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Vol. XXXI. No. 18 SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 1916. $1 a Year; 5c a Copy PLANT A- BIG PATCH OF WATERMELONS ' r" " " " " """" w . . - ..-... , . . " - , .,,.7 ' . - - . ;4 i. i . A t v ' ' - 1 7 - -: ' , ' ' - . f 3 -j' ?s w yt ji - - - i -! irorwimiiiiiii h-- ir -r-r-r 1 it i n iinjf hiiiw infU-inrmiiwi i i 'i .....'i..i i iiiirinn.Mirm 1 ttt iiii , L - - ... - - - ; - . , ' i ' , S J ,S v. , v ... ..... -.- . . ' ...... . .. ... I . - "KING BY THE GRACE OF GOD" : v ; . Courtesy North and South Magazine. I 2 : ! : : : : : LAST summer a city woman was talking of her visit to the country: "And the wonderful things we had to'' eat, " she said, "Great, red-hearted, luscious water melons, with a crisp freshness we had never jound in melons bought in town; cantaloupes tnat melted in your mouth; and bushels of Peaches, figs and grapes. I simply didn't now it was possible to have so many good tnings to eat as our t friends in the country have." . ' . While it is easily possible for practically every Southern farm family to enjoy all these good things and many others besides, how many of us as a matter of fact do enjoy them? now many farms have two or three planting 01 watermelons and cantaloupes furnishing a succession of delicious melons from July until jjctober? How many have peaches ripening J?? .May until fall, or -grapes of ; different: varieties, strawberries,, dewberries, .plums, . apples, pears, figs and a host of other delici- 6 7 DON'T FAIL TO, READ Page Country Free of Foot-and-Mouth Disease 3 "Sold His Durn Uttle Home" . . . 4 Study Fertilizers, and Buy and . Use Only What Ybu Need . . Hay Making Suggestions . . ;. . Winning the Fight Against the Boll Weevil Marketing the Peach Crop Feeding Horses and Mules n . Shoeing Horses . ... . . Uncle John Studies Domestic Science Glimpses of Northeast Georgia Rural Credits for Home Builders 7 8 10 10 12 13 18 Enlist Your Boys and Girls In Club Work 23 . . ..... . ous fruits that help make farm life worth Hying? We would have the rural South famous not onljr for its flowers and pretty homes, but for its good things to eat as well If all the good things we have mentioned, along with many others as well, are not contributing to the joys of living on bur farms, let's plan now not to let another year : pass without them. Above all, let's plan' for an abund ance of watermelons, the king of all fruits, of which Mark Twain has happily said; - ; : "The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, not to be mentioned with commoner things. It is chief of this world's luxuries, king by grace of God over all the fruits of the earth. When one has tasted it, he knows what the angels eat. , It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took; we know it be- " cause she repented," ' a.
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