s Modern Farm Methods As Applied in the South, Notes of Intei est to Planter, Fruit Grower and Stockman I . g MUST BELIEVE IT. Growing Good Crops of Wheat. The present good price for wheat, j )U, apparent prospect for its con tinuance, is exciting interest in wheat raising in the South, and I am getting letters from many farmers, who have not been growing wheat, asking for the best methods for its cultivation. While wheat can be grown in the coast a! plain of the South Atlantic region. it is hardly probable that uni formly good crops will be made there, because as a rule the soils are rather too light and the climate too humid (or the best results in wheat, though In certain unusually favorable seasons good crops may soxietimes be made. The best wheat soils are the medium heavy clay loams, and a lime stone soil is highly esteemed for wheat. Good drainage is, of course, essential to a crop that must pass through the winter, and only well drained soils can be expected to make good wheat crops. Formerly, it was thought that the id a I preparation for wheat was a clover sod broken early in the sum mer and harrowed and tramped till veil settled. And there is no doubt that a well prepared fallow is still ex cellent for the wheat crop. But cul tivators have long since learned that this sort of preparation for the wheat crop is too expensive, as it takes the labor of the farm through most of the summer without any crop on the land, and the exposure to the un is also a bad thing for the soil. In my boyhood I can well remember that a farmer would apologize for the ap pearance of a certain field by saying that it was "corn land" wheat, and could not be expected to be equal to fallow wheat. But these same farmers who for merly thought that they were doing welt- to get fifteen bushels of wheat per acre, have long since found out that fifteen bushels is a very small crop, and that there is no better preparation for wheat than a corn field deeply broken in the spring and cultivated shallowly all summer, so as to bring about the same ideal con ditions that an early-broken fallow gives. They have found, too, that after the hoed crop, whether wheat or tobacco, there is no need for re plowing the land. In fact, there Is good reason for not doing so. for the shallo w and level culture of the corn has brought about the very best con ditions for wheat, a well compacted toil and a fine surface. Therefore, after a crop of corn or tobacco is off the land, a light disk ing kept up both ways till the surface soil is made very fine, will be all that is needed. If peas have been sown among the corn or tobacco, they should be mown off, for the turning under of such a growth would prevent the compacting of the soil that wheat demands, and more wheat will be made with the peas cut off than if they were turned under. But one thing is certain, and that is, that the surface soil can not be made too fine. The best wheat soils in Virginia and North f-'nrolina are the red uplands of the Piedmont section. Lands like the farm of Mr. Lambeth, in Ran dolph County, near Thomasville, in Davidson, where a crop of over thirty bushels is reported this season, should be made to average that much, or more, every season. The farm of the late Governor Holt, in Davidson, has made over forty-five bushels per acre, and these crops show that these red lands are idal wheat soils, and will make more wheat to-day under good farming than the famous spring at lands of the Dakotas. But good farming demands that crops shall be grown economically, and it has been found, as I have said, that the fallow ing system is not an economical way to raise wheat. Our clover sod, while " will make fine wheat, can be more economically used for the corn crop. The farm manure spread on this r'over sod as made during the winter, aud plowed under in the spring, makes the best of all preparation for the wheat crop if the corn is culti 1 shallow and level during the Bnamer, thus producing the same fondiriong that would be made on a summer fallow, while making a valua ble crop. The same may be said of the t- 1 erop as a preparation for wheat. lier in the upper sections. Mr. Dauth- ridge, in Edgecombe County, made some years ago a fine crop of wheat sown in December, but in any of the upper parts of the State that would be entirely too late to give the wheat a fair chance, while it might do in lower Georgia and Alabama. As to the amount of seed to be used, I would sow more on thin land than on strong 'land, for it will tiller less. On the best wheat soil five to six pecks per acre, and on thin soil seven pecks or even two bushels per acre wiU be none too much. Get seed wheat, if practicable, south of you rather than north, for south wheat is sown later and ripens earlier, and hence earliness is promoted by going south for seed. In the days of the old Blue Stem White wheat it was com mon for Maryland farmers to get seed from North Carolina, and they found this to be an advantage in earliness. Where one has a manured clover sod turned for corn, the only fertilizer that will be needed on red clay soil will be about 400 pounds of acid phosphate per acre, and on sandy or grey soil an addition of twenty-five pounds of muriate of potash will be an advantage. Always drill the seed with a wheat drill, and never follow the old practice of sowing broadcast and harrowing in. See that the seed is clean, plump and heavy, for a great deal depends on the vigor of the plants, and you cannot expect strong plants from shrivelled seed. You will have no cheat unless you sow the seed with the wheat or have land already infested with cheat seed. Cheat is more common among oats in the South than among wheat, for the cheat seed is very much like a small oat, and farmers sow them with the oats without suspecting their pres ence. Then the winter may be hard and the oats get killed, but the hardy cheat grows, and the farmer, seeing green leaves, imagines that it is oats till it heads out, and then he thinks his oats have turned to cheat. No man ever had any cheat but what came from cheat seed which was in the ground or was sown with the grain. Progressive Farmer. Th bre wh the low The leading idea is to make the king early, and then devote the le season to the preparation of surface soil to get it fine, and the soil compacted to the state the prefers.- - n as to sowing. Too early sow- '"g must be avoided on account of thf Hessian fly. There is less danger the fly after we have had one good white frost, and I would always de fer the sowing to this time. This will Usially make the sowing in all the farmer parts of the State of North ar,J ina about the last of October or rst of November, and somewhat ear- Kafir-Corn Cutter. L. A., of Grenola, Kan., writes that a good kafir-corn header can be made at a little expense out of two old stalk cutter knives and a few pieces of lumber. This Is used for heading kafi-corn out of the shock. The lower knife should be bolted in the pieces of the frame, which should be notched so the knife will fit In and form a r St S I I Dill ID I IS Ml Kkw ffir IKK 1 JKrrHH HA50 WOOD 84 - 0 wOOQ- smooth edge. The irame should be set on the side of the wagon. One man should stand on the ground and put the bunches or bundles on the knife, while the other man stands in the wagon and pushes the knife down against the bunch, the knife cutting the heads off, which fall into the wa gon. Cultivating Cantaloupes. A thorough preparation of the soil before it is planted to cantaloupes will very much lessen the necessity for so much cultivating afterwards, but a great deal depends upon fre quent and thorough cultivation dur ing the early stages in the growth of cantaloupes; at first it should be deep and thorough, but not close enough to disturb the plants; the cultivations should bo more shallow and further from the hills as the plants develop. The grower who cultivates deep and close to the hill because the vines do not prevent him, is cutting off one source of early cantaloupes. He should study the growth of the roots, for they form the counterpart of the vines on the surface, only they ramify the soil more thoroughly and to greater distance than the length o' the vines. The Separator's Value. A separator will reduce the number of churnings, the length of time It takes to churn, and improve the qual ity and increase the yield of butter. s0ULD WAGE WARFARE AGAINST FLY IN WINTER point was recently made by a fc(1'mporary that the danger of the eofrS,''v does not decrease with the Jttig of cooler weather, but on the inslf' ra.ther becomes greater. The t is driven within doors, seeking fr warmth from the fires, and be- h L . . w J. 1 A 1 A atii 4Uie "me DOin a greater " muni tmcav w arfV auviBiDinty of waging ure against it, therefore, does not become any less. Scientists and hygienists declare that disease is of ten transmitted by this insect, and the claim is one that is supported by facts. Such being the case, the sooner we get to work in earnest, all over the country, to eliminate it, the better. The next few years will wit ness a great advance in sanitary measures to prevent disease. Schen ectady Gazette. Good Roads For New Jersey. The plan outlined in my first mes sage to the Legislature contemplated a great system of highways to be maintained by the State between each county seat in the State and a boule vard on the Atlantic Ocean. The proposed roads are very large ly constructed at this present time, and the parts not now completed could be finished at no great cost. After they are fully constructed the State can maintain them at reason able expense and relieve the counties of that burden. I doubt if our peo ple fully realize what a connecting highway from county seat to county seat and a great highway upon the Atlantic Coast of our State would mean to the people of New Jersey. These highways would be 850 miles in length. Think of that great length of highways of the finest roads anywhere, with all the conveniences for travel that they would give! It would increase the values of all agri cultural lands and would make the whole State a place of the greatest attraction. The increasing of wealth to our people by this system of good roads cannot be estimated. The cost of maintaining such a sys tem of highways under the State con trol would probably not exceed $300 a mile, if it equalled it. How could the State spend $265,000 a year to better advantage on it3 highways? The automobile is with us, and to stay, and the fees that will come to the State from it will provide the nec essary revenue each year in the fu ture to cover this cost of mainte nance. The automobile owner is per fectly willing to gay our present license fees if he can only have good roads, well maintained. Such roads will save the license cost many times each year in the wear and tear of tires. Who can foretell what an ocean boulevard will add to our coast in the way of attrac tiveness? Our coast in a few years will be a city from Atlantic Highlands to Barnegat Inlet, and from Atlantic Ci-ty to Cape May. People sojourn and erect costly houses where they can get most advantages and con veniences. New Jersey can assure them everything that is desirable, coupled with good laws, reasonable taxation and fine roads. I am con vinced that the State highway plan that has been outlined is popular not only in the shore counties but ,all through the State, and will be more and more so as the matter is under stood. Prom Governor Fort s Speech at a Meeting of the State Highway Commission. FALL PAINTING. Every Reader Will Concede the Troth of This Statement. i : One who suffers with backache or any form of kidney trouble wants a cure, not merely temporary benefit. Rev. Maxwell S. Rowland, of Tom's rtiver, w. j., makes a statement in this con nection that is worth attention. Says he: "I was suddenly tak-" en with an attack of kidney . trouble, had severe pains in my back and loins and was generally run down. Doctors were not helping me, so I began using Doan's Kidney Pills. They brought me prompt relief, and as I con tinued taking them the pains in my back disappeared and the kidneys were restored to normal condition." Remember the name Doan's. Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Mil b urnoJBtujirUosY. Soon gained, soon squandered. Rough on Rate, unbeatable exterminator. Rough on Hen Lice, ,Neet' Powder, 25c. Rough on Bedbugs, Powder or Liq'd, 25c Rough on Pleas, Powder or Liquid, 25c. Rough on Roaches, Pow'd, 15c., Liq'd, 25c. Rough on Moth and Ants, Powder, 25c. Rough on Skeeters, agreeable in use, 25c. E. S. Wells, Chemist, Jersey City, N. J. The son-in-law's sock is never full. Mrs. WineloVs Soothing Synip for Children teething, softens the gums, .educes inflamma tion , allays pain, cures wind colic , 25c . a bo ttle. Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man. Addison. COVERED WITH HIVES. Passing of the Cobblestone. Baltimore has made such strides since the great fire and the city has been congratulating itself so on its progress that the application for an Injunction to restrain the mayor, city council and city engineer from paving a street with cobblestones comes as a jolt to municipal pride to remind us that we are not free from some of the trammels of antiquity. And of these the worst is the cobblestone. Ap propriately enough, in the last year of the nineteenth century 1899 an ordinance was passed that cobble stones should not be used In future in paving streets of the city. So the twentieth century people began In the gladsome hope that this anomoly in a modern community would no longer be extended, and that what was left of it to afflict the sight and make sore the feet would be removed by the gradual process of elimination. Hence the jolt when it is announced tha- the city is preparing to pave a street with the unsightly cobbles, and hence the injunction of patriotic citi zens and disgusted property owners to pravcDt a resurrection of past cen- fhnrj Smnnt.ii. well naved j streets are ar ong the prime requis j it.es cf a modern up-to-date city, and the cobblestones have absolutely nothing to serve them as an excuse for being. They are an unsightly blot on clvia beauty; they lose time and create labor in travel; they are. a source of ridicule to visitors and of mortification and discomfort to na tives altogether they belong to the past, with its watchmen, its lanterns, Its horse cars and its other evidences of a primitive village period. Old European Regiments. The Gentlemen-at-Arms, inspected by the king on the four hundredth anniversary of their incorporation by Henry VIII., are not the oldest "near est guard" of their kind this honor being contestable by the "Garde Ecos 3aise" of the kings of France, of which the lineal representatives to some extent, at least are the "Royal Scots," now forming the first regi ment of the British line. The Garde Ecossaise consisted of a hundred men, whereas our gentlemen-at-arms never numbered more than fifty, and the famous "Cent Gardes" of the see irp were mode lei on the corps in which Quentin Durward served at Ple3sis-les-Tours. London Chronicle. Labor Bureau Disappears. The first labor bureau in the world wasvthe Massachusetts bureau of sta tistics of labor, established in 1869. By a bill passed at this session of the Massachusetts legislature the word "labor" is stricken from th original title of the bureau and it now becomes a bureau of statistics. Wall Street Journal, Child a Mass of Dreadful Sore, Itch ing, Irritating Humor for 2 Months In Terrible Plight Disease Cured by Cuticura. "My six year old daughter had the dread ful disease called hives for two months. She became afflicted by playing with chil dren who had it. By scratching Bhc caused larga sores which were irritating. Her body was a complete sore but it was worse on her arms and back. We employed a physician who left medicine but it did not help her and I tried several remedies but without avail. Seeing the Cuticura Reme dies advertised, I thought I would try them. I . gave her a hot bath daily with Cuticura Soap and anointed her body with Cuticura Ointment. The first treatment relieved the itching and in a short time the disease disappeared. Mrs. G. L. Fridhoff, Warren, Mkh., June 30 and July 13, '08." Potter Drug & Chera. Corp., Sole Props, of Cuticura Remedies. Boston, Mass. The talker sows, tlv? listener reaps. 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