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The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-09-04
How 10 Ont rohnc,n.

The best instrument with which to
cut tobacco is a butcher knife Of me.
dlum size, with thin. sharp blade
about six inches long. The handle
should be we'll wrapped with old rags
or else-the hand will be made TO suffer
by the continual pressure upon the
back of a hard wooden handle The
person doing the cutting stands over
the plant, and placing the blade Of
the knife at right angles. or approx
imately so TO the upper leaves splits
the stalk to within few inches OF
the lower leaves. Then Withdrawing
the knife and grasping the plant mid
way with his left hand, he inserts the
knife beneath the lower leaves and
sewers the stalk. The plant is then
reversed and made to stand in the
row. Here it remains until it willis,
which requires, according to the char
Ccter of the weather, from fifteen
minutes to an hour Should it he
cloudy and rainy it will not wilt sufii-
GENTLY to handle without breakage
until the rain ceases. 1t sometimes
gets into what tobacco farmers call
strut" when it becomes as tender as
the most crisp celery.
When the plants have wilted prop
erly they are straddled over tobacco
sticks, from five to eight plants being
placed on a stick, and in this condi-
ton they are carried to the curing
house. The tobacco sticks are about
AZ feet long. with an average Of some
two inches wide by ~ inches thick,
rived out of red oak or hickory. They
should be we'll seasoned before being
put to use.-Col. J. B. Killebrew, Nash
Vile. Tenn.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-09-04

John oliver Hobbies, author Of THE
Gods, Some Mortals and Lord Wicken-
ham," school for Saints" etc, etc,
has a story in Ainslee's for August,
entitled "The Land OF Regrets" It
is in the form Of a dialogue, bright
and sparkling, but pervaded by that
mysterious atmosphere of India tina
seems to draw out so much that is
strange and contradictory in human
nature. Not that it appears in this
story, which is really a pretty love
story, but it seems to be present as a
sort of vague background.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-09-04
Destroying Cutworms.

As soon as the cabbage, tomato and
other plants are set out the cutwOrm
will begin to feed on them if the
garden is infested with that pest 1t
is a great disappointment to go out OF
morning and find that the worm has
destroyed a fine bed of thrifty plants.
The cutworm always does its damage
after night, and this fact can be taken
advantage of to destroy them. Take
lantern and go through the plat
where the plants are set. Have 4
string to your lantern so that you can
hold it near the plant without being
compelled to stOOp. The pest can be
easily discovered in this manner and
gathered into n vessel and burned.
A few treatments like this will effectu-
ally rid the garden Of them. A good
method of preventing them from cut
ting down the young plants is to
gather up a number of old tomato or
other cans and melt the ends off and
press them down into the soil half
their length around the plant Screen
wire may be used for protection also
by cutting it into strips Of a suitable
size and placing around the plants and
the ends Acknowledgements Far
mer.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-09-04

p. Nesbit appears again in Ainslee's
with a story in the August number
even more interesting than THE Lie
Absolute" II is entitled The Force
Of Habit" and while II is, in fact,
psychological study it is not in the
least didactic; the picture is drawn
delicately, and with the utmost skill,
and with the same optimistic good ma
ture that peryades The Red House"
and The Lie Absolute" by the same
author In this case, we sympathlze
with the victim, but we can't help low
ing his tormentor all the more.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-09-04
" orking Corn.

Some farmers work tneir corn three
times and quit We have known those
who would work fairly we'll until sun
down on the third of July and then
quit. No man can tell beforehand
how many times corn should he
worked Sometimes three times will
do at other times six times may be
none too much The farmer will al
ways be safe if when he gets his corn
worked enough, as he thinks, he will
then give it just a little more. The
idea is to keep loose, fine mulch on
the corn field free from clOds. This
is especially necessary in dry weather.
When it is necessary and possible
cultivate, no matter how many times.
The man who watered his garden with
rake was a philosopher. The man
who in dry time waters his cOrnfeld
with a rake is no less philosopher.
Farm News.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-09-04
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A. L.. NJ, Charlotte Tenn. writes.
would Ike TO know how TO clean land
OF wild onions where they average one
20 the square foot WIN they damage
land for hay and pasture and also for
wheat ana corn?
There is no practical way Of destroy
ing Wild Oniong that the writer Is IA
millor with except by the use Of
weak solution of crude carbolic acid
ana water the solution to be poured
dir " where the stalk Of the onion
Id rs above ground. OF course
yhd large area OF land IS infested
thM Method would prove expensive
and unsatisfactory The only sure
way to set rid Of wild Onions IS 10 dig
them up and burn them. one Is likely
TO be discouraged over such a proposal,
but It Is often not more difficult to do
this than It was for our ancestors to
clear the primeyal forests from the
land and get it ready for crop produc-
uPN Where a plant has a bulb Of
~ character of the onion it is almost
impossible to destroy it, especially
when it is buried so well in the ground.
The writer has seen and heard of all
sorts Of things 10 destroy wild onions,
but the only plan that has proved
satisfactory on the station farm Is that
of taking up and burning. An onion
set on every square foot Of land is
certainly serious problem, for unless
yQp can destroy them they will con-
ne to spread until they will practi-
Ally take the land. They certainly
damage land for hay or pasture, as the
seeds are likely to appear in the hay
and if fed to milk cows will faint the
milk. They damage land intended
for wheat as the seed get into the
grain and faint the -four They are
less liable to damage corn than almost
any other crop and one of the best
methods to fight them would be
thrGRgh clean culture and the use Of
Smother crops. such as the cowpea or
velvet bean.-Prof. A. NJ, Soule, in the
Knoxville (Tenn.) Tribune.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-09-04
I SOUTHERN = FARM : NOTES
DOG
OFTEaEr TO the PLANTER STOcKshRAO TRUCK GROWER
res INTEREST TO the PLANTER STOcKAhRO TRUCK eR0WEe

ono could not save pea hay, and here
are the rules 10 observe: First. don't
cut Il too green; second don't cut It
when Il is damp. either from rain or
dew; third. don't haul 1t up when there
Is dew on IT, Cut your vines In the
after part Of the day rake them up the
next evening. and haul them the next
day and put the hay under shelter, il
you can; If not, stack the hay and be
sure the job Is done right
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-09-04
Easy Dehorning.

Dehorning calves is described as
such a simple operation by the agri-
cultural department bulletin on this
subject that it is difficult to explain
why it is ever postponed until the
horns are fully grown and the neces-
sity arises, if hornless cattle are
wanted for saving them off. 70 de-
horn secure a pencil Of caustic potash
at a drug store When the calf is
three to four days old, throw it to the
ground. locate the little horn, wet 1t
well, and rub it with the pencil, held
in a gloved hand This is all there is
to the operation. 1t constitutes but a
few minutes' work and causes no pain
10 the animal If after a couple of
weeks any signs Of growth appear, a
second application viii complete the
Job ------..is A...sa
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-09-04
.sonsihls ra1k on Pea Growing.

- think l promised some time ago
to say something about peas, but l
have not found time for it until now,
writes p;fake Johnson, of North Caro-
lima. id the Progressive Farmer. We
are hgEing plenty of rain now and the
ground will be in fine fix for pea SOW
ing. Get things ready and get at it
before the ground gets hard again.
The best place to put them is the best
ground YOU have Any kind of peas
willede put I prefer the clay The
best to put them in is to break
the gt32ahd and drill seed from one to
one and one-half bushels to the acre.
but l have raised some fine vines by
Just sowing the seed broadcast and
blowing in shallow, and I have seen
some fine crops of hay made by just
drilling in seed with a disc drill on the
a stubble. I once heard a good
fart say that was the best way. He
said~th drill hoed the grass and the
guano gave it a start. Now it is 4 fact
that it is best to have some grass with
the vines, but I shall not advise any
one to plant any kind Of seed in un-
broken or unfertilized ground. Now,
as to saving the hay, have never been
able to see but three reasons why any
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-09-04

Mary Proctor who writes of Five
Hundred Little Worlds" in the August
st, Nicholas, is a daughter of the
great Proctor, the astronomer, and is
living at present in New York city.
She is a small woman, exceedingly
quiet, almost shy in manner, but has
proved a successful lecturer and writ
er in the field where her father won
distinction.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-09-04
Making Beef.

The wonderful variety Of foods and
the quantity that can be produced in
the South for feeding stock makes it
all the more surprising that so little
his done in this line. At the Florida
Station an experiment was made in
eeding beeves on velvet bean forage,
CtoD-seed meal and cassava roots.
esntally it was also test between
1--WE scrub and a grade animal,
anGSOf course, the grade beef animal
won. But the surprising thing about
it is the statement that the velvet bean
gave twelve tons of forage per acre
and the cassava seven tons. Feeding
velvet beans and cassava in the form
usedf in this experiment, and in the
prop3 rtions used with the native steer,
one Mere of velvet beans approx
mately balances two,thirds of an acre
of cassava. Fed in this way this area
will feed fifteen average Florida steers
for market as fat beef Where an
acre and two-thirds will fatten fifteen
animals there should certainly be no
trouble in making beef profitably, and
witA good beef animals used for the
worn the South could soon be indie
pendent of the Western packers if the
farmers but know what their soil and
climate afford Cassava can be pro-
fitably grown as far north as south
east North Carolina; it has been grown
fairly we'll at the experiment station
at Raleigh. But for the greater part
of the k-South the cowpeas, soy bean
and INDIAN corn will be the great
foods, and they can be grown with
more profit than in the West where
feeders are already taking hold of
them The southern farmer who
wakes up to the advantages of his
climate and grows forage and feeds
beeves will have q source of wealth
he has hardly dreamed of yet, for he
leeds to buy no protein whatever, as
grow all he needs in the great
lndance on his own land.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-09-04

"oh. mammal" shouted little Reg.
gle. az he ran 20 his mother In great
glee what do you think was lust
over there where they're putting mp
the circus, and they filling the ring
all full Of breakfast food August
Smart Set
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-09-04
TWO OF THEM.

"You don't seem to like Chumpley,"
said Tawker. What sort of fellow
is he?"
Hes the sort of fellow" replied
Krankley promptly, who invariably
calls a man fellow philadelphia
Press.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-09-04

Dan Cupid llmped into his Office,
All battered and bruised was his
head;
A bandage and splints graced his per.
son
Il umpired a love.match," he said
August Smart Set.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-09-04

One size smaller after using Aliens Foot
Ease, powder. Il makes tight or new shoes
easy. Cures swollen hot. sweating, aching
feet, ingrowing nails, cOrns and bunions. At
all druggists and shoe stores, ESQ. Don't &C
cept any substitute. Trial package FREE by
mail. Address, Allen s. Olmsted, LeRoy. NY.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-09-04

Her aim was never very good.
Yet well II played lts part;
She threw herself az Chollys heal
And hit the fellows heart
August Smart Set
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-09-04

Fiso's Cure is the best medicine We ever used
Tor all affections Of throat and lungs.-WM.
q. ENDsLEY, Vanburen, Ind, Feb. 10, 1900
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-09-04

A search warrant isn't necessar- in the
quest Of happiness
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-09-04

Mrs. Winslow's SoothingSyrup for children
toething soften the gums, reduces innamma-
ton ,allays pain cures wind colc Csc. abottle
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-09-04

FITS permanently cured. No nts or nervous
ness after FIRST days use Of Dr. Kline's Great
NerveRestorer a2trial bottle and treatiseircs
Dr. II. II. KLINE, Ltd. g3l Arch st., Phiia., Pa
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-09-04

The gift Of CAB has caused many a man
20 give himself away.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-09-04

Scarlet fever is unknown in the tropics.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-01-30
A Sandwich Islands Breeze.

Deputy Sheriff Chillingworth returend
recently from Hauula, Koolauloa, where
he went to prosecute the men who Gre
ated mischief at election there. When
he arrived there the local police had not
even arrested the offenders, so he had to
return without doing anything.
The deputy states that on his way back
over the Pail he had an experience with
the wind which he will never forget. He
was driving buggy with two horses
and was accompanied by Officer Apana
The wind in the Pail gap was some
thing terrific on the return trip. The
top Of the buggy would not close down
tight, so the deputy had to tear it off
to allow as little hold for the wind as
possible. Even then it was almost I'M
possible to cross the Pail. The deputy
tried to whip the horses. but found this
very difficult. the resistance of the wind
being SO great. While right in the gap
the wind lifted the rear end of the buggy
so that the hind wheels for a few mo-
ments were clear off the ground, while
the wagon pole was curved like a bow.
It was. only by frantic effort that the
horses finally managed to pull through
the gap.-Honolulu Bulletin. -
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-01-30
Beans a Mainstay.

Beans are the soldiers mainstay,''
says Thomas p. Dillon a retired Unitef!
States cavalry officer. ''The American
soldier, at a pinch, can equal the per-
Torrance Of an Arab on a handful of
dried dates-he can ride and fight all day
on a mere handful of beans, DroDerly
prepared. There is nothing to equal the
army baked bean. Your celebrated Dos
ton baked are but poor imitation of
the succulent article turned out by a
regular army cook. There's. an art in
cooking them that nobody but an army
man ever acquires. I've been on service
when for a week at time our menu con-
sisted of beans for breakfast. beans for
dinner and beans for supper, and did the
troopers tire of the monotony? Not a bit
Of it: They sang for more, and in snite
of hard work and lack of variety at mess
the fellows actually got fat. That dem
onstrated to me the nutritive quality Of
beans, and made it a point to get into
the good graces of the cook and learn
how to bake them. It isn't such an elab
crate process, but there's trick in doing
it right. My friends are all fond Of beans
the way I cook them, and many q time
I've been asked for the recipe, but that's
a thing I don't give away to everyone.
You see, people enjoy a dish all the bet
ter when they know it's something that
not everybody can get up. It might take
some OF the zest away il they could say
Of my beans: i know how to make
them ~ Philadelphia Record.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-01-30
. tsI SAW AN EAGLE STRIKE"

High poised, spot Of gray against the sky,
He sweeps lazy wing; his eye seeks out 5
A desert rat, d timid bird exposed, - s@
Or helpless, painting mite somewhere unhid
But at his thin-drawn, plaintive, searching
.:~5 cry ~ za.#- ~ ~ n; ai%"& - :
No creature starts; the sand is echoless.
The sprinkled floor, swept clean, save where
E agust M ,f$ g. Is:
Sends spirals whirling up to dance space
Across the aching plain, then faint to earth,
Invites no prey. 'sN'.>
puff of salted air
Drifts in, a far-sent breath, impalpable,
And passing for desert dream, except
That with it wings a gull-a tired thing,
Quite spent and crying plaintively to God.
rush Of rigid, whistling wings, a quick,
Exulting shrek, fearful dart downshOt,
A hopeless, troubled, almost human cry,
That lasts a tiny while, then is no more,
The great bald head rears up, the wings
fold in,
The talons grip a shapeless thing.
Hot sand
Once more: the clean-swept desert floor I'M
rolls: -
No salt Whit here; the plain in loneliness
In Gods great l0neliness-is still again.
John NJ. Oskison in Leslie's Weekly.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-01-30
WINGS OF THE FLYING FISH.
Remarkable Sight When a Shoal Takes
to the Air.

The mystic flying fish is chiefly an in
habitant of the Southern seas. OF it's
wondrous exploits most all have heard.
yet few can see the fish for the first time
without gasp Of amaZement, without a
feeling that they are looking at the MI
raculous. It is this fish which has been
the source of more untruthful stories
than any other in all the seas.
There is no question that the flying fish
has wings like bird; and it really flies,
yet not as bird. 1t does not flap the
wing-like fms upon which it is borne, nor.
when once launched in the air. can it
change it's course by any movement of it's
wings until 1t dips again into the water.
yet it will pass ship making ten knots
an hour and travel in the air sometimes
500 feet at time.
Remarkable, indeed, is the sight of q
snoal of flying fish taking to the air, skim
ming far over the surface when the sea
is calm, leaping high over great seas
when gales blow. OF course. fish seem
strangely out of their element in the air..
but that fish should fly is not really more
wonderful than that Some animals and
birds, like the otter or the penguin.
should dive and swim to perfection. 3
The fins of a flying fish are not really
wings, but more like parachutes to SUP
port and steady its body. rather than t.
propel it.. The lobe Of the tail gives a
start to the body as it leaves the water.
a lying hsh measures about foot in
reach almost to the tail; but though very.
large when expanded, they can be foldea
up very neatly. Its fight is short and
unsteady, and it must dip continually IN
to the water to give itself q fresh starr
The Marine Journal .ie=sy5z7-s5E s
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-01-30
BIG TURTLE AT YALE.
A Specimen of 5oooPounder Brought
From the Black Hills.

A Specimen of 5ooo1Pounder Brought
From the Black Hills. -
A turtle that weighed when alive about
5000 pounds. and was big enough to sup
ply the entire city Of New Haven with
turtle soup for week is the latest addi-
ton to the collection at the Yale Peabody
museum in New Haven.
This new specimen Of prehistoric times
was brought to New Haven by G. B.
Wieland Of the museum staff, who has
Just returned from trip through the
Black Hills Of Dakota hunting speci-
mems. AS yet nothing has been done to-
ward mounting it owing to lack Of room.
In speaking Of his find Mr.. Wieland
said: " W
'"'Of course the specimen is now just
as I found it imbedded in the rocks and
we cannot tell how valuable it is until
very good specimen / feel sure. -
1T will be when mounted about IA
feet long, Z feet broad, with % feet
spread from end to end of t1ippers. The
first rib, which is the shortest, measures
3 feet long: The head will be about 3
feet long. The animal has ten ribs and
we have them in splendid state of
preservation.
'These turtles weighed from about two
tons to 5000 pounds and the largest ma
rine turtle of this age only weighs about
one-half ton. So the difference in size
may be easily judged.
1.-The animals were carnivorous in hab-
it's and probably fed on the nautilus.
They were gigantic, robust creatures aHd
probably quite savage in temperament.
The nearest approach to them, and they.
rine turtles which flourish in tropical
seas"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-01-30
Found $4,000 Pennies.

While'workmen were engaged in tear
ing down frame store building at Rich
land, belonging to A. B. Barnes. who
had occupied it for forty years, thew m
earthed in the cellar a nail keg coated
with CRIME and dust and with it's con-
tents weighing several hundred ponds
Opening the key, they discovered It to h.
full of what at first appeared to be brand
new copper pennies, but closer inyestiga-
ton revealed the fact that they were
commercial pennies such as were used
during the war, and were furnished by
private minis to banks, railroads, lumber
companies, merchants, ETC., to be used as
change. One of the pennies bears a pic
ture Of George Washington on one side.
surrounded by thirteen stars and beneath
the profile the date 1862. On the other
side is the inscription, Union Forever"
surrounded by wreath. The other pen
ny has On one side flag, liberty cap.
thirteen stars, the inscription, "The flag
of our Union" and the date 1863. on
the reverse side is the historic utterance
of Gen. Dix, If anybody attemnts to
tear it down, shoot him on the snot !"
There were about $4,000 pennies in the
lot, and they had evidently lain whore
they were found for fully twoscore years.
Neither Mr.. Barnes nor anyone now re-
siding in Richland has any idea how
these coins came to be slowed awaV IN
the building. Free Press.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-01-30

properly with an ordinary yoke, one arm
Of which served as the anvil to resist the
blows of the pneun:-:,lc hammer carried
by the other arm. TO have tie anvil.
heavy enough to accomplish the purpose
would have produced tool extremely
awkward and difficult to handle in the
~cramped quarters underneath the keel.
The, difficulty was overcome by doing
away entirely with tie anvil and substi-
tuting a second pneumatic hammer. The
two hammers, one on the end of each
arm Of the yoke, worked perfectly, and
there was no further trouble in making
the rivets fill the holes completely. The
strokes Of the hammers were 50 exceeding
ly rapid that it made no difference wheth-
er they worked spontaneously or not
Iron Age.