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pfTiino'.jfi -11 mae a Aw T7HAT FAEIHIirS T7AIIT EITCA7- (Professor Massey in Progressive Farmer.) Which isj'est;to imx -with ma nure, raw ground phosphate roc or acid phosphate, the first at $9 i tha second at $14 1" In . experiments at the Ohio Station the acid phosphate made the great est yield when mixed at rate of 40 J .i- it.. 4--.-.,-.? m nnnra ' - hilt. the raw ground rock made the greatest profit because of its lower Mixed, with manure or on. land where there is a heavy growth of dead peavines the raw pulveried rock will give excellent results, and will be the most economical, while if applied to a soil deficient in vegetable decay it will be a good while getting available. . - ' Pasture Grasses. For a pas ture 4 to last two or three years, I would sow a mixture of 5 lbs orchard grass, 5 pounds of tall meadow oats grass and 5 pounds of Canada blue grass an acre. jSow peas on .the land this spring and apply 300 pounds of acid phosphate and 25 pounds of mur iate of potash' an acre. Cut the peas for hay and prepare the ... . -. i -i 1 1 I tttaii fivis-i onTO T ri u wm seed in October. Winter. Grazing. Hairy vetch and oats that have made a fine fall growth can be pastured mod erately during the winter if the cattle are not allowed on it when the soil is wet. But the grazing should be only moderate, and the plants should not be eaten down to the ground. Irish Potatoes. How many bushels of Irish potatoes it will take! to Dlant an acre -'when cut to single eyes, will depend large ly on the size of the potatoes used But I would not cut potatoes to single, eyes. In all my experience I have gotten better results from tutting to two eyes with a liber al piece of "the potato. This will usually take about three barrels oi meaium-sizea potatoes to plant an acre. How to Apply Lime " Should lime be spread broadcast and , let remain un top oj. lue iana au win . ter or spread just before plow ing !,, Neither. Lime should not be left entirely on. the surface, nor should it be plowed in deep ly. The place to- spread lime is just after plowing the land, and . then harrow it in lightly. Lime ginks rapidly into the soil, and we want it to effect the whole soil. Hence, we put it on top and -,-.--T 'X mcicijr narrow .11 ill. Bermuda Grass. The best way to kill out Bermuda or wire DEBT. COTTON riCHEE THAT'S A UAUVEL. ' : . - . Goodwin and Ilardjng's Ilsclilne Does There is no reason for a mortgaged farm in the bouth..The man. the flror-And at a - ScraU Cost, who, from year to year has to pay interest on increasing debts, has Twnfath Century Eevolutlon la something the matter with him. Either he prefers to carry the load cotton Plcfcla Is; Fully Shown by to have something to worry about or he is content to exist at the ex- , Succe8Sf--i Demonstration of the pense of some one else. . :V " 1T V : : , 1 Picker Before tfie Public , Tf in ih a Northeast .the Middle North and the Northwest, where, cotton picking 'successfully by a but one crop can be made per year, the farmers are for the greater machine ,is an assured factThat a en, there is no reason why any farmer in the Sonth,.j7fce? froia wfl of local prIde Xne Whitney Cotton to three crops can be made, from every acre, should bo in debt for fj gin effected a revolution in prepar nickle in fact, it would seem that the boot should be on the other ing cotton for the market. The Good ftt ; ; ; . - ' ' - win & Harding cotton picker effects Let us take instances cited by the Census Bureau, which may De " Acw days ago the Goodwin & regarded as indicative of the whole. In Maine, where the growing Harding cotton picker was success season is but five months, 73 per cent of the farmers are free from Ully demonstrated at the Hobby farm encumbrances. Only-27 per cent of the farmers are in debt, and near Raleigh. Jsterdfay. afternoon there is a possibiUty that of this perce bered because their owners are enlarging. - , , ' success. Cotton plants with the cot- In New Hampshire 75 per cent of the farms are free from debt, ton bolls on them had been set out In this section', also the growing period is less than- half of the and the new picker a twentieth cen ' , turv marvel did the work of picking year. - -' !. ' - ', -i cotton cleanly and rapidly. : In Indiana 62 per cent ot the larms are iree irom encumorance, ana A large and representaUve crowd the season is but a trifle longer there. ; attended the demonstrations yester- In Michigan the percentage of farms free from debt is 52. and the day; and there was great enthusiasm growing season is less than half a year there also. . . ; oyer the work.;'lt is a ,der tj V the South the growing season varies, according to latitude, tke?sr from ten to twelve months every . year. There isn t an acre of the charm. whole of the South that will' not produce at least two crops per year, The cotton picker, with one man rr,nef f V.0Tn will TnfWp tVirAP. using two pickers, has a capacity of - Reasoning by anology, would it not be proper to conclude that if Jta. tt. co st about the iarms, wnere tnere can De dui one crop grown per year, are w by jnd, the results showing one man the greater extent free from debt, the Southern farmer in debt ma day can pick 1,000 pounds, as should be a rare exception. Is it so? - ' against 150 to 200 pounds by hand. Unfortunately it is not. But the way has been shown,, the path Thoac bine is aexpeone, opened to the new arrangement of crops in the koutn, and the lndi- e reach of every thrifty farmer. It cations are that it will retrieve it self, that'the day is close at hand is no heavier than an ordinary one wheri the exceedingly fertile lands will be kept busy all the year, horse wagon, and it does not injure producing crops that make the dollars to clear off the encumbrances the cotton plant. One of the machines i ..i .i , . . . . . . . , - will carry two to four men. ana .this and do away with the credit system that is so costly to the farmer means the picking of two to four and so profitable to the money lender. Trucker and Farmer. tales each day by one machine. ' . ' , The power is supplied by a small . , -v' ---i-.T , gasoline. engine and the cotton is tak- LEARN TO DO THINGS WELL. en from. the. plant into a tube, drawn. ia by a flexible shaft, the cotton being - T . , , - , -c , caried on by the use of a small re You and I are simply bundles of habits. Every time we do any- voiving . fan through a flexible tube thing it becomes easier to do it in the future, until by and by the into a receptacle. The machine has doing of it becomes' unconscious, automatic it does itself. It is, fully shown that it is a success, those therefore, of the utmost importance that we-form correct habits in no baveeen it being astounded at j . ,. , . . j. t i x j i j its work. It will make a revolution in doing, in thinking, in living. If we learn to do a thing badly and form cotton picking. Raleigh News and the habit, we will in all probability do it badly all our days. . If we Observer. - form the habit of doing things in the wrong way, or if we form the habit of doing evil things, we will in time become careless men or A. Woman's Farming Tenture bad men; for badnes and goodness are, to a certain extent', at least, Miss R. N. Hillman is the active matters of habit. head of a profitable farm of nearly When your Uncle Henry was a boy he was very anxious to get .000 acres. She was born in St. Paul through with a good deal of work. For instance, he was anxious to nd for some years was well known be the fastest corn. husker and the fastest grain binder in the neigh, .CoSSSfSJS borhood. Unfortunately, he formed the habit of binding sheaves n Wisconsin farm Here she be- loosely and failed to acquire the habit of getting all the silk and came interested in farming. She long husks off the corn. The mice had a picnic in the corn that he husked edAto set out on the Western prairies, A loose sheaf, when hauled in, in harvest, or pitched out at thresh- aif iiS2 ing time, was instantly recognized as one of "Henry's sheaves." I L er saving oCanXn tried hard to correct this habit in afer years, bur.ne vex succeeded, land. ... .:. . s I xoiild bind tight enough as long as I kept thinking nbout' it, but What she did, she persists, 'many a the moment I began thinking about something else, and that was nowJ??vkLng on sma salar about all the time, the sheaf bound itself .loof , : lou will avoid a great deal of trouble in. after life if you will ac- purchasing supplies in a blind way, quire the habit of doing well whatever you do. It is no more trouble for she knew little about farming, to acquire the habit of doing it right than wrong, and when a habit Sbe, is now af sed as one of the large' is onr.fi former! it st fnrmo1 Tli , -:- grain growers in the vicinity of Moose- , j - -.vv. c xwxigci. jju. uiatucc ii, me mure law UUII L-3 n,; I'M elf you don't find it anywhere elso, end cells it for less w ?have tho only fire proof, steam-heated store inn town, n snake, no soot, double decked and shelving to the top anS greatest variety you ever saw. JETew Sprint Ginshams. Perpou White Goods have arrived and na room. Impossible to store our goods and must be sold, so Greater Bargains at Wilson'! than, anywhere, t Also do you know we have two big vrsxl houses packed full of Groceries ia solid cases, . Purnitnre Chairs, Epriags, ' Ilattresses, Stoves, Eanges, Doors, Sashl Buggies, SurreysrWagonsr-Also a Feed store, Shorts,' Br! Cotton Seed Ileal, Timothy hay; Also all kinds of seed! Clover Bed Top Timothy, Blue Grass, Orchard Gras? Onion .Sets. v. 'V- : , r GREAT ASSOHTUEin? OF BEST FEBTILIZEBS. Farmers we are your friend, when you come to town meet each other at Wilson's where you can be comfortable and always welcome, and find everything without taking your valuable time going from; store to store, when we will get it for you. ' ' ".' -' - Don't forget we hae moved into the Peoples Bank build, ing the finest in town and very- anxious to see you. -j . .... . -i t--r n Sells It ForfLess A rr grass," as x,xxv uauxi, uccumcs iiacu. ii is as easy to curry the horse well, From small beginnings he land when you get in the habit of it, as it is to give him a "lick and a possessions grew. At first it was forty promise' It is as easy to milk the cow clean, and with npatnoca onrl five miles to the nearest railway. It dispatch, as it is to milk her otherwise The- habit once formed, of ea SSuSMli aomg things right, will stay with vou as a nfimptnnl h ii - - - , m i x 1 - iujjv ict uic wuuuji auu uu tw TTuai.. naa Diessmg. lhe nabit of doing things right can be formed by the con- once the frontier has a station with- scious and conscientious right doing of them in the first place and In easy hailinS distance. Miss Hill every subsequent repetition of the act fixes and confirms the habit eamY'hav'eement It until it becomes the permanent, thonirh ntiMn;l;m h.hit r r.t S?6.. - f."?1" some call it. is to plow A pe man who learns to do the work on the farm risrht. trill h vorv staff of four hands to run the nlace it now shallowly. and harrow outjllKev to do .all his work right, for the reason that it becomes his-In the dul1 time e,sht men dur- aii 3-ou can get and haul it into ! spccna namre. ur. llernv VVallace. mg tne Dusy season. a gully. Then in spring sow the ' ' land thickly m peas, for the Ber Mr.k.llT blame the incubator because of JJMa? 7 haT"' Por eSSs, a poor location cai. mWn?Sa Cl? temperature, or our er anu turn tms unaer ior corn in nTirit naval nrnnAnn L,UPL;,? f f-? W1" n0t Give the old machine a thorough much grass left, if you sow more -nvB,l,nn .1,. at once, so you will not be delay peas anong the corn and disk uuvvu lur oats 111 lue.iaii. aA 0 v, w.: j .i ... "i - - - .- ' - .t '. 7 v 4 me mat uiiuuie, auu LllOUgll rt f t. t v ! it may seem like joking, we should iSSiSZB&t the rachTr TDtSt fatching t0? kind of incubator to buy. and f "I - DOt many others are seUing their old Pr.ePared 0.r. lar8? hatches, usu incubators because of a machine ?"j Ping only one brooder they heard or read about that hatches more and better chicks without -care br attention ithan far each incubator, and our chicks are overcrowded, " in consequence most of them die and we Dass Miss Hillman is the real. head. She Lir ! Tides about her farm and knows what T!7nT"TTT77"'i"T!"p se s doing. Her system of farm ac point,the bobwhite is a strong ally ounts shows every day where she is Ot the farmer in the fight against at financially, and she can tell you weeds. Dr.,"W..D.-Bell. -fiat back in the year 1S09 she took - off, 8,300 bushels on 230 acres and cleaned up over $6,000. i Vi The season for ligfei spring plowing is here. What plow are you useing? THE W. J. OLIVER PLOW : has a reputation unexcelled andwe Jare agents. Call and see oiir new shipmen t, " f Headcarters for - ? ; 1 Representatives for J. I. Case Threshing Machines. Edwards 8' Broughton Brandenburg, the mag- Success With The Chicks. The iiiOst ironortBTit. fhi A v im" S i i . . . -rrtt - . tarfitifv t7i.i-- i, l . azme wnier, coiiapsea iTiaay wnen starting young chicks is to , re- he was sentenced to a term hv Sing, rram irom feeding them a single 'Sing prison of from two years to four atom of food for at least 36 hours. years and six months. Brandenburg was convicted of forgery of a check for $50. The writer, has figured - in court for the. last two years, notably ?nt connection with the alleged "fak ing" of tbe Grover Cleveland letter and te Mdnaoirig of Brandenburg's child. Nature has filled their little sto machs before they left the shell and if they are stuffed as , soon as they appear, many will die. Give them plenty of water and after 36 hours feed them lightly on fine rolled oats or coarsecorn Jmeal, then, just as soon as they -i . .--. -n. - - . . rLiuiiLr iMt kxv 117' i n on nam tneir s ma. Kemember, there is no cMefs ... :i-v' . nA, n iihow strength and vicor let them iST.,, , ATf ' Ai hatch too early or .too late in the j the tender, short grass for "" i" uuu ixwiic i - . -. - e .v-. -xri- : escasuu auu uo not naicn . more i t "j' . lf Jhllf fei8 L??ePer;. chicks than you can care' for.- Watch for lice from the start ire b CoUege. . jd,ifany areound.on;the heads are better,.; and you; can make no ? f ;or under the wings, touch the snots mistake m ,choosmg one that is - . v , .'lightly with lard or yasdine Sa" doing : good work m jour commun- Should the Bobwhite Be ' Killed ing started right by Wwln?tne lty. And do not discard the. old, . . .. . Out? Z machine that has done fairly good- They most certainly should not "nds Z 2 Jr? wnrlr ,o cfill JAAi ho Viled nnt On ,.-,. l.or, -PPP?..the.:..fidehty With :a little while every day. the past week one oman told me farmer should !; never allow ; more she was. discouraged j because of to be shot for game than! thesuf her poor luck the past season, as'.plus stock, being sure to (leave she only areraged 125 chicles from. plenty ot birds for the next-yearrs . w eggs, pme - pi : nr . jiens iau- nesung. -xne live oiras on ine iarm ed to : hatch. a s chicken, but that are worth- much more than the was ho discouragement. Think of dead birds pn the table, however, averaging nearly 10 chicks lfromw.cl.they'may.'be cooked. ' f 15 eggs.; l!he- bobwhite or Iquail is . na- ; Another woman.declared it was turally trustful and where tindis-- .- to try again, alter natcn- turDea Decomes TemarKaDiy tame. in .f -;;ks from 1(X) eggs, v ! ;;Her,will tear : his yxung and spend ; ''' - iubator wil not f eed orreg his days close to -human dwell- ' 1 3 itself as the hen does, and ings, adding cheer- by his merry wc must not expect as good re- whistle. More important than this. jmits until we have had some ex- however from the money stand- . , - Special I&dncemeiit. - & t . waa :. mt wild night. The doctor ha d closed f Ws storm doors and : retired..,-Suddenly there came a Jingle on the night bell. -4" Who, is there?' demanded the doc tor, Irritated at being awakened at that, hour. , : f:'f.-'r;'r?:.V - -r? ' "Billy Jones : responded "a" .wenk oice - from blcrw-VBaby has swal lowed the Lincoln penny Muver gave He will rear his young and spend f "He has, eh? Well la there and epe- ciai maucement ror- me to come out such a night - as- this r :.: : : Oh, yes, sir. . Muver says if you ret the penny up you can have it - Chicago News.' JFirst Class arm Implomonfs 4 :' . You save Labor, -Time and Money whenyou boy Imple ' , i merits that wear well and work - welL "U The kind -that we sell. We issue one of the best and most complete of Farm Imple ment Catalogs. :. It gives pricea, descriptions and ' much interest information . Mealed : free upon rcciuest - - ' - -, - ,. . - .. . .. ., i - .--.-t. t We are headquarters for ! V. Crimp and "Other Roofing, Ylr .. : JTeadn. Barb Wire, Poultry - . . t Netting- etc ' .. .- V Write for Descriptive Catalog and prices on any supplies or Farm Im plements you; require r ;; ; - f : " ' isaZ East Main ct. ; i " 9 MENS HEAVY SHOES. A shipment of Shoes just received. An other due here any day. We handle a big line of cotton and meal hulls. HENDERSON 8c BECK -5 . W ""iRe?. "?;- . ' . r f - T fr-'.-f r-r, 'V'- tl- ill" vi.v ,ir-L U V FOE SALE One good second hand disk plow. Can he honght for a quick sale. A. J. Gihh's blacksmith chop. Er?- ;.T r .anils (life V if r r-t - -r vt " Haying hfifln m -r.rket gc1y:nYe' ytiri, cad thoro tested i xiall cliinstea and conditions the IBtehell Wsgoa & The.Won DyiTrnieii al lothcri crairi'td the 2 T7hich cells on its merits cad not bjr cstrairtat tdTertiCT Ilsde by one firm withpni chsnge of bxintca policy fcr
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