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Modern Farm Methods v
.' As Applied in the South.
limits of interest to I*ia&&ler 9
* Grower ami Stockman
Improving a Mountain Farm.
J. J. D., Stackhouse, X. C., writes:
*'l have purchased a small farm in
the mountains of Western North Car
olina, which has been neglected and
needs improvement. The soil is
sandy. 1 will appreciate any sugges
tions.”
Answer: One of the chief needs of
a sandy soil that has been abused is
undoubtedly vegetable matter. The
soil is also likely to be deficient in
available supplies of phosphoric acid
and potash. You can add the needed
vegetable matter to the soil cheaply
and to advantage through the use of
leguminous crops. Among the crops
that are grown to advantage in your
locality will be any of the clovers, the
cowpea, the vetch, soy bean and vel
vet bean. Tlie velvet bean will hard
ly mature seed, hut it grows well on
thin land and makes an immense
mass of green material which can
first be pastured off. thus making the
land produce something of value and
the refuse plowed under to add veget
able matter to the soil. Animals pas
ture on the velvet bean to advantage
when they become accustomed to it,
though, of course, one should look
out for bloat, which is liable to hap
pen when animals are pasturing on
any green crop that is wet with dew
or soaked by heavy rains.
(. Under your conditions it Is impor
tant that you adopt a rotation as
nearly as possible. One of the best
you could use would be to sow the
land in cowpeas this spring, using
200 pounds of sixteen per cent, acid
phosphate and seventy-five pounds of
muriate of potash per acre. If the
land has not grown peas for several
years get two or three wagon loads
of earth from an old pea field and
scatter thinly over the surface and
work in with a harrow before seed
ing. Use either the Whipporwill,
New Era or Black pea. Cut the first
crop for hay and let the second crop
grow as long as possible before turn
ing it under. Turn under and seed
to wheat, using a complete fertilizer
at the rate of 100 pounds of cotton
seed meal, 100 pounds of sixteen per
cent, acid phosphate and twenty-five
pounds of muriate of potash. Apply
the fertilizer well away from the
seed, as cottonseed meal sometimes
has an injurious effect on germina
tion. In the spring seed the wheat
down to clover and timothy, or if you
prefer, a pasture seeded to clover and
orchard grass. Allow to stand two
years in grass, cutting for hay one
year and grazing the second year.
Then turn in the spring and put in
corn, seeding to crimson clover in
the Tall to plow under, and then back
to cowpeas and wheat and grass.
You will need to use plentiful sup
plies of phosphates and potash and
if your land is acid, give a good coat
ing of lime, using one ton per acre.
This may be purchased in the un
slacked form and distributed in heaps
and scattered over the soil when
properly slacked, or it may be slacked
in quantity, and distributed with a
machine especially made for the ap
plication of lime. Keep all the stock
you can on the farm, feed as much
of the roughness produced as possi
ble, and utilize carefully all avail
able supplies of farm yard manure,
and. you should certainly be able to
improve your land considerably in a
very short time. —Knoxville Tribune.
Destroying Fipld Mice and Moles.
J. P. T., Jonesboro, Tenn., writes:
I would like to know how to poison
<jr otherwise kill field mice and moles.
They are very destructive in my corn
fields and potato patches.
Answer: Moles and mice ma>
sometimes he killed to advantage by
the use of carbon bisulphide. Take
small wads of lint cotton and thor
oughly saturate with the carbon bi
sulphide and put in the holes and
runways if underground. The fresh
runways of the mole are easily dis
covered and if the bisulphide is put
In the ground and the place where it
is inserted covered with earth and
pressed down slightly the fumes will
penetrate the channels and often
cause the destruction of moles and
mice. There is a difficulty in this
remedy, however, for the runwa>s
are often so near the surface of the
ground that part of the carbon bi
sulphide escapes and becomes mixed
with the air and is not effective.
Another good way to rid yourseli
of these pests is to prepare a mash
of bran in which you might mix a lit
tle cheese, corn meal or any other
food that is likely to prove attractive
to mice, and saturate the mixtuie
thoroughly with paris green or some
other deadly poison. Put small spoon
fuls here and there about the places
the mice frequent. In this way you
might be abls to kill a greav many of
them. The principal objection to us
ing paris green in the mash as indi
cated is the danger that something
else may eat it. If the field is some
what remote from the house and the
poultry not allowed to run on it,
there is not much danger except in
the case of dogs.
No other means of ridding fields
of mice and moles are known to the
writer, though they may exist, but I
trust you will find these remedies
satisfactory.—Prof. Soule.
Raising Calves Without Milk.
E. T., Quicksburg, Va., writes: I
would like to know if I can raise a
calf only two weeks old without milk.
If so, what is the best food, also for
older calves?
Answer: Calves have been raised
with fair success with the use of very
little skim milk. It would he a diffi
cult undertaking to attempt to raise
a calf only two weeks old without the
use of milk. At the end of thirty days
a fair substitute may be made for
milk from hay tea. This is best pre
pared by taking hay that has been
cut quite young, covering it well with
water, and covering it so as to ex
tract the soluble food elements. The
tea should be boiled until it Is in
quite a concentrated form, and then
some flaxseed and wheat middlings
should be added to the tea to increase
the fattening and muscle forming ele
ments in which hay tea is deficient.
Flaxseed jelly may be used to advan
tage for this purpose. It is made by
adding boiling water to oil meal.
For a calf thirty days old not more
than one-quarter pound should be
fed per day with an equal amount of
wheat middlings thoroughly stirred
into the tea. This hay tea is often
used by dairymen who sell milk.
It is quite a simple matter to raise
a calf on skim milk when taken away
from the dam two or three days after
it is dropped by adding a small
amount of flaxseed jelly to the skim
milk. Not more than one tablespoon
ful should be used at first, and the
amount increased daily as the needs
of the calf seem to require. A calf
when first taken away from the dam
should not receive more than ten
pounds of skim milk to be increased
gradually up to fifteen pounds, but
under no circumstances should it go
over eighteen pounds before the calf
is five or six weeks old. After that
time as much as twenty-four pounds
may be fed. Should you attempt to
raise a calf on skim milk or hay tea
remember that a small amount fed
three times a day is likely to give you
much better results than a large
amount fed twice a day. Where skim
milk is used it is important that it
be fed at blood temperature and in a
sweet condition. —A. M. Soule.
Set Out Asparagus in October.
Asparagus may be grown from
seed, or set from roots, which may be
had at from ?5 to $6 per 1000, and
will require about 6000 plants to the
acre. The soil should be moist, rich,
sandy loam. The lighter the soil the
better the result. Sets should be put
out in October, In deep furrows, eigh
teen inches apart and covered with
an inch or two of soil. Well-rotted
stable manure in the furrow is the
best fertilizer. The ground must be
kept soft and free from weeds and
grass. In the early spring mulch
with a coat of fine straw or pine
needles. It will produce from 200 to
300 pounds of shoots to the acre per
season and will sell from five to twen
ty-five cents per pound, although the
first shoots may bring as high as
fifty cents per pound. But aside from
the sale of the vegetable, every farm
er should have a bed of it for his own
use.
What is more delicious than the
dainty dish of asparagus in the
edrly springtime?—Sincere, in Pro
gressive Farmer.
Shrub tlie Pastures.
Briars, bushes and trees are the
greatest drawbacks .to pastures in
this section. These are very anxious
to grow and they hold back the grass
from growing. No farmer can grow
them and do much growing grass at
the same time.
There is enough bottom land for
pastures on almost every farm if
the briars, trees and bushes were out
of the way of the grass. It helps
very much to remove the briars and
bushes if the trees are allowed to re
main.
Pastures should be shrubbed at
least every two years, and once a year
is bette: . Now is the best time to do
this vvotk. Bush axes, grass knives
and briar knives are the tools mainly
used. \
Remel, ber that it takes a little
work in the pasture as well as in the
field. Without pastures you can not
' do much with livestock, and without
livestock t is impossible to get the
; biggest cr ps from the fields.—J. M
Beaty, in Smithfield Herald.
•';~ r . EXPLAINED.
“Maud Muller, on a summer’s day
Baked the meadow sweet with hay.”
Her raking stunt was just a stall.
She had a date out there, that's all.
t —The Bohemian.
( A FRESH START.
Dyer—“ Well. I see Failing is on
his feet again.”
Ryor—“Yes; he was obliged to sell
his auto." —Puck.
THE PROPOSITION.
The Heiress—“Oh, papa! The earl
has proposed!”
Papa Bigwadd—“H’m! What’s
his proposition?”—Puck.
RATHER EFFEMINATE.
The Saucepan—“l wonder what
makes the kettle so happy? It hasn't
stopped singing all day.”
The Coffeepot—“ Why, didn't you
notice its new lid?”—Puck.
KILLING. TWO BIRDS.
She—" Frankly, now, if you had to
choose between me and r. million,
what xvould you do?”
He—“l’d take the million. Then
you would be easy.”—Life.
RURAL REGULATION.
Mrs. Hayrick—" The President says
to sleep with the window open.”
Mrs. Corncrib —“Well, I wish he
would tell Hiram to sleep with his
mouth shut.”—New York Sun.
IT IS.
“My hoy, be polite and honest.”
“But, dad.”
“Say on.”
“Sometimes it’s pretty hard to be
both at the same time.”—Kansas City
Journal.
TRYING IT ON THE FRIEND.
Mrs. Parker (to husband’s friend)
—“You can come right in to see Mr.
Parker. He's ill in bed.”
Friend —“Is it anything catching?”
"That's just what we’re trying to
find out?” —Smart Set.
PATERNAL ASSISTANCE.
Father (who has helped his son
with his home work) —"What did the
teacher say when you showed him the
sums? ”
‘ Johnny—“He said I was getting
more stupid every day.”—Tit-Bits.
HIS REASON FORj REFUSAL.
“So you won’t join us for an out
ing in the country? ”
“No,” answered Mr. Sirius Barker.
“Then you don’t love nature?”
“I'm quite fond of nature; but I
don’t care for sardines and crackers.”
—Washington Star.
r
AT THE KNOT HOLE.
“How’s de game, Chimmie?”
“De home team's got two men
down.”
"Say, dat’s tough.”
“G’wan. One of ’em is de guy dat
made de home run off us, an’ de utter
one is de umpire.”—Puck.
REPUBLIC MENACED.
“The idle rich, I tell you, consti
tute the menace to our country.”
“That’s sor. Say, what would you
do if you got hold of a lot of money?”
“Me? I’d invest it securely, throw
up my job and have the time of my
life.”—Philadelphia Ledger.
RURAL RUDENESS.
De Style—" You say Farmer Plant
zen chased you?”
Mrs. De Style—“ Yes; when I told
him that I had a little plot of ground
in our yard nicely plowed and raked,
and asked him what I should plant in
it, he said, ‘Beet it.’ ” —Puck.
A STEADY WIFE.
“Rufus, you old loafer! Do you
think it’s right for you to leave your
wife at the washtub while you pass
your time fishing?”
“Yassah, jedge; ’s all right. Mah
wife don’ need no watchin'. She’ll
sholy wuk jes’ ez hahd ez ef Ah wuz
dar.”—Judge.
THE BRIDEGROOM DESCRIBED.
“You have such a model husband,”
said the lady who was congratulat
ing the bride.
The next day the bride bethought
her to look up the word “model” in
the dictionary, and this is what she
found: Model: A small imitation of
the real thing.—Harper’s Weekly.
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HOW HE SAVED.
Cassidy—“Share, how kin ve say
ye save money? Iv'ry cint ye iver
make ye spend. Ye lay none of it
by. ”
Casey—“ That’s how I save. If T
laid anny of it by some wan would
come along an’ borrow it, and that’d
be ih’ ind cf it.” —Puilfcdeiphia Press.
TAX COLLEGTOR’S NOTICE.
I will be at tlio different precints on the days mentioned for the
purpose of collecting the State and County, and la. cal School Taxes
for the year 1S( K
OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER.
Hampton i and 29 18 10
Fixth 2 and 30 19
Flippen 5 2 & 20
Stock bridge 7 4**23 14
Shakerag 8 5 & 24
Brushy Knob 9 6 & 25
Loves 12 9 & 26
McMullens 13 10 & 27
Beersheba 14 11 & 30
Sandy Ridge 15 12 3
Tussahaw 16 13 4
Locust Grove 22 16 7 & 16
Lowes 23 17 8
Snapping Shoals 10 oclock, A. M. 2
Island Shoals 1 oclock, P. M. 2
VVoodstown 2 oclock, P. M. 2
McDonough: Court Week, First Tuesdays
and Saturdays until Books are closed,
DECEMBER 20TH.
SEAB HARKNESS, T. C
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ney disease. If
kidney trouble is
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the kidney-poison-
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tack the vital organs, causing catarrh of
the bladder, or the kidneys themselves
break down and waste away cell by cell.
Bladder troubles almost always result
from a derangement of the kidneys and
a cure is obtained quickest by a proper
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ing badly you can make no mistake b,
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It corrects inability to hold urine and
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Swamp-Root is pleasant to take and is
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R. 0. JACKSON,
Attorney-at-Law,
McDonough, ga.
Office over Star Store.
E. M. SniTH, 1
Attorney at Law,
Me Donouqh, Ga.
Office over Star Store, south side square.
All work carefully and promptly attended
to. Am premared to negotiate loans
on real estate. Terms easy.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
Georgia, Henry County.
Notice is hereby given to all creditors
of the estate of J. B. Price Jr, late of Hen
ry county, deceased, to render in an ac
count of their demands to me within the
time prescribed by law, properly mude
out. Arid all persons indebted to said de
ceased are hereby requested to make 1m
mediate payment to the undersigned
This the 3d day of Aug. 1908.
S. S. PRICK, Administrator of
J. B. PRICE, Jr.
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