Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-08-08
Farm Facts.
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Cuthbert farmers are beginning to COM
plain of caterpillars.
Crop prospects in Gwinnett county are
the finest in twenty years. tse.
The watermelon trade Of Rome is as
Stunning considerable dimensions.
A few cotton caterpillars have been
seen on several farms near Perry.
FOFty-seven carloads of watermelons
have been shipped from Perry this season
L. H.'Turner, Of Talbot county, expects
to make 1000 gallons of sorghum syrup
this year.
Rev. j. w. Mashburn, OF Wilcox cOun-
ty, has raised squash of the Chill variety
which weighs e91 pounds.
A, farmer living just over the river from
Fort Gaines says he has fully 800 bushels
of peaches In his orchard, and cannot
profitably dispose of them 1oN 'htm
w. Il. Smith, Of Perry, has Just picked
from his vines two pods of peas that
measured 30 inches In length each. The
peas resemble the common clay field pea
John Ingraham, who lives about twelve
miles east of Fort Gaines. reports both
caterpiIlars and army worms in his crop.
His cotton is full OF them, though they
are small.
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vine on his premises in Perry that he
believes would measure 300 feet in length.
One of the sqIashes on it, not yet grown,
measured 40M inches In circumference
last Monday.
Calvin Montgomery has the most inn
mense watermelon patch In the vicinity
of Rome. He has been farming here rs
years, and has never bought a bushel of
corn. He has II acres on the Etowah,
which he says will make Go bushels to the
acre.
An old farmer Of Clay county says that
before the war there was bird through
out the South that fed exclusively on
cookie burrs At certain seasons of the
year these birds would sweep down upon
the fields and when they departed not a
burr remained.
OkapiIco, Brooks. county, correspon-
dence NEWS, Aug. z: Crops are very
good. Corn is made and fodder is gath
cred. Cotton has some rust and few
caterpillars are reported is plenty,
and the farmers have every cause to be
thankful.-Business is dun but looking
up little. Prospects are good for large
trade this fall.-There is some cholera
among the hogs, but it is not serious in
this section.-Health is generally good.
cambridge Democrat: CaterDillars, in
lions of the county, and with the present
favorable weather 20. their propagation
within month they will literally sweep
the cotton crop Of every leaf. Their com
ing, however. will not materially affect
the crop, for by the time they webb and
hatch out the army worm, good crop
will have matured. The greatest enemy
that we have to contend with now is rust,
which we regret to learn is very general.
and very damaging already.
FLORIDA.
Peaches are a drug in the market at
Tallahassee.
The guava trees in Manatee county are
loaded with fruit.
Owing to the low price of pineapples
some of the growers on Indian river are
converting their crops into wine.
There were $4,000 pineapples shipped
to Jacksonville during the season Just
closed from the st. Lucie section of Bre-
ward county.
Gainesville Ne2cs ''Capt. W. ID. Linch,
of Senoia, Ga. sent to the NeIoS office to-
day a peck of peaches, OF the Chinese
Cling variety. They are as large as
aVerage-siZed tea-cups and possess an ele-
giant flavor. Georgia cannot excel
Florida In tropical productions, but she
can produce as fine peaches as any State
in the Union"
Capt. Ives, the general manager OF the
Florida fruit exchange, says that he ac-
compIished more on his recent visit North
and East than be expected to when he
left jacksonville a week or two ago, but
has not as yet appointed any agents. He
is very favorably impressed with the plan
OF dispOsing OF fruit at auction. He leaves
for the West next week.
Fort Dade Pt Jneer: w. T. Hyers, who
lives two miles east Of town, says be has
paw paw tree year old that measures
Ia inches in circumference at the base.
He also has a pumpkin that measures
feet and g inches in circumference, and is
now growing at the rate OF inch every "a
hours. Mr.. Hyers lives In the section
known as the "Old Deadening!'
This deadening is large belt
of land lying east OF Peace
river, perfectly barren of timber, save an
occasional live oak of recent growth. The
land is high dry, and somewhat rolling,
with here and there pretty lakes that may
be seen for miles around. Ii has the evil
dence Of having once been heavily tim
bered, but what caused tile destruction OF
the timber IL a problem yet unsoived.
Conflicting traditions Of the oldest Indians
make the subject no less doubtful.