Happily in thousands of homes, suoh
shadows have been removed. Thanks to
j Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, the
diseases and weaknesses incident to their
: sex have been removed, and with health
restored, their bright spirits have come
back, and the household has passed from
the winter of its discontent to a glad sum-
: nier of eomfort, O, suffering women, for
your own sakes, and for the sakes of those
about you, use these simple means and be
; healed. The only remedy so effective in
' nervous and geueral prostration, "Female
Weakness," periodical pains, irregulari
ties and kindred ailments, that it increases
in sale every year.
The swear-off is already wearing
off.
TOBACCO
A Valuable and Instructive Treatise on the Sub
ject by an Expert.
The First .Stages of the Crop The Preparation and Sowing of
the Plaat Beds A Paper of Interest to the New Beginner.
The following extract is taken from
a treatise on tobacco culture written
by the late Maj. R. L. Ragland, of
Halifax county, Va. It will be of in
terest and value to tobacco growers
generally, and especially to new be
ginners. In future issues we will pub
lish other articles, following the sub
ject up in regular order through the
various stages of the crop as it prog
resses from the plant bed to the curing
barn:
There are two modes for raising
plants, in hot bed or cold frame, one or
the other of which has preference ac
cording to locality the former being
more practiced north of forty degrees
latitude, while the latter is preferred
south of that line. We will here give
both, that planters may choose for
themselves:
PREPARING THE PLANT BED.
