The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-16

feet apart and three feet apart in the
drill.
They yield enormously say. from 100
TO 300 gallons per acre. and sell at from
% cents TO 81 per gallon They have been
sold at Ballinger this season from 1b
cents TO 81 per gallon
Dewberries and raspberries require about
the same cultivation and yield about the
same as hlackberries.
As TO the varieties Of blackberries I
prefer the Spalding. the Wilson. the Dallas
and the Easy Harvest.
As to the varieties Of raspberries l pre-
fer the Tusness and Cuthbert.
As to the varieties of plums / prefer
the wild Goose, Chikasaw and Golden
Beauty
The Foser plum does not fruit well
here. and are not sure bearers in this eli
mate.
Either of these varieties OF plums should
be planted in rows checked twelve feet
apart each way. and should be cultivated
well
Grapes should be planted I'm rows twelve
feet apart each way. Cut the vines within
two or three inches of the ground i'm
mediately after planting. leaving two
bulbs above the ground.
At each vine plant post firmly in the
ground, allowing It to stand about four
feet above the ground. Train one or two
runners on each post as straight as pos
sible keeping ell other sprouts cut Off
of main vines The following winter cut
all the vines OFF at the top OF the post.
and when the fruit vines or bearing vines
start out in the spring from main vines
clip them off while tender, leaving only
a few vines 10 bear the nrst year.
If you will prime close very winter and
spring In three years you will have a vine
strong enough to stand up without sup
port.
The Poetical es.-Bee-keepng has
been called the poetry OF agriculture.
Even the most humble and commonplace
apiary has about II touch of the pic
turesque. while the model apiary, with
its white hives dottng a shady lawn in
semblance of a miniature village, forms
"a picture upon which sne loves to lin
ger. To stand In such an apiary at mid
day, when the nectar all but drips from
the fragrant, golden blossoms Of the lin
den. and watch the bees as they leave
their hives with its quick, upward
sweeps, and return so heavily laden that
many fan short of tbs entrance rest a
moment, and then crawl YEARLY in; to
find each breath actually redolent with
the aroma of newly gathered nectar; to
look up and see clearly outlined against
the blue sky an intricate, may, net
work OF dark, circling lines drawn by
the busy workers as they eagerly 90 and
come; TO listen to the music from tho
myriadS OF tiny wings to thus stand,
and gaze and listen Is to have come
stealing over one n rapturous feeling OF
enthusiastic admiration.
But Bookkeeping could never have be-
come the pleasant and profitable pursuit
that II now is had II not been for the
discovery that smoke VIII brighten bees
into submission, and there Is the nipple
ment from which tho modern bee-keeper
derives more comfort than from the bel
lows bee-smOker.
It had no sooner become possible to ham
die bees with But little danger from their
stings. than the spirit of agricultural in
vention was awakened, and the first
achievement I'm the direction was the
grandest of which modern bee culture can
boast-that of the movable comb hive. II
a swarm of bees Is hived in "A box, or a
barrel or the straw "skep" OF our grand
fathers days or in any similar recepta-
Gle and the bees left to follow their own
sweet Will, the combs are usually built
in crooked, irregular manner. often ex-
tending i'm several different directions.
while they are necessarily attached to the
roof and walls Of the hive. If anything
goes wrong with a colony in such a hive,
It is impossible to learn and remedy the
trouble because the combs cannot be re-
moved for examination. In a movable
comb hive each comb Is built straight and
true inside frame of wood which can be
removed from the hive at pleasure.