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The Jersey City news., 1902-12-13

Justice of The Peace-elect John J. Sui
Ivan Of the Second Ward is member
of many bowling teams. He is good
strike bowler and seldom bowls under
$50. More frequently his score is over
200. "The Judge" as he is more famil-
iarly called. began as bowler in st.
Miehaefs Club.
The Jersey City news., 1902-12-13
CERTIFICATE OF DISSOLUTION.

SrATE OF NEW JERs5Y-DEPARTa
OF STATE.
The Jersey City news., 1902-12-13

work required in the erection of .
story frame house on the east side
West Side ave, so fits Boyd $500
Kate G Wittnebert with Fred D Hirt;
all carpenter, timing and roofing re-
quired in the erection of "a two story
and attic frame two-family house on
the side Harrison ave, near the
Boulevard; Robert G Dixon, Jr., archt.
............. So, ,045
NORTH BERGEN.
Woodclif Land Impt Co. with John
Lionetti q Co; all mason work re-
quired in the erection of the stone
foundations and chinneys for three
two-family houses on 31st and 32d
SITS; George B Mcintyre, archt. 81 ,162
The Jersey City news., 1902-12-13
Judgmen $.

Judgmen $.
James H Reid vs. Ortman w Crawford
81 500 and costs
Lembeck & Betz Eagle Brewing Co VS.
Edward Woeckener. ........ 1905. 15
The Jersey City news., 1902-12-13

Edward Schroeder, of Pavonia avenue
ana Erie street, son of the millionaire
passenger car brass lamp manufacturer,
has been q nightly visitor at the six day
day bicycle race in Madison Square Gar
den.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-11

1t is seldom that the most serious
drouth can prevent fairly profitable
crops in any locality blessed with a
generous rain or snowfall during the
winter season if the soil has been pre-
viously prepared to receive the moist
ure and is given proper treatment in
the early spring and continued through
the growing of the crop.
The first requirement for drouth re-
sistance is storage capacity for moist
ure in the subsoil. A subsoiler attach
ment following in the furrow behind
the pillow, or, what is still more effec-
tive, a separate subsoiling pillow run
ming to the depth of six or eight inches
below the bottom of the surface fur
row. will afford water storage for
thousands of barrels an acre. and often
result in bountiful crops where only
failure could otherwise be expected. 1t
is also very easy to understand how
the breaking up and aerating of the
subsoil, together with the dlsintegrat-
Ing effects Of water, frost and the
chemical action resulting, must grad
ually bring large amounts of fertility
within reach Of crops which were be-
fore out of reach and unavailable
After storage capacity for moisture
has been provided the next important
drouth resisting requirement Is the pre-
The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-11

profit is in the lamb, and the earlier
in it's life it can be marketed the
greater the profit. There are thou
sands of lambs in this and adjoining
states that should be marketed this
month that their owners do not real
ize are ready for market and will keep
until fall and probably sell for less
than they will bring now for they Will
not be any heavier and being older
will be worth less because as an ami
NAL increases in age its ability TO
make gain out of feed consumed de-
creases.
Lambs that weigh sixty-five pounds
or above should be sent to market at
once A eve old enough to produce IL
lamb can be purchased for what it will
bring and in that way the producing
flock be doubled l know of no other
stock that bring returns so quickly
and surely with so little labor and so
little risk as a good flock of ewes
Then the immediate dollar is not all
to be considered in farm operations. A
farmers capital is not wholly gagged
by his bank account. The improve
ment in fertility and the character of
the heritage of the farm are important
results that follow the keeping of
sheep. They eat a wider range of
heritage than any other animal and
carry fertility to higher points of the
field. 1t takes a rich corn farm to in
sure profits from hog feeding, but a
farm will constantly grow more pro-
ductive under sheep. Two ewes to The
acre will pay as good rent for land
as anything else and do it with very
little labor
The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-11

Sorghum hay, unless moldy, is high
ly relished by ell hay eating animals,
hay is very subject to mold and that
this curing in prime condition is often
difficult. Our observa lions indicate that
sorghum hay with age loses in pala-
liability more rapidly than most other
hays. Hence the farmer who has sew
eral classes of hay should feed the
sorghum in the first portion of the
feeding period.
The maximum value of an acre of
sorghum is obtained by feeding it
green. We have begun cutting sof-
ghum for selling as early as June TO-
LII 1901 we fed green sorghum. cut sew
eral times week, until Nov. Is. The
occurrence of slight freeze then made
1t necessary to cut the crop, which
was shocked, and fed from the shock
up to Dec. l, during which time the
stalks retained much of their succu-
lence and appetizing qualities.
NO fear need be felt that sorghum
Ied green will cause severe bloating.
The amount fed daily to two-year-old
cattle was 60 to so pounds per head
and no unfavorable results occurred.
OF course necessary care was exer-
clsed IN gradually introducing the
green food and in other respects. I
nave fed green sorghum of the first
second and third cutting to cattle
horses and hogs ever since NV early
boyhood, and cannot recall A single
case where injury to health resulted.
All the cases of death to cattle from
sorghum seem to occur when pasturing
Is pfactlced, and even then it is the
exception. and not the rule Late in
November we turned calves into n
small field, where they had access both
TO green rye and to the small frosted
plants OF second-growth sorghum. To
our surprise they spent their time in
eating the latter
In growing sorghum for hay. the
hrst requisite is that the stems SHAH
be fine. This implies thick seeding and
II the land is rich it will be necessary
70 SOW the seed broadcast. about two
hushels, or even more, per acre. On
our poor sandy hill lands we obtain a
larger yield. without too greatly in
creasing the size of stems. by planting
somewhat thickly in drills about 3 feet
apart and giving the necessary horse
cultivation. 1t is of course unprofitahle
TO hoe sorghum intended for hav Tho
Yield or sorghum is greatly increased
by 1udlcious fertilizing No other field
crop Will give a larger return for the
stable manure applied to it. USUALLY
two, and with very favorable condi
lions, three, cuttings, may be had. The
Garner the first cutting the greater
the second growth. Sorghum makes
good hay from the time the first heads
show up to the period when the seed
are fully colored or even hardened. We
prefer the earlier stages. A special
merit of sorghum as soiling crop is
the fact that it is ready for use at
almost any stage of growth, and that
II left standing even for weeks beyond
the preferred time of harvesting, ii
does not dry up, but retains it nutri-
gar.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-11

vention of the escape of moisture by
evaporation. But a very few of those
intensely drying, windy days frequent
in early spring. which suck the water
from freshly plowed or bare, untitled
soil like a sponge. are required to ruin
all chance for a profitable crop when
followed by drouthy season. If the
soil had received proper tiilage and at
tention at the critical time the crop
could have matured in defiance of the
drouth by means of the store of moist
ure held in reserve below, which had
been prevented from escaping by the
mulch of finely pulverized surface soil.
In this connection it VIII be evident
how important good drainage is. If
no water is allowed to stand nearer the
surface than ten or twelve inches it
becomes possible to get the tillage I'M
der way with no loss of time waiting
for surface water to dry out of the
lower portions of the fields. After such
water-logged and sum- baked portions
have once become dried no amount of
after tillage can restore them to good
state of filth.
A few seasons ago the writer con-
Quoted a series of experiments in
drouth resistance with corn, potatoes,
peas, beans; some red and blackcap
raspberries also were included in the
plats treated. These experiments were
made, to determine what might be ac-
complished when the fullest precau-
lions were undertaken to prevent the
escape of moisture by evaporation.
The results were surprising, although
field tillage, looking to the same end,
mad long been practiced, but in a less
intensive degree.-EXchange
The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-11

1t is surprising how many people
are still thinking that the mission of
the sheep is to grow wool. Many are
abandoning sheep just because wool is
low and going into cattle and hogs be-
cause beef and pork are high The
fact that mutton is also high and that
a pound of mutton can be produced at
less cost than pound of beef and
about as cheaply as a pound of pork
and that whatever wool is produced is
additional gain-is lost sight of
There is need of repeating that the
sheep is primarily a meat-producing
animal and needs to be bred and fed
for that purpose. 1t involves changes
in methods from those prevailing when
the wool did pay for the feed There
is no reason at all why men who have
been accustomed to keeping sheep and
have their farms and their buildings
equipped for their management should
not continue 10 keep them. They may
need 10 change the type of their flock,
but more probably need TO change
their method Of growing them. Mutton
cannot be made probably on the
skimpinn plan that did secure profits
when wool was 10 cents a pound. The
The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-11

Can you give me any information on
the culture of pecan trees, soil best
suited to them. how many trees grow
per acre. cost of plants and best age,
etc? w. S. L.
In the past two years this column has
contained considerable matter relative
to the subject, but perhaps w. S. l..
was not interested in the question just
then, and SO made no use of it.
In our next issue we win give short
chapter on the subject; but in the
meantime let w. S. l.. write a postal
TO Secretary of Agriculture, Washing
ton, p. c., and ask for bulletin on Pc
can growing, and write also to Director
Florida Experiment Station, Lake City,
Fla, and ask for bulletin No. "a.
We will only say here that if you
have not pretty good soil to devote to
the pecan and ARD not prepared to give
the trees good attention for several
years, it viii not pay to make the at
tempt. The trees should have a dis
tance of 40x40 or 4Ox50 Cor about 25 10
the acre) There is a vast difference of
opinion as to starting the grove. Some
insist that grated trees must be used.
Others. and very many, too, plant
choice nuts right where the tree is to
grow. Three or even two fresh nuts
should be planted In each hill, the nuts
being placed is to Is inches apart If
more than one come up do not thin
down to one for a year or two. Then
leave the strongest. Fertiize about the
trees and work in it. Mulch If you can
While there is much yet to be learned
about pecans we would not hesitate to
start grove with choice seeds thus
planted Peas and other humus max
ing crops can be grown on the same
land to advantage for four or five years
at least
If at all practicable, We would advise
boxing the trees to protect from
careless blowing A single strong stake
near the tree is better than nothing
When cheap common boards are pro-
durable a Slated frame can be made
at cost of about five cents per tree.
Intensive culture would justify this
extra precaution.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-11
SUNDAYS POLICE CATCH.
Variety of Offenders for the Re-
eOrGer,

A Variety of Offenders for the Re-
Tele police were kept busy yesterday,
and as a result there will be heavy
docket in Police Court this morning.
Twenty-Five arrests were made dur"
ing the day
Four tramps were caught sleeping
in car in the Seaboard Air Lines
yards. They will be required to
prove some visible means of support
and on failure SO to do will be bound
over to the City Court on the charge
of vagrancy.
Sterling Porter will be arraigned for
stealing boot-black stand from Mrs.
". Aitchman on West Broad street
yesterday morning.
Anthony Willis got on a glorious
midday spree and imagined a lot OF
vain things. Particular among these
vain things was an idea that he owned
the streets. When told to move on
by Officer Malphus on West Broad
street he informed the policemen .liat
he owned the Streets and forthwith
refused to bulge.
Daniel Elder, who was arrested by
Detective Murphy, will have to answer
for the theft OF a trunk.
Officer Christian broke up an inter-
esting crap game near the corner OF
Gordon and Price streets in the after
noon. c. Frazier and p. Cummings
We're caught.
There were numerous other mis-
creants in the city prison. Most OK
them were arrested for common grades
of disorderly conduct and for being
drunk on the streets.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-11
THE FARM AND THE GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO AGRI-
CULTURALIST AND HOUSEWIFE.

Diseased Fig Trees, and What to Do
for Them-NOtes on the CuittNa'
ton of Reconsideration Turnip.
u have fig trees in my yard in the
city. Every spring they are laden witt
fruit. Just before it ripens, however
there comes a white mould over the
body of the tree, and it also covers
the fruit to a great extent, and sucl
as it gets on never comes to maturity
and other fruit on the tree IS dwprfed
Can you tell me the cause. and suggest
a remedy, if so you VITA confer favor
on an old friend. D. B. NJ.
Savannah, Ga.
D. B. NJ. does not state the nature al
the surroundings and of the soil where
his figs grow and how close the trees
are together. 1t may he thar the sol
is too vets not we'll drained. There
may be too much shale.
If the explanati0l IS not to be found
in such unfavorabje conditions it must
be some inherent defect in the trees. II
the trees are well grown and seem to
be worthy of some little trouble for the
sake of improving them we would sug-
gest the following treatment: With a
hoe scrape away the soil to the depth
of an inch from the trunk and several
Over this scraped soil spread air
feet further out than the limbs extend.
slaked lime to the depth of about q
quarter of an inch.
Later when the leaves have been
shed prepare some Bordeaux mixture
IS follows: Rlue stone, pounds; fresh
lime, pounds; water % gallons Make
a good mop of rags or use a white
wash brush and mop or wash the
trunks and larger limbs. we'll with the
mixture. The smaller limbs will have
to be sprayed. Let the hopping or
washing be thorough, getting some of
the mixture into every crevice of the
trunks and limbs. In the spring about
the time the trees bud make
another application and again when
the leaves are full blown. Prepare
the Bordeaux as follows: Put the
three pounds of bluestone in crocus
bag and suspend the bag over a
wooden vessel in which there is about
ten gallons of water. Let it just touch
the water good. In another vessel
Stake the lime with gallon or so of
water. After the bluestone is dis
solved stir slowly into its vessel the
slaked lime, stirring steadily all the
time as it is being mixed together
Then add water enough to make twen-
ty-five Cor twenty gallons. In mop
ping or spraying trunk and limbs
keep mixture we'll stirred.
If this treatment does not remedy
the evil nothing probably will. 1t is
possible that a sulphur wash could
be used to advantage. using it once
in place of Bordeaux" Or the trunks
can be rubbed, freely with the dry
powder and the whole tree busted with
it. doing this when the leaves are
halfgrown and when the dew is on
The dust can be applied with bel
lows or even with a large palmetto
fan.
The question is Do you regard The
trees as worth the trouble? If So
go to work and doctor them we'll If
there is no Improvement next year
they might as we'll be cut down. If
the soil is wet rectify that and if too
thick thin out and let in plenty of
air and sun. 1t is quite possible you
may restore the trees to health and
the power to produce good fruit.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-11
G. A. R. ENCAM PMENT.
ANNUAL GATHERING OF VETERANS
IN WASHINGTON OCTOBER G.

The Representative for Florida Is
sues ia Circular Giving Informa-
ton About the Coming Event.
The following circular letter has
been issued to members of the G. A.
R. in Florida:
Jacksonville, Fla, July Is, 1902
Dear Comrades: We have been ac-
corded extraordinary low rates from
Florida to Washington, D. c.. and
ment, Oct to II, viz: Jacksonville
to Washington and return, $16.05. Pro-
portionate rates from other points
Tickets on sale Oct. 3, 4, and 6,
limit by extension, so cents additional,
to Nov. 8.
LAS many of us, perhaps, will not be
able hereafter to attend this occasion,
which is dear to us all, we should exert
ourselves to turn out in full force
and carry to Washington the grandest
body of people from Florida that ever
attended an occasion of this kind. Our
party will leave Jacksonville Sunday
morning, Oct. 5, at 8 a. M, on the
New York and Florida Express of the
Southern Railway, going every mile
of the way over that line from Jack
sonville, arriving in Washington 7:40
a. M, Monday, Oct. 6. The Southern
handles it's own trains from Jackson
Vile now, and they go solid to Wash
ington without any change whatever.
Our train will be equipped with first
class thoroughfare coaches leach coach
containing its own smoking apartment
and latest design Pullman sleeping
cars. Berth, Jacksonville to Washing
ton, $3.50 each, and one berth can be
occupied by two persons. Berth may
be had just for the night for 81. Then,
too, we will have a dining car, meals
served a la carte-pay for what you
get. This saves the inconvenience and
worry of getting meals at way sta
lions.
If you get your tickets from in
terror points in Florida, ask for and
see that they are over the Southern
from Jacksonville; if you get tickets
in Jacksonville. get them at city Of
flee of Southern, 10S West Bay street,
or at Union Station. Write me fully
of your plans, so we may arrange ac-
cordingly. Fraternally yours in F., G.
and L., Sam w. Fox,
Representative to National Encamp-
ment.'
From the Sunday Times-Union and
Citizen, Sunday, Aug. 8, 1902"
The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-11
THE KILLING AT MATrox STATION.

Jacksonville Times Union and Citi-
zen: The shooting of George Barber,
resident of Mattox Station. which
took place on Thursday afternoon.
had it's sequel yesterday in the cap
ture of Goss Mattox, who was found
by three county officers at the St.
Charles Hotel on West Bay sire II
Mattox, who is a young man of about
thirty years, admits that he shot Bar
Der. but claims that he did il in self
defense. After the shooting he zane
TO Jacksonville. AS the shooting oc-
Cured in Nassau county the prisoner
will be taken there for trial. Mattox
conducts a copper shop al the station
or the same name, and II seems that
he had made an opening in the fence
adjoining BARRIERS place for the pur-
pose Of handling turpentine barrels.
B&rber's hogs escaped through The
opening. and he went over 20 see Mat
The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-11
JEFFCoAT's FIRST CRIME.

Lexington Dispatch 1t is said tina:
truth is stranger than felton," and
in the case of Charlie Jeffcoat this say
ing is certainly true. There are enough
thrilling experiences, deeds of daring
and remarkable escapades in the
checkered career of this young man to
furnish material for an interesting his
tory of a life. His unfortunate trou-
bles began several years ago, when
he was charged with having set fire
to a house belonging to a Mr.. Peel,
citizen of the neighborhood wherein
resided Jeffcoat, in this county. A
warrant for his arrest was sworn out
and placed in the hands of Sheriff
Caughman for service. The sheriff
succeeded in arresting his man, at his
mothers home, and while the sheriff
was warming at the fire Jeffcoat made
good his escape. With a reward of 500
for his apprehension and conviction
upon his head offered by Gov. Ellerbe.
he fled to parts unknown and succeed
ed in eluding the vigilance of the Of
ticers of the law. The next heard of
him was in Georgia, from which place
came the news that he had killed a
man named Wilson.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-11
FLORIDA.

Tampa reports the stranding of the
schooner John C. Coons just off
Clearwater on Thursday afternoon.
The vessel was caught in a sudden
squall and capsized. Her crew, con-
sisting of five men, came very near
being drowned, as they did not have
time to get into the lifeboat. The
schooner is owned by Sweat Bros. of
Hudson, Fla, and is engaged in run
ming between Tampa and that place.
carrying turpentine and naval sup
plies. She is about a 25-ton vessel
and is valued at something less than
81 900.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-11
THE SCHOOL or TECHNOLOGY.

Science Hall and the power house,
the two main buildings erected for the
School of Technology at Stetson Uni
versity, will each be complete and
ready for the opening of the term, Oc-
tober 1st. Science Hall is a three
story brick building 200 feet long and
so feet wide, containing the offices, lee
ture and class rooms, laboratories and
workshops of the various departments
in the new school. The power house
contains boilers, engines and dynamo
to furnish electric power to the shops
and laboratories in Science Hall. All
of the apparatus is of the most modern
design and of the best quality obtain
able. Several of the new features are
of general interest. Instead of the
usual tall chimney to. create draft for
burning coal under the boilers, a de-
vice is used that makes a more effective
artificial draft of air. In the wood and
iron working shops, the machines will
be driven by electric motors, thereby
doing away to a large extent with
wasteful belts and shafting.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-11
TO GROW PEACHES IN BALDWIN.

Some ten or dozen gentlemen of
Milledgeville and Baldwin county who
own lands alongside the Georgia and
Central Railroads, within and just out
side the city limits. have formed an
association for the purpose of going
into the peach culture on an extended
scale. The association, while small in
numbers, includes some of the most
progressive farmers and best business
men in that section, among them be-
ing s. Barrett, o. M. Cone, D. B. San
ford, T. L. McComb, M. H. Bland, w.
G. Hawkins, the prison farm, and
others. The gentlemen interested pro-
pose to set $4,000 trees, mostly of the
famous liberia variety. They will
use for the purpose 500 acres of land,
the farms all sufficiently contiguous
to make almost one big farm. Two
lines of railroad run directly through
these lands, so that the growers will
have the very best facilities for mar
keting their crops or for establishing
canning factories.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-11
SOUTH CAROLINA.

The hucksters are made to pay IL
cense in Charleston. Saturday morn
ing there was a roundup of those who
persist in peddling their wares without
a license and some two dozen of the
noisy vendors were arrested and taken
to the police station, where the major
ity were released on the payment of
one dollar, the charge imposed by the
city for street vending.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-11
PROTESTED HIS INNOCENCE.

Jesse Gibson, negro, was hanged
at Warrenton Friday for a criminal as
sault upon the S-year-old daughter of
Barlow Bacon, committed June 26, just
six weeks previously. To the death
watch and those about him he stout
ly denied his guilt and on the scaffold
repeated the assertion He said he
was ready to go. but that he regret
ted being hanged for crime of which
he was innocent. His body was offered
to his family, but was refused, and a
grave was prepared and the body bur-
led by order of the sheriff
The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-11
GEN. GORDON TO SPEAK.

Gen. John B. Gordon will be the
principal speaker at the veterans
reunion to be held at Stillmore on
the second Saturday in September.
The people of Emanuel county pro-
pose to make a big day of the oc-
casion. A big barbecue will be given
and large crowds are expected from
Burke, tScreven and Tattnall coun-
The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-11
Canadian Turnip.

sc. L." Colesburg, Ga, wishes to
know what the Canadian Turnip" is
Can any of our readers tell him? We
cannot after searching the best cata-
logues. 1t is quite likely that it is
some old variety under a new name.