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Agricultural Sowing Spring Oats. The Progressive Farmer. A wise rotation, a gradual dpepeninir of the soil. and sowing ' "I small gram is the foundation of successful farming. The best time to sow oats is October 15th to December 1st. There are no oats that are specifically Winter or Spring oats. Some varieties are more easily killed by cold than others. All, even the hardiest, areolten killed when sown broadcast or put in with a wheat drill. The tenderest will stand the hardest winter if put in withal drill in the open furrows. These' ore general principles. Now, there is not enough small grain ! hown in all the cotton counties to inaugurate a desirable rotative system. Since the middle of December the plows have been standing still on account of rain. Let every farmer sow all his spare land in oats. lie has until the 10th of March to do this work. The sooner it is done the better, provided the ground is dry enough to break and harrow. If you wish a good yield of heavy grain, sow the Appier or Red Rust Proof, Southern grown seed. The Brest or ninety-day oats are the earliest and well suited for bot'om land, for they will come off the first week of June, in time for a corn crop. The Georgia Grazing oats and other similar VMfiptina m O l/o rnnnh lv.?? T .,..v. tv0 luunu uiUUli OllU" j UUl the grain is light. The advantage of planting the early varieties is that they will ripen June 5th to 15th, giving tiuie enough to kow cowpeas. Land that, with the aid ot 200 to 300 pounds of fertilizer to the acre, will make 1.000 pounds of seed cotton, will make 25 to 30 bushels of oats and a ton and a halt ot peaviue hay. The cost of the two crops will be about half the cost of a cotton crop. Do not use ammoniated fertilizers with oats, but if nitrogen is wanting apply 50 to 1>0 pounds of nitrate of soda, March 20th to April 15th, and run a smoothing harrow over the land so as to cultivate the oats and level the ridges. Mix 000 pounds of 14 per cent acid and 400 pounds of Kainit and apply 3 50 to 300 pounds to tLe acre with the oats. It is better to I Mit 300 pounds, for the peas will jd all that is not required by oats. We have found the t drill eminently satisfacA lively hand can put in res a day with that, the oing 12 to 15 inches apart. iav be other drills on the as good. Some of these manufacturer may make o-norse urin mat will plant rows at a time. Such a I'fUshine would require smooth and free of stalks, stones and stumps. Charles Petty. Spartanburg Co., S. C. How to Keep Sweet Potatoes. Progressive Farmer. First, build a 6olid brick foundation for a house something like UO feet wide and as long as you Department. need it. Have a space in your foundation at front door aud back door. Build tlie house 7 teet between joints ; use 2x10 for studdiug ; wemner ooara oil outsiue %ai?a sesil inside and fill in with dry sawdust which will make a 12 inch wall that will keep the potatoes from freezing in cold weather; use 2xl2>inch sleepers and have an air-tight floor in passage and stalls, on either side of passage make the floor in the stalls of 1x3 and leave 1-inch cracks between the strips. You can dump your potatoes into these stalls and the air will come under the 11 >or at the door and whip around and cotne up through the potatoes. Make a loft as tight, as you can well get it and cover that with sawdust .. 1 i ... ? anu nave a six men ventilator every fifteen feet and one or two larger ventilators through the roof. If you dig in a very wet time and the potatoes are full of sap, place a heater in your passage ani a thermometer to keep from getting the house too warm 'and dry the potatoes out. ^ When the weather is very cold stop this opening under the door.fQ Mr. Editor, I am a reader of the Cultivator and enjoy it and seeing some inquiry about keeping potatoes, I give this plan hoping that it may do some one some good. Yours truly, G. T. S. Calypso, N. C. Attacked. Says Mrs. Nancy Stoddard of Fountain inn, : ?. 1 was attacked by that terrible monster you call Rheumatism. OUK NEW DISCOVERY was recommended to me by our druggist, and after taking two bottles, that great monster of trouble und suffering was forced to take its flight. I gladly recommend it to any suffering with Kheuiuaisiu. Nold by Crawford Bros. Stock Food Swindle. Wheat Bran, Etc., Flavored and Scented and Sold at From $200 to $2,000 a Ton. The Raleigh Progressive Farmer sounds a note of warning to the fanners of the South about what it calls the stock food swindle. It says that one of the most outrageous frauds now being perpetrated upon the Ameri can tanner is that of prepared stock foods?common meal, bran, etc., with a little cheap sulphur, salt, Epsom salts, popper, salt peter, etc., added to change the taste, and the mixture (hardly more valuable than ordinary ship stuff) put up iu ilaming packages, advertised in big illus trated adH in farm papers, and sold to gullible farmers at from $250 to 2,500 a ton." The Pro gressive Farmer says further, that some time ago, the chief Southern contributor of one of the farm papers most largely circulated in North Carolina and adjoining States, wrote an ex po.-ure of the whole miserable fraud and sent, it to his paper. "The reply came back: The Blank Stock Food Company pays us $3,000 a year for advertising, and would lose it if we were to print your letter. 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Iimh uunnfactored nod nolil thousand- of bottle-H of OUH NEW DIS OVEHY within the last three (111 yearn wi li au absolute OUAHANTEE with each bottle for all Blood and Skin Diseases, Nervousness, Liver and Kidney Troubleg, and oft", rs $100.00 reward to any person who will prove that they have evt r failed or refuaoi to comply with the terms of the Guarantee. Bold by | Cruwford Bros. TO THE #TRAI POBI II f you wa your money present moni Don't A Nic I till you get Clothing, ? coats, odd P Jackets and other things. We have c in all these going to clc the price. With best patrons gene Funderburl | Horses, Mi ^ Our Mr. Hood has just clc ^ loads of Mules and Horses ^ cars come here, one of horse M of it, CO head to arrive in { wirco they are the best w< fSo\ie closely matched tearr that weigh from 1100 to 12o 0 portunity to buy brood man J finish and family broke. 1 Buggies, Two solid cars to arrive this ? Wagons, m Have just closed a deal i ? stacks of them on hand of a J four horse with regular or b m all. Those who do not feel < 0 vehicle can buy a second hai J second hand buggies, carriaj W we are going to sell regardle | Come an' I Vr\\+ urn o A#. J ' ^ ? flUl W %S (UC 1(U clIltTctt.l 1)1 cl dealers east of the Mississ ? harness department. We ir J ness and have no competitio (==_ j Gregory-Hood 1ING JC! I nt to SAVE ? ' during the :h? Spend ? kle our prices on >hoes, Overants, Ladies' i 11 a n u nu rea xlds and ends that we are >se regardless wishes to our :rally, k Comp'y. * ? E U'i*ww?UV> 11% \ i t Afl a (r ues, Mules! | seel another deal for six car ^ ? 180 head. Two of these J s and one of mules. Think ^ a few days, and Mr. Hood ? e have bought this season. ? is of extra tine mare mules V , 0 each. This is a grand op- { 2S. Have some with extra ^ Buggies. f ; week, all kinds and styles. J Wagons. ^ * or 100 more, and we have ? 11 sizes?one, two, three and road tire. Come one, come g ible or willing to buy a new { nd, as we have at least 100 ^ res and wagons on hand that ^ !SS of the price. Don't fail to W d See Us 1 ny retail stock and vehicle t ippi river. Remember our C lanufacture all of our har- Jk' 1 as sell. i I Live Stock Co. t