Sharp County record., 1888-07-05
HERE AND THERE.


There are not halfdozon Oranges
in Georgia which have failed to
receive from five to twenty new MEM
bers during the past quarter.
"A wise Kentucy sheep raiser puts
it thus: MY two hundred sheep save
me an annual outlay of $3.50 by clear
ing my farm of weeds" He raises no
weeds on his farm. This is true econ.
omy, but not usually so carefully esti-
| mated.
"A Southwestern Louisiana corre-
spondent says: Come to land where
you can live among wild flowers the
year around, and have green vege'
tables from the garden every month in
the year. Last years crop Of grass
stands, on an average, two feet high
all oyer this county. The country is
new and undeveloped. Land is cheap.
Michigan has an excellent law en-
couraging the planting of trees along
the roadside. 1t provides that man
shall be credited twenty-five cents
each, on his road tax, for every tree
he plants along the road bordering his
own land.
The Attorney General of Illinois
gives it as his opinion that in that S ate
a lien on foal for the service fee OF
the stallion is q first lien notwith-
standing the mare may have been
NOR gagged to another at the time OF
the service. ,av'
The Supreme Court of North Caro-
lima recently held that the fact that
the plaintiff had in a stock-law coun-
ty turned his cattle into forty-acre
pasture through which railroad ran
does not constitute contributory
negligence, one of the cows being
killed by passing train,
1t will no doubt cheer our South
ern Oranges to learn that the farmers
of far off Australia are just now form
ING preliminary organizations, prepar.
ING for the Grange. and are in corre-
spondence with the Master of the Ma.
tional Grange, who is directing the
work in that progressive land.
For keeping the striped bugs off
melon vines plant three or four beans
in each hill, and pull them up when
the vines get too large for the bugs.
To get plants early, cut sods four
inches square, turn them over stick
in the seeds and bury them in the hot
bed. When you wish TO transplant.
take up sods and all, set them out
and the plants will grow right along
without any set back.
The Gazette, of Farmerville, La,
reports that two farmers living near
Tuscola, went into lawsuit over a
three-dollar pig more than three years
ago; the case was appealed until it
reached tho Circuit Court. That court
has Just decided that one of the liti-
gants shall pay for the pig and the
other pay the costs. Altogether, in
costs and attorneys fees, the pig has
cost the two men 81 250 The moral is
obvious.
Some genius found that cock
reaches can get into japanned tin
cakebox with ease but can not scale
the slippery sides and get out again.
Accordingly, he steamed some cake,
so that its odor would attract the
marauders, and placed it in the box.
Next morning the box was well filled.
This was repeated until the supply OF
reaches was exhausted.
No good farmer will fail to plant
cow peas or peanuts in his corntieIds.
so as to give a profitable successive
crop at almost no cost at all. We
have never known farmer who
planted too many acres in peas.
Dropped in the middle turrow at in
lervals of two feet, the labor of cul-
tivation amounts to almost nothing,
and yield of three to ten bushels
per acre-to say nothing of the benefit
to the SOILS certainly remunerative.
-Dirie Farmer.
The Double Springs (Mis'.) ALI
ance has opened up new path to
prosperity, something on the line Of
the Young Farmers Cub, plan 10
make each member personally respon-
sible for the success of his own farm,
thereby meeting the necessity of a
more determined effort on their part
to make living at home, realizing
that every man is the architect of his
own journey through life, and if faith.
fully carr ed out poverty viii nevs
enter the door.