The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-16

The cost with oats as cheap as they are
now is very little.
Planting Sour Land-It Is not advisa-
BILE to plant anything on sour land be-
fore IL is treated with lime, but IL you
do so, rice and cane are about the most
hardy plants TO Withstand the sourness
and produce a fair crop in spite of IT.
But even these crops Will do best on
the spots where brush heaps have been
burned, showing conclusively the bene-
fits Of an application OF potash or lime,
or both. The best application Is stone
lime, freshly Stacked mot air slaked), to
which only enough water has been APP
piled to reduce 1t to powder only, not
enough to form paste. A barrel fresh
will make two barrels when Stacked.
Twenty barrels per acre VIII not be too
savoy Cabbages. This kind Of cabbage
has a wrinkled leaf, and when rightly
sweet when cooked. II Is improved by
being frozen. Its good quality may be
realized by the fact that no other KIND
of cabbage, except the caulihoWer, which
is a cabbage, is SO much attacked by
the cabbage worm. These, however, may
be kept in subsection by sprinkling the
leaves especially the heart leaves, with
fine flour This sticks to the worms and
prevents their movement and very soon
kills them.
Tobacco-stems for Fertilizer.-"Are to-
bacco-stems a good fertilizer for corn2
Can afford to pay s. per ton for them
and haul them three miles2' Tobacco
stems are valuable as fertilizer mainly
on account of the potash which they con-
tain. An analysis OF a number OF sam
pies of tobacco-stems shows that they
contain over 2 per cent. OF phosphoric
acid and nearly 7 per cent. of potash
and that their value at market rates
for these elements of plant-food Is over
s13 per ton. Now, IL your soil lacks pot
the tobacco-stems as a fertilizer for corn;
but a fertilizer containing more nitrogen
and more phosphoric acid would be FAR
better for the corn. The only way you
can determine their value is by expert
menting on your own soil.
Small Blessings Count.-The healthful-
ness of farm life Is one of its greatest ad-
yantages over other occupations, and one
which cannot be measured nor valued by
money. If you are sometimes inclined TO
complain at poor crops or low prices, II
Is a good idea to stop and think about
the compromising features. There are
good many of them, II you viii only
take time TO consider them.
able make could be made to render most
excellent service in giving the soil in
creased power to retain its moisture, and
more especially during the period when
the grain is getting its hold upon the soil.
Every farmer knows how greatly impor-
tant il is to have the crops start quickly
and also vigorously. The use of the roller
at the time sowing will help to give
the newly sown crops just such start.
unless when there is an abundance OF
moisture in the soil
our Country's Farms-The statistics Of
the department show that by the census
of 1880 there were, in the United States,
4,5e4,641 farms, averaging l3 acres each,
and valued at 100000, 600, an average OF
81 800 each. OF the total population Of the
United States 26,146.000. or AZ per cent.
were engaged in farming. with an average
Of six persons to each farm.
Now is the time to start hyacinth bulbs
i'm glasses in order to have them flower
early in the winter. The glasses must be
filled with water so as to just escape
touching the base of the bulb. They must
be kent in a cool dry cupboard from
which all light Is excluded till the roots
have grown about halfway down the
glasses. which takes from two TO three
weeks The glasses are then placed for a
day or two in a subdued light, until the
shoots the bulbs have made get accus-
toned to the change. They may then be
placed In a window, or wherever wanted.
Care must be taken to replenish the
glasses with water as II eyaporates Snow
drop and crocus bulbs may now be planted
in small bowls and other dishes. filled
With damp moss for early howering.--Chi-
cago Chronicle.
Rural New Yorker calls attention 10 the
fact that all the new manufacturing en-
terprises at the south are not large
ones. Here and there throughout the re-
gion are men who are doing a small bus
mess ana doing u well One man In South
Carolina r. growing tomatoes and canning
them In a homemade apparatus. Last
season, he says, be put up 400 three
pound cans ana sold them al II giA home