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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-13

Fresh bones when ground are the
most valuable for poultry, being full
of animal matter.
One of the best ways of giving milk
to fowls is to mix up their soft feed
with it,
Lime purifies the quarters and dries
them. 1t is cheap and plentiful and
should be used freely.
Flat perches are best because they
are more comfortable to the feet and
support the breast best.
Never build the nests high. Have
them so low that the hens can step in
instead of jumping in.
When selecting male birds with a
view to propagating flesh and prolific
laying. they should be moderately
short legged.
In order to have good pullets for
winter layers it is essential to hatch
them early.
Slaked lime in the drinking water
will usually cure a hen of laying thin
sheled eggs.
The hens should be set where the
laying hens cannot disturb them-ln a
separate house or yard.
Eggs from mature hens are better
for Matching than pullets, as a larger
proportion of them usually prove fer
tile.
Dry lime is too caustic to be given
alone. good plan is to make lime
water and mix up the soft feed with it
and also give little in the drinking
water.
Sunfiower and hemp seeds promote
smooth, glossy plumage.
BY providing a pasture and a pond
geese may be kept at a very low cost,
as they can pick up the greater part
of their feed
Loss of feathers is generally caused
by want of green food or want of a
dust bath.
Chicks are often weak because the
eggs during Matching have been han
died too much. The chicks come cut
best when left to the care of the
mother hen.
Fowls should have their grain scat
tered over the ground, as picking it up
will do them good and there is less
danger of their eating too rapidly.
Hens or years old will not lay
so many eggs as pullets in the first
twelve months after they begin to lay.
Turkeys are great foragers and will
gather nearly their entire food from
the fields during the summer at the
same time destroying myriads of
grasshoppers, bugs and insects.
Fowls seldom tire of milk of any
KIND. They may eat too much grain
o meat for their health, but milk in
any form is not only palatab1e. but
healthy and utritious.-Farmer s
Voice
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-13

Stock raising is the pioneer indus
try in DeSoto county, and fortunes
have been made in the business, says
the Tampa Tribune. The mild winters
here are a great advantage and the
ranges are we'll watered. About the
only work that the stock raiser in
this country had to do was to mark
his calves and gather his market cat
tie. The native cattle are small and
the steers sell for from $40 to sis
Old stock raisers say that a herd will
increase at a rate of 10 per cent. 1t
has always been customary in this
country for stock to run on free
ranges, but in recent years much of
the free ranges have been fenced.
More progress has been made in this
line within the past year than all pre-
Vious years put together. Much of
the best natural grazing lands have
been fenced by cattle companies
Western cattle men are interested in
these new ranges and new methods
are being adopted. Thoroughbred bulls
are being shipped in by the carload
and all indications are that there will
be radical changes in this business
within the next few years The free
ranges will give place to fenced pas
lures with cultivated grasses and
blooded cattle.
All observing men now see that the
day of free ranges is numbered. AS
the large companies fence in large
tracts of land the smaller cattle men
will fence in small tracts. When the
land is fenced then efforts will be
made to make it support more stock
and better stock. Bermuda, Fort
Thompson, st. Augustine Japanese
cane, and other cultivated grasses will
take place of the wiregrass, and 1900
pound steers will take the place of the
S00-pound steers. Velvet beans and
cassava will furnish good feed to put
such steers in fine condition for the
market.
There is no good reason why small
stock farms will not pay as we'll here
or better than any place in the world.
Land for such purposes cost from $1.0O
per acre up.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-13
The Manure Question.

On the question of whether it is best
to haul the manure every day from the
stable to the field, there is a great va
riety of opinion, and altogether too
few facts are adduced. AS is we'll
known, the editors of the Dairyman
believe and practice the method of
hauling each day as long as the cows
are on winter keep. Here are some
well demonstrated facts to bear on that
practice: Prof. Voorhees, of the New
Jersey Experiment Station found that
where the solid and liquid manure was
applied together the yield was 2.3S
times greater than when solid manure
was applied alone. Now when the ma
nure is drawn every day, the liquids
go with it. When piled up to be drawn
at some future time the liquids have
leached out of it. So there is a gain
of 1888 times to start with. He also
found that the fresh solid and liquid
manure, combined, was more effective
than fermented solid and liquid ma
nure. The average yield of solid and
liquid manure is 12% tons per cow of
1000 pounds weight per annual. This
manure contains III pounds nitrogen,
II pounds phosphoric acid and SO
pounds potash. 1t has been found that
when the manure is left in heaps for
100 days, it loses 81 per cent. of it's nj
trogen, 81 per cent. of it's phosphoric
acid, AZ per cent. of it's potash. 1t
strikes us that this loss is much greater
than the loss from washing, which so
many think they see. 1t is well to re-
member that the loss through fermen-
tation and consequent evaporation
where the manure is piled, cannot be
readily seen. A little discoloration in
the washing of manure is easily seen.
To the farmer the latter may look ten
times bigger than it really is, while
the former is really ten times greater
than can be seen. 1t required careful
chemical analysis by Prof. Voorhees,
to detect the loss by fermenting.
From this we judge there is the least
loss in hauling the manure out when
it is fresh and before any fermenta-
ton has set in. Besides all that, there
is the economy of labor. We are haul
ing at a time of year when hired help
is cheapest and there is the most leis-
ure. In the spring and fall the condi-
tions on the help questions are re-
VerSed,
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-13
Duck Feeding.

Some very instructive results were
obtained from a New York experiment
in feeding young ducks on grain and
meat rations contrasted. Thirty-two
ducklings were fed a ration of mixed
grain and skim milk or curds, con-
tanning no animal matter. Thirty-two
other ducklings of similar size were
led mixed grains with animal meat
and fresh bones, or dried blood. Both
We're we'll balanced rations. In the
first ration all the protein came from
vegetable sources, and in the latter
about one-half of it was from animal
sources. 1t was soon noticed that the
animal meat birds We're developing
rapidly and evenly; but that the grain
fed ones were becoming thin. 1t was
contrast to see the long-necked,
scrawny, granted birds, with trough
full of good. apparently wholesome
food before them, standing on the
alert and scrambling in haste after the
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-13
GARDEN
AND HOUSEHOLD
BY S. A. coos.

planting TO insure their sprouting read
lily. The land is put in condition as
for corn, then furrOwed out four feet
apart. The chufas are dropped, one
in a place, eighteen inches apart in
the furrow, and covered by turning a
light furrow on them. Cultivate shall
low and about as much as for corn.
When the chufas begin to set on the
roots, stop all cultivation. When the
tops begin to turn yellow, they can
be cut for hay if desired. 1t makes
good hay. The following tops show
that the chufas are ripe and can be
gathered or the hogs turned in to fat
ten on them. In harvesting them, the
chufas are pulled up by the tops and
beaten off over the side of the chufa
sieve, where they are cleared from
sand and roots. This sieve is a box,
usually 2 feet by feet by l foot, with
4 Inch screen for a bottom 1t is hung
in wooden frame by an iron rod.
which passes under it and upon which
it is rocked. lever at one side is
used in rocking the sieve, and is so ar
ranged that the sieve cannot turn over
until the worker is ready to empty
the chufas out. After being sifted, the
chufas are spread in the sun to dry.
AS farmers do not have convenient
places for drying the Chufas, and be-
cause they wont to turn the hogs into
save even seed enough for their next
years planting, preferring to buy it.
Blankets made of grain sacks and
spread on a grassy yard give a good
place for curing the chufas. They must
be taken under cover when it rains,
which is quite often in Florida. They
lose about one-third in bulk when
cured. The weight of chufas is AZ
pounds per bushel. Many chufas will
not weigh out that much, while others
will exceed it. Ours weighed "A pounds
last year.
1t takes one peck Of chufas to plant
one acre, and they usually sell for 81
per peck. A sandy soil is best for
them, and they will make a good crop
without fertilizer. With good fertiliz-
ing the crop is enormous considering
the size of the tubers At the Alabama
station, the yield was 172 bushels of
green nuts per acre, making lis bush
els when cured. They will keep per-
fectly in the ground until the hogs
eat them up. They are an excellent
crop to raise on land that is too poor
for other crops.
The chufas require four months to
mature. They are excellent alone, but
the best results are secured by feeding
corn or some other kind of grain with
them.
Hogs and chickens are very fond of
them, and will do the harvesting if
allowed in the field.
We have had so many calls for seed
that the forty bushels saved from last
years crop is now exhausted, and we
have only enough left to plant this
years crop. r. E. Merryman.
Melrose Fla.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-13
racx. The Earrs dinner companion

tocracy. The Earrs dinner companion
speaks:
"Do you see that intellectual-look-
ing man with the beard on the other
side of the table-next to Ysobel Bal
lantyne?"
1.-The surly chap"
"Yes-and he's surly because man.
ma has made a dreadful mistake.
She's put him two below the place
his rank entities him to. He'll act
like a savage all evening"
Fancy! What a small matter to
fly into rage over
"a small matter for a large man,
but large matter for small man.
Sometimes 1 think all men are small.
They're much vainer than women!"
"Why do you say that"
Because of what I've seen in Wash
ington. They say the women started
this craze for precedence. 1 don't
know whether that's so or not. But
/ do know that in the three years I've
been out, I've found the men worse
than the women. And those things
look so much prettier in a man, tco.'
But 1 thought there wasn't any
rank in this country"
So l thought was educated in
France. 1 believe in rank and all
that-it seems to me absurd to talk
dOOul equality. OuI uSSplS0 lHlS
silly Squabble over little places that
last only few years at most. AS
Mr.. Boughton was saying-you know
Mr.. Boughton?"
you mean the Second Secretary at
our Embassy"
yes. He said to me only last
night: America has an aristocracy
just as we have, but gets from it
all the evils and none of the good,
all the pettiness, none of the dignity
and sense of responsibility
But they tell me it's different-out
West"
Il don't know. 1 can only speak of
the East-especially of Washington.
There isn't a capital in Europe or
Asia, the diplomats say, with so elab-
crate a system of rank and precedence
as we have. Why, do you know it, s
so bad that the fifteen-hundred-d dollar
a-year clerks and their families have
society of their own between the cir
Giles of those who get eighteen hundred
and those who get twelve hundred. And
they'd rather die than mix with those
who get less than they do"
Really Really. now!"
And anything like a good time is
almost impossible It's precedence,
precedence everywhere, always. You
can't entertain informally
1T must be as if one were laced in
a straight jacket"
I'm going abroad next year, and
am never coming back, if I can help
it. I'm going where at least there's
real rank to get excited about. I'll
go with Ysobel and her mother-un-
less Ysobel decides to marry on this
side"
rockingham was internally agi-
tated, but gave no sign of it.
She's marrying either Mr.. Bough-
ton or that handsome Italian sitting
next to Mrs. Ballantyne-the Prince di
Rontivogli."
'Ah," said Forthingham. And to
himself, Just my rotten luck!"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-13


The small boy and his gun are rob-
bling our country lanes and by-ways
of some of our sweetest songsters, but
we have not as much fault to find with
them as with the butchers who per-
sstently slaughter our warblers, in
order to supply the milliner trade of
our country. 1t rests with mothers
and teachers to train the small boy
away from such sport, but how to
overcome the latter barbarity is a
problem. When laces and ribbons can
drape headgear so beautifully, why
murder the innocents?
The Audubon Society is doing a
great work in this direction by at
tempting to introduce laws to check
the raids of the milliners' butchers.
One who is good authority on this sub
ject says that these hunters have
practically exterminated the plume
birds of the United States They have
stripped the Atlantic coast, the whole
of Florida and the Gulf coasts of
egrets, terms and other birds accept
able to the millinery trade. They are
now at work in Mexico. Central Amer
lea and Lower California.
1 have often seen the snow-white
egret swim along the green rushes
tnat Dordef the Iar-IaHneU Dlue III
dian river, and noting there its grace
full beauty, can never enjoy it sit
ting in stony death on anybody's hat,
l care not how pretty the face be-
meath it.
The best way, or, perhaps, the speed
lest way to check this slaughter of
the birds is to get Fashion on our
side. Girls, set crusade against
feathers, wings and birds, and save
for us sweet warblers and beautiful
feathered friends. Don't scold the
boys for robbing birds nests if you
are wearing the mother bird on your
hat. Z. G.. 5.
Alabama.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-13
BUSINESS LOCALS.

Heidi Plow Company still takes m,
lead with farm machinery, horse ho ne
ing and blacksmithing. Always ~
best and always the cheapest AZ Wast
Broad street.
Haslam & Co., merchant tailors ~.
the peoples choice for full dress suits
Our Prince Alberts and Tuxedo suitS
can not be excelled. Bull street.
James j. Joyce, grocery and meat
market, still takes the lead. It viii
pay any person to visit this reliabIs
store and market. It's fine.
Edward j. Kennedy, the high art
merchant tailor and importer. The
finest wooden suitings; for swell dress
ers and business and professional men
Bull street.
Edward Lovell's Sons are showing
fine line of mechanics tools. Get prices
on shelf hardware and implements. Yon
can save nice per cent. lis Brought
ton.
John F. May, the hustling grocer
will supply you with select groceries,
and choice meats. Its a pleasure tn
trade at this reliable grocery and meat
market. Corner Oglethorpe and JEFF
ferson.
Best bargains in city property by W.
]. Miscally, Jr., 20 Bryan street You
will consult your own interest by see
ing him for full particulars.
j. l.. Morrison & Co. are now show
ing an elegant line of new silks and
dress good trimmings to match; prices
lower than anywhere else.
Metzger & Brunson are showing a.
beautiful line of gloves, in kid and silk,
blacks and white. in long and short
lengths. Also mitts in long and short
lengths, white and black
The Georgia Steam Laundry: Your
shirts, collars and cuffs laundried to
perfection. The business men, the
commercial and professional men praise
1t. Congress street.
George Wagner's Son, Savannahs
leading and reliable florist. Now is the
time to order a choice selection of the
most beautiful roses of all kinds.
A. S.. Nichols the reliable shoe deal
er, sells the kind of shoes that fit well,
wear well, and give you solid comfort.
Recommended by the people.
Palmer Hardware Company still takes
the lead with the finest line of hard
ware, cutlery, guns, rifles and ammu-
milton, rope, tirware, stoves and crock
cry and fishing tackle.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-13

The more l know about carpet grass
the better l like it, For lawns 1 be-
lieVe It has no equal 1t is especially
adapted to the South, as it will stand
the extreme of wet, dry or hot weather,
and will also flourish in shady places.
Tramping does not injure it, but it is
easily eXterminated by the plough.
This has been the dryest summer ever
known in this section, and naturally
very tough on lawns. The writer has
been passing a beautiful lawn of car
pet grass nearly every day and all the
care it has had was the frequent use
of the lawn mower. 1t has stood weeks
at a time of dry, hot weather and
showed no sign of turning brown, but
on the contrary, retained its fresh and
green color. There is no reason why
our towns and cities in the South
should not have their homes surround
ed by beautiful carpet of green which
would be far better and so much cool
er than the bare swept yards so prev
shady places where the sun rarely
shines. If we can get our piney woods
set in carpet grass there can be no
better pasture, as all kinds of stock
thrive on it. They prefer it to most
all other grasses. When its value is
once known it will eventually be priced
above all the many grasses adapted to
the South and will make fields of Civ
ing green" of many waste places.-G.
4
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-13
Keep Hogs Dry and clean.

The money-making hog deserves bet
ter treatment than he gets on many
farms. Farmers not infrequently per-
nit hog yards and feed lots to become
very muddy and filthy, saying that it
is impossible to have better ones. This
is too often strongly in evidence these
autumn days with the rain and mud.
Farmers allow the hogs to wade about
in slush not even providing dry,
solid place for feeding and another
for sleeping. The animals being con-
stantly covered with mud and taking
in filth with their food, become rough
and unthrifty. Is it any wonder then
that they succumb to disease? But
there is little excuse for the insanitary
condition on most hog lots. Begin by
tile draining the lot which should be
on as high and dry a spot as possible.
Get off all the water which falls upon
it and remove all from the subsoil as
soon as possible.
Build some kind of hog house for
the animals to sleep in. 1t need not
be expensive. A low shed with tight
roof and earthen floor a foot or eigh-
teen inches above the level of the lot
will usually be dry. If a dry floor
cannot be obtained in this way, fill
in with tile or brickbats or coarse
gravel. These will pack down and
make an excellent floor that will not
become muddy. If material of this kind
is not available it will pay to floor
part of the shed or house with lum-
Der.
The next thing of Importance is a
clean feeding place The only way
to be sure of this is to build one of
boards. Have it large enough to ac-
commodate all your hogs. Build it
eighteen inches or two feet off the
ground and of two-inch material. Clean
it off before each feeding time. By
these simple and inexpensive means
thing, building a shed and providing
a feeding f1oor-it is possible to keep
hogs in fair condition in the muddiest
localities.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-13
FRETGHr AND PARCEL CAR.

Leaves east side OF City Market for Thunder,
bolt Cattle Park. Sandhy Isle Of Hope and o.!
intermediate points-9:I5 o. M, 1; IS p me- o'l'
p. m.
Leaves Isle OF Hope for Sandny, Cattle PARK;
Thunderbolt and all intermediate points-o:U
q. m, II 100 a. m. 800 p m.
Freight car leaves Montgomery at $50 g. N
and 2:55 p m, connecting at Sandy with reg
ular parcel car for city.
Parcel car from the city carries freight "
Montgomery on each trip.
Regular parcel car carries trailer on esoA
trip Tor accommodation OF passengers.
Any further information regarding passes
ger schedule or freight service can be had "
applying 10 c. b. KIDDER. Manager
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-13
Chufas.

The chufa seems to be very little
known outside of the Southern states
but it is an old crop here and is high
" esteemed as a feed crop for hogs
and poultry.
The plant resembles a large bunch of
grass, the blades sometimes growing
as high as a mans waist. and usually
to the knee and the plant at the
ground measuring six or eight inches
IN diameter The chufas are small tu-
bers borne upon the thread-hke roots
one tuber OF the end Of each root. The
e6nutas, after being cured are, in Size
ON garden pea to the size of a
nall almond, and an immense GUAM
Dtity Is borne on one plant. They must
pc soaked about three days before
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-13

unlucky bug or hopper that ventured
into their pen, while the meat-fed
ducks lay lazily in the sun and paid
little attention to insect life. The
thirty-two meat-fed birds lived and
thrived, but at the end of the fifteenth
week thirteen of the grain birds had
died and others We're in poor condi-
ton. The remainder were then fed
four weeks on the meat ration and
made rapid gains. Rations are recon-
mended in which 40 to so per cent. of
the protein is supplied from animal
sources.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-13
Potato Growing.
Alabama

The following is a summary of bull
letin published by Cornell University
Experiment Station;
First. Extensive tillage alone is not
sufficient to produce a large yield of
potatoes. The soil upon which the
potatoes are grown should be properly
supplied with humus if moisture is to
be conserved through a drought.
Second. On a soil we'll supplied
with humus the moisture may be con-
served, even though a severe drought
and a fair crop of potatoes produced.
Third. Spraying with Bordeaux
mixture in nearly every case has in
creased the yield of potatoes, even
when blight has not been prevalent.
The practice should become more gen
eral.
Fourth. Narrowing potato land aft
err potatoes are planted and before the
plants are above ground is a good
practice.
Fifth. Intensive tillage may be
on erdene. During a drought only so
much tillage is necessary, as shall keep
the surface much loose and thorough
ly dry. The drier the surface layer
of SOIL the more slowly will moisture
be absorbed by it from the layers of
sub-surface soil.
Sixth. Spraying with Bordeaux mix
ture should be done thoroughly.
Seventh. Pruning potato Vines to
one main stem is not beneficial.
Eighth. Potato machinery, while
not yet perfected, has reached such d
degree of perfection that where pota-
L toes are grown upon any considera BILE
area special potato machinery should
be provided. Implements should be
purchased which are found adapted to
the local conditions.
Ninth. There is no royal road to
success with potatoes. Methods of
procedure which are applicable dur
ing one season must be modified to
meet the requirements of another sea-
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-13

son. Treatment of one soil might be
radically wrong when applied to an
other soil. Success will only be at
tanned by thorough familiarity with
the plant and it's habits of growth,
and then conditions must be made to
meet as completely as possible the re-
cuirements.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-13
COLLINSVILLELINE

(F'olr Grounds and Dale Avenue.)
Beginning at 800 a. m, cars leave Bolton
and OFT streets every Is minutes; returning
cars leave Estill avenue and Waters road at
e:U7 a. m. and every IS minutes thereafter, con.
Meeting with cars on Thunderbolt line. until
1900 o'clock midnight.
Through cars are operated between Market
and 1hundercolJ via. Collins vile and Dale
avenue as follows:
Leave Market. Leave Thunderool|
45 A. NJ. Z 80 A NJ.
645P p. NJ. z 80 p. NJ.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-13
MAGAZINES.

Part III, of Records Of the Past, is
entirely devoted to q translation of
the Laws of Hammurabi. who was
the King OF Babylonia 1850. B. C. The
STEELE bearing these laws. although in