The progressive farmer and the cotton plant. [volume], May 16, 1905, Page 7, Image 7

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Tuesday, Hay 16, 1905.
PROGRESSIVE FARMER AND COTTON PLANT.
OUR SOCIAL CHAT
"Tii letters Intended for this department
.hniiiA be addressed to "Aunt Jennie," care
$ The degressive Farmer, Raleigh, fc. O.
Aunt Jennie's Letter.
V;iture lias hung her vapor out
:sr ' :il)vo the tops of the trees.
Tl m iv isi not a leaf stirring, and
rvrry souiul seems doubly loud. The
:,ir is iilletl with dampness and the
J,:,.t comfortable place foT mo is my
,-..nn'r. There surrounded as I am
i,v our merry band, I forget the
v. ;!li i and wander in the garden
with .luinie Deans. We are furth
, r n.-rth than she is, and vegetation
liriv is not so far advanced. It is
n,.t all over our State, of course,
lor in Kastern North Carolina they
Ikiw vogetables much earlier " than
v.v -rrow them in Wake County. A
ni,-.' garden is an essential if you
n.-iii to have fresh, healthful food
tlipMigh the summer- months, and
.inc.' wo are learning the advantages
(It-rivod from having these canned
;it home, it will add much to the
al.imdancc of table supplies for win
ter. Wo have an enquiry from a reader
from Matthews as to why her fruit
moulded in the cans this past sea
son Now if we could see the lady
and know what kind of cans she
uod, how she prepared the fruit
(wli.'ther she put it-in the cans boil
inir hot or allowed it to get a few
derives cooler), what kind of rub
bers she used (old or new perfectly
fitting ones), and how she cleansed
her jars or cans, we might be able
to toll her just why her fruit mould
ed. Ihit she may have had things
just riirht in every respect and then
have placed the glass jars containing
it exposed to too much light. She
says that she uses a preserving pow
dT. Now to be plain with you, your
old Aunty does not approve of any
preserving liquid or powder. The
ajrent might swear that at least his
especial brand was not in the least
deleterious to health, and I -would
not believe him. Our Department of
Agriculture is constantly warning
us not to use them if we .value the
health of those whom we provide
with food. I have never used any
thing of the kind; and if 1 had, the
reports of food adulteration which
has been so widely circulated by our
wide-awake press wouldi have con
vinced me that I was wrong in hav
ing done so. An old lady once said
to me- that "everybody has a way
and everybody's way does." Well
yes. but is my way the right way?
This should concern us much.
I must again remind you that
when writing to mo you must not
forget to let me know your real
names. They will not be enrolled
unless you remember this.
I have also found that one or two
correspondents have copied articles
and sent them to me as original, and
these of course have gone to the
waste basket. People are very wide
awake these days, and the risk of be
ing discovered in stealing another's
work far outweighs the chance of
getting glory from it as -one's own
effort even if one is so lacking in
honor ami self-respect as to "copy'
want none but original letters.
AUNT JENNIE.
Notes from a South Carolina Garden.
I)ear Aunt Jennie: There were
ii ii sl,rill-like days soon after
the holidays, dear Aunt Jennie, and
s we ,.vere beguiled into the garden
-and how faithfully we toiled Un
CIe Leu, the good old colored "man
oi all work" making the row,s and
jn-If dropping the seeds. A little
inter, when the snow covered the
j-roimd and icicles as long as one's
m huns from tree and vine, Uncle
Ben was a Job's comforter: "You'll
never hear tell of dose seeds no more
dat you fixed so keerful." I felt pos
sibly that his dismal forebodings
might be incorrect, and so hoped
on. And so they proved; to-day we
are eating delicious green peas,
beets, lettuce, spinach ' and other
salads, I do hope Aunt Jennie that
all who read your good paper have
at least one row of spinach. It grows
rapidly, yields abundantly of large
leaves for cropping is said to be a
fine tpnic for spring and a specific
in Bright's disease. Scald the leaves
for ten minutes, then put into plenty
of boiling water with small piece of
bacon and salt. Boil an hour and
serve very hot with butter and pep
per over it. , ,
In early March the lovely days
lured us ori, like the song of the
Lorelei, to destruction. Beans,
squash, cucumber, etc., went into the
ground and were soon up beautiful
ly, but the Easter moon brought a
freeze that left all a blackened,
ruined mass on the ground. "I told
you that you were 'too previous',"
said my neighbor who had been more
prudent. "Well, better luck another
time. I'm down but not discourag
ed." Now we are setting tomato plants
again. Maule's Perfection and Dwarf
Champion are fine. I found for my
self that fertilizer from the horse
stable was not good for this vegeta
bleit gives black rot. Mr. Merriam
of the Southern Ruralist, who is an
expert in this culture, says so too.
Not rich soil at first but a top dress
ing later on is good. We mix cotton
seed meal, wood ashes and hen house
scrapings, and put a small handfull
to each plant. Whether the science
of this is correct, I do not know, but
results are good.
JEANIE DEANS.
South Carolina.
An Inquiry About Preserving Fruit.
Dear Aunt Jennie : I have read
so much good news and information
in your columns that I want to speak
one word of inquiry as to canning
fruit, as the good old time will soon
be. on hand, and I enjoy putting up
fruit so much, though I lost some of
my fruit the past season from mould.
I have been keeping house fifteen
years, and it is my first experience
with my fruit moulding. I use a pre
serving fruit powder, and find it
good. I want you to tell me what
I can do to prevent mould. I would
be so glad to find a preventive be
fore I commence to put my fruit
up. MRS. LOTTIE.
Mecklenburg Co., N. C.
The Power of Habit.
Dear Aunt Jennie: As my first
visit was a pleasant one, I will call
again. I will take for my subject
"Power 'of Habit." How easy it is
to form a bad habit, and when once
formed how hard to break! Very
few people contract habits of wrong
doing willfully; they are contracted
by example of others. They glide
in by degrees, and when we become
aware of danger, the habits have be
come almost a part of ourselves, and
require patient and persistent ef
fort to effect a change. Habit con
stantly strengthens all our active
exertions. Whatever we do often,
we become more and more apt to do.
Smoking begins with only one
smoke per day; it ends with twenty
or thirty per week. Profanity be
gins in anger; it ends by mingling
itself with ordinary conversation.
Drunkenness begins with the first
drink; it ends by sinking its victim
in the lowest depths of degradation.
Bad habits are the thistles of the
heart, and every indulgence of them
is a seed from .which will come forth
a new crop of rank weeds. Nearly
all the disagreeable habits which
people take up, come at first from
mere accident or want of thought.
They might easily be dropped at
first, but they are persisted in until
they become second nature. In
youth habits are being formed, in
old age those habits govern without
control. Man, it has been quaintly
said, is a bundle of habits; there
fore how important that we form
good habits. Evil habits must be
conquered, or they will conquer us,
and utterly destroy our peace, q
mind.
What power there is, in habit!
Are not all men for the most part
controlled by their habits ? True
a man can will to cross the current
of his habits, but it is rarely done.
And when one" does summon cour
age to make the attempt, it is then
very like crossing a swollen stream
with a frail canoe there is a
mighty drift and the landing is not
straight across from the starting
point, but far below it. Habit is
man's truest friend, or his worst,
most persistent enemy ; it .may raise
him to fame, honor, riches and hap
piness, or sink him in the lowest
depths of shame and misery. When
we see a few bunches of grass in our
fields, or a few weeds in our gar
dens, we destroy them at once. We
do not wait until they have scatered
their seeds and gained a foothold.
Now we should do precisely this
when we see that a bad habit is
gaining influence over us drop it
at once, the sooner the better. They
are easily eradicated at first, but let
them remain and they lay the way
for others. We may form habits of
honesty or dishonesty, rudeness or
politeness, kindness or cruelty, in
dustry or idleness, economy or ex
travagance, in fact, there is not a
virtue or vice to which we may not
be chained by this despot j, King
Habit.
PTJELLA SMITH.
Union Co., N. C.
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A Correspondent Describes Her County.
Dear Aunt Jennie: I have been
a silent reader of the Chat for quite
a while, and timidly venture to ask
admittance to your corner.
I have often thought how nice it
would be for each Chatterer to write
something about the county in which
he or she lives. I do not mean to say
that one should give a full descrip
tion of it, but tell when it was
formed, how it is bounded, its capi
tal, etc.
I will write something about my
county Orange. This was formed
in 1751 from Granville, Johnston and
Bladen Counties, and called in com
pliment to the House of Orange. In
the persons of William and Mary
this House in 1692, filled the English
throne.
Orange is located in the center of
the State, and bounded on the north
by Person and Caswell, on the east
by Granville and Wake, south by
Chatham, and west by Alamance. Its
capital is Hillsboro, forty miles
northwest of Raleigh. The Univer
sity of North Carolina is situated
in this county at Chapel Hill.
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