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2 Agricultural ^ Department Pick Cowpeas or Save Hay. J. C. McAulitt'e in the .Southern Cultivator: A reader of some of my work wants to know if it is more profitable to pick cowpeas at two dollars per bushel than it is to save hay at twenty dollars? I I have never found it so and 1 hardly think that any one else can find it so. However, it is a hard matter to see how a farmer can afford to teed lweuty>dollars of hay to his cattle. There is just one thing that must be done in matters of this kind in order to make farming successfulPractice home economy, and by that 1 mean grow the things ^ 3 _ ? 1 1 il uctiueu ai liumtj ttuu inmi use them. It is a little bit foolish for a man to say that he can feed twenty dollar hay because it doesn't cost him but five dollars to grow it. It is worth its full price as obtained iu the market, no matter wnere grown or what the cost. In order to get twenty dollars worth of good from cowpea hay it must be gup.rded from the start. In the beginning feed it to good cattle, or fine horses and mules. Save the manure and apply it to the farm. This is simple, but it'. truth. Again, no matter which is cheapest, be sure and pick enough of those pea9 to grow the next one. They don't cost two dollars a bushel, but they are worth five dollars per bushel to the man who plants them. It is not too late to plant peas in Georgia until the middle of July. It'll be a good plan to hustle around now and put in an extra acreage. It may take more than two dollars to buy a bushel lor seed it you haven't saved them, but remember they are worth five dollars and besides you'll get a start if you save your own seed this fall. There is no question but that these things are valuable in farming. It is the small patches that come in sort of extra like that makes the matters of this character so important. It is like interest to the financier who is engaged in legitimate business. It may not result in a fortune to the farmer who follows this course, but it mean" the difference between prosperity and failure. Kennedy's I.axat ive <.'oiigh Syrup aet s j gently upo i the bowels and thereby ' drives the cold out of the system ami I at the same'ime it allays intiainmu-i tion and stops irritation, children! like it Sold by All Druggists, tv * s ! How are You Going to Har-j vest Your Corn Crop? A. I?. French in the Progressive Farmer. Within less than sixty days your corn crop will he ready to harvest and if you have not been thinking hard ol how best to harvest this important crop, will you not do so now? You have perhaps been in the habit of pulling the fodder, topping the stalks, snapping tho ears from the stalks, throwing in piles, then picking up, hauling t<? a point near the corn crib, having a shucking, then throwing the grain into the crib, three or f^ur ears at a time and gathering the shucks by the armful and packing in other houses. Gathering THE LANGA up the little bundles of blades c in the fields, will, of course, be t slow work, and when the buudles j are stacked in the little single I stacks more than half of the feed i will be exposed to the weather i ~ 11 a i a ? a _ i uii wmmr, hqu wnen reauy to do j fed will have little iood value i lett. i there's a way that is a whole ' lot better for uplands. i The above method of handling ' may be necessary on low hot- 1 torn lands that are quite likely ( to overflow. But for second i bottom and uplands there is a 1 better way and one that is a ' whole lot better. The writer has watched a good many men 1 pull fodder aud has wondered as * many times if they had any idea ' of the amount of time they were * casting. Some way, pulling fodder never looked to the writer 1 like a man's job. The amouut of feed one could secure in a day ' being so very small when coin- ' pared with other methods of sav- 1 iug feed. Set one hand to pulling fodder, give another a corn i knife and let him go to cutting ' the entire stains. At the end ot < the day the man with the knife ( will have 6aved more of the J blades than the other man has J secured: he will have at the same time harvested the tops, ( ears and shucks and saved them in good-sized, well-built shocks when only a small amount of the feed will ba exposed to the weather; and he will have saved enough of grain shrinkage by 1 cuiting tlie entire stalk to pay [ 1 for the work of harvesting twice ( oyer. 1 ( A WORD ABOUT SHOCKING CORN. < A number of men have told j me that parties have been at i them about the loss of grain < caused by fodder pulling, while ] at the same time said parties j were losing both corn and lodder . because of shocks falling down i and becoming damaged. This ! i9 not a necessary condition ol i corn shocking at all. We have i been handling corn in this way i ior seven years in the South and have never lost a dollar's worth i of either grain or feed by wea- < tlier damage. Like everything ] I else, there is a right and several i wrong ways of shocking corn. | If the corn is to be cut. by hand, we prefer to tie "standaids" around which to set. tlie cut corn. These are made by interweaving the tops of several stalks of corn across two rows. These stalks worked in together in this way make a good support tor the center of th coin shock, and it the corn is set an equal thickness around this standard and is slanted at the same slant from every direction, with the tops ot every ounuie leaning toward the ( center of the shock, and the tops ( of the shock securely tied with . twine, not one shock in two hundred need to tall down. 1 . know of a field of a hundred 11 acres that last fall did not con- < lain a tallen shock at shucking 'i time. c ( JIOW TO SHUCK AND STORK KAHS. < ( Now. if this corn is to he < shucked by hand put the box in { the wairon, drive right to each 1 j shock; shuck the corn, throwing i the ears into a large banket (not < on the ground), then dump it 1 into the wagon, and when the < wagon is loaded, drive to the STEP NEWS. JULY 22, srib and unload with a scoop thovel instead of using (he hands. &s fast as the corn is shucked jind the fodder into bundles ibout one foot in diameter, set ibout thirty to forty bundles in i shock, tie the tops with twine md the feed will keep all right Liu til dry euough to haul and dock in long ricks or to shred. It the corn is cut with a liar vestev, use a horse" and set he eorn around this in the same jareful way as when using the jtandards. This writer is allround everywhere when corn is 3eiug put in shock, and makes t a point to see that every shock s built right. We use good ilzed sliocKs; those that will jhuck?in good corn?from three quarters to one barrel (seven and one half to ten bushsi baskets of ears). Of course the silo beats every 3ther method of harvesting the joru crop, but we cannot put it all in the silo. "Health Coffoo" is really the closest Cotfee Imitation ever yet produced This clevar coftee substitute was recently produced by Dr Shoop of ltacine, Wis. Not a grain at real coffee in it, either. Dr. Shoop's Health Coffee is made from pure toasted grains, with malt, nuts, etc. lteally it would tool an expert who might drink it for coffee. No '2U or 3d minutes tedious boiling; "Made in a uiinule." says the doctor; sold by Bennett Grocery Co. w Cotton Bagging for Cotton Bales?Example of Mississippi Farmers' Union. The officers of the Farmers' Union in Mississippi have made % contract with the cotton mills to tunish 14.000,0' 0 yards of Jotton baggiug, a sufficient quantity to cover 2,000,000 bales Tl - ii uutLuu. iijey propose 10 paCK ivery bale of cotton grown by die members of the Union in that State in this baggiug, and to en;ourage its use by all other lar[ners with whom they have any influence. We are told by the Atlanta Constitution that while the annual cotton crop ol Mississippi does not aggregate 2,000,000 bales, or anything like it, ihe Farmers' Union in that State are so firmly convinced that they will nave co-operation from cotton growers in surrounding Stat es that ttie demand for cotton bagging will far exceed the qom tity ot the bagging ior whicl they have contracted. Why should not cotton b<- covered with cotton cloth' It is neater than jute, and equally strong. In will supply an additional market tor the notion produced by the growers. It will make the growers independent >1 the great jute bagging trust, j md will contribute immensely to { he commercial and tnanuiacturng s'renitth of the South. Why ! send to India for jute in which! ,o bale the Southe-ii cotton crop *hen the staple can be packed 1 letter 111 bagging made from cot-; on grown in the Southern fields?j ?The *ews and Courier. $100 lleward, $100. The readers ol this paper will he pleased n learn that there is at least one dreaded lisease that science has heen able to cure n all its stages, and that is Catarrh, (all s Catarrh Cure is the only positive inre now known to the medical fraternity 'atarrli being a c onstitutional disease, repures a constitutional treatment. Mall's 'atarrli ? uro is taken internally, acting lirectly upon the blood and mucous suraces of the system, thereby destroying ho foundation of the disease, arid giving he patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing ts work The proprietors have so much 'aith in its curative powers that they otter )ne llnndied Hollars for any case that it alls to cure iSond for list of testimonials. Address F. <J CHENEY \ CO. .Toledo, J. Sold by all druggists, 75c Hail** u\....;i.. n;ii~ * * I9Q8 jBiwirr I A^reat number of people are reductions in prices we ha close out our enti nrooc I Noti< and all Ladies' Goods (except s to make another lower cul THE GOODS. We i have the roc Shoes, C J TUT ^ 9 <*.1111 ITieil We will positr at least $3.00 to 5 $10.00 you spent Yours t: j Wil!iams-H V? Catawba ! This resort extends to the Cit County an invitation to visit it and offers to you such inducemc find at but few Summer Resorts lina. First the water at Owned and controlled by the I'resbyteru A highgrade c liege for women. A C courses in the Arts and Sciences, Vtush and business I,urge and able faculty. M? ings. Modern conveniences. Healthful section, and in city of *25,000. EXPENSES FOR THE A. Tuition, Hoard, Room and fees sition A. and Tuition in Music, Art of K next session opens September 17th. For w 76?86 8. t | uatawba' has medicinal properties in it w indigestion, bladder and kidney 1 a renewed lease on life by virtu< this place. The table is all that ask, and the climate unsurpassed alley, lawn tennise, and no one h Catawba i f l"?of rlirl nnt iimoK 1-a imf mmm ^ 11.(4 1, uiu liul VVIOII IU ICLUI II. *11111 are reached over the Southeri North Western to Hickory, N. C fortable hack line that will ti Springs in 10 minutes. Fine dm enjoyed rather than to be drt given by applying to Catawba Spring Hickory, - Or E. G. Gilmer, Hotel Irec flHTdORA MT.T.F.fiT! ( ?j taking advantage of the 9 ve made in order to re stock of irely save you >5.00 on every 1 with us. ) ruly, ughes Co. -?-1 Springs izens of your town and during the hot Summer mts as would be hard to in Western North Coro hich are no humbug for ;roubles. Many have had e of spending 60 days at any one could and would , fine orchestra, a bowling as never spent a season at Springs e and try it. The Springs i Ry., and Carolina and where you will find corn ansfer you to Catawba re and one that is always rv.ii J_;_ ;uuuu. r un liiiorinaiion '8 Hotel Co., - N. C. lell, Statesville, N. C. GREENVILLE, S. C. s of tin* Synod of South ( arolina. hristian home school. Graduate 5. Art. Expression, Gymnastics autiful xroilnit-* Kleirant build* climate. Location in t'iedraont ENTIRE YEAR .00 li. All included in propoIxpreaaion $'208.00to $218 00 The &taloKue and information address S C. BYRD, D. I)., President. H ?r r joods 3ns hoes). We have decided t in prices to MOVE need and must im frw i 'Ill IV/i lothing s Wear