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The Progressive Farmer, April 8, 1902. Q ; mmmrn mmm mmtm 1 I i Horticulture. 17HAT TO DO WITH THE STEAWBEEEY I2T THE SPEINO. Correspondence of The Progressive Farmer. This la by long odds the most im portant period in strawberry culture. Whether you shall have this deli cious berry at its best, and in large quantities or not, depends largely upon what you do right now to earn it. Beds or fields that went hope lessly, it then seemed, to grass last season, will now respond marvel ously to good treatment. There is nothing that forgives negleot like the strawberry. The strawberry needs no cultiva tion the spring that it fruits. The all-important thing is to keep it clear of weeds. If the weeds are Tery thick a light scraping with a hoe will be neoessary. If there are not too many pull them out by hand as they grow up long enough to get hold of. A field or bed if much given to weeds will, even after being scraped out, need more or less hand weeding. The rioher the soil the more apt it is to be infested with weeds, the faster and larger they grow, and the more harm they will do. And it must be remembered that when the plants have been suffered to mat very thickly every surplus plant act9 as a weed, robbing and being robbed of moisture, nourishment and sun light. Therefore if too thiok they should be thinned out to stand not less than six inches apart. It may look like murder now, but it will be mercy in the long run to the plants left. This will be found tedious work if there is much of it to do, but it had better be done even hurriedly and clumsily than not at all. A garden trowel can be used to thin a small bed. Where it has to be done on a large soale a hoe will have to be called in. And the man who has to do much of it will repent of not having avoided it all by , keeping the runners chopped last summer. If the field or bed should be cot ered with dead grass it will be a goc d plan to leave the grass as a muloh, pulling up the weeds as fast as they peep through. As early in spring as possible sow over the plants 300 to 500 pounds per. acre of good, soluble fertilizer, rioh in potash and phosphoric acic , with not too maoh ammonia unles the soil is very poor. Wood ashes and stable manure make a perfect fertilizer for strawberries. No kind of fertilizer should be sown on plants when wet with rain, frost or dew ; nor after growth starts. If it has been negleoted till that late sow around and between plants. Some kind of muloh should be ap plied to keep the berries clean. When it is to be had, pine straw is the ideal mulch. Nothing is as easy to apply, and sure not to blow off, nor as readily settles down among the leaves. It is better to apply the muloh before growth begins. Then the plants will grow up through it, and all berries form with a layer of straw between them and the grit. But it takes more straw when appliel thus early, for tbe spring rains beat much of it down in the dirt. If pine straw is not to be had any other kind of grass or straw can be used. While it should never be ap plied thick enough to smother the plants, this is not at all likely pro vided it is evenly distributed. Ten large loads can safely be used to the aore, though most growers use hardly half that quantity . If weeds come up through the muloh they should be pulled out. By the above means can amend? he largely made for last summer's negleot, and a good crop of fine ber ries insured. O. W. Blacenall. Vance Co., N. C. Times are ratter hard on farmers in this section Very little farm work has been done yet, owing to in dement weather. Wheat is abcut all winter-killed. We are just be ginning to sow oats. No winter oais sown here A. Co,, N. C J. L , Sr., Jaokson Btaxm ctp Osra, Cfrr or Toledo, t. I Lucas County. J Fbakx J. Cheney makes oath that lid fs th enior partner of the firm of F. J. Chekhy&Co. , doing business in the Citv of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the Bum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot bi cured by the use of Hall' s Cataeeh Curb. FRAN K J. CHEN E Y. Sworn to before me and subscribed in ray presence, this 6Ux day of December, A.D. 128$, jlSAX. A. W. GLEASON. .Hairs Catarrh Cure- is taken internally and acta directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. 8end for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO. , Toledo, O. -4CJ' Vt DrneriaU, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. The Poultry Yard. XAHAGEMXKT OF YOUNG CHICKENS. While the young chickens are emerging from the eggs, the hens should not he disturbed unneces sarily. If the hens are quiet and no others should be allowed to set, It is well to examine the nest once or twice, after some of the young are out of the eggs, and remove the empty egg shells, as they some times slip over eggs, that oontain young ones, whioh will inevitably cause them to perish in the eggs unless the shells are removed. They should be allowed to remain in the nest until they are from 36 to 48 hours old, when they should be removed to a ooop. The coop should be open on one side only ; the other sides and top should be boarded tight. They should be placed in a dry situation, on the south side of some building, or close fence, or some other shelter from the cold winds. The coop must also have a bottom or be placed on loose boards. The chioks should not be allowed to step on the cold, damp ground, or they will become feeble and die. Bottoms of boards in the coop are indispensable to success in raising early young chickens, hatched between the beginning of Maroh and April. If they have a dry, sheltered situation, where the sun shines nearly the whole day, and the bottom boards of the ooops are cleaned occasionallp, young chickens hatohed in any month will do very well, and comparatively few will die. Later in the season, when the ground has beoome dry and warm, the bottom boards are not neoessary. Then the ooops must be frequently moved, as the bottom be comes filthy and unhealthy, causing feebleness and the gapes. But the sunshine is always necessary. If de sirable, after the young ones are a few weeks old, the hens may be allowed tbe run of the place during the middle of the warm days after the beginning of May, but not be fore, and they must be always cooped at night. The manner of feeding and the kind of food are also of im portance. Bssides plenty of food, they should always have pure water in clean, earthen vessels. This is of more importance than many snppose. We frequently see the water put into vessels half full of mud and the ex crements of the chickens. This sill invariably produce disease. Young chiokens should be fed at least three times a day ; five times is better for quite young ones. Their capacity for receiving food is very small when quite young, and as they grow rap idly, they require a considerable quantity of food, hence they must be fed frequently. The kind of food must also be considered. We are recommended by fowl fanoiers, and in poultry books, to feed during the first few days, the yolks of hard boiled eggs, as the food most natural. This is too expensive, except for young chickens that sell for fancy prices ; besides we tried it when breeding high-priced fowls some years ago, and could not see any superiority in either hardiness or rapidity of growth, over those not fed so. We feed nothing but corn from the time they are placed in the ooop until fit for the table. We claim that this is a preventive of the gapes. We have been feeding noth ing but corn for the last four years to young chiokens and have not lost a single one from the gapes in that time. We claim this discovery to be original with us, having never seen it in print. A great deal has of late years been said in our agri oultural journals and newspapers upon this subjeot and it is generally asserted that the removal of the lit tie red worms whioh are found in the wind-pipe, and whioh cause the gaping, is an effeotive cure ; but our experience is that, although it always gives temporary, and some times, but not always, permanent relief, it is an operation that is at tended by considerable difficulty, and must be performed with great care, otherwise more chiokens will be killed than cured. A great deal has been said on the cure of the gape?, but very little on the prevention, but we believe in the adage that "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." A few years ago, on ao count of not having a sufficient sup ply of wheat screenings our usual feed for young chiokens we com menced feeding whole oorn to the larger ones, and were surprised to see those not more than a week old pick out the small grains and swal low them. We continued feeding corn, except to the quite small ones, and we had the pleasure of notioing that our young chickens were free from gapes during the entire spring, while other years this disease has been a source of great annoyance to us. The following spring we fed nothing but oorn to our young ohick ens the first few days after being hatohed, oorn chops moistened with water, then coarse craoked corn, un til they were a few weeks old, and after that whole oorn, and not one showed any symptoms of gapes Since then we have pursued the same plan with the same result, not one of our ohickens being affected with the gapes during the last four years We piok out ears with small grains for them when quite young, and be fore they can swallow largo grains. We attribute this freedom from gapes entirely to the feeding of corn, as we pursue the same plan of man agement as before when our raising early young chickens was attended with much difficulty and poor suc cess in oonsequenoe of the gapes. If feeding corn in this manner has been the cause of preventing the gapes, we can give no reason why it is so, but we simply give our experience and hope others may be induced to try the sam.e experiment, and let the publio know with what suocess. We feel confident that if the preceding directions are fully adhered to, early young chickens can be raised suc cessfully. Amerioan Rural Home. Farm Miscellany. GOOD FOBBOWS. No amount of harrowing or after work can entirely overoome the effects of bad plowing to begin with. Plowing is the foundation of the crop to follow. A man who oan draw a straight furrow is one who keeps pretty close watoh of his plow. He may hold his handles loosely and ap pear to be plowing very easily and perhaps carelessly, but he is watch ing every movement of his plow and shifting the handles slightly oneway or the other that the plow may take more or less land. The plow, of course, should do the plowing itself, without necessity for the plowman to bear down on it with all his weight, nor to raise it up on its point constantly ; but nevertheless, plow ing needs close attention. Intelli gent selection should be made of the t arn which is to plow together The hordes' gaits should be even, and they should work well in span. It is impossible to do good work with one horse walking rapidly and the other lagging behind constantly, or walking some times in and some times out of the furrow. The plow itself is another thing to consider. No one plow is best suited to all kinds of land. A sharply curved, short, high mold-board will throw the furro .v very high and hard and break it up ; this is suitable for a stiff clay soil. For smooth, mellow soil, or for plowing sod in the spring, when it is desired to turn the fur row equarely over, a plow with a long, slightly curved mold-board is best, as it turns the furrow smoothly upside down and breaks the furrow the least. The harrowing can be done without draging out the grass. The Soot oh farmers want a plow whioh will turn their forrows on edge, and not entirely over, and they plow a narrower furrow than American farmers. If the team of the plow is short, bringing the horses near the point of resistance, the draft will be least ; but there should be several links between the beam and the vvhifflatree, to allow the horses some leeway when step ping on a mound or into a depression, so that the point of the plow may not be jerked up or down. Guy E. Mitchell, in Farm and Fiteside. TROUBLE WITH A COW'S EYE. Correspondence of The Projcreasl ve Farmer. I have a very good milch cow that is beooming blind in a very curious way. From the inside oorner of eaoh"eye is growing over the eye ball a thin skin or film, whioh moves baok and forth, and whioh now, at times, about covers the sight. It seems to be growing pretty fast, as it has been only about a m. nth since it attracted my attention. Would be pleased to know the disease and also the remedy. Answer through The Progressive Farmer. C H. B. Naeh Co., N. C. (Answer by Dr. Tait Butler, State Veterinarian ) In the inner corner of eaoh eye of the cow, horse and other domesti cated animals, la a membranoe com Tt Halts Cms rij, use snarpies Cream Be para tors. Book "Business Dairying" A Cat. 285 free monly called the washer, but teoh nioallv known as the membrana nicttitau8 or nictitating membrane This ia a provision of nature whioh enables all animals that are not able to protect their eyes with their fore extremities to easily olear those sen sitive organs of all dust partioles or other ordinary foreign bodies. It will be seen from the foregoing that to remove this washer, except when diseased beyond repair, is an unpardonable cruelty. It is fre quently done, by ignorant people under the impression that the mem brane is an unnatural growth, whioh they call "hooks" ; but it is seldom that the membrane becomes suffi ciently diseased to necessitate its complete removal. While C. H. B. is not sufficiently definite in his statements to enable me to deter mine positively, I suspect that his cow is suffering from some irritation or disease of her eyes whioh has caused the membrane to beoome swollen or enlarged sufficiently to attraot his attention. In the ab sence of more definite information regarding the case, I am only able to recommend general treatment as follows : Sulphate of zino, 15 grains. Sulphate of atropia, 2 grains. Distilled water,. 2 ounces. Mix and inject a few drops into each eye once or twioe a day. Newton Enterprise : Several farm ers with whom we have talked are of the opinion that there will not be so muoh cotton, and more oorn, planted in this oounty this year than last. Salisbury Sun: The largest con signment of eggs that ever passed through Salisbury was reoorded at Spenoer, Sunday, wh?n 13 cars loaded with hen fruit parsed through en route to New York. The train load of eggs was valued at $47,000. There is no record of the number of dozens aboard. Most of the eggs were shipped from Tennessee. TO CURE A COLD III QIC DAY Take 1 axatlve Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund tbe money if it fa Is t cure fc;. v . urove s Mgnaiure is on eacnjoox. vtc. llore Owners BKoviLU. Uo aOiIBAUL.T'3 a he Great French Veterinary Remedy. A SAFE, SPEEDY AND POSITIVE CURE. Prepare? by J. E. Gombanlt 8a r geontotha French btud SUPERSEDES ALL CAUTERY OF FIRING impossible tofroducs any scar cr blemish. The nf 9St best Blister eer used. Takes the lnca of all liniment for mild or severe action. Removal ill Bunches or Blemish from Horses or Cattle. As a HUMAN REMEDY for Rheumatism, Sprainst Sore Throat, Etc, ltiainvaiuutne. WE GUARANTEE Ru&itftffitfJti produce more actual results than a whole bottle of any liniment or spavin core mixture ever made. Every bottle of Caustlo Balsam sold ia Warran ted to Rive satisfaction. Price 8 1 .50 Pr boU'o. SH for drn.TKistK. or sent by express, charges pni.i. '-.ith in'.' directions for its use. Hend for descriptive crcuiurts testimonials, etc. Address THE LAWRENCE-WILLIAMS CO.. Cleveland, Ohio HO, THERE, FISHERMAN ! If you will send us ten cents we will send yon a fi-bhook f om which no fish can es cape unt 1 it is taken off. no matter if it is for a week. Stat whether large, mn all or medium Mze is wanUd. There are thrte hooks The middle one is baited and the fish bites tills as usual, when t- e other two close, one on lhe head and the other under under the mouih, "nd th-re he is." These hoots are novelties in the fish world Can be used for any ki. d of fish, from Min now to Cod and tbey are selling like hot cakes. (na dolla wi.l buy a dozen, assorted sizes. If vvecant-11 you any more about them wri e us We tke time to answer all lettes. We have no busy ddjs. F. J. ROOT, 90 West Broadway, New York. iWv Cv iiss- 4 Mif vfry 1 .., .-x-isr-' Giant Flowering Galadium Grandest foliage and flowering plant yet Introduced. Leaves 3 to btxt longby2 or 21-3 feet broad: perfectly ipmense, and make a jplant which for tropical luxuriance uio iiu ciuai. fluji-u to iais wonaerrtu roiiage enecs are ino marainoia in y-nt:e blossoms, 13 to 15incbes long, pnow white, wit a a rich and exquisite fragrance. Plants bloom perpetually all eunmcr m the g-arden, or all the year round la pots. Not only la it the grandest garden or fawn plant, but as a pot plant for la halls, or conservatories, It iivel3 the choicest palms in us us a pes pianc tor larcro windows, veranaas. folia go, to bay nothin pr of its mc -.iccrt flowers. Thrives in any ecu or situation, and . year, and will astonlch evervc .".-id blooms all the BO novel. eCective. free irrnn J- 'Mn l f raTai-.fc. ua magninccace Fine plants, which will soon Viooni and reach full per fection, 85c. each; 3 for COc. for Sl.OO by mail, postpaid, guaranteed to arrive in good condition. OUR GREAT CATALOGUE of Flower and vegetable Seeds, Bulbs, Plants and Rare New Fruits pro fusely Illustrated; Larf Colored Plates: 138 parres; FtlEE to any who expect to order. Many great novelties. JOHN LEWIS CHILOS. Floral Park. & V- s-- ) - V tm at ten enough to do some thines.1 t'of ten euov ea to ray wngwu u jvu uuj tne rigac niwi EE-EE y LdD HANDY WAG on lasts tt.at long under ordinary conditions. First the life nt 7nn dotwndi tinon the wheels. This one ia equipped with our EleetrleSteel Wheels, with straight or s tanner p pokes and wide tires. Wheels any height from t; to 60 in. It lasts because tires can't get loose, no rv-settlne, hubs can't crack or spokes become loose, few ues can't rot, swell or dry onfc Anjrle steel bounds. JHOUSAKDS t:6 XV itf DAIL Y USE. DoVt our a wagon anui too rvt oar free book, Frm Bsvinrs. (Tecsnteh G 49X83.) POLAND CHINAS. superior lot oi Boors "Tecumseh GT' and "Monarch." The m t-' 'O " j r a rv m v nne two best strains of living togs represented in this herd Sows in pigs, and young Boars and Sows of all ages. Send to headq uarters and get the Oest, from the oldest and largest herd ol Poland Chinas in this State, at one half Wes tern prices. Address: J. B. OKAY, Fredericksburg,, Va. I KnoJpn and solvit Ivhereber good crops are zrotoiu Sold everywhere. 1902 Annual FREE, D. M. FERRY &. CO. Detroit, Mich. and on more fsjrnis any other in AiriprifA T l:rft in nicri ffr tHfa we own and operate ovr,ox) acres for , the production of our choice eeeds. In oraer to induce you to try them we make the following unpreo- fjjt f euenieu oner : For 16 Cehte Postpaid k SO kinds of nrw t loscloo radishes, i 13 magnificat earliest melons, 18 ko.-tt glorious tom..tn s, ti peerless lettuce varieties. 19 .nl.ndlil hjft. mnim 65 gorzeouslr bcautii id floirer seeds. in all 150 kinds positively famishing bushels of cliunninsr flowers and lots ana lots of choice vejretables,! toRPiiier -wun our great catalogues leiunRaii auout Tensmte and rea Oat and Bromus and Soeltz. onion ecu ah ouc. a pound, etc.. ail oniT for 1 6c. in Bt&nips. Write to-day. JOHN A. SALZER SEED CO., La Crosse, Wis. THsf"1 -mtmt Oouble Dailv Service Between JNew l ort, Turned, Atlanta New Orleans and Points South and West. Ia Effect May 26th, 1901. SBITMWAIB. Daily Dally NO. 31 No. 27 Lv New York, P R R.- 12 Bopm 12 10 a m Lv Fhiiadslphia, F K. K 329 pm S 50 a na Lv Baltimore, P R R 515 pm 80 a m Ly Washington, P It R 6 55 p m 11 01 a m Lv Richmond, SAL Ry....JG 40 p m 240 pm Lv Petersburg. 11 31 p m 3 27 pm Lv Norlina, " 205 am S55pm Lv Henderson, " 230am 623pm Lv Raleigh, " am 7 40 p in Lv Southern Pines, " 5 37 am 9 30 p m Lv Hamlet, " 6 SO am 1G50 pm Lv Columbia " 8 40 am 105 a ro Ar Savannah, 44 12 10 p m 4 52 a m Ar Jacksonville, 3 50 p m 9 15 a na Ar Tampa " 500am 5 40 pm NO. 31 No. 41 Lv Ne w York, N Y P A N...t7 55 a m 8 55 p m Lv Philadelphia, " 10 23am 1126pm Lv Now York. O D SB Oo...t3 00 p m Lv Baltimore, B S P Co Lv Washington, N A W S B Lv Portsmouth, SAL Ry... 9 30 p m Lv W'eldon, 44 12 16 a m Lv Henderson, 44 2 45 am Lv Raleigh, 44 4 10 am Lv Southern Pines, 44 6 07 a m Lv Hamlet, 44 7 23 a m Lv Wilmington, 44 Lv Charlotte, 44 10 01 am Lv Chester, 44 10 20 a m Lv Greenwood, " 12 22 p m Lv Athens, 44 2 10 pm Ar Atlanta, 44 3 55 p m Ar A ugusta, CAW C........... 510 pm Ar Macon, C of Ga 7 20 pm Ar Montgomery, A A W P... 9 20 p m t 630 6 30 940 1211 215 355 618 10 50 305 1015 142 846 628 ' 800 pm pre a m pra pm pm pm p ni p m p m a m a xn am a m 1120 am 630 am Ar Mobile, LAN 255am Ar New Orleans, L A N 7 30 a m Ar Nashville, N C A St. L... 6 40am 655pm Ar Memphis, 44 4 00. p m 825am RORTHWAII. Daily Dally No. 34 No. 38 Lv Memphis, N C A St. L...12 45 noon 9 00 pm Lv Nashville 44 930pm 9 30am Lv New Orleans, L A N 8 00 p m Lv Mobile, N A N 12 30 a m Lv Montgomery, A fc W F 6 20 a m 130pm Lv Macon. C of Ga 8 00am 420pm Lv Augusta, CAW C 9 40 a m Lv Atlanta, (SAL RyM J2 00 noon 800 piu Ar Athens, 44 ........ 248pm 1123pm Ar Greenwood, 44 ........ 501 pm 2 01 aa Ar Cheater, 44 ........ 7 18 am 410am Lv Charlotte 44 725am 520am Lv Wilmington 44 3 30 pm Lv Hamlet, 44 JO 35pm Lv Southern Pines,44 ...U 28 p m Tjv Raleigh, 44 1 29 pm Ar Henderson, " 2 50 am Lv Norlina, S. A. L. Ry 3 34 a m Lv Weldon, 44 4 40 a m Ar Portsmouth, 44 7 00 a Ar Wnjsh tntrn N' Ar JJ H H 810 903 U30 105 200 S 70 5?o a m a m a m p m p ra p it: p fji a m a m a m a m a m Ar .Baltimore, B8r Co Ar New York. O D 8 S Co " e - - -j t - .., 6 55 : I 6 45 130 510 Ar Philadelphia, N Y P A N,f5 46 pm Ar New York, 44 8 40 p m No. 34 8 00 No. 66 . ,.L 150 Kinds for 16c. It la a fact that Salzer's vegetable and flower seeds are found in rri 13 uardens Is -sl. --a m qj. 1 r ci sl IjV Tampa, 8. A. L. Ry., g 00 p m 8 00 Lv Jacksonville, 44 10 10 a m 7 40 Lv Savannah, 44 2 10 p m 11 45 Lv Columbia, g 44 7 12 p m 4 40 Lv Hamlet, 44 10 35 p m 8 00 Lv Southern Pines44 11 28 p m 8 49 Lv Raleigh, 44 1 29 a m 10 42 LvfHenderson, 44 2 50 a m 11 58 Lv Norlina, 44 8 35 a m LT43 Lv Petersburg, 44 5 49 a m 2 47 Ar Richmond, 44 8 82 am 8 81 Ar Washington. P R R 10 10 am 7 05 Ar Baltimore, P R R......U 25 a m 11 25 Ar Philadelphia, P R R 1 36 p m 2 56 Ar New YorkVP R R 4 13 p m 8 30 a m p rn P JJ3 a m a m a rn a m a m p m p m p m p m pm a m a m .mall crons. iinsalaKU I , ve?. etables, result from want of PotSL Vegetables are especially fond of Potash. Write for our free pamphlets. GERMAN KALI WORKS, 93 Nassau St., New York. ' Page Poultry Fence weighs 10 pounds to the rod. Isn't that h PAK WOVEN WUIK FKXCK0.,AIM'lAN,i(, 2H0gg mihzt action. Hatches ever, v""ii.y. hi COLES COTTOII FlAHTER eimUHDESTISTKEWCRLD! SOU) 5TRAJCHT FRCM FACTORY COLE'S COMBINATION INT&CCnON, THE COLE MFG. CO. CHARLOTTES Tarboro, N. C, Sept.,18, 1901. The Cole Manufacturing Co., Charlotte, N. C. Oents: Aftr nRirtc r"rsloo r-n.u..1 ' a " - - "xjiuiilttuw Planter, I must say it is pf rfectly t-Htula. tory. It is light, d rableard easy o handle I planted cotton, corn And npnc n n n. to-date p anter and no fxrreer would make a naisiaKe in geiting this p'anter. Yours truly, L. D. GAY. (Sssirnu IPffsiniiiia mum M wil nd carefully done, as the in- 'wvji uopvaua uponu. j) or tt a purpose!. in any boi i, jn at 1 tiuas 01 ground nothing equals tie COfLJ PLAXTEk l It t3ares Uu, I&br, mmcj and Inaarei tk erop. Too &uvw wiiou ls is woriia; ; you can see tne corn on id I way to the CTonnd. M&da with nr m-it.hmit. r.ni I attaeaiiMt. 'e riaTim f Armwino n... k.... ; I - - -- -. - 7 . " -" r r' r.w iw, csra. rc neaisomaKetneiamnusPFi!g!rrI. low tiraU ud FrrUilxet- DrllL Write for caial.f and on. SPSUJBASUFACTCT1R8 CC, 5C90u St., Tart, Pi. 'Grow Grasses and Raise Cattle Examine agricultural statistics 'and'see tm high rank North Carolina takes In yield 'yt acre of grasses and forage crops. Oon pare her advantages for stock-raising those of other States. Profit fcyl these ;fceti Grow grasses; raise stock. And whether 701 have few animals or many, you cannot aflort not to read Sriises and Forage Plants 'of ik BY J. S. KIUEBREW, I !! Ualvsrtlty f Timtien. It is a oomplete manual of the cul ture of srrasses and f orasro plants 0! the South. It contains 5 about . i J ... . " . , A. V" lvges, ana is written in a ssyie w understood by everyone. 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