Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-06-13


buy the grass which the Northern farmer
saves.
Elberton Gazette: We passed through
portions OF Ebert, Hart and Franklin
counties few days since, aud, from what
we could see and hear, the crop prospects
are most encouraging. Wheat is better
than It was thought II would be q short
time ago, but is not near an average crop.
The oat crop is a failure. If the seasons
continue favorable all other crops prom
tse to be abundant.
Quitman Nelo South: The outlook for a
good melon crop is poor. In the first
place the acreage is small, in the second
place great many vines are diving and
will not make single melon. The cause
OF the vines dying many think that it WAS
the recent heavy rams we have had,
while others think that it was in the ma
nure or guanO that WAS used; anyway the
vines are failing and dying very last
Quitman Nelo South: On Monday we
visited Dixie and took look at the melon
crop of Rev. William Taley, the Oldest
melon grower in Southern Georgia. His
crop is very fine. He has in sight several
car loads which he thinks he will be able
to ship in two weeks. We were limited
as to time and saw but few other crops.
There was no blight around Dixie. The
corn was looking very promising, so was
the cotton. The oats have been harvested
and the yield very fine.
observer" in D00ly VindicGtor: no
ticed some slick black ants crawling up
and down the cotton stalks one day, and
concluded | would see what they We're vi
to, and saw them laying their eggs under
meath the cotton leaves. These eggs hatch
and become cotton lice. About the time
the lice begin to disappear from the
cotton you viii see the ants car
rying them TO their beds Some
people think they eat them, but
they are mistaken. About the time they
disappear from the cotton, or soon there
after, dig in their beds, and you will find
from the louise to the full-grown ant In the
various changes IN which they pass
through. When they first complete the
changes they are quite white. do not
offer this for the real value there is in It,
but TO satisfy the notions Of the people on
this subject.
Dodge county correspondent in East
man journal: The wool crop is now in,
and reports poor and prices low. You re-
member when you ran paper at Neville
what dust people were kicking up In the
papers about sheep busbandry IN Wire
grass Georgia? That dust is all settled
on now, and it would require premium
to call out an article on sheep husbandry
now. But if anybody else wants their fin
gers burned with it they can buy 'em low
down now. One flock OF over 600, five
years ago, with close attention now
musters less than 800, ! am told. One of
my neighbOrs, with 100 or 300 head, said
his sheep just averaged a little over two
pounds of wool per head. The fleece
grows lighter, the sheep smaller and the
number fewer. Why Because the
range is gone. The cattle tell the same
story. Everybody wants to sell cattle,
and nobody wants to buy,
Quitman NeW South: On a visit to
Lowndes last week we noticed in the
watermelon crop of Mrs. Sims the ravages
OF the blight. The land planted this year
we saw in melons years ago, and was then
the finest we have ever seen. What causes
the blight is not known. The lands con-
tinually planted in melons, even with rest
years, are said to be more subject than
lands freshly planted. We have seen
and known it on lands planted the first
time. Our opinion from observation and
facts CLEANED from others concerning il,
is that it is analogous to white bud in
corn. This last is attributed to two
things. First, the absence OF necessary
plant food; second, a poisonous acid in
the soil. We have known the
last TO produce it. The chem
ical combinations formed by ferti-
lizers may produce the poisonous acid
which when taken up by the plant
produces death. This poisonous acid
is produced more readily on some
soils than others. Some being able
to throw it off and others, for
lack Of some essential substance in the
soil, retains it, with the result az stated.
Lime as a top dressing Will release the
acid and not Interfere with manure If used
early and prevent blight.
FLORIDA.
The watermelons Of Madison county are
looking finely.
Madison county oats are five feet high
with full heads.
The LeConte pear trees at Quincy are
loaded with fruit.
n. @. Bryan, of Kissimmee, netted S225
on an acre in beans.
A buttonhOle bouquet made of cotton
blossoms was worn in Tallahassee last
Saturday by W. } johnson, who says that
he has plenty Of them growing all over
his cotton field.
Tallahassee T'dlJdbdssedn: Phil Roberts
brought in box Of cotton leaves from his
farm last Saturday. The leaves were
covered With caterpillars Of various sizes.
lie says that about forty acres OF his
fathers farm is infested with them, and
will probably be destroyed by the middle
of July.
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