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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-01
GARDEN
AND HOUSEHOLD
BY S. A. COOK.

! five acres. some of the land being of a
/ very graVelly nature wirh gravel sub
/ soil. The manure from six head of cat
I tie and three horses helps out the chem
\ icals. More stock has been kept at
/ times.
If commercial fertilizers are used,
use the best Be generous with the
/ land. especially if potatoes are grown,
to insure a bountiful crop. The labor
involved is nearly the same, whether
the yield be large or small The min
eral elements in the fertilizers, not
taken up by the potato crop which 9
considerable, think, when one-half ton
per acre is used. will benefit succeed
ing crops. Remember that short rota-
tions bring the oft recurring benefit
of decaying sod 10 the soil. Thus the
land is more rapidly improved.
The Worth of Stable Manure.-Of
course, the best way of keeping up soil
fertility is by using manure. The eX-
perience of city gardeners clearly
proves that the soil I&n be kcpc at the
highest state of fertility by large APP
plications of manure alone, though
many truck farmers use fertilizers
either exclusively or in enormous guam
titles When manure is used in large
enough quantities it supplies all the
plant food elements in abundance and
is of especial value in gardening, as it
provides a large amount of nitrogen
Gus matter which is of value in pro-
noting the growth of vegetable tissue.
1t also keeps the soil filled with hui
mus.
Fertilizers are principally used
where it is impossible to obtain ma
nure. When they are applied with in
telligence and judgment the farm in
come is not only greatly increased
without injury to the SOIL but the soil
fertility is actually increased. When
carelessly or ignorantly employed a
contrary result surely follows. Fer
tilizers wonderfully increase and slim
ulate the production of profitable crops.
In many parts of the country it would
be impossible to farm profitably with
out them Probably no other agency
introduced within the last fifty years
has so directly benefited the farming
sections of the East as commercial
fertilizers. The trade in fertilizers is
enormous, several million tons being
consumed every year in this country.
But, unlike manure, there are limita-
tons to the use of fertilizers, because
of the limitations of the soil''
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-01
About BIanures.

A writer in the Florida Agriculturist
says: I'm stating my experience in
building up WORKOUT land, do hot
farmer may do who will use judgment
and common sense. Always keep this
fact in mind. that the plant food in a
bag of honest fertilizer is of the same
nature as that in our stable manure.
Commercial fertilizer has the ad-
vantage of being rapidly available
The stable manure has the advantage
of supplying humus to the soil. By
short rotations of diverse crops in con-
nection with commercial fertilizers. the
humus is supplied. Thus the advan-
tage remains with the chemicals. My
plan has been to spread what stable
pillow and to plant to potatoes, using
one-half ton Of high grade fertilizer per
acre, drilled in with the seed
Immediately after the potatoes are
dug, we sometimes harrow and SOW
rye. This makes a growth of a foot
or more by the middle of May. 1t is
then plowed under and in its decay
furnishes humus. Corn is then planted
with one-quarter of a ton of fertilizer,
distributed broadcast. At the last culti-
walton of the corn, a liberal quantity
OF grass seed is sown, which gives a
good crop of hay the next year. The
land remains in grass two or three
years, when the above process is re-
peated.
Good Results secured.-Now as to
the results of this system. Poor run
out land, much of IL very gravelly. has
IN ten years been brought to produce
from three 10 six times more than
formerly. For the last Eve years we
have fifteen TO thirty tons Of hay and
BOO 70 1900 bushels Of potatoes an
nually. In spite of this drain the land
is growing more productive. This wear
we dug 1900 bushels Of potatoes from
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-01

The corn kernel is every year com
ing in to greater demand as a source
of various commercial products of i'm
portance. Among some of these prod
ucts are dextrine, confectioners' starch,
American gum, glucose, laundry starch,
corn-oil, corn-sugar and rubber.
The rubber is used as an adulterant
of India rubber, and the corn sugar is
used as an adulterant of powdered
sugar. Corn-sugar has only about two
thirds the sweetness of cane-sugar ana
is used extensively by brewers in the
elaboration of beer.
Cornstarch is changed into glucose
by having water added to it and being
heated in vacuum pans. The glucose
is in turn used as an adulterant of
most of our table syrups.
Men are all the time discovering new
uses for the corn plant, and the in
evitable result must be an ultimate
higher price for corn. In turn, this
means a higher price for corn land.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-01

London, Jan. 31.-The report of the
Royal Commission. known as the Lord
Esther Commission, which was appoint
ed last November for the purpose of
advising the government concerning
the creation of board for the admin
istrative business of the war office, has
been issued, and it confirms the change
foreshadowed by the Associated Press
on Nov. 2S. namely that the post of
commander-in-ch of the army will be
abolished.
With the approval of the King and
acting upon the recommendations of
the commission. the government has
decided to appoint an army council
framed upon the admiralty models; to
abolish the office of commander-in- chief
of the army, and to create a new post,
that of inspector general, whose prin-
cipal duty will be to inspect and re-
port on the efficiency of the military
forces.
With regard to the war office the
commission suggests that the Secre-
tary of State for war be placed in the
same position as the first lord of the
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-01
GOOD ROADS OF EQUAL IMPORT
ANCE TO IMPROVED HARBORS
Bills Before Congress Supported by Democrats
and Republicans Alike

can't do too much toward assisting the
various states in having the very best
roads, and / think the congressman
and leading citizens of the states should
take an interest in the matter, and DO
all they could to have the very pest
roads possible in each community. l
have been reading very cartuIly the
proceedings OF the Good Roads Asso-
citation, and was we'll pleased with the
splendid advancement that it has
made. l think that Congress shouid
take the matter up and give the bills
that are now pending before II very
careful consideration.
Il am in favor of the general idea
of. the Good Roads bills that have been
introduced in Congress-, SAID Repre-
sentative Griffith. of Indiana. Ever
since | have been in Congress we nave
been spending vast sums of money Tor
the people of Porto Rico, Cuba, the
Philippines, and Hawaii, and l am very
anxious to see some money approprlat-
ed here at home where the direct ben
efits will be given to our own people.
[ see no reason why the idea is not
practicable, and it might be CONSIDERED
as akin to the rural free mail system
For Roads Between Court Houses
Representative Taylor of Alabama
said II am in favor of national ala
to good roads. l regard the good roads
Improvement as of equal Importance
with the river and harbor improve
ments. Transportation is in my
Judgment an exceedingly important
factor in our civilization and good
roads is one of the chief FACTORS III
farm transportation. My opinion is
the cost of production can be reduced
at least 25 per cent; probably 80 1-3
per cent. by improvement in the road
systems of the country. think there
should be at least a system OF roads
that will connect the court houses of
every city in the state where traVel
can be had easily and rapidly without
the necessity for steam and rail.
Might Solve Prison Labor Problem.
Representative Bartholdt of Missouri
said: while l am thoroughly in IA
vor of the national government going
to the constitutional limit in aiding the
construction of good roads all over
the country l also see in this propo-
sition for good roads timely chance,
and, in fact, the only means to solve
the vexed question of prison labor. Inc
goods manufactured in the prisons OF
the country are now a menace to free
labor for the reason that the latter
cannot compete with convicts and
therefore it is my deliberate judgment
that we should no longer turn prisons
into factories, but employ our convlcts
all over the country in the making
and improving of our highways and
roads"
Representative Gardner of Michigan:
81 have not much to say about the
proposition, further than that I am in
favor of any reasonable appropriation
for good roads,
Mr.. Shafroth of Colorado said: Il
am in favor of the proposition for good
roads. l do not think l can say any
thing more than that the spending of
money in the construction of good
roads is a most judicious expenditure"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-01
AGRARIANs ARE OPPOSED

To the Importation of American
Meats in Austria.
Vienna, Jan. 31.-The efforts of the
Municipal Council to reduce the price
of meat to the people of Vienna by
securing the importation of trans-At-
lantic meat products are meeting very
strong opposition from the agrarian in
terests. Associations of farmers and cat
tie men and peasants unions through
out Austria have addressed kilograms
of protest to the Ministry of the In
terror and the City Council, urging
that irreparable damage would be done
the agricultural interests of the coun-
try if the importation of meat from
the other side of the Atlantic were per-
mitted.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-01
True.

No one has been able to ascertain
why a draft of air blowing through a
crack in the hen house while hen is
on the roost will prove detrimental to
her health when the same hen roosting
in tree can have all the feathers
blown off her body and the latter
blown into another county without any
apparent disturbance except as to loca-
ton. An exchange says, this is con-
sidered to be a fact
Drafts in poultry house are danger
GUS and no mistake.
Breezes in summer or winter will
not hurt folks or hens if they are active
and keep in motion. Sitting or roost-
ing in a draft of air will prove danger
Gus to fowls and should be avoided.
Don't have any drafts in the roost-
ing room of the poultry house while
the hens are at roost. At any other
time they may do no damage.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-01

Columbia, S. c.. Jan. 31.-The Con-
federate Soldiers Relief Association of
South Carolina has sent out an appeal
for funds for the relief and comfort
of the INDECENT and suffering ex-Con-
federate soldiers in South Carolina.
The funds are to supplement the pen
sion fund of the state and to be applied
only in case of actual necessity and
restitution in individual cases which
are not sufficiently aided by the PEN
sions.
Norton w Brooks is president of
the association. E. J. Watson is secre-
tary and f. II. Weston lis treasurer
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-01

Number of farm seeds in a pound
varies greatly with even the leading
farm crops. Red top. 100000; reed
canary grass, 100000; smooth-stalked
meadow grass. 100000; rough stalked
meadow grass, 100000; sleeps fes-
cue, $4,000; various-leafed fescus, 400,-
900; creeping fescue, 600; awnless bronze
grass, 1877, 900; perennial rye grass, $780,
500; italian rye grass, 2S5,00O; orchard
grass, 579,500; meadow fescue, 31S, 200;
meadow oat grass, $4,000; yellow oat
grass, 2,045.0O0; velvet grass, 1904, 900;
timothy, l,l70,50o; meadow foxtail, 9O7,-
600; vernal grass, $4,000; crested dogs
tail, 1,127000; alsike clover, 707, 900;
sainfoin, 22.500; red clover, 279, 1000 !;
white clover, 100000; common kidney
vetch, $4,000; alfalfa or lucern, 209,-
500; trefoil. 32S.000; birds foot trefoil,
S75,O0O official goats rue, $1,000.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-01

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1e kIIuJsssoons puB hIlu9SHIsluI noA
lB5Il puB SsBo Jno6 ssouSglp Alos5Ioo
thousands of cases in this way. and
you need not deprive yourself Of NV
expert skill simply because you are
not able TO call at my once. Write
me fully about your case II you are
afflicted with any kind Of Chronic Dis
ease, and will answer promptly and
send you a valuable book and other
Information. Do not put II of longer
but write to-day. Correspondence
CONFIDENTIAL.
j. NEWTON HATHAWAY, NJ. D..
rs A Bryan Street. Savannah. Ga.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-01
Southern Lumber Co.'S Purchase.

Moultrie, Ca. Jan. 31.-The Southern
Lumber Company of Moultrie has this
week added to its list of lumber in
vestments by the purchase of the plant
of the Triton Lumber Company. The
plant with improvements represents a
value of $4,000. The Southern Lum-
Der Company will put in a big planning
mill and dry kiln there to run in con-
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-01
vaIdo.ta,. Active nicycIe Thiever.

Valdosta, Ga, Jan. 3l.-The police
are on the lookout to-day for bicycle
thieves. No less than dozen wheels
have been stolen here during the past
two or three days. Four were report
ed as stolen night before last and three
more were missing this morning. Doc
tors who left their bicycles at the
front gate while they went in to see
a patient returned to find their wheel
gone. None of the thieves have been
captured yet.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-01
vaIdostn Prisoner Held mt Hawkins
willie.

vsldosts. Ga, Jan. sl.--Deputy Sher-
IN Ralph MIDDLETON returned from
Hawkinsville last night, where he went
after Kibby Lamar. He was much sur
prised when the Hawkinsville officers
told him that he could not get the man,
as they had a town charge against him.
The sheriff may appeal to the Governor
and try TO get the prisoner anyway.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-01
FOUR NEGROES ARRESTED.
Held Upon Suspicion of Having
Killed Charlie Yee.

Augusta, Jan. 31.-The coroner's jury
discovered no important new facts in
its investigation to-day into the MUIR
der of Charlie zee. the Chinaman.
Four negroes have been arrested on
suspicion, Tom Burke. Henry Mallory
John Jennings and wife. The last two
live next door to the Chinese store and
could not give the coroner a satisfac-
tory account of their actions Saturday
morning. The woman was particularly
clustered before the jury. but it is
thought that it may have been only
stage fright"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-01
WRITE NE A LETTER
If You Are Sick.

II you cannot
see me in per-
son, you ought
to know about
my system of
h o m e treat
ment, which 1
have perfected
for the benefit
of those who
live outside OF
Savannah. BY
means of my
complete self
e X a m / n alton
blanks which 1
will send you
upon request, I
- -. 49,. a
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-01

nection with similar plants at Norman
Park and Kingwood. The offices of
the company will remain at Moultrie.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1904-08-08
TINE TABLE.
HIGHLAND DIVISION.

A446A44Sx4kA4% IA " &9AO4ys
Trains leave Meadow street station
for Boston, Hartford and way stations
at TOO a. M; 1888, BIB. 8:07 p. m.
Trains arrive at Meadow street sta
ton from Boston. Hartford and way
stations at SOB. 11:40 a. M; LAB, $40
p. m.
Trains leave Meadow street station
Tor New York, Poughkeepsie. Dam
bury apd way stations at s:13 a. m;
and 90 and 6:24 D. m
Trains arrive at Meadow street sta
C1on from New York, Poughkeepsie,
Danbury and way stations at $500 a.
M; 1924 and S;O4 p. N.
SUNDAY TRAINS.
Leave Meadow street station at $50,
1905 a. M; 200, sos and TOO o. m.
Arrive at Meadow street station at
BOO, l1:50 a. M; 400. $50 and $50
NAUGATUCK DIVISION
Trains leave Bank street station for
New York, Bridgeport, New Haven
and other places south at C:35. 1855.
1882 a. m; 1:l4. 800, Ass. 6:15 and
500 p. m.
Trains arrive at Bank street station
from New York. Bridgeport New Hav-
en- and way stations at 7:15. 8:25, e.O5,
1888 a. m; 1:1S, 9:45, $40. $50. o:53,
S:48 p, NJ; 1920 a. m.
Trains leave Bank street station for
Winsted. and way stations at S:26,
1859 a. M; lie, 3:46, 5:21 (Wateryilla
only, 6:53 and 8:4S p. N.
Trains arrive at Bank street station
from Winsted and way stations at f:35
TOO, 1852 q. M: lila, 8:04, 6:47 (Wa-
terville) 6:15 p. m.
fv1-. ana va 10 a&wn~& 80 49,. @~~
WATERFOWL and way stations az G:45,
$50, 11:o3 a. M; 1 40. $3.50, b:1O. 6:12,
6:5s, 1853 ana IL 90 p. m.
Trains arrive at Bank street station
from WAtertown and way stations at
$40, 7:46, 1912 a. M; 100, 1856, 4:30
b:52, 6.45, 7:45, 11;16 p. M.
SUNDAY TRAINS.
Leave Bank straet station for New
York, Bridgeport and New Haven az
7:O5, $3.50 Bridgeport, New Haven and
way stations only a. M; :05, b:10 and
500 p. m.
Arrive at Bank street station from
New York, Bridgeport and New Ha
ven at 9:53 m; 1850, 1862, 1905 D m.
Leave Bank street station for Water
town and way stations at 9;5S a. IN.
and SOB p. m.
Arrive at Bank street station from
WhLGTIOWu anu way 5knA10AS at 9sOu
a. m. and ass p. m.
MERIDEN BRANCH.
Trains leave Dublin street station
for Middletown and way stations at
0:21 d. m. and 6:15sp. m.
Trains arrive at Dublin street sta
ton from NIiddletown and way sta
tons at 80 a. m. and 3:5S p. N.
Trains leave Dublin street station
for New Haven by way of Cheshire at
700 1880 a. m; 4:15 p. m.
Trains arrive at Dublin street sta
ton from New Haven by way OF
Cheshire at 900 a. M; Pas, 7:42 p. m,
SUNDAY TRAINS.
Leave Dublin street station for New
Haven by way OF Cheshire at TOO.
IL 100 a. m; $50 p. m.
Arrive at Dublin street station from
New Haven by way of Cheshire al
$50 a. m; $40, $50 D. m.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1904-08-08
CITY AMATEUR STANDING.
THE LAURELs WON.

The Laurels defeated the Emeralds
yesterday by the score of 10 to s.
The lineup is as follows: J. Cos
grove, G; r. Clark, p; FL. Gilbar, lib!
r.. Sanzero, 2b; M, Preston, 3b; G..
Snowman, S.; ID. Hacketr, IF; w. Nc
Keen, CT; Il. Downey, If. They now
challenge any team in the city under
IL years Of age. Any one desiring
a game call on Manager Preston, 236
Wolcott street, or Captain Gilbar, 651
East Main street
GREATER AMATEUR LEAGUE.
In the Greater Amateur league the
games were as follows: st Thomas
defeated the Big Sevens by the score
OF ~ to g.. The batteries were, for st
Thomas, Richenstein and AIcGrath,
and for the Big Seyens, Bloomfield
and Doran. The feature of the game
was the fielding of Duoer.
The second Merrinlac team won
from the Ben Mohrs by the score of
16 to 5. The batteries were Burns
and Finn for the Merrimacs and RE
ley and Dorothy for the Ben Mohrs.
The Good Wills beat the Acorns by
the score Of 8 to /, the batteries being
Bergin and Hayden for the Good
Wills and Smith and Molaney for the
Acorns.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1904-08-08
A Big Hockey League.

PITTSBURG, Aug. s. A meeting
will be held at Detroit during the week
of Aug. IA for the purpose Of forming
a league Of hockey clubs similar to the
National Baseball league Pittsburg,
Houghton, Sault ste, Marie and Cal
umet clubs are behind the project. A
circuit will be formed and a schedule
adopted for next winter, when cham
pionship intercity games will be play
ed. New York and Brooklyn have been
invited to send representatives to the
meetinp
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1904-08-08
OUT FOR BUFFALOES
BUT TT WAS WITH A CAMERA
INSTEAD OF A RIFLE.
Esnest Harold Baynes Tells of Photo
graphing Herd on q New Hamp-
shire Preserve-Getting
Very Scarce.

am particularly interested in buff
faloes for several reasons. In the
first place, they are the most magnifi-
cent hoofed animals on the western
hemisphere, and in the next place they
are almost extinct. Less than SO years
ago, they were probably the most num-
erous large wild animals In the world,
and to-day there are possibly ], 800 in ex-
istence. About third of these, some
thing over 600, are wild and inhabit q
dssolate region southwest of--well,
never mind just where it Is The rest are
either in captivity in geological gar
dens, or in what might be termed semi
captivity In big game preserves. The
largest herd In semiconfinement is that
In the Blue Mountain forest. otherwise
known as Corbin park, q vast preserve
some seven miles north of Newport, N. HI.
There are at this writing approximately
$50 buffalo of all ages in this herd, and
these great shaggy beasts roam at will
over their kingdom Of 26, 900 acres, con-
fined only by fence 36 miles in length.
Here, In country OF wild mountainfo
ests, bushy thickets, swampy lowlands
and increase In numbers every year,
and It is here that have the privilege of
studying their habits, and of photo
graphing the animals themselves to my
hearts content.
a few days later, very early one morn
Ing, came upon herd Of buffalo, more
than hundred all told, grazing on a
piece of high land where they had spent
the night. | set off home and returned
with two cameras, hoping to get pic
ture Of the herd. But before could get
quite near enough, some OF the beasts
caught sight of me, and by few deep
grunts warned the rest, and the whole
lot were soon galloping away down a
hill, across a swamp and into a wood
where they were lost to view. However.
he who runs may read the fresh trail of
herd of buffaloes, by the trampled
grass, the broken twigs, and, at this
season, by the punches OF hair left