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The record-union., 1894-06-02
FREIGHTs FOR Ell PAso.

Substantial Reduction to be Enjoyed
by California Business Men.
SAN Francisco, June IA new ar
rangement i'll regard to freights for El
Paso, Tex. will soon be made by the
Southern Pacific. The schedule of rates
to Eel Paso has been revised in such way
that substantial reductions will be en-
joyed by California business men who
may wish to enter as competitors in the
southern market.
st. Louis. Kansas City and San Fran
cisco are equally distant from Ell Paso.
which is the key to Mexico. The roads
out of ST. Louis and Kansas City have
been sending freight to Ell Paso at rates
lower than they charged for intermediate
points. This gave the shippers OF the
East considerable advantage over the
Californians for the reason that the
Southern Pacific held to its regular tariff.
AS consequence, Mississippi Valley
points secured a monopoly of the Mexi-
can trade in many products that would
naturally be brought to California If all
were on an equal footing in the matter OF
freight charges.
The Southern Pacific has given notice
that it will meet the cuts offered by the
Eastern roads, and that il, too, will afford
a lower rate to Ell Paso than to some of
the intermediate points. The new tariff
will be made up on the basis of COM
modify schedule, to include great many
of California's products of the factory,
the farm, the orchard and the vineyard.
G. f. Smurr, General Freight Agent
for the Southern Pacific, to-day said:
1.-The new arrangement will give Califor
MIA a chance of a market which has hith-
erto been practically closed to our people
owing to the difference in rates. The
change is in the nature of an experiment.
We do not know what the effect will be,
nor how long it will be kept up, but, if
possible, we intend to obtain portion of
that trade for the business men of this
community and for the Southern Pacific
Company"
Freight rates between San Francisco
and Montana points will be slightly ad
vanced in ten days. The Eastern roads
recently announced an advance to Mon
tana and the Western roads have fol-
lowed.
The record-union., 1894-06-02
Meeting of viticulturlsts.

|, SAN Francisco June 1.--About fifty
viticulturists from various points Of the
State are here to-day to consider the ex-
isting depression in tho grape-growing
business. The general impression seemed
to be that the methods of the commission
merchants, and not the prevailing finan-
cial depression, was responsible for the
unnaturally low prices. 1t was finally de-
cided to form a syndicate to control the
market. and the Chairman was author
lied to appoint committee of seven,
representatives of the principal wine
growing districts, to look into this and
other relief measures. The committee
was given power to act. The committee
will be selected within a few days.
The record-union., 1894-06-02
Sensation in Court.

TACOMA, June Ia sensation occurred
in the Superior Court to-day. Judge
Pritchard ordered jury to bring in a
The record-union., 1894-06-02
SERIOUS FIRE IN OREGON.
The Principal Business Block at Soda
Vile Burned.

ALBANY orr, June IA fire broke
out at midnight in the hotel at Sodaville,
and consumed the main business block of
the town. Loss about $4,000. The build
ings ruined are: r. w. Hardman's hotel,
loss 5000, insurance $1,000 in the North
west; store and building owned by DR.. J.
l.. Hill, loss $4,000, no insurance, occu-
pied by r. w. Fisher. general merchan-
disc and postoffice; DR.. A. g. Prill, drug
store; Old Sodaville Hotel and adjoining
residence owned by j. p. Chorline, also
burned, loss $1,000, no insurance. The
fire originated in the kitchen of the hotel,
and it is thought from defective tlue.
United Presbyterian Conference.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 1.-About one
hundred and seventy-five United Pres
byterian clergymen, with their families,
arrived in the city to-day to hold an after
math convention of three days, in the
First United Presbyterian Church. Rev.
George Mccormick of Salinas City pre-
sided over the conference tonight, and
addresses were delivered by Rev. Will
lam j. Reed, pastor of the First United
Presbyterian Church of Pittsburg, Pa;
Professor David McGill, DID,, of Xneia
Theological Seminary, Xenia, and Mrs.
Charles Peake OF San Francisco. The
conference will end Sunday evening
with addresses by Rev. DIR. NAL
10y of Chicago, Rev. j. D. Rankin of
Denver, Rev. ID. f. McGil of Allegheny
City and Rev. L. Ii. Hanna of Illinois.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-06
Manure for Peach Traea.

The peach tree grows so easily and so
luXuriantly over such a vast extent of
country that few think of supplying it
with other nutriment than is found
naturally in the soil, says the Tennessee
Farmer Without doubt this is sufficient
in many cases, particularly in the newer
portions of the country. But every year
of cropping In the Usual way lessons the
fertiliLing ingredients laid awav in the
earth in bygone centuries; and fruit
trees, as well as corn, wheat, etc, suffer
by the diminution Indeed. fruit bearing
particularly bearing heavy crops of large
fine fruit, makes one Of the heaviest
drafts, il not the heaviest of all, on the
land.
Among fertilizers one of the most i'm
portant for most crops, and particularly
for fruit trees, is potash in some form
This is easily applied in wood ashes, none
of which, even ii leached for soap making,
would ever be wasted. 1t is very trying
to see ashes emptied out in the road, or
by the side of run, as has been observed
more than once.
The ashes may be applied whenever
convenient; not around the trunk where
they can do little good, but scattered over
TIE entire surface as wide as the branches
extend. Any one who has tried this must
have noticed the fine growth of the trees
and the thrifty dark green of the leaves
afterward. as
1t is not probable that ashes will cure
the .yellows now becoming so common in
some sections, though at one time there
was considerable hope in this direction
But prevention is better than cure; and
there is good reason TO believe that a
peach tree kept in vigorous health, will be
able to resist the yelIows; Just as perfect
health in the human system prevents, or
throws off, many forms of disease.
Barnyard manure is also good fertili-
ger for peach trees, as well as for most
other things dependent on the soil. But
it should be, remembered that ashes, or
anything containing potash, must not be
applied at the same time with barnyard
manure, as the ammonia, one of the best
elements in the latter, would be liberated
by the potash and lost. Six months at
least should intervene between the ap-
plication OF these two valuable fertilizers,
the best probably OF all fertilizing ma
terials, considering everything.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-06
" Is NOT LOST IN THE TUB.

hundred bushels. but he sorted them
over, taking out all that were Of more
than one color and the balance kept, and
he now DULY 81 has sound potatoes.
sent some of the bunch yams to the
Texas experimental station last season,
and they report that the vines grew two
and one-half feet long. They were no
doubt highly fortified and planted on good
land. Mine hardly ever attained the
so poor that consider it unfit for any
thing else. Again, | prune my vines
closely to get vines to set the balance of
my crop. I think that potatoes from cut
tings are best, and will keep better than
those from slips or plants.
There is not bit of danger of the
bunch yam ever running if kept pure,
and from experiments that I have made l
feel certain that by pruning they can be
made to grow vines not more than a foot
long. have never known the vines to
take root on the ground, as the running
varieties do, and make lot of strings. AS
some still claim that the old-fashiored
yam is better potato, the Texas expert
mental station says that the bunch has
the same characters of leaf and resem bles
1t in character of tubers, but stands
drought better and has a higher table
quality. Out of some thirty varieties
tested as to table quality the bunch yam
stood So out of possible 10; none stood
higher, and only two or three others as
high. Among them was the pumpkin
yam. the yellow yam, with pale,
whitish flesh, stood only 35 The
yellow Jersey and big-stem Jersey were
the lowest on the list, and both have
whitish flesh. AS far as know there are
only two kinds of bunch potatoes-the
bunch yam and what is known here as
the Spanish bunch sweet, ana in the
north aa the Gen. Grant. Think it origi-
mated in Florida, and is known there as
the Providence. 1t is q lighter color ION
the outside than the bunch yam, but is,
when cooked, beautiful yellow on the
inside, Most people do not consider it as
good for the table as the bunch yam, al
though some prefer it. 1t is about two
weeks earlier, a great yielder and fine
keeper. l set out cuttings as late as Aug
10, and they do we'll.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-06
SUMMER RESORTS.

heavily and not moving often enough,
for the moving machine, he insists, is
the cultivator for alfalfa. II must not be
pastured at all the first season, and no
stock should be turned on it the following
year until after the first crop of hay has
been saved. After that one can do as he
pleases, but his own experience is
such that piece of good alfalfa mea-
dow will be so highly priced that its
owner will not let chicben range on
it. He does not think that anyone can
afford to pasture alfalfa, because il is too
valuable to take the risks. BY pursuing
these directions, well established
meadow is made the first year, but unless
one mow8 and cleans up as directed, Mr..
Workman thinks heneed not-eApect clean
hay until the last cutting the second
year The time ordinarily given as to
the proper time for cutting alfalfa for
hay does not apply to the treatment of
the meadow in its first year. The time
to NOW this is when the mixed growth of
weeds and alfalfa is high enough for the
mower to get at it.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-06
Best Orchard Soil

If orchards are located on very high
land and on thin ridges they are, all
things considered, ideally situated. The
principal drawbacks are that after sue
cessive years of bearing the trees weaken
from exhaustion unless the orchardist ap-
plies manure heavily, and orchards on
very elevated lands suffer from lack of
moisture in drOGghtny Years. We ex-
amined some orchards recently of consid-
cradle age along a river bottom situated
at the foot of great BLUES, and noted their
remarkab BILE thrift and fruiting qualities
as compared with those on high ground
many feet above them. The humus of
bottoms usually makes too strong a wood
growth and causes unripe wood and a
scarcity of fruit buds. and the trees are
subjected to late spring frosts, but
IN this case the trees seemed to have a
great advantage in their peculiar loca-
ton. The wash from the bluffs makes an
annual deposit of clay and leaf mold
from the high ground, and the trees are
situated low. enough so that their roots
can get the moisture they need from the
water level of the bottom land Then
the wash of the clay from the bluffs is
sufficiently abundant to tcounteract too
much growth Ia the trees from the hui
mus of the bottom. High grounds are in
most cases to be given the preference for
orchards, but occasionally such loca tions
as the above serve the bestin certain sea-
sons. Some of the largest. highest. col
ored fruit exhibited from western states
at Chicago last season were from such To-
cations ,"-'
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-06
The Bunch Yam,

You wish to know if there is a ten
tency of the bunch yam TO go back and
have long running vines, like it's parent,
the old-fashioned yam, writes c. G. Diel
in Southern Farm. AS I live near where
this wonderful new potato originated,
and where thousands of bushels are
raised. / will try and answer that ques-
ton Now and then you will hear a
farmer say My bunch yam vines are
running, and l believe in time they will
run as bad as other kinds ] have in
vestigated every case Of that kind that
have heard of, and in every instance
have found that when the vines inclined
to run they had been planted near
other varieties, and that vines OF
the long running variety had run
among those of the bunch yam, and
that they had mixed. have also found
that when potatoes mixed that way they
rotted badly. A man whose farm Joins
mine planted the red potato known here
as the Radical" and next TO them the
bunch yam, and his potatoes we're spot
ted red and yellow. / sent one TO the ag-
riculJural department that was one-half
red and the other half yellow. My
neigh boris potatoes commenced rotting
as soon as they were banked, and he
thought he would lose bis crop Of several
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-06
Emancipation of the south.

1t is very essential that the farmers
save more hay, says the Southern Live
Stock Journal.
The hay crop of the south is the most
valuable crop the southern farmer can
raise; not because it excels any other
crop in value, or because it is worth more
as a feed for his stock-but because it
costs comparatively nothing te raise and
harvest it, and at the same time the fer
tility of the soil is increased Any
thing that will make fair crop,
that can be used to some ad-
vantage blythe southern farmer, and at
the same time enrich his land, is a val
liable crop, and should be sought by every
enterprising farmer. The young and sur
plus stock on The farm can be kept
through the winter on very little other
food if they are supplied with plenty of
good hay. And in spring be in much bet
ter condition, their appetite better, and
in fact, more valuable in every respect
than if they had been fed altogether on
corn.
We can, if we try to, make lust as good
corn here as they can in the great corn
belt" and just as much to the acre-but
at the same time IL is our second costliest
crop. That is what is the matter with
the southern people to-day raising costly
crops, that is they raise crops that cost
them more to produce them than they
are really worth On the market or to be
used at home. What we want Is cheaper
crops, we want to raise them at less ex-
pense than heretofore To this we must
increase the fertility Of our land by some
means or other and we know no better
way than by raising such crops as COW
peas, haYing grasses etcs, To be plowed
down, and this should be done before
winter.
We can raise all the hay that we need
and more too, without IL interfering with
our farming arrangements in the least
The farmers can get along better on half
the amount of corn that is cons med in
the south at the present time, if they will
fill their barns with hay, their cellars
with potatoes, their pens with turnips
and pumpkins; and their stock will look
better, their hogs will do better and their
cows will produce more milk and butter
And il is a fact, beyond doubt that il is
easier and cheaper TO raise these things
al home than 1t is TO raise cotton TO buy
northern corn at as cents 10 SlO0 per
bushel, as many Of our farmers are doing
Besides in raising cotton we decrease the
value Of our land, while IL we raise root
crops our land value is increased.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-06
Tea Culture in the South.

New York Evening Post; Some fine
specimens of American tea have been
sent from here this season to northern
markets, and the results of the sales
seem to indicate that the culture Of this
crop in parts of the south may vet lead
10 large fortunes. IL is not generally
known that attempts were made TO estab-
lish tea gardens here before the war, and
since the end of that outbreak systematic
enorts have been made to revive the old
gardens Prof. Massey of the State
Agricultural College has been instru-
mental in trying 10 spread information
among the farmers concerning the Gull
ture of tea, and few have been induced
TO put out gardens. The tea sent from
the old Smith farm this season brought
50 cents a pound, and some from the
Summerville gardens in South Carolina
brought as high as 81 per pound. Last
summer the tea cut az Summerville
amounted 10 dozen or two pounds, and
this year several times that amount has
been sold.
When Gen. lie Due was the United
States Commissioner Of Agriculture un-
der President Hayes, he started tea grow
ing experiments in the south. The agri-
cultural department planted the tea gar
dens at Summeryille, 5. c., but when
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-06
TIE eEoerER a GAMBLE CO. oIN'r.

what 1t costs 10 grow them and we think
every farmer who has cattle and hogs
should grow them in proportion to the
mum Der kept, At the very lowest calcu-
latlon a-half acre to each head of mich
cows. OF course it depends more upon
now much YOU grow on an acre than
upon the area planted. II you know how
to make 500 bushels TO the acre yon need
not plant so large a space as the man who
can make only 100 bushels per acre. This
Is a. self evident proposition. 1t is an
easy matter to make 800 bushels OF
turnlpS on an acre of good land, as any
farmer of eX perience knows.
We wish it were possible for US to show
every farmer in Georgia what he might
make on one acre of good land by sowing
turnlps and clover in the manner that we
here suggest. Our interest in his welfare
is such that we would be willing to pay
for the cost of the seed if he would
adopt the suggestion that we now make,
and afterward he should say that he had
been been misled. And it is this: If he
VIII in August prepare properly an acre
or more of good land and sow turnips in
3-foot rows and after they were
'laid-by'' in September or early in Octo-
Der, would open shallow furrOw in the
middle of the turnip rows and sow bur
or crimson clover sowing the latter as
thickly as he did the turnips-if
next May, he claims to have been misled
into doing a bad thing for himself, we
will, on demand, pay the cost of the seed
ing. We would have no hesitation in
making such proposition.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-06
Subscribers, Wants.

J. J. B. asks for the address of parties
having artichokes for seed. Write to J..
H. Alexander Seed Company, Augusta,
Ga. and see remarks in issue of last
week.
r. F, W. wishes to procure seed of bur
clover. Write to B. I. Bethune or Ben
1amin Jones, NIilledgeville, Ga
Il. w. B. asks how many pounds of bur
clover and crimson clover are necessary
to seed an acre. OF bur clover it requires
from 80 to 100 pounds Of the burs TO prop
erly seed an acre Some claim that it re-
quires more than this, but with proper
management so pounds of clean burs
should give good stand-that is evenly
sown and then rolled in. OF crimson
clover, 20 pounds of fresh seeds should
give perfect stand. Both of these are
good for sandy soil.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-06
How to Sow Turnips and Glover.


In August prepare the soil properly and
sow a mixture of turnip seed-half Aber.
deem and half Cowhorn, Early in October,
after laying-by the turnips with harrow
or sweep, open shallow drill in the mid
die of the turnip rows, and sow either
bur or crimson clover - sowing enough
seed to ge5 a perfect stand. After the
turnlpS are. taken out of the way, Guilt
vate the clover once or twice with sweep
or harrow. If preferred, Lucerne can be
sown instead of either of these clovers,
but it must be borne in mind the 1Lucerne
is perennial or permanent, and should not
be cut so early as the clovers named.
F. The clover can be broadcasted, if pre-
ferred, but we would prefer to drill it.
The farmer that once adopts this ,sugges-
ton viii thank US ever afterward.
Where one wants to get the full benefit
of the clover it will be necessary to take
the turnips out of the way in November
They can be taken up and put away into
Tanks or pits in the same manner that
sweet potatoes are put up, forty to ssXty
bushels In a bank. However, if preferred
they can be left where they grew, if the
soil is carefully drawn over the roots to
the depth of three or four inches. AS a
rule, we should prefer to take them out of
the way and put into pits. If the tops and
tOOlS arc dIS CuGOI ClOS6Iy Iu6y Will keep
in banks even better than sweet potatoes
This combination of turnips and clover
needs to be tried only'once to make it be-
come common practice. Try it.
Any good fertilizer applied at the rate
of 1000 to l,500 pounds per acre will be
found a proper application-that is, a
good superphosphate with to per cent.
of ammonia and 3 to 10 per cent. potash
1t will pay to fertilize the mbination
suggested.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-06
Alfalfa the First Year.

Mr.. w j.. Workman, a grower of al
falfa at Ashland, Kan, calls attention TO
one of the necessities of the first years
treatment Of alfalfa, to which beginners
should give heed As soon as the plant
on the best lands is from ten to fourteen
inches high, he says it should be moved
down close to the ground in or
der TO destroy the annual weed
growth. II the weed growth is
heavy, it should be raked of
clean. If light il may be left on
the ground as mulch, although it is safer
and better TO rake it of. This cutting will
usually hold the plant back through the
dry weather of July and tho short stalk
will endure almost any amount
Of drought The cutting des-
troys the annual weed growth, and
also decreases the amount of moisture
required by the alfalfa. If abundant
rains come in July and August IL will be
seen that the alfalfa has grown about a
toot or more, and that the number Of
weeds is less. The moving machine
should be started again, and this time if
the stand is good, there will be enough
alfalfa among the weeds TO pay TO stack il
for cows. Nor should any one expect to
get rid Of all weed growth the first wear
After the second moving, disposition on
the part of the alfalfa 10 stool out and be-
come stalky will be observed unless the
seeding has been too heavy. Mr. Work
man, in this connection, says that, while
IL may be all right TO SOW twenty or
thirty pounds Of seed on carefully pre-
pared land that is to be irrigated. non.ir.
rigated' alfalfa is a stooling plant
with great tap-root and the
plants occupy space OF
foot or more in diameter, and must not
be crowded. His own experience is that
from eight 10 twelve pounds Of seed is
enough TO SOW or drill Many failures.
he thinks, are caused by seeding too
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-06
Turnips for stook-rurnips and Glover

Turnips for Stock-Turnips and Glover
Editor Morning News: Some say that
turnips are not a good food for COWS,
that there is little nutriment in them. and,
therefore, they are not worth growing.
But have grown them for ten years, and
think they are a very good thing to feed
to my cows and hogs. l would like to
know how to keep them until April or
May if possible. My land is good, sandy
soil, and would like TO so manure it as
to be able to make 500 or 800 bushels per
acre on several acres. Will you advise
me how to prepare and manage so as to
do il?
What variety is the best keeper, and
now do you put them up so that they
Will keep until spring H. Nj. G.
Considering the ease and cheapness
WIN which 'turnips may be grown we
regard them as a very valuable food for
Ine southern dairyman and hog raiser.
While they may not be so nutritious as
some other food crops, still they are
enough so TO warrant considerable atten-
ton
Stock along after Christmas are very
eager for some green and succulent food
ana IN the absence of clover of some kind,
OF green rye or oats or barley. they will be
very grateful for half bushel or even a
peek OF turnips 10 vary their usual daily
ration Of dry food.
Iurnlps are really worth something as
.uoq, but simply as an amendment or
~eulclDal agent they are worth five times
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-06

Questions and communications relative
TO sgriculturala and horticultural subjects,
if addressed to Agri. Editor, Drawer n,
Milledgeville, Ga, will receive immediate
attention
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