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A Short Lesson on Budding. A letter which comes from Wis cousin makes inquiries abut blud: ding. The inguirer wishes to know whether the buds that are inaserted should be taken from old or new wood. They are invaria-1 bly taken from new growth. The twig is cut off during the growing season, late in the summer or early in the fall, when buds are ripe or mature. If budding is done in the spring the twigs must~ be kept in the cellar or other cool place for use when re quired. The bud is iemoved with a piece of bark, which is a little oblong, and carries a portion of wood. and tic :e are inserted directly on the cambrian Lver. The slit that is made is of vari ons styles. Generally the wound is caused by two incisions, one vertical and the other crosswise. These must only extend through the bark. The vertical slit should be from an inch to an inch and a half long; the cross cut should be only enough to allow the lifting of the corners of the bark, when loosened by the end of the blade or the handle of the budding knife. The bud is now inserted and pushed snugly down by the fingers. The whole of the shield, that is, the bud and the wood that attaches to it, should enter the cleft. If possible do the work when the bark peels easily, so as to let the bud in more freely. Tying is done with slips of inside boxwood bark or with yarn or carpet warps. Any soft twine or cord will do. Nurserymen use an imported material, which is not necessary. The tying draws the lifted bark closely arored the bud, and should remain until ad hesion is made. This should take place in about three weeks, perhap- less. Then draw a sharp knife across the cords so that the growth of the bud is not' checked, or preveoted altogether. If budding is done near the roots care must be taken that sprouts do not take the vitality of the stem. This sort of budding is done on. two-year stocks, as a rule. Early summer budding is done on apple trees and some other fruit trees, with buds cut the previous fall and winter and kept in an icehouse in sawdust. There a- different styles of bud ding not\ -,sary to repeat here. Only reme that the form of th~e cut whiu aeceives the bud ~. can be varie~ to suit the judg ment-of the budder I have seen lle workmen make two up -- ~~~~ ne mTarre----n a flap of the bark is lifted above and one' below.-E. P. Powell, in New York Tribune Farmer. Look Pleasant, Please. NPhotographer C. C. Harlan, of Faton, 0., can do so now, though for years he couldn't, because he suffered untold agony from the worst~ form of indigestion. All physiclians and mediciues failed to help him till he triedi Electric Bitters, which worked such won ders for him that lie declares they are a godsend to sufferers from dyspepsia a'nd stompehi troubles. Unrivaled for diseases of the Stomach, Liver and Kidnfeys, they build up and give new life to the whole system. Try them. Oiily Co., druggists. After the primary somae of the candidates, no doubt, .will be found in the predicament of the Fox and the Farm Bell. The farmer shad been missing his * ~ chickens in a C.>Op under the belhl, and he determined t.> eatch up with the mid night u.urana ler, so lie set a steel trap :an Id mi i to: - the rop. w ih r:m: t':e s Duringr the~ night the fo'x ane. it was exp-ecal hi' au1 i d, a was c sugiia i, the er. an I eveer timi- Ii: h bell wo1'.d riine- - struggled tio mcre t r - ring.. Finially I 'e gave ai vie wing is surton !jJi s - the bell, an! exm1 are von, any'ia? Y'' darned bi. m'oth, a lon.. to . * K ~make a bi-li of a 'fna' and - - ing done." So it will I e ni h somne of our caudidates. Th--y will stand on the var i nj pat forms at the campaign meetings, make a h-il of a fuss andU~ noth 4 ing done. Not 1 eing a prophet nor the son of- a prophet we will not predict who they will be. Ex. ChIambi erlain' s ( oli, (iCler nud( Diarrhuea l('eme.dy has a world w ide reputation for its eures. It never fails .and is pleatsant and sa''e to take. lFor sdle by McMaster Co. pThle N-ws and Herald oflic' * is fully quipped for doing all kinds of job printing. A Medicine f Old Peopi Rev. Geo. Gay, Greenwich, Kas., past 83 years of age, yet he says: am enjoying excellent health for a man cf my age,d ue entirely to the rejucn ating iniucnces cf Dr. ics' Iervine. It brings sleep and rest whcn nothin" else will, and gives strength and vital ity even to one cf my old age." "I am an old soldier." writes Mr. Gco. Watson, of Newton, Ia., "and I have been a great sufferer from nervousness, vertigo and spinal trouble. Have spent considerable money for medicine and doctors, but with little bcnefit. I was so bad my mind showed signs of weak ness. I began taking Dr. Miles'Nervine, and I know it saved my life." me. Nervine S ved me from the insane asy luni," Mrs. A. M. Heifner, of Jerico Springs, Mo., writes. "I was so nerv ots that I could scarcely control my self, could not sleep nor rest, would even forget the names of my own children at times. I commenced using Dr. Miles' Nervine and it helped me from the first, and now I am perfectly well." ecid by a!1 Druggists on Guarantee. Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind. Southern Seed the Best. The opinion obtains very gen erally among truck farmers in the South that Northern grown seed must be planted to insure the best and biggest crops, but it ap. pears to be an enormous one ac cording to a bulletin just issued by the Louisiana experiment station, the substance of whicli is quoted by the New Orleans Picayune. The facts reported, says that paper, are based on a series o0 experiments carried. on durin the last four years at the three Louisiana stations, and "covering almost every imaginable vegeta r) I -N ble and fruit grown in or suitable to this section." The results have "definitely proved that not only is the home grown seed bet ter in actual yield than that grown in the East or North, but thai there is much less risk of failure to the .farmer through climatic conditions." Of the many vegetables and truck farmers, the Irish potato, may be mentioned to show the merits of the claims of Dr. Stubbs and his associates. Of 110 varie ties of this vegetable grown from home-raised seed the average yield was 51 bushels to the acre, with a maximum yield of 143 busbe'ls to the acre. From ten varieties of Eastern seed an aver age vield of 42 bushels was ob tained; from fourteen varieties of Northern seed, 35 bushels; from fifteen varieties of Virginia seed, .56 bushels; from two varieties of Geo:gia seed, 60 bushels, and from fourteen varieties of seeri raised atbth Calhoun station, 70 bushels. The highest average vield was from potatoes grown in the light, sandy soil of Calhoun, which was 118 bushels per acre The next was the seed raised at Baton Rodage, 97 bushels per acre, then Virgiqia-grown seed, with 90.5 bushels, followed by Eastern "eed, 82 5 bushels,'Georgia, 8( bushels, and Northern, 62j bush els. Many of the varieties in cluded in the 110 home-raised, given above, were never very productive, and hnelowered the general average greatly. The Georgia varieties were received one year too late to make a large crop, and hence this loss lowers the general average materially or account of small number of vari eties. These, says the Picayune, are only a few of the many important facts presented in the bulletins, which should be in the hands of every truck farmer and horti culturist in Louisiana. It is printed, of cour.-e, for the benefit of the farmers of that State, but we have no doubt can be obtained by application to one of the sta tions.-News and Courier. It Needs a Tonic. There are times when your needs a tonie. Don't gi -e pur that gripe and weaken .Ii-Wit tle Early Risers expel all poi' the system and act as tonic to W. Scott, 531 Highland ave. Pa., says: "I have carried Little Early Risers with me' v-ears and would not he wiit 'Smll and easy to take. table. They never grip McMaster Co. iSubscribe and HItrald. Some of t, zes by the Estab!ishient of btton Seed Oil Mills. Nit iumi atuin industry stands 70 Close ti th" farm, as the cotton seed did msils. T'hi int rt-st of the twC art- muatual u i: ' h:.irble. A very largc pIrt of ti p1:--ucts of the oil mills is nw u to the farm and Practieny all ;f it In some form ean be utiliz,1'. The mill r ea prfitable market for the surplu d and returns the ieroduct to , with greatly enhanced vatlu'e i a nnishtd condition. Wile t r r pai rt of the business betw een the ili and the farmer is conducted on a, b-mi of barter and ex chang, it doe's not actually differ much in results; froi the toll system of the corn mill. The oil mill purchases the seed in the open markeI' and sells its products in the same way, but ultimately, all of the hulls and inial should get back to the farms from which the seed were shipped. While this is now the result in many cases, It is not as common or general as the practice should be. Ev ery pound of these two products pro duced in the South should be returned to the land, eitht-r as fertilizer ap plied direct, or stock feed, the latter much to be preferred, as their value in that way is immensely increased. About is6u a cotton seed oil mill was established at Columbia, S. C. The historian of the time only considered it of suqlcient importance to congratu late the "public-spirited" citizen who had enterprise enough to establish the business, but did make the further comuinent that the owner "expressed from cotton seed a very fair grade of edible oil." No further reference is made to this beginning of the busi ness. and it can only be inferred that the improper handling of the product, or the prejudices of the people against this "edible oil," prevented it from be ing successful. In 1SCO Aldigee found thousands of tons of seed dumped on the commons, and pl!aced unuer guard to prevent the cows' from Eating them, as they were regarded as poisonous to cattle. From such conditions has grown a magnificent inaastry that has added millions to the value of Southern farms. increased the traffic of the rail roads, established an immense foreign trade with this country, ear ed fair returns for its promoters, whiYe giving employment to~thousands of men at remunerative wages, many ,of whom otherwise would be idle at the season when their work Is required at the mills. In all of this development the gr-eat est benefits have been derived by the farmers. The mills have taken the seed which prior to their establishment, were either lost entirely or wastefully used, and converted them into valuable products, easily and economically handled, resulting in the cheaper pro duction of crops, and increased yields per acre. Raising and fattening cattle has been one of the interesting features of this development. The fattening of cattle In the South for market, outside, per ha ps, of the Texas ranges, was un kn6wn before the extensive use of cot tqp seed hulls and meal. At present, almost every neighborhood is raising a few head of cattle for the butcher on this feed, and in many sections, numbers of cattle are being fattened in this way. As this business Increases it will be followed by the e ection of packing houses in the Sout with all the advantages of such industries. Any land-owner can make fattening 4zattle profitable. It has been chemi cally demonstrated, sustained by prac tical tests that the droppings from cat tle fed on cotton seed meal is equal in feeding value to the meal Itself applied directly to the land. No other feed has any such comparative$ value. When this is considered, the immense benefits accrue, but when the abDuna ance and cheapness of hulls is consid ered, and their value to the farmer and feeder recognized, some idea is giver of the splendid work And advan tageA the other mills have accom plished towards the . development of Southern agriculture. In almost any' season, regardless of the price of seed and products, the mills of the Southern Cottot Oil Mill Company of the Carolinas ar,1 Geor'gia will give hack to the farmers all of the meil and hplls produced from the seed in exchange for the seed, reservig only the oil, and small amount of short lint to cover transp)ortation charges, cost of working, interest on investment and profits. No more liberal division of the profits betwveen manufacturers and consumer has ever been accom plished. It makes the business co operati' e, returning to the farmer all that is of any' value to him, in a great ly improved condition, and consequent ly greatly increased in value, and leaving with the mill only that part of the seed universally regarded as de trimental in its natural condition, either as a feed or fertilizer, from which the mill must realize all of ifs exenses. including ,cost of working. The oil is converted at the refineries ir Savannah into pure and whole sore sustitutes for lard, known as "Palmatina" and "Snowdrift," and Is givi.n back to the consumers' table as a delicacyi at a low price, or as a pure cooking oil, as Wesson Cooking Oil. The refuse or waste from the refined oil is -made into a soap, and sold back at a cost that places it in the reach of the poorest. The lint is made Into uilts. pillows and mattresses and sold at a price that makes 1' possible for the bed-rooms of the hun..>lest cottage o be ccamfortably furnished. In buying or raising cattle to be fat tened (in hulls and meal, every ,.ffort sho'uld be made to secure good beef producin'g ibreeds. A prominent and successful packer is authority for the statement that the improved breeds will sell on foot for three times as much as the common stock. The cons-umption of beef in the South f exceeds any previous period. It <hb n-ft by home production If Sutherin farmers will use all the hulls "na r'eal innde by the oil mills, with out drawing, on the West. At present .- ahiut oine-fourth of the cotton d meail is consumed where it Is pro duced for feeding and fertilizing crops, t-he bl-nce finding a market either in Europ-ee or~ in the Eastern or Western PTe cotton oil industry has been de~ veloped when it was most needed l~y the people of the South. especially by the Southern Cotton Oil Company, which ha~s mills throtughout the South and general headquarters at Columbia, S. C..,(Goldshero, N. C.. Charlotte, li. C., Atlanta. Ga., and Savannah and Augusta, Ga Its only dirm'er Is in being over-done. It s-':uld get to such proportions as to hive the crush ing capa-city run ahead of the produc ton of se ed, or the production of oil icrease fasoter than the consumption. the results would be disastrous both to the mitl owners, and to the farmers. It is a business reouiring a high order of comme'rcial intelligence for its suc cesfuil con'tinuane. and it is manifest lv to the intr-rests of the manufacturer in o the fart i'-r to keep it well with in reasonable bound.. f' . Thle heA phyiej - (Chamberlain'r StomachI and ive-r Tablets. Ea.'sy tc tak.a- ii13-mi inl cflc't Fior il hv fli ne into the su in the p too heav cafe itsel perishes. 150 to 200 of about 70 can destroy th is necessary th. act in conceit to riddance of this best known as shooter." I All Were S "For years I snffe, told miser from writes J. H. Johnston. ton, Ga., "that often I w to work. 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