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The Velvet Bean.
Mr. Kline 0. Yarn, of Fort
' Meade, Fla., writing iu the Home
and Farm on the velvet bean, eaye
the experiment stations have done
great things with them. The
Louisiana station fonnd that the
crop of boons irom an acre of or
dinary eld land contained 101
pounds of nitrogen, 243 pounds of
potash, and 41 pounds of phos-
phone acid, which, when turned
under, had a fertilizing value of
$40 per acre. The Alabama sta
tion took an old worn-out hillside
field that had bten planted iu vel
vet beans and plowed them under
and sowed in oats in the fall. On
an adjoining plot the crab grass
and weeds were turned under and
planted in oats in the same man
ner for comparison. When the
oats were harvested the following
M iy the yield was 38.0 bushels
per acre where the velvet beaus
had been turned under and only
8.4 bushels per aero where the
crab grass and volunteer growth
hud been turned under. The yield
of the straw was just five times as
heavy after the beans. Another
plot tested in corn iu the same
way gave results equally startling.
Now here is au object lesson the
thousands of owners of cotton
worn tarms will do well to study.
A crop can be made and * turned
under for $4 por ucreaud will give
better results on tho crop folio*'
ing than a ton of the best com
mercial fertilizer.
My personal experience, extend'
ing over a period of soven years,
bus been so satisfactory that I
have constantly increased my
aoreage, and this year I am plant'
ing 400 acres. An old thin saudy
field that would not average over
seven bushels of corn per acre was
planted in beans and pastured
with cattle in the winter and
planted in corn the next year, and
averaged twenty bushels per acre.
There is nothing that will pay the
farmers so well as to plant them
for fertilizer, to say nothing of
their value as a forage crop. The
enormous groth of vinos and yield
of beans is truly au eyo-opeuer.
1 have known them to make nine
tons of hoy per aore, and soventy-
flve bushels of shelled beaus
land that would not niako over
• twenty bushels of eorn.
Tho bean is rieh iu protein and
of the samo feeding value as cot
ton-seed meal. The vinos aro rich
in carbo-hydrates, and supply the
roughage, makiug a complete feed
that cannot be equaled iu cheap
ness. Last fall the Florida Ex
periment Station fed a grade steer
sixty days on velvet bean vines
and pods, and a gain of 214 pounds
was made in weight of steer. Here
we generally turn tho steers in ou
the beans as the first begin to ri
pen, and an ncre fattens three or
six head, increasing their selling
value an average of $7 per bead,
aud makes the sweetest beef known
The stubble is turned under the
following spring, and planted in
corn, and the crop is invariably
increased 60 per cent. The vines
make the finest feed for milk cows
I ever saw, and they are equally
good for hogs, sheep and horses,
but are not suitable for human
food.
In makiug the crop, prepare the
laud in the aamc manner os for
corn. Plant when danger of frost
is over in rows four feet apart,
eighteen to twenty-four inches in
the drill, two to the hill. Culti
vate once or twice, according to
growth, and lay by. The vines
grow at a prodigious rate, aud soon
cover the ground with a mas^of
wines waist deep. The old leaves
drop oil and new ones keep com
ing on, and I have seen the ground
six inches deep in fallen leaves,
aud not one could be missed on
the viuss. This is one thing that
makes them so lienefhial to land.
The vines keep green until killed
by the frost. They rot very quick
ly, and can be turned under in
short time. The beans grow in
clusters, similar to cow-peas, rip
ening rapidly, and they can be
harvested twiceas fast os cowpeas.
The bean grows in s thick bull,
and will hsng on the vines three
months after ripening without
rotting, a big advantage over the
cowpca, and stock can graze ou
them all winter. The hay is very
nutritious, and can be mowed two
or three times. It withstands the
severest drought or wetest weather,
thrives ou any kind of soil, and is
never known to make a failure.
Whit Shall we Plant?
This is a question of the high
est importance. For the groat
law of nature, that we shall reap
what we sow, is still in full force
and effect.
If wo plant wrong we can never
rectify tho mistake. If we foil to
plant wo must suffer the loss.
Right planting, is one of the
secrets of successful farming. Wo
wish to emphasize the importance
of planting plenty of CORN. No
danger of getting too much of your
farm in corn. You will need all
you con grow.
Plant largo cropB of every kind
of forage, and o good crop of hogs
and cattle to eat it. With good
beef selling at six cents gross, and
hogs bringing five cents gross, you
can make money if you raise them.
Plant early Irish potatoes; plant
cantaloupes. Plant those crops
which you can use and sell the
quiokest. Look after the sweet
potato bed. Feed the chickens
and get eggs for early market.
Eggs are very high.
The opportunity to make money
is all around you. Will you opon
your eyes and see? Will you
think and not? Will you gather in
the crop of money lying all around
vou, instead of grumbling about
the hard times, and thus helping
to make the bard times harder?
The whole matter rests with you
What are you going to, do about it?
If you do not make money this
year it will be just because you do
not opeu your eyes to the oppor
tunity.—Southern Cultivator.
What We Really Reed.
We need a large number of
young men, with energy, brains
and education to manage farms
Instead of going to a business
college, go*to an agricultural col
lege, study soils, plauts and ant
male, stndy how to feed plants
and animals. Learn bow to take
care of soils and how to make the
soil feed the crops. Study mar
kets and fnarketing. Fit your
selves to farm and then go to
farming. Here you can give your
energies to things that will pay.
Here you can be the employer in
stead of the employed.
All over this Southland there
are thousands of farms offering
places to young men who are e-
quipped for the business.
Young man, go aud get ono of
these. Develop it and beantify it.
Make it a profit and a pleasure to
own and manage one. You will
have a chance at longer life. Yon
can he more useful. You can
help to build up the conntry.
Young man, stop and think be
fore yon give yourself to the mov
ing throng that are annually being
swallowed up in business life.
You have hut once to live. You
are living that once now. Yon
can not afford to make a serious
bluuder right at the threshold of
life.
Comb Roney not Manufactured.
A statement has been going the
rounds of the press to the effect
that nearly all the comb honoy on
the markot is manufactured by a
cute machine," that the combs
are filled with glucbse and capped
over by a mechanical process. The
facts are, there ts no such thing
ns manufactured comb honey any-
whero iu the United States, and
in proof of this the publishers of
leading bee journals of undoubted
responsibility offer one thousand
dollars for evidence »n show that
comb honey is manufactured, or
that such au article is for sale in
the open market. Although this
offer basjbeen out for fifteen years
and has been duplicated by other
responsible persons connected with
the industry of bee-keepiug, uo
one has ever seen fit to take it up.
The Uuited States Department
Agriculture has put out several
published statements denying the
existence of manufactured comb
honey, and tho American Grocer,
the leading trade organ of its
class, assures its patrons that all
the comb honey on the market is
absolutely the product of the bee.
Be sure you plant good seed.
The same room and the same
work will make a good crop if you
plant the right seed as it will take
to make a sorry crop with sorry
seed.
Mr. Jos. Marks, of Valdosta, Ga., and
Mr. N. M. Rosenbloom, of the Baxley
Bargain House, have bought the . . .
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D. B. English Stock ot Merchandise,
and will offer it to the public at the
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I LOWEST PRICES I
ever heard of in Waycross.
Come and examine the stock and get
prices, as this opportunity will only
last a few days. The goods must be-
sold at once. ........
A DOCTOR B BAD PLIGHT.
“Two years ago, as a result of
a severe cold, I lost my voice,
writes Dr. M. L. Scarbrough, of
Hebron, Ohio, “then began an ob
stinate cough. Every remedy
known to me as a practicing phy-,
siciau for 85 years, failed, and
daily grew worse. Being urged to
try Dr. Kiug’s New Discovery for
Consumption, Coughs and Colds,
I found quick relief, aud for last
ten days have felt better than tor
two years.” Positively guaran
teed for Throat and Lang troubles
by all Druggists. 60c and $1.00.
Trial bottles free.
CANE AND CASAVA.
Convention to tie held In Brunswick.
April 2d.
A roll has been issued by the
cane aud casava association, to
hold a convention in Brunswick,
April 2d. Many prominent per
sons acquainted with this indus
try will nddresi the convention.
Most prominent among them are,
Secretary Wilson, and Dr. Wyiy,
of the department of agriculture.
Then will be free for all discus
sions on practical methods of the
cultivation of caue and casava,
the treatment of syrnp and all
topics concerned. The public
generally is invited to attend.
DOCTOR GRADUATES.
To the Young Men Who Farm.
To our young farmers we wish
to say a word. Study your bust
uesa. Take the beet farm paper
you oau find aud keep up. Read
the best books on agricultural sub
ject*. Keep posted. This is a
day of progress. This is at true
of farming as of electrical soisube.
Learn God’a laws as they apply to
soil* and plants. Make farming
honorable by making yourself an
honorable firmer.
Two Young Men from this Section
Among Them.
The Journal has received au in
vitation to the Commencement
exercises of the Department of
Medicine of the University of Geor
gia, which were held Tuesday, at
Grand Opera House, Augusta
The graduating class is large this
year, there being fifty-one mem
bers. Prominent among them we
find two young men well knowu
in Waycross; Mr. M. M. Johnson,
son of Kev. B. A. Johnson, of this
city, and Mr. R, A. Burgo, who
formerly taught at Manor. Mr.
Burge is profet of the class and
Mr. Johnson is ou the committee I
of general arrangement.
MARKS & ROSENBLOOM,
$ At the D. B. English Store,
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Waycross, Ga.
HowTo
Gain Flesh
Persons have been known to
gain a pound a day by taking
an ounce of SCOTT'S EMUL-
SION. It b strange, but it often
happens.
Somehow the ounce produces
the pound) it seems to start the
digestive machinery going prop
erly, so that the patient b able
to digest and absorb hb ordinary
food, which he could not do be
fore, and that is the way the gain
is made.
A certain amount of flesh is
necessary for health i if you have
not got it you can get it by
iqking
You will find it fust as useful In summer
as in winter, and if you are thriving upon
it don’t stop because the weather is warm.
;rc. ar.-i a!! dr-ggixti.
SCOTT ft BOWNE, Chemist*, New York.
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