The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-10-10
GENERAL NE VS..

ton belt of Florida.
TgE orange crops of Florida are now
north over one and one half millions of
dollars,
RALEIGH, North Caroli"a, has thir-
ieen factories and mills.
TaE Richmond Va, Grain elevator,
which h Ids 800, 900 bushels is now full.
A SHORT sugar crop is predicted in
< Louisiana, owing 10 IN insufliciency of
rain.
FLORA has $50 factories, working 2,OC-
5lS hands, with capital invested of ST.
n 697O3O.
TnE shores along Mobile bay, on both
i sides are becoming linsd with orange
groves.
Sr. AUGUSTINE, Fla, pays 12! cents
barrel for oyster shells to improve her
roads
THE number of homestcads entered in
Mississippi since the passage of the law
in 1862, is 1885.
THE bi mana trees al out Madison Fla.
are nearly I'll hearing large, fine bunch
sof fluit this year.
The cigar business is greatly extend
il Q in Key West, Fla. 1t is carried on
mostly by Cubans.
JC. Weed, vi 9 kcu S hotel at Bis
tol is sail to he the fattest man in Vir-
ia He weighs 500 pounds.
A WORM similar to tie army worm is
making terrible havoc with the pea crop
in portions of West Tennessee.
MANY portions of West Tennessee are
suffering with dry-spGil. Nearly all the
grass destroyed and water for stock get
ting scarce.
AvARIETY Of cotton known as the Sen
egambia is attracting considerable atten-
tioh III y Ho ttlb vi <NlhbuIHu. IL ID
said 70 turn out a pound to fifty bolls.
SOUTHERN farmers have been expert
mcpting with tomatoes as food FOR cows
with very satisfactory results, and they
consider it an absolute preventative cf
cholera.
THE peanut crop in Virginia, according
to the latest reports, is great failure.
II is believed that owing to drouth not
much more than one fourth crop
will he made.
INTexas co,ored and white PEOPLE are
to ride in separate coaches, but they are
to be equal in quality. That is how the
Lone Star state manages tie sc cial prob
lem.
Two twcnty,fve-year' old orange trees
near Tampa, Fla, enc measures ten
inches above the root, fifty-thrce inches
circumference, and the ether iifty-1nc-
nches.
THE New Orleans Times Democrat ex-
presses the opinion that the cotton crop
of 1884 is owned by the producers,
and will leave more surplus money in the
country than any cotton crop of recent
years,
An uhct mmon stalk of cotton WIS cx
hibited in Natchez recently. 1t was sev-
en- feet high, with long clcsc branches
all of which were filled with bols.
These numbered over go. 1t was raised
by Allen Carpenter.
ANOTHER item has been added to Ala
bama's rich and boundless resources.
Prof. Smith, state geolOgist, while pros
pecting in southwest Alabama last week
found a fine flow of petroleum on the Tom
bigbee.
The Marksville Bulletin, Louisiana,
tells of stalk of cotton from Buckland
plantations, Red river, the property of
the clerk of court, which contained $50
bolls and forms, the majority of the bolls
having five clocks"
On the farm of Mr.. r. G. Madden,
near Wiliamsville, in Pike County,
Georgia, is probably the largest grape
inc in Ire ootntIy. 1t is eighteen
years old, thirty four inches in circum-
ference at the base and is quarter of
mile long.
GENERAL WITHERs, the Kentucky
horse raiser, says that the best stock
follows the limestone rather than tue
clay and sandstone formations. 1t forns
aperpetual fertilizer for the land aid
gives out pasturage upon which Is
knit the bone and firm muscular tissue.