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* I ? For the next 5 millinery and cloth cost you anywhere ing cash for same, your talking mach i Rememfc I 1 ^ | and for only the p chines, and you ca they will be sold t< 35c for i These records cc selling the records x ~ mm L - ^ Work for the Month. 1. Aprii is the month for planting seeds. Having been delayed so much by the heavy rains in March, we trust the"April -how ers" will ba lisiht 'his year, so that we may speed the plow and the planter. Plant plenty ot corn and lood stuif and do not increase your col ton acreage. '2. While we advocate cutting down the cotton acreage, we say take all ilie pains you can in preparing, manuring and planting your cotton, so as to make as large a yield as possible, and do not get in too big a hurry to do your planting right. 11 H aste makes waste" here surely. .'i There is so much to do this month, and we are all planning to the limit, put upon us by the scarcity of labor, but we have a wonderful aid in machinery. Let the improved tools help you, and learn to use them so as to do the boBt work. 4. If you haven't planted your Irish potatoes and bedded your weetjpotatoes you should do so at once. These are two important crops and you can not raise too many of either. I 5. This is a busy month tor the gardener. There are forty \four varieties ol garden vegetables and nearly every one can be planted hero in the South during April. Make your garden so rich and prepare it ho well, that it will require little hard work ; then the ladies and children can keep everything growing nicely. V iixty days vvc arc going to gi ling one of the famous Stanc $12.00, but we arc going to and ask for your coupon; w ausui uiciy r ?er this Offei urchases made in the departi in get none or as many as yo 3 you for the Small Reci Dst you extra any where vou to you. Remember, for CA We do not think garden work beneath the dignity of the finest lady of our land. u Uf tliose vegetables that your family prefer, take a spec QV ial pride in having the best va rieties, finest specimens and an jR abundance of them. Have some to can for wilder use. ho 7. This i* a great month for setting the hens and taking off on the little chickens. There is ho nothing like having a fine variety that you can take pride in, _6 and having plenty of them. 8. Do not neglect to plaid something for the hogs. They are I j an important feat ure in the farm, economy. | W( 9. If you expect to top-dress; mi your grain or grass, now is the! 1 I time to do it. ho 10. There was a former custom j do ot wailing lor young plants to he reach a certain ago before begin ning to cultivate them, but now j 11 I lir. a i. ? . SO nmuii, uid iiuiiun or nut garden rake can not commence . in too soon. Rapid shallow cultiva . 18 tion and covering as wide an co area as possible as you go is the way to do it. Stir tlio crust and Gv the dust. pi 11. Riant a large melon patch, ho The watermelon and cantelonpe all are luxuries none should deny themselves. 'a 12. Plan to have something to Wl WI sell as well as plenty for homo . consumption. We want you to ... ? , . ou get in the habit ot having as many tources of revenue as pos- m aihle. There is nothing like it for thriftness and progressiveness.? fa Southern Cultivator. or [ ve everybody who purcl lard Talking Machines, give them away to our dien you have gotten as ' is for C, nents above mentioned, u want. We have a li ords and & should buy a talking m lSH only, and lor sixty < Yours faitl Horse Notes. By Shepherd. Never feed when the horse it erheated. With old horses, ground feed sometimes necessary. If properly taken care of, a rse, is seldom sick. A tine appearing horse with t ancestry is a very uncertain ?rse to breed to. Many a promising colt hne en ruined by being stinted durg its iirat year of growth. Steady work is a benetit rather an a detriment to mature rses. With the work teams, steady >rk is not so injurious as arms rxlie labor. The practice of giving <1rug? tc rsepi indiscriminately is proictive of a great ileal of ill alth. From the day a colt js foaled, should not pass a day without me improvement. Quality in a horse is of more iportance than quantity, but it a nice thing, if they can be mbined. Electricity is actively engaged ery day in taking away emoymentfrom light and medium irses, yet many farmers go lead breeding such. A foot of disproportionately rge size is usually accompanied f>. 0|a?,i0.? ?i ' - ,V.. niwnvioi uron rtim IMMII |)nr?l 1 VP sakness of limb and indicates ability for any brisk or vigorir action. It in well to use a well bred are whenever this is possible; it a strongly bred sire will uuilingly improve upon the most dinary bred dam. lases from us #35.00 in c These graphaphones or customers. You make y< much as #35.00 worth brii ash Purchas We have the records tha st of the various songs, ba Oc for the U achine, so we make nothi days. 'fully, !t A< KI J1 I 1 i ' u', 1 ?' -? ' Cock iqi ailey^ bros.' a ^ j?uia tin cuiliputl nas all the sweet 1 Itsa#! i)CSt t0i>ac( greatest nature-favored s 1 i : V For Sale by BENN ; If a horse does not digest his grain properly, before going any farther see that his teeth are all 1 rignt. The mare must bear half the | responsibility of the character of [the foal. It, is simply folly to charge all of the mishaps in horse breeding to the stallions, (lot better mares. The farmers' aim should be the production ot the best foul possible, because it costs no more to raise a good than a poor colt, und there is no economy in using a cheap or convenient stallion when a first-class one of fit blood lines can be had for a little extra trouble and a little more money. -T v; I Iry goods, notions, talking machines Dur purchase, payig them in and get >es Only j it go with the mand music, etc., and irge Ones I ng back on you by 1 d# _ .5 ? ~~~ ?> Cock-Spur plug tobacco tion to flight, because it ness, flavor and strength 20 grown in the world's ection. Chew Cock-Spur. 1N0 better tobaccos made than those manufactured by Baile/ Bros., Winston-Salem, N. C. Not in a Trust ^ ETT GROCERY CO. The mare that haH any number I of generations of maternal ano.esI tors of inferior quality and is herself deficient in many points, is absolutely unfit to perpetuate her species, yet the stallion in many cases is blamed for the failure of such a mare to produce colts which make good horses. There is no real economy *n making the feeding boxes for the horses too small. They ought to be sufficiently largo so that the grain will spread evenly over the bottom, as this will prevent their eating bv gulping down rather than eating slowly and slowly masticating the food. Whenever food is bolted, more or less of it is wasted-?Live Stock Journal.