The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, November 10, 1904, Image 2
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WHERE THE TROUBLE LIES.
I think as many thoughts as most,
-4nd some of them are really great.
I do not say the thing to boast?
1 only care the fact to state.
Yet other men accumulate
No end of wealth with something pat
1 could have done, but left too late.
Well, then, I wish I'd thought of that.
I night have known that stocks would
rise,
The indications were that wayIt
was a thing beyond surmise, To
buy a lot was bound to pay. . ^
I noticed, too, the other day, - _
They rose sky high, but I was flat
Enough to miss the chance?oh, say,
I wish that I had thought of that.
"Why can't I think of things in time!
My failure fills me with disgust. '? *
It always seems to me that I'm -Behind
and getting all the dust. C
Had it not been for this, L must
Have been long since a plutocrat:
Eac h good thing missed. I find, is just
Because I did not think of that.
?Chicago News.
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Margaret.
A.RGARET II U X (1 E RV
FORD stood under the
? i*/T o shadow of a gallery in St.
^ Matthew's Church and
"jsfOW watched the man to wboin
she had been engaged six
months before come dovii the aisle
wiih the woman who had superseded
her upon his arm.
A year ago she had joyously invested
this man with qualities whose nobleness
existed only in the intensity of
her owu ideals. He had rewarded her
by oeing his head under the flattery of
u pair of shallow blue eyes.
Margaret had stood aloof, almost as
an outsider, and watched the thing
fr< iu its very beginning?watched it
wnb a slow death within herself
which was as the hard departure of
youth.
Never by the lifting of a hand did
sfct seek to stay what she saw. Then
*-a:oe the day when Darrel asked to
be released.
She realized with a quick glance
Into the future that here was an experience
which time migh\ not gloss
?v<r. It left her a woman of clear
vision, with no vestige of the inconsequent
glamour of girlhood.
"Yes, as she walked from the church,
when the bridal party bad dispersed, a
deep thankfulness tilled her heart.
Her life was yet'her own. The bitterness
she had felt was more for the
ruce tearing away of the sheltering
vis.ons of girlhood than for any deeper
hurt.
".Vow," she said, and threw back her
/""^"sir'/iig shoulders while she descended
? nn fa/kttnrli ehn u*Anlrl
Il.T VUUiUU U9 I uvsut*ii our ?vum
rS < thi s throw off forever this phase of
Lev life, "new work."
And work it was for three years, as
day by day, in her nurse's dress, she
trod the ward of a hospital. It was
a!<)0 what the pruning of a careful
ga doner is io a vine.
I'nder it Margaret's somewhat angular
figure grow info a graclousness of
ycrcanhood seldom seen. Then she
met Paul Gerhardt. and life blossomed
for hor with a resplendence of joy
which at times held her dumb.
Sh? stood one evening by the bed in
private room looking down upon the
woman who lay there. The patient
lied just been brought from the operating
room and given into Margaret's
care.
On the whiteness of the pillow the
fai", damp strands of hair showed
strangely familiar in spite of the
wasted features beneath. Margaret
waited with locked hands for the
l.eavy eyelids to lift themselves." Then
she looked up suddenly and saw Darrel
in the doorway, and knew.
His anxiety for his wife, if ruoIi It
could he called, was swallowed up in
hit. amazement at Margaret. That the
former was perfunctory the nurse saw
a i a stance.
And in the eyes of Eleanor Darrel?
when the effect of the ether had passed
?there burned a fearful eagerness.
Even the surprise of finding herself In
the care of the woman she believed
she had wronged was immersed in it.
Margaret saw that what little
strength her patient had was dissipated
in the effort to drag one word of
rer.l concern front her husband, and
followed Darrel from the room.
Darrei's eyes narrowed to pin points
its he watched her. Suddenly he
ea ight a fold of her apron, crushing
its fine whiteness in his hand.
"Margaret"?his voice was husky?
*1 see now?what a mistake "
She looked at him dully, with knitting
brows. It was hard at a bound
to bring her mind to this. Then, as
she would have avoided unnecessary
contagion, she drew her apron from
J,is grasp.
"Mistake!" her eyes pierced the shifting
ones and held them. "Mistake!
Yen did but one wise thing in all your
weak, vacillating life, as far as I
know, and it was when you married
Eleanor!**
His eyes writhed under hers, but she
-would not release them.
'Why," she went on. "she loves yon
in spite of the fact that she knows
yen as you are. To me it seems incredible,
it is incredible. She must
be nearer the divine than we are."
Her look weut beyond him to the
door of the sick room, and he breathed
more freely. Now it came back.
"What I knew what He had saved
:n? from how do you suppose I thank
Him now, when I know what He has
saved me for? Within a month I ain
to be the wife of Paul Gcrhardt."
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The great oculist's name was familiar
enough for Darrel. It was a pity
that Gerhardt himself, bending at that
moment over a pair of sightless eyes,
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looked into those of the woman he
loved.
The man who did look into them
wondered if. after all, and in spite of
Margaret's beauty, he had not had a
narrow escape. Strenuousness was
the one thing in life to be avoided.
His thoughts turned to his wife with
a sense of relief.
"Henry!" The nurse conquered her
aversion enough to touch his arm.
"Ever since the operation your wife
has yearned?hungered for some sign
that you really cared."
His weak under lip protruded itself
sallenly. It was the look which his
wife knew best on his face. To Margaret
it was revealingly new.
"Go in now." she said quietly, "and
give her what she has been craving
for."
He shifted from one foot to the
other in hesitating Uncertainty. Then,
as it was always easier for hint to
yield than to resist, he moved slowly
back along the corridor.
His wife's eyes went quickly from
one face to the other as they re-entered
the room. Darrel took a chair beside
her.
"You must hurry up and get well."
be said jwkwardly. patting the white
hand w'tich lay on the counterpane.
She scarcely seemed to breathe while
she waited, her eyes fixed 011 his face.
Still ho hesitated, feeiing Margaret's
compelling eyes upon him.
"The house?does not seem?like
home without you?little girl."
The very utterance of the words
moved him. for Darrel was easily
moved emotionally.
Slowly, in faint waves, the color rose
to Eleanor Darrel's temples, seeming
to force the moisture into her eyes as
it came. Margaret thought involuntarily
of parched ground when a healing
rain has fallen upon it.
T1>a wifn'c ftno-At'c wnrn 'iVft
weak tendrils around her husband's.
Darrel looked around for Margaret,
but she had left the room, feeling her
way blindly out. Then he stooped,
laying his face against the white one
near his own.
Margaret's face as she ran down the
hospital steps that evening to the man
who stood waiting for her at his
horses' heads was a benediction. Gerhardt
turned to it afresh as lie gathered
up the reins in his strong hand.
"I don't know that I like you to look
like that." he said, smiling, "when I
am not the cause. It makes me jealous."
The eyes which raised themselves to
his were glowing with the wonder of
faith which has becouio cenninty.?
St. Louis Star.
An Eskimo Salmon-Trap.
The Eskimos along tlie Yukon River
have an odd method of catching salmon,
which is described by Mr. Jeremiah
Lynch in "Three Years in the
Klondike."
The Eskimos take hoards a foot wide
and an inch thick, and nail them together
lengthwise in a triangular spout,
a little wider than a good-sized salmon.
This Is submerged In five feet of water
a foot from the surface and twenty
yards from the shore.
The salmon, swimming along the
side of the shore against the strong
current, go straight into ,this simple
trnn and cannot act back, and those in
the roar press on those in front.
We saw eighteen large salmon taken
from one of these spouts in a few minutes.
and the Indians said they caught
scores every day while the runs continued.
At an old Russian settlement we
observed how the natives live and prepare
for the winter. The fish were
running plentifully, and every Indian,
even to the little children, was busy
bringing them up from the bank, opening
them and hanging them on the
trees, or temporary scaffolds, or tops
of huts and cabins, in every conceivable
place where a salmon could be
put to dry out of reach of the dogs.
The run lasts about six weeks, and
In that interval the natives must provide
food for their families and dogs
until next season. Very few wild animals
exist on this lower Yukon, and
with the addition of geese and ducks,
salmon is the only food that the country
provides for its inhabitants. No
grain is cultivated. The Indians buy
flour and light supplies from the traders,
paying in dogs and furs, for they
trap all through the long winter.
Te'ephone Girl* of ?aropr.
A London correspondent who has a
London-Paris-Milan wire in his room
writes that in his opinion the telephone
girl is not quite an angel. He finds
the London telephone girls slow and
indifferent, the French intractable and
impertinent. When the Whittaker
Wright trial was proceeding he found ,
himself late with some news and (
rushed to the telephone. Absolute silence
followed his frantic ringing, until
he almost pulled the telephone from the
wall. After twenty minutes or so a
sweet voice said: "Number, please?"
"But." he protested, "I have been ringing
for h^f an hour!" "Oh. really! I
am so sorry. I was drinking my tea!"
In Paris the girls are absent-minded
and usually make the connection badly.
but have invariably an ekcuse and
will not hear remonstrances.
The Italian telephone girl by the side
of her London and Paris sisters shines
indeed. She is obliged to repeat the
number wanted, and so seldom makes
a wrong connection, she is prompt, and
not exceptionally pert, but she is lazy,
and will often tell you that the person
you want does not reply when she has
made no effort to ring him up.?Rome
Secoio.
Ground ivy and mustard can be destroyed
through sprinkling with a solution
of copperas (suipliate of iron).
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"Blanche Pluinea."
Henry of Navarre himself need not
have disdained the new brilliant white
ostrich plumes which decorate our
dress hats this season under the name
of blanche plumes. The toque is of
crin, glistening gray, pearl color, soft
brown in many shades, dark blue or
black. With a singular unanniraity of
choice the hat is trimmed with a single
long and wide curling ostrich feather,
stationed in the middle of the crown
and curling forward so as to form a
complete circle or Iood.
Women rhototrapher*.
Young photographers have queer
fancies. There are many young
women among the artists of country
towns, and while they keep up their
regular business in portrait work, they
develop some odd preferences in the
matter of subjects. A pretty faced
Indiana girl with a whole lot of romantic
ideas, and who shares a gallery
with her brother, has made a great
hit in the work of "taking" no Jess
romantic girls in the act of having
their fortunes told by a wandering
gypsy woman. She lias already made
several of these pictures, and artists
who have seen them give her a great
deal of credit for her work.?Chicago
Tribune.
Lace for Gowti?.
Tnerc arc any number of pretty new
crepy materials that wash wonderfully
well, among them being crepe marquise.
which has a background cf
monotones with embroidered dots and
crepe amnzouee, very like the marquise.
with stripes instead of dots.
Lovable and durable are the crepes,
princesse and pompadour, combining
the softness of the crinkly fabrics with
the lustre of silk.
For the trimming of these dainty
confections there is a tape lace, one
of the smart new dentclle ventures,
and anctbersurprising novelty, a straw
passementerie which the manufactur
ers have made pliable and silky and
quite adaptable as an adornment for
the hot weather blouse and skirt.
TIotv to Kcduce tho Waist.
Stand with the heels together, the
toes pointing out slightly, the body
erect, the chest high, and head straight
and the chin in. Hands arc at the
sides, palms forward. Sow count
seven, inhaling through the nose, and
swing arms up at the side until they are
the width of the chest apart a.id above
the head, palms forward. Hold this
position through four counts, and then,
expelling the breath through the
mouth, swing down until the finger
tips come as close as possible to the
floor. The arms are stiff and the bending
is done at the waist, not at the
knees.
Tho first time this exercise is tried
the hands will be several inches from
the floor. When the summer girl can
touch the floor with her fingers she
may depend upon it that her waist
measure is going down.?Philadelphia
Inquirer.
Way* of Using I.acc.
One of the very new ways of using
lace is to take insertion and border It
with satin rucbings. Narrow satin
riblKin is used, and the ruching is made
thick and full. This is sewn around
the edge of the lace application, which
is then set upon the dress. Such applications
are used to trim skirts and
blouses, and are also seen upon sleeves,
and always with the edging of ribboD
that gives the handling touch to the
lace.
Then there is the lace cockade rosette
that is so charming upon the
summer gown. It is made of lace gathered
along one edge with a thread,
which is pulled taut, and the rosette
is made. If desired, a little jewel can
be set in the middle of the rosette!
Little lace roses are charming items.
A group of them in white Valenciennes
lace, with small red silk rosettes in
the middle, was observed upon one of
the prettiest evening gowns of the
season. These lace roses, in groups
of six or eight, trim the skirts of evening
gowns, and those of day gowns.
They are delightfully dainty, and are
feminine to the very last degree.
But there is still another new fad for
the woman who likes pretty trimmings,
and this a French one. Wide stoles of
silk are sewn to the shoulder of the
gown and are allowed to hang to the
waist line, where they are bordered
with lace. Little trifling fancies these
lire, yet charming, in tha sum r.hd
substance of the season's wardrobe.
Women and After-Dinner Talk*.
Women as after-dinner speakers appeared
for the first time last winter.
Perhaps this is the one direction in
which they were not expected to exert
themselves, but they have won sucfcess.
"There was never any reason why
women should not have gained distinction
as speakers," said a woman
ri-hn is hareolf cnnelrlorMl tn liarn nn
mean ability in the line, "but the fact
remains that amoDg the list of women
who have gained prominence in politics
and in the various professions within
the past ten years or more very few
could deliver a speech that was anything
more than an apology. But club
life has made calls upon women for
abilities in the way of reading papers
aloud and joining in public discussions,
and, although these talks have remained
somewhat heavy in tone, there
1 is a marked decrease in the self-eon*
: iciousness and awkward address that
i really brilliant women used to be
guilty of when called upon for a few
words of acknowledgment or the
thanks that courtesy demanded from
a guest of honor at some public occasion.
"Women are emerging from this
voiceless eoudition and at a recent
dinner at which a successful young
author was present she responded to a
toast proposed in her honor in a witty
speech, entirely extempore, and given
with an easy grace and sparkling
humor that were irresistible."?Chicago
Chronicle.
Boudoir Chat.
Isn't it dreadful that wc let ourselves
hate so much more readily than
* we let ourselves love?
A man's idea of a charitable woman
is the one who sees in his faults only
evidence of a quaint foolishness.
Xo matter what a girl does with her
fan. there are some men who are sure
that she's trying to flirt with them.?
' Baltimore American.
A curious fact?Satan deprived Job
of everything except his wife.?Observer.
? A beautiful woman is the only tyrant
man is not authorized to resist.?Victor
Hugo.
Women know how to enjoy a joke
even if they don't understand it.
A woman sees beauty in the face of
a man when men fail to detect It.
Every woman likes to believe she is
1 thoroughly honest in her convictions.
A man wants to save money for his
wedding, but the trouble is flndiug out
what necessaries he can cut out.
Let a girl have all the cash she
wants and she begins to realize its
value.
Men allow women to have their way
in an argument just to tickle their
vanity.
The woman who talks little usually
has listeners when she says something.
During leap year contractors who advertise
for proposals should be careful
to specify what they want them for.
In society the art cf talking comes
first, the art of listening second, and
the art of saying something is left af
the post.
The Moit Unpopular Woman.
The most unpopular woman is the
one who, at any cost must have the
last word. She is much too apt to
offend people's prejudices and to rub
them up the wrong way. She is perilously
apt to ' nag,*' and a nagging person
is deservedly the terror of the
world at large.
She must have the last word in every
discussion, for it is much more valuable
to her than the things other people
spend their lives in striving for?honor,
wealth, fame or happiness. She feels
that if she does not secure that final
sign of victory and triumph life would
not be worth living, and she will fling
away without another thought domestic
peace and the affection of those
nearest to her just for the insignificant
right of having that last word. She
generally becomes querulous and peevish.
Everyone seems to be afraid of
her. and some people even refuse to
argue with her.
If she would only realize how she
drives her friends away she would not
insist on having that "last word." One
woman recently said that she know a
woman who insisted no matter what
was said that the last word was for
her. Some time ago there was some
discussion about the proper dress for
a bride. Several women gave their
opiniens. and she Insisted that if a
bride would wear gray she would be
much bettor off in every way. White
being the proper attire, a wr.ger was
made that white was the only color,
and in order to give everyone a fair
chance, some well known dressmaker
was referred to. The dressmaker said
that ail over the world brides usually
wear white, and that this was found
to bo the most favorite because it
couiu always De uyeu anoiuer coior it
once soiled. There was no argument
necessary, but the one woman insisted
that gray was better because it did
not soil so easily. The result is that
not one of the women who were disputing
the fact wishes to sneak to the
woman since.
Feminine Finery.
Ribbons will be much used in millinery.
Gowns now must fit neatly instead
of bag.
Flowered organdies have been a
great succdss.
Some of the extremely fluffy skirts
have as many as live flounces.
Hip yokes are one of the things fashion
is lenient about. You cau have
them or not.
fkirts show mostlv n straight front
panel, no natter how full they may
be on the sides.
A tailor made much worn last summer
required merely a front of lace,
instead of a separate blouse.
The Japanese pheasant or cock of the
rock lends its name to our newest color,
coq de roc, a darning orange.
Pongee kid shoes have descended to
the bargain table. The pretty pale
biscuit things are worth snapping up.
A distinctly new idea in bodices that
promises to be very smart is one
draped across the bust with the lower
part fitted to the form.
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SOUTHERN ft
TOHCS QFWTEREST TO THEFLANTEI
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firtwlnc Onlou. (
The soil skotild be rich and in per- j
feet tilth for best results. Almost i
any well drained son, u ricu, ?m j
grow onions. Where fertilizers are 1
needed, from twenty-fire to fifty loads \
per acre of well-rotteued barn lot ma- .
nure should be applied, and if com- |
mercial fertilizer is employed, one 1
rich in nil the elements of plant food, .
a high grade complete fertilizer, j
should be used at the rate of from 500 <
to 1500 pounds per acre, according to ]
the needs of the soil. One containing 1
5 per cent, nitrogen, 6 per cent, phos- <
phoric acid and 9 per cent, of potash is ]
considered satisfactory. 1
If possible a crop of cow peas should
be turned under deep early in fall. 1
and from then forward until planting \
time the land should be frequently ,
harrowed. "As mellow and rich as an
onion bed" is the old saying, indicative
of perfection in fertility and tilth.
Get as much of the cultivation done as
possible before the crop is planted.
The seed should be planted as early
as it can be obtained from the dealer,
usually about the middle of the last of
September, or early in October. The
seed bed should be in good tilth, and
not too fertile.* riant in beds broadcast,
or sow by hand in rows about
two inches apart. On a commercial
RfAle sow with seed drill in rows ten
inches apart, where necessary to irrigate
bed. Ti secure sufficient plants
to supply an acre, planted 5x4Vi inches.
about three pounds of seed are required.
Depth of planting is an important
point, and may vary from
one-fourth to one-half inch, according
iv the character of the soil.
Two methods of irrigation are practiced;
first, a ridge is thrown up
around the seed bed and they are
flooded. Second, water is led. down
the middle of the narrow rows by
opening a shallow trench with a hoe.
When the plants are the diumeter of
a lead pencil they are ready to go to the
field. Wet the bed thoroughly, draw
the plants and trim.
If possible weeds and grass should
never he allowed to get a start. Where
irrigation water is nsed or grain occurs.
the seil should be stirred as soon
as possible thereafter. Too moth
stress cannot be laid upon the importance
cf perfect culture methods.
As soon as SO or 00 per cent, of tops
have fallen the crop is ready to harvest.
and should be gathered without
delay. The onions may be plowed out
or pulled by hand, according to character
and condition of soil. Gather in
windrows and allow the crop to dry,
though care must be taken to prevent
injury from too long exposure iu hot
sun. Remove tops and roots witu
sliarp knife; grade aud crate in field.
Unless shipment occurs at once the
crates should be -artfully removed
and stacked in a well ventilated shed.
Throughout harvesting, special pains
should be taken to avoid bruising the
tender bulbs, as they immediately
show the effect 6f rough handling,
and soon decay.
The common injury reported results
from the attack of the "thrips." which
ruay infest the crop from the seed beds
forward. Their presence is easily detected
by the yellow appearance of the
top and the sticky feeling of the
leaves. Prompt measures must be
taken to save the crop, and experience
has shown that a fine spray of a solution
of four pounds of whale oil soap
in six gallons of water will control the
pest iu two applications, provided the
very eeny-e of the plant receives a
thorough dose.?E. C. Green.
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Alfalfa For Fowls.
We liave recommended alfalfa as a
forage crop for farm animals. The following
from The Practical Farmer
sLows that it has another use, it being
found very good for poultry feed:
Too much cannot be said in favor of
alfalfa for either stock feed, or an additional
ration for fowls during the
winter months when green and bulky
food is scarce or lacking. A comparatively
small plat of ground will
furnish all that can be required for a
flock, both summer and winter. If cut
before it blossoms, alfalfa foliage is extremely
tender, and apparently highly
palatable for the birds. Besides, if cut
promptly, at least four crops can be
cut in one season. We have cut ours
twice this season, already, with a third
crop ready to be cut, and we expect
another to grow before the end of
October. The first two crops have
been fed green to horses and cattle;
and while doing the feeding of it, the
usual grain additions to the coarse
food materials were omitted, the milk
flow increased rather than decreased
and the horses seemed to do just as
well as with grain and hay. The first
two crops were cut when the'plants
were beginning to- bloom, the second
even at an earlier stage than the first,
simply because the lower portions of
the plants began to look spotted and
rusty. The third crop, now ready to
be cut. is about as neaitnj as me ursi
Odds and Ends.
Fort Morgan, the county seat of
Morgan County, Col., is unique because
of the fact that it has three
churches and no saloons. From the
excellence of its irrigation system the
county also is obtaining a reputation,
it possessing 11 canals, aggregating
220 miles in length. The laterals and
field later; f are estimated at 1,600 <
miles. The county has storage reservoirs,
with an aggregate capacity of
3,000,000,000 cubic feet of water, to ^
cover 78,000 acres one foot deep. i
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?, STOCKMAN AND TRUCK GROWER, ^
Top, anil the first blossoms will probibly
appear in a few days. This is
ibout the right stage for cutting alfalra
wlien Intended for poultry food.
LTndoubtedly it is far easier to cure
the first crop alfalfa in July, or even
Tune, than the third crop in September,
but with good weather there will not
)e mucn uimcuiry even mis laie. me
;.lfalfa. when uiown, is spread evenly
ind allowed to thoroughly wilt, but,
3f course, not to become hard and dry.
It is then put into smalt cocks and allowed
to cure. In really good, warm,
sunshiny September weather, this yv
may require two or three days. It is
then hauled and put away for winter.
Fowls yarded during the summer in
rather limited enclosures, where the ?
green stuff is apt to run short after , j
awhile, will appreciate and well pay
(in eggs and growth) for their daily
rations of green alfalfa. This should
be cut while quite young and tender^
perhaps not over six or eight inches high,
and fed whole. Large quantities
(comparatively speaking) of such alfalfa
will be consumed by fowls in
confinement. When the alfalfa stalks
begin to get older and somewhat
tough, the best way to treat them Is to
run them through a clover cutter. J
Every poultryman ought to have one
anyway; the possession of 6uch an implement
will pay even much more to
the person who has a field of aLfadfa,
or some nice, bright alfalfa hay. l'he
hay, when to be fed to fowls during
the closed season, should be run <
through the clover cutter, and cut in
shortest possible lengths, then preferably
be put into a feed cooker and
steamed until tender and jnicy. This ^
steamed mess is then to be mixed with
the daily mash for the poultry dbmer.
or may be fe<l alone, or simply mixed
with u little meal. In short, of all
bulkly winter foods, alfalfa hay properly
prepared, is probably by far the 5
best.
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Tlie Run-Down Finn,
So-called worn out farms may be
built up and made productive, but the
man who must support his family and >
perhaps pay interest on a mortgafe ;*
from such a farm, while he is doing it,
has a long road to travel. There are,
however, many such, 110 doubt, among
the readers of the Southern Fruit
Grower, and some are succeeding *,
The use of commercial fertilizer Is )
increasing all the time, and if properly J
applied in connection with rotation of
crops, will assist to no little degree in
iucreasing the productiveness of the
land.
The two principal elements required
In growing fruit are potash and nitrogen.
Where wood ashes are available
the cheapest possible potash is at 4
hand. In the commercial fertilizer! ^
the potash is rated at abont five cent!
per pound. As there is about 100
pounds of potash in a ton df unleached ij
wooc^ ashes, they are worth about $5
per ton for potash alone. There is <
also considerable value in phosphoric J
acid and lime. Iu this part of .tie 1
country, wood ashes can be had In
many places for the hauling. In no
case to my knowledge is one required ?
to pay to exceed twenty-fire cents per
load. Yet many farmers are buying
fertilizers at from $18 to $25 per ton c
to get largely the 6ame elements they '4
could get at 2o certs per load.
As fot nitrogen, the cheapest wa* ^
apply that is to grow a crop or . ;
of eowpeas, theu follow with. < A
other crop. Thi cow pea g^^k^gcf
nitrogen from the air and storeJ^^^^JL
its root9. It then becomes arailX|^Hj
to the crops following for severa^^^
years. By using unleached wood
ashes freely and growing cow peas on
the same la^d, it soon becomes well
supplied with the principal food
elements necessary to grow fruit successfully,
and in most localities in the
central South caii be done much more
cheaply than by means of commercial
fertilizers. After ashes have been extrt
u-inrl rnln and aun for ft
lime they lose much of their fertilizing
value, yet may be used with good re
suits. -3
The value of barnyard manure Is '
quite generally known. Yet many
farmers leave it In piles till it becomes
almost worthless. To get the best re
suits, manure should be applied to the * >;
soil as soon as possible.
Plenty of straw should be used about
the bal-n to absorb the liquid, as .the
liquid manure Is richer than the solid.
As nitrogen is the largest valuable
element present In barn manure, it is
apparent that it must be well cared
for, as nitrogen escapes Into the air
readily when the manure pile
heated. When plenty of manure and
wood ashes are available it is the most
satisfactory fertilizer.?Frank C. Pel- . \
let* j
In 1900 there were 2807 automobiles
registered in France. This year 12,984 j
are registered, There has teen a decrease
of 20,000 horses and of 245,479
hors'-drawn vehicles in that time. ~ |
Sharps and Flats.
If Gideon had stopped to paint his
pitchers the Lord would hare"1 been
looking for another general.
Thoro alwnva will h? A iff loilltie*
about the Bible if you grasp it by the.
blade instead of by the handle.
You may know what God think*
about a man's religion when you know
what his children think.
The perfect man has not been discovered
in our day; wt are all too
modest to reveal him.