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IF ¥00 WILL PUT •: tfw rWnl of Mexican MustangLin- v, , (■].'iijo p-owrip v ,. ...,. . !? I ‘“ 1!; to a glass half full of water and g-igleiota tuioat olten it will quickly cure a Bore Throat. Keep this fact always fresh in your memory:— For Cuts, Mashes and all Open Sores, you need only to apply ff|exican frustang ^jnimenl a few times and the soreness and inflammation will ' be conquered and the wounded flesh healed. To get the best results you should saturate a piece of soft cloth with the liniment and bind it upon the wound as you would a poultice. 25c., 50c. and $1.00 a bottle. 5/CEP ft M E V ST ft JJ your poultry and at the very first sign of .ui.l£r Hi'S ESC 1« Roup, Sealy Legs, Bumblefoot or other rdixascs among your fowls use Mexican. Mustang' Liniment. HANDLING STRAW. How to Make a Liglit Barrow For Moving Small (iunittif ies. When straw is stacked outside the barn and some of it is wanted in the stable for feeding or bedding pur poses, the usual plan is to carry in a little at a time on a fork or in a rope or strap sling. This in the use of a fork is anything but a speedy opera tion, next to impossible on a windy day and with a sling a very unpleas ant job in cold weather, as an Ohio Fanner contributor remarks. lie there fore suggests and sketches au easily and cheaply made contrivance to facil itate moving the straw, which may also be useful for transporting small quantities of hay from pinup to place. Procure first some light laths, say three-fourths by two inches, and make an almost square frame, using eleven of the lath pieces as if making a box prairie lands of tne central west, unu if it should come into general use the probabilities are that the bulk of the potatoes could be grown on these smooth lands on a large scale at a figure which could not possibly be met by the small grower in the east, who must depend largely on hand labor. STKAW AND HAY BAKBOW. with one corner left out. On the in side of this frame at the desired height nail two heavier and longer pieces for handles. A couple of 3 by 1 inch boards, proper length and with one end of each narrowed down to fit the hands, will answer for the handle pieces. On the bottom of the framd nail lath or boards, letting the two nearest to the center project about six inches in front. These two should be a little heavier than the others to pre vent springing. Between the project ing ends place a small wooden wheel six or eight inches in diameter. This wheel maj be a circular piece cut from a one or one and one-half inch board and have a light iron band fitted on to keep it from splitting or be a wheel from an old barrow or something simi lar. A light wire spoke wheel from a toy wagon is excellent for the purpose. The axle on which the wheel revolves is attached to the under side of the projecting pieces of the frame by a sta ple driven over it into each piece. The two rear upright pieces of the frame ox to ink down level with the lower rim of the wheel to act as feet. I'ut braces across the front (as indicated by dotted lines) to strengthen the frame and hold .in the straw. Other light strips may be tacked on the sides of the frame to so.ve the same purpose. If the contrivance is made of the right material, it will combine strength with lightness and be very durable. If made only 2)4 by 3 by 4 feet, it will hold a considerable quantity of straw and be found a. time and labor saver. Hollyhock For the Hen*. Somebody says bens are as fond of hollyhock leaves as cats are of catnip. In fact, it is found that cats like the hollyhock and will eat it as the fowls do. A writer in one of our exchanges urges the planting of hollyhocks for chicken food and gives directions for their cultivation. For a hedge row there are few if any flowots more at tractive or more suitable, but when used to feed the poultry the flowers, it seems, must be saerfficed. We would suggest that they be p anted in quanti ties sufficient both fa- ornament and for hen food. “I have been using hollyhock for poultry green fodder,” says a poul try man, “for 20 years. I learned the trick from a Hollander. I saw him feeding armfuls of the leaves to his f ms. Ever since that I have sowed hollyhocks regularly. The trouble is very little. The plant is a biennial— that is to say, it requires two years to come to blossom. In the first year it merely develops the root and lots of leaves of large size on soft stems from one to three feet high. These leaves are tender, and the hens relish them.” -Farm, Field and Fireside. Something to Brace Up On. It was along about noon when a well dressed man lined up against the bar. He had the air and looked the part of a high liver, hut there was ev ery sign of a bad night. He stretched himself, rubbed his head and said to the bartender: “I want something to brace up on.” “All right, sir. “What’ll it be?” “Get the large lemonade glass and break five eggs in it.” Chapman, the bartender, looked at him suspiciously and hesitated. “That’s what I want,” he ordered. Chapman broke five raw eggs in the glass and waited for further orders. “Now a pint of champagne.” - Chapman opened the bottle, and the customer poured it on top of the eggs and, taking a spoon, stirred the mix ture thoroughly and then drank it. Then he paid his bill and walked out.— Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. THRASHING THE POTATOES A Harvester Bnilt on a Sew Princi ple—Good on Smootii, Fine Lands. For a lGiig time those who produce large quantities of potatoes have felt the need of a machine that would do away with the hard and slow method of hand digging and picking. An im plement which Is used to some extent AN ENGLISH POTATO HARVESTEB. In England and is said to work satis factorily is illustrated by The Rural New Yorker, which says: This machine digs, cleans, sorts and delivers the potatoes into baskets. The separator part works on the same prin ciple as the ordinary grain thrasher, so that those who use it may properly speak of thrashing their potato crop. There is apparently nothing to pre vent small stones or hard lumps of dirt from getting in with the tubers, and the natural conclusion is that the ma chine is intended only for use on soil that is free from stones and not wet or lumpy. It ought to work to perfection on the Prunes ns Medicine. That the fruit possesses very consid erable virtue in this respect is con ceded by most eminent authorities, for tins reason as well as on ac count of their food value they are iu- cluded among the foods suitable for in valids, children and those whose di gestive powers are rather inactive. Their influence is mild, which fact makes them desirable for the not over robust. A dish of well cooked rice and prunes, made dainty and attractive for serving, is a dish to serve for either a breakfast, luncheon or a dessert, espe cially for the child or invalid, and should be added especially to our list of hot weather dishes, frequently re placing meat and potatoes and heavy, unseasonable desserts. A Man of Experience. “You are quite sure. Uncle Bushrod,” «be queried, “that Judy has no idea there are only books In tbose two boxes you took this morning oxer to the courthouse in the cart? “Miss Ma’y,” answered the old chap, with dignity, “I done had three wives, an’ Judy’s de las’, I reckon. An’ I jes- tell you dis. honey, I don’ trus’ no colored ’ooman’s tongue.”—Mrs. Burtcu Harrison In Lippincotfs. Bodily Proportions. The proportions of the human, fig ure. says an anatomist, are six times the length of the right foot The face, from the highest point of the forehead, where the hair begins, to the end of the chin, is one-tenth of the whole stature. The hand, from the wrist to the end of the middle finger, is also one-tenth of the total height From the crown to the nape of the neck is one-twelfth of the stature. The Original Pair. Upon one point the disputants are agreed: Man descended from a pair of ancestors. Who they were is not so ape- pareDt-Cfllcago Tribune. WIDEAWAKE FARMING. INFERTILITY OF EGGS. MISS CARRIE SULLIVAN. Keep the Plows Going Late—Work the Corn Before It Is Up. Since the severe drought of this year in Texas and other localities I have made it a point to ask practical farmers how they manage their crops during such trying seasons. At Marietta, 1. T., I met au enterprising farmer who once lived in Texas. He said that he was farming in Texas on an upland farm and was there during a drought as severe as the present. He had a field of cotton which he kept on plowing and plowing until his patience was almost exhausted. He was plowing about the middle of this field one day when a neighbor came by and asked him why he kept on at the work; that lie was wasting his time. Being of the same opinion, he took out his team and went home. The drought continued, and he says in about two weeks there was a striking difference in his cotton. Up to where ho had left off plowing the cot ton was green and growing right along and full of blooms and bolls. The other Tboaglifs on a Subject That Bothers Abont Every Poultryman. The hatching season is a season complaints. This year has been a bad one, and so was last year, the year be fore and years and years before that. Expectation are not realized, disap pointments occur, and this state of facts will probably continue so long as there are buyers and sellers of eggs. Many buyers do not know whether the eggs which fail to hatch are fertile or not. They break the eggs, and if there is not a chicken in some stage of development in each egg they believe the egg has never been fertilized. Ev ery rotten egg is counted as an infertile c-gg, whereas the fact that it is rotten is pretty sure proof that the egg has been fertilized and the germ has died. Eggs subjected to the heat necessary for incubation will, unless they have been fertilized, at the end of the three weeks he clear and sweet, though the yolk may lose some of its consistency and have a tendency to run. Rotten - IiKALSi: IK- o-'lyWiLUKESY, sjo FLOWERS,»1 half was blooming clear up to the top therefore are alwajs to be reekon- and shedding, and the drought was ! as ^ ert ^ e e 53 s - telling on it fast. This convinced him that in dry years one should keep the plows going until late in the season. In Gainesville, Tex., 1 was speaking of this to a farmer, and he agreed with my Marietta friend exactly and told me that his corn was thrifty and green to the bottom blade, while many fields of corn around Gainesville were dry enough to burn. He said that early in the fall he*thoroughIy broke his corn ground and broke it deep. In the spring lie went over the ground with a disk, which left it in fine shape for planting. He then laid off his rows, making a deep furrow, and planted. Just before the corn came up he went over the ground with a harrow, which destroyed any vegetation and left the ground nearly level. It was virtually working the corn before it came up. The first time he plowed this corn he plowed it deep, and each succeeding time he would plow shallower, and such years as this he plowed often and until late, often giving the last plow ing when the corn was in the roasting ear stage. He also advises thinning out corn to one stalk in a hill and be sure there are uo missing hills and the rows three and a half feet apart. He says it is safe, to plan every year as if we expected a drought. I find many farmers in line with tiie two mentioned. This is a year to make farmers read and think. SEED CORN. Batts. Middles or Tips—A Pointer For Corn Growers. According to the Ohio experiments, there is no'practical difference in the yield from either butts, middles or tips of ears of corn and no difference in the number of barren stalks. A contributor to Wallace’s Farmer says: “Of course not. Why should there be? But if they had mixed butts, tips and middles together and planted them they would have had a better yield. Their experimeut shows nothing more than that butts, tips and middles when planted separately are each one as good as the others. This I have al ways claimed. However, to increase the yield and have the ears fill out at eac-li end the corn of the entire ear should be planted. The grains from the butt being a little later and tbose from the tips a little earlier, the period of pollenization is thereby prolonged, and better results are thus obtained.” This is valuable information to every corn grower. The longer the period of pollenization the more perfect are the results. The 'tip kernels give the earlier and the butt the later, and the why is made manifest of a larger yield by planting the kernels from the whole ear mixed together. This fact seems established, and once lodged in the mind of the corn grower he will no longer feed the tips and butts of his seed corn.—Southern Ruralist. Thinks Florida Is All Right. The business par excellence for Flori da today is stock raising, and in no oth er portion of our broad country can it be carried on so successfully or so cheaply as here. We can raise some forage crop twelve months in the year, and our new velvet bean and cassava fed together make a balanced ration that, fed to the longest horned, wild eyed, slabsided steer that ever saw the range, will in seventy days make as toothsome a sirloin as Armour sends from Kansas City. This is a fact, not a theory. The velvet bean will grow and flourish on land that won’t sprout a cowpea, and cassava will yield from five to eight tons per acre. There is no state where so easy a liv ing can be made or where the soil will respond more cheerfully than this when gently coaxed, concludes a corre spondent in Home and Farm. An Item Against the Boll Weevil. It is well known, says Professor F. Malley, that squares which do not bloom within six weeks of frost very seldom come to maturity. Such squares, therefore, serve chiefly as food and places for egg laying of the weevils. By turning stock into cotton fields late in the summer the young squares con taining weevils will be grazed off. The stalks and other portions which are left by cattle may be cut down and piled up so as to serve as attractive hi bernating quarters for the weevils. Such piles of refuse may be burned. Brief Mention. Louisiana is so far largely dependent upon other states for her horse and mule supply. The days of scratching are well nigh numbered. Plowing will be done in the future, says the Georgia Cultivator. Stock farming is the bi'anch of agri culture that pays best in the grain and grass producing belt of the southwest, remarks Farm and Ranch. Just Oue Bottle, Scammon, Kans., Nov. 19,1900.— Pepsin Syrup Co, Montieello, III Sirs:—About three months ago I had occasion to use something for constipation. One bottle of Dr. Cald well's Syrup Pepsin was all. I have been doing business with your firm over e year and find it like your medicine, profitable and pleasant. Phil. L. Keener, Editor “Scammon Miner.” Sold by H. b McMaster, Waynes boro; H. Q. Bell, Mlllen, Job Printing promptly executed But I am profoundly of the opinion that many of the clear eggs also have been fertilized and that in some way the vitality of the germ has been de stroyed before the heat of incubation has been applied. I have been led to this opinion through many observa tions extending over a series of years. I have received reports repeatedly, from buyers whose honesty I had no reason to suspect, that the eggs shipped to them were properly sat upon and that at the end of three weeks some and not infrequently many of them were clear and sweet, and I have had hens bring off full broods from eggs gathered from the same yards at about the same time as those which proved a failure in the hands of customers. True, as this is a single ease little im portance could be attached to it, but when it has occurred ten times or a hundred times it is sufficient to prove that after making due allowance for imperfect sitting cf hens and possible dishonesty of buyers there is a differ ence in results not to be accounted for on tbe theory of a difference in the fer tility cf eggs or in the method of their incubation, and one is compelled to search for some reason for this vari ance. And not only as a seller but also as a buyer cf eggs have 1 found this difference. The only theory which I have been able to form which will rec oncile the difference in results secured by different persons from eggs laid at about the same time by the same hens is that many eggs supposed to bo abso lutely infertile are really fertilized and that in some manner the vitality of the germ was destroyed before incubation began. This vitality might have been de stroyed by the jarring incident to trans portation or by climatic changes or in some other way. The first supposition seems to me the most reasonable, be cause the difference is found more fre quently with traveled eggs than with others. But if transportation destroys the germs in some transported eggs why doesn’t it destroy the germs in ail such? That is no more difficult to an swer than would be the question, if one child sick with the scarlet fever dies why do not all children attacked by this disease die? There are probably great differences in the vitality of germs, as great as there are in the vig or of human constitutions. The child who dies of scarlet fever might have grown to manhood if he had not taken the fever, but his constitution was not strong enough to resist the particular attack, and so the germ which perished by the way might have developed into a reasonably vigorous chicken if the egg had never been shipped from the premises of the poultry breeder. But while the first supposition appears more reasonable—and be it added the one most commonly efficacious—it is not to be understood that a single cause only is capable of destroying the vitality cf the germs in eggs. Probably many causes are efficient for this re sult. Perhaps the many nonhatehable eggs In the early spring are so because of climatic changes. The uncertainty of the weather, the slight chills to which the eggs are subjected, may be suffi cient in the *»se of weak germs to de stroy their vitality. At any rate, hens which are laying eggs out of the natu ral breeding season do not seem to pro duce many strong germs or ai least do not produce many eggs which hatch. Yet the male and female elements are probably present for all of the eggs as well as for the few which do hatch. The act of coition is regularly perform ed, the female is in n condition to re ceive the male element, for the ovaries are dropping the eggs regularly, and yet for hatching many of the eggs are valueless. If climatic changes could de stroy the vitality of weak germs, we might then have an explanation of the unhatchability of these early eggs. Be this as it may, 1 am firmly of the opin ion that many eggs clear after incuba tion have been fertilized, and the germ has lost its vitality, so that it has never started to grow.—H. S. Babcock in Country Gentleman. FEATHERS, RCCKINGS, and EIBB OKS, S4fi Bread Street, Over Maiherin’s Store, Augusta. Georgia. — i R MONEY SAVED. S. 0. PQGRE, -DEALER IN- Complete line of Children s and Infant’s Caps, Ilats and other Novelties. 1 . . Writs the . . | <S> ❖ w v t «r v ♦ i Alexander: Seed | A Y Company, « Georgia. | Augusta* 5 A ll Kinds of Furniture, 942 Broad St. AUGUSTA, GA. Before purchasing give me a call and get my prices, which are the lowest in the city. Prompt and polite attention guaranteed. For their free Catalogue. Buy seed early as seed are ad- 0 i ❖! ❖ ! ♦ l O $ o f ♦ 0 M. J. P0WHHY & C0. 5 yancmg in price. A,L HEBSTBEET & BRO.j}: 623 Broad treet, AUGUSTA, : : GEORGIA. FISHING TACKLE, And palding’s Baseball Goods a specialty. HOLLEYMAN’s for COMPOUND H0BSE ELIXIR Colic. The 2 biggest farmers in Georgia and South Carolina—Capt. Jas. M. Smith says of it: '■Have tried them. Ho!!e- man’s is the best ol all Keep it all tlie time,” Cat t It. E. Walker says: “Holleyman’s is worth its weight in gold. I have saved as many as three horses iives per month with it-’ Hillaymi's Compood Elixir 50 CENTS. Will cure any ease of Horse Colic under :he san Sold by nil tlie merchants of this county. Do not take any substitute said to be the uitarne thing or as good. N. L WILLETT DRUG €0, AUGUSTA. GA.. A’ll C^OOQOGOQOOQOOQOO^Z-OOGOG O o ffipn ill! )) comes to all soouer or later. Provide against it by depositing your [fiXTfifl Hi You not only got your money when wanted but interest also, and on 1st January and July your interest becomes princi pal, thereby ilPOO Jfl Our assets exceed $500,000.00. Write tor booklet on “How to De posit by Mail.” AUGUSTA, GA. Wholesale and Retail Liquor Dealers, Gibson’s Rye Whiskies, North Carolina Corn, And Holland Gin, gpli 5 * Special attention to the Jug Trade. 916 Broad Street, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. 8 m On improved Farms in Burke, Jefferson, Washington, Jef- fesou, Bulloch, Johnson aud Rich mond Counties. No Commissions. Lowest Rates. Long time or install ments. 3. m ALEXANDER & JOHNSON, 705 Broad St., Augusta, Ga -AT FIELD a^d L 'LY’g ulssl all 949 Broad Stieet, Georgia. Augusta, Carriages,Buggies Wagons,Bicycles Harness, Saddles and Horseless Carriages. If you call aud see our goods we "Will Sell '\Toii* Remember at, FIELD § KELLY’jS, 949 Broad st, Augusta, Ga. BONAFIDE REMOVAL SALE 'QQGQGQQGQQ&GQQQGQGQ5QQQQ* Notice to All Who Have Machinsry! New Method of Preserving Cggs. A system now adopted in Italy is to get rid of the shell and pack the interi or of the egg. white and yolk together, in airtight vessels or drums containing each 1,000 eggs. Great core is taken to insure the eggs being fresh and to ex clude the air, as one bad egg spoil:: all the remainder and renders the consign ment unsalable. The new system has the advantage of removing the risk of breakage and is also preferred by the pastry cooks, for whose use they are intended. At present these eggs are sent in the first instance to egg mer chants, who resell them, but attention is now being directed to the advantages of sending them direct to the buyer and thus dispensing with the services of the middleman. I have located in Wayresboro, and will's prompt attention to all repairs on any kind of Machinery. Plcmbiuga specialty. Orders lelt at my home, or at'S. Beil's store will be given quick attention. R. \V. CHANDLER, Machinist, jan 26.1901—by OF MY ENTIRE STOCK AT Prices That Will Move. I must have room, and will have, if low prices will move the goods. If you want a Wedding Present, or need a Dinner set, Chamber set, Lamp or anything in Crock ery, China, Glassware, Tinware' or House Furnishing Goods, be sure and examine my stock and prices before purchasing. Remember the place. m. 809 Broad Street, Bligh’s Crystal Place, AUGUSTA, GA. * DENTIST* * 6C6 ana 608 Broadway. : AUGUSTA, GA Bell Phone 1675. Strower PhoneZ74 Feb 19 ’97- 50 YEARS’ EXPERIENCE Murderer Becomes Insane. Jacksonville, Fla., Oct. IS.—Abra ham Jenkins, alias Bill Jenks, a pris oner at the county jail, charged with the murder of a negro by the name "I O. B. Whitfield, has been declared in sane, and, provided the papers are issued by Judge Call, will be sent to the state insane asylum at Chattahoochee. Trade Marks Designs Copyrights &c. Anyone sending a sketch and description may . .. — —— -—whe* 1 AUJUUC ocuuiug a oacn-u “““ —* quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an invention is probably patentable. Communica tions strictly confidential. Handbook on Patents sent free. Oldest agency for securing patents. Patents taken through Munn & Co. receive special notice, without charge, in the Scientific American. Stoves, GRATES, RANGES A handsomely illustrated weekly. Largest cia culation of any scientific journal. Terms, J3 a -- Told — When you vjsit Augusta call on Lewis J. SehauJ. 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