The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-29

they can grow crop any year beyond
per adventure. This is one of the most
profitable crops that can be cultivated
here, and agriculturists are to be con-
graduated on the success of experiments
that have been made during the past
years which now enable them to reduce
celery culture to a certainty. Q. A. Stew
enson has about eleven acres, and Mar
tin Larsen two or three acres of as fine
celery as can be grown anywhere. They
are beginning to ship their product this
week and will be able to continue through
out the spring. In all other places the
season is over and Florida has control
of the celery market at this season, which
insures a fancy price for all the celery
that can be grown in Florida. There will
be a considerable number who will plant
larger areas in celery next year now that
Its culture here has been reduced to a GER
tainty.
Specialties for Small Farmers.-The
farmer on a few acres cannot compete in
growing the staple grain crops which, har-
vested as they are now by machinery, can
only be grown protltably on large fields.
The small farmer must devote his time,
skill and land to special crops that require
the greatest amount of labor to make sue
cessful. If he does this thoroughly his linz
itation as regards land will prove an ad-
vantage, not an injury. It is only by
thoroughly mastering some one business
and then sticking to it that men make
money. This is as true of the farmer as
of men engaged in other vocations
Straw TO Protect from Cold.-Wherever
straw is plentiful IL is very easy TO save
stock from suffering by extreme cold. Lay
ers Of straw separated by something suf-
hcient merely to keep them apart and en-
close an air space will keep out cold as
effectively as will a wall With a few
poles from the woods and plenty of straw
many a poor farmer has kept one or two
cows as comfortably stabbed as if he had
basement barn. But the straw stable
Will prbably need some repairing even
before the winter Is over and more or less
hay or other feed will be wasted while 1t
is being carried to the animals kept in It.
Cottonseed Meal for Garden Crops
Cottonseed meal is one of the best Of
quick-actng fertilizers for the garden,
and know Of nothing which is its equal
for stimulating a rapid plant growth, such
as II wanted for cahbages and cucumbers,
and, early in the season, for tomato vines.
When the soil Is moderately damp, the
effect of its application can be seen very
plainly within three days in the darkencd
| color of the plants, and the increased
| growth will continue from four to six
weeks after the application 1t is not a
| lasting fertilizer, and moderate and re-
| peated applications are more effective
| than are single applications for crops
which grow through a greater part of the
summer If applied in too large quaint
| ties, 1t Will, sometimes. scorch very ten
der plants, and If left on the surface of
| the soil, much of les value is lost Tho
| common practice among our best garden
| ers is to scatter it along the rows before
! planting, using 200 to 400 pounds per acre,
| and following with a bull-tongue plough
to mix it with a few inches of the soil.
| When mixed in this way seed or young
| plants may be put out with perfect safe
| ty. Later. it may be used as a Top dress
| ing in the same or even larger quantities
scattering it by the side of the row and
| following Immediately with cultivator
| to mix 1t with the soil and to cover Il
| from the hot sun. 1t is by far our cheap
est source of nitrogen, but as it also con-
| tains about per cent. of potash and pei
cent. of phosphoric acid it is far from be-
| ing a one-sded fertilizers. M Tracy
in Rural New Yorker
Horse and Cow Manure-While manure
from the horse stables is commonly USED
| for gardens because 1t heats more quick
ly, we think that quite as good results
for most crops viii be secured by tn,
| slower, but equally rich, COW manure
Horse manure is always much too DIR!
unless 1t has the liquid excrement mixet
| with it. The absence OF moisture rathe
than excess of nitrogen is what make
it heat rapidly. But 1t also makes thu
manure fire-fang. even when 1t is burie'
in the soil. Partly decomposed COW ma
nure will furnish some available plan
food at first, and will not dry up and in
jure the roots later In the season.
More Use of Wind Power-Not nearl!
enough use is made Of wind power. Mos
of the wind mills we see are used who'll!
to pump water from wells. Though thi
as a steady job probably saves as mucl
labor as any one thing. the wind powe
could be set to doing, there are man!
other back-aching jobs that are on man!
farms done by hand power, which Nigh
quite as well be given over to wind power
Turning grndstones and churning ar
among these When young we knew
some farmer boys who put up a ligh
windmill which tuned a lathe in a shop
Here they spent many hours making al
kinds of wooden articles. All of thes
boys kept up their love Of farm life, be
cause their windmill was set to do task
that on other farms the boys had to per
form by what sailors call main" strength
and stupidness. In Holland there can b
no use of water power. for the land is to
level. Nowhere in the world is win
power used to so much advantage or 10
so great a variety of purposes.