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Mo.i4rn Method* That Are Helpful to
Fanner, Fruit Grower and Stockman.
Dairy IIhits.
Rely on cleanliness and coolness
for keeping milk and cream sweet.
Drugs are not permissable.
Milk may be made bitter by the
vessels it enters not being thorough¬
ly scalded and cleaned, when certain
bacteria may develop that will make
the milk bitter.
If living near town and making
butter a good trade may be worked
up in buttermilk. The demand for
it will he as steady as the demand
for butter itself.
Unclean milk is the cause of thou
sands of Infants being buried every
year; a^id that class of milk is pro¬
duced by a very large number who
would be indignant if told that their
milk was unclean.
One practical dairyman puts a
thin cotton blanket on every cow he
milks In summer, putting it on for
use during milking only. It keeps
files from annoying the cow, causing
her to lash the milker in the face
with her tail.
Bitter milk is not always due to
cows eating weeds, Sometimes a
cow that is along in the stripper
class rather far will develop the bit¬
ter milk habit, for some unknown
reason, Her milk should be kept
from that of other Cows.
Shade and water—they are two
things that the milk cow must have
for good health or for heavy produc¬
tion. It is strange, considering that
they really cost little, that so many
cows have to get along without them
or have them in insufficient quantity.
Cows that grow a very long bush
may get their tails filthy from drag¬
ging in mud or manure, and it will
aid the cause of cleanliness if such
bushes are trimmed slightly at the
end. They should be left as long as
they can be without dragging in the
mud, since the longer they are the
better they can chase flies.
You and your descendants for
many generations will wait and wait
to find a thrifty dairy section with
impoverished soil. The dairy cow
would, with the right man to help
her, make the typical run-down cot*
ton farm soil richer than it ever was
before; and she would keep it richer
and keep the farm profitable week
after week for generations.
Make it a practice to give cats
milk after each milking, in a large
pan near the bins where the grain
feed anything is stored. else at Do a™ tept other feed place; them
or
do not encourage them in any way
to stay about the residence, and they
will help to keep the rats and mice
from carrying off grain of much
greater value^than is the milk eaten
the by the dwelling) catMjr feed If a :hat cat is desired there and at
one
make her feel at home th.ere.
Mr. Farmer, do not get too enthu¬
siastic and plunge into dairying on a
large scale at the outset. Begin in a
small way, read good dairy literature,
apply it to the work being done, prove
to yourself that you can make money
from the dairy; then increase the size
of the herd, secure a cream separator,
provide facilities for cooling the milk
quickly, put up a silo in which to
store cheap winter feed. But do not,
in any case, get a larger herd together
than can be cared for well. The labor
problem is a serious one, and neg¬
lected dairy cows and dairy work
poorly done are quick means for
emptying the pocketbook. — Pro¬
gressive Farmer.
Plant Pure Bred Seed.
In our variety tests we have had
some varieties to yield from 500 to
800 pounds of seed cotton per acre
more than other varieties in the same
tests and grown under identical con
ditions of soil, fertilization and culti
vation. By increasing their best vari¬
eties by only fifty pounds of seed cot¬
ton to the acre, at four and one-half
cents per pound, the farmers of North
Carolina alone could add $2,250,000
a year to their profits.
In a general way in all the tests
that have been made it has been
found that varieties having large
bolls and seed and possessing well
branched, vigorous growing stalks,
covered thoroughly with bolls and
leaves, as Russell’s Big Boll and Cul¬
pepper’s Improved, and some other
similar kinds, are the ones that have
generally produced the largest num¬
ber of pounds of lint cotton per acre,
i. e., when they are grown under soil
and climatic conditions that, will per¬
mit their complete maturity before
frost. These are late maturing vari¬
eties and it should be remembered
that late maturity in an upland cot¬
ton is a favorable factor to large
yield if complete maturity is made.
In selecting a variety one must not
be guided entirely by total yield of
seed cotton, for often between two
varieties producing about the same
quantity per acre, the one with the
smaller yield should be chosen be¬
cause of. its production of a larger
amount of lint and higher selling
price of total products (lint and
seed) . It should be remembered that
| the times lint sells from eight to fifteen
as much per pound as seed.
It muse be remembered that for the
Piedmont South and portions just
west of it, on a red clay soil which
warms up slowly in the spring, the
larger boiled varieties will not as a
general thing do so well, as they will
not mature thoroughly before frost
catches them; hence, an early ma¬
turing variety, such as King’s im¬
proved, will do best here, This Is
also true for the average season, in
a general sense, for any portion of the
South having cold and poorly drained
' soils.
Above all things, the practice of
securing seed for planting at random
from the gin should not be followed,
for it cannot possibly be known
whether the seed thus obtained are
produced on stalks that bore few or
many bolls. If seeds of the former
kind are secured, then the tendency
of these seed when planted will be
to produce stalks that will bear a
small number of bolls and henc«
small yields and vice versa. Another
serious objection to securing seed
from the gin is that we usually wait
till late and get seed from last pick¬
ing, which are the poorest of all pro¬
duced by the plants.
It must be remembered that as in¬
telligent feeding and good care stand
to animal Improvement, so does
proper fertilization and thorough cul¬
tivation of the soil stand to plant im¬
provement. If proper food and care
are not furnished both plants and ani¬
mals, Improvement will not only be
impossible, but retrogression inevita¬
ble. With the same thought and care
the results are obtained much faster
with plants than with animals, as a
completed growth is secured in one
year with most agricultural plants,
while with animals it requires several
years.—C. B. Williams, Director
North Carolina Experiment Station,
Raleigh, N. C. ;; j
Try Heavy Liming For Alfalfa.
It has long been known that lime
is necessary for sweetening the soil
for alfalfa, and its success in the arid
West Is largely due to the amount of
lime in the soil, it having not been
washed down as in the humid regions.
But now Joe Wing, of Ohio, who has
probably had more experience in al¬
falfa than any other man in the coun¬
try, and who has hundreds of acres
of it growing, says that this sort of
liming is not enough, and that alfalfa
wants lime in such abundance that
the soil would be unfitted for other
plants. He claims that four tons of
lime per acre is about right, and that
with this much lime the crab grass
will not bother it. Four tons would
mean about one hundred bushels of
lime per acre. The farmers in Penn¬
sylvania formerly used more than
that in their ordinary farm cropping,
till they found that they were liming
too heavily, and now seldom use more
than twenty-five bushels for most
cropping.
I have considerable confidence in
what Mr. Wing says, and would like
to have an opportunity to test his
ideas if I were growing alfalfa. But
any one can test the matter on a
small scale by applying lime at rate
of one hundred bushels per acre on
a small part of an alfalfa patch. It
will certainly do no harm and may
open up the way to greater success
1 with this crop.—W. F. Massey.
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Watercress For Spring Brooks.
I Every man who has a spring brook
' get watercress set in it, since
ought to
it will give delicious green food every
season of the year, A small amount !
set out near the spring will stock the
Avhole brook in the course of a year,
Watercress has a pleasant, pungent
taste, somewhat milder than mustard
or horseradish, and will take careaof
itself if once planted in a spring
brook where the water is clean. It
may be eaten raw or prepared as a
salad. It is as wholesome as it is
agreeable to the taste. Sprigs with
roots may be got from some neighbor,
or the larger seed houses should he
able to supply the seed. Either set¬
ting out plants in the winter or sow¬
ing the seed imbedded in a little mud
and stuck into the edge of the water
will give a good stand.
Study Your Soils and Crops.
The potato crop needs phosphoiic ,
acid anr P° as ai ™ or ® ‘
gen, an ,e eseon o „e earned i» i
that we ” ust " t m
9 r I
-rowing With a good second growth
of clover turned under I would have !
,, qpr1 nothing on the potatoes but
acid phosphate and potash, and would
doubtless have gotten a better crop
than this man who was so lavish with
nitrogenous manures and fertilizer,
It all down j to , the ,, fact n , that , u i j
comes
farmers and gardeners should study
their soil and their crops and then ■
their fertilizer to suit each. I
mix own
—Frof3ssor Massey.
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CHINA SILK CURTAINS.
Instead of Swiss or flowered mus¬
lin, some women are using china siik
curtains in the natural creamy tone or
dyed to harmonize with the room. It
is made into double sash curtains, the
top one dropping for two inches over
the lower one, both finished with silk
balls.—New York Times.
' TESTS FOR PURE BUTTER.
To find out whether butter is pure,
What To Eat gives the following
method: Place a Bmall piece in a
large iron spoon and heat gently over
a flame. If tho butter foams freely
on heating, it is butter, while if it
sputters and crackles like hot grease
without foaming, it is oleomargarine
or renovated butter. Another way to
examine sample is to put it in a small
bottle, and then place me kettle in
boiling water for five or six inmates.
If the sample is butter tho curd will
have settled, leaving the fat perfectly
clear,‘while If it is a substitute the
fat is cloudy or milky.—American
Cultivator.
GOLD AND SILVER LACE.
Cold and silver dress trimming
that has become tarnished can be
cleaned and brightened very satisfac¬
torily by the followingmethod: Shake
the trimming thoroughly to get rid
of any dust; then tie it in a white lin¬
en bag made expressly for the pur¬
pose and lay the bag in a bowl of
soapy water. Place the bowl over the
fire and let It boil for a few minutes;
then remove and rinse in cold water.
After the trimming is taken out of
the bag the tarnished parts can be
freshened still more by rubbing them
with a small quantity of spirits of
ammonia.—New York Herald.
THE BATHROOM.
If possible the bathroom should ha
fitted with tiled dadoes; where the
expense is too great a sanitary paper
should be employed.
The paint must be enameled, and
the bath itself should be one of those
with a rolled metal edge. It is a mis¬
take to inclose a bath in a wooden
case, neither is a ledge of polished
wood advisable, for it is impossible to
prevent the polish from becoming
scratched and marked.
The floor of the bathroom should
be covered with cork carpet. A square
of cork should be provided as a bath
mat, and one of the wooden boards,
which is made to fit across a bath on
which to put sponges and soap dishes,
should not be forgotten. It saves a
considerable amount of work if there
is a fitted wash hand stand in the
bathroom, which can be used by the
members of a family v.hen washing
their hands before luncheon.—New
Home. _ .
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V- __-2AJL.
Crushed Wheat Griddle Cakes—
One teacupful of cracked wheat, two.
pints of flour, two spoonfuls of white
sugar, half a teaspoonful of salt, two
of baking powder, one egg and one
pint of milk. Boil the wheat in a
half pint of water one hour before
mixing it. Bake brown.
French Pancakes—Beat smoothly
together six eggs and a half a pound
of flour. Melt four ounces of butter
and add to the batter, with one ounce
of sugar and a half pint of milk. Put
a spoonful at a time into buttered fry¬
ing pan and spread evenly on the sur¬
face
Indian Pancakes—Take a pint of
cornmeal, a teaspoonful of salt, one
of soda, pour on boiling water to
make a thick mush; let stand until
cool; add the yolks of four eggs, half
a cupful of flour and stir In as much
buttermilk as will make a good bat¬
ter. Beat the whites of the eggs and
stir them in. Bake in a well greased
skillet.
Bread Griddle Cakes—Put half a [
pound of bread free from crust in
warm water to soak. Beat one egg,
half a pint of milk and a tablespoon¬
ful of brown sugar mixed together;
add a scant teaspoonful of salt and
two of baking powder. Drain the
soaked bread dry. and mix in the j
milk> thicken with one pint of flour;
and beat to a smooth batter. Bake |
on a hot griddle. Sprinkle with pow
dered 6Ugar .
Silver Cake—Two cups sugar, four
cups flour, one-quarter teaspoonful
salt, two teaspoonfuls baking pow
der, one teaspoonful extract of al
mond, six whites of eggs, one eup
milk, two-thirds cup butter. Cream ,
butter and sugar; add alternately the ]
rmiir hihk anfl ana flour uuur inixpfl imxeu with wim salt sail and aim i
hpkinsf naKing puwuer, nowder then iuvll the tue wuau extract and aim
the stiffly whipped whites. Beat well i
and bake bake in loaf nan pan in moderate nmdeiate
Everything to Boild With.
We have recently purchased the Harris Manufacturing
Company’s lumber plant and stock and will devote our
exclusive attention to the builders supply busines in tho
future.
Our very complete stock includes
Brick, Lime, Sand, Cement, Fiber Wall Plaster, Paris
Plaster, Laths, Framing—rough or sized to order;
Weatherboarding—several grades; Sheeting, Shingles,
Prepared Rooting, Kiln Dried Flooring and Ceiling, the
kind that don’t, crack open—several grades; Doors—
plain, and fancy glass front doors; Sash and Blinds—
in usual sizes; Window Cords, Weights and Pulleys;
Mantels, Columns, Balusters, Brackets, Mouldings,
Wainscoting, Corner and Plinth Blocks; Turned and
Sawed Work Made to Order; Door and Window
Frames; Sherwin-Williams Paint, Oils and Varnishes;
Guaranteed Roof Paint.
IN FACT
Evenytbing to Build lUitb
J rinse us a list of the material that you want, or a plan of
the house you anticipate building, and let us convince you
that our prices are right.
r S' ORT Valley Lumber Company.
VICTOF A’S FANCY D U _
Occrsicr 1C44 lira Long B:en
mcmLti’ed or CriLiart Affair
Friday, February 6, 1844. The
of the fancy ball has coma and /one.
We had to work hard a. I day t0
complete our dresses, though Miss
Ireland, our dressmaker, very oblig¬
ingly came to the house to finish ev¬
erything and dress us. At 2 the hair
dressers came. Mamma wore a falsa
front and had her own hair behind;
I had my own hair powdered. Mamma
looked uncommonly well. I did nor.
fancy my coiffure, hut everyone said
I looked very well, too. Mamma
was dressed abev.t S and went tic
to see our friends, who had mustered
in great force. She had cn an oh’
brocade, with a dark purp'e ground
and bright flowers and a gold figure
all over If. Her petticoat was China
rose damask trimmed with old lace;
her stomacher was the same, covered
with diamonds. In her 'hair she had
a white feather and diamonds, also
a diamond necklace and earrings. I
never saw her look L< tter. I was
rather belated about my dressing,
and got down only ten minutes be¬
fore 9. My dress was a cherry and
silver satin looped up with red
roses, a while satin petticoat trim¬
med witl^ tulle, silver and roses, and
a white satin stomacher with a
bouquet of flowers in front. I bad a
wreath of roses cn rne side of my
head. Both of us had very high
heeled shoes. After we were dress¬
ed we went up to show ourselves
to our poor maid, who was too ill
to get out of bed. Papa had a dark
velvet coat trimmed with gold and
smalls of the same. A gold tissue
waistcoat embrcideml with flowers,
point lace shirt, shirt frill and sleeve
ruffles, high shoes with paste buck¬
les, also paste kr.ee and stock buck¬
les, a steel sword, a powdered wig,
and a smart three-oernered hat com¬
pleted his attire. I never saw him
look so well; the dress became him
particularly.'
You may guess the cost of all this
finery. Mamma says this little chit
of a queen will be the ruin of us.—
From “The Everetts in England,” in
Scribner's.
Proclaim St Scarce*
The United St;;ter, can supply all thr
wants of its people for coal, iron, cop¬
per. petroleum, ami all the useful min¬
erals; gold and silver are also found
in generous quantities: but of precious
stones the diamond, the ruby, "the em¬
erald, the topaz, etc., it has practically
none, except what it has bought
abroad. In 1002 we paid $‘2o,G0d,t)C0
to foreign countries for precious stones
that we imported, while during that
year precious stones of the value of
only $328,000 were found within our
borders. These were principally
sapphires from Montana, turquoises
from New Mexico, Arizona. Novadi
and California, a ml tourmalines ani
ebrysoprases from California.—Na¬
tional Geographic Magazine.
Caution Jiiiu r on.T»4c\
Boastfulness or flippancy is not sue
cessful advertising for a printer. Claim
ing everything is not convincing and
excessive volubility fatigues. Get a
good point and talk to it with modest
confidence aim Ihe logic of common
sense. And And don't don't forget forget the the period period in in
punctuation, punctuation, knowing knowing when when-you you have have
reached reached it it and and stop stop there. there. This This will will
carry your render with w.th vou you over over a -•
" iJl > jn u ' 1 - ^ 1 “ U1 !k "d' 1 1
meet you again- ihogre ss, ve Inn ter.
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There is just as much chance fur
r i S j n g generation as there has
v been for r any generation, Insists 3 the
j) tv e troit , ,, Free Press. tt Give n* them healthy v, n-v.tr
b ? ’ well-stocked minds and a do
termination , . to succeed , and , they wall ...
make their place in the world.
W. H. HAFER,
DENTIST.
j Fort Vcllley Georgia
| Office over First National Bank.
C. Z. McArthur,
Dentist
FORT VALLEY, GA.
Office over Slappey’s Drug Store.
I A. C. RILEY,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
WRIGHT BUILDING,
I Fort Valley, Ga.
Practice in all the courts. Money
loaned. Titles abstracted.
TirejfJfe D^kellie Insurance
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Office Phone No. 54.
J FORT VALLEY, GA.
C. L. SHEPARD,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Fort Valley, Ga.
Office Over First National Bank.
TONSORIAL ARTIST
For anything in the tonsorial line
don’t fail to call on
WILLIAMS
Next Door to Post Office.
Experienced workmen and courteous ftfc
tention to alL Everything up-to-date.
— 1 - - wv , j' l <rn t m
Bnke<l Mud ti. a Food.
Consumption of earth ns food is said
to be common not only in China, New
Caledonia and New Guinea, but in the
Malay Archipelago as well. In Java
and Uumatra the clay used undergoes
a preliminary preparation for con¬
sumption. being mixed with water, re¬
duced to a paste, and the sand and
other hard substances removed. The
clay Is then formed into small cakes
oi - tablets about as thick as a lead
pencil and baked in an Iron saucepan.
The Javanese frequently eat small
is ares roughly modelled from clay
which resemble the animals turned 01 1
In our pastry shops.—Chicago Tribune.
Caution and Counsel.
Boastfulness or flippancy is not suc¬
cessful advertising for a printer. Claim¬
ing everything is not convincing and
excessive volubility fatigues. Get a
good point and talk to it with modest
confidence and the logic of common
sense. And don’t forget the period in
punctuation, knowing when you have
mtebed it and stop there. This will
carry your reader with you over a
short journey and he will part company
with you reluctantly and be glad to
meet you again.- Progressive Printer,
Women Not Memra lhan Men.
Are women meaner in giving the!
Ben? It cannot rightly be urged that
they are. Woiben, after all, in buying
% SlVlDg ’ C0 ” m0n, f makin * ”?
money that others have earned,
They have been trustees for other peo
e ,s ,' )10TK ’-' ti°eir
V” 1 J iUVU couisf ,tpi. y i.n ‘ an . ’ ness...
ol n certain kind ot won) 0 n have ai*
lorded infinite . trinities , ... foi ~ w s
oppoi \ „ men
,, ‘ s ' !ind , cont . mpt . ’ , but . tJl0Se .. p f tty
meannesses are nothing in comparison
^ ^ me a„n« 8 e* cf realty.
6crd]d men< _ The spectator.