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Devoted to the Interest of Those Who I W Till the Soil S f CONDUCTED BY J. M BEATY | L ^ 4 ^ The Proper Cultivation of Com. The South has failed to raisf her quota of corn on account of two things?first, we do not give corn the same attention in prep aration aud manure as we give to our cotton, and secondly, we injure it seriously by plowing too deep at "laying by time " We should plow our corn at least four times, and the last three times should be with cultivators and sweeps or very broad scrapes set on the heel of the plow to run very shallow. You injure the corn every time you break h root. You had as well argue that cutting the small veins in a man's limbs does not injure him, since he does not bleed to death, as to contend that you cau break these small rootlets of the corn stalk without impairing its vitality and inflicting serious injury. We can never agree with any stunting or set-bacK theories in the cultivation of coin. We want the most perfect stalk we can secure, and this alone can be obtained by a full root devel opment. Many of us farmers who have tilled the soil all our lives have very little idea of the wonderful, rapid and extensive root development of our plants. We haven't been trained to tech nical aud close observation. We never care to run things into ex tremes. We have a most whole some reverence for practical com mon sense that goes to work aud secures visible, tangible results, U'fnln tii t? 11 tt uro <4pu trimr nut nr ?? u iiv in nil i 111 ui itniu^, vu v vi unraveling fine-spun t henries But there in such a thing which we have often seen, where a man trains and enlightens this com mon sense until he knows the "how and whys" of a thing, so that bis work is done both at the time and in the manner that willfcivetbe best results. Such men we most honor, and would encourage others to attain their high estate. Coming back to corn root formation, you can readily see from the pictures that it will require very shallow culti vation not to disturb or destroy many of them Instead of break ing a single one we want so to cultivate that we will encourage the putting forth of every rootlet possible and secuTe its full growth, then the cornstalk and the ears will receive the maxi mum quantity of moisture and food. Cvery good farmer will see that his plows are set to run light. Not one band in a dozen can set his plows to ruu right or use any piece of machinery to best advantage until trained to it. We are often surprised to see how different the work of the same tool in different hands. We should study to do shallow nut effective cultivation. Many people "lay by" their corn too early. They argue that it injures it to plow any later The reason it does often injure it very materially to plow later is the fact, so many break the roots every time they plow their corn. W Iron q ruin nrr m t, u i ???* m ,,/i So r ui n ?' ucu u ictiii turnrn iiinuruin rii this damage is rapidly repaired and hence many will tell you of certain times when large yields were made by "laying by" with deep plowing. But if it remains dry the corn yield will often be reduced half and all the cause attributed to the drouth instead of the plowing. David Dickson said he could raise good corn with two rains.?Southern Culti vator. The Stand Of Corn in The South. While the farmer is thinking about corn these days as he turns the furrow and rune the disk and planter, and is wonder ing whether ten thousand stalks to the acre is about right, it may interest him to know how they do things down in Georgia. We quote as follows from one of the Georgia bulletins giving the results of careful experiments for a number of years: ? On uplands capable of pro ducing, in a good year, 25 to 40 bushels of shelled corn per acre, and when planting ordinary field rarities common in the south, there should be about 3,030 plants to the acre. This number would be secured by planting in rows 4% feet wide and spacing the plabrs 32 incbee apart; or 4 feet by 30 inches; oi 3% feet by 3% feet. "If the soil is of a capacity t.< j produce from 1." to 2.~> busneK greater distance should begiven. ! I say Id square feet to the f<1hnt. or 2.722 )iImiir*4 to the acre. Tbt number would be ne'ured by spacing the rows and hills feei I by 48'., inches; or 4'* feet by 42 ) inches or 4 feet bv 4 feet. "On soils of still less capacity, j | say from 10 to lo bustle's pet | I acre, the distance should tie still j i greater, say 18 to 24 square feet | to the stalk, or from 2,420 to i 1 .*1plant* to the aeie. Kign teen square feet to the stalk j would tie secured by spacing 0 ieet by ?40 inches; or feet by 44 j inches; or 4 feet 4 inches by 4 f I feet 4 inches. A soil that would produce less than 10 bushels per acre, with good seasons and very I light manuring, is not tit to ! nhnt in corn. '' In otl er words, their best laLd carries a little less than one-third of the number of plants to the! acre that the best lands in the' corn belt carry. The number of plants to the acre decreases with the fertility of the soil; and in this way they are doing exactly the wise and right thing.?Wal lace's Farmer. When the baby talks, it is time to give Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea. It's the great | est baby medicine known to j | loving mothers. It makes them eat, sleeb and grow. 85 cents, I Tea or Tablets.?Hood Bros. The Use of the Wecder. One of the most useful imple m^ntn on t he corn farm i* a flood ' horse weeder. It enables the | farmer to cover twenty-five to ! thirty acres a da.v Without ditti-1 culty There are limitations, however, on the tine of this im plement. It should not be used on a damp or cloudy day for the reason that weeds and grass are killed advantageously ouly when I there is sun enough to kill them j ! after their teuoer roots have | been exposed. The weeder is practically use less on very lumpy or daddy ground. It is of no use at all if the ground is wet Neither is it of any use anions deep-rooted j weeds; it simply cultivates such ! weeds. We do not know of any more ' useful implement on the farm than the weeder, provided the farmer understands how to use ' it properly. We don't know of any more useless article in the hands of a man who has not mastered its use and does not j understand the principles of soil I cultivation.? Wallace's Partner. The Definition of "Friend." A harbor of refuge from the, stormy waves of adversity. One who considers my need be fore my deserviugs A j"we! that shines brightest in the darkness. a sumuiano to me nooier side of our nature. A volume of sympathy bouud in cloth. A diamond in tbe ring of ac quaiutanee. A star of hope iu the cloud of adversity. One truer to me than I am to myself. Friendship?one soul in two bodies. An insurance against misan thropy. A link of gold in the chain of life. One who understands our si lence. The essence of pure devotion. ?Selected. ' What's the good of keeping from him Any good things you may see, That will lift his load of labor Like Kocky Mountain Tea. Hood Bros. Not a New Idea. "What is your idea of true love?" asked the romantic maid ? "True love," answered the ; practical young man, "is the art i of saving nothing and trading kisses."?Ex. I I A. H Boyett, the Druggist, ? wants to see you in Smithfield, N. C. CUT OF A WEEDER. Above we giy? a cut. of a weeder, an implement which has been extensively u*ed in this section this season. It costs only ten to -leven dollars and is a great. help in starting the cultivation of the crop. As will he seen it is a light, long-toothed harrow measuring seven and a half feet wide The very implement to ruu oyer corn and cotton about the time It is coming Up or a little before and ouce or twice after it comes pp. It is run directly across the rows or diagonally across thetn. It works the middles as well as the other parts of the rows and destroys the young gra?s where no ither impleui-iit exc- pt the hoe c )uld reach it. MARRIED IN MONTGOMERY, ALA. Miss Carrie Young, Daughter of Mr. Y. E. Young, of Wake, Weds an Armv Officer. Tue followiug from tbe Mout goiuery (Ala.) Advertiser, will lie of interest to many people in this county: At tne beautiful home of Mrs. .Margaret White on Clayton street yesterday afternoon oc curred the marriage of Miss < 'aro line E. Young and Mr. Martin Novak, First Lieutenant 22nd Infantry, U. S. A It was a beautiful home wedding and for the occasion the three apart ments in which the guests were entertained were with charming ly effective result decorated with Southern sublux wlu-h wasdrap ed on the stairway rail, potted palms and ferns and a profusion of sweetpeas. In the drawing room where the ceremony was performed a bank of stately palms formed an attractive back ground before wUich the wedding party stood during the cere inbny aud the iulormal reception which followed. The hour ap pointed was ."> o'clock and when it arrived the wedding party de scended the stairway, Mrs. B.J. Weil, matron of honor, leading - I ftL. 1 1 .1 J iut* way. i ue uriue auu groom together followed. When they reached the place arranged for the ceremony they were joined by Kev. Father Eaton, who offi ciated. Her wedding gown was fash ioned in Princess style of white crepe de chine with Oodiceelabor ately trimmed in Duchess lace, ller veil was caugnt gracefully to her hair with a cluster of orange blossoms and her boquet was of white sweet peas. She is a piquant brunette beauty and her bridal attire enhanced her loveliness. An honored guest at the wed ding was Mr. Y E. Young, of N'orth Carolina, father of the bride. Mr. and Mrs Novak left at 9:30 o'clock for Fort McDowell. Angel Island, San Francisco Harbor, where he is stationed with his regiment, aud where they will reside. Her traveling gown was of gray chiffon cloth and her hat was white with blue and pink trimmings. '?Loving interest and earnest wishes for their happiuessgo out to this couple from numbers of warm friends in Montgomery. The bride, who has lived here for seven years, has endeared herself to all with whom she has been associated socially or through her profession, that of trained nurse, in which she excels. Those who have been under her tender care have learned to look upon her an a ministering angel and the physicians with whoui sbt has worked regard her highly as a co-worker. "Mr. Novak holds a high place in the esteem of his fellow officer* in the 1". S. Army, and no doubt a warm welcome from them and their families awaits his bride He is a member of a prominent I family of Cleveland, O." New York Commercial: Kvery part of the hog is now utilized: the packing houses used to pack all but the squeal, and now they are certainly putting up the squeal. IHump Back! L SCOTT'S EMULSION won't make ? J A hump back straight, neither will it make W T a short leg long, but it feeds soft bone I ^ and heals diseased bone anj is among ^ a the lew genuine means oI recovery in m ? rickets and bone consumption. ' | Seed for frrt sample. f; if | SCOTT A KOWNE. Chemist*, ft ? *09-41$ Pearl Street, New York. ? 50c. and fiioo, all dniggiata. The False and the True. Our girls have suffered uolittle; from the spurious and silly ideas that have largely prevailed in the unuds of some people, that the main purpose of a college for women is to polish and refine its students as to fit them to enter polite society and move among | the "leading people." Cufortu-! nately some of our colleges have strengthened this notion among j . the unthinking, because it j j brought them patronage. By ( that craft they have their living. I'nable to compete with the j strong and thorough schoolsj that have been established in the State, they fall back on the as-j sumption that a diploma from | their institution is a passport ? into good society. We are oblig ed to give the Normal and In dustrial College credit right here for doing a great deal to shatter j this false sentiment into frag- i ments. It opened its doors to j girls from all classes and condi tions and made mind a test of | merit rather than manners, j .Since it began its great work for i the womanhood of North Caro lina the colleges that take their j i models from Pans have been | steadily declining. Their glory i is gone. They must come down i off their stilts and give good. I j honest service, rather than I spurious splendor. If they do j not, Icbabod is written over their doors. Hut there is yet j much of the folly of the past, | with regard to the education of | women, lingering in the public ; mind. Fond mothers, viewing lite from the superficial stand point, and really wishing to do | their best for their daughters, do j the worst by sending to the I schools they imagine can bestow ) upon them the highest social favor, without for one moment tniukiug of theeffect the influence of the school will have upon the moral nature of their girls. The very fact that the social, with them, outweighs the mental and moral, shows the low andgrovel ! ling view they take of the dignity aud worth of womanhood and ; the shallow conception they have | of what education really is. The truth is, a college has the least in the world to do with the stand a student shall take in the social world in after life; that is a matter with the individual and no college can bestow it. A worthy, cultured, consecrated woman will pass for her worth auy where among men of sense, and nobody cares anything about the opinion of a lot of fools. There is no telling how many ricu aud promising lives have been wrecked by sacrificing ! the genuine to the 6purious,? the true to the false. The col lege that can do the most to de | velop and enlarge the moral and spiritual lite of your child is the i college for you. You may say a college should not teach religion, i but it should, and will, if it is i worthy of the name. A trained heart is what you want in your I child and not a trained heel. Life is too serious and precious a gift to be frittered away. In casting about for a school do not choose a spectacular and showy school; decide on one that ; addresses itself to the brain and heart of its pupils?Charity and children. A. H, Boyett, the Druggist, wants to see you in Smithfleld, I N. C. CHUPAS FOR SALE. I have several bushels seed' chufas for sale. Write me or come to see me. I A.G.Powell; Smithtield. N. C. I R P. D. No. Gent's if you wish to buy a nice hand welt shoe in patent on 1 f or vioi. at living prices, call at W. G. Yelvington's store. llfcVi It J il LI The Kind Yon Have Always Bought, and which has been in use for over 30 years, has borne the signature of - and lias been made under his per /j? S - so"'"11 supervision since its infancy. /-CCCCAj/l* Allow no one to deceive you in this. All Counterfeits, Imitations and "Just-as-good" arfe but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children?Experience against Experiment. What is CASTORIA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the ?Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children's Panacea?The Mother's Friend. GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS The Kind You Have Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years. TMC CCNTAUN COMPANY, TT MURRAY STREET, NEW YORK CITY. To The Farmers: We have just received a lot of A, ie>ican W ire Fann Fsiif; 1"<e uis before you buy. We have in stock a large lot of ( ole Com aid Cot ton Planters and fiuano Distributors. If yi u haven't a Planter or Distributor get the "Cole" for they are guaranteed to ?work satis factory. Be sure to see us when you need, ai j ihit g in tie Faidwaie Line. TCour friends E. L. HALL BRO? Benson, N C i Seasonable : Goods! * m \ii 'p ^ We have a good slock of White's and ^ Stark's Dixie Plows and Castings, Lynch- jq\. ? burg Steel Pea in Plows, Majestic W ashing ^ Machines, Star Corn, Cotton and Pea if i|^ Planters with fertilizer attachments, ^ American. Elwood and Barbed Wire Fenc- ^ ing, Kurfee's Ready Mixed Paint, Pure Linseed Oil, White Lead and anything ? ^ ^ else wanted in our line. Call and see us. ff\ * Cla.ytoi\ Ha.rdwa.re Co., * \L J 7 f* Jj> C. VV. CARTER. Proprietor. f THE JOHN A. McKAY MFG. COMPANY Dunn. N. C. Machinists, General Iron and Brass Founders ? ? r n ? ?? a ? a ai ?_ ? vve Repair an kinas inacninery We manufacture Swing Saw Ma chines, Lumber Trucks, etc. etc-.. We s^Jl all kinds of Machinery Good stock Machine Fittings,. Belting, Saws, &c. always on. hand. INSURANCE! Home People!! V Home Company!! The North State Fi-e Insurance Co., of Greensboro, N. C., is backed and managed by North Carolinians, with? ASHLEY HORNE. President. A policy in this home company is a guarntee of Protec tion. *Let me insure your property at once in this strong, conservative company. Sam T. Honeycutt,
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