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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-18
LIGHT COTTON RECEIPTS.
They Have Had the Effect of Sendine
Up Prices.

Hubbard, Price Il Co., in their latest
circular, say, relative to cotton; "a re
markably small movement and a result
ing advancing market is the story of the
week in a few words, and the change in
the temper of the market from the short
to the long side is positive ahd decided.
"Those who have sold cotton, basing
their actions on their belief in large
crop, have been severely punished and
show a disposition to admit their mistake
by covering their sales. In fact, the
short interest has been reduced to small
proportions as a result Of the weeks bust
ness. The movement of the crop is lighter
than the most sanguine bull expected and
the bears find it diticult 10 account for
receipts, which are lighter than last year
and which promise TO be lighter for Sep
tenn Der than for many years.
Were the advlces regarding the crop re
ecived through private channels the same
as given by the government report there
would be no question in the minds of the
trade as to the ultimate result, but they
are so totally different except from Texas
that the doubt and uncertainty is greater
than ever.
las result of the recent rain storms
the quality of the crop has been injured,
though the rainfall, with a late autumn,
has increased the chances of the crop
east of the Mississippi river Speculation
is lacking, as yet, from the markets,
which are governed and will be controlled
for some time to come, by
the volume of the receipts
Trade conditions in cotton manufactur-
ing circles do not improve as rapidly as
expected and the poor results of the sale
at auction of a portion of the stock Of the
Amoskeag Manufacturing Company will
deter many Of the mills working in the
same class of goods from reopening until
they feel assured of better markets.
The future course of the market will
depend upon either the confirmation of
the government report or the estimates
received through private sources. II the
receipts confirm the former further ad-
vance is pro bable, while any increase In
the movement would be accepted as pcov-
ing the private information TO point 10
the true yield for the year. II is many
years since they differed 50 emphatically
in their conclusions"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-18

BY turning under green crops we stop up
many of these holes, and make the soil
more firm and solid
The best crops for blowing under green
are red clover COW peas, spurry and san
foin, and one should adopt one or the
other, whenever possible for mixing with
the soil. Where red clover win grow
into a good crop one need look no further
for green crops, that cannot be eXcelled
in this respect. But where clover is a
precarious crop, some other green plants
should be tried. Spurry is a plant most
admirably adapted to sandy soils where
clover will not grow, and it viii thrive
upon soils that are too dry and poor for
clover. If sOwn in March. it will pro
duce three crops in one season, all of
which can be turned under for the bene-
fit of the soil. BY one season clover or
wheat can be made to flourish on sandy
soils where spurry is plowed under in
this manner. Sanfoin. though very sue
cessful in Europe, has not proved a great
success here; but COW peas seem to be
pre-eminently an American crop for reno
waiting WORKOUT soils, especially where
they are light, porous soils.
A b BARRETT
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-18
Coal Ashes as a Fertilizer.

Are coal ashes of any fertilizing value2
This is question often asked by farmers.
One thousand pounds of these ashes con-
tain 25 pounds of lime, pound of potash,
and 1917 pounds of phosphric acid-in all
worth the sum of 70 cents-in the 900
pounds. This is too small value to pay
for handling them, unless they are to be
got rid of in some way, and this is the
easiest. But this is not all the value.
There are some things that are of really
high value that are not easily estimated
in money. And there is something IN the
ashes that chemists never take into &C
cOuntwhen estimating the fertilizing value
of any substance. The ash of coal
contains large quantity of some mineral
matters that enter into the composition
of plants, and are in such a condition, be-
ing organic matters, that plants are able
to make use of them, while in an inorganic
or mineral condition they would be wholly
inert for the feeding of a crop.
. Thus coal ashes contain a large guam
tity of alumina, which is the base of the
clay that exerts such a beneficial effect
upon wQat are known as the best wheat
lands, that are partly clayey in character.
Such lands produce the finest wheat, and,
although the ash of wheat has only a
trace of alumiua in it, yet it is well known
that this grain will not grow in
soils entirely devoid of it. The
same applies to silica, of which
the straw of wheat has. in its ,-sh 2S
per cent, and the chat in its ash has rs
per cent. Coal ash has also large pro
portion OF iron in the form of oxide, and
this is constituent of all fertile soil
Thus it may be gathered that common
coal ashes are of sufficient value to far
mer to pay the cost of gathering them and
hauling them to his fields. AS they are
an excellent absorbent they are also use
full in that way In European countries
these ashes are largely used to mix with
nightsoil removed from towns and cities,
and the mixture is considered a very
valuable manure. Gathering from the
fact that roads made of coal ashes quickly
become covered with vigorous growth of
grass, it might follow that they might be
used as top dressing for meadows with
antage.-EXchange
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-18

ing on anything like correct principles.
ldisrcgarding the use of the term scien-
titic, as it is likely to be hooted at by
somel. 1t is not possible to seed down
land TO grain, grass or clover properly
without the use of the roller and the har-
row.
Doubtless there are many who have
never used these implements who will
dispute this proposition, but we are sure
there are none who have used them who
Will disagree with US in regard to IT, APP
preciatedl all over the south as they
should be, there would not be one-tenth
the failures to secure good stands of
broadcast sowings of the crop mentioned
that We hear of every year Fellow farm
er, delay no longer in providing yourself
with these valuable tools and learn to
use them to their fullest extent Deny
yourself a ton Cor two of commercial fer
tilizer another seasonand buy YOU a roller
and harrow. Use them judicionsly, and
you will be glad ever afterwards.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-18
Hedges in the South.

A well-nigh perfect hedge can be quick
ly grown and with but little skill, pains
or labor, on nearly any sort of soil in the
cotton latitude by putting out alternately
plants of the pyracantha and white
Mccartney rose. says J. W Matthews in
American Gardening. Either of these
alone makes very good hedge here; but
the former does not hug the ground quite
close enough, ana the latter is rather too
sprawling unless special attention is given
to pruning and training. They, however,
precisely supplement one another when
planted alternately, say foot apart, the
pYracantha giving sturdy support to the
Mccartney, which cOmpactly fills all the
gaps that the pyracantha grow
ing alone would leave. The rose is a little
liable to spread unduly by selfIayering,
but can be kept in bounds without much
trouble. Pruning for any other purpose
is scarcely ever required, if at all. Both
of the above named plants grow readily
from cuttings, though it is better to plant
either rooted layers from an old hedge,
or one-year rooted plants started in nur-
sery. OF course, good preparation of the
ground for the hedgerow is advisable, and
some cultivation and manuring will be
required, but less than in the case of any
of the other hedge plants. Perhaps rhi-
noceros might attempt a second time
to go through a well-established
hedge of the sort mentioned, but
] hardly think anything would. But
while l would never think of growing a
hedge of any other kind, IL is with con
siderable reservation that | recommend
even this style Of hedge fence. l have a
great deal of it on my place that l am
making no use of, simply because, owing
to change in my plans, lit is where l now
do not want any fence. And a useless
hedge is not merely useless, but is, for
obvious reasons, considerable of nui-
sance and one that is not readily gotten
rid of. Still, for fence along public
road, for the enclosing of a large body of
land, and especially for protecting an
orchard against marauders, a good hedge
may, upon the whole, be in many in
stances the best fence to have.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-18
From the mobile Register.


We have received letter from Lavaca,
Ark The letter is the script of an ag I'd
writer, and the envelope bears the mark
of the Kavaca postoi1ice. 1t has internal
evidence of being genuine, and the writer
of ii claims that several years ago he de-
termined to preserve himself with drugs,
and that he has succeeded, so that up 70
date he is l4 years old. He
does not disclose what drugs
he has used, nor the process
of applying them, whether internally or
externally, nor does he send us his photo
graph to show how he looks after being
preserved for so many years. But we
print his letter:
"Mr Editor: Preserving my living
body until have reached 104 years. /
am glad to tell what have done:
About seventy years ago was told
that in Olden times, and even in modern
times, the people had way of preserving
the dead. The idea struck me that if the
dead could be preserved by drugs, per-
fumes and chemicals, why not preserve
the lvingl l told my friends and
neighbOrs that believed that the living
body could be preserved as well as the
dead, but as thay had never seen it tested
they were not prepared to give an Opln-
ion. / concluded TO try the experiment,
ture take its course, as | would die as
soon as my time came. ! began the ex-
pertinent regardless of my friends opin-
ion and protest and now | look back and
see they are all dead.
Il commenced preserving my body sew
enty years ago, when / was "a years of
age, which now makes me l04 years old.
l undertook the experiment for the pur-
pose of preserving my body and prolong-
ING my life, and have met with success,
which gives me ample satisfaction. But
even now some people say that they don't
believe the living body can be preserved
and human life prolonged. The reason
that they don't believe in preserving the
living body and prolonging human life is
this: They are still going to mill as
their fathers and grandfathers did, with
corn in one end of the sack and rock in
the other. My eff )rts in preserving my
body and prolonging my life have been
crowned with success, and now, as far as
am concerned, the people may cry out
from the hills and the mountain tops that
they don't believe, but in all probability
| may live long enough to hear the clods
of earth fall over their graves and the
sound Of their voices silenced in death.
&c. n. Groom.
"Lavaca, Sebastian Co., Ark, Aug. %,
1902
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-18

son why the owner should not so put his
produce upon the market as to command
the attention of buyers of choice goods,
and as well the best market prices.
One good thing about starting in sheep
growing is that man can do it without
the Investment of much capital. A
small flock of the best native sheep you
can find, and ram of the best blood YOU
can buy, and your equipment is complete (;
and another good thing is that YOU do not
have to wait long for the returns to be-
gin. Hogs have been called the poor
mans stock, because of this latter CON
sideration, but they have no advantage
In u over sheep.
The Merino sheep is not naturally nor
necessarily wrinkled ANIMAL and much
less is he, as many of the higher priced
and best prize winners of the past have
been, nearly or quite all wrinkles The
choice specimens of the Mcrino breed to-
day are larger in frame and heavier in
body than the erstwhile choice
of the flock and much palmer
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-18
THAT VENERABLE LEvIArHAN
older Than Methuselah, Weighs 81
Tons, and Is Worth $1o,e75.


The largest whale which ever entered
this harbor, and one of the largest ever
seen on this coast, washed ashore at Toxic
lund on Monday. The news was imme-
diately brought back by one of the morn
ing steamers, and the afternoon passen-
ger boats were crowded to their utmost
capacity by the throngs who were anxiou
to see the monster.
The steamer was just at the mouth of
the river when some one looking through
field glass, discovered the object of curl
oslty across the head of the bay six miles
away. Immediately all eyes were turned
that way, and as the vessel neared the
wharf the fish began to loom up in all it's
corpulency of outline.
The fish came in on the high tide, and
lies just little below Charles Fishers
bath houses. 1t was alive and kicking.
and did not finally surrender It's lease on
existence until Tuesday about noon.
County Attorney NJ. d. Egber5 had
taken a long tape line and carefully meas
ured the mon ter.
The line showed an extreme length of
ia feet 5 inches, with a waist measure
ment'' of 1919 feet County SURVEYOR
L. G. Vickrey figured on the weight of
the 'animile'' and pronounced this mem
Der Of the BalBnidn family to wheigh
hfty-seven and one-eighth tons and the
blubber and whalebone to be worth, at
current prices, oil 50, 195, bone 81 600
making a neat total of Si0,915.
Attorney l.. +. CHM attempted to com
pute the age of the subject under con
sideration and concluded from the trans
verse lines on the baleen that this fish
had existed $50 years, lacking but four
teen years of having lived the longest
term of whale life.
The pectOral fins are twelve feet long
and seven feet broad the mouth is TWEEN
ty-fOur feet long, the blowholes eighteen
inches long, and the half hundred bath
ers in the water at the time it came
ashore say the noise Of spouting was deaf
ening and the spray elected assembled at
least fifty feet in the air. The threshing
OF the tail on the water, in the struggle
to regain the channel, was heard at Nc
Gowan's cannery, at the mouth of North
River, four miles away
County School superintendent L. w.
Fansher furnished some historical facts
in regard to the whale. Alfred the Great
had been dead but six years when his
Whaleship first began to navigate the
waters of the earth This old boy was
40 years old when William the Condueror
was born, and may having been PLAYING
on English shores when he was crowned
king. He was on earth at the time of
making the Great Charter at Runnymede.
he was middle-aged when the pilgrims
landed at Plymouth Rock, and probably
looked upon the wars of Napoleon, the
American Revolution and civil war
with many a sad sigh and shake of the
head for the ruthless slaughter of hu-
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-18
Farming for a Living.

Secretary Morton reminds the croakers
that only about 3 per cent of all the mer-
chants escape failure, whereas hardly 8
per cent of the farmers fail. The statis-
ties really show that agriculture is safer
than banking, manufacturing, or rail
reading, taking all things into account.
There is no farmer of good sense and
good health anywhere in the west, Mr..
Morton declares, who cannot make a good
living for himself and family, and that is
as well as the majority Of men are doing
in any other pursuit The man who owns
farm and sticks to it is certain to profit
by it in the future. There is practically
no more land to be added to the area of
cultivation. The, supply of agricultural
products has reached its limit in the
United States, and must now remain sta =
tionary, while the demand will go on in
creasing every year. This implies a
gradual Improvement in prices and a
steady appreciation of the value of farm
ing land
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-18
Little Things TO Rememher.

1t is very rarely the case that a horse
needs a stroke of a whip. For one stroke
judiciously applied there are a score given
that do far more harm than good. At any
rate, remember fear cannot be whipped
out of a horse any more than it can be in
child. The horse gets much brutal
treatment in this civilized age.
The great object of all industrial work
is to secure quality, without increasing
the cost. 1t does not, at any rate should
not, cost any more to feed four-gallon
COW than it does to feed a twO-gallon one.
1t costs no more to keep a fine SOW than it
does poor one. 1t costs no more to cult
vate a fine variety of cotton or corn than
it does poor and unprolitic varieties This
important fact is too frequently lost sight
of by our farmers.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-18
Glover in an Orchard.

"uie there is no question of the ne
cy I'9l'y lor keeping the young orchard
IA "a vi all eXtraneous growth until the
u .eeS nave become well established and
,i, q condition of bearing, still when that
sue mas arrived it is very desirable to
n iIoa I 1t, orchard down to some valuable
sgc ,il' Ina. tndI Will afford good pasture for
cha y .o.; as may be pastured in an or
cai r-u without endangering the trees
beg uQgs, etc. After the trees have
sm-o%yiing of the soil, but some valuable
Or IN RAJ ing plant like clover or vetch
s6o1i5 me south even bermuda grass
drivio,,. oecome established in the orchard,
fDes+ OUT all the worthless weeds. The
ever so anu S3urest crops of peaches we have
T5 yae thickest sward Of berm1da g ,i%i~s
sion eau ''au oeen allowed to take posses
'7t me trees had become grown.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-18
PRoPAGATING PLANTS.
Multiplying Fuchias, Begonias, Etc.
by Slips and Cuttings.

Many desirable plants are readily prop
agated from slips and cuttings. What
the florist terms greenwood cuttings"
are more commonly employed than those
from the mature wood, as they strike
more quickly. "Slips" are greenwood
cuttings, but the term is often restricted
to designate those which are made by
pulling or slipping off a small side shoot.
All soft wooded plants and many Orna-
mental stumps are increased by green
wood cuttings. There are two general
classes of greenwood cuttings-those
made from the soft and still growing
wood, and those made from the nearly
ripened green wood, as in azelea indica
oleander, etc. House plants, as gerani-
ums, coleus, carnations, fuchias, and
the like, are grown from the soft young
wood. Sometimes truly hard wood is
used, as in camellia.
In making cuttings from soft growing
shoots the first thing to learn is the
proper texture or age of the shoot. The
test for beginners is the manner in which
the shoot breaks. If on being bent the
shoot snaps off squarely so as to hang to-
gether with only bit of bark, it is in
the right condition for cutting but if it
bends or simply brushes it is either too
old or too young for good results.
oOIJ cuttings are usually cuI DelOW
bud or cut to a heel. Cuttings demand
for the best results moist and uniform
atmosphere. Cuttings should be shaded
for a week or two. Oleanders usually
root best when mature shoots are placed
in bottles of water. Amateurs who have
not the florists conveniences of propagat-
ing benches, etc, use wooden boxes,
flower pots, or set out in some protected
corner in the garden. Soft cuttings may
be started in a deep plate two-thirds full
of sand and filled to the brim with water.
Great care must be given TO shading and
watering of the cuttings.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-18
Good Pastures the Hope of Country.

Grass of good quality and in abundance
is absolutely indispensable to the breeder
the stock-raiser, the dairy and we
may add, the farmer, says the Southern
Live Stock Journal 1t is the sine qua
non Of successful and profitable farming,
dairying and stOck-raising; hence, real
izing as we do its necessity and impor-
lance, we have no apologies to make for
keeping the subject before our readers
| We have lin former issues treated of
permanent pastures and pastures in the
cultivated lands; we will now devote a
little time and space to the consideration
of woodland pastures. Mr.. johnson has
"a piece of rich bottom land subject to
overflow, on which large oaks have been
left promiscuously with a view of
making permanent pasure.n
| What varieties would be
best for grazing and, at what time are
they best sownl We will answer the last
query first. September is when other
surrounding circumstances, as moisture,
etc, favOr) the best month in which to
sow grass seed of almost all kinds,
throughout, the entire south. We Will
now call attention to the fact that there
are grasses peculiarly adapted to the
peculiar conditions surroundings, neceS-
stiles and requirements of every farmer,
stock-raiser or dairyman in the sunny
south. There are grasses that are pecu-
liarly adapted to colts and horses that
are not so well adapted to cattle; others
jus t suit the sheep, while their second
cousin, the goat-has no use for them,
if they can suit themselves better. Some
like partial shade, where others would
die. Some thrive on sandy land, while
there are those that are especially
adapted to clay or limestone soils;
hence the necessity existing for
every man to use brains as
well as muscle and good seed in the Law
ing down of the land to permanent pas
ture. Again, there is vast amount of
land throughout the south like that of
Mr.. johnson s-"s subject to overflow"
Even so, there are grasses that an over
flow does not njure, while other varieties
cannot stand wet feet. Adaptability
must be studied as much in the growing
of grass as in that of any other crop
Corn will stand wet feet better than cot
ton and sorghum better than corn, and so
on to the end of a long chapter; so it is
with grasses. In the woodland
pas lures all underground must be
kept cut out, leaving moth
ing but the largest trees and finest speci-
mems of young timber. Red clover white
clover, kentucky bluegrass, orchard
grass, hard fescue, yellow oat grass, nod
ding fesCue, tall Oat grass wood meadow,
rough stalked meadow, sweet scented
vernal and wild rye, or terrell grass, all
thrive among timber where the land is
good and the shade is not too dense. AS
Mr.. Johnpon's land is not too wet for
cotton, it is sufficiently dry for any
of above named grasses. We would adj |
wise general mixture of above varieties. !
If Mr.. j. is not afraid of it, Bermuda, |
Texas blue grass and red clover would |
make such pasture as he might be proud |
of; furnishing pasture both winter and |
summer and would last lifetime, and |
stand any amount of tramping, overfows |
and hard usage generally. G. H. 7.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-18
FARMER.
Sunterville.

There has been in the past, considerable
difference of opinion as to which element
Smost important upon our worn lands in
the south, and it is likely that this differ
ence Of opinion will continue. We have
no doubt it is the case that on some lands
potash is themost needed, while on others
tial
The only way to determine the matter
Is oy practical test. Take an acre, in
winch apply potash in varying quantity
i G1Q on another apply phosphoric acid in
IKE , manner and let the results be
GUIDE for the future.
our own soils have shown that it was
PnoSpnorlc acid that was needed chiefly,
guy Sug We have no doubt that others will
a alu that potash is the chief element
aeGued AS a rule both are needed more
VI VI less, but we believe it will be found in
o ene majority Ofinstances that phosphoric
o oCI1 VIII be found to pay a better per-
''IIvdge OF profit than potashs
Edch one will be compelled to settle
We rlo question for himself, however. Soils
va, gGtl SO much it will be impossible to tell
wv "5tuQut trial which is the more import
S 5Hs cement. Try the two elements on
Trbi5l acres and find out for yourself
'--1Cu is the most profitable