Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-04-07
A SCHOOL CAMPAIGN.
DIR. sOUTHALL Is CONSIDERING ALI.
THE DETAILS.
4 UNITED FIGHT FOR EDUCATION.
VIII Take in Every County I'm the
state-Frog-Catchers I'm New Kent
tOl Notes.
tol Notes.

An educational campaign IN the state
Is now occupying the attention Of DIR.
Southail. Superintendent OF Public In
struction, and other officials at the De-
partment OF Public instruction.
The plan has not been fully formulated,
nor has it been decided finally that any
plan will be adopted, though there is lit
tie doubt that some organized effort will
be made TO stimulate popular interest in
public school education.
1t Is proposed TO have in every county
in the State one or mere addresses by
educators Of prominence on topics con-
nected with public-school education.
These addresses will be delivered stimuli
taneously, or as nearly so as may be. 1t
is proposed TO have them next fall.
State school officials and others inter-
ested in public schools think such a cam
paign as that proposed would be highly
beneficial in stimulating general interest
Ia the common schools.
THE OYSTER DISPUTE.
Governor Tyler has not yet received the
report Of Attorney-General Montague re-
garding the outcome OF the conference
on the subject which he had with the At
torney-General OF Maryland In Washing
ton Saturday.
It is understood that Mr.. Montague
wishes TO hear from Attorney-General
| Gather before he renders an opinion 10
Governor Tyler. The settlement OF the
trouble Will be reached without much diff
ficulty.
THE GOVERNORS TRIP.
The Governor found considerable bust
ness had accumulated during his absence
in the Southwest, and spent several
hours at his desk. He greatly enjoyed
the trip 10 Pulaski. and had several
| amusing experiences TO relate. People in
the Southwest are not talking politics Il
! great deal, he said. but are at their busi-
ness.
He was gratined to find that the Nor
folk and Western railway is expanding
| about a half-miIlion dollars in improve
ments in Pulaski county. The company
is having a tunnel cut through a noun
tain in order to avoid Il steep grade. This
will shorten the line eight miles. The
road In Pulaski county is also being dou-
ble-tracked.
NEW KENT FROG-CATCHERS.
Mr.. John n. Harris CLlttie Jack'),
Clerk OF the New Kent County Court,
was at the Auditors office yesterday on
business. lie interested the attaches in
his talk about the frOg-catching industry
OF New Kent, which has assumed quite
respectable proportions. Frogs legs as
delicacies have been more or less popular
for years. but the demand for them has
within a comparatively recent date very
much increased. A great many frogs are
being shipped from New Kent TO Rich
mond, Norfolk, and Baltimore, and bring
good prices. The batrachians are cap
tured along the river-bankS and in fens
and marshes.
For some reason the catchers always
wear gloves. only the hind legs Of the
frogs are shipped.
SPRAYING FRUIT-TREES.
Commissioned of Agriculture Koine
says now is the time for the farmers
10 get ready TO spray their orchards. lie
says there is no work done on the farm
that pays better than spraying the fruit
trees. The apple scab and bud moth often
damage from % to 80 per cent. of the
apples in an orchard, sometimes more. II
the farmer can save twenty-five 10 fifty
bushels of hrst-class apples in every hun
dred, this is a very important matter.
Spray when the buds begin TO swell, with
a solution of copper sulphate. but not
after the buds open, as it will injure them.
Spray again just before the blossoms
open, with Paris green solution. and spray
again after the blossom has fallen, and
two weeks later another spraying Will be
helpful.
Any farmer can make his own solution.
TO make the copper %sulphate solution, 10
be used only before the buds open, dis
solve one pound Of copper sulphate in
fifteen gallons of wafer, and then il is
ready for use. To make the Paris green
solution, TO use on the foliage, slack one
pound Of rock lime in hot water and stir
in one pound of Paris green, allow this 10
stand overnight, then stir this mixture
into 200 gallons OF water. When spraying
keep the solutions well stirred. The last
solution is used TO destroy insects OF
vegetables also.
CATTLE-RAISING IN VIRGINIA.
Mr.. Koine is deeply interested in the
subject OF cattle-raising in Virginia. He
says that the whole State can be made
TO yield grass suited TO this purpose. In
an article in the Southern Planter, re-
Gently, the Commissioner says:
IN those sections OF the State where
the land does not sod readily, farmers can
grow the cultivated grasses and forage
crops, such as kafiir corn, sorghum, mil
let, peas, etc. Even in some of the West
ern grass-growing States, these cultivated
forage crops are grown to mix with hay
as a feed. There is not a farm I'm Virginia
on which some OF these crops cannot be
profitably grown. n on nearly every
farm a few stock, either cattle. sheen.
horses. or hogs, can be raised with good
profit. The French farmer would make
a living on what many farmers let go to
waste. The experiment stations and prac-
teal feeders have given valuable infor-
nation on the tudicious feeding Of stock
on balanced rations, which is very i'm
portant. There is as much difference I'm
feed as there is in fertilizers.
SORGHUM AS FEED.
"A stock-feeder and grazier from Kan
sas told me a few weeks ago tina since
he began wintering his cattle on sor-
ghum that he was able TO keep double the
number Of cattle that he formerly win
tered on nsy from the same farm. He /
sows one bushel per acre of sorghum
seed on good land and mows ten tons to
the acre, puts II up in shocks, and lets ii
cure. kafir corn is about as good, and
Will grow on thin land and through a
drought that would ruin a corn crop. Pea
vine makes an excellent forage feed when
properly cured, and grows on soils not
suited to clover or other grasses. This
article has grown too long to take up
sheep ~husbahdry-a very profitable BUSH
ness, which / will discuss later-and also
the advance In the horse markets of our
country.
1.-The leading stock reports from the
West state that in the four largest cat
tie markets the sales OF beeyes are near