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Farm
Department
Deviled to tbe latoroota of Tho??
Engaged n Agricultural Pursuit*.
Conducted by J. M Beaty
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THINGS TO DO NOW.
Farmers will Boon be through cul
tivating their crops and as soon
as they rest a little It will pay to
do something which could not be
done sooner.
Hurtful weeds should be cut from
the ends of rows, from ditch banks,
terraces or any place they can give
trouble or from which they will scat
ter seeds.
Remember that August is the best
time of the year to do shrubbing.
The bushes should be cut from new
grounds, ditch banks and pastures.
Straw and leaves should be hauled
to litter the lots, stables and such
other places as can bo used to raise
manure. Now is a good time to ar
range for a considerable quantity of
manure for next years crops.
All weak place* In fences
should be repaired. When crops
reach the growth they now have
cattle are much more likely to dis
regard weak fences. The weak plac
es need attention and should have it
at once.
Land from which Kfain was cut and
where peas have not been planted
should be run over with the mower
to destroy cockleburs and iuch
things. This fixes the land In bet
ter condition for grain sowing next
fall or for next year's crops.
The Cow.
The dairy cow, If able to express
herself In a way whleh the human
family would comprehend, might, well
lay claim to being man's best friend.
She niignt establish such a claim by
calling intention to the fact
that from her product and from her
careass man manufactures more of
the necessities of life than from any
other similar source. She furnishes
these necessities to him from infan
cy untl! such a time as temporal
things are no longer associated with
bis existence, and she does it un
grudgingly and constantly.
In addition to contributing to man's
necessity'and his pleasure, the pros
perity of an agricultural community
is more closely indentlfled with her
than with any other of the domes
tic animals. The horse Is quite es
sential in tilling the soil, but where
necessity requires it the stjirdy son
of the row can take his place, as he
has done in every agricultural section
on oarth. The horse can only fur
nish labor and can only return a prof
It t> h!s owner when conditions nre
rlgl.t for returning satisfactory grain
crops. It is a well known fact that
the dairy cow is the salvation of the
farmer In times of poor crops as
the Is able to convert the rough
crops which are never a total fail
ure. Into dairy products which al
ways have a cash value.
In addition to this she furnishes
tklu milk and butter milk for the
calvts, pigs and poultry and fertility
for the soil, without which a farm
becomes less valuable each year and
tbf whole country less prosperous.
The elimination of the dairy cow
would necessitate an almost revolu
tionary readjustments of man's tastes
and requirements. It would mean
untold suffering and hardship. Of
course she will not be dispensed with
but her value can perhaps best be
appreciated by contemplating such a
loss.
She will continue to be man's best
friend as long as the human family
exists and will kepe on supplyihg him
with his greatest needs Just as she
has done through nil the ages.?The
National Dairy Union.
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Hated, But Endured.
The late Josh Billings possessed a
remarkable facility for expressing
human feellngB. He perhaps never
touched a more sympathetic chord
than when he said: "I hate a fly;
darn a fly!" Vet he knew nothing
of the load of guilt which recent
tcieatific research has heaped upon
tbW same winged devil.
This is fly time; it is therefore ty
phoid fever time. There is no fact
more absolutely proved than the
responsibility of the common house
fly for the spread of typhoid fever
and many other infectious diseases.
The subject is too important?too
?ital?to admit of anything but the
plainest and most emphatic lan
guage.
Flies mean filth. They can't live
without It. they breed In it and lire
on it. Where flies are there filth
is also. The trouble is they are not
content to stay there. They are
in the manure pile, slop bucket, gar
bage can, cesspool, closet, or rotten
carcass this minute and on your din
ner plate or your baby's lips the nexl
minute.
The feet of flies are perfectly ad
apted to attracting filth and germs
from any substance on which they
alight and leaving them on the next
place they visit.
If dirt and filth were the only ma
terials thus transported the case
would be bad enough. The mixing o<
particle* of offal, manure and filth
wita food ready for eating Is bad,
but the carrying of germs of dUease
Is .nl.ultely worse. Y< t thi> is ex- (
a-tly what the house fly Is con
stantly doing.
It Is now a fully demonstrated fact
that 'he dreaded typhoid and other
serious diseases ar-' spread chiefly (
by the devilish activities of files. |
These are the facts. What are (
we going to do about it? Are we to
simply continue to hate and endure i
--brush the fly from our nose or |
plate, say "darn a fly." but continue I
to let him pester and kill?
Control Is simple. It must be di
rected toward two different ends.
First, prevent flies from breeding.
Second, kill flies. As a protection
all windows and doors should be
serf<-led. The presence of a fly In
u dwelling house should be looked
on ns an Inexcusable menace.
Flic* Ijreed In manure and gar
bage. All such materials should be
removed to the land and plowed un
der every week.
Chickens about these breeding pla
c?m eat the eggs and grubs. They
therefore aid In keeping the fly pest
und< r control.
For killing flies one means is so
much more simple and effective that
it ..hould supplant all others.
Formalin Is a deadly poison to
files, but In such small quantities Is
harmless to people and animals. For
n a'in, 1 teaspoonful, water 1-2 pint,
are the proper proportions. Mix and
expose in dishes wherever files ga
t'.if r.
There will soon be only dead flies
to mark the spot.
This material can be bought wher
ever drugs are sold and Is so cheap
that a dime will protect a dwelling
for a season.
Now let's all do a little work,
spend n little money, and endure the
filthy, nasty, pesky death-dealing fly
no longer.?Southern Rurallst.
.
Education And Farming.
Ill nn address before the National
Education Convention, In Boston re
cently, a speaker expressed the opin
ion that the farmer without an agri
cultural education was headed for the
poorhoute. He quoted figures to
show 'hat ,ten college-bred farmers
averaged $847 yearly income against
an average of only $318 for the far
mers whose education had been lim
ited to the district school. "Most of
the teachers used to say," he said,'
"that any fool could farm." Now they
say agriculture Is too difficult for
high school."
Since a full education in agricultur
al science Includes such branches as
chemistry, botany and physiology, this
statement Is no doubt true. The far
mer needs In his business a know
ledge of more sciences than any
other citizen, for more of them have
to do with the various branches of
his business. While this Is true It Is
also true that the farmer can make
a fairly comfortable living with less
scientific knowledge than are ne
cessary In other kinds of business;
but this Is due to his business Itself
rather than to the farmer. It is an
easy business to follow; it almost
runs Itself. Any farmer, however,
could do better and make more prof
it, comfort and enjoyment, if he
knew more of the sciences referred
I to, and others kindred to them.?
j Indiana Farmer.
The Cost of Living And the Simple
Life.
Special causes, such as high tar
iffs. agricultural readjustment, high
er wages, and increasing expenditures
of the rich, have operated to raise
!rices. The resultant seems to be
the outcome of special forces on the
goods side of the price ratio work
ing to raise the prices of goods, more
than inventions and progress in the
arts have been able to depress them.
Tn this respect the latter differs from
th* earlier period.
Lastly, it must be admitted that,
aside from the higher prices of many
sttple articles, our standard of liv
ing has changed with the growing
wealth of the country. Each family
now wishes more expensive food, bet
ter clothes, more costly millinery,
moi-e pictures and books and those of
a higher price, more bicycle^, and
automobiles, more horseback riding,
more travelling, stays at higher pric
ed hotels, passage on more expensive
steamers, than formerly?all to keep
up in the procession with the suc
cessful rich, who are Increasing enor
mously in numbers. Every one ex
pects, a3 a matter of course, to buy
fruits and vegetables out of season?
such as a vtry short time ago were
considered within tbe reach of only
the largest purses. Our kitchen ec
onomy is quite too wasteful; we
throw away fats and buy lard to take
their place. May it not be the psy
chological bour to call for the crea
tion of a new aristocracy of the sim
ple life, o! those who care for the
reality and not for the shadow, for
the truo Inward pleasures of the
mind lather than for the external,
evanescent show? May It not be
high time to create a free-masonry of
those who do not ask how much one
has, nor how much one knows, but
what one- is? Gold. In the sense of
; richer, may bo the root of all evil;
but gold, in the sense of a standard
of prices, cannot be the sole root of
the evil In our increased cost of liv
ing.--From "The Increased Cost of
Living," by J. Laurence Laughlin. in
Scrlbner.
It exalt?th a man from earthly
things to have those that are hea
venly.?Thomas A. Kempis.
COTTON CROP WILL BE POOR.
Commercial Appeal's Estimate it That
It Ca> Not be More Than 75
Per Cent of Acreage.
Memphis, Tenn., July 25.?The 1
Commercial Appeal will tomorrow
print tnls summary of the cotton crop
:ondii ions:
"T)i>- week gives mixed and rather
uncertain returns from the cotton
Field". Considerable improvement at- i
tendant upon dry weather is shown in
Alabama Tennessee, Mississippi and
Arkansas, while northern Louisiana Is
rouadiLrf into a state of fair prom
ise.
"The Carolinas and Georgia suffer
ed from heavy rains early in the
week, so that little cultivation was
done on the latter days, while Tex- i
as and Oklahoma, without rain, are
approaching a time when the crop
mfc.v KUfftr. In fact, some loss has
already been sustained In southern
and southwestern Texas.
'"In the central and eastern States
th? crop Is being "laid by" in a ra
ther poor condition, some of the
field! still being very grassy. Ten
days without rain would permit of I
a rather considerable Improvement, 1
but the crop has received much lest
work than it would have gotten with
normal weather. The plant remains
small and seems late. It has put
on little fruit, and In many places
has not begun to bloom freely. Es
timates on condition seldom run
higher than 75 per cent, and are of- 1
ten below this. There are limited
districts in all the Valley and At
lantic States, however, that give a
good account."
A BATHTUB FOR MINE MULES.
Shower Attachment that Makes the
Long Ears Wag With Joy.
A concrete bathtub some forty feet
long and a few inches more than I
four feet deep has been Installed in !
the Henry Colliery of the Lehigh
Valley Coal Company at Plains, Pa., I
for the accommodation of the mine
mules.
The mine improvement is built at
the entrance of the mule barn. The
long eared beasts are pretty tired
when they conclude the day's work,
but when they strike the bath all
fatigue disappears and they ru-ih in,
crowding each other for the de 'pest |
place In the tub. ?
Directly over it runs a perforated
pipe, and when the mules have dis
ported themselves in the water in
the tub the shower bath is turned
on. The speed with which a mine
mule will hurry to the barn when
the day's work is over is proverbial,
yet with all their desire to get the
second meal of the day they have
to be driven out of the bath.
One old fellow is said to take such
delight that no amount of coaxing
will get him to leave the tub until i
he has had at least ten minutes of
the fun. Others will not leave the j
tub until the shower is turned on, |
and it seems that this feature is
the most enjoyable. Some of them,
the mine foreman says, will look at
the attendants longingly and then
swing their heads appealing toward
the spray pipe until some one turns
it on.
The bath is expected to prolong
the vigor and vitality of the mules.
The driver boys are the only work
ers in the mine who are not abso
lutely in sympathy with the innova
tion, the bath keeping them in the
mine ten or fifteen minutes longer
than before, yet the enjoyment of
their charges seems even to offset
the inconvenience to a great extent.
?Popular Mechanics.
A Young Woman Farmer.
A young woman in Massachusetts,
who was not worried by any surplus
of this world's goods, resolved to
become a farmer. To begin with, she
took a three years' course in the
state agricultural college at Am
herst. She had been ad\ised to en
gage in some sort of work that
would keep her out of doors, and she
rented an abandoned farm, borrow
ing the money to pay the first in
stallment of the rent.
Last year she worked only five
acres of the tract. She put those
five acres in garden truck, and she
cleared $650 on the enterprise. She
figures that she will clear as much
as $200 to the acre on this year's
farming operations, and she has pur
chased three horses and two hundred
hens. She is doing a fairly good bu
siness in selling eggs. So far, to
matoes have been her most profit
able crop, but she has also made a
good deal of money lA" growing peas
and corn. During the vegetable sea
son she makes daily trips to Wor
cester, fifteen miles away, where she
sells her products. She hires boys
for ten cents an hour to help in
the truck patch. She keeps an ac
count of all receipts and expenses,
and at the end of the year she will
know exactly where she stands in a
financial way.?Louisville Courier
Journal.
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Hicks?"Have you many warm
friends?"
Wicks?"All my friends are warm
these days."?Boston Transcript.
AS TO MINERAL WATER.
A True Story of the Benefits of Mt.
Vernon Mineral Springs.
"Mineral Spring*" are now to be
found in various parts of the coun
try, the proprietors of which of course
claim they have the best water on
earth, or words to that effect. The
Record does not dispute this( claim,
for probably there are more health
giving qualities In mineral waters
than in anything else, especially
when one leaves business behind and
"tanks'' up on good water.
The advertisement of Mt. Vernon
Mineral Springs, only forty miles fron
Greensboro, found In The Record to
day, reminds the writer of a story
true as gospel. Last year In Greens
boro a man whose name?and his af
fidavit, if necessary?will be given,
was afflicted and had been for sever
al years with a bad case of intestinal
indigestion. His physician, among
the best to be found anywhere, work
ed on him for weekt, trying all kinds
of remedies. Finally he told him he
hius' g< t away and go to Mt. Ver
non Springs or some place with wa
tt r of a like nature, otherwise he
would not be responsible. It is well
to state that this physician was
ne>><*: at Mt. Vernon in his life and
he Is not now acquainted with the
proprietors of the place, yet he had
seen the results of the water, hence
iiis advice. His patient rebelled; he
was a busy man and could not "get
a way" he said.
"You might get taken away(" said
his physician?'to Greene Hill cemt-,
tery for instance.'' This prescription
"acted like a charm," as the doc-jl
tors say, and he left on almost the
next train, taking with him (our!
kinds of medicine?"just to be on'
tue safe side," he said. He remain
ed a week and not a drop of medi
cine carried along was taken and has .
n"t been taken since. When he went i
down he had been subsisting on two
raw eggs and a little soup at each
meal. In three days he was devour
ing fried chit-ken, country mutton
and beef, together with such vegeta
bles as he was fond of.
This trip was made last July and
fJiiie then he has been doing finely,
tuough again?"to be on the safe
tide"? he has been drinking the
water shipped from the Springs.
Talking with this gentleman to-day
he said he attributed his recovery to
the advice of the proprietor of the
Springs, Mr. J. M. Foust, who told
him to "drink all the water he could
hold," all day and every day, no
matter what happened, and he would i
see the result. Just what he said
resulted.
It is frequently said that if one
would drink as much water at home
as he does at these watering places
he would derive practically the same
benefit. The truth is the man does
not live who can drink as much; his
stomach rebels, while with this wa
ter he can drink a quart at one
"gulp" and then is ready to repeat
the dose."?From Greensboro Record,
June 9th.
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The Southern Presbyterian College.
At the spring meeting of Fay
etteville Presbytery a Committee,
consisting of Rev. R. W. Jopling,
Rev. W. C. Brown, Rev T. H. Spence,
Rev. J. K. Roberts and elder J. S.
McRae, was appointed to raise
funds to pay off the debt and make
some needed improvements at the
Southern Presbyterian College. This
committee met at the college in
May and after some investigations it
was decided that we should raise at
least fifteen thousand dollars?five
thousand of this amount to be rais
ed in Red Springs and ten thousand
in the rest of the Presbytery.
If all the people could see the
importance of this cause as the com
mittee sees It after Investigation, w<?
believe It would be easy to raise twic?
this amount. A canvass will be mad*
for this cause in November.?Contri
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A Frightful Wi^ck.
of train, automobile or buggy may
cause cuts, bruises, abrasions, sprains
or wounds that demand Bucklen's Ar
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For Baby's Ills
Something can and must be done
for the puny, crying baby, for the
child that refuses to cat and is rest- (
less in its sleep. And since the basis
of all health is the proper working ;
of the digestive organs, look first to
the condition of the stomach and
bowels.
A child should have two full and free
movements of the bowels a day. This
emptying of the bowels Is very Important,
as with It comes a clear head, a light
ness of step, good appetite and sound
?leep. But it Is equally Important to
know what to give the child In the
emergency of constipation and indiges
tion. Cathartics are too strong and salts
and other purgatives are not only too
etrong, but the child refuses them be
cause of their bad taste. Have you ever
tried Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin? It is
a liquid tonic that families have been
using for a quarter of a century. It la
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fective. It is good for you as well as
the child, but th?re la nothing better to
be found for children. They like its taste
?you will not have to force them to .
takr* it
First of all, if you have not yet used 1
it. Dr. Caldwell would like to send you
a sample bottle free of charge. In this
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when convinced of its merits, you can
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one dollar a bottle, just as thousands of
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Mr. D. W. Spangler of irttrattonvllle, Pa..
?s well as that of Mr. A. F Johnson of
Walnut Grove. Tenn.. started with it in
that way and now write that it is their
one family necessity next to food itself.
If you are unfortunate enough to have a
filckly child, one given to constipation
and indigestion, you should send for a
free sample of this remedv.
D.\ Caldwell personally will be pleased
to give you any medical advice you may
desire for yourself or family pertaining to
the stomach, liver or bowels absolutely
free of charge Explain your case In a
letter and he wif! reply to you in detail.
For the free sample simply send your
name and address on a postal card or
otherwise. For either request the doctor's
address Is Dr. W. B Caldwell, R.50u Cald
well building, Monticello. 111.
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