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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-12-05
Sailing Stock.

With some kinds of stock especially,
too much salt will often prove very in
furious; and when the salt is only given
occasionally it will often occur that the
animals, being very hungry for salt, will
eat more than is best. Ca the other
hand, as rule, If a supply of salt is kept
convenient, the stock will eat what they
want and no more. They are not likely
to damage themselves, under ordinary
conditions, if boxes are provided, and
are kept filled, SO that the stock can
help themselves to what they want to
eat. 1t is not the quantity they eat, in
a given length of time, but rather the
large quantity that they will eat at once,
when they have been deprived of it,
that proves more or less injurious.
There is no class of stock kept upon
the farm but that will be benefited by
having access to good supply of salt,
and some arrangement should be made
so that this can be done. During the
season that stock are in the pasture,
boxes or troughs may be placed in con-
NOhiohu PiaNNof WhCiC UiiC oUOCh Ndu RO
and help themselves.
The advantage in using rock salt is
that If placed in boxes or troughs with
out shelter there is but little If any
waste, either by throwing out of the
boxes or troughs in eating, or by being
washed out by hard rains. A box placed
in the center of the hog-pen and kept
supplied with salt and ashes will aid
materially in keeping the hogs in good
health and thrift. Sheep, cattle and
horses need a supply all the time; and
if it is placed where they can secure a
supply readily, they will be found eat
ing small quantity every day.
AS rule, with the exception of hogs
and poultry, the better plan is to give
the salt by itself. With poultry, usually
the better plan is to season the food
Prairie Farmer.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-12-05
HERE AND THERE.

Cows soon to calve should have
cool, laxative diet and not be overfed.
If they are good mixers and are highly
fed up to tho time of calving there is
danger of milk fever.
An English court once decided that
a lamb became a sheep as soon as it ac-
quired its first pair of permanent teeth.
If that is sound doctrine the lamb be-
comes sheep when it is about year
old.
1t is fact that large grass hogs
shown at the fairs are losing their at
fractions for the intelligent growers and
feeders. More attention centers upon
the neat, smooth hog of moderate weight,
quickly grown.
The fall pigs or stockers to be win
tered which have the run of the sod or
pasture fields get supply of grass in
open weather that conduces much to
their health. When every thing is
locked M with cold some other provis-
ion must be made.
Young ewes may be poor mothers.
1t is better, therefore, to have them
drop their lambs little later than the
older ewes do. The fockmaster will
have more time to give them attention,
and the weather will be warmer. April
or May is time enough for young eve
to drop her lamb.
ALI materials added to the manure
heap should be fine. The object of the
heap is to have the material undergo a
chemical process through decomposition,
and the result to be obtained depends on
the degree of decomposition. Unless re-
duced in the heap the material is not
converted into manure.
As soon as the coupling season is
over the breeding ewes should be sepa-
rated from the flock and fed on nourish-
ing food. They should not be made too
fat, for fear of milk fever at lambing
time, but they require good feeding if
they are to produce strong lambs. Plenty
of hay with mess of ground oats once
a day should keep them in good condi-
ton.
An English dairy writer says: Dairy
work has made such gigantic strides
forward within the last ten years, and
there has been so many wonderful dis
coveries and inventions in this depart
ment, that we may not now be surprised
at any thing, but may yet eclipse Edi'
son and his electric marvels before many
years.
The official returns published by the
French University of Agriculture show
that the production and consumption Of
milk amount every year to 1,S5o, 0Oo. DOC
gallons, which is three times in excess
of the production of wine, and the de.
partments which produce the most milk
are those which produce the least wine
in feeding animals, especially pigs
mistakes may be easily made in the
choice of food, and such food as will moi
preserve the healthful balance may bt
used in the effort to force a rapid ad
vance in the fattening process. Corn Il
often used to too great an excess fol
general feeding. Consequently there i
a generally-defective constitution wher'
such system prevails. Hog cholera u
often pro0t Of bad feeding
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-12-05
A Fortune In n Thimble.

There is rich family of the name of
Lofting in England, the fortune of
whose house was founded BY such an
apparently insignificant thing as the
thimble. The first ever seem in En-
gland was made in London less than
two hundred years ago by metal
worker named John Lofting. The use
fulness of the article commended it at
once to all who used the needle, and
Lofting acquired large fortune. The
implement was then called the thum-
bell, it being worn on the thumb when
in use, and its shape suggesting the rest
of the name. This clumsy mode of
utilizing it soon changed, however, but
the name, softened into "thimbis," re-
mains.-Boston Journal.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-12-05
Terracing, Ditching and Leveeing.

1t is surprising to note the very little
attention given to terracing, ditching
and leveeing in the average Southern
farm. Not unfrequently good farmers
are guilty Of carelessness in laying off
rows amounting to criminal depletion
and utter ruin of the land. No farmer,
however skilled, can hope to retain to
field its fertility with the rows laid
contrary to the laws of nature and good
drainage. Water, though soft and plia-
BILE, can, when brought to proper play,
rip and devastate iron, much less mel
low, yielding soil. l have noticed on
rolling lands rows laid with such ex-
treme fall as to occasion great washouts
at every freshet On perfectly level
land it scarcely makes any difference
as regards the direction of rows, but
On land the least undulating great
care should be exercised if any con-
sideration is to be given to the retention
of the soils fertility. The cuts and
plots on land more or less rolling should
be small and many, rather than large
and few, to furnish system Of drainage
less liable to wash. These should be
supplemented and assisted in conduct
ing excessive rainfall by series of
properly pitched and directed terraces,
or in farmers parlance ''levees." The
more falling the land, the more neces-
sary they are and the larger number to
the cut. They should run contrary to
the rows and somewhat diagonally,
which offsets the waters rush and ANAL
gamates the trash and soil without ma
terial displacement or injury to the
land, conducting the water gradu-
ally and uniformly into bitches,
headrows or elsewhere, consistent
with good drainage. Early in the
spring before bedding the land is
the best time to put them in. 1t
solidifies their base and makes them
less liable to break. Never pillow
through them in cultivating the crop,
but ''fiush" them up with five or six fur
rows to the row, with turn-plow two or
three times during season, and keep
weeds chopped down. They are Of in
csiculable va,ue to both land and crops.
70 those placing them without previous
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-12-05

experience, l would advise the use Of
land-level, first seeing that the rows
have sufficient fall to conduct water un.
aided without breaking at any point.
Lay the terrace off in manner to take
the water in nearly an opposite direc-
ton to that which the rows do, giving
just sufficient slant to prevent washing
or stagnation. The number of terraces
to the cut depends upon the size of the
cut and the degree of slope of the land.
Ditching, when done thoroughly and
in accordance with practical engineer.
ing, is, to inundating land, of equal
value and of more lasting benefit than
fertilization, inasmuch as it is natural
fertilization and protection. Not infre-
quently is ditching found beneficial to
land not subject to overlooking, viz: un-
derground drainage to marshy bank
lands, damp, slaky, salty land, and to
stagnant, sagy, swampy land. They can
be easily redeemed by series of capa-
BILE bitches, well kept, supplemented by
judicial and proper fertilization.
Leveeing, under certain conditions,
and as protection to low lands, is a
very great and practically only shield
to land liable to occasional or annual
overfows. A very large territory in
Lower Louisiana is made cultivatable
and safe by virtue of system of strong
levees.-T. ID. Foster, in Dixie Farmer.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-12-05
STARTLING GLUTTONY.
Hogs In Human Shape Discovered |
Various Parts of the World.

Hogs In Human Shape Discovered In
Various Parts of the World.
The Hottentots, Bushmen and savage
South African races generally are enor-
nous gluttons. Ten of them, says
Barrow, ate in my presence the whole
OF an OK all but the hind legs in three
days, and the three Boesmans that ac-
companied my wagon devoured a sheep
on one occasion in less than twenty
four hours. In cold climates such feats
as these would only be trifles, and Parry
and Ross have recorded cases that, were
they not we'll attested, would pass be-
lief. Sir Edward Parry once tried the
capacity of an Esquimau scarcely fully
grown, and this interesting young
savage contrived, in twenty-four hours,
to devour four pounds four ounces of
the raw, hard-frozen flesh of a sea-horse
the same quantity of it boiled, one
pound twelve ounces of bread and
bread-dust, pint and quarter of rich
gravy soup, tumbler OF strong grog,
three wine-glasses of raw spirit
and nine pints Of water. Sir John
Ross, indeed, believed that the daily
rations of an Esquimau were twenty
pounds of flesh and blubber, but, in OK
tenuation of so enormous con-
sumption as this, the severity of the
climate must be taken into account.
Captain Cochrane, on the authority
of the Russian Admiral Saritcheff, tells
how one of the Yakuts had consumed
the hind quarter of large OK in twenty
four hours, together with twenty pounds
of fat and proportionate quantity of
melted butter. AS the man had already
gorged himself in this disgusting fash
ion it hardly seemed possible that he
would be able to consume any more, but
the worthy Russian Admiral, to test
him, gave the savage thick porridge of
rice boiled with three pounds of butter,
weighing together twenty-eight pounds.
The glutton sat down to this abundant
banquet, although he had just partaken
of breakfast, and, without stirring from
the spot or showing any sign of incon-
venience, got through the whole. Cap
tain Cochrane adds that a good large
calf, weighing two hundred pounds, will
just make a meal for four or five Yakuts,
and that he has seen three of them con-
sumo whole reindeer at one meal. The
feats of English working-men, on their
annual club feast day, would surpass be-
lief; a leg of mutton has not been found
too much for one man. DIR. Darwin, the
father of Charles Darwin, had the repu-
tation of being glutton, and is reported
to have called goose-a favorite Salop
dish-an inconvenient one, as being too
much for one and not enough for two
Cornhill Magazine.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-12-05

"Ihave just been up in Vermont" said
a Treasury clerk yesterday. ''The ma
tives have lost none OF their cuteness.
The town where l was stopping has
about 1880 inhabitants. One of the Sc
lectmen runs hardware store, and two
weeks ago his dog was bitten by neigh
boris dog. 1t was small enough mat
ter, but see what happened. First, he
had the neighbor's dog killed; then he
raised the cry that the dog had been
mad, and had bitten other dogs. The
selectmen met and ordered that every
dog should be muzzled for forty days,
and the thrifty hardware man has sold
nearly 500 muzzles at 81 apiece. Staid
old family dogs travel around town with
leather thongs around their jaws, which
never closed on any thing more human
than beef bone saw one big mas
tiH that had worked his nuzzle off and
WAS Juggling it around In bis mouth
Washington Post
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-12-05
MRS. 8. REMEMBERED
Her Memory Was Poor, but One Fact She
Had Not Entirely Forgotten.

Her Memory Was Poor, but One Fact She
Had Not Entirely Forgotten.
Mr.. Billus sat in his comfortable arm
;hair, with his feet comfortably resting
on another chair. Mr.. Billus was en-
joying himself. He had dined, and ne
defed fate to do its worst, even as an
other great man is said by historians to
have done under like circumstances long
before the period of Billus.
MARIA, he observed, ''this is the ami
versary Of our wedding, isn't it?"
at is, John"
"Twenty-three years, Maria" said Mr..
Billus, reflectiyely, as he took the poker
and stirred the fire in the CRATE, sis a
laundering long-h'm! h'm!-long time
for some married folks isn't it?"
sit is, John"
"And yet it doesn't seem-hm! h'ml
AS If it were thirty years since l first
met you at the Jasper County fair, does
it?"
sit isn't thirty years." replied Mrs
Billus rather shortly. at is only TWEEN
ty-six."
81 meant twenty-six years, of course,
Maria. Speaking of that fair" continued
Mr.. Billus. 81 wonder if you remember
that big artichoke in the agricultural
hall?"
mo, don't remember any big arti-
choke"
''Have you forgotten the long ear of
corn sent in by old Absalom Wykoff?"
81 have no recollection of it."
Don't you remember the big beet
that Uncle Jakey Dubois had on exhi
bition?"
mo"
MARIA said Mr.. Billus, impatiently,
where's your memory? Don't you
recollect the great big pumpkin that
weighed one hundred and seventy-six
pounds that Cal Hepperly was showing
every body that came to the fair?"
SIT seems to me do remember big
pumpkin"
81 thought so. Your memory is a
mighty poor one, Maria, but you couldn't
forget that big pumpkin. Do you have
any idea,' persisted Mr.. Billus, with
BiONihH lOSOllCCbiOuo Va Sunull pltb HE
good mother had made shortly after
that fair, whatever became of that
pumpkin, Maria?"
81 think have, John"
"You have, hey" he retorted, in sur
prise. ''If it is all you can do to re-
member the biggest pumpkin at that
fair how do you happen to know what
became of it, madam"
81 married that pumpkin, john
The fire burned feebly in the CRATE.
the canary bird slumbered peacefully in
its cage, and amid silence so profound
that the shadows could be plainly heard
dancing on the wall Mr.. and Mrs.
Billus sat in their cheerful little parlor
and dreamed the happy hours of their
wedding anniversary away.-Chicagc
| Tribune.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-12-05
COTTON MILL SCENES.
PROCESSES Employed to Convert Raw c.
ton Into Prime Shecfiop

PROCESSES Employed to Convert Raw Cot
ton Into Prime Shecting.
The cotton used is bought at various
southern points. 1t arrives here in cars.
on It's arrival the bales, which contain
about 500 pounds each of cotton, are put
In building adjoining the picker room,
this is called the mixing room. The
cotton is first run through the willow,
where number of toothed cylinders,
revolving $500 revolutions minute, re-
move most Of the dust 1t next goes
through fine picker where still more
dust is removed, then it goes through
the finishing picker where it is rolled up
into laps. This machine is regulated by
an ingenious governor so that the laps
are OF uniform size. The laps OF cotton
pass on to the card room where the fiber
is disentangled, brushed and combed
then 1t is deposited in beautiful fleeces
on an endless belt, which conducts it
to the railway head, where the straight
ened fiber is contracted into a
narrow ribbon and is deposited
In revolving can ready for the next
process. The cards which straighten
the fibre of the cotton are clothed with
needle-pointed wire which are kept
sharp, being ground by an automatic
grinder, machine which has yielded
its inventor good many dollars. The
grinder is attached to card in the
morning and by night has it ground
sharp. From the railway head the cot
ton goes to the drawing frames, and
when it has passed through two of them
the twelve strands have been merged
into one. Automatic fingers stop these
machines on the breakage of any one of
the strands 1t next visits the coarse
speeder which very swiftly winds in on
bobbins, and then the fine speeder which
twists together two strands from the
coarse speeder. One half of the cotton
from the speeders goes to the spinning
mules, where rapid revolving spindles
twists 1T into thread, winds it into cor
ready for the weaver The other half goes
to the eighteen spinning frames where il
is spun on bobbins ready for the spoilers,
the girls working at the spoilers run
the thread off of the bobbins on to large
spools. Three hundred and sixty Of
these spools are placed in warper and
with whirl are made to take theil
place on large beam, six of these
beams are next taken to the slasher, Q
machine that was built in England and
imported to this country. When the
thread is passing through the slasher il
is treated to boiling starch, which il
called sizing. After passing through
the sizing it energies from the slashel
onto beam one yard wide, which, wher
filled, holds 2, 100 threads, each $40 yard.
long. These are then harnessed by hand
making a complete warp ready for The
loom. These beams are then taken t.
the weave room, where there are 10:
looms making deafening noise weav
ing into the warp the cop thread from
the spinning mules. From the loom tn,
cloth goes to the iinishing-room-fron
there to the folder, and after being
stamped, weighed and bailed we nov
have the finished sheeting.-Des Moine
-fa.4 Register.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-12-05
CONVERTED TO BUDDHISM.
Ceremonies of Receiving an American
Into the Goddess Church.

Ceremonies of Receiving an American
Into the Goddess Church.
Recent Ceylon papers contain accounts
Of remarkable ceremony which took
place recently in Colombo. This was
the reception of gentleman from
America, who lately arrived in Ceylon,
into the Buddhist creed.
The proceedings took place under the
direction of the Buddhist high priest, as
sisted by eleven yellow-robed monks.
The convert knelt before the assembled
priests and intimated his desire to be ad-
mitted member of the Buddhist Church.
The high priest then catechised him
and the assembled monks satisfied them
selves that he was fitted to be follower
of Buddha. The gentleman, whose name
was Powell, then begged of the high
priest ''to give him the Pansil," which
the latter did, the candidate repeating
it after him with the palms of the hands
brought together uplifted. Having ex-
planned to the convert the responsible
duties of Buddhist the high priest gave
him his blessing. A meeting was after
ward held in which Mr.. Powell ex-
planned his reasons for having embraced
Buddhism, and described the mental
process which he had gone through be-
fore he arrived&t the con viction of its
truth.
1t appears that nearly forty years ago,
when he was a child, he came across a
book in his fathers library, in which was
picture. IL was the figure of Buddha
seated in the conventional attitude on a
lotus. Impressed by the expression OF
peace and love on the face, Mr.. Powell
got into the habit of going nearly every
evening to a room to sit in position as
nearly like it as he possibly could. ''On
asking who or what picture 1t was" Mr.,
Powell said: 81 was told that it was the
picture of heather god, but its memory
chung to me, and when heard its name
| never forgot it, but learned later wha,
the symbol was and its meaning
Being, as he said, naturally of relig
ious turn of mind, and being intended
by his father to be a clergyman, Mr.
Powell was we'll educated in the Chris
tan doctrine. "But l recognized and
felt that there must be some law that
could work out myself, and that if con
trolled my thoughts my life manifested
an obedience to that power; but it was
long before recognized that this was
the law of right thought" AT one time
he appears to have sought refuge in
agnosticism, but soon after he aban
doned this mental attitude, and pc
rusal of 1.-THE Light of Asia" aroused in
him the desire to take refuge in the law
of Lord Buddha-London Times.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-12-05
Rough on the Renters.

A bill in the Georgia Legislature which
prohibits the sale of seed cotton between
the dates August Is and December Is,
meets with considerable opposition. The
object was to prevent renters and others
from rushing in and breaking down
prices SO early in the season, also to pre-
vent the sale of the seed, but the OPP
ponents said small farmers wanted to
take their piclkings to town as soon as
gathered to get needed supplies, and,
should the bill pass, they would be COM
peeled to ask some larger planter to let
them put their cotton in their bales in
order to sell it.-Farmers' Home Jour
nal
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-12-05
Did You Read

The large advertisement of THE YoUTHs
COMPANION which we published last week.
This remarkable paper has the phenomenal
circulation of 43O, 900 copies weekly, No
other journal is more welcomed by old and
young in the families throughout the land.
The publishers make special otfr once
year, and to all who subscribe now will
send the paper free 10 January 1, 1890. AID ion
a ftu gear from that date. The subscription
price is Sl.75. Address,
THE YoUTH's COMPANION, Boston, Mass.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-12-05
A New Kind of Insurance

Has been put in operation by the manufact-
urers of DR.. Pierce's medicines. His
Golden Medical Discovery and 'Favor-
lite Prescription" are sold by druggists un-
der the manufacturers positive guarantee.
Either benefit or complete cure is thus at
tanned, or money paid for these medicines
is returned. The certificate of guarantee
given in connection with sale Of these medi-
cines is equivalent TO policy of insurance.
The ''Golden Medical Discovery cures all
humors and blood taints, from whatever
cause arising, skin and scalp diseases,
scrofulous sores and swellings. The
"Favorite Prescription" cures all those de-
rangements and weaknesses peculiar to
women.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-12-05

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should not fail to write to B. +. johnson IL
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great success shows that they have &C. the
true ideas about making money. They can
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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-12-05

-"How did you succeed in farming,
Plowdeepe? Make fortune?' Nav!
Lost two thousand the first year, and
then abandoned the business and re-
turned to the city" what are you
doing now?. Editing an agricultural
journal which has for its motto: How
to make money on the farm. IN. Y.
Led rer.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-12-05
CONSUMPTION Surely Cured.

To THE EDIToR:-Pleaso inform your
readers that / have positive remedy for
the above named disease By its timely
use thousands of hopeless cases have been
permanently cured. l shall be glad to send
two bottles of my remedy FREE to any
of your readers who will send me their ex-
press and post-office address.
Respectfully, T. A. SLocUM, M, Co..
isl Pearl street, New York
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-12-05

"SoME boarders," said Mrs. Lever
good, in an offended tone, ''are hard TO
please. l heard young Ridley complain
ing of lack of variety of food at the
table this morning, and / have hash five
times week. That ought to be variety
enough for any man."
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-12-05

"WITNEss," said lawyer in the police
court the other day, ''you speak of Mr..
Smith being well off. Is he worth five
thousand dollars?' 'No, sah." "Two
thousand?" mo, sab; he han't wort
twenty-five cents" "Then how is he
well off?'' 'Got wife who sports de
hull family, sah."
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-12-05

MEDICINE prepared for the general pub
lie should contain nothing hurtful in any
dose. Such a medicine is Shallenberger''s
Antidote for Malaria; it destroys Malaria
as water puts out fire, and is just as harm
less. Sold by Druggists.