Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-11
Farm Facts.

Crop prospects around ElIaville are en-
cOuraging.
Ellavile people are hopeful of receiving
5000 bales of cotton this season.
Twenty-Five carloads of watermelons
have been shipped from Terrell county
this season.
J. p. E. Warren, of Webster county,
brought into Americas, Tuesday, nearly
700 pounds of honey.
A little longer with continued good sea-
sons and no caterpillars and Terrell cOun-
ty will have made the largest crop in a
number of years.
The corn prospect in Forsyth county is
very good. Corn sold on July at 81 per
bushel. and on July at SOC. per bushel.
Most Of the farmers in. the county have
enough old corn to do them. Crop pros
poets are very good in Forsyth county.
W. H. Nally, of Douglas county, made
on one acre of land this year 1917 BUSH
els of oats that cost him for preparing tie
land, fertilizers, seed, planting, interest
and everything else up to harvesting
$13 20.
M. G. Kitchens, young man who lives
a few miles from Gibson, has worked
forty-twO acres of land by himself, not
even hiring a hoe hand, and his crop is
clean of grass. Besides doing all this be
hOed twenty acres of cotton for another
farmer.
There is a farmer in Southwest Troup,
who, 10 years ago, owned nothing. He is
now the proprietor of 900 acres of land,
several fine mules, and other things to
match, and there is no mortgage hanging
over his possessions. He made it all out
of the ground.
L. M. johnson, a farmer of Sumter
county, gives his plan Of keeping Irish
potatoes through the summer. 1t Is very
simple and easy to try. Spread them out
in dry, cool place and cover them with
lime. They will keep sweet and good
until late in the fall.
1t has long been believed by farmers
that the sweet potato would not repro
duce from the seed. This fallacy mas
been exploded, for j. l.. Aycock, of An
Jacksonville, has a potato vine which grew
from seed coming from bloom. He IN
tends 10 cultivate it to see what can be
produced from it. 1t is Of the old yam
variety.
Columbus Enquirer Sun: Two large
wagons, each drawn by six steers, at
tracted attention on Broad street Wednes-
day. They were loaded with what APP
peared to be a cotton gin and appurte-
nances, but on inquiry it was discovered
that Mr. Robert FlournOy will add tie in
and the wagons were loaded with a hay
press and cutter.
FLORIDA.
Mrs. Chambers, Of DeI4and, set hen on
seventeen eggs, which produced eighteen
chickens.
Apples and peaches are successfully
grown near Chattahoochee by a progress
siye Georgian.
An S-pound pineapple was exhibited in
Sanford last week as a specimen Of an
Orange county patch.
L. G. Pound, OF Gainesville, has raised
and sold over 900 watermelons of lit
tie more than a quarter Of an acre of
land.
4 twin watermelon has been found in
Leon county patch. The two melons
were joined sOlidly together for about
half their length.
The shipment of vegetables from Florida
to the North has been very large this year.
and the fall shipment Of oranges and
other semi-tropical fruits promise now 70
be nearly double that of last year.
Owing 10 the dry weather the prospects
for good corn and potato crop in the
Centrevilie section Of Leon county are
not very flattering. The cotton weed is
small but bids fair for an abundant yield.