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PRACTICAL ADVICE ABOUT . r DIVERSIFIED FARMING tztttmmuMtttn Indirect Fertilizers. . Gypsum or land plaster, Is sul phate of calcium, and hns a limited action. It doss furnish calcium and 'spmo, sulphur, which aro ' .bothy rs ' quired in considerable quantities by such crops na clover and turnlp3, but its chief action is in aiding the pro cess of nitrification by which ammo nia and the nitrogen of organic mat ter ar converted into forms which are readily assimilated by the plant, and in liberating potash and other elements of plant food from insolu ble forms of combination and mat ing them available. Lime, like' gyp sum, aid3 nitrification and liberates plant food from insoluble formV of combination, but it is more 'powerful In its action. Heavy clays, which aro rich in insoluble form of potash, and soils containing large . quantities of humus are those most benefited by lime. In reclaiming swamp lands the acid humic matter of the peat is neutralized by the lime and the con ditions thus made suitable for the oxidation of the nitrogenous organic .. matter and the production of ammo nia titrates. Lime has also n veryt .eficlal influence on the phy sical ciidltion of the soil. Common salt supplies no essential Ingredient of plant food. The little value which it possesses is probably due to its action in the soil where it helps to sot free more Important con stituents, particularly potash. It is important to bear in mind that these indirect fertilizers do not add plant food to the soil, but that their chief value lies In the fact that they. liberate plant food from insolu ble forms- of combination. Hence if crops are not growing on the land to mate use of the liberated food, or if the soil has been overstimulated by a large and . freauent application of lime, gypsum, or salt, loss of nitrogen potash and phosphoric acid will ocr cor. Consequently these stimulants should be used in moderation. On soil not acid in nature one to one and one-half tons per acre of lime at in tervals of five or six years would be a safe application, Professor A, Harcourt, The Farm Timber Supply, There are hills now that havs tim ber of more or less , value on them which the owners Intend to clear off just as soon as possible. Timber is going to be worth more than it ever ' has been worth, no matter what kind it is. The United States Forestry Service is doing good work in find ing new ways to use lumber of poor quality to better advantage. . Lumber that would not have been pat la buildings fifteen years ago Is gladly used now, Furthermore, ths farm must always have Its supply of wood tor fuel, for posts, poles, etc. If the timbered hills were used to the best advantage, a largo proportion of .thern should have the timber cut off grad ually and with discretion. It should " be The .ana to keep a stand of timber over a large area not merely Iq spots. When a tree died, it could be used for whatever It was worth most. When treea were standing too thick, some of them could be cut out; but - the cutting should be done in a way that would give a regular supply of timber to be eut from year .to year. The roes would tend to keep a layer of rich leaf mold to enrich the land, hold water, provide shade for stock and nesting places for birds. The day is not distant when it will generally be considered favorable to a farm to have many birds about to feed on harmful Insects. Birds that are now ignorantly supposed to be enemies to the faraer will in the flight of fuller knowledge be seen to be more friends than enemies. The .timbered land will tend to perpetuate springs, since the rains, instead of rushing off down the hillsides, will be caught by the leaf mold and held there till it slow ly penetrates to .the deeper layers of the land. From these deeper layers it will gradually come forth in springs, which will supply water for stock and maybe to run a hydraulic vara for raising water for use about dwelling and barn. Cottonseed Meal For Hog Feeding. To those wishing to use cottonseed meal for hogs now we recommend: 1. For animals on heavy feed that not more than one-fourth the weightf of "the grain ration consist of cotton- gesdmea!.. 2. That this feeding continue not mors than fifty days, or that the pro-j portion of meal be reduced if feeding ( 13 to b? continued longer. - i 3. That tha meal be mixed with thtr .other fas 3 and all soured to gether. , 4. That as much green feed as possible b3 furnished the hogs. 5. That a close watch be kept and meal taken from any animals not catins; or gaining we!!. Feeders who have had experience Vv-ith the meal will probably be abl9 to flicked these recommendations, which, however, allow the use of enough rr-.al to " greatly improve? a corn (list. One pound of cotton seeJ Trying New Tack. "Jenkins is parading the fact that he is a woman hater." "Some girl threw him down?" "No; he never got far enough along with one for that. That's jusr the trouble. He has tried all other means of winning their affections, and he only became a woman Later s a last resort." ttntuttmtttntttttntu meal to five of corn furnishes-the nutrients in the most desirable pro portions for fattening, while one or two of corn aro moro nearly correct for young growing stock. Of cours3 other feeds are desirable for their in fluences not attributable to their composition, but it is not often that tho adopted standards can be lguored in feeding any animals for profit. From Texas Agricultural Experi ment Station. Getting Bermuda, Getting Rid of It, Bermuda seeds very sparingly in our climate, and when pastured there is very little danger of it spreading through the manure. It can b9 grown from seed, which can bo had of the leading seedsmen, or It can bo more quickly, I think, grown from cuttings of tho running streams planted in the spring. It is a hot weather grass and should ho planted in tho spring only. When it is de sired to break up a picco plow It shal lowly and rako out nil that j'ou can, then sow thickly with cowpeas, and there will be little left, for it will not stand shading. . But when you once have a good pasture cf Bermuda, I hardly think that you will want to break it. If you will top diees It with some bone meal every spring you will have tho finest pasture you ever saw for the summer. But even where Bermuda grows rank enough to make a fair crop of hay, I would hesitate about using it for hay, for while It seeds sparingly, it does seed, and In this way it may be scattered to fields where we do not want It. W, F, Massey, Don't Be a Soil Robber! What" does it profit a man if he sella $10,000 worth of produce at, say, $5000 profit, and damages his farm $6000, Many never think of this. I do not think than any man. has a right to rob his soil of all its fertility any more than he has to rob a friend; for God gave us a fertile land to pro duce our crop, and should we rob it, what will the future generations do? When looking over the worn, waste, gullied lands of washed farms of once fertile soil, I stop and wonder, should the owner ever be lucky enough to reach the pearly gates, If St. Peter would' pot send him back to stop those hollows that he let wash out during hi3 shiftless and unappre ciative life upon earth. J. D. Stodg hill, Shelbyville, Ky., in Progressive Farmer. Money in the Woodlot. The treatment of .the woodlot or of vacant land that ought to be made into a woodlot i3 a eubjsct to which too little attention is paid, consider ing the money that there is in it. In traveling over the country one sees an aggregate of thousands of acres of old fields which havs lain idle for twenty years, encumbered with scrubs or - worthless growths. Had they bsen intelligently handled they would now be producing merchantable trees. 'Oh, well, twenty years is too Jong to wait, anyways," says Simpson Sladk. But, Mr, Slack, you can look ahead ten years, surely. Now when your woodlot is ten years old, you can find a purchaser who will wait the other ten. Pino Woods Mold For Sweet Potatoes. , If your soil is rather heavy for po tatoes, try plowing under a heavy cover of half rotted trash from a pine woods, pine straw and, rotted stuff. The great market crop of sweet pota toes cn the eastern snore of Virginia is largely made with, thl3 material. Every pine woods ther is raked clean every spring for tm sweet potato crop. And they makethem, too. But I know, too, tLat crop of crimson clover on the land would do better and be cheaper than the labor ious hauling from th9 woods. But where there is no clover and you want a late crop of sweets, try the wood3 trash. W. F. Massey. Example For the South. At Hutchinson, Minn., not long ago there was a procession in connection with a dairy convention in a section that went to the bad a few yeiiV3 ago on aecour.t of the chinchbug. A Jer sey cow headed the procession ad wore a silk blanket on which was printed, "I raised tho price of land in McLeod County to $100 per acre." That was a nice jump, and thousands of counties ia the South can have as good experience if the farmers will go at dairying in the way the Minne sota bunch did. Use Sprightly Breeds. For the use of the farmer the more sprightly breeds of chickens have something in their favor, since they will travel about more to hunt food and consume more insects. A Hint About Food. There is too much salt pork and stringy beef used in ths South. Mor goo I poultry for home consumption spalls better meals and mora health. Pert Paragraphs. You never can tell. Fortune may have it in for you and then again she may be lying in wait for your en emies. Cheer up. Hunger is an excellent thing to make you change your way of think ing and sometimes your way of do ing. Women don't have to swear to show how mad they are. There are Qlfcfr ways. The Wheat FieU. . Take alcok at' the wheat 'field' that has been brought up to perfection' as it stands. .Yellow as 'gold, with the sheen of the sea, billowing from sky line to sky-line like an ocean of gold, where the wind touches the rippling wave crests with the tread of invisi ble feet. In California, in Oregon, in Washington, in Dakota, in the Ca nadian Northwest, you may ride all day on hoist back through, the wheat fields without a break in the flow, of yellow heavy-headed grain. No fence j lines. No meadow lands. No sha-de i trees. No knobs and knolls and hills ; and hollows of grass or black earth through. From dawn till dark, from sunrise in a burst of fiery splendor over the prairie horizon to sundown when the crimson thing hangs like a huge shield of blood in the haze of a heat twilight you may ride with naught to break the view between you and the horizon but "wheat wheat. It is like the gold fields. It goes to your head. Yon grow dizzy looking at it. You rub your eyes. Is it a mirage? Billowing yellow waves seem to be breasting the very sky. lou look up. The sky is there all right with the black mote of a mead ow lark sailing the azure sea. He drops liquid notes of sheer mellow music down on your head, does that meadow lark and that gives you back your perspective, your sense of amaz ing reality. You are literally, ab solutely, really, in the midst of a sea of living gold. It is yon nd not the lark that is the mote. You begin to feel as if your special mote might bo a beam that would get lost in in finity if you staid there long; and so you ride on and on and some more on and by and bye come out of the league-long, fenceless fields with an odor in jour nostrils that isn't exactly like incense it's too fugitive, too fine, too sublimal of earth. It is aromatic, a sort of attar of roses, the imprisoned fragrance of the bil lions upon billions of wheat flowers shut up in the glumes of the heavy headed grain there. And that's the odor of the wheat From "Harvest ing the Wheat," by Agnes C. Laut in The Outing Magazine for October. Hicks' Capndine Cares Women's Monthly Pains, Backache, Nervousness, Mid Headache. It's Liquid. KfTects imme diately. Presrrir.cd br physicians with best results. 10c. 25c, and 50c. at drug stores. If no fight, no victory; no victory, no crown. Savonarola. To Drive Out Malaria and Baild Up the System Tak the Old Standard Gnovs's Tastk lbss Chill Tonic. Yo.i know what you are taking. Tho formula is plainly printed on every bottle, showing it is simply Qui nine ana Iron in a tasteless form, aixi the riost effectual form, k'or grows people and -children, 50c. Fatal. 'Twas the verdict of the neighbors when He'd drawn his final breath That he lived so strenuous a life He'd lived himself to death. Deafness Cannot Be Cured bylocal applications as theycannot reach th diseased portion of the ear. There is only one V7ay to cuia deafness, and that is by consti tutional remedies. Deafness is caused byan inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tubeis in- named youhave a rumbling sound or imr.er- j feet hearing, and when it is entirely clewed Deafness is the result, and unless tha intiam mation can ba taken cut and this tuber- stored to it3 normal condition, hearing will : be destroyed forever. Nine cases out of tea 1 are caused bycatarrh. which ia nothingbut an j inflamed conditio 1 o? the mucous surfaces. We will giva One Hundred Dollars for any j OsseofDparnesa (causedbycatarrh)tuatoan- i notbecaredbyHall's Catarrh Cure. Send for j circnlars f reo. F. J. Cheney & Co.,Toledo,0. Bell bv Drnsaisis. 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Its Main Attraction. The children who are growing up Will on the past look back And speak about their childhood as The age of crackerjack. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children teething, softens thegums, reduces inflamiiui tioii,aIlays pain, cures wind colic,25oa bottle If things were clone twice, all would be wise. German. j ECZEMA CUBED. ! J. R. Maxwell, Atlanta, Ga., sayst "I nffered atrony with a severa caee of eozo- t ma. Tried six dllorent remedies and tu in despair, when a neighbor told me to try Shuptrine's tbitibikx. After using $3 -worth of your tttbihk and soap I am completely cured. I cannot say too nraoh ia its praise." Tettebins at druggists or by mail 60o. Roap 25c. J. T. Savrmai, Dept. A, Savannah, Qa. The campaign begins when the money begins to rattle in the tin cup. WdWW.WJ 1I..LW I. , i l J '.11111.1 LH'IIMBWH iiie is. B 30 safe, oulck and clean sharing. Thes blades can be stroEped. Bay ana you'u oepieasea ) J- ' "Hi I IrV Jkx I 0 ml jfefe$w I Tho back is the mainspring of woman's organism. It quickly call3 attention to trouble by aching. It tells, with other symptoms, such as nervousness headache, pains in the loins, weight in the lower part of the body, that a woman's feminine organism needs immediate attention. In such cases tho one sure remedy which speedily removes the cause, and restores the feminine organism to a healthy, normal condition is LYDIA E.PINKHAK3'3 VEGETABLE COMPOUHD Mrs. Will Young, of 6 Columbia Ave., Rockland, Me., says : " I was troubled for along time with dreadful backaches and a pain in' my side, and was miserable in every way. I doctored until I was discouraged and thought I would never get well. I read what Lydia E. Pinkhara's Vegetable Compound had done for others and decided to try it ; r.fter taking three bottles I can truly say that I never felt BO well in my life." Mrs. Augustus Lyon, of East Earl, Pa., writes to Mrs. Pinkham : "I had very severe backaches, and pressing-down pains. I could not sleep, and had no appetite. Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound cured me and made me fee! like a new woman." FACTS FOR SICK VVOEN. For thirty years Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound, made from roots and herbs, has been the standard remedy for female ills, and has positively cured thousands of women who have been troubled with displacements, inflammation, ulcera tion, fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, backache, that bearing-down feeling, flatulency, indiges tion. dizzinesor nervous prostration. It is a bad hen that eats at your house and lays at another's. Dutch. HIS SKIN TROUBLESCURD. First Had Ttching Rash Threatened Tinier With Wood-Poison in Leg Relied on Cuticura Remedies. "About twelve or fifteen years ago I bad a breaking-out, and it itched, and Etunp so badly that I could not have any peace be cause of it. Tliree doctors did not help me. Then I need some Cuticura Soap, Cuticura Ointment, and Cuticura Resolvent and be gan to pet belter right away. They cured me and I have not been bothered with the itching since, to amount to anything. About two years ago I had Ia grippe and pneumonia which left me with a pain in niy side. Treatment ran it into ray leg, which then swelled and bejfan to brealr out. The doctor was afraid it would turn to blood-poison. I used his medicine txifc it did no good, then I used the Cuticura Remedies three times and cured the breaking-out on my leer. J. V. Ilenneu, MilaD, Mo., May 13, 1907." Between being overfed and under fed we seem to be a much distressed and long suffering people. CUBED Gives Quick Relief, f Removes all welHng In 8 to 30 y dayi ; effects a permanent ctir in 30 to 00 uayi. lrimircuiiucm veiven free. Nothinjfcaa be fairer at Write Dr. H. H. Green's sons, 6&i)SDicialts, Box B Atlanta, Qr PUTNA Color more goods brighter and faster colors than any cau dye any garment without ripping apart. Write PI The Old Standard GROVE'S syMcm. uu khuw wnai you are " Qj-myiy mu'"'" a I I Hi 1- ! Cardui is a purely vegetable extract, of certain medicinal ingredients, with a specific, curative influence, on the womanly organs. It is a simple, harmless, non-intoxicating remedy, acting gently and natural ly, and is recommended to girls and women, of all ages. To them we say: Take for womanly pains, dragging feelings, nervousness, and any other form of sickness peculiar to females. Mrs. A. 0. Beaver, of Marblcton, Tenn., writes: "I suffered dreadfully, but took Cardui and recommend it to all ladies with female troubles." ,VMTE I0R FREE BOOK cnir sold THE BLADE IS CF TKf FINEST STEEL, SCIENTIFICALLY MABE AND TEMPERED BT And the Blade, of course la the Important part of any Baser. rFZ t FT f t:' fcl In poatue stamps ot bv wsmbw w areis piuwy. Miss or Mr.? v 'frighting -Bob' Evans, jdurjng lis last stay in Washington, was one evening a guest at a house where he met-a number pf;the: younger set of the Capital. As the admiral was leaving, he chanced to pick up' from the floor a very dainty handkerchief, edged with lace. He was gravely in specting this "trifle light as air," when a . rather effeminate-looking young man hastened forward to claim it. "Your sister's, no doubt,", said the admiral as he handed it 'over. r tt ,.:.i il. yu, nKj, aij me oung man; "11 s mine." Evans scrutinized the young man closely. "Would you mind tell ing me what size hair-pins you use'?" he asked after a pause. October Lip pencott's. INSIGNIFICANT WORK. Big men do big things, but how many big things are big failures. The biggest ship that ever was built was 110 profit to anybody until it was sold and broken up for old junk. Many a little ship during the same time had made good voyages, and brought profit to its owner. A man writes a big book; he is a great man, but few people ever read his book, yet it is learned and bulky, and perpetu ates the man's fame through genera tions. Another man writes a little letter, a pamphlet, an epistle, which can be read in an hour, carried in the pocket, copied in a little while, sent through the mails, or printed on a few pages, and. that little pamphlet is translated into hundreds of lan guages, scattered by millions in ev ery quarter of the glebe. Paul, chained to a soldier in his hired house at Rome, wrote no big books. A dozen pages would contain the largest tratise he ever wrote, and yet the thoughts there embodied and the truths there declared, live through all ages. and go to the ends of the earth. A seed is a little thing but in it there is the promise of a waving harvest through all the years to come. A granite monument is a great thing, but it has no advance ment, no-promise, no growth. Let the man who does little things wait on God, who can make little things great, and accomplish .his own purpose of grace and goodness, work ing wonden by means of the feeblest instruments through his matchless wisdom and his powerful love. Chirstian. THE J. R. WATKINS MEDICAL CO. WINONA. MINNESOTA. Matri 70 IHCTerrnt Article: Household Rrmeilles, Flavoring Extracts all Kinds, Toilet Preparations, Fine Soap, Ktc. CantJafsers Wanted in E)ery County . 40 Years Experience, S:!, 000,000 Output. BEST PROPOSITION OiEg AGENTS Learn Telegraphy National Telegraph Institute, (Dept. A. N.) JMVtsX:. 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Pull, ttnmp 7 feet diameter. Oato 'fwu 'f" tnakinc tSair wn ftel Cutiofa. & 6urtnte4 for &06 horn powvr ttfrnja.' ZiiffiKERMAKN STEEL CO.. Lor.3 Trco. Iowa. So. 41-08. Young Men and Ladles of ambition should master Teloprai hy and R. R. A cnuutiiiK in one of our Institutes. Great rearcity o. o;ra tors. We onerate five chool under direct minerviBinn of Railway Officials. Main-line wires in all our relsoolii. Fositi m absolutely ttfburtd. when competent. Work for hoard. I'rosi ettns frco.,.- " SIMPLEX PRESS COMPANY, Inventors and Manufacturers of the Simplex Newspaper Press, HAND OR STEAM FOWER. 107-169 S. F8rth .t., AfuntH. Ga. Thoso of us who hove Won vising our readers lo patroiiis boincidnstry now have a e!j!inc (ssa our faith by our works, hy pn'rjiu' a "iionii" in dustry that is turning out ;i prodnc-t that wo joiiev$ is rqu.'tl to tho best, if not the Ust-Hiln on tho livtrl.'iH for car u.sc Tho Xew;i, Fairbuni, C:i., .limo 5, 1 0 Jf. fa n out Malaria and builds up the ( vox auuits andcnildren. 50 - Willi 33 -! &r.2t l great 'demand for this an Inrce a sum as if we THE CONSUMER'S. A SECRET PROCESS. uig-led" correctly for Write name and full ad- r0m Si M I 134 Lsofttrd Street, new lerk City. J - - Y
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