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THE LOVE YOU SHOULD
FOR YOUR FARM
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We would have every farmer love
his work even as he artist loves his
work, and in this:, spirit, too, every
farmer should love his farm itself as
he would love a favorite horse or
dog. He should know every rod of
the ground, should know just what
each acre is best adapted to, should
leel a joy and pride in having every
hill and vally look its best, and should
be as much ashamed to have a field
scarred with gullies as he would be
to nave a beautiful colt marked with
aslies;as much ashamed to have a
piece of grotind worn out from il
treatment as to have a horse gaunt
and bony from neglect; as muchc
hurt at seeing his acres sick from
wretched management as he would be
at seeing his cows half starving from
the same cause.
Love your ground that piece of
God's creation which you hold m fee
imnif Fatten its Doorer parts as
carefully as you would nurture an
ailing Collie. Heal the washed, torn
places in the hill Bide as you would
the barb-scars on your pony. Feed
with legumes and soiling crops and
fertilizers the galled and barren
patca that need's special attention;
nurse it back to life and beauty and
t'ruitf ulness . Make a meadow of the
bottom that is inclined to wash; see
it and care for it until the kindly
root-masses heal every wound, and in
one unbroken surface the tides of
grass break into foam of flowers up
on the outer edges. Do not forget
even the forest lands. See that every
acre of woodland has trees enough
on it to make it profitable, a good
stand of the timber crop as well as
of every other crop. Have an eye
td the beautiful in laying off the clear
ed fields tree here and there, but
no wretched beggar'scoat mingling of
little patches and little rens, rather
broad fields fully ended and of as
nearly uniform fertility as possible
making of your growing crops, as it
were, each a beautiful garment, whole
and unbroken, to clothe the fruitful
acres which God has given you to
keep and tend as He gave the first
Garden into the keeping of our first
parents. Raleigh Progressive Farm,
er and Gazette .
The South Can Compete
World Growing Corn.
With the
We contend that corn, meats, fruits,
legumes and many other crops which
we might mention can be grown by
the Southern farmer Cheaper than
any other people oh eart,h can grow
them for him, and that, therefore he
should grow these crops for his own
use and for sale.
Even under present conditions it
has been demonstrated time and
again, that the Southern farmer can
produce hogs at 3 to 4 cents a
X)und, live weight, and make money
on them. If this be so, and it is,
then why should he not rejoice at
the fact that live hogs are selling at
8 cents a pound, and by growing the
hogs as a Tnoney crop reap a rich
harvest? "
We need diversification because it
in necessary, or at least conductive
to increasing soil fertility, and be-
auso we can produce many, of these
things cheaper than we can buy them
We do not need to grow everything
we use, but we need to grow those
things of which we use large quanti
ties and which we can produce cheap
er than other people can produce for
us". Of these crops we stand pat on
wu a oaiiy vrniu
are being planted in increasing
quantities each year by the largest
and most successful market-growers.
This variety makjss uniform
ly large sized potatoes, of excellent
shipping, market and table quali
ties, and is proving to be one of
the most profitable and reliable of
early-cropping potatoes.
We are headquarters for the best
Maine-grown Sggfl
Second Crop ST
Northern-grown POtfltOeS
Wood's 30th Annual Seed
Book gives full descriptions and
information, with the highest tes
timonials from successful growers
as to the superiority of Wood's
eed Potatoes.
Write for prices and Wood's
Seed Book, which will be mailed
free on request. ; Jj
T. W. WOOD ft SONS.
Seed Potatoes
O seUni, . Richmond, Va. tf
corn, meats and fruits.
We can compete with the world
in the growing of these crops, and
as long as we buy them at from two
to three times the cost atwhich we
can produce them, we are not using
good farming or business sense,
TWELVE THINGS TO DO THIS
MONTH
Break all the land possible, so as
to have it ready when spring comes.
Plow deeply all clay soils.
j Keep the fire out of the fields; do
a little more work if necessary to
get the trash worked into the soil.
Open tip ditches, or make new
ones the broad, shallow kind
straighten up terraces, clean up the
banks, fence rows etc.
Get stumps and brush out of the
fields; fill in the, gullies.
Look over the machinery and see
that it is ready for use. Arrange
now for the purchase of new imple
ments needed.
Begin getting the horses and mules
ready for the spring rush; put them
to work by degrees; increase their
feed gradually, groom wel once each
day.
Prepare the hot beds, if not al
ready dohe, and sow tomatoes, pep
per etc. Sow cabbage, lettuce, onion
and radish seed, plant peas and early
potatoes ,
Get good seed of corn, cotton and
other field omns rnadv for nlantiner. i
I If there is any question of
their
quality, test seeds for vitality.
Fence off the oats for the pigs and,'
begin preparing a pasture rotation
for them.
Set the hens; clean out the poultry
houses; whitewash; prepare cops and
brooders .
Prune the fruit trees. If you sus
pect San Jose scale, spray with lime
sulphur solution.
Get the tobacco beds ready. Sow
onlv clean and heavy seed.
HOW TO GET GOOD SEED
THE GARDEN
FOR
As a rule, it is had policy to buy
garden seed that are offered at low
prices, for it costs more to grow good
seed than poor ones, and the fact
you are offered seed below the price
charged by the best seedsmen is
sufficient evidence that they, should
he left alone. Buy only the best, and
buy from seedsmen of long standing
and unblemished reputation. If you
get a seed catalog with the most im
possible pictures of fields of vege
tables, watermelons, etc., that is us
ually a good catalog to put in the fire.
But when a catalog has photographic
illustrations in half-tone taken direct
from the plants themselves it shows
a man who is not trying to deceive
and generally has good seed. W. F.
Massey, Raleigh.
YOU CAN NOT GET SOMETHING
FOR NOTHING
Did you ever see of those darkies
who when he went to do a hard job
would play a little on one side of it
and then fool a little on the other
side, doing this and that and the
other, and concerned chiefly with
keeping out of the real work just as
long as possible? If you have, you
know how much he is really work
when downright hard labor is de
manded. Well, we have, often seen farmers
who semed to us to think just like
such, darkies workj. They would won
der and debate ovfer and plan for a
peanut or a potato patch, but they
never did a good half-hour's really
honest, concentrated thinking about
their farming as a whole never con
sidered the various lines of work in
relation to each other or to their own
substantial and permanent welfare.
They farmed without plan or system,
with no definite goal in view and,
"therefore, no certain course in any
direction.
To succeed at farming a farmer has
got to think, honestly, earnestly, per-
sistently and bravely. He must, when
he finds a problem that needs solv-
ing, put his mind to work on it and
keep it there, until ne has mastered
it, just as he puts his team into a
field and keeps it tbere unfti the
field is flowed The man who is
I ftTnArt tr rfn a 1f rtf wna fete - f
afraid to work his brain a little must DDflCCOOIflMJl!
muscles for which he will get very lIlUrLuulUPInL
!!EDC0RN UAKUb I
TEST THE
Have you tested your seed corn as
yet? Or will you be caught ' asleep
at the switch at planting time, when
seedmen's tested stock is all cleaned
out? The largest trade ever done
in seed corn is now Illinois and
Iowa, the two States of greatest pro
duction, are in undoubted bad condi
tion. At the test at Ames last week
only 60 per cent, of the seed was
found strong. Twelve per cent of
it was weak and 28 per cent. bad.
Will these alanming figures drive
home the necessity for absolute cer
tainty as to the character of the
seed planted next spring?
Much field corn, exposed to the
winter, used for seed. If it is neces
sary to resort to such corn, get it in
the house as quickluy as possible and
test each ear carefully. Take them
preferably from the inside of the
shock, where moisture and cold have
affected them east. But get them in
doors and test them. Do not trus o
he lok of an ear. You can no more
tell by the looks of an ear how fer
tile and strong the germs are than
you can tell how far a frog can
jump by looking at him.
If our corn fields are planted next
spring with seed that is only 60 per
cent strong, calamity impends . If
there is a single farmer who does
not realize the gravity of the present
grain situation he needs waking up,
either in his information or his un-
aerstanding. Our fields must be farm
ea as never oeiore. Ana tne lOUnaa
tion of the crop is strong seed . Test
your now. Breeders' Gazette.
WORK FOR THE MONTH
We desire to urge strongly upon
ur subscribers fhe importance M
having a good garden to supply the
table with the vegetables needed to
enable the good lady of the house to
prepare appetizing and nourishing
meals al through the year. Too of
ten in the South she is like the
Israelites of old called upon to make
bricks without straw, asked to pro
vide the meals but given nothing he-
yond some salt pork, Corn meal and
flour and perhaps during the summer
a few bollards and cabages and may
be a few Irish and sweet potatoes.
This is a great injustice done her
and those whom she has to feed.
There is no reason whatever why
every farmer's table in the South
should not have vegetables of some
kind on the table every day in the
year and for most or the time have
den. If only the good man will do
these gathered fresn from the gar-
his part she will not fail to do hers
and the health of all will be greatly
benefited. Farmers, most of them,
shirk the garden work and if any.
thing is done expect it to be done by
the women of the house hold over
and above their household duties.
This is a very short-sighted way to
look at the matter. Whereever a
good garden is made and propery at
tended to all through the year and
an account kept of the produce used
and sold therefrom it will be found
that no acre on the farm makes the
returns for the manure, fertilizer and
abor expended on it tjbat the garden
does. Let this short-sighted policy
be changed and as an evidence of the
intention to mend your ways start at
once to make a garden and resolve
that it shall have the necessary at
tention all through the year. That
this shall be capable of being done
without requiring too great a sacri
fice of time from the other work of
the farm let the garden be made large
enough at the outset to provide am
ple room for all different crops of
vegetables. An acre is not too much
land to set apart for this purpose and
let it be set out longer than wide
so as to allow of al rows being made
long and thus capable of being cul
tivated by horse power instead of
with the hoe. Half an hour every
few days with a cultivator will keep
things growing and doing well when
hours of labor with the hoe would
he required in cultivating short rows
The half hour can be spared from
the field crops almost at any time
when the hours would be a serious
interference with the well doing of
the crop. Fence in the garden with
a chicken prof fence, say 4 or 5 feet
high, If this be made of chicken wire
fencing very few of the hens will fly
over it as the top selvage of the wire
fence 'Is so small that they will not
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OR. S. W. GREGORY.
DENTIST.
Office In Flora's new building,
Cor. Main and Water Sts.
OR. M. M. HARRIS,
'.:7 Dentist
Office In Robinson BuEdlng,
Hours 8 to 12 and 2 to 6.
J. H. WHITE. D. D. S.
Twenty fly years in
DENTISTRY
In all its branches.
Office over McCabe & Grice's Store
Cor. Main and Poindexter streets.
TrfE HATTIE CREEF.
Daily between Manteo and Eliza
oeth City.
Leaves Elizabeth City daily at
1:10 o'clock P. M. for Manteo..
Leaves Manteo daily at 5 o'clock
a. m, for Elizabeth City.
Connects at Manteo with boats for
Mann's Harbor, Mashoes and East
Lake
W. J. GRIFFIN,
General Manager.
Eastern Carolina Transportatiom Co
use it for enabling them to get into
the garden and few hens will fly dir
ectly over a fence without alighting
on
the top. Make a gateway' into
it at both ends so that time may be
saved in working it. Cover. the
ground with a good heavy coating of
rotted barn yard or pen manure and
then plow deply and leave for a
week or ten days to dry and freeze
if there be any frost. A dressing of
a ton of lime to the acre applied
after plowing wil greatly help to
make it moe productive by sweeten
ing the soli and improving its phy
sical and mechanical condition. Har
row this in lightly. Especially is lime
neded on an old garden plot as these
are almost always sour. In our last
issue will be found an aricle showing
the benefit of lime in the trucking
lands of Tidewater Virginia which
have been long worked in vegetable
crops. If when the manure is ap
plied 40 pounds of acid phosphate is
applied with each ton of the manure
this will greatly help to fit the land
for making good crops and will pay
well. We often hear a man say his
garden is too rich to make good
crops. That it will only make vines
and stalks. It is not too rich but the
fertility is unbalanced. Farm yard
manure supplies ammonia to the
land which makes vines and stalks.
It supplies? very little
acid or potash and all
phosphoric
vegetables
require these minerals to make seed
and tubers. Two to four hundred
pounds of acid phosphate and 50 to
100 pounds of muriate of potash to
the acre should be applied to bal
ance the farm jard manure. The
sooner these mineral fertilizers are
applied the better so that they will
have time to become available be-
'fore the crop calls for them. As the
land is needed for the planting of
the crops work over with the culti-
i vator frequently so as to have a fine
seed bed and then lay off the rows
wide enough to admit of horse cul-L
tivation .
The first crop to be planted is
English peas. These may be sown
this month using the first early var
ieties, like Alaska and Nonpareil.
Open a wide furrow and scatter the
peas by hand in a wide row pretty
thickly. Tread the seed into the
ground and cover 4 or 5 inches deep.
j Beets and radishes may be sown to.
gether in rows this month. The
radishes will come off before the
beets need the ground. Early Horn
carrots and Southport White Globe
onions can also be sown towards the
end of the month. These should be
thinned out as they, become large
a
enough and the thinnings from the
onions can be used to plant other
rows. Sow mustard and kale in the
same way for spring greens. Cab
bage seed may be sown for raising
plants to set out in rows as soon as
large enou&h. It is well to sow the
seed where the plants can be pro
tected by either sashes or brushes
and mats or straw if a severe threatens.
IF YOU
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SUFFOLK is the Largest Peanuts Town in the
world Liberal advances made on Peanuts
either for Prompt Sales or Storage Charge,
guaranteed to be as low as any reputable firm.
It will pay you to write for charges, quo
tations, etc., before shipping. We respectfully
solicit your shipment for which we will give
careful! ana personal attention. Write
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Elizabeth City, N. C.
Just Received
a car loan of Main grawn Irish Potato Seed. The car consists
of IrishCobblers, White Bliss, Red Bliss and Holton Early
Rose.
One car Farming Implements
Consisting of
Disc Cultivators
Disc Harrows
Section Harrows
Acme Harrows .
Stalk Cutters
Sunny South Corn and Cotton
Planters.
Black Hawk Corn Planters.
York Weeders and other.
Come in and inspect our stock. We hae
a big show room on second story of our new
building which we are now occupying especially
to show our farming implements.
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