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"FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH."
SiagU Copy f Ccat,
VOL. XVI.
PLYMOUTH, N, C. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, i905.
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EARTHLY
' 6ol om o n h n d gl o ry
,He isn't living iiow;
There's wonder in his story
lie isn't living now;
Caesar mounted" pretty high,
Charlemap;no Mas proud and great;
"Charles of England, my, O, my!
He moved at a rapid rate!
There was French King Louis, too,
Who had nothing much to do
cave bo gay the seasons through
They're not living now!
firstTid to
Ey CARROLL WATSON RANKIN'.
mv3 S an ornament, the big, im
pressive clock above the
city hail was fully -worth
its original heavy cost. As
a timepiece, however, it
was thoroughly exasperat
ing; in spite of all efforts to retard its
overhasty tuitions, it persisted in keep
ing ahead of time. The butcher stand
ing near the doorway of the little shop
occupying the opposite corner always
Teplied when anxious strangers, hurry
ing train-ward, paused to ask if the
clock was right:
"Mine gracious, no: Dot clock vas
' inore as two year fast alretty."
Delia Murehison was precisely like
the clock, always ahead of time. If
she were invited for 3 o'clock tea, she
always arrived at half-past 2. If she
had an appointment to keep she was
invariably to be found, restlessly keep
ing it at least twenty minutes too soon.
She was small, thin, dark and eager,
a vividly enthusiastic young person of
fifteen; and just as it was impossible
to retard the city hall clock sufficiently,
so was it futile to attempt to make an
easy, slow-going personage of Delia.
In school she was nearly two years
ihead of the girls with whom she had
graduated from the eighth grade. In
the matter of elective studies she had
been, during her freshman year, a de
cidedly grasping student. As a sopho
more, she had been even more enter
prising; consequently, at the beginning
of her career as a junior, she found
that there were no more elective stud
ies left to take.
She was eager, indeed, to add the
regular senior course to -what she was
already carrying, to pile physics and
.trigonometry, upon geometry, and to
cram two years of Latin into one; but
to this heroic proposition both teachers
iind parents very wisely said no. But
this unprecedented forwardness in the
matter of learning left Delia with
much unoccupied time on her hands
4ind everybody knows what happens
Where there are idle hands.
Before her .-junior year Delia had
been too busy to get into mischief; but
now, with so little real work to do, she
became a disturbing clement in what
Lad hitherto been a strikingly quiet,
well-behaved school. Just before Delia
Lad become a sophomore a new super
intendent of public schools was ap
pointed. The first thing Mr. Graham
did on taking possession of the schools
was io make an appeal to the school
board in favor of football for the boys
and basketball for the girls.
The members of the school board,
however, did not take to this innova
tion. One declared that he had not
played football himself, and that he
did not see any good reason why his
grandchildren should. The second said
that he once possessed a youthful rela
tive who had lost a good front tooth
playing football, and that he considered
piling wood a much safer exercise for
bis own stalwart sons. The third, an
unatbletie-bachelor of seventy-two, sur
prised everybody by siding with the
new superintendent, and was very
much in favor of both games; but he
was only one against two, and at first
it looked as if the school would have
to get along without either of the pop
ular sports.
But one of the obdurate board mem
bers had two sons with athletic tenden
cies, and the other had four equally
athletic grandchildren. All these en
thusiastic young persons labored stren
uously to overcome prejudices; and
soon, so far as football was concerned,
the board weakened.
"When it came to basketball, however,
there were stronger prejudices to over
come. At last the board grudgingly
consented to rent a suitable room for
one month, and to endure the game
for that brief period of time on trial.
If-all went well, the game should stay;
but if it killed Cissy Laurence, as
Mrs. Laurence was certain it would, or
if it interfered with Doris Green's
"Caesar," or Anastasia Mallett's
asthma,' or Myrtle Howard's ancient
history, or Mary Clark's heart the
game should be banished.
Of course the girls were overjoyed.
Nothing serious happened to any of
them during the first month, the hall
was engaged for another four weeks,
and it began to look very much as if
the game had come to stay.
Mr. Miller was a stern disciplinarian.
.During school hours, whenever he was
in charge of the assembly room, Delia
behaved like a model pupil. In No
vember, however, Le was called away
GLOnY.
There is much regretting
By men who live to-day;
They want more than they're getting,
The men who live to-day;
They look across the past and mourn,
They bend to labor and are sad;
They wish that they might have been born
To tilings such as some rnoients had;
But better far, it seems to me,
Than having immortality
And being dust, it is to be
Up and 'round to-day.
S. E. Riser, in Chicago Record-Herald.
the injured
r
suddenly by illness in his family, and
upon little Mr. Peasley, the science
teacher, devolved the task of keeping
sixty-nine restless young persons in
order.
.Now Mr. Teasley knew all about
bugs and blossoms and queer, evil
smelling acids; but he had never
learned how to keep even a small class
of six or eight pupils from wriggling,
twisting and whispering. The task of
looking after sixty-nine, with Delia
nearly a year ahead of her studies, and
consequently dangerously idle, was ut
terly beyond him.
With all her lessons prepared for the
coming five days, Delia was in her
most mischievous and least admirable
frame of mind that week; and owing
to Mr. Miller's absence, the remaining
sixty-eight, too, were in a pleasant,
relaxed and receptive mood. Never
had they been more willing to follow
Delia's reckless lead.
Near-sighted Peasley, poor man!
could not see the blackboard at the
back of the room; so when Delia drew
an alluring caricature of Robin Hadley,
suffering with toothache, instead of
the geometrical figure she was sup
posed to be drawing, and then pointed
with her ferule to one after another of
Robin's graphically pictured features
as she gravely explained the diagram
that was supposed to be there and was
not, 'Mr. Peasley could not understand
why everybody laughed. He even mild
ly rebuked the giggling sixty-eight for
embarrassing Delia during her recita
tion. After that Delia seemed to take de
light in playing endless silly tricks on
the unsuspecting little teacher.
"Girls," said she, one afternoon, as
they were flocking down the steps,
"let's dress tip in some ridiculous way
to-morrow, just for fun. Let's all curl
our hair in Kittie Blaine curls "
'We did that Monday," objected
Cissy Laurence, "and I couldn't sleep
all night, with my hair done up in
rags.
"Yes," sympathized Anastasia Mal-
lett. "It was just like trying to slum
ber on a bushel of door-knobs. No
more curls for this damsel."
"Well," agreed Delia, "it was a nuis
ance, and he didn't notice the curls,
anyway. I'll try to think of something
really startling by the time basketball's
over to-night."
That Delia had succeeded was evi
dent the next morning. Cissy, leaning
on a crutch, limped slowly down the
aisle to her seat near the window. An
astasia wore her right arm in a sling,
and, not being ambidextrous, made
fearful and wonderful work of her
written exercises. Doris had each sep
arate finger swathed in a neat, glar
ingly white bandage. Blooming Rose
Mitchel was powdered to a ghastly
pallor with corn starch and green
chalk.
Large strips of black court plaster
were cris-crossed on Laura Dale's flaw
less pink cheek. Adelaide Brown, the
doctor's daughter, wore a shade over
one eye, and was redolent of iodoform.
Ada Gray carried a large bottle labeled
painkiller, and a tablespoon. From
time to time she sighed deeply, and
sadly took carefully measured doses.
Lucy Mather's cheek bulged alarming
ly, because 'f the huge crab-apple in
her mouth. Mary Clark, who painted
in water colors, had decorated herself
and several of her classmates with
astonishingly lifelike cuts, scratches,
bruises and black eyes.
Delia herself might have been the
sole survivor of a particularly disas
trous football game. She had pasted
black paper over twp of her rather
prominent front teeth, and wore one
eyelid painfully glued down flat under
a circle of flesh-colored court plaster.
Both elbows were apparently out of
joint, and her limp was ever more dis
tressing than Cissy Laurence's.
The naughty girls had mumbled,
"Basketball last night," when Mr.
Peasley, at first mildly astonished, had
asked each apparently suffering young
woman in turn if she had met with
some accident.
Now the gentle science teacher was
near-sighted and no disciplinarian, but
he was not stupid. The bruises and
bandages were all exceedingly lifelike,
but the crop was far too large to
have grown in a single night. It did
not seem possible even to unobserving
Mr. Tcasley that so many players could
have been injured in a single, well
conducted game of basketball.
A little later, when he read a note
handed to him by a pupil from one of
the lower grades, his eyes began to
twinkle behind his spectacles, quite as
if he had stumbled upon some huge
joke.
At half-past nine, very much to the
horror of about thirty-live temporarily
disfigured girls, two member of the
school board, proudly escorting a dis
tinguished out-of-town member of the
legislature, marched into the assembly
room. Mr. Peasley, :iOt dreaming that
the visitors would take this little joke
seriously, apologized humorously for
the battered appearance of his pupils.
"You see," he explained, without for
a moment suspecting that he was seal
ing the fate of the basketball teams,
"an unusually vigorous game of basket
ball has left all my young ladies a little
the worse for wear."
Only a few of the surprised culprits
had been able to squirm hastily out
of their too-well-securcd bandages.
The visitors had just left the sunshine
for a schoolroom with half-lowered
shades, and they did not suspect Mr.
Peasley of levity. They remained only
a few moments. After leaving the
building they discussed, in all serious
ness, the game of basketball and its
effect on schoolgirls.
"It must be a fearfully brutal game,"
commented the out-of-town visitor. "I
haven't seen it played, but I've heard
about it."
"Yes," agreed Mr. Black, of the
school board, "it's worse than I ever
dreamed it could be. Prom the looks
of that Clark girl's face, I should say
she was pounded black and blue from
head to heels."
"They've oniy been at it, too," added
Mr. Gorman, "for seven weeks, and
there Avasn't a girl there who looked
real sound. That Mitchell girl used
to have the reddest cheeks in town."
"I noticed," said the distinguished'
visitor, "that several had bandages
over their eyes. Any game that en
dangers the eyesight ought certainly
to be prohibited."
"When I see Mr. Graham this after
noon," promised Mr. Gorman, "I shall
tell him that this board will tolerate
no more games of basketball!" ,
This happened on Thursday. By
Monday morning the girls, at first
rather ashamed of their childish esca
pade, had almost forgotten it; but re
membrance returned very forcibly
when Mr. Graham announced, just be
fore noon, that there would be no more
basketball.
Afterward an excited group clustered
round Delia on the school steps.
"It's all your fault!" accused Cissy
Laurence, somewhat unjustly. "We'd
never have thought of such foolishness
if you hadn't put us up to it!"
"No," said Doris, "it was Mr. Teas-
ley's little speech that finished us. I
don't think for a minute that he real
ized what he was doing for us, but
when he said what he did I said to my
self. 'There! That settles our basket
ball!' "
Couldn't we explain to Mr. Gra
ham?" ventured Anastasia, doubtfully.
"Or to Mr. Miller, when he gets backV"
"Perhaps you'd like to undertake it,"
offered Mary, with mild sarcasm. "Mr.
Graham's just the kind of a man one
likes to explain a tiling like that to.
now isn't he? And faucy telling Mr.
Miller!"
"Yes," agreed Ada. "I can just see
myself explaining that bottle of imi
tation painkiller!"
"And that awfully geneuine iodo
form," said Adelaide.
"And those bandages," added Doris.
"I guess the wisest thing we can do is
to hope fervently that Mr. Graham Avill
never learn the horrible truth. We've
lost our basketball, and that's the end
of it."
It was not the end of it, however.
The girls missed the sport, and could
not refrain from eying Delia reproach
fully whenever the game was men
tioned. Sometimes, indeed, their ex
cessively frank young tongues aided
their reproachful eyes. Then, too.
Delia had an' accusing conscience, and
altogether, the winter threatened to be
an unhappy one. By the middle of De
cember Delia hated the very name of
basketball.
One Saturday morning, when Delia
was telephoning, the lines were
crossed, and she overheard Mr. Gor
man's rather unusual voice asking,
"Is that you, Black? There'll be a
school board meeting at my cilice at
11 o'clock. Yes, to-day."
Delia, her small, dark countenance
alight with sudden hope, realized that
a glorious opportunity was waiting to
be seized. It seemed fairly providen
tial. The girls had net thought of ap
pealing to the board.
Mr. Gorman's office was just a little
fenced-off corner of his dry goods store.
Delia appeared therein at half-past 10,
to find the place vacant.
Shortly after the .appointed hour,
however, the school board arrived in a
body. Delia, very crimson with guilt
and speaking with almost feverish
baste, made full confession.
The elderly school board tried manfully-
to maintain its dignity and
failed. Delia left its members with
mirthful tears standing in their eyes,
for, some fifty years previously, they,
too, had played pranks.
The board had made no promises, but
Delia felt distinctly hopeful. She was
obliged, however, to live in suspense
until 2 o'clock the following Monday,
when Mr. Miller, his grave eyes fixed
quizzically on Delia, who was turning
td and .-white by. turns, rose, cleared
his throat and prepared to make a littld
speech.
"Young ladies," he announced, "all
who consider it safe to play basketball
may do so after school this afternoon
in the usual place. The board haa
withdrawn its objections." Youth't
Companion.
The "flicker" sometimes noticed in
lightning proves to be duo to the fact
that several flashes sometimes five or
six follow one path too rapidly to be
separated by the eye. The trails
shown in photographs of very bright
flashes are caused by incandescence
produced in the air for a very brief
period.
The new petroleum fuel reported
from Switzerland is in the form of
briquettes containing four parts cf
petroleum to one part of secret mate
rial. At fifteen 'cents per gallon for
oil, the cost of each briquette was
about two and one-fourth cents, but
on a large scale would be much less.
Four briquettes under a boiler having a
heating surface of 400 square feet ig
nited the coal in fifteen minutes, the
briquettes themselves burning forty
five minutes.
The rare peculiarity known as haem
ophily, or "bleeding sickness," ha
been brought to notice anew by Dr.
Boehme, a German physician. It con
tinues for generation after generation
in certain families, and is character
ized by an extraordinary tendency to
hemorrhage, making the extraction of
a tooth a dangerous operation, while
even a pin-prick mr-y lead to severe or
fatal bleeding. The cause seems to ex
ist in an unexplained failure of the
blood to coagulate like normal blood.
The loss of energy in generating elec
tricity and converting it into heat
makes electric heating very costly for
most purposes. In electric cooking,
however, this waste is offset by a
greatly increased efficiency of applica
tion. A recent determination shows
that only two per cent, of the total
heat of the ordinary kitchen range is
used for cooking the food, twelve per
cent, being wasted in obtaining a glow
ing fire, seventy per cent, going up the
chimnev and sixteen per cent, being
radiated into the room.
The curious dread of cats that has
been studied for three years by Dr.
S. Weir Mitchell, of Philadelphia, may
open up a wide field for investigation.
An advertisement brought 150 replies
from different- countries including
Germany, Egypt and India and about
two-thirds of them mentioned cases of
fear of cats, the others referring to
asthma from cats. This asthma, due
to odors, may bo excited by the pres
ence of horses, dogs, cats or sheep, or
even of roses, apples, oranges or ban
anas. For a Younc 51 an Witli Money.
If I were a young man, with a cer
tain amount of capital, and desirous to
increase it at the expense of fools, I
should become a dealer in pictures
and in works of art. The prices paid
at auctions for such articles by a few
dealers bidding against each other are
absurd, although a vast number of
very wealthy fools who purchase them
from dealers are ready to pay still
higher. The more fact that some arti
cle has been sold in an auction room at
a high price attracts them, and they
buy it from the dealer at a higher one
in order to be able to point to it in
their houses, and to tell their friends
how much it .cost them. The dealer
consequently makes much money by
acting as a middleman. Whether there
is any arrangement to run up the price
among dealers I do not know. But I
have always wondered whether this is
the case, and whether the original
owner always gets the selling price at
the auction. London Truth.
Curious Clilnopo New.
Those characteristic news items ap
peared in the Pekin and Tientsin
Times:
"Nov,- that the hot weather has set
in and sleepy Chinamen loo!; on the
railway sleepers ns a convenient bed,
with the rail for a pillow, we may ex
pect to have the usual loss of life along
the lir.o. The first head of the season
was cut cT a few days ago near
Weihui."
"It is reported that in trying to raise
an indemnity for the. murder of French
missionaries at Patang. mining conces
sions instead of money have been asked
for. But th? Chinese properly point
out that mission work and commerce
are distinct and refuse the demand."
"Some rolls of sill: gauze and a fan
have been sent down to the viceroy
from the Empress Dowager, who is
most anxious that he should keep cool."
Chicago News.
Tho Four Speed.
In the course of a case in an English
court the other day one of the counsel
said there were four speeds at which
motorists traveled. They were (a) the
speed the policeman said; (b) the speed
the chauffeur told the magistrate; (c)
the speed the chauffeur told his friends
in a public house, aud (dj the reaJ
sjeed.
SOUTHERN '
TOPICS OF INTEREST TO THE PLANTER. STOCKMAN ANS TRUCK GROWER,
Savinc Pea-Vine Hay.
The various methods of saving pea
vine hay with the least labor and
greatest value demands the best
thought of every farmer. Much labor
and energy often go to waste by fol
lowing the usual plan to cut when the
first pods begin to ripen and let them
lie ana tedder till cured, or otherwise
put in cocks or hang up .on posts till
ready for the barn. If rain and dew
falls, shattering leaves and stems and
taking the aroma and green cast out
of tiie vines,, never mind that; toil on;
they are well worth the cost, even if
the half-grown pods are moldy, minus
the leaves at feeding time. But the
thought of the enormous labor expend
ed or paid for in saving a green pea crop
is by no means thrilling or encourag
ing. It suggests and clamors for bet
ter methods. The very nature of the
plant forbids the idea of saving the
succulent vines and green, half grown
pods for hay except through a dry-kiln.
My experience with others proves
that there is a cheaper way of saving
and increasing the value of the pea
crop by letting all the pods ripen fully
on the vines before cutting.
It is evident that the whole crop of
ripe pods (say, five, eight or ten bushels
per acre), cut and saved with the dry
vines even after frost gives more good
feed than the vines and half grown,
moldy pods. For several years I have
been feeding the dry vines with all the
dry pods thereon. It is the most sub
stantial roughage I have ever had. It
costs less to cut and put in the barn
than any I have ever saved. I plant
all my oat land in peas in rows, and
work them with a view of cutting af
ter every pod is fully ripe and stems
dry, even after frost. I then cut some
fine morning till noon and haul direct
to barn in evening. A sheet or tight
wagon body will save all the shattered
peas, and in rainy days I thresh out
seed from this store of vines. The
dry vines are interwoven with long.
dry pods, so rich and nutritious that
you wonder why you had not with com
placency watched the showers and
heavy dews ripen the crop into greater
value to be quickly and safely har
vested, instead of worrying when the
first pods ripen.
Our best farmers who realize the
feeding value of dry vines and ripe
peas grown in the corn fields, and the
quick and cheap manner of saving the
same, feed their horses and mules al
most entirely on this forage and sell
their surplus corn to the more improvi
dent. They usually plant corn in four
to five foot rows, and at the proper
time plant peas liberally in the middle
of the corn rows, and after the corn is
cut and shocked or otherwise gathered
run the mower between the corn rows.
In order to do this taue an old mower
and cut about two feet off the cutter
bar and shorten all up so it will run
between the rows without cutting the
cornstalk; or new mower, cutting three
feet can be bought that will run be
tween the corn rows, thereby saving
the dry peas and vines both for seed
and forage after leaving portions of J
the field for pasture if desired. A short j
mower that will run between corn
rows cutting vines and grass is one of
the most valuable farm implements.
M. F. B., in Southern Cu!tlvator
Killing Inects.
A subscriber at McLauren, Miss.,
asks what should bo done about the
plant lice, the aphids. that get upon
and multiply to a ruinous degree on
many cultivated plants, cucumbers,
melons, etc.
Professor Smith, in his Economic En
tomology, says:
"As a general insecticide, nothing is
better than kerosene emulsion, which,
when diluted ten times Avith water,
kills all the j-oung forms and adults of
the green species.
"It has been found by experiment
that the black or brown species are
much more difficult to destroy, and one
part of emulsion in six or eight parts
of water is more likely to be elt'ective.
"Fish oil soap docs the work at the
rate of one pouifrf in six gallons of
water; or, ns against tne Drown spe
cies, one pound to lourgauons ot water.
"Thoroughness of application is al
ways essential. It must be remem
bered that thoie poisons act by clog
ging the spiracles the openings by
which the breathing is done or by en
tering into the body through them.
"Unless the application is thorough,
the insects may be weakened but not
killed, or, if rendered helpless for a
time, they may recover, and a second
dose becomes necessary, where one
dose, more thoroughly applied, would
have been sufficient.
"Where it is not advisable to apply
cither of the materials just mentioned,
tobacco can be employed with good
prospects of success, either as a decoc
tion or as a very finely ground pow
der." A great idea about all this annoyance
with plant lice is thatlhey ought to be
fought "just as soon as they are no
ticed; the longer the delay the weaker
FARM 10TES.
the plants become and the greater the
thoroughness required to reach all the
specimens." Home and Farm. .
TT.nter Oati.
The summer seasons are fraught
with uncertainties till farmers are look
ing. more and more to winter crops and.
the summer crops requiring but a short
growing season.
This leads to- the- planting of early
maturing varieties of cotton, corn and
cowpeas and other staple crops. Where
these have been planted here this year
a fair crop has already been made.
Oats are becoming one of the leading
feed crops one of the most profitable,
in Georgia, for after oats a good crop
of cowpea hay can be made or a crop
of late cotton. By growing oats a cover
crop is kept on the land all winter, pre
venting washing and destruction by,
rains, and if cowpeas are grown the
land undergoes a continual process of
improvement. Numerous- experiments
have been-made with different methods
of planting, and it seems as if we are
to see a general idea prevailing that
the ridge drill method is befit. It Is
argued that it prevents winter killing.
But all that is necessary to secure a
good stand throughout the winter is
to prepare the land thoroughly,, put the
oats in the ground early enough and
you will succeed nine years in ten, and
if you want any more success than,
that try something else besides farm
ing. Rhea Hayne, of Georgia, ia
Home and Farm.
How to-Keep Hogg Healtlfcy.
Below we give three good cholera
prescriptions that our readers would
do well to cut out and preserve. Choos
one which you will have prepared to
give your hogs, say, every . sixty days,
and at any time they seem unwell.
(1). Wood charcoal, 1 lb.; sulphur, 1
lb., sodium chloride, 2. lbs.; sodium bi
carbonate, 2 lbs.; sodium hypohulphite,
2 lbs.; sodium sulphate, 1 lb..;. antimony
sulphid, 1 lb.
Pulverize thoroughly, mix well, and
give one tablespoonful to each 200 lbs.
of live weight of hogs treated, one a
day for several days.
(2) . Sulphur, 2 lbs.;: copperas, 2 lbs.;
madder, 2 lbs,; black antimony, lb.;
saltpetre, lb.; arsenic, 2 oz.
Mix with twelve gallons of waiter
and give one pint to each hog. This
will be sufficient to dose 100 hogs.
(3) . Salt. 4 lbs.; black antimony. 1
lb.; copperas, 1 lb.;- sulphur, 1 lb.; salt
petre, i lb.; wood ashes, I peck.
Pulverize and mix thoroughly, mois
ten and put enough in a trough to pre
vent waste, and put where hogs can.
have access to it at all times. If dis
posed to have cholera they will eat it
very freely; at other times they wili
eat less or perhaps none at alL,
Siloi-Sow Is tho Time to Build.
This is a most favorable season for
the building of silos upon the farm.
and it should be done wherever a con
siderable amount of stock is carried or
green crops raised. Nothing has ever
been invented that is so useful for the
saving of green food for the feeding of
stock as the silo. In fact, the means
of preserving ensilage is of the greatest
practical interest to every farmer.
stock breeder and dairyman in tho
country, and is of commanding impor
tance to the agricultural world. This
process of preserving vegetation is far
more economical than the saving of
hay or the growing of corn. The silo
furnishes the means of laying by an
abundance of forage for season of
drought. More cattle can be support
ed ed from a given acreage of land by
the use of ensilage than in any other
way, and the quantity of manure can
be proportionately increased. The
word ensilage originally meant the act
of compressing into pits, trenches or
compartments, which are called silos.
It now means the materials com
pressed. .Those silo may bo built
above ground or In part below and in
part above the ground. In the South
ern States it is the custom to build
them wholly above ground. Southern
Farm Magazine. ' " ,
Haioi-BacJ: I'orlc,
It is a fact, that can be proved by
innumerable witnesses, that the flesh;
of a young razor-back pig which has
been fattened for a few weeks iq a
pen, possesses a flavor that cannot be
equalled Ly any Northern grown pork.
We believe that if it could once- be
introduced to the notice .cf epicures.
etc., in Northern markeijptkat the? sup
ply would not eqnaUtpe demarKPat'
prices that would pagr t good profit.'
Florida Agriculturist. '-V.- - -
' .
Trt1'1r For tli 3arIe-i
In gardens well manured in other re
spects, a lack of potash may make
them Jess productive than tL-?ir condi
tion otherwise will warrant. Wood
ashes mlxtd with soil .aid. materially in
keeping it moist. Gardens often dry
up by an excessive application of
coarse stable manure, and something;
else is ofttn needed to, couulcract this,
effect.
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