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V.V.t.t.t A.+.AA.t. AA.t.t AA..4.AAAA.A.t*..t-; e <! I* 3 Farm Department. > 3 COSDU .TED BY J. M BEATY ? M |? * ft-' BARNS Money cannot be better spent than in building at least one good roomv barn on each farm. In some sections a .young man be fore moving oft to himself will build a three or four roc m house for himself and wife and a large barn with stables around it and apartments to it for his stock. He is about as apt to paint the barn as the residence. He is pre pared to pack away his feed, to take care of his tools and f irm implementsand basin connection plenty of stables for his stock. In other sections the young cou ple think they need about an eight or nine room house to live in and a crib about 14 x 20 feet is built to hold feed for the stock. Such a place will do for the corn after it is shucked but there is no' place to put away any kind of forage. The wheat straw instead of being housed is left to rot! where the thrasher leaves it. The corn cut and shocked in t he field , is allowed to stand until it falls down and rots. Shucks in some cases are scattered over the lot! and used in place of pine straw. Tools are left where they were, used last. Such an arrangement; may do for those who have de cided to let cotton be their king. The progressive farmer of to-day can do better and must lobetter. Every day should be made to count on the farm as well as else where and now while the grass is not growing is a good time to build the barn. Don't have it too email. Remember that very few farmers have room enough of this kind, (jet a good plan be fore you start, use good heart timbers for the foundation, or in other words, do a good job while you are about it. A Letter trom a rotates Grower. Rome, N. C., Dec. 1.1, 1901. Mr. J. VI. Beaty. I)eak Sin:?1 have some notes in regard to raising tobacco, I would like to have you publish. I have grown tobacco four years. First year planted on pea land previously sowed to rye. The crop did not grow very well and was very irregular and only brought about $30.00 per acre., The second year part of my land had been planted in potatoes and part had lain out, the pota to land did best, none ot my crop did very well. I manured: with a home mixture which con tained 8Jf per cent ammonia, 5 per cent potash and !) per cent' phosphoric acid; the crop brought j about $65.00 per acre. The third year I planted part potato land, other an old mul-1 berry orchard?mulberry land did best; it had been partly cultivated so as to keep down bushes. I manured thiH crop as follows: Dried blood lOpercentammonia, 100 pounds sulphate potash, 50 per cent potash and (500 pounds 1(5 pyr cent acid phosphate and used the stable manure raised from one mule on about twenty thousand hills in rows three by four feet, made some wrappersj and crop brought $80.00 per! acie. I used ninehundred pounds fe: tilizer per acre analyzing 3% per cent ammonia, 5% per cent potash and 10% per cent phos phoric acid. The fourth year, which was 1901,1 planted! land which was in tobacco in 1899 and followed 1 with wheat; let thestubbleremain and plowed in Januarj- with two horse plows, broke deep, turning yellow dirt generally, afterwards pulverized with disc cultivator; then layed off rows 3x4 feet, mixed my own fertilizer as fol lows: 200 pounds dried blood, J 15 percent ammonia, 1 (HI pounds sulphate potash, 50 per cent (500 j pounds 16 percent acid, making 900 pounds per acre, analyzing 11 3% per cent ammonia. 5% percent potash, 9\ per cent phosphoric1 acid, then used about 35 pounds nitrate soda per acre, and the manure from om horse stable j under 19 thousand hills, the sta- i ble mature was composted with about twenty loads woods mole < raked up in August. I used com- 1 post and sod in hill and other fertilizer in drill. My land is very i thin, poor and sandy, being four 1 feet today in place* I think it well to use stable compost and some fertilizer in hill on such land to sustain the plant while young. I experimented with fertilizer in different quantities using from 1,000 pounds 2!* per cent ammo nia. M pej1 cent phosphoric acid, .'{percent ootash to 43 pounds ammonia, 73 pounds potash, 133 pounds phosphoric acid. I Hud that on very poor, thin, sandy land that high manuring pays best. I think to use on my next crop 43 pounds of ammonia and other things to balance. The land spoken of would make about five bushels of corn per acre with out manure. Heavy manuring on this land gives the tobacco size and much better quality. We have much of this land in our country that does not pay to grow cotton and other crops. Plant tobacco on lying out land, land that has been sown in small grain or planted in pota toes. Fresh land is always in order for tobacco. The land should be plowed very deep as early as the 13t h December. Plow deep in the fall and manure well in the spring and work fast through the summer if you wish to succeed mak ng tobacco. I received #410 for my this year's crop of 10,000 hills. If you haven't a knapsack spray pump be sure you get one and use it from the time you see the first eggs for about every 5 to 7 days Wishing all farmers much suc cess, 1 am, Yours respectfully, 11. M. Johnson. Barnyard Manure. Much has been writ ten in farm journals about the value of barn yard manure, and thousands of farmers look upon it as one of the important products of the farm, while thousands of others give but little or no attention to the manure heap. A well kept compost heap may be safely taken as one of the surest evidences of thrift and success on the farm. If investigation of a man's lot discloses the barnyard manure being well kept and preserved under proper shelter, it will also be found that the cribs and smokehouses adjoining are full of the proper kinds of food prod ucts. It indicates that the owner is living at home and making an earnest and successful endeavor to make money out of the busi ness in which he is engaged, that of agriculture. Right here it would not be amiss to furnish some statistics, startling as th?y may seem to the reader, on the total value of the manure product from farm animals in the United States each year. In 1895 there were in round numbers, in the United States, 1(1,000,000 horses, 55,000,000 cattle. 45,000,000 hogs,and 45, 000,000 sheep. If these animals were kept in stalls or pens and the manure carefully preserved, the approximate value of the fer tilizing constituents of the ma nure produced by these animals per head, would be as follows for one year: Each horse, $27, each head of cattle $19, each hog $12, and each sheep $2. The total fertilizing value of the manure produced by the different classes of farm animals of the United States would, therefore, be for horses $452,000,000, cattle $1, 04.>,000,000, hogs #.i42,0(>0,000, ami sheep #90.000.000, or a grand total of #2,100,000,000. These statistics are based oil the value assigned to phosphoric acid, potash and nitrogen, as contained in commercial fertili zers. This may besomewhattoo high for the actual fertilizing in gredients ordinarily found in barnyard manures, but it must be borne in mind that manure possesses an additional value tor improving the mechanical condi tion of trie soil, which commer cial fertilizers do not possess. LOSS BY BAD METHODS. Supposing for the sake of argu ment and getting down to facts that one half of the value of this barnyard manure is lost each year by a failure to care for and preserve it, the total loss to the farmers in the United States from this source alone each year amounts, according to the figures given, of #1,054,500,000, or about #100 for each farm in the country, on an average. This annual loss will amount to about three times the value of?the en tire cotton crop of the south. In other words, it would take the gross sales of three full cotton crops to pay for the loss sus tained to the whole country in one year by this failure to care for our barnyard manure. If a farmer will figure closely on the amount of manure whicli he should saveeach year from the i stock on his premises and its true value expressed in dollars and cents the total will be astonish ing Where bedding is used iq.a stall and the manure carefully preserved each horse on the farm should produce annually five tons of first-class manure, Each cow should give about ten tons dur ing the year. This is making all due allowances for losses sus tained while these aninuys are out of the stalls during the day, either at work or grazing in the pastures. The best plan for veri fying these estimates is for each farmer to make up his mind on the first day of January to work out the experiment during next year. 1'IIKSKIIVINO TI1K .MAM UK. It should be understood at the outset that the liquids are more valuable than the solids in that they contain a much higher [>er centage of nitrogen in its most available form. Therefore, stalls ought to be so arranged as that this sourceof the manure product can and will be carefully pre served. For instance, the solid manure from horses will show in analysis but 2 per cent of nitro gen, while the liquids show 10 per cent of the same valuable ingre dient. The value Of the solids depend also, largely upon the character and quantity of food fed to the animals. Rich food will produce a< highly valuable manure, while poor food will only give the reverse. Barnyard manure thrown out into a pile in the lot, and left to rain and the ruinous process of leaching which follows will in a short time lose the most of its fertilizer constituents, especially the most valuable parts. As much care should be taken of the manure heap as is bestowed on the corn in the crib or the pork in the smokehouse. The thrifty farmer Will not neglect any prod uct on his farm which is, and should be, so highly valued as that of barnyard manure. Barn yard manure rapidly undergoes changes and is easy to ferment and heat. The best plan is to haul it out each week and spread it on the land. If preserved in pens under shelter, however, as the stalls are cleaned, a small amount of kainit should be sprinkled on the fresh ma mre every few days to prevent the escape of the ammonia. If the pile neats or ferments, then the manure should be worked over and cooled off or sprinkled with water A manure heap which has "tirefanged" will have but little nitrogen left in it when hauled out to the field. All of that ele ment would have long since es caped in the smoke or vaporseen arising from the heap while the heating or fermenting process is going on. When manure is in a compact condition, as in deep stalls, the carbonic acid gas formed by fermentation soon permeates theheapso completely as to entirely exclude the air, thus arresting fermentation. Where the heap is left loosely thrown together where the air can freely circulate, fermentation goes on rapidly. If, therefore, manure is trans ferred from the stalls to pens, it should be firmly tramped down by mauls or tramping, not for getting to scatter a little kainit over the heap occasionally to be doubly secure in holding the am monia. The most serious loss from the manure heap is that occasioned by leaching. When the manure is exposed to rain, wind and sunshine and the teach ings allowed to drain away, it rapidly decreases in fertilizing value. Experiments at the New York Cornell experiment station indicated "that horse manure thrown in a loose pile and sub jected to the action of the ele ments will lose nearly one-half of its valuable fertilizing constitu ents in the courseof six months." As a practical demonstration of the high value of barnyard manure to our soils, which every farmer will bear witness to wher ever a lot into which stock or cat tle have been confined, and then planted, in a crop of any kind, good effects can be seen for a long term of years afterward. Barn yard manure is the most valuable source from which fertilizing in gredients can be had, and should therefore be carefully preserved. This class of manure contains not only all theelements of plant food, but in addition thereto it renders the stored up materials in the soil more available, im proves the mechanical condition of the soil, makes it warmer, and is far more valuable in all respects than any of our high priced com mercial fertilizers.?Harvie Jor dan, in Atlanta Journal. Stops the Couijh and Works oil the Cold j Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tab lets cure a cold in one day. No Cure, No Bay. I'rice 25 oeute. The Eminent Kidney and Bladder Specialist. ?wv 1 The Discoverer ol Swamp-Root at Worh is His Laboratory. There is a disease prevailing in this country most dangerous because so decep tive. Many sudden deaths are caused by it?heart disease, pneumonia, heart failure or apoplexy are often the result of kidney disease. If kidney trouble is allowed to ad vance the kidney-poisoned blood will attack the vital organs, or the kidneys themselves break down and waste away cell by cell Then the richness of the blood?the albumen ?leaks out and the sufferer has Bright's Disease, the worst form of kidney trouble. Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root the new dis covery is the true specific for kidney bladder and urinary troubles. It has cured thousands of apparently hopeless cases after all other efforts have failed At druggists in fifty-cent and dollar sizes. A sampie bottle sent tree by mail, also a book telling about Swamp Root and its wonderful cures. Address Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y. and mention this paper. Martha A. Damn, the wife of a prosperous farmer who lives near Rochester, N. V., drowned herself the other day because herchihlren were ridiculed b.v their school mates on account of their name. Saved His Lite. "I wish to say that I feel I owe my life to Kodol Dyspepsia dure," writes M. C. Chrestenson, of Hay field, Minn. ' For three years I was troubled with dyspepsia so that I could hold nothing on my stomach. Many times I would be unable to retain a morsel of food. Finally 1 was confined to my bed. Doctors said I could not : live I read one of your adver tisements on Kodol Dyspepsia Cure and thought it fit niv case and commenced its use. i began to imorove from the first bottle. Now 1 am cured and recommend jit to all." Digests your food. | Cures all stomach troubles. Hen son Drug Co., J. R. Ledbetter, Hood Rros., flare & Son. MOVED To Brick Store. We have moved across the railroad to the new brick build ing near the Selma Manafac turing Co. We shall keep a complete line of GROCERIES, FRUITS, CONFECTIONERIES AND VEGETABLES. Canned Goods for sale. Coun try Produce a specialty. Come j and see us at our new stand. J. M. VINSON & CO., Selma, N. C. July 1-tr STORE AND DWELLING! FOR SALE. A desirable store and 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, O30-2m Selma, N. C. FURNITURE SOLI) FOR CASH OR ON THE INSTALLMENT PLAN. BUGGIES Sold for cash or on one or two years' time. Next door to Cot ter, Underwood & Co. ). A, Morgan, 021/tf SMITHFIELD, N. C. DON'T FORGET The Big Racket Store When you Come to Town. Here you can find almost any little thing you want. I am s. Hint; out my sum ES^M-aT'KFall and Winter Goods ToSS.*" 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 cent3. Laces and Embroideries, Combs ar d Brushes. HEAVY 1.INE OF DRY GOODS, LADIES AND GENTS' UNDERWEAR CHEAP. BIG LOT CROCKERY AND TINWARE. Nice Jewelry, Nice h t French Candy just received. Call to see my stock. I cau save you in uey VW. H. RE TV COOK, cuiTUDirr n u d jfluiniiLLi/) \j. Hardware. Fitz Lee and Wetter Stoves FOR COOKING AND IIRATING. Big stock of Farm Implements, Carpenters' Tools, Builders' Material, Cutlery, Tinware, Crockery, 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. 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