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THE SOUTHERN WORLD, FEBRUARY 1,1882,
9
OUB BOUND TABLE.
Pennsylvania Farmer, devoted to Farm,
Field, Garden and Home; 16pages,monthly;
$1 per annum. Published at Mercer, Penn.
F. H. Umholtz, editor and proprietor. The
January number is full of interesting and
instructive matter for the farmer and his
family.
The American Field, published in New
York and Chicago, is pre-eminently the
sportsman’s journal. It leaves nothing to be
added to its line of journalism, and can
scarce be improved upon. The holiday
edition, for December 31st, was unsurpassed
in the profusion and beauty of its illustra
tions and the variety and quantity of its
reading matter. We cannot commend it too
highly. It furnishes over 1,200 pugca of
reading matter during the year for $4. N.
Rowe, the editor, fills his position with
acknowledged ability, and the seventeenth
volume, begun with the last issue, will illus
trate his success and the approval of the
sporting world.
Independent, Columbia, Tenn., published
by F. B. Hemphill, at $1.50 per annum. A
large and handsome weekly, newsy and
bright.
St. Louis Railway Register, F. H. Bacon,
editor, St. Louis; weekly, 12 pages. It is a
complete register of railway intelligence,
and all who wish to keep posted should sub
scribe for it.
Agricultural World and Michigan Home
stead, Grand Rapids, Mich.; weekly, $1.50
per annum. F. M. Carroll, conducting edi
tor. An excellent journal.
Young Folks’ Rural, Chicago, 111., a litera
ry monthly for old and young people, in
city and country; $1 per annum. J. D.
Tallmadge and Emily B. Tallmndge, editors
and publishers. Attractive, instructive and
interesting.
The Youth’s Companion, of Boston, is a
sprjghtly, entertaining paper, deservedly
popular, and is, without exception, the best
of its kind published in America. It is
filled to overilowing with the choicest origi
nal matter, of so diversified a character that
it never fails to interest, instruct and amuse,
and is welcomed in the household by old
and young alike. Serial stories will be con
tributed to the Youth’s Companion during
the present year, by W. D. Howells, William
Black, Harriet Beecher 8towe and J. T.
Trowbridgo. No other publication for the
family furnishes so muchentertainmentand
instruction of a superior order for so low a
price.
The Millstone is an illustrated journal of
24 pages, devoted to milling and mechanical
interests, and published monthly at Indian
apolis, Indiana, at $1 per annum. D. H.
Ranck, editor and proprietor. It contains
matter of interest to the milling world, and
is conducted with rare tact.
Carpentry and Building is the title of a
monthly journal of over twenty pages, pub
lished in New York, at $1 per annum, by
David Williams. It is handsomely printed,
profusely illustrated, and well filled with
valuable matter.
BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS.
A Pictorial Commentary on the Gospel
according to Mark, with the text of the au
thorized and revised versions, edited by Rev.
Edwin W. Rice. The American Sunday-
school Union, No. 1122 Chestnut street,
Philadelphia. $1.
This is an invaluable worjc to the Sunday-
school teacher and scholar, and the student
of God’s Word. It is handsomely printed,
and deserves a place on every centre table.
It is emphatically meritorious.
Quarterly report of the Kansas State Board
of Agriculture for the quarter ending De
cember 31st, 1881. F. D. Coburn, Secretary,
Topeka, Kansas.
A book of 240 pages could not contain
more valuable statistics of the resources of a
State than this report does.
The Phantom Wife, by Mollie Myrtle.
Price 10 cents. People’s Library. J. S. Ogil-
vie <b Co., publishers, 25 Rose street, New
York.
Benson, Maule & Co.’b Catalogue of Seeds
for 1882. Philadelphia.
An excellent catalogue Issued by an ex
cellent firm.
Catalogue of Innisfallen Green Houses,
Springfield, Ohio, 1882.
This catalogue is gotten out in the hand
some style for which the Transcript Printing
Company is celebrated, and contains all
necessary information relative to the seeds
and plants sold by the Innisfallen Green
houses.
Catalogue of Field, Gorden and Flower
Seeds, for 1882. Morcton Farm, Rochester,
N. Y.; Joseph Harris, proprietor.
Mr. Harris is an old and experienced seed-
grower, and well-known agricultural editor.
Send for his catalogue.
CHAT WITH CORRESPONDENTS.
John Whitman, New Market, Ala.: “ I
am a young farmer, and desire to try the
intensive system in cotton culture. Please
give your readers an article on the subject.
I believe the intensive system will greatly
enrich the South, if she will seize her op
portunity for cotton manufacturing.”
[We will endeavor to comply with Mr.
Whitman’s request at an early date. In
this issue will be found an interesting talk
from Mr. Jones, of Burke county, Ga., on
farming that is profitable reading.]
Edward H. Wood, Spring Mills, Va.:
“Those who have seen the Southern Wcbld
are pleased with it. My mother is sick and
in a critical condition, else I would take the
field at once for you.”
[Thanks for the interest manifested by
our young friend. We trust that his
mother lias been restored to health.]
JjorHqnltnral ^^nrhtietft.
Conducted by J. 8. Newman, of the Georgia
Department of Agriculture.
Pruning Grapevine*.
We do not, as the heading might suggest,
propose going generally into the subject of
pruning grapevines, but wish to put on
record a fuct of no small import to the vint
ner.
All fruit culturists whoobserve at all, have
noticed that trees or vines pruned early in
winter put forth buds earlier and more vigo
rously in spring than those not pruned till
later in the season, or not pruned at all.
Several winters since our attention was
drawn, witli more than usual force, to this
effect of early pruning on vines. A portion
of the vineyard was pruned early in the
winter, but the larger part was left unpruned
until March. On the part not pruned, how
ever, cuttings were taken early in winter
from the various varieties. Not only did the
early pruned vines put forth buds consid
erably in advance of those left entire, but
the canes from which the cuttings were
taken on the unpruned vines put forth in
advance of the balance of the canes not cut.
Now for the practical utilization of these
facts: There was a late frost in the spring
which destroyed the crop on the early
pruned vines, and killed every new cane
where the removal of cuttings had induced
early growth without injuring the balance
of the vines, which, in consequence of late
pruning, had not made such early and vigo
rous growth.
How, then, may we take advantage of
these facts? Suppose one wishes to hasten
the maturity of his grapes, taking the risk
of late frosts:—let him prune early. If he
wishes to be sure of escaping frost, let him
prune late. If he wishes, he can prune part
of his vineyard early, leaving the balance to
be pruned later.
Last year we left half of a Concord vine
unpruned, while we pruned the other us
usual. We got larger and earlier bunches
from that portion which was pruned. The
bunches on the canes left uncut were small,
poorly filled, and from a week to ten days
late. Try it vintners and report.
Tbe Wallace Howard Apple.
Mrs. J. W. Bryan, of Dillon', Walker
county, Georgia, exhibited, both at the fair
of the Georgia State Agricultural Society,
and at the Atlanta Cotton Exposition, a
new seedling apple, which was christened by
the Fruit Committee at the Exposition “The
Wallace Howard,” in honor of Mr. Charles
Wallace Howard, whose name is so honored,
and whose memory is so cherished by all
devotees of progressive agriculture in Geor
gia.
This is the finest Southern seedling yet
originated. In size and color it resembles
Hames’ seedling of the South, and the
Strawberry apple of the North, though
rather more deeply colored than either.
The specimens were ripe last of October, and
no doubt might have been kept through tbe
year if properly stored. It is exceedingly
showy, and in quality is very good—proba
bly resembling the Buncombe in flavor, but
rather more rich and juicy.
It is a most valuable acquisition to our
list of Southern seedlings, and should be
propagated vigorously.
Benovatlng old Asparagus Beds.
Asparagus beds planted in the old way
become matted with roots and crowded by
accidental seedlings, so as to become either
unproductive or, if productive, the canes are
ridiculously small. This may be remedied
by cutting out alternate belts through the
bed one foot in width, taking out all plants
from one belt and leaving them in the next.
The trenches cut through tbe bed should
then be filled with humus and munure
thoroughly mixed together, and a liberal
dressing of manure worked into the soil on
the belt left. A very common mistake made
by gardeners is in having too little enrth
above the crowns of the plants. There
should be from four to six inches of friable,
rich loam above the crown, so that the canes
will be bleached and tender for at least four
inches before reaching the surface of the
soil.
Plant an occasional crown in a well en
riched plot in the flower yard. The early
canes may be cut for the table and the later
ones will make a very ornamental cluster
during the summer and fall.
The old plan of planting in compact beds
has now been superceded by the row system,
in which the plants arc set every two feet by
six feet.
Asparagus, like all other salad plants,
must grow rapidly to be good and tender.
Hence very rich soil is a necessary requisite
to successful usparngus culture.
Frail Culture In the Mouth.
Wiiitevii.le, Hardeman Co., Tenn.
Editor Southern World:—I saw u copy
of your agricultural journnl a few days ago
and wns much pleased with it. I thought I
would venture a letter ou the subject of
fruit raising, and hope you will publish it,
nnd take up the subject and advise and urge
upon the farmers to raise more fruit for
home consumption, and also for the North
ern markets. It is valuable to raise for hogs.
It is considered that hogs ore not apt to
have the cholera when they get a plenty of
fruit to eat. By having a variety of plums
and peaches for hogs, they can he kept in
thriving order for nearly five months, which
would be a great saving of corn. It requires
nearly five months to make and gather a
crop of corn. Surely if those who love to
raise hogs only knew the vnlue of good
orchards, perhaps they would adopt fruit
raising, if they had any time to spare after
working ten months in the year in raising
and gathering cotton. It is astonishing that
the Southern people will wear out their
lands in raising cotton to buy Northern
meat and breadstuff's!
There are thousands of acres of old fields
and hill-sides that could be made highly
valuable if they were thickly set with plum
and peach trees, where broomsedge, briers
and bushes are growing.
I think it is important that the press
should generally advise the farmers to raise
more provisions at home, and the raising of
fruit would be one great move toward that
object. J. E. H.
In noticing the completion of the exten
sion of the Northeastern Railroad to Clarks
ville, the Athens Banner pays the following
merited tribute to the worthy and progres
sive President of that road:
“The work on the extension was done
under the immediate supervision of Colonel
Forcacrc, the president of the road. It was
an ugly job. For weeks, as is well known>
the rain fell almost incessantly. The cross
ties had to be laid in mud. Large fires were
built and considerable work was done after
night. President Foreacre was on hand all
the time, however. He had his own car
there, and lived in it.
“ Col. Foreacre is one of the best railroad
men in the South, and the Northeastern,
and all who are interested in it, may con
gratulate themselves on the fact of his
presidency." ^
Independent, N. Y.
The churches do not manifest any decline
of interest or of faith in the Mission cause.
There was no fallingoffin their magnificent
contributions, which amount to about $8,000,•
000, in 1881, or $1 forevery 175 persons in the
world. ^
An interesting letter, from D. W. Aiken
to the Southern World, will be found on
the fourth page of this issue. We do not
endorse all its positions, yet it contains im
portant truths of interest to farmers.—[Spar
ta (Ga.) Ishmaelite.
A Cop of Cold Water.
It was night at the Michigan Central Sta
tion in Detroit—late, dark, silent night, and
only a fow dim lights broke the gloom into
dense shadows, that were more fearful than
utter darkness, and no traveler wus so un
fortunate as to be compelled to linger in the
dreary place.
At least that wns the impression tho vast
silence gnve, but there were two travelers
who, when no trains wore coming or going,
waited in the dapot through the chill morn
ing hour. One was a man who had come by
the latest train, and whom the conductor
had helped into the depot, und who, through
weariness, had fallen asleep on the cushion,
lie wns ticketed through, and his destina
tion was the grave; no one needed to glance-
at him twice to see that he had almost
reached the end of his last journey.
The other passenger was on the road to-
ruin; lie, too, had neurly arrived at the ter
minus—at least his pallid, sun-marked face,
and ill-assorted, ragged clothes seemed to--
indicate that ho hud nearly touched the foot
of the ladder; the world had taken his
measure nnd named him •• trump,” but he
hud wrought his own rum ; low and evil as
lie was he never bluined any one but him
self.
This man had been watching the sleeper
fora long time, hud noted his weakness, his
respectable appearance, nnd that he had a
watch-chain nt his vest pocket, and a re
spectable satchel under his head; und ho
crept near, nearer, v. Ith the one horrible
thought uppermost—he would roh the dying
niun! He had no fear of the act. He hugged
the baseness of it to his soul. But lie did
fear that some one would come in nnd inter
rupt his project. If the man moved 1 Why,
a turn of the wrist at his throat would scttlo
him.
He did not move. Tiie tramp took tho
sutchci and tiie watch simultaneously, nnd
was ready to tly, but the sick man morely
groaned faintly as his hend dropped on tho
cushion. In tiie face of actual death ho
slept us quietly as a child on its mother’s
breast.
As the tramp looked with greedy eyes at
tiie watch to note its commercial value, ho
started and shivered ns if an official hand lmd
hcen laid on his shoulder, stared wildly at
the fnee of tiie sick man and back to the
watch, which, with open case, lay (n/hiT
hand; then he muttered something that had
the name of God in it, nnd instantly it was-
back in the pocket of the sick man, and tho
satchel wns under his head again.
What had he seen ?
Tiie picture of n captain in the Southern
army, wearing the Confederate uniform. A
face that resembled tlint of a man who, when
he lay dying of thirst, and wns about to be
transfixed by a rebel bayonet, gave him a
draught of spring water, and, setting him on
his own horse, turned him to tho North and
said:
“When you meet a vanquished man, spare
him ns I have spared you.”
And he had raised his blue cap in the air
and sworn to remem ber.
Now they had met again.
An hour later a carriage drove in haste to
the depot, and first of nil a chilli came run
ning in. She looked at tho tramp a moment
and hesitated, then flung herself on the
prostrate man.
“Grandpa! dear grandpa! wake up, we
have come to tnko you home."
A gentleman nnd lady hurried in.
“Father,” said the Indy, kneeling by him,
“we missed tho time, but here we aro now.
Do wake up.”
The tramp wus fanning him with his cap;
a certain dignity was in his face as he did
so. The sick man opened his eyes, smiled
feebly, and said :
“Give—me—a—drink—of—water."
Tiie tramp brought the water, and knelt
as he lifted tiie helpless head and placed the
cup of water to the cold lips. When he laid
him back there was a smile sealed upon
them, and the lady und tho little girl sobbed
aloud.
The tramp rose to his feet, but his cring
ing manner was gone.
“The battle is most over," he said, gently.
“He told me to remember, and I did. I
would have died for him.”
He has done better; he has lived for him
and men touch their hats to him noW, who
three months ago would have spurred him
from their doors.
Romance, do you say ? No, my dear sir,
it is reality.—[Detroit Free Press.
The most common cause of poverty in the
South, is the failure to appreciate small,
things.