The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-21

can also be utilized on roads and walk
ways, and serve admirably for filing Up
holes in the roads leading TO The bara
yard or to the main road.
Grating Wax.-One pound Of tallcw, two
pounds of beeswax, three pounds of resin.
Mix this all together, heat 10 boiling
heat stirring continually, and then dump
into tub Of cold water. Then work it like
taffy. While using grating wax place in
the sun 10 melt 10 the right consistency.
Composition for wounds made in prun-
ing: Take quart OF alcohol and dissolve
in 1t as much gum-shelae as will make
liquid of the consistency of paint. Apply
this to the wound with a common brush,
always pairing the wound smoothly frs
with knife. The liquid becomes hard ami
excludes the air. and is not affected by
any change of weather. II the white color
is Objectionable, use little lampblack.
Raising Corn In Georgia-If you
wish early corn and heavy yields,
says the Practical Farmer plant in the
Southern states on March 20, or at the
time of the first full moon in March, ard
give a good distance to your corn, say
3x4 feet, one stalk in hill. Put a large
double handful of well rotted manure IN
der each hill In preparing the land
pillow deep, harrow off smooth and cover
lightly in rich soil. l usually plant In
rows four feet apart and leave a stalk
every two feet in the row. l pillow deep
and close to the corn at first and second
workings, then l run scrapers with scoot-
ers, gophers or sweeps through the rows
three times, taking care TO not cut many
of the feeding roots. Some say cut these
roots, but my experience Is that they
should never be disturbed, for they are
almost as necessary to the corn plant as
nerves are to the human system. Save
tA.f 7 49,. ~
hood days every one was trying to get
the corn laid by before the 4th of July,
also looked forward to getting a cotton
bloom on that date. The corn, cotton and
peas were fine in those days, and juicy
| melons were abundant. But what a SAD
| change do we see We now have to pillow
deep, manure and fertilize heavily, work
| hard and make one-fourth as much in the
days gone by when cotton made a bale to
| the acre and brought $50 a bale, corn,
| twenty-five to 100 bushels per acre, and
| peas mostly rotted aon the ground. We
| now make bale of cotton on four acres,
| corn, ten to twenty-five bushels per acre
and very few peas. My experience is
| that we should fertilize heavily with ma
nure and other fertilizers and plant a re-
| duced acreage. We must bring our lands
| up to what they were in former years, and
with the aid of peas it can be done. Plant
cotton In last years pea patch and see
the effect. But never plant peas in your
cotton, for they will ruin it,
Protect Peach Trees.-The Missouri Ag-
| rlcultural College Experiment station has
| been conducting experiments in peach tree
! culture that will be worth millions of
! dollars to orchard growers in the growth
OF peach trees. Thirty had their boughs,
| trunks and limbs painted white with a
! spray of ordinary whitewash.
These whitened trees" said Prof. H.
]. Waters. director of the station, will
be sure to bear fruit next year, while
| the other trees in the orchard may not.
! 1t is a simple experiment that has taught
| valuable lesson. The winter killing of
| peach buds is the result of freezing after
| the buds have been made to swell by the
warm weather during the winter or
| spring. The warm sunshine will make
| the buds swell prematurely, while the root
J of the tree may be frozen dormant. Shad-
! ing and whitening the trees prevent their
J absorbing the heat on summer days and
| the forcing Of the buds, as a protective
| measure. Shading the tree is too expen-
sive. Whitening them is cheaper. The
natural color of the trees attract and
| absorb the heat of the sun as black
| earth absorbs it. The white coating on
peach trees repels the suns rays.
Last year so per cent. of the whitened
buds passed the winter safely, while 60
per cent. of those that were not whit
| ered were killed"
This is a very simple remedy for the too
| early starting of the peach buds, wherein
| lies much of the failure to obtain a crop
| Of peaches. A very few degrees of diff
ference in heat absorbed by the tree may
make success or failure. We hcps Rur-
| alist peach growers will try the expert
| ment of embarrassing.