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Agricultural ^ Department What Has the Moon to Do With Peas and Potatoes? "yhe Progressive Farmer. Your valuable paper comes to my home regularly, and I think it should be in the bands of everv farmer. I don't see how I could do without it. I want to ask questions about cowpeas and Irish potatoes. What is the best time of year to plant cowpeas to get results, and does it make any difference as to what time ot tlie moon they are planted ; if so, what time of the moon is the best for planting? What is the best time ot year to dig Irish potatoes to have them keep best, and does it make any difference as to what time of the moou they are dug? How is the best way to keep them? S. O. Briimfield. Darbun, Miss. Editorial Answer: With the exception of what relates to the moon, all these questions were answered not far from the time that they were asked: and for the sake of brevity, reference is made to previous articles on peas and potatoes. The time of the moon when crops should be planted or harvested has to do with the period of agricultulture when signs and charms received more consideration than the laws of nature. It is on a parity with proving the existence of the so called disease of "hollow horn" among cattle, by sawing ofT the horn and finding it to be hollow, when nature regularly makes cattle with hollow horns because the Creator evidently thinks that hollow horns tor cattle are pre lerable. It is on a parity with a iit*n lillU i* JJUiir t)T HI1 apple tree, with the Men of warding oil disease. It is on a parity with hanging a horseshoe in a tree to make it do well, some! saying that the horseshoe will give tlie tree goo 1 Inch, and otli-1 ers saying that the iron in the horseshoe will give the tree vigor ouslife. It is ona parity with car rving a rabbit foot in one's pocket to keep oil had luck. It is on a parity with the ''charms" sold by voodoo doctors, to bring good luck ward < IT bad luck, to put , the wearer's enemies under the ground, and so on and so on. to ' the whole length of the iraagin ation ot tlie ignorant and superstitious. \n man vt. lw-> lia, - V ......A *' il ? (I series of te.-'n with intelligence and care has found that the moon has any appreciable inlluence on crop*. Those whose mental development is such th u they have not parsed cut of the rtage in which charm? and sign? are do- 1 n I minating influences are not like- i lv to get over their beliei in the influence of the mo >n on crops ; 1 but it should he reirarded as significant that tin *e who rely ( on charm - and sivn- instead of scientific fac's. common -ence, and industry, are not anionu those who accomplish great things in lif<o Tf a man will plant crops when t:.e uround is in the rk'ht condition and when the usual planting sea?on for that nrnn 5 a .it I,.i.,/1 I-. % . nn.i ??l ? ' ti ?'p l ^ a ifiiiu. iic hrc>i ll?ji iffer to his almanac to see when he should plant. If the weather is right for harvesting, lie can go ahead with the work, no m*?t i ter what the almanac say* about the moon. So it is throughout the whole realm of agriculture. THE LANC/ Danger in Crimson Clover Fed to Horses. g i Prof W. F. Massey ill The Pro- ^ gressive Farmer. A veterinarian stopped me on ^ the street today to show me a ol b??ll he had taken from a horse. ? It whs rather larger than an ordinarv baseball and he said that in in a post-mortem examination he removed eleven such balls from one horse, in which thev had burst the intestines. He said that the crimson clover hay the horse had been fed had been cut as soon as in bloom, and in the balls there was no appearance of the stiff hairs that form oil the heads, but the ball was made up 0 ot felted layers of very fine material like the hairs that cover p the entire plant. He showed me a part of one ball that he had cut ooen. and this showed layers of felt as tough as an ordinary felt hat, and not a sign of stiff blossom hairs couldbe found. Some time ago auother veterinary practitioner in this State told me that he thought that ^ the advice in regard to the cutt ing early was wrong, and that it V( is not the blossom hairs that in- ^ jure the horses, for that in his ^ practice he had found the early cut clover more dangerous than w that allowed to get more ripe. It seems evident that we must er fight shy of crimson clover as m horse feed. In the case first OL cited a very valuable horse was ra killed, and killed by clover that t was cut early, too. Then, if" the ar earlv cut clover is dangerous to tjj horses, the later cut should be j) more dangerous, and it seems to HV me to be the part of wisdom to Gf abandon crimson clover as a food for horses. For ruminating ani- ra tnals it will probably do no ni harm, but those who have made e^, crimson clover hay should be aj very cautious indeed in feeding it to horses. ar As a rule, 1 dislike to use a th good feed crop as manure direct, w< bu in ttie case of crimson clover, w we have a crop that comes at. a 8t: season when the curing is difli- ca cult, and it is the hardest of aH b> the legumes to make into good th hay. Hut a* a green manure fe< crop, to be followed by a hoed co crop like potatoes or cotton or Tt corn, it iias a groat value, and 1 Irt would rather advise its use in in this way than to run the risk of gr killing valuable liorsos by feed- la nig it. Coming in as a catch crop of sown among corn, it rertainlv ?01 makes a valuable soil cover in winter, and a crop tlml will largely increase the crop planted liv niter it* turning under in the lar spring. 1 have heretnlore heen he inclined to value crimson clover rai mainly as a soil-improver and ant col more than ever impressed with lie the necessity of usinn it in thij ab way from what I have seen to-1 tat Say. But it is too valuable a fni plant for this purpose tor any (^ firmer to neglect it, and it is , well worth growing even if we ' So no' make hav ot it To the F,rt iair.vman, the hav will lie per doi leclly sale if lie can mase it exj right. And there is the greatest wil 1:fficult> 1 have ?ver had, lor wnile I can easily make the he.-t , . 4* i. _. c_ - _ i ? ! IAT ui nay iri 111 siiwpens, i iiavej-" never had satisfactory success in ' Iryinjr to cure crimson clover. j wc l'*? > DeWitt's Little Early UieerK, pleaHant Je! little pills that are easy to take. Sold by all druKRixt*. w-s SH1 kSTER NEWS. JULY 18, Stop That Cold to chock early cold* or Grippe with "Preveottc^' eans sore defeat for Pneumonia. To atop a oold 1th Preventics ii safer than to let it run and be alijred to cure it afterwards. To be sure. Pre. antics will cure even a deeply seated cold, but ken early?at the snooze stage?they break, or a ad off these early colds. That's sorely better, hat's why they are called Preventics. >reventlcsare little Oandy Cold Cures. No Qnlne, no physic, nothing sickening. Nice for the illdren?and thoroughly safe too. If you feel silly, if you snooze, if you aoho all over, think of raventlcs. PrornDtnaaa mtv slm usta Viol? ?/?<> mal sickness. And don't forget your child, if it're la fevorlshness. nlghtorduy. Herein prober Ilea Preventlcs* greatest afUclency. 8old in boxes for the pocket, also In 26c boxes of 48 revenues. Insist on your druggists giving yon Prcvcntics KiNOERBURK pharmacy. APPENINGS IN GEORGIA. each Crop too Big for Profit?Cotton Crop ProspectsSeventy Acres of Okra as a "Side Line"?How a Lancaster Young Lady Missed a Crate of Fine Georgia Peaches?Macon Breaking up Blind Tigers. d. Lancaster News: The peach crop in this state this >ar is a great d^al larger than ,pt year. Hie supply is greater ian the demand, and thousands find peaches are simply being asted, ?s they cannot be shipped ter they ripen and there is not ?ough demaud in northern arkets to cousurne the enormia supply ol peaches and wan nt peach growers in gathering ,em and shipping while they e in an unripe condition, as ey have to be when they are to > shipped hundreds of miles i * ? ' >?/. v mi iiucuuui ot i ne nig crop | peaches, watermelons are sell- ^ g dirt cheap and those who ise them and usually make ee little sums of surplus 111011 out of this crop will not he ?le to realize much this year. The prospects foracottou crop every fine at present. Through e central section of the state, 3 find, that while the crops ere planted late, there are good u\ds, and the abundant applition ot fertilizers, the favorae weather conditions and rough cultivation showtheir elcts in the splendid size and lor of the weed at this time. le crops we have - eeii are also )e from grass and there is nothg at present to retard the owth. (>t course, these very vorahle conditions are not ex eted to continue until the end the season, but the prospects r a splendid crop in this secn are good. A brick manufacturer, who es in this city, conducts a veiy ge f irm a few miles from ! re. He not only bolievos in sing large quantities of corn, lion, oats, hav, etc, but bev.'s in raising okra. and has out seventy acres ol ibis vege- j j1". and the pro? peels for a L e crop are good. Ho exnectsi have 'lie okrn canned and J iced on the market and hisjfl )fits on this *4i(If line"'' will ubtless he immense. If thej penmen' proves successful, he I A ' C. I il probably increase the acre-i^ ? another year, as lie owns atn ge tract of very fine land out <M ?re A s*eet yuunr Lancaster girl ?uld have received a crate of licious Elberta peaches, had *' e waited a few days longer to 19Q8 of people ? reductions in prices we close out our e ui Noti and all Ladies' Goods (excep to make another lower THE GOODS. W have the ouues, i and Men We will posit at least $3.00 to $10.00 you spei V nnrs A W Williams-F Catawba ""This resort extends to the < OAiinf^r on lrnntofinn f/-v trioif V^v/U 1 1 tj C4II ill V Il/Utivyil ? lOiV. and offers to you such induce find at hut few Summer Iiesoi lina. First the water at Catawba has medicinal properties in it indigestion, bladder and kidne a renewed lease on life by vir this place. The table is all th ask, and the climate unsurpass alley, lawn tennise, and no one VitliiW M<X that did not wish to return. C( are reached over the Southi North Western to Hickory, N. fortable hack line that will Springs in 40 minutes. Fine d enjoyed rather than to be < given by applying to Catawba Sprin Hickory, Or E. G. Gilmer, Hotel Ii JHICORA COLLEGE Owned and controlled by the iTesbytf , liighicrade c llejfe for women. A Durses in the Arte and Sciences. lit nd business barge and able faculty. iK*. Modern conveniences. Healthfi M'tion, and in city of 25,000. EXPENSES FOR TH A. Tuition, Hoard, Kooin and fees $1 tion A. and Tint ion in Music, Art of ext session opens September 17th Foi 70?H6 8. ire taking advantag^o^^!^^ have made in order to mtire stock of ^ Goods ions >t shoes). We have decided cut in prices to MOVE e need and must room for Clothing l's Wear lively save you $5.00 on every _ ji 'i-i La wnn us. ===== v truly, iughes Co 1 , Springs Citizens of your town and it during the hot Summer ments as would be hard to ? *ts in Western North CoroSprings which are no humbug for iy troubles. Many have had tue of spending 60 days at at any one could and would ;ed, fine orchestra, a bowling s has never spent a season at Springs r jme and try it. The Springs ern Ry., and Carolina and , C., where you will find com transfer you to Catawba rive and one that is always ireaded. Full information gs Hotel Co., - - N. C. redell, Statesville, N. C. GREENVILLE, S. C. Ties of the Synod of South ( arolina. Christian home school. Graduate laic. Art, Expression, Gymnastics K'-autiful grounds Elegant build* il climate. Location in Piedmont E ENTIRE YEAR 183.00 B. All included in propoKxpresaion $203.00 to $213 00 The r catalogue and information address H C. BYRD, I). L>., President.