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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-06-28
Cattle Killed by the Heat.

Chicago, June 25.-Over 300 cattle
were stif1ed by the heat In their pens
at the stock yards yesterday. Several
hundred cattle, hogs and sheep were
also taken dead from the cars on in
coming trains.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-06-28
down TO SIXTY NOW
The Number of Lives Lest in the
Flood in the West yir.
ginia Valley.
PROPERTY LOSS DOWN TO 100000
One Late Report Says the Fatalities
Number but Twenty - Good
Deal of Panic in the
First Stories.

Radford, Va, June 25.-The latest
news received from the food-swept
region of West Virginia states that the
number of lives lost is twenty instead
of several hundred, as at first reported
The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-16
Feeding Fowls.

We should now prepare to provide
green food for our fowls this fall and
winter if we expect to get plenty of
eggs, says an exchange. For green food
turnips and oats fill the bill. To raise
a good crop of turnips, clean the land
of all trash, manure heavily with COW
manure, then pillow and harrow thor
oughly. This work should be done sew
eral weeks before we expect to plant,
so that the land can get the benefit of
all rain that falls. Break the crust
with a harrow after each rain. Sow
broadcast in September as soon after
a rain as land can be worked, and
while the ground is quite moist. We
cover over with a Thomas harrow
turned top side down. Pillow out water
burrows at suitable distances. BY
planting in September we avoid hoe
work, and the turnips do not become
pithy as early as August turnips. If
you fail to get a stand, plant again.
Feed to fowls both raw and cooked in
the mash. During the winter when you
need meat, open some holes in the tur-
nip patch fence. Opposite the holes set
some steel traps. The rabbits will sup
Ely the meat. Cut them up fine with a
Ratchet and stew with corn oats and
turnps. When the stew is cold, add
some wheat bran and feed to the poul-
try. 1t brings the eggs.
All of us should have steel traps
with which to catch skunks minks,
etc. They cost only twenty-five cents
apiece. and often save us many dol
lars. Sharp sand and gravel should be
hauled while the rivers are low. We
get ours from the Black Warrior and
Tcmbigbee rivers at Demopolis The
sand is large grained and sharp, and is
usually mixed with gravel, which il
just what the chickens want to aid di
gestion and prevent crop-bound. Raw
oats are responsible for most cases of
crop-bound. A fowl fills his crop with
raw oats. They become moist and dou-
bic in size. Result, crossbound. Feed
oats. but feed them parched or boiled
always. They are splendid food when
cooked
The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-16
THE FARM AND THE GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST To HOUSE
WIFE AND AGRICULTURAI.IsT.

Rust or MiIdew of Peeans-The
Bunch Grape on the ScuppernonS'
Sowing English Peas in the Fall,
The Berkshire HOg-Rice Culture
Etc.
A pillow should never go near fruit
tree after 1t begins to bear. After that
all the labor should be concentrated on
the stem and foliage. AS a rule mulch
ing should be substituted for cultiva-
ton after the third year if not the sec
ond.
Does Bermuda grass affect the fruit
trees injuriously? is frequently asked.
We do not think it does to any apprecia-
BILE extent after the trees have attained
good size or nearly grown, When we
say this we have in mind chiefly seed
lings, however. Commercial orchards
require clean culture, but this culture
should be shallow after first-year's
erowth-just enough to keep down
weeds. In this climate the best tools
to cultivate fruit trees with are the
harrow and the roller. 1t is not many
that understand the latter as a cult
waiting implement, but it has a great
value as such on our thin loose soils
There is such a thing as having soil
too open for the good of crop in our
dry, hot climate. Sometimes roller is
the very best implement that can be
used as a cultivator. Their combined
influence oftentimes is the equivalent
OF a good rain.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-16

There are a score of plants used for
salad purposes or to boil the pot, as
the saying goes. The incest of these
no doubt. is spinach. The great mass
of laboring people seem to prefer col
lards, but a cultivated taste certainly
will not.
There is nothing more delicate than
spinach. For early spring use it should
be sown in we'll prepared soil as soon
as possible after Oct. Is, anywhere be-
low Atlanta. Sow in drills two feet
apart and use enough seed to insure a
stand. 1t is important to use fresh
seed. Seed more than one year old will
disappoint usually. The seeds soon lose
their vitality.> These should be pro-
cured from reliable seedsmen along in
September, thus getting them fresh.
There are several varieties The
Long Standing and the Blooms
dale" are good kinds. The soil must
be made supremely rich for spinach. 1t
is idle to sow it on poor soil. 1t is a
tedious crop to gather and market, but
it is indispensable in the home" gar
den where a nice salad plant is de-
sired. On very rich soil it will afford
salad before Christmas, when sown in
October. The New Zealand variety we
have found very satisfactory also. 1t
stands the sun we'll.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-16
Cooking sweet Potatoes.

The art of cooking "a sweet potato
is subject treated in brochure pre-
pared by D. M Nesbit, and just issued
by the Department of Agriculture. He
declares that the delicate flavor of a
sweet potato is lost if it is not cooked
properly. Steaming develops and
preserves the flavor better than boil
ing, and baking is better than steam
ing. sweet potato cooked quickly
is not well cooked. Twenty minutes
may serve to make a sweet potato so
hungry man can eat it, but if flavor
is an object it should be kept in the
oven an hour. The negroes of the South
have a way of baking sweet potatoes
in ashes covered with Goals. The pota-
toes are often put into the ashes after
one meal and left there while the ne
groes are working in the field, so as to
be ready for the next meal. Hence their
fine flavor. Here is a recipe for sweet
potato pie which bears the stamp of
! government approval:
Boil in skins when tender, remove
skins, mash and beat until light; to
each pint add pint of milk and four
eggs; season and bake as pumpkin
pie"
Mr.. Nesbit's recipe for baking sweet
| potatoes is as follows:
Bake like white potatoes without
breaking the skins; when done, break
the skins in one place in the form of
a cross, forcing the meat partly out;
cap with butter and serve"
Croquettes may be made of sweet
potatoes in the following manner:
Take two cupfuls or mashed, boiled,
steamed or baked sweet potatoes, add
| the beaten yolks of two eggs and sea-
| son to taste; stir over the fire until
| the mass parts from the sides of the
pan. When cold, form into small
croquettes, roll in egg and bread
crumbs, and fry in hot lard to an am
Der color Serve on napkins. The GRO
| quette mixture may be made into balls
inclosing minced meat. When used in
| this way serve with sauce"
And Joe says:
"A sweet potato boiled
Is a sweet potato spoiled.
A sweet potato fried
Is good for a bride.
But a sweet potato baked!
Call me-if l hav'nt walked"
The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-16
A Grape Bulletin.

The Georgia Experiment Station has
has issued Bulletin SO. 1t is devoted
to grapes. 1t is nicely printed and
illustrated. Some forty-odd varieties
are described and commended more or
less. There should be grapes on every
farm in the South. They are very
easily grown. This bulletin will help
the beginner to make proper selections,
whether for home use, for market pur-
poses or for making wine.
Send to the director at Experiment,
Ga, for the bulletin and let it incite you
to begin the growing of grapes this fall.
The smallest place should have a few
dozen vines. There is nothing better
for health and long life than fresh
grapes.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-16

Has the Mexican boll-weevil ap-
peared in Georgia?
Reports from Clinton county indi-
cate the presence of a new insect dam
aging cotton. We would be glad to
have all the information possible re-
garding any insects affecting cotton
this season. Farmers examine your cot
ton closely and see if there is anything
like weevil eating into the boil. Ii
you find anything of the kind, clip the
boil and put it in box and send it to
us. 1t behooves every farmer to keep
sharp lookout for all injurious insects
affecting his crops. The most terrible
insect that effects cotton is the Next
can weeVil 1t has made it's appearance
in Texas and may appear in other sec
tons Of the cotton states before very
Icing. 1t will be well to keep a close
watch for it. 1t is by all odds the most
fatal insect to cotton culture yet
known. 1t is important to discover it's
first appearance anywhere in this sec
ton. We can only hope that there is
not dozen of these insects in Georgia
in to-day.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-16

Forest and Stream tries its hand at
writing something funny of the ami
NAL.
The Florida Razorback" is the hog
Indigenous to the climate and soil. He
is usually large of limb and fleet of
foot, being the only known porker that
can outrun a darkey. He has a tail OF
wondrous length, which, when he is in
active motion. he twists into the tight
est corkscrew, but with which. while
quietly feeding, he raps his leathery
side much In the same manner that the
docile COW uses his tail. He is self
supporting. He earns his own living
and thrives equally well in the high
woods, in the fiatwoods, in the ham,
mocks and in the marshes. He subsists
upon anything he can find above the
earth or underneath its surface. He has
a clear, far-seeing eye, and is very
sensitive of hearing. Nature has equip
ped him with a snout almost as long
as the beak of a wild pelican of Bor-
neo. with which he can penetrate the
earth many inches in quest of worms.
snakes and insects. He is the most in
teligent hog of all hogs. and is like
wise the most courageous. He has been
known to engage In mortal combat
with a coon for the possession of a wa
termelon and to rend asunder a barbed
wire fence.
He is so intelligent that when he
lives in town he becomes as familiar
with the railroad schedules as the train
dlspatchers themselves, and plies his
vocation in great numbers about the
railroad stations and yet no train ever
ran over n "razorback." Whenever the
railroad companies are forced to pay
for the killing of a hog. IL always
proves TO be a Berkshire. a Guinea or
some other fine breed-but never
"razorback." lie is too active and alert
TO be caught even by "A locomotive. He
Is nervous, restless. energetic and
hence does not thrive well in pens. Con-
fined, he loses rather than gains flesh.
He is always ripe for the market, and
his condition Is as good in August as
in January. His owner respects his In
telligence, admires his nerve and is
fond OF him as food, for he may always
be depended upon 10 AFFORD the proven
The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-16
E. G. THOMSON, c. P. and T. A.

considered from a commercial stand
point, and as an article of food
We can only realize it's magnitude
and Importance when considered in
comparison with other cereals. Wheat
Is great cereal. and the so-callel
staff of life. 1t has wide range of pro-
duction, being grown in nearly every
country on the globe. The total pro-
duction of wheat in The world for 1899
reached the stupendous amount of o.
rs, 4O7 900 bushels, which would make
6,5O0,0 900 carloads, with a market value
of 81 $780, 100000. But this does not come
up to rice.
Corn is great crop. and in 1899 tho
world produced 2634, 100, 900 bushels,
valued at 1898 400 900
These are two great staple cereals.
but their combined production will not
come up to rice. We must find anoth-
CT.
Take oats. The worlds production IN
1893 reached 3,2i2 $50 900 bushels. This
Immense pile of oats had a market
value Of sos 10000
Here we have the three great staple
grain crops Of the world, with an az !.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-16

Mrs. M. L. D., Delegal, Fla: Would
like to know the cause of my pecan
trees blighting. The trees are large,
hne ones, but the small nuts are nearly
black and falling off in showers as the
wind blows hard"
1t seems that everything is subject to
plight or rust or mildew NOWADAYS
This is the first complaint we have
had of pecan blight. Probably there
will be more.
The only thing our correspondent can
do is to wait and see if it reappears
next year 1t would be difficult to ap-
ply the usual remedies in such cases
spraying with Bordeaux mixture.
What is the nature of the soil in
which the trees grow? How close
planted? Were the trees grated or are
they seedlings?
The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-16

The fame of our COW pea is steadily
on the rise. 1t will soon be world
wide. AS an article of human food
this pea" so-called is in every way
equal to the navy bean or any other
bean. A great many people have yet
to learn this truth. Being called
pea" it is not understood correctly. 1t
has a combination of qualities not pos
sessed by the velvet bean. The latter
is valuable as a soil improver and for
fodder purposes, but not as human
food.
Recent experiments at the Nebraska
Experiment Station showed that the
cowpea, or Southern bean, fed green
produced a greater quantity of milk
than any other green food. The intrin-
sic value OF a bushel of cow-peas is
and always should be one dollar so
long as they are saved by hand. 1t
is tedious to thus save them, and the
small farmer cannot raise them profit
ably at a price much below one dollar
per bushel. 1t is a wise system of
farm management that allots a certain
proportion of the farm to pease, gath
ering the peas and giving the vines to
the soil to furnish humus.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-16

gregate production of over $500, 900
bushels and a market value of nearly
$3.50, $4,000. But this does not equal
rice.
Just for moment think of the I'M
mense number OF people engaged in inc
production of all the wheat, corn anu
oats in the world, time employed, acres
OF land titled and machinery used. Au'l
to this the people employed In market
ing the grain, on railroads, in mills
and laborers to handle it, and we haE7
greater army than the combined SOL
diery of the world.
Rice, with it's 74O74, 1853, 1913 pounds,
valued at $780,. 974, 1871. is greater py
more than S2O000,O00 Again, rice IS the
principal article of diet of SOOOOO'o"
people, or more than 81 per cent. OF inc
entire populs ton of the world, whlir
the other cereals combined only supply
46 per cent Which Is the greatest ce-
realY
Coming nearer home, we fnd tha.
rice mas beeu produced In the Uhitet.
States for nearly three centuries Ou'
lcOntiuued on Seventh Pagel
The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-16
SOUTH CAROLINA.

Columbia State: The State Board of
Equalization charged with the assess
ment for purposes of taxation of the
textile and allied manufacturing; con-
Germs of the state, has at last com
pleted its difficult work and adjourned
sine die. The valuation of each mill
and factory was finally fixed yester-
day morning and the board reached its
final adjournment in the afternoon.
While many changes were made in the
figures fixed at the recent meeting
the boards action on the several cases
has resulted in increases on individ-
ual cotton mills amounting to 81 .991,-
069 with decreases of valuations
amounting to 1857, 1898, the net increases
reaching 81 ,403 81. of which nearly one
million is in Richland county.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-16
Detroit Won nm walk.

Detroit, Sept. 15.-Bracken was hit all
over the field this afternoon and had
miserable support in addition. The
Cleveland team played as though they
had no expectation of winning. The
game, which was the last one of the
local season, was called in the eighth
inning to allow the Cleveland team to
catch a train. Attendance 5000. Score
R.H.E.
Cleveland e. =. 20 100000 3
Detroit .. .... % 0 2 4 3 6 4x-21 % 5
Batteries-Bracken and Connor
Shaw, Siever and Buelow.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-16
WAS A SHARPER.

Dahlonega Nugget: We are told
that Northerner came to Gainesville
in search of man having a gold mine
to sell some two weeks ago. He was
cited to H. d. Jaquish, owning one in
this county. They came up and he ex-
pressed himself as well pleased with
the mine, borrowing $40 from Mr.. ia
quish and getting him to stand good
for suit of clothes until his money
was received. Then the stranger got
John Hutcheson's mule and rode to
Gainesville. Not returning on time
those interested went to learn the
cause and it was not long before they
ascertained that their man had put the
mule in Hopes stable and departed for
parts unknown, leaving his ten-days'
board bill unpaid at Mr.. Hutcheson's,
in addition to what he secured from Mr..
Jaquish.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-16
Sowing English Peas i'm the Fall.

Subscriber" asks, 'if there is much
gained by planting English peas in
the fall If so, about what time is
the best? And what kinds are best for
early market?"
AS with small grain, there is con-
siderable increase in the crop when
the peas are sown late in the fall or
early winter but care must be taken
not to sow too early. Regard must
be had for late spring frosts.
If sown too early, they will make
too much growth before January and
be liable to be killed in March or April
Sown about the first of November, if
not cultivated. they will not make
much growth above ground before jan
uary but will develop considerable
root growth i'm that time and thus be
prepared to grow off very rapidly when
the soil warns up in March. Only the
dwarf kinds should be sown in Novem-
ber The rows need not be over two
feet on the richest land. On poorer
soil eighteen inches will do. Drill the
seeds literally in the furrow, twenty
or more to the foot. Cover several
inches deep and roll well.
If the land is poor broadcast all the
manure possible over 1T during the
winter.
Do not begin to cultivate until all
The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-16

severe cold is past; then push the
working, but let it be shallow. 1t is
rather a tedious crop to gather just
right for market, but it is paying
one Misunderstanding anywhere from
one to three hundred bushels of pods
to the acre, according to the condition
of the soil.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-16
NOT TROUBLING TIGERS YET.

Charleston Post: The police depart
inent has not as yet begun to make
cases out against the blind tigers. and
It is not thought that active operations
will begin for several days yet. The
tigers are expecting a move by the
police at any time, but do not know
what will be the method of the attack.
1T is understood that some Of the IT,
gers have been trying to find out what
will be the movements of the police,
but nothing is being given out in po-
lice circles with reference TO the mat
ter. Chief Boyle is very guarded in
talking TO newspaper reporters on the
subject, for he does not propose to
have his plans exploited in the papers
before the signal is sounded. The
method Of the campaign is being kept
in the strictest confidence by the po-
lice officers. In fact many OF the Of
fcers. II is believed, know nothing OF
the plans which have been mapped out
for the enforcement Of the ordinance.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-16
St. Louis Defeats Chicago.

Chicago, Sept 15.-Harper grew
strong after the fourth, while Hughes
weakened and was batted all over the
lot in the last three innings. Attend
ance $500. Score: R.H.E.
Chicago ..... 0 2 3 0 0 0 0-6 2
st. Louis 100 0 . 0 3 4 3-13 Is 4
Batteries-Hughes and Killing; Harp
er and Heydon.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-16
Southern Lengue.

At Memphis-Memphis, 6; Nashville,
o.
Second Game-Memphis, 2; Nash
Vile. ..
At Sheveport-Shrevepor 10; Birm-
ingham, 6.
second Game-Shreveport. 6; Birm-
ingham, 2.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-16
AMERICAN LEAGUE.


Chicago, Sept. 15.-Chcago wound up
the local season by taking two games
from Milwaukee before a crowd num-
bering $4,000 Score:
First Game R.H.E.
Chicago ......0 0 3 0 Il ks s 2
Milwaukee ....1 0 0 0 0 0 o. 6
Batterles-Callahan and Sugden;
Hastings and Donahue.
Second Game R.HE
Chicago .....1 o. 900 07x-9 Is ?
Milwaukee 40 / 0 0 0 3 0 o. 8 2
Batteries-Griffith. Piatt and Sulli-
van; Garvin, Reidy and Donahue.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-16

Cincinnati, Sept. 15.-Errors behind
Hahn were costly. The pitching was
gilt-edged. Attendance $500. Score:
R.H E.
Cincinnati 40 0 10000 90 ?
Pittsburg .....O 2 o 0 90 1-S 5 /
Batteries-Hahn and Bergen; Tame
hill and thinner
The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-16

bal streak of lean" with a very small
streak of fat" He is the king of hogs.
He can be grown more probably than
any other known variety since, as has
been observed, he is energetic and in
telligent enough to feed and clothe
himself.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-16
MEETING OF HORSE swAPPERs.

Americas Times Recorder: The
horse swappers of Americas and Sum-
ter county are elated at the prospect
of a big convention of their craftsmen
in this section of Georgia, and all the
talent" here are brushing up their old
plugs preparatory to going down for
"swap." The convention will be held
In Dawson Oct. II and the horse trad
ers will be on deck. They will be le-
gion when they all get there, and scores
of horses and hundreds of dollars are
expected to change hands. All the pic
turesqueness of the typical horse-swap-
ping convention will be added to Daw-
son during the time they are there.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-16
Can the Bunch-Grape be Grated on
the ScuppernOng-ROot-

w. f. r., Valdosta. Ga, writes.
Gould the bunch grape be grated on
scuppernong root with success in this
part of the state? The bunch grape of
no kind does well in this section.
What about asparagus? Will it do
well here?"
We are not aware of any attempt to
graft the one on the other. 1t may
have been made, but we are not aware
of 1t.
There is no reason why asparagus
should not grow in that section if given
suitable soil.
Any good corn land should produce it,
if plenty of stable or other organic ma
nure is used. 1t needs rich, we'll drain
ed soil
The rows should be five feet apart
and the plants set twenty or twenty
four inches apart in the row, set deep
enough to cover four inches. The cul-
tivation should be shallow so as not
to disturb the roots. Then pile on all
the lot manure that can be afforded.
Asparagus is now much subject to
rust, which may ultimately kill it, but
three years rustng has not killed our
own or reduced the yield. Palmetto, -
or the Colossal" either is good 1t
can be set in the winter or early spring.
Plants cost 81 to IS per thousand. An
acre requires $500 plants.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-16

Rev. DR.. McClelland, of Palo. Alto.
Cal. has accepted the chair of Ian
guages and moral science at the
Princeton Collegiate Institute, Ken
lucky.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-16
Rice Culture and Its Profits.

Oswald Wilson. writing in Southern
Farm Magazine. says: Rice is the
greatest cereal produced in the world.
smmxgpzur ssl,s rvNussuux $1,000,
The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-16
should not be the next Governor of
Georgia, please let us hear from you.

Sparta Ishmaelite: The advocates of
the nomination of H. G. Turner do
themselves no credit and him no good
by abusing ]. H. F,still. He is an hon
orable man and was never a bolter.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-16
GUBERNAToRIAL COMMENT.

Stewart County News: II you know
eny good reason why Hon, J. II. Estill