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Sixty -N in tb Year Established 1840. THE Southern Planter A MONTHLY JOURNAL
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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER PUBLISHING COMPANY. Proprietors. J. F. JACKSC.r, Editor.
Vol. 69. :..AY, 1908. No. 5. CONTENTS
FARM MANAGEMENT— LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY (Continued) —
Editorial—Work for the Month 419 Tobacco for Lamb Parasites 436 Cow Peas Still Spreading—A Word to the Green Forage for Hogs 436 Cotton Men 423 Editorial—Dairy and Food Commissioner for Farm Demonstration Work—The Position in the State of Virginia 437 Regard to Commercial Fertilizers 424 Tobacco for the Sheep 43/ Attention, Alfalfa Growing in Powhatan County, Va . . . 424 Berkshire Breeders 437 Mixing Commercial Fertilizers 425 Milnwood Dairy Farm 438 Alfalfa Growing in Prince Edward County, Virginia, After All, is Best 439 Va • 427 THE POULTRY YARD— Some Things Suggested by the April Issue. 427 Farm Demonstration Work 429 Poultry Notes 440 Farm Demonstration Methods 430 Poultry and Indian Runner Ducks 441 How to Treat New Settlers 430 Co-Operative Selling 441 r < *d| Selling. Day-Old Chicks 442 TRUCKING, GARDEN AND ORCHARD— THE HORSE— Editorial—Work for the Month 431 Editorial—The Virginia State Horticultural Notes 443 Society 432 The Southern Farm Horse 444 Valuable Pointers for Fruit Growers 432 The Farm Horse for Virginia 444 LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY— MISCELLANEOUS—
Feeding Cotton-Seed Meal to Hogs 433 Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station.. 445
The Effect of Dairy Breeding 434 Demonstration Farm Work in Virginia. . . 447
Percherons at Blacksburg 435 Cultivation as a Factor in Corn Production . 448 Special Orders Governing the State Cattle Enquirers' Column (Detail Index, p. 510)... 487 Quarantine 435 Advertisements 449
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69th Year. RICHMOND, VA., MAY, 1908, No. 5. Farm Management
WORK FOR THE MONTH. crop and at least to get in a small acreage this year and The month of April to this writing (20th instant) to increase the same year by year. To have an acreage has been an ideal spring month with a temperature above of this most valuable forage ready for cutting in April the normal all through the Atlantic Coast States. The is of such inestimable value to the man keeping live rainfall has been below the normal but yet sufficient to stock of any kind that to secure it is worth a great keep the land moist and in some sections has, to some effort. Ail that is necessary is to select a piece of well- extent, hindered the work of the preparation of the land drained naturally fertile land, to break this deeply, for planting. Generally speaking, however, work in the pulverize finely, clean it of weeds, give it some lime and fields has progressed fairly well and much land is now make it rich with manure and phosphoric acid and to getting in nice condition for planting and some only waits seed it early in the fall with inoculated seed, or better, for the advance of the settled warm weather to be to sow on the field some soil from a field already growing planted. Farmers realize that too early planting of the the crop and a stand can be had which will last for years corn crop is not usually attended with advantage, as if properly cared for. often we have cold weather even in the early part of May which prevents that continued growth of the crop which The report of the Department of Agriculture on the is so essential to success. In the States south of Virginia condition of the winter wheat crop on the first of April much corn will be planted before April expires ,but in is a most encouraging one. It shows that the crop this} State it is found not to be a good practice to plant throughout the country has passed through the winter before May. Usually, about the 10th of May has been in fine condition, and though we have not yet the report found to be as early as corn can be planted with ad- as to the acreage abandoned, yet it may fairly be pre- vantage. If, however, the present warm weather should sumed that this will be much smaller than the average. continue we shall expect to see more than an average The average condition is 91.3 per cent, of the normal as amount of planting done before that time. The spring against 89.9 on the first of April, 1907, and as against has been a most favorable one and vegetation has made 86.2, the average of the ten years 1898-1907. With the unwonted progress. Grass crops are looking better than acreage seeded and assuming favorable conditions up to we ever knew them to look at this time of the year, and harvest this would indicate a winter wheat crop this we hear of some crops, both of grass, clover and alfalfa, year of something near 475,000,000 bushels as against a which are now almost ready for cutting and will certainly little over 400,000,000 harvested last year. In Virginia be cut before this issue reaches our readers if the weather the condition is 90 as against 92 a year ago. In North becomes settled. We have reports of alfalfa standing Carolina 91 as against 94 a year ago. In South Carolina near three feet high and very thick on the land, bidding 92 as against 90 a year ago. In Maryland 83 as against fair to make a heavy yield the first cutting. This shows 94 a year ago. In Tennessee 95 as against 96 a year ago. how desirable it is that the growing of this crop should In Kansas, which grows 19 per cent, of the winter wheat be encouraged throughout the State. If conditions of crop of the country, the condition is 95 as against 99 a soil are made favorable to its growth we can grow it year ago. We hear of no reports of damage from the here as well as it can be grown anywhere and we can green aphis and very little injury from the fly. In this cut from it three or four crops in the year. In this issue State, although the condition is reported as below that will be found reports from one or two subscribers as to of a year ago, we hear of some fine prospects. The the method they have adopted in preparing the land for lowered condition is mainly to be attributed to late sowing the crop and the success they have achieved. We strongly and this the fine weather we are now having will largely urge farmers to give attention to the growing of this correct. Winter oats are generally reported to have 420 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [May, wintered well and the prospect is for a good crop. Spring persist in using a plow to cultivate the corn crop. A oats are also looking better than usual, having been plow has no place in a corn field after the crop is planted. sowed earlier and the genial weather of March and April If the land has been properly prepared before the seed has encouraged their growth. If the weather does not is planted all that is necessary is shallow, level cultiva- get hot too soon the oat crop of the Southern States should tion, and this can always be best given with a weeder or be more than an average one. A top dressing of 75 to 100 harrow for the first two or three workings and then by pounds of nitrate of soda per acre applied to the wheat the use of a tooth walking or riding cultivator. Disc and oat crop where it is not making a satisfactory growth cultivators may be used if care is taken in setting and will greatly help it and will almost always be more than fixing the discs so that they will not cut deep or throw a paid for in the increased yield. We have used this fre- strong furrow. Many farmers still insist that the first quently and always with satisfaction. cultivation should be deep, even though willing to con- cede that later cultivation should be shallow. This is not either necessary or desirable. The result of hundreds In our last issue we wrote fully on the preparation of experiments has positively settled the question that of the land for the corn crop and of the fertilization of shallow, level cultivation all the time always results in the land and to that issue we refer cur readers for infor- the best yield. Corn roots so rapidly run across the space mation on this subject. The work of this month will be between the rows that any deep cultivation is sure to do the planting and cultivation of the crop. The high price injury. Besides this, the work of cultivation can be done for which corn is selling, even in the West, mainly the so much more quickly and so much more economically result of the large amount of defective corn made last with a weeder, harrow or tooth cultivator that there is every year and of the largely reduced yield of the crop, ought inducement, apart from the injury to the crop, to adopt to be an inducement to farmers to endeavor to make a this system. The object of cultivation is not so much large crop this year. It is rarely the case in the South to kill weeds as to keep the soil covered with a fine dust that we fail to fully mature the crop, (even though mulch and so conserve moisture and permit of the access planting be continued much beyond the best time of the air and heat. Incidentally, the weeds are destroyed for putting in the crop. We have known a fully matured and this also is essential to success and by this system crop of Golden Dent corn to be made in this State when of shallow and frequent cultivation they are destroyed planted as late as the first week in July, and whilst we before they have had time to rob the corn plants of don't encourage such late planting, yet it is a satisfaction moisture and plant food. The use of a disc cultivator is to know that if the early planted crop should fail to make sometimes essential when running vines or weeds are a good stand this may always be supplemented with later troublesome between the plants in the rows. The disc plantings, even up to July, but such later plantings ought should then be set to throw a. light furrow on to these always to be made of a quick maturing variety like the weeds and thus smother them and avoid hoe work, which Yellow Dent corns. The large white varieties should be is too costly. How often a crop should be cultivated de- planted not later than the 10th of June. the 10th From pends more upon the weather than upon the growth of the of May to the 10th of June has been found tp be the best crop. If beating hard rains are frequent frequent culti- time for planting these varieties. Before planting see vation must be given or the crop will suffer from the that the land is put into the finest condition possible. compacting of the surface soil. As soon as the surface Better be a week later in planting than to plant in a becomes compact and crusted, moisture begins to be shallow ploughed, cloddy piece of land. Corn plants and evaporated from the soil below and that which should clods never get along well together. Be careful in the go to the making of the crop is lost in the air. A corn selection of the seed. Plant an acclimated variety from crop requires an enormous quantity of water to perfect well selected ears grown on stalks of a good type. See that its growth, and hence it is essential ta conserve all the the seed is well assorted so as to be as nearly as possible moisture possible in the subsoil. Only as far as there of uniform size so that the planter may plant as nearly is moisture sufficient in the soil to dissolve the plant food as possible a uniform number of grains in each yard of can the crop be fed. Plants take all their support in a row and drop these grains regularly and thus avoid the liquid condition and fertilizer and plant food of any kind necessity of replanting. Partial replanting of a crop is only available to the crop when dissolved. Even if rarely amounts to anything. The later planted grains the season is a very wet one frequent cultivation is essen- make stalks which are not ready for the pollen at the tial to success, so that the rainfall can be absorbed and time when the bulk of the crop is being pollenized and not run off the land, carrying the soil with it. Whilst thus fail to make a satisfactory yield. If crop a makes in an average season cultivation of the crop three or four a poor stand from any cause it is far better to work up times is usually sufficient to ensure a good average yield the land again and replant the whole piece. After the and is often all that can be given before the growth corn is planted the work of cultivation should commence becomes too large, yet experiments have clearly demon- especially is almost immediately and this true if a rain strated that twice this number of workings can be given falls on the land before the plants are out of the ground. with advantage, so that there is no risk of overdoing this As soon as the land is dry enough to work put a weeder work if it is not persisted in so long that plants are or harrow on the crop and break the crust and make a broken down by the team and implement when doing it. soil mulch through which the young plants can readily At the last cultivation of the crop sow cow peas, sapling come. Notwithstanding all we have said in the past there are yet thousands of farmers in the South who will clover or crimson clover on the land and cover with this 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER 421
working. These crops will soon shade the land and keep Cultivate frequently and keep the soil level. Sow crimson down weeds, conserve moisture and make feed for the clover at the last working. fall and winter months or a fallow to plough under for the benefit of the next crop. Some farmers contend that The setting of the tobacco crop should have atten- these crops have the effect of robbing the corn crop of tion as soon as the plants are large enough. The genial some of the plant food necessary to its best doing, but spring weather we have had has made the plants grow experiments have clearly demonstrated that this is not freely and they should soon be large enough to set out. true. These leguminous crops are feeders of the soil with In our last issue we wrote fully on the preparation of the nitrogen taken from the atmosphere, and this nitrogen land for this crop and as to the fertilizer to be used, and is made available by the corn crop for its own well doing. to that article refer our readers. The demand for tobacco of omitted to In dealing with the planting the crop we has been good all through the selling season and the it to say that on good rich land is a good practice sow market still keeps firm, with indications that good tobacco with the corn, » say dropping some pumpkin seed along is still wanted. We believe that a larger crop than has a pumpkin seed every six or eight feet in every third or been made for several years can be safely made this year, will crop of pumpkins which fourth row. These make a a but let it be good tobacco. Don't try to grow the crop will be found useful for the hogs and cattle in the fall with a handful of 2-8-2 goods per acre. The experiments and winter and will in no wise reduce the yield of the which we quoted in our last issue show conclusively that corn crop. The Virginia Mammoth is a good variety to liberal fertilization with a properly mixed high grade plant. fertilizer is the only way to grow tobacco profitably and to put the land into condition to grow other crops profit- ably after the tobacco. After the crop has started to grow cultivate frequently and keep the land level and In the cotton section the planting of the crop has work around the plants with the hoe to keep the soil loose already made considerable progress, and this work should and easily permeable by the roots and to conserve the now be completed as soon as possible. Efforts are being moisture. made in many sections to reduce the area to be planted in this crop this year as the demand for the staple has should decreased and prices are falling. We should not be sorry The peanut crop be planted about from the middle to the end of the month. In our last issue to see the area planted reduced very considerably, for we gave advice as to the preparation of the land and the much of the crop is not grown profitably, even when the fertilizer proper to be used to make the crop successfully. price is at or over 10 cents on account of the small yield Mix the fertilizer well the soil before planting the made. We would like to see land better prepared for the with crop by the growing of leguminous crops, like cow peas nuts. The seed may be planted in either rows or hills, but the most usual is to plant in rows three feet and crimson clover, and if the effort to reduce the area way planted succeeds we hope that planters will see that the apart and the plants 12 or 15 inches apart in the rows. Cultivation should be frequent keep all land not planted is not allowed to go out of cultivation, to weeds down but that cow peas and crimson clover are put in so that and a loose soil mulch on the ground. Keep the land level. Experiments have that level cultivation the land may be improved and it will then be in con- shown gives best dition to grow either cotton or corn profitably in the the crops. years to come. Late planted cotton should be helped by giving a dressing of 50 to 75 pounds of nitrate of soda The preparation of the land for, and the planting of, spread on each side of the rows after the seed has ger- forage crops should have attention as soon as time can be minated. It need not be worked in, the dews will dissolve spared from the necessary work required to be done on the
it and the plants will make a much quicker growth and be corn, cotton and tobacco crops. The production of these ready to bring to a stand quite as soon as cotton planted a forage crops has now become an essential part of the week or two earlier. The bringing of the crop to a stand work of the Southern farmer if he is to make the greatest should have attention as soon as the plants show the third success. Whilst we are making great progress in the pro- leaf and are in a healthy, thrifty condition. The hoe duction of hay crops, yet we shall not for many years be should be then used to chop out the surplus plants, in a position to keep even the cities supplied with the leaving two or three plants at the desired distance apart. hay they require much less meet the requirements of the These should then be thinned out with the hand to single stock on the farms. Hay is and will for many years be plants as soon as possible so that the plant to be left a sale crop mainly in the South. For the feeding of the to make the crop can have possession of the soil and stock on the farm the forage crops, which we can so suc- fertilizer. The distance at which the plants should be cessfully grow, should be the main reliance. These crops left varies very much according to the fertility of the are not as yet a readily marketable product, but on the soil. Cotton planted in 3-foot rows and spaced to one plant farm they can more than supply the place of hay made every two feet, has almost invariably produced an excess from the grasses, seising tsat most of them are better of crop more than sufficient to pay for the greater expense adapted for feeding stock profitably than hay. The pro- of planting and cultivating in comparison with cotton duction of the cow peas and soy beans is also advantageous spaced 4x1% feet or 5x1% feet or GxL foot. The subse- in that whilst making the best of feed, both in hay and quent cultivation of the crop should follow the lines laid grain, they at the same time rapidly improve the land down for the cultivation of the corn crop in this article. upon which they are produced. The production of these 422 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [May, crops has also this further advantage that they can he should always be planted with the drill in rows 2 feet 6 seeded in one or other of their forms nearly all the year inches or 3 feet apart and always when so planted should round and they come to maturity from the earliest spring be cultivated two or three times. The New Era has pro- to the latest fall, thus always giving something to duced as high as 20 bushels of seed per acre. The other replenish the feed in the barn. The fall-sown crops, varieties have given yields varying from 12 to 15 bushels crimson clover and alfalfa, are now being cut all over per acre. the South and giving the first green feed to the stock Soy beans should always be planted in rows with the and hay to replenish the depleted barns. Rape seeded in drill to secure the best yield of either forage or beans. March will be ready for grazing in a few days, and now Make* the rows 2 feet 6 inches or 3 feet apart and drop the seeding of cow peas, soy beans, corn for the silo, the beans every 6 or 8 inches. At the Virginia Station sorghum and Kaffir corn for long feed and millet hay and Japanese, Extra Early Black, Medium Green and I to San as a supplement to the summer hay crop, is in order. As Yellow were grown and ripened, respectively, September soon as the land becomes warm cow peas and soy beans 1st, 1st, 15th and 30th, and yielded 14.16 bushels 16.66 may be planted. The soy beans should be first planted as bushels, 20.53 bushels and 22.50 bushels per acre, respec- if wanted to make a grain crop—they take a long time to tively. At other places the largest average yield has been mature. If wanted to be cut for hay they may be planted made by the Medium Yellow, 22 bushels per acre. The any time from May to the end of June, or even into July. later varieties, like the Large Yellow, usually make Cow peas planted in May will be ready to cut for hay in heavier yields of grain than the early ones, but in elevated July and August and will make a ripe grain crop in the locations these varieties do not mature well and should, latter month. For grazing for hogs both of these crops therefore, only be grown for a hay crop. For this purpose planted in May will be ready to turn on to in July and all the varieties are well adapted and make a hay much successional crops can be planted each month up to the easier to cure than cow peas and of high nutritive value. middle of August, either for hay or grazing. Formerly They are also excellent as a grazing crop, and whilst there it was the practice always to sow cow peas broadcast and is some difference of opinion between growers as to harrow in. In consequence, however, of the great increase whether cow peas or soy beans are the best for improving in the area planted in this crop and the great advance the land, with, probably the weight of opinion in favor of in the price of seed (from 50 cents to $3 per bushel) the cow peas, yet they are both excellent for this purpose. caused by a failure of the seed crop two years ago, we If the soy bean is allowed to mature grain it will not have for the last two years strongly advised planting in improve the land so much as the cow pea, as it is a heavy drills, using either the grain drill with all the spouts but seed producer and this grain has the highest protein two or three blocked up or a corn planter or other seed content of any grain grown, the nitrogen, therefore, is drill, so set as to drop the peas about 6 or 8 inches apart more largely in the grain. These two crops have fre- in rows 2 feet 6 inches or 3 feet apart, in this way making quently been grown together for grazing and hay making half a bushel, or even less seed than this, plant an acre purposes and make excellent feed in this way; but the and doing it much better and resulting in a much more longer period required to mature the soy bean over the satisfactory crop, either for hay or seed. cow pea does not allow of the best results being obtained from both. We prefer to use sorghum to mix with cow At several of the Experiment Stations experiments peas as a grazing or hay crop, and especially as a hay have been made to compare the advantages of drilling crop. This mixture makes a heavy yield of excellent feed cow peas over seeding broadcast. In an experiment made and is easier to cure than cow peas grown alone. Plant at the McNeil Branch of the Mississippi Station peas at the rate of half a bushel of cow peas and half a bushel drilled at the rate of 80' pounds per acre yielded 3,520 of sorghum seed per acre. Early Amber Sorghum (com- pounds of hay, at the rate of 40 pounds 4,000 pounds of monly called "cane") is the best variety to sow for this hay, at the rate of 20 pounds 3.200 pounds of hay, and mixed crop. For the production of the best yields of peas in hills 18 inches apart, requiring 16 pounds of seed cow peas, soy beans and the mixed pea and sorghum crop per acre, at the rate of 4,000 pounds of hay. At the the land should be well prepared and if not in good Indiana Station the highest average yield of hay, 7,600 fertility should have 250 or 300 pounds of acid phosphate pounds per acre, was secured from the Clay pea followed per acre applied broadcast before the seed is planted and by Iron, with a yield of 7,400 pounds per acre. At the this be well worked into the land. Virginia Station Whippoorwill, Iron, New Era and Black peas have given the best results for hay, the average for The planting of sorghum, Kaffir corn, corn for the two years being 2.50, 2.43, 2.40 and 2.23 tons per acre, silo and millet can well be deferred until next month, respectively. We have reports from a number of sub- unless there is likely to be a shortage of feed for stock scribers who adopted our suggestion of drilling the peas in July or early August. If this be so then put in a crop instead of sowing broadcast and who secured excellent of sorghum at once, sowing it broadcast or drilling at crops in this way at a great saving of seed. A number the rate of a bushel to the acre, so as to result in the of these parties speak in high praise of the New Era production of stalks not too thick. This, if put on good pea as being an excellent yielder, both of grain and fodder. land, will give a crop to feed off green when the pastures Others strongly commend the Clay and Whippoorwill for are failing. We will say more next month on the growing these purposes. For a grazing crop the Black or a mixture of the other forage crops. We observe that we have not of two or three varieties is commended as being most mentioned Teocinte as amongst one of the valuable forage productive. If the crop is to be grown for the seed it crops which can be grown in the South. This crop is 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 423 not adapted for the country north of the James River, horses and colts and "nary a mule." Of course, these though we have known a pretty good crop to he grown were not all work animals, for he raises colts for sale, in one or two of the counties on the north bank of that and sells them, too, for good prices. river. South of the James, and the further south the His crops are wheat and corn and hay for home use. better, Teocinte makes a heavy yield of fodder which He is on a farm that will be his at the death of his is greedily eaten by stock. It should be planted like corn mother, to whom he now pays rent. The farm has been and will stool out, making often 10 or 12 stalks to the in the family since the early settlement of the country, hill, which will start off again when cut and make a over two hundred years ago, and it makes better crops later crop. It will not mature the seed in this state. to-day than it ever did, because it is farmed, and not planted. He makes 70 to 75 bushels of corn per acre COW PEAS STILL SPREADING—A WORD TO THE and 35 to 40 bushels of wheat; sows cow peas, crimson COTTON MEN. clover and red clover; feeds cattle and raises horses; has
Editor Southern Planter: a fine house with running water through it, bath and all This morning's mail brought me a letter from Senhor the conveniences of a city house, and lives like a country Mario Estrada, Corrientes 741 Buenos Aires, Argentina, gentleman. His crops are not near so profitable as cotton S. A., saying: "I read your book, 'Crop Growing and Crop would be with the same methods in farming, for there Feeding,' with much interest and pleasure, and it gave is little land in Central and Eastern North Carolina that me a keen desire to read your other books concerning would not make two bales of cotton per acre if farmed in crops. You will be exceedingly kind to let me know where the way that man farms a wheat and corn farm. His
I can get them, and what their titles are. I am in this main money crop is wheat, but he does not consider every- country a pioneer of cow peas, and I have been preaching thing else "supplies," but aims to make money out of the doctrines on humus and soil-building crops which you everything he grows. He makes manure enough to broad- so cleverly treat in your book. The cow pea is unknown cast his corn field every year, the manure being spread in this country. I made an experiment this past summer on a clover sod, and he is working towards 100 bushels (our winter is summer down there—W. P. M.) with a of corn per acre, not by buying fertilizers to make it, but little bag of seed I got as a present from a Scotch gentle- by the building up of the humus in the soil. He is a man, and I obtained a perfect success. I think the cow young man and has not bought an ounce of nitrogen in pea is going to bring great benefits to Argentine agricul- a fertilizer in all his life, but uses a mixture of 10 per ture, and I intend distributing a good quantity of seed cent, phosphoric acid and 5 per cent, potash on his wheat, next spring to the farmers. Will you do me the service and the wheat is the only crop he buys fertilizer for, for of telling me who are the largest growers of cow peas in he knows very well that the corn field is the place for the United States, and if it is not asking too much, will the home-made manure and that fertilizers cannot be used you have the kindness of writing to them to send samples with profit on the corn. This young man manages eight and prices to the above address?" other fine farms belonging to the same estate, and makes And so the cow pea gains friends all over the world. his overseers farm in like manner. And he is not the A correspondent in Australia wrote me that the peas only one in the same section farming in a similar way, are being largely planted there, and another in New and none of them are wasting money buying nitrogen or Zealand writes in like manner. In fact, they seem to be 8-2-2 fertilizers. One sees there fine farm homes, fine just getting acquainted with it in its home, for doubtless outbuildings, and all gleaming with paint and whitewash, the cow pea is a native of India or China. I wrote to Mr. and there are no patch-work fields, with bunches of Estrada the title and publishers of my latest book and bushes here and there and patches of broomsedge, but told him that I am at work on a book on Market Garden- clean fields, fences for pasturing stock, but none to keep ing in the South, and the cow pea is as important to the other people's stock out, for none run on the roads. The Southern market gardener as to the general farmer. bottom fact behind all the rapidly-developing farms there What a wide range it has, and what good the pea can is the growing of forage and feeding of stock and the do in all countries for the farmers who realize its value! making and using of manure and the red loamy soil there And to no people on earth is it of more value than to is naturally not better than thousands of similar acres the cotton farmers of the United States. Farmers write of land in the South, the only difference being that the to me almost daily asking for fertilizer formulas for farmers farm. At a Farmers' Institute there, attended cotton to go on land that was in cotton last year, in order by hundreds, not a man asked for a fertilizer formula, to galvanize the old dead skeleton of a soil into some sort while in my correspondence with the Southern farmers in of life so that they can, at a great expense, get a little the cotton country the main burden of their letters is more cotton to sell to pay for the fertilizer, the mules, "give me a formula for a fertilizer" for this, that and the the labor, the meat and feed and everything else, and other crop, seeming to imagine that for every crop planted leave them no profit, when by growing cow peas and one must needs have a special fertilizer. Now, I know feeding them they could make manure and build up the that all this applies more to the farmers of the cotton land into real life through the added humus. And year belt than to the greater part of the farmers of Virginia, after year the great majority of our cotton growers—not and I am glad that it is so. We have tradiitons of fine farmers—go on in the old hopeless way. Some time ago farming in Virginia, and have never entirely lost sight I visited the farm of a Maryland renter. He farms 250 of what the old class of gentlemen farmers did. But there acres and pays $1,500 a year rent. I counted nineteen are sections, even in Virginia, where farmers plant rather 424 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER [May, than farm, and depend on fertilizer for crops merely, of raw cotton seed, and we might be criticized for that instead of using fertilizer for improving their land through if any one did not know all the facts. The conditions the promotion of the growth of the legume crops. But under which we recommended the use of uncrushed cotton The Southern Planter circulates among the cotton seed were where the seed had been damaged so it was not growers, and it is to them and the tobacco growers that saleable and could be bought at a very low price. We
I would write in this way. "We all know that in Virginia have purchased it as low as $4 or $5 per ton. Again we there are sections where the kind of farming I have men- have recommended the use of acid phosphate in cases tioned in Maryland is being done, and to these I bid god- where the cost of transportation was an important factor. speed and hope their race will increase in the Old In other cases we have recommended crushed rock, espe- Dominion. W. F. MASSEY. cially where the lands were close to the phosphate beds. In all cases the farmer should pursue the line of greatest FARM DEMONSTRATION WORK—OUR POSITION IN economy. REGARD TO COMMERCIAL FERTILIZERS. I have discussed this matter fully at different times with Mr. Sandy and I did not understand him to hold Editor Southern Planter: to the position that it is always the most economic to use It has given me great pleasure to read, from time to dissolved bone, but in giving instructions it is necessary time, the valuable suggestions made in The Southern to make very definite statements, and consequently he Planter, nearly all of which I can commend without outlined a plan that was eminently successful on his own reservation. farm, not intending to affirm that some other plan, so far It did occur to in the criticism on Mr. Sandy's me as commercial fertilizer was concerned, might not be just that possibly there was a little more severity than work as good, and possibly more economic, under certain con- necessary, it all arose, I sure, from misap- was but am a ditions. prehension of his position. Inasmuch as my name has We are engaged in a certain work, and it is against been coupled with that of Mr. Sandy's, I think it but our policy to spend any time in controversy or to take proper explain the position hold. to we any position that, fairly understood, will occasion adverse are very careful not to specially commend any We discussion. If you will note all our printed instructions commercial fertilizer for all cases, because soils and plants are along lines upon which men of science and experience differ so widely that it is difficult to make any general are well agreed. It must not be understood that we object statement will not, at time, be on this point that some in the least to kindly criticism, and in cases where there is a justly subject to criticism. As far as we go we try to misunderstanding or error it will give us the greatest impress the following line of fertilization for soils: pleasure to correct it and place ourselves right before the 1. Keep more domestic animals and carefully husband public. S. A. KNAPP, the of animals is one the manure, believing that excreta Washington, D. C. Special Agent in Charge. of the most economic sources of plant food to be found and leaves the soil in the best mechanical condition. ALFALFA GROWING IN POWHATAN COUNTY, VA. On most farms, if all the straw and leaf mould and Editor Southern Planter: other products are carefully husbanded and put in a com- post heap with acid phosphate, there will be enough to I notice William F. Holmead's alfalfa experience in fertilize the tillable land on that farm, and this is the April Planter and Mr. Wing's answer to his question,, second most available source of fertilizer. and that induces me to say something of my own expe- 3. We recommend, as far as possible, the use of rience with it and to ask a question or so. legumes for green manuring so as to transfer the nitrogen On September 2, 1905, I sowed three acres and got a from the air to the soil in the most economic way and good stand on all but four or five square rods. Three increase the supply of humus, which is the great deficiency to four square rods of this was on a depressed spot where in Southern soils. the water could not get away properly and balance on a If these three methods of fertility are employed, there little gall. In the spring of 1906 I scattered a little lime will not be much discussion about the purchase of com- on these places (not as much as I would if I should have mercial fertilizers, excepting acid phosphate and potash. had more, but all I had) and worked it into the ground But these methods require time and care and where sour, and sowed more seed on these spots. The stand on these worn lands must be made immediately available for crop spots is as good, or better, now than on land right beside purposes, we recommend the use of as much stable manure them. I ploughed this ground in April, 1905, and again and compost as possible; but there is rarely enough at in June, subsoiling it at second ploughing, and on June hand for the purpose and therefore it is necessary to 5, 1905, sowed to cow peas with a wheat drill at the rate resort to commercial fertilizers. of about one bushel per acre with 200 pounds acid phos- If in any given case a single fertilizer is named, it phate per acre. Took peas off in September and sowed is never our intention to convey the idea that that is the 200 pounds more acid phosphate, 16 per cent, and 20& only economic fertilizer, because we claim that it is the pounds Basic slag per acre and disked and harrowed both right and duty of every farmer to secure the given result ways thoroughly, and on September 12th sowed 25 pounds in the most economic way possible. Our instructions are inoculated seed per acre, getting the bacteria from Dr. given to apply to a large scope of country, and in some Ferguson, of V. P. I. places we recommend one kind and in another another. My little experience convinces me that alfalfa needs In many places in Texas we have recommended the use soil well limed and under drained, as Mr. Wing says. 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 425
With that done on good rich soil well prepared I believe material is used, falls short in the percentage, as It there need be no failures in alfalfa in Maryland or Vir- requires nineteen extra pounds over and above a ton to ginia. But don't sow it on poor land. If you do it will produce the percentages and in order to get it we must buck and the first thing you know you will be out of the substitute sulphate of ammonia, yielding 20 per cent, of saddle and the alfalfa gone, and it will stay away until nitrogen, for the nitrate of soda, in which case we would you treat it fair. I have plants of alfalfa in the above have 700 pounds of ammonium sulphate, 875 pounds of three acres that were eighteen and a half inches high acid phosphate, 280 pounds of 50 per cent, muriate or from where plant joins crown to the bud, on April 12th, sulphate of potash and 145 pounds of filler to make up the actual measure, this spring's growth. About half the field 2,000 pounds,or we may use basic slag in place of acid is like that and the other half is not quite half as good, phosphate, in which case we would have 875 pounds of the difference being due to the difference of fertility in nitrate of soda, 778 pounds of basic slag, 280 pounds of soil. Cultivation and preparation were exactly the same. muriate of potash and 67 pounds of filler, making again
This brings me to the question I want to ask: If I can 2,000 pounds or one ton. sow lime on the poor parts after the first cutting this spring But this is a combination that makes a poor mixture, and disk in well with more seed and improve the stand; and is probably never used by the manufacturer, for the and if I can sow bone meal at same time advantageously; reason that sodium nitrate if mixed with basic slag would or if not this way, how can it be done? Be glad to have result in a loss of nitrogen, as the lime in the slag tends reply in May Planter. to set free the nitrogen in nitrate of soda. I believe that land that will produce alfalfa like half What the manufacturer generally does is to state his of my lot does is worth all we have the nerve to ask for percentage of nitrogen as ammonia, and as 7 per cent, of it—up to $50 to $75 per acre. If not, why? ammonia is approximately 5% per cent, of nitrogen, he
Powhatan County, Va. . W. A. RAUDABAUGH. needs only 115 pounds of nitrogen, which he can get from Yes. You can spread lime broadcast after cutting the 719 pounds of nitrate of soda combined with 875 pounds alfalfa and cut it in with the disc, runnings the discs nearly of acid phosphate, 280 pounds of muriate of potash and straight, and after letting this stand a few days then 126 pounds of filler—2,000 pounds of mixed fertilizer. spread bone meal and more seed and brush in. It would Indeed, this combination can be made as readily from 14 probably, however, be more effective to apply only the per cent, acid phosphate as from the 16 per cent., as the lime and seed after the first cutting and then after the table below will clearly demonstrate: second cutting apply the bone meal i;nd a little more seed 719 pounds of nitrate of soda. and cut in with the disc. The late Mr. Clark used to 1,000 pounds of 14 per cent, acid phosphate. fertilize and reseed after each cutting and cut in with the 280 pounds ofmuriate of potash. disc, and he got excellent results.—Ed. 1 pound of filler.
MIXING COMMERCIAL FERTILIZERS. 2,000 (Continued from the April Issue.) Here we have a nearly balanced table and at once Editor Southern Planter: arrive at the reason for our "three sevens," as by sub- stituting ammonia for nitrogen in our guarantee we have Having in a former paper briefly considered the per- a combination that almost exactly figures out without centages of nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash as found any filler whatever. in low grade fertilizers, and roughly approximated a This is evidently a very good percentage to purchase point, to go below which necessitates the use of filler, it for ordinary truck crops and, were sulphate of potash sub- now becomes of interest to ascend the scale to the other stituted for the muriate, would be equally good for tobacco extremity and see just how rich a complete fertilizer we or potatoes. Another lesson to be learnt here is that this can buy, and eliminate the low grade material by request- 7-7-7 goods, as it calls for practically 2,000 pounds of ing a combined percentage so high as to compel the use of only the best chemicals. chemicals to make it must be cheaper to buy, although higher in price, than the 6-7-7, the 6-7-6, the 6-6-7 or the A glance through the brands registered in the ferti- 7-6-7, or in fact any combination of percentages containing lizer bulletin will show that the best the dealers offer us 7 per cent, of ammonia, wherein the 6 per cent, of phos- contains 7 per cent, of nitrogen, 7 per cent, of phosphoric phoric acid is not compensated by 8 per cent, of potash, acid and 7 per cent, of potash, and it at once becomes or vice versa. of interest to find out what must be used to produce this The above combination, while an ideal one for truck combination. Seven per cent, of nitrogen or 140 pounds crops where great availability is a disideratum, would not to the ton, if derived from nitrate of soda yielding 16 per be as well adapted to slow-growing crops as a fertilizer cent., would require 875 pounds; 7 per cent, phosphoric wherein some of the constituents required decomposition acid or 140 pounds per ton, derived from acid phosphate to render them available. yielding 16 per cent, would require 875 pounds; 7 per •cent, of potash derived from sulphate of potash yielding As a basis of such a material let us consider bone 52 per cent, would require again 140 pounds of potash, or tankage containing 9 per cent, of nitrogen and 15 per 269 pounds, making a total of 2,019 pounds. cent, of phosphoric acid:
Here we find a combination so rich that it at once be- 1,000 pounds of bone tankage, yielding 9 per cent, comes apparent that nitrate of soda, acid phosphate and of nitrogen and 15 per cent, phosphoric acid would give sulphate of potash, even when the highest grade of each us 4% per cent, nitrogen and 7Vz per cent, phosphoric acid. 426 THE SOUTHEKN PLANTER [May,
312 pounds of nitrate of soda, yielding 16 per cent., taining iy-2 per cent, nitrogen, 9 per cent, phosphoric acid, would give 2% per cent, nitrogen. 7% per cent, potash.
280 pounds of muriate of potash, yielding 50 per cent., It will be observed that this last table contains no . would give 7 per cent, potash. acid phosphate, as 9 per cent, of phosphoric acid will 1,592 pounds of material yielding 7% per cent, phos- generally be considered a fairly high percentage of this phoric acid, 7 per cent, potash, 7 per cent, nitrogen. ingredient in a complete fertilizer. Here we have only 1,592 pounds required to make It also appears that these substances make a combi- a goods showing 7-7 %-7, and it at once becomes apparent nation that, without the use of filler, will generally runj that where bone tankage is used as a base we must expect a little higher than the brands of fertilizer found upon to use a much higher percentage (if we desire to elimi- our markets, and as a natural consequence costs rather nate filler) than is the case where nitrate of soda and more per ton to buy, although the nitrogen, phosphoric acid phosphate form the sources from whence are derived acid and potash in them may cost no more per pound nitrogen and phosphoric acid. As an illustration take than when derived from other sources. the following combination: The point I want to emphasize is that it does not pay 1,200 pounds bone tankage, yielding 5.4 per cent, to purchase low grade complete fertilizer, and I would nitrogen and 9 per cent, phosphoric acid; 375 pounds of say that, generally speaking, nothing of an analysis below nitrate of soda, yielding 3 per cent, nitrogen; 425 pounds 7-7-7 should be purchased where the nitrogen, phosphoric of muriate of potash, yielding 10 per cent, potash—2,000 acid and potash are costing the same price per pound in pounds of 8.4 nitrogen, 9 phosphoric acid, 10 potash. that combination as in one of lower grade. Raw bone meal and steamed bone would combine in The question as to the cheapest source from whence the same way making, with nitrate of soda and the potash to derive our fertilizing constituents is too large a one to
salts, an exceedingly rich combination, part of which is take up in the present paper. In fact it does not concern i at once available and the balance slowly so. the farmer who buys ready-mixed goods. All the buyer 1,000 pounds raw bone meal gives 4 per cent, nitrogen wants is the price per ton and the percentages and hei and 11 per cent, phosphoric acid, C25 pounds nitrate of should try to secure the fertilizer of the highest analysis! soda gives 5 per cent, nitrogen, 375 pounds muriate of where the relative prices of the constituents are equal, ; greater potash gives 9 per cent, potash—2,000 pounds of 9-11-9. as by so doing he not only saves freight, but gets And with the steamed bone as a base we get—1,000 pounds results from the same labor in hauling and distribution. of steamed bone gives 1 per cent, nitrogen and 12Yz per If farmers will use high grade goods and carefully figure cent, of phosphoric acid, 625 pounds nitrate of soda gives the percentages, allowing 15 cents as the price per pound phosphoric acid andj 5 per cent, nitrogen, 375 pounds muriate potash gives 9 of nitrogen, 4Y2 cents per pound for for potash, manufacturer will dis- per cent, potash—2,000 pounds of 6-12y2 -9. 5 cents per pound the cover and use the cheapest source of the ingredients, for With these three tables I purpose to conclude the by so doing he can either clear a greater margin of profit slaughter-house products, or substances which contain both for his work or undersell his competitor. nitrogen and phosphoric acid, leaving to the reader the Mathews County, Va. PETRCIVAL HICKS. task of farther investigation should he feel interested in the subject, and take up the two forms of Peruvian guano now on the market, the one analyzing 6 per cent nitrogen, 9 per cent, phosphoric acid, and 2 per cent, potash, and the other 3 per cent, nitrogen, 18 per cent, phosphoric acid and 3.5 per cent, potash. The first, coming from a country which has a very slight rainfall, would be preferable where a high nitrogen content was desirable, and by combining with nitrate of soda and the potash salts and acid phosphate give the following per- centages: 1,000 pounds of guano contains 3 per cent, nitrogen, 4% per cent, phosphoric acid, 2 per cent, potash, 500 pounds nitrate of soda contains 4 per cent, nitrogen, 375 pounds acid phosphate contains 3 per cent, phosphoric acid, 125 pounds muriate of potash contains 3 per cent, potash—2,000 pounds of fertilizer containing 7 per cent, nitrogen, 7% per cent, phosphoric acid, 5 per cent, potash. The second grade, which comes from a semi-rainless country, where some of the nitrogen has been washed out Coquette's John Bull. G39S0. Head of Milnwood Dairy Herd, Farmville, Vaa. See article elsewhere in this issue. of the guano, will combine as follows, giving us a slightly different grade of percentages: 1,000 pounds guano con- One of the most desirable soils for Muskmelons is a tains 1% per cent, nitrogen, 9 per cent, phosphoric acid, sandy loam which has not been tilled for a year or two, 1% per cent, potash, 750 pounds nitrate of soda contains or a clover soil. Better still is a field where Compeas 6 per cent, nitrogen, 250 pounds muriate of potash con- have been grown and turned under. tains 6 per cent, potash—2,000 pounds of fertilizer con- New Jersey. C. A. UMOSBL.LE. 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 427
ALFALFA GROWING IN PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY, VA. on the 13th day of April I cut some of it for soiling. My cows, hogs and horses eat it greedily, and Editor Southern Planter: • although I cut out the larger part of my ^rain ration my cows Above is a picture of an alfalfa field on my place, increased in milk production 20 per cent. To-day, one taken on April 11, 1908, when the alfalfa was about twenty week after cutting, the second crop is three inches Inches high. high on the part cut over. Operating a winter dairy for the State Female Normal I have no suggestions to offer as to my success, but School and not getting the price for milk which my city was informed by a gentleman who had lived in Colorado friends do, I have long felt the necessity of something that he had never seen any as good on the irrigated lands to take the place of the high-price concentrates. Have of Colorado. Will add, in closing, that the land is a gray been experimenting with alfalfa for five years with more land underlaid with red clay, with the red showing failures than success. This field was heavily manured through in a good deal of it. for tobacco in 1905—produced a crop of 1,500 pounds to WILLIAM W. JACKSON. the acre. It was followed by a crop of wheat in 1906, Bizarre Dairy Farm, Farmville, Va. making about thirty bushels to the acre. As soon as the wheat was off I ploughed the land about eight inches SOME THINGS SUGGESTED BY THE APRIL deep, harrowed it down fine during the summer, put on ISSUE. 1,000 pounds of oyster shell lime to the acre. During Seed Corn Patch. September sowed it to alfalfa; it came up but never had Editor Southern Planter:
a vigorous growth. In the spring of 1907 I cut it twice, Mr. Christie's suggestions in regard to testing seed the first time more to get rid of cress than anything else. corn are more important this year than ever, for there It still did not suit me, so in July I ploughed it up, put is more damaged corn from Maryland northward than I on a ton of stone lime to acre, just before sowing put on ever noticed, and if farmers fail to test their seed there 500 pounds of bone meal to the acre, and on the 15th day will be poor stands all over the Middle States. Then of August, 1907, sowed 30 pounds of seed to the acre and replanting is poor policy, for the replanted plants shoot harrowed in. It came up nicely, and by October was a their ears after the general pollen distribution, and perfect stand—dark green, twelve inches high. generally fail to make corn of much value. In fact, I My cows got a taste of it and then no fence would quit replanting years ago as a waste of time. keep them out until I moved them out of sight of it. Alfalfa. But I was fully repaid, for the twenty-five cows produced Alfalfa is so valuable that it will pay for extra prepa- me $110 worth of milk while eating it for two weeks. It ration of the land, directed especially to the killing of did not grow much in the fall after the cows were taken weeds. Land for alfalfa needs to be rich and mellow, and off, as they had eaten it down to the ground. This spring also to be clean. I once sowed a piece of land with wheat it began to grow as soon as it was warm enough, not a and hairy vetch in the fall, cut a good hay crop in spring sickly looking plant in the field—no rust, but just a and at once broke the land and sowed peas. Cut these, vigorous growth, very dark green. too, for hay and then fined the land well by going over On the 11th day of April I had the photograph taken; repeatedly with a cutaway harrow and sowed alfalfa. 428 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [May,
The land sloped from a piece of hard red clay up to a' acre without fertilizers. I know land that will do it,
higher and much lighter soil of a gray color. I assumed and not on James River, either, for I have cultivated the that the lighter soil would give me the best stand. But land myself and know that there are plenty of acres in to my surprise the only stand I got was on the stiff red Albemarle that will make the sixty bushels per acre, clay, while the higher and lighter soil made a complete and more., with a good rotation and clover. Then, as to failure. But what I want especially to note is the fact what Nottoway says about acid phosphate being exhausted that the growing of two smothering crops previously and by one crop: In experiments made at the Indiana Station the repeated working of the ground had made it much three plots that had acid phosphate and floats added three cleaner. I believe that it would pay to break the land years before and nothing since, were planted in corn. The in spring for alfalfa and grow no crop on it all summer plot where floats had been applied three years before, but keep it stirred with an Acme harrow that would keep and nothing applied since, the corn crop was 33 turning over the soil shallowly and thus bring the seeds bushels per acre. On the plot where no fertilizer had of grass and weeds where they will germinate and can been applied the crop was 18 bushels per acre and on the be at once destroyed by going over again with the harrow plot where floats had been aplied three years before, and and turning more up to germinate. In this way I believe nothing since, the crop was 38 bushels per acre. This that by time to seed the alfalfa, in late August, the land shows that phosphoric acid will not wash out of the soil, would be far cleaner and success far more certain. Such but that what is left will be there for future crops. In a summer fallow I believe would be well, though I have such a case it might pay to use acid phosphate on the not tried it. Underdrainage might help the field men- corn, as the Indiana experiments showed that in four tioned, as Mr. Wing says, but if a man has land that does years the application of acid phosphate made a profit of not need the underdrainage he had better use that. $13.50 per acre. But the Indiana Bulletin further says: Low Grade Fertilizers. "As a matter of fact, it is very doubtful if it would pay to feed nitrogen in the form of commercial fertilizers to As Mr. Hicks says, it is necessary to use a filler to get grain particularly corn. 75-bushel crop of corn a low grade fertilizer mixture. But why should the farmer, crops, A and stalks removes about 140 pounds of nitrogen from mixing his own fertilizer, use a filler for this purpose? the soil. As this is worth in the form of commercial Would it not be better to make a high grade without fertilizer present prices about 20 cents per pound, it filler and use a smaller amount? Then a fertilizer con- at will be seen that there is about $28 worth of nitrogen in taining only 2 per cent, of nitrogen, and that all from a 75-bushel crop of corn, and as it is impossible to recover nitrate of soda, would have very little influence on the all the nitrogen supplied in the form of fertilizer, it would crop, used in the amount farmers are generally using it, take considerably more than this amount to produce 75 as it would soon be dissipated and the crop left to its corn. of fact, it can seen that own resources through the greater part of the growing bushels of As a matter be to to use of legumes or season. Three hundred pounds per acre of such a mixture it will be necessary resort the cheaper source of nitrogen if corn production is to would give but six pounds of nitrogen per acre, or just some our soils." The same results about what the natural rainfall brings to the soil annually. be profitably maintained on in Ohio and in almost every other Station It would cost about $1.20 per acre and would hardly in- have been had test has been made, and it has been abundantly crease the corn crop that much. If one is to put fertilizer where the that it never pays to buy a complete fertilizer, or on the corn crop at all, he would need some organic proven nitrogen Tor the corn nitrogen to keep up the feeding of the plants after the one containing a due percentage of I further and say that when the nitrate is exhausted. This leads me to note what you say crop. And would go farmer uses a short rotation and uses legumes for nitrogen to Mr. Hurt. If Mr. Hurt has read what I have written, of nitrogen for any of the and what the editor has written, in regard to fertilizers he need never buy an ounce on the corn crop he will find that we both have uniformly ordinary crops of a grain farm. There is no doubt that will be greatly opposed the buying of fertilizers for corn, and especially the efficiency of the home-made manures 50 of the 10-5 mixture to each such a low grade as 2-8-2. If a farmer always has a clover increased by adding pounds well in the start in sod to turn for corn, on which he has applied the home- ton of manure, anr! this would pay improvement of the land, while later on the applica- made manure, which he should have, and will have if he the potash to the wheat would be grows legume forage in abundance, broadcast, he will tion of the phosphate and never need to spend money for nitrate of soda or any all sufficient. other form of nitrogen. The wheat growers of Eastern 'I would say to "Nottoway" that the land in his sec- Maryland use a mixture of 10 per cent, phosphoric acid tion did nor become suddenly poor, and it is not going and 5 per cent, potash on their wheat, and this is the to get suddenly rich by the mere piling on of costly bone I only fertilizer used in the whole rotation. The man who meal. Any lasting improvement in the soil must come I buys fertilizer for his corn crop is usually paying a round through the gradual accumulation of the humus of which price for all the increased crop he gets. carel' ?f culture in the past has deprived it. A demon- Corn in Virginia. stration to be of value must be something more than a Mr. Hurt is all right in using a sod and manure for demonstration that a lot of costly fertilizer will produce his corn and in ploughing deep, and I agree with him crops. It must be a demonstration to the poorest farmer entirely as to the method of cultivation. His experience that by proper treatment of the soil and a good crop rota- should be a complete answer to Nottoway, who doubts tion he can make the land pay its way to improvement. that Virginia soil will make sixty bushels of corn per Mr. Sandy has not made his farm productive all at once, 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 429 but by persevering year after year in the production of small spots of the balance of the field. (This last applica- 13th crops that feed the land arid feed the cattle and make tion) did not make a particle of showing.) August on the whole manure, and that is the only rational way to improve the twelve pounds of crimson clover was sown This a stand in spots only. soil. The legumes, aided by liberal applications of acid field and cultivated in. made phosphate and potash, will do the rest, and do it more The whole field was cut and shocked twelve hills square. cheaply and permanently than the extravagant purchase The corn on the one acre measured and part of stover of fertilizer for the sale crops. weighed, balance estimated, also six shocks on each side of dividing line in same row where land was similar Farm Horses. was measured to compare results. These six shocks of 1 would say to "N." that I have never advised race each lot showed a difference of about one-half bushel farm, I know that an infusion of horses for the but shelled corn per acre in favor of the heavy fertilized corn. thoroughbred blood is a great help and gives better wind I think we can often learn more from our failures Percherons have. I like a good blocky horse, than the big than successes and would attribute my poor success to an animal on the farm with a foot as but I do not want the following causes: big as a dish pan. Over twenty years ago I took charge 1. The land should have been ploughed several months of the improvement of the large farm at the Miller School earlier than it was (March 28th). of Albemarle. There were in the stable a number of big, 2. It was ploughed too deep. This farm has been horses. I had an auction sale and went down in clumsy scratched in spots only for years with a one-horse plow, the Southwest counties and bought mules, for when I work and to go down eight inches bringing up so much raw negroes I generally think mules are essential. Among clay in the spring was a mistake. Although the prepara- the mules I bought was one said to have come from a tion and cultivation was as good as Editor Jackson or Percheron mare. He was a very heavily built animal and Mr. Sandy could wish, yet this acre dried out worse than made a splendid wheel mule for a wagon team. But if any other corn I had. ever a mule was possessed of the devil that was the mule. 3. The season here was exceedingly dry during July Stout as he was he could buck like a broncho, and it was and August, Mr. Sandy saying on one of his visits that the delight of the hands to get a green hand ride that it seemed to rain more everywhere else than here. No mule home from the field at noon, for the moment he amount of fertilizer will grow a crop without sufficient reached the water trough there was no longer a place on moisture, and this land in present condition dries out too his back for that darky to stay. For high kicking the quickly. Parisian demimonde could not show his equal. Now, I do not wish to criticize Mr. Sandy's methods, W. F. MASSEY. but I am just like hundreds and thousands of others in Virginia who cannot afford to spend so much money per FARM DEMONSTRATION WORK. acre and wait for results. Just look at the comparison! One side of the line an expense for fertilizer of $12.75 Editor Southern Planter: per acre greater and 65 cents extra for putting it on, Will you permit a new comer to participate in the total difference $13.40 per acre; crop practically the same. discussion on Mr. Sandy's Demonstration work? I am If the one acre paid expenses, which it just about did, particularly interested, because I am the only Demonstra- the balance made a fair profit, even in a bad year. tor who reported a loss by reason of following Mr. Sandy's Another field was fertilized with about 125 pounds per instructions. acre of 10-2 goods and part with Thomas slag, applied As to my crop will say that I picked out one acre of with corn drill. The 10-2 fertilizer gave decidedly better typical soil for this section, not as good as the average, I results than the Thomas slag. This field had less than think, but suitable to experiment on. I wanted to com- half the expense as to preparation and only four culti- pare his methods with some ideas of my own, so planted vations, while corn was as good as the other. a field of three acres, of which the one-acre Demonstration Now, I am going to criticize the editor, too. He plot was a part. It was all planted and tended alike, always advises disking and much harrowing before plant- except that the one acre was ploughed eight inches deep ing corn. My own experience and observation has been and fertilized with $14.50 worth of lime and fertilizer, that too much working of such land as is found in much of while the balance of the field was not ploughed quite so Middle Virginia, where there is no sod, is a mistake, i deep and received $1.75 worth of 16 per cent, acid phos- think one or two harrowings with a plank dragging to phate per acre. The land was ploughed twice, harrowed facilitate working is enough. Corn and potatoes are two twice, limed with 700 pounds of Lee's Agricultural Lime crops that require loose soil to start growth in, and so (could not get ordinary lime), double disked, 425 pounds much working packs poor soil too hard. raw bone meal applied with wheat drill, dragged with plank drag, worked and planted with planter with sixty Your Nottoway correspondent says acid phosphate is not a good fertilizer for corn, and the editor says few pounds acid phosphate per acre in drill. It was then | harrowed as corn was coming up and thoroughly worked experiments show profits from fertilizing corn, but acid four times with riding spring toothed cultivator and twice phosphate comes nearest being profitable
later with 5-tooth cultivator with cotton sweeps on same I have before me Bulletin No. 141, by Dr. C. E. Thorne, shallow. Just before the second cultivation 170 pounds Director of the Experiment Station of Ohio. Dr. Thorne of dissolved animal bone and 70 pounds muriate potash has been conducting some of the most careful and most mixed together was broadcasted on the one acre and on two instructive experiments ever conducted in the United 430 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [May,
States and on poor, worn land, too. The Wooster farm Now, if any one can give a reasonable excuse for was an old run-down rented farm for years. On Plot No. working land in a place like Virginia for a whole summer, 2 acid phosphate and nothing else was used for years. or even a part of it, without getting any returns for a It was corn one year, 80 pounds acid phosphate per acre, whole season, after having spent $15, or even $3 or $5,
followed by oats, 80 pounds acid phosphate per acre, fol- for fertilizer, I would like to hear it. lowed hy wheat, 160 pounds acid phosphate per acre, I have in times past done that very thing myself clover and timothy sowed in wheat and cut for hay two upon the advice of agricultural writers who advocated
years, no fertilizer; then repeat same rotation. At time this such methods, but have promised, or decided, that it bulletin was issued there had been two crops of corn, shall never happen again unless absolutely unavoidable. oats and wheat and seven of hay harvested, so that the After as much as even $4 per acre has been spent average result is very instructive. It shows that this for fertilizer I would rather let some one raise cow-pea small application of the much-abused acid phosphate gave hay on my land, rent free, than to let it lie unprotected an annual increase over adjoining unfertilized plots of through the hottest part of the summer. 6.59 bushels corn per acre, 114 pounds stover, 7.46 bushels If it was feared that the seed-bed was not in proper oats, 204 pounds straw, 6.96 bushels wheat, 692 pounds condition after a crop of pea-millet hay a harrow and straw, 375 pounds hay first year and 115 pounds second roller would be the proper remedy. year, or a total increase of 2,618 pounds for each rotation The question of acid phosphate and peas has been
from a total application of 320 pounds of acid phosphate. completely answered by Professor Massey, so I need not Dr. Thome, giving farm crops a very low estimate, go into details on that subject. shows that this series of plots gave a net profit of $9 per Chesterfield County, Va. K. A. BERGMANN. acre for each rotation, even showing a profit of 300 per cent, on the corn. I have figured his results with farm prices here and find that with acid phosphate, at even the highest price asked by agents, that Dr. Thome's gains HOW TO TREAT NEW SETTLERS. would show a profit of nearly $4.50 per acre on corn, Editor Southern Planter: about the same on oats, $5.50 on the wheat and about $5 on the hay, or $19.50 per acre for each rotation, this While the South is making efforts to induce immi- being net profit for an expense of not over $2.75, present grants to locate in its territory it should at the same time prices, or over 200 per cent, profit. It is instructive to give them the natural advantages that are possible to be note that no other plot in this whole series showed so utilized in the South and not hamper them with unneces- much net profit as this one, the two others coming nearest-, sary obstacles, the main one being the unreasonable prices
being Nos. 6 and 8, No. 6 being supplemented by nitrate at which real estate is quoted in many cases. The real es- of soda on corn, oats and wheat also a little dried blood tate agents are the ones to blame in such cases. Many of on wheat; No. 8 had the same amount of acid phosphate them quote and receive unheard of prices to and from those supplemented with muriate of potash on corn, oats and ignorant of real estate prices in the South, and harm is wheat and no nitrogen. So far as the corn crop was con- done whether the prices are accepted or refused. They cerned the nitrogen was used at a loss. either get all the money the immigrant has or else dis- I did some experimenting last year and shall con- courage him as to locating in the South. tinue this year to test the value of acid phosphate on Good lands from one to ten miles distant from rail- various crops and shall have more to say on this subject roads can be purchased all over Virginia and North Caro- at some future time if this does not go into the waste lina for from three to fifteen or twenty dollars per acre in- basket. No one appreciates Mr. Sandy's efforts to benefit eluding buildings. Of course this does not include village the farmers more than I do, but I think he and Dr. Knapp and town lots, but what are known as country lands. ought to have a separate class for us poor fellows who I know of several cases where the real estate agents have lean land and lean pocket-books both. have received from twenty-five to seventy-five dollars per Charlotte County, Va. P. M. RAND. acre for unimproved plantations. There is one instance where a man was induced to pay ninety dollars per acre FARM DEMONSTRATION METHODS. for a plantation which if put up and sold to the highest Editor Southern Planter: bidder would not bring more than twenty. Such practices
I beg to call the attention of your correspondent, "Not- are not just and should not be encouraged. toway," to the fact that his comparison between crimson I was glad to see Mr. Hick's article in the April Plant- clover hay and pea-millet hay is out of place. (I con- er as to home mixing of fertilizers,—farmers have been sider the latter best, however.) If he will kindly com- thinking on and discussing this proposition for the last pare Mr. Sandy's method with mine he will see that the year or two, and demonstrations on paper such as Mr. contention was between no hay at all and a lot of work- Hick's are timely and will be duly considered. ing to keep down weeds and conserve moisture as against May and June are the months to prepare land to be a crop of pea-millet hay to feed the stock while the planted in cow-peas followed by oats this fall, and corn, meadow was growing, to smother out weeds while the cotton, or other crops next spring. farmer was busy with other work, and to keep the sun H. C. COLEMAN. from burning out the humus and nitrogen in the soil during the most heated period. Warren County, N. C. 431 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. Trucking, Garden and Orchard.
WORK FOR THE MONTH. Have boxes and crates ready for shipping strawberries and arrangements concluded with Commission Merchants March and April has caused the The warm weather of for handling the crops and with the express and railroad especially in Middle and East- fruit trees to bloom early companies for forwarding. See to the labor required for about the 15th to 21st ern Virginia and the frosts we had picking being available at short notice. of April have, we hear, done much injury to the fruit in had a number of fruit growers in, this section. We have Tomato plants should be hardened off and be ready plums and pears are almost all who say that cherries, for setting out by the 10th of the month. A well drained also have suffered. Apples have been killed. Peaches loamy soil is best for this crop and it should be well pre- is yet promise of sufficient somewhat injured but there pared and in fine order before setting out begins. Nothing crop if they don't drop later. In North- standing to make a is better than plenty of good rotted farm-yard manure for Northern part of the Valley, much ern Virginia and the growing this crop, but as this is rarely to be had in suf- done and peaches are likely to be almost damage has been ficient quantity except for a small patch it may be supple- Virginia, up to the 21st of April, a failure. In Piedmont, mented by a fertilizer made by mixing 800 lbs. of acid phos- fine for heavy crop of all kinds of fruit the promise was a phate, 300 lbs. of muriate of potash and 700 lbs. of cotton had frosts and we expect but since that date they have seed meal, using 500 or 600 lbs. to acre at planting and then prospect, especially to peaches, to hear of injury to this later, this should be supplemented by two top dressings of not have suffered much plums and pears. The apples may nitrate of soda applied at intervals of ten days at the rate fully in blossom. shall be able as the trees were not We of 150 to 200 lbs. to the acre. This should be spread around to speak more definitely on this next month. the plants but not touch them.
Cucumbers, melons and cantaloupes should be planted When the work advised to be done in our two last as soon as the ground is warm. Prepare the land well and issues has been carried out, the soil is now in good condi- then mark off in rows and plow out these rows deeply tion for the planting of the full crops of all vegetables and throwing the soil out both ways. For cucumbers, the hills this work should have immediate attention. Where the should be made 4 feet apart each way, for cantaloupes, 5 rows were laid off and the fertilizer applied as we advised, or 6 feet and for melons, 8 feet. At the places where the these rows should be freshened up by running a cultivator seed is to be planted drop a forkful or two of manure and through them and the seed be sown and plants raised in on this spread a handful of high grade fertilizer and mix cold frames should be set out. English peas, onions, spin- with the manure and soil, and cover with three or four ach, carrots, beets and irish potatoes should be first planted inches of good soil and make firm. Plant in this 6 or 8 then follow with snap beans, lima beans, pole beans, sqush- seeds and then when these have germinated and got into es, cucumbers, cantaloupes, melons, tomatoes, peppers and rough leaf, thin out to two good plants and keep well cul- egg plants and towards the end of the month sweet pota- tivated until the vines begin to run. Dust with tobacco toes may be set out. Before planting the pole beans, lima dust or with a little air slacked limie in which a little car- and butter beans, have the poles set firmly and deeply in bolic acid has been mixed to keep off the bugs and beetles. the ground, so that they may be able to withstand a good If these are very plentiful the only safe and sure way to blow of wind when covered with the vines. save the plants Is to cover them with plant bed muslin, Onions sets and onion plants raisied in cold stretched over little frames or over small boxes with the frames should be set out, and onion seed be bottom knocked out. After the vines have got well started, sown. Set the plants and sets about four inches the soil should be plowed to the hills from both sides so apart in the rows and when the bulbs begin to form, the as to put the plants on a bed and thus provide them with soil should be drawn away from them so that the onions plenty of soil to spread their roots in and yet keep them may mature on the top of the soil. Sow onion seed pretty well drained. Cultivate frequently but don't disturb the thickly and then when the plants are about as thick as a vines to do this work. When the vines have run so as to quill, thin out to stand three or four inches apart. The be in the way of cultivation it is time to quit. thinned out plants may be set out in another bed. Irish potatoes planted now will make good tubers for early fall Sweet potato plants should be pushed on and hardened use but they will not keep over the winter. July is early off so as to be ready to set out by the end of the month or enough to plant for winter-keeping tubers. in the first week in June. A light sandy loam is best for this crop. It should.be fertile but not overrich, or they The cabbage crop should be kept growing by frequent will run too much to vine. A good fertilizer may be made cultivation and a top dressing of nitrate of soda at the for this crop by mixing 150 lbs. of nitrate of soda or 300 rate of 100 or 150 lbs. to the acre sown down such side of lbs. of cotton seed meal, or better by using half of each of the rows will push them forward with heading and much these quantities; 100 lbs. of acid phosphate and 100 lbs. of Increase the yield of the crops. In our last issue we pub- muriate of potash. Apply this quantity to one acre. It lished a report of an experiment made with this fertilizer should be thoroughly mixed with the soil before setting out on this crop showing remarkable results. the slips. 432 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [May,
THE VIRGINIA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. hill job, handicapped by lack of sufficient money, we have We are glad to be able to state that the Legislature at not been able to accomplish as much as we wished, but the recent Session made an appropriation of $1,000 per we have advertised our fruit by exhibiting it wherever year out of the funds of the State Department of Agricul- practicable, and the result has been most satisfactory. I ture in aid of the work of this Society. Whilst the Execu- have received letters, and also been told by buyers and tive Committee of the Society has not yet had the oppor- authorities in other States, that we have exhibited mag- tunity of meeting and settling the method of utilizing this nificent fruit. The highest awards have been gained at fund for the best interests of the State in Horticultural exhibitions, and there is no reason in the world why we matters yet it is well understood that the main idea in cannot get the highest prices, if this fine grade only is view when the appropriation was asked for was that if packed, and the inferior specimens rejected. It can be granted it should be used in advertising our fruit and hor- readily understood that a man who has not cared for his ticultural products, and the States possibilities for the pro- trees by preventing the ravages caused by insects and duction of these, throughout the world. We congratulate fungous diseases, will have a large proportion of imperfect the Society upon having secured this much help in doing and inferior fruit, and under these circumstances is tempt- a much-needed work. It ought to have been much larger. ed to pack up a quantity of what should never be there. This can be avoided by not producing this imperfect stuff, and can only be done VALUABLE POINTERS FOR FRUIT GROWERS. by taking the trouble to feed and treat the orchard. Editor Southern Planter: There are many other papers of the greatest value to A few words urging the necessity of raising bet- Horticulturists in our Annual Report, and the Society ter fruit, may, I hope seem of sufficient importance for stands ready to do all in its power to help its members space in your -valuable paper. This is the time for taking and the fruit industry generally. Every horticulturist steps to insure the production of good sound fruit, by spray- should be a member. ing as soon as the bloom falls from the apple trees, with The Virginia Growers and Packers Association formed Bordeaux Mixture as a fungicide, and some form of Arse- among our members for the purpose of securing a repu- nic with it to kill the Codling Moth worms and caterpil- tation for good packing, etc., has now been organized, and lars. Formula for mixing the various sprays were pub- great interest is being shown in this step, which is along lished in your March issue. This spray should be applied the lines that have secured the fine reputation and high within ten days of the fall of the bloom to obtain most prices now obtained by fruit from the Pacific Coast. effective results. Omitting ithis application will result in WALTER WHATELY, a considerable percentage of wormy apples, the packing of Secretary-Treasurer, Virginia Srtate Horticultural So- which with other imperfect fruit have given us an un- ciety, Crozet, Va. desirable reputation with the buyers. By reference to the valuable and instructive paper by Dr. J. B. Emerson, con- tributed to the Annual Report of the Virginia State Horti- cultural Society, and just arriving from the printer now; 4wMch Report everyone interested in the Fruit Industry »can -obtain free by becoming a member of the Society) it -will be seen that Virginia ranks first among all the States sin number of apple trees, and fourth in number of bushels '.raised. Twenty-first in number of peach trees, and seventh 'in quantity of bushels raised. Tenth in all orchard fruits, fbut only seventeenth in value for all fruit raised. In an- other place he says "The better class of buyers are wiil- \!mg to pay high prices for first-class fruit, but it must be all first-class, and must be presented to them in an at- tractive manner." The fact that Virginia ranks fourth among the States for number of bushels of apples raised, and seventh in quantity of peaches, tenth in quantity of all orchard fruits, but only seventeenth in value received •for same, conclusively shows the loss occasioned by pack- ing and offering for sale imperfect fruits. There is no rea- son whatever if wie are tenth in rank for quantity pro- Mels Helen, 19378 6, Registered Jersey. Gave 15 quarts duced, that we should not also be at least tenth in value of more than 5 per cent, milk at 2 years old. See article on Milnwood Dairy Farm. of the crop. I maintain that our fruit is as well flavored, and as fine and attractive in appearance as can be pro- Experiments at the New Hampshire Station indicate duced any where, if proper care is taken to help the trees that there is very little, if any, gain derived from pinching to produce it; and imperfect fruit thrown out, and not put Cantaloupe vines. into the market packages. Our Society, organized for the express purpose of fostering and encouraging the horti- We commence spraying our Cantaloupe vines with cultural interests of the State, has labored faithfully for Bordeaux about June 25th and continue every eight days •upwards of twelve years on these lines, it has been an up- until fruit is nearly grown. L. B. PIERCE, Ohio. 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 433 Live Stock and Dairy.
FEEDING COTTON SEED MEAL TO HOGS. fed are points to be determined by future investigations, Editor Southern Planter: but the data accumulated will be of some service to those engaged in swine husbandry, and is therefore presented It has been clearly demonstrated that corn alone is an for the information of all who are interested in this sub- unsatisfactory food for hogs. For instance, in certain well ject. authenticated tests it was shown that young pigs receiving It now seems evident that cotton seed or cotton seed corn alone only made 8.2 pounds of gain per bushel of meal can not be fed in a fresh condition to hogs with any corn consumed, and that it required 6.8 pounds of corn meal degree of safety. However, it appears that in the first to make one pound of gain. Where some protein or muscle experiments undertaken an excessive amount of meal was and nerve-building food was fed in association with the fed, all things considered. Few of us realize what a won- corn meal like wheat, middlings, skim milk, linseed meal derfully concentrated product cotton seed meal is. For or meat meal, the pounds of grain produced from a bushel instance, it contains more than four times as much diges- of corn was doubled, trebled, and even quadrupled in some tible protein and almost four times as much digestible fat instances. Naturally, the cost of producing a pound of as corn. It is very much lower in carbohydrates, and is gain was materially reduced by combining a muscle-build- therefore a strictly muscle-building food. These figures ing food with a heat and fat producing food like corn. In show its concentration to be so great that a hog would fact, the cost of a pound of gain varied in the experiments have to consume four pounds of corn in order to obtain as cited from 3.15 to 13.44 cents. In other words, 100 pounds much protein and fat as is ordinarily obtained in a pound of pork cost, in one instance, $3.15; in the other instance, of cotton seed meal. As already stated, recent investiga- $13.44, or a difference of $10.29 per 100 pounds. tions indicate that the addition of a small amount of cot- Since corn constitutes the exclusive ration for hogs ton seed meal has a very desirable effect on the rate of on many of our farms, it is not surprising that pork rais- gain and does not seem to injure the health of the hogs, ing, and especially where pen feeding is practiced, should provided the meal is not fed for too long periods of time. not be looked upon with favor. Moreover, it is important In the course of time come ito realize more fully ithat young pigs should be fed a ration that contains a we may the very highly concentrated of se<~d meal considerable amount of ash matter, or bone-building ma- nature cotton and utilize it with that judicious discretion which seems terial. Corn is very deficient in this respect, and hence necessary in order to utilize it profitably in pork produc- the necessity of finding some suitable companion food to tion. feed along with it. In sections of the country where wheat and flax are grown, this is not a difficult thing to do, but In the first experiments undertaken in Texas Cotton" in those localities where cotton is the staple crop, by- seed meal was fed at the rate of one pound to two and a products of wheat and flax are so costly as to practically half pounds of corn. The first hog died on the forty- preclude their use. Corn is also higher in price in pro- ninth day, and the whole lot succumbed a few days later. portion owing to the small area devoted to it and the low In Oklahoma hogs weighing 79 pounds were successfully yields obtained, and therefore constitutes a costly ration maintained for 47 days on a ration in which the animals to commence with. Some cheap protein amendment which consumed one pound of cotton seed meal per day. The is locally grown, therefore, is a desideratum ito all farmers meal was fed in conjunction with Kafir corn, and during who handle hogs. For a great part of the year grazing the greater part of the time the hogs were on a wheat crops can of course be utilized, and will constitute the pasture. These experiments demonstrated that by alter- cheapest and most effective means of maintaining and de- nating the feeding of cotton seed meal with cooling foods, veloping a high-class type of bacon hog at a minimum of such as any of the cereals sown for pasture would provide, cost. But for several moniths of the year these grazing cotton seed meal could be fed with safety for a consider- crops may not be available, or if they are, are of such able length of time, and would have a beneficial effecr character as to require the feeding of considerable amounts on both the rate and economy of gains obtained. of grain in order to insure rapid and uniform growth Experiments undertaken in Arkansas indicate that which, of course, is associated with the greatest economy hogs weighing about fifty pounds may be fed on cotton- of production. seed meal at the rate of about 1-4 of a pound per day; There is produced in the cotton States a concentrate hogs weighing between 50 and 75 pounds at the rate off of unsurpassed excellence in cotton seed meal, but for 1-3 of a pound per day; hogs weighing between 75 and! many .years it has been regarded as impossible to feed 100 pounds at the rate of 2-5 of a pound per day; and hogs this material to hogs with any degree of safety or satis- weighing between 100 and 150 pounds at the rate of 1-2 faction and the experiments conducted have tended Ito con- pound per day. In these experiments ithe hogs were fed firm this belief. In recent years, however, a series of as much as .8 of a pound of cotton seed meal per head per trials seems to reveal the fact that cotton seed meal may day for periods of 156 to 186 days. This is probably a be fed in limited quantities Ito hogs with a comparative higher rate of feeding than can ordinarily be practiced degree of safety, and when it is combined in a ration with for such a length of time with safety. corn larger, and hence less costly gains will be secured. In recent years great claims have been made as t© Just how and when to feed cotton seed meal to the best the utility of cotton seed meal in fattening hogs when it advantage and the length of time which it safely is may be allowed to ferment before feeding. This prixctice is 434 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [May, quite common among Texas hog breeders. The method duced. The combination of one pound of cotton seed meal pursued is about as follows: The meal is first thoroughly with five of corn furnishes the nutrients desirable for fat- fermented. It is then fed as a thin slop and in some tening hogs in about the right proportion. It should also instances, it is claimed as much as half of the ration has be borne in mind that feeders who exercise care and dis- consisted of cotton seed meal. The meal is in nearly all cretion and watch their animals closely may be able to instancies fed in conjunction with corn meal which is mixed feed larger amounts of cotton seed meal than have been with it and fermented at the same time. It has not been suggested and for longer periods of time. Since the pro- shown, however, thait a ration of cotton seed meal any- portions which can be fed most successfully are best thing like as heavy as suggested has been fed for long adapted for fattening animals it would seem that cotton periods of time, or for finishing animals for market, and seed meal is destined to become of considerable economic we do not think it advisable in the present status of our importance to hog growers in the souch, and no doubt ways knowledge for any one to attempt to so feed it. Experi- and means will be devised in the near future by which its ments conducted at the Texas station, however, seem to utility in the feeding and nutrition of swine may be great- indicate quite clearly that a ration of corn and cotton seed ly* extended. meal can be fed under certain conditions with safety to To combine corn and cotton seed meal in about the varying in length from 40 to 60 hogs for periods of time right proportions for young and growing stock, it would the days, and the feeding may be done with safety even in be necessary to feed one pound of cotton seed meal to two lots hottest weather when the hogs are confined to bare of corn. This in the light of investigation made up to the prop- and deprived of what would ordinarily be considered present time is entirely too concentrated a ration to be desirable sanitary conditions and er exercise, the most fed with safety. For young animals, therefore, it is quite Deen the privilege of grazing on green crops which have likely that other protein amendments will have to be fed shown conclusively to be a most desirable and impor- at least in part, but for fattening animals the combination constitutes a tant companion food when cotton seed meal of corn and cotton seed meal proposed can be used ad- ration regardless of season. portion of the vantageously, and it is believed that where proper care is To those wishing to feed cotton seed meal to hogs, exercised in handling the animals that they can be finished therefore, it would seem that for animals which are be- on this ration, since from 60 to 100 days affords ample ing fattened not more than 1-5 of the ration should c in- time Jn which to prepare animals for market. sist of cotton seed meal, and that it is probably not ad- Since packers are troubled much with what are termed visable to feed at this rate for more than fifty days in soft or oily carcasses and an excessive covering of fat on the present status of our knowledge, though it is possible the body where corn is the exclusive ration, it is interest- to feed some cotton seed meal for much longer periods ing to observe that slaughter tests indicate that the car- with comparative safety. After the fiftieth day, however, cass of hogs fed on meal in the ratio suggested above con- it will be advisable to reduce the amount to one-eighth of tain less fat and a greater proportion of lean meat than the daily ration. It is very important that corn, which con- those fed on corn alone. The carcasses of hogs receiving stitutes the best companion food to feed with cotton seed, cotton seed meal are as a rule firm and of excellent quality. meal, should be mixed with the meal in a dry condition, This is a matter worth emphasizing since it renders pos- and that the whole mass should be thoroughly soured by sible the finishing of hogs in the south which much more allowing it to ferment for at least 24 to 36 hours in sum- nearly approach the bacon type, and insures the farmer re- mer, and for 48 to 72 hours in winter, depending largely ceiving a better price for his animals since first-class bacon on the temperature; and that it is certainly advisable to is now more or less of a luxury and in great demand. provide grazing crops for hogs being fed on cotton seed While as much has not been accomplished in deter- meal. Any green food which can be provided will be ac- mining the exact value of cotton seed meal in a ration for ceptable, though of course the legumes and the cereals will hogs as is desirable, satisfactory progress is being made be the easiest to grow and the most desirable. along this line, and much information of substantial im-
Where cotton seed meal is fed the animals should be portance has been brought to light. The feeding of fer- watched very closely and the amount reduced when any mented cotton seed meal in moderate amounts and for of evidences of ill health are observed. Tliis is a very im- comparatively short periods time seems to have been portant matter. Small quantities of fermented cotton seed demonstrated as a safe plan to follow, and the results ob- meal have been fed in connection with corn to breeding tained from its use are such as to justify and encourage animals by some farmers for considerable periods of time further experimentation, not only on the part of practical without any apparent injurious results. It is questionable, farmers, but on the part of the investigator as well in however, whether this is a safe practice to pursue with order that the full potential value of cotton seed meal as valuable animals as there is certainly an element of dan- an adjunct in feeding hogs may be ascertained. ger present when the feeding has been carried beyond a ANDREW M. SOULE. certain point. We would advise breeders, therefore, to go Georgia State College of Agriculture. slowly and exercise great care in feeding cotton seed meal to their animals until thoroughly satisfied that it can be THE EFFECT OF DAIRY BREEDING. done with impunity. Cornell University has the following record to show
It is noteworthy that the small amounts of meal which the effect of breeding to a pure bred sire. They com- it is regarded safe to feed for from 40 to 60 days have had menced with a cow that would produce 225 lbs. of butter an appreciable effect on the character of the carcass pro- a year; that was her limit. She was bred to a pure bred 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 43! dairy sire. The daughter of this combination produced old, by name Carroll 15,431, by Ayres 15,668, traces to the 275 lbs. of butter a year. In the fourth generation, ali the well-known Polly family, his dam being Polly 3d 23,289 by product of pure bred sires, there were two cows that made Monsieur 6,458. The best heifer of the herd is a show 450 lbs. of butter a year. If they could be collected, there are a host of such examples scattered over the country, all proving the great value of a prepotent dairy sire in impart- ing dairy capacity to his descendants, particularly on the female side.
PERCHERONS AT BLACKSBURG.
Fine Stock in the Shenandoah Valley, Va. Editor Southern Planter:
For economic reasons, and also for the purpose of car- rying out the plans of an experiment in horse breeding and feeding, to cover several years, the Virginia Polytechnic Institute this spring made sale of all tho geldings and mules on the college farm, and secured good heavy Per- / animal, without question. She is Ruby Rose 22,040, and represents in her make-up the Flower Lass and Fashion families. We take pleasure in handing you herewith snap shots of these two animals, as they are quite representa- tive of the breed. Mr. Jarman also has a number of good Percheron mares, a pair of which we secured for
the V. P. I. farms. Mr. C. J. Barger, Crimora, has some fine Percherons and a splendid herd of Hereford cattle, also some fine feeders, both steers and spayed heifers. These animals had been brought to a very high finish with silage and the small addition of half a gallon of corn meal at a feed, with hay as they desired
it. Mr. Barger is certainly making a success with Her- ford cattle, as well as with Percheron horses. I am de- lighted to call attention to the flattering prospect he has cheron mares, with which to do the farm work. Among with an alfalfa crop of several acres, sown last August; these are some very excellent specimens of the Percheron also to a stand of alfalfa three years old, which is cut five breed of drafters. None of them is less than half Perche- times each season, giving, Mr. Barger says, larger returns ron, several three-fourths and seven-eighths, and one pair than any other crop that he knows. There are quite a of mares is registered. number of similar illustrations over the State which show In visiting different parts of the State, it was the par- quite conclusively that alfalfa may be grown successfully ticular pleasure of the writer to make a trip through the in Virginia. Shenandoah Valley at a most delightful timie of the year, WALTER J. QUICK, namely, the latter part of March and the first half of April. Dean and Professor of Animal Husbandry, A splendid opportunity was afforded for inspecting the Virginia Polytechnic Institute. quality of live stock in the Valley. I was more than pleased with the advance being made in the improvement not only of horses, but cattle, sheep and hogs, many of the SPECIAL ORDERS GOVERNING THE STATE CATTLE improved breeds of which are represented at least by sires QUARANTINE. and grades of three or four crosses. Commonwealth of Virginia, Alexander & Co., Crimora, Virginia, are breeding a Office of State Veterinarian. fine lot of Percherons. This firm have a splendid lot The following counties in Virginia are below the of mares bolth imported and home-bred, also, four mag- quarantine line, (or under quarantine restrictions) from nificent imported stallions. the fifteenth day of March, 190'8, until the fifteenth day ol Mr. John F. Lewis, Lynnwood, Virfinia, has a fine Dcember, 1908. stud of Percherons, many imported, including several Quarantind Counties in Virginia. very excellent stallions, and numerous splendid celts. Chesterfield, York, Pittsylvania, Mecklenburg, Lunen- His exhibits at the Virginia State Fair last fall were burg, Brunswick, Greenville, Sussex, Surry, Southampton, very fine and will be remembered by all lovers of a good Isle of Wight, and Nansemond. draft horse. No cattle from the above named counties must be At the home of M. M. Jarman, Elkton, a splendid herd moved to the non-quarantined territory of this State, ex- of twenty head of Red Polled cattle was seen and care- cept by rail or boat, and then according to quarantine regu- fully inspected. A fine young bull, just about two years lations as prescribed by the U. S. Department of Agricul- 436 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [May,
and now all who have given it a fair trial are ture, at Washington, D. C, for so moving quarantined cat- the remedy, pleased with the result and are ready to recommend it. tle for immediate slaughter. easiest and best, method Since the counties of Mecklenburg, Pittsylvania, Bruns- All are agreed that the of is the tobacco with salt, using wick and Chesterfield, have a well organized local inspect- giving this treatment to mix tobacco as salt, the relative propor- ing force at work in the said counties under control of at least twice as much depending on the kind of tobacco used. This mix- the Supervisors, and supervision of the State Veterinarian, tions this ture is then placed where the lambs have constant, or at if the said Local Inspectors are constantly employed access it. first they are little wary, season, then by special request of the cattle owners of the least daily, to At a to the smell of the tobacco, but if no salt is given them said counties on whose farms were found no ticks last year, due other than that mixed with tobacco, soon they will become the State Veterinarian will, if the said method is approved salt-hungry as to readily eat both tobacco and salt. by the Federal Department, permit cattle from the said so pos- non-quarantined farms to be moved upon inspection, if all The grade of tobacco used is the lowest, as this sesses as high poisonous qualities as the better grades. Dr. cattle on the said farms are free from ticks and the in- Inspec- Miller uses what is commonly known as "trash," or the spection is made jointly by the State and Federal lower refuse leaves. These he cuts into small pieces. tors and by each department approved. Under no conditions must any State Inspector permit John M. Jamison, of Ross county finds that tobacco stalks, cut into lengths of half an inch to an inch and a half, cattle to be moved from any farm which was quarantined serve his purpose well; he sprinkles salt over these and last year, or from any one of the counties which is now under quarantine, until he has first received special per- finds bis flock of 104 native feeding lambs will eat three mission from the State Veterinarian to do so, and until or four quarts of tobacco in 24 hours. The writer uses- "tobacco dust," purchased at a nearby cigar factory. This- the owner of the said cattle has been by the State Local cents per pound in small quantities; Inspector furnished a written permission to move the said dust retails at two stalks sell for 75 cents per 100 pounds. cattle, which permit must be signed by a Federal Inspec- As was stated above, the tobacco is mixed with salt, tor also before the cattle must be so moved. tobacco, and salt No transportation company doing business in this or better, salt is sprinkled over the no is fed in any other way. An old kettle makes a good re- State must receive cattle from the quarantined territory in feed this. If one desires to give the above mentioned, unless the said cattle are accompanied ceptacle which to
; constant access to the tobacco it should be so placed by a written certificate permitting the cattle o be so lambs it will sheltered from the rain. moved, which certificate must be signed by both, State and that be is cheap, easily given, and so far has Federal Inspectors. This remedy Individual premises now under quarantine in Counties proved effective. The writer began using it the first week in September in flock of lambs from which three had al- above ths line are subject to all quarantine restrictions a ready died of the disease, and no lambs have died since. mentioned in this order. in his where his Ail Local Inspectors are expected to quarantine any He has kept tobacco sheep barn breeding approach to it all winter, and thus premises on which are found cattle infested with cattle ewes can have ready hopes to be able to turn his flock out on grass this spring ticks. In every case the owner must be furnished with a clean parasites. keeping tobacco before all sheep the written quarantine order, and a copy of the same must at of By round it is believed that this particular pest can be once be sent to the State Veterinarian. year A quarantine notice must be kept posted on the gate completely exterminated from the flock and the farm of the one using it. of every farm so quarantined. JNO. E. By order of State Live Stock Sanitary Board. WILLIAMS. J. G. FERNEYHOUGH, Delaware County, O. (Country Gentleman.) State Veterinarian.
Burkeville, Va. GREEN FORAGE FOR HOGS. An especially timely bulletin bas just been issued from- the Missouri Experiment Station by Dean H. J. Waters TOBACCO FOR LAMB PARASITES. giving the results of some experiments to determine the During the past several years many farmers of Ohio, value of different forage crops for hogs. who make the raising and feeding of lambs of the mutton Thirty-six pigs weighing about 50 lbs. each were fed breeds a part of their farm operations, have suffered heavy in lots on different forage crops in connection with corn losses from the inroads of the stomach worm, Strongylus until they were ready for market, accurate account being contortus. Numerous remedies have been tried and many kept of the cost of gains made. experiments made to combat this pest. Four years ago Dr. In cheapness of gains the feeds used ranked as fol- H. P. Miller, of Delaware county conceived the idea that lows; Corn and skim milk, cheapest; corn and alfalfa, tobacco might prove effective. It had demonstrated its second; corn and red clover, third; corn and bluegrass, merit in destroying garden parasites and had won a place fourth; corn and rape, fifth; corn and ship stuff, sixth. in formulas for ridding colts of worms; this led Dr. Miller A saving of about 75 cents a hundred in the cost to think it might prove just as potent in killing internal gain was effected by using green clover instead of fresh parasites in lambs. He tested the remedy, and after what bluegrass. A saving of $1.00 a hundred was effected by seemed to him convincing evidence of its worth, published using alfalfa instead of bluegrass. his idea. Many of the best sheepmen of Ohio began trying Wben it is realized that alfalfa comes on early and 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 437 when properly clipped stays green all summer and until with the Commissioners tag, etc., and forbidding the sale the very hard freezes of early winter, its importance as a of same without Commissioners license. The act is now In hog pasture is apparent. Clover yields more forage per force and the Governor has appointed W. D. Saunders, the acre than bluegrass, and as shown by these experiments Professor of Dairying, at the Agricultural College, Blacks- has a much higher feeding value. It is of the utmost im- burg, the commissioner to execute the law. This appoint- portance therefore to provide this sort of pasture for hogs ment is a most excellent one and we expect to see great rather than to require them to run on a bluegrass pasture, progress made in dairying in this State under his direc- or even worse than bluegrass, a timothy pasture, or even tion. Every Dairyman and Stock-keeper should have a far worse than this, to confine them in a dry lot in the copy of the Act. summer-time. This bulletin recommends a succession of crops for TOBACCO FOR THE SHEEP. profitable hog pasture. The bulletin is for free distribu- tion, and may be had by addressing the Experiment Sta- Editor Southern Planter: tion at Columbia. Let's try this year to have the best and happiest lambs ever seen in Dorsetdom. It is time. The demand for Dor- DAIRY AND FOOD COMMISSIONER FOR THE STATE set stock far exceeds the supply. Dorsets are now acknow- OF VIRGINIA. leged to be the most profitable sheep grown in America, especially for the Eastern and Middle States. Now let's The General Assembly of this State at the sitting begin to keep them absolutely healthy and happy. It is recently held, enacted a law, under which the Governor easy to do. is required to appoint a Dairy and Food Commissioner for The only enemy of the Dorset lamb is the worm, the the State, whose office shall be a part of the Department of internal parasite. We must keep him out. It does not pay Agriculture of the State and who jointly with the Com- well to "cure" sick lambs. Keep them always in health. missioner of Agriculture and with the approval of the State By soiling, that is, keeping the lambs in the barn and Board of Agriculture shall appoint a Deputy Dairy and feeding them green crops and oats, lambs may be grown Food Commissioner and other necessary assistants. The with great ease and safety. Last year's crop of lambs on commissioner shall hold his office for four years and sub- Woodland Farm was so treated and this Spring the year- sequent appointments shall be made by the Governor and lings are wonderfully good, their skins pink as cherries. the General Assembly. The Commissioner is given full au- The new thing is tobacco for ewes and lambs. It won't thority to inspect and have analysed all dairy and food hurt for the old ram to have his chew also. Every ewe products for man or beast offered for sale in the State and and lamb and ram on Woodland Farm has all the tobacco power to seize and condemn same if not up to standard of it wants every day. Cheap, damaged tobacco is bought and purity and quality. In addition to these duties he is spe- fed sprinkled well with salt. The lambs learn soon to love -cifically required " to foster and encourage the dairy in- it. Experience of Dr. Miller last year dustry of the State and for that purpose to investigate the showed that this would keep lambs healthy, more, it will clean general conditions of the creameries, cheese factories, con- out the worms that may already be in them. densed milk factories, skimming stations, milk stations Tobacco will even eradicate the nodular disease! and farm dairies in the State with full power to enter upon That is much like a miracle, is it not? I beg you to this any premises for such investigation with the object in view begin tobacco feeding at once to every ewe and lamb. of improving the quality and creating and maintaining Of cigar manufacturers can get uniformity of the dairy products of the State." He has you tobacco stems cheaply. Chop them up and sprinkle with salt. authority given to warn and notify any person selling un Or get damaged whole crop tobacco. paid 4 clean or unwholesome milk or other dairy products, not to We cents a pound for ours. It is often bought from factories for half that or sell same after such unclean or unwholesome condition has less. Begin now, and keep it steadily. been determined by the Commissioner and any person fail- up It will pay a thousand fold. ing to obey such notice and warning and continuing to E. sell shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction JOSEPH WING. shall be punished by a fine not less than $10 nor more than imprisonment in the county jail, not to exceed 90 $50 or ATTENTION BERKSHIRE BREEDERS. days. He may require persons to make the necessary alter- ations in premises to correct unsanitary conditions and Dr. D. M. Trice, of Charlottesville, and a few other failure to obey such requirement subjects the owner of the Berkshire breeders have discussed the propriety of form- premises to a fine or imprisonment. All manufacturers or ing a Berkshire breeders Association for this State. The sellers of concentrated commercial feeding stuffs, for feed- object of the Society would be to further the interests of ing live stock, are required to affix to every package, a breeders by co-operating together for the holding of sales plainly printed statement certifying the weight of the pack- at the Fairs and elsewhere and to watch over all matters age with the name or trade mark, the name of the manu- affecting the Berkshire hog industry. It is not at all con- facturer or shipper, and a guarantee stating the minimum templated to interfere with existing registration Associa-
percentage it contains of crude protein and fat and the tions or to undertake work of this nature. All Berkshire maximum percentage of crude fibre. There are other strin- breeders feeling interested in the furtherance of this move- gent provisions affecting the sale of these concentrated ment will confer a favor by putting themselves in com- feeding stuffs, such as requiring each package to be tagged munication with Dr. Trice. 438 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [May,
MISS BLANDY. DECCALORA'S MAIDEN. MILLIE SIGNAL.
MiLNWOOD DAIRY FARM. Assisting this bull, is the promising Flying Fox bull, Flying Fox's Cash 72,280, sired by the great Marett's Flying Fox Within just about a fifteen minutes drive from the 64.761, formerly owned by Congressman Garter Glass; hustling little town of Farmville, Va., is situated The Miln- his dam is Exile's Creddy 2nd 131,274. It will be seen that wood Dairy Farm, of which Major A. R. Venable, Jr., his breeding is A-l and Major Venable is expecting great contains or seven hun- is proprietor. The farm some six things of him. for for which it is dred acres and lays well the purpose Among the cows are Deccalora's Maiden 214,451 the used, viz.; dairying. The usual forage crops, cow- being grand old daughter of Gentle Ladd and Deccalora, who is peas, corn, alfalfa and the grasses, all have 'their places in still a most persistent milker, giving as much as 40 ibs. crop rotation and furnish an abundance of feed, silage the of 5 per cent. milk. She is thought to be in calf to the roughage for something like fifty head of Dairy cattle and chief herd bull and if all goes well and she produces a stock. and working heifer calf, she will make her owner one of the happiest The cow barn is on the order of those found on an up- of men. farm. It is clean spacious and in rear to-date dairy and Clara's Pet 193,155, by Tenor 59,277 and out of John stalls, is carries all liquid of the a drain which manure Brier's Pet 84,842, is another grand cow who not only per- to outside is the manure-spreader an shed where housed forms well herself but transmits the same ability to her off- the daily cleaning ever ready* for a trip to the fields after spring. She can givie from 3 to 4 gallons of 5 to 6 per of the stable. The Silo is handy as is also the milk room and dairy. The cows are milked in sanitary pails which, when full, are emptied into air-tight cans and taken to the Separa- tor room which is a model of cleanliness. As the separa- tors are run by power, quick work is made of the milk from which the cream is wanted and the rest is bottled and hermetically sealed. Until recently, this farm shipped cream extensively, but it has now gone into the retail milk trade, running its wagons several times daily to Farm- ville, a most excellent market. This method of handling milk has had the effect of causing the demand to exceed the supply. The milking herd at present, numbers 30 pure-bred, registered Jerseys and is under the personal management of Mr. Woodson Venable, a son of the owner, and a most expert dairyman. Major Venable is a veteran Jersey this breeder, having bred and owned breed for 30 years. FLYING FOX'S CASH, 72280. The animals in the herd attest his ability to select and breed stock of merit, judged by performance at the pail cent, milk, while her daughter, Eloise H. 214,628 by Co- and churn and ability to reproduce. There are in this quette's John Bull, at 2 years old milks about 20' lbs. test- herd, descendents of just such animals which were de- ing 5.8. veloped by the Major years ago and it would take a long Millie Signal 150,390, by Muezzin 2d Signal 31,075 and price, indeed, to tempt their owner to part with them. out of Birdie Settles 108,513 has always been a remarkable The herd is headed by Coquette's John Bull 62,980, a cow and is still so as evidenced by the fact that although son of Canada's John Bull 5th and out of Coquette of 13 years old, she gave 52 lbs of over 5 per cent, milk with Glen Rouge 2nd 64,931 and was imported in dam. He is her last calf. a most impressive sire and his calves are about as uni- Mel's Helen 193,786, sired by Coquette's John Bull and formly beautiful and marked as one would wash to see. 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 439 out of Mel's Charm 108,023, is a magnificent cow. At 2 is a species of flint. There is a belt of limestone in Lou- years old, she gave 14 quarts of over 5 per cent, milk dai- don county, adjoining Fairfax county on the West. The ly. surface of the county is quite rolling in places, and gently Miss Blandy 214,629, (now rather thin) by the same undulating in other sections. The streams are all rapid, bull and out of Lady Mapp, will not bie 2 years old until and one may drive through a half dozen or more small June 5th but she is probably the most distinguished mem- streams in going as many miles. ber of the herd. A recent test of her milk showed the Up to within a very recent date, the county was well marvellous amount of 8.2 of butter fat. The younger timbered; but during the past few years the mills have Venable, who made the test recognizes this as abnormal- been slaughtering the forests at a great rate. The timber ly high and will test her regularly hereafter. One addi- has been sold and cut from many of the large old estates. tional test has been made (April 15th) and showed only This does not add to the appearance nor the wealth of the 5.2. This, however, was not under the most favorable county, nor to its' desirability as a place for a home. conditions. But she will be tested under all conditions and Still we have to tolerate the lumberman as a sort of if she can come anywhere near her record high test, it necessary evil, and trust to Old Mother Nature to rehabili- is apparent that her value is incalculable. tate the hills and valleys with forests unless they be needed There are plenty of other cows and promising heifers for agricultural purposes. Many of these old estates have in the herd which lack of space prevents mentioning indi- been subdivided and settled upon by thrifty farmers, who vidually, but the foregoing are sufficient to emphasize the are developing the section and demonstrating what can be fact that all the good Jersey cattle are not owned in other done on small areas of land. States. With such breeding to be had right here at home Our little home of about 20 acres, formerly belonged to it is the veriest folly to go out of the State and pay higher a prominent Virginia family, and helped to make up an prices for unacclimated stock not a whit better in any estate of 2,400 acres. There are at present about 20 fami- particular. "What ought I to charge for heifers like lies upon that old estate; and there are several hundred
those?" asked the Major, pointing to a bunch of acres of it as yet undivided. Coquette's get. "One hundred dollars at least," said we. Extremes meet here. One mile away is an estate of "But I price them at less than half that figure," says he. several thousand acres—between 5,000 and 10,000 acres, We congratulate Major Venable and son on the all still in the hands of the original owners and in a pretty around excellence of their cattle and are delighted to know fair state of preservation. Just across the public road is that they are handling them on a profitable basis. another landed proprietor—a Swiss gentleman, who owns The photos shown were taken just after the milking and cultivates less than 10 acres. When we say "culti- hour and, of course, do not do credit to the splendid udders vates" we mean just what we say. He is a florist and of a number of them. SHEPHERD. trucker combined. He makes a good living, and is even getting ahead, and expects next year to ride in his own VIRGINIA, AFTER ALL, MS BEST. carriage—his only vehicle now being his market wagon Editor Southern Planter: with which he makes weekly and semi-weekly trips to the Capitol City. Since my last communication to the Planter I have lack greatest need of Fairfax coun- been gaining a "right smart lot" of experience. I have The greatest and ty at present is better roads. When in the State of Geor- carefully looked into the Agricultural conditions prevail gia I had ample opportunity to see the good effects of mak- ing in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, ing the convicts of the State earn their board and cloth- Florida and Alabama. ing by working on the roads. I spent something over 90 days, and several hundred In a few years the State of Georgia will have the best dollars on my tour of investigation. My object was to find, roads of any State in the Union. If Fairfax county, which if possible, a better location for a home, for a farm home, lies close under the eaves of the Capitol City could but than was offered in Eastern Virginia. After "swinging utilize the District of Columbia jail birds in improving the around the circle, as above indicated, I decided to locate roads of the county, this alone would actually enhance the near Washington. value of every acre of real estate to double its present sell- After putting in 30 years of very active work—muscu- ing price. lar work a portion of the time, and mental work all the A. JEFFERS. time—I found that I really needed a change of occupation Fairfax County, Va. and of climate also. The result is the purchase of a small farm here in Fairfax county, near the Capital City, with The Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station is the view of engaging in the work of poultry raising on a attempting to develop a rust resistant Cantaloupe from the moderate scale. regular Netted Gem variety. For developing this quality The elevation here is such as to insure the purest of in the Cantaloupes, the experimenters have grown resist- air; and the "lay" of the land is such as to insure the fin- ent plants on the same plat for several consecutive years est water that ever gushed forth from the eternal hills in order to develop the trait in as adverse condition as The little brook that ripples and eddies, twists and turns possible and the results are said to be really wonderful. on its way through our pasture, heads not more than a The rust resistant vines were green and almost free from mile away, and in that mile fully 500 springs contribute rust, and produced melons of first quality when the adja- \ to its flow or volume of water. cent vines were dead and dried up. The prevailing rock, so far as appears on the surface 440 THE SOUTHERN" PLANTER. [May, The Poultry Yard.
POULTRY NOTES. of Leghorns, viz., S. C. B. and S. C. W. Average age when pullets of the large breeds commenced to lay 7 months. Will it pay to hatch chicks this month? What breed Average age of Leghorn pullets, 5 months. Net actual cost would you advise me to select as I am thinking of getting per pullet at 7 months, (no account taken of cost of eggs some pure breed and sell all my mongrel stock? These for hatching or incubating) of large breeds 63 cents each. questions are asked by many readers of the Planter and I Net actual cost per pullet at 5 months (no account taken will give my experience for their benefit. Mr. Sherman of cost of eggs and incubating) of small breeds 41 cents. gives some very good advice in April Planter in regard to These pullets were all hatched in April. September 1st early chicks. I have hatched them in every month in the I selected 10 of the best pullets of each of the 4 breeds. I year and believe that for egg production with the egg took 5 brown leghorn and 5 white to make the leghorn breeds this month and the first half of June will give us test. They were yarded in large roomy yards. No males the best and most profitable layers. Last year all of my allowed in either pen. The winter was a very severe one February hatched pullets moulted very late in November in N. E. Indiana. The ground was covered with snow and and continued during December. Leghorn chicks that have ice 86 days between December 1st and April 1st. They good range and feed will lay at five months old. This will were all allowed the same kind of feed and given all they bring May hatched pullets to laying in November and would eat. February hatched in August. The May hatch will con- Total number of eggs laid by each pen, September 1st tinue to lay all winter if properly housed and fed but the to June 1st or 273 days as follows: Light Brahmas 840, earlier hatch will moult and no amount of care and feed feed cost $12.56, leggs value $11.20; Barred Rocks, 1,027, will get eggs from them when moulting this late in the feed cost $12.56, eggs value -13.69; White Wyandottes, season. I intend to keep my incubators at work until June 1,115, feed cost $12.10, eggs value $14.87; Leghorns, 1,638, 20th any way. The early hatched will pay much better feed cost, $11.20, eggs value $21.S4. The eggs were all if one wants them for broilers and I think I will try a few sold in the market at from 10 cents to 20 cents per doz. hatches next winter for this purpose and sell every chick Average 16 cents. The hens were all weighed June 1st as soon as large enough. I will begin about December 20th. and market price allowed for them which was 9 cents per This will get them out by January 10th and put them into pound. market the last week in March. This will get the best Ten Light Brahmas weighed 84 1-2 pounds, 10 market. I shall hatch Leghorns for this purpose because $7.60.; they will grow to weigh twenty-four ounces and be plump Barred Rocks weighed 76 3-4 pounds, $6.91; 10 White Wy- andottes. weighed 74 1-4 pounds, $6.68; 10 Leghorns weighed and fully feathered in ten weeks and I have never been 47 3-4 pounds, $4.30. Actual net cost for feed for 14 able to make any of the large breeds do this. I believe too that Leghorns will lay more hatchable eggs in Novem- months. Light Brahmas, $14.58; value of eggs and hens, $18.80; gain, $4.82. Barred Rocks, value of eggs ber and December than any other breed. Much is said in $13.19; farm and poultry papers about the larger breeds. Many and hens, $20.60; gain, $7.14. White Wyandottes, $12.73; of and gain, people prefer them to the smaller breeds. It looks like value eggs hens, $21.55; $8.82? Leghorns, $11.61; value of eggs and hens, gain, $14.53. folly to me for any-one to say that any particular breed is $26.14; best for everybody. Those who want only a limited num- This record of actual cost and receipts shows that the ber of fowls, a few eggs and a roast occassionally find the profit in keeping fowls is not in the net gain in weight larger breeds very satisfactory and for Capons and soft but in actual egg production. The smaller breeds will not roasters we must have them, and the person who is in the only begin to lay from 2 to 3 months earlier but will lay business for eggs in a commercial sense will eventually more eggs during the same time. The large breeds lose turn to the small breeds or go out of the business. I have time every time they get broody and much of the food they bred many of the large breeds during the various eras of eat is stored in the carcass as flesh and fat. I give this their popularity and still have a liking for them (when actual feeding test in answer to the many letters of inquiry well roasted) and annually get that longing to try one of I am receiving relative to the actual utility of the various the much advertised breeds any way. Many people figure breeds. The readers of the Planter want facts, not adver-
about this way. "If I ' raise 100 Orpington or Plymouth tising bosh. I realize that there is much difference in Rock or Brahma pullets they will lay well until June then various ways in fowls of the same breed but the fact re- I will sell them at 14 cents per pound and my 100 hens mains that very nearly all the large commercial poultry will weigh 800 pounds. This will bring me $112.00 and plants breed leghorns. Men claim great things but any if I raise 100 Leghorn piullets and sell them in June they flock of 100 hens that make an average of 175 eggs per will weigh only 500 pounds and bring but $70.00. This year each are good ones. The laying contest now in pro- gives the large ones the preference by $50.00. This looks gress under the managment of The Inland Poultry Journal favorable to the big fellow on paper. Let me tell you how will show that the very best selection and care will do lit- it works out. I have hatched and raised and weighed the tle if any better than this. The pen of 3 Wyandottes laid feed and kept accurate account of cost of growing to lay- 82 eggs in 91 days and the 3 Buckeyes laid 51. This is less ing age the three best large breeds, viz., Light Brahmas, than 10 eggs per hen per month for the Wyandottes and Barred Rocks and White Wyandottes and the two varieties only 5 2-3 eggs per hen per month for the Buckeyes. 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 441
When it comes to the actual count, many of the 200 egg ment. Still my poultry have paid, and paid me well. 1 hens would be found in the 150 class. Our little four-year- attempt, so far as I can, the methods of the best authori- old daughter recently made a remark to a man who tells ties and use incubators and brooders and also the hen 200 egg stories, and I want to record it for the considera- to raise my chicks. I find the incubator and brooder the tion of others. He was telling something that sounded most satisfactory. My most costly mistake has been due rather "high." She listened very attentively until he had to my want of acquaintance with proper parties from finished his narrative then she said "Mr. don't you whom to get the eggs of the best laying strain of whatever know that it pays to tell the truth." Talk about this being breed I might select, and I cannot too strongly urge all an age of commercialism. Every thing must pay. I hope beginners to get the best of eggs to start with and ta every boy and girl that reads these notes will learn the investigate thoroughly their source of supply and to always lesson that little Ruth taught that man. "It pays to tell give preference to eggs from fowls on free range. My the truth." selection of breeds has been the S. C. White Leghorn. One Our flock of hens have made an increase of 12 per hundred of these fowls averaged me 35 eggs in January, cent, in egg yield over the first quarter of last year. I 50 eggs in February and 75 eggs in March. In addition believe I could make them reach an average of 175 eggs to hens I have tried the Indian Runner ducks and of these each for the year if I could keep them till November 1st, I cannot speak too highly. I bought eleven last summer, but I will be compelled to sell the most of them in June lost two by accident, which left me nine (besides I have and July to make room for the young stock. With 4 in- two drakes). They commenced to lay the middle of Octo- cubators hatching all the time till June 15th, we will be ber and by November were giving me from seven to nine so crowded that standing room will be at a premium. eggs a day. They did not quit until the middle of Feb- I get many inquiries about running incubators. How ruary, laying nearly all the time. Having laid so late in to manage them, etc. Good friends I cannot tell you. winter they did not start again until the 22nd of March. Hatching chicks is almost wholly a matter of good eggs, At present writing (April 14th) they lay from seven to uniform heat and fresh air. Some incubators are at fault, nine eggs a day. They are as different from other breeds manufacturers are to blame for very many failures. They of ducks as the Leghorn hen is from the Plymouth Rock say in their catalogues that their machines are self-regu- and are called the "Leghorns" of the duck world. They lating, self-ventilating, automatic hatchers. This is not are extremely active and great rangers and in open true. Every incubator must have the right kind of atten- weather only return home about sunset. Mine now get tion at the right time. The lamp must be cleaned every one quart of corn a day, given at night, and one-half quart day, the eggs must be turned twice every day, the lamp of oyster shell, which they eat ravenously, and I am sure flame must be adjusted occasionally, the temperature must they are too fat and will give less corn and more bran be kept at 102 to 104 during the hatch if you want to suc- and meal. Like the Leghorn, they mature quickly and ceed. If it runs from 90 to 110 you had better quit right their flesh is superior to the Pekin for the table. I would now. I can turn the eggs and trim the lamps in our 4 be loth to part with my White Leghorns, but if my Run- machines in 15 minutes in the morning and fill and trim ners pay me better I think the Leghorns will, to say the the lamps, cool and turn the eggs in 30 minutes in the least, be reduced in numbers. The problem of egg supply evening. I look at the thermometers and adjust the lamp for the table the year round is easily solved with a few flame for the night at 9 P. M., and pay no more attention good Leghorns and a few of these ducks. In conclusion, to them till 5 A. M. We look at them 3 or 4 times during I wish to make acknowledgment of the value to me of the day. We do not "hatch every egg." Neither does the Mr. Husselman's articles in The Planter. hen. If we get 75 good strong chicks from every 100 eggs Fauquier County, Va. W. W. HENRY, Je. we are satisfied. If we get but 50, we fill up again and go on. We have at this time 730 good eggs in the 4 machines CO-OPERATIVE SELLING. out of a total of 880 at the start. If we get G50 good Editor Southern Planter: chicks we will beat any lot of hens. Try it. Set 60 hens In your April issue I outlined a plan for obtaining and count your chicks. Think of feeding and caring for money from our poultry by forming a club of shippers who- 60 setting hens. I don't want the job. should agree to use a label bearing the club's name on all CAL HUSSELMAN. shipments of birds of first class quality. Of course, each shipper would have his own name POULTRY AND INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS. on his shipment and would receive his own returns. The Editor Southern Planter: advantages would increase with years, as the club with- After three years experience in attempting to make drew its tags from the use of careless or dishonest ship- the poultry on my farm pay, with what personal attention pers, and as the best buyers learned to recognize the I could give, considering the many other duties of a stock name of the Southern Table-Poultry Club as standing for farmer in Northern Virginia, I have demonstrated, to my really good and well-fed stock. own satisfaction, that no department of the farm pays so I cannot see what possible objection any one can have well, provided one has access to a good market. Naturally, to joining in such a movement, as no one will be asked being a novice, I made costly mistakes. I have lost in to obligate himself to ship with the club if he thinks he one season 100 birds by cholera and in the same season can do better otherwise, or is dissatisfied with his first lost 100 little chicks by gapes and other troubles, all of returns. which might have been prevented by preventative treat- One object of the club would be to make the best com- 442 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [May,
mission houses anxious to secure its trade. I do not think good a showing hereafter. However, where a large number
it wise for the organization to try to deal directly with are set atone time it is possible to reduce loss by testing out the buyers, for that would necessitate the expense of a infertile eggs and dead germs, thus preventing the breaK- place of business and at least one man on wages or salary ing of spoiled eggs in the nest and enabling us to double
to look after it. This would simply be a reproduction up the eggs if one hen proves a trouble-maker. of the Grange commission houses, which are loaded with We now have fourteen sitters regularly at work and the obligation of selling any poor stuff which the owner have given eggs to twelve purchased sitters to-night (April cannot dispose of. 20th) and expect to have the carpenters provide space
I wish to say to those of your readers who have so for another half dozen this week. We have had two promptly applied for membership, that I have not replied colony houses built on runners. One house is about 8 feet to them individually, as none of them are quite ready to square and the other 7x10. Also three wire front roosting begin shipment of live fowls, and I am anxious to secure coops for from two to three dozien weaned chicks each, the largest possible number of names before offering the We are keeping a record of the number of eggs used in business of the club to the firm with which I think it sitting and expect to know how many chicks we take off. safest to deal. If we can show them a reasonable prospect We expect to hatch through May, June, July and perhaps
of sufficient business I hope to secure from the selling August if we do not exceed our accommodations. I can- house all the necessary printing and the keeping of an not get good coops built for nothing. A good carpenter, account of the amount of business done for members of getting $2.50 per day, can make five individual coops for the club. sitters or mother hens. These have movable covers and I have been surprised and gratified at the number bottoms fitting up inside the coop so drip water cannot of birds some of your readers propose to ship. One man soak in. As these coops are from scrap lumber left from proposes to buy chickens and crate feed them if the house building the material costs nothing. scheme results in better prices. This should be a good The same man can make two continuous coops with business in many localities. Much stock comes to market three compartments in each, and a lath frame four feet in wretched condition. long and with three runs, each 16 to 18 inches wide, for Now what we want is a long list of names of persons each coop in a day, thus providing separate nests and runs
who will have only a few coops to sell, but who will put for six hens, good for at least four years, and longer if them in good condition and will ship them to the firm put under cover in winter, for $2.50 in labor. which sells for the Southern Table-Poultry Club, and who W. A. SHERMAN. will put the tag of the club on each shipment, thus be- Vienna, Fairfax County, Va. coming a member and sharer of whatever benefit may accrue from our cooperation.
I am anxious to avoid a membership fee, and to render SELLING DAY-OLD CHICKS. what service I can without cost to the shippers. I pledge my word to your readers that I have not a dollar of in- W. R. Sperry, Cortland, N. Y. terest, either direct or indirect, in any selling house in After another year's experience in connection with Washington. If this plan is as successful as I hope, it the sale of day-old chicks, we are more firmly convinced will stimulate the interest in good market poultry, and than ever that this comparatively new branch of the poul- some members of the club will want some of my large try industry has come to stay. strain of Barred Plymouth Rocks, than which there is no After summing up the past season's operations, we fowl more popular in this market. This shall be my have come to several conclusions, one of which is, that it reward. is to the interest of the vender to offer the public some- The Development of the Flock. thing which they want, rather than to undertake the task I promised to inform your readers from time to time of persuading them to purchase sometsing which they do of our progress in developing a small flock of Plymouth not want. Rocks to the limit of profit, or to the limit of the labor Purchasers should not expect to get more than they available within the family. pay for as regards quality when they buy day-old chicks. the largest Well, we have had demand for eggs for If they want chicks which are hatched from stock of hatching that we have ever had, and sold practically the superior quality they must expect to pay more for them entire product from January 15th to April 1st, for incu- than they would for chicles from common stock, just the over eggs, in bation, somewhat 1,200 large and small same as they would if they were buking first-class stock orders. or eggs for hatching. On March 28th we set our first hens, a pair of pullets In England, where the sale of baby chicks has become which will be a year old latie in May. One was put in an important branch of the poultry industry, the value of the coops to-day with 15 strong chicles—every egg hatched. a chick is usually figured as two and one-half times that given 13, one was tested out infertile, The other was one of the egg from which it was hatched. Taking this as taken off, dead germ, and 11 chicks though one is a weak- a standard of value in the United States at the prevailing ling. After setting five of our pullets we decided to buy price at which young chicks have sold in the past and it sitters and keep ouTs laving, so with the inevitable acci- would make a young chick look like the tenth part of a of broken eggs and hens dents in the way which desert dollar, and, in some instances, even less.—Reliable Poul- the nest before the appointed time, we will not have so try Journal. 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 443 The Horse.
NOTES. doing six furlongs in 1:14 1-5, and finishing ahead of a "Broad Rock." field of nine others. This filly and quite a good many other winners are credited to Racine, the California-bred son of W. J. Carter. Bishop and Fairy Rose, that now heads the stud of W. W. programme of early closing purses of the Virginia- The Osborne, at Gordonsville, Va., Racine was himself a race- Carolina Circuit of fairs and race meetings has been issued horse of real class, and at his new home in Virginia he is is attracting the attention of horsemen in general. The and attracting attention. The baby stallion has fine size and circuit begins at Galax, Va., during the week of September is not lacking in substance, so that Mr. Osborne will try 2-5, to be fallowed in regular succession by Radford, Taze- him as a sire of hunters, jumpers and steeple-chasers, with well, Roanoke, Lynchburg, Richmond, after which comes the belief that he will get cross-country performers of Raleigh and Charlotte, N. C. Following right along after some note. Charlotte will be the meetings at Columbia and Spartans- burg, S. C. and Augusta, Ga. This, as will be -seen, forms J. Walter Lovatt, president of the Fair Association, at quite an attractive fall campaign of eleven weeks, with Bethlehem, Penn., owns a very handsome and promising convenient shipments while the conditions are very liberal. two-year-old trotter in the bay filly Virginia L., by Royal These early closing purses are for 2: 27 trotters, three- Swell, dam Kate McCracken, 2:11 3-4, by Red Cedar, son year-old and under trotters, and for pacers eligible to the of Red Wilkes. Virginia L. was bred by Mr. Lovatt, who 2: 20 and 2: 27 classes. With the exception of Galax and has her in the stable of Samuel Earing, near Richmond, Tazewell, where the purses are $400 each, these events are Earing raced McCracken- for several years and thought a of the uniform value of $500. The open classes to be an- lot of her, which may partially account for his partiality nounced later will range about the same all along the cir- to Virginia L., in a measure at least. Earing now has cuit. Samuel Walton, owner of the Walton Stock Farm of Kate McCracken and is breeding her. Last year her foal, Falls Mills, Va., who has wide experience as an owner, Dreamer, 2:14 3-4, had to be taken, which came near re- breeder and campaigner of harness horses, is president of sulting in the death of the old mare, but the daughter of the circuit, with Conrad Gilsen, of Roanoke, secretary. The Red Cedar is rounding to after a seige of ill health and meetings at Richmond, Va., Raleigh, N. C. and Columbia, will be bred again. S. C, are under the auspices of the State Fair Associations A. Randolph Howard, Fredericksburg, Va., who now of those States, which adds to the importance of the Cir- owns Royal Swell, the elegant son of Bow Bells, 2:19 1-4, cuit and renders it all the more attractive. and Rachel, 2:08 1-4, that sired Virginia L., looks upon the latter as one of the finest specimens of a two-year-old trot- Patrick Henry, the handsom hackney stallion, owned ter to be seen in all the South. by A. Pollard & Sons, at Dunraven Farm, R. F. D. 5, Rich- mond, Va., is a wonderfully attractive horse in appearance, W. R. McComb, formerly of this city, but now residing especially in harness, and a bold, free going high actor, at his fine farm, near Staunton, where he breeds through- with a disposition and temper that render him one of the bred and trotting horses, reports the arrival on the 9th easiest horses to handle. Patrick Henry, was sired by instant of a very handsome bay colt, by Aloha, dam Virgie, Squire Rickel, a son of the famous Cadet; dam Marjory, by King Bolt. As this youngster is a full brother to Rob- a gold medal winner, by Roseberry. This chestnut son of ert Bradley, more or less interest is attached to his future. Squire Rickel is a typical specimen of his tribe, and right This colt was bred by Mr. Bradley, at whose dispersal sale here it may be said that the hackney is somewhat of an last July Virgie, then with foal by Aloha, was purchased anomaly, combining as he does the desirable qualities of by Mr. McComb- Virgie was a good race mare herself and the trotter and thoroughbred, while he can usually be de- carrying the Bradley colors she won many races on the pended upon for better manners and more uniform docility half-mile tracks of other days in New Jersey. Sired by perhaps than either. It is simple justice to say that he King Bolt, dam Ecliptic, by imp. Eclipse, and she of the does not conflict with either type when considered aright, famous Nina, by Boston, Virgie is bred in lines that would but rather the link which connects them, or rather forms be expected to produce winners. This season she will prob- a continuation of usefulness. He is one of the oldest types ably be sent to the court of Racine, the son of Bishop and of horses in existence, which accounts for his ability to Fairy Rose, at Springfield Farm, Gordonsville, Va. reproduce himself with more certainty than most other breeds. The get of Patrick Henry, though yet quite young, are showing up in good shape, which applies to those from The Oak Ridge Hunt Club, of Lynchburg, Va., whose trotting bred and general purpose mares especially, and semi-weekly meets furnish exhilarating sports to resi- and will the chestnut stallion stands at a very moderate fee, which dents of the "Hill City," has selected a new home places his services easily within reach of intending breed- build a handsome club-house, with kennels and stables on ers. the grounds, at an early date.
Nellie Racine, the four-year-old chestnut filly, by Ra- Captain R. Conroy Vance, the wealthy Englishman who cine, out of Bona Vera, won last week at Oakland, Cal., owns the handsome landed estate known as Mannsfield 444 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [May,
Hall, near Fredericksburg, Virginia, has added to his ties. Messrs. Smyth Brothers said that there was very already extensive breeding operations by the recent pur- little demand for 1,400 to 1,600-pound horses; that they chase from Mr. Charles E. Clapp, Rosemont Farm, Berry- had been keeping them; that they were slow on the ville, Virginia, of three handsome and well-bred imported market and that they had stopped shippers from sending hackney brood mares and one grandly-bred horse colt, them. It seems to me that the small farmer should raise with which latter he expects to head his stud. his own general utility horse and some draft horses. The mares are Canny Maid, E. H. S. B. 6460, chest- Albemarle County, Va. A. B. HANCOCK. nut mare, by Canny Man, E. H. S- B. 2881 (son of the great Matchless of Londesbora E. H. S. B. 1517), dam THE FARM HORSE FOR VIRGINIA. Mayflower, E. H. S. B. 765, by Lord Dierby II., E. H. S'. Editor Southern Planter: 417, who is best known to fame as being the sire of Mr. Noticing an article on this subject in the April number Cassatt's immortal stallion Cadet. Canny Maid has won of the Southern Planter, which article has been copied in six ribbons at the National Horse Show, two of which are another paper also—"The Tidewater Democrat" I wish to Reserve Championships. — relate some results of actual experience in horse breeding, Lady Danegelt, E. H. S. B. 8036, chestnut mare, by an industry which has occupied my attention for a good Danegelt, E. H. S. B. 174, dam Quality, E. H. S. B. 4902, many years. I have seen the Percheron, the Clydesdale, by Fireaway, E. H. S. B. 249 Her winnings are two rib- the Trotter, the Compound Scrub, the Coach horse, and the bons at the National Horse Show and two at Chicago, Thoroughbred, all tried, for what is called a "general pur- including a Reserve Championship at each place pose horse," and I have bred many kinds myself. None of Gadabout, chestnut mare, by Imported Cadet, A. H. S. these varieties succeed for such a purpose, except by strict B. 107, dam by Highflyer, combines size with quality, speed selection of individuality, and with competent breakers and and action and is a typical brood mare, for which pur- trainers." pose she has always been used. My preference is decidedly for the Thoroughbred of Captain Vance is an ardent believer in the popular all of them, but then, if a work horse is needed for farm hackney-trotter cross, from which have resulted many of use, a specimen of good size and power must be selected, our most prominent show horses, among whom our read- and the horse must be handled and managed for this spe- ers are probably most familiar with Dr. Reid, who figured cific object from his birth. Usually, a Thoroughbred is re- so prominently throughout our Virginia shows, and with garded as only useful as a race horse. If he is wanted for that purpose in view will mate some three or four of his a farm horse, his education must be exactly opposite to that best hackney mares to Royal Swell, 34,892, the elegant and of a race horse. Gentle, kind disposition and sensible be- exquisitely handsome son of Bow Bells 2:19 1-4 and Rachel havior, under all the ordinary circumstances of life must 2:08 1-4, who is now in the stud at Fredericksburg. be cultivated, instead of the fiery excitability and nervous tension for competition with other horses, which is wanted THE SOUTHERN FARM HORSE. in the racer. fiditor Southern Planter: The cause of the Thoroughbred's superiority is the
Your favor of March 31st came duly to hand. I think fact that it is the result of years of breeding for the great- that you are right to encourage the breeding of heavier est endurance and stamina, and this fact makes it a nec- horses for the farm than the average Southern farmer essary factor in the creation of nearly all the breeds of is doing. We are crossing half-bred mares on Percheron horses for quick service in the world. My best farm horses stallions and getting the best class of farm horses that I for binders, mowers, drills and harrows, have always have seen anywhere with not more thau one-half Per- been those with a strong infusion of Toroughbred blood, cheron nor less than one-fourth thoroughbred. They but they were selected for individual conformation and dis- weigh from 1,250 to 1,400 pounds and stand mowers, position, and were very steady and not xcitable animals, binders and hot weather work as well as on muddy roads, with good bone and muscle. The fact is, that much of the
better than any of the pure-bred large breeds that I have prejudice existing against the use of Thoroughbreds for seen. They have less "give up" than the others. I advise the farm, is that not one farmer in fifty has ever handled lots of men every year here to breed to pure-bred Per- one, and few have ever seen them in farm use, and the cheron stallions and to get more size into their, farm few which have been seen in Virginia, are much more of teams where they apply for service to our stallions. At the race horse than the farm horse type. But when we the same time there is constant need also for good driving come to the consideration of the real difficulty in training and riding horses, for express and fire engine horses and good farm horses in Virginia, we will find it much more some thoroughbred blood of the right sort is needed in in the ignorance and incompetence of the trainer than in them. I thought Mr. Rommel's article most instructive, the variety itself. Numbers of the best horse breeders in and think that there is room on the farms for both kinds my vicinity, have announced their determination to aban- leaving with the farmer to judge of which he needs the don horse breeding of any kind, because they cannot have
most and for which he has the best market. I was in the colts broken and trained for any purpose. I believe the stock yard stable in Richmond about three weeks ago horse breeders of Virginia would find much more profit in with a neighbor to buy some heavy mares for him. There their enterprise if they could have co-operative breaking were none there; mules in abundance and several hundred and training stables established in the close vicinity of 800 to 1,000 pound horses of a most inferior type, regular farms where the colts are raised. scrubs—of the type that you see in cattle in the tick coun- Essex County, Va. P. S. HUNTER. —
1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 445 Miscellaneous.
VIRGINIA AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. progress aims to ascertain the advantages of the most rapid development of lambs, whether for market or for breeding, What the Station is Trying to do to Help The Farmers. and to determine the best means of securing this rapid Experiments With Field Crops. growth. Both pure bred and scrub lambs are used. An Editor Southern Planter: effort is also being made to produce fall lambs economical-
The Division of Agronomy is working for the improve- ly. Various experiments are used to put the ewes, which ment of the most important field crops of Virginia—aside have not produced lambs this year, under conditions of from tobacco—corn, wheat, oats and potatoes. It is making breeding as nearly like those in the field as possible. A a statistical study of the acclimatization of seed corn third line of work is a comprehensive investigation of the brought in from other States as compared with the same condition of the sheep industry of the State. Particular at- varieties grown in Virginia. It is basing all its work tention is being directed to ascertaining the reasons for 1907-08 upon the proposition that the quickest and surest way of the very heavy loss of lambs during the winter of improving Virginia corn and other crops is not to intro- amounting to 50 per cent, on many farms—and the preven- duce the improved varieties of the West or North which tatives therefor. Representatives of the Station have when grown in Virginia will vary widely for many years, made personal visits to all parts of the most important but to start with the best local types of corn that have sheep-raising districts, and are prepared to report accurate been grown in Virginia long enough to -have become per statistics on the per cent, of lambs lost, how the flock was fectly acclimatized. handled, fed and sheltered, when the lambing season oc- To this end, the corn fields of all parts of the State curred, the kind of rams used, and other data, all of which are being searched for the most valuable types. These are will be useful for a report on the sheep industry of Vir- being grown at the Tobacco Experiment Stations in Pitt- ginia and a guide to the future investigations in sheep sylvania, Appomattox, Louisa and Carolina counties, and husbandry at the College. at the College at Blacksburg, over 35 acres are devoted to An experiment of interest to Dairymen seeks to de- this purpose in 1908. At present, the breeding is entirely termine the number of bacteria in milk when it is handled for high yields, and especially for improved strains of the in different ways, particularly as regards the care of ani- common varieties which are best adapted for culture in mals, the method of milking, the care of utensils, strain- Virginia. It is conducted entirely by selection. Each year ing, etc., and to determine the length of time samples can the most desirable plants in the plats are selected for seed, be held, under commercial conditions, without souring. being protected from crossing with other varieties or in- The other experiments under way include one to as- ferior plants. By it 1910, is expected that limited quanti- certain the most profitable use of corn for hog feeding. ties of the selected corn will be ready for distribution to The Division is trying to work out the most satisfactory the farmers of the State. At present, the work is entirely succession of green crops suitable for hog feeding, through- with corn; later it will be extended to include wheat, oats out the year, with the conviction that Virginia farmers and potatoes. cannot afford to fatten hogs chiefly on corn, as Western Other lines of work under way in this Division are: farmers do, but must utilize to the fullest extent our un- breeding to increase the sugar content of sweet corn, and excelled advantages for the culture of green crops. A hence improve its value for canning; the agricultural value similar line of work is being conducted for the dairymen, of the cultivated grasses most commonly grown in Vir- certain milch-cows being put upon a succession of soiling ginia; the effect of seeding cereals at different dates; test- crops alone, others upon alfalfa pasture alone, and still ing different rates of seeding winter vetch and oats sown others upon blue grass pasture alone—all having the same together for forage. grain ration.
Experiments in Animal Husbandry. In co-operation with the U. S. Department of Agricul- ture, two experiments are in progress. One relates to the Two experiments have recently been concluded and the most practical method of pasturing land, and of treating results will soon be published. The object of the first was pasture sod. This investigation involves the use of eight to determine the relative value of hard corn, vs., soft corn pasture areas of five acres each. The other is a study of for feeding to hogs, and of blood meal vs. skimmed milk the principles of heredity in farm animals, particuarly the as a source of protein, when fed in connection with the application of Mendel's law in stock breeding. above forms of corn. The object of the second experiment Experiments in Bacteriology and Mycology. was to determine the most economical use of silage in feed- - ing steers. An experiment is now under way to determine One of the most important developments of modern the cheapest and most satisfactory grain ration for calves, agricultural science is the study of the bacteria of the soil the materials being (a) shelled corn, bran and cotton seed and their relation to crop products. It is now known that meal; (b) shelled oats, hominy feed and blood meal; (c) the soil is not mere dirt—inert, lifeless,—but is the scene Blatchford's Calf meal. of contant activity, by countless bacteria, ferments and The extensive sheep industry of the State is receiving other low forms of life. Some of these are beneficial, some special attention from this Division. One experiment in are harmful, some are neutral. To classify these, and to- —
446 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [May, discover practical means of utilizing them in the produc- discarded. It will take at least ten years to achieve any tion of crops, is the problem of the soil bacteriologist. conclusive results but the work promises to be of great One of the most important experiments going forward practical value ultimately. here relates to the means by which the soil—not the plant A second project relates to the development of fruit —is able to secure or "fix" nitrogen and so make it avail- buds. Dwarf fruit trees are grown in pots in the green- able for plant growth. Certain soil bacteria perform this house where the conditions of soil, moisture and tempera- useful function. The work in hand seeks to ascertain the ture can be controlled abscolutely. The aim is to deter- amount of nitrogen fixed—or secured—by different soils, mine the influence of the chemical composition and the aside from the influence of leguminous plants; and the ef- moisture content of the soil upon fruit bud formation. The fect of tillage, aeration, temperature, fertilizing, etc., on chemical composition of the soil and the amount of mois- the amount of nitrogen gathered. There are also certain ture in each pot will be known, and their influence upon soil bacteria that perform exactly the opposite function the vigor and fruitfulness of the trees noted. From the they are "Nitrogen wasters," rather than "Nitrogen gather- results of these studies it may be possible to deduce prin- ers." These are being studied in the same way. ciples for the rational fertilizing and pruning of orchards. Most Virginia farmers are familiar with the methods A third experiment, complementary to the preceeding, of inoculating soils with the bacteria that live upon the relates to the effect of various fertilizer treatments upon roots of certain leguminous plants, especially alfalfa, the the yield and quality of market apples. Nearly one thou- clovers, cow-pea, and soy bean, thereby securing a better sand trees are used in this experiment. Among other im- crop and enriching the soil with nitrogen drawn from the portant lines of work in progress are an investigation of air by these bacteria. Experiments are under way for im- the commercial value of dwarf apples, over five hundred proving the methods of preparing "cultures" with which trees being under observation; a statistical study of the to inoculate soils. laws of inheritance in the crossing of garden vegetables; There is now ready for publication the results of ex- the effect of temperature upon the blossoming of fruits; periments with selected yeasts in making cider. The cider and a very complete record of the cultural value of over maker can inoculate his apple juice with one of these yeasts eight hundred varieties of orchard fruits grown at the and always secure cider of a certain definite flavor; regard- Station and in different sections of the State. We hope to less of the kind of apples used. This will obviate any un- publish an illustrated hand book of varieties of fruits for certainty as to the quality of the cider. planting in Virginia within two years.
Experiments in Entomology. Experiments in Chesimtry.
The major work at present is a study of the life his- The fertility of the soil is a subject of such funda- tory of the codling moth in all parts of the State. This mental importance to Virginia agriculture that the chemi- is by far the most injurious pest in Virginia fruit-growing. cal division is devoting most of its time to this problem. At present spraying for it is more or less ineffective be- At present the four most typical soils of the State are be- cause there is no definite data its life about history in each ing studied—a sandy soil, from Norfolk; a shale "Pippin" of the well-marked geographical districts of the State. soil, from Albemarle; a red clay soil, from Appomattox; Field life observations on the history of the pest are be- a lime-stone soil, from the Southwest. In addition to lab- ing made in each district, and this work is supplemented oratory tests, various crops are grown upon each of the by orchard spraying, to determine the best time and method soils in pots placed in the greenhouse, where all conditions of applying the spray. About 2,000 apple trees are used can be controlled. The results of these tests will be sup- in this experiment. plemented by field experiments on each type of soil. Es- in Other experiments progress include a test of home- pecial attention is being directed to the phosphoric acid made "soluble oil" sprays for use against the San Jose content of these soils and the best form of supplying this Scale, and "work to determine how late wheat can be sown plant food in commercial fertilizers. The comparative ag- in each of the several agricultural districts of Virginia, so ricultural value of raw phosphate rock and acid phosphate as escape to the Hessian Fly, and still make sufficient fall is being studied. growth to pass the winter uninjured. The chemical department is also making a special Experiments in Horticulture. study of the chemical composition and feeding value of Perhaps the most general and the most serious loss in all the many kinds of native and introduced grasses and Virginia fruit growing is due to the spring frosts, which forage plants, of Virginia, that are raised for pasturage or cut off the blossoms. Methods of retarding the blossoming cut for hay. period so as to escape injury are rerely successful or prac- Experiments in Veterinary Science. ticable. Permanent improvement can only be had by breed- The main line of work in progress is a study of the ing a race of varieties blossoming so late that there is use of anti-toxins for the immunity and cure of pyaemic little danger of frost injury. This the Horticultural De- arthritis and cerebro-spinal meningitis, two extremely seri- partment is attempting to do in the case of apples. The ous diseases of young animals. The investigation has de- latest blossoming varieties that we now have—as Mother, veloped a satisfactory treatment for these diseases. Spy, Jeniton and Melon—have been crossed and many Tobacco Experiments. thousands of seedlings raised. The seedlings are grafted upon dwarf stocks and are brought into bloom in three or This work is in co-operation with the United States four years from the seed. The seedlings blossoming lat- Department of Agriculture. The original intent of the ex- est are then selected for further breeding and the other periments was to demonstrate the profit in a heavy fertil- 1908.] THE SOUTHE RN PLANTER. 447
izing of tobacco, and this point has been proven; but the The results of Station work are published in bulle- scope of the work has been broadened to include a study tins, which are sent free to anybody in Virginia who re- of the rotation of crops grown in connection with tobacco, quests them. Many back bulletins are available; a list of chiefly corn, wheat, cow-peas, grass and clover. This work these is sent upon application. The Experiment Station
is infinitely more important and valuable than mere fer- also welcomes correspondence about farm problems, and tilizer experiments, for it strikes at the foundation of good is especially pleased to receive visitors at Blacksburg. Ad- farming in the tobacco districts,—a judicious rotation of dress correspondence to crops. In addition to cultural experiments, work has been Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station, begun on the breeding, by selection, of improved strains Blacksburg, Va. S. W. FLETCHER, of tobacco, especially adapted for culture in Virginia. Director. The tobacco experiments are supported jointly by the State of Virginia, which appropriates five thousand dollars DEMONSTRATION FARM WORK IN VIRGINIA. a year for this purpose, and the United States Depart of An Appreciation of Mr. Sandy's Efforts. Agriculture, which contributes an equal or greater amount. Editor Southern Planter: It is the initial move in the right direction—financial sup- I have been very much interested in the work of the port by the State of projects for the support of which the Educational Association to improve the methods of culti- Federal funds of the Experiment Station cannot well be vation through the efforts of Mr. Sandy, and I regret to used, but exceedingly important to the upbuilding of Vir- see the criticism on Mr. Sandy's work in the March num- ginia agriculture. At present there are four tobacco ex- ber by Mr. Bergman, particularly in his comments upon the periment stations, one at Chatham, in the "Bright" tobac- use of bone as recomended by Mr. Sandy. It is well-known co district; one at Appomattox, in the "Dark" tobacco dis- that some fertilizer is necessary to enable the farmer to trict; and one each at Louisa and Bowling Green, in the produce a paying crop on the ordinary lands of Virginia, "Sun-cured" district. and surely, bone meal is the best application that can be with Crops. Experiments Trucking made, and the inference that Mr. Sandy was recomending The Virginia Truck Experiment Station was estab- any particular manufacturer's product is unworthy of con- lished Norfolk, in 1907. It is supported appro- at by an sideration. priation of $5,000.00 yearly from the State Board of Agri- Mr. Sandy is doing a good work. He does not pose as culture and $5,000.00 yearly from the State Legislature. a scientist, or as an orator, but he is a man of good plain It is not connected with the Virginia Agricultural Experi- practical hard sense, and has gone on a poor farm, and by ment Station, except that the President of the P. I., and V. his plan of intensive cultivation, has produced wonderful the President of the Board of Control of the P. I., are V. crops. Not because he has discovered any great principle members of its Board of Control. However, the Virginia of farming, but because he has had the nerve to put into Agricultural Experiment Station seeks to co-operate with practice Mr. T. B. Terry's great saying that "Cultivation the Truck Experiment Station in every way possible, and is Fertilization," by practicing intensive farming. is undertaking certain lines of research work with it, The great benefit of Mr. Sandy's work, is in his per- jointly. The Truck Experiment Station has over forty sonal contact with those he undertakes to instruct,—going acres of land for experimental purposes. The necessary to a farmer's home, he shows him his plan of work and by offices and laboratory facilities are being provided. explaining to him how he has succeeded he induces him to The main lines of work to be undertaken are a study make the experiment. And while many fail to be very of the fertilizer requirements of various truck crops, the much benefitted because they do not follow his instructions rotation of truck crops, so as to secure maximum returns carefully and fully, yet a great number are helped and and maintain fertility, methods of combating injurious in- become better and more prosperous farmers. Those farm- sects and diseases, and breeding improved strains of truck ers who read Agricultural Journals which are full of crops, especially adapted for culture in the trucking area valuable and instructive articles as the Southern Planter, of Virginia. The bulletins will be published by the Vir- are not as apt to attempt to follow these instructions as ginia Agricultural Experiment Station. The Southern Pro- they will be when they receive the teaching in the Normal duce Association, a large body of the influential truckers and personal method, which Mr. Sandy gives them in his of the Norfolk district, purchased and gave the land to instructions. It is well-known that all great principles of the Station, and are actively interested in its welfare. life are more apt to be received and acted upon as the re- Professor T. C. Johnson is in charge. sult of a personal interview than from reading even pos- Practical Use of Experiment Station. sibly better instructions. A glance at the above outline of experiments in pro- I trust that Mr. Sandy will be encouraged by such im- gress shows that the Station is seeking first of all to be provement in the experiments he is enabled to have made of service to its constituency—the farmers of Virginia. It that the whole of the State may be improved by an army is necessary and desirable that the Station shall undertake of instructors just like Mr.' Sandy and so induce and com- a certain amount of technical research in agriculture, but pel our careless cultivators to adopt a more sensible and even these investigations are ultimately of practical value intensive practice in their farm methods, which will en- to the farmers; while the main body of research now going able them to largely increase their production at less ex- forward is upon problems of immediate interest to Virginia pense, by cultivating a small area thoroughly. Agriculture. We welcome suggestions from Virginia farm- A. R. VENABLE. JR. ers concerning our work. Prince Edward County, Va. —
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CULTIVATION AS A FACTOR IN CORN PRODUCTION. out 10 bbls. of corn. Now I do not believe in so much Editor Southern Planter: heavy application of manure as I do in intensive shallow I am a sojourner here from the old Blue Grass section cultivation, frequently given and a consequent conserva- of Kentucky. Being domiciled for the time heing in the tion of moisture, for without this in the necessary amount, home of one of your subscribers I have had the pleasure when mostly needed, the plant food in the fertilizer ap- of reading the April issue of your interesting paper and plied can not be assimilated to a full or perfect develop-
among the various communications, note especially one ment of the plant and maturity of its fruit. If I had 40 from Mr. Hunt, of Bedford county, headed, "How to grow more years in which to grow corn I would never allow corn." To one used to seeing corn grow year in and year a double shovel to be used in a field after the young out in the rich bottom lands of the Missouri, Illinois, and corn attained a height of one foot or 15 inches, for after Ohio river valleys and in the virgin soil of central Ken- that time I do not think a more villianous tool was ever tucky, under favorable weather conditions, his article employed, for the simple reason it tears up, at a critical would be of little interest, in as much as the returns he time, a multitude of young, tender, fibrous roots, naturally mentions as a result of his methods, are very common performing the function assigned them, of gathering up there without any thing more than ordinary distance of the plant food necessary to a vigorous, healthy growth. four feet checks, and good tillage. Mr. Farmer there, then The later half of my cultivations were two inches deep by would say, "you don't have to instruct me how to raise adjusting leavers. corn." Mr. Hurt is correct about his practical methods with But soil conditions in the "Old Dominion" are evident- barn-yard manure, because it contains all the necessary ly quite different, and therefore intensive methods of culti- fertilizing elements as well as supplying litter for humus, vation are requisite. Especially is this the case where the so essential in any soil. Commercial fertilizer of stand- land has become impoverished from long continued tillage ard grade is all right if a sufficiency of humus can be had without regard to rotation of crops and timely cultivation. by natural or artificial means. It is not always that barn- There is much exhausted soil in Kentucky, also, (all yard manure can be obtained in sufficient quantities, hence the result of carelessness and ignorance) that needs reno- a resort to the commercial; but any man would be green vation at the hands of up-to-date, energetic men. indeed, who could expect that a continuous use of it from Now to the point: Mr. Hurt has given his methods and year to year without a supply of humus would result other- experience covering a period of 40 years, and given results. wise than in failure. Legunimous crops turned under In contrast to this, I wish to give my experience for green, rapidly supply humus. Turning under stubble, crab just one crop, and that, too, last season—on just such land grass, and all sorts of litter or vegetable matter helps to as aforementioned—It had been cultivated some four or that end. five years previously in other crops and got some liberal applications of farm-yard manure in that time, which the Good grades of commercial fertilizer cannot impover- crops, grown thereon, were supposed to take up in an avail- ish land nor its owner, but the continual use of it without
able form. It was one half-acre by actual measure. I humus would simply reduce the land or earth to such a giving determined to prepare the ground, plant and do all culti- hard, unfriable condition, as to make it incapable of vation myself. up the plant food, that is cut off, as it were, for the want The ground was broken deeply, thoroughly harrowed of a natural agency in the form of abundant humus. I and dragged, time and again; rows laid off with a marker, think Mr. Hurt is a little too hasty in his comments on exactly 3 1-2 feet apart and the corn planted 2 1-2 feet commercial fertilizers, and it's barely possible he himself apart in the rows. Began cultivation at once, first and sec- has "ignored" a well-known truth regarding the use, value ond, one week apart, with a five tooth cultivator. Ever and necessity of humus along with commercial fertilizers. after that I used a 12 tooth, Planet, Jr. cultivator, and If all other farmers took a like view, the commercial fer- never allowed the teeth to go more than three inches deep. tilizer manufacturers would get "hurt" and would soon be These cultivatirns were given about every 8 days thrice a thing of the past. I cannot conceive how any intelligent in a row and especially as soon after every rain as the farmer can "ignore" barn-yard manure in its application to
ground could be safely turned. I did'nt let it get waist- his land for profit. high and then "turn it over to Providence," but kept up A common mistake, and a very great one, is to throw the tillage until the shoots began to show. I Then tackled the manure in heaps outside exposed to heavy, washing what weeds I could'nt reach with the cultivator and chop- rains—leaching more than 50 per cent, of its valuable prop- ped them out with a sharp hoe, so that, at the end of the erties away, and another mistake is when they do shelter season, I could safely offer a reward of a nickle for every it, they allow it to burn and "fire" as it is called, thus al- weed or sprig of grass found in that half-acre corn-field lowing the ammonia to escape in the rising steam. To avoid weeds are as bad as bank robbers. One week after plant- all this it should be hauled and evenly spread as soon as
corn I planted for every hill 1 ing the of corn, a hill of made. When weather conditions are such that this can whip-poor-will cow-peas. Corn thinned to two stalks. It not be done then the remedy is to fork over at intervals is claimed this method of growing cow-peas with corn, and moisten with water to prevent heating. A man is reck- serves to maintain the fertility of the soil sufficiently to less or indifferent to his interests who fails to thus treat keep up continuous planting of corn from year to year, his stable manure accumulations. and I believe it, yet I would prefer to change now and then. At cutting time I had 12 large shocks and shucked E. :>:. woodson. 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 449
THE PUBLISHERS' NOTES. TO ADVERTISERS. Southern Planter Please bear In mind that we must Lave all copy or Instructions for ad- PUBLISHED BY vertisements by the 25th of each Wood's Grass month without fail. Every month we TIE SOUTHERN PLANTER PUBLISHING CO., are compelled to omit advertising in VA. «* RICHMOND, large volumes for the simple reason Clover Seeds. ISSUED ON 1ST OF EACH MONTH that copy does not reach us in time. Best Qualities Obtainable and of Tested Germination. J. F. JACKSON, A NEAT BINDER. Editor. We carry one of the largest and Tf you will send 30 cents to our best stocks in this country. business office, will send you a we Specialties that we offer to ad- B. MORGAN SHEPHERD, neat binder made of substantial Bris- Business Manager. vantage, are tol Board, in which you can preserve an entire volume of the Southern B. RHOADS, Alfalfa, Japan Clover, W. readers find Western Representative, 844 Tribune Planter. Many of our Building, Chicago, 111. these a useful device, as they always Tall Meadow Oat Grass, save their copies for reference. Paspalum Dilatatum, MANCHESTER OFFICE: W. J. Carter, 1102 Hull Street. A VALUABLE VETERINARY BOOK. Johnson Grass, A little book which our readers have Bermuda Grass, etc. ADVERTISING RATES seen mentioned frequently in adver- Will be furnished on application. tisements and in live stock discus- Our Catalogue Rives fuller descrip- tions and information about Grasses. sions, called the "Zenoleum Veterin- and than any The PLANTER Is mailed Clovers Farm Seeds SOUTHERN seed catalogue published. subscribers in States, ary Adviser," holds much that is of other to the United Mailed free on request. Write Mexico Island possessions at 60 interest to farmers and stockmen, for: and and prices of any ^-jeds required. cents per annum; all foreign countries, whether owners of few or many ani- Ml; the city of Richmond and Canada, 76 cents. mals. It is valuable because it gives REMITTANCES should be made methods of treating along lines of the direct to this office, either by Regis- commonest troubles that all classes 3} SEEDSiE! tered Letter or Money Order, which of live stock are heir to. The book Will be at our risk. When made other- c. Wise we cannot be responsible. is carefully indexed, and was designed the SUBSCRIBERS falling to receive primarily to show the relation of their paper promptly and regularly celebrated Benoleum Animal Dip and will confer a favor by reporting the Disinfectant to domestic husbandry Bell Hay Curing Rack fact at once. economy. Zenoleum has come to be "WE INVITE to write us FARMERS popular thing among owners of on any agricultural topic. We are a very always pleased to receive practical live stock in every State in the Union, articles. Rejected matter will be re- in Canada and other foreign countries. turned on receipt of postage. Its standing among high authorities No anonymous commmunications or that forty-two .enquiries will receive attention. appears from the fact Address THE SOUTHERN PLANTER, Agricultural Colleges unhesitatingly RICHMOND, VA. give it their recommendation. The Zenoleum Veterinary Adviser ENTERED AT THE POST-OFFICE diseases AT RICHMOND, VA., AS SECOND- gives many descriptions of CLASS MAIL MATTER. and ailments, their causes and symp- toms, etc., that could hardly be had in such a compact and reliable form THE MAM SWEARS BY in any other book we can now call to mind. There are sixty-four pages, (Patented October 15, 1906.) THE FISH SLICKER Solves the problem of curing: pea splendidly printed in large readable vlnea, alfalfa or other hay almost re- type, and well bound in a serviceable gardless of weather conditions, as the is the man who cover. racks give interior ventilation and has tried to get keep hay from touching ground, there- free by any This book can be had it to nicely the same service by causing cure out when reader of this paper by writing to the other methods fail. One handling com- of some out Zenner Disinfectant Company, 93 pletes the work and the hay Is safe. prices and circular giving full other make Detroit, Mich., For Lafayette Avenue, particulars, address for it. H. E. BELL, Burkevllle, Va. We believe readers who send for it Agents Wanted in Every County. will have cause to be gratified that we have called this matter to their Or. G. G. BOWIE Clean -Light -Durable attention. Take our advice and send Physician, Surgeon and Office Guaranteed Waterproof for it right away. Consultant. and Sold Everywhere I™ No. 401 East Franklin Street, at $3oo '07. Henderson Co., N. C, Nov. 22, Richmond, "Va. I am very pleased with the Southern Hours: 9-12 A. M., 1-4 P. M. Planter and do not want to miss a Evenings and Sundays by ap- pointment. single copy. E. J. HOLDEN..
CAPITAL AND PROFITS EARNED, $1,200,000. Special attention paid to out-of-tewn account!. Correspondence invite*. BANK OF RICHMOND, Three per cent Interest allowed In Savings Department. Main and Ninth Streets. Compounded Semi-Annually. 450 THE SOUTHEKN PLANTER. [May,
This Cut GOOD ROADS AND FARM VALUES. Represents MASTERS TOBACCO, The direct connection between good roads and the value of farm CABBAGE!, lands is SHIP flE YOUR shown in a striking manner in bulle- TOMATO AND tin No. 38 of the U. S. Department of SWEET POTATO Agriculture. This bulletin gives the TRANSPLANTER. result of an investigation by the Office Has been thor- of Public Roads of that Department OLD METALS oughly tested In relating to public road mileage, reve- the field during the nues, improved roads, and expendi- past three seasons and every suggest- tures in the United States in the year ed improvement 1904, and the information contained HIDES has been adopted, therein is of great importance in con- so that we now offer the dealers nection with the movement on behalf and growers the of the systematic improvement of the grandest little tool public highways. ever devised for RUBBER setting all kinds of The returns from various States plants. Does better that in nearly work than can be show every case the done by hand and States having the highest percentage more than twice of improved roads have the largest as fast. Will set population per mile of thus show- plants cheaper road, SCRAP IRON than the horse ing that better oads are a powerful planter, acre by factor in encouraging the settlement acre. Will do per- of unused lands, especially in sparsely fect work where the horse planter populated section of the country. Car Lots a Specialty will not work at Good roads are also an important in- all —amongst rocks fluence in retaining in the farming dis- and stumps and on side-hill land, and tricts the desirable elements who far more satisfac- might otherwise drift into the towns tory in every way. and cities. As the price of farm lands Read the following testimonials: I helped set out 25 acres of tomatoes depends on their productivity, acessi- for Hudson & Co., with one of your bility to markets, and population en- Planters and we secured a fine stand gaged, or desiring to engage, in agri- of plants. A good test was made in cultural pursuits, it follows that road" the middle of one field, where we set a big patch the old way, and to-day improvement, by attracting additional they are not half as good as those set Wanted settlers, and giving them better facil- Hides with your Planter. ities for reaching their markets, di- SHIRLEY G. COX. Mattituck, Long Island, N. Y., June recty tends to increase the value of 14, 1906. all farm lands within the radius of the Write for Prices. Please reserve me Talbot county for roads improved. my agency, as a great number of Satisfaction Guaranteed. farmers have told me they want a A comparison of the percentage of No Commissions. Setter the coming spring. The first day I went out I sold 14 Planters and improved roads of the various States I find this is just the tool every farmer shows that the average percentage of and grower should have. the improved roads in all States where CHARLES G. PEARCE. Easton, Md., February 17, 1906. farm land is worth less than $20.00 Checks Sent Same I have used the Masters Plant Setter per acre is only 1.9 per cent., whereas for Day* Freight Bills two years and am well pleased in the States where the acreage value With it. W ould not take $50 for mine Paid. is improved roads Abe Marked and do without it. Can recommend more than $20.00, them for use in the dryest kind of constitute an average of 9 per cent, land, etc. G. T. ADAMS. of the total mileage. Pilot Mountain, N. C, October 3, 1906. I bought one of your Planters last While there may be minor causes spring and set out 40,000 tobacco of variations in the value of farm lands plants and find that it fills the bill exactly. Would not take many times it is an undoubted fact that as a gen- its cost If I could not get another, etc. eral rule the higher values of certain D. J. DENNY, J. Clarence Cosby, P. States are largely due to their superior Pinnacle, N. C, October 7, 1906. The Planter I bought of you this roads. Records on file in the Office spring acted like a charm, and is just of Public Roads show that farm lands established 1890. the thing that every should man have have been known to advance in value who plants anything in the ground. I would not be without it for its from 50 to 500 per cent, on account weight in gold. I have used it setting of the Improvement of the roads con- RICHHOND, VA. out tobacco, tomato, cabbage and necting them with market towns. sweet potato plants with perfect suc- cess, etc. A. W. SMITH. When the facts secured by the De- South Hill, Va., June 20, 1906. Largest Dealer in The Planter I bought of your agent. partment of Agriculture become known Charles G.' Pearce, last spring, has to the farmers of the country, and Scrap Iron, Metals, Hides, given me perfect satisfaction. My son they realize that the establishment of can set out twice as many plants with Etc., in the South. of properly con- it In a day as he could with anything a complete system else he ever used, and the beauty of it structed public roads will have the di- all is that they all take root and rect effect of greatly increasing the grow. GEORGE BUCKLEY. REFERENCES: value of their farms, they will be the Easton, Md., February 7, 1906. National Bank of Virginia, For full particulars, wholesale and foremost advocates of a broad, com- retail prices, address Bank of Richmond, prehensive policy of public road im- Bradatreets and Don. MASTERS PLANTER COMPANY, provement by the Nation, States, 178 So. 'Water St., CHICAGO, ILL. Counties and Townships. 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. +51
200 Styles Sold Direct WITH THE ADVERTISERS. of from our Parke, Davis & Co., the well-known chemists, have a half page advertise- Vehicles Factory ment in this issu.e to which we invite 65 Styles to attention. of User Harnes Automobiles especially adapted for farmer's use are offered this month by the Black Mfg. Co. WHAT 00 YOU SAY? Farmers and Dairymen will doubt- Several hundred thousand farmers say that the best investment they ever made was No. 669J:;. Fancy Car Plush Trimmed less be interested in the advertisement when they bought an Bupsy with auto seat, fancy padded wing dash, bike gear and rubber tire. Price of Harold Sommers in which he offers complete, S73.0O. As good as sells for fly killer. E! Sio more. Wagon tow wheels, wide tires; easy work, light draft The Ann Arbor Machine Co. is ad- We'll sell you a set ot the best steel wheel« made foryonr old wagon. Buy Direct From Our vertising, its well-known line of Hay Spoke united with fcub, guaranteed not to break nor work loooe. Presses this month. Send for our catalogue and save money. ELECTRIC WHEEL CO.. Box 146 .9ulncy.fi;- Saving all expenses and profits of the dealer. Amatite Roofing is attractively ad- Elkhart Buggies and Harness have been sold direct from our factory to the user for 35 years. We are vertised on another page by the Bar- The Largest Manufacturers In the WorBd rett Mfg. Co.
| selling- to the consumer exclusively. ship for We is adver- examination and approval, guaranteeing safe de- Phosphate Rock or Floats livery. No cost to you if not satisfied as to style, tised in this issue by Alexander & quality and price. Send for new free catalog. Elkhart Carriage & Harness Mfg. Co. Co. Look up tbeir ad. Elkhart, ind. Attention is invited to the advertise- BUGGIES, ment of the well-known commission No. 313 house, Potter & Williams, Buffalo, N. CARTS, Surrey with Canopy top and fine auto Y. seats .Price complete, HARNESS $73.00. The Johnson & Field Mfg. Co. have a.n announcement in another column WAGONS. to which attention is invited. We are headquarters for high grade Some finely-bred Berkshires are of- goods only. Onr spring stock Is fered by the Moore's Brook Sanitari- i*>w ready for inspection. Write as your wants. um Co. See its ad. RICHMOND BUGGY AND WAGON The South Side Mfg. Co .is offering COMPANY, all kinds of fruit and truck baskets 1433 Main Street, Richmond, Va. this month. Robertson's ha^V Stanchion The Lynnwood Stock Farm has a Wheels, Freight Paid $8 75 prominent announcement on another for ll.igsv rtlirel., Sirfl Tiro on. With Kuubrr t T. 4 IB used and Rulibor page. Percherons, Saddle horses, Tir.-.., *li>.20. I mfg. whee'a % lo4 in. tivad.. endorsed by Tin- T..|> I{iiic?1<-». $41; Harmon. $5. Write for catling. Wheela, thous a n d s ; Shorthorns and Berkshires are includ- Learn flow to buy direct, nvpnir $5.50. Wagon VJuibre.Ur'KKK. V,BOOb, WHAT WON HIM OVER. The Story of a Rooftrouble That De- cided Sam Brown. "Hello, Jones! What you doing up ther on top of your old barn? I thought you were ready for spring sowin'." "Oh, I'm doing my semi-annual roof- patching. I tell you what, Brown- shingles ain't what they're cracked up to be any more. I declare, you can't get a shingle nowadays for love or money that lasts any time, and I'm getting mighty tired doing this kind of thing when I ought to be out in the field making my living." "That's just about the Stagplows look like thoroughbreds frame o' mind I was in stripped for a race—strong and trim. last month when our tin roof They have that smooth, light running sprung a leak and spoiled the new quality you cannot describe, but paper I had just finished putting on You make which you feel. When you want a our spare bed-room. I got mad, I can yourself un- strictly high-grade plow at a medium tell you. I hitched right up price, get a frameless and arove necessary clown to the Centre and bust into Bill expense for Barlow's when the store was full of women, and yelled at the top o' my repairs every voice, 'Bill tel me sunthin' that's better time you use than a durned old tin roof such as they a poor wagon grease or allow make nowadays—and do it mighty quick!" an axle to go dry. "I s'pose they all thought I was An occasional application of crazy, but I didn't care. I was hoppin' mad. "Bill, he surveyed me kind o' calm- For 70 years the like, and says he: "leaping deer" ' 'What's the matter with you, trade mark has Sam? You ?,in't been the sign of burned out are you—nor a cyclone struck you? all that is best in rease plows. There is "So T up and told him my whole hardly a man so blamed trouble, and he says, 'So old or a boy so removes two thirds of the trouble you've come to my o' thinkin' young that he has way at and cost of keeping a wagon. Try last! not used John Don't you remember I told you "Mica" next time you go for a two years ago Deere makes. you'd be sorry you load—you'll see the difference and didn't take my advice and put on that the horse will feel it. Scakiet Beautiful Quaint and new kind o' roofing instead of tin? Mica Axle Grease is almost as describes plows, ancient and modern. I told you all about that roofing then good as roller bearings. Ask the Illustrated by photos of actual plow- —made of asphalt that comes from dealer for it. scenes from all over the world. ing down off South America, Trinidad, Ask for booklet 40 Mention STANDARD OIL COMPANY they call it a big lake full this paper. — of that (Incorporated) stuff they put on the streets up to DEERE S COMPANY, Molina. H!. U. S. A. s town to make 'em hard and smooth and lastin". MONEY SAVED FOR NEW LOW D0WN« "Well, Bill says, says he: 'Them IS THIS people, the Barber Asphalt Paving MONEY EARNED AMERICAN Company, there in Philadelphia, put Order direct. 7c that. ?ame stuff in roofing they make En- 5 CREAM a that We call Genasco Ready roofing, and it gines from S SEPARATOR to 16 H. P. Guaranteed to skim closer lasts to beat the band. Why, Jim Per- than any separator in the Stationary world. Bold direct from the kins says he knows a man that's had and Portable factory. the oldest ex- We are it on his house for ten years and it's Send for Cat- clusive manufacturers of hand alog. separators In America. You never leaked—don't even get soft or save all agents', dealers* and BATTROTH BROS., even run or crack or anything. It just mail order house profits. «S1 KTJsher St., Springfield, Ohio. We have the most liberal 30 DAYS' TRIAL, freight pre- hangs on like "grim death." He put paid offer. Write for it to- it on himself. It's easy enough. They ENGINES FOR SALE. day. Our new low down, waist hiKh separator is the send all the nails and stickum and Ten horse traction, $250; 10 horse hiehest quality ma- finest, stuff to it on with.' pliable. $150; 12 horse portable, $200; chine on the market; no other put 5 horse boiler and engine, $90; 1 horse separator compares with it " 'Well, Bill,' I, 'I'm to says ready 3 6 „ in close skimming, ease of gasoline engine, $40; horse, $60; cleaning, easy running, take your word for it, and I want you lone, $125; 10 horse, $175. Boilers and ^ ! nnli 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 453 DISC HARROWS AND DISC riLOWS lirln't phase me. I'm done with this Clark's Doable-Action Cutaway Har- patchin' business now. row—the {greatest labor saver. IB- comparable work. "Take my advice and get this roof- ing, too. Come over and look at mine. If you don't get a chance soon, write to these people and they'll send you samples and their Good Roof Guide Book. So long!" Let us put your name and address on the "Deere" SOUTHERN HUMORISTS. mailing list—as a Proqressivo Farmer—and send you our new practical FREE BOOKS. MABY WASHINCT0N. You know what the name "Deere"" on a farm im- plement means—in highest quality of workmanship, David Hunter Strother, more gen- materials, and latest Improvements. Does In one trip what ordinary disc erally known under his pseudonym And you know that you, like every experienced harrows cannot do in three and tow man, ought to keep posted on what the really best Improvements are in money -savinc:, time-saving, trips. of "Porte Crayon," was born at Mar- up- to-date farm machinery. "Deere""makesare stand- A WONDERFUL INVENTION. tinsburg, Va. (now West Virginia), ard of the World and it will pay you to keep posted about them. Write us now so we can send you our Clark's Double September 26, 1816. He was the for- book about our Action Combined tunate possessor of two talents, which Cultivator and Lightest Es-ntft—Two-Oyllnder Harrow. Can be went harmoniously hand in hand— used to cultivate mean a talent for drawing and one rowed crops, as a for humorous writing. The author listing harrow, can illustrate his also when closed who own works has together is a har- a peculiar advantage, for, of course, feet wide. Greatest time saver In haying time that you row cutting 4% no other artist could so fully enter could own—most durable in construction and ma- of to-day. These are the tools into his thoughts nor so thoroughly terials—has the latest and most practical exclusive CO., 45 Mam principles applied to loading hay. Thoroughly tested CUTAWAY HARROW grasp his conceptions. Thackeray en- out and proven entirely satisfactory by the best farm- Conn. ers and hay growers. St., Htgrganum, joyed this advantage, and so did STARKJE, Southern Sal« The only loader that Rueeessfully handles the ASHTON Hogarth and a few others, and "Porte lightest swath or heaviest windrow. Agent, Richmond, Vn. Crayon" also possessed the duality of Handles Gently gifts that enabled him to illustrate Hay BARGAINS IN his own writings admirably. He Rakes Cleanly Machinery. studied drawing first in Philadelphia Gathers N& Trash 2nd Hand in and afterwards New York under Don't think of buying an old type "Scratch THE WATT PLOW COMPANY, B. Morse, the in- Bar" hay loader. They are much heavierdraft and Samuel renowned fj\ jam and crush and Injure good bay. '' Richmond, Va. ventor (or shall I say discoverer?) The Deere handles alfalfa or ripe 1 H. Engine and Boiler clover for seed, perfectly. Write —25 P. Geiser of telegraphy, for Morse started life and read all about how to on skids. In first-class order. as an artist and only turned to his make hay most profitably 1—15 H. P. (8x10 cylinder) Pitts En- in our New Deere Hay gine and Boiler. Mounted on steel other and greater career after meeting Loader Book No. 11. wheels. with non-recognition and disappoint- DEERE A 1—25 H. P. Geiser Engine. Mounted ment in the career of art, a fact which, MANSUR on 30 H. P. Boiler on skids. Almost G®. new. proved of inestimable benefit to the Molino, 1—12 H. P. Kelly Engine and Boiler whole world. Him on wheels. In first-class order. After finishing his studies under Morse "Porte Crayon" went travelling 1—15 H. P. Frick Engine and Boiler on wheels. in the Western States, and in 1840, 1—No. 1 Lane Saw Mill with Rich- he went to Europe, where he remain- mond Iron Works Feed, 40-inch ed five years. On his return in 1845, Inserted Tooth Saw and all neces- sary belts. In first-class order. he studied in New York the art of drawing on wood for engravers and 1 3 Farquhnr Cable Suw —No. Feed illustrated several books. From 1852 Mill with three Head Blocks and Ft*e© Book *yj 50-inch Inserted Tooth Saw. As to 1861 he contributed to Harper s good as new. Magazine a charmingly humorous series of illustrated articles, chiefly on 1—No. 1 Lane Mill with 50-inch In- THE CLIFPEK. Virginia and the South, some of serted Tooth Saw. As good as new. will cut tall grass, which have since appeared in book short grass and 1 Boiler —6 H. P. Peerless Engine and form under the title of "Black Water weeds, and do all on wheels. and Virginia Illustrated." The reader the trimming along the fence, 1—7-lneh 4-Sided Molder. scarcely knows which to admire walks and drives. 1—4-inch 4-Sided Molder. ALSO— most, the spirited and charming illus- If your dealers — trations or the sprightly and humor- do not keep them, 1—48-inch Inserted Tooth Simondn let us know, and Saw. ous sketches accompanying them. I we will send cir- 1—54-inch Inserted Tooth Simond* remember being especially impressed feji® culars and prices. Saw. * in my childhood by one of Strother s Clipper Lawn Mower Co., Dixon, III. illustrated sketches in Harper's Mag- We invite your correspondence and will gladly give any information de- azine. It described a packet boat sired. trip on the Jamas River and Kanawha FIX YOUR ROOF Canal, which, being a familiar expe- Per %£.*£ THE WATT PLOW CO., rience to me, gave the sketch great 3c Square.-^ ^ Te lT rusty, tin. Iron, steel, paper, felt or shingle roof in. '7426 E. Main St., Richmond, Va, interest in my eyes, especially as it perfect condition, and keep it in perfect condition contained a picture of old Aunt forlui 6coo per square perp year. Pl»nte and 8e«4s far V*' The Perfect Roof Preserver, tntkts old, fifN^PNTi Hannah, the stewardess, and various worn-out roofs new. Satisfaction guaranteed Uiii^Jua^VI ^(j spring delivery » other functionaries on the packet boat. money refunded. Our free roofing book. •ad MOT. Popalar prices. For farthw U. Roof-Fix 1^lis all shout it. Write for it today. tarmatioa address C. F. OABTSR, 9«w On the outbreak of the Civil War %e Anderson Manufacturing Co.. Otpt. 61 . Syria, Obit. MTLB FORD. VA. Strother volunteered in the United Always mention The Southert States service, and was appointed cap- Tell the advertiser where you saw Planter when writing advertiser* tain and assistant adjutant general, his advertisement. 454 THE SOUTHE EN PLANTER. [May, Dig Your Potatoes With a rising to the rank of colonel in the HIGH GRADE Third West Virginia Cavalry. In DOWDEN 1S64 he resigned and in 1865 he was DROP-HEAD brevetted brigadier general for meri- LIGHT RUNNING torious services. After the war he re SEWING turned to his home at Berkeley MACHINE Springs, where for several years he Positively the greatest Sewing»Maehine value continued to supply sketches to maga- ever offered. By our direct selling plan, we all dealers' and agents' profits. This zines. In 1879 he was appointed Con- save you Machine is equal to sul General to Mexico and held that any usually sokl by agents for $30.00. position till 1885. He died at Char- Is substantialiy The greatest labor saving machine leston, W. Va., March 8, 1888. made of best all the potatoes on the market. Gets "Bill Arp," whose real name was material, and is in any soil—deep or shallow, hilly or equipped with level, light or heavy vines. Potatoes Charles H. Smith, was a native of the latest im- come clean and sound. The machine Georgia, in which State he practiced provements. Ele- no that works right, lasts and needs law in his earlier days, being one of gant oak drop-leaf repairs. cabinet, 4 drawers Write for catalogue for detailed in- the firm of Underwood & Smith, in and full set of at- formation. Rome, Ga.. He led a varied career, tachments. We give our binding 10-year JOHN DEERE PLOW CO., General being by turn lawyer, member of the Agents for Maryland, East and West gruarantee with each machine. Older one today, try it 30 State Senate and Mayor of the city in days and if not found in everyway satisfactory, we will re- Virginia, North and South Carolina, fund your money. 'WearetUelarsrestsewin^machiDe dis- Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsyl- which he lived. His comic letters be- tributers in the South, and make prompt shipment. Send for complete catalogue mailed free on application. vania. gan to appear in 1861, and he soon Dowden Mfg. Co., Box 870, came to be considered Prairie City, Iowa, V. S. A. the humorous 5V1ALSBY, SHIPP & CO, mouthpiece of fte South, very much Department 14, Atlanta, Ga. as Petroleum V. Nasby was of the The HOOVER l^ISDIGGER North. His letters were widely read Light running, well %_/&. built.lowiu price— ^gL^ and were greatly sought after and en- the most satisfac- joyed by our soldiers in the field, as tory machine to HERCULES Mr*=c» they helped to throw a gleam of sun- shine over the horrors of war. He tells us how he came to adopt the pseudonym of "Bill Arp." Stump Puller "Some time in the spring of 1861, when our Southern boys were hunt- in two sizes. Send Made ing for a fight and felt like they could for catalogue and ask about trial offer. THE HOOVER RSFC CO., lick all creation, Mr. Lincoln issued Box C3s Avery, Ohio. a proclamation ordering us all to dis- persed and retire within thirty days and to quit cavorting around in a tears an acre of heavy timber land hostile and belligerent manner. -ach day. Clears all stumps In a "I remember writing an answer to irele of 150 feet without moving or The Hessler Moil Box fa hanging machine. Strongest, most is absolutely it, as though I was a good Union weather-proof. *rild working and best made. law-abiding citizen 31 ade of steel, 18 man and a and HERCULES MFG. CO., in. long, 6} in was willing to disperse if I could, but 41S 17th St., Centrevllle, Iowa. diameter. Cov- er self-closing it was almost impossible, for the boys and self-latch- ing. Signal at- were mighty hot, and the way we TNI IMPROVES tached. Hrasslock made up our military companies was find ke U forcircular. 11 V„ IIE88L.EK CO., to send a man down the lines with a SCREWS DAPPULLE1 510 F.°nl!n!lSt,.Hyraonse,N.Y. ,g bucket of water and sprinkle the boys Write Itr Prises. as he came to them, and if a fellow ^*WE SHIP oh APPROVAL sizzed like hot iron in a slack trough, thout a cent deposit, preDay the freight we took him, and if he didn't sizz we and allow 10 FREE TRIAL. DAYS * * IT ONLY COSTS one cent to learn our didn't take him. * I thought unheard-of prices and marvelous offers the on highest grade 1908 model bicycles. letter was right smart and de- cently sarcastic and so I read it to FACTORY PRICES &?£.'£ a pair of tires from anyone at any price Dr. Miller and Judge Underwood, and until you write for our large Art Catalog they seemed to think it was right and learn our -wonderful proposition on first sample bicycle going to your town. smart, too. About that time I looked RIDER AGENTS ZXSfSS around and saw Bill Arp standing at money exhibiting and selling our bicycles. the door, with his mouth open and a WVe Sell cheaper than any other factory. Tires, Coaster-Srakes, single wheels, merry glisten in his eye. Says he to parts, repairs and sundries at half usual prices. me: Do Not Wait; write today for our special offer. Chamberlln M'f'g Co., Olean. N. Y. MEAD CYCLE CO., Dept.j^223 CHICAGO " 'Squire, are you gwine to print A Great Discovery that?" BBS*. DROPSY "I reckon I will," said I. CURED with vege- table remedies; re- on BopryBoxes "What name are you gwine to put moves all symptoms and Baskets to it?" says he. of dropsy In 8 to 2* Fruit and Vcgotubla "1 days; 30 to 60 days Pflfkncc-3 and Grow- "I don't know yet," said I. 1 Supplies of all effects permanent t kinds. Write for tree mou-jy-«avliigoat- haven't thought about a name." cure. Trial treat- Yftloe»ndprloellatr. New Albany Box furnished free ^& HusketCo., New Albany, '"•'- Then he brightened up and said: ment ^Larjgcat Factory of Its Kind to every sufferer; 'Squire, I In the Country* "Well, wish you would put nothing fairer. For mine, for them's my sentiments," and circulars, testi- monials and free I promised him I would." 1 I Implements save trial treatment P 1 /Ml * *^ you money. A newspaper correspondent thus de- write Dr. H. H. GREEN'S SONS, i. I, > 1. r « Co. Frx 1107 X, I'hiladelph a scribes him at middle age: "Tall, Atlanta, Ga. 1908.] THE SOUTHEKN PLANTEE. 455 stoutly built, with black eyes, hair and beard; slightly bald and of rather HAY grave expression; a lawyer of fine abilities and in social intercourse 68 TONS BALED very interesting when he can shake IN off what seems habitual reserve. Often, however, when saying least, an arch curve will betray some facetious Our free cata- thought flitting through his brain." log tells how 'tis clone. A few years after the war, Mr. Get one. Smith's comic letters were collected COLUMBIA and published in book form, under THE NEW CENTUM AUTOMATIC GATE. , BAILER the title of "Bill Arp: So-Called." Can be opened or closed from your , Horse He attained a green old age, having Presses wagon or horse by a small child; don't also have to get out in the mud and soil lived to see the opening years of the Especially average your clothes; saves time, saves adapted for repair 20th Century. His last work was a bill for 1D06 trouble, prevents Gasoline Power runaways; a model volume entitled, "From the Uncivil of simplicity, durability and cheap- Ann Arbor Machine Co., Box 76, Ann Arbor, Mich ness; no springs, no castings, no War to Date," and was a pleasant hinges, no cog wheels, no wood, all and entertaining mixture of reminis- steel, no sagging, no dragging; so cence and autobiography. simple, so easy; no harness and almost no machinery; nothing to wear out, He doubts if emancipation and the nothing to break, nothing to be get- ballot box have brought any happi- ting out of fix, as other automatic ness to the negro. "The slaves of gates are noted for. Is not affected that day were loyal, and, in the main, by drifting or deep snow, ice, sleet or wind. Always ready for use and will were happy and contented. Of last a life time. Was awarded gold course, there were bad negroes, and medal at three world's fairs. Has no some bad masters, alas for the negro! equal. If there is no agent in your community or your hardware man is Before the war, there was not an out- not handling our gate, write the rage committed by them from the NEW CENTURY STEEL, WIRE AND IRON WORKS, Potomac to the Rio Grande. There Baltimore, Mil. was not a chain gang nor a convict camp in all the South. Now there are five thousand In the chain gangs of SPRING INGE Georgia, and fifteen thousand more in the Southern States. There would be ECQNSilY 5IL0 Made of high carbon Stv I Wire Horse-high, Bull-strong Chlck- fifty thousand if the law was enforced Meilal and hipheBt award at the Jamestown Exposition en-tlght. Sold direc to the for minor offences, but we overlook ^MI Economy Silos are best because: Farmer at lowest i inufae- turers prices on SO Days Free them out of pity." The doors are continuous, easily Trial, freight prepaid. lOOpa^e opened, without clumsy iastenings. Catalogue and price-list free. Mr. Smith admits, however, that in The hoops are strong, well support- KITSELMAN BROS., some respects the South has been ad- ed, and form a safe iron ladder. Box 14 MUNCIE, IND. vantaged by the changed condition The Silo is air tight all over, keeps the | ensilage absolutely sweet. Easy to put up, of things. "The times have wonder- I fully guaranteed. Write for free Illustrated MAJTLOVB AUTOMATIC GATES catalogue with experience of users. fully changed since then—some things Economy Silo & Tank Co. Saves time for better, some things for worse. Box 38G Frederick, Md. adds to value The old aristocracy is passing away. Ill II ill WlilllllllMll '! —!— safety, beauty and pleasure Some of them escaped the general of home. wreck that followed the war, and Manlovb lake Your Own Fertilizer illustrated by their energy and Gate Co., 272 have at Small Cost with Huron St. liberality the doctrine of the survival WILSOK'S PHOSPHATE MILL! Chicago, 111. of the fittest, but their name is not From 1 to 40 H. P. Also Bone Cutters, hand and powei legion. . . A new and hardier stock for the poultrymen; erit results and shell mills, farm feed has come to the front. The mills, family grist mills, 4*A^|^ LAWN FENCE of the war made an opening for tbem scrap cake mills. Send for our catalog. - - Many designs. Cheap «,« and developed their energies. With wood. 32 page Catalogue s> Wilson Bros., Sole Mfrs., Easton, Pt free. Specia I Prices to no high degree of culture, they have 1 ' • 'i!» i-: t : -z . Churches and Cemeteries, nevertheless proved equal to the ::•:;£ .i'-..--'-^:--:.:..;; V:;-. Coiled Spring Fence ] Co. 1 struggle rough hill of life, and Box Q Winchester In& up the ^Feeds and Feedings" now play an important part in run- 1 Wire Fence 90f ning the financial machine. They AND ™ • 48-in. stock fence per rod only ' have proved to be our best farmers Best , high carbon coiled steel spring: wttBJ and most prosperous merchants and * Catalog offences, tools and supplies FBffir The Southern Planter Buy direct at wholesale. Write todn* mechanics. They now constitute the MASON FENCE CO. Box Leesburg, I. 89 solid men of the State and have con- for only $2.26, including delivery of tributed largely to building up our the book. This Is Profewior Benry*» schools, churches, factories and rail- great werk on Feeds and Feeding psoszzs Stock and is the recognized standard roads, and to the development of our 'Lilmp/hceLI h/gh grade — everywhere. Every one with half : catalogue mineral resources. shrewd, free. They are dozen head of stock should have it. )0W WIRE & IRON WKS. LOUISVILLE.KY. practical and not afraid of work." Southern Planter, Iron and Wire Fences Lunenburg Co., Va., Dec. 10, '07. Plain and heavy, also light and or- Richmond, Va. namental, tt^ Wire or Iron l'Vnceg. I am trying to get every farmer to Highest grade at lowest prices. •3-Write for catalog. FREE. be a reader of the Southern Planter, Eniei prise Foundry & Fence Co., as it is filled with good instructions DON'T RUST FARM FENCE S- Senate , 287 Ave. Indianapolis, Ind. Sold direct to farmers at man- and advice. With me it has been very ufacturers' prices. Catalogue Always Southern free. Freight prepaid. mention The helpful and a welcome and appreci- THE WARD FENCE CO. Planter when writing advertisers. ated visitor. I. C. MADDOX. Box 852 Decatur, Ind. 456 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [May, REPORTS'. SEND TO FACTORY U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. Office of the FOR CATALOGUE Secretary. Circular 26- The adulteration and misbranding of We offer you an Alfalfa, Red Clover and Grass ORGAN that is a Seeds. Pipe Organ in all Bureau of Animal Industry. 23d but price. "We do Annual Report, 1906. not ask Pipe Organ Bureau of Animal Industry. Bulle- prices, but we give tin 103. Experiments in Beef Pro- you an organ that duction in Alabama. throws out that Bureau of Animal Industry. Cir- powerful, deep and cular 127. Tubercle Bacilli in mellow tone that Butter. pipe organs possess. Bureau of Animal Industry. Cir- 75 Cents Fer Weeh. cular 129. Rabies and Its In- GETS THIS ORGAN creasing Prevalence. We are able to give you this Bureau of Biological Survey. Bull. quality as a result of our own 32. Food Habits of the Gros- PATENT RILED PIPE beaks. Bureau of Entomology. Circular andall °th- which we control absolutely and 37- The Use of Hydrocyanic APPLE which can be found in Newman Acid Gas for Fumigating Green Organs only. We give you all that possesses and Houses and Cold Frames. any other good organ PEACH trees do • much more with this patent pipe Bureau of Entomology. Circular for reed set. From coast to coast 99. The Nut Weevils. the!r be5t years our organs have been the PEAR Office of Experiment Stations. " foremost of all instruments in tone, enpr°P construction and style. Bull- 199. Proceedings of the PLUM 30 Days Free Trial 12th Annual Meeting of the ^ American Association of Farmers will prove to you that it is the best Institute Workers. organ you have ever seen and worth three times any other organ. Forest Service. Circular 112. The SPRAYED If you do not think so do not keep Analysis and Grading of Creo- Hare yeu any fruit tree* that it. Every Organ fully guaranteed. sotes. Write now for catalogue explain- Forest Service. yield poor, wormy, knarled, bllented ing more fully all about our organs, Circular 129. The and this patent pipe tone that has Drain Upon the Forests. and imperfect fruit T Do you spray taken the highest awards at the Forest Service. Circular 138. Sug- them? If not world's fairs. Write for particulars you arc gestions to Wood-lot of our special terms and we will Owners in have our agent in your territory the Ohio Valley Region. call on you, or deliver organ. You Forest Service. Circular 131. Prac- will see how easily you can have an tical Forestry on a Spruce Tract LOSING MONEY organ in your own home to give your life pleasure. in Maine. Send for Free Books of Songs. Forest Service. Circular 137. Con- All kinds of spray pnmpa at NEWMAN BROS. CO., sumption of Poles in 1906. 121 W. Chicago Ave., Chicago. prices from $3 up. Forest Service. Circular 142. Tests Our of Vehicle and Implement Works. Spray Pumps are reliable, simple and durable. t SECURE { Forest Service. Circular 140. What 1 OH FEE Forestry Has Done. Used by the Virginia and Norta RETURNED Forest Service. Circular 141. Wood Send sketch for free report as t» Carolina Agricultural Departmeat*. patentability. Guide Book and What Paving in the United States. to Invent, with valuable list of inven- Forest Service. Circular 142. The tions wanted sent free. One million Relation of the Southern Appa- SYDNOR PUMP & WELL CO., dollars offered for one invention; lachian Mountains to $16,000 for others. Patents secured by Inland DEPT. B. us advertised free in World's Progress. Water Navigation. Sample free. Forest Service. Circular 144. The RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. EVANS & WILKENS, Relation of the Southern Appa- 843 Street, Washington, JO. F C. lachian Mountains to the Devel- opment of Water Power. T YOURIDEA Forest Service. Circular 145. For- Defender $100,000 for ono invention,« est Planting in the Northern another $8,500. Book "How to Prairies. Sprayer Obtain a Patent' and "What to In vent" sent free. Send rough sketch for fret Bureau of Plant Industry. Bull- 124. All brass, easiest work- report as to patentability. We advertise your ing, most powerful, aut«= patentfor sale at our expense. The Prickly a Pear as Farm matic mixer, expaniloc Patent Obtained or Fee Returned. Crop. Talves, double strain*;- CHANDLEE & CHANDIEE, Patent Att'yf, Catalogue of Pumps an< (Eatabluhailb start) Bureau of Plant Industry. Bull. Treatise oa Spraying fraa, 941 P. Street, Washington, D.C 131. Part 1. The Germination Agents Wanted. M. S of Vegetable Seeds. J.Y Qaylord, Box 83 CatakiU, POSITION WANTED. Bureau of Plant Industry. Bull. Windsor Stock Farm, of which I am THE VIROINIA LANDSCAPE superintendent, having been sold, I am 123. The Decay of Oranges now open for a position. Am thorough While in Transit from Cali- AND MAINTENANCE CO. INC, stockman, dairyman and horseman; fornia. am good farmer, 34 years old, small «1( Watt, Rettew & Clay Buildlne, family. Best of references, including Bureau of Plant Industry. Circu- ROANOKE, VA present employer. Prefer Maryland or lar 1. Self-Boiled Lime-Sulphur atameloaiata, Foresters, Laadaeap* Virginia. SUPT. WINDSOR STOCK FARM, mixture as a Promising Fungi- Architects, Kaglaeer*. Elko, Va. cide. •ee yeu. 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 457 Office of Public Roads. Circular 89. Progress Reports of Experi- SHERWIN-WILLIAMS ments With Dust Preventives. Bureau of Soils. Bull. 48. Fertili- PAINTS AND VARNISHES. ty of Soils as Affected by Ma- nures. THE NITRATE AGENCIES Farmers' Bull- 317. Experiment COMPANY Station Work. Increasing the Fuller Brothers Production of Corn. Shrinkage 64 Sloae Street, New York, N. Y. of Corn. Grain for Cows at 36 Bay Street, Savannah, DEALERS IN HARDWARE Pasture, etc. Ga. Farmers' Bull. 318. and Cowpeas. 305 Baronne Street, New Orleans, La. FARM T00L5, Farmers' Bull. 319. Demonstra- tion Work in Co-operation with Holcombe & Co., 50 Clay Street, Sola Agents. Southern Farmers. San Francisco, Cal. Farmers' "Bull. 320. Experiment DANVILLE), TA, Station Work. Fish Fertilizers. Address Office Nearest You Bermuda Hay. Protein Content of Forage Crops. Potato Spray- ing. Fattening Cattle for Mar- ket. Cotton Seed Meal and Corn COTTON Silage for Cows, etc Farmers' Bull. 321. The Use of the Split-log Drag on Earth Roads. SEED Alabama Experiment Station, Auburn, Ala. Bull 142. Corn Breeding in HULLS. Alabama. Wetumpka, Ala., Sixth Annual Re- The best and cheapest cattle feed. port of the 5th District Agricul- tural School Experiment Station. Give them a trial and prove It. Write for Prices. Arizona Experiment Station, Tuczon, Write for prices, sacked or loose, Ariz. 18th Annual Report. car-load or less. Cornell Experiment Station. Ithaca, Tine to Paint N. Y. Bull 250. Bovine Tuber- SOUTH ATLANTIC OIL CO., •Let us quote culosis. prices on Darlington, S. C. you Colorado Experiment Station, Fort Paint that will give you satis- Collins, Col. Bull. 123. The faction. Color Plains. in- cards and all Bull. 126. Cantaloupe Breeding. formation cheer- fully furnished. Bull. 127. Climate of Colorado. Write to-day. Illinois Experiment Station, TJrbana, 1e'berm9th bRosJ Letbermath JSg>V fllCMMOND.VAj^// Ills. Bull. 121. Variety Tests of POTATO BUGS BroK., Wheat. Richmond, Va. Bull. 122. Market Classes and Grades of Horsies and Mules. Are Always a Sure Crop. Kansas Experiment Station, Manhat- FIVE MINUTE TALK tan, Kan. 20th Annual Report. Better Order a of 100 sent free. "How to Keep Away Bull. 151. Alfalfa Breeding—Mate- Sack Chicken Lice and Mites" by only rials and Methods. ONE APPLICATION A YEAR. Bull. 152. The Pocket-gopher. Lbs. of Our Successfully used for upwards of Kansas State Board of Agriculture, 30 years. Topeka, Kan. Report of Quarter Carbolineum Wood Preserving Co., Ending March, 1908. 346 W. Broadway, New York, N. Y. PARIS GREEN Louisiana Experiment Station, Baton Rouge, La. 20th Annual Report, "WAJNTED 1907. MIXTURE Bull. 100. The Root Disease of - Sugar Cane, - Bills to Collect Bull. 101. Dlisease of Pepper and Beans. PRICE SI.50. In all portions of the United States. No collection, no charge. Agencies Bull. 102. Dairy Herds and Their wanted everywhere; 25 years' expe- Milk Production. rience. Don't Wait Until the Rush PALMORE'S COLLECTION Bull. 10'3. Investigations in the AGENCY, 911 Main St., Richmond, Va. Use of Sulphur and Its Combina- tions in the Sugar House. is on. "PRACTICAL FARMING" Maryland Experiment Station, Col- lege Park. Md. Bull. 122. Stable Prof. W. F. Maasey's latest and best Manure Experiments. T. C. Andrews & Co., Inc., book, is now on sale. It retails far Bull. 124. Strawberries. ?1.88 and Is worth It. We shall be Bull 125. Nut Growing in Mary- Norfolk, Va. very pleased to send you a copy at land. above price and will Include a year's Massachusetts Experiment Station, •subscription to The Southern Planter. Amherst, Mass. Bull. 120. In- KILL SAN JOSE Remember, we deliver the book and spection of Commercial Feed SCALE WITH acive you a whole year's subscription Stuffs. n firm's caustic pot. cnip un <» for tbe price of the book, $1.60. Bull 121. Seed Separation and James Good, 959 N. Front Street, SOUTHERN PLANTER, Richmond, Va. Germination. Philadelphia. " 458 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [May, Michigan Experiment Station, Agricul- tural College, Mich. Bull. 250. Farm Department. Minnesota Experiment Station, St. Anthony Park, Minn. Bull. 104. AGRICULTURAL Pork production. Bull. 106. Investigation in Milk Production. LIME. Poultry-raisers have found that Missouri Experiment Station, Colum- the better the incubators and bia, Bull. 79. brooders they use, the better the Mo. Green forage foods they feed, the more money for hogs. they make, and the morepleasure they PLAIN get out of their fowls, we want to sup- Nebraska Experiment Station, Lincoln, ROCK ply you with the better incubators and Neb. Bull. 105. Cattle brooders, foods and supplies. We manufac- Growing OR ture and market the best goods in the in Western Nebraska- world in our line. The ''United" Incuba- tors and brooders—standard the world ov- Press Bull. No- 28. Bunt or Stink- er, and SHELL LIME favorites with poultry people—are ing Smut of Wheat. our leaders in the machine line. "Ban- BAGS OK BULK ner" and "'Fidelity" Foods need no New Hampshire Experiment Station, " 1£gument to convince you of theirmerits. "We manufacture and guarantee them. Durham, N. H. Bull. 135. The By buying all your supplies at one Respiration of Apples and Its Re- SPECIAL FINE HYDRATED LIME place you will pave on freight, and wiil always get a quality lation to Their Keeping. you can depend on. Send us FOE DRILLING. your orders and save money. Bull 136. The Gipsy and Brown Tail Before you buy elsewhere write Moths. for our free catalogs. Do it If in the market for any grade and to-day. North Carolina Department of Agricul- United Incubator & Poultry any quantity of Supply Mfg. Co., Dept. if ture, Raleigh, N\ C. Bee Keeping 26-28 Vesey St., N, Y. Cuy. in North Carolina- Division of Entomology. Circular 21. Erroneous Reports of Cotton. LAW LIME Boll-Weevil. New York Expriment Station, Geneva, Write for our price list and particulars -INCUBATORS- N. Y. Bull 292. Carbonated Milk. Bull. 294. Analyzing Fertilizers. T. C. ANDREWS & CO., Inc. Buy from the man that knowi. Bull 295. Directors' Report for 1907. NOKFOLK, VA. I am not a manufacturer. I am * Bull 296- Saving Old Orchards from poultry breeder. I am Southern Scale. selling agent for one of the best Incubators and Brooders en the Bull. 298. Distribution of Station market. Medium in price. Guaran- Strawberries and Raspberries. teed for five years. "Write me for Ohio Experiment Station, Wooster, O. is catalogue and further information. Now YourChance Bull. 190. Evergreens, Their Uses CAL HUSSELMAN, and Culture. It. F. D. 1, Highland Springe, Vn. Pennsylvania Experiment Station. —FOR— State College, Pa. Bull- 85. Test of a Mechanical Cow Milker. CHEAP LIME -BROODERS- Bull. 86. Miscible Oils. How to Make Them. Owing to extreme dullness in the Circular. Seed Corn. building lime trade we will make A LMOTHERS Purdue Experiment Station, Lafay- low prices on our regular run of Complete Fireproof ette, Ind. Bull. 123. Commercial "rock" lime until fall. Hatching and Brood- Melon Growing. kiln ing Plant for $7.60; We have a few car loads of will Bull. 124. Results of Cooperative two quarts oil screenings left unsold. hatch and brood the Tests of "Varieties of Corn, Wheat, chicks. Our nest sys- Oats, Soy Beans and Cowpeas. tem is the latest Tazewell White Lime discovery. Full line Rhode Island Experiment Station, poultry supplies. Kingston, R. I. 20th Annual Re- Works Lowest prices. Free port, 1907. catalogue. Write to-day. North Tazewell, Va. CYCLE HATCHER CO., South Carolina Experiment Station, Box 409, Elmtra, New York. Clemson College, S. C. The Wil- liamson Plan in 1907. Idle Texas Experiment Station. College TO INSURE A MAXIMUM Make Your Money Station, Texas. Bull. 98. Sum- mary Texas Bulletins 1 to 94. CORN YIELD Earn You Interest Bull. 100. The Chemical Composi- AND THE BEST RESULTS FROM Write the FIRST NATIONAL BANK tion of Some Texas Soils. THE SUCCEEDING CROP USE of Richmond, Virginia, for information Bull. 101. Irish Potato Fertilizer BONE PHOSPHATE concerning its certificates of deposit, Experiments. o arranged that One Per Cent, may 22% Per Cent. Phosphoric Acid, 4% be collected every Four Months Virginia Experiment Station, Blacks- Per Cent. Ammonia. your nearest bank or store. (Guaranteed Analysis.) through burg, Va. Bull. 175. Co-operative Our experience proves this form for savings to be the most satisfactory Tobacco Investigation. A Pure Animal Bone Fertilizer plan yet devised for deposits of $100.00 Virginia Weather Service, Richmond, In the manufacture of which NO or more. Va. Report for March, 1908. CHEMICALS are used. Our Capital and Earned Surplus Is Ton (2,000 pounds) 28 50 Wisconsin Experiment Station, Madi- Sack, 200 pounds $3 00 $1,600,000 son, Wis. 24th Annual Report, RICHMOND ABATTOIR, 1907. Box 207, Richmond, Virginia. John B. Pnrcell, President. Offices: Sixth and Cary Streets. Jno. M. Miller, Jr., Vice-Prea. Cashier. West Virginia Experiment Station. Chas. R. Burnett, Aunt. Cashier. Morgantown, W. Va. Bull. 110. Please mention the Southern Planter. J. C. Joplln, Asst. Cashier. The Grape Vine Root Borer. S 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 459 Bull. 111. Bacteria in Milk and Ar- tificial Refrigeration for Dairy- Harness men. Bull. 112. Experiments With Fer- with a Pull tilizers. Bull. 114. Comercial Fertilizers. MAIL' The load will follow West Virginia State Board of Agricul- De- if you can't call on us in person. We the horse if traces, ture. Report for the Quarter maintain a MAIL ORDER DEPART- strap, cember 30, 1907. Report of the back breeching MENT in charge of a man skilled in the State and lines are kept soft 15th Annual Meeting of the of interpreting orders by mail, with over 20 and strong with Horticultural Society. EXPERIENCE in catering to the tastes and needs of our OUT-OF-TOWN CUSTOMERS. Our system of WHY SHE BLUSHED. measurements is so simple that it's an easy matter to order- and we send goods anywhere The late Bishop Coleman, of Dela- on approval, which enables you to satisfy yourself EUREKA ware, was somewhat deaf. Once while about fit, quality and pattern before PAYING A attending a banquet he was assigned PENNY ON THEM. TWO MENSAHIBS (LADIES) IN ~ Northern Virginia Farms INDIA. Great^Opportunity 190 acres in Herndon, Fairfax county, Article No. 5. Benares, the Holy Here Are a Few Bargains. Va., a thriving town of 1,200 inhabi- City. tants, with 5 churches, 2 schools, stores, mills, etc.; three-quarters mile from No. 132. Contains 50 acres of smooth. "Traveller." railroad station and post-office; 6 trains s;ently-roiling, fertile land divided into daily; 27 miles to Washington, One of the most interesting D. C. All four fields; pure running stream run- places the land lies within the town limits on ning through the farm. The land la we visited whilst in India was Ben- one of the best macadam roads In the all in good state of cultivation; choco- ares, the Holy City of the Hindus, county. It is high and healthy, with late clay with stiff subsoil. The house a beautiful outlook, affording situated on the banks of the sacred excel- is a comfortable 6-room dwelling, ex- lent building sites. One can live here cellent at well the porch; stable, corn river Ganges^, which at this point is and enjoy farm life and still enjoy the house, granary, all in good condition broad and majestic. numerous benefits the town has to Farm is situated in Loudoun Count? Though Buddhism and Mahomedan- offer, and be in easy access of Wash- on a good level road, 2% miles from ington, besides. the station. Price, $2,000. ism once flourished here, they have There are 30 acres in second growth given place to the timber. is No. 190. Consists of 210 acres, 186 worship of Siva, The balance in a high state acres cleared, 24 acres in timber; all and one can see here all the horrors of cultivation and all has been sowed to grass with the exception of one good chocolate clay soil; fine for grass of Hindu fanaticism, for is Benares field. fenced rails; grain of all kinds; situated in Well with wire and and the resort of thousands of pilgrims Loudoun County, 24 miles from Wash- watered by two springs; inexhaustible ington, three-quarters mile from who come here to bathe in the sacred wells, wind power. The barns are well lighted ventilated, in macadam road leading into city. Land waters of the Ganges. and modern and At Mogul excellent condition; is a little rolling, but would be con- stanchions for 60 Sirai, the junction for Benares, five for 9 sidered level; fenced into ten fields; cows and stalls horses. Good hundred carriage house and water in all the fields, and the whole pilgrims got on the train, a new 2-room tenant house. buildings place is under good fence; six miles crowded in like cattle, all eagerness The could not be built for less than $3,000. to railroad station, close to village to reach the Ganges. To seie them with post-office, stores, shops, church, One could stock this place, put a immerse themselves in this it school and mill. Orchard consists of sacred tenant on and make this a paying about 100 trees of different ages and stream, we arosie next morn at day- investment at once. It has been operated as an up-to-date dairy farm kinds of fruit. The dwelling is an 8- break, and went to the ghats, flights frame house good for several years, the cream bringing room new with a of steps, leading down to the water. tenant house; barn 16x24, stall for $1 per gallon the year round. The six horses, good granary, corn house, In the early dawn pilgrims were owner wants to sell as she does not machine house and other small out- already making their way the river wish to engage in active business any to longer. houses. Price, $5,000. to dip themselves at sunrise in its Land is being bought up rapidly In No. 191. Consists of 475 acres, 300 waters. Each carried a small brass this locality. New York and Penn- acres cleared, the balance in wood water jug, in which to bring back sylvania families have just bought farms near this property and are land, part of it original growth oak some of the holy water to sprinkle and hickory. This land is all a heavy making extensive improvements, and the home, grass and grain soil, rolling enough or to give as a priceless the house and grounds adjoining are to drain well; chocolate clay soil, fine offering to friends not able to come considered one of the most beautiful around Herndon. for wheat and corn and permanent themselves to the fountain source. grazing. It has two small never-fail- Will sell the 190 acres, with Improve- We engaged a boat, and were rowed ing streams through it; fairly well ments, for $12,000, $4,000 down, balance fenced. The buildings are a little out up and down the stream to watch the to suit, or 100 acres, with improve- of repair, but comfortable enough to ever increasing throng of bathers. ments, for $8,500, $3,500 down, balance to suit. live in. The farm has one 5-room Along the river side, the native house and one 6-room house, frame Hin- Virginia Stock and Dairy Farms near filled in with English brick; stable for du princes have built great palaces, Washington a specialty. six horses, and other small outbuild- where they come annually with a P. B. BUEIL & SON, Herndon, Va. ings. This Is a property where, if a retinue of servants and a train of man is willing to dwell in a modest house, he can purchase at a bargain, camels and elephants to purify them- make a most elegant and profitable selves in the Ganges, to worship it fiflfin Money- Making Farms estate; in an excellent section of Fair- and make offerings to it. On the County, 20 miles from Washing- DUUU for Sale in 14 States fax very banks there ane living ascetics ton, six miles from Herndon station. An endless variety in size, The land is in good condition and is with scarcely a covering over their price and purpose ; stock Is making fine crops. The owner old heads who spend their lives in pray- and tools included with to sell, and if it interests and wants er and incantations. Charity is ex- many. "Strout's Catalogue you, and you are ready to buy, do not our new 216-page book of tended to all such No. 20," delay. It can be bought on very easy who need have no bargains, profusely illustrated, terms. Price, $8,000. concern about their material needs containing State Maps, reliable in- whilst seeking their spiritual welfare, formation of farming localities and traveling in- Farm No. 76. Contain* 243 acres, IS structions to see properties, mailed FREE, if you as they it. acres In good timber, balance la cleared consider The pilgrims mention this paper. We pay railroad/ares. fenced with wood and wire also are fed. and well , E. A. STROUT CO.. la one of the finest fences. This farm Before the sun was fairly above Land Title Building, Philadelphia, Pa, little farms in Loudoun County. Every the field has been limed, and the land la horizon, hundreds of the devout of cultivation. It is were bathing in a high state themselves, saying long ON THE EASTERN, natural bluegrass and clerer land. prayers, and casting gifts on the wa- SHORE OF I Two-thirds of the land is now well set FARMS MARYLAND in clover and will yield enormous crops ters. Parents submerged their little Grain and Stock Farm of 107 acres. next year. The farm is situated on an children and, indeed, it has only been Productive soil, 10-room dwelling, large barn, granary, corn cribs, poul- elevated point, on rolling ground, with of recent years that the custom of a fine view of the mountains on one try houses, wood houses, etc. All in side, and the other side Is a beautiful sacrificing the eldest born to the wa- good repair. In elegant neighborhood, stretch of cultivated lands. This farm ter has been abolished. The pil- close church, school and store. Price easy is all smooth, free from stones and grims, in their brilliant dresses, $3,000, $1,200 cash, balance on stumps, rolling enough to drain well, terms. Great bargain. Will pay you but would be considered comparatively swaying their arms and chanting to investigate. Only 3% hours from level. The house Is an 8-room house, aloud, are a very curious sight. both Baltimore and Philadelphia. old, but well pre- perhaps SO years From the river, we went to the Catalogue free. served. Fine water. There are all the The J. W. Funk Co., Denton, Md. necessary outbuildings, In good con- Golden Temple, where we were ut- dition. Horse barn with stalls for 16 terly disgusted by the idolatry on all herses and cattle barn with stalls for sides. We could scarcely thread our a« head. Excellent orchard of all kind* VIRGINIA FARMS of fruit. This farm Is one mile from way to it through the loathsome al- S3 PKR ACRE AMD UPWARDS. railroad station. Price, $37.(0 per acre leys, where the elephant and monkey Easy payments. Catalegue Free. god, painted red, stared at us from Loans made on country Real Estats. Semd tor My mew List. GEORGE E. CRAWFORD ft CO., 10»t every niche. Outside the temple Baat Main Street, Richmond, Va. Es- WM. BADS MILLBR, HHRJTDON, VA. women were selling yellow marigolds tablished 1875. »— 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 461 as offerings to the gods. In the Farm Bargains Attention court, the sacred bull wandered among the rich offerings of the a. 200 acres fine red land, with HOMBSEEKERS AND INVESTORS. princes. A priest, for a considera- good clay subsoil, In good state of cultivation; well watered improved by tion, gave us a glimpse of the shrine, I sell and exchange Virginia Real 9-room frame house recently over- Estate of all classes, such as Grain, which was dirty and greasy. In hauled, in excellent condition; good Dairy, Fruit, Stock, Truck, Poultry and front of Ana Puena, supplier of foods, barns and other buildings for 45 head tenant house, etc.; near Hern- Bluegrass Farms, Village Homes and there was a crowd of beggars waiting cattle; Business Places of all classes. The don, the great dairy town of Northern reason I make a specialty of the two for a dole of grain. There was no Virginia; within 25 miles of Wash- suburban counties—Loudoun and Fair- gleam of light in all this darkness. ington. Only $8,000, cash $5,500, fax—they offer the homeseekers more The worshippers had excited, evil balance to suit. advantages combined than any country 6. 300 acres splendid bluegrass known to me. This fine portion of faces, and we fled away as soon as land in Loudoun county. No better Virginia, extending from the national we could to get a breath of pure air. farm in county or State. Good brick capital to the top of the Blue Ridge The monkey temple, so-called by house; stone barn for 10 horses; dairy Mountains, is not only beautiful and barn, 65 head; 4 tenant houses, other foreigners on account of the number healthy, but is very accesible to Wash- buildings; only 2% miles from good ington and Alexandria cities by rail of monkeys who inhabit the trees railroad village; very convenient to and pike, which gives all producers a niear by, is, at least, clean. It is Washington. Farm well watered and fine home market. in fine state of cultivation. Price $76 sacred to Durga, the terrific form of My facilities for locating you In this per acre and worth $100. section of Virginia are second to none. Siva's wife who is supposed to de- o. 335 acre bluegrass stock farm, 6 State what kind of property would In- light in destruction, consequently, miles from railroad, in Loudoun terest you. I have a large number and bloody sacrifices of goats are made county; excellent land; well watered; great variety of properties, and can 12-room brick house; good barn and very likely suit you. New catalogue to hier here. In fact the Hindu re- other buildings. To be sold at once and map mailed free on request. ligion has but little to recommend it, to close estate; $9,000, one-third cash. G. Northern although it teaches one supreme spir- CLAUDE STEPHENSON, Virginia Properties, Herndon, Va. W. H. TAYLOR, Herndon, Va. itual being who pervades all things —Brahma, who is worshipped in the trinity of Brahma, the Creator; Vish- nu, the Preserver, and Siva, the De- stroyer. These, with their wives and FARMS attendant deities, are worshipped in hideous superstition and ignorance. Brahma is represented with four heads and four arms, in which he For Sale. holds a portion of the Veda, a spoon for lustral observations, a rosary, and If you want a farm to raise grass, VIROINIA FARMS. a vessel of lustral water. grain, stock, fruit or tobacco, buy <£C Sara-Swati, his wife, rides a pea- *P«5 PER ACRE AND UP: from us. Chocolate soil with red cock and carries a musical instru- subsoil. Address Full improvements, productive soil, ment. She is the goddess of music, abundant water, excellent climate W. W. BARNES Jt CO., speech, the arts, and literature. The along the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail- LAND AND TIMBER AGENTS, way. Write to-day for sin of lying may be expiated by offer- handsome Amelia Conrthonse, Va. illustrated booklet and homeseekers ings made to her. rates. Free sites for new industries. Vishnu holds a quoit in one hand, Address G. B. WALL, Real Estate Agt., Dept. B., C. and O. Ry. Co., Richmond, a conch shell in another, a mace in Va. a third, and the lotus flower in the COUNTRY HOMES fourth. He has nine incarnations, FOR SALE. IN including Buddha and Kreshna. The VIRGINIA. 1. A grand old place In a noted and latter is the god of the lower classes, 200 ACRES picturesque region; 1,314 acres, part having been brought up amongst the timber, part cleared; commodious brick Four and a half miles from Salisbury, peasants. He is painted blue and dwelling, some modern Improvements; N. C, on macadam road; 100 acres good stands on a snake, with his left hand extended, well-shaded lawns; flower timber, will cut 3,000 cords of wood gardens; large orchards; barns and or half million feet of lumber and holding its body, and a lotus in his tenant houses; glorious view; perfect large amount of cord wood. Good soil, right. Sometimes he is playing a environments one mile from station, well watered and will make a flrst- flute. The adoption of Buddha as Ave miles from a city of 10,000 inhabi- class farm. Timber will more than tants. Price, $65,000. one incarnation is a compromise with pay for the land. First-class school 2. A choice home in a select neigh- and church on adjoining land. For Buddhism. Devotion to Vishnu is borhood; 650 acres, arable in part and price and terms, address the most popular form of the Hindu well timbered; very attractive 11-room residence, with modern equipment. D. W. BURRIGHT, Salisbury, N. C. religion in India. He is said to have Great bargain; $17,500. descended to earth to deliver man A full description of these and other IF YOU WISH TO LOCATE IN from the threefold miseries of life: properties sent upon application. First, lust, anger and avarice. Sec- H. W. HILLEARY & CO., LOUDOUN COUNTY ond, Beasts snakes and evil men. Charlottesville, Va. SEND FOR Third, Demons. Vishnu's wife, Lak- THE VIRGINIAN hshmi, the goddess of wealth and foam of the Published By beauty, sprang from the Virginia Farms DeL. S. CRITTENDEN, ocean, a second Aphrodite. Real Estate Broker, Siva, the great god, holds in his Handsome Country Homes and ASHBXIRN, VA. four hands a trident, an antelope, a Grade Farm Lands a Specialty. noose for binding his enemies, and J. E. WHITE, «THB LAND MAN," VIRGINIA FARMS. a kind of drum. He wears a tiger loins, and is wor- Charlottesville, Va. MINERAL AND TIMBER LANDS. skin around Ms shipped in the form of a bull. As the Destroyer, he haunts cemeteries and "In the Green Fields of Virginia." Free list on application. Agency burying grounds. His wife, Kali the Homes for alls health for alii happiness established 1875. Address Independence for all. All slaes of to be propitiated by tnd W. A. PARSONS A CO., Terrible, has inarms at corresponding prices, bat ALL sacrifices. reasonable. 1527 East Main Street, Richmond, Va. VA. Opposite C. and O. Depot. The Hindu philosophy is metaphy- MACON A CO., ORANGE, 462 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [May, TWO THOUSAND sical. The theory of the transmigra- Maryland, tion of souls arises from the belief that evil proceeds from the antece- Virginia dent evil and the penalty must be paid in succeeding existences. The Stock, Dairy, Fruit, Business Farms. Hindu's object is to get rid of these Suit all requirements. Don't buy perpetual transmigrations, and to live until you have seen our list, which in heaven with one personal God. To Includes the finest farms in this sec- this end, he invokes offerings to the tion. State wants. gods, refrains from killing animals, gives to the priests and does penance, SOTJLE, Washington, D. C. even to bodily torture. His religion consists of little more than the fear Chicks THE PENINSULA SECTION of demons, and of loss of caste. Great The Peninsula offers equally as good, care is taken to preserve caste. Bath Does each morning's if not better, advantages to the farmer visit to ing in holy water is supposed to have the hennery than any other section of Virginia. show a dead chick here Write us for information. great efficacy in doing this, and in and there— cleansing the soul from impurities. more to-day PIEDMONT AND TIDEWATER LAND than yesterday We did not devote our whole time ? It's the COMPANY (Inc.), lice — and now is the to religion whilst in Benares, but vis- Box P, Williamsburg, Va. time to work if you wish to save isted the bazaars and other conven- even a fraction of your promising tional sights of the city. Benares is brood. Ask your dealer for a can of famous for its beaten brass, done in Old Virginia Farms deep repousee, with figures of idols and animals on it. While we were Climate and Productiveness unex- INSTANT celled. Largest sale list In State. looking at this brass work, I was Tot full particulars and Free Cata- taken with a hemorrhage from the logue address nose, brought on by excessive heat, CASSEL.MAN A COMPANY, and a boy brought me water in such LOUSE KILLI RICHMOND, VA. an exquisite ablution bowl with ele- Dust it over each mother phants and palm trees beaten on it hen and each individual that we bought a tea table from him chick and you. wiM fiud no more dead chicks from lice. in gratitude. Virginia Farms Instant Louse Killer, for« As we drove past the Government mulated by Dr. Hess MOST SELECT LIST, and in ail see House, we saw the Maharaja of (M. D., D. V. S.) also de- tions of the State. Mysore, proudest, richest and showi- stroys lice on horses, cattle, ticks on sheep, bugs on melon, squash est of a race that would sacrifice and PRBE CATALOGUE. cucumber vines, slugs on rose bushes, R. B. CHAFF1N & CO., Inc. their life for a lavish outward display. and is besides a valuable disinfectant Richmond, Va He was in an open landau, drawn by aud deodorizer. It comes in shaker- four Arabian horses, and his house- top cans and may be used winter and summer alike. Look for the word hold troops, in brilliant uniforms, ac- Maryland and Virginia Farms. "Instant" on the can, as there are companying him. many imitations. Stock, dairy, grain, bluegrass, fruit, We did not tarry long in Benares, Sold on a -written guarantee. truck, poultry and Tidewater farms, In any section of either but took the first train away. When 1 lb. Except in Canada State. Your 25c. and extreme our bill came, there was a charge of requirements fully met. The best 3 lbs. 60c. West and South. opportunities on the market offered twenty-one rupees (about $7 of our for your consideration. Catalogue free. If your dealer oannotsupply you, money) for livery. We sent for the we will forward 1 lb. l»y mail N. Ii. T19 Thirteenth or express, prepaid, for 35c. SANSBCRY, clerk to ask what he meant by bring- Street, Washington, D. C. ing such a charge against us when MANUFACTURED BY OR. HESS & CLARK, wie had not been at the hotel a full Ashland, Mill for Sale. day. After some hesitation, he said Ohio. mis- Up to date, 36-barrel- water-power, he supposed there must be some roller mill and saw mill, in good grain take—that our guide had told him we section, close to schools, good brick were rich and did not care what we dwelling, garden and spring. Will be paid for anything. assured him sold cheap. We this was a great mistake, and compro- Dixon Bros., Lexington, Va. mised the matter by paying him four- teen rupees- Farms, Orchards, Timber ililll Cotton Lands in Virginia and the South WHY HE MARRIED AGAIN. ALBEMARLE IMMIGRATION So- ciety, Charlottesville, Va. An Ohio lawyer tells of a client of You have been fooled enough with his—a German farmer, a hard-work- worthless Lice Powders. VIRGINIA FARMS ing, plain, blunt man—-who lost his Try the Best at our expense. Farms of any size with imprevemeBta wife not long ago. The lawyer had Conkey's Lice Powder Prices in reach of all. Free Hat. sought him out to express his sympa- kills instantly and is harmless to thefowL PORTER A GATES, Lontaa, Va. thy; but to his consternation the Teu- Send 5 cents for postage and get sample and also Valuable Poultry Book FREE. ton laconically observed: THE G. E. CONKEY CO. tracts&nd killsall flies I married." 428 OTTAWA CLEVELAND, OHIO Neat, clean, ornamental, "But am again BUM.. convenient, cheap. "You don't tell me! exclaimed the Lasts all season. Ab- solutely harmless, can- legal light. "Why, it has been but a not spill or tip over, will week or two since you buried your not soil or injure any- ONSTAD'S "ONB APPLICATION CUBES" thing. Ouarnntcccl effect- wife!" ive. Of all dealers or seat prepaid tor20 cents. "Dot's so, my frient; but she is as LUMPY-JAW CAPSULES GUARANTEED BSJ-WRITE FOR PARTICULARS HAROLD S0MERS dead as effer she vill be." _ 149 DeKalb Ave. THE ONSTAO CHEMICAL CO. " Brooklyn, N. Y. May Lippincott's. Key Street Indianapolis, Ind. 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 463 GOOD HOUSEKEEPING. BEEF flE. You Can't Talk Should your family tire of the con- stant beef diet and sigh for varie- it too strong. What? ty, which is almost impossible at this season, try giving rthem their roast = Gombault's = beef in a pie. Slice it after it is cold. Line a deep dish with rich crust; ar- range the slices nicely in the pan; Caustic Balsam put a layer of sliced, hard-boiled egg As a Liniment on this, then peper, salt and a pinch of sage or thyme, and small pieces of butter about; now cover it with a For the Human Body for the stock in which you have boiled the ifOffC Springfield, 0., Sept. 19, 1904. bones or with water and sprinkle Lawrence-Williams Co., Cleveland, O.— Lewis Evelsiz- Loosen up big hide and his Intestinal er, Urbana, ft. F. D., a funner,had a bad cancer on back system, purify his blood, drive out the worms, flour over this for thickening; put on of his hand. When I first saw it he was on his way to give him an appetite and power to digest and your top crust and bake until the havo his hand amputated. I persnaded him to first try g-et the full value of all bis feed. You can GOMBAULT'S CAUSTIC BALSAM, which he did, and on do all this by the systematic use of crust is thoroughly done top and bot- second application Could rest well at night— the first for weeks. In le3sthan three months he was at work tom. onthefarm. He will certify to this statement over his BREADED EGGS. signature. Then Mr. Jenkins, storekeeper and post- PRUSSIAN piaster at Seth, O., had a bad cancer on his cheek-bone. Break ten ieggs and beat the whites I saw him at a grange meeting and told him to use HORSE TONIC CAUSTIC BALSAM twice a day, rubbing it in for five or and yolks separately. Soak a cup of ten minutes. In three months it was healed over and and have your horses strong, healthy and is now all sound. These two are all that I have the high strung. Mix with feed. Only a small finely crumbled stale bread in a cup address of just now. I have had CAUSTIC BALSAM quantity required. 1 ,200 measures In the big of milk for an hour, mix it in with used on old shin sores. One man had walked with pail. Price on'y $3.60 prepaid. crutches for more Lb an a year, and several pieces of Ask your dealer for the standard remedies, the yolks, then mix in the whites; bone had come out. I persaaded him to try CAUSTIC BALSAM, and today you would not know he was ever stir lightly into gran- Prussian Spavin Remedy and pour a hot lame. Then, it is a sure cure for idles, using it with Prussian Heave Powders ite pan, tin is too thin, in which you sweet oil. I could tell of dozens of cases where I have Prussian Powders induced different ones to use CAUSTIC BALSAM. I have Worm have a heaping tablespoon of butter been the means oi more than fifty bottles being bought, Prussian Gall Salve because I know just what it will do. You can't hoit. talk sizzling Let the eggs cook a few It I wish you Write us what stock you own and we will up strong enough. success. send you our Horseman's Hand Book Free. minutes and then stir until they are R. L. H0LMAN, Write today. In charge Co-operative Work of Ohio State Grangt. dona Just before taking off, add Price SI .SO per bottle. Sold by druggists, or sent PRUSSIAN REMEDY GO. pepper and salt. Serve with curled by us express prepaid. Write for Booklet H. St. Paul, Minn. parsley as a garnish. The lAWREBCE-WILUAMS COMPANY. Cleveland. 0. BEEF SOUP. Boil a ten-cent shin in a gallon .of water slowly for two hours. Put in- to a pan a piece of butter and fry in Free Veterinary Book Fistula it a sliced onion, ithen add a can of Be your own horse doctor. Book enables "« and - tomatoes cook until the tomatoes are you to cure all the common ailments, curb, soft; add them to the soup with four splint, spavin, lameness, etc. Prepared by the makers chopped Irish potatoes and a handful of of butterbeans. Half hour before din- ' ner, turn into it a can of corn; season Any person, however Inexperienced, Tuttle's can readily cure either disease iritn with pepper, salt and thyme; thicken Fleming's with flour. Fistula and Poll Evil Cure MOLASSES PIE. —even bad old ca*es that skilled doctor* have abandoned. Easy and simple; no If you can get the oane syrup for world's cutting; just a little attention every fifth The greatest horse money refunded If It ever these pies they are much better. remedy. day—and your | $100 reward for falls. Cures most cases within thirty days, Measure three cups of molasses; beat failure to cure above diseases where cure leaving the horse sound and smooth. All is possible. particulars given in into it the yolks of four eggs, one cup Write for the book. Postage 2c. Fleming's Vest.Pooket TlJTn,E'5 ELIXIR CO.. 75 Beverly St.. Boston, ftlass. Veterinary Adviser of sugar, one tablespoon of flour, half Beware of all blisters: only temporary relief, if any. Write ns for a free copy. Nlnety-elx cup of butter; season with lemon and pages, covering more than a hundred vet. erinary subjects. Durably bound, lor bake In rich pastry. When they are and illustrated. dexed cold, beat whites of the with FLEMING BROS., Chemists, the eggs 280 Union Stock Tarda, Ohlcaco, 111. a cup of sugar and spread them over the top—brown slowly. Serve cold. WHITE CAKE. SHOE BOILS Take whites of eight eggs beaten Are Hard to Cure* dry; three cups of sugar, four cups of yet flour, a cup and a half of milk, one cup of butter, one teaspoon of soda, jyjSQRBiiiE: and two of cream tartar; cream the butter and sugar together, add the sift will remove them and leave no milk; the flour three times blemish. Does not blister or re- with the soda and cream tartar in it move the hair. Cures any puff or swelling. Horaecan be worked. $2.00 per bottle, delivered. Book 6-0 Free. then stir it in with the eggs alter- ABSORBING. Jit, for mankind, gl.00 per nately, -beat hard for a moment and bottle. Cures Boils, Bruises, Old Sores, Swellings, Varicose Veins, Varicocele. Hydrocele. Allays Pain bake in a loaf; frost with two cups W. F.YOUNG, P. D. F., 109 Monmouth St., Springfield, Mass of sugar, boiled until it balls in cold water. Pour it slowly over the white DEATH TO HEAVES SEWT01T8 Heave, Cough, Di» of one egg beaten well for a few min- F Guaranteed temper and Indigestion Cure. utes and spread over the cake. Going Blind. A veterinary Remedy for wind, *.hroat and stoitiuch troubles, Barry Co., Iowa RHUBARB PIE. HORSES Scrong recommends. $1.00 pe: City, la. Can cure. can.uf dealers, or exp. prepnid The Newton Remedy Co Skin the rhubarb stalks and cut in- Toledo, Ohio. to short lengths. Scald the pieces in Please mention the Southern Planter. ; ict THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [May, syrup until they can be pierced with a straw. When nearly cold, put into a platio lined with rich pastry. Grate lemon rind over and put a tablespoon of butter in each plate; sift a little I Stockmen and farmers who use the Cooper Dips flour over it and put on a top crust. have healthier animals— get more wool and better prices. More than half the cloth and flannel of Bake brown and serve cold. the world is made of Cooper dipped wool. Tanks supplied at cost to all users of the Cooper Dips. Nature intended the hen to GOOSEBERRY PIE. her make own living, hence Top and tail the berries; weigh she cannot possibly be allow one pound of sugar mum them and The leading sheep dip for 65 years. Used on over s healthful, happy and pro- fruit. until 250 million sheep every year. Kills ticks, lice, nits for each pound of Cook in dipping. not stain the lific in confinement unless and eggs one Does wool, they begin to jelly and spread on but increases the yield and improves the quality. bodily functions operate in Price—25 gal. pkt. 50c; 100 gal. pkt. S2.00. crusts already baked. Serve with nature's own way. cream. If you add a pinch of Therefore " Cheerful Chick- whipped soda to each pound it will take off for all animals. A highly concentrate^, non- ens'' and a full egg basket are poisonous fluid dip of marvelous strength. Mixes the keenness of the acid and take possible only when the hen is readily with cold water, whether hard, brackish, somewhat less sugar. or salty. The only pure liquid dip—no sediment. taken back to nature by a Goes farther than Coal Tar dips and therefore common-sense method of STRAWBERRY SHORT-CAKE. cheaper. Positive remedy for scab, mange, ticks, lice, ringworm, eczema, sores, bites, stings, etc. feeding. Make a rich biscuit dough. Roll it One gallon makes 200 gallons for general dipping, about a quarter of an inch thick and or 300 gallons for disinfecting. Price— Qt. can 60c; H gal. can $1.00: 1 gal. can $1.75; 6 gal. can S8.50. cut into pieces about eigh|t to ten inches. Pile two or three of these hbhbheb on each other and bake until thor- A sure remedy for intestinal worms in Horses, Sheep, Cattle and Hogs. These tablets offer the oughly done. While they are hot, lift great advantage of correct doses and certain re- generously. sults. Dose—one tablet for lamb orshoat; two for them apart and butter sheep or hogs; three for horses and cattle. Price Crush the berries and sweeten theni. —lOtablets 20c postpaid; box of 100 tablets SI. 50 postpaid. Put a thick layer between the crusts cooper'sirnxm-- and pile whipped cream over it. Serve PAN-A-DE-A The most effective skin dressing for Horses. at once. If you will use sliced Cattle and Dogs. Cures wor?t case of Mange and Ringworm at one dressing. Searches the skin gets at strawberries and the bottom of the poul- bananas instead of the attacks the disease at its root. Improves the coat tryman's troubles by creating effect is almost as good. and renders hair soft and glossy. Is used by many and maintaining an abso- the of the best breeders in preparing animals forshow. lutely healthful condition of TYLEB PUDDING. Price—Quart can SI. 00: gnl. can S3.00. fowls in confinement. It These are old-fashioned, but they contains the bitter tonics to puddings. One COOPER'S TREE SPRAY aid digestion, iron to are the beslt of all the make Fluids Winter and Summer have good blood nitrates cream or VI V2 and to ex- cup of butter, one cup of caused a revolution in tree spraying-. These new and scien- pel poisonous matter. rich milk, four eggs beaten separate- tifically prepared spray fluids stand alone for the absolute It is the prescription of Dr. Hess with destruction of all livinjr insects, eggs, fungi, etc. One gal- (M.D., D.V.S.) and by aiding the hen ly, three cups of sugar; season lon makes 100 gallons of wash. Price—Gallon can, S3. 00. to assimilate the food, it makes nutmeg and lemon extract (if you can WHERE THERE IS NO DEALER abundance of eggs. Poultry Pan- If you live where there is no dealer who can supply you extract fit to use; I a-ce-a possesses a germicidal prin- find any lemon with the Cooper preparations, order from Win. Cooper & Illinois St.. Chicago, and deduct 10% from any ciple which makes it specially have been unable to get any for a Nephews. 177 useful in preventing disease. of above prices (Worm Tablets excepted) forfreightaccount. it altogether, adding the Endorsed by leading poultry year). Beat G. A. KELLY CO., Pittsburs, Pa., pastry. associations and sold on a whites last, and bake in rich, PUKCELL, LADD & CO., Richmond, Va., or written guarantee. Costs a CARAVEN. Wm. Cooper & Nephews, 177 Illinois Street, Chicago penny a day for 30 hens. 1>2 lbs. 25c, mai! Except in COMMENCE- or express, 40c f CENTRAL ACADEMY v Cauada and 5 lbs. 60c f extreme MENT. 12 lbs. $1.25 1 West and Sooth. KILL THE LICI year will 25 lb. pail, $2.50 The present scholastic and mites ^4 fci J^~ -j , wit Send 2c postage for Dr. Kess 48-page close on the 12th of May with the fol- CHICKENS Poultry Book, free. lowing program: ©R. HESS &. CLARK, Ashland, Ohio Saturday evening, May 9th, a re- Instant Louse Killer Kills Lice. ception will be given by the students LICE POWDER at the Academy building. Sure Death to Lice and Vermin I Annual Sermon will be preached >'n Tiiey can't live where it is. Easy to apply. Dust it to I the auditorium of the M. E. Church by I "Killed every loose in my flock of ^Hackett's Gape Cube C. Craven, of Henderson, N. Rev. R. 250 hens." D.Perry, Monroe.Wis. THE WORM AS — KILLS C. THE GERM Price 25 and 50c a Pkg. By mail. 40 and 70c WELL AS Dr. _ On Mondav morning, May 11th "~|P»M8BI«M BStUEDV COw ST. PAUW MINN. of Philoso- W. I. Cranford, Professor phv at Trinity College, will deliver Vj: the annual address in the college HAA$=OLEUM TMWWMOTHERUSEOIOOD auditorium. COAL TAR DISINFECTANT AND there Monday evening, m 8 o'clock, Sheep, Hog and Cattle Dip TC.*Haci6tt will be a declamation contest in the HILLSBORO, MD. THE NEW WAY. None Better. Gallons, $1.25. 5 gal. Cans, $5.00. «t , ST EREO hall for a gold medal to be given town Special prices in barrel lots. Use HAAS' HOG successful speaker. Am Article of the Highest Merit. to the most REMEDY, standard of America for 30 years. 25 will be lb. $6.75. 12% lb. Cans, $3.75. Send for free the jobbing On Tuesday May 12th there Cans, Correspondence from "HOGOLOGY," treatise on swine-raising. supplied at open air on the Central expert trade solicited. Dealers held in the Free goods to cover transportation charges. present by Griffith & Turner Com- Academy campus, an all day Farmers' DR. JOS. HAAS REMEDY CO., pany, Baltimore, Md.; Dowry Drug institute. lia&o. Penna st. INDIA Company, Baltimore, Md.; G. H. Hast- ^ N^PJf^J[?'jg; ings & Co., Atlanta, Ga. Sample by mail 25 cents. THE WAY OP IT. A Neat Binder lor your back Hum- how you first met ma," bert can be had for 30 cents. Address STRAWBERRY PLANTS "Pa, tell me requested Gunson, Jr. our Business Department. etc. Strawberry Planta, Fruit Trees, replied Gun- Sl.TS per 1,000 In 6,000 lots «r over; "I didn't meet her, son," VviuB, 8c. each. Send for free cata- son, Sr. "She overtook me." Always mention The Southern logue. JOHN LIGHTFOOT, Ba»t Ctaat- —March Lippincott's. Planter when writing advertisers. tcmoogra, Tenn. 1908.] THE SOUTHE KN PLANTER. 465 5-10-'06. Epworth, N. C. MAGAZINE NOTES. Dear Sir—Hawks visited my chickens every day. After using your Chicken Coursing blood and the call of the "RARVA" Powder they came no more. outdoor world! Only the very bright- Yours truly, J. B. PITTMAN. est of fiction can now hold the inter- 7-30-'06. Massaponax, Va. MEAT MEAL est such a story, for instance, as the Dear Sir—I have tested your sample — of Macnair's Chicken Powder and complete novel in the May Lippin- (85 Per Cent. Protein, 7 Per Cent. Fat) found it a safe and reliable tonic, as cott's: "The Pirate of Alastair.'' Ru- a sure cure for cholera. Is a Poultry Food that is Economic, well as pert Sargent Holland, the author, will Very respectfully, Clean, Pure. A sure egg producer FRED NUSSET. be pleasantly remembered as the writ- and meat builder. Cock of the Walk. "Hawk" The er of that clever book, "The Count at The Food to Feed to Force the Burn-yard Robber. Early Broiler. Harvard." He has invested his new Sample on Request. tale with a healthful outdoor atmos- SACK 100 POUNDS $3.00. phere. You will feel that you too RICHMOND ABATTOIR would like to be on that remote corner of the Maine coast, taking part in Box 267, Department M, Richmond, Virginia. such stirring adventures as befell Fe- Offices: Sixth and Cary Streets. lix Selden. Send for the "Ilarva" Booklet. Lippincott's always excels in the matter of short stories, and this month I take Macnair's DI«d after eat- is no exception to the rule. Dorothea Chicken Powders ing- a chick of that Deakin, creator of "Georgie," contrib- ALL VARIETIES and feed my chil- old rooster, which utes a blithesome tale called "The Ser- dren on them, too. had been fed on SOYOR.SOJA BEANS, BUCK- Look at me and Macnair's Chicken pent's Tooth,'' which contains a les- observe the hawk. Powders. Alas! son for a certain class of mothers who WHEAT, MILLET, CANE SE ED, Cock a doodle doo. Alas! would well to take it to heart. MACNAIR'S do BLACKEYE PEAS, WH1PPOR- CHICKEN POWDER Thomas L. Masson's story, "A Man's Kills Hawks, Cure? Cholera, Gapes, Roup, Indigestion, Leg Weakness and Game," shows the humorous touch and WILL PEAS keens them free from Vermin, thereby the keen knowledge of human nature Send us your orders and get lowest causing them to produce abundance which have earned this author his prices. In ordering from Richmond of eggs. Sample package, including yon get low rates freight. reputation as one of our foremost hu- of postage, 25 cents. Highest market price paid for Wool morists. "Helen's First Sunday," i>y W. H. MACNAIR, TARBORO, N. C. and only deduct freight charges. George Herbert Clarke, is a dainty WALLERSTEIN PRODUCE CO., little tale apropos of Decoration Day. "Patience Fessenden's Scandalous Richmond, Va. Story," by Janet Garth, and "The Bed of Procrustes," by Jane Belfield, are also worthy of special mention. COW PEAS Be Sure An article of decided importance to AMD and the literary world is "The Tragic End Workthe of Guy de Maupassant," by Albert Schinz. There has always been con- SOJA BEANS Horse siderable mystery anent the last days are of this famous French writer, and now W* headquarters. Nothing set- ter for hay and fertilizing; purpose*. for the first time for many it is clear- Write for prices on any quantity. HE CAN WORK ed up. The third of Joseph M. Rog- Free Bulletin on the "Cow Pea" and ers's remarkable series of articles on o&talogrue "1" on request. EVERY DAY "Educating Our Boys" deals with If you use Bickmore'sGall Cure your teams "Athletics and Sentiment." It is per- HICKORY SEED CO., can work right along and be cured of Saddle haps the most important of all as and Harness Galls.Cnafes, Rope Burns, Cuts, — Scratches, Grease Heel, etc. while in har- you may agree when you read it. Hickory, N. C. ness. The more work the quicker the cure. Other notable papers in the number BICKMORE'S GALL CURE are "Going to the Dogs," by Clifford is the standard Remedy for all these and Benefaction of Tu- Wood's similar troubles. Is excellent for Mange and Howard; "The Sore Teats in cows. Above trade mark is on berculosis," by John Stone; "Co-opera- & Seeds. every box of Genuine Bickmore's Gall Cure. Cow Peas. For sale by dealers everywhere. Money re- tion," by Ellis O. Jones; "The Pass- funded if it fails. Sample and Horse Book ing of the Home," by Minna Thomas We are headquarters for all Farm Seeds-. every farmer should read 10c. Cow Peas, Soja Beans, Millets. Sorghums. BickmoreGall Curs Co., Box 935, Old Town, Maine. Antrim; and "The Summons of Ensilage Corn. Crimson Clover, etc. prices Spring," by Edwin L. Sabin. quoted on request. In addition to the foregoing, there Write for prices and Wood's Crop Special. HEAVES CURED! giving interesting information about Farm &«*£*SSS are a number of charming poems and Seeds. Mailed free on request. I troubles. Cures Heaves, humorous section, Coughs, Distemper and the sixteen-page Indigestion. Veterinari. "Walnuts and Wine," devoted to origi- T. W. acs use and recommend WOOD & SONS 5 I jingles, and anecdotes. The PRUSSIAN nal jokes, SEEDSMEN, RICHMOND, VA. HEAVE POWDERS May Lippincott's should be a "win- Druggists will get them ner." SEER IRISH POTATOES I Price 50c at dealer, 60c bj I mail. Send for Free boob Moss' Red Prolines, the only strictly PRUSSIAN REMEDY CO.. ST. PAUL, MINT* Big boys and little—their sisters, Southern potato in existence, with their cousins, their mothers and their long stems feeding far and deep; it withstands droughts, yielding im- aunts, too—who are reading "Three Shiawassee Co., Mich., Nov. 25, '07. mense crops on moderately rich land Years Behind the Guns" will find in with fertilizer or manure. Never rots I enjoy the Southern Planter very their May St. Nicholas a thrilling and unless allowed to freeze. Save your own seed, it having reproduced itself although I foreign vivid picture of the battle of Manila much and live in a for 27 years in Virginia. Planting Bay. That big boys are reading these State, I get lots of help from it, and season from June 1st to July 1st. One "true chronicles of a 'diddy-box' " is dollar per bushel. Special rates on should miss it very much. interestingly shown by the following quantities. I am never -without pota- WILLIAM COX. toes, why should you be? letter, from a young St. Nicholas read- G. W. MOSS, GUINEYS, VA. 466 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [May, er—one Of many similar ones—receiv- ..•34*- SEND YOUR ORDER FOB ed recently in the office of St. Nicho- PLANT las: I have a brother who is in the navy. He is going to San Francisco with the THE NEW "WARD" fleet and is on the Flagship Connecti- TO cut. Lots of times I hear my father BLACKBERRY. cough and say, "I think it is about DIGGS & BEADLES time for another number of St. Nicho- I offer for spring of 1>08, strong, las to come. I want to read another No. 1 Plants at $2 per 100 No. 2 at S1.60 per 100. Send for descrip- THE SEED MERCHANTS chapter of "Three Years Behind the Guns," for it makes me understand tive circular of the Ward. 1709 Bast Franklin Street, how our boy is living." He is very Full line of Fruits Trees and fond of reading, especially in bed at RICHMOND, VA. •mall Fruit at planters' prices. night, which he says is bad for boys, Send fer price list. but good for men if they can't sleep. We are headquarters for HOYT, The night that St. Nicholas arrives FRED SHOOSMITH, pi. superior seeds of all kinds—Gar- his light burns longer than ever, and den and Flower Seeds, Grass and in the morning we find a copy of St. "RINGLET" Grain Seeds, Cow Peas, Field Nicholas on the chair near his bed. At breakfast tells BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS Beans, Millets, Sorghums, Ferti- he us about interest- ing things. Once it was about bal- EXCLUSIVELY. lizers, Poultry Foods, etc. loons, and last time it was about E. B. Thompson's celebrated strain. Bred for high quality, not quantity. Your correspondence solicited. "Dogs on the Battlefield." we When My winning at Virginia Poultry As- read St. "Write tor our Free Catalogue. Nicholas we find the very sociation Show, Richmond, prove it. things he told us. I forgot to say that First and third prize Cock, first and third prize Hen, and first prize Pen he is a clergyman, and once when he and Association's special for best dis- was preaching I heard him tell about H. G. Carter. W. J. Carter. play in Barred Rocks. My birds can- something I know he read in St. Ni- not be excelled in egg production, size, yards cholas. We all think the best stories vigor and beauty. Grand mated for 1908 egg season. They will pro- H. Q. CARTER & CO., come when St. Nicholas arrives. duce results that will please you. The May St. Nicholas is decidedly a Eggs from all yards, $2 per 16. Satis- Successors to spring issue, with the spirit of spring faction guaranteed. F. H. DEANE & CO. dominating all its pages, and for fron- Address LESLIE H. McCUE, Box 4, tispiece the charming picture, "A Lit- Alton, Va. Dealers in tle Queen o' May." HAY, GRAIN, MILL-FEED SADDEST OF THE SAD. EGGS! EGGS! For May and June delivery from 'T is sad, when cash, AND FLOUR. you must borrow Barred Plymouth Rocks, $1 for IB, To find your friend won't lend it; $1.50 for 30; B. B. Game Bantams, $1 To be in jail for taking graft, for 18; White African Guineas, $1 for 1105 East Cary Street, 18; White Holland and M. B. Turkeys, can't get out to spend it. And $2.25 for 9. Turkey Eggs 15 cents RICHMOND, VA. 'T is sad to walk where peaches grow, apiece after 25th of May. Strictly And be too short to reach them; fresh. These are the ones that Insure a good hatch. Satisfaction guaranteed To world-awakening sermons write, by BLUE HILL POULTRY YARDS, And not be asked to preach them. R. F. D. No. 1, Somerset, Orange SWEET 'T is sad to learn a scandal, through County, Va. A key-hole, so can't tell it. VALLEY FARM To read the joke you called your own, BARRED ROCKS POTATO it. Before you'd time to sell AND But this is far the saddest fate The sun will ever shine on: S. C. B. LEGHORNS PLANTS To be a vine and want to twine, Fertility unusually strong this year. Cir- And have no oak to twine on. cular free. Rnssonablc Rates in Large Lots. —M&rch Lippincott's CHARLES C. WINE, Mt. Sidney, Va. For prices and variety apply A TOKEN OF APPRECIATION. In order to favor many out of work BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS. cash reason of late J. S. LINTHICUM, or short of by Fine large fowls, correct in plumage, Md. money panic, and as a token of appre- crossed with prize-winners of Thomp- Welhams, ciation for the liberal patronage which son and Bradley strains. Yearling Hens, brought eighty-five thousand nine hun- $1.50; 10-Months Pullets, $1.25; Eggs, $1 per sitting, $1.50 per two. dred dollars eighty-five cents HOLLY GROVEPOULTRY FARM four Imperial Pekin Ducks—Eggs, $1 per Headquarters fer ($85,904.85) net profits to Draughon's sitting; $1.50 for two. Standard Bred 30 Business Colleges during the past Mammoth Bronze Turkeys, National strain, unusuaMy fine this year, Silver L. Wyandotte*. beau- four years, Draughon's College, Wash- tiful plumage. Eggs now at "panic Eggs, $3 per dozen. ington and Nashville, are now offer- Orders filled promptly. prices"—$1 for 13; $2 for SO. I have shipped ing, for a limited time, $50 scholar- Mrs. R. E. WILHOIT, Somerset, Va. eggs for hatching every ship for $25. See further particulars season since 1882. elsewhere in this paper. DeWITT'S FINE POULTRY CATALOG. Business Motto: The Sixty varieties Golden Rule. of Pure-Bred Poultry. Illustrated. Prices of stock and eggs Circulars Mailed Free. '07. Hanover Co., Va., Nov. 30, upon request. Catalogue 10 cents, S. P. YODER, read and appreciate the South- Denbigh, Va. We redeemable on first order. ern Planter very much. It is great DeWITT POULTRY FARM, Highland Park, Richmond, Va- Always mention The Southern help to us in our farm work. Planter when writing advertisers. G. H. GRUNWELL. Please mention The Southern Planter. 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 467 HINTS BY MAY MANTOM. Eggs For Hatching SINGLE COMB BROWN LEGHORNS One piece garments are greatly in Cockerel, Richmond, 1908. demand just now and are both so pret- First From winners at Virginia State Fair ty and so simple that their populari- and Virginia Poultry Association. ty is well deserved. This nightgown Only raise the is tucked over the shoulders to make WHITE WYANDOTTE becoming and comfortable fulness and is exceedingly graceful and attractive and guarantee good hatches and fer- as well as eminently simple. It can be made from batiste, lawn, cambric tility—$1.25 for 15, $2 for 30, $5 for 100. or any similar material and is peculi- WHITE MUSCOVY DUCK arly well adapted to the wide lingerie fabrics that can be cut with few join- Eggs, from WinneTB at Jamestown and ings. The neck edge is finished with Richmond shows, 20 cents eaeh. beading, which is drawn up by means R. RANDOLPH TAYLOR, of ribbon to regulate the size, and the sleeves can be left straight at their Hickory • Bottom Poultry Farm, lower edges or curved as preferred. Negrofoot, Va. The gown is eut tn one piece and R. F. D. No. 2, Beaver Dam, Va. the1 pnly seams are those at the under arm afid sleeve edges. The tucks are Golden Wyandottes. laid on indicated lines and beading the meek. Whether the sleeves A Specialty. finishes Pure bred, strong, are left straight or curved their edg- vigorous stock, bred es can be finished with frills of either for winter layers. lace or embroidery. Strawberry Hill Poultry Yards, Eggs $1 per 16, $1.7$ per 30, $3 per 60, $6 Box 287, Richmond, Va. per 100. i. Davenport Williams, Prop, and Sunt. Miss Katie Thompson, Route 3, Manassas, Mem. Am. Leghorn Club, Virginia. Mem. Am. S. C. B. Leghorn Club, Mem. Va. Poultry Aaso. WHITE At Richmond, January $-16 (Judge/ YAIMTIDOTTES Wittman), 1st Cockerel, 1st, 2nd, Jrd and 8 specials, including (SfiitsJnslveiy.— 4th Pullet; 2 Bred for Butlne silver cups for best d«*play in class As wall as standard qualities. Will offered by Am. S. C. B- Leghorn Club .please the farmer as well as the and Virginia breeders. At Jamestown, 4th pen, 6th Cockerel on immature fancier. Eggs from choice pens, 16. birds. $1.25; SO, $2. Satisfaction guaranteed Also highest awards Va. State Circular free. Fair and Richmond, 1M)6. EGGS from exhibition matings, both pullet and J. H. YODER, DENBIGH, VA. cockerel line, $3 per 16, $6 for 16, $7 for 60, $10 for 76, $12 for 100. From Carolina uttlly matings, $1 per 16, $6 for 109. Poultry Farm Two-thirds hatch guaranteed or num- C. H. PETTIGREW, Proprietor, ber of eggs duplicated at half price. Route 5, Reidsville, N. C. Stock for sale at all times. Eggs for hatching, $1 per 15, Si per 199. White and Barred Plymouth BLACK'S Rocks, Rose and Single Comb R. 1. Reds, Single Comb White, Brown and Buff Leghorns, Partridge Wyandotte*. Buff Orpingtons and Single Comb BLACK LANGSHANS Black Minorca*. Are the leading Lang- SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. shans In the South. Improve your flock this ESTABLISHED 1882. season with blood from this noted strain. S. and R. C. R. I. Reds, White Wyandottes, Bred for all standard S. C. requirements, B. Leghorns and B. P. combined Rocks. Eggs for hatch- with superior egg pro- duction. ing $1 for 16; $1.76 for Choice B>rds for Sale. 30; $2.76 for 60; $6 for 10». Eggs $2 per 16, $3.60 per 30, $10 per 100. Send RIVERSIDE POULTRY 0 for descriptive circular FARMS, and show record. J. B. Coffman & Bona, Props., Dayton, Va. A. M. BLACK, Tazewell, Va. EGGS FOR HATCHING. Barred, Buff and White Plymouth Poplar Mill Poultry Farm Rocks; White, Buff, Partridge and Sliver Penciled Wyandottes, Blaeh Dr. H. H. LEH. Prop., R. F. D. 4, Langshans, R. I. Reds, Black Mlnorcas. Light Lexington, Va. Brahmas, Partridge Cochins, 690i One- Piece Night-Gown, White and Brown Leghorns. Breeder and ship- AU Pens headed by High-Scoring Small. Medium, Large. per of Silver Laced Birds second to none . "Wyandottes. Fresh The quantity of for hatching Price—$1 for 16, $6 per 100. material required ^ ?gs Tw«- scoring tnirds hatch for the medium size is 5 1-4 J*». m high guaranteed or order yards 36 rft duplicated at half price. £ *, bred to lay, or 3 1-4 yards 44 inches wide with 2 b ' r SOME NICE COCKERELS OF THE « r 16. No more DIFFERENT 3-4 yards of beading, 2 yards of nar- $! P*> for sale at BREEDS FOR SALE stock \ Will exchange row, 2 yards of wide lace. Eggs for Cow Peas, present. two sittings per bushel. OAKLAND POULTRY FARM, The pattern 5902 is cut in three XI. J. sizes, small, medium on the Southern Planter. Wartner, Manager, Renin, N. C. and large. Please mentk 4G8 THE SOUTHERN' PLANTER [May, ROSE AND SINGLE) COMB TO BE MADE WITH INVERTED SINGLE-COMB PLAITS OR HABIT BACK, IN RHODE ISLAND REDS ROUND OR WALKING LENGTH. AND Rhode Island Reds. ORPINGTONS. The plain gored skirt is an unques- BUFF tionable favorite of the season and Five years ago I purchased a $5C special bargain in young high- Prize- Winning Trio from a noted egg- A has many qualities to commend it. It class breeding Hens. Having hatched strain, with the intention of breeding all the chicks I need for my own use, is very generally becoming, it is most the best Reds in the South. This I will now sell half of my Hens and satisfactory to the wearer and it is strain has been so improved that my of these breeds. birds are Pullets—utility type— adapted to almost all fashionable ma- now vastly superior to the These are of the best prize-winning trio. Buff Leghorns averaging over and egg-laying strain and just the terials. This one is novel, being clos- 200 eggs were discarded because the- kind from which to breed. Send your ed by means of buttons and button- Reds were more profitable egg-pro- in de- order now, as these are much holes at the front, and is admirably ducers. I believe I have the best fancy- mand. Hens, $1.50 each or $16 per utility strain on earth. It will pay dozen. well adapted to linen pique and the you to investigate. GEORGE W. SWEETING, like as well as to wool and to silk. After May 1st I will sell big, pink, Locust Mount Poultry Farm, The buttons besides serving a practi- fertile Eggs $1.50 for 13; also first- SHARON, HARFORD COUNTY, MD. class Hens, worth $3, for $2 each; will 1 purpose, an exceedingly ef- cal make also dispose of three fine Cocks. Royal Reds—Orping'tons. fective trimming. In this instance E>H. J. H. C. WINSTON, the lower edge is finished only with a Humpden-Sidney, Virginia. quality that wins. Bred to lay from hem stitched with belding silk, but Rose (Tuttle strain) and Single Comb Rose and Single Comb while this plain simple style is much (Hansen strain) R. I. Reds and Buff RHODE ISLAND Rf;DS Orpingtons (Willow Brook strain), the used, one wide band above the hem Winners at very best strains extant. also is in vogue and again there are White Wyandottes, B„- York, Washington, Jamestown. Eggs P. Rocks and S. C. B. a great many skirts made with applied $2 and $4 per 15, $8 per 100. Baby Leghorns. Eggs at $1. 15. bands, or hems, at the lower edge Chicks, $3 per per 15, $1.75 per 30 t_ Locust Mount Ponltry Farm, George that are of contrasting material or $2.75 per 50, $5 per 100;. W. Sweeting, Sharon, Harford color. R. C. R. I. Reds a County, Maryland. Specialty. VALLEY VIEW ROSE-COMB POULTRY FARM, J. D. Glick, Prop., Route 1, Box 41, Day— Rhode Island Reds ton, Va. EXCLUSIVELY. SINGLE COMB If you want to raise fine chickens; if you want a Rhode Island Red fine laying strain of the Eggs from my pen of 10 hens, best general purpose fowl headed by the cockerel that took pre- in the world get some eggs mium at State Fair, $2.50 per 15. for hatching from Eggs from three pens of beautiful- Miss Louise V. Spencer, utility fowls, headed by cockerel just Blackstone, Va. as good as the premium bird, but henr xi Member of Rhode Island not so even colored, $1.50 per 16. America. Red Club of NO BETTER BIRDS OR LAYERS US' THE STATE. RHODE ISLAND REDS A. R. VENABLE, Jr., Farmville, Va_ BOTH COMBS. Eggs from pure-bred, high cla» PURB-BRED R. C tock at $1.60 per 15, $2.58 per It and $4.50 per 60. Also a nice home and store for «•> RHODE ISLAND' REDS room* or rent. Main building has 14 Eggs at farmers' »rie*» All necessary outbuildings. The whol< nearly new. Write Special rates tor Inci» CLINTON HENSLEY, Prop. Elkto> bator Egg*. Poultry Farm, Elkton, Va. Mis. LIZZIE G. SMTTaV ROSE COMB R. F. D., WeUvill*, Tft RHODE ISLAND RED 5955 Eight Gored Skirt, 22 to 32 waist. ROSE COMB REDS sitting of It Eggs for sale at $1 per My birds won: State Fair, 1907, is in eight gores and No other chickens raised on the tarn The skirt cut 1st and 2nd Cockerel, 3rd Pullet; Richmond, 1908, 1st Pen, 2nd Cocke- M. HITRT, Blaefcstoae, Vs. can be made with inverted plaits or lbs. JOSEPH rel, 1st, 3rd and 4th Pullet. All habit back, also it allows a choice of specials. Eggs from these winner $1.50 per 15. EGGS [FOR HATCHING round or walking length. W. D. SYDNOR, FROM PRIZE-WINNING R. C. The quantity of material required Barton Heights, Va. White Leghorn Eggs $1 per 15. RHODE ISLAND REDS for the medium size is 10 5-8 yards, at $1 per sitting of 15 or three sit- 24, 8 5-8 yards 32 or 5 1-4 yards 44 tings for $2.60. S. G. Rhode Island Red inches wide if material has figure or L. E. SMITH, Appomattox, Va. Eggs, $1.25 per sitting; two or more $1 MRS. 5-8 or nap; 8 5-8 yards 24, 5 yards 32 each. PURE-BRED R. O. 3 3-4 yards 44 inches wide if it has JOHN W. MORRIS, Waldrop, Va. not. "BAST VIEW" II0DE ISLAND DEO The pattern 5955 is cut in sizes for SILVER LACED WYANDOTTES. Eggs for hatching. Prices a 22, 24, 26, 28, 30 and 32 inch waist Exclusively. Rob Biddy for weodes Eggs $1 for li, $S for 50, $S iev to please. hen. measure and will be mailed to any ad- for 150. invited. 100, $7 Correspondence S. Chichester, Aqaaace, Fashion Department of Mrs. W. MA Miss Mamie H. Herbert, dress by the Route 2, Blackstone, Va. this paper on receipt of ten cents. Please mention the Southern Planter., — 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 469 --FERN HILL POULTRY BREEDERS OF ARISTOCRATSrONLY. barred; plymouthtsrqcks? black minorcas. s. c, brown leghorns s. o. white leghorns? For fifteen years I have bred these birds on my farm with free range. They have constitutions; are essentially aristocrat egg-shellers; have, and can, hold their own against the arrogant boast of any blue-ribbon winners. Havejjf|f won prizes running from first to fourth, wherever shown. Highest scoring ^3§| male, female and ten highest scoring fowls in the show. Never had better ; quality nor more vigorous utility. A few cockerels of each variety at $2.60 each, all strictly first-class birds. Shipped on approval. Eggs $1.50 Per Sitting, 86 Per 100; Minorca Eggs $7 Per 100. Address J. WALLACE SNELLING, R. P. D. 1, MANCHESTER, VA. (Yards, Stop 9, Richmond-Petersburg Trolley.) ESTABLISHED 1893. THE ANNUAL MEETING OP THE Poultry Yards AMERICAN GUERNSEY Good Eggs for CATTLE CLUB. Hatching S. C. Brown nnd Wklto Single Exclusively. The Annual Meeting of this Club Comb Brown Leghorn Eggs, Leghorns $1 for 15, $6 per will be held at 10:30 A. M., on Wed- 100, $50 per 1,000. I can fill orders Single Comb White promptly with strictly nesday, May 13th, 1908, at Hotel Im- Leghorn Eggs, $1.50 for 15, $8 per 100. fresh eggs at the fol- perial, Broadway and 31 street, New lowing prices: fl.St per Single Comb Buff Orpington Eggs, York City. $2 for 15. 15, $2.50 for SO. |S.»« for 60 eggs or $( per At this time reports or the year's White Holland Turkey Eggs, $2.50 100. For further In- business will be made, plans for the for 10, $10 for 50. formation address work of the coming year considered, Send orders for Orpington and Mrs. Jon. Rasseil Early, Turkey Eggs Borneo, Vs. and officers elected. to Mrs. Cal Husselman. The special business of the meeting We guarantee fresh, fertile eggs, full count, safe delivery and pure stock ICggs For Hatching will be: from eggs from each breed. We can- FROM First. The discussion of changes in not guarantee the hatch. We ship from — the Scale of Points for Guernseys, to Richmond. Do not send private check. Do not waste time in writing for dis- Stoch it more workable one. Prize-Winning make a counts. We can All orders promptly. Second. The consideration of an Black Langshans. Mottled Ancona, CAL HUSSELMAN, amendment to Section 5 of the By- S. C. Buflt and White Leghorns. Woi R. F. D. 1, Highland Springs, Va. silver cup at Harrisonburg, Va. Eggi Laws to provide for the early report- 111 to $1.50 per 15. Satisfaction guar ing of all births of Guernsey calves anteed. for free booklet. Wrlti Send to the Club officers. This to do away to-day. with the increased fee after six months J. 8. WENGER, DAYTON, VA of age provided the birth of calf had been reported to the Secretary before From blue ribbon win- ners at Virginia State Gienview Orpingtons, one month old. Fair and Virginia Poul- Third. The consideration of a new try Association. Strictly S. C. BUFFS EXCLUSIVELY. Department of The Advanced Regis- first-class stock and matings of the follow- My breeding pens this year Include ter to be known as Dept. B. Individual ing varieties: all my Richmond winners. Eggs will Excellence of Type. The Advance Reg- Silver Laced, White and Partridge * be shipped from nothing but the best. ister as now conducted to be known as Wyandotte* ( S. C. Rhode Island Dept. A. Dairy Production. The Reds, $4.50 per sitting of 15. — new $1.50 per 15. B. S. HORNB, KESWICK, VA department to be established with a $8 per 100. view of studying the relationship of ELLERS0N POULTRY YARDS, Eggs For Hatching* productive capacity to individual merit and to gather data relating to a stan- J. TV. Qnnrle*. Prop., Ellerson, Va. FROM NOTED WINNING STRAINS. dard type for the breed. It will also Barred Plymouth Rocks, $1 per 15; aid breeders in determining the de- S ft!\B SHOOK POULTRY FUR Mammoth Pekin Ducks, $1.50 per 15. sirability of animals for breeding pur- Cnipeper, Va., H. H. Scott, Prop. Lower rates made on larger numbers. Breeder of poses. Northup strain Black A few choice M. B. Turkeys, Ducks Minorcas, Whitman strain of Browic and Cockerels for sale. It is hoped every member will be Leghorns, and the best Silver-Lac« 470 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [May, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A RAM. FRESH EGGS A SPECIALTY. (Continued from page 263 Marcb Indian Runner Duck Eggs, $1 for 12; Line-Bred Barred issue.) Plymouth Rocks, N&W FARM fine winter layers, $1 for 15, $1.50 for 30, a hundred; In my new home I found much $5 Beautiful large White Holland Turkeys and Mammoth kindness and the most thoughtful White Plymouth Rocks Bronze, both fine turkeys, $2.25 for 9. care. My young shepherd thought I My birds are of best breeding, large In size, good layers Best stock strain was not as fat as I should be, so he and correct In FISGHEL plumage. Give me an order and began feeding me daily on fine oats you Eggs $r.oo per setting; will be convinced as to their laying and bran. If there was anything I qualities. Eggs carefully selected; No birds for sale. did love it was to eat, and the way I well packed. Satisfaction guaranteed. Only could shovel oats out of a trough was fresh eggs shipped. A few also Mrs. M. F. HAMPSHIRE PIGS a caution. I soon noticed that my GOOCH, Somerset, Orange County, Vn. The black hog with white shepherd always stood by to watch belt. Prices reasonable, me eat, or sometimes would climb up SINGLE COMB on the old rail fence and study the LEGHORNS S. M. GEYER, Manager, performance. I one day overheard S!K5&r Strong, healthy, himsay to himself: "I would rather farm-raised stock, Norfok & Western Ry. Farm. Ivor, Va. bred for layers as well as the show- watch that lamb eat than eat myself. room. My birds won at Virginia State He is the best feeder I ever saw." Fair, Richmond, 1906-7, and Virginia Poultry Association, After some weeks I noticed that my Richmond, 1908. fi>"^^^ •'^Jimtnfo £i»o ff>t\to %V>*. Eggs from my best pens of both shepherd eyed me anxiously. He breeds, $1 per 15 or $7 per 100. Choice said he thought I improved very slow- Cockerels from $1.50 to $5 each; Year- ling Hens and Pullets, $1 each. White PlymovitH Rochs! ! ly for such a fine feeder. One day he Prompt attention to all orders. — caught mie, opened my mouth and re- At Herndon Show "Clean Sweep." J. A. ELLETT, BEAVER DAM, VA. Have mated first Cockerel with first marked that my lips were as white Hen, first pen and second Pullet, from as snow. Then he opened the wool eggs from Orders now Being Booked. this show. Can spare few back of my shoulder and was astound- this pen—$2 for 15—guaranteeing fer- —FOR— tility. My stock is excellent. ed to see how white my skin was. S. C. B. Leghorn Eggs $1 for 15 C. M. WALKER, HERNDON, VA. He felt my wool, and I knew that it Buff Rock Eggs $1 for 15 felt his kindly Secretary of Herndon Poultry Asso- must have harsh to Mammoth Pekin Duck Eggs..$l for 15 ciation. touch. He turned away with a wor- W. H. Turkey Eggs $2 for 9 ried look and said, "You are in a bad Write for prices by the hundred. shape, my boy. You have a bad case Stock of Above Breeds for Sale. White RocKs § of paper skin." I afterwards heard him LAUREL HILL POULTRY FARM, Fishel strain. Ten years experience speak of stomach worms, which must Roxbury, Va. back of the breeding. Fine Cocekrel» have been a discovery to him, for he at right prices. Eggs $2 per sitting brought men around to look at me STICTLY FRESH EGGS Mammoth Bronze and White Holland J. C. JOHNSON, Box S, Academy, and said this is certainly a true case Turkey Eggs, $2 for 9; Ply- of stomach worms. I wondered at Barred West Virginia. mouth Rocks, $1 per 15, $1.50 for 30; his words, but there was a gnawing White African Guineas, $1 for 18 Eggs. sensation about my stomach that sug- After May 20th will sell all Turkey BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS gested the meanest things. I felt Eggs for 15 cents each. Send for 1908 circular. Gives full description of my EXCLUSIVELY. that I was losing strength fast and I Yard headed by some world re- poultry and Berkshires. nowned prize-winning blood. was hungry all the time and very E. F. SOMMERS, Somerset, Vn. Eggs from strong, healthy, beauti- thirsty, and after a while a big, loose fully Barred, farm-raised birds, unex- swelling formed on my jaw and I was celled in laying qualities, size, vigor getting to about. and beauty, selling at farmers' prices too weak go My "MapleHurst" $1.26 for 15 or %2 for 30. Toulouse shepherd was worried and began to Geese Eggs, $1.25 for 7, $2 for 14. to dose me with medicine. He first The home of choice birds B. P. Rocks. JOHN MAHANES, Trevllinn, Va. — gave me turpentine, but it did not do UnlT Orpingtons and S. C. R. I. Reds. half the good so mean a dose should Eggs for sale at $1 for 15, $1.76 for 30, $2.5.0 for 50. Write to BARRED ROCKS have done. I got no better. One day, Hans and Pullets mated with first an« T. J. THOMPSON, when I was getting near the end of second prize Cockerels at Virginia R. F. D. No. 7, Staunton, Va. State Fair, 1907. No better or fine: my rope, my shepherd came into the matings. Size, markings and laylnt shed where I was resting and I saw THE Qualities the best. Eggs, 75 cents to? he was all excited. He said he had 15, $4 per 100. Send check, postal o' WHITE HOLLAND TURKEY something for me at last. A minute express money order. MAN. MRS. WILLIAM P. BURKS, Route »• later he was astride of my neck and 1, Bedford City, Va. was pouring something like liquid fire G. W. MOSS, GUINEY, VA. After May 10th as follows: down my throat. I certainly knew he Eggs White Holland Turkey, $1.50 per 10, 8. C. BROWN LEGHORNS, spoke the trutn when he said: "I have $14.50 per 100; White Plymouth Rock WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKt. something for you." I struggled in and S. C. White Leghorn, 75 cents per vain to get away, but he held me firm 15, $3.50 per 100. Will sell two old HEAVY LAYERS. Toms and 15 old Hens of my White and after each breath came some Eke* $i Per 15. Hollands after June 1st. I was WHITING'S POULTRY YARDS, more of that awful stuff. When G. W. MOSS, GUINEYS, VA. Harmony Village, Middlesex Co., Va released my head began to swim, my heart beat a tattoo on my ribs, and as 45 BREEDS BEST POULTRY I walked off I reeled, fell and turn Mammoth Bronze Turkeys Fine book Illustrates and tells all about poultry, right on my back. My shepherd was Fifteen eggs $3. No finer birds in feeding- , care, diseases, our big premium offer. Low price for stock and eggs. Best way to rid by me at once and helped me up, but the State. Book your orders ahead. poultry of lice, make money, etc., only 10c I reeled off panting and almost wild S. C. BufT Orpington and S. C. Brown JOHH E. UKATvTOLK. Harrlionburg, V.. Leghorns of the very best strains; with fear. In a few hours I was all « 15 eggs $1, 30 for $1.75, 100 for $4. right again and fielt that something B. O. POULTRY YARDS, R. F. D. Box A Neat Binder for your back num- had happened inside. The next day 27, Rapldan, Va. bers can be bad for 30 cents. Address I had to undergo the same perform- our Business Department. ance. This came near being the end Please mention the Southern Planter. 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 471 of me, but I tried to think my shep- m herd knew best. He was showing some one else how he dosed me. He TURKEY, Rapid Growth poured a tablespoonful of gasoline in a bottle and then added cupful of Pigs grow faster than other farm ani- a DUCK AND mals because of great digestive capa- milk. He now shook the bottle vig- city. Yet herein lies a danger as well orously and got the dose down my as an advantage. It is easy because a throat by inserting into my mouth a CHICKEN EGGS pig consumes much food to spoil diges- rubber tube that fitted into the mouth tion by overfeeding. When you fatten of the bottle. He never forced the I pigs it is well to give Dr. Hess Stock can supply promptly White Hol- Food in the ration twico a day. Better dose, but let me take my time. I land and Mammoth Bronze Turkey Eggs at yet, it is well to begin the use of found it was best to swallow it quick- 30 cents each. Pekln and Rouen Duck Eggs at 12 cents ly and I did it. I was turned out on each. Special prices in lots of 100 and a fine meadow pasture, where the oyer. Barred, White and Buff grass was so clean and there was no Plymouth Rock Eggs; White, Buff HESS and m smell of about or un- Brown Leghorn Eggs from the sheep the grass finest matings; White and Silver der the shade trees. I was fed more Wyandotte Eggs; White, Buff and STOCK carefully now, and in less than a Black Orpington Eggs; Rose and Single week I heard my shepherd say: "By Comb Rhode Island Red Eggs, Single and Rose Comb Jove, it worked good, I can see the Black Minorca Eggs, Silver Spangled skin getting pink fast." I began to Hamburg and Cornish Indian Game feel better and was sure I was gain- Eggs, all from pure bred birds, at $1.50 to $2.50 per 15 ing. I just knew I had escaped the and $4 to }6 per 50, and special prices on incu- fate that generally befell lambs that bator eggs in 100 lots or more. A got stomach worms. I used to see few extra good Barred and White hundreds of pale, weak lambs passing Plymouth Rock Cockerels and Hens, also White along pasture and Buff Orping- the road that led by my ton Hens and Cockerels. Few that fall. I guess their shepherds did extra good Single Comb Black not know about gasoline. I heard my Minorcas. I have 20 nice White Leghorn Hens shepherd say that he never believed and Pullets at $1 each in lots of five or more, single I would outgrow the effect of stomach bird $1.50 each, but these prices worms, and I guess I didnt, though apply to White Leghorns only. as soon as pigs are weaned and continue to the I got to be a right vigorous chap. I time of marketing. In this way hogs are kept healthy and make rapid growth. Dr. Hess wont tell much about this first winter Stock Food corrects digestive troubles, gives at my mew home. I got good care appetite for roughage, makes cows give more milk and keeps farm teams in condition. and came through in fair shape. One Formulated by Dr. Hess (M.D..D.V.S .) and warm day the next May I was brought endorsed by stockmen and medical wiiters. Sold on a written guarantee. Costs but a penny up to the shed where they were shear- a day for horse, cow or 6teer. ing the other sheep. It looked so }"*•«* C * funny to see some of the sheep I had 100 lbs. $5.00 i?tremf 35 lb. pail $1.60j West and South. learned to know so well in their fleeces scampering about without any Farmers, now is the time to order Smaller quantities at a slight advance. your Rams for service this fall. clothes on. I hardly knew my best Where Dr. Hess Stock Food differs in par- You get them cheaper and get bet- ticular is in the dose- it's small and fed bu t twice friend that day. I was saved for the ter selections now than if you wait a day, which proves it lias the most digestive last and my shepherd called to one till you need them. I have some strength to the pound. Our government lecog- fine Ram and Ewe Lambs, year- nizes Dr. Hess Stock Food as a medicinal com- of the best shearers to try his hand on ling and 2 to 4 year old of pound and this paper is back of the guarantee. Rams "that young yearling ram." I was the Shropshire, Southdown, Dorset If your dealer cannot supply you, we will. caught, thrown on a table and tied and Hampshire breeds. I have a 2 old imported Shropshire head and foot. I got scared and year DR. HESS & CLARK, Ashland, 0. Buttar Ram, as good as money can jumped, but it did not do any good. AIbo Manufacturers of Dr. Hobs Poultry Pan-a-oe-a buy, and would cost $150 to import, and Instant Louie Killed. Then the click of those shears that but if ordered during May will looked like death staring me in the make price $80. I have a 4 year old Shropshire Ram that cannot face. clicks then pinch A few and a be beaten and is extra well wooled that drew the blood and I was in for and good size. My price, if ordered SUNNYSIDE BERKSHIRES. coming off that bench. Such a tussle at once, $65. My yearling and 2 year old rams are good and well Duke," as we had I bet that will never Boars In service. "Premier man wooled and all eligible to registry. •on of Premier Longfellow; "Peerlea* forget and, to make it worse, the man Prices range from $27.50 up, ac- Premier,w sired by Lord Premier III., got mad (it seems to me that men too cording to quality. I have some nice are registered and and Imported "Hlghtlde Commons." often get mad at poor, helpless sheep). Ewes that finely wooled that I will sell after Also a number of sows rich in Premier He hit me over the head with the lambs are weaned for $25 each, and blood. Prices reasonable. heavy steel shears and knocked the they are 2 and 3 years old. I have some exceptional bargains H, WALKER, UNION, S. O. blood out of my nose. I got one fore W. in Berkshires, Poland-Chinas, Ches- foot in his shirt and tore it from ter Whites, Yorkshires and Tam- THE GOLDENROD BERKSHIRES' Dan to Beersheba, and then the man worths. Choice Service Boars, Bred Sows, Gilts ready to breed and Daisy Girl, No. 90478, sired by Imp. got mad again and spit tobacco juice in Shoats 3, 4 and 5 months old. Sir John Bull, II., No. 76416, farrowed my eye, and then I rose in my wrath, Spring Pigs now ready for ship- ten pigs April 15, 1908. More choice broke the ropes that held me, and ment of all the breeds named above. sows to farrow. Order now. Some soon was on the ground. But what Pairs and trios mated not akin for nice August Gilts, open or bred. Prices was the use? Two or three men breeding. Write to-day and en- reasonable. Only first-class indi- gage what you want. A small de- viduals sold. nabbed me and dragged me back to posit secures them and you can Dr. J. B. TUTTLE, Craigsville, Va. my tormentor and soon, from sheer have them shipped when wanted. I exhaustion, I lay back on the bench shipped a Berkshire Boar this week, less than 11 months old, that CHE8TER WHITES. to let the man kill me if he would. weighed 280 pounds—not forced "Th« best hog on earth." Shall be Between pants he was calling me all nor fat. Have others as good. pleased fill orders for spring to your sorts of names that I must not repeat Better order to-day and be con- Pigs. My stock Is A-No. 1. Satisfac- vinced. Address tion guaranteed. to children, and then he began to com- JAMES M. HOBBS, No. 1521 Mt, S. M. WUecarrer, Rastborg, Va. ment on me. He said he had never Royal Avenue, Baltimore, ftld. 472 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [May, seen as strong a yearling in his life, BerKshire Pigs and he had sheared a thousand. Then he began to notice the wool that Test Farm For Sale turned away from the fast moving Of the Virginia Department of Agri- shears like a blanket of snow before one wishing to purchase the culture and Immigration. Any the snow plow. He called some of of Berkshires at reason- best strains the others over and said he had never For Sale—Berkshire Boar, Tuleyrles able prices should write and get prices 10th, seen such beautiful wool and lifted it Duke 101333, winner of second of my stock. Pedigree and description up on his hands and showed the crimp prize in Virginia class at State Fair, furnished with each pig. My hogs 1907. that looked as if a machine had range of over 400 acres, are have a worked it over. When the fleece was ALSO SOME EXCELLENT healthy and develop strength always weighed, I heard some one call out BERKSHIRE PIGS, injuries cheerfully and muscle. All twelve pounds, and declare that fine DORSET HORN RAMS, and promptly answered. for such clean and dry wool. RED POLL BULL CALF. W. A. WILLEROT, That day I was turned in with the Brett, King William County, Va. ewes that had been selected for me Address E. W. MAGRTJDER,, Dept. of and I thought I was boss of the farm. Agriculture, Richmond, Va. I had a very pleasant summer, until . . . . BerKshires the flies got to working about my My Biltmore Sows have a fine lot of horns, and soon a mass of squirming Tamworth Pigs Pigs ready for shipment at the small things wiere in my head. It was too awful to mention. knew sum of $5 each. Pedigrees furnished My shepherd From Registered Stock of Fine if desired. just what to do. He poured some strong smelling stuff, which I knew B. E. WATSON, Stuart's Draft, Va. BREEDING. they had used to dip the lambs for TOLNBT OSBUBJC, ticks, into the sores about my horns Bluemont, Loodoon Co., Va, and it was in a jiffy that these things BERKSHIRES wiggled out of my head. exceptionally fine lot of I in , An grew pride and strength and - Pure Bred Pigs; also nice . . FOR SALE . - . Bred Sows never thought I could have a superior. young Boar and Jersey at grade prices. One day I was standing out in the Boar Pigs, from registered for sale stock, $5 each. GLENNMOORE FARM, pasture with my ewes when I saw a D. D. HUNT, wagon drive into the farm yard, and Black Cochin, Light Brahma and Barred Plymouth Rock Eggs. Charlottesville, Va. soon a box came out, from which a very large ram, much like myself, was WALTER M. CARROLL, Box 106, Lynchburg, BerKshires for Sale. released. He was a magnificent fel- Va. low, carrying horns that made mine spring Pigs, sired by A line lot of look mean, and he was wide about Duke of Bedford, 82931, he the grand- STERLING HERD son of Lord Premier, 50001, ready for the ohest, and his voice sounded like Let have shipment about June 1st. me thunder. Somehow, when I saw him order and you will be pleased. REG. DUR0C-JERSEYS an my blood boiled in my veins. I Stock for sale at all times. Write What I imagined was your wants and I'll tell you he coming to trample AND TAMWORTH SWINE ll£tV6 on my rights. I at once marched over Glen Hilton Farm, E LODGE ROSS, to the fenoe and he came in a mild Duroc Boars ready for service. Bedford City, Va. manner as if to greet me, but before R. W. WATSON, Petersburg, Va. Reg. P. *Chlnaa I knew what I wat. doing I was run- Berkshires, C. White* ning pell mell at the fence. When I Large strains. Al) ages, mated, not akin struck, one of the oak boards flew in- MEADOW BROOK FARM Bred Sows. Servlc* to splinters. In another minute I Large Improved Boars. Guernsej would have been with my enemy, but YorKshire* from Calves, Collie and Beagle Pups and my shepherd was there at once and best imported stock Poultry. Write for prices and free clr- the new ram was taken across to an- at reasonable other pasture. I chewed hard on my prices. P. F. Hamilton, Cochranvllle, Cheste? cud and nursed my wrath and planned County, Pa; wltt J. D. Thomas, Prop,, trouble. I knew just how I could get Round HU1, Va. EDWARD WALTER around to the intruder, so I started. I knocked latch off gate at Breeder and Shipper the the LARGE YORKSHIRE the barn and marched around to a of Registered Chester White, Poland- cow-gap that led into the field and China and Berkshire Pigs; Scotch Col- IMPORTED BRED SOWS, hopped over as light as a cricket and (le Dogs and a variety of Poultry. Send 2-cent stamp for circular and was making for the ram, when my BRED GILTS AND PIGS. prices. Come, see my stock and select shepherd spied me. He caught me for yourself. Flatt breeding; from the Armitage and drove to the sheep barn and Eureka Stock Farm, Weit Cheater, Pa. me and Lord Roseberry Herds. The best. shut me up. I was too mad to stay OVERBROOK FARM, 8 W. Conway in such close quarters, so I began to NOT A SICK HOG Street, Baltimore, Sid. punch the walls and soon I knocked In the seven years I a board off, and out I came and pro- have raised them. Can't PURE BRED ceeded to battle. I saw the ram in be better. BERKSHIRE PIGS the distance just as he saw me and I »*»»»' AND Is the n0g to ral8e _ rejoiced to see that made no show he SHROPSHIRE LAMBS to meet me. I knew by this he was F. S. MICHIE, Charlottesville, Va. OF BOTH SEXES FOR SALE AT a coward and I gloried in the way I FARMERS' PRICES. would knock the life out of him. I DILLEMTJTH BROS., Blackstone, Va. O. I. C. BOARS warched steadily on with glaring 6yes READY FOR SERVICE. ALSO PIGS and frothing mouth. I walked right FOR SALE. ALL REGISTERED. up to the ram and was a little sur- Tell the advertiser where you saw D. WILLIAM GOOD, FARLAND, VA. prised to find he wanted to be friend- his advertisement. — 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER 473 U(MWK) yjmJL riAi w ATCOOPERSBURG.PA. A PLEASED BUYER IS THE BEST ADVERTISEMENT. The imported Jersey Cattle sold at our May, 19 07, auction sale have given universal satisfaction. Our most sanguine expectations have been more than reali zed. How could it be otherwise? Individually, they were strictly FIRST CLASS. Best of all, they were bred on both dam and sir es' side from animals that have made the Island Cattle so famous—the blood that wins at the churn and in the show ring. For a number of years the blood of Golden Fer ns Lad has dominated the show and sales rings. The climax was reached last year, when every winning of any consequence, at all of the principal fairs in America, England and the Island was made by a son or a daug hter or a near descendant of Golden Ferns Lad. The record price at auction ($11,500) was made for a grandson of Golden Ferns Lad, and an eight months old Bull Calf by him brought $10,200. At the National Dairy Show, Chicago, the Grand Champion and Junior Champion females were daugh- ters of Golden Ferns Lad, the Grand Champion Bull w as a grandson and the Junior Champion Bull was sired by a grandson and out of a granddaughter of Golden F erns Lad. The four prizes for bull and get (the most important of all prizes) all went to Golden Ferns Lad and his close descendants. If you intend to begin breeding Jerseys, or if you are now breeding, don't you think the above record is worthy of your attention? and "look before you leap." They are winners at the churn and in the show ring you are always certain to be called up front by the judge for the blue ribbon. Catalogues ready for distribution May 10th. When applying, mention Southern Planter, as, owing to the great cost of publishing same, they will only be sent on application. Address T. S. COOPER (& SONS, "g^oveICOOPEKSBUFG, FA. i»y. . MSB P. S.—Would respectfully request parties who are in want of an extra fine Bull Calf or a few fine Heifer Calves that they send for a catalogue, which will give them full particulars, and if they are not able to attend the sale in person that they send in their bids and they will receive the same attention as if the buyer was a bidder himself. It is with pride that we refer to parties that have entrusted such orders to us. This will be a rare chance to get calves out of the very best cows the Island can furnish, and sired by prize-winning bulls, and they will not cost you more than others that have no breeding.—T. S. C. & Sons. Lynnwood Stock Farm CARRIES A LINE OF Percheron Horses Shorthorn Cattle Berkshire Hogs INDIVIDUALLY GOOD AND WHOSE BREEDING IS UNEXCELLED. SADDLE HORSES £S Stock eligible to registry always on hand at References : Any County Official or Bank conservative figures. in Rockingham County. John F. Lewis, = - = Lynnwood, Virginia. I 474 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [May, ly, but I despised his advances and I GROVE FARH HYGEIA HERD hunched him one in the ribs. This stirred him a little and as he was wak- BrooklandvlUe, Maryland. P. O. Luthervllle, R. F. D.; Telephone ing up to the fact that I meant busi- and Telegraph, 42-K, Town. Holstein=Friesians. ness, I was backing for my first The property of charge. I rushed forward, as the big Jamea McK. and I. B. Merrymaa. SONS OF ram turned his head to meet me. I landed and I hope I may die in tor- GUERNSEYS Pontiac Calypso'sSon, ment if I didn't think I had hit a The kind that win. Not beaten stone wall, but I have the one conso- in 1»07. Shown Maryland State lation of knowing I hit it hard. I re- Fair, Allentown, Pa., Mt. Holly, FOR SALE; N. J., Trenton, N. J., Richmond, Va., covered my balance and was well back and Hagerstown, Md. When you 28.43 bay Dam—Pontiac Calypso, A. R. O., for another charge, when I saw the get the best. A few pure-bred Heif- pounds. i big ram square himself for a charge. ers and Bull Calf dropped April Is 1807, out of Imp Lady Simon, by Mil- Sire's dam—Beryl Wayne, A. R. O., When we met strange sounds filled my ford Lassie II. Anchor the Boil that 27.87 pounds. ears and a dimness swept over my vis- wins. From following A. R. O. cows: ion and a weakness passed into my Our Berkshire* were unbeaten FRONTIER JESSIE VEEMAN, knees and I knew my end was near, wherever shown. Write for prices. A. R. O., 20.70 pounds; but I had too little sense to quit, so I SHADELAND DULCIBEL IV., gathered myself up for another blow Fine ANGUS Calves A. R. O., 20.92 pounds; into which I was to put the last that MANOR GRACE PIETERJE, I had. I moved back for the charge AT FARMERS' PRICES. A. R. O., 20.92 pounds; and noted that my opponent had a NEXHERLAND FANCY ROSETTA, determined look that meant death to Several 15-16 Grade Angus Bull me. He was moving farther and far- Calves ready for service. Will make A. R. O., 20.53 pounds. superb bulls for grading up herds. ther back and I began to wonder what Several Registered Angus Bull and like in motion. I had lit- IS HALF he would be Heifer Calves. Fine individuals, whose FHB BULL tle time to reflect, for he had started development has been pushed since the day they were droped. THE HERD—Qet the Best and so had I, I recklessly plunged to certain death without a fear, but— All these calves will be sold at farmers' prices. Write at once if you pedigrees sent on appli- that the blow was Prices and am here to say want one of them. I rushed forward caion. never delivered. As A splendid piece of standing Pine Come at once and make your own a strong hand had deftly seized my and Oak Timber, half mile from rail- selection or write us your wants. horn and dragged me from the path road, for sale cheap to a quick buyer. Address: Crozet, of that on-coming avalanche. My W. M. WATKINS & SON, shepherd had rushed to the rescue and County, Va. J. B. Loomis, Supt., Albemarle Co., Saxe, Charlotte saved for the second time. Dr. W. F. Carter, Prop. Virginia. he had me As I stood by my protector, the blood trickled from my nose and my eyes shed salty tears and my trembling Hereford Cattle "Glenara Stock Farm" limbs were failing beneath me. I had Several young, Pure-Bred Registered met my superior, though I vowed I *ulls for sale at farmers' prices. Excal- Spring Offering would some day make him know my «nt strain and fine Individuals. Alee *rade Hereford Cows and Helfera. power to conquer. Reg. Shorthorn (dual purpose) WILLIAM C. STTJBBS, Valley Front The summer passed without no- Ball Calves. ffarm, Sassafras, Gloucester Co., Va table incident and into winter quart- Reg. Dorset Ram Lambs and a rams were fed sepa- Devon Herd Established 1884. Hamp- few Yearling Rams. ers we went. We had the very shire Down Flock Established 11*0. Reg. Poland-China Boar Pigs. rately and I think we could get. There was Dams and sires of all breeding finest feed we corn, but more frequently stock offered Imported to Virginia occasionally DEVON CATTLE from England, Canada or Western oats and sweet alfalfa hay and once a BULLS AND HEIFERS, day had a nice lot of turnips or United States. Farmers price*. we HAMPSHIRBDOWN SHEEP, apples. I noticed my shepherd fed the RAMS AND EWES. Address JOHN BUTLER SWANN, ewes mangels and they smelt so good, Va. ROBERT J. FARHER, Orange, Va. Marshall, but he said it would not do to give rams these, as it would often prove fa- ANGUS CATTLE. THOROUGHBRED tal. SOUTHDOWN SHEEP. The next spring at shearing the old BERKSHIRE BOARS, shears were not used, but a machine ESSEX PIGS. which ran so" smoothly and rarely ever One choice Angus Cow, 5 years old: two choice Pure Bred Bulls, one and JERSEY BULL CALVES, pinched me. It looked so easy to me two years old. A number of South- DORSET BUCK LAMBS. and I know they got more wool, for down Lambs, May, June and July de- it seemed to me they got all except livery, and a few Essex Pigs for July Sire of Calves, FLYING FOX, C54IC, and August delivery. my skin. I was so pleased to hear my on of Flying Fox who sold for f7,5»f L. G. JONES, TOBACCOVILLE, N. C. the Cooper sale, 1902. shepherd say that I was doing won- ,t condition ana All stock In best ders for his flock. He said he believed my lambs had the finest fleeces he AYRSHIRE CATTLE ever saw and he counted on a lot of Young and Mature Stock ^* WALNUT HILLS HERD ewes that would shear ten pounds of to please my shep- wool. I was so glad A1RLIE FARM, Warrenton, Va. Reg. Angus Cattle herd who had been so kind to me. I spent this summer in a distant field, where I was so glad to welcome my Binder your back num- J. ^"TH^oVpfo^O^GrVA. shepherd when he came twice a week A Neat for bers can be bad for 30 cents. Address where you saw to salt us, but it was often that he Tell the advertiser Business Department. to see how we our his advertisement. came over day by day THE SOUTHEKN PLANTER 475 YAGERS CREAM MENTCHLOROFORM FOR MAN OR EAS THE UP-TO-DATE REMEDY and the Liniment universally used by all well informed people, recognized as the most wonderful and most certain of results for use in the Home, Stable or Barn. For general use it is the best of ail. Especially valuable for Rheumatism, Sprains, Aches, Pains, etc. Prevents Croup, Pneumonia and La Grippe. Sold Everywhere—25 cents. GIVE IT ONE TRIAL-FOR MAN OR BEAST PREPARED ONLY BY GILBERT BROS. $ CO., Inc., Proprietors, BALTIMORE, MD., 470 THE SOUTHEKN PLANTER [May, THOROUGHBRED were doing and he seemed so much pleased with this flock. JACK FOR SALE HORSES Being far FOR SALE away from the other flock I almost forgot the big ram that had once jarr- One Kentucky Jack, black with Mabel Lyon, Brown Filly, by Im- ed me so, but I was growing so large white points, 14% hands high, small head, fine coat of hair, long ported Fatherless, foaled May 15, 1904, and strong that I was losing fear of body, 9 No. 40106; first dam, Sarmaline by Im- years old, prompt, vigorous, gentle and all creatures. I would ported Order. not hesitate to easy to handle. Price $250 f. o. b. Kathleen Gray, Black Mare, by Jim challenge a horse or cow, and a dog Oxford, N. C. Address Gray, foaled April 16, 1895. No. 6447; was too small for me to notice. To- LOUIS DE LACROIX, Oxford, N. O. first dam, Katie C, by imported Charaxs. ward fall ray shepherd used to bring Aprnes Gray, Black or Brown Mare, us every afternoon to a rape patch be- KENTUCKY JACK FARM. No. by Jim Gray, foaled May 23, 1901, fore we went out to pasture for the Is the wholesale 29554; first dam, St. Olga, by imported evening. One evening I was in the house for Jacks, ma St. Blaise. we breed and raise, rape when I heard the bleat of the Chestnut Colt, No. 40105, foaled the Big, Mammoth April 7, 1904, by imported Potentate; big ram and there came back to me an Kentucky Jacks, and first dam, Grayon, Gray. by Jim insane desire to meet him in mortal can sell you a flrst- Chestnut Colt, 2 years old, by Im- class Jack 26 to it combat, so I left ported Fatherless; first dam, Grayon, my ewes and started per cent, cheaper by Jim Gray. for the sound. I knew every gate and than a dealer er Correspondence solicited. low place in the fences and soon I was speculator can. Writ* to-day for prices en in the field with the big S. H. WILSON, Byrdville, Va. ram who had Jacks, Jennets and Mules. A large let been such a kind companion during to select from. the past winter, but somehow my feel- JOB E. WRIGHT, Junction City, Ky. - ings would never permit me again to - live in favor with this rival. My am- r* MS C Imported Catalonia AT THE STUD J/%Hi t> ffl 9 Malyorca and Ken- bition was unbounded. He saw me DICK WILKES, Jr., the perfect tucky Mammoth Jacks and Jennet* horse and blue ribbon winner at State coming and knew well my mission. As Saddle Horses, Trotting; and Pnetsy Stallions, Fair; sired by Dick Wilkes, 2:11; dam I approached he circled and came Poland-China and Tamwert* Hoars. Our Importation of Spanish Blackhawk Morgan Pet. Grand dam, down on me like a cyclone. I was sired by Ethan Allen, Jr., by Hill's Jacks, which arrived Aug. 12, Is the Blackhawk Fan. there with the goods and I felt it was largest and finest ever brought to the If United States. Our herd of Tamworths PILOSO, 102, the Imported different now. not so heavy, I was only Cata- Is headed by the first and second prise hitter I quick. lonian Spanish Jack in this section. as hard a and was very boars at the Royal show in England. This stock will bear inspection, and I backed to my position and before Our catalog is the finest ever issued by their colts speak for themselves. the big ram got in motion I was rush- any Jack breeders. Write us youx Owned by wants or visit our farms. ing for the attack. When we clashed, W. J. STRAIN & SON, J. F. COOK * CO., LEXINGTON, KT it was enough to make softer heads Branch Barn, Greenville, Texas. It. F. ». No. 1, Richmond, Va. ache, but it only served to stir our Mechanlcsvllle Farm. blood. Back again we went and to- gether we rushed and the clash of our SCOTCH COLLIE PUPS horns sounded hollow like the call of FOR SALE. Bargains in Horses. the tomb and we knew some one would I am now offering you at reasonable prices some very choice Scotch Collie die. Back again we went and once A splendid pair of Mare Mule Colts, Pups. They are beauties. Sables with coming- 2 years old. Extra fine; large again we met and each was painted very fancy markings. Parents trained as ordinary 3 year old; drives nicely red with the enemy's gore. I felt that drivers and registered. These Pups to a buggy or light wagon. Will be trace to such Ch. dogs as Ormskirk it would take strategy to conquer, so sold at a bargain. Emerald, Finsbury Pilot, Christopher, deliberately avoid- One splendid 2-year-old Sorrel Geld- at the next charge I Kirkdale Patrick and Wishaw Clinker. ing; drives nicely, single and double; ed the meet and as he rushed past I Write me at once. I can please you. very compactly built. Will make a whirled and with awful force was Address H. H. ARBTTCKLE, Edgewood splendid family or work horse. Stock Farm, Maxwelton, W. Va. rushing for his side. He was but half This horse is perfectly sound and turned, met and the force of will be sold at a bargain to the quick when we purchaser. my blow was on one horn. I saw him DORSETS. stagger and knew I had hurt him bad- W. M. WATKINS & SON, ly, but the time was now for action. We offer a number of flock headers Saxe, Charlotte County, Va. I rushed past him to the rear and in yearling, two and three-year-old ELLERSLIE FARM. whirled for the most vicious charge Rams; also, few choice Imported Ewes. of all. He was just turning when I Write us soon before this lot is culled THOROUGHBRED HORSES landed. It was too late then, for I over. had reached with powerful momentum AND J. E. WING & BRO., Mechanlcsburg, O. the side of his massive head and I SHORTHORN CATTLE, heard something snap and as he stum- Pure Southdown Sheep and Berkshire bled and fell to his knees I knew I had Pigs for Sale. broken his neck. I stood proudly by DGEWOOD STOCK FARM the fallen chief, blew the clottesd blood R. J. HANCOCK & SON, from nostrils and then started to Charlottesville, Va. my my ewes, but not many steps had I FOR MORGAN COLTS taken before I realized that I was hurt somewhere within. I was feeble and DORSETS. und Fillies and High-Bred Fox Hound sick and I knew my victory was dear- Puppies, address ly bought. I was never strong after Or. JOHN D. MASSENGILL. Blount- this and it is with difficulty that I vllle, Tenn. Our fall Iambs are now ready fee have told you this much of my story ton. Let us hear from you promptly Chowan Co., N. C, Nov. 6, '07. and now that I am growing weary and (his year. I have read the Southern Planter fearing that you, my kind readers have and am well pleased with it. I find been so all the time, I close with the J. D. Alt BUCKLE A SONS, it very instructive and interesting and last chapter to be told. MainelloD. Greenbrier County, just what I want. West Virginia. FRANK O. RYDER. H. B. ARBUCKLE. 477 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER ROCKS FOR SALE—AM NOW DE- RHODE ISLAND RED EGGS, FROM attention winning, heavy-laying strain, voting my entire time and prize more and better Buff $1 per 20, $4.50 per 100; Collie Pups to breeding Brood Females from champion Rocks. Farmers' as well fanciers' and hatching, Cockerels Ads. imported stock cheap this month; fowl. Eggs for Want after July 1st. March Island Chicks 35 for sale and Hens Rhode Red and prices. to 50 cents each. Shady Brook Farm, Write for circular A. H. Kirk, Herndon, Va., State Vice- Rate* 2 cents per word. Cash with Route No. 2, Roanoke, Va. •rder. Initials and figures count as President Buff Rock Club. one word; 26 cents minimum charge. PURE-BRED S. C. BUFF ORPINGTON S. C. R. I. RED EGGS FOR SALE—$1 Eggs for hatching, $1 for 15, $1.75 free POULTRY, ETC. winter layers). Will per 15, $4 per 100. Fowls have for 30 (best breed on farm. also spare a few sittings of S. C. range; only one Cornelia C. Cammack, Gold- INDIAN RUNNER DUCK EGGS, 11 R. I. Reds. Address C. W. Schools, Miss for $1.60. My ducks came from Doswell, Va., care Meadow Farm. dale, Va. "Exmoor Farms," winners of first (Mention this paper.) honors at New Tork Poultry Show WHITE WYANDOTTES, RHODE on "Indian Runners," whilst one of WYCKOFF SINGLE COMB WHITE Island Reds and Barred Plymouth per 15, $5 per my drakes comes from a breeder Leghorns exclusively; breeders test- Rocks. Eggs $1.50 John A. Good- who won first at Chicago. If you ed by Hogan's system; 15 eggs 75 100. Stock for sale. Park, Richmond, Va. try these ducks you will find they cents, 100 $3.50; Day-Old Chicks 10 win, Highland cost little to keep and will far sur- cents, $8 per 100. Grandscope Poul- pass the best breeds of hens for MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEY EGGS, try Ranges, Branch A, Apple Grove, Poultry Yards, eggs. I think they will largely dis- Va. 15 for $3. B. O. place hens when their merits are Rapidan, Va. (Through error, we in our April known. W. W. Henry, Jr., Broad FOR SALE—A FEW FINE PEKIN printed the price at $1 Run, Va. Drakes and White Wyandotte Cocke- issue.—S. P.) rels from prize winners at James- ALMON FAVEROLLES, THE LEAD- town, Madison Square, Philadelphia, PURE BRED ROSE COMB RHODE birds and Eggs lng utility fowl, 12 eggs $6; Silver State Fair, etc. Evelyn Heights Island Reds—Stock Spangled Hamburgs, Partridge for sitting. The Mcllwaine Poultry Farm, formerly Thomas A Coates, Sutherland, Wyandottes, Silver Laced Wyan- Catlett, Va. Yards, Box 13, R. F. D. 1, dottes, Golden Sebright Bantams, Va. ^_ White Rocks, White Pekln Ducks, EGGS FOR HATCHING—THIRTY INDIAN RUN- Indian Runner Ducks, White White or Brown Leghorn, $1.50, 100 EGGS_LEGHORN AND Guineas, Pearl Guineas, 13 eggs $1; ner Duck, $1 per sitting; Berkshire $3.75; Buff Leghorn, 30 eggs $1.75, Soja Buff Bronze Turkeys, 11 eggs $2. Swine; Early Hollybrook 100 $5; White Wyandotte, White Goodwin Corn. Guineas and Hamburgs for sale; Rock, White Indian Game, Rhode Beans; Fauquier and Guineas, pair, $1.50 to $3. Hamburgs, Island Reds, Orpington and Anconas, Fairfield Farm, Nokesvll le, Va. $2; male or female trio, $5. Write 30 eggs $2, $3 per 50. Clarence for circular. A. E. Parsons, Berk- Shenk, Luray, Va. EGGS FOR HATCHING—BUFF ORP- shire, New York. lngtons, $1 per sitting; White Lang- IMPERIAL PEKIN DUCK EGGS FOR shans, $2 per sitting. Rose Lawn. FOR SALE—TWO PEKIN DRAKES, hatching, "Rankin" strain. We have Box 56, R. F. D., No. 2, Richmond, Mammoth strain, $1.25 each or $2 the best. Eggs, 15 for $1.50, $6 per Va. for the two. Now booking orders 100; eggs from my selected S. C. for June and July delivery of Pullets White Leghorns, $1.60 per 16, $7 ONE PEN EACH BEST BIRDS UN- and Cockerels, 8 weeks old, of the per 100. Willow Poultry Yards, sold; will sell eggs from same following pure bred strains: Brown South Mills, N. C. balance of season, or until sold, 15 Leghorns, White P. Rocks, Rhode for $1. J. W. Silcott, Bluemont, Va. Island Reds and Pekin Ducks at 50 WANTED—FOR AUGUST OR SEP- cents each. Eggs from above breeds tember delivery, fifty each Partridge FAVEROLLES—THE GREAT WINTER at $1 sitting. Correspondence in- Cochins, Buff Cochins and Buff Or- layers, mature early as broilers, 15 vited. Drury B. Baskerville, 823 pingtons, all pullets. Give lowest eggs $1.25, 30 eggs $2.25. L. O. Seventh Avenue S. E., Roanoke, Va. price to P. O. Box 1, Lynchburg, Va. Stickley, Strasburg, Va. ROSE-COMB BUFF LEGHORNS FOR EGGS FOR SALE FROM PURE-BRED SINGLE COMB RHODE ISLAND REDS sale. My entire stock. Including six stock. Wrl te Silver Laced Wyandotte stock, prize for sale. Excellent . Washington, D. C, prize winners; winners at Virginia State Fair, 1907. vour wants. Eggs, 15 for $1.50; 30 Single-Comb Buffs, including second Eggs, 15 for $1. Miss Phaup, $2.50. Thomas N. Berry, R. F. D. 1. Cock and Cockerel, same show. Also Pilklnton, Va. Sweetwater. Tenn. Buff Plymouth Rocks. Will sell single, In trios or pens. Write for SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY PRICES BUFF ORPINGTONS, LARGE SIZE particulars and prices. Fifteen years now on Eggs from both combs Solid Buff, strong and healthy. Eggs a breeder of Buffs. J. W. Sllcott, "Reds," beautiful and brilliant; $1 and $2 per 13. W. A Tanner. Bluemont, Va. phenomenal layers. Convincing cir- Bristol, Va.-Tenn. cular. W. Shook, McGaheysville, Va. FIFTEEN EGGS STANDARD BRED MAMMOTH PEKIN DUCK EGGS, $1 Buff Rocks for $1; hens on free S. C. BUFF ORPINGTONS EXCLU- per sitting of 11. Rankin's best. range. Fifty-five hens, average sively. A fine utility strain on free William Huff. Strasburg Junction, weight 7%, trap nested to 110 eggs; range; every bird carefully selected. Shenandoah County, Va. eight cocks, good color, weigh an Eggs 75 cents per 15. Rev. E. W. average of 9%. Fertility guaranteed Moyer, Church Road, Va. EGGS FOR SALE FROM PURE BRED at 75 per cent. John E. Morris, Jr., S C. Brown and White Leghorns and Orange, Va. WHITE GUINEA EGGS FOR SALE, $1 B. P. Rocks, $1 per 15. Laurel Glenn for 15 eggs. The White Guinea is Poultry Yards, Ceres, Va. KINGLET BARRED ROCK EGGS unsurpassed as a table fowl, meat from handsome, clear barred birds, white, fine flavor. J. H. Garst, BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS Ex- winners of two first, two specials Salem, Va. clusively. Eggs. 6 cents each, $4 for best shaped and best barred per 100. Noah Moses, Chatham, Va. Cockerel and Pullet, Herndon, Va., FOR SALE—LOT OF FINE HOMER show, 1908; 15 eggs, $1.50; Mam- Pigeons. A bargain to quick pur- BLACK MINORCA EGGS FOR SALE. moth Pekin Duck, 12 for $1. J. A. chaser. Large healthy squab breed- M. Catterton, Stack, Va. McCarty, Monroe Grove Poultry ers. H. M. McManaway, Bowling Farm, Aldie, Va. Green, Va. _.IV_ STOCK. EGGS FOR SALE FROM S. C. BROWN BEAUTY AND UTILITY, PRIZE TWO BERKSHIRE BOAR PIGS. TWO Leghorns, Brace's strain; S. C. R. I. winners, heavy layers, Buff and months old. splendidly bred and Reds, Bryant's strain. Choice eggs Brown Leghorns, White Rocks. eligible to register, $5 each, $9 for from choice birds. Also a few Hens, Eggs $1 per 15. Circulars free. the two in one shipment. If you Cocks and Baby Chicks. Write for J. N. Coffman, Edlnburg, Va. want them speak quickly. Satisfac- prices. Satisfaction guaranteed. tion guaranteed. J. S. Ball, Lewins- Evergreen Farms, Rice Depot, Va. BUFF ORPINGTON, B. P. ROCKS AND ville, Va. Silver Laced Wyandotte Eggs, $1 for EGGS FOR HATCHING FROM THE 15. Mrs. W. M. Jones, Crofton, Va. VERY FINE YORKSHIRES AT ONE- celebrated Wyckoff strain of Single half usual prices to quick buyers. Comb White Leghorns. Prices rea- EGGS FROM SELECT PEN OF S. C. B. Pigs, each, $5, two $9, three $12.50. sonable. Write us your needs. Vir- Leghorn, 75 cents per 15. Stock four $16. Also Service Boars, Bred ginia Poultry and Berry Farm, W. H. guaranteed. Brace's strain. B. G. Gilts and Sows at sacrifice prices. Densmore, manager, Sutherlin, Va. Bass, Rice Depot, Va. H. D. Coleman, Ivy Depot, Va. 478 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [May, Live Stock (Continued). Owego, near river; will keep BO MISCELLANEOUS. cows; well watered, and must be REGISTERED GUERNSEYS FOR sold to settle estate. Price, $3,900, THE LOCKPORT PUBLISHING COM- sale—Two choice Bull Calves, 10 $1,500 cash, balance five years at 5 pany Is offering a book of analyses months old, from best milking per cent. Timber enough to pay for which Is a money saver to the strains, and a handsome 4-year-old it on it. Hall's Farm Agency, Owego, faraner. It contains the formulae of Bull from an Advanced Register N. Y. most of the veterinary remedies dam. Prices moderate. G. M. Wal- used in this ceuntry. It enables the lace, Falmouth, Va. FARM, 186 ACRES, FOR SALE; 8 farmer to make his own stock food, miles from Richmond and Midlothian poultry powder, liniments, etc., at FOR SALE—JERSEY CALVES AND pike; telephone; half cultivated, one-tenth the present cost. The Large Yorkshire Swine. We are balance timber; near school and book costs $1 and will save several church; overstocked with pigs and will sell good 10-room dwelling, out- times that amount annually. Write them at reduced prices. Riverside buildings. Stock and all fixtures go the L. P. Co., Lockport, N. Y. Park, Morganton, N. C. in $6,000. Must be sold. J. L. Howard, Manchester, Va., Route WANTED—TO BUY ALL KINDS No. 2. TO SELL, AFTER JUNE 1, 1908, 30 Wild Birds and Animals, particularly good breeding Ewes and one Shrop- Tame Deer, Wild Turkeys, White shire Buck. J. A. Spears, Nellwood, WANTED—A LARGE TRACT HIGH- Squirrels, Peafowl, Otters, Red Va. class grazing lands or large finely Foxes, Grey Squirrels, Partridges, improved gentleman's country seat. Pheasants. Beaver. State price when SIX ANGORA GOATS AND ONE KID Northern Virginia, or possibly an writing. Dr. Cecil French, Natural- for sale, and expect more kids soon. upper James River plantation, in ex- ist, Washington, D. C. Price, $35. Address H. J. Woodward. change for property in Washington, D. with gross rental Fine Creek Mills, Va., Route No. 1. C, over $10,000 FOX HOUND PUPS AT REASONABLE per year. Address, giving full par- prices. The best blood that can be PEDIGREED DUROC-JERSEY PIGS; ticulars and price, "Property," care had anywhere. Parents well-trained some of the best blood that money Southern Planter. fox, 'possum, coon and rabbit hounds can buy. Your money back if not with long ears and long, coarse satisfied. L. G. Blankenship, Box FOR SALE—COUNTRY STORE IN musical voices. Capt. D. D. Parks, 202, Roanoke, Va. Fairfax county, Virginia; 25 miles Mount Airy, N. C. from Washington, 3 from station; FOR SALE—SOME VERf FINE fine dairy and poultry neighbor- WANTED—ONE HUNDRED GRAY Standard Bred Horses for saddle and hood; good business; 14 years es- Foxes, either young or old ones. harness in pairs or single. C. T. tablished. Address "Excellent Open- Will take any part of this number Smith, Croxton, Va. ing," care Southern Planter. at any time. Write, stating how many you can furnish, and at what FOR SALE—SEVERAL PONIES, 42 120- ACRE FARM, WITH TEAM, price. Address J. C. Goode, Boyd- to 48 inches; gentle for children. tools, cows, hogs, chickens, wagons, ton, Va. John M. Cunningham, Brandy Sta- crop, etc., all for $2,750. Also 135 tion, Va. acres, team, tools, cows, crops, etc. FOR SALE—BEAUTIFUL SCOTCH Bargains. Address A. D. Hale, Mc- Collie Pups from registered stocR; FOR SALE—A CHOICE PURE BRED Minnville, Tenn. color, sable with fine white mark- Hampshire Boar Pig, well belted; ings. Circular, containing pictures, foundation herd from most promi- FOR SALE—IMPROVED FARM, 100 free. Brightside Collie Kennels, nent Kentucky breeders. A. Brooke acres, near town, mostly in crop and Bowling Green, Va. Lawson, Upperville, Va. meadow, 15 acres timber. Price, $2,000. Address owner, Robert Mc- WANTED—HIGHEST CASH PRICES REGISTERED DUROC-JERSEY Farland, McMinnville, Tenn. paid for Old China, English Cut- Swine. The best of all hogs.. Prices Glass, Sheffield Plate and Copper low and pedigree sent with each pig CHEAP LAND WHERE INVALIDS Lustre Pitchers. Address, stating or hog. Oscar G. Hutcherson, Union get well without medicine and raise what you have, with prices, George Hall, Wells, Va. $200 in fruit per acre. Eden Fruit Oak Ridge, Va. Colony Company, Dewberry, Harnett VALUABLE LARGE TENNESSEE County, N. C. SPECIAL OFFER ON FIRST ORDER Jack, 5 years old, for sale at sac- for our new style automatic gate rifice on account of death of owner. in any county. Address, with stamp, I. L. Piatt, Pomona, Fla. ONE ACRE AT VIRGINIA BEACH Manlove Gate Company, 272 Huron for sale, with dwelling, store attach- Street, Chicago, 111. LARGE YORKSHIRE PIGS, BRED ed and necessary outbuildings, $1,500, Gilts and Serviceable Boars at spe- third cash. P. H. Stone, Lamberts LIME—WE MANUFACTURE HTGH- cial prices. W. E. Stickley, Stras- Point, Va. Grade Building and Agricultural burg, Va. Lime. Write for prices. Alleghany FARM AND TIMBER LANDS; GREAT Lime Company, Inc., Chrlstiansburg, BEFORE BUYING YOUR BERK- bargains. Write W. B. Payne, Crof- Va. shlre Pigs write me for my prices ton, Va. and breeding. It will pay you. Dr SLIGHTLY-USED 5-H. P. MIAMI GAS- Charles G. Cannaday, Roanoke, V» POSITIONS—HELP. oline Engine, mounted, guaranteed first-class condition. Stockdell- BLACK AND WHITE SHETLAND YOUNG LADY WANTED—WE WANT Myers Hardware Company, Peters- Stallion for sale, handsome, well young ladies In the country to sell burg, Va. broken. Dr. William C. Johnson, pretty souvenir post cards for nice Frederick, Md. premiums or cash. We send you the FOP. SALE CHEAP—COW OR FIELD cards on credit. Write at once and Peas. I have several hundred bushels *. FEW CHOICE BERKSHIRE PIGS get the cards. LeRoy Bargain Co., each Whippoorwill and Blue Goose one richly-bred Short Horn Bull Calf Box 202, Roanoke, Va. and other varieties. Wire or write for sale. Address M. B. Qulsenberry, me for prices and samples. J. T. Mineral, Va. WANTED—MAN TO WORK ON FARM Walker, Memphis, Tenn. and care for stock and orchards; BARGAIN IN DUROC-JERSEY PIGS must be capable of carrying out in- FOR SALE—220-EGG CYPHERS and Gilts, also 100 S. C. White Leg- structions during my absence and "Model" Incubator; been used only horn Yearling Hens. C. L. Shenk, of taking entire charge if I want three hatches. In first-class condi- Luray, Va. him to do so. State experience had, tion. Will sell for $20 to first buyer. wages wanted, size of family, etc. F. Hutchinson, Ozeana, Va. RIAL ESTATE. H. D. Coleman, Ivy Depot, Va. SCARE CROWS—NO MORE CROWS WANTED—TO RENT OR WORK ON WANTED—POSITION AS GENERAL pulling corn. Worth $10 to any Shares—Fine Farm on Dan river, manager of fruit farm by young man farmer; 50 cents, post paid. A. W. close to fine market for milk, but- of good education and habits; ten Maxwell, Brokenburg, Va. ter, etc., and all farm products. Good years experience; knows the busi- buildings, etc. Station on farm only ness from planting to marketing a and insect pests and treat- few hundred yards from dairy diseases Franklin Co., N. C, Dec. 14, '07. barn. A bargain for the right man ment. Also good knowledge of For particulars address Oak HID poultry. E. Vandermeersch, 3238 P Stock Farm, Wenonda, Va. Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. The Southern Planter Is a blessing A GOOD FARM. GOOD 10-ROOM WANTED—A POSITION AS FARM to the farmer. If they will put Into modern house, two large barns, silo; manager or overseer by a practical practice your advice, they are bound land is good, will grow 60 bushe's farmer who understands hay and oats to the acre; three miles from grain farming. Address J. W. to succeed. JAS. C. PEACE. Enroughty, Oyster, Va. 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 479 ROSE DALE HERD ABERDEEN-ANGUS CATTLE We offer to the farmers and breeders of the East strictly choice Young Registered Bulls from weanlings to serviceable age. They are of the straight, broad-backed, lown-down, compact, blocky type. Many of them show ring animals. They represent the blocd of Mas- ter II. of Meadow Brook; Gay Lord, Jr.; Heather Lad II., Zaire V., Ermine Bearer, Blackbird of Corskie IV., Black Abbott, Abbottsford, Coquette X., Etc. They are well grown out, in thrifty condition, but not pampered. Come and see them or write us your wants. Prices right. We can please you. Angus Cattle are our specialty. We raise no other stock, but give them our undivided personal attention. To avoid inbreeding we offer an exceptionally good herd bull. Write for particulars. Address ROSE DALE SLOCK FARMS, JfiFFERSONTON, VA.^ HOW TO BE HEALTHY. Editor Southern Planter: THIS STOCKJVIUST I have read with much interest In - your April issue the remarks of Mr. dispersal SALE Weems, of Nottoway county, on "Com- mon Sense and Good Health," and I fully agree with all he has said. Too many people, dwellers in cities ABERDEEN-ANGUS CATTLE in the country, expose them- as well as Owing to the destruction by fire of all of our carelessly in all sorts of weath- selves buildings, we are compelled to sell our entire herd suffer. It stands to er and therefore Jf ABERDEEN-ANGUS CATTLE. This includes avoid reason that people could often our Herd Bulls, Prince Barbara and Pride General this suffering and save the expense of II. The former is a son of the great $9,100 Prince physician and medicines, if they a Ito and the latter is by Heather Blackbird, a noted live carefully. But many are would show bull and sire. The cows are a likely lot, of hygiene and have never ignorant either in calf or with calf at foot. There are lots to look into the mat- taken the trouble of young things, male and female, and a splendid ter of how to preserve their health, not opportunity is offered here for parties to start to realize that without appearing herds, as no reasonable offer will be refused. Send health life Is hardly worth living. at once for circular or write your wants and we This will account for much sickness will quote you prices. and death. Not only is sickness due to exposure, MYER & SON Bridgeville, Del as has been mentioned by Mr. Weems, but many people are very rash in their care or rather lack of care for the in- ner man which, after all, is the real man. More people are made sick and die . SUNNY HOME FARM 'from eating more than their systems need than from any other cause. Nearly everyone ought to learn to live ABERDEEN ANGUS CATTLE in a way to preserve life instead of of the destroying it and nature will greatly Are the sort that "breed on," because of the superior breeding: animals comprising the herd. help about this if allowed a chance. The herd bulls are "Baron Roaebay" by the famous Gay Blackbird, anal Imported). It is not generally known but is "Jester" by Imp. Equester (the best bred Eric Bull ever Females are by Gay Blackbird, Beau Bill (champion over all breeds la nevertheless a fact that very many America In 1J94), Ermoor by the great Royal Eric; Eulalle's Eric, a Colum people do not die naturally; they kill blan winner, and by the noted Heather Lad II., and some of the beat in the themselves! They allow their bodies In the herd are by our own Baron Roseboy. We have enly young calves for sale, but want to book you for one of these finely-bred ones bof are they to become full of undigested, ferment- are all sold. Write ed food and in this way destroy them. A. 1- FRENCH, PROPRIETOR. N. C. ByrdvUle, Va. Not to mention the financial waste Station) Draper, of excessive eating and drinking, these habits damage and ruin the body and thus cause ill health and a short life; but very few people will believe this. REGISTERED BERKSHIRE BOARS. Instead, they would rather continue for service, for sale. Also a few Jersey Cows, fresh and to come fresh; to indulge their desires and hope that Ready what is constantly shown to them and Mel's Charm, 108023, a wonderful dairy cow, bred by A, M. Bowman, Salem, Va. also told, is not really true. If cau- tioned that excessive eating and drink- RIVER VIEW FARM, C. M. BASS, Prop., Rice Depot, Va. ' ing will make trouble for them, most ., Sft8p&* :-'"'- people doubt it; or, say to themselves that trouble to themselves from this When corresponding with our advertisers always mention Southern Planter. 480 THE SOUTHEKN PLANTER [May, cause is away off yonder and that they will never get to it. BILTMORE All FARMS. whiskey drinkers are going to stop some day. Tobacco users don't WILTMORE N. G. want to stop although they know that tobacco-heart is killing many people Jerseys now and coffee drinkers say they can't A FEW CAREFULLY SELECTED YOUNG stop, yet most victims of these habits would rather keep on as they are do- Bulls Heifers ing, damaging their health and short- and ening their lives than to exercise a At reasonabe prices, representing rare combinations—Utility and Beauty- Milk and Butter on both sides far they that little self-control. People are too self- as back as go—and the type breeders are all after. indulgent. They see the harm to oth- ers of bad habits like their own but Berkshires they have a lingering hope that this Representing combinations of Imported King Hunter on Western type of harm will never come to them and are sows, and Premier boars on imported sows. Breeders need this kind of willing to take chances. Some es- blood. Prices right. cape, but not many. Most kill them- selves. Standard Poultry Look around and the truth of what Wyandottes, Leghorns and Rocks. For price lists, etc., address I say will be seen. Men who have lived quiet and temperate lives ordi- BILTMORE FARMS, R. F. D. NO. 2, BILTMORE, N. O. narily live a long time and do more or less good to their fellows while those who are self-indulgent and burn the candle at both ends leave this world before their time, after having done little or no good to themselves or JERSEY CATTLE others. Of course there may be some exceptions to these facts, but not many. ""The tort herd In the world. Headed by two bulls that cost over fl©,«4» There are a few simple rules which ejtehT for if followed with reasonable attention BULLS AND HEIFERS sale. will largely prevent sickness and put Alic WHITS! ORPINGTON FOWLS, the beat general purpose bre»A| off death. Below you will see a few CORNISH INDIAN GAMES, the beat table fowlj WHITE LEGHORNS, tko of them. I believe that many people greatest layers. would profit by following these rules worlds and in fact, I can hardly conceive of For particulars, addreaa BOWMONT FARMS, Salem, Virginia, anyone who would not be benefited by observing them. The real basis of good health is pure blood. All may have this, not by the use of medicines alone as is generally EVERGREEN FARMS! believed, but by the exercise of com- mon sense, prudence and a little self- 1 am offering FOUR REGISTERED JERSEY BULLS, out of grand cows, denial. and sired by my pure St. Lambert's Jersey Bull, "Rinoras Rioter of St. L., 1. Live regularly. This applies to of Bowmont Farms. . REGISTERED BERKSHIRES. eating, sleeping, working and intesti- ,_ m nal improvements. Boars and Sows ready for service. Nice lot of Pigs 8 weeks old. My are reasonable for this high class of stock. Address 2. Eat and drink in moderation. prices B. GATES, PROP., RICE DEPOT, VA. Avoid all intoxicants. W. Prince Edward County, NorColk and Western Railroad. 3. Get plenty of sleep and rise ear- ly. 4. Never allow the system to be- come clogged with waste matter. Scotch and Scotch Topped Shorthorn Bulls 5. Take plenty of exercise, Do plenty of work but don't overwork. Good ones, yearling and 2 year olds, by Imported Best of Archers, Im- 6. Bathe often. Take each morn- ported Golden Emperor and Royal Canada. They are from heavy milking low in the next thirty days. ing a cool sponge bath all over and dams and will be sold once a week take a warm bath but fol- TWO HUNDRED DUROCS low it immediately by a cool one. If young people will begin early in For sale—Pigs, Boars and some of our greatest Gilts and Sows. We have- be found in America, both in blood lines «ind individuality, life to follow these rules, barring ac- as good as can ond the DUROC is the most popular hog in the country to-day. Write for cidents, they will live long and healthy Catalogue and Duroc Facts. Prices reduced for thirty days. lives. Even older people who have for = - Vaucluse, Va. years been excessive in their habits Leslie D. Kline, will find much relief in following my suggestions. Thus the pains and ills VALLEY COTTAGE FARM which render many lives uncomfor- table will be relieved in a great meas- BERKSHRIES. ure and life will seem better worth Choice February and March Pigs. living. Herd headed by Dudley 83672, pure im- 93437, The Southern Planter is a farmers' ported blood, and Longfellow Males ?5, paper and the farmers are the people pure Biltmore strain. females $6. Pigs mated no akin. on whose health and strength, not only C. S. TOWNLEY, The Hogman, Red the prosperity but the real life of the Hill, Va. — THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 481 1908.] . MORVEN IIPARK The Property of WESTMORELAND DAVIS. Esq. Registered Dorset Horn Sheep. Dorset Horns are one of the oldest and most valuable English breeds. Unrivalled for fecundity, early maturing and the production of early lambs. They are adapted to all climates and possess hardiness of constitution so essential to the improvement of the grade flocks of this country. In their pure state they are the producers of the early lamb—the most profitable phase of sheep raising. For crossing purposes they have no equal, and even on grade ewes the result is marked in the strong, vigorous and easily fattened lamb and the earlier season the lambs will wean. Dorsets are the best feeders, heaviest milkers, carry a heavy fleece of compact wool and produce mutton of the highest quality. The MORVEN PARK FLOCK of Ewes was founded on selected Ewes from the choicest of the English flocks. They are remarkable for their even and family likeness, their great size and sub- stance, their hardiness and robust constitutions. They are very prolific—each season dropping a high percentage of twins and triplets are not uncommon. Their milking qualities are unsurpassed. The Service Rams are chiefly imported English Royal Winners, and some have been shown in America—in each case taking all the firsts. At the Virginia State Fair, 1907, the flock won two championships, two reserve championships, eight firsts and seven seconds. We are now booking orders for fall born Ram Lambs for June delivery. They are a grand lot full of quality and true type with grand substance and bone. They are not forced, but kept growing to be fit for service this season and will weigh from 110 to 130 pounds, averaging 120 pounds at six months. ALSO BREEDERS OF Improved Large White Yorkshire Swine AND Registered Guernsey Cattle. Address LIVE STOCK DEPARTMENT, MORVEN PARK, LEESBURG, LOUDOUN CO., VA. 482 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER [May, city as well as the country depends and their health should be cared for particularly. Therefore farmers should give particular attention to what is HEREFORD CATTLE written here. If everyone who reads what I have FOR SALE said will begin now to live their lives along the lines here laid down, they Three-Yenr-Old Balls, ready for active service, Cows and Heifers with will find their condition improved in calf at foot or in calf. many ways. The intellect will become These cattle are as well bred as any in America, and some of them are brighter and they will in this way be rarely beautiful in conformation and quality. much more able to perceive opportuni- PRICES LOW ENOUGH TO MEET PRESENT CONDITIONS. ties that they never could have seen I have sold twelve head in the past two weeks, all in Virginia. before. Their strength and endurance Keswick is on the C. and O. Railway, near Charlottesville. Visitors met will be greatly increased so they will at station. Intending buyers are respectfully urged to come to see these be able to do more than ever before, good cattle and to take advantage of the opportunity to buy low. their health will be so much improved that they will be a pleasure and bene- fit to others as well as to themselves MURRAY BOOCOCK, Owner, and last, but important, they will have * the satisfaction of knowing that they KESWICK, VA. have done their best in life. At best life is short. Why not make the most of it in a reasonable way? Nothing is more conducive to comfort and happiness than good health and id© Herefords we may all have this with very little trouble or inconvenience. All of us OWNED BY 8. W. ANDERSON, BLAKER MILL*, want money and most of us have to GREENBRIER COUNTY, W. VA. work for it. Good health will increase A choice lot of Bulls, Cows and Heifers for sale; abw, our strength of mind as well as body a few Polled Hereford Bulls, recorded La the Nmtlfwml and so enable us to make more money Polled Hereford Record. either to save or spend. For a while have a try at living a Write for Catalogue and Prices. cleaner healthier life and it will then FARM NEAR ALDERSON, W. VA. be seen that to live in any" other way Telephone and Telegraph, Alderson. is not really sensible or reasonable. JUIIEN A. HALL. Pittsylvania County, Va. THE HOLLiNS HERD DIPPING SEASON AT HAND. —OF— The need of dipping or spraying live stock, and the thorough disin- fecting of their quarters, is growing HIGH-CLASS HOLSTEIN-FRIESMNS. more apparent each season, as the Cows with Official Records of over 21 pounds of butter in seven days* fact is now almost universally recog- Cows with Official Records of over 86 pounds (10 gallons) of milk 1m nized that disease germs are cut short one day. early in their career, or entirely pre- Heifers that have milked over six gallons of milk in one day (with appearance, first calf). vented from making their A son of the great Hengerreld DeKol, sire of 77 A. R. O. daughters, In by the liberal use of an effective coal the herd. tar dip. The word "effective" is Five handsome, well-developed Bull Calves, from 6 weeks to < month* old, for sale. used advisedly, as a dip containing, but a small percentage of creosote BUFF ORPINGTONS JOS. A. TURNER, General Mamas;**, has the same odor as one containing a Hellins Institute, SALE. Holllna, Va. large percentage, but is vastly, differ- FOR ent in its parasite and germ killing properties. A good dip is Haasoleum sold only by Dr. Jos. Hass Remedy Co., Duroc-Jerseys Shorthorns Shropshires. and their authorized agents. A milky m white solution is obtained by mixing Durocs are the most prolific hogs on earth. Our herd averaged 11 6-10 Haasoleum with water to the strength pigs to the litter last year. They are the most popular hog, and the great desired for the various purposes in- and increasing demand for them Is due solely to their merits. Wa have forty bred sows and gilts for sale, three herd boars, ten young boars ready tended, in sheep, cattle and hoa; dip- for serrlce, and pigs of both sexes, five to seven months old—the blood of ping and spraying. The manufacturers Ohio Chief, Beat Him If You Can, Orion, Commodore and the Colonels. The of this article for 31 years have made prices are right. by Imp. Best of Archers. Scotch Scotch the well known Dr. Jos. Hass Hog Short Horn Bull Calves Pure and Topped Bulls. Remedy, at Indianopolis, Ind., now Shropshire Rams of the best imported blood cheap to close them out. wider sale than ever. Their having a LESLIE D. KLINE, VAUCLUSE. VA. advertisement appears in this issue WILL POWER. Every Farmer Should Have His Own Thresher "I wish they wouldn't 'leave read- 'Little Giant" Thresher runs with light power and will clewu all kinds of grain— ing wills until after the funeral." Wheat, rye, oats, rice, flax, barley, kafllr corn and crass seeds. Attachments for threshing cow peas and for "pulling" peanuts. Made in three sizes—for 3, 6 and o "How so?" H. P. Gasoline Eugine. Any power can bo used. We also make Level-Tread Powers Ensilage Cutters, Saw Machines, etc. Send for FREE catalogs "One would know so much better Feed and JIKKilN r.K A SONS, 25 Broad St.. Lanedale, I' what flowers to send."—Lippincott's. 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 483 J«WMeH8HGHCKHKK>»lttH»a0 Herd numbers 300, including some of the finest the island has pro- duced, headed by the great sire Stockwell, whose abbreviated pedi- gree is given below, ...... 7T3 J •"J' ' r ; 'i I Imported Stockwell, 75264. (Goldan Fern's Lad, P. 2166 H. C Sir* 1 Sultan's Rssetts, 149740. Oxford Lad, P. 3123 H. C. ' r Count Welleoley, P. S2S H. C. Oxford Lass, P. 3682, H. C. I Oxford Prlmrooe, P. 2252 C. 8toekwoll. . ( Boyle, P. 1559, H. C. f Golden Fern's Lad, P. 2168 H. C. J Dam i Golden Fern, P. 4711 H. C, L Golden Leda, P. 8080 H. C. f Golden Pearl, P. 1976 H. ©. Leda, P. H. C. 1 Eminence, F. 7124 H. C For*Part1culars of Offerings, General Information, j etc., Address Wyldewood Farms, Fredericksburg, j| Va. — — 484 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [May, LEAVING THE BUNCH BEHIND. Get Our Book and We'll Make Right Pricesa^f? Along with marbles and baseball, Jo Interest You Cat our Interesting: "Black Motor Buggy" renewed interest in wheeling mani- Free and find out about the only motor buggies €\*jWTi and surreys that are pood country road '•mudders" $-W«V_ fests itself as a sure indication of To Trade and "hill climbers" and built for practical use* No ** jarring No blowupaon tires 2 to 25 miles and of door exer- — —Speed an Spring the joys out hour—Run 30 miles on 1 gallon of gasoline—Safi cise. Reliable. Women can. easily run Nothing ever invented serves as admirably the triple purposes of util- BUGGIES AND SURREYS ity, exercise and pleasure as does the BLACK MOTOR bicycle. The best grade of wheels are Buggy Is 10 horse power—Sarreyy.18 borse power. Both "get there" and now selling for less than one-third the "back again" every trip, and save time, worry and expense. Investigate and we will make you right prices. Write (oil Catalog No. A- 221. prices of ten years ago, and at that BLACK MFG. CO., 124 E. Ohio Street, Chicago, Illinois the rider gets a better mount than was possible then. The Coaster Brake and Two Speed Gear features alone miark a big step forward in bicycle construction since the boom IF YOU WANT THE BEST HOG diays. Buy from those who givo their sole attention to the production of the greatest Berkshire Type. Inquiry amng jobbers and dealers WE DO discloses a demand for bicycles, not Our herd comprises the most splendid lines of breeding and Individual* only from the small boy (who has that money can bay or experience develop In American and English' Bred. always ridden) but also from his old- Berkshires. er brother and his father also. The "LORD PREMIER OF THE BLUE RIDGE," 103555, the greatest- living boar, heads our herd. If you are interested write. lady cyclist is also venturing timidly THE BLUE RIDGE BERKSHIRE FARMS, ASHEVILLE, X. G. forth from the mysterious retreat wherein she has hibernated for a de- cade and she's not in bloomers either; thank the Lord for that. "Leaving The Bunch Behind" is Glenburn Berkshires. the picture adorning the /gold efm- bossed, 1908 catalogue cover of the "oldest exclusive bicycle house in Lord Premier and Premier Longfellow are dead, but we have their beat America," a copy of which has just sons. Our LORD PREMIER III. is not only a son ef Lord Premier, but la a Utter mate to Lord Premier II. and a brother in blood to Lord Premier's Rival reached us. The catalogue is a work Our PREDOMINANT and DOMINANT are probably the best sons of Premier of art and is brimful of valuable and Longfellow. IMP. LOYAL HUNTER Is a great individual. We have Ler4 interesting matter for riders or those Premier, Premier Longfellow, Masterpiece, Charmer's Duke XXIII., and ln« imported sows. thinking of buying wheels. It is well FORFARSHIRE GOLDEN LAD JERSEYS. worth getting and may be had by writ- ing the Mead Cycle Co., Dept. RX Write for Catalogue. 223, Chicago. They also send a wheel for 10 days' free trial and will engage live agents. Dr. J. D. KIRK, Roanoke, Va. FIX YOUR ROOFS. Have you written for the little book MOORE'S BROOK BERKSHIRES. on mending the old roof, published by The Anderson Manufacturing Co., Elyria, Ohio. If you want some of the very best blood, It's a good money saving little book and most fashionable Berkshire at prices that you can afford to pay, to read. Write for it. Just say: and at the same time get some stock "Send me that free book on fixing of outstanding individual merit, we roofs advertised in Southern Planter.' can supply your wants. We offer 10- weeks-old Pigs by British Lord, King O' the Brook and Rival's Premier, out MAKING IT CLEAR. of superbly bred sows, at $10 to $25. Simply tells us your needs and we will A college professor, in company with promptly quote. Will also sell two of o\ir herd boars ranvr w his son, was enjoying a walk in the O' the Brook will country, when he met an old farmer. British Lord and King —as we shortly be unable to us them further. A rare opportunity here. It had been a very wet season, and the professor, thinking to start the MOORE'S BROOK SANITARIUM COMPANY, CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. conversation in a way that would and ours are identical' prove interesting to the farmer, re- YOUR INTERESTS marked : You Want Practical "There has been a rather abnormal WELL DRILLING MACHINERY precipitation of late." to develops that The farmer seemed somewhat em- barassed, and the professor's son, who Mineral, Oil or Water used a different vernacular, though he proposition ; -we have it. Guarantee It to woil was a student in the college to which satisfactorily. his father was attached, attempted to Tell us floout the formations, depth, diametl straighten out the matter. Drawing 'joles; will send printed matter and can save you money. the farmer to one side, he said In a superior way: TtfE AMERICAN WELL WORK! "The governor means that we've Aurora, III., U. S. A. been having a hell of a lot of rain." Chicago, III. Dallas, Te» —Harper's Weekly. — )08.] THE SOUTHE RN PLANTER 485 IN THE STUD ROYAL SWELL 34892 A perfect individual with great beauty, perfect disposition, extreme speed, a pure gaited trotter and as richly and fashionably bred as any horse ever foaled. Mahogany Bay Horse, 15:2% hands high, foaled February 5, 1901. Bred by Marcus Daly, Bitter Root Farm, Hamilton, Montana, sired by Bow Bells, 13073, record 2:19*4, sire of Beausant, 2:06%; Matin Bells, 2:06%; Billy Andrews, 2:06%; Bellewood A., 2:07%; Prince Selma, 2:10% Bel Esprit, 2:12%; Janie T. (2 years), 2:14, etc. First dam Rachel, record (4) 2:08%, winner of nine races, dam of Great Spirit, 2:11%; the Envoy, 2:25%, etc., by Baron Wilkes, 4758, record 2:18, sire of Bumps (world's wagon record, 1899), 2:03%; Rubinstein, 2:05; Rachel (4 year's), 2:08%; Duice Cor, 2:08%; Baron Bell, 2:09; Centrific, 2:09; Oakland Baron (Futurity win- ner), 2:09%; Nydia "Wilkes, 2:09%; Baron Rogers, 2:09%, etc. Second dam Willie Wilkes, 2:28, dam of (1) Rachel (4) dam of 2, 2:08%; (2) Great Heart, 2:12%; (3) Bowery Boy, 2:15% (4) Bowery Belle, 2:18%; (5) Deluge, 2:19%; (6) Aspirator, 2:24%, dam of (1) Great Heart, sire of Wilkes Heart, 2:06%; Namo, 2:09%; Xava, 2:10%, by George Wilkes, 519. Third dam Sally Southworth, dam of (1) Chatterton (sire of six 2:30 trotters), 2:18; (2) Willie Wilkes, 2:28, dam of (1) Rachel (4) 2:08%; (2) Great Heart (a 2:10 sire), 2:12%; (3) Bowery Boy, 2:15% (4) Bowery Belle, 2:18%; (5) Deluge, 2:19%, etc., by Mambrino Patchen 58. ROYAL SWELL'S get have fine size, are of show horse type and full of trot. He has some grand foals In the East that will soon bring him into prominence as a sire, and his daughters should make as good brood mares as money will buy. ,' FEE—$25 the season, with usual return privilege in case of failure. Mares from a distance can be pro- vided for on exceedingly liberal terms for keep. Address ALLANDALE FARM, Fredericksburg, Va. - » " " " " " " ' M a M I M"M M M"I M^ M M I I' M * The General II. [ IMPORTED HACKNEY STALLION Now in the Stud at Butkeville, Va. (Sandy's Farm.) This magnificent Chestnut Stallion stands 16 hands high and weighs 1,250 pounds. In conformation, he is superb, his action grand, his manners perfect. As a sire he stood first in Massachusetts on the farm i. v of H. K. Bloodgood, Esq., who imported him. We have a number of his get here and they are his best •• spokesman. Come and see them. WE RECOMMEND THIS HORSE AS THE BEST LOOKING STALLION EVER IN SOUTHSIDE VIRGINIA, NOW £ . *=.-.«»».«, ... . , a,. e , - j-a^-."-.. I HIS PERMANENT HOME. 5 , ,. :s_._ Terms $15 the season, payable July 1st, or $10 the leap, payable at time of service. — r For further information address any one of the owners 1 .\ ?H8iM B URKEVILLE, T. O. Sandy, Dr. John Young or Dr. J. G. Ferneyhough, VIRGINIA. For Sale at Reasonable Prices : Two Young HACKNEY STALLIONS, one two years old, one a yearling. Both registered and splendid y«*fl>..v. individuals. msmmm^^^.J! . _ - - " " " " - || " " " - " - • " ,, „ " " !' - " " " " " - I -I ! I '1 I I I I I I I I 1 I I I I ! I I M l i H M I H H H I H •H-M-H-H-M-M"! I I- I M 486 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [May, Ft. Lewis Stock Farm THE BEST PLACE FOR BLOOD AND REGISTERED BEKKSHIRES White Leghorn, all breeds of Plymouth Rock, Black Minorca and Rhode Island Red Fowls. Eggs from these pure-blooded birds for sale. DR. W. L. NOLEN, PROPRIETOR, SALEM, VA. EXPERIENCE OF A RURAL CAR- RIER. A Great Opportunity Letart, W. Va-, April 21, 1908. The Lawrenuce Williams Co., Is offered the readers of The Planter to secure Pigs sired by tw« of th« Cleveland, Ohio. greatest of all Berkshire boars. I Gentlemen: —I have used your Gom- have a very choice lot of Pigs now ready for shipment, sired by the great bault's Caustic Balsam for the past Hunter of Biltmore III., 86468, and three years. I have also used a great Valaria, 88706. These Pigs are out of many other liniments in the treatment large sows of the very best blood and quality, and (like their illustrious of horses, but for an all-round de- sires), have great length, depth and pendable liniment, your Caustic Bal- finish. So sure am I that they will sam heads the list. For all kinds of please you, that I will agree to ship them subject to your inspection if they are not in cuts, soreness and inflamation of all and what you want every particular, you can return them at my expense and they will not cost you kinds, it has no equal, and if blis- ':. a a penny. i -J!*^B ter is needed, the Balsam brings the BE SURE TO GET MT PRICES AND DESCRIPTION BEFORE PLACING answer. One bottle of it wil go farther YOUR ORDER. D. E. EARHART, NOKESVIIiLE, VA. than any other kind of liniment that I have ever used. Every rural car- rier should keep it handy in time of GREAT BERKSHIRE OFFERING. need. Scores upon scores of Fancy Dandy R. L. GRIMM, Berkshire Spring Pigs now about ready for shipment. Price and safeguards Rural Carrier, No. 2. for customers are made perfectly sat- isfactory. GROWTH OF A FENCE CONCERN. My experience with pigs reaches backward forty-one years. I give all Although comparatively a new con- my time and attention to the business. cern in the business, the Ward Fence I realize the policy, aside from prin- Co., of Decatur, ciple, of having satisfied customers. If Ind., is to-day, perhaps you want fancy breeding, accompanied the largest niannfiaeturer of Orna- with individual merit at popular mental Wire, Wrought Iron and Steel prices, write me, as I have some of the Picket, and Don't Rust Farm and Poul- blood of all the Grandees. ST C try Fencing in the country. 5. Lexington. Va. THOS. WHITE. Ajri^^RY F°ARM , To properly describe their various Buy some genuine Pekin Duck Eggs from me at $1 for 12 and thereby kinds of fences the company has is- get on the road to fortune. sued several catalogues. Two cata- logues illustrate ornamental fences, the prices of which range from eight Brqmpton Stock Farm. cents a foot up. Ornamental Wire Fencing is shown in Catalogue "C" and Ornamental Iron Fencing in No. Yearling Jersey Bulls and Heifers from Golden Lad strain. 20A. "Don't Rust" Diamond Mesh One 2-year-old Shorthorn Bull. Farm and Poultry Fence, a splendid Berkshire Sows due to farrow this month, also young Sows and Pigs. fence for general use, is told of in Cat- Turkeys, B. P. Rocks, S. C. B. Leghorn alogue 57, while thel "Don't Rust" Eggs for hatching—Bronze $3; Square Mesh Farm Fence is described and Pekin Ducks, $1; also Brown Chinese Goose Eggs, $2.50. in No. 140. ALL OF ABOVE READY FOR DELIVERY. The makers will cheerfully send you prices and catalogue's of the lines you are interested in, on re- quest. Their advertisement in this M. B. ROWE & CO., Fredericksburg, Va. paper is worth noting. GOOD USE FOR IT. Two Irishmen were passing a big #!§*? FANNING MILL FREE jewelry store, in the window of which were displayed a lot of loose dia- A Fanning Mill Free. If there are no dealers near monds, rubies, emeralds and other you selling the famous Racine Line of Farm and Ware- precious stones. house Fanning Mills, that clean, grade, separate and bag "Ah, Pat," said Barney, "they be all kinds of grain and seeds as well as cow peas, velvet beans, rice, peanuts, chufas, etc., then write to-day for foine stones. How would you like particulars about our free mill to one person in each your pick?" neighborhood who will furnish us his neighobrs' names "Och, be jabbers!" replied Pat, "I'd to whom we can write to call and see the mill and who mill do when they call to see it. rayther hov me shovel!"—Dippin- will show what the cott's. JOHNSON & FIELD MFG. CO., Box 1»2, Riicinc. Wis. 1908.] THE SOUTHE EN PLANTER 487 W00DSIDE BERKSHIRES q- 'EVERYTHING SHIPPED ON APPROVAL.'* ITWILL PAY Y0U*T0 READ CAREFULLY. t THIS We are now offering a grand lot of Pigs sired by our three boars—Charmer' s Premier, 94553, 1-year old, weight 550 pounds ; Master Lee, 79379, 2-year-old, weight 760 pounds ; and Lustre's Car- lisle, of Biltmore, 72057, 3-year-old, weight 790 pounds, and out of royally-bred sows weighing from 500 to 600 pounds each. Also Young Sows guaranteed safe in pig to Charmers' Premier and some extra good Young Boars from 4 to 8 months old. We can always furnish pigs not akin. In order to show our confidence in what we offer, and insure satisfaction to our customers, we ship everything on approval. You need not send check until after you receive the pigs, and if they are not entirely satisfactory in every respect, you can return them at our expense and it costs you absolutely nothing. We leave it to you whether this is a fair proposition. Address W00DS1DE STOCK FARM, R. S. Farish, Prop., Charlottesville, Va ENQUIRERS' COLUMN. "Fat or Lean, Yon May Have Them." All enquiries must reach us by the POLAND-CHINA 15th of the month previous to the AND TAMWORTH issue or they cannot be answered Two Tamworth Boars, ready for until the month following. service $18 Two Berkshire Boar Pigs, 3 to 4 months old • MTJSKMELONS OR CANTALOUPES One Poland-China Boar, 2 years —CELERY GROWING—STRAW- old, registered 20 BERRIES. Bight-weeks-old Pigs, April de- livery 5 My musk melons have been attacked by a little bug whicb eats into them J. C. GRAVES, about when they are grown. Perhaps Professor Massey can tell how to BARBOURSVILLE, ORANGE COUNTY, VA. ward them off. This seems to be a common evil in QUALITY old gardens here, and I am told very early planting will help to prevent POLAND-CHINAS their attacks. Will it do any good to The larsc, mellow kind—WOT tflw spray? coarse and rough type. They nsasre. he I want to grow celery for next good with such a herd header as have no experi- winter's use, but had BLACK PERFECTION, a sen of the ence in that line. Our seasons are eld kins of Poland-Chinas, Chief PaK- about two weeks earlier and two feetlon II. A few CHOICE PIGS and weeks later than Southeastern Vir- BRED SOWS for sale. ginia. I a great many brown notice BRO„ spots or blotches on the leaves of H. B. BUSH A Va. mv strawberry vines. Are they rust? Mlchaux, Powhatan Connty, JOSHUA FRANKLIN. Clay County, Ala. REGISTERED POUND-CHINAS I cannot, from the description, tell what insect it is that eats the mel- I have some Choice Pigs ready for related to the grand ons. Muskmelons are attacked by va- delivery. Closely champion at St. Louis World's Fair. rious insects. The little striped beet- No better breeding- to be found. le attacks them when just coming Quality above price. Order now while through the ground, and these can be you have this opportunity. Stock uaranteed as represented. driven off by dusting with fine bone VA. meal in which a few drops of car- W. M. JONES, CROFTON, bolic acid have been well mixed to give an offensive odor, or they can be killed by spraying with Bordeaux mix- ture to which 5 ounces of Paris green STRAWBERRY, PEACH, BEAN, HUCK have been added to 50' gallons of the mixture. Then the melon louse attacks them, and these can he and TOMATO CARRIERS. kept off by dusting the plants well with tobacco dust and repeat it South Side M'fg. Co., Petersburg, Va. when washed off. Some entomolo- ME 488 THE SOUTHE EX PLANTER. [May, gists advise spraying with kerosene emulsion for the lice, but I have found that all plant lice can be kept off by the regular use of tobacco in some form. Better keep them off than try to destroy them when they What's get there. As the insect, Mr. Frank- lin mentions is an eating one, it would be better to spray with Bor- deaux mixture as above stated. But Wanted Here ? spray the vines before the fruit is so A good reliable tonic that will keep this litter advanced that they will attack it, so free from worms,worms. keepKeep themtnem healthy,neaitny, increase thetne appetite, inciincrease the digestion, increase that they may be killed before attack- the power of the system to assimilateLfisimilata and appropriateAnnronriate more ffood, keep them in a grow- ingIg condition,uuiuuu, ^ciget themlucui toiu marketuiainei fortyiui ly daysudjb soonersuuucl auuand i;ciget' uibi;cibigger hogs.uu^ai Youluutoucan do all ing- the fruit- Then if they come later, thisfhie __ _ repeat the spraying. The Paris green with will do no harm to the fruit as the PRUSSIAN STOCK TONIC outside is not eaten anyway. Better The gain will cost less than a tenth of the feed you save or what you make in extra weight. spray the strawberries with Prevents cholera and Other disease, "A Wonderful Flesh Producer," Hogs gain 3 lbs, a day each. Bordeaux John Herbers, one of my customers, fed Prussian Stock Tonic to his hogs that he was mixture to prevent the rust. fattening and weighed them several times while feeding it, and they made an average gain of three pounds per day to each hog. Conrad iieis, Templeton, Iowa. The only celery you can grow well 25 lb. Pail, Over 1200 Feeds, at Dealers or Prepaid. in your section is the winter crop. Hogs safe from Cholera if Prussian Stock Tonic is fed regularly and pens disinfected with Prussian They can grow celery of the aelf- Knapo-Curo. IF YOU LOSE ANY HOGS AND have been usine Prussian Stock Tonic for thirty days blanching sorts north, as directed and disinfecting with Knapo-Curo, WE WILL REFUND for all the Prussian Stock Tonie and very tough nsed. Knapo-Curo kills hog lice and all germs. Send for our book and direction, they are Free. Mention and ipoor stuff it is. The best celery this paper when writing. PRUSS | AI( REMEDY CO., St. Paul, Minn. is made from the varieties like the Manufacturer! ol Prussian Hog Worm Powders, Hesve Powders, Etc. Boston Market, Sandringham, and Giant Pascal that are iblanched >by earthing. For private gardens and small market gardens the method of Silver Herd growing celery in common use around Spring of SHORT HORNS. Baltimore is the best. ROBERT R. SMITH, PROPRIETOR. Sow the seed on the shade of the Caarleetown, W. Va. —OD WlekliBc, Tau, north side of a hoard fence or build- Jefferaoa Co. V/K- Clarke Co. ing, but not under trees. Or if you I will sell at Public Sale, THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1808, on Silver Spring Farm, have a cold frame use that. Make TWENTY-FIVE HEAD OP REGISTERED SHORTHORNS. the soil fine, and merely mark lines Ten Bulls, from 6 months to 2 years. for the rows on the surface about Ten Heifers, from 6 months to 2% years. eight inches apart. Sow the seed Five Cows, good ones, that will not bring near their real value. These young cattle are thinly on these one-half to three-quarters marks and then press Scotch. They are sired by Mina's Secret, 161465, or by Spring- them into the soil with the back of a hill Choice, 230078, a son of Choice Goods, 186802. The cattle spade but do not cover. Then spread are in fair condition but not fat. gunny Ten Poland-China Pigs from large sire and dams and fine sacks over the bed to retain breeding. the surface moisture. As the seeds Ten Colts, eight of them half Percheron, 1-year-old, and three registered germinate lift the sacks and prop Shropshire Ram Lambs. This is all profitable stock. I will be glad to entertain any one from a them up on sticks till the plants show distance. Twelve months time will be given on good notes, well endorsed, green and then remove them. As bearing interest. soon as the plants are a couple of WRITE FOR CATALOGUE, WHICH WILL BE READY BY MAY 10TH. inches high prepare another bed and take them up and nip the tap root. WHITE WYANOOTTES If they run up tall shear the tops off once or twice- Transplant to their of best quality; win the blue, final quarters in early August. This fill the egg basket. Eggs from prize winners, $2.50 per should be a 15, $4 piece of ground that has per 30. been very heavily manured for an MAKER OF SUPERIOR TRAP early crop of some sort, and on the NESTS. Light, strong, practical. Illus- celery use a high grade mixture of trated descriptive circular free. commercial fertilizer at rate of 1,000 City address, pounds per acre. R. O. BERGER, 16 N. Twentieth St., Richmond, Va. When ready to plant, make a plant- ing board 3 2 inches wide and six fe*et long, 'with ithe ;emds perfectly THE LANGSHAN square. On LEADS each side of this plank cut AS A GENERAL PURPOSE UTILITY FOWL FOR THE FARM OR FOR THE notches, beginning six inches from TOWN LOT. the end and stopping six inches from BLACK'S BLACK LANGSHANS lead all the Langshan classes. Unexcelled the other end, thus making eleven as layers, unsurpassed as a table fowl. You can make no better investment this month than by getting one or notches exactly opposite each other. more sittings of eggs from Now stretch a line taught and set the A. M. BLACK, THE LANGSHAN SPECIALIST, TAZEWELL, VA. Write planting board exactly perpendicular ^ for Descriptive Booklet with Photographs of Birds. to the line and set at each notch on each side. Then move the board and BUYS A HIGH GRADE DROP HEAD set another row and so on till the bed is set. Have the piants in a tub of water and set them dripping. Then, $16 $45 SEWING MACHINE if more than one bed is wanted, Silent—Easy Running—Life Time Guarantee. leave a space eight feet wide between The Industrious Hen is the leading poultry journal of one year. Three years $1. Agents wanted, the beds for earthing. the South—60c Keep the beds Samples free. Machine circulars frpe cultivated and clean, but never nan The Industrious Hen Co., Dept. s, Knoxville, Tenn. — 1908.] THE SOUTHE IL\ PLANTER 489 SMcJtlegofdte mlA mmmm FOR PROTECTING CATTLE AGAINST BLACKLEG. SIIVS -SAFE sure:. NO DOSE TO MEASURE. NO LIQUID TO SPILL. NO STRING TO ROT. KRESO DIP FOR ALL. LIVE STOCK Kills Lice, Mites and Fleas. Cures Mange, Scab, Ringworm. Disinfects, Cleanses, Purifies. ANTHRAXOIDS A SAF-E: ANTHRAX VACCIN FOR PROTECTING HORSES, MULES, CATTLE, SHEEP, GOATS AND SWINE AGAINST ANTHRAX. WRITE FOR FREE BOOKLETS UPON THESE PRODUCTS. branches: branches: New York, Kansas City, Baltiin PARKE, DAVIS & CO. London, Eng. Walkerville, Ont. New Orleans, Boston, Chicago DEPARTMENT OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. Montreal, Que. Sydney, N". S. W. St. Louis and St. Petersburg, Russia. Minneapolis, U. S. A. DETROIT, - MICHIGAN, - U.S.A. Bombay, India. WraTMTTriTiTlll^^BWT^IMTflJtrlTTirW^yT'-TFnfTM'U ! II i'IM lilHWMTirfTmrWnm^M die the celery when wet, as that will promote .the rust. When the weather gets cool and not before, the first LIVE STOCK AUCTIONEER. earth should be put in. This is call- ed the "Handling" of the crop. The I offer my services as a Stock Salesman to the breeders ol the Bast. Id doing »*, leaves have grown long and the outer 1 will say that I have equipped myself both by having taken a course at the Jones •ones are inclined to fall over. To National School of Auctioneering, and by years of breeding and selling Pedigreed Stock. keep them erect, while handling, I make a specialty of Pedigreed Sales have two cords much longer than the If I may be permitted te say it, 1 will suggest that I believe I can render length of the bed with a peg in each Breeders better service than salesmen residing in remote parts of the country, as I as thoroughly familiar with conditions obtaining In this section. Then, too, I will end. Stick a peg opposite the first probably not be quite as expensive as to railroad fare, etc., and besides, I must give row and take a turn of the cord satisfaction or I make no charge for my services. around each plant in the row and stick Write me or 'phone me via Winchester over Southern Bell Phone far data*. the peg at the other end in the Prompt attention assured. ground. With the second cord treat the next row in the same way. Now Roy P. Duvall, shovel earth in between these rows, Stephenson, Va. and pack it close to each plant by hand. Remove the cords to two other rows, and thus go over the en- tire bed. The plants are now held The Best Power Service, with Less erect and more earth can be shovelled in between the rows and left in a Worry, Less Trouble, ridge to be handled down when the growth will admit more earthing. Less Expense Keep the hearts of the plants just There's no guessing or experimenting with steam. You know above the soil and carry up the earth you will have power when you want It. Close six inches outside the ends of the rows your ears to the extravagant claims made for new style powers long enough to inves- Continue this process till December, tigate the old reliable and when there is danger of hard freezing, cover the entire bed with LsCr FEL ENGINES earth and then place Tbeyarethe engines for planters. All the a thick cover efficiency and much more reliable than other of pine leaves or straw over the whole, powers. They furnish steam for many uses which gasoline engines cannot do. No trouble and place corn stalks or other heavier about \ "ignition," "the sparber," "cooling" material on to prevent the leaves \i —no failure to start, nothing you cannot un- derstand. Sizes and styles adapted to all from blowing uses. Write for free book and investigate. off. The celery can then JAMES LEFFEL be dug at any time during the winter, & COMPANY, BOX 213, SPRINGFBELD, OHIO and will be immensely better and more TELL THE ADVERTISER WHERE YOU SAW HIS ADVERTISEMENT. 490 THE SOUTHEBN PLANTER. [May, crisp than the self blanching sorts. Boston Market is the best variety for this method. You can get, in a favorable season, some fairly good fall celery by set- ting the plants in July, eight or ten inches apart and placing a four-inch drain tile around each plant after they get a foot tall. Earth will have to be shovelled in between the tiles to prevent their falling over. Or you can set plants in a row six inches apart and" when about a foot tall set boards on each side 12 inches wide- For this fall crop the Golden Self blanching is best. But to get fine celery the earth blanching is best. Plant the beds in a soil naturally Nora.!—Buy a Simple Machine. moist, and if where they can be irri- more right their gated in dry weather, so much the No cream separators made are working and valuable to better. easily cleaned than the two simple, owners. w. P. MASSEY. cream har- close-skimming I. H. C. They skim to a trace; that is, they vesters, Dairymaid and Bluebell. get all the butter fat down to the WATERMELON GROWING—VARIE- The two brushes which go with the thousandth part. TY OF CORN TO PLANT—PRES- machines, and a pan of hot water, will Their wonderful simplicity makes ERVATION FOR FENCE POSTS. enable you to thoroughly clean your them most durable. One of the prin- separator in short order. cipal reasons why they are so popular 1. What would be the best fertilizer You can get at every part of the with users is that it is almost impos- (at leastcost) to use on watermelons bowl and tinware with the brush. sible for them to get out of order. The Dairymaid is a chain driven on river bottom land in the place of You can't make too much of the machine. The Bluebell is driven by manure, Also do you think matter of cleanliness in using a cream it a good simple gearing. plan to use fertilizer separator. It avoids odors and taints. in connection If you need a cream harvester, call It enables you to make high-grade with manure? and what quantity on any International local agent and to products. the hill in either case? talk the matter over with him. He It is the worst kind of a mistake not will supply you with catalogs and full 2. I also have a rich piece of bot- to buy a separator anybody can clean particulars. Or, if you prefer, write tom land that has been in grass for easily and quickly. direct to the Home Office. You will eight or ten years that I wish to put in The Dairymaid and Bluebell cream be interested in securing a copy of corn this year and would like to know harvesters are not distinguished "Development of the Cream Sepa- the best white corn to plant on same merely for their easy cleaning. They rator" or colored hanger which will for big yield. Would like a good two have every requisite to make them be mailed on request. eared variety ond one that does not mature late. Do you think a one INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER COMPANY OF AMERICA, CHICAGO, U. S. A. eared corn the best for this land? Is (Incorporated) the Improved Golden Dent—^about equal to the Hickory King for this up land? and can I get seed corn from the Experiment Station, Blacksburg, Va-? A New Roof Over Do you know of -a preservative for fence posts that would make them Old Shingles last longer, that 8-&«* prices and free samples. You want the best roofing—we'll give 1 you several tests to prove which is best. Write today for free 1- Most water melon growers al- booklet, "The Right Roofing and the Reasons Why." ways say that they can get the best re- sults from the use of both manure BIRMINGHAM SUPPLY CO., Dept. 39 and fertilizer used together and our 7 N. Forsythe St., Atlanta, Ga. own experience bears them out. We 2014 Avenue A., Birmingham, Ala. would use ia few forkfuls of good ma- nure in each hill and to this add two or three handfuls of a fertilizer THE ROOF THAT LASTS LONGEST ifiWi*^ analyzing 6 per cent, ammonia, 5 per cent, phosphoric acid and 7 per cent, potash and mix the same well with the manure. If you have not got the manure then use the same USED FROM OCEAN TO OCEAN FOR 20 YEARS. of fertilizer in more liberal quantity. A proper fertilizer can be made Sold by Seed Dealers of America by mixing 300 lbs. Saves Currants, Potatoes, Cabbage. Melons, Flowers, Trees Mi nitrate of soda, 750 j Shrubs from Insects. Put up in popular packages at popular price lbs. cotton \ seed meal, 700 lbs. acid Write for free pamphlet on Bugs and Blights, etc., to phosphate and 250 lbs. of muriate of B. HAMMOND. - Fishkill-on-Hudson, New York. potash to make a ton. 2. In your county you have a corn FOR SAXJD BY GRIFFITH * TURNER COMPANY, BALTIMORE. MD. 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 491 for planting on low ground which, can not be beaten for yield—viz.: Cocke's Prolific. It is natural to your loca- tion and has made 180 bushels to the acre on your lowgrounds. It is a corn requiring a long time to mature but you have always plenty of time to ma- ture it if planted in May. If you E LAVAL don't care ito use this variety—try Boone County White or Eureka. Both have done well on the low grounds of CREAM this State. We don't think any corn will equal Hickory King for thin up- land. Golden Dent can be planted later and mature well and will also usually make a fair yield on such SEPARATORS land. We don't think you can get any seed corn from Blacksburg. The Carbolineum Co. is advertising a fine preservative for fence posts in The ALWAYS IN THE LEAD Planter at this time. The Norfolk Cresosoting Co also advertised such a preservative a few months ago, and will likely do so again. Write these From the invention by DE LAVAL of the first practical cream parties for particulars. You might cream separator in 1878 the DE LAVAL machines have been always also write the Forest Department, in the lead. Department of Agriculture, Wash- The first "hollow" bowl cream separator; the first factory cream all ington, D,. C, and they will send full separator; of the several first styles of hand separators; the first steam turbine separator; the first "disc" bowl separator, and the information on the subject. Ed. — first "split-wing" or distributing tubular shaft separator—were each and all DE LAVAL inventions, each marking periods of advancing evolution in the usefulness of the cream separator. COARSE AND FINE BRAN- -GRASS So, too, were the first "tubular" shaped bowl separator; the first SEEDING. bottom feed separator; the first vertcal "blade" bowl separator; the first interior cone construction bowl separator, and numberless Please tell me which has the most other types of construction, each and all DE LAVAL inventions, feeding value, corse bran or fine bran though found so impractical or comparatively inferior, from one reason or another, that they were never put into commercial use in we get from Western mills is coarse the DE LAVAL machines. and the bran our country mills make Every would-be competing cream separator on the market to-day is fine. The bran and shorts are merely utilizes some patent expired or abandoned DE LAVAL con- altogether. struction, and if any one of them should make pretense of denying it the patent evidence may be easily produced showing the falsity I sowed 10 acres in grass this spring c evasion of such denial. quarts of timothy seed, and sowed 7 The new 1908 DE LAVAL cream separators mark another great 4 quarts of clover and 5 pounds of red evolution in cream separator construction, being new and remodelled top, and one bushel of orchard grass in practically every detail, and place a still wider margin of supe- riority the and even the best Qt imitating to the acre. I sowed Timothy in the between DE LAVAL separators. fall; the land is seeded in wheat, The DE LAVAL main factories in the United States and Sweden please tell me if that is enough. It are the largest and finest of their kind and have rankd tot ten is very hard to get a stand in this sec- years among the model shops of the world; their equipment is the tion of the country. best that mechanical science and money can make it; the twenty smaller DE LAVAL factories, assembling, and repair shops, in as G. W. CUMMINGS. many different countries, are relatively as superior; the DE LAVAL inventors and experimental engineers are the best of the men who w~ have shown practical separator genius in every country, and a large 1. The protein content (that is, the staff of them is kept constantly at the betterment of the DE LAVAL muscle and flesh-making matter) is machines, while the shop employes generally are the most competent about the same in both kinds. The and best paid in their various classes. carbo-hydrates and fat which go to THE GREAT OBJECT EVER KEPT BEFORE EVERY MEMBER OF THE DE LAVAL PRODUCTIVE ORGANIZATION IS THE make fat in the animal are richer in MAKING OF THE BEST CREAM SEPARATOR POSSIBLE AND the spring wheat bran. If your coun- EVER THE MAKING OF IT BETTER" THIS YEAR THAN LAST try-made bran really has the shorts YEAR. left in it, then it is a better feed than These are the reasons why the DE LAVAL machines began in the Western bran, as the shorts or the lead and have kept it from 1878 to 1908, excelling all attempted competition in even greater degree to-day than at any middlings are much richer in feed imitation and past time. . ! I mmffll value than the bran. Country or The new 1908 DE LAVAL catalogue—affording an education in Eastern City made bran is, however, separator knowledge—is to be had for the asking. not usually enriched with the whole of the shorts or middlings. A great part of this is taken out and sold as shipstuff, and often much trash, hulls De Laval Separator Co. and sweepings of the mill are mixed The with the bran, thus reducing its value 42 E. MadUon Street 173-177 Wl iam Street as feed. CHICAGO General Offices : MONTREAL 2. You should get a stand of grass 1213 & 1215 Filbert Bt. 74CORTLANDT STREET, 14 & 16 Princess Street and clover from this seeding. It is a PHILADELPHIA WINNIPEG fairly liberal one. We are great ad- Drumm & Sacremeot* Sis. NEW YORK. 107 First Street vocates for heavy grass seeding as a SAN FRANCISCO PORTLAND, OREO. sod, to be a good and permanent one, should be a thick one from the start. We always seeded heavily, never 492 THE SOUTHS EX PLANTER. [May, using less than two bushels of mixed grass to the acre and often more- —Ed. To have a "good COW WITH FITS—FERTILIZER FOR CORN—FARM DEMONSTRATION UMC old-time hunt," WORK. shoot the shells 1. I have a cow of much value that has Ms. She will calve soon and has your grandfather been having them ever since she was NITRO CLUB bred this time (once per month). She shot—U. M. C. shells. Any is harmless and just lies down and SHOT SHELLS trembles and slobers- standard powder is loaded in 2. Will it ho safe to use the milk to drink or make butter? U. M. C. Niiro Club Shells. 3. Is it necessary to use commercial fertilizers on land that I have been They won the Grand American using for four years in a rotation of clover, wheat, corn and cowpeas and Handicap, J. J. Blanks scoring clover? I wish to plant in corn and per cent. have a quantity of barn yard manure 96 to use. The land I would call rich. Would the fertilizer make a profitable Send illustrated return- for folder. 4. I sea Mr. T. O. Sandy, of Burk- ville, has been carrying on some good THE UNION METALLIC CARTRIDGE COMPANY work in the different counties. To Bridgeport, Conn. whom could I apply for assistance Agency, 313 Broadway, New York City. along this line. I would like to have some such assistance. A. R. W. Suissex Co., Va- 1 and 2. The fits are probably the result of the pregnant condition of the cow, and will continue until after the calf is dropped. The cause of such What A. I. M. Has Done For fits is obscure, and little can be done to prevent their recurrence. She should be fed a laxative ration, given Others, it Will For You. more bran than corn, and if her bow- Do els still are constipated when near calving, she should have a quart of lin- There is no proof like promises performed. The following brief testi- seed oil given once or twice. It is not monials are stronger proof that A. I. M. is a cnre for all forms of Indigestion, probable that the milk will be affected if taken as directed, than anything we can say. or be in any way unwholesome. 3. In the April issue we wrote fully on the question of the use of commer- cial fertilizer for the production of the corn crop, and in this issue you will Read Every Word of This. also find matter on the same subject. such a rotation of farm crops as With H. H. Cochran, car Inspector at S. A. Ii. Depot, Columbia, S. C.i Two you have followed, and the use of barn I. M. entirely cured me of Indigestion. yard manure, we do not think you bottles of A. can use fertilizer with profit. You E. H. Foote. Roanoke, Va.: I was afflicted with Indigestion for over two the of might increase the yield by use years. I used A. I. M. and it has cured me entirely. some acid phosphate, say, 50 pounds Louis Fowlse, Newbern, Tenn.: A. I. M. cured my wife of Indigestion. It to the ton of manure, but we doubt has been a sufferer of the same disease for whether this could be done profitably. has also cured John Garland, who 4. Write Mr- T. O. Sandy, Burke- three years It has made many other cures In Newbern. October 8, 1004. whether can- ville, Va., and see he J. M. Norman, Rockport: I have suffered for several years wfth Dyspepsia, not put you on his list of demonstra- mid tried every remedy I could hear of, but got no relief till I used A. I. M. tors. He has charge of this work in cure. It is the best mdiclne I ever used. this State.—Ed. One bottle made a final You can be cured If you are willing. Go to your druggist or general store UTILIZING BONES. and get a bottle. If your dealer can't supply you, then send us one dollar for and also run the I have a farm two large-size fifty-cent bottles. butcher business, consequently have a great many bones. How can T utilize them to profit on the farm? I have been in correspondence with Acid Iron Mineral Company Wilson Brothers, of Easton. Pa, who manufacture home mills. Thev advise me that I can grind the bones and dis- Richmond, Virginina. solve them with sulphuric adiid and mix and make my own fertilizer. I am also advised from Blacksburg. Va., Southern Planter. that I had better grind and apply the When corresponding with our advertisers always mention I Wasn't Your Neighbor Foolish? Didn't he make a chump of himself? Wasn't it about the most senseless thing he ever did when he bought that "cheap" cream separator from a "maii order" concern that never manufac- tured a separator of any kind, and switches from year to year to the separator that can be bought the cheapest? Where is your neighbor going to get repairs? Why, he doesn't even know who built his separator, and the most important thing for a man to know when he buys a "cheap" sep- arator is where to buy repairs every week. There stands your neighbor's separator, down and out; broken; only used a few weeks; money Wasted. Perhaps he could repair it if he knew where to get repairs, but he doesn't know. The fact is, there is no place to get them; his separator was one of a job lot sold "cheap" by a manufacturer who knew it was no good, and who unloaded his stock on a catalog house for what he could get. Now he's out of business. ItL Tubular Cream Separator "Different from the Why didn't your neighbor do as yotl Others" are going to do? Why didn't he buy a Tubular Cream Separator, built Easy to oil Easy to turn and guaranteed by the largest cream sepa- Easy to clean rator factory in the world and the oldest Low supply can No dirty oil cups in America. For twenty-eight years we No bothersome discs have been building cream separators at Simple, durable, West Chester, Pa., and TUBULAR sepa- convenient, hand- rators are used in every dairy district of the world. some and profit- able. Tubular Has No Rival Zimmerman, Minn. Tubular shows no wear after three years and has never given me any trouble and from present appearances is good for a lifetime. One of my neighbors bought a — — — — — — about a month before I bought mine, and it went to the scrap pile months ago. For skimming the Tubular has no rival in my opinion. JOHN M. COOK. No Wonder They Are Pleased We know how to build separators that will wear, and we are always where you Didn't Like Mail Order Separator can reach us when you want us. That's South Scheoon, N. Y. tell neighbor The Tubular gives us perfect satisfaction. The longer we use It something you can your the better we like it. We bought one of the improved — — — — of— — — — — , of Chicago, last spring, but we didn'tlike it a little about TUBULARS. Maybe he would like bit. It was hard to run, hard to wash and hard to keep clean, while the Tubular is easy to run, easy to wash and easy to clean. to right. Maybe he would like a little L. W. WHITNEY. get help. Probably he would like to have a Discarded Mail Order Separator TUBULAR if he could get a little some- EOBESONIA, PENNA. After using a mail order cream separator for six months I de- thing for his "cheap" separator. Maybe cided to discard that machine and purchase a No. i Tubular Separ- ator. The mail order separator would separate only 275 pounds of milk per hour, and did not give a thorough separation. I can skim we can help him. Won't you suggest that two buckets of milk in i minutes. The mail order separator required ten minutes. I am more than pleased with the purchase I made from he write for our new catalog No. 290? It your people. WM. F. BUCKS tells all about it. THE SHARPLES SEPARATOR COMPANY, West Chester, Penna. Chicago, III. San Francisco, Gal. Toronto, Can. 494 THE SOUTHE EN PLANTER [May, bone in its natural state. The mill referred to above, I am informed, does not grind very fine, but about like granulated sugar. Will that be fine natural state? ^VIRGINIA enough to apply in its FARMS Any information and advice on the subject -will be greatly appreciated. iHealthy, Productive Section SAML. J. ROBINSON'. LAND, CLIMATE Albemarle Co., Va. AND SEASONS CONDUCIVE TO SUCCESSFUL FARM- ING IN ALL OF ITS BRANCHES. ELECTRIC AND STEAM RAILROAD FACILITIES. The best way to utilize bones on THE BIG NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN MARKETS REACHED IN the farm where 1 you have power suffi- A FEW HOURS. cient to run a mill is to grind them and apply in that state. It is not nec- essary that they should be ground in- FRANK H. COX to a fine powder in order to get bene- fit from them. We have often applied Resident Agent, Ashland, Virqinia. one-eighth inch bones where we did not seek immediate results, but only permanent improvement of the land. The finer they are ground the quicker will they produce resuts. It should always, however, be borne in mind that grinding bones is a Fine Dairy Farm work requiring plenty of power, especially when they are big strong bones. If short of power to grind them the best way is to dig a IN NORTHERN VIRGINIA, NEAR WASHINGTON, D. C, FOR SALE. trench and put them in layers with Excellent equipment, unsurpassed location; land in high state of cultivation. New wood ashes or lime and well covered buildings for 100 cows. This is a practical proposition- with soil and keep them moist and they will gradually dissolve or disin- tegrate so that they can be mixed with soil and be applied to the land. Don't Forest Home Farm, attempt to dissolve them with sulphu- "^^S^* ric acid unless properly equipped to handle the acid. It is dangerous stuff to handle without a proper equipment as the acid burns fearfully if splashed JOHN F. JERMAN, on to any part of the body or clothing Editor. Headquarters for Virginia Property, Fairfax Va. WHITEWASH. Washington Office, No. 1220 H Street, N. W., and Vienna, Va. Kindly give me receipt for ood If you want to buy a grain, dairy, fruit, truck, poultry or bluegrasa farm. whitewash, for out of doors use. city or Tillage property, or any kind of business proposition, each as hotels, G. R. BERRYMAN stores, livery stables, schools, or any kinds of shop, It will pay yon to send Surry County, Va. for my SO-page catalogue, It Is full of bargains near steam and electric rail- road and near Washington, D. C, where we hare the best of market. I am always ready to show property. I try to please. Slake half a bushel of good, fresh JIT MOTTO: "HONESTY AND FAIR DBAIJNGS." lime in boiling water, keeping it cover- ed during the process. Strain and add a peck of salt dissolve in water; three pounds of ground rice boiled to a thin Farms in Northern Virainia paste; half a pound of Spanish whit- DAIRY, GRAIN, STOCK, POULTRY, FRUIT. ing and a pound of clear glue dissolved Near Washington and BaBltimore and in easy reach of Philadelphia and water. New York. in warm Unlimited markets and unsurpassed shipping facilities. Mix these well together and let the Reasonable In price. Near good live towns, schools and churches. Write us. mixture stand for several days. Keep CLAUDE G. STEPHENSON the wash prepared in a kettle and put (Successor to Stephenson & Rainey, Herndon, Va.) on as hot as possible.—Editor. The Most Powerful Traction Engine. CARE OF MARE AND FOAL. The "New Huber" Traction Engine The cut shows you how heat from power with least fuel the Are passes forward in a large Are Will you kindly give me advice as develops most because Its boiler Is the perfected flue through the water and then comes to what condition a mare should be in "return-flue" type. through tubes to the smokestack in before she drops her foal, and as to the rear. Thus, the heat goes through the water twice, giving double heating the care, after foaling and what is best capacity. There are many other ex- to feed her on and attention to give clusive features about the "New her to make a nice colt. Huber." We tell you about all of them in our new "School for Threshermen," A SUBSCRIBER. which we send free on request. No matter who you are—nor where In the September, 1907 issue of the you are—nor how you wish to use a Engine before making up article on the Traction — Planter you will find an your mind which one to get, you subject about which you enquire from should send for this new book, which one of the largest and most successful we mail to you FREE and post paid. Write for it to-day. breeders in the State. You should MANUFACTURING CO., read the article THE HUBER look up this issue and Dept. 2, Marion, Ohio. —— 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER 495 - - -- - " - - -- - " " " " " - " " " " " -- " ------" " " " " " " " carefully. Briefly we advise that I Z I --I-- I I I^ a I a I I I I I < I I I I I I I I I"I l I I I I I I I I I I I "I"I- I I I I I I I I I I I^E~^ mares be kept in good, firm condition but not fat, by judicious feeding with corn, oats, hay and fodder and be moderately worked up to within a few days of foaling. For a week or ten Perfect System days before foaling they should have bran and oats only as a grain ration pure bran and not mill feed. The mare should have a roomy box stall and be kept well bedded down. As of Banking soon as the foal is dropped its navel should be washed with a solution of creolin about one part to 15 of water, to prevent any infection through that organ. Nearly all the foals which die soon after birth are killed by infection By Mail through the broken navel string. When the foal is 6 or 8 hours old give a warm soap and water injection to We have a system which affords superior open the bowels. Impaction of the advantages of doing your Banking Business faeces is often so great that the foal cannot possibly part with it without with this strong institution by Mail. It is the assistance of the injection and un- carried to the very door of every less it is parted with quickly the foal thrifty must die. After foaling, the dam man and woman in the country— supplying should be generously fed with oats and bran two-thirds oats and one-third them with every facility and convenience bran by measure and be given plenty in depositing their money—besides afford- of good clover and meadow hay or cow pea and aoy bean hay. Let the mare ing a great saving in time. and colt run out in a nice pasture on We invite your account. all warm days but take up at night until the ground gets warm. Also keep in in wet and stormy weather. After the weather gets hot and flies 3 per cent. troubleome take up in the middle of the day and turn out at night. "When Interest Paid pastures become short have some corn to feed to them green. Begin feeding On Savings Accounts, Compounded semi- this sparingly and gradually increase annually from date of deposit. it. When the foal begins to eat freely then have a separate fee'ding place for the foal and tie the mare so that she cannot get to the foal's manger and keep in this manger some nice feed for Merchants National Bank the foal, some oats and bran and hay feed and keep this constantly renewed 1101 E. Hain St., Richmond, Va. with sweet, fresh feed so that the foal can help itself when it desires. Keep on a good pasture and wean whilst grass is good in the fall. After wean- Capital, $200,000 Surplus, $830, 000 ing feed generously with good oats and hay. Boil the oats for one feed each 4 day and mix two quarts of bran with Safest For Savings." these boiled oats. The other feed may be of oats unboiled. Keep the suck- Mention Southern Planter. ing flesh on the colt all the time. If ...... - - - , ..MMln ; . „ ...... Il . . l . l ...... l . , . I s 1 I l I nM i a colt once loses its sucking fat it will M M I I l H H -H i H ; l I M I I I H I H M H I I I I l„ j ^ be a hard task to make a fine horse out of it. Nine-tenths of the young horses are ruined from neglect of this "He who by the plough would thrive, him- self must either hold or drive." rule. They are stunted in growth and And he who would greatly succeed must never make the horses they would do Invest the fruits of his labor Intelligently. if properly cared for after weaning. The earth yields its wealth too grudgingly to justify risking the hard-earned dollars In Editor. speculation or insecure investments. We pay Three Per Gent. Interest, com- SULPHUR. pounded semi-annually from date of deposit, on savings accounts. Write to-day for fre« I have a barrel of sulphur that has I booklet "Banking by Mall." been wet, will you kindly tell me what I SAVINGS DEPARTMENT it is good for as a fertilizer. What crop to put it on and how much to use. PLANTERS NATIONAL BANK, JAS. W. VIA. RICHMOND, VA. Albermarle County Va. Capital * 300,000 00 Surplus and Undivided Profits .. fl,W0,0O0 M Sulphur has no value as a plant iaual.t-rrac.ri 490 THE SOUTHS K1\t PLANTER. [May, food. You can burn it in buildings to fumigate them and destroy vermin of all kinds, or can use it to mix with lime to make an insecticide for scale Is your roof waterproof to stay? Not insects.—Editor. unless your roofing is made of natural POISONING HAWKS. asphalt. That is the only material which I notice in March number of "South- ern Planter" that you advise giving gives a roof resisting, lasting life. nux-vomica to little chickens to de- stroy hawks (which are very destruc- tive here) you gave the proportion to Genasco administer but failed to say how often it could be given without injury to the chicken. Please answer in your next issue. Ready Roofing A. M. ORGAIN. Dinwiddie County, Va. is made of Trinidad Lake Asphalt—the The nux-vomica will never hurt the best in the world. chickens however often fed. They are Ask any progressive dealer for Genasco. See that you get what immune against this poison.—Editor. you ask for, if you want to be sure your roof will stay waterproof. HOG CHOLERA—SHEEP DYING. Write for Book 62 and samples. If you have any specific or sover- THE BARBER ASPHALT eign remedy for hog cholera, please PAVING COMPANY Largest producers of asphalt, and largest manufacturers of ready roofing in the world. send to me. I have also lost 8 head of sheep out of a flock of 38 head. The PHILADELPHIA sheep lost were fat and young and 4 New York San Francisco Chicago of them had twin lambs in them. They would loose their appetite and after- wards would lose the use of them- selves. I never cculd doctor a sheep for the more I doctor, the quicker they seem to die. If you know of any remedy for the two foregoing diseases, will confer a favor by having it inserted in the next issue of the Southern Planter F. DABNEY EASTHAM. VICTORIA ( Rappahannock County, Va. i There is no such thing as a certain RUBBER ROOFING. cure for Hog Cholera yet discovered. The best that can be done is to try to prevent it by keeping the hogs in a good sanitary condition and letting Waterproof—Weatherproof. Always pliable— never hard them have plenty of pure spring water, preferably from a well, to drink. Many or brittle. Any climate, all conditions. running streams are contaminated with hog cholera germs from coming through farms having the infection on OUR PRICES WILL INTEREST YOU. them, or from buzzards washing in them after eating dead hogs. The buz- SEND FOR SAMPLES. y.ards ought all to be killed off and all dead animals be burnt. The following Patented and Galvanized Roofing Sheets, Roll Tin and mixture should be kept on hand and Tar Paper. be given to the hogs when they ap- pear ailing: Wood charcoal, 1 pound; TIN «> TERNE P1ATE5. GALVANIZED FLAT 5HEET5. ROOFING MATERIALS sulphur, 1 pound; sodium chloride, 2 pounds; sodium bicarbonate, 2 pounds; sodium hyposulphite, 2 pounds; sodi- um sulphate, 1 pound; antimony sul- phide, 1 pound. Pulverize and mix nufacturers^Jobbers thoroughly. Dose, a large tablespoon ful 1104 E-CARY STREET. once a day for each 200 lbs. of live RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. weight. See our last issue, page 398, as to the disease affecting the sheep. We believe you have the same trouble as Economical, Reliable Running Water Service there discussed.—Editor. constant supply wherever you want it. Automatic in action—no expense for power | A or repairs. It's easy with a BERMUDA GRASS SEED. 1. Where can Bermuda Grass seed RIFE HYDRAULIC RAM Large and small rams forCountry Places, Irrigation, Supply Tanks.Town it be obtained and what will cost; Plants, etc. For every foot water drops to ram it is raised 30 feet. 7,000 in use. WRITE FOR FREE PLANS AND ESTIMATES when should it be sown also could it RIFE ENGINE CO., 2I13TRINITY QLDG.. NEW YORK be sown with cow peas or Buckwheat, — 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 497 SEN FREE ROOFING BOOKLET MOST OF THK ROOFING MANUFACTURERS SUPPLY SOME SIMPLE SORT OF A CIRCULAR OR PAMPHLET WITH SAMPLES OF THEIR ROOFING. THE MAKERS OF AMATITE ROOFING HAVE GONE INTO THE MATTER MORE DEEPLY. THEIR BOOKLET ENTITLED "AMATITE" IS A VERY HANDSOME AND INTERESTING PIECE OF PRINTING^ It covers the whole roofing' subject thoroughly. The Amatite Booklet also explains the value of the Pitch in Amatite Roofing. is The Ready Roofing proposition is explained Pitch the at length, and the whole history of these roof- greatest waterproofing agent ever discovered. Water does not affect it in any ings is given in detail, showing the 6teady pro- way. An unbroken lining of pitch furnishes gress that has been made. As this company is complete and permanent protection, the oldest and largest concern in the field, the which can only leak b b n actua lly punctured, and such alining history is accurate. This company has been in ^_- ^l j[ """ the roofing business for over half a century. she et is just what Amatite provides. Many of the improvements in ready roofings It is impossible to give the explanation In detail here, but if will send for the booklet, made from time to time have been its inven- you tions, and the latest improvement, and in many which is free, you will find the arguments In full. respects the most important, is offered to the public in Amatite Roofing. With the Booklet the manufacturers send a free in This material, as explained in the booklet, sample of Amatite, order to show just mineral surface is like. has a surface of real mineral matter—Amatite what the postal card to the nearest office to take the brunt of the weather. It does not A addressed need painting. The kind of roofs that need of the company will bring the Booklet and the painting are out of date. sample to you by mail. Every progressive farmer should have it. The paint and labor of putting it on cost more than an Amatite Roof. Amatite Roofing, once Barrett Manufacturing Company, New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Cleveland, Alle- laid, requires no attention whatever. Its mineral Chicago, surface does not require painting any more than gheny, Cincinnati, Kansas City, Minneapolis, London. a stone wall does. New Orleans, Boston, AMATITE ON ROOF OF EAST MACHIAS LUMBER COMPANY, EAST MACHIAS, MAINE. 498 THE SOUTHERN" PLANTER. [May, also what kinds of land is it mostly adapted to. 2. When should hairy vetch he sown, also where can the seed he obtained, and what is the cost of it per bushel. M. H. C. Shenandoah County, Va. 1. Bermuda Grass seed can be ob- tained from the seedmen advertising in the Planter. The seed is quoted at 45 cents per pound in one catalogue. The seed should be sown in May. It % will not grow if sown in cold soil. If you want to get a Bermuda pasture, the best way is to plant the roots. These can be gotten almost anywhere in the Eastern and Middle sections of the Southern States, for the asking, and are certain to grow, whilst the seed is very uncertain as it is all im- ported. The roots should be run through a cutter and be cut into inch lengths and a few be dropped in each The Standard for 14 Years. furrow as it is turned, every foot or so. Bermuda is best adapted for light The oldest'prepared roofing on the market, and the first sandy land and should be seeded or Ruberoid Roofs, laid many years ago. are still giving satisfac- planted alone. tory service under the severest climatic and atmospheric 2. Hairy Veltch should be seeded in conditions. the fall. The seed can be had from Contains no tar or paper; will not melt or tear. Acid the seedsmen advertising in The Plant- fumes will not injure it. er, who will quote prices which vary Outlasts metal or shingles. Any handy man can apply it. each season.—Editor. There is only one Ruberoid Roofing, and we sell it. You can verify its genuineness by the name on the label and on PHOSPHATE. the under side of every length of Ruberoid Roofing. Send for samples and booklet. Can I create phosphate in my soil A large stock of Corrugated and V-Crimp Roofing always on by any process known science? to hand. J. M. CUFF. I No. Phosphoric acid in greater Southern Railway Supply Co*, or less quantities is found in all land but it is largely unavailable as plant food. The great problem engaging the 1323 East Main Street attention of agricultural scientists is how to make this available.—Editor. RICHMOND VA. BROOMSEDGE. Broom Sedge and other pest grasses have taken full possession of my mea- dows and pastures and a desire to avoid plowing and cropping them in riddance of the noxious growths? Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac R.R* Is such a course possible? Are there vigorous grasses that with harrow and fertilizers, will eventually root out the and pests? Even my lawn, of several acres area, though mowed several times in the Washington Southern Railway* summer, has lost all tame gresses. R. S. LACEY. THE DOITBUB-TRACK Alexandria County, Va. USE. THB 6ATBWAT Connecting the he t weca the The only plant we have ever known Atlantic Onit Ida* to root out Broom Sedge is Japan clov- Railroad, Ball- NORTH AKD SOUTH. er and this whilst valuable as summer Baltimore A Ohio read, grazing for cows and sheep is not a Chesapeake 4t Ohio RaO- FAST MAIL, hay crop so far north as Virginia, and wiy, gives only a short grazing season. Pennsylvania Railroad, PASSENGER, We Seaboard Air line Ball- have known Broom Sedge to be got way, EXPRESS AJTD rid of by burning off the growth and Seathen Hallway then liming the land and harrowing Between All Points via PBBIGHT ROTTTB. in and then in the Spring and Fall Richmond. Tg, and Waahtaartaa, D. C following, covering with farm yard manure heavily, and sowing a mixture W. P. TATLOR, Trafle Manager. W. M. TAYLOR, Trar. Pans. of grass seeds and harrowing again. 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 499 By persistently feeding this new seed- ing with manure and fertilizer the Broom Sedge will be smothered out. We apologize for not having replied to this earlier. The enquiry was mislaid.—Editor. IRISH POTATO FERTILIZER. Will you kindly work out the per cent, of plant food in the formula given for irish potatoes in the Febru- ary issue of Planter. Unless I have made a mistake a ton of the ingredients recommended would When looking for a roof one naturally wants something that is cost more and analyze a less per cent, than Mapes Economical Potato Ma- durable and that will stand the test of time. its as nure. I am a constant reader of The Congo Roofing has stood this test, and has proven worth Planter and aim to follow its teach- a protection against all kinds of climate and weather. ing but I can't afford to make any mis- Many buildings the country over are covered with Congo, takes. which have already given many years of service, and are good for J. E. HAWKINS. Henrico County, Va. many years more. Heat and cold, rain and snow, have no appreciable effect upon The formula given works out 5.8 Congo. Even fire itself is stubbornly resisted by these roofs. ammonia, 6.4 phosphoric acid and Not the least attractive feature of Congo is the price. It is the 8.6 potash, and would cost at the sea- cheapest of the high-grade rubber roofings. board $25 per ton. Send for Booklet and Free Sample, We don't know what Mape's Manure other kind. works out, nor the cost.—Editor. and you'll surely buy no UNITED ROOFING AND MANUFACTURING COMPANY, WELL AND WATER WORKS. Successors to Buchanan Foster Co. Will you please tell me what kind 512 West End Trnst Bldg., Philadelphia, Pa. Chicago and San Francisco. of well and water works are best and I cheapest? Can I have a well bored with Iwans' Post Hole and Well Au- ger, use pipes instead ow a wall, and use a pump in it? Is the Leader Hy- dro-pneumatic Water Work System good for country houses, simple in con- struction? Is concrete cement less ex- pensive than brick and an good or bet- ter for building houses? Will you tell E & air J* me which is the best corn planter and where to get it? ^ASBtE5||s MISS M. ALICE WILSON. Henry County, Va. Write the Sydnor Pump and Well Co., Richmond, whose advertisement you will find in this issue as to water system. They have had large exper- CORRUGATED V-CRIMP ROOFING, RUBBER ROOFING, TARRED PAPER. ence in this kind of work and can ad- ROOFING TIN IN ROLLS A SPECIALTY. vise you much more satisfactorily than WRITE US YOUR WANTS. we can. Cement is now largely tak- ing the place of brick and wood in the MCGRAW-YARBROUGH CO., Richmond, Va construction of buildings and is much more satisfactory and lasting. Write the Department of Agriculture, Wash- ington, D. C, and ask them to send you the Bulletins they have issued on cement construction. Also write The Virginia Sanatorium for Consumptives Atlas Portland Cement Co., 30 Broad IRONVILLiE, BEDFORD COUNTY, VmGINIA. street, New York, and ask them to send you their pamphlet on "Cement Con- In the Blue Ridge, Elevation 1400 Feet. On the N. & W. Ry., 12 Miles East struction about the home and on the of Roanoke. farm." Mention our name when writ- An eleemosynary institution furnishing the modern hygienic-dietetic ing these parties. patient institution. It is difficult for us to say which is treatment at cost or less, according to means of and the best corn planter. Some farmers Maximum rate, including all essentials, $10 per 'week. prefer one make and some another- For full particulars, medical records, etc., address Send to the Implement dealers adver- tising in this issue for their catalogues and compare the merits of the differ- D W. R. READ. Secty. MARCUS JUNGER, M. D., Medical Supt. ent machines. You can get a good re- liable corn planter from any of the Richmond dealers. None of them can When corresponding with our advertiser* always mention Southern Planter 9 500 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [May, afford to send out a planter that will not do good work.—Editor. GROWING FORAGE ON' MILL POND LAND AND RED LAND. I have a nice body of flat land, which was very productive before it was turn- TASH ed into a pond (Shocco Mills) 50 years ago. My dam broke three years ago in the fertilizer in generous quanti- and left me a beautiful plot of level ground, part of it now too wet for ties makes heavy yields of clean and ploughing and in "bull-rush," but there are several nicely dried spots of sound vegetables and fruits. an acre or two each, that I think would produce finely. I want to make for- Strong and lusty plants resist the age. 1. "Would you sow in Kaffir corn, attacks of insects and germ pests. broadcast? Hungarian Millet? Or in Sorghum, broadcast? Would you ap- Plenty Of Potash in the fertilizer assures ply acid phosphate or a complete fer- tilizer, or any manure? It (the pond) the best crops. brings weeds high as my head, in dry places.) Our Book, "Potash in Agriculture/* is free 2. I have a red clay subsoil lot that land, is a natural wheat and grass to farmers. May we send it to you ? Address but having been cropped to death by tenants, is poor and inclined to bake. GERMAN KALI WORKS, 93 Nassau Street, New York I had a fair crop of German millet on it last year, with 300 pounds acid Atlanta: 1224 Candler Building Chicago: Monadnock Building phosphate broadcast per acre. Fol- lowed this with Crimson clover and have a fine stand, but for lack of plant food, I fear the crop will be poor. I want to follow this clover with a for- age crop that will tend to build up, rather than deplete the soil, and then follow it (the forage crop) with Crim- son clover. What shall I grow on this lot for forage? I am satisfied that all of our land would be benefited by liming and subsoiling. I am terracing as a first requisite to building up the fertility. This was in antebellum days a magnificent coun- try, of large and wealthy landowners. I am located on a part of my grand- fathers tract (Jones White Sulphur Springs,—it was here that General Lee's daughter died during the war and is buried in our family cemetery with- in two hundred yards of my door) and GROUND PHOSPHATE ROCR he and my father were large wheat growers. I have seen wheat as high Will double the productiveness of your farm. One application lasts for years. as my shoulders on the lot I am writ- Carries double the phosphoric acid of acid phosphate—costs less than half. ing about, but in these days no wheat Write your Congressman for Farmers* Bulletin, No. 262 of U. S. Ex. Station. is raised. For prices, etc., address. Your opinion on the most satisfac- tory pea to plant in drill and cultivate W. B. ALEXANDER I CO. nut. Pleasant, Tenn. for market will be much appreciated. What of the "New Era?" HOWARD F. JONES. DONT BUY A FENCE 1. We don't think you will find any until you have investigated the merits crops to do well on this land until it Made of 8, has been limed and thoroughly aerat- of SUPERIOR FENCES. ed by being well and deeply plowed and 10 HIGH CARBON COILED SPRING" -*» and frequently cultivated. It is sure STEEL WIRE, locked with SUPERIOR to be acid from long saturation with HEAVY WEIGHT LOCK — All styles, heights" water and exclusion from the air. and spacings — unquestionably the BEST FENCE Either sorghum or Kaffir corn will all purposes. Also a very swell line of S f EEL" probably grow. Drill and not sow made for broadcast so that you can work it GATES both plain and ornamental. Cheaper than wood. frequently. If the season should be PRICES LOW. EASY TERMS. Write for illust'd catalog. a dry one the Kaffir com would stand THE SUPERIOR FENCE CO. Dept. J CLEVELAND, O? best. Acid phosphate would probably give the best results as a fertilizer. . HENRY C. STUART, President. JOHN STEWART BRYAN, Vice-President. M. A. CHAMBERS, Secretary. 1908 - - Virginia State Fair - - 1908 RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. OCTOBER 5-6-7-8-9-10. In keeping with the primary object of the Virginia State Fair Association—the development of the interests of the Agriculturists of Virginia—attention Is directed in this, the first, announcement of the 1908 Virginia State Pair, to the FARM PRODUCTS DEPARTMENT, a classification of Grains, Grasses, Vetgetables, etc., etc., of which is set out below. Special attention is called to COUNTY EXHIBITS. FARil PE0DUCT3 DEPARTMENT. Prlmfum. vSSSSL CORN One peck Parsnips, hollow crown.... 1 00 50 First Second six bunches Moss Curled Parsley 1 00 50 Premium. Premium. One peck peas, in pods 1 00 60 Best &e ears White Corn.. $3 50 $1 50 One peck Bull Nose Peppers. 1 00 50 other variety 1 Best 10 ears Yellow Corn 3 50 1 50 One peck any Peppers... 00 50 of BBest 10 ears Mixed Corn 3 50 1 50 Best six plants ornamental and Best ear of White Corn 1 00 50 useful Peppers to be shown in pods. 1 00 50 Irish Potatoes 2 50 1 00 Best ear of Yellow Corn 1 00 50 One peck Early Irish 2 1 Best samples of 10 ears Pop Corn.... 3 00 1 00 One peck Late Potatoes 50 00 Potatoes 2 1 Best samples of 10 ears Sweet Corn.... 3 50 1 00 One peck White Sweet 50 00 Potatoes 2 50 1 Best display varieties of Corn on Stalk 3 50 1 00 One peck Red Sweet 00 One peck Jersey Yellow Sweet Potatoes 2 50 1 00 GRASSES, WHEAT, OATS, ETC. One peck Red Yams 2 50 1 00 Best quarter bushel Longberry Wheat.. $3 50 $1 50 One peck White Yams 2 50 1 00 Best quarter bushel Fultz Wheat 3 50 1 50 Radishes, White, 6 bunches 1 00 50 Besi display of Wheat in Sheaf 3 00 1 00 Radishes, Yellow, G bunches 1 00 50 Best quarter bushel White Oats 3 00 1 00 Sandwich Island Salsify, 6 bunches.... 1 00 50 Best quarter bushel Mixed Oats 3 00 1 00 Half bushel Spinach, any variety.... 1 00 50 Best display varieties of Oats in Sheaf 2 00 1 00 Crook Neck Squash, 3 specimens 1 50 50 Best quarter bushel White Barley.... 3 00 1 00 White Bush Squash, 3 specimens 1 50 50 ;Best display of Barley in Sheaf 2 00 1 00 Cashaw Squash, 3 specimens 1 50 50 Best quarter bushel White Rye 3 00 1 00 Heaviest Squash 1 00 jBest display of Rye in Sheaf 2 00 1 00 One peck Turnips, purple top 1 00 50 Best display of Alfalfa Hay, bale or One peck Turnips, white top 1 00 50 bundle, to weigh at least 20 pounds.. 2 50 1 00 Three Yellow Field Pumpkins 1 00 50 Best display Orchard Grass, bale or Three Sweet or Pie Pumpkins 1 00 50 bundle, to weigh at least 20 pounds.. 2 50 1 00 Heaviest Pumpkin 1 00 50 Best display of Red Clover, bale or One peck Purple Tomatoes 2 50 50 bundle, to weigh at least 20 pounds. 2 50 1 00 One peck Red Tomatoes 2 50 50 Best display of Crimson Clover, bale or Best display of two varieties of Water- bundle, to weigh at least 20 pounds.. 2 50 1 00 melons 2 50 1 00 Best display of Alsike Clover, bale or Best specimen of Cantaloupes, green bundle, to weigh at least 20 pounds. 2 50 1 00 flesh, any variety. 2 00 1 00 Best display of varieties of clover plants 2 50 1 00 Best specimen of Cantaloupes, yellow Best collection of Alfa plants, not less flesh, any variety 2 00 1 00 than 6 stools 2 50 1 00 For best collection of Vegetables.... 10 00 5 00 Best display of Soy Beans on vine 2 50 1 00 COUNTY EXHIBIT—Collector's Class. Best display of Cow Peas on vine 2 50 1 00 The products shown may be collected by one, or more Best and largest display of varieties than one, individual, but must have been produced in the of Sorghum on Stalk 2 50 1 00 county for which they are shown. The exhibits will be Best display of German Millet in bundle 2 50 1 00 classed in three groups: First, all the territory west of Best display of Hungarian Millet in the Blue Ridge; second, the Piedmont section; third, the bundle 2 50 1 00 Tidewater and Middle sections of Virginia. Fruit products Most complete display of varieties of will not be graded in this competition. whole plants, including Wheat, Corn, For a collection of the Farm Products Clovers and Grasses, made by an enumerated above, one first and one 2 50 Individual or Arm 7 50 second prize to be awarded to each of Sweepstakes. the three divisions above noted. For best quarter bushel of Wheat, any (Total of all premiums in this variety, to be grown by exhibitor.. 5 00 group, $225.00) $50 00 $25 00 For best 20 ears Corn, any variety, County exhibits of farm products should consist of a to be grown by exhibitor 5 00 complete and attractively arranged display of the field Display of Grain, Grasses and Forage and garden crops of commercial value in the county. Crops, in grain and stalk; 25 samples Samples of corn should be shown in the ear and on the must be shown; exhibitor must be a stalk, small grains threshed and in the straw, hay and farmer, but not necessarily the forage crops in commercial samples and in stalk specimens. grower of all the items 20 00 10 00 Grains samples should contain not less than one gallon ETC. of each variety, and no sample may be older than the VEGETABLES, growth of 1907. The awards will be made on the basis Wax Beans, one peck 1 00 50 of 25 per cent, for number of different samples, 50 per cent, Stringless Beans, one peck 1 00 50 for quality and 25 per cent, for artistic display. Pole Lima Beans, shelled, one peck.... 1 00 50 PEANUTS. Bush Lima Beans, shelled, one peck.... 1 00 50 Bassano Beet, for table use, six bunches 1 00 50 Exhibit of Peanuts, unpolished $5 00 $3 00 Any variety Beets, including Stock Exhibit of Spanish Peanuts, unshelled.. 5 00 3 00 Beets, half bushel 1 00 50 TOBACCO—GROWERS' CLASS. Flat Head Cabbage, any variety, six First Second Third heads 1 00 50 Premium. Premium. Premium. Heaviest head of Cabbage 1 00 35 Sun Cured, crop of 1908 $30 00 $15 00 $5 00 peck Carrots, topped, any variety. 1 00 50 One Olive Stemming, crop of 1908.. 30 00 15 00 5 00 Half peck Cucumbers, for slicing 1 00 50 Brown Shipping, crop of 1908. 30 00 15 00 5 00 peck Cucumbers, for pickling.... 1 00 50 Half Brown Stemming, crop of 1908 30 00 15 00 5 00 Best three Egg Plants, any variety.... 1 00 50 — One peck Red or Yellow Dry Onions.. 1 00 50 BRIGHT CROP, 1908 "FLUE CURED." One peck White Dry Onions 1 00 50 Wrappers $10 00 $5 00 One peck Yellow Danvers, Onion Sets.. 1 00 50 Cutters 10 00 5 00 One peck White Onion Sets 1 00 50 Fillers 10 00 5 00 One peck Okra, any variety 1 00 50 Smokers 10 00 5 00 Watch this page for additional announcements In the Farm Products Department, also for information as to premiums on Horses, Sheep, Cattle, Hogs, Poultry, Domestic Art, etc., etc. The unqualified success of the Fairs held by this Association in 1906 and 1907 has proved the Importance and tiecessity to the farmer of such exhibition—and the help of all is solicited. Information with regard to any matter connected with the Fair will be cheerfully furnished. Address MARK R. LLOYD, General Manager Virginia State Fair Association, Richmond, Va. 502 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [May, 2. On the other land sow cow peas and fertilize with acid phosphate. WHITMANS"*^ PRESSES What the land needs is lime and hu- LARGEST 8k MOST Pi : IN AMERICA. mus—until these are supplied its fer- tility will not he increased. When GUARANTEED &/E NO EQUAL. they are it will probahly grow wheat ALSO LARGE LINE FIR| liTM RAL MACHI NERY as well as it ever did. In this issue V C. H. HAVERTY. Isle of Wight County. Va. 1. The feeding of pigs with corn or corn meal is wrong. Corn is a fat forming food (a carbo-hydrate) and not a muscle bone and flesh forming food, which is what young animals of all kinds need. Milk and mill feed or as it is called in many places "ship stuff" is a much more suitable feed, AMERICAN FENCE and if to this can be added some cow ' Buy your new fence for years to come. Get the big, heavy wires, the pea or soy bean meal or some oat meal hinge joint, the good galvanizing, the exactly proportioned quality of steel they will do still better. All these soft. that is not too hard nor too % _ 4§ feeds are bone and muscle builders. _ We can show you this fence in our stock and explain its merits and pigs should also have a little The superiority, not only in the roll but in the field. Come and see as and get fed every day and have ac- bone meal our prices. cess to a clover or grass pasture at Our Complete Catalogue ef I m proved Farm Machinery sent to any all times when the weather is fine. address free. Roots and peanuts are good for them and should be fed with the grain ra- THE IMPLEMENT COMPANY, tion mentioned above and only a lit- 1302 T.. MAIN ST.. - - RICHMOND. VA. tle corn be fed. The cough very like- ly proceeds from dusty beds or from worms troubling them. Keep their beds free from dust and their houses TELL THE ADVERTISER WHERE YOU SAW HIS ADVERTISEMENT. — MwiWrnoWMMp vOtgffi [MACHfJV£s TESTING BINDING ATTACHMENTS When you buy a harvesting machine you naturally want In the tempering and case-hardening rooms, the parts to be sure that you are buying the right one. to be tempered are heated in molten lead and dipped in oil You want a machine that will not make trouble and and brine—the fuel used for the furnace is hard coal, coke lose money for you at your busiest time. and fuel-oil—but the parts are drawn to temper in wood You want a machine that will harvest all of your grain furnaces. crops—and thus save all your profit for you with the least All sections, ledger plates, springs, etc., are hardened possible waste. and drawn to proper temper. You want a machine that will be easy on your horses, By an unfailing system of double checking the vast and give you long service and good service in all conditions product from the various plants is handled with compara- of grain—light—heavy—standing—down—tangled—in short, tively few errors. you want a machine that you can always depend upon. In large measure the efficiency and durability of a The machine you buy cannot be all this—cannot be machine depends upon how carefully it has been tested. right—unless the workmanship in it is right. The purchaser of a machine should prefer the one which has Two things are the prime essentials to the best work- been thoroughly tested before it is shipped from the works. manship—they are the best tools and the best workmen The Company maintains laboratories at the steel mills and the best facilities and equipment and the most skillful at each manufacturing plant. In these laboratories the raw mechanics. materials are subjected to careful tests, the test at the The secret of success in the making of modern machines works serving as a check on the steel mill test. The small is in the machinery to make the machines. manufacturer cannot afford to maintain such laboratories Although the International Harvester Company orga- for the purpose of testing raw materials, and without such nized with $60,000,000 worth of equipment, the demand for tests defective materials are certain to be found after the International machines has compelled the expenditure of machin is put in the field. The rigid test given all material $16,000,000 more on factories alone. before it is allowed to enter into the construction of Inter- Tens of millions of dollars have been expended so that national machines is a guaranty as to their quality. these factories shall have the best manufacturing facilities, All finished machines must pass a critical inspection by and be as automatic as the inventive genius of man can competent men who devote their whole time to this work. make them. Their trained eyes discover any imperfection, and by means In the productive activities of the Company an army of of their check marks and numbers, which are carefully 25,000 employes receive in their pay envelopes the immense registered, they are held responsible for the good work wage of $15,000,000 every year. and material entering into the construction of the machines. Two of the fourteen plants give direct support to 3 per By this arrangement it will be seen that no machines are cent, of the population of Chicago. allowed to leave the works that would reflect discredit on Is it any wonder that the International Harvester Com- the inspector, whose position depends solely on his watch- pany attracts to its factories the most expert workmen, the fulness and care. This is a safeguard that saves the farmer most skillful mechanics? much time and money in the midst of the harvest when a It is the enormous demand for serious breakdown would mean the loss of a whole year's champion, Mccormick, osborne, profits. DEEBING, MILWAUKEE, PliANO, The large space set aside for testing, elaborate equip- HARVESTING MACHINES ment used, the efficient organization and the methods which enables this Company to maintain plants of the very adopted make it practically impossible for a defective ma- highest efficiency and to employ workmen of the highest chine to be shipped out. skill. Not alone in workmanship, but in materials and prin- Such workmanship could not possibly be maintained ciples of construction as well. International machines have upon the comparatively small demand that would come to the best of reasons for their undisputed superiority. one independent manufacturer. The manufacturers of these machines are able to own In the manufacture of a harvesting machine, each one their own timber lands and saw mills, mines and steel mills, of the several thousand parts must be made exactly right thus securing the best materials the world affords. or the machines will never give good service. And for the same reason these manufacturers are able If you examine any part of an International machine to maintain a $350,000 a year staff of inventors and de- you will find each piece to be as carefully made as though signers to improve their machines from year to year, thus an entire plant had devoted all its resources to making that holding the place they have established as the standard one piece—every part of every machine being made with the through fifty years of superiority. utmost care and consideration for the work it must perform. This is the kind of a harvesting machine that you The wonderful automatic machinery which ample capi- want—the only kind that you can be sure is right. tal has enabled this company to gather together in its plants Call on your International dealer and get a catalog. is the basic reason for this perfection of workmanship and If you do not know an International dealer, write us, economy of cost. and we will be glad to give you the address of the one This Company has the most perfect equipment for nearest to you. making castings. At one plant 56,000,000 castings are made Equal in importance with a perfect machine is perfect in a year. twine. The most perfect twine made may be had in Cham- Here tons upon tons of molten metal cool into sprocket pion, McCormick, Osborne, Deering, Milwaukee, Piano and wheels, bevel gears, frames and other familiar parts, and International Sisal, Standard, Manila and Pure Manila their quality cannot be excelled. brands. INTERNATIONA!. HARVESTER COMPANY OP AMERICA (INCORPORATED) CHICAGO, IT. S. A. International Line:—Binders, Reapers, Headers, Header-Binders, Corn Binders, Corn Shockers, Corn Pickers, Huskers and Shredders, Corn Shellers, Mowers, Hay Tedders, Hay Rakes, Hay Sweepers, Hay Loaders, Hay Stackers, Hay Balers, Feed Grinders, Knife Grinders, Tillage Implements Cream Separators, Gasoline Engines, Pumping Jacks, Manure Spreaders, Weber Wagons, Columbus Wagons, New Bettendorf Wagons, International Auto Buggies and Binder Twine. ' — 50-i THE SOTTTHE EX PLANTER. [May,, clean and dry and give a tablespoon- ful of turpentine in their food once or twice a week. Now that the weath- er is warm, let them spend most of their time in the pasture. How Can I Know 2. No, it is not necessary to inocu- late for cow peas in the South. The About Paint "bacteria peculiar to the peas is found in nearly all land here and the seed itself carries the bacteria. Before I 3. The fall and winter is the best time but it may be applied with ad- vantage right up to the time of plant- Use It? ing crops. The best lime to use is that fresh from the kiln. Either burnt stone or burnt shells whichever can toe most cheaply bought.—Editor. asks the cautious man or woman. After HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN REGISTRY. the paint is on the house it is too Please give name and address of the Secretary of the Holsteln Friesian As- late. The money, not only for the sociation, and if there is more than paint, but for the painter's labor, has one in the United States. A SUBSCRIBER. been spent. Why not do as the big paint users do— railroads, contract- Mr. Frederick L. Houghton, of Brat- ing painters, factory owners, etc. ? tleboro, Vermont, is the Secretary of the Association. There is only one they test White Lead, which is the association.—Editor. solid ingredient of all good house SHEEP SCAB. paint, before it is applied. Kindly give me through your col- The paint ingredients (White Lead, Linseed Oil umns, a cure for sheep scab. and coloring matter) should always be bought separately and mixed W. B. D. by the painter fresh for each job. The test for quality is then Baltimore, Md. made before the paint is mixed. It is not a bit complicated; Cooper's Sheep Dip advertised in all one needs is a flame (candle, gas or spirit lamp) and a this issue is an old and world- blow- wide used remedy. Purcell, Ladd & pipe to intensify the heat. Co., of this city are local agents for White Lead is corroded metallic lead, the same as shot, lead-pipe or home- it. The Zenoleum Dip is also a good made sinkers for fishing lines. Intense heat forces the pasty "White Lead" back one.—Editor. into its original *brm of metallic lead. If, therefore, your experiment fails to wholly reduce the white lead to metallic lead, you may DISEASED APPLE TREES. be sure that the supposed White Lead is either adul- find some .twigs of apple Enclosed terated or totally bogus. tree. What is the disease and what the remery? J. W. H. We will furnish the necessary Warwick Co., Va. Blowpipe Free upon request if you wish to test paint. We are The apple twigs which you send glad to have you test our White Lead. Would we dare to do tnis, if there were any doubt as to show infestation with the scurfy scale the purity of our product ? Ask for Test Equipment 14 ,-Address (Chikmaspis furfurus). This is a na- tive insect and does, as a rule, com- NATIONAL LEAD COMPANY in whichever the paratively little damage. While it of following cities is nearest you: may weaken the trees a little, and un- New York, Boston, Buffalo, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, doubtedly does them some harm, I St. Louis, Philadelphia (John T. Lewis & Bros. Co never knew of an apple tree in bear- ); Pittsburgh (National Lead & Oil Co.) ing being killed by it. The same remedies which are applied for the San Jose scale will operate against this insect also. I refer particularly to the winter washes described in Cir- cular 42. Yours truly, L. O. HOWARD, LIGHTNING HAY PRESSES Chief of Bureau. The Old Reliable. In Use 25 Years. HORSE POWER AND BELT POWER GROUND LIMESTONE. Our Various Styles Meet All Demands. April I see where In your number Self-Feed Wood or Steel Pitman. Mr. Willis O. Wing, of Mechanicsburg, Quality Gives Best Results. Ohio, says that several tons of un- Send for Catalogue. burnt, ground limestone should be St., used to the acre for alfalfa, which KANSAS CITY HAY PRESS CO. 162 Mill Kansas City, Moj shouldn't cost over $1.00 per acre. Now, I am interested in the clovers, and would be glad to be informed TELL THE ADVERTISER WHERE YOU SAW HIS ADVERTISEMENT. — — 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 505 yhere I can purchase the lime for that and, when struck with the tips of the readily. Will you please tell me what nomey. B. T. HALL. fingers, makes a drum-like sound, is it is, and if it is of any value? Spottsylvania Co., Va. the trochar which is a sharp pointed (Miss) M. S. MARTIN.. instrument encased in a sheath which Pittsylvania Co., Va. There are several lime burners in leaves the sharp-point of the trocar Dhio and Pennsylvania now grinding free. This instrument is pushed The plant is the Wild Vetch, It he limestone and putting it up in through the skin at a point equally is a legume and valuable both as a >ags, and it is to this lime, no doubt, distant from the last rib, the hip forage plant and as an improver of Mr. Wing refers. We do not know bone, and the transverse processes of the land- —Ed. hat any of the Virginia makers have the lumbar vertebrae and the sharp- |r©t begun this business, but they point of the trochar is directed down- HOW TO CONSERVE AMMONIA IN night to do so, as lime in this form ward and slightly forward into the MANURE—THOMAS SLAG—APPLY- paunch. trochar is is found to be very beneficial when The then withdrawn ING LIME—SEEDING GRASS. Ised with green fallows, or where leaving /the sheath in the opening as 1. I notice in the March issue of. here is plenty of humus in the soil. long as the gas issues from it. After The Planter your reply to Subscriber', the gas ceases to blow off, remove the 3d. relative to dry cow manure. Now, sheath or canula and the place soon you tell him that the ammonia content heals. Where the case is not so ur- BLOAT IN CATTLE. was lost in drying process. Nfow. gent as to be likely to cause immedi- Can you tell me the proabble cause will you please tell me if this is true ate death if not relieved at once, the >£ and a remedy for flatulent colic, of all nitrogenous litter made on farm remedy is to give two ounces of aro- >r bloat, in cattle? R. H.L. and, df so, best method of preserving matic spirits of ammonia every half- Elizabeth City Co., Va. this costly element in hen house litter hour in a quart of cold water. This particularly and all farm manure. I should be followed by a purgative of Bloat is a form of indigestion and am using high-grade acid phosphate one pound of Epsom salts. Gentle nay be caused by any kind of food. in my stable and sometimes floats. walking exercise will often relieve IToung ckXver and other wet green Notice from recent experiments the mild cases.—Ed. :ood causes it. Corn meal sometimes phosphate is pronounced the better of souses- Food eaten too hastily caus- the two. ;s it. Whenever the digestive action PLANT FOR NAME. 2. With $4.20 per ton as price on >f the stomach is imperfectly per- caustic lime delivered at my freight' formed, the food in the stomach fer- I enclose a sprig of a plant that office, and say $14.50 as price on 16, nents and gas results, which causes comes up in my garden early every to 18 per cent- phosphate as figures to he bloating. The only remedy when spring. It has a purple bloom, then establish a ratio, at what price does he animal is suffering from a severe a dark pod filled with very small peas Thomas Slag phosphate become ari Ittack and the left flank is blown up they, too, arte very dark. My cow economical fertilizer. ;o or above the level of the backbone, seems to like it very much, eats It 3. In liming my land, which I have. A "Home Comfort" Stove Have you solved the ''Home Comfort" problem for this coming summer? Are you planning to put the coal range out of commission? Will you do the family boiling, stewing and frying in a sane and restful manner over a stove that keeps the kitchen cool? The heat from the NEW PERFECTION Wick Blue Flame Oil Cook-Stove is very powerful, but being concentrated at the opening on the top of the stove, all surface radiation (the cause of over-heating in a coal or wood stove) is avoided. Thus, though the "New Perfection" Oil Stove is a wonderfully quick and easy cooker, kitchen discomfort is almost entirely eliminated by it. Nothing adds more to the pleasure of a summer at home than a New Perfection" Oil Cook Stove in the kitchen. Made in three sizes, fully warranted. If not at your dealer's, write our nearest agency. The All that a lamp should be the Rayo is. Well made—orna- I^OLAHT mental—not easily tipped over—has perfect combustion greatest volume of light for oil consumed—burns longest with one filling. If not with your dealer, write our nearest agency. STANDARD OIL COMPANY (Incorporated; KSSB — 506 THE SOUTHEKN" PLANTEE. [May, been doing now for several years, my *x*xx*x*xxx*^^ practice is to (haul lime onto land pre- viously marked off in checks and dis- tribute it in checks in desired quan- TREES. WHOLESALE tities in these checks. Allow to re- main for several days until pulverized RD by the air and then scatter. I notice First Class Nursery Stock your advice in recent issue is to slake RETAIL. by pouring water over lime. Please of all kinds. state the loss consequent upon air slaking. As it is quite an expense to We make a specialty of handling dealers' orders. carry the water to the field, I suppose the adhesive property of lime is de- ALL STOCK TRUE TO NAME. stroyed by the air slaking and this is Apples, Nectarines, Pecans, Ornamental and very much desired in most of my land, Pears, Cherry, Chestnuts, Shade Trees, which is inclined wash. this to Can Feaeh, Quinces, Walnuts, Evergreens, property in lime be retained without Flam, Almonds, Small Fruits, Boses, Etc. making it really wet, in which state it could not be scattered. Aprieote, 4. In my system I seed my corn CALIFORNIA PRIVIT. tor rtod|ln|- WHITE FOB CATALCIU*. land at last working of corn to wheat . . AGENTS WANTED, or oats, and sapling clover and alsike clover. I run these fields then two FRANKLIN DAVI8 NURSERY CO., Baltimore), Me. years. This sieason I wish to add herds grass to the other seed in order to get a better sod on land. Now, will you tell me if tall meadow oat grass would be a good addition to ..ELMWOOD NURSERIES.. this? "Will it stand hard grazing, and will it set in the corn? Louisa Co., Va. JAMES H. Q. —We are Growers and Offer a Fine Atsortmen tof APPLES, PEACHES, PEARS, 1. The best way to conserve the CHEREIES, PLUMS APRICOTS, nitrogen in manure is to apply it at NECTARINES, GRAPE TINES, CURRANTS, once as made to the land. There the GOOSEBERRIES, STRAWBERRIES, DEWBERRIES, soil absorbs it. It is not, however, RASPBERRIES, ASPARAGUS, HORSERADISH, always convenient to this and then do ORNAMENTALS, SHADE TREES, HEDGE PLANTS. the best way is to pack the manure tightly lin a pit or covered yard and WRITE FOR CATALOGUE. keep it moist with water or liquid manure, spreading on it also at fre- J. B. WATKINS& BRO., Midlothian, Va. quent intervals some acid phosphate which will have the effect of arrest- ing rapid decomposition and at the same time will increase the value of DoYouSh yckleberries? the manure as plant food by supple- IF CO ZZZZ menting the phosphoric acid content in which element farm yard manure SEND FOR THE VIRGINIA HUCK BASKETS. is lacking. the manure most Where - - cc 'CATALOGUE FREE can be kept in the stall or boxes and be kept trodden solid by the animals, SOUTHSIDE MANUFACTURING CO., Petersburg, Va. there will be little loss of nitrogen, but this practice cannot be adopted in a dairy stable, as it is unsanitary, the ESTABLISHED 1877. IF INTERESTED, WRITE US. odor of the manure affecting the milk very quickly. In horse stables, the POTTER & WILLIAMS, use of plaster as a deodorizer is fre- that to —WHOLESALE- quently advised. It is true FRUIT AND PRODUCE DEALERS AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS, some extent the plaster will arrest 144, 146 ii ml 148 Michigan Street, Buffalo, N. V. the loss of ammonia, fixing it as sul- PARTICULAR ATTENTION GIVEN TO BERRIES, PEAS, BEANS, CABBAGE, phate of ammonia, but experiments CUKES, POTATOES. CANTELOUPES, ETC. have demonstrated that it is not so effective for this purpose as acid Made of 1-8 inch Thick HEAVY BOILER STEEL phosphate. The difficulty in using $5 Hog Trough for $2.45 "So Strong no Beast or Man Can Break or Injure.' durable trough ever in the stables is that Here Is the best and most acid phosphate made. Guaranteed to please you or money re- it is caustic and affects the feet of funded. Will last lifetime. No expense for re- pairs. lS-lnch wide x 7-inch deep x 5-ft. long, animals with tender feet. Hen ma- weigh 40 lbs., each M.45 or 8fo-»7.S5 am* toe best be preserved by mixing pay the freight. 6 ft. 83.15; 7 ft. «3.85; eft. nure can 84.40; 10 ft. $4.90. Don'tmiss this great bargain, it with dry dust and plaster and keep- ^vcryiiog- raiser e nould write for free circular describing these troughs to F. K. BOWKS CO., 692.606 lake SU, Chicago. UNTIL YOU INVESTIGATE "THE MASTER WORKMAN," DON'TBUYGASOLINEENGINES a two-cylinder gasoline, kerosene or alcohol engine, superior to any one-cylinder engine; revolutionizing power. Its weight and bulk are half that of single cylinder engines,eL.^... with greater durability. Costi Less to Buy—Less to Run. Quickly, easily started. Vibration practically overcome. Cheaply mounted on any wagon. It is a combination portable, stationary or tractl' engine. Send yon Catalogue. TU£ T£UFL£ FlJIIir CO., Mfri., Meagher and 15th 8U., Chlcaxo. THIS IS OUR FIFTY-FIFTH TEAR. 1908.] THE SOUTHEKN PLANTER. 507 ing it barrelled up in a dry shed. and, in addition to freight charges, suited for wet, low grounds. If you Your practice of using acid phosphate has added to it a protective duty as would also add some meadow fescue find and floats is correct, and you will an imported product of iron or steel. seed you will still more improve the advantage to your crops from it- This is one of the absurdities of the sod, as this grass makes a thicker 2. The easiest way to arrive at what tariff. The slag in no way competes bottom grass than either herds grass is the fair price at which Thomas slag with iron or steel in the market, as or oat grass.—Ed. is ajn economical manure to use is to it is solely used as a fertilizer and comjpare it with ground South Caro- the farmer who gets no benefit from lina or Tennessee rock (floats). It is the tariff in any way, but is robbed The American Review of Reviews. a fertilizer having much the same by it on everything hie buys, is made Herbert Henry Asquith, Frontis- characteristics as these natural fer- to pay dearer for a fertilizer in order piece. The Progress of the World. tilizers. The South Carolina and that his robbers may be able thus to Record of Current Events, with por- Tennessee rooks were formed hy heat plunder him in two ways. When will traits. Some of the Recent Cartoons. in the ages past. Thomas slag is the farmers make their power felt Laszlo and His Portrait of the Presi- made by the application of heat in the and compel the abolition of this iniqui- dent, with portraits. Dr. Wiley, Gov- furnace in smelting iron or steel ores. tous trust maker—the tariff! ernment Chemist, by Snell Smith, South Carolina rock has an average 3. When lime is allowed slowly to with portrait. What Medicine Owes analysis of 0.27 soluble phosphoric air slake, it reverts back again to the to Robert Koch, with portrait. The acid, 0.07 reverted phosphoric acid, chemical condition it was in before New Nation to the North, By Agnes and 28.03 total phosphoric acid. burning, which is a less available one C. Laut, with map. The Arts and Thomas slag has an average analysis for the amelioration of the physical Crafts in America, by Ernest Knaufft, 0.00 soluble phosphoric acid, 3.06 re- and mechanical condition of the soil with illustrations. Education in South verted phosphoric acid, and 23-49 total than when reduced quickly to a America, by William R. Shepherd, phosphoric acid. The lime content of powder hot and caustic by the appli- with portraits and other illustrations. South Carolina rock is 41.87 per cent. cation of just sufficient water to make International Socialism as a Folitical The lime content of .Thomas slag is it fall- It should not be so wet as to Force, by George Allan England. 48.66 per cent. You will see, there- become a pasty plaster, but only have Hearst: A Political Problem, by a fore, that they are practically on a sufficient water sprinkled on to cause Democratic politician. Checking the par as suppliers of plant food, and it to fall into a powder. You will find Waste of Our National Resources, by should, therefore, sell at about the that very little water is needed to se- Guy Elliott Mitchell, with illustrations- same price. When both are reduced cure this end and it will then spread A National Inventory, by Richard H. by grinding to an impalpable powder as easily as aiir slaked lime. Edmonds. The New American Farm- the availability of the plant food is 4. Tall meadow oat grass makes an er, by Herbert N. Casson. Leading about the same. The difficulty in get- excellent addition to the seeding of Articles of the Month, with portraits ting them at the samie price is caused a meadow or pasture. It is a most and other illustrations. Leading Fi- by the fact that the rock is a home nutritious grass and makes a heavy nancial Articles. The New Books, product whilst the slag is imported yield on average upland. It is not with portraits. DeLOACH CORN MILLS Produce more meal ams better meal tku any mllla oa the market. Both Pulley Mid Geared Mill*. Under Runner Mills, 18 to 48 Inches, Ton Runner Hills, M to 48 laches. With the famous Virginia or Dsonua Stone*. 'World beaters for making table meaL Also French Buhr Mills for all Kinds <>f Grinding Turbine and Orer-Sbot Water Wheels. The famous DR LOACH TARIABLB FRICTION PHBD SAW HILLS, SHINGLE HILLS, PLAJTHRS, GANG ROGERS, LATH HILLS AJTD WOOD- WORKING MACHINERY. Engines, Boilers and Gasolene Engines Send for Catalogue and tell us fully what yen want. DeLOACH Hill Mfg. Co. Box 265, Bridgeport, Ala. 508 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [May; A FARM ECONOMY. To hasten a bunch of hogs when high Sheep and lambs benefit as mucl The use of a "food tonic" as a pre- prices are in proslpeot, there is noth- from a consistent use of "food tonic' ventive of indigestion and consequent ing better, and the actual profit de- as other stock, tests by a State Expert check on growth and development, is rived from its use may be well illus- ment Station proving in one instanc< becoming a settled practice among trated by a simple computation. a profit of 235 per cent, over the cost owners and feeders of live stock. Suppose a bunch of four 125-pound from which it would seem that n< It is a well-established principle that hogs be taken as an experiment and farm economy is more practical o; hitter tonics strengthen digestion, that a maximum dose of two table- profitable than the "food tonic" idea. that iron builds rich blood in abund- spoonfuls he given twice a day. Now, ance and that nitrates remove from the actual weight of tonic eaten by CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE. the system the clogging poisons that the four hogs would be 1-6 of a pound "You say you met the defendant oi are not less deadly ebcause their ac- and would cost 5-6 of one cent, or a a street-car, and that he had beer tion is slow. It sometimes happens in fraction over 6 cents per month per drinking and gambling," said the at feeding cattle or hogs that the gain hog. Then, if the fact he taken into torney for the defense during the cross of months is almost complete lost by consideration that a thrifty hog may examination. -a mlistaken idea of economy which increase a hundredweight in a few "Yes," replied the witness. prevented a slight outlay for the "food weeks, we see at once that the "food "Did you see him take a drink?" tonic." tonic" would soon pay for itself and "No." This is a sample of the same old a large margin of profit be realized- "Did you see him gambling?" policy which "saves at the spigot to This is the theory and practice of "No." waste at the bung." the "tonic idea," and there is abund- Continuous "Then, how do you know," demand _ and rapid growth or fat- ant evidence to sustain it. Men who ed the attorney, "that the defendan' ting is impossible without daily doses aTe using .the "food tonic" regularly had been drinking and gambling?" of this beneficial tonic preparation. find lhat it pays for itself over and "Well," explained the witness, "h< Keep that in mind and remember over again and that there is no small gave the conductor a blue chip for hii that back of the idea is the indorse- investment made that gives so hand- car-fare, and told him to keep tin ment of such men as Professors Wins- some a return. change." Lippincott's. low, Quitman and Pinley Dun, noted The larger business of cattle raising — the country oyer as experts in ail and feeding is also equally broadened that relates to veterinary medical and extended by this commonly prac- Washington Co., Va., Dec. 18, '07. practice. ticed principle of giving a digestive I wish to say that if a few more oi It has been found that all farm ani- tonic. By its use a bunch of steers our farmers would take the Southerr thej mals are equally benefited by the use is carried safely through the months Planter and read it faithfully, of the "food tonic." Horses are in when heavy feiading is the rule, and would learn about farming and "truck better condition for work or driving brought to a satisfactory market con- ing. I think it is the most valuable oi and, where the object is to sell, they dition without a moment's check in the all papers. I could not do without It invariably show to better advantage. process of development. W. M. RATLIFF. i?W Implements, Machinery, Vehicles. Fairbanks-Morse Gasoline and Kerosene Engines, Wind Mills, Towers, Tanks, Pumping and Electric Lighting Outfits, Com- plete for Farm and Suburban use, New Holland Corn and Cob Mills, Wood Saws, Owensboro and Buckeye Farm Wagons, Hickory and Peters Buggies and Carriages, Bissell and genuine Dixie Plows and Repairs, J. I. Case Portable and Traction Engines, Separators, Repairs For All Farm Machinery. POSTAL US FOR CATALOGUES OR ANY IMFORMATION DESIRED F. C. HOENNIGER & BRO., INC. 1 432 East Main Street, Richmond, Va. (F. C. Hoennlger, Pres. & Tres.; T. W. Hoennlger, V.-Pres. & Mgr.; L. O. Boone, Secy.) !< j^.ftTrt.ru?STfTrVT T rt.T«rt«T«rt«T«rt»f«rt.T.rt^ — J08.] THE SOUTHEEN PLANTER. 509 I want you to get the most Ufcesml hmmIuw ever made on a Gasoline Engine. It will ntn yea ENGINES money. When a company like thl*, the oldest aad biggest exclusive gasoline engine manufactwrerc if the country, make aneh a proposition, at an sans some- thing. I hare placed ay proposition la the hand* of our representatives. Write to them ©r to me, and you will receive It by return mail. JAB. B. SEAGER. Oejn, Mgr. Olds Gaa Power Co. The Olds Engine la the beat and cheapest Engine you can buy. It la the simplest In nemntniiUon, u*««,, economical to run, will do your work at the tmtn* SEE CASE CRANK SHIFT CULTIVATOR This Cultivator is a combination of two popular types—the "Crank Shift" and "Pendulum Swing"—the best features of both being combined in it. The Shift.—The shifting or dodging of the gangs is done by a straight forward and back movement of the feet. The leverage is so powerful that it is done with practically no effort, and the gang responds so quickly that crooked corn can be perfectly culti vated. The Levers.—When at work the levers are down. Raising them a few inches brings the coil lift springs into play, and the gangs are lifted high without effort on the part of the operator. Mounted on the main levers are racks and short levers used in regulating the depth of cultivation with either gang, each independent of the other. To cultivate deep with either gang, it is only necessary to set the short lever backward or forward to cultivate shallow. By this ingenious arrangement of levers, one gang can be lowered to follow a dead furrow, and the other raised to culti- vate a ridge, or both lowered in crossing a furrow or low spot. Setting the gangs with the short lever has no effect on their being lifted full height out of the ground with the main levers. The Telescope Axle.—Like all other features, this one is perfect, and permits a range of adjustment between wheels from 44 inches out to 52 inches. The Wheels.—The wheels are made with removable and capped hub the kind that can be greased right without removing anything hut the cap. Better than dustproof, for every greasing forces out all the old grease and any dirt that may have gotten into the bearing. CASE WALKING CULTIVATORS Has adjustable coil-lifting springs which are attached to a sleeve with a coupling on the forward end of the gangs instead of the gangs them- selves. When in action the adjusting springs come immediately over the axle, but as the gangs are raised from the ground the springs are carried out from the center and increase in pressure as the handles are raised. OUR COMPLETE CATALOGUE, GIVING PRICES ON ALL FARM MACHINERY, SENT FREE ON REQUEST. THE IMPLEMENT COMPANY, 1302 E. MAIN ST., RICHMOND, VA. I — 510 THE SOUTHE EN PLANTER. [May, ENQUIRERS' COLUMN. (Detail Index.) BOOKS. thing for the lawn and lawn formation Muskmelons or Cantaloupes The Winter Lamb, by H. H. Miller, and care. H. P. Miller and J. E. Wing. Pub- Celery Growing—Strawberries. 487 The Spotless Co, Inc., Richmond, lished by J. E. Wing, Mechanicsburg, Watermelon Growing—Variety of Va. Everything for the farm and Ohio. Every breeder of early lambs Corn to Plant—Preservation home. ought to have this book. In it the for Fence Posts 490 B. H. Greider, Rheems, Pa. Pure- authors give the fullest information as Coarse and Fine Bran—Grass bred poultry. to how to successfully and profitably Seeding 491 Lawrence Williams Co., Cleveland, produce the early lamb which our Cow With Fits—Fertilizer for Ohio. Gombaults Caustic Balsam. Corn—F arm Demonstration climatic conditions in the South so Wallace B. Crugab, Forestville, Conn. wiell fit us to put on the Work 492 market when Chain hanging cattle stanchion. the price is the highest. will send Utilizing Bones 492 We Bateman Mfg. Co., Gnenloch, N. J. a copy to any subscriber to Plant- Whitewash 494 The The Iron Age farm and garden Imple- er for 25 cents. price of the book Care of Mare and Foal 494 The ments. without Planter is 50 cents. Sulphur 495 The C. L. Shenk, Page Valley Poultry Modern Sheep; Breeds and Manage- Poisoning Hawks 496 Yards, Luray, Va. Thoroughbred ment, By Snepherd Boy. Published by Hog Cholera—Sheep Dying 496 poultry. the American Sheep Breeder, Chicago, Bermuda Grass Seed 496 Chicago House Wrecking Co., Chica- 111. Price, $1.50. This is one of the Phosphate 498 go, 111. Everything for the farm and best books published on this subject Broomsedge 498 home. and every sheep keeper should have it. Irish Potato Fertilizer 499 American Jersey Cattle Club, 8 W. Jefferson Davis, by Dr. William Well and Water Works 499 17th St., New York. Dairy quality of E. Dodd, of Randolph-Macon College. Growing Forage on Mill-Pond dairy cattle. This is one of the American Crisis Land and Red Land 500 The Raney Canner Co., Chapel Hill, Biographies, published by George W. Ginseng 502 N. C. Improved Raney Canner. Jacobs & Co., of Philadelphia, Pa. Pigs Not Thriving—Inoculation E. F. Schlichter Co., 10 S. 18th St, The price of the book is $1.25. Dr. Philadelphia. Silos. of Cow Peas—Liming Land . . . 502 Dodd has written a most readable life Holstein-Fresian Registry 504 Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co., of the only President of the Southern Sheep Scab 50'4 Richmond, Va. Money in Tobacco- Confederacy and it cannot fail to be Diseased Apple Trees 504 Leggett & Bro., New York. Leg- of interest to Southern people especi- Ground Limestone 504 gett's spray calendar. ally. Bloat in Cattle 505 Plant for Name 505 How to Conserve Ammonia in CATALOGUES. A Neat Binder for your back num- Manure—Thomas Slag—Apply- Peter Henderson & Co., 35 and 37 bers can be had for 30 cents. Addres* ing Lime—Seeding Grass 505 Cortlandt Street, New York. Every- our Business Departmeat. Established by MANFRED CULL, Geo. Watt, 1840. THE CALL-WATT CO., Manager. 13 South 15th St., Richmond, Va. IMPLEMENTS, MACHINERY, WAGONS. THE UNIT MM MACHINE THE EMPIRE CORN AND FERTI- LIZER PLANTER. The Simplest, Easiest Managed and Least Expensive of Any. Requires but one Man and one Team to Operate It. Saves Labor Enough to Pay for Itself TWO-ROW CORN PLANTER. ThJj. DISC CULTIVATOR. in Two Days' Use. With Shoes or Discs and with or without Fertilizer Attachment and SPRING TOOTH CULTIVATOR AND THE PRICE BRINGS IT WITHIN Check Rower. .. DISC HARROW COMBINED. THE REACH OF ALL. ACCURATE, SIMPLE. STRONG. BALING PRESSES FOR HAND, HORSE AND STEAM POWER. FERTILIZER, LIME AND PLASTER SOWERS. EIGHT STYLES AND SIZES. SAWS. PEA HULLERS, GRINDING MILLS, HORSE POWERS, POLE AND WOOD ROAD ROLLERS, ROAD PLOWS, WHEEL AND DRAG SCRAPERS. PLOWS AND PLOW CASTINGS IN GREAT VARIETY. PRICES WO SOLICIT CORRESPONDENCE AND ARE PREPARED TO MAKE LOW 1908.] THE SOUTHEKN PLANTER. 511 A lor curing saddle harness galls, SUGGESTION WORTH HEEDING. and ! their gall cure, .to any one on receipt There in sore shoulder, scratches, heel, has been much the press grease I of ten cents to cover postage and of late concerning substitution and wire cuts, and other sores and abra- packing. To secure the same, address buyers have been repeatedly warned sions on horses land other animals. the Bickmore Gall Cure Co., Old j to stick to the brands of goods having One of the decided advantages about Town, Maine, kindly mentioning this an 'established reputation and which this preparation is the fact that the paper. have demonstrated their worth. One afflicted animal may be kept ait work of the surest methods of protecting while the cure is in process and often- THE PHILADELPHIA SILO. one's self against inferior imitations times the cure is more rapid when The E. F. Schlichter Co., of Philadel- is to become familiar with the trade the animal is working than it would phia is advertising its well-known marks of standard articles. be if he were left idle in the stall. silo in this issue. There are several The frequency with which a working new and exclusive features set forth horse is liable to be affected with in a brief circular, which will be some of the complaints above ment- mailed on application. Write to-day ionled makes it desirable to have on for it. hand at all times a remedy of this sort; not only for the reason that it THE GENERAL II. IMPORTED enables the owner to keep his animals HACKNEY STALLION NOW AT in working condition but from a hu- BURKEVILLE, VA. mane standpoint as well- Nothing is We call attention of our readers to more distressing to a person of tend- the advertisement of Mr. T. O. Sandy, er sensibilities than to see a horse Drs. J. G. Ferneyhough, and John under the harness being tormented by Young, owners of this splendid horse- Our readers will recognize in the a sore which is being constantly irri- These gentlemen have long been inter- illustration here shown a .trade mark tated and is a continual source of tor- ested in good horse flesh, and recently of this character. Wherever the dap- ment to the animal, and no man, un- had the opportunity to purchase the ple gray horse above illustrated ap- less he is exceedingly heartless, will General II., formerly owned by H. K. pears on a box of gall cure, the pur- allow such a condition of affairs long- Bloodgood, Esq., of Massachusetts. chaser may be certain that the con- er than it can be helped. 1'hey have placed him in the stud at tents were manufactured by the Bick- By having a supply of Bickmore's Mr. Sandy's farm and horse owners more Gall Cure Company, Old Town, Gall Cure on hand such unpleasant are offered his services at reasonable Maine, and that it: can be relied upon circumstances can be avoided and the rates. We venture the prediction of to accomplish the results claimed for animal saved much unnecessary suf- his immediate popularity, as he is a it by its makers. fering. The Bickmore Gall Cure Co. fine animal and the sire of some This firm has for many years manu- issue an attractive booklet which they splendid horses. Look up the ad., or, factured and sold this very useful call their Horse Book, and which they better still, run down and see him and preparation, which is of great value send, together with a free sample of some of his get. COLONEL PATRICK. HACKNEY STALLION. 47729. PATRICK HENRY. DISPERSAL SALE. Record, 2:10% ; Trial, 2:05%. Chestnut horse by "Squire Rickel," Hackneys and Thorough- The fastest trotting stallion owned in son of the famous Cadet; dam, "Mar- Trotters, North Carolina. Richly bred and a bred Horses, owned by the estate of jorie," a gold medal winner by "Rose- deceased, will be race horse. Sired by The Conqueror, berry." William N. Wilmer, 2:12%; dam Godelia, 2:16%, by Aber- sold at auction WEDNESDAY, MAY Stock deen 27. A POLLARD & SONS, 6 AT 1 P. M., at Plain Dealing FEE—$50 TO INSUURE. Dunraven Stock Farm, Farm, Scottsville, Albemarle County, include Stallions, Address M. H. WHITE, Hertford, N. C. R. F. D. No. 5, Richmond, Va. Va The offerings Brood Mares, Colts and Fillies, by N. B.—Horses handled and condi- richly-bred dams. GRANDEE. tioned; also boarded and pastured. noted sires, from Among the famous sires represented Registered French Coach Stallion, 2:09%; Axworthy, 2:15%-; chestnut are Allerton, horse, 16. 1 hands, weight 1908. IN THE STUD. 1908. Norval, 2:14%; Kentucky Prince, 1,300 pounds. Blue ribbon winner Vir- THE THOROUGHBRED STALLION, 2470, and others. The Stallions include ginia State Fair at Richmond, 1906 Chief, 27267, one of the best and 1907. LARRY K. Virginia known sires of good and useful horses FEE—$50 TO INSURE. Brown horse, 16 hands high, weight in Albemarle County; Abineer, 309^J; Address CARL, H. NOLTING, 1,200 pounds. Sired by Favor, dam Plain Dealing, 30921, and Surprise W., Trevilian, Louisa County, Va. Blue Bells, by Narragansett. Hackney. Among the Brood Mares are N. B.—Rich bluegrass pasturage for FEE—$10 SEASON, $15 INSURANCE. daughters of Allerton, Norval, Onward visiting mares. Address other sires, with foal by, and and son E. B, others bred to, Bon Axworthy, the LEWIS OR JOHN W. MATHEWS, Sunol, RED DILLON, 38696. of Axworthy and world famous Meredithville, Va. horses range 2 08%. The younger Bay horse, foaled 1902, height 15.3 and yearlings upward. hands, weight 1,200 pounds. from sucklngs Sired by catalogue. Baron Dillon, 2:12; dam, Zinda Lake, FRED HERR, 45239. Send for by Red Lake, 2:15%, sire of Lake Bay horse, foaled 1902, height 16 JOSEPH WILMER, ADMINISTRATOR, Queen, 2:06%. For terms address hands, weight 1,100 pounds, by Charley Va. JOHN B. VAUGHAN, Owner, Herr, 2:07; dam, Jessie P., dam of Scottsville, Annie Ashland, Va. Lee, 2:07%, etc., by Neapolitan, big 9966. N. B. Five or six head of good C. E. Worsham. R. A. Carter. FEE—$10 SEASON, $15 INSURANCE. Mules will also be sold. B. C. Brlstow. Address A. T. BROADDUS, R. F. D. No. 1, Highland Springs, Va. cata- The Bristow-Worsham Co. Stallion cards, folders and DIRECTOR, JR., 32294. pedigrees of trotters, v [Incorporated! logues compiled; traced. My Manufacturers and Dealers in Mahogany Bay Stallion, height 15% pacers and thoroughbreds hands, weight 1,100 pounds; BUGGIES, RUNABOUTS, WAGONS dam library includes Year Books, Trotting Mamie Wilkes, dam of Mary B., TRUCKS, DRAYS AND EVERY- 2:19%, Books, Files of turf THING IN VEHICLES. etc., by Red Wilkes, 1749. Registers, Stud other references. Special Office and Salesroom, 1417 E. Main St., FEE— $10 CASH FOR SINGLE LEAP journals and Factory, 1600 East Franklin St., attention to registration matters. RICHMOND, VA. OR $25 INSURANCE. Agents for Milburn and White Hickory J. M. VAUGHAN, Owner, Address W. J. CARTER, Farm Wagons. South Hill, Va. 1105 E. Cary Street, Richmond, Va. 512 THE SOUTHERN" PLANTER. [Mayr A FLEXIBLE ROOFING. Richmond, Va., is located .this splen- the poultryman has solved one of the After a man has done some work didly equipped poultry farm. Sixty main questions which involve the suc- with ready roofings he begins to long varieties of fowls are raised and eggs cess or failure of his business- for flexibility in his material more and breeding stock can be furnished The preparation advertised in these than anything else. So many roof- at all times- At the Virginia State columns known as "Avenarius Carboli- ings are stiff as boards and hard to Fair, this farm won numerous premi- num," is beyond doubt the most radi- handle. Eending them properly over ums on a variety of fowls. During the cal and permanent remedy to be used the eaves, cutting them to fit the roof spring they have had the services of for this purpose. It is a heavy, oily or folding the thick sheets in the Judge Wittman to assist in mating liquid, will not evaporate or wear off r corners is often difficult to do cor- their pens, and all poultrymen will ap- but sinks deeply into the wood and rectly. A roofing like Congo is rather preciate what this means. Recently, remains (permanently. It is applied to more satisfactory to the man who Mr. J. E. Guvernator, the Proprietor, the linside walls, roosts, etc., of the does the work. Congo is 'extremely purchased the Virginia Poultry Supply hen house or brooders with a brush pliable under all climatic conditions. Co., and is now in a position to fur- like paint or by spraying. While en- It can easily be folded double and nish all kinds of poultry sundries, in- tirely non-poisonous and harmless to will ie snug and close so that making cluding incubators and brooders. See fowls, it is strongly caustic and anti- a tight waterproof roof is a simple advertisements elsewhere. septic, which causes sure death to matter. The manufacturers will sup- vermin of all kinds. As one applica- ply samples and booklets on request. WHAT MAKES POULTRY RAISING tion is sufficient to keep the premises Address United Roofing and Manu- PAY. free from all further trouble and thus facturing Company, Philadelphia, Close attention to all little details, makes the remedy the cheapest and Chicago, San Francisco. proper location, good, healthy stock best that could possibly be obtained and a love and aptness for the busi- for this purpose. One trial will be BLACK'S BLACK LANGSHANS. ness. One of the greatest difficulties sufficent to convince any one of its Attention is called to the advertise- which besets the poultryman is the excelence. ments of A- M. Black, Tazewell, Va., louse problem, which recurs every The material has been in use for the well-known Langshan specialist. summer. It is not only the cause of nearly forty years as a wood preserva- Mr. Black has succeeded in developing much trouble and annoyance, but very tive, and its use is recommended espe- a distinct strain of typical Langshans often is one of the main causes of lack cially for preserving fence posts and of great egg-laying capacity. He has of success in raising rpoultry. The va- other posts, shingles, stable floors, won numerous prizes wherever he has rious kinds of lice which swarm in the joists, sills, etc., and for the painting shown, and is now offering stock and poultry house and pester the fowls day of all exposed woodwork on farm eggs from his winners. Send for his and night cause them to lose flesh, re- buildings and outhouses. Its attrac- latest circular. duce the egg production materially tive, rich nutbrown color is very dura- and also impair the vitality of the ble and will not fade or wear off under DE WITT POUJLTRY FARM. fowls. It follows, therefore, that if he the influence of sun and rain, and the At Highland Park, a suburb of can secure freedom from these pests, i woodwork, when treated, is absolutely W. K. BACHE. S. S. MULFORD. HARDIN K. BACHE. CYRUS McC. BACHE. W. K. BACHE, SONS & MULFORD. 1406 East Main Street, Richmond, Va* 44 Everything: used on the Farm." Farming Hachinery, Vehicles, Harness. "Keystone" Single Row Corn Planter. "Bradley" Double Row Corn Planter. "Little Jap" Disc Riding Cultivator. ".Tin a sville" Disc Riding Cultivator. These Cultivators ran be converted into Riding Disc Har- rows or into Hoe Cultivator. (< >> PERFECT De Lavai Cream Separators. Tonguelcss Disc Hanow with Fore, Thirnhill aud Tennessee Farm Wagons. truck. "Anderson" Buggies, Surreys &c. Easy on team. "Deering" and "Johnston" Binders, Mowers and Hay Rakes. Easy to Operate. Twine, Oil and Repairs. Write for Circular and Prices on Anything Needed. — 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 513 writing to you and using the Absorb- against rot and kind, every of it real, protected premature atom being ine as you advised me, there is no decay. It will at least double the genuine unadulterated dip. more bunch. I think as much again natural life of the wood, and, in many It stands at the head of all liquid of the colt." dips, as perfect in eases will even treble same- manufacture as in Now is the time to get your stock For further information, see Bulle- curative effect, and incomparably in proper condition for the season's application the cheaper and better than coal tar dips, tin 30, sent upon by work or the sale. A lame, blemished Oarbolineum Wood Preserving Co., 346 tobacco or lime and sulphur. horse can be made sound and smooth W- Broadway, New York, N. Y. It contains no sediment and no stir- with Absorbine without laying up the ring is required. mixed, the Once horse. No blister, no hair gone. Ab- IN MAKING. bath is uniform and unchangeable A NEW TRIUMPH DIP sorbine is mild, but prompt in its ac- firm throughout. The old established of William tion; stops lameness, kills pain, re- 65 years Another great preparation Cooper & Nephews for over of these moves bunches. $2.00 per bottle at the leading dip of the world, wiell-known chemists is Cooper's makers all druggists or express prepaid upon a "Lavene" the effective skin have recently put upon the market — most receipt of price. Manufactured only fluid dip, the advantages of which dressing for Horses, Cattle and Dogs. by W. F. Young, P. D- F., 10*9 Mon- over all crude dips will be appreciated Cures worst case of mange and ring- mouth St., Springfield, Mass. by 'thoughtful sheep owners. It is a worm at one dressing. Sieairches the highly concentrated, non-poisonous skin and attacks the disease at its SHE DID HER DUTY BY HIM. dip of marvelous strength. root. Improves the coat and renders One Monday morning the colored For scab curing, 1 gallon makes 120 hair soft and glossy. Is used by many "wash lady" did not arrive at the gallons wash. of the best breeders in preparing ani- usual hour to do the weekly washing For ticks, lice, etc., 1 gallon makes mals for show. of a family residing in a Pennsylva- 200 gallons wash. Stockmen and Farmers will do well nia town. It costs less than others because to write to Wm- Cooper & Nephews When she appeared some time later strength is greater. at their Chicago, Illinois, branch office the mistress of the house descended It mixes readily with cold water, and ask for a free catalogue describ- to the kitchen and was greatly edified whether hard or brackish, alkali or ing all of their valuable remedies. by the woman's explanation. salty, and is instantly ready for use. "No'm" carefully removing a hat It contains no tar oils and does not ABSORBINE FOR BLEMISHED — ornamented voluminous stain the fleece. STOCK. by a black veil, "I wa'n't sick. I to stay It costs much less for freight. Mr. M. M. Bell, Jamesville, Va., had home to receive diseased brother's It is a complete, ready-made dip writes under date of December 14, my remainders that was sent from Pitts- requiring no addition whatever for offi- 1907: "Absorbine is the finest thing burg day before yisterday." cial dippings other than water. that I have ever used. I had a two- — It is distinctly beneficial to skin and year-old colt trained the past season- March UppincoWs. wool. She came home with a bunch on her It contains no crude element of any ankle that I hated to look at. After Please mention the Southern Planter. LEADING 1908 UP-TO-DATE LABOR SAVING 20TH CENTURY MACHINERY. Kemp's Twentieth Century Improved Manure Spreader. Made in three sizes. Write for prices and catalogue. The "Genuine" Reed Spring Tooth Cultivator. Thousands used every year, giving perfect satisfaction. The Reed Spring Tooth Cultivator can be con- The "GENUINE BROWN RIDING verted into a spring tooth harrow by AND WALKING CULTIVATORS. Write buying the center gang at a small for special catalogue and prices. cost, making it a Spring Tooth Harrow on wheels. Write for the Reed Special Cultivator Circular and Catalogue. ECONOMY The most novel, practical and perfect doorway oi the 20th Century. Con- tinuous hoops with hoop support. Perfectly air tight. Built oirf scien BROWN Steel Lever Harrows, Wood tiflc and mechanical principles Harrows, Case-Ring Bearing Disc Fully warranted. Write for Ulustra Harrows, Spring Tooth Harrows. All ted <--ataingue and Information sizes, plain or with levers. Acme Case and Tiger Double-Row Corn Harrows of all styles kept in stock at Planter. Plants two and a half to five lowest net prices. feet. Plain or with Check-Row At- We mail our General Catalogue tachment. Also furnished with Fer- promptly on request. tilizer Attachment if wanted. HENING & NUGKOLS, 1436-38 E. Main St., Richmond, Va. 514 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER, [May, Get a Spotless Farm Wagon. It doesn't matter where your farm is or how serviceable a wagon you need, one of our One or Two-Horse Spotless Wagons will fill the bill, and do it to your own satisfaction. Prices on freight, collect from our factory in Southern Virginia. Add $1 to price if you wish them shipped from Richmond, Va. $1 O Brings a Spotless Wagon to You. To show you how great our faith in Spotless "Wagons is just send us $10, as a sign of good faith on your part, and we will ship you any Spotless Wagon you de sire to your freight office. Examine it, look it over, compare it to other wagons and if you are not convinced it is a great bargain ship back to us and we will send you your $10 and pay freight both ways. Now, isn't that talking business? If you are satisfied, pay the freight agent balance due and freight and take wagon. Furthermore, after you have tried the wagon you may return if not as represented. \i Two Horse Wagon Complete Without Brake $44.40. THIMBLE SKEIN ONE HORSE SPOTLESS WAGON. With Double Box, Spring Seat and Shafts. Height of Wheels. Dimensions of Beds Prices Size of Size of '0 ta Complete Running Skein Wagon Tire Front Hind Lower Top Length S Gear (Or Axle) with body and seat o"nly 2B1790 2>£x6% l l4x % 3 ft. 2 in. Z\i x 8 in. 9H in. i% in. 7 it. 6 in. 1500 $27.75 $23.40 2B1792 2^x7% 1% X 5-16 3 ft. 2 in. 3J4 x 8 in. 9^in. 4% in. 7 ft. 6 in. 1600 28.75 24.38 THIMBLE SKEIN TWO HORSE WAQON 2B1793 2% x 8 1%* ¥s 3 ft. 4 in. 4 ft. 11% in. 6 in. 9 fc 6 in. 2000 $44.40 $37 80 2B1794 2%x 8% 1%X7-16 3 ft. 4 in. 4 ft. 11% in. 7% in. 9 ft. 6 in 2500 45.60 39.00 2B1796 3 X 9 l%x % 3 ft. 4 in. 4 ft. 11% in. 8% in. 9 ft. 6 in. 2700 46.80 40.20 ONE HORSE STEEL AXLE WAQON With Double Box, Spring Seat and Shafts. 2B1798 1% > 7 1% x % 3<4 x 2 in. I 3^4 8 in. 9% in. iU in. 7 ft. 6 in. 1500 $27 75 $23.40 V-A x 5-16 ft. 2B180O M x 7 1% x 3J^x2 in. |3 ft. 8 in. 9% in- 4% in. 7 6 in. 1800 28 80 $24 60 STEfiL AXLE TWO HORSE WAGONS. 2B1802. I%x8 l%x% 3 ft. 4 in. 4 ft. 11% in. 6 in. 9 ft. 6 in. 2000 $46.80 $40 20 2BI804 IX x 8% 1% x 7-16 3 ft. 4 in. 4 ft. 11% in. 7% in. 9 ft. 6 in. 2500 48.00 41.40 in. ft. 2B1806 . 1% x^ 3 ft. 4 in. 4 ft. 11% in. 8% 9 6 in. 2700 49.20 42 60 WAGON EXTRAS Spring Seat, complete for either one or two horse wagon $1.50 each Shafts, for one horse wagon, complete .« 3.40 each Body Brakes, for one horse wagon, complete 2.75 each Gear Brakes, for one horse wagon, complete 3.40 each Gear Brakes, two horse wagon, complete 4.5* each Look Chains, two horse wagons, complete 47 each Our Guarantee. Will make good any and all breaks due to defective workmanship and material which appears in the first year after purchase. SPOTLESS CO., INC., t22s»*" RICHMOND, VA. LABOR SAVING IMPLEMENTS THE WATT PLOW CO., Richmond, Va. McCormick Fish, Moline, & Dee ring Ebbert, Web- er, Champion Mowers, Hay and Hickory Rakes and Farm Binders. Wagons. John Deere John Deere Sulky and and Black Gang Plows Hawk Dou- BlaaEEREtta*^ ble row corn Planters. John Deere and John Deere, Continental ^^ Buckeye, & Disc Culti Avery Walk vators. Extra | ing and Rid- Discs can be ing C ul ti- furnished to vators. convert into Harrow. Deere, John John Deere Black Hawk and Rod- Spang ler, erick Lean Root, and Spike Tooth Eureka Harrows. Single Row «&2&3M* cornplanters 1426 BAST MAIN STRBBT «a The Watt Co., Richmond, Va. Plow ; 438 BAST FRANKLIN STREET w Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company Why Not Insure To-Day? to- to-morrow your Doctor may be called in} Don't put off our examiner until ; nigllt. >*— <• • • Haven't Decided on the "Plan?" Limited Payment Life or Endowment Then take --Straight Life" and change to later, if preferred. _,, Haven't Decided on the "Company? of some of our polmyholders in your Drop me a postal and I'll send you the names date of birth is given. neighborhood as "references "-our rates, also if 7. ARCHIBALD C/lffV, Building. Richmond, Virginia. 601 Mutual Assurance Society Goueral Agent for Virginia ant North Carolina, - - - Corrugated V-Crimp Roofing - "painted and galvanized. 'Bestoid" Rubber Roofing Carey's Magnesia Cement Roofing Tarred Paper, Tin Plate, Lime, Cement, Hardware, Terra Cotta « Pipe, Wire Fence, Drain Tile, ei SHND FOR CAT.* » ^8UB. Baldwin & brown, 1557 E. haa»N ST., Ri .OND, VA. THE EVERLASTINO TUBULAR STEEL PLOW DOUBLETREES Number Catalogue Guaranteed not to Break or Bend, fl Send for Our 8 _-> I II i . __„ *,_* acquainted_—__a_«-^ yrith<^ik o«rnp i te Une.lime Hook or Rln* for Plow Mniite, 1808. Get Furnished wltk USE SPELLS KCONOJttlf. alao Traces. THEIR manufacture a Ask Tour Dealer for We Them and Take no complete line ot Dow- Otker. Pattern, No. Slngletreea, This bletreea, 10.'., made In three and Keck Token •< laea. ~«ry description. Sole ufacturers, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. flttsnurg Tnhnlar Steel Whiffletree Company, Man FERTILIZERS LEE'S PREPARED AGRICULTURAL LIME properly used. Wheat is now selling at a paying price, and from Never fails to give good results when ac^Vt°he^ foreign demand will con- trouble Russia.will, ^o*ouDt a^he The Present ,g inC rease the yield eight to ten bushels per 8 besides improving the land and insuring a good stand wref thereby piling over"lOO per cent oTthe cost, and 'growth of CLOVER. . LEE » S SPECIAL WHE r FERTILIZER tried it ,.^» ~ n „^ n t lonfi wptp K2 ner cent, larger than those of 1905. Those who ha^e better stand and growth of Clover and boug'hTmor^largVy ^M }™l$l &*&£**" ?ad a from any fertilizer they have ever used. GrassGrafs thantnan theyin y have LBE , S HIGH-ORADE BONE & POTASH. FOR POTATOES, CABBAGE AND OTEHIR VEGETABLES. M IMPORTED THOM Si 3 SLAG. s^&SF3r^££Vs& m iz&xs&xart ^.^ othefcS s FERTILIZER. fa COMPLETE - ^„.^~^ Q a. -I 1V u A. S. LEE & SONS CO., nc, Richmond,