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6 Roses from Slips. In my article on rose cultivation I prom ised to tell how I raised them from the slip. I will give my method now. Au gust and September are the best months, but I have started some as late as Decem ber in my pit. A pit is without doubt a better place to raise them than on window edges or shelves and in boxes in a room and far less trouble, as requiring less frequent watering; and as the moisture is more regular in the pit the chance of living is greatly increased. . Take any size box desired (eight inches deep is enough), have it sufficiently open at bottom to drain off when slips are wa tered, put in about two incues of well rotted cow-pen or hen-house manure, then about four inches of elean sand Wash the sand until the water runs off clear from it. When dry enough for handling pat in the box on the well-rotted soil and it is ready for the slips. The best way to get slips is to take a stem that has borne a rose and break it down from the main branch, leaving a kind of knob at end, pinch off the leaves and top, leaving the slip from four to live inches long, and some shorter than this, sticking them about half their depth in the wet sand and about two inches apart each way and straight up and down. They live as well straight as on a slant and make a better and nicer looking plant. After all are set out give the box a good watering so as to firm the sand about the slips, and set it on one of the lower shelves in your pit where the sun will not shine fully on them, and keep them there for a week or ten days, then move up a little higher, and as soon as they seem to be taking root (the buds beginning to swell) •move into more light still, where the sun will shine well on them. Keep the sand moist all the time. Now, set out this early they will be ready to transplant in the fall, which I generally do into the tin cans as I direc ted in my last article on rose cultivation. I like to transplant when the young roots first begin to put out, before they have become many and long and therefore in more danger of breaking off. I take them up carefully with a spoon, trying to leave a Dall of sand adhering. Have well rot ted cow pen manure about half way in the can and sand on top of this, for when the roots are so young and tender they still do best in sand. As they grow dur ing the winter I add fresh ricti soil. I have had roses started early this way to bloom during the winter. These, too, are ready to be transplanted early to the ground and to give you a profusion of lovely blossoms all summer. I wish you could see my young roses that I set out as I wrote about in previous article (after a long dry spell, when all the gar dens are drying up and without any watering) how well they look and what lovely roses they give me all the time. •eta Marie Von Hontle and Mane Guillot in your collection; they are per- fectly beautiful. Goode and Reese sent out a beautiful §1 60 collection, twenty in number, last spring; they were small Slants but healthy and vigorous. By the y, small plants live better than large •hm. Make a rich light place in your garden in October, stick in your rose slip and turn over it an old glass jar or tumbler or goblet, any glass thing without a hole in it; pull up the earth around and firm it down so it won’t fall over easily and leave it so until spring, when you will find a rooted rose. I have never tried this plan, as the other way suits me best, but several of my neighbors have with success. — Home and Farm. , Does Not Understand It. Mr. Morris of Jacksonville Texas s ays he does not see how we sell so good a maohine at such a price. We really do not make any money on it, but we save our subscribers money > and they in turn appreciate our paper all the more and talk it up to their neighbors, so that in the end we are the gainers. Jacksonville, Tex. The Bouthebn Farm, Atlanta, Ga. The premium High Arm Sewing Machine I bought from you in February last has been thoroughly tested on nearly aU grades ot house hold family sewing, and gives entire satisfac tlon and I believe it to be fully as good in every respect as tbe machines selling in this country for $55 to 860 1 can cheerfully recommend The uouthhrn Fabm Machine to any one in need us a hist class sewing machine. All who have seen it in use say they oon’t see how you can sell so good a machine for such a low price. I think you will get oraers for several more machines from this place in a short time. Fours truly, M. D. Morris. Eight-Acre Vineyard Enough. A correspondent of Grape Belt, who calls himself Dennis, is in the position of many men who have bitten off more than they ean chew. He says: I began with about eight acres of vine yard, and that was just about my size, but I didn’t know it. I thought if eight acres was a good thing 30 acres would be nearly four times better, and I, like an ass that 1 am, increased it to that area. A funny feature was, that all the time I was put ting out more grapes, I was howling about the business being overdone, and some how I felt that everybody ought to stop planting but myself. Verily, consistency is a jewel, and I can now see that I talked mucu better than I knew. When I had my little old vineyard of eight acres I was practically out ot debt. Now lam not. It is true that I am as sessed more than I was then, and at an honest valuation I may be worth more, but lam just enough in debt to have no spare casn, and feel all the time hard up, so that I feel like a poor man. If I were back again to the old vineyard, my wife and the oldest boy and I would have gone to the World’s Fair. As it is, I was hust ling around to get some money to pay off some help that "flared up" and quit in August. I would then bo fibie to do my work on time and have my vineyard in apple-pie order to the queen’s taste, but no wit is a foot race from All-fools day in the spring until election day in the fall. I do no. claim that I was getting more graphs then than now, for I was not, but I do know that my graphs were costing me less p«r basket then than now. Then what 1 received for my crop gave me some fun. Now it goes into a rat hole. I would not have you think that I am hopelessly in debt, but I am loaded up so I feel it when I go to btd at night and when I get up in tbe morning. I realize that I have bitten off enough so that mas tication is embarrassing. If I could find some sucker to buy tbe newly-planted vineyard, he could have it cheap. He could have it for what it has cost me to put out the grapes, and the land at pasture prices, and I would stick to the little eight-acre vineyard. I might be thought small potatoes in the business, but all the same I would occasionally get a day off to go fishing. If I were back there I would not borrow any trouble about the business being overdone. The oth»r fellow would then do that. With the small amount on my hands I would give best of culture and in return get the best of yields, and by doing much of the work mj self I could grin and bear as low prices as any one, but so long as I am in my present fix, low prices hurt, and there are several carloads of wen in the same boat. I believe the grape business is all right, and the best feature most of us farmers can take up if we take it up right, but I do not believe it is good enough so that every Tom, Dick and Harry can catch on in all sorts of ways and conditions, and some of them not be left. Testimony From Alabama. Miss Dill of Alabama purchased one of our machines and we saved her $25 on it, of course she is pleased, why shouldn’t she be? Dillbuboh, Ala., The Southern Fabm, Atlanta, Ga., Deab|%bs lam very much pleased With the machine 1 purchased of you, and think it just as good as the $45 ones agents are selling. Respectfully, Miss alios C. Dill. Bean ana Pea Weevils. The peas are often found in the spring, when planting time arrives, entirely hol lowed out by a little bug in a manner which would seem sufficient to prevent their germination, yet they grow. A writer says; the request for informa tion how to preserve navy Deans from the attack of the weevil, is one of the ques tions much more easily asked than an -8 Wered* My early-planted peas are invariably attacked by the disgusting creatures, and we are compelled to eat our share of wee vil eggs,and perhaps minute weevil larvae, or go without early peas. The early beans also have to suffer sometimes, but as we use them mostly for snaps, when quite young, we eat them without suspicion. Both weevils can be destroyed by contact with fresh insect powder, and I sometimes spray my early pea vines, when the pea weevils are present in large numbers and busy depositing their eggs, with water, into which a quantity of the yellow pow der has been stirred. If this is done a few times, I think the vines can be kept rea sonably free from the insects. The reme dy is well worth the trial in the kitchen garden, but it pre-supposes the possession ot a spraying maohine. I use the knap sack sprayer with the Vermorel nozzle. Late sown peas and beans usually escape the attack of weevils, and wherever the season is long enough, planting may be deferred until the period of danger is past. We plant navy beans first half of June; Jeas for seed, during the latter part of lay. Bat, after all, we cannot always succeed in keeping peas and beans free from wee vils, and if we examine the freshly gath ered seed closely, we may discover in part of them the germ of mischief—eggs or small worms. It is always advisable to subject the suspected beans and peas to a course ot treatment, consisting of ex posure to heat, or to the fumes of bisul phide of carbon, in a closed vessel. You can heat the seed beans or peas to 145 de grees Fahrenheit for an hour without in juring their vitality, while this will surely Kill the eggs or larvae contained in them. If yon prefer to use bisulphide of carbon, put the beans or peas into a tight barrel or box, place a saucer containing some of the drug upon them, put on the cover and leave closed for twenty-four or thirty-six hours; but let me say it again, keep away from it with a lighted lamp. Fertilize Your Orchards. Says The Granger: Half a century ago when every farm had its large apple or chard, three-fourths or more of the trees were of the cider-apple bearing variety, and occasionally .here were some varie ties of grafted fruit, such as Seek no-fur thers, Jelly Flowers and Greenings. The orchard, if on a good spot of ground us ually did fairly well, but there was a theory that the trees bore abundant fruit only about once in four years. Indeed, in one section of Litchfield county it was said that an abundance of fruit need be expected only on the years when there was a presidential campaign. Whether this was or not a coincidence it was|a faot that in 1840 when William Henry Har rison for president and John Tyler vice president were the successful candidates, the apples in all parts of the New Eng land and Middle States were very abun dant, and as a consequence cider was very plentiful. There are now people living who were boys and young men then who remember the “Log Cabin and Hard Cider Campaign," of that year. In 1876 and in 1880 as well as in 1884 there was a much lai gar crop of apples than in other inter vening years. In those days orchards were set out in virgin soil stored with the accumulated fortuity of many previous years and this was tbe chief reason why the trees grew FARM. and bore fruit so profusely. But the land on which the trees are placed grows poor er and poorer each year, and if proper at tention was paid to fertilizing the land there is no reason why the trees should not bear as profusely as of old. Where wood is used *s fuel it is a good plan to put the ashes on the ground under the trees and it will pay an excellent per centage in the increased supply and ex cellence ot the fruit Stable manure and the plowing under of clover is an excellent thing, and if as much attention is paid to the orchard in the way of fertilization it will pay as big a profit, if not larger, than any other field on the farm. KWJCKr E.A-DH • Heb Own Physician— A Lady who for many years suffered from Uterine troubles.—Falling, Displaoements, Leuoorrhesa and Irregularities, fiuauy found remedies which completely cubed her. any lady can take the remedies, and thus cure herself without the aid ot a physician. The recipes, with full directions and advice, sent ebee to any sufferer, securely sealed. Address Mbs. M. J Hbabie, 621 North Sixth street, Philadelphia, Pa. (Name this paper.) The Outlook for Wheat. The production of wheat and tbe deficit (amount needed above the domestic sup ply) in each importing country is given as follows: Product in bu. Deficit. Great Britain 56,750,000 184 427 000 France 283 764,000 45,818 000 Germany 90 795 000 25.537 000 Italy 122 012 000 22 700 000 Netherlands 6,384 000 8 512 000 Switzerland 4 539,000 12 768 000 Belgium 15 605 000 24 118 000 Denmark 4 256 000 3 688 (TO Norway and Sweden 4 823 000 2 270 000 Spain 76,612 000 8 512,000 Portugal 5 675 000 5 675 000 Greece 4 255 000 7 377 000 Austria 45,40U,000, 39,725,000 The production and surplus in each ex porting country are given thus: Product in bu. Surplus Russia 342 965 000 97 893 000 Hungary 141,870 000 45 400 000 Ronmania 46,818 000 34 050 000 Turkey • 23 875 OCO 5,875 000 Bulgaria 31,977 000 10,782 000 Servia 8,512 000 3 406 000 United States 387 250,000 69 518,000 Canada 43,980,000 9.931.000 India 274,885 000 42,562 000 Rest of Asia 65 262 000 7 098 000 Africa 36,716 000 3 688,000 Australia 39 725,000 19,295 000 Argentina 56,750,000 26 105 000 Chile, etc. 19,862,008 6,526,000 The Times. London, England, concedes that England will require 224 000,000 bush els of wheat. A quarter is 8 bushels of 60 pounds each. It says in the course of a long leader on the dismal agricultural prospects of Great Britain, that foreign competition depresses the price of cattle and corn. The imports of animals and meat, it says, will swamp the markets this year. Great Britain will be more than ever dependent on foreign supplies, and will require at least 28,000,000 quar ters of wheat from abroad. France, it adds, must import more than twice as much as she usually does. As to Germany, that country has already begun to draw on the American market for sup plies When nations thus bid agairst eash other, the article says, there is a fair chance that prices will advance. Raising Wheat at a Loss. America was once known as the land where poor men ate meat twice a day —if they wanted to, says the Country Gentleman. Now Europe should be placarded with tbe astonishing state ment that in the old settled Ohio Vally, close to markets, five day’s la bor In the harvest field at wheat stacking, or eight days at any labor, will provide bread for a family for a year I Surely the staff of life should be in every man’s (or woman’s) bauds for this year at least. There is no profit in wheat-raising in Ohio. The average crop of the State is grown at a positive loss. 1 know poor men who have rented land at $4 per acre, bought drill and bind er, and put in wheat crops, who will be nearly ruined by this year’s prices. Let us look at the figures of an actual case of which I know. The land is clay—fairly good wheat land. The wheat was sown on corn stubble, not fertilized. There was in the eontract a requirement that clover should be sown on the wheat one half to be bought by landlord : DR. Harrowing and drilling per acres 1.50 Seed 1.50 Twine and cuttiug 1.00 Shocking 0.50 Stacking 2.00 Threshing 100 Hauling to market 0.50 Clover seed ...... 1.00 Rent and interest 4.24 Total $13.24 CR. 15 bushels per acre, @ 25c..57.30 Straw 1.00 Loss per acre $4.44 A problem for farmers quietly to think out is now before them. Is wheat a standard pf value? Is land? YOU CAN BE BEAUTIFUL. font Full address,with stamp,.ent to E. FOLDER CHEMICAL CO., Duluth, Minn., will secure FREE a valuable book containing •rreelew hints for the oare an I beautifying es the COMPLEXION, 1TB», UPS, ARMS, KUsT, BAIR, etc. .which .b.ald be read by all, « KM,who Wfth teuhd ts their penwaal MttwsMvrows. Is there a better than land? Has land, Wheat, silver, slumped? Are these things more plenty in proportion to the world’s civilized population than before? Or is gold becoming dearer? I remember well when an acre of good Ohio land could be exchanged for 80 to 100 gold dollars. Now it can be ex changed for but 40 to 65. Have our legislators been blind leaders of the blind? There is ohance there for a good deal of quiet thought, and the thing should not be considered along party lines, bat with a malice toward no class and charity for all —the greatest good to the greatest number being sought. There was a quiet shower last night, tempering sligncly our drouth, which was fast approaching a serious con tinuance. A Hog Cholera Remedy. Dr. T. J. Dodge, of Hamilton, 111., writes as follows to the lowa Homestead on the subject of bog cholera: As the price of hogs is sufficiently high to pay the farmer to use every means of protecting them from the ravages of tbe cholera, I deem it my duty to give to the public, free, my recipe for the cure of what is termed hog cholera. I have used this remedy for thirty-five vears, and rais ed hogs on my ranch in Nebraska, and never lost a hog. Have experimented by placing one well hog with a lot of siok ones and Keeping it well by the use of this remedy. You will confer a great favor upon the farmers of our country by publishing this recipe in full in your valuable paper. lam now engaged in other business, and have been for sixteen years, and am willing to let others prosper by the long years of experience ot miae with a reme dy I discovered myself for the cure of this disease. The prescription and directions are as follows: Arsenic, one-half pound; cape aloes, one-half peund; blue vitriol, one-fourth pound; black antimony, one ounce. Grind and mix well the remedy before using. The following are the directiens for use: 1. Sick hogs in all cases to be separated from the well ones and placed in dry pans with only five large hogs or eight in each pen. 2 Feed nothing but dry feed, but no water, only the slop containing the rem edy until cured. 3. When hogs refuse to eat turn them on their backs, and with a long-handled spoon put the dry medicine down their throats. 4. Dose for large hogs, one teaspoonful three times a day for three days; then miss one day and repeat the amount until cured. Shoats or pigs one-half the amount. 5. As a preventive one teaspoonful once a week will keep your hogs in a healthy condition to take on fat. I ean place one well hog in a pen with ene hun dred sick ones, and with this remedy keen him well. 6 *Let ne other stock but hogs have ac cess to this remedy, as it is to them a deadly poison, Dr. Dodge adds that for many years he sold this recipe for $5, and treated thou sands of hogs at the rate of $1 per head, paying the owner 10 cents a pound fer all that died after treatment began. Hires* Rootbeer at the Fair. Chicago, Oct. 30. 1893.—The Chas. E. Hires Company, of Philadelphia, have been awarded the Highest Prize Medal for Beotbeer by the World’s Fair Com mission. Stay on the Farm. Tbe eload of business depression which has darkened the hopes of so many people this year, has been ne re specter of persons, bnt, like the rain, has fallen on the just and unjust alike. Few persons in all this broad land have escaped the dullness of the times, and those of anarchistic tendencies may draw some consolation from the fact that the rich have felt the blow as well as the poor. But there are some people who have been rendered desti tute and to whom a helping hand of aid mast be stretched. The ranks of the great army of unemployed have been abnormally swelled by the clos ing of factories and shops, and until these great commercial agents begin there is bound to be a decided surplus of idle labor. From some sections csme the report that farm help is need ed. No doubt this is true, for in late years the tendency has been growing mere noticeable of tbe march of labor from the country to the city. Attract ed by the glare and glamour of a big city, and misled by false stories of high wages many a farmer’s boy has been induced to leave a comfortable home and seek employment in a big city, full of vice temptation and sad disappoint ments. Chicago contains hundreds now attracted here by the World’s Fair who wish they were back on the old farm.—Exchange. quality wlWOw© PRICE is what talks. •Look «t these beautiful vehi cles and low prices. You can’t buy ’em from your local dealer for double the money. Write for our 1893 star catalogue, the finest ever published. Over 100 Styles. Vehicle* *lO and up _ .". x " • I, °" ward. Hemesattand upward, ALLIANCE CARRIAGE CO., CINCINNATI, Q, Bitter Weed Editor Southern Farm: I enclose a plant that I would like to know the name ot. It has come up all over my bermuda pasture and makes the land present a very unkempt appearance. If it continues to increase as it has done for a year or two, it will ruin my pasture I fear. What can be done towards exter minating this weed? B L. The plant yon send is first cousin to the common May-weed. It is common to the autumn and has the same bitter qualities that the May-weed has. Its botanical name is Heleneum Autumalis. -The only way to exterminate it is to mow It down in the early autumn just after it gets in full bloom and before any seed have be come matured —early fn O itober, say. By mowing the weeda down carefully two or three seasons you may exterminate them on your land, but unless your immediate neignbors do the same thing, you may be troubled with the weed io some extent for some time yet. Still you can do a good deal towards keeping your own laud clean. It is a very objectionable weed in the cow pasture especially, for it appears that an accidental bite or two of it causes a bitter taste to the milk and buttermilk. How to Succeed With Sheep. Whether a man can make money at raising sheep the next few years depend) a great deal whether he takes pleasure in handling sheep. One's likes and dislikes determine, to a great extent, the care he will give to a crop or an animal. An energetic man will work till he is tired at whatever he has in hand. There is a great difference between getting tired at a thing and getting tired of a thing. As with other occupations, so with sheep raising, the man who engages in it must take an interest in it. We are all not built alike, and what a good thing that we fire not. Some men prefer the orchard and berry patch, soma the apiary or poultry. The dairy appeals to others, fine stock breed ing has its votaries, while general farm ing catches many more. All of these in dustries are profitable in the hands of the right men, and the raising of sheep tor wool and mutton will be renumerative if a man brings to it the liking that will insure the necessary attention and study. —Farmer's Guide. Grass far Name. Editor Southern Farm : Can yon tell me what tbe enclosed grass is. It came up_with some oats sown by one of my neighbors last spring. It is almost 2% or 3 feet high, and will grow I am' satisfied, 5 feet on good land. Is it valuable for hay, or is it too coarse. The roots are con siderably like cane roots, as you will see by enclosed specimen and it spreads very fast. Please answer through Southern Farm and oblige, Ashland, Miss. E. C. K. The grass sent by our correspon dent is Johnson Grass (Sorghum Hal apeuse.) When grown properly it is a very valuable grass, furnishes a very large amount of nutrious hay. If used it should be sown very thick ly else it will not give satisfaction. A large per cent of the seed is infertile and a perfect stand is not likely to be secured with less than ten bushels of seed. Cotton Producing Countries. Will you please inform a reader what 3 countries produce the most cotton after the Southern States. R. F. L. India, China and Egypt are the 3 that come next in order ot production of cotton. The United States furnish nearly 80 per cent of the total product of the world. India about 30. China about 11, and Egypt about 5. South America comes next with about 21-2 per cent. Grinding Green Bones. Editor Southern Farm : Seeing in The Southern Farm of Octo ber 15th, an article taken from tbe "Amer ican Farmer" in regard to feeding poultry on green bone, I write to auk where [ can get a bone cutter as I cannot find one ad vertised in any of the papers. I will ap preciate any information given. Longtown, 8. O , Oct 25sh. L. T. W. Writeto F. W. Mann, Milford, Mass., who manufactures an exo silent mill for grinding green bones. At beautiful Wensleydale village the old custom of the blowing of a horn each night in winter is still carried out Its purp >se was to guide belated travellers in the for est, just as the foghorn guides the mariner who is nearing the coast. •OOOOOOOOOOSI Q Worth a Guinea a Box. Q X Stubborn tendencies Qto digestive troubles Q Q in children will always© Q yield to a mild dose Q Pills (Tasteless) IJ «s cents a box. •00000000 >o¥