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?? 7~J? SOUTHERN ?/ d? r>.( TOPICS OF INTEREST TO THE PLAN! ?ome Tree* For tho South. In a lot tor from Rhea Hayne. of Georgia. the subject of planting trees Is discussed aud ho gives the experience' of sonic who have been trying it. lie says: Very lew people have any desire to put out young trees, and the average Georgia farmer who has such a ten <lency puts his every energy to xne task of setting: out fruit trees alone? generally poaches?but in my observations I have noted a case in particular In which trees other than fruit trees figured conspicuously. In this instance the person 111 question became tiie possessor or a piece of land that might be considered poor property by some. On the place were several old fields, apparently barren, with here and there a scrubby bush. The new owner devoted his attention to bringing up these old fields partly with leguminous plants and partly by planting out trees. By many the tree planting was considered a fad in connection with other so-called eccentric experiments, lint as It was not expensive to me. 1 watched the result. On a poor "red pall" a few young China berry trees were put out In the depressions where some fertile soil bad accumulated, and these trees grew rapidly and spread out over practically the entire plot. The luxuriant foliage when shed caught up in piles, an<>the washing of the soil (or simply the earth) was stayed, and In a remarkably short space of years the land was in condition to cultivate with profit The China berry tree is a rapid wood producer, is easily destroyed, ond Is certainly a good thing to bring up rolling land in the South. One of the ideal inexpensive trees that will grow on the poorest lands is the persimmon, and aside from building up land, they are valuable in two Tespects at least. The trees begin bearing at two or three years of age, ?nd the fruit is a great food for hogs, beginning to ripen when nutuuin leave.* begin to fall, and continuing until Ions after frost and freezes. Given a sufif cient quantity, hogs fatten quickly ant relish the food. But'the greatest benefit that can be derived from the persimmon tree is ir the sale of the wood. I understand the wood brings a big price, it beln^ used extensively in making six ols foi the factories and for various other pur poses. Of one thing I am certain, and that Is the wood brings a big price lr the markets. These two trees, I sup pose, indigenous to all our Southern country, and are Inexpensive so far as procuring seed or trees is concerned. Another equally inexpensive tree If the black walnut, but I've never seer them grow very large, except on ricl: lands. "Wherever an idle piece of fer tile land Is found, this tree might bf found profitable, as lx>th the nuts and the timber are valuable, there being bm rew woods selling as wen as uiuea walnut timber. The study of forestry Is becoming ?i necessary one all over the country, and to give any thing in the way of an out line would take much time and space Howerer, where many trees are If be planted. It is well to go to some ex pense and plant trees that will yield a big return. One case that has come under my observation proves conclusively that it Is true. It was the first experiment with pecans and English walnuts (Maderia nuts* ever made In this section, and I watched the progress of the grove with interest, as thr owner was a friend of mine. The very best nuts were procured and planted with care, and to-day several trees arc bearing and have more than paid for the extra cost And, at no extra trouble hereafter, they will give larger returns. Many object to planting apple tiees becanse they are many years In coming to the fruiting stage, and for this reason many more object to planting pecans, etc.. but this is fast being overcome by demonstrative arguments as to the tinal result. Be it cedar, apple, pear, pecan, walnut or persimmon that you put out. <lo It with care as to distance and outline, and your labors will show the work of art and nature beautifully combined, and now is the time to start the work. Itnls? Irish PotatoesIt Is extremely seldom that potatoes do not bring a good price in any part of the South. To a few who have studied the best methods of raising them thev have been very profitable. H. B. Mitchell, of Athens, (Ja.. gives his way of raising potatoes as follows: If possible, potatoes should follow peas or closer, as these crops'not only afford nitrogen, but their roots also furnish hpmus, rendering the soil loose and friable and retaining moisture, which is so essential to success in growing this crop. The ground should be broken deep the previous fall and slightly ridded in order that the action of freezes may pulverize it in better shape. As early in the spring as danger of frost is past, rehreak ground, lay off rows with turning plow, running twice (once each way) In each of Minor rientlon. Thirteen persons were killed and a score injured in a railway accident at Glasgow on July 27. The statistics of railroad management in Great Britain indicate that it is less perilous to travel by rail in that country than in this, hut accidents of the kind above referred to will deepen the Impression that absolute safety is no more to be looked for in the United Kingdom than in the United States by those who journey in cars. f J\ :ARM /VOTES. fj g)-q?? PER, STOCKMAN AND TRUCK GROWER. I vf thoni. "Elien with hand shovel clean | out the rows, carefully laying the dirt , on either side, till hard or unbroken j soil has been reached, usually about ten inches deep. Place potatoes one j foot apart in centre of these trenches j and with hoe or rake cover about three inches deep. Scatter what fer- j tilizcr you intend for theiu in the rows j ! upon this covering. .\c.\i mi m-uiura level full of line litter, strewed In lightly?wheat, chaff, pine, straw, leaves, or even chopped straw will do. | Let remain in this shape until potatoes get a little above the top of the litter, then pull in more dirt around them. As they grow, continue to work the dirt to them, till the surface of patch is level, after which cultivate otice and then mulch the ground heavily with any- trash or litter that will lie compact. so as to retard evaporation. In a few weeks there will be an abundance of early potatoes at the surface of thp ground that may be obtained by simply removing a little of the mulch around the hills. The potatoes will he larger and more of them than where planted the usual way. while, if the year be exceptionally dry, so as to ' cause the main crop, to fail wholly, or in part, there will always be found tine ones here. Although the trench system entails too much work for field crops in general. It is highly practical and will pay well for the kitchen garden. One year. I remember, we had I twenty-two bushels of fine marketables over from a piece of land measuring 1 20x1*0 feet, or at the rate of considerably more than five hundred bustieis ' per acre. As soon as the potatoes are dug the 1 old rows make an ideal piaee for i some of the earlier varieties of turnips. Rake off the trash immediately on top ? of the not a to rows, leaving the mulch i between tbem. Drill the seed in j . lightly. When three iwhes high, thin . to one plant every six Inches. The : leaves of those pulled out may he util' ized by boiling and serving on the tnl?> as greens?here known as turnip salad I ?a dish highly relished by many. One is almost sure o<" obtaining a per' f^ct stand, provided the seed be good, i no matter how hot or dry the weather. I the mulch keeping the adjacent ground > cool and damp. At ilnie of thinning a ' light working with wheel-hoe may he given if deemed advisable, though this I is rarely necessary. The turnips, like i the potatoes, will grow in a manner unapproachable by those of the Cold. Weeds and Cucumbers. I have had some difficulty in the ' A ? ? ?? - *? ' ? " ? vtlnAn !? OfAAcl ( past 10 KCCp CUCUUlua uuca iu ^uuu t shape. This year I tried two little cxporl, ments which I would like to give an I account of. 1. I have always tried to keep my ' patches clean of weeds. This is a mistake. This year I kept the weeds ( down in a portion of ray patches of I melons and cucumbers, while in the other they were allowed to grow. Itesult: The weeds held moisture, and i | the vines among them did not burn nearly as had as those kept clean. 2. By the side of each vine which was not protected from the sun I j placed a two-gnilon keg of water, and k then let a rag string about an inch wide hang down its side, by which the ( water would drip on the toots. This is a perpetual fountain, and preserves the vines comparatively green even in j the hottest weather. Weeds have a mission.?Tennessee Farmer. Smtr Moutli In riR?. At this season of the year pigs are . liable to suffer front an annoying . disease which passes under the name j of sorf mouth. An examination will often nwcnl pocket-shaped sores on tiie jaws filled with yellowish dry . matter. Perhaps as simple a way n? any of j dealing with it is first to clean out ; these sores thoroughly, then apply some disinfectant. Hydrogen peroxide has proven quite effective. It can be bought at any drug store and drooped in with a little glass drop syringe. Ton cents' worth with five <V?t? ?t drnnnor will bo sufficient to test the value or this remedy. A man can't afford to spend a good many I times ton cents to save a pig just now.?Wallace Farmer. Wheat v*. Gapes. I have come to the conclusion that grain food may he a cure for gapes. Kfcause why: I have a gang of monthold chickens. Two of them had the gapes badly, moping around, gaping ; and never uttering any cry. I had been feeding wet corn-meal and cornbread. Then I changed the food to wheat?and in three days both chickens were well. Did the grain cut something out of their throats? They efy now. but the noise is something like that made by a young turkey, convincing me that their throats were affected instead of the windpipe.?Tennessee Farmer. News of the Day. When the world's supply of coal is exhausted, which is not a matter or immediate worry, the eucalyptus tree may be grown as a substitute. This eucalytus stores up more of the sun's energy than any other tree, (1 per cent of that received on the unit of area,) and in South Africa it has been found cheaper to raise it than to import coal. An acre of eucalyptus plantation will produce each year the equivalent of thirty tons of coal. J J.................................. I iGOOD 9 i ! ? ROADS.:, * ; Kn^iiUf* of Mud Slinuld Vnltf. igj] Ifgj] XE great reason for the cSILj prevalence of bad roads j I I throughout the I'niced j?. States is lack of agreeiDl l=e nieut and united action among the advocates of improvement. Everybody prefers good roads to had. Everybody knows that the roads can be improved oniy by the expenditure of money and labor. But here the agreement end?. There is a great variety of ideas and schemes for securing the desired object. There is 110 end of discussion, but very little is accomplished. Some people would rather travel through tuud than to have the roads improved by any other plan than their own "pet scheme." Thus road reformers themselves sometimes actually hinder the cause to which they are devoted. If the roads of the country arc to be made good withiv the lifetime of the present generation it is high time the advocates of good roads should unite in support of a few general propositions. and go to work in favor of a general plan. If a national good roads movement ever gets started nothing can stop it. It will sweep everything before it. But the difficulty is fo get it , started. | One great advantage possessed by ( I the national aid plan, which is now be- ( coining so popular, is that it is general instead of sectional or local. It is , j broad as the whole country. It can , I i>?-in?r intn harmonious united action , the friends of pood roads in every j State, and it is the only plan yet pro- ( posed (hat can do this. j The friends of national aid will make a mistake if they undertake to work out details in advance. They will disagree among themselves and give objections every advantage. They should go to work for the general principle . and leave details to he worked out later. This was the plan of action adopted by Gladstone. When his opponents asked for details of any groat I reform which lie advocated Gladstone would answer: "There will lie time enough to work out the details when we get the power." The- advocates of national aid will do well to emulate , the example of this great English statesman. They should organize everywhere and tight for the principle, leaving details 10 be worked out in due time. I.orj*l Iloiul Knlldinr, The old-fashioned theory was that each local community should build and maintain its own roads. If it i made good roads, its people had the benefit of them, and if they wore had, they suffered accordingly. Strangers passing through faroil well or ill precisely as the residents along the line. But we are.changing all that. Travelers in steaih carriages want better roads than most rural communities care to build, and owners of inaccessible. unsettled lands want roads built for them. In several Eastern States the State now pays one-third the cost of constructing or reconstructing roads when built according to specifications prepared by a Staie engineer, tlie local I community, of course, caring for thorn ! when built. At the last election the people of California, in a fit of unparalleled stupidity, adopted a constitutional amendment permitting State road building on a scale unheard of before, we presume, In any community, civilT-nrloi. ilinf nniPlid ized or uiH-iviujitu. 11?cut the Legislature may build roads all over the State, paying.therefor entirely from the State treasury, and not only build them, but maintain them forever. Of course the Legislature will not Imifd roads everywhere, but only in those plaees possessing the strongest pull. Large land owners, who are to be benefited, will probably raise funds to buy votes hi the Legislature. or members will trade votes with each other, and so make two roads I grow where only one grew before. Since that is what the peopte wanted, and voted for. it is. of course, all right, but it is a curious taste. Now comes Congressman C. P. Brownlow. of Tennessee. who introduced in the late Congress a bill creating a full "bureau of public roads." with an appropriation , of $7."?.000 for salaries and expenses, I thn I I and JJIiU.UUU.UW lor V.m. ....... cost of "pood roails" in different States , and Territories, the amount available to any State to be in the ratio of its population The State or local district applying pays the other half of the j J cost. This bill was never reported from committee, but will be reintro- j duccd In the next Congress.?San Fran-1: cisco Chronicle. J Rotdl of the Hawaiian Inland*. To Americans and English jointly are due the superb roads of Onhu and its sister Hawaiian Islands. They are wide, level and well rolled. The material of the bed is red clay and decomposed lava rock. Where the route is over meadow land or arable soil there are evidences of a pood stone foumla- J tion. When a stream or rivulet is crossed a bridge, viaduct or masonry ( arch is employed. When the way is j on a hillside the bed is well rounded, I guttered auu suppueu wim mmus w carry the gutter water harmlessly un- j tier the road to the continuation of the slope. When the path is cut on a steep mountain side, a substantial wall or stout fence prevents any accidentally ; falling off. Many of the roads are J green tunnels. Nature has been lavish j with her vegetable treasures; palms and other noble trees grow almost everywhere. Where she has been niggardly man has made up for the defl- ! ciency. Madison Square Garden, New York I City, paid expenses last year, for the J tirst time since it tvaa built . - . I THE SALf Compelled to Be on Hei of the Day Finds a Hiss Curtain, of St. M ISS street, St. Paul, Minn., head sales- j woman in a department store, writes: "J have charge of a department In a dry goods store, and after standing the larger part of the day, I would jo home with a dull ache, genera lly through my entire body. 1 used fe- 1 runa and feel so much better that 1 ' walk to an-l from the store now. , 1 know Peranato be the best medicine ?n the market for the diseases pec ullar to women. "?Miss Nellie Curtain. Nothing is so weakening to the human ! system as the constant loss of mucus. Catarrhal inflammation of the mucous membrane produces an excessive formation of mucus. Whethar the mucous membrane be wwg/ fefilRIFLE ?-p,s' || " It's the shots that || I! Rifle and Pistol Cart s^oot accurately r/ yfl trating blow. This is tf *J i " V? if you insist on having ' f "*?y att~ dealers sell wi; None can surpass the devil in orthodoxy. I'm Allen's Foot-K??r. It is the only cure for Swollen, Smarting, Tired, Aching, Hot, Sweeting Feet,Corns and Eunions. Ask for Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken into the shoes. Cures while you walk. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores. 25c. Don't accept any substitute. Sample sent Feie. Addross^Aiien K. Olmsted, Leltoy, N.Tf. An ecu is waylaid when the hen steals a nest by the roadside. Wiaslo w's SoothlogSyrup for ohlldrsi teething,soften tlio gums, reduces inflatnmntion.aUuys pain,cures wind colic. 25c. abottle To boast of one's honesty doc3r.'i alwr.y* prove it. Beware. O friend, when doubts assail thy mind. When dark the way before, Remember to be doubly kind To those of le.MK.-r store If they believe, what'er it be. Try not to prove It wrong:. Think how their love has made them free, Their faith has made them strong! And thinking thus how others fare. Upheld by simple creeds. Of thine own unbelief beware Lest It shall curb thy deeds. For better 'tis to wish life well, To help each brother man, Than to dispute o'er heaven or hc!l. Or frame a better plan. % We do not know, we can not tell. The way that lies ahead, Not one who knows futurity. Not one by wisuom ieci. The humblest faith may far outreach Proud reason's highest call. And In Its gentle service teaoh, To love is best of all. ?Charles W. Stevenson. It Would Seem So. Wife?"I was surprised to learn that Mr. Oldsmith had taken umo himself a wife after three score years of single blessedness." Husband?"Well, the old adage is atill working. A man never gets too old to learn." Traveling Batlis. Traveling baths ou one of the Russian railways are the latest provision tor its employes' comfort in the outlying districts. Lost Hah\ "'My hair came out by the handful, and the gray hairs began to creep in. I tried Aycr's Hair Vigor, and it stopped the'hair from coming out and restored the color."? Mrs.M.D.Gray, No.Salem,Mass. I There's a pleasure in I offering such a prepara-1 tion as AyePs Hair Vigor. 8 It gives to all who use it I such satisfaction. The 9 hair becomes thicker, 8 longer, softer, and more I glossy. And you feel so ? , (secure iii using such an I old and'reliable preparation. $1.09 Mile. Ail irafgirts. 11 your druggist cannot suuply you, send us one donar and we will express you a bottle. Bo sure and giTe the namo at your nearest express office. Address, I J. G. AY^E CO., Lowell. Maes. I ggmBHHBKnOBHHKSnnBSEmBS B WOMAN r Feet the Larger Part i Tonic in Peruna. located in the head or pelvic organs, the discharge of mucus i.. sure to occur. This discharge of mucus constitutes a weakening drain; the system cannot long withstand the loss of mucus, hence it is that women afflicted with catarrhal affections of the pelvic organs feel tired and % 1 ?"'' 1- V.. ?1- <* *>! e? languia, wnn weas u>.c&. a.>u vu*vw._B brain. A course of Peruna is sure to restore health by cutting off the weakening drain of the dally loss of mucus. An Admirable Tonic. Congressman Mark H. Dunnell, National Hotel, Washington, D. C., writes: "Your Peruna being used by mvself and many of my friends and acquaintances, not only as a cure for catarrh out also as an admirable tonic for" physical recuperation, I gladly recommend .t :o all persons requiring such remedies." ? Mark H. Dunnell. If you do not derive prompt and satisfactory resultR from the use of Peruna. write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case and he will oe pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio. j rOL CARTRIDGES. hit tiiat count. " Winchester ridges in all calibers hit, that is, and strike a good, hard, peneic kind of cartridges you will get, the time-tried Winchester make. fICHESTER MAKE OF CARTRIDGES. 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