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THE SOUTHERN WORLD, MAY 15,1882.
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Have the Trees.
Ed. Southern Would—The South is a Sa
hara wi thout her shade trees. They are con
nected as closely with her as the thorny
cactt is to Mexico. Of late years the Hower
craze lias 8wept the land, and in consequence
thereof, the green crown of the oak is laid
low.
How indispensable to health and comfort
are these trees, yet how lightly do men—no
women—have the keen-edged ax laid to the
rough bark and lower their proud heads for
evermore.
We are fond of flowers, fonder of fruit,
but we love yet more, the grand old oaks
which stand by the door in sunshine and
storm, a friend to the birds and the children.
We never see an oak about u homestead up
rooted without feeling that one of our few
friends has gone uwuy to a distant land.
Does the brightness of a summer flower gar
den repay for the sacrifice of these trees to
the whim? We think not. Flowers are un
doubtedly a sign of culture, (vide the negro
cabin with the flaunting sun-flowers), but
shady trees indicate comfort, and vie think
good sense.
Our earliest recollections of pieasuro and
home-comfort, are connected witli the quiv
ering shadows of a large oak, which shielded
our childish face from the slanting rays of
the evening sun, as we rested a tired head
against a grandmother's kneo. When Mne
mosyne touches tlie Harp of Life, there vi
brates a chord strangely like the rustling of
those sun-burnished leaves, the singing of
that far away day mocking bird, the piping
of downy chickens, and the distant lowing
of belated cows. And the face that bent
above us os she stroked back the hair from
the orphan child’s head; the dancing lights
and shadows fell upon thataged face, dearer
to us than all the world beside, and to our
childish imagination, the sunshine was bits
of that crown which she wore a few years
later in the City Celestial.
Later, before we had come to realize what
parting by death means, we were called from
school to the dear old homestead. It was in
the early spring, when the garden beds were
aglow with their borders of pinks, and the
leaves on the trees by the door wero full
grown, but they gave us no pleasure then.
It was then with face bowed upon the green
moss among their roots, that we made them
our confidante, sobbing out that all the loved
one we had in this world was gone—that our
grandmother was dead.
Our last visit was a sadder one; we had re
alized some of life’s saddest truths; we knew
that in many instances we bad taken the
true for the false, the false for the true; that
in trying to avoid the sharpest corners of
life, we hud unwittingly stumbled upon
them. We knew too late, that we had bar
tered some of its purest gold for its basest
tinsel. A passionate longing came over us
to go back to the homestead. We knew that
our grandmother was" away, and that the
home had passed into other hands, but we
could not suppress the desire to play at be
ing a child again; to sit under the grand old
oaks, to drink from the bubbling hill-side
spring, and to gather the fragile maiden's
hair ferns in the gorge where the water
foamed into cascades, and to forget, if pos
sible, all the bitterness life hud thrust upon
us. <
“All things change and we change with
them; nothing in this world can last.” We
found many changes; among them a vast
flower garden, gaudy with annuals, and the
small forest of oaks that clustered about the
door, was laid low to give place to this hid
eous garden. Sick at heart through disap
pointment, we turned away without enter
ing the house. We were filled with con
tempt for the shallow head who would sacri
fice those grand, century-old trees to a few
Uaunting annuals.
You people who are devoted to flowers,
have a gaarden on one side of your homes
and spare the house trees. Think of the
pleasure it will give your little ones to romp
under their spreading arms, and take your
floral pets to another portion of your do
main, to make room for the trees and the
children. Qui«* Sab*.
The Markets In Atlanta.
Ed. Southern World—April 1st you quote
cabbage 4Xc. per pound; will one of your
ciphering men make a calculation what can
be made within an hour’s drive in a market
wagon of your town, what 3,000 cabbage
weighing 12 pounds each, or even 10 pounds
at 4 cents, or even 2 cents, would be worth?
An acre should hold four to flve thousand
plants; with even Peter Henderson's heavy
manuring, 1,000 pounds of jguano would
miMw of m flwvwfl towolfb
12 pounds, and with cows to feed the unsale
able cabbage, there should be money in it.
I passed on the stage road Afty-two years
ago, where Atlanta intended to be, and I
feel assured I can, with a sub-soil plow, har
row, and 600 pounds of oil-meal prepare an
acre to grow 3,000 marketable cabbage. I
have seen car loads pass along the railroad
from “over the border,” and I know as good
can be grown within a stone's throw of
where the cabbage did stop. If the people
were not looking at piles of cotton bales and
almost at starvation point, they would make
the climate too hot for up-country collards.
“A Wobd is Enouoii.”
Oil Meal for Hweet Potatoes.
A farmer in Louisiana on the New Orleans
railroad, first suggested to me to use about
300 pounds oil meal; he said he certainly
had doubled his crop. He measured 90 bar
rels without and 200 by the use of oil meal.
I weighed meal, tried It and various other
fertilizers; measured land and weighed of
each from 18 feet. I dug at the rate, say 76
bushels without anything in best part of
land, but Bliaded by the fence part of the
day; give it 100 barrels with 300 pounds, 200
in first furrow, bedded on; when ridge was
made a drill made 100 pounds; drilled and
covered ten days before, draws, over 300
barrels. Try now, and be accurate.
PBO BONO I’UBLICO.
Arboreal Flora or Arkansas.
In an article read before the National For
estry convention, which convened recently
at Cincinnati, Ohio, Prof. F. L. Harvey, of
the Ark. Ind. Univ. presented the following
facts regarding the forests and forest trees of
Arkansas:
The species of forest trees were divided
into those growing on the low country,
those growing in the up-land and those
common to both. The distribution of spe
cies was shown to be governed rather by
latitude, elevation, warmth, moisture, fer
tility, friability and kind of soil, than to
change of geological horizon.
All of the species of trees known to grow
in the State were mentioned, and their dis
tribution given. There are twenty-nine
botanical orders, sixty-two genera, and one
hundred and twenty-five species of indige
nous forest trees represented in the arboreal
flora of Arkansas. The State was originally
covered with forests, excepting about nine
hundred square miles of prairie land, lo
cated principally in Prairie and Arkansas
counties. Excluding the amount in culti
vation and cleared for pastures, there re
mains about forty-five thousand square
miles of timber-land, abounding In forest
trees of the first economio value, represent
ing a vast amount of undeveloped wealth.
The pine forests of Arkansas are located
principally south of the Arkansas river, but
are scattered above the river in belts along
the ridges, while the pine forests of South
Arkansas cover extended tracts. There are
about twenty thousand square miles of pine
land in the State, which will yield about
forty-two million feet of lumber, excluding
trees too small at present to cut, and taking
no notice of the fact that in Arkansas, pine
usually replaces pine when it is cut.
There are two species of pine in Arkansas
—pintu mitis, short-leaved pine, and pinut
xaeda, long-leaved pine. The former is dis
tributed throughout the State; the latter is
found principally South of the Arkansas
river. Both grow on the same kind
of land together, and both are used for
lumber. The pine forests of Arkansas are
not exclusively so, but are mixed with a
valable species of hard wood growth.
The flora of Arkansas is remarkable for
the number of species of the magnolia fam
ily, there being five in the State. For the
number of species of cratmgns, red haw, and
species of quercus—oaks. The State has all
the eight species of North American hicko
ries. There are several species which have
usually been regarded as shrubs, but in the
rich soil of Southern Arkansas attain the
dimensions of trees.
The State is remarkable for large trees.
The chinquapin attains the diameter of
about four feet. There are a number of
rare trees in Arkansas.
Southbbn women would enjoy better health
if they were not so much afraid of the sun.
It looks queer to see a woman with a para
sol stretched over her when the weather is
cold enough to put a premium on overcoats.
—[Sparta (Ga.) Ishmaelite.
Remedy bob Flba Beetle.—I used Rhodes
super-phosphate., sprinkled under the cab
bage and a little on top, The stronger the
odor, better of oourse; not ft bad article,
gtft
Cotton Heed OH Mnnnfhctnre.
Editor Southbbn World—In your article
page 0, April 16th, you wrote; “There is
every reason to believe that the first move
towards the extraction of oil from cotton
seed was made at Natchez, Mississippi in the
year 1834." J saw the seed liuller T remem
ber in 1834 there, but I saw the first one I
ever saw or had an idea of such a thing ten
years before in Columbia, 8. C. I may mis
take, forget, as boys do not always take to
machinery, but my impression is Gen. David
R. Williams, (perhaps prefix Governor,) had
made oil before 1824, and tried in paint and
other ways. I think a nephew of his was a
class-mate in '23 or '24. So long since 1 have
had my mind directed to this, that I can
only say, I saw the seed huller certain and
the oil made it like a dream. P.
Editor Southern Would—A writer from
Florida: “They hybernate in the lint and
upon the kernel” objecting to cotton seed
as manure for Irish potatoes, “attract and
propagate the troublesome cut-worm.”
Well, I heard of cut worms from the egg of
a fly, when these started, the youth, need
ed tender food, but in Florida the youth
has teeth to cut through the hull to get at
the kernel. In Mississippi it was charged
on the cotton seed, that the hull was so
tough, it irritated the coats of the stomach
and was a factor in cholera. M.
Sidney Lanier said: “There is more in
the man than there is in the lund." This
is very true; but there is more in the land
than the man tries to get out of it. The
farm industries of our section need diversi
fying.—[Sparta (Ga.) Ishmaelite.
The Catacombs.
Not far from the city of Rome are ,vast
subterranean chamber’s dug in the soft rock.
These are long, narrow galleries about eight
feet in height and five feet wide. In some
places these passages expand into lofty,
vaulted chambers. It was a beautiful day
in April that I went out on the Appla Via
(Appian Hard) and reached the place of de
cent. Our guide had lanterns ready and
we wero soon in dense darkness under the
ground. We wandered on through the end
less passages, stopping to look at the slabs
of marble that show where some tomb is
placed.
There are six hundred miles of these nar
row lanes; it Is a city of houses and streets
of the dead. Bosio spent thirty years in
studying them; ho has copied a vast num
ber of the inscriptions found on the tablets
over the tombs. .
The Romansburn thoir dead and keep the
ashes in urns in their houses. The Jews
who live in Rome follow the practice of
burying in tombs cut in rocks—their old
custom. Some of the tombs are expensively
and beautifully adorned.In tho eight century
the Lombards destroyed many of the cata
combs and others are fallen in, so that the
whole have never been explo/ed.
In after years when the persecutions set
in, the catacombs were used as hiding
places; here many of the martyrs were
buried; in after years their bones were re
moved by tho popes and buried in the
churches.
We pass the tomb of Diogenes the Fossor;
it is very elaborate. He was apparently a
grave digger and made preparation for his
own burial, “ Diogenes-Fossor in pace de-
positus," is tho inscription. Over many
tombs “In-pace” is found; in peaco in the
grave Is glorious; in peace in spite of per
secutions.
In many of these tombs cups have been
found which are supposed to have contain
ed spices of perfumes to counteract the
odors of the grave. In the grave of a child
a clay doll was found. The custom of bury
ing the playthings in the grave is usual in
Italy and France at the present time. It is
the mother’s heart that dictates this; as
through the little one would want some
thing to abate the loneliness of the tomb.
Pecans, Enolish Walnuts and White
Walnuts, so has the almond, fruited in lati
tude 32 degrees, and why not be grown for
profit. I have seen trees of each under ten
years to have fruit, of course the first at
least was forced into fruiting by being
grown on thin upland; if on rich land the
pecans makes a tree as the hickory-nut fam
ily. I think the pecan at least planted in
10 to 60 acres, cultivated yearly, and in cot
ton, potatoes, peas, turnips, the loss in reg
ular crop would need be one-tenth; trees
grow faster and in ten years perhaps the
fruit begin to pay and for 60 years largely
over our best cotton crops, At) old farmer
here from N. C,, wtygO yearn (*gq from up,
mm ‘ '^
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