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Order by number ;ii
boi'S VOU WHllt
ways.
Keep this list where you can refer
to it, ami wlii-ii you need special infor
mation on any farm or household mat
ter, look over the titles listed here ai
see if von cannot rind some bulletin
that will help you.
These bulletins are printed for your
benefit and, as we said, you are nor
living up to your opportunities if you
do not profit bv them:
Birds,
54 Some common birds.
45(5 Grosbeaks and their value to ag
riculture. 490 The English sparrow as a pest.
497 Some common birds in relation
to man.
50G Food of some well known birds.
513 Fifty common birds.
Corn
81 Corn culture in the South
229 The production of Rood seed
corn.
25., The germination of seed corn
"O.'i Corn harvesting machinery.
SIS Harvesting and storing corn.
400 A more profitable corn-planting
method.
414 Seed corn.
537 How to grow an acre of corn.
Cotton.
36 Cotton seed and its products.
48 .Manuring of cotton.
362 Sea Island cotton.
364 A profitable cotton farm.
501 Cotton improvement under boll
weevil condition.
555 Cotton anthracnose and how to
control it.
Entomology.
120 Insects affecting tobacco.
127 Important insecticides.
155 How insects affect health in rur
al districts.
172 Scale insects and mites on citrus
trees.
290 The cotton boll worm.
459 House flies.
500 Control of the boll weevil.
Soil .Management.
24o Renovation of worn-out soils.
257 Soil fertility.
Management of soils to conserve
moisture.
278 Leguminous crops for green ma
miring. 299 Diversified farming under the
plantation system.
310 A sueeos.-ful Alabama diversifi
cation farm.
312 A successful Southern hay farm.
Building up a run-down cotton
plantation.
370 Replanning a farm for profit.
40f Soil consrvation.
422 Demonstration farm work on
Southern farms.
437 A system of tenant farming.
619 An example of intensive farming
in the cotton belt.
Fertilizer.
44 Commercial fertilizer.
77 The liming of soils.
192 I'.arnyard manure.
2M Cottonseed and cottonseed meal
in fertilizing cotton.
09S Use of commercial fertiliger in
South Atlantic States.
Forage Crops and Legumes.
101 Millet.
164 Rape as a forage crop.
2S N'on-saivliarine sorghum.
:;is Cowpeas.
0:19 Alfa! fa.
072 Soy 1 leans.
.02 Adulteration of forage-
plant
seeds.
441 f.esm-deza.
44 Rotter grain sorghum crops.
4.V. Red clover.
4. ),t two sweet sorghums for
tora
i't
the cotton
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529 V.
A'
550- Cr
the South
Growing
Forestry
'. of forestry, I.
r of forestry, II.
iitivp treatment of f:r
A ;r
A pri
3S7 I
t imher.
467 Control of the chestnut b?.rk dis
ease. 4'58 F.-retry and lnhirp study."
407 Dying of pine in the Southern
States.
Garden
01 Asparagus culture.
157 The prorogation of plants.
220 Tomatoes.
201 Sprnving for cucumber and mel
on diseases.
232 OV.ra.
254 Cucumbers.
255 The home vegetable garden.
2S2 relerv.
289 Beans.
.",07 Roselle.
354 Onion culture.
433 Cabbage.
434 Home production of onion seed
and sets.
4SS Diseases of the cabbage and re
lated crops.
Grasses
279 A method of eradicating John
son grass.
361 Meadow fescue,
362 Conditions affecting market val
ue of hay.
402 Canada bluegrass.
508 Market hog.
Health
377 Harmfulness of headache mix
tures.
393 Habit-forming agents.
444 Remedies and preventatives
against mosquitoes.
450 Some facts about malaria.
463 The sanitary privy.
473- Tuberculosis.
478 How to prevent typhoid fever.
640 The stable fly.
Home Science
84 Meats: Composition.
5 Fish as food.
not i rops as
.-tables for
for farm
table,
-Mode
home
270-
liven:
!91 Kvaooru'.i'm ol apples.
!::', Fruit as food.
::iS Food value of corn and corn
products.
.02 uis a ml their uses as food.
::,-,) Canning vegetables in the home.
o;;o Use of milk as a food.
;;7.-, Care of food in the home.
MS!) Bread and bread making.
091 Economical use of meat in !ie
home.
410 Care of milk and its use m the
home.
.(6 Canning peaches on the farm.
485 Cheese and its use in the diet.
321 Canning tomatoes at home and
in club work.
:,2( Mutton and its value in the diet.
505 Sugar and its value as food,
vvt Ron corn for the home.
565 Corn meal as a food and ways
of using it.
559 Use of corn, kaffir 2nd cowpeas
in the home.
Dairy
55 The dairy herd.
166 Breeds of dairy cattle.
166 Cheese making on the farm.
241 Butter making on the farm.
280 A profitable tenant dairy farm.
349 Dairy industry in the South.
490 Bacteria in milk.
541 Farm butter makirjr.
Live Stock Feeding
22 The feeding of farm animals.
170 rrinciDles of horse feeding.
556 Making and feeding silage.
HOgS
183 Curing meat on the farm.
205 rig management.
379 Hog cholera.
411 Feeding hogs in the South.
4.8 Hog houses.
566 Boy's pig clubs.
Horses
179 Horseshoeing.
Sheep and uoats
107 The Angora goat.
cterinary
152 Scabies of cattle.
206 Milk fever and its treatment.
;r,8 Texas or tick fever and its pre
vention. !.-n Dehorning of cattle.
151 Tuberculin test of cattle.
10!) Anthrax.
449 Rabies or hydrophobia.
480 Practical methods of disinfect-
ng stables.
498 Methods of exterminating the
Texas fever tick.
Orchard
110 The apple and how to grow it.
154 The home fruit garden.
181 Pruning. f '
238 Citrus fruit growing in tiUU
States.
243 Fungicides to prevent disease
of fruits.
440 Spraying peaches tor scaie.
bmwn rot and curculio.
4;2 The pear and how to grow it.
4D1 FrotUah'.e management 01 r.ppiv
linr.l on crenera larm.
402 More important insect and fun
gus enemies ot the apple.
Poultry
51 Standard varieties of chickens.
f.4 Ducks and geese.
177 Siiiab racing.
00 Turkevs.
234 The guinea fowl.
:;t Incubation and incubators.
27 Poultry management.
05" A successful poultry and dairy
farm.
445 Marketing eggs through the
creamery.
Capons and caponizing.
V8 'lints to noultry raisers.
r.-'D Important poultry di -eases.
.-;2 Roys' and pi !.' poultry clubs.
Roads
011 "vnid-c'ay and birnt-r'ay roads.
021 Sollt-log drag on earth roads.
:':S M:v"'l:;m roads.
r,0."i Benefits from improved roads.
Small Grain . .
17 Rh- ailuro. . ' '
429 O-it.i.
J-2l0:it.-: growing the crop.
27 Rrir'ey culture in the Sold 11.
0(i Winn'r oats for the So'.ih.
07 Smut of wheat, oats, barley and
corn.
Small Fruits
propagation
priming
vines.
" Rasnberries.
9S Strawberries.
Schools
104 Tree ulanting on rural
s -hool
Grounds.
21S The school garden;
Rev's and girls' agricultural
rlnhs.
40S School exercises in plant produc
tion.
400 School lessons on corn.
428 Testing farm seeds.
Tobacco
34:1 Cultivation of tobacco in Ken
tucky and Tennessee.
523 Tobacco curing.
Truck and potatoes
35 Potato culture.
91 Potato diseases and. their treat
ment. 167 Cassava.
324 Sweet potatoes.
407 The notato as a truck crop.
460 Farmers as a factor in truck
erowino'
520 Storage and marketing of sweet
notatoes.
533 Good seed potatoes and how to
produce them.
S44 Potato tuber diseases.
K4S Storing and marketing sweet
potatoes.
Weeds
SOS Dodder.
368 Eradication of wild morning
glories.
Miscellaneous
62 Marketing farm products.
99 Insect enemies of shade trees.
104 Notes on frost.
126 Practical suggestions for farm
buildings.
150 Cleaning new land.
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1 C
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1 Class
2 Rooks
e, I ounce
blue litmus paper
2 liooks red litmus paper
t! Test tubes
1 Test tube support
1 Class funnel, 5 inch
I Alcohol lamp, Wood Alcohol
I Budding and propogating knife
1 Pound grafting wax
1 Glass cutter
1 Can opener
1 Good hatchet
1 Claw hammer
1 Hand saw
1 lb Hydrochloric acid and bottle
1 Tound marble chips
1 Pound granulated zinc
1 Tound ammonia
l'i Pounds cube sugar
This is sufficient for the ordinary
class in the rural schools. As the
6ize of the clases increases it will be
necessary to increase the amount of
equipment to meet the needs of the
class.
It is understood that farming tools
are additional.
Write to the State Department at
Raleigh and get the standard equip
ment as required, both for Agricul
ture and Domestic Science.
Minimum Equipment For Domestic
Science
Cost, $25 to $45. Variation due to
kind of tables used.
(Suggested by the State Depart
ment of Education of Oklahoma).
Basis of six in the class.
1 Two-burner oil stove
1 Five-gallon oil can
1 Dish pan
1 Grater I
1 Wire potato Masher
1 Can opener
1 Steel Skillet
1 Food chopper '
1 Butcher knife
1 Tray
1 Tea kettle
1 Dove egg beater
1 Colander
1 Teapot
1 Coffee pot
2 Small pitchers
1 Wire toaster
2 Bread pans about 9x4x3
Each two pupils will require Jn ad
dition 1 Wire egg whip
2 plated knives
2 Plated forks
2 Tlated teaspoons
2 Plated tablespoons
2 Measuring cups ',2 pint
1 Vegetable brush
1 Scrub brush
1 Strainer
2 Tie tins, 5 inch
2 Granite china plates
1 Cake tin, deep layer
1 China bowl, 1 pint
2 China cereal dishes
2 China cups
1 Tint .double-boiler
2 Sauce pans
2 Granite mixing pans 41-inch
1 Bread pan
Serving dishes to be borrowed from
home for occasional use.
A table for six students, containing
bread
boards; cost about ?20. In place of
tables, place boards across the desks
and cover with oil cloth or linoleum.
Make a cupboard of packing boxes or
orange crates, cover shelves with oil
cloth and conceal crudity with tidy
curtain shirred at top and bottom on
wire. This will reduce the total
t ost of this equipment to about $25.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank our many friends
and neighbors for their kindness
shown us during the illness of our
mother, Mrs. F. M. Burke. We espe
cially thank Mr. G. H. Cox, of Frank
linville. May the Lord bless each one
of them. Mrs. F. M. Burke, (Miss)
Annie Burke.
A Boys' Road Patrol is being organ
ized in Mecklenburg county.
174 Broomcorn.
196 Usefulness of the toad.
23!) Erosions of fence wire.
277 The use of alcohol and gasoline
in farm engines.
292 Cost of filling silos.
345 Some common disenfectants.
347 Repair of farm equipment.
367 Lightning and lightning con
ductors.
369 How to destroy rats.
396 The muskrat.
403 The construction of concrete
fence posts.
441 The peanut.
442 Treatment of bee diseases.
447 Bees.
461 The use of concrete on the farm.
474 Use of paint on the farm.
475 Ice houses.
477 Sorghum sirup manufacture.
481 Concrete construction on the
, livestock farm.
494 Lawns and lawn soils.
1503 Comb honey.
524 Tile drainage on the farm.
Devon Cows in a Tick-Free
(Prepared by th I'nlted States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
Because it is a useful crop for both
his stock and his own family, the
farmer will find that It will pay him
to give more attention to rape than it
usually receives. As human food,
when it is often known as smooth or
spring kale, it is quite as good as
kale or collards and may be prepared
in the same way. As a feed for hogs,
sheep, cows and chickens, it is the
most important plant of the cabbage
family. The sesd'is also cheap, re
tailing usually at about ten cents a
pound.
The most common use of rape is as
a pasture crop for hogs or sheep.
Many animals do not like rape at first,
but will eat it readily after they have
acquired the taste. A liberal supply
of salt will tend to prevent the purging
which rape often produces. With hogs
there is no danger from bloating. With
cattle, however, this danger does ex
ist to some extent and it Is well, there
fore, to avoid pasturing them on pure
rape. If a supply of hay or straw
is kept convenient, the animals will
Instinctively turn to that when they
begin to bloat, and when cattle can
pass readily from rape to grass pas
ture, cases of bloating are rare. Un
der any circumstances, however, cattle
should not be turned into a rape pas
ture when it is wet with dew or rain,
or when they are very hungry.
Cattle eat rape readily but destroy
considerable by trampling, especially
where the rape is broadcasted. In
broad rows the damage is less, for the
animals usually walk between the
rows. When cut and stall fed. rape
should be given to dairy cows just
after milking; otherwise It may taint
the milk.
As a fppd for all kinds of poultry
rape is also excellent.
Time of Seeding.
Rape is a cool-season crop, and In
the South should, therefore, be planted
in the fall or in very early spring. The
crop is not hijurod by ordinary win
ters in the Soutti, but of course tfie
growth is slow in cold weather. In
the fall it is best seeded from August
15 to October 15 Later, seeding is
scarcely advisable, except near the
Gulf coast and in Florida. In the
spring it should be seeded just aa
early as Janger of freezes is past. The
earlier seedings nearly always give
the largest yields, as growth ia
CALOMEL SALIVATES
AND MAKES YOU SICK
Acts Like Dynamite on a Sluggish
Liver and you Lose a Day's Work.
There is no reason why a person
should take sickening, salivating cal
omel when 50 cents buys a large bot
tle of Dodson's Liver Tone a perfect
substitute for calomel.
It is a pleasant, vegetable liquid
which will start your liver just as
surely as calomel, but it doesn't make
you sick and cannot salivate.
Children and grown folks can take
D0'son's Liver Tone, because it is pti-
j Calomel is a dangerous drug. It is
' mercurv and attacks your bones. Take
lose of nasty calomel today and you
will feel weak, sick and nauseated to
morrow. Don't lose a day's work.
Take a teaspoonful of Dodson s Liver
1 Tone instead and you will wake
feelinir "creat. No more bihousnes
constipation, sluggishness, headache,
coated tonirue or sour stomach. 1 ouv
druggist says if you don t tind Dod
son's Liver Tone acts better than hor
rible calomel your money is waiting
for you.
MOTHER
I Close my eyes
In the silent night,
And seem to see a face,
So pure, so dear to me,
My mother.
This is my mother's Bible on the
stand,
Close besides this light.
Our mother wolud read to us of our
Savior's love divine,
From its sacred pages.
At times the veil seems lifted,
And I can faintly see my mother in
heaven.
On that shining shore,
Some day we will meet thee,
Dear mother, happy and blest.
Hattie Hammond, New Castle, Ind.
Neuralgia Tains Stopped
You don't need to suffer those ag
onizing nerve pains in the face, head,
arm, shoulder, chest and back. Just
apply a few drops of soothing Sloan's
Liniment; lie quietly a lew minutes
You will get such reli jf ard comfort!
Life and the world will look brighter,
Get a bottle today. Three ounces for
25c, at all druggists. Penetrates with'
out rubbing.
Field, Natchez, Miss.
checked when very warm weather oc
curs. In summer the plant becomes
much less palatable.
Practically only one variety the
dwarf Essex is grown in the United
States.
Rape is a succulent, nutritious plant
closely related to kale, collards and
cabbage, and requires essentially the
same conditions of culture as these
crops. The plants grow to a height
of IV2 to four feet, depending on con
ditions of soil and climate.
Rape succeeds best in rich loam
soils, but profitable crops are grown
on sandy and on clayey soils. An
abundant moisture supply is necessary
to produce large yields. Good prepara
tion of the seed bed is advisable. Barn
yard manure is the best fertilizer. In
the absence of this, 400 to 600 pounds
per acre of a complete commercial
fertilizer may be used.
When rape is planted in wide rows
it should be given three or four cul
tivations during its early growth.
After cutting the first crop a second
growth is often obtained, especially
if the stubble Is cultivated.
Method of Seeding.
Rape may be sown in cultivated
rows. in narrow drill rows, or broad
casted. If planted in rows these should
ordinarily be 24 to 30 inches apart. '
In rows 28 inches wide, which is the !
best width, two pounds of seed per
acre are sufficient.
If drilled with a grain drill four
pounds of seed per acre are required.
When broadcasted five or six pounds
per acre should be used.
Rape may be successfully grown
with certain other crops. Thus it may
be sown in early spring in oats, wheat,
or rye, and usually a good stand is
secured after the grain crop is cut. j
It may also be sown mixed with clo-
ver, to be used as pasture, or between
the rows in some winter-killed crop
for late, fall pasture. j
me uesi uepiu 10 buw me tseeu ia
about one-half inch.
Yield.
Rape varies greatly in yield ac
cording to the soil. Yields of SO tons
per acre, green weight, are not rare.
Ten to fifteen tons is a good yield,
and smaller returns are profitable.
Under favorable conditions rape ia
ready to pasture in about eight weeks
after seeding. An acre of good rape
will easily supply pasture for 20 hogs
for two months.
WHERE IT'S TWO DAYS AT ONCE
A great many people cannot see.nas been commenced and that sum
why, when a man crosses the interna- mons therein has issued against her
tional date line in the Pacific Ocean,)
if he goes toward the east he loses!
a day, and if toward the west he gains
a day. That is, if it say, happens to
be on Tuesday just this side, if he
to the west it will be Monday.
crosses
The distance he may have actually
gone need be only a few feet; but it
is true nevertheless. The actual time
may be only a second's difference.
To understand this, remember that
we go from Monday to Tuesday at
twelve o'clock at night jump :mme
ditely from one day to another. Con
sider also that if a man could travel
toward the east as fast as the earth
rotates, and if he started at midday,
with the sun directly overhead, he
would go completely round the earth
in no solar time at all; for the sun
would always be just over his head,
and to him it would be twelve o'clock!
all the time if he measured time by
the position of the sun. He would not,
experience any night at all, and so
would have twenty-four hours of sun-
liRht.
CAROLINA PEOPLE TELL
OF STOMACH REMEDY
Sufferers Find Quick Relief by Use of
Remarkable Treatment.
Stomach sufferers in the Southeast
and, in fact, all over the country have
found remarkable and efficient results
from the use of Mayr's Wonderful
Remedy.
Many have taken this remedy and
tell today of the benefit they received.
Its effects come quickly the first dose
convinces. Here is what two Carolina
folks have written: 1
W. R. DAVENPORT, Parker, N. C.
"For years I have suffered from a
disease which puzzled doctors. I heard
of your remedy and one bottle gave
me relief. Your full treatment has
about cured me."
J. E. ERWIN, Winston-Sajem, N. C.
"I am satisfied through personal use
of the powers of your remedy. You
have saved my life.'
permanent results for stomach, fiver,
nil Waattnal nilmtmtja. V.nt : na mnrh
Mayr s Wonderful Remedy gives
and intestinal ailments. Eat as much
and whatever you like. No more dis
tress after eating, pressure of gas in
the stomach and around the heart. Get
one bottle of your druggist now and
trv it on an absolute guarantee 11
not satisfied money will be returned.
The writer was glad to make tha
address at the county school com
I'Uiicrrncnt in Ashebovo recently, and
when we fay that Randolph is fast
getting better schools, prettier farms,
and better roads, it's about as good a
thing as could be said for a county.
"Never in any previous spring," said
one observant Randolph farmer to us,
"have I seen so much cleaning up on
our farms cleaning up unsightly
fence corners nd hedge rows, and
cleaning off and breaking unsightly
patches of scrub growth that stood in
the way of having large, smooth, even
fields. Our people are beginning to
find rewards in the gratification of the
esthetic sense as well as in things that '
mean more money. The rapid increase
in number of painted farm houses and
whitewashed outbuildings is another
indication of the same spirit."
Another thing the writer noticed in
Randolph is the work of clearing
rocks off the land. A few dollars per
acre spent in removing the rocks and
making terraces or fences of them
will often almost double the value of
the land. And this is a job that when
once done, is done forver. Nature is
notmaking any more rock in these
fields, and when a few days' work
makes an acre of land rock-free, it's
rock-free till Gabriel blows his horn.
It's a good sign indeed, therefore, that
the Randolph farmers are resolving to
have rock-free fields, and the work
they are doing in this respect reminds
one of similar results achieved by in
dustrious and thrifty soil-tillers in tha
most progressive and beautiful sec
tions of Europe. Rocks in a field are
an everlasting nuisance, and an ob-
I struction to beauty, improved machin
I ery and good farming. But in a ter-
race or fence tney ar the s'Kn of
good farmer and are olsa " a thing of
beauty and a joy forever."
Randolph is getting some excellent
roads through a rather unique plan.
The county commissioners appropriate
$3 for each $2 the people of the locali
ty will raise.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to express our sincere
thanks to the good people of Frank-
linville for their kindness and sympa-
thy shown us during the illness and
deatn 0f our darling daughter, Nettie,
May God reward every one Mr and
Mrs. J. C. Williamson, Franklinville.
The British foreign office has an
nounced that they will pay for the
cargoes of a number of ships seized
soon as the actual ownership of the
vessels can be established.
NORTH CAROLINA
RANDOLPH COUNTY
Superior Court before the Clerk.
Notice
Florine Pearce and Tura Pearce,
by their next friend, Ferd Ingold,
vs.
Jane Pearce and Julia Keith.
The defendant, Julia Keith, will take
notice thnt an ncHrin entitled lis nhnvA
returnable before the Clerk of the Su
perior Court of Randolph county, at
his office in the county courthouse in
Asheboro, N. C, on the 26th day of
June, 191o; that the nature and pur-
I pose of said action is to allot the dow-
fr of .J,a"e pearce and to sell, subject
to said dower estate, the lands now
owned by the above-named petitioners
and the defendant, Jula Keith, as ten
ants in common, for division, said
lands being situate in Randolph coun
ty, North Carolina; and said defend
ant will further take notice that she
is required to be and appear before
the said Clerk at the aforesaid time
and place named for return of sum
mons and answer or demur to the pe
tition of petitioners or the relief de
manded therein will be granted.
This May 28, 1915.
J. M. CAVENESS, C. S.C.
FOR SALE!
Two hundred and twenty-five acres
of Pod land near Franklinville, N. C.,
I k(. ;i fm cfutinn bounded
as follows:
Beginning at a white oak, H. B.
Allred's corner; running thence south
50 chains and 50 links to a black oak,
Samuel Allred's corner; thence east
with his line 20Va chains to a black
oak; thence north with Allred's line,
17Vi chains to a black jack, his cor
ner; thence east on his line 12',4
chains to a stake; thence north 20
chains to a stake in Alex Gray's line;
thence west with Gray's line 20 chains
and 12 links to a stake; thence north
2 degrees east 16 chains and 33 links
to a post oak and dogwood; thence
88 degrees west 28 chains and 30
links to a hickory; thence south 2 de
grees west 23 chains and 33 links to
a white oak in Allred's line; thence
east 6 chains and 38 links to the
beginning, containing 225 acres more
or less. . . . .
Terms: Small cash payment, bal
ance in annual payments of ten years.
Price $11.00 per acre.
JOHN H. HAMMER.. . 1
Greensboro, N. C.
GOOD FARM
About half way between Asheboro
r.anctinrn. T have 134 acres in
I sight of main highway. Small house
lumber for bam and OUt BOUSes,
spring, good water, 25 acres in culti
vation. Practically all level. Price
1KfWl npr acre, one third cash, bal-
ance in one ana ye?-J;i,V;
jvtir iu. n""""""
Greensboro, N. C