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PROFIT IN PEANUTS
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Money Making Crop Anywhere
They Will Mature.
No Other Single Article of Human
Consumption, Not Regular Staple
of Steady Diet, So Popular
as Little Goober.
Where peanuts are grown as a crop
they prove as satisfactory as a money
maker as the staple crops of any kind
elsewhere, and I sometimes wonder
why more people scattered over the
country do not grow them, at least for
home use.
There is no other single article of
human consumption that is not a regu
lar staple of steady diet that is so uni
versally popular as the peanut, says
a writer in the Farm Progress. It is
seldom that you find anyone who does
not eat them; and is that
when a person gets a srhall bag of
peanuts and eats one or two. he will
go on eating them till he finishes the
bag.
Peanuts are grown commercially in
several states, but mainly in Virginia
and Tennessee. There is no reason
why they should not be made a profit
able crop in any other states of the
same latitude or farther south.
They will grow very well in almost
any part of the country, but owing to
the long time they take to make their
growth they do not mature in ordinary
seasons farther north than the latitude
of southern Virginia.
But it is possible that the plant may
become acclimated to regions much
farther north; or, rather that a more
quickly growing variety may be de
veloped that would mature in the
shorter seasons farther north.
If corn can be made a profitable crop
In the Dakotas, it seems to me that
peanuts might be also made to comply
with the conditions that are normal in
that latitude. Or, if no change can be
made in the peanut itself, probably 1
some other treatment in the cultivation
may be adopted that will practically
lengthen the season.
For instance, if the nuts that are to
be planted are sprouted either in a
hotbed or by artificial heat in the
house, before the weather is normally
warm enough to plant them in the reg
ular way, there may be a gain of sev
eral weeks in the growing season of
the nuts.
This is a very small matter, if it can
be made to really gain two or three
weeks of time, and would carry the
peanut as a special crop, if not a
staple, several hundred miles farther
north.
But why cannot the department of
agriculture develop a new variety of
peanuts with a growing season much
shorter, that they will mature even as
far north as the north line of Missouri?
This would add a crop to a wide region
of country that is valuable in more
ways than almost any other single
crop of this country.
While the'lowly peanut is not much
thought of as a staple crop or staple
article of food, it is really entitled to
more serious consideration. It should
not be considered in a trivial light
merely because it is mainly a favorite
delicacy with children.
It is my opinion that peanut butter
will be found a cheaper and more sus
taining food for laboring people than
meat, and the one that possesses the
advantage of keeping qualities far su
perior to animal food of any kind.
Moreover, owing to its high content of
Rctua! food values, it requires less of it
to create a number of units of energy
than any sort of animal food.
So I think the peanut is entitled to
the serious consideration of those who
study food values, and teach the rest
of the world how to practice the sound
<est economy.
FANNING MILL IS VALUABLE
By Judicious Use of Machine Farmer
Is Enabled to Increase Crops and
Destroy Weeds.
No farmer can get anyone to take
the same pains in grading his seed
that he would himself. Some farmers
claim that it does not pay to clean
grain.
It is a fact that it does not pay very
large returns to clean and grade grain
before selling it, but by grading our
own seed we can materially increase
the yield of our small grain crops.
The com crop of this country has
been increased millions of bushels by
Intelligent seed selection. All other
(grain crops can be improved by
grading the seed, so that only good,
Fanning Mill.
plump, healthy grains, free from all
foul weed-seeds may be sown.
The fanning mill, judiciously used,
will do much to increase the yield of
every small-grain crop and assist in
keeping our fields free from noxious
weeds.
It will take cockle out of wheat,
buck-thorn, plantain out of clover, in
fact it can be adjusted so as to handle
all kinds of grain and weed-seeds.
If you decide that it pays to sow
good seed and to keep your fields free
from noxious weeds, then do not hesi
tate to invest a few dollars in a fan
(nlng mill.
REMEDY FOR SAGGING POST
Outside of Cement the Materials Used
Will Cost Nothing—Simple
Plan Is Shown.
The remedy for a sagging gate post
is a simple one and very inexpensive
as well. First brace the post in such
a way as to prevent its falling and
then excavate around it to a depth b J
low the frost line. Pull the post inti
the proper position and renail tt 4
braces, as shown in Fig." 1. Drivi
stakes, and place rough boards against
them, as shown in Fig. 2, allowing
the boards to extend 6 inches above*
the ground line, says Concrete Re
view. This makes a box or form
around the post, as shown in the sec
tion, Fig. 3, into which to place tho
concrete. Nail several boards toggtjj
er to make a platform on which to
mix the concrete.
Place 3 cubic feet of gritty, clean,
sand on the platform and smooth it
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Setting a Post in Concrete.
into a 3-inch layer. Dump a bag of
cement on the sand and mix them
thoroughly while dry. Smooth out
this mixture and shovel six cubic feet
of gravel on top. The gravel should
be thoroughly wet first. Then shovel
the whole mixture from one pile to
another, adding water enough to make
a soft mass, turning over at least
three times. Shovel tlie whole mix
ture directly inside the box and tamp
with a 3 by 4-inch piece of timber.
When filled take a trowel and smooth
off the top, leaving the whole mass
slightly higher against the sides of the
post and sloping down toward the
edges. After two days remove the
braces and forms and fill with earth
around the concrete up to the ground
level. Outside of the cement the ma
terial will cost nothing, which will
make a very cheap and lasting job.
A wheelbarrow holds about 1% to 2
cubic feet of sand or gravel.
Farm Notes
Salt water is a tonic for the eyes
and should be used frequently.
Plant trees in the spring. They
protect from wind and shut out un
desirable views.
We should use considerable of the
milk of human kindness in caring for
our dairy cows.
The self-feeder is not good for young
pigs, as under five months of age they
will eat too much.
The danger of overfeeding in the
case of young pigs is always inimical
to maximum results.
Every locality in the country can
produce a kind of feed capable of
balancing up the corn ration.
A goose owned by a farmer near
Peoria, 111., died a short time ago at
the well-authenticated age of twenty
four years.
The big powder companies of the
country are advocating the use of dy
namite for the purpose of breaking
up hard clay soils.
Salt and air-slaked lime —a little
more lime than salt, will act favor
ably on the stomach of sheep and as
sist in preventing bloat.
The plowing under of green crops,
like peas, oats, clover, alfalfa and
other grasses, is next to a liberal use
of barnyard manure.
Many of our most valuable farms
were at one time sloughs and swamps
and considered almost worthless.
Drainage has made them valuable.
Professor Haecker, who is interna
tional authority on dairying, estimates
the feeding value of a ton of fodder
corn at $4.90 as compared with a ton
of timothy hay at $6.
The average farm is yielding only
about 4 per cent, profit on investment.
This suggests the need of a better
method of handling business on the
farm and a better farm management.
There are more than 2,000,000 head
of beef cattle in Missouri. Missouri
fat cattle are famous for their excel
lence in all the principal fat cattle
markets of America and Great Brit
ain.*
Cottonseed Meal and Cake.
Cottonseed meal and cake are fed
with best results to cattlg. and sheep.
To horses they should be fed only in
small amounts and to hogs not at all.
The meal blows about readily when
fed out-of-doors in the wind, and for
use under those conditions the cake
is better. The cake usually gives bet
ter results also for feeding with whole
grain of any kind, as the meal readily
separates from coarser material with
which it may be mixed for feeding.
Where one is mixing it with ground
grain the meal is more desirable.
Planting Potatoes.
The old theory that potatoes should
be planted in the dark of the moor
has been exploited by the scientists
of the agricultural department. In
vestigations show that the moon bar
no influence whatever in the quality
of the crop.
THOUGHT SHE’D
NEVER GET UP
But Lady in Chriesman, Who Went
to Bed With This Idea, Has
Changed Her Mind.
Chriesman, Tex. —In a letter from
this place, Lillie Gibson says; "About
three years ago, I was just entering
womanhood and was sick in bed for
nearly nine months. I took medicines
from four doctors, but it didn’t help
me. Sometimes, I would ache all
over, and I would have such a head
ache, I had to go to bed.
"I was in a bad fix, and that is all
there is to it. I thought I would try
Cardui. Now I am cured of all my
troubles, and I -6hall praise Cardui
as long as I live. My sister said I
never would get well, but now I am
perfectly well, and I am thankful for
what the medicine did for me.”
Cardui is made from strictly vege
table ingredients. It acts gently on
the womanly organs, stimulating them
to do their proper work, relieving pain
and restoring health.
Are you weak, tied, worn out? Do
you suffer from any of the pains pe
culiar to weak women? Cardui has a
record of more than fifty years in
relieving just such troubles.
Will you try it?
N. B. —Write toi I.ndlen* Advisory
Dept., Chattanooga Medicine Co., Chat
tanooga, Tenn.. for Special Inntructlonn
and 04-pagje hook, “Home Treatment
for Women/' sent in plain wrapper, on
request*
NOTHING AT ALL.
Brown—What your son doesn’t know
about horse racing isn’t worth know
ing.
Walker —And what he does know
about It Isn’t worth knowing, either.
Great Baseball Play.
"What was the greatest baseball
play you ever saw?” asked a friend of
Governor-elect John W. Tener.
“The greatest play I ever saw,” said
he, "took place in an amateur game
on a town lot at Charleroi. The teams
were playing on a wet field and an
outfielder who wore a derby hat went
after a high fly. He came to a little
pond and taking his eye off the ball
made a jump to cross it. As he was
leaping the ball struck him on the
head, went through the crown of his
hat and lodged there. The base run
ner was out and the fielder had not
touched the hall with his hands. Can
you beat it?” —Washington Corre
spondence Pittsburg Dispatch.
TO DRIVE OFT MALARIA
AND KFILD Fl* THE SYSTEM
Take the Old Standard UROVB'S TASTKI.HSS
CHILL TONIC. You know what you are taking.
Tho formula Is plainly printed on every bottle,
showing It Is simply Quinine and Iron In a taste
less form. The Quinine drives out the malaria
and the Iron builds up the system. Bold by all
dealers for 30 years. Price 60 cents.
Naturally.
• "Does your husband go in for golf?"
asks the caller.
“No,” she answers. "He goes out
for it.
Taylor’s Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum
and Mullen is Nature’s great remedy—
Cures Coughs, Colds, Croup and Whooping
Cough and all throat and lung troubles. At
druggists, 25c, 50c and SI.OO per bottle.
Hear It.
Ball —What is silence.
Hall—The college yell of the school
of experience.—Harper’s Bazar.
For FOLDS and GRIP
Hicks' Capudike Is the best remedy—re
lieves the aching and feverishness—cures the
Cold and restores normal conditions. It’s
liquid—effects immediately. 10c., 25c., and 50c.
At drug stores.
And people who do as they please
seem to get along just about as well
as those who are always trying to
please others.
Stiff neck! Doesn’t amount to much,
but mighty disagreeable. You will be sur
prised to see how quickly Hamlins Wizard
Oil will drive that stiffness out. One
night, that’s all.
A woman’s idea of a great financier
is a man who can straighten out her
expense account.
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for Children
teething, softens the gums, reduces inflamma
tion, allays pain, cures wind colic, 25c a bottle.
There is a lot of difference between
making good and making others good.
You Look Prematurely Old
Beoauao of those ugly, grizzly, gray hairs. Use “LA CREOLE” HAIR DRESSING. PRICE, SI.OO, retail.
UNKIND.
Wifey—l smell something like leath
er burning! Is it that cigar?
Hubby—No; but I wouldn’t wonder
if it’s the crust of that pie you just
put Into the oven.
FRENCH BEAN COFFEE,
A HEALTHFUL DRINK
The healthiest ever; you can grow
it in your own garden on a small
patch 10 by 10, producing 50 pounds or
more. Ripens in Wisconsin 90 days.
Used in great quantities in France,
Germany and all over Europe. Send
15 cents in stamps and we will mail
you a package giving full culture di
rections as also our mammoth seed
catalog free, or send 31 cents and get
in addition to above 10,000 kernels
unsupassable vegetable and flower
seeds —enough for bushels of vege
tables and flowers. John A. Salzer
Seed Co., 182 S. Bth St., La Crosse, Wis.
Easy Game.
"What you need,” said the kindly
friend, "is a change of air. You should
leave the city a bit —forget cares and
worries. Travel! Breathe the pure
ozone of the prairies. Go out to Mon
tana and shoot mountain goats!”
The listless one bristled.
"Montana!” he snorted. "Why, 1
know a mountain goat in Newark!”—
New York Times.
Free Blood Cure.
If you have pimples, offensive eruptions,
old sores, cancer, itching, scratching
eczema, suppurating swellings, bone pains,
hot slun, or if your blood is thin or im
pure, then Botanic Blood Balm (B.B.B.)
will heal every sore, stop all itching and
make the blood pure and rich. Cures after
all else fails. SI.OO per large bottle at
drug stores. Sample free by writing Blood
Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga., Department B.
The Scorcher’s Fate.
The Cannibal King—See here, what
was that dish you served up at lunch?
The Cook —Stewed cyclist, your ma
jesty.
The Cannibal King—lt tasted very
burnt.
The Cook —Well, he was scorching
when we caught him, your majesty.—
Sketch.
Important to Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that it
Signature of
In Use For Over 30 Years.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
The Selfish View.
“Do you want cheaper postage?”
“I don’t know,” replied the men who
considers only his own interests. "I
don't write many letters myself, and
1 don’t see why I should be eager to
make it easier for the men who send
me bills.”
No Backache or Kidney Pnlnm.
If you have puinM in the back, urinary, bladder
or kidney trouble, dizziness and lack of energy,
try Mother Gray’s Aromafic-Leaf, the pleasant
herb remedy. Relieves headache, nervousness,
dizziness and loss of sleep. As a system regu
lator it has no equal. At druggists or by mail,
50c. Ask today. Sample FREE. Address, The
Mother Gray Co., Lettoy, N. Y.
Careful Man.
"Pretty careful, is he?”
"Pretty careful. He left a partly
snjoked cigar in my office the other
day, and a little later sent his clerk
around after it.”
We Give Away J®>
Free of
The People’s Common Sense Medical Adviser, in Plain jfofi
English, or Medicine Simplified, by R. V. Pieroe, M. D.,
Chief Consulting Physician to the Invalids’ Hotel and Snr
gical Institute at Buffalo, a book of 1008 targe pages and
over 700 illustrations, in French cloth binding, to any one sending 31 one-cent
stamps to cover cost of wrapping and mailing only. Over 680,000 copies of
this complete Fsmiiy Doctor Book were sold in cloth binding at regular
price of $1.50. Afterwards about two and a half million copies were given
away as above. A new, up-to-date revised edition is now ready for mailing.
Better send NOW, before ail are gone. Address: Woild’j Dtsp&NSAar
Medicai. Association, Dr. R. V. Pierce, President, Buffalo, N. Y.
DR. PIERCE’S FAVORITE PRESCRIPTION
THE ONE REMEDY for woman’s pecoHar ail meats good ewougli
that its makers are not afraid to print on its ontsid* wrapper it*
every ingredient. No Seorets— No Deception.
THE ONE REMEDY for women which contains no alcohol and
mo habit-forming drugs. Made from native medicinal forest root*
of well established curative value.
Love making is one kind of cold
weather picnic.
PILES CFRED IN 6 TO It DAYS
Tour druggist will refund money If PAZO OINT
MENT falls to cure any case of Itching, Blind,
Bleeding or Protruding Piles in 6to 14 days. 60c.
Even a stingy man loosens up when
asked for advice.
Itch Cared In 30 Minute* by Wool ford’s
SanitaryLotion.Never falls. At druggists.
Men are known by the good they do
rather than the goods they have.
A READER CURES HIS
CONSTIPATION-TRY IT FREE
6lmple way for any family to retain the good health of all its member*.
The editors of "Health Hints” and
"Questions and Answers" have one ques
tion that is put to them more often than
any other, and which, strangely enough,
they find th» most difficult to answer.
That is "How can I cure my constipa
tion?”
Dr. Caldwell, an eminent specialist in
diseases of the stomach, liver and bowels
has looked the whole field over, has prac
tised the specialty for forty years and is
convinced that the ingredients contained
in what is called Dr. Caldwell's Syrup
.Pepsin has the best claim to attention
'from constipated people.
Its success in the cure of stubborn con
stipation has done much to displace the
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nno establish onr work In every cemetery
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as an advertisement. Both monuments are
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Ship.
The prices include names, dates of
I birth and death and a verse of two
I lines, monnment and lettering to be
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use of salts, waters, strong cathartic®
and surh things. Syrup Pepsin, by train
ing the stomach and bowel muscles to
again do their work naturally, and wltlk
its tonic ingredients strengthening th*
nerves, brings about a lasting cure.
Among its strongest supporters are Mr*-
John Graveline of 98 Milwaukee Ave.*
Detroit, Mich., Mr. J. A. Vernon of Okla
homa City and thousands of others. It
can be obtained of any druggist at fifty
cents*and one dollar a bottle, or if yot»
want to try it first a free sample bottla
can be obtained by writing the doctor.
For the free sample address Dr. W.
Caldwell, 201 Caldwell building, Monti
cello. 111.
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F' R E E !
Willet’s 1911 Seed Catalogue —•
(Leaders —Cottons, Corns, Forage
Seeds.) Willet’s Complete Poultry
Industry Book.
N. L. WILLET SEED COMPANY, Augusta, Ga.
W. M. U., ATLANTA, NO. 6-1911.