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Best Indications That Tree Fruits Are Ripe One of the best indications that tree fmits are ripe enough to pick is the change of the ground color from green to yellow. Immature fruit Is leaf green. Some varieties never have any red color, but most develop more or less on them as they ripen. The green is called the ground color. The red which appears later, is called the over color. When fruit is eating ripe, the green color has become yellow. This change begins, however, before the fruit is eating ripe, and about the time it is hard ripe. In general the fruit is ready to pick when the gr< ground color takes on a tinge of low. A cheap way to provide fdr a sljo on the farm is to construct/the simple trench silo. There Is practically no cost except the labor ip the construc tion of the earth wait trench silo. I N S U/R A N C E IRE * INDSTORM PUBLIC LIABILITY CIDENT - HEALTH SURETY BONDS AUTOMOBILE THEFT \ Calhoun and Co. Fertilizers Aid Soil Improvement Green Manur6 Crop Pro duces Material Needed to Plow Under. bot) P. A. PRICE, Manager. For 15 Days Only WE WILL SELL ONE BOTTLE OF THE FAMOUS V.V.V. TONIC VALUE $1.50, and ONE BOTTLE of LINIMENT, known as SNAKE OIL, VALUE 50 CTS.—TOTAL VALUE $2.00, ALL FOR ONLY $i oo (Prepared/by the United Statea Department of Agriculture.) jn manuring and cover cropping, for fertility and to protect the 1 erosion in winter, are highly de- ilrable in the South; and the prac tice Is becoming Increasingly popular In' the North. Agronomists in the United States Department of Agricul ture urge the method for the main tenance of good soils and for improve ment of poor soils. In particular, when the soil Is Infertile they sug gest fertilising the field before sow ing the green-manuring crop, prefer ably a legume. Object of Green Manure. Dr. A. J. Pieters, of the bureau of plant industry, says: “The object in growing a green-manure crop is to produce as much material as possible to turn under. On very poor soils it frequently happens that even the strongest feeders can make but a poor growth. Even cowpeas may fail to make good growth unless the plants are stimulated by \he artificial ferti lizer. “When a legume is grown the addi tion of nitrogen is not usually neces sary, as the legume will gather its own nitrogen, but an application of phosphorus and potash often Increases the crop greatly and this enables the plant to gather more nitrogen. The phosphorus and potash that may he applied for the benefit of the green manure crops Is not wasted .either, as it will be available for the next crop, when the green-manure crop decays' What Fertilizer and Amount. “What fertilizer and how much will depend on the soil and on the crop, but generally 300 to 400 pounds of 16 per cent superphosphate and 100 pounds of muriate of potash per acre will be found to stimulate the growth of the green manure, so as to pro duce a larger crop than could have been grown without the fertilizer. The larger crop. If a legume, will gather more nitrogen than a smaller one could and the soil will benefit accord ingly.** # Use of Fertilizers Returns Dividends Limestone Can Be Used to Increase Farmer’s Profit. That farmers can afford to apply limestone to land that is slightly acid has been shown in tests made since 1925 at the southwestern Kansas ex. perimental fields under the direction 4)t I. K. Landon, agronomist, of the agricultural experiment station. His records show limestone can be used to increase profit for the farmer and that as the acidity of the land Increases thesproflt from nse of lime- scone in^redses. The tests have been made at Fort Scott, Bourbon county; Rest, Wilson county; Moran, Allen county, and Columbus, Cherokee county. Landon’s work has demonstrated that not only will limestone increase yields, but In general farmers can profit by also applying each spring about 150 pounds of acid phosphate per acre to their alfalfa fields. If an imal manure Is plentiful on the farm, an application of it at the time of seeding In addition to lime and phos phate will prove still more profitable. Landon does recommend the appli cation of manure if its use on alfalfa will keep It from row crops. On the average farm all manure is needed for row crops and the limestone-phosphate treatment gives satisfactory results. The experiments show that: lime stone paid a net profit of $3.57 per acre per year; lime-phosphate paid $9.48 per acre per year: lime-manure gave a net return or $7.67 per acre per year, and the lime-manure-phos phate treatment gave a net return of $12 per acre per year. Smaller Diameter Silos Gaining in Popularity WE PREPAY ALI, MAU. ORDERS Carolina Drug Co. BARNWELL, S. C. ❖ T. B. Ellis j. a eius ELLIS ENGINEERING CO. Land Surveying a Specialty. Lyndhnrst, S. C. MONEY TO LOAN Loans made same day application received. No Red Tape ARLEY & BLATT. Attomeys-at-Law BarawelL S. C. One mistake many farmers made years ago was to build their silus too large in diameter, and there is today a decided tendency toward 8, 10, 12 and 14-foot silos rather than 14. 16 18 and 20-foot ones then *0 common. A smaller diameter and higher silo Is much more flexible than a larger one and can much more easily be adjust ed to change in the size of the dairy herd. With a 10-foot silo, a dairyman who for any reason must decrease the number of dairy cows will find his silo much too large to feed out with out some spoiled silage, and while possible It Is hardly practicable to divide it into two parts. With a 10- foot silo, however, such a change would make no trouble, ns his silage would simply last that much longer. If he wishes to enlarge his herd, it Is a simple matter to build another silo to take care of the Increase. Picking Fancy Apples for Market Trade Only For a fancy market, apples should be picked In baskets, care being taken at all times not to bruise the fruit or puncture the skin. The commercial apple crop is usually picked in pick ing bags or oprpns. The apples should not be allowed to fall a long distance Into the container ami the picker should not let his picking bag or apron bounce from round to round of the ladder when decending. Reas* onnble core should be exercised In dumping' the fnftt Into tlio barrel*; boxes, or on the packing table. Fruit should always he removed from the tree by means of a sideways twist. The practice of pulling off fruit, spur and all. is to be avoided, as It may te> duce the number of spurs sufficient ly to affect later crops. * ' Wm. McNAB Representing FIRE, HEALTH AND ACCIDENT INSURANCE COMPANIES. s Personal attention given all business . Office in Hirrison Block, Main 81 BARNWELL. 8. C Determining Right Time to Harvest Apple Crop The determination of the proper time to pick fall and winter apples is more difficult than is the case with summer apples. The different varie ties offer different problems. Some varieties, of which Jonathan is an ex ample, become hard ripe, relatively early; others ripen later. Sotjpe suffer in keeping quality if picked too late. Other varieties keep best If left on the tree until relatively late. Jonathans tend to soften on the tree and suffer from Jonathan spot and decay after picking if left too long. It is best to harvest them as soon as they have de veloped good size and color. During a hot dry fall they<?tend to drop badly, and may start to drop before they have colored up. When apples which are uninjured by insect or disease start to drop off on their own accord, the crop must be picked to save it, re gardless of size and color. Agricultural Notes iKHKHKKH«H«KKH«KKKKKKHKHKK> Seed roots should only be f set out on land free from weeds. . * * * Commercial fertilizer Is always profitably applied before alfalfa. the Car of Universal Appeal! / *• / S INCE January 1st, over a million one hundred and thirty-five thousand six-cylinder Chevrolets have • been produced. Naturally, this is an, outstanding . industrial achievement. But It is more than that. 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There is just as much excitement and exercise to be had in an “up-and-coming” straw berry bed at the end of a hoe handle os there Is on a golf course at the end of a golf stick or chasing that elusive little ball over the green swartb, and the results are much more lasting and enjpyable. ■frv Potatoes Are Grown on Tomato Roots Worcester, Mass.—Local wags are remarking that “the pomato vines are producing good topatos” this year and proving their point. They refer to an experimental to mato-potato plant, grown successfully after 20 years experimenting by Oscar Soderholm, horticulturist. It produces potatoes underground and tomatoes above. It Is neither joke nor freak, Mr. Sod erholm says, but an attempt to pro duce better tomatoes by giving them stronger roots. He says the potato roots are both larger and stronger than those of the tomato plant,\and that under his theory the combination should produce more tomatoes. He claims that the results prove the theory, for he has vines bearing more tomatoes than a normal plant, and growing ten feet high, when supported. The tomato plants are real, for they were grafted upon the potato vines. Sudan grass makes a fine hay crop. The fact that it resembles Johnson grass should not condemn it • * * It is useless to attempt alfalfa on poor land. Poor land poorly drained is not satisfactory for alfalfa. Epidemic Is Killing Penguins by Thousands Cape Town, Soutji Africa.—Penguins are dying by the thousands along the South African *coast as the result of a mysterious disease. Superintendent Jackson, Guano is Robert Akers, 9, son of a Kentucky college president, is a mathematical geqius who has amazed his teachers. He ’ will shortly address the legisla ture on astronomy at its full session. LONG TERM MONEY to LEND Weeds, along with insects, probably cause most of the vegetable losses that are experienced annually. * —* * * The first paved road In the United States was between New York and Boston in 1650. It was made of cob blestones. * • * Soy beans should be- cut after the dew is off the leaves. As soon as the plants are wilted they should be raked Into windrows. • • • Well-drained marsh-border soils, mucks, and well-drained .and fairly well-decomposed peats hre adapted to a large variety of crops. lands Inspector, received reports from Lambert Bay, stating that thousands of dead penguins were washed ashore. The beaches of False bay are also strewn with dead penguins. 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