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ORCHARD AND GARDEN {
S WORK FOR THIS WEEK <
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Remember to plant garden peas j
as soon as weather conditions per- j
mit; also onion sets. s
Fresh stable manure will give bet- 1
ter results if applied to the garden
now rather than at the time of ^
planting the spring vegetables. f
It is a good time to enlarge the j
garden area. Set the fence back
thirty feet or even farther on one
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enu UJ. nit; gaiucu ou as iv give ik ^
a restangular shape. This will permit
of long rows, which are more ^
easily cultivated. \ ^
If your front yard is cluttered up |
with masses of shrubbery and rose i
bushes, thin out some of them so as
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t oallow open stretches of lawn. On ^
the other hand, if it is too bare (
plant ornamentalv shrubbery on the (
borders and a few trees for shade. (
It has been noted that very, few j
home orchards have been pruned up
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to tnis t^me. -bet us Degin mis wont
with the first sunny day, for if it is
put off until spring other things will
at that time demand attention and
the orchard is likely to be neglected
Instead of depending upon the
town grocer for our supply of seasoning
herbs such as thyme, sage,
lavendar, and spearmint let's produce
them at home. There is no
reason why these old time favorites
will not thrive just as well in our
own gardens as they did in the gardens
of our grandmothers. Besides,
those grown at home are much
fresher and sweeter than those put
up in tins.
In constructing the " fence for j
your large new garden, make a gate ?
large enough for a team to enter.
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it is no uncommon tning to see gar- *
dens that are not provided with a 5
large gate, it being necessary every I
time a team and wagon is taken in- t
to it to pull down a portion of the 1
fence. And, as a consequence, they *
are plowed and manured about half | ^
as often as they require for best j ?
results. * 11
To do a good job in pruning, the ! J
following tools are necessary: a\
good saw, a strong pair of hand <
' ; pruners, and a pair of long handled :
tree pruners. Also, every tool must 1
i be kept sharp, which will not only :
give a smooth cut but make pruning; j
work much lighter. }
It was most interesting to observe i
a short time ago a tenant farmer j
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moving into his new home, bringing j
with him a wagon load of collards. <
I The plants had been taken up by the 1
roots and when buried in the ground! 1
up to the leaves were "as good as 1
new", showing how well this vege- i
table will stand adverse treatment.; j
I Whether or not it is even necessary 1
to "move" during winter, we should i
have on hand an abundant supply <
of this old reliable, winter vegeta- s
ble. . ,
A South Carolina farmer was re%
cently offered $1.60 a bushel, whole- j
sale, for his entire crop of sweet j
potatoes. Knowing the number of i j
! bushels of potatoes that can be i
grown on an acre and the approxil
mifo pnst. nf nrnrliirt.irm. figure out i
I how much money can be made from]
a field of ten acres at this price. You
will perhaps say that there is a risk 1
, in storing sweet potatoes. Not so,; *
if vine cuttings are used in planting '
(to prevent rot) and the potatoes |1
are stored according to standard 11
methods.
In a recent trip thruogh the coun-;1
try it was observed that numbers of;
fruit trees set out during the past '
' fall still had the wire labels attach-,
ed to them. Unless these labels are
removed before growth begins they |
will girdle the trees. The only safe
liiethod of keeping track of the kind,
and varieties of fruits is to make
a plan of one's orchard on paper, J
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each tree. ?F. J. Crider, in Thej
Progressive Farmer.
FOOD FROM THE GARDEN.
Now that the government is urg- ,
ing everyone to cut down the consumption
of wheat bread &nd the
country generally is getting more
and inore onto a war basis, it becomes
necessary for us farmers to
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jrow real food in our gardens. We
:an eat more potatoes and less
tfheat bread, more peas and beans
ind less meat, just as well as not,
md actually have better health by
so doing. It is simply a question of
;he will to do our part.
You know we are prone to get in:o
the habit of eating certain things
md we actually think if we don't
lave them we will starve to death
>r become weak or lose flesh. We
put the same things into our stomichs
day after day and week after
sveek until our poor stomachs get
onrl wo ^nmnloiri nf inHitTPSU
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:ion. We even become stupid and
jlue, and catch cold, and have liver
irouble, as the dirpct result of a
sluggish condition of the system and
;his condition continues until we decide
we must take a dose of calomel
>r pills of some sort, or call in the
Joctor, and we lose time and energy
?nd money in the process.
Now, modern science has proved
;hat it is quite possible to make
Pood take the place of medicine. In
>ther words, if you vary your diet,
md eat the proper food you will
ceep well. This includes drinking
plenty of pure water, especially
when you first get up in the morn
ng, and eating fruit and vegetables
ind less meat and bread. Indeed,
neat should not be eaten more than
)nce a day, and many days it can
)e cut out altogether.
You know beans and peas will
;ake the place of meat and supply
four system with the same elements
)f nutrition. Potatoes and rice and
lominy and corn bread can be substituted
for wheat bread.
In addition to this, turnips and
;urnip greens, cabbage, mustard and
ipinach or any boiled green vegetailes
are most healthful, and should
je eaten liberally. Also, don't negest
the pot liquor. This is more
lutritious than the greens themselves.
This is a time when nothing
should be allowed to go to waste
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.vhicn can De usea xur tynat
save, someone else may eat.
Don't be afraid, therefore, if you
lo eat different things from what
you have been accustomed, but
enow that it is good for you; that
four stomach will thank you and
four liver rejoice at the change, and
fou will feel a whole lot better all
iround.
When planting your garden this
fear, figure first on the food value
>f all the vegetables you grow and
-Ty to make your garden supply your
;able to the greatest possible extent.
Then, plant some of the salad
feeetables, such as lettuce and rad
shes, etc. Also,' tomatoes. While
;here is comparatively small food
/alue in tomatoes they help to make
>ther food more palatable and
should be planted liberally and sav?d
and canned for future use.
Let us try this year as never beFore
to make our gardens pay and
pay big in food production for our
families and to sell.?F. J. M. in
Southern Ruralist.
ORCHARD NOTES.
The first of February is here and
the last call for spraying with concentrated
lime-sulphur for the San
lose scale is made in this issue of
the Ruralist. If this spray is not applied
before the paper comes out
again it will be too late. Don't let
the trees go into the growing season
without this spraying. The February
spraying with lime-sulphur is a
very important spray; it not only
kills the scale, but also many spores
of diseases that are lurking about
the trees just waiting for warm wea
ther to get in tneir worK on tne
plants and fruit.
Finish up what pruning is still to
be done before the rush of spring
work is upon you. Don't put this
off any longer unles it is intended to
prune in the summer time. Look
over the place for the last blight
cankers on the apples and pears and
get them out of the way.
Get ready to plow the orchard by
March. If the cover crop has not
made a good growth give it time,
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but where it was planted early and:
has'done well turn it under during:
the last of this month or in early
March.
Get busy on the fertilizing question.
All bearing orchards need
about 60 or 70 pounds of a mixture
of cottonseed meal, 100 pounds, -and
acid phosphate, 200 pounds. Get
this fertilizer mixed and ready for;
application as soon as the plowing is
finished.
If smudging is to be done during
the frost season get the piles of leaves,
sawdust, or whatever is to be;
used and arrange them in the orchards.
Get in a supply of kindling
and make ready to do the job in a
ship-shape manner. Don't cry over
spilt milk if the frost gets the;
blooms because the smudge piles
were not ready.?Southern Ruralist.;
EFFICIENT HOG BOX.
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Many farmers prepare hot water
for scalding hogs by the old method
of heating rocks and pieces of iron
and dropping them into the water.
Here is a better way; Make ^your
scalding box just as usual; exceptj
use a sheet of galvanized tin for the
bottom, having it large enough to
lap up the sides and one end about
three or four inches, and at the
other end to the top of the box.
Drive short nails thickly around the
edge of tin, and be sure to have the
tin drawn tightly over the edges.
Next, dig a trench about one foot
defep and as wide as the box, leaving
two or three inches around the edce
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for the box to rest on, and parallel
to wind. Place the box over the
trench and use the end that is covered
with tin for fire end. Erect a
piece of stove pipe at the other end,
if convenient. Bed earth around the
sides and pipe so as to close the recesses.
Start the fire just under the
end and in a very short while the
water will be ready. It dccsn't take
more than an armful of wood and
less than thirty minutes of time.
By this method one can kill at his
convenience.?Southern .Ruialist.
HOME GARDEN NOTES.
Start the plants for transplanting
nilt n-t Ann-no fViio mA.il. T-f A I. J.
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a hotbed on the place use that; if
not, plant the seeds in boxes in the
house and keep the boxes in the kitchen
or where they will keep warm.
Not only flowering plants, but tomatoes
and such like plants should
be started this month.
There are still # few weeks in
which shrubs and trees can be planted
about the home. There has been
plenty of cold weather during the,
winter when plans could be made
for the yard and grounds about the j
home. It is to be hoped that advantage
was taken of the snowy
days of midwinter to plan out some
improvement about the farm ho^ne.
Work manure into the flower beds
this month. Next month, seeding
time will have arrived and if the
beds are manured and worked now
they will be in an excellent condi-j
tion for the spring planting andj
transplanting.
February is a good month to fix
up the edges of the walks, fill in the
holes in the lawn and give the place
a general straightening up before
spring opens. After the spring work j
starts on the farm there is going to
be little chance of getting any labor
about the home until the rush
is over. Take time by the forelock]
and do the fixing up ahead of the I
rush.
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Fats supply energy. Without fats j
people's flesh melts from their j
bones and they weaken. When we be j
come hungry we draw on the fat of
the body; when that is gone we are
easy prey to disease.
A deficiency of fat cannot be re j
placed by an excess of starch and
sugar.
A child requires about half as
much fat as a man and an old per-1
son about three-quarters as much, j
Thf? prrnr of iisinc too much fat.
especially lard, has been the cause
of much of our digestive trouble.
We will be doing ourselves a kindness
by using it sparingly.
Sell the lard and use cottonseed,
corn or peanut oil. It will not cost
you less but it will help win the war.
WHEN BANKSAREGLOSEO
HOLIDAYS THAT DELAY
! THEMID'SBUSINESS
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'Only 84 Days in the Year in Which
the World's Business Is Not
Interrupted Somewhere by
Holidays and Sundays.
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CURIOUS FACT8 ABOUT THE *
WORLD'8 HOLIDAYS. *
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There la no national legal holl
it day In the United 8tate&
if Massachusetts does> not ob- if
it serve New Year's Day as a legal if
if holiday.
Five Christian countries do not
it observe Christmas aii a legal hoi
it lday. *
if New Year's Day is the bnly
holiday observed throughout the if1
world. !.
Eleven different dates are ob- if
served as New Year's Day in <liT- ^
ferent parts of the world. it
International business will be it
it Interfered with by holidays or it
it 8undays In 281 days in 1918, of it
it these 261 days being holidays. it
it This leaves only 84 days In it
which universal banking busl- it
it ness Is possible. .
November, with 26 h&lidays In' it
it different parts of the. world,
leads the months. it
March, with 19, has the few- it
it est holiday*. it
Brazil leads the nations of the it
it world with 84 holidays. it
The United 8tates comes next it
it with 64. *
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By GARRET SMITH.
WHILE man plays or prays the
world's business will be Interfered
with on 281 days
;auring iyiB.jui uuier wurus,
there will be only 84 days In tills coming
year that are not Sundays or special
holidays In one or more Impor-,
tant commercial regions of the earth.
The growth of International finance
has made the world's aggregate of
closed days a serious factor and an
expensive one. Not until now, how
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New York Clty'a Financial District
Decorated in Honor of a Foreign
War Mission.
ever, has any attempt been made to
compile an exhaustive list of holidays
for the guidance of bankers and merchants.
This task has just been completed
by the Guaranty Trust Company
of New York City.
Contrary to the popular notion, the
new democracies of the west enjoy a
greater number of holidays than their
sister nations of the eastern hemisphere.
Of the 97 nations or dependencies
listed Brazil leads, with 84 holidays.
The United States, with 54, Is
a close second, although she, unlike
Brazil, practically ignores the church
days. Another popular deluslgn is
shattered when we find that France
has only 18 formally observed days
and Italy only 23. We had supposed
the Latins always outdid us In this
particular. Among the other belligerents
Germany, It is presumed, will observe
20 days next year, Great Britain
16, Japan 15 and Russia 17.
The United States has no national
holiday. Acts of Congress and Presidents'
pronouncements in this respect
apply only tb the District of Columbia
and the territories.
Among the favorite months of holidays
the world over November leads,
with 26 out of Its possible 30 days,
May comes next, with 25 and an additional
Sunday not otherwise celebrated,
thus actually tying November In
the number of days closed to business.
March, on the other hand, Is the longest
all around business month, having
only 19 holidays.
New Year's Day Is the only holiday
universally observed. But, alas, It falls
on 11 different dates In different parts
of the globe, and some countries observe
more than one of them.
I' Christmas Day, due to Its religious
significance, Is not so generally observed
as New Year's Day. It has,
moreover, only three different dates.
IGENERA1
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Francis X. Bushman, the popular
movie actor, is being sued for di- st
vorce by his wife. C
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The Germans have brought over
2,700,000 men on the Western front
in prepartion for the spring drive. 0I
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Mrs. F. A. Judd, philanthropist, P
who has given over $100,000 to lo- is
ca) institutions, died in Spartanburg
Monday night.
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The City of Venice was hit re- g
peatedly by bombs dropped by air- j,
men on Sunday. No great damage u
was done. '
More than 14,000 British noncombatants
including men, women
and children have been killed by the ^
I fiprman air raids.
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Secretary Baker has asked the
House to appropriate $|3,211,180 j
for the construction of army quarters
and store houses at the . canal .
zone to afford better protection to ^
the canal. ~
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The Bolsheviki government gave n
the Roumanian Minister ' only ten g
hours to leave for Jassy, Roumania. v
Reports say that "he got within the g
time limit." '
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Herbert Sleigh, a sergeant major
from Johnstown, Pa., has the dis
tinction of being the first American! "
to shoot a German. He shot him at 0
a distance of 1,400 yards. He ha<^ 8
a telescopic sight.
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, According to information from ?
the Womens 'section as announced
Monday there ace 1,800,000 wonqen
in the United States doing farm r
work. Of this number 1,050,000 are a
colored and work in the Southern *
States. t -to
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It is said that the Central Em- u
pires have decided to serve an ulti- c
matum upon the Bolsheviki dele- t
gates at Brest Litovsk demand defi- v
nite acceptance or rejection of the s
German peace terms within a speci- b
fied time. r
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Greece will be aoie to muster ?uv,- c
000 men in the next two months and 1
have them at Salonika. More than h
1,200,000 allied troops will be ready c
for the drive to break the German
back-bone in the Balkans by March
31st. c
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The coast ship lines want more t
pay for carrying cotton to New Eng- a
land. The increases were asked foP- c
lowing an order of Director Gener- c
al- McAdoo diverting; 150,000 bales a
of cotton to Southern ports for
emergency shipments to New England
points to relieve the cotton f
shortage at Northern Mills. \
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Foster L. Kay, manager of' the fc
sub-station in Spartanburg, was in- r
stantly killed when he attempted to ,
throw a switch or when he came in
contact with a heavily charged wire, t
He had been in the employ of the c
Southern Power Company for three s
years. He leaves a wife and six d
children.
Mrs. A. F. Mieche, of Jersey City, c
killed herself by taking gas when it ?
was discovered that she had leprosy, t
She had been sick for five years t
with a skin disease but did not
know what the disease was until she
called in a specialist. She was fifty ^
two years old. Plans were being 0
made to take her to the County Isolation
Hospital at Laurel Hill.'
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.president, w uaun ?
in his annual address to Congress
that the German women in the Unitj
ed States be brought within the v
scope of the espionage act among ^
with the male alien enemies under ^
the provisions of a bill introduced
in the Senate Tuesday by Senator C
Culberson of Texas, chairman of the
Senate Judiciary Committee at the
request of Attorney General Greg- ?
ory.
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According to -Provost Marshal v
General Crowder the last of draftmen
of the First Draft will be called
to camp on Feb. 23. The movement 2
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Frank Buchannan, an ex-repl^H^9
sntative from Illinois in 1&10 lig^j^p
ongress, is now employed t as '
ructural ironworker in Chieagol)^
The first Episcopal bishop and
nly one serving in the
tates Army as chaplain, is Willii^^Bc'^M
. Remington, of Minneapolis;
stationed at Fort McPherson.
The Atlanta merchants are.
laining that they are not able
et cornmeal to sell with the. fld|2H 1^9
hey want some other cereal
se as a substitute. ^ ^
The new Polish Army that is xrr|| ^ Jj|
raining in France will rival/, tbaj|ll::JS
imous Frepch Foreign Legion. iSM --'3
igion is composed of men frff^^H|jl
lany countries but the recruits
le Polish army, are from the
d States. Canada. Italy, Enkl*uttW&$?
irazil, France and Australia. .
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rill bring the strength of the
ional Ajmy up to 685,000.
,ee, Virginia, is to get 3,000; Camp ^
ackson, in Columbia will get 8,383
egroes; Camp Gordon will get;2^^ ^
00 negroes; Camp Travis, TeXf&M
rill get 7,558, and Pike, Ark., will^f
et 2,000 negroes. ' *
It is proposed that the governlent
take care of the birds landr^SIs
hereby save the country mflliohp^
f dollars worth of feed that is
umed by the grasshoppers, cindK^Hj
ugs, boll weevil, potato bug, artoy&J8||
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rujliu) vuuuu^v tv w*?m| mum
tructive insects.
W. G. Lee, President of the Rail- (4^'1
oad Brotherhood, in a statement -'?'.*1
t the hearing in Washingtonr
hat the Road owners are responsi- rj- ;|
Ie for the traffic connection, Theyj^j;g
o not want the government controlr
inder the Adamdon/act to be arofr/frjaj
ess and they, have deliberate
ried to make it a failure. Instancesrere
cited by Mr. Lee in which hife^ ;$n?
ays that inexperienced mpn have'\||sM
ieen put in the place of veteran ':4 :
ailroad employees. Engines were.-^^B
lenmtted to ireeze. urews woma -fgg
e called for duty and would be de? JW j
ayed in the yards until the sixteen
lour law made it necessary for thai:"/^^
rew to take its rest
The selling of candy, cigars and "
igarettea on passenger trains on,
leatless Monday is a violation of
he Workless Day order. Such sales 'vi
,re not specifically mentioned in the
irder but they violate the spirit
oqiing under the same prohibition Z&ffl
,s in hotels and drug stores.
Another attempt to kill Lenine: fa
ailed Saturday. A student armed
pith a revolver penetrated the re- ' Ji
eption room of Smolay Institute ;$|S
iut was mobbed before he could i(M
each Lenine's private office.
New devices are Demg usea Dy . ;a
he Americans in the submarine v. ~J1
ampaign. Guns and torpedoes are. ';dj
till being used. Just what the njw
tevices are has not been disclosed. ^
The Russian soldiers around Mosow
want to fight. They do not 'M
irant to accept the German peace ' '({M
erms. They are ready to continue ?
he resisting. ^
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Surgeon General Gorgas is the $
lead of the great medical branches ";1
f the army, navy and public health. -J
Trapped by their own barrage
ire a few Amercian soldiers faced
leath but they managed to get back
o their own lines safely.
Grover Clevelnad Alexander
rants besides his annual salary of
12,000 a bonus of $10,000 to play
aseball this season.
:an't do without
the press and banner
Lbbeville Pres sand Banner:
Please renew our subscriptin for
nother year as we can't get along
without the paper.
Respectfully,
Mrs. Wm. G. Harper,
11 Calhoun St., Charleston, S. C.
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