The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., January 22, 1910, Page 51, Image 15

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FRUIT, TRUCK, VEGETABLES.
A HALF-AGUE GARDEN* WORTH
Mr. Ring Often Sells $IOO Worth
From His in One Season, nnd Has
Vegetables Practically the Year
Round.
Messrs. Editors: I want to urge
your readers to pay special attention
to their gardens this year—and about
all of the year. Don’t wait till April
nnd plant all of your garden at one
time, or worse, let the women plant
It ns they can. (It's all right for
the "women folks" to work In the
garden some, if they do not have too
much other work to do—but they
must not ho allowed to do It all, by
any means.) But get busy at once,
ns soon as tho ground will work and
manure ami plow your garden. If
you have not already dono so, and
do both well. Then plant the hardy
vegetables ns soon as possible.
Don't be afraid of losing something
by frost; you won’t loso much, and
you surely gain something by having
an early garden. And It taken a hard
free*© to kill onions, lottuco, mus
tard, radishes, beets, cabbage, Eng
lish peas. Then plant again of the
will have more coming. Keep plant
ing things In their season from Feb
ruary till fall, nnd working thotn,
too. Work them as regularly as you
do your cotton and corn, only often
er. Spend a few hours In the garden
every week, or better an hour or two
every day. Keep the weeds out, the
surface of the ground loose nnd Just
watch things grow. Then enjoy oat
I
ing good things. Don’t live on hog
and bread.
If you are near a market, you can
take something to sell most every
time you go to town. A half acre of
good garden is easily w-orth $100 to
moBt any family in a year. I con
sider ours worth $200 to the family,
and we often sell $100 worth.
Don’t be satisfied with the few
things you have been growing; plant
new crops, and if you fail with them
at first, try again. I wanted rhubarb.
Tried it two years and failed. Wrote
for advice, and Prof. Massey said:
“Give it up, the sun is too hot for
it.” Well, I know Prof. Massey is a
mighty good man to listen to on such
subjects. But my wife makes mighty
good rhubarb sauce and pies and I
wanted plenty, and it cost but little
to try. So I spent 7 5 cents for more
roots—every one I had had died—
manured a Btrip against the north
side of a paling fence, forked it good
and deep, and planted my roots the
latter part of March and had plenty
of fine rhubarb all summer. Eighty
per cent of it is alive though we had
a very hot, dry summer.
A. O. RING.
Franklin Co., Tenn.
As a general standard mixture for
\egetables, I have found that a mix
ture of 1,000 pounds of acid phos
phate. 100 pounds nitrate of soda.
600 pounds of cottonseed meal, and
300 pounds of muriate of potash, will
make a ton of high grade fertilizer
that will suit most garden crops.—
W. F. Massey.
TWO MINUTE HEALTH TALKS.
II.—How to Prevent the Spread of Consumption.
Some Simple Sanitary Measures Which Will Save Many Lives
If Practiced This Year by All Our Headers.
UK OH EAT medium for the
spread of the disease Is the
- consumptive's spit. When the
consumptive cough* or sneeies. he
fills the air before him with particle*
of moisture almost too small to be
seen, which are Ailed with germs.
When ho spits upon tho floor or the
walk, million* of germs are deposit
ed, and are ready to And their way
upon the clothes or hands and thus
Into the mouths and Into the lungs,
stomach and Intestines of children
who |dav upon the floor or walk. The
careless consumptive’s handkerchief,
the pocket In which he carries his
handkerchief, tho bedding, and espe
cially the pillow cover, and the towel
used by him, are apt to be laden with
germs.
When a member of the family ha*
consumption ami the spit is not caro
fully collected and destroyed, the
house Is apt to become Infected and
other members of the family take
the dlseaso.
When a consumptive removes or
tile*, and other persons move Into
the house, stone of them are very apt
to take the disease unless the house
Is thoroughly cleaned and disinfect
ed, particularly the floor* and walls.
Impure aid and deficient sunlight
favor the development of tho bacil
lus. For this reason a consumptive
Is more frequently met with In the
crowded parts of cities, where houses
are built closely together and In
which air cannot circulate freely, and
where sunlight does not enter. Over
crowded, poorly ventilated houses,
; offices and workshops, all tend to
«pread the disease. A consumptive h
much less common In the suburbs
where people live In separate houses.
Dirt, dampness and darkness are
three of the most active allies of the
tuberculosis germ. On the other
hand, sunshine, pure air aud cleanli
ness aro its greatest enemies. It is
highly desirable for this reason that
you keep your home perfectly clean
and constantly remove from it dust
and dirt. Kvery room should have a
thorough spring and fall houso clean
ing each year. Rooms which have
been occupied by consumptives fre
quently become Infected with the
germs. Such rooms should never be
used without having been previously
disinfected. Remember that the most
active agent for spreading tubercu
losis is the spit of tho consumptive.
If this is thoroughly burned or de
stroyed at once there is little danger
of infection.
If the body is weakened by over
work,or by dissipation, or by excesses
of any kind, the individual is more
apt to contract tuberculosis than if
he keeps himself strong and well. In
fact, healthy persons living a proper
life when infected frequently get
over tho disease so quickly and so
readily that they do not even know
that they have had it.
People who are addicted to the use
of alcohol in any form are more like
ly to get tuberculosis than others.—
From a bulletin, "A War on Con
sumption” by tho Metropolitan Life
Insurance Company, of New York.
The Mihjott of next week'a Health Talk will be “llow the Conaump
• In* May Avoid tilvliiK the Olaeaae to Otliera.”
Hi 30UGLASSVILLE SQUAB CUM DOUGLASS VILLE, BA.
II After Five Years |H
THE success of any article de
pends upon the repeat or
ders, the orders which come be
cause the article has “made
good.”
No manufacturer can succeed
without these.
Here is the kind of letters
which we are constantly re
ceiving regarding Amatite roof
ing:
GentlemenFive years ajro we put
our first roofs of Amatite on. Since
that time we have roofed four other
buildinirs with Amatite.
We wish to say in appreciation of
your roofimr that we never thouRht it
was possible to procures roofinRof such
quality for so little money.
Amatite is all you claim for it, and in
our opinion the best of modern roofinK
materials. Very truly yours,
DOUGLASS VILLE SQUAB CO.
The success of Amatite is de
pendent entirely upon the well
known fact that it always
proves satisfactory. The rea
sons are that it is made of Coal
Tar Pitch—the greatest water
proofing compound known, and
that it has a real mineral sur
face which needs no painting.
You have no further expense
or bother after Amatite is once
laid. This means a great sav
ing. A ready roofing which re
quires painting every two years
will cost after a while as much
for paint as for the original
roofing.
Free Sample
The best argument we can
offer in favor of Amatite is a
sample of the goods them
selves. When a practical man
takes a piece of Amatite in his
hand he recognizes at once that
it is thicker, heavier, stronger
and more durable than the
common kinds.
Address our nearest office.
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Whether a ■mall home orchard or on a com
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Straw berry Plants
Millions ot them I am headquarters for
Klondyke, ljtdy Thompson, Aroma, Gandy,
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Blackberry and Vegetable plants, tlO.OO per
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FRUIT TREES
ROSES and EVERGREENS. Bis cut in prices
for 30 days. All Southern Varieties. Also furming
and timber lands for sale.
G. W. STRICKLAND, Prop.
Corinth Nursery,
Corinth, Miss.
Th. Western Plow Attachment
Makes t SULKY PLOW
OF ANY WALKING PLOW
Steadie* the plow
aavaa the hone. 1
Doee away with
hard work. Rlghtor
left hand — wood or
•tael beam. Abaoluta
control of plow how
ever hard the ground.
Addren
WESTERN IMPLEMENT CO.,
22IPark St .Pt Wathlngtoa.Wli.
••A Bay ui raa It as wall a* alia"
r urown irom pure Drea boom.
Quality and satisfaction guaranteed.
Early Jersey Wakefield: Charleston
Larne Typo Wakefield: Early Flat
Dutch; Late Flat Dutch.
1.000 to 5,000 at$1.50per 1,000
5.000 to 10,000 at $1.25 per 1,000
i 10,000 to 20,000 at $1.00 per 1,000 j
20.000 or over at special rates.
1 guarantee delivery in good condition.
N. B 1 make a specialty of a crate of
‘ cabbage plants containing 100 each of the
four varieties, delivered at any Southern
Express Other for $1 00.
ARTHUR W. PERRY
Young’s Island, S. C*
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CHEAP DELTA LAND,
acquired under foreclosure, for sale on easy terms in large or small
tracts. Write fully stating amount of land wanted and unless you can
pay one-fourth cash, state also financial condition, farming experience,
and how you propose to handle the land.
CALDWELL & SMITH, - • Dept B, Box 1008, Memphis, Ten