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The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1889-05-23

AN immense toadstool three feet in d.
ameter was found recently at Wolcott, VT,
ON O beech tree
The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1889-05-23

surfxRxRs from Coughs, Sore Throat
etc. should try BT1iCn's BRONCHIAL Ifoches, = =
simple but SURE remedy. Sold only - borss.
Price IS cents.
The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1889-05-23


PLANTERS In North Carolina are much
alarmed ct the exodus Of negroes Many
agricultural sections will not Be able 70 81
The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1889-05-23
Twenty New Towns in iowa and Dakot

EIx different patents were secured on
chewing gum last year.
The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1889-05-23
]. A. MAGEE & CO., Lawrence, Mas


Most naturally look forward natrmony proper
sphere life but they should constantly
face bright and healthy form the best
functional peculiar their destroy beauty
ene make life miserable An unang specific
found IN Dr. Pierce
only medicine fer women so ~ under positive guarantee
money will be refunded This guarantee pd the
and faithfully many years 800 per
Bottle Six Bottles for $500 N8
ASSOCIATIONS popsso.
The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1889-05-23
This is the Season


When aeRood medicine is a necessity. The impure
state OF the blood, the deranged Digestion and the
weak condition of the body. an call for the purity
ing, regulating. and strengthening influences 80
happily and effectively combined in Hood s,srsa-
pariIia. II overcomes that tired feeling, cures
headache and dyspepsia, and expels every faint OF
scrofula from the blood.
my daughter had been ailing some time with
general debility. and Hoods sarsapariia was rec
commended to After she had taken three bottles
she was completely cured and built up. It Is with
great pleasure that recommend Hoods sarsapa,
rilla-r BEN N. MIRRlELEEs, supt. Cincinnati d
Louisville Mail Limo Co.. Cincinnati.
To Purity Your Blood.
4" Two months ago commenced taking HOODS
sarsaparilla - an experiment, a. had no appetite
orstrength. and felt tired all the time. attributed
my condition to scrofuious humor. had tried sew
eral dinerent kinds Of medicine, without receiving
any benefit. But As soon a. | had taken half bot
tie Of Hoods sarsaparlla, my Appstite vas re-
stored. and my stomach felt better. 4 have nov
taken nearly three bottles. and never was 20 well
~ my Afe.it Mss.J. p poLnKxRE. Psscoas. n. &.
Hoods SarsapariIIa
sela BY druselsss. I'll six for .. Prepared only b
z X. HOOD CO. Apotbecssies. Loveli, Mass
100 Doses One Dollar
The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1889-05-23

wnL b found an excellent remedy or
sick headache. CArter's Little Liver Fills.
6 fsss' Ssss'
The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1889-05-23

..And marry me every time.
20 RalphI,
The tea-table was laid oh the cool
piazza, as two unconscious looking in
dividuals walked up and took their
places with apologize smiles.
Mother said Ralph, whom the
meal was over and he had followed
that busy matron about the house I'M
til he could obt;sin private audience,
'Inother, my predjudfces are gone, de-
composed, dissolved, precipitated, TAX
en- up into new combinations Ruth
and have agreed to climb the hill OF
science, together. ~
s.rm not surprised" the good lad y
replied, 7'wiping her spectacles with
an. air Of triumph. give been
thinking for some time past that the
Glacial Period was about ended.
Helen Bostwick Bird, in Woman's
journal.
The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1889-05-23


And then-and then, in the chain
20 a;s
conbed head was thrust out
oh, how small Il makes you feel
TO overhear people talking, even when
you can't help 1T II Il had only been
dressed, and .could have walked right
outl And TO think he never once
looked at tho upper shelf where the
poetry Is! How ignorant Of him to
suppose ] can not enjoy these precious
books without being a stif, angular,
ssstrong-minded old thingl=I=Mantxzt
TO Ike dear Kun tie Wakefleld's only
son, but now can not Such mar
row. conceited fellow! I've half
mind to fool him by acting the part OF
q frivolous, fashionable girl, without
an idea in her head. / could do 1t.
But he ism t worth the trouble. Bet
terlcaye his majesty entirely to him
The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1889-05-23

Nevertheless, IL was very cour-
teous and agreeable young man whom
Ruth found when, two hours later.
she deseendsd 70 the tea table and was
formally introduced TO Mr.. Ralph
WaLafioid
The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1889-05-23

buQpOsts --=-- :
..Try, IT. You'll taste dandelion
and burdock plain enough, I'll war
rant. They went downstairs 20
gether.
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-11-20

or Kansas where the climate is better, the win
ters less severe, and living more pleasant.
Sacks.
Hawkeye Ranch so acres rce................... SO7
E. M Powers, 80 to 80 acres s.................. 342
G. NJ. Braden, 40 acres or 500
Not threshed yet:
The Hall rice farm, 175 400
sack of rice is worth from $3.50 to $4.
"The eighty acre field of rice owned by Kelly,
Day & Coleman turned out 800 sacks. or about
twelve barrels per acre. There is nothing slow
about such yield as this
One of the planters mentioned above,
and who is more than pleased with his
business, pays $15 per day forty days
each year, for having water pumped on
his land, and still he makes money rails
ing rice.
Florida will yet, we believe. produce
more rice than Louisiana, and att great
er profit to the producer.
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-11-20
Catalogues and Pamphlets.

We have received during the past week
the following catalogues and pamphlets.
Descriptive catalogue of Arlington Nur-
series, season of 1S89-9O. Robt. g. Bid
well, proprietor, Orlando, Fla.
Annual descriptive catalogue of Lake
George Nurseries, W. W. Hawkins & sons
proprietors, Lake George, Fla.
Highway Improvements, an address
delivered before the Carriage Building
Association, of Syracuse, n Y, October
18th, by Col Albert Pope, of Boston.
William A. Bours' catalogue OF seeds
for the garden, field and grove, for 1882
80. William A. Bours, Jacksonville.
''The Guide" an Illustrated seed and
floral annual for the Southern States. III.
G. Hastings & Co., Interlachen, Fla.
Circular and price-list of the East Coast
Poultry Yards, from E. W. Amsden, Or
mond, Fla.
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-11-20
Fruit Growers Clubs.

Now that the marketing problem has
been pretty well solved by the Orange
Growers Union, our fruit growers should
turn their attention to the matter of pro-
ductiOn. Of course this question comes
first, for without the fruit there will be no
use for a Union to look to it's being prop
erly and judiciously marketed We do
not doubt but there will always be an
abundance of fruit, but the aims of the
grower should be to produce as good
quantity as possible, and at the lowest
possible cost consistent with it's good
quality.
We believe that every county in the
State should have an organization of
fruit growers for mutual beneft-the ex-
change of ideas, etc.
Meetings could be held monthly, or as
often as thought necessary, and subjects
of interest discussed Certain members
of the organization couI,l be delegated to
follow certain line of experiments and
report the result.
FOrinstance: on the subject of fertilizers
such an organization could make itself of
inestimable value to the members. Mem
bers using different brands of fertilizers
could keep an exact account of the time
and method in which twas applied char
acter of soil, age of trees, amount used
and results obtained. These different re-
ports could be compared and in very
short time our grove owners would be in
dependent of the manufacturers analyses,
and know just what to use and how to
use it. Many other questions of equal
Importance would assist and could be dis
cussed and handledin and prac-
tically.
Will some of our enterprising horticult-
urists put the ball of organization in mo-
tien and by so doing confer favor
upon themselves and posterity We have
the State Horticultural Society it is true,
but it's meetings are too infrequent and
it's scope too large to go into the many
essential details. An organization in each
county, holding meetings at least once
month, is what we want.
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-11-20

Mr. j. RUSSELL KENNEDY, correspond
ing secretary Of the Florida Orange Grow
ers' Union, has a card to the orange grow
ersin this issue. Notwithstanding the fact
that what Mr.. Kennedy says is true, we
do not propose to forsake the long-suffer
ing orange growers, but will stand by
them Through thick and through thin, :"
and will let those opposed to us and the
Union do their worst.
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-11-20

cents, the second forty cents, and the
third fifteen cents. The grades are be-
coming well classified, as they exist in the
general market, and the farmer can form
an accurate idea of the price that will be
paid for his tobacco according to his at
tention and skill in curing his crop.
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-11-20
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1889.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.

CORRESP SPONDENCE-Solid Chunks of Wis
dom; The Importance of the South Ameri-
can Trade to Florida .633
Cotton Seed Meal. Tobacco Stems and 9th
er Fertilizers The System of Taxation. .634
The Orange Growers Union; Stand by the
Union and the Agriculturist; Information
Wanted About Orange Culture on Ham
mock Land Executive Committee HOrti-
cultural Society .635
SELECTED-Mexcan Glover. .633
The Southern Field Pea Ingratitude With
Big "I 0o4
Home-Made Fertilizers; The CamphOr tree;
FLORAL-A Florida Garden; Plumbago Cap
ensis; No success with Callas; The Gala
EDITORIAI4-Florida as a Rice-Producing
State; Fruit Growers Clubs; Catalogues
Answers to Correspondents; Local Weather
Bulletin. 639
HOUSEHOLD-Tears; Make the Home-Hearth
Cheerful; Things We Throw Away; Selected
Recipes. 64O
POULTRY-Notes; Around the Poultry Yard;
The Wyandotte e....................
FLORIDIANA .S4l
LITERARY-St -Story-"Dunraven Ranch" "........642
The Puzzler.......
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-11-20

GARDEN truck is bringing fair prices in
the North. Be sure that you send only
bles, or few vegetables of inferior quail
ity in crate of fine truck, will materially
interfere with the profitable sale of the
entire lot.
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-11-20

AN effort will be made to get Congress
to appropriate 100000 for the purpose
OF encouraging the cultivation of ramie,
and the manufacture of machines for de-
corticating and degumming 1t is proposed
to utilize the appropriation in offering
premiums.
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-11-20
TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Articles relating to any topic within the scope
of this paper are solicited.
We cannot promise to return rejected manu-
script unless stamps are enclosed.
All communications intended for publication
must be accompanied with real name as guar
antee of good faith Names will not be published
if objection is made. No anonymous contr1bu-
tions will be regarded.
NgFMoney should be sent by Draft. Postohice
Money Order on DeLand, or Registered Letter,
otherwise the publisher will not be responsible IN
case of loss When personal checks are used ex-
change must be added. Only L and 2-cent stamps
taken where change cannot be had.
R1TTo insure insertion, all advertisements Tor
this paper must be received by 10 o'clock Monday
morning of each week.
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-11-20
Florida as a Rice-Producing State.

rice planter of Louisiana, says he regrets
that he was not in position to appreci-
ate the capabilities of Florida as a rice
producing State while residing here, for
he is confident that he could have made
it pay as well in Florida as he does in
Louisiana. While he does not doubt that
upland rice in Florida will pay better
than any of the standard farm crops of
the North or West, still he believes that
it will pay us better to devote our ener-
gies to low land rice because after the
land is once prepared cultivation costs
less and the crops are more certain.
His experience with the rice farms of
Louisiana leads him to believe that the
soil of Florida is peculiarly suited to rice
The abundance of water throughout the
State, with the low fertile lands contin-
gent to it, assures an almost unlimited
quantity of land available for the pur-
pose. In fact there is hardly a section Of
land in the State upon which may not be
found bodies of land and water exactly
suited for the purpose.
A gentleman living at Fort Mason
wrote us few days ago that his low land
rice produced one hundred and ten bushels
of good rice per acre, and we hear
that this season he will plant about 400
acres of it.
The average yield of rice in Louisiana
r 7.+x hole +o fh0
acre; some planters made as high as for
ty-fve, but the average was not higher
than thirty-fve. So it will be seen that
the Fort Mason gentleman, counting two
and one-half bushels to the barrel, made
fOrty-four barrels of good rice per acre,
or over double the average yield of the
Louisiana farms, which speaks volumes
for Florida.
The following estimate for the cultiva-
tion of rice is given by an experienced rice
planter of South Carolina. AS labor is
higher here than there it will be necessary
to add about 25 per cent. to the follow
ing, to arrive at what would be the cost
of cultivatingan acre of rice in Florida.
Per acre.
Burning or clearing out stubbles. 20
Slushing and cleaning bitches. s............... 80
Lab
narrowing .5O
Trenching by hand. Observation-Disclosures. 40
Seed. 2A bushels at t$1....................... $50
Sowing ing......................... ................ .16
Covering by brush or harrow. 20
Raking trash from sprout water ..... 20
Hoeing twice, at soc each time. ........ 1.6O
Cutting. .............. ....... LOO
Tieing. rs
Hauling go
Threshing ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. .... LOS
Overseer 200
Foreman LOO
Trunk minder. ............... .............. so
Loading and freight. LOO
Repairs to trunks banks and mill, say..... 100
Total per 1851
OF course this does not include the first
cost of diking and ditching the land; this
would amount to considerable, but would
have to be done but once.
We would suggest, that where our peo-
pie only have a limited amount of capital
to invest in the industry, that they oper-
ate on the cooperative plan that is, a
piece OF land suitably situated could be
purchased and divided into lots for the
different members of the company. bikes
could then be made around the entire
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-11-20

AN exchange says that Judge H. F.
Sharon, of Quincy, has sold his tobacco
crop at an average of twenty-four cents
per pound. The first grade brought fifty
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-11-20

has been invented by Mr.. Burden, of Oak
land. 1t is our opinion that it would pay
companies formed as above, to invest in
one of these pumps. The cost will be but
a few hundred dollars, and the expense
OF operating amounts to almost nothing.
This pump could be placed at or near the
water, and if the rice land was situated
near it, the water could be pumped over
the dixie directly into the field, but in case
the land was somewhat remote from the
water, it (the water) could be carried to
the rice land in fumes, which would cost
but little.
In the latter case it would be necessary
to have two pumps, one situated near the
water to supply the field. and one in the
field to draw off the water. By elevating
or depressing either side of the flume it
could be made to act as conductor for
the water both in coming and going.
Reapers could be bought on the COOP
erative plan, and mills erected and run,
thus reducing the cost to a minimum for
each Individual We think that there can
be no doubt as to the profit of the busi-
ness. In our exchanges we often see that
farms in the CarOlinas and Louisiana
that produce fifteen and twenty barrels
of rice per acre, are highly spoken Of as
exceptional good ones, and the farmers
as rule do not complain very loudly
when the yield is but twelve barrels. AS
the average price for rice, in the local
markets where it is raised, is now from
$3 to $3.50 per barrel, it will be readily
seen that if our yield can be made to
conform in any way to that of the Fort
Mason gentleman-fOrty-four barrels
per acre-our rice fields will be eofimmense
value.
At that rate an acre of rice would yield
net return of forty or fifty dollars
per acre, which compared to the net re-
turns from cotton. which is about $16
per acre is Overshadowed.
In reference to the system suggested
above, OF using pump to supply the wa
ter, we would say that it is not original
with us by any means, as many of the
large planters of Louisiana have done
away with the old-fashioned suice-gate
as untrustworthy and unreliable, and
now depend upon pumps for their water
supply.
We append the following extracts from
the Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufac
turer for the purpose of showing that rice
culture in that State, although the yieldi is
considerably less than what we can ex-
pect in Florida, is considered an extreme
ly profitable business. In estimating the
amount of money realized from an acre,
the value of rice can safely be estimated
at $3. OOper barrett often reaches 81 90.
And the reader should bear in mind the
fact that the cost of cultivation is less
Than cotton and many other farm crops
Speaking of the success of new comers,
''green hands in the business" the jour
nal mentioned above says:
'sMr. q. M. Mayes, living about three miles
southwest of Rayne, came here from Iowa last
spring and homesteaded a tract of land. AS an
experiment he put in ten of rice which yield
ed him $50 barrels. Judge Bruner and Mr.. Over
street rented seventeen acres in Rayne and put it
in rice and harvested yield of about seventeen
put in forty acres and harvested 500 barrels OF
- Io
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-11-20
ADVERTISING RATES.

Rates for advertising furnished on application
by letter or in person.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-10-03
Wholesome Food,

Those who ARE spending thier pow
ers in providing entertainment for the
young Imagination. whether through
amy Irresistible inclination 70 write, or
through need Of the money thus
brought in, have tremendous reSpon-
sibility, which many Of them do not
seem in any way tO recognize. If II
is in the first case that they are
prompted to write, they should be very
sure that they have something TO say
worth SAYING, and in no wise dctri-
mental Ia the young spirit in its for
native process; and in the latter they
should he doubly watchful of their
pens, the temptation of profit and
their own need coming in as powerful
allicsoi possible evil, or blindiugthcm
To the presence of such evil.
Not only should that which they
provide for the young bc free from
wrong. or the suggestions Of it. or
from any,hin" that might. pcrRdycn.
turc. develop iuto wrong, but II should
be aggTr. ,ivciy in the other direction.
nos only innocent but useful, sound
and strong and true and healthy. BY
demanding the true we do not mean
10 cXcludc fancy and imagination, but
that even with their employment the
tone should ring true. and that all
false sentiment should he lrowncd at
as much as false fact, by which is in
tended statement Of fact not true 10
MIXTURE While the markCiman and
the provision dealer are feeding the
body, the writer is doing much toward
feeding the soul and q good deal of
the worthlessncsS Of an impoverished
spiritual nature, an imhccile, poorly
stimulated. poorly equipped intellect,
may be Laid ut the door Of whOusO-
ever il is who furnishes Intellectual
pabulgm Of poor quality. II Harper
Bazaar.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-10-03
Method.

As fer me, the more / feel the diff
culties Of good writing, the more my
boldness grows. II is this preserves
me from the pedantry into which |
should otherwise fall. | have plans
for books the composition Of which
would occupy the rest OF my life; and
If there happen TO me, sometimes,
cruel moments, which well nigh make
me weep with anger $50 great do i
feel my weakness 10 be-, there are
others also when ! can scarce contain
myself for joy; something from the
depths within me, for which voluptu-
Gus is no work, overfiows for me in
sudden leaps. / feel transported, al
most inebriate, with my own thoughts,
as il there came 10 me, at some win
dow within, a puff Of warm perfumes.
| shall never GO very far and know
how much | lack; but the task ! I'M
dertake will surely be executed by an
other, l shall have put on the road
some one better endowed, better born
for the purpose, than myself. The
determination 10 give TO prose the
rhymth of verse, leaving it still veritable
prose; to write the story of common
life as history or the epic gets written
chat is to say, without detriment TO
the natural truth Of the subject). is
perhaps impossible. l ask myself the
question sometimes. Yet it is perhaps
a considerable, an original thing to
have tried. | shall have had my per.
manent value for my obstinacy. And
who knowsl One day | may find a
good motif, an air entirely within the
compass Of my voice; and at any rate
| shall have passed my life not ig-
nobly, often with delight. Yet still il
is saddening to think how many great
men arrive easily at the desired effect
by means beyond the limit of con-
scious art. What could be worse built
than many things in Rabelais, Cervan-
ties. Molicrc. Hugo; But then, what
sudden thrusts OF power, What
power in a single word!-Cor. Gus
tave FlauUcrt.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-10-03

The phenomenon of mir in water.
and the fact that IN comprising water
thcair is NOT forced out has long been
an interesting subject OF scientific
study, the simple explanation being
that water, as we'll as many other
liquids, has the property Of absorbing
various gaseous substances without
thereby increasing ia volume, aud far
from reducing the capacity of the
liquid 10 absorb "A certain gus; the APP
plication Of pressure increases il, the
law being substantially that the
amount Of gas absorbed increases di.
rectly as the pressure increases, and
]contrawise. Thus, if water at ordi-
nary atmospheric pressure will absorb
one-fourth OF its volume of air, nj two
atmosphercs il will absorb another
one'fouItb. at three atmosphere still
another fourth, and 50 on.
The capacity Of water thus to hold
large volumes Of gaseous substances
under pressure is we'll shown in the fa-
mill example of carbonated waters.
These are bottled under considerable
pressure, the gas itself furnishing the
pressure, in order that they shall be-
come charged with a great quantity Of
the gas, which, being liberated rs the
pressure is removed By drawing the
cork, gives rise 10 lle well known
clfcrycscencc, In absorbing or dis.
charging The gus, however there il 40
Chauuc in the volume of ilt 'iOgid.-
New York Telegram.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-10-03

Theli.. lightning stroke is 80 fire.
quent tlIai PERSONS much oEpJaCd to
thunder storms should tnkc all known
prccautIou against il. IN a scientific
paper recently read before the Royal
Meteorological society Mr., g. j. Sy
mons, b.. +. s., The English meteor
ologist presented a large mass Of i'm
poflaut data on the phenomenon of
thunder storms
Ordinarily persons exposed 10 a
thunder storm lee 10 the nearest shell
ter 10 escape welting, Mr., Synons
shows that III "A man is thoroughly
wet 1t Is impossible for lightning to
kill him He refers 10 n remarkable
proof of this fact, The great scien-
tiic lecturer, Faraday, oncc demon.
strated to his audience at the Royal in
stitution that with all the powerful
a lightning stroke 10 allow himself TO
electrical apparatus at his disposal
il was impossible for him to kill
n rat whose coat had been satu-
rated with water. II would be well,
therefore, for any person in a Sc.
vere thunder storm and liable % a
be drenched with rain at the earliest
moment possible, and IN the absence
Of sufficient rainfall 10 avail himself
OF any other means at hand TO wet his
outer apparel. New York Herald.