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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-26
COFFEE SUPERIOR COURT
LIZ Adjourned Saturday-WhisLy Sell
lers Fined Heavily.

Douglas, Ga, Feb 25.-In the McCov
Walters murder case the jury returned a
verdict of not guilty, and Walters is
again free man.
Peter Fleming, cotored, charged with
rape, his alleged victim being a little col
ored girl about years Old. was acquitted
Mr.. Waiver Roberts brought IN FRIDAY
Henry Penlay, the young white boy who
with three others, broke out of Coffee
county Jail something over a month 400
Inc lad was charged with burglary The
grand jury being in session. took up the
case at once, and returned mo bill.''
Jack Smith, another OF the escanes
charged with an assault, voluntarily snr.
rendered '"'
This term of Coffee Superior Court ad-
journed Saturday
Mr.. w j. Smith of Nicho,s MEAD 4
guilty to an Indictment for retaiI;,..
whisky without a license. Judge Rennat1
sentenced him to pay a fine Of 800 and
all costs. Two other bills against bino
each Tor like offense, to be held IN on
future good behavior. The fine was
promptly paid
Mr.. c. II. Hipson, also of Michel.
pleaded guilty to retailing whisky without
a license and was sentenced to nav
fine of $500 and all costs. He promptly
paid up.
The grand jury returned about fifty trna
bills including several for the illegal sale
of liquor.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-26
FLORIDA.

Mr.. w. A. Bostwick and Miss Rosabel
Carter were married Wednesday evening
at the home of Mrs n. waddul. on
Cuna street, St Augustine.
Sanford Chronicle; Mr.. Hugh Conley.
formerly connected with Mr. McKinley's
Office, has gone to Savannah having been
promoted. We are all sorry TO lose Hugh
as he is one of the best young gentlemen
in the world.
f. G. White, a former Gainesville news
paper man, is now editor of the Klondike
Nugget, at Dawson. His salary is 500
per day, but even that is not suffioent to
buy him any comfort II takes a whole
days wages 10 buy 40 pounds of potatoes,
Those who protected the orange trees
about DeLand during this weeks cold
with tents or by burning wood In III,
groves, saved all the tender sprins
growth and the bloom TOO. The S,etson
shielded groves look tender and uxuriant
Gainesville Sun: j. II. Dean, a naval
stores operator, formerly of Georgia. but
for the past few months operating still
in Polk county, has disposed Of his in
terests IN South Florida, and will prob
abby associate himself with T. w. Mill
can of Waldo, one of the most extensive
operators In Alachua county.
Tallahassee Correspondence of the Morn
Ing News, Feb. %: The latest advices from
\ hon X, W. Ashmore who was assaulted
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-26
DAHLONEGA'S GOLD,
Opening of New Mills to BE CeIe-
hrated in Nav

Dahlonega. Ga. Feb. 23.-The citizens of
Dahionega have been watching for year
the remarkable revival in gold mining in
their midst, and at a call meeting bv
Mayor Price it has been decided to show
the appreciation of the citizens At the
opening Of the new mills in May, it was
resolved to invite all the stockholders of
the new mills to be the guests of the city.
over 500 invitations viii be issued to prom
nent men in this state and in Tennessee
OHIO Michigan and elsewhere. A BRO
gramme extending over two DAYS and
nights is being arranged These companies
are now operating on modern plans TO
extract the wealth of gold from the hills
OF Lumpkin. The Consolidated, with a
capital of S,0OO,O00 the Crown Mountain
with 100000 the Chicago Mining and
Milling Company with $3.50 900. These are
using the machinery similar to that at
the Homestake and other mines in the
West, and will work the refractory ores
that have in the past been neglected
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-26

who once taught that il ives a kingly
plant has spent his life in trying TO bring
back TO it's royal seat what was long ago
dethroned, perhaps forever
1t is difficult to quit a habit, even If
that habit is negative There is a habit
of not doing a thing as well as doing 1t.
The farmer. in the habit of not growing
his own wheat, seems 10 find it difficult
to assume the habit of doing it. The
small farmer once in the habit of growing
his own meat, IS not likely to give it up,
for he realizes how helpful it is to him
1t requires very little care and
food to develop two or three pigs costing
81 or $3.50 each into four or six hundred
pounds of meat-say ii is only 500 pounds.
This is sufficient to supply small family
with meet abundantly and when killed
at intervals of month or two apart there
is a large amount of spareribs, backbone,
souse, etc. that adds greatly to the meat
prefer to keep their own breeding sow
or two others may prefer simply to buy
pigs and raise them TO maturity or for
a years growth. This is very handy
way Of growing small supply of meat.
The farmer who keeps one or two good
breeding sows can sell enough pigs from
two or three filters to pay the expense of
keeping the sows and the expense of
breeding. There is no actual need for
more than one small farmer in a close
community keeping a boar. If only the
farmers i'm a community would come to-
gether they could manage this hog raising
business in very practical and success
full way. Whether they do this or not,
however there Is no reason why each one
should not grow his meat with abundant
profit and satisfaction.
Pork is cheeply raised on Bermuda pas
ture, and with the addition of an acre
of sorghum. If the water is pure there
is no excuse for sickness among hogs in
this climate. ten-pound pig can be de-
Veloped into a 150-pound hog almost from
the refuse of a good garden, along WITH
that from the kitchen. There is also
refuse from the barn that almost raises
another pig.
All that is needed is the spirit TO do II.
There is sophistry in any argument that
urges II is cheaper to buy anything than
can be raised on the farm. 1t may appear
so sometimes but it is really not true.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-26
Farming on sandy Soil.

IL requires a good farmer to make a
success in cu!tivating crops on sandy soil
The manure applied usually produces
quick effects, but the fertility exhausts
with the first crop and requires to be re-
stored before it can produce another, says
the American Cultivator. Much of its
mineral fertility is reached down into the
hard pan of the subsol, and it is this
mineral plant food which has leached into
the clay rather than the clay itself that
makes its value as a fertilizer when
brought to the surface In some places
blue cayis fcurd under sandy soil. This
is favo able Indication, fer this blue
clay usually contains phosphate of lime
that when mixed with the sand makes
a soil in which almost anything can be
grown. Where the subsoil is itself sandy
1t needs to be seeded with clover in order
to supply he soil with vege able matter,
without which the sand would quickly be-
come barren waste.
All plants of the melon family do well
on sandy soil but it is not adapted to
growing grain CROPS, except when the
seeding of grass or clover runs out. and
it becomes necessary to sow grain to re-
new the seeding. Yet when the soil was
newly cleared of its thin forests there
was a streak of vegetable humus on the
surface that would bring a clover seed
I L -
nate year, and sowing wheat with a Glow
er seeding again, coed wheat crops could
be grown for few years But after a
while the small amount of phosphate in
the sandy soil would become exhausted,
and then even when stable manure was
APPLIED the sandy land would produce
only rank growth of straw which rust
ed. and the heads would not yi-ld any
era n IT WIS on sandy soil that the grain
first fai ed in the locality in Western New
York where our first farming experience
was saned. Most Of our own farm was a
heavy clay and after few years cult
walton became very wet. The sandy soil.
because cas- ~ worked was in The early
settlement thought most valuable. 1t could
be more easily clear Of forest but this
was more than Offset by the greater dur
ability of fertility in the clay land and
its much greater productlveness after it
had teen underdrained.
A sreat deal Of sandy land is set with
peaoh trees wherever this fruit succeeds.
1t needs extra supply of phosphate and
potash en- such land to grow tire peach.
and it needs some kind of organic manure
10 keep these minerals in available condi-
tioo. Straw eiries and all small fruits can
ne crown successfully on sandy soil, pro-
vidcd it IS well supplied with mineral fer
tili2ers, They can usually be riuened ear
lier on sand than on Seavy soil. This is
not so great an advantage as it used to
he before the early market for small
fruits was supplied from the South and
! efcre he bulk of early vegetables for city
markets was grown in green houses
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-26

Gainesville, Ga, Feb. 25.-The Georgia
Manufacturing Company Of this place is
forging ahead. The outpu< of the factory
is sold for months ahead. and orders are
being refused daily, on account of not he
ing able TO FIJI them. Two forces of hands
are now employed one for the night and
one for the day. Mr.. w ID. Cooksev of
Spartanburg. $. c., has been employed as
superintendent lie is an experienced man.
1t is now only a matter of lime untn =
wet" aud dry" election will he held in
this county. Petitions that have been in
circulation have about received enough
signatures to authorize the ordinary to call
an election, and 1t will be called in the
near future.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-26
GEORGIA.
FLORIDA
AND CAROLINA;

ana robbed in Wakulla county last We'd
uesday, are 20 The effect that he is in a
Ialf way to recover Two negroes were
arrested al Carrabelle Friday morning and
carried 10 Ashmore, where Mr.. Ashmore
SAID they were not his assailants. Mr..
Ashmore was robbed of $440-Bishop c. 3.
Galloway of Mississippi will arrive here
tomorrow. on Tuesday night he will de-
lVer q lecture at The NJ. L. Church.-Mrs.
t1lzabetn Feikel, The aged mother Of Capt.
H. i. Feikel, tax assessor. yesterday re-
ceived fan which resulted in dislocating
her hip. She is over 20 years old.-Sher-
if Pierce has received a pair of fine blood
hounds. They came from Colquitt coun-
~. Georgia, and he will find them vau-
able adjuucts in his efforts to trail crimI-
mails.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-26
Grapes and Cotton.

The Georgia Experiment Station is now
sending out bulletins No. AZ and No. As.
The first comprises thirty pages and
treats of cotton. In 1899 twenty-five diff
'fereut named sorts were planted at the
station and the bulletin gives the results
of the comparative tests. No. As is en-
titled strawberry Notes for 1892 A
comparison of sixty named sorts is tabu-
lated and a photograph presented of nearly
all of them. This is the second bulle-
tin on strawberries and the two together.
furnish pretty much all that need DO
known by beginners to enable them to
grow this desirable fruit successfully. All
of our readers should receive these bule-
tins as issued. end it Is their fault lf
they do not get them.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-26
EARLY Irish POtnfoes.

Reaching the market early with new no
tatOes is the plain secret Of proftableness
with such crops, says a trucker in South
ern Planter FAN blowing is practically
necessity, except on thin sandy soils;
and cross blowing as soon as the wealth
er breaks. is the second step. There is
more or less risk in seeding before the
soil warns thoroughly. but this risk
must be taken If an early market is to
be reached; also the tubers must he well
grown, as green" tubers cook solid and
are a little worse than tasleess. With
new potatoes the common practice is TO
apply The fertilizer with the seed and
trust to Providence. As the whole crop
Is pushed through with a rush, there is
no time 10 prepare The seed bed, and rest
for ten days or two weeks before plant-
ing. AS q result, the fertilizers some
times damage the crop.
All fertilizers, practically when mixed in
the soil few weeks, lose injurious prop
critics. When, however the tender root
let's push out, only TO encounter raw acid
phosphate, the result is inevitably death
and decay. There is no risk in applying
potash and phosphates some weeks before
seeding; in fact this is the best way to
use such fertilizers. but the nitrogen
should be applied al seeding time, or even
later, If nitrate of soda is used. The crop
is planted usually in drills Just far enough
apart 10 duTnH Oh morse nOelnS, therefore.
broadcasting the potash and acid phos-
phate is perfectly safe, and it should be
done on top of the cross plowed soil, be-
fore the smoothing harrows are put at
work. Used in this way, the chlorides of
potash, which are commonly thought 20
be injurious to potatoes (kainit and mu-
riate) are entirely harmless, and as USE
full as the high-grade sulphate.
Used in this way Qt is supposed, OF
course. that an ample quantity has been
used. there are few farm crops which re-
sent more quickly niggardly feeding. Early
pota toes make, or should make, a qulck
growth, and if starved, are promptly apt
subjects for all kinds of root disease Not
only this, but the soil may become 50
charged with disease germs, that succeed
ing crops which are adequately fed NAV
suffer severely. In fact, for early poto.
toes, an excess of plant food should be
used invariably Any great excess will be
saved from loss by the following cover
crops, which all prudent farmers now use
to follow early harvests to protect the
soil from autumn washing and leaching
Just what may bo considered an excess
of plont food is simple problem
crop of 200 bushels contains i'm tubers.
tops. etc, as pounds of nitrogen, rs pounds
of potash and 20 pounds of phosphorus
acid. These are contained in ], 600 pounds
of fertilizer containing AZ per cent.
nitrogen. ~ per cent. potash and ner
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-26
Make Pigs Into HOgs-Thc Small
Farmer Car GroVy His Meat

Among the small white farmers of the
South there are a large number who are
merely tenants having no control of other
than open land-a certain area Of which
is to be cultivated in the staple crops
cotton, corn, oats and potatoes. In some
instances they may have the right of com
mon on some woodland. No one will
deny that il is possible for every sin9le
one of these farmers TO raise their own
meat abundantly, If they only choosed TO
do so, but it is a fact few of them do.
There are, still a large number of small
farmers in the South who own their land
a large proportion of which is woodland
of one kind or another on this kind OF
woodland there may be or there may not
be any thing that furnishes food for hogs
mast.
1t is very easy or this class of farmers
to raise their own meat, but there are
certainly many that do not.
Farmers of both classes are always
ready with an excuse for not raising their
meat. They will die of cholera" every
thing a hog dies of is cholera" as 10
chlckens). or The colored neighbor takes
a fancy to the hogs or the "buzzards
destroy the pigs" When questioned in
regard TO the matter there is always some
valid reason for the failure to raise their
meat. A great many claim that they "can
buy what little meat they need cheaper
than they can raise it," 1T must be add
mitted that the farming system of a ooun-
try is in a condition to be deplored when
the majority of it's farmers fail, and think
little of the failure, to grow that essen
tial part of their food supplies. The
farmers OF old Europe would boot at the
bare idea of such farming. A Southern
farmer boots at the possibility Of doing
such a rational thing as growing his meat.
1t is only a "theorist" that would sug-
gest such a thing.
No doubt the day will come when the
failures and inconsistencies of our farm
ing will be corrected when the word farm
viii signify vastly different thing from
what IL stands for to-day ana has stool
for about thirty years.
our grand old South county is full Of
memories that stir the heart. Our failures
that We may mourn over are even uear
90 u.s. The recollection of our irrational
system of farming stirs a tender feeling
for the Donr. shiftless slave to cotton.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-26

cent. available phosphorie acid the lat
ter should always be used in great ex-
cess, as it quickly takes insoluble forms
in the soiD. Now, while LOCO pounds
Of this fertilizer contains enough, that -
not sufficient for success with new pote-
tees. At least 500 pounds per acre should
be used. If the potash and phosphorus
acid are used together. but cannot be pur-
chased in proper form. make mixture
for each acre of 225 pounds of muriate OF
potash and 500 pounds of ordinary acld
phosphate. Then Us pounds of nitrate o.
soda can be used later, top dressed along
the rows, after the plants have broken
through the soil
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-26
ITEMS FROM AMERICAS.
Vireinia-Carolina Fertilizer Conn
pany 10 Enlarge Its Plant.

Americus, Ga, Feb 25.-It is said that
the Virginia Carolina Fertilizer Company
proposes to greatly enlarge its plant in
Americas and make this manufacturers
and distributing point. In the event the
plant here is enlarged the company NAV
locate it just outside the city lirnits ~
order to be relieved of taxation. which H.
deems excessive. The plant here is large
one and well equipped.
The sale of fertilizers here this season
has been very large. and already in excess
of sales for last year.
Many negroes are leaving Amerieus for
south FLORIDA. An emgrant agent. il is
them for several days. '"s
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-26
Cassava Roots Wanted.

D. J. B., Baxley, Ga; Where can
get cassava roots? wish to plant some
this spring. If it is as productive and ms
valuable for stock food as some claim, il
is the very thing l need. win it do
well in this section-seventy miles north
of Brunswick and $50 north of Jackson
ville?"
Cassava roots do as well in your Sec
ton as in Florida if you will plant It on
the right kind of soil and treat 1t prop
erly Any soil that will make good crops
of sweet potatoes will make cassava. 1t
is well worth trial. We have seen it
advertised for sale frequently. but cannot
recall the name of any grower just now
Write to +. o. Painter Co., DeLand
Fla
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-26

last two years has been brought about
largely by the extensive use in our own
army in the West Indies and the Philip
pines and also the unprecedented demand
by the British army in South Africa, says
the Agriculturlst Good mules IS hands
high usually sell Tor Sl25, and a pair fire.
quently bring from 1890 20 $3.50. Smaller
animals do not sell for as much, but as
they are easily produced, are profitable
II they can be sold for $50 or $50 The mule
is particularly adap ed to use in the army
and is becoming recognized more and
more as an important factor in American
agriculture. They nave been used all over
the South for many years and are grad
ually becoming popular IN the great agri-
cultural states of the middle West and
Nor Invest
Mu.es are particularly valuable from
the fact that they are more hardy and
will stand more abuse than any other
draft animal. They eat less and respond
more readily to good feed than horses.
They are excellent puilers and are al
ways ready to move very quickly with
load of course in rough countries they
are much better adapted to hauling loads
over hills and in such regions are used
almost exclusively.
In raising mules, the colts should be
well cared for at all times, particularly
up to weaving time, which Is when the
colt is about four months cid. we'll
grown mule of this age will often bring
$50 and occasionally SG5, when offered IN
such markets as St Louis, Cincinnati and
further North They must be of good size,
well proportional ard gentle. They should
be given much the same treatment dur
ing the first two years as horse colts. Keep
them on good pasture during the summer
and in winter feed grain and hay. While
they will endure exposure TO bad weather
better than horses, they will repay good
treatment. Some are notably vicious, but
possibly not more so than horses. They
should be halter brok when quite youns
and when two years cid should be brok-
en- 10 the harness. \ lite light work when
two years old will do no harm, but it is
not desirable to give them anything very
heavy until three years of age. In the
cotton sections Of the United States mules
are very small and not sought for export
Being known as cotton mules. In the SUI
gar regions a 2-year-1ld mule viii often
weigh from 1,150 to 1920 pounds, and is
always in demand.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-26
The Cold sunday.

If Feb. II is to be known as the "wet
Sunday of 1900, Feb. IS may very properly
be styled the cold Sunday" Preceded
by a gale from the northwest, which blew
steadily all day Saturday a cold wave of
great severity bore down upon the South
Atlantic during the night and early Sun
day morning the temperature fell to y
degrees and the wind still blowing
Ii has caused considerable damage, but
how much cannot be estimated now The
early gardens have been laid low-every-
thing killed out except perhaps the spin
ach and the fail set onions (from sets)
Late sown grain. If not destroyed. is
doubtless seriously injured May it re-
dound to the benefit of the peach crop!
This cold wave was ten days later than
the cold wave Of February, &c. Cold Fen
ruarys ore getting 10 be the rule, seem
ingly IL is not risky TO predict an alb
normally cold spell in March
PROFIT I'm Raising Mules.