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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-31
BRAINS and Farming.

The farm boy who is anxious to be a
banker, or merchant, or something else
besides farmer, because he fancies that
farming is a less dignified calling and
requires less brains than others, makes a
great mistake, says the journal of Agri-
culture. One of the most important les
sons that farm boy can be taught is
that no avOcation is more noble than that
of farming. This is the false notion that
must be educated out of the boys mind
Aside from the fact that adverse legis-
lation has tended to depress agriculture,
and to make it hard to accumulate money
at farming, nothing has had as much in
fiuOnce in leading the boys from the farms
to towns, as the false notion that in
making the change, they are stepping up
on a higher plane of activity.
1t requires as much brains, and q much
greater variety of knowledge to be sue
ceSSful farmer than it does to run bank
A boy of good common sense, who is care
full and Industrious; who writes reason
ably good hand and with comparatively
little education, outside of being good in
calculation, can go into a bank. and in a
comparatively short time at actual prac-
tice, learn TO be a banker. But it re-
quires years of practice and experience,
and as much business tact, though of
different kind, to succeed at farming
30 W SuNbC0u az DuilhIAAS VI any ObilCI
business.
A very ordinary fellow can enter a law
or medical school, and in a comparatively
short time emerge-with a plug hat, a
cane, a cigar-a full-tledged doctor or
lawyer The amount of knowledge they
have acquired is not one-half as great as
the practical and experienced farmer has
Still it is not uncommon for the little
fresh-hatchcd lawyer or doctor to think
and act as though he had more brains and
was much more important factor in the
republic than the old gray-haired, brainy,
well-posted, experienced farmer. The
trouble is that rlisconception along this
line exists, and 1t is the duty of parents,
teachers, the pulpit and the press to teach
the rising generation that farming or any
other kind of honorable labor is just as
honorable as any other business While
it is all right for the boy raised on the
farm to follow the business for which
nature, circumstances, and his own incli-
nation have best fitted him, still if correct
views of honor and dignity had been in
culcated, a great many boys would never
have thought Of leaving the farm.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-31
It Was Too Realistic.

One of the Washingtonpapers lately print
ed a very amusing account of Sitting Bulls
first visit to a theatre says the Philadelphia
Times, 1t was a sort of variety perform
ance out west
The closing feature Of the program was an
act by the female trapeze performer, who was
her jaws The stage manager announced that
she would hang suspended from the trapeze
bar by her knees and support heavy cannon
with her teeth while il was discharged
7 he woman finished the trapcZe perform
ance, and, hanging from the bar head down
ward, clapped her hands as an indication that
she was ready for the final act. There was a
rumbling sound in the wings, and then can
non was run onto the stage with the muZ-
zle pointed directly up the center aisle.
A the sight OF the cannon Sitting Bull and
his men began 10 show signs Of uneasiness.
They shifted about in their seats nerVously.
Two men lifted the cannon, and left II dang
ling from the wOman's jaws. The muzzle Of
the weapon swung on a level with the In
dams headdress
Sitting Bull and his warriors by this time
had become extremely nervous They looked
at each other lnquiringlY, as if they suS-
pected that they had been drawn into a trap,
and were to be deliberately slaughtered.
They iabbered to each other eKcitedly, and
two or three times so far forgot their stoi-
cism as TO look over their shoulders.
Finally, everything was in readiness, and
the stage manager stepped back and gave the
string that he held "a jerk. There was a
flash and roar and out Of the cloud of
and his warriors sprung, wildly shouting as
they made their way down the aisle striking
madly right and left with the long -stemmed
stone pipes that they carried.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-31
POOR RICH YOUNG MEN.
What Is Spent for Clothing and Pres
ents Struggle With Debt.
From Onca n Wnak

! was chatting the other day with q
rich young income member of the jeun-
nessc doree. BY income" / mean one
of those favored scions of wealthy parent
age who inherits a sufficient income to
never be compelled to bother about earn
ing his own living. Until within few
years there were comparatively few of
this class in this country, though there is
a community of such in all the European
cities. My young friend, who is a pink
of fashion and quite a well educated and
agreeable fellow, was lamenting the fact
that he could not possibly make both ends
meet at the end of the year on his income
of fifteen thousand.
] eXpatiated on the fact that many men
had married and maintained families
snugly on less per annum than fifteen
thousand; that the amount represented
five per cent. on a small fortune and that
he must simply be recklessly extravagant
who not only could not live well on it, but
run in debt. He answered me that his
bachelor chambers were quite modest
and his club bills very moderate, that
being absent so much visiting his friends
he did not keep either "a valet or an equip
age
He admitted that his clothing and per
sonal outfit cost him more than his lodg
ing or his club. | wondered how he
managed then, to spend his income so
that he was always in debt at the end of
the year He then explained that while
he spent so much of his time visiting his
fashionable friends in their country
homes or on their yachts, the outlay in
tips for the servants and presents to his
entertainers was far greater than living
lat home" and his club would cost him.
When he added that his wedding pres
ents alone the past year had cost him
5000, I could appreciate the force Of his
statement. Just think of it, how many
families would be happy and wealthy on
900 per annum Yet this scion of
wealth is in n continual struggle with
debt, which is far more wearing and dis
agreeable any day than the struggle of
honest toll for daily bread.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-31
Sheen Notes.

After the lambs are weaned is the best
time to select ewes for breeders.
Oil meal is, in many cases, the best
remedy for Costiveness in sheep.
Ewes should have as good pasturage as
the farm affords, and that all the year
All sheep that are to be marketed
should be thoroughly fattened before sell
ing.
Don't sell the best eve lambs to the
butcher. Keep them for breeding pur-
poses.
Better make start with flock of
really good sheep than with larger num-
Der of poorer ones.
Thoroughly embarrassing the sleeps
quarters will help materially in getting
rid of the sheep ticks.
Privation and early pampering are both
to be avoided if natural and healthy de-
velopment is desired.
Wool that is not very greasy may some
times be washed with profit, when if full
of oil it would not pay.
Beyond the first ewes, a marked deteri-
Grafton in the fleece will be the result if
the crossing is continued.
1t is good plan to study the market
reports and try to raise the kind of stock
that the market demands
From now on, until wanted for breeding
in the fall, the rams should be left sepa-
rate from the rest of the flock
The Shropshires are noted for the fine
quality of their wool and mutton as they
have quality and growth combiHed
If possible young ewes should have a
pasture to themselves. They grow of
better, when they are not annoyed by 9th
er sheep.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-31
Nut arase-How to Destroy.

have a field of several acres badly in
tested with nut grass. would like to do
something towards destroying it, as I
would like to grow vegetables on the
land. What is the quickest way to kill
the grass2 r. G.. d.
What perennial question this is
How to kill at once we cannot tell you.
If we had such land we would grow some
crop that would make a dense shade from
early spring to November, doing this for
three years consecutively. This fall SOW
bushel of oats and one peck of rye on
the land. In February run a harrow
over the grain and sow Is pounds of red
clover seed (the sapling variety if
you can get the seed), taking care to SOW
it evenly In April late or early in May
cut off the grain and let the clover take
full possession and keep it through the
summer. Instead of sowing clover alone,
you might SOW only six or seven pounds
and one bushel of COW peas on the land in
March. If the soil is very sandy this
would be the better plan probably Any
how sow something that will keep the
land in dense shade and repeat the opera
tion the next year and the next. If there
is any better plan than this we would be
glad to have it suggested.
If you have plenty of hogs you might
destroy the nut grass by making hog
run of the field, or if you had a large
flock of geese and could confne them to
the field they would destroy il in two or
three seasons. So it has been stated by
those who have tried it. We have no ex-
perience ourselves with nut grass. We
know OF fields barely infested with il that
produce excellent crops of cotton, corn
and peas, but we should not like to at
tempt the making Of garden on land that
has nut grass on it. Still such crops as
Irish potatoes and fall sown onions can be
readily grown on such land.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-31
Largest Coz Ever Planted.

"There is now in cultivation," says the
Farm journal, "upon the farm of Leslie
Coombs, in Fayette county, what will
undoubtedly be the largest crop of tobac-
co ever raised in kentucky by one man,
and probably the largest crop ever raised
in the world" said Mr. sam Henry, the
well-known tobacco man of Louisville at
the Page house Sunday evening in the
hearing of a Columbia Spectator repre-
sentative. ''Certainly il is the largest
crop ever heard of. The farm contains
600 acres and was bought by Mr.. Coombs
for $50 50 per acre. One half of the en-
tire farm, 300 acres, is now set in Burnley
tobacco, and when ! saw it July T. was in
very fine condition, much of it being al
most ready to top. There are employed
upon the farm 100 wOrkmen, under nine
fOremen, each of the latter overseeing a
certain part of the crop, everything being
done in the most thorough and system
attic manner. A saw-mill is now in opera
ton upon the farm cutting lumber for the
erection of nine barns each 50X200 feet
and 80 feet high in the square Most of
the land in which this enormous crop of
tobacco is set is virgin soil, the beautiful
bluegrass sod having never been turned
over by the pillow until this year 1 have
no doubt that the crop will represent an
outlay of more than $40 900, and it may
perhaps exceed $50 900. Mr.. Coombs is
son of the late Gen. Leslie Coombs, who
served in the Mexican war, and who was
at one time clerk of the Kentucky court
of appeals"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-31
SCIENCE IN AaRIoULTuRE.
Bulletins Recently Issued by the Ag-
ricultural Experiment Stations.

California: Berkly, r w Hillgard. di-
rector, No. l02. Analyses of Figs and Fig
Soils. Spp
Pennsylvania: State College p. O., H. p.
Armsby, director, No. %, Forest Fires
and Experience with Evergreens in Penn
sylvania. l7pp two illustrations,
Mississippi: Agricultural College p. o.,
No, %, S. NJ. Tracy, director. Collie in
Horses and Mules, 10pp.
Michigan: Agricultural College, p. o.,
o. Clute, director, No. "a The Birds of
Michigan. A bulletin of 140 pages con
tanning very complete list of the birds
that are to be found in Michigan 1t is
gotten up in the highest style of the prin-
tiers art and is very freely illustrated
No. IS from the same college go pages
treats exclusively of Irish potatoes under
five heads-Hill VS.. Drill Planting; Shall
low VS.. Deep Cultivation Different
Depths of Planting Mulching VS.. Cultiva-
ton; Comparison of Varieties.
South Dakota: Brookings-Lewis Nc
Louth director No. 80, F'ungous Diseases,
Insect Pests, Fungicides and Insecticides,
1lpp.
Department of Agriculture, Washington,
d. C.-t'armers' Bulletin No Il The Rape
Plant Its History, Culture and Uses.
From present indications it is quite likely
that rape will be cultivated TO some con
sidera BILE extent in some sections of the
country.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-31
How to Make HAY Caps.

Please tell me in your next issue how to
make cap to cover shocks of peavine
hay, : M G.
Bollyille. Ala.
Hay caps, or rick-covers, as the English
call them, are made out of any good
heavy cotton cloth. They are specially
made by several manufacturers in the
United States and we have seen them ad-
Fertised a number of times, but after
looking over twenty of the leading agri-
cultural papers of the past week we can
ma no advertisement of them. 1t is
cheaper to buy them when one can, but in
case he cannot do this, they can be made
out OF any good heavy cloth, making them
square any size wanted from AKA feet up
70 IONIO or 20X20 A stout cord is affixed
10 ed'n corner and the cover is held down
u stakes like tent. If made out of
INN INN cloth they can be make to turn water
~ GIVING them coat of varnish. We
nave described the manner of making the
[EarIlSh several times in the Farm. Per-
nGpS some Of the readers can tell S. NJ. c.
'Ho manufacturers hay covers.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-31
Rice as Feed for Stock.

Experiments have been made in the
southern states in feeding rice 70 stock,
owing to the low prices prevailing for
rough rice, which sold at only 100 cents per
barrel Of 1852 pounds in New Orleans Re
suits have shown that a mule fed al night
with a given quantity OF rough rice and
rice bran, mixed with an adequate supply
OF corn in the ear in the same trough, has
entirely consumed the rough rice and the
rice bran all the time. and whenever any
feed was left it was always the corn.
The actual cost Of rice, pound for pound,
was less than oats, While it has q much
higher nutritive value Farm and Home
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-31
Aerioultural Publieations.

From the Fancier's Review, Chatham,
n. Y, we have two readable little works
The one entitled Give Hundred Cues
tions and Answers on Poultry Raising"
(3S pages, and the other 'The Farmers
Institute Question Box on Cattle and the
Dairy" The price of the first is % cents,
and the second 30 cents. They are both
interesting and instructive, and well
worth the price to any one engaged in
either of the industries of which they
treat. Both are fully indexed and it is
easy to turn to the information impaired
on the various TOPICS
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-31

he is in poor condition. He leaves his
corn untouched for days at a time. Can
you suggest anything TO be done for him2
INQUIRER.
The cause of iampass in any other than
right young horses is generally due to in
digestion Horses that are fed freely on
shelled corn and stinted of good hay or
fodder, are quite likely to be affected
with lampass.
Cutting the gums affords temporary re-
lief to some extent, but the principal
thing is to change the diet and do away
with the cause if possible
Feed a fair ration of good hay. Soak
three quarts of corn until it is soft and
mix with the corn three quarts of clean
wheat bran, Feed this at night and in
the morning, at noon giving only little
bran and some hay Make a strong solu-
tion of alum and with swab rub the
gums with it twice day for a couple of
days. Give to 9 drachms of alOes every
other day for several days. Keep lump
of salt where the horse can take little
as he wants 1t.
This supplying of salt is a thing too
much neglected by horse and mule
owners.
Follow the above treatment and we will
be surprised if it does not put your horse
in good shape. Then keep him so by con
tinuing to soak his corn, using oats in
place of most of the corn, however. giving
some bran with his night feed for some
time. If he cannot run in q pasture, feed
bin something green in his stakeholder,
corn, crab grass, sorghum or peas, at least
once a day.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-31

sheep will eat larger variety Of
plants than either cattle, hogs, or horses.
and it is this that makes them so valua-
bic as farm cleaners
During summer, three things are noes
sary with sheep; plenty Of good pastu-
rage, all the pure water they can drink
and salt where they can help themselves.
While sheep win thrive if they have
good pasturage all through the growing
season, vet they should be looked after
occasionally, if the best results are to be
secured
Sheep will thrive much better IL the
pastures are divided so that they can be
changed from one 10 the other occasion
ally -Tpxas Farmer
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-31
Protecting Young Fruit Trees From
Rabbits, Etc.

An Indiana correspondent of American
Gardening writes:
I'VE have tried many plans to keep
rabbits and insects from iniuring young
fruit trees, but the best thing yet is tarred
paper. We buy the paper as it is pre-
pared for roofing and cut it into strips
about inches wide and 2 feet long 1t is
easily and quickly wrapped about the
trees, and is secured with strings. The
offensive smell of tar drives insects away,
and they will not get between the tree
and wrappings as when rags and veneer
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-31
September is as early as as II Is ad

September is as early as as il Is advisa-
BILE to plant out onion sets or sow the
seeds, that, is in this climate. October is
the usual month for putting out sets, and
even then great many sets are likely to
shoot TO seed in the spring.
The best and most profitable crop Of
onions is now grown from the seed {;
first raising the plants in August or
September and setting them out late in
October just like the sets are treated.
The second crop is set out in February.
The crop grown from sets put out in the
fall has become very uncertain crop, as
so many of the sets fail to make bulbs.
However, where well grown sets of the
PEARL variety can be procured, very
good crop can be raised from paintings
made in January. We should prefer to
grow the bulk of the crop from the
seeds, however. IL is difficult to keep
them through July and August.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-31
Grass for Overlooked Horses
Salivated From White Glover.

SaAvated From White Glover.
1, fIedse answer the following questions:
La'c acres of Eood sandy bottom land
2euoyeeJ TO overfOws. that ! want to turn
t-l-'o permanent pasture Tell me what
~ SOW, how to SOW and how much to sow
anu When to sow ..
nj l. nave pasture of herds grass and
gilIit' clover, and it makes my horses
+iLooue[ dreadfully. What makes it affect
~, N.Y." mat way, or what is the slObber and
~ uQes 1t come from? Does it injure
g M ana what will stop it, j. G. X
,h1ue Springs. Miss.
lAere Is no better grass for such places
maj. .Ion johnson grass, if one will prepare
H "a. solI properly in September or early
~ ,'o"'r sowing an abundance of seed Cd
81 "eu-harrowed soil and then rolling
, 5 anu doing this when the soil is fairly
~ 49, il The soil is rich there are several
l'','lS or mixtures that will do well on
81 a- SOIL How often is the soil over
br,r ana at what period usually and
Herd. Ioug does it remain overhowedl
sail Is grass usually does well on such
long. 0S Aot remain TOO dry very
or #. l., ~ Is the white clover that has PASSED
s.aL2L bloom that causes your horses to
,yirb =, T. Inc herds grass has nothing TO do
ton ~ ne disorder is similarto saliva
Gland One human patient. The salivary
an e,..,l pe.come irritated and the result is
Seen v99lVe flow of saliva. We have
y bo,,r-- s 80. ana mules lose 80 pounds in
Of II Iif5, III pad cases. Periodical attacks
of tb va 10 no permanent harm if taken
AIslao pasture and remedy applied.
''iOhg solution of alum water
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-31

lished that there is not enough Of rain
water for really good crops. IN view of
these considerations too much care can
hardly De taken ia ordinary seasons 10
check the evaporation Of saltwater, so
that il may be available for the use of
orchards and vineyards and gardens
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-31

ing are used We wrapped thritv-fve
acres of trees in this way and the paper
has now been on two years This Is GER
tainly worth % trial "
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-31

and wash out the mouth freely twice "a
day. for a day or two II necessary. One
application viii generally cure If the
horse is kept from the pasture that
caused the trouble
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-31
Onions.

Will you please tell me how early on
ions may be planted so as to give the
earliest crop next spring.
Would you use seeds or sets for this
early crop'
What is the best way to keep onions
after they are made in JUNG or July
e. f. O.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-31

Questions and communications relative
10 agricultural and horticultural subjects,
if addressed to Agri. Editor, Drawer N,
1Illedgeville, Ga, will receive immediate
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-31
DIVERSIFIED FARMING.
A Mississippi Postal Carder Sends Us
Interesting Notes.

have been farming about twenty-five
years. plant one-half of my land in
corn, the other one-half in hay, cotton,
sorghum and pindars. I always plant
peas in my corn, and when l lay-by my
cotton / sow the land down in rye for
winter pasture. The first of February
take all stock off and when the rye is
about a foot high, pillow it under as green
manure. raise Shetland ponies, cattle,
hogs and poultry do not owe a dollar
to any one, and when have surplus mon
ey, lend il out instead of investing in
more cotton. improve my land all the
time. Ihave set out black locust in all
waste land, and could now sell thousands
of posts, but will hold on to them BY
this kind of management | am independ-
ent and others could do the same if they
would quit all cotton
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-31
,OUTH CAROLlRA MILITARY ACADEMY,

CIIAKLESION, >. 9.
I)URELY military institution. Established
L and maintained by the state Terms 1900 u
year, payable in three equal installments.
Covers every eXpense.) Academic year 1893
% begins Oct ,, 90 For further Information
address Commanding Oncer, Citadel, Charles
ton. = @.
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WILEY MORGAN.
Woodville. Miss.

P.S.: Mr Morgan is certainly setting
a good example which we trust many may
be induced to follow. 10 be out of debit
and spending ones life and energies upon
a well titled farm, producing a variety of
crops, including proper attention to stock,
is happy condition of life; is surely an
object of envy if anything is. We hope
the day is not far off when our long de-
pressed country will present to view thou
sands of such ''farm-homes," thedwellers
therein free from debt, Astounding in
happiness and hospitality. We are conf
dent that diversified farming sustained
by Grass and Stock will be a strong
factor in producing and sustaining such
condition
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-31
College for Young Ladies

IT bIIIItR NOIE~F7 = IVI AVtIIIt I4'EN1H~E7
pOANOKE, VA. Opens Sept. IA, 1893.
HI Magnificent new buildings, among the
finest in the South All modern improve
ments. Campus ten acres grand mountain
scenery; In valley of Virginia, famed for
health. European and American teachers.
Full course. Music, Art, nll branches unex-
celed One OF the most beautiful and attrac-
tive college homes in the South For cata-
logue address the president w A. HARRIS,
D. D, RonnOke Va. IL
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We solicit articles for this department.
The name of the writer should accompany
rbe letter or article, not necessarily for
publication, but as an evidence of good
faith