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Hove  and  there  we  find  farmers  who 
are  using  printer*#  ink  t<>  good  advantage. 
As  an  illustration  this  advertisement — - 
double  this  size — appears  iu  daily  papers 
at  Worcester,  Mass,  As  printed  it  is 
four  inches  wide  and  of  course  will  cost 
considerable  money.  The  advertisement 
will  be  changed  from  time  to  time  as 
products  vary  or  in  on’v  to  keep  up  the 
interest.  After  a  time  the  public  come  to 
look  for  the  advertisements  as  they  would 
for  a.  continued  story. 
Iu  this  case  you  sec  the  fruit  grower 
has  made  arrangements  with  a  dealer  to 
handle  bis  goods.  That  is  a  good  plan 
when  it  is  possible  to  furnish  a  steady 
supply  of  high-class  goods.  The  dealer 
has  a  store  and  a  reputation  and  the  pub¬ 
lic  will  usually  prefer  to  patronize  such 
a  store  rather  than  go  to  an  entirely  new 
the  dwelling  80  feet  or  more  to  the  rear 
of  the  house,  and  seeius  determined  to  en¬ 
velop  the  kitchen  porch.  I  have  cut  out 
a  cartload  and  will  cut  it  all  out  and 
dose  'it  with  sulphate  of  iron  to  try  to 
kill  it  out. 
OvKRtTEAn  Irrigation. — My  Skinner 
irrigation  system  has  had  almost  a  holi¬ 
day  this  Summer,  for  the  clouds  have 
given  us  an  abundance  of  rain  and  only 
once  or  twice  has  the.  sprinkling  pipe 
beeu  brought  into  use.  Rut  doubtless 
it  will  be  of  value  at  times  to  insure  the 
vapid  germination  of  planted  seeds. 
Everbearing  Strawberries.  —  Here¬ 
after  I  shall  use  the  everbearing  straw¬ 
berries  purely  as  an  annual,  setting  the 
plauts  in  Spring  and  letting  them  fruit, 
from  .Tune  to  frost,  and  then  turning  the 
whole  under  after  setting  another  bed  in 
Spring.  The  fruit  is  so  much  sweeter 
than  strawberries  in  general  that  it  Comes 
in  very  nicely. 
September  Berries. — It  was  a  little 
odd  to  gather  strawberries,  blackberries 
and  grapes  the  same  day  as  we  have  done 
since  September  set  in.  The  Nanticoko 
blackberry  gave  us  its  last  September 
2nd.  This  is  a  fine  berry,  but  too  soft 
for  shipping,  and  is  a  terrible  thing  in 
the  garden  with  its  rank  canes  and  terri¬ 
ble  thorns,  and  'but  for  the  fine  quality  of 
the  fruit  and  its  lateness  I  would  abolish 
it  from  the  garden. 
Crab  Grass  Ix  Maryland. — Our 
Northern  friends  think  that  they  know 
crab  grass  or  Fall  grass,  as  some  of  them 
call  it,  as  a  pest  on  the  lawn.  but.  they 
do  not  know  crab  grass  as  it  grows  here. 
Wet  or  dry  it  will  envelope  everything  in 
the.  garden  if  not  kept  at  continually. 
It  is  not  enough  to  hoe  it  out,  for  if  not 
raked  out  it  will  re-root,  and  in  spile  of 
all  efforts  in  a  rainy  season  it  will  get  a 
start  on  one.  T  now  have  a  big  wagon¬ 
load  in  a  heap  to  rot  down  for  compost, 
for  everything  of  a  vegetable  nature  from 
\  **ie  garden  goes  into  the  compost  and  i> 
made  to  help  increase  the  humus  oouteni 
in  the  soil,  which  is  the  most  important 
thing  in  our  sandy  land. 
CORN  Ox  Sod. — Last  Spring  the  realty 
company  owning  an  area  of  vacant  lots 
around  my  place  let  a  man  cultivate  them 
iu  corn.  There  was  a  tremendous  sod  of 
Rluo  grass  on  the  laud,  which  had  been 
growing  and  falling  uncut  for  years,  and 
that  Corn  has  well  demonstrated  the  value 
of  organic  decay,  for  the  growth  has  been 
enormous  and  is  a  good  object  lesson  to 
>u'  1  ;tl  *  the  farmers  here  who  neglect  getting  grass 
t  Ik  s< ant,  ou  tiuqr  land,  and  shows  well  what  hu- 
1  1,1  11  11  nuts  in  the  soil  will  do.  And  yet  the 
r  m;"  !’t-  man  has  gone  to  work  and  topped  that 
it.it  lot  em.n  aur|  stripped  the  blades  for  fodder 
poult  i  \  <>i  the  green  ears  wore  sticking 
'  lmu’ 1  straight  up,  and  it  was  in  vain  that  I 
*  a *  told  him  ho  was  losing  corn  enough  to 
*  i  •  '"i  pay  for  the  fodder.  The  great  neglect  in 
ul'mo  aud  making  hay  here  has  led  to  their  sticking 
s  am  an  to  jjjjs  practice,  since  they  depend  on 
v,ige>,  am  j j1(,  f0(jjer  for  roughage,  aud  they  seem  to 
tmount  an  ,)e  sm.prise(]  wlu.u  i  tell  them  that  the 
Al-‘  ■  Southern  farmers  are  rapidly  getting 
ahead  of  them. 
irden  North  Carolina  Farmers. —  I  was  in 
1  the  ram-  North  Carolina  last  week  at  the  annual 
the  kudzu  Farmers’  Convention  at  the  Agricultural 
i  a  corres-  College  in  Raleigh,  and  laid  about  800  of 
to  a  plant  the  Tar-heel  farmers  out  to  hear  me,  and 
ge  variety,  then  had  to  shake  hands  with  the  whole 
had  been  crowd.  These  men,  many  of  them  with 
s  a  porch  their  wives,  spent  a  whole  week  there 
•hided  was  listening  to  speeches  and  examining  the 
it  I  had  line  stock  and  taking  lessons  in  stock 
is  evidently  a  judging,  and  they  gave  evidence  of  the 
>t  only  climbs  now  spirit  that:  is  abroad  among  the  cot- 
luit  runs  along  ton  growers,  for  there  is  a  wave  of  farm 
•rywhere.  My  improvement  sweeping  over  the  Smith, 
at  in  spite  of  and  they  are  beginning  to  realize  the  iiu- 
it  became  too  portance  of  systematic  farming  rather 
which  it  was  than  the  old  planting  idea.  There  is  a 
g  I  concluded  new  day  dawning  in  Southern  agricul- 
:«  it  could  grow  tine,  for  the  farmers  arc  reading,  and 
digging  of  the  their  sons  are  crowding  into  the  agiicul- 
rubbiug  a  tap-  tural  course  at  the  colleges,  and  every 
Sot  it  out  and  year  more  dormitories  have  to  he  built 
in,  where  it  is  at  the  North  Carolina  College.  The  great 
ood  aiul  coal  mess  hall  erected  a  few  years  ago,  with 
rid  of  it  in  the  a  dining  room  to  sent  SCO,  is  already  get- 
:>oU>  left  have  ting  too  small.  The  only  danger  now  is 
is  the  original  that  with  cotton  at  16  cents  a  pound 
tie  Teal  porch,  many  may  lose  their  heads  and  drop  hack 
and  is  taking  to  planting  the  whole  earth  in  cotton. 
•till  hack  along  w.  r.  massky. 
If  you  are  supporting  from  four  to  six 
horses  in  idleness  nine  months  cf  the  year, 
giving  up  20  to  30  acres  of  your  land  to 
raise  horse  feed  instead  cf  marketable 
crops,  you  know  what  this  means. 
Does  all  the  field  work,  including  the  cultivat¬ 
ing  and  harvesting.  Belt  power  up  to  12  h.  p.  It 
plows  deep,  at  the  right  time— in  half  the  time. 
Has  the  pulling  power  of  five  horses,  the  working 
capacity  of  seven  because  of  greater  speed  and  endurance, 
and  eats  only  when  it  works. 
Strictly  a  one-man  machine — drives  easier  than  a 
team  from  the  seat  of  the  implement  pulled. 
A  proven  success.  Backed  by  a  $19,000,000  concern  with 
51  years  satisfactory  service  to  the  farmers  cf  America. 
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White  Peaches 
BAleed  richt  her#  on  tho  M»Marhtj«*N*  MIU  Rad  ripened  oh! 
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Co#  of  old  fMhhSflPd  timjir  CO'  *  -Tf  h  Ti.rl.M  WhlcV 
is  r  feioi-*<-ly  IfflltaYftf  fa  Iho  rr- n*  . •  let*  tr  Pv»rfi  KhnrL  ak.v 
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ba*-is  a  spc/po  rakn»  or  r.ome  othr-r  i.a  ■••tefleil  e»rh»>ea!*im  of  the. 
sa tli-  general  pyrt.  Thin  b.  what  |h.*v  «|.j  in  b,,  .  |, 
The  right  way.  ftr*l  the  way  M,er  pfv  •*  un  freed  farm*.  U 
to  make  n  batch  or  .dough  Just  a\  thtn.gr,  |h*re  wr-o  to  bo  hlanUus 
for  eur.po r. 
Rotnetlroen  It  lr.  mad#  a  TH910  rhorfa-r.  hut  u  hardly  de- 
eirable.  This  dotich  1 1 'baked  Id  miuat#  h ■» '•  -'*>».  whfrh  ought 
to  bo  Mjc  unit  t^'p*  mi/. 
There  should  fc«  nt  lean  two  nr  the-  -  nv i  ..r  .  «k«  baked,  an.l. 
better  throe.  Tlity  fchould  be  fully  hpk.v.1,  but  with  a  r.  ry  .-.Ught 
browning. 
When  doh«  th-y  itre  removed  ».;»  a  hi*  plrt.-r.  b-uI  between 
the  Uyar*  or  cake  an.  iprrtd  ftbertil  Fn  la  of  very 
rip«.  p«Sl'-h.  f"  uUM,  Sloped  fieri  ‘-H(Cd  thto 
The  fruit  utratum  le  always  heavily  Kwoetco.'d  with  mi  gar,  and 
roar  h#  rooetkffd  up  nbti  with  mUin-i?  nr  nftv-f  upl-  -u  n  dealnd. 
Some  rural  gourniHN  <lm  t\y  >r  portion*  wi’h  thick  yellow, 
cream;  other  more  delicate  persona  ally  Mwnaths  will,  pop1 
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