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8 THE SOUTHERN WORLD, OCTOBER 1, 1883. JPl §jontfwn $j£orld. PnblUliFd ou the 1st and UUsorutth Month BT TUB SOUTHERN WOULD PUBLISHING CO., ATLANTA, GEORGIA. Incorporated—I'nld up Capital, $20,000. D. C. BALENTINE, President and Manager T. B. CARTMELL, Secretary and Treasurer. W. 0. WHIDBY, Editor. LB.'NEWMAN,’ } Contributing Editors. TERMS OF MIIWCBIPTIOH) One year, portage paid, (1A0 Subscriptions can commence at any time during year. Sample copies sent tree to all who send ns their address. CIRCULATION, - - 20,000 COPIES. BATES OF ADVERTISING I Legitimate advertisements will be inserted at the following rates; Inside pages, each Insertion, per line • ■ Bets. Outside page “ “ “ " • • *8 els. Beading Notices 10 eta. All advertisements charged by solid Agate measure- TO CORRESPONDENTS.—It Is our aim to make the Boutmebn Would a medium for the dlUhsion of practical information upon all Agricultural and Mechanical subjects, and to this end we Invite com munications upou all rural subjects, experimental results, crop news, domestic economy, etc., aud upon topics of Interest to Mechanics, Manufacturers and MiaKs. Address all letters to SOUTHERN WORLD PUBLISHING CO., Atlnnta, Georgia. ATI.ANTA, GA., OCTOBER 1, 1882. WEATHER BULLETIN In Use Cotton Belt from Hep. 0 to Hep. 81. Obskiivru’s Office Signal Service, U. 8. A., Kimball House, Atlanta, Oa. Ther. AvMax Av. Min Jlicit Max Ijow'stMax Atlanta. Augusta Charleston. Galveston Mobile Montgomery., Memphis. Little ltock.... New Orleans. Vlcksburi M 88 on 18th 01 on 31th 01 on loth 02 on 16th 88 on 16tli 01 nn 17th in on 18th ouon lOih 02 on 12th in on 21st 02 on 14th 01 on 17th 71° on 10th 77 on 0th 76 on Oth 77 onDtb 71 on 10th n on ioth 71 on Oth 77 oil 23d 78 oil 22d 75 on 22d 72 on 22<1 72 on 22d September Vicksburg Savannah Wilmington... Average maximum of cotton belt from Oth to September 24th—84°. Average minimum of cotton belt from September Oth to September 24th—04°. Note.—Avcrago maximum means beat In the dny; average minimum, heat before day. The Swiss colony in Habersham county, Georgia is gradually increasing its number by additions trom Switzerland. A large hotel at New Switzerland is being erected. Prof. J. M. McBryde has been elected Pres ident of the University of 8outh Carolina. This is a high but deserving testimonial to his worth and ability. We congratulate the University. The trade issue of the Atlanta Constitution was a mammoth affair. It left nothing to be said on the subject. In fact, the Comtitution is one of the livest and most progressive papers in the land. The old North State is not behind any of her sister States in prosperity and develop ment. A “Tobacco Fair’’ to be held at Durham, N. C., next May is suggested. We second the motion. Two songs are likely to have a grand rush this fall. Defeated candidates for office will naturally cleave to “Hearts bowed Down” while successful ones will joyfully sing, "Happy as a Big Sun Flower.” The timber lands of Louisiana are esti mated at 15,000,000 acres, giving a possible supply of seventy-five billion feet of saw- log timber. What an immense capital Lou isiana has in her timber supply. As an evidenco of the growing prosperity of the country and consequent increase in business it is stated that the earnings of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1860 were $300,000 per month, and in August 1882 it was $1,850,000. Arkansas has an editor who is a descend ant of the immortal Davy Crockett. He knows how to express himself in vigorous English, and is not afraid to let the world know his position. Ho may not bo politic, but lie is sincere. Mb. W. J. Camp, of the Colorado Ranch Dairy at Covington, has returned from an extensive tour among Eastern and Western dairy farmers, fully satisfied with his dairy farm in Georgia and his scrub cows. Gkn. Robert Toombs said once in an agri cultural speech, that the making of an ox cart was one of the lost arts in the South. It would seem from the character of butter usually sent to market, that the making of good butter was also one of the lost arts. Thi cultivation of the olive in California, is proving very profitable. The estimated yield of an acre of 8-year old trees is $1,250. South Georgia and Florida will grow them profitably. Tub Kansas City Price Current, in com menting upon the corn crop and supply of hogs in the West says: “We wish to add that both Kansas and Nebraska can be in cluded with Minnesota and Wisconsin as States from which there will be no shortage. With 100,000 more hogs in Nebraska this year than last, a shortage there is impossi ble, and while the returns from Kansas will not be fully compiled before the first of next month, we have enough advice from private sources to bear us out in the assertion that Kansas will turn out a much larger hog sup ply the present year. The new West will hold its own and have, perhaps, a slight surplus, but there will be a falling off east of the Mississippi, and it is there where the princi pal loss will be.” A Challenge to the World. Messrs. G. W. and H. C. Randall, of Marion Junction, Ain., challenges the world on the hoy question. They say that they will “agree to meet any nnmber of competitors at any fair to be held this fall near half way grounds with one or half a dozen bales of hay, each one bearing the freight to the place of exhibit on his hay and let the party exhibiting the best bale of bay take ail on exhibit, and then $5 from each party as a premium to the party exhibiting said hay, for the most hay mowed off of one acre in the year 1882 and the hay exhibited shall be a sample of tfaatliay raised on one acre attest ed by three respectable witnesses. Recollect tiiis challenge comes from the South where grass cannot be grown profitably (so said) but all interested parties come along and put your names down and money ($5) up and my word for it we shall pay the money to bo deposited with the President of the fair at which we exhibit the hay; noth ing to be said by exhibitor; fair impartial judges; and if they shall disagree let horses or mules decide by offering them so much hay of each kind. What hay stays last which we will call worst or any other way the judges mug choose and after the decision all exhibitors agree to be satisfied (if possi ble.) “Wo will take Johnson grass as our hay to exhibit.” RAINFALL. Atlant*..................3.(il I n.great'si (ul 12.26 on Sep. 10th Apgusta 2.101m. •• " l.M on •*: loth Charleston 2.IC! In. “ “ 1.06 on •• 10th Galveston 1.61 In. “ “ 1.26 on •• loth Mobile 48 Id. • ..Won “ 0th Montgomery 2.88 In. • •• 1.M on “ loth Mempbla l.m In. “ •< .«u oil “ 2let LltUe Rock.....—1.40 In. •• •• .ss on •• 15th Newoneone 72 In. •• •• A3 on •• 15th Vicksburg 37 In. •• •• .27 on •• oth Savannah .86 n. •• .63 on •• 2lnt Wilmington 2.34 In. •• “ 1.66 on ■' loth 19.21 Total rain fall In cotton belt 10.21 Inches. Greatest (all at one place—Atlanta-8.01 Inches. Greatest fall ono dny—.September 10th—10.27 Inches. CKAUACTKH Ok WKATHKIt—NUMB EH Ok DAYS. CUtes. ttear. Omuly. luir. Atlanta ..... 12 2 1 Augusta 0 4 2 Galveston— 7 4 4 Indlanola 0 0 6 Kay West..... 0 4 2 Rootle 10 2 s Montgomery 7 3 6 New Orleans. 0 4 Pensacola 8 8 4 Palestine 8 4 3 Savannah... ............ 10 2 1 The Atkins (Ark.) News spells the name of its State thus: Arkansaw. It don't like sas. Tub Fair season is fully upon us. Those that have already been held, have been very successful. The illustrated article on the fourth and fifth pages on “Clock and Watch Land” la Instructive and interesting. A Chinese teacher wrote a poem on a sin gle grain of Rice. That is the most palata ble way to take poetry now. A family in Terrell, Texas, makes $10 per day picking cotton. Either the family or the yield of cotton, is extra large. Texas is a progressive State. In addition to building 1400 miles of railway this year, she raised $97,380,558 worth of produce. Just now public attention is divided be tween the comet and the candidate and it is uncertain which ono is most dreaded. Tkh years ago the whole country was filled with rose-colored views of a grand scheme called the Atlantic and Great Western Canal, to connect the waters of the Mississippi and the Atlantic. It waa claimed that this canal would give the country cheap transporta tion. And now where is it ? The address on “Agricultural Education” delivered at Anderson, 8. C., by Prof. J. M. McBryde was furnished by the author to the Southern Wobld, in which paper it was first published. Wo regret to see some of our exchanges guilty of the discourtesy of publishing in without giving the Southern World credit for it Indications points a largo attendance at the State Fair of Arkansas, and session of the Cotton Planters’ Convention at Little Rock, Arkansas, on the 10th. Capt. Thos. Nunan, the active passenger agent of the Memphis and Charleston railroad in this city, can handle large crowds very success fully. He is working vigorously in the mat ter of expediting a largo attendance from this section. Thi admirable address of Judge F. C. Fur man, of MilledgeviUe, on “Intensive Farm ing," delivered before the State Agricultu ral Society of Georgia at Marietta, and re peated before the Agricultural Club of Put nam county, on September 20th, has been furnished the Soutrkrn World for publica tion by the gifted speaker. It is eminently sound and practical. It will appear in our next Issue. Good BondN. The St. Martinville, (La.) Observer in giv ing place to our remarks on “Road Laws" says: “It is thought by many that imprac tical roads more than any other cause has kept our parish at a standstill. Good roads combined with our natural resources, should start this parish on the high road to prosper ity ; and in a few years hence, we would see every foot of our arable land in culti vation." That excellent journal also chronicles the following suggestive item: “Mr. Uiger Webre,. a man of energetic enterprise, gathered around him a week or so ago about 50 men near his house, and by the way nearly all planters, and In a short time put in thorough.conditlon the public road lead ing from his plantation to the town of Breaux-Bridge. And when it is considered that this was done by voluntary aid and not under the compulsory road duty, it is all the more commendable." A Disputed Point. The subject of the seeding of Bermuda grass is still being discussed throughout the country, Many strongly maintain that it docs seed, though not in this conntry. Dr. J. P. Stclle, of Mobile, Ala., in a letter to the Journal of Agriculture says: “I had all along been led to believe that our seasons were too short for Bermuda gross, and that it would mature its seed only in tropical countries. But now I find that it is not the shortness of the season so much as the fall droughts that blast the seed. On my place is a dry valley opening into a piece of marshy land. Several years ago the upper portion of the valley were set with the roots of this grass, which worked their way down, year by year, towards the marsh. Noticing that It seemed to grow with unusual luxuriance there, and that the stalks seemed larger than nsual, I exam ined them, and to my surprise, found them to contain a goodly quantity of perfect seed—the seed In about one-half tho pods being good. A subsequent examination of that on the higher ground led to the discovery that nearly all the seed were blasted—there be ing but one seed out of a hundred that was good. From this I concluded that, with us, Bermuda grass will mature its seed only in damp situations, and that we might, at least, appropriate such situation to the plant with profit in raising for the seed alone. That Bermuda will mature its seed as far north as Jackson, Tenn., the writer refers to a letter from that place, stating that ‘it not only thrives there, but that it seeds abun dantly when not pastured by stock.” There are others who affirm that it does not seed in the South, though it may possi bly do so in its native clime. Mr. F. P. Rice, of Atlanta, Go., informs us that Col. W. H. Sparks before his death stated to him that this grass was Imported from Africa by the captain of a slave trader named, Copt. Permudy, who brought it to Charleston and it was named after him, but finally degenerated into Bermuda. It is possible that if this be Its histoiy, this grass may seed in Africa. As yet, no ono in this section, has ever been able to see any of tho seed of this grass. OUR ROUND TABLE. Poems and Essays, by Charles W. Bnbner. New York: Brown A Derby, publishers, No. 21 Park Place. Mr. Charles W. Hubner is one.of the South’s most modest and meritorious au thors. As the author of "Souvenirs of Lu ther “Wild Flowers;” “Cinderella, a Lyr ic Drama;” and “Modern Communism,” he has achieved a wide-spread reputation. His “Poems and Essays” has established his standing in the front rank of our literati. The veteran JohnG. Whittier says: “Among the poems I have been most impressed and pleased with the “Tide of Time," “Willie,” “Necropolis,” and "“Deaf, Dumb ane Blind" —these are excellent. I have read the Es says with great satisfaction. They are wise in thought and admirable in diction." And this tribute is just Elfin Land and Othei Works. New York: G. W. Harlan & Co. In their fall publications, Messrs. G. W. Harlan & Co. include an exquisite colored book for children, entitled “Elfin Land.” The verses are by Josephine Pollard, the de signs by Walter Satterlee. Mary D. Brine is again represented by a volume of child poems, entitled “Christmas Rhymes and New Year’s Chimes.” This book is profusely illustrated with fine wobd-cuts from designs by Jessie Curtis Shepherd, Jessie McDer mott, Miss C. A. Northern, and D. Clinton Peters. Large editions of both these books have been ordered for England. They will also issue fresh editions of “My Boy and I,” (the most widely discussed of all lost year’s holiday books), “Tutti-Frutti,” and “Last Days of Knickerbocker Life in New York," Their recently inaugurated “Kaaterskill Se ries” of novels is a great success. A treat is in store for the literary public in tho second volume of this series, entitled “The Modern Hagar.” It will soon be ready. Popular Science Monthly. New York: D. Ap pleton A Co., Nos. 1,3 and 5 Rond street—(5 p ir an num. This periodical can justly lay claim to its title of popular. Its merits fully entitle it to make the claim. The Monthly is now in its manhood, having past its twenty-first year, and is clearly a fixed institution. The October number is on our table, well laden with choice matter, os the following table of contents show: “Massage, its Mode of Ap plication and Effects,’’ by Douglass Graham,-' M. D.; “Literatureand Science,” by Matthew Arnold ; “What are Clouds?” by C. Morfit; "The Past and Present of Cuttle-fishes,” by Dr. Andrew Wilson; "Mozley in Evolu tion," by Herbert Spencer; “Explosions and Explosives,” by Allen D. Brown; “ThoUtil ity of Drunkenness,” by W. Mattieu Will iams; “Delusions of Doubt,” by M. B. Bill; “Progress of American Mineralogy,” by Prof. G. J. Brush; “Industrial Education in our Public Schools,’’ by Prof. H. H. Straight; “Physiognomic Curiosities,” by Felix L. Oswald, M. D.; “Formation of Saline Min eral Waters,” by M. Dreulafait; "The Part nership of Animal and Plant Life,” by K. Brandt; “Sketch of Prof. Rudolf Kirchow, with portrait,” etc. Tub Ambbican Aoricultuiuht. Orange Judd A Co ,761 Broadway, N. Y. *1.50 per annum. The American Agriculturist is entering upon the forty-first year of its existence and gives evidence of increased popularity and use fulness. The Agriculturist is a progressive journal and justly merits its popularity and success. The Monumental City, Itr Part History and • Pbehent Resources. Geo. W. Howard, M West Fayette street, Baltimore, Md., Svo. cloth and gilt, 000 pages-price *5. Mr. Howard has set forth the advantages and resources of the Monumental City in a complete and handsone work. It will be found an invaluable contribution to the his tory of tho times. The Southern Planter. Richmond, Vn., W. C. Knight, Editor. 11.60 per annum. The October number of tho Southern Plan ter is replete with valuable and interesting reading for the farmer. It is conducted with marked ability and we are pleased to note its prosperity. Tub Gbowino World, sn Illustrated Monthly Mag- aslne, devoted to Nature-animate and Inanimate. John Coryell, Conductor, us Fulton street, N. Y. (1 perannnm. The Growing World is the only magazine of its kind published any where in the world. It is pure in tone, interesting in manner, in structive and pleasing and worthy of a place in every household. Bilos and Enbilaob. A record of Practical Taste Id several States and Canada. Report upon the Condition of Oom and Cotton, Po tatoes and Fruits; also 11 eight rates of transporta tion companies. September, 1882. We are indebted to the Department of Agriculture at Washington, D. C., for copies of these publications. They contain matter I of practical interest.