Modern Farm Methods
As Applied in the South.
Notes of Interest to Planter,
Fruit Grower and Stockman
The Hog. ly
Our smoke-houses have been too
far from home. Now is the time
to begin to think of the bog and to
learn how best to raise him more
abundantly upon our farms. He can
thrive In the South as well as In any
section. He can not eat cotton, but
he can eat" rape, vetch, peas, Ber
muda, sorghum, peanuts and corn,
and can transform them into bacon
that will help us make our cotton,
help us to hold our cotton, and help
us to keep our cotton money at home.
The great Shakespeare made Richard
the Third exclaim, "A horse! A
horse! My kingdom for a horsp!"
We need to cry, "A hog! A hog! My
cotton plantation for a hog!" The
hog manures earlier than any oth«r
valuable animal. He will mature as
early as a cotton crop. In one year
he is food in your smoke-house
or money in your pocket. He Is easy
to raise; cats any and all things,
transforms waste into valuable food.
Turns garbage Into money. No nation
or people are great or strong who
do not eat meat. Meat is the great
source of human energy* It is the
steam and electricity that moves hu
man mutfcle and human brain.
The South is the great clothing
and food producing centre of the
globe. We are not doing half we
should do. We need more energy and
better directed energy. We need
more hog meat to be transformed in
to a thousand forms of field and fac
tory products. We have been asked
to write more on hogs this year. We
are going to do so. Farmers, wake
up, It is daylight; "it Is time to go
out and call the hogs and feed them."
Get you some fencing, build your hog
lots, plant various crops that will
help you carry them throughout the
year. Buy you eome Berkshtres, Es
sex, Poland China, Duroc Jersey. Get
better stock, raise more of them,
grow more feed for them and have
more bacon. One of our friends
wisely said so many are foolishly
writing about "reducing the acre
age" and "resoluting about reduc-,
tion," without giving our farmers a
substitute for this cotton area. Here
is a substitute. The Cultivator
points you a safe and practical way:
To reduce the area raise more hogs
and more cows. We are annually
sending millions to Chicago for meat.
Let's keep- this money In the South.
We Can do it. It only requires each
farmer to do hisdjrfy">ln raising his
own home supplies. Read what ono
of our subscribers writes In this is
sue. Last year he killed eighty head,
this year expects to have 100. Th:s
Is the spirit we need, more and more,
until we can feed the South, and
develop her resources as they should
be developed. Here is for more hogs
and better ones.—Southern Cultiva
tor.
How to Apply Manure to Lend.
While I believe in deep plowing I
do not believe In deep burying of ma
nure. A coat of manure turned down
with a furrow that throws it flat to
the bottom may have a bad effect in
preventing the rise of capillary mois
ture. That is not the way to plow
in any event. Take a more narrow
furrow and edge up the furrow
slices, and never turn them upside
down. In this way a coat of manure
will be evenly distributed in the aoil
and the capillarity will not be Inter
fered with.
The best place for manure Is near
the surface where It will act as a
mulch and conserve the moisture,
while the rains will carry the soluble
parts to the roots ol the crop. If it
were always practicable I would
rather spread the manure after plow
ing an J then disc it in well with the
surface. But this is only practicable
with the manure spread in the spring,
and we should by that time have the
bulk of it already spread during the
winter. A light coat of manure near
the surface will do more good than
a heavy one burled deeply in the
soil.
Don't Imagine that when you hrnil
a bit of dirt from a fence row and
pile and mix It with your manure
that It i 3 all manure. The dlrt jnay
absorb some of the mauure, but the
soil in the field would absorb it Just
as well if spread cn it as fast as
- made>
There Is reldom a tine in the
South when the manure spreader
car no bo used In winter: except when
It is too wet to drive on the land,
and there Is far less loss from ma
nure spread cn the surface of the
field than anyw'oere you can put If.
With plenty of bedding in bot sta'ls
can bo kent tramped down
""Ithoui. 3cr;csie loss, but when once
lOv.senr." ui> It should go at once~';o
the field. —— ——
And yet in driving recently
thre-xh ona of th« most hi«•••
■sr-"* •*„, 1 1 . 1 11 ■ ■-v.ys
v Fallen By the Wayside.
Trust no man's memory—nor your
own.
There is room *t the top—of a
man's anatomy. Get busy! Study.
When asybody agreeswith you ha
has opinions; when he doesn't, de
lusions. *"
You can't save time. The best you
can do is to improve it as it passes.
Don't be afraid of He
is the best teacher.
proved sections of Maryland I was
surprised to see that many farmers
were throwing the, manure out of the
stable windows and letting it lie un
der eaves to waste. There are l.sd
farmers even in highly farmed Sec
tions.—W. F. Massey, In the Pro*
gresslve Farmer.
j
To Raise Early Watermelons.
Select land if possible that slopes
southward and plow deep and har
row until the soli is free from all
clods. Lay off rows ten feet apart
each way and dig holes fifteen inches
square and one foot deep and till
these~holes half full with strong
stable manure well pulverised and
on top of thi3 put in enough of any
rich soil to fill the hole. The object
is to make a small hot-bed, In order
to induce tho seed to germinate
quickly.
Now make boxes out of one by
six plank ten by twelve inches in
length and width and place u box
over each hole and incline it south
ward so as to catch the rays of tlie
sun, say forty-five degrees, move or
less, on fair days.
Over this box put a pane of win
dow glass to shed the cold rain and
to hold the heat from the manure
inside the box. Plant seed as noon
as the bed is made warm from the
heat arising from the fertilizer.
Rake up soil on outside of box until
it reache3 the top of box. The ob
ject of banking up the soil is to make
the air warm inside to promote plant
growth as rapidly as possible during
the cold snaps of spring.
After plants are up they must be
watched daily. If the weather is
cold keep them covered but if warm
slip the glass cover a little to one
side to allow air to enter. Keep
the inside of box as near growing
temperature as possible.
When danger of cold is passed
take the soil away from outside of
box and lift it off, removing box and
glass to some safe storage place for
another season's trial.
Plants will be on a level and should
be worked rapidly enough to keep
aher l of growth.
Following this method will put
ripe melons on the market anywhere
in Georgia or Alabama the first: days
of June.—J. R. M.
A Percheron Gold Mine.
ft is seldom that you meet any one,
not even a horseman, who can tell
you, approximately, the possi
bilities of a mare bred at two years,
and which drops Ally foals for eight
years, and they, breeders, like their
dam. In ten years the total would
be thirty-one head, and, counting
half of them "horse" colts, you
would have fifteen head in the herd,
quite a source of revenue from one
animal, especially if she is a regular
worker on the farm, tnereby paying
her board, if no more.
I once owned a mare that had
seven colts to seven leaps, and I know
a gentleman in the adjoining county
of Augusta that Is so far ahead of
me on two mares that I will not men
tion his case, but let him tell it him
eelf. «.
I bought a pure-bred Percheron
six-year-old filly when horses were
' celling for a song," and the spring
she was twelve years old I Bold her,
and she was then with foal. Bhe
and her colts fetched me a profit of
53350. As she was a regular worker
on the farm, she never had two colts
in successive seasons, and I never
kept one of her coPts till it arrived
at the age of three years.—John F.
Lewis. Rockingham County, Va.,
Southern Plantar.
Navy Beans Xot Profitable in South,
Navy beans may be grown in smill
amount for homo use In South Caro
lina, but as a commercial crop they
are not profitable. Your climate is
too humid and there will be so large
a percentage of damaged beans that
the hand-picking would take all the
profit of the crop. These beans are
better adapted to the climate of the
North and are mainly grown in West
ern New York and In Michigan, and
we cannoi compete with these States
in growing ihtm in the South. They
do not need a very rich soil nor heavy
j fertilization. High, sandy soil will
suit them and a fertilizer ol about
| 300 pounds per acre—five paris acid
: phosphate-, one part muriate of pot
| ash, and one part nitrate of- soda—
> will do vary well. Would noc advise
I you io plant Ihew on any large scale
| till you nave'iriau them.—W. F.
M assay.
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Home Cjtnnrr.'cs
! Thr» watchword of ljj South
should bp. to save everything, manu
facture all she can. and to us® ho:ne
' mannfaoviireft goods, as nrar as pos
sible. Home made 13 tho word.—
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Proverbs and Phrases.
Umbrellas are like men; omiaiiy
the poorest get left.
To be asked to do that which 70a
know how to do—that is Opportunity.
- There is some Miss thnt is not ig
norance.
The less money a man makes the
more hn if he isn't married. -
You ean hag a man into purgatory
easier tbsn yon can pray faim into
heaven.
New York City. Coats that In
one way or another are so arranged
•a to conceal the arm hole seams,
M 1
make a notable feature of the season.
This one, designed for young girls,
is charmingly attractive and grace-
ful yet quite simple withal, and al
lows a choice of three-quarter or full
length sleeves. In the illustration
porcelain blue Panama cloth is trim
med with black braid, but the little
wrap is adapted to every seasonable
suiting material. It would be charm
ing made of any of the rough finished
pongees or of linen quite as well as ot
wool, and It can be trimmed with
straight banding or with applique or
finished with stitched edges only as
liked.
The coat is made with fronts, sld'-
fronts, backs and side-backs. The
fronts ar.l backs are lapped over onto
the side-fronts and side-backs, BO
forming the pleats over the shoul
ders. The sleeves are made In two
portion:: each and three-quarter
sleeves are finished with cuffs, but
the long ones are stitched to simulate
the effect.
The quantity of material required
for the medium sizo Is three and
three-quarter yards twenty-seven, two
and three-eight yards forty-four or
two and onc-elghth yards fifty-two
inches wide with four and oae-half
yards of braid
Do things rather than people.
Don't be afraid to go out of the
way to do a good turn for a friend.
Don't be afraid of failure. Keep on
though you fail a dozen times.
The biggest army depot in the
country is to be established near Sar
Francisco.
There is no disgrace in playing the
second fiddle if it as well
as you can.
When you see a man advertising
his virtues it's to keep your atteii-l
tion oC his ical character.
Riot of Colors.
. In the bewildering mazes of colors
that are In vogue this Beason there la
always danger that too glaring col
ors or unbecoming tlnta, though ef
fective. may be chosen. There Is no
denying that striking colors challenge
attention, and certain complexions
can stand brilliant colors.
Misses' Fancy Pleated Skirt.
There Is no variation of the pleated
skirt that is not In demand Just now
an 1 this one suits young girls ad
mirably well. It is plain over the
hips and at the waist line, so doing
away with all bulk at that point, while
It is gracefully and becomingly full
below, in the illustration It Is made
of one of the novelty materials trim
med with banding, but it is suited
to almost everything seasonable.
Plaids and stripes with bias folds of
the same are much worn, plain on
plaid material is in vogue and there
are numberless ready made bandings,
while also a plain stitched hem Is al
ways correct. Indeed, simple as the
skirt is, It can be varied again and
again.
There are nine gores with exten
sions that form the pleated portions
and the fullness at the back Is laid
in inverted pleats. Above the pleats
thi> edges of the gores are lapped
one over the other and are stitched
lint, while they can be trimmed with
buttons as illustrated or let plain as
liked. ,
The quantity of material required
i for the sixteen-year size IB ten yardt
twently-seven, live and one-half yardi
forty-four or live yards flfty-tw
Inches wide with Ave and one-quar
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When a man doesn't get mad over
liia politics it's because he happens
to know what he's talking about.
Don't be afraid to give your fel
low-workman a boost where you can.
Generosity shows a man's eharacter.
" Don't be afraid of"honest compe
tition. It's competition that makes
success worth while.
One more chance is all the deril
a^U'S.
It i? not necessarily wise to stick
to a statement, because you believed
it to be true when you made it.
I Weak Women 1
I frequently suffer great pain and misery during the I
I change of life. It is at this time that the beneficial I
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I gone. I can sleep like a girl of 16 and the change!
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