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Modem Farm Methods
As Applied in the South.
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Notes of Interest to Planter,
Fruit Grower and Stockman
llinls to the Amateur.
Neatness In the garden Is impor
tant, If one would derive the greatest
Ijossible pleasure from it. If dead
leaves, faded flowers and broken
branches are left where they fall to
litter the sward, they will give an un
tidy effect which will seriously mar
the appearance of everything. Be as
neat ai#d tidy In th ; garden as In the
house.
Dou’t wait for flowers 1o drop
♦heir petals, but cut them off as soon
ns they show that they have passed
their prim. Do this at the proper
time and you save yourself a good
<’ r al of labor and time. Remove all
dead leaves as soon as discovered.
Always aim to have your beds In
‘company trim.” fn other words,
l.&ve them look so tidy that you will
not be ashamed to show them to vis
itors at any time. And remember
that uo bed ever looks at its best un
less all weeds are kept down Weeds
don’t, belong in flower-beds, and the
firesence of them is a standing testi
mony of neglect on the part of the
owner of the garden
Keep the ground light, open and
mellow. Home seem to think it un
safe to hoe among plants in dry sea
sons, fearing that the soil will dry
•nt so rapidly as to injure th< plants.
Not so. A light, open soil absorbs all
♦be moisture that, eomes, while a
linked, hard condition of the surface
©f the soH prevents such absorption.
Keep plants that require the sup
port of a trellis tied up as fast as
they grow, unless they are such as
fasten themselves by tendrils, in
which case tying will he unnecessary.
Plants of a climbing habit, which are
not provided with tendrils, are often
Mown down and injured by strong
Tv I mis, if not tied. In lying, use
•trips of cloth, as strings cut the soft
wood, while strips do not.
If plants are "plunged”—that is.
fl’ pots containing growing plants are
Bunk in the ground—great care must
be taken to see that the soil inside
the pots does not get, too dry. Very
often it becomes so before the owner
>f the plant, is aware of it. because
the soil about the pot looks moist,
and it. is taken for granted fhat the
noil inside the pot must be in a sim
ilar condition. The pot is porous, to
a certain extent, it is true, but still
not sufficiently so to admit all the
moisture required. Therefore water
must be applied daily in dry weather.
1 do not advise plunging plants, be
muse of the neglect they are almost
•ure to receive on account of the im
pression that they require little or no
water, when given this treatment
during the summer
Fuchsias should be showered Gaily,
•tid this showering should be
thorough. Apply water at night, or
after sundown, with a syringe, throw
fug it up well among the foliage.—
Frank H. Sweet, Augusta County,
Yfi., in The Country Gentleman.
Strawberry Knowledge.
It may not be known by all who
plant only a family bed, and have
never studied the growth ol the
strawberry plant closely, that every
year, after the plants have borne a
erop of fruit, that a set of new roots
te formed above the old ones, and
that the old roots die, and the plants
Miust get their growth through this
new root system. A knowledge of
this fact is very essential, so that the
grower may see the importance of
placing plenty of fine rich soil around
the plants, close up to the bud, so
that the new roots may have a mel
low bed to catch in, and push the
plants into vigorous growth during
the summer and fah. With this
treatment, the same lied can some
limes he profitably fruited for about
four years. Btu, as a rule, two or
three years is long enough.
There are several different meth
f*ss of growing the strawberry. These
consist of the wide ami narrow mat
ted rows, the single and double
hedge rows, and the hill system.
Those all have their advantage and
disadvantages with different varie
ties, and under different environ
ments. Of these different systems, th >
single hedge is my ideal row. al
though m.v plants are not always
grown in that way. Sometimes, in a
wet season, or with a scarcity of
help, the runners get ahead of me
Md form a matted row, against the
desire or consent In this case, .1
take a sharp hoe, as early in the fall
ns cut square across the
hed, full hoe width, at intervals of
* bout ten inches. This helps matters
wonderfully, by giving the plants
room to develop larger crowns, and
It lessens the drain on the fertility
and moisture in the soil at fruiting
tftuc, aud the berries grow larger.
September is the month when the
runners grow more vigorously than
<rny other time in the year, and if
they are not closely watched and
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kept, off as fast as they come, they
will lessen the yield of the fruit next
spring.— J. B. Wells, South Carolina,
in the Southern Fruitgrower.
How to Use Fertilizers.
In the first start in a rotation with
eotton as the money crop, we would
give the cotton the direct benefit of
the fertilizers, except that we would
use the home-made manures and
clover for the corn crop preceeding
the small grain crop. But as the soil
improved in productiveness, we feel
sure that, it will be found that the
most profitable place to use the phos
phoric acid and potash will be on the
cowpea crop preceding the cotton
crop. Of course I know that many
use potash in the form of kainit as a
fertilizer for cotton with the idea
that it protects the crop from rust.
1 am of the opinion that the protec
tive influence is due to the effect of
the large amount of chloride of so
dium associated with the kainit, in
releasing potash in the soil to make
up the deficiency in the usual appli
cation, and that the greater vigor of
the plant thus produced makes it re
sist diseases.
In the best wheat-growing section
of Maryland the farmers have long
ago abandoned the use of complete
fertilizers, and have seen their lands
rapidly improve in the production of
wheat. One of the largest fertilizer
manufacturers in Baltimore, the
headquarters of the fertilizer trade,
said recently that the abandonment
of complete fertilizers has gone to
such an extent that, eighty per cent,
of the fertilizers sold in Baltimore
have no ammonia or any other form
of nitrogen in them.—W. F. Massey, j
in the Progressive Farmer.
riant Peas anil Sorghum.
With hay selling in our markets at
s2r. per ten cash, and being shipped
in from the West in large quantities,
it is the clear duty of every farmer,
large or small, tenant, cropper
landlord, to provide a way through
the coming months to sow a few acres
in forage so as to harvest, a good
yield of hay this fall. There is no
better combination crop for this pur
pose than peas and sorghum sown to
gether. Just a few acres of land well
prepared and fertilized will yield an
astonishing amount of forage. One
bushel of peas and a peck of sorghum
sown broadcast to the acre and har
rowed in during the months of May
or June, will pay a tremendous profit
on the investment.
If the peas cannot be secured, then
plant all sorghum or German millet.
No man who raises cotton at present
prices can afford to buy Western hay
at $2. r > to S3O per ton upon which to
feed his stock. It wipes out all the
profit of the cotton crop to buy such
supplies, and we had better plant a
few acres less in cotton and prac
tice a little more extensive diversifi
cation. Plant peas and sorghum with
which to fill your barn lofts next fall,
—Cotton Journal.
Farm Incomplete Without a Weeder.
No oilier implement has been'of
fered for sale to the farmers of this
section of more importance than the
weeder. We suppose almost every
farmer has seen one of them. It Is a
harrow with long, small teeth and
we think uaiul.y has about three
rows of them. It sells cheap, only
costing $lO to sll. One horse or
mule can easily pull it. On fresh
plowed ground it is the implement t*
rake in oats, wheat, rye, millet or tur
nips. If land has been broken for
some time and the farmer is not
ready to plant, running the weeder
over it prevents it from getting grassy
and weedy. It is the implement
needed to run over fields of corn and
cotton about the time .they start to
come up and once or twice after
wards. It keeps back the grass and
weeds and works the yoitug cotton
and corn plants. It works about
seven and a half feet as it goes and
will go over fifteen or more acres a
day. We l ave two weeders aud knew
since trying them just wnat they will
do. —J. M. Beatty, Johuson County,
N. O.
}SHB Hay is a Paying Farm Crop.
Do not overlook the forage crops.
With hay selling at S2S per ton. our
farmers should make every pound
possible to sufply their home de
mands, ana they should also make
some to sell. German millet, one
bushel per acre on rich, well-prepared
land, will make a large quantity of
hay. So •ghutn. on" bushel per acre,
or half bushel sorghum and one
| bushel peas on fertile land well-pre
; pared, wil’ make an astonishing
amount of feed. A good ferlUu.tr can
i be usod to advantage on • Lose crops.
| —Progressive Farmer.
Hl* Last Wish.
In an Arizona court a barber waa
recentiy tried for the murder of his
wife. The evidence was entirely cir
cumstantial, but as a result of the elo
quence and persuasion of the District
Attorney the accused man was con
victed and sentenced to be hanged.
Before leaving the court room the
Judge gave the prisoner permission
to make a atatement or express a last
wish, if he desired to do so. The bar
ber stood up, and facing the District
Attorney, said in a clear voice:
“Your Honor, I should like just once
more to be allowed to shave the Dis
trict Attorney.”— Philadelphia Ledger.
There is a good demand for arsenic
for the destruction of locusts in the
Transvaal. Its manufacture has even
been proposed as a colonial Industry,
with profitable prospects.
FITS, St. Vitus’Dance :Nervoos Diseases per
manently cured by Dr. Kline’s Great Nerve
Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise free.
Dr.H. R. Kline, Ld.,931 Arch St., Phila.. Pa
A GET-RICH-QUICK SCHEME.
Kicker—l save twenty cents every
time I shave myself.
Mrs. Kicker—Then why don’t you
■have five times a day and save more?
—The Circle.
How’s This?
•We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case of Catarrh that cannot be
cured by Halt’s Catarrh Cure.
F. Jt Chexky A Cos., Toledo, O.
We, the undersigned, have known F. J.
Cheney for tUe last 15 years, and believe
him perfectly honorable in all business
transactions and financially able to carry
out any obligations made by his firm.
.Walding, Ki.vnax at Mabvjx, Whole
sale Druggists, Toledo, O.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act
ing directly uport the blood and mucuoussur
faces of the system. Testimonials sent free.
Price, 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists.
Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
PREFERRED CREDITOR.
Short —There goes one of my pre
ferred creditors.
Long-Why preferred?
Short—'He never asks me for
money.—Chicago Daily News.
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for Children
teething, softens thegums, reducesinflamma
tion, allays pain, cures wind colic, 25c a hot tie
Big Bears Halting Trains.
Many bears have been seen in the
North Mountain region during the last
month, and passengers on the Lehigh
Valley’s Bowman's Creek branch
trains have had the pleasure of gaz
ing at several of the animals. In each
instance only the excessive tooting of
the engine frightened them off the
railroad tracks.
The/other afternoon, while a pas
senger train was bound for Wilkes-
Barre, Engineer Miller noticed a mon
ster bear on tbe track ahead of the
engine. He blew the whistle and rang
the bell, until finally the monster
bruin ambled slowly from the track,
clambered up the steep bank and
made his way into a nearby apple
orchard. Engineer Miller claims that
the bear was the largest he ever saw,
and must have weighed about five
hundred pounds.—Allentown dispatch
to the Philadelphia Record.
Unique Swiss Prison.
A convict named Hoche, who “ab
sented” himself from the comic opera
prison of Thorberg, Switzerland,
where the convicts practically come
and go at will, had been “captured”
in the village of Murist, near Fri
bourg. He confessed promptly that
he had taken his own ticket of leave.
At present there are about aB many
convicts out on their own ticket-of
leave as there are in the prison. The
majority of the men who take French
leave are considerate enough to give
themselves up to the authorities when
they are tired of the outer world.—
Washington Star.
OLI SOAKERS
Get Saturated With Caffeine.
When a person has used coffee for
a number of years and gradually de
clined in health, it is time the coffee
should he left off In order to see
whether or not that has been the
cause of the trouble.
A lady in Huntsville, Ala., says she
used coffee for about 40 years, and
for the past 20 years has had severe
stomach trouble. “I have been treat
ed by many physicians but all in
. vain. Everything failed to give re
lief. Was prostrated tor some time,
and came near dying. When I re
covered sufficiently to partake of food
and drink I tried coffee again and it
soured on my stomach.
“I finally concluded that coffee was
the cause of my troubles and stopped
using it. I tried tea in its place and
then milk but neither agreed with
me: then I commenced using Postum,
had it properly made and it was very
pleasing to the taste.
"I have now used it four months,
and my health is so greatly improved
that I cau eat almost anything I want
and can sleep well, whereas, before,
1 suffered for years with insomnia.
“I have found the cause of my trou
bles aud a way to get rid of them.
You can depend upon it I appreciate
Postum ” “There's a Reason.” Read
“The Road to Weltville," in pkga.
TEDDY GETS A BEAR.
Hunt i Finally Rewarded by Bringing
Down Bruin of Feminine Gender
and Large Size.
According to news received in Stam
boul, the president killed a bear latt
Thursday afternoon.
Few details of the killing are known
except that it took placa iate in the
afternoon after he and the other hun
ters with him had followed the dogs
In the chase through the jungles for
four hours. The beast was a female
of the black variety and was beyond
the average aize. The fact that she
was secured at all is attributed to the
staying qualities of the new dogs.
A later arrival from Bear Lake
brings the information that the presi
dent shot the bear, as it came out
of the canebrake near the camp. The
animal had been chased for half •
day by Ben Lilley and a negro assist
ant who followed close upon the heel*
of the hounds.
It fell after the first shot, which was
planted just back of the shoulder. The
animal weighed 375 pounds, which is
considered largo for bears in the vi
cinity.
Two days previous several trails
were struck, but only once did the dogs
come up on bruin, and then it became
necessary for a negro hunter In the
party to kill the bear immediately in
order to save the dogs.
FARMER NABBED HIS COTTON.
Raced Six Miles With Freight Train of
Seaboard Air Line.
Farmer Charles Jones of Chattahoo
chee county, Georgia, had a race with
a Seaboard Air Line freight train Fri
day that makes the feat of Paul Re
vere take a back seat. 113 discovered
that one of his tenants was preparing
to ship a bale of cotton to market in
stead of turning it over to him for
rent, and he hurried to the station at
Gobbler’s Hill in time to see the freight
train moving off with the bale of cot
ton conspicuously in view. It is only
six miles from Gobbler’s Hill to Cus
seta, the county seat, and the farmer
supposed that of course the train
would stop at the latter station for
freight, so he put spurs to his steed
and started after the train. A pic
turesque race of six miles followed,
steam and horse flesh alternately gain
ing, but the freight train at all times
maintaining at least a lead. Mr. Jones
had almost caught the train when thej
entered Cusseta, but to his surprise,
the freight did not stop, it so happen
ing that there was no freight there
for it. The persevering landlord
boarded the naxt passenger train to
Columbus, located his cotton in the
railroad warehouse and swore out a
distress warrant, attaching it.
JUDGE AKIN GOES HENCE.
Death Claims President of Georgia State
Senate at Cartersville.
Judge John W. Akin, president of
the Georgia senate, died at his home
in Cartersville Friday morning. Judge
Akin’s death followed closely that of
his mother, Mrs. Mary F. Akin, who
succumbed Thursday night. She had
suffered a stroke of paralysis and,
learning of her son’s precarious con
dition, fainted and could not recover.
Judge Akin died at 8:40 o’clock, the
members of his family at his bedside.
Death came as no surprise, as he had
been in a precarious condition for two
days. An attack of lagvippe had been
followed by pneumonia, and this, in
turn, by a stroke of paralysis, which
proved too much for Judge Akin’s
strength.
Mrs. Akin, the judge’s mother, had
been ill several days with paralysis.'
She was 77 years old. She was a
Miss Verdery and married Colonel
Warren Akin and moved to Bartow
county fifty-six years ago.
Judge Akin is survived by his wife,
three daughters, three brothers and
two sisters.
MONUMEMT AT ANDERSONVILLE
To Blue Heroes of Wisconsin Unveiled
With Interesting Ceremcniss.
The monument to the memory of
the Wisconsin soldiers who died at
Andersonville, Ga„ during the civil
war was unveiled Thursday at the local
national cemetery in the presence of
many hundreds of spectators.
Governor Davidson of Wisconsin,
members of his military staff and pub
lic officials of the Badger state, num
bering over 100, took part in the un
veiling exercises.
FIVE MONTHS IN HOSPITAL.
Discharged Because Doctors Could
Not Care.
Levi P. Brockway, S. Second Ave.,
Anoka, Minn., says: “After lying
tfor five months in g
hospital I was dis
charged as incura
ble, and given only
six months to live.
My heart was affect
ed, I had smother
ing spells and some
times fell uncon
scious. I got so 1
couldn’t use my
arms, my eyesight
was impaired and
the kidney secretions were badly dis
ordered. I was completely worn out
and discouraged when I began using
Doan’s Kidney Pills, but they went
right to the cause of the trouble and
did their work well. I have been
feeling well ever since."
Sold by all dealers. 5 0 cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Cos., Buffalo, N. Y.
When a man aims at nothing h*
seldom misses his target.
The milk pall is kept free from
staleness, sliminess and stickiness if
it is washed with Borax and water in
the following proportions—one table
spoonful to a quart of water.
Better a word in season than tn
hour’s lecture out of season.
SKIN SORE FOR EIGHT YEARS
Spent S3OO on Doctors and Remedies
Bat Got No Relief —Caticura
Cures in a Week.
"Upon the limbs and between the toes
my skin was rough and sore, and also sors
under the arms. I had to stay at home
several times because of this affection. Up
to a week or so ago I had tried many other
remedies and several doctors, and spent
about three hundred dollars, without any
success, but this is to-day the seventh day
that I have been using the Cuticura
Remedies (costing a dollar and a half),
which have cured me completely, so that
I can again attend to my business. I went
to work again to-night. I had been suffer
ing for eight years and have now been cured
by the Cuticura Remedies within a week.
Fritz Hirschlaff, 24 Columbus Ave . New
York, N. Y., March 29 and April 6. 1906.”
WOLFISH.
"Ever surrounded by wolves?"
“No; but I know the sensation. I
used to open the dining-room doort
at a summer hotel.” —Louisville Cour
ier-Journal.
Wrncmsm
“NUBLACK”
Loaded Black Powder
Shotgun Shells
“Nublacks” are as per
fect as brains and in
genuity, coupled with
first-class materials and <
modern methods of
manufacture, can make
them. They are sure
fire, make even pat
terns, shoot hard and
strong and will stand
reloading. Ask for
“Nublacks” next time.
THEY HELP MAKE BIG BAGS
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Here’s a hand-mill that al
ways pleases. A l.irrer iyxdV!
ana better mill for the w§Sf
money than any other.
Grinds corn, wheat, rice, I~7S/
coCoe.liomlny, etc. Instant
ly adjusted to rrlnd as fine or fcw&Sfwff;
coarse as desired. Fine for jgWffiggffSfts
oraeklngltralnforponltry.
Black Hawk
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turns easy (see lonacranjc) £ HI
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