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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-23
EM0RY-TRINITY DEBATE.

Emory College, oxford, Ga, Nov. %.
The interest of Emory students is
conferred in the contest, which COM
mences tomorrow, in Few and Phi
Gamma literary and debating socie-
ties to determine Emory's two repre-
sentatives in the joint debate with
Trinity College of Durham, N. c..
which will be held at Oxford in the
early part of the spring term.
There are an unusually large num-
Der of debaters in the two societies
and interest in the contest is accen-
tuated bv the fact that more trgh
double the number of men have an
nounced their intentions of competing
than was the case last year.
Two committees, each composed of
two members of the faculty, have
been appointed to select one represen-
tative from each of the debating So
cieties who will uphold Emory. For
three successive Mondays these COM
mittees will attend the regular week.
ly debates, giving each debater a
grade. AT the end of the three weeks
these grades will be averaged by the
committees and the student receiving
the highest average mark will be
awarded the place, while the two
speakers receiving the second best
marks will be the alternates.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-23
Draining and Irrigating Celery.

The growers of celery near Sanford,
Fla, have probably the most ingenious
system in this country, combining both
drainage and underground irrigation,
says a Florida grower in the Agricul-
turist. The irrigation water is derived
from artesian wells, from rs to $50
feet deep, costing $50 to SIS. They
are arranged along the margin of
field having a slight incline. The field
is gridjroned with a system of earthen-
ware tile about eighteen inches below
the surface.
Nne-tenths of the truck farms are
provided with drain tiles for irrigation
and those who have formerly used tri-
angular wooden fumes for this pur-
pose are taking them out. Nearly all
the pipes used are unglazed. The main
supply line is laid with the incline of
the land, and the branch or irrigating
pipes lead off from this as nearly as
possible on the level of the land. BY
this means the pockets, as they are
called, are mostly kept on the outer
edges of the field out of the way of
cultivation. The pockets are made with
partitions and placed along the main
supply pipe. The partition is made
lower than the sides of the pocket and
is provided with a plug. If the plug
is inserted into the orifice, the water
flowing in from the supply pipe will
raise the top of the partition, flow over
and continue to the next pocket The
pockets are about twenty feet apart 1t
is not necessary for ordinary purposes
to insert plugs; a supply of water can
be conveyed off latterly through the
irrigation pipes The plugs are used
only in cases where it is desired to
dam up the water, to throw out a sup
ply to a limited area for a special pur-
pose, as in setting plants in drouth
or something similar. In such a case
as this the grower inserts the plugs
in the pockets in the district to be ir-
rigated, turns on the water from the
we'll and it flows down to the plugged
pockets, where it rises through the soil
by capillary attraction and irrigates
the newly set plants.
1t only takes an hour or two to throw
the water underground right where it
is wanted. If the field has been
drenched the trucker shuts off the ar
tesian wells and throws the pockets in
the field wide open by withdrawing
the plugs. There is a rapid transfu-
sion into the porous pipes, water
reaches the conducting pipes, turns
down the incline and is discharged In
an incredible short time the field can
be drained sufficiently to permit the
resumption of farming operations, so
that these may be pushed as the sea-
son progresses.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-23
Nut Grass As an Economic Factor.

Florida is a land of surprises. Her
people are intelligent, wide-awake to
any possible Improvement, quick to fol-
low the lead of any hint of Nature,
says the Florida Agriculturist.
For twenty or thirty years we raised
velvet beans as a verandah ornament
with a slight suspicion of poisonous
quality; then one morning we wake
up to find them taking very near the
highest rank as a stock forage.
We dug the Japanese cane out of it's
obscurity of years and set it up as
the acme of paying crops on our light
sand-hills; a purveyor of syrup and
of feed said to be even more nutritious
than velvet bean hay, though this re-
mains yet to be demonstrated.
The nut grass has long been to the
Southern farmer the synonym of de-
testable things in his field, a plant
which he would dismount and fox
hunt to dig out with his pocket knife.
But 1t triumphed over him all the
same, and took possession of his field.
Some farmers hated it so intensely
that they were about ready to sell out
and move to Texas when the nut grass
got possession.
Now, comes the latter-day Florida
farmer. who was born without any pre-
possessions in his blood one way or the
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-23
Worth Remembering.

Camphor put in drawers or trunks
will keep away mice.
Rub hinges with feather dipped in
oil, and they will not creak.
A small bag of sulphur kept in
drawer or cupboard will drive away red
ants.
Boil three or four onions in a pint of
water, apply with a soft brush to gilt
frames. and flies will keep off them.
A spoonful of vinegar put into the
water in which meats or fowls are
boiled makes them tender.
Equal parts of ammonia and spirits
of turpentine will take paint out of
clothing, no matter how dry or hard
the paint may be. Saturate the spot
two or three times, then wash out in
soapsuds.
A little charcoal mixed with clear
water thrown into a sink will disinfect
and deodorize 1t.
The odor of sweet peas is so often
sive to flies that it will drive them out
of a sick room.
A fever patient can be made cool
and comfortable by being frequently
sponged with water in which a little
soda has been dissolved.
Brass work can be kept beautifully
bright by occasionally rubbing with
salt and vinegar.
Stains of fruit, etc, may be taken
out of wash goods by first satura ting
the spot with coal oil, then washing as
usual.
To make sugar syrup so that II will
not crystalline add a pinch Of grated
alum the size of a small pea to each
pint of sugar. Cover with hot water
and let boil Ave minutes. This can be
favored II desired.
A pinch of salt viii make the white
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-23
Winter Vetch as Nitrogen Gath
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Prof. Waught, Horticultural Editor
of the Country Gentleman, discusses
the hairy vetch, in a recent issue of
that paper, and quotes the results at
the Cornell Station showing that while
the COW pea, secured fifty-two pounds
of nitrogen per acre from the air, the
hairy vetch secured 256 pounds. He
seems, however, to doubt that all this
nitrogen came from the air. and there
are no experiments to prove that it
does. But the fact that it is there is
important. In the longer season of the
Southern states the COW pea would
greatly excel the results obtained at
Ithaca. But the results show that
the hairy vetch will make a very val
liable crop to follow an early sown
crop of the COW pea, and thus to keep
up the nitrogen gatheing for the fol-
lowing spring crop. one prominent
farmer in Maryland, who was warned
that the vetch might become a weed
on his land, replied that he found
that it nearly doubled his corn crop,
and that any weed that would do that
was welcome to a place on his farm.
We refer to this matter just now more
for the purpose of suggesting to those
who have a good stand of the vetch
that with the present high price for the
seed of 81 to SO per bushel it may be
we'll to grow the crop for seed. Then,
too, we have found that the advice
given in the seed catalogues to sow
bushel of seed per acre, is entirely
needless. We have had a fine stand
of this vetch from sowing sixteen
pounds per acre, and believe, that
where the soil is properly inoculated
this will be enough. To inoculate the
soil all that is needed is to scatter a
few bushels of soil from an old gar
den where English peas have been long
grown, over the vetch plantation. We
had this vetch with three feet of top
last February, in old garden SOIL and
loaded with nitrogen nodules on it's
roots. For a winter cover it should
be sown in late August, though we
have had good stand in spring from
that sown in October, but it made lit
tie show in the following winter.
w r Massey
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-23
BUSINESS LOCALS.

At Sullivan's Is Congress street, west,
new prunes, figs, oatmeal, six-pound
package buckwheat Csc; Heinz's chow
chow and pickles in bulk.
]. & C. N. Thomas, watch inspectors
for the Seaboard Air Line Railway.
Leaders of low prices on watches,
clocks and jewelry; reliable opticians
100 Whitaker street.
j. 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.
Walker Mulligan Furniture Company
has succeeded the w. 7. Walker Furni-
ture Company. See them for bargains
Your credit is good. Corner Broughton
and Jefferson streets.
If you get your Thanksgiving meats
from Winkler you will have a good
dinner He handles only the best and
supplies a very eXacting patronage.
George Wagners Son, Savannah's
leading and reliable florist. Now is the
time to order a choice selection of the
most beautiful roses of all kinds.
Frank Werm. jewellery store, ia Bull
street. is showing a beautiful line of
ladies watches and chains at popular
prices. Save money by buying at
Werm's.
Everything in trunks and valises at
an alarmingly low price at the Chat
ham Trunk Factory. You can get
swell trunk or a fine vail Ie cheaper
here than any other place in the city.
Chas. A. Cox, the practical tin-plate
and sheet iron worker; tin, slate, tar.
gravel and tile roofing; best work; low
est prices 142 Barnard street.
If you are hard to please in having
your pictures framed take them to
Ladeveze's where expert workmen are
employed. Prices the lowest known.
IL Congress street, west.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-23
SUMMER ADJUSTMENTS
PLANNED FOR TYBEE.

Tybee may have an outfit of attrac-
tions next season that will make the
island even more popular than it has
been in the past. Mr.. w. H. Labb,
representing a firm that caters to the
amusement loving part of the public
is now in the city, to make arrange
ments, if possible, for putting in at
Tybee next summer such varied attrac-
lions as caroussels, toboggan slides,
merry-go- rounds, loop the loops and all
such things including many novelties
in this line.
Mr.. Labb has made a huge success
of similar series of amusements at
Ponce de Leon Springs, near Atlanta,
and thinks Tybee an even more invit-
ing field. He is here now to see the
street railway people relative to such
amusements at Thunderbolt, and the
Central of Georgia officials and the
hotel people interested in Tybee about
putting his amusements at that place.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-23

other toward nut grass, and pro-
nounces il a thing not altogether bad
yes even good.
Mayor C. w. Campbell of Ocala, one
Of the most practical farmers and pro-
life farm writer's the state has ever
seen, used to champion the hated nut
grass. To young farmers writing to
him to ask how to extricate it he would
reply, What do you want to get rid
Of nut grass for? 1t is the best natu-
raj hog forage you have on your farm"
This seemed to be the actual fact.
We have not at hand the chemical
analysis of the bulb, but the best analy-
sis is the testimony of the hog. A band
of hogs with only one half improved
blood in their veins, turned into an
old, abandoned field, will root nut
grass all summer and gain fifty to
eighty pounds apiece by the end of
October. Then finish them off with a
light daily feed of corn for a couple of
weeks, to harden their fat and flavor
their flesh, and you will have the cheap
est and best bacon you could make.
The hogs plant one bulb, or half
dozen for every one they consume.
1t is ineradicable, self-planted, self
perpetuated, self-cultivated. 1t is one
Of Natures best provisions for the ia
~ Floridians." The bulb is small, sweet,
nutty, rich. The exercise of roofing
for it gives the hog just that delicious
blend of fat and lean which makes
the perfect bacon-not a mass of fat
such as the four-inch pork we buy from
the North and absorb into our blood
to give us risings" or boils all sum-
mer.
Even on the Stetson farms at De-
Land, where the best up-to-date meth
DDS prevail nut grass is accepted as an
invaluable factor in farm management
"Old fields" are fenced hog tight for
no other purpose but to be used as a
hog-range; it is considered one of the
best Investments on the estate
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-23
Two Kinds of Humus.

Prof. E. F. Ladd of the North Da-
kota Agricultural College, says: OF
late we have heard a great deal about
the necessity of humus in the SOIL We
have come to understand that humus
is as essential in the North Dakota
soils as in all other soils if we would
maintain their fertility. We have come
to understand that humus is one of
the great Water-holding constituents
of the soil; that it is to the humus we
owe many of the better physical quail
tiles of the soil, and that it is from
the humus the heterogeneous matter of
the plants is derived to be converted
into nitrates to serve as plant food
There is one point, however, that has
not been sufficiently emphasized. There
are different kinds of humus, the same
as there are different kinds of animal
foods. Some forms of humus are worth
a great deal more in the soil than 9TH
ers. We all recognize the fact that
clover hay is vastly superior as an
animal food to wheat straw. We say
that clover hay, wheat bran, linseed
and cotton seed meal are heterogeneous
foods, and that straw, timothy, corn
meal, slower. etc, are carbonaceous
foods. So we have types of humus
that are highly heterogeneous and other
types that are highly carbonaceous. A
humus derived from wheat straw or
wheat stubble or grains of any kind
is very inferior. 1t furnishes no nitro
genous matter; it does not have the
water holding and absorbing constitu-
ents as does the humus derived from
clover, vetches, bronze grass, etc. We
thus see that one of the advantages
of growing clover in our crop rota-
ton is that it gives us a better type
of humus in the soil. One that will
put the soil in better physical condi-
ton will hold a larger amount of mois-
ture; will furnish heterogeneous plant
food, and will better unlock the avail
able plant food in the soil than the
humus that is derived from carbona-
naO1S MA ntS like the St1,a w
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-23

In planting a strawberry bed there
is one important point to remember,
that strawberry plants are of two kinds
-pistillate and bisexual, says an
Eastern strawberry grower. The BIZ
sexual plant has perfect flower, and
will produce fruit of its own accord,
but the pistillate plant has an imper-
feet flower, and unless it becomes fer
tilted by the pollen from some of the
strong staminate varieties, will not pro-
duce fruit A great many failures have
been experienced on account of people
not being aware of this deficiency in
some kinds of plants. Ten years ago
all of our best varieties were of the
pistillate sort, and we had to use them,
but since then a lot of new varieties
have been introduced, the majority of
which are bisexual varieties, so that
at the present time we have no need
to plant pistillate varieties.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-23
LAW AND ORDER MEETING.

There will be a grand rally of the
friends of law and order in McDuffie
county at the Court House on Thanks
giving Day. There will be speeches
by Rev George w. Marlborough, Rev.
T. H. Timmons. Hon. Sam Walker,
Hon. John T. West, Hon. c. H. Filing
ton, Rev. G.. w. Garner, Hon. Ira e.
Farmer Hon. Matt Gross, Hon. Tom
Watson and others. Let every citi-
zen of McDuffie county who is in IA
vor of putting down blind tigers and
gambling in our county come to this
mass meeting" says the notice of the
meeting. Let the ladies come. Let
the young folks come. Let country and
town get together to put down local
law breaking"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-23
PRAISE FOR TROOPS
For Their Conduct in n Clash With
a Crowd of Jews.

For Their Conduct in n Clash with
Crowd of Jews.
st. Petersburg, Nov. PA military
order is published here praising the
conduct of the troops in what it de-
scribes as an ARRAY between the SOL
diers and mob at Orsha, in the dis
trict of Wilma, Nov. 10. The trouble
was the outcome of an attempt by a.
crowd of Jews to rescue six co-relig
ionists, who were being escorted to
prison. No details of the ARRAY are
given, except that the Jews attacked
the soldiers with stones and pludgeons
and the soldiers defended themselves
with the butts of their rifles.
The report that fresh anti-Semite
conflict has occurred at Gomel is de-
MED, but it is stated that rigorous pre-
cauttonary measures have been adoDt-
ed in the provinces of wilma, Kovno
and Grodno against revolutionary and
anti-Semitic troubles and strikes. which
are expected to occur.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-23
Fire at Experiment station,

Griffin, Ga. Nov ga disastrous
fire was narrowly averted at the Geor-
gia Experiment Station yesterday. The
green house which was built last year
at a cost of over $1,000 caught fire
near the engine room and was making
rapid progress toward destruction
when discovered. The alarm was
given and with the assistance of
neighbors the employees on the station
extinguished the flames before anv
great damage was done. Owing to the
central location Of the building the
FIRE would have done considerable dam
age had it not been promptly extin-
guished. Director Redding stated that
the fire demonstrated the effective
ness Of the station water works sys-
tenn for fire protection,
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-23

of an egg beat quicker, and pinch of
borax in cooked starch will make the
clothes sitter and whittier.
An iodine stain, one of the most
stubborn to encounter, can, it is said,
be removed by soaking the fabric in
sweet milk and occasionally rubbing
the spot
A good idea of mending a hole in an
umbrella is to stick on very firmly
black court plaster inside the cover.
This is not so much seen as a darn.
Feelings from lemons and oranges
thrown into cold water. place on the
stove, and when they come to a boil
drain the water off and cover again
with cold water. Let them boil fifteen
minutes. Make a syrup of sugar and
water, put the Feelings into this, and
boil until transparent. Roll in sugar
place on plate to dry. This is fine
in fruit cake.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-23
The Best Management of an Orchard

The Best Management of an Orchard
A practical orchardist writing to the
Times Dispatch says:
In setting an orchard, my experience
has proven that II is best to head the
trees low-that is, let the tree limb out
near the ground. 1t is best for several
reasons. 1t prevents sunscald of the
body by shading the south and south
west sides of the trunk of the tree III
spring, summer and winter, and by
making a healthy body and entirely
eradicate the body of the fat-headed
borer. one of the worst pests in the
orchard which has not been properly
set.
l discovered while working in my
fathers orchard in 1876 that trees
headed low were healthy bodied and
free from flat-headed borers, while
those headed high were injured by the
sun. and were invariably attacked by
this pest. Many articles have been
written about how best to fight this
enemy. For more than twenty years
we have not had this insect TO contend
with in any of our orchards. amount
ing to over 1000 acres. Low headed
trees entirely eradicated them. In or
der to get a low-headed tree we for
merly had to raise our own nursery
stock. Now your nurserymen Will
provide you with a low-headed tree,
if YOU ask for it, and l would not
plant any other.
To make a low head does not require
a forked head Trim to make a CEN
ter. We will treat of trimming in q
future article. A forked tree will soon
er or later split or fall in a windstorm
or when loaded with fruit. You can
prevent forks, and make a head With
a center when they are small and thus
let the trees start properly. Another
advantage in low-headed trees is that
II prevents windstorms from topping or
uprooting them so easily. 1t also pre-
serves part of the crop from storms.
as the limbs near the ground will be
loaded with fruit while the storm takes
the top fruit nearly all off. Do not be
afraid that the fruit will not properly
color. ! have gathered more than a
barrel of fine apples, resting on the
ground, from the lower limb of a single
tree. A low-headed tree also saves
one-half the expense in picking, as
most of the fruit can be gathered while
standing on the ground. Another point
to be observed in setting trees is with
reference to the direction of the pre-
vailng winds. To illustrate: Here in
the Ozark our prevailing wind is from
the southwest and the hot sun on the
orchard in spring, summer, and winter
is in that direction Therefore. to
properly set trees they should be lean
ed to the southwest about 20 degrees
or more in setting them. and the tree
before IL reaches the age of bearing
will be perpendicular at the time it is
leaning TO the northeast. A tree plant
ed perpendicular at the time II is set
will lean to the northwest before 1t is
bearing and thus be injured by sun
soald as above stated. II is, therefore,
important In properly setting a tree to
observe this preca ution.
In a previous article I stated that a
tree should be set In the orchard not
deeper than II stood in the nursery
There are several reason why this is
best; not only to prevent the root rot
but to prevent other diseases, and also
the aphls. A tree set near the surface
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-23
FELL FROM A BRIDGE.

Dublin, Ga, Nov 22.-This afternoon,
about 2:S0 o'clock, N. Mansuer. an
Assyrian, fell from the Oconee river
bridge of the Wrightsville and Tennille
road and received injuries from which
he died thirty minutes later.
Mansuer was endeavoring to climb
down one of the bents of the bridge
and fell distance of thirty feet. He
had a wife and three children in his
native country. He had been in Dublin
but a year or two, but had accumulat-
ed some property. His remains will
be inferred here.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-23
FLORIDA.
BOUGHT AN ORANGE GROVE.

Mr.. B. F. Ives of Philadelphia, who
has a winter home at LAGRANGE, has
bought the Kentucky orange grove at
LAGRANGE, from the First National
Bank of st. Augustine, who, in March
last, foreclosed on the owner, Mr.. D. l..
Alderman. This is said to be a. very
fine piece of property.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-23
BULLOCH COUNTY HEIRS.

statesboro News: 1t seems that
Messrs. S. L. and E. B. Blackburn of
this county are to fall heirs to a large
fortune which was left by an uncle.
The fortune is said to amount to at
least 800, 900, and the two Bulloch
county heirs will get one-third of it.
Suit to recover this money has been
brought for them in Augusta.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-23
A Timely Suggestion.

This is the season of the year when
the prudent and careful housewife re-
plenishes her supply of Chamberlain
Cough Remedy. 1t is certain to be
needed before the winter is over, ana
results are much more prompt and
satisfactory when it is kept at
hand and given as soon as the cold is
contracted and before it has become
settled in the system. In almost every
instance q severe cold may be warded
off by taking this remedy freely as soon
as the first indication OF the cold APP
pears There is no danger in giving 1t
to children, for it contains no harmful
substance. It is pleasant to take-both
adults and children like 1t. Buy it and
you will get the best. 1t always cures.
Sold by all druggists.