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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-29

Fruit Growers Journal: With the in
PRODUCTION of the LeConte pear and the
Elberta peach an impetus was given to
southern horticulture which had before
been unknown. In regard to the LeConte
pear / can truly say that they have
brought much money into the south,
that they are good shippers and keepers,
and that some people have been known
to say that they like to eat them-but
further than this they are woefully lack
ing in merit. The same can be said Of
the Kieffer pear. But as TO the liberia
peach. as il grows In its southern home,
one cannot well say too much in its praise.
1t is nearest 20 perfection of any variety
of fruit that has yet been produced upon
this globe. l know what | am saying
when / make this statement. for / have
than ten years. 1t has not one single
fault that | know Of. 1t is as near per
lection as anything can be in this world.
Some one has asked If there Is any fruit
in nature that appears as fine as the col
ored plates the catalogues give2 Yes,
there is one-the liberia peach. Prest-
dent Berkman, the originator of this va
riety mo. Samuel Rump was the origi-
nator-Editorl was unusually modest In
presenting 1t to the public. II was the
one good peach out OF twelve thousand
seedlings, and he placed IL quietly in his
catalogue, without booming II in the
least We of the south had 1t and en-
ioyed IL long before the north knew any
thing about it, and now l see that both
north and south Il is destined to stand
at the head of the list. Thousands OF
acres have been planted in this variety
and as IL is a good shipper a good eating
peach and an abundant and regular
bearer, it promises great things for its
pOgsesgOrs
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-29
Good Beggnr weed Hay.

] intend to try and give my experience
regarding the cutting, curing and feeding
to horses and cattle, says +. w. S. in
Farmer and Fruit Grower.
The seed were sown in April, four
pounds to the acre of shelled seed, along
with some crab grass seed saved from
a late crop of crab grass hay.
/ had the first cutting Of hay the last
week of July; 1t was left in the sun for
half a day to wilt, and then hauled to the
barn. First layer two feet deep was
laid on the barn floor, then rails laid
across resting on the logs at the side,
on to the top of the barn; and It has re
NAMED so since, except what we have
used.
The stubble was eft about six inches
long and started to send - shoots at
once for the second crop, which crop |
consider the better one. as the stalks Gre
finer than in the first. The second cut
ting was in September. just when the
crop was blossom ming.
When we fed II to the horses, il is
cut up in a Baldwin fodder cutter INTO
one-inch lengths, and is eaten to the
last piece; the same when fed to cows.
Some of the beggar weed grew stalks
as thick as lead pencil, very few
thicker.
As Mr. Adams says, the hay Is dusty.
To get over that difficulty we slightly
dampen the cut hay Just before feed
ing II to the cattle or horses.
1 think Il a long way ahead of the north =
ern hay, such as we get I'm Florida, for
that sometimes is dusty, at others mouldy
We treat para grass hay the same ex-
cept the cutting.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-29
Manures for the Garden.

On almost all farms the garden gets the
richest portions Of the stable manure. by
which is generally meant that part least
mixed with straw and other bulky mate
rial, says the American Cultlvator. 1t
is not usually composted, but is drawn
on sometime in spring and spread over
the surface before blowing. Year after
year this dressing of stable manure is
applied filling the soil with decomposing
humus, until, II the land be heavy, the
garden becomes sodden with manure
whenever the soil is wet, but suffers
from drought in dry season. 1t is true
the stable manure furnishes an abundant
supply of nitrogen; but very little Of IL
is available until midsummer too late
for the early vegetables. There is in most
stable manure a deficiency of mineral
plant food, potash and phosphate. Both
of these are quite as important for many
kinds Of vegetables as they are for the
grain crops to which they are generally
applied by farmers.
What the garden needs for best results
is a greater variety of plant food and a
better nitrogen supply early In the season.
Attenuation of manure is the
practice Of the best market gardeners.
But they apply mineral manures in
amounts proporuonate to the stable ma
1000 to 1000 pounds per acre being not
unusual amounts. In Peter Henderson's
Gardening for Profit" he tells his own
experience with a three-year rotation.
The first year he used stable manure.
followed the next by mineral fertilizer
containing both phosphate and potash
with some nitrogen. This made the sta
BILE manure applied the previous year
more effective The third season the
waste hops from malt houses was ap-
piled. or the refuse stems and waste of
tobacco factories. The effect of this
manuring was to make the soil more por-
Gus. BY this time a dressing of stable
manure win give much better results
than II viii IL used continuously.
All manures for the. garden ought to
be composted BY this their bulk Is re-
duced and the plant food they contain
less injury from drying up OF the gar
den II the less bulky composted manure
is used on II. The most frequent COM
plant Of the farmer about his garden
Is that when hot weather comes Il drys
up more quickly than any other part
this, II he remembers the large guam
titles Of coarse manure he has buried
under the furroW. This makes an air
space. which prevents rapid decomposi-
ton, except In seasons when there Is
great excess Of moisture. Whenever there
10 take advantage OF IT, Weeds suffer
far less from drought than do most gar
den vegetables. and the effect OF very
heavy manurlng Is 20 MI the soil Wah
weeds after the hoed crops have grown
too large 10 be cultivated.
fertilizer added 20 stable manure when
used on the garden The combination
viii make both more effective than either
ia alone For the very earliest crops
dressing 81 nitrate o. soda viii pay. n
10 easily dlsaoiyed and its nitrogen IL In
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The senator From south Carolina.

Washington Cor. Chicago Record.
An examination Of the Congressional
Record shows that Senator 1rby of South
Carolina was absent nearly all the last
session of congress, and that he was an
nounced as paired upon nearly every
vote. An officer of the Senate, whose
business keeps him in the chamber, says
that Irby was not present more than half
a dozen times, and the minutes of the
committee of which he is a member do
not show that he ever attended a meet
ing.
Early in his senatorial career Mr.. Irby
became quite intimate with Senator Hill
and In the tariff fight followed that Lead
er consistently except upon a single qucs-
ton when ne was needed more than at
any other time. This was when vote
was taken on the income tax PROPOSE
ton. Mr.. Iill had general authority from
Mr.. Irby to arrange him a pair upon all
questions that arose In the Senate dur
ing his absence and In the case he an
nounced him as paired with the senator
from West Virginia, whereupon Senator
jones Of Arkansas, who was IN charge
OF the tariff bill. arose and read tele-
gram from Mr.. Irhy, asking him to ar
range pair IN favor Of the bill, Instead
OF against a. as Mr.. jiu had done. When
Mr.. Jones read this telegram the face Of
the senator from New York flushed. ard
reaching over TO Mr., Jones he said. Let
me see that telegram" There was no
doubt Of ~ genuineness, and the pair
AA'AAF
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GIeaminEs From Here and There.

Telling a Horses Age.-By Prof. Glea-
son: / have been asked TO explain my
method Of telling a horses age. A horse
has 20 teeth. ~ grinders. Y front teeth.
and tusks A mare has 56 teeth. "a
grinders y front teeth, and they have
tusks. but not very often Fourteen days
Old, a colt has four nipper teeth. at 3
months old he has 4 middle teeth, at
months old he has corner teeth, and
Al / year old the cups leave the npper
teeth, AZ z years old the cups leave the
middle teeth, and at "a ne sheds his
niDDer teeth. At years Old full-sized
nipper teeth, a. 5iz he sheds his middle
teeth. ~ 4 years Old fuli-eized middle
teeth, a. ~ years Old sheds hts corner
teeth, years OLD, fUll-slzed corner teeth
years Old, large cups in corner feefhs
small cups 10 middle teeth, atili smaller
cups % uipper teeth. 7 years cie, cups
leayf uippfr teeth, years Old, cups leave
middle teeth, years Oh, cups Leave the
corner teeth. ~ years Oh. a dark ffeove
VIII make ~ appearance 10 fhf upper core
ner tooth. a. y ffaTe % ne RrooYs WI
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-29

more available form than is the nitrogen
even in well-Totted stable manure. Be
sides, II does not make the soil dry out
so quickly as will the stable manure.
The farmer can probably vary his way
of fertilizing his garden by OCCASIONALLY
seeding 1t with clover and blowing under
a crop for green manure. The tap roots
of clover go into the subsoil. reaching for
much OF the fertility that mas soaked into
the subsoil on all long-manuTed ground.
Even the market gardener finds It to his
advantage to seed with clover so as TO
liven the subsoil as nothing else will do.
If the market gardener can use clover on
high priced land near cities the farmer
can still better afford to make his garden
what 1t should be. There ought on every
farm to be at least two plots of land
made rich enough to serve for a garden
This will enable the alienation with other
crops, which Is necessary to eradicate
weeds at least expense, and thus reduce
the cost of keeping the cost Of the garden
under cultivation and free from weeds
The clover is itself one of the best weed
destroyers. Its growth, II not trampled
or pastured will smother millions of weed
seeds that start in the spring, but under
its shade are not able to mature and
ripen their seeds
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-29
Prnfect the Rirds.

The Industrial American says: Farmers
and fruit growers overlook their best
friends when they fail to give credit to
the birds for the important work they per-
form in destroying the insects which prey
on all classes of vegetation. The reck-
less destruction of the birds should he
met by strong protests from every farmer
in the land, and they. of all others. should
see that our laws for their protection are
made effective by prosecuting those who
dsobey them.
The rapid demolition of the forest IL
driving away many of the birds that for
merly were so numerous, and other species
are taking their place, but with nature
protection Cthe forests) removed, they arc
the easy prey of the pot-hunter.
Other countries are suffering from the
destruction of the birds. The great and
fearful increase of locusts in Algeria is due
to the wholesale destruction of quail by
sportmen, says a French journal I'Ele-
veur). 1t further states:
ut is estimated that a quail consumes
daily from fifty to sixty grammes OF
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-29
Penr RIight Remedy.

Agricultural Editor Morning News
Would you kindly inform me what is the
best remedy for blight in pear trees, ii
there is any. j. X. b.
Rays Mill, Ga.
You do not describe the nature and ex-
tent Of the blight of the trees-whethel
old or young trees. and when the disease
manifests itself.
If the trees are afflicted simply with
leaf blight the best remedy is Bordeaux
Mixture" we'll sprayed upon the foliage
when the leaves are about half grown.
This mixture is made. as doubtless you
know, by dissolving six pounds of copper
sulphate in one gallon of hot water. In
another vessel dissolve four pounds of
fresh lime in one gallon of
water Strain the water. Put
the two into fifty gallons of water. 1t is
oftentimes made stronger than this (25
gallons of water, say), but it has been
found that the weaker mixture is just as
reliable as the stronger.
The spraying should be repeated sew
eral times at intervals of ten or twelve
days What kind of soil is your trees
growing in2 II may be that il would be
well to scrape the soil away from the
trees an inch or so in depth and out as
far as six or eight feet and broadcast
freely some fresh lime. Is your soil sup
piled sufficiently with the mineral ele-
ments? Are the trees making normal
GROWTH
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Some Gnr,ienPests

] send you in smaH box by same mail
with this card, three different insects
marked ], 2 and 3. The queer looking
worm marked /, has destroyed most of
my young plants in the beds by roofing
Them up. No. 2 l found eating the tender
leaf of a bean. No. 8, I found upon a
mustard plant about dozen on the plant.
Are they likely to increase in number, and
do much damage How is the best way to
fight them? R.F.L.
phe insects sent are very common ones
IN the south.
No. Is the larva or grub form of the
well-known June bug at the north called
May-beetle. If you examine the droppings
of cattle IN the yard or pasture, you are
apt to find number of the young grubs
The one sent is about grown. Where there
are many of these grubs in a garden they
can do considera bic damage by mining
along the surface and uprooting young
plants and feeding upon the roots. POul-
try and birds are very fond OF these grubs.
The fight against them is not an easy one,
as they burroW down 10. a depth OF inches
o.. more. BY laying short pieces Of plank
a intervals in the garden, frnt cutting
the soil and watering II freely. the grubf
will collect under the plank at night and
many may be killed In this way.
The yellow beetle, marked 2, Is known
as the l2-spotted Diabrotica. IL has spots
on each wing case. IL ~ destructive "a
young beans, melons, cucumbers, lettuce
cabbage, etc. It's iarva or caterpillar b
called the southern corn root worm. II
possible xiii az OF the first bugs seen upon
the piants. They can be Kept on 81 beans,
melons, etc, By sprinkllng the foliage
with Dgrethrnm powder and ciay dust Or
dry ashes tainted with fuDenfine and
kerosene sprinkled On ne plants when tho
dew ~ on Nill BE- helpful
No is the Hariiquin for Lincoln bug.
II ie q terrible pest when ~ az abundant.
IN the cabbage patch o. Geld. ana De- a cf-
p0f1aEt ~ 8ell the fret brood. einf fhe see
cnd and third hroo1s later On ln fhe sum.
f1er vii have d aH fteif own way.
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lLney merely suck the juice from the leaf
suo not eat Il as the green worm does)
out thelr lip Is poison. As they get both
N ne lower and upper sides Of the leaf il
y piincuit 70 reach them all with any
H. I'm y, OF aust, With turpentine or kerosene.
II is no. permissible to use ANYTHING rois-
ohouS, like arsenic, on cabbage. Pyri-
Snrum IS the best thing to dust on the
oIes' II you can secure II at a reasonable
prlce. II you value your cabbages il will
pay you 10 use the utmost care TO xiii hv
nano all the bugs you can find early in
broods '
We have not observed a single Harle-
gum bug this season. Several wears ago
We were literally overrun with it and
stopped growing cabbages for several
years. -
This season the green worm is very
doundant and promises TO be seriously
destructive 10 cabbages. but we have en-
lereu upon active defensive measures by
examining each plant for eggs and young
worms, at the same time killing every
white butterfly that puts in an appearance
IN the garden.
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MonderfuI Pea-soin Means.

have read with much interest the ar
ticle on Wonderful Pea and SOFA Beans in
your agricultural department, which / en-
Joy very much Will you please advise
me where l cap procure seeds of the same.
Quitman, Ga. ]. T.
Any irst-class scotsman can supply you
with seed of peas and beans. We note
that T. ]. Davis, Savannah, Ga, adver-
tises sofa beans. Wonderful peas, known
also as Unknown" are sold by Alexander
& Co. Augusta, Ca, and H. G. Hastings
q Co., Interlachen, Fla. You should be
able to get both in your own county. II
will pay you to have some to sell next
spring. Doubtless many persons have
these seeds for sale, but they fail to make
the fact known.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-29

bury ducks are pure white and beautiful
the Pekins being somewhat the larger OF
the two. and better layers. There Is some
objection to the Pekin as a fowl for mar
ket on account OF the dificulty OF clear
ing The carcass of pin-feathers. Rouens
are but little subject to this objection. and
they are large enough, eighteen pounds
per pair not being unusual weights. and
single birds often exceeding ten pounds.
Rouen ducks may be depended upon for
more than 100 eggs each during the year
and often as many as 40. They are easily
raised, are little trouble. are not noisy.
and are beautiful 10 look upon.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-29

For several years now we have OBJ
served with much concern the marked
elimination in the number of birds that
have heretofore been so common to the
condition now that 1t is a very rare
thing that we see a hooking bird or a
catbird, thrush or French mocking-
bird, not to mention a dozen other small
Ter kinds, all of which were so plentiful
in Middle Georgia ten years ago. 1t seems
that the fad of collecting bird eggs, with
the reprehensible practice of fashion in
decorating the ladies' hats with birds has
accomplished a destruction almost COM
plete of nearly all of our valuable in
sect eating birds. The penalty, We fear,
Will prove a very serious one How Sc
rious we are 10th 10 express our views
concerning its extent and character.
SCIENCE may do much, has done much in
providing insecticides, in combating the
constantly increasing hordes of destruc-
tive insects, and thus in a measure neu-
tralizing the damage resulting from the
absence of our feathered allies in farm,
garden and orchard, but there is much
we fear, that science will not he able to
do to make the substitution os poison for
birds a satisfactory one. Nature is quite
sure, sooner or later to resent the outrage
upon her great law. There is no question
that injurious insects are being RAPIDLY
multiplied. Yearly there are new species
appearing upon the scene whose habits
have not as yet been studied and deter
mined. Already IL requires the greatest
watchfulness and the most painstaking
ana energetic action to protect fairly our
most valuable crops of the garden, farm
and orchard
We are strong in the belief that legisla-
ton cannot be too prompt and too active
in providing measures that will accom-
plsh the protection of all of our birds.
with very few exceptions.
In the meantime, however, every ration
al man, woman and child in the land
should make a law unto themselves Ia
encourage the re-establishment of our
bird host. 1t is a far more serious mat
ter than the thoughtless may be inclined
to credit; nevertheless il is true that the
widespread and wholesale destruction
Of our dozen or more chief insect-devour.
ing birds stands to-day as a menace al.
most everywhere to the future reasona bic
supply of food, clothing and the luxury OF
fruit. What the damage has been we
have a slight idea of. but what il will be
1t is well enough perhaps not to speculate
upon
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-29

The Wonderful pea is the same as the
Unknown" 1t has large yellow poe
containing peas of medium size of a buff
color. () The Red Crowder is a pro-
life early kind. The Whippowin or Speck-
led is early and makes less vine than
others. 1t requires to be planted more
thickly than any perhaps to get the best
results. 90 The Unknown" is good
enough. so also is the CLAY" ca Yes.
there are Red Crowder," Purple Hull
Crowder." Sugar Crowder" and Speckled
Crowder." 90 The small Lady pea is
not very productive of peas though 1t
makes a heavy crop of vines usually. On
fair soil, however, eighteen or twenty
bushels of seed can be made. For table
use ii should command 80 per cent. more
per bushel than the larger dark colored
peas. 90 1t depends upon the nature of
the soil. The range is from ten to forty
bushels per acre. There is no better pea
that the Unknown Tor Wonderfully though
the several "Crowder'' varieties are heavy
yielding peas. The Red Ripper is also
productive, as also the CLAY" and the
HCnffaa -
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food, and that twenty tiny locusts Of the
size of hemp seed 30 to the gramme.
Hence one quail may destroy daily Loo
locusts, or from 10000 to 5000 during
the period when the insects are small
enough TO be swallowed by it, The Tunis-
ian sportsmen, who. on May s. of last
year, shipped of $1,000 quails to France
are. then, in great measure. to blame
for $50. 900. 900 locusts less than usual hav-
ing been destroyed by those birds during
the year"
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Cow or FieId Peas.

VIII YOU give me some information
ABOUT your field peas of which there seems
70 pc a good many varieties?
% Is there any difference between the
Unknown and the "Wonderfui?' De-
scribe the appearance of the latter (2)
winch IS the most productive (of peas)
among the early kinds? go Which kinds are
best to SOW at the laying-by of corn and
with the design Of letting the vines die
on the land for the benefit of the soil? (4)
Are there several kinds that go by the
name of Crowder? (0 Is the small kind
known as lady peas" fairly productive
Does ii not command a better price for
table use? 90 What is a fair average
crop of shelled peas per acre. H c. F.
Sumter county
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Questions and communications relative
to,agricultural and horticultural subjects.
II addressed TO Agri. Editor. Drawer n.
. Nilledgeville, Ga, will receive immediate
affaurfon
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We solicit articles for this department
The name of the writer should accom-
pany the letter or article. not necessarily
faith.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-29

be half way down the upper corner tooth
at q years old the groove viii be at the
bottom. AT this age give the horse hi;
time, and let him have rest in his fu
ture days.