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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA. GA.. TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 16 1884. TWELVE PAGES. FARMS AND FARMERS. Peanut*-Dried Trnit???To Keep Meat in Summer * A Tenor Parmer-It P*y* to Peel Well???Carp CaUnre???Competition Between Breed* ???Bearing Bilk Worms ??? Notes. Peanuts.???A novel exemplification of the maxim, ???No great loes without some small gain/' is found in the history of the peauut. A quarter of a century ago the peanut was to a great Extent a luxury over the greater part of the union. Tho rustic beau who brought his ???girl??? to town for tho circus, aud the city youth who took his cheap and lofty teat in the theater, thought their treats deficient unlesg they indulged in peanuts???by no means an every day indulgence. Now, like oysters in land, this fruit takes its place among the com monest of edibles???a result duo almost wholly to the civil war and one of tho now develop ments in southorn agriculture. Formerly eastern North Carolina produced all the peanuts grown in the United States, and called them ???goobers.??? There is a story of a North Carolina regiment in tho confeder ate army which early in the war was sent into northern Virginia. Marching along one day, as hungry as usual, these men camo upon a field of clover???something none of them had ever seen before???and, mistaking it for peanuts, they broke ranks, leaped tho fence and began tearing up the roots of the plant. Bitter was their disappoint* ment; and ever afterward tho regiment went by the nome of ???goober-grabbers,??? The federal soldiers, who had known peauuts only as a holiday treat, found them in quanti ties in certain regions, and acquired a new en joyment of them. W hen thoy went homo they demanded them of the dealers, who found that the crop was not largo enough to supply tho demand. It is difficult to get anything with prompt ness out of North Carolina. But tho Virginians are quick, and begun to meet tho call by widening their little garden patches into groat fields. Now two-thirds of tho two and a quar ter millions of bushels expected of ,this year's croj) will come from tho old dominion. The counties engaged are Southampton, Nanse- mond, Isle of Wight, Surry, Sussex, Prince George, Princess'Anne, Gloucester, Norfolk, and, to a less degree, Warwick and Charles City. All of these lie in what is kuown as tho ???tide-water??? section of the state???down in the southeastern corner. Tennessee raises 600,000 bushels, while the Carolines give about 150,- 000. Maryland and Delaware produce small amounts. The peanut is not indigenous, but was brought from Africa with the slaves???came over with tho conquered. The African nut is now unmarketable in tho Uuited States, but is used in enormous quantities in Marseilles, France, os one of the sources of ???olive??? oil, along with Indian cotton seed, etc. Trans planting to American soil changed tho charac ter of the nut aud greatly improved it for eat ing. It made it larger and reduced the excess of oil. The soil required for tho best success with this crop is oue light and dry, upon which thirty to forty bushels of slaked lime, or 160 bushels of common marl, to tho acre, have been spread. In March tho land is plowed, well dragged and cleaned of grass, ridged aud ???cut dowu.??? Planting takes placo from tho first to tho tenth of May, tho seed being placed in rows about fourteen inches apart and cover ed by a stroke of tho foot. The sood, in order to bo good, requires very careful watching ia curing, to avoid a ???heating??? sufficient to kill tho germ: and should therefore be soloctcd and tested with great caro. Soon after tho plant corns* up it is otUuiUd to repaatodly, at intervals often to fifteen days, with cultivator and hoe, upon the thoroughness of which work largely depends tho character of tho harvest. Borne use tho horso-cultivator altogether, abandoning tho hoe. Tho blossom is yellow and pretty. Almost simultaneously with its appesranco, shoots from upon tho plant and make their way into tho ground. These aro called ???pins,??? aud bear the ???pear??? bouoath the surface. Tho digging takes place between the tenth and twentieth of October, and con sists in throwing tho vines out of tho ground with a plow made for tho purpose. On the tome day, as soon as dried, the vinos ore shaken free of soil and stacked intho fields in to ???shocks.??? In from ten to twonty days both Tine and nuts will bo completely cured and ready for market. The vino makes good feed for stock, and is an excellent article for fertil izing purposes???so much so that it is worth the price of digging the pea, and farmers sometimes give if in payment for that work. In making and tending the shocks skill is re quired to prevent over-heating aud mould. K*Peanuts are of two kinds, distinguished as the ???bunching??? and tho ???running??? vinos, de noting the manner of their growth, but uo separation is kept in the market. In Tennes see is produced tho ???red??? nut, a variety ol which the origin is unknown, at least to Nor folk. The tendency of tho husk in this variety is to grow long and thin, and to obtain more than two???sometimes four or five???kernels, the skin of which is a rich chcvuut red, mu sh darker than the color of the seaboard variety. Tho nuts, es fast as picked oir tho shocks la ilie field, aro placed in bo/js holding four bushels each, aud are sold to cleauing factories In Norfolk, Petersburg. Smithfieid and else where, chiefly along the lines of tho Norfolk and Western and.Beaboanl aud Roanoke rail roads. The Norfolk factories are the largest in tho world, and cousumo twico tho amount x>f all the rest put together.???Corr. New York Tribune. Dried Fruit.???Apples and peaches dried in the sun sre valued largely according to light ness and brightness of color. Sour apples are preferred to sweet. Tho dark color, so objec tionable a feature, is caused by exposure to moist warm air, iu which' tho fruit dries so slowly that fermentation ensues. Apples may bo sliced or quartered, but the two kinds should never bo mixed in the ^une package. They should be cleanly pooled and cored, then sliced or quartered. The slices cut thiu in the torn of rings right across the cored spsce, are preferred. Sliced apples are used by tho local trade, quarters by tne export trade. The coarser the quarters the better. Of ordiuary sited applet tho nieces should be quartered, not eighths nor sfxteenths. Bua-drfed apples should be pocked in barrels, the quarters in large barrels and pressed in very tightly sj that the net weight of apples will bo 200 lb*, or more. Tho barrels should be uniform and new if the apples are to command tho be*t price. Apples dried on strings are more pop ular than formerly. Peaches may be pared or unpared. The former sell for doable or more the price of the latter. Pared peaches should be cut fine. Unpeeled may be h??l??e* or quarters ; the halves bring a little higher price than the quarters. Cherries must be pitted, and to bring the highest price must be very urr, entirely unmixea with ntgtr. B*l .berries .ell better thin bl.de. Blub rup- berric. end bliekbsirie. ire dried whole; and ear. mnit be taken tbit they in unbroken. Pick red ind black ra.pb.rriM i*p??rat.ly ; Plums moit be pitted. The Duwu Mil but of inn-dried. Much tin ibould bo teken to hire ill kind! or fruit thoroughly dried, ini particularly southern fruit which cornel on the market in lita rammer or eirly fall before there ii icttled cool weather. Much low ?? aecMioned by fruit touring while in transit thit WII sot carefully dried. Fruit dried by the patented .raporaton U more popular than luu-driel, and, at v> applet, pciehei, and plural, commands much hieber prices. There is less difference in bee- rite, but the eraporeted are preferred. Apple, ud peaches thiu dried are genera ly best liked in bore, of either SS or M lbs. net weight. The standard sire cf box*i for apples is 12 inches high, I* inches wide, and U laehss loer, outside measurement: a bo* of ihis de scription will contain 6% lbs. of fririt. Pxn* boards, planed on tha outside should beared In acking the boxes. The following oil?? to? packing peaches, which alao applies vsry largely to apples, should bo closely observed: Lay tho box top lido down. Upon tho inside of tho cover lay twaa pieces' or fancy paper, lengthwise. ^ On them lay a fiat piece oi- nw- nilla wrapping paper, or oiled paper, just tho size of the suriace of tho box. On this (which will bo up on opening face of box), lay on tho facing pieces ot fruit iu rows, lappiug th-i edges neatly liko fish scales, always with tho pit side down. Fill up and put auotlior piece of manilla or oiled paper on tho fruit and nail cn tho bottom. Apples aro dried.to some ex tent in hop kilns, und when proper caro is given to drying, they aro quite desirablo and meet with a good sale. To Keep Meat is Summer George Troup Maxwell, writing from Ocala, gives the New York Bun the following ???novel way to euro bacon:??? ???I uresponso to tho inquiry of William B. S., of Tallahassee, Florida, ???How to cure bacon in hot weather?' I send you tho details- and history of a certain, expeditious and economi cal plan, viz: By ejecting brine into the hog through the enroted artery. It is certain, tbs salt being forced into the minutest capillaries oi the.entire animal. It is expeditious; within ten minutes the largest hog may be perfectly snltcde It is economical, material and labor being reduced to tho minimum. ???The method is this: Kill the hog by a blow on the head; bleed by opening the caro tid artery, und, with an ordinary bulb syringe, or, much better, tho pump that was in uso twenty-five or thirty years ago, inject two to four quarts of brino into tho animal???s blood vessels through tho incision in tho carotid artery. The salting may be better done after the hair has been removed aud the animal heat has all escaped. ???Tho plan was first used in 1810 by rny friend, the lato Lewis LeConte. of Liberty county, Georgia, a brother of tho distinguished Professor LeConte, of the University of Cali fornia. His first trial was with eight hogs, in the winter of 1819-50, and proved a complete success. That winter will bo remembered by old planters for its remarkable mildness, aud the-consequent immense loss of meat, thous ands of wagon loads having boon lo3t in tho southern elutes. ???The next two winters ho cured all his bacon by that process, having perfected it by tho winter of 1851-52. In tho beginning ho madg the brino too strong, and his meat was, there fore, too salt. But by the third year ho had adjusted tho proportions of salt, sultpetre, sugar, etc., so as to tnako delicious bacon. Iu some instances, by tho addition of spices, he gave to his meat a delightful aromatic flavor. ???Intending to attend the fair ol tho Southern Central agricultural association, at Mucou, Georgia, October 1852, ho selected a half dozen of his best hams for exhibition, proposing to make the process more generally known then aud there. Alas I by tho accidental discharge of his gun he was killed the week before tho fair was held. ???In April, 1851,1 saw him salt threo hogs in less tfinn twenty miuutcs. Tho hogs had been killed tho night before, or early that morning, and had been bled aud cleaned of huir. Immediately after being salted, they wero butchered and hung in the smokehouse, then heated by firo and smoko. At eleven o'clock that morning the mercury of a ther mometer which was hung in a largo cool hall stood at summer heat. Mr. LeConte was in different ns to temperature. When his logs wero fat ho had thorn killed at his convenience. The most difficult step in the process is tho cutting down upon and opening tho carotid artery; but one can judge ol Us nature by the fact that Mr. LcConto???s uneducated negro ???driver??? did it. ???The carotid artery of a hog is too small to be entered by the tubes which accompany tho syringoin common use. Mr. LoConto moulded one of lead.??? And a ???subscriber???s wife,??? from Pawnee City, Nebraska, contributes the following to the same journal: ???In reply tho inquiry, I send a receipt for keeping moat killed in warm weathor. My aunt was visiting me a few weeks ago, and she said Ahoy had killod a hog four .weeks bo- fore. I asked her how thoy kept it, and this Is the way: Make a brino until tho water will dissolvo no more salt, then put in tho meat and boil from four tooight minutes; take out tho meat, and put it iu tho .vessel in which you intcnd???to keep it. Then skim oil all blood and scum and pour tho brino ovor tho meat. If it is to bo kept very long, it is lost to scald tho brino every few weeks in warm weather. Take all bones out of tho meat. My aunt says they havo used this re cipe for years, and nover had any meat spoil. I never tried it.??? A Faxcy Farmer.??????You don???t say! A thousand dollars for a cowl well, n fool aud bis money ore soon parted.??? Now don't you make any such mistake, Bou, subl I. Squire Landers??? no fool. I remember whon hi* father formed it around. And ho was smart onougli to pick out tho best calves from tho fanncr.i, and take them homo and rear them, and when they were cows to soil them back to the same nun who sold them for two or three dollar*, and get fifiy for them. It wasn???t many years before Landers was iu o law offico, ami then n lawyer; and he was smart enough to gain a S rcat case in court, and that made his fortune. o, he???s no fool. If he gives a thousand dol lars for a cow it is bccauae it is a good ono, and he will get the money bock from it, and ho knows the man who reared that cow fairly earned tho money. Now look here, Bon, if you take a cow to Squire Lander???s young bull out of that cow, you pay him $25 for it. ???You don???t say.??? Yes, I do. . And its worth it, too. Yes, as you say, it is as much as tho cow is woitb. You are right there, iny boy. But your $25 cow has a calf that makes, let us say, 300 pound* of butter in a year, and she bos not c??et you, all told, more than $50. I come to you and say, Ben, 1 want to buy that cow. You say she is too good to sell for less than $150; she makes as much butter as any two cow round here. Well, that is true, and (give you the money for her. You get your $25 back very easily, with $50 more to it, ami I got my money back in two or three year* out of tho butter. So we are both satisfied. Now, Squire Lander*??? bull can earn $1,000 a year in that way, and the firstycar???s income, you see, ju??t paya fur the cow. Oh, yes, you see it now, of course. Br.t there are forty farmers who hove calves from that bull for $25 each, and every heifer will make a cow worth twice as much os the cost. And in a few years you see all around the marka of that bull. Tho butter is mere than doubled. The farmer* take a fancy to the good stock and handsome cows, and get better stables, better pastures, better feeding, belter care all round. In ten year* you won???t know tho place. The honses will be painted up, the gaiMens will be neatly plan nc-d. There will be new barns and old ono* will be enlarged. All tho extra money made will add to the comfort ot tho farmers; the girls will be better dressed, the boys will be miter educated, and in ten year*' time it will be hard to say how much money the whole will be worth. And Squire Landers will be more pleased to see all this than to - handle a Uiousaud-doilar bill every day of his life. So you ate he mskes money; we make money, end tkjc money makes a good deal of comfort all around. Don???t you ever call a man a fool because you think he ia a fancy farmer. There aft Shorthorns, and Jerseys, and Ayrshire*, and Dutch cattle all around here, and they are nuking money for us; but if you trace up thr ir pedigree*, Ben, you will find a fancy farmer at the end of the line every time. And some of fancy farmers can teach us *. k???-* * LI ??? They may hoeing corn, . _ and outs of it, and what we do U for, and how it should be done, and that???s the biggest part of the doing it.??????Our Story Teller, in the Diary. It Pays to Fa*n Well.- feod ???It pays to well. Let me give you a ease. Having a good lot of cows, which I have bred and reared my self and trained them well to be kind and gentle in evenr way, I do not like to port with them. But having a few more than I could well take euk of this year I rented out five of them to a neighbor. One of these ows ia a croes-troU pore 4XF**hir?? and Jersey, and with her first calf gave eight pounds of butter the first week???s churning; with her second calf ???be gave twelve and one-half pounds the first week alter the milk was kept (the calf era* fod on skimmed milk only). The cow ia not six years old and in her prime. Tho man com plained of her and said sho was a poor cow. ???What feed do you give her???? ???No feod at oil but the pasture in the swnmp meadow, and she milks only four quarts a day.??? I brought the cow home and sho was a mere skeleton in a bog of loose skin. Tho firet milking was three pints. I began to feed her as I knew sho deserved, I gave her two quarts of fine ground meal and middlings mixed with cut, sweet cornfodder threo times a day, with what grass the pasture would afford. The fourth day she milked nine quarts, the seventh day eleven and a bnlf quarts; the first four days her milk made three pounds of butter; the last three days it made four pounds seven ounces. This is not her full yield, as sho is putting on flesh and will do so until sho weighs 150 or 200 S ounds more thau she did wheu sho came ome. If wc figure this up the profit on this feed can bo shown very easily. Four quarts a day ai five ecuts???tho price at which her milk has been sold nil summer???is 20 cents. That is flic value of n swamp-meadow feeding. Eleven and d half quarts a day is equal to 57H cents, so that this 15 cents gives 22% cents profit; and to me the satisfaction of tho thing is worth a good deal more than ono dollar a day would be, for I certainly have a go jd deal of regard for my cows, which' I havo rear ed from the first, and each of which is a pot and regards me with evident kindliness and affection. At the rate shown by theso figures ten cows would return $2.25 daily profit for tho expenditure of $1.50, which is in itsolf ns much os many a mechanic in a city is obliged to support his whole family upon. And yot there are farmers and dairymen who aro growl ing every day of their lives that farming does not pay. I wish some of them would change places with some of the people in towns aud cities, whom they profess to envy so much. What a mistake they would make. Carp Culture.???Among the ???Farm Notes??? in ono of your recent issues I find tho follow ing: The raising of carp has become very popular among gentlemen farmers aud even among the owners of small country residences around the suburban part of Philadelphia. Almost overy pretty littlo secluded place has its pond stock ed with carp.Thcy ore easy to get,as the United Btatcs fish commission supplies them upon proper application. Tho foregoing is a fact which has not, I think, been previously published, and a fact, perhaps, for which I am mainly responsible, Laving been tho medium through which tho carp hnvo been iutroduccd into this and somo other regions. I had supposed that tho nu merous parties having these littlo ponds would cheerfully pro pore them for the proper culture of this valuable food fish, but not ono in twenty lias done anything whatever except re ceive a few carp free from the United States commission, and introduce them into their ice ponds, which have almost invariably contain ed native varieties of tho' carp family with which the food carp will bo sure to hybridixo. Fish, unlike fowls ond animals, at onco de teriorate when hybridized. It must bo evident, then, that raising carp in this haphazard man ner will, to a certain extent, bring systematic carp culture into disrepute, because many of the gentlemen referred to are acknowledged epicures, ond when thoy como to test tho edible qualities of their mongrel growth, or even of pure carp raised iu improperly pre pared ponds, aud find them common placo, or perhaps dccidely inferior in flavor, they will Le prepared to brand tho carp as a worthies} food fish. If properly bred ond raised tho carp is only excelled as a food fish by tho salmon family. The $200,000 or more which has been taken from thestnto treasury for the ojtonsibte purpose of restocking our barren waters with fish, mostly Bnlnioimlw, is nearly that amouut of money hopelessly sunk. There are undoubt edly loss fish in tho waters of tho state now than before a dollar had been expended by the various fish commissions, and tho deple tion of theso waters is to a slight degree only duo to illegal methods of destruction. Tho clearing of the forests, the tilling nml fertiliz ing of the lands bordcriug tho water* and tho commercial fertilizers which are being ao ex tensively used of Into years are cause* of do pletion. The inland fiah culture of the future inuit bo almost wholly confined to enrp. Homo of the states arc already placing their'official fish cultural matters in tho hands of their agri cultural deportments, and it is only a question of time when all the states will do so. Carp culture will become hero, as it has long beon in Europe, a favorite and profitable business for capitalists and stock companies. Mii.tox 1*. I*eiroe. Secre tary American Carp Cultural Associa tion. Philadelphia, September 2, 1834.???Record. CoMfKTiTioR Bktwkkx Breeds.???In relation to the discussion of tho merits of tho several breeds of cattle, especially tho Bhort-Horns and Ilcrcfords, U has been said that there is room for all breeds. Tho Breeders Journal lays ???this ia probably true. There is room not only for thoroughbred cattle aud tho best breeds, but there is room for scrubs. But this does not meet the question os it should bo mot. A man may use a wooden plow if ho has no other means of cultivating uis ground; he rnay stir it with a stick rather than not move it at all. But ho would not do this if he had a good pair of horses ami a good improved plow to work it with. It is well to use ^hc old spin ning wheel if there is no other means to make S our clothing to cover your nakedness. But ic old spiuning wheel would not be used if the improved machinery could bo had, and steom or water lo propel it, and wliat is truo of these and other industries is also truo of tho live stock interest of tho world. There is no room for tho poor when the belter can be bad.??? The above Is found in theory; tho difficulty is to dccido the question of which is tho best breed, taking into consideration tho circum stances of the intending buyer. Using tho ma chinery ?????? an illustration, it would bo more just to compare two spluniug wbeols, rather than tlic cpmnlng wheel and tho jack; two plows of modern uiako, rather than the stick of prehistoric ages with tho finished steol im plements of to-uay; two engiues of similar form and power, rather than unskilled brute force, tugging to pull a load, with tho highest E roduot of tho engine builder's skill swiftly- urrying a train carrying thousands of tons over hills and vales. But much of tho im provement made in breeds of animal* is due to the keen competition between breeders struggling to gain a first place in popular favor. Tho fight has made partisans offriondi. The partisans labored with aud aroused an interest in the mind* of those who, but for this, would bave remained indifferent and induced them to use better blood, to the great benefit of themselves and the world in general. Whatever the result may be to tho bresderi engtged in it the battlo has done iinrnonM good to other*, and it i* to be hoped that the time will never como when all writ agree thaf any one breed or family of cattle U better than all others. Rearing Silk Worms.???The Kansas In dustrialist give* instruction* for the rearing of ???ilk worms in a small way. The larrw thrives on Osage orange leaves; and the writer be lieves the product is nearly or quite ai good as it they be fed on the white mulberry. The eggs ibould be kept in a cool place???a cellar is, good???until the young hedge leaves start; when, if they are brought into the temperature of an ordinary living room, the larvae will soon appear. They are not inclined to travel, and may be kept on a pasteborrd box lid, or even on a newspaper from the time they come out email, black worms, until they are two and one-half inches long, and are rr* ly, to open their cocoons. Lest refuse from their feeding ???booM become jnoldr, and therefore damp, the' worms must be placed upon new and clean paper. It must be remembered that the ygoag lam* are extremely Under, and nfuat be handled with the utmost ??? care. They can, however, be surcetffiilly transferred by letting them become quite hungry on 1 supplying them with speed, fresh leaves/on the young branches f the worms will cofwl upon these, end may be readily transferred. In no case should wet leaves be fodywbetber from dew or rain; all drops efwatersbonld be shaken off the leaves. They sbrfuM bo fed three times a day; indeed, it wili U found that the better the worms are f d, and tbe drier and warm if they are kept, the fester they will grow, the x larcer they will become, and tho sooner they will mature and spin their cocoons. Goyermrktal Experiments ix Agricul ture.???Tho latest proposal for government patronage in the much abused name of agri culture is that cqugress appropriate public money with which to introduco ???Japan Clover.' That is tho plant concerning whicn a person in North Carolina has shown uncommon in terest, ond to whoso alleged methods tho In diana Former refers as follows: Ho declares that he Has no seed for salcjbut when parties write to hhn to know where it can be obtniued ho replies that ho can got a littlo for them from an old colored man in his neighborhood, and demands $1 as tho price of a package. He sends something in return that ono of our subscribers desenbo* as re sembling a mass of dried clay. The fact seems to bo that nobody seems to attend to gathering tho seeds of Japan ciovor as it should bo gathered, freo from airt. Tho usual way is to wait until the seed has fallen to the ground, then to scrape the seed up with tho surface of tho soil. Tno cost to tho de partment of ogricvlture of making a thorough examination of the plant and publishing a re port thereof that would inform tho poople fully of its value as a forage plaut would ho small. Such an examination and report might keep thousands from spending time und money in similar experiments, perhaps to bo disap pointed utterly at lust. It is in such work that the department can bo very useful to millions of people, and at a fraction of tho cost of individual experiments by tho many.??? New York Tribuno. JIow to Make a Poultry Trough.???Tho Richmond Dispatch soys if you want a con venient trough in which to keep tho water for the poultry nico ond clean, usu tho following f dan: Make end pieces of two inch plank, six nehes wide and 1 }<J foot long; sido pieces of inch boards six inches wido aud tlireo feet long; bottom of two inch plank. Bo particu lar to havo good tight joints and smear them with pitch on tho outside. Taka u piece of two inch plank ten Inches wido and two feet four inches long. Drivo tonponnv nails thick ly into one side of it so that tho chicken* will not walk over it, and in hole* bored at the corners, insert pins 8% inches long. 8et this f iorcupmo backed table into tho center of tho rough ami you have an arrangement that will hold quite an amount of water, and has a place four inches wide all round tho ledge from which fowls may drink without having a chance to get into the trough. Try it. Farm Notes. A Vermont farmer states that cottonsood meal is injurious as food for calve*. A decoction cf tausy, applied with n com mon watering can through a fino hose, is said to bo an excellent remedy against tho cabbago worm. In one year a horse voids, according to esti mate, about one and a half tons of liquid aud seven tons of solid mauttre. This is worth from $20 to $50. There is much difference in tho black dirt f ;ot from tho woods, which is commonly called eaf mold. Bomo of it is the mold from de caying trunks of trees, which is loss valuable than that from lcavos. Poultry cannot bo made to pay unless pro vided a properly arranged houso lor their ac commodation. This is os nccoBsnrj' to their well being as it is that horses and cattle should havo a good stable. Tho advantages of soiling consist of a sav ing of land, a saving of fences, a saving of food, a saving of manure and better caro given tho stock, as well os increased production from the land. A correspondent of tho N??w Haven Mirror thinks that cions enn bo best preserved in saw dust, which keens them moist and green. He keeps them in tho collur, ,but dampens them when they are dry. Insects are sometimes friend*, a* many kinds prey on those that dnmngo crop*. Be fore beginning tho extermination of them be sure you sro not assiating othors to survive that mo more destructive. An exchange remarks that tho propor time to gather tho applo is when tho stem loosens readily from the limb, and potatoes should bo S nthcred when tho tubers loosou readily from io stalk, which may not ho until somo time after the tops are dry and dead. Nothing is gained by tho too of half-bred males for improvement, ns it a step In n baok- ward direction. Only the pure broods can bo used safely for purposes of improvement, and the best that can no procured aro ehcapor then Uioso that aro inferior at any prioo. Balt is used freely by aoruo nunerymon In pear nurseries for tho purporo of counteract- ing blight. Iron fillings and copperas in solu tion havo been used for tho samo pur pose. If the remedies do not prevout the ??lii- case, thoy at least correct a dispojitiou to bllcf.t. When wo pulverize tho ground to a groat depth tho warm air comes in contact with a body cooler than itself, tho water in the soil condensing into droys, which partially unsworn in place of rain. Tho deeper wo nulvorixo, therefore, tho greater the amount or moisture collected. Surplus stock are a nuisance in tho poultry quarters. They eat as much a* tho hens, and yield no return for tho iced consumed. Where fowls have their liberty one cock to a (lock of twenty to twenty-fivo hens is ouough, but where they are restricted to small runs oue cock to six hens will be nccossary. Tillage and manure scorn to go together or are Intimately connected. Complete success cannot bo looked for without both, However strong the tendency on tho part of mankind to avoid labor it must be remembered that it has been proved that, as a rule, crops will not perfect themselves without attention. George W. Wala writes to tho Fruit Recorder that he bis boiled leaves and stems of tomato plants until tbe juice is all extracted, and finds the liquor deadly to caterpillar.!, lice and many other enemies of vegetation. It does not injure tho growth of plants, and its odoryeinains fora long time to disgust iusect marauders. ClEOIifilA PltOPKItTY. The Marvelous lucreSM of the Hiatt's Wealth In Eight Years. The following is a very Interesting state ment showing In a consolidated forpi tho ???tgreastc value of whole property In Georgia re turned for taxation for the years lHHJ and UBI. ???Lowing Inrrtuse and decrease of value* in each species of property, and total Increase for 1811. W hy gbouldn???t She? KEStoM* I don't ?????t be.???Mrs. Belva Lockwood. FlRE AND STORM. Bill Nye Seriously Hurt In tbe Olssr Laks Tornsdo- Ubo Ospers of tbe Storm Throughout tho Couutrjr-Sevsral Fsrsona Killed by Lis htnlrg- Furnaces on Tire. Clear Lake, Wis., September 11.???In addi tion to tho threo persons killed during tho cy- clono here yesterday, the clerk in Briggs??? store was seriously injured, and it is thought will die. Bomo of the principal losers aro, John E. Glover, saw mill machinery and lumber, $100,000; A. A. Ingalls, general stores, $10,000; Smith and Lewis, stores, $4,000. The total loes in Clear Lako and vicinity will roach at leaet $250,000. Bill Nye, of tho Laramie Boomerang notoriety, was driving with his brother about threo miles east of Clear Lake when tho tornado struck thorn. Ho was lifted clear out et the wagon by tho wind aud dashed to tho side of tho road. Ilia right leg was broken in two nlaccs below the knee. Hi* brother was only slightly injured aud walked back te Clear Luke, nud procured help, but it was six hours before tho injured man could be brought to town, owiug to tho road being blocked with fallen trees. About forty build ings wero wrecked in Clear ??? Lake including tho Methodist, Congressional and Lutheran churches. Humbolt & Co???s, saw mill, threo miles east of here, was destroyed, causing a loss of $10,000. The Flooded Chlppewn. Euclairk, Wis., September 11.???Tho Chip pewa river is rising six inches an hour. The Euclnire river is sixteen feet above low-water mark, and is still rising. Scores of fumilies arc moving out of their houses, in some of which there is four feet of water. Tho Phamix manufacturing company building is partially under water. CnirrzwA Falls, Wis., September 11.???The most disastrous flood ever known iu this sec tion is now upon us. Tho Chiniiewa river ha9 risen 20 feet since Tuesday night at 12 o'clock, and is still growing higueri at the rate of a foot per hour. Tho threo railroad bridges are iu grout danger and the wugon bridgo is hourly expected to go. AH ovor tho upper dams on Dunoon creek, which passes through the town are out. A portion of tho flood from this course reached hero at ouo o'clock yester day afternoon, and swept away every bridge, five in number, together with a large number of buildings, including Keel's planing mills, Collins' feed store, Stiles, Lego & Barley???s liv ery stables, Btummes k Wiener's agricultural buildings. The loss in the city so far is esti mated at $100,000. The worst is still to comp, however, as the dam, fourteen milos north of here, passed out yesterday allernoon, and re ??? leased 750,000 feet of logs, which it is feared will do great damago in their countdown tho stream. 8t. Paul, Minn., Boptembcr 11.???A special to tho Evening Dispatch from Eati Claire, Wis., says: The booms on Point arcek, a tribu tary of Chippewa river, went out lato last night, and the water in the Chippewa rose rapidly. Thit, with tho floatinir logs, carried away tho upper bridge of the Wisconsin Cen tral railroad, atChippowa falls, and also tho lower bridge, between there and this city. Tho Chicago. Milwaukoo and St. Paul road bridge, nnu all the city bridges hero, and the city bridge, at Chippewa foils, have been carried away. The Chi cago, Bt. Paul, Minnesota and Omaha railroad bridgo ot Chippowa falls is still iu- tact, but will b* in great danger should the river contiuuo to rise. Tho bank of tho latter rood is being badly washed. The water Is flooding tho streets of this city, and is doing great damage. Later news says tho Eau Claire and Chippewa rivers aro highor than ovor known before. The wator is floating over the principal streets, and many buildings on tho lower ground arellloating away. A million feet of logs havo brokon from tho boom near Eady mills and are Jloatiug down tho stream. A Heavy Itnlnfnll. Dktroit, September 11.???Tho Froo Press Alpena special says a voilont thuudor squall cccurrcd yesterday noou. Tho wind reach forty-eight miles ao hour. The rainfajl was over an inch in ulght minutes. Thomas Scarf, struck by lightning, was killed on tho street. Another had his arm broken. Forty thousand feet ol lumbor havo been blown in tho lake. Tho tornado was not very wido end lasted fifteen minutes. The Thunder nt Alenn* BurrAi.o,N. Y., September II.???During a terrible thunder storm at Alean last evening, a tank containing 35,000 gallons of oil, belon ging to the National transit company, was it! uok by lightning. THE WOHK OF TIIH VI.AHK9. Tho Pino llrook Mines on Fire???Narrow Es- enpe. Brraxtox, Pr., September 11.???The watch- man at the Pino Brook mines of the Lacka wanna Iron and Coal company, discovered a fire in tho cneino room about 5 oniook this morning, aud oy the time ho had given tho alarm tho entire southeast cornor of tho structure was a mass of flames. By strenuous dibits the engineer, tho fireman and Um watchman got a stream ou for tbe house and prevented Its destruction. The fire extended to t?.e boiler house, tho main breaker, tbe abaft and tho hoisting endue bouse, and all were totally destroyed. When tbe fire broke out Andrew Davis, nre boss, was making his round fn the mine. The heat and flames descended lo the east shaft, and noarly overcome him. He was compelled to crawl on hi* hands and knees for a quarter of a mile in the darkness, with only the railing to guide him. He was finally rescued in an exhaust ed condition. ThQ breaker was erected in 1862, and baa since been rebuilt. Jt had a daily capacity of 660 tens. Tho loss on tho breoker is^nbout $36,000; insured with A. J. Norman, of this city, as followst Loudon snd Liverpool Globe, $76,000; London and Lancashire, $500. From tbe enforced idleness of the mine there will bean additional loss of $15,000. The fire is thought to bave originated from tbe explosion of a lamp left burn ing fn tbe engine room. The company will not rebuilt at one??, as the plan and elevation of the breaker will be changed. An Incendiary Fire In Cincinnati. Circipxsti, September II.???At 11:30 o'clock laet night, the large building No. 47 Walnut, occupied os a cigar fsetory by K. M. Bishop k Co., was discovered to be on fire. Before an alarm was turned in. tbe fire spread with mys terious rapidity, and tbe whole building was destroyed. Tne workmen in tbe fketory are on a strike, and last night they had on incipi ent demonstration a few square* from the fac tory. Bishop's lose is estimated at $20,000. The building which is owned by August Baecker, is fully Insured. Bishop claims that the piece wee set on fire and says that he will hold tbe city responsible for the losses, as he asked for protection some time ago, and it wa?? refused him. No arrests have yet been made. Fourteen llonses Darned. Baltimorr, Md., September 11.???The f*??to- ry of tbs Eagle furniture worn#, D. Wilson k Bon proprietors, on Cross and Riegty streets, south Baltimore, took firs shortly after 2 o'clock this afternoon. Before tbe flames could be subdued arow ol twelve or fourteen small dwellings nesr the factory took fire and were destroyed, causing a damage of about $10,009" Tbe walls of tbe (me.Utty foil, making its de struction complete. Tbe building, beside* ma chinery, contained a large quantity of finished ???nd unfinished furniture and lumber, none of which was saved. Tbe proprietors estimate the dsmsce at $20,000, upon which there Is only partial insurance. Toe fire originated In the drying room over the boiler. Fire fn Daltlmore. Baltimorr, September 11 .???The factory of tbe Esgle furniture works, D. Wilfoon k Sou, proprietors. Cross k IUdgby streets, South Baltimore, took fire shortly after two o???clock this afternoon. The loss will probably be total, sino anting to $700,000. THE SOLDIER ROYS. Arrival of Three llntteries of Artillery, who Come From Florida. A special train of bvo cars containing three batteries of tho Third United States Artillery pulled in to the Central depot yesterday after noon, about 1:30, and was boarded by a Con stitution reporter, who had tho pleasure or giving them the first welcome to the city. Captain- J. L. Tiernou, tho commander, was chuck full of information regarding his com mend, and imparted it freely. They left Fort Barnacas ot 10:30, Thursday morning, but were detained in Pensacola a few hours, and hence did not arrive here at 4 o???clock yester day morning, ns was expected. Leaving Pen sacola ot 5:10 p. m., Thursday, they had fi leoBunt and uninterrupted travel throughout xc entire distance. Batteries B, E aud K compriso the command, which numbers 110 private soldier*, fully equipped us infantry, aud ten officer*. Tha quartermaster???s department and sub*i*tenco ???tores were brought along, aud everything pertaining to military comfort is provided. Tho following aro tho names of tho officors of tho command: Captain J. L. Tiernou, com mander. Captain Lewis Smith, Captain J. B. Burbnnk, Captain J. B. Eaton, Captain Cha*. W. Hobbs, First Licuteuant CUas. W. Foster. Second Lieutenant W. Loveridgc, Second Lieutenant Ira A. Haynes, Assistant Surgeon W. W.Gruy, Acting Assistant Surgeon Theo dore Artaud. First Lieutenant Cha*. Humph ries, tho efllciout end accomplished quar termaster ol tho conminml, remained behind at Fort Borancas, but will join tho party hero in a few dAys. Dr. Frank Artaud accompa nies his father, the acting assistant surgeon. AH ol' tho officers are genial, choice spirits, and sri.RNDiD srxciuRNB or UAXUOOD. Any of them would be uotablo in a crowd for a splendid physique and a handsomocoun tenance. Tho private soldiers all present a fine appearance, and are ovidently in primo condition. In the absence of Lieutenant Hum phries bis duties us quartermaster aro per formed by Lieutenant Foster, aud tho dutiea ot udjutant of tho couiniauu by Lieutenant Haynes. In conversation with Cnptaiu Tiornon, it was learned that tho command has been long anxiously expecting orders removing them to Atlanta, and were about to despair ot such a directing them to repair to this salubrious point. All'along through tho dreary months oi Juue, July and August they waited patiently, living in hopo of tho change. Though orders wero oxpectod as early ns Juno, tho fort remaining quite healthy, tbo authorities thought it not ???dvisablo to send them Atluutaward. The other officers joined tho captain in cxnrosiiug their satisfaction iu getting back to tbo gate city, where curb avers he spent such a pleasant time last year. Thu entire command aro in excellent health ???nd spirits and will remain hero until tho first of December. This gives them ample timo to enjoy the invigorating breezes of our fine cll- lnato and to renew the nmuy friendship* of tho past, and to mako now friouds for tho fu ture. Major Burbank and Captain Ilobbs, whoso families aro in Marietta spending tbe summor among tho mountains iu anticipation of tho removal of tho troops to this point, will leave hero in u fow days for a short stay with their relatives. Noxt week tho commend will IIAVR A DRESS I???A It ADD at their camn. just beyoud Colonel Adair's residence in West End. It is hoped that tho baud will be hero by that timo to dlscourso martial music for tho occasion. Assistant Surgeon Artaud is tho same phy sician who accompanied the Thirteenth in fantry which wcul into camp hero in tho fall of 1H78. Tho doctor U brim lull of interesting reminiscences of that period, and i* en dowed by nature with the ability of relating incidents of tho past with striking force. Ah nn instauco cf the bonrilcial results to health of even a short rcsideneo in Atlanta, ho in formed tho reporter that be was with the Thir teenth regiment when it left Holly Springs, Mississippi, to escape Uio cholura and was or dered to Chattanooga. Tho peitUeiioj soon showed Itself at that place, aud fresh orders were received to go to Atlanta. Tho regiment comedown and encamped about four months here, and when thoy returned to Now Or leans hu could point with prido to tho font that he had not lost a man in bis charge; fur thermore, he poiuted with additional pride to the regiment; instead of being decimated by disease, had been augmented by tho addition of aix bright boys of martial promise that had been born to oifioers of the regiment while stationed hero. Eleven recruits from Columbus, Ohio, will arrive and join tho command this afternoon, thus increasing tho number of officers and men to 131. All yesterday afternoon was spent in put ting up tbn tents and forming tho encamp ment at West End, and when the retreat win sounded at, sundown everything about tho camp was in apple-pie order and Axed for tho season. Ills Slippery Eyodlasssi. ???The Squire,??? says tho author ol ???Tho Hooaicr Schoolmaster,??? wore on?? glass cyoaud a wig. Tbo glass eye wa* constantly slipping out ol focus, and the wig turning around side- wise on hi* head whenever ho addressed tho people of the Flat Creek district.??? Sad spoe- taclc. Parker???s Hair Balsam preserves and promotes tho growth of the natural hair. It ???Iso restores tho uatural color to hair which baa faded or become gray. Clean, elegant, beneficial, highly |>crfuincd. What Bhnll tli?? Harvest llo? The summer Is tmded-wbat shall the harvest b*T If you have sowed liberally you will reap richly. Hut K not???remember that the next (the 173d) Grand Monthly Drawing of Tho Loulsfo i i Htilo Lottery will happen on Tuesday, October ltlh.M*! ???full fuforinutlou of which can be bad of M. A. Dauphin, New Orleans, La. At tbo drawing (the 17lfct) of August pi, among tbe results, tho fol lowing is reported: No. 15JM5drew th?? dntcaplt-il of |75,too. it was sold Iu fifth*???ono was Iwld by Eugene Gaudlas, No. 231 HI. Peter's it.. Now Or- buns; another by ttr. Load Hcymour.of M.*.nphD, now employed ??* a carpenter at tho Grand Colton Exposition Building at New Orleans. No. 63.80:1 drew second capital prize of FJ5 a ono, sold lu New York. No. 29,862 drew third enpiut prize of HO.O'/), sold to ftftits???two to llr. T. H. Totwtfiw. ol Han- . .'v- "?????? imbo* (MUa)lns. capital prlai* of * 65,475. sold ill g others two- on Are., fit. M,0C0earh went to No*. 1.157 aud 55,475, fractlMisl parts hither and yon, among nth fifths to A. II. Glover, No. 2* H. Compton A***., c Louis, Mo.; one-fifth to Mr. Louis a. lUy.pf New Haven, Conn., and to other partial In Washington D. C., and In New Orleans. La. But we will rest for a period. (To b* coutlputd Indefinitely.) Mr. Wm. If. Cbyle, Chief of Fire Depart ment, Houston, Texas, write* that white in discharge of bis dnties be was very severely injured by a falling wall. Ho could scarcely move about when he was induced to try St* Jacobs Oil, the magical pain-re!i*ver, and to bis surprise ho was cured of his lamesnct. Attention fac??llr<Fto the advertisement of Ds- Loach A Bio. in this Issue of Tns Wkxklv Con- ???YITOTIOH. They do a reliable bu*Iness. Recently they have bought a mill rock quarry, and are ex pending Urge amounts in machlucrv for working It. 1 hey have some spccte! stone*, at their W*re rooms on Alabama street on exhibition. ~??*I!uchu.paIba/?? Quick, complete cure, all annoying Kidney Bladder and Urinary Pise???ee. $1. Druggists Patchwork and Crazy Quilt* Are th* latest craze, and ladies will be glad to learn of any economy to this art ne*Mie work. We hare just hern shown an ounce package of "Fac tory ends called ???Waste* embroidery?????? good silk, i esuthol rotors, and In quantity as inuen a* is ob tained In from 75 to ICO skeins of regular cool*. may obtain a sir syringe combli Ail DrugglaU. tmJtCSIH