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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-17
Cassavn for stock.

There are farmers in Walton county,
West Florida, who have raised cassava
for thirty years, and find 1t a most valu-
able plant, says a Florida paper. 1t has
all the edible qualities of the Irish potato
and three times its productveness. 1t will
perhaps never take the place of the potato
on our tables, but for stock feed is of
such great value that 1t makes an acre
Of poor wire-grass piney woods equal in
producing capacity to the best acre in
the Alabama river bottoms Hogs pre-
fer il to potatoes. 1t is as crisp and as
white as a cocoanut, and very rich in
starch. Hens will lay eggs on cassava
equal to a wheat diet. Throw a root over
10 them in the morning and they will never
let up on 1t till it is all gone. The pecking
is good exercise for them; 1t makes hem
lay we'll They will never wander and
scratch as long as there is a shred OF a
root left
1t does not rot like the potato, but will
lie In the mud for a month and be sound
We have seen it dug in March, after hav-
ing been in the wet ground nearly covered
with water all winter, and 1t was sound.
The most difficult part of its culture is to
keep the seed (stalks) through the win
ter. 1t may be done by banking them in
moderately dry soil and sheltering from
heavy rains with boards, or by throwing
straw or corn fodder on the bank in sufi-
cient quantity to turn the water off the
hank
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-17

the corn has been husked. This disease
causes more loss to the farmers of Ne
braska than any other malady, with the
exception of swine plague. DR.. Peters
shows that the trouble cannot be due 10
corn smut, as numerous careful expert
ments have been made at different sta
tons confirming this conclusion. He also
shows that the commonly accepted opin-
ion that the trouble is due TO a shortage
of salt and water is without foundation,
as many animals die when they are plen-
tifully supplied with both
The conclusion that death is caused by
dry murrain, based upon the fact that
the third stomach of the animal is found
in dry and hard condition after death,
he shows also to be without foundation,
as the natural state of this stomach is
dry and hard. DR.. Mayos theory that the
trouble is the result of cattle eating stalks
containing a great amount of saltpeter,
is inadequate, as upon investigation 1t
has been found that cattle can easily take
as medicine a greater amount of saltpeter
than could be possibly be found in days
or weeks feed of corn stalks. The germ
theory first advanced by DIR. Billings may
have some foundation. The doctor thought
for a time that his germ was identical
with one described in 1889 by DR.. Burrill,
but cattle that ate stalks affected by the
Burrill bacillus thrived upon them. So
far, however, animals used in experiments
have succumbed to or been seriously in
jured by the germ identified by DR.. Bill
'lings, and it may be that this germ is the
cause of the disease.
The conclusion, after thoroughly inves-
tigating all data, is that the disease can,
in a measure, be prevented by feeding a
grain ration and not allowing the animals
to live on stalks alone. A number of the
practical farmers in the West advised that
the cattle be allowed in the stalk field for
a short time only at first and that they
should not be turned in in a starved con-
dition. Feeders from the range should be
given a grain ration for a week or more
before being pastured on the corn field.
If cattle have access to hay, millet, straw
and a small grain ration, the danger of
losing them is not so great.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-17
Easier to Pun Down Than to Build

The Indiana Farmer says: Virgin soil
contains many elements of fertility and
mechanical conditions that are difficult to
replace after they have once been exhaust
ed through an ignorant system of farm
ing. Science can do much toward reno
waiting WORKOUT soils, but it is doubtful
if they can ever be returned to the same
conditions they were in when man first
started to till them. At least it would
take many years and generations of farm
ing after the most improved methods to
restore a rundown piece of land to its
early primitive condition. We may add
manure, green crops, mineral fertilizers,
and all the artificial manural mixtures
ever invented, and, valuable as these
substances are it is not likely that the
soil will be made just right.
Virgin soil of great fertility IS the pro
duct of many thousands of years Of build
ing up by natures slow but sure method.
Vegetation of season after season has
rotted out of sight by succeeding genera
tons of plants. The roots of these mill
ions of plants drew from beneath the
rich stores of potash and phosphorlc acid,
and the leaves and branches gathered
nitrogen from the air. The animals help
ed to enrich the primitive soil with their
eXcrements and decaying bones. The bur-
soil mineral fertilizers and new earth,
which became mixed with the top soil.
During this slow process of soil-build-
ing and enriching the fertility increased
steadily and gradually. 1t was not the
work of a day or year. The food that
was added to it was digested slowly The
plant food was assimiated by the soil,
and was ready for absorption by other
plants. All 1t needed was the stirring of
the soil to make the stored-up fertility
ready for use.
We build up our soils after this same
process as nearly as we can initiate it,
but we never duplicate 1t entirely. 1t is
not always possible to add just what
nature intended should be put In the soil.
Moreover, our methods have to be quick.
We cannot walk ages for the soil to digest
and assimilate the food given to it. Here
in is the danger of permitting any soil to
run down. 1t may take only a few years
of steady dropping to exhaust the fertility
of the best virgin SOIL but it will take
generations to restore It, 1t is easier to
maintain the natural, primitive fertility
and mechanical conditions of the soil than
to restore them after they have once been
lost. We should practice preventive meas
ures, and then curative medicine will sell
dom be required.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-17

Of some premises. which is alleged will
shut residents off from the public road.
The Plant System has recently done an
immense amount Of work here, raising
racks. grading. putting in new switches,
etc. and much of this work has caused
vigorous kicks from residents living along
Savannah avenue. who were effected by
the work The climax was reached when
the road attempted to build some wire
fences along the line and a bin of injunc-
ton followed.
Congressman W. 6. Brantey was in the
city consulting with some of his friends
last week and decided 10 have two more
grand Democratic rallies in this county be-
fore the November election. One of them
will be held al Hahira on Oct. p, and
Congressman Brantley will speak to the
Democrats OF that section The people
there are arranging to give him a big
crowd and a fun vote in the election to
follow. The rally here will be held in
November Saturday before the election,
and speeches will be made by Senator
Steve Clay and Chairman duBignon. These
meetings will bring out big crowds of
Democrats, and VIII probably help to swell
the Democratic majority In November
The Central Hotel in this city has chang
ed hands and is now under the manage
ment OF r. l. Hopson. formerly of Flor
ida. The building is being renovated and
put in shape for first-class service to pat
rons of the hotel
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-17

late report from the United States
bureau Of animal industry states that hog
cholera is caused by specific microbe
or disease producing germ multiplying in
the bodies of growing hogs. And that if
the hogs system is kept in a well-bal-
anced, healthy condition, these disease
producing germs cannot obtain a foot
hold An Old but not less truthful say
ing is that IAN ounce of prevention is
worth more thani pound of cure" The
successful hog raiser is the man who bends
all his energies in preventing, rather than
in curing disease in his herds. Il should
be his constant endeavor to keep his nogs,
blood pure and his digestion in good.
strong, healthy condition. so that the
germs of cholera or swine plague cannot
obtain hold on the system. Enlightened
man (eyen many profession swine breed
ers) has violated natures fixed laws in
relation to swine health. by invenling hog
rings, and stock laws, and combining hogs
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-17
cure for BIack Knot.

Thus far no remedy, says an exchange,
for this disease seems to be suggested by
fruit growers, except to cut down and de-
stroy the trees which are attacked, but
we find on visiting the orchard of Mr..
Joseph A. Pagan of West Richmond, and
talking with him, that he has discovered
method which he regards as a positive
cure of the pest 1t originated with him
and he freely gives it to the public for the
general good. Being very simple it can
be readily tried by anyone. AS soon as
black knot appears, which is shown by
swelling of the trunk or limb of the tree.
he cuts with a knife an incision along the
line of it and saturates with chloro-nap-
tholeum, a disinfecting fluid, small can
of which can be had at any drug store.
Another application should be had in the
TALL We saw several trees on which this
was done and in every case the black
knot was destroyed and the tree saved.
In one case the black knot had been sew
eral feet long and it was entirely removed
and a new growth established. Several
kinds of trees, including the damson, were
operated on, and the trial was always a
success. Mr.. Pagan has successfully used
this process for the past three seasons.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-17

TO tame grass pastures and fenced lots
where they cannot unearth the various
tubers and roots which contain the inedi-
cnal ingredients 50 necessary 10 the prop
er digestion, nutrition and medication of
their various intricate bodily tissues. As
in the human body disease has its most
frequent origin in indigestion, so hog dis
eases that are generally termed cholera,
are almost entirely due to indigestion caus-
ed by no feeding well balanced ration
too much corn. The ringed snOut hog of
the corn belt does not secure the nitroge-
nous tibriuOus, carbonaceous, and medi-
cinal foods which his nature continually
demands. Consequently his entire organ
ism is continually In an unnatural, de-
ranged condition. His digestive organs
are in a stale of arrangement which de-
tracts from their naturally healthy pro-
cess of converting food into nutriment. A
recent writer in the Tennessee Farmer
says: Il would prefer the product grown
from one bushel of tame artiehoke tubers,
as a preventative of disease of swine OF
all ages, to all ages, to all the hog cholera
cures obtainable. The writer has for
years kept track of states and counties
where the heaviest corn crops have been
pronounced, and where the so-called Cho-
lera or swine plague has been most preva-
lent. And has found that an all corn Ciet
and cholera almost invariably go together
Fifteen million dollars is about the cash
value of the hogs that died from cholera
in Illinois alone during the year 1897. not
to mention the other corn states whose
hog losses from the same cause were many
millions of dollars additional. These great
losses will stop only when hog raisers
learn the necessity of feeding we'll bal
anced rations rather than wasting not
only time but money, in endeavoring 10
cure disease after it has become estab-
lished. Hogs fed on artichoke tubers or
other root crops are free from the intestinal
worms constipation and Indigestion, con-
sequent to an all corn diet. Artichokes
especially are a wholesale corrective Of
the hogs system, and a hog contracting
cholera in an artichoke patch would be
a curiosity indeed.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-17

Eight companies Of the First FLORIDA
Regiment were taken from Huntsville to
Tallahassee. a distance Of about so miles
to be turned loose on thirty-day furloughs
many Of them without the means TO reach
their homes, even at The very low rate so
generously offered all the soldiers by the
railroads. When. Gov. Bloxham learned
of the unusual condition which confronted
the soldiers he at once began to use the
wires in behalf of the men, and about
3 O'Clock Friday afternoon he received a
telegram from Col. John A. Henderson,
vice president ana general counsel of the
Florida Central and Peninsular system,
stating that his company would provide
the soldiers with free transportation and
that special trains would be at their SER
vice Saturday. All The officers and men
who could go left Saturday for home Ten
men from each company were detailed 10
remain at camp. Capt S. T. Williamson
of Quincy is left in command, with Lieuts.
Wright. Robinson and Hays. A few men
are on the sick list, and one IN the hospital
is very i'll with pneumonia. w. r. Reed of
Orlando The Kings Daughters and
other ladies are supplying milk and dain-
ties suitable for the sick.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-17
SOUTH CAROLINA.

The Oconee Fair Association will hold
its annual fair a Seneca on oct. &c and q.
There is talk of building two more NAM
moth cotton mills in spartanburg county
Senator Benjamin r. Tnlman of South
Carolina has accepted the invitation Of the
Old Dominion Club to make an address
in Richmond on Oct 10.
The Republicans of the Second district
met in convention at Aiken on Saturday
and nominated P b. Chatfield as their
candidate for Congress. in opposition to
Col W J. Talbert the Democratic stand
ard bearer.
Senator S. G. Mayfield of Denmark is
running fifty plows this year, and will
make $50 bales of cotton and clear money
in spite of the short crop and low prices.
In addition he viii make provisions with
out end for men and mules.
In 1890 Gov. Richardson offered reward
of $50 for the capture of one Tony Griffith
wanted in Abbevhle for murder He wal
recently captured by Policeman McCravy
of that town, who asks THAT the Governor
pay the reward. He win pay it.
The dispensary board of control has
adopted a resolution appointing a special
committee to report on a new scale of fig
ures so that towns and counties can get a
larger proportion of profits. The board
thinks this can be done and leave a good
showing for the state.
The Republicans in the Fifth district
have brought out a congressional candi-
date in the person of Mai. John F. Jones
Of Blacksburg, who posed as the martyr
of the party in that district during the
last election. He was nominated at a
convention held at Rock Hill on Oct. g.
The Coast Line people will not let out
contracts for grading the Denmark Rob
bins extension until all rights of way are
secured. Some land owners are unwil-
| ling to accept the Coast Lines offer and
| condemnation proceedings will have TO de-
| eide the value of the passage through
their places
The receipts of cotton at Sumter have
been so large since the season opened that
il has been impossible for the railroad to
move il, and at this time there are up
wards of 1000 bales at the depot await
| ing shipment. The receipts to this date
are about the same as last year for the
same period
The Riser boys, of Newberry county,
who were convicted of robberies about
Pomaria. we're taken to Columbia Wed
nesday and placed. in the penitentiary.
where they will serve five years unless
sooner pardoned. Both are young men,
| one being hardly more than Is years old,
and both bore good regulations in the
! community before their conviction They
were well-dressed, and no one seeing them
anght from the train would have imagined
that they were en- route for the peniten-
/ tiarV AftqF their conviction an
was taken to the Supreme Court on some
| ground, but it was withdrawn last week
and the young men began to serve out
| their terms.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-17
Water for Animals.

DR.. A. w. Biting of the Indian station
says that the horse requires from sixty
four to eighty pounds, or eight to ten gal
Ions per day, gallon of water weighing
eight pounds. During the months of Feb
Iuary and March, five horses drank from
forty-eight TO sixty pounds per head while
at work, and from sixty-two to eighty
four pounds while at work. Forty-four
per cent. of the water was drank in the
forenoon, and 56 per cent. in the after
noon. Cattle drink more than horses. Dur
ing the period above referred 10, cows not
giving milk drank seventy-eight pounds,
and cows in fun flow of milk drank 112
pounds per day. The largest drank was
122 pounds. and the greatest amount taken
by one animal in one day was 176 pounds.
Cattle drank Y per cent. in the evening.
Hogs drank from four TO 1--WE pounds per
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-17
The Scrap Book.

Castor Oil win Remove Warts: Apply 10
as often as necessary and convenient, so
that the warts will be kept creased and
moist with it. For instance, with cows
put it on the warts twice a day, once af-
ter each milking. Inside of a week the
warts will come off and stay off. This
cure will work on human flesh also. The
above is given on personal experience.
F.
Feeding the Land Poor land can never
be improved unless something is added to-
it. It is cheaper to allow time in the effort
70 grow crops to be plowed under them
than TO attempt to take a scanty crop
from the land. When the land is poor the
manure should be concentrated on smaller
areas and allow portion of the land to
go uncropped until manure can be given
it. Time will be saved, however. by using
green manurial crops and fertilizers. The
farmer who pays taxes on poor land taxes
himself unnecessarily.
Breeding Young Sows: Every SOW that IS
intended as a breeder should be bred
young. She will not produce as big a lt>
ter then as she viii later but ii is im~
portant for all her future progeny that
the tendency to milk production should be
early established After her first litter, for
the same reason, one or two of her pigs
should be allowed to suckle the SOW UNI
til they are ten weeks Old though both the
pigs and the young sow should be fed lib
orally, so that this long sucking of hes
pigs should not be too great drain on the
SOW.
The Value of Humus.-Although not
direct food for plants. humus is valuabs
in all kinds of soils. Still soil can
obtain too much humus. In this case il
would be well to use fertilizers or ma
nures of necessary elements that do not
contain much humus, to promote the
healthy growth of crops. Humus causes
a sandy soil to absorb and retain mora
moisture, keeping the crops from drying
up in dry weather. 1t improves a clay
soil by loosening and aerating it, which -
necessary for plant growth. Some crops
may be grown probably with but little
humus, but most crops want an ample
supply of it for perfect growth. CONNER
cial fertilizers do not contain humuss
therefore, it is seldom profitable to use
them on soils that do not contain an ann
pie supply of humus, except they be used
in connection with bulky manures. Fer
tilizers used exclusively on soils even that
contain plenty of humus. win in time
cease to be profitable. Humus is next IN
importance to the elements of plant food.
Trouble With Weevils.-I was troubled
for several years by weevils in the barn
and tried everything represented to be
EOOQ lot their llOils DNl AdAietN
was always the result. l resolved to ny
my own remedy, or rather one which an
old colored woman on the place had rec
commended as being efficient in the time OF
her ''ol mastah." Just before haymak-
ing time 1 cleaned the barn, grain bins,
etc, thoroughly, and then sprinkled slack
ed lime about there in every niche ana
corner. 1 have not been molested by wee@
wills since tEat time. If l ever am, this
remedy will do the work
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-17
WANTS a PRoTECTORATE
bishop HartseI to Pat the Matter
Before Secretary HAY.

Pittsburg. Pa. oct. lS.-Bishop Joseph
c. Hartzen of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, whose bishopric is in Africa, stat
ed tonight that he had been commissioned
by the negro republic of Liberia to go to
Washington and ask that the republic be
taken under the sheltering wing of the
United States.
Il am on my way to see Secretary Hay"
said he, "as the special representative Of
the republic of Liberia, to secure a pro-
tectorate, either quasi or actual What
they want America to do is to say to the
European Powers In Africa, We have an
interest in Liberia; this country belongs
to us. Whether an actual protectorate
can be established or not will depend upon
how far the Liberian government is Will
ing TO go, assuming that thesUnited States
answers favorably."
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-17

In spite of the fact that agriculture was
considered by Washington the most
healthful, useful and noble employment OF
man, it is to-day the most maligned, neg
lected and unappreciated. This is because
the press and politicians, hoping 10 gain
favor with farmers, have spoken discour-
agingly. They say that farming does not
psy, that the price of products is less than
the cost of production There has not
been time since 1 was old enough to re-
member anything of this subject that these
calamity howlers have not been active in
proclaiming this false statement No Won
DER that our boys become discouraged and
want 10 leave the farm. 1 know some
men who come under my own personal OBJ
serNatlon, who have borrowed all the pur-
chase money, paid for their farm and to-
day are out of debt. I know also of men
VINO nave had their farms given them
that are now mortgaged for their full
value. If the wide-awake. energetic and
progressive man can succeed under such
ADVERSE circumstances, I can see no rea-
son why those in more favored conditions
should not succeed. Although / recognize
the fact that the prices received for farm
products are not what they should be, and
the progressive age in which we live,
moreover, has not enabled the farmer to
become as rich as his neighbor engaged in
other pursuits, yet statistics prove that
the per cent. of failures among farmers
is less than any other class. Then l be-
lleve that it behooyes all mankind to unite
in their praise and encouragement of this,
the most healthful, most useful pursuit.
To be sure; to be surel 1t should be
just as our esteemed contemporary (the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Let us stand up for
agriculture, and stand up ito" it. 1t will
never do for the people to quit farming
However low the prices may get, We must
nave cotton, and corn, and oats, and
wheat, and potatoes. and hay and a score
of other things that we just cannot get
| along without and continue to be happy
| The man that conducts his farming upon
"a rational basis viii certainly be able TO
/ live through the hard times, though they
may cover a period of more than seven
years. Young as this country is, it has
had fair share of financial commercial
and agricultural depression. So far as the
South Is concerned, it must be admitted NV
every thoughtful farmer than our system
our methods of farming, have been far
! from rational. The great majority Of our
| farmers have sacrificed everything else
pretty much to cotton and corn and have
not made the proper effort to live at home
But We cannot give up farming. We must
make a vigorous effort to amend and vet
| pluck the flower of safety from the net
| tie of danger" We must take heart with
| the day and begin again. Comet let us
reason together; let US cooperate together
| as much as possible. Let US turn from
politics to the far more important bust
ness of building a home.