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GROWING CORN. I The Way to Raiss From 50 to 100 Bushels Per Acre. In giving a summary of tli niothoj practiced ly K. Mrlvi-r Williamson of South Carolina tor greatly increasing Hie yield of corn the Southern Culti vator says that the essence of Mr. Wil liamson's system lies in those things: Fiixt. You plant your com in the j water furrow, ami thick, and without j usiiij; any fertilization at all at the j time of planting. This ueressurily re : tnnls tho growth and will prevent uav- : Ins 11 largo, vigorous, stalky com. j The Time to Feed the Corn. Second. Ho feeds the corn most lilt erally just at the time It goes to make ' the iir, causing It to throw all its strength into the production of this ear. ' We are all familiar with the saying. -Feel your laud and it will feed you." Mr. Williamson lias modified this say ing und makes it read, "l-'epd yout torn nud it will feed you." lie reaps the benefit of a well kuowu law however small the plant, nature tends to iD.nke it reproduce itself, and when the time comes to make seed there is an i!ii;iual activity at this time iu all the fv-rcea of this plant for the repro ductliiti. In supplying plenty of food Just in-re to his corn he secures a max iuiuin amount of ear to a minimum ULuoiJLt of stalk. Fertilizers Used. TlJiri'.. Our fertilizers are plant food and uut soil eniichers. They are solu ble and readily available, especially in the case of nitrate of soda, and by put tint: it around his com at this time hu drxs ii-it lose any of its strength by leachiiiK. but all goes into the corn. No mutter how poor your soil, you can u-iike fifty or more bushels of corn by following Mr. Williamson's system and using "-'do pounds of acid, -Ofl pouuds of cottonseed meal ami JOO pounds of kainit at second plowing, then loo pounds of nitrate soda at third plowing. Put your corn iu six foot rows and twelve indies iu the row. It is agreed that the thicker you leuv.- it iu the drill the more com you will n;;ike. NEW RASPBERRY. An Autumn Cropping Variety That Appears Promising. The new late fruiting raspberry here shown is a seedling purple i-mio raised on ll." grounds of the itural New Yerlo which says that it made a For Market. In growing early tomatoes for mar- ket an f.idiana farmer gives some la-, teresting information iu American Ag' rieulturist, as follows: I tin 1 tat t grow tv.natoes very early say, have them commence o ripen during the tlrst half of June, while prices are hih - three things are absolutely necessary first an early variety, then an early st.trt. and, lastly,! an early situation. j I have found but one variety. Chalk's Karl.v .lewel, that onibhies size, shape, color and firmness in a high degree, but unfortunately it is not one of the very first early. s A Prolific Varisty. j Of the first e.irlies Manle's Earliest Is my choice. It is a very prolific large red tomato, and if one is willing to throw out one-half for culls the others will make a very salable grade of firsts. The quality is of the best, and. as this variety is so very prolific, I believe that the one-half retained as firsts will measure up equally with tha entire crop of Acme, Dwarf, Champion or Dwarf Stone. Karliaua is very much like Maulo's Karliest, only It has less foliage and is more subject to blight. I s nv seed of Chalk's Karly Jewel In greenhouse by l'o!. 1. Transplanting Seedlings. When plants show the true leaf, 1 transplant the seedlings '2 by 2 Inches on the benches. As soon as they crowd each other 1 transplant again, using four Inch flowerpots for l.ooo or more. The others are set 3 by 4 Inches either! on the benches or into a hotbed. I keep the temperature rather low, 45 degrees at night, 1 'ttuc-e temperature. This pinkos n;c large plants by May pt thai li:;vt fruit set the size of per Those set in flowerpots are moved into glass covered frames the lust week in April. The glass is taken off in mild we.ither and left off at night when I am sure that frost will not get; them. This hardens the plants, and it would take itiite a little frost aftet ; they have been set In the field to se riously Injure them. Muslin covered frames will often answer for this hard-' suing on" of plants. 1 Watering Plants Under Glass. ; I want t.i cautio:i against ov"vwater-' while ttie plants are under glass.' It is much safer to Ue-p them too dry rather til, in too wet. When the plants g'.-nv thrifty, with a purple hue at the lower part of stem, one may tV"l safe that they have light and water ac voiding ti their needs. It' overcrowd ed and overwntered. tin- plants will grow up spindling and with bleached stems. Siirh plants will never do well if they d live. Land For Early Tomatoes. I prefer high Intnl. sloping either to e;:st or south, for early tomatoes. Mainly soil would lie best, but 1 have none luit clay loam. This 1 make rath er rich by plowing under stable ma nure, twenty loads per acre being am ple if the soil is fairly rich naturally. Plow the ground and prepare us you would for corn, then set the plants 4 by -I feet. Those gfowu iu pots will scarcely wilt after setting. it ti P it h 8 u Let's Talk It Over, Anyhow. A friend" from a western town writes: "Ve etui trace at least a thousand increase of popula tion iiie past year front' the faet t hat the tit'tv-i'our inc-m-lu-rs of our Commercial Club about a vcar uo all agreed to have printed on the back of their lut-iness letterheads a description of the town, its location, climate, natural ad vantages, possibilities for business, etc. Thus every letter they wnto was an advertisement for the town. The town booming matter was artistically printed, and the catch line bi-ino' visible as the folded sheet was tak en from the envelope, f.-w persons failed to rend it. Inquiries for m o r e information came pouring in. and then tho, people came pouring in. Why don't you try to have your people do like wise r Now that looks like a sensible propo sition. Suppose fifty of our citizens should have their stationery printed with such mat ter on the back ! Say they will average a thousand letters a year. That would be tii'ty thousand little booms for the town, guitig out tn all quarters of the compass. One of these letters might strike tin eye of just the right party and bring us a new factory, an educational in.-t.itution. or even a good substantial family looking for a desirable home place. It i worth trying. We can get up the descriptive matter for you and do the printing. Why don't you start the ball I i LET'S TALK IT OVER, ANYHOW. T n : n LP VP FALL BHIUNO RASPHEIU1Y. strong clump the second year from seed and bore nearly a pint of ex celleiit berries in October. It was di vided last spring, forming seven new plauts, each of which sent up two oi more strong canes, uearly every branch of which terminated iu clusters ol bloom and berries like tliose illustrat ed. The berries are exceedingly Arm but juicy and of rich subacid flavor and the yield is far larger than we have ever before found on fall fruiting raspberries. The foliage is thick and leathery, has always been entirely healthy, while the canes have nevei been harmed even by the severe wlntet of l!04 or. though absolutely without protection. The berries are shown in natural size. The color Is lighter pur ple r-d than any purple cane variety we have grown. If the variety main tains its prolific autumn bearing habit tinder commercial culture and propa gation It would appear desirable. A BOX TRAP. Protecting Poultry From Weasels and Other Animals. Tlie box trap here shown, from Iowa Homestead, is credited to an exchange. Minks, weasels and such small animals as are destructive to poultry can near ly always lie trapped by using a box trap made about thirty-six ! itches long and about six or seven inches square In two compartments, one about twelve Inches and the other twenty to twenty- TRAP FOB WEASELS. four inches, with a division between made of small mesh poultry wire or woven by hand with baling wire with no less than one-half Inch meshes. Tht outer end of the smaller division should he of the same. Arrange a drop door in slides like the ordinary rabbit trap. Put a live chicken iu the small di vision and set the trap near a coop which has been visited or anywhere the animals have been seen, and they will be caught In a few nights. Barreling Apples. When barreling apples, cut several circles of newspaper and put in the bottom of the barrel. When ready to use the press to put In the head, have at hand a cushion made of a dozen circles of newspa per to lay on top of the apples before applying pressure, advises Farm Jour nal. This will save much bruising of the top layer of ap ples. When the app have been press ed Into position, this cushion can be re moved and several circles of newspa per or other paper laid on top of the apples. Then put in the head. i PACK I Mi AI'I-LES. The Horse Stable. It is more conducive to the health and hardiness of horse stock to be kept In barns that are well ventilated and not warmed by artificial beat than in close and steam heated stables. Pure air is as essential to pure blood and good health aa li pure food. Ilorse Breeder. Alfalfa In the Eas(, In the xp.-r em e of the Pennsylvania experiment st iti.iu alfalfa grew in a compact, gravelly soil with good drain age epiite as wil as iu a loose loam. Heavy applications of phosphoric acid and potash were very effective in im proving the growth of the crop, but live tons of barnyard manure per acre gave better results than the phosphoric acid lind potash contained in ."HO pouuds of a good brand of commercial fertilizer. TniUestan alfalfa did no appear us valuable ns the common alfalfa. It is stated that fall seeded alfalfa on dry bind will withstand severe winters in Pennsylvania better than the common red clover. In several Instances alfal fa withstood the first winter, but was completely killed out during the sec ond. Bush Land Is a Boarder, No farm is well ordered where there are foul fields and overgrown fence rows. Bush laud is a boarder, and the owner pays the board bill In the shape of taxes, while the land is depreciating because it Is growing ail the time more expensive to clear. FACTORY RESUMED OPERA TION. I.iln rtv Chair ( iiiiiian Stood tm- Ten ln other Items. Tbe Liberty Chair Factory started iip again last Monday after landing lo il iys. IVi ile have been busy ith their crops and could not haul nmlier is the cause of the faototy standing. Not long ago Dr. G. A. Foster and V. M. Hauner bought the interest of Mr. Harris in both factoii-8 here, and the other tttar Staley. Mi. liantiri who has lived at Kimesville for seveial yeais, has moved here and bought the house and 12 a res of land of U. T. Lonsr, and is now at home and seems to be happy t the ofliee of tl Liberty Chair Uo., wh-: ne is secretary ami treasurer. Mrs. H. Causey and 1 tt'e daughter, Glutlys, arrived home last week. Their mission was to go and biing Miss Winnie, her daughter nome, who had Veil spending a week or more in the Brushy Moun tains. Miss 'Viuuie reports all well along by the still waters. Mr. J. Webster Bain and wife and son spent a few days here recently visiting M. J. Reitzel and family He also came to see where he lived long, long ago. He is the son of J. 15;dn who lived here many years and owned the fa: m where Uev. W. F. Asheburn now lives. It had ben twenty years since Webster had been back to his old home. luite a nuniner cf nice dwellings houses have been erected an 1 otheis are on the way that w II he completed by fall. Messrs. 15. S. Kinney, A. . Pickett, J. H'ni Smith. Lacy Mc pherson, .John W. Coltrane, H. IS. Mur .ay, Frazier, and Dr. Joseph 1. Gre.'g are building. Mr. Oscar Williams, who inuriied Miss Liny Curt's nine !' ten years aafo and went to Kansas, leaving his wife here while he was away, return ed heme some four weeks ago. Mrs. Wn liatns pot a divorce during his ibsence. On his return they wete married again and have sold their beautiful home to Mr. A. M. Fogle tnan, and left last Tuesday for Pratt, Kansas. The many friends of Miss Peail Teague will be glad to know she is improving at Johns Hopkins, in Baltimore, where she has bien for six weeks and was operated on for appendicitis. The health of our town is remark ably good and the doctors are h ving a starvation time. 'ot. a pei s-.i sick here and has .not been for quite awhile until last Sunday night a young lady must have beeu taken "violently ill, tor Dr. Thomas 11. Smith was ca led in, and at 11 o'clock at night a big light as latge as the new moon could be seen afar cff. P. S. The young lady is miich better and rested well until 12 o'clock the next day, and could have slept on but for the hollowing of the parrot who lives at the samt house. Horses and (irass. A famous veterinary surgeon de elates that grass beats all t-tie drugs m cieat ion as a cure for sick horses and mules. Horses should have a few quarts of grass daily, from spring until fall, he says. The prevalent notion .that it is harmful is idiotic and cruel. Grass to horses is the same as fresh vegetables and fruit to us. Their ctaviug for it proves their need of it. Yet ignorant, unfeeling drivers yank them away from it as it it were poison instead of the life-giving tnedicii.e it is, designed by their Maker for them. When they guaw the ba- k of trees or eat leaves it is be cause they crave grass and can't get it. Millions of bushels of grass go to waste yearly by the wayside which should be utilized, for our noble, faithful, helpless, dumb servants, the horses, thus making them henlthy and bappv. . The Buffalo Horse World. New Mill Mte. Draper, a new mill site in Ilojk ingham county, gives promise of be ing rated in the frame class as Spray at no distant dite. It is new mill site, having very recently been built, and it is learned that a plan is on foo, to cover the eutire distance between the place aud Leaksville with mills. lbe ars factory is a veiy large.brick ne with a capacity for working 1, 8u0 or 2,000 hands The mill is fully equipped with all modern niichun ry and is putting out neat woi k inso much as the demand for the goods far exceed the output. Tbe mill is working full forces night and day. It is the iutentiou of the owners to make it one of the largest 'plants iu the South. Great Antiseotic LINIMENT (rormerly Tssrtl Oil) LARGEST AND BEST FOR 25c HEALS WITHOUT SCAR PrtvsnU Wound Poisoning, Infla.ms.tion, Pain, Sorsnsit MONEY SAVER IN BOMB AND STABLE L. RICHARDSON. Mfg. Cbcmilt GREENSBORO, N. C. llevenue officers seized about 150 barrels ef whiskey Wednesday after noon just beyond Stokesland. Sev eiel barrels of the beverage were hid den beneath a pile of bushes and brush. Mts. -I. N S'eed, of Was! i-ttoi , , D. '., is visiti g relttiivts at Altie. marie. ! I t'sOxford Weather ( XJ High time for low-cuts. But no time for high-priced low cuts. ' The CROSSETTis moderate ly priced, but is more than a moderately good shoe. It is positively the largest value for the money in this town. Below this price $4.50 quality balks; above it, quality adds only fads and frlls. But for sound, solid worth, the CR0SSETT is your shoe. It fits it feels good it walks and wears well and it's natty. What more can you ask for leather. This new Blucher Oxford has dull kid tops, patent vamp, mili tary heel. A CORRECT, COOL. COMFORTABLE SHOE X Morris-Scarboro-Moffitt Company. SAFETY! Why subject your money to the dangers of fire or burglary, when you might easily deposit with the bank. Give us your checking account and if you have money that is idle, we will pay you 4 per cent, interest on it. We offt r you every inducement consistent with safe, and legitimate banking. BANK of RAMSEUR, --RAMSEUR, N. C. W. H. WAf kins. Pres't, R. I. Smith, Cashier, H. B. Carter, Vice-Pres't, I. F. Craven, Ass't. NS ANY PERSO Keep their money in this Bank that thev may have it within easy reach when needed; some keep it here awaiting opportunities for investment; others to avoid the risk and an noyanceof loaning and as an investment. 4 PER CENT. INTEREST ON SAVINGS DEPOSITS, COMPOUNDED QUARTERLY. BANK OF SOUTH GREENSBORO, ggMSBORo. N-c- Branch of American Exchange Bank. , CAPITAL $300,000. E. P. Wharton, Pres. E. L. Sides, Cash. 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