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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-25
Notes.

Moles are so troublesome 10 market gar
deners who use heavy applications Of
animal manure, in which the larva OF In
sects collect, that we print for their in
formation the following extracts from
bulletins from Arkansas and Oregon:
While moles are properly insectivorous
animals they by no means confine their
diet to insects. but subs!st largely upon
vegetation. The damage done by their
tunnels may be greater than the loss
from what they actually eat. but neither
is sufficient 70 justify killing them.
Many traps and devices have been in
use for catching moles: few of them
however are successful.
Wishing to ascertain for my own sat
isfaction some facts regarding the food
eaten by moles, | determined TO secure
some alive. This proved to be such an
easy land Interestingly matter that / COZ
tinued TO catch them until not ore was
left on the station grounds. The number
was eleven, FIVE Of which were captured.
in two days. After each rain the mole
re-opens his burrows and frequently makes
new ones. In a few days after "a rain, or
early on the follow 'ns morning were the
times they were mos, easily taken.
The first step toward capturing them IS
to approximately locate tho point at
pressing in with the foot the freshly made
burrows at intervals of from two to three
feet | would then retire some distance
or treat the burrow Of another in like
manner When time had elapsed sufficient
for one TO begin work again | cautiously
approach ed the place where tie burr5w ha
been closed, as above described, and if ne
had begun to reopen the pressed places,
or 10 make a new branch in his bur
row II would he but a short while before
he could be seen raising the soil above
where he is at work. He must be APP
preached with great care, for the slight
est noise or Jar from the foot viii alarm
him. When one is located and evidence
seen Of his working. / creep within two
or three feet of where he is and thrust a
long handled shovel in the ground few
inches in the rear. and by an upward
and forward motion bring him to the
surface By selecting the proper time
after a rain in the spring of the year
they are in this way caught very readily.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-25
Peanuts-CuIture. Etc.

Agricultural Editor Morning News:
1 would be obliged if you would tell me
through the agricultural department the
way to grow large crop of peanuts.
How much seed per acre? how TO manure
the land and cheapest mode of cultivation
What kind of soil is best suited to pea
nuts? Can they be grown fairly we'll on
clay soil or on bottom lands?
March Is. A. B. r.
A sandy loan is best adpted to pea
nuts. 1t is not often that a good crop is
grown on clayey soil. Rich uplands us
ually make the best peanuts.
Select good sandy land and if it is not
rich enough supply a good mineral ferti-
llzer as freely as possible. Some nitrogen
is necessary, however.
Two weeks before planting apply broad
cast 500 pounds of standard fertilizer and
pillow IT in with scooters or their equiva-
lent and then lay off rows 24 feet apart
and bed up with the same pillow. The mid
die of April is the usual time for planting
the crop. In shallow burrows drop the seed
every IS inches g in a hilD. Select your
seed in due time and shell them, rejecting
all imperfect seeds.
Drop the seeds in a hill, fiirt a little
dirt on them with the foot and then press
the soil firmly to them. In a week or ten
days the young plants will be visible.
Cultivate at once. and repeat the cultiva-
ton sufficiently to keep down all weeds
and you win make as good a crop as the
land will permit.
Plenty of mineral fertilizer and plenty
of shallow cultivation is the secret of good
peanut crops.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-25

still much to be learned regarding the
broad subject Of fertilization. II has been
fully established that certain plants. es-
pecially alfalfa, and N fact all the clover
and bean family are able in the mystic
rious processes of growth. to gather from
the air portion Of the nitrogen required
for their nutrition The great advantage
of these plants as fertilizers Is thus ex-
planned. BY turning over a crop of clover,
alfalfa or COW peas much heterogeneous
matter is thus transferred from the ar
to the soil at very slight comparative
cost. With these facts in mind expert
mentors have lately been searching among
the plant family for those which can be
ascertained TO take from some hidden
source, whether in the soil or elsewhere.
other essential ingredients of plant food
not hitherto fully recognized. In this d.
rection certain experiments were under
taken last year at the experiment station
in Maine to learn the powers of certain
plants to appropriate rhosphoric acid.
While the time thus far devoted to this
line of experiment has been limited, and
the results obtained not wholly conclusive,
yet they indicate that turnips have the
power. to readily take phosphoric acid
from finely puverized phosphate rock,
and that wheat barley. peas and corn
possess the same powers in a more linn
tied degree. Potatoes and beans appeared
to derive no benefit whatever from such
fertilization. Other experiments in the
same direction are being made and the
probabilities now are that we shall know q
good deal more about this most important
subject of fertilization before many years
have passed. Meantime, IT behooves all
tillers of the soil to save with care every
scrap Of fertilzing material and to com
post IL for use when needed, for It will
certainly be needed sooner or later.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-25
Age of Orange Trees.

There has been much discussion among
American horticulturists the past few
years concerning the extreme age at
which orange trees will bear well and
produce good fruit. Some maintain that
an orange tree no matter how much
care is put upon it, VIII slowly wither
and die after it has reached half cen
fury Of growth Others have argued that
about seventy-fve years Is the limit Of
usefulness OF well-eared-for orange
tree Several American horticulturists,
who have been travelling along the Medi-
terranesn sea have recently found trees
over 120 years old that still produce
fruit Of excellent quality. On the island
OF Elba, where Napoleon was banished,
there is an orange grove of over 700 ST.
Michael trees that was planted by an
Italian in 1871, and It produced last year
over !, 500 boxes of fruit, but produced four
times that quantity twenty-five years
ago. There are several small orange
orchards in Southern Italy that are over
eighty years old and are still productive
OF large quantities OF fruit. on the island
of Malta James Peilman. the famous
American hortieulturist, found one orange
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-25
Mnnures for sandy soil.

The porosity OF sandy soil causes all
vegetable matter deposited in it to decay
rapidly, as IL is thus brought into con-
tact with the air. This makes Il very
quick to respond to manure. and Il also
makes 1t need frequent dressing of some
fertilizer for each crop. We have often
heard II advised to apply 10 sandy soil
coarse, vegetable matter. or manure
mixed with straw and other coarse ma
terial used for bedding This viii decay
and form humus. but the humus will
burn itself up very quickly. Sandy soils
are usually very dry In midsummer. II
the coarse manure is applied late In the
season il makes the sandy soil still dryer
II ploughed under or mixed with the soil.
The best way to get vegetable matter in
to sandy soil is by green manurlng with
clover The succulent stalks. leaves and
roots of growing clover furnish water
enough TO rot themselves down. and they
make the soil moister all the season than
sandy soil not thus MANFRED. II potash
in some form is added to clover sward
almost anything can be grown on sandy
soil thus MANFRED.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-25

These potash fertilizers contain potash
and no other plant food Kainite has
about p or % per cent OF actual potash.
muriate about 50 per cent. and sulphate
Chigh gradel nearly as much. Sulphate of
potash and magnesia. / think. has about
. TO 80 per cent OF actual potash potas-
stun oXidel. A pound OF this is worth ~
OF cents, and everyone can figure out
Tor himself what ton Of each one OF these
Fertilizers Is worth. The sulphate food is
usually considered the more valuable one.
nut as / have always obtained as good
results from muriate OF potash. I prefer
10 buy this as the cheaper OF the two.
Applied in excessive doses. il is liable to
40 damage 70 some crops. 1 found this
out once when ] applied IL at the rate OF
90 pounds per acre on an experimental
potato-plot. and could not raise even a
crop OF weeds on the piece for two sea-
sons. Usually. IL is safer TO apply mu-
rate Of potash as we'll as kainite In the
fail l sow IL broadcast by hand as
would sow wheat. and rather less than
upward of go pounds of muriate or 500
pounds of kainite per acre. In exceptional
cases, especially for fruit crops. we can
exceed these rates. even largely where
the potash supply in the soil has become
well reduced
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-25
Some Facts and specuIatiOns in Fer
tiIizntion.

Practically all soils contain definite
amounts of mineral ingredients suitable
and necessary for plant growth, but no
soil contains these elements in inexhaus-
tible quantity, says the Fruit Grower. We
hear much of ineXhaustible soils, but there
are none The best illustration of this
fact is a bank account. On a given day a
man may have a very large surplus in d
solvent bank. Whether that shall con-
tinue depends entirely upon his subse-
Quent cherksl and deposits. Constant
checking against the largest account will
eventually obliterate it unless the deposit
slip appears at the receiving teller's desk
quite as often as the check is handled by
the paying teller. Just so with a soil
however fertile. The farmer or fruit
grower who continually makes drafts
upon his soil for those essential ingre-
dients, nitrogen, potash and phosphoric
acid, without due replenishment will ex-
haust it eventually. and within compar-
atively brief period, no matter what or
where the land is. The study of proper
fertilization is taking a far higher rank
in these days than ever before, and as
farmers learn more of scientific culture
year becoming less confident of mex
haustible soils and know that they can
not cheat nature in the transaction of her
business. If there be no potash in the soil
there will be no fruit. and if there be
no nitrogen there will be no wheat
But it must be confessed that there is
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-25

Mcat Hedges IN England.-lt Is a curl
Gus fact that in England where the land
is much dearer than in this country, near
ly all the fences are hedges Ii is a relic
of times when the surrounding Of fields
had to he done so as to exclude human
intruders and wild beasts as well as do
nestle animals. Often the hedge was
fianked with a meat filled with water
Sometimes there was a moat on both SIDES
of the hedge. There are many Of these
moat hedges in England to this day,
though many of them have been broken
down. The reason why more hedges are
not replaced by other fence is that in
England wooden fence material is almost
impossible to get. Even the hedge trim
mings are useful as kindlings in seine
European countries and are gathered
by women and children. tied into bundles
and dried. 1t has been regarded as a cost
ly operation to root out an old hedge row.
After the hedge was destroyed and the
old moat leveled down, 1t usually restores
20 cultivation some very rich soil The
advantage Of having large fields is be-
coming more obvious every year Doing
away with fences of all kinds IS in prog
ress among farmers everywhere. Not
more than three or four fields are now
needed for "A large farm, where under
the ideas Of farming prevalent over fifty
years ago. i've times as many were re-
garded as extremely important
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-25

answer; kainit by itself is very imper-
rect manuring. and rarely pays for what
IS expended for il. If you are satisfied
mat your soil is specially lacking in
potash and if you cannot get the ashes
OF cotton seed hulls or the ashes of oak
ana hickory woods with which to SUNNY
the necessary potash then it may be pos
slole that you Will find it profitable to
use the kainit
1t is very rare experience that kainit
by itself proves Of any advantage to south
ern farmers
You do not say what kind of soil YOU
purpose to apply the kainit to or what
crop.
whether corn or cotton or garden crops
We would advise you to use it in connec-
ton with something else, either acid
phosphate or cotton seed Tor its meaD or
both together.
1t may be possible that the kainit alone
may increase the crop that you purpose
ADVISE you to make mixture something
like the following:
KANT, 800 pounds.
Cotton seed, 900 pounds GO bushels.
Acid phosphate. 300 pounds.
Total pounds, 1850.
Use 800 10 $50 pounds per acre for or
binary farm crops. For trucking crops
use 1900 to 5000 pounds per acre.
Remember that kainit supplies potash
only and unless the soil is lacking in
that element you might apply ton of it
without any increase of crop; in fact, it
might prove decidedly Instantaneous. y
hundred pounds of cotton seed huh ashes
is worth 300 or 400 pounds of kainit, and
we would prefer 100 pounds of first-class
oak and hickory ashes to 200 pounds of
kainit any time.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-25
THE RIGHT OF sELF-PRoTEcTIoS.
II Holds Good Against BeEgars who
Are Drunk and Threatening.


From the Washington Post.
One Of the tramps who solicit for aims
on the street so pertinaciously as to
amount to a practical holding up of their
victims ran up against the wrong man
Thursday night and received a lesson he
will not soon forget When James Smith.
Seotchman, rose in the dock in Judge
MIXERS court Friday he was a sorry
sight His eyes were nearly closed, and
his face a mass of clotted blood. Smith
and John Eckert Of Florida avenue. an
athlete of the Carroll Institute Athletic
club. we're charged with an ARRAY. Ac-
cording to the testimony. as Eckert and
companion were walking along Four
and-a-half street Smith approached them
and seized one Of the men by his arm
and asked for money.
why don't you go to the Central Union
Mission" asked Eckert
They don't give anything to Scots
there" replied the beggar, who was so
under the influence of liquor that he i'm
peded the progress of the gentlemen BY
stumbling all over them.
You're drunk now" said Eckert "T
will give you nothing. Go to the mis-
sion"
Can't / push It into your bull head
that they don't give Scots anything
theref persisted the man, with an oath.
In an instant Smith was on the ground.
Twice more he went down.
Il only touched him." said Eckert
II reckon he fell every time. didn't he?"
queried the court trying to hide a smile.
Il saw him hit Smith" said a witness.
1T was like a 5ledge hammer"
Smith told garbled story of the af-
fair, and finally admitted that he didn't
remember much about IT,
II think you had a right to defend
yourself" said his honor to Eckert. "As
FOR Smith, judging from his appearance,
he has been punished enough 1t is time
this Holding up business should stop.
Every night you may see number Of men
along the avenue. from the Peace mon
ument to Seventh street, annoying pas
sers-by with their begging. They look
like freebooters. and they only wait an
opportunity to act as such. II Eckert
had not been strong as he Is. he would
doubtless have been killed by this fellow.
I dismiss the case
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-25
BANKER CLEws' VIEWS.
The Financial Outlook as Seen From
Wall street.


The Financial Outlook as Seen From
Wall street.
New York, March 23-The Improvement
of business on the stock exchange. which
has been foreshadowed in my late weekly
advices. has appeared within the past
week with a disunctness and force which
show that it is real and destined to be
permanent II is needless to here recapi-
tulate the grounds OF my forecast; II Is
sufficient that the change is already here,
and with all the evidences or its being the
beginning Of "A true revival.
The change has been simultaneous I'm
New York and London. The latter mar
ket has been free buyer here for the last
few days. and its operations indicate fresh
confidence. and something more than a
mere temporary squirt with quick realiz-
ings The bond syndicate and It's opera
lions have evidently had an assuring eff
feet upon foreign investors. and arc Great
ing-a revival of interest In our securities
Not y fcw Of those who We're unable 10
get from the London subscriptions all the
new fours for which they bid have been
induced to take other American issues.
which Is evidence that the restoration Of
the treasury finances has had distinctly
favorable effect abroad upon our credit al
large On the local market the change
has not been purely speculative. Those
who have been long holding their means
idle or on temporary Investment have
come to the conclusion that the depression
In securities has touched bottom. and are
now beginning TO buy railroad bonds very
freely and are taking up the better class
Of dividend-pa ying stocks at the current
tempting low prices The speculative po-
sition has correspondingly changed.
This improving tendency is evidently
destined to continue; and in the mean
time. the best guide to follow IN Wall
street is the swing Of the pendulum. II
goes always to the extreme end on each
side before IL turns. The adjournment of
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-25

cessities mas been met by general and
larse uecIihe in the prices not only OF
goods. hut also OF raw materials nost
OF the latter being now selling at prices
unprecedented within the present gener-
alton. The reduction OF production has
been brought about by a painful but.
natural aud inevitable nrocess.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-25

face. When the last blowing is given
we very often SOW q crop of cow peas in
advance Of the pillow. which soon make a
good mulch for the ground and in the
fall an excellent COW and hog pasture.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-25

tree that there can be no doubt is ii2
years old. and that yielded several boxes
OF fruit last year. II is even alleged that
IN the azores there are orange and lemon
trees over 30 years old that still bear
irnt. but there is no good authority for
the allegation.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-25

pnate or in lieu Of it 40 pounds Of dis
solved bone meal
so 20 much as 10 the question Of fertilizers
me others We leave over until next
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-25

orss.ions and communications relative
81, sgricultural and horticultural subjects.
r. a3dressed to Agri. Editor, Drawer n,
Mledgeville, Ca, will receive immediate
s..a1tion.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-25
Kainit, Or Applying Po1nsh on,,

Agricultural Editor Morning News: 1
purpose to use kainit by itself in nv,
needy land Do you think it would do
without MIXTURE And il 400 pounds per
acre would DO for cotton? Ell
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-25

IF th-theah is anything that makes
NINE tired said Paddles, tits a m-max-
i'm A m-maxim is a generalizat ton sup
posed to fit all ceases, and 1t d-doesnt
f-hu the b-b-bill."
"Some maxims are pretty good"
f'S-some are, b-but some are d-delusions
T-take that one 'Th-think before you
speak
well. what is the matter with it?"
"J-iust l-listen to me. H-how the d-duce
could ] h-heip mysef?"-Life.
LAWYER: What's that book you are
reading2
Law Student: Oh. its work on COM
mon sense.
Lawyer: Yes, sir. and one day with such
a book as that would ruin your mind
for legal work forever.-Judge.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-25

NO solicit articles for this department
The name of the writer should accom-
-.-r the letter or article, not necessarily
r. Indication. but as an evidence Of good
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-25
HAVE FOR SALE,
New Era" Peas.

They are wond eriuily productive and will
make In sixty days. Also Milo Mage and Fan
CO bre Berkshire Pigs. J. c. LITTLE,
M r.t Louisville, Ca.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-25

re experience that kainit
4 any advantage to south
The Forrest City times., 1895-01-25
NOTICE.

have moved my butcher shop first aoar west of Blanton Building Thanking you for past favors, 1 still solicit your patronage. '''' Respectfully.
 C.. w. COOK.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-03-14
Election Proclamation.

1, the undersigned, mayor of the city of
Santa Fe, hereby give notice that the an
nual election, for the election of officers
for the city of Santa Fe, in the county of
Santa Fe, in the territory of New Mexico,
will be held on the first Tuesday In April,
being the I'd day of April, A. D. 1895.
The officers to be elected at such cleo
ton are as follows:
One mayor, to serve for the term of one
year.
One clerk, to serve for the term of one
year.
One treasurer, to serve for the term of
one year.
Each of whom shall be elected by
plurality of votes of the qualified electors
of the city of Santa Fe.
Also four aldermen, to serve for the
term of two years each as follows:
One alderman in ward No. l.
One alderman In ward No. 2.
One alderman in ward No. 3.
One alderman in ward No. 4.
| Each of whom shall be elected by
plurality of the votes of the qualified
electors of each of the four wards of said
city respectively.
And further notice is hereby given that
in addition to the election of city officers
aforesaid, there will be elected four mem
bers of the board of education OF the city
of Santa Fe, each to serve for the term of
two years, % follows, to.wit:
One member of the board of education
in ward No. l.
One member of the board of education
in ward No. 2.
One member of the board of education
in ward No. 5.
One member of the board of education
in ward No. 4.
Each of whom shall be elected by a
plurality of the votes of the qualified
electors of each of the four wards of said
city respectively.
And l, the said mayor, do also give not
ice that the polls will be opened and said
election held at the following places, and
the following persons are named to act
as Judges and clerks to conduct said
elections:
In ward No. l, at the house of Octaviano
Alarid, and Luis Constante, Luciano Val
dez and Tomas Quintana are hereby ap-
pointed Judges, and Pablo Padilla and
Jose D. Sena, IT,, clerks to conduct said
election in said ward.
In ward No. 2, at the house OF Don
Diego Gonzales, and Matias Dominguez
Jesus Tapia and Canuto Alarid are here
by appointed judges, and P. ]. Gonzales
and Antonio Alarid clerks to conduct
said election in said ward.
In ward No. 3, at the Fireman's hall,
and Santiago g. de Baca, Genovevo San.
doval and Marcos Castillo are hereby ap-
pointed judges and Patricio Sandoval anu
Alberto Garcia clerks to conduct said
election in said ward.
In ward No. 4, at the house of Julianita
Vigil de Chaves, and Melton Castillo,
Pablo Martinez and A. L. Morrison are
hereby appointed judges and William s.
Hemingway and R. L. Baca clerks to con-
duct said election in said ward.
The polls will be opened at o'clock a.
m. and close at p. m. on said election
day.
In witness whereof, I, as mayor of the
city of Santa Fe, have affixed to this
proclamation my official signature and
caused the same to be attested by the
clerk of said city and the seal thereof
this 18th day Of March, A. D. 1895.
! GsxAL.1 J. Fl. SLOAN,
| Attest: Mayor.
Al HILL, City Clerk.