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<irowing n Lute Crop of Irish l’ota
toes.
Messrs. Editors: The late crop of
Irish potatoes is usually grown from
tubers saved from the early crop.
They are usually (lug as soon as the
vines have matured and are stored
in a cool, moist place and covered
over with sol I or some other material
which will hold moisture, until ready
for planting, which is the last week
In July or the first half of August.
If a cellar is available, it can be used
to good advantage for this purpose,
but if not, spread the tubers under a
tree or on the north side of a build
ing or board fence. Keep moist, but
not wet, so as to start sprouts before
the tubers are planted. At this time
of the year the weather is so warm
that potntoes will not sprout in the
ground unless protected by a mulch—
hence the necessity for sprouting be
fore planting.
The method of planting the late
crop Is about the same as the early
crop. If the land has been well fer
tilized or manured for the spring
crop which preceded the potatoes,
very little, if any, fertilizer need be
added. Where the land has been
manured with barnyard manure for
the previous crop or has grown a crop
of cowpeas. very little nitrogenous
fertilizer should bo used. In this
case apply acid phosphate alone at
tho rate of from 400 to 600 pounds
per acre. For poor land or land that
has not been fertilized this season,
use 1,200 to 1,400 pounds of a mix
ture of cottonseed meal and acid
phosphate in equal parts. Never use
barnyard or stable manure on the po
tato crop as it favors the develop
ment of the potato scab. Apply to
the crop which precedes the potntoes.
Potntoes planted nt the time sug
gested will produce a good crop of
tubers before frost. These can be
dug and stored away, or, whero the
land does not freeze deeply, they may
be left in the ground to ho dug ns
needed.
II. C. THOMPSON,
Mississippi A. & M. College.
Ginseng—A Good Plant to Leuvo
Alone.
Mr. W. H. F., Genova County, Ala.,
inquires about ginseng seed. 1 gave
hint, in a personal letter, the address
from which he could probably get
seed of ginseng, and said:
"Now let me add a word of cau
tion. Most farmers are disappointed
as a result of growing tills plant, and
I would advise you to place no con
fidence whatever In the exaggerated
stories of Immense profits from grow
ing ginseng.
"In ihe first place, one must wait
several years for a crop; in the second
place, the slightest deformity or want
» f desirable shape in the roots, pre
vents the getting of the highest
prue, and we are especially liable In
tie South to have the roots attacked
» y certain pests that would deform
them.
"A bulletin on ginseng culture has
been Issued by the Pennsylvania Kx
perlment Station, Stale College,
Pensylvanla, and I advise you to ap
ply for this, which will doubtless be
sent free.
"Our farmers ought to be especial
ly shy of all of these •got-rich-qutck'
schemes, and I fear that ginseng cul
ture In this latitude belongs in this
class, unless you undertake It cm the
smallest possible scale with practi
cally no expense.
"You doubtless understand that
the price of ginseng is quite fluctu
ating, and that the plant Iiuh no
medicinal or other virtue lu Itself.
It finds a sale only through the fact
that the Chinese have an ignorant
superstit ion that there is some mys
terious virtue in it, especially if the
roots are symmetrically shaped so as
to approach the outline of the figure
of a man.”
J. P. DUGGAR.
Ala. Experiment Station.
How to Fight Peach Tree Borers.
If the soil is banked around the
base of the infested trees to a depth
of about ten inches after the larvae
have entered the soil for pupation,
which is about June 20th, the re
sulting moths will perish in attempt
in ; to come to the surface of the
mound of earth. The mound should
he left about the tree until October <
15th, which will prevent female
moths from other orchards, and any
possible ones that may have escaped
from laying eggs on the moist por
tion of the tree. Many of the eggs
laid higher up on the trunks of the
trees will never hatch, and the larvae (
of mv that may hatch can easily be
destroyed by carefully going over the ■
orchard with a knife later in the fall. I
After October 15th the mounds may;
b< removed and the tipper portion of
th • roots uncovered during the winter
in order to destroy any borers by ex-' (
posure, should the weather be sttf- 1
fieiently eold.—W. A. Thomas, in
Clemson College Press Bulletin.
Now that the crops are not press
ing so hard, clean up the garden.
Cut out the weeds anti grass, if they
are present, and plant new crops
suitable for the season.
One day in the year should be
given to the institute, no matter
how busy you may be or what your
other engagements on that day.
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I From Bakery to Farm 1
Soda crackers are a long time
on the road to the country store, H
and from there to the country 111
home. But M
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Biscuit 1
—no matter how far they jour- W)
ney, never become travel worn* ■
As you open their moisture proof H
protecting package you always jjS
find them not only store fresh, rcf
but bakery fresh—clean, crisp I
and w hole* m
A package costs 5c*
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TWO-MINUTE HEALTH TALKS.
KEEP UP THE FIGHT AGAINST HOUSE FLIES.
They are the Most Active Agents in Carrying the Germs of Ty
phoid Fever, Diarrhea and Infantile Diseases—Screen Dining
Koom and Kitchen, Clean Up All Filth, and Keep Outbuildings
as Well as Dwelling Clean.
■to HE CHIEF specialties of the
I fly are now knowm to be
JL the transmission of intestinal
diseases, typhoid fever, cholera,
and diarrhea. It has also been
pointed out in recent studies by
the Local Government Board of Lon
don that he may very posibly carry
tuberculosis, anthrax, diphtheria,
ophthalmia, smallpox, staphylococcus
infection, swine fever, tropical sore,
and the eggs of parasitic worms.
The fly which you remove from
your milk pitcher may or may not
have had a life history connected
with all or any of these diseases; but
depend upon it, he has been wallow
ing in filth before ho took his milk
hath. The falling of infected flies
into milk on the farms or in the
dairies has made possible many a
local epidemic of typhoid fever.
This same propensity of the fly for
milk baths has made the child's “sec
ond summer” a thing to be dreaded
by all mothers. How few parents
realize that were it not for the fly the
child's second summer would be no
more to he feared than his second
winter. The very high death rate of
children from diarrheal diseases ab
ruptly rises and falls with the prev
alence of flies. This great mortality
among young children from diarrhea
and enteritis causes a greater de
crease in the human span of life than
does any other pr^yentable disease.
Governor Hughes has aptly said
that “our most valuable natural re
source is our children.” When we
consider that the fly is the chief dis
seminator of the disease to which
children are most susceptible, and
which heads the list of preventable
causes of death, the necessity for a
relentless warfare upon this domestic
pest is apparent.
It is conservatively estimated that
the diseases transmitted through the
agency of the house fly cut short the
average span of human life in the
United States by at least two years.
(Insurance companies take notice.)
During a generation this means a
loss of 170,000,000 human lives, or
•4,000,000 lives of the present aver
age length, or a money loss of $20,
000,000,000.
What are we going to do about it?
Are we going to wake up to the fact
that all this can and shall be stop
ped? With a full realization of what
i
it means we should certainly take
care «f our own nuisances and see
that our neighbor does the same.
In hospitals and at home flies
should be kept away from the sick,
especially those ill with contagious
diseases.
We should abolish open privies and
properly dispose of our sewage and
other waste products.
Stable manure should be thorough
ly screened and removed at regular
intervals.
Laws should be passed in all States
as they have been recently passed in
several, requiring the thorough
screening of all publie kitchens, res
taurants and dining rooms. All food,
particularly that which is eaten un
cooked, exposed for sale during the {
fly season, should be screened. The
same care should be taken with all
food in the home.
By rigorously following these pre- •
cautions much can be done toward
removing the conditions which breed
the house fly, thus helping material
ly in the extermination of one of the
most dangerous pests in the world.—
Daniel D. Jackson, in the American
Review of Reviews.
Oil is cheaper than machinery.
LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN POTATOES
for sale $2.50 per bushel.
B. H. SMOTHERS, - Wilsonville, Ala.
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