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Modern Farm Methods
As Applied in the South.
Notes of Isite* e»t to Planter,
Fruit Grower and Stockman
- Improving a Mountain Farm.
r .1. J. D., Stackhouse, N. C.,
*1 have purchased a small farm
the mountains of Western North
olina, which has been neglected
weeds Improvement. The soil
Kinds’. 1 will appreciate any
tions. ..
Answer: One of the chief needs
* sandy soil that has been abused
undoubtedly vegetable matter.
soil is also likely to he deficient
available supplies of phosphoric
»nd potash. You can add the
Yfegetablc matter to the soil
and to advantage through the use
■leguminous crops. Among the
that are grown to advantage In
locality will be any of the clovers,
iaowpea, the vetch, soy bean and
vet bean. The velvet bean will
ly mature seed, but It grows well
thin land and makes an
mass of green material which
first be pastured off. thus making
laud produce something of value
the refuse plowed under to add
able matter to the soil. Animals
ture on the velvet bean to
when they become accustomed to it,
though, of course, one should look
©ut for bloat, which is liable to hap¬
pen when animals are pasturing on
any green crop that is wet with dew
®r soaked by heavy rains.
Under your conditions it Is impor¬
tant that you adopt a rotation as
■early as possible. One of the best
you- «ouId use would be to sow the
laud in cowpeas this spring, using
500 pounds of sixteen per cent, acid
phosphate and seventy-five pounds of
muriate of potash per acre, If the
laud has not grown peas for several
years get two or three wagon loads
©f earth from an old pen field and
scatter thinly over the surface and
work in with a harrow before seed
tog. Use either the Whipporwill,
Hew Era or Black pea. Cut the first
®rop for hay and let the second crop
*row as long as possible before turn¬
ing ft 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
•ent. acid phosphate and twenty-five
pounds of militate of potash. Apply
the fertilizer well away from the
*eed, as cottonseed meal sometimes
fias nil 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
©rchard 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
®orn, seeding to crimson clover in
the fall'to plow under, arid 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
ef 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
tserv short time.—Knoxville Tribune.
Dcsiroying Field Mice and Moles.
,T. P. T., Jonesboro, Tenn., writes:
U would like to know how to poison
©r otherwise kill field mice and moles.
They are" very destructive in my coin
fields and potato patches.
Answer: Moles and mice may
sometimes be 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
xunways if underground, The fresh
lumvays of the mole are easily dis
covered and If the bisulphide is
in the ground and the place where it
V ' 1 inserted covered with earth
pressed down slightly the fumes
penetrate the channels and
cause the destruction of moles
mice. There is a difficulty in
remedy, however, for the
are often so near the surface of
ground that part of the carbon
sulphide escapes and becomes mixe,
•with the air and is not effective.
Another good way to rid
*f these pests is to prepare a
®f bran in which you might mix a
tie cheese, corn meal or any
food that is likely to prove
to mice, and saturate the
thoroughly with paris green or
ether deadly poison. Put small
iuls here and there about the
the mice frequent. In this way
mi-ht he ablo to kill a greav many
them. The principal objection to
ing paris green in the mash as
*ated is the danger that
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 T
would like to know if I can raise a
oa,r 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 be 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 ...... ___, maybe made „ , for
milk from hay tea. This is best pre
pared by taking hay that Itas been
cut cut nnitP quite vnnni? young, roverimr covering it it well well with witn
water, and covering it so as to ex
tract the soluble food elements 1 . The
tea should be boiled until it Ik 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
tago 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
fed per day with an equal amount of
wheat , . middlings , , ... oi ou» , y sn .. ,
.
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 awrny
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- "the
ful should be used at first, and
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,
under no circumstances should it go
over eighteen pounds before the calf
is five or sic 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 lfkely 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 iu 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 max tiling 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
first dainty dish of asparagus in the
early springtime?—Sincere, in. Pro¬
gressive Farmer.
Shrub the 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-better. Now is the best time to do
this work. Bush axes, grass knives
and briar knives are the tools mainly
used.
Remember 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 it is impossible to get the
j biggest crops Smitbfield from the Herald. fields, J. M
1 Beaty, in
IN 194D.
They were looking np at the latest
I ekysdraper. But what are those
things sticking out from the side's?”
.
I asked the up-state friend.
“These? Oh, those are mile posts; ♦#
answered the New Yorker.—Judge.
Hicks’ On pud) ne Cures Ue*<Uche.
Whether from Cold, Heat, Stomach, or
Mental Strain. No Acetamlid or dangerous
If * Liquid. Effects immediately.
10c., , 25c., _ and 50c., at drag stores
A man cannot odd to his stature by
treading on other people’s toes.
3. H. Ghieen's 8ow«, <*t AtUaca, Ga., j -n
the only successful Drop*, Specialists in the
, world. See their liberal
i offer in advertise¬
ment in another column of thia paper.
The man who talks hot air should
wear a stove pipe hat.
HEATH TO KINO WORM.
because 11 Everywhere I go I speak for TETTEftw*,
it cured me of ringworm in its
worst form. My whole chest from neck to
waist was raw as beef; but txttkbuke cured
me. It also eured a bad case of piles.’’ 8o
- pays Mrs. M. F. Jones of 28 T&nneUiM St.,
SU Sil
tor 5 <)«. write jr. T. tiucrraixe, Dept. A,
Savannah, Ga.
Germany wants the next. Olympic
games. How is the Fatherland In the
- matter of takfng a beating with good
temper? asks the New York Evening
s un .
i Deafness Cannot lie On red
, w local applications as theycanuot rearihth*
diseased portion deafness, of the and ear. that Thereis only o«h
way to cure is by -consto
; tutional remedies. Deafness iscansed byan
maamed conditional the mucous lining of
jfo© Eustachian Tube. When this tube is in
flamed you have a rumbling sound or imper¬
fect hearing, and when it is entirely cloned
Deafness is the result, and unless theinflam
mation can be taken out and this tnbe re
stored to its normal condition, hearing will
bedestroyedforever. Ninecasesontoften l ]
•reoaused bveatarrh, which isnothirvgixitan
inflamed condition of the mnonus surfaces, i
) We will give One Hundred Dollars for any j
i cawof Deafness (causedbycatnrrh)thatoan- j
j Bold br I>ruggi«ts, 75c. J |
i Take Halt’s Family Fills for oemsti patios. \
American Hetefin Japan. j
j Iir the Hochi S-himbun w© find * I
paragraph suggesting that the dues- i
j ° ° hotel & iceommiFi t’-m in view j
’
ot t e great extn&i.ww, h-wr i is again - at- j
“
, trac tlng attention. There is talk of
Japanese T syndicate obtaining |
Srant Q of 10,000 tsufto of land the a J
m <
'' dcln ity of tire Maple Club from the j
! Tokio municipality and therd is also
a hotel a at foreign Mukojuna syndicate .n conjunction erecting j
,
w ^h an American hotel company at |
& cost 6.000,000 yen. i
aS these and other protects j
not seem hkely to be carried out. |
The fact is that a hotel i 3 not like i
a ten^, which can be set np and taken
down at will. The exhibition of 1912 (
is an exceptional event. It will eer- I
tainly attract an* unusual number of
visitors, but when these have taken
their departure things will return to
their normal condition and there will
be little more need of hotel accom¬
modations than there is today. That
consideration probably deters capital¬
ists from permanently sinking a
large sum to meet an ephemeral .de¬
mand.—Japan Weekly Mail.
Aiming to Please.
*< See, here,” growled the pahrera in
cheap- restaurant, “this coffee’s
co i(j_
“Dat. so?” retorted the polite and
intelligent attendant Wei), ells is
a quick lunch, joint so if <3e coffee
wuz ko | yar couldn’t drink it tn a
.hurry,"''—CatAolic Standard and
*n m o S ,
PUZ2HLE SOLVED
Coffee at Bottom of Trouble.
It' takes some people a Ions time to
find out that coffee Is hurting them.
But when once the fact Is clear,
most people try to keep away from
the thing which is followed toy ever
increasing detriment to the heart,
stomach and nerves.
“Until two years ago l was a heavy
coffee drinker »* writes an US. stock
man, “and had been all my life. 1
am now 56 years old.
“About three years ago l began to
have nervous spells and could not
sleep nights, was bothered by indi¬
gestion, bloating and gas on stomach
affected my heart.
“I spent lots of money doctoring—
one doctor told me I had chronic ca¬
tarrh of the stomach; another that I
had heart disease and was liable to
die at any time. They all dieted me
until 1 was nearly starved, but 1
seemed to get worse Instead of better.
“Having heard of the good Postum
had done for nervous people I dis¬
carded coffee altogether and began to
use Postum regularly. I soon got
better and now, after nearly two
years, 1 can truthfully say I am
sound and well.
“1 sleep well at night, do not have
the nervous spells and am not both¬
ered with indigestion or palpitation.
I weigh 32 pounds more than when 1
began Postum, and am better every
way than I ever was while drinking
coffee. I can’t say too much in praise
qf Postum, as I am sure it saved my
life.” "There’s a Reason.
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read “The Road to
Wellville,” In pkgs.
Ever read the above letter? A
new one appears from time to time.
They are genuine, true, and full of
human interest.
fctloilTlCdLTJftAll m i
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COSMOS.
Cosmos makes a lovely late
er, fine blooms often appearing
frost. It it not too soon to plant
few seeds now. Naturally, the
is of slow growth, but it will
surprisingly to good fertilization
cultivation, It makes an
keeper as a cut
News.
1
THE SUMACHS. ”
Several species of sumach begin
to show in August their large
clusters of beautiful crimson or
let fruits and in September and
ber their handsome pinnate
assumes brilliant tints of scarlet.
largest of them is- the staghorn
mach (Rhus typhina or R. hirta),
which sometimes becomes a small tree
up to thirty feet high and is easily
distinguished by its- thick velvety
branches.
The shining sumach' (Rhus
lina) is smaller and more often a
shrub. Its leaves are of a dark glossy
green and smaller than' those of the
preceding species. The- smooth su¬
mach (Rhus glabra),, which- is a
shrub rarely more than ten feet high,
is similar to the staghorn sumach,
hut ha3 perfectly glabrous branches
and leaves.—Indianapolis News,.
A HORTICULTURAL MARVEL.
If you put the buds of a Northern
Spy into a Rhode Island Greening
tree ancf cut back all the branches of
the latter, those buds will so dom
inate the tree as to compel it to send
its feedin S roots straisht downward
oven after the wide-spreading liori
zontal root system of the Greening
Has been firmly established. Then
after a few years, ’ when your trees
. have , _ . tfans
oecome oines ’. J° u ca ^
^ orm them into . Kings, which will
prove very profitable, bear several
years ear jier and enjov the long life
and immanfty from canker and crown
disease which are characteristic of
t j lg g^y
.. The process is very simple,” say’s
George T. Powell, in Country
j,if e j n Atnerica. “I buy two-year-old
Spies from a nurseryman, plant them,
aDc j a year ] a t er j j nser t the buds of
any variety I want to grow’. The only
difference is that trees have the blood
0 j three varieties in them instead of
two. For you must know that all.ap
pi es nowadays are grafted. ”
RAISING MARKET LETTUCE.’.
There are two kinds of lettuce—
the Cos,and head lettuce. The head
lettuce forms a head like a cabbage.
The Hartford Bronzed Head, Big
,
Boston,,. White and Black-Seeded Ten¬
nis Ball and Hanson make fine, large
heads.-. Used for salad and table use.
Lettuce can be planted indoors; the
same as parsley and transplanted! to
the garden May 10, or it.may-be sown
in the* garden any time after May 1
to July 10. Prepare the land the
same as for beets, make a trenchi one
half inch deep and sow two ■or.-three
seeds ever four to six inches. Cover
and press down. When the plants
are well up thin them too six inches
apart. Keep the soil: well! tilled
around them, and as soon ae they
crowd take out every other one for
table use. In warm weather lettuce
runs quickly to> seed, and! should be
cut as soon as the heads- ajre well
formed. The heads are ready for the
table in from eight to twelve weeks
after being planted. Lettuce in the
summer is not quite so. good, but if
planted the first of July a fine au¬
tumn crop may be obtained.—H. B.
Hememvay,. in the American Culti¬
vator.
CHOICE. OF GARDEN TOOLS.
So much of the work about Hue
country home place must be done by
manual labor that the owner makes
a most serious mistake if he does not
provide himself with the very best
tools ois the market, Some persons
fail to realize the difference between
tools that will “do” and really good
ones.. It pays to buy the best. One
can do better work with them, ft is
a pleasure to use. them, and they last
r. great deal longer if properly cared
for.
This reminds me to say something
about the proper care of tools. Never
leave them just as you use them.
Clean them well before putting them
away. Never get into the habit of
dropping them anywhere you happen
to be when you have completed your
work with them. Have a place for
them under cover, and store them
there, and insist that others of the
family w’ho may make use of them
shall return them to this place after
having used them. If this is done,
any one will know just where to find
them when wanted. A place for ev¬
erything and everything in its place,
is a good motto for everybody—es¬
pecially in the country home.—Out¬
ing.
No less than 30,000,000 yen ($15,
000,000) is yearly spent by foreign
visitors iu Japan,
Fair All Round.
The Man (new arrival at summer
•hotel)—I suppose there’s no prohibi¬
tion of kissing at this resort?
The Maid (demurely)—'No; merely
local option.—Puck.
CONSTIPATION ANI> BILIOUSNKSS,
Constipation sends poisonous mutter
bounding through the body. Dull headache, Eves’
Sour Stomach, Feted Breath, Bleared
Loss of Energy and Appetite are the surest
signs of the affliction. Young's Lives Pills
positively sluggish cure liver constipation. to better action, They awaken
the cleanse
the bowels, strengthen the weakeued parts
induce appetite and aid digestion. Price
25 cents from your dealer or direct from
the laboratory. Yoono, Freo sample by mall to any
address. J. d. Ju., Wayuross, Ga.
Yate Wood of Australia has the
tensile strength of good cast Iron.
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for Children,
teething,softensthegums, reduces inflamma¬
tion.. alliive oam. ern es wind colic. 25c a bottle
Street car magnates to public:
4 « Walk, you suckers, walk,’’ quotes
the New York American.
j’o Drive Out Mnhu-m and Build C,
the System
Take the Old Standard Grove's Tast*.
less Chila, Tonic. You know what you
are taking. The formula is plainly printed
on every bottle, showing it is simply (Qui¬
nine and Iron in a tasteless form, and the
most effectual form. For grown people
find children. 50c
|
The-fishhook cactus is the compass
of the desert, for iif always points to
the south:
• fifteen: years of suffering.
Burning, Painful Sores on Legs—Tor¬
tured Day and Night—Trleu Many
Remedies to No Avail—Used
Guticura; Is Well Again.
"After an-attack of rheumatism, running
sores broke out on my husband’s legs, from
below the knees to the ankles. There are
no words to - tell all tha discomfort and
great suffering-he had to. endure night a.ud
day.. He used every kind «f remedy and
three physicians treated him, one after the
other,, without, any good results whatever.
j One day I ordered soma- Cuticura Soap,
/ e ® thSmld
weeks-all n +h the sores were dried , . up, T lhe .
, burning fire stopped, and the pains became
j I bearable. well. I After, three this months testimonial he was quite
can prove at any
I time. Mrs. V..V. Albert,. Upper Freneli
I ville, Me.,..July 21, 1907..’“
VAUDEVILLE.
“Yes; I' saw that alleged drama. n
tt Any plot?”
a Not enough’ to wedge the special¬
ties apart.”—Houston Chronicle.
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A HITHER
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How many American women in.
lonely 1 homes to-day long for this,
■blessing-to come into their lives, _ and
to-be able to utter these words, but
because of some organic derange¬
ment this happiness is denied them.
Every woman interested in this
subject should know that prepara¬ is
tion for healthy maternity of
accomplished by the use
LYDIA E PINKHANTS
VEGETABLE COMPOUND
Mrs. Maggie Gijmer, of West
Union, S. C.,writes t:o Mrs. Pinkliam :
i i I was greatly run-down ias health
from a weakness peculiar to ruy sex,
when Lydia E. Piakham’s Vegetable It
Compound was recommended! to me.
not only restored me to perfect health,
but to my delight. I am a mother.”
Mrs. Josephine- Ilall, of Bardstotvn,
Ky., writes: from
4 l I was a very great sufferer
female troubles, and my physician failed,
to help me. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege¬
table Compound not only restored me
to perfect health, but X am no w a proud
mother.”
FACTS FOR SICK WO MEU«
For thirty years Lydia E. Pink
ham’s Vegetable Compound* made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female ills,
and has positively cured thousands or
women who have been troubled with
displacements, tion, fibroid inflammation, irregularities, ulcera¬
periodic pains, tumors, that bear¬
ing-down feeling, backache, indiges¬
tion, dizziness flatulency, prostration.
or nervous
Why don’t you try it ?
Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick
women to write her for advice.
She has guided thousands to
health. Address, Lynn, Mass. ...
AND HAVE THE LAST WORD, TOO.
He: << When we are married
must both think alike. M
think first. M %
She; “Yes, but I’ll
Town Topics.