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Capontztng Is profitable.
Harijo for the chicks Is best.
Ebc ~ .'.'.art have conic tfin Her.
Separate the pullets and cocker
tit..
• Good >■■>'.£, good care, good breed,
good stock.
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For. cr-s tiro b tter bred than
fh< !r ornc-ra.
Du i- put the celts In a past in
fenced U . barbed wir •.
l*o y< .1 have a let of voting ■ • it
ers? Sell them for fry*.
ItV a mighty easy matter to ever
crowd the chick coops now.
It may be wise to protect the colts i
from the tiles* during the day.
You cannot fatten your cattle while
firsts are sucking their blood.
Hill culture produces earlier straw
berries than matted row culture.
Unless a man has a great love for
(i florae ho should not handle colts
A sheep or calf staked In the
front yard 1b a splendid lawn mower.
Warm skim milk for feeding pur
poses soon pays the coSt of a farm
separator.
Moat, of the fly dopes are fairly good
but for results they have to bo ap
plied cveij day.
Mter i 1 aye Jut.* us Important a
: Sic avc.tt gb farm ns tiny
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We have moved mto our new storejn the post office
block on the corner in front of Walker’sjPna r imcy, and
have a larger assortment of
Dry Goods, Shoes, Notions
and White Goods.
We are running a special sale of Muslin
Underwear and White Goods and also clos
ing out all Winter Merchandise .
Where cash accompanies the order u)e
uill L.d'ccr goods free to purchaser by Par
ed Pod on the Ratal Routes.
. aye advantage of the parcel post and p Inc or mail
your orders-- w: do the rest.
DU SAN BROTHERS
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Drink '• ah right for the hogs, but
ttii need some- grain and vegetable*
to go with thetr milk.
t« plen’y of firm talk In ♦’ e
. but It 1» farm work that counts
... ~.t' btiQii balance.
A rood plan is to make the lots
: d narrow ; d sow them to pas- j
tt.; • , p owing up alternately.
Remember, chick coop* are very
apt to become foul and unhealthy
while the weather Is »o sultry.
It will only taka about half a* much
grain and other feed to raise a litter
of pigs If they be given pasture.
There is nothing about green fodder
that would have a depressing lufliv i
rnce upon the milk flow of the cow.
There ore about a dozen different j
broods ol daity cattle and the best of j
them all is the kind that suits you j
best.
The beat flavor, d butter Is obtained
by ripening or souring cream until
from 5 to 6 per cent of acid has been
d< veloped.
Roughness cannot he made to en
i r u tal:«.‘ the place of grain, but a
heavy crop of roughness is not to be
despised.
Ground limestone is preferable to
burnt lime unless two tons of the for
mer cost considerably more than one
ton of the latter
There are very few farms on which
additional labor expended In prepar-1
lng the seed bed would not yield ,
handsome returns.
A wide range and frequent ex
change of pasture will redtvee the
ravages of the stomach worm, that j
fearful enemy of the sheep.
An enterprising farmer living near
a town of 5,000 or mote can sell every
pound of Ms butter at full retail prices j
or little übove the year round.
The man who Is trying to raise hogs !
without pasture and forage crops is
like a puppy chasing his tall. He gets >
,T uty ui’ exercise, but nothing else, i
Sore shoulders on a horse are noth
ing lens than shameful, and rio man
should consider himself worthy who i
permits them to appear upon work j
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THE COCHRAJT JO FETAL, POOIfRAY. GEORGIA
AG’ Or j uctrE.io
Constantly Recurring Question on
Which Dairymen Do Hot Agree—
No Danger of Stunning.
The r.ge at Which to breed the
heifers Is a constantly recurring ques
tion. Opinion differs considerably on
this point, and unfortunately expert
tree as relc' 1 t L n 'u. . ‘ not
uniform by any : - : , v _-e -* E
Kaufman In the Town and Country
Journal.
The writer Las always tried to
make his opinions conform to his ex
perience and observation, but In the
case of breeding the heifers hi* views
have always been backed up by both
experience and observation
When the heifer is bred to drop
the first calf at the age of two years,
and In nearly all Instances thlß can
be done, the habit of giving milk Is
early stimulated, besides the young
COW Ift more trcctftbte pnit ♦T>V* mare
readily brought under the environ
ment. of her new condition. With the
first calf dropped at the age of two
yep re it Is better to delay the breeding
for the second calf for six or eight
months, but keep milking her for a
year at least. In ord>- r to develop the
trait of long and Amt - ei
After the second 0r..: . . can bo bred
regularly every y-.v
If property fed and an '"- r ere is
really r.o danger of stunt leg the
growth or undermining,' the constitu
tic.. |.y early breeding. F r the
dairy a cow should begin giving in HU
as early In life as possible and the
habit of persistent milking be thor
oughly Instilled In t.he animal. A
heifer bred to calve at two and one
half or three years of age will be
more difficult to handle and conse
quently not give down her milk so
readily, thuß bringing about a ten
dency to shorten the milking period
when all efforts should be In the line
of a long period of lactation.
Breed the heifers young, 14 to 15
months, except, possibly. In special
cases, and better results will l>e ob
tained In producing large and per
sistent milkers
Might Get Even With Mosquito.
An observer In India has found a
small fly of the midge class with Its
proboscis inserted in the abdomen of
a mosquito, 11. *«>«,<■«■ in sucking the
mosquito's blood There is comfort,
if not benefit, in this bit of news.
Why can't we import this midge? The
mosquitoes would know- how It Is
themselves then, perhaps.—Farm and
Fireside.
HOW TO PRUNE FRUIT TREES
Branchss Wanted es Leading 6hoct*
Should Not Be Touched—Weaker
Ones May Be Pinched tick.
In pruning fruit trees, %Uen tic . ium
to be given to the manner In which
the particular kind bears fruit, writes
an expert ir an crchange Ti e cherry
and the pear : oth Li-tir tteir fruit oa
short sp’-re, aud in trimming, there
fore, the effort should be to produce
a large quantity of healthy fruit spurs.
Summer pruning does this admir
ably.
The branches that we want to re
main as leading shoots should not be
touched; but the weaker ones may be
pinchod back about mid-summer, one
foot or two-thirds of their growth.
This will Induce the swelling of a
number of bads that will produce
flowers Instead of branches, and In ]
this way fruit spurs can be obtained
on coiapafstively young trees; but
with such kinds as the grape vine, the
fruit Is borne on tbo branches of last
year's growth, so the effort should -
bo to throw ail the vigor posrltle to
those growing branches that we want :
to bear fruit the next season
To ’o thts wc pinch back the shoots
that . e no not want to extend; or
even pull these weak shoots out alto
g. '-.rr. A little f "lnli-g is limn acc
essary In the winter; to shorten
hack these strong, bearing cane-6,
nr *o nmne out altogether the weaker
nma 'hat we check by pinching lack
during the growing season.
LADDER FOR APPLE PICKING
One Shown in Illustration Can be
Placed in Tree Without Fear of
Breaking Small Limbs.
Here Is the best type of ladder foi
picking fruit, as It can be readily
placed in the forks of the trees with
out breaking the small limbs, and It
will not slip after once set.
The drawing simplifies It enough
without a description. It Is easily
made, writes Ray Malcolm In the
fel.
Apple-Picking Ladder.
".wr:o ml Fin-side While It will bt
j used In the fall, for the most part. It
is very convenient at other times of
! the year Many “narrow ladder" jobs
can be found oti the farm.
Box Fruit for the Ea6t.
I think there is a big opportunity ir
the east for well packed, high-quality
fruit In boxes. There are going to be
a great many apples packed In boxes
and those growers who pack scaly
wormy apples will say the box-pack
[ is no good, says a writer In an ex
change. I paid five cents apiece fot
. Baldwin apples in Ithaca last year. It
I the city market recently they were
selling Rome Beauty apples for five
| cents apiece. If the growers will ad
! vertlse the quality of their fruit anc
i put the packs up so that people can
depend on them, they will beat the
; western people out.
Horticultural
Note-5
Prune-out the old raspberry canes
| as soon as they are through fruiting,
j- The packages used for shipping
! pears vary widely In different parts
J of the country.
I Tip layer the black raspberries thts
! month If you wish to set out new
I plants next year.
Do not prune your trees until th«
sap has gone out of them and then
prune very sparingly
Among the perennial plants, the
ald-fashloned hollyhock has bloomed
especially well this year.
It Is a mistake to cultivate an
| orchard on a hillside. Nothing but
j the sod will hold the soil there.
; A new- strawberry lied may be set
! now If the ground Is moist, although
j opring is generally a better time.
No part of farm work Is so thor
| onyh’y misunderstood and neglected
: p ; the raising sad selling of fruit.
| A real satisfactory remedy for the
j control of aphides cr lice cn apples
j and other fruit has not been found.
! Early blooming wild flowers may be
! transplanted iron the woods now.
jlf they are carefully set they will
I bloom next year.
j A well selected apple orchard of
| 15 acres In a good location next to
! a btg market will, in ten years, pro
duce a large, permanent income.
Tt Is reported that a berry grower
ia the state of Washington has per
fectel a method for drying strawber
- = .fcy sunlight so that, they are very
paatable.
Hoe around the shrubs and plants
In the school yard. Give them a good
watering, tt necessary. A little atten
tion now will enable them to bloom
another year.
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" WHY NOT GREATER DAIRYING L GEORGIA?
President Andrav* M. Soule.
Butter ts forty-five cents & pound
and going up In a period of less
than ten years the price of thts most
desirable and wholesome article has
almost doubled.
When there te so much complaint
about the low- price of cotton and the
email yield obtained, is there any rea
son why a percentage of our farmers
should not take up dairying which
promises a larger return? A good
cow such as can Is- found in many lo
cal! upb in Georgia may be depended
on to give two gallons of milk a day
for atiout ten months of the year
when she Is property fed and cared
for. If she is of Jersey origin, the
milk will probably run five per cent,
of fat cr slightly 1 .tt-r, and the cow
may 1< depended ta to ri cm to the
owner the equivalent of a pound of
b 'ter ;• day wo: ' 3 already noted
about forty five cents. The cost of
feeding this cow on a most libtra!
estimate, should not lie ovt twenty
five cents a day Under good man
agement. It may be rod need to from
BtST FRUtT TREE
PLANTING METHODS
T. H. McHatton, Professor o*f Horti
culture.
Question—What is the best method
of fruit tree planting tn Georgia?
Dig a bote two feet square and two
feet de<*p put in the bottom a layer
of woods’ earth, a fork of manure
or a shovel of wood ashes. Place on
top of thts a layer of dirt taken from
the top of the hole to prevent the
roots from coming into contact with
thn fertilizers. Ground tx*ne meal,
one i*otmd, or cotton seed meal, one
pound, are also good fertilizers.
Prune the long. crooked, knotty,
broken and diseased roots. Plant
the tree, putting the soil taken from
the top of the hole at the "bottom
and surface with the dill taken from
the bottom of the hole. Tamp from
time to time, keeping a slight mound
around the tree which should tie set
In the ground one inch deeper than
II stood in the nursery row es evi
deuced by n-wku ;s on tb* tr.mk
If it is an a? ■ tree, cut It dev.' t
to 2 . 2 tec-t o. . ground.
Planting cun 1c done any time af
ter it- f rst Mill"' frost anj befort
the r. ■ r•• 'ut ■ p Cbii
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and LaGrippe. A Cure or
your money hack. Made
by us and sold only by us
WALKERS PHARMACY
MFG. PH CISTS COCHRAN. GA.
SEEDS SEEDS
PEAS
Early and Late Varrieties.
BEANS
All Kinds.
Cabbage and
Genuine Eeetern
Grown Irish (Potatoes
Give your order now tor “NANCY
HALL” Sweet Potato Slip?.
L. B. Kenmngton
TtmGeorm
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STATE COLLEGE AGRICULTURE
A --■ qeoan* _ .
| fifteen to eighteen cents. Surely, thts
' ly this leaves a good margin of profit,
Georgia produces a variety of for'
age and grazing crops which are un
excelled The silo will preserve such
crops as sorghum and corn In Un»
choic-ast condition. Hay may be proi
duced from a great variety of crops,
particularly the legumes. The stata
produces large quantities of cottoa
seed meal, which ts one of the best
and cheapest concentrates known for
i the dairy cow A mild climate, a
j large consuming market, and high
I price's for da:rip product® throughout
j the length aui breadth of Georgia,
crown our ad vantages. Why should
our fanners continue to neglect ®
business of such promise?
Now that a ej-.r p-Au for the erad
: if-Htion of cattle tick is being .suceess
f "y waged, the time is Rt hand to
i- ’.cdtic- p rc b’ <>i ‘- res. * tThis will
| t cable the farmer to mke the na
: t.■ e cows and grade them up rapidly,
to devcloj. 1 :y pro Utah lo
sti-alns of dairy animate.
SUNBEA.M COTTON EXPERIMENTS
R. J. M. DeLoacb, Professor Cotton
Industry.
Question—tVbut results were ob
tained from your 1b,2 experiment*
with Sunbeam CcAton?
A groat many reports have been re
ceived from over the state where the
seed had been distributed from the
college. In nearly every instance the
reports are united in stating that the
cotton has withstood disease. The
best reports come from the red, billy
country to which the stmiu 6eems to
be- especially adapted.
The yield of the San beam at the
college farm did not come up to 1911,
due to the necessity of planting
three times tn the wet spring to get
, a smiid, and a lateness in starting
which the crop never overcame. The
! yield of lint cotton per acre In toll
i was 1,537 pounds, but in 1912 it will
I reach only slightly above 1,200
1 pO- P !s.
T .a.pjtp: # ty->? if sup beam cot*
in, h.:„ Let ,i j. tailed i.s inferior,
and seed selection is now made from
it.. 1. w gr.d the tall branching type*
and a higher