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The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-09
FARM, GARDEN
AND HOUSEHOLD
By S. A. COOK.

usually is the chief, If not the main
reliance, of the country home for at
least eight months of the year. Eggs
and chickens are about as great a
rarity on the table of many of our
small farmers as upon the tables of
city mechanics. And many of these
farmers. or their wives, will allot their
egg or chicken money to some special
purposes. as, for instance, to provide
coffee. tobacco, sugar. cloth of some
kind, and deny themselves and their
children the wholesome strengthening
food that they ought to have. The
surplus of eggs and chickens for home
use is frequently very small
This is all wrong. They should have
eggs. and plenty of them, chickens, and
plenty Of them, and, it, after a con-
slant use of them they become tire
some" as food, then will it be time to
have a surplus for market, and invest
the proceeds in beef, mutton or other
wholesome food.
With no view to realizing cash from
it, but principally as a source of do
nestle food supply, every small farmer
could we'll afford to give the necessary
attention to secure the very highest
results from a flock of twenty-five hens.
G. J. G.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-09

In grating. the part which receives
the scion is called the stock. 1t may
be of any size from half an inch or a
little less in diameter to two or three
inches. says the Republic. The scion,
often incorrectly termed the graft, is
generally a shoot of the previous sea-
sons growth, three or four inches in
length and containing about the same
number of buds.
The union between the scion and
stock takes place by the inner bark and
not by the cut surface or the wood.
The skill of the CRATER. therefore, is
shown in bringing the inner bark of
the scion into close contact with the
inner bark of the stock.
Cleft grating is usually the plan fol-
lowed. When ready for work, the
stock is cut off square across. If the
stock is small, this may be done with
a sharp knife; il large a fine saw is
used. The scions are then prepared
by cutting about an inch of the lower
edge wedge-shaped. leaving the outer
edge very slightly thicker than the in
ner, when two are to be inserted, which
is necessary when the stocks are suf-
ficiently larger than the scions to ad-
init of more than one being inserted.
The stock is then split down the mid
die, but not too far; the prepared scion
or scions are inserted, taking pains ia
bring the inner bark of each scion into
close contact with the inner bark OF
the stock.
The scions are to be pushed down
nearly or quite as far as they have
been shaved off. Wax should then be
applied, pressing it on firmly covering
the cleft and all of the cut surfaces.
Grating may sometimes he accom-.
plished between closely allied species
| as pear on apple or on ounce, plum
| or apricot on peach.
The time for grating apple and pear
| extends for about six weeks in the
| spring. The precise time is when the
buds are opening.
One of the best recipes for making
| grating wax is: Rosin, four parts by
weight; beeswax, two parts; tallow
| one part. Melt these we'll together
| over slow fire, and then pour into q
| pail of cold water. Then grease the
hands and pull the wax until it is
nearly white. When using IL grease
the hands with tallow to keep the way
| from sticking.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-09

lon. equal TO 51z pounds of molasses.
10 ears of corn and II pounds of prairie
hay, daily. He says this is the most
satisfactory feeding he ever saw, as to
results Being an old meal and hull
feeder" he says. II am sure this ra-
ton is the most rapid fat and flesh
producer / ever saw. AS a food for
horses. as well as cattle and hogs, it
excels anything 1 ever fed. One quart
of molasses. with roughness, keeps
them in fine condition, and enables
them to do the hardest work. A prom
inent veterinary surgeon of Brooklyn,
n. Y, recommended it, and they are
now feeding 500 horses in that city. 1t
is easily digested and assimilable, and
helps. other food to digest.
Hogs and cattle fed with this ra-
ton weigh heavier than when fed on
meal and hulls, and don't come to grief
in cars. Hogs finished this way are
equal to cane-fed.
This molasses can be had at Texas
common points, in car lots, at cents
per gallon, in new oak barrels that cost
SIPS each. A barrel contains so to 81
gallons"
The molasses is the refuse after all
sugars that will granulate have been
extracted by the centrifugal process.
There are two qualities of it. One is
commonly called black strap" the
other commonly a third sugar." hold
ing about two pounds of sugar per gall
Ion. The low class, or black-strap, is
about so per cent. sugar, as there is
in all molasses so per cent. sugar that
will not granulate. This molasses con-
tains n per cent. solid food matter.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-09
DETECTIVE ARRESTED.

James M. Hewitt, an ex-member of
the detective department of the At
lanta police force, was arrested there
Thursday upon the charge of doing
business without a license. Hewitt S
defense is that he is a Confederate vet
eran, and as such is exempt from the
payment of a license. Hewitt's arrest
is due to a complaint registered against
him by Charles Mitchell, Greek, who
says that in July last he employed the
detective to do some detective work
and paid him $25, and has had no re-
turns for his money. There is a city
ordinance prohibiting the operation of
private detective agencies in Atlanta
unless permission is granted by the
Board of Police Commissioners. Hew-
lit has never secured this privilege
from the board. Hewitt is the man
who worked up the evidence against
the white men in Campbell county who
assassinated a negro farmer. All five
of these are now serving terms in the
penitentiary. He was sheriff of Camp
bell county before going to Atlanta to
live.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-09
something About Corn.

For one cause or another farm and
garden work has been considerably
retarded in the past six weeks. This is
the case in Middle Georgia and we
presume it is so still further South. The
same conditions have prevailed gem
orally. The soil has been kept almost
steadily wet-too wet for good work,
and besides there has been almost an
epidemic of influenza and so virulent
in many Instances as to keep would-oe
workers out of the fields. So far as
our observation goes there was barely
half the work done in February that
there should have been. 1t necessitates
the pushing of it in March. Such
season as this proves the value of all
work that was done in December and
January in the way of listing up any
stubble land and having the fields
cleared of stalks of last years crops.
Rapid work is rarely good work, and
the best work of blowing and prepar-
ing the soil is done where there Is
plenty of time to do it in.
1t was an old time practice in Mid
die Georgia to be ready to plant corn
on the 9Th day Of March. and if it was
not raining or the soil too wet from
previous rains to begin planting on
that date and the work was continued
from day TO day until the planting
vas completed. BY the middle OF
March at least 75 per cent of the pro-
posed crop was planted and out OF
The way" so to speak. There is very
little corn planted on the 5th of March
now compare lively.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-09
Do You Raise Peanut..

Several years ago the writer of this
had occasion to go about over quite
a number of farms in Middle and West
Tennessee and North Mississippi, and
it is worthy of remark that he saw on
only one single farm even a small patch
of peanuts, says the Tri-State Far
mer. Why not? No doubt mostly for
the reason that the farmers on nearly
all the farms visited raised few, if any,
hogs. The one person who did raise
hogs was a negro renter, and he made
all the bacon his family needed. He
also paid cash rent We cannot say
how much of this negro's thrift was
due to his raising peanuts, but the fact
that he was SO thrifty and did raise
peanuts is a good argument in favor
of the more general cultivation of this
crop.
Referring to this crop one of our
exchanges has the following to say:
The peanut is a crop that should re-
ceive more attention in the Southeast
than it does. 1t is a profitable crop
whether sold or consumed on the farm.
For men, women, children anG hogs
peanuts are a valuable food product,
and exceedingly wholesome and re-
freshing, and they will fatten hogs
rapidly and without the labor of her
vesting-the hogs can harvest them and
receive more benefit than If the nuts
were harvested by man and fed to
hogs. The exercise is as wholesome
for hogs as the nuts. In planting for
hogs a good plan is to plant corn in
rows at least five feet apart and plant
a row of peanuts between, gather the
corn and turn in the hogs. The vines
may be cut and made into hay. Or
they may be pulled up after siding
with a proper pillow, the nuts picked
off at leisure time, and still there
will be nuts enough left to fatten sew
eral good size shoats on every acre.
This crop also adds to the fertility of
the soil as much as the crop of corn
removes. The time will come when in
for hulling, grinding and crushing pea
nuts for the oil and oil cake. They
contain the finest table and cooking oil
known, and the cake itself would be
a most excellent food product for man
or beast.
We fully indorse every word of this.
The peanut being a legume, does not
make such drains on the soil for its
nitrogen as many other crops grown
for stock food, and being valuable in
every portion of the plant, there need
not be any waste at all in raising the
crop. To anyone who wishes to adopt
a perfect rotation of crops, on which
hogs may Craze through the season,
we know from experience, as well as
observation, that they form one of
the most valuable of the crops that
can be easily and cheaply grown. Being
very rich in both fats and proteids
they are we'll adapted for producing
both fat and growth, and the only
| thing to do to prepare them for the
| use of the hogs is to cut off and stack
the tops for hay and leave the nuts
| in the ground for the hogs to harvest
for themselves.
They will do as we'll or better in the
latitude of this section than farther
| north. but will grow in a good, seedy
| loan soil quite well as far north as the
northern line of Tennessee. They are
certainly we'll worthy of a test on the
| part of all who are studying the best
| method of cheap pork production.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-09
GEORGIAAND FLORIDA
FIGHT IN MONTGOMERY.

There has developed in Montgomery
county quite a warm fight for the
Mount Vernon City Court judgeshlp.
Some time ago Judge w. NJ. Lewis, the
incumbent, rendered his resignation to
the Governor, and there were several
applications filed for the appointment.
Most of the applications have been
withdrawn with the exception of that
of A. L. Lanier, who, it is stated, is
in the fight to the finish and is max
ing a strong race for the position. 1t
seems there are many people in Mont
gomery county who desire Judge Lew
is to retain his present position. Judge
Lewis has signified his willingness
to remain on the bench for the pres
ent, provided his resignation remains
in the Governors hands Enacted on.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-09

gree. The killing occurred on the night
Of June q. 1900 in Punta Gorda. The
case of the state VS. Isaiah z. Cooper,
the alleged assassin of Marshal ]. H.
Bowman of Punta Gorda, was begun
The entire morning and a por-
ton of the afternoon were devoted
to securing a jury. Two witnesses were
examined for the state during the af-
ternoon, and forty-one remain to be
placed on the stand. The first witness
was Mrs. ]. II. Bowman, widow of the
marshal. She. was accompanied in the
court room by of her children, who
stood near her side, as she related the
sad story, of the assassina ton of her
husband by an unknown murderer
who fired into the house from the COW
er of darkness.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-09
BUSINESS LOCALS.

The Ryan Business College is now
open. New students are arriving daily.
Every young man and woman can't af-
ford to miss the valuable instruction.
The Savannah District Messenger
Company will make you special rates
on drayage, messenger service, furni-
ture and pianos moved and stored. 80
Montgomery street.
For this week at John Sullivan's, Is
Congress street, west, fresh country
butter, in prints, 20 cents pound gold
en- Rio coffee, 15c pound. A fine quail
ity of Oolong and gunpowder tea at
35 cents pound.
], &C. N Thomas, watch inspectors
for the Seaboard Air Line Railway.
Leaders of low prices on watches,
clocks and jewelry, reliable opticians.
120 Whitaker street.
]. w. Teeple's great sale continues
on furniture, carpets and stoves. The
people say Teeple's prices are the low
est. This accounts for the large sales.
One Stillie & Duhlmeir fine walnut
suite at 500, a great bargain. We are
offering this suite at above price to
close out our walnut suites. We have
only this one walnut suite left. Come
quick or it will be sold, at such a low
price. w. 7. Walker Furniture Co.,
corner Broughton and jefferson
streets.
You are not over-charged for the
quality of goods Winkler sells, because
he knows how to buy, consequently his
customers get the benefit 1t will pay
you to buy from him. Telephones 266
Stalls 6S-64-75, City Market.
George Wagner's Son, florist; never
before in the history of Savannah have
the people had the opportunity of get
ting such beautiful cut flowers. Bull
street.
George wagner's Son, savannah's
leading and reliable florist. Now is the
time to order a choice selection of the
|. most beautiful roses of all kinds.
The Frank Werm Jewelry Store is
showing the new necklaces in coral.
pearl and jet. They are the latest
French patterns; 80 per cent. saved at
WermS.
When you want first-class trunk
that's made by a first-class trunk
maker, call on Chatham Trunk Facto-
~, Broughton, corner Abef corn.
Chas. A. Cox, the practical tin-plate
and sheet iron worker; tin, slate, tar.
gravel and tile roofing; best work:
lowest prices. 142 Barnard street.
Edward Loyell's Sons are showing a
fine line of mechanics tools Get prices
on shelf hardware and implements. You
can save nice per cent. lis Brough-
ton.
Photography in all its beauty of stvIe
and finish at Launey,s gallery.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-09
IMPROVED EARLY RED VALEN.
TINE BUSH BEANS.

ed before frost had 1 not put forty
head of cattle on them about three
times week for three months. ! have
them grazed now when the land is
frozen or not wet. They are surely
fine. / expect to get 100 bushels per
acre. The high ridges have been level
ed down by frost and rain, so I can
cut them with a mower. The ground
is full of roots and the roots have from
underneath to feed. The thought of
them being killed is out of the ques-
ton.
You argue that you can't pillow deep
enough with one little mule: Can't he
walk three or four times in the same
furrow? Keep him walking every day.
hot or cold, when the land is not too
wet dt never gets too dry, and he
will sub-soil twenty acres in one year
that will produce SO much better the
next year that you will never bother
the editor of any paper again by ask
ing the question, does deep blowing
pay? If you can get some up to date
sub-soil ploy, that's the thing to do
by so doing you will save time. But
sense is worth more than any plow.
Take, for instance the Mallory mode
of preparing land. It's the most sensi-
BILE way of preparing land l know
anything about or have ever tried.
You don't have to buy his pillow to
use the mode, but / win say his plow
is the best 1 have ever used. 1t is a
land gutter and pulverizer first
learned of this pillow last June and be-
gan to use 1T at once on stubble land,
and have used them every day posi-
Bile since and have subsoiled by his
mode about 100 acres, some of it twice.
1t doesn't hurt stock and does the work
quicker and better than anything 1
nave tried. There may be a better
plow' one that will go deeper, but his
mode is the acme of perfection. I can
take his pillow and mode and a sixteen
hundred team of mules and turn one
hundred acres of barren quilted land
into good farm in one year
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-09
FLORIDA.
FOSTER SHOWED UP AGAIN.

Harry Foster, the enterprising young
man who victimized the charitably
disposed business men of Tampa out
of over 500 for the alleged purpose of
buying an artificial arm, is again in
the custody of the police. Foster was
arrested while operating his scheme in
Tampa several months ago, but sem
tence was suspended on consideration
that he would leave the city. Instruc-
tons were given the police to rearrest
him whenever he returned to the city.
Friday afternoon City Detective Frank
Bell recognized the familiar figure of
the one-armed CRATER on a Port Tam
pa car. He placed him under arrest
end took him to the police station,
where he was locked up.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-09
Cotton Seed Meal in the Pig Ration

Cotton Seed Meal i'm the Pig Ration
D. w. May: Cotton seed meal has
been tested by several of the stations
and it is well known that its continued
use as a feed for pigs will result III
the death of the animals. Where fed
in small amounts or where alternated
with other feeds some experiments
have shown that death losses may be
avoided Georgeson, Burtis and Otis
CKansas Bull. 53) fed a ration of five
sixth corn meal and one-six cotton
seed meal to young pigs. They all
died before six weeks had passed. 4
ration composed of q corn meal and
u cotton seed meal was fed to two
sows. They continued to gain for for
ty-five days and showed no symptoms
of disease. Henry WISCONSIN Report,
1890 fed four sows n pounds of cotton
seed meal daily for thirty-five days
without any bad effects. Curtis and
Carson (Texas Bull. 21) state that pigs
died in from six to eight weeks when
fed cotton seed meal emery North
Carolina Bull 1922 fed IA pounds of
cotton seed meal with 212 pounds of
bran in a pig ration for twenty-one
days without bad effects. When the
amount of cotton seed meal was in
creased to pounds the pigs sickened.
The subject deserves further study. as
cotton seed is a cheap and valuable
feed, and a large number of expert
ments will show to what extent it may
be safely used as a part of the ration
in feeding pigs. Further experiments
are also desirable for determining the
danger point of running pigs after
steers fed cotton seed meal.
AS food for horse and swine there
should be no further discussion of cot
ton seed meal as an element entering
into it. 1t is altogether unsafe and
soon or later produces i'll effects and
ultimately most serious consequences.
1t would be impossible to estimate the
number of hogs killed in the South by
cotton seed and it's meal. S. N.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-09

Col. Wade Hampton of Pauls VAL
ley, 1. T., who had a load of 24S-pound
hogs on the market recently that sold
at the top price of $685., can tell an in
teresting tale of how they were fed-a
tale that is full of profit to other hog
raisers, for 1t makes them acquainted
with a new hog food. These hogs
were finished on a ration composed Of
"black-strap" molasses and chops, in
the proportion of two pounds of chops
to four pounds of molasses. daily, for
2OO-pound hogs. This was the only
feed they had for finishing. Col.
Hampton has other hogs now on the
same feed. which will be marketable
in about sixty days.
He is also making a demonstration
OF feeding steers at Pauls Valley on
molasses, their ration being half a gall
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-09
Poultry Raising.

A few rules observed and the requis-
lite personal attention given TO a few
details for daily management and poul-
try keeping is very pleasant and prof
liable feature of farm life. Through
the lack Of proper care IL is not al
ways made even one-half as profitable
as II should be-not that we would at
tempt 70 make "A money crop" OF Il,
but IFS value to the domestic for sup
ply Of the household should be very
greatly increased Situated as favor
hDiy for the purpose. az most OF our
southern farmers are. their poultry
tonla pc made 20 supply a very large
lIylpt non 81 the animal food neoes-
hafy for family ua. and food. TOO ~
. inAep better adapted - the use Of wife
eii9 children than The salt bacon that
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-09
PALMER WAS ACoUITrE,D.

The case Of the state VS.. Jim Palmer
for murder was on trial at Clarksville
Thursday. In less than two hours the
jury returned a verdict of not guilty.
Palmer was charged with killing a
man named Zadrick Willbanks, near
Toccoa, in January, 1902. 1t seems that
Willbanks went to Palmer's house in
the night and made a noise or knocked
on the door and Palmer getting up out
of bed, took his gun and went out in
the yard, where he found Willbanks.
When Willhanks failed to give a sat
isfactory answer to Palmer the latter
shot him.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-09
COLLINsvILLE LINE.

Fair Grounds and Dale Avenue)
Beginning at 900 q. m, cars leave Bolton
and OFT streets every Is minutes; reiu ming
cars leave Estill avenue and Waters road al
6U a. m and every Is minutes thereafter, con.
Meeting with cars on ThunderUolt line until
1900 o'clock midnight.
Through cars are operated between Market
and Thunder olt VIA. Collinsville and Dale
avenue as follows:
Leave Market. Leave Thunderbolt
AS A NJ. 1904 M
6 As +. NJ. IA p M
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-09
AFFAIRS OF SUMMER SCHOOL
Considered by the Directors at n
Meeting in Athens.


Meeting in Athens.
Athens, Ga, March S.-The directors
of the University of Georgia summer
school held an important meeting in
the office of Chancellor Hill yesterday
morning, at which all the directors ex-
cept Miss Mildred Rutherwood were
present.
An examination of the affairs of the
summer school developed that assets
amounting to $4,000 were in sight, as
follows: Three thousand dollars sub
scribed by citizens of Athens; $4,000 to
be donated by the general education
board, and $1,000 contributed by the
trustees of the university.
The salary list and expenses incident
to obtaining instructors will amount
to about $1,000, to which must be add
ed the expenses of printing, postage
and other expenses, amounting to fully
$1,000, running the budget of expenses
up to $1,000. The summer school will
be held here from July to Aug. 8.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-09
FREIGHT AND PARCEL car

Leaves east side OF City Market for Thunder
bolt Cattle PARK, Sandhy. Isle Of Hope and all
intermediate points-9I5 a. M, LIS p. m, Sis
p. m.
Leaves Isle Of Hope for Sandhy, Cattle Park,
Thunderbolt and all Intermediate points-6:0)
a. m, ii 90 a. m. 8 0J D. m.
Freight car leaves Montgomery at $50 a. M.
ana 2:5o p H. connecting at Sandhy with reg
ular parcel car for city.
Parcel car from the city carries freight TO
Montgomery on each trip.
Regular parcel car carries trailer on each
trip for accommodation of passeng srs.
Any further Information regai d ny passen-
ger schednle or freight service can be had by
applying 70 G. b. KIDDER, Manager.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-09
LEGAL NOTICES,

~~~~~~~~-~>-~---~-~-~)~
GEORGIA, CHATHAM COUNTY
To the Superior Court of said county:
The petition of Neal-Millard Company
respectfully shows:
First. That on the goth day of No
vember. 1897, by order of this honorable
court, corporation to be known and
designated as Neal-Millard Company
was created and established.
Second. That it is now the purpose
and desire of said corporation-the said
Neal-Millard Company-to have the
name by which it is known and desig-
mated in the original charter changed
from ''Neal-Millard Company" to
"Neal-Blun Company" and in that re-
spect the said Neal-Millard Company
desires to have it's charter amended.
And your petitioner will ever pray.
TWIGGS & OLIVER,
Attorneys for Petitioner.
Petition for change of corporate
named filed in Office this 2Sth day Of
February, 1903.
JAMES K. P. CARR,
Clerk S. c., c. c., Ga.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-09
TRIAL OF COOPER is on.

At Arcadia Friday the jury rendered
a verdict in the case of the state VS.
Ivy Midget and Charles Daniels.
white. charged with the murder of
Frank Borges. Ivy Midget who fired
the fatal shot. was convicted of MUIR
der in the first degree. but was recon-
mended TO the mercy of the court. and
Charles Daniels. an accessory, was
convicted OF murder in the second de-