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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-27
Timely Suggestions.

1t is not too late yet TO make success
of table turnips. As a rule we do not
have any very severe cold weather before
the last half of November, and very fire.
quently it is the case that no real cold
weather occurs before December, Turnps
sown now and promptly cultivated will
make very good sized roots before cold
weather.
1t is not too late yet to sow cabbage seed
to make plants TO set out in November or
the latter part of October below the lati-
tude of Milledgeville, Ga. As we have
stated before, this fall crop is now and
then killed out, but enterprsing gardeners
are not deferred thereby from making the
venture every season, for when the crop
does succeed it is one of the best paying
crops that can be grown
When little extra precaution is taken
this crop can be made a success even above
the lattide of Milledgeville.
With cotton seed TO mulch about the
plants and some pine-straw to put on the
pants when a cold wave is threatened
they can be tiled over the cold spells of
winter very readily. or course this in
wolves considerable care. but if it succeeds
in saving the plants the care will be well
repaid.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-27
CITY GOVERNMENT
OmcIaI Proceeding of Council.

Savannah, Ga, Sept. 25 1s97.-CounciI
met this morning at II O'clock, pursuant
to the call of the mayor. Present Hon. p.
W. Medrim, mayor presiding, Alderman
s. p Hamilton, chairman of council, AL
derman w. w. Owens, vice chairman of
council, and Aldermen Charlton, Quicken
heimer, Wylly, Davis, Hull, Reid, Smith
and Krouskoff.
His honor the mayor stated that the
object Of the meeting was for the purpose
of taking action looking towards a pro-
posed system of house drainage for the
city.
The following report from the committee
on drainage was read:
To the mayor and aldermen of the city
OF Savannah:
At the request of his honor, the mayor.
that this committee should take uD the,
matter of house drainage for the city of
Savannah, and present to council as soon
as possible some feasible plan for the es-
tabishment of a complete, modern and
sanitary system, together with a plan for
the payment Of same that will be burden
some to the city.
Your committee begs to report that in
addition to our city engineers and other
city officials, they called into consultat ton
with them, Col George E. Warning, Jr, of
New York, and at his suggestion Mr.. Her
bert Tate contractor, also of New York
After careful investigation, your COM
mittee recommend the adoption of the
Warning system of sewerage. which is
thorough, sanitary and complete in all de-
tails. This system carries with II a fun
supply of automatic flush tanks, which.
IL discharged twice a day (twice the
amount estimated to be necessary, would
save the city something like 10000 to $780,
900 gallons of water per day.
Your committee further recommend the
acceptance of Col. Warnings proposition
herewith submitted, and that he be in
structed to begin work on the plans at
once, so that bids may be advertised for
and work actually begun by Nov. 1, next
Your committee have arranged so that
the payments for the complete system can
be carried over a period of ten years or
less at the clty's option, payable in equal
annual appropriations on a basis of not
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-27
Bulbs.

I never tire of writing or talking about
bulbs, and yet what can 1 say that has
not already been said? says Vick's Maya
zine Nothing perhaps, yet what 1 say
may possibly reach new reader. 1 find
many people with whom 1 converse on
the subject of bulbs, lamentably mistaken
in their ideas--if they have an idea-on
the culture of them; people who have sue
cessfully grown other plants years.
Somehow there seems to be a well-es-
tablished belief among people that bulb
growing is something very difficult; that
there is a mysterious something about it,
known only to a favored few; while in
reality there is nothing in the plant line
so easily grown, so sure to bloom. think
among all the bulbs my favorite for home
culture is the hyacinth, preferably the sim
gle varieties.
Trusting this may fall under the notice
of some one who has never grown bulbs
will give my method of treating this
bulb: If the price to be paid is an object,
and it is to most of us, buy mixed bulbs,
they are every whit as good as the named
ones. the only objection to them being
the fact that you cannot tell one color
from another until they bloom, or at least
until the buds are well developed. And
this is not a very serious objection, as
the bulb will bear transplating, when the
buds are well formed or even when in full
bloom Sometimes you can purchase the
unnamed kinds in separate colors. Thus
the white will come in one package mark
ed white varieties all the shades of
blue, including pale lavender to almost
black come marked "blue shades" while
everything from palest pink to deep dark
red comes under the head of reds The
yelloWs of which there are very few
shades, and they are hardly more than ii
cream color, will come marked yellow
shades" This simplifies matters a little,
for one can tell somewhere near what is
being planted.
To be slangy. it has flavor of Chest
nuts" to say buy good bulbs of re-
liable firm Buy of a reliable firm and
YOU will get good bulbs. Give them intel
Iigent treatment and your success is as
sured Having decided what firm to pat
ronfze, send in your order early, just as
soon as you get your bulb catalogue,
which will probably be in September. or
borrow somebody's last years catalogue
and order from that. If it is your first
order there will be nothing in the new
catalogue you will want, for there will be
but few things advertised in il that are
not in last years book, and those will be
novelties, and beginners do not want to
test untried plants.
Roman hyacinths are the first to bloom.
and if planted in September Will be in
bloom for the holidays. Now / am going
TO say something that may sound ex-
tremely foolish TO the experienced bulb
growers. but as 1t is something have to
say about every time l give away bulb
and what l had to explain no longer ago
than yesterday, l will venture to say it
here; Don't plant your bulbs upside down.
The bottom of the hyacintn bulb is slight
" hattened, with a small raised ring,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-27
Phosphnte ON Mheat.

The American Cultivator says: Gener-
ally on good wheat land dressing of IT'S
to 200 pounds Of standard phosphate will
increase the wheat yield seven to eight
bushels per acre. On good land in a bad
season the increased yield may be greater
than this. In fact, on much land all the
product is due to the fertilizer for with
out it the crop would be SO winter killed
in spring that it would be plowed up and
all the labor on. it be lost. This is what
a winter grain farmer exposes himself to
if he refuses to put a small dressing of
fertilizer on his fall-sown grain.
With spring grain the fertilizer is less
important, though even on that a little
will pay. 1t may seem paradoXical, but it
is a fact that mineral manures pay best
on land made very rich with barnyard
manure. When oats or barley are sown
after a corn or potato crop, which was
MANFRED the previuos year, the pillow
turns up the manure plowed under. This
makes too rich a seedbed for spring grain,
causing too heavy a growth of straw,
which is apt to be weak and fail down
before the grain heads. Some kind of min
eral manure is necessary to stiffen the
straw. In most cases a dressing of phos-
phate with or 3 per cent. of potash will
make stiff, bright straw with well-flled
heads, while without the mineral the grain
crop would be an entire failure. On poor
land phosphate has less effect for spring
grain. The crop viii grow somehow and
will not be aDehtire failure Without IT,
We have noticed too, that on very poor
land spring-sown mineral fertilizers pro-
duced very little effect. 1t needs plenty
of moisture and the poor land
dries up too quickly after the grain is
sown. The richer land is more absorptve
of water and keeps moist longer
Yet if we were sowing spring barley or
sowing oats very early We should want to
put on a dressing Including both phosphate
and potash. 1t is very important to have
the barley crop fun weight, in order that it
may sell at mailing prices The light bar
ley is not really worth more than oats and
not so much if sold by weight One hun
dred and fifty pounds of phosphate with
spring barely drilled with the seed will
make it ripen ten days earlier, and grow a
plump, bright berry. Barley roots do not
run far, and therefore, the fertilizer drilled
with seed barley produces a greater pro-
portionate effect than If drilled with any
other grain. The barley crop is also bet
ter one to sow clover seed with than any
other, and if clover seed IS to be sown with
barley some mineral fertilizer should al
ways be drilled in with the grain
Where phosphate has long been sown it
is probable that part of it has reverted to
insoluble conditions. More phosphate fer
tilizers will still be needed by such land
though analysis of the soil may show a
sufficiency for the crops. Glover seeding is
the best way to remedy this. But the effee-
tiveness of phosphate in the soil may be
greatly increased by depressing either in
fall or spring with one or two bushels of
salt per acre. Salt is one of the best sol
vents known. 1t also attracts and holds
moisture to the SOIL and this is greatly
beneficial to most crops.
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tween the beds can be so dug out and
filled with strew as to prove a great con-
servitor of moisture during the dry spells
of April and MAY. A bed four feet wide
(bordered with four or six-inch plank
should contain three rows of plants and
the plants fifteen to eighteen inches in the
row. After a good working in the early
spring, just before blowing time some pine
straw should be placed about each plant
and covering all the space between the
plants so as to thoroughly protect them
from grit. \ half dozen narrow beds so
managed will produce an immense guam.
thy of berries. especially if they are To-
Gated near a well or branch where they
can be watered a half dozen times during
the bearing season.
If the two-foot walks between the beds
are dug out a foot or more and are filed
with water three or four times during
chat period, 1t will insure d fun crop of
berries. however dry the weather may be
during the bearing season.
While the majority of strawberry grow
ers at the north treat the strawberry as
an annual it seems that the heat results
are obtained from treating it as a bien.
NAL 1t does not pay to let the plants
continue beyond the second year, however
New paintings should be made every au-
tumn.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-27
oLD-TIME SWEETNESS GONE.
MOIasses Is Now Made Into Rum and
Brown Sugar Can't BE Bought.

From the PASSPORT Sentinel
"The old-fashioned molasses is rapidly
disappearing as an article of commerce."
said prominent grower land in its place
have come number of syrups, which are
more costly and by no means as satis-
factory, especially to the little ones, who
delight, as we did when we were young,
in having 'lasses on their bread. Most
of the molasses goes into the dlstiileries,
where 1t is made into rum, for which, not
withstanding the efforts of our temper
ance workers, the demand is constantly on
the increase, especially in the New Eng
land states and for the export trade. The
regular drinker of rum will take no other
liquors in it's place II he can help it. 1t
seems to reach the spot more directly than
any other dram. The darker brown sug-
ars have also disappeared, and they are
not likely to return, owing to the meth
DDS of boiling and the manufacture. Gran
ulated sugar is of the same composition,
as far as saccharine qualities are concern
ed, as loaf, cut loaf cube and crushed,
and differs from them only in that its
crystals do not cohere. This is because
Il is constantly stirred during the pro-
cess of crystalization. The lighter brown
sugars taste sweeter than the white for
the reason that there is some molasses in
them. Housekeepers have difficulty these
days in finding coarse, dark sugars which
are always preferred for use in putting
UP sweet pickles, making cakes, and STINT
lar uses. AS they cannot get brown sugar
any more, 1t may be well for them to re-
member that they can simulate brown,
sugar by adding teaspoonful of molasses
to each quarter of pound of the white
graduated sugar. This combination does
as well in all household receipts that call
for brown sugar as the article itself, and
beside 1t saves them a great deal of hunt
ing for brown sugar which, as said be-
fore, mas disappeared from the market,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-27
Rarnyard Manure.

me true fertilizing value Of barnyard
manure and the best and most economl-
-'' methods of managing it have claimed
''.u attention recently from a number of
l0remost agricultural scientists of the
p' and the conclusions they have
.''Aea are of great practical import
'' Tor although the use of such ma
.. lures IS almost as old as agriculture it,
-, mere are many questions related to
'' management and use which have
! been clearly understood, says the
''''ment of agriculture. 1t is we'll
1"o that barnyard manure, if neg
il. g 81, rapidly loses the greater part of
oalr,, lllzing value and becomes practi-
chs1i worthless, except to improve me-
sail 'J "a and physical properties of the
tllsl ~ IS also well understood by prac-
lov rieh that it is not economical to fol-
pres. ,..ally Of the elaborate methods of
To ha Eation which have been suggested.
010nomlcal, the method Of manage
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-27
Strawberries.

During the next six weeks the straw
berry grower should not be idle. Plants
put out in that period If OF the right va
riety, can be made to produce tolerably
fair crop next spring, though nothing ike
what they will produee tho following
spring. There are a good many varie
ties of Strawberries, but those kinds sug-
gested in the previous number are the
most trustworthy for our section
When grown on a large scale Ter market
it is better to plant so as to allow Of cult
walton with the plow. but inuthe home
garden we consider the narrow bed plan
much the best. A half dozen beds, thirty
feet long -four feet wide) is better than
one single bed 1870 feet long, for the sim
pie reason that the two-foot walks be-
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-27
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 81 1897

around which the roots start, plant this
side down. The crown or top of the bulb
is usually a little pointed; and this top or
point should be just about even with the
top of the soil when planted for house
blooming. Garden planting is quite diff
ferent.
Now for soil! Ordinary garden soil, not
too rich, and if heavy or clayey use one
third sand or leaf mold to two-thirds gar
den soil. Please yourself by potting sim
gly or potting dozen bulbs in one pot
or box If large enough. Use something
for drainage, a few little stones, some
bits of broken flower pots or dishes or bits
of charcoal. Fill pot nearly full of soil,
give a good smart shaking TO settle it,
but do not press it down. Now make
cavity for each bulb by drawing the earth
aside not pressing downward; into each
cavity put teaspoonful of sand (more
if You have it,, on this set the bulb, draw
the earth around the bulb and press firm
ly, remembering all the time not to press
the bulb down hard into the soil be-
meath. The reason for this is, the roots
of the bulb start from the bottom, and if
the soil beneath is hard the bulb is
thrown up out of it. and ruin is usually
the result. Corn cans make good hyacinth
pots when one wishes to plant singly.
After the bulbs are potted water well,
and place in a cool, dark cellar. Keep
them there from four to eight weeks,
look at them occasionally, and if the soil
is dry, water it, and when the tops are
an inch or two high bring them to a light.
cool room. Do not let them have any
sunshine until the flower bud is well up
out OF the bulb and you can see at least
one inch of stem below the cluster of buds.
After that give them sunshine until the
buds open, then if they are placed out of
the sunlight the blossom will last longer.
When you receive your bulbs, divide
them into three or five lots. Plant the Ro-
man hyacinths and one lot of the others
at the same time. The Roman will bloom
first, and by the time they are out of
bloom the others potted at the same time
will be blooming. The other hyacinths
should be planted at intervals of two weeks
after the first planting. This method will
prolong the period of bloom. Or the bulbs
can be all planted at one time and will all
bloom at about the same time, lasting two
or three weeks according to whether they
are kept out of or in the sun. To hasten
the blooming of a hyacinth, after the buds
are well formed place the plant at night
on table near a lamp left burning all
night. =. d. b.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-27
Grnnes for The South.

For southern growers the following va
rieues of grapes are given the preference
by that well known authority and success
full vineyardist, r. V. Munson: Moore's
Early black; Green Mountain, white;
Delaware, red; Brilliant, red; Moore
Diamond, white; Rommel, white; Beacon,
black; America. black; Jaeger, black;
Carmen, black: Gold Corn, yellow; Norton
black; Herbemonr, dark red Fern. purple
black; Laussel, black; Marguerite, dark
red,
The above are named in order of Their
ripening, and ne considers them as fine
in quality and freest from disease of any
like number that he has tested in the past
tex years.
No farmer in the south who owns his
farm should have less than 100 grape
vines-some more some less-according TO
situation.
Pun out 100 this winter. You will not re-
gret II.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-27
An IdenI Hedge Plant.

This is what Prof. Massey of the North
Carolina experiment station calls the Cit
rus trifolata The belief is general that
none of the tree oranges is hardy at the
north, but, according TO the professor,
there are few places where this deciduous
orange is not completely hardy. He says:
1t passed through last winter in Michi-
gan safely. It's compact dwarf habit
makes this plant easy to keep in good
shape without hard pruning It's complete
armament of the strongest and sharpest
spines pointing in every direction makes
it a better defense than even the honey
locust 1t makes no suckers and its roots
spread but a short distance and are not
exhaustive of a broad strip of soil, as the
other plants used for farm hedges are. 1t
bears great profusion of the sweetest Of
orange flowers and loads itself with little
sour, seedy oranges, like lines, which rip
en- in October. When the entire hardness
of this plant is fully realized the ques-
ton of the best hedge plant will, l think,
be finally settled The plants are now so
cheap in the southern nurseries that 1t
will be easy for the experiment stations
and individuals in the extreme north to
test their hardness.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-27
Farm and Garden Notes for Sep


1t is a good farmer who knows how to
employ extra labor judiciously, for it
is almost, if not quite, impossible to carry
on farming satisfactorily without using
transient or extra labor. The farmer who
plants only what he can cultivate proper
ly or harvest in a proper manner himself
and with what regular labor he has is
not likely to make a sufficient income
nowadays. If he is a bachelor and with
very few wants he might possibly do it,
but there are not very many farmers Of
this class The majority of farmers can
very easily prepare the land and plant
properly five times the area that he can
properly cultivate and harvest when made
with is own unaided help. When the
average small farmer is asked why he
does not SOW a goodly area of grain or an
acre or two of clover turnips, etc, in
September or October, the usual reply Is
that he has not the time, that it is as much
as he can do to save the crop already
made Cotton is to be picked, corn to
be housed, peas to be picked, hay to be
be cut cured and housed or stacked, pota-
toes to be dug and banked. All of this and
perhaps a little more is to be done during
the months of September and October and
a part of November, and how to get 1t all
done In due time is about as much as the
regular labor OF the farm can well do. So
far as packing cotton is concerned few
farmers attempt 1t with regular labor.
Extra labor Is almost invariably used,
for it is cheaper in the end to pay so much
for the picking per hundred-that is, If
there is any employment whatever for the
farmer and his regular hands,
During September and October q south
ern farmer ought to find profitable en-
ployment for two or three times the
amount of extra labor than he would at
any other period of the year. At any
rate, there should be as much need for
such labor now as there was at any time
in the spring or summer. The important
work of the farm is or should be greater
in the fall than any other period, for this
is the time when gathering crops already
made and starting new ones come togeth-
er.
A farmer has failed to do the proper
thing IL he fails to sow in September or
October at least five acres of oats TO the
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-27

be distilled. If camphor cultivation is
largely entered into there will doubtless
be built in several centers of production
camphor distilleries for the conveniences
of small gorwers l venture to predict
that in ten years, if camphor is raised
largely in Florida, it's product viii exceed
that ever received from oranges.
Aside from it's economical uses, the cam
phor tree is the most ornamental tree ever
cultivated. It's beautiful shape is only
equaled by the arbor vitae. It's lower
branches lie upon the ground While the
top forms a perfect cone. The leaves are
a lovely pale, CLASSY green. The flowers
are small, but very pretty.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-27

plow, and at least one or two acres of
crimson clover likewise be sown. When
our farmers generally "catch on" to the
great value of this plant as a soil inn
proven and as a sure source of green food
or hay early in the spring there will be
very few that viii fail to sow it and
SOW 1t literally, too. 1t is a great plant
for enrching the soil, economically, and
We bespeak for 1t a prompt trial by every
farmer who has come TO realize that com
mercial fertilizers cannot be relied on to
make prosperous farming.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-27
LADIES CAN WEAR SHOES

one size smaller after using Aliens Foot
Ease, a powder to be shaken into the
shoes. 1t makes tight or new shoes feel
easy; gives instant relief to corns and
bunions. It's the greatest comfort dis
covery Of the age. Cures and prevents
swollen feet, blisters. callous and sore
spots. Aliens Foot-Ease is a certain cure
for sweating. hot, aching feet At all
druggists and shoe stores. 25c. Trial pack
age FREE by mail. Address Allen s. Ohm
sted, LIE Roy, N. Y
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Camphor Growing.

from all appearances we Judge the
growing of camphor viii yet be consider
a'e Industry in Florida and in Southern
georgia. In fact it appears that the cam
pnor Tree has withstood as low temper
lure Of 16 degrees (above zero. OF
course wherever, the orange will ripen
~ sruit the camphor tree can be grown to
~ Certainly Florida is the land
VI promise in MANY respects.
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Questions AID communications relative
70 agricultural and horticultural subjects.
II 9idressed to Agri. Editor Drawer N.
Mledcevile, Ga, will receive immediate
ot+antiOu
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exceeding 3 per cent. interest on deferred
payments. The details in regard TO this
will be submitted to council with each con-
tractors bid for doing the work
II * WVllV Chairman