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Modem Farm Methods As Applied in the South. ' 4 * 1 % i * • i ■7 -i i. - -.mu ]-... - "" 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 \ \ 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 ONLYMI| 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 ©HIST WILL rg?H W\ turns easy (see lonacranjc) £ HI rrlnde fast. Very durable, noth- ASgtt// H I In* to *et out of order. k —{• I Write row for fr ee book 2&/g2isrS9P I A. H. PATCH, Mir Hr-! BgFt33gjlir I Ellis and Corn bheilors A AU7BJr-‘ J xgwar I croiusirely. Ajevnt* want- 1 oc. Clarksville, Tegßl * #2 Dropsyp J, ir #s^* !i ws:r D %K!siosv C®sßeclanl*, Box B Atlanta.