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Bedding Sweet Potatoes A citizen asks for information about bedding sweet potatoes. About the first of March is the proper time. Prepare the bed bj throw ing out the earth a foot deep. Dig np the next layer and break it fine. Spread stable manure over the bot tom and a few cotton seed on top of that. Cover that with three inches of fine earth. Plaee the po tatoes on that as close as possible without letting them touch each other. Then oover with three or four inches of fine earth. The next thing is to cover them with plank so that rain water will /tot get in the bed. Get plank two or three feet longer than the bed and ele vate one end so that the water will be easily carried off. The potato will get moisture enough from the ground to aid ia the sprouting. The heat generated in the stable ma nure and cotton seed will bring about early sprouting. As soon as first, plants begin to appear take off the plank cover and let the bed take the rains. Often apparently sound potatoes rot after they are bedded. Sometimes the cause of that is the cold rains which fall in March. Covering the bed prevents all that. If you wait till the mid dle of April to bed potatoes you ?an smooth the top o? the ground with a rake, place the potatoes down and cover with fine earth abcut three inches deep. It will Dot be many days before they be gin to show above ground.-Spar enburg Journal. Are Your Premises Painted? Dr. North is a character in one of David Grayson's books and a good m my charming stories cente r about him. One of them worth passing on is as follows: "A neighborhood man by the name of Horace "tells how he once met the doctor driving his old white hor.43 in the town road." \HoraceV called the doctor, why don'i you paint your barn?' "'Well,' said Horace, 'it is be ginning to look a bit shabby.' '"Horace/ said the doctor, *you'ro a prominent citizen. We look to you to keep up the credit of the neighbor.1! >od.' "Horace panted his barn." 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TAKE Tho Woman's Tonic Cardui helps women in time of greatest need, because it contains ingredients which act specifically, yet gently, on the weakened womanly organs. So, if you feel discouraged, blue, out-of-sorts, unable to IS? do your household work, on " account of your condition, stop worrying and give Cardui s trial. It has helped thousands of women,-why tot you? Try Cardui. ?-71 BL* MNURE FOR CABBAGE Deep, Rich, Mellow Soil ls of Importance. Winter Variety I* Mostly Grown on Early Potato Ground-Hotbeds Are Prepared in February and Seed Sown in Frames. Cabbage likes a deep, rich, mellow soil. For summer cabbage, a mellow, sand loam will bring the earliest crop. The early June cabbage that ls shipped to the Baltimore markets is mostly, grown on the deep river bottom lands of the lower portion of Baltimore county, says the Baltimore American. A large portion of this cabbage is grown from night soil which, after fermentation, is sprinkled along the rows, just before the plants are set in the fall. If this fertilizer is thoroughly mixed through the soil it is said not to injure the quality of the cabbage. For the fall and winter cabbage crop, plant on deep, mellow, red clay soil. As the value of the cabbage is in large solid heads, the best fertilizer to use is that of rot ted manure from grain-fed horses and cattle, with the addition of 1,000 pounds of high grade vegetable guano sown to the acre and well har rowed In before planting. Winter cab bage is mostly grown on early potato ground. This land, being heavily dressed with fertilizer for the potato crop-not more than 600 to 800 pounds of fertilizer will be needed for each acre planted. The fertilizer ia nearly always sown in the drill. The drill rows are then covered in and the ridges rolled. Large growers now use the planter; the machine sets and waters each plant, very few plants fail to grow. Plants set by machine are better firmed in the ground than plants set by hand. The old method of starting early plants In the fall and wintering them in a cold frame has now bec. abandoned in favor of sowing the seed in a hot bed. The hotbeds are prepared in February and the seed sown in the frames by the middle of the month. When the plants are two inches in height they are transplanted into cold frames. The plants are given abun dance of air in the middle of the day, but well protected by glass and thick straw mats when the weather is cold and stormy. In the New England states early plants are raised in hot houses heated by hot water. Expert gardeners grow large quantities ol early and late cabbage for their retail trade. Truckers grow for the whole sale markets. Their principal crops are kale, spinach, tomatoes, corn and eggplants. HANGER F0H ALL BARN TOOLS Notches Cut in Board Afford Conveni ent and Safe Place for All Kinds of Implements. Means should be provided to have a place for all tools used in and about a barn. The forks and shov els are usually stood up in a corner, but they can be more conveniently taken care of by making a hanger foi them. The illustration, from Populai Mechanics, shows how a hanger can be easily made and screwed to thc wall of a barn. The hanger is cut from a piece ol board and has a hole bored into it the size of the handle on the fork oi Hangers for Barn Toole. shovel, then a notch is sawed Into the hole to pass the handle through. The board may contain one or aa many notches as there are forks and shov els to be hung on it The implements are hung with the fork or shovel end upward. Buckwheat Crops. No other crop will bring in better return in the northern states for the time it occupies the ground than buckwheat It is put In after the other cropB have been planted and are growing. It ls the best grain to lais;- to subdue a patch of trouble som- weeds and to starve out worms in th-1 soil. It comes handy to sow on v.tcant pieces of ground which have *'.\:en left because, too late to be sov. ;? to some other crop. It is a valuab; crop to plow under to enrich the soi! and give humus. Wheat Fertilizer. Phosphoric acid and potash gave a greater '.rofit per $1 invested in ferti lizer than complete fertilizer on both corn ami wheat in some Indiana ex p?riment* on clay and loam soils. Fertilizer ; ?ive a greater average pro fit per aero on wheat than on corn, and was profitable in a much larger percentage of the experiments. Seed Potatoes. In 13 comparisons on the Minnesota station farm new seed, from outside sources, gave an average increased yield of 125 bushels of potatoes to the acre more than seed from varieties continuously grown on the fana tor three to twelve years. OVERCOMING DRAFT ON SIDE Fou>Horae Evener Arranged So That No Horse Would Need to Walk on Plowed Ground. In reply to a query for an arrange ment of four-horse evener on plow so that no horse need walk on the plow ed ground the Farmers Call and Breeze prints the following. Many three-horse eveners do not overcome side draft. The power is so far to one side that the two horses push the tongue over against the one horse. Here is a remedy for any num ber of horses on one side of tongue and one horse on the other: Put the tongue hole, or pull pole, In evener so that the length of shorter end will be to the length of the longer r ?s ^ HW"1 DOTTED LINES SHOW EXTENSION. Explanation: Diagram shows evener for three horses. Dotted lines show how it would work if extended for five horses. m one in the proportion of 1 to 2, for three-horse evener. Or in the propor tion of 1 to 3 or 1 to 4 if you have a four or five horse evener. Fasten a chain from short end of evener to doubletree, which will be on opposite side, and run a chain from long end of evener to singletree. Put in push rods from center of power on either side to tongue, or if there is no tongue from center of one power to center of tho other power. START HORSE RADISH EARLY Make Soil Loose and at Least to Depth of Ten Inches-Work in Weil-Rotted Manure. (By R. G. WEATHERSTONE.) Horse radish should be started very early in the spring. It consists of one large root from which springs the crown and a large number of smaller roots. These roots.'small as a lead pencil, or larger, are cut off into lengths of from four to six inches and should be placed in the ground with the thick end up. The should be planted about three inches deep and tho soil above them pressed down firmly to prevent water from reaching them before they start to grow. Make the soil loose and at least a depth of ten inches. Work into it plenty of well-rotted manure.' . &?t horse radish in rows about three feet apart and at intervals of about 25 in ches. Then keep the weeds away from them and the top soil loose with fre quent cultivation. A row six feet long will supply a family with all it needs. The plant will be ready for use early in the fall and it makes its best growth then. It should be dug late in the fall after all other crops are off, the small root tops removed and stored in sand in the cellar or buried in pits In the ground until wanted for use. PREPARING FOR CLOVER CROP On Thin Soil lt Is Well to Break the Ground Preceding Spring-Grow Fertilizing Crops. If the aim is to get clover and grass on a thin soil it is often a good plan to break the ground the preceding spring and to grow a fertilizing crop during the summer that can be culti vated and then disked into the sur face soil. When cowpeas can be grown they are excellent for this pur pose. On very thin land I nave got ten the Onest clover aot? In this way. Expensive way? someone asks. Well, any way of covering thin soil with a heavy clover sod is not Inexpensive. I like the plan. The tillage kills weed Beeds and frees fertility. The vines are chopped in the surface before they become tough. The humus ls just where lt is needed, and the soil ls firm. If one prefers, rape may be sown the first of September, and then the land fitted for clover in the spring without the plow. Leave the vege table matter at the surface. Or, tim othy may be sown in the tall, and clo ver added in the spring. Or wheat may be seeded and eclover in the B pring. Maggots in Wounds. Should maggots get in the animal's wounds, kill the pests by a light ap plication of chloroform. After the wounds have been freed of maggots and made perfectly clean, apply freely a mixture of one dram of iodoform and six drams of boric acid, and re peat the application two or threo times a day. Farm Operations. The farm operations of the past year must have taught every thinking farmer some lessons that should be of value to him in tho future, if he win but reflect on them. It will pay to recall these experiences to memory. For Laying Hens. A splendid mixture for laying hens is evjual parts of cracked corn, wheat and oats, which should be scattered in the litter so that the birds will be compelled to take exercise by scratch ing for it. We have re< full stock of Spri COI to call and inspe We are showi est stvles in all m Nothing Betti DORN & MIM? $17.39 Individual Fare Washin Som PRE ACCOUN OF Presid Tickets on sale Fi ing to reach original s( limit of individual (no ally depositing same w Washington, D. C. no' fee of (?1.00) per ticke ti on H on either going o provided however, sucl ticket. The Sout Lv. Edgefield.. Ar. Washington Leave Trenton Arrive Washington Electrically Lighte -For detail A. H. Acker, TPA., W. E. Mc Augusta, Ga. E. H. 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