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2 m Agricultural Making the Farm HonAttractive?How to Beai tify and Renovate an o' Home. Progressive Farmer. While our neighbor is buil ing his new house, we are dooi ed to this house built perhaps quarter of a century ago. A we to let this discourage us? N t a bit. We did not start out to 1 discouraged. Maybe we have n learned to keep this yet, aud < we appreciate the historic inte ests here? To embellish this old hon we will concede that this go man has it in repair : that t] locks and hinges are all oile and that the window panes a in. ami that the floors are oile and wiped up with water, f without this attention the woo work will dry rot. And I wou suggest a coat of linseed oil I the back of washstands and b reaus, for they, too, Will go the same way. HKGIN ON THE OUTSIDE. Reforms should usually beg in the lowest places: so we w: take the back porch first. Ever thing not positively needi should be removed. And here \ may begin with water, ai work until every square inch cleaned. Right here the far boy will do some good work, < a warm rainy day when he ca not be out, and the experien will be a benefit to him. Ui him clean towels, show your a preciation of his work, and 1 will begin to take pride, wi the other keepers of the lioue Tell him how Mr. Roosevelt hi the White House washed 01 side the last time it was clean up. But our work should not st< here, but rather go on to t guest chamber, which might 1 called the "index to the house as well as an expression of ti love of the family for their frienc and the stranger that is som times within. So we will, li| the woman of Shunam, prepa the prophet's chamer. Of course it fared with ]t other rooms with the "sprit cleaning," now we have] on to set it in order,and to make ti job good. We should dust ? the drawers, under and above,, before we sweep, and again < completion. The colorings shou be harmonious: where one col is selected it is carried^out; b let me be beg that the whole soft and refreshing. My memo runs back thirty years, to a cs pet that was woven in ha stripes, and it is not restedjfre it yet. So chose a carpet Jth will not detract from anythii else. Green with red mako go< colors. everything NEEDS a SIT OPTRI MING ?CONTRASTS AND JOYToucjies. Let us suggest while for thiswhite coverlet, white scarf white towels, white curtain white pet tor washstand, wit only a bit of gold and blue. Th bit of blue may be run in tl pincushion, and blankets, an THE Department. ============ T! ie in the heavy curtains under lace. . And the crowniug point of this rd room a 1'heral bouquet of fresh roses. This declares, at once, the forethought, and faith- y, fulness of the housewife, and inav be gathered freoly from Mftv until November inr.lnrlinc d_ ~~ ~""c" iir July from the open ground. It u* is these little things done here H AC and there, in season, that count. ^ The bed should be brass or ()t CO natural wood, for beauty. Too much white looks blank. Brass ^ ?* curtain rods are also desirable. Jo , . , W And curtains m?de of bobonet j?. Sli which can be had ninty inches ^ wide, are beautiful worked in (16 HI some pretty pattern with thread ^ after the manner of lace made he . . w twenty years ago. ^ re Some years ago, in my zeal for ^ j white. I procured soft, whitelinen re ' for the little girls' dresses, makor .. ,, w ^ ing no provision of lace or em broidery tor trimmiug. Imagine my dismay when they came from the dress maker's and were put j on! Why, "tliey looked like shrouds. So right on the point of disappointment I learned a m great lesson?everything needs a aj in bit of trimming?some contrasts, a( ill some joy touches. It is very inj b< y- portant to know the rules that ^i sd govern things ? the proportions, gC ve etc.,?so that a firsthand success m id may be made. Well, these beau- t0 is ties are unfathomable, and va- m m rieties are infinite. re in Now add some nice books and 03 n- a Bible. at ce If you can apply the Golden ve Rule, and it works, you may run 0f P" on down to the belated dinner. eC he But that is a small\ matter? th this cleaning up day?and we ae e. will sit and talk, while resting, jj 'id and ste what we will have and te it- what we will not have: one m ed thing, we will not have a den? l rather a studio. A den reminds ap me of the abide of wild blasts, ^ he and is on a par with calling ^ be chilnren kids. 01 " Our man dnoa nn? i/vm s *?V^D 1I w he plain of these cleaning-up days, r Is, for he realizes that a storm is ^ e- necessary once in awhile, and a jL ke long rain to set things right. He r re never was known to bring mud 8}l in on his shoes, although he is a y |,e farmer, neither does he depend 8j 1<r on the mat at the door. How w |v he does these things yon will o) |ie have to find out. He rocks the s( i? baby and sings him to sleep. So, tj of course, we are overcome and on spread the white linen lor him, ^ j(] and he is a better critic than we r( ()r of the food we cook. ^ llt But alas ! the rain has not let \17 *lii y l ( up yet. We will take the cook room next. ^ rv Mrs. Palmer C. Reade. K ,r* Person Co., N. C. d 111 Weather Forecasts by the li at Belair Prophet. tl ll{: Mr. Hditor : Please allow me tl ad space tor the publication ot the oi weather forecast for 1907. Jan- S< >N uary, first part dry and latter ei ? part wet. February, right smaH at of rain. March, fair. April, wet et ? and windy. May, wet. June, ze s, wet. July, cloudy and some rain; ui s, also similar conditions in August, p! ,h September, wet. October, dry. w is November, cloudy and some rain, w ie December, cloudy and some Hi id tain. P. R. Collins. ze LANCASTER NEWS, JANUARY 19, 11 The Williamson Plan. White M ? Bl he Experience of Another York County Farmer with Columbia the New Method of Grow- Uera^( of Turner, mg Corn. Q, , 0 Sfa'e peni oi ir TT . onerin nu nrkville Enquirer. Coun.y, for Mr. W. 3. Wilkerson of Hick- accU8e(j Gf y Grove made an exper tlie little lent with the WiHialnson seua?or i ethod of corn culture last year Qf <jreenvil] id. he is now aud hereafter to Turner ie > considered an enthusiastic Qf tj)0 \iayf nvert* living in th Mr. Wilkerson, as the readers The Enquirer generally are Wild ell awaie, is one of the most iccesstui farmers in the county. Chester e is always well to the front in h?r8e? whic iy and every movement that 'or 8?veral ?ars the stamp of progress, and e^or,s to el hen the reporter asked him killed abou st Saturday if he had tried the '^ie c*tv rilliamson plau, there was no were endea ason to be surprised at the in animal. lh' resting information that was have been ( ;veloped. horses whic 'Oh, yes, I tried it," said Mr. Clt-V 8ev?ral rilkerson, "and it is all right." have belonj "To what extent did you try ,on near ?" the reporter asked. "1 only had about five acres of SXSSBTJ y own crop : but it turned out 1 right. About half of the five fj == ;res was poor land, not much mnn stter than the bank of a hillside ^ 1 fill tch; the other half was pretty ^ tod land. On the best land I Ij adeclose to forty bushels of corn ^ i the acre and on the other I ^ Loai ade about thirty. The general M Coll( suit was so much better than 1 S You :peetcd that I was astonished h." H w Please describe your method cultivation, the reporter ask- ==== I followed the Williamson plan ^ t nearly as possible as was out- ft ned in The Enquirer last win- I r, except that 1 did not use as 9 ueh fertilizer as Mr. Williamson ft (commends." ^ <kl broke up the ground as ^ eep as 1 could, bedded and | lanted in the water furrow with ft nt fertilizers. When the corn I ft as from half a leg to knee high,) ' gave it 200 pounds of 8-3 3 to ^ le acre, putting the fertilizer ? i each alternate row. A week ft put in 200 pounds more of the ft ime fertilizer to the acre, this ft me in the rows that had been ? lipped the lirst time. Next, a ^ eek later I put in 65 pounds W f nitrate of soda to the acre, al- ft l nonlt oltannutQ r/\u/ ?> t 4.%.. t ' ? vvi IK?I/^ ? u " aiiu i III* V ler away from the corn than X i6? guano.The next week later I ^ ut in 65 pounds more in other ^ )W8, the same way, planted W eas, and broke out the middles f i Air. Williamson advised. The ^ ield was more than twice a m reat as it would have been un- W er the old method. I Big During the conversation out- X . ned above, Mr. Wilkerson stated ? H118 lat last spring he advised all M le people on his place to leave at fertilizers at planting time. X sveral were dubious about the ^ cperiment but all followed his ^ Ivice but one. Thisone plant ^ 1 a part of his crop*with lertili- M >rs and a part without. That m ider which he put fertilizer at X 1 At< lanting didj not do nearly jo ^ j ell as the other, and the man ^ ho made the experiment said ^ iat he would never use fertili- ^ rs at planting again. t >07. m.^nargeuwuna V White man name w was brought to the tentiary tonight by Increa3^^url!^52i?i^^^^|yg^^ lU'er, of Bamberg Vlclda Per Acre"^^ AhftVP P^p safe keeping, lie is a criminal assault on I said to be a relative It Is a well known fact that ootton, or any other crop, produced with VlrlOlti family and was gliila-Carollna Fertilize!* will bring the hbehest possible price on the mar eir liome, kot. Make healthy, strong-, well-developod, early cotton, with full grown ? "" 1 bolls on the fruit limbs at the base as I Horv Killed well us all the way unto the verv top 1 &c rvnicu. an(, t)p on(j8 of the branches of the cotton plants, by liberally using Reporter : A wild Virginia-Carolina Fertilizers. They contain all the materials noceadl has been roanillic sary to supply to your land the elements which have been taken from it weeks, defying all ^OTo!5fitoS-T(,n^2iV'%,cJ3S Tect hie capture. w?a JSSSSSfKSSSii.i"wt: ",ub" t three miles'south Of Vlrglala-Carollaa Chemical Co. " Richmond. Va. Atlanta, Qa. id ay by parties who Norfolk. Va. gavannah, Ga. J v Durham. N. C. Montgomery, Ala. voting to capture the ffimo^o" MdC' e horse is thought to ^ Hi >ne of the Western ? = ill were sold ill this When the cold winds dry and crack the * akin a box of naive can nave tuacb di?coinW08KS SJCO Alia to for^ J? buying Halve look for the name zed to Mr. Will Cure- on tho box to avoid any initationa and be 5 anre von uet th* original DeWitta Witch >rt Lawn. Hazel Salvo. Sold by Crawford Bros. '4 "The Old Reliable." U BANK OF LANCASTER, Lancaster, S.C. CAPITAL $50,000.00. A SURPLUS $50,000.00. g? ns made on Real Estate, at reasonable rates. 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