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Tomato Club Notes u - -???? -J To Canning Club Members: Tou have already recel' \ letters ?41 and 6*1 In which you ware told how to (fleet and prepare your tenth acre, how to make hot beds, raid frames and seed boxes, how to transplat, ferUllse, and cultivate your tomatoes. Tou may, at some time dar ng the season, have trouble with tomt to diseases. You must under stsn that you ran much more easily and cheaply take steps to koep your plants . healthy than you can cure them after they become diseased, in fact, if the soil In which y<>u plant your vegetables Is infected with some of these diseases, you cannot hope to have healthy plants. It la too late to apply reanedle* after you see the trou? ble. ( You have already been told not to use soil for hot beds or cold frames In which diseased tomatoes trew last year. Hulr* for Preventing Tomato Discuses. Please read and follow carefully. 1. Rotation of crops?do not plant tomatoes In the same soll offener than* once In three years. Find what trap' ares on the land last year and leek out for diseases of other plants which may also Infect tomatoes. One of the most serious of these Is root knot which occurs In sandy soils. You can tell it by the knots or galls on t*ie roota These are caused by very tiny worms c* lied nematodes. Hoot a..at attacks cotton, cowpeas. melons, okhy heats* tomatoes, potatoes, and. othr^'nMnta* &efi can only he freed' front thai Ost by planting It for two or; three years in crops which are not at? tacked by the root-knot, such us Iron cowpeas, corn, oats, velvet bean, and penned' Be sure1 that you do not plsfst your U>nu|tuos where any crop wai infected with rootknot last year. I. Avoid use of fr*sh manure- If yoe? Aid not have well rotted manure pic wed ojxder laut fall, it will be best not to us? any* tmtrej freoh. manure in 'rhe Spring will probably cause din tee* ii.iK your plant*. *. ^yruy b?*alth> punts, artlh Bor? d?iux Mix tur? to pintfii from dfs dllh *t aW'i? plants in good condition by careful cultivation. f. Vl'll up, snd burn all diseased PktfOa promptly. .Spraying Tomatoes. ' fa get the best results, spraying wl a Bo/deaux Mixture should be be gui^wbjfe, the plants are young. Spra> once about five days before trans pli lilting, then again tve days after I trtimplanting and repeat every ten. daps until the fruit is full grown. A hard rain will frequently wush off the mittuTe and make it necessary to ?pray again. Five sprayings should \ be given during the season. Ten gal-1 loiOj of spray mixture will be neces-l ?avy for each spray tnir Flv?? pounds' bliin-stone aad tu. pounds of fr?^?h ?tern* lime srlli b?- enough for th'? aes?on. Secure thes? nuppHe? at the! beginning of ito- season. Have the bltfjf-ston* divided Into ftve one pound lote. The entire quantity of lime inny ba. slaked at the beginning by adding waiter slowly until all the lumps are sunned. Keep this slaked lime in a bugket with a little water over It. As lonjg as it Is covered with water It Is goOjO but If It in exposed to the air It grill dry out and become nlr slaked. I.line eAdch ha? been air slaked can? not be lined In Hordeaux Mixt rc. To Make Bordeaux Mixture. For ea? h spraying: <<>pper sulphate (blue stone* ..1 lb. Quick Ume.1 lb. Water.10 gala Making Blue-Stone Solution. Put 5 Kallon? of water In a wooden tub. Tie the blue-stone In a coarse ftack and hang it in this water near tog. Do not use a metal vessel bo eanse ths action of the blue-stone on the mstal will ruin tho vessel. Allow several hours for the hlucslono to die* solve. This can be doing more quick? ly by using hot water. Making Idme Solution. Take one-fifth of tin- lime which has been slaked by water and mix it theroufhly In I gal Ions Of water. Mixing. Bordeaux Mixture is marie mir of eqttal parts of these two solutions It if Important that the) he carefully mixed, and that only as geOjeh of lh* mixture be made as tan be used at one spraying Have the lime solu? tion Intone vessel and the copper sul phste solution In another. Have ready a third tub or other wooden eoenol Stir tho solution well before using. I?et two people pour the two solutions Into the third vessel >it the same lime, ?tlrrlug constantly to Insure thor? ough mixing. A Krays stir the Nor* deaux Mixture before putttna into the sprayer. To be of value, nnmylng must >>?? Uaaroojghl) done The spray mixture Mtust cover the under side of I lie an well as the upper. pi?r the tenth Hi I'', a bucket s|U.t\ putup. coaling about I J or a Kit 11? sank aprayer visiting ahoni |l, win be sallsfaefory Kvery farm should hove ano si these sprayt, which can be ?tod for many purposes und will more than pay for itself in one year. Wash the. spray pump thoroughly after each using. Sincerely yours, Mary E. Creswell, Assistant in Olrls' Demonstration Work. Acknowledgment is made to Dr. W. A. Orton, in charge of Truck Disease Investigations, and to the publication of the Louisiana, Florida, and Virgin? ia Experiment Stations, for aid in the preparation of this letter. REPORT FROM THE CLUBS, Trinity Club. Our club is back at work again. Al our motto is to make the best better, our club is trying to do better this year. Our club reset their tomatoes May 15; they are growing fine. Hut they are very thirsty t\>r a good rain. One side of the tomatoes were plowed May ZZ. The other side May 27. Our chrysanthemum plants arc still growing tine. They have not wilted djwn any on account of no rain. Mae Belle Dennis, President. So. Lnchburg, May 27. Concord Tomato Club. (Writen by Pearl Brunsen, Secretary of the Concord Tomato Club.) v The majority of our members have transplanted their tomatoes to the tenth acre. They are growing tine, except that they need rain very much. Some of the plants arc hluq^nlmr. The girls are commencing to prune their plants. This is dono so all of the strength can go to the main stalk : and to permit the air and sunshine 'to reach all parts of the plant. When we prune them we take out all of the sprouts which grow between the leaf and stalk. This will cause the toma? to to make a better quality and I quantity. | > We are making booklets in whieh wo will keep our crop histories and also herbariums for our collection ol wild tlowers. Mifls Lemmon will send us recipes for canning all kind of fruits. ? _ j WetigwteUi dak (Clam Noivis. pi'?-s. i A Her WS Organised 'he Wodgsfleld [Tomato Clua wk nil mude our h?>? bed* or cold ffSHBOS. . W? koi our saod front T? w. Wood A Bona, They were Earliam e, Stone, and Acme. While the seed were coming up we' prepared our one-tenth of an acre by plowing, manuring and raking the I ground. We all set our tomatoes outj April 19 and later we wutered the plants at night and covered them up. After they had beon up two weeks j we had them hoed und plowed. Our tomatoes are blooming and we are pruning them. On May 26 Prof. C. F. Nevin and Miss Mary Lemmon'came to see our tomatoes; they showed us how to prune and spruy them, and Prof. Nevin Rave us a talk about toma? toes which was enjoyed by all. - Bethel Tomato Club. i I Th* Bethel Tomato Club is Retting on very nieely In spite of the dry weather. Our club now ha* nine members, two having dropped out. So far as 1 have heavd, all of the plots are planted out, and growing well. Some of us have already started pruning. By beginning when the plants are small, the pruning is not only an easy task, but an interesting one. I have a part of my patch al? ready staked, Home of my plants hav? ing small tomatoes on them. I want I to tell the girls that 1 lind from ex? perience that the plants are so much JuM Cripple Around. Some people Just eripple around most of tho days of their life, worth ubout half what they might be to themselves and their families, with all [OMfsjjf gone and only duty dragging j them about their dally tasks. They 'dont know what is the matter, and {treat first one symptom and then an 'other, without much result. The real 1 troublo is that the blood is net rich ienough to supply the demands of the system. This inek of the accessary ( lements may manifest Itself in ncrv ' ousness. in Indigestion, in rhcuma 'lisio. in enuiel.ttlnn. in that "all gone" Ifeeling, .lust glvt yourself a chance i>\ making your blood ail right and see how quick nature will glvt yon polar und energy. Many of your neighbors have redeemed lives almost j shipwrecked by the faithful use <-f 'Mrs. joe Person's Remedy, whieh is a Kieat ciiintti.int nnd tonic. r clears awaj the Impurities and then builds up the system. That was the cans with Mr. .lohn F PetttgroW <d Lt*S? luirtr. X. t' . Who s:i\s "Several years :iu'<> l w;is suffering, from Indigestion? l'"t Ihres months I had to live on I milk and bread. 1 w;is )ust as weult .imT) nervous na F could he, Right b<?t lles of Mrs Joe Person's Itemed) cured in?-. nfl?*f Ihe doctor's mod lei in ratted," Ymii ean inn this great reined) of most drugglsta it yours doesn'l have ii t<>r you send a dollar to tin Homed) Sales Corporation, Charlotte, \ <'., and they will supply you.?Advt. Miller to grow if they arc transplant? ed jfrom Ihe hot* bed into a cold frame before planting into plot. The plants are sturdier and grow easier, having deevloped more roots along the stems. We are looking forward to a visit from Miss Lemmon next week. Shq will visit each member and make helpful suggestions. May ILaynsworth, President. Former Sumter Boy. Pee Dee Advocate. The following is from the Wash? ington Herald of May 16: "II. C. Woodlcy of the National Cathedral school for I Joys has re? ceived an appointment as master of tho English department of the Tome School, Port Deposit, Md." Prof. Woodlcy is a former Marl? boro boy, and his many friends and relatives in the county will be glad to learn of his continued success. Tome Institute is one of the best equipped schools in the cast for boys and young men. It has a faculty of 20, and an endowment of two million dollars. Mr. Woodlcy is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Woodley, who lived at Dalzcll and in Sumter for a lum? ber of years and has many friends in this city. CONDITION Ol' COTTON CROP. - 78.1! lVr Cetil May 2Skl, According to Special Report. New York, May 28.?The condition of tlie cotton on an average date of May 23 was 78.2 per cent, as com? pared with 80.5 per cent u year ago, 70.9 in 1912 and 83.8 In 1911. The ten-year average is 78.9 per cent. Owing to continued drought in sever? al of the States cotton is very late in germinating, and estimates of con? dition are incomplete. This is par? ticularly true of the Carolinas and Georgia, and to a leaser degree in Alabama and Arkansas. The com? paratively low condition in Texas and Oklahoma is largely attributable to cx ceaalve rains, which have rendered conditions iti large sections very bad. The season in Texas is unusually late, averaging 24 TTays, while in Oklahoma it averages is days. The winde bell is about two weeks late. Conditions by States, as compiled from over 2|000 replies of special cor? respondents of the Journal of Com merce, bearing an average date of May IS, follows: 1914. 1913. 1912. 1?U. N. Carolina . .7!?. I 78.0 84.1 82.3 S. Carolina. ..77.!? 69.9 79.0 74.0 Georgia.82.0 75.3 74.0 89. 3 Florida. 88.0 79.9 72.4 Alabama . . . . 80.7 7!'.?'. 7 1.8 Mississippi . . .80.0 80.5 7".?; Louisiana.81.5 81.6 71.0 Texas.75.0 M'.7 M.X Arkansas. . . . 7*.<? 85.3 72.3 Tennessee . . ,82.1 xr:.:: 7::.r> Missouri. . . .ft-i.r> s::.<> 7::.:: Oklahoma . . .77.0 89.6 7S.7 Averages . .78.2 fc'j.5 76.9 Continued rains in Texas and Okla ! homa have rendered the season so backward that, a great many corre? spondents refrain from making defi? nite estimates on acreage. The same feeling exists among our correspond? ents in the Carolinas and Georgia and to a lesser extent in some other States .owing t<> continued drought causing retarded germinution of seed. Estimates on acreage, therefore, will be subject to revision next month, and the present estimate can lonly be regarded as tentative and In? complete. The results thus far ob? tained suggest an Increase of l per cent, made up as follows: North Carolina, 98 per cent; South Carolina. 101.1 per cent; Georgia, 100.5 per cent; Florida. 103.2 per ? cut; Alabama, 100,8 per < ent Missis? sippi, 102.4 per cent; Louisiana, His Iper cent; Texas, 100.2 per ? ent; Ar cansas, I02.t per rent; Tennessee. 103 per cent; Missouri 105.5 per cent; Oklahoma, 100 per cent. Average for United states, 101 per cent.?Journal (if i Commerce* Death of An Infant. Sarah Ixirine, the eight-months-ol-1 daughter of wt/T. and Mrs. Ollis Lynch, died at the home of its par? ents on North Magnolia street Thurs? day afternoon at 5.30 o'clock. The funeral services ./<rc held from the lesidencc, at 3.30 o'clock Pride? after? noon. OVER 65 YEARS' EXPERIENCE Patents trade marks Designs Copyrights Ac. Anrrme MB ding n ?keten and description may Illicitly ascertain our opinion free whether an Invention !? probnbly patontahle. e. mmiitiii a tioii68trictlyconflJenr .il. KANDEOOK cn Patents ?ent free. Old<*t asei.^y for MM! naff patents. Patent* taktui t!n >Jk'h Muiui a Cu. receive tpfrinL notice, without, charge, in the Scientific American. A handsomely I'tnstrMed weekly, '..arrest clr cvlatlon <>f nny ieienttao journal. Terms, H a vcar; fotirmorths, tl- Sold by all Tiawsdealera, MUNN & Co.36 B??? New York Branch PtBce. t35 y St., Washington. D.C. SAY And S?^y it Pl?dn When you want a Bottle of CALL FOR IT BY NAME Protect yourself from being handed some IMITATION or SUBSTI , TUTE by seeing the bottle has on it the TRADE MARK Letters Inspect the Crown before bottle is opened and see that it bears the TRADE MARK LETTERS Is imitated more than any other Soft Drink in the world. There are more than one hundred and forty different "Colas" and "Olas" now beinp; offered to the American public, but there's ONLY ONE? Ask for the Genuine *nn*Ml \ (bca Call for it d% name m Ii ' V See that yoifeet it. Sumter Coca-Cola Bottling Co?