The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-12-08
IN FIELD AND GARDEN.

Thoughts Appropriate to the Season.
The meteorological record for Georgia,
and Middle Georgia especially, shows no
weather conditions for November like the
one Just passed. As regards temperature
the nearest approach to the past November
was during that month In 1881. November
'SS and S9. both abnormally warm, showed
mean temperature A. colder but in all of
these there was more or less rain, but No
vember 90 leads the van as the dryest in
many years. A slight sprinkle. not enough
10 allay the dust or 70 be measured even to
the extent Of one-one nundredth of an inch
was the extent of the rainfall in Middle
Georgia for the month. Other sections may
have had local showers that amounted to
more than this, but the rainfall was very
small over a large southern territory,
amounting practically to nothing, and the
mean temperature is recorded as 4S to s.
above the normal for twenty years or
nore. ..
OF course such conditions were favorable
in the highest degree for the harvesting of
the crops and while the farmers of the south
had just cause for complaining of the
weather Of September, which was an alb
normally wet month, they certainly had no
cause for complaint against that of October
and November. Several wet spells in Octo-
Der retarded the work of picking cotton,
saving hay and gathering in the corn, but
no measurable changes resulted.
BY the middle of November all the corn
had been housed, and by Dec the average
cotton fields afforded only q trifing rem
nant to be gathered. Many found it diff
cult TO get plckers TO gather in this rem
nant, as fair days wages could not be
made In picking cotton so scattering I'm
IKE ante-bellum days, no cotton is seen in
the neids at Christmas time now. By Nov.
usually our farmers see the result of the
years work, and can spread or trim their
sails accordingly.
Inc outlook at this date is certninly not
OF character to warrant the least approach
70 extravaganza on the part of farmers
generally. With-low priced cotton and the
prospect fair for very high priced corn and
wheat stutf-ln fact, all food crops, includ-
ing meats, 1t is not bad advice to suggest to
.uein the need of trimming the sail to meet
tn9 threatened gale This writer does not
ware 10 pose as prophet of evil, but there
s ste Indications of approaching conditions
wa. g1aV VIII prove exceedingly depressing to
sne agricultural and commercial world, and
"neIner they will eliminate before another
"a Ga months IN the greatest panic of modern
tllleS Is yet to be seen. But let it be as it
@;li' Vne majority of farmers in every sec
tI iou VI this broad country need not be told
eiat never before in twenty-five years has
greater necessity existed for the closest
economy in their affairs Another harvest
a S long way off. Notwithstanding the
oaoeItto1s OF uniformed politicians and
T aSeai observers of all stamps, the past har
-! Has not been remuneratiye to the vast
majority Of farmers While some have
.ole well, and some others have managed
bon noic Their own, much the larger number
T ba'e tailed to reap anything like profita-
II0 return for their work. With these debts
H~'e accumulated, and their bank books
", Shot bag in the corner of the old chest
nro,l3 ahaTles exhibit, but moderate if any,
sf ~ WIS Tor the future. All that is left
No., su us large class to do is TO count every
H. av ttney have aud economic in a way that
'NeS nave never done before.
,;5 r one farmer who has sown any con-
sro'n aDle area of oats or rye this fall their
no-.,a uozen or perhaps score who have
| osNcted TO SOW at ALL With the short
w., crop, and the prospect of its being
o. 81 oU a bushel before the spring is
tan 9, =, mere has not been year in the past
6 7n % . there existed greater need for CIV
crSr. 'ne very greatest attention to these
S1 Dps Ior the purpose of stock food the
81 rii.ug year. He who can substitute oat,
I'm and rye fodder for corn and western
vii be10 May for feeding his working stock
Who WIN U 1e,Il happy man compared to the one
~ VIII not be able to make the substitute
to- paFO oil September and nearly all of Oc-
or was favorable to the seeding of small
Of Gu !. out very little advantage was taken
tia, IL mas been too dry since Nov. 10
ms ir' - most OF the time-to secure the ger
6 ,1la I OF oats and rye. but during the
fav,a"eet K the soil and the atmosphere were
is ,o W. a 1Lle starting the crop. OF course it
AM ave now to establish fall grain with
yyiIy, Jar prospect of success, unless the
il hoeL should prove like the last one which
liz NY ry to be expected, though it is posi-
tba IN. me chances are altogether against
ete e-scuIrence Of such a winter in immedi-
ali accession, and grain sown now will, In
dis % pro liability, be killed out before the mid
enore. January. It could not take firm
vissn mold upon the soil TO enable it to
~ 'tt.sIlhd the freezing OF the soil that will
efeDaiy follow before very long. The
-''''eS are at least five, If not ten. to one