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The Colfax chronicle., 1900-09-15

Each package OF PurNAM's FADELEs
DYES colors more goods than any other dy
and colors them better too. Sold by a
druggists.
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-09-15

The Oldest of a crowd of girls, though sh
may be only Is, is always made to feel as i
she is wrinkled spinster.-Atchison Globe
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-09-15

A man smoking a cigarette boarded a
Union traction car, and woman handed
him an anti-cigarette tract. Thank you,
ma'am," said he. 'I'll take it home to my
son."-Muncie Star.
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-09-15

am sure Piso's Cure for Consumption
nved my life three years ago.-Mrs. Thos
Robbins, Maple Street, Norwich, N. Y.
Feb II. 1900.
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-09-15

"Have your summer vacation plans ma
tured yet, Billyw "Oh, yes; but they
had to be side-tracked on account of some
summer notes that also matured. I'm
dianapolis Journal.
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-09-15

It would require very little to make most
Of us happy-untl we get it.-Indianapolis
News.
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-09-15
APIeasant way. For Summer Days.

"PIeasant Wnys FOr Summer Ddys'"
Is the title of the Grand Trunk Railway
Systems new Summer Tourist Folder which
together with other descriptive literature
can be had on application to j. H. Burgs,
City Passenger and Ticket Agent, 249 Clark
St., corner Jackson Boulevard, Chicago.
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-09-15

The Best Prescription for Chills
and Fever Is a bottle of GROVES TAsTELEss
CHILL Tonic. It's simply iron and quininei in
atasteless form. No cure-no pay. Price, Soc.
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-09-15

When one woman out of hundred ha,
nothing to say the other 80 are asking what
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-09-15
An Emerxency.

Assistant-The Irish stew has burned.
Chef-Well, put some spice in it and add
"a la Francois" to its name on the menu.
Puck.
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-09-15

A dyspeptic is never on good terms with
himself. Something is always wrong. Gel
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-09-15

,se auicksand n the bour classesi las T Ma; Ma;
Is dizzy joker, but time flies all the same
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-09-15

If man is industrious and frugal, he
:an acquire a good deal of money without
moving much else-Atchison Globe.
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-09-15
To Cure

To Cure = Cold I'm One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. AL
druggists refund money If itfails tocure. 25c.
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-09-15
Labor saver.

Biggs-Old man Miggs is lazy.
Jigg-Is he?
eyes, indeed. Why he rented parrot for
the summer just to have it swear at the heat
for him."-Baltimore American.
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-09-15
"PHEME." +"

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sFrom the Pacific Monthly. Portland. Reprinted b!
Special Permission-)
The Savannah morning news., 1900-06-25

A lady inquirer asks as TO the best
mode of bleaching celery where a few
hundred plants are grown for home use.
Our own experience is that old news
papers is the handiest material for the
purpose When the celery has attained
sufficient growth it is drawn compacty
together and encircled with paper enough
to protect the stalks from the sun. We
use the half of an ordinary daily paper.
After wrapping it about the plant, II can
be tied with a string so as to keep the
wind from tearing it open. The opera
ton of wrapping may seem tedious and
slow at first, but after a little practice
one will find that the work can be done
quite rapidly.
Another way of bleaching is TO put pine
straw close up about the plant. after
drawing the leaves well together and ty-
ing them with spool cotton and putting
some straw on top of abe plant also. The
trench i'm which the plants are set need
not be deeper than two or three inches.
In fact the White Plume and kindred
varieties can be grown entirely on the
level. as previously advised in this col
umn. The old plan of bleaching by
banking soil up against the plans is little
practiced now. 1t will not do in the South
at any rate, for il causes the plants to
rot
The Savannah morning news., 1900-06-25

Subscriber" The bug that you de
scribe as injuring your colards and horse
radish is the well-known harlequin bug
known generally in the South as Lin
coin" bug Il made its first appearance
in the South during the Civil War C62-'GD
hence the name. 1t is one of the most
pernicious insects the Southern gardener
has to contend with, and If allowed to
have its way in the garden after a first
appearance. will soon destroy the cab
bage, collards turnips and horse-radish in
II. 1t appears that this bug is partial TO
horse-radish, preferring 1t 20 the other
vegetables. Several years ago, it was
almost impossible to grow late cabbage
and colards in Middle Georgia. owing
to the insect Where no precautions are
used, 1t is quite possible 1t may be the
case again.
1t IS not difficult to prevent the deDre
dations of the Lincoln bug if prompt meas
ures are taken against it, Usually the
first brood is limited in number and may
be killed by hand whenever the crop is
hoed, but If it has been overlooked and
the second and third brood puts in an APP
pearance poison will have to be resorted
to. Pyrethrum, or Persian insect pow
der. which is not poisonous to man, can
be used to advantage wherever the insect
can be readily seen, as is the case when
It appears on small plants.
Kerosene emulsion is also effective If it
touches them. They cannot be destroyed
in the same manner that potato bugs are
for this Lincoln bug does not eat the foil
age but sucks the juice of the plant. caus-
ing it to wilt and to die Destroy oil the
eggs possible. These are readily detected
They are deposited in two rows of six
each, usually and chiefly on the under
side of the leaf. These hatch in about
four days after being deposited.
The Savannah morning news., 1900-06-25
Danger in the Crimson CIoxer

NJ. G. Kains: As cover or catch crop
crimson clover is justly popular with the
orchardist that tries to keep his ground
properly protected during the winter and
10 save available plant food in the soil
Under proper management-thati is NOW
ed under in early spring or fed TO STOCK
oeIore plossoming-no trouble need be ex-
pected from It's use. But if permitted to
produce seed and the straw then fed to
horses, there is considerable danger IN
the animals health The minnie hairs
of the flower head, though soft before
SEED production, become Jumped together
IN the animals stomach and intestines
ana set up Inflammation, which. unless
renewed by the removal of the obstruc-
ton, may result in modification and
death
The writer has seen some of these hair
balls that were five inches in diameter
10 save an animal with such an obstruc-
tion IN his intestines is well-nigh impos-
sloie by means ordinarily at hand upon
the farm or in its vicinity.
The hairs are usually about an eighth
or an inch long and provided with little
barbs which in mature hairs are stiff.
When immature the barbs and hairs are
phable and do not congregate in masses.
Hence II is important that when mans
are made to feed crimson clover the cron
should be cut prior to full blossoming.
and when seed is the object the straw
should be used for other purposes than for
feeding. The practice of feeding the
straw after thrashing is murderous. since
the hairs are then al their very stiffest.
hence most likely to form balls.
The writer recently passed through
Maryland and Delaware, where crimson
clover Is grown very extensively. and
found that the farmers suffer loss of their
horses in tust about the proportion that
they employ crimson clover that has ma
tured seed Some cases that were seen
revealed the most intense suffering. and
could not be relieved by even the best
veterinarians in the vicinity. The pro-
portion of recoYeries Is very small
The Savannah morning news., 1900-06-25

only IS per cent. of dry matter. Over $50
pounds per day of the green fodder would
be required to furnish sufficient food for
growing cattle or mich cows of 1,0Ol
pounds weight. The best results are OBJ
tanned by using some dry feed along with
sorghum pasturage.
AS compared with forage plants which
are available for late summer pasturage
young sorghum is somewhat deficient in
fesh-forming material. containing less than
bluegrass or bromus inermis, about the
same as timothy, and little more than
Indian corn.
Sorghum should be cut for fodder at as
early a stage as 1t can be well cured,
Analyses show that after the period of
towering the sorghum stalk rapidly be-
comes more fibroUS or woody and the pro-
portion of the more valuable food princi-
pies is correspondlngly decreased. Sor-
ghum fodder does not possess any great
feeding value. Even If cut while heading
out il will have somewhat smaller
amount of fiesh-forming material than
most hay crops and less than corn fod-
der, but more than straw OF the small
grains. The fondness live stock have for
this fodder is doubtless due to the sugars
probably chiefly giucose) which it con-
tains. Its relatively high percentage OF
heat and energy producing materials
makes it especially adaptable for cold
weather feeding.
The Savannah morning news., 1900-06-25
Cen.u. Facts From IA Tub.

Tampa Tribune: One of the young men
who are calling upon the public for sta
tistlcs for the United States census, met
with an amusing incident day or two
ago, In this city. His district was in HYDE
Park, and calling at the house, he rang
the bell several times without obtaining
any response. AS he was going out of the
yard. however. he noticed that the win
dows were opened. but screened, and as
he passed by one of them a feminine voice
called: Who's there? What's wanted?'
I'm taking the United States census re-
piled the tnume ator. I'm taking batn''
came the quick response of the unseen
voice. Somew what disconnected by the re
ply, the enumerator announced that he
would cali again. But can't / answer
your questions from here" continued the
bather. Finding that there were only two
in the family, the enumerator thought
that she could. So, sitting down on the
grass beneath the window with the book
spread upon his knees for a table, he
asked the required questions through the
window and received the answers and en-
tered them upon his schedule. His ques-
tons Are you white or black?" Male
or female?" were answered with tone
that indicated without asking. But then
what could the poor fellow do2 He
couldn't see the fair respondent.
The Savannah morning news., 1900-06-25

as the sacred historian informs us, did
eat grass like an OK
Grass is the forgiveness of nature-her
constant benediction. Fields trampled
with battle. saturated with blood torn
with the ruts of cannon, srow green again
with grass, and carnage is forgotten.
Streets abandoned by traffic become grass
grown like rural lanes, and are obiterat-
ed. Forests decay, harvests perish. flow
ers vanish, but grass is immortal. Be
leaguered by the sulen hosts of winter,
it withdraws inso the impregnable fort
ress of its subterranean vitality, and
energies upon Ahe first solicitation of
spring. Sown by the winds, by wander
ing birds, propagated by the subtle nor
ticulture of the elements which are its
ministers and servants, ii Softens the rude
outline of the world. Its tenacious fibers
hold the earth in its place and prevent
it's soluble components from washing into
the wasting sea. It invades the solitude
of deserts, climbs the inaccessible slopes
and forbidding pinnacles of mountains,
mobiles climates and determines the his
tory, character and destiny of nations.
Unobtrusive and patient, il has immortal
vigor and aggression Banished from the
thoroughfare and the field it bides its
time to return, and when vigilance is
relaxed, or the dynasty has persisted. il
silently resumes the throne from which
it has been expelled, but which il never
abdicates. 1t bears no blazonry of bloom
to charm the senses with fragrance and
splendor. but its homely hue is more en-
chanting than the lily or the rose. Il
yields no fruit in earth or air and yet
should its harvest fail for a single year,
famine would depopulate the world
The Savannah morning news., 1900-06-25
Rain Excessive in June.

Rain has been excessive throughout
Georgia during the second and third weeks
of June. In some localities very great
damage has been done to peaches and gar
den vegetables and in many instances to
cotton. 1t is claimed
The excessive moisture has caused
thousands OF bushels of peaches to rot
No doubt much Of the fruit shipped to
far-off markets will rot in transit 1t may
appear all right when packed and loaded
on the cars. but 1t win not require many
hours to generate decay in fruit that had
been raired upon daily for week or
more in the sultry weather of June. Ship
pers will have to use extra care in prepar-
ing their fruit for shipping. else there Is
bound TO be great loss and disappointment
Have any Of our readers anything
to say against the "Sneed" variety OF
peach? This peach, IL appears, has been
very extensively planted in Middle Geor-
gia and heavy shipments OF them were
made from points on the Southwestern
Railroad during the first week in June.
About Mllledgeville. Ga, this peach was
In best condition for shipping about the
middle of June. We are not Informed as
20 the reputation Of the peach in North
ern markets, but from what We have seen
of ii this season we take IL that II is a
variety worth planting in fair proportion
in commercial orchards. The home orch
ard should certainly contain a goodly num-
Der of the trees. We would be glad to
have any of our readers who are com
petent to speak of its merits to send in
brief notes concerning II.
The Savannah morning news., 1900-06-25
In Praise of Grass.

Next in Importance to the divine pro-
fusion of water. light and air, those
three great physical facts which render
existence possible. may be reckoned che
universal benefcence of grass. writes ex-
Senator ingalls,. Exaggerated by tropi-
cal heats and vapors 90 the gigantic cane
congested with it's saccharine secretion.
or dwarfed by polar rigors to the fbrous
hair of Northern solitudes, embracing be-
tween these extremes the maize with its
resolute pennons, the rice plant of South
ern swamps. the wheat. rye barley, oats
and other cereals, no less than the hum
bier verdure OF hillside, pasture and
prairie and in the temperate zone, grass
is the most widely distributed of all vege-
table beings, and Is at once the type Of
our life and emblem of our mortality
Lying in the sunshine among the butter
cups and the dandelons OF May, scarcely
higher in intelligence than the minute
tenants of that mimic wilderness, our
earliest recollections are OF grass; and
when the ntful fever is ended, and the
foolish wrangle of the market and the
forum is closed, grass heals over the scar
which our descent into the bosom of the
earth has made, and the carpet of the in
FAINT becomes the blanket of the dead
As he reflected upon the brevity of HUI
man life, grass has been the favorite sym
Dol Of the moralist, the chosen theme OF
the philosopher. "All flesh is Srass."
said the prophet: My days are as the
grass" sighed the troubled patriarch: and
the pensive Northumberland. in his peni-
tential mood, exceeded even these, and.
The Savannah morning news., 1900-06-25

y being filed with sods cut five inches
square. on each sod five seeds were
planted and covered with little soil.
some muskmelons were planted in the
same manner. The first planting in the
open ground was April Is, when one BUSH
el peas three pounds spinach, five pound
fadsh one pound onions, one-half pound
turhp and one-half pound celery seed
were sown The first tomato plants were
set May by digging hole nine inches
deep ana putting in the bottom a shovel
I'M or mixed soil and manure. Water
was poured in the hole before setting
'he plants. The ground for cucumbers
ana melons was laid off in burrows nine
inches deep by going four times with the
fIanet, Jr, cultivator with teeth SET close
together a shovelful of compost was
put in the furrow every three and one
nalf feet, and on his block of sod from
the hotbed with the plants was set. The
melons were set six feet each wav. The
manure and soil from a mushroom had
was wei mixed and spread in the bot
tom OF burrows marked out for potatoes
Rows of celery were laid off three and
one-hall rect apart and six inches deem.
In the bottom was put good dressing
OF coTposted manure before setting the
plants, which were set six inches apart.
The Savannah morning news., 1900-06-25
THE FARM AND THE GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO AGRI-
CULTURIsT AND HOUSEWIFE.

Cotton Seed Menl-sOme Answers to
Inqufries-How to Bleach Celery.
The Lincoln BuE-Rnin Excuses in
June-Pncking Peaches for ship
ment.
b. F. NJ, Callahan: From one cause or
another cotton seed meal varies consider
ably in its contents of the three elements
of plant food Nitrogen, potash and
phosphorc acid OF course the chief value
of the meal consists in its nitrogen (or
ammonia). A frst-class quality of cotton
seed meal frequently shows nearly 10 per
cent of ammonia. 21s per cent of phos-
phoric acid and nearly per cent of pot
ash. But the average is considerably be-
low this The mills usually guarantee
or IA and sometimes per cent. of am
monia, 2 per cent. of phosphorus acid, and
l per cent. of potash. II is rather an in
ferior quality of meal that analyses only
6 per cent. of ammonia. The relative
commercial value ranges from SIG 10 so
per ton. Cotton seed meal is very rarely
called for on bottom lands and it is waste
full to apply it to such land by itself 1t
will pay best on sandy uplands, but even
on that class Of soil it is not true economy
to use 1t by itself but should be mixed with
mineral fertilizers like acid phosphate
and ashes of cotton seed hulls or some of
the potasslc fertilzers-kainit or muriate
OF potash.
For long growing plants, such as occupy
the soil five or six months or longer it
should not be applied to the soil deeper
than an inch or two, and always bread
cast, but for root crops and most garden
vegetables it can be applied advantage
ly in the burrows. mixing il with the soil
TO the depth Of several inches. For quick
growing vegetables like Irish potatoes,
cabbage. onions. celery and many others
we prefer to put it in the soil about a
month before planting the crop SO that
the meal can be rottng and thus be pre-
pared to feed the crop promptly. Soma
times ii is best to apply haf of the guam
tity to be used in advance of planting AMI
then harrow in the other half shortly aft
er the crop is started.
For all practical purposes there is no
better fertilizer than u mixture of one
ton cotton seed meal, two tons of ac.d
phosphate and one ton of kainit (or in
lieu of KANT, half ton of Gotten seed hull
ashes). For market gardening uses a ton
of this mixture should be used per acre.
For cotton, corn or sweet potatoes 400 to
$50 pounds can be profitably used, if ap-
piled properly.
The Savannah morning news., 1900-06-25
Feeding Value of Sorghum.

Prof. r. w. Thatcher: Chemical anal
Uses show that the feeding value OF sor-
ghum is greatest when the plant is Young.
When two feet high 1t contains three
times as much heterogeneous matter, twice
as much fats. and only two-thirds as
much fiber or woody material as IL does
when IL has attained its growth and form
ed seeds. Young sorghum is an almost
perfect stock food, since IL contains flesh
forming materials and fat-forminR mate
rails in the ratio Of one to seven. When
nearly mature this ratio is one to TWENTY
three. the fat-forming materials being
very excessive. Therefore the crop should
be used for pasturage al least tefore the
seeds form. 1t would be profitable TO be-
gin to pasture the sorghum when It is not
more than two feet high. since the stalks
first eaten off will usually produce a sec
ond growth OF young cane. which will bal
ance the increasing fat-forming proper
ties OF the other crop.
Young sorghum is very succulent food
1t contains about IS per cent. of water, or
The Savannah morning news., 1900-06-25

Many peach growers in the hurry of
shipping, forget that the appearance and
condition of fruit sell it, says Prof. May
nard of Maryland. We assert at the pack
ing-house by hand, for no machinery so
far invented can equal the delft hand of
a skillful woman. While we usually saw
that we make three grades, we actually
make four, the first being the extra large.
perfect, high-colored fruit. There is never
much that can be put into this extra
grade. We ship this fruit as well as the
second grade in the six-basket carriers
and we mark this with a large star. and
IN the star stamp Al, putting a label on
every package. Our second grade has the
label with the firm name with our guar
ahtee or honest packing and The name OF
the variety and often the descriptive word
white or yellow" We then find some
good reliable commission man and ship
only one grade of fruit TO one man.
hen we have found a commission man
who suits US We never abandon him IN
less for good cause, and we snip him all
the trutt we have of the grade he ia
handling. OF course we sometimes find il
necessary to snip TO different markets.
me slN-basket carrier is the best pack
age Tor good fruit. because it is handsome
eNhlohs the fruit to the greatest advan-
tage, is convenient to handle and trans
port and finds favor in every market.
FOR low grades we use a handle basket
holding ten or twenty pounds The ripe
tfult package is more remunerative than
any other for The small quantity of fruit
that can be shipped in this way.
4 few things are necessary. Honest
packing first To put, small. poor peach
IS IN a package that shows a fair exte-
rlor Is suicidal But careless grading Ia
almost equally SO, and will neutralize ey-
erything else that you have done to make
S0uI business success. Each grade
SHOULD he as hearty Uniform as possible.
Inc package should De full, so that when
the cover is on. the fruit cannot he iostled
around and bruised This spoi.s ali. The
tFOdt. IN package and arrangement. should
De made just as attractive as it can posi-
bly, be done. a perfect picture in appear-
ance. But there must be no deception no
tair outside aud poor within. but good all
through' ana the result will be satisfac-
tory If you do not make the fatal mis-
take Of selecting a dishonest commission
merchant.
The Savannah morning news., 1900-06-25
mcsweeney Losing Ground.

Columbia Special to the Greenvlle News:
The first week OF the campaign has pass-
ed and while st is no indication OF the ui-
innate result. It demonstrates plainly that
Gov. insolvency Is losing ground. His
opponents attribute this to his platform
claiming that the people are Disguised with
the dispensary system. But while Il is
plainly apparent that the Governor is los
ing strength, the question is. Who is
the gamer through the disaffection of his
supporters At the Orangeburg meeting
Patterson was the faYorite, while at St
Georges Col. Hoyt end Gary divided hon
ors, while at Charleston. which has always
been considered a McSweeney stronghold.
there was apparently no favorite. While
II is evident that a majority of the voters
are opposed TO the dispensary, ID is plainly
evident that they are unable to concen-
trate their forces on one candidate, no one
having offered for the governorship who
meets the views of the antl-dispensary fac
ton.
The Savannah morning news., 1900-06-25
Suicide In Columbia.

Jacob l.. Eargle. well-known business
man of Columbia, took a pistol, put its
muzzle 10 his left temple. pulled the trig
ger and sent. bullet crashing through
his skull Thursday morning. The bullet
failing to destroy consciousness. he tried
to get razor and complete the job OF self
destruction. AS a result OF the injury in
fiicted he breathed his last Thursday at
ternoon and went on to his grave with
the usual public comments about a sui
eide As TO the latter he left no notes
or letters OF expanat ton.