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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-10
More Nitrogen I'm Meal From Upland
Cotton Seed Than in Sea Island
Meal.

MEAL
subscriber" Camden county. wishes to
know if there is any difference between
the meal made from upland cotton seed
and the meal made from the sea island
seed.
There is considerable difference. Analy
sis shows that while first-class upland
meal contains from $50 20 per cent. nitro
gen, the meal from sea island cotton rarely
avegage per cent. though the very
best sample may show as high as s per
cent. Taking the average run of the
two meals the upland meal has 50 per
cent. more protein nitrogen NATTER than
the sea island, consequently the former
either for food or manure is worth more
than the latter.
A mixture of materials as follows make
a good food for mich COWS (but some
coarse food, hay or corn forage must also
be given:
Cornmeal, 100 pounds.
Wheat bran, so pounds.
Cotton seed meal, 50 pounds.
Five to seven quarts of this to the days
ration.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-10

The Southern Planter says: Where cot
ton Is a staple crop. this month should be
a very busy one. and especially so after
the long, wet season. We do not intend
to follow the lead OF many Of our ex-
changes, and enter into a long argument
to prove that the cotton planter should
curtail the area to be planted. II his ex-
perence during the past two years has not
convinced him Of the folly Of planting all
the land he can possibly plant in cotton
TO the exclusion Of making bis own home
supplies and then selling his cotton for
five cents per pound, then nothing we can
say can possibly have any effect. What
We Will say TO him Is that. instead OF
planting a large area In cotton and max
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-10

dav by the state board Of control al Co
lumbia. The williams faction of the
board is now in the asce ndency. Mr.. Has
eden seeing that he would be defeated,
declined to let his name be used and Mr..
d. NJ. Miles of Spartanburg was elected
chairman of the board. Col. Vance was
defeated by ]. B. Douthit of Anderson. d.
A. G. Outz was reelected clerk to the COM
missioner; L. w. Boykin, a brother of the
member of the board. and j. C. Moody
were elected inspectors; w. w. Harrss,
clerk at the Governors office, G. II.
Charles and NJ. Fl. Mobley, booSkeepers,
and Capt. B. C. Webb, clerk to the board,
were unanimously reelected. w. H. Bry-
ant of Pickens was elected superintendent.
John G. Black of WATERFORD is shipping
clerk
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-10

properly cared for, are worth IS per cent.
of the feeding value as a fertilizer. Now.
under the changed conditions of the future
this product should be fed out and 'the
weddings of stock carefully saved and kept
under cover, with a heavy sprinkling of
kainit to prevent the escape of ammonia,
until ready to return TO the soil. Northern
cattle feeders have discovered the value of
this grain food, and are taking advantage
of ii, and cotton seed meal is being ship
ped as far north as Canada thus depriVing
our soils of plant food which should be re-
turned TO them as manure.
Now, If we feed this product to fatten
stock for market, as every progressive
farmer must admit we ought to do, then
we must raise the 1eguminous crops to
furnish the nitrogen for other crops, and
to restore and repovate our worn out
lands Although stable manure has an ex-
cess of nitrogen, the average farmer does
not get enough to keep up the fertility of
his soil and raise paying crops. We must,
therefore, supplement by raising COW peas.
BY means of the COW peas fertilized with
potash and phosphoric acid the soil can be
supplied with nitrogen and humus added
more cheaply and with less Dor than by
any other means. Progressive farmers,
who are studying these principles of crop
fertilization, are going slow on buying nj
IroSen, Wnen they can get all that is need
ed in this way.
The Florida "beggar weed seems to be
spreading over the extreme southern sec
ton of the Atlantic coast states, growing
up and reseeding itself after cultivation.
Nature seems TO have given this plant
the means of furnishing nitrogen and hui
mus TO the soil in very cheap way, and
farmers have found out that about all
| their lands require additionally in order
to produce good crops are potash and
! phosphoric acid, and l am informed that
| the farmers who are making the big crops
/ and at much less expense than formerly
! are those who use these fertilizers in lib
eral way. AS nature seems TO have fur
nished these wonderful plants in order tC
recuperate the soils worn out by man, we
| must make use of what nature furnishes
and appropriate to our advantage.
The farmers of the South have had some
reason to feel respondent over the low
/ price of cotton, yet we must not despair
| 1t Is always darkest before the dawn. LEI
us pay more attention to the fertilizer
question. The basic principle of scientific
agriculture is TO fertilize so as to produce
paying crops and at the same time keeI
UP the fertility of our soils.
C. w. Morrill,.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-10
MILLIONS IN HENS.
More Money in Poultry and Eggs
Than i'm wheat.
From the New York World.

From the New York World.
Chicago, April 2.--In a South Water
street commission house is a man who
for months has been studying the lowly
hen.
The results of his researches are APP
palling. He now fears that the money
making ability OF Mrs. Hen and her fam
attempt the formation OF hen trust. On
this merry Easter day, so redolent with
the subject, this weary man gives to the
World his figures.
He first found approximately the an
nual egg and chicken consumption of the
100000 people who live in Cook county
Then he based the consumption Of the
United States in the same ratio, fixing
the population al 70000,000. The number
of hens in business he cannot fix.
Eggs consumed annually in the
United States ..,............t......2 l0, 900 600
Market value at cent and
half each ..........,..,.....,......3 l5, 600 900
Number Of chickens consumed. 2l0, 900 900
Market value at 10 cents
pound. average weight Ave
pounds los, 900 900
Besides this extraordinary output the
expert uEufes lhdt lully an additional
200 100000 chickens are allowed to reach
maturity.
The hen industry is greatest In Iowa,
Illinois is second and Ohio third I'm activ-
ity.
More money Is made on the hen and her
products than off the total annual wheat
crop The government figures on wheat
last year was a total crop Of $4,000 900
bushels, which al prices obtained last sea-
son. an average Of SO cents a bushel, rep
resents 1885,. 10000, which the egg industry
based on the above figures goes 70 Si05, 600 =
600
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-10

ing upon 1t half bale or less to the acre
he should plant half the acre and seek to
produce upon it at least bale to the acre.
Even at present low prices a bale to the
acre can be made to yield some profit;
half bale to the acre can be made to do
this. What the cotton planter most needs
to do is to get his land under proper sys-
TEN of rotation, and especially to get it
filled with humus by the production of pea
crops for forage, and to be turned under.
At least a three course rotation should be
planned, and we would suggest oats fol-
lowed by COW peas the same year. the
second year cotton, the third year corn
with cow peas sown at the last working.
The oats and COW peas should be literally
fertilized with acid phosphate and the cot
ton crop with cotton seed. In this way al
little cost the land will soon so improve
in fertility as to make a bale of cotton to
the acre without any other fertilizer than
the seed, and be profitable, even at a low
price per pound.
If this year it is not practicable to plant
the cotton after a pea crop, then it viii
undoubtedly be necessary TO use some fer
ti.izer on the crop, but do not neglect to
make preparation for a change in the sys>
tenn for next year. Plant peas in the corn
and follow the oat crop with peas. Let
the land to be planted be we'll and deeply
broken, Dut DO not bring to the surface
more than small portion of the subsoii
1t is too late now for this subsoil to be
sufficiently aerated to become of service
to this years crop. Break the subsoil by
running a single tooth cultivator or bull
tongue cultivator in the bottom of each
furrow After p.owlng the land let 1t he
well narrowed and brought into as fine a
state a s possible before planting. AS a
fertilizer for the crop we recommend that
the formula. which. after nine years ex-
pertinent, in Georgia has been found this
best, be tried. This calls for 1000 pounds
of acid phosphate "a per cent?, rs pounds
of muriate of potash or 800 pounds OF
kainit and 700 pounds of cotton seed meal
If cotton seed is used instead of meal,
1,750 pounds of the seed should be taken.
Apply from 800 to 600 pounds to the acre
mixing 1t we'll In the planting furrow by
running a cultvator through. Throw a
furrow onto this and plant in rows three
feet apart, and drop so as to leave Que
plant every two feet. If a mixed fertilizer
is bought for the cotton crop, buy one
having as near the following analysis az
possible Available phosphoric acid, PER
cent; potash, per cent, and nitrogen or
| ammonia, 3 per cent.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-10
The Value of Molasses as stock Food

The Value of MOlasses as Stock Food
The very short forage crop secured in the
parishes last fall is giving some trouble
to the sugar planters who now find them
selves compelled TO buy hay, a rather I'M
usual transaction in this country, writes
the editor of the Louisiana Planter. AS
many of the sugar planters are now work.
ing out their low grade sugars IL would
be well to keep in mind the fact that their
common molasses for which they realize
at most on the plantations but two or
three cents per gallon delivered in tank
cars, is one of the most valuable feed ar
ticles that can be had.
We need hardly refer to the recent adop-
ton of sugar as part of the ration of the
German soldier; to the fact that the large
demand in Louisiana for low grade mo-
lasses comes from the farmers of Great
Britain and the continent, who long since
learned to appreciate its value as stock
feed; to the fact that those sugar planters
in Louisiana who have been feeding 1t con-
tinuously during the last four years to
their mules, hogs and cattle have found
the results extremely satisfactory. to prove
the special value of molasses for stock
feeding now that our supply of ordinary
forage is so extremely short. So far as We
nave learned, IN every instance in this
state, where nolasses has been fed to
mules, the results have been satisfactory
The mules are in better condition than un-
der any former regime, thus confirming
the reports that come to US from other
countries where molasses is so much used
We do not mean by this that moiasses
alone should be fed 20 mule stock on IN.
plantations but we would say. from act
ual experience, that the average mule CON
sumes one gallon per day of heavy mo-
lasses, and consumes this quantity week
after week, having at the same time sn
ample allowance of hay and a fair al
lowance of oats. That the mules become
very fond OF molasses is evidenced bv ths
fact that frequently coming i'm from bar1
work, they viii go 90 the molasses trough
in preference 10 the water trough. This
is ordinarily the case where the mules
have been watered in the field within two
or three hours OF their coming in.
The Planter has done much in recent
years 60 impress upon the sugar planters
OF the state les views OF the excellent feed
Ing qualities OF molasses and there could
hardly be better time than the present
when che plantation supply OF mule for
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-10
FLORIDA,

The strawberry season Is about on tha
"ane' and Lakeland is several thousand
dollars better off than she was two months
ago.
kissimmee has almost gotten back 10 Us
summer normal state Visitors have left.
with The exception Of a few who are afraid
to brave the dangers OF the cold snaps
'hat are sure to circle about the North for
month 20 come.
As an evidence Of the slow progress
ana congested condition Of the State su-
prem Court OF Florida a case. tried In
JACKSONVILLE IN 1892. nearly seven years
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-10

age is short, to again enjoin the planters
10 always hold in reserve a sufficient sup
ply of molasses for the mule stock
throughout the Whole year. A fair esd-
mate of the quantity may be made by al
loting one gallon per mule and horse per
day. which would be about seven barrels
per year per animal, which should be held
in reserve for their use.
As often stated hereinbefore molasse7
has equally great feeding value for COWS,
hogs, etc, and while we have been it.
lie slow to learn it in this state, the
demand for. ,nlolassses at the large sugar
plantations is generally increasing. smaller
local cane growers having found that il
was their cheapest obtainable food suppv.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-10

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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-10

Physicians RatfIGd.

How often this is true! How very many
times we hear of stubborn, chronic, long
lingering diseases-bad cases which num-
erous doctors have treated and failed to
cure! The poor sufferer lives on in pain,
or perhaps dies just when he or she should
be in Inc very prime of life But no weak
man or suffering woman should lose hope,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-10

Questions and communications relative
to agricultural and horticultural subjects,
IL addressed to Agri. Editor, Drawer N
MilledgeviIle, Ca, will receive immediate
attention.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-10
Spanish Potatoes wanted.

Charles H. W. Collins. Fort White, Fla,
wishes to correspond with some one who
can supply seed Spanish potatoes.
Florida subscriber is informed that
How to Grow Flowers" is published at
Springfield o.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-10

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times they have
been disappointed,
If they have not
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No physician or
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in the United States
are better prepared
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-10

We solicit articles for this department.
The name Of the writer should accompa-
for publication, but as an evidence of good
faith.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-23
A LeapinE Sword.
From the New York Tribune.


of all the cities I have visited in
Europe" said r. A Stinson of Boston re-
Gently, Il found Madrid one of the most in
teresting. 1t has a number of out-of-the-
way features that appeal to one.
While l was in Madrid I tried to p1Ir-
chase one of the famous Toledo blades. The
old-fashfoned two-handled sword was what
L wanted to get, one Of those that were
bu1lt to cut through armor and which full
niled their mission completely, as many
bloody battlefield in ye ancient days bore
testimony. l had to give 1t up on account
OF the expense. They cost from $3.50 up
put while l was looking for one a shop
Keeper showed me a most scientific trick
HIS store was very lofty, running UP two
or three stories, and he was descanting on
the beauties of this particular sword when
In order to prove the perfect temper of the
metal, he drove the point into the floor ana
bent the blade until hilt and point met. He
then suddenly released the hilt, and that
SIX feet of cleaning sword sprang up into
the air like thing alive. Up and up it
went, almost to the lofty ceiling itself
when it lost its impetus and began its de-
scent htlt first. 1t returned almost to the
place whence 1t started, the shopkeeper
catching it by the hilt with practiced ease
and returning it to it's case. l was crazy
to try 1t myself, but the owner refused to
allow me. as he said l would probably not
only wreck the store, but perhaps iniure
myself as well. He told me that If want
ed to learn the trick l had better practice
1t in large open lot, and that a suit of
armor wouldn't be bad thing to wear until
l got the hang of it"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-23
The Twentieth Century Africa.
From the Forum.


The twentieth century Africa promises
startling contrasts when compared with the
Africa of the nineteenth century. With an
area four times as great as that Of the
United States, population Of $4,000, 900, q
soil and climate capable OF infinite variety
OF production, a rapidly expanding COM
merce, and the greatest known supplies Of
ivory, gold and diamonds Its development
under the modern methods which are now
being applied to it is practically assured
Tho home of the oldest civilization, it is the
last of the continents to yield to the touch
of the newest civilization. But yesterday
erveloped in the darkness of mystery with
out and ignorance within, 1t Is today fllumi-
mated by the searchlight of modern meth
DDS, and as it's Importance and attractions
are being recognized, with this recognition
must come Development. With 100000 Eu-
ropeans scattered over Its vast area, ac-
granting themselves with it's natural con-
ditions and requirements, with he steamer
the railroad, the telegraph and the tele-
phone carrying light and knowledge and
civilization to its darkest corner, Africa
oarnot long remain unknown OF unknowins.
It was only after the eXplorers-Liying-
stone, Spoke, Stanley and ethers-had dis
covered, through persistent and heroic eff
forts that there existed vast navisable
waterways above the falls near the mouths
Of the great streams which flow from the
Interior that European nations awoke to
the physical and commercial possibilities OF
Africa and then, in a twiakiing, the dark
continent was seized upon and divided up,
and became, as by magic, a vast European
"hnterland." Between 1884 and 1898 an
area two and a half times the size of the
United States, and containing a population
of 100 900, 600, was parceled out by an agree
ment of the European powers. At present
scarcely foot of African territory remains
unclaimed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-23
"Tansey Tarte."
From Longman's Magazine.

Many Of our garden herbs still In COM
mon use for purposes of seasoning. are
IN reality British plants. Among them may
be mentioned mint and marioram. and
thyme and calamint, all of which may be
found IN their native haunts. FenneI is
abundant on sea cliffs in many places In
the south of England. Wild hyssop is per-
1ectly naturalized on the picturesque ruins
OF Beaulieu Abbey, and wild balm used TO
be found within the ancient walls of Port
chester Castle. The garden parsley was
formerly abundant on the shingly beach at
Hurst Castle. where it used to be gathered
ior domestic purposes. One native herb,
however, much in use among our fore
fathers, is now seldom seen in kitchen gar
decisive mean Tanacetum yuigare, the
common tansy, the dull yellow flowers of
which are often conspicuous by the side
OF streams. The young leaves and Juice
OF this plant were formerly employed to
were known as tansy cakes or tansy pud-
dings.
In medieval times the use of these cakes
was specially associated with the season
OF Easter, and 1t is interesting to notice
that in the diet rolls of st. Swithin's mon
astery at Winchester, which belong to the
end Of the fifteenth century We come across
the entry tansey tarte.'' 1t has been said
that the use of tansy cakes at this season
was to strengthen the digestion after what
an old writer calls the idle conceit of eat
ing fish and pulse for forty days in Lent"
and it is certain that this was the virtue
attributed to the plant by the old herbalists.
The herb fried with aggs which is called
'tansy.' " says Culpeper. helps to digest
and carry away those bad humors that
trouble the stomach" 1t seems. however,
more probable that the custom of eating
tansy cakes at Easter time was associated
with the teaching of that festival, the
name ''tansy being corruption of a
Greek word meaning Immortality"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-23
brentwood FROM AFFAIR.
Remarkable Collection of Logs on the
Alaska Coast.
From the Chicago Times Herald.

rom the Chlcago I1meS-Herald.
One of the greatest curiosities noted by
travellers in Alaska is the wonderful haven
of driftwood on the coast between Yaka-
tag and Kyak Islands, some 1900 or 1.o00
miles northwest from Seattle. The con-
slant deposit of logs and driftwood in this
particular spot, which has been going on
for hundreds. perhaps thousands, of years,
is due to the phenomena of the tides, the
Pacific gulf stream, the mysterious ocean
currents and peculiar formation of the
shore lines at that point. Logs and tim
bers are readily identified there as having
come from Japan, China, India and other
parts of Asia, as well as from California,
Washington and other parts of the Ameri-
can continent There are fine logs of the
camphor tree, the mahogany, the redwood,
and the pine in this driftage- Some Of
those from the state of Washington contain
the names of the men who felled the trees
and of the sawmills for which they were
destined, but never reached.
Logs eight feet in diameter are In this
novel woodward and some entire trees $50
feet long are there. uplifted by the roots,
cast into the sea by some terrible tempest,
and sent floating around the world. Often
persons on the beach descry big trees float
ing Shoreward, with fantastic roots above
the waves. One beach after another has
been formed by the floating timbers and a
little distance back from the shore the de-
posts are so old that the wood in some
places Is petrif1ed, while little deeper in
the earth it has turned into coal The
newer logs are without bark and as hard
as stone. due, it is thought. to their long
immersion in salt water. They have all
taken on a Whitish appearance. In places
the tfmbers are piled twenty feet high: at
other points they rise to a height of only
Tour or five feet. Under this wonderful
peaeh are found large quantities of dark,
Tor the separation of which no successful
process mas yet been discovered.