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Southern Agricultural Topics.
Modern Methods, That Are Helpful to
Farmer* Fruit Grower and Stockman.
Onions, Then Collurds.
Ftor a number of years I have been
,wwry iuccessful raising a crop of on
tom snd then following with collards
Nw same year. This Is my plan:
i Late In winter I haul and spread
•table manure on my onion ground,
•hen break thoroughly; early in
March I harrow ground till smooth,
then lay off in rows with Bhovel plow
two feet apart; apply fertilizer at the
n.te of 1000 pounds per acre. I mix
•qaal parts of acid phosphate, sixteen
fer cent kainit and cottonseed m-jl,
also ten pounds of nitrate of soila to
ich 100 of others; run small sweep
through row to mix fertilizer, then
throw two furrows on row. I then
•pltt this ridge open with a long, nar
acooter, which leaves a good fur¬
row to set onions in.
I place sets four inches apart and
•over with either hand, hoe or little
turner or a patent garden plow.
'After onions are planted from one
week to ten days and are coming up,
I rake oft top of rows with hand rake,
coltlrate close to rows with garden
plow and rake and hoe, plow with
•mall scooter and sweep. I find I can
Smadle this better than a larger culti¬
vator In the narrow rows. When
onions are about one-half grown I
(Ira a light dressing of fertilizer
alongside of row and work in. At
tha last working I see that the soil is
•lightly removed from around onions,
la gathering for market to sell as
preen bunch onions, I pull all double
onions and every other onion. By
•this plan I always raise a splendid
crop that pays well.
In May I sow improved collard seed
and have strong plants ready when
I take off onions. Break ground again,
•pan rows three feet apart, apply
me fertilizer at rate of 600 pounds
par acre; mix with soil. Throw back
two furrows, harrow down ridge and
•ct plants two feet apart, hoe and cul¬
tivate several times. I have fine col
lards ready for market by middle of
September and sell until spring or
killed by freezing. — Karl G. Daly.
To Moke Sweet l’otntoes on Rich
Land.
If you plant sweet potatoes on land
where a crop of peas grew last sum
mvr, you will not need to use any ni¬
trogenous fertilizer, but only a liberal
application of acid phosphate and
yotash. Sometimes we hear com¬
plaints that soil is too rich for sweet
potatoes and that they run to vines.
It Is not the fertility of the soil, but
■Mie lack of balance. In an old garden
that Has been manured for years
•hero will be an excess of nitrogen
to proportion to the phosphoric acid
mud potash that potatoes need, and
yew can grow fine sweet potatoes in
tire richest of land if you give liber¬
ally of the mineral elements to bal
amce the plant food In the soil. Large
•ad strong vines are essential to large
crops, but the storage of starch in the
roots and the making of fine potatoes
iapends upon the shpply of phos¬
phoric acid and potash present.
Therefore, I would not fear to use
waUI rotted manure for sweet pota¬
toes. provided at same time I supple¬
ment the manure with acid phosphate
wad sulphate of potash.—W. F.
Massey.
A Straw Carrier.
The handiest device I ever saw for
carrying hay or straw was made as
follows: Take a piece of sacking
•bout nine feet long and four feet
wide; put a three inch hem at both
•ads of this; slip a flat stick or slat
In each end of hem and then tack
the slats in place. Put a ring in one
snd and a cord and stick at the other.
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Lay the carrier on the ground—open,
then fill with hay or straw, bring the
two ends together around the straw
and button the stick in the ring.
Swing the bundle on your back.
With this enough straw can be car¬
ried at one time to bed eight or nine
horses.—M. A. Peintner, in the Epito
anist.
Some Practical Rations.
Some rations which have been
tested by dairymen in various parts
of the country and found useful are
suggested below; they can, of course,
be modified to suit local conditions,
wnd will need to be fed in accordance
with the individual needs of the dairy
•owr:
1, Corn silage 40 to 50 pounds,
clover hay 5 pounds, timothy hay 5
pounds, wheat bran 3 pounds, corn
meal 3 pounds, linseed or cottonseed
meal 1 pound.
. X. Corn silage 40 to 60 pounds,
clover hay 6 pounds, wheat bran l£l
pounds, cottonseed meal 2 to 3
pounds.
3. Corn silage 30 to 40 pounds,
fodder corn (with ears) 12 to 15
pounds, bran 4 pounds, corn meal 4
pounds, oats 4 pounds.
4. Corn silage 30 pounds, clover
hay 6 to 8 pounds, fodder corn (with
ears) 6 to 8 pounds, oats or wheat
straw 2 pounds, bran 4 pounds, oats
4 pounds, cottonseed meal 1 pound.
5. Corn silage 30 to 40 pounds,
cowpea hay 8 to 10 pounds, bran 6
pounds, corn meal 4 pounds, cotton¬
seed meal 4 pounds, mixed hay 6
pounds, oats 1 pound.
6. Corn fodder (with ears) 20
pounds, shorts 4 pounds, cottonseed
meal 3 pounds.
7. Timothy or mixed hay 10
pounds, soy beans, clover or cowpea
hay 10 pounds, bran 5 pounds, oats
5 pounds, cottonseed meal 2 pounds.
8. Corn silage 30 pounds, alfalfa
or soy bean hay 12 to 15 pounds,
wheat bran 4 pounds, corn meal 4
pounds, cottonseed meal 2 pounds.
A Simple Garden Implement.
The man who raises bis own vege¬
tables should be Interested in the
simple implement shown in the ac¬
companying drawing. It consists of
a combined hoe or cultivator and
weeder. The implement Is attached
to a wooden handle substantially like
that of a hoe. It comprises a metal
socket fitted with two diverging rods.
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which terminate in cultivator teeth
of arrox -head outline. These are
bent downward as shown. Secured
to the two rods is a blade, which may
be used for weeding. The operator
thus has two tools at his command,
either one of which may be brought
into use by merely turning the
handle of the implement.—Scientific
American.
The Poultry Yard.
When selling spring chickens, re¬
member that early hatched pullets
make the best winter layers. But a
pullet can be hatched so early that
she will molt like an old hen and be
as tardy about beginning to lay.
The kind of weather is now here
when all poultry needs shade, and
young chicks cannot take care of
themselves so well in this regard
as old birds can. See that there is
shade convenient, to where they stay
most of the time.
It is easy to stuff lazy hens with
feed till they are too fat to lay,
while they might have rolled out the
eggs all right if they had had less
feed and had been compelled to exer¬
cise in scratching it out of litter.
Do not make chickens lay or roost
in houses that do not have ample ven¬
tilation in summer. Get the hot air
out of the house and let the vigor of
the chickens be turned to some good
service instead of resisting uncom¬
fortable conditions.
Do not get discouraged if the hatch
you were putting so much reliance in
did not turn out well. The sun can¬
not shine for us all the time. Instead
of becoming discouraged, try another
setting and do everything practical
to make a success with it.
If hens with chicks are on a lawn
where the grass is cut rather short,
it is much better to scatter hard grain
in the clean grass when it is dry and
let them hunt it for exercise. They
will get more fun out of it than a
small boy gets out of wading in the
mud.
Clean milk is a very superior poul¬
try food, but dirty milk, whether dirt
dropped into the milk or the milk
was put into filthy vessels, may be
poisonous.—Progressive Farmer.
Make Every Farm a Little Kingdom.
The people who own the farms of
this country may easily become the
controlling power, over commerce,
finance and industry; but to do this
they must first make themselves inde¬
pendent. The ideal farm is the one
that includes a little kingdom within
its own limits. There should be
horses, cattle, liogs, chickens and an
abundance of foodstuffs for man and
beast. Every farmer should strive
in this direction until he attains the
end in view, free of debt. Then let
him produce for market what he will.
This is not a dream. It is a plain,
practical proposition, and the easiest
possible way to prosperity and suc¬
cess. And the prettiest thing about
the idea is that the ideal can be ob¬
tained by any individual regardless
of what other people do.—-Yorkville
Enquirer.
THE PULPIT.
AN ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY
THE REV. JASON NOBLE PIERCE.
Theme: Christ's Example.
Brooklyn, N. Y.—At the Puritan
Congregational Church the new pas¬
tor, the Rev. Jason Noble Pierce,
preached Sunday morning on “The
Examples of Christ.” He said: My
subject this morning is found in John
13:15: “For I have given you an ex¬
ample that ye should do as I have
done to you.” If you nut that right
in its setting it would be natural to
wonder whether the examnle Jesus
gave involves the girding of the towel
and the taking of the basin and per¬
forming the service of love that He
oerformed for His discinles: whether
His examnle is literal in its setting.
It >« not strange that certain branches
of the church have in different times
held that Fis examnle was to he taken
Uterallv; that He institute' 1 an ordi¬
nance as truly as the ordinance of
baptism or the Third’s sunner. And
so, even down to the --resent daw
♦ here are some churches that lRerallv
believe in the washing rff the feet as
a religious act. *>nrn 1 f!R0 to 16.30
the sovereign* of England were ac
customed to lHeraUy rvr" out this
example of the Ford, and indeed down
to the present day it is no* unusual
for the imperial ruler of Russia to
have the aristocracy seek outgners
who are aged and infirm and helpies*
and wash their feet, as Jesus washed
the feet of His disciples. On every
Thursday in the simplicity in Holy that Week Jesus the Pone had. hut not
with great nomp and sniendor. an* in
the eyes of the multitudes on p high
platform where he can he se°n by ail.
washes the feet of twelve of tb<> old
est men that can be found. But the
natural ouery is. why do it once a
year, if it is really an example to he
followed, and wbv does only one oer
son follow i* instead 0 f everybody-—
you and me? And if von turn beet
to your original testament yon find
the words “like as”—“that, ye should
do like as I have done for you.” and
vou realize that Jesus is not instihit
ing an ordinance, but Fe is. by a lov
ing and kind a“t of ™ini«trv. teach
ing an idea) and teaching it bv exam
pie. He might have talked about it,
and the words would have gone in one
ear and out of the other, but no one
of those present could ever forget His
examnle and I venture to saw that
t.houtrh John lived a* Inna: as h° did
m . his ,,, last A day shll felt th- in flu
of tne Masters teaenins: as
strongly as he d>’d on Hm day when
the Master washed his feet.
Jesus’ whole life is an examnle. is
il not? We find other neonle # tha*
are
examnlas. T can turn to t.he Old t ps .
lament and stndv Job. and say that
he was an examnle of natience. or to
the life of Abraham, and say that he
ia a nerfect examnle of faith. I turn
to imnetuovs Peter, and I sav there
is a mail o*' fervor: or to John, and
see the nerfect example of John, the
loving disciple, and wonder if we
shall ever grow into the love of John,
These men are examoles in part, in
some things, in one or a few charac
teristics, but Jesus was a perfect ex
amnle— complete. If you are sneak¬
ing of faitk. He is nerfect; if of pa¬
tience. He is nerfect; if you sn°ak of
fervor, or of love, or of humility, of
dignit.v. or of rower, or of anv qual¬
ity of the heart, you find that Jesus is
perfect, the one supreme, nerfect ex¬
ample. You apd I know it is one of
our human failings to look at peonle
and imitate them. How quick the
child is to discern. Did you never see
a little girl who spoke not onlv the
same words that her mother did. but.
with just, the same intonation? If
the mother says a thing with a little
sharpness, so does the daughter. I
think nothing in all this world is so
quick to discern the things they see as
a little child, and not only to discern
them, bnt to imitate them. If Jesus
had handed down His Sermon on th a>
Mount just as a document given by
an unseen hand, it never would have
had the resonance, the clearness and
the nower that it has when we see it
coming from the lips of the Man
who*i we almost can see because His
followers i-eally did see Him. You do
not take any reasoning of Jesus apart
from Himself. Y’ou and I need to un¬
derstand Jesus, and need to follow
His example, because other people are
following our example. Here is a lit¬
tle boy in the Sunday-school, and the
teacher says, into “John, noble you ought to
grow up a true, mannood,
and be an example for others.” John
cannot help being an example. 1 can¬
not stand here this morning and say
you ought to be examples; you are,
and you cannot get away from it.
You may not want people to look at
you, but you cannot shut their eyes.
There is not a person here this morn¬
ing who is not, unconsciously as well
as consciously, leading the thoughts
and impulses of other people. You
are examples. What kind of exam¬
ples are you?
What kind of an example are we
Christian people? In think one of the
most wondeful men was Paul. He
wrote to the Galatians, and he said:
"Brethren, I beseech you be as I am.”
Now a good many of you are looking
at me and saying: “Here is our new
pastor. I wonde^what kind of a man
he is really going to prove to be.”
What kind of a man would you think
I am if I should say in utter serious¬
ness: "Members of Puritan Church,
I beseech you be as I am. Look at
me, behold me. Be as I am.” Why,
that is what the apostle wrote to his
congregation. He sent another letter
to tne Philippians, in which he said:
"Those things w^hich ye have both
learned and received and heard and
seen in me, do; and the God of peace
shall be with you.” Is there a school
teacher here that would dare to say:
“If you only do what your
does; if you only look at my life and
follow my example, the God of peace
will be with you.” In three of his
epistles Paul wrote: "Be followers
of me.” What a presumptuous man!
Is there a father in this audience that
wishes his son to be just like him?
Or is there a mother that wishes her
little child that God has given her, to
be just like her? God knows that
every parent says: “Oh, that my child
may be better than 1 am.” What,
then, is the secret of this man’s won
derful courage? You will find it in
what he said to the Corinthians: -Be
ye followers of me, even as I am also
of Christ,” and he dared to say it, and
he was right, because he knew that
his life was close to God.
The first time I preached in this
pulpit several weeks ago I went out
the next day from this city to a neigh¬
boring place and visited the homes of
people who traveled extensively, and
I talked with the mistress of that,
mansion who had spent some time in
personally visiting the people who
took parts in the Passion Play at
Oberammergau. She did not go to the
play, but she went afterward In their
homes, and I shall never forget the
incidents she related. She went to
the home of the man who took the
nar t of Jesus Christ. She saw his wife
fi rs t,, a nd after making known her
errand the husband was summoned,
an d this woman said that, the very
mome nt he entered the room she
cou i d aot repress the feeling that she
was in the presence of Jpsus. His
whole anpearance. his whole manner
conveyed the lifelike impression of
Jesus. And this not when he was on
exhibition, but when he was sum
moned from his workshop into the
house, without knowing that anyone
was there or why he came. And the
wife told my hostess that she believed
her husband was absolutely perfect:
that he had so studied the life of
! j Jesus; into that part he had of it: so that put he his had heart
every so
striven to perfect himself in playing
the nart of Jesus, not onlv on the
cross, but off the cross, and that he
had, so far as she knew in the inti
macy of family life, mastered life and
overcome every temptation, and in 11
earnestness and humility she g a j d she
did not know one single thing in all
his life that was not just as she would
like to have it. Husband, can your
wife say that? Jt. shows, dear friends,
the possibility of living so near Christ,
that His example and life, not in its
! glorified perfection, but in the pure
; ness of heart, shall enable us to nut
; every sin under our feet. Now,
! friends, if it is possible to follow
! Jesus’ example as literallv as that,
j j S it not necessary to rise to it when
, people following your
, so many are
i example?
j I Why did Jesus wash His disciples’
feet? Not because it was necessary,
i nor because it was an Oriental cus
tom. I think He washed tb°ir feet
j because too He proud saw to that do it the for disciples an
| were one
other. It takes a manly character to
d o a, menial task. I fancy that if we
| tried to imitate some of Jesus’ exam
! p] e s, we would find that it would he
better to go apart into a mountain
and pray and come down to the orlg
inal channels of life and love
strengthened before we could do the
acts of service that. Jesus did. I be
lieve that He did it because He saw
that His disciples did not yet under
SLCtllU or comprehend the ideal that
He came to establish, What, is the
law, the ideal, the essential of God’s
kingdom? I know that some would
say that it is love. That is the right
answer if you understand what love
is. It is not merely a love that con
temDlates and does nothing; that is
well disposed and stoos there. If you
think that you are obeying His com¬
mandment to love your neighbor
when you do not hate him, you have
not got the idea! of Jesus. Love that
is love at all finds its expression in
service. The mother toils late into
the night that her boy mav be neatly
dressed and educated. That is the
mother’s love. If God only loved us
by only looking on us complacently,
deliver me from thaT: love. But what
wonders hath He not wrought; what
hath He not done for us that we
might have life, joyful lives and use¬
ful lives? If you are going to love,
you must serve, and I venture to com
mend that definition of service which
says that it is the fundamental rule of
God’s service. But the disciples did
not catch the idea. Do you wonder
that Jesus said to them, “Whosoever
will be great among you, let him be
your minister, and whosoever will be
chief among you, let him be your
servant. In His parables He taught
the idea of service, but though the
disciples listened they did not seem
to comprehend, and so on that last
night Jesus did something they did
comprehend and clinched all His
teaching by girding Himself and min
istering to them, and said, “1 have
given you an example.”
Let me close by calling your atten
tion to the last part of the text: "That
ye should do as I have done to you.”
Are you doing what Jesus did, or is
it only contemplation? Are you car
rying out His example, or have you
encountered some obstacle that is too
hard to do? In the great galleries the
artists sit and strive to reproduce the
masterpieces, and so in the gallery of
life you and I are sitting at the feet
of Jesus. Are we reproducing per
fectly? He is the example. Are we
doing as He did?
BEFORE OR AFTER.
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“You are to take these capsules,”
said Dr. Fussey. “before meals, not
after, remember."
“Oh!" said the patient, “I guess it
doesn’t matter much. • •
“But it does matter, sir!”
“You wouldn’t say that, doctor, if
you had ever had a meal at our board¬
ing house.”—Catholic Standard and
Times.
EXPLAINED,
! “Mamma," asked a little girl why
do'bouillon cups have two han.iw
“Well Mother von are ‘‘nnn‘ *tnnUi" ? ri ° d l hc
yo „ n . ® ‘
j ” ' on 1 y° u know it’s
because some people are left-handed?”
! 'Harper’s Weekly,.
ONE WOMAN’S ENDURANCE.
I ;
Southern Woman Suffers Tortures
| For Years.
| i Racked and torn with terrific
: annoyed by pains
nightly kidney irregulark
ties, Mrs. A. S. Payne
{ ! So.. of 801 Third Miss.’ Ave.’
Columbus,
suffered for years.
! She says: “The pains
In my back, sides and
loins were so terrible
that I often smoth¬
ered a scream. Every
i move meant agony.
My rest was broken by a troublesome
weakness and the secretions seemed
; to burn like acid. I was in an awful
condition and doctors did not seem
| to help. Doan’s Kidney Pills bene¬
j fited me from the first and soon made
me a strong and healthy woman.”
i For sale by all dealers. 50 cents
a
! box. Foster-Milburn Co.,Buffalo, N. Y.
■ j
After the world is certain a man
isn’t going to giv-3 up his fortune, it
stops fussing about how he managed
to get it together.
Hicks’ Capucline Cures Women’s
1 Monthly Pains, Backache, Nervousness
and Headache. It’s Liquid. Effects imme
! (Lately. Prescribed by physicians with best
results. 10c., 25c., and 50c., at drug stores.
i As soon as a man gets up in the
i worl(1 the chaps who hadn’t e
; enough to d0 anything else start try
int; . t0 pull him d0W n.
SOFT COKNS BETWEEN THE TOES
Are often more painful than the hard ones
on top. Abbott’s hast Indian corn paini
j will cure either kind,as well as bunions,sore,
callous spots and indurations of the skin.
“it cures to stay eured.” 25c. at druggists
orbymail. The Abbott Co., Savannah, Ga.
; Book Renting.
Book selling and book renting are
often carried on side by side and un¬
der the same management, shop¬
' worn or soiled or second-hand books
being relegated to the loan depart
ment of the business; . but in a Phil
adelphia /bookstore an attractive
modification or reversal of this plan
i s in operation, On shelves accessi
ble to the public there has been
A an lnviting array of new nov .
e , in . alphabetical order, , and . from .
; 4-his supply of fresh, clean “best
j sellers” (and best-lenders) any per¬
son of good credit may borrow such
volume or volumes a 3 he desires at
I two cents a day for e ach, the mini .
j nium charge , on each book thus man¬
e d being six cents, or a three-days’
rental. With the first appearance of
dog’&eans and thumb-prints a book Is
transferred to the hurt-bock counter,
there to await a buyer, and a fresh
copy takes its place on the loan-shelv¬
es if the demand for it still contin
ues. The Dial.
Time ar.d Eternity.
4( On one occasion, when in con¬
gress.” said James F. Banks, of Bost
tdn, “Gen. B-njamin Butler arose In
his place and intimated that the mem¬
ber who occupied the floor was trans¬
, gressing the limits of debate.
“ ‘Why, General,’ said the member,
reproachfully, ‘you divided your time
wuh me.
| “‘I know I did, rejoined Bun, _ ,
grimly, ‘but I didn’t divide eternity
witH you.’ ”—Washington Herald,
| it TWO TOPERS. M
1 Experience.
! A Teacher’s
“My friends call me ‘The Postum
Preacher,’ ” writes a Minn, school
teacher, "because I preach the gospel
of Postum everywhere I go, and have
k ee ^ the means of liberating many
j « co ff ee -pot slaves.’
,,j don>t care what they call me so
__ “ 1 c ^ n h , , 1 '! to ° see what
they lose by sticking . ’ and
,
can show them the way o -
nerves, clear brain and general goo
health by using Postum.
“While a school girl I drank coffee
and jj ad flts 0 f trembling and went
through a siege of nervous prostra¬
tion, which took me three years to
; rall y rr ° m - nqt
“Mother coaxed me to u~ p - . im ’
j but I thought coffee would 8j ve
strength. So things went, and waea
j married I found my husband and I
| were bot jj co ffee topers and I can
j sym /. 4 athize with a drunkard who
tr ~
| f. s ea ’ eration, I
“At . , last , m . sbe . J gn 5 fo j.
.
j bought a package or v ’
lowed directions about boi -S
i served it with good cream, and asR 0
j my husband how he liked the coffee,
.< We eac h drank three cups apiece,
what a satisfied feeling it left,
j Qnr convcrsion has lasted several
years and win continue as
we'live, for it has made us new
nerves are steady, appetites good,
sleep sound and refreshing.
i “There '3 a Reason.” Name ^ g; —
by Postum Co., Battle Creek, 1 /
j{ ead “The Road to Wellvihe,
pkgs. theabove letter. A new
J Ever read They
one appears from time to time.
genuine, true, and full of human
are
Interest.