The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-17

the coming year is one OF hopeful promise.
The safety OF the farmer lies In the line
of complete independence of cotton. grain.
transportation, or other grasping trusts or
nopoles.-American Agriculturist.
Manuring. Many years ago We were
taught that manure was the mother Of
gold. Some time later l discovered that la
Dor was the father Of IT, and at this late
day ! firmly cling 10 the same beliefThere
was never anything created or made but
by labor and with wei manfred field
your labor will yield a hundred fold.
Let your plans be to make manure in
every conceivable way. Keep every barn
and yard deep covered In leaves, scrape up
everything around your territory that has
a tendency to make manure. and lay II in
your cattle yards. do not let your stock
lay out when there is no pasture I'm the
field, for the value of their nights manure
is of far more value than YOU imagine
Your poultry houses keep a close watch on /;
much from that place Is lost just for want
of knowledge.
Mulberries.- Mulberries. especially OF the
eVer-bearing or highly improved varieties,
are very little planted; in fact they are
but little known. They bear heavily, regu-
larry and very early, are excellent TO eat,
exceedingly wholesome ana nutritious. and
as a food for hogs, and especially poultry,
there is nothing in its season better as
evidenced by the way they all deVour them
The trees are hearty and enduring, subject
to no i'll whatever continue bearing and
live to an old age. Aside from their fruit
value. the timber is exceedingly valuable
for it's durability where set In the ground
as fence or other posts. A good post OF
mulberry timber will last on an average,
i'm the ground fifty years. Plant, therefore,
a mulberry orchard for your poultry and
hogs, and to raise meantime a supply OF
fence posts
Cotton Seed Meal.-Care should be taken
in feeding cotton seed meal, as II is a
rich strong feed and If fed too literally is
Injurious, but fed with other feed is a
healthy, nutritious feed that gives desired
variety. Most of our cotton seed meal
has been exported, and European farmers
appreciate Il better than we 90.
An English feeder says:
There Is great difference in the quality
of cotton seed meal, and those inexperi-
enced In its use are quite apt TO be put
off with feed OF poorer quality. That
with black specks in il is largely composed
of the hull, which Is nearly indigestble
and of little value, except TO go into the
manure pile. Cotton seed meal mixed
with the hull should never be fed TO young
animals, as its indigestibility makes 1t
prove fatal in many cases. The pure
trated for feeding as II Is diluted with
something giving a greater bulk in pro-
portion to its nutrition. Wheat bran Is
one of the best feeds for this purpose"
Better Roads Profitable.-The subject of
improved public highways is attracting a
large share of public attention. In the
opinion of the Southern Farm Gazette,
OF Starkville. Miss, good roads is one
great need of the day in the cotton states.
In order to have better roads It Is neces-
sary to reorganize our present general
plans Of road working and adopt more
modern and more effective methods. 1t
seems that 1t would be wise plan to
utilize county conVicts in connection with
this line of work. These convicts are
usually a burden on the county. They
should be worked. They should
be worked for profit. What better
profit can the taxpayers desire than the
profit arising from better public roads
Better roads are indirectly a profit 20
every farmer that travels over them. The
better the road, the less strain upon the
team and the wagon and the harness, and
the patience of the driver. The better
the road, the greater the saving of time
i'm going from one mile to another, and
the greater ease with which the burden of
freight is transported.
Profits I'm Frutts.AI have repeated inqui-
ries as to the best fruits to plant for
profit IL is hard TO say. When you get
a fine selection, tended and cared for 50
they produce wei, they Will always
be profitable, no matter what fruit 1t is,
from a blackberry to bunch OF grapes.
In all my experience 1 find the better at
tention and manure the better your fruit
will be. 1t is vain to expect a profitable re-
turn unless you feed the ground and care
for the trees, vines, or whatever they
are Surprising you, in rough way plant
your cotton field and don't go near 1T
till gathering time, expecting fine crop
what would you get2 An orchard should
be cultivated and enriched from the day
YOU plant until the fruit is matured the
last time, and that may be a lifetime. /
know of a solitary apple tree growing near
a dwelling where all manner of trash from
around the house is dumped under it. The
result is the tree bears enormous crops
of fine fruit each year which brings an
nually from SIS to $40.
Planting the Nut Tribe.-In reply to
many who entertain skeptical ideas l can
not but earnestly impress the planting of
the English walnut which is properly the
Madeira nut, and the pecan. These two,
owing to the long time we have to wait
for them, scares the average human away
from planting them. But bear in mind
that whatever number of acres planted in
them is Just that much in sure money. The
trees come into bearing in from six to ten
years, and are in perfection when 100 years
old. They are sure bearers, and subject to
no i'll or insect pest, and as to the value
of the fruit. that is just what the owner
of the tree chooses to ask for 1t, and l
planted q pecan tree in Memphis in the
fall Of 1913, for the novelty, but had 1
been wise or far-seeing and planted 100
acres or more Of them l might to-day be
reaping the benefit. The tree exists to-
day and bears heavy annual crops. 1t re-
quires about thirty-five trees to plant an
acre, and the ground can BE cultivated be-
tween in other crops for many years and
as a pasture for stock for years to come.
My advice is let no one fail to plant.
Fertilizers for Cabbage. - Nitrogen
fertilizers arc tho hest fertilizers