction.
After each crop has been gathered,
mow vines close to the ground and
burn in the row if possible. If not.
drag Into windrows with a harrow or
rake and burn in situ. Then with
turning plow or disc harrow' throw soil
away from the row, leaving a ridge 12
inches wide. I find that "skimmtng"
this ridge with a scraper or sharp
turning plow is a cheaper and more
rapid way of cleaning than hoeing,
while it does not injure the plants. A
two-horse disc harrow, with the out
side discs removed, makes an admira
ble “middle buster” for throwing dirt
back to plants. Plants should be plow
ed often enough (always the same
way) to keep the vines from crossing
the rows or forming a mat wider than
three feet. Keep large weeds cut down,
but don’t bother about the finer grass,
as it acts as a mulch for protecting the
plants in the winter.
A top dressing of super-phosphate at
the rate of 200 pound per acre just be
fore buds appear will greatly enhance
the value of the crop—a fact better
appreciated when the berries are
ready for market.
The rules for gathering and market
ing strawberries apply equally as well
to dewberries. For distant markets the
dewberry field should be gone over
dally, and the pickers should be cau
tioned against putting in green and
overripe fruit. When possible, sell free
on board shipping point. This will
save a vast amount of worry, and will
net you, on an average, as much as
FREE TO YOU
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SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. JANUARY 5, 1905.
to ship. Next best, get a commercial
agency or rating book, and select
names of responsible business men
dealing in your line of goods, and mail
them quotations weekly, or oftener. As
a last resort select one honest commis
sion firm in each town or city, where
you contemplate shipping, and have
them to keep you posted daily as to
market conditions, even at your ex
pense for postage. It will not cost
much, and may save you ten or twenty
times its value in one season.
If you would grow dew'berries for
profit get the earliest and best variety
and you cannot possibly be disap
pointed.
Ilrhornlng Cattle—lts Heal Value,
In reply to a recent inquiry as to the
benefits derived from dehorning cattle
are given herewith the directions fur
nished by bulletin No. 30 of the Florida
Experiment Station. It says:
Cattle are dehorned for several rea
sons; they are rendered more docile:
they can be shipped In a smaller space:
they are less dangerous to each other,
to attendants, and to other farm stock.
Dehorning may be done at two peri
ods of an animal’s life; either at the
age of one to four weeks, or after the
horns have reached mature size. When
done early in life, it does not have
the taming effect that results when
the operation is performed upon adult
animals. A natural-born poker, when
dehorned early, becomes a butter when
mature because it has not learned that
its weapons have been removed. Upon
the whole, it is better and much easier
to dehorn the young calf than the ma
ture animal. No instruments are need
ed; it can be done at any time of the
year, and one man can do the work.
Ail that is necessary is to buy a stick
of caustic potash, or caustic soda, dip
the end in water and rub it gently over
the little hen, taking care first to an
noint the skin around the base of the
horn with vaseline to prevent the caus
tic from spreading. Throw' the calf,
apply the caustic to one horn, then to
the next; repeat the application to the
first horn when dry, and then apply
a second time to the other horn.
In handling the caustic wrap the
end In paper, or the fingers will be
burned: also be careful not to drop
any of the caustic in the calf's eye, as
blindness will result. Should such ac
cident occur, vinegar would be the
most easily obtained antidote.
Two methods of dehorning older cat
tle are in vogue. One is to secure the
animal to a post, or in a brake, and
cut dff horns with dehorning shears.
The other is to saw them off with
an ordinary butcher’s saw. The shears
do the work more quickly, and al
though an animal dies occasionally as
a result of the operation, they are to
be recommended where large numbers
are to be dehorned, and when time is
ap item. Where only a few animals
are to be dehorned. It is unnecessary
to go to the expense of buying a de
horner, as a common butcher's saw, or
even an ordinary hand-saw will do
the work Just as well and perhaps
better. Bleeding is sometimes profuse
when shears are used, and inflamma
tion is sometimes set up owing to
small pieces of horn being driven Into
the horn by the crushing of the shears.
I have known of a range steer to die
of Texas fever, induced by the inflam
mation resulting from the use of a dull
pair of dehorning shears. Asa means
of restraining the animal while using
the saw, I prefer casting. This is very
easily accomplished by taking three
half-hitches around the animal by
means of a 3-4 inch rope forty feet
long. Secure the head by means of
a slip-knot, take a single halfHhiteh
around the root of the neck, another
around the chest, and another around
the loins with the knots lying on the
back, and pull hard on the free end
of the rope. The animal.will make a
few lunges, and then He down. The
feet can then be secured, and the an
imal Is ready for the operation. Turn
back the hair at the root of the horn
and saw off about 14 Inch of the skin
along with the horn. This will pre
vent further growth of the stump.
Have the saw slant Inwards slightly,
and a better-looking head will result.
As soon as the horns are removed,
sprinkle some powdered boracic acid
of pine tar on pieces of qotton bating,
apply to the stump and secure it by
drawing the hair over the cotton and
tieing the ends with fine strong cord.
Under no circumstances should the
practice, which seems common here,
of sprinkling sand on the stumps to
stop bleeding, be resorted to. The
bleeding will generally stop of itself
in a little while. Should it persist,
apply’ any of the following: Hot wa
ter, Ice, tannic acid, alum, or Mon
sell's solution of Iron. Dehorning
should always be done in cool weath
er. Cows far advanced in pregnancy
should not be dehorned. A temporary
loss In the milk yield usually results.
To Increase Corn Yield.
Few of us realize to what extent the
yield of corn may be increased. At a
recent meeting of corn-growers, Mr.
Coolidge of Illinois called attention to
the fact that the corn crop of Illinois
this year averages thirty-eight bushels
per acre. That means only three
fourths of a pound of corn per hill,
reckoning about 3,500 hills to the acre.
The gentleman mentioned picked up
an ear of corn that was marked
three-quarter pound,” and said to the
writer:
"That is the average product of a
good hill of corn In Illinois, even in
this year of big corn crop.” It is ev
ident that if we can make each hill
produce even two stalks of corn, each
stalk bearing a pound ear, we will
Increase the average yield of corn in
Illinois and adjacent states to near 100
bushels per acre. A 100-bushel crop
is not such a wonderful thing after
all. It simply means no blanks in
the way of hills. Hitherto the defi
ciency has arisen from several rea
sons. Some of the seed was not good
and never sprouted, and the hills in
which they were planted bore no
stalks. Then some of the sprouts
that came up developed- Into stalks
that bore no Seed. These sapped the
ground of its plant food, but gave no
grain in return. Then a good many
stalks that bore ears had little corn
on the ears, this being due to the use
of a variety that had not been reduced
to what we call uniformity. The
work of producing seed corn that will
be prepotent and that will produce
cars of uniform size is one that is
bound to be crowned with success,
though it will take some years to ac
complish very much in the way of un
iformity. The failure of much of the
corn planted is due to lack of prepo
tency in the seed.
An Increase of but one ounce per
'ear, with one stalk to the hill, and
one ear to the stalk, will give about
fotrty-seven bushels of corn to the
acre with twelve-ounce ears. This is
not a difficult task. In the growing of
corn we have hitherto paid no atten
tion to the real value of the seed more
than to ascertain that it had germi
nating power. Even this was not done
till recent years. We have supposed
that a bushel of corn was w'orth about
the same for seed as any other bushel.
Now we are waking up and recogniz
ing the fact that the seed is a very
large factor in the production of a
good crop of corn. Good seed and good
cultivation will most certainly give
us good stands when the season is not
unusually unfavorable. But with the
possible increase of corn the fullness
of the good years would well make up
for the leanness of the poor years.
During some of our recent years it
has been found that in some fields
there were 55 per cent, of barren
stalks. while in other fields
the percentage of barren stalks
was less than 1 per cent. We
have now at last begun to look after
the elements that enter into the pro
duction of a successful crop. It is
entirely possible to double the com
crop on the land we now have by ap
plying to the cultivation of the com
plant scientific principles.
Ihe Scrap Book.
A Good Seed Bed.—The importance
of having land made well pulverized
and mellow before seeds are sown or
planted in it is not all in the fact that
the roots penetrate it better when so
than when it is in coarse lumps, and
thus find mure easily the plant food
that is in it. though this is an impor
tant consideration, but it is true that
the seed germinates more rapidly af
ter two or three days, and with some
varieties a week, before it comes up in
soil that is but half worked, in w r hlch,
by the way, much seed may fail to ger
minate at all. The soil that is fine and
mellow fits closely around the seed and
gives a supply of moisture to all parts
alike. It excludes the drying air, and
yet it is more evenly warmed by a
bright sun, which helps draw up mois
ture from below by capillary attrac
tion. An extra day spent in putting a
field in good condition before the seed
is put in will not only hasten the
growth and maturity of the crop, but
will Increase its amount. If Jethro
Tull was not exactly correct in stat
ing that "tillage Is manure,” good
thorough tillage enables one to get the
best results from the manure he uses.
Science and the Farmer. —Most farm
ers formerly were afraid of the word
“science 1 ’ when It dealt with agricul
ture, and many quite good farmers
still "shy" at It. The trouble has been
that much stuff has been credited with
being science simply because some the
orist so regarded it, when It was noth
ing of the kind. Now we know that
science is merely knowledge, and the
science of anything Is the knowledge of
that thing arranged in an orderly way
so that one's comprehension of the
knowiedge may be correct. Some
things are known about farming. A
practical farmer will tell you to ma
nure a field heavily for one kind of
crop find less heavily for another kind.
Experience has taught him that certain
plants require more fertility than other
plants, or else that they cannot get
hold of the plant-food already in the
soil as readily as others, and must be
well fed with manure or fertilizer.
That is knowledge; it is science—a bit
of science. We need all of this knowl
edge that we can get; hence the de
velopment of the science pertaining to
agriculture. The man of long experi
ence, if he has judgment. Is a better
farmer than he was at first. He has
gained knowiedge. But we need the
experiences of others w’ho can tell just
what the conditions were that produced
certain results. These add to our
knowiedge and save us from mistakes.
Such experiences, or the conclusions
that may safely be drawn from them,
are given in experiment station bulle
tins, Iri books written by men who have
knowledge that we need, and in the
farm papers. The correct conclusion?
from experience or experiments form
the science that enables us to farnv
more Intelligently than we could with
less knowledge.
Effects of Cow- Peas and Velvet
Beans on Crops.—At the Alabama sta
tion it was found that when the vines
of cow peas and velvet beans were
taken from the land and only the roots
and stubble used as manure, the In
crease In the yield per acre of the sue- 1
eeeding crops was, for cotton 18 per
cent.; corn, 32 p*r cent.; oats, 334 per
cent.; wheat, 215 per cent., and sorg
hum hay, 57 pet; cent. The great in
crease in the oats and wheat was
thought to be caused by the fact that
these crops came immediately on the'
land ami prevented the washing away
and leaching of fertility during the
winter, thus shoeing the importance of
a winter cover crop, in the South at
least. The result on the corn would
probably have been greater had some
winter crop like rye succeeded the peas
in fall and had been turned under in
the spring. It was shown that the ef
fect of plowing under the whole crop of
cow peas was not greater on the wheat
and oats than the plowing of the stub
ble only. If this is the case, the plow
ing down of the whole crop is an abso
lute loss of a valuable food. It is true
that the plowing down of the whole
crop had a more lasting effect and af
fected the spring crops more than the
fall grown crops. On very light sandy
soil the fertilizing effect of either had
disappeared in twelve months.
(omrrlng the Pecnn Market With
Balloon.
Think of a young girl cornering the
pecan market! And a Texas girl at
that! She didn't quite capture the
whole crop in the United States, but
she put the nut tiade on an edge for
a while, and set its oldest heads to
wondering about what is going to hap
pen next. This young girl opesator is
only about 19 years old —Miss Bernice
Bardine, if you please, and thus the
New York Commercial tells us how
she did it:
Last year she and her younger
brother made quite a little money
gathering pecans. Since then she has
keen studying the business and laying
plans for future operations. During
the last summer she carried on an ex
tensive correspondence, not only with
mercantile establishments in various
cities that handle pecans, but with re
liable people who reside in regions
where the nut grows. In this way she
got thoroughly informed in all matters
pertaining to the present crop.
Feeling confident that pecans would
command a good price, she set to work
some weeks ago and, aided by her
brother and a few trusted assistants
who were sworn to secrecy, she quiet
ly leased every pecan gspve and forest
of any value in the Colorado Valley.
When buyers appeared in the country,
startling the ranchers by offering to
engage pecans at 7*4 cents per pound,
those who make a business of gather
ing the nuts were astounded to find
that a young girl had entered the field
and cornered the crop so far as that
particular region was conceAied. A lit
tle investigation showed that this en
ergetic young woman is in a fair way
to make a fortune in a few months.
It is known that she got a great bar
gain in nearly all of her leases. Asa
sample of the shrewdness that she dis
played, it has leaked out that she leas
ed one forest for SIOO in which there
are several giant trees that will each
yield twenty bushels of 880 pounds of
pecans. At a low estimate the profits
accruing from this single transaction
will fall little short of $5,000.
When it is remembered that nothing
of market value is subject to such fluc
tuations of price as pecans, there is
not much matter for wonderment In
the fact that the people leased their
forests for so little money. Only a few
years ago there was an abundant crop,
and yet for some unaccountable reason
the nuts were allowed to rot where
they fell. There were no buyers and
no market.
Aside from scooping the crop this
courageous Texas girl has distinguish
ed herself in other ways. A pecan crop
is not easy to gather. The work is at
tended with great danger and many
hardships. The harvesting is generally
done by vigorous young men and ath
letic boys. Not many young women
would exchange places with the fear
less Texas girl though the profits were
doubled. Those who are engaged in the
business have to camp out in the
woods, often many miles from a town
or a ranch.
After Miss Bardine became convinced
that pecans would command a fair
price she at once set to work to dis
cover some method through which she
hoped to gather the crop in some way
that would be an Improvement upon
the old plan of operations.
The largest and best pecans grow
upon the topmost boughs of the tallest
trees, often 150 feet from the ground.
A daring athletic climber of light
weight gets a few bushels of these
"top gallants.” as they are called, but
ordinary thrashers are forced to shake
their fists at them and walk away.
They often leave from S2O to SSO worth
of pecans in the tops of these tall
trees. Miss Bardine determined to
harvest the crop clean. So she rigged
up a balloon.
The experiment was made at Gran
ite Shoals, on the Colorado river,
where there Is a large forest of the
tallest pecan trees in Texas. Miss
Bardlne’s people had already gathered
the nuts from the branches of the
giant trees as far up as the thrashers
dared to venture. They estimated that
there were at least 500 bushels of pe
cans yet remaining beyond their
reach.
The balloon was transported to
Granite Shoals and inflated with hot
air from a furnace constructed in the
midst of a grove of the tallest trees.
The girl, armed with a long- thrashing
pole, stepped into the basket, and when
her assistants, who were holding the
anchor-rope, announced that they
were ready, the signal was given, and
the airship rose swaying and jerking
to the tops of the trees. The men who
held the anchor-rope had taken a
half-hitch around the small oak, and
they found that they could easily con
trol the ascent of the balloon. So this
daring pecan operator gathered in
every last nut on her trees—and with
them all many thousands of dollars.
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA
PRAISE FOR ESTILL,.
Charlton County Herald: We repro
duce in this issue of The Herald a most
excellent write-up of Charlton county
from the pen of that distinguished
gentleman and scholar, J. H. Estill,
proprietor of the South's greatest news
paper, the Morning News, of Savan
nah. The people of Georgia made a
splendid investment when they ran
Col. Estill for Governor, although he
was defeated. He has done every sec
tion of the state untold good by his
splendid write-ups, and the good will
remains as "foot-prints in the sands
of time” to perpetuate his campaign,
which was the cleanest in the history
of Georgia politics. Long live Estill,
that ihe may see the fruits of his de
votion to his people!
FLOWERY BRANCH OFFICIALS.
The following officers for Flowery
Branch have been elected for this year:
O. I. Additon, Mayor; J. TANARUS., Chamblee,
G. F. Bagwell, C. J. Wilder, H. M.
Williams and A. H. Wingo, council
men.
CANDLER AT WORK.
Ex-Gov. Candler has begun the work
of compiling the colonial, revolution
ary and confederate records of the
state under the appointment of Gov.
Terrell, as announced some weeks ago.
Gov. Candler is to receive a salary
of $2,000 per annum for this work, to
be paid from the fund arising from
the sale of these records when pub
lished and from reprinted Georgia re
ports. He will probably be employed
at this work during the next two
years, and it is expected that in that
period it will be fully completed.
GAINESVILLE OFFICIALS.
The first meeting of the new City
Council for 1903 was held at the City
Hall of Gainesville, Friday night and
the following officers to serve the city
were elected: city c'lerk, George Lath
em; chief of police, B. H. Parks; city
electrician, Emory Merck: engineer
water and light plant, Albert Wofford;
city treasurer, W. E. McKinney; city
physician. Dr. K. A. Smith; Mayor
pro tern, S. C. Dunlap. Mayor Parker
announced his s'tajnding committees
for the year.
MONSTER HOGS AT TIPTON.
Dan Walker, living near Tifton,
killed his two famous porkefs, and
the two weigher, after dressing, 1,600
pounds, one weighing 750 and the oth
er 830. He was compelled to cut them
up to weigh them, or the total would
doubtless have been several pounds
more. From the two Mr. Walker took
240 pounds of fat. making a total of
1,840 pounds for the two hogs.
A CIGAR FACTORY FOR MACON.
Macon Telegraph: A representative
of the American Cigar Company will
be in Macon the coming week. He is
authorized to close a deal for the es
tablishment of a big cigar factory in
this city, and will submit a proposi
tion to the business men of Macon. It
will be up to them to decide whether
a manufacturing plant, which will ul
timately employ 1,000 high-priced oper
atives. is worth anything. They call
Savannah conservative—and Charles
ton—well, the old town has been the
synonym for the slowest thing on
earth for a long time—but Savannah
and Charleston accepted the proposi
tion of the American Cigar Company,
and in each city is a big cigar factory
in operation. The pay roll of 1,000 ci
garmakers will help build up business
and values wonderfully. It is the
money spent by the wage-earners
W'ithin the corporate limits that builds
up a town.
LABOR SCARCE IN EI,BERT.
There seems to be some scarcity of
farm laborers in the Elberton section
for the present year. Quite a num
ber of negroes have gone to East Ten
nessee to work on railroads, others
have gone to Birmingham, Ala., and
vicinity to the mines and the exodus
leaves farm laborers in demand.
FLORIDA.
THE CARNEGIE LIBRARY.
The City Council of Jacksonville
has heard, through the president of
the Home Trust Company of New
York, that the $50,000 for the Carnegie
Library building will be available as
soon as certain formalities are attend
ed to, and of course these matters of
detail will be completed with all pos
sible dispatch. The bill to provide for
a board of library commissioners, re
cently prepared in Council, will proba
bly be brought up at the next meeting,
and this important body will be named
as soon as possible. As was announced
some weeks ago, the fine lot at the
northeast corner of Ocean and Adams
streets has been bought and paid for,
and will be made over to the city of
Jacksonville for the location of the
Carnegie Library at once. The con
ditions undet* which Andrew Carnegie
consented to build a $50,000 library in
Jacksonville included the appointment
of a commission to take charge of the
matter; also the city was required to
enter into a compact for the donation
of $5,000 per annum for the mainte
nance of the library. This was under
taken by Council, after an expression
of popular sentiment by the people at
the ballot box.
ENJOINED AX EDITORIAL.
Probably the most remarkable in
junction ever issued by a Florida
court was granted by Circuit Judge
Peninsular and Occidental Steamship Cos.
United States Fast Mail Routes for KEY WEST, CUBA and the WEST
INDIES, via Port Tampa and Miami, Fla.
Proposed sailings in effect as shown below.
Subject to change and individual postponement without notice.
MIAMI-KEY WEST-HAVANA LINE.
’• COMMENCING OCTOBER ISO, 1902. , ’
Leaving Miami.
Wed., Sat 11.00 pm Lv. Miami Ar. 6.00 am... Sat., Tues
Thur., Sun 12.30 pm Ar. Key West Lv. 7.00 pm.. ,Fri. t Mon.
Thur., Sun 6.30 pm Lv. Key West Ar. 6.30 pm... Fri„ Mon.
Fri., Mon 5.00 pm Ar. Havana Lv. 10.00 am... Fri.. Mon.
PORT TAMPA-KEY WEST-HAVANA LINE.
COMMENCING OCTOBER 20, 1802.
Leaviuj? Port Tampa.
Sun., Tues., Thur... 11.00 pm Lv. Pt. Tampa Ar. 5.30 pm... Wed.. Frl„ Sun.
Mon., Wed., Fri 5.30 pm Ar. Key West Lv. 10.30 pm... Tues., Thur., Sat,
Mon., Wed., Fri 7.30 pm Lv. Key West Ar. 8.30 pm. ..Tues., Thur., Sat
Tues., Thur., Sat.... 5.00 am Ar. Havana Lv. 12.00 m... Tues„ Thur., Sat!
MIAMI-NASSAU LINE.
COMMENCING JANUARY 1, 1903.
Mon., Thur 11.00 pm Lv. Miami Ar. 6.00 am... Thur., Sun.
Tues., Fri 3.00 pm Ar. Nassau Lv. 10.00 am... Wed., Sat. '
COMMENCING FEBRUARY 2, 1903.
Mon., Wed., Fri 3.00 pm Lv. Miami Ar. 6.30 am.. .Wed., Fri., Sun.
Tues., Thur., Sat.. 6.30 am Ar. Nassau Lv. 3.00 pm... Tues., Thur Sat.
COMMENCING MARCH 30, 1903. M
Mon., Wed., Fri 2.00 pm Lv. Miami Ar. 6.30 am... Wed., Fri., Sun.
Tus., Thur., Sat 6.30 am Ar. . Nassau Lv. 2.00 pm. ..Tues,, Thur., Sat.
Above hours Dased on 90th Meridian Standard Time, except that shown for
Nassau, is local or Nassau time.
For rates and other information apply to any Railroad Ticket Agent, or to
CHAS. L. MYERS, Manager, Jacksonville, Fla.
A SPLENDID AFTERNOON TRAIN TO FLORIDA
- VIA .-■ 4
ATLANTIC COAST LINE
NOW IN SERVICE.
Leave Savannah 2:30 p. m
Arrive Jesup 4:05 p.m.
Arrive Waycross 5:00 p.m.
Arrive Jacksonville 7:30 p. m.
Leave Jacksonville -8:20 p.m.
Arrive Palatka J0:45 p. m.
Arrive Sanford 2: JO a. m.
Arrive Tampa 7:00 a. m.
Pullman Buffet Sleepers Jacksonville to Tampa, Punta Gorda and St.
Petersburg, leaving Jacksonville 8:20 p. m., arriving Tampa 7:00 a. m. t
Punta Gorda 9:30 a. m., St. Petersburg 10:00 a. m.
See another column for schedules of the popular "Florida and West
Indian Limited.” "New York and Florida Express” and Western service.
Famous New York and Florida Special, Florida's magnificent train, will
be inaugurated, first train leaving Savannah Jan. 13, 11:50 a. m. (city
time), arriving Jacksonville 2:60 p. m., St. Augustine 4:00 p. m.
J. H. D. SHELLMAN, W. H. LEAHY,
Trav. Pass, Agent, Division Passenger Agent,
SAVANNAH, GA.
W. J. CRAIG, General Passenger Agent,
Wilmington, N. C.
TO THE EAST OR WEST
Southern Railway
OFFERS
Best Service. Best Schedules.
East-bound: Through Pullman Sleepers to Rich
mond, Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia
and New York.
West-bound: Through Pullman Sleepers to Ashe
ville, Knoxville and Cincinnati.
DINING CARS ON ALL TRAINS.
E. G. THOMSON, City Passenger and Ticket Agent
141 Bull Street. Telephones 850.
Wall at Tampa on petition of Hon.
Robert McNamee. The injunction’ re
strains Editor Judon of the Union La
bel from publishing an editorial in his
paper indorsing the candidacy of Gov.
Jennings for the United States Sena
torial nomination. It is asserted that
the Union Label is owned by the Fed
erated Trades Assembly and that Ju
don is employed as editor, there be
ing, it is said, a provision in the con
tract that he must not discuss politics
in the paper. Despite this, he pub
lished a number of political editorials
recently. Mr. McNamee, who is
counsel for most of the labor unions
of Tampa, learned of the purpose of
Editor Judon to publish this editorial,
and attempted to dissuade him, but
could not do so, and then procured the
injunction. The order was also served
on the printers, and the Union Label
will not appear to-morrow.
MAGJZIAIES. ' .
Continued from Seventh Page.
December contains a half dozen arti
cles, and a great many reviews of
great merit. The article on “Authorita
tive Arbitration” is a timely one, and
will attract much attention. It is a
carefully considered article and well
worth reading. "Senators by Popular
Vote,” by John W. Burgess, touches
upon a matter about which there has
been much discussion during the past
few years, and which still occupies a
great deal of space in the newspapers
and periodicals. In this article it is
given very thoughtful consideration.
The reviews are particularly good, and
deal with many matters in which
scholars and others are interested.
"The Record of Political Events” is
another feature that is well worthy of
mention. The number as a whole is an
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OFFICIAL.
TiouoTucENSE;
City of Savannah,
Office Clerk of Council,
Savannah Ga.. Dec. 23, 1902.
The following applications to retail
liquor during the year 1903, were read
at meeting of Council Dec. 24, 1902,
and referred to Committee of the
Whole. W. P. BAILEY,
Clerk of Council.
Chas. Abel. 201 Bay street.
Brown Bros., Anderson and East
Broad.
Brooks & Green, 129 West Broad
street.
Thos. F. Beytagh, 327 East Broad st,
H. H. Bunger, 1815 Ogeechee road.
O. D. Brodman, Randolph street and
Ogeechee avenue.
Chas. Brickman, Indian and West
Broad streets.
Geo. Christopher, 510 Sims street .
Geo. Christopher, 102 West Broad
street.
Hugh Donahue, 633 River street .
Mrs. Geo. Ducott. 646 Bay street,
west.
John J. Eliopoles, 234 Randolph st.
East End Grocery, East Boundary
and Broughton streets.
John H. Grimm, Drayton and Presi
dent streets.
F. Grimm, Randolph and President
streets.
Henry Gerken, 715 Wheaton street.
W. H. Gartelman, West Broad and
Thirty-second streets.
Estate Mary Horrigan, Bryan and
Houston sfreets.
C. H. Heitman, 25 East Broad street.
Thos. L. Hill, Wayne and Jefferson
streets.
L. E. Hodges, 565 Oak street.
M. S. Hansen. 24 West Broad st.
A. 11. Hitehman, 319 West Broad st.
C. D. Kersen. 212 Broughton street,
west.
11. F. Kuck, 126 Anderson street,
east.
Harry Lange, West Broad and Stew
art streets.
C. F. Luerssen, 1523 Bull street.
Nicholas Lang, 39 Barnard street.
John Lyons & Cos., 22 Broughton
street, west.
John Meyer, Anderson and Randolph
streets.
C. A. O’Brien, Charlton and West
Broad streets.
Est. N. Paulsen, River and Barnard
streets.
John T. Radstraw, Whatley avenua
ar.d Montgomery street.
R. Remler, Drayton and Liberty sts.
John Rlpke, Drayton and McDonough
streets.
Bernhard Remler, Arnold and Ogle
thorpe avenue.
Philip Sanders, Bull and Best sts.
Loel Sable, Waldburg and Burroughs
streets.
O. E. Stirarius. 2420 Bull street.
John Stahmer, Bryan and Ann sts,
John F. Tietjen, 225 West Broad st.
Eli Verukl. 42 Rarnard street.
H. Wood. 242 West Broad street.
Watson & Powers. De Soto Hotel.
HOTELS AND SIMMER RESORTS.
MELROSE, New York City. 78 Madi
son Ave., cor. 28th st.—Rooms with
board $8 per week; $1.50 per day and
upwards. During summer rooms -with
or without board at reduceti rates.
Special room and breakfast $1 upward.
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