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The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1894-09-08
NOUyELLES LOCALES,

+, NOUVELLES LOCALES,
Reaucoup de nos paroissiens visi-
Talent Thibodaux cette semaine.
Les habitants ont eu I'm temps
macniique cette semaine.
tn Cour de District a etc en- ses-
zion toes les iours cette semaine.
Mr.. Leo Ledet de Schrieyer, visitait
Thibodaux cette semaine.
M. Andre Guichard ct Bertucini
de l,nadieyille, visitaient Thlbodaux
cette semaine.
Mr.. F. y. T6te de III parolsse As
somption visitait Thibodaux mardi
dernier.
Une grande foire sera donnte a
Tab. dieville lie samedi ct dlmanche lie
6 ct lie I Octobre.
P.usieurs habitations ont commence
q faire In coupe du riz, ct on rapporte
que lie rendement est bon.
T. grand Juri, apres avoir siege
luptli. mardi ct mercredi, s'esc %aiourn6
iusq4a jeudi proclaim.
Mr.. j. Louis Aucoin, marchand
mas3uaut de Tlibodaux, a etc choisi
par e Juge Caillouet foreman du
Grad Juri sous la nouvelle loi.
Dir. Il. II. Michelet Jr. de la
p~aroisse Assumption passait par
Til odaux cette semaine pour Sc
rem he a la Nouvelle Orleans.
he Prof. Z. Chol, apres avoir
pas & une dlzaine de jours a Cooper's
We /, ct q~ueIques jours a Biloxi pour
sa sant&. est de retour q ThibodauX
dets.s samedi. Son voyage lui a fait
nm ben considerable.
r. Frank Hoffman, de Thibodaux.
{ apes I'm agaeable s&jour de quelques
semaines dams lie Kentucky, est reve-
nu chez lui a la fin de la semaine
dern ere.
Nous avCns eu lie plaisir dune
agrtahle visite samedi dernier de Mr..
Fra ois Dcramee ct de son fills
Camille, tous deux du Cut-Of.
Nous avons Ell lie plaisir de renoon-
tref 4 Thibodaux samedi ct mardi
passes Mr.. Taylor Himel de St. Mar
tin dams Ia paroisse Assumption.
Mr. Louis Il. Michelet, membre du
barFeau de Napoleonvllle, visitait
Thibodaux samedl dernier. II a Fin.
tention d'etabIir IN bureau a Thibo
daux.
be Comit6 Central Democratiqut
de n paroisse Lafourche Sc r6unirs
jeudi proclaim, le Is courant, a midi
pour choislr DIES d6l69e6s pour repre-
sentes cette paroisse a Ia Convention
dn 3me. District Congressional.
PERDC-Entre Raceland ct Thibo
dauX, on dams Thibodaux, un plal
montfant les terres de MN. Lee
poid Pertuit, Louis Th6riot ct autres
IN remettant ce plan, soft a Nj
Leopold Pertult, GU au bureau de i
~oESTINELLE, Ia personne qui laur.
tronyS, sera r6compens6e.
AT .JApDfVIFpS Mons avonc o.
The morning news., 1894-07-30

periments were undertaken on the light
sandy, almost barren, soils of these
plains. Green ulanureS were used
mainly, supplemented by cheap fertiliz-
ers. In three years marked improve
ment was evident not only in the physi-
cal character of the soil, but also in the
increased yields of various crops.
Again, green manuring may be used to
take the place of more expensive fertili-
2ers and manures on soils already under
cultivation. 1t is in this latter use that
1t finds its widest application.
There has been much speculation as to
the manner in which the crops commonly
used for green maturing could gather
such large quantities of ferJilizing ma
terials. II will be remembered that the
principal fertilizing ingredients required
by plants are nitrogen, phosphoric acid
and potash. They are each and all more
or less essential TO the healthy growth of
crops. Consequently they are applied TO
the soil in the form of CONNER
cial fertilizers and other manures
In attempting to explain how the
fertility of the soil is maintained by
green manuring it has been said that
plants with long roots. like clovers, feed
deep down into the soil or subsoil on ma
terials beyond the reach of surface
feeding plants; and that when the tops of
these plants die down and are mixed
with the surface soil they enrich it
much the same as an application of barn
yard manure. This is undoubtedly true,
but it fails to explain how such large
quantities of materials can be obtained,
especially when clover is grown con-
tinuously for a number of years.
The question has finally been
solved by one of the most inter
esting and important discoveries yet
made in agricultural science 1t has
been found that certain plants can feed
upon the nitrogen in the atmosphere and
store it up in their tissues as they grow.
They take their phosphoric acid and
potash from the soil, but they obtain
their nitrogen very largely froW the air.
Hence, they draw from the air mate
rial necessary to the growth of crops,
which, in the form of commercial fer
tilizers, as nitrate of soda, ammonium
sulphate, dried blood, etc, is paid for at
the rate of from Is TO 20 cents a pound.
The morning news., 1894-07-30
Peach Culture.

In setting out young peach trees plenty
of space should be allowed between the
rows and between the trees, says the
American Cuitivator According to the
old method of raising peach trees, less at
tention was given to space between the
trees, because the branches were allowed
! to run up straight, just as all peach trees
| do if left to themselves. The modern
grower, however, never allows his trees
to take this narrow, spindling growth.
| The trees are trained to lower heads and
spreading branches, consequently cover
ing more ground with their branches and
needing more space between them.
Peach trees that are trained to take on
low growth somewhat similar to the
apple trees. produce more fruit. better
quality, and better resist dry weather
and disease. They shade the ground
more thoroughly around the trunk. and
the foliage protects the fruit on the lower
branches from the fierce heat of the sun
The fruit is produced abundantly on all
of the lower branches, and they can be
picked much easier than by the old
method. If the branches reach almost TO
the ground they may interfere a little
with horse cultivation of the orchards
But this is a small point. One can get
into the trees easier TO prune them and to
Ldisbud the new growth when too prolific
with fruit Altogether the low-headed
system of cultivating the peach trees is a
great advance upon the old system.
In order to train the peach trees accord
| ing TO the low system, work must begin
early upon them to check their head
growth and 10 make the branches spread
! The trees at the beginning should be
atout a year old. In s9me nurseries old
trees can be obtained that have
| been trained according to this low
system from the very beginning, and
| then it is better to take old
er trees. They are always pre-
ferable where the training has
been started by the nurseryman. By
pinching back the top of the young trees,
or by persisteptly cutting off the head
the lateral branches will begin to spread
out. The top branches will naturally
take the most growth. and will spread
much faster than the lower ones Many
of them will have to be pinehed back in
order to send the strength and vitality of
the trees into the lower ones. BY such a
system of training the trees will assume
a more rounded, dwarfed, bushy appear
apce, and there will be more square yards
of branches on which peaches can be
produced than if the tree is allowed TO
run straight up into the air BY observ-
ing two trees grown by the different
methods. one would be readily convinced
of the superiority of the low-headed sys-
TEN.
There is no doubt but this modern sys-
TEN also makes the vigor of the't
greater, and enables them to resist the
cold in the winter. Force and strength
are conserved by this compact way of
growing, and the foliage and branches
can resist cold winds better than when
they are spread out over larger surface.
In cold climates, where peach growing is
somewhat precarious, experiments should
be made 10 test this question.
The morning news., 1894-07-30

dogs, made for the hunter. The latter
drew up his rife and fred, but on came
the boar, the dogs nipping him at every
jump. The hunter fired a second shot
but on came the beast The hunter
turned and ran for a mesquite tree a few
yards distant, the hog close TO his heels.
He dropped his gun and
jumped for life. grasping the limb of the
tree just as the hog grabbed his pants
and tore e-half of them from him, but
he was safe, just out out of reach. The
dogs all this while ran grabbing the hog
by the hind legs, to which the beast paid
no attention. The mad boar seized the
bark of the tree in his great tusks and
tore it into shreds. Finally he turned
upon the dogs, instantly killed one and
wounded the other so that he died soon
after. He then turned his attention to
the tree where sat the hunter. He
guarded him until it was dark. Twice
did the man get down and try to get his
rite, but his foe was on guard and drove
him back up the tree During the night
the boar left. Daylight came and so did
help. The men had hardly reached the
river ANA got in their boat when down
came the old hog after them in vain pur-
Suit
The morning news., 1894-07-30
Hard to Fatten a Leehorn.

The kind of food that will cause one
breed to lay an abundance of eggs will
produce the same result in another. But,
if Leghorns have an abundance OF food
before them at all times they will seldom
become overfat, on account of their
sprightly and rowing disposition. and will
convert a large amount of food in TO guam
titles of eggs, but with the large breeds
this method of feeding would produce
oyerfatness. The consequent sluggish
ness of body and egg organs would coop
crate with their natural broodiness 10
reduce the egg yield. The quantity fed
10 the large breeds should be regulated
so as 10 keep the birds down to
business weight. Some strains
Of the heavier fowls made large egg rec
ords. and 10 is reasonable 10 suppose that
careful selection. breeding and feeding
for eggs will make good layers Of almost
any variety. In case Of large breeds, an
increase Of green food might dilute the
concentrated ration. and tend 10 keep the
birds IN q business condition Recent
eX periments a. Cornell show that a diet
of corn produces fat hens and few eQSs a
nitFogenogs diet, many eggs though
smaller and in quality not 30 rich as the
others a standard ration Tor al breeds
then, should BE- composed u bran, mia.
The morning news., 1894-07-30
A DOZEN HAD TIE CHOLERA
WILD HOGS IN ARIZONA.
Many Thousand Degenerate Progeny
of Aristocratic Porcine Ancestry.

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of Aristocratic Porcine Ancestry.
From the San Francisco Chronicle.
The widest of wild hogs live both above
and below Yuma, on the Colorado river
While the steamer was lying at Castle
Dome landing a few days since, loading
with ore, fine band of them on the op-
posite shore came down the river to feed
on the banks, where the grass and weeds
were green, and TO get drink of the
water. They paid no attention to the
boat or to the Indians at work. After
loafng around for a while an old boar
came out of the brush, and, on spying US,
gave swish" and away they all went.
Hardly day passes that the Indians and
cattlemen do not run upon them.
These bands seem to be more timid
than ugly. When the late Thomas Blythe
was trying to settle a colony at Lerdo,
forty-five miles below Yuma, on the Col
orado, he sent down a large mum Der of
very fine full-Dlooded Berkshire and Po-
land China pigs, and turned them loose on
the banks of the river near Lerdo, where
they lived on the roots, grass. weeds,
tules and mesquite beans; bred, multi
piled, kept fat, and filled the low and
tule lands with a large mum ber of fine
pOrkers. Never seeing a human being
except now and then lone Indian, they
soon became wild, and wilder still, and
scattered until the lowlands and woods
were full of them. Notwithstanding that
the coyotes slaughtered the little ones in
great numbers. they have increased until
it is estimated that at the present time
there are more than 10000 of them roam
ing up and down the Colorado and Hardie
rivers, from their mouths up as high as
the tide runs, or from sixty-five TO seventy
miles this side of the gulf.
They go wherever they please; nothing
stops them in their course When the
Colorado is at its food they will cross it
from shore to shore. even near the Har-
die, where it is four miles wide when at
its highest gauge. Their range gives
them the finest of feed-wild, sweet DO
tatoes, tules, stray fish, clans, dead tur-
ties and seaweed along the river bank at
low tide. They are unmolested. except
now and then by hunter who finds his
way down the river Most of the hunters
give the wild swine a wide berth, except
now aud then as they happen TO spy u
nice little rooster on the bank and within
easy rife shot.
few years ago man and his family
were living few miles below the colony
on the bank of the Colorado He had q
pair of very fine large staghounds, which
the owner claimed could run down and
kill any wild hog in that region. One day
he took dogs and rife and went for a nice
little one, Just right for the oven. He had
not gone far before he found a large band
of hogs, and turned his dogs loose on
them. No sooner had they started, when
out of the tules near by jumped an enor-
nous boar, monster, who, with mouth
wide open, paying no attention to the
The morning news., 1894-07-30
IVORY SOAP.
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soil not originally fertile that is not
aoounding in all kinds of plant food) will
cause such land to be exhausted sooner
than II II had been cropped without fer
tlllzers, but il would simply be a case of a
few large crops with fertilizers} against
a larger mum ber of small crops without
tertillzerl. The final result is the same
IN Doth-the time required TO produce it
different The final exhaustion being the
same, would it not be better to get 100
bushels of corn from an acre in one year
than TO get the same amount from ten
successive crops
The opinion that commercial fertilizers
are injurious to land may have originated
in such reasoning as has been given
above, or it may have arisen from the
IDEA Jhat anything which could eat up
sacks and barrels would be hurtful to
the soil-thaJ there was so much oil of
vltrlol IN them as to be injurious But
strong, unleached ashes, if damp would
eat up sacks also, and yet ashes when not
used in excess, and properly distributed,
are regarded on all sides as an excellent
fertilizer. There is a little free acid,
possibly. or little acid salt. as the chem
ist terms it, in the so-called acid phos-
phate, but the amount is small and the
quantity usually applied to an acre could
not possibly hurt growing plants The ef-
feet upon the soil itself is probably
beneficial; acting upon the un-
decomposed particles of minerals in
the soil, it would probably break
them down and make their con-
tents valuable to plants, 1t would tend
to fix any ammonia it might meet In the
soil and hold it as a sulphate of ammonia,
one of the best ammoniacal fertilizers we
have. But the most of the acid used in
the manufacture of phosphates unites
with the lime in the phosphate rock or in
bones, and makes land plaster. Nearly
all of it takes that direction, but we have
never heard of plaster iniuring land We
do not see any good reason why CONNER
cIal fertilizers should inJure land. We
do see, however, a good deal OF
injury they can do the farmer who
uses them injudiciously They may
burn up his crops if used too
freely on old land, deficient in humus and
badly prepared and cultivated. They can
injure crops and fail TO pay when used in
too large quantity in the drill without be.
ing diluted or mixed with the soil, and
they can do immense injury when farmer
is induced to rely on them alone, and not
to gather and husband all available ma
mural substances on his farm Used in
connection with rotation of crops which
insures full supply of humus in the soil
nure and the compost heap; used with
good judgment as to Quantity and mode
of application, commercial fertilizers will
always occupy an important place in
highly developed agriculture.
The morning news., 1894-07-30
Commercial Fertilizers,

Ordinary commercial fertilizers differ
from barn-yard manure and composts in
three particulars, says the Southern
Farm. The latter are complete in
the sense of containing every kind of
food a plant needs, Commercial fer
tlllzers contain only few of these, but
the most important of them, barn-yard
manures, yield up their plant food con-
Tent slowly and continuously throu yh
continued decomposition for months, and
even years. Commercial fertilizers do the
same more quickly, and are sooner appro-
pr1ated and exhausted. Barn-yard ma
nures act mechanically on the soil, loosen
ing II when it is svitf. Commercial fer
tlllzers have little or no effect of this kind
on the soil. Now, it will be seen that if
Two adjacent fields are manured, the one
WIN oarn-yard, the other with CONNER
clal fertilizers, that though the yield ma y
De the same, the next year the one that
had been manured with barn-yard
manure will yield more than the one that
had been manured with commercial ferti-
tizerS, because the latter were exhausted
Lhe hrst year and the former were not.
Inc second field would show up poorly by
the SIDE of the first, and one not careful
~ MS deductions might say that the first
was improved and the second injured by
tne fertilizers applied, whilst in reality
tne qlference might be due wholly to the
ieslduum OF the barn-yard manure
10 The one case and the absence of
! haeh residuum in the case of the CONNER
sal fertilizer. Again the productivenesS
oI a soil depends largely upon its mechan-
laal condition. If soft and pliable, abb
sorptve and retentive of moisture. it is
more productive than when close and
compact aud disposed to run together and
10 Odke. Now, barnyard manure tends to
ueVelop the former qualities and prevent
vne latter. Commercial fertilizers do
neither. Hence. in contrast again con-
Aerclal fertilizers mig u be supposed to
nave injured land whilst in reality they
prove.
III mas been already stated that ordi-
nary commercial fertilizers contain few
onIy OF the food substances required by
p.lnts' or II they contain all, some Of
o,, mem VIII be in disproportionately small
'1Huty. Hence, when they are used
ss"g son has TO supply things in which the
srtlllAer IS deficient. and unless these
H'e very abundant In the soil they are
,.Aely, IN time 10 become exhausted. In
lNal event the continued application Of
On 10y, llhertial fertilizers will fail 10 bring
e''4 crops, and again, the fertilizer
-''thl De supposed 70 have injured the
True. the soil II exhausted, but the
-'lner has had an equivalent in the
TUBS taken froul &c. Just as when land
'fopped year after year without
..-h4ft 10 10 also finally
reused and the crops takeu
represent the lost feruity The
oi com mercial fertilizers alone on .
The morning news., 1894-07-30
Celery Growing in Chatham Count,


Celery Growing in Chatham County.
Editor Morning News: Can you give
a novice some instruction in the planting
and cultivation of the celery2 If so you
will greatly oblige a constant reader of
the MORNING News, and particularly of
the agricultural department.
A NOVICE.
If Novice" has not plants already on
hand to set out we fear it is too late for
him To grow any celery this year unless
he orders the plants from some northern
grower. The chances are altogether
against his growing his own plants
The bed plan is much the best way for
growing celery in the south. The beds
should be to feet wide and any length
and the plants should be set 8xI2 inches
on the bed. BY proper cultivation and
watering, if necessary, the crop should be
kept in steady growth for eight or ten
weeks, or longer, then with the aid of
straw they should be bleached for use.
The dwarf kinds, that are self-bleaching,
more or less, are the best to use.
Another year Novice should raise his
own plants, but it is too late to do it this
year unless he is fayorably situated for
the purpose, and has the fresh seeds on
hand. 1t is easy enough to grow celery
IN chatham county if one understands
the full requirements of the crop and OBJ
serves them fully. If not, he had better
leave it alone. Several times in this col
umn we nave given all necessary advice
IN regard to the matter.
II you should decide to make the at
Tempt write to the United States Seed
Company at Kalamazoo, Mich, for plants,
or to William Fl. Maule, Philadelphia, Pa.
The morning news., 1894-07-30
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, JULY 30, 1894.

dlings, cotton-seed meal, meat and bone,
either fresh or in the prepared state
together with wheat and oats with
little barley and corn For
green food they should have cabbage to
pick at in winter and clover in summer,
whenever they can be had, boiled roots.
tubers and beans. Feed regularly. three
times per day no more than will be eaten
up clean within four or five minutes.
Keep up this method the year around,
making no special change at the mounting
season. At that time some of the food
elements (among them nitrogenl instead
of going into the eggs are turned In the
direction of feather making When the
feathers are made the eggs will appear in
due time. Occasional doses of condition
powder will regulate thesystem, and cure
some diseases. but condition powder and
straw will not make eggs. .-
The morning news., 1894-07-30
About Chicken Cholera.

This is the season of the year SAYS the
Tennessee Farmer, when, disease, sud
den and mysterious, thins out the farm
er's flock of chickens, II is the time
when a chicken well today is found dead
tomorrow 1t is now that strange, and
but little understood disease called chol-
era. prevails among the fowls. June,
July and August are all good months
for cholera, for it is sum
mer disease chiefly. And yet, chicken
cholera is not borne on the wings OF the
wind, and it don't steal in through the
cracks in the fence at the chicken house
A chicken must eat something to give it
the cholera, and that something must be
other than clean sound grain, water and
bugs or grass. Neither of these will
cause cholera. 1t comes of impurity that
is taken iuwardly.
Fowls kept in close pens where they
can get nothing to eat excepting that
which their keeper gives them, never
have the cholera. This fact has been
noted and commented upon a great deal
by observant poultrymen. Fowls kept in
the city where they have clean, open
yards to run in, and not allowed to go into
the back alleys where the garbage and
trash is frequently thrown, seldom, if
ever have the cholera, But, those that
have the free range of the alleys usually
die of with the cholera during the sum-
mer season. Likewise the chickens on
the farm where they range as they please,
usually fall victims to the dread disease
when the weather is hot.
The head and entrails and other refuse
from fowls killed for the table, that are
so often thrown in the fence corners
among the high weeds, is often the fuel
that starts the fame. Such refuse is
often found ana eaten, after IL has begun
to decay. by the other fowls on the place,
and thus the cholera is started.
We knew. of some boys starting the
chicken cholera once by throwing stones
at a setting hen. Her nest was under
some loose brush in the weeds. and she
was about to hatch when the boys dis
covered her; and with the spirit
of meanness- that boys often possess,
began throwing rocks at her. They
scared her off the nest, and
crushed the eggs with the living chick
ems within the shells. The weather was
hot and the embryo chickens soon began
TO decompose, and TO be infested with
maGRots. The fowls on the place dis
covered the nest and were soon pecking
about, eating the worms In less than a
half a day.
DOZEN HAD THE CHOLERA
And nearly all the flock perished from
that single cause This shows how very
nee cessary it is TO bury all refuse animal
matter, and waste meats of all kinds on
the premises during warm weather.
Chickens can much better endure a
dirty hen house than they can something
dead in the weeds. The latter is the trap
that catches them and starts the cholera.
| Better keep the weeds down. Have no
uneXplored corners within the chicken
| yard O. where they range. There is no
reason WhV the chickens should die with
| the cholera, and they will not die if the
| place where they run is kept clean.
Don't talk of remedies for chicken
cholera. Let that pass. Take action in
time and apply the ounce of preven-
| tive Oh