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Will i V Krv4 *V r THE HOME GARDEN. (Prepared by County Home Demontion Agent.) Again the Southern sun has come forth from his hiding place behind the clouds, and his genial face tells us that Spring days are on the way. One of the principal thoughts in the house keeper's mind i8 the vegetable 4 garden, for it not only reduces the cost of living, but is a means of insuring the family's health. Vegetables are rich in mineral salts which our bodies must have in order to do their work properly. In this garden we have in mind there .should be something growing from the beginning to the end of the year. As soon as one vegetable is off, plant another to take its place. The home garden should supply something for the table three hundred and gixty-five days of the year. Too often peofele have only a spring and summer garden, disregarding the fact that many delicious vegetables can be grown in the fall and winter. T# ?J a - ? ii luc giuueii is 10 iuiim us purpose, we should find in it a variety of vegetables. In this way we can supply the body with a greater number of the minerals it needs. Some vegetables most commonly planted are cabbage, collards, turnips, tomatoes, peas, beans, beets, okra, onions, potatoes, cucumbers, and squash. The following are some which should be included in 'the list?piementos, kale, carrots, spinach, salsify, - asparagus, parsnip, chayotes, and kohlrabi. If the taste does not call for the last mentioned, U needs an operation. The operation is to give them a fair trial and the result will be an appetite created for them. The February garden calendar contains these suggestions?sow in hot beds egg plants, tomatoes, and pi^^entos. The last of the month sow O . open ground early peas, spring kale, beets, carrots, celery, spinach, parsley, lettuce, radish, asparagus roots, onion sets and horse radish roots. Early planting of potatoes can be made. The Hot Bed Make excavation 12 to 15 inches deep, 3 feet wide and 6 feet long. Fill pit with barnyard fertilizer. Pack it firmly to within two inches of the ground surface. Cover with four inches of porous top soil. Drive 2 by 4 inch post at corners and along sides. Nail 2 inch planks to these and draw soil high up around outside to keep out cold. Have cross pieces placed on to strengthen the frame and support the covering. Use canvass or 8Qsh for a covering. Make rows in hot bed about four inches apart. Sow seed thinly. The depth for planting seed should be about six times the diameter of the Beed. Pack soil very firmly over seed when planted to bring the moisture upward. Water is sprinkled uniformly over the surface at once. Before planting tomato or pimento seed in the hot bed, soak them in sweet milk for at least twenty-four hours. This tends to hasten germination. If the seed cling togeth?a?ssas?aa? I NODE RFI . Overhead expei ^ expense. Old systen - ? ? One-third of th have thrown away 1 IS . the end of the year ? ? *?- ? ? hi - -aimiu is \^?W\ -hi ? =ii^hpi ? ee=;=E; 1 = ffl J IS * -f - |:j= = [S *-?5 LEDGER LEj p=j Double or single enti ? limns. Machine ruled or IS ledger paper. Standard g] all the time. Special fo gj short notice. m B Grows in poulai til A A" ^ ? .m mc iiivillll your siai daily use throughout g put them up in all si * in jr. They drop back S ? We are not begi Sr every particular. Te [S traveling auditor foi t simpler and more ac m We have special , -' and machinery used ^ of the big city man SB * SB Si Don't send your SI SI SI SI SI CD IS IS SI SI SI I tntSBStStStSiStXtZitZltxli I ' lis .. thb billon er after being soaked, mix a little sand with them. Selection of Seed. An important factor for the gardener to keep in mind is the seed, ijFailure often results when old seed or seed of poor varieties are planted. Good varieties of 'omatoe8 are Stone, Spark's Earlina, Brimmer, Marvel, end Norton. The Marvel and Norton are wilt resistan.. Though not absolutely wilt proof, they stand the wilt much better than the non-wilt resistant. Varieties of early peas are Alas-: ka and Nott's Excelsior. For beets I Crosby's Egyptian and Eearly Blood Turnips are suggested. o Cotton as a Surpiius. Yorkville Enquirer. Probably the most profitable cotton crop the south ever raised was the crop of 1918. And until the sotfti learns the les- ( son of 1918 it can nefc/r hope to make economic headway rt. sing cotton. When America enti" *ed the world war in the spring of ^.917, the farmers of the south were persuaded and scared into raising food supplies suf-, ficient for the needs of the whole country. The cotton crop of 1918 was raised j on the surplus food supplies of 1917. and 1918, and the net profits on that| crop lflcluded the money that had previously been going out of the country for various kinds of supplies, t Also there was a tremendous sav- 1 f ing by reason of enforced economy Iiu the consumption of western wheat, western meat and foreign sugar and other products. This savijig mounted 1 up into many millions. I Deceived and demoralized by the 'profits of 1918 and thinking those I profits were derived from cotton I J alone, in. 1919 the farmers neglected' food stuffs and devoted their whole] 'attention to cotton. They put into ; I cotton all that they had made the J 'year before ami 4 v.1?1 * 1 , v.u\? uit iucj nciu savea, j ' and on top of that all they could \ ' borrow. The 1919 crop brought a good ! price apparently, but the profit was J' 'not really so great as it seemed for ! j the reason that it was not accom-j ' panied by the food products and the ' I economy of 1917 and 1918. | Then in 19 20 came the collapse./ ; The farmers had put all their re- ' 'sources into the throw of that year,' i and when the bubble was bursted I by means of socalled deflation, the ' south as a whole was thrown back to' about where it was in 1916. The lesson of it is merely a con- j ? firmation of the experience of a hun-^ di ed years?that there is no possible, hope of the south ever getting any-|' where raising cotton except as a sur-j1 plus. I( | wnere a farmer raises all needed I supplies, and makes cotton absolute- < ly clear above all other requirements, 1 he can hope to have the proceeds of that cotton for the payment of past! 1 indebtedness and the purchase of .l such articles as he cannot produce') himself. But the man who under- j> S IS IS H IS ? S 0 IS 0 ? E RNBOOKI ise is the canker worm that g is are costly. They. waste time # i e cost of a ledger is in the bin the cost of a ledger, in additio is buying new leaves at a mir pli|? ou M - . ... y up to 12 col1 extra heavy forms in stock ^ rms ruled on (] rity every year. It is a great 1 cments arc ready to mail out. t the Carolinas and our custo zes, bound in Red Russian c< flat when open, giving a perfe inners in the loose l?af line. W II us what your business is and r one of the largest. bonding c< curate. I forms for farmers as well as I by other manufacturers. We ufacturer. HERALD i PRINTERS money away to dis tant cities HKRALD, DILLON, SOCHI CAROL takes to raise cotton on credit, either directly or indirectly, is^onxnitted' to hopeless speculation that has never yet spelled anything but disaster. I It is not a pleasant situation to contemplate, but it is the truth. o Facta About Cotton Marlboro County, Dillon's neighbor, claims the distinction ot averaging production of more cotton to the acre than any other county in the United States. Ellis County, Texas, in total number bales produced is the banner cotton growing county of the United States. The per acre yfeld, average for the. United States, has vari id from 145 | pounds of lint in 1871 t ? 224 pounds , in 1914. The 10 year average is 182: pounds. Egyptian yield of cotton averages 390 pounds, about to the acre. Cot-* ton production in Egypt is limited to irrigated acres along the Nile. The area under cotton in India,? ( about 25,000,000 acres?covers such a wide clLmate range, that at many' seasons of the yea r planting and j picking are going on in different} parts of the country at the same time, j Cotton is grown in Asia as far north as the latitude of Chicago. There is now enough cotton in the world, unspuu, to last nearly two1 years. The Civil War was fought in the cotton fields of the South, destroying1 temporarily, the means of supply, j The recent World War was fought in] the great factory districts of the world. There is now more cotton in the stocks of any one of half a dozen cot-| ton markets in the ~ wvuui man WilS produced in all of the United States' a hundred years ago. More than three bales of cotton,' averaging 500 pounds in weight have been grown on a single acre in South Carolina. The estimated number of working cotton spindles in the United States is about 35,000,000 of which 15,000,000 ure in cotton growing states. I The largest cotton crop ever plantpel in the United States was 37,458,1)00 acres m 1013, which yielded 14,-! 156,486 bales, 500 pounds equivalent, of lint. America's greatest crop of cotton? 16,134,030 bales was grown on 36,832,000 acres. The knowledge of cotton growing wild in islands of the West Indies is is old as the history of their discovery by the Snani?ird? ??? i .?<?*> Arkwright, Hargreaves and Crompton, are the great names connected with invention of cotton spinning nia:hmery. They were Englishmen. Eli Whitney, an American, invented the saw-gin. The original patent was March 14, 1794. On account of the labor Involved n seperating the lint from the seed jy hand, cotton was of unknown commercial importance prior to the inention of Whitney's gin. (FFPiivr. 1 1UUI 111 VI 1 naws at the vitals of every bi ^ and lose dollars that run ini THE LOOSEL ding. When you open new boc n to the time lost in transfei limum of expense. R DUPLICA ime-saver. You make out I No rush at the end of the 1 mers tell us they would not c >whide back and corners, < ct writing surface. e have been putting up loose |p( HO /looi<rn r? n.rn*#v~. ?":a ' ?? uo uwoi^ii a 9tT mt'lll IU suit 1 >mpanies in America. We ffua merchants, bankers and man employ the same skilled wor PUBLISHING < RUL for the same class of work. 1 IBB IS IS IS IS IS EE IS IS BBS * ItilffwiiTir ' , -- IN A, THURSDAY MORNING. FEBF Five Acre8 to th? Plow. Mr. N. E. McQueen who lives on Route 2 says he will not reduce his acreage this year, but Mr. McQueen has good reasons for going counter to the shes of the American Cotton Assoc .on. He ha8 been fanning a numf of years, but his policy is not to p .t more than five acres to the plcx if Mr. McQueen's neighbors incre: their acreage he sticks to five 7 ^ IT PAYS PI: * tATTD li.. Y wuiv crops at the lo> that every acre mui The crop yield i be sure you supply The increased yi Fertilizers bring yoi Sw Atlanta, Ga. 11 11 SSI SI SIS SB?? SB iRTHftD.9 isiness. The problem today is o big sums. The modern syst EAF SYSTEM >ks you throw away one-third ing accounts. A loose leaf ledj TING LEDG This ledger will pay for itst saved in three months. It c; positc each ledger sheet an bill head perforated at one ei bon sheet works between the second sheet. The items are < the bill head and a copy is ma second sheet. At the end of t your statements are made oui tear out the bill head and mai customer, keeping the seconc the ledger until the account i: saves one-third of your book gives you a completer record 11 t* i * mis irom ciav 10 day as the it nonth. No delay in getting 01 lo without them for many tin rorduroy sides and strong me leaf outfits for many years, a it. Wc offer you the services o rantee to give you a system tl ufacturers. We have forms tli kmen.. We use the same mat COMPANY, Di ERS Ve can also give you close pric ) EB BE 51 ISffl ffl B SI 60 S S lUARY 24, 1021. acres, and even 40 cents cotton did ] not tempt him to vary his rule. Mr. 1 McQueen says he does not handle as < much money as some of his brother farmers who plant 10 and 15 acres to the plow, but he always manages to pay his debts, has plenty to eat at j home, has no financial troubles and ' sleeps eight hours every night, re- ' gardless of whether cotton is 5 cents o.' "40 cotton a pound. Mr. McQueen is much better off than the man who I an for Prof y during 1921 depends upc ivest cost per pound or bus* st produce more pounds and s in proportion to the plant plenty of plant food. ield from the liberal use of J u a large profit. Buy now. rift & Compar (FERTILIZER WORKS) Charlotte, N. C. Nc FOR SALE BY * ?B??SH???H?I< ; SAVES H \ to get maximum production em is r I of the cost of your ledger. In ?er will last a life time and yo carried to ideon the THE STEE he month T, . .,; . l . ? Bound with h t, and you 1 it to the a bindinff *hat i 1 sheet in who wants the I s paid. It tains a mechanic work and ers and is bourn ' cannot be beater of extra grade. ems arc entered on your ledge it on time. Hundreds of the nes the co-t. They cut book-ke< tal parts made of the very be nd we guarantee our hooks to f an expert accountant who wa hat will s avc time and make lat suit every business. We us< crial and our.overhead expend lion, 5. C. BINDERS es on lithographed, engraved, < !S? HfflfflfflfflHESSK ' 1 ? ' ' ' plants a large acreage, but exhaust* the proceeds of his crop paying fertilizer bills and other expenses. o Miss Kate Evans of Minturn at- . ended the Alumnae Meeting held at Flora MacDonald College on Feb uary 15th, at which time plans were liade for the big Home Coming Week luring the next Commencement, May 52-25. Miss Evans represented the i 11 n n Pnnnf v 11r-i ne> ? a :?" -?uiuuvii /\?pvrviaiiun. w > it >n growing your hel. This means more bushels. food supplied, so Swift's Red Steer iy :w Orleans, La. \ 'i aaaaassaaaH is rAiin; ? lUNfc I I ... f IS at a minimum of gj IS is ,1 ffl three years you m ur only expense at IS 5S*"~" a EBACK LEDGER ? ted Pigskin Leather ? ? ippels to the customer >est he can get. It con- ? nil flitin nil nlk. I with materials that B i. It is strictly a binder IS B B r, and at the end of [g se ledgers are in m ?ping in half. We r^i ?st aluminum cast- ^ B be first-class in * s for sixteen years B your book-work B 19 e the same presses g] se is less than that gj s si si or embossed work. I l?I RH RR ffl PR NF1 (?1EM W CSV