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Officially approved and
Adopted by the Depart
ments of the United
States Government,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-13
GROWING Hogs.

There is such thing as economy that
is costly, because it decreases the result
more than it lessons expenses, says an ex-
change. 1t is most commonly shown in
feeding stock. A recent writer, who is
widely quoted, claims that he has dis
covered a way to make the growing of
hogs profitable. He does it by selecting
sows for breeding in the spring, putting
them on diet of clover during the sum
mer, and in the fall putting them into
the orchard to gather refuse apples.
Then they are bred and kept almost ex-
clusively on raw turnips the first part of
the winter, aud after these are gone on
raw beets. He claims that if this is done
the sows will thrive if only kept in a
warm pen. We doubt it if they do not
have other food to supplement. AS breed
ing sows are usually kept, they are fed
too fattening food, but this is going to the
other extreme. There is not much in
roots like either turmps or beets to make
growth in the sow or to furnish frames
for the progeny she is bearing.
There is, 1t is true, a recommendation
of ration of wheat bran for two weeks
before the pigs are dropped, and so long
as they are sucking. This is enough.
There should be fine wheat middliugs for
the breeding sow all through the time
she is bearing her young, in addition to
the diet of turnips and beets. After the
pigs are week old, and until they are
taken from the SOW, both pigs and
sow should have an addition to
the wheat middlings of ground oats.
or ground whole wheat. This will
not make the sow fatten while
she is sucking her pigs Without it the
sow will become terribly poor in flesh,
and her milk also be lessened both as to
amount and quality. To starve the SOW
while she is sucking pigs is the poorest
kind of economy. We have often seen
sows so reduced in flesh at this time that
their digestion was permanently impaired.
If well fed while digestion is stimulated
by this extra demand, it will be so much
improved that a SOW which has been well
kept up to this time will keep thereafter
very easily,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-13
Poultrv-A Side Cron.

There are not many successes recorded
of wholesale poultry keeping" and we
doubt if the time will ever come when
there will be many engaged in the bust
ness as speciality. 1t seems almost i'm
possible to keep large fiocks of chickens
in one esta blishment. though pretty well
divided up into separate yards. Sooner
or later al epidemic of disease prevails
wherever poultry is kept in large num-
bers and the wholesale poultry grower
rarely withstands more than two vista
tions of cholera, or virulent influenza or
roup. Two such will be enough to dis
gust or dishearten him entirely.
Poultry culture carried on for the pur-
pose of supplying staple food eggs and
meat requires the very incest manage
ment- to produce a net. tangible income,
and we doubt if there is any other bust
ness that requires closer and nicer adjust
ment than it does. 1t appears to US that
poultry keeping is adopted chiefly as
side crop for every farmer rather than as
a speciality for only few.
There is more profit and pleasure in
twenty well kept fowls than in one hun
dred poorly kept.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-13
IVORY SOAP.
I4E szoorER z aAma.E co ols'n
IS NOT LOST IN THE TQB.

food for the chicks it is nutritious and
rellshable to them The Poultry Journal
says: Poultry needs as. much protection
during the summer from the hot rags of
the sun as in winter from the severe
cold. Shade is what all fowls seek now
AT this particular season the summers
heat is at its highest, these oppressive
languid days when painting chickens and
gasping old hens spread out their wings
like parasols to catch the cool breeze
that is so delicious to them if exposed to
the fierce sun.
Birds compelled to stay in yards that
have little if any shade during the entire
summer, with the hot sun OF July and
August pouring down upon them, CANNOT
thrive, while they are rendered more
liable to disease and disorders While
men appreciate few moments rest in
the shade, il laboring in the fields or out
OF doors, the lower animals as well as the
fowls, are no less appreciative of this
comfort, though they cannot convey to
US by words either their wishes or
their thankfulness 1t is not always
that the poultryman has trees just
where he locates his poultry house or
where he would like them. OF low,
quick-growing' shrubs Of fruit trees, the
latter afford as grateful shade as do
naples. As trees will not afford much
shade for few years. temporary shade
must be made, The best possible substi-
tute is to be found in placing within reach
of the fowls, especially the chicks, sl5ele-
ton sheds of poles covered with large
branches of freshly cut hemlock, cedar or
almost anything cheap and convenient
which will afford necessary shelter from
the sun. They are no doubt as much de-
lighted with this new refuge as if it cost
thousands-and is the best general pro
lection against the attacks of hawks, into
which every little one can run and be safe
when the warning cry of hawk is heard
from the mother. Those that are at lib
erty to go where they please, and that
have outgrown their mothers protection
will naturally seek the shelter most
agreeable 10 them.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-13
The Country Homo.

The home habit and the custom of con-
serving homes-in short, the love of home
and land, is the basis of public tranquil
ity. prosperity and safety Permanent
homes for all the people, and as many of
those homes in the country as possible,
are the best instrumentalities for
strengthening and perpetuating popular
government. Love of Home is primary
patriotism. No conspiracies, no anarchy,
are evolved in the quiet homes of the
country, and to them, and the sacred and
sincere love of them, the friends of demo-
cratic government must look for the pre-
servation and perpetuation of civil liberty
in America. Only those who own and
love the domicile wherein they dwell will
properly conserve the republic. The
United States is the concrete of homes of
$1,000, 600 of people. The homes are the
integral parts of the American republic.
it IS made strong, virtuous and perpetual
by the character of its homes, and, as the
Indian declared with poetic pathos The
land Is our mother" so may the republic
declare the cultured home its mother,
and no republic can exist and thrive
except as the conservator of all the homes
a cultivated, comfortable and contented
citizenship. J. STERLING MORTON.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-13
Mixing Grasses and Combining
Glover With Grain a Good Thing.


There are the same reason for sowing
the various kinds of grain together as
peas with oats, when they are intended
for feeding purposes, as there are for
mixing our grass seeds. A variety
tends to a more. close occupation of the
ground, and consequently larger crop
Peas and oats or peas and barley grow
well together, as also do oats ana barley.
aud doubtless the three would do well
in the same soil, the grain holding the
peas OF the ground, as they have not the
strength to stand alone. There is also
the additional value of giving greater
variety to the food We believe in cut
ting oats green, TO use as green fodder, as
silage or as hay, and would advise all who
intend to sow them for that purpose to
sow peas with thsm next spring. There
are many farms where bees could be
added to the lines of work and materially
aid the total profit without much increas-
ing the labor. Many tons of beesWax are
imported every year from Cuba, Spain
and other points. There is no danger of
the Bookkeeping business being overdone
very soon, as there never has been enough
good honey on the market to make it seem
other than a luxury. To double the sup
ply would double the demand, as has been
the case with fruits. There is no good
reason why the farmer should not
do business in a buSinesslike man
ner, as well as the merchant
or any other man. He should
take an account of stock regularly every
year, affixing a fair valuation to his ami
mails, his wagons, tools and implements of
all kinds, his hay, vegetables and fruit,
and all other property on hand, and figure
it up with his outstanding accounts on
both sides, in order that he may know
just what he is worth, and so be able to
tell when the year comes around again
whether he has made or lost money in his
business and he should, also, through
the year keep an account of his sales and
expenses, so that he may be able to tell
very closely what crops or what branches
of farming have been Improbable The
benefits to be thus obtained are apparent.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-13
Towering plants, svch as geraniums and
belintrppa
Originator Of the Concord Grape.

Modern society is very regardless of its
great benefactors, says Iowa Homestead.
Not only are republics proverbially I'M
grateful, but all high civilization seems
to be so thoroughly bent upon taking care
Of itself that it has little or no time to
honorinR or assisting those who have
deserved well at its hands, and it pays
but little attention to its benefactors-at
least until after they are dead-unless the
benetactors can get some sort of a 'cinch"
in the way Of patent on the
public and charge good
round price for the benefits they
confer. Col. Suffer, who discovered gold
in California, affords an example, and
Col Drake, who spent years of his life,
in face of an incredulous public, in dem
onstrating that 1t was practical to draw
oil out Of the bowels of the earth in We
mango county, Pennsylvania, affords an
other. Both died in poverty and want
after having been the means of con-
ferring untold wealth upon others and
of adding very largely to the wealth
and comfort Of the world. AS another
instance of this all-too-common
method that seems to be the rule
which modern society has adopted
toward those who serve it best, we note
that at the recent meeting of the Ameri-
can Association Of Nurserymen held at
Niagara aus, n. y, June b,lt was stated
that f. w. Bull the propagation of the
world-renowned Concord grape, was now
at the age of 80, living in an almshouse
near Concord, Mass. It was said, also,
that he had never received a cent of
profit from his great contribution to the
fruit list Of this country. 1t Is only
proper 10 add that the nurserymen's
association, when the case was brou ght
to their attention, raised a handsome
ffatsh tnfVF
Of the country were to take measures to
place him in q condition of comfort for
the small remnant of life that is probably
before him, they would only be doing that
which would after all be but a slight
recognition Of his services TO their craft
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-13
FIGS in North Carolina.

The following roots seem to be the
hardest in winter, says the North
Carolina Experimental Station: Brown
Turkey or Brown Ischia, Osborn s
Prolific, Black Provence, Early Violet,
Negro Largo, Violette de Bor-
deauX, Black Marseilles, Roi DIES
Noirs, Black Ischia, Castle Ken
nedy and Pitaleuse. These were. all I'M
hurt by winter of 1691-lS92 The follow
ing were but slightly hurt at tips same
winter: Angelique, Black BouriassoUte,
White BourJassotte, Crosse Vert, Bruins
wick, Bourjassettee Grise, Adriatic,
White Marseines and San Pedro The
White Genoa was badly cut down. In
the winter of 1892-l893 all of these were
cut nearly to the ground by the unusual
cold.
So far as tested, the following seem to
be most productive: Brown Turkey,
Celestial, Early Violet, Black Provence,
Osborn's Prolific, Castle Kennedy, Ne
gro Largo, Adriatic.
In quality, so far as fruited, we rank
the following in order named san Pc
dro, Adriatic, Angelique, Brunswick,
White Genoa, White Marseilles, Celes-
tial. The Celestial is the smallest of all
figs, but can be.eaten out of hand without
skinning. as the skin has none of the
acidity of the larger sorts.
Though figs of all sorts usually survive
our winters without trouble, we have &C.
casional winters in which they are badly
hurt, like the last one. II is always safer,
then, to protect at least with a shelter of
pine boughs, or by bending the branches
to the earth and covering them with soil.
This is much more quickly done than
might be imagined. We have treated
some of our trees in this way the past
winter, and will look with interest for
the results.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-13
Write Us.

Our readers and subscribers are re-
spectfully urged to give US notes of their
various experiences in this years work.
Have you learned anything new in re-
gard to cultivating or fertilizing, any
thing of new varieties Of plants, new
breeds of animals, ETC.. we would take 1t
as a kindness if you would tell US some
thing that you have CLEANED during the
year. What about forage plants? Have
you found better hay or pasture plant
than you have been relying on before
What are your views now about more
self-sustainlng system than heretofore
practiced}
Have you anything to say that would in
any way encourage your fellow farmer?
If you have, say it. By all means say it.
Let US confer, one with another. Tell
US, in the absence of anything else more
interesting, now cheap you can afford to
grow cotton. What does your corn cost
you? Is not the latter rather expensive
gtOck food
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-13
"Put More Eggs in the Basket"

Not a poultry article, though it sounds
like it'll
There are a good many farmers in the
south that we are quite sure are thor
oughly out with the system of farming
that they nave followed for the past ten
or twenty years. From an extended
reading of our farm journals we find
widespread interest being manifested in
grass and clover culture and stock
Numerous inquiries are being Propounded
as to the mOney-yielding capacities of
this plant and of that. Some are asking
If there is not money in sugar cane, in
tobacco, or hay, in vegetable crops of one
kind or another, in fruits, or stock. There
is a general spirit of inquiry amongst
those who have not heretofore questioned
if there is anything desirable beyond cot
ton. corn, sweet potatoes and peas.
For very many years the average
farmer of our Countrywide small one and
two-horse farmer, especially, managed
to make good living, in its way, with
out including anything outside of these
four. 1t is true of the four crops grown
there was only one that he grew for sale
year in and year out Now and then, as
the seasons proved extremely favorable
and allowed of his selling some corn, po-
tatoes and peas, perhaps to the extent of
several hundred dollars, but in recent
years the majority of our farmers have
made very little money from these crops.
Their main-stay has been cotton, and the
prices that have prevailed for that com
modify for several years past have been
such as to preclude the idea of money
making. Yearly it has been getting worse
and worse, not only with the tenant far
mer, but with the farmer that
owns his land and up to this time
has been able TO steer clear OF any en-
barrassing debt. Both these classes have
pursued pretty much the same policy.
neither giving much consideration to ad-
vanclng or even sustaining the fertility of
their lands, which implies the keeping of
more or less stock and of greater atten-
ton to improved meadows and pastures.
There is no question that there is
money in these things. Properly at
tended to there is money in stock, in rails
ing hay, in raising grapes and other
fruits, in raising chickens and eggs and
butter, oftentimes in the sale of milk and
many other things that might be named.
The times call for revolution in farm
policy. Every farmer must call to his
aid number of "side" crops that will
be gradually developed until several
OF them together bring him in more ready
cash than his cotton does. This is not
fanciful or impracticable. II is sound,
hard sense, and capable of substantiation.
We know of farmer not very far OF,
who sold, by the stalk, 500 of sugarcane;
another 500 and more of cabbage; an
other about this amount in ground peas;
another much more than this in beef
all raised simply as side crops" Can't
you think Of one or two things that you
can make side crops of another year and
and make them help out AFFAIRS wonder
fDtlV2
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-13
HOUSE GARDENING.
Flowering and Foliage Plants in Va
ses, Boxes and Baskets.

The method of growing tender plants in
vases, boxes, baskets, etc, that are stood
or hung about verandas and windows
must commend itself This form of gar
dening fulhlls twofold purpose, as it
adds beautiful feature to the house it
self aud allows the more extended use of
plants about the home. Those having no
greenhouses or hotbeds must depend upon
the florist for their supply of plants for
filling them or else grow the plants from
seeds themselves.
The boxes may be Of almost any form
that the fancy may dictate or the cir
cumstances demand, but they should not
he so large as to be unwieldy and in
convenient for handling when filed
with soil. A good size, according to
American Gardening, is 10 inches deep, 10
inches wide at the top and inches at
the bottom and as long as is required I'M
less it be more than feet. Three-quar-
ter inch holes should be bored in the
bottom at intervals of 10 s inches and
at the bottom Of the boxes outside should
be nailed one-half inch strips 10 raise the
box from the floor and allow the
water to pass away freely. The
boxes should be filed within ~
inches Of the top, using a good loan TO
which has been added liberal quantity
Of good manure. If you have the plants
and soil near to where the boxes are TO
be placed, the best plan is 10 fill your
boxes with soil, put in your plants and
then place the boxes in the position
which they are 20 occupy. II required
for a shady situation, the boxes should
be filed with plants that will grow we'll
in the shade. For this purpose may be
used fuchsias, begonias, small plants Of
Ficus elastica, Latania borOonica. Php-
nix rupicola, Areca lutescens. Among
trailing plants for shade are tradescan-
tias, selaginellas, Kenilworth ivy, Ger
man or parlor ivy
Where boxes or vases are 10 be exposed
10 the sun, the following plants will be
found satisfactory: Coleus, Reraniums
and ageratum, Lobelia gracilis, sweet
alyssum, heliotrope, mesemb ryanthe
mum, Vinca rosea, single petunias, dwarf
nasturtiums, dwarf French cannas. such
as star Of 1891, small plants of Latania
torbonica, Areca lutescens, Kentia fors-
teriana, Ficus elastica. L. e. variegata,
Grevilla robusta, crotOns, etc.
For trailers. Vincd MAJOR variegata,
Solanum jasmiuoides RrandiEorum
variegated abutilons, verbenas and ivy
leaved geraniums are good. Where vases
are 20 be filled, single handsome plant,
such as fine Latania borbonica or a
Drac,t ma iudivisa will show a good ef-
feet, or the vase may be planted wiVh
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-13
a Cheap Cistern.

A Pennsylvania farmer tells the Ma
tional Stockman how he built cheap
cistern. He struck a circle seven feet in
diameter and dug down three feet, then
another circle one foot less in diameter
and three feet farther and broke down
the sides of the slope; then with a five
foot circle he went another three feet and
cut away again, making the cistern in
the form Of a jug. The sides and bottom
were plastered with cement directly upon
the clay, and the top was arched
over with brick packed up with
sand and cement, and a tile was
put in to serve as an overflow pipe
about fifteen inches from the top. AS the
average diameter would be a little more
than six feet, it would require nearly
seven barrels of water for each foot in
depth below the overflow pipe, and over
fifty barrels when the water was seven
and one-half feet deep, His figures for
the cost were: Two days labor, s.; one
half day mason, 81 ; two barrels of cement,
g. so; 400 brick, g 40; total, s.. go. II has
been in use ten years and is as good as
ever, excepting near the top. where he
allowed it TO freeze, and the cement
cracked and pulled of, which could have
been prevented by covering with straw
or other material
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-13
Clover in the South.

Can clover be grown in the south to ad-
vantage' We PROFOUND the question to
our readers, and would be glad to have
them answer it. Among our readers
there are, doubtless, many who have
clover of one kind or another growing on
their farms. Thirty or forty years ago
the opinion was generally prevalent that
it was waste of time ana money to at
tempt to get a growt of clover on our aver
age soils, and some experiments that
were made with clover seemed to sus-
tain this opinion, Those who essayed to
demonstrate the clover problem made the
mistake of using their poorest soil, in
the ma GRITTY of instances. and as a mat
ter Of course the conclusions were gener-
ally unfavorable to clover but later ex-
periments, along with the introduction Of
new varieties of clover, show that the
south can have clover in hers as well as
any other section of country.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-13
Value of Tillage.

Tillage is not manure, of course; it does
not add fertility to the soil, but it does
help make more of what is lying idle
available, says ]. B. Terry in Practical
Farmer Always be careful that your
soil is quite dry before doing an extra
amount of working; then you may grind
down and stir up with little fear of going
beyond what will paw. A good deal Of
time spent in cultivating a crop will pay
on our farm, as well as that made use Of
in preparing for it. The cultivator has
one advantage over the plow and most
harrows it moves the soil around so as 10
bring new particles together, particularly
when wide teeth are used. / am quite
certain that we get considerable advan-
tage in this way, that more food
is set free am quite certain
also that the effect Of extra
tillage lasts more than one year; that
when we do extra tillage on corn or po-
tato crop we may expect, everything else
being favorable, 10 see some increase from