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Newspaper Page Text4 "•rhe SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL wW ATXABTA GA S MOHTH FOBITTH ST. Betvtvd at tb* Atlanta Paotoffi<-« *» Mall ■B| Matter <■* the Second CUaa. jTXMXa a. mat, ■k ' Proeldeat and Editor. W SUBSCBIPTIOX PRICE Twl-e waath. ™ TH. jKimal la r«« u ** <l “• Tawrt.. aod Friday, and la mailed by the sfcsrteat rnotea for early del I eery. It eoatains newt from all «w the v®™* braufht by aped a I lease-', wires la to oar ocnca. h It baa a staff of distinguished rentrlb'rtorv with str.«< Jeparuaent* of special ralue ts tbs beast aad the far*. Agents wasted at eeery poetofflca. Üb»r«l rs*w*—i s allowed Outfit free. Writs to M. R. BRADLEY. Cle-olatloa Dept. Tbs aaty traseltag repreeentattsee are X A. Bryan. B. F. Bsltoa. C. C. <**** L. ■ Kl-bcwsgb sad a T. Yates. We will be tagpeweiWe only for money paid to the abose passes traveling rerreaaiJtatt’ee MOTICY TO SUBSCRIBE*! The label nsed for addreselßg your paper ebows the time year salatidptloc orpine By rewwtng at least two weeks before the date on this label, and laocra regular eerrtee. hi ordering paper ebaaged. be ear te *«at‘"e year old. as well as your aew address . If on a rural route Lc please glee the route number. L We rnaaot enter sabecrlptloas to be gla with back a ambers Retnlttaoees ahestd bo eent by postal order or regie- F? terei’i matl. Address all orders and notices for this department to THE SBMI-WEEBI T E jnrBSAL, Atlanta, Ge. Look what’s here—l9l* Swwrtt---: friends will lead many a nan into politics. ' Enter the new, exit the old council ' L of the city of Atlanta. WelL did you pull through New Year’s day without a mishap? Indications at this writing are that »: will be a good year for plumbers. ’ The weather, however, didn’t take the trouble to make a good new year reso lution. » U’-'l .A* . At any rate. Colonel Roosevelt is show lag what an ex-president can do with . Kaiser is friendly toward England. He ought to be- Think of the rich kin he has over there. x Nature is taking the precaution that . there shall be no lack of rainfall in J >l2. | The next scheduled event will be the mid-winter reduction on winter L clothe*. Gradually the public is adjusting it self to the change from writing it 1912 instead of 1811. It is likely that there will be a rush to that one Griffin saloon able to pay an >M»O license. Why should the newspapers refer to a M* • ' .sansas poet? Does the brand mean h anything special? , I We confess a coolness toward these New Year's wishes that come to us with receipts for bills. It is comforting to think, however, that the magazines have about "made up" their spring issues. One imagines that time flies, but not j wut a -twwuy-year p insurance policy. The colonel may not be in politico, aa the Houston Poet observes, but poli tics is in the colonel. President Taft extended the glad hand on new year's to the extent of L peeking 8.098 hands. ‘The 1213 outlook for news is prom iatng. now that the colonel is back in political harness again. Despite the absence of white hopes, the sporting page is full of the exploits p of lightweight hopeful! | - A man is becoming mercenary and industrious in proportion as he dreads the approach of a holiday. There doesn't seem to be any un seemly scramble on the part of the pol iticians to avoid the office Bfl The infant ruler of China did well I to Cbcape, if reports of the unrest in Chat country are to be credited. Dnuntners have resolved to give no more tips. Here s hoping the .rusade will succeed, but fearing it won't. The Atlanta banks all declared good dividends, which is some boost for the prosperity of the city of Atlanta. .a/, New York esn afford to offer 8200,- 000 for the Democratic convention. Why New York would get that much K back in tipe- 811.500,000 was spent during 1911 in the war against tuberculosis, according to statistics, and money couldn’t have been better spent. • F Nothing could be more appropriate for winter than »he weather we are having, but that doesn’t prevent it be- L ing slightly uncomfortable. I James Eads Howe, the millionaire hobo, has resigned from the presidency I -of the hobo organization, which must mean that he fears insurgent activity in the ranks. I It la tough luck. whgn. after you I have quit smoking or drinking on I New Year’s day to see how many per- l fectly respectable people have not I taken the oath. ■ We shall continue to have war as I long as one nation sees something it f wants in another nation s territory, and won't be happy, as the advertisements say, until it gets it- ~ Here's, congratulations to Oscar Under wood. of Alabama, for escaping appen dtcitis. Congress and the rest of the country would miss him during the time fev it would take for an operation, ft- a . ■— One by one all the old. friends of CO ton el Roosevelt are coming round. But where is John L. Sullivan? Ho can't hope to be neutral in a situation such as the present, which so vitally effects the colonel. ■ All Humors Are impure matters which the skin, liver, kidneys and other organs cannot take care of without help. i Pimples, boils.' eczema and other eruptions, loss of appetite, that tired feeling, bilious turns, fits of indiges tion. dull headaches and other troubles are due to them. In their treatment k be eure to take k Hood’s Sarsaparilla ln usual liquid form or in chocolated tablets known as Bera* tab*. THE ATHENS ROAD CONFERENCE. There is to be held at Athens on January 9th, a Good Roads Conference that should enlist the cordial support and interest of every county in the state. Prompted by Prof. C. M. Strahan, the head of the University’s Highway and Engineering department, this meeting is intended to unite all of Georgia’s good roads work ers, particularly those among the county officials, in a definite and vigorous campaign for the new year. The conference will be eminently practical in character and purpose. It will bring together the men who are engaged in meet ing, from day to day, the problems of road construction; and these it will assemble from every quarter of the commonwealth. The in terchange of views and experiences thus made possible will be- of specific and far-reaching value to every one of the delegates and to the community he may represent. e In his advance notice of the convention, Professor Strahan an nounces that two important questions will be discussed. hat is now being done for the betterment and extension of Georgia high ways! How can the methods now employed be improved* . If the conference did no more than direct attention to the numerous highway enterprises that are now under way, it would by that alone prove wonderfully inspiring. The good roads fever is contagious. Each county will be stimulated and helped by learn ing what its neighbors are undertaking; and thus the Athens con vention will become a center of enthusiasm from which new inter est will radiate over the entire state. Os chief importance, however, will be the discussion of meth ods by which the various communities are now accomplishing re sults. Road building is no longer to be regarded as anything less than an art or a science. Certainly it must be so regarded if it is to yield the taxpayers due returns for their money. A thousand dol lars applied in accordance with sound engineering principles will do manifestly more than ten times that amount expended hap hazardly. Tn a state whose soil and topography are so diverse as Geor gia’s, road building must be largely a matter of adapting general methods to local needs. Without careful inquiry and comparison, it is well-nigh-impossible to determine just what material is best suited to highway construction in a particular section. Failure to observe this principle may be responsible for the loss of much time and money. In the convention at Athens, each county will be able to present its peculiar conditions and to receive expert advice as to how they may best be treated. Hundreds of practical questions will be asked and answered by the delegates themselves and by competent authorities from the University’s Highway department. There will thus be added to the good roads cause in Georgia a world of knowledge as well as enthusiasm. Indeed, its educational features are one of the richest oppor tunities the conference has to offer. The University’s road material laboratory will be open for inspection and Professor Strahan and his colleagues will make daily demonstrations. These, together with the addresses that are to be made by eminent men and the comparison of experiences among the visitors themselves, will make the convention a great and profitable class room. It is an opportune circumstance that at the time of the con vention a large number of farmers will be in Athens attending the short courses of the State College of Agriculture. The good roads movement will thus be related directly to that class of our citi zens to whom it means more perhaps than to any other. Every board of county commissioners in Georgia should have at le'ist one representative at this important conference, for it is of 4eep sig nificance to the welfare of the counties and of the state at large. THE DEMOCRATS AND THE TARIFF. It is definitely understood that when congress is back to busi ness the Democrats of the house will proceed to put through a series ,of measures substantially reducing the tariff not only on wool and woolen also on other articles that enter into the •eople’s The presidents plea that such legislation the reports of the tariff board will be given no heed. Nor is it entitled to consideration. The tariff board’s recent report on Schedule K is an admirable document of its kind; cer tainly it supplies the Democrats with a wealth of campaign ma terial for 1912. It confirms the justice of the wool fill which Mr. Underwood introduced at the extra session of congress and which Mr. Taft vetoed; it condemns by the facts it presents the Republi can party’s entire policy of tariff making. But as the New York Evening Post points out, those who may have naively expected that the board’s report on wool would fur nish a simple and definite answer to the question of what the tariff on wool should be must now realize that nothing of the kind has happened, or can ever happen. No matter how abundant may be the information which a tariff board may lay before congress, the actual and detailed framing of such measures must be the work of congress itself.' The truth is, the bill which the Democrats put through last year was based upon just such data as the board s (belated report has set forth. • The majority of the house were elected upon pledges that they would revise the*Payne-Aldrich tariff schedules in accordance with the country’s common interests and needs. That they should delay the fulfillment of their promise until the long-deferred reports of the tariff board on each of the schedules demanding revision are submitted is beyond all reason and right. The Democrats of the house will, therefore, proceed to pass prompt measures of relief on this all important issue and when they have done so the Republican majority in the senate and the presi dent will be responsible to the country for the ultimate fate of the legislation. If the senate rejects these bills, or if the president vetoes them, as he did last year, Democracy will have found its final and most effective weapon. If, on the other hand, the bills become laws, the credit for this constructive work will be rightfully accorded the Democrats. . From a standpoint of both policy aqd duty, therefore, the only path open to the house Democrats is to revise the tariff without de lay ; and their recent record is assurance enough that they will do so iii\ manner to promote and not imperil the nation’s business interests. , A NEW BANK EVERY FOUR DAYS For every four days of the year 1911, a new bank was opened in Georgia. The banking capital has increased more than two million dol lars within the twelvemonth. The state is now served by seven hundred and sixty-nine sub stantial institutions with capital aggregating nearly forty-five mil lions. These and other interesting figures published in the current issue of the Southern Banker tell a significant and cheering story of Georgia’s commercial development. Three features of the year’s record are especially to be noted: The growth of the banks has not been confined to a few large cities or favored counties, but has extended throughout the com monvjealth and has been particularly manifest in scores of compar atively small towns. The accompanying development of the state’s resources has not been limited to any one line of endeavqr but has included all manner of industrial, mercantile and agricultural enterprise®. Especialy marked has been the expansion of banking interests in those communities that are centers of large farming districts. Indeed, the increase in banks represents, in a considerable measure, a response to the growing business demands of the farming class. Atlanta has produced five of the ninety-one new banks,, but it is a noteworthy fact that Union Point, whose population is only about two thousand, has produced three of them. Numbers of towns that were hitherto without banking facilities have establish ed such connections with the state at large and for the benefit of their surrounding territory. New opportunities have opened and long-neglected needs have been stirred by the impulse of modern business methods. There could be on better evidence of the sound ness and vijjor of Georgia’s prosperity. ' THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA. GA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1912. TOPkS BY2IRS. XZ H.JELTOA. THE NEW Y EAR-1812. May I write a New Year's greeting to every reader of Tile Semi-Weekly Journal? Nobody loves you' better than this old friend of yours. I am serving in my 13th year apd during all this time,l have never failed to come in on time in The Semi-Weekly. Sometimes I have been unavoidably crowded out until the next issue, but my goods had been delivered, and was only waiting for space th appear. That seems to me to be. a .fair record for faithfulness, not to speak of other things equally noteworthy, In such loyal duty to my contract, and such loving service to you, dear readers. The year 1912 promises to be a very notable year in American history. It is to be a presidential year with all that is usually expected of the turmoil and confusion of such election periods. I wish we 7 only elected presidents once in six .years and then let it be under stood that six years as chief magistrate was all any one man in this union could expect in that office. I am satisfied it would work well. As it is now, the new president spends all his thought and makes all his plans to succeed himself when his term expires. He is only a man, and has human am bitions. The people who have pressed him forward aim to get a good deal out of him and they want an extra four years to clijich the opportunity. If it was a six years’ term and then a quittance we would have a better prospect for fair dealing in politics. As it is at present, it is a''hot foot race for all in sifcht and "the d-1 take the hindmost.” A presidential year upsets general busi ness. Capital Is the most'sensitive thing in the world, because even kinsfolk will fall out and split up ( over a few dollars of legacy. When our political doctors get to scrap ping over the tariff and state’s rights the money kings simply seal up their vaults and then the mischief is to pay. In anticipation of this political excite ment the banks have now quit loaning money and the poor fellow who got caught between high prices and food and elght-cent cotton, is simply squeez ed limp and flat. He is done for— awhile at least. The “big Interests” are undecided be tween Mr. Taft and Mr. Roosevelt. Mr. Taft has the nomination iiv hls veßt pocket, but that will not mean election In 1912. His place Is on the supreme bench, if anywhere in the union. He has been a disappointing president be cause his bosses have managed him and the people could see and understand it. attitude in the Ballinger matter made it plain as a pike staff. WXIIAT BMAW COMJIS KXGK There la no doubt that wheat bran is one of the best feeds that can be used to produce a large flow of milk, y«t, at present prices around 830 per ton, It la about the moat expen live feeder th® dairyman can use. x Ono pound of cotton seed meal has a feeding value equal .to one and a half pounds of wheat bran, but of ouraa it will noit do to replace the meal with bran. Cowpea hay ha s a value almost equal to that of bran, the exact ratio being k -800 pounds of bran to 2,000 pounds of hay. Many feeders believe that alfalfa is fully equal to bran pound for pound, and if the bran has to ,be bought In the open market the value of alfalfa is cer tainly greater, because the growing of alfalfa or any other good crop always Improves the land while feed brought in frqm the outside only adds Its manu rial value to theysoil. Farmers in the south can hardly af ford to bujJ bran, being so far from the big markets the price is generally high—from 825 to >3O per ton. In any country where feed is high every effort snould be made to. grow every pound of feed possible upon the land itself. Southern farmers are beginning to ap preciate the value of this practice and more stock feed is lielng grown in that country than ever before. While it is a gratifying fact, also, that more live stock is being raised, there is no doubt that the amount Os stock food per head that Is gown on southern farms is steadily increasing. Cotton seed meal is a favorite feed for the cows in the south and a good many farmers feed too much of it. If they would grow more cowpeas, heavy vetch, clover apd alfalfa and buy less prepared feeds, their profits woWd be larger and their soil greatly improved. A HELF TO BEGINNERS. A method I have just learned that cal not fail to help beginners in bee culture, is to give the bees a good shaking when they become delinquent te their work. When you move them a short distance to prevent their going back shake them in front of the entrance of their respec tive hives. The most vicious bees can be made very tame by shaking. I shake them off the comb into a large dish pan. When the pan is shaken about the same as you would shake a corn popper the bees roll over in a confused mass and after a minute of shaking, rolling and tumbling they can be picked up with the hands, providing, of course, that you do not hurt them. —Mrs. Joseph. THE HOME GROUNDS. Do not mulch while the ground is wet. Mulch the gr.ound when frozen. Freez ing upheaves the soil, thawing throws the plant out. Protect from alternate freezing and thawing. Keep the cold in, not out, of the soil, to prevent this. Mulch roses and shrubs with coarse manure and litter as soon as the ground is well frozen. Do not neglect It . Give ti* plants protection on a pleasant day. so that the work will be well done. If delayed until bad weather it will be hurled. After a mild summer and fall, a se vere winter is very hard on Both utility and ornamental vegetation,. as the growth is very green and unripe. Amon stt he fHrst to suffer would be varieties oaf roseJ, and their proection should be attended to before the slight est frost occurs. Take a wood . rammer and ram the soil as hard as a road all around each plant; then place a forkful or two of stable or cow manure round the stem. Let this come up a little way under the branches, but not far, as it is the neck or collar than wants wrapping, and If this is protected there is little danger of the plants being injured. There will be of course considerable skepticism auout any real talent coming out of the Pulitzer school of journalism, but, then, Pulitzer was a practical news paperman himself, and he ought to know whether the school of journalism is ca- Pick out the young ducks and drakes that grow and develop fastest, and that The Democrats are divided on the tar iff and the Democratic nomination will be affected thereby. I believe in a judicious tiriff to raise the revenue. I think it is more equitable to make the luxury-loving people pay for fine things than to wring it out of eight een! cotton and out of our lean purses. Don’t you? So if I feel stire we will have a lively scrap when the Democrats get to the nominating place with their candidates. Mr. Taft’s real strength lies in Democratic uncertainty and lack of union among themselves. But I only begun to write this New Year morning, to wish every one of you the very best year of your lives, in health, happiness, comfort, peace of mind, happy homes, domestic satisfaction and plenty to eat, and wherewithal to be satisfied. All hall to 1912, less than 12 hours old! NO FOOR MAN CAN BE GOVERNOR IN GEORGIA ANY MORE. When a former governor won the nom iantion and stated under oath that he had expended nearly 820,000 In the pri mary race, I wrote for The Senai-Weekly Journal my impressions as to future nominations, and my impressions have been authenticated by the sworn state ments of Messrs. Pope and Joe Brown and Judge Russell as to their expendi tures in the late primary. \ ' They have also spent large sums and the conviction becomes indisputable that no poor man need every try to run for governor In Georgia. No matter how well qualified he may be or how his honest character may be bulwarked by the respect and confidence of those who know him to be all he claims to be, he is not in it, because the ready cash must appear, and plank ed down at the beginning or hta name will not be placed on the official ticket, and according to decrees, decisions, de terminations and deliberations such a name would not be counted in the sum ming up as to the Anal result. < My time is obliged to be short, be cause I have passed threescore and ten, but I cannot express to you my forebod ings as to the future of this election business. As I sometimes say, "I hate to leave the world worse than I found It,” but we may as well look conditions fairly in the face and estimate the fu ture trend of officialdom In Georgia by the money requirements which are openly attached. Old Rome was once a republic, but money and what money stood for abso lutely ate out the heart of the whole buetniMS. Offices were put up for sale and the Roman republic finally and fa tally departed. TKB FASM WOMBBOP. It Is hard to estimate the value of the shop on the farm. It Is the place where many hours are spent that otherwise might be thrown away, or even worse than thfown away. The room should be well lighted and of such size as to accommodate a portable forge, two sets of trestles and a long wor bench with two sides to it. On the joists overhead- may be stored lumber for repairing the different parts of wagons, sleds, plows and harrows. Some may say they have no one to do that sort of work so what is the use of having a shop. If there are boys in the family teach or have one of them taught to do repair work such as wood work and blacsmlthing. The shop should be at such a distance from the other buildings of the farm so as not to endanger them from the sparks of the shop fire. In our shop on rainy days during the fall we assort and clean onion sets, get out seed beans and peas and make our sauerkraut. On winter days that are not fit for working outside a few new singletrees are made and ironed off, the broken chips mended on the old ones. A few gates are made each winter and set up and placed against one side of the shop so as not to warp or settle crooked. If the gate stuff Is thoroughly seasoned they are given a good coat of paint; if the material is sappy or green the gates are not painted until the next summer. All shavings and chips made in the shop are carefully put in boxes and used in kindling for the fires in the dwelling house. Just build one and stock it with some good tools and material and you will wonder how you ever got along without it. The support for the work bench which may be easily made of ordinary dry •goods boxes makes a nice place to keep the tools, nails and bolts. Set shallow boxes on top of each other until the re quired height is obtained. The front end of each box should be taken off and a smaller box put in as a drawer. Bore holes around the room and put in pegs of wood to hang the tools on—these wooden pegs ape better thgn nails. Mark the drawers for their con tents in plain figures or letters as the case might be. Doing so will multiply conveniences as it will do away w’lth all confusion and so decidedly make time, for one that it is one of the essentials. sl.oo—-Four Papers, One Year Each—sl.oo FPCr Absolutely New W JT Eureka Bent Trimmer If See That Tension EIGHT-INCH SELF SHARPENING SHEARS ALL FOUR PAPERS—ORE YEAR SI.OO—AND THE SHEARS FREE Send Us sl.oo—Sign Your Name and Address Below and We Will Send You The Semi-Weekly Journal One Year. The Home and Farm One Year. The Woman’s World Magazine 1 Year The Gentlewoman Magazine 1 Year. And the Shears Free Name * Town ’ ’State /¥”' ,lwr f 7-S CORN THE GREAT SOILING CROP It is possible within a few years to double the average production of corp per acre in the United States, and tt> accomplish it without any increase in work or expense. It is not to be under stood from this statement that it is de sirable to double the present corn crop, but that it is desirable to produce the same yield on a smaller number 6T acres and with less labor. If 60 bushels are raised on one acre instead of on two acres, the labor of plowing, harrowing, planting, cultivat ing and harvesting is greatly reduced. Demand controls the quantity that shduld be grown. To meet the demands the producers of the aUnlted States have, during the last ten years, averaged in round numbers 2,500,000,000 bushels of corn yearly.. In producing this quantity a little more than 95,000,000 acres have been devoted to corn growing. The av erage production for the past ten years has been as low as 26 busliels per acre, but from tne best estimates that have been made the conclusion is unavoidable that half of those who grow corn har vest less than 26 bushels per acre. Twice this quantity is a fair crop, threfr times 26 bushels is a good crop, and four times 26 bushels per acre are frequently produced. Since the average crop in the states best adapted to corn growing is but lit tle above the general average of the en tire country, it is evident that the aver age is not lowered to any great extent by the poor crops in sections unsuited to corn growing. Moreover, the yield per acre in the New England states, with their showing growing season, is as great as in any other part of the coun try. This clearly indicates the possi bility of greatly increasing the yield per acre in the corn belt. This is especially easy of accomplishment in the southern states, where the present production per acre is low and where the growing season is hot shortened oy frosts. ECONOMICAL SHINGLING METHOD We sometimes find jobs which must be done for a little money if done at all, and if w* can devise some means for doing them for the amount offered we are all right. I was recently offered a job of shing ling an old barn at a certain price, a price which seemerd too low for the work, but a s I had some spare time 1 concluded to try it and by figuring to save time I managed to do it and make fair wages. First, I got the owner to help put up the scaffold and was careful to get It high enough (one who has not tried it does not realize how much difference a foot in the height of the scaffold makes). You can shingle several courses without staging if the scaffold is up where it should be, and it is much easier getting the bunches of shingles up onto the roof. Another point which helped me, as I was to do the work for a lump sum rather than by the thousand shingles, was, that the owner wanted the shin gles laid one-fourth inch apart. This made about one-tenth difference tn the amount of shingles required. Another point which helps in covering a certain amount of roof for a given sum is that eighteen inch shingles may be laid five and one-half inches to the weather and the last few courses at uio top of the roof may be stretched a little beyond this and also a little more space can be left between them and all this without in any way making a poor Job. A In getting shingles up onto the roof some tkne, and some hard work may be saved .by using a rope and pulley fastened to a staging pole or rather to a bracket nailed to the pole. PLOW UP WORN OUT PASTURES It is well to have a good reason for everything and the main reason for plowing up pastures is when the for age plants become scarce and ,thin and weeds and moss are plentiful. Many such fields are found and they are al lowed to remain so—a most profitless proceeding, for while we have many light and poor crops on arable land, worn out pastures are quite as common. It may be the argument is that there is not the expense of cultivation that there is with arable. This is true, but unremunerative grass land is as unde sirable as any other. The durability of pastures depends to a great extent to the clean state and good heart of the land when the seed is sown and also on the quality of the seeds. Some are really perennial and permanent, others contain a great many weeds and all such pastures fall away in a few years. Renovating may be attempted and is often successful if begun in time but as a rule nothing short of plowing up and recultivating makes really satis that a field has only been laid down factory permanent pasture. To say Poor corn crops are usually attribut ed to unfavorable weather conditions, and frequently this is the true cause, for there are but few summers during which this crop does not suffer more or less at some stage in its growth. The most that can be done regarding the weather is to take the best possible ad vantage of the conditions as they exist. But there are other conditions that are responsible for low production——condi tions that are directly under the con trol of the farmer—and it is these that make possible the doubling of the aver age yield per acre within a few years. Although entirely possible, it is not ex pected that the near future will witness an average production of 62 bushels for every acre grown. The failure fc realise this production will result from the failure of many growers to improve their ’ methods. That some growers frt many different states are year by year producing 50 and 75 bushels of corn per acre proves the possibility. The lines of improvement that will most easily and quickly double tfle present production per acre the im provement in the quality of seed plant ed; improvement in the condition of th% soil; Improvement in methods of cultiva tion. The methods of cultivation in general use in one section of the country difßer greatly from those in another section. The implements and methods employe* in lowa are as different from those of t Connecticut as these in turn are differ ent from those of Georgia; and while these differences are to some extent Cue to the nature of the farm land or tv class of labor employed, they are to a still greater extent due to the conserva tism of the* farmers themselves. That certain kinds of cultivators or plows or > methods of planting have been in use in Georgia or lowa for many years Joes not prove that implements or methods found successful in other states mtgnt not be used there to advantage. This requires two men but as a .arge number of shingles can be taken up in a few minutes it will be economy to get some one to help you hoist them up. The first few courses at the bottom of the roof can be shingled by using a chalk line, but after the first staging 1 is put up on the roof a straight edge will save time. Do not imagine, however, that only one course can be shingled with a straight edge, for such is not the case. I bad four long, straight edges—• enough to reach the entire length of the roof and besides this I used a board five and one-half inches wide ®nd three feet long. This was kept above the long, straight edge and was moved along as the first course was that another course could be laid, using this board as a guide. The second time across I nailed a shingle, butt end up, onto this boartL leaving five and one-half Inches above* the board, and shingled throe conrses. Soon I nailed another shingle en be hind thl 8 one, allowing it to run u; five and one-half Inches more and shingled four coursea I was told that someone had shingled five courses and not wish ing to be outdone. I tacked another shingle on and found that I had about reached the limit, for, while five courses went faster than four, I found that one could hardly cover more than that to ad vantage. Os course, the number of nails used makes s ora ® difference in the shin gling, but as I believe that shingles should be well nailed, I did not care to slight tuls, but did save time by using three penny nails Instead of fours.—* John Upton. a few years and cannot nede renewla is not a strong reason for lotting it remain. The condition of the pasture only can be taken as Indicative of whether it should remain or be demolished. Some fields are so foul that a sum mer fallow is urgently needed in their redemptions. I am not averse to this course, though it mean sdelay and If the fields are not actually overrun with tenacious weeds, they may be broken up in the fall, cleaned as much as pos sible in the spring and preserved within the succeeding year. If land is plowed in the fall, harrowed in the spring, cleaned as much an pos sible and a grain crop with rather thick seeding Introduced, the weeds will have experienced a severe setback by the fall ar.d if carefully prepared for roots to follow, quite a ne wstate of things will be experienced.—S. C. Miller. The best time to salt butter is before it is taken from the churn, and just as it is gathered in granules.