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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-02-16
SOUTHERN AGRICULTURAL.
The Preparation of the Land for a
Corn Crop.

Because of the great variety of soils,
location and conditions of lands, and
the pre-conceived idea of the great
multitude Of corn raised, it is very
difficult for any writer to lay down
fixed plans for all to follow in the
preparation and cultivation of that
very important crop. viz: corn. We're
we asked what time is best to begin
work to insure an abundant harvest,
we would answer: on lands that had
been long in cultivation. at least two
seasons before planting the seed
corn. our first season we would as
early as May, sow that wonderful
land restorer, the corn pea, broadcas'.
which in about eight or ten weeks
would have mado sufficient growth to
cover The land; turn this entirely
under with good two horse plow
and re-sced the land with rye. even
as early as August Is to September
l. This will provide late fall and
winter pasture enough to more than
pay for all labor and cash expended
for seed. Let the stock be taken off
the land two or three weeks before
breaking up for spring planting. you
will then have another green crop to
turn under before planting. By all
means do not break the land while
it is wet; watch for dry
spell in early spring blowing, and
break deep with two horse plows; let
the land lay a few days to dry out, then
follow with large steel-tooth harrow.
Now you have land in suitable con-
dition for seeding with the planter,
which is always preferable to plant
ing by hand, because the seed is
dropped at regular distances, planted
and covered at proper depths. the
rows straighter, and consequently.
cultivation very much facilitated.
Had the land to be planted been
cropped the previous season, then be-
gin work as carly in the fall after crop,
either corn Or cotton, is gathered as
quick as possible. Take nothing from
the land as some do, by burning stalks
and other trash, but chop them up
with good stalk cutter where they
stand. and follow the stalk cutter with
such two-horse pillow as will turn
them under where they rot during the
winter months, thereby benefitting the
soil, saving the labor of pulling and
burning stalks, putting them out of the
way of cultivating to purpose, and
thus treated, will be ready for plant
ing much earlier than if left TO care
for itself until spring work pushes the
cropper, in which case something must
be neglected On all bright days
during the winter let the Dragroad
scraper be kept at work
cleaning up stock lots, gin house
lots, tho sediment from ponds and
creek bottoms. This accumulation
thrown into heap with stable
manure and surplus cotton seed, and q
small proportion of bone meal and
forked over once or twice, will supply
an inexpensive and invaluable fer
tilizer Open your drill and apply
400 10 500 pounds of the above com
post per acre. BY all means plant
none but sound, select seed corn, and
we feel assured at harvest time you
will say. surely I am paid many folt
for my trouble by the great increase
in my yield of corn. Later. time per-
hitting. we will make few notes oil
the cultivation of corn. - Western Ru
RAJ.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-02-16
Landowners Rights.

According to Austin's Farm Lao. a
deed of farm bounded on a highway
gives to the farmer the title to the
center OF the road. and he has the ex-
elusive right to the soil, subject to
the right of passing in the public. He
can maintain an action against any
person who digs up the soil or cuts
down any trees growing on the side
of the road, or deposits wood, wagons
or other things thereon. He may car
ry the water in pipes under the high
way and use the grass, trees, stones.
sand. or any thing of value to him
which are within his half of the road,
subject to the right of the public 10
travel over the highway. The farmer
can maintain an action against any
person who cuts his trees on the high
way in order to move buildings. The
fact that the owner has obtained per-
mission from the town would not
exempt him from liability. And no
person has a right to hitch his horse
to tree which stands on tho road
side. or pick up fruit which has fallen
upon the ground from the same.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-02-16
SHAKEl
Tho Science Of Palmistry-whAt Shaking
Hands Reveals.

Tho Science of Palmistry-whAt Shaking
Hands Reveals.
"George Francis Train is as loony a. q
wild cat on many subjects, no doubt"
remarked physician the other day, "but
there is good deal Of method In his mad
ness about one thing"
"What's thati"
"Shaking hands. ! don't blame him for
disliking promiscuous hand-shaking; it has
many unpleasant features.
"What can you tell by the shake OF
mans handr
"a good deal. Why, I can pick out the
people in crowd with whom shake hands,
who have kidney disease, and they don't
know it'll"
~ don't understand you. Do you pretend
TO say there is any thing peculiar In their
'shake'W
.sNo, not in the shake but in the feel
Of the hand"
"Please explain what you mean"
"a hot dry hand shows inactivity OF the
skin. The skin is the third kidney. We
sweat out as much water through the skin
as we pass of through the kidneys"
"How much is thatw
'sIn health, several pints day. In the
summer we sweat more than in the winter
but in health there is constant, though
invisible escape Of moisture through the
skin. In the palm Of the hand, there are
from two to three million little sweat
pores. The sweat-glands are great help
to the kidneys, and when working health
fully in the summer, the kidneys can and do
take much-needed recreation. You can
prove this, If you notice that you pass less
fluids in summer than in winter, if skin and
kidneys are healthy.
You will be surprised, if you shake hands
with company of people, to see how many
hands feel hot and dry. Hadn't you noticed
It'll .sI
81 don't think I have. But what can be
done in such casesl"
Only one thing can be done, and that is to
get the kidneys at work again by very
thorough course Of treatment with Warmers
safe cure, and giving yourself sponge or
wet cloth rubbing with warm or cold water,
whichever is the most agreeable) night and
morning. Use only the best soap on the
body in such cases. Indeed, soap isn't
necessary oftener than once week. Wig
orous rubbing with well wrung towel, fol-
lowed by like rubbing with dry warm
towels recommended.
Palmistry is modern science that is quite
o fad with fashionable people nowadays,
but there is a good deal more in it than the
professional palm readers have yet found
out
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-02-16


the best of them. unframed by FROST
should not be fed very largely to
horses. There is always good deal
of grit and dust upon them. and much
of this taken into the stomach, can
not but be more or less harmful to the
ANIMALS.
But Mr. Jones affirms that despite
these few drawbacks, peanut hay has
proved to be valuable forage, and
one that the peanut planter could not
we'll dispense with. inasmuch as so
many do not make enough of other
forage to serve them. and must, there
fore. depend on the peanut crop to
help them out Thus the planter is
benefited in several ways through
this crop. He gets valuable staple
to sell. and one that always commands
the ready cash, he fattens his hogs on
the pods left in the ground. and
he secures large amount of very
good hay in tho vines. Thus he is
doubly benefited, and no matter how
low the price of peanuts may be, the
farmer docs not, and can not, ordi-
narily, lose much on the cultivation OF
this great crop. If he does not risk
too much on commercial fertilizers,
which no planter of this crop ever
should do. he runs little risk of suffer-
ing any crushing loss thereon. But
all this applies specially to Southern
climate, lot it be understood. 1t is not
advisable to attempt to grow peanuts
as a market crop in the extreme North.
and unless the nuts can be grown
profitably, it would not be advisable
attempt to grow the vines for fodder.
! Western Rural
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-02-16
Fine Stock Profitable.

We saw, says Mississippi editor, a
heifer thirteen months old sold for
$3.50, one of the same age sold for
500 at our Jersey cattle show in this
city last May. We also saw a bull
calf, ten months old, sold for $75
Last week we saw three-year-old
COW, weight 1850 pounds. with her
first calf, giving six gallons of milk
per day, and the calf, only three weeks
old. could not be bought for less than
$75. We saw bull two years old
viii oh weighs over 1, 400 pounds, and
q calf fourteen weeks old which
wheighs 450 pounds. Now it costs no
more 10 raise and keep such cattle
than the scrub cattle, and yet we see
men every day in our travels who are
cultivating good grass and clover
lands in cotton, corn and tobacco, and
their whole herd of scrub cattle does
not produce enough butter for the
family. A calf three weeks old worth
more than eight bales of cotton.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-02-16
HERE AND THERE.

Life is a reckoning we can not
make twice over You can not mend
wrong subtraction by doing your adj
dition right.
This span Of life was lent for lofty
duties, not for selfishness; not to be
whiled away in aimless dreams. butte
improve ourselves and serve mankind.
Reports come constantly of the
grand success of the Farmers AL.
lance in Texas and other parts of the
South. In Texas the organization is
growing very powerful
When you sit down to meal and
the fresh meat has not been sailed, it
tastes rather fiat. ehp What follows
if You eat it? DarrhGa. When the
hog is compelled to eat 'Aat" unsalted
food week in and week out can you
wonder at his having choleraP-Dr.
c. A. Robinson.
Sheep manure contains from nine
ty to ninety-fve per cent of the plant
food contained in the rations con-
sumed by the sheep 1t is. therefore,
very rich fertilizer as experience
has shown. 1t is especially rich in
nitrogen in an available form, and for
that reason is excellent for use as a
starter in the hill for corn and pota.
toes.
The garden needs more manure.
This fact should always be kept in
MUD, and every bit of waste that is
likely to have any value, mechanical
| or otherwise, as manure. should be
| added to the heap 1t is wonderful
what lot OF manure may be got to-
gether by those who keep this always
before them.
Prof Bailey. of the Michigan
Agricultural College. says that he has
cared for an orchard set Twenty-Five
years ago that was almost failure.
The first thing he did was to thin it
thoroughly. but mostly from the bot
tom; then pillow; then scrape the bark.
The second year he again trimmed
and plowcd, and the third year it had
an immense crop Of apples.
I'm making engagements for labor
it should be remembered that in the
long run, nothing is gained BY secur-
ing laborers at prices below the pos
sibility of honest living Better give
liberal wages and then insist. by per-
sonal presence and close supervision,
on honest faithful compliance. La
borcrs must live. and they will live
honestly or otherwise. Farmer.
The Supreme Court of Georgia de-
cides that all inspections of fertilizers
by the State Agricultural Department.
to be legal and binding must be made
within the borders Of the State. Here
;ofor inspectors have inspected large
quantities in bulk. at the manufactures
in South Carolina, before its shipment
into Georgia. This practice win nov
] cease.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-02-16
FATTENlNo POULTRY.
The Experience of n Practical and Sue
csssful Poultry Raiser.

csssful Poultry Raiser.
WHAT TO FATTEN. All the old, weak
stock should be fattened, keeping for
layers and future breeders only the
early, most vigorous young birds, as
they are less liable to disease; all the
runts and unthrifty specimens for
they will never be worth the feed they
consume, and all the surplus cocker
els.
WHEN TO FATTEN The time when
farmers usually fatten and market
their poultry is at Thanksgiving or
Christmas, when the market is sure to
be glutted, and the prices obtained are
not remunerative. Very late Matched
chicks can not be got ready for market
much before this season, so the proper
thing would be to hatch earlier. A
lot of May Matched chicks sent to the
New York market last August Melted
us thirteen cents per pound, live
weight, bringing more per head than
they would had they been kept and
fed for three months longer. Had
they been a month or six weeks
earlier, they would have brought at
least twice as much. But most farm
ers have the poultry already Matched,
and these remarks must serve as food
for future thought and action.
How TO FATTEN.-Confne the poul-
try in warm, dry, well-ventilated
quarters, guarded against draughts;
there should not be over eight or ten
fowls together for best results. The
coops should be somewhat darkened,
and have board floors to keep the fowls
quiet and prevent their scratching the
fat off. Keep them we'll supplied with
milk or water for drinking. and keep
fine gravel constantly within their
reach. Feed three times daily The
first meal should be given as soon in
the morning as it is light enough for
the fowls to see to eat, and should con-
sist of cooked potatoes, turnips, squash.
or other vegetables, with as much corn
meal, or mixture of ground corn and
oats, or occasionally little middlings.
as can be stirred in.
Do not have the feed sloppy. Add a
little salt and charcoal occasionally,
give cabbage or other green food daily,
and add little chopped onion to the
soft feed now and then, emitting it for
two or three days before killing. Gel
cry fed during fattening is also said to
improve the flavor Meat is valuable
for laying stock, but Of little use for
fattening The midday meal may
consist of the soft feed and cracked
corn alternately, and the last feed,
given as late in the day as the fowls
can see to eat it, should be ofwhole
corn. Feed just as much each time as
the fowls will eat up clean, and nc
more.
With this treatment the fowls should
be in fine condition for market in two
weeks, and will give much more salts
factory returns than those that have
been left to shift for themselves. Cor.
Farm and Fireside.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-02-16
Famous Women.

It Is q significant fact that most Of the
women who have achieved fame In art, lit
erature, or ''affairs,n have enjoyed vigorous
health This shows that the mind Is never
capable Of the severe and continued applica-
ton necessary to creative work, unless the
body is nc its best The woman who aspires
to fill an exalted place among her associ,
ates must be free from nervous debility and
female weaknesses. Dr. Pierce's Fayorite
Prescription will Danish these, and It is
warranted to restore those functional har-
monies which are indispensable to health.
As specific for all those chronic weak
nesses and ailments peculiar to women, it is
tnanlalad
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-02-16
THE FAMILY COW.
Suggestions Submitted by Prof Dc Muth
of DePauw University.

Suggestions Submitted by Prof Do Muth
of DePauw University.
The cheapest and best way to get a
COW that suits you exactly is to buy
the calf of a fine milk COW and raise it
yourself. With proper care you can in
nine cases out of ten get cow in this
way that you will consider almost one
of the family. A good family COW
should be gentle, trained to lead, fond
of table slops, giving an average of ten
gallons of rich milk for at least ten
months in the year. A great deal de-
ponds upon proper feeding, in fact the
feeding more than anything else makes
a good mixer. Some things have
been established by the most careful
experiments which are worth remem-
bering;
The food that will fatten COW for
market will ruin her for milk.
Hay fed between meals is worse than
wasted, as it clogs the stomach and in
terferes with the digestion of the regu-
lar ration.
All mill stuff should be mixed with
moistened cut hay. so that it will be
brought back with the cud and thor
oughly masticated.
A mixed ration, such as given be-
low, is much more valuable to develop
fine milking qualities than any amount
of any single food.
The following is considered good
ration for medium sized cow. and
Improperly fed will bring a full return:
Lbs.
Good clover hay cut fine and moistened go. 10
Oats and corn ground together in equal parts
Dy weight. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
L!nseed meal, new process.
The oats, corn, bran and linseed
meal should be mixed thoroughly dry,
then mixed with the moistened cut
hay, and feed one-half in the morning
and balance for evening feed. Give
table scraps and slops after, but not
with the regular feed. Keep the
moistened hay where it will not freeze.
1t will pay to give warm food and
water in cold weather. The flavor of
the milk will be improved by using a
curry comb and brush every day.
By all means keep the COW well bedded.
If any one, especially with family Of
children will try the above faithfully
for one winter, he will never be with
out family COW thereafter. Green
Castle (Ind.) Times.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-02-16
Growth of Farmers Organizations.

That farmers are generally awaken
ing to tho necessity of organization is
evidenced by the increased growth of
the Grange, during recent years, and
by the rapid extension throughout the
South of the Farmers Alliance" and
the Agricultural Wheel" two organ
izations modelled after the Grange,
and possessing no points OF superior
ity over it that we are aware Of All
these organizations, however. are
numbered with secret ritual. includ-
ing signs, grips, passwords, etc,
which seem to us q hindrance, rather
than help to effective work. In the
slow days when travel was restricted
TO the tedious locomoion of the horse
or the sailboat. and when not even
postal systcm existed. there
was undoubtedly a necessity
for signs aud passwords for
the Identification Of those charged with
conveying important messages from
place TO place; and when the tyranny
of irresponsible despots compelled
patriots to associate themselves in
oath-bound brotherhoods, for the sake
Of mutual protection from personal
violence and the rescue of their land
from thralldom. the ritual under which
the oath of fraternity was taken had
deep and solemn signi fcance in view
of the dangerous responsibility incur
red; but in these days of railway and
telegraph no important business is
ever transact ed through sign or pass
word, and with the disappearance Of
the necessity for secret resistance to
crowned oppressors the secret ritual
has lost its grandeur and become a
ridiculous farce. Farm and FTreside.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-02-16
Carrying tho War Into Africa.

The negro children of CAMERON, the
German colony on the east coast of
Africa, are already prepared to receive
the blessings Of German education, IL we
may judge from the fact that the teacher
sent there by the Imperial Government
has placed an order for large number Of
black states and pencils with the Rhenish
slate factory at Worms. The German
schoolmaster, SO they said seventeen years
ago, conquered the French. Is he now
selected to conquer Africa?
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-02-16

EVERY person is interested in their own
affairs and II this meets the eye Of any one
who is suffering from the effects Of torpid
liver, we will admit that he is interested in
getting well. Get bottle Of Prickly Ash
Bitters, use it as directed, and you will al
ways be glad you read this item.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-02-16

Some of the greatest men that ever lived
were of small stature and of insignificant
appearance. The reader will readily recall
many instances Very small are DR.. Pierce's
Pleasant Purgative Pellets, but they are
far more effective than the huge, old
fashioned pills which are SO difficult to swal-
low and so harsh in their action. The 'Pel-
lets' are gentle and never cause constipa-
ton. For liver, stomach and bowel derange-
ments they have no equal.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-02-16
The Common Lot.
There 10 a place no love can reach,
There Is o time no voice can teach,
There 10 chain no power can break,
mhara In a alaan M aound can Raka

Sooner or later that time will arrive, that
place will wait for your coming, that chain
must bind you in helpless death, that sleep
must fall on your senses But thousands
every year go untimely to their fate, and
thousands more lengthen out their days by
heedful, timely care. For the failing
strength, the weakening organs, the vast
ing blood, DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery is wonderful restorative and apro-
longer Of strength and life. 1t purities tho
blood and invigorates the system, thereby
fortifying it against disease. OF druggists.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-02-16

The London Lance. doubts tina
persons who perish in burning build
ings suffer SO much as has been popu-
Iarly supposed. The victim is gen.
orally made faint and pulseless by the
earbonic acid or carbonic-acid gas
and becomes insensihls before tho
ire reaches him
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-02-16
That Unfortunate Liver Of Yours.

Bilious reader, will never resume its func-
tons with regularity and vigor if you per-
sist in Fostering it with blue pill and Gallo
mel Don't you know that these are equal
ly Objectionable forms Of the cumulative
parliamentary: We presume you do, and
yet you go on using them. Desist, and re-
pair damages, regulate the abused organ,
and invigorate it with Hostetter's Stom-
ach Bitters, Incompatible, also, for dyspep-
STA, nervousness and kidney complaints.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-02-16
Three Bottles euro Catarrh.

ELI ROBBINS, Runpdn P. O., Columbia Co..
Pa, says: my daughter had catarrh when
She was five years old, very badly. saw DIR.
sage's Catarrh Remedy advertised, and pro.
cured O bottle for her, and soon saw that 1t
helped her; third bottle effected perma:
nent cure. She is now eighteen years old and
sound and hearty"
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-02-16

-Buttermilk Biseuits.-Three cups
of buttermilk, one cup of butter. one
teaspoonful of cream tartar, half a
teaspoon of soda. a dessertspoon of
salt and -four enough to make the
dough just stiff enough % be rolled
out
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-02-16

The Proof-To make sure of this show
ing, answers to inquiries concerning the per-
manency of the cures resulted as follows;
That from date Of healing 10 date Of response
every cure has remained permanent UithoW re-
currence Of pain.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-02-16

81 HAVE been occasionally troubled with
Coughs, and in each case have used Browns
BRONCHIAL TRoCHEs, which have never
failed, and / must say they are second to
none in the world. "-Feir A. May, Cashier,
81 Paul MIMI
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-02-16
"ConssantIy Hawking and Splitting"

THOMAS J. RUSHING, ESQ, s9o' Pine Street.
81. Louis, No., writes: 81 was great sufferer
from catarrh for three years. At times could
hardly breathe, and was constantly hawking
and splitting, and for the last eight months
could not breathe through the nostrils. I
thought nothing could be done for me. Luck
Remedy, and / am now q well man. believe
il to be the only sure remedy for catarrh now
manufactured, and one has only to give 1t Q
fair trial to experience astounding results and
a nermanent clren
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-02-16

Its Supremacy. The twenty million bot
ties sold can be Justly rated as so many cures;
In almost every case permanent cure. Its
price is the surety of every bottle being the
same, every bottle being cure and the poor
are projected.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-02-16
ST. JACOBS OIL.
WHAT IT HAS DONE.

Rellef.-In any climate at any season ono
or two applications Of st. Jacobs Oil relieves;
often cures permanently. This is the average
experience in ten years.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-02-16

Cures.-The contents of bottle have cured
thousands of extreme chronic cases. Used ac-
cording to directions there is cure in
every bottle.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-02-16

IT is clothes rub for the washerwomal
on Monday-Bostoa Ba'leti..