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V \.i 4 A4444A A A A 4 4 AAA AAA A A .t A ?? ?rt *? ?: ?? : Farm Department. ? "i > 5 COSDtJ. TED BY J. M BEATY t 9 ? jaw trv w v v n-mn rvv r v v vvi& RENriNG our LAND. There are several ways of rent inir out land. Somelikeone plan best and some another. The three plans mentioned below are gener ally followed in this section. The "third and fourth " plan is where the land owner furnishes the land and one-third of the fertilizers and pets one-third of the corn, fodder, shucks, peas, potatoes, [ etc., and furnishes one-fourth of the fertilizers and pets one-fourth of the cotton and cotton seed. In the best farming sections where the land is liiphly improved many of the tenants pay one-third of the cotton and cotton seed as well as one-third of the other farm products. The "third and fourth" plan is best for the land owner provided he knows that the man who rents his land is a pood farmer and can he trusted in every particular, but in most cases it is a risky way to rent, besides dividing the crop in such cases is more or less trouble some. "Itentinp on halves" is where the landowner furnishes land, team, tools, seed and half the fertilizers. In this case tlie tenant furnishesnothinp but half the fertilizers and the work and irets half thecroo. Another wav of renting on halves is when* the landowner furnishes the land and all the fertilizers mid gets half of all that is made. The objection to any plan of renting on halves is that it requires considerable investment besides the land of both money and time and brings the landowner and tenant into closer business relations than most people like. Another plan is to let the land out for stated rent in lint cotton. This does not pay much when cotton is low but after all that can be said, it is the safest and probably the best way to rent. Just at this point someone will ask how about lettinpf tobacco be raised on land rented out for lint cotton. As u rule this is not done. The land planted in to bacco is rented 011 shares or for a money rent ranging from about five to eight or ten dollars per acre I would not rent out land to be planted 111 tobacco for sta ted rent in cotton. It is rarely ever done in the best farming sections. The worst feature of the rent ing business is the annual moving of tenants. This is so general that they do not take the inter est in the farm they should take. You may ask how can this be prevented? Can it be done by leasing out the land ? No, it can not, and 1 would not advise any farmer to rent out his farm longer than one venr at a time Y011 cannot bind the tenant unless he wants to stay and you may wish you had not let hini bind you. The best time to rent out land is about November 1st, when the crop is housed and settlements have been made. If there is going to be any trouble it will generally arise by that time. Hut let there be as few changes as possible be tween tenants and landowners. It will be best for all parties con cerned. The Farmer ct To-day. Wherever there is stinting it should not be of the mind, and in no resjiect does the farmer of to-day differ from the farmer of the past more markedly than in the superior provision which the farmer of to-uay is making for his mind. One no longer hears sneers about "book-farming" as of old, and so the man whose business is farming is nowhere looked down upon as formerly. Cause and effect enter into all this, and it is the fact now, as probably never before, that many are looking to the country as to a place of rest, in the hope and expectation that their best days may be there spent. The young jieople on the farm are no longer, as of old, denied a liberal supply of good, wholesome f reading. In a large proportion of country homes uiay be found ax regular visitors three or four current periodical publications? the local paiier, because of the important advertising service it it rendering to the particular sec tion for which it exists; the agri cultural paper, that should and, does tell all about the latest im provements in the farming busi ness and the principles of that business in their varied applica tions as brought out in every first-class representative practice; the daily paper, that keeps its j readers in immediate touch with every event the wide world over, and the monthly magazine, which treats of the larger events, spring ing out of all the facts and details in the most capable way. The wide-awake farmer of to day is thus kept up with t he en tire situation, and it is under this conception that the best farm paper does its part. No fact, no truth, no larger joining of many truths calculated to make for progressive agriculture and help the agriculturist is outside of the provinceof it and the best literary and practical skill is at all times in its service With all these helps, and others that are constantly being had from good books, it is no wonder that the old term of contempt is gone, and in its place the man who is known not to be a "book farmer" is looked upon as one not in touch with the vital prob lems and controlling forces of his day and generation, as one not taking ad vantage of the oppor tunities open to him 011 all sides. ?Home and Farm. Tha Dmiltetr UnciNacc A UV A UUUI y UUOIUWOJi Every farmer should study how to make his chickens pay. Al most every one keepsafevv. They are kept largely for raising eggs and chickens for home use. Very many farmers' wiveshavelearned that chickens and eggs always sell. We desire particularly to call attention to a few points which seem not to be appreciated by the majority. THE BREED OK CHICKENS IS IMl'OK TANT. It takes no more food or care to raise a good chicken than it does to raise a sorry one. You think this is so plain that it is not worth saving. < )r you may think it has been said so oftea that it is not worth while to say it again. You are greatly mistaken. Just go into any town or city market and try to buy good chickens for your table, and what will you find? You will find four little poor, hard, stringy bones and feathers for sale, where you rind one good, fat, plump, tender chicken for sale. Having to buy chickens all the time, we know that this is t rue, Hood chickens are a I ways scarce?hard to find? often we can not find t hem at all. Now, these little hard bones and feathers cost as much to raise and as much to coop and as much to ship asgood chickens would. Hut they do notbringas much nor sell as readily, nor en courage the use of chickens in the place of hog and beef. Intheend they arc more expensive to the farmer. He gets less for his time, labor and food in these thgn he would by growing good breeds. WHAT 1)() WE MEAN I1Y OOOD IIKREDS? We mean breeds that easily take on llesh and come early into the market. There are several good breeds. Each have their good points. The Plymouth Rocks, Wyandottes, Cochins, Rrahttiasand others are all good. The Plymouth Rocks are particu larly adapted to common farm treatment. Get some better blood and raise more chickens. The market is not half supplied. Twice as many good chickens would find ready sale at fair prices. Let every farmer double his chicken producing capacity. Nothing on your farm pays better, if you manage it well.? Southern Cultivator. Ashes. From Alamance Co.: "Will it do to mix ashes with acid phos-1 phate for wheat on red land? If so in what proportion? I have been saving the ashes from my fire places ever since last fall. Would they do better on some i other crop? I tried them alone on wheat last fall, all the drill would sow, but I did not think | they paid as they should." Ashes < have more lime in them than any- i thing else, and lime has a tendeu- ] cy to render the phosphoric acid i in the acid phosphate less soluble, I >r as the chemists say to revert i t. Hence I would not advise the (j nixing. The red land as a rule 11 loes not particularly need potash t ora wheat crop. The ashes would . pay better on peas than any where else. They will also be valuable on corn or especially on sweet potatoes. Dart of my patch of sweet potatoes this year was manured with ashes and the rest with commercial fertilizer, having a small percentage of potash. The soil is grey sandy and needs potash. Where the ashes went tliere was double the crop on the rest of the land, if you have a good market for sweet potatoes the ashes will probably pay better ou them than anywhere else. They should be used at a rate of a ton per acre.? W. F. Massey. The Ideal Garden Dr. Young says: "At thirty, man suspects him self a fool, At forty,knows it,and resolves to change his plan." It would be well for many of us to change our plans in several ways, in arranging for better methods in our work, as we enter upon our duties for the year 1902. For ourselves, we are certainly "planning to change." In the main, we are taking what tliev call in "hunting lore" the "back track." Instead of spreadingout, we are cutting down in every way except in our efforts to make our land more productive. This is one item in which no farmer or gardener especially should ever retrench. We have hitherto been endeavoring to spread out; now we will try to produce better stuff at less cost; we will substitute more thorough tillage for much expensive fertilizers. Though in the matter of onions and pota toes weexpect to use more manure than we have ever used. I., ttinbinn. ........1i'.,? in ,t/iinirvi?y/i uriuiijL: lwi another year we were led to think oittie "idealgarden." This would have to contain land enough for the kitehen garden, and besides for strawberries, raspberries, grapes, a few choice trees of cher ries, plums, etc., then a plat for roses, bound withaborderof vio lets; and all laid off with an idea of symmetry and beauty in its plats and walks. Hut this "ideal garden" is only to be dreamed of by the large majority of us, as we have not the land to devote to it nor the means to afford the ex pense of maintaining it. So we must content ourselves with the next best, a good kitchen garden. Still, there is no excuse for any one not having a few rows of strawberries and raspberries, as delicacies to go along with the staples of cabbage, collards, beans, potatoes and onions. They not only make such delightful dishes, but they are so tine in point of healthfulness, and giving that variety so necessary to keep our bodies in good order. From May the 7th to .Tune 20th last year we had twoquarts of straw berries every morning for our breakfast, and besides sold over eight dollars worth from eight short rows. Then we had the same amount of fine blackberries for supper for two months from tworowsof cultivated ones. This year we have three rows of rasp berries that will begin bearing, and from the first of May until the last of July we expect to have some berries on our table each day.?(i. F. Hunnicutt in South ern Cultivator, Diversified l-armingf. If there ever was a time in the history of our Southern country when diversified agriculture was a necessity it would seem that such a time had now come. Aside from the necessity which now so imperatively exists for a radical change from the all cotton sys tem, which broke down and ruined diversified agriculture for so many years, it would appear that at this particular time the country seems thoroughly ripe for the movement. Public senti ment is in favor of our people producing ull things needful in the South on their own farms, and large capitalized corpora tions are being created to give encouragement and assistance to such a method of farming. That the Southern farmers are rapidly waking up to an appre ciation of their magnificent re sources and are learning to de velop them as they should lie, there can beno question of doubt. We see it in tne annual increased acreage in grain, the dailv click of the mowing machine during the hay season, in the broad acres of corn, the extension of pasturage, the purchase of thor oughbred beef cattle for breeding and the unusual production ofj pork. If the cotton acreage is riot lessened it is a noteworthy 'act, there has been made, and is aow being made, a tremendous growth along the other lines of lgriculture iust mentioned within she past few years.?Atlanta lournal. Women as Well as Men Are Made Miserable by Kidney Trouble. Kidney trouble preys upon the mind, dis courages and lessens ambition; beauty, vigor ana cneertuiness soon disappear when the kid neys are out of order "" or diseased. Kidney trouble has become so prevalent that it is not uncommon / for a child to be born ^ afflicted with weak kid neys. If the child urin ates too often, if the urine scaius inc nun or n. wncn me cnna reaches an age when it should be able to control the passage, it is yet afflicted with bed-wetting, depend upon it. the cause of the difficulty is kidney trouble, and the first step should be towards the treatment of these important organs. This unpleasant trouble is due to a diseased condition of the kidneys and bladder and not to a habit as most people suppose. Women as well as men are made mis erable with kidney and bladder trouble, and both need the same great remedy. The mild and the immediate effect of Swamp-Root is soon realized, it is sold cent and ona dollar sizes. You may have a jt|g free, also pamphlet tell- or s?ui|. Hoot, ing all about it, including many of the thousands of testimonial letters received from sufferers cured. In writing Dr. Kilmer | & Co.. Binghamton, N. Y., be sure and | mention this paper. MOVED To Brick Store, We have imned acres the railroad to the new brick build ing near the Selma Manafao tiring (Jo We (hall keep a complete line of GR0GSR1ES, FRUITS, CONFECTIONERIES A'ii) VEGETABLES. ; Canned Goods for sale. Coun try Produce a specialty. Come and see us at our new stand. J M. VINSON & CO,, Sclma, N, C. ! ?July 1-t'. Winter Goods, 1 carry a full line of Dry Goods, Shoes, Notions, Hats, Tinware, Groceries, Canned Goods, and will sell cheap for casli. \ Good Shoes a Specialty, A Country Produce bought for cash or barter. Don't forget me when you come to town. J. W. CANADAY, N24-lm BENSON, N. C. STORE AND DWELLING FOR SALE. A desirable store anu dwell ing house and lot for sale, or will exchange for a farm. The ! store room is 20x36. The dwelling attached has four rooms all well finished. The house is situated in a desirable | part of the town of Selma. Apply to Mrs. ]. E. Creech, 030-2m Selma, N. C. FURNITURE SOLI) FOR CASH OR OX THE INSTALLMENT PLAN. BUGGIES Sold for cash or on one or two years' time. Next door to Cot ter, Underwood & Co. J. A, Morgan, 02Ltf SMITHFIELD, N. C. DON'T FORGET The Big Racket Store Whc-n you Come to Town. Here you can find almost any little thing you want. I am selling out my sum > ou some bargains. rMymnntrFall and Winter Goods of Shoes ^ going at near cost. NEW GOODS COMING IN DAILY. LOOK AT THESE PRICES. Soap at 2, 3, 4, 5 and 10 cents cake. Needles, 1 to 5 cents paper. Hose 4 to 15 cents per pair. Gloves 15 to 50 cents per pair. Suspenders 5 to 50 cents. Laces and Embroideries, Combs atd Brushes. HEAVY 1.INE OF DRY GOODS, LADIES AND GENTS' UNDERWEAR CHEAP. BIG LOT CROCKERY AND TINWARE. Nice Jewelry. Nice 1< t French Candy just received. Cull to see my stock. I can save you mi ney W. H. PEACOCK, SMITHFIELD, N. C. Hardware Fitz Lee and Wetter Stoves FOB COOKING AND HEATING. Big stock of Farm Implements, Carpenters' Tools, Builders' Material, utlery, Tinware, rockery, Paints, Sash, Doors, Blinds, &c.. always on hand GOOD STOCK OF GUNS OF THE BEST MAKES. We Have Taken out License to Sell Pistols. COUNTRY MERCHANTS. We are prepared to give you wholesale prices on Nails by the keg, Tinware, Cobblers' Shoe Nails, Axes, S. & W. Cartridges Everybody asked to come and trade with us. Clayton Hardware Company, C. W. CARTER, Owner and Proprietor, 1)10?tf. CLAYTON, N. C. x VA/inter Goods. ?l 5j j# * Iiig siock of Dry Goods, Dress Goods and Trimmings, g? ' NOT 1ONS AN D H A TS. S ?? Shoes to tit and suit everybody. Dress Shoes a S * specialty. 2 ? CioiiJing lor Men joys and ciiiMren I Y ... X ^ It will please you in quality and price. J jg The ladies are invited to examine our new millinery, jg JP For the next GO days we shall sell many goods at X JP cost in order to reduce our stock. All goods sold at *5 J reduced prices. Now is your time to get bargains. ^ | SITR ALLEN & BROTHER, J * BENSON, N. C. * J N28?lm J BEARING OUR PART. We are sharing the reverse of short crops and low prices with our customers by selling goods at less profit than any furniture house in this part of the State. Better Goods for Less Monet), OUR MOTTO, thereby enabling the people to buy the same goods for the same quantity of their produce. See our Ladle' Rockers at / O Oak Bureaus, A French Glass, ' O One hundred other things proportionately cheap. Yours for business, The Smithfield Furniture Co. COTTON IS HIGHER BUT PRICES ARE AWAY DOWN AT Hall's Hardware House. Ses them opening their new line of Hard'' ware, Stoves, Ranges, North Carolina Made Harness, Rubber and Gandy Belting, Pure Buck Lead, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Etc, Thanking you for your custom, E. L. HALL,
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