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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-25
Clod Crusher.

An efficient lump crusher" or "clod
crusher" may be made Of plank four to four
and half feet long and seven or eight
inches wide, spiked on to side pieces five or
six feet long. Cut the side pieces so as to
allow the planks 20 be nailed on like clap
boards, tapping one or two inches. Allow
the forward part to turn up about like a
well-made stone boat, and affix rings for
attaching the team. The size aud thickness
or stock may be varied according to the
work expected OF it and the team that can
De used In drawing it. A yoke Of oxen or a
pair of heavy horses would work one five
feet wide and six feet long, while one four
by -FOUR Feet would be heavy enough for one
good horse. Or the driver might ride upon
one OF light weight, and in a soil that
needed but little work to pulverize it it
might do sufficiently good work without
added weight. For the mere packing Of
the soil and breaking of clay Jumps one Of
these is often better than a roller A soil
which Is mostly clay will need one of heavier
weight than "a sandy loam Like rolling,
the use OF this implement works up the soil
so that the plant roots can penetrate 1t in
their search for food, and after sowing it
presses the soil down to the seed, giving a
better chance for termination in a dry sea-
son.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-25

but 1t is our honest opinion that the man
who undertakes TO make for himself a pecan
grove on that plan will never get it. We
wish IL were otherwise, for nurserymen are
class OF people deserving Of every possible
encouragement, but the interest we feel in
having many fine pecan groves correctly
started in Texas compels us to warn all in~
terested against undertaking to establish
groves with transplanted trees"
The agricultural editor will be prepared
to give ample directions this fall to any de-
string to make a venture in pecan culture,
whether one acre or twenty, where the
freshest seeds Of the choicest varieties Of
pecans for planting can be procured at rea-
able prices without imposition. AS stated
before, grove can be started on land that
can be cultivated in a number Of crops for
several years and with advantage to the
pecans, and when the grove becomes estab-
lished later on the land will afford the best
Of pastures The starting Of a grove GER
| tainly involves no great expense, and there
is no reason why thousands of young men
in the south should not lay the foundation
for competency to come later in life.
There are other nuts, too, that can be
planted, and several fruits that can be
planted with the promise of success If one
will only hold themselves ready TO wait
awhile for the results. The desire to get
quick returns" for all labor has been a
curse to the south. The man OF 40 who
| looks backward sees that the fifteen years
since he was 25 has passed away very rap
idly after all, though it seemed long time
| in prospect.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-25

few words on that subject may not be I'M
welcome, says the Metropolitan. In the
nrst place, before buying. aim to secure q
marcy breed, or one that is adapted to your
section; The best laying breeds may not
oe the hardest; but in those sections where
the winters are not very severe, nearly all
Ine breeds are capable of giving good re-
suits under careful management.
For improving the common flocks, with a
view Of increasing egg production, the
Leghorns are unexceled; and for increasing
the size OF carcass and giving greater hardi-
ness, the Brshma will answer admirably.
Inc old and well-known Plymouth Rocks
are considered hardy breed, and are excel
lent, both as egg producers and for market
Ihey do not excel in all the desirable quali-
ties, nor does any other breed, but they
stand high as an all-purpose fowl, If such a
breed ia possible.
AT all events. do not fail to improve your
nock with some one Of the pure breeds, no
matter which of them you select.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-25
Bees and HOnav

When the days get warm enough to tempt
the bees to start out in the early spring,
they usually look for water the first thing,
and supply should BIS placed near the
hives, as if they go far after it, they may
not get back before the weather changes
colder, or the wind becomes too strong for
them, and they are unable to get back. and
perish.
AS the boys and girls whether bread and
honey is not as good as bread and butter.
Again, it is wholesome, nutritious and
cheap. II people used more Of it, and less
poor butter or oleomargarine, it would be
much better. And the country can double
Its production of hohey much easier than it
could supply good butter enough to take the
place of the substitutes that are used for it.
A correspondent Of one Of the bee journ-
ais says that his hives averaged to yield
nearly 100 pounds Of honey per hive. most
of which came from black jack acorns
which had been puncture1 by some insect,
and exuded juice that was utilized by the
bees. The bee owner does not always know
from what source his bees may be able TO
find honey as they sometimes find it where
he would not suppose it to be.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-25
Slowed Corn for Forage.

specially to the farmer who does things
with rush and is careless in his methods OF
planting and cultvating is sowed corn
crop Of great value. 1t is strange how few
of our small farmers have learned its value.
Sowed at this season it will give the earliest
green food of any Of the plants that can be
sowed now. 1t submits to rougher treat
ment than any other and yields a greater
bulk per lineal yard Of good forage. A
rich acre or half acre near the barn sowed
to forage corn can be made the most valua-
BILE acre or half acre on the small farm. As
soon as it gets waist high cutting Of it can
begin, and one acre will go a long ways In
feeding one pillow animal and one milk COW.
An acre of forage corn in perfection affords
an amount of forage that few other crops
can equal.
The corn should be sown thickly in drills
or 81 feet apart in soil that has been
thoroughly broken and pulverized. To
make the heaviest crop with the greatest
ease free application Of manure rich IN
nitrogen should be we'll narrowed 10, and
the drills be laid off shallow. Drill evenly
at least eight pecks of seed. On very rich
land twel e pecks will not be too much, as
IL is desired to have the stalks slender and
tall and easily to be cured.
Throw a couple of inches Of soil over the
seed, and wherever practicable run roller
over them.
AS soon as the corn is we'll up run sweep
or harrow round it to give it a prompt send
off.
If the soil is light and loamy and was
properly plowed at planting time the sweep
harrow or cultivator may be relied on to
make crop of forage corn, but on soils
that are stiff and inclined TO bake it will be
advisable to give the middles good break
ing with sh ovels about the time the corn is
knee high.
Then couple of sweepings will make the
crop a crop that will be OF great value to the
ordinary farmer who has generally very lit
tie left over in June from the previous year
crop. II you need any fodder let the corn
or sorghum go in now as soon as possible.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-25
Between Fodder and Pasture.

In few directions has the farmer stronger
temptations to depart from the path of
wisdom than in that Of turning stock out
TO pasture too soCn, says an exchange
Some time and labor are necessarily in
Voved In feeding, watering and cleaning
stock and in cleaning out their stables, max
ing their beds, ETC., and their fodder and
grain costs something; hence many are aux-
ious to relieve themselves of this labor and
care and expense at the earliest practicable
moment. Therefore, many anxiously watch
the slowly upspringlng grass in spring, to
see when 1t is large enough for sheep or cat
Tie to get bite. We fear they do not al
ways wait to determine whether their high
est interests, true economy, would be ad-
Valced by hurrying them out into the
pasture Just as soon as the grass is high
enough to crop.
Here, the real difference between good,
sensible farmer and en uncomfortable,
SnHt!ess one. is often very apparent. The
sensible farmer, after trying to promote the
pest Interests of his stock through the wins
Yer, by providing them with warm, clean,
Wel-ventilated. wholesome stables and food
alaoted to their wants, still keeps their true
interests in view as returning spring renews
Se8etaole life. SO long as he is convinced
mat he can do better by them by keeping
.ael1 In their stables and feeding them,
uaI by turning them out to pasture, he
VIZ Keep them there, even though he may
10 bllged to purchase some grain to feed
itueIl. he knows that buying grain to feed
As 40 the worst possible economy because he
StGereby adding fertility to the soil. He
~ ais , well aware that it does not improve
SSle pasture to turn stock upon it, to feed it
uo"tl before 1t has acquired substance and
nutntlve qualities, but that it is better to
u Uio" 1t to more nearly attain its growth
wnen 1t will go a great deal further and do
Tue stock much more good.
4. VA the other hand, thoughtless, shiftless
tartner seeks to carry his stock through the
~lhter with the least possible food and
oare, comforting himself with the assur-
.auce that they will soon be able to pick
. .teH own living in the pasture, and that
nen they will soon regain Their lost flesh
S%lnout is costing him anything out. 1t is
tUecause here are so many farmers who use
s ~la KIND OF logic and practice such false
,,sonomy that there are SO many failures in
"a, ,aIulng. A merchant or a manufacturer
nuo should attempt to do business on suoh
NInclplei would soon be forced into an as
'sqment. He could not go on.
:. nave atience, then, farmers, and not be
q; ~ 700 great hurry TO commence appropriat-
.ug the products of 1892 Let them bask
~. ~! awh lie in the sunshine, absorbing it's
tILslghty force, and drink in the dews and
ne nc Ialndlrops OF heaven, and appropriate
ne nc carbon, the oxygen, the hydrogen, the
F'rtgen and the mineral elements of plant
~, roou Iro II the earth, until they have builded
up tGelr marvellous structures aud become
4uaAhed. to construct animal cells and i'm
p part animal force, before you hasten to pro-
NJ tiote the next great evolution, from vegeta-
O'e 70 animal organisms.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-25
Wanted

A plain, practical article on raising hogs
pork in Southern Georgia.
ADother-of like character-on "Florida
clover" or Beggar weed as forage provided
and as a soil lmprover.
Another on cotton after oats"
Another on Bermuda pasture.
And still another on chow to grow rich
Oh 6-cent cotton"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-25

Letters of q personal character to the
agricultural editor cannot be replied to un-
less stamps are inclosed. We receive fire.
Ouent letters asking for information Of in
terest only to the writer's and nofsuitable
for publication. We are always willing to
iqform our readers where various seeds can
be procured, but as this information can
only be impaired by mail stamp is neces-
Sary for a reply.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-25

which good management will make sure.
OF course it requires some care and skill to
succeed with bees. No success anywhere is
attained In these days without these quail
ties.
The supposed mystery about the use of
salt is very easily solved. In the small
quantities in which it is applied to land it
promotes the decomposition Of vegetable
matter. This, as well as the dissolution of
the salt Itself, furnishes carbonic acid gas,
which is one of the best solvents known
Applied in large amounts salt is the reverse
of this, proven ting decomposition, as is we'll
known to all housewives who have kept
anything In salt pickle. Salt on land liber-
ates phosphate that has gone into insoluble
conditions, as this mineral fertilizer is apt to
do at times.
When horses are kept shod the year
round the feet are liable to become diseased
from hoof contraction, corns, etc. II the
shoes are removed and the hoofs allowed
freedom for a month or two the liability is
greatly lessened. Work horses should have
the shoes taken off if not done already, and
by the time spring works begins the feet
will be stronger and healthier than If the
shoes are kept on. Unless the roads are
piked with sharp stones the driving horses
can dispense with shoes the greater part of
the winter also il there is not an unusual
amount Of ice and frozen roadbeds.
A rich, deep and dry soil is necessary to
grow early potatoes We say dry, because
the sets must be planted early, and if wet
and cold they will rot rather than grow
This rich, deep soil, that is dry in early
| spring, Will be all the moister during the
| droughts of summer. If the potato tops
can be kept green a week longer on one
piece than on another, it means doubling
the crop Of marketable tubers. A few days
extra growth means making the large tub
ers larger, and bringing those that would
have been fit only for pig feed to marketa-
BILE size. The crop should have some fer
mented stable manure to give the plants an
early send-off 1t will not cause early pota-
toes to rot, though it may with the late
crop.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-25

Questions and communications relative to
AGRICULTURAL and horticultural subjects if ad-
dressed to Agri. Editor, Drawer N. Mill
aigeville, Ca, will receive immediate atten-
Eon
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-25

something About Buying Eggs.
AS many of the readers may desire to
pFocuue eggs Of pure-bred fowls this spring,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-25

If a tree is not doing well there is some
cause for it. If you have not enterprise
enough to hunt out the cause and try to
remedy it. you do not deserve to be called q
fruit grower.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-25

If your cellar is damp put box Of lime
there to absorb the moisture. 1t will also
serve to prevent foul and unwholesome
odors. Lime is a great purifier, and We
are somewhat too chary in its use.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-25

Whenever the hens lay thin-sheIled eggs
it is almost sure indication that they need
lime. Generally fowls that run al large do
not need to be supplied, but those that are
confined must have regular supply.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-25
Brief Answers to Several Postal Card
Questions.

Questions.
''BoRDEAUx MIXTURE" AND ''BURR ARTI-
CHoKEs."
H. R. c. asks for the formula of the
Bordeaux mixture" for application to
grape vines, ETC.. as a preventive Of mil
dew
Take of bluestone (sulphate of copper
81 pounds.
Quicklime, 81 pounds.
Water. % gallons
First, dissolve the bluestone in two or
three quarts Of hot water. Stake the lime
in a like quantity of hot water and add. it
TO the TWENTY-FIVE gallons Of water. Then
stir the solution Of bluestone into it. The
mixture must be constantly stirred during
the process Of application with
the pump. Ordinarily this can be considera~
bly, diluted, but the above is the standard
formula.
R. B. asks the difference between the
burr and the Jerusalem artichokes, and
where seed OF the former can be procured.
The Jerusalem or common artichoke is
the well-known plant grown for its tubers
it makes a considerable sized stalk that bears
yellow flowers resembling small sunhower.
1t is an annual, and is cultivated the same
as Irish potatoes.
The burr artichoke is plant perennial in
its nature, of value only as a table vegeta>
BILE, the flower heads being the part used.
These when nicely prepared in the same
manner as asparagus are considered a great
delicacy. 1t is rarely found in our southern
gardens, though it is very extensively grown
in Europe-France especially.
Planted on good land it continues to bear
for number Of years. Seeds should be
Sowed early in the spring, and when the
plants get large enough set out in a fiat
with the rows or Al feet apart, giving a
distance of three feet in the row.
1t is perfectly hardy in the south, and il
kept clean of weeds will bear freely after
tbs first year. Seeds can be secured from
any first-class scotsman who advertises in
Southern Farm.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-25

All farmers who are studying their bust
ness as the merchant, the lawyer, the doctor
and the banker study theirs will learn some
thing from the agricultural experiment sta
tions.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-25

We solicit articles for this department.
The nance the writer should accompany
heletter or article, not necessarily for pub
cation. but as an evidence of good faith.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-25

1t is an old axiom that he is farthest from
the market who has nothing to sell. Less
grumbling about poor markets and more
attention paid TO growing something to sell
in them would help some farmers out imr
mensely.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-25

Every farmer ought to keep few stand
OF bees. His Land and the neighborhood
around him supplies the bee pastursge free
of cost. II not used it is wasted and posi-
bly, worse, as the bees aid in fertilizing
many kinds of blooms that would else be
barren. There is a yearly profit in the
honey as well as in the increased sWarms
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-25

A durable whitewash for barns and out
houses is made by adding to half bushel
of quicklime, slaked, Two pounds sulphate
Of zinc and one pound of common salt. To
make cream color add three pounds of
yellow ochre; for gray, four pounds raw UNI
Der and two pounds of lampblack; for
fawn, four pounds of lumber, one pound In
dian red aud one pound of lampblack.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-25
MEDICAL
Nasal Catarrh.

Old NEWsPAPERs-SOo for 70 cenEe-at
~ Business Once Morning News
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-25

A company has been organized for grow
ing the Niagara grape vine in Florida.
Sixty thousand vines have been shipped for
planting tn s spring. 1t is found that the
Niagara grape-leaf endures the heat well,
and that It's fruit is perfected as well If not
better than in the north. This grape ripens
in Florida in July, and eau be placed in the
northern market at a time when high prices
are easily obtained.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-25

Don't spare sulphur from the mixture
when you salt your cattle. 1t will cool and
purify their blood, and probably save them
from having the disUemper or muir
rain. Sulphur is the only remedy 1 have
ever found, says W. w. Hobson, in one Of
our exchanges.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-25

which good management will make sure.
or course it requires some care and skill to
succeed with bees. No success anywhere is
attained In these days without these quail
ties
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-25

1t is not necessary to use kerosene oil for
killing vermin on animals. II applied
strong it takes Off the hair. Any kind of
grease rubbed into the skin answers the
same purpose. The vernin are killed by the
grease closing the pores through which they
breathe, aud not by any poisonous ingredi-
ent in the preparation.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-11-10
GEOGRAPHY.


Name and locate the most northern city North America Of Eu
rope. ,ro,
What phyoraphy? When is the sun o 70 oe "
sphelion?
g. When is it noon a any place? What is solar day!
A. How would from Seattle to Vienna by water!
Of of the following cities the capital Cauta
Bucharest? Buda? Melbourne?
Name largest cities Europe the order their
population. ,..
What countries bean Peninsula and by what waters
is it nearly surrounded?
What lake N. Y surplus waters ultimately into
the Gulf of Mexico?
What Ohio produce? Locate the Western Reserve
UNITED STATES HISTORY
Name English who issued the charters to the Fmoun
and Companies Give latudlna boundary OF ABOVE
grants
g. Who was the founder Of Boston, Mass2
What the Wmot Proviso? When was fresoeh rerce
gurated? !, ..d
What country and when was the same adopted
such?
s. Who said have dim in the service OF my country
but have never doubted her ustce' .
G. What do you starvng me and how was caused!
T. pivotal of the Revolutionary War!
Give boundary Of the U. S. in l7S3
g. Name the Presidents who served two terms .
TO- When Atlantic Cable completed? In what year was
specie payment resumed?
PHILIP G. SonwAB, Examiner.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-11-10
Democratic Northwest.
TO CURE INSOMNIA.
The Bicycle Is Better Than Any Drugs
Says DR.. Food, Of Chicago.

The Bicycle Is Better Than Any Drugs.
Says DR.. Eood, Of Chicago.
"Esculapius on wheels" Is destined to
be the picture ON the wall at which pa
tients will gaze while they sit IN the doc
tors outer Office and await their turn.
Wheel riding is rapidly growing to be
one of the family physician's fnvorite pre-
scriptions, and instead of going from his
Office to the corner drug store the patient
has instructions to so to the bicycle store.
The little slip Of paper he carries in his
hand reads:
"Rx-One bicycle taken before and after
meals" The patient and not the medi.
cine is we'll shaken at the time Of taking.
One of the many physicians who are now
prescribing pedals in the place of pills for
various distempers is Dr. e. T. Hood He
has found that bicycle riding will in most
instances cure insomnia; that it will often
restring nervous wreck or drive out the
pain in creaking, rheumatic joints. DR.
Hood sometimes burns late oil in his men
tai workshop until his head is in whirl
and refuses to 20. to sleep, and then he
goes Tl7o rlfG basement, gets rid OF his
whirl by taking it down Jackson boule
ward two or three times Then he turns III
and goes Immediately to sleep.
"To,sleep or not to seepf" said the doc,
tor, "is "A question which confronts the
medical fraternity far oftener than the
laity has any idea of, and scarcely IL week
goes by that some new drug is not discov
cred and advertised to be sure cure fol
sleeplessness. This increase in the mum
ber of sleep producing drugs means an in
creased demand, which means an increase
in the number Of poor sleepers. which is Il
fact.
Anybody who will take the pains to IL
quire of the different druggists in his
neighborhood will be surprised at the mum,
ber of people who are constant patrons OF
the drug store for sleep producing drugs.
During physiological sleep the brain re
ceives sufficient food to carry on its nu
tritive function only. and more or less
blood than is necessary TO" this function
may produce insomnia, or, In other words
the causes of insomnia are two-frst, cere
bral enemia; second, cerebral hyperemia.
''In cerebral hyperemia the blood vessels
of the brain are dilated to accommodate an
increased reception Of the blood, and are
active or passive, according as the flow is
greater or less than normal. The most
common cause of passive cerebral hyper
emia is that due to persistent mental ac
tivity, especially so when accompanied
with anxiety.
'Those who have ever passed through
the throes of insomnia know the anguish
of thought, the slowness of time, when
seconds become hours and minutes become