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The morning news., 1899-01-17
T0-DAT'S WEATHER FORECAST.

Forecast for Savannah and vicinity I'M
til midnight: Generally fair.
Weather from Washington:
For Georgla-Generaly fair preceded by
rain in southeast portion; co,der in north
ern portion; fair and much colder Wednes-
day; light variable winds, becoming north
erly and increasing
For Eastern Florida-Rain; light to
fresh variable winds
For Western Florida-Fair; light, varia-
ble winds, becoming northerly; fair and
colder Wednesday,
For South CarolIna-Rain; followed by
fair; light variable winds; fair and much
colder Wednesday,
General Conditions: Cloudy weather and
rain prevails along the Atlantic coast
from Jacksonville to Boston. ana clear
weather on the Gulf coast, except at Tam
pa, where it is raining, the greatest preci-
pitation being al Jacksonville, 20 inch;
Hatteras, .9S inch, and Savannah 05S inch.
The temperatures are generally higher,
except on the lakes and in the northwest,
where they are decidedly lower than on
yesterday. Snow is falling in Michigan.
while generally clear weather prevails in
the Missouri and Mississippi valleys The
highest velocity of the wind along the
Atlantic coast was at Hatteras, 81 miles
from the south, and Jupiter, "a miles from
the south.
Yesterdays Weather at Savannah
Maximum temperature, s p. M. so degrees
Minimum temperature a. M. .45 degrees
Mean temperature ................5S degrees
Normal temperature .............. SO degrees
Excess of temperature ..,........ degrees
Accumulated excess since Jan. l. degrees
naintan ...... .,.... ................ .58 inch
Norman ......... ...... .............. IL lnch
Excess since Jan. 1 ................. .S6 inch
River Report-The hight of the Savan-
nah river at Augusta, at 8 a. m. (75th me-
ridian time) yesterday, was 145 feet, a
fall of IL feet during the preceding twen-
ty-four hours.
Observations taken Jan. &c. 1899, p. m,
18th meridian time, at the same moment
OF time at all stations, for the Morning
News:
The morning news., 1899-01-17
A Catumaran.
n CaahAAiuE ahs
From the Kansas City Star.

From the Kansas City Star.
Having read to her pupils a description
of the sinking of fhe Merrimac the teach
er some days later asked her pupils what
the word "catamaran" then used meant.
These are some of the answers:
A catamaran is a mounting lion.
The Catamaran is savage officer in the
Fillipose Islands.
A catamaran carries clubs in a gof
game.
The catamaran is the place in Chicago
where the Cat Show was held.
The Catamaran was a Convention hall
prise.
The catamaran is the proper name for
a catboat and war ram together like the
Catadin.
Hobson obtained catamaran from the
Spanish officers which was all he had 10
eat.
The morning news., 1899-01-17
TIDES IN ENGLISH CHANNEL.
Great Britain Anxious to Reduce Its
Dangers to n Minimum.

Dangers to u Minimum.
From the Philadelphia Press.
The Prince of Wales is greatly exer-
cised over the recent accident in the Eng
lish channel As a peer expressed it.
'his royal hghness does not like to feel
that he is living upon an island defended
and barricaded like the feudal barons of
old, by high seas that dash to pieces
friend and foe alike"
The crown, it is asserted upon the best
authority, will shortly offer a prize 10 be
tried for by competition which will be
opened TO all clvil engineers OF the world
The prize offered will be no less than a
fortune sterling for a plan by which the
English channel can be reduced from a
rolling current TO a calm, peaceful sea.
Crossing the channel for years has been
the dread of the transatlantic journey.
Tourists who travel as far as London in
safety are unable to cross the channel to
France without suffering uatold tortures
Of seasickness.
Traffic across the channel at certain
periods Of the year is absolutely danger
GUS and at times commerce is greatly
delayed by the uncertainty of the voy-
age. The journey, which, under ordin-
airy circumstances, ought to be taken in
a little over night, is sometimes pro
longed thirty hours. and then upon the
very best steamers. Upon slow-golng
freight steamers it is almost indefinite.
The morning news., 1899-01-17
DEATH OF CHAs. PARSONS, JR.
lie Was Formerly a Resident of sa-
Vnnnah.

Vnnnah.
Mr.. Charles Parsons. Jr., formerly of
this city, and a nephew of Mr.. George
Parsons of New York principal owner of
the Savannah, Thunderbolt and Isle Of
Hope Railway, died in New York last
week.
Mr., Parsons was born in this city in 1S5S
He was graduated from Yale in the class
of 1878 After studying in the Columbia
Law School he embarked in the railroad
business as secretary of the Midland Rail-
road of New Jersey, and then held Inc
positions of vice president of the New
York and New England Railroad. vice
president of the Rome. Watertown and
Ogdensburg and vice president of the
South Carolina and Georgia Railroad.
MIR. Parsons lost his wife in 1896 and had
been in i'll health ever since. Heart dis
ease was the cause assigned by his phvsi-
clans for his death The funeral took
The morning news., 1899-01-17
CITY BREVITIES.

The ladies of the Christian Army Com
mission desire the ladies to attend a meet
ing az the Y NJ. c. A. rooms tomorrow
afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. to consider mat
ters in connection with the Third Georgia
Regiment. A large attendance is earnest
ly requested by Christians of all denomi-
nations, who have the interests of these
boys al heart
The morning news., 1899-01-17

TAX ASSESSORS AND RECEIVERS.
Their Report for 1898 Filed with the
Mayor.

The report Of the board of tax assessors
and receivers for last year was filed at the
city exchange yesterday. 1t is signed by
Assessors John Schwarz, NJ. A. O'Byrne
and ]. H. H. Osborne The report fol-
lows:
We respectfully submit the following
report of the board of tax assessors and
receivers for The year 1898
During the month of January, 1885, we
received returns of personal property with
the following results:
The morning news., 1899-01-17
CENTRAL's DIRECTORS MEET.
business of Routine Character
Transacted.

way Company was he'd yesterday morning
at the office of the president, Mr.. II. M.
Conner The officials stated after the meet
ing that the business had been OF routine
character. President Conner presided ana
the others who were present were Vice
President John NJ. Egan, Mr. j. F. Hanson
of Macon, MIR. U. b. Harold of Americus,
Mir. G. Gunby Jordan of Columbus, Col
A. r. Lawton, Mr.. George j. Mills and
Mr.. A. Veisburg of Savannah.
The FLORIDA Special" and the New
York and Florida Limited" are the names
Of two handsome trains that VIII pass
through Savannah to-day. These are the
elegant tourist trains of the Plant Sys-
TEN and the Florida Central and PENN
sular Railroad, respectively.
1t is expected that there will be very
good crowds for the opening trip aboard
the trains. 1t is not usually the case that
the first trips are those on which the cars
are the most crowded The officials of
both lines, however, think they will have
good list of passengers.
The trains arrive at their respective de-
pots in this city at about O'Clock. They
win remain but a few minutes and win
then continue their runs to Florida They
will leave Jacksonville tomorrow on their
return to the North, and there will be a
train a day on each road each way.
Col B. w. Wrenn, passenger traffic
manager of the Plant System, left yester-
day for the North, and will come down
on the vestibule over his line to-day. Pres
ident Henry B. Plant of the Plant Sys-
TEN will be among the passengers bound
for Tampa. This is the first trip South
Mr.. Plant has made in some time, as he
has been confined by an attack of illness
at his home in New York Usually the
greater part of his winters are spent IN
Florida.
Mr.. II. C. McFadden, assistant general
passenger agent of the Plant System, has
gone to Atlanta where the meeting of the
conference committee of the Southeastern
Passenger Association will be held to-
day.
The conference committee of the South
eastern Freight Association meets to-day
at Palm Beach, Fla. The general freight
officials of the lines represented In the as
sociation will be in attendance.
The announcement is made that Col.
Albert Boone, promoter of the Black Da-
mond Railroad, has been awarded the con-
tract 60 build the entire line for $50, ,750 900.
This is the system which is projected to
extend from indiana down through Ken
lucky, Tennessee and South Carolina to
the coast. The first work, it is stated, will
be done in Indiana or Ohio. The contract
for the first 204 miles is for $4,000, 600 or
| $50, ,000, COO The coast terminus of the road
| was to be at Port Royal, with a line to
! Savannah.
The morning news., 1899-01-17

! II, temperature; w. velocity of wind.
H. B. Boyer,
Observer. Weather Bureau.
The morning news., 1899-01-17
lF susPENDERs FOB The PANTS OF A DOG
Furniture, Carpet,
Stove or Bicycle Line.
Fiftv-DOlIar '99 Wheels

can be bought DOLLARS
of
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makes
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The morning news., 1899-01-17

place Saturday in New York. Mr.. Par
sons leaves three children. His father Mr.
Charles Parsons was in business in Sa-
Yannah before the civil war.
The morning news., 1899-01-17

We transferred this year from the per-
sonal tax list to real estate, fixed ma
chinery amounting to $4,000, so taking
this into consideration, instead of fall
ing off in personal returns for 1898, there
was an actual gain of 50 724.
eve have inspected and assessed during
the year $685. two hundred and fifty-two
buildings and improvements, the total as
sessed value of which amouts to $267 100
I'VE found twenty-three new houses
and twenty-six new improvements built
without permits during the year.
I'VE have reassessed all the property
south of Anderson street and also john
son ward. which gives the city an increase
in assessed valuation for the year 1899 of
1852 7S3.
The books containing the re-assessments
and the new Improvements have been
open in our office for inspection since
Jan. l.
1.-THE total taxable property of the city
of Savannah for 1898 is as follows,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-04-04
AGRICULTURE.
COTTON.

Correspondence of The Progressive Farmer.
As the quantity of cotton grown is
already too large to admit of proper re
muneration, it would seem that but
little can be said that is likely to prove
advantageous to the farmer.
Ever since the war the quantity Of
cotton grown in the United States has
been on the increase, while that grown
in the residue of the world has been on
the decrease. As a result the United
States now produces about 85 per cent
of the cotton of the world. Conse
quently, if we would now adopt proper
measures for decreasing the quantity
grown in the United States, we would
raise the price of cotton without ma
terially, at least without detrimentally,
increasing the quantity grown in other
countries.
Cotton planters, in order to get out
of debt, frequently plant more cotton
and work harder, but this is not the
plan; it generally brings on old age
about ten years too soon and finds
them still in debt. A better plan is to
cultivate less and procure a be tier
profit.
TIME FOR PLANTING
The ground should be sufficiently
warm for the cotton to come up and
grow off readily nothing is gained by
very early planting.
DISTANCE.
Cotton ia frequently left too thick.
On land that will produce from one
half to one bale per acre the drills
should be about feet apart and single
stalks in the drill 2 feet. Usually if
single stalks are Is or "a inches apart
the yield OF cotton will be about the
same. But if the stalks stand more
than 2 feet apart, the yield will be
diminished. Hence the greatest dis.
tance that will not disminish the yield
should be given. With proper distan ce
the cotton will open earlier and yield
better.
On some lands much more distance
than the above will be necessary.
Hence some experimenting by each
farmer may be necessary to determine
the distance most suitable for his land.
FERTIL7 ZER.
A fertilizer containing the following
ingredients may be employed:
Available phospnoric acid. 8 per cent.
Potash.
Nitrogen. ..................2
Use from 500 to 900 pounds per acre
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-04-04

provement has been noted in variety.
Owing to the large number of kinds,
the possibilities seem almost unlimited
for securing a highly valuable sor-
ghum. Kaffir corn is non saceharine
variety OF sorghum grown largely for
it's seed for grain. Those who grow
sorghum for syrup have not learned
which are the best varieties for their
purpose and wide Geld of investiga.
tion is open in this direction. About
twenty million g allons Of this syrup
are now produced annually in the
United States. The sorghum plant
grows very similarly to corn although
it is slow in starting and usually re-
quires some hard work. A ton of aver.
age sorghum cane may be made TO
yield twenty gallons Of syrup, but the
usual yield is ten or twelve gallons.
Although the sugar content of sorghum
is high, higher than in sugar beets,
owing to impurities in the juice it is
more difficult to clarity and reduce to
sugar or good syrup. No single pro-
cess is known which will remove all
undesirable substances from the juice
at one operation. The juice contains
several kinds or classes OF impurities
and several methods, one after the
other, must be employed to clarity it.
Improvement in the quality of syrup
is to be looked for with improved meth
DDS Of clarIfication
Speaking generally, Mr.. Denton
thinks that with the scientific investi
cation given to this su j9ct which has
been given to many others, sorghum
will attain high place in American
agriculture. Il is now grown more ex-
tensively in this country than any
other syrup producing plant and it's
juice can be made to produce a syrup
of as good quality as sugar cane syrup
or molasses. The industry is attrac-
tive because it can be undertaken over
a very wide section of the country, and
any farmer can, with little study,
make his own syrup OF good qIality.
Mr.. Denton in his article. which oc
cupies some thirty pages, gives exten-
siva directions as to the best known
methods of clarifying, evaporatiDg,
panning, etc and adds testimony of a
number OF syrup makers of many
years experience. The bulletin, when
issued, can be had without cost by ap-
plication to the Secretary OF Agricul-
ture or to members of Congress
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-04-04
No. 8

cost will be practically nothing, for
the pasture will more than pay the cost
Of labor and seed. AS a catch crop be-
tween oats or wheat and corn, we find
the Black COW pea very much better
than any other pea. It's rich quality
and rapid growth give it this value.
We shock our wheat or oats in
straight rows from fence to fer Ce, SOW
broadcast not less than one bushel Of
seed-two bushels are better-follow
the binder with disk harrow and cut
the ground not less than four inches
deep, drag or roll it so it is well pa cked,
and have an ideal seed bed and dust
mulch. Many farmers do not know
that no matter how dry it is the stub
BILE ground can be easily cut with q
disk or ploWed very easily within day
or two after the crop is cut. A few
days Of sunshine will bake it hard. At
this season Of the year, If we want to
drill, which is really the best way, we
use every other drill shoe, making rows
16 inches apart Now we want to get the
ground shaded to keep what moisture
we have in surface soil by working
the ground. About September 90 SOW
two bushels of rye or wheat screenings
on this catch crop, broadcasting it.
The tramping of the stock, falling Of
foliage and droppings will sufficiently
cover it and you will get in the green
growth and old vines a valuable win
ter pasture. You have done more than
provide pasture. The green crop will
take up the nitrogen in the top soil
that would otherwise escape and be
lost, and you have green blanket to
cover Mother Natures bosom and pro
tect it. In the two catch crops we have
two manure and feed crops where the
present farming system gives US none.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-04-04
THE FARMERS FRIENDS.

The farmer has a number Of active
helpers which he does not always rec
ognize as friends, and yet do great
deal toward helping him raise crop.
For instance, the hawk does the farmer
more good than harm. He lives on
mica, rabbits, ground squirrels, moles,
and other vermin, and catches chick
ems only when he is driven to it by
starvation. The habit once acquired,
it is difficult to break him of it, because
chickens are more plentiful than other
game. When the habit is acquired,
the hawk should be killed.
The screech owl and barn owl are
both excellent, and either of them is
worth half dcz IN cats. II unmolested
they will stay about the house and
barn, and no instance is yet recorded
where either the screech owl or the
barn owl has acquired the chicken
catching habit.
The jay bird is hated by many farm
ers because he takes a few cherries and
berries. He pays for them all by his
services in catching bugs, beetles, wire
worms, cut worms, and other harmful
insects.
Do not forget the wren that lives al
most entirely on insects. Bat up boxes
and tin cans on the trees about the
house and he will make a happy home
for himself and q more cheerful one for
you.
There are many other Of our feath-
cred friends that live on insects for the
most part, and take cherry or berry
now and then that should have the pro-
tection of the farmers, for they are his
friends and do him vastly more good
than Wallace's F 4rmer.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-04-04
PLANTING EARLY.

There is nothing to be gained by too
early planting-a fact well recognized
and yet there is a large area OF corn
that is planted too early every spring.
1t is diff cult to resist the temptation to
plant, when we hear the click OF the
planter on our neighbor's farm. He
has permitted himself to go against his
better Judgment, and he very often
leads us by this example into the error
which he is committing But it is our
duty to shut our ears to the musical
click of his planter and wait. There
are usually some very warm days early
in the spring, and forgetting that these
have always been followed by cold
weather, we conclude that even sum-
mer is here, and go to planting corn,
only to have the job of re,plantlng IN
the vast me jority of cases. Nothing
can grow until the soil is warm; and II
the soil is cold and wet and remains
that way for considerable time a por
tion of the seed will rot.-Western
PloWman.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-04-04

The Department of Agriculture has
added cheese to it's trial exports of
dairy products, shipments being made
TO Liverpool and Manchester, England.
Previous shipments of cheese abroad
show that there is no resson why
American cheese should not hold q
high place in foreign markets and the
Department proposes to see what can
be done in the way of creating a de
mand for the American product, the
same as has been done during the past
season in the way of butter. Ship
ments of eggs are about to made as
well. The country is capable of pro-
ducing dairy products and eggs sufi.
cient to feed all of Europe if the de-
mand can be created and a sufficient
price offered to warrant expectations
Attention is also being given to the
Pac'fc Coast exports in all these lines,
the Oriental markets offording a prom
ising field.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-04-04
sEAsONABLE HINTS.

In planning out the seasons work
one item is to carry out good system
of rotations, as doing this is one of the
best means of conserving the fertility
of the soil.
Another item is to distribute the
work as evenly as possible, so as to
keep the men and teams regularly EN-.
ployed, and at the same time as largely
as possible avoid the hiring of extra
help. With many crops it is the ne
cessity of hiring extra help, usually at
an extra price, that cuts materially
into the profits, while at times the
teams will be idle unless some care is
taken to plan out the crops carefully
Not only in the planting and cult
waiting, but 10 the harvesting in nearly
all cases, the more fully the regular
force on the farm can do all Of the
work, the better the opportunity for
profit. A variety of crops can always
be fed out to better advantage and
especially so where different kinds OF
stock are kept and where the most is TO
be made out of the crops, as we'll as the
stock, this becomes an item.
When the ground is too wet to work
to an advantage, in many cases it will
be found a good plan to go over the
fences and see that they are in good re
pair. The laying up of rail, the nail
ing on of plank. the Strengthening OF
a post; the stapling or Tightening of a
wire at the right time will often save
consid erable time later on. Keeping
the fences in good repair will often
save much annoyanc during the busy
season, and the safest plan is to go over
them carefully at least every spring
and see that they are put in thorough
repair.-N. J. sheperd, E.don, Mo.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-04-04
LAND-LEVRLER AND CLOD-
CRUSHER.
Long Leaf, N. @.

Noticing description Of two land
Jewelers. in your issue of last month. I
send you one that have had in use
for several years that gives me great
satisfaction aud is easily made. I use
the fork of a small tree or large limb,
say six to eight inches in diameter
such as l used to use for making a
''lizzard or stone boat" The one lam
now using is the forked limb of an old
apple tree that had just the right curve
in front. On the bottom nail inch
boards, put on weatherboard fashion !;
on top put one or two for platform
for the driver; bore hole through the
front end to hitch the doubletree or
loop chain through the fork, and then
you have it. It firms the ground, too,
so that seed terminates quicker. A.
Ct. Chase.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-04-04
RAISING TOMATOES.

Prepare the soil, which should be a
rich loan, by plo wing deep and har-
rowing we'll. Then set your plants in
rows three feet apart, and two feet
apart in the rows, running north and
south, if possible, in order to secure
better advantage of the sunshiLe. Gull
tivate by blowing and hoeing. When
the plants begin to bloom top the stem
just above the fret cluster Of flowers,
so that the flowers terminate the stem.
The effect is that the sap is immediate
ly sent into the buds next below the
cluster, which soon push strongly and
produce another cluster of flowers
each. When these are visible, the
branch to which they belong is also
topped down to their level This is
done five times in succession. By this
means the plants become stout, dwarf
ICONTNUD on PAGE 81
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-04-04

The Burea au Of Animal Industry is
making parations for the inRpe ction
Of American horses going abroad. This
is something more of problem than
appears at first thought. With the
exception Of horses, all animals now
exported are inspected, and regul ations
are provided by the government affect
ing their sanitation while en- route.
Prior to 1891, when the law went into
operation authorizing the Department
OF Agriculture to regulate these NIT
ters, the average loss of cattle exports
in live condition was about two per
cent while on shipboard, but Dr. Sal
mon states that this loss has been re
duced to less than one third of one per
cent Until recently the expectation
OF horses has not warranted any such
provisions, but with the recent great
increase in shipments, Congress has
authorized the Department to make
like regulations, which, however, are
considerably different from those re
quired for cattle