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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-17
Corn and Glover.

The Importance of the corn crop is be-
coming more apparent every year, in view
Of the many uses which can be made of it
to advantage to absorb the largest sur
plus which can be produced. Large guam
titles are exported for bread and for stock
feeding. 1t is converted into glucose sugar
and starch in large quantities. 1t is made
into high wines for mechanical purposes
and to set on fire the brains and stomachs
of silly men. IL furnishes the principal
food FOR the production of the beef and
pork necessary to feed the world AS
hogs are now and have been for some time
the best paying farm product, and
as corn ana clover are the
great fabtOrs in its production,
and as these two crops rotate admira-
bly, and to the great success OIL both crops,
their Importance is apparent at once. Mr..
d. 3. Minis, the Iowa seed corn man,
says: 1T has been proven that clover
sod is as good to produce corn as the vir-
gin soil Farmers are lust awakening 10
the importance of sowing all small grain
fields TO clover. IL is the only wholesome
fertilizer we have discovered. We be-
| lieve we can keep our land in clover two
or three years and then raise three crops
! of corn and realize more net profit on
three crops of corn than if we had kept
| raising corn all the years. We are in
clined to believe that the yield of corn
will be greater if the clover is pastured
! instead of being cut for hay. We be-
| lieye that the Importance Of clover IN a
rotation of crops is not half appreciated.
As to seed, we think a great deal de-
ponds on good seed. When we say good
seed we mean that it must not only grow,
| but grow strong and even. Seed should
be of a variety suited to the locality II
( has been proven at the experiment sta
ton that the medium. earIy-maturing
varieties give greater yields than either
the early or late varieties. Every corn
grower ought to have a clear conception
of what constitutes model ear of corn.
He should have high ideal, one that
embral es the most good qualities
in one variety. Earliness, productive
ness and large yield of net corn
to cob are essentials. To properly Guilt
vate a crop OF corn means first, thor
oughly prepare the ground Tor planting by
blowing well, and the use of disc or
smoothing harrow until the ground is in
fine filth, the proper cultivation Of corn
would keep a philosopher busy We cul-
tivate deep the first time and close TO the
corn. The second time not quite so deep
and little further OF, ana the third time
plow Just as lightly as we can, and make
the cultivator scour and cover the remain
| ing weeds. While blowing corn we should
study the habits Of the corn plant"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-17
The Bamboo.

An effort is being made by Mr. j. L.
Normand OF Louisiana TO popularize the
cultivation Of the bamboo in the United
States. says the Farm and Fireside. The
thousand and one uses 10 which it is put
in China and Japan, as well as other
Asiatic and semi-tropical countries, are
well known to all who have travelled and
to many who have kept pace with modern
travel and commerce by reading the re-
ports Of consular agents and books Of
travel.
At first sight the cultivation Of bam-
boo in the United States will strike the
reader as an ephemeral effort Of little
availa bic and less pracNcal value. aud OF
no moment whatever 10 the Woodworking,
illy-paid farmer But we are OF those
who, when they overtake a fellow way
farer on his travels, love 10 ask and
answer questions. TO get and give infor-
nation, to talk of habits, the manners
and customs Of the country from which
he halls and we came. aud generally 10
keep our pinds quickened and a ready
receptacle for all hints Of a practical and
possibly profitable character
Bamboo is not TO be scOffed at, either as
an impractical crop or an Improbable
one. 1t will bear looking az and thinking
over. True 1t is raised by a cheap peo-
pie and where labor costs but little, is
made Of immense value because available
for service In 50 many ways and for so
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-17

We solicit articles for this department.
The name of the writer should accompany
the letter or article, not necessarily for
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faith.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-17

are grown from sowing of seed in Sep
TEN Der and October, and even as late as
NoVem Der, in sections lower down. These
are three great crops, and when intelH-
gently grown, pay the grower q very
satisfactory profit.
Then, too, there are straw berries, a
most profitable crop when properly
grswn. Now IS the time TO make new
paintings. Set out rightly, with suitable
variety, small crop Of berries NAV be
gathered next spring; but the profits will
not come until the following year and the
year following that.
The fall of the year is the proper time
to start nearly all the fruits.
Are you thinking of starting an aspara-
gus bed3 Now is the time to find out
when you will get your plants to set out
a little latter on. While asparagus is
rather a tedious yegetable TO market, still
1t Will pay for all the labor expended
upon II. The man of means will buy it in
season at almost any price, and il is
crop that ordinarily pays the intelligent
grower. Do you know how to grow it, 1t
Is not a difficult crop to grow.
Besides any work suggested it is always
In order to apply manure and do a certain
amount Of preparation with plows during
the fall.
Save and market every dimes worth of
the made crop, and then go ahead with a
light heart TO start another
How pleasant indeed, is the life of the
true farmer. 1t is one of constant toll
aud care, but it need not be one of drudg-
cry and discomfort
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-17

enough in their season to command high
prices.
Both of these pears are derived from
the Chinese pear, ana they exhibit many
qualities that are very similar. The
common Chinese Sand pear produced a
very poor fruit that had little to recon-
mend itself, and very few cared TO raise
1t except for ornament aud curiosity. Yet
from this poor specimen of pear the
B kieher Seeding was produced. II is an
excellent fruit for canning, but very few
comparatively know how TO ripen it, and
hence many condemn it as a poor eating
fruit. So it is, if not properly grown and
ripened. 1t is heavy and prolific bearer,
and a good tree produces more fruit
than any other good pear tree growing in
any Of ourchards An acre planted with
these trees yield an enormous crop of
! good fruit for the market. II comes into
bearing rather late in the seasonal a
] time when many other pears are out of
| the market. II reaches its perfect ma
/ turity in October and November, and
| sometimes its fruiting is prolonged, so
! that good specimens can very easily be
! preserved until the midwinter holidays,
when fancy prices are paid for the fruit.
In many respects the lie Conte is supe-
! rior to the Kieffer, although of the same
! origin. The pear has not received the at
| teution it deserves in the north, for it
]
! Originally this pear was produced by a
| New York state grower, but it was only
popularized in the south. 1t is now going
back to its native state again, and is being
recommended generally for its merits. II
is also very heavy cropper,
and its fruit is very firm and
excellent, making fine market pears. 1t
is not a rough-sKinned fruit, as the Kief-
fer but larger and longer. When prop
erly ripened it is a very pretty and at
tractive fruit. 1t is very similar in shape
to the famous Clapp's Favorite, but
larger than this pear. When ripe the
green skin turns to light yellow, and it
! comes into maturity early in the fall, a
month or two earlier than the Kieffer.
When plucked it should be put away in a
dark room for few days, where it will
ripen up beautifully, and be ready for
eating The flesh is fine grained, juicy
and not coarse. They make excellent pre-
serves, as well as marketable fruit for
hand ana table eating.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-17

many Numerically opposite practical
purposes. But other plants indigenous to
foreign countries and soils, fruits and veg
etables, birds and animals, have been in
troduced into the Christian world appar-
emily TO advantage, and we see no reason
why this should not be added to the list.
The bamboo says a writer lis a
plant of incredible tenaCitv of life, and
grows with wonderful rapidity-the fast
est growing plant in the world II ex-
tends its roots in all directions and comes
larger, stOuter and with increas ed viVor
every year, until the plant attains a
growth of eight to nine inches in diam
eter. The usefulness of this grand plant
is here unknown. The time will soon
come, however, when our timber becomes
scarcer, we will turn to the BAN boo as a
substitute for fences. trellis work.
vine stakes, hop poles, bean poles,
telegraph poles, rustic seats
for the lawn, chairs. bedsteads,
picture frames, summer houses,
dover pots, etc, etc 1t makes q SPLEEN
did roof for houses and sheds that will
not leak. A fat roof can be made of il
and do away with rafters laths. etc, and
save much work. Large sheds can be
built of il in less time ana cost than with
lumber and will last as long / believe
it will grow as far north as our common
wild cane, which it greatly resembles,
but giant by the side of it. when fairly
started. For the lawn a group of BAN
boos is unsurpassed in grace and beauty
II forms the best wind break possible
and grows so dense aud tall that it forms
the best protection from wind of any
thing that grows from the ground
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-17
A M'R1NLEY INFANT"
Tack Trust That Squeezes So, 100000
Year Out Of the People.
From the Philadelphia Press (Rep3.


From the Philadelphia Press (Rep.).
New York, Sept. 14.-The Atlas Tack
Corporation has become a trust. 1t con.
trolls 80 per cent. of the tack and shoe nail
product of this country. This monopoly
was formed originally ten years ago. It's
plan of operation then was to take in
competing interests and pay premiums of
profits; also TO pay the expenses Of men
unemployed because of being laid off by
the trust. The annual profits then were
about 81, 100000. But some 40 per cent.
went for dead wood, " or IDLE men.
January l, last, the corpora ton sent
out a new price list, prices being advanced
an average of 10 to II per cent. Jan. "a,
a second list showed an additional in
crease of a similar per centage. II was
not until April Il, though, that the Bos-
ton corporation showed It's hand in full
by making an additional increase, which
has been figured out by an expert in this
city at 1875 to 35 per cent over the other
two increases. This makes a total in
crease over the prices before Jan. l last of
from 60 to IS per cent.
While the profits under the old comb
nation were 81 ,000,0OO of which 40 per
cent. went for premiums, etc, Treasurer
Parks is declared, on good authority. to
have said that the present profits are
from 81, 000,0O0 to $1,000, coo a year, with
nothing to be paid for premiums or dead
wood"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-17

TENHE steamships OF this company are ap
l. pointed 20 sail from Savannah for Bald,
more as follows-standard time:
d. II. MILLER Capt. L. E. HOOPER,
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 10, 7:S0 p. m.
VIM LAWRENCE. Capt. WINsLow FOSTER,
SATURDAY Sept. %, 1890 p. m.
VIM CRANE, Capt. w. J. BOND, WEDNES-
DAY, Sept. 26, 3 p. m.
And from Baltimore every TUESDAY and
FRIDAY.
Through bills Of lading given to all points
West all the manufacturing towns IN New
England and TO ports OF the United Kingdom
and the Continent
j. ]. CAROLAN, Agent,
Baltimore wharf.
J. G. WHITNEY, Traflc Manager, Baltimore.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-17
Bones; what TO Do with The

have accumulated about two wagon
loads of bones from here and there, cost
ing only the picking up and hauling home.
I know they are worth something as
manure, but I would be glad to have you
say the best use I could make of them
and the best way to prepare them for
use. B.F. J.
Bones, when ground up into a fine con-
dition, constitutes an almost unequalled
fertilizer; but it depends upon how they
have been preserved since the death of
the animals as to how much value they
possess. When exposed to the air and
rain, they lose much OF the nitrogen that
they originally contained. We presume
you have no access to a bone mill If you
have we should advise you to have them
ground into meal " or dust" and then
it can be used for anything. As a rule,
however, it is more profitable to use bone
meal on crops that are somewhat of a
permanent character, such as fruit trees,
grape vines, ETC.. and any crops that
occupy the soil even two years. Even
finely ground bone as a rule, will have
very little effect on crops that hold the
land only few months; crops such as
Irish potatoes, and salad crops of all
kinds.
BY far the best thing you could do with
your small quantity of bones Is to break
them into small pieces and apply them to
any fruit trees or grape vines that may
be growing on your place. Doubtless you
have something of the kind under way.
II not. you should make the start this
fall. In the case of fruit trees OF grape
vines, scatter a bushel of the broken
bones about the trees out as far as six or
eight feet, and dig the pieces well into
the soil-three or four inches at least.
That is, broadcast the broken bone all
about the tree, out to that distance. If
done now, you will observe a marked ef-
feet on the growth of the tree next year.
There are thousands of loads of bones go
ing to waste in the south to-day that
ought to be made to produce fruit.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-17

CRY IND suburban RAILWAY.

Summer Schedule, june 5th.
Isle of Hope Schedule Week Day Time.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-17
1.eoonte and Kierer Pears.

The Leconte and Kieffer are two pears
Of value to the average orchardist, and
they DO well in all our temperate
climates, especially in the south, where
fruit growers look upon them as their
best friends in this line. says the Ameri-
can Cultivator. There are very few
pears that can adapt themselves 10 the
soil and climate OF the sunny south, but
the LeConte and kieher are almost ideal
in this respect. Their fruits are not the
pest sent TO market, but they are good
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-17

Questions and communications relative
to agricultural and horticultural subjects,
ii addressed to Agri. Editor, Drawer N ,
Nlilledgeville, Ga, will receive immediate
nftantiOn
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-01-03
The Imperial Woodpecker.

The imperial woodpecl1er is an exag-
geration of the ordinary red-headed
woodpecker. 1t is nearly two feet
long, its plumage black and white, with
a gorgeous scarlet crest, its bill white.
Ut lives in Mexico and in the Sierra
Madre Mountains. These birds are al
ways found N pairs and are destroyers
of trees, as they devote their entire en-
ergies to one tree for as long as a fort
night, injuring it SO greatly that the
tree dies. In Europe and Asia there is
gray-headed woodpecker. The largest
European woodpecker is Il inches
long, black, with scarlet crest. 1t is
called the great black woodpecker. The
little brown woodpecker of Ceylon is
not five inches long. The white headed
woodpecker is a wise-looking little
creature that lives in the pine woods of
the Pacific Coast, There are some $50
species of woodpeckers, and they in
habit almost every part of the globe.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-01-03
In Torment,

Surely if there are unhappy sufferers earth
upon whom the angels look down in pity it is
people agonized with rheumatism. They are in
torment the year round with little or no respite.
Now, there is no evidence to which publicity
has been given in behalf of HOstetters Stomach
Bitters more concurrent and convincing than
that in behalf of its efficacy in incipient rheu-
matism. And since rheumatism and rheumatic
and simple govt are among the most obstinate
complaints to which this admirable remedy is
adapted and since they all have fatal tenden-
cy TO attack the vital organs, the ACCESSIBILITY of
an early use of the Bitters when they manifest
themselves, must be apparent. Eficacious, and
most signally So the Bitters, too, in malarial
diseases, kidney and bladder inactivity, consti-
patton, dyspepsia, liver complaint and nervous
ailments
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-01-03
A Queer Machine.

One of the most ridiculous inventions
known to science was brush made by
one Of the court physicians to Charles
II. for the purpose of swabbing out the
human stomach. This instrument was
recognized by the physicians of the day
and was gravely described by the great
anatomist Hester under the name Tex
cutor Yentriculi," or stomach-cleanser.
According to this account the subject
was expected.to drink a draught of warm
water or spirit of wine, in order that
the mucus or foulness Of the stomach
might be washed off. The brush being
moistened was then to be pushed down
through the gullet into the stomach and
worked up and down like the sucker of
a syringe until all the foulness was dis
charged. This continuance was extOlled
as good preservative Of health and was
recommended for use once a month as
circumstances required, but it does not
seem to have been popular. A similar
machine has been used in modern times
to cleanse the interior of bottles.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-01-03
WRAPPED IN FLAME.
Strange Story of a Marine CONFUSION In
the Pacific.

Capt. Harder of the ship Lucipara,
which arrived in San Francisco, reports
most startling phenomenon encoun-
tered by the vessel in the Indian Ocean
while bound from London to Sydney.
TIE crew observed a peculiar condition
of the atmosphere and the sea when in
latitude AZ deg. south and longitude 81
deg. east. The sea seemed to be kept
down by q compression Of the air, and
all at once the vessel shivered as if from
some submarine CONFUSION and a sheet
of flame enveloped her. 1t circled
about the masts and yards and the crew
expected momentarily that the ship
would take fire, but the flames snuffed
out in few moments as suddenly as it
had appeared and no damage was done.
A hurricane followed, but the vessel
outrode it. The captain has no ex-
PLANTATION to offer for this most remark
able phenomenon. but it is supposed
that it was caused by some electrical or
submarine explosion. The Lucipara is
four master of 1850 tons.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-01-03
St. Swithin and the Rain

The old superstition about St. Switfi-
in and the rain has very generally died
out. There are still, however, a good
many who incline to the belief that such
a notion must have had basis of scien--
tifc fact, or it could not have obtained
as it has done for centuries. Some
years ago the records of Greenwich.
observatory were examined for twenty
years with view of ascertaining
whether, as a matter of fact, rainy
July Is is usually followed by rainy
period approximating to forty days 1t
was found that the years in which ST.
Swithin's day had given rain were
rather wetter during the following forty
days than other days 1t was con-
Guided that the tradition had no me-
neurological facts whatever to support it..
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-01-03
THE MUSIC IN OUR BLOCK.

BY LAURA W. SHELDON.
| have heard the cheers of nations over emblCms
and oratiOnS,
l have heard the yells brokers in their hub
bub on Exchange;
L nave tarrled at camp meetings, ma AmenS
and loud entreatngs,
And have listened to the cry of big Injuns
at short range.
| have walked where Snorers slumbercd, lived
with lunatics unnumbered,
And have listened to the ocean as 1t dashed a
shore of rock;
But these noises altogether, made by man and
beast and weather,
Are as nothing to the racket every day within
our block.
yelling their intentions;
There are women baWling madly from the
windows to the same;
There are scissors grinders ringing, there are
would-be artists singing,
And the boarding house pianos would put
Bedlam quite to shame
There are trucks forever rolling, there are feet
forever StrOlling:
There are rag men shrilly calling with q new
er-ceaSing Zest,
But the huckster with his apples, caulilOWer
and cabbage, grapples
For the foremost place of honor, and proceeds
TO down the rest.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-01-03
Aztecs Resorted to Irrigation.

Will Mcmillan, of st. Louis, and f.
Bronson, of Ell Paso, an authority on
prehistoric Indian remains, discovered
at from twenty to forty miles below
Eddy, n. NJ, some Aztec remains. Elk
cavatons are soon to be made to expose
what may have been buried by sands
from adjacent hills. The remains OF
an ancient canal in this district had
previously been discovered. Broken
pottery, arrow heads, and some axes
prove the identity of the race to be
the same as that which, when extin-
guished, left peculiarly built towns in
Northern Mexico, Northern New Mex
leo and Arizona. They were a people
who built towns in the hills for defenEe,
and farmed the river lands. This new
discovery shows that agriculture was
carried on on the Pecos by irrigation.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-01-03
and uniform even composition"
WALTER BAKER & CO., DORCHESTER. MASS.
GEYsERS AND THEIR ACTION.
a Lecture on the Yellowstone Park and
it's Wonders.

"A Lecture on the Yellowstone Park ana
it's Wonders.
Marsden Manson lectured at Golden
Gate Hall last evening on "The Geyser
Action Of Yellowstone Park" says the
San Francisco Chronicle. Stereopticon
views of some Of the most famous gey-
sers, together with miniature geyser
on the stage, tended to make clear all
the features of the lecture. The appa~
ratus prepared by Mr.. Manson showed
admirably the scientific principles in
volved in a geyser. A piece of gas pipe
ten feet long was surmounted by an in
verted funnel. At the bottom was q.
small reservoir heated by gas stove,
AS the water in the pipe was converted
into steam some of the water over
flowed into the funnel at the top, which
reduced the pressure on the water be-
low and permitted it to expand in
steam at a lower temperature. Steam
was thus generated so rapidly that all
the water in the pipe was blown out, il
Illustrating the periodical eruptions Of "a
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-01-03
August
Flower

Miss G. G. McCLAvE, School,
teacher, 753 Park Place, E1mira, n.
Y. "This Spring while away from
home teaching my first term in a
country school I was perfectly
wretched with that human agony
called dyspepsia. After dieting for
two weeks and getting no better, a
friend wrote me, suggesting that T
take August Flower. The very next
day purchased bottle. I am de-
lighted to say that August Flower
helped me SO that I have quite re-
covered from my indisposition." q
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-01-03
The Shirt Tree.

In the forests of the Oronoeo coun--
called the shirt tree the NATIVES ee
cut the trunk into cylindrical pieces
about two feet in diameter, and then by
beating and moistening the bark they,
draw it off entirely. This bark, which
is fbrous and of red color, resembles.
coarse cloth. The natives cut arm
holes in each section, sew one end par
tally together and use them as shirts
In consequence of this, returned mis-
sionaries from that country have said
that providence provided garments for
the people that grew ready-made upon
trees.