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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-16
Keeping sheep in the south.

Few southern farmers realize the inn
mense advantages they possess in their
climate. This is such as to enable them
to produce the most valuable of crops of
the north and those that are specially
adapted TO the south. And as to live
stock they enjoy far greater facilities for
making profit than northern farmers ever
can. A year-round mildness of climate
makes outdoor feeding possible the whole
year. The greater list of feeding crops
that may be grown so cheaply enables the
sheep to be fed, at the most, not more
than % cents a year. counting in this the
whole cost of producing the feed and an
adequate profit besides. This includes
some hand feeding, which in many cases
and localities is unnecessary. The south
ern farmer grows too much cotton. The
oVerpluS every year keeps the price down
to barely the cost of the product, ana 1t
seems impossible for any kind of general
effort to avoid this to succeed. but if the
southern farmers would keep sheep and
grow pasture for them on their surplus
land using their timber lands as a sum
mer range, and raise such feeding crops
as sweet potatoes which may be grown
for cents a bushel, crimson clover or
winter oats, or rye, for winter feeding
they might be able TO put the ldnDS INTO
the northern markets for one-fourth the
money needed to pay the shepherd in the
north OF course the price obtained would
pay a big profit on the business If the
right way were taken.
would recommend, says southern
farmer in American Sheep Breeder, the
Merino ewes for the flock and South
down or a Shropshire ram for the sire
There is no fatter or plumper market
lamb than this cross, and the black faces
will make them most acceptable to the
butchers ii is quite possible to get the -
lambs into the northern markets in the
season, either alive or dressed, without
any difficulty on the fast trains on any of
the railroads. Millions of acres of cheap
land are readily available, pure water
from the abundant streams flows every
where, the midness of the climate is just
what is wanted for the perfect health of
the flock, and nothing stands In the way
but the apathy of those concerned. One
fourth less cotton would then be grown,
bringing the price to an immediate profit
able point. The wool finds a1h0me mar
Eet for the facilities for manufacturing
are nowhere better over the whole face
Of this broad continent. Money now sent
abroad would be kept at home and more
would be brought in, making the whole
south rich in a few years.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-16
Profits Frnm Rrn

Rye can be- sown throughout the month
Of November, but it ought to be done early
as possible, says western journal. 1t can
either be pastured. cut for green feeding
or allowed to stand for grain. In the
first two cases it may be turned under in
the spring to aid in the production Of sue
ceeding crops. There should be as little
pare land as possible, and of all winter COW
erings rye perhaps furnishes the most
profitable. On poor land It yields better
than either wheat or oats, and on good
land the yield is proportionally greater
The profits from a crop of rye are more
than the actual YIELD from the grain itself
If the land is properly plowed and seeded
to rye, 1t is practically insured against
washing. OF course this does not apply
to the patches which are hastily scratched
in, and this brings US to the question of
how we shall plow our land and rotate our
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-16
GHOST MADE by 4 FEVER MANIAC.
Cooks See IL and Quit the Annie r.
silver.
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
1t was an off night in the "Gluepot."
The usual select coterie that gathers there
had not dropped in at their usual time.
The only habitues besides Johnny himself
were Capt. Sloan and the counsellor. All
were half asleep,
Suddenly the captain shook himself and
remarked: "When l was pilot on the An
ME p. Silver had a strange experience.
''It was in this way: The old Silver ran
out of St. Louis to New Orleans, and
what I haven't seen of the river between
those two points amt worth much, Every
bluff bend, creek and shoal brings back
memories of the past, and II l was at al
inclined to be superstitious / could indulge
my fancy with ghost stories. remember
when i'm the war / saw the Stonewall
Jackson blow up off Island No. TO- sending
I ZOO men to kingdom come. They say the
ghosts about there are pretty thick. May
he they are, but can swear TO one on the
old Annie p. Silver, and II the ghost OF
Daniel Blake don't haunt that boat my
name amt Sloan"
The counsellor had become interested
and Johnny opened one eye.
at amt the only one that saw It," con-
tinued the captain, three cooks quit the
ship on account of 1t, and even the SKIP
per. before Capt Bolask came, quit on
the same account. II was in the fail OF
80 and we were headed down the river.
We had touched at Cairo, taking on pas
sengers and freight, ana were steaminS
for Memphis, 230 miles distant.
ut was a beautiful moonlight night,
and Capt Silver, our skipper, and Daniel
Blake, the purser, had come up to tbs
Dilot house TO have a chat and smoke
before turning In. 1t wanted about one
10 ha1 saarN on "a -
ting long when the texas tender Che lad
that looked after our quarters) came up
and told the purser that he was wanted
on the boiler deck He went down, and
was directed to a man named Jack Long
ley, who was a wild sort Of character
sometimes lumberman, sometimes
stevedore and mostly a loafer. He WAS
seated on a bale of goods, looking mighty
sick
What is the matter? said the purser.
.slcker'n the devilv replied Longley, turn
ing up a wild, unshaven face. I've been
on II for a week., he said, and I'm dead
broke and nigh crazy with malaria. Give
me a berth, and I'll make 1t right with
you later
BLAKE assisted the fever-stricken fell
low to berth I'll remember the number
just aft the gangway and near the deck
staircase. He put him comfortably to
bed, then came back and sat on the bench
by the door OF the pilot house.
THE fever-stricken man, left below by
the purser, grew suddenly delirious, and
was transformed into a maniac possessed
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-16

strip. These strips that occur between the
lands" should never be plowed. On lands
that is only slightly rolling the ditch on
the lower side of the baulk or strip need
not be very deep or wide. oftentimes it can
be dispensed with entirely. The apparent
waste of land in these strips should not
be regarded. Some valuable forage crop
may be established upon them and now
ed from time to time 1t is no use to dis
cuss any other plan for protecting from
washing. This is the plan, the only plan
that is effective and rational. One need
not expect to perfect it in one season.
Timely work on defective portions will
soon establish a perfect terrace. Where
weeds take possession OF the ''baulks"
they should be moved down before seed
ing, so as not to foul the land. AS our
lands increase in value, of course more at
tention Will be given TO their Improvement
and preservation, but we can very greatly
enhance the productive capacity and mon
ey value of our own separate farms by
promptly resorting to this comparatively
inexpensive but effective mode of preserv-
ing the cultivated area from waste There
is considerable work of this kind that can
be done about the farm by a practical far
mer, who is practiced in running horizon
tai rows without resorting to a level at all.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-16

Our reference to the SOFA bean crop or
Mr.. Bellwood, in our last issue, has
brought us reports as to other crops OF
this most valuable feed plant. Dr. Stone
of Stonehurst Stock Farm, Fluvanna
county, has sent us a sample of his crop
grown on high land that, three years ago,
was as bare and poor as the highway.
The field of several acres is covered with
an immense growth of beans, averaging
from three to four feet high (the plant
he sent us measured over four feeD, ard
nodded from the bottom to the top. There
are several hundred pods on the plants
sent us; in fact, on some stalks they are
So closely set as to almost exclude foil
age. He is greatly pleased with the crop
a. producing such a marvellous quantity
of the most nutritious feed and grain on
land not of the most productive charac-
ter, whilst at the same time improving
the land for other crops. DIR. Gaddy or
Lovett, Ind, also writes us that he has
a splendid growth of the beans, though
piarted too late to mature thoroughly be-
fore f.ost. He says That he has plants
six feet high and branching very widely.
He saws that cit is a wonderful growing
crop. and he is greatly pleased with it.
We again reiterate what we have said be.
fore, that we know of no crop which we
can more conscientiously recommend to
farmers who want to raise large guam
tity of valuable feed.-Southern Planter.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-16

er foods; not that such food is injurious
of itself, but because it is fed too exciu-
sively tending to make the birds fat. yet
not supplying the needed elements of eggs
and growth Where the hens have range
they balance the foods by securing grass
and insects, which accounts for the good
results obtained from corn; but If the mock
is kept on small area the hens nave no
opportunity TO vary the food, and the
consequence is that they often refuse It,
because nature prompts them that corn
alone is injurious. Corn may be fed, es-
pecially in winter, but the hens should
have other food as we'll, so as to afford a
variety.-Poultry Keeper.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-16
why Fertilizers often Fail to Give
Good Results.

Instances occur so often where salts
factory results are not obtained with fer
t,lizers that the faith of many farmers
has been shaken in them, says the Farm
ers' Review. The mere fact that the put
ting on of so many pounds of plant food
does not double or treble the yield of the
crop should not be taken as an indication
that fertilizers do not pay. Various infu-
ences have to be considered, and often
one of them may be powerful enough to
avert success. The most common Of these
are: First, poor physical condition OF
the soil. Second, applying fertilizers
which are not properly balanced In plant
food ingredients. Third, applying ferth-
izers too late.
Every farmer ougth to know that a crop
will only do it's best when the plant food
ingredients are presented to 1t under tho
most favorable circumstances. FERTILE
ers put into the soil must pass into liz
uid condition before they can be absorbed
bv the plants; if, however, by neglect OF
cultivation the soil Is in poor condition.
hard and lumpy-it offers resistance to the
growth of the roots and they can neither
absorb or retain moisture necessary to
plant growth and quite naturally fertiliz-
ers cannot show their desired effect.
Plants are like animals in the matter Of
feeding; if they do not get their food in
the right shape or in the necessary guam
titles, IL is only natural that they will
not reach a full development. The three
essential ingredients which are usually fed
to plants in the shape OF commercial fer
tilizers are phosphoric acid, nitrogen and
potash. These ought to be combined in
such proportions as to fully satisfy the
demands Of the growing crop. Some
plants, though. require more of one of the
ingredients than they do of the other. A
brand of fertilizer for instance, which
would give good results upon wheat would
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-16
Also ~
st. Louis, New Orleans, Baltimore.

crops to lay a broad and sure foundation
for future profitable returns.
In right system of blowing much L.
Ponds on the crops to follow, but as a rule
the farmer will make no mistake if in
turning under the stubble or other vege-
tation on stiff land which is to stand dur
ing the winter he runs a sub-soier in the
bottom of the furrow. If on rye land this
is done before the rye is sown, we accom-
plish the double purpose of protecting our
land after the rye covers it and of provid-
ing store house for the rainfall which we
have in such full measure during the win
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-16

Give two ounces of Glauber salts daily
in the food and let the diet be laxative
The general feed to be good hay and
ground oats with the addition of roots,
bran mashes and linseed meal or boiled
fiaxseed, to be alternated. Cease watering
after eating. Do it before. Salt to be
kept where he can reach it, and driving to
be slow and light for a few weeks, and
give him good general care.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-16
Indigestion in Horse.

My 6-year-old horse has good appetite.
He has hay and grain, but eats all his
bedding he can reach, no matter in what
condition. His excrement is all right when
he stands, but after driving a few miles
it becomes loose and thin, and often. He
is losing flesh and spirits. His hair looks
dead
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-16
Corn and Corn Meal.

of fowls and chicks on the farm, and they
cause more disease and loss than any 9TH
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-16

Questions and communications relative
. egricultural and horticultural subjects,
. s5dressed to Agri. Editor, Drawer N,
unedgeville, Ca, will receive immediate
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-16
SEED
Oats, Wheat, Rye

hElAlL PKlCES.
OATS-Our Yellow Mexican Rust-prooe
yielded over 5000 bushels this dry season
on 100 acres. Price Csc. Earliest to get
ripe. We harvest first week In May.
OATS-Gray Winter Turf Oats. best
oats to pasture. Price 81.
WHEAT-Acclimated Rust-proof, over
30 bushels. Price $3.50
RYE-Georgia, over 20 bushels. Price
500
TS-Rust-proof, Georgia raised soc.
Gionett Lincoln. Tartarican, White
Abundance Oats. All rusted with US and
are not for sale.
All raised on our farms adjoining sa-
vannah.
All our bags of seed have our name
printed on them. Not genuine without.
We have no agents.
STRAW-Bale Csc. Ton Sc.
HAY-75c carload: $3.50 ton.
HAY-Pea Vine and Hay 9Oc carload:
SIS ton.
]. F. GUILMARTIN & CO.,
Proprietors Chatham County Expert
mental Farms Of LOO Acres.
SAVANNAH.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-16

We solicit articles for this department.
RE name of the writer should accom-
1anv the letter or article, not necessarily
far publication, but as an evidence OF good
faith.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-16
To Make Poultry Keeping Profit
able.

Few people have any idea of the profits
and losses there are in the poultry bust
ness. or the amount of money invested in
handling their product. According to sta.
tistical information. the railroads annu-
ally carry $3.50, 100000 worth. The annual
product would buy every farm in New
Jersey, and the hens of New York state
would purchase the cattle of New Jersey.
With these vast figures as to the yearly
product, what a small proportion of it
reverts to the south, and especially to our
own state of Georgia, and where is there
a more inviting climate or better field?
The poultry product is worth four times
the silver product, yet the country is wor-
rying over the silver question and neg
lecting the hen.
To illustrate with figures, the average
number of hens in my houses was Goo
The yearly product for each hen was 1856
eggs. The average price from my Gus
toners (private families) was PIP cents
per dozen. This gives the following:
Eggs, net ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. -,lJi
STOCK sold ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. NV
Hen manure ............................ l4O
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-03-18
In British Guiana's Capital.

A correspondent of the Boston
Transcript thus describes Georgetown,
British Guiana: "In the hotels are
managers and overseers drinking
'swizzles' and playing billiards. The
cigarette is universal. Everything and
everyone seems languid and half
asleep. No sign of struggle for ex-
istence. They live on nothing and for
nothing in particular. Business is
good, it is said, but there are no signs
of it, Clothing is inexpensive, and
they wear little. The heat is terrific
and they drink 'swizzles' and smoke.
Backward and forward plies the ferry
boat from the east to the west coast of
the Shiny Demerara. Ships of every
kind sleep beside the docks. In the
distance loom the smoking chimneys
of the sugar plantations. Peace aud
plenty is written on all. The blue
shadows sleep on the streets, and the
hucksters sleep in them, lulled by
the buzz of the droning beetle in the
leaves shove them. 1t is the hour of
the midday siesta. Toward evening
the sea wall is alive with people-a
strong dixie of massive stone against
which the sea beats in vain, sending
up huge bursts Of foam to startle yon
two lovers from their reverie as hand
in hand, in Guianese style, they Ian
guidly promenade in the rays of the
setting sun"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-03-18
Fine Workmanship Of the Beers.

On the subject of craftsmanship
among the Beers, Mr.. White de-
scribed the training through which
most of them go from boyhood-
Pointing to photograph that hung in
his room, he said: 81 have seen that
man put rifle into the hands of
child and tell him to shoot at bottle
q hundred yards off or more, promis-
ing reward of ten shillings when he
could hit that small mark repeatedly.
After time the lad was taught to
shoot at objects moving at distance
of 400 yards, and the promise that he
should have a pony to ride when he
became proficient at that practice soon
made him an expert shot"
Rifle ranges are not scarce in the
Transvaal, and many of our volun-
teers would be glad if they could get
similar opportunities for musketry
training in England. The Beers will
have nothing to do with modern mag
azine rifles. They are armed. or arm
themselves, with Martini Henrys, and
desire nothing better, unless perhaps
it be Winchester or Colt repeater
for shooting big game on the run. =
London News.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-03-18

"And so the sapphire was found
after all" said Mrs. Feathertop. "But
dear me have you heard about poor
Miss Price9 Did she tell your"
"No," said Judson. "What is it?"
1.-THE shirt factory has failed" said
Mrs. Feathertop. 'The hands are oil
left without work, and what's worse,
their buck wages never will be paid.
I'm dreadful sorry for poor Miss
Price. It does seem as IL she had
nothing but i'll luck in the world.
But there I've left Patty In the store.
and she don't know the price of
thing. I must hurry back as fast as
ever can."
Miss Price came down into the
bakery that evening.
Mrs. Feathertop," said she, 81 am
going to give up my room"
"I supposed so, said Mrs. Feather
top, wrapping up a loaf of Boston
brown bread in paper for a customer.
"Well, Miss Price, I'm sorry, but"
'But didn't tell you ALL" said
Miss Price. "f--fm going to be
married-to Mr.. Judson."
Down rolled the loaf Of Boston
brown bread to the floor.
"Eh?" cried the bakers wife. "It
amt possiblel"
But it was. Plain little Miss Price,
with the white eyelashes, the red hair
the pock-marked complexion, had
won husband after all
SIN my eyes, dearest" John Jud-
son had said, 'yours is the sweetest
face in all the world. 1t bent over
my sick-bed when / should have died
save for its help and sympathy; it
lighted mp the dark hours of my weary
convalescence it shone like star
in my utmost need; and if you will
trust yourself to me, Mary, you shall
never-God helping me-have reason
to regret it,"
So they were married, much to the
wonder of the world in general.
"well," said Mrs. Feathertop. 'ff
Miss Price has got husband, then
nobody need despair"
But Mrs Feathertop's vision was
duller than that of John Judson.
She had not seen the glory of Miss
Prices pure soul shining through the
plain face. Saturday Night.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-03-18
How Two Cents Were saved.

"It takes woman to whittle expend-
itures down to fine point aud figure
out bargain" remarked man the
other duy. "I was looking at some
new books in one of the large shops
last Monday, and just behind were
stacked over 1000 cheap popular
novels, put up to sell cheap. Each
tier was placarded: Three cents each;
four a dime and the tiers reached
to the ceiling. Two ladies' we're look
ing at the books, both we'll gowned
aud rather above the average in APP
pearance. They were evidently
strangers, for heard one say to the
other: care you going to take book,
madam"
why, yes, I tho ught would,
was the surprised reply. Il want
something to read on the cars. 1 think
/ will enjoy reading ''David Copper
field," so have selected that
"'Have you got two cents?' was the
next question.
"I--.I think so, was the rather
slow response, the tone Of surprise
deepened.
"'Just let me have it,, said the
other, as / turned around to see IL
there wasn't some kind of fim-fam
game going on. "
i" Here, to the clerk she had beck
oned. do 'David Copperfeld" up in
one package and those three in an
other, and here's your ten cents.
Hurry; this lady has to cntch train.
"The girl was back in iiffy, and
before any of us could figure it out the
lady had showed David Copperfsld.
into the hands OF the traveller and
taken possession OF her own three
books. There, she said, you get
your book for two cents and get my
three for eight cents. You have saved
one penny and so have ]. Save the
pennies and the pounds will take care
of themselves, and she went of laugh
ing. I'll bet it would have taken
man week to figure that out, and l
am not sure that 1 have it right yet"
Chicago Chronicle.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-03-18
Denizens of The Veldt.

In the Veldt county is the old wild
herd of gnu known to exist.
Beautiful spotted leopards haunt the
dense reep beds, but they are shy and
hard to shoot.
The South African lion is the fierc-
est of its tribe, and has grown so bold
that it attacks draught animals on the
march.
The sable antelope protects itself
from the lions attack by lying fiat
down and making prodigious sweeps
with its terrible saber-like horns.
A Botaleur eagle, when hunting,
flies with its chin, laid almost on the
breast, SO that it looks backward and
and sees any hidden game.
The vultures in the Veldt attain o
huge size. and meet every morning be-
fore breakfast for plunge and bath
"a habit that is seldom credited to
these birds.
Sadie backed storks appear in great
numbers in the Veldt, and in the even
ing Aocks of them "iy spirals" which
accounts for their apparent horizonta
soaring.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-03-18


What do you say to this new method
in pho sraphy? asks the New York
Herald. You can only stand aghast
in wonder. DR.. Roentgen's discovery
of new kind OF ether waves which
will pass through metal, as light passes
hrough glass, will have great results.
Ut enables an expert to take picture
OF a mans skeleton and of the whole
physical interior. Heretofore the
surgeon has hunted for bullet with
knife and probe, but now he can take
. photograph of the patient, and the
picture will tell him where the bullet
hes hidden. All that is left to dis.
cover is some way to repair the nerve
waste aud wear OF tissue that is con-
stantly going on. After that we shall
live 30 long that the future historian
will speak of Methuselah as having
died prematurely in infancy.