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ROTATION OF CROPS.
jgt MOST valuable essay on the
-Vabove subject occupies the
(55 leader in TheAmerican Farmkr
for 1st November ultimo. Thirty -six
years of such observations, by
experts who are also veterans in rela
tion to agriculture, should loom up
a? an oasis among the experiments
of the multitude, or even all of our
agricultural colleges and "stations"
whose existence cau hardly occupy a
moiety of that period. Some of the
results confiam the doctrines I have
been advocating for many years, and
the demonstrations of a rotation of
corn, oats and wheat as to the phos
phates which were applied exclusive
ly to the corn in this set it f, precisely
as Lawes aud Gibert applied phos
phate aloue, to the first crop exclus
sively in the rotation embracing nine
years. They used super-phosphate,
whereas in .he followiDg the pure
impalpable dust of phosphate of lime
(4ifloats") was alone used, but most
liberally applied on top of the hills
of corn. Though not repeated ou
the subsequent crops of the rotation.
the remarkable effect on the wheat
this year can onlv be accounted for
by assuming that all soluble or su
perphosphates are diminished in
efficacy in proportion to the rain fall.
The contrast in tLe result upon
the wheat, with that of Lawes and
G , is more remarkable because clo
vtr was interposed as a fallow inime
diaiely before the wheat in this rota
tiou (of turnips, barley, clover and
wheat) in England ; whereas corn,
oats and wheat without fallow (or
clover), all united in, recording bet
ter results from the less soluble
phosphate, as all that was applied to
the hills of corn remained iu the
surface soil in the same molecular
form as it exists iu all virgin soil.
All super phosphates must either be
displaced by the rain from the sur
face soil, or from therein compounds
of aiurnina and iron which are prac
tically worthless as compared with
phosphate of lime. The acid re
action of the superphosphate, and
the sulphate of lime (plaster) wLich
it necessarily contains, deceive the
farmers as to its value, as both stim
ulate the phiut, though both are
worthless as to the grain ; whereas
the plant cannot use the phosphate
until it matures and niuch oi it is
lost (to the soil alt-o) before that
time, and must be reapplied every
year to each crop separately, or
twice to each crop at intervals, as is
customary at Norfolk where soluble
manures are used exclusively in the
cultivation of truck.
Moreover it is demonstrated b
frequent experiments that I have
made with arious super-phosphates
as a top-dressing to wheat in the
spring, that the crop may be doub
led thereby, though the phosphate
was drilled as u-ual previously when
the wheat was sown, and in much
larger proportion than any two
crops derive from the soil.
Jjast year the estimates were
made both as to wheat and oats on
two farms, as the wheat followed
the corn in one case, whereas in the
other the oats followed the corn, but
in both cases the phosphate was ap
plied exclusively to the corn pieced
ing these crops. The average weight
of the heads ot wheat was increased
nearly ten per ce t. (9.96), but that
of the grain thirty-eight per cent
The heads of cats were ircreased in
weight more than nine and a half
per cent. (9.52), and the grain more
than thirty per cent. (30.3). This
year (1889) the wheat crop that fol
lowed both corn and oats was esti
mated. The weight of the total crop
of straw, etc , was increased more
than thirty- two per cent. (32.9), the
increase of the grain alone was more
than seventeen per cent. (17.6); Dut
the most remarkable fact was the
increase in the specific gravity of
the grain (or weight per bushel,)
which was more than five per cent.
(5.47).. As ah other results might
Le attributed to accident or as the
cures attributed to quick medicines,
the empyncal and annual drilling of
super-phosphate only proves by its
success that a dehciency exists in
the soil, and when it fails that defi
ciency has been supplied ; if it is de
monstrated that only one third of
the deficiency is supplied, the loss to
the farmer is not only with regard to
the purl; of the crop he might have
secured, but also as to all other ma
nures which he may have applied ;
so also the seed, labor and rent, be
ing the same whether he got fifteen
of thirty bushels.
The above experiments were made
on fields of ray next neighdors,
where super phosphate, etc., had
been applied, no doubt, for many
years previously as usual, and where
the whole field was manured and
I cultivated alike, thus proving in both
cases, and in all oi three consecutive
years, the proportion of loss sustain-
ed by a failure in the proportion of
phosphate, this element being re
moved from the soil in every crop,
and also from the farm, whereas
other elements are restored in the
manure of the barn-yard or by capil
lary attraction from springs below
the surface soil derived fiom distant
mountains or other elevations.
D. Stewart, M. D.
Port Penn, Del.. Dec. 25th, 1889.
POUL TRY YARD.
The Profit in Eggs.
F. J. Marshall, in Poultry Mouthy.
Y THIS I do not mean by sel
ling them at what many call
fancy prices from one to three
dollars per setting; but selling at
market prices. Now to begin with
I wi- h to say a few words in regard
to procuring them we surely cannot
expect a profit from them. So, in
the first place, we must procure the
breed or breeds best adapted to our
wants. I am asked the question,
over and over again, what breed
would advise us to keep on the farm
for eggs and general usefulness? 1 1
might be expected to jump at the
matter in a hurry, and say, by all
means keep Leghorns, for they are
regular egg machines. But let us
consider the matter a little first.
As a rule, under ordinary carej the
Leghorn will commence laying about
the first of October, jvill lay two
months, when the cold weather gen
erally shut them off, until about the
first of March, when they begin and
lay quite steadily until about the
middle of July, when they begin to
moult. Thus iu the 12 months we
get eggs, say seven.
The Plymouth Rock pullets will
begin laying about the first of No
vember, if spring hatched, and will
nsually lay reasonably well all winter
When warm weather comes they in
crease the number tor about two
months, when they become broody
and will hatch and rear a brood,
which usuallj occupies two months,
when they will begin laying again;
thus in the year we have them laying
about eight months; perhaps not
quite so many the month as the
Leghorns, but more during the high
prices of winter, but with the addi
tion of a fine brood of young ones.
From about the first of July to
the first of October we pack our eggs
to sell in winter when prices are bet ter,
for by this scheme we more than
double the summer price of eggs.
Yes, we will tell you how we pack
them; that will noi take long, and
we will not charge you anything for
the receipt either. At the great egg
show at the city of Birmingham, Eng.
about two years ago, eggs were ta
ken from their packing having been
put up a year before, and out of
over 25 different receipts,those taken
from coom salt were the nicest, and
took the prize as such. We get a
barrel of nice fresh salt, the dryer
the better, and have it handy to our
packing vessel or barrel. We usual
ly get small barrels, about half size
put a layer of salt on the bottom,
about two inches deep, and
then place the eggs down in
this, in circles, small end down, just
far enough apart to not touch, until
the bottom is covered; then cover
these up with salt nicely
putting enough over them to prevent
the next layer from pressing down
ou them. Put in the next layer in
the same manner, and so on until
the barrel is full. Cover with salt
about two inches deep, and keep
them in a cool, dry cellar; take them
out next winter when the piice suits
you, wash and wipe them, and they
are ready for market. Gather them
fresh every daj, and pack them at
least every three days, and you will
be well pleased with the results: In
this way you can make a nice thiDg
of your eggs.
IS CONSUMPTION INCURABLE?
Read the following : Mr. C H.
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down with abcess of Lunge, and
friends and physicians pronounced
me an Incurable Consumptive. Be
gan taking Dr. King's New Discov
ery for Consumption, am now on my
third bottle, and able to oversee the
work on my farm. It is the finest
as
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STOCK FARMING IN THE
SOUTH HAY AND PAST
URE GRASSES.
AMUEL'A.COOK,in the South
ern Farm, gives the following
on the grass question, which
was referred to in our last issue:
When a section of country has re
duced the productive capacity of its
soils from a long cultivation of crops
requiring clean culture, and a con
sequent destruction of the humus in
them, the invariable resort has been
to grass, and clover and stock. There
is no other system by which the
worn and gulled fields can bo restor
ed to a normal fertility. It is use
less for us to turn to any other crop
that requires clean culture that is
make specialties of any of them. Qur
cotton and corn are not to be ' re
placed by tobacco and sugar cane.
We have only the usual resort in 6uch
cases (to restore our depleted up
lands to a condition that will justify
any further farming of them) and
that is grass and stock.
If any country is blest in the way
of climate and the possession of
numerous suitable plants for the
production of hay and stock of all
kinds, it is certainly our own country
east of the Mississippi river, and be
tween the 30th and 35th parallel of
atitude (and particularly so between
the 30th and 33d) embracing nearly
all of the south Atlantic and Gulf
states. This territory is contiguous
to good harbors, and with the best
facilities for the rapid transporta
tion of its products to the countries
Europe and the East ; with a genial
climate where the crudest sheltering
is sufficient even in the dairying
business; where pasturage can be se
cured at least nine months in the
year, and where green food of some
kind can be cut every month in rtie
yeai; where stock oi all kinds are as
frte from disease, when properly
treated, as anywhere in the world
perhaps. V ith all these advantages
what other conditions need, or can
be named, to make grass and stock
farming the most promising occupa
tion that our people could eDgage in,
either exclusively or shared with a
reasonable culture ol our chief sta
ple crop. Let us grow some cotton
to insure ready money for the time
and to furnish through its seed the
most valuable flesh forming food
and fertilizer for grass than we can
possibly get, but let us cease to
make a specialty of it. In that shape
it cannot serve us well. The demon
stration of this is complete.
Recently the writer enumerated
twenty plants as adapted to the
Southern farmer, and the list is re
peated below for the contemplation
or criticism of those who are begin
ning to realize the very great need
of a change in our system of farming
and of relegating cotton to an hum
bler position in our farm economy
than it has held in the past.
For nearly a score of years we
have been able to see only the hand
of God in the spontaneous spread of
the Bermuda grass and Japan clover
over our fields and forests. Through
them nature seems to have pointed
the way, though we have been slow
to heed the suggestion. Until re
cently the royal plant Bermuda
grass received perhaps many more
curses than blessings, but the future
will doubtless multiply the latter
and raise the plant to the position of
prominence that it- deserves as the
chief among a score of valuable
plants adapted to the needs of South
ern farm life in the new era of stock
and grans, to which we must inevi
tably come sooner or later.
CORN IN NORTH CAROLINA.
Nashville Argonaut.
CLNDIAN corn is by far the most
valuable grain produced in the
United States. It is not only
used thioughout the South for
bread, but is practically the only
grain used in the United States to
produce beef ; nd pork, and to feed
stock of all kinds. The consequence
is that the successful growing of
corn and the profitable raising of
stock always go together. In 1887,
North Carolina produced 35,830,000
bushels of corn, and in 1888, about
40,000,000 bushels. The yield in
North Carolina is larger than in any
State on the Atlantic and Gulf
coast except Texas, which has an
area of territoiy four times as great
as ours. The value of the other
crop for 1887 was $21,139,000, and
in 1888 a good deal more. While
these results are exceedingly gratify
ing, they by no means indicate the
capacity of the State for the produc
tion of this valuable grain. The
most valuable corn lands in the
State are the bottoms upon our riv
ers and streams. These lands are
not only exceedingly fertile but re
tain their fertility and never require
manuring. Tnousands and hundreds
of thousands of acres of these bot
torn lauds bad been cultivated for a
century, up to the late war, without
the application of fertilizers or the
slightest impairment of their fertility.
Thi9 was especially true of the bot
tom lands, of the Roanoke, with a
soil fifty feet deep and equal in fer
tility to the Nile, and which were the
granary of North Carolina. They
were owned by wealthy men who
held them in large bodies, kept them
in a high state of cultivation and
lived feudal state. These lands
were worth from $50 to $150 per
acre, and could scarcely be purchass
ed at any price. During the war,
dikes which protected these lands
from overflow, were broken, and
the results of the war so impoverish
ed the owners that they were unable
to restore the dikes and open the
diti,' and consequently the bulk
of these valuable lands are left out
of cultivation. The employment of
sufficient capital to re-establish the
dikes and reopen the ditches, would
at once restore these lands to their
original value and make the valley of
the Roanoke one of the finest grain
and stock producing sections in the
world. These lands, not only pro
duce corn iii vast quanties, but also
clover and timothy grow upon them
in the greatest luxuriance. What is
true of the Roanoke, is also true of
our other water courses, but to less
extent. There are also in Eastern
North Carolina, large bodies of low
lying lands now covered with valu
able timber, which can be easily
drained and which are as fertile as it
is possible for land to be. It only
requiies the use of capital to reclaim
these lands and quadruple the corn
production of the State. It is not
only true that the valley of the Roa
noke, when in cultivation, produced
immense quantities of corn, but a
vast quantity of wheat, beef, pork
and mutton. The planters, who
owned these lands and who owned
large numbers of slaves, made not
only an abundance of food for the
supply of their plantations, but ship
ped large quantities every year. If,
with all these hundreds of thousands
of acres of our most fertile land un
cultivated, we produce more corn
than any other Sothern State except
Texas, and more comparatively than
that State, how much would be our
yield if these lands were all brought
under cultivation.
POULTRY AND FRUIT
ING.
GROW
ai CORRESPONDENT of the
A Ohio Poultry Jcurnal thus
(23 figures out the advantage of
cambining these two:
Can the eggs
from poultry, also
the vegetables that are raised from
the hen compost, and fruit growing
be so combined to pay a profit of
from $3 to $5.00 per hen?
Yes. Don't you think that when
you have made from 1 to $1.25
from the eggs that that is all,
for you make from 81 to S2 on the
vegetables that are produced from
the hen manure or hen compost
from a hen, making from 2 to S3
from eggs and vegetables alone.
But you don't want to stop making
money from your hens now, but
place your hen touse3 in or near an
orchard, where the hens can have
free access to it, so they can dig and
scratch around the trees and pick up
tie caterpillars and other worms
that are destructive to the fruit,
which cause fruit to be wormy,and be
of inferior or No. 2 quality. By pia
cing the hens in the orchard they
will cause the land to become very
rich by their droppings . and keep
the trees free from worms to a large
extent if not entirely so, and this will
cause vour fruit to be larger aud of
-
better quality, and from these bene
fits vou will get larger crops, and
your fruit will be of No. 1 quality.
If you had a nice apple or pear or
chard of one acre, and the trees were
set thirty feet apart each way, that
would make 49 trees; and if plum or
peach trees were set in between,
them, that would make 36 trees a
total of 85 trees. By having one
hundred hens in the orchard from
o'clock in the atternoon until it was
time to go to roost,they would make
the soil so rich that the difference in
nuftlitv between large and fine fruit
T.
combined with the extra amount you
would recive from each tree, com
pared with an inferior lot of fruit
must certainly give the hens the
benefit of a profit of from fifty cents
to a dollar each. Manure of some
kind must be applied to the orchard
to keep the trees growing,thrifty and
in a bearing condition.
DR. ACKER'S ENGLISH PILLS
Are active, effective and pure. For
sick headache, disordered stomach,
loss of appetite, bad complexion and
biiliousness, they have never been
equaled, either in America or abroad.
Sold by J. C. Simmons, druggist.
WHY THE FARMERS OF TO
DAY SHOULD IMPROVE ON
THE PRACTICE OF
THEIR FATHERS.
EY. E. P. Powell treached a
Thanksgiving sermon to farm
ers, which was published in
Independent, and from which
we quote some practical and sug -gestive
passages :
" THE MAIN THING TO REMEMBER.
The lessons that we have learned
and are learning are first of all not
to rely on a single crop or on two or
three to enrich us in farming. The
old routine of wheat, corn and po
tatoes, or oats, potatoes and corn,
controlled all farming in the Eastern
States up to a very recent date ;
while in the west it was impossible
to induce a farmer to put in any
crop but corn or wheat or possibly
both. We know the result both east
and west. Exceptional years of
oyer abundant corn or of wheat re
duce the tillers of the soil to des
perate straits, almost as surely as a
failure of the staple. In the Eastern
States farming passed nearly fifty
years ago out of the era of exchanges
into the era of middlemen and mar
kets ; farms grew less and less self
supporting, and mortgages loaded
them down. There was less Home
production of clothing and soap and
candles and shoes and carpets ; there
was far more to buy, but no more to
buy with. An off year, bad for corn
or for potatoes, created a debt, and
it was impossible to recover lost
ground. Farms passed into the
hands of Irishmen, who succeeded
no better in the long run, and are
now failing into the possession of a
third class, mostly Germans.
PLANT A LITTLE OF MANY THINGS.
But the lesson is being learned
still very slow that we must grow a
larger range of crops. Each farm
should include not only an orchard,
but a small vineyard or berry garden,
or both ; and attention should be
paid to other crops suited to the
locality, such, as it may be, Lima
1 1 t -w-
oeuns, and wax beans, i nave nine
acres, over half of which is tree and
flower lawns. From the resLI have
sold this year of berries, currants,
grapes, apples and pears and beans
over six hundred dollars' worth,
besides having a complete home sup
piy i ne grape crop was almost a
failue and lessened the income $300
This same piece of land with tradi
tional tillage of potatoes, corn, and
oats and grass would have starved
one. I can not enter into minutise
concerning my work except to show
that it is needful in these days to
have a large variety of crops Some
thing is sure to fail each ear. Had
I this year relied on grapes I should
have been in a bad plight. Apples
are few, but brought a high price to
compensate.
TAKE NO RASH CHANCES.
One more lesson is being learned,
and that is not to rush headlong
into speculative crops. Take the
cultivation of hops as an instance.
Several counties in New York have
passed twice over through bankrupt
cy through hops. I mean that the
farms that undertook hop growing
have passed, on the average, twne
under the hammer or are mortgaged
so deeply that they will take their
second leap very soon. Such a crop
is very taking in this respect, that it
brings in, if prices are high, an enor
mous proht. ut prices go irom
fifty cents down to five, and from
five up to fifty. Not one farmer in
a score is level-headed enough to
keep up with the market. The nine
teen m the course of hve years are
inflated and collapsed and end in
being wiped out. Most of them
plant when prices are high and bor
row the capital to do it with on the
anticipation of continued high prices.
Down go the figures and down goes
the farmer. I instance the hop crop
because it has left New York State
millions of dollars worse off than it
found it.
ABOUT THAT MORTGAGE-
We get at these two points in the
demands of our modern farming,
first to grow a large variety of crops,
and not to enter extensively into
speculative crops. I presume some
would wish to amend my statement
by saying the farmer should never
live beyond his means, and on no
account borrow money. I do not
accept the statement. I believe that
judicious common-sense farming wil
pay a mortgage, provided sickness
do not interfere, or Borne extraordi
nary intervention of nature. I know
farmers who are paying up and gain
ing, right alongside those who are
not ; and they live better, eat better,
dress better than those who are
losing ground. The difference is in
such principles as I have referred to,
I can point you to a father and son
on adjacent farms ; the former close,
penurious, in the old ruts ; the latter
the
intelligent, enterprising, but not
speculating. The former is losing,
the latter is gaining.
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER.
Another lesson that our farmers
have to learn is "student farming,"
"book farming." There is no mis
take about it, old boys, you may
sneer as you like, we can beat you
out and out, and we do it because
we make culture a constant study.
When the land was new it did not
make much difference how potatoes
were planted, but it does make a
difference now. We have got to
know the relative values of level
culture and hill culture, and the
special values of special uses of
manures. Oar best agricultural
journals, our experimental bulletins,
our agricultural colleges, point the
way. I am astounded at the igno
ranee of most farmers on everyday
matters. How do you manage to
keep the knots off your plum trees ?
says one. How do you manage to
get a crop of apples in spite of
worms and moths ? cries another.
They do not know what a codling
moth is. They throw pounds of
Paris green on their potatoes where
ounces will suffice. The handling
of fruit is terribly crude and waste
ful. The pork barrel with corn is
still the staple diet of very many
farmers ; and sewers are neglected ;
and sellars are vile stench holes ; the
consequence is sickness and doctors
bills. Above all men farmers need
to study science. It 1 had as manyJ
children as Solomon, they should be
taught not so much arithmetic and
grammar, but more geology and
chemistry. And whatever else a
farm-house lacks it should not lack
tbe best journals of agriculture and
horticulture.
STOCK FEEDING.
State Chronicle.
AE HAVE received from the
North Carolina Agricultural
Experiment Station two bul
letins which have a practical value to
to every farmer in North Carolina
No question is more important than
stock feeding, and none should be
more carefully studied by those to
whom it is a question of dollars and
cents. The subject of the first of
these bulletins, both of which are the
work of F. B. Dancy, A. B , First As
sistant Chemist, is "Practical Stock
Feeding on Scientific Principles, To
gether With its Relation to Chemiss
try." Mr. Dancy truly says: "If
the farmers are over-feeding their
stock in North Carolina, it ought to
be found out. More than that, it
ought to be promply stopped." In
this pamphlet Mr. Dancy divides
he discussion into three heads. 1.
The Chemistry of Cattle Foods, or
what are the ingredients of fodders;
and. briefly, how they are deter
mined. 2. The value of each of
these ingredients in the economy of
the animal, and 3, The study of
certain feeding and digestion tables
bunded on the first two, and how to
ure them in practical feeding.
Under each head he gives practi
cal and scientific information upon
the topics touched upon, and gives a
carefully prepared table of feeding
Standards showing the amount of
food ingredients required per day by
horses, mules, oxen, milking cows,
sheep, hogs, and growing cattle in all
their conditions. He also gives a
table of the most common North
Carolina fodders. The standards
given in this bulletin are the gresult
of practice, and with the exercise of
good judgement and common sense
will find them of great value.
The prime object of Mr. Dancy's
second bulletin on"Stock Feeding as
Practised in North Carolina" is to
give more dennite lniormation than
is now possessed on the valuable in
gredients of various foods, the terms
adopted in connection with those in
gredients, the relative value of one
food as compared with another.
In order to secure the needed in
formation blanks were sent out to
representative farmers in nearly
every county in the State, and infor
mation was asked as to the amount
of daily rations furnished to horses,
mules, oxen, sheep, milk cows, eta
The answers showed how pre-emi
nently Indian corn is the fodder of
North Carolina farmers. Hay and
corn fodder are used interchangably
and oats come next-
Mr. Dancy then shows by facts
that our f nrmers spend too much in
stock feeding, and says that if our
farmers would use a greater variety
ef fodder in their rations, instead of
corn and hay only, or corn and fod
der only, as is now the practice,
great waste of food material will be
avoided. To other observations and
facts, Mr. Dancy adds the testi
mony c I prominent and successful
farmers in all sections of the State.
Prof. Alex Mclver of Pittsboro,
thinks that the manure alone pays
for feeding of cattle which ought to
be housed at night.
Mr. A. Graves, of Caswell, advo
cates regularity in feeding, and says
"Corn with a horse is like too much
new brandy with a man. It will in a
short time burn him out,"
Mr. J. B. Oliver, of ML Olive, has
found from actual experience that
three bushels of boiled corn, for fat
tening hogs makes as much pork as
four busels of raw corn.
Mr. J. C. Cooper, of Dobeon, be-
Iieves corn and cob ground together
and mixed with rye meal, oats, flax
seed, bran &c, is a good feed for
mules, milk cows, and all. For
heavy work, he recommends three
quarts at a feed.
Mr. C. McDonald of Concord, fed
his horses all last winter on clover
hay alone, and they were in an excel
lent condition. Afterwards he fed
with 1 gallons of corn and as much
meadow hay as they could eat each
day. Under this feed they lost
flesh Then he fed on green clover
followed by cured clover. They
improved rapidly on clover.
Mr. Dancy has given the farmers
a valuable lesson. We nope many oi
them will study it and put it into
practice. These bulletins can be
had by any farmer upon application
at the Experiment Station, Raleigh,
N. C. We advise all our farmer
readers to get them and study them
NORTH CAROLINA DAIRIES
Wilmington Star.
HE Asheville Citizen, which is
ever alert in looking after the
interests of the section of the
State in which it is published, is
in trying to awaken more interest in
the dairy industry in the mountain
region in Wee tern North Carolina.
In doing so it calls attention to the
success which has followed the ef
forts of Dr. Benbow, who some years
ago opened a dairy farm nearGreens
boro.Last year he churned ll,098gal
lons of milk,from which were produc
ed 4,162 pounds of butter. This dairy
was located on what was worn out
lands years ago, every acre of which,
had to be redeemed. But industry,
perseverence, and good management
have done this, and now the pastures
which the Doctor's herds graze, can
show as luxuriant growth of the va
rious grasses grown, as can be seen
anywhere.
But Dr.Benbow's success is not an
exception, for there is no portion of
North Carolina where the dairy in
dustry has been started and followed
with good judgement that it has not
proved a success, espec.ally since the
breeding of thoroughbred cattle has
become more general, and the butter
made on them, too, will compare in
any of the noted Northern dairies.
We saw a few days ago at the gro
cery store of J. L. Boatwright, in
this city, butter from the dairy of J.
O Powell, near Taboro, in Edge
combe county, as sweet and beauti
ful as ever came out of a churn. It
was put up with as much care as the
finest toilet soap, cast in moulds,
each cake weighing a pound, with
the name of the dairy imprinted up
on it, and neatly wrapped ia fine tis
sue paper. It was nice enough to
be placed upon exhibition at a
world's fair.
We speak of this because it shows
a pride in his work which
is to Mr. Powell's credit,
while it also shows the North
Carolina dairy under good manage
ment can hold its own with the dai
ries of any other State. In time,
with the progress that has already
been made, this will become a great
industry in this State.
What you need is a medicine
which is pure efficient, reliable.
Such is Hood's Sarsaparilla. It po-
sesses peculiar curative powers.
DYSPEPSIA
Makes the lives of many people mis
erable, and often leads to self-destruction.
We know of no remedy
for dyspepsia more successful than
Hood's Sarsaparilla. It acts gently
yet surely and efficiently, tones the
stomach and other organs, removes
the faint feeling, creates a good ap
petite, cuaes headache, and refreshes
the burdened mind. Give Hood's
Sarsaparilla a fair triaL It will do
you good.
THE FIRST SYMPTOMS OF
DEATH.
Tired feeling, dull headache, pains
in various parts of the pody, sinking
at the pit of the stomach, loss of ap
petite, feverishness, pimples or sores,
are all positive evidence of poisoned
bloon. No matter how it became
poisoned it must be purified to avoid
death. Dr. Acker's English Blood
Elixir has never failed to remove
scrofulous or syphilitic poisons. Sold
under a positive guarantee. For
sale by J. C. Simmons, dxuggist