parmer and
planter
TO INDUCE FALL LAYING.
a Variety—Not Too Much of Arty
* One Kind.
A ]jt(]e care and additional atten
tion and work with the hens on the
,.)Ce at this season will be well re
*Ljd This is the beginning of the
moulting. or shedding season, and a
cood manv of the hens are not laying,
jnd will not lay for some two or three
months under the usual course of neg
lect and indifference on the part of
their owners. And yet, it is possi
ble to get a goodly number of fall eggs,
if we will go at it right.
To induce fall laying, the hens
should have a variety of foods—not
ai great deal of any one land, but, a
little of several kinds. For this pur
pose, all the waste of the kitchen and
the dining-room should be saved and
given to them. The best plan is to
Have a good sized pot handy, and
throw all scraps into it. Let it sit tit
the hack of the kitchen stove; and
at the close of either the breakfast,
or mid-day meal, put some oats, or
wheat in it too, with water, and soak
all together. It will not take long to
do It. and then when cooled off some,
call up the hens and give it to them.
It will start them to singing and run
ning about in a happy way, and soon
also start them to the nest, and
keep some of them laying all through
the autumn and fall.
In addition to the eggs this system
will bring, It will also keep the hens
healthy and vigorous and enable
them to shed and reclothe themselves
in near feathers earlier than other
wise.
Take Your Eyes to the Cornfield.
This is the time to selet the seed
corn in the field, provided it has not
already been attended to. It has been
fully demonstrated that varieties bear
ing two or more ears to the stalk
will yield more corn per acre than
varieties bearing only one ear to the
stalk. A; the Edgecombe Test Farm
last year there was a difference at the
rate of about twenty-nine bushels per
acre in the yield of different varieties
of corn, and the yield at the other
Test Farm of different varieties bore
about the same ratio to each other.
These facts should impress us with
the importance of seed selection.
In field scdeetion, we advise taking
for an ideal a strong, vigorous, sym
metrical stalk, not too high, bearing
two or more good well-shaped ears,
some four or five feet from the ground,
and that have medium shanks so as
to permit the ears to turn down and
shea the rain. We do not advise se
lecting cars that stand upright so as
to permit the rain to run in and cause
the grain to rot, neither do we ad
vise the long shank so often seen in
corn. A medium between the two ex
tremes is best. L’se care in selecting,
for if one selects only a dozen or two
stalks in a day and the stalks so se
lected are of the ideal type for plant
ing a seed plat, it will be time well
spent. Make a start on such selection
this month.
The Farm Needs Sheep.
A farmer who has long been keep
ing sheep and has observed their hab
its of feedin0- says:
“Sheep are oftentimes spoken of as
t nuisance by some people, but wise
and owners give them credit as being
treat renovators of run-down and worn
out farms and even call thef fertility
tonservers.
They are the latter, and more, too.
fhe life and habits of sheep make
hem not only conservers of fertility,
tut distributors of it where most need
d- if given an opportunity. Though
hepp are averse to water and always
,eek an elevation for their resting
•lace, they do like the succulent
rowth. even though it be weeds,
ound in the lowland of a field or pas
ure which has been enriched by wash
ngs from the higher surrounding land.
These two peculiarities of sheep
ince came under very particular ob
tervation. When I turned some sheep
°to a clover field they at once sought
® the spots where the clover did not
1 cl) iUUl eagerly devoured any weeds
r Pigeon grass that had taken pos
ession of the spaces. They then
Pght the weeds and succulent grass
1 the low places and runs in the
e‘as, leaving the clover on the high
whc're most needed to enrich the
' llIUouehed, only touching this
ass v. hen practically everything else
3,1 been eaten.
-More than this, when night came
f th ePP sougbt the higher portions
heh'eJlelt* for ^eir Testing place and
... ("or'pin§s there deposited the
' ^thered during the day from
,. °^ei Ittnd, thus conveying back
a had been washed away through
Process of nature and cultivation.
ueh 1111 u*10n which sheep are kept
... , tf’ ,Je n°t only fertile, but also
'enlv fertile.
Who h*r,n9 and Saving Cotton.
0 * Is well to pick the cot
apidly as Ib necessary, we she
,i 0 tllat at the expense of ev<
" plse; and especially do wc
against the custom of pick
Sinning immediately. It will
Ml- i 1 t0 *e*" t*le c°tton lie
roving ,f°me time before ginn:
iekp,jed 'he sped cotton Is dry w
hnn.o gin can make its 1
1 groo P'ther in duality or quan
Jj. n cott°n. Again, when cot
einned« put it under cover.
KNOWLEDGE 13 POWER,
The Power to Get the Most Out of a
Farm With Least Energy.
The farmer may not orave political
or social power, but if he is a man
of ordinary ambitions he craves the
power to succeed in his business. It
takes power to succeed at farming.
It used to be said that when a boy
wasn't good for anything else that
he’d make a farmer. ‘‘It takes brains
to be a merchant, doctor, or preacher,
but farmer—why anybody can farm!”
But times have changed, and farming
successfully on high priced land is no
snap. The brains necessary to well
manage a farm would make for suc
cess anywhere after sufficient, experi
ence were gained to “know the
rope.’ ’
But it is astonishing that so many
farmers are content to go along in
such a reckless and unprofitable way.
They never have a definite knowledge
of their business operations. They
know not whether it is the cows or
pigs that are carrying the mortgage,
whether it is the sheep or the chick
ens or the cornfield that is failing to
pay expenses. They feed timothy bay
because they have it, and they have
it because it is easier to cure than
clover, and know not that there is a
better feed than timothy and a better
crop for the soil.
The shackles of Ignorance is hold
ing many a man down. Knowledge
is the power that can set free. It
isn’t enough to know how to hold a
plow straight. He must know why
he plows, when best to plow, how
best to do for a particular crop or
season. It is not enough that he know
how to milk a cow. He must know
how to feed her so she will do her
best, and he must know how to breed
her so she will perpetuate a better
race than her own, he must know
whether she is worth keeping at all or
not.
It isn’t enough to know how many
pecks to sow of grain, but how to
combat the fungous and insect pests
that lessen the yield. He must know
what one of a great many varieties
of these grains is best adapted to his
farm.
Knowledge is power—the power to
get the most out of a farm with the
least expenditure of vital energy, the
least waste, and the greatest net pro
fits per acre.—Successful Farming.
For Cotton Select Prolific Stalks.
In selecting cotton seed we should,
in North Carolina, have especial re
gard to earliness. An extra large boll
is usually an indication of a late ma
turing cotton, and is apt to be long
jointed. We need in this climate a
bushy, short-jointed cotton of a pro
lific character, and we should have
marked the plants that come nearest
to our ideal cotton plant before any
picking has been done, always select
ing from plants of the best habit and
those that open earliest, selecting only
the first picking for seed. The later
pickings may make just as good and
prolific plants, but the chances are
that in the matter of earliness the
seed from the first picking will be
best.
Do not take this cotton to the gin,
but have a little hand gin at home to
prevent getting the seed mixed with
every one else’s cotton. Then next
spring plant a patch especially for
seed and continue the selection. Make
a careful selection the first time even
if you only get seed enough to plant
the seed patch. Every season you will
get closer to the ideal cottou plant,
and every season your neighbors will
. be taking more and more interest in
your cotton. Cotton is a plant that
responds to careful seed selection very
quickly, and on the other hand runs
back very quickly when carelessly se
lected. The King Cotton for a year
or so was a very uniform cotton, but
of late it is hard to find a field of
King Cotton that is at all of the orig
inal strain.
The time to begin the improvement
of one's corn or cotton is in the
spring, and then study the crop all
through the season, detassel all in
ferior and barren stalks of corn, and
thin out the long-legged cotton be
fore it has a chance to distribute its
pollen through the agency the bees.
Hints About Making Good Hay.
Haymaking claims the attention of
farmers just now and should be
pushed with all possible vigor. The
high prices that have prevailed should
J stimulate hay making.
Crab grass is allowed to go to
waste that could be made into a fine
quality of hay if cut at the right time
and properly cured. Comparatively
few of our farmers cut crab grass as
! early as it should be cut to make the
best quality of hay. It should not be
! allowed to stand until the seed are
ripe, nor should it be allowed to lie
| in the sun after it is cut until it is
sun-killed before cocking or stacking.
Cut when the seed are in the milk or
dough state, permitted to take the
sun a day, then cocked and cured in
the cock, It makes a hay about equal
to timothy hay.
The fact that it has been demon
strated by good farmers that oats can
be raised more cheaply than corn
should stimulate oat growing. With
tills crop, as with wheat, the land
should be well prepared, and only good
seed should be used. For oats, sow’
two bushels of seed per acre of some
good winter variety.
Rye is another crop that should re
ceive more attention than we are giv
ing it. Almost any land will grow
some rye, bu‘ the better tht* land the
more rye we will get
TESTED BY TIME.
A Cure That Has Held Good for
Four Years.
Mrs. Mary Crumlish of 1130 West
Third Street, Wilmington, Del., says:
"Some years ago 1
began to feel weak
and miserable and
one day awoke from
a nap with a pierc
ing pain in my back
that made me
scream. For two
days I could not
move and after that
I had backache and
dizzy spells all the time. My ankles
swelled and I ran down dreadfully. I
was nervous and had awful headaches.
I wonder that any medicine could do
what Doan's Kidney Pills have done
for me. They cured me four years
ago and I have been well ever since.”
Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
To Err Is Human.
Robert Browning once found him
self at a dinner, at a great English
house, sitting next to a lady who was
connected with the highest aristoc
racy. She was very graciously in
clined, and did her utmost to make
conversation.
"Are you not a poet?” she finally
asked.
“Well,” said Browning, “people are
sometimes kind enough to say that I
am.”
"Oh, please don’t mind my having
mentioned it,” the duchess hastened
to say, with the kindest of smiles.
"You know Byron and Tennyson and
others were poets.”
A Household Necessity.
I would almost as soon think of run
ning my farm without implements as
without Hunt's Lightning Oil. Of all
the liniments I have ever used, for
both man and beast, it is the quickest
in action and richest in results. For
burns and fresh cuts it is absolutely
wonderful. I regard it as a house
hold necessity. Yours truly
S. HARRISON,
Kosciusko, Miss.
Too Many Islands.
Larry—Me friend Casey has made
a lot av money awn gone to spind th’
summer in th’ Thousand islands. He
invited me up.
Denny—Faith, phoy don’t yez go?
Larry—Bedad, he didn't say which
Island awn Oi might have to hunt over
noine hundred and nointy-noine be
fore Oi found him. By thot time, me
vacation would be over.
Important to Mothers.
Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTORIA a safe and sure remedy for
Infants and children, and see that it
In Use For Over ;}0 Years.
The Kind You Have Always Bought.
Willing to Follow Directions.
“I want you to keep the patient
isolated for a few days.”
“All right, doctor; shall we put the
ice at the back of his head or on
top?”—Baltimore American.
WILD TRIBE OF P0ET8,
Picturesque People That Are Found In
the Philippines.
Among the wild tribes to be found
in the Philippines are the Bogobos,
the most picturesque people in the
tropics. Their origin is unknown,
and all sorts of opinions have been
expressed concerning them. One tale
told of them is that their first ances
tors were all poets and musicians,
and that the dislike for the practical
which is always noticeable among
them has come down through the gen
erations.
Those that have taught among the
Bogobos say that given a song or
a poem to learn and they will study
and dream over it for hours, but give
the Bogobo a problem in arithmetic
\ and he immediately becomes ill and
wants to go home.
Living at Santa Cruz, in the Davao
district, is Miss Benedict, a Chicago
university woman, who is collecting
everything peculiar to the Bogobo.
It has been found that the bead
work done by them is quite like that
of the American Indian, but there is
no other likeness in the races be
yond that.
A Prayer for Rain.
The minister was having Sunday
dinner with one of his brother par
. ishoners. Suddenly the 8-ycar-old
I daughter of the house spoke up.
| “O, Dr. Still, will you please say
the prayer for rain tonight, so it will
pour tomorrow?” she urged.
“Why, dear?” asked the clergyman.
“Cause I have a dandy new um
brella and mackintosh,” replied the
eternal womanly.—Judge.
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case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's
Catarrh Cure. . _
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We, the undersigned, havo known F. J. Cheney
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orable In all busl/jss transactions and financially
able to carry out any obligations made by his firm.
Walpino, Kinnan & Marvin-,
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Hell’s Catarrh Cure ts taken Internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the
system. Testimonials sent free. Price 70 cents pel
bottle. Sold by all Druggists.
Take Hall's Fam.iy Pills for constipation.
Her New Hat.
"I believe Maude is weakening in
her championship of the Audubon
movement against bird plumage bat
trimming.”
“What makes you think so?”
“I notice in public, especially at the
theater, she is showing the white
feather.” _
Don’t Be Irritable.
“An irritated skin makes an irritable
person, and an irritable person gath
ers much trouble unto himself or
herself as the case may be. Moral:
Use Hunt’s Cure, one box of which is
absolutely and unqualifiedly guaran
teed to cure any form of skin trou
ble. Any kind of itching known is re
lieved at once and one box cures.”
Slightly Mixed,
“How did Henry get along when he
had to testify in court, Mrs. Mixer?”
“He got along good enough till the
lawyer tangled him all up with one of
them air long hyperdemic questions.”
Finishing is the hardest part of a
lazy man’s job.
agg?:*a*;vA<*!i*.jCTEaij
MISS KATE A. HEARN
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Inflammation or irritation caused
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“How were you impressed by our
distinguished visitors' speech?” asked
one prominent citizen.
“I hadn't thought about forming im
pressions,” replied the other. “As I
understand such an occasion, we were
not there to criticise, but to give three
cheers and to sing ‘The Star-Spangled
Banner.’ ”
Knew What Was Coming.
Wife—Well, I declare. Here’s an
old school friend of mine who has
just made a fortune.
Husband—All right, my dear. Go
ahead. Tell me that you might havo
married him.
_
Time Sometimes Flies So.
“Mabel,” asked the dear girl’s moth
er, “what time did that young man
leave last night?”
“Why,” replied Mabel, “I believe it I
was nearly 11 o’clock.”
“What? I am sure it was later than I
that,” said the mother.
“How strange!” remarked Mabel, j
dreamily. “We both thought It could- i
n't possibly be that late.”—The Catho
lic Standard and Times.
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"Jones is the most prominent mem
ber of our golf club.”
“Why, he can’t play golf?”
“No, but he always pays his dues.”
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