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ORANGE BLOSSOM 13 A3 SAFE AND HARMLESS AS 3F°X,:x: Seed. UPo'iaJ/fcloo. It La applied right to the parts. It cures all diseases of women. Any lady can use it herself. Sold by AT.'f, DRUGGISTS. Mailed to any address on receipt of sl. Dr. J. A. MoG-ill & Co s, 3 and 4 Panorama Place. Chicago, 111. tNQIJIHIES ANSWERED BY THE GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. Relating to the Farm, Garden, Dairy, Stock Raising, Etc. CHICKENS. Wo are pleased to be able to add the valuable experience of Mrs. W. E. H., of Milledgeville, as a further answer to the inquiry as to how to rid the henhouse and chickens of mites. Mrs. H.’s letter also contains other valuable suggestions. She says: “Seeing in the weekly paper here in one of your recent reports an inquiry for cure of mites and lice on chickens I send the following, which I know to be sure, as my chickens have been free from mites for over five years: Two teaspoonsful of sulphur to a pint of corn meal mixed well together to every seven fowls; given twice a week to get rid of mites; given once every 10 or 12 days to prevent. Mites will never get on roosts made of sassafras poles, and they can be used several years. Onions cut fine and baked in dough prepared for biscuit and fed to fowls once or twice a week when cholera is around is a sure preventive. Little chickens just a few days old can be ted with both prepara tions. Three drops of sweet oil on the heads of ducks will kill the lice.” Respectfully, Mas. W. E. H. PEA VINES. What is the best way to save pea vines for hay? P. (J., Lee County. The vines should be cut just as the pea is developing in the pod, when you can find an occasional fully developed pod. Mow or cut down the vines early in the morning, as soon as the dew is off. Leave vines on the ground until next morning, when you scatter the cocks and leave as before. Throw two cocks together in the afternoon, and go on in this way until the vines are dry enough for the bam. Do not handle the vines in the heat of the day, when very dry, or the leaves will fall off. The vines should, if not prevented by rain, be left in the field for four or five days. Place them loosely in the barn, and never pack them away. In this way you cau se cure very fine hay. WEEVILS IN CORN. Can you give me a remedy, or, rather, a preventive, that will keep weevils out of corn? J. L. H., Adel, Ga. In answering your question on this subject we reply to several other in quiries relating to the same matter. Experiments with bi-sulphide of carbon prove it a most valuable remedy. As practical experience is the best test, we give what Mr. John W. Rice, of Su wanee county, Florida, says on the sub ject: “Last winter, after I had boused my corn, I obtained of Evans Brothers, of Live Oak, a few pounds of bi-sulphide of carbon. I took a long tube and worked it into the corn to bottom of barn on one side, and poured in one pound of the stuff, stopped upper end of tube and let it remain two weeks. I then made the same operation on the other side of the barn. The weevils were pretty thick in the com, but they soon disappeared, and I have them no more. My barn is freer from weevils in August than it has been in March before. I must say it is a de cided success. I would not be without it, though it cost me $5 a pound, I have a supply for the present crop, and shall put each bottle in a box slatted on top to Brevent8 revent the breaking of the bottle, place le box on the floor of the barn and throw the com on it—the bottle un stopped, of course. I shall use one bot tle to one hundred bushels of com. My stock have eaten both com and shucks treated with carbon and it had no inju rious effects. The stuff is worth millions to the south, where the com weevil is so destructive and annoying.” GREEN CROPS. I notice that you advise turning under crops just as matured. I would like to know whether the character of the soil should have any influence in deciding whether the crop should be turned under green or after matured. C. C. S., Bartow County. The general deduction that crops ben efit the soil most when turned und* r just when matured rather than when green is due to the fact that when plowed under green they produce a i acidity in the soil from the decomposi tions that is hurtful. This being the case, it is evident that where the soil abounds in alkaline matter, such as pot ash and lime, no such injury can result On this character of soil it may be a' vantageous to turn under the green crop, as the acid is then harmless, and uniting with the alkaline may release plant food that otherwise might be useless to vegetation. In the experiments con ducted at the state station, no marked results in favor of any particular tim • of turning under crops was secured. In our previous answer to the question w' gave only the general deductions drawn by experienced and scientific, agricultur alists without the qualifications that arise in special instances. It is the duty of every farmer to insure success to study the best methods, or rather, the method that will secure the best results on his land. This can be dona in all matters, especially those involving fer tilization by experimental work. IRISH POTATOES. Can you give me a good method to keep Irish potatoes? D. G. W. Cartersville. To keep Irish potatoes through the fall and winter, select a cool, dry, airy situation—a cellar where the atmosphere fe not damp and the temperature not too low or very high, is the best place. Mis two bushels of charcoal with one bushel of air slacked lime for every 50 bushels of potatoes, and sprinkle this mixture through the potatoes immediately after removing them from the field. See that your potatoes are well dried l>efore stor ing away. They should be dried in the shade, and all cut and bruised tubers re moved. A common method of storing potatoes —a ditch cut for the purpose. Where this method is adopted it is best to select a hillside where good drainage can be secured. Place straw in the ditch, on which place the potatoes, and then cover with straw, covering the whole wita sufficient earth just to prevent freezing. All the potatoes should not be stored to gether, but separated into lots of about 25 bushels each, by earth or straw. Your seed potatoes and others can be excellently preserved by placing them m a bin in a dry, cool place, and separating the potatoes by sand so that they do not come in contact with each other. GRASS SEED. To sow red clover how much seed shoiildjtfliae to the acre, also how much clover and orchard grass mixed? It. P. ri., Milton county. How much seed to sow depends on the purpose for which you desire to use the land. For pasture it should be sown thicker than for meadow. Much will also depend on the character of jjthe soil. If the soil is very lumpy and not very fertile, twice as much seed will be need ed as is necessary per acre when the soil is mellow, free from lumps and covered with a fine vegetable mould. The fol lowing is the quantity for general seed ing, whieh may be varied to suit the soil, or for meadows and pastures: When red clover and orchard grass are sowed together four quarters of the for mer and 1(1 of the latter will be suffi cient if the soil will produce one and a half tons per acre. If sowed evenly and nothing but clover is used, six to eight quarts will seed an acre. With orchard grass alone use from two to three bush els —better sow three than less than two. PEAR TREES. What is the best way to train pear trees? L. F. TANARUS., Thomaston. It is host to train your trees so tint they' will branch at a distance of only a few feet from the ground. * This method has these advantages: The fruit can be easier gathered and the trees easier trained; the fruit does not injure so much in falling; the branches being sturdy, will not be strained by overbear ing or over weight of fruit; the soil wdl be kept shaded and moist, and the trunk protected from the scorching sun. STUMPS. Can you give me a method to de stroy stumps? F. D. U., Hancock County. Bore with a two-inch augur to the heart or center. Fill the hole with sul phuric acid or with crude petroleum. In the first place the acid destroys in a few months; in the latter, when the stump becomes saturated with the oil it is fired and will burn to the roots. Where oil is used two or more holes will hasten the time Tor burning. Place an iron weight on the stump when fired, and it will render the result more certain. The iron retains heat, and by its weight re moves charred portions of the stump. HUMUS. ! How does humus benefit land ? | S. B. N., Brooks. Land is benefitted by humus princi pally by its mechanical effects. It stiff ens sandy land and loosens clay soil; it gives power to the soil to absorb and re tain moisture and its solvent powers renders available mineral substances in the soil. When the vegetable matter is from liguminous plants, a considerable contribution of nitrogen is directly made. Carbonic acid is the principal element evolved from humus. ASHES AND STABLE MANURE. , Will it do to mix ashes and stable ma nure? F. M. W. It is injurious to mix ashes with stable manure, as they cause the escape of the ammonia, which is the most costly of plant foods. If the material is perfectly dry and you wish to use the compost immediately by the use of dry earth or plaster, you can mix them without loss. WHEAT AND OATS. How can I separate oats from wheat ? | F. H. E. Oats may be nearly entirely removed from wheat by putting the grain in a tub of strong brine and skimming. The wheat must then be spread thin and dried quickly and well limed. It pays to have pure wheat seed, and you should do this if you wish to sow the wheat WHITEWASH. In your next report please tell me how to make a good whitewash. L. H. T. This is a simple recipe: Mix up half a pailful of lime and water; take half a pint of flour and make a starch of it and pour it into the whitewash while hot; stir it well and it is ready for use. In suggestions and information for farm ers issued by the department, you will find another valuable recipe. ' TICKS ON SHEEP. ( Please give me a remedy for ticks on ■heap. H. L. T. > Mix sulphur and salt, seven pints of salt to one of sulphur, and feed or salt the Bheep with the mixture given to them several times. It will drive the ticks off. DEAD LEAVES. What is the best thing to do with dead leaves, so as to use them for manure? S. S, P., liartwell. Throw them in the pig pen, or use them as a litter for cows. Hogs will work them into manure in a very short time, SHEPPARO’S _ *cOOKbIOVEs r~ i MfioE FROM PURE PIG IRON i Not one pound of Scrap Iron is ever used in these goods. . |Ol Ab-E, CONVENIENT and ECONOMICAL. All Modern Improvements to Lighten i Hcusekeepins Cares. Twenty different sizes and kinds. Every Stove Warranted Against Defects, -V .• prices not much higher at this time \ V f- i_- - than on commoner kinds of Stoves. . - Call cn or address Toothache and Philosophy. There was a woman on a cable car the other day' with her face tied up with a handkerchief, and directly op posite was a benign looking citizen who was on the watch to extend con solation to some poor suffering fel low mortal. He had scarcely noticed the woman when he leaned forward and inquired: ‘ “Toothache, ma'am ? ’ She nodded her head. "Too bad. Ache very bad ?” ©lie nodded again. “I know bow to pity you. I'd about as soon be knocked down with a club as to have the toothache for 15 minutes. I suppose you're tried peppermint, paregoric, camphor, hot salt, whisky and all that?” She nodded again. “Well, ” continued the benign man, “I’ve heard that all these things can bet overcome by strength of will power. They say that imagination has a good deal to do with it. Sup pose you imagine that your tooth doesn't ache the least bit ?” ‘“And suppose you imagine that you are the biggest fool in town!” hotly exclaimed the woman as the tooth gave a jump which lifted her a foot high. The benign man muttered, “Urn! urn!” and went to tho end of the car and sat down and began to read a newspaper.—Chicago Journal. The Breaking of the Voice. The peculiar physiological causes of what is called the breaking of the voice are not quite understood, but it is known to depend immediately upon an organic change in the larynx, the organ of the voice, which occurs in the male sex between the ages of 1-1 and IG. Before that the larynx of boys resembles that of girls, but when the voice begins to break the vocal chords become lengthened at least one-tliird. the angle of the thyroid cartilage be comes enlarged, and the muscles which connect the organs of the voice with the liypoid bone and the base of the tongue become elon gated. While the change of form is taking place the voice is unfitted for sing ing and should be used only with great care. In other words, the breaking of the voice is due to the rapid development of the larynx, which takes place at certain ages and which leads to a change in the range of the voice. The peculiar harshness of the voice when it is thus breaking seems to be due to a tem porary congestion and swollen condi tion of mucous membrane of the vocal chords accompanying the active growth of the whole larynx.—Brook lyn Eagle. A Fortune In a Mudliole. The late Lyman Dayton was a Minnesota pioneer and built a house in St. Paul when the place was a village on the hills and what is now the business district was a swamp. Once Dayton and two friends sat on a bluff talking and gazing at the “mud hole.” It was suggested that if the town grew the lowland might be come valuable. Soon after the threo separated, and early next morning one of them saddled liis horse and started for the land office at Still water, 18 miles away, intending to pre-empt the swamp. He had gone but a short distance when he discovered a companion of the day before ahead of him, also on horseback and with the same pur pose in view. The two raced to Stillwater and finished even in front of the land office. At the door stood Lyman Dayton smoking liis pipe. “You’re too late, boys,” he said. “I came over last night.” In the course of years the mud hole made him a multimillionaire. — San Francisco Argonaut. Measuring tlxe Ilainfall. The quantity of rain falling at any place is estimated by means of a very simple piece of apparatus known as a rain gauge. The most common form of rain gauge consists of a copper funnel, the area of the mouth of which is accurately known. The rain collected in this funnel flows into a graduated measure, which can very easily be constructed by any one out of a small glass tumbler or beaker by pasting on its side a narrow strip of paper, carefully marked off into inches, half inches, quarters, eighths and sixteenths, or into inches, tenths and twentieths. Supposing that the area of the mouth of the receiving funnel is five times that of the graduated measure, then a depth of five inches in the measure would represent a depth of one inch on an area equal to that of the aperture of the funnel. —London Tit-Bits. Natural Water Pipes. A curious phenomenon has been discovered near Eddy, N. M. In Dark canyon a number of tunnels were run in order to tap streams of water to get a supply for the water works. The water was found run ning in small, natural pipes, made by the deposit of lime from the wa ter. The whole space cut by the tunnels was found to be perforated with these lime pipes. —Exchange. Police Court English. “Good day, judge,” said the fresh prisoner. ‘‘lt's a fair day.” “ ‘Fine day’ is the proper expres sion here,” said the judge, under his mustache. “Ten dollars, please.”— Brooklyn Eagle. rRcMJUMa RI Ff F Q I 3. JL I i.i o Jnder this head ws offer our :i,. ->j> ' fibers and readers the i]:| • :j,j Celebrated Breech Loading jjii Remington Rifle, latest im ||'l proved pattern. This Rifle is made by the REMINGTON ARMS I*,'. CO., w!io supply Rifles to the 11 United States Government. *"Jv ]ij This Rifle is made in several |i j| sizes. We can supply it in 32, 111 88 and 44 calibre. Winchester I; t centre-lire cartridges can be | I- used. The REMINGTON has oc ! * r p ta S on barrel, oiled walnut I' li| stock, case hardened frame . ... . . Jfy li and trimmings, sporting trout O'Civf" and rear sights, and shell ejector. 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We Advertise Property ini the MIDDLE GEORGIA ARI GUS without cost to thel owner. I We are the only Real Estate Agents in Jackson, and hare In our hands quits * I number of valuable and desirable farms in Butts and other eonnties for sale on tfc* I best of terms. Also City Property, Residence and I Business Lots. I If you hare land te sell, put it into our hands and we will find you a buyer. If I yon have houses to rent we will find you a renter. If you wish to buy a home • an us and we will furnish team and driver. WE ASK ONLY A TRIAL. faction, Ga., UNION STERLING BICYCLES Are the Highest Grade Poaaiblo. OUR LINK OF Xflk BICYCLE SUX MEDIUM Va DRIES OF ALL GRADS WHEELS jk - ,1, STO^CKINGS, have wo ><<rrnsK % SJ&TTiyZs. shobs, sweat- SSrTriS allsizbs. ALL FRIGES. it LUGGAGE CAIi- FOS BOYS, \G%y\ w/l\w kkS K bl cycle GIRLS, MED ■agSa^Na-JVV>L-.gL r , NAND WOMEN. CHES, Etc., Esc. WMITH. (Stokes Mfg;. Cos. b o.nvm* 'SSmtuSS! *93 Wabutb An., CMICAOO. WLWAUKCC