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7 ' 1 , '* * . - Guilermo Sc<l on Stuntin uim. Jan. 20. 1907. Dear Gents,? Several months ego the Prcs and Banner hull a lung piec* about niuutln corn in It. In tut) sumo article was a request lor experiments along tne Hue utd a report ol tht 8:i me. The pinn wan Invented. a? near as l'cn rtceimembur, hy a muu name Wiiiituuston, 11 v lu noinewhere >>eio Piuni Branch. Its not necessary lor me to go Into pertlculera about the plan, ever.ibouy understands H. The general outline of the plan la suinthlu like this: P.ant the corn Just like you Intended to rszo a crop?Just i.'ke you hau nothln agin It at all, toll it along jest like you Alius do ?n about the time the corn thinks you are O K. and begins to show some confidence lu your farmln abilities, then knock It square, smack, dab, In the head with a broad ax. Them's the salient points of the proposition. When the corn begins to Rbow signs of life you must turn your back on It an let the weede take It. If the eorn shrivels up an turn" b;ue j ou must grit your teeth an make out like you dou't glvea rip loroorn no how. li the com looks no pitliui it gits on joui nerve1, ihen go fl*hm. Wben tbe crab grass looks liKe Its coin to carpet itie whole fi?l ai eat the corn up and makeenuf grass seed to - ?i ihui MOW Hll llie iftt ' Q UU lull UJUUU nu rcru ...... pe tlcuier tt?l lo- Itir?y generations, Just makt oiii like you love or?b tthhs us well us corn at turn your back. You mustn't go about tbe norn uutll 11n nearly dead, grnsplng lot bream, Just before It tassels out and sings tbe swan toig.Junt be.'ore It dies dead as a b<-r i ring you must take a lo< k at It. You tuust think b< w mean you've treated that corn you mutt let your sympathies well np in you for tbe pore spindly stud. You must think 01 bow If) worked and wiggled agatust tbe grass and weeds to keep all* e. Y< u must g. t your feellns all worked up to tbe highest pltcn 01 fever beat in a>patby for tbe pore corn an tben, well you must no at tbat corn like tbt worl whs out ol seed an every seed would bt wortb tour dollars a grain next jear. You will bave to preteud bow sorry you are tbat tbe corn baa got Into such a fix, and you'll bave to coddle It an pet It an eueourBge it ao feed It wltb a spooo.an manure it an plougi It an boe it an barrow It an beg It an uoox II an wait on It like you would a political job. Altera wbile tbe corn begins to tblok tbat It was all a mistake and mat you think h> much of It as you do of tbe orab gr>ss. ao presently she begins to grow. Tben there's a huir a nnnmi <if fertilizer apd all sorts of moisture and nutriments that smrt up eacb lit.le spindly staik, but, lo! there's no piact for it to go. Tbe stalk has hardened an, growc tough an can't gro any more. There's only ooe place for all this bulldin material to go an tbats Into tbe year, and into tbe i ear she goes. A few wet ks later, there they stand row after row of little spli.dlt-y stalks co biggern your little tloger an eacn one boldin a year a yard locgau four Inches lu diameter. There tbey stand like three year olds trying to carry a sack of corn. Eacb stalk bending double with Us load of corn reminding you of Jack and QUI an the pall of water. This is the plan In tbe main. The great wunder Is somebody haddent discovered this before. Tbe worl' is six Ibousan' years ole au' nobody lound this thing out until wnnamnton started to farmin' below Plum Bianch. Tbe next news you know some enterprlsln' anthropologist will be followln* Williams* ton's plan In makln' men! Ic'n see tbe aril~ nut in Knlrt hlantr lAllPfS At Die uun, ouiuuiu UUv .... the top of tbe column. Make Brains, Not Brawn! Tbe greatest discovery of tbe age! Would you raze youre son to be a thinker? Tben, stunt 'lm. Stunt 'lm good an' bard when be 1b young and wben you bave slanted blm about rtgbi feed blm until you give blm dispepsla, Indigestion, gastreatls, apendiseetiB, an' perrytlneetlsan' If be gets over ltbe'll be all brain an' no brawu. Take tbat lmmltable scholar and editor, Kernel Bacon ol Edgefield. He was stunted wben be was a boy an' 6ee the result. All btalD deer frena, ell brain. Take, fur example, the Hon. Thomas Watson of Georgy. He weighs ninety odd pounds an' his brain weighs 16 ounce*! He was stunted wbeu be was a cblle an' tbe result Is evident. Napoleon Bonypart was about five feet blith an' weighed about a buodered, an'bis brain was so big be wore a Dumber 6 hat! He, too, was stuntod when he was a kid,?an' In ole France no man bad tbe everlastln' polltloal pull that Bonypart bad. * 1U IUB UUI IUIUIS (luvu j \s ? year old cblle to school tbe teacher will drap yon a note Kindly rtqneetln' which course yon wish the kid to take?tbe "stunt" or the "straight," an' then youie trouble will beglo If yon prefer tbe "stunt" tbe madam will want tbe "straight," an1 If you like the straight better, tbe madam will Insist on tbe stnnt, so tbere yon'll go. , Some seem to get along tolerable well without beln' stunted, but tbe majority of my acquaintances Deed to be stunted. Take Ole deacon Smith for inslxnce: Tbe ole deaoon stands six foot four Inches In bis socks an' weighs two hundred pounds, an' If bis brain wus all Ink It wuddent dot a 1. Bucb feller , ougbt to be stunted by all means. They take up too much room as tbey are an'besides th?t they ain't got en nf sense to read a animal A, B, 0, book. Stunt sncb fell en-? Certainly, stunt 'em, by all means, stunt'em good an' bard so they'll take np less room and have more sense. To revert to tbe experiment on my oorn I beg leaf to tender you the nnhappy Information ibat my com didn't get big enuf to stnnt. It was stnnted from the stait and stunted In IbO'end, It oome up stunted an' d.'ed 8 inn ted. Yourn, - GullermoSed, Shoe and Harness Shop! H. S. HAMMOND has moved his Shoe and Harness Shop to Main Street, first door behind Pepole's Bask, Where he is preprepared to do Shoe and Harness Repairing at . Prices To Suit The customer ? r All kinds of Harness Bri * -i j i_ aes ana e very mm g in this ine can be found at j (j Ufimmnnfl ^ l. nuinii Dim o , / mmm r IcottonI Hi II MlWii iWWpBBMBMBBMMWMP ix L xo i* n vu auvu A(iv u iiuau w or any other crop, produced with Virginia-Carolina Fertilize will bring the highest possible price on the market. Make healthy, strong:, well-devoloped, early cotton, with full grown bolls ou the fruit limbs at the base as well as all the way up to the very top and tip ends of the branches of the cotton plants, by liberally using Virgiaia=CaroIina Fertilizers. " They contain all the materials necessary to Bjpply to your land the elements which nave been taken from It 1 by repeated cultivation year after year. Tneso fertilizers will greatly "increase your yields pei acre." Accept no sub. 'Btitnfa from vour dealer. I Virgin { Carolina Chemical Co. I If Richmond. Va. Atlanta, Ga. gfi HI Norfolk. Va. Savannah, Ga. H Durham. N C. Montgomery, Ala E Charleston, S. C. Memphis, Tenn. ' j-i Baltimore, Md. Shreveport, La. g 0 \ 'j, t 1 WetfC on "Itfoacfcc* \nwpt \w$twes fcxwtv ftrttec &\Vo\u\tit\Yvg kxstM uv ScYucvwp^ ?&4 i Three ways are used by farmers for curing and preparing their tobacco for the market; namely sun cured, air cured and flue cured, and rheao wav is called air A IAN* V*v* ? 1- .. _- _ cured; the later discovery and improved way is called flue cured. In flue curing the tobacco is taken from the fields and racked in barns especially built to retain heat and there subjected to a continuous high temperature, produced by the direct heat of flame heated flues, which brings out in the tobacco that stimulating taste and aroma that expert roasting develops in green coffee. These similar processes give to both tobacco and coffee the cheering and stimulating quality that popularizes their use. The quality of tobacco depends much on the curing process and the kind of soil that produces it, as ex- . pert tests prove that this flue cured R. J. 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