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y. . SOUTHERN C ?? ? < ^ ^ TOPICS Or INTEREST TO THE PLkXTER How to Knisr Corn. T. J. Wear, ef Durham County, North Carolina, thus tells in the Fro- t< ?rro?siv<? Farmer the way to raise corn: U As I have been traveling in North Carolina this year and have watched n with interest the way in which the o farmers raise or try to raise corn, I t< now wish. In your valuable paper, to Sl make some criticisms; these will, of Sl course, uot be in harmony with all h farmers' views. a Iu the tirst place, the majority of t farmers do not break tlieir laud deep e: enough in the spring before*plaining. *1 Next they plant about one-third loo " much corn to t ht acre. The rows for h the average land should be at least four feet apart and the corn three feet 1 * ri.r. ?.,lv nn? stalk ~ 1U ?UV ....x. x...... in a place. The first time it is plowed. should be done with a loner plow uexi to the corn.. In some sections this plow is called a "calf tongue." Let this plow run deep. The other plow o: plows should be wider and should run shallower. The second plowing should be done with shorter plows an . should uoi run as close to corn as first plowing. The third plowing should be. done with still larger plows, which should be run shallower still than the second plowJt ing, and should be run far euough . away front eorn as not to break any of the little com roots, which by this time have spread our six. or eight inches front the stalk. t The fourth plowing should be done with a turning plow of some kind in ~ order that you may run far euough from the corn as to not < tit the roots, and still be able to cover up the large 1 roots around the stalk, so that the x hot suns of July and August will not ; cook them and turn the corn yellow v cr burn it up. if vaii Ji.mvo tiirt?> After this nlowinir. ' before the corn tassel*, take a Ion? shovel plow and run it through the . centre of each corn middle as deep as j one horse can pull it. This plow should not he over live or six inches wide. I know that my idea of raising corn Is different from a great many the- ^ ?retlcal farmers, hut it is not theory j that we want if it does not put corn in the crib. I was raised on a farm and know from actual experience that i this way of cultivating corn is all right. * no matter what kind of land you may be cultivating. I have also traveled , over several of the Southern States, * and have observed that farmers who f cultivate their corn in this way always have plenty of corn to do them. I p wish I could impress on the farmer (1) liow very important it is not to plant their corn too thickly on poor . land; (2) that tliey should never run ^ onimch tli? fnrii with a nlow -- ----- *? , to break the small roots of the corn; t3) that the last plowing should be done ^ with a turning plow in order that the large roots around the torn could be t covered up without running close enough to the stalks to break those fl roots. I am satisfied that there has been t at least oO.OOO bushels of corn de- j atroyed in North Carolina this year t by the farmers laying their corn by ^ with that oid-fasbioned double-shovel plow, ot some similar cultivator. The above description as to cultivat- s Ing corn does not apply where the corn j Is planted on a ridge or bed or in the water furrow, but only when planted r on a level, as most farmers plant it. Farm Implement Tract. Wheels made of any good sound log. ' maple is host, twelve inches In diani- 0 eter. six-inch tread, frame sills three by 11 three-inch oak, inside cross piece two 1 by three, all mortised together; floor 0 to lay flush with outside frame; plat- * form four and one-half fee.. wide, seven * feet long; can he any size to suit 11 builder. Hind axle five feet ten inches long, one and one-fourth inches in di- (l aineicr, rouic' iron fastened to body to rfjin : jji j '' ' _l. qby iron cap and three-fourth inch boits, j, a large loose washer on inside and outside of wheels; pin hole in end. Front truck should be made solid and strong; axle two feet and ten inches Ions:, with I; three by three inch wood clipped on: t tongue mortised to cap and braced. Al- $ so Ion? braces from tongue to outer i< end of axle, coupling of one-half by b three inches iron double; one piece on b top of frame and one under firmly n bolted to end of frame and first inside n cross piece running over and under axle c pin. dropping through heavy staple in d axle cap. It is the handiest thing on o the farm and can be used in many c ways, hauling potato crates, sacks of grain, hog crates and logs.?C. E. Scroggs. h Ne^va of the Day. j The late A. C. Wheeler, In speaking of women's sense of humor, once said t that Mme Modjeska was much more than ordinarily capable in seeing the ? point of a joke. And then, speaking of her ready wit, he referred to a pro- d fessional interview he once had with * her on theatrical matters, in which a Mary Anderson," said Modjeska, con- a vincingly, "Is nothlDg but a Roman & punch made of holy water." ' t! ?~?1 IBM fiOTES. j J=== ? & . STOCKMAN AND TRUCK GROWER, Ancltorinj; a Barn to Cronml. II. M. S. asks Low to author a barn ) the ground by means of concrete locks. It is quickly and cheaply done by leans of a wooden form, a frost rum f a pyramid, or a pyraimu wiiii tm>p cut off. It iimy- be twelve inches quart' on ton. iweiny-four inches qua re at the bottom autl thirty-sir iches high, imbedded in the ground ccording to the lay of tlie land about weuty-four inches: holes being dug at sactly the right places and to the right epth the form is accurately placed [his is better done by tbe head carpen?i) and the block built by ramming in oncrete. Two bolts are imbedded in he concrete; thev may well he flat - - -= V) S tfidc. m\ -7IJF/ COHCfiCTT \ OKCT.ETE AXenor. BLOOKS FOr. BABK FOSTJ. trips with the lower ends turned over nd at the upper ends holes drilled to eceive three-fourth inch bolts trnnserseiy. These iron strips must he ae. urately placed to make easy work, and rheu the building is raised to place the tost sets between them and transverse tolls hold it firmly in place. It would ake right smart of a tornado to lift ne of these concrete blocks dove-tailed cito the earth.?Joseph E. Wing, in '.ivoders' Gazette. Keeping Street Potatoes. I road an article in your paper of Xr>. ember 15, 0:1 keeping potatoes. And want to tell you how I keep mine. A leighbor has borrowed my paper and I an't quote your words exactly, but ou said the moon lias no effect upon oiatoes and that you had never tried putting potatoes up in the moon." vow that sounds quite sarcastic. You an't make an old farmer believe that he moon has no influence over vegetaion. The moon, I am told (I've not een it), causes the ebb and flow of the >cean tides. If the moon has that uucli influence over the ocean, why loes it have 110 influence over the arth? It is a certain fact that corn lanted 011 the light of the moon will xow taller than that planted 011 the lark of the moon: and so it is with uauy other things we grow: and I 0011entl that potatoes dug ou the full lioou will keep better than when dug in the new. I do not wait for frost o kill the vines. I take them up when he moon is right. The moon was full ast month (October) on the 10th. I ook up a portion of my crop on the nth and intended to take up the balnce on the next day. but it looked like re would have rain and I went about aving what I had taken up and left he remainder to be taken up next full noon. I know I was taking a groat isk, hut rather than take them tip fter the mcon had fulled. I waited or the full moon in November and I ook them up 011 the 14th of November, ne day before tlie full moon. I put ay potatoes in Ii.lis about fifty bushels 0 the hill. I round them up and put orn stalks next to the potatoes. Then put a covering of pine leaves, or cheat straw, or hay and cover with irt eight of ten iuehes or more. I pave the top of the hill uncovered of irt for a few days, ana then 1 cover it ;ood all over, making it air-tight. I lien cover the hill with plank, leaving 1 so the sun can strike it on the south ide. Now. Ml. Editor. I have followed this plan for years and it is the iest way to keep potatoes that I have ver seen tried. If the potatoes do ot get frost-bitten, and the proper are is exercised 111 ventilation while hey arc going through the sweat, hey can be kept until June.?A. J. \1r1ucr, in Southern Cultivator. Bone* For I'oaltry, Bones are valuable for poultry larger for the phosphate of lime which hey contain. They contain also a mall quantity of animal maitcr. which 5 useful for food. They are in their est condition when fresli and uu timed. Burning consumes the auiinl matter and makes them just so inch loss valuable. While the charoal which burned hones contain aids igestion, and is purify in?, it can he btaiued more cheaply in the form of omuion wood charcoal. Life is a lizzie to the young man beind the soda water counter. Civil Engineer Dead. New York, Special.?George Shutuck Morrison, a member of the isthmian canal commission and one of the oremost civil engineers in America, ied in this city Thursday evening. Ir. Morrison gained his reputation as , bridge engineer from the Ave bridges cross the Missippi, ten across the Misouri and many others whose wnstruclon he supervised, ? ill y . . 'vsi*. I G 0 0 D ? I | ? R O A D S J 5 }. Government Conntrnction ?tf Road*. "7T" Mil has boon introduced in the / \ House of Representatives of the United States providing for the establishment of a Bureau of Tublic Roads to take charge of the survey, planning and construction of good roads, outside the limits of cities and incorporated towns or villages, which may be petitioned for by the authorities in any political division or any Mate, it is propusju iu iiinuuprlate $75,000 for the maintenance of the office and $20,000,000 for the construction of the roads. The limitations are that the National Government shall pay one-half the cost of a road and the locality the other half?this half being divided between State, political sub-division (county or township) and property owners in any manner determined by them, and that 110 State shall receive more of the sunt appropriated than the proportion which its population bears to the entire population of the United States. Twenty-two officials and employes are provided for, the director to receive $4500 a year and others from $25(xj to $720 a year, and "such other officers, agents and servants as the director may from time to time require." The $75,000 appropriated in one section would scarcely provide for these twenty-two men and the expenses enumerated, and would fail completely to provide for a force sufficient to plan the 1. *V\n rtvnftnftitlirp of HUUV UUU Sllftl l ur uiv v -.['v . tho $20.00<).(?00. Fortunately the section appropriating the latter sum for "co-operation and actual construction" Includes "the maintenance of said Bureau of Public Roads." The Government lias in the past constructed public roads, but they were highways to carry the traffic between sections of the country without other means of communication, approaches to Government reservations or of similar public use. The excuse for the improvement of rivers and harbors has always been the service or the development of national commerce, however far the actual practice may have deviated from this ideal. This bill, however. goes to the furthest limit and leaves it to the judgment of the director of the bureau as to whether the road fund shall be used in developing communication by highways between States or distributed in improving sections of road entirely local in character, whether largely traveled or not. There are many who defend the principle of the river and harbor improvements who could not advocate such a bill "for the relief of the Treasury of the United States" as this. Were the principle of the hill to secure a majority vote the form of and the lack of safeguard of expenditure in this bill would scarcely receive favorable consideration except in a Legislature composed entirely of "practical" politicians. The Bureau of Public Roads, under this bill, could readily be made the place for pnyiug political debts and for distributing public patronage to the hungry. There have been State Legis'-itures which would pass this sort of bill, but Congress has never done so except in the river and harbor bill in its worst days, which was a gradual growth from a legitimate beginning.?Municipal Engineering. OrnMilnjj riant For Macadam I?oad?. The cities of New England are wiser In their day and generation than are most other municipalities in the eoun f Ttiox* msto .n dollar ?ro further than the average city. Economy and j prudence may have been inherited from I the Puritans, but whatever their source the example is a pood one to follow. Authorities of large and small municipalities throughout New England for years have l>een noted for their economical methods in the construction and maintenance of streets and highways. More portable stone crushers and permanent plants built on a larger scale wiP. be found within New England territory than any other equal area In the United States. In ConneetI icut and Massachusetts, particularly, the highways have beta greatly improved. For instance, the city of Newton lias its own crushing plant, which has been in operation for years, and as a result not only are the streets of the ritv well macadamized, but the roads leading front the city are carefully improved. This is made possible by the economical use of this plant. Titer? is an abundance of good trap rock in a quarry not far front the limits of the city, at which is installed an up-to-date plant. There is no public improvement more popular to-day than that connected with the construction and maintenance of a better highway system. The good work Is being pushed along by many national. State and town good roads associations. All classes of people are Interested in the work, the rich and the poor, the farmer and laborer, the bicycle rider and the one who walks; for all alike can and do appreciate a well built and maintained thoroughfare. * tlm fa ent _ XU1S raovi'iutllt M.iuii:. mot iw. .... ... or can transport bis produce to market over a good road at less expense than over a poor road. Tliis is a fact which i is being repeatedly demonstrated, and ' a larger number of people are coming I to recognize it as a good argument why | the roads should be improved. If it , benefits the farmer in this way it can- ; not fail to benefit every one who uses the public highways. Therefore, every municipality should promote the work by investing in a stone crushing piant adapted to its needs, to be used both for the improvement of its streets and the main highways leading into it. A better investment could not be made.? Municipal Journal and Engineer. If it were not for the trials of life \ the lawyers would starve to death. i %p SUFFERINC AM..RICA is the land of * nervous women. ^ The ereat majority of nervous i \ women are so because thev are suf- V fcring from some form of female disease. c Mrs. Emma Mitchell, 520 Louisiana f street. Indianapolis, Ind., writes: |c "Peruna has certainly been a blessing j c in disguise to nie, for when I first began 1 taking it for troubles peeuliar to the sex j and a generally worn out system I had lit- j tie faith. "For the past five years I have j rarely been without pain, but Pentua has changed all this, and In a very short time. I think J had only taken two bottles before J began to recuperate very quickly, ; and seven bottles maJe me well. : I do not have headache or backache any more, and hate seme Interest In life. 1 olve all credit where It is due, and that Is to Peruna."? Emma Mitchell. By far the greatest number of female troubles are caused directly by catarrh. They are catarrh of the organ which is i affected. These women despair of recov-11 Natural Flavor Cottage= Comed Beef ? Jt rig! vRccp it in the house for emetsrencies?for si you want something good and want it quick, appetizing lunch is teady in an instant. Libbv. McNeill & Libbv. Chi tj blood, wind on the stomach, bloated oowels, fc pains after eating, liver trouble, sallow shin am regularly you are sick. 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The greatest obstacle in the way if recovery is that they do not understand hat it is catarrh which is the source of heir iliness. In female complaint ninetylinc cases out of one hundred are nothing >ut catarrh. Peruna cures catarrh wheriver located. Chronic invalids who have languished or years on sick beds with some form *of emale disease begin td improve at once afer beginning Dr. Hartman's treatment. Among the many prominent women who ecommcnd Peruna are: ? Beiva Lockvood, of Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Col. Tamilton, of Columbus. Ohio; Mrs. F. E. iVarren. wife of U. S. Senator Warren, of iVyoming. If you do not derive prompt and satisactory results from the use of Peruna, vrite at once to Dr. Hart man. giving a full itatement of your case, and ne will be leased to give you his valuable advice jratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Tartman Sanitarium, Columbus, 0. ike oar choice corned beef, cook it and season I I done bv experts? better than is possible at I . 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One generally gives relief within twenty minutes. HAIR GROWTH 7 B ? - ai : Promoted by snampoos of Cuticura Soap ? J And Dressings of Cuticura ths Great Skin Cure * J Purest, Sweetest, Most Elective Remedies for Sklo, Scalp aid Hair. ? ":'M This treatment at once stops tolling hair, removes cmsts, scales and dandruff, destroys hair parasites, soothes Irritated, Itching surfaces, stimulates the hair follicles, loosens the scalp skin, [ . Q supplies the roots with energy and nourishment, and mattes toe nair grow w npon a sweet, wholesome, healthy scalp when all else fails. . 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