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THE WEEKLY CONSWraiOjSr. ATLANTA. GiL TUESDAY JUNE 14 1887
FARMS AND FARMERS.
‘ Iters, Oatton and Mi-Hnw to D.-alrojr Lfoa on
l1bM|M-Putonc> far Bass- NatOraw, Olo-
tit, —0»n»r Ha-tort of Xotoraat to
Uo tumor and the Oardanrr.
Much of the com crop la bow being “laid
bj.” Thie ahoald be done boforo tbo te??ols
•Ppotr. KxpeiitnonU hare shown very do-
decidediy that corn raffer* greatly from it?
root® being cot aflar it tasaela. Wa umndo-
ddedlj more after teaseling than boforr, it
•ofltn, ho were r, in both cases. The Us
p'ougblug then should be very shallow—wo
bare su'd this before, but cannot repast it too
often. It is a matter of first importance. The
whole surface, or as much as can be reachol.
b7 the plow, sboold bo stirred, that all yong
grass and weeds map be killed—and all the
foil given up to the orn. Agentlemia
11* recently of an Incident which shows, that
even at thla late stage or the crop, it is acii to
ij taking food from the soil. A noted ftrom
before the war had intended to apply cotton
seed to corn at time of planting, but somethin*
prevented and he did not flail an oppjrt>in<t/
of doing It till bis corn was laid by. He thou
throws handful of cotton (rotten) around etci
hill of corn, without covering It ap(a* the crop
had been already laid by.) The remit was one
ef the finest crops of corn he
railed. Suppose each reader try a like axperl.
merit on a small reals. Rotten cotton seed,
cotton retd meal, guano, acid phoaph tie, stable
inanr re, either, or all of these might he trial
and mult noted. Something valuable might
suited for cnltivition. For early spring food,
r«d clover if you have stiff land, is unsarpa&a
cd for hogs. Johnson grass mill furnish good
rooting by its largo underground stemi, either
in winter or early spring. Her u>u da is excel
lent for a summer pasture, hut both it and
Johnson grass should never be put on land,
except one Js willing to give it up to them
forever.
8. To get pasturage from January to
March In your climate, tho land must bs ex-
rmlvely rich, no matter what crop is planted
Manure must overcome the rapreislve influ
ence of cold. Plsnta will make little growth
in cold weather on poor lands, however hardy
they may be. On rich land we believe wc
would r!»k clovers and lucernes as soon as any
thing else. If red clover will not do well on
year lands, burr clover and lucernes
certainly will, if they are made rich enough,
break deep and harrow, repeating till ground
is brought into finest tilth. Cover the aorf me
two Inches deep with compost and plow it in.
Roll, then harrow lightly, sow seed and roll
again. Get ready and bow seed early in Sap*
Umber. It is useless to go at » job of this
kind in a half-way manner. One acre, prop-
cr)y preparid and enriched, is worth more
than twenty acres half prepared and scantily
manured.
9. ('iiufii will keep pretty well through
the winter: potatoes till the first of December.
10. limi t know; for fat, the Eisex; for
ixed, Iran and fat, the Berkshire are psrhaps
hint adapted to oar dim ito.
11. How in rye. Let bogs feed off after the
grain is ripe, but not too closely. Follow with
piss, and /red tff tb«se again with hog? A?
•con as practicable after pesa have boon oaten
by hogs, break, barrow and roil land, and
another crop of rye will take possession with
out meed ing. Spend littlo labor on poor land.
CONDITION OF CROPS.
Bepcria cf tbe DJparfmsht of agrlenltnra and Ba
llot*! Cotton XxcSaos*—loertated Aortas* in
Wheat- TS§ Cotton P.aot Boaltbjr-
fitttamant of F*rcent**o- Aeraacs.
•Mio .otoflt.
Colt i*
K. O. B., Bril*. Mill., Al»: I havo »n aero that I
row.fl In clover, (r, <1
Tf ■
jre»r.
on Dill men begin to fruit. Heretofore
It fans keen making wct'l, nil th. food i: could
g't.nd prepare, he. gone In thet direction
Now wo wieh n goodly portion of Itdleortod
Soto fruit nuking, Huw l> this to bo donor
tneklrg tho pint fool, no to apotk, a. if it
■wore, eppnmchlog It. end. Tno cow pas
Joee not fruit well, till the cool nlghti ot au
tumn threatens froit. The ewMt pit.tr do-
walope lie tuber, nu-st rapidly nt enruo tine,
for ilmllnr notion. Cotton mart be m trie to
reell/o (.pnekln, figuratively) thet rampant
growth l> not to continue forever—the itlmi*
Ming officio of frequent working moat be
gradually with dmwn from It Later (eej Are*,
ef August ) Ite heed mey be Uk.n off (topped)
toetrengthen the Impression. The loatlnot of
Fteaertlng the r»oe comet In—tho production
•faced brenmot the ioporlent thing to he
done. Fraltln, takeathe piece of growth Wo
kaye spoken at if the plant had Intelligence -
■whether It has or not, the feet, are th^e.nc
St if It had. Untowerl icllu
•sec, threatening dr. traction, brio,
on fruitfulness. "Poor folk, for chil
dren" le possibly on tntlog in. cue Crtt in
should be worked now et gradually laaretsfag
Intervals. Thoeoil ghould bo etlrred June■
lightly n. pwtlblo-Jml enough to .war.
health, not snonth to promote rapid growth.
Ins month oralxwookafrom this, It would be
mil If growth ceased entirely, end all tbo en
ergy or the plant waa thrown 1 nto maturing
Us fruit. Now gro wth and young fruit started
sfter tho mlddlo of August Is practlotlly Ioit.
Tho farther away from tho tropics (It. mtlv o
homo) cotton Is grown, the mote It beooran an
annnat plant, that ie with completed growth
In one iceion. Seed, therefore, from the north-
srn port lone of the oetton belt le gonerally beet
—nukce a more prolific cotton, llUeireof
ff no cotton eoed In upper Georgia have found
tt.lr host customm fu touthurn latitudes, el
far down irn as Florida.
Juno Is Ihs mouth to plant pots, when the
seed, but the ylnta, le tho chief oonelderetloa,
A farmer can hardly go amtrnln planting poai.
Plant overy nook and oornar—plant ovary
lain that eoftenn tba ground. A friend auggrsts
the following: Plant pace in drill two and n
half fiat apart. Gather what seed you went,
or letjour boye do 1'., and next winter broak
the middle bctw.on two row), then with turu
plow* throw tho two rows of pee wines on each
■Ido of Ibis middle, ou It, thus making a bod,
Thla will make hods llro feat apart (foot dls-
tanoe for corn) an t onrloh aaeh bod wlih po*
lino*. Would not this bo a g>>! way tobogln
preparation for naxt year’s corn crop?
_______ W; fa. J.
Tins FAIUI uunrlos BOX.
Dr.' W.’ fa. Jones eonfssmd tha highest and
sarot agricultural authority lu tbs south, prmldu
ever Ihb department. Ilo sollolu practical tug-
gaatlona from farmiri and othan luteroated.
H. r. B, Onlamhua, Ga I I And on or am-
Ing mr mbbaren that tho, arc all, or nearly all,
cortred with lice, a small whitish lasoct that .tick,
tbo stems oi tbo leaves and rausca them In n little
white to radoand tile. Is them a»r war lo kill
then! If not, l wiU soon bo wllbtaii cabuagc
Doitlbem freely with tobacco dust Or, If
yen cannot get that, make a strung dooo itioo
Sf ‘I}* 0 !?* u “* wlu buwor) andsprlukla
tho Uoa freely with that.
irchard gran. and herd*
)«*t of February. The clover is beginning to bloom
wm MU Imj not to let it go to reed the first year,
will it do to turn cow* on It to graze it down?
Pit an* ntvlfo what lo do. Did not now any grain
wtih KtithF. Men *c<iU*into<l with growing gram
nj iisHif i* very lira*.
Mo* it k would bo bottor than grazing, bo*
sure it would bo more nniforin, and the plants
would rctape the tramping of tho ttock. If
riot high enongh to mow, it might be JightJy
K»*/Ad—not closely; hut you will remonbor
that the flr»t crop of clover H «l1oru matures
•ml—it I* the second crop which bring? the
m«1; that ii tho one which should be mowed
graved.
SiitsMTiUr, Iloopei'aBliUf, Ala.; German millet
iiaid in March, can It be moiru (on to got two
ci.itliig* a year ? If so what stage to mow flrat crop.
Van not get two good crops from one to viog.
Cut jo* t after blooming, and before tho seed
hfate tine to mature. They mature vary
rapidly after tho bloomi appear. It is not de-
desirable to cut before blooming as the plant
lia* not then acquired i s^maxlmarn chhar of
'juantuy or (juaiity of nutritious matter.
I. II. M , Green comity, Ga; 1 My land ia rod
day, haul and i’ry, with vpry littlo vegetable mat-
»* r in It. J have a tew peach trees planted in a lot
f t this drirription. and while tho trues aro growing
and vigornut the fruit amouut* to nothing, always
wormy and generally dropplog^liaroruripo. Lmt
tall Ia*e I dug around mo roots, pouring in a
Mtiatitlty of s»hcs and washing the tnink with
strong icspand", aberwaid* rubbing In ashes, ami
yet the fruit is beginning to drop again. What 1*
tfcc matter? Gould I put anything in the soli to
t tncflt the treefc? or would it pay better to cut
tb* m down and plant In something else? Several
have done this, but J hate to destroy them, if in
any way they can bo nude useful. Is the fault
with tho roil? and whttnonldldotolielpli? Soato
any tho land Is too rich, but I do not thluk that is
porslblp, though this panic Bar spot waa formerly
a garden.
2 is not grass valuable for anything? nogs like
the i.nt liko roots but docs It not malto poor Ion ?
in mere any way to destroy it in a garden? We
find it worse than bermuda
1. It Is the general belief that peaches will
not do well on very rich land, particularly If
it le not well drained. What is moant here by
being drained ia having a subsoil which allows
water to sink down rapidly through it. From
yoor description, ahoald infer that yoar soil
waa too close and compact for the peaoh. Have
yon examined for tho borer? It may be under-
mining yoor tree*. If dressing with ashes and
good light inrfaco cultivation through the
seaion will not mako the tress growing
healthy and fraUftil, you had better dig them
op.
2. Nutgrass has no redeeming qualities; it Is
a pest pure >ar d simple. Cattio will grase it
down, and rorno hay may be made from it on
rich I*nd, hot a sr *at many other plants would
yield more and better on samo laud* There is
no cheap, practical method of eradicating it
hneisant catting it down as soon as it oomo?
abevo tbe surface, It kept up for two yetra,
would destroy it; but would the land then bo
worth the labor expended on it?
WAcniNGEOXy June 10.—The June returns
of the department of sgricultare indicate a re
daction of nearly two per cent in the area of
winter wheat. Changes in tbe acreage of
states are very slight, except in Kansas, whore
a reduction of twenty-two per cent is reported,
caused by bad harvests and low prices. The
spring wheat area has been enlarged six per
cent from tbe increase of immigration and
farm-making west of the MiastalDpl in the
districts traversed by the Northern PaciSe rail
road. Most of the iuereaso i< In Dikots, which
reports an izerement of twenty-four per c*mt.
Tbe total area of wheat is about 37,000.000
acres, a fraction of one per cent more than of
tbe previous crop.
In tbo condition of winter wheat, there bai
been no marked charge, the average being
61 0, a reduction of nlnt-tcnths of one per
cent. Ip. 1880, tho June average wa? 91 7. Ji j.
ports of short straw arc very nutaorou?. Ia
some districts there are indications thtt the
yield-of grain will be Urgor proportionately
than of straw. If thore ia no inerrave from
this canse. the yiold must be less than tho av-
C7age. Tbe harvest Is already in progress np
to tho thirty-eighth degree of the north latl
tude.
Butecrlbcr, Harlem. Columbia county, Ga; I take
H riddled my corn and beat ons fourth of It down.
Tho « rn was about is Itiche* high. J cut It off
with a hoe about four Inchea above tbe ground, i*
then any chain? for it to make good corn? My
potion waa moat all cut on with the bail. 1 have
left tho vtubU and am gofug to work them. Witt
they make an}thing like good crops?
N« ithor com nor cotton oan be expected to
make full crops. It would have been better to
bave plowed up and replanted the corn. Cot
ton may ont come and make a fair crop if frost
'■‘i not overtake H.
. Ala: Terracing, the new
mstluid of preserving hillM«le§, is practiced some
what lo our eounty.
la It rvtt nectaaary to have what Is called Hood
dlicbo? If to. when 1* It ueceawry to havo them,
and how rhould they bo placed? Is U advisable to
was• terraces Instead of hillaldoditches on the steep
htUsldrsof red Utuelauds?
Whenever there is a watershed above cultl*
vated land, it is desirable to hsvo a ditch or
ditches to tako It off, especially before terraces
EP.‘ "BbTSa wui I ShmI iteblUh7 ( {!~Wterrec«i’»t»"ai4
1. 1 wi.o wonn.po.tmu.snr ri.-'ii swamp oarih I Mtnaaa^Uss laswOlwIiv te«takbto(vHlell
...a —— m— — -— ^ ia tbe brat), and the borders sown In grain or
- — a,-,-..., . gram to bind the looao earth thrown up by the
efthocompost do you thluk is equal to one tun of I plow, there ia llitlo or no coed of ditenas. Tho
fejajwwMaaiatR*-
■ 3 'What distanoe should cotton have each way on I ai d repaired. Where the slopes art steep, and
will make abate per acra? I washes havo been previously formed, tha tan*
“ ssssBrffSrsrifaTB
t. wbai arauuut ol ratmapar aon will It tako Ailfkas tocouUoliho water nalil tho lirrace
ww fann.r. 10 pa. aspunm where tho, kit* the Wrtate br«in.o will ntahllshed. After that
'aVSStlSTCftfiSRi 1 **">“••..?' ptattteUon* they wero Ailed up. Tnracee ere decidedly
_• tlheu Is !he proper time for cuttlua mi o.l I better than hillside dltchce. They occupy lew
•psoe then ditches, miulro leas looklax after;
' ». Whet crops can I plant lor paiturln, *hon, lo I pi-wrre the soil mote affectively, and serro as
Mrecheep pork without iccdloicorar Wld mao I prnnauent (uhlee to rou rows by.
Hon nope that 1 hare endeit-rcuo plant Ihu jeer:
5S?’. t |. , STS s?.*aVS, ? “2? l “. ar>‘* J W-. nrd Oak. -1st I. mlllowtUr sood fnraw
E*f.mr.»raiatooi irheaen'i I ,0 r hoiMetoe, cr bad 1 twit Id It meturt? .’l.Tnc
plant 20 I tamcqurHiou lu regard to Gormanmtllsu 3d.
SfihMr ai%n^An!hL r \ 1 C4 “i I WaBwitvo lime aud inotl© of saving each.
S»reiss!WBJ!BsrtS3 aj.’frat-rrStfStet's
A Is Ikon aur xra» or rlorar adapted to thla I hriax early In the a.mop, the pmumptlou Is
Mwrniy tbai I can ipw for pasturin' boo tram Ibc plant la still quite Immature, say from ons
^s»p«y.loJsD V . Minjbeat xsoUiod of prepeno, to two teat bl,h If so, It has not reached Ite
IBai latewui Kwh and chutes ktep In tho Hut. end trUl notdoeoUll
— ——f “o I its seeds ere fonulux- By treltlug till the let
ter sjaye you will got more and a hotter art!
a. The el-ore appllee to Germtn millet also;
cat very soon after It blooms.
:i Cut the mlUat u shore and cure exactly
Ilka bay—putting it ia cocks as eoon as it will
bear it, ami bousing as eoan as It is dry
enough. When tbo teed af millo malxe ia ia
dorgn
The condition of spring wheat Is K »d lu
Dakota sad tbo territorial westward, i,nt ba-
low the avers re records In Winconaln, Miuno-
lots, Iowa and Nebraska. Tbcgooersl avorsce
for iprlag wheat Is S7 3, which in lover than
n recent roars, butthirtron points higher than
a 1881. At harvesting last yoar the condition
avcragcl 80.
Tbe dry weather In tpril has been Injurious
to winter who&t. Inrrc's havo cammitted
greater depredations than neuul.
Tho central bolt westward from Pennsylva
nia and Virginia has soBurcd local d image
I from the hessian fly, and tbo chinch hug hot
wrought injury iu Illinois, Missouri and
Kansu.
T be area of winter rye her boon diminished
over six per cent, mainly by the lirgo reduc
tion In Kansu. Tbe condition hi hotter than
that of wheat u usual, averaging 8-iff. An
apparent enlargement of bsrloy acreage of
three per cent le Indicated. The increooo is In
Dakota, California Oregon and the
Icirlterlee. Thu condition a forages 87, being
slightly above thet of wheat. Thure Is a con-
llnuanco of tho extension of osto culture. Tho
Increase Is fenr per cent This crop hi* taken
P«rt of tba area formerly In wheat, in Kuiu
There Is an odvuoe of thirty per cent over
the imago of laet year. The IncrcMe Is large
in the northwest and thin Is a tendency to
enlargement In all section! of the country,
In the acreage In cotton an Increucofone
per cent Is reported. There appears to be a
slight decline in states of the Atleutlc coast,
and an Increase west of the Mississippi.
Stele averages ere: Virginia M; North Caro-
line WI G; South Carolina 03: Gurgle 03 G Flor
ida 07; Alabama 100; Mississippi 1001; farute*
lana 103; Texas 106; Arkansas 102 0, Tenners so
10O.
The condition cf cotton Is higher than In
any Jnne since 1880, avenging 90 0, and hu
only been exceeded three times tlnao 1970
Tbe best yield In that period, however, wat In
1882, when the June condition was 80, a figure
that has been discounted six times since 1870.
It Is a good beginning, but does not inturo a
gold crop, State averages are: Virginia, 99:
North Carolina, 99; Smth Carotins, 1)8; flaot.
ala, 09; Florida, 98; Alabama, 09; MfsatMtppI,.
00; Louisiana, 07; Texts, 91; Arksuxss,^; 1
Ten nessee, 07. General avenge, 9:10.
not a full plank In some fields in Arkansas,
Clean cultivation Is reported as a rule, aud a
hralthy coIot and good growth.
Kinx&TOir, Ga., June 8.-[9peelsl,J—Tho
crop prospects In Elbert are nnuauxlly promts.
Ing this year. Splendid rains lnvo visited all
rstls ef tho county, and the crops aro elevi
Farmers are well satlsfled with the outlook,
but are unusually busy.
■ Danvilix, Va., Juno 9.—The Times pub-
Il.h.s reports from bilglit tobacco regions Indi
cating not more than a half to two-chlids of a
cup planted and lru thin half tha nsaxl
quantity of commercial fertilisers used. In
view of tbe short crop pricer havo advanced at
lout twenty-Ave per cent,
CONDITION OF COTTON.
Superior to That of Last Yoar and Fully
Vp to 1H83.
Ntw ORt.rAWH, June 10.—Following la the
National Cotton exchange crop report: lio-
turni bave boon quite full from all pirts of the
cotton belt, and oar revlalon of acreage, busd
on oonnty report*, Is complsto. Farorsblo
westhor daring tbe winter In pretty much the
entire cotton belt enabled planters to make
snch headway with their farm work that
raicly had land beta so generally well pre
eared for the crop ae the present so uoa.
Flan ting—that le, the putting of reed In the
ground—was accomplished, therefore, at an
earlier date than usual, bat tha marked absence
of moisture daring the Utter htlf of March
♦ STORIES OF THF WAR.
Garde Mg* of s t-n lly of fly People In the
Woods.
tt'rflten lor The Constitution.
I havo Jmt been reading In the last Comrri
TVTioir a lady’s sketch of the war makeshifts
of her family. She evidently knows little of
the real hardships endured by some. I could a
tale unfold that would knock hers ont in one
ronnd, If J had time and spaceallowed me.
We started ont npon the privations of the
war just sfter s disastrous Are that swept away
all thoceontebellum accumulations thst proved
of such Inestimable value to all fortunate po*'
reisers, ro we did not even have tho advantage
of a gradual declino, but just bumped down
suddenly, ae it were, from the soft bod of ease
lo the hard floor of discomfort. Upon the fall
of New Orleans we ‘‘refugeed’’ about fifty
miles above tbo city on the Jackson railroad,
salt was then called. Tho country around us
Was very thinly Bottled, the people generally
pcor, ignorant and primitive, and scomod ss
strange to aa aa we "city folks" did to thorn.
Oh, thoee strange, dark years of "war times,”
tbey linger yet in my memory like come weird,
vivid dream. Part ef the time my Other was
with ns end part of it In the army, but his
preeenco or abeenco msdo little real tV;;T,ren:o
in eur condition, he being a delicate, city bred
msn was almost aa helpless in that boating
storm of hardships and deprivations as my
yoong. incspoiionced mother and her brood of
yMiiigchllrii.u. And as the yean went by,
and the war cloud settled down darker and
deeper over all the land and times grew
balder and harder everywhere, if I told all the
hardships and struggles of those days 1 fear
some of it would bo takon for Miuichanson,
like exaggeration.
It waa a lonely, deserted, resourcelnes conn'
try, with hardly a man lilt in It, andhowsomo
of these families ot women aud cblldreu man
aged tolivoat all Isamjstcry to mo. I think
we came as near living on Lu lling as mortaU
ssever did, though my mother aud a young
sister ef hera who lived with ns, hail their
share of that hard and bravesuuggle far which
our southern womon are so rightfully honored
throughout the length and breadthof the land.
Every article of beauty or value that had es
caped the Aro was sold or traded for tbe nerer-
sarlca of life. One of my brothers, a little fel
low shoot twelve years old, walked to Clinton,
La, about fifty miles 1 believe, carrying in hit
arms a handsome guitar of my mother's, which
was sold to an officer of tho gsrrison there, who
•Iso bought from hera pur of hugo silver-
mounted, dueling pistols, heirlooms, which we
children saw go with extreme
5 ret, as they were objects of onr
re-long awe and admiration, though
wo grew aooDstomed lo teeing many other ob
jects of value depart in the same way. Ia fact,
wo sold everything that any one could be in
duced to buy. We had a large tin bath tub,
round, and painted green, and a woll to-do
faimer having explored a desire to buy it far
the tin, tho little boys wsrepromptly dlipateh-
ed with It. anil my aunt want along tomtXo
the bargain. Tne presumptivepurohaeer lived
two or three mtlea distant, and the boys rolled
the tub there like a hoop- Upoo closer inspec
tion ho decided that it would not do far what
be wanted, and ao tbey had to roll It back
satin—a labor not aocompllthod without tea-
steerable lota of temper and green print. They
afterwards related that they had mot a nice
looking young gontleman on thoroad-a rara
iris In those leglona-and that Aunt C., in con
sequence of a decided lack of style In her coe
lome, bad hidden under tbe bath tub until he
I have Arty arret of land Hutto
Jo wotk hut Is loo liihnlorlto plant In rotten nr corn.
Jl tekrejwo •* es to mate a bale, with jeo pounds
®f fjHIbrer prr sere; will make l» buabela corn,
wltb at bush.U enton seed n*> acre, and It ttkre
9 1 * a* face cron to pay oxpoiuea What crop oaa
indr lUl * 1 * u ***” 1 m * * proAlt and improve
1. Threw of muck to one of manure, c >m-
Best too nnhka .r-——~ I oovga slate cut off heads and let them lay on
Kano oonshUchleA, of phrephteja with lltui i'raA? r ’u <1 n7favoroWoT t r , lS^‘t n* ^ “
alln gtn. Your compost with littlo photp rate
*t.d rather too»c nltroran. The oompoit with
ThcsjrbsfB sJdrd would be worth »o«h more
thsr the is me quuMUesof compost and phos
Pbftle tsed (rtisnUiIv-
2. Do not understand exactly whst you
■Mao. If you moon simply to opaa a fairjw
crop proa and cover, let drills be "j feet apart
ard bills 1! fact in drill.
In drill "* ,Mt r0<n 104 hil1 * >krt * J® 1 ** apart
* Yen—1,000 poeadc of tehee (dry) Is aboat
» bushels Tan buthtls la drill Is as much as
can bo mfoly risked,
fa About a half lain, at promt pries*.
6 F< r pruts cat trees In midsnmmsr and let
th.a diy and sateen thoroughly. Girdle or
hrlt in August.
7. Borgfcum might bare bare add*! to
Jfcur .id of bog crops with marked ad ventage,
fa 1. £et toe fat* t, de as yak Tho early am-
a?.1* pasted stance, wiUbe ripe enough to
t'i Uo *s will «*t both stalk
w.a?’?';.* permanent arrangement,
htrdy fttdl teres, sadt es tdoms. wild cherry,
BJ.Vr and ptrstosseug.
A>lkl to set ext M Kite wail* Und sot wwU 1
ar.thrr Is ucfavoiat.lo tp end oat under shel
ter to cui*. The upper email part af atalka,
with leaves attached, may be cat off and
cured la ■ bocks aa the tups of corn are. The
k-warraitofth* stalk has little food value,
srd It baldly worth saving. If cutup aud ted
whilst green stack will eat it. Tea bares on
this lower part may bo pulled and cared aa fod
der Tbe tttd heads are nearly, if not quite,
equal to corn.
from wcr-1 a*be», stir In salt tilt it U as hiHW
dough. Hit pine crery other day ull aclL Wash
It cut with warm water two and three timra a
week. It will cur* any running
A. k. li„ Decatur. Ga,
Th* Buddy IUrcr
Of Ufa It the blood. From U tho tyitem re.
eelvta all Its material of growth and repair. It
bathes every tiatns of the body, llow neces
sary, thru, that tha blood should bo kept pure
•ad neb. Dr. I’ierca'a -Golden Mod teal Pa-
canty” Is tho great bland purifier. It it •
toveivlgr remedy fbv *11 dlretm* due to Im-
sr&'SSaiaasJiaa
no means encosrsgfcg. With the opsnlog
days of May, however, cams * change, and aa
tho month progressed tho benofittiog causes
became intenelAcd-waaonahle showers, with
hot, forclog weather—so that tho crop ha*
made wonderful growth.
Tho plant is healthy; stands, with but Asw
exception! are good, and the genorel condition
cf tha crop lx miporior to that of last year and
fall np to tbo season of 1S85. Over a good
portion of Arkansas, |however, and contlgtons
thereto, complaint made of grassy fields,
thongh no actual damage yet occurred. A),
though tho Atlantic state* nso of commercial
fertilisers have very materially decreased, tha
yoangor state* have to gome extent made more
mo of them.
Labor is generally plenty and working well
with the exception of Booth Carolina. Thors
has boon an Increased acreage, Might la moot
of tho states, but showing well in Arkansas
•nd Texts, making an arerago Increase far tho
M It of 1 per rent and giving, In round nttm-
hcix an area of 18,000,000 acre* under cultiva
tion in cotton.
. eisica
Virginia
kllsraurl
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
Tennessee —.
Mt.air.tppl
Argansa.
Total
Percentage. Acreare.
101 lis.700
lot 11S.700
101 l,Of, 200
.jus i,\v) «n
l«8i 2,'AOOOO
101 217,30
lOOte 3,7*0,10)
1«>! S12S00
mt'J 2.AV. sou
..........KB 1,3)0,000
...lOO'd 1 02)300
-lOl'i 3,770,8)0
—101';
17,991,500
Tho Largest Crops of Cotton aud Cor*
Bine* 1883.
Arvnw, Texas, Jure 11—Accounts from *1
over Texas today show th* moat m*gnlAo*at
crop pro. poets si are tha famous big crop year of
l.-Mh All onr centre! and northern Texas th*
event* yield of corn, which is now la Uw ear,
isilmated at thirty buehcls aa acre
black hog wallow pmlrlo lands,
river bottom* and alluvial land*
sin tb* rout th* yield Is rote mated
at seventy-Are toon* hundreds bushels aa
acre. On tbe mlddlo boyou farmers asy corn
Will tail nrxt Call at tweaty-Avo costs, fat
ten all ever Texts ia looking splendid. Much
of It waa planted subsequent to tho great
spring drouth, which andad about May 1st.
Karmen are chapping oak Stands an cneal-
Irnt and fields g suer ally doer af grass. Th*
can)* of all there good thingi It that flu* rains
hare fallen all over Ihs state almost weekly
far th* loot month. Many predict a million
and a half halt* thtoyrer for Tsxaa.
Deal Fhil to Pracrew Mra TV oalaw’*
FOOTHISG 8YBUP far children teething
Tpeaiyfive nsteabetu*.
waa cut of tight; but this latter atatemsut she
always denied.
My mother and aunt grew very proficient
m making palmetto hats, and sold a groat
many, my two littlo brothers carrying them
to the nearest town, which waa ton mile* dis
tant. I remember once when a lot of hate
were ready they tore early that morning and
found tho ground revered with enow-tho
only snow I over saw In Lonlslana-but they
Insisted npon going, and shouldering their
bag of bate started ont ohoorfaliy on tb.ir
twenty mile walk, thinly dad and without
slices. On their return that night they found
tiny had left their little dog In town, and th*
next morning one of the ko>s went bock alono
over the lorg. lonely road, hand tho dug and
relumed tho same day. Aa for clothes, wbea
l think ef some of our cortumcs of thoso days,
1 realize how the Ingenuity of tho mother
must havo been taxed merely to cover her
largo Aeck. I will remember a drear aha
made mo out of a window curtain It hod
bright flowers on It as large as dessert plates,
tnd I was as proud as a neacack of that showy
garment. Ooreaconpleofmattrreies, ruthlessly
sacrificed to tba needs of tho homo, furnished
a tnlt around for tho boys, shirt and pants,
somewhat want in material and soggeotlra In
design, but highly apprecittod by tho wearers
In spits of frequent allusions to tho peni
tentiary.
hbsots, tablecloth*, window certains and
bedspreads, all were transformed into ciotblog,
but there tsan end toall things, and tbo latt
resource 1 timber iu that lluo was a lot of
otsaborgh meal bigs, obtained, no doubt, by
•emeatroDUouaexcrtlonsof ih so arrao excre
tive abilities, which robed tho entire crowd of
ns la garments dsslgnrd in tho catting with a
view tooor rapid growth and tha uncertainty
of a future supply. Uhoes wo never
thought of; my mother and tout mods
cloth shore far themselves, or by dint of mueh
bargaining occartonally got a pair made by
soma of the country women, rough, crane
leather shoe* bat v< rj valuable in wot or cold
weather. Our feet were turned out to grow in
unstrained freedom, regardless of season or
weather. Only euco did wo get any "bought
shore,'' and that was at tho time of tha eracu.
atlcnof Jackson, Mitt. My mother happened
to b* there at the time, an business, and saw
tbo itrrets stiown with girds from the stores
We had some family nogrore hired out lu
Jackson, and they gave her tome
the spoilt that had fallen to tu<i_
pins, medics, thread and) buttou, than
objects of prlcclsrs value, and alto
a reckless assortment of shoes, with which, on
her return, wo woro proudly invostad. A pdr
of boy's brogsnt, about three also* too lugs,
fall to my share, and when my (mall fret Wore
daly Intuited In their roomy quarters I wot
prouder of them than I have ever btea of a
pair of abore since. Oece ma and aunt C.cou-
dudtd they would learn to weave, but when
th»y anxiously inquired of a weaving neighbor
how long It woold take to learn, and were
promptly informed"*Ufotimo/'they renounced
tht project aa altogether chimerical, sad re
lumed to their turning and twitting, devising
and Inventing. They onot made a gorgooat
ovtrdttitof * lace curtain and told It for a
fazey price to an enraptured young woman far
a wedding dreoa, and to it weal on to tht und
of tbo chapter.
Bat ou hardest mbs wore not In th* matter
of clotbre; wo oonld, tnd certainly did, do on
veiy little clothing in that eUmato; It wo* tba
Mtfagtbat brought tho tug ot war, and It
weald take a volume to relate our oxporloaeos
l>> that line. Fleur, augur and eoffa*, wo novae
saw; moat w« had only about half tb* tin*,
and thought ounalvca fortunate when w* hod
encash mesh Thor* was only one mill withlu
rreek of tho community, managed solely by a
little, boat, shriveled old woman, who iooko i
liko a veritable witch as aha sat
knitting on • narrow platform
ova tbo water, made by two or three boards
loosely laid down. Fully half tha time tho
mill waa out of order or tbe water too lov or
scmethlrg tb* matter, and than there would
not b* a piece of brood la tb* oommnally, and
we would have to live on brilad or parohod
ecru; and sometimos wo did not bare that;
sen e'.imes w* had nothing In tha world but
sweet potatoes. Often wo did not have aerate
of salt We children would tat aaythiag aud
every thing that canto la ou way. I remember
ozes the boys caaght n largo fish of th* kind
known u alligator gar,by no means considered
a desirable variety, and whan ma refused
to cook It w* hrilod it in
th* wash pot with aboat a pock
af Irish potatoes and shallots ant badanoc*
tonal outdoor faoat with gnat JoUtyand sub-
scqosat generalfhoUremorbcsJWo aboat Otar-
motet tb* rabbits and even Mot try land tor-
t'mrr.” Tbo railroad was torn up, tho tele
graph wires destroyed, no mails, no commuuf.
cation with tbo outer wold wrier, so many we
loved wero facing dextb. D -■ af.er_day the
o iler ones tat In darkness with heavy, jjytert
hearts, wailing far news that sel
dom came. I remombtr welt h.-v
ene night a letter or piper came
and ay father, who was then at home, read
aloud that Stonewall Jackson wot dead, as 1
then dropped his bead upon the bare table and
wept, whilo we children stood around awe-
•truck. Impressed, feeling vaguely that some
dread caltadty had fatten .omewhere. And
there were dark days whou the shadow of sor
row foil even upon our young hearts and we
realized that war ww in truth a mighty and a
feaifol thing. Aud the memories of that ttmo
will dwell forever In my mind, like the re
membrance of some strange, sod dream.
Vinawia fa. Boxsaix.
Laurel Bill, Kin.
A Sentry lu Skirts.
From the Beaton Traveler.
Doling enr severe ecsson sor.o forty years
spo—s winter remarkable lor its long and iue'e-
menf froit, experienced with equal rigor throngh-
ont Italy, France and Germany, where the largest
rivers were rapidly conysalcd, and people rent to
fell dead wilb cold—in ihe French tire:: of Me
s poor renlitel v a- rent upon guard on ons of the
bilirrert nkhtr, when a fierce north wind sided
to the ntrial cold. Hu watch vroa in* the
most exposed situation of the place, and he hid
rcarcely recovered from a scvcrolndtsposlilon: hat
ho ws s a soldier and declared hts readiness to take
his ronnd.
It chanced that he was betrothed to t yonng wo
man of the nine city, who no sooner heard of hts
being on duty than she began to lament bitterly,
declaring it lo be Iropo-sibie for htm to rarvivo tho
lnsniTerabtoecverliyofauchan ght, alter tlio ill-
nc»s tinder which ho sliil lingered.
Maddened at the idea, and heedlers of con-e-
quence., she hastily clothed herself at warmly as
sire could, ran out cf the house attuned not for
ftomthe place of the watch, aud with th: utmost
courage arrived alono at the spot. And there she
indeed found her poor soldier, nearly exhausted as
she bad Imagined, being with difficulty able to
keep bis feet, owing to tbe inttnvness of Ihe frost
Bho earnestly conjured him to hasten, ihoueh oaly
for a little white to revive himself at her house,
when, having taken cemo reireshmeuts he might
return, but awaro of the cauieqnenees of such a
step, this ho kindly though resolutely refused to
do,
"Suppose I can do It with impunity," said the
soldier, "Is it noble or honorable ihin to abandon
my peat without anyone upou guard';"
"but there will be tome one; If you consent togo
I will remtln here until you return. Iain mt in
Ihotosst aftald; to be quick, and glvouo your
This request ahe en fort-fed with so much elo
quence and teuderuers and so many tears that tho
poor soldier, against hit better Judgment, was fain
to yield, more especially at bo ioit himself becom
ing fainter tnd ialutcr and unable much longer
resist tbe oold.
Intending to return within a few minute*, „„
left the klnd-heaatcd girl In hts place, wrtnned
ber th blsclcak and girlug her hts arms sad
»P, together with the watchword, and rush w„
ter delight at tho ldc. of saving the tile ol her be
loved, that shewut for * time lnseusible to the In
tenie severity ol tho weather.
But Just ss rhe-was nattering honelf with tho
hope of hts return, tn oltlcer made hit appearance,
who, as she forgot In her confusion to give the
sign, suspected that tho soldier had either fatten
asleep or lied. What w as hts surprise on rushlug
to tbe spot to find a young girl overpowered with
alarm and unablotoglve any account of herself
item ber extreme agitation and tears.
Being Instantly conducted to tha guard house
«nd restored to some degroo of oanfldeucs, the
poor girt confessed the whole truth, soliciting with
Ire anguish of doubt sod distraction, * pardon for
her betrothed husband. Be was Instantly sum
moned Dorn her house, but was found iu such a
state of weakness ftom tho tnlTerings he hid un
dergone ts to leave little prospect of his surviving
Ultra. It wts with much difficulty, with theat-
ilettuce of medical advice, that he was restored
sufficiently to give tn Intelliilble account of him-
self, titer which ho wts placed to close oonttne-
mentto await trial
"Far happier had It been for me,” he exclaimed,
on being restored to consdousneit, "far happier
to have Olid at my post than fobs thus reserved
for a rrtitl «Ld ignominiousdMth.”
And tho day of trial coming on, inch wa* thopo-
He.re’we .jjy oflho mar'iti law, as ho had well
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Combines, tn a manner peenflar to Itself, th*
best hlood-purllylng and strengthening reme
dies of the vegetable kingdom. Ton will And
this wonderful remedy effectlvs where othet
medicines have failed. Try It now. It will
purity your blood, rrgulat* the dlgnsttoii
and giro new life aud vigor to the entire body,
"Hood's Sarsaparilla did mo great goods
I ww tired out from overwork, and It toned
me up." Mbs. a. E. SrMwoKa, Cohoea, H. f.
"I suffered three years from blood poison.
I took Hood's Sarsaparilla and think X
cored," Uns. M.J. Davis, Brockport. If. X.
Purifies the Blood, •
’Hood’s BsrsaparlHa to characterized if
three pecultaiitlea t 1st, tha eomMiurfton ot
remedial agents i Sd, the proportion/ ad, tha
proctor of securing tn* active madr.i..|
qualities. The result to a medicine of mnnal
strength, effecting cores hitherto unknown, t
Beni tor book containing additional evidence.' '
eglster of Deeds, Lowell, Has*
“Hood’s Sarsaparilla beats all others, and
Mood’s Sarsaparilla ‘
Bold by all druggist*. Si; tlx for (9. xr*s»
.only by a fa HOOD fa CO., Lowell, Mass.
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andwHbout tut, nnnu or uumasms t|
HU, by th* mathod ot Dr. B. H. East. Author Cf
Draft thftt Knil*r*, M (Pub. Lindsay k BUklaUm*
Uk.; Odieri/tira Sack with andoraamaata hySOOphyt
mavl*-m**W
title >
repiss, tbongh I, for my pul did not like the
fit TV. I think w* snroly eat every thing that
was ever eaten before or since.
At: They were desk days, those “my
rctoetu, Ibst be wts condemned tone executed
wiihro a few days sfter his sentence.
Gris’ as was bit afltetloa ou hearingthcsethlngs,
it was tittle in lompartson with tho romono and
terror list distracted the breast of hhbeloved girl,
who, In addition lo tbe grief of kuing him iu to
public tnd Ignominious a manner, accused herself
ss tire reuse of Hre whole calamity. Ho to whom
sic hud been so tong and tendefly attached was
now to fell, as it were by tho hand of hts betrothod
bride.
Such waa the atraugeneta and aaddenne*! of the
etent that ber feeling*, being wrought up to tho
high cat pitch of excitation and terror, her very oe-
apuir ecciDcd logiTohcratrcngthand, casting all
fear of comequcnco aaide, ahe made a roar to save
him orpeslfh in thtf attempt. Bitterly weeping
and uitb OUhelveled hair, ahe ran wildly through
tho city, beseeching pity and compaatlou from all
her fritnda and acquaintaucca, aud aoUoUUu
and influence to unite tu pa-
P^I d0 V for .K 0r 1 ? ver ' or ***** her
life, *be being the aolc author of tno fault, might
be accepted in the place of hir. 8
The cmumstancea being nude known each wai
USSR'S? 1 °9 n »P?!2 ,on excited lu her bo
half, and aut h the admiration of ber conduct, at
an<1 that persons of
thehiaheat talk Iccaino intereattU for her. aud
used the meat laudable effort* to obtain a pard.m
.'? 1 n 1<r The ladle* of ihe ulaco alao
exeiUd tht-ir influenco; ihe gorernor, no linger
proof aftainatthutoirentof publ'n tecllog. graauai
him itrgiveitta on the rendition of hla being
united to the heron, and noble hearted girl, and
eceeptlug with her a until donation—an example
which waa aurccily followed by people of every
rank, »o that the young br.de had the addltlomu
pleasure of prefect *ng her licloved with a hand-
aoint dower, which aathfi&d their moderate wlih os
and crowned their humble h'jppinea*.
Bow Genera! Wm. H. Lytle Diet!#
Ftom the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
It Is a fact that General Wm. H. Lytle had
on, when he fell at CbJckamauga, a pair of new
black kid glove*. One or the confederate officers
who knew him well, and aaw him within a few
minute*after his death, related the fact ton*.
We refer to Captain William*, son of Dr. William?,
of College Bill. Dr. William* waa a very earneat
antUlavery man, but hla aon had southern assort*
alien* and Joined the confederate army. Another
incident of tha death of Lytle h that he had a
cigar In hla mouth, one of a handful that had been
given him by Major Bind, ol Ro-ecrana'a a:aj,
Tbe gallant Lytic waa In the thick of the storm,
and knew it, and bandied hla brigade with tno
greatest intelligence until hit death. Flo had re-
ruxdto dhmoUr.t when struck by four ball?-*
whole platoon of Mlwlnlppfana firing upon “the
man on the hone," who waa conspicuous above
ibr tazei btuhea in which tha deadly struggle
took puce. _______
A Belle of the War.
From Ibe Lculaville Courier-Journal.
About three week* ago, a mountaineer on.
gaged in pealing tan bark on Tiue mountain, a
few miles below this point, found a confederate
cffictr'a sword secreted under a ledge of rock ;
Notwithstanding the long luterval that hai eUpaea
six ce the part It played m the tragedy that wa?
ae somber mouuttt'ua, the «word
b signs of once being a bea ittful
weal on.
History fails to record the r*.*t. but *tla a fart,
nivertbclews that in the (iulof Ml. while Gan.‘ral
Kirby fraith wa>Ml!i iu po s«m.-(oj of aoutheant .ra
Krntu« ky, and Cumberland Gap wa? held by the
nceral*. a skirmish took place between snitti
fr rtvaef the two arnica on tho summit of P ut*
m untaiL—mutant ihrte mile* from the prea-ut
viWat«- c f JeHlc<s Tenn , then known by the na.he
ot fc'miibburg.
i re tb> »c who fell on that memorable Srp-
frn.bvi dey wm the ojmmacder of tne confedento
force*, w ho*e rank wm that of a captain, bur wh ne
rame or residence wm never known dtfiuit-!y, al-
thonahromeof the nniire eiluezu cUi ae! 'he
tro -.pa were ftom Richmond and Lexiugtou, K n-
tccky; others said they were HteiwlppUns Pe
that aa it may.’tiaan nndiBpnte*l fact that the
cword bekmged to the dead captain, tor a m xm-
taii ctr, who waa an eye witne«i of ihe t* ;ie, aai 1
that he aaw one of the conM«rAtee t.»
word when lhe officer fell, and run down the »l le
cmrajof
BiIiou5BQ55.
SympIoiEj:
Want of Appetite.
Furred Tongue.
Bitter Taste. /
Constipation.
Headache. *'
General Depression.
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