Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-06-28
Farm Facts.
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Crops are fine In Marion county.
Crops around Warwick, Worth county,
are in fine condition
The hogs are rapidly dying out around
Dawson from cholera.
WatermelOns around Butler have been
greatly damaged by rains.
The crops are very fine at Wrightsville,
and especially the hay crop.
There are over 1000 COWS in Greene
county which VIII bring $50 each.
About $4,000 quarts of straw berries
have been shipped from Fort Valley this
season.
Large shipments of peaches are being
made from Gordon, Mcintyre and looms
boro every day.
A cow was sunstruck while going
through the streets of Macon Friday, and
fell to the ground writhing in agony. The
animal finally recovered.
Several crates of beans and four crates
of peaches were shipped from Perry Fri
day to Jacksonville, Fla. A large lot Of
apples were shipped North.
Fifty thousand pounds of wool passed
through Brunswick last week en- route to
the loom. 1t came from along the Bruins
wick and Western Railroad, in the sheep
raising districts.
The hay crop in Greene county has
never been more abundant. Two crops
have already been cut, and 1T is reasOna-
ole to believe that two more crops will be
gathered before the fall has come.
Mrs. Nathan Minther, of Red Bone dis
trict, Lee county, gathered and took to
Albany the peaches of four 3-year-0ld
trees yesterday and sold them for $S. She
says that good widows can make a for
tune raising fruit.
The black root in cotton, as it is called
in Thomas county, is more destructive
than IN former years. some lands have
it every year. The stalk, however vigor-
Gus and promising, will, when attacked,
die in less than "a hours. The root Is
black and perfectly brittle, hence its
name.
A gentleman Of jackson county has a
swarm of bees that gave him some trouble
about staying in the hive. He concluded
that the queen was out OF pocket or dead,
so he caught wasp, extracted its sting
and tied ii with u string, He then bored
a gimlet hole through the head Of the gum,
drew the string through the same, and
confined the wasp inside with same. Since
that time the bees have been doing very
well.
d. S. Blackshear, Of Laurens county,
had over 500 trees blown down IN the
storm few days ago on II acres Of land.
Besides this he bad a great many other
trees blown down in other parts Of his
farm. There was at least a thousand
trees blown down on his place. Mr..
Blackshear barely escaped getting hurt
himself. He was out in the 17-acre
piece Of land that had 40 many trees blown
down on II, and had lust got out Of IL
when the trees began 70 fall behind him.
He reports his prospect for good crop
very much injured.
FLORIDA.
Pineapples sell at the groves on Indian
river at $40 per thousand.
Edward Edy, OF Wildwood, has just
picked a watermelon weighing AZ pounds.
ON Saturday last oxford shipped car
load Of vegetables 10 one firm In Cincin-
natl.
Pineapples are plentiful on Indian riv-
err. A bout 10000 have passed Callahan
already this season.
A stalk Of corn, with two ears Of corn
enclosed In red shucks, grown from q
gram OF corn found In an eagles nest, Is
ono OF the curiOsitles Of an Alachua cOun-
ty farm.
To 70 Wednesday night, over forty car
loads of watermelOns had been shipped
from wildwood and points IN that vicinity.
or these, II Is estimated that oxford
shipped as many as u.
W. n. Allen, who lives In the southern
portion OF Leon county, had 30 bee nlVes
which netted him GOO pounds oi strained
honey. The honey taken. from 80 stands
OSued by his brother, Jos. Allen, nettco
/ 800 ponnds. which was sold az DO cents
a gallon, and the Dceewax from the same
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