WEEKLY DIGEST, Of Experiment Station Bulletins. CORN CULTURE. Bulletin 46, of Illinois 8tation, 64 of Kansas Station, and 46 of Maryland Station detail e-perient3 in corn cul tare. At the Illinois Station some plats were cultivated 1 inch deep, others 2 inches, others 3, and eo on up to 6 inches deep, and others were not culti rated at all, but had all grass and weeds pulled out by hand,' and others still wero mulched 6 inches deep with straw and received no cultivation or weeding. The mulched plats yielded an average of 94 bushels per acre ; those uncultivated but hand weeded, 87 bushels; thoso cultivated 3 inches deep and those 6 inches deep, gave the same yield 8 bustrela per acre; tUcse culti vated 1 inch deep yielded 85 bushels ; those 4 inches deep, 83 bushels; and these plowed with a shovel plow, 81 bushels. In previous years tests at that station, shallow cultivation has always given beat results, but 96 was a year of abundant rainfall, and little cultivation was necessary except to keep down weeds. In variety tests, of 18 varieties, Boone County White stood first, Learning second, and Legal Tender third, yield ing 107i, 107, and 97 bushels per acre, respectively. At the Kansas Station, corn planted acre, and that is the point aimed at in the Gesrgia tests. Twenty' varieties were tested, the seeding obtained from the originators. The tests show that in both '95 and 96 the 9 varieties giv ing the heaviest total yields also gave the largest per centage of lint, and that they had the largest bolls and, with one exception the largest seeds, and were the earliest. In money value per acre they stood in the following order: Texas Oak, Strickland's Improved, King's Improved, Nancy Hanks, Cleve land's Improved, Jones Reimproved, Minor's, Truett'a Improved, Jones' Im proved. Excepting Texas Oak and Strickland's Improved, none of them gave much yield after Sept. 15. In six years tests at the Georgia Sta tion, as to distance, 4 feet by 1 foot gave the best yield 4 times, 4x2 once, and 4x3 once. 4x4 8 tan diner last ever tive. The conclusion is, that on land of average fertility, with rows 4 feet apart, the plants should stand 1 foot apart in the row, and on rich land two to three feet, while on poor land they should stand 8 or 10 inches apart. In these testa as to best width be tween rows, results show that the best yield is obtained when the space allotted to each plant is as near the form of a equare as possible, and the lightest; yield was obtained from rows 3 feet; i seed are in good condition; and, con trary to expectations, medium and late varieties give better results in late planting than the early or quickly ma turing kinds. Potatoes Fpread one layer deep on a barn floor or in shallow boxes, several weeks before planting, and expose d to strong light but not sun shine, put out short, stout, green buds, and come up in one week, grow with great vigor, and mature early. Late planting usually gives Emaller crops, but the advantages are, they may fol low early crops of other kinds and they keep better than the earlier plantings. To prevent ecab, seed should bo sowed not more than one hour in the corrosive sublimate solution sometime before planting, and should be spread out to dry before cubing. Such troatment does no good if the land grow scabby potatoes the previous year. Use fresh land. Insects carry potato blight from one hill to another. potato showing a black ring when cut. Spray with 6 ounces Paris green mixed in a barrel of Bordeaux mixture. Of the new varieties tested, the best early kinds were Bovee, Early Michigan, Early Thoroughbred ; best late, Car man No. 3, Country Gentleman, Enor mous, uncle Bam. In fertilizer tests superphosphate increased the yield at Bouxirsrsr yabd EARLY CHICKS. It is coming to be more generally un derstood that profitable poultry keeping demands early hatched chickens. Un less the pullets can be got to laying in the fall, any subsequent returns from them during their first year will be seriously handicapped by the expense of keeping them through the first win ter without any production of eggs. Then, too, it is necessary to set the chicks out early in order to get the cockerels cf to market while prices are good and before they have a chance to "eat their heads off." In these days of incubators early hatching as a very simple matter, so far as the mechanical part of the work goes; but when it comes to sitting early jchickers out of early eggs ah 1 there's the rub. The "Motto v1nM. - I v56" w - f-" ' " "J v JN.ever Plant flatly (andodorously) refusing to hatch. The trouble is generally with the hens that laid the eggs they were out of condition. In our zeal to make the hens lay well during the winter when eggs are high we are likely to overfeed them and to get them fat. .Then the germs become weakened and fail to batch. Again winter layers are not ASStSTEONS & McKELVT Pittsburgh. BSYHEU-BATTMAN Pittsburgh. DAVIS- CHAMBERS Pittsburgh. FAKNESTOCX Pittsburgh. ANCHOR Cincinnati. ECXSTEIN J ATLANTIC 1 BBJLDLEY BROOKLYN JEWETT T7XSTE3 UNION SOUTHERN SKIP MAN COLLIES -USSOTOX RJ SEAL SOUTHERN J sponsible I is a signincant tact thnr and rc; - T --r-. sponsioie painters use i'ure Whjj Lead (see list of genuine branjj and Pure Linseed Oil. Thr-,, ! know their business, don't know, try to the " just-as-good mixtures' called White Lead," &c, &c. FREE deal fact ers sell re. -fcwYork. oc. St. Louis. JOHN T. LEWIS & BROS CO Philadelphia. MORLET SALEM CORNELL KENTUCKY Cleveland. Salem, Maes. Buffalo. Louisville. lonsinie oaini Those wjv ! sell and Use so By using National Lead Co.'s Pure White Lead Tintiro r ors, any desired shade is readily obtained. Pamphiet valuable information and card showing samples of " "also cards showing pictures of twelve houses of difterent designs ps;nt various styles or combinations of shades forwarded upon application to th intending to paint. . - 058 National Lead Co., I Broadway, New York. a coat of 5 to 6 cents per bushel of the apart and plants 2 feet apart in the increase. Dissolved bone black did no u-. vi wurea me ruwo rtuuire lesa i wetter ana Bias: Dnoannaw not bo wan. work, but the difference in yield more I Wheat bran as a fertilizer was better the last of April and first week of May, I than paid the difference in cost. Valu-1 than linseed meal. Superphosphate, has done better for several years than I ing cotton at 7 cents per pound, that I nitrate of soda, and muriate of potash that planted earlier. The number of I planted 3a 2 yielded 5 25 per acre more mixed gave better results than either cultivations giving best reeults depends I than that planted 4xlJ and $20 more I alone. on soil, climate and season. In 1896, 1 than that planted 6x1. On very rich I The Ithaca tests show that most New which was almcst an ideal corn season, I land, probably 3i3 would give best re-1 York soils are rich enough for potatoes, 4niluvations gave better results at the suits. I and with potatoes at 25 cents per bushel Kansas Station than fewer or more and 1 It was found that the gain in yield I and fertilizers at $25 per ton, it is far tne eame was true m 95. At that 8ta-1 obtained by applying part of the f ertili I better to givqjthe best culture to brine tion, corn planted in listing furrows I zer before planting and part in the I out the full virtue of what is already has given better results than that I opening furrow at time of planting I in the soil. The average yield is only planted on surface plowed land, and as I was not sufficient to pay for the extra I one third what it would be with proper to method of cultivating, where the I work. But small doses of quickly I culture. The low yield is more due to It is slow, tedious work to cut the potato seed for planting -large fields. Yet with most kinds of potatoes the cut seed is a necessity, for if the- seed is planted whole there will be too many small potatoes from crowding of so many stalks in a hill. It is true not all the eves on a whole or even of a cut apt to take sufficient exercise to make I potato will grow, but if seed is planted -' ... the eerms of the efa stroce and fer wnoie mere win do iar too many ror -j CJCJ K PROFITS OF PURE BREEDS. A good many times it may seem like a sinful waste of money to pay the prices that are asked for high class poultry or eggs from yards of high class fowls. Whether it is or is not dprndn altogether on the purpose the breeder sulPhur matches. profit. It is -dirty work cutting poto toes, not so much from the soil adher ing to them as from the potato juice, which discolors and rusts the knife and stains the hands. This discoloring is easily removed by wetting the hands in pure water without soap, and then holding them over ono or two burning The fumes of sul has in view. If he is going to raise fowls just because his neighbor does, and is not going to give them the best care he can, it is worse than a waste of money to pay anything above the mar ket price for eggs or breeding stock phur are excellent to bleach anything. POMONA HILL NUESEKIEa POMONA, N. C. Two miles west of Greensboro, N. C, on th Southern Railway. Well known for thirty years. Up with the times with all the new as weL aa the old fruits that are suited to my trat first two plowings given before the soluble fertilizers like nitrate of eoda I lack of moisture than lack of fertility I Th0 man who thinka nnQfaen as good which extends from Maine to Texas. Thane I - I I nn -- V- ".. U n. m i ..- 4 . 1 S I Tanan frattc ani. all -V --! fi-n.t .n4 A- roots had extended into the middles I at time of second working paid. Phoo- were deep and the last two shallow, I phoric acid in the form of acid phoe larger yields were obtained than from I phate gave much better results than in all shallow or all deep cultivation. In I the form of raw bone meal. Both mu- both '95 and '96 corn was grown on I riate and sulphate of potaEh increased plats that had been su Derailed in the Epriag and others that had been eub and good culture will husband moist ure. For this purpose, level culture is best. The foliage must be kept free of injury by insects or blight The Geneva bulletin is confined to a the yield up to 36 pounds per acre, but I consideration of the cause and cure of when more than that was applied the I pimples. It was found that the grub as another has no uee for pure breeds, for he would be out of his place with them, and they would not be any more profitable than the scrawniest mongrels that ever hunted a scanty living in the manure piles of the careless farmer. While pure bred poultry is much bet- Japan fruits and all other good fruit and flov ers I have, as shown in my new lllnstrate enta wanted. JL-JNDL.KY. Prem catalogue, free to alL a88) J. VA oniTon incuDATon Illustrate- Catalogue for stamp. Me4l la 4 Nylm Award kt the World's Fata A. i". Williams, si Kace fit. Bristol. C. i soiled the previous fall, and in all cases yield was reduced in proportion to the I of the fiea beetle caused the pimples by than mon8rels when well cared for, . I mmm m . ... ... I I Zem "- am -k r9 Z B t J mL these plats gave a slightly smaller yield than the unaubsoiled plats. The bulle tin states that this is due to the fact that the subsoil at the Station is nat urally porous and both '95 and '96 were excess, ine Dcstrertnizer formula was I gnawing tna tubers. Rnm-oinr- tha - - I ' - J w found to be as follows: 468 pounds I vines with Bordeaux mixture and Paris acid phoephate, 36 pounds muriate of potash and 286 pounds of cottonseed meal per acre, costing about 6 40 and characterized by an abundant rainfall. I fully doubled the yield of cotton. In dry seasons, and on lands having a At the Alabama Station Hutchinson's compact subsoil, subsoiling in the fall Storm Prolific yielded the largest profit uniformly pays welL Five years tests per acre, Truitt's Improved standing show that green protects against both blight and fiea beetles. The New Jersey tests show sulphur and kaimt, 3C0 pounds of each per acre, to be the best remedy for soil rot and scab, increasing the yield of marketable potatoes 125 baskets per acre. Seed pieces from the middle of the potato it is net as good if neglected. The na tive hen whose ancestors for untold generations have had their combs fro zen cfl! during the first winter of their life, has become hardened to that sort of thing by inheritance, and can live out of doors when a better bred fowl would die. With ordinary good care the pure bred fowl will return a profit on its cost, and this makes the. care of .Xrjl,...jji To ISnyllon Catliolio in Carolina. ONLY TEN CENTS PER ANNUM. To any non-Catholic In North Carolina, we will eend tor only ten cents per aunum TRU TH." a 1111 If you want. ti. ! everything aWf?! ver quarter ii - 1 1 IW AND lias insr and tlmSS I flsh, hunt and health; abJuVA and where toS The larprest and handsomest homeseekipp 5 R. J. PROFITT, Publisher Kansas City.Xj, per in tne Address: j Leading dealers I everywhere sell V. I Don't risk the loss of time, labor and gronnd -iuw iu.iicia tun or Cuefin unreliable seeds. FERRY'S SEED! are always the best ; do not accept di saDSitaie. aeed Annual fm. f v D.M. FERRY & CO., wetroiT, Mich. V5s .... vV Ll LUTED V DOUBLE DAI1Y SERVICE seed grains from the butts I second, Dickson Cluster third. Peerless and tips of the ear give quite as good fourth, and King fifth. Neither Texas gave a much better yield than those U Profitable- the very best pos results as those from the middle. Corn I Oak nor Strickland, which stood first Ifrom either end. Irrigation increased 1 8lble c16 average mongrel of our I 9 & as cat Matured and on land broken the previous fall has and second at the Georgia Station, ecabbiness. In apply in eulnhur and rarm8 wm never laT enough egg3 to given oeiter results tnan tnat on spring I were in tne Alabama test. Seed from I kainit, mix them sow in the furrow piowea ianci3. in both 95 and 96 the I different parts of the cotton crowiDc I ODened for Dlantins and run n. Rhnvpl half pay for the feed she consumes, and, therefore, is not profitable under misrepresented. Address: Rev. Tnos. F. Pkice. Manager, TBfTTO Raleigh medium and late varieties gave much I belt showed very little difference in better yields than early varieties; but I productiveness nor was there any ap- in a dry season, early kinds might do I parent difference in the yield from much better than the others. The I fresh seed and two year old seed. The varieties giving best average yields for I use of the roller after planting caused 3 years at Kansas Station, in the order I earlier sprouting and a better stand. named are as follows: Early Thorn p I In rows S J feet apart larger yields were son, Hartman's Early White, Pride of I obtained where the plants stood 12 to I wide ones, and deep and shallow cul jkaneas, ana isocne uounty White. I lo mcnes apart tnan wbero they stood I ture 6how little d flirehce At tne Maryland Station 3 years tests 1 24, 30, or 36 inches apart. Subsoiled I The New Hampehire bulletin states prove tnat commercial fertilizers do I land yielded ?3 50 worth of cotton and I that such varieties m T.irn.i Kr plow through to mix with the soil. At the Maryland 8tation, Van Guard, Summit, and Milwaukee gave beat yields. In 3 years tests early cultiva tion give better results than late, and ridges slightly better than level culture Narrow rows yield more per acre than TRUTH can bAso be found at Williams & Co 's Bofc. tore. ai ett.viH at., whoaioo take snbscriptiots for the same. BR SS BAND Instruments, DrumsUniforms, Equip ments for Bands and Drum Corps. Low est prices ever qnoted. Fine Catalog, 400 Illustrations, mailedjree; it gives Band Music t Intruct'ns for Amateur Bands. O Adam St., Chicago, HI. JUL the market than the best moDgrelssold but that Crimson I seed per acre more than uneubsoiled I Yorker No. 2. American Wonder iCariv I for Decauee when they were eold the , S - 1 1 11-. rpu Vx.-.i1 -. !.: X . . In . . ... I morn all nliVm in --;-.&. i icnuct. jl-D Duucvu wta Btiii. UUU tne I nos flll,1 W hlfo Hro rln .11 -. --.1- i"v. i"o x wcikui una coior it I . - vif4 V. V VTbll Al - .3 . Tm 1 1 l m -l - I laVin tr 4- I j . - uxjr. Yvu.ro uu vno ieruiizer i every wnere. wnilo manv nthnr kind I -'" D r"r unu biock waa a Diir season not pay on corn: clover plowed under increased the corn yield 61 bushels per acre, and turn ing under another crop of Crimson 1 was bedded cn the yield was slightly clover on the same land the next year I better than where part was kept back gave a iurtner increase of 7i bushels I and put into the drill. A mixture of per acre. Wide rows show slightly .a j kainit and cotton seed meal gave a )B7umnmiiamniniiiminuiiii!iiininniiniimi--mianm 1 LIOSELEY'S 1 3 iik.wra..H-i Mam m mmmr3 many do well in certain localities only, and actual test by the grower is necessary to determine what are best for hia local ity. Ul bO varieties tested at Now Detter average yield tnan narrow rows, 1 larger pront than any other combina I Hampshire Station, Reeve's Rose auu uo t-trouovui i,u1homuS is icsa. uu ui loiuuicjo ustu, xxuiu puuSCu3u6 I VVnite 14086. VlCTa Prfpotirkn nnrt in iour years tesrs aeep and snallow I was superior to Florida soft phosohate. I Gov. Rueksrave bet vields in thnrrifti. culture how practically the same aver I Lime gave no increase on either grey, named. The highest yield (Reeve's Bge iiu. xurw uuuivauons nave j sanuy, or rea sou. -Nitrogen in crushed I Rose was 453 bushels per acre and the givcu .uguuy ueer y.eiua inan nve. I cattonseea was equal, pound lor Dound. I lowest fEarlv Mftrb-A h qq a of pure nitrogen to the nitrogen in cot I potatoes of the 15 best varieties will be ton seed meal, in other wordp, a ton I sent free to such New York farm of cotton seed Droved raual ta 922 1 - X .-.w lawibuVbU IUMIU tii SJ Yi CIO CUiU pouncs ot cotton seed meal. Hence. when cotton seed meal is $20 per ton, cosvon seed are worth 19 20 ner ton- Drilled corn has given ten per ceat, better yield than checks. Ten bushels of lime per acre proved more profitable than any greater or less quantity. COTTON CULTURE. Bulletins 35, of Georgia Station, and 76 and 78, of Alabama Station, detail extended experiments in the culture cf cott-n the most popular of all South ern crops, because it is least effected by changes of weather of all summer crops, and it always finds ready eale for spot cash. It is sensitive to changes of weather, but its growing season is so loDg that it has time to recover. Be win agi ee stntion. to report reeults to the ! any circumstances. It has been a good many years since the writer wbp laughed at for paying $2 for thirU: n eggs, but it was not many years after that time before he was selling all tte eggs nis hens would produce for that price and getting about e'gbt times the market price for all the fowls he could raise that wore good enough to sell os breeders. The culls brought mor ir f!ff!i!inT RRLAnV2 I FOR TWO OR MORE COWS. 5 I PERFECT CREAM SEPARATOR. I 3 SEND FOR CIRCULARS. S g SOSELET & PElTCniED MFG. CO., CL1ST03, IOWA. 5 :-,;,:.,.;.....n!.ini..niiciiMiiiiiiiiiiniiininiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin)- inve3tment. The man who breeds pure bred pcul CAB OLIK A DRUG CO try will never lark fnr a rrn.- f- v.; I mm - -MB XkVV X VS& JLkfK? breeding stock if it is really good and has been well grown. The market for t4fancy" poultry, so called, is as re-uiar and as reliable as that for poultry for food. It has been getting better every year for ten years and the outlook for the future is as bright as it ever was. The farm where poultry is kept will be more profitable if that poultry is one of the recognized pure breeds, Farmers' Voice. ATL A.NTA, CHA RLOTTE. AUGUSTA, ATHENS, WILMINGTON. NEW ORLEANS, CH ATTANOOG ... NASHVILLE AND NEW YORK. BOSTON, PHILADELPHIA, WASHINGTON. NORFOLK, RICHMOND. . IMili in IM Fetey 7, IE SOUTHBOUND. J No. 403. Lv. New York, Penn. R. R. 11 CO am Lv. Philadelphia, " 1 12 pm Lv.. Baltimore 3 15 urn Lv. Washington. 4 4 pin Lv Richmond, A. C L. 8 56 pin A. L No. 41. 9C0p 12 Mm 2 0 am 4 30O 9Q5a Lv. Norfolk, Lv. Portsmouth, S. Lv. WeJdon, kr. Henderson Ar. Durham, Lv. Durham, McRae Old Stand Ealeigi3 Dsr. C. A full line of iUSJC. W fii5C f ttfiaSrS Just the things for that tired feeiing you always have In the spring, , and if exchanged should bring the farmer enough more than $9 20 to pay hauling both ways. In these fertilizer tests, 27 farmers in different parts of Alabama co operate with the statioD. WORD PEOPLE SPEAK. Few people realize how limited are their vocabularies, despite the many thousand words in the English lan guage. It is said that a person cf edu cation generally gets along very com- POTATO CULTUBE. Eulletin 76, of Ohio Station, 130, of I fortably with a vocabulary of leas than Ithaca, N. Y., 113, of Geneva, N. Y.. 1 2,000 different words. On th3 other 8tation. 120, of New Jersey Station, 46. 1 band, uneducated people macase toi0K A A -M - . . I - . . " ' I .. .... I MmmJM.. wccu a.prn aua lNovemoer it receives of Maryland Station, and 4t, of New express tneir laeas au tneir lives with gooa as wf u as bad weather, and hence I Hampshire Station, detail exoeriments I tQe use of but a few hundred words. it is never curtailed in yield more than I in various phases of potato growing. I repeating one or two of these, however- une -imra.or one lourtn. "Only half a The Ohio tests show that changing a 8reat many timea A recent experi crop is often spoken of, but it is a I seed in order to secure improved varie I reut pre ves how apt our minds are to myin, so iar as -cotton is concerned. I tiea or sand mwn nn a hflr-n aoil nr I run m croves. Twentv five men No other yieiQ a8 COttOn. I in rnanU TO,, MfM. i ; Every year many people begin pou try keeping with a vague notion that it is an easy way to get a living, all tl e work being done mainly by tho hens. But such persons inevitably fail, as they ought Thee is no easy way to success in anything. To keep fowls free from vermin and disease needs constant attention and a good deal of dirty and very disagreeable manual CAROLIi DRUB CH COR WILMINGTON AND MAFKET STS HATCH Chfckonc BY STEAM u3?2r v1' I X fcg . mi : "f SimpU, Perfect, Sel Kefulat Circulars free, ft & flrt--;i !?,,- . V. 11 ' t ls I'JM . fyf ?T nrvntinn T n i Ort-f sH I!af4her tl ..,-t"r JV Ar. Ka elgh, Ar. Sanford, Ar Southern Pines, Ar. Hamlet. Ar. Wadesboro, Ar. Mon'oe , 8aipm 9 05aa 8 45 pm 9S0ag ll28"pm ll65a 7 3m U (9 p 5 20pmllli'a 334 pm owm & (6 am 3 3o am 422 am fi5pa frjOam 6a3pa 6 54 am 8 11 pm 63m 912pm Ar. har; ot t e. 8 30 am 102jpm Ar. Cber-ter, 810aru il.47pm Lv. Coinmbia, G N. te L. K. R 6 00 SB Ar. CiJlnton S. A. L. 9 45 am 12 10 am Ar. Greenwood, 10 35 am 107 am Ar. AbbevLle, " l)05ara HO an Ar. Elborton, ' 12 07 pm 2 4' am at. Athens, ' 1)5 pm 345&B Ar. Winder, " 159 pm 4 SOaie Ar. At!ar ta. (Central time) 2 50 pm 5 20 an NORTHBOUND (Central time; No. 403. Lv. Atlanta, S. A.L. 12 0n"n Lv. Winder, 2 40 pm Lv Athens, - " 316 pm Lv. Elbtrton, " 4 a pm Lv. Abbeville " ft 15 vm Lv. Greenwood, " 5 41 pm Lv. Clinton, " 6 4 pm Ar. Colnmbia, C.N & L.R.R. Lv. Chester, No. a r 50 pm 10 42 pa li26 pa 1233 am l4uam z (9 am 305am Ajharlotte, Lv. Monroe, Lv. Haml-t, S. A. L. 8"13 pm 4 33jg 10 5 pm 8J0 Ar. Wilmington 9 40 pm l! 23nm 6i5affl 8!5am Lv. Southern Pines, Lv. Raleigh, " Ar. Henderson: Ar. Durham, Lv. Durham. 5E0am i2S0pa 12 14 am 920aa 2 16 am 11 3 28.m li2 Ar. Weidon, Ar. Richmond, A. C I. Ar. V88hin!t,TI Pnn Ti H Ar. Baltimore, Ar Philadelphia, t732ma t5'0 pm THIS SCYTHE WRENCH Patent applied for j IS NEVER LOST. 3 fi I 1 tvtoVpftnStr, t tne Georgia Station, as through- to keep seed till planting time so as to own at full speed one hundred worda, j cut the cotton belt, the season was bad avoid exhaustion of vitality bv sorcut a11 chosen at random. They did oJ T fw. Artffnn w-4- Al J J Mr . . ; When I gay I core I do net mean merely to stop them for a time and then have them return again. I mean a radical cure. I have made the disease of FITS, EPILEPSY or FALLING SICKNESS a life- Inner nt.nlv. T i7iiQTf. m r ramow A..& psychology Class, Were bidden tO Write I casefc Becanse others hay failed is no reason for and a Free Bottle of my infallible remedy. Give Ex press ana rosioracB aaaress. .n ageit in every coun- i r .i """"fa to rarmera uw iiiibc, iu-8. to snow It Is iu pamwe wrench bv t. atd in a Eerlin Wis. u ci- o ror s . Acid rest: H. to nil artloTi iarn fre O. KRUSlHKE. crop was for cotton; yet, the station 17 bales from 16 ecres. Every farmer wants "the best seed," but there is wide difference as ,to the leading characteristic of the best cot ton. One iosists on big boll, others on a large per centage of lint, others on email Beed, others on cluster fruiting, bo on, out all aim to set thn kind will give the . largest profit per that ing. uold storage is the best means of wlt" tno curious result that cut of a doing this. Cool storage with good td of 5,000 words there were only ventilation is next best. IntheSoutb i266 words which occur but once: seed from the second nr fall .. 1 3.000 of the remainder beiner rAn- u&w U I ' - - O used for epring planting and seed from I ?ioss 753 words. Of the 1,266 writ- the spring crop are planted in the fall, ten onlv cnce 746 were set down by thus using the seed before they are old tno rnen against 520 by the women, enough to sprout in storage A good Of the 353 articles of drets enumerated, crop can be Becuredfa Ohio by pfanf MS.5 mg as late as July 1st. nrovided th Aift,md irq cjr mm w -v w rnwrn, W ft m W kW l-- H Frcf.YJ.PEF.D.,4CeiI-8t.,teYflr --HMa Rat' proof Harness Oil. Ccnfidenco fiostored. iiut raze rnnnnpnw thit nc o, increased every year through the late unprosper ousness. Now eoinrs Ef. prr-ccnt increase f r the n? AP"J- This shows that peonle like the Coiled Sirinyr aRi t0hv it of he owner PAGE WOVEN WIRE FENCE CO., Adrian, Mich. It costs a great deal of money to run rr u, taoei on your paper ana I If you mve anything' send the mone renew when your subscription expires. toiay. Don't lnS tiiJSSS Best Harcesa Oil In the world; keeps them soft and pliable; will wear twice as long. 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