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6 A TEXAS WONDER. Hall’* (.rent Discovery. One small bottle of Hail's Great Dis covery cures all kidney and bladder troubles, removes grav< 1, cures d.abates, eeminal emissions, weak ana ame l acks, rheumatism and all irr gularLi-s of the kidneys and bladder in both nvn and women, regulates bladder troubles in chil dren. If not sold b\ ycur druggist wdl be rent my mai! on r of $1 On< email bottie is w months treatment, and will cure any cas above mentioned. Dr. E. W Hall, sole manufacturer. P. O. Box 629. S. Louis Mo. S nd for testi monials Sold by all druggists and Solo mons Cos., Savannah. Ga. Till*. Dr. E W. Hall. St. Louis. Mo : Dear Fir— Please ship me three dozen Hall's G eat Discovery by first express. I have fo and over one gross It gives perfect sat isfacticn. and I recommend it to my customers. Yours truly, H C. GROVES. Prop Anti-Monopoly Drug Store. Ccali. Fla.. Dec. 13 , r THE NEWS OF THREE STATES. HAPPENING* IN GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND SOI ll C AROLIN A. Lightning Set liotinc* on Fire nt Harlem—Loving Cup Companii'R ot the Fourth Deigliuent Will Strive for*—-Clay Pigeon Shoot it Ln- Gronge—An Editor Soy* There In Too Alucli Politic*—Closing; ( p the Cflntiinign in South Carolina—Pc -• I c-t Conipntty >1 a > Build the Mill. In the event of the election of the na- j tional Dcmocrit! h k t. Solicitor General , Sam P. Maddox of the Cherokee Circuit will be an applicant for the office of United States district attorney. Air*. Henry Manning Dead. Mrs. H*“nr> Manning, wife of one of the ! most prominent farmers near Cochran, died ai an advanced age at the home of 1 her daughter, Mrs. H. H. Wynne, on Thursday. Mrs. Manning’s health had not be*n good for some time. Had she lived a year ionger she would have been married fifty years. Lighting Fired Them. The ginhouse and barn belonging to J. F Hatcher and the barn of H. A. Took and a negro house were .set on fire at Harlem Friday afternoon by lightning. All were destroyed except Hatcher’s gin house. Four horses in the barn were burned. H. A. Cook's loss i* estimated at e thousand dollars, no insurance. Hatch er’s loss is slight. Goes to t nllege Pnrk. Dr. Robert H. Harris, now Baptist pas. tor at Thomnsville and formerly the pas tor of the First Baptist Church of Colum bus, resigned h s Thomasville pastorate # yesterday to go to College Park, Ga„ where he has been mode a member of the Cox College faculty, and wheie nr- will also assume the pastorate of the Bap tist congregation. Lef. p entering the min istry Dr. Harris taught school a dozen years. He is well known over the state. The Fourth's I.ovine Clip. The loving cup which is to be contested for by company teams in the Fourth Reg iment at Savannah at the annual rifle and carbine competition on Sept. 3 and 4, has been received at Jacksonville by 1,. H. Jerger, jeweler, from Gorham, in New York. The cup is a very handsome one and is engraved as follows. "Presented by the fleid and staff. Fourth infantry. G. S. TANARUS., to best company team; annual shoot." This cup will be held by the com pany winning it for one year, it being com peted for year. Are Off Around I.eenburg. Crops in the Deesburg section are very much cut off. Only about 40 to 50 per cent, of laec year’s crops will be made. A great deal of the cotton will have no bolls to open after the first picking, being dead w.ih rust. The weks of ho:, dry weather with a temperature from 95 to HjG degress dried out the plant like an over.. The plant was very late this year, and even if seasons had been more propitious would not have had the time to make as large crops as formerly, since a p.ant only goes to bearing the second crop after it ha* ma tured4he first. For a Xfw Coart House. The grand jurors will recommend the building of anew court house at Green ville in their presentments. The pres ent building was erected in 1832 and is as sociated with many historic occurrences lien Hill and William Daugherty have been among its eminent pleaders u the bar, and auch legal celebrities as Judges Hiram Warner, Obadluh Warner, Edward fT. Hill, Barney Hill. Hugh Buchanan and Sampson W. Harris have worn the Ju i diclel ermine with honor and distinction ’ within its walls. / .A Shoot nt I.u Grange. The LaGrange Gun Club is to have a big clay pigeon shoot on Thursday, Aug. 30. Several towns—West Point, Hogans ville. GrantvlTle, Newnan, Griffin, Green ville and others—ate expected to enter the contest and it no doubt will be quite an interesting day. Three prizes will be of fered for the clubs making the highest •core, $2;") for the first, sls for the second, and $lO for the third. In addition to th< se will be offerd thtee ptizes to tHe l.idi , vidua is making the best scores. $lO for the first. $5 for the second, and $2.5*) for the third. A club entrance fee of $5 will be charged, but no fee will be charged to the Individual. The shoot will begin in the morning and continue until through. Crop* Arouml lliilgewai'. The long drought at Ridgeway was broken Friday afternoon by a copious rain, falling gently and without wind or hail, or any damaging influences. The v lntense heat of the sun for the last three weeks had so completely absorbed the moisture thru cotton, young corn, peas and potatoes, sugar cane, etc., had suf fered beyond description. The cotton in the immediate community is off 25 or 30 per cent, from the prospect three weeks * ago, and the other crops mentioned are almost a failure. Other sections, how ever, at no great distance, have been more fortunate and have had local rains that have sustained the crops, and the ' promise is a fair one an average yield. FLORIDA. A telegram received in Gainesville by J. F. Bartleson announced that while , wrestling with another gentleman in Oca la yesterday, M. D. Barileson had the misfortune to break one of his arms. Mr. Barileson was getting along as well us could be expected, but he will, of course, be laid up for some time. Mrs. A. A. Stephens Dead. Mrs. Augustlna Alexandrine Stephens, well-known by numerous residents of Florida, died at her home, at Weloka, last Monday. The deceased was the daughter of the late Col. Lewis Flem ing of Hibernia and the sister of the Hon. L. I. Fleming and ex-Qov. Francis P. Fleming of Jacksonville Bhe was born at Hibernia, the homestead of the Flem ing family, Oct, 22, Iffll. In early life she was married to William Clark Steph ens of Marlon county, where ahe resided for some 'time, and afterward removed to Welaka Besides her husband, who Survives her, she leaves three sons, L. I. Stephens of Jacksonville. Charles S. Stephens of Roanoke. Va., and Edward L. Stephens of Brunswick. Ga.. and a daugh ter, Mrs. Henry H. Bryant of Welaka. A Good InvcNtnient. Ocala Banner: Mrs. F. M. Rust is the name of a business woman who halls from New York city. She was in Flor ida some yeag ago when Dunn* Hon first sprung into existence and bought what was thought was Dunn's bluff, the beau tiful tract of land overlooking the con fluence of the Blue Springs run and the Withlaeooehee river. It turned out, how ever, that her lot was several blocks away from the bluff, and Mrs. Rust fek very much disappointed. But she has been considerably mollified since. Soon after her purchase. Col. Albertus Vogt made his wonderful phosphate discovery near his place, and the rock was discov ered in quantities on Mrs. Rust's forty acres. She wisely leased it on royalties, and while on a visit <o Ocala the other day said that from it she had already placed in bank SBO,OOO. How is that for a sso investment? Too Much Politic*. East Coast Advocate: Politics had be*n the all-important and everlasting cry in our ears for some months past. Florida Brevard and Dade included—seem 'to be burdened with politics. From the largest centers of population to the smallest cross-roads and hamlets, the local politi cian is in evidence, each one vieing with the other as to how these United States —which some claim are going to the ! "demnition bow-wows”—should beman- ; aged by President and his cabinet. And during election time there obtains a feeling of bitterness that makes ene mies of friends, and often divides a com munity into two distinct elements, which frequently tarry their differences info the walks of private life and business. Now le =ome of us residents of Brevard and Dade turn over anew leaf, and devote some of our spare time to the develop ment of our land, and the growing of pineapples and citrus fruits. SOUTH CAROLINA. A white man named Adam Bonds has been commkied to Jail in Laurens, charg ed with the murder of his wife. There are no particulars as to the cause of the crime. The woman was shot through the breast with a pistol. In Memory of Con federates. The corner-stone of the Confederate ' monument was laid on Wednesday after norm at Barnwell, with Masonic ceremo nies, Grand Master James F. Izlar offi ciating and Col. James Armstrong making the address immediately afterwards In the Opera House. The hot weather being con sidered there w’as a large crowd in attend ance. To Select \lne Elector*. Electors are to be selected next Friday nigh* by the State Democratic Executive Committee. There will be nine of them, two at large and one from each con gressional district. No salary is attach ed to the position, but the honor of it is eagerly sought pfter. The e.-nr>mittee has already receive** Intimations from prom inent citizens in several congressional districts that they would like he honor of casting a vote from South Carolina for Bryan. Corporation* Chartered. The Secretary of State has issued a commission to the Bank of Blacksberg. of which F, G. Stacy of Gaffney, William Anderson, D. R. Bird. J. F. Darwin. P. H. Freeman, Ira Hardin and N. W. Hardin of Blacksburg are the corporators. The capital stock is to be SIO,OOO. A commis sion was also issued to the Royal Bag and Yarn Manufacturing Company of Charles ton, of which George A. Wagoner, Steph en Thomas. J. M. Seignious, James F. RetVllng and George Lunz are the corpor ators. The capital stock is to be $225.(T0 and the purpose is to operate a bag and yarn factory. The Charleston Building and Loan Association of Charleston was also commissioned with $150,000 capiial stock, the corporators being T. M. Morde cai. M. F. Kennedy and William M. Ja cobs. May Build the Mill. Judge Aldrich has decided that the Pacolet Manufacturing Company has the right to build a mill near Gainesville, Ga. A month or more ago Francis J. Pelzer of Charleston, representing the minority stockholders, all of Charleston, brought action against the Pacolet company to enjoin them from building a $1,000,000 cot ton mill at New Holland Springs. Ga. The case came up for hearing before Judge Aldrich on Aug. 9 at Greenwood. The plaintiffs were represented by Modecai & Gadsden of Charleston, and the Pacolet company by H. A. M. Smi*h of Charles ton. and S. J. Simpson and C. P. Saunders of Spartanburg. The question involved is whether the Pacolet Manufacturing Com pany has the right to build a mill away from Pacolet or outside the stale, calling rfic new mill Pacolet No. 4. and using profits of the three Pacolet mills In Spar tanburg county in erecting the new fac tory. \\ ith tlie C andidate*. A special to the Charleston News and Courier from Columbus says: In official and a great many other circles in this city nothing Is being talked of except politics. It is the first time during or since the last "campaign of education” that the people seem to have taken any special interest in the result. Several of the state campaigners remained in ttie city up to-day. Among them were Gubernatorial Candidates Frank B. Gary and A. Howard Patterson, candidate for Lieutenant Governor Cole L. Please is also here. Mr. Gary and Mr. Blease went over to Brookland last night to get personally acquainted with the voters of that suburb, and the people got up an impromptu meeting for them. They ad dressed about 300 people. Other candi dates are busily engaged in “nailing” campaign lies, and, in fact, there are so many reports circulated about thom that It would take them a year to answer all of them. There will be on extra meet ing at Chapin’s, on the Columbia, New berry and Laurens road, to-morrow. It is understood ihn# Ml Gary and some other candidates will do present and ad dress the voters. Gov. McSweeney Is in receipt of a mass of correspondence, which is encouraging to him. These let ters come from every part of the state. —Pamphlet is a corruption of rhe name 0 f a Greek woman. Paymphalla, who wro e a history In thirty five, tiny little volumes A Weak Stomach i the cause of oil clisease.lt makes impure blootl, uni this enfeebles the heart, lungs, ilver and kidneys. Strengthen the diges tive organ* with Hostetler's Stomach Bitters, and your health will improve. Ev ery oil* needs it to keep the bowels from becoming clogged. To those who have tried other remedies In vain, this will prove worth 1 s weigh in gold. Our Priv ate Revenue Stamp covets the neck of the bottle. There is HOSTETTER'S Nothin# STOMACH “Jnst as Gcol" BITTERS YV. F. HAMILTON, Artecian Weil Contractor, OCALA. FLA. Am prepared to drill wella up to any depth. We use flrtt-class machinery, can fio work on short notice and guarantee aatlsfaodoa. THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. AUGUST 27. 1900. THE FARM AND THE GARDEN. MATTERS OF INTEREST TO AGKI - LTIRIST AND HOIAEIVIFE. Fertilising for AVlient Angora Goat* PriniHon Clover in the South—Him eating Corn Fodder—\ Fortune in Nut Growing Brief Note* on Poultry—The Carman Peneh. H. M. C: A crop of fifteen bushels of wheat, w hi* h is a very gool average on Georgia soil, tak s the m neral element? from the sell in ab)ut the follow.ng pro;>orti<n and quantity: Ph< sr boric acid 12 pounds Fo ash 14 pounds Lime 6 p.unds Presides this 32 pounds of mineral ele ment-, 15 bush D cf wheAt take also 12 l> unds of nitrogen. This element though known as "a mospherb,” must go into the c op through the soil Just as the min eral elements do. It does lcok like any fair soil could be made to produce 15 bushels of wheat without any very groat effort or expense. As you say two acres producing at that rate wou'd supply a small fam ly abun dantly with bread and at the fame time furnish a nice l.ttle quantity of bran for the milk cow and also some shorts. It would al ow also of setting aside several bushes for se i d. part to sell and part for home use the next >ear. If you take much inie r st in poultry keeping you will find it a good thing to raise at least a half acre of wheat for the special pur pose of feeling the he~s with it. Wheat fed bens will lay in the winter and early spring when corn-fed hens are not likely to lay. If your soil produces 1U i* 12 bushels of corn without feitlizers there is no reason whatever for your not making it pr dure 15 or even 2 bushels of wntat year by applying the above mate rials to the soil. It depends greatly how you prepare the so.l, the quality anl qi antity of seed us and and the time f sowirg, and al : o whether or not the cro > wiil be more or less free from smut and rust how greet will be your success in raising wheat. Wheat is so subject to rust in our cl mate that it has been the greatest draw tack in is culture. But for this difficulty the Southern farme* would have no excuse for nog eating its culture. If pcaesible pio ure seed from someone who raised it in your section this* year and whose crop did not rust. Plow your soil thoroughly by tlie middle of October and free it as much as \o sible f om all trash and unde omposed vegetable ma'- cer. Sow two bushels cf seed on thu two ai ns sowing as evenly as pos-lhle, and w’hen the sell is fairly dry. Then g ve tie land a good rolling after the seeds have been harrowed in. Before sowing the seeds wash them well in strong blue stone water and then dry thfm off by rolling in fresh ir-sak<d lime. As yru have had ro exi > erience w:th wheat we would advise you to sow one arre broadcast and sow one acre in dr 1 s 18 or 2) inches apsrt anl cultivate this acre about three tim*es next sprirg dur ing Man h and Af rII; use three pecks of washed seed on this acre and five pecks on the broadcast acre. If you will follow this advice you will find next year that you have learned something about w'het that will be useful to you in the coming time. Anvorn Gont*. Arc there r.o traders of Angora goats in Georgia, South Carolina or Florida? It Is high time there were. Surely It w’ 11 not be very long now’ before someone can supply them for breeding purposes. It is frequently asked wh re they can be had, but we cannot arswer. The An gora goat can be had in T xas and o her Western State*, butt Tis D too far off for the Georgia, buyer. We are quite sure it will be a profita ble thing for many cf our Georgia and Florida farmers to undertake the raiding of this breed of animals and the sooner they go at it the better. Fortune* in n Nutshell. There are found in the pecan shells grown u|>on trees whose, annual earnings for years past has ranged from $50.0) to $75.00 each here in Texas. There are isolated cultivated trees, whose only cultivation i* from the crops grown upon the same ground. Such nuts are very uniform in size and range from thirty-five to forty-five nuts to the pound and reproduce themselves accurately. Much has been learned during the last few years about the great value of the pecan which is entirely at variance with former belief, because so many believed them as only a forest tree, needing no care or attention than any other. Cultivation has shown a wonderful change, changing them from a forest tree to one of the most productive of fruit trees. In fact, it has been foun<l that they can be treated absolutely as a fruit tree from seed to harvest. No American tree has been found that, like the olive, is of such long life, pro ducing nuts for hundreds of years and giving under cultivation such in comes upon a very small outlay for the planting of groves. Growers of olives in California will neither sell their productive groves, nor are they willing to tell of their eirnlngs, because the facts ore almost beyond be lief. Such is so true of pecan panting ihat we will not tell the whole facts of their wonderful value. Simply because oth ershaving bud no experience with cultivat ed groves are not willing to believe beyond their personal knowledge. The fact .are such in regard to them that no exaggera tion is needed. The fcl owing are among the advanced methods in growing the pe cans: Cultivation, low heading of the trees, permitting close planting, by which more perfect fertilizing by the air cur rents among the trees of same Mze. sime age. same distance apart, consequently much larger crops on the same acreage. For years past it has been thought the proper thing to do was to plant the trees forty, fifty or sixty feet apart, taking rh forest growth as a guide. Forty plus frrty gives only twenty-seven trees to the acre, whereas we now adopt the Cnliforn a method of tree planting, by which by the equilateral triangle method they get <25 trees to the acre without crowding. This 1* sixteen more to the acre than by the square method so universally used here tofore. The gain is seen when the tree# earn SI each when planted twenty by twenty feet apart, of nearly SIOO.OO per acre over the forty bv forty plan of twenty seven trees to the acre, flays one experi enced grower here: “No more costly mistakes have I made than in trying to fo low nature in grow - ing pecan trees. Every agricultural suc cess has been achieved by overcoming nature’* effort* io defeat it. The fin est and most productive i>ecan trees 1 have seen are grown upon well drained lands, where cultivated. I would plant c!o** together or at only a medium distance apart, because pecan trees can be set c r <cr>e together a# they produce their fruit only ujvm new woods. Such experiments as 1 have been able to mako show that the pecan tree can be pruned or trlmnvM to any desired shape, whether low spreading pollard or even flat espalier.” Next to the cultivation of pecan trees comes the benefit of low heading of the trees, which has many advantages. The roots become deeper seated, lees danger of of eun arald of the tree trunk, less dan ger from high wind* and easier gathering of their fruit Heading In causea the inner curving of the limbs, preventing con tact with other tree# or shading tha ground as do taller trees. The limbs are rot so liable to bend down with their fruit and more easily propped up if desired. Such branches are affected by the sun only ui>on the upper side, while the un derside being shaded, grows the fastest. lienve this uptight growth of limb permits close planting So lone has the common saying been that ”\Ve will not plant pe cans; we will have so long to wait!” What of that? Is noj that a very sel fish view to take? Somebody planted the fruit which you now enjoy, and the next generation has the same claim upon you. Are you not going to wait anyway as , long as you live? Would it be any worse waiting with a good pecan grove of fifty acres than waiting without one? Says a man in Georgia: "I am 69 years ; old, but I am planting pecons, partly for myself and partly for posterity. A man who plants fifty a res will be a rich man . in ten year#, for under cultivation the trees will begin to bear in six years, ond will be profitable when ten years old.” His experience is like ours. Under culti vation the trees will grow four or five times as fast as uncultivated, will bear when six years old. pay at eight, and j very profitable when ten years old, ■ ear nlng easily $5 per tree, and annual increase until full maturity, when i thirty to forty years old. continuing in bearing during their life of hundreds of years. We do not know how long, but we have knowledge of one tree here which was killed by lightning a few years ago. When out down ijr rings showed it to be over 600 years old and bearing the last year of its life. Me recommend the planning of vegetable | crops among the pecan ire s until they are I enough to shade the ground, the cul tivation of which gives the trees the culti ’ vation they require. In all orchard growth cultivate the trees as thoroughly as you do your corn field. It will pay. During this season both Texas and Florida i have grown vegetable crops, earning from 1 slC4> to SY) per acre, and others can do the same. The fact is the Southern states i ra h easily become the early garden for | *he North ai great profit in early ship men is. In addition to the earnings of the i vegetable crop the tiee growth of the pe : can grove easily adds one hundred dollars ; per acre annually, for when ten years old I ihe owner could not afford to sell his gfove at $1.0(4) per acre, for its 10 per cent, earnings far exceed that valuation. Do not plant any other trees among the pe cans, os the vegetable or other low grow- I crops will pnv you vastly better. | Wherever the hickory or walnut grow the pecan will thrive. Their long taproots * RCt their food way below the surface and will grow well upon lands where the sur * face may be worn out for other crops, thus bringing into prolftable cultivation fields considered worn out. There is no reason why the Southern states cannot grow as commercial enterprises large pe ! can groves of the Texas thin shell pecan as California now does of 100 to 1,000 acres of w’alnuts, olives, prunes, pears, peaches, etc., with the profit largely in favor of the pecan. Freedom from bliglri, from the usual insect pests earning royal in comes for generations, taking the outlay and income, the pecan has no equal. Using dynamite in tree planting is productive of wonderful results, and should be more generally used in the planting of every kind of tree, whether for fruit or for shade. Here is one of the safest, surest paying I investments. Parents can make for their | children, their children's children for twenty generations. Pecan groves can not run nway, cannot burn up, will not default, for Nature is the best of pay masters, and every one who can put $l6O into a pecan grove of fifty acres.containing 6,250 trees, has got a fortune on the invest ment as soon as the trees will average only $1 each, saying nothing of the great er earnings following for years. There is no blow about these facts, for the pos sibilities of pecan culture are beyond any statement we make. Of he Twentieth Century pecan, w*ith nuts as large as "guinea eggs,” weighing twenty to twenty-five nuts to the pound, we need say but little,* as growing upon but few trees, the supply is very limited. They are the r..: r ‘s4 grafted pecan grown, without exception Another advantage of pecan groves upon a far.n is the increased value of every a< re by the presence of such a grove, which adds very materially to its valuation. In fact, we do not know’ of any drawbacks to successful pecan cul ture. and certainly no other ree growth can equal this industry, costing so little, with such enormous earnings. No fear of an oversuppiy. If this generation should plant millions of acres, for the pecan grows upon no other continent, and the pecan nut is but little known in Europe. Very soon we will have 100.M0.000 of peo ple. in this country, where the pecan nut is the favorite nut of all others and will consume all which can be grown. Fort Worth, Tex. Herbert Post. Tlie Mule In the South. A bulletin of the Agricultural Depart ment of the government show’s how* the mule has been a curse to the South be | cause It is non-productive. "When South ern farmers farm with mares that raise colts, anew era of prosperity will dawn." says the bulletin. Just so; but let us con sider what a tedious process that must necessarily be. From the first the plant ers had no call for other stock than mules to do their farm work, and it was cheap er and easier for them to purchase mules in Tennessee. Kentucky and Missouri than to keep mares to grow either them or horses. Fences were few. and such young stock would have been decidedly out of place while growing up to maturity. The mule has become as much a part of the life of the colored man as is his dog: and being so, he is naturally prejudic'*i| against the horse, besides, "Sambo’s voice in praise of his "mu-11” is much more mu sical than It would be to laud a "hoss.” But In time the horse will largely supplant the mule in the South. The change will be made very gradually. We can even now see it occurring sporadically. Farm ers used to horses are settling there and taking their teams with them. The young colored laborers are learning how to handle horses, farms are being fenced more and better, and this will make it more convenient to grow horses. In about fifty years the transformation will be complete and then "the old colored man with his mule" will be a memory. IlnrveMtlitK Corn Fodder. Where a large crop of corn is to be se cured. this Is no small task, says M. C\ Thomas, in Agriculturist The cost and quality of work done must be carefully considered. Only a few years ago the corn sled was thought to be the Ideal implement for cutting corn, hut there are so many seasons when perfect work Is impossible. a the corn does not stand up well. They have been discarded by a number of farmers In my neighborhood. What the outcome of the corn binder will be remains to be seen. Some like H, w’hile others say. all things considered, the work cannot be done better or cheaper than by hand. For my use I have found nothing better than the good, old-fashioned way. With us the corn Is nearly always checked and the shocks are cut twelve hills square, the i*ost ranging from 5 to 8 cents a shock, according to the condition of the I corn. To be in be#4 condition for cutting, the. husks on at least half of the ears should begin to turn brown When at this stage we cut Into full shook*. Some prefer to half shock and let stand for a few days before filling out, but I do no* like that. If a rain comes the entire cen ter of the shock Will be blackened. Had the shock been made full size at first, the middle would remain bright, provld ed the corn was not cut too gre**n When n shock !• one-third cut I tie it securely with a stalk When the shock Is finish ed I drew It up ss tightly ae possible withs rope and pulley, and tie it wl<h binder twine. A shock fixed In tills man ner will stand In perfect condition until j the corn Is ready to crib Just a s soon ss the corn will do to rrih, j I commence husking and storing opera- I tions, in order <o complete them before bad weather sets in. While the days are warm and the ground dry it is much easier to get help and the injury is much less to the wheat by tramping and driving over it. As the corn is husked the fod der is tied into bundles which can be easily handled with a fork. When the fodder is moist I tie with the stalks, and when it is dry I use tarred twine with a knot tied on the end. To secure it I simply lap the spring around the knot and stick it uifrier he band. If care is taken to make the bund.es as compact as pos sible, they will not come untied when fastened in this manner. To untie, sim ply pull the end of the spring. We place three of these single shocks in one, being I very careful io get it set up as compaet ' ly as possible. The fops are drawn lo i gether with a rope and again tied with the twine. Fodder fixed in this manner will keep perfectly and make excellent feed, until hauled to the barn or directly to the stock. Crimson ( lover in South Carolina. I have often heard the cow pea celled “the crimson clover of the South,” and the name is well deserved. I should dts | like to spar* either of these plants, says W. R. El.iott in Practical farmer. I value crimson clover for this reason: I can grow it during the winter when I can't i have peas, and thus have a covering to protect my land when most needed. By using the clover and the pens 1 get two leguminous crops that collect and store nitrogen for other crops to feed upon. Crimson clover contains 3.2 per cent, crude , protein, and the cow pea only 2 5 per cent. Hence a po'.nt in favor of clover. My main object in planting clover is to improve and save the soil; and while this is being done I have nt the same time ; gool green food to graze on when needed. , during the winter, for either horses, cows or hogs. I stop the grazing in early spring and get a good crop of hay to feed out during the summer. Last fall I sowed my entire plantation, w;th the exception of twenty-nine acres, iii grain. Eighteen were in cotton; six were in corn sown broadcast in peas, which I turned under later for potatoes, j etc. Throe acres I sowed in crimson clo ver in October, and one in clover and grass seed mixed. The last one I sowed in rye and clover. The acres sown mixed showed up much better than those upon which the clover was sown aione. My firsi experiment made in October, 1895, by running a 30-inch sweep two inches deep between the rows in a six acre cotton field and sow ing fifteen j ounds of seed per acre. I then made the plows turn back and run through again, just, sifting in the seed, and I got an excellent stand and made a fine crop of clover. I j cut this while in bloom in May, and turn | ed the green stubble under witlT a two horse turn plow for cotton again, putting 400 pounds of acid phosphate per acre in the dri 1. The eotlon was about two weeks later getting started, but a3 the clover be -1 gan to improve, and when a drought came I in August, the clover told to the grow; i as it grew larger, held Its color better and fruited better than cotton just across the road manured with 200 pounds of acid phosphate thoroughly composted. Soil was the same and was worked in like manner. In 1896 I planted thirty-four acres in like manner and had equally as good results. In !597 I broke and harrowed well two and one-half acres of ground and brushed In the seed. I got h very fine stand and made the finest clover I have ever seen, except o field at the State Agricultural College, which was very highly manured. 1 used no fertilizer at all. but the soil was very rich to begin with. The past year I sowed five and one-half acres of bottom land and harrowed it tvlth a 250- I>ound harrow and did not get a stand. I attribute the failure to my using a heavy harrow and not to faulty seed; some of it I carried over and got a good stand this season. The best time to sow’ is from the first of October to middle of December, in this dimate. Late sowing does better than early sowing, as the heat is worse for clover than cold; though if sown in cot ton ground the foliage answers a double purpose in protecting the clover from the sun and also from frost later on. If the seed is sown alone, not mixed wdth rye or oats, etc., a cloudy spell of weather is most favorable, and the ground should already be prepared to catch-such spells. I have never missed a stand when thus sown, if the seed wan not covered too deep. The mam object is to get the clover started. Once started the troubles cease. I have for the last three years been reclaiming u three-acre field by so whig crimson clover In tne fall and following with peas in the spring. I began by put ting 100 pound’s of cotton seed meal to the acre for the clover and then 200 pounds of acid phoephate for the peas. This fleid is now in good shape nod planted in wheat without any fertilizer. I never fertilize clover except for a hay crop when need ed; but I find that the stock all relish it and never suffer from eating it, as :s often the complaint. If left standing un til the seed is ripe it is very hard to digest. To cure it I cut when dew is off and rake into wind rows in the afternoon, then iet it stand one day, and throw into cocks for one day longer, when I haul in. A to being easily cured, it comes next to Bermuda grass, with me. and this >s the easiest crop I know to cure. Every farmer should plant clover, whether it l>e crimson or some other va riety. hut crimson is my favorite and I like to grow it to improve the soil, qs it affords so much vegetable matter to turn under, and without plenty of humus you will be without much of a crop. To plant mere clover and buy ie*s fertilizer, you will succeed better. Fairfield County, S. C. Summer Untiling of Manure. There is usually a lull in farm work in summer and it cannot be put to better advantage than in hauling manure that has accumulated about barns and feed lots during winter and spring. This will be the best time for top dressing hay lands and stubble fields that are to be plowed soon. Manure should be spread thin and even on hay land, so as not to burn or smo'her the grass. As the stubble is to be plowed under, so much care will not be necessary with it. The heaviest and richest manure should always be put on hill tops and sides, and upon thin places. The richness of soil is constantly being leached out b> water and carried to lower portions of the fields. By enriching the upper parts, the gentle rains of fall and the thawing of *he snow will carry the richness to the lower levels of fields, distributing it more evenly. If fer tilizer is needed on a field where there is a growing crop, a good plan Is to haul out in piles and leave along the border of the field, to be scattered when the crop is harvested. These piles should be put along the high ground so that rains fall ing on them will distribute the liquid ma nure leached out over the field. Do not fertilize heavily along a slough or near a watercourse. Y'ou need all the richness that will be cart led away on your farm J. L. Irwin. Poultry In Hot Weather. Keep the fowls comfortable In hot went her. Shade, cleanliness and pure water are an essential trio to successful summer poultry keeping. Shade is wanted only during the hot weather, but cleanliness and clean water are needed at .ill times. Where fowls have free run they will find shade, but when yarded It must be provided for them. Tall grow ing weeds make the best shade, and some poultry keepers allow golden-rod to grow in *h** lower end of the yards. This grows tall and the fwwls do not eat It. while they prefer Ms shade to thtt of trees or bushes P urns are on# of th# h#at trees to plant in the yards and bring in nn added revenue from th# fruit. When • here 1# nothing of this kind in the y#rds put up burlap or canvaa shelters The water must be kept cool and pure. Fowls do not fellah warm or filthy water t*ny more their keepers. The water j dish should be kept in a shaded spot and refilled frequently. Meat must be fed carefully in warm weather arvd nos at till if spoiled. Skim milk is much relished and make.-? a splendid food Be careful of the mixed food* and take palna that they do not sour. The same grains that are fed in winter are needed, but less corn, of course, and it is better to have i< cracked. Keep the house us open os possible; *ake out the windows and put ‘n slot doors. Whitewash the house fre quently, u*e kefosene or liquid lice killer on the rocsts tmd powder in the nesis, which should be changed monthly. Tlie Gont an n Dairy Animal. The usefulness of the goat in clearing foul lands and he profitableness of the animal for its hair, skin and even carcass, is becoming pretty well understood. But the goat Is valuable as a dairy animal. If the cow’s, for instance, are being used for supplying a city milk trade, the keep ing of goais for the home milk supply would be an excellent policy. The goat will live where a cow would starve; and while it, like every domestic animal, will do best on good pasture, it will live and yield milk on astonishingly little food. animal and its milk are almost en tirely exempt from disease; ihe milk is more nu<ri*ious than that of the cow and agrees with stomachs that cow's milk frequently offends. The animal requires only the cheapest kind of shelter from the storms and in winter. If by reason of drought, soiling is necessary, leaves, vegetable, refuse, peelings of the apple or potato, bread crusts or stale bread, if they are sweet and clean, will be all the feed ihat is needed. All goats, however, will not ent the same food, and the feed er will have to study the appetites of the individual animal. Frequent feeding and a variety of food in winter will be found beneficial. Roots, oil mefcl, oats, corn (of the latter, in the whole state, the goat is very fond) are proper feed, especially for the milking goat. Rock salt is greatly relished. The flavor of goat’s milk cannot be distinguished from that of cow’s milk, if it is properly cared for. From three to four pints a day is the average yield of a good milker. The milk is so rich and of, such a character that in making pastry it will take the place of eggs—Epitomist. Cheeking Dlscnne nnd Lice. We have handled poultry for nearly for ty years and with two exceptions we have had no trouble with disease, says a c rrespo 'd nt of the Farmer s Rev ew. We have kept on an average fifty hens a year. One year our flock was deeimatel by choera. We found a remedy for that in the us* of copperas dissolved and giv en in (her drinking water. The second trouble was with the little r and li'f—before we were aware the chicken house and fowl* w'e re full of them, little chicks dyi g and old ores tco poor to eat. Ener getic measures helped us out of that be. Tfeir coops and houses wer. l thor oughly cleaned and plenty of th'.n. hot whitewash driven in o every crack of coors and house wth a Brock? spray pump, wh'ch every poultry ke°per and farmer should have.—J. K. Ccmpton. The Kicking: Cow. My experience with kicking cows is as follows: I believe first in kindness, but in some cases kindnrs? wen t work. This depends on th l temperament of the cow or he fer. If possible, handle such so they will become acquain'ed. If dispose 1 to kick, try ard find out the cause if pos sible. Hardle very carefu ly, and if the cow or heifer kicks get a surcingle cr stiap and buckle arounl the body Just forward of tbe bag; buckle tight, handle kindly but firmly, sit or lean forward, shoulder rest’ng on si ’e, c oser the bet ter. Keep cool the first trial until s-he gets us a d to the milker. It won’t do to get mad or shout and call names. If she con tinues to kick, speak fi mly and w'hen sl’e trl s to kick hit her a smart blow on t.be side w'th tbe hand only once. I have breken a goed many cows and heifers in this manner and as a g neral thing it will b/> a success. The milker should under stand how to act, by caution ahd kind ness w’hen possible.—W. B. White. The Carman Peach. J. W. Van Lindley of North Carolina, a noted and experienced horticulturist, thus describes the Carman peach in the Rural New Yorker: "After thoroughly examining the Car man peach, with other varieties ripening about the same time, we all of us have decided that the. Carman is the best peach, the best shipper, ripening perfectly all over. When perfectly ripe it leaves the seed clean. I fruited it this year in the sand hills of Moore county. North Caro lina, where the sand is perhaps fifty feet deep, and also here lh the foothills at my home place, in red clay land. Here at Po mona if seems a little earlier than Con net fs Early, though at Southern Pines they seem to ripen near together. "I haven’t fruited the Carman enough to tell ail about its bearing qualities, but believe, from the bloom, which is a large, strong one, that it will hold its fruit when many other varieties fail; and this is what Mr. Stubenrauch. the originator, olgims for it. So lam certain, from what I have seen this year, thai Carman Is going to be a leading market peach for that reason. It ripens here, common seasons, the first week in July. This season was a very late one. and all early varieties were at least ten days later ihan usual.” it originated in Texas, and is being largely planted by J. H. Hale in his Geor gia orchards. I*oaoh History. Nothing is now more universally accept ed than that the peach Is an Improved variety of the almond. The almond has a thin shell around the stone which splits and opens and exposes the stone when mature. This outer skin has simply be come flesh In the peach, so that Is all that gives It Its specific character. It seems now clear from Investigations in the his tory of ancient Babylon. that In their gar dens—now nearly 4,000 years ago—the peach was cultivated as It Is now. It must have been many years before this that the peach was Improved upon the al mond, and this fact goes to show the great antiquity of the fruit. Possibly gar dening in some respects, at least so far as it relates to many of our cultivated fruits, was as far advanced six, or per haps eight or ten thousand years back as It is to-dav. Phoenicians, as Is proved by the records, had In their gardans al monds, apricots, bananas, citrons, grapes, olives, peaches and pomegranates; and even sugar cane was In extensive cultiva tion. Certainly this shows how very far advanced these nations were In garden culture these many years ago.—Jamaica Journal. Sneeess In n Small IVny, Every little while we have some practical demonstration of what a man with but moderate means can accom plish If he but have the proper push j and determinat'd! to go ahead. The fol lowing Item from the Bt. Andrews Bay Buoy is ofle more Item along this line: j "What cun he done In fruit growing ! In a small way on Bt. Andrews bay IS being practically demonstrated the pres ent season—and It Is a most* favorable one—by T R. Brooke, on his small two und o-half-acre plot about two mllsa east of flt. Andrews With no team he has, with spuds and hoe. In his bars hands, cultivated, marketed and sold nearlv son qusrts of strawberries, T 5 or 100 waiar melons and 100 or more pounds of (rapes; bringing them to market In e smelt hand cart Besides these, he has had seme at flne peaches as ona would wish to oeo. clearly proving that the peach properly cared far, la at home In the Bt. An drews bey country Ham pies of these, of , the Kiherta variety, which were presented to *he Buoy, were nearly ei ß ht in . h „ in circumference and delicious tv' comparison. These with a pa< u ,el° n ) Delaware grapes tickled the editor's ,7. ,1 ate In a manner to be envied of , gods.’* Bond Wn, to Tie ( nvr. I have kept dairy cows for a period of twenty-five years, ranging in nunv .-r f., ru ten to seventeen head, says 3 vvri . the Farmer s Review. My methed or t v" ing has been with a rope. I prefer ■ mg a hole through the 2.r4. win h ports the manger horizontally, passing end of the rope through and tie to 7 i 7 block, the weight of which is mffi, 7 draw the slack rope down so the cote ,7 not get her feet over it. I use this ni.7 ol in preference to the stanchion. 7. 7 save labor or keep the cow in n’cit,7 r condition, for I am aware It does nehv-r one, but because Uis more humane \ cow tied or fastened in a stanchion 7- roinds me of a. man with his feet 7a.7j through stocks which were used in .. times for punishment. A cow ti .) a rope, if flies are troublesome, will o:7n use her head for relief. If her h. or neck is tired by keeping either in on, po _ sition one may often see her resting ihTj on the side of her body. Cofr.ina Orange Crop. Riversiders. who have spent many year* in the orange business in this cit and valley all until in saying that the ; oune crop of fruit now maturing is the most promising at this season that has ev,r been noted in the valley, says a Cal.for. nia paper. Another feature of the coming crop is that all varieties of fruit promise to yield well. Usually in a season w7n the budded varieties bear well the seed ling crop is short, and vice versa, be t ni s is not the case this season. The Oing oranges are large in size and decidedly £ j. vanced for this early date. It is pre I;■ that Riverside will ship oranges this fan at a date much earlier than ever le 7 The warm weather of the past two ,-kg has been just what the fruit wanted t 0 make it grow and develop to Its best. The nbeence of hot winds has been another factor that has assisted in the fine devel opment of the fruit. With no untoward circumstances to do the young crop dam age from now on this valley will have a Hue lot of oranges to ship this winter. $.. 18 LOf HOPI R Y AND C. X S RT SCHkUI bid For Isle of Hope, Monegomery, Thunder bolt, Cattle Park and West End Daily except Sundays. Subject to changa without notice. IS LJS QF HOpE Ev. 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