Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-05-25

of cultivating the musk melon with
success, will give you my method OF
doing it. Manure is the first consider.
alton. / use none but horse manure
having had it laid up to ferment, / turn
it over several times until the strong
heat has passed off. / then dig my
holes twelve inches square, eight or ten
inches deep. / then fill up with ma
nure to the level of the surface of the
ground. On this put two inches of
soil / then take a four inch howe
not: set this in the centre; then draw
the remainder of the soil around the
pot, until you have the soil about four
inches deep; then, giving yonr pot a
twist round, withdraw it. This leaves
a hole four inches deep by four wide.
In this / drop five or six seeds, and
cover to the depth of three-quarters OF
an inch Over This / place light of
six by eight glass, pressing 1t lightly to
fit close. / then give no more atten-
ton till the plants are touching the
| glass. i then go through them, taking
a small lump OF earth or small stone,
raise up one end of the glass and place
this under it; this admits of a current
of air over the plants and hardens
them of. In about three days more
] remove the glass entirely. BY this
time they will be in the rough leaf /
! thin out TO three plants In hill. i
| draw little 6ne soil around them, mp
as high as the seed leaf, and the work
| is done. The advantages of this sys-
tenn are, the protection of the young,
tender plants from cold winds and rains,
and last, though not least, 1t is the only
effectual way of protection that have
| found for the arch enemy of all this
class of plants, the striped yellow bug.
| Cucumbers, watermelons and squashes
can be raised the sane way. - CuLtird-
tor.
| AFFAIRS IN GEORGIA. large num-
Der of the colored citizens of Augusta,
| Ga. of both sexes, recently assembled
/ in the park of that city for the pur-
pose of listening to a speech on recon
| struction from Captain Bryant, editor
/ of the Loyal Georgian. Mr.. Bryant
was introduced to the assemblage by
Foster Blodgett, appointed Mayor OF
the city of Augusta. who took occasion
TO define his position, which was APP
proved by the highly intelligent audi
ence.
/ Accounts from the interior of Geor-
gia represent the damage from the re-
! cent rain storms as alarming, exceed
| ing in violence any visitation OF the
kind for years. The injury to the land
from washing can hardly be estimated.
| Cotton and corn were cut to pieces, and
wheat literally destroyed. That impor-
| tant crop was in the root aud ready to
shoot out, hence a clear sweep was
made of it. Planters were blowing up
their grain to supply its place with
corn and some other provision crop.
| Numbers of planters in the South have
| commenced farming so extensively that
| their means will not allow them to
carry out their objects. A great many
are now out of corn; many out of corn,
bacon and money; and some without
even friends to help them in this great
hour of their need.
issue OF Provisions IN MISSISSIPPI.
Major General A. q. Gillem, Assis
tant Commissioner OF the Ereedmen's
Bureau in Mississippi, on the I'd inst,
ordered the following issue of proyis-
| ions TO the destitute people OF that
| State - b-districts Columbus, five
hundred sacks of corn and eight thous-
andpouuds of pork; Corinth, five hun
dred sacks corn and eight thousand
pounds pork; Oxford, two hundred and
fifty sacks corn and four thousand
pounds pork; Granada, five hundred
sacks corn and four Thousand pounds
pork; Yazoo, two hundred and fifty
sacks corn and four thousand pounds
| pork; jackson, five hundred sacks corn
and eight thousand pounds pork !;
| Natchez, five hundred sacks corn and
eight Thousand pounds pork; Green
vile, two hundred and fifty sacks corn
and four thousand pounds pork;
| Brookhaven, two hundred and fifty
sacks corn and four thousand pounds
pork; Lauderdale, five hundred sacks
corn and four thousand pounds pork;
| Winchester, two hundred and fifty sacks
corn and foHr thousand pounds pork.
| Total, four thousand two hundred and
fifty sacks of corn and sixty thousand
pounds of pork.
| ORIGIN, OF VEGETABLES. -Garlie came
from Sicily, where, for my part, L wish
| it had stayed. Beans blossomed first
within sight of embryo mummies, in
che land of the Sphynx; and the egg
plant first laid its glossy treasure under
an African sun, and Southern Europe
gave the artichoke and beet. TO Per-
STA we stand indebted for peaches, wal
nuts, mulbeTries and a score of every
day Injuries and necessities; to Arabia
we owe the cultivation of spinach, and
to Southern Europe we must bow in
fearful gratitude for the horse radish.
At Siberia the victims of modern in
| temperance may shake their CORY locks
forever-for from that cold unsocial
land came rye, the father of that great
| fire water river which has fioated so
many Jolly souls on its treacherous
tides and engulfed so much of human
ity's treasure. The chestnut, dear to
squirrels and young America, first
| dropped It's burrs on italian soil. Who
ever dreams, while enjoying his "Ber-
gamotte, " his ''Flemish beauty" or
his "Jargonelle," that rhe first pear
blossom opened within sight of the
Pyramids? And what fair school girl
of the pickle eating tribe thinks of
thanking the East Indies for cucum-
bers?
Parsley-that prettiest of all pretty
greens, taking SO naturally to our Amer
| can soil that it seems quite to the
manor born-is only a sojourner among
US. Its native home is Sardinia, or
rather, there it first secured an ae-
quaintance with civilized man. Onions,
| too, are only natural zed foreigners In
| America. / had hoped that in poetic
Justice research would provo this pa