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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-27
GIVE US GOOD NERVE.
such Is the Cry OF Thousands Whose Nerv-
Gus Systems Are Debilitated.
DR.. Charcor's Kola Nervine Tablets
Will Surely Bring New Life
and Vigor.

The Kola nut has been used for centil-
ries by Africans as a remover OF the it's
sues and a preventer OF fatigue.
Dr. Charcot, the eminent authority on
nervous diseases. prepared prescription
from Kola which he vouched for as a true
specific in all nervous diseases and sure
invigOratOr for the blood.
DIR. Charcot's Kola Nervine Tablets are
prepared upon the above mentioned pre-
scription from the fresh nuts especially
imported from Western Africa.
Kola is not a cure-all. 1t is a food for
nerves. brain and muscles and tonic for
the blood.
Kola Nervine Tablets are absolutely
certain and speedy in their effects. They
cure all nervous diseases, prevent fatigue.
renew falling vigor. give tone to the whole
system.
Kola Nervine Tablets cure sleeplessness
and the nervous troubles from which
sleeplessness comes. They are specific in
cases of nervous dyspepsia.
The druggists say the demand for the
Tablet is astonishing. Kola is what the
debilitated want.
Thousands of packages have been sold.
Good effects were felt at once.
t1uhQfeuS OF lCAlefS say Oue ldchd% e
of The Tablets. costing $lO0. has done
for me what physicians who cost me
$780, failed to do
Can you. in justice to yourself. refuse 10
pay cents day for sure relief from neu-
ralgia. bloodlessness, brain fatigue. sleep
lessness, nervous dyspepsia, loss of vigor,
melancholia and all the evils resulting
from a nervous condition? Ask yourself
the question with all seriousness.
DR.. A. c. Sherwin, Hotel Pelham, Bos-
ton. Mass. indorsed the remedy in Sep
TENDER last. He writes more strongly as
he learns its great merit.
Boston, Dec. 6. 1S95.-Gentlemen: | am
prescribing DR. Charcots kola Nervine
I Tablets for nervousness, insomnia, dys-
pepsia and neuralgia, with excellent re-
suits. | have no hesitation in stating
that they are infallible in all forms of
nervous diseases. Their invgoratng
properties are wonderful. Yours truly
A. c. Sherwin. NJ. D.
Fifty cents and $1.00 per box lone
months treatmenD. See Or. Charcot' S
name on box. Kola booklet free All
druggists or sent direct Eureka Chem
ical q Mfg. Co, La Crosse Wis, and Bos-
ton. Mass
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-27
Nofes hy the WAY.

Notes by the Way.-It Is quite proba-
BILE that over a large territory, through
which the News circulates, there will be
an abnormal amount of rain in the fol-
lowing three months. This superstition is
predicated upon the fact that the past four
months and a half have been unusually
short of rain. On our last issue we pre-
scented a detailed statement of the weather
from Sept / to Jan. 15, Which showed
that little less than 71a inches had fallen
in the period between those dates. The
normal for that season and period is about
10 inches The first eight months of the
year were not abnormally wet. The de-
ficiency existing to the middle of jan
uary was fully l inches. There Is every
reason, therefore, for expecting much wet
weather this spring. From a long obser-
walton and record of the weather, we are
aware, however, that even this much de-
ficiency may be made good In such way
that there will be no long spell of wet
weather to interfere with farm work
That is, a few heavy rains may fall and
be Immediately followed by heavy drying
Winds that will dry off the surface
promptly and cause only day or two's
Interruption to, .plowing mad planting.
is made up by light rains with a muggy
atmosphere accompanying rainfall of
6 or inches in any month may keep the
surface soil so wet as to interfere with
blowing for weeks at a time.
As we do not know how these things
will turn out, it IS best that we anticipate
their very worst development and work
After the first of January the wise
farmer realizes the fact that he has no
time to waste.
Every suitable day should be taken full
advantage of in getting the soil in proper
condition for planting. Every day the
soil is dry enough the plow should be
kept agoing. There is nothing so inju-
rious to soil as blowing it when too wet.
and the farmer that fails to do all the
work he possibly can in January may be
forced to pillow in March, when the soil
is too wet. If soil can be ridged up late
in the winter and then one or two freezes
occur afterwards, 1t will have the effect
all the rest of the year, If afterwards it
is plowed only when dry and crumbly.
1t is always a great advantage to stiff,
clayey soils to ridge them up and as high
as possible before the freezes are all over
A freeze or two will break every clod to
pieces and cause every particle to fall
apart, allowing the air to freely enter
the soil, and thus promote the dissolving
of the mineral elements In early plow-
ing the land should not be flushed and
left level, but should be laid off carefully
al the usual distance for planting, and
the land half bedded. It can stand thus
until just prior to planting, when the
BILE land can be very rapidly listed by
merely throwing two burrows together,
without first laying 1t of. This will cover
most of the vegetable matter, much OF
which will be fairly rotted by March.
While the. land is in this fluted condition
it is well to haul out and broadcast any
stable or other coarse manure that may
be on hand for use.
It pays every time to put the land IN a
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-27
Smallest oxen ON Earth.

One of the greatest curiosities among
the domesticated animals of Ceylon is q
breed of cattle known to the biologists
as the sacred running OK" They are the
dwarfs of the whole OK family, the larg-
est specimens of the species never ex-
ceeding thirty inches in hight. One sent
to the Marquis of Canterbury in the year
1891, which is still living and is believed
to be somewhere near 10 years of age, is
now twenty-one inches high and weighs
but 1887 pounds. In Ceylon they are used
for quick trips across country with ex-
press matter and other light loads and IL
is said that four of them can pull driver
Of a two-wheeled cart and a 200-pound
load of miscellaneous matter sixty to
seventy miles a day. They keep up a
constant swing-trot or run, and have
been known to travel 100 miles in a day
and night without either food or water
No one knows anything concerning the
origin of this peculiar breed of miniature
cattle. They have been known on the is
land of Ceylon and in other Buddhistic
countries for more than 600 years.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-27
A MODEL HAY FARM.
:, crowinein southeast Georgia.

,.oiu Growing in Southeast Georgia.
raitor Morning News: send you some
80 of oats. wheat, barley, sofa beans
and white beans, part of my exhlblt al
,Ianta I received the medal for this
saction. The white bean is the Virginia
nan and is two crops here. But the SOFIA
bean beats anything in the bean or pea
limo have ever grown or seen grown in
this section of the country. The oats
,a have planted for four years and find
nom rust proof and when planted In the
winter are ripe in May and ready 10 thrash
before June rains Planted in the spring
are strong growers, ana sure 70 nia ier,Se
crop Wheat we have planted since early
in october; same with barley and rye
oats we commenced planting ABOUT NOV.
/ and have planted every day since, ex-
cent Christmas, and will continue to plant
Them until about Feb. Is. We plant now
len to twelve acres per day. When We
fnish we will have nearly 1000 acres in
oats wheat, rye and OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
will be oats.
Ne have this season some imported oats,
said TO be all right on peaty or mucky
land. and have planted fifty bushels on
low rice field land to test 1t fully Tor wet
Ground We also have other imported oats
on trial. We have planted twenty acres
in gray turf winter oats; also two KINDS
Of black winter oats. We are dropping
truck growing more each year. We t1nd
seed. grain and hay a sure money maker
situated as our farms are, ADJOINING THIS
civ We get for our seed oats, whole
sale lots, IS cents; hay, $3.50 per ton; pea
vines and hay 5000 per ton. Compare
our hay prices with what the western
farmers get and let's hear from the farm
er who says ours is not the best part OF
the United States for the farmer. We
bale our hay crop.
I use the latest farming implements all
the time, ana it pays. You can find some-
thing better in that line every year on
my farms. ]. F. Guilmartin.
The above letter was not written with
view to publication, but we cannot re-
frain from heading and printing il here,
for it is highly instructive 1t shows what
can be done on the sandy lands of the At
lantic coast. There is no reason what
ever for Georgia not being a great hay,
grain and hOg-producing country The
samples of oats, barley and wheat sent
us by Mr.. Guilmartin are simply SPLEEN
did, and we would not turn around for
anything of the kind any better. We
have no doubt Mr.. Guilmartin would find
pleasure in sending samples of this grain
to any one interested in grain-growing.
We have planted the SOFIA or soy bean
two years and know it to be greatly pro-
ducdve. The Virginia bean we will plant
this year. A table test of it proves it to
be equal to anything we have ever tried.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-27

the needed CASH. True. poultry and eggs
would hold 10 pay for clothing, groceries
and flour, but there was always a need OF
cash 10 pay taxes and other necessary
expenses, and usually little cash on hand
when pay day arrived, and the puzzllng
question that worried him, and well u
might. was what he could produce tnat
would take the place of the orange and
lemon crop upon which he had depended.
There is crop that can be grown upon
almost all our lands, surely upon all that
would grow orange trees and abundantiy
upon all low hammock and good nat pine
land. that will yearly produce more caSn
per acre than the average orange grove
without freezes. and that IS grass. With
hay at $50 per ton and the certainty that
much of our land viii produce several tons
of crab grass or beggar weed nay per
acre there is surely one source of rev.
enue that can be depended upon.
Hay can be cut and cured here as II
is in most other states, by using proper
prudence in the time of cutting. and hay
CAPS TO protect the hay against our
heavy dews and frequent showers until
il is fully cured. The dew OF the night IS
as injurious as an ordinary shower ana
grass cut and wilted should always be
put in cocks and protected by caps
against it.
Tobacco. it has been proven, of most
excellent quality can be pfoiuceu ln
many sections of the state at a good pro-
INT and II is certain or a market. why
shall not our Halifax lands be tested and
/ this product added to our farms II found
| to succeed2 Florida cotton is bringing
| 8 or 4 cents more per pound III the mar
| kets than the best Georgia Cannot this
| be successfully produced and become an
/ other source of income for farmers that
1 can be reliedNlpon2
The raising of cows, pigs and poultry
/ would go far toward making our farmers
| self-supporting and independent, proVid-
ing the milk, butter, meat. etc, Tor the
/ family, and fertilizer for the farms, thus
i cutting off much of the outlay. Horses
\ of course must be kept and these viii
1 help to consume the productions grown
/ upon the farm. No farmer north could
L or has expected to derive support from
/ his farm without utilizing these sources
/ of production and self support. and the
| marketing of the surplus hay, grain
! meat. butter eggs, etc.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-27

eighteen inches in hight. resembling the
raspberry. Its bright green foliage re-
sembles the rose, while its pure white
wax-lke flowers are larger than single
roses
Budded Roses.-The stock employed by
most florists and others on which to graft
roses is known commercially as the Man
ctu This is increased by cuttings. Those
who understand critically the manage
ment of roses find much satisfaction in
these grated plants. They grow mucn
more vigorously and have finer flowers on
those stocks than on their own roots
that is to say. In a general way this IS true
Unfortunately. explains Meehans Month
~, rose stocks raised from cuttings have
a great tendency to throw UP suckers from
their underground buds. and unless one Is
very we'll informed in rose culture these
suckers are apt to be mistaken for parts
of the budded plant and eventually grow
so strong as to draw all the nourishment
away from the graft.
Value OF Soft Wood Ashes.-It Is not so
much In the character of soft wood ashes
that they differ from the ashes Of the hard
woods, but in the quantity of them These
figures viii tell the whole story;
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-27
The Gala Lin.

From observation and experience, have
come to the conclusion that the Gala IS a
very accommodating plant, for there are
nearly as many ways of treating it as
there are growers, says lady in Nieks'
Magazine. Some keep it in the sun; others
think shade the best. have seen plants
of the Gala that were dried out, and 9TH
ers that were choked with dust and yet
with such treatment they grew and bloom
ed, and the owners thought them things
of beauty. A water tight jar is the best
thing l have ever found to keep a Gala in /;
a two gallon jar is large enough for a
large plant. Fill the jar half full of leaf
mold from the woods or any other decayed
vegetable matter; on this fill in with rich
loan from some old barn or pig pen, on
this set the Gala bulb, fill around II with
sand and on top put some coarse, bright
pebbles. Set the jar in sunny window,
where it will be very warm. At 1rSt water
moderately with warm water, increasing
the heat and quantity as the plant in
creases in size until the water covers the
pebbles. / give liquid manure every two
or three weeks and wash the leaves fire.
uuently with warm water. After bloom
ing time is past in early summer, the jar
is nut outdoors in some out-of-the-Way
place. l turn It on one side and there it
remains until fall. without a particle of
water and no care whatever or course
all the foliage dries up and dies; If any
leaves survive I cut them off close to the
soil when | bring the jar into the house,
which is about the first week in Sep
TENDER If the bulbs are large and the jar
full of roots l repot it: If not L begin to
water and the Gala begins to grow. L
think where most persons fail to grow the
Gala successfully is because they do not
give water enough. We should remember
The home of the Gala is the marsh lands
along the river Nile, where its roots are
in the water and mud half of the year;
the other half the soil is dry as dust. Their
blooming season is when the Nile over
flows its banks. Then the red and pink
oleanders and the pure white calais min
ole their beautiful flowers together.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-27
Progress In Farming.

The farmer who farms as his father did
half century ago will surely get left.
The old one crop system, so common in
the south then, will not do now. Meat buy
ing must give way to meat growing. More
grass, more forage crops and more stock,
and a greatly reduced acreage of cotton.
is the newer and better way and tina
number of farmers in the south who are
walking in 1t is. happily, rapidly increas-
ing. The true idea is to diversity grow
all our supplies, have as many things to
sell and as few things to buy as possible
Sticktottiveness is a prime element Of
success in any pursuit and especially In
that of farming. High and low prices seem
to follow each other at intervals, but with
no special degree of regularity. This is true
of other products, such as iron and steel.
When the price of cotton drops clear
down to the cost of production, the ten
dency IS to limit the succeeding CROP or
engage in some other branch of farming
The right way is to hang on, for there IL
sure to be turn for the better in a short
time.-Farm and Firesde.
Diversified and intensive farming Is
making gradual progress in the south, and
when it becomes general then indeed will
there be a new south. "Sticktoitiveness'
is a splendid quality, but it is misapplied
when sticking to old and exploded meth
DDS of farming, or in risking all on one
crop that may be a failure or so abund-
ant as to be valueless. More grass, more
forage crops, more stock, more pork and
poultry, and more homemade FERTILIZER
Exchange.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-27
Nancy Crops.

Since the growing of oranges has prov
on To be an unreliable dependence for a
certain money producing business, the
problem with the grove owner and small
farmer has been as to what they should
turn their attention to that would prove
a reliable crop and would bring in the
neaded cash to pay taxes, store bills, etc.
says the Dayton Journal. vegetables II
was known. could be produced abundant
i, bnt rarely marketed at a profit. He
nsa,,,id easily grow scoEn4 Jrlsh potatoes and
sweet potatoes and all garden vegetables
FOR his own use, but how could he acquire
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-27

16l pounds gain. 1t will be seen that the
hogs receiving the wet or soaked feed
gained much more than those receiving
the dry feed and they ate more of the
ration Considering all things, ii viii he
found that the results we're much better
from feeding the ration wet.
At the Illinois experiment station trials
were also made in feeding dry and soaked
corn, and the results Of the two trials
show that he pigs fed soaked corn ate
more and gained more than those fed dry
corn. In the first trial the two pigs that
were fed soaked corn ate 3i5 pounds during
l& days, and gained a total of eighty-six
pounds; this was one pound gain for 3.s
pounds of corn eaten. The same number
OF pigs fed dry corn ate 300 pounds, making
gain of 7S.5 pounds; this is one pound
OF gain for each 38 pounds of corn eaten.
In the second trial the pigs fed soaked
corn ate 305 pounds during forty-two days
and gained eighty-eight pounds, while
those fed the dry corn ate 4O4 pounds and
gained seVenty-hye and iive-tenths pounds.
From these results it seems evident that
1t pays to soak grain for hogs at least
twelve. or, better, twenty-four hours.
At the Dominion experiment station
(Canada) five trials were made with a
grain mixture soaked In all instances, but
In some fed ground and unground. The
mixture consisted OF peas, rye and barley
and when ii was fed unground after be-
ing soaked forty-eight hours, four and
four-tenths pounds Of grain gave one
when the same mixture was fed ground
and soaked for twelve hours four and
thTee-tehtns pounds OF grain were con-
sumed for one pound of increase. In other
trials when frozen wheat was fed ground
and soaked for twelve hours eleven and
three-tenths pounds increase in live weight
We're obtained for each bushel of wheat
The advantage seems to be slightly In
favor Of grinding even when the grain was
fed soaked, but II the soaking Is eontin-
ued for at least tWenty-fOur hours 10
would seem that there would be very lit
tie advantage in grinding such grains as
barley and corn although experiments
show that for such a food frozen wheat
soaking should be continued for at least
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-27
Curing Hams.

+. NJ. TODD of Virginia, whose cured
hams have given his product a reputation
that sells them wherever offered, gives the
following description of this method Of
curing:
]. The hams are placed in a large tray
Of fine Liverpool salt, then the flesh sur
face is sprinkled with finely ground crude
saltpeter until the hams are as white as
though covered by a moderate frost-or
say use three or four pounds OF the pow
dered saltpeter to the thousand pounds
of green hams.
2. After applying the saltpeter, imme-
diately salt with the Liverpool fine salt,
covering well the entire surface. Now
pack the hams in bulk, but not in piles
more than three feet high. In ordinary
weather the hams should remain thus for
three days.
3. Then break bulk and resalt with fine
salt. The hams thus salted and resulted
should now remain in salt In bulk one day
Tor each and every pound each ham
Weighs-that is, ten-pound ham should
remain ten days, and In such proportion
Of time for larger and smaller sizes.
4. Next you wash with tepid water UNI
I'll the hams are thoroughly cleansed, ana
after partially drying rub the entire sur
face with finely ground black pepper
5. Now the hams should be hung in thu
smoke house and this important operation
begun. The smoking should be very grad
ually and slowly DONE lasting thirty to
forty days.
6. After the hams are cured and smoked
they should be repeppered to guard
against vermin, and then bagged. These
hams improve with age, and the Todd
hams are In perfection when one year old.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-27
Japanese PIums.

In reply to B. F. NJ, who, some weeks
ago asked question in regard to Japa-
hese plums, introduced into this country,
we would say that they have done well
Wherever properly cared for. If B. F..
W. viii write, enclosing stamp, to the
cornell University Agricultural Expert
r ment Station, Ithaca, N. Y, and make a
tbFguest for bulletin No. 106. it will give
t ~ = an the information he seeks in regard
~ imported plums. Yes, these plums can
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-27

Pineapple growing on the Indian river
Florida, is a success. The weight of the
fruit obtained ranges from five up to nine
pounds, taking them as they come twenty
four fill barrel.
The variety most generally cultivated is
the 'Smooth-Cayenne,' but the RED
spanish" is claimed to be better shipper
rms latter variety and the Porto Rico
are said to be harder than the Smooth
-ayennes. Honolulu pineapples attain a
weight of from nine to fourteen pounds.
have you grape vines set out several
Years ago that are not giving satisfaction
ds 70 the quality and quantity of the fruit
Eleded? If so it would be a good idea to
Gut off the vines and graft some other
hnd upon the old roots. The grating
lnust not be done above ground, however
10 make a success of the work, the graft
lausL De put in below the surface.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-27
Poultry Houscs-How to Build.

There may be something about poultry
raising that Mr.. A. c. Hawkins of Massa-
chusetts, does not know, but in looking
over the arrangement of his house, one
can clearly see that he is a practical poul-
try man. l have always wondered why
some prominent fanciers persisted in build
ing one large house to accommodate fifty
to hundred hens, rather than have a half
dozen small ones. Small houses are cas-
Ter to keep clean. AS there are not so
many partitions and fixtures in small
house, as in large one, it can be cleaned,
and freed from mites more rapidly. Dis
case will not spread so fast when in sep
arate houses, and a number of other
things could be said in favor of more and
smaller poultry structures. 1t is a. good
plan when building these small houses, to
build them 20 feet a part, and in a direct
line, allowing a space between every yard
which can be planted in grain and vegeta-
9}ies, and by having them yards some
distance apart Fighting through the fence
will be stopped. which is another great
advantage 1 think, over the one-house
plan A. B. Cook
Bolingbroke, Ga.