Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-08-20
Farm Facts.
GEORGIA.

peared around Athens, and the cotton
crop is entirely free from disease.
John Bass, of Kissimmee, in ght last
week with deer which he had shot and
wounded, had toe nearly severed from
his foot.
There are two plumb bushes in Oconee,
the seed of which came from London and
Paris. They were brought over by Judge
Lumpkin.
Capt. Robert Hardee has completed his
fine wharfin front of his handsome dwell
ing at Tltusvilie. 1t spans the space, 675
feet, between shore and channel.
The crops generally in Wilkes county
are very fine, but there are some dry
streaks where they are not so good. No
complaint of caterpillars in the cotton are
heard as yet.
MIR. L. NJ. Ballard, the founder of the
Lakeland NelCS. has sold that paper to
Prof. G. A. Crichet, late of Dakota, and
more recently of Arkansas, who will in
future edit and manage it.
The best Bermuda grass hay is selling
In Greensboro at 25c. per 100 pounds from
wagons. One merchant has already
bought 10000 pounds, and bales it for
market. A party in that town from one
half acre cut 1900 pounds, and expects to
harvest as much more before frost.
Caterpillars are reported on the farms
OF Messrs. Camp, William and Calvin
Montgomery and DR.. Mitchell up the
EtOYah river. These are the first reported
this season. and it is not likely they will
do much damage. They are as yet con-
fined to the bottom lands, and not enough
in numbers TO be considered alarming.
The most 1lattering reports continue to
come into Athens about crops, and all
danger of a drought has now vanished.
The crop is opening slowly, however, and
only few farmers, who planted in March.
have commenced picking. With the ex-
ceptiOn OF few unfortunate spots, the
largest crop known since the war will be
harvested.
Pink Price, of Oconee, has a sllo 16x32
feet and feet deep, divided into two
apartments. Into this he has already cut
up and stored away forage corn, German
millet, and other green forage from As
acres of land, and one of the rooms lacks
Is inches of being filled. He uses cut
ting machine, propelled by horse power,
to chop up the stalks He will have more
than enough ensilage to last his stock all
the winter, and he says it is keeping
splendidly.
Powell g. Davenport will make more
this year than their force can gather, as
there was never such crop seen as is
growing or their Greene county farm.
Every barn is now packed with hay, and
the grass continues TO grow. Their cot
ton and corn are magnificent, and from
one strip of bottom land Mr. Powell
estimates that he will gather 1000 loads
of pumpkins. He is working altogether
county convicts, and last spring offered
as high as 81 per day for hands to chop.
cotton. In portions of Morgan county
farmers paid as high at 81 %.
Gen. G. j. Wright, of Albany. has about
nipnfnd n OF mill
age waist-high, is loaded with bolls, en-
tirely free from rust, and there is not
enough grass In it TO make a handful of
hay. he has as fine crop of corn as a
man could wish TO grow, shaded by a
forest Of pines. The corn was planted in
rank new ground, the underground being
cleared, and the stalks will average feet
10 height, with one and two heavy ears on
each stalk. The farm is worked by
negroes under Gen. Wrights personal
supervision, being only two miles west Of
the city.
Camilla correspondence NEWS, Aug. IS:
The weather is miserable. 1t has been
raining continuously for seven weeks.
Cotton is open. The rust has spread all
over the county, and the caterpillars have
eaten that left by the rust. 1t is a two
edged sword on the farmers, and their sad
faces show they feel deeply the wounds.
II is almost impossible 10 comprehend the
vast damage done in this county by rust
ana caterpillars. Cotton will sprOut in
bOlls in few more DAYS OF rain. The
corn crop is good. The crops from Macon
to Marietta are the best ever seen on the
land. This wav thew are not 50 good.
Harmony Grove correspondence Athens
Banner lPdtchn1dn: The writer has been
travelling Though Jackson, Banks and
Madison counties for the last ten or twelve
days, and can say to your readers that he
is informed by some of the oldest citi-
zens OF Banks county that the crops IN
that section have not been better In half
century. lie thinks that be never
saw a better prospect for both corn and
cotton. II no disaster happens farmers
can rejoice one time more In these locali-
ties. Farmers have already begun 20
pull fodder. Cotton will soon begin 20
open. Ginners are preparing for the
rush.
On the farm OF Mai. q. M. MAYO, four
miles from Albany, IL a field which has
been In cultivation more than sixty years.
with not sligo Of stump or tree on Il, on
which was growing cotton, unfertilized.
that will make bale TO two acres, and
some OF H. will make n bale 10 one acre.
While cotton on this SANDY land Is dying /
with rust. on this stIf clay land IL is /
green aud fourishing. On this farm is
the house In which Mai. Mayo was mar /
ried forty years ago, aud on the adjoining /
farm, marked by a large walnut tree, Ia /
the spot where this house stood Ia which /
his wife was horn. This field is now 4
owned by j. Nentulett, has been In cul- /
tiyation since 1870, aud will make about I
a bale 10 an acre and half this year.
FLORIDA.
Plant City Courier; II 10 remarkable
the amount OF profit there is In the COM
mon Florida banana. Mr. d. b. Spikes,
living west Of this place. some rs months
AGO set out "A small patch. from which be
realized S36 60. and the patch il now full
OF fruit. Twelve heads. or lunches, car
rlel 10 Tampa. realized S2i 10. Mr..
Woods, living south ~ town, almost sup
ports bis family from the products Of his
banana patch. The banana hero IA ovor-
hearing. 90 there IL no long waiting be-
tween seasons, and they Wholesale IN the
market here no ] and ! 20. each. The
banana only asks ~ d. started. and then
IA Will look afisr ifaoli--fho falling stalks
90 fanFDa enrich the nfuuud. aud fha