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The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-03-13
FARMS AND FARMERS.
SHORT Talks WITH THE MEN WHO
GUIDE THE PLOH.
Many Questions About the Farm Answered
by the Agricultural Editor OF Inc
Weekly Constitution.

Please look ahead and send In inquiries
extraordinarily an answer may not oe eS
pected under three weeks. Never request
an answer by mail; the editor mas no liiiie
to spare for writing private letters.
Never ask where an article can De ntu VI
the price. Editors have no better sources
of Information about these than other Peo-
pie The editor has nothing for sale ana IS
not interested in anything advertised III
the paper. ------
Questions of any character concerning inc
farm will be cheerfully answered py .HT
editOr of this department lnqu'rfrs 80
please make their questions clear and to the
point. The editor OF this department Wi,
give all questions close research anu -
give the readers of The Constitution III"
benefit of any Information that can De oo-
tanned on all questions prOpounded:
Address communications Tor Inis "Sp"
nent to THE CoNoA.. *.
YARN and Farmers' Depto AtIanI'. G..
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-03-13

To J. i. s., Polk, Ala.-We are not at all
certain about your mule, but it is probable
that her back has been sprained in some
way Press the thumb along the SPINE
inch by inch and see if there be a tender
snot If such be found, then throw your
weight suddenly that spot and she Will
evince pain. The treatment consists III
shearing off the hair along that part OF the
back and blstering by rubbing in well one
half ounce cantharides and two ounces oil
lard grease the blister once day
Reneat the blister if necessary after
two weeks. Give a long rest on pasture.
subscriber" Center Point, Miss'-Ihe
above reply will suit your case also.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-03-13

TO S. -, Grant. Fla.-We know no rem
edy for ''clubroot in tomatoes, beans, etc
For beans apply 900 pounds acid phosphate,
800 pounds llanit and 100 pounds cotton seed
meal For tomatoes, $50 pounds of acid
phosphate, 100 pounds Of kainit and so
pounds of nitrate of soda. We would pre-
fer to let the grass grow and make into
hay. Better STILL plant in cow peas and
MAKE the vines into hay.
w. Il. p, Petty, TeX.-Beets would not
be a good food for young hogs; that is,
they would not thrive on beetS alone.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-03-13

seven years old | traded for him more
than twelve months ago. He was discharg--
ing at the nose when [ got him. thought
he had distemper, but was mistaken. me
discharge is thick, white matteC from both
nostrils 1t varies in quantity some Gays,
but very little. The glands under ana pc
tween the bones of the lower jaw are en-
iarged He has a poor appetite and is very
dull Please name the disease and give
treatment.
We cannot diagnose the case, but would
suggest the possibility that it IS a case
of chronic CHAMBERS, an attack OF winch
may not prove fatal for months and even
years. yet be liable to communicate to other
animals. Better have a competent Veterl-
nary surgeon to examine the case.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-03-13

To. j. II. ", Macopin, Ga.-You can get
seed of articholSes of Mark w. johnson
Seed Company, Atlanta. at $3.50 per bushel.
A sandy loan is best for this crop, and the
richer the better. but Il will succeed on
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-03-13

To j. l.. s., Quitman, Miss--Gou can get
the seed about which you inquire OF Marx
". johnson Seed Company, Atlanta, AZ.
We don't know the price.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-03-13

e. NJ c., Pools. s. CT. How would it
pay to use equal parts of ammoniated
guano, acid phosphate and cotton seed meal
on cotton, taking the land it comes
good as we'll as thin land; or world less
meal and more acid be better?
g. What is a complete manure for water
melon, and how much to use, and how best
applied?
2 Also what kind of seed to make
large melon for market?
l. Equal parts of ammoniet ed guano acid
phosphate and cotton seed meal would not
be a properly balanced fertilizer for cotton
on any land. Why use ,7inoniated guano
at all if you have cotton s. / meal and acid
phosphate? Acid phospI '' 1900 pounds,
muriate of potash 100 pphnds and cotton
seed meal coo pounds wolS4 he a good for
mula for cotton. Read Our editorial IN The
Weekly Constitution of February 5th.
q Equal quantities of acid phosphate,
cotton seed meal and kainit will make a
good fertilizer for water melons. Use ac-
cording to the quality of the soil. from 500
to 400 pounds per acre, on fair soil Make n
wide hole and scatter the fertilizer in and
around the hole three feet across, mlxtr 9
it well with the soil
g. KOlb's Gem - Cn. OF the best shiptdl z
melons: also he Augusta Rattles AXE
The Jones's il mbo is d fine, large '.:cn
for mono market, but is not quite so good
a shipper for long hauls.
c. H D., EVansviH, Ga.-Please inform
me through your pape1 whether a SPAWN
on a horse is durable afd a remedy for it..
There are several kinds of SPAWN, but
bone SPAWN is the most common form.
If attended to early in the case it can be
cured by proper treatn'hnt. This treatment
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-03-13

even a thin soil. Prepare the lano Wy Pr"
ing deeply and narrowing open rows ia - -
feet apart as for corn, drop TWO Pieoe
artichoke every three feet, or one aln Sic
whole one, and cover as you Woulu 49,
Keep clean of grass and weeds, anu 'u' =
hogs on them in the fail or WINTER H1ouo
will be lett in the ground to bring d isoou
stand next spring. ana very little cui'iF'
ton will be required Artlcloheo o.
about equal to Irish potatoes 1or ia''eiii ne
purposes. Three bushels OF tupers wi'i
plant an acre Peanuts are far more Valu,
able for fattening than artlchokes' ou9 7
for bushel counting the peanuts as hulleo'
but an acre of ground would probably MAKE
as much pork if planted IL artlchches d"
if in peanuts.
F. C. W., Cleveland, Miss.-What hay pea pea
would you advise farmers TO plant in order
to harvest two crops! VIII they Si,I 20 ~
and make second crop, will they nave 70
be replanted? Where will 1 be able to Sc
them for seed!
We do not know any pea that Will MAKE
two full crops of hay in the same season
The second growth from the OLD Stupple
rarely amounts to much We have Iouiu
the common speckled or 'Whlppoor"Hl
pea the best for earliness, and at the same
time productiveness. This may be plahleo
the middle of April and if cut when IN
full bloom it will be too late to resoW' anu
the second crop, as already stated, VIII
not amount to much. 1t would De petleL
to fertilize well, using, say, Zoo POUNDS VI
acid phosphate and 100 pounds of kanlt per
acre, and one and a half bushels OIL peas
and aim at making one good crop.
w. r. J.. Cross Anchor, S. CT have
colt ten months old and for three months
past it has been afflicted in a peculiar way.
1t stands with it's feet stretched as Tar
apart it can get them, ana IL Keeps It's
upper lin turned up d good part OF the
time Now, i want you to give me the dis
ease and remedy.
The colt is wormy. Give the animal, as
one dose, one-quarter drachm OF copperas'
one-quarter drachm of tartar emetic, one
half drachm OF linseed meal. Mix Repeat
the dose morning and night for week.
Then give a purge of one-quarter ounce
spirits of turpentne one quarter pint of
raw linseed oil, as dose. After three
weeks repeat the entire treatment.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-03-13

w. O. B., Hampton Miss, wishes to
know if the husks of amber sorghum kill
hogs that may be fed on the seed. We
think not. We have fed many acres of it
10 hogs without the slightest injury. The
mere fact that the husks are indiSestible
would not cause them to be injurious.
large part of all coarse foods is utterly
:nGieestible, but none the less wholesome
and harmless.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-03-13

J. w. L., Orange. Gal. VIII land cult
waited the second year make peas? L have
been told by some that it would make good
vines. but no peas.
@ Can pine straw be prepared for ma,
nure and used this spring to any profit?
Success to The Constitution.
]. Yes, especially a kind that is not in
clined to vine much.
litter lot and stalls with it until it becomes
saturated; then pile in large heaps while
wet and let it heat. The time is too short
now.
The Irish standard., 1894-01-06
An Esteemed Locomot olive Engineer
Dies Of Pneumonia I'll the NJ
s5 Prime of Life.
MINNESOTA.

The ladies Of ths Catholic church at
Montgomery served grand oyster sup
per On New Years day for the benefit of
st. Agnes school.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-06-06
The liquor status in this State is

The liquor status in this State is
very unfortunate in this: Many of
those who favored the djspensary
are encouraging blind tigers be-
cause of the great contrast in favor
of their preference. On the other
hand those who opposed the dis
pensary make no effort to prose-
the blind tigers, for the reason that
the very notoriety this gives the
present liquor status demonstrates
and intensifies the good that was
in the dispensary system. So that
really both factions are doing all
they can to foster the blind tiger
iniquity-a very deplorable state
of affairs.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-06-06

The Boston Journal of Com
merce, which has been watching
the southwark trend of cotton
manufacturing very closely, states
that the Southern mills, with few
exceptions. are more modern built
than those in the North and are
filled with the best machinery that
could be secured. Most of these
mills, says the Journal, have been
successful even at the very start,
having succeeded in turning out a
fine quality of goods at a cost that
when sold left a handsome margin
for the mills
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-06-06
SAM JONES ON POLITICS.
Why Some Men are Rich and
Others are Poor.
The Nelasco World.

The Nclasco World.
"Third Party, or party of the
Third Party, or whatever you call
it, may get to Heaven, but they-all
never go to Washington. It's not
on the way. Washington is the
wickedest place on earth. It is
the home of the devil. The average
Democrat and Republican politi-
clans are little better than rascals,
but the Third Party man is fool.
You can reform rascal, but did
YOU ever undertake to monkey with
a fool?
They want to borrow money
from the Government at 2 per cent
when the Government is now bor-
rowing it at 5. We hear a great
deal of fools talk about the rich
getting richer and the poor poorer
under our present laws. There
never was a greater lie, and I'll
prove it,"
He cited the Eases of Vanderbilt
Stewart, Gould, Carnegie, and
others, all of whom had started
from humble beginnings.
"There's nothing the matter with
the law. It's the man that's at
fault. Thers's o lawyer on that
side of the House who makes
$4,000 a year. Here's a little
pettifo gger whose family is starv-
ing. The law is not to blame It's
the man himself. Here's a physi-
clan m aking $4,000 year
There's a little doctor over in the
other corner can't make his salt.
The law is not to blame. I preach
nearly every day to 5000 people,
and there's little preacher sitting
behind me who can't average 200
The trouble is Mt in the law.
brother, it's in your noggin."
TIE difference is organic. If
all the wealth of the United States
were divided out to-day each man
would get about $1,160 and in less
than six months some fellows
would be riding in palace cas-
and the others would be wal Dry
crossties and howling foz bother
divy." SIS.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-06-06

one man in the back of the hall
said yes.
That is, assuring, said the Gov
ernor. He said that in all the
country of South Carolina and
nearly all the towns sentiment is
in favor of the dispensary law, it
will be carried out eventually.
He went on $50 far as backbone
is concerned I have as much as
any other man, but when you
tackle the liquor trade entrenched
behind its hundreds of millions
you need to have the backbone of
the Statue of Liberty"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-06-06
At a recent meeting of the New

At a recent meeting of the New
berry reformers q resolution was
offered and adopted to the effect
that no caucus be held this year to
bring out candidates for the differ
ent offices-that they have a free
fight and open field, let run who
will and be elected who can. That
they will put out no caucus ticket
on the reform side of the house.
This is a pointer for Edgefeld
county reformers. Caw-cussing
won't meet with any more favor in
Edgefeld than in Newberry
county.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-06-06

Senator A. T. Smythe, of Charles
ton, has rendered his resignation
to Hon. w. H. Zimmerman pre-
sident of the Senate. 1t is reported
that Senator Smythe resigns his
seat in the upper House so as to
enter the race for Congress with
out being hampered in the coming
campaign. We see, however, that
Senator Smythe denies the soft I'M
peachment-not o. candidate.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-06-06
A practical joker perpetrated a

A practical joker perpetrated a
joke by sending to Senator Quay
a nicely bound book entitled on
the cover "What Congress is
doing" Senator Quay opened it,
looked through it, smiled and
laughed, then he passed it to Vice
President Stevenson who did
ditto, and then sent it to Senator
Pfeffer who did ditto, and thus it
passed around the Senate and all
the grave, etc, seignlors did ditto.
They thought it good joke. But
there are lots of people in this
country who would relish the joke
more if there wasn't quite so much
truth in the jest. The book which
so excited Senatorial mirth was
filled full of blank pages
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-06-06
Mistakes About AbstainerS,

The Contemporary Review.
have never asserted anything
so wrong and so foolish as that it
is a sin to drink wine; nor have
1 ever been so uncharitable, and
gone so far beyond my legitimate
warrant, as to have pronounced a
syllable of condemnation against
those who, in the somewhat clumsy
nomenclature of this controversy,
are called "moderate drinkers" If
there are any who adopt such
language I can only say that |
have never once heard it used at
any temperance meeting either of
the higher or lower classes. But,
granted that many foolish and
inconsiderate things are said upon
this subject, I ask whetaer there
is any controversy which is not
discredited by the bearing and
methods of some of it's partisans?
And is no nonsense talked and
are no brutalitties or vulgarlties
of abuse resorted toby those who
take the other side?
How often, for instance, have
we been told that total abstainers
are poor, weak, unbalanced crea-
lures, who, being unable to protect
themselves from drunkenness, try
by all sorts of nonsense, folly, and
tyranny to rob their neigbbors of
a harmless and beneficial in
diligence? Into all these amenities
I refpse to enter. If it is foolish
and wrong to denouce all use of
fermented liquors as sin, it is no
lese foolish and wong to speak of
total abstinence from them as
Manichean condemnation of "a
good creature of God" "a good
creature af God?" I have heard
Sir Wilfred Lawson say. "Of
course it isl So is tiger. But
one does not want tiger in ones
bedroom"
No modest-abstainer would
claim his abstinence as virtue, or
pharisaically pride himself upon
it; but it is at least an equal
absurdity to speak of the use Of
beer and wine as though the self.
qualification involved in drinking
them were a virtue which entities
the 'moderate driEker" to look
down upon his neigbbor from ala In.
definite altitude of superiority. And
surely sufficient number of men
pre-eminent goodness, learning,
and wisdom, in all ages and coun-
tries-from the days of Pythagoras
down to those of John the Baptist,
and through all the Christian ages
have been more or less absolute
abstainers, to prove that the prac-
tice can neither lie injurious nor
absurd.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-06-06

The Rev. T. D. Witt Talmage,
the noted Brooklyn divine, who is
making a tour of the world with
his son, sailed from San Francisco
for Honolulu, on the steamer
Alameda, last Thursday.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-06-06
LynchinS In Mississippi,

DuRANT, Miss, June, 4.-Ready
Murdoch, charged with having
committed rape at Yazoo City,
was brought here and placed in
jail by the deputy sheriff of that
city to keep him from being ham
ged by mob, but it was learned
by them that he was here, and
yesterday morning at an early
hour the jail was surrounded and
he was taken back to the scene of
his crime. Opinion is that he was
hanged between this place and
Yazoo City.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-06-06

tits reported in Columbia that
Hon. J. E. Tindal, the present
and efficient Secretary of State,
may again enter the field as a
candidate for Governor. 1t is said
his friends are determined to put
him in the race whether he wants
to run or not.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-06-06

Congressman Talbeit las intro
duced a bill "to enjoin the further
issue of bonds by the Secretary of
the Treasury and to coin the seig-
niorage," which amounts to $780,
10000. This, Mr. Talbert thinks,
will solve our financial troubles
and no doubt it would 60 a ways
in that direction.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-06-06

Rev. W. D. Kirkland, the editor
of the Southern Christian Ad-
vocate, was elected Sunday school
editor by the Methodist General
Conference at Memphis. This will
necessitate his removal to Nash
will, Tenn, and the election of
another editor for the Christian
Advocate.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-06-06

An exchange says: There are
many people who are not admirers
of Gov. Tillman who will be per-
fectly satisfied with his election to
the Senate, because they think he
will have SO much to occupy his
w c, -
viii not be able to do SO much
deyilment in the State.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-06-06

A statue to the momory of the
great South Carolina surgeon, DR..
J. Marion Sims, is shortly to be
placed in Bryant Park, New York
City. This statue is by Dubois,
one of the greatest living sculptors
in France.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-06-06
FRAUD AND THE MAILS.
Important Conviction in the U.
S. District Court at Charleston.

An important ana interesting
case was tried in the United States
court at Charleston, Judge Brawley
presiding, on the 18th of May, in
volvlng the suppression, for the
present at least. of a proposed
forger who has also served term
in the peniteDtiary for forgery;
and also involving the principle
that the United States mail cannot
be used for the purpose of fraud,
even if the perpetrator may not
finally consummate his schemes
and become the beneficiary OF his
fraud, or proposed fraud.
One T. A. Blackwood, writing
over the fictitious signatureiof W.
D. Morris, Sr., addressed the
American Bank Note Company at
New York asking them to furnish
him with a supply of Southern
Express money orders. He alleged
that his uncle was all agent of the
Southern Express Company, and
had lost a lot of money orders, and
they were ashamed to acknowledge
their carelessness to the company,
and desired to replace them, and
wished to have prices quoted by
the hundred, the object being to
obtain supply Of blank money
orders by this subterfuge.
At the same time, be was
negotiating by mail with the Cole
Printing Company of Sanford. N.
c., with a view to obtaining checks
on sundry banks and letter heads
with the name ofC. L. Loop, gene
rel anditor, Southern Express
Company printed thereon.
The American Bank Note Com
pany promptly referred the cor
respondence received by them to
General Auditor Loop of the
Southern Express Company, who
placed the matter in the hands of
Route Agent A. NJ. Richardson of
the same company, at Columbia,
who succeeded in locating the
alleged w. D. Morris as one f. A.
Blackwood. Blackwood was arres-
ted upon a warrant sworn out by
F. D. Peer, postof1ice inspector,
who rendered material service III
working up and prosecuting the
case.
Blackwood, was taken before the
United States commissioner IN
Charleston and committed for trial.
The witnesses against Blackwood
were T. II. Lee of the American
Bank Note Company of New York,
the general auditor of the Southern
Express Company, Route Agent
Richardion of the same compa ny,
t+!,a deputy United States marshal
j who made the arrest with search
warrant, the postmaster at Barn
we'll. S. c., and others.
The guilt of Blackwood was
established so clearly that there
could he no doubt whatever.
Blackwood was prosecuted by
United States District Attorney
Murphy, and his able assistants,
Messrs. Wood and Hughes. A
very forcible argument was made
in the case by District Attorney
Murphy. Blackwood was ably de-
Tended by r. Withers Memminger
of the Charleston bar.
An able and elaborate charge
was delivered by Judge Brawley,
in which the law of the case was
carefully set forth, and the duty of
the jury in the consideration of
the evidence, and the applicability
of the law set forth. The jury, after
retiring for short time, returned
averdict of guilty. Blackwood was
sentenced by Judge Brawley to
Imprisonment in the Columbus,
O., penitentiary for a term of one
year and one month, and to pay a
fine of $500.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-06-06

The Republicans are so pleased
with Cleveland's administration
that the st Louis Globe, the lead
ing Republican paper in the West,
says that ''he is as good as a Re-
nub1ican."
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-06-06

John Joyce, of Bloomington,
ILL.,, left the door of his bedroom
open, and stray goat got in and
ate $120 in bills and Mrs. Joyce'e
new spring bonnet before he was
discovered and elected.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-06-06

The average whale is from so to
65 feet in length and 35 feet in
circumference. The jawbones are
20 to 25 feet loug, and tongue
has been known to yield almost a
ton of oil.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-06-06

Newberry democrats have called
their county convention for the
23rd of June, which convention
will elect delegates to the August
State convention.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-06-06

The friends of THEo. DEAN respect
fully announce him for the office OF
County Auditor. lie will abide the re-
suit of the primary and support all the
nominees of the party. FRIENDS.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-06-06

They are building a wheel in
London which is much larger than
the famous Ferris wheel. It will
carry 1000 people in fifty cars. a
big balloon will crown the sup
porting towers.