Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-08-13
Farm Facts.
GRORGTA.

1t is said that rust is in the early cotton
IN Sumter county.
The farmers in Clarke county are on the
improve financially.
Monroe is among the best fruit-growing
counties in the South.
Cotton picking has commenced in ear
nest around Bsinbridge.
An abundance of Bermuda hay has
been saved in Putnam county.
Rice is nearly ripe, and in few weeks
cutting will be commenced in earnest.
Butts county farmers are now closely
engaged in fodder pulling and syrup max
ing. ,4a nos xz7Qao e,IT
Nat Goats has brought to9tIe Eatonton
marksdt salrsa1y several bales b les Of oane
Love Walton, or Putnam. has tbreshed
this season over 6,000s bushels Of grain,
mostly oats, 2'fs4l fs'.sa 50 5ooq roo
A few fanmersiu Oglethorpe county say
the stock law neoessitates. a. great deal
more forage for their cattle. s5rT
''laid by,'' Stewart county farmers are
now engaged in pulling fodder. 1s ri
Crops are unusually good throughout
Madison county. Corn Is very fine. Cot
ton is good, growing nicely and PROMISES
a fine yield.
Hon. Joseph McWhorter, Of Antioch,
has 100 acres in upland corn that he feels
confident will make him 500 bushels if no
calamity Overtakes it., ,.,....,
A violent. wind and rain storm passed
over Cuthming and Forsyth county Mon
day afternoon. A good deal Of damage
was doantO growiHg crops. goaa -in'"A
The strip cropof Butts county is ex-
ceedingly fine, and many new cane mills
and eyaporators have been bought by the
planters and are now az work.
Lightning struck cotton field on the
plantation OF Horace Jenkins near Upa-
tOce. just across the line In Alabama, on
Sunday, and killed acres. Of cotton.
DR.. Mark Willingham, of Oglethorpe
county, made s. bushels OF onions on one
acre OF land this year, and now has the
ground planted in Irish potatoes. Some
Of the onions weighed a pound.
Rust is very serious In the cotton fields
OF Terrell county, and farmers fear that
the crop will yield no more than 10 did
last year. At one time this season the
prospect was the finest in years.
RumOr says that 200 acres OF cotton on
the Belamy plantation, on the line OF
Brooks and Jefferson counties, has been
destroyed by the cotton caterpillar. They
aiN ai7N k'Nbiuk III butAA MbIh AVDuL
Cherry lake, in Madison county. From
the same source Of information also comes
the statement that local drought cut the
corn crop short in the Cherry lake coun.
try.
In some sections Of Stewart county the
farmers are clamorOus for a stock law.
Crops have been greatly injured by row
Ing stock, and 10 many instances cows
and hogs have been shot or badly bitten
by dogs. Unless stock law Is secured
for Stewart county there won't be one
farmer In ten who will be on speaking
terms with his neighbors two years from
now.
Gainesville S0athron. Ten acres OF land
In the proper place near gainesville,
stocked with the right kind Of chickens
and turkeys, and n good book upon poul-
Try farming worth 81, cOmDinsd with a
little common sense and an ordinary
amount or energy. Will make man rich
Ia i've years. Indeed halt dozen such
enterprises will pay better than the best
cotton and corn farm IN the county, with
hall the expense. risk or labor. The con-
sumption 0t chickens, turkeys and eggs
Is enormous In tho South, and there n no
better climate 10 produce them In than
about this city.
FLORIDA.
Gunvas are r'pening and are plentiful
at Laesburg.
). Nat fo0re, Of Ieeaburg. exhibits y
twig inches long, with eeYcn One lemone I
upcl u.