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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-28
A Farmer to Farmers.

1 am a farmer; 1 live on a farm and
have lived on the same one for thirty
two years. There are only two men in
this world who can get me off this farm
the sheriff and the undertaken. The
sheriff stands no kind of a chance if 1
know my own business; the other fellow
cannot control. 1 sometimes wish 1
could / would like to live a hundred
years, il only to see the grand develop
ments that will take place during the
next century In agriculture and horticul-
ture. l am sometimes fascinated with
the vision of what is in store for our
young farmer boys who are soon to come
into possession of these splendid farm
homes all over this state; these rich, fer
tile fields, rich enough to last a hundred
years, if properly cared for. What an OPP
portunty for these young men who are
being educated at our agricultural coll
leges and are having the benefit of our
experimental stations.
1 intend to stay on my farm the ball
ance of my life, for l know of no place
where l can be as happy and as indie
pendent as 1 can on that farm of mine.
l have no other business interest, save
farming IN it's various branches-agricul-
ture, horticulture and the breeding of live
stock. / am no public speaker but /
came down here to-day upon special in
vitation from my old friend, your chair
man, to have a talk with you farmers
upon the subject of farming, and / want
to talk About ~those things concerning
which l have learned by practical ex-
perience and observation.
II there is one thing which l thank the
good Lord for more than any other. IL is
this, that my lot IN life was cast among
this common, everyday. hard-working
producing class of men called farmers
men who out of this soil, this earth. YES
Gods earth. produce with our labor that
which gives food and life 10 the millions
OF our fellow men. For out Of this earth
comes an the wealth Of this nation and
the world. And we producers, by a grand
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of Marion. They are all hale and hearty

of Marion. They are all hale and hearty
men yet.
Mrs Virginia D. Young has LIE Conte
pear tree in her orchard on which are
nine young pears, one as large as a hen
egg. This is the second crop this year.
A new kind Of sweet potato, called for
" to one" meaning that one vine in hill
yields forty potatoes. was sod in Fairfax
last Thursday by Ben Martin, a colored
man.
Christian Mcmillan of ST. Johns Church
neighborhood, near Varnville, has a fine
grove Of pecan nuts. When he wants a
barrel of flour, he simply gathers about
thirty pounds of nuts and makes the ex-
change.
William Davis, one of the First South
Carolina volunteers, shot and killed a
swan measuring seven feet from tip TO
tip, four feet and nine inches high and
weighing fourteen pounds at Evansville.
/ was killed JUST within a few steps of
where the large fish was killed by w. M
McCravy in 1881.
NJ. Il, Sans, having raised the largest
sweet potato--a twelve and a half FOUNDER
comes TO the front this week as a raiser
of mammoth turnips. One old gentleman
went out Saturday and returned with spec.
linens Of the white Dutch, while globe
and purple top varieties, which far sur
passes any seen in Cherokee county this
season. Mr.. Sans potatoes and turnips
demonstrate the possibilities in Cherokee,
and should encourage renewed efforts by
those who tin the soil.
Three stalks of corn have been on exhi-
bition in Darlington for several days and
have created much comment. The stalks
are seventeen feet high, each stalk having
two ears of corn about ten feet above the
ground. It Is known as some kind of a
Mexican corn ana was grown on w E
bargains plantation Bill Farley says this
is 'freshet proof corn--it makes no differ.
ence how high the fresh goes, the corn
is guaranteed TO keep two feet above the
water"
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-.Dse county, haa the misfortune 70 nre X
one OF her limbs in attempting 90 alght
from a wagon in which she had been rid
/ ing.
Invitations for the wedding Of Mr.. John
Carolynn Jones Of Orlando to Miss Fannie
JOY MagofHn of Newport, Ark. have been
issued. The ceremony viii take place
| Wednesday evening, Dec. Z. 1898, at s
O'Clock, at St. Paurs Church, Newport
Cards are out announcing the marriage
of Mr.. w. /. Denham of the Gainesville
Daily Sun to Miss Ida Knoblock OF Mar
tin, Marion county. The ceremony will
take place at the residence Of the bride,
Wednesday, Nov 80, at s O'Clock p. m.
Rev Hundley of Gainesville officiating.
Mr. J. r. Williams of Live Oak is the
possessor of two hogs of which he is very
proud and claims them to be the largest
porkers in the county. One OF them meas
ures six feet from tip Of the noge to the
root Of the tail. Competent judges say
they will each weigh near 400 pounds when
dressed.
Orlando Star: Strawberries have made
their appearance in Orlando in limited
quantities, and from now until April or
May they will increase in yield. 1t has al
ways been the boast of Orange county
that its citizens could have fresh straw
berries for their Christmas dinners, but
this year some Thanksgiving feasts in this
vicinity were topped OF with that luscious
small fruit. Not many localities can fur
nish strawberries fresh from the garden
on Thanksgiving morning.
Orlando Sentnel: The progress of or
ange trees is almost phenomenal With
intense cultivation an acre Of orange trees
can be made 90 yield 500 boxes. At the
present price OF fruit, this amounts to 81. 900
per acre. The price Of 81 per box on the
trees viii hold for the next ten years.
Oranges are now worth from $3.50 to 81
per box in the Northern markets. Don't
fear the weather-climate does not change
in ones lfetime-we shall have no freeze
for thirty years. There is nothing in the
timber theory The state Of Maine has
been getting warmer for the past twenty
years, Notwithstanding it has been denud-
ed Of nearly all of its forests Give the
tree fifty pounds of commercialNfertijzer
and watch the golden harvest
Kissimmee Gazette: Col. J. H. Dave Of
Boston and his chief engineer, Gen T. A.
Allen of Evansville, Ind, arrived in this
city Sunday morning. These gentlemen
nave peSh IOSFAliS CNSl ZIG country III inc
interest of the Central Railway and
Steamship Company of Florida with
view to determine the route from Palatka
to deep water on the Gulf. They have
driven over large portion of the country
west OF the Kissimmee valley through Lee,
DeSoto Polk and Osceola counties. 1t is
not yet decided which one of two routes
they win take to reach the Gulf, Punta
Rassa and Boca Grand being both con-
sidered. 1t Is expected that matters will
be so far advanced that active work will
be begun by Jan. l. Dave and Allen left for
New York yesterday
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The Foods of the MnrIh

Some interesting facts about the foods of
the nations are brought out in an article
in the last number of McClure's Magazine
entitled THE Worlds Bill of Fare" It is
not easy to believe the authors, G. B.
Waldron, Esq, first statement that wheat
is far from being the most important food
food crop of the world. He shows that the
potato ranks first in the list of food pro-
ducts, the annual crop of this popular
tuber averaging more than 100000. 600
bushels, while corn, which comes next.
averages only $500 10000 bushels. and then
comes wheat, 2,500,000000 bushels, follow
ed by rye, 1,300,000,000 and barley, $50 co.,
900 bushels. Another surprise is in the fact
that among the nations France Is the
largest customer for wheat, using an aver
age of S00,000,Oc0 bushels a year, which is
467 pounds, or seven and three-fourl his
bushels, to each inhab.tant Canadians
consume about six bushels, the people of
Great Britain $50 pounds each; and our
people come next, using 240 pounds or four
bushels each, total of about 100000, 900
bushels, or the same as that of France.
The Germans use only about three BUSH
els each, making up the deficiency with
rye and potatoes. Russians are very saw
ing of their wheat their average being
only bushel and a half, but they use five
bushels of rye each, and ninety pounds of
oats yearly.
AS We had supposed the Irish are the
most liberal users of potatoes, their aver
age being 1,467 pounds, or about TWENTY
five bushels each; or four pounds a day
a pound at each meal man, woman and
child.
Next to the Irishmen come the German.
as potato lover, with his / 300 pounds n
year, or a grand total of Ito O00. 600 BUSH
els for the entire poulation. Uncle San,
requires about 250C00,000 bushels. or some
three and one-half bushels for each of us.
This we know to be about the amount re-
CURED at our own home.
As to meats eaten it win surprise many
readers 10 know that Uncle Sam heads the
list. He uses an average Of 11,0G0 600 900
pounds for each twelve months, or nearly
$50 pounds for each person, large and
small; almost half a pound a day. We
undoubtedly do eat too much flesh food as
the doctors have always told us. John
Bull, the greatest beef eater, as he has
been considered eats only leo pounds of
meat per capita, but II must be remenn-
bered that the Irish eat scarcely any beef
az all, and but very little meat of any
kind, aud that the laboring classes general
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fumes that sink TO the bottom of the corn.
excluding the air and killing the insects.
The use of tight bins and cribs has been
recOmme nded, but are not absolutely e5-
sernal
If corn, peas or beans be put In a per-
fectly tight can or barrel and a large
quantity of carbon bisulphide be used to
kin The weeviI and its fumes are allowed
10 stay in the barrel or can for a long pc
ROD. the germ viii be killed and the
seeds VIII be unfit for planting. Corn
treated in this manner with an excess Of
carbon bisulphide is good for feeding pur-
-c@es.
that evapOrates al ordinary temperatures
and is highly explosive and inhammable
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ly have to limit themselves to very small
allowances of flesh food. Not oftener
than two or three times a week do they
enjoy roast of beef, or rasher of ba-
con. Italy must live almost entirely on
fruits and grain, for her meat ration Is
only One-sixth that of our people, that Of
Spain is less than half ours
Our people consume more eggs, propor-
tionately, than any other nation, ale grand
total for year being about 1OtA 600 900,
or lS3 eggs 10 each one of us. No won der
the hen is our most common domestic am
imaL But all we raise cannot supply our
demand, and we have to import millions of
dozen of eggs yearly. Canada comes next
to US in the use of eggs, with ninety per
capita Next Denmark, 50; then France,
rs, and Germany, 70.
johnny Bun leads all in sweets. He gives
50 pounds year TO each person, small and
large; while Uncle Sam, who stands next
him in this extravaganza, gives us 70
pounds, trife less. Poor Spain, though
owning, till recently many of the best
producing Islands in the world, gives her
people only the pittance of seven pounds
each. What a poverty stricken nation she
muat be-
As 10 stimulants, alcohol, beer,
etc, worse than useless drinks,
Uncle Sam ranks third with the nations,
and England first, Germany coming be-
tween. Our drink bill reaches the enor-
nous total of H. 100000 gallons, or 10 gall
IONS TO each person. Englands total is
l2O0OOO,O00 gallons, or 80 gallons to each.
AS the children and most of the women
ana some Of the men drink no intoxicants,
the drinkers must consume an average of
nearly 100 gallons, costing them over 800
year each. What fearful waste and loss
is involved in this last expenditure. In the
use OF that useless, harmful narcotic, to-
baoco, we find our people rank third again.
But in this case Belgium stands first as
to individual consumption, with 40 ounces,
While the Germans. who we had supposed
led the world in putting tobacco smoke,
use but 4S ounces, Our people smoke and
chew nearly as much 43 ounces or leaV-
ing out those who eschew the weed in any
shape, something like 200 ounces a year,
for those who use it,
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d. B. Moore, Eddy. Ga, asks for in
formation about Duroe-Jersey hogs If
any reader in Mr.. Moore's locality has
these hogs, let him correspond with Mr..
Moore. 1t is much better in starting in to
raise hogs to procure the best stock pos
sible in the neighborfood and proceed to
improve. There are very few breeders
of pure Duroe in Georgia. If obtained
from Northern localities The. cost of start
ing is greatly increased, and even in the
case of hogs acclimation is worth some
thing. A cross of Duroe-Jersey on good
native stock makes good hog for South
ern farmers, but whether 1t is really bet
ter than the Berkshire. we cannot say.
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Properly speaking there ought to be no
such thing as the corn stalk disease, says
the Homestead. There would be none if the
entire corn crop was cut and the stalks
utilized either in the form of ensiage, or as
fodder, shredded or otherwise. This use Of
the stalks would give a good paying feed
ing value for them, while browsing in tho
stalk field gives scarcely any. The corn
stalk disease would then be escaped, for
it is only when feeding in the stalk field
that cattle contract it. What il is nobody
knows, although some think they know
That is, they know enough to explain the
instances of death in the stalk field that
have come under their own obserVa tion.
These deaths have been variously ex-
planned but no explanation that will ht
all cases has yet been made There are
cases of death from impaction in stalk
fields, but the corn stalk disease is some
thing more than impaction. An excess OF
ealtpeter will probably cause death, as has
been observed BY DIR. Mayo, but deaths oe-
cur where there is no such excess. Two or
three different germs have been identified
by psychologists and credited with caus-
ing the disease. but the evidence in the
case of each proves upon careful invests
CATION TO be unsatisfactory. How to de-
fend against the corn stalk disease and at
the same time allow the cattle to run in
the stalk fields is something that nobody
knows. The only sure way TO avoid loss
from this cause is 10 keep the cattle out
of the stalk field. At the same time they
may run upon stalks season after season
without loss while on the other hand
single seasons feeding in this manner may
cause very heavy loss. Until everybody
gets to cutting their corn and feeding it in
the form OF cut fodder the losses will con-
tinue. and the probability of discovering
remedy is moi strong. for a great deal OF
ability has already been expended In the
effort to solve the problem. investigators
being spurred on not only by the material
losses which the disease inficts but by
that absorbing and curious interest which
natures puzzles ALWAYS present 20 tho
scientific mind.
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SOUTH CARoIaNA.

Mrs. T. n. jenkins died at the home
of her husband. T. n. jenkins, in Pickens,
on last Tuesday evening, Nov. 49, from
a complication of diseases.
VIII King. a young man of about 20.
Spartanburg hoy, is at home on a fur
Tough. He was drummer, and was shot
in the arm at the battle of Santiago
Mr.. Sherwood, an old and respected ciu-
zen Of Early Branch, died at his residence
there Thursday. His remains were inter-
red Friday, Rev. w. A. Fairy officiating.
Solicitor C. Duncan Bellinger has ten
dered his resignation as solicitor of the
Second circuit TO Gov. Eferbe, TO take
effect on Jan. l. 1899. Gov. Ellerbe will
appoint his successor on Dec. 1.
Robert NJ. Davis of Greenvine has
bought the farm on Conneross creek, near
Richland, Oconee county, from l.. d.
Strbling for So coo. Mr.. Davis is an en-
gineer on the Southern Railway, but his
family expects 20 remove to the farm pur-
chased about Jan. l. 1899
Hon. George McCottry Witherspoon died
at his home at Lancaster Wednesday night
in the S7th year of his age. He was state
senator for several years. was judge of
the District Court and for a number of
years past he had been Judge of PROF.
bate. He was ruling elder in the Pres
byterian Church and led an exemplary
Christian life.
Harvey Crow of Enoree had a little
6-year-old child bitten by a rabid dog. Mr..
Crow went Immediately to Charlotte in
search of madstope, and in twelve hours
after the child was bitten the stone was
applied and remained sticking to the
wound for more, than an hour. The child
is now doing wei, and the parents are
hopeful that all the poison has been drawn
out.
Levi Richardson, colored man of
Spartanburg. had two sons in the Tenth
Regiment He was notified that his son,
| Robert, had died in a hospital at Lexing-
! ton, and was asked what he desired 10
be done with the body He telegraphed for
1t 20 be sent to Spartanburg for burias.
On It's arrival. when the coffin was opened
a strange face appeared within. No one
! IN Spartanburg had ever seen the body be-
fore. The hospital authorities in Licking
| Ton had either mixed the names or else
| two colorSd soldiers had died the same
| day and the wrong body was shipped 70
! Spartanburg.
Manager sproles of the Greenwood Tel
ephone Company is never firing in his ef-
forts TO give the patrons OF the company
satisfactory service. The contract has
! been let for the construction of a new line
| from Greenwood to Nerdery, to conneci
with the line from Nerdery to Abbevi.le
| This is made necessary by the heavy bust
ness Of The present line to Verdery, which
| aNfqpHq a RrqIlaV IA
! Connection will be made at Abbeville with
! the line 10 Due West, Donualds, Honea
| Path and Anderson. A number of new
! phones have been put in recently. A
line has recently been built from Clinton
TO Newberry. This gives Greenwood con.
nection with NewbeIry. Prosperity, Union
and world OF minor points. Connection
can also be made with Spartanburg. but
the conversation is not satisfactory al
present, There is a defect in the Spar.
tanburg connection which Will be RENE
| died as soon as located
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combination of brain and muscle, analyze
and extract from this soil this wealth.
With our agricultural schools, our expert
mental stations, and institutes, farmers
days at our chautauqua meetings, our
agricultural press; with educated brains
and muscle, the brain to conceive and
The muscle to execute, men are making
a success of farming, despite the low
prices of farm products.
Looking from a farmers standpoint 1t
seems to me we are divided into three
branches-the agricultural, the mechani-
cal and the commercial business worlds
The agricultural takes from the soil it's
products and manufactures them ready
for the consumers. The commercial world
is a world of exchange, of trade and traf-
fic. They are a good set of fellows who
live in this commercial world; they work
hard and to our interest, and we could
not get along without them-no more than
they could without us. But did it ever
occur to you, my farmer friends, that they
never add one dollar to the wealth of the
world? They exchange and trade in the
wealth that the agricultural and mechan-
ical worlds produce.
Now among the consumers there is a
great host of idlers, a great army of
droues in the beehive of the world. But
in this class to which you and 1 belong
there is no such thing; all must be active,
working, busy bees in this great world
hive. Ella Wheeler Wilcox, in some of
her writings, has said that the world is
divided into two classes-the filters and
the leaners; that one-half the world is
bravely putting its shoulders to the wheel
and carrying the burdens of the world,
while the other half looks on. God bless
the filters! 1 would hate to be a leaner
and know that some brave. noble heart
was carrying my part of the worlds bur-
den i-Southern Rnralist
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VALDOSTA NEWS.
Cases Tried in the Superior Court.
Grand Jury Presen tments.

Oruhu IreSem tmentS.
Valdosia, Ca, Nov. 27.-The November
term of the Superior Court adjourned yes
terday evening. p The docket was very well
cleaned of cases of this sort. The criml-
nal docket during the term was an ex-
ceedingly light one, there being only one
murderer for trial, Ed Osby, and his trial
was postponed on account of the absence
of witnesses.
The cases against John and Walter
Thomas, charged with assault with intent
10 murder Tom Fox, were tried and the
former was convicted and the latter con-
victed of a misdemeanor or assault and
battery.
John Henry, the young white man who
defed sheriff's posse near Lake Park
some time ago. and who waged a small
battle with the posse was also convicted
OF misdemeanor though he was charged
with assault with intent to murder.
The most interesting event of the week
was the finding of the grand jury in Ger.
tain cases brought before that body by
Mayor w. j. NJ Smith of Lake Park The
municipal affairs of Lake Park have been
in fernent for several years, and every
court brings a number of presentments
for members of one of the factions Their.
against the other faction. This court was
w fANcpAOn TO tue RUE. IN a Few min
utes after the grand jury went into ses-
sion the Mayor of Lake Park appeared
before that body with numerous present.
ments. The grand jury went into the
cases very thoroughly. and some of the
Mayors bills We're returned mo bin and
labeled malicious prosecution" This put
the cost of the cases upon the Mayor. ane,
ne was arrested and held until the cost
was paid. The incident created a gooc-
sized sensation, but the action of the
grand jury was applauded, because the
finding viii probably keep down present.
ments of this sort in future. A true biz
was found against party who assaulted
| the Mayor on the streets some time ago.
The presentments of the grand iurv
! urged tho construction of a new court
house here, and very strongly condemned
the management of the pauper farm THE
| jury stated that large amount of prom
| erty in the county was not returned for
taxation. including something like 25 an
! acres, and recommended that executions
be issued against all OF this property. ana
it be sold. The shrinkage in land in this
/ county has been much greater than the
| decrease of tax values in the state have
I been during the past few years
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FLORIDA.

Oden Auge of Manatee killed a pig on
Tuesday that weighed $50 pounds after be-
ing dressed. This pig was Florida razor
back pig, and was only II months old.
The youngest daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
lvey of Polk county, near Barlow. while
on visit 20 her grandfather, G. II. wy
ait near Manetee died from an attack Of
paralysis Tuesday.
AZ Chuiuota few days ago. Mrs. Ann
r. Roberts, an old-time resident Of Or
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What book is that you're reading?"
THE poems of Poe" Poe? Poe? That
name seems familiar. Where have l heard
ii before? Oh, yes l wonder IL he's onI,
relation TO the Poes Of Princeton?"-Clevr-
land Leader.
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"A Great Feat-"My wife doesn't want
TO vote. but she's what 1 call strong-mind-
ed" in what direetion?" wen. she can
read a doctor book clear through withont
getting symptoms of any of the diseases. =
Brooklyn Life.
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CURIOCs THINGS IN CAROLINA.

There are three octogenarians living ia
Marion county vino were all born the
same year and the same month. March
1913. They are W. w. Sellers Of Dillon.
Nell McDufiie Of Hamer ana G. w. smithy
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several questions.

Mr.. ]. W. r., Brinson, Ga, asks:
]. What are hammock lands?
2. What crops can be grown profitably
in Decatur county. between Flint river
and Spring creek?
3. Can Bermuda grass be grown for
pasture on sandy stump land?
4. What is the best stock for market?
5. Are silos used in the South for preserv-
ing fodder.
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Questions ard communications relative
. agricultural and horticultural subjects
u addressed to Agri. Editor, Drawer ~
Mil ldgeville. Ga. will receive tmmediatS
attention