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;r": . ' f 7^ SOUTHERN f <^?7 -? (? , ^ TOPICS OF MTERFST TO THE PLANTl . Iv 1 Summer Houses. It Is often advisable in summertime to establish a colony of fowls 011 new runs, away from the farm buildings and from the general flock. For this j purpose, light, portable and cheaply constructed houses are needed. It is also desirable to get the growing XTMBKE ONE. broods out of their crowded coops and j up off the ground as soon as they are i !nr<m ornnph to use Derches. The I ?o- -- ? - I structure described below can be adapted to either purpose. Number oue is a handy and inexpensive ~co!ony" house for hens or growing chicks, and is so light that i it can be moved about anywhere, j There is uo window, but an overlap- 1 pjng portion of the roof can be raised j for light and ventilation, the open ; space being covered by wire netting. I Such a hen-house needs only a light bit of frame?four pieces for sills; two A pieces for the ends and a ridge pole. A panel removed from the door and covered with wire netting would be an Improvement. Number two. Nothing elaborate, is it? And yet it answers every purpose, find not only protects from storm bat XOXBEIt TWO. from skunks and weasels. It has a tight bottom, and each side of the roof is hinged to the side, so that it may be opened to catch a chick or to clean it out. A piece of coal sieve is the door and ventilator, through which air eau pass but no animal. The handles pass through the house, making low perches for the birdies. When moving it raise one end and drag the bandies at the other end. A bit of chain keeps the roofs together, and in very hot weather permits the insertion of a chip to hold it open half an inch or more the length of the ridge to let the heat escape. Every farm ought to have half a dozen. We should certainly hinge the roof, or sections of it. at the top as in number one. Tatfccr than at the bottom, as bur correspondent advises. Number three, which we copy from the American Agriculturist, shows a practical coop for a summer colony UUilBEK THHEE. of hens that are to be given free range in a pasture. The top is the roosting : aaaaoo tA fnr Alnoninc f?n 11 IWlUf IV MUIVU IV* viv??**4..0 v?be liad by letting down a hinged door in the rear. The space below can be nsed during rainstorms, the hinged front protecting this and also the roosting room from rain, while giving free circulation of air. A row of nests Is placed in the lower spate, access being had by a hinged door at the end. Half a dozen colonies of hens in such coops can be scattered about in rough land, such places being especially enjoyed by poultry. The floor extends only along the rear side under the perches and the hens gain access through the open 6?ace. Ey leaving out the nests, and providing cleated boards for stairways, to the upper story, this house is equally well adapted to young stock. Fcr!illiinc Cotton For Lint. There is nothing new in feeding plants or animals tor special qualities, since all our valuable farm plants have been developed from forms much less useful. In the ease of cotton, it Is possible to produce seed, at the expense cf lint, but cotton planters are Interested la the lint production mainly, and without regard to the quality or quantity of seed that may Incidentally be obtained. It is well known that each of the principal plant foods?that is. potash. phosphoric acid and nitrogen, has its special function to perform, and an over-supply of one or the other of these plant focds at the expense of the others mry influence growth disadvantageous^. To illustrate, some plants by what might he called overfeeding with nitrogen, fail to produce any seed. By the same means fruiting may be very materially cheeked. On the other hand, an excessive use of phosphoric acid may check the growth, and develop seed on plants scarcely half grown. This illustrates the influence of plant :food in industrial plants, and brings ins to the main point of the sketch? tkeJtertHizatiou of cotton for Hut. it .* ( ' - - -> ARM [(OTES. ' I ?-q?= > jff, STOCKf.Wi f.KO TRUCK GROY/ER.j ( Chemical analyses show that the lint of cotton contains much more potash ? than nitrogen, and perhaps ten times , as much potash as phosphoric acid, j From this, however, the planter is not I | to suppose that potash alone is needed for Hut cotton and that nitrogen and phosphate are of little importance, because to make lint, we must also make j , stalk, leaves and bolls. The point is j simply that to ensure lint in good j quantity and quality, we must have a j free supply of potash in the fertilizer, j Xow, curiously euough, commercial ! , cotton fertilizers are often compounded from cottonseed meal and acid phosphate, neither of which contains an appreciable amount of potash, i These materials arc used because they j are common in the South, and not so much a matter of cost. Potash costs j per pound about the same as plios- , phoric acid and about half as much I nitrogen, hut It must be imported, and j hence potash is apt to be lacking in | average commercial fertilizers. The i lint making problem, however, re- ! quires potash and all fertilizers offered for cotton must be examined for this ingredient. ~ ? Cl.l. It is ^ ery simpie airer a?i. j.i;e mue i inspection calls for an analysis of fertilizers stamped or printed on the pack age. Nitrogen (for ammonia), potash and phosphoric acid are all marked in percentages. For lint cotton, the potash in fertilizers should not he less than three per cent., while the nitrogen may be lower in case cow peas or other leguminous plants preceded the cotton. ?It. Garwood, in Southern Planter. SeatonaMc Work. The game is never out till it Is played out. and the growing of chickens need i j not cease as long as anything else j grows. Indeed, it may he continued 1 alter the winter is well on hy means of incubators and brooders. Put, setting : this feature of poultry culture aside ; for the present, it is possible to do | much out in flic open while the fall i growing season is still on. Wo should cut down the weeds and ' brush in the fence corners, clear off the t garden site, the truck patches where j the stuff is matured and gathered, plow j them up and sow to rye, winter turf j oats, wheat, turnips?anything in fact J that will lengthen the season of green and give the heas and chicks :: fresh j bite well into the cold season. The hatching stnson is still on, too, ' where there is good management, and 1 by the selection of a good mating, the j saving of the eggs and setting of the ' fall sitters, we may be able to bring j off a number of late chickens, of whi<i j we can eat the roosters and save tki pullets for late autumn layers next 1 1 - * w/vnlil Iia imfii i season, .>ot mm mt-? nuum uv ...... , fnP in maturing to the laying age, for j fail pullets usually lay by the following ; March, but because they generally lay : better in the fall than those hatched j earlier in the season. Incubators and brooders may be util* ! ized in the fall. too. in hatching and ' raising up to the frying size chickens j by the quantity to be marketed as soon as they roach the desired age. The cnlling of the general flock should begin now, and all the undesirable surplus disposed of. tbat the pullets and the better specimens may be j pushed to a more perfect maturity. ; Indeed, there is miHi to be done in the j pouitry yard right now.?Fanner's | Home Journal. Winter and Spring Tanlnre. Dwarf Essex rape should now De j seeded for a fall, winter and spring 1 pasture for sheep and hogs. This i crop is one of the most valuable for ! those animals and will make meat and J growth very cheaply. Sow two to four i pounds to the acre broadcast on well- ' prepared land and harrow lightly and j roll. Let the plants make a fair j growth before turning stock on to i them, and do not graze too closely and they will then continue to make growth nil through the winter and spring and provide constant pasturage. Borer*. One pint of carbolic acid, five gallons of whitewash, one pound of sulphur, | half pound of salt, one quart of soapused in Georgia largely for peach trees, and prevents borers. Use just before the trees bloom. Dig around the tree close to the body, exposing the roots slightly, and apply the wash from roots to crotch of tree. The scent of the acid remains three months. When this 1 wash is used, one never has any trouble i ' with wormy peaches, the scent probably keeping eurculios away. One Dog's Intelligence. The lirteligence cf animals seems ' as a rule to be underrated rather than ' overrated. A deg breeder described J the other day a wonderful collio that had belonged to Sir Jchn Lubbock. 1 "This dog," he said, "would, when It J was hungry, lay at its master's feet a j card marked 'Food.' When It wag ^ thirsty it would fetch a card marked 'Drink.' When It wanted to take a walk it would bring a card marked 'Out' Sir John Lubbock trained it to i do this trick In less than a mouth, i He put the food card over the dog's i 'ocd and made it bring the card to ( him before he would allow it to eat, j and in the matter of drinking and 1 going out he used a like method. The i "ards were similar in shape and color. Nothing but the writing on them differed. Since, therefore, the dog distinguished th?m by the writing alone f it may truly be said that the animal 1 could read." - 1 * * ' d The Necenlty. Ijt-u. |n F the State of Georgia t Ull USD should appropriate annual- ( ly a half million dollars t for the next five years, to . [j|j] [t|j] he expended in the estab- J lishment of an improved } public road system in the State, tne expenditure would not be extravagant. ^ On the other hand, the State could | make no better investment. Such an appropriation is, of course, out of the ( question. The Legislature is precluded from making such appropriations, both by reason of the financial condition of the State and the laws governing such matters. It is, however, within the power of the Legislature to accomplish iu another way a result which, measured in actual dollars aud cents, is equal to such an appropriation. We refer to the bill now pending before the Legislature to employ the felony convicts of the State upon the public reads. An opportunity is now presented to utilize the State criminals by working them upon the public roads throughout the State, systematically and scientifically, so that in a few years Georgia, instead of being far behind other States, will be equal to. If not in advance of, any other section of the country. Good roads are the arteries of trade, the avenues of wealth. Nothing save education contributes so much to the prosperity, happiness and comfort of the citizens. There are few things that add as much to the value of property. What good reason is there for refusing to work the criinlu als of the State upon the public-roads, so that the people may receive the benefit of their labor? Absolutely none. If It be urged that the Stilts will receive a revenue of $150 or $.10(1 per head from each convict by leasing them, the reply is that it will receive many times that amount in Increased values, increased taxes, extended business. improved citizenship, and enlarged prosperity by employing these convicts on the public roads. rublic roads, next to railroads, are the greatest developers we have. Who can estimate the value of the turnpikes of Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia? Convenience to market, to postoffices. schools and churches Is what Is necessary to make useful and permanent citizens. Cood roads furnish all of these things. The tendency of late years has been for people in the country to flock towards the towns and cities. The reason for this is obvious. On account of the present public road system of the State, or rather lack of system, they are unable oftentimes to market their products, they have no educational facilities, they are removed from churches and otherwise subjected to Inconveniences that people in the cities and towns do not feel. A good system of public roads wlii do more to remove these troubles and satisfy the farming element, which, nt lest. Is the backbone of the country, than nil other Influences combined. If the Stare of Georgia will employ her criminals in the improvement of the public roads of the Stntp, Instead of receiving $200 per head for tlielr services, she will receive many times that amount in actual increased values, to say. nothing of the benefits conferred upon lier citizens, which cannot be estimated in dollars and cents. Georgia Is a reasonably prosperous < State, but she would he tenfold more prosperous if by reason of a perfect system of public roads every foot of | her territory was accessible to market < and thereby rendered available for 1 homes. The criminals of the State? , those who violate the law?can do the i work that ia necessary to establish such a system. The Felder bill now , pending before the Legislature, it i seems to us, is meritorious in the highest degree. The Idea of leasing the ( convicts should be entirely eliminated from consideration, unless made necessary by reason of inability to utilize , them ail on the public roads. If there should not be a demand at once for al! 1 o? the convicts, it might bo that they i should be temporarily leased until other provision can be made: but. for ^ the sake of humanity, for the sake of civilization, for the benefit of lie cit- ^ lzens of Georgia and for the good name of this good old State, of which we are all proud, let us just as quickly t and as completely as possible blot out the lease system, wliicb for so many years has been a burning shame and j disgrace to the good name of Georgia, g ?Atlanta Journal. Searching For Road Materia!. TV. S. Rlatchley, State Geologist of rndiana. will, with three assistants, go over the State thoroughly in search of material for building roads, testing the store that is found in the stone bolts, and searching for gravel deposits where none are as yet known. 13 rich stores of gravel can often be foiiml a few feet below the surface by those who know the geological features which indicate their presence. A Good Example. A. S. Graves, who lives near Shenmdoah. Iowa, manages to have good oails alongside o* his farm nearly tjie rear around. He keeps the road graded up properly, and when the ruts tet dry and rough he goes out with lis team and harrows and scrapes the :oad and makes it smooth. 5 ' Monocle* For Ladles. Wearing monocles, the latest fashion or ladies, a craze recently started in ?aris by ladies of the Servian colony, s extending to London. -r~ THE LENQTH OF LIFE. v .ongevKy of Mwi Increasing, Says an Austrian Physician. 7 Medical men are discussing & lecture < iy Professor Pfluger, of the Unlver* ' Ity of Bonn, on longevity, In which he f asserts that the average length of" < luman life is steadily increasing, says < he Indiana Medical Journal. He ' naiatair.s that cne-third cf all the J leaths registered in Munich are due to J leart disease, brough on by the im- J noderate use of beer, and that tobac- ? n nlsn claims a lare-a rvencentace of I t he victims. Among forty centenarl- j J ins who have come under his notice ; J ;hcre was only one smoker, while J nearly all professed to a moderate use J >f alcohol. What Professor Pfluger J most seriously warns people against 1 Is the thought and fear of death. The \ mind must be occupied, he says, in 5 order to secure longevity. Hard-work- , ing men who retire rarely live much J longer. } The German census statistics shew J that in 1871 the centenarians sum- J bered 147 men and 287 women, but in J 1900 only five men and thirty women. J The above press report is of interest. J As is well known in Munich the con- J sumption of beer per capita is greater j J than elsewhere In the world and the ' I percentage of heart disease is higher, i Boor has a worse influence on the J heart than either wine or whisky. \ Tobacco is better borne by adults and I the aged than by youth. No child ) should be allowed to smoke before the ! age of twenty-one. Wine has been ; said to be the milk of eld age; it ; should not be used until past the noon J of life. That the German census ! shows a reduction of old men since the ' war with France is natural. The age . of industrialism, of city life, of strain, of alcohol and of the veneral diseases with increase of tabes dorsalis and general paresis is the present age of { Germany as it is of the United States. Only the sedate and the temperate in all things can expect length of days. Teaeher* Get a Year Ofl. I Successful teachers of Chicago ^ schools who wish to continue their j studies in colleges, universities, etc., now may be granted leave of absence 1 for the period of one year, under the authority of the superintendent of the 1 schools.?New York Commercial Advertiser. TTrivr'd Tliia * We offer One Humlred D. :rt Heward for sr.v rase of Catarn iua; canuot be cured by Hail's Catarrh < "ur.\ F. J. C'henkt k Co., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. CLonev lor the last 13 yearn, and believe him perfectly honorable in ail business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. West k Tbuax, Wholesalo Dra^ists, Toledo, 0. Waljuxg, Kixsax k Mabvix, Wholc3alo Druggists, Toledo, 0. Ball's Catarrh Cnre is trken internally,acting: directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces ofthenystem. Testimonials sent free. Price, 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Drugglau. Ball's Family Fills are the best. Largest Ttottle In the World. The largest glass bottle ever blow* : has recently been made for exhibition at the St. Louis Exposition. It hold forty-five gallons, and required forty pounds of molten glass, drawn from the furnace and shaped on the end of a huge blowing pipe. FITSDemanontly cured. No fltsor nervousness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerver.estorer.t2trial beltle sad treatiaefree Dr. K. H. Klixk, Ltd.. 1*31 Arch St., Fhlla. P.i A good bit of bravery is exhibited after tli danger is past. 81.00 IJIg 500-Found Steel Range Offer. If you can use the best big 500-pound steel i range made in the world, and are willing to i have it plaoed in your own homo on three j months' free trial, jast cut this notice out | and send it to Skabs, Uokbucic k Co., Chi- | cago, and you will receive free by return J mail a big picture ol the Bte#*l range nnu | many other cooking and heating stoves; yon will also roceive the most wonderful $1.00 steel range offer, an offer that places the | best steol range or heating stove in the home : of any family; such an offer that no family in the land, no matter what their eircumstances may be, or how small their income, ' need be without the best cooking or heating stove made. The average political candidate does not care so much for the nation as he does for the nomination. Mrs. Wlaslow's Soothia?3yrup for oMldrii leething,soften the gums, reduces inflanmtilica.aliKyspaiu,cures wind colic.25c. abottle ; It's where the bore is concerned that ! lbsencc makes the heart grow fonder. i'iso sCareIstho bost medicine we ever used ! lor all affections of throat and lungs.?Wx. I L>. Exdblkt, Yunborea, 1ml., Feb. 1U, 1300. It is better to run tne risk 01 wasung | rour sympathy than to hoard it. Putnam Faheless Dyes color Silk, Wool and Cotton at one boiling. When it comes to stirrings things up ;he cook is generally all there. ~~Mother j "My mother was troubled with 3 consumption for many years. At 2 last she was given up to die. Then I she tried Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, I j and was speedily cured." 3 D. P. Jfolly, Avoca, N. Y. 8 No matter how hard B your cough or how long I j you have had it, Ayer's I Cherrv Pectoral is the I best tfiing you can take. It's too risky to wait ' until you have consumption. If you are coughing j today, get a bottle of Cherry Pectoral at once. Conault your doctor. If he eeyi take it, then do u be eaye. If he telle you not I ~ to take it, then don't take It He knovu. I Lett* It with hi in. We ere willing. I ii J. C. AYHR CO.. Lowell, Men. | w i ^ GRATEFUL, HA > Female Weakness is Pelvic ; Gatarrh, ! i A'wavs Half Sick Are the Wcmen * Who Have Pelvic Catarrh. i Catarrh of any organ, if allowed to pro- 1 gress, will affect the whole body. Catarrh ? without nervousness is very rare, but pelvic catarrh and nervousness go hand in 11 hand. 1? What is so distressing a sight as a poor, 11 half-sick, nervous woman, suffering from j j the many almost unbearable symptoms of i pelvic catarrh? She does not consider her- j ] ^GUARANTEED CURE fo^llbowe^^ubl! fa blood, win J cn the stomach, bloated oowels, pai.-.s after eating, liver trouble, sallow akin ai I regularly you are sick. Cocstipatioa kills mo starts chronic ailments and long years of suffe I C ASCARETo today, for you will never get w I right Take our advice, start with Cascaret I money refunded. The genuine tablet stamr* I booklet free. Address Sterling Remedy Comi Typewriters! I CHEAP I 0 Pig l.ot >'ec"nd-hft'd Mafhiue* Of ? H all m:\kes ti?k*n a* part piy for the Oliver Ha'gains for quick buyers. J.K. CBAlTtf^t Ch ?iKtto, S. C, #RipnnsTabuiesare tlic best dyspepsia medicine ever made. A hundred millions of them have been sold in the United States In a single year. Every Illness arising from a disordered stomach is relieved or cured by their use. So common Is it that diseases originate from the stomach it may be safely asserted there is no condition of ill health that will not be benefited or cured by the occasional use of Ripans Tubules. Physicians know them and speak highly of them. All druggists sell tliem. The live-cent package is enough for an ordinary occasion, and the Family Bottle, sixty cent},, contains a household supply for a year. One generally gives relief within twenty minutes. IISAWMILLS'Ski! Hwlth Hepo's Universal Log Beams,P.eetllln-R F Sear. SJraultaneou?SetWnrksand the Hea-H [Icoek-K'o'r Variable Peed Works are unex-B [Scellrl ZZ aCci-kacy, simplicity, ih'iia&ii.-H Rity ani< base ok orE2ATioif. Write for full ^descriptive circulars. Manufactured hy the3 (SALEM IRON W(>KKS,Win.-t?>n-Snlem.N.C.|f Straighten Your Hair Take the curls out of It, make it soft and iflotey by -isln? Carpenter's OX MARROW POMADE (Bcwau or nctTATio*?) Use e little nn<"? a weak?that is all fhet is nee- j I easary. Soft, 'Ukr hair an t healthy scalp are ! I the results. Makes the hair tfrow, too. PRICE. 25 CENTS. Buy it of your drn<r<riat, or send us the price | in stamps. | , Address, CARPENTER & CO., Louisville, Ky. ZSKfiTSb Thompson's Eye Water v PPY WOMEN /1 I J '4 Thank Pc-ru-na for Their Recovery After Yeare of Suffering. " ^ ^ Miss Muriel Armitaee, 38 Greenwood Ave., Detroit, Mich., District Organiser of the Royal Templars of Temperance, in a recent letter, says: "I think that a woman naturaBy shrinks from making her troubles public, but restored health has meant so [ much to me that I feel for the sake of . wnmtn it is mT datv to j Ul-U? OUMvt...B > tell what Peruna has done for me. > "I suffered for five year* with uterine 4 irregularities, which brought on hysteria . _ and made me a physical wreck. I tried < j doctors from the different schools <rf. ., medicine, but without any perceptible / change in my condition. In my despair . ^ I called on an o'.d nurse, who advised T me te try Peruna, and promised good re| suits if I would persist and take it rego[ larly. I thought this was the lea*. I | could do, ano nrocured a bottle. I knew > as soon as I began taking it tnat it was { affecting me differently from anything I had used before, and so I kept on taking it. I kept this up for six months, j ana steadily gained strength and health : and when I had used fifteen bottles I j considered myself entirely cured. I am : a grateful, happy woman to-day."?Miss Muriel Armitage. Peruna cures catarrh of the pelvic organs with the same surety as it cures catarrh of the head. Peruna has become renowned as s positive cure for female ailments, simply bec&ose the ail- . ments are mostly due to catarrh. Caj tarrn is the cause of the trouble. Pe? I pioa cures the catarrh. The symptoms * 1 disappear. elf ill enough to go to bed, but she is far rom being ahle to do her work without be greatest exhaustion. Thia is a very :ommon sight, and is almost always due to V >elvic catarrh. It is worse Inan foolish for so many* . ^ vomen to suffer year after vear with a disatse that can be permanently cured. . j Peruna cures catarrh permanently. It / rures old chronic cases as well as a slight ittack, the only difference being in the , ength of time that it should be taken to jffect a cure. If you do not derive prompt and satisfaeory results from the use of Peruna. writo y^H it once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case and he will be pleased to rive vnn his valuable advice gratis. ' Address Dr. H&rtman, President of The dartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio. CANDY 4 foul mouth, headache, indigestion, pi OA plea, ad dirtiness. When your bowels don't mat* ">, .J re people than all other diseases together. It r ' > rlnc. No matter what ails jroo, start taking ft ell and stay well until you get your bowel* . 7J s today uoder absolute guarantee to cu*e or r ed C C C. Never sold in balk. Sample .sad I >eny, Chicago or New York. JOB J ' A|? ? - iVi . . VM ^ tMriwsirc ^ &\ V9?sbiz0|??s?-^5?? tats ui i -i& J | - ^ :WpEN^^JF' PAINfANGUISH j IsfpifBM ; A MASTERING ANGELTHOB: ^1 & Sold Evwrwnw. So. 37. 0 Bilious Attacks by keeping the and liver active. SOa. mmd 91MO AtDraggfcteorby maflftn* rHE TARRANT CO. (Bos. Ejt. 1834) Now Yot'{* BOBEBBBiaBBSQOI LJ latin*. Sold tor droayttf*. p|