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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1899-01-19
1t Matters Not How OBJ
stinate, or What Other
Remedies Have Failed.

Obstinate sores and ulcers, which
refuse to heal under ordinary treat
ment, soon become chronic and deep
seated, and lead to conditions most
serious. They are caused in different
ways, but in every case the blood is
involved, and no amount of local treat
ment can have any effect. The poison
must be eliminated from the blood
before cure can be had.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1899-01-19
THROWN FROM A HORSE.

Mr.. Fl. Kuhn, of Marion, Kansas. writes
About three years ago my granddaughter, Der.
tina wildwood, was thrown from a horse, re.
colving wound OF the scalp. Though under
the wound remained about the same. until ii
finally became very angry-lookinp and hroLa
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1899-01-19

out into a running
sore, This soon spread
to other parts of tn e
scalp and ran down the
side of the neck .increas-
ing in severity and fear
fully disfiguring her.
She was then placed un-
der the care of the fac
ulty of a well-known
hospital, but even the
treatment she received
there failed to arrest the
terrible sore. Reading
Of the many cures OF
blood troubles effected
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-06
Intensive celery Culture.

In my market garden l have practiced
some methods of intensive cultivation, a
description of which may interest your
readers. Every market gardner should
have an experiment plat in connection
with The market garden, that he may first
experiment with new methods of culture,
or test new varieties of fruits and vegeta-
bes before he uses them extensively. Such
an experiment plat has proved very valu-
able TO me, and one of the good things
which is the result of several years of ex-
perimenting on a small plat, is my new
method of celery culture.
l will describe 1t briefly as follows: 1
first make the soil very rich, using 100 tons
or more stable manure per acre; then,
when the soil is pulverized very fine, l set
early in May, plants of the White Plume
and follows: two rows are set one foot
apart, with the plants six inches apart in
The row. then l leave a space of eighteen
inches and set two more rows in the same
way thus making alternate spaces be-
tween the rows of celery twelve and eigh-
teen inches wide.
When cultivating the celery, have some
times cultivated the eighteen-inch space
with horse aud Planet, Jr., small tooth
CuitlNatOr narrowed 10 Twelve iuCuess anu
then finished the work with hand cultiva-
tors, doing the most of it with the wheel
hoe When the plants were twelve 10
eighteen inches high, l set board alongside
of the double rows, so that the two rows
of celery which were twelve inches apart
were between the boards. The boards
were kept well apart, and held in place by
driving stakes on both sides.
The eighteen-inch or vacant space, was
mulched with manure or other suitable
material at hand. then water was applied
over the mulch with the hose. The celery
soon grew above the boards-which were
from twelve to sixteen inches wide-the
boards were then crowded close together
to further darken the enclosed space be-
tween, which competed the blanching in
a few days. The celery grew more than
two feet high, and because of the rapid
growth was very crisp and tender. From
one plot of about one-tenth of an acre ]
received nearly $500 for the celery, which
was sold In my village at an average price
of cents per bunch.
The Southern truckers or gardeners who
own saw mill or lives close to a mill may
adopt the use of boards to some extent
for bleaching his celery. But where pine
straw is to be had with reasonable trou-
bic it will be found the most economical
means for blanching celery in Southern
gardens, where quarter of an acre or
less Is grown. For just a few hundred
plants Cd newspapers can be used very
satisfactorily for the purpose S. A. C.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-06

ordinary aocks, but have not seen any
representative of the so-called african"
Another year we may know positively as
to their merits.
In our judgment there is no better all
round fowl for the South than the barred
Plymouth rock. With proper attention
they rarely fail to give complete satisfac-
ton. As rule only one breed should be
Kept and some care given TO their further
improvement by selection and proper mat
ing. One who gives this care will soon
create demand for his stock from others
going into poultry keeping
There are several good breeds of ducks,
Pekins, Rouens, Aylsburys, White Mus
cows. The only objection to the latter is
they want to fly too much. The Rouens
are handsome and desirable kind. 1t is
difficult to say which of the four could be
found to give most satisfaction to any par
tcular individual but everything else be-
ing equal 1t is the care given that will all
ways decide this matter.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-06
Food for MiIIk cows.

Subscriber" asks what is the best COM
bination of materials to be had readily in
the South to make a good milk-producing
food for COWS, and how much should be fed
to them in connection with hay, shucks or
fodder corn.
The Northern dairyman has the advant-
age of the southerner in the variety of
feeding stuffs easily attainable when need
ed, but the Southern dairyman, though
limited in materials of home production
has still all the necessary material for
making a food quite equal to the average
of food-stuffs
Corn meal, wheat bran cotton seed meal
are the commonest materials for making
mixture of concentrated food for milk
cows. out of these mix thoroughly 100
pounds corn meal, 100 pounds of wheat
bran and 70 or rs pounds of cotton seed
meal Four to eight quarts of this mix
ture is fed daily 10 COWS, according TO
size Of COW. Half is fed in the morning
and half in the evening. This may be
estimated the standard dairy food in the
South. AS a rule, the mixed foods i'm
ported by supply stores, should be avoid
ed. one should know the quality of the
several ingredients that enter into the
food given to valuable cattle.
During the winter, when there is no pas
ture COWS should have some hay or fod-
der corn twice a day-five TO ten pounds
according to size. Pure water accessible
as their wants require and salt in boxes
or troughs in like manner is a requisite of
the properly kept COW And rather than
over feed a COW, she should be little I'M
derfed. Oftener than not disease soon fol-
lows ovsr-feeding. milk cows, especially.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-06
Coil for FInx Culture.

The Western Rural in its last issue SAYS:
"A new invention by a citizen of Chi
cago is likely to result in profitable man
ufacture of linen in this country. This
naturally will lead to a more extensive
culture of flax. The experiments made by
the agricultural department have shown
that the soil and climate in many parts of
the United States are well adapted for the
production of a fine quality of flax. All
that is necessary is for the farmers to de-
vote time and give more care to the pro-
duction in order to have an article fully
equal to the imported material Wiscon-
sin, Michigan and Oregon have soil that Is
as good as can be found anywhere for this
product. Possibly experiments may show
that there are number of other states
equally adapated by soil and climate, to
the raising of flax
Mr.. Bertrand 5. Summers, after five
years of investigation. has discovered
methods of preparing fax straw grown
in this country so that Il can be used with
great success an manufactures Yarn
which he has had spun after his meth
cd al the mills of Nichols g. Van Arsdale
at Albany, Wis. has shown that the pro-
cess is satisfactory,
Mr.. Summers method of rottng-that
Is. preparing the fiber for spinnng-accom-
plishes in an hour, says a writer in the
Times-Herald, the same work which by
the older process, required from four to
six weeks. He has also perfected an in
Vention for the production OF smoother
and stronger linen yarns which are equal
ly good and much cheaper than those pro
duced by wet spinning. lie has also
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-06
The Valuable Artichokc.

Roots and tubers, compared with other
kinds of stock food, do not analyze very
high in the food elements, but they con-
tain virtues that the chemist does not find,
and artichokes do not appear to be infe-
rior 90 the rest. An advantage they have
over sweet potatoes, mangles and even tur-
nips, is that frost does not injure them
if in the ground. They can be left there
till April. After that they will keep sound
when dug for a month, says farmer in
the Southern Planter.
So satisfactory was my experience in
1897. that last April I planted ten acres on
land of a sandy character, A thirty bushel
crop of corn would be a good yield for
such land. The artichokes are being turn
ed out now, and will average over 400 BUSH
els per acre. Any one sufficiently inter-
ested is perfectly welcome to come, and
examine the crop The land was plowed
in the fall. narrowed early in April. and
burrows We're run with a small plow five
or six inches deep and three and one-halt
feet apart The artichokes were cut in
pieces with one or two sprouting points
on each piece, planted eighteen inches
apart in the row, and covered with the
pillow. When the pants were up nicely.
the field was narrowed first lengthwise.
then across the rows. Very few pulled out
Later. when a foot high, they were again
narrowed. The harrow covered nearly
eight feet at a time, so the work was
quickly done. one subsequent working
with a cultivator, and they were left 10
take care Of themselves.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-06

Experiment Farming.

The beginner in every trade or profess
sion is compelled to draw his wisdom from
the accumulated experience of others, says
the National Rural. These experiences
are tabulaied and published in convenient
forms for students of all kinds. Young
lawyers with their first cases consult
standard law books and learn just what
has been done under similar circumstances.
Medical students at the beginning of their
professional career have before them In
convenient forms as a guide the expert
ences of the worlds greatest physicians
and surgeons; and so 1t is in all the So
called learned" professions. The profess
sion of farming, however, has been rather
backward along these lines, and only dur
ing the past few years have any great
strides been made. The establishment of
agricultural colleges and experiment sta
tons has led to wonderful improvements
and it is now considered as necessary for
a young man who expects to follow farm
ing to receive a training in the special
schools of agriculture, as for the young
doctor or lawyer to so through schools of
medicine and Jurisprudence.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-06
GEORGIA.
FLORIDA
AND CAROLINA
Barnes. and to the satisfaction of every

Barnes, and TO the satisfaction of every
( one.
Orlando Star: \ trucker from East
Orange brought to town day or two ago,
a beet or pair Of beets. which bore strIk-
ing resemblance in their conformation 10
the celebrated Siamese twins. The dou-
bic beet, as il We're, was of immense size
and was joined together in the center by
a tough stringy arm, as thick through as
a pencil, the two beets attached to either
end OF this arm made the whole vegeta bic
not unlike a small size dumbell
Jacksonville Metropolis; The thleving
business which seems 10 defy all vigilance
Of private watchmen and police officers,
reached its greatest magnitude last night.
when it was made known that Capt ].
w. Miller's schooner had been stolen This
vessel, a fishing schooner, had been an
chored on the south side of the river near
the railroad slip, while Capt. Miller had
come over TO the city in a small boat to
purchase provisions leaving a white man,
who was in his employ, in charge. and
another man who is known. When Capt,
Miller returned he found his boat had
gone. He sought telephone communica-
ton with Ft. George to head off the
thieves, and offered a reward for their
apprehension. This schooner was seen
last on the south side of the river by a
Waterman, near the bar.
Brooksville News-Register On Monday
night, the 23rd Of last month, Mr.. Edwin
DuPree and Miss Maggie CARMEL. of SUM
ter county, finding the course of true love
not running as smoothly as they wished.
hied themselves across the Withlacoochee
and sought out Capt Clark T. Williams.
notary public for the state at large Now
II there is one thing the captain likes bet
ter thar another, it is to help a young
couple out and make them perfectly hap
py. AS soon as he saw them he put on his
most dignified style and at once proceeded
by The most direct and quickest manner
commensurate with the importance of the
occasion to tie them hard and fast, and
Miss CARMEL became Mrs. DuPree. Elope-
ments are generally successful when they
head for Capt. Williams. He'd marry a
couple on the run rather than have their
disapproval.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-06
Producing Cane syrup.

In my opinion no field in the line of agri-
culture presents as profitable opportunities
for the building up of large and extern
sive industry as does that of the pro-
ducing and marketing of a strictly pure.
high-grade cane syrup here in the Cen.
trail South, says ]. E. Slater in American
Agriculturalist. 1t is safe TO count upon
an average production exceeding $50 gal
Ions per acre. Deducting all expenses,
the average returns ought to be from $40
20 $50 per acre. One very successful grower
gives is one year record for an acre as
follows: Flowing, $1.5O; trenchng. so cents;
cutting and putting in trench $50; cut
ting cane for seed, SIS; fertilizer CONNER
CAB, $3.50; three plowings and one hoeing,
S3.7o; stripping, cutting and topping, IS;
grinding and manufacturing, S21; barrels,
$3.50; total $61.05. Average production
same year, APO gallons syrup, which sold
ar 30 cents per gallon, bringing S126. De-
Quoting the cost, $6l.05, there remains $64 %
as net profit. This result was secured
during an exceedingly favorable year, but
1t is safe to figure upon exceeding $50 gall
Ions.
There is practically no limit to the sales
of high grade, pure cane syrup, and which
Will in view of the coming OF pure food
laws in most states, rapidly increase.
Lands can be purchased for 50 90 IS per
acre adapted to growing the cane. These
tracts are equally well suited to growing
fruits, berries, sweet potatoes upland rice
etc. Slightly rolling lands are the only
desirable ones for successful culture, be-
cause bottom or low tracts do not with
stand drought and other unfavorable con-
ditions so well, nor do they produce as
high a grade of syrup. A colony of five
families or upward can put in a central
grinding and evaporating plant and handle
il themselves, or, they can arrange with
some maple syrup maker of means TO erect
such a plant and grind and manufacture
thelr cane into syrup at price per gallon
they agree upon. Pine lumber is very
cheap, hence houses and buildings can be
very cheaply erected.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-06
SOUTH CAROLINA

The Coast Line contractor has finished
driving piles for the Turkey creek trestle
500 yards wide. The Salkehatchie crossing
is considerably longer.
The Colleton cotton mills VIII begin oper
atoms just as soon as the work OF placing
the machinery is complete. Everything is
moving to that end with all diligence.
The farmers of Greenvllle county have
been hindered by the rains in January
from completing their wheat sowing
many Of them intending to further in
crease the acreage. The majority will
turn their attention to oats in Feb
ruary, and March will be the corn month.
provided the ground becomes dry.
The farmers of Florence are going into
the tobacco business this year heavier
than ever. A correspondent writing from
there says there will be an increase Of 200
per cent. In the acreage, and that new to-
bacco barns are going up all over the
country. The business of tobacco raising
has been very profitable there the last
year.
DR.. N. w. Edmunds has been pastor of
the Presbyterian Church of Sumter for
twenty years, and has been absent from
the pulpit but twice on account Of sick
ness during that period. The church was
closed Sunday as he was Enabled TO
preach, although much better than he was
last week. He had a severe attack of
grippe and improves slowly.
Quite an interest has been manifested
at Newberry of late in the cultivation of
tobacco. Several meetings have been held
by some of the leading business men and
the outcome is that a stock company will
be formed to hire an expert in tobacco
growing ard make the experiment to see
II tobacco can be successfully grown in
that section. Newberry county can boast
of some of the finest lands in the state.
At a meeting of the directors of the
Manchester mill, Rock Hill, the report of
President J. r. Barron showed a very sat
isfactory profit, semi-annual dividend Of
4 per cent. being declared. The directors
decided to put in TO additional splndles.
when the total number will be 5000 spin-
ming spindles and lao twisting spindles.
The mill is also equipped with 300 looms.
The mill Is operated night and day and
employs a very desirable class of help.
A. B. Carpenter of Greenville is In pos
session of a relic of the battle of Chick
amauga in the shape of a curiously made
pistol captured from a union soldier by a
Confederate soldier. In addition to carry
ing ten powder and ball charges in the
cylinder there is shot gun ARRANGEMENT
under the pistol barrel proper, so that
all told the pistol shoots eleven charges
after one loading. The shot gun barrel
is about three-quarters of an inch in
diameter. The pistol was made in Paris.
Greenville has had q stock exchange for
little over a year the last time, and
there was no intimation that it would not
be permanent until II was announced that
the operators, Porteriield & Co of New
York, had made an assignment The ex-
change There was apparently doing as
well as such an institution could be ex-
pected to do in a small city. The business
was considerable in cotton futures grain
quotations, etc. The reason for the sus-
pension Is the failure of the house in
Washington and New York.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-06

been most successful. There is just one
danger IN pursuing some new, good course
by the novice. He is liable to think if a
little win do a little good, a great deal will
do more good. Almost any good thing in
the way of feed. may be made harmful
if carried to excess. Green cut bone is I'M
questionably a valuable food for laying
hens, and has. long since passed the ex-
perimental stage. 1t is altogether probable
that nine-tenths of the most successful
pouitrymen use cut bone and to ii is cred
tied a great deal of their success. But
some people, working on the plan that if
it is a good thing ii can be made a better
thing, go to extremes and the business is
overdone. These parties will feed no more
green bone, for they have had experience
and have clearly demonstrated, to their
own satisfaction, that ii is no good.
Green bone is a highly concentrated food,
and needs to be fed with caution and good
judgment. A pound to sixteen hens twice
week would be about the right allowance
When a poultry breeder goes beyond this
point he is treading on dangerous ground
and is liable to fall in with others in de-
nouncing it as a food. 1t is easier to over
feed with cut bone than with any of the
grains poultryman should feed with a
liberal hand, but he should be intelligent
enough to know what is liberal and what
is dangerous. Sometimes generosity will
make trouble when its intentions are good
Feed cut bone if you can get ii fresh, and
feed ii with caution and intelligence.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-06
Upland Rice.

B. L. NJ: Upland rice culture is about
as simple as growing corn. Get good seed
of the kind that has been grown on up
land. Prepare the land by good p.owing
and narrowing. Two plowings would be
best on any other than clean mellow soil.
Lay off shallow drills, two or two and
one-half feet apart and drill the seeds
evenly along, and not too thick, but twelve
to fifteen to foot will not be too thick.
If all grow some can be chopped or har-
rowed out later. Cover the seeds lightly
and roll. Sow as soon as frOsts are over
and sow when the soil is dry. Keep the
weeds down by several cultivatngs with
sweep or harrow. j is a very profitable
crop when properly grown.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-06

The number of cold frames win be regu-
lated by the number of plants that it is
desired to grow. Where one grows vege-
tables such as cabbage, lettuce, eggplant
tomato, pepper, celery, etc, for market, at
The same time raising plants also for sale,
an abundant supply of frames should be
provided. The glass is the only expensive
part of the materials. 1t is comparatively
cheap, as when the sashes are once made
with reasonable care they will last for
many years 7c
For every frame covered with glass there
should be two where only muslin is used
Muslin can be prepared by a coat of var
nish so that it win almost entirely take
the place of glass in raising plants in our
climate. For warming up the frames and
terminating the seeds glass is desirable
even IL not essential and if one-third of the
sash are of glass, 1T will answer every pur-
pose The vanished muslin is all that
win be needed TO protect the young plants
ana to keep them growing to the proper
size r,7-
A frame three feet by six is the size we
prefer for the frames. Two sashes each 3x3
feet will be needed for each frame. In max
ing a muslin sash have the frame cover in
one pair 3x6 feet. Tack the muslin to it and
stretch it, then varnish the muslin with
a mixture as follows:
One quart linseed oil,
One ounce pufverized sugar of lead
Four ounces pulVerized rosin.
Dissolve same in an iron vessel over the
fire, stirring ii thoroughly. While the var
nish is warm apply one coat of it to the
upper side of the cloth. This will render
the cloth transparent and air-tght. Ir
the sash is made to fit the frame closely
all around, it will be found to keep out
the cold and keep in the heat almost as
we'll as glass. Where many frames are
needed the glass covers can be used to ger
inmate the seeds and the muslin ones sub
stituted for the glass to carry on growth
The covers should be kept off during the
warm part of the day, but put on at night
We have grown pants of tomato pepper
and egg plant under such sash in Febru-
airy and March with all the readiness that
was needed.
Hand frames covered with muslin an
swer very nicely These are small frames,
sixteen to twenty inches square, and used
for the purpose of protecting and hasten
ing the growth of cucumbers, melons, etc.
that are planted in the open ground very
early. The frames are made out of four
pieces of eight or ten-inch plank. over
the upper side of which is tackled a square
of this vanished cloth. These are set
over the hills of plants and the soil drawn
up around them. 1t increases the temper
AZURE considerably, proving ample pro-
lection from frost or insects or fowls