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Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-02-22

Reports from Willemstad, Island
of Curacoa, on the 18th, said: 1T is
reported here that the Venezuelan
insurgents who had concentrated on
Colombian soil have crossed the
frontier Of Tachira and are moving
ca SEA- cTlstobal
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-02-22

An increase of the salary of the
minister to Persia from $4,000 to
$1,000 has been recommended by the
senate committee on foreign rela-
tions. s'The post is said to be one
Ct the most expensive in the diplo-
matte service.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-02-22

At a meeting of the Morconi wire
less Telegraph Co., in London, on the
18th, it was announced that the di-
rectors of the company had insured
4he life of Mr.. Marconi for G15O,OO0.
It was also reported that the Lloyds
had exclusively adopted the Marconi
system in connection with their sig
nal stations.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-02-22

At Detroit, on the 10th, Cashier
Frankie. Andrews was placed under
arrest on a warrant charging him
with taking over a million dollars
from the City savings bank without
the authorization of the directors.
He was arrested in the Office of the
Detroit Trust Co., arraigned and re-
leased on $4,000 bail.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-02-22

Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Jones has given formal notice that
the new leases of the 100000 acres of
Kiowa Indian lands in Oklahoma,
bordering on Texas, will take effect
April l, as originally proposed. An
effort had been made to have the
date postponed some months.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-02-22

ING out, wild bells,
a joyful paen to the sa-
cred day,
A sort of gleesome, glad
some roundelay.
No dismal knells
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-02-22

The Berlin foreign Office, on the
18th, pronounced incorrect the state
ment cabled thence that Germany is
on the point of presenting an ulti-
matum to Venezuela. On the con-
trary, the outlook is improving, and
a friendly settlement of the ques-
tions in dispute is most probable.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-02-22

King Edward and Queen Alexandra,
Prince and Princess Charles of Dem
mark and Princess Victoria occupied
box, on the night of the 14th, at
the performance of "Arizona" at the
Adelphi theater, London. King Ed
ward expressed himself as greatly
pleased with the performance.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-02-22

Judgment by default for $4,000
against Prince Buiwha, the second
son of the king of Corea, was entered
by Chief Justice Bingham, in the
circuit court for the District of Co
lumbia, on the 14th. The plaintiffs
are Wolff Bros. & Co., of New York
city and Philadelphia, who sued on
promissory note made by the prince.
The. industrial council Of Vienna
resolved, after long debate, on the
12th, to postpone decision on the
reports of the various committees
appointed to consider the best means
Of meeting American competition un-
til European commercial politics
crystalize sufficiently to indicate the
most effective method foi meeting
that competition.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-02-22

A large part of our State was in
fected with the carnival spirit last
week, and those who had not the fun
of celebrating at home las had
Natchez, McComb City and some OF the
Coast cities) hied themselves awly 90
New Orleans. Mobile or some othey city
where the Merry Monarch reigned su-
preme. and spent few bright, care
free days before the coming Of I.enten
days. And We are glad they did All
work and no play makes Jack q dull
boyi heaea We reiniea when ir ree
pie manags tQ squeeze IN 9 lliue Play
tlMe
The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-04
over Five Million Farmes.

The Census Bureau to-day issued a
bulletin giving the condition of agri-
culture in the country for the year 1900
1t shows that there were at the time
5,730,657 farms, valued at SIG, GA ,694 ,247
The value of farm implements, ma
chinery and live stock, added to the
value of the farms, gives a total value
of farm property of $40 514, 001, 1888.
The total farm products for the year
1899 is given at $4.739, III, 1872 of which
amount $1,71S,99O,221 was for animal
products, including live stock, poultry
and bee products. The bulletin places
the average size of farms in the Unit
ed States at 146 acres. and it is state
that forty-nine per, cent. of the farm
land is improved. The total acreage
for the entire country was S41 POI, 546.
The most important states are, be-
ginning at the West. Missouri, Iowa,
Illinois, Indiana Ohio, Pennsylvania
and New York Together they con-
tribute forty-four per cent. of the total
value of farm property and thirty
eight per cent. of the total value of
farm products.
Texas leads with the greatest num-
Der of farms, 352, 1870, and also with
the highest acreage. 125,S07.0 But
only little over fifteen per cent of
the farm land in Texas was improved.
and the value of the farm land in
Texas was less than in PENNSYLVANIA.
Ohio, New York Missouri, Iowa, or
Illinois. being 1862, 476,273 Missouri
ranks second in the number of farms.
having 2S4,SS6.
Iowa leads the list in the percentage
of improved lands. Illinois occupies
the first position in the matter of the
total value of farm lands, the figures
for that state being 81. 004, 316, S97.
The live stock farm lands of the
country are valued at $7,505, 2S4,2 7S, or
more than thirty-six per cent. of the
whole; the hay and grain lands at Sc. =
319,54S,54S or thirty-one per cent.
dairy produce. over eight per cent. :
cotton, over five per cent. There are 512
coffee farms in the country, valued at
81. 1882 .915.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-04
CantaIoupc Blight.

The cantaloupe blight is increasing
in some sections AS it is carried in
the seed, no doubt other sections will
soon make its acquaintance, and it is
well to be on the lookout for its first
appearance.
The cantaloupe blight is caused by a
true parasite fungus. 1t first appears
as a number of small brown spots
upon the leaves in the center of the
hill. If the younger leaves are ex-
amined it will be seen that the fungus
is at work some time before the brown
spots make their appearance. 1t will
be noticed that the leaf tissue is being
eaten away where the fungus is at
work, and it is the decomposition or
dying of this tissue that causes these
brown spots. The spots grow larger
as the fungus spreads, until the leaves
affected have the appearance of being
frostbtten.
At the first appearance of the dis
ease spray with bordeaux mixture
made in the following manner: Dis
four pounds of fresh lime; when the
lime has cooled, strain off the lime
water and add it to the bluestone So
luton; add water enough to make
forty gallons.
AS the vines grow rapidly at the time
of spraying, it will be necessary to re-
peat often in order to cover the new
growths. Almost all spraying mix
lures should be stirred while being
used to prevent precipitation.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-04

Attention has been called in the
National Nurseryman to the fact that
G. j. Mariatt, assistant entomologist
of the United States Department of
Agriculture, has sent to the depart
ment headquarters in Washington
seventeen ladybirds found in China
ana believed to be a parasite of the
San Jose scale. These insects arrived
last fall and were carefully tended, but
pefore egg-laying time this spring all
died with the exception of two females.
Ihese have laid many eggs which have
matched and the larvae have been feed
ing on scale insects provided for them
IT is expected that the ladybirds will
have increased largely in number by
next fall. A test in orchards affected
by the San Jose scale will be made
with the ladybirds, and it is hoped that
the latter will be as destructive of the
scale insects in this country as they
have been in China
The two female ladybirds which sur.
vived have cost the government 81. 0OC
each, it is said. If the brood which
they have started should be the fore
runner of an effective enemy of the
San Jose scale, the cost will be very
small compared with the benefit Muir
serymen, as well as orchardists, will
await results with interest
The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-04
PraticaI Tomato Culture

Any one who persists in adhering to
the old idea of allowing tomato vines
to sprawl over the ground at random
can hardly expect to raise such fruit
as the thorough gardener who ties
them up to stakes and trains them ac-
cording to system, says the Epitomist.
The former is sure to lose tomatoes,
since those coming in contact with the
ground will rot more or less. 1t is
true that when tomato vines are train
ed upon stakes they may not yield any
more fruit in proportion to the vine
than when left upon the ground, but
they will generally produce larger and
better fruit less likely to become de-
fective before maturing. Here are two
points of vital Importance in favor of
training tomato vines upon stakes.
Whether one raises tomatoes on a
large or a small scale, it is by all
means advisable to stake them in some
manner. By so doing the work of pick
ing is simplif1ed, and if they are trained
on a sort of trellis-work along the
rows one can walk between the hills
and gather them quite easily. One can
also watch the condition of the vines
more readily than when they are per-
mitted to sprawl all over the ground
and it is less difficult to keep the
worms and grubs away. Stalking is
| really far superior to the old method
| in every respect, and when it is done
in time it is always comparatively
easy.
Wonderful to relate the longer the
tomato is grown on one kind of soil
and in the same place with good care
the better it will thrive. If possible,
there, ground suitable for tomato Gull
fNaV Oh. - r
that purpose. The ground having been
well prepared in the spring, a stake
should be driven into the soil at in
terVals of ten feet and so arrangd as
to present long rows about two and
a half feet apart. The tomatoes should
then be planted in hills along these
rows, and as the vines begin to spread
strong Irvine should be run on nails
from one stake to another like wire on
fence posts. On this strong Irvine the
tomato vines can be trained as grapes
on trellis.
Trained in the manner described, the
sun reaches all the tomatoes, causing
them to ripen evenly. But this is not
all. New fruit will keep coming on
the vines when thus trained longer
than it otherwise would, affording just
as many green tomatoes in autumn
for picking as If only few ripe ones
had grown during the season.
Pruning the vines will make them
stocky, and in that case the vitality
of the plants will go into a fewer mum :
Der of tomatoes. Hence advantages
can be derived by pruning if large
tomatoes are desired, but for general
field culture l would not recommend
it, An ordinary plant properly trained
will usually produce tomatoes large
enough for market without any prun-
ing. Cut off dead banches, trim where
the vines are too thick, and where
they have tendency to go all to stem.
The result of such thoroughness will
be plenty of good fruit which will find
ready sale in any market.
New York S.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-04
Picking and Shipping Genuine
Rocky F0rIs.

The ripening season for Rocky Ford
melons at Rocky Ford begins about
Aug. 5, and continues until about Oct.
/, says a grower in the American Ag
riculturist. When the cantaloupe is
ready to pick, the color changes to
pale gray and in it's proper stage can
only be detected by an experienced
picker 1t must not be forced from the
vine, as the finest flavor is obtained
where the melon remains until the
stem separates from it with but little
more pressure than its own weight.
The stem often cracks slightly from
TIE melon and a thin juice will be
noticed coming from the crack. How
ever, the proper way to pick is by the
color and comparison with the green
rIelons on the hill. The melons are
picked in sacks hung under the Shout
der.
Follow the pickers with a sled drawn
by a horse so that the melons can be
emptied as fast as the sack load is
picked. Line the sled with straw or
hurlap to avoid bruising the melons:
as soon as the sled is filled it is taken
to the packing shed and another fol-
lows the pickers. The melons are care
fully graded for size netting and
crate, size u by II by "a inches. There
are also pony crates which take As
small melons: they are IL by IL by p
inches. The two-thirds crate takes 80
extra select melons, size of crate by
Y by "a inches The standard crate
gives the best satisfaction. The pony
crate was never used until the grow
ers began TO select seed from melons
too small for the standard crates and
this caused many more to mature
when too small for the standard
crates. The most successful growers.
however. do not use the pony crates
and have no need of them as the
quality of seed planted determines the
crop results as to size and quality
A perfect cantaloupe for seed must
first come from a field where the gem
eral type was good. II must be of the
proper size the netting must be fine
and closely laced. The space between
the slight ribs must be smooth and
well defined from stem to blossom
ends. The ribs must all be of equal
The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-04

but the best time is either as early in
the spring as the bark will slip, so as
to get a full summers growth, or else
as late in the fall as the bark can be
peeled, so as to get a dormant bud,
says the Florida Agriculturist. To bud
as early as possible in the spring, of
course. requires that the budwood
should be kept through the winter.
But experienced nurserymen are prac-
tically unanimous in favor of the late
fall budding which makes what are
known as dormant buds. There are
several we'll defined reasons for this:
First. In October one can secure the
very best, fully ripened and developed
budwood.
Second. Buds take" very easily at
this late season.
Third. They start just as soon as the
sap begins to flow in the spring, which
is at least two weeks before bud can
be successfully inserted, and from
four to five weeks before spring bud
could be started out.
Fourth. Dormant buds are always
so well grown before the beginning of
the following winter that the danger
to them from cold is reduced to a min
imum.
Fifth. If one does ones dormant
budding thoroughly, one has them all
While the spring budding, unless ex-
ceedingly well done, will be more or
less irregular in starting and there
will be a rebuilding to do, which will
be done so late that there will be a
number of late buds to go through the
inclemency of the weather.
The Parson Brown is one of the
best early oranges grown in Florida,
although the Nonpareil and the Boone
are claimed by some to be trifle ear
lier. We should say the three best
early varieties are the Parson Brown,
Nonpareil and the Centennial. The
Centennial has taken premiums at
our former state fairs as the best early
orange.
For very early orange, probably
the ribbon would have to be conceded
to the Satsuma. That has been, so far,
almost entirely North Florida orange,
hardly ranking as in the orange belt.
The Satsuma should not be allowed
to grow at will, for it is of a dropping
habit 1t should be staked up until it
is four or five feet high and has form
ed an upright stem of sufficient age
and rightly to constitute the trunk
of a future tree, then the limbs may
be left to their own devices.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-04

width. The blossom ends must be well
strengthened by small raised button,
and the weight should be nearly IL
pounds. Then the color should be a
light gray, showing a very little
orange between the netting. When cut,
the meat should be light green chang
ing slightly toward yellow a the CEN
ter fine grained and deep, so that but
a very small seed cavity remains.
Our shipments first were limited to
a few mountain points and the mar
kets were easily overstocked, while at
present our annual output is from 700
to 800 cars and the market is nearly
every large city in the United States
I he average yield among the expert
enced growers is about 175 crates per
acre, bringing a gross return of about
$l20 per acre. while extreme cases
show from a loss up to the highest
yield of 364 crates on one acre. The
average yield is probably not more
than SO to 80 crates, but this repre-
sents hundreds of acres planted by
ranchmen as a side issue
The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-04
CANDIDATE USED PISTOL.

DR.. George W. Rouse, candidate for
adjutant general, ]. C. Chalk and j. c.
Won Santen. the leading participants
in the row at meeting of a ward club
Friday night, were bound over to the
Court of General Sessions yesterday.
the preliminary examinations being
waived. The meeting had been called
to suggest names to the executive COM
mittee for appointment as managers at
the polls in Ward 4, in the coming
primary. Rouse's faction seemed to
have anticipated the coming of his OPP
ponents and went through the formal
ity of electing the managers. The ar
rival of the other faction into the hall
took place just as the Rouse crowd was
coming out. The question of the hour
of the meeting and the time advertised
brought about the lie and then the
row started. DR.. Rouse drew and fired
his pistol. He was disarmed and while
the trouble was on the police entered
the hall and took a hand. Tailor Grad
dick preferred charges against Rouse,
who in turn swore out a warrant
against ]. c. Won Santen and j. G..
Chalk, charging assault. Rouse is also
charged with carrying a concealed
weapon contrary to law.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-04
GREENE CoUNTY,s BUTTER.

Greensboro Herald-Journal: In order
to satisfy a curiosity as to the actual
amount of butter shipped monthly
from Greene county, a representative
of the Herald-Journal has taken the
PAINS to inquire at the principal ship
ping points as to amount actually
shipped from these points, with the
following results for the month of
June: Greensboro. $500; White Plains
approximate, $500; Woodville, 1900.
Making a total of 1880 pounds month
ly. We were unable to get the amounts
at Sloan and Greshamville, but feel
safe in estimating 1000 pounds for both
places, making a total of about $4,000
pounds for the entire county. In justice
to Penfield we may state that part of
her product is shipped at Woodville
and the other through the creamery at
Greensboro. Figuring further, and esti-
mating three fourths pound per capita
weekly, the county would consume
about $4,000 pounds per month, making
a grand total of 10000 pounds, which at
20 cents per pound is worth $4,000. And
this industry has just begun to develop.
Verify, the possibilities in Greene are
limitleSS.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-04

A recent number of the Southern
Planter contained the testimony of a
poultryman who allowed his laying
hens to forage all winter upon a field
of cowpeas which had not been har-
vested. He claims the hens required
no other food and that the yield of
eggs surpassed that of any previous
winter. A Maryland correspondent Of
the same journal also followed the plan
and claims that as a result he had eggs
when his neighbors had none.
OF course, it will not be practical
TO winter hens upon a field of unhar-
vested cowpeas in this latitude, but
there is nothing to prevent the poul-
tryman growing small plat of cow
peas and storing them for winter feed
Both vines and peas are rich in nj
trogen and consequently rich in pro-
TEN, thus making an excellent food
for the production of eggs. The hay
cut hne is superior to chopped clover
hay as 1T contains nearly one-half more
digestible crude protein than clover
hay, and nearly four times as much
as timothy. However, the protein con-
tent of the hay, also of the peas. is
rather high as compared with the car
bo-hydrates and fat, consequently to
give the hens properly balanced ra-
ton and obtain the full benefit of the
protein in the hay some grain or mix
ture of grains containing an excess of
carbohydrates must be added A hot
mash in the morning during cold
weather and one feed per day of wheat
oats, buckwheat and corn mixed would
complete ration that ought to work
well. The cowpea hay will largely sup
ply the nutrients now given in the
form of cut bone. 1t is improbab bic
that the cowpea will mature many peas
in this latitude, but the peas will add
greatly TO the richness of the hay.
and all should be fed together. The
CONTINUED on Seventh Parea
The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-04

Editor Morning News: In the Agws
columns of your paper. of July "a on
page Z, l notice an item copied from
the cambridge Search Light entitled
Quail Will Be Abundant" From past
experience I feel like advising that
steps be taken to secure permanent
and ever increasing abundance.
know that quails are justly charged
with pulling corn from freshly planted
fields but the damage they do is in
finitesimal when compared with their
good service in destroying insects and
devouring seeds of weeds. When
came to this farm nine years ago
quail were very scarce on il. The old
plantation had been in the possession
of tenants for ten years. Everybody
had hunted on it at their Will. Bird
nests had been ruthlessly robbed, and
birds of all kinds were few About
my first experience was to have a
fine stand OF young clover destroyed
by grasshoppers and later to have a
considerable area of young wheat
ruined by the same pests. Then
posted my fields warning all hunters
to stay outside. Two years later dur
ing a Sundays absence from home
some neighbor boys robbed three
knocking birds nests on the farm The
iiCAl udy HOllllcu their parents Ihat
next time l would surely prosecute to
the limit of the law Now for re-
suits: Quail are abundant, grasshop-
pers scarce, and this year at least.
ten nests full of Knockers have been
reared in close proximity to our house.
OF course, l made enemies, but l saved
crops and gained home pleasures
which more than balance the account.
More than that some of my near
neighbors are copying my plan.
William Strong.
Piggott, Ark.
Yes! every one should be brought to
recognize the importance of protecting
fully birds of all kinds that are bene-
fcial. Our noble hooking bird should
have the same protection given the
most valuable game bird. There are
few birds that are more injurious than
they are beneficial and in the great
cycle of nature it may be that those
that are seemingly so in instances may
be of value in the long run of time.
Our own state has laws that tend to
save our valuable birds from exter-
mination. but it is something that
should be taught in every school that
IT is crime against nature to destroy
unnecessarily a single quail or blue
bird, or moeking bird. or any other. in
fact.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-04
ni.A 6flth Igsrretl dna Vines.

These of course are very numerous
in Europe, but it is only here and there
in this country that we find tree or
vine that is of any special historical
interest. We will have them in the
course of time. Not far from Santa
Barbara, Cal, is a famous grapevine
planted in 1912 by Spaniard The
first election in Santa Barbara county
was held beneath its shade some few
years later.
Six feet from the ground this ia
nous vine measures eight and a half
feet in circumference and covers an
arbor 115 feet square. The framework
is supported by sixty large posts. 1t
is kept pruned back else it would
cover much more space. A year or
two ago the vine produced twenty
thousand pounds of grapes.
Do any of our readers know of any
famous trees or vines in South Geor-
gia or Florida?
The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-04
GROUND SUNK AT PAISLEY.

Eustis Lake Region: A phenomenon
that is rather unusual in this part of
Florida. though comparatively COM
mon in some parts of the West Coast,
occurred at Paisley a few days ago
The ground over an area of perhaps
thirty feet in diameter suddenly sank
leaving a hole twenty to twenty-five
feet in depth with almost perpendicu-
lar sides. A large pine tree, which
grew near the middle of this area
probably had something to do with
loosening the upper soil causing it to
drop into subterranean hollow that
had possibly been there for centuries
The tree fell when the ground sunk
and the bare roots now protrude over
the hole.