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i The Barnwell People. Largest Circulation in the County DROUTH AND ' THE FLY. HESSIAN Drouth and the Hessian fly did con siderable damage to the wheat grown in Pennsylvania and neighboring States this year, and also in 1899. The rty peat is one that demands consideration at the meetings of all farmers’ organ izations, as individual effort can ac complish but little unless supported by oo-operation. The Hessian By is an old pest that is so well known and has done so mych harm that farmers should have organized ye^rs ago for its ex termination. The adult insect is abont the size of a mosquito, and in this section the females deposit their eggs upon the fall wheat, it will also attack rye and barley. The eggs are deposited upon the under surface of the leaves and hatch in about four or five days, the maggots then working their way down between the sheaths to points of the stalks near the ground, where the “puparium,” er “Bat seeds” are formed. The larvae remain inactive on the stubble during the winter, but issue as adults in the spring. They then lay eggs for the summer brood, which form the familiar u flox seeds,” before harvest time, remaining on the stubble during the summer and pro^ ducing adults in the fall. Their work weakens the stalks and causes^ the wheat to lodge. The swelling on the young wheat near the base of the stalks indicates their presence.. Some fields seem to escape the fly, while others are attacked, and the amount of mois ture is a factor. The destruction caused by this enemy of wheat is enormous in' some sections, Pennsylvania farmers having their yields of wheat so greatly reduced this year as to cause them a loss. But this reduction not only af fects the farmers, lint also reduces the wheat supply of the country, as the fly VIRTUE IN NUT DIET. danger to Uie bread supply is a malkr of coucern ta all ^ SciKNTlMTS InVK8TIOATE TilE Vxi.UE or A Cheat Article ok Diet , Uncle-Sam has in/bis employed at the present time a corps of scientific experts whose business it is to study foods and to advise American house wives as to the most economical mode of filling tbc family market basket cost and nourishment being jointly considered. These dietetic sharps, says the New York Herald, are anxious to persuade the people to eat more nuts, which, while approaching the grains in food value, are decidedly cheap, or, in the case of some kinds, would soon become so if attention were paid to cultivate them. It appears that even the nuts we do eat are largely fetched from abroad, though nearly all of them might be produced very easily in this country. Dried and shredded coco&uut is very important article of commerce, and a vast amount of it is already used id this country. The meat of the fresh fruit is ho)iA palatable and nutritious, while the milk, iced, is a most delicious drink. Grated, the meat enters into the composition of curry, while from the oil is made a beautiful butter, which is finding its way to the tables of the poor as a substitute for oleomargarine. Whetr* Small and green the nuts are powdered for medicinal use, being mixed with the oil of the ripe nut for a healing ointment The milk con tains about half as much fat as cow’s milk. Chestnuts are cultivated on a great scale in Europe, particularly in France, where the chief morning dish for a large part of the working class is a pre paration made by steaming the shelled unit and cooking them with milk and salt, the mixture being sold hot on the stieets. These nuts are also dried and ground to flour, which may be kept for quite a while, and which, when mixed with water and baked in thiu sheets, affords a sweet and nutritious cake.’ An excellent soup u made from chestnuts, which are likewise utilized is known over a large area, and anv r — As the insect remains in the stubble the duty of every farmer, after he has harveeted his field, is to plow the land or burn it over, if pooaibh-. The land should be rolled with a heavy roller after plowing. All chaff and screen ing* should t>e burnt. Wet weather favors the development of the insects There are parasites which prey upon the pests, tad they cannot escape de struction unless the homing of the field is done somewhat late. The best mode of preventing damage is to sow fact in new. Farmer* *hould boiled and dipi>ed in syrup for a con serve. Experiments mode by the govern- mert experts point to the conclusion that nuts, generally speaking, are not indigestible, despite the popular im pression to thexontrary. Enormous quantities of |»ecau nuts are now used m this country, though chiefly by confectioners. This is a spec'cs of hickory nut, native to this comment, and not found anywhere else in the world. The flneel |»ecaua come from Louisiana, though the bulk ot the crop is produced io Texas. a lubricant it (* used by clockmaker* and gunsmiths It is a fine illuminant, the keroel being an rich io oil lhat it will burn for a few examine their field and notice if then ars uy Indications. Many of them are under the impression when the Hessian fly appears that it comes sud denly, when in fact it l>egins on wheat in the fall and remain, umil ready for I ^ work. The burning of the stubble field ! ° reh * Bi " ,U ^ a fortune after harvest, or plowing and rolling, should never be ueglected. < oper ative effort io a comm unity will nd any fanner community of the pest if is who SAVE YOUR OWN SEED. 'PAPER Very few farmers appreciate the im portance of selecting and zaying their own seed for next year’s planting. They do not realize how much depends upon this. Often two men on adjoin ing farms do about the same amount of work and plant about the same num ber of acres and one will gather very much larger crops than the other, simply because he used better seed. We have in mind a farmer who sowed largely of wheat one year ago.' His land was much the same quality. He prepared it all alike. He spent as much upon one acre as another. But he sowed about one-third in one variety of wheat and the two-thirds in another. The seed upon FROM COTTON HULLS. ’ . SEED To an Atlanta man belongs the dis tinction of having, discovered a pro cess by which the common cotton see* halls can be made into paper at about one-half the cost of the manufacture from wood pulp. The invpntor is Robert Thomas, formerly superinten dent of the Glendale paper mills, i large plant owned by S. M. Inman and Col. W. A. Hemphill. Mr. Thomas is at present a resident of New York city and has already interested several well- known capitalists in the enterprise with the result that a $5,000,000 company is to be organized in Trenton, N. J., the smaller acreage I f or ^ purpose of erecting large plants were nener. rne resultrWtis that he : 1 made as much upon the ouVjhird aa up on the two-thirds. But tBe’cost was only W1 ^ cut tho presenlkprice of one-half as much. So that the profits] P a P er in half. According U> the in were moie than double. ‘ ventor himself this latest consumma- If he had used the best seed upon | cotton seed hull about ex all iiis crop he would now be about M 181181 ® f'i le U8e t i ,e cotton pi» n t- The five hundred dollars better off. That cotton .‘^ e i f 18 08e( l in making cloth, means that he had lost five hundred Mi 13 ® 031 ** extracted from the seed dollars by using an inferior seed. But] w hich is used m Europe i-Tplace o: 1 even his inferior seed had been saved’] °^ ve °ii» tiie knll* have been used f<^r with cure and well sowed and that part 8toc i < feod, and even the stalks of the of his crop was much better than P* ant been utilized many, of his neighbors. If all the ^ r - Thomas was for many years in community bad vowed the better ^® P a P ernia * ; i n 8 b* 1 * 311 ®* 8 in the South variety of seed the resulting crop a,l< i a * PW n 3011 ^ 8 •K°» wll3 l e opmting would have .brought many thousandm a small mill m Florida,Jie learned the of dollars into that community for this] c i lem3ca i a< ^ 30n which will reduce the single crop. This is only one instance. coUon seed hulls to pulp. Realizing There are thousands more like it all a ! olJC ® lhat be . hai1 ““de an important over the country. | discovery, he disposed of his plant am; The same truth applies to every | devoted the entire proceeds of the sale crop we try to grow. The best seed 1 30 purchasing machinery with which moments brightly when lighted with match, Thousands of acres of |>ccan tree* are already under cultivation in the Gulf Slates, and it is said that an a big income to anyltody who ha* patience to wail ten year* until the trees come into full bearing. Almonds, while recognized only as a luxury for iteeert, find a gu-at inaiket in this country. The almond is very the work is dons sysn malicaJly. Jt tbs careless one, here and there, wbo i > , , ,,, .. ..... g IM, d food, containing as it does 21 per EXS £ ITiXTSE I r? .°L" “ u -“«» upon the community season's work upon the exteftnina- tioo of the Hessian fly would clear the State of the nuisance, and it is not a( all difficult to get rid of it if all farmer* will unite in the matter. Where wheat has been seeded down ■ that goes to make blood and muscle togeliter with $5 per cent of fat and 17 per cent of starch. < »ne might live for quite a while on these nuts and retain health and strength. The experts nay that, speaking this year, in order to avoid the fly, 1° f U K Ut k * and tt has not made desirable growth DUh ? ra%k ' there mav be favorable weather be- '? K f n , . n “ l .“T 01 tween now and the severely cokl^ri.*J n n fQel “ 1 ooe P 00 "* 1 of w , h “‘, Should the ground be covered with I ° De ^ Uve P n ; U { comfortably for snow it will afford protection taain.t wh,cb contain i>o per cent of fai, lb per cent uutd. ■fli t .»hnihi protection ■IMUI SI against ■am nrt well or not, there is ouo special fer tiliser that will give the plants almost new life io the spring, which is nitrate at soda. An application of) 00 pounds pur acre, after danger of frost is over m spring will give a deep green color to theniants, and they will grow rapid ly. The cost of the nitrate will be re turned in the increased yield of the crop, as well m save a sickly lot of plants from destruction. Some farmers go over their fields in the spring with a smoothing harrow, and if necessary the field is rolled. When applying nitrate it will be an advantage to har^ row before so doing. The drouth is not so damaging to wheat if the pre paration of the land was thorough at time of drilling the seen, nor are the plants thrown out of the ground if the land is well drained. A good wheat crop pays as well now as formerly, even with lower prices, as labot-saving machinery reduces the expense, hut where fanneis make the principal mis take is in not applying fertilizers more liberally, as well as using manure, for, according to statistical reports, the use of fertilizers is_not general, considering the number' of f&rmt.—Philadelphia JBecprtL teln.” Efforts are being made through cul tivation, to increase the size of various American nuts, and notable success in this line has been obtained with the u shagbark ” and the chestnut. Peanuts can not be omitted from a discussion of the food value of uuts, though iu reality they are not nuts at all, but a kind of pea. The govern- meat experts find that a quart of pea- are the cheapest seed ami the best farming can never be done with sorry seed. Get the very best, and theii save your own seed with the very best care you can give., them. You can make no worse mistake than planting inferior seed because they are cheaper. Again we have Wondered why our farmers are so careless about taking care of their seed. Why they continue from year to year to buy seed. Every farmer could and should save ills own oat seed. But we see millions of bushels of oat seed bought by Termers every year. We can all save our Irish (rotate seed. But this is a large and mcreaaing trade throughout the South. Many actually believe that Inth (rota- toes grown North will make better crops than those we groVherc. Tbit i« a great mistake Try it and you will soon be convinced. They really become acclimatsd and make larger and belter crop* than ebipited seed. Of course it is some trouble to save coot I *eed and protect them from rat* and weevil and damp, but we can learn to do these things and we will grt large pay for doing so. It is not near so much trouble as working hard all th- tear ami makiOk’ a *iiort Clop iMirrowing money to buy with, or mortgaging the crop or farm to grow another crop on. Your suecesa orfajlure as a farmer may depend upon the seed you plant. Think of this and begin to arl upon it.-— iSoM/Aam C’xhit«i(»r. GROWTH OF CITIES. to prosecute his experiments. The cost of producing the new pulp will be about one-half the cost of manufactur ing the wood pulp. Iu tensile strength is said to be very much greater than wood fiber, which will make it invalu able for baas and wrapping paper. In an interview with an AtlanU friend Mr. Thomas tells of his dis covery as follows :. “ 1 have discovei ed a method of converting the common cotton ssed hulls into a tine paper fiber suitable for making writing (taper of a high grade. Now this discovery winds up the cotton crop product com pletely, and gives everything a market value. Now, as large sum* of monsv cannot be raised in the Mouth, 1 came on to New York city to look for capt tal, and I have been very succeseful having atroqt reached the (rofat of organizing a $5,000,UC0 company for ihe purpose of erecting large plants in the cotton bell >*l Uie Mouth. '’—Atlanta STUF FAYING SUCH TAXES. It would be a blessing to the coun try iT all the increaas in popuhuion during the last ten years wa* in the rural districts, and lhat every city of more than 15.0UO people would show no increase. One of the greatest evils '.hat confront* us now U the tendency to leave the country and rural industry for the cilie*. with their vices, im moralities and baslizzencd temptation*, lhat flick under Uie electric lights, like moths around a lamp. In very large ciUta there is a large (icrceulage of the wor»lelemeuts of society,and the influence of law-abiding • itizena is taxed to bold this baser element under whole- -omc restraint. New Yoak and Akron, Ohio, are not worse in this respect than other American cities of similar size, .p«4..Uic>-■ ba>i*i a scenes of disorder ~tfaet would put To' shame the half civilized race* of the dark ages. The political debauchery of cities is equal to its nurml -tutu*, and corrupts city governmeut and spread* its influence throughout the When we eee a farmer «lnigglio| through the m«d with a half of a torn Io the market, when if the roads were good, hr could haul a gp««i load, we know that be ts paying a heavy r< lax, far heavier than he would be •allsLed to pay if it was levied on him by rhe tog collector in make the road good. When we see a man plowing an old field wi|h a single mule and i toothpick plow we know lhat lie is pay iijg a heavy ux for ick of the knos how, and that the tax he is paying in poor crops would supply him with all the farm paper* published ia the United Males and would help him to do better anti *o get more out of his soil. W hen wc see another man In mg >eai after year to raise a crop on wet land, we know that be, too, is paying a Ux far heavier than the drainage would cost him. When we tec a mao buying- commercial fertilizers every year to put on his land to grow the *ame crop annually ou the same land we know that he, too, is paying a heavy tax and making bia land poorer at the same lime. W oen we sec a farmer (so called) throwing bis manure out of suble window in pib-e under the eav*» to lot the barn and woele in the rain, ti it - he^ kcro^ Is a h®* 83 -/ stuff as a pound of rump steak, though costing only one-third tho price. The peanut is the cheapest of all foods re latively to the amount of nutriment it conUins, having 49 percent of fat and 29 per cent of “ protein.’ The oil, which is one half the weight of the kernel, is sweet and palatable and is widely used as a substitute for .olive. 7 1 country. It has been shown that every noxious weed imported into this coun try to plague the iudustrious farmer, finds, its center of infection in the _ ^ cities, and slowly, perhaps, but surely nuts contaius as much muscle raising . 8 l ,rC4lt ^ 8 sloog the routes of travel and —A new use has been found for ’ glass, says the Scientific American. It consists in packing butter m a box made of six sheets of ordinary window glass, the edges being covered with gammed paper. The closed box is then enveloped in a layer of plaster of Paris one-fourth of an inch thick, and it Is covered with a specially prepared paper. As the plaster is a bad con ductor of heal, the temperature inside the hermetically sealed receptacle re mains constant, being unaffected by external changes. The cost of packing la only about 2c per pound. It is used to a great extent in Australia. Butter has been sent from Melbourne to Kim- beriev, io Africa, tad the butter was found te be in a perfectly sound con dition. ^ Cases are how made which hold as much as 200 pounds of butter. In the early years of the political of this country it was customary • the president the candidate highest number of electoral amke tho candidate the opposite party) who got 3 —The care of thousands of dollars worth of railroad property devolves upon Mr. and Mrs. Paul Reicke, of California. They are in charge of a signal station on the brow of a lofty (>eak in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, where they keep a shaip lookout, field glass in hand, for fires which might break ouWn the snow sheds that skirt the railroad through the Rocky wilds. If a small flame should pass unnoticed for an hour the whole chain tif sheds might be consumed and the tracks en dangered. The woman watches by day and her husband by night. -r— From the outbreak of the contest with the Boers up to the end of-Sep tember the actual war expenditure,s of the British governmeut were $280,000,- 000, and the official estimate of pay ments still to lie made —based on the declaration that the war is over—$80,- 000,000 more, making a total of $360,- 000,000. This is nearly equal to the gross output of the South African gold mints from their discovery to the be- ginning of the war, a period of fifteen and a half years. —One of the most insidious bever ages consumed in Honolulu is known as ** swipes.” It is the native beer of Hawaii, and among the many ingre dients used in its manufacture are sugar, corn, pineapple root, sliced pineapples, Chinese ginger, bran and Irish pot transportation until untold injur)- re sults. Thus it is with the political in fluence of the cit'es. Just as the Akron mob only wanted a pretext to display its disregard for life and pro perty, so the coi-rupt city boss only wants an issue that bears apou the spoils of place and (rower, to arouse the hordes of corrupt iind conjptible voters within their sphere of influence, to carry out the deepest and darkest political plots. The smaller towns are not included in this criticism, because they have not yet reached the base And yet there are all over yie land farmers wbo are paying all these heavy taxes, to which the real taxes they are required to pay era but JMfthe, aUd they are complaining that farming does n6t qiay. There is no business ou earth that could alaoiFthe leaks that many farmers have and still pay^a pro fit. If you want to make fAnuin*g pay, stop the taxes that your own careless ness and ignorance are levying on you. Better pay twice the county tax you now pay and get good roads to hauf over. Better read and study how to make better crops ; better look at the leaks from your barnyard. BetUr raise more forage and feed more cattle and make a profit in doing it and then adopt a good rotation of crops and save the fertilizer bills. In short, better .be a real farmer and make meney instead of being a slipshod cropper and see yourself add land grew poorer.—Practical Farmer. THE RICE TRUST A FACT. The talk of the nc6 planters forming a combination for the protection of their interests seems to be an accom plished fact. A large planter from Cojleton has told a reporter of the Florence Timee that the combination of the planters had I*een brought abont as suggested in the recent press dis patches, but that the nature of that combifiatioahad been misunderstood. It was essentially a combination of the farmers, the first combination of pro ducers ever effected, and there was every indication of success. There are, he says, about eighty per cent, of the rice growers of the South in the Com bine. Their idea is to hold their rice until they got what they thought a fair price for it. They did not intend to squeeze the ..consumiug public, but they wanted a living price for their product. . ’ .. Iu regard io the competition of for eign rice he said that the growers had nothing to fear. /The home nee was always in demand, its own excellency made a market for it beyond all com petition, and os the rise in price would not be so great as to injure the cause in this respect, though the Southern farmer, unlike the New England banker and manufacturer, has no fostering tariff laws to protect tbem and enrich them at the expense of the rest of the world. This statement in regard to the action of the rice planters shows that they are influenced by the well recognized prin ciple that “ self-preservation is the first law of nature,” which applies more of ten to the affairs of life than most peo ple imagine. It has been objected time and again to organizations of fanners for protective purpose* that they are imitating the commeicial and financial trusts to which they have strenuously objected in recent year*, • but there is no similarity between the trust mono polies and farmers' organization*, as trusts are organized for the purpose of introlling the business of other people and farmers organize solel/ for the protection of their own legitimate in terests. 'This diet iaetloo difference In the world, and U is to hear farmers declaring lhat Uiey capnm see the difference. They blindly accept the declarations of others with out investigating for themselves. The rice jilanter* in the Month are pursuing the right course in dealing with the problem before them, and when the experiment ha* been fairly tested them Ul be no danger of returning to the suicidal policy of “ every man for him self and the devil take the hindmost." hicb'generaily results in his Nalanic majesty getting a strong hold upon the entire (ratenntv.—7V Cotton Plant. FEEDING RICE MEAL. Purifies the Bided. Dr. HtMiaway Treats All Diseases. ms Method Invariably Cures AH Catarrhal, Bronchial, Lang, 8ton« ach, Liver, Kidney and Other Com- ; plaints, as Well as All Diseases and Weaknesses of W omen. In Dr. Hathaway’s most extensive practice, cov erinz a period of more thaii'JOyears.hebas Deec called upon to treat di manner of diseases of men and women auu along the whole line of human ailments he ha been uniformly sue eessfuL Dr. Hathaway’s me thod of treatment get. directly at the seat of the trouble, purifies the blood tones up the whole system and neutralizes the poisons which produce the diseased conditions. 0 Yearly lie restores to periect - ’• l*senses health thousands of sufferers Treated. from Catarrh. Bronchitis, As thma, Hay Fever, Lung Complaints, Stomach. Liver and Kidney Diseases, Illes, Tumors, Can- cors. Eczema and all manner of skin affections _ . Dr. Hathaway also treats with Diseases of ,f, e greatest success all those Women mam distressful: weaknesses and ll.vases by wnich so many women arc afflicted Dr Hathawav's offices are fitted - ,, oal with all the latest electrical am; \pplianoes. otner appliances, in the'use of vblrh. as well as the microscope, no has world v Me fame as an expert. All of the medicine* ised by Dr. Hathaway are eomiKHmoed In Ids .><vu laboratories, under his personal direction nd special remedies are prepared for each in ilvidual case according to Its reoulrements. ■ .«■ Dr Hathaway has prepared a -lamination ^riesof self-exam illation liln.ik* Blanks. apphingtothediiTrrfi tdi-c; w vb.teh lie sends free on application. \o. I t> >'-n: No.2,for Women; No.r.forMf'inDis-a-es 4.for CStarrhal I» : sea e< \'o :->i h Ilr.HaH a* lyniakesno.-haiy tfOASUltatMMI f nr pon.oiU'lou at either hi. Free. office or b\ mall. » J. NEWTON HATHAWAY, M. D. Hr. IlHtliumitr X <'o«, Hottife lirorert M!>••••, Atlanta, Go. -W MfcNTIO.S THIS KaM.U WttkX WRIT mo. WHITEWASH FOR FARM BUILD INGS. “HITCH YOUR WAGON TO A STAR.” The following bulletin is trom the lairv division' i»f the Mouth ^Carolina experiment stalioa atl'lemaon Cnttege, C.: Rice meal is used quite rxt< nsivelv in the lower port at the Male os stock foo*l aud os no data c-«ml>t be found as to iu feeding value it was thought best to make a lest of it. The remalts id feeding rice meal with milk to pigs are given in balleiio No. A. of which the following i« a sum diary When fed with akim milk rice meal las a feeding value equal to that nt corn meal. Figs six months old made an aver age gain of 1.72 pounds per day for 61 lays when fed on nee meal ao<l a pkiia milk at Uie ratio ofonr pocod ot meal to four pound- of milk. The lot fed on corn meal and *kim milk al the same ratio made an avenge gam of 1.6c HXituia per head per day for 61 days. It took 2.4b pounds of nee meal and 9.1*1 pound* of skim in ilk to make one ^ound of gam. . It took 2.57 pounds of corn uicpl aqd iUfr Pounds of skua nmku. Kiund of gam One pound of gainiost ;.m ,• i- whea rice meal was fed and 4.63 cents when corn meal was fed. the price of corn meal being $20 per ton and rice meal $15 per ton. Xhaljs, have a high ideal in all your ark,-and ooutinutllv-.be wozluug to wards it. You may oot attain to your ideal, but you will be a belter farmer, a better man and a !letter dUzen if you are always striving to wards improvement. Improvement in stock and the buildings for their com fort, improvement In seed aud crops, and ol course, improvement in ths land itself and in alt the processes needed fdk the cultivation of the sell. The season is near at hand when the farmer will have an opportunity to review the season just |iaat and to note wherein he ha* land and the cause of the failure, to study his sue- cease* and the melLoda that led to them, and can Unis be m a better con dition to plan for the future eeaaou. Plan to have roora of the suci ease* and fewer >4 the failure*. If the seaeou has taugbl you the reason for lour not getting better retail* with a certain crop, do n->t let the !ee*on be left. If every fanner could keep brief note* of sverv lay * operation* on the farm in a brief and compact *hape, he would have at the close of the *easoo a mas* of hints for tb4 future. It is the men who plan must in advance who make the greatest successes, and are never Itehind hand. Determine now lhat during the winter you will study* more than evgr, and that you will use li-rn guesswork m your farm ing. Then- is nothing like reducing all your business to writing, and to meaaun and weigh everything. If you du not know the exact content of every one of your fields, measure them accurately when you have leisure. Drill meg-ure in seed ing wheal and thresher measure in storing the crop do not give you an accurate knowledge of ths size of your fields or the number of bu»b<-l« you can sell of the crop. Studv the feeding ot eminence that prevails in- large cities You will not find a flock of buzzards contending over the carcass of a mouse. I l° 1 “t* 11 “'V but let the lord,/ ox be the I h,lVe been P Iaced attraction and the obscene birds will come from ■every point to attend the feast. The smaller towns do not present a suffi cient array of possible spoils to attract the political vultures. The weeds of moral and political corruption, flrst grown io. the city hot-beds, will pen etrate the rural districts and give char acter (or lack of character) to the politics of the Stale a.id nation. The political influence of the cities we con sider the greatest menace to honest goveniment that now confronts the people of this country. We would be glad if we coulrp-tin^CTr a“|i!ii«’’fhar would prevent the over-growth of due*, and render the political and Practical education ia needed on the farm, but it seem* to require a long time for Southern farmers to profit by their own experience, without saying what they might do with the advantage of using the experience of others. De«p plowing has beequrged forhiany years upon the farmers of this section,- but comparatively few are really en gaged in this method of benefiting their land and protecting their crops from drought. The Southern Cultivator makes an excellent point of present interest as follows : “ The, present short crop of cotton is largely due to the ignorance of the cotton farmers. Cotton requires a great quantity of water when taking on its fruit. If we had plowec our land last fall so deep t^it the heavy spring tains would have gone down into the subsoil instead of into the creeks and rivers, then when On the new locomotives of the Den ver and Rio Grande , railway nozzles on the roofs of the cars pointing at the rear of the tender I the dry weather of August came, plenty and the platform of the front end of of water would have been at hand and the baggage car. These connect*to the the shedding would have been prevent- hot water of the boiler through a cock ed and a heavy top crop would now be convenient to the engine driver or the on band. Our ignorance prevented us fireman, who can instantly send a jet from proper preparation, hence the of mixed steam or boili ig water, at2C01 shedding and the light crop.” pounds pressure, that would effectively kill anybody happening to be in its] ” There are very few Southern farm- range. The jet is for protection against | ers who know how their lands should train robbers. The silver market has shown an up ward tendency during the past few days. Bar silver is now quoted at moral inflneuce of the country districts paramount. Then we would have honorable political methods, and a guarantee of the perpetuity founded on good government.—Farm and Ranch. It fertneoIs after stand- at rout' tog four or five days, ami Is then ready adhered j for consumptlou. t stsUib Mast has bam $0 jaure,t U U-Z tOJ < —The expedition sent to Cuba by the Smithsoniati Institute to collect animals and plants has returned loaded down with specimens and with tales of adventure more strange than the curiosities they brought with ihem- Among other strange animal speries they claim to have captured rat* three feat long (including the tall) and Tha hun make the commercial ratio of silver to gold about 31 to 1, and the Value of the bullion,in the silver dollar about 51 cents. The New' York Herald says that theTeromptknnjf stiver coinage in India is the chief cause of the rise in (he white metal. The (trice is now higher than it has been in four years. The official announcement of the total population of the United States for 1900 is 76,295,220, of which 74,527,- 907 are contained i.n the 45 States reptesenting ulalion Thera is a total of 134,159 Indians not taxed. The (opulauun in 1890 wss 63,050,75$, which shows a gain at 13,225,*44. The popolntivo of South Carolina is 1A40A12 as sd with 1,141,149 la 1800. be treated,” says the Savannah JVeics “ The trouble with them is that they are every year so anxious to raise a big crop .of cotton that they give all time and devote all of the land to cotton. They work hard cultivating a hundred or more aurc««under unsatis factory conditions, and do not get as much in return as they would from one-fifth the number of properly-culu- vated acres. In time they will come to the conclusion probably that it is better to treat their land so that yield from one to two hales to the acre instead of one bale to three acres. ** adapted to the needs of each, and try tu compound the rations wuh some degree rf accuracy. Weigh your milk and do uol credit a cow with a lot of faatnandcall.it quarts of milk. Not only weigh the 'milk of each cow, but lest its quality with the Babcock machine, and see whether that cow is pay ing for her feed. l*ul a high ideal before you for the cows to -come up to as well as for every other animal kept, and all that are not approaching the ideal get rid of as soon a* possible Met a high ideal on the farm hands and treat those well who try to come up to your ideal of what a farm should be. Thc.man who comes up to your ideal Is worth far better pay than the com mon run of men. In a word, weed out inferiority on the farm and take the best care of the developing ones from the farm hand down to the pig. “So shall your barns be filled with plenty.”—Practical Farmer. There are in operation in Mexiftp 134 cotton mill*. The prairie chicken,- it is predicted, will soon become extinct in Kansas. President McKinley has appointed Thursday, 29th ,inst., Thanksgiving Day. • . ' ’ Ordinary sticking plaster makes a good remedy for corns. It keeps them soft and prevents rubbing. fliQ highest price paid in erreen- jacks for gold during tbi < y. i! » ir was $2.85, the quota ion lor July 16, 1S64. The report come* from Germany that many Confederate $10 bills have l>een passed there recently as Uncie Sam’s p remises u. pa,. The cotton industry of the South !>as now 4,801,320 spindles in active opera, tion, and during the pi-t-eU- yiar 1,418,497 more will be'siideu. Germany leads al: other cou fries on the ‘continent in cotton cbnsimiptinii ith $71,400,000, France and Ru-sia Nothing adds so much to the ap pearance of farm buildings as bright and unchanging colors. It costs a great deal to keep houses and barns painted, but it is well worth the money, not merely because of the in creased durability, but because of the improved appearance. Nothing spell* prosperity in such fair letteia, written large, as well painted farm buildings. Paint, however, is dear, and foi a long time larmen who desire to keep things in first-class shape liave been looking for a cheap paint or a white wash that will stand the weather and not become instead .of a clear white a dirty drab in a few weeks or months. The United States government has been looking after this, as it does after almost everything touching farm life, and has hit upon a whitewash for its lighthouses which shotild stand rough conditions. We give the receipt as fol lows: “Take a half bushel of uuslacked lime, slack it with boiling water, cover during the process to keep in steam, strain ihe liquid throngh a fine sieve or strainer, and add to it a peck of salt, previously dissolved in warm water; three pounds of ground rice boiled to a thin paste and stirred in whil? hot; half a pound Spanish whiting and one pound of glue* previously dissolved by soaking in cold water, and then hang ing over the fire in a small pot hung in a larger one filled with water, add five gallons of hot water to the mixture^ stir well and lei it stand a few days covered from dirt. It should be ap plied hot, for which purpose it can be kept in a portable furnace." There is nothing in the above that is not within the reach of every reader. He can buy the mater al, except (lossib- ly the ground rice, and he can buy that and have it ground in the coffee mill or with his own farm mill, can do all the mixing, aud apply it, and having ap plied it to on«! building he can soon determine whether he wants to go around the farm and make his fann ihs anv) of *11 Al. wry ora. _ mt . -The easi end i 1 jinu 1 'rtande o i * house in Washington ia emlielli*be<i with Uiis whitewash, and if it Is good enough for the White House it i* good enough for anybody etae’s house or barn. A pint of this mixture will cover a tquare yard tad is said to be almost a* serviceable a* pain) for w<>od, bruk or stone, and there is no paint known lhat will equal it in cheapness. Why not try it • Farmer. Mr. Herbert Fuinam, librarian ot Congress, who ha* returm-d from his visit n> Europe in search of boofea, ■pent $l.*,uuu lor volumes needed ’>> Ihe Institution of which he k at the hrs<t. He visited all the principal cities of England and the continent and rummaged through dark, dusty second-hand store*, besides examining the stocks of lh«- first-class book dealers. The Arizona Indians have s pecu liar and effective way of branding an imal*. The brand i« made of steel, with a knife edge. It is fixed on the heed ol an arrow, and shot with a bow at the animal to be branded with such force that it cuts the mark in the hide. When the wound heals it leaves a scar, which looks a* though burned with a branding iron. Tbe principal cotton mill* in China * ars thoae at Shanghai. They now numlwreight, and have 273,HOU spin dle* and 3,450 looms. At Ningpo then is one mill at work, with II.iniQ spin dles, and at Hankow there are two, with- and 50,000 spindles re spectively. Rub lamp chimneys with newspapers on which ha* been poured a little kero sene. This will make them much clearer than if soap is used; they will • also La le*i liable u* crack. OKI Eft You can cough yourself into bronchiiis,pneu monia, and con sumption. Bandaging and bundling your throat will do no good. You must give your throat and lungs rest and * allow the cough wounds to heal. There is noth ing so bad for a cough as cough ing. Stop it by using ofcoi&ji. ^ gether e( l uall3D S $95,2 M»,000. Pipe lines have long bin in u t f.»r conveying 'natural ga>, petroleum, etc., and now one is in "penr-ion in Utah, fos convey ing sugai h- et syru .. The University of Chicago has nting approximately^ the pop-] established a bureau of information tolJ he hne 38 m3j ® 8 lo33 8- to be used For apporLonment [ relieve the regular officers ot answer- * Then i« a cbalfly in' 1 - «m.— j. - .—i ••• ’ '“ inf the questions of new comers, and '* have pieced two eindenU in charge 4reread in dark red or maroon uni- f"rms, the official color of the univers ity. By their services the students part of their tmboo fees. there are no physicians, am. iruggiH* de not make a living. For more than a year there has not been r- «u k i in the enure county that hi not b cared for and restored to health ‘harts” and other household Even the cough of early consumption is cured. And, later on, when the disease is firmly fixed, you can bring rest and comfort in every case. A 25 cent bottle will c; re new couKhs tnd c Ids; the 50 cent size Is i .tter for settled coughs v f bronchitis and weak |'Iu ngs; the one dollar size is more economical for chronic cases and con- -’2.-•'tion. It’g the size youiAouIdkeepon hand. M All fMMlt** OOf bt to b* on tho rank ~ a»-s orsu<l<lra attacks sf croup acu -lung trouble*. Kmvcous- L * K7-* 0 *** ,n ,h * »*o' 3 ■tvuU k#-p ► J <W*rr Pactoral eoMtoaU* ou h.J| W r"’ u* acslaot aa eaMTfSMy.*' ► I ^ ^ooias O. Willi*. t£K~ 4 o* M.um Moiuac wire. ►Wt * 3 22 \ A #