ftu y La 11 i 13 V lifP (Henderson 'County Farmers are urged toontribnte to the columns of this page which are deYoted to the nplmilding of the county's agrlpnltnral interests. All letters must be signed, ' but the signature of the authors can L be withheld from publication If requcs ted. It Is hoped that members of the Woman's betterment Associations and Girls Canning Clnbs Trill take advantage of this page in contributing arti cles, relating to the activities of their reSpeCtiTe associations throughout the-county. ' r. N : - . (THIS PAGE IS USDEB TH2 DIRECTION, OF THE BOARD OF AGR1C ULTURE OF HENDERSON COUKTY.) avIUT AN ELECTRIC MACHINE HOES TO LIGHTEN HOUSEWORK. Mrs. John W. Robinson, of Hickory, C. writing to the Progressive Far mer says: . -I want to tell , you about ,our ma. chine for making the -woman's work lichter and home ilfe more pleasant. It is a little gasoline engine that gen erates electricity and. stores it in. a battery. This engine can be "started by a child eight years old and stops itself when the storage battery is full of 'juice.' We only put in gasoline oc. oasionally and run the engine about tv;o or three times a week. 'From this battery we get our elec tricity tor lighting the house and barn, also several lights in the yard.. We also run with this electricity a small compressed air pump that furnishes vs abundance of water all the time. When the pressure gets low the pump starts itself; when air enough is in, the pump stops itself. It pumps wa ter and air. "We use the 'juice, only for pump ing and lights, but you can use it for, many things, running separator, churn, machine, milking " machine," washer, ion. etc. A little motor is required for these additional things. We hope to get more of these later. - ... "The expense of gasoline is hardly eight cents a day for lights and water. This makes it about 30 a year. . Isn't that cheap for all the. light and water you want right at hand? How we do njoy it! The first cost Is about $500. So many of us could have it, that do not. This machinery is all in one lit tle closed room and there is no dan ger of freezing, for the pipes are all under ground." 1 TREE PLANTING INSTRUCTIONS. ; On the arrival of trees, immediately open bundles and bury trees in a slanting position, covering carefully the full length of all roots and at least one-half the trunk, Keep damp, but not wet, thus preserving until, ready, to be planted. . r Preparatory to planting, carefully examine all trees for insects and dis eases, and cut all broken., or bruised roots immediately ' above the wound, making a smooth slanting cut Plunge trees,f in a barrel of water, covering roots immediatelv with srn n the. trees are distributed for transplanting. The following planting distances are recommended: apples, pears 30x30 feet; peaches 18x18 feet; plums and cherries 20 x20 feet; and pecans, 60x60 feet. Successful tree planting requires the preparation of a hole amply large for the spread of the roots and of such depth as toallow the tree u stanj two or three inches deeper than it for merly stood in the nursery. Well rotted stable manure, or a mixture of not exceeding one pound . of equal parts of a mixture of co'tton-seed meal and acid phosphate, may be thorough ly mixed with the top soil and applied thus preventing direct contact of root3 and fertilizer. No fertilizer, .or ma nure should be put at the bottom of the hole. Wovk and firmly press . the dirt among the roots, and pack the dirt firmly as it is thrown in. and after the hole has been filled. It i3 very essential that all trees be pruned immediately after setting, otherwise .they will dry out badly. Clemosn College Bulletin. SOME THINGS YOU OUGHT TO KNOW ABOUT BEES AND HONEY Interesting Letter Explaining an In." dustry Which Should Thrive In Henderson County. o Hendersonville, N."C Feb. 1, 1917.. Editor Hustler: I read, with interest, a short article which appeared on your agricultural page a few weeks ago. This" article was taken, if I am not mistaken, from the Progressive Farmer and was in the form of advice to bee-keepers or those who intend engaging in apicul j tural pursuits. .The advice offered In . that article is good, but .1 believe the ! most of us in this section .who keep ,bees, or who contemplate keepinj TEN RULES FOR PLOWING. them.-know so little about he indus try that a, few additional remarks in connection' with that article would not be amiss. I am prompted thereby, at any rater to offer the following for those who are interestd in the mat ter. It might be well to say here, a few words about honey and wax, since it is desirable to have some knowledge as to the fruits of our labour, or what we may reasonably expect to be the fruits of our labor, before we decide to embark on any line of endeavor and I take it. that those who might be familiar , with-this end of apiculture will not be offended at the insertion of a few lines in this connection. Honey, then, is the nector of flowers gather BULLETINS YOU MAY WANT. --' . " Do you own a canary ? Then write fon Farmer's Bulletin No. 770 oh "Ca naries, Their Care and'Management" Department of Agriculture, Washing ton D. C. Would you like more time for your housework? Then write to the above address for Farmers' Bulletin No. .771, "Home-maae Fireless Cookers " and Their Use,". prepared by the Office of Home Economics. . : ... If you want to know the truth about bottles of medicine you buy in the hope that they will cure all ills, write to The State Board of Health, Raleigh, N. d. and ask them for their January 1917 Health Bulletin. The Depart ment will fill all applications for the Bulletin in its own state and a' limit ed number in other states; therefore write at once. West. Virginia gets out a splendid bulletin, "Food for the Family," by Nell Baraett, of-the College of Agrl culture, Morgantown. West Virginia. Do you hope tQ have running water in your house some day,? Then ask the United States Department of Agri culture for bulletin No. 57 on "Water Supply, Plumbing and Sewerage Dis posal for Country Homes." Any wo man .can understand - the principles whether she knows much about ma: chinery in general or not. " If you want to sell your butter and cream and still have fat for cake& and other things, write to the United States Department of Agriculture for Farm ers' Bulletin No. 469, "Fats and Their "Economical Use in the Home." $ s-t-v fT 5?fvv The U. S. Department of Agriculture recently put on a great display of mod ern poultry methods at the Madison Square Garden (New ' York) poultry and pigeon show. Also, it distributed several thousand bulletins on modern 'methods of housing birds for laying, breeding, and meat producing. . During the middle of January th Department also made an exhibit at ' the Washington, D. C.show. It was one of the best patronized of all ex hibits in the show-room. Out in its- experiment station at ed and deposited in the comb by the ' Beltsville the Department has proved bees. No other'article gathered and " f "'T stored in the comb by the bees is ! i.ent; doz.en iSroduce es?l' X0' honey; is not so regarded nor is its h,as determined the costs of reeding sale permitted as such by the govern. tetfng hens raising broilers frying ment! What is known as honey dew 1 chickens, afld full grown birds, under fa orntinn f Q or-tair, nnM wiiioii .J'oper Improved methods. WTtbw Jom our. "3 h "V 111 u . haZZfrr I I Come in and get a "Christmas Banking Club" Book FREE and join the club. -By depositing 10 cents and increasing your weekly deposits each week, you will have $127.50 in 50 weeks. - Help your CHILDREN to join. It will teach them to 'SAVE and PROSPER. - . , v . In 50 weeks: . rg2gS2f 3V : . 1-cent ;lub pays $ 12.75 ; ' 2-centvClub pays $ 25.50 . . . . . . ' 5-cent club pays . $ 63.75 10-cent club pays $127.50 . ' ' ' ' , ' You can put in $1.00 or $2.00 or $5.00 each week and In SOweeks have $50 or $100 or $250. You can start TODAY ST ART ! ml. 1 1. Plow, If possible, when the soil will drop from the moldboard in a mel low, friable condition. . 2. It is better to polw when too dry than w hen too wet, and don't delay the work too near seeding time. 3. Plow as long before planting as possible, so the soil will have ample time to settle into good-bod condition and store up moisture for the. coming crop. ' 4. Deep plowing enlarges the mois ture reservoir -and gives more rqpt room. - ; 5. Late fall and winter plowing de stroys weeds and many insects. 1 6. When a-green crop or. "heavy coat of manure is to be turned under, ploy early so the organic matter wjll have time to decay and the soil to be come settled before seeding, i 7. Have the seed bed loose and well pulverized on top. but firm and well packed underneath. 8. Good plowing breaks utj ana mellows the soil. Well pulverized soil will grow larger crops than a lumpy one containing the same proportion ofj plant food, for the reason that it holds more moisture and it is the moisture which carries the ulant food to the growing crop. It gives the plant roots a larger feeding area and has a more constant temperature. 9. In finishing a. land, unless the purpose is to leave adeep dead-furrow or drainage turn "a shallow furrow back into the dead-furrow. The bare snbsoil will produce Httle or no'crop. ' 10. Poorly drained fields, or' those in regions of great rainfall, may' be plowed in narrow lands, making high back-furrow ridges and deep dead-fur. roves. ' If necessary, such lands may be plowed this way two or three years in succession. This elevates a large portion of the surface and gives better drainage over the whole area. A. .M. Ten-Eyck. (a secretion of a certain aphis) which is gathered and stored in considerable quantity in' some seasons is not honey and Its sale as such is not permitted when known. Sugar syrup fed to bees and in every respect looking like hon ey when healed or capped over, is not honey at all and Is not permitted to bo sold as such. The government has fixed a standard "for honey and any thing not conforming to that standard can not be sold as honey,' and indeed, it would not be. honey. This will be clear to any one who will follow me for a few minutes. Now, nector, wnen freshly gathered is very thin and wa tery and in that stage of course is not honey. . But It is evaporated, and pre digested to a certain extent, by the bees and is' sealed or capped over by the bees when it has reached a certain stage of evaporation. Thickness, col or and flavor of honey varies consider ably. The varieties in this respect arc as many as there are flowers from which the nector is gathered. This Is one of the causes why so many people think honey is adulterated. When it does not taste like that which they purchase direct from the farmer at home, it is . frequently termed Vstore" honey or "adulterated" honey. As a matter of fact there is practically no adulteration of honey at this time. It SPEED UP YOUR -GARDEN ttSASS WITH HOTBED. By constructing hotbeds before March it is possibel to grow vegeta bles which are susceptible to frost damage, such as tomatoes and icab bage, at least two weeks earlier than if they are not planted until danger of frost Is past. The common dimensions of the hot bed for the home garden are five and a half by twelve feet. A pit of the desired size is dug In the ground, to a depth of two feet. Thi3 is boxed in with ordinary pine planking, which extends six Inches above' the top of the ground on one side, and twelve inches higher on the other. The .Dit is then filled to a depth of eighteen inches with horse or mule manure, to furnish heat. The manure may d moistened and left standing In. a pile In the open until it begins to ferment, when it is ready to be placed in the (hotbed. ? On top of this about six inches of good garden soil is placed. The bed is covered by inexpensive window sashes. . "SvTien the hot bed is complete let It stand covered closely, for a few days, until. tho temnerature is constant at about 80 degrees. Fahrenheit. The J Is alos a fact that there is no arunciai seed may then "be planted. As the honey comb in which honey is sold, rays grow warmer in the early spring There is an artificial "starter" used, the sashes may bo gradually raised, j which I will mention later. Honey is This is to accustom the plants to the an old article of food. It was the outside , air so that they mav be': Principal sweet for three thousand planted early without danger of being j years befare the first sugar refinery killed. Mississippi. Extension Service was ever thought of, but its use has not kept pace with that of sugar, and HURRAH FOR THIS CALF CLUB. ' this is due, I believe largely through ignorance of the difference between Tell your banker about the calf club the two products, and the difference nrinrtori bv the First National Bank In the cost of proaucuon. noney roiua It has experimented with houses Until it, has found what it believes to be the best for breeders and layers. And all of the Information It has col lected is at the service of the general public, if people will only ask for it. Particularly valuable are Farmers Bulletins 287, 528. 562, 530, 585. 624, "682, and 697. All may be had free simply by writing for them. Cleveland. O., in May had 1000,000 street car riders daily. Chicago university will add military science to its curriculum. New York city has 10,357 saloons, or one to each 515 of population. . . COW TONIC. Try a package of Pratt's Cow Tonic if your cow Is a little off and fail? to give enough milk. A 4fine builder and tonic, 50c and $1.00. Hunter's Phar 'macy.'"1 2-1-Stc Mil A li END STOMACH TROUBLE, - GASES OR DYSPEPSIA "Pape's Diapepsln" makes Sick, Sour, Gassy Stomachs surely feel fine': in five minutes. : - i 1 u It Penetrates. Acts Quickly. Clyes De sired Relief Without Dosing the " SSsnrach vdth ttedldne.' At Drcr-Ists; 25c, 50c $100 If what you just ate Is souring on your stomach or lies like a lump ot lead, refusing to digest, or you belch gas and eructate - sour, ; undigested food, or have a feeling of dizziness, heartburn, - fullness, nausea, bad taste J In mouth add stomach-headache, you can get blessed relief in. five minutes. Put an end to stomach troiible forever by getting, a -large -fifty-cent case of Pape's Diapepsin from an j drug store. You realize in five minutes, how ueed- loes ' f l tr enfftrr. fmm InrilerPRt.fnT). dyspepsia or any . stomach disorder. Tt's the quickest, surest stomach doc) HEXS BETURN GOOD PROFITS. A good hen can be' raised for about $1, she can be kept for one year after beginning to lay for about $1.25, her eggs for a year estimating 12 dozen at 25 cents a dozen, will be worth $3. and the hen will be worth' 50 cents when through laying at the end of hor pullet year. This is 'a return of $1.25 on an ln vestmetn of $2.25. which is an increase of about 55 per cent, not counting la bor or deprciation of plant.,. If we count 25 cents as the cost of caring for a hen one year, and ten per cent for depreciation of the plant. there still .remains over 30 percent I net profit on the investment. These facte were brought cut rn a Missouri experiment where White leghorn pullets were kept for. .lvyear?a. laying, all the feed that was fed to the heng being weighed and the eggs bein cold at market prices. ." The 55 hens produced 12 dozen each, 'which were sold for $157.17. The cost of keeping the 55 hens one year was asotu $66.27, reckoning feed prices at about average market rate in 1915. The hens were fed a well-balanced raiton and hadtho run of a yard 100 feet square. "The price of eggs for the year averaged approximately 25 cents a dozen. From the foregoing figures it will be seen that where one has good hens to start with and handles them properly, a net profit of considerably over $1 a year can be counted on from a. flock of that size. . But the know-how is just as Im portant in handling hens for profitable returns as is the rs.se " with with anv other kind of complicated, business Saencer Babceck in Farm -Life. of Brighton, III. Briefly, here is 'what never ue piuuuu m utu happened. Last March the bank ; titles- as sugar, and the price will ai bought 84 heifers from Wisconsin, jit 'ays remain somewhat higher As an average price of $43 a head: These j compared with sugar, however. -honey I lis rprtainlv the more wholesome. If I caives, ranging m age ' ... . fT, teen months, were sold to the school Urn correct, all sweets taken into the -qJT t,i pritn fnr 'nr-timl bodv which are not already glucose cost, with the understanding that with-,! have to be converted into such .before . - v. tthpv ar& assimulated. and through this m less man u yeai iuc amuiaiB oiiuuiv F,arlina and Bonny. Besi tomatoes make a fine combination for the early crop. They are highly, prolific. be sold and the children should have the profits, less six per cent for the bank. It was decided to have an auc tion sale, and' thi3 sale was held on the 3th of December. The' eighty-four heifers brought on the auction block an average of $92.30 a head, or a total of $7;,749. The notes given by the chll dhen amounted to $3,612. leaving a profit of $4,137. We think lhat Is pretty good. We think Tom Cham berlain, cashier of the bank of Brigh ton and W. Scott Matthews, Illinois Dairy and Food Commissioner,, both deserve praise. By backing this club, they have gone far toward stocking it,.).: MA crfchnrhnfwi with- good rcattle, and they have set an example to others. 1 a ramprs actlne co-opera-4 tlvely. could do this Just as wellas a bank and they could do it with hogs, or horse's, or sheep. Just as well as Ttith c4ttle;ann Life. , :, -'-.r "CXEBAGE,- -" . v : Cabbages, which a "year ago were oi?t $6 a ton are this year quoted irrlut r9stktes at $80. With this rnnoSncemSt"- comes the stement that the. stock "of .cabbages larger now than a year ago, but that they are all in the hands of speculators., who Ire hofdfng them for still higher Sices It is, . It seems, now time for those who have learned to do without p ezs and butter io ua'10 SSements with regard to cabbage, however, cannot hold a cabbage for A speculator, however, cannot hold, a cabbage forever. Boston Monitor. An American egg-presrylng jslant has recently been completed m Ste hal It handles '300,000 eggs a day. They are either frozen or dried and shipped to' the United States. .,.. , they are assimulated, and through process it very frequently nappens that certain individuals - taking more sugar than the system can so convert fprce an excess of work on the Kid neys, which frequently result3 in Brightsi disease and other kidney trouble, etc. But it so happens that honey, since-it is principally glucose (Devulose and Dextrose) and having been in a measure pre-dlgested by the bee does not . equire tlis inversion but' is taken directly into the system to the amount of. approximately one hundred an ninety-nine two vhrfn dreths. Pure sugar is pure glucose. It all must be inverted. Honey be sides its sugars contents contains al bumen. It also contains phosphorus iron,, calcium, magnesium, chlorine, sodium, potassium, sulphur and mam eanese. We are told that all these ele ments are necessary- td the human body; so) th'atby r their .presence in honey we may, assume that they help to make this article a very wholesome food The value of? the annual pro duction of honey in the United States is over twenty million - dollars, and this value is decidedly on the increase from year to year. -This does not take Into consideration the millions of dol lars worth imported from Cuba, and South America and Europe. , The greatest amount of honey Is used in the confections. It would be hard to nv Tinw manv car loads are used an nually In the making .of high grade candy alone. The National Biscuit company a few, days ago placed an or der for seventy car loads at one time to be used in the manufacture of their goods. There are hundreds of car loads used annually in the big bakeries alone: All confections : keen, better when honey is used in itheir (Continued engage. Six.).. 7 .I w o This question is being asked all over the United States and more especially since the break with Germany. illPHlL- Have you enough money to tide over in case of a; short ' stringent periodv? If not this is an ideal time to begin saving and our bank is the ? ideal m place to save it. We Me o You owe it to your children to get a Pin-Moriey Xrhas ySrmg Glub cents will catch up wii3i thef rest who began in club last month- Gall iri Tolay aiuimsgin; them to begin Only a; fei7 m I pnnipf oMN.ll Up 9", a - Capital & Surplus i oo,ooo;oo '0W: R; C. Clarke. Pres. r " v Vice-Pres. V J. Mack Rhodes, Cashier HENDERSONVILLE, N. C ' !4