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SUNDAY, AUGUST 9.
THE FARMER’S FORUM
Rhea Hayne’s Journal
"And he gave It (or hie opinion, that
whoever could make two ear* ol
corn, or two blade* of grass. to
grow upon a *pot of ground where
only one grew before, would de
eerve better of mankind, and do
more essential aervlco to hia coun
try than the whole race of politi
cian* put together."
There I* nothing more uncertain
at ihis *e**on of the year than the
weather unlea* It be politic*. Maybe
the both of them should be rated
• longßlde when It come* to the up*
and down*, but in each Inatance it
U nec-ssnrr that everybody ahould
iT»aJl*e the Influence of both It I* a
fairly > «*v matter to keep from tak
lag an Infarct-! in politic*, but tt 1*
'rather a risky Idea It la po*«lbl»j
|go overcome many of the obstacle:!
'presented by unfavorablo weather
put generally speaking It m«an» hard
; work and unceasing effort at that,
j Ordinarily a farmer most every
j body can grow wonderful crop* on
'fertile soil when favored hy prop! i
'ttou* mason*, hut It take* some one
worth while to rape with the tinccr
'islntle* that are presented |n a bad
crop year Farmer* ore alow about
learning It, but year by year the
great truth Is spreading gradually,
demonstrating the necessity of good
peed and proper preparation Culti
vat lon cornea easy after these two <•*-
genital* are compiled with In work
Ing
lart* of folk, farmers who wish to
make steps toward advancement, it re
hindered In taking progressive meth
odn by nelghlKirs who deride every
effort looking townrd such ends Toy
much of su uphill struggle bus put
many s man on the b»id< track and
too often m-ie I* never n recovery.
Ton can lake any community ana
wh'-re one man has made u failure
with such work everybody will tell
about It. Where a dozen have made
sucres* there Is never a one to land
Ihe effort and only by direct quu»
tinning can facte be obtained concern
Ing the advancement
This may be right, but humanity
ought to be humane and not be *•>
eeiidv to make light of the man who
trie* to make one spot of earth pro
duce more of the necesaltle* of life
for man and beast.
Of course, there nre many fraud)
THE POULTRY CORNER
Some Poultry Notes
By FANNIE M. WOOD
Make that girl or bov a working .
partner In the poultry business
The eye of a successful poutry
• grower quickly detect* the thick that
'ta not doing well.
Going to aet another hen? It you
ran t aet her on the around, put a
piece es aod In the bottom of her
neat.
Throw that old neat filling to the
wind* No, better (till, burn It
tleeae brtna more than durki when
you put them on the market. How
ever, the durki lay more eggs than
gees*
True, the hawk la a ehteken thief, '
but he haa hla redeemlna iiualltlea
He deatroya many field mire and oth
er peat a
Keroaene ta a greet germ killer A
little of It In the drinking water la
1 good to prevent black head In turkeya
It la claimed.
We are meeting dlaeaae half way
when we neglect to promptly remove
an ailing fowl from the othera
Union and beefatrak me high and
the price of aprlng chicken* Is going
down It won’t pay to sell all the
tries and turn around and buy meat.
In thla time of financial atrlnaency,
a flock of faithful hens contributing
eggs and chickens are a big help to
many a farmer in supplying the de
mand for something to eat
A mind at ease helps one to keep
cool these days and our minds will be
easier if w<« know the chickens can't
get In the garden Have heard It said
a hen and chickens won t do any
harm tu the garden at thla season,
hut we feel easier when she la out In
the field* with her brool, dear away
putt the garden We worried along
■airra! 'ears without a good garden
Ikti.. but we see now tt dldn t pay.
Arordlng to the newspapers, hall
killed young chickens by the score
at Noblesvllle, lud receutly Sev
eral weeks ago we had a atornt of
i Ice m this aectlou (hat was hatd on
the chicken* Some of the coops they
•ought refuge In happened to be oi>en
1 In the right direction for the hall to
«ntne in The Icy floor covering
would soon have chilled the life out
of several promising broods If I had
not been on hand promptly to lake
~r f of them Oh, the poultry miser
has all Ttlmli* ot iroable A weasel
Malted • neighbor a~brhnd coops ib«
By J. C. McAULIFFE
| when It comes to improved seed, and
| farmers must naturally be a little
| careful In doing their trading and In
'making selection* People who have
I read thing* 1 have written know that
! 1 advise farmers to make their own
i seed selection There are numerous
| friend* who have tried to buy largo
j quantities oi seed fr„m me, or from
I some one elae upon my recommend
ation; hut In every Instance I have
: advised a comparatively small quan
i tlty as a beginning.
ff farmers will take a reasonable
amount of extra good seed and get
ft start they- will find a fascination la
Improving. It 1» true of cotton, oorri
and In fact nearly every crop Invag
■ Inabb There Is hardly a limit to
what, can tie done In this respect
This 1* essentially the time of the
year when farmers spould take up
this work Selection now wfll amount
to a great Improvement In the next
crop.
I do not hold that everything In
the way of Improved Heed comes up
to Hie standard Maimed, but If one
will go round among the neighbors
and look up the patches where, real
Improved seed an- grown I am sure
that there will bn a genuine surprise
when an examination Is made. It
does not take much to put on a profit
tn addition to th» cost of seed, and
Just think what a difference there Is
In the pleasure of watching a fine
crop grow where only the little scrub
by crops grew before.
Time once was when there was a
lay-by time Its Georgia, when farm
ers took a rPst and had a Jolly couple
of we*)<« In fishing and at picnic par
ties, hut times have changed since
then and there Is hardly any time he
tw'-en lay by and harvest, and what
few days there are the farmers are
kept busy with other things
However, as people advance th<>
world expects more and It must come
or else there will he a sort of dls
dalnful opinion formed. Of all other
things In man's life It Is essential that
men measure up to expectations If
anything Is to he accomplished Or
dinarily opinion does not put a fellow
up where he belong), and whatever
heights are achieved In the cstlmo
tlon of the people ahould he main
tained, no matter what It coats In
the struggle.
1
other night, nnd the next morning
she (poor, hardworking woman)
gathered up a bushel basket full of
dead chickens’ Isn't thut enough to
give oue the blues' 1 So. reader, If
you bavp had "hud luck," see you
are not alone In your misfortune
When the cow ta suffering r rom con
gested udder, it U s good Idea to dry
her off at once and feed onehalf
ounce nitrate of potash night snd
morning !u (he soft teed Give plen
ty of clean water, lead pure nnd i
wholesome food, slid mssssge the lid
der once a day with a little lodtue
ointment
-
A recommended remedy tor mange
on calves and i-ews la to apply a part
flour sulphur nnd (our parts vasellnv
to bald patches once a day.
The bull should tie ted good, nour
lolling food, but not of a fattening
nature. There should be some sort
of roughage along with the corn, oata
or brau lie gela. He should be thr If
ty. but not fat; active, but not slug
gish.
- . | i Mil r
It must not be forgotten that the
manure from the herd Is an tmpor
taut Item In counting the profits, tt
ha* a money value that can be reallx
•d by using II ou the land, and It I*
worth the most lha day It Is produced
If allowed to become exposed to wind
snd weather, tt w|U sooi. lose In
; value.
The hoofs of sheep should he pared
at least twice a vaar Nature provld
ed this animal with a rapid growing
hoot tu stand the wear and tear of
1 Money ground, hut soft pastures will
not wear down the hoots fast enough
aud the broken horn often reaults In
disease.
For bumble-foot'’lb poultry paint
the corn liberally with tlnrture of
iodine dally for a woeh It this la
done In tl ■ early * tapes the corn can
be spread
Rhubarb requires a deep and vary
fertlli soli The grekt sertot of sup
'•> sa In raising It Is high manuring
It la a gross feeder sad require* a
liberal application of (bahure every
year A growet whose small patrh
produces rhubarb of eoaMnous *je
explains his succes* from hi* practice
of throwing ssapsud* over the ground
i-n washing days He haa su’d Id*
worth from a patrh es two and one
halt rods is a *ta«te season.
DON’T FORGET TO
FURCHAGEII HOME
Farm Land Around Au
gusta i» Still Too Cheap
and Prices Will Soon Go
Higher. Bny At Present.
Whenever people begin to talk of
hard time* and capital becomes tltnld '
unproved farm lands come Into good
demand. This has been Illustrated
once more since the financial flurry :
of last fall, as more people are now
looking for real estate investment* ,
than at this time la»t. rear.
There will he no depreciation, j
therefor*. In farm values this season, j
and probably some advance will be
noted People know that well located
real estate Is as safe as the govern-i
men! Itself.
The question whether farming pays
much or little Is not considered when
men and woman are looking for ah
aolulely sound lnvesMaants. The land
la always there. It can neither be
stolen nor burned. With a rapidly
developing population the lime is no l
far off when every acre of unoccupied
land In the United States will be
wanted at more than is asked for tt
today.
A truth which can easily hi demon
strated Is that farm land Is too cheap.
It almost Invariably goei* at the min
imum value Government homesteads
and other low priced land In the West
account for the low prices in the Has.
This Is a passing condition. Infact,
the whole nation comprehends today
that the area of nnreascnablv cheap
farms la near an end.—Drovers'
Journal
Farmers have not occupied an en
viable position In the eyes of the corn-
I mon run of men during the past, hut
i somehow nr other thetr cnniitellallnn
; I* In the ascendancy nnd there is no
'doubt hut that. In the years to conn
the days will grow brighter and they
I will be taken for what they arc wortn.
It takes work and study, brsln and
brawn, to overcome the obstacles pro
-1 seated under present conditions, arid
there Is no longer room to quest'* )
; the value of a man who causes grass
and corn cotton too, as for that to
grow more abundantly. -Inland Far
nicr.
STUD! CONDITION
OF MARKETS NOW
This is the Season When
Farmer* Will Save Much
hy Selling Their Pro
ducts in a Judicious
Manner.
This is the time of year when farm- j
ert should begin to study market '
conditions. The fßruter who does not |
realixe the Importance of carrying out ]
this feature of bis work docs not >
know the first principles of farmlm;
and much less about the business
end.
Commercialism has Invaded the
rural communities and It Is just as
essential to market a crop right as It |
I* to srow- It and gather It. When
tanners raised things at home for
their owti use and grew money crops
as s surplus to bo sold whem-ver de
tired. conditions were somewhat dif
ferent from what they are at present, j
Now nearly everything Is grown on
th» farm for sale.
It is a piece of folly for a farmer j
I to sell his sweet potato, a for forty |
j cents p*r bushel when he could house I
! them and keep th* crop a few months !
and sell for twice the price. This way j
j of putuux a value on the percentage
] of gain Is something that should gain 1
I attention from every man, for after
1 all It ts the little tilings that count
iin the long ruu. The question of the
i right Unte to market Is one that must'
j be setthsl hy the Individual and var
-1 te* In different communities and un- i
I dor certain conditions. Cotton ts i
I about the most uncertain of all, hut i
j the lessons of the past few years
l ought to convince the most sitepU j
i cal farmer that thrrs is a good price!
] tn store sooner or tater every season!
' snd tt will pay to hang on until a rea- ]
! solvable price Is offered. Opinions,
I win vary concerning this matter, but;
as for me ten to twelve cents seems
I Munich under anythin* like present
I condition*. —J. c. Mcamtffe.
THE JERSEY COW,
Queen of the stall nnd pasture.
Graceful and dainty and trim,
Gentle es eye and manner.
Slender and shapely of limb;
loved by the rich and the lowly;
]*oltrd by children and men,
Bh* Uvea In performance of duty
And mils up the milk-pall
again.
THE AUGUSTA HERALD
The Power of Farmers
A KEYNOTE TALK
Maxwell's Talisman, a Journal some
times devoted to strenuous advice
gets onto farmers in a recent issue
and declares ,„ey can make things go
their way. The matter makes pretty
good reading from almost any view
point and should receive much con
slderatlon. It Is as follows:
The farmer holds the key with
which to regulate activity.
After all the crops arc sold this
year, If every farmer should say to
himself, "Well, times are pretty hard;
I goes, I will put. my money In the
bank and wait till next year before
I buy anything with It,” the stagna
tion .hereby caused would produce an
Industrial depression, the consequence
of which would be simply appalling.
In the end 'the farmers of the coun
try would suffer terribly from loss of
th-lr greatest market,, which Is tilling
the stomachs of the millions of fac
tory workers who make the things
the farmers use.
On the other hand, if every farm
er would realize that his own salva
tion depends on restoring prosperity
to the entire country and to all class
es of citizens, the farmers would have
In their own hands the power to save
i.iemaelves and the country from any
continuance of the depression.
If the movement could be made gen
eral with farmers, as soon as this
year’s crops are harvested, to enter
upon a great rnoyement for farm im
provement, and the replenishment of
all farm supplies, right now, It would
not he sixty days before the hard j
times would be over
If yon tmea anything that goes on
wheels, from a wheel-harrow to a 3H j
limb- oomblned harvester, or from a
garden hand cultivator to a gang plow. ]
- wagon, buggy, automobile or trac-j
thin engine, don't delay getting it.]
Do it now, i
If you lack anything for the house
hold from a stove to table crorkery—
carpets, furniture, piano, organ—pic
tures or provender, furnish the house
and till the larder, and do It now.
If you have been planning to build
a new house, and have the money
available, do It now.
If a new barn, or a granary, or an
outhouse, or a fence, or a gate, or any
thing else needs to be built to put
the farm In the highest condition, do
It now,’
Don't Just "get along” and do nolh-
Ing until another year. If you have
Seasonable Poultry Points
If scratching material Is not plen
tiful with you. gather tn all the dry
leaves you get together; they make
most excellent material for this use.
Don’t do what Is frequently advocat
ed. namely, to get In a barrel or two
full of road dust; It Is a dirty meau3
to give u (owl to cleanse herself In,
but get dean earth if you cannot
get flue sand a. some nearby beach
Uh* dry earth under the roost, th*. j
droppings are decomposed, ruined as'
f> itlllxer. emit obnoxious gsses when :
brought In contact with lime. White-!
w .sh the Inside ot the hen house; us«
coal oil on the perches. Stop up
the crevlees. hs such places make
rood hiding places for hen lice.
Those who nva thinking of raising
] poultry should not plunge Into tho
business expecting It to be all profits
and fun with no adversities. Like
every other line of business there are
many difficult obstacles to overcome, j
If anyone washes to make a success.
In raising poultry for the market or
1 show room he must get right down!
to hard Vork and study the same as
In any other vocation, only possibly I
'more so. than with some lines of!
work. The first thing for one to do 1
Jin starting In the poultry business
,In our opinion Is to subscribe for,
nme good poultry Journal and read
and study the experience of others
in rarlDg for fowls.
Ashes made frem hard wood are
more valuable than those made from
soft wood it is rlalnp>d that some
I'hes from soft wood have not enough
value to make It worth while te both
er with them It haa also been dis
covered .oat the value Is largely gov
erned b> the part of the tree from
which the ashes are made. It la de
clared bv chemists that the ashes 6f
young twigs are of more value than
the ash of.the trunk of tire tree, while
the ash of the leave* Is still more val
uable.
To be successful in the reproduc
tion of the best of Its kind, the poul
tiTn-sn must b# attentive to every
particular, over on the alert for the
detection of faults or excellences o/
hi* fowl*, and from experience gain
ed, know how to take advantage of
them
It ha* been found that poultry with
deep argtt’ar hrwast hones have to be
(id k:y r to make them look well
and will, therefore, eat a great deal
more t>-«d than tie one with Jhe
plump breast boua.
Conducted By
J. C. McAULIFFE
i the money necessary to make any
needed, or desired, or contemplated
improvement, do it now.
If the house needs painting, or will
need it soon, don’t put off the work.
Do It now.
If the barn needs a new roof, or a
coat of paint or whitewash, or farm
buildings need repairs, do it now.
Remember that power on the farm
means labor saved and greater profits.
If you can use to advantage a new
windmill, a gas engine, or pump or
power machine of any kind, and have
thought of getting It some time or
other, do It now.
Go over the place from end to end
and put everything In order; where
the fence needs new wire or new
posts or the gate a new hinge, don’t
put off fixing It, do it now.
If there is a good roads movement
under way In your neighborhood, lay
out all the work that needs to be done
and push it to completion, and do it
now.
And if no good roads movement has
been started in your “neck of the
woods’’ then go right, at it and organ
ize one, and get all the neighbors and
the townspeople as well, heartily in
terested, and do It. now.
Let every farmer make it his busi
ness to Wake up the people of the
town where he trades, so they will get
busy with the improvement of the
town, and do It now.
Wherever there are none now, build
new sidewalks, better Btreets, pave
ment for the business streets, a pub
lic library, a church, a town hall, a
village room, a sewer system and
sanitary arrangements of all kinds,
and above all thlngß "spruce up;”
paint the school house and the
church; let the merchant paint his
store, the hotelkeeper his hotel, the
householder his house, and everybody
paint the front fence, and everybody
clean up; pull down every old shed
and old fence and replace with new
and do it now
The way to restore prosperity is to
"get busy" doing things that will have
a permanent value when they are
done.
Don’t look poor and feel poor by
wearing your old clothes until next
year. Get new ones and do it now.
The best way to give money to
charity In these days Is to buy clothes
with it.
FOR PROFIT
AND PLEASURE
By C. E. Pctcraon.
If you are located near a grist mill
; make a trade with them for the wheat
screenings, which time and again I
have bought for leas than onehalf
i ihe price of first grade wheat, and
good screenings are as good for poul
try; in fact, if you will examine the
mixed feeds In the market you will j
■ find that the wheat contained In most !
of them Is good screenings.
If barley and buckwheat is raised !
by the farmers In your locality lay In
a stock of tuese grains for your poul
try : they can be bought at very rea.v i
enable prices and make good grain I
for the fowls. We hßve tried bo h
of these grains with excellent re
sults.
Roots of all kinds and cabbage ran
;be bought early in the fall much
: cheaper than during the winter
months, and the turnips will keep in
your cellar, and the cabbage. If pur
; chased In time from some farmer to
whom you have told that you want
Ito have him leave the stock on the
: cabbage, will if put Into a trench
head down and the stock up keep
well all winter.
1 have bought turnips at 35 cents
; per barrel and cabbage for a few
cents a head. Instead oi a few cents
per pound, during the winter.
AH of these Items looked after car?-
j fully will materially increase your
rroflts derived from your poultry
yard inmates
At this time of the year. If It has
not already been done, all the old
stock should be culled closely and
If the stock is kept for no other
purpose than egg production, none but
fowls to be used for breeders the
coming season should be kept over
Old fowl* make excellent breeders,
but poor winter layers, and general
ly It docs not pay to keep them ove.\
Those that are to bo kept over,
give them a ration that will help
them to moult out thetr new coat of
feathers rapidly, and a little oil meal
given dally In the soft food, with
plenty of beef scraps to go with It.
will get them through In time to go
Into winter quarters In good shape
and ready to pay at least their food
bill In egas.
Then with all these precautions
taken. It makes a man feel good to
know that when the cold fall rain
begin* to tall his bird* are comfort
ably housed, and as winter draws
nigh, come what may the fowls will
not suffer for want of a little neccs
j sary care and trouble which was tsk
- #n In time, when the weather w.-.s
I fair and we felt more like doing It.
—Rural World.
BABCOCK
THE VEHICLES THAT SATISFY.
WILL ALWAYS ba exactly as represented.
“ “ have a construction as nearly perfect
as good material, skilled workmen
of three generations with sixty-five
years experience can make them.
“ give that satisfaction and durability
which honest construction insures.
“ “ have that air of perfection in those
minor details which either make or
mar a vehicle.
“ “ be so built as to insure user of the
pleasure, comfort and the service,
known and experienced only in the
Babcock Vehicles.
“ “ uphold the Babcock reputation of sixty
years for building The Vehicles That
Satisfy.
WILL NEVER be over enthusiastically described.
“ “ give that endless trouble to the users
which arises from poor construction.
“ “ look and wear like those built “one
every minute.”
“ “ lack proper proportions, completeness of
details and good taste.
“ “ prove excessive in their prices.
“ “ disappoint you, they are sold as, you
have a right to expect them to be, and
they are The Vehicles That Satisfy.
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Annual Mountain Excursion
Southern Railway
AUGUST FOURTEENTH
Very Low Rates
Good Returning September 1,1908
The following are the Rates from Augusta, Ga.
Asheville, N. C $ 6.00
Hendersonville, N. C 5-50
Brevard, N. C 6.50
Lake Toxaway, N. C 7.50
Hot Springs, X. C 7.25
Waynesville, X. C 7.25
Greenville, S. C 4.00
Spartanburg, S. C 4.00
Tate Springs, Term 13.55
Xatural Bridge, Va 11.25
Norfolk, Va .. 10.50
Correspondingly low rates to other summer
resorts applying from Augusta and other points.
Double daily train service via. Southern Rail
way, affording a day-light trip and a night trip
with Pullman sleeping cars.
Spend your vacation in the mountains.
A rare opportunity to visit the Virginia sea
shores.
For full information, Pullman reservations,
etc., apply to ticket agents Southern Railway or
J. L. *{EEK. . W. E. McGEE,
Ass’t Gen. Pass. Agent > Trav. Pass. Agent.
Atlanta. Ga. m Augusta. G^
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 9.