GS -UENING FOR HOME AND
. MARKET.
The Wide Range of a Garden's Pos
sibilitiesThe Housewife Must
Know How to Grow, to Save, and
to Sell.
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Messrs. Editors: In selecting a.
garden choose a dark, soft soil with
full access of sunshine anaV good
drainage. Lay it off sensiblv and
prepare the ground thoroughly.
Make your rows straight, and dont
plant too soon. Use papers or brush
to protect young plants. Keep the
soil soft and free from grass or
weeds. .- -
Haul water in barrels if you can
do no better during drouths, and al
ways keep an even moisture. Keep
the plants all well trained and you
will be amply repaid.
How to Grow Tomatoes.
I always have my tomato blants
box-grown, and ready to set out very
early. Somewhat of a tomato fa
natic, I take especial pride in their
culture. I stake each plant and tie
up firmly to strips nailed across: But
the most important thing is to plant
far apart, give lotsof room for
growth and for the sun to shine in.
For one plant with proper treatment
is worth six crowded and untrained.
Tomatoes, if fine as they should be,
will sell for twenty cents - per dozen
at first if you can keep from eating
them. I 'always can for my own
use and make catsupt sauce, pickle,
and preserves, out of my tomatoes.
I raise white okra to Can with toma
toes for soups in winter. The yel
low tomatoes make beautiful pre
serves, and the peach or acme are
best to can. The very large varie
ties are best for immediate table use,
and i usually have five or six varie
ties for different purposes. Nothing
we raise can compare with . the to
mato. . -
Cabbage, Turnips, and. Onions.
Cabbage plants should also be
ready early, and when planted in
good ground will bear crowding. I
like. the high pointed heads better
than the flat or round kinds.
Be sure to sow some purple top
turnip seed for early greens, as they
come in fine, when we have nothing
else.
Put put Onions in the fall, and
have them crisp and delicious in
March.
Have an asparagus bed if you own
your home; you will enjoy the fine
tender shoots long before other gar
den goods are in sight, and once
tasted one never gets enough aspa
ragus.
Strawberries, Celery, and Other Veg
etables. Give, generous space to strawber
ries, as that is what we work 'the
home garden for: to serve delectable
dainties every day in the year; and
strawberries can be preserved and
pickled or canned, or even dried, if
you have more: than you can use
otherwise.
Have a few rows of celery finely
bleached for winter use, or fancy
sale. Sow English peas for eating
and cannings Also plenty of snap
and Lima beans. I usually have
about six different plantings of beans
in a season, so as to have tender
ones all the time. -
ly. I prefer the plain white-head
lettuce, as its leaves are fine even
oerore it heads. Irish potatoes
snoum never, be planted in hard, red
soil, as they will not repay seed.
soil, plant very
early. I like the Early Rose best.
I have . raised a second crop of po
tatoes mat were even finer than the
nrst and easier kept for winter-
Leave good space to earlv nnm
but depend on the late corn for can
ning or drying.
Hints From the Old-Time Garden.
In the. old-time gardens we had
parsley and sage and every sweet
nerD" ior seasoning and medicinal
properties. I knew one man to rpII
$25 worth of parsley to a hotel in
one year. I never did know what
they did with all that narslev.
In the old-fashioned garden we
naa roses and hollyhocks, lilies and
violets, and also lavender and balm
to make perfume. But our modern
greed for money has shut out many
or tne sweetest luxuries of life. We
have no room for anything unless
mere is money in it.
On Saving or Selling the Surplus.
v Now after the family has . been
supplied with new or canned harden
produce every day ' in the year, if
you nave a surplus of fresh vege
tables, it is no trouble to sell them
if they are cleanly and tastily mar-
Ketea, and to get a f ancv nrir.e for
home canned goods is the -easiest
thing I ever tried, the demand is
always double the supply.
But a farmer's wife must know
how to can anything, and to pickle
and preserve, and dry, and make
jelly, or sauce, or something: to save
everything eatable. Is there any
numan that must necessarily know
as much as a farmer's wife? But
again, is there any one else who. en-
Joys life more or is more useful, or
dearer to the hearts of those who
love all our brave working: women?
Hurrah for the home garden, for
the woman who makes it, and for
the good things she produces in it!
- V SINCERE.
Clarke Co., Ga. .
WHERE TO BUY SEEDS.
CULPEPPER COTTON GREAT LINT PRODUfFR
S?8 on eartb,
$6.75; 10 bushels, 112.50. ; Prices bushel, Ji 50; 5 bushels,
J. E. CULPEPPER. LuthAravlIfA n-
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ALL OF THE iEADINQ IMPROVED VARIETIES.
AlSO Complete Rtnrtlr nf ftorrion Vial rt
Flower Seeds. Send for catalogue.
MARK W. JOHNSON SEED j C0.,'j
Oldest Seed House South. ATLANTA GA
Improved Cotton Seed.
Representative Pou, of North Car
olina, Introduced in Congress last
week a bill appropriating $100,000
ior tne erection of an eauestrian
statue of General Robert E. Lee in a
prominent place in Washington. Mr
Pou said he had discussed with Re
publican members of Congress the
advisability of the Government erect
ing a monument to Lee, and that he
had not encountered a single mem
ber who opposed the plan.
It nftVS In nun rvnltr tYta -xrarxr Vioa
and proved to be good at our Experiment
statl ns These as e the leaders: 11
TVw-klA'o L.ni:i: fire fn rai 8 inni
Cook's Improved, first In 1903-1905; King's
Early and Green's Early, tne standard; ear y
varletle-, and Tatum's New Improved Big
E Oil Prolific. SI. 00 hll.hfl. 1ft Kiicholo anA nvor-
90 cents. i
- Culpepper's Improved, nst in Georgia, 1899. 1
fifsi n Alabama. 1905; Texas Burr, second
1888 1897! Sih1av thft i at nuoi aoa .t , . cnrolo
Christopher Improved, the standard: big boll;
Russell's Green Seed and Mortgage Lifter, each
85 cts. bushel, 10 bushels lots and over 75 cts.
nra le Proline. Tatntn'n Phnii. TTpnrv ftrodu
and Shaw's Mammoth lmmwred.f i wi
bushel, 60 cents peck i I "
Terms cash with order. 1
R. D. TATUM,
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PALMETTO, GEORGIA.1
fpfrftfpn3 Oar catalog Is rlrh with
miu'nh information for the
C Iftt IC.I( nWance of farmers
U II II la la and gardeners. It has
" . t been a great help to
thousandshas been tho means of turning
many a failure into success.
Tne great variety of vegetable and flower
eeas include the best of the old standard
and such new kinds as have proved
ml nine oy actual lest.
J. J. H. GREGORY 4 SON,
Marblehead, Mass.
t
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have stood the test for r
and are still in the lenrl Ucir ti,.L
certainty of growth their uncommonly
large yields of delicious vegetables and
ocaumui nowers, make them the most
iciiaDic ana the most popular everv-
cum uv an oca ere ian
Seed Annual free on request".
D. M. FERRY & CO.,
Detroit, Mich.
Every Planter Write to'
B. W. Hawkins, Nona, Ga.
for history and descrip
tive circular of his
Extra Proline Ootton
and price of seed. It's
free; costs you nothing
to get it and 1U be
worth hundreds of dol-
lars to you.
Quick maturing and win make threo rmi
per acre.
low
Increases In salary for postal em
ployes are Included in the $209,416.-
802 Postal Appropriation bill re
ported to the House.
Representative Tawney's amend
ment to the Agricultural Appropria
tion bill prohibiting the payment of
compensation to State or municipal
officials who render assistance in con
nection with the enforcement of the
Pure Food act, seems to be intended
to delay and obstruct the enforce
ment of that act. Local co-operation
is much Heeded to secure pure food
for the people, and it will be cheaper
for the Federal Government to util
ize, when convenient, locaL experts
for local inspections and analyses,
than to maintain a sufficiently large
army of Federal inspectors and chem
ists. -
Pickles and Seasoning.
Plant a good pickling variety of
cucumbers and gherkins and have
mucu picKies. itaise Deets, I r -., A . .
tors; -?dishfs.ani parsmp enough Pure Florailora Cotton Seed !
j nmici use ur saie.
Plant five or six different .varieties
f Pepper, for pickling or seasoning,
sauce-making and to stuff or dry for
sale. ; - ? :-,' ;-;
lettuce should be sown quite ear-1 J. B. PACE,
I have a limited quantity for sale. Isold
this cotton In Charleston for 19c. p-r pout. d.
Yielded 10"6 pounds lint cotton on two acres
with nnlv firtn nniinHa fuTtO ior .ia T.a
bet cotton you can plant for 1907. - Price $1.25
Maxton, 5. C.
Wood's Seeds.
Irish Cobbler
Seed Potatoes
have proved by r long odds the
tato in cultivation. Head tho let
ters from - truckers, in our New
iescnptive catalogue for 1907, j
We are the larcst A&fdtn-a in
cseea jroiatoes in tne South;
Maine-grown
Second Croo
x Northern-grown
all. high-grade stocks selected aiid
grown especially for seed purposes.
Write for nrices and WOOO'S
1907 SEED BOOK, tlmo-o W.
all seeds for the Farm and Garden.
Mailed free on request; I
T. 17. WOOD s sons!
deeasmen, Hictimqnd,; Va.
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PUFJTEXCELSIOR COTTON
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GET nOM:!
FrUltS Closer And faotOf than anr
v . other cotton on earth. See our
, circular "How to Grow Three
i Bales per Acre." Price, Id bu. $ 10.
WK ABB THE ORIGINATORS OF
MARLBORO PROLIFIC 60RN
i Will yield 60 per cent more than
any other variety. We guarantee
. our seed pure and true to name,
j Price of Corn, 2.50 bushel.
Excelsior Seed Farm, Cheraw, S. C.
BRANCH'S GENUINE RATTLESNAKE
WATERMELON SEED
Only Pure Strain Carefully selected.' Kept
in United States Pur.e forty years. . No ot ber
1 M vat lety grown 01 planta
tion of 1.500 acres. Pure se?d Impossible
Where different kinds are err wn 1 iin
2 OZS. 25o . 4 ozs. 4ftn . ih n i ih 1 k i . o
$4.50. 10 los. $8 50 delivered ttemli resist jred
letter or monev- order. Se
nual. Manual on melon culture with all
orders. -
M. I. Branch, Berzelia, Columbia Co., Georgia.
French Coach Stallions
Of Most Fashionable Breeding; Most
Reasonable Prices; Most Attractive
Terms. Best Lookers; Best Roadsters;
r Best Workers. Write me or better
4 - stUl, come to see them.
WM. Q. OWENS,
' Richmond, Va.
Best of All Cotton.
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I have several hundred bushel'i Cook's
Improved rot on seed for sale at small price 1
of 80c per bushel whild they last, sacked and
packed f . o b Knfie d, N. U. Nice large b lis,
andmskes40 per cent, lint to each 100 lbs.
seed cotton. Address or call on
.. ' C. A. WILLIAHS,
. Rlnwood, Halifax Co., N. C.