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PLYMOUTH, N, C FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1905,
No. 10
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MEMORIES OF THE
Once more m fancy 1 hear the drone of the long recitation:
.Aima yirumque cano." 0 shade of long-Buffering Virgil!
Homer s sonorous lines; the Ten Thousand's "Thalatta: Thalatta!
uutteral German, narrating how Tell bade the tyrant defiance,
stammering accents in French, concerning the coat of my uncle:
fcmes and cosines and roots, and "words o
Then best remembered of all. the day
, la rents and friends are all there, each
t-Ommitteemen. Knlfumn mil fr-iTro nr. A
x.rt hi j. nenoiu the proud youth the rostrum slowly ascending;
fii. I volce tw,st a squeak and a croak, pouring forth the
.uiiiuiuua ul x' ranee nave resolved," or Xhe Union now
Now a soit rustling 1 hear, as the girls, decked -with ribbons and laces,
4. a 'rinrtol'th- llke whte doves, read faintly their sweet compositions:
A Vision, or "bhells of the Sea," or "What is the True Sphere of Woma
wiiuuKu ma visia oi years, now clearly beheld is the picture!
ru w liUr &'unes each face, even now, in memory's sight ever you
l hough the sweet eyelids of some are lifted now onlv in heaven.
Ah, never more will the skie3 seem' as bright as were those of our school days!
inougti the full noontide is fair, and beauteous the glories of sunset,
I'airest oi all is the glow that shines on the wings o the morning.
Eugene Harry, in the Albany Press.
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FISHER
T was :i soft vet brilliant
Southern night. The far
Q stars seemed to hang clear
of the heavens like a pene-
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trable veil of radiant dust.
The swell of the great, or-
("Hj, av-E, w'v CV V- kO TT Tilt Tit, Hfc ft, t, -"ft
L Jingo-colored moon could be plainly
-"Seen, with ronie of those hazy veins
which scientists say are frost-cracks
in her cold surface. Every dune and
bit of wreckage on the broad bar stood
out distinctly in her, light, and a clump
of frowzy-headed palms cast sharp
1 edged shadows on the sand. Those of
Iavo boys walking . alone: the hard
packed beach below high-water mark
hobnobbed in front of them with a
friendliness which the youths them
selves were not feeling at that moment.
"Pick up your feet, Bud!" exclaimed
the elder, in a long-suffering voice.
"You squitter like a girl in her first
" long dress. Think we can catch any
thing with you making that squit
squeak. , squit-squeak!" He imitated
with gross exaggeration the scuffing
of his brother's "sneakers."
"I reckon I walk as well as you do!"
spluttered "Bud," deeply irritated by
the other's choice cf similes.
John sighed in a patient, virtuous
manner very difficult to bear.
"It doesn't look like you'd ever make
a hunter, Bud," he observed, with a
. certain meek unction.
Bud halted instantly, straight and
defiant.
"I'll .go by myself, then," he said,
"and bring back as many eggs as you
do!"
A "Oh, come on!" said his brother, re
lenting. But Bud stood his ground obstinately.
"No. You're bossing, bossing all the
time. I pity Grace Aline if 3 ou get her,
that's all."
Grace Aline of the romantic name
was a most particular friend of John's.
Twice a week, he sailed his bluff -bowed
lugger across the three-mile stretch be
tween the bar and th-j mainland, bring
ing an atmosphere of salt nd shyness
to the little house among the orange
trees. The imputation stung him to
the quick. He turned on his heel and
strode off, his chin very high.
"Huh!" gruntpd Bud, with the air of
one superior to the soft passion.
"Huh!"
He watched his brother until the tall
figure could no longer be seen. Then
he" picked up his pail and stake and
started toward the shelf of the beach.
His. lean, shrewd face was no longer
smiling. There was a terrier-like con
centration in its expression and in the
forward thrust of his head, and as he
zigzagged swiftly over the stretch of
loose snnd his movements had much
of the nervous deftness of that gamy
little animal.
As he trotted back and forth his stick
tapped the sand like u blind man's
staff. It had made perhaps a hundred
little peeks, when presently Bud
checked, and lowering the stick as deli
cately as if pricking a blister, drew it
up and inspected the tip. It was
gummy and glistening, and would have
offended most people's noses.
"O-bo!" chuckled Bud. "Teach a pel
ican to fish! Huh!"
With det, hollowed hands he uncov
ered the leathery eggs. In the moon-
light they looked like fat milk pearls;
125 of them in two layers, with a wad
ding of sand between. The clutch just
filled Bud's pail, and he set it well
above high-water mark, and resumed
his quartering.
When he came to the point where
John had turned up from the slope of
the beach, he hesitated, considering the
chances of his brother having over
looked a nest. To get ahead of him he
would have to- walk at least half a
mile. The night was warm and wind
less, and he was sweating profusely
under his loose shirt. With a sigh of
designation he threw himself down on
the sand, his face toward the sea.
There had been no wind for several
days, and the sea hardly stirred in its
sleep. Now and then its bosom lifted
in a slow breath that sent a swell roll
ing in, to die upon the beach with a
drawn-out sigh. A film of stale, iri
descent oil seemed to blanket the water
thinly, flickering and passing from
green to saffron and from saffron to
rose as the tranquil heaving presented
now surfaces to the moonlight.
Right in the midst of this subdued
glitter and close in shore something
OLD SCIIOOLHOUSE.
unknown derivation
of the Class Gra
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Graduation,
face of some loved one:
et anxious.
high-flown declamation.
and torever!
Woman?"
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black and wedge-shaped presently ap
peared. It came without a ripple, like
the sodden rise of a water-logged tim
ber. Then Bud saw it sink in the same
stealthy fashion, as if it had withdrawn
to weigh its estimate of the prospect
in secret. Only a few moments elapsed,
however, hefoi'e it reappeared nearer
shore.
Bud lay as motionless as the sand it
self, and the turtle, after a long and
wary inspection of the beach, swished
through the shallow water and began
to ascend the slope.
It was laborious work for the huge
turtle, but at last it gained the shelf
of the beach and looked round with
blear and weary eyes for a suitable
resting place. Then it saw Bud risinsr
from the sand, and shrank inward into
its shell in quivering apprehension. A
long, dismal hiss escaped from its
horny blow-holes.
"Hello, old camel!" mocked Bud.
"I'm right glad I was in when you
called." Then he rapped the shaking
head smartly with his stick, and his
high voice broke to a threatening so
prano. "You squat still now till 1
stake you down. I don't want to lose
you. I'm mighty fond of you well
done."
lie uncoiled the braided rawhide
wound round his waist, and began to
knot it about one of the big, musky
hind flippers. The loggerhead's baggy
throat pulsed. Its round, hard eyes
gleamed with an indignation it could
not express vocally, "or the great tur
tles are mute. It spun suddenly oil its
broad breastplate, almost knocking
Bud off his feet, and with a powerful
forward hunch started for the sea.
Bud dropped sitting upon the beach,
his heels jammed into the sand, and
both hands clutching the rawhide, one
end of which was still tied about his
body. His weight crippled the flipper
to which he was fast, but the logger
head seemed quite satisfied with what
remained. Without any apparent in
crease of effort she dragged the boy
steadily down the slope.
"John! O John!" bawled Bud.
"Come quick! I've got one!"
"Pshaw!" he muttered, letting go
with one hand and groping in his pock
et. "John can't hear anything but
what Grace Aline said to him last
night, I reckon."
He took out his knife and opened it.
The turtle was already at the lip of
the sea, but Bud hated to cut. Econ
omy is inborn among the inhabitants
of the bar, and it hurt him to lose so
much good meat. It was not yet too
late for John to be of service if he
should arrive upon the scene.
No John came, however, and the log
gerhead plunged into the water with
a joyous splashing. Bud drew the
knife quickly across the line. The next
instant he dropped it with cry of pain
as the brine struck bitterly into a gash
in his finger. Clutching and tearing
uselessly at the sand, he was jerked
into the water, down, down, down, a
crisp singing in his ears and cold fin
gers prying at his lips. By one of
fate's malicious pranks the knife had
somehow turned in his hand, and when
he struck, it was the back of the blade
that met-the line!
At this part of the const the sea
lies warm and shoal above a great
apron of submerged land fully a mile
wide. The loggerhead had hardly be
gun its dive when it reached bottom.
Its flippers struck violently, and sent
up a boiling cloud of sand. Confused
and winded by the violence of its
fright, it turned and slanted upward
to the surface, where it lay puffing
like a naphtha launch, its limp flippers
swinging with the sway of the water.
A few seconds later Bud's streaming
yellow head bobbed up close behind it.
The boy had the line tightly clutched
in his hands, and hardly waiting to
take the necessary breath, he pulled
himself forward with a strong quick
pull. The fore part of the loggerhead
sank instantly, but before she had
gathered her trailing flippers under
her, Bud was on her back, all ten fin
gers hooked about the thick front edge
of the shell.
The loggerhead, for obvious reasons,
has no enemy but man, and this partic
ular loggerhead had led a long and
pottering existence of unbroken peace.
To say that It was frightened would
do scant justice to its state of mind.
Down it went with a rush that tore
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white streaks through the water, but
this time it did not strike the sand.
It turned as it neared the bottom and
skimmed along just above it. , Its pow
erful flippers, working with a propeller
like motion, drove It along like the
wind.
As it went it turned on its side, glanc
ing this way and that like a scaling
stone; but Bud clung to the broad cara
pace with the tenacity of a barnacle.
He knew that if he were trailed again
at the end of the rawhide, he would
soon drown. Three generations of
gaunt "reefers" had left him a legacy
of pluck and coolness that made a man
of him, and a strong one, in times of
danger. Young as he was. Bud had
been in peril before, but never had
thinks looked so bad. Something cold
and tense seemed to knot within his
head. He must, if it were possible,
draw up his knees to the centre of the
shell and fashion his body into a sort of
drag or breakwater. It was a trick
which some of the "reefers" declared
would invariably force a turtle to come
to the surface.
It had sounded easy; but in the pens,
if one failed, one had only to let go
and come up with no worse penalty
than a derisive laugh from one's com
panions. It is different when one tries
it out at sea, when life itself may be
the price of a slip.
Something, however, must be done.
Although in reality Bud had been
below the surface but a few seconds,
the force with which he was swept
through the water and the efforts of
the loggerhead to unseat him made it
extremely difficult to hold his breath.
A pair of iron hands seemed to press
with terrible force against his lower
ribs. His lungs shook like foul and
shodden sponges within him. His legs,
always hitching forward, were straight
ened again and again by the pressure
of the water.
But Bud was as much at home in the
sea as a South Sea Islander, and at
last, favored by a momentary slack
ening of the loggerhead's speed, his
knee caught under him, and he
straightened his body as much as the
length of his arms permitted.
Either the trick succeeded or the
turtle was almost winded, for almost
immediately it began a slowing and
grudging rise. Bud had enough spirit
left in him to grin a tight-lipped,
dimpled grin. Owing to the backward
tilt of his body, he could see the cheer
ful shimmer of moonlight on the sur
face. It danced like mercury, grew
brighter and more dispersed.
Then his head shattered 'the silver
film, and he shot the stale air from his
lungs in a gulp that almost seemed -to
pull them into his threat.
"Um-m!" ho panted. "I reckon we
were right close to being late for that
appointment.
The loggerhead, its dome just awash,
moved seaward with a sudden acces
sion of dignity. It was apparent that it
did not intend to exert itself in any
fancy diving uitil it was sure of deep
water.
Bud glanced back over his shoulder,
and the cabbage-palms seemed to him
to have dwindled to the dimensions
of hat pins stuck in n sand cushion. A
lively and picturesque little wake cf
phosphorescence suggested that' they 1
might look even smaller in time.
Clinging to the shell Avith one hand,
Bud picked at the knot with the other,
but the swollen rawhide resisted his
wet fingers. A sudden boyish out
break of rage at his impotence swept
over him, and he struck the loggerhead
savagely on the head. The blows,
aimed without intention, did more than
skin Bud's knuckles, for the creature
swerved confusedly until its course
lay parallel to the beach.
Bud's temper passed as quickly as it
had come. Another blow might undo
the good he had gained. As long as
they held their present course he was
within swimming distance of the
shore.
His face, pale from fatigue and the
cold moonlight, set precociously. He
had nothing with AA'hich he could cut
the line, nor could he use both hands
at the knot and keep his seat. He
turned his hot gaze downward. What
if he gouged out those blear eyes with
his thumb, or tore open the baggy
throat!
Something desperate Bud ,was pre
pared to do. He leaned forward, his
face drawn like a Aveasel's, when sud
denly the inspiration qame. He caught
up the line, and thrusting it under the
sullen beak, rasped it A-ieiousiy back
and forth.
"Bite, you mossback!" he snarled,
reckless of the danger his fingers ran.
The loggerhead did bite, with a quick
venomousness, that Avas uncanny. A
gush of fat bubbles gurgled up, and
the keen, horny Jravs sliced through
the rope as if it were kelp.. The next
moment the turtle dived, and Bud, un
prepared, found himself gasping, but
alone in the Avater.
He fell into the stroke, the long side
stroke he could maintain for an hour
at a time, laying his course by the prim
palms. He heard a faint "Halleo!"
from John, returning down the beacla,
and grinned abstractedly.
It never occurred to him to ask for
assistance. Such a swim was mere
play in his two-piece costume. He Aas
busy with the lessons of the recent in
cident. Youth's Companion.
Lecturing at Berlin, Professor von
Hansemann scouted the idea that can
cer is on the increase.
.AFFAIRS
PASSING OF THE BED.
"This day is witnessing the passing
of the bed," said a NeAV York manufac.
turer. "Ground space is getting too
valuable in New York to use for an
old fashioned bed or to devote solely
to sleeping purposes. We have the
most curious calls for beds made to
order. Some people have new beds
made to order every time they move,
so as to utilize every inch of space,"
says the New York Tribune.
TO PRESERVE CUT FLOWERS.
A florist gives -.hese directions for
preserving cut flowers. When they
can be picked free from a garden it is
comparatively easy to preserve them.,
but when they must bo purchased at
the florist's they have lived half their
lives already and need tender care.
Cut the stems in a long, slanting cut
and place in fresh water, taking care
that the stems do not quite "touch the
bottom of the case. Some flowers,
mignonette, for example, are extremely
liable to droop Avhen brought from the
florist's to a warm living-room. Lay
the flowers for a short time in the ice
box to freshen before placing in water.
Every morning as long as the flowers
last cut the stems, and place in fresh
water.
MISTRESS AND MAID.
Many mistresses and maids fail to
grasp the fact that the engagement
between them is in the nature of a
legal contract. Mistress and maid
are equals in the eyes of the law, and
an agreement is as binding upon one
as upon the other. It should be per
fectly understood at the beginning for
what term the maid is engaged, and
at what rates. In some places it is
the custom to pay by the week, and
the servant is then engaged by that
term. In other localities she is en
gaged and paid by the mouth, although
she ia frequently taken at first on a
week's trial, with the understanding
that if she gives satisfaction and is
suited with the place, che is to con
tinue her services by the month. When
the latter period is the term of en
gagement, it is understood that the em
ployer is expected to give not less
than a week's notice of discharge to a
maid, and that the latter chould an
nounce a week before her month is
up her intention of leaving. Should
the mistress prefer, she can giAre a
week's wages in lieu of a week's no
tice, but the former method is in more
general use. Harper's Bazar.
Savory Omelet Beat three fresh
eggs, add three tablespoonfuls of milk,
some pepper, salt, a little chopped
onion and two tablespoonfuls of
chopped parsley. Tour into a frying
pan in which a little butter has been
melted and fry a rich golden brown.
Pulled Bread Remove the outside
crust from a long loaf of well-baked
bread, and Avith two forks pull the
crumb apart down the centre of the
loaf. Divide these halves into quar
ters, and again into eighths, place the
strips in a lined baking pan and dry
the same as zweiback.
Toast Meringue Dip a slice of delicately-browned
toast in boiling water,
slightly salted, lay in a deep hot plate,
and pour over it a cream made of one
half cupful of boiling milk, a teaspoon
ful of butter and the stiffly beaten
white of an egg, added just before re
moving from the fire. Set in a hot
oven five minutes until just colored.
An Uncommon Dish Here is a rather
uncommon dish of vegetables, but its
excellence is vouched for: Cook string
beans and lima beans separately, and
when tender place them together in a
saucepan with an ounce of butter, salt
and pepper. Toss them together, while
cooking, for a few minutes, and serve
Avith a little chopped parsley sprinkled
over them.
Mayonnaise Blend well the yolks of
two eggs, one teaspoon of mustard, 4
of a teaspoon sugar, one saltspoon
salt, four drops garlic and a speck of
mace; add one teaspoon of oil drop by
drop until thoroughly incorporated,
then add one teaspoon of vinegar and
bca-t well, then the oil by teaspoons,
adding vinegar from time to time until
a cup of oil and five teaspoons of vine
gar have been used.
Sphagetti With Tomatoes Boii half a
pound best Italian sphagetti in plenty
of boiling salted water until tender;
drain, pour cold water over it through
a colander and drain again. Make a
pint nnd a half of tomato sauce, add
ing a minced onion and a clove of
garlic; put the sphagetti into a china
lined saucepan, pour the sauce over,
add a small s's-'e of fat bacon, first
browning it sy.iitly and cnoppmg, ana ,
a scant half cup of grated cheese. I
Cover closely, and cook slowly nearly
aa hour
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TOPICS OF INTEREST TO THE PLANTER, STOCKMAN AND TRUCK GROWER,
Strong Healthy Chicks.
Last week Ave devoted most of our
space to growing and feeding young
chicks. But the subject is by no
means exhausted. Thousands of chick
ens are hatched every yea,r, only to
flrsop and die before they are a month
old. "In a multitude of counselors
there is a safetj-." We hope by giving
the experience of many poultry keep
ers to show that much of the loss is
aA'oidable and unnecessary. The fol
lowing is from The Successful Poul
try Journal:
The breeding stock and the incubai
tor are often wrongly blamed for the
chicks being Aveak and puny, many of
them dying the first feAv weeks when
in fact the trouble is due to the im
proper care of the eggs during the pe
riod of incubation. If you want good
strong, lusty chicks that will go
through to maturity, scratching for a
living, always in the very pink of con
dition, study Avell the conditions that
you surround them with, while the
tender germs are sprouting into life.
Do not allow the temperature of your
Incubator room to run below sixty de
grees, keep the ventilators wide open
from the start, lower the upper sash
of the south window all the way down
during the day, except when raining or
windy, close window at night and open
a door leading into an adjoining room
or hall, giA-e them all the pure fresh
ah possible, but guard against drafts.
Hold temperature of egg chamber at
103, mark eggs and turn them half
over twice daily, bring the eggs from
the outer sides of the trays to the cen
tre each time, in order to equalize the
heat, air them doAvn to the same tem
perature as your hand; they should not
feel cool to the touch; test out on the
eleventh day, discard all clear eggs and
those having streaks running through
them. The eggs do not develop uni
formly; most of the eggs you have left
will be very opaque, a few will be
doubtful; these are only somewhat tar
dy; mark them plainly, give them ex
tra heat by placing them on top of the
others in the warmest part of the ma
chine, and they will soon catch up with
their neighbors. After the eleventh
day prolong the airing, gradually in
creasing the tim3, allOAV your machine
to stand open fh'e minutes with the
eggs, exercise the eggs at each time of
airing by rolling them under the palms
of the hands, give them plenty of air
and exercise; action is the very life of
animal growth. Test a second time on
sixteenth day; notice your tardies; if
you haAe given them a little extra care
they will be up with the crowd. They
will pip at the close of the nineteenth
day. Close the ventilators, run at
103 to 10-1, do not open the machine
under any circumstances, and in ten or
twelve hours they will clean you up a
hatch of big strong chicks, that will
live through thick and thin. All this
talk about weak breeding stock is
bosh. It's only an excuse used for the
worthless incubators. If the spark of
life is present in the egg surround it
with proper conditions and it will de
velop into a vigorous organism. The
fact that the tardy eggs can be hurried
along is proof of this.
Wood Aftheg and Kainit For Potatoes.
R. N. II., Evington, Avrites: "I would
like some information as to the value of
.wood ashes and kainit for potatoes."
Kainit, as you probably know, is
potash in its crude form. It is a low
grade of potash, as onlyl2 per cent,
is actually aA-ailable for plant food,
and as it is mixed with considerable
quantities of salt and chlorides it is
not as satisfactory a potato fertilizer
as the sulphate. Besides that, it is
so Ioav in available plant food that it
is one of -the most costly forms in
which potash can be used because you
will observe that a large amount of
virtually waste material is shipped in
every ten. Therefore the cost of pot
ash in kainit is relatively higher than
in the more concentrated forms.
Wood ashes make a satisfactory fer
tilizer for gardens and for the potato
crop as well. Their value depends a
good deal on the source from which
they are derived and the treatment
they have received. Ashes also con
tain considerable amounts of lime and
a very small amount of phosphoric
acid, so that they are useful in pro
viding other forms of plant food. The
average analysis of commercial wood
ashes shows them to contain about 5
to 7 per cent, of potash, 1 to 2 per cent,
of phosphoric acid and from 23 to 30
per cent, of lime. This, of course, is
for the unleached form. Leached ashes
frequently contain only 1 per cent, of
potash, 1 per cent, of phosphoric
acid and 25 to. 30 per cent, of lime.
Where ashes that have been protect
ed from the water can be purchased
at a low cost they provide potash in
a satisfactory form and should be util
ized on gardens and in orchards.
Should one desire to provide fifty
pounds of available potash for each
acre of land, it would be necessary to
use about 500 pounds of .wood ashes
to the acre.
FARM : fOTES.
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As to the amount that should be paid
for wood ashes, it is only necessary to
state that potash can be bought ia
the form of muriate at about 44 to 5
cents per pound for aA-ailable plant
food. Therefore 100 pounds of wood
ashes are not worth more than thirty
five cents at the outside. If they can
be bought at 15 to 25 cents they can
be used to advantage as a fertilizer.
It is for these reasons that in previous
communications relative to Irish pota
toes the use of sulphate of potash has
been suggested, because it provides
plant food In a more concentrated
form and also is better suited to the
production of an Irish potato of high,
cooking quality. There is no objec
tion to using wood ashes for potatoes
The objection to kainit is not serious,
and any of these forms of potassic
fertilizers can be used to advantage
in the production of general garden
crops. AndreAV . W. Soule.
Preparing Land For Alfalfa.
J. K., Farm ville, writes: "I have
read and heard much about alfalfa,
but have never seen any, as there is
none raised here. I want to try it, and
would like some information as to how
to prepare the land, and when is the
best time to sow? Also where can the
material be obtained for inoculating
the land? Does the soil have to be in
oculated for cowpeas?"
Land for alfalfa should be very care
fully prepared. It is well to start a!
year in advance to get the land ready,
and unless it is naturally very deep and
porous it should be subsoiled, and sub
soiling is best done in the fall of the
year. It is also well to enrich the land!
by groAving a crop of cowpeas and
plowing them down before seeding to
alfalfa. The seeding may be done ap
propriately about the first of Septem
ber; not later than this, or the alfalfa
will not make a strong enough groAvthi
to withstand the freezes of winter.
Spring seeding may be practiced about
the first to the fifteenth of March, de
pending a good deal on climatic con
ditions. It is generally best to wait
until danger of hard freezing is past.
It is well to inoculate your alfalfa be
fore seeding. This may be done by;
obtaining some of the culture put up
by the experiment station and sent at
a very small cost to the farmers of the
State upon application. As' a rule, it
is not necessary to inoculate land in
Tennessee for cowpeas or red clover.
Sometimes soy beans do much better
when inoculated, and.the station hopes;
to be in position to furnish the farmers
of the State with the necessary germs
for inoculating soy beans. Knoxville
Journal.
Value of Lime For Corn.
W. E. G., Charlottesville, Va., writes:
Please tell me how to test land' to see
if lime is needed. Do you think lime
would benefit land for corn?
It is an easy matter to test land so
as to tell wnetuer it is aem or not.
Purchase from your nearest drug store
a package of blue litimus paper AA'hich
you should be able to get for five
cents. Take a handful of the soil to
be tested and moisten with rainwater
in a tin cup and insert a strip of the
litimus paper. If it turns red quickly;
it is an evidence that your land is quite
acid; if it turns red slowly, that it is
onlv slightly acid. In either case
lime should be applied. If it is very,
acid a heaA-y application would be ad
visable, say fifty bushels, applied in
the caustic form. Purchase it when
freshly burned and distribute in heaps
in the field at suitable distances and
cover lightly with earth and allow to
slake. When thoroughly slaked, scat
ter it over the surface of the ground
uniformly and incorporate with a har
row. Lime is not a fertilizer but is a;
stimulant and a corrective of certain
objectionable conditions in the soil. It
also sets Tree plant food which is held
in unavailable forms, and may there
fore injure the land if used to excess.
An application of lime once in three
to five years is ample as a rule. Land
intended for corn will be benefited by,
an application of lime. The test indi
cated is very easily made and it will
pay you to ascertain whether your
soil is acid or not, and if it is, to make
an application of lime.
Making: a Lawn,
Four things are required to make a
good lawn: Time, soil, climate and in
telligent labor. In England they have
a saying that it requires 100 years to
make a lawn, and 200 years to make a
good lawn. In this country, where we
are trying to make suburban homes
while you wait, and where a month or
two seems a very long time, people are
too impatient. It speaks well for their
ambition that they want lawns as soon
as they move into their houses, but
they are really exacting too much. A
the very best, it requires no less than)
three years to make a presentable lawn
and five or ten years tft make what wa
uncritical Americans call a good lawxt.
The G arden Magazine. ' " ' '