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Modem Fahn Methods As Applied in the South. Notes of Interest to Planter, Fruit Grower and Stockman k ' Chickens and Garden. ' It Is an old saying that "chickens and garden do not 'go' together," and taken as meant, nothing is more ob viously true. But the two may exist and thrive simultaneously on the same premises to good advantage. He who owns a small piece of ground or has one under his direct supervision may obtain from the garden a large percentage of tho support of a lot of hens upon what would otherwise be waste. As to the construction and hygienic arrangement of a small poul try yard, I refer you to articles which appear from time to time in these columns. The logic of economy is, or should he, an absorbing theme for each mem ber of the average family, am' is al ways recognized as an item of the basis of thrift. There are many edible portions of garden "off falls" that are real relishes for fowls, but they are usually cor signed to the dump. Onions intended to mature dry bulbs for winter are improved in size and tissue by occasionally flipping the freshly fallen tops or blades. There is no finer luncheon fcr fowls than these. The juicy young plants drawn from rows of radish, cabbage, lettuce, spin ach and corn at thinning time are good appetizers. The simplest change in di2t or addition to the customary rations quickly shows a remarkable increase of egg production. Stalks of cabbage shorn of their he-ads. and of corn "in joint," accidentally or other wise broken o". should be collected and carried to the poultry pen while fresh. Poorly filled roasting ears re jected for table ara splendid raw feed for chickens. j Xubbins of sugar corn permitted to ripen make a most excellent winter food. It is interesting to watch the hens select the grains of sugar corn from among the grains of field corn fed at the same time. The fodder save every blade of it! The chickens will eat li all. and it is very bene ficial when fed along with tbe more concentrated foods in winter. Drop sunflower seeds iu the miss ing hills of early corn and potatoes, etc., and harvest in the autumn for feeding purposes at molting time. The small potatoes rejected in the pateh at digging time measure up as tonishingly, and when cooked make a staple ingredient for the bran mash on cold mornings. Turnips, like po tatoes, are not only nutritious, but "help to counteract the ill effects of too much grain, and should be treated like potatoes for lh? warm mash. After digging time a little corner of the early potato patch will raise -enough turnips for both family and "When yem fowls seem cloy or in different to their feed, make up a rnsnu from the garden aiid observe how quickly rev,- life seizes upon the whole fiozY.. Have a care. May you not be as economical as the millionaire pork packer who boasts that "nothing is lost of the pig e::cspt the 'squeal?' " Economy is the keynote of success in business. Economy to a fau'rt is bet ter than penury. A few hens, how ever, will not make you rich, but if you have chickens, and also a garden, remember that it is possible for you to save many an order for feed, and supplant it with articles better than any compound sacked up and offered to you on the market at a fabulous price. L. C. Seal, in Farm and Fire side. Applying Fertilizers to Grass Land. L. H. W., Farmville, writes: "When Should a mixture of nitrate of soda, muriate of potash and acid phosphate be applied for timothy hay? I have an eight-disk Superior grain and fer tilizer drill and can sow grass seed at the same time? Answer: Jt will not be worth while to seed grass now until the fall. From the 15th of September to the 1st of October is a very good time, provided there is enough moisture in the ground to cause the grass to germinate quickly. You can apply the fertilizer and sow the grass seed at the same time, if desirable. The fertilizer should not be put in the ground too deep and the grass seed sown on top and covered with a har row. "We do net think it is good policy to mil the seed and fertilizer together. We regard the weeder as one of the bast implements for cov ering grass seed. If you use a nurse crop, you will find a light seeding of barley, oats or wheat advantageous. If oats are used they may be cut for hay when in the early dough stage the next year and not allowed to ma ture. This will prevent the ground from being dried out so completely as when the oats manure will enable the grass to make a better growth before the dry wppther of summer HIS VOICE. It was at a summer hotel, and the babv, being warm and fretful, cried. '.'Tut! Tut! We roan't distrob our neighbors this way," the fond fath er said, taking the child in his arms. "Let me sing to him, if be won't go to sleep." He sang, and straight way came a knock at the door and these words: "There's a sick lady next door, and, if it's all the same to you, would 7011 mind letting the baby cry instead of singing io itt"- sets in. We (hlnk that grass may often be seeded by itself advanta geously, especially if the ground i3 not particularly rich. Land that is foul with weeds and trash should first be summer fallowed and sown in cowpeas to be utilized for green man ure. They will also act a3 a smother crop and hold weed growth in check. A Handy Harness Hanger. I first dressed a 2x3 piece of timber and cut three pieces the upright three feet long, the top piece five feet long and the brace three and a half feet long and framed them together like illustration. Then I took two old sled standards, staples, and drove them in the post of the stable, round- ed the ends of the upilht piece so they would turn and put them in. Then you can open them out, put your harness on them, push them back against the wall and they will be out of the way and keep them straight. 1 have found this handy. C rover A. Art, Ewing, Ky. rare Errrt Euli Is the 3Iost Profitable. It is certainly essential that every dairyman have a pure bred bull at the head of his herd, and it should be a registered bull, too: not that kind that is "thoroughbred," but cannot be registered; they are generally grades. Zvery df.iry::?an, if he expects to make a complsto success of his business, should raise his own cows, by saving the heifer calves from the best pro ducers in the herd, and In order to raise tho standard of his herd, he should by all means keep a bull that is well bred, and whose offspring is calculated to make good dairy cows. "When v dairyman buys a bull he should look for better results than the mere fact of getting his cows with calf. He should figure on improving the equality ofhis future herd, and to do this he should look to the qual ity of the bull, and not to the cheap ness cf the price. The character and reliability of the breeder means a great deal in the buying of a good herd bull. The bull should be one that will lay a good foundation for a healthy, vigorous and high-producing dairy herd, and one that will help in crease the good effect.-, of every future sire that may be used. The purchaser should select a breed that is as near his ideal a3 possible, and thon stick to it, and not change frcrn one breed to another every year or two. A bull should indicate from his ap pearance that he possesses a strong individual character. He should show plenty of masculinity and a good, distinct dairy type. He should have a strong constitution and plenty of nervous energy, so that he will stamp his characteristics, as well ag those of his dams, on his offspring. The Coed Peacli Orchardist. We plant a crop of corn, cotton ov cabbage every year and do not com plain because we must plant every time before we get any harvest; but most of us complain loud and long because we cannot put out a budded peach tree and have it bear a harvest yearly for a long time. The real fact is, that if we should spray and trim peach trees carefully, thin the frnii thoroughly, take time enough to de stroy the borers that may attack 11 and get no more than three crops be fore a tree died, a budded tree thai bore choice peaches would yield 8 i handsome profit. We could afford tc uproot the old tree and plant a nei orchard early enough to take th place of the old one. That is what peach growers expect to do in sec tions where peach growing iz a thriv ing industry The Extra Pounds. It will cost about 150 pounds 'X butter to keep a cow In good produc tion a year; and a cow thai, gave nc more could not pay her way. Sh will wocget in the profit class, all ex penses considered, till she yields 20( to 240 pounds of butter fat a year After such e.u amount Is reached every additional pound will be prac tically net profit.. These extra pounds are what ;hould be strivei for A MODEST DOCTOR. While on his vacation, a city doc tor attended the Sunday morning service at a little country church. When the congregation was dismiss ed several of the members shook hands with him, and one, wishing to learn if he were a Methodist, inquir ed, "Are you a professor, brother?" "Oh, no, indeed," answered the physician modestly; "just an ordi nary doctor." January Lippineott !s ? -POST J OOD OADS Construction of Country Highways. BY JAMES M. HEAD, KX-MAYOHOF NASHVILLB During the past few years many ex periments have been made to con struct a roadway, at a reasonable cost, that would withstand the action of the elements, water, heat and frost, the impact of the horses iron shod hoofs, the grinding effect of the wheels of traffic, and the sucking ac tion of the automobile tire in with drawing the cementing material and scattering it to tho winds, created by the speed of the machine itself. And r while all of these experiments lead to the conculsion that the use of some bituminous binder is absolutely nec essary to meet these conditions, the perfect roadway has not yet been de vised. In all these experiments there have been two radically different theories as to tho best method of construct ing a roadway that would bind the mineral particles together, afford elasticity, and waterproof the surface so as to make the roadway withstand the action of the elements and the strain of traffic the one theory as suming that mere density of struc ture would best accomplish this end. and therefore advocating the use of fine particles of sand so graded as, with the bituminous cement used, to make, as nearly r.3 possible, it solid mass, depending, however, almost ex clusively upon the cement used to furnish the required hardness to withstand the effect of trams. The other theory claimed that greater sta bility, and at tho same time greater density, could be accomplished by the use of different sir.es cf stone so grad ed that the smaller would fill the voids between the larger, and thereby permit the use of a softer comeht, giv ing to the structure greater life and elasticity, and at the snm.'? time af fording a better foothold for horses and preventing the skUJbg of auto mobiles. But it does seem that there must be an intermedia': method of con structing country roads, which will combine tho essential ideas of the more permanent forms of street con struction, without the expensive de tails necessarv for tha construction of that kind cf pavement, and at the same time meet the demands to which the road may be subjected. And it is this form of road construction that I desire to submit for your considera tion. First and foremost in road build ing, as in everything else, there must be a good solid foundation properly laid out and constructed, before any thing worthy cf being called a good road can be commenced. Upon the sub-grade propely graded and rolled a foundation not less than five inches of stone, of practically uniform size, not larger than two and a half inches, ahould be spread and thoroughly rolled, and upon this surface there should then be spread enough crush er screenings to fill the voids in the surface of the lower layer. If larger stones are used they should be placed In layers at the bottom. And if upon his surface after thorough compres sion there should be spread a bitum inous compound of coal tar or asphalt and varying size3 of crushed stone mixed in such proportions as to give the highest possible degreee of den sity, applied while hot, and bafore cooling again cover this surface with a coating of bituminous cement and one-quarter inch stone chips thor oughly worked into this bituminous coating, a substantial, durable, smooth, waterproof and elastic struc ture can be produced at a reasonable cost, that will w hstand not only the automobile but the average country traffic, be free from dust and afford easy traction, with a good foothold for horses. While more expensive than the ordinary macadam, such a road can be built at much less cost than asphalt, bitulithic, brick or any form of block pavement which is used in cities, and should be well within the reach of any community desiring to build a permanent and inteligent system of good roads. If only a few miles of this character of road was built each year, in a comparatively short time a good system of roads would be established and the desire created in every community to follow the same example. From Gootf Roads Magazine. An Object Lesson. Representatives of a number ol Mississippi counties recently visited the town of Brandon, the county seat of Rankin County, to inspect a mil of sand clay road which has been constructed there. Much satisfaction Is expressed with the road, which was formerly spoken of cu the worst roai in the county. Victor Emmanuel's Rare Coin. King Victor Emmanuel, cccordini to a French newspaper, is a numis matist of the first rank, and his Ma jesty possesses a collection which mas be termed a museum. His cabinets contain 60,000 coin?, same most rars and almost priceless. The King is a scientific collector and-will shortly publish a treatise or. numismatics. It will run into severa! volumes, and will ha entitled "Corpus Minimorum Italicorum." The wcrl will be a complete catalogue of me dieval and modern money struck bj Italy or by Italians in foreign lands The printing of the first volume is almost complete. To insure correct ness proof sheets have been submitted to the keepers of the coin depart ments in the principal museums o! the world. London Globe. Tho government will take entin charge of the tlopbona system o: Great Britaii ia 1311. HER WEIGHT INCREASED FROM 100 TO 140 POUNDS. Wonderful Praise Accorded Perunathe Household Remedy Mrs. Maria Qoertz, Orienta, Okla homa, writes: "My husband, children and myself have used your medicines, and wo al ways keep them in the houso in case of necessity. I was restored to health by this medicine, and Dr. Ilartmau'a in valuable advice and books. People ask about mo from different places, nd are surprised that 1 can do all of my house work alone, and that I was cured by tho doctor of chronic catarrh. My husband was cured of asthma, my daughter of earacho and catarrh of tho stomach, and my eon of catarrh of the throat. When I was sick I weighod 100 pounds ; now I weigh 140. "I have regained my health again, and I cannot thank you enough for your advice. May God giro you a long Ufa and blesa your work." Peruna is sold by your local drug gist. Buy a bottle today. 1 ' When change itself can give no more 'tis easv to be true. Epidemic of llrli in Welsh Village. "In Dowlals, South Wales, about fifteen years ago, families were strick en wholesale by a disease known as the Itch. Relieve me, It is the most terrible disease of its kind that I know of, as it Itches all through your body and makes your life an Inferno. Sleep is out of the question and you feel as it a million mosquitoes were attacking you at the same time. I knew a dozen families that were so affected. "The doctors did their best, but their remedies were of no avail what ever. Then the families tried a drug gist who was noted far and wide for his remarkable cures. People came to him from all parts of the country for treatment, but his medicine made matters still worse; as a last resort they were advised by a friend to use the Cuticura Remedies. I am glad to tell you that after a few days' treat ment with Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Resolvent, the effect was wonder ful and the result was a perfect cure In all case?. "I may adci that my three brothers, three sisters, myself and all our fam ilies have been users of the (futicura Remedies for fifteen years. Thomas Hugh, 1650 West Huron St., Chicago, 111., June 29, 'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear. Sir John Suckling. Nothing More Dungeioni Than a neglected couh," is what Dr. J. F. Hammond, rofessor in the Ecleoiio Medi cal College saya, "and as a preventative remedy ami h euartive ngent, I cheerfully rwoomirieiid Taylor's Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gura and Mullein. Tested 50 ywr.rs. Nothing better for whooping cough, croup or consumption. At druggists, 25c. and 5Uc. For pity melts the mind to love. Dryden. Dr. Pierce's Pellets, small, sugar-coated, easy to take us candy, regulate and invig orate stomach, liver and Dowels. Do not gripe. Progress is the law of life: man is not man as yet. Robert Browning. To Cure a Cold in One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Druggists refund money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove's nignnture is on each box. 25c. Precaution is better than repen tance. Greek. Sc. 4-'10. II. II. Green's Soxs, of Atlanta, Ga., are the only successful Dropsy Specialist in the world. See their liberal ofTer in advertise ment in another column of this paper. SKELETONS PLOWED UP. Lexington, Special. A large num ber of skeletons were found a few days ago near Collierstown, and great interest has been excited by the grue some find. While John M. Knick was plowing in his field he uncovered a bone, and on investigation he un earthed at least ten skeletons. Later three other skeletons were found. It is the general belief that the bones are the skeletons of Indians and that their burying ground was at the place where the bones were found. What is no sin is no shame. TRIALS ortfoNEEDEMS "N.. 1 .. . 1 : : i.rvm.K jlvf a. ism (THAT PAW-PAW PILL YOU GAVEl ME LAST NIGHT MADE f.Z FEEL GHF.AT. IT) LIKE T'J SEE j THAT SHOW TO NIGH I. J LETS TAKE THE KIDS me no Vr itfssrv-- id r.sBLV E. 5 ; H AT X"uOO D LAiJiiH AND A MUNYON3 PAW-PAW P!L1. MAKE LIFE WORTH LIVING. IO PILLS IO Rlunyon's I'aw I'aw TtJU oni tt.e liver luto irtlvuy by genua nmttiiil. i'ney Uu nut ncour, gripe pr weaken. I'ney are loulc to thn Momaon, liver uixd imrvtw; invigvrt luuj4ni of wiknu. 'iaey en lich I lie bioo.1 &ni euuuio me momauh to get all the iHurh)Ume lit trom lixxl that is put into It. Thwe fiUut contain no calumel; they i soothing, uealmif md stimulating. For sale !y all ilrugKlKUt iu 10c and i:.-til. It you need medical advice, write Hun yon ' Doctor. They will aavhw to the best of their ability absolutely free of Cuarg. Ml'N UN'S, 63d and Jellernu Hl.. t'kiladelphis, rt. Miwyon'eCoId Remedy cure a eoid In one day. Prtea&c Munyos'i KaeuniaUam Remedy relieve Im a fw fcoun mud eiurca la a few day A'ftMM. LiWA V yMiMS the rwrmn WKtVA'A I 1 idlJOm? YOU MUST BE Jll j ; AV'- mtn ft I ? true pill TERRIBLE OUDEAIj. Virginia Woman's Suffcrlngi With Kidney Disease. Mrs. Virginia Spitzer, Buena Vista, Va., says: ,wFor thirty years I suf fered everything but death with my kidneys. I cannot describe my suffer--ings from terrible bearing down pains, dizzy spells, head aches and periods of partial blindness. The urine was full -of sediment. I was In the hospital three weeks. Doan's Kid ney Pills were quick to bring relief and soon made me well and strong again." KiUV Mrs. SpiUer. Remember the name Doan's. For sale by all dealers. 5 0 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Men, my brothers, men the work ers, ever reaping something new. Tennysoa; " So. 4-'10. T1IK WOXDKRBERRY OR Sl'XBERRY. Has Proved n Great Success Thou sands Say It's the Rest, Thing They Ever Grew. The Wonderberry or Sunberry, the marvelous garden fruit originated by Luther Burbank, and introduced by John Lewis Childs, the well-known Seedsman, of Floral Park, N. Y., has proved a great success all over the country. Thousands of people say it is the best thing they ever grew, Mr. John Burroughs, the well known author, Naturalist and bosom friend of Theodore Roosevelt, says it is the most delicious pie berry he ever tasted, and a marvelous cropper. A Director of the New York Agri cultural Experiment Station says it fruits abundantly even in pure sand. In the short season of North-western Canada it Is a godsend, and fruits long' after frost has killed most garden truck. D. S. Hall, Wichita, Kan., says thirty people grew it there last season with perfect satisfaction. K. S. Enochs, Hammond, La., says It yields $250 worth of fruit per acre with him. Mrs. J. H. Powers, 4732 Kenwood avenue, Chicago, raised enough berries on a space 4sl0 feet to supply herself and friends. J. P. Swallow, Kenton, Ohio, says its equal for all purposes does not ex ist. Rev. II. B. Sheldon, Pacific Grove, Cal., says he likes the berries served in any and every way. W. T. Davis, Enon, Va., says it is true to description In every way, and fruits In three months from seed. Judge Morrow, of U. S. Circuit Court, says the Wonderberry is sim ply delicious raw or cooked. Mr. Chllds exhibited one plant five months old bearing 10,375 berries which measured about eight quarts. Mrs. Hattie Vincent, Hayden, New Mexico, says it stands long, hard droughts of that climate and fruits abundantly all summer. It is certainly the most satisfactory garden fruit and the greatest Novelty ever introduced. The world knows nothing of its greatest men. Sir Henry Taylor. Fr oM himI ;illP. FHr.lt. 4 Capfdixe 1 the best remed.v re Ileves the aehiner and feverlshness cures the Cold and ratoi-es normal conditions. It's lifiuin-efferts immediately. 10c, 2ac ana M c at drug stores. fiops JSMISimJlJ-IUJI.I ,1 "IN.: II J II ., J I The shooting, tearing pains of neuralgia are caused by excitement of the nerves. Sciatica is also a nerve pain. Sloan's Liniment; a soothing external application, stops neuralgia pains at once, quiets the nerves, relieves that feeling of numbness which is often a warning of paralysis, and by its tonic effect on the nervous and muscular tissues, gives permanent as well as immedi ate relief. One Application Relieved the Pain. Mr. J. C. Lee, of noo Ninth St., S. E., Washington, IX C, writes t ' I advised a lady who w-is a great sufferer from neuralgia to try Sloan's Lini ment. After one application the pain left her and she has not been troubled with it since." is the best remedy for Rheumatism, Stiff Joints and Sprains and all Pains. At All Druggists. Price 25c., 50c. and $1.00. Sloan's Treatise on tho Horse sent Free. Address DR. EARL S. SLOAN, , In Winter Use Alien' Foot-Fane. 1 The antiHf ptic powder.- Your feet feel un comfortable, nervous and often cold and damp. If you have sweating. Bore feet or tight shoes, try Allen's Foot-Ease. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores, 25 cents. Sample sent free. Address Allen S. Olm sted. Le Roy. N. Y. Earth's noblest thing, a woman perfected. Lowell. Don't neglect that cough that racks yonr system and may lead to somethintt serious. A lien's Lv v glial yam will effectually check it 'Tis always morn somewhere in the world. Richard Hengist Home. Rheumatism Cured In Day, Dr. Detchon's Relief for IthcumaUum and Neuralgia radically cures in 1 to 3 days. Its action is remarkable. Removes the caus and diseane quicklv disappears. 1'iint do greatly benefits. 7.k and $1. AH druggists. We know truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart. Davis' Painkiller has no substitute. No other remedy is s- effective for rheuma tism, luiubuKO, aiffuess, neuralgia or cold. When one goose drinks, all drink. "sfc 7 ! Added to the Long List due to Ims ramous Remedy. Oronogo, Mo." I was simply a ner vous wreck. I could not walk across the floor without my heart fluttering and I could not even receive a letter. Every month I had such a bearing down sensation, as if the lower parts would fall out; Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta ble Compound has done my nerves a great deal of good and has alsorelieved the bearing down. I recommended it to some friends and two of them have been greatly benefited by it." Mrs. Mae McKnight, Oronogo, Mo. Another Grateful Woman. St. Louis, Mo. "I was bothered terribly with a female weakness and had backache, bearing down pains and Sains in lower parts. I began taking ydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound regularly and used the Sanativ Wash and now I have no more troubles that way." -Mrs. Al. IIerzoo, 5722 Prescott Ave., St. Loui3, Mo. Because your case is a difficult one, doctors having done you no good, do not continue to suffer without giving Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound a trial. It surely has cured many cases of female ills, such as in flammation, ulceration, displacements, fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, backache, that bearing-down feeling, indigestion, dizziness, and ner. vous prostration. It costs but a trifle to try it, and the result is worth mil lions to many suffering women. 3E3 3 "W 3N 3 Beonchial Troches An absolutely bannlcxs remedy for Sor Throat, Hotrunin and Coughs. Give immediate reliei ta Bronchial and Lung Affections. Fifty yean' reputation. Pricei 25 cents, 60 cents and $1.00 per box. Sample sent on request. JOHN I. BrQWH ffs rsuiN. Hornn.j"! ffi BOSTON, MASS. li--'--' MPINHM I JOHN I. 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