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FARMS AND FARMERS.
SHORT TAIK6 WITH THE MEN WHO
GVIDE THE FLO JF.
Many Questions About the Farm Answered
by the Agricultural Editor of The
Weekly Constitution.
Please look ahead and send In inquiries
early—ordinarily an answer may not be ex
pected under three weeks. Never request
an answer by mail; the editor has no time
to spare for writing private letters.
Never ask where an article can be nan or
the price. Editors have no better sources
of information about these than other peo
ple. The editor has nothing for sale and is
not Interested in anything advertised in
the paper.
Questions of any character concerning the
farm will bo cheerfully answered by the
editor of this department. Inquirers will
please make their questions clear and to the
point. The editor of this department will
give all questions close research and will
give the readers of The Constitution the
benefit of any Information that eau be ob
tained on all questions propounded.
Address communications for tills depart
ment to THE CONSTITUTION,
Farm and Farmers' Dept.) Atlanta, Ga.
Silos and Ensilage.
In the north and northwest the building
of silos and the use of ensilage have come
to be recognized and approved as very im
portant, If not necessary, adjuncts to suc
cessful stock-feeding and dairying. There
are still a few farmers in those sections
who nre reluctant to give up their objections
and to fall in with the new idea, and a
very few who stoutly hold out in favor of
dry h >y and forage as superior to ensilage.
The tendency has been for many years to
cease io rely so much on pasturage and
more <>n green soiling, which means simply
the cutting and feeding green forage to
animals in their stalls, or yards, instead of
permitting or requiring the stock to
gather it for' themselves. It requires no
great amount of experience to convince any
one that it is a more profitable use of
both land and live stock to remove the crops
from the land by machinery and feed it to
th. live stock in their mangers and rucks,
than to pasture the lands and make the
st; k do their own harvesting. In doing
tiii.-, it was soon found that it is an easy
matter to produce more green forage than
can be consumed by stock while in its
ti, h green state. The first resort, in order
to utilize tiie surplus and store it for winter
feeding, was to cure it into hay and drj
the very plants that are most
pre b: live cf ri li, nutritious and palatable
gre> n to< d, and that are the easiest to grow,
tr> (ho-e that are difficult to properly cure
into drj forage. For instance, Indian corn,
the latter millets, sorghums, pea vines,
et . <r, os that are more or less difficult
to cute for dry keeping, are at the same
time tiie most productive and valuable
c ops i t green soiling. Twenty years ago
t) orn forage, the result of sowing
corn in drills on rich land at the rate of
three bushels of seed to the acre, and
cutting and curing the product for winter
use, was all the rage. We remember very
a ell that the venerable ex-Senator Joseph
L, Brown was an ardent advocate of cured
corn forage, and was induced to publish
his < xperienee for the benefit of the public.
The writer tried it. but found that the
trouble was, first, the difficulty of curing
the .long succulent stalks with certainty,
ex.-ept under the most favorable conditions
of weather, and, second, the forage was
not very nutritious nor particularly palat
able.
These ideas led gradually to the develop
mint < f the idea of ensilage, which Is, sub
stantially, a substitution of the canning
I>n« (as in fruits and vegetables) instead
if the obi plan of sun-drying. One of the
most remarkable features relating to the
use of ensilage is the exceptional fondness
of nil live stock for It, both in summer and
winter. A cow will generally eat the ensi
lage portion of her daily ration, if she
can get it separately, before she will touch
anj thing else. She will come in from a rich
bermuda grass pasture after a day's
grazing, and "go for” the ensilage ration
as if she w< re really hungry. Another prae
ration is tha t
In cutting up the green forage and putting
It into the silo pit. we are practically Inde
pendent of the weather. It makes no differ
in how wet th' corn is when cut, or
how w- t it is when it goes into the pit.
The first silos were shallow pits in the
earth, and this method is perhaps as old
as the Christian era. Afterwards these pits
Were lined v !th masonry. At first it was
: id v ry naturally) to
place heavy weights on the ensilage; but, as
th • silos came to be much deeper (twenty
to thirty f. • t deeper) the weighting was
fi in I to b" unnecessary. The great incon
v ni< ' ee o! the-" underground pits was the
c ulty of getting out the daily supplies
f ■ f, ling. This was abbreviated to some
ext'Tt by building an addition of wood on
top f tli" stone or brick silo, which brought
a part of the silage above ground. It. was
obsorv.'l that the portion above ground,
ig enclos'd by wooden walls, kept just
as w. 11 as the portion below the ground
and encased in brick or stone. These were
tw<> important discoveries, and led to the
I .1 lirg of silos entirely of wood and en
tirely. above ground, and the use of ele
vating machinery (carriers) to carry the
ensilage as fast as it is cut to the top of
the si 5, how iver high from the ground.
A- io has been in use at the Georgia
ex, riment station for two years past. The
results are entirely, satisfactory. The sta
tion silo mat serve as a model to guide in
(he construction of silos by farmers, and
the station will shortly publish a full de
p. Option of the plan there used, with such
in< iifi itions as experience there and else
where have shown to be desirable.
R. J. REDDING.
FARM AND QUESTION BOX.
Various Subjects on Which tho Farmers
Ask Information.
A Subscriber, Fannie, Ala.—l have some O.
I. ('. pigs which are Infested slightly with
lice. Please give me some simple remedy
to destroy them. (2) What makes a gqod
winter pasture for hogs.
(1) Wash each animal with soft soap and
wat< r. Then apply crude petroleum all over
th.? body with a sponge. Give daily for some
days one-half drachm of copperas to each
hog. An ointment of lard and Scotch snuff
is also good. A very simple insecticide
for lice is to litter the sleeping quarters
plentifully with green walnut leaves, first
thoroughly cleaning away and burning old
litter. <•-> Orchard grass and red clover;
also burr clover.
J T. M., Tate Springs, Tenn.—What is the
difference between Bermuda grass and the
common wire grass? Please answer in the
next number of The Constitution.
The name ‘‘Wire Grass” is applied to
rery different grasses in different sections
us the country, bermuda itself being called
by that name. Probably the grass you
designate as wire grass is paspalum distic
huni, or joint grass, there being considera-
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da to am ordinary observer.
The paspalum takes root at the joints like
bermuda, and is perennial, but its color
is bluish green, and it always bears two
short seed spikes about one to one and a
half inches long on each upright stem,
while bermuda grass has from three to
live longer and much more slender spikes.
If you will send a sample in bloom of the
grass you designate as “wire grass,” we
will take pleasure in identifying it.
J. C. C., Calhoun, Ala.—l am a sub
scriber. This is my first letter. Will you
please give me a remedy to take warts off
of a colt’s nose. They are as thick as they
cun stick of little rough warts.
We have given directions for removing
warts repeatedly. See last week's Consti
tution, F. and F. department.
Subscriber, Fort Deposit, Ala. —Please ad
vise me through the columns of your paper
what is the best grass for lands shaded by
large oaks on sandy soil without lime.
When is the time to plant? Is there a grass
that will grow summer and winter without
replanting? Give quantity of seed to be
used and how planted.
Try fall meadow oats, one bushel, of red
topi one bushel, perennial rye, onehait
bushel, white clover, tour pounds per acre.
Make the land rich by good manuring and
sow in October. All of the above are peren
nial grasses and all grow in the winter.
R. C. S.. Moffattsville. S. C.— 1. Will you
or some reader of The Constitution tell
me which is the best manure for growing
big turnips?
2. Which turnip is known to grow the
largest?
Is the middle of July too soon to plant?
1 1. A fertilizer composed of one-third acid
phosphate one-third kianit and one-third
nitrate of soda. In other words, a potasli
ammonia phosphate, containing, say, 8
per cent of phosphoric acid, 5 per cent of
potash and 2 per cent of ammonia. 2. W e
do not know. The large white globe has
made our largest, but we have never tried
for the “biggest” turnip. 3. Yes, except
rutabagas.
W. J. R., Macon Ga.—Will it do to seed
burr clover with oats, and when should it
be done in this latitude?
.Burr clover should be sown in July or
August—better in July or earlier, as It re
quires a long time for the tough burrs to
soften and decay sufficient to allow the
seed to germinate. The plants begin to ap
pear in September and continue to come
up during the fall and early winter, in
April it blooms, perfects its seeds ini May
and then dies. The chief use of the plant
is winter grazing. Vetch would be better,
as tiie vines of tills plant will climb on tile
out stalks and the two may be harvested
together. Not less than four or live bushels
(eight pounds of burr per bushel) should be
sewn per acre, in order to get a. fair stand.
Ten bushels would be belter, but the seed
are dear, costing two or three dollars per
bushel.
W. H. S., Dixie, La.—Will ycu or some
of your subscribers give me a sure method
by which 1 can kill chicken hawks? 1 have
taken off several hundred this spring, and
•In: hawks have caught at least one-third
of them. I have tried giving the chickens
one tablespoonful powdered mix vomica to
one-fourtfi gallon of meal. 1 have also tried
strychnine mixed with syrup and rubbed
on chickens’ head and neck; yet the hawks
come. Is there any poison that I can give
the chicken that will not kill It, but get
Mr. Hawk? Please answer this through
the columns of your valuable paper, of
which I am a subscriber.
We are sorry we have no specific to offer.
Our reliance, when living on the farm, was
a good gun and a steady alm. Some recom
mend a steel trap baited with a chicken.
We have always heard that nux vomica
would kill biids that are “hatched with
their eyes open,” but we have never veri
fied the rule, and doubt its correctness.
We do hope some one will give a certain
remedy that is cheap and practical.
c A R., Auburn, Ala.—Enclosed please
find a couple of samples of a plant which
vou will oblige me by giving the propel
iian e I presume it is milleotus, but .mi
not sure. The seed from which it grew
were sent to me by a friend from Mon -
L'diury, Ala., under the name of attaint,
but Is lucerne, with which I have bwii
familiar for many years. Me have nt
lucerne growing with this; it is a n,u s h
ccarser and more vigorous plant than lu
cerne. At first I thought 1 recognized an
old acquaintance that covered about lair
an acre that spread from our old garden
in my uncle's farm, which would
eat I have b?en giving this to our cows
in the stable and they seem to relish it
very much. Its habits are very much the
Fame as lucerne, but it groves nu* li larger
end more rapidly. I want to increase tiie
ciop if I can save the seed.
The plant is xnelllotus alba, or sweet
clover, the common name being due to the
fact that the cured plant is very fragrant.
It resembles lucerne to the eye of an ordi
nary observer, but it has white tlowers on
long racemes, while the lucerne has purple
tlowers. It does not require so rich a soil as
lucerne, and it is more hasrdy, but not near
ly so valuable. It makes considerable show
on account of its height (three or lour lei t),
but the foliage is sparse, and the stem soon
becomes hard and woody. Cattle will eat
it in small quantity, but it is better mixed
with other hay. It is also called Bokhara
clover.
B. A., Rex. Ga.—What do you know
about perennial clover and the Southern
Seed Company, at Launns. S. <’.’? You
will pleas' answer the above; they are
agents selling the clover seed, and we
farmers are buying as usual anything new.
and I would like to know something about
the seed besides what the agents say.
We do not know what species is meant
by “perennial” clover, there being several
species of clover that are perennial. We
suspect it is the Swedish clover, or trifolium
hytridum, as this is being sold in some
places by agents traveling through the
country. We do not know anything about
tiie Southern Seed Company, at Laurens.
S. C. Can you send the botanical name?
Tiie word perennial is a taking name, but
there are a great many perennial plants
that are no better for that.
C. A. R.— 1. Many good farmers hold to
the theory that cotton does not grow at
night, but rather goes to sleep. Is this a
fact?
2. Can you say what is the average cost
of raising a pound of sugar in this country
and the estimated cost of refining it?
1. Plants generally, and we presume that
the cotton j’lant is 'not an exception,
grow at night as well as in tiie day. Tiie
growth is most rapid about sunrise, and
diminishes as the day advances until even
ing, again increasing as the darkness
comes on, often before sunset, and this
increase of growth rapidly continues until
after sunrise, when the maximum is again
reached.
2. We cannot give the desired informa
tion.
W. B. L.. Estill, S. C.—l have a mule
that is rather singularly affected, and I
would tie glad if you could tell me what is
her trouble and what to do- for her. She is
about ten years old and has never been
sick before, but has not been able to do
anything since last winter. She has large,
hard lumps growing on the inside of both
fore knees as large a.s a goose egg. I sent
, some negroes with her and another mule
for a load of lumber last summer. They put
nearly as much as should have been put
on for two loads, and when they got to
the first sand bed in the road the mules
could not pull the wagon through. After
working to get them off from 4 o’clock p.
in. to 8 o’clock p. m. they came home with
the mules, leaving the wagon in the road,
and it has always been my opinion that the
mule was hurt by being strained, for she
has been gradually getting worse ever since
that day. No one here can tell what is the
trouble, and I would be glad if you would
tell me what to do for her, as I only had
two and the other one has since died.
You have described what is called splint
very well, and we judge that is the trouble.
A splint nearly always occurs on the fore
leg, and generally from one to three inches
below the knee joint on the inside of tiie
leg. and is caused by slipping, jumping,
hard pulling, etc. Very few hard-working
horses are free from splints. You should
have gone to work on them as soon as
discovered, by bathing in hot water and
then follow with a lotion of 1 ounce of
muriate of ammonia, 1 ounce of saltpeter
and 1 quart of water. This should be con
tinued two or three times a day, until all
soreness has gone. Then blister by rubbing
well in ',4 ounce of cantharides (powdered),
1 drachm of biniodine of mercury and 2
ounces of lard. Another good application is
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G. AV., Columbia, Ga.—Will you please
inform me as to the best time to sow
vetch seed for a pasture in early spring?
Would it lie practicable to sow seed on a
bermuda sod, and harrow in, so when the
vetch gives out tiie bermuda will take its
place as summer pasture, and, also, will
it reseed itself if left a continuous pasture?
At what time will it be advanced enough
to be grazed? What would be Its value,
as a hay, compared to bermuda or crab
grass?
2. How is cat-tail millet seed threshed
from the head for market, and can Ger
man millet be threshed in an ordinary grain
thresher?
3. Will the foliage of castor oU bean in
jure stock?
1. The proper time to sow vetch seed is
in the early fall, at the beginning of tiie
fall rains, say the last of August or early
in September. It is perfectly practicable
to sow vetch seed on bermuda sod, and thus
secure a winter pasture and a summer pas
ture in the same field. But it will be neces
sary to take the stock off the field about
the Ist of April, so as to permit the vetch
to make seed to reseed the land, as it is
an annual. The time when it will do to
graze will depend on the seasons in the
early full and winter, and the fertility of
the soil, say from December Ist to May
Ist, affording from three to fbur months’
grazing during winter. The value of vetch
hay is about 24 against bermuda 15, and
crab grass hay 12.
2. We. do not know what means are em
ployed to thresh the clean pearl, or cat
tail millet, but do not doubt that a spike
thresher could do the work well, as it will
on German millet. Peter Henderson & Co.,
New York, will probably inform you.
3. Not that we are aware of. We would
not think of sowing vetch seed in the
spring. Run a cut-away harrow over the
bermuda sod in August, or very early in
September, sow the seed one-half bushel
per acre, and run a smoothing harrow
over it.
J. 13. P., Maxon’s Mills, Ky.—Please in- I
fmin me the best season of the year to sow I
alfalfa clover.
2. The character of land best adapted to
its production. , .
3. Can it be made a profitable crop in this
portion of Kentucky?
4. How would it grow after cow peas.
'lhis country is low and flat in most of its
extent and subject to drought; has a clay
stratum about two to four feet beneath
its surface, which is impenetrable to water
and as alfalfa is very dt- p rooted, I would
supp< se it would first require previous deep
rooted vegetation to give it a start. What
is best? ~
5. What causes the intermittent light
from what is called the lightning bug?
6. Whore can I obtain a copy of Lee s
Agricultural Chemistry?
1 In your latitude it would
probably be better to sow al
falfa (lucerne) in March. It Is
very successfully sown in Georgia. In Sep
tember and October, and even as late as
November; but a severe freeze, without
the protection of a covering of snow, would i
be apt to kill the plants when very young
and tender. You may best judge of this
point when informed that the young plants
are about as hardy a.s those of red clover.
If you can risk the latter sow In Septem
ber; you may also risk lucerne sown at the I
same time.
2 A rich, deep sandy land is best for It, I
but it will succeed on any rich soil, pro- 1
vided the under drainage be good. The I
roots descend very deeply Into the soil,
there must be no stagn ini ’’.."i"!' In ,
the subsoil. The soil should also be as
clear as possible of seeds of grass and other
weeds, as the young lucerne plants are
very weak at first, and liable to be over
run by weeds the first year. .
3. Yes, without doubt.
4. A crop of cow peas is not a specially
good preparatory crop, but It would do
very well. Lucerne Is very similar to red
clover in its requirements. Such land as
you describe would not suit very well, un
less under drained. It is much deeper root
ed than the cow pea, and perennial at
that.
5 The intermittent flashes of light given
cu' by a so-called“lightning”bug are caused
by the secretion by the luminous organs
of the insect —of phosphureted hydrogen,
which is oxydized by the admission ot
air at tiie will of the insect.
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be convinced.
To I’nt I p Cucumbers and llemiH.
Corinth, Miss., July 10, 1804.—1 read in the
Question Box 1, June 25th W. D. C., Harell
Miss., wants to know how to put up cu
cumbers and string beans. This is a good
way: .String the beans when tender—corn
field beans are the best -slice the long way
through the middle when all done. One
bushel is not too many for an ordinary
family. Fut in boiling water and let them
boil live minutes, then drain by laying them
on a table covered with cloth; let cool; then
get jar or cask; put in layers one handful
of beans, then salt alternately until the
vessel is full press down with rock and look
after. Once in a while the scum has to
be washed off. When ready to cook soak
over night. Cucumbers are put up with salt
brine strong enough to hold up an egg.
It gives a good flavor if grape leaves are
put in with them. Soak over night in
salt and vinegar and add some red pepper.
I hope this receipt will be published. It is
an old French receipt.
I'oacliiiig; for Eprgsi.
The historian of Marlborough college, a
famous preparatory school in England,
says that egg collecting was formerly a
great pastime among the boys. Os course
there was much rivalry, and a lively deter
mination on the part of certain of the more
successful boys 'to outdo their fellows. One
such collector had his eye upon a piece of
marsh some distance up the river, in which
he believed a pair of coots to have begun
breeding. At the risk of being caught as a
poacher, he made up .his mind to secure
the eggs. To reach the withy bed on
which his suspicions were fastened, it was
necessary to cross the river.
Having made reasonably sure that the
coast was clear, he took off his shoes and
stockings, and waded across the stream.
Once over, he had no great difficulty in
finding the nest and securing the eggs.
But at that moment the keeper appeared.
There was no question of getting into
boots and stpekings. The boy seized them
in his hand, put the two eggs into his
stiff, peaked cap, and started for the road.
Ho reached it about twenty yards in ad
vance of his pursuer; and then began a
race, which, as he says, he shall remember
to his dying day.
His bare feet were a help to him at first,
but the hard flint road soon began to tell
upon him. To run was torture; to stop
would be worse; and he kept on, the
keeper’s hobnails thundering behind him.
On and on he went, gaining slowly upon
the dogged keeper, who did not allow him
elf to be shaken off, however, till the col
lege was close at hand. As the boy shot
through the gate the dinner bell rang.
. There was no time for ceremony. The
eggs, naturally enough, were broken, and
the sticky and unsavory mess had filled
his hair and was trickling down his face
and neck.
The breathless collector put his bleeding
feet into his boots, plastered down his
hair and took his place in the hall!
ARP ON STRIKES.
EIRE SAYS RET EVARYJIOHY QUIT
WORK FOR A WHIRR.
Agitators Have to do Something to Inter
est tiie Boys or Their Salaries Would
Not be Paid —Other Matters.
We are crowded now. What with all
the ramifications of the big strike, the
wide-spread war between capital and labor,
tiie miserable contention over the tariff
bill and the red-hot strife of candidates for
office, our weak minds are kept on a con
tinual strain. Every trade or occupation
has got a union now, even to tiie barbers
and the newsboys, and if these unions don’t
strike or boycott something occasionally
the boys get lukewarm and quit paying
their dues and that cuts off the salaries
of the officers, and so they must get up a
carousement to fire up the boys again.
It is like the great monarchies of Europe.
When their people get restless and discon
tented and threaten the government the
monarch gets up a little war with some
other nation and that unites the people and
kills off the surplus. Suppose we all strike
for a little while and swear off from any
kind of work unless we can get more for
it. Let the newspapers strike against the
newsboys and quit publishing papers. Let
the railroads stop running. Let the mer
chants quit buying and selling. Let all the
manufactories close up for awhile. Let us
all wear our old clothes and live off our
gardens. Capital is just as good as labor
and brains are better than both. It takes
all three to keep the world going and if
they cannvt get along in peace let us dis
solve the partnership awhile and every
body and everything get on a strike. But
thaf wouldent do. Just think of the poor;
not the farmers nor the laborers on the
railroads and in the workshops, but the
poor women and children who toil in the
cotton mills or at the needle in some miser
able garret—the sewing women in the great
cities who make our garments lor a mere
trifle and who still sing “The S.ng of the
Shirt.” Who is striking for them? No
body. It is not the very poor who are
raising all this racket. It is the able-bodied
men who have employment at living
wages. 1 heard a farmer say yesterday
that they could get along if not
so high, and no doubt his laborers aie
growling because wages are not higher,
and so it goes. The farmer grumbles be
| ci use wheat is down to 60 cents a bushel
mid the laborer would reduce it to 50 cents
' if lie could. And yet all classes who are
not rich enough to live without work sym
pathize with the strike, and in its last
analysis the prime cause is envy and self
ishness. How rich will a man be allowed
to get and still have the good will of his
poorer neighbors? How poor must a man
get before he will help and pity
of the rich?
But every day the press ventilates the
whole business and everybody knows an
about it. . . , .
It was a relief when Mrs. Arp told me
this morning she wanted that big red ou
that stood near the corner of tiie carden
cut down. I’ve been hinting about that a
long time, but she is opposed to cutting
down shade trees, and so 1 never argued
the case at all. I never do. Some years ago
I proposed to thin out the trees in the fiont
yard, but she objected. While she was 0.l
to Rome on a visit I got the boys and we
cut down three of them level with the
ground and didn’t leave a sign of a stump,
and we hauled away every chip and scrap
and covered tiie places with grass and she
never found it out for two months, and
wouldn't have then, but one ot the mis
chievous girls remarked one da> lhat ue
dident use to see the hills as i>lmn as \ <
do now, and my wife caught on to the
business right away. Hhe always does- But
She suggested th.S morning that that oalc
would have to come down aim it would
give us more garden. As woman som-dinies
changes her mind. I went at it like Killing
isn."Kcß. 'rhe trunk of tlit‘ Ll’Ve Wil s pet
dk-iiar. J know it was, lor I plmd.V it.
I tied a pair of big scissors to a stung and
stood off and sighted and was sure it
fall up the tdll where I wanted it. It it
went down the nil! it would tall across mj
own fence ami across the narrow lane and
onto the widow’s fence and smash up th'
fruit trees in her lot. So to be sure I climb
ed the ladder and sawed olf some big
limbs on tiiat side, and I knew that the
limbs on th" other side would pull it that
wav. I sharpened tiie ax and then I and
I'ncle Sam went to work. When it was
most down the good widow, who is our neai
est neighlio-' and lives alone in her cottage,
came along and looked anxiously at what
we were doing. 1 assured her Hie tree yias
bound to fall up the hill on my side, < nd
so she went on to spend tiie day at a
friend’s, and we chopped on a little more.
Tiie wind was blowing quite a breeze, and
I got my plumb and sighted again. J hen
I sighted the top in line with another tree,
and' told Uncle Sum to chop some more.
Bv and by I saw it was moving a little
up the hill -and all right. It s going all
right, Uncle Sam,” said 1. ’Let her go—
give another lick or two on tiie lower cor
ner.” Just then the wind got up almost
a mile anil before we could say Jack Rob
inson ’it sent timt tree crashing down onto
fences and orchards and into my corn
natch and just tore things all to pieces
. generally. “Dar now,” said Uncle Sam, and
■•there now” was echoed from the back
door, where my wife and the girls were
watching, "it. was the wind, said I. i
reckon it was gravity. ’ said my v.ile They
guyed me almost as had as the small boys
guy a baseball team from a neighboring
town and I had to walk into the garden to
let my collar down. I dident care anything
about my fence nor the corn patch, but
there was the tree top in the poor widow's
orchard. My wife and the girls came out
to comfort me, but I wouldent be com
forted. How long would the widow lie gone
I ruminated, and how long would it take
to clean up things and repair the damage
a.s far a.s possible? But we never stopped
a minute. There were three of us now, all
good hands, including myself. I never
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worked as hard in my life. I dragged off
brush as fast as they could trim up the
brushy top. I got the step ladder and
sawed off the broken limbs of the apple
trees and unloosed those that were fastened
down. We cut up every part of the tree
that was on the widow’s side and cleaned
up the fragments and then put a new post
in the ground and brought plank and built
up the fence again and replaced the barbed
wire. Every little while I looked down the
lane to see if the widow was coming, but
she dident come. Then we cut up that part
that was in the lane and we carried or
rolled every piece to my woodpile, and by 5
o’clock you could hardly tell that a tree
had fallen there at all. I was hot and tired
and my garments stuck to my perspiring
flesh. I looked again for the widow, and
sure enough she was in sight. Putting on
a smile, 1 said: “Well, the wind did take
the tree down in your lot.” She looked at
the fence and the orchard, and said:
“Well, I don’t see where it fell. The fence
looks just like it did, only beter.” “It broke
a large limb from that beautiful apple
tree,” said I. “Well, that doesent matter,”
she said. “It hardly ever bears any fruit,
and when it does the apples are not much
account.” “There was a young peach tree
there,” said I, “hut it Is not there now.”
“Just a volunteer,” she said, “and they
were too thick, anyhow.” If I had known
she would be so pleasant about it I wouldent
have worked so hard, but “all’s well that
ends well.” Hereafter when I go to fell a
big tree I shall make more allowance for
wind or wait till there is none. Now I am
going to make a new strawberry bed and
plant out runners when they have taken a
little more root, but that tree business will
never be forgotten. It will be a photo
graph on my memory. It actually crowded
out the strike and politics, and after it
was all over it left me calm and serene.
BILL ARP.
THROUGH NORTH CAROLINA.
Crops Promise Well Over the State.
A Criminal Sentenced to Jliiiig.
Raleigh, N. C., July 11.—(Special.)—The
j department of agriculture today issued its
I July crop report based on returns from
; over twenty thousand correspondents. The
following are given as percentages of con
dition: Cotton, 87; rice, 82, peanuts, 92; corn,
91; tobacco, 74; sorghum cane, 86; clover
and grasses, 72; sweet potatoes, 90.
The comparative yield of wheat is 62
and of oats 65.
The efficiency and quantity of labor is
estimated at 96, a very high figure. Cotton
is fruiting well. The crop outlook is very
line save for tobacco.
Bob Madkins, colored, who criminally as
saulted Miss Phillips, near Burlington, has
been convicted and sentenced to be hanged
at Graham, August 10th. The trial occupied
two hours and the jury was out two min
utes. Madkins confessed his crime.
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Sandersville Progress: Good reports about
the corn crop come from all quarters of
the county.
Campbell County News: “Uncle Tom
Jones,” an industrious colored citizen, ex
hibited the first sweet potato of this year’s
crop we have seen. It was about the size
of a hen egg.
Monroe Advertiser: The reports corning
from farmers relative to the crop pfospect
in this county are to some extent conflict
ing. This is doubtless attributable to the
partial showers that have fallen. In some
localities in the country fine rains have
fallen, while in some others the rains have
been light and insufficient.
The Madisonian: Cotton and corn are
both booming. “But,” says me chronic
grumbler, “so are the grass and weeds!”
Strange how people will forget the scent of
the rose in order to look for a possible
thorn.
Macon county citizen: The rams nave
been somewhat partial in this county. All
have had too much and others not enough.
Our farmers are looking much brighter
than they did a few weeks ago.
Banjts County Gazette: Stock raising
ought to be more extensively engaged in
in this country. Did you ever think of the
thousands of dollars that go out of our
county annually for horses and mules?
Ringgold New South: Farmers are near
ly through working their crops and the
prospects are now that they will be pretty
well rewarded for their labor.
Gwinnett Herald: Mr. A. P. Brooks
brought to our office last Saturday a sample
of bearded wheat raised by him last year.
The heads are long, th- grains tine and
the yield is far superior to the ordinary
purple straw. He thinks that this variety
<s much better than the oil wheat used by
our farmers, because it yields more and
is not so liable to be injured hy rust, al
though it is not rust proof. He made a
test this year. He had in about three acres
of purple straw that yielded twenty-live
Bushels. He also had three acres of the
bearded wheat, in the same field and same
quality of land, neither piece was fertilized.
'The bearded wheat made forty-five bushels,
and he says would have made fifty if the
chickens and turkeys had not destroyed
part of it. We published some time since
a statement of Mr. Tribble’s that he had
made this year sixty-eight bushels on three
acres. This was done by bringing his land
up. That was an important lesson to our
farmers. But we think Mr. Brooks's ex
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wheat is more important than the other.
Here was land unmanured, planted at the
same time, received the same cultivation,
with no additional expense, and yet one va
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