The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-28
Our Poultry Symposium.
A WORD TO OUR POULTRY RAIsERs.


ago, is designed to present the subject of
southern poultry raising Sin a nut she'll" so
70 speak. With the help of the practical
noultrv keepers among our readers we hope
TO make it regular Symposium of all the
facts necessary to a successful conduct of
the poultry yard. Some of our lady read
ers will oubtless help US in the matter.
Let as many as can send US long or short
4 contribution, bearing upoa the subject. How
4 YOU succeeded best with raising eggs or
4 meat. What success with ducks or turkeys
9 or chickens or geese or guineas, and what
8 varieties do you prefer. Give us your ex-
perience in a plain, common sense way.
Write only on one side of paper with pen
or pencil.
Address communications or inquiries to
Agri. Editor, box 81, Milledgeville Ga.
Don't fail to send in something, and send
as early as possible.
A Welcome Emigrant in the Plant
World.
1t is strange how now and then in the his
tor of a section there comes tine story of
the emigration of some plant hitherto IN
S@NsAAS
spreads itself and makes itself altogether at
home; of how that plant in utter disregard
of our red, white and blue haunts out its
own native, not TO say national, colors in
every breeze that blows. This is the story
of the "bi:ter weed" or Helenine, brassy
tinted bloom, whose stalk and leaf is in
tensey bitter to taste. The growth sprang
up suddenly after the war in this section
where it as hitherto unknown. 1t opened
itself with marvellous rapidity; it almost
ruined many of our beautiful and natural
pastures but, fortunately for our land
owners, it is easy to exterminate it by con-
certed effort. 1t draws its yellow line of
bloom down oil the edges OF our village
ways, thereby giving work to many half
decrepit, bent withered old negro weed
pickers.
Other stories could be told of other visi-
tors who came to US all suddenly and de-
cided to stay. The Means or tombstone grass
took tao fence corner and waste places of
some OF Dallas county's best plantations,
and from these hooks and corners it so rap
idly spTesd Itself that the planters of that
county had, some Of them, perfOrce to well
come ito take out naturalization papers
for it, as 1t were, to turn their cotton places
into hay fields.
A very beautiful work it is, too, to see the
cutting, packing, baling of this hay in open
field. And very money-rnaxing crop IL Is,
that crop Of Johnstone-grass- hay.
Ever so many stories are told by our old
planters, but the one story that at present
related and reiterated by our Hall county
planters of to-day is the story of the COM
ing and the working of the most blessed emf
grant that ever came across ocean to make
lis home The land it sailed from TO our
native shores was Chile 1t now waves
boldly over our fields It's colors OF white and
green. 1t is welcome, thrice welcome, to
Iabama, this fair sweet growth. Its name
is Melilotus or White Chilean clover. In
] any good botany the description OF the
plant will be found: "Flowers in a RACINE
q or spike small; coralla falling after flower
q ing nod roundish and small, like an alsere,
II hardly opening, containing only one or two
seeds; ANIMALS or blennials, with sweet
scented foliage; leaflets three toothed."
AZ This description declares 1T a clover, but
imagine q clover whose usual hight is three,
81 four or SIX feet! This last hight 1t reaches
only in very advantageous surroundings.
The appearance of the plant is remsrka-
a bly, beautiful; its light graceful. foliage is
borne up on a straight pale green stalk
with many beautifully branching limbs.
M Every little twig of limb and stalk is tipped
in bloom season with the tiny staff OF tiny
white flowers.
Its completed beauty suggests candel-
abra more light and graceful than hand OF
man ever made, tipped by hundred little
white blazes. 1t is for this beauty that the
n plant is valued by our householders as a
81 pretty plant for fiower-beds. its blossom is
beautiful addition to a bouquet OF the
richest of flowers.
There is no prettier sight in the whole belt
of Alabama prairie lauds than the sight of
one Of these white blooming fields under a
swift show er of pearly rain-drops. Every
drop Of rain knocks out wave OF perfume
from some white flower; and there it is at
every minute graceful, bending, bowling.
trembling stalk of leaf and bloom, and a
wave another wave, another wave OF per-
fume floating far atield from the petted
flowers
1t ga plant that adorns sunshine. Under
a canopy of molten gold woven by a million
sunbeams the fields give out again rare
fragrance, a dry. sharp perfume like so
much dried vanilla grass. 1t ls while the
sun wraps the fragrant fields with hllets of
gold that our Alabama bees, wild bees and
housed bees, grow rich and drunken as
the bees that gather Hybla honey.
Such dreamy, murmurous melody is
swung over the Melilotus stretches by q
Thousand little windy trumpetersl
/ caunot but wonder that the apiarist has
SO long planted his bees-pastures with no
knowledge Of or anxiety TO get such plant
as this. The honey made from its blossoms
is almost pure white. 1t has the taste of
the flowers odor-a taste Of vanilla. Its
honey-giving season lasts all summer in our
climate. and it seems that our bees have
laid aside gold-gathering for diamond
boarding as they store their snow white,
waxen cells with this crystalline Heetness.
But the noisy little musicians of air and
hivede not pasture alone on these fields. No,
the planter lets down the pasture bars and
turns in his cattle on the beautiful white
bloom stretches Of rich growth.
Such fine pasturage for mich cows has
never been grown in this section of coun-
ny. 1t fattens the herds and increases the
low OF milk; it imparts a richness to the
butter made from the milk of such field
led herds, and sometimes gives even a
shght sweet, vanilla-touched taste to the
milk
Upon one Of. our prairie plantations there
was complaint that the crushed fresh plant
Sled on and trampled by cattle gave an
elpleasant taste to the milk-a taste of
rushed weed.
VI ell the plantations where this growth
Ssprung up OF been sown this one planter
J1Y made such complaint, so l was in
alsd to fancy, AS his pasture were some Of
zen full of bi ter weed that some of this
Tqlltous plant HAD sown itself in his
1Notus pastures, or that his herds vans
st viii. pasturing the same day on
a wv AelilOsua mud IN Uraga fhinklV hagat