The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-04

NJ StEaB DOOR,
Destroying the scaIe-The splendid sic.
cess of California fruit growers in
Riding their trees of scale pests
by fumigadng with hydrocyanie acd
gas should give encouragement to orch
artists everywhere. BY this method the
San Jose scale can be completely stamped
out. The oys er shell bark louise, the cush-
iony scale the red scale, are easily con-
tr0fied. The process is fully described in
This issue and should be Investigated by
every farmer and fruit grower. The OUT
1T need not be expensive ard one wiz am
sWer for a neghborhood.
The electric railway will largely abolish
the demand for horses and also ruin the
market for hay, oats and other horse
food" was loudly proclaimed q few years
ago. But the horse market is in vastly bet
ter shape than it was two ana three years
back, says the Horseman. Now the cry S
that the horselcss carriage has already
ushefed in the horseless age. But this cry
is as much ahead Of he times as IS tde ire
mendous overca pitalization of the horse-
less carriage industry. That business is
yet in the experimental stage II will
probably be ten years before automobl les
reach the present perfection of the bicycle
and are sod al correspondingly low prices.
The hoTseless age will not reach our farm
within the present generation. Breeding
and raising good horses win continue 10
be good business for many years yet.
Tillage.-Thorough tillage is means Of
adding strength to the soil largely for the
reason that it puts it into a condition to
absorb or take up from the air fertillzing
elements contained in il. The oftener the
earth is stirred and a fresh surface IS
turned up the more of this floating ele-
ment will be absorbed. The earth being
mellow, the rains penetrate deeper and
carry the ammonia farther down Ii also
allows the roots of the plants to spread
more and to go deeper in search of mos-
ture and plant food. In a dry time more
OF the dew is absorbed and more Of the
rain, while the same conditions of mellow
ness allows the moisture TO come up from
below If there are Clements of plant
food in the soil thorough tillage helps ma
terially to make them available for use
by the growing plants.
Shallow Corn Culture Best-The recent
experiments at the Neb station furnish ad-
ditional evidence that the shallow culture
of corn results in larger yields than deep
culture. In this particular experiment.
the land receiving shallow cultivation was
stirred to a depth of three inches; that
receiving deep cultivation, to a depth OF
yielded at the rate of so bushels to the
acre, while those cultivated shallow with
all other conditions just the same, pro-
duced 50 bushels per acre, or an increase
of 10 bushels. To one who has not studied
the root system of corn this may appear
unusual, but when it is remembered tnat
many of the feeding roots are near the
surface it can easily be seen that when
they are mutiIated the necessary moisture
cannot be supplied 10 the plant and the
crop is consequently decreased. EXpeH-
ments along the same line in other states
80 to show that it pays to cultivate corn
moderately deep, say four or 1--WE mcnesf
the first time when it is quite small, ouC
the shoVels should not go more than thres
inches deep after the first blowing.
Beggar Weed.-Beggar weed now ranks
in the planters estimation with the Vei-
vet bean, says the Florida Bulliten. II IS
closely allied to the beggar weeds or pes
gar lice of the North Being a sub-uop'-
cal species, it is adapted to cultivation
either as a forage crop or for SOL rel,o-
walton in sub-tropical regions. 1t IS ie
guminous plant with rather woody stdlks
from three to ten feet high. The seeuS
are borne in many jointed prickly pous,
which stick TO the bodies of animals oL
clothing of persons Beggar weed Is
great nitrogen satherer, making 1t mos
blowing under beggar weed in orchaius
and corn fields report texture and eoloE
of soil as having changed noticeably WIN.
in two years. One ton of beggar weed l"S
contains thirty-eight pounds Of nltfosels
A ton Of beggar weed ash contains ~
pounds of lime, 230 pounds phosphorc aoi1
and 482 pounds OF potash. A four-'o"
crop of the weed turned under as sIeIs
manure viii supply an equivalent OF hair
a ton of the best commercial tertlllzer ~
the use of the succeeding crop III tne
rotation. Beggar weed makes very H,,
quality of hay, relished by all classes
farm stock. It contains a large amoune
of crude protein end may be fed 70 80
best advantage by adding to the ra 49,
some coarse forage containing less
TEN and more carbohydrates. be757i'
weed is especially adapted to light s'elni
sandy soils, including the hammoek -
pine lands of Florida and the SANDY - -
lands of the Gulf coast. The yield Is &c 10
to FIVE tons per acre, especially when wv
crops are cut.