Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1895-10-17
HERE AND THERE.

Its hard work to dig ont these little
plantain and dandelion weeds from
your grass plot just now. But it pays.
They are like the little foxes" There
are homilies In plantains and dande-
lions.
1t is well enough to remember that
good forage can be kept for another
year, SO ifthere can be found no profit
able present use for 1t, just hold 1t over
and be prepared with animals to eat it
next year.
Unless the orchardist is careful
weeds will get fast hold during the
fall and seed the ground for a more
abundant crop next year. Now is the
time to destroy them. Cut and as
soon as dry enough, burn them.
Good roads are too COSTLY" says
conservative paper. They are not half
so costly as bad roads. 1t is as hard
for fool to disguise himself as for a
jackass to roar as a lion. Both have
tried these things and failed.
Don't sow down your young or
chard in grain to make pasturage. In
the first place, no kind of grain should
be sown In an orchard; and In the next,
horses and cattle have no business in
an orchard-they are sure to do mis-
chief
2Pullets Matched after May rarely
lay until the following spring. For
| this reason, when feed must be bought
or feed used that might otherwise be
sold, it Is not profitable to keep these
late arrivals over. Better fatten and
sell the last one of them. The early
hatched'pullets should lay in winter,
when eggs are h. good price in the mar
ket or at home, and are the ones to
keep.
The steady Improvement in farm
poultry In this country has not only
resulted in more eggs. but larger ones;
not only more chickens, but larger and
better ones. Improvement sAill goes on
where will it end? Or, will it end?
Not until civilization lets her foot slip
while climbing the hill at whose top
perfection perches.
Cotton Is beginning to appeQr in
market, and farmers are displaying
their usual anxiety to get rid of the
stuff. For this spectators who ark
interested in depressing prices should
be duly thankful, for they have
proclaimed large crop, on only FIVE
per cent decreased acreage, and this
rush to sell confirms the contention,
and the bears suck their paws with
satisfaction.
Bees might we'll be kept by all
lovers of nature with taste for in
vestigation, even II honey was moi
used. 1t will pay any intelligent per
son to observe the habits Of these
models of ingenuity and industry, ani
give him a clearer conception Of the
wisdom of creative power. The effect
on the moral character Of studying
bees is salutary, as well as Interesting
Southern farmers can control the
price of cotton if they will. - II they
set the price at seven or eight cents
. and refuse to self for less, they vii
get it. Bat many must sells to smee
r obligations and pay rent That Ia al
, right. Let them sell who must; bu
/ those who are under nosuch necessat!
, can control the bulk Of the crop apt
the price viii they do it2 We vii
see. lsS ri.
q Hogs throughout Texas are dom,
. well, and the number is largely in
{ ci'ease8i aver last year, and. last yea
they were. largely Increased; oyer On,
previous year. And-mark the predic
tion-1s96 will show an annual In
crease that will throw all previous an
Y nual increases far in the shade Texa
t farmers have found that they have tn
finest hog country I'M the Union, an
2 they are going to run the business Il
o such a manner as to cause Iowa AM
. Wisconsin to look out for their bacon