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t:.:lley a: f;... l! arm end Garden KEEPING POTATOES. Peinte to Be Considered In the Storing f the Tubers, The potatoes shown in the illustra- tlon are escellent Peachblows grown In the Carbondale district of Colorado under Irrigation, says the American Agriculturist The uniformity and Nmootbnesa of the samples show that preat care has been used for a number of years in the selection of seed. The eyes are shallow, the shape and size exceedingly - uniform. The: average yield of these potatoes in 1910 was about 400 bushels per acre. This par tleular sample analyzed 20 per cent starch. The Important points to be consid ered In potato storing are as follows: First, the temperature should be kept as low a possible without freezing; second, the air should be kept as dry as possible; third, the potatoes should be kept dark. A good cellar is 60 by 200 Ceet At each end there is a dead air space ten feet square in the form of a vestibule OOLOSADO PtiCBBtiOWS, From the American Agriculturist between the outer and inner doors, which affords protection from freez ing. There is a driveway clear through, with bins on either side, sky lights and ventilators being placed every ten feet The temperature of the cellar may be lowered by opening the doors and letting a current of air pass through. When it is too cold for tills the ventilators at the top may be open ed. The best ventilation is always so cured by building the cellar in line with the direction of the prevntllug air currents. During the winter the tem perature should be kept as near 32 as possible. It is best when It does not go below 30 nor above 30. A temper ature of 28 for one or two hours will not freeze potatoes. In planning the size of the structure it Is safe to estimate one bushel at one and one-quarter cubic feet. In a small cellar built with a driveway this space need not be wasted, but stored 7,1th potatoes or other vegetables after the bins at the side have been filled. One important point in the storage of po tatoes is to reduce the temperature to as low a point as possible directly after the product is stored. Tut about one foot of potatoes on the cellar floor, and by the time the entile floor Is covered to that depth the heat from those po tatoes is pretty well carried oft by the air currents. ,Then add another layer, thus properly regulating the tempera ture as the storage progresses. When the cellar is tilled the potatoes are piled about five feet deep. Sorting potatoes that have started to rot from freezing or dlxease requires a cellar that can be lighted when de sired. Ventilation devices, such as open partitions, may be used to ad vantage when large quantities of po tatoes are stored In bulk. Sacked po tatoes, corded in piles, keep well In a good cellar. When sprouts start in the spring the growth of these may be checked by moving the sacks. A bruis ed sprout dies. When the floor Is of dirt it is well to nse some sort of ma terial, preferably strips of wood, be tween the dirt and the potatoes to (.'event rot It U important that po tato be fret- from dirt when taken from Ue field to the cellar. Dirty po tatoes do not keep well because of the dirt thst falls off and Oils up the air spaces between the potatoes, thus pre venting free ventilation. A very sat isfactory place to build a cellar la on knoll, thus insuring perfect water draining and a good circulation. Reoipe) Fee Killing Weevils; ' Weevils In chestnuts, beans, pea, etc.. may easily be killed thus; Put the chestnuts or beans into tight box, pail or barrel large enough to bold the amount to be treated, pour some bisulphide of carbon In a saucer and set on top of the infested nuts or beans. Then cover the receptacle as tightly as possible and leave It so for twenty-four hours. Caution: The fumes of bisulphide are explosive and poisonous. Be careful. Have no lights or Are near. Farm Journal. . . They ssy bis wife makes 15.- 000 a year with her pea." "I didn't know she was writer." "She Isn't She has a pig farm la Iowa."-Culcago Record Her eto. frt at4 RTMMONB RED Z LIVErt REOO-1-ATOFt cures constipation mna estab Ilh reaulnr bowel movements. rrl,:. larg package, tl 00; .mull alt. Hold by all druifKtst, l l,a k. Of program BtgMly at Theoto. J Dent Leave TuetN an Peach Treat te Infect the Trees Next Ysar, After all the fruit baa ripened and gone and the leaves have fallen there will 4 still remain en many of the peach trees the dried up remains of peaches. These dry, withered peaches are called mummies, probably because they are dead and yet seem to exist long time without rotting. Mummied peaches will hang on the tree all fall and winter, and often till far Into the following spring, when the new grow ing buds and shoots push them off. To all appearances they are harmless. But the mummy on the peach tree la a source of great evil In the fruit orchard business. On its sunken hide it carries hundreds of thousands of spores of disease. Next year these spores. If allowed to remain in the orchard, will be carried by wind, rain and ether agencies to other trees, to cause the growing, and ripening crop to rot ,- v - :- . Many years the peach trees blossom freely, abundance 'of fruit sets and grows to maturity, the peaches begin to color and ripen, when all at once. within a few days' time, they all be gin to rot Almost before we know It all of the peaches on all the trees In the orchard have rotted. Where there was prospect for a large and valuable crop of perfect peaches now Is only more than worthless rotten trash, and all has happened before we could help ourselves. : , The remedy for disease In the or chard caused by spores Is spraying and washing with bordeaux mixture. This mixture will kill and keep In check nearly all fungous diseases If the treatment Is given In the right .way and at the right times. Of course it Is needless to make the applications after the disease or rot has once got Tinder way, any more than It Is to give medicine te a sick animal when it is dying. The disease most be taken in time and the medi cine given In the earlier stages If it Is to do much good, and prevention Is better than cure. The peach mummies should be re moved from the peach trees Just as soon in the fall as the falling of the leaves will permit "all of them to be Immediately burned to get them out of the way and to kill the spores adher ing to them to prevent them flying In the air of the orchard and causing the next season's crop of peaches to rot If this Is promptly and carefully ione every year in your own orchard and in your neighbor's there will be less rotten fruit Farm Progress. THE 8IZE THAT COUNTS. It is not so much the size of the farm as the stae of the farm er that counts. It is the man who studies to get the best re sults from the amount of land he controls, the man who puts in bis time in the best way, the man who thinks about his work, who succeeds with the many or the few acres that he farms. SAVE YOUR FINGERS. Device en Beet Cutter to Prevent In jury te Workmen. 9 While America leads the world In the matter of big crops.lt Is behind the countries of Europe in such things as getting the most out of its land with out exhausting its fertility and In oth er Important respects. Wheat lands In Europe have been cultivated for a thousand .years without showing as SAFSTI DITTOS OS BRt OUR SB. Crrom Amerlcaa Museum of gaiety. New x"ork.J many signs of exhaustion as America lands placed tinder the plow less than 10 per cent of that Urn la another very Important respect Europe la tar ahead of the United States. That la in enardln amlnat accident to workers In field and fac tory. . .... .... .... .. A Practicable Enrooeaa device tnr preventing injury to men engaged In cutting beets Is shown In the ptetor To protect the workmen from touch ing the knife diek of the beet cutter the disk Is covered completely from the outside and, as far as possible, sea ta I Ids. The enter sheet metal safety H furthermore prevents the cot beets from flying around se that they be more easily guided into a re ceptacle placed underneath. - -.- . Farmer Suae a Aviate?. The first legal ease of a farmer against a flying machine has been brought In England. AS aeroplane came do wain a field of barley and did considerable damage. The farmer has brought suit '. ' - .:-., , -. - , rMfa.. ..,. . -"Ptidiier aatd a tnun thlnv ttuiit Tewskley last night" "What waa ItT" tie mia u would sap Tewkaley's In tellect to wrtla the book for a mn.l. cnl comedy." nirmtnaham Age Hcr- io. Always inter stir, pirur at Theato. v -? Michigan Electrio Urea Aided U !a- posing of Fruit The advantage of handling big crops of fruit by t trolley lines was Illus trated in the lower peninsula of Mich igan in 1911 to an extent never before realised. Bad It net been for; the electric Hnea of two of the states handling this class of trafflo the dis posal of the apple, peach, pear and other crops would have met with loss. Only a couple .of years ago., there was but one line of electric railway hauling fruit oat of Berrien. county orchards to the steamship docks at Benton Harbor. Now there are about half a dozen. Some of the lines rash trains of fruit from points west of Elkhart, Ind., to the steamboat docks at Benton Harbor. These points are over 100 miles from Chicago, the great est market of the entire region. Con signments of fruit leave the Orchards late in the afternoon and are loaded into express cars and flat cars with crated ends and sides. Trains are run on fast time and stop only to pick up fruit, and from certain points they do not stop for any purpose. At Benton Harbor the fruit packages are loaded on great side wheel steamers and car ried through the cooling atmosphere of Lake Michigan, reaching Chicago about 4 a. m. From the Chicago docks the big supply Intended for consump tion in a city of over 2,000,000 people is distributed early In the forenoon. But Chicago does not begin to take all of the fruit produced by the great orchards of two states. . Millions of packages are shipped off over most of the itwenty-flve different railroads ra diating from the city. They are haul ed from the docks to the depots and there are given to the express compa nies operating on the railroads.-' It is at this point that the advantage of shipping across the lake comes in. Had most of these shipments been sent by rail the cars could not have been given to the belt line In time to con nect with the outgoing trains In the morning, and thus serious damage to fast ripening fruit might have been done. The steamboat company could not have got the products of distant orchards had it not been for the rapid electric lines, so that It Is only by a combination of the work of three dif ferent means of transportation that it has been possible to market phenome nally big crops of fruit The rate of the entire electric and lake banl Is not more than the cost of one direct ship ment by rail to the same point and in some Instances it is less. Another advantage of shipping fruit by electric lines is that refrigeration Is nnnecessary. Country Gentleman. Good Rivets From Old Materials. Every farmer has a lot of old horse nails in the Old horseshoes. Take a piece of a broken tooth from a spring tooth har row, beat It and punch a hole through it Just large enough to admit the horse nalL t When this becomes cold yon can Insert a nail and beat It down to a very nice head and do It cold too. If you want a nice round ed head on the riv et the head of the nail can be rounded up a little before It Is hammered down. Take scraps of the modern steel roofing, cut them In small squares and with the handle LED end of an old file you can punch a a hole that Just suits the nan riv et In this way you can always have rivets of almoat any length. These' riv ets are far stronger and more service able than copper ones. Farm and Fire side. LOOK TO THE FUTURE. Provide for humus In the soil by planting green crops to be turned under to Improve the fer tility of the soil for future crops. This Is on of the reasons that should appeal to you for rota tion of crops.' . . tMMIMeMMWHMO Orchard and Garden. Every tin yotr act your feet on weak, rickety Udder yoa risk life and limb, it wouldn't take half so long to mend a broken round oa the Udder as It would to mend a broken bona A well known floriculturist says that the gladiolus and dahlia can be han dled exactly like the potato. They will keep anywhere. Tuberoses and tannas are mora tike tweet potatoes In their requirements and must be kept vara. . ... . . , ... Breaking the shell of a hard winter quas wttk a hatchet ta rattier a dan- gerew process. If a haady Wtle meat saw forms part of the kitchen outflt It will be found vary convenient Cor this purpose It ts easier and safer to saw the hard shell thaa to chop It 'Thy manafartoM -l grape J aloe as a buaiaeee is- sjrewiaa very rapidly. It supplies a rood'eyOet for ripe sweet grapes whenever the fruit mar ket is ansatiafacory. One gripe pro ducer made 400 gailons ( crape Juice from the product ol leas tsan oae acre of land. This s'"" Juice ut up In pint buttles aoa 1 at ritll at 23 cents each weulj aiui.i -1 tJ 11.800, a t ig value to La 4Ua,4 from land tUat was prod ucing berdly anything as a part of tbe fanu, , . - , . , .it,,.. f.-i "Ounnifer boasta that he has th courage ef his conviction" "Well, 1 Kueci ha baa. I've n"vr heard that he aaked enytiodjr to circulate n peti tion to ft tilm pardoned." Judge. 1 1 sa ti:r t Tt. ! I s Sri 1 7 l tl v. , ? 6 t t It K H It X h n n H n -vSt COMING ATTRACTIONS. Tonight "Miss Nobody from Starland." Tuesday, Dec 6 "The Traitor" Thursday, Dec 7 Prltii SchefT. Friday, Dec. J "The Thief KstststststsiltltltltststltltstKltK Ml se Nobody From Starland. The fallowing ' criticism of "Miss Nobody from Starland" which comes to the' Auditorium tonight was taken from the New Orleans Item of Nov ember 21: "Miss Nobody from . Starland" Is " " ' ' ' "OLIVB VAIU ti lth Miiri II. ttinrcr's Bia Musical Re the Auditorium, musical comedy from end to end, but hung on auch a flimsy pretense of continuity that It divides Itself into two musical -comedies ana some vaudeville. It la probably the most entertaining and amusing show that has been In New Orleans since last season. The music Is good, the songs are good, tne novemee are novei which la, perhaps, unusual- and the company competent There Is no sagging. The entertainment ia sus tained from flrtt to last. The local hits are pointed and humorous. "Let Me Be Tour Last Sweet heart" is Miss Olive Vail s first song and It makes a well deserved hit The combination of a pretty woman and a sentimental song well sung Is irresistible. Miss Vail doee some clever acting as Sylvia Martin, the chorus girt posing aa a young widow, but the l)rT acting of the entire evening is Lswrance Comer's work as the stage director In the second act Bert Morton as Pletro, an Italian, reproduces In the life the fearful ltal- ins Mors H. ginger's Musical Revue J Miss Nobody 1 From Starland ' . VI QUVE VAIL . s I Coming unchanged from Us record j run of a 00 nights at the Princes The- -J " S' atre, Chicago, with the All Btar Cast, Original Production, Dnncers snd Show atria. THE AVTTT.NCE iITS PF.KP III MINI) TMK K'KMS rmcKs so.-, 7.v, si. no, ii.5o. r..n k. in Beat il) Hi'ii - .!. ft 45 Pcttcn Avenue Coles Ian cartoons when the Black Hand has been about Bertee Beaumont, the Italian girl, Nina, puts some new and original motions Into a dance so unrestrained It seems Impromptu. The company does Its lues conven tional and therefore most interesting work in the second act The scene Is in the "back stage" of the Princess theater. The audience supposes Itself one person standing behind the last drop and watching, first the rehear, sal, then the production of a music al comedy. It is the most lifelike scene ever presented In a musical comedy In New Orleans. It would be unfair to indicate any of the excellent songs as best, for the audience applauded each and every one with an enthusiasm and noisy approval seldom givep. more than once in the average musical comedy. Miss Beaumont's 'Interpo lated dancing In "Ah, Marie, Marie Tarantelle," was, however, probably PRIMA DOXXA, vac, "Miss Nobody from (Marland," at Monday, .December 4. tbe greatest hit of a number of de serving and meritorious numbers. Prices 60c to I1.S0. "The Traitor." Thomas Dixon's last novel of his reconstruction trilogy, 'The Traitor," vied with "The Clanaman" in popular ity against the reading public, and it Is still a tremendous seller although It is four years old. The play founded on this novel, which Is the joint work of Channlng Pollock and Mr. Dixon, la, however, a hundred times stronger than the novel. ' While ' the charac ters and chief Incidents are for the most part the same, the story is much more effective In Its dramatic form. In other words. It Is a tttory that ts Intensely dramatic from beginning to end.- The Traitor" will be the attrac tion at the Auditorium next Tuesday, Dec, 8. Prices, iOc to 11.60. Tickets selling at Whlllock's. rrttst tvtwr.- Qulte the event of the season rill iF--Aii,a Cut jknt , . -....-"T Tuesdiy, December 5. ' THE S0UTHE11N ' AtlUSZISNT COIIPANT Present Tn03. DIXON'S; Sensational Sequel to "The Clans man,"' a thriUirj story of the decline and fall of the -'"KU KLUX KLAN Four Stirring Acts of Love, Adventure, Patriotism and Treason. Prices COc to J1.C0; a few at $1XD. Ticket sale nt AVl.itWn - " ' Wholesale and Retail Coles Hot Blast Heaters We secured the agency for this celebrated heater when the j Asheville Hardware Co. went out of business. ' Hot Blast Will keep fire from Saturday night till , Monday morning. "' . Give same heat with one-half the- coal ay other stove uses. ' -.. Old customers can get repairs here. From $12 up. ; ; We are closing out the Harris Furniture Co. stock at and ; ! below cost, at 19 So. Main. " -. : ; ' " - 'Gjp eon- Bs3! be the appearance here of Miss Frltzl Scheff In a new Victor Herebrt opera. "The Dutchess." Miss Scheff oomee here with the biggest success she has ever had. "The Dutchess" Is said to be a fit successor to her triumph of former years, "Mile. Modiste." which V 8rf:vr,OM "T,IB TRATon" at was also the work of Mr. Herbert. The book of The Dutchess" was written by Mr. Harry B. Smith and Mr. Joseph Herbert, while the pro duction was staged under the direc tion or Mr. wiiuam J. Wilson, gen eral atage director of the New York Hippodrome. . ' Miss Scheff comes here direct from a long run at the Lyric theatre. New York, where her success was the sen sation of Broadway. She Is support ed by an excellent cast, Including suclt well-known people ' aa Klley Chamberlin. May Boley, Qeorge An derson, Laura Hamilton, John E. Has xard, George Graham, Madison Smith, Itobert Milliken, Robert Flynn, Belle Court, and M. Berenaen. ' The date of Miss ScheffS local ap pearance here will he next Thursday evening, Dec. 7., Ticket sale opens Tuesday mmlng at "Whlllock's. "The Thief." The greatest event of the present theatrical season ts the forthcoming appearance in 'this city at popular prices, of the New York Lyceum the ater sensation, The Thief." that Won derful play by Bernstein which stirred all Europe and held all America In Its gripping appeal. "The Thief touches the deepest wells of human emotion with a story aa Intense and Intereating as It ta powerful and over whelming; aa compelling aa it is truth ful. . - A woman Is so deeply in love with her huatwfnd that to please his eye, he becomes a thlnf, stealing the money with which she buys clothes to make herself attractive. The scene In Asheville, N. C. Heaters J. s k. ' which she is forced to ' account for her costly wardrobe has neveiy in the history of the stage, been excelled or even equalled In the writing. It fairly sweeps the audience from' its feet "The Thief" will be seen at the Aud Itorlum ' Friday night, i -December t, f AnrroHitM tomorrow sight, Ticket sale opens Wednesday mornlni at WhitloCka. : CASTOR IK - for Infants and CULlm. ' til ICfci Yea Ezra iLsjx E::;tt Bean the) snattuaoT i ,v Thursday, December 7 Tlie MitiNnt. tw liulxvt 1rmi Aaw , ha's fcwrpat Kinging Jttma , Dunna BeauL. Fritzi Scheff t r i fitcrsif) ; ; and Uwt JYltH KchHT dim Co. la VU-tor Ilorlx-rt's Kw CmhIc Opera, THE DUCHESS" A gorgeous array of Parla and Lon don Oowna Notable Original Nr York Company and Bewltealnf Chorus, Pricee ts, $.6o, 1 and Boc. ' Ticket sale at Whltlock'a : s KoncK ' Notice la hereby given that appor tion will be made to THE JOINT HKALTII BOARD for permission t enoloae the hereinafter described kinJ and use the same for cemetery pur poses, to-wlt: - . ' lixglnnlna at a stake oh the easUrit margin of the present camaterv drive where the northern boundary fence of the Asheville cemetery leaves sel! drive, and running thence south " d-g. east with the. northern Una of aid funce about TIJ feet to the nortli eHt corner of said fonce: thenca aorih 1 1 deg. 20 mln. eaut 780 feet to S pnM 30 feet fro(n a stake in the southern marKln of J'caraon drlva at Warn" si McJntyres northwent corner: theno north 17 dec. went 2!t feet to a it In the eaaiern margin of the pre i cemetery entrunce drive, at a pot"' ahout 31( fet from where the eHKtern niarftiii Intcmects with t' xoiithern drive; thence southstrJ wlih the wmtrrii nmrifln of aald ceni tcrv drive to the t,fnnln,A . Novi-oiti.-r 14. H1I. -1 ' VI 1. 1 1 . '! TKFtV OX ' ( K . '?,) N-v ( 1-. .-. II. . J
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