[ FARMER. AND J
PLANTER
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]t has not been generally under
itood Ibat sows can be wintered on
oughages but latest investigations of
tractical men and experiment stations
,eeni to prove that the mature sow is
iiuch more capable of consuming
ougbages than has been known in
imes past. It has been found that
iows may be wintered on nearly a
complete roughage ration. The di
lative organs of the mature sow are
ully developed and are more adapted
or the digestion of larger quantities
ir roughage than is the young grow
ng pig and the rations be cheapened
hereby.
In order that there may be no escap
ng the impulse to remain on the farm
md stay away from the consuming
:ity, the rural graded schools of Kan
;as have begun teaching agriculture.
Che idea is that scientific agronomy
aught only in the colleges fails to
•each 70 to 80 per cent of the country
•hildren. More than that the Kansas
igricultiiral board says the young men
md women who attend the agricul
ural college are usually of the well to
to families, whereas the supreme test
)f education ought to be making a
success of the men who started un
ier a handicap.
Too Much Cotton Acreage.
For the past two years the Depart
nent of Agriculture has shown that
he acreage of cotton was far over
11,000,000 acres, and the crop last
,-ear was 11,560,000 bales, or some
hing over one-third of a bale per acre.
\nd yet, says Prof. W. F. Massey,
there were farmers all over the South
vho made a bale per acre, and here
ind there one who made a bale and
i half to two bales. What a great
lumber there must be, then, who are
naking less than a third of a bale
ter acre to bring the average down!
,Yhat an awful aniount of human la
ior wasted to produce only 11,560,000
tales on over 31,000,000 acres, when
f every farmer in the South really
armed, the crop could have been
nade on 11,000,000 acres and the near
y 20.000.000 that were scratched over
n cotton could have been growing
orage for stock, corn, wheat and
;rass. Thai is v.hat acreage redue
ion means. It means better prepara
ion of the soil, crop rotation for the
levelopment of the productive capac
ty of {he soil.
Care of Sheep.
Although sheep have sufficient vital
ty to make their rais'ng very profit
ble, reasonable intelligence and fore
hought must be used in guarding
hem against disease. But sheep must
ie guarded against disease more close
y than any other animal, and in or
ler to keep sheep free from parasitic
iiseases, it is often necessary to re
ort to preventive medicines. When
ised, however, they should be used
vith a definite object in view and
vith system and regularity.
By- wav of general care of sheep,
hey need well ventilated or open shed
ihelter in falling weather. They do
iot need shelter in dry weather, no
natter how cold. They should never
>e crowded into and shut up in a
•lose barn. They ought to have run
ling wate1*. That from a well or cist
•rn in a clean tank is very good. Pond
rater is objectionable, especially when
my disease is present. The pasture
mght to be rolling, or at least well
Irained. It ought to be divided into
hree parts and each part used ten
lays in rotation.
here
icks
antbs ou-y
ervals q,
heep dipV
ndicatio^’
heir nos*
vith tar gtw'il*
mght to t’rl -
is ar'"-feign or scab or sheep
in he iv’.ic.k, all the sheep and
be.-dipped twice at in
i»-davs in some reliable
rotr&.i£d; time there Is any
hrottgh tUSt-v
ernal parasit
This is esp
s any indica
tarasites arqf
idvisable foiS*
)is flock duri\^
i course of f
if the blue stoi
ure. Of the tc
ibout 30 pounds
uni begin giving
it first with the fe
mil continue until
e by tne bot fly,
** yjp kept smeared
> frosts. Sheep
e of treatment
them of in
hen there
of these
•!; .probably
'ti« to give
i1 ftl| spring
.n tf -d Tobacco
- c salt mix
hould use
i '00 sheep,
nreounts
in the fall
lambing is
>ver. The blue stone copperas salt
nixture. advised for the prevention
»f stomach worms, may be used in
tend of tobacco. It can be kept be
ore the sheep, allowing them what
hey will eat. These directions inva
iably protect the sheep owner from
he common losses and render it un
tecessary for him to make a detailed
tudy of the different parasites.—B. F.
-ucky.
Beets or mangel wurzels make fine
ood for poultry. They should be
hopped fine.
—- !
Make the straw stacks of some
alue. TTse for feed all of the best
hat is needed, and use all of the rest
or bedding or get it tramped into
a mixed with animal manure. It will
ielp to save and increase the value
f tile manure and will more readily
’■■compose iu contact with the mois
ure. A straw stack allowed simply
o rot down of itself is of little value
s manure as most of the nitrogen
'asses off into the air end is wasted.
Good Cotton Farming Method*.
As cotton planters we are confront
ed by conditions today that a few
years ago were unknown. Then labor
was cheap and plentiful, and “forty
acres, a nigger and a mule” was the
slogan; today we have the mule and
40 acres, but the labor is gone, or
worthless. Now, how are we to over
come this labor problem, cultivate our
lands and hold the monopoly as a cot
ton country?
To the solving of this problem let
us now direct ourselves. The first
step in cotton culture, under existing
conditions, is the proper preparation
of the land. Say we have our lands
divided into sections, and we wish to
use one section for cotton next year,
then begin the preparation by grow
ing small grain of some kind, follow
ing with peas, using 400 pounds of
ash element per acre, put in broad
cast or with drill, and one to two
bushels of peas per acre. When the
peas are beginning to ripen, if you
have stock or can purchase some to
consume the hay, cut the peas and
feed to stock, taking good care of the
manure, and apply to land. This is
the most profitable way to use the
pea crop; but if you have no stock,
and won’t buy, then turn under after
frost all the peas, grass, etc., thus
putting into your land vegetable mat
ter that will be converted into cotton
and pay a large dividend on the in
vestment. Never, under any circum
stances, mow the peas from the poor
places in the field. Your purpose
should be to have your fields of a uni
form fertility, producing cotton of
equal size and fruitage upon each
acre; so look carefully after the poor
spots.
Use as much fertilizer as you are
willing to buy, based upon the amount
of vegetable matter turned under and
the general fertility of this soil, not
to exceed 1,000 pounds per acre, un
less the land is rich. Poor land de
void of humus will not bear heavy
applications of commercial fertilizers.
Quite a large amount of fertilizers is
lost each year by such methods.
Cotton rows, as a general rule,
should be about four feet apart. Open
furrows and on sand land put about
half the fertilizer in drills and apply
the remainder during cultivation of
crops. On stiff and clay lands the
whole amount can be used before
planting. When more than 600 pounds
of fertilizer are used I prefer to use
two-thirds of the amount broadcast
and harrow in before laying off rows;
balance in opening furrow. Cover
with disc harrow, throwing all the
dirt to the center. This at one trip
makes the ridge upon which the coi
ton is to be planted. This can be
/icM, ^ nrUK n Kir. ,1 i „
It does all the work that a non-re
versable one will do and many other
kinds a cotton grower is in need of.
Any good planter is all right; use
on sandy and light lands form one to
one and a half bushels of seed per
acre; on stiff lands use two bushels.
The variety of cotton you plant should
be determined by character of soil
and location.
When you see the ground begin to
crack along the rows, then commence
the cultivation. Do not wait for the
cotton to come up. Where you have
crust formed by rains, run across the
rows with a light iron tooth smooth
ing harrow vi'ith teeth set so they
will not. drag up the cotton. In four
to six days run diagonally across the
rows again, and repeat in a few days,
going in opposite direction; now take
the weeder and run it straight across
the rows, then diagonally in both
ways, going over once a week until
the cotton is four or five inches high.
If this work is well done it needs
no hoeing up to this time. Now, go
over with hoes, thinning to stand and
clearing all grass left by harrow and
weeder. On light lands and where
there is not crust use the weeder from
the start. After hoeing, if your land
is such that cultivators can be used,
by all means use them; cultivators
that will work a row at one trip; use
these as long as you can stradle the
cotton, then finish with the open and
shut kind; they will plow a middle at
one trip. All cultivation should be
shallow, deeper when the cotton is
small, using great care not to break
the small feeding roots as they ex
tend through the land. They are do
ing the work for you, searching for
plant food in every square inch of
soil, so break as few of them as pos
sible. Keep the middle clear of grass
at all times.
How late we can cultivate cotton
depends upon the season. Sometimes
the last week in July, at other times
up to the middle of August. Every
man must be saved from ruin at times
by breaking the crust and stopping
the evaporation of the water, allowing
the cotton roots to get it instead of
the air.
We have given a plan for the cul
tivation of a cotton crop of normal
year; this will have to be changed un
der unusual conditions; for instance,
if you have much rain about and just
after the cotton comes up. and the
grass gets two or three leaves, (hen
the harrow and weeder will have to
be laid aside and other tools used.
The business of sheep growing must
be learned, like any other business,
by actual experience. One great trou
ble with farmers is that they are not
willing to commence in a small way
with little risk, and learn the busi
ness by actual experience. We have
not yet got over the fondness for try
ing to bore with a big auger and do
ing things in a large way. This can
not be done successfully with sheep
except on a farm that has a large
acreage of land better fitted for grow
ing sheep than anything else.
ISN’T THIS A FAIR PROPOSITION?
A Guaranteed Cure for Female Troubles—No
Matter of How Lons Standing
NO CURE, NO PAY
The Stan ley-Bar nos Medicine Co., at Little
Rock. Arkansas, hare a new and wonderful
discovery called
DR. STANLEY’S ‘T. F. TABLET8”
which they guarantee to cure any case of
female trouble no matter of how long standing,
and will refund the money in every case where
it fails. It cures by strengthening the whole
female system. Because you have tried many
other remedies without satisfactory results, do
not conclude that there is no cure for it, but
send at once and give this new discovery a
trial. You do not know us and we do not
know you, therefore we do not ask you to aend
the full amount. We are willing to risk you
one-half (1-2) the amount and you will risk us
for the other. Send us one-half (1-2) the
price (50c) In postage stamps or coin, and we
will aend you the treatment by mail. After
using It, if you are net entirely satisfied,
notify us, and we will return the money you |
sent us. and of course If you are satisfied <
with the treatment after giving It a trial, you
may send ua the balance 50c. We make this
liberal offer because we know that anyone who
uses it will recommend it to their friends.
Everything that has been placed on the
market for the cure of female troubles has
been unsatisfactory and you realize we could not
afford to go to the heavy expense of adver
tising n remedy of this kind without we knew
It was a new discovery and really superior to
anything ever placed on the market, and will
actually cure old chronic cases.
RATHER PAY THAN SERVE.
Citizen Soldier’s Unique Idea of the
Duties of a Sentry.
Australians still tell stories of the !
C. L. V.’s, although the war is a far
memory. One, a member of the Stock
Exchange, was left one wet and miser
able night to guard a wagonload of
goods.
He shivered In the unsheltered place
for some hours pondering many things,
and then a bright thought struck him j
Just as the colonel came around on
his tour of inspection.
“Colonel,” he asked, “how much is
this wagon worth?”
"I don't know,” was the answer.
“Much or little, we can’t afford to lose
it.”
"Well, but colonel,” persisted the j
amateur soldier, “you might give me a ;
rough idea of the value.”
“About £200,” said the Colonel
testily.
“Very well,” was the answer. “I
will come down to the camp and give
you a check for the amount. Then I’ll
turn in. I wouldn’t catch my death of
cold for twice that much.”
What the colonel said is not re
corded.—Melbourne Times.
DADV UCDDIRI V R I IDMPn
By Boiling Grease—Skin All Came Off
One Side of Face and Head— >
Thought Her Disfigured for Life. j
Used Cuticura: No Scar Left.
“My baby was sitting beside the
fender and we were preparing the
breakfast when the frying-pan full of
boiling grease was upset and it went all
over one side of her face and head.
Some one wiped the scald with a
towel, pulling the entire skin off. We
took her to a doctor. He tended her
a week and gave me some stuff to put
on. But it all festered and I thought
the baby was disfigured for life. I
used about three boxes of Cuticura
Ointment and it was wonderful how
it healed. In about five weeks it was
better and there wasn’t a mark to tell
where the scald had been. Her skin
is just like velvet. Mrs. Hare, 1,
Henry St., South Shields, Durham,
England, March 22, 1908.”
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp., Solo Props., Boston.
A New Standard.
“I knew they were putting on airs.
They let on that their silverware was
all solid and now the whole world
knows it isn’t.”
“How did it come out?”
“Burglars broke into their house the
other night and didn’t take a thing.”—
Detroit Free Press.
Pneumonia and Consumption are al
ways preceded by an ordinary cold. Ham
lins Wizard Oil rubbed into the chest
draws out the inflammation, breaks up
the cold and prevents all serious trouble.
He Knew.
"My boy, do you know the nature
of an oath?”
"Yes, sir, we got a parrot.”—Ex
change.
Throat Trouble may follow a Cough, or
Hoarseness. “Brown’s Bronchial Troches’’
give relief. 25 cents a box. Samples free.
John I. Brown & Son, Boston. Mass.
A lazy man makes as much fuss
when he has a little job of work on
hand as an old hen does who is try
ing to raise one chick.
FILES Cl'RED IN O TO 14 DATS.
PAZO OINTMKNT is guaranteed to euro anv ease
of Itching. Blind. Bleeding or Protruding Piles in
G to 14 days or money refunded. 50o.
No life can be pure in its purpose
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Mrs. Winelow’s Soothing: Syrup.
For children teething, softens the gums, reduces In
flammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c a bottle.
An unbridled tongue is the worst of
diseases.—Euripides.
It Cures While You Walk
Allen's Foot-Blase for corns and bunions, hot, sweaty
callous aching feet. 25c all Druggists.
A man who n«eds advice is apt to
get the kind he doesn't want.
Itch cured in 30 minutes by Wool ford's
Sanitary Lotion. Never fails. At druggists.
Things past may be repented but
not recalled.—Livy.
MADE HIM 8IT UP.
quarreled with me!
Hubby—What will you do? Go home
to your mother, I suppose?
Wifie—No; I’ll bring mother here!
$100 Reward, $100.
The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn
hat there is at least one dreaded disease that snenee j
las been able to cure In all Its stages, and that Is ,
,’atarrh. Hall’s Catarrh Cure Is the only positive ;
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>eing a constitutional disease, requires a constitu- !
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emally. acting directly upon the blood and mucous 1
urfaces of the system, thereby destroying the ,
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trength by building up the constitution and assist- :
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io much faith in Its curative powers that they offer
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Address F. J. CHENEY CO.. Toledo. O
Sold by all Drugeists. 75c.
Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
His First Visit.
The wide check of his suit and his
monocle proclaimed his nationality
from afar. His first American ac
quaintance, met on the steamer, had j
supplied him with an immense amount j
of strange and wonderful information
about the United States.
"And since yon are an Englishman,”
it was explained, “every store will at
once charge you from five to ten times I
what they would ask an American.”
“Eh! What?" said the Britisher,
aghast, and then with a look of great
cunning: “But, my word! I shawn’t
tell them, don’t you know!”
Never Disappoints
“Many extensively advertised reme
dies are failures when put to the test.
Hunt's Lightning Oil is an exception.
Confidence in it is never misplaced—
disappointment never follows its use.
it is surely the greatest emergency
■emedy now obtainable. For cuts,
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know no equal.”
GEO. E. PADILCOK,
Doniphan, Mo.
Frocks and Personality.
The Englishwoman does not dilTusfc
enough personality into her clothes.
If she is tail and gaunt she chooses
severe tailor-made costumes and looks
like a clothes press. If she is small
she tilts on her enormous curled coif
fure, a monster hat and sews a gigan
tic Elizabethan frill into the neck of
her blouse.—London Bystander.
His Trouble.
Friend—Don’t worry because your
sweetheart has turned you down since
you lost your money. There are as
good fish in the sea as ever were
caught.
Jilted One—Yes, but I’ve lost my
bait.—Harper’s Bazar.
/ J 1 of this paper de
jKcducrs ,i!i"8io,buy
anything adver
tised in its columns should insist upon
having what they ask ior, refusing all
substitutes or imitations.
TEXAS STATE LAND
Millions of acres of school land to be sold by the
State. $1.UU to $5.00 per acre; only one-fortieth cash
and 40 years time on balance; three per cent inter
est: only $12.00 cash for 100 acres at fcl.OO per acre,
(ireatesf opportunity: good agricultural land: send
50 cents for Book of Inst ructionsand New State Law.
J. .1. Snyder. Schoo Lan * Locator. 190 9 h St.,
Austin. Tex. Reference. Austin National Bunk.
Discouraged?
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Wis., “and take that good medicine, Cardui, for your |
troubles.
“Before I commenced to take Cardui, I was so
sick and discouraged I thought I would never get
well, and did not care if I didn’t. I suffered terrible
pain, every month, and had displacement and other
female troubles.
“I took a lot of medicine before I could notice
j any difference, but now I feel better than in fourteen
| years. I have no more pain, the female trouble is
cured, and I am so well that I do all my own work,
milk six cows, night and morning, and wTash and cook |
for seven persons.”
The Woman s Tonic
GH 154
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' Celery, 100 Parsley.
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A Mad Rush.
Mexican—Big earthquake to-day.
American Tourist—Was there one? ;
It didn't notice it.
Mexican—Not you see zee people |
rush out from churches?
Tourist—Oh, yes, I saw that; but
I thought maybe the contribution box
was going 'round.—New York Weekly.
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iCan be handled very easily. The sick are cured, and all others la
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