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BEST METHODS TO OBTAIN BEST RESULT FROM CORN CROPS The United States Department of Agriculture has prepared a bulletin to be issued this week as to the best methods to prepare to obtain the best results from the corn crop. This advice will touch upon every stage of the crop from planting to selling. Advice is given as to when and how to husk, how to dry, how to bin to avoid weevils, how to prepare for market, and how to pick seed corn. The bulletin will read in part as follows : When For Early Market. Husk in the field as soon as corn is mature and thoroughly dry. Don't snap unless snap corn sells at a premium in your locality. Don't top or strip; it lowers yield topping by as much as 15 to 20 per cent. Cull or pick out til soft moldy, or weevil bored ears. Keep these out of your good corn. They lower your grade. For Storing on Farm. When not able to provide tight bins and fumigate, it may be better to fol low the usual custom and scap and store with the husks on. Worm eaten, bird pecked and other wise damaged ears und the nubbins should be culled from the sound, well covered corn and kept separate for immediate use. Dry Yonr Corn After gathering and culling put sound corn for market or winter use in an open but well roofed crib until fairly dry. Damp corn heats and molda and loses you money. Drying is especially necessary after a wet season. Corn to be fed on the farm in a few weeks may, of course, be stored in any open crib with a good roof. Fumigate and Kill Weevils. If corn shows signs of weevils or moths when gathered or in crib move it to right bins for fumigation. See that bins are dry and thorough ly cleaned. Don't add new com to old weevily corn. Bisulphid of carbon will kill the weevils. Don't waste time and money sprink ling salt, lim or tv'phur on the corn Carton bisi:!ph;d must be handled with extreme care. Its fumes are highly in flam able. Keep all lights, lanterns, lighted matches, pipes, or cigars away from it, and the building or bin where used. Use three to five pounds of com mercial bisulphid carbon to each 100 bushels of corn. Put the bisulphid in shallow pans or in rags or cotton over the surface of the com in the bin. Immediately close the bin and make it as nearly airtight as possible. Keep bin closed for at least 24 hours. Fumigation for three days is still better and will do no harm. At end of three days open bin and ventilate the corn. Examine fumigated corn; if thor oughly dry, corn can be left in the bin. Any corn stored in bins should be inspected frequently. If corn is damp it should be put into crib or at least the bin should be left open and the corn frequently handled to pre vent heating and moulding. How to Prepare For Market. When moving corn from the crib for shipment or when shelling for sale, pick out all damaged, mouldy or weevily ears. Every bad ear culled out before sale helps you get a higher grading and well repays you in money for extra time and trouble. The more bad ears culled out, the better your chances for a higher grade. Sell In Bulk When Yon Can. 1 Do not sack your corn when you can sell it with equal profit in bulk. Some dealers handle only sacked corn others only in bulk. Meet the requirements of your dealer or local market. If you ship shelled corn in bulk, see that the car is uniformly loaded. Where good and poor corn are to be shipped in same car, see that they are properly separated by bulkheads. A mixture of good and poor com will give a low grade for the entire car. Handling Shelled Corn. Before shelling, pick out all dam aged ears. See that corn is clean and uniform in quality and color and free from weevils. When shelled corn is badly broken or dirty, clean it over a No. 6 screen (6 wires to the inch each way.) Use screenings for poultry or other feed. Screenings are worth money, but you lose money if left in your market corn. Use only good sacks and sew them instead of merely trying . Old or damaged sacks often mean resacking at destination. Pick Seed Corn in the Field. The first step in growing good com Is the selection of good seed. Select seed com in the field from the standing stalks as soon as mature. . See that ears of uniform type and , size, color, shape and depth of kernel, and position on stalk, and with well protected husks to retard attacks by weevils. . Drv thoroughly in a dry room, store in tight paper-lined boxes, fumigate, then put in liberal supply of naphtha lene or moth balls, and close tightly. THE COMMON WASHRAG Declared Far more Dangerous Than The Common Towel. The United States Public Health Service and the various State and lo cal boards of halth have taken ade quate measures for the abolition of that distributer of disease germs, the common towel. Now comes the news that the common washrag is even a greater menace to health. The hotels and public hostleries have recognized this for some time and have supplied their guests with sterilized washcloths in individual sealed packets. The damp, "sour'' smelling washrag still exists, however, in many private bath rooms. Imperfectly washed out after use, frequently not wrung out at all, it is often hung over a rack or a radia tor near an open window, there to col lect dust and dirt. Frequently the same washrag is used by the entire family, thus affording an easy means of transference of mouth secretions from person to person. In many households each individual has his own washcloth and his individual towel, but these hang so close to one another that there is ready inter change of bacteria. Each individual should have his own washcloth. It should be thoroughly washed out with clean hot water after use. It should be then wrung as nearly dry as pos sible and hung in the sun to dry. It should not come in contact with other washcloths. In the investigations the United States Public Health Service is conducting in regard to the preva lence of trachma it has been found that common towels probably acted as a medium of distribution of the germ of disease. Biliousness and Constipation. It is certainly surprising that anv woman will endure the miserable feelings caused by biliousness and constipation, when relief is so easily had and at so little expense. Mrs. Chas. Peck, Gates, N. Y., writes: "About a year ago I used two bottles of Chamberlain's Tablets and they cured me of biliousness and constina- tion and biliousness. For sale by all dealers. . HOW TO CURE THE MEAT FROM SWINE SLAUGHTERED ON THE FARM To those who have ,ice manufactur ing pl.M.ts and who are interested in the development of the livestock in dustry in the community, attention is called to a plan which has already worked out very successfully in Georgia. The plan is to use the ice plant as a refrigerating and meat cur ing plant in order that the farmers may slaughter their pigs at home and have the meat cured at a nominal cost instead of having to market their hogs on a glutted market. By making the brine which was used in the ice mak ing serve a double purpose, the ice plants were able to cure meat for two cent3 per pound on the basis of green weight. Two cents more per pound was charged for smoking, wrapping and sacking the cured meat. The farmers were thus able to have their meat cured for four cents per pound. They could then hold the meat until a suitable market was available. A big saving was also had because the farmer formerly sold his hogs on the market at a low price and then in turn bought back the family meat supply from the stores in the form of high price packing house products. To those who are interested in the home curing of meat but are not in reach of an ice plant, attention is called to a meat-curing house adapted for use in the South. In this house eight hundred pounds of ice every two weeks will cure twenty thousand pounds of meat. The ice bunkers hold eighteen hundred pounds of ice and the house will maintain a temperature of 40 degrees F. if constructed accord ing to plans and specifications which are prepared in the Bureau of Animal Industry, Washington, D. C. Full in formation in regard to both of the above plans may also be obtained from the office of Pig Clubs, West Raleigh, N. C. Full plans and speci fications will be gladly furnished. It is wise to make plans early and be ready for business when slaughter ing time comes. Either method gives a splendid chance for a neighborhood to start a profitable, practical, co operative business. To The Public. "I feel that I owe the manufacturers of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy a word of gratitude writes Mrs. T. N. Witherall, Gowan da, N. Y. "When I began taking this medicine I was in great taln and feel ing terribly sick, due to an attack of summer complaint. After taking a dose of it I had not long to wait for relief as it benefitted me almost im mediately." For eale by all dealers. TICKS IN THE SOUTH Spraying a Cow With (Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) The additional milk which would be obtained In the South If the cattle ticks were eliminated would In the ag gregate be worth many millions ot dol lars. Owners of dairy cows In the re gion already cleared of ticks are well satisfied and nearly every reply to the U. S. Department of Agriculture tells of s very substantial increase In milk yield. The per cent of increase, where cattle have been dipped and the ticks eliminated, In many states Is 20 to 25, the average of 11 states being 23. In experiments wtth a tlcfrfree held in comparison with two herds, one heav ily Infested with ticks, the other light ly Infested, It was shown by the de partments specialists that the seduc tion In mtjk Sow was 42 per cent and II per oeru respectively. Cost of Feeding Ticks. If a dairyman with, 20 cows, produc ing eight quarts of -milk each a day, should let them become even lightly Infested with ticks and the milk pro duction were decreased, as tn the case of the lightly-Infested cows In the ex periments made by the department of agriculture, the loss would be 1 Vi quarts a day for each cow. At 20 cents a gallon, or 6 cents a quart, this would amount to Ihi Cents a cow, or $1.60 for the entire herd each day. If the tick Infestation were heavy and the reduction in milk were as great as In the beavlly-lnfested cows In the experiment, the loss would be 3.4 quarts (worth 1? cents) a day for each cow; this would amount to $3.40 a day for the entire herd. The money thug lost In three days on the heavily lnfested herd would pay for thy) cost of dlpplng tne iatUe ' ahd kulTng he ticks, as dipping costs at most" onfy 60 cents a head to eradicate ticks. The experience of a dairyman in the heart of the tick-Infested terrnory also strikingly illustrates how much it costs dairymen to have ticks on their cattle. Late In the season, when his cows were covered with ticks, the cattle were dipped and the ticks killed. One week after dipping, the 42 cows in his herd gave 10 gallons of milk more than before dipping. This was Tick Free Jersey Cattle In Mississippi. an increase of 16.6 per cent, and as the milk was bringing 35 cents a gallon, the extra 10 gallons were worth $3.60; hence, by getting rid of the ticks the same cows on the same feed produced milk enotgh to net the dairyman $3.60 a day more than before they were dipped. The small amount of money which this dairyman spent in dipping his cows was a good investment Another Individual experience which shows that dipping cattle keeps off the ticks ami, therefore, the dreaded Texas fever, is that ot A E. McWhor ten, Greene county, Ga.: "In the year 1911 I had 65 cows. I lost 12 of the best I had by tick fever. In the year 1912 I built me .a dipping vat, with the assistance of Doctor Lewis, and that year I had 125 head of cattle and began to dip them on the 19th ot April, and did not lose a single cow after the first dipping. This year I had 187 head, and began to dip them on the 17th of April, and dipped them every three weeks, and have not lost a cow this year, and I am sure this tick erad lcatlon is the best thing for my county that has ever come to it." Ticks Increase Fertilizer Bills. One of the Important assets of the dairy Industry Is the manure produced by the cows. On many northern farms truck farmers and growers of field crops figure the manure they get from cattle as paying them well for cattle raising, even it they make only a small profit or none from the milk or beef. Out of one hundred southern correspondents from tick-cleared areas half of them state that cow manure has increased the' productiveness of their land 100 per cent more. The re mainder also agreed that manure Is highly beneficial to their land. Where ROB THE LIILK CAN sr eft Arsenical Solution. the tick is on the cattle, the size of the herd is kept down and the amount of fertiliser produced Is necessarily limited. Ticks Live en Cow's Blood. Through years of breeding for milk production the dairy cow, when not Interfered with by the tick, has be come a most efficient animal. But she Is also highly specialized; her nerv ous system is such that even climatic changes affect the milk flow. Thus an Irritated, nervous cow Is likely to be a liability rather than an asset. The cattle tick, even if it does not give her the fever and kill her, Irritates her and makes her nervous, and also takes a heavy toll of blood. In so doing, the tick saps the vitality of the animal and reduces ber milk flow; loss of blood means loss of milk. The tick, while sucking blood, as has been pointed out. may also transmit to the cow the dreaded Texas fever.. Thus the testi mony shows the tick is easily the worst enemy of the cow in the in fested part of the South. , Thousands of these robbers thrive on cattle, pastures, feed lots, barn yards and stables. If the cattle are heavily infested, the ticks are sucking. In email sups, 200 pounds of blood in a year from each 1,000-pound animal, proportionately lees, of course, from a lighter animal animal, but the tick takes all the blood it can get. All the blood in a steer or cow at any one time weighs only about fifty pounds. This means that the ticks take the equivalent of all the blood of that an- lrnal, in small sups, four Jit year, and the animal must mes every renew Its blood four times to feed the tick be pre ftpv bipod 1ft left to go Into meat or milk. It take? Teed and hay 15 "make blood. The tick that steals blood from cattle, therefore, steals the farm er's money. How the Ticks Multiply. Each female tick, after being gorged with blood, lays from 3,000 to 4,000 eggs in the grass. These eggs hatch into seed ticks. The young ticks In the grass have only six legs. They He in wait for the cattle to pass and when they stop to graze or lie in the grass, the little ticks scramble aboard and take their meals by sucking blood The ticks must have blood and plenty of it or they will starve to death. Af ter a few weeks of boarding on the cat tle they become big ticks and have grown two more legs. Then the en gorged ticks drop off into the grass and the females lay great quantities of eggs, and the costly circle con tinues. Co-Operate to Fight the Tick. A dairyman single-handed can rid his cattle of ticks but this requires much more wprk on his part than when the community or county co-op erates to free the whole territory. The cost of the dipping vat Is shared and the cost per head becomes almost nominal. The first step for the dairy or stock man who wishes to aid la saving the $50,000,000 board bill the South is paying for the tick is to get his neighbor Interested In the fight against the tick. Then he should In terest people about the county. Ths department of agriculture bears part of the cost of ridding the county ol ticks by sending without expense its field men to help build vats and tt supervise the dipping ot the cattle. The cost to the county is only foi vats, or say $60 to $100, and the arsenlo for dipping, which costs only 6 cents for enough to dip each head times enough to free it from ticks. The total cost of eradicating ticks from cattle by dipping is 50 cents a head, Including time In driving them to the vat. Some counties have reported to the department that the cost to the county and its citizens was only 20 cents an animal. Once the farm and community are free from ticks every precaution should be used to keep the ticks away. For full particulars on how to end the ticks' feast on your cows and in your community, write a postcard tc the Bureau of Animal Industry, U. S Department of Agriculture, Washing ton, D. C. The department will be glad to send you Farmers' Bulletins Nos. 693, Eradication of the Cattle Tick Necessary for Profitable Dairy ing; 6C9, Texas or Tick Fever; 680 Beef Production In the South; 498, Methods of Exterminating the Texas Fever Tick; Special Circular, Effects of Tick Eradication Upon the Cattle Industry of the South; and Circular on Progress and Results of Cattle-tick Eradication. Alfalfa on Every Farm. Alfalfa should be grown on every farm. M POTATO PATCH SKETCHES The Ftorola (Ala-) News-Democrat has this to say of Mr. R. G. Hoover, a son of Mr. T. J. Hoover, of Ashe boro: "Some ten years ago Mr. R. (.' Hoover came to Florola looking for a location. He gave the place the once over and decided it was good enough for him. Just the desirable town to settle in and corral the elu sive dollar. After a brief connection in banking circles Mr. Hoover was engaged as auditor in the office of the Florola Saw Mill Company, and it has often been said by the management: Hoover was the best office man we ever had." This sort cf service did not appeal long to his ambitious na ture, so after brief engagements with naval stores and the brokerage busi ness Mr. Hoover orgaized the Hoover- Dosser Company, a mercantile com pany in Florola, of which he is the animus, as it were, the live wire and the force and this company tins been successful beyond that of any that ever opened under like circumstances in the wiregrass region. "As sharp as a brier" is the description Mr. Hoover's friends give of his business qualifications. He is judicious, far- sighted, quick to take advantage of opportunities that may come his way -and that is why he is successful. And say, that same man Hoover can look in the back end of more wagons and shake hands with more farmers on a Saturday at this season, than half a dozen average men, and the man that gets any place ahead of Mr. Hoover to investigate a proposition simply has to go in stilts. Mr. Hoov er is a Mason of high standing and is a member of the City Council and has served with credit on the Board of Education. "Mr. Hoover's success in business is proof positive that this section is a good one and Florala the ideal city for energetic and enterprising, wide awake business men seeking a loca tion. ' "The only thing that we ever held against Mr. Hoover was that for a brief period he moved to east Ala bama thinking that section offered better opportunities for young men than does the Florala section but he came back and we have forgiven him. CALOMEL SALIVATES AND MAKES YOU SICK Acts Like Dynamite on a Slutreish Liver and You Lose a Day's Work, There's no reason why any person should take sickening, salivating calo mel when 50 cents buys a large bottle of Dodsons Liver Tone a perfect suDstitute ror 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 can not salivate. Children and grown folks can take Dodson's Liver Tone, because it is per fectly harmless. Calomel is a dangerous drug. It Is mercury and attacks your bones. Take a dose of nasty calomel today and you will feel weak, sick and nauseated to morrow. Don't lose a day's work. Take a spoonful of Dodson's Liver Tone instead and you will wake up feeling great. No more t'liousr.ess, constipation, sluggishness, headache, coated tongue or sour stomach. Your druggist says if you don't find Dod son's Liver Tone acts better than horrible calomel your money is wait ing for you. NORTH CAROLINA LEADS North Carolina again leads the South in the amount of raw cotton consumed and in the total value of manufactured cotton goods. Our 1914 crop was 970,479 bales, and the cotton consumed by our own mills during the year was 918,193 bales or just 52,287 bales less than the entire crop of the State. Our 378 cotton mills, cordage and knitting mills with their 3314,000 spindles easily consume all the cotton our farmers now raise" in average years. WINSTON-SALEM MAN SAVED FROM DEATH J. E. Erwin Says Wonderful Remedy Brought Him Astonishing Relief. J. E. Erwin of Winston-Salem. N. C, was for a long time the victim of serious disorders of the stomach. He tried all kinds of treatment and haa many doctors. One day he took a dose of Mayr's wonaenui Kemedy and was aston ished at the results. The help he sought had ccme. He wrote: "I am satisfied through personal use of the life-savinir Bowers of voisr Wonderful Remedy. You have saved my life. I could have livsd but a few weeks more had it not been for your remedy. I am inclosing a list of friend sufferers who ought to have some of your remedy." Mayr's Wonderful Remedy gives permanent results for stomach, liver and intestinal ailments. Er.t as much and whatecer you like. No move dis tress after er.ting, pressure of gas in the stomach and around the heart. Get one bottle of your druggist now and try it on an absolute guarantee if not satisfactory money will be re turned. Children Ory FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORI A "STOP MT PAPER" A fellow haa just written the Celum bia State roasting it for not printing an article he had prepared en prohi bition. He asked that a bill be sent him and the paper stopped, concluding that he didn't think a paper which de fended liquor should come into a hornet. It is merely the inconsistency of this type which we care to notice. As a matter of fact, as the SUte says, hu article had already been set and would have appeared just as soon as about two pages of prohibition communica tions which came in ahead of his were disposed of. But this gentleman, evi dently ignorant of conditions -which sometimes are encountered in every newspaper shop, wanted his piece printed at once if everything else had to be sidetracked, and when he didn't see it in print he wanted to stop the paper, concluding that the paper should not come into a home anyhow, although he had been willing to put an article in it. i There are times in every newspaper shop when matter must be crowded out and publication delayed a day or more. The advertisements pour in, the news pours in and the busy editors rack their brains trying to find "holes" in which to put all of the live items, but space is insufficient and each day columns of good matter are unavoida bly crowded out. The man who wrote The State in anger because his article was not pub lished at once is representative of a type which seems to refuse to recog nize conditions which every newspaper must frequently face. With only a few hours in which to work the marvel of those who go to the trouble to investigate the news paper office is that so many pages are filled in so short a time; that so much matter is printed and so little crowded out. But you would never get your "Stop my paper" type to recognize that fact. NEARLY INDEPENDENT An increase of 80,000 acres in our hay and forage acreage would save us from shipping into the State 100, 000 tons of hay and forage next year and end our dependence upon Western hay makers. An average increase of a third acre per farm would make us independent of this particular; or a little more at tention to these crops upon our pres ent acreage would do it. This year we have raised all the wheat we need and have a small sur plus to market abroad. Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Arkansas with a slight effort could easily be independent in the matter of hay and forage, " '' ' We are wondering which of these States will win out first. Figures from the Federal Farmers' Bulletin No. 677. WHAT THE NAME GREAT BRIT AIN IS APPLIED TO The name Great Britain is applied to England, Wales and Scotland. James I., by royal proclamation, as sumed, on October 20, 1604, the style and title of King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, and the inscrip tion was placed on the coinage. Un der the appellation "Britannia," Great Britain has been personified in the fine arts as a female seated on a globe or on an island rock, leaning with one arm on a shield, with the other hand grasping a spear or a trident. The first instance of the personification is on a Roman coin ef the time of the Emperor Hadraia, who visited Britain in A. D. 122. The figure reappears first on the copper coinage of England in the reign of Charles IL (1665); a celebrated beauty. Duchess of Rich mond, is said to have served as a mod el to he engraver , Host complete Una of Men's and children's caps ever offered la Ashe boro ranging in price from 25 ceats to $1.00.. Please do not fail to see us when in town. Wood Cash Cloth ing Co. Wood's Special Grass en? Clover Seed Mixtures own early In Hi fall yield full crops of hay or grac ing the following year. There is do question but what our Special Grass and Clover Mixtures yield much better crops of hay, and the meadows or pastures will keep in good, productive condition very much longer than where only two or three vrrioties of grass or clover ere "own. Our Deixrip"ve Fall Catalog jrives full lnfonrruiion in regard to Lice ...iik-fi i ur..i uji other Grais nd CVv?r Smf.z, Seed Wheat, Oats, fte, Br -lcy, tc. for Fall sowin". C"-n'og mailed free on i jq jcit. W i.-e for it and price on any seeds yc. a require. T. W. VCOO & SONS. SEErS??E;j, - Richmond, Va.
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