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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-07
ENTRIES FOR WHEEL RACES
GOOD FIELD OF STARTERS FOR
NEXT SUNDAY.
''Terrible Swede' In the One Mile
Handicap-Jensen Still Holds the
Hour Record.

The entries for the bicycle races at
all in and the field of starters is a rep
resentative one. The professionals who
have entered are John Lawson, 1.-The
Terrible Swede," o. E. Emery S. H.
Sharman, Glenn Turville, Jim Gum and
G. r. BraZier. The events in which
these men will compete are the one
mile professional handicap and the
Australian pursuit race.
The handicap race will be run with
the Swede on scratch and he will have
a harder time getting inside of the prize
money than he did on Decoration day.
The local professionals will also ride
in the one mile invitation race, which
is for Utah riders only.
The amateur races will bring out sew
eral new riders. LAWYER and Anakin
have ridden in track races before, but
Frank Smith, JudSon, LomaX and
Woodruff have never ridden in a track
race. Frank Smith is the winner of the
Decoration day road race. and it will
be interesting to note what speed he
really possesses. Papa Smith predicts
that he will be the fastest amateur on
the track before the finish of the sea-
son. Judson and Lomax were also
contestants in the road race and fin
iShed creditably.
The amateur events are a one-half
scratch and a one mile handicap.
John Lawson will go for the one mile
state record and it is his intention to
lower the record below two minutes. .
The Opal Wheel club will have a
run to Calders park next Friday night.
starting from Christensen's hall at 7:S0
p. m There will be music at the park
and a dance will be INDUCED in.
liver Lawson, brother of 1.-THE Ter
rible Swede." left for Kansas City last
night. He intends to compete at Jack
Princes coliseum meets in that city
Thursday, Friday and Saturday
John Lawson's one-hour ride Monday
was merely an exhibition one and does
not stand as state record.
Thorwald Jensen is still possessor of
the one hour state record.
The NJ. 1. associations of the Second
and Third wards will run off two races
at Calder's this afternoon. The races
are open only to members of the I'm
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-06

This is a great corn-producing country
but there are only eight states now that
produce q surplus for export.
In the order of their rank in this respect
they stand as follows: Kansas, Nebraska,
Iowa. Illinois, Missouri, Indiana, Texas
and Ohio.
The Secretary of Agriculture estimates
the corn crop of 1899 to be between $780,
900 and 100000 bushels.
Making a Hedge Impregnable.-In maxi
ing a hedge it is not essential that a
thorny plant be used to render it a per-
feet barrier One or two strands of barbed
wire run along through the hedge will rem
der the hedge impregnable
Nitrogen in Nodules of Peas.-An inter-
estiug experiment that demonstrated the
claim that the nodues or tubeEcles Of
pea roots were rich in nitrogen was made
by an Indiana farmer. He sowed narrow
strip of land a yard or two wide 10 keep
the chinch bugs from passing from the
wheat stubble to his corn. Later he pull
ed the pea vines from the land, in doing
which the tubercles were stripped from
the roots and left in the soil The next
crop on the land was oats and just the
width of this strip sowed in peas the
grain was a deep green, presenting a
strong contrast to that on either side.
1t was a very fair demonstration of the
heterogeneous qualities of the pea tubercles,
but it is not proof the roots and stub
bles of pea plants should be taken from
the soil. The land would be made much
richer by having the roots and as much
of the vine as possible
AS has been remarked in this column
several times, the soy or sojer bean affords
the richest food of all known plants of
the legumnose family or any other, and
its stem and roots are as rich in nitrogen
as any that can be used The small farm
er of the South makes a great mistake
when he fails to plant some soy beans,
if only half acre. While the beans are
as Strengthening as meat its refuse is
an unsurpassed soil improver
"Dog-Proo Sheep. There is a farmer
in Maryland who raises Dorset sheep to
sell. He will sell yearling rams to re-
sponsible parties with the understanding
that II they are killed by dogs he will re-
fund the money This farmer saw one
of his ewes leave the flock to make a
savage attack on wolf hound that came
near. The dog did not stop upon the order
of his going.
Our Legislature should not take this as
another reason for making jests at the
sensible efforts of a few to make sheep
raising In Georgia possible by enactng
laws tending thereto. 1t win be many
years before the Dorset sheep becomes
common and readily secured by ordinary
breeders.
A Streak of Fruit.-Speaking Of the large
crop of oranges that Southern CalifOrni a
viii begin to ship Nov. l. a recent issue
of the California Fruit World says The
prune raisers of Santa Clara valley have
| ready for shipment east 3,400 carloads OF
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-06


NJ A. B., HardeevlHe, S. c., writes:
"yviu Won ad,,is. mo whom IN COW, alfalfa
ana now much seed TO tne acre aud no"
TO sow"
The best time 10 SOW lucern or alfalfa
is rtgbt non, or4 t,o, ~, for tbo raxt
three or Tour weeks II Is very Marcy
and when sown ia November 1t has a bet
ter chance to got ahead of the weeds and
will get better established before the hot
weather of next summer.
If the land is ANYWAYS clean YOU can SOW
II broadcast usinp twenty to TWENTY-FIVE
nonnds Of seed 1tanv Of the seed win
NOT crow vo,l will ind
II is moro cor,,r9on i'm the South to SOW
luoarn in drills so that a can b. Guilt
waited one season and thereby destroy
MANY weeds thai will cor1oete with il next
eaas0n when +bre sovvn the drills SHOULD
ho about eigbteen inches anart nrenarel
iust rs II Won u-n,1Id sow turnirs I'm
less Won are careful YOU will get the seed
10 a., The ebou1d not ba covered
deener than r1rnios It viii take only a
fey1 no,,nds If eeads To sow an acre in if-
tom or eiqbtaar- inch drills if they ara
frst-class seeds. but we fear YOU viii not
OCT such II would he wise 70 get q SAM
T1o ovd ,ost IT,, boforo eoSginS if il il
nossib1e II Won do NOT il win be un-
aortatn u,hat i5to'7 nf sta,d Won win gef
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won tbon trrpins IF too thick The *
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-06
Set Cabbage Plants Deep.

1t Is among the EDITORS first observa-
lions in cabbage planting that the cabbage
plants left in the seed bed, and not trans
planted, but simply thinned out to the
proper number, occupying the ground,
made few or no heads. The reason of it
is hereby shown, says the Times Union:
The Arkansas Experiment station last
year set out one lot of cabbage plants at
the depth they grew in the bed, and with
the first leaves about four inches above
the soil From these twenty-five plants,
they grew sixteen heads which weighed
1874 pounds. Another lot of twenty-five
plants were set down to a point half way
between where they stood in the bed and
the first leaf. These made twenty-one
heads that weighed seventy-eight and
three-quarter pounds. The third lot of
twenty-five plants was set four inches
deeper than the first, or down to the first
leaves. These gave twenty-four heads,
which weighed about 1902 pounds, a gain
of sixty-eight pounds in favor of deep set
ting. The yield was exactly three times
that of those set shallow or just as they
grew in the bed. This would be an i'm
portant difference where one was setting
plants by the thousands, as some garden
ers and farmers do.
In growing the small early cabbage,
which are grown in the south, they usual
ly set them about two feet apart each way,
which would allow more than 10000 plants
to the acre, and this difference between
shallow and deep setting, if carried out on
10000 plants, would result in a crop of 40,
800 on the deep plants, and 13, 900 on those
set shallow.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-06

Pruning the Peach Tree-The popular
notion in reference to pruning peach trees
is to cut off or shorten the last season $
growth each year; practically this plan re-
quires great labor without securing the
best results, says the Country Gentleman.
Peach trees that have been planted three or
four years, and have made a fair growth,
have few leading branches: more vigor-
Gus than the smaller ones, and extending
furthest from the trunk. These leading
branches should be cut back enough to
include those of an inch, more or less in
diameter, and as these branches have re-
ceived a stronger flow of sap, the smaller
ones are comparatively weak; but this
manner of pruning win check The flow of
sap TO the main branches, now shortened
in, and give increased v,gor and strength
10 the smaller ones, and at the same time
serve TO give a better and more uniform
shape to the top.
This sort of pruning will not be required
annually, but its benefits viii be greatest
if done at once after the trees have borne
crop of fruit as it tends greatly to res
tore the vigor of the trees which have
become somewhat exhausted by the crop.
This pruning is best done late in winter
or early i'm spring before growth begins.
Peach trees should be literally fortified
and probably nothing can be used for this
purpose better than ground bones and pot
ash, about equal quantity Of each The lat
ter most conveniently in the form of mu-
rate of potash,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-06

The Country Gentleman says: Something
from nothing you can't take. Most of Us
are beginning to realize the truth of this
trite saying in regard to most things about
us. 1t is a poor farmer who does not
realize that he cannot take grain from ms
fields year after year, returning nothing
to them without some time, sooner or Ia
ter, getting to the end Of his string, ana
finding his land run down and bankrupt
But some poultrymen have not discoVere1
that the same principle holds good in re-
gard to hens. You can't get something
from nothing there, either. If your hens
are to lay eggs, they must have something
to work with; they must get egg-torrnlnS
elements from some source or other. IN
recent years the practical poultryman has
been able to double his egg supply in the
winter by careful study of egg-producing
foods. Prominent among these must be
placed green cut-bone, a food that is easily
and cheaply obtained and that is undoubt-
edly the greatest egg producer ever fed to
hens. The bone, when finely cut while 1t
is still green, supplies that element OF an
imal food so needed and so relishei by
fowls, taking the place of the bugs ana
worms which the hens deVour so greedHy
upon the range. Moreover, the bone sup
plies the mineral matter needed for egg
formation, the lime, the phosphate, the
magnesia, and is, in short the ideal egg
food. When we consider how cheaply the
bones can be procured, and how little
trouble it is to prepare them for the
fowls 1t is difficult to understand why any
poultryman neglects their use.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-06
American Dates.

There seems to lie no good reason why
this country should not become noted for
its production of dates says the farmers
Review The date palm in Africa is
wonderful tree. 1t is wonderful because it
it seems particularly adapted to
grow in a region where the con-
ditions are such that most other valuable
trees refuse TO live at all. 1t will stand
torrid heat and thrive in it. It will feed
on a kali water and bring forth rich har-
vests. We have the torrid heat in some
of our Southern valleys. particularly in
Arizona. There is also the condition of
moisture supply. The alkal water has
been a thing that has prevented us from
awaiting ourselves of the farming regions
in that part of the country. In Africa the
Arabs frequently dig a pit 20 or 80 feet
deep and plant their date palms in the
bottom, so that their trees can dip their
feet in the waters of the earth and warm
their heads in the fires of heaven" On our
Western plains both of these conditions
may be found The date palm win stand 16
degrees below freezing wi hout being in
jured, and this degree of cold is more than
it viii be necessary 10 provide for in the
valleys of Arizona.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-06
The Hog Louise.

Bulletin 100 of the department of agri-
culture says: The hog louise is the only
insect which causes much trouble in rails
ing hogs, and when it once becomes es-
tablished in drove it is not easily ex-
terminated. Fortunately the lice are so
large that they can be seen easily, and
their presence may therefore be known
before they become very abundant. They
are liable to appear at any season of the
year. and they thrive on hogs of any age
or condition. They are found in and be-
hind the ears, back of the shoulders and
in the creases on the lower part of the
ham more frequently than elsewhere; if
those places are free from them there is
little danger that they exist on other parts
of the animal, Coal oil is sure death to
every louise it touches, but does not al
ways Kill the eggs, and must be used with
caution to prevent its blistering the skin
of the hog. When large drove is to be
treated the work can be done very quick
ly by using a spray pump having an at
tachment for mixing the oil and water,
and the pump should be set so that il
will use about five parts of water to one
part of oil. When such a mixture is
thrown over the hogs in a fine spray only
a little of the oil is used to cover the
whole animal and if the spraying is done
in the evening nearly all of the oil will
have evaporated by morning, and there
will be no bllstering of the skin when the
hogs are exposed to the hot sun on the
following day.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-06

The value Of animal manure to our farms
is seldom realized. We speak of CONNER
c.al fertilizers as a necessity TO some of
our lands and we speak truly. But the
correct use of our barnyard manure means
The adding every year of many millions of
dollars to the value Of our farms. For this
reason there is close connect ion be lween
the number of live stock in the country
and the fertility of our farms. In the last
few years our sheep, hogs, cattle and hors-
IS have decreased by many millions. This
means that it is possible for us to put
many millions less tons of manure on our
land than formerly. Consider the manur-
ial product from a single animal, and then
cons der it from all the animals in the
country 1t is safe 10 say that during the
late depression our farm lands have de-
Perforated enormously, due TO the lessened
supply of manure from farm animals. If
The higher prices row obtained succeed in
stimulating breeding they viii confer an
Indirect but great blessing on our agri-
cultural communities by increasing the
fertility possibilities of The soil.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-06
Fertility Easily Restored.

There are few if any poor farms that
cannot be made good farms provided they
were ever good farms. A wornout farm
Is not a necessary result of cultlvating a
farm for generations. In other parts of
the world some of the most fertile farms
at the present day are those that have
been cultivated for hundreds and thous-
ands of years. The Almighty, when he
made the earth for the abode Of man, did
not so construct the soil that its fertility
might be exhausted in a generation or
two. Where there are poor, rundown
farms We may be assured that there has
been mismanagement in cultivation.
Not only is 1t possible to grow all the crops
we now grow without cunning down the
farm, but it is possible to take a rundown
farm and bring it back to a state of fer
tility greater than that known in any pre-
vious period of it's existence. Nor is a
miraculous amount Of knowledge needed
to do this. 1t only requires a study by
the owner of the best methods Of hand
ling a farm as they are now taught in our
agricultural colleges, in the agricultural
press and by many Of our best farmers.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-06
FertiIizine After Cow Peas.

The great value of COW peas as a soil
renovator is now too we'll known to re-
quire description here. 1t is enough that
they are largely grown for their value as
fertilizers, to encourage a study for the
best way of making use of this value. It
may surprise some planters that fertiliz-
ers should be used after COW peas, but it
is a very simple matter explained. In the
first place we must keep in mind that
plants take up nitrogen, potash, and phos-
phoric acid in certain definite proport tons
For example, a crop of tobacco compris-
ing 1000 pounds of leaf and 1900 pounds
of stems win require as shown by chem
ical analysis, 80 pounds of nitrogen, 105
pounds of potash, and IS pounds of phos-
phoric acid. Now, suppose the supply of
fertilizer In the soil available for the use
Of the crop should be limited to 80 pounds
of nitrogen, 80 pounds of potash, and %
pounds of phosphoric acid; the result
would be a crop of approximately 800
pounds of leaf The point is that the value
of the fertilizer is limited by the most
deficient constituent. IT, in the example
given above, the nitrogen only should be
reduced half, or the phosphoric acid SINH
larly reduced. the crop results would he
the same. The point is that the crop
must have certain quantities of nitrogen,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-06
A Hopeful view of Cotton.

The longest lane has a turning, and
there is hope ahead for the cotton growers
of the South, says the New Orleans States.
For years past this large and worthy class
of the American people have been oppress-
ed by the low price of their product, and
the heavy burden of taxation they were
compelled to bear, and it was becoming to
mean a poor man when you spoke of a
cotton planter while in earlier days to
speak OF cotton planter was to speak of
a rich man.
Something over q year ago the States
called the attention of the cotton growers
to the new process of baling cotton, known
as the round bale SYSTEM" poinked out
it's economic features and showed that if
generally adopted 1t would save the pro-
ducers, in cost of baling, bagging, freight
and insurance, fully sixty millions of dol
lars on each single crop.
We had thoroughly exumSned the system
owned by the American Cotton Company.
while in New York, and we were satisfied
that the round bale system was the first
CLEAN of dawning light for the cotton
planter. But the public, especially the
people whose salvation 1t meant turned
a cold shoulder to Il. The press all over
the South denounced it as a trust, dia-
bolical scheme of Northern capitalists to
enslave the already impoverished cotton
planters. The Texas Legislature went so
far with as little sense as a herd of wild
bronchos, as to pass an act against the
system.
But while progress is always met with
opposition, happily truth ever triumphs.
Mr.. John e. Searles, the head of the
American Cotton Company, is a man OF
vast wealth; he Is a great organizer and
man of indomitable pluck and great sa-
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-06

Up to date Key West has had 1855 cases
of yellow fever and 63 deaths, while Miami
has had a. total of Y cases and 4 deaths
BrooksviTe News Register: The phos-
phate miners are working fun time and
are getting out large quantities of high
grade rock at all the mines in the county
Phosphate land is in demand here. Some
rich deposits have been discovered but
they have all teen scoopei up and are
not in the market.
Lake City, Florida Index: Last Tuesday
when the winds were blowing so flercely.
the residence Of John G. Rettig on Alliea-
tor Lake. a few miles south from this city,
caught on fire and burned TO the ground
Mrs. Rettig was in bed with a two-days'
old baby and was forced to flee for her life
ana be exposed to the fierce winds. Every
thing the house contained even the money
possessed by the family was total loss.
Gainesville Sun: The moss industry has
assumed profitable proportions in this sec
uon- There are within the city limits two
l hliis which make a business of cleaning
ana pating moss, and both Of these mills
seem 10 be busy all the whife. The clean
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-06
GEORGIA.
FLORIDA
AMID CAROLINA

? ing and baiirg Of moss IS an industry
+ which is destined 10 become prominent On
/ the commercial interests of Gainesville. a.
I large quantities are 70 be found in this
/ sect on.
J Uncle Jim Hin, a negro centenarlan
/ lives the life of a hermit in a dilapidateI
! hut Oh the Saint Johns river at jackson
| ville Fla. Uncle Jim Is an old sea dog,
| having served on the seas for seventy-hve
| years as assistant steward. He retired
from The sea about six years ago relln-
Z gushing wages of 500 per month and bee
came red hot peddler in Jacksonville,
where he lost all his money and effects
including rare curiosities from various
lands that he had Visited-ln the conda-
grafton. Uncle jim is now In abject pow
erty and feeble health and dependent on
: his white friends for support.
Tiusvl7e. Indian River Advocate: Mr..
Henry NJ. Fiagier is certainly spending a
mint Of money in Florida, on hotels and
railroads. His last speculation was the
purchase of The railroad from Jacksonville
10 Bab.O. Now ne Will build a road from
Pablo to MaypOrt Jacksonvil ians should
watch MoypOrt, for when Mr.. Flaglar I'M
dertakes 70 do anything he VIII DO it
night His recent investment and inn rove
ments viii infuse new life into The metrop-
obs, Pablo and Mayport; bur If he people
OF those sections do not give him a glad
welcome, let him come to Titusvillc and
help as along by building some workshops
We will appreciate it,
There is queer old lime sink of mag
nihcent proportions in Bradford county.
Florida, where, it Is said. ghosts prone
made at any time. That the place is haunt
ed the Oldest inhabi, ants of the county
firmly believe Thrilling stories are related
by them concerning their experiences with
the spooks, The sink Is situated in the top
of hif ana is funnel shaped. bottom
less and about three hundred feet ia cir
conference at the mouth. There s a walk
around the sink two feet above the water
ana nifty feet below the mouth of the
sink, and II is said that many people have
seen numerous couples of ghosts prone
nading on this walk al high noon on a
clear sunshiny day Ii is called The
ghosts walk" The ofd-timers there
abouts say that the sink has been there
Tor many centuries and that Il has been
the scene of many Tragedies i'm real lie
one OF the stories related about the place
is that a jealous lover threw his sweet
heart into the chasm and then repenting
of his crime, plunged in after her. The
place is visited every week by numerous
tourists and Floridans, and it is the most
popular picnic spot IN that county.