Savannah morning news., 1885-06-22
Facts for Farmers.
GEORGIA.

Dooly county crops are all in fine con-
dition.
The cotton crop is looking well in Bald
win county.
VaIdosta shipped a car load OF melons
on Wednesday.
The first car load Of melons from Brooks
county was shipped June H.
The watermelon crop will be cut off
considerably by the late rains.
II. G. Lee, of Cochran, found a cotton
bloom in his field onJune IA.
This week the shipments of melons will
begin in earnest in Brooks county.
The rice planters are still complaining
of the scarcity OF labor on the Altamaha.
1t is feared that the recent heavy rains
have damaged the grain around Craw-
| fordville.
ID. G. Blanton, of Thomasville, has
12-mOnths-old colt which tips the beam at
$50 pounds.
Last week the Messrs. Pringle bought
the first car load of melons ever brought
to ThOmasville.
1. c. Thompson has the finest colt in
UpsOn county He is one year old and
weighs S55 pounds.
About fifty-fve melon cars belonging to
Western roads are at Quitman depot
waiting to be loaded.
Upson county farmers are complaining
Of too much rain and grass, and too little
sunshine for the good of crops.
Fruit, although fine IN quality and
plenteous In quantity, is at least three
weeks late in Baldwin county.
Cutting wheat has commenced in
Walker county. There viii be but u
small yield made in the county.
DIR. Wilkinson, of Quitman, shipped the
last of his truck crop last week. AS q
whole the business has paid hIm.
A fair test will be made between the
Kolo Gem and the Georgia RattIesnake,
in Brooks county the present season.
The first melons of the season were
brought into Americus Friday by VIII
Hare from his patch on the edge OF the
city, beyond Muckalee.
DR.. Kicks, of Quitman, complains that
his watermelon vines are dying. Similar
complaints are being made by other par
ties In the same section.
The heaviest rains in 12 years fell on
the line Of Madison and Oglethorpe oOun-
ties ThursdaY evening. All the cultivated
lands are badly washed.
Gordon Howard and Pete Bearden
threehed some wheat at Joe Few's, at
DogsbOrO, last Monday afternoon, sent it
10 mill and had IL ground into -four, which
furnished bread for supper that night.
Capt Newell has some ten acres with
in the corporate limits Of Milledgeyille In
cotton, which is regarded with a good
deal Of interest, as its product is expected
10 be something very far above an Or
dinary good yield.
A colony Of bees took up their abode in
one Of the pillars of Mr.. w. G. Taylor's
taafdavoa Of Urn uyfordvfI1a on Nav
1884, and commenced at once preparing
honey. Mr.. Taylor robbed the pillar of
its contents Wednesday and obtained 60
pounds Of honey.
Farmers living east OF Cedartown re-
port that on Tuesday one OF the hardest
rains ever seen in that section fell. Fences
across small ravines were washed, and
the smallest gullles We're courses for
veriest torrents Of water. The lands were
badly washed, and growing crops injured
In many places.
Caterpiilars are already appearing in
considerable numbers in Thomas county.
Thomas j. Roberts. the large Leon county
planter, Just across the line IN Florida,
reports the pest in large numbers. DIR.
Mallette also reports them in his section.
Continued hot and dry weather would
check them. but with rain they are apt 10
multiply and increase In an alarming
manner.
Some ten or twelve Of the most substan-
tial farmers Of Colquitt county were In
Albany with wool Friday. Hon. J. Il.
Norman, Miles Monk, J. T. Norman. j.
B. Norman, Jr.. Mathew Nesmith, Mala-
Chi Nesmith. w. II. Monk. Joseph Weeks
and George Newton were ia the crowd.
They had between fifteen and twenty
bales OF wool, and sold most Of II 10 Nor
ris Mayer.
From 60 20 IS sheep Is considered q good
days shearing, but W. II. Monk. Of Col
quit county, made record a l0ug way
ahead OF that week or two ago. He
sheared 100 sheep In day, and could
have sheared more n be had had the
sheep. He cleaned up 20 sheep before
dinner, and the remaining 80 were turned
out long before night. Mr.. Monk says he
caught and tied down his own sheep,
sheared them all clean and rolled up the
ieeces himself This is given up 70 be-
the fnstest strengthening ever done IN
CoiQuitt county.