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aotttriERN WORLD, ftftX 1,1882.
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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, JULY 1, 1882.
WEATHER BULLETIN
las Use Cotton Belt from June lotls to 03th.
OlMKHVXR‘8 Ol-nCKBlUHAI. SKHVIOK, U.8. A.,
Kimball Houhk, Atlanta, O a.
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Atlanta 91° 01° IH on 25th 85 on Irttll
Augusta.... 92 TO Ml on 25tli K5ou loth
Charleston uu ni «8 on 25tli Hon nth
Galveston. 96 72 96 on 25th 111 on 10th
Mobile IIS 72 101 on 24tli HI on null
Montg’rr... 94 05 07 on 17th as on loth
Memphis... 94 7il os on 15th 01 oil loth
LittleRocIc 07 07 00 on 25th 01 on loth
N. Orleans 03 75 0Bon22tl 00 on 11th
Vicksburg. 05 72 os on Mth 00 on lot ji
Savannah. 91 71 <Mon21at S3 on loth
Wllmln’t'n 91 07 07 on 25th 7son 13th
Charleston 2.0U
Mobile V20
Mon tgomery 2.M
MemphU 73
Little Itock !.(«•
New Orleans t.oi
ViekHburj?........... .XI
Havannab 1.4*
Wilmington J2.42
.41 on 12th June.
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,17 on 22(1 *•
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.23 on 24tb
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16.50
Total rainfall lu cotton belt June 10th to2T>tb lo.no
Inches.
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PREMIUM NO. 5. (Order by number.)
SPECIAJLJJFFER.
THE NOUTHERN WORLD FOR NIX
MONTHS
and a hamlsonto steel engraving entitled,
“ SUNSHINE AND SHADOW,” FOR
FIFTY CENTH,
(and a three cent stamp to pay postage on picture.)
In order to leave no opportunity unimproved, we
make this unexampled offer to those who may wish
to take the Southbbn Woiilii on trial. This picture
Is very.bandsomc, and Is 19 by 21 In. In site. It repre
senta a young farmer Just putting aside his work to
enjoy noon refreshments. On the ground, nearu tall
atone fence, are hts canteen, coat and apude. Ilia
Wife has Just come with his dinner, and thu two chil
dren, all looking happy and contented with lire, She
Is turned with her buck to the looker-on, holding In
oue hand the basket of dinner, while with the other,
■be la transferring the Infant child to Its father’s
arms. Ue Is takiug It with teuder care,while an expres
alon of happy pride mingles with that of fatigue und
almost overcomes It, so great seems to be Ills admira
tion for the little une. On the other side of her moth
er a little girl, apparently about four years of age,
stands with her dolly and a long buuch of grass In
onu hand, and with the other pretends to assist mam
ma with the baaket, looking saucily up Into pupil's
face, as If tossy, “You dun't know what's In here fur
you!" Around them are growing wild lluwers and
tall grass, while the scene Is llooded with the bright
beams of the noon-day sunlight.
In the dark background Is a grove or wood, where
a silent, lonely figure, draped In widow's weeds,
stands amid the shadows, and with a tad, downcast
countenance, gases upon the happy group before her
with a far-away look, as If recalling the days when
she too, was happy, or viewing the contrast between
this family and her own blighted life. It can but
touch the hearts of both aides—the happy and the
unhappy. Address
SOUTHERN WORLD,
illMta, Gn.
The South Carolina State Agricultural
Convention meets at Anderson, next month
The programme will be one of exceeding
interest.
Our venerable and venerated cotemporary
of Boston, the Watchman, lias an editorial
caption in a recent issue “ The Gospel of
Despair!” We fail to perceive where any
good tidings can be promulgated about dcs
pair,
Mr. J. K. P. Wallace, of Andersonville,
Tennessee, is a progressive farmer, and one
of the best reporters of agricultural meet
ings in the country. He is quick of ear and
ready of hand to catch and take down all
that is said, while his well-balanced mind
guides in giving to the public a full and cor
rect report.
The Hull Vapor Stove Company, of Cleve
land, Ohio, have established a branch house
in Atlanta for the sale in the South of their
justly celebrated stoves. It is under the
management o( Mr. Ed. Knapp, an enter
prising business man. The Hull Stove is
destined to become popular, and in time no
Southern kitchen will be considered com
plete without one. In operation they save
time and trouble in the household, and cost
in burning, less than wood or coal.
Improvement or Public Komis.
Prof. Locke, of the University of Tenues
see, at the session of the East Tennessee
Farmer’s Convention, in Knoxville, Tenn.,
remarked that a road ought to be os straight
and level as possible. The present location
of roads in the South are not what they
should be; they seem to take the highest
hills and lowest valleys. Wo must take sucli
roads as wc have and make the best we can
of them.
In many instances they can be changed
for the better; changes of slight importance
working no injury to any, but adding much
to their use. What the road system needs
most was to be under the direction of a skill
fui county engineer.
JoarnnliMtle EHiIcn.
We are at a loss to perceive any substan
tial reason for a newspaper copying an orig
inal article from a cotomporary and omitting
to give credit for the sume. The plea of in
advertence may be set up with some degree
of plausibility when it is done once, but
when it is done repcutedly, no such plea
can be available. And when journals re
ceive credit from other journals for such
stolen urticles.and fail to give honor, whence
it is due, it is a confession that they do not
propose to render unto Ctesar the honor due
to Cicsar. One or two of our cotemporaries
are in the habit of copying original articles
from the Southern World without credit,
and wo trust to see them amend their wnys
in this particular.
The luxury of a Turkish batli is best ap
preciated when the summer heatsoppress to
almost suffocation. It may seem that the
heated apartment or tepidarium would bo
harder to bear there thun in winter, but it
is not, although the winding sheet shows
evidence of the streaming perspiration; but
while tlie refreshing, cool applications to
head and throat of the cold water, is some
thing to be grateful for, this first process, is
but preliminary to the sponge bath and the
manipulations. The magnetism of the oper
ation, and the cquilizing of the circulation,
leaves one supremely conscious that it is a
joy merely to exist, but the refreshment and
invigoration lasts on, and it seems as if we
need never bo weary or despondent, or any
way but happy again. One can almost take
one these days by taking a walk of a few
miles.
Parity and Vitality of Farm Needs.
Prof. J. M. McBryde in his address before
the East Tennessee Fariuera’ Convention, at
Knoxville, Tennessee, submitted facts and
figures from analyses of seeds that astonish
ed his hearers. A sample of orchard grass
seed gave only 20 per cent of pure seed,
while 80 per cent was empty florets or husks
without grain; one of Blue grass while giv
ing 02 per cent of pure seed, only 6 in 100
germinated. Red clover gave 55 per cent
of pure seed, but only 42 in 100 germinated.
White clover gave ninety-seven per cent of
pure seed, but only 3 In 100 germinated.
A like ratio is found in other seeds, the im
purities being numerous and often seeds of
weeds. The farmer buys seeds—good ones
as be supposes—sows them with care, and
failing to get a catch takes it for granted that
the season being unfavorable is the cause.
The subject is one of vast importance and
demands a prompt and summary remedy.
Dry all the FrnlL
The Southern Standard, of McMinnville,
Tenn., gives the following sensible advice:
“Dry all that you can in the best possible
condition. When the time comes to sell
then do the very best you can. If your fruit
is extra nice you will get a better price than
lie who has dried in tiie ordinary way, leav
ing the core in and the cut irregular. What
we want to talk about now is the blackberry
and whortleberry crops. We understand
these crops are large everywhere and will
soon begin to ripen sufficient to gather. In
gathering uny fruit to dry let it be ripe—not
too ripe. Dry thoroughly and store away
in a dry place and you will have no trouble
with worms.” Vegetables of all kinds and
sweet potatoes should be dried for winter
use. Many incline to the belief that drying
is far preferable to canning.
Mr. R. B. Reppard, a live merchant of Sa
vannah, Ga., contributes to the Southern
Lumberman, an interesting letter on the
“Yellow Pine of Georgia.” In her lumber
interest he says: “Georgia lias a mine of
wealth far greater in value than her gold
fields if she only utilizes it properly. Seven
teen thousand million feet of timber at the
present market value, on shipboard at any of
our ports, would represent a capital of $350,-
000,000, and certainly, if the lumber inter
est of the State is worth this vast sum, the
turpentine interest (which has advanced
nearly 100 per cent, in value the last few
years, while lumber has uilvancd only 30
percent, during the same time,) is worth
an equal amount, which would make the
total value of these two great sources of
wealtli $700,000,000, which sum far exceeds
the total valuation put upon all the prop
erty of every kind in the State. Still, we
will venture to say that 'in the list of our
taxable property the lumber interest is al
most the smallest in valuation.”
The Baltimore Journal of Commerce sayS:
"Tlie latest advices from the West regarding
the growing wheat crop continue very en
couraging for a large yield, and it is stated
that the winter wheat is now beyond tho
chance of daninge from insects and bugs,
and that tlie only tiling that can injure it
now would be warm damp weather after
harvest. It is belie veil that the exports
from the Atlantic ports during August and
perhaps as early as the latest half of July
will be very heavy, and Baltimore shippers
are making preparations for an active trade
by chartering vessels for future loading.
That wo lmve had an unprecedentedly
backward season this year is undisputed,
but it is almost equally certain that its ef
fects have not been disastrous. The wheat
crop lias already been hurvested in many
sections without accident, and the pleasant
weuther of tlie lost two weeks lias been fa
vorable to tlie harvest now in progress. Fur
ther north the grain looks well, jo it is al
most ccrtuin that we will have a uniform
yield, and one abovo tlie uveruge. But now
comes tlie question as to tlie corn crop, on
which so much deiicnds. The cold has de
layed planting, and tlie acreage this year is
not quite os large as it was in 1881, but corn
is a lmrdy plant, and tlie damp sultry weath
er alternating with hot duys, isiuaking good
the loss of the past. There is not tlie least
cause for anxiety on this score, and will not
be unless we have frosts in August. Tlie
mild weather of. last winter through the
northwest was very favorable for stock and
tlie ruins have given tlie grass a good start.
We shall therefore liuve an ample supply of
stock for next winter. The southwestern
and northwestern roads may expect a very
heavy business which will begin soon, and
tlie lines in the Middle aud Western States
may have an equal confidence. With good
craps all business will he good, aud we shall
enjoy a full measure of prosperity, which
the bad harvests of last year seemed to
check.—St. Louis Railway Register.
The North Carolina Fruit Fnlr.
The North Carolina Fruit Growers’ Asso
ciation will hold its first annual exposition
at Greensboro, Wednesday and Thursday,
August 9th and 10th, 1882.
The following premiums will be offered,
open to the world without entrance fee:
Class One.—Apples—one bushel, assorted
varieties, first premium $10; second pre-
mluin$8; apples, best six named vuiieties,
twelve specimens each, first premium $10;
second premium $2; apples, preserving crabs
best assortment, first premium $2; second
premium $1. l’cars—best collection six or
more named varieties, first premium $10;
second premium $5; pears, best single vari
ety, first premium $5; second premium $2.
Peaches—one bushel assorted variety, first
premtun$10; second premium $5 ; peaches,
best six named varieties, (1 dozen specimens
each), first premium $10: second premium
$5. Plums—best collection, first premium
$2; second premium $1. Nectarines—finest
show, first premium $5; second premium $2.
Largest and best display of peaches and ap
ples by one person, 250 peach or apple tree’s
—special premium by J. Van Lindsey.
Class Second.—Grapes—one bushel largest
collection, assorted variety, first premium
$10: second premium $2; grapes, six named
varieties, one dozen bunches each, first pre
mium $10; second premium $5. Wine—
largest collection native, first premium $10;
second premium $5. Figs—best collection,
first premium $2; second premium $1. Mul
berries—best display, first premium $2;
second premi um $1. Date plum or Japanese
persimmon—one dozen specimens, first pre
mium $5; second premium $2. Dried fruit
—best collection, five pounds or more of
each variety, (sun dried) first premium $10;
second premium $5; dried fruit, five pounds
or more of each variety, (evaporated), first
premium $10; second premium $5; five
pounds each of apples and peaches (evapo
rated), first premium $5; second premium
$2; five pounds each of apples and peaches
(sun dried), first premium $5; second pre
mium $2. Canned fruit—best assortment,
first premium $10; second premium $5.
Canned vegetables—best assortment, first
premium $10; second premium $5. Melons
—water, half dozen specimens, first pre-
$2; second premium $1; melons, musk,
half dozen specimens, first premium $2;
second premium $1.
Class Three.—Strawberries—first premium
$2; second premium $1. Tomatoes—one
peck, first premium $2; second premium $1.
Preserves—best samples, first premium $5;
second premium $2. Jellies—best samples,
first premium $5; second premium $2.
Pickled fruit—best samples, sour, first pre
mium $5; second premium$2. Bestboquet
assorted flowers, cut first premium $2;
second premium $1; bestboquet cut roses,
first premium $2; second premium $1; best
boquet assorted grasses, first premium $2;
second premium $1. Largest and best col
lection of fruits, B|iecial gold premium,
first, $40; second $10.
Class Four.—For evaporator, first premium
$20; second premium $5. For canning ma
chinery, first premium $20; second premium
$5; cider and wine mill first premium $5;
second premium $2.
The Next KnwilnKe UongrcHN.
Many farmers present at tlie Ensilage
Congress held January 24tb, 1882, (also
many who did not attend) desire to again
assemble in this city in order to compare
experiences.
It will be held Wednesday, Jan. 24th,
1883, and continue four days (and evenings
if desired.)
Tlie object is making tills early announc-
ment is, that farmers with practical knowl
edge and experience with ensilage maybe
prepared with a written statement of their
various operations, which shall include tlie
actual measurements and weights, as they
apply to land cultivated, manures, fertili
zer, and seed used, and product tier acre;
tlie cost of lubor, teams, and power per ton
of ensilnge; and the comparative gain or
loss in weight or product of milk and but
ter as compared to tlie feeding of huy or
other dried fodder. Tlie reports to be as
concise os possible. It is requested also
that specimens of tlie simplest furiu book
keeping be presented, and preparation made
for a full discussion of the economies of
mechanics and improved methods relating
to agriculture by men who know how to
pioke farming pay. J. B. Brown.
Secretary of Ensilage Congress of 1882.
65 Ueeknian 8t., N. Y.
How to be Neir-ouMtalnlnv.
For the South to be self-sustaining, she
must turn her attention to raising all kinds
of grain, corn and oats, when this is done
we can keep our stock in better condition
and save our hard earnings. No man will
ever succeed in the South raising cotton at
10 cents per pound and paying 12 cents per
pound for his meat, 00 cents per bushel for
corn, and $1.60 a barrel for meal. With a
smoke house full of meat, and a crib full of
corn, with plenty of hogs on the place, a
planter feels independent; but with your
fields full of cotton, no meat in your smoke
house, no corn in your crib, no hog on the
place, a planter is a dependent, and will
ever be in debt to his merchant. Should
one bad year overtake him he is crippled
financially for the next five years.—Concor
dia (La.) Gazette.