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Agricultural 100 Bushels Corn Per Acre. Progressive Faimer. I pee in A.J. Moye's seven farming questions the seventh, "How to make 50 bushels corn ?n ordinary eastern land." 1 will answer it for the benefit of co>n planters. I saw last fall the sorii housed from one-fourth acre of land, situated on Tar ! : ,1 1 1 M ? I> D .stiver, uuu uwiicu uy mr.iv.iv Gotten, and known as the Cottondale Farm. Instead of fifty bushels, he made one hundred bushels; and this is how he did it: First, lay off rows seven feet apart with turn plow, two fur tows to the row, goo 1 and deep. Fill this furrow with pood rich aompost. Put on top of this four hun dred pounds pood guano of high grade, run eotiou plow through this mixture and throw dirt back with turn plow, and you have a row on each side of manure two feet apart to plant corn in. Then you have your rows two and five feet apart. Plant corn two feet in drill, one grain in hill. And so you have the plan to make fifty bushels of corn per acre Plant corn known as the seven-year kind. W. C. Moore Pitt Co., N. C. Thoughts for the Farmers? The Cotton Situation. Chas Petty, of Spartanburg, in the Progressive Farmer : Tlia fitrlit lialmaon tlio A ..-V/ ?/v' " VV/?I V??U VWIVV/"! Growers' Association and dealer* in futures is getting interesting. Some of the faint-hearted farmers believe that the contest is unequal and that the farmers will have to go under and be subjert t<> the manipulations of speculators. The majority believe that thay will he sure winners, if they stick together. With a census report indicating a crop of very little? more than ten million hales, the price does not advance. The bears are holding out the ilea that there has been enough cotton sold already to carry the spinners till the next crop is put on the market. They have even reported that President Archer of the County Association has been making an effort to put a lot of cotton on ilie market at 12 cent'. This he denies most emphatically and says that in June lie will see if any one wants his cotton at Ins price. He advises farmers having cotton on hand to li"ld tor 15 cents. Suppose the spinners are all stroked, as they say they are, what is the duty of the farmers? With a crop of only 10,000,000 bales they claim that there is a surplus of two millions. It tliey are correct the coutry will need only nine million bales another year. Plant tor that amount and keep the price up. By raising an abundance ol corn, oats, and p avine hay, a small cotton crop Will bring in as much money as a large one, and it will cost less Department.' t " i r i MONKY IN PKAVINK HAY. , Special attention of farmers is 1 called to the money and feeding ? value of peavine hay. Look at it t in tl?is way : Take an acre of J land that with the aid of $3 < worth of fertilizer will make 1,000 } pounds of seed cotton. At ten i cen's a pound the lint and seed ! will be worth $37 80. To raise i and market that cotton will cost ) cents a pound, or $18.30 lor < 'he acre leaving net $19.50. Use 1 the same guano and plant the ? acre in oats as soon as the ground is dry enough. Follow with pe is | sown broadcast. The yield i should be 20 bushel of oats and _ a. 11 If r a n>u ana nan 01 p^avine nay. The eats at 60 cents, and hay at ' $ 18 a ton. nnd straw at $2, would i bring $41 00. The expense ol both crops, including baling the hay, would not be exceed?ng$10, which would leave net $31. Land would be improved to the value of $3 an acre besides, well cured peavine hav is the best J ~ I inilk producer we know. Ton for ton it is worth more than genuine wheat bran, aud twice | as much as some of the mixtures 8(?ld under the name of bran. Let farmers make their own sup plies, live at home, stick to the Cotton Growers' Association,and they will prosper and be happy. Work For the Month. (Southern Cultivator,) 1. March is the first spring month of wind, the month 01 movement. It is the great prepa ratory month?the whole machinary (or the year's crop is to he gotten in order and started off. So many things demand our attention, that many are prone to get into a hurry and bustle and forget the most, importan' ;4 i_ i _ \ ut-iii?wmcn is, prepare your land well. 2. This is t ho mo th to put in your guano. Count the cash outlay you are spending, and set you" stakes to have more mate rial for the same amount ol mon ey another year, bv saving all waste upon the firm and by mating more stable manure to i mix with it. ji>. It is time to plant corn, l'ui 1 in a large crop and see that yon have the hest s^ed, and give your corn the same attention in preparation and manure as you give your cotton. 4. 1*1 it to cut down your cotton aiea as much as possible. The "Bears" are lying in wait for us j nrxi tail and they are going to g.*t staple c heap il they can. 5. Don't lorget to do good plow ing ami harrowing?you have plenty of time to do that which will repay you so well. U.-member it is not the amount of ground you cover, but the net returns from that ground will tell the tale next fall. 0. The garden demands much I attention. If is time to plant j Irish potatoes, bed sweet potatoes, set out cabbage plant-, plant beats, lettuce, radishes 8o v your tomato seed, pepper and egg plants, in boxes or cold frames; and get your garden in good tilth to receive all that you < expect to put in it. We forgot to < nent-ion some early roasting ars; they should never bo onntt-d. J. Let the good wife look after lie chickens. There is a slump n eggs light now; hut they are is valuable as ev^r to put under he hen or into the incubator. i Do not neglect the plan lor die cows and hogs, they . re just is valuable as anything you can raise upon your tartn. ) It is time you were arranging to raise a colt or two: they re just as valuable a crop as :otton; and will grow in the ?out h?although 1 this is a cotton country 10. If you have any bottom places jou can dry?take them hi?raise corn <>r g .as u pon t hem Nothing will pay you better. Money put into a ditch ia much teller spent titan in "cotton fut ires." His Wife's Money. Krom the Atchison Qlobe. Once upon a time a man married a woman who had in herited $500 from a grand father This was all she ever recieved. but the man never got credit for his efforta the rent of his life. He built a new store. "Did it with his wife's money," the neigh, bors said. The home was mad* over and enlarged. "His wife's money did it," was the only comment. The little measly $500 she inherited wan given the credit for everything ho did during life, and when he died and his widow put up a monumont with his life insurance, "Her money paid for that," was said again. But thfft is what her monev really went for: During her engagement she bought herself a $350 piano and a $150 diamond ring, and in a few lost the ring. There was always some regret that she didn't lose the piano. Towns Putting up Laundries. Greenwood Journal: Over in Georgia the servants became so tnflling that in one or more towns ttie citizens formed joint stock companies and put up laundries. A gentleman who seems to be fa miliar with the situation informs us that in this way the cost was reduced to minimum, and proved very satisfactory indeed. The scheme was not intended t< make money, but to meet a con dition, and to get the work done at a price that could be afforded by families. 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