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,)T) o) fFTl ffS IP) W F ISTvSv To) 7 til WW- Vol. XXIII. No. 34. y D Title Registered in U. S. Patent Office.) RALEIGH, N. C, OCTOBER 1, 1S08. Weekly: $1 a Year. WHAT YOU WILL FIND IN THIS WEEK'S PAPER. ' . Page. Don't Cross Standard Poultry Breeds, Uncle Jo 14 Farm and Garden Work for October, W. F. Massey ... . . . 4, 9, 13 Fertilizers for Clover, Oats and Vetch. ..... 4 Five Simple Health Rules, 2 Forage Crops for Hogs 4 For the Night-Rider "The Military and the Gallows" . , . ... ... . . 7. . . .'. ..... . 1 Handling Milk and Cream for Market. . . . . . . 11 How to Get a Good Lawn, W. F. Massey. . ... .15 3 6, 7 1 13 4 15 8 10 16 4 3 8 How to Grow Dwarf Essex Rape. ........ Housekeeping Recipes ..... . . . . ;. 7. . . . How to Prevent Wheat Smut, F. L. Stevens; . Importance of Good Roads, E. D. Pearsall . . . Keeping Sweet Potatoes . . ....... ......... Learn How id Fight Insect Pests . ... ... . . . Look Well to Roads Now . . . . ; October Work on the Stock Farm, A. L. French Preventing Fraud in Seed, C. M. 'Scherer . . . . Right Time to Turn Under Peas ... ...... . Sow Bur Clover Now, C. M. Scherer. . ...... Stop SeUing Cotton. . . ... . . .... . . . . . . . "The Grandeur That Was Rome,' Clarence H. Poe . . . . ........ .. . . . . . .... . ... . . 2 Vetch on Stiff. Upland, J. W. Bowen. . . . 5 What Sheep Need : .... . . . . 1 . . . ...... . . . . . 10 WHERE THERE'S A WILL THERE'S A GOOD ROAD. The old trails and cart tracks, run when .men had less to carry and carried it less often than they do now, will no longer answer the purpose of roads. With the coming of a vaster population and the tremendous increase in market crops, the traffic laid upon the old highways is greater than they can hear. Suddenly we have swung into an age of road-building. The necessity is here: the traffic is here; the ability to build is here. If this latter point some be constrained to deny, let it be taken into account that a people who are able to sustain the amazing losses of time, of broken ve hicles, and of ruined teams, entailed by our pres ent system of roads are well able to build and maintain better highways. 'The challenge is not to our ability,' but to our willingness, our enter prise ' - " :"'-' " IS COTTONSEED BETTER FERTILIZER THAN COTTONSEED MEAL? By the scant use of cottonseed meal as fertilizer and the liberal use of cottonseed, many have 'con vinced' themselves that cottonseed is a better fer tilizer for cotton than is the meal. The fertiliz ing content of the meal and of the seed makes fifteen pounds of meal equal to one bushel of seed; and by test of these quantities the meal is slightly superior. 'Any man, by comparing the market value of fifteen pounds of meal with the value of one bushel of seed, can at any timfd termine which is best for him to use. It is use less for one to fool himself with the idea' that by Putting the cottonseed oil into the ground with the seed that contains it he is aiding the crop. The seed must decay before they fertilize the crop. The hull may first decay r.Then, the oil retards the decay: of the seed ferhaps In a dry season there may not be moisture etigggh to rot he seed enough, and "in any casecS'of the fertilizing value of the seed wjlL Tiot become lilable jtill it is too late for thop. Does tiiis the NigHt-Rider-'TKe Military and Gallows." bettor fnr ho.'tt ft A : prnnH Thata lavor tfie me&i cm Cikf mfllrta r ii. i x . . "w.s e mealjjtsNinely In some quarters of the South the night-rider has. made his appearance. " The seriousness of this fact cannot be over-estimated. Whatever plea of justification he may make, the night-rider Is the symbol of lawlessness, of barbarism, of a spirit that would undermine the very foundations of government and of public safety. This night-rider business must be nipped in the bud, at whatever cost; for once let loose, it would go, like a midnight fire in a sleeping city, to ends whereof no man can guess. ':-C'"' ' 'j - . ;-Xvr " :-- :- Certain it is that if ;wide-spread, Its effects would be ruinous to the South and to the good name of her people. '' . y , " , , The way would be opened for criminals and desperadoes to wreak vengeance upon the Innocent of all ages and sexes; neither life nor property anywhere would be safe; tlabor would become disorganized; 'wives and children in the farm , homes would become the prey of an unceasing terror and even in the depression of property values resulting from " the general demoraHzation, the loss would be collossal. Serious as the situation would be in any other section, it becomes ten-fold more se rious in the Southern States where the presence of 10,000,000 negroes suggests all the possibilities of crime and uprising on the part of the more desperate and violent of both races, with bloody consequences and conflicts easy to imagine. The situation, we repeat, 'is serious; and it is imperative that the farmers of the Southern States immediately make their regard for law and order so positive and unmis takable that the night-rider movement will end at once and forever with its present in glorious beginning. If strong remedies are necessary, they must be adopted. Let the threat of the i nig$it rider meet a response as cruel and bloody as ; the conditions he would bring about. W6' can not use over-much gentleness hr handling the fool who plays with fire above a powdef magazine. ' : - ' - :- . ; -. ' With the night-rider there, is but one way to deal the way in which Governor Noel of Mississippi announces that he will deal with such offenders. 1 "The military and the gallows will be used," he declares. Every Governor in the South, every sheriff and constable and deputy should join in the same resolve; and'we appeal to our 100,000 farmer readers in the Southern States to meet this threatened danger in the same spirit. - The South must be saved at whatever cost from the perils of night-riderism; (JL it is better that severe measures be used on the hoheads who now threaten to start the move ment rather than wait' until the evil becomes, here as in Kentucky, so violent as to maka y bfficrers and governments cower before its shameful strength. , . . There is no more despicable characte r than the man who is at once a coward and a bully. The methods of the night-rider put him in this class; and in the very beghining the South should meet his lawless show of force .with a lawful show of force backed by 'unanimous public opinion ' . - . ' "The military and the gallows" for all who would start a reign of terror in the South! pulverized and the oil has been taken out, the meal, feeds the crop quickly; . but it is possible that in a very wet season some of the value of the meal might leach away more readily than if seed were used. , HOW TO PREVENT WHEAT SMUT. There are voTypes and Dr. Stevens Tells How to Combat Both. l Many fafmw- : crnow making inquiries regard- iln'wneat .8111111.'- - - 1 There are two Varieties or tnls trouble, one knpwn as the loose smut, the other, the stinking smut. ' The loose smut is readily recognized from the fact that it drops out as a dry dust and leaves the chaff empty, The stinilrg smut, on the contrary, remains in the chaff as a more dr less waxy mass, which has a very disagreeable odor " when rubbed between the fingers. The latter of these smuts, the stink ing smut, can be prevented by formalin treat ment, shich has been repeatedly given by me in tbese columns. ' All you need is to take 1 ounce of formalin to 3 gallons of water and use 1 gallon of this mixture on each bushel of seed ; wetting the seed thoroughly with this mixture at night and allowing it to stand over-night, covered with blankets or bags. The seeds may then be dried in any way which seems desirable. Seeds so treat ed will raise wheat free from stinking smut, and will raise oats free from smut. 1 This treatment is not, however, effective against the loose smut of wheat. The loose smut finds its way into the seed when the wheat plant is still in bloom, therefore any seed which comes from a field where there was smut, very probably was affected when the wheat was in blossom. The seed which comes from a field where there was any loose smut is almost certain to raise a crop badly affected with the loose smut. The remedy against loose smut is to secure seed from a field which was known to be free from this disease. The smut on corn is an entirely separate dis ease and does not grow on either wheat or oats. F. L. STEVENS, North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station.
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