Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-06-07
Facts from the Farms.
GEORGIA..

The hogs are dying around Vienna.
Wool is selling at 10 cents per pound in
Pulaski county.
Watermelons in Brooks county are the
size of quart cup.
The farmers of Clarke county report
crops as fine as the land can produce.
Mr.. Berry l.. Williams has the finest
crop of corn, cotton and watermelons in
Brooks county.
Mrs. j. b. Hodges, OF Houston, has a
Toulouse goose that laid 81 eggs this sea-
son before she was year old.
DIR. J. NJ. Palmer, OF Oconee, disposed Of
100 pounds of new honey in Sandersville
last Friday at 10 cents a pound.
Bacon is lower this summer than it has
been since the war, fact which will add
much to the farmers income next fall.
If the season holds out there will be
more corn made in DOoly county this year
than there has been in a number of years.
Small lots of cotton continue to be
shipped from Albany. Fifty or sixty
bales went over the southwestern Rail
road Wednesday.
Corn and oats in Worth county are re-
ported as IN excellent condition. Cotton
has, to some extent, the ''sOre shin,'' and
lice are beginning to assemble on it; but
the latter will not seriously interfere with
its growth.
Albany Medium: Chickens continue
to die of cholera, but the egg market is
kept supplied in some way. There is no
particular shortage in this valuable crop,
and they are sold at 171%c., frequently as
low as l5c. per dozen.
cambridge Democrat: DR.. Parker, Of
this city, has herd of % head as pretty
Dawn ahirn POWG flara ic in, Qnnr,r{a
probably, and they must be seen together
to be appreciated. Some OF his stock are
from Virginia and some from Pennsyl-
vania, and are line specimens of stock.
The first watermelon OF the season was
received in Atlanta on Friday by Mr.. Dit
tier, a Whitehall street grocer. 1t was
sent him by friend in Florida. The
melon attracted much attention and many
efforts We're made % buy it and fancy
prices were offered. 1t weighed % pounds.
Montezuma Record: Suppose Georgia
does raise a $4,000, 600 cotton crop, what
have we TO snow for it every year? After
paying for such things as we easily pro-
duce and manufacture at home, there is
nothing TO improve home, buy comforts or
even think o. luxuries. AS Bill Arp said
once: "We are nothing but passed. of
FOOLS" and Bill was eminently correct.
Quitman NeW South: We have never
known cotton TO grow more rapidly than
in the last few days. Corn has doubled
itself since the rain set in. Oats have
vastly improved, and, while many fields
are not rs high as in former seasons, they
are sufficiently high to be cut. The heads
are full and the grain well matured-less
straw, but as many oats. They are now
beng harvested. They come in good
time, the farmers were needing them 10
splice out their corn.
Perry Home JOWrndl: The largest
bunch Of "greens" we ever saw was sent
to this Office last Friday by Mr.. John
Leary, who is farming on the Turrentme
place, about three miles southwest of
Perry. THIS bunch OF "greens" was a
rutabuga turnip top. The turnip meas
ured "A inches in circumference, while
the top measured 80 inches In height and
feet 8crOss-natural spread. This tur-
nip and top is fair sample Of square
ia Mr.. Leary's garden.
Midway between Moutezuma and Haw-
kinsville on the plantation Of w. y. Rich
ardson, in Houston county, there is n
mammoth chinquopin tree which was
about the size Of walking cane 30 years
ago, when he cleared the place. IL is l6
inches in diameter, I feet 10 the frst
limb, and Is about 30 feet high IL
branches like an umbrella china. and
shades As feet across. IL yields many
bushels Of nuts every year. The chin
quapins are dwarf chestnuts and rarely
ever attains the Size OF n tree.
Albany Medium: Thursday morning
j. NJ. Kendall placed ON our table a box
OF peaches from his city Orchard. These
peaches usually ripen about May 20. but
owing 10 the backward spring they are a
little late this year. The specimens be-
fore us are in the right state for ship
ment, with few exceptions, the
exceptions being too soft for
that purpose. Mr.. Kendall has
made n close study Of peach culture for "a
number Of years. lie says the May peach
blooms about two weeks later than the
other varieties, which makes them more
secure from frost. Besides this adyan-
tage, the worms rarely ever attack them,
as they are ripe before the worm usually
makes its appearance. He thinks the
early peach could Doe made the most prof
table fruit crop grown In this eecfiOn,
and h gradually demonstrating that fact.