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Agriculture Is the nursing mother of the Arts.—-XENOPHON. Tillage and pasturage are the two breasts of the State. --SULLY.

65th Year. Richmond, March, 1904. No. 3. Farm Management.

WORK FOfl THE MONTH. we.ather and that some progress might be made in The whole of the Southland is this winter passing- preparing the land for crops during the month of through abnormal weather conditions and especially February. In this we have been disappointed and is this so in this and the immediately adjoining States the work we suggested to be done in February still north and south of us. Since the middle of November remains unexecuted. We refer our readers to the (now more than three months ago) the ground has February issue for those suggestions and urge that been almost continually hard frozen and it has been at the very earliest break in the weather they may impossible to run a plow for a day and the end is not receive attention. With the use of all the diligence yet. At the time of this writing (20th February) capable of being exercised, and assuming the weather the frost is still intense and within the week just past to be fairly normal, there is going to be much diffi- the thermometer has made the lowest record of the culty in getting an average acreage of crops planted month, and of the winter in Middle Virginia. Here this year in seasonable time and in well prepared in the city of Richmond it has marked 8 degrees (24 land. The early advent of winter cut off at least a degrees of frost) and in the country within a few month of the usual fall plowing season and much miles of the city, has been down nearly, to zero. The land usually now only waiting for the drying out of winter in State has been the coldest but one since rec- the winter rains to be cultivated and prepared for ords were systematically kept. It is also exceptional seeding is yet to plow. This, added to that usually in that it has been the longest continued cold of which plowed in the spring, is going to make very heavy we have any record. Indeed this abnormal coldness work for the teams and hands, and we are afraid has continued ever since last June, January being the must necessarily result in many crops seeded in bad- eighth month in succession in which the mean average ly prepared land or a reduced area put into crops. temperature has been below the normal for the State. Notwithstanding this aspect of existing conditions In another respect also the weather has been abnor- we would still urge the point we have so often made mal. There has been a deficiency in the rainfall for at this season of the year, that greater attention be the past three months in this section, and for more paid to the preparation of the land before seeding than that period in other sections. Very similar even though the result be a reduction of the area put conditions have prevailed through all the Southern into crop. If as a consequence of this abnormal sea- States except those bordering on the Gulf, where son the result should be the doing of more intensive somewhat more normal weather has been experi- work the experience will not have been without its enced. In our last issue we ventured to hope that we advantages. As Professor Roberts in his work on were then nearly at the end of the period of abnormal the "Fertility of the land" well savs, "Since the soil 158 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [March, and the subsoil contain such stores of potential fer- not be possible to secure maximum yields of crops tility as analysis has abundantly demonstrated, and of any kind even though fertilizer of the highest since tap-rooted leguminous plants bring to the sur- grade was poured out in tons instead of pounds to the face abundant quantities of nitrogen with some min- acre. What all the land of this country most needs eral matter, and since^pany fields receive applica- is deep plowing anj^ perfect cultivation so that all tion of farm manure from time to time, some far- the soil is broken into fine particles to the depth of reaching cause or causes must be present ever tending at least 12 to 18 inches, and that this soil so broken to seriously restrict production. It will be found shall be filled with decayed vegetable matter (hu- that in this country the principal causes of low mus). When put into this condition the soil will yields of farm crops are imperfect preparation of the hold moisture and mainly upon the moisture content land, poor Ullage, and hence a lack of available plant of the soil depends its ability to dissolve and make food and insufficient moisture during some portion available the plant food naturally contained in it, of the plants life." That this is so has been abun- and that which may be supplied in the form of ma- dantly demonstrated by numerous experiments nure or fertilizer and upon this ability depends the made in almost every State, and is further illus- crop yield, as all plant food is taken up by plants in trated by results obtained in other countries. The liquid form alone. Without an abundant supply of yield of the wheat crop in the different countries of labor and teams it is impossible to do this full jus- the world is a striking illustration of this fact. In tice to the soil over a large area of land, but a small- England, where the most intensive system of farm- er area may be so handled, and if so handled, may be ing is practised, and where the land receives more made to yield as much as the larger area would do preparation for a single crop than is here usually imperfectly prepared, and the subsequent cultivation bestowed on three or four crops, the average yield of and harvesting of the increased crop cost but little wheat per acre in 1903 was 31.76 bushels, nearly 32 if any more than a small yield on the same area. bushels per acre. In Holland, where careful and With such a backward season as the present one good preparation is made, the yield was 28.57 (28£) and with the scarcity of labor, common all over the bushels per acre; in Belgium the yield was 27.70 South, it is essential if profit is to be made, that in- (27f) bushels per acre; in New Zealand 26.93 tensive and not extensive farming should be done. (nearly 27) bushels per acre; in Germany 25.44 The first step in this system is deep and thorough (25^) bushels per acre; in Sweden 25.29 (254J preparation of the soil. Let this have attention as bushels per acre; in France 18.80 (nearly 19) bush- soon as the weather will permit. It is too late to els per acre; in Canada 16.92 (nearly 17) bushels turn more than a very little of the subsoil on to the per acre; in the United States 12.76 (12f) bushels surface now, but it is not too late to break this sub- per acre; in Spain 10.80 (nearly 11) bushels per soil with the subsoil plow or a single tooth cultivator acre; in India 9.95 (nearly 10) bushels per acre; in so that it may become a reservoir to hold moisture Russia 8.80 (nearly 9) bushels per acre; in Aus- for the use of the crop during the hot season. tralia 6.38 (nearly 6^) bushels per acre. These varying yields are almost certain evidence of the de- For the benefit of the hundreds of new subscribers gree of preparation bestowed upon the land before who have come on to our list since the February issue the seeding of the crop. We make this assertion with was mailed we repeat the suggestion as to crops personal knowledge as to the method of preparing the which should be planted at once as the weather has land in a number of the countries named and from prevented this being done in February. The first to information received from the others. What is true receive attention should be the oat crop. It is now of the wheat crop is true of all other crops. The too late to sow Virginia Grey Winter Oats. We mechanical and physical condition of the soil in would now seed Rust proof Oats for the main crop. which the seed is planted has more bearing upon the Sow not less than two bushels to the acre, better yield than any fertilizer that may be applied, yet three. A new oat, of which we hear very good re- we are daily in receipt of letters from farmers all ports, is the Burt Oat. It is claimed for it that it over the country asking us to tell them what fertil- will mature in 90 days and thus if planted now will izer to use and what quantity to apply in order to ob- escape damage from the hot weather of the early tain certain named yields of crops. Upon most of summer. It is claimed also to be largely rust proof. the lands of the parties asking these questions, and We would advise a trial of this variety. Except in indeed upon most of the land of the South, it would the Piedmont and Western mountain sections of the 1904.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 159

•Southern States we would not now advise the seeding this crop as a hog pasture. He says his hogs thrived of the Canada pea crop. In those sections it should and kept in good condition upon it. It will only do prove valuable as an early forage or hay crop seeded well during the cool weather. When the hot summer any time during this month, Sow one and a hail to sets in plow the residue of the crop down and sow two bushels to the acre with a bushel of oats. Sow cow peas. the peas broadcast and work in with the cultivator so as to give them four or five inches of cover or Plant a field in artichokes for fall and winter drill them in and then sow the oats broadcast and feed for the hogs. Prepare the land as for a corn cover with the harrow. A good loamy soil is the best crop and set out the rows three feet apart and drop for this crop. the sets two feet apart in the rows. Five or six bush- els of sets will plant an acre. Cultivate the crop two Grass and clover seed should be sown this month or three times during growth. The hogs will harvest

if it is decided to try to increase the area fall seeded, the tubers for themselves in the fall and winter, or which is the best and proper time for seeding all they may be plowed out and stored like Irish pota- grasses and clover in the South. Probably as a con- toes and may be fed with advantage to either hogs or sequence of the severe winter it will be found that cattle. A yield of from 400 to 600 bushels to the much of the fall seeded grass and clover has been acre is frequently grown on good land, and twice

largely killed. Where this is the case it is not worth this quantity has been grown. while to try to mend the stand by patching but bet- ter results will be attained by reseeding the whole In this issue will be found an excellent article field. Mr. Clarke, the most successful hay grower or forage crops for hogs by Prof. J. S. Newman, of

in this country, says that he has never found it profit- the South Carolina Agricultural College. We invite able to endeavour to improve a stand of grass by par- attention to this. Prof. Newman has had long prac- tially reseeding. Whilst we cannot say this, as we tical experience in this work and speaks with the have on many occasions succeeded in materially im- authority of one with both a practical and scientific proving a stand by a partial reseeding in the spring, training.

yet as a general proposition we think Mr. Clarke is probably right, certainly so where the stand left is In laying out the land for the crops do not fail

only a very poor one. If the fall seeding is only to make provision for growing an ample supply of killed in spots we would endeavour to improve the forage crops for green feeding and for winter feed. look of the field by reseeding these spots, first break- The experience of this winter ought to be a warning ing the land shallow with a disc or sharp toothed har- to all farmers to make ample provision for feed for ,row then seeding and cover with the harrow and roll the stock during the winter months. Simply to rely

if dry enough. Sow all grass and clover seeds alone upon the fodder from the corn crop is not sufficient.

and not with a grain crop, and use plenty of seed, To make a farm pay it should be well stocked with say not less than two or three bushels with ?ix or cattle and these cannot do what they ought and can eight pounds of clover seed to the acre. For a do towards improving the farm and making money meadow on dry sound land sow a mixture of orchard unless they have always plenty to eat. Let them al- grass, tall meadow oat and red top with the clover. ways have feed to convert into manure and the fer- For low wet land sow red top or red top and Italian tilizer bills can be brought into very small compass rye with clover. For a pasture sow a mixture of or- and much more permanent improvement of the land chard grass, perennial rye, tall meadow oat, red top, -can be effected than through the use of commercial meadow fescue and Virginia blue grass with a mix fertilizers. Whilst the effect of the use of commer-

ture of red, alsike and white clover. cial fertilizer is usually exhausted in one year or two at most the effect of an application of farm yard ma- nure can be counted on for many years. Dwarf Essex Rape may be seeded this month as early as possible for a grazing crop for hogs, sheep and young cattle. Sow four or five pounds of seed Tobacco plant beds should be burnt and seeded broadcast and harrow in, or three pounds in drills at the first opportunity or the plants will not be two feet six inches apart. If sown in drill cultivate ready when they ought to be. Good tobacco is im- two or three times. We have a report from a sub- proving in value on the markets. Sun-cured has sold scriber just to hand speaking in the highest terms of at $24.50 per hundred. We anticipate a reduction 160 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [March,

in area of the tobacco crop in North and South Car- tects the inexperienced from misleading statements.

olina on account of the high price of cotton. This It is too often the case that the mere tyro in knowl- should give our Virginia growers a chance to make edge, practice and experience is the most frequent a bigger and more profitable crop. Much is being voluntary contributor to the agricultural press. said as to the importance of co-operative action in This by the way. My object in writing is to com- raising and selling this crop and endeavours are mend the letter of Mr. Chas. L. Dewey, of Wilkin- being made to secure this. Whilst not deprecating son county, Miss., and to suggest some additional such action we do not place the same high value on hog crops and an economical and convenient movable

it as many do. We are of the opinion of Col. J. S. fence. Cunningham, the largest tobacco grower in the world, For twenty years I have taught in my class-room that the way to secure profit from the tobacco crop is and practiced in the field the use of "hog crops" to diversify the crops on the farm and especially to peculiarly adopted to the South. One of my grad- make first all necessary home supplies. The tobacco uates, Mr. R. L. Bennett, former director of the Ar- crop can then be made a surplus product and be held kansas Experiment Station, profiting by my instruc- until the market calls for it at a price sufficient to tion, has made quite a reputation by demonstrating pay the growers. Instead of forcing it on the market by experiment at the Newport branch station, Ark., to meet the cost of living let the manufacturer have that pork could be raised more cheaply than at the to seek it and then the grower can fix the price. North by a judicious use of these specially adapted hog crops. I have demonstrated the same thing in Land for the cotton crop should be got ready for Alabama and South Carolina. There is no other part planting as soon as fit to work but do not attempt to of the world in which pork can be grown as cheaply fit it whilst wet. The importance of early plauting as in the middle belt of the cotton States if proper is now being emphasized in connection with the dam- use is made of the crops especially adapted to being age done by the Boll weevil. Practically this is the harvested by the hogs. only remedy which is so far suggested for the weevil The following crops are available for a supply with any hope of success. Whilst it is true that we throughout the year. There should be a Bermuda are not yet troubled with this weevil in the Coast pasture, adjacent to the area to be occupied by the States yet there is no telling how soon we may be, other crops, to be used when the ground is too wet as it has annually made great strides northward, and to be rboted by the hogs. Bermuda will keep hogs in it will be well to be provided against its coming as a healthy growing condition all summer without far as possible. Fertilizers for the cotton crop can grain, but both common vetch (vicia sativa) and with advantage, be applied several weeks before the hairy vetch (vicia villosa) should be broadcasted actual planting of the crop, and be incorporated with over the Bermuda sod in summer to afford late win- the soil whilst fitting it for planting. The maxi- ter and early spring pasturage. These will reseed generally mum quantity of fertilizer that can be themselves from year to year. average cotton land has been used with advantage on In addition to these, the following crops are avail- concluded to be such an amount as will furnish 50 able, viz. : Dwarf Essex rape and crimson clover pounds of potash and pounds of phosphoric acid, 15 sown in September. Rye sown with common vetch fertilizer made 20 pounds of nitrogen to the acre. A in September for winter and spring pasturage and of acid phosphate, 600 pounds of up of 1,200 pounds then allowed to make seed for late spring use. Win- pounds of Kainit will sup- cotton seed meal and 200 ter grazing oats and hairy vetch sown in September applied at the rate of 800 pounds to ply this need, to be pastured till 1st March and then allowed to the acre. make seed or be cut for hay. Red clover and orchard grass sown in September for spring pasturage and for fall and spring pasturage afterwards. Wheat sown FOR HOGS, FORAGE CROPS last September to be pastured till middle of February Editor Southern Planter: and then allowed to make seed to be harvested by the I have read the Planter for many years and con- hogs. Early amber sorghum planted in drills in sider it the best edited paper which comes to my March for early harvest for hogs. Orange or Lynk's office. Your practice of pointing out unorthodox hybrid planted at the same time for later harvest. matter in contributions is highly commendable and Spanish peanuts, chufas and Jerusalem artichokes add* much to the value of your journal, while it pro- planted in March, the peanuts to be fed off in early 1904.] THE SOUTHETW PLANTER, 161

fall, the artichokes in December, and the chufas struction of noxious seeds and insects prepared by

later. Qn land which is capable of producing 1 5 to the Audubon Society. All of the testimony collected 20 bushels of corn, peanuts «will produce 75 bushels. for this report, sems to concur in urging the neces- artichokes 500 bushels and chufas 200 bushels. Two sity of live stock as the most important factor in suc- plantings of sweet potatoes, one early and the other cessful farming in Virginia. Mr. Beverley's (the from vine cuttings, preference being given to varie- President of the Board) experience in cattle raising ties which produce small roots (hogs will root out in Tidewater Virginia is encouraging and sets forth large tubers and leave them to waste). Two plant- very well the results of his operations in his particu- ings of cow peas, one of some early variety such as lar branch of the beef producing industry. But very New era, Black or Speckled and another of a later many of our farmers here in the county of Essex

ripening variety. Soja beans planted in early spring, have determined that the veal market is a more profit- the beans to be allowed to ripen and fall on the able source of revenue than that for more matured ground and become swollen and softened and picked cattle. They argue that a herd of cows kept solely up by the hogs. Lastly a patch of prolific corn on for producing calves to be sold at six or eight weeks which the fattening hogs are to be turned to harden of age, or even two or three months, will be more off the meat for the knife. remunerative to the farmer than if their offspring

HOW TO UTILISE THESE CROPS ? are all kept until they are three years old, and when The, cable wire fence solves the problem of a mov- the calves will bring $12 to $15 each at the above able fenee by means of which the crops may be gath- mentioned age, this view may be correct. The ered, as desired, as follows: real point of importance, however, in the profitable Trim Out of some tough timber a post hole punch, production of live stock is the supply of the best and have the point shod with iron, band the top with iron most economical food. and pass a rod through near the top for convenience I have lately been experimenting with the shred- in handling. With this the holes for the posts are ding machine and am encouraged to hope much from easily made. Instead of fastening the wire to the it? agency in the preparation of good food for stock.

posts, spike on a piece of inch plank and fasten the But while it will improve even injured or slightly wire to this. When necessary to move the fence the mouldy hay by tearing it up and knocking off the plank is pried from the post and rolled up with the dust and mould, it can, of course, not be expected to

wire to be moved to the next plot to be pastured. The make good feed of bad material. Therefore the first posts being again set at the original distance apart object should be to harvest and cure the material to the planks are again nailed to them and the work is bo shredded in the best possible manner. Then when finished'. this has been done by having corn stover, pea hay and By means of this readily movable fence any part bright oat straw fed in alternate supply to the shred- of the field may be partitioned off and the inclosed der the feed will be nicely mixed and contain a crop completely harvested without waste. If this variety of different constituents. There are, how- plan was generally adopted by the farmers of the ever, several considerations necessary in the use of South they could not only grow all pork needed on this shredded food. First, there must be a suitable

the. farm but have a large surplus for sale. The place for its storage on farms which have not suffi- is too matter plain to need argument. cient barn room. One plan is to make rail or pole J. S. Newman. pens in the fields leaving an opening near the top Clemsdn College, 8. O. for the shredder's carrier and to have these pen? thatched with straw or fodder to prevent the access

of water. Another consideration is the method of SHREDDING AS THE BEST MEANS OF PREPAR- feeding the stock. In stables and stalls where mang-

ING CORN AND FODDER FOR FEED -IMPORT- ers and close racks can be built there is no difficulty, ANCE OF LIVE STOCK, but in the open fields some arrangement of boxes or

Editor Sovtliern Planter: racks would be necessary both to prevent its being

The annual report of the State Board (if Agi icul- trampled by the cattle or blown away by the wind. ture of Virginia and of Commissioner Koiner has Also, it would have to be carried from the storage much of value to the Virginia agriculturist and per- place to the fields in bags, while, when used in a barn, haps the very best of the whole series of papers is hampers or boxes would only be necessary and much that on the use and value of our wild birds for the de- more convenient than the bags. A little ingenuity 162 THE SOUTILEKN PLANTER [March, would soon surmount these difficulties, but there still almost entirely consists of clippings from agricultu- remains the need for a fair tariff of charge for the ral journals and experiment station reports the Com- use of the shredder and engine, as few farmers could missioner has almost invariably resorted to Northern afford to own the whole outfit themselves. and Western agricultural journals and reports for In the West, I believe, the rate of charge is some- his information. He doubts very much whether such times made by the acre. In other places by the day sources of information are the best and most reliable of so many hours for the use of the machinery. The for Southern farmers as conditions of climate and machine I used was the Keystone and it proved very crop production are here so different from those ex- satisfactory, but if the outfit is to be hired by the isting North and West. We concur in this view. farmer I would much prefer the large sized shred- Surely there is some work done by Southern Ex; der as it not only works faster but has more power periment Stations and by Southern agricultural jour- to shred large corn stalks and coarse pea vines. There nals which is worthy of being cited as deserving the are several sizes and while the smaller ones require attention of Southern farmers. It is poor encour- less power to drive them, they are not so well-adapted agement for Southern Experiment Stations and to the rough use of shredding coarse material. There Southern agricultural journals to see their work so seems to be little doubt that the shredder is greatly treated and their efforts to help Southern farmers so superior for food manufacture, to the cutting ma- slighted. It is, however, a consolatory reflection to chines which simply cut the material into lengths in- ourselves that the farmers themselves do not so regard stead of tearing and splitting it into a fibrous mass our own labors as is evidenced by the fact that we a? the shredder does. now send out more copies of The Southern Plant- There seems to be a growing disposition on the er every month than the Commissioner of Agricul- part of our farmers to abandon the production of ture of this State sends out every year of his report. corn and wheat for tobacco or what they call truck —Ed. farming, strangely enough on the ground that the lat- ter them better because labor is so scarce and pavs FARMING AS A BUSINESS, unsatisfactory. Now the tobacco grower and trucker Editor Southern Planter: both require much more and better skilled labor than Let it be understood, first, that land in itself is the corn and wheat grower, and while it is indisputa- worth nothing. It is valuable only when productive. ble that an acre of several other kinds of crops may Anyone laboring under the delusion that land in yield more revenue than one planted in corn or wheat the Old Dominion is cheap because we don't under- are the latter not prime necessities and if their culti- stand the farming business will part with some of his vation is abandoned how are thev to be supplied ? coin to learn better. If you think that you are buy- Tf the farmer has labor and capital enough to pro- ing a farm by paying two, three, five or even twenty duce both the "trucks" and the cereals this mav be dollars an acre for a piece of land with buildings oh well, but the ground upon which the "trucks" are ad- it, you may find yourself sadly mistaken. The build- vocated is the scarcitv of labor and capital, and there- ings may be worth all you paid for the farm and fore that it is apod policy to make most revenue from surely you will enjoy living in this wonderful - esti- the arreaffe in cultivation even when he-;will have to mate but as to the business end you have probably tipp f ne rnonev or a gTeat part 'of it to buy food for bought only a place for a farm. It is overlooking his honoehold and stock, at the most exorbitant rates this fact that has proven the. fatal stumbling block in he can eet it at all. The annual report before even if the path of many beginners. Buying a few hundred us most wisely advocates the production of more corn pounds of fertilizer will not bring back the fertility instead of less. Intensify methods and make as that cropping for generations and the elements have much corn on an acre as posible consistent with pro- taken from the soil. per economv fas we have heard of some verv large One should no more think of farming soil, empty yiehls in competitive trials costing" more in fertilizer of plant food, than he would think of starting a store labor than they were worth), but every Virginia and with an empty building. Convenient location to should rank the production of corn as the farmer railroads or markets doubles the value of farm land prime factor in agricultural success. as it would the value of a store site. Hauling is P. S. Hunter. Essex Co., Va. among the heaviest items on a farm. Clearing tim- Sending us the foregoing our correspondent com- ber and brush land usually costs as much as clear ments on the fact that in making up the report, which land can be bought for. —

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Start farming as you would any other business. Next spring plow under the clover, spread 10 to 15 Provide the raw material for the soil. Spreading bushels of lime, 500 pounds of rock phosphate and commercial fertilizer with lauish hands is not al- some potassium. Sow again to cow peas or soja ways successful as it is apt to wash away. The safest beans. This crop is also to be plowed under. and surest road is the one that the Southern Plant- Your land will now be in fine order for oats if you er has pointed out for these many years: growing wish to sow a few acres. But the land intended for leguminous crops, such as cow peas, clover and corn the following spring should again be sowed to alfalfa, but to depend upon these agencies alone would German clover to prevent leaching during winter. take too long. You would be wasting years without As land is rated here by the number of barrels of remuneration from your farm. Buy no more land corn it will produce, it should now yield 10 barrels than you can afford to stock with plant food and do or fifty bushels if properly cultivated. The time has not buy stock until the farm produces the wherewith come then to get some good graded stock and to ex- to feed it, else the cattle, hogs, horses and sheep will tend the work of improving to the rest of the farm. eat the bottom out of your purse. As a business Don't imagine, however, that you can now ?i fiord proposition no man can afford to waste his time im- to let your stock of fertility run down. Of course, proving only a few acres. If you haven't the means your alfalfa field will get richer every year and you to handle fifty to a hundred acres, try trucking. A will have more stable manure but even then it is ad- smaller farm will not be a paying propositon. visable to keep on growing peas and clover. Land in the South should never be bare of vegetation. When Next to feeding the soil or perhaps even more im- a crop is removed, sow peas or clover immediately portant is proper cultivation. If you have settled according to season, peas for summer, German clover on your place disk as many acres as you know you for winter. Always use lime, phosphorous and po- will be able to handle. Disk in half-lap. Then plow tassium for these crops. deeply. If you can, let the subsoiler follow the turn- You have plowed under four crops at a cost of ing plow. Always harrow immediately after plow- $5 for seed, with 70 bushels of lime, costing $4 (in car ing, unless too wet, to prevent the land from drying load lots), 2,500 pounds rock phosphate, at $10 and out. Then disk again until it is warm enough to 800 pounds potassium chloride at $16. Your work plant. Unless you are located in the limestone re- of plowing, seeding, disking, etc., should be worth gion, spread 20 to 50 bushels of lime to the acre. $16 per acre. If the land is near market or station Lime costs from $2 per ton to six and seven cents your improvements are more valuable than on land per bushel. Spread also 500 to 1,000 pounds of less conveniently located. Life will be easier now ground rock phosphate. It costs $7 to $8 per ton. since the alfalfa field has reduced the acreage under Also not less than 200 pounds of potassium chloride plow. The decaying crops have supplied the soil (muriate of potash—En.) It costs about $41 per ton. with humus and the land will produce now as well as Harrow to a fine tilth and soav or drill thickly to cow land sold for peas. $100 or more in Illinois and your pro- ducts will bring from 50 to 100 per cent, more than Begin plowing the peas under in July (we would they would in most Western sections. N. suggest August, as the peas will be then more nearly Hanover Co., Va. matured. Turning a crop of peas under when full of sap and growth is apt to sour land in this warm We would advise the seeding of hairy vetch as well climate—Er>.) and disk the land every week in half- a;> German clover for a winter cover crop. The clover lap until time for fall sowing. If you have Used is somewhat uncertain to stand every year whilst :tlie only 20 bushels of lime in the spring, sow now 20 vetch can be relied on. Ed. bushels more. Also sow again 500 pounds rock phos- phate and some potassium chloride (muriate of pot- ash). The land is now ready for alfalfa or German clover. Devote as much as you to alfalfa. can See WHAT ALFALFA IS GOOD FOR, February issue of the Southern Planter for in- It is excellent for soiling, that is to feed fresh-cut structions how to grow it, to cows, especially when the pastures are sun-burnt On the land not needed for alfalfa sow German and the flies troublesome. It is fine for horses, after clover. The land or the seed should be infected with letting it sweat a few hours. It fattens hogs green bacteria if German clover has never been grown on or as hay. Chickens eat the hay as well as green the field (bacteria can be had from Washington). alfalfa. It makes the very richest and best hay and :

164 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [March, is as nutritious as bran and is good for all kinds of ing time of dropping last calf and date of becoming stock. Sheep and cattle will fatten on it. It conies fresh again, as circumstances would allow. early in the spring, can be cut three or four times and To these cattle we gave each a certain amount of stays green late in the fall. It will live 100 years silage, viz. : 34 pounds per day. They also had 12 pounds of grain from a mixture as follows and will make poor farms and poor farmers rich. 1 parts of corn and cob meal. 4 parts bran. 4 parts cotton seed meal. HAY SUBTITUTES FOR STOCK FEEDING, 5 parts dark feeding flour. (Commonly called Editor tSouthem Planter: daisy middlings or red dog chop.)

In giving consideration to articles of food for cat- 2 parts linseed meal (old process). The above cost almost exactly one cent per pound. tle during the winter season, we are apt to expend three of the cows were very poor more thought on the various grains and concentrated As will be noted, milkers, Xos. 9 and but there was no reason feeds, than on the more bulky materials, commonly 2, 13, to think they would fall off in flow more rapidly in mentioned as roughage. This is but natural, as the former are much more expensive, but particularly proportion to amount given, than the others, and balance that were because most farmers expect to raise enough of the they suited better for the work than of the coarse articles and supplement with grains and mill available. These were the most common stock feeds as may be necessary. lot and have since been slaughtered for beef. Occasionally, however, the question of economy in The trial was continued for eleven weeks, and it it expected that in that use of hay, corn stover, etc., forces itself upon us, and would be natural and was time, all animals would fall off somewhat in flow of when this occurs, the best solution of the problem be- comes of vital importance. milk, and the amount of such reduction would be an Be- During the season of 1902, this vicinity was visited indication of relative value of food consumed. side the silage and grain given, each cow was allowed with a drought of unusual severity, almost no rain all the roughage she would consume and of kinds as falling from April 1st to middle of September. About indicated in tables. two-thirds the usual amount of corn was grown per Nbs. 1 and 2, dry straw, mixed with the silage be- acre, half of a wheat crop, while of hay we had per- haps, a tenth the usual amount fore feeding. When such drought prevails, stock of all kinds ISTos. 3 and 4, dry corn stover. fail to increase in size or flesh or to give the flow of Nos. 5 and 6, wet corn stover. milk, that would be the case in ordinary seasons, but Nbs. 7 and 8, dry straw (not mixed as with Nos. worse still, they go into winter quarters in bad con- 1 and 2.)

dition and with scanty feed of all kinds, to carry them ISTos. 9 and 10, wet straw.

through. One may sell a portion of his stock, if he is ISTos. 11 and 12, dry hulls. so fortunate as to find a market, as prices that but ISTos. 13 and 14, wet hulls. must prevail will be very low, and as the same cat- TABLE I. tle would probably be needed the following season,

- a » . the tendency is, to keep as many animals as can be AVERAGE LBS. CONSUMED PER WEEK.

kept alive, trusting to an open winter and good for- fe tune rather than good feed to carry them through.

As we had but little hay. but more wheat straw and -Q aT, SqoS a very good amount of corn stover, and particularly 104.2 as cotton seed "hull? were being shipped into our im- 138 8 144.5 +57 97.8 69.6 —28.2 99.1 mediate neighborhood, it seemed a good time to study 247.4 216.1 —31.3 100.2 the values of these articles as "hay substitutes.'" \Te 185.4 195 6 +10.2 95.6 175 3 190. +14.7 93 6 also had a good amount of silage, and this and the 185.7 188 6 +2.9 97.7 roughage mentioned above was given to the cows pro- 215.3 168.3 —47. 53.3 201. 142.5 -61.5 31.7 ducing milk, while to a lot of fourteen spayed heif- 82 9 52.8 —30.1 20 ers, the hay, straw, corn stover and cotton seed hulls 135.7 134.4 —1.3 36.5 169.8 154.6 —15.2 28.7 were given, as shown in a following table. 222.3 173.8 -48.5 35.8 HAY SUBSTITUTES FOR DAIRY COWS. 13| 103.3 81.5 —21.8 14l 158 3 99.7 —58.6 Eor this work Ave selected fourteen cows of good 5 constitution and size, (most of them being Holstein A portion of the cows were fe' grades) and with as nearly like conditions, concern- roughage, to see if the J***' — .

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tability and consequent greater consumption and amount of these moistened and grain covered hulls with resultant better yield jyf milk. that was consumed, was extremely difficult and ut- Cows given a moderate ration of grain and silage, most care was necessary, that only such amount could not be expected to eat these coarse materials, should be given as would be eaten. with any great relish, and if by any manipulation Realizing that wheat straw would not be relished we can make them more palatable, we may use them by any of the cows, we concluded to not only moisten

t«> better advantage than would otherwise be possible. it for one lot, but to set aside a third pair, giving

If we consider first, cows Nos. 3, 4, 5 and 6, the them straw mixed with their silage and feeding il

iformor pair given dry and the latter wet, stover, the after it had been mixed for a shorl time, to give it a ;aimonnt consumed was slightly more with the cows chance of getting the flavor of the silage. h\ this we igiven the dry article, if we judge by the averages as were not disappointed, for both cows ate a very con ;given in the table. In comparing the pairs, how- siderable amount of the straw and the yield of milk ever the table is not absolutely accurate. After the was second only to the stover fed lot. The straw stover was once wet (and the same applies with could not be easily separated from the silage, by the

equal force to the other articles) it is impossible to cow, and the whole was eaten with evident relish.

re-dry it and leave exactly the same amount of mois- Noting the conditions under which these two cows ture it had before the wetting, hence any food that seemed to thrive, we, in February, began feeding a was left, had to be weighed back as nearly correct as considerable number in our herd (about twenty cows) possible, but with an unavoidable element of error. with silage and straw mixed. Our method of hand Understanding this, the amount of stover con- ling it was, in the afternoon, just before dusk, we sumed was practically the same in each case. Three placed in a room convenient, alternate layers of

.Ait&v vainly attempting for two tf-eeks to get the this article. Prof. has cows to eat the moistened hulls we found it would be Nourse be impossible to get them to consume any appreciable the Agriculturist amount. We also found Nos. 11 and 12 did not at Blacksburg for relish them, at times leaving in the manger almost many years and. the entire amount that had been given. For these we have published reasons we not only moistened the hulls given Nos. a number of valu- 13 and 14, but we mixed with them a portion of their able contributions grain ration, the dry grain given from him. Ed. \ them being re- duced by the amount placed on the hulls. By this means they consumed over three times as many When corresponding with advertisers mention hulls as did the two preceding. To find the exact The Southern Planter. —

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ENQUIRER'S COLUMN. once by spring seeding. The fall is the proper time to sow grass and clover in the South. We would ad- Enquiries should be sent to the office of Tiie Southebn cise you to prepare the land well by deep plowing and Planter, Richmond, Va., not later than the 15th of the month for replies to appear in the next month's issue. cultivation this spring. Apply 300 pounds of acid phosphate to the acre and then sow cow peas, one Tomato Growing—Potato (Irish). bushel to the acre. Cut this crop for hay in August, Please give a full treatise on the best commercial leaving a long stubble. Then cut up this stubble with fertilizer suitable for the different crops. What com- a disc harrow and apply 300 pounds of bone meal to poses the best fertilizer for tomatoes ? I fear that the acre and sow two bushels of grass seed (a mix- the tomato subject is too much neglected in Virginia. ture of orchard grass, tall meadow oat grass and red Do you not know that Roanoke and Botetourt coun- top in equal parts, and eight pounds of red or sapling ties produce more tomatoes than any other two coun- clover to the acre. Cover with a light harrow and ties in the United States ? What is needed for toma- if dry enough roll. The grass seeds should be sown toes is something that will act from the very first and not later than September. grain with the help to retain moisture during the drouths that gen- Sow no grass seeds succeed in erally occur while tomatoes are maturing. A fertil- and you will then probably izer that has a tendency to hasten the maturity too getting a good stand of grass. Ed. rapidly is worse than no fertilizer at all. Will not the editor and some of our well experienced growers Alfalfa— Fig Trees—Bermuda Grass. give us a full treatise on the best mode and plans for 1. Please give me some information in regard to cultivating this delicious vegetable "by the fields alfalfa. I sowed some last spring about 1st of April, full ?" Another question, What is the largest smooth and I sowed some last October. I find I only have a potato grown in the South ? small stand on each piece of land. Would you ad- Roanoke Co., Va. E. E. Engleman. vise me to run a disc over these lots and put in more We will endeavour to write an article for this issue seed ? The first piece sowed, in spring has right on tomato growing. If net found in this issue it shall much grass and clover in it. Last fall I mowed it twice and let it lay cover. appear in April. Meanwhile sow the seed in boxes on the ground for a 2. I have also a nice lot of fig bushes on the farm, or in gentle hot beds so that the plants may be grow- and they grow every year, and always have a heavy ing ready for transplanting to grow stocky plants foliage of leaves, and look very thrifty, but never for setting out in the fields in May. We are aware bear any fruit at all. Can you explain the cause of that the two counties named make large crops of to- this ? Is there anything that can be done to make matoes but doubt we whether they grow more than them bear fruit? some of the Maryland counties. They are also now 3. I have also some grape vines that don't bear. largely grown in Tidewater Virginia. They may be too old. By "Smooth" potatoes we presume you to mean 4. Is there any way to get rid of wire' grass in a Irish potatoes. Burbank. Peach Blow and Carmen garden? R. P. Taliaferro. No. 3 are generally reputed to grow the largest sized Gloucester Co., Va. 1. Probably the reason why the alfalfa has not tubers. In writing on the several crops in each is- is absence necessary sue we always state the particular plant food for made a good stand the .of the which the crop calls, but never advise any particular alfalfa bacteria in the. soil.. When the land, is dry 15 brand of mixed fertilizer. We do not advise the use enough run a disc harrow over it and sow 10 or of readv mixed fertilizers at all.—Ed. pounds more seed -to the .acre, first infecting this. seed with alfalfa bacteria Avhich you can procure from the Agriculture, Improving Land—Seeding to Grass and Clover. Department of Washington, or sowing over the field a bushel or two per acre of soil pro- We have 60 acres of medium grade land (30 acres cured from a field having already a good of plowed in fall) which we are trying to improve. It stand is our idea to sow sapling clover and a few timothy alfalfa. Until the land is thoroughly infected with and red top seed. How early in spring would you the bacteria the alfalfa will not grow luxuriantly. advise sowing, and would you sow any small grain ? 2. As to the fig trees we have had several similar Tf so, what? Our main object is to improve the complaints, but are Tinable to suggest a remedy. soil and get grass. A. G. P. Write the Experiment Station, Raleigh, !N~. O, for Culpeper Co., Va. their Bulletin on fig growing. . Possibly this will give Unless this land is really fertile and rich we would you information which will help you. not advise attempting to get into grass and clover at 3. It is not worth while to work with the old vines. — — — —

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Dig them up and work the land well and set out new lieved to be a fungoid disease and that the germs are the young vines. carried on the stalks and damaged leaves left in used 4. The way to get rid of the wire grass in a gar- field and that from these the soil or the manure disease the next den is to dig it out. It is possible if you can spare becomes infected and carries the to the garden for a year to smother the grass out with a crop. It is not a wise practise to fallow the stalks heavy growth of cow peas. Ed. in wherever specking has injured the crop. Better to burn them and all trash from the crop. Ed.

Tomato Blight—Winter Cabbage. Grass Seeding. 1. Would you kindly tell me the best remedy for I have a piece of land that I sowed to grass in the blight on. tomatoes, the same having nearly killed my early part of October last. I purchased my seed of tomato vines the two last years just about the time T. W. Wood & Sons, Mixture No. 3. About one- tlie tomatoes began to ripen. Is it not better not to sixth of the seed came up. Will you tell me what put any manure near the roots when setting out will be best for me to do. Must I break my land plants? afresh this spring and sow to oats and grass, or grass 2. Would you also state the best time to sow late alone, or will it answer to harrow the land thoroughly cabbage seed, and the best time to set out plants for and reseed, or will it be safe to wait and see if the winter use? seed which has lain dormant Avill come up this 3. What is the best remedy for worms or other spring, as we had very dry weather last fall and insects on cabbage? winter ? The land is steep and subject to wash. 4. What is the best remedy for chicken cholera ? Surry Co., N. C. E. J. Mileer. Warwick Co., Va. Subscriber. We would wait and see if the seed which did not 1. Spraying with Bordeaux Mixture is the best come up in the fall would yet germinate. We think known remedy for tomato blight but is not always a probably much of it will do so, seeing the dry condi- specific. You should change the location of your tion of the land and the late period at which it was tomato plot as the land where they have blighted for sown. En. two years is no doubt infested with the spores of the disease and will give it to any plants set out in the same ground. Sweet Potato Growing. 1. slips, 2. The seed for winter cabbage plants should not When must I bed potatoes for growing be sowed until July and the plants should then be and when should the slips be set out? 2. How many bushels of potatoes should I bed to pushed on by plenty of manure and cultivation so as get slips sufficient to set four acres ? to have them ready to set out in August and Sep- 3. Would you advise fertilizing ? If so, what kind tember. • and how much per acre ? The land is a light sandy 3. In the spray calendar in this issue you will soil, and is very productive. find the proper remedies for cabbage worms. 4. Which is the best variety? .4. We know of no certain remedy for chicken 5. Please send specifications for a house that will cholera. It- is a germ disease and when once a flock hold eight hundred bushels. Geo. W.. Shipp. has become infested with the germs which are con- Catawba Co., N. C. veyed from one fowl to another by the droppings 1. In your section the potato slips may be set out nothing can certainly be relied on to stop it. A little in the' field from May to. July. It usually takes carbolic acid in the drinking water and the disinfec- about five weeks to grow the slips from the time of tion of the runs and houses with solution of copperas bedding the tubers. This will give you an idea when is a.bout. the- best that can be done. Ed. to bed the tubers according to when you want to plant them in the field. 2. Medium sized potatoes will grow Specking of Tobacco. from 2,000 to 3,000 slips per bushel at two or three drawings.

; 1. Do tobacco stalks sneck tobacco put on land in 3. If your land is very productive it is not likely the spring and fallowed ? that it Avill be wise to fertilize it as this would pro- 2. From what cause docs tobacco speck ? duce excessive vine growth 3. I had a good lot of tobacco last year, as I and reduce the crop of thought, hut when I classed it T found that it was tubers. specked with white specks. G-. T. Aeeen. 4. If the potatoes are intended for a Northern Lunenburg Co., Va. market a dry mealy variety like the Yellow Nanse-

The cause of tobacco specking is obscure. It is be- mond should be grown. If for a Southern market a — — — —

168 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [March, soft sugary potato like a Yam should be grown. senic shall I use to obtain "worm free" apples, and 5. We will deal with the question of a storage vvhen is best time to use it ? house for sweet potatoes later in the season. Ed. Charlotte Co., Va. Mrs. Charles Guthrie. 1. Make the lime wash for fruit trees just as you would for lime washing a building. Place a few lime- Strawberries—Raspberries. stones in a tub and pour water on them and let them Should strawberries be cultivated in the spring slake and fall, then thin down the mixture with more when planted in the fall ? Will raspberries bear fruit water until thin enough to spray or apply with a the summer following fall planting ? C. M. Bass. brush. Yes. Cultivate the strawberries as soon as the 2. Mix 4 ounces of Paris green with 50 gallons ground is dry enough and thus encourage growth. of Bordeaux mixture. Spray as soon as the blossoms Raspberries will not bear much fruit the first sea- have fallen and whilst the young fruits are standing son. They may carry a small crop, but it is better upright so that the arsenic of the "green" may settle ^hat they should not be encouraged to do so but rather in the calyx of the fruit as that is the place where be encouraged to grow and make wood for next sea-

, the worm enters the fruit. Ed. con s bearing. Ed.

Preserving Skins of Animals—Horses Rubbing Irish Potato Growing. Tails—Vetch Seed. With a suitable season this year. I want to raise a 1. Please inform me how to preserve the skins of large crop of Irish potatoes, and wish to get the animals so the hair will not fall out. largest possible yield per acre. My land is in a fine 2. What causes horses to rub the roots of their

state of cultivation, having had stable manure broad- tails ? If it is worms, what will relieve them ? casted over it four years in succession, and have had 3. Is it best to procure vetch seed from a seedsman

peas on it twice during the time. What I wish to or a store ? E. Y. P. is, Avhat of fertilizer shall to know kind I use get the Campbell Co., Va. . \ biggest yield (give formula), or do you think it best 1. The skins of animals may be preserved by to buy Peruvian guano see it advertised in vour d sprinkling them with a mixture of two parts saltpeter columns), and add potash, etc., to it? If so, please and one part of alum. Pulverize finely and sprinkle state what amount of potash and ammonia, if any, to all over the flesh side of the skin and fold the skin get a maximum crop. Cosmo Benson. flesh to flesh and roll up and let it lie a day or two, Rockingham Co., N. C. then with a dull knife remove the meat and fat if any A crop of 300 bushels of Irish potatoes to the acre on the skin and hang to dry. When about half dry removes from the soil about 55 pounds of- nitrogen. commence to rub and work to make the skin supple 25 pounds of phosphoric acid and 85 pounds of pot- and continue at intervals until dry. ash. To supply this a fertilizer made up of 100 2. The itching of the root of the tail may be caused pounds of nitrate of soda, 200 pounds cotton seed by lice on the skin or arise from pin worms in the meal, 500 pounds of bone tankage, 400 pounds of bowels. If from lice wash the itching part with a acid nhospate and 200 pounds of muriate of potash solution of tobacco made by boiling tobacco in water. may be used. This will give an excess of the require- If from pin worms an injection into the rectum of an ments of a 300 bushel crop and with land in the con- infusion of quassia chips, half a pound to a gallon of dition in which you describe, yours should enable you water once or twice daily will give relief. Give also to make the maximum yield of which your land js a physic ball of Barbadoes aloes 1- ounce. capable if the season be a suitable one. In applying 3. Buv the vetch seed from a seedsman.—Ed. the above mix well with soil before planting the sets as it is a verv concentrated mixture. We think that Ginseng. the above mixture will nrobablv be more likelv te Will you kindlv give me some information in next make a maximum crop than would the use of Peru- month's Planter regarding the culture of ginseng? vian Guano supplemented with potash. Ed. and whether it requires light or stiff soil ? Hanover Co., Va. H. J. Rosbach. Whitewash for Fruit Trees—Wormy Aooles. We do not think that it is at all desirable for the growing of ginseng to be undertaken as a business 1. Will von kindlv furnish r^cirie for whitewash by our Southern farmers as we doubt much its profit- to nrc^vnt earlv swelling- of fruit buds ? 2. What proportion of Bordeaux mixture and ar- ableness in the long run. It is a slow business to — — —

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begin with as the roots take two or three years to be- easily acclimated in the South. They are not the best

come large enough for market except for plants to of mutton sheep as the Downs excel them in this re- set out new beds and when all the new beds which spect, still they will make good marketable mutton. have been raised from seed or roots come into pro- 2. The large Yorkshire hogs are a white breed of ducing marketable roots the price of the article will pigs noted as bacon hogs. They are long deep bodied no doubt fall largely. The only people in the world bogs and the sows are excellent breeders, bringing who have any use for Ginseng are the Chinese and large litters and milking well. The only drawback whether when they become more enlightened they to the breed for the South is their white skins, which will are easily want it remains to be seen. The best soil for sunburnt, and then they are apt to become Ginseng is a good loam, not too light and not too covered with a thick scurf. They should have plenty heavy. of shade The best aspect for a bed is a Northern one when kept in the South. A black hog, like a and shade moisture is desirable, indeed black man, and most stands the hot Southern sun the best. esential Apart to success. The soil should be full of vege- from this we think the Yorkshire hogs most table matter like the forest lands in desirable as which the roots they make the bacon the market calls grow wild. It should be free from stones and other for at the present time. Ed. obstructions so that the roots may grow straight and Corn be deep and without a hard clay subsoil. Ed. for Hog Feeding—Cow Peas, Chufas and Rape for Hog Pastures. Draining Land. I want to fatten ^ some hogs for the August or first beptember Could I make a successful drain with thin pine market, on green feed as much as possible. 1. What is poles, then sawdust before putting back the soil ? the earliest corn I can plant to feed in the green Princess Anne Co., Ya. P. H. Stone. state before the ears get too hard for table use? Yes, it is possible to make a drain with three pine 2. Would it poles which will be effective for some time. Unless, pay to plant sugar corn for this pur- pose or is there an early however, the poles are kept continuously under water variety of corn that I could get that would serve me for this they will rot in a few years and the drain will cease purposes by the first of July ? to act. Do not use saw dust on the poles. Fill in 3. Will it pay to plant Spanish chufas for hogs first the clay from the bottom of the drain and pack to graze hogs on in fall * this tight on the poles. The more perfectly the tiles 4. Is there an early cow pea that would come in or other drain medium are embedded in clay the bet- time for hogs this fall by plowing up a wheat stubble ter the drain will draw and the wider the area it will after harvest the last of June ? clear from water. For a perfect and permanent sys- 5. Which variety of the cow pea is the quickest to tem of drainage tiles should always be used. Ed. mature ? 6. Could I sow rape on this land for pasture for hogs this fall, Dorset Sheep. say in June ? 7. I see the Spanish 1. Please give description of the Dorset sheep, and chufas or nut grass highly spoken of by seedsmen how they compare with other breeds as to hardiness, as a hog pasture, but have not seen anything of size, quality and quantity of wool, and quality of them in the farm papers. Albemarle mutton, Co., Va. A New Enquires. In 2. Also give description of large Yorkshire hogs, this issue you will find a very interesting and instructive article claimed, I believe, to be the coming bacon hog of the on the subject of pasturage for size, color, hardiness and prolificness, bogs from country, giving Prof. Newman, of South Carolina, which as compared to other breeds. W. L. Richards. will no doubt help you. - - Fauquier Co., Ya. - 1. Southern White Showflake, Blount's Prolific, 1. The Dorset sheep is a white medium sized horn- Learning and Golden Dent are about the earliest ed sheep with a loose medium quality fleece. The corns grown. great characteristic of the Dorset is its prolificacy and 2. Tn many sections the sugar corn, like Adam's capability of producing lambs early in the winter to early and Trucker's Favorite are planted when for supply the demand for early lamb. In this they excel some reason a special early corn is required, but their all > all other breeds. Indeed they may be said to be yield is small compared with the field varieties and the year round producers of lambs. These lambs .t is doubtful whether it would pay to grow them for they feed well and quickly as they are great milkers. Uog feed. We know of no corn that will give you The breed has proved itself thoroughly hardy and good ears by 1st July unless we have a very early — —

170 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [March, spring and the land is warm enough to plant corn in large growers protect the young plants by covering the beginning of April, which is rarely the case. them with muslin stretched on frames and this is

3. Chufas are largely used for hog pasture in the most certain in its effect. Others dust the plants with States bordering on the Gulf, but have not been much bone meal when moist with dew. tried in this State. You might experiment with the 3. An excess of nitrogen is not advisable for the crop, but do not plant largely until tested in your Irish or sweet potato crop. It causes them to run to section. vine instead of tubers. A fertilizer having 5 Or 6 4. The New Era Cow Pea is the earliest variety per cent, of ammonia is rich enough in this element and grows and yields well here. Red Ripper is also for Irish potatoes, whilst for sweet potatoes half this an early variety. Both these varieties will mature quantity is enough. Nitrate of soda may be used to planted after the wheat crop is harvested. The Black supply this in part. We would not advise more than Cow Pea is the next quickest to mature and will 75 pounds of nitrate of soda to the acre for Irish po-

usually do so planted in June. tatoes and half this quantity for sweet ones. .

5. See reply to 4. 4. This fly, the common gad fly, is the progenitor 6. Rape should not be sown for fall pasturage be- of the bot worm which infests the stomach of most fore August or September. horses. The eggs or larva are taken into the mouth

7. Chufas are grown for hog feed in the Gulf of the horse from the legs by the horse biting, at.- the States, but we do not know that they have been tried places where the eggs are laid. These then pass on in this State. We are not much impressed with their into the stomach and there attach themselves to the

value from what we have learned from one or two of lining of the stomach by the mouth. They so. remain our friends in South Carolina. Ed. until fully grown and then let go and pass out mthe

dung. It is no use trying to dislodge them, as no -med- effect upon them. They do. not cause Tomato Rot—Potato Bugs— Nitrate of Soda for icine has any injury or damage to the horse. Ed. Irish Potatoes, Etc.—Gad Fly. any

1. What will prevent tomatoes from decaying be- fore maturing? Profitable Sheep and Hogs—Fertilizer for Peanuts. 2. Is Bordeaux mixture the best preparation to 1. What breed of sheep is most profitable for fleece use as an exterminator of "potato bugs, also a small and early lambs? bug that is very destructive to young cucumber 2. What breed of hogs would you advise for pork

plants ? raising ? 3. For a prolific crop of sweet and Irish potatoes 3. I am a new subscriber to the Southern Plant- commercial would you advise to use nitrate of soda ? er, seeing you do not favor the use of 4. The gastrophilus equi (gad fly) which annoys fertilizer, which is extensively used here, what for- the horse very much during the summer months, de- mula, or what ingredients, and in what proportion in positing its eggs upon the horse's knee, shoulder, or per acre should be used for Virginia peanuts here fore legs. After the eggs have hatched, are the larva Tidewater Virginia? 0. M. Cockes.

more or less apt to produce some disease of the horse ? Stirry Co., Va.

If so, what, and is it internal or external ? 1. This depends much on the climate and charac- Bristol, Va.-Tenn. J. Kent Kjnzer. ter of the country where they are to be kept. The 1. The best thing to use is Bordeaux mixture, but heavy long woolled breeds are not adapted to be kept this is not a certain preventive. In some years and in a hot climate, where heavy drenching rains are on some lands nothing will check the disease. Land common or where the land is semi-mountainous. They on which tomatoes have developed this disease ought do not do well, as a rule, in the South.. Eor this not again to be used for growing them for .several State and those immediately adjoining we think any years and all vines and decayed fruits should be de- of the Down breeds or the Dorsets the best.

! stroyed by burning. The land also should be given 2. Either Berkshires or Large Yorkshires. The

a dressing of lime. It is a fungoid disease of obscure Essex is also a good hog for this purpose, and some origin and the remedy for or prevention of which has speak highly of the Duroc Jerseys.

not yet been discovered. . 3. A crop of 60 bushels of peanuts to 'the acre 2. The best exterminator of"potato bugs is Paris contains in nuts and berries 84 pounds of nitrogen, green applied either as a spray or in powder formv 14 pounds of phosphoric acid, 32 pounds of potash, The bugs infesting cucumbers and melons icaniiOt be- and 46 pounds of lirnfe. Part of this nitrogen is ob- easily controlled or kept from doing injua?yi. vMgny tained from the atmosphere, the peanut being a — — — :

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potatoes which are great con- legume. A proper fertilizer for supplying sufficient like tobacco and Irish however, usually necessary to nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash can be made sumers of potash, it is, supply by some form of pot- up of 300 pounds of cotton seed meal, 80 pounds of supplement the natural also well to add acid phosphate, and 24 pounds of kainit. Lime ash salts. In cotton growing it is Kainit as this has the should be applied to the la ml growing peanuts every some potash in the form of impossible two or three years, say at the rate of 20 bushels to effect of checking rust in the crop. It is fertilizer to apply the acre. Ed. for any one to say what quantity of per acre in order to produce a given quantity of cot- ton or any other crop, as this depends more on the Breeding Hares—Johnson Grass—Grasses. mechanical and physical condition of the soil than 1. Do you think it would be a good investment to the quantity of plant food actually present in the fence in, say 10 acres of land with poultry wire close soil. Nearly all the cotton lands of the South need enough to prevent a rabbit from getting through and vegetable matter more than they need fertilizer in devote it to raising the old field hare ? Do you know of a farm that is raising them at present? How order to become thoroughly productive. Grow cow many young does one female have a year ? peas and clover on them and turn them under until 2. Do you think that Johnson grass will do well the lands are rich in vegetable matter and then a as far north as Amherst county ? small quantity of fertilizer will make a large yield

? Will 3. Will it do well sown in spring with oats of cotton. In our article, Work for the Month, you it grow on thiner land than timothy? will find advice as to the quantity and kind of fer- 4. Please mention some good hay grasses that will tilizer to use on the cotton crop. Try the clover take better on thin land than timothy_. H. J. I crimson) in the cotton again. It probably died out Amherst Co., Va. from climatic causes. Ed. 1. We are unable to give any reliable advice on breeding "old field hares." We have never heard of Sheep Troughs and- Racks—Preventing Sheep any one carrying on this business. If you want to Jumping—Castrating Lambs. breed hares the Belgian hare is the one to use. Whilst Will you please answer the following or get some the "old field" hare only produces two young ones at of your readers to do so a time and does not often have more than one or two 1. Give plans for feeding troughs and racks for litters in the year, the Belgian hare produces from sheep that are convenient, prevent waste and keep two to six at a litter and breeds all the year round. the lambs and sheep out of the feed ? 2. Yes, Johnson grass will grow in Amherst coun- 2. Some device (if any) to prevent sheep from ty, Va. jumping fences of ordinary height.

3. As it is really a sorghum and not a grass 3. The easiest way to castrate lambs, at what time the best. Is it safe to cut testicles and bag at the spring is the proper time to sow it. It should be same time ? B. L. Amblee. sown alone and not with grain. Sow from a bushel Amherst Co., Va. to a bushel and a half of seed per acre. It will grow 1. The best sheep rack and trough we have ever on any fairly fertile land but the better the land the seen is one we used regularly. It is a combination better the yield. of rack and trough together. The rack is a V-shaped 4. If the land be dry orchard grass and tall mead- one with the bottom set in the middle of a trough ow oat grass should succeed. On damp or wet land about a foot wide and six inches deep. This trough sow red top. Ed. is set on four or six legs raising it about nine inches from the ground. The space in the trough on each Potash— Fertilizer for Cotton—Clover in Cotton. side of the bottom of the rack is so narrow that the Please tell me how much potash clay land contains lambs cannot Avell get into it, and especially so as the to the acre, and tell me how much fertilizer is needed staves of the rack project over it on account of the per acre to grow from V} to 3 bales to the acre, and form of the rack. The top of the should have a how to apply it ? I saw last year that you advised to V V sow clover in cotton at ihe last working. I did so', lid on it to keep out the rain. This should be hung and it came up pretty well, but it did not stand. on hinges so that it can be lifted easily to fill the rack Camden Co., N. C. J. B. Elliott. with hay. All clay land has usually a sufficient supply of 2. In the North of England sheep on the Moors potash in it for all ordinary crops. How much it eon are often coupled together in pairs by collars round tains can only be determined by analysis, i ei«ops their necks to prevent them jumping fences. — — — —— — —

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lambs is to cut off can I expect dozen 3. The easiest way to castrate and how many from one plants? done Suppose I buy six different varieties, one dozen the bag and testicles together. This should be well formed plants each, this spring and set them out, how many as early as possible after the testicles are this way after plants can I get from the 72, one year hence? in the bag. It is not safe to castrate in Appomattox Co., Va. J. Gilliam. be slit and W. the testicles are large. Then the bag must If you buy and set out 72 plants of different varie- the testicles be withdrawn. Ed. ties this spring, setting them out in rows two feet apart and one foot apart in the rows, you will next Crimson Clover. spring have plants enough to set an acre of land, or clover first of October last I had some crimson The possibly more, if the season be a normal one. Each sowed on pea stubble, having prepared the ground which plant will make a number of runners varying from with a disc harrow. I secured a fine stand two to half a dozen and on each runner you will have only lasted a few weeks and before cold weather ar- ground bar- two or three plants. Ed. rived it had all disappeared and left the was. ren. Please advise what you think the trouble you There were some flies to be seen on the land. Do Tobacco and Cow Peas—Pine Tags. for it think they destroyed it ? Is there any chance 1. Why is it that tobacco does not do well after Subsceibee. to come out in the spring? A cow peas ? Hamilton Co., Term. 2. Have pine beards any value as a fertilizer? Climatic causes no doubt caused the death of the Brunswick Co., Va. A. C. B. valua- 1. This is a question to which we can give no defi- clover. This is one of the weaknesses of this after nite reply. Investigation has not yet settled the ble crop, that it is very apt to be killed soon germination by hot dry weather, or by a sudden cold cause, but it -is recognized by tobacco growers as an at established fact. In many cases it may be from the spell before it has made good root hold. It is not only peas being turned under too green and causing a sour- all likely to come out again this spring. The is ing of the land. In other cases it may be because of way to certainly secure a stand of crimson clover the peas being great consumers of the mineral fer- to commence sowing in August and seed part only tilizers, especially potash, which is very essential to of the lot and then to seed other part later in the tobacco, and thus unbalancing month and in September and October. If the first the plant food content of the soil. is killed out before October reseed. Ed. 2. Pine tags have little true fertilizing value yet they often appear to help a crop. This arises from Pedigree Seed Corn. their mechanical effect on the soil and when used as a I am contemplating buying some pedigreed seed mulch from the shade given. Ed. corn this spring, what variety is best for general pur- poses, and where should 1 buy to get corn suited to Lice on Musk Melons— this climate, being unable to find it here ? Would it Tobacco Dust. 1. Will you please be advisable to plant any considerable quantity of tell me some remedy to destroy plant lice on corn grown in different soil and climate ? musk melons ? 2. Is tobacco Russell Co., Va. Subsceibee. dust a good insecticide with a little sulphur ? If so, how much of it would you apply ? We are not conversant with the varieties of corn Madison Co., III. Subsceibee. which have been made the subject of breeding in the 1. Spray with kerosene emulsion. West and therefore cannot say what you should ask 2. Tobacco dust alone is a good insecticide. The noticed recently that a Corn Breeding So- for. We sulphur will not help it Dust the plants freely, it ciety has been established in Maryland. We think will never hurt them. Ed. that you would be likely to do better with a variety West. Wriie the Di- from' that State than from the Larva for Name. of the Maryland Experiment Station, College Find rector enclosed larva. Give name, and whether de- varieties Park, Md., for information as to the being structive. Pound on apple tree. bred and where you can procure some. We would Charles City Co., Va. Nedvidek Beos. than experimental We are unable not advise the planting of more an to identify the larva. It is always difficult to give plot of any variety. Ed. the name of insects from the larval forms, as there are so many of them so much alike. Look out for Strawberry Plants. the insect itself when it hatches out and ^nd it to propagate strawberry plants sad we will endeavor to name it. Please tell us how | Ed '

1904.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 173 Trucking, Garden and Orchard.

WORK FOR THE MONTH. working too wet land get out the compost and farm The continuance of severe wintery weather dur- yard manure and mix the mineral fertilizers, phos- ing nearly the whole of February has prevented the phate and potash, with them and in this way econo- doing of most of the work which we suggested for mise time. that month in our last issue. Even in the Tidewater As soon as the land is dry enough cultivate the fall sections of this State and in Eastern North Carolina planted cabbages and thus encourage them to grow the weather has been too severe for any material pro- and as soon as growth has started give them a dress- gress to have been made with the planting of crops. ing of 100 pounds of nitrate of soda to the acre. This The crowding of the work usually done in the late will stimulate them and enable the roots to get hold fall and midwinter months into the spring months is of the fertility in the land. going to cause serious inconvenience and in all prob- ability a curtailment of crops. It will also, we fear, Make up hot beds for striking sweet potato slips be found that considerable injury has been done to and raising tomato plants, egg plants, peppers and fall planted cabbage, kale and spinach crops. Those early canteloupes. The beds should be made up of who had cabbage plants in cold frames or where good fresh horse manure which should be well forked they could be protected with mats or brush will hnd over and put up in a solid mass the size of the bed re- these plants very useful now to fill in where the fall quired. Let lay for a few days until nicely heated planted ones have been killed. This work should be and then turn over and make up again. After this done as soon as the ground is dry enough to work. let alone until heated up again and the heat has begun When setting out these plants freshen up the soil by to fall and then cover with three or four inches of lifting and breaking it with a fork before setting the good woods mould or rich soil. Then cover 'with new plants. sash or mats and the bed is ready for use. If the heat is slow in coming up water the bed so as to make The planting of the Irish potato and English pea it fairly damp and it will soon heat up. Too much crop should have the very earliest attention possible. water, however, will check heating. Tomato seed It is getting late even now for English peas, as they should be sown in the fore part of this month to se- suffer immediately the hot weather sets in. In our cure plants for early setting and a later seeding last issue we wrote fully on the preparation for and should be made for the main crop. fertilizing of the land for these crops and refer our readers to that issue. For the benefit of the hundreds Lettuce in frames should have plenty of air in all of new subscribers who have come onto our list since mild weather and the plants in the open ground be that issue was mailed we will repeat what we said as encouraged to grow by cultivation. Spring salads of to the fertilizer to be used with the Irish potato crop. all kinds should be sown in small plots in sheltered Mix places for the earliest crop. April is soon enough to J5Ji 300 ^pounds of nitrate of soda. sow for main crop. 600 pounds of cotton seed meal or fish scrap. 800 pounds of acid phosphate (12 per cent.). Strawberry and other small fruit beds should have 300 pounds of muriate of potash, cultivation as soon as the ground is dry enough to to make a ton and apply at lie rate of from 500 to work, to encourage growth, and if the strawberries are 1,000 pounds to the acre. In our replies to enquirers not looking thrifty should have a mixture of nitrate will be found a formula for an even more concen- of soda, potash and acid phosphate sown on the bed trated fertilizer for this crop than the above. In when the plants are dry and be worked in. Use 100 using these two mixtures it should be the rule to mix pounds of nitrate of soda 150 pounds of muriate of them very completely with the soil before dropping potash and 300 pounds of acid phosphate to, the acre. the sets or they may cause injury to the sprouts. The pruning of grape vines and all other fruit Although late do not be tempted to work land trees and shrubs should be completed as soon as pos- until it is dry enough to leave the plow and the other sible b efore. the sap commences to run. Tie up vines implements clean. Land worked too wet is worse and canes to stakes or trellises when the pruning, is than land not worked at all until late. Instead of completed. 174 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [March, FORMULA FOR SPRAY MIXTURES.

COPPER SULFATE SOLUTION. etc., the weaker solution may be used. Soft bodied Copper Sulfate (Bluestone) 1 pound insects like the cabbage worm may be destroyed with Water 15 gallons this solution. Dissolve the copper sulfate in a bucket of hot Special machines are now on the market that mix the water and kerosene directly, and at any pro- water, as it dissolves more quickly in hot water ; and most dilute to the desired quantity. Use wooden or earth- portion desired, and are recommended wherever en vessels for copper sulfate solution. This solution scale insects are to be destroyed. When buds are dor- is to be used on dormant plants, before the leaves mant use a mixture of kerosene one part, water three have expanded. parts.

BORDEAUX MIXTURE. LIME, SULPHUR AND SALT MIXTURE. Lime, 30 pounds (unslaked), Sulphur (flowers) Copper Sulfate 4 pounds 30 pounds, salt 10 pounds, water 100 gallons. Put Unslaked Lime 6 pounds four or five gallons of hot water in an iron kettle Water 40 gallons (20 gallons capacity), add 15 pounds lime. Stir with Dissolve the copper sulfate as mentioned above, wooden paddle so as to spread it about, then as soon slake the lime in a bucket of water and dilute with as in full boiling from slaking add 15 pounds sul- several gallons of water and strain through a coarse phur and mix briskly with lime, adding boiling water cloth to free the mixture of the small lumps. They as needed to bring the whole mass into a thick paste, interfere with the free flow of the mixture through then add water enough to make 10 or 12 gallons and the spray nozzles. Mix the two solutions together boil for 30 to 40 minutes. Add the salt when the and add water to make 40 gallons." Use this for rots, paste is diluted. When the wash is cooked strain molds, mildews and all fungus diseases. For. potato and dilute to 100 gallons. hlight add two pounds more of copper sulfate. A combined fungicide and insecticide for biting in- sects may be made by adding 4 ounces of either Paris PARIS GREEN. Green or London Purple to the above. Paris Green 1 pound Water 175 to 200 gallons When this mixture is used by itself add pound AMMOXIACAL COPPER CARBONATE SOLU- one of quick lime to prevent it injuring the foliage. See TION. under Bordeaux mixture. Copper Carbonate 6 ounces Paris Green is sometimes mixed with flour and Ammonia About 3 pints dusted over the plants when dew is on, in proportion Water 50 gallons of one pound of poison to ten pounds of flour. Dissolve the copper carbonate in ammonia in a closed wooden or earthen vessel and add to it the LONDON PURPLE. required quantity of water when ready to apply. As Use in the same way and in the same proportions ammonia varies in strength, some care is necessary to as Paris Green, but use more lime to neutralize its use no more than is needed to dissolve the copper caustic properties. It is best not to use this on the carbonate. This preparation is used for the same peach at 11. purpose as Bordeaux, but is intended to be used only when fruit is nearly grown, as Bordeaux sometimes affects the skin of ripening fruit. PERSIAN INSECT POWDER. Fresh Powder 1 ounce Water 2 gallons KEROSENE EMULSION. Spray on plants for soft bodied insects. The pow- Hard Soap ^ pound der is frequently dusted on plants while the dew is on. Boiling Water 1 gallon The material is not poisonous to man, hence can be Kerosene 2 gallons used in dwelling house to kill house flies and mosqui- Use "soft water" (preferably cistern water.) Dis- toes. For such cases, first close all doors and win- solve the soap in the boiling water; add the kerosene dows and dust the room well with the powder (usu- and churn violently until the mixture becomes like ally at night) and leave it so for several hours. It is buttermilk—not less than five or ten minutes. Dilute a good idea to burn a spoonful or two on hot embers with water ten to fifteen times before using. so that the fumes may fill the room. Be sure that For sucking insects. For scale insects use strong the powder is fresh, because when old it often fails to emulsion. For plant lice, mealy bugs, red spider, kill. 1904.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER 175 176 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [March,

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MARK HANNA STRAWBERRY. GRAFTING AND BUDDING THE TOPS OF OR- The accompanying illustration is a single cluster CHARD TREES. of Mark Hanna strawberry originated by Mark T. Editor Southern Planter: Thompson, of Rio Vista, Va., ten years ago. It is a On most farms there are found unprofitable fruit seedling of Bubach Wo.' 5 which it resembles, but is trees growing. Also in many orchards unprofitable much more productive and claimed by some to ' be varieties have been planted. The farmer hesitates larger, finer and of better quality, very long season to cut them down because they are thrifty looking and holds over much better than most varieties. It trees. Often times cut resists drought much better than most varieties. Tak- to them down would make an ing it altogether it promises to be one of the most orchard look scattering. Such trees may often be promising varieties introduced for many years. The changed to profitable ones by top working. The accompanying illustration shows a plant with 95 farmer often thinks of doing this but in the rush of fully developed berries and Mr. Thompson thinks it spring work it is put off too late. Make preparations the largest cluster of berries ever produced by one now for such work. Cut the scions now and put them plant. In productiveness it is simply wonderful. away in a cool place to hold the buds back till the We can recommend the above berry ; as we have foliage begins to push out on the trees then commence seen it fruiting and tasted it, and ! we congratulate grafting. Often times the farmer does not know ex- Mr. Thompson upon his success in producing such a actly how to do this work and hesitates to undertake valuable variety; it. It is the simplest kind of thing. The .desire for experimenting and finding out the secrets nature has m store for us is often most pronounced in the young. A Bloomington, 111., paper says: "Central Illinois Let the boy on the farm undertake this work after he farmers -in totalizing their profits for the year just understands it thoroughly. Tell him that a whole closed say that the growth of sweet corn for the can- miniature orchard of various varieties can be pro- ning factories has been unusually profitable, and as duced one tree. fruit will be like that grown much as $60 has been realized in some '-cases for- the on The product of a single acre, while in additiqu a-;quan'tity on the tree from which the scion is taken and not like of valuable forage was left for the dairy cows." that grown upon the tree upon which the grafting is 1904.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 177 done. Explain all this carefully to the young man SPRING BUDDING. to thoroughly arouse his interest. In all the text books on horticulture that I have HOW TO TOP GRAFT. seen where budding is described it is recommended that this operation J will explain and illustrate only two methods. be performed in One known as whip and tongue graft, the summer when and the other as crown graft. The the sap is active tongue graft methods is best used on and the "bark limbs less than one half inch in diam- slips. '* In a State eter and the crown method is best further South we used on limbs from one-half inch in have had budding diameter up to two and a half inches done successfully in diameter. in January by The greatest point to observe close- what might b e ly in either grafting or budding is called the attach- Whip or Tongue that of having the cambium (inner ment method. T Grafting. bark) of both stock and scion fit believe the method evenly together. If they do not fit water and air would be success- will get in and induce decay. ful if used in this For crown grafting, cut off the limbs with a fine State early in the tooth saw, then split the crown with spring. If so, it a knife or wedge. Sharpen the scion would prove verv to fit evenly. Open the stock with useful, especially some sharp wedges and insert the to nurserymen scions. It is best to have the last or when used on all upper buds on the scions project from Budding, stock that failed to the outside so that the limbs will "take" during the summer. These buds could be branch out and not crowd each other forced out in the summer just the same as those that so much. Cover the crown carefully were put in last summer and the nurserymen would with good grafting wax to keep out not lose any stock. Let the nurserymen try it this the water. spring and report on it in the Planter. The farmer Perhaps waxed bands of cloth are may also try it on his fruit trees to make limbs grow best to tie a whip and tongue graft, out where they may be wanted. since the scions are easily misplaced. The method simply consists in cutting a piece of This method is often used by nursery bark with some wood attached, down about one inch men and, in top working, it is best Crown Grafting. en the tree, leaving it still attached at the lower end. used on small side branches. .. Then use the knife transversely to cut off about two- Some eare should be exercised in the arrangement thirds of this slip. Cut off a bud with some : wOod at- of- these grafts on the tree, as the tops, might be very tached to fit this cut place. Insert the lower end of uneven. . Not all, the tops should be cut off at once •the bud between- this slip and the stock, as shown in even in small .orchard trees. One to three.- years the drawing. Tie it tightly with raffia • or soft corn should be taken to change the entire top. Care should shuck. • The. tie may be cut loose" after the 'bud has be taken in removing water sprouts which will great- become securely attached. The limb may then be ly injure the graft later on, if left alone. cut off above the bud in order to force the bud out. A good grafting wax for out door work is made by In all cases, care should be taken to select leaf buds melting together one pound of tallow, two pounds of and not fruit buds. R. H. Price. beeswax, and four pounds of English resin. Stir well and then pour the mixture into cold water, then Montgomery county, Va. pull it till it becomes somewhat white. Then it may be rolled in oiled paper and be kept some time. Oiled cloth is made by cutting strips of the desired width and making a ball of it and soak it in the wax while When corresponding with advertisers, say you saw it is hot. their advertisement in The Southern Planter. 178 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [March,

Live Stock and Dairy.

THE HANDLING OF EWES IN MARCH. seed meal once a clay. They have had clover hay or Editor Southern Planter: cow pea hay freely from the time the grass began to fail. Bright More mistakes are made in the management of a corn fodder is put before them every morning now and as soon as the winter gets ewe flock in Virginia in the month of March than at under way one good feed of roots is given them. Nothing any other time of the year. It is a most trying pe- is better than Swedish turnips (rutabagas). "When ri or] and the man who gets his ewes through this the lambs get about two weeks old the oats in the month without loss may well feel that he is fortun- grain diet is increased ate. to about two-thirds and the roots are increased. A field of fall rye furnished In Virginia the lambs have all come by the first of grazing in the fall and through March. Many of them are two months old and are December. The fail- ing of this was indication of time feeding. pulling on their mothers as only such chaps can pull. for root Either this rye or wheat is to furnish grazing through Grass has not come yet or it is just beginning to show March, and even in February in the milder portions green and is sappyy watery, and weak in nourishment. of the State the ewes could pick up plenty of feed on The ewes are crazy for it and will work themselves the wheat fields. to death to get their fill of it only to be poorly satis- fied with nourishment. The man who has been feed- Now that March has arrived the flock is found in ing his ewes on dry feed alone can hear them gritting prime condition and there is nothing to fear. The their teeth when he walks among them, can see some flock is now kept on the rye and wheat most of the of them looking pale and haggard, can see the wool day, but the oats and bran are fed morning and even- of his flock looking harsh and dry, can observe the ing and the roots in diminishing quantity. By the best ewes falling off in their milk and many not feed- middle of the month the ^oots may be abandoned and the grain ration, graditally, the end ing their lambs at all. He knows full well that his reduced may by sheep are not doing right and he longs for the grass of the month be about two-thirds of the maximum. grass started this time. one is so for to come to save his sheep. He will be very lucky, if The has by If tunate as to have grass, will good he gets through without loss of life, for before the orchard there be Vir- month is gone he will find ewes 'with swellings under gi'azing by the first, of April in most parts of hurt by the jaw and others that have "gone off feed," while ginia. I have never known sheep to wheat pome have dwindled in strength, until they can barely grazing it as late as April first. In fact, it seems to growth. follow the flock. make it stool out more and make a more even It, might cut down the amount of straw, but the wheat Have I overdrawn the picture ? T have seen too yield affected, unless improved. Since many such flocks to be mistaken in mv observations. would not be sheep grass I will say that I have described conditions that are this is true, it is best to keep from the March is short and not to be found in a number of the Virginia flocks. Some pastures, as the grass during as described above. During March the flocks are different. In these the lambs are fat. the nutritious flock should have constant access to pure, clean water ewes strong and healthy. There is abundance of and it is best to keep salt where the sheep can get it milk: the wool is smooth and lustrous: the skin is as as they need it. If you intend to feed worm pow- pink as a cherry, there is no gritting of teeth or other ders to your flock, now is the time to begin. If you symntoms <*>f indigestion. suffered parasites in the past, such as What makes the difference? T beg to tell how T have from worms, it would be well to think this last flock was managed through the winter stomach worms and hang the a good dose of benzine or gasoline about and bow the owner has planned to carry it through give ewes March. the end of the month, being sure to get full directions if you don't know how to do it These ewes were given a. good grain ration through the winter, beginning with one small feed a day be- This kind of management of a flock will bring it fore Christmas. The grain ration was first corn and up to spring grazing in fine shape and there will be oats, but in a few weeks the corn is dropped and oats no worrying over sick ewes, poor lambs, and un- substituted. When the lambs begin to come in Jan- profitable sheep. It is largely a matter of feed.

uary the ewes are getting a ration of oats and bran H, AfcBUOKLE. in equal parts by weight twice a day with a little lin- MavweUon, W , Va, B. 179 1904.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER.

THE SOUTHERN CATTLE MAN'S OPPORTUNITY. steers will do. We must have good, well bred beef months of age, that will weigh from Editor Southern Planter: cattle, 20 to 30 1,200 to 1,500 pounds. Those who have kept in touch with the great cat- Brother farmers, is not this matter worthy of our tle business of the United States will have observed attention along with the cotton and tobacco? a note of discouragement running through the writ- Co., C. A. L. French. ings and talks of our Northern and Western friends Rockingham N. for the past year and especially during the latter months of the year. The ranges and feed lots have thrown onto an already overstocked market, thou- HARDINESS OF JERSEYS. sands upon thousands cattle good, and indif- of had Editor Southern Planter: ferent. The principal reasons for this suicidal pol- T note in a recent issue of your paper a letter from icy have been a gradual increase of land values mak- Mr. Gardner on the subject of "The Large versus the ing the cost of beef growing through corn belt the Small Dairy Cow." He says. "The Jersey list reads greater, rise the price staple the in of corn the feeding like an obituary column, etc.," giving a list of casual- product of that section, the high price of farm labor, ties among this portion of the herd which would cer- and the natural tendency of mankind to follow the tainly indicate that the Wisconsin station had been crowd like a flock of sheep. Whatever the reason the unfortunate enough to select for this test a lot of

fact is a glutted market, with continually falling Thoroughly unsound cattle. It is, therefore, no won- pro- pricas and this in the face of the farther fact of there der that they made no better showing in butter being—according to our most reliable information duction. Mv own experience with Jerseys has been very dif- —a less number of cattle produced in proportion to ferent from this. About 1890 I begun the formation population than several years ago when prices were of a herd with five registered cows and heifers and much higher than to-day. Tn the writer's opinion a few high grades. They were moved to mv farm only one result can follow this foolish scramble to some fifty miles from here in 1897 and reached the knock out all present profits in cattle feeding and maximum number which the farm will carry (twenty that is a short supply of good cattle in the near fu- milk cows with their growing calves') in 1901. Since ture, and a consequent stiff rise in prices. then we have had eight or ten cows for sale each year. To-day the Southeast is not figured upon at all as During this time the only sickness which has a cattle producing section. Now, how could the caused anv cessation of milk production has been one farmers of our section display better judgment than case of garget which recovered with the loss of one of to go quietly to work breeding really first class cat- quarter and subsequently produced 28 pounds onarters. and one cow tle and be ready for the good prices that are sure to milk daily from the remaining had two or three attacks of something like ery- be paid for top cattle within the next two years. We who sipelas when, as a matter of precaution, the milk was have—or can have if we will —as good pastures as the thrown away. Calves have all been carried full time Northern and Western stockmen can boast, can grow and onlv one was still born. Twq heifers died of corn and other grain as cheaply as can our neighbors, hoven from something obtained in the woods in the and have right at our doors cotton seed meal, one of late fall. Some ten or twelve calves died of indiges- the very best for production. feeds beef The tmth tion, nearly all during the incumbency of a careless is corn silage and cotton seed meal are a hard combi- and indolent dairyman. nation to beat in the feeding of beef cattle. And There are now on the place twentv cow? in milk then we can grow the best rouarh feed of any section and twenty-seven heifers of various ages with not one of the country. Cow peas, soja* beans, vetch, crim- unthrifty animal in the lot. Male calves are sold for son clover, etc., are ours for the planting. With all veal. During the time they have been on the farm they our natural advantages it would seem to the writer have had six different men in charge, all common that there must be something wrong with us if we do farm hands who had served as helpers and been pro- not avail ourselves of this onportunitv offered, and moted. prepare ourselves to put on the market thousands of They run out all summer and. during the winter car loads of first class cattle when the market calls spend the day in the yard when the weather is good, for them, it is sure do the time can which to by we get being housed at night and on rough days. They have them ready. And in this connection T want to in- no hav over them in the barn, nothing; between them sist that the cattle must be Al if we are to reap the and the corrugated iron roof. They now have long reward that should be ours. No warmed up scrub coats of hair like the pictures we see of Highland :

180 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [March,

cattle, but are making over five pounds of butter per writer on the subject of crossing different breeds. In as week an average, though the majority of them this issue we have written a note on this subject to calved last summer and there has been only one calf an article on crossing breeds of hogs in which we have since the middle of November. expressed our views and refer our readers to it. On As will be seen from the above, they have had the inbreeding problem we are entirely opposed to neither coddling nor even what might be called the writer of the article. We believe that such in- skilled attention but simply average farm conditions. breeding as is advised is bound to result sooner or There is certainly no lack of hardiness here, and as many other Jersey herds are fully their equals the later in unsound stock and often in barren stock. In conclusion naturally follows that, the animals men- the human race intermarriage in families has proved tioned by Mr. Gardner were in no condition to enter a prolific source of insanity, disease and sterility. a competitive or any other kind of a test. Amongst cattle, the Jersey breed is the one in which Alleghany Co., Md. B. S. Randolph. this practice has been most persistently followed, and Jerseys are the one breed of cattle in which tubercu-

losis is most prevalent. It is true that inbreeding has resulted in the Jerseys in intensifying the power to produce milk and butter records, but we believe this IN-BREEDING. has been wholly at the expense of the vitality and ro- bustness animals always, A subscriber from King William county, Ya., of the breed. Breed to pure use strains of blood akin if strength vi- sends us an extract from the Baltimore American's but not and tality is to be maintained. Our corespondent asks us "Practical Farm Notes" in which the writer strongly also to explain about "wolves" in cattle. These so- condemns the crossing of pure breeds of cattle and called "wolves" warbles is the correct name are the urges the importance of always sticking to one breed — — grubs of a fly which lays its egg on the hair of the if good results are to be assured and then goes on to cattle and from thence the eggs are licked and pass advocate in-breeding in the following terms into the stomach where they are transformed into "Wherein could a betterment be made in our breed- grubs which make their way to the backs, usually ing better and purer types of cattle, especially dairy cattle ? about the loins of the cattle, and there remain bur- Stop the promiscuous breeding of all kinds and rowed under the skin until full grown, when they breeds of cattle in one herd. Select some breed best pass out through a small hole which they ma^e adapted to the conditions which exist, and get a sire through the hide and drop onto the ground, where of the best dairy breeding possible^ and use this same after a time they hatch as flies to repeat their life his- sire for at least three generations. The first heifers tory. The warbles do no harm to the health of the desired will be 50 per cent, of the blood and influence. cattle but seriously damage the value of the hides. Breed them back to their own sire. The second gen- The grubs should be squeezed out of the small holes eration will be 75 per cent, of dairy influence, and in the hides before they naturally pass out, and be 75 per cent, of the relationship with their mixed in- killed by being crushed, and in this way the number fluences and weakness will have disappeared, of flies can be materially reduced each year.. They "crossed out," and if the second generation is again may be killed by applying turpentine or kerosene in bred in line, the needed blood will be as 87 to 100. the hide squeezing Then another sire of the same family blood, and as or on the opening in without th«n far removed from kinship as possible, is secured for out, but we ppefer to squeeze them .out and end their the fourth generation, and the herd' is freshened with: life history. The cattle should be examined in Feb- new blood and not weakened. If the first sire is of ruary and March and the work of destruction be strong vitality, there is not a reason in the world but then done. If deferred later many of the grubs will that health, vigor and strong influence will be begot- have escaped. ten each time—far more possible than it would be to introduce a new sire each generation, and with him introduce a new line of family faults and frailties, not to mention new heredities ; while in the other case GRAZING HOGS. it would be a matter of confirming and making strong- er the lines of the strongest and most desirable char- We have repeatedly been asked recently how many acteristics." hogs an acre of land will carry and have had to con- Our correspondent asks us to give our views on fess our inability to answer this question satisfacto- these breeding problems. We are heartily with the rily as it entirely depends on the size of the hogs, the 181 1904.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER.

season and the crops grown. Discussing this ques- pork he needs and it will be a splendid thing when tion in a recent issue of the Breeders* Gazette Prof. the practice becomes more general. Soule thus replies:

As to the number of hogs one can maintain on the land, that depends a good deal on the crops grown and on the season. Sometimes an acre of land will CROSS BREEDING OF PURE BRED HOGS. carry as many as ten good-sized hogs. In another Editor Southern Planter: season it may not carry more than five or six hogs. I would like to have your opinion in regard to the Then the number of hogs that an acre of land will crossing of these two famous breeds of swine—the carry depends very much on their size when put on Berkshire and the Poland-China. the land. If put on shortly after weaning in the I have in many instances read, and also have been early spring fifteen or twenty hogs might be carried told by noted stock men that any cross of pure-bred to the acre from 30 to 60 days, but if weighing from animals would result in injury to the good qualities 100 to 150 pounds probably not more than six hogs of both breeds. could be carried for the same time. It is impossible But, nevertheless, I believe the said cross to be a for the writer to state except in the most general desirable one, having last year raised a very fine hog terms the number of hogs he can carry on this land. of this cross. The cross produces an animal in many If he had 30 acres divided into five-acre lots, as in respects similar to the Berkshire. plan No. 2, there is no good reason why he should It has the Berkshire's broad back and shoulders n ot be able to graze from 150 to 200 hogs, especially and the larger frame of the Poland-China. if he feeds them a small grain supplement and gives Its ears are flopped a little but not quite so much them the benefit of the fifteen-acre Bermuda lot and as those of the Poland-China, thereby making an an- the large 85-acre wood-lot. imal of a better appearance than the pure bred of While plan No. 2 involves considerable fencing either breed, and I think a more prolific one. it presents the most satisfactory arrangement of the However, the one experiment is not sufficient proof land to secure a good succession of crops. It is also to make firm my belief. desirable where hogs are to be grazed to erect perma- I have two pure bred Poland-China sows and also nent fences. Hurdles are all right except it takes a registered Berkshire boar and sow. They are all too much time to move them about and when the hogs about the same age. I will cross the Berkshire boar get a good size they are more likely to break them on Poland-China sows and also breed the Berkshire down. A good strong fence around the grazing lot sow to him, trying to make them farrow as near the in the beginning is the best policy. same time as possible. A great variety of crops mav be grown on these As the result of this experiment I will know ex- lots. For example, Nos. 1 and 2 might be seeded to actly which will be the most profitable, and later will winter oats this fall, No. 1 to be grazed through the report the result of the experiment through the col- late fall and winter and No. 2 when the crop begins umns of this most valuable journal. to head out next spring. Nos. 3 and 4 could be plant- If you consider this of enough interest I would be ed to sorghum as early as possible in the spring. Nos. glad if you would devote a little space in the Plant- 5 and 6 might be given to two varieties of cow peas, er to its discussion, and if any of your readers have say Warren's Extra Early and Whippoorwill, Black experimented with the said cross I will be glad to or Clay. Nos. 7 and 8 could be devoted to soy beans, hear from them. G. E. A. using an early-maturing and a late-maturing variety. Amelia Co., Va. One or more of the lots might be put in sweet pota- 'Whilst it is possible that crosses of different pure toes, peanuts or chufas. Cow peas, soy beans and bred animals may at times result satisfactorily yet peanuts are the three most satisfactory fall-grazing the business is as a rule disappointing. We are en- crops for hogs and possibly the easiest to cultivate tirely opposed to the practise as no man following likely yield. and most to produce a good such a method of breeding can ever tell what the re- Of course where one desires to produce a good firm sult is going to be. It may be a good formed animal pork and to properly fatten the animals it is well of good feeding or breeding character or it may be to feed a little corn along throughout the year. A the rankest "scrub" ever bred. We have seen both small amount, however, will be sufficient. From 10 results from one litter of pigs, and the like results to 15 bushels per animal with the grazing crops sug- with cattle and sheep. The more highly bred the pa- gested should make good hogs weighing from 250 to rents and the longer their pedigrees in one line of 300 pounds at the end of six to eight months' grazing breeding and therefore the more prepotent their and feeding as suggested. There is no reason why every planter in the South should not grow all the blood the greater the chances are that the progeny ;

182 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [March, will be unsatisfactory. The long time which it takes sire, then support his good qualities and show your to establish the type of a new breed which can be re- good judgment by breeding a good mare. Unless lied on to reproduce itself certainly is abundant evi- you want to sell registered stock, or want to produce dence of the uncertainty which results from the inter- a track animal for speed, I should not advise going breeding of pure bred animals of any kind. In the to the expense of only breeding registered mares, as conflict which necessarily arises between the prepo- they are hard to get. But always pick out mares individually good when selecting for breeders. The tency of the different blood lines the outcome is just stallion cannot do it all. Let your brood mare be as likely to be a reversion to an original type as to be well shaped, constitutionally sound, have good eyes, a desirable animal. Select the breed you like the best good joints, free from spavin, ring bone, etc. She and then interbreed the best lines of blood in that should have good, all-round action, and be attractive particular breed, and you may rely on getting a good in ber class. ^ And, above all things, should have a animal, though some lines of blood in all breeds seem good disposition, and be thoroughly gentle. Never to "nick" better than others. Or if you are unable breed a mare until she has been carefully handled to indulge in the luxury of keeping all pure bred ani- and is quiet. Treat every horse as gently as you mals keep a pure bred male and breed him onto the would your pet dog, and especially should this applv best type of grades and you will certainly improve to the treatment of the brood mare at all times, them as the sire's prepotent blood will assert itself. though more so when she is carrying the foal. Re- —Ed. member that she is about to be a mother, and has to suffer enough for her young's sake naturally, there- fore her owner ought to always see that she is well cared for and kindly treated. BREEDING AND FEFDING PROPERLY WILL PRO- CARE FOR THE FOAL FROM BIRTH. DUCE GOOD COLTS. Never fail to care for the foal, simply because it is Editor Southern Planter: with its mother. The mother is caring for two the Now that he spring of the year is approaching, best she can, but you must help her by giving her the and the time for selecting a stallion to breed to is best of attention and all the good nourishing food here, see that you select a good one. The first thing: that she will eat, besides plentv of grass in season. to consider is the breeding of the stallion. Do not The colt will fully pay you for all this feed by con- waste time and money breeding to "scrub" stallions verting it into bone and muscle, and thus making Tf you do you will, as a rule, raise nothing but you a well formed, good sized, early matured animal, "scrub" colts, which will be an expense from birth, for which the demand is greater than the supply. and never make saleable horses. Breed to a regis- Teach the foal to eat earlv bv giving the mother tered sire ffor if he is registered you know that, his oats and bran in a box that the little one can reach. breeding is what it should be for his class). Then Keep the foal with its mother on a good pasture ; have breed for a purpose—that is to say, if vou want to a shelter that will protect the two from the cold produce a draft animal, select a pure breed Perche- rains. If you will put some ^ood hay under this ron or other draft sire. Tf you want a coach horse, shelter on a rainy night, though it be summer, the either the Hackney or French Coach Stallion will do. two will eat and enjoy the hay. Do not let your If your idea is to get something fast in harness for colts wear themselves out trotting after their mothers road or track, then breed to a Standard bred trotting either in the field or on the road. Never let a foal stallion. If the desire is a gaited saddle, animal, then under two months old go longer than two hours with- the registered Kentucky Saddle Stallion, is what you out being with its mother, for at, least ten minutes. want. Last, but not least, if you want to produce a Do not let a mare that is giving milk get overheated, hunter, a horse that can gallop and jump day after and never let the foal nurse when the mare is hot. day, let the sire be a Thoroughbred (running horse). Remember that fresh drinking water is the life of the After selecting: the breed, being sure that you have mother as well as her young. I a registered animal, then first of all be satisfied that Never frighten a foal, but tame it from birth, and the stallion is absolutely constitutionally sound—has you will not have to break a three year old. good eyes, good bone, no splints or spavin, side bone ring The breeding makes the foal. or bone. He should be well shaped—that is, of That's pleasing to our eves good conformation for his class, and should certainly While feeding makes the bone, have good manners, and be easy to handle, consider- ing his sex and breeding. The height, the muscle and size. LET YOUR BROOD MARE BE A GOOD INDIVIDUAL ALWAYS. J, G. Ferneyhough, Having been careful in selecting a good, well bred BUckshurg, Va, State Veterinarian. 1904.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 183

The Poultry Yard

MANAGEMENT OF DUCKS. No description of poultry will devour so much, or Editor Southern Planter: feed so greedily. The troughs should be long and Prior to 1800 the duck was not considered a pro- roomy, otherwise some will gorge themselves, while fitable fowl to raise. Tt was allowed free access to others will get but little. Do not keep food by them, waterways or marshes,' feeding mostly on fish and as that will clog their appetites, and always affects water insects. This food imparted to the flesh a the egg production, as well as the condition of the strong flavor, makiiig it objectionable, except to a birds. Another essential point is that ducks will not few. As a matter of fact it is not at all necessary produce their proper quota of fertile eggs on hard that the birds have access to water to be raised suc- food alone. The natural food of the duck is princi- cessfully. The only noticeable difference between pally vegetable and animal food obtained in streams "upland" and "water" ducks is that the latter are of and marshes. The passage leading from the throat

prettier and cleaner plumage than the former. to the gizzard direct is very small, making it impos- The Standard recognizes ten breeds, as follows: sible for the bird to assimilate or thrive on hard food. The White Pekin, Colored Kouen, White Aylesbury, Eeed a mixture of cornmeal, bran, cooked vegetables, White Muscovy, Colored Muscovy, Black Cayuga, roots, grain, grit, etc. Have a trough of water near Cray Call, White Call, Black East Indian, and the by and never shut the birds up without permitting Crested White. Of the breeds, the first six are con- them to drink. sidered profitable: the two breeds of Calls and the INCUBATION. Black East Indian are bantams; and the Crested Collect the eggs early each morning to avoid White are almost purely ornamental. The Pekins chilling them. If any are. soiled so that they must, are the most valuable, being good foragers, quite be cleaned, hold with the thumb and finger and rinse hardy, large and maturing early. The standard gently in water that has the chill removed but is not

weight of the adult drake is 8 pounds ; adult duck, warm, let them drain but do not rub or you will re- 7 pounds. The ducklings feather rapidly and weigh move the oily coat covering the shell and then they from 12 to 14 pounds per pair the first year without will fail to hatch. The germ seems capable of sur- much fattening. As layers they excel, averaging viving1 a lower temperature than that of hens' eggs, from 100 to 130 eggs each season. but 55 or fiO degrees is safe, if the eggs are turned The Colored Rouen in deservedlv popular through- dailv.

out the country, ranking next to the Pekin. It is a Eresh eggs give better results making it necessarv fine market bird but does not mature as early as does to set the first laid eggs under hens. Eive to seven the Pekin. The flesh is very delicate. The eggs are are sufficient, according to the size of the fowl. Un- not as large as those of the Pekin, and are diverse in less the nest is on the ground, particular attention color. The standard weight of the ad nit drake is 9 must be paid to sprinkle the eggs daily with tepid

pounds : adult dxick, 8 pounds. water during the last two weeks of incubation. Twen- BREEOIXO STOCK. ty-eight days are generallv required for hatching. The proportion of the sexes should be about one Because the eg^s require much oxvgen and give drake to five or six ducks. Late in the season, when off so great a quantitv of carbon dioxide it is essen- many of the ducks are broody, the proportion should tial to test thoroughlv during incubation. An un- be about one to ten. Be particular about this, as the fertilized duck P2S is harmless, but if a fertilized egg eggs will be more fertile if a part of the drakes are dies in the nroees^ of incubation and is not removed removed. it is likelv to exolode and cau?e annovance. A de- A house 12x14 feet will accommodate- nicely a composing egg is mottled or speckled with little flock of a dozen. The floor should he well covered points where the contents are oozing through the with straw or leaves, as the ducks will lay at night uores of the shell. Handle most tenderlv in remov- or very early in the morning. By feeding only at ing for it is more likelv to explode than dynamite. night and morning, regularly, and always at the pen, R.VTPIXO THE DFCKXIXOS. the ducks can be easilv shut up for the night. Nests The season for raising duck" lasts from JTebniary are often made of 1-inch boards, 6 inches wide, 16 to July. When the little fellows pip the shell they inches long, set 14 inches apart^ and nailed to the do not emerge as promptlv as normal chicks, but stav back of the house. An inclosure should be given the quiet for nerhaps twenty-four hours. On hatching breeding ducks as they do better confined. Give let, the mother retain her young upon the nest her own plenty of room and inclose the run with a 2-foot time, as they are very susceptible to change of temper- fence, ature. Indeed, during the first turee weeks of a duck- 184 THE SOUTHERN" PLANTER. [March, ling's life, it is as tender as a little turkey, and should themselves in summer. A busy, happy hen pays her not be allowed to get wet. Prepare a coop and pen owner well for every extra attention. upon the short grass if the weather is fine, or under We do not keep nice, attractive nests in cold shelter if stormy. Here the duck and brood may be weather, nor warm water these cold mornings to warm kept until the young are six or seven weeks old, when the hens. They must sit on their feet till next feed they are transferred to the growing houses. hour, which is possibly overlooked if trusted to the FEEDING. hired boy. No grit is supplied for cold, frozen days, when The three different methods are as follows: (1) they must be housed for a long spell of cold. No Feeding for market (ten old) feeding weeks ; (2) meat, grass, oyster shells, nor anything more pala- young to be kept as breeders feeding for winter ; (3) market table than corn is offered for this stay indoors. If very long sickness results, then we wonder what is The first feed should be cracker or bread crumbs wrong with our chickens. and corn meal equal parts, hard boiled eggs and sand "Eternal vigilance is the price of care." No busi- moistened with milk. After five or six days add ness prospers without a study of that business in its wheat bran, meat scraps or meal and chopped greens. every detail. "Experience is a dear school," but it A. breeder on Long Island recommends for the first pays to know from experience what results we may feed corn meal, bran, coarse flour and sand. The expect from our treatment of stock in hand. hours for feeding are 6 and 10 A. M. and 2 and 6 Let us be thorough and painstaking, putting forth P. M. our best effort, and thus have the approval of our When ducks are raised for breeders they are forced own conscience, though the world should not approve. less, and the corn meal is reduced. In summer only Mrs. John F. Payne. one meal a day is necessary, composed of cooked veg- etables or roots, thickened with bran and ground

gram. , g % EGG-PRODUCING STRAINS. SUPPLYING WATEE. Among poultry fanciers much has been done to

A young duck will sometimes choke if it has no develop particular strains of fowls inside the estab- water when eating. It cleans its bill with each lished breeds. Por the most part, these strains have mouthful. Tepid water is a preventive of cramps had reference more to form and color than egg pro- but no water should be provided for swimming until duction. So far as is publicly known, there are few the birds are reasonably well feathered. Besides the strains that are developed along the egg-laying lines, sand used in the feed place a small quantity in the though some breeders insist they have this object drinking vessels, also a box of grit and crushed char- "partly" in view. coal in the pens. W. It takes generations of selection and breeding to make a really valuable strain, but the result would MISTAKES WE MAKE. pay well in the production of eggs. We think the average fowl of any breed is a poor egg producer, but In every vocation of life mistakes are made, and in every breed there are possibilities of very great im- will be to the end of the chapter, and it is well that is stated it is so for our mistakes help us to better things if provement. It frequently that a Plymouth only we recount them and aim each time to get a lit- Rock will lay 150 eggs a year: yet the result, if ac- tle nearer perfection. curately counted, will come far, very far, short' of this As this is intended to help in the poultry business, number, and that on. farms where poultry is intelli- I shall mention a few mistakes, made along that line. gently and properly cared for. We keep too many fowls -through the winter to. de- On the other hand, individual Plymouth Rocks rive- most, profit eggs, highest. from when they are have been known to. lay 23S eggs .in a year, and re- over-crowded An hen-house means an empty egg cently a breeder from Californiaa claims that 75 basket. hens laid 17,400 eggs in 12 months, and 25 hens We do not buy our neAV stock in the fall when we 0,251, an average of 231 in the first lot and of 250 in could get them at small cost compared with the late the second, which is, of course, phenomenal. With spring. The first hatched fowls are best, and those +his breed, as well as with some others, it would be offered in the fall are earliest hatched. possible to devlop a strain that would lay on an aver- We do not begin feeding for eggs in time to have age 200 eggs per bird annually. As these extra large returns when most in demand. A few hens practically all profit, one can easily see well cared for do better than twice their number left eggs would be to care for themselves. the advantage of handling such a strain of birds, and We blame the hens, while we fail to shidy their the desirability of procuring such foundation stock needs and supply in winter what they can get for as would help towards such a strain. :

1904.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 185

The Horse.

BREED FOR SIZE. to sell him he must be taken to some city livery sta- Editor Southern Planter: ble or track and there be shown and tried, and prob- Gentlemen,—I am a subscriber to your invaluable ably finally a purchaser found at a satisfactory paper, and enjoy everything I find within its covers. price for the horse, but all this time the farm is going T wish it was a weekly paper instead of a monthly. back. All this if you train him yourself. On the I would gladly pay four times the amount charged other hand, if you put him in the hands of a profes- for the monthly to receive it four times a month. sional trainer, even an honest one, you never know Why don't you make it a weekly and charge accord- when the bills will stop coming in for boots, shoeing, ingly ? veterinary attention, etc. I have been there. _ Having been breeding horses of various breeds for Again, when a farmer has a well bred large mare sixteen years in a small way, the Horse column, or two, and can find a big trotting stallion, the big- edited by "Broad Rock," is particularly interesting ger the better, that can trot in 2 :30 or better, and reading to me, and yet it was not until your issue of can breed his mares to such a horse, he may rest as- September, 1903, on page 579, at the bottom of the sured that with good feed and care, and such hand- page, that I found in Broad Rock's note about the ling as he can give his colts, at five years old he can stallion Russell Rex exactly the keynote, according sell every one of them in Richmond, Washington, to my ear, of the proper tune. to sing in praise of the Baltimore, or any good market, quickly and at little (rotting stallions offered in Virginia for the patron- cost, and will realize more profit from such a course age of the public, and that keynote was slurred and of breeding than by gambling for speed. I never softened, until a careless listener to the song of had any difficulty in selling at a good price a big praise might fail to catch it. The words are horse of some beauty and style, and have often found "Though a mastodon in size, being 16.3 in height and and seen much faster but small horses hang on like weighing close to 1,400 pounds," etc., and the writer a toe plaster. goes on to say he is of symmetrical proportions and For the farmers of Virginia, give us big sires to very a handsome horse, the writer had already credit- get big colts, to make sure some profit, sometimes- a ed him with the ability to trot close to 2 :20. handsome one. In the cities of the United States Now, in few descriptions of trotting stallions in there are always buyers looking for fine, large car- Virginia has Broad Rock given any emphasis to riage horses, with some trotting action, and if you size. The readers of your journal can only con- have such stock you can always sell it, and at a good clude that the reason for the omission was due to the price. It is needless to try to show that for his own fact that of none of them was the size sufficiently use the farmer has absolutely no use for a small, fast great to justify comment, which brings me to the trotter, and if the small, fast bred trotters can't trot, point I wish to emphasize. The little stumpy, the farmer is "in the soup." I wish there were some trotting pony, or the bigger trotting slob, who can such horses as I have described offered for public trot a mile in 2 :00 minutes or thereabouts may do patronage in my neighborhood, but there are none. for trotting the race horsemen, who live and move Why is it that size is subordinated too much to speed and have their being in trotting training stables or in the manufacture of the trotting breed of horses, tracks, but it has never struck me that those horses essentially an American invention ? W. R. C. were the ones the farmers of Virginia ought to pa- Westmorejand Co., Va. tronize, with the expectation of getting any money out of the sale of their colts. If you get a trotter, and this is a very uncertain "if," by breeding to the SADDLE HORSES. small trotting stud, and want to sell him, you are apt Editor Southern Planter: to be tempted to train him, or have him trained. If "Broad Rock" gives us much information about you undertake to train him yourself, whether you the thoroughbred horses of Virginia, also the trotter, know anything about the business or not, the Avork once in a while the Hackney, to which, by the way, with the horse will take you away from other work, I am not very partial, but that is immaterial, and or superintendence, and your other business will be sometimes he mentions jumpers, but he has nothing sacrificed in your endeavor to "develop" your trot- to say about a class of horses as beautiful as any, as ter, -who may develop or not. If not, then you have intelligent as any, and as useful, the class known as drawn a blank' in the horse line, and other things gaited saddle horses. Not the walk, trot, gallop and have gone to smash. If be does learn to go a few jump favorites of the New York Horse Shows, but seconds faster, after months of work and worry, then the American saddle horses, on whose back a man can 186 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [March, ride and attend to business for six days in the week, pounds. Formerly, in the noted Castleton stud, Lex- and when Saturday night comes be no more tired, ington, Ky., he sired while there a number of good if as much, as if he had covered the same distance in ones, among them Whitechapel, a horse known on a rubber tired buggy. I have ridden these horses, both continents. The returns are not all in for 1903, but don't own one now. W. R, C. but during the previous year his get won over $28,000 on Jockey Club tracks, and with $1,500 won by Ma- ria Bolton at Charleston, S. C, a track not recog- NOTES. nized, swells the total to something more than $30,- Not a month passes but testimonials are received 000. This was some $15,000 more than was credited regarding the value of the Planteb as an advertising to any other Virginia thoroughbred sire. Young medium. We are deeply appreciative of all such. Dion Kerr, one of the crack gentleman riders of the South, has charge of affairs at Antrim, and the five We take pleasure in publishing the following inter- yearlings on the place by Chorister from the farm esting communication from Mr. Percival Hicks, mares, he thinks will compare favorably with many whose farm is near North P. O., Mathews county, seen in the Blue Grass region of Kentucky. Va.: %e& t5* t&* "I have recently sold to E. R. Rajnoldo, 79 Victoria The advertisement of Wealth, 2 :10, which appears street. Toronto, Canada, the bay stallion Bloscellus, in this issue is decidedly interesting, as it refers to a 25401, by Blosceps, son of Orange Blossom, dam harness horse with a faster record than any other Marcella, by Sir Walkill. He is ten years old, and stallion kept for service in the State. Wealth is in stands 16.2, while built in proportion. He will be the stud at Gordonsville, Va., in charge of S. F. used by his new owner as a sire of coach horses, for Chapman, whose father. Col. W. H. Chapman, pur- which, on account of his fine size, rich color and even chased the handsome son of Gambetta Wilkes and temper, he seems admirably fitted. Indeed, it seems Magnolia, by Norfolk, when a suckling by his dam's a pity that such a horse should leave this country, and side, and has seen him develop grand individuality not find ready sale at home at a profitable figure, but along with speed of a sensational order. Gambetta

Mathews is distinctly a race horse county ; then, too, Wilkes is one of the handsomest and most successful in competition with such trotting sires as Letcher, sons of the immortal George Wilkes. His get have

2:18£, by Dictator; Bedworth, 2 :22 ; Pilot Medium, proven winners on all the big tracks, and he is the

Jr., 2 :09f ; Edworth, 2 :20£, and Sable Rock, by Sa- leading sire of 2 :10 performers now, and promises at ble Wilkes, he had little opportunity in the stud, and no distant date to lead all sires of standard perform- I did not find him a profitable investment, hence the ers that has ever lived. On his maternal side Wealth sale of this son of Blosceps. I now have in stable gets the potent blood of Nutwood, as his dam was sired Kisses, holder of the track record at Newport News by Norfolk, a son of that illustrious sire, and back of at three-quarter mile heats, and the black mare Al- that comes more trotting and thoroughbred blood. verna, by Cuthbert, son of Cuylerdam by Frank Write Mr. Chapman for the stud circular of his horse Morgan. This mare can show a 2:10 gait pacing, and studv his blood lines. JC and is in foal to Pilot Medium, Jr., 2 :09|, and the J* J* prospective foal is nominated in the Western Horse- The brown colt Featherbone, by Whalebone, dam man Futurity for foals of 1904, value $6,000. I am Alcyrene, a daughter of the famous dead Alcyone, hoping that this foal may place Virginia in the front which I sold last fall through an advertisement in the rank as a producer of early speed, an honor that her Peantee to D. C. Lester, of Hatfield, Ark., is doing mild climate and short winters entitles her to try for. nicely in his Southern home, and promises to de- Indeed, no State this side of the Rocky Mountains velop both speed and race horse quality. He is now has a better winter climate for growing stock, and two years old. His dam, Alcyrene, I sold to M. W. we have the stallions, but as yet nothing like so many Savage, of the International Stock Farm, Minneapo- approved mares as I should like to see." lis, Minn., and she has been mated with Directum, 2 :05^, regarded as one of the greatest sires alive to- Dr. James Kerr, prominent in professional and day. M.T. Lester formerly bred trotters in Idaho other circles in Washington, D. C, and proprietor of and sold several for good figures, but now his time is the Antrim stud, Warrenton, Virginia, writes me that taken up with duties connected with his office of his horses are wintering finely. The former good sheriff of Polk county, Ark., still he devotes his spare race horse Chorister heads the stud, and the brood time to breeding fine horses and fancy live stock, for mares number about a dozen head, all bred in lines which he is well fitted on account of a practical knowl- likely to produce winners. Chorister, the son of edge of pedigrees and blood lines. Featherbone will Falsetto and Addie C, is a bay horse of splendid be developed by Mr. Lester and then placed in the physique, standing 16.2 in height and weighing 1,300 stud. Broad Rook. 1904.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER 187

Miscellaneous.

VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, BLACKS- college, a large number of them the sons of farmers. BURG. If the necessary buildings are provided, not less than (Agbicultukal and Mechanical College.) 1,000 young men of the State will in all probability next session be learning how to do in the best way The great increase in the number of students at the something to earn a good living, and not merely how college, and the constant applications made for ad- to talk. We have talkers in excess already, we want mission from all parts of the State, has produced such doers. Let the members of the Legislature hear from congestion in the class rooms, dining hall and dor- every farmer in the State at once, urging the making mitories that the Board of Visitors have been com- of the appropriation asked. The college is the farm- pelled to apply to the Legislature of the State for a ers college ; let it be made the greatest institution in special appropriation to enable them to meet the re- the State, as they are the greatest factor in the State's quirements and to obviate the necessity for refusing progress. admission of students. They desire also to bring the agricultural side of the college into due proportion with the mechanical side. In the past few students BIRDS AND THE FARMERS. applied to take the agricultural course. jSTow farm- We notice that some wiseacre in the Legislature ers are appreciating the value of science as an ad- wants to place a price on the scalp of the crow and junct to their calling, and are asking that their sons the poor hawks are already in many counties thus shall have scientific training at the college. There handicapped. We desire to protest against such leg- are to-day more students taking the agricultural islation, and would ask our farmer friends to support course than ever before in the history of the college. us in this matter by writing their representatives on This and the probability of still more students de- the subject Investigation by a large number of au- siring such instruction next term imposes upon the thorities has settled the question that the crow is the

Board the duty of supplying the necessary facilities farmer's friend, and not his enemy. His diet is al- in the way of buildings and equipment. In compari- most wholly insectivorous at all times, and certainly son with the agricultural colleges of many of the so during the breeding season. We knew a case where other States, the buildings and equipment of our a farmer was very wroth with a flock of crows for college for the teaching of scientific agriculture are frequenting his newly seeded wheat He was satis- insufficient. fied most meagre and We have been unpleas- that they were eating the seed and pulling it up antly reminded of this in articles in several of the as it germinated. One was shot, and examination agricultural journals recently. The standing which of this crow showed not a single grain of wheat, but the college has attained as a training place for young a crawful of wire worms and grubs. This man was men in the mechanical arts has brought it into promi- ever after a friend of the crow. In like manner the special is nent notice in other States. This has led to hawk a much maligned bird. Whilst it is true investigation by journalists of those States of the that some members of the hawk family kill chickens, status of the college, and its equipment. Whilst one yet it is equally true that nearly all the hawks are and all praise the mechanical side of the college and great destroyers of mice, rats and other small ani- the work it has done and is doing as evidenced by the mals of various kinds, which are destructive of cropa large number of graduates holding responsible posi- A few years ago in the South of Scotland hawks and tions in this and other countries, there is an equal owls were nearly exterminated by the game keepers. the As unanimity in lamenting the facilities afforded by a result the whole section was infested with a agricultural department of the college. This should plague of rats and mice, which consumed an immense not be allowed to continue, and will not, if the Legis- amount of grain and fodder before they could be destroyed. lature will only find the money wherewith to remedy If our legislators must do something in the it If the appropriation now asked of $200,000 be way of legislating as to the birds we would strong- good, ly granted not only will this deficiency be made urge that they repeal the legislation protecting the for further stu- Turkey but accommodations will be provided Buzzard and in the place of protection offer dents in all there are nearly 700 a good departments. To-day reward for the destruction of these of sons instruction at the birds. the of Virginia receiving They are the great means whereby hog chol- — —

188 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [March, era and other infectious and contagious diseases of a tea from a bundle of tobacco to two gallons of water animals are spread over the State. It should be and put in enough kerosene to make it smell strong. made a penal offence for any one to throw out a dead I took the leaves and rubbed the tea thoroughly all over her. This was early in the morning. By night animal to he consumed by buzzards. Make it im- every louse seemed to be dead, but in a few days I perative that all dead animals be either burnt or saw others. I washed her the second time and got buried deeply get rid of the buzzards and we will ; rid of all the brood. I never saw any bad effects from soon be rid of hog cholera and other infectious and it. I treated all the others with like success and have contagious diseases animals, shall them of or have never had a louse since. N. S. Watexns. confined to the limited areas, where outbreaks may Goochland Co., Va. occur. We can endorse this remedy from personal expe- rience. Ed. POLYGONUM SACCHALINENSE; SACHALIEN BUCKWHEAT. HOG RAISING. Editor Southern Planter: Editor Southern Planter: Replying to an enquiry in the last issue, polygo- Years ago after I had lost nearly a hundred hogs num sacchalinense is as the Latin name indicates, not and dispaired of raising hogs, having only seven left, a clover, but a buckwheat. It is a perennial grow- 1 accidentally saw in an agricultural paper an arti- ing wild on the desert island Sachalien, of in the Sea cle on hog cholera and was so much impressed with of Okhotsk, on the east coast of Siberia. the same that 1 at once tried the preventive sug- The plant was for the first time advertised for gested and as a result had no more disease. The rem- sale about four years ago in Germany and Russia. edy was nothing but plenty of wood ashes where the A photograph shows that it grows from 7 to 8 feet hogs could get them. high, resembling tobacco. It is claimed that this Before this time I always had great trouble to get sachalien buckwheat grows on all kinds of soil, even my hogs to fatten. Now 1 would as soon try to raise on sandy and gravely soils, and that it withstands the chickens without Polk Miller's Victory Chicken hardest winters as well as the hottest summers. When Powhatan Co., Va. W. W. Hobsom. the plants are well established, they should last 20 Pood as not to give my hogs plenty of ashes. As the years with little care. The young shoots juicy are result of eating the ashes they had no bowel worms or and tender, and should be cut when about 4 feet high. boils on their livers whilst before they were full. From 2 to 3 crops may be harvested every year, or A better preventive of disease than wood ashes one crop, if the plants are allowed to grow to the alone is wood charcoal 1 pound, sulphur 1 pound, so- full height of seven or eight feet. It is said that it dium chloride (salt) 2 pounds, sodium bicarbonate is not advisable to buy the seed, as it is difficult to 2 pounds, sodium hyposulphite 2 pounds, sodium get it pure. The seed firm of Ernest Bahlsen, Wein- sulphate 1 pound, antimony sulphide (black anti- berge, Prague, Bohemia, offers seedlings for sale: pound. Pulverize and thoroughly mix. 1,000 plants, $47; 100, $5; 25, $1.50; 10, 75 cents. mony) 1 If the seed or the plants can be bought here I am not Give a large tablespoonful for each 200 pounds aware of it. H. Winkelman. weight of hogs once a day. Mix with the slop food District of Columbia. and the hogs will eat it readily. Ed.

FOR LICE REMEDY ON CATTLE. FOREST HOME FARM, LOUDOUN CO., VA. Editor Southern Planter: The proprietor of this farm writes us that during In reply to J. D. H. for a remedy for lice on cat- the last year he sold over 250,000 pounds of 4.7 per tle I will give my remedy which has proved very cent, milk and 130 hogs and pigs. Since November effective. I had several heifers that were looking 1st last the farmers delivering milk to his creamery badly notwithstanding they were well fed and housed. (about 3,000 pounds per day) have received for their I had never had a lousy cow and felt rather insulted product 30 cents per pound for their butter fat and when told they were lousy and paid no attention to have had the skim milk returned to feed to their own them, but soon one of them got so weak she could not stock. Such a record must be very gratifying to the walk a hundred yards. I became alarmed and con- descended to examine her, and to my horror, I think farmers of that section and shows what may be done there was a louse for every hair. to improve the condition of the farmers by the estab- It was a cold February day, but a sunny day. I lishment of a creamery in almost any county of the knew she would die if not relieved at once. I made South. ——

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THE PUBLISHER'S NOTES.

If you want Clean Fields Southern Planter TO ADVERTISERS. PUBLISHED BY and Clean Crops, Sow J* We wish to impress upon our M SOUTHERN PLANTER PUBLISHING (Ml advertisers the necessity of hav- Wood's Trade Mark RICHMOND, VA. ing all advertisements, no matter Issued on 1st of each Month. whether new or change of copy, Clover J. F. JACKSON, in our office by the 24th of each and Editor and General Manager. month. Advertising forms close B. MORGAN SHEPHERD, on the 25th. are compelled to Grass Seeds. Business Mana«eh. We leave a number of advertisements They are the best and cleanest TERMS KOR ADVERTISING. qualities that it is possible to pro- Kate card furnished on application. out of each issue because they are cure— free from plantain, daisy, TERMS FOR SUBSCRIPTION. received too late. wild carrot and other objectionable THE SOUTHERN PLANTER Is mailed to weed seeds, often found in ordi- aubBorlhiTB Id the United States and Canada nary clover and grass Heeds. at 60c. per annum; all foreign countries and the city of Richmond, 76c. WITH THE ADVERTISERS. ALWAYS C1VB THE NAME of the Post- The Majestic Rotary is ad- Office to which your paper is sent. Tour Washer Wood's Seed Book for 1904 name cannot be found on our books unless vertised in this issue by the Richmond gives the most complete informa- this Is done. Cedar Works. tion up-to-date THE DATE ON TOUR LABEL shows to and expedience Mr. Percv L. Banks has card on what time your subscription Is paid. a about all Grasses and Clovers. REMITTANCES should be made direct to another page offering "Bug Death," an Mailed free on request. Write for office, Letter this either by Registered or insecticide, which is rapidly coming Seed Book and special Price List Money Order, which will be at our risk. When to the front. made otherwise we cannot be responsible. of Grass and Clover Seeds. Address THE SOUTHERN PLANTER, Messrs. Shannon B«os. have an at- RICHMOND. TA. tractive ad in another column. They T. W. WOOD & SONS, Seedsmen, can handle commission orders for pure Entered at the Post-office, Richmond, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. bred stock on short notice. Va., as second-class matter. Agricultural lime can be had of DETAIL INDEX TO ENQUIRER'S Messrs. T. C. Andrews & Co. Look up their card. COLUMN. Mr. H. the largest C. Ward who has THE IMPROVED Tomato Growing—Potato (Irish) 166 broiler plant in this section, is offer- Improving Land — Sec ling to ing some of his well known stock, SCREWSTUMPPDLLEB Grass and Clover 166 from which he makes his celebrated Write for Prices. Alfalfa — Pig Trees — Bermuda broilers. Grass 166 The Park Poultry Yards is a new Tomato Blight—Winter Cabbage. 167 advertiser in this issue. Specking of Tobacco 167 "M. D. L." desires t>. purchase a Grass Seeding 167 flock of common goats. Sweet Potato Growing 167 Choice nursery stock, ornamental Strawberries—Raspberries 168 trees, etc.. can be had of the Murrell Irish Potato Growing 168 Orchard & Nursery Co. Whitewash for Fruit Trees A new Berkshire advertiser in this Wormy Apples 168 issue is Mr. John Calhoun. He has Preserving Skins of Animals the right foundation stock. Better Horses Rubbing Tails—Vetch get his prices. Seed 168 The Monarch Grubber & Stump Pul- Chamberlin Mfg. Co., Olean, N. Y., U. S. A. Ginseng 168 ler is offered by the agent for this Draining Land 169 State, Mr. J. W. Ritchie.

.• Dorset Sheep . . 169 The Risdon Seed Co. has a card in HERCULES STUMP PULLER Corn for Hog Feeding—Cow Peas, another column, to which we invite Chufas and Rape for Hog Pas- attention. tures 169 The Virginia Hill Poultry Farm is Tomato Rot—Potato Bugs—Ni- offering first class stock and eggs from trate of Soda for Irish Potatoes, the most popular strains. Etc.—Gas Fly 170 The Granite Poultry Yards are of- Profitable Sheep and Hogs—Fer- fering eggs and choice stock of Wyan- Clears an acre of heavy timber land each day. 1"0 tilizer for Peanuts dottes and Barred Plymouth Rocks. Clears all stumps in a circle of 150 ft. without Breeding Hares—Johnson Grass. Look un their ad and write for prices. moving or changing machine, Strongest, molt Grasses 171 The Norfolk Farm Supply Co. has rapid working and best made. Potash Fertilizer for Cotton attractive card on another page. — an Hercules Mfg. Co., 413 17th St., Centreville, Iowa. Clover in Cotton 171 Farmers who are needing any farm Sheep Troughs and Racks—Pre- tools or supplies, should get in corre- venting Sheep Jumping—Cas- spondence with this firm. Stump Pullers trating Lambs 171 The Chicago House Wrecking Co. grubbing - machines, Crimson Clover 172 has several attractive ads in this issue. DERRICKS to handle Pedigree Seed Corn 172 Zenoleum, the well known sheep cane, cotton and tobacco. Strawberry Plants 172 dip and disinfectant, is offered to our Derricks to load manure. Tobacco and Cow Peas—Pine Tags 172 readers for the first time in this issue. ^ 'Derricks for all purposes. Lice on Musk Melons—Tobacco Kindly refer to the ad nnd write for ., Dust 172 some further information in regard to Dept. L. NATIONAL H0I5T & AACHINB Larva for Name 172 this successful dip. CO., Chicago. HI. 190 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [March,

State of Ohio, City of Toledo, Lucas County, ss. Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he Local agencies and complete repair stocks everywhere is senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co.. doing business in the city of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of one hundred dollars for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. PLANO FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day of De- HARVESTERS cember, A. D. 1886. (Seal.) A. W. GLEASON, Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken inter- International Harvester Co. of America, Chicago, U. S. A. nally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by all Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Combined Kemp & Burpee Mfg. Co. are offer- HALLOGKWeeder and Seeder ing their up-to-date Manure Spreader. The farmer who knows the value of light surface stirring and weeding of The Belcher & Taylor A. T. Co. have growing crops recognizes in this the prize implement. It is the flat tooth cultivator. You know what that means—its special adaptability, its this issue, one of a couple of ads in service, its results. Increases crop 25% to 49^. There is but one flat their corn planter and the other of a tooth—the only satisfactory tooth—the Hallock patent. We have the right to manufacture it fertilizer distributor. We have fre- quent inauiries for the latter and beg TheSeederAttachment to suggest that this is the place to means getting a good stand of clover, timothy and other grasses. It sows them all, and its positive force feed can get it. be adjusted to sow accurately from 2 to IS quarts per acre. Bros., seedsmen, have an in- Especially valuable in the wheat fields, as the surface Curry cultivation benefits the wheat and at the same time the teresting ad in another column. grass seed is sown and lightly covered. The seeder can be readily attached to or detached from the weeder frame. The Hench & Dromgold Co. resume Either is sold separately when desired. Catalogue is free. spring advertising in this issue. Don't fail to write for free book off field scenes, showing their half-tones from photographs of the weeder En actual use. Their Daisy Corn Planter is the of- Keystone Farm Machine Go*9 1554 North Beaver Street, York, Pa. fering this month. The B. F. Baker Co. are advertising their traceless harness. Look up the ad. The International Harvester Co. has infor- DeLoaci >aw several ads in this issue giving MiiTK mation in regard to their various Kindly look up these ads, branches. Special for the Man with Light Power and! Heavy Timber. so you will know where to apply for repairs as well as new machines. Cuts 2,000 to 1 0,000 Feet per Day. 4 to 20 h. p. Parties desiring to purchase eggs, This Pony Mill is especially adapted to the use of thresher- men who have engines, enabling them to secure profitable all poultry supplies, or incubar poultry, winter employment when the threshing season is over. through this issue tors, should look We Make All Styles There will be found scores carefully. Saw mills from smallest to largest capacity. A great ex- of ads of prominent dealers and our clusive feature in the De Loach Variable Friction Drive. readers should have no difficulty in Our advantages In cheap Southern labor and superior and low-priced lumber, iron and steel being accommodated. enable us to make the best saw mills for least

, money of any manufacturer In the world. The real estate men always find the Our Mill Machinery Line includes shingle Southern Planter a profitable adver- Mills, Planers, Edgers, Trimmers, Stave Mills, Lath tising medium. suggest, there- 'Mills, Water Wheels, Portable Grinding Mills, Shaft- We ing, etc. Ask for Saw Mill and General Machinery fore, that any one desiring to buy, sell Catalogue. Mailed free for the asking. or exchange a farm should look De Loach Mill Mfg. Co.? through our columns before placing Box GOO Atlanta, Ca. their property in the hands of an ¥wrfmiiwni

invite attention to the : d. 191 1904.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER.

CATALOGUES. FOUNDED QOLD] MEDALS: The annual catalogue of The Watt Paris, 1900. Pan-American, 1901. Plow Co., Richmond, Va., is before us. 1802. We are not auite sure, but we think this company has surpassed all pre- vious efforts in getting up a thor- oughly attractive and interesting cat- alogue. It is chock full of illustra- tions, descriptions and prices of every implement and appliance used on or about the farm: Carriages, harness, threshers, engines, saw mills, evapo- rators, harvesting machinery, all of the latest patterns. All farmers are invited to send for a copy. The Reliable Incubator & Brooder J***3£ Co., Quincy, 111., have just issued their 20th annual catalogue, and as with this company, "it is a most usual for over a hundred years have been universally recognized as the stand- elaborate one. The Reliable people nothing if not unselfish. They do, are ard of excellence. They received the GOLD MEDAL (the highest not believe their yearly catalogue should be entirelv taken up by them- award) both at the Paris Exposition of 1900 and at the Pan-American, selves in advertising their goods, but sufficient space is given to the de- scription of their incubators, brood- 1901. ers and supplies, and the remainder devoted to general information on Our Catalogue poultry subjects, making it a most val- uable book for anyone who raises poul- try. It gives many practical pointers —the 103d successive annual edition—contains a more complete assort- that would require years of experi- ence to acquire. Every reader of this ment and fuller cultural directions than any other seed annual pub- paper should have a copy. Write for illustrated, highly colored one. Mention this paper when writ- lished. It is beautifully not with exaggera- ing. tions, but with the finest half-tones from life photographs. It contains The Electric Wheel Co., Quincy, 111., latest catalogue. It is a send us its 144 large size pages, and is in every respect and without exception the beauty. It deals, of course, with the Electric Low Down Wagons and metal most complete, most reliable, and most beautiful of American Garden wheels. This company, in introducing its broad tire wheels, is doing more Annuals. We will mail it EREE. for the good roads movement, than nine-tenths of the legislatures in the country. As to the Low Down Wagon, Market Gardeners anyone who has ever used one or seen one, knows the enormous amount of labor they save. The matter is treat- are invited to send for our special price list of high-class vegetable seeds ed fully and illustrated aptly in the for truckers and large market growers. It contains all sorts of ap- catalogue. Send for it. Address, Box 146, Quincy, 111. proved merit One of the most striking catalogues that has reached our table this sea- son is that of the Ohio Carriage Man- J. M. THORBURN & CO., ufacturing Co.. Cincinnati, 0. It is a splendid example of the printer's art and is filled with interesting descrip- ™2 36 Cortlandt St., NEW YORK. tive matter and illustrations of this company's celebrated Split Hickory vehicles. This company has another booklet, "Good Buggies and how they ..ELMWOOD NURSERIES.. are made," which will be mailed to anyone for the asking, regardless of whether he wants to buy a buggy or -WE ARE GROWERS AND OFFER A FINE ASSORTMENT OF- not. Be sure and get both the cata- Apples, Peaches, Pears, Cherries, Plums, Apricots, Necta- logue and booklet. Address the com- rines, Grapevines in large assortments, Gooseberries, Currants, pany at Station 41. Cincinnati, O. ~ The B.P . Baker Co.. Burnt Hills, Strawberries, Horse-B adisb, Asparagus, Dewben ies an N. Y., is a new advertiser in this issue. an extra fine lot Raspberries. Splendid assortment Ornamental and Shade We hope you have seen their ad and Trees, Ornamental Shrubs and Hedge Plants. I will write for a catalogue. This com- f pany is advertising Traceless Har- BOOS from B. P. ROCK and BROWN LEGHORN FOWLS at fl.00 per It. ness. Did you ever hear of or see a Also a few pullets and cockerels of these breeds at $1.00 each for immediate de- set? Probably not. The catalogue livery. Write for Catalogue to gives full information and testimo- nials from orchardists and others who J. B. WATKINS & BRO., Hallsboro, Va. have used them. 192 THE SOUTHEEN PLANTER [March",

The LANSING" GOOD HOUSEKEEPING. PERFECT TUBULAR SILO CREAM OF TOMATO SOUP. orn Planting is the Best Silo Made. Put one can of tomatoes and half and fertilizing go hand in band. w-. of an onion chopped fine in a pan to You can plant in hills, drills or © checks and putpi in the ground all com- stew for twenty minutes, till they can /"C-Sc mercial or home made fertilizers in be passed through a seive. Then put any condition,as wet,lumpy,etc. with them in a boiler and add half a tea- spoon of soda, a tablespoon of sugar, a teaspoon of salt, black pepper and a pinch of parsley. Keep this at the boiling point. Rub two large table- spoons of flour into two tablespoons of butter until smooth, and pour slow- ly over them a quart of scalding milk. Let it cook until it is creamy, then just before serving pour the tomatoes and milk together very slowly, and THE ECLIPSE put on the table at once. Do not cook Corn Planter and at all after they are mixed as there Fertilizer Distributer, is great danger of the milk curdling. With Improved Row Marker. Have small squares of toast to eat Adapted as well to Peas, Beans, Beets, etc. Hills 6 to 45 inches apart. Distributes 50 to with this, putting a handfull into each 450 lbs. fertilizer per acre. Wide and easy plate and pouring the soup over. adjustment. Lignt draft, weight 150 lbs. Easy to handle, a model for accuracy and CREAM OF CELERY SOUP. durability. Investigate our Eclipse Two In the spring as the celery is hard Row Two Horse Planter. Agents wanted in Write for circularsand terms. to get and is rarely as tender as new territory. TAYLOR A. T. CO., would like to have it, it is a very good BELCHER & Box 25, Chf cope© Falls, Mass. plan to make soup of it, and if you have your own celery bed the short rough pieces and the roots can be used A. M. D. HOLLOWAY, and they are really better than the Builders Exchange, Phila., Pa., U. S. A. long tender pieces, as they have more Write for Catalogue and Prices. of the celery taste. Chop up enough to measure one quart, in small pieces, add to it one Clark's Tools for Large Hay Crops quart of boiling water and let it cook until thoroughly tender. Mash it and ' Clark 8 Rev - Busb p ' ow and Harrow e;"-=X • rub it all through a seive, allowing as Ss?i9*CMLsa^! cuts a track 5 ft. wide, 1 ft. A single row co* ~\ planter, made with or without much of the pulp to go through as pos- ; deep. Connects the sub- '^i.lrW"*l' --"t. fertilizer attachment. Has either double orconcave Sl "' water. It is an ex- single wheel. Has brings or dropping dies. Dropping mECSamrarfffiM sible. Melt two large spoons of but- oellent machine for and fertilizer feed regulated by link chain belt. 6chain wheels $nHl$l1tt it heaping table- for dmppiuscorn. Drops 1 grain from 11 to 19 inch*Bor2grainB Vcovering in sugar cane. ter and stir into two ttUJiSJ, Mi i rom 22 t:> 88 Inches apart. 3 extra feed wheels for fertilizer at- Wi/WC Wffl (Strength guaranteed. spoons of flour, when well blended, tachment drills 20 to 625 lbs fertilizer per acre. Ground wheel In » Can plow a newly cut not browned, add slowly one quart of front can be raisedor lowered for deep or shallow planting forest, stump, bush, or Extra rinerscan be supplied for dropping or drilling peas, beans, scalding milk, stir until smooth and < nviU^e corn, etc, W rife for Catalogue bog land, leaves land true, clean for any crop. creamy and then put in the prepared HEWCH & DROiyiGOLP, York. Pa. Clark's Double Action Cutaway ^^^I^Spl celery, half a teaspoon of onion juice, tons 0, Harrow moves 15,000 jSfSnpi%^fitf^ salt and pepper to taste. Add half •arth in a day. 'rWRHrlKlwa cup of whipped cream just before serv- f Send for Circulars. ""»/ The Best Power ing. Disc Plow after all is steam power. The best example Is Clark's Rev. Sulky STUFFED BEEF STEAK. here shown in our r* a Made single or double. LrwiJ^gj one or two furrows five Select three nice pieces of round LEFFEL ENGINES Si . 1/, /W? to ten inches deep; 14 steak. Lay one in the bottom of a with Stationary Tubular Boiler !ij*\f jl inches wide. For two or This outfit contains all the Lelfel superiority and y a stuffing just as for four horses. Light draft. pan and make efficiency. Easy steamers, Utile fuel, easy hand- No side draft. No similar turkey, with the addition of some ling, alwaysin order, long lived, safe, etc. plow made. When Clark's grass tools are used small pieces of chopped onion or on- This style made 10 to as directed in his grass circular, the C. H Co., we, ion juice Spread this evenly over 10H.P Many other guarantee them to kill wild mustard, charlock, styles of engines and hard hack, sunflower, milk weed, morningglory, the steak and put on the next piece boilers for all pur- Get free book Russian thistle or any other foul plant that poses. treating as before and then put on the ' 'Power Economy grows, or money refunded. Now is the time to piece, sprinkling some of the and Effi- commence work for next year's seeding to grass. top ciency." dressing over it. Pour about three CO., James THE CUTAWAY HARROW cups of boiling water in which you Uffel&Co. Higganum, Ct., U. S. A. have melted two tablespoons of butter Box 134 Springfield, Ohio., over this. Pin it all together with sharp pieces of wood, if you have no WITH HUSKS OH skewers, and bake slowly for two syja. MEND YOUR OWN SHOES. or off, cob corn or shelled, all hours, basting several times. Serve Send for our complete grains. It will not choke. hot, slicing through all three pieces. There's speed and fine or Cobbler's Outfit Coarse grinding with BAKED BEEF. ffi stand cut, the neck, or any of Contains half-soling iron Buy a cheap with 3 reversible lasts, 1 shoe Kelly the odds and ends, without much knife. 1 shoe hammer, 1 pegging • awl, 1 harness awl, 1 sew- bone. Run it through the meat chop- M ing awl, 2 papers of shoe • DUPLEX grinder. about R&uiails, 1 wrench fur awl per, or sausage To /iaarhandles. A complete sefc Grinding Mills. two quarts put a pint of stale bread of tools for shoe and har- Steady force feed. Doub- ness mendiuc, packed in salt, pepper, for free le breakers, double set burrs. crumbs, three raw eggs, wooden box. Send catalogue. ^ Little power, any kind, runs and a half cup of melted butter, half BBthem. 1 sizes. Catalog ft—. STEWART BROS. catsup, or soup mix- Columbus, Ohio, 17. S. A. The O. S. Keily Co., Springfield, Ohio. cup of tomato 1

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t h e ture. Mix all together well with a b e st SPRAY PUMP EARTH fork and put it into a pudding disk, bake slowly or steam. This makes a We know Its merits from practical expe- good dinner dish. It looks better rience. Having used al- made into a mound or pone and baked, most all known pumps garnishing with celery tops or pars- in our own orchards, consequently we are ley, and served either hot or cold for able to Judge of Its su- tea. periority over all oth- TOMATO SALAD. ers. It is the moat durable pump made. Scald one can of tomatoes until easiest working The tender, rub them through a seive, let- pump; no stuffing boxes to look after. The han- ting the seed and pulp go through too. dle is adjustable to suit Season with salt, pepper, a teaspoon the height of the ope- of onion juice and while hot pour into rator. The agitator is a simple, direct mo- tion, and keeps the solution thoroughly mix- it four tablespoons of gelatine, which pressure 200 pounds can be ed. A of 150 to has been soaked in a half cup of cold We have sold up to date more easily obtained. Hand and Geared Vineyard water for two hours. Pour it into a than a million and a quarter light Sprayers a specialty. Patented and iQanufac- draft, wide tire, low steel wheels. mold and let it stand till the next day. tured by LATHAM & CO., We are making more of them than Serve on lettuce leaves with mayon- any two other factories. Sandusky, O. Send for Catalogue. naise. Several hundred thousand farm- ers whoare using them say theyare BAKED EGGS. the best by every lest. Does that mean anything? It Boil your eggs twenty minutes. A means just this: dozen will make a good dish. Take off the shells, and when cold slice ELECTRIC them in thin slices, put a layer into Steel Wheels the bottom of the pudding dish, and and the over this a layer of fine crumbs of stale bread, salt, peper and dabs of ELECTRIC Spray Apple butter. Repeat the operation till the mounted There's no other way to cet right fruitage. Its dish full, having the crumbs on top. Handy Wagon barrel tank, sul>mere<-(l brass cylinder, bronze ball valves and automatic agitation make the Over this pour a pint of sweet milk have proved themselves to he superior and bake twenty minutes. to any other. No living man ran build CENTURY SPRAYER a better. We make them ourselves, by our patented process. They are theide.il for all orchard operations. All kinds sprayers made PINE APPLE PIE. right. Wo tfive them the strongest pos- for all purposes. 20 styles. Hand, Bucket, Knapsack, sible guaranty. You run no" risk in Field, Power. Special needs all met. Catalog Barrel, One can of grated pineapple,, or a buying them. The spokes are united free. Booklet oninsectsand fruit diseases 10c. pint of grated fresh pineappel. One with the hub and simply can't work THE DEMINC CO., SALEM, OHIO. loose. They last a lifetime without Henlon & Hubbeil, Western Agents, Chicago, Ills. and a half cups of sugar, three heap- repairs. Don't go on breaking your back loading high wagons and rutting ing tablespoons of butter, five eggs, your fields with narrow tires. Don't whites and yolks beaten separately, be persuaded into buying a makeshift. Get the best while you're at it. It costs very light. Cream the butter and no more. Send for tree catalogue and use your own judgment. Get the Best sugar, add the yolks, and then a cup ELECTRIC WHEEL COMPANY, A. Good Spray Pump earns big of rich cream, then the fruit and last- ( Box 146 Qulncy, III. profits and lasts for years. ly the whites. Mix all well together and bake in pans lined with rich pas- THE ECLIPSE \ Is a good pump. As prac- try. Good hot or cold, but better cold. tical fruit growers we I SOFT GINGER BREAD. were using the com- mon sprayers in our I One-half cup of butter, two cups of own orchards—found I good Porto Rico molasses. One cup their defects and then invented I The Eclipse. Its success of sugar, four cups of flour, one tea- man- practically forced us into spoon of soda and a cup of sour milk, ufacturing on a large scale. We have You take no chances. | three tablespoons of powdered ginger, experimenting. done all the and half teaspoon of cloves. Serve Large fully illustrated hot or cold. Catalogue and Treatise-^ on Spraying—FREE. PRUNE CAKE. MOKR1XI. & MORT.EY, Benton Ilarbor. Mich. One cup of butter, one cup of milk, ibi k i wh mmim j u mb^—miiiww two cups of sugar, creamed into the butter, three cups of flour and four eggs, beaten separately, one teaspoon ij CLEAN.SAFE, of baking powder. Bake in layers est and _^s^« COMFORTABLE. best. All size?. Throws 9 kinds and spread between them a filling irnm i-arae wanted. spray nozzle. Agents made with: One-half pound of the MFDBYWBIRUMB.F.-restvilleCoKN $20.00 A DAY best prunes soaked in water all night been made by live agents. Showing i"ti: selling it. First community order (whole- and allowed to steam until the stones sale price) ! ets permanent local agency. Defender Write for terms and free circulars. can be removed easily, when cold add ROCHESTER SPRAY PUMP CO., one quarter of a pound of chopped Sprayer 21 East Avenue, Rochester, N. Y almonds, and one Quarter of a pound All brass, easiest work* of chopped pecans, chopping the fruit ing, most powerful, auto* matic mixer, cxpaniioB and nuts together until they are al- valves, double strainer. most a paste, then stir them into an Catalogue of Pumps and' Treatise on Spraying fxe*. FORCE PUMP icing made with the whites of three Agents Wanteds HAS NO EQUAL eggs and six tablespoons of powdered J. F. Qaylwd, Bex H'2 CataailL H. t PRICE REASONABLE sugar beaten very light. CATALOGUE FREE AGENTS WANTED QUEEN OF PUDDINGS. THEH01LMFG.C0. Two and a half cups of bread E3SHE 353 MAIN ST. crumbs. Over them pour a quart of BUFFALO. N.Y. scalding milk, beat the yolks of four rrwftM8o^.«V»°fsSSjrr —™ '

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eggs with one cup of sugar and stir into this while it is hot. Let it cool UNION LOCK POULTRY FENCING and put into a pudding dish with a HAS BEEN FULLY half pound of seeded raisins, season TESTED AND FOUND with nutmeg and bake slowly until it SUPERIOR TO ALL is well set, then take it out and OTHERS. spread ever the top a layer of acid Will fit uneven ground without jelly or iam and the whites of the eggs cutting. Every part beaten light with six tablespoons of can be stretched perfectly. Made of sugar, let it brown and set aside to high gTade galvanized steel wire. All horizontal get cold. Serve with cream seasoned lines are cables, making it stronger. Has fine mesh at the bottom for small chicks. We also make with vanilla. Cabaven. extra heavy for gardens, lawns, etc. The largest poultry farms are using this fence—over 700 rods by Lakewood (N. J.) Farm Co. We pay freight THE GOOD OLD TIME PIECES OF and satisfy every one or no sale. Can ship from N. Y., Chicago, or San Francisco. Write for OUR GRANDFATHER'S DAYS. free|catalog of Farm, Lawn and Poulti y Fencing. CASE BROS., Box 340, Colchester, Conn. How well we remember the old fash- " T T TTTTTTTTTT' ioned clocks of our grandfather's days. They were from six to ten feet tall, eighteen inches wide and stood up against the wall, generally in the dining room, and were wound up once a week. WIRE • FENCE They were a slow, solemn, dignified Heavy lateral wires, heavy bard steel stays, coil" set—those old fashioned clocks. They ed spring wire, Sure Grip Lock. In strength, and durability, Hard Steel can- generally stood in a corner of the din- appearance the not be excelled. Write for catalogue and prices- ing room and solemnly, soberly, and THE HARD STEEL FENCE CO., Cuyahoga Falls, 0- sedately marked off the time; and the monotonous "tick-tock. tick-tock, tick- PER tock" sounds in our ears 1O0 Farmers Having Stumps after forty IRE $1.40 LBS. years wanderings from the old home SMOOTH GALVANIZED WIRE

and the old clock. pu t u p 100 ibs. to a bale , gauges from 11 to 1 i inclusive. Lengths running up There was no intimation of flying to 250 ft. Per 100 lbs. J1.40. Fence seconds in those old clocks. It was a Staples, all sizes, per 100 lbs. 12.00. Wire Nails, assorted in a keg, per slow steady, solemn noting of the 100 lbs. 81.70. Barbed Wire, per 100 lbs. 82.60. Poultry Netting;. Field Fence, etc., at passing minutes. The "tick-tocks" prices. low Ask for free catalogue No. (* , on were not rapid enough to catch and merchandise of all kinds from Sheriffs and Receivers sales CHICAGO HOUSE WRECKING CO. , 3dth & Iron Sts, Chicago. note the seconds. How oft in the silent watches of the Genuine Spiral Spring Wiie still midnight; and in the almost op- pressive stillness of the Holy Sab- FENCES BKD GBTES bath, have we heard that solemn in- $$k If your dealer does not have our junction "don't hurry," "don't hur- goods in stock you can buy direct "ZU at Manufacturers' Price. Write to pull or land to clear, will do well to ry," "don't hurry" and everybody in for Catalogue and secure agency. investigate the good old times of our grandfath- er's days and clocks heeded this in- INTERNATIONAL FENCE AND F. CO. The Monarch Grubber Columbus, Ohio. junction; and they "didn't hurry," and Stump Puller. "didn't hurry," "didn't hurry," "didn't 1— —PI— It is the best on earth; 1-11 -\ you make no mis- worry;" but took things easily, then. 1 m take in buying of a man of 5 years' ex- There was no hustle, bustle, worry == perience in pulling stumps. We set up the — ^==^ Puller and guarantee satisfaction before we and drive. But those old clocks; those — 1 glllll want your money. 5 sizes. Write for cata- old times; and those old fashioned logue and prices. JOS. W. RITCHIE, State people have all passed away. IF A HEAVY HORSE Agent, R. P. D. No. 39. Grottoes, Va. Page 23-Bar Poultry Fence it Time is marked by "fractions should run into now would stop him, and not damage horse or fence. of seconds" upon the little spasmodic What About Your Drinking Water? PAGE WOVEN WIRE FENCE CO., Adrian, Michigan. clocks of the present. The old clock Are you satisfied with it? Do you have said Dlainly "don't hurry;" the mod- enough? GATE ern clock says "you get." The very 1 SINK ARTESIAN WELLS clocks of the Dresent exert a quicken-

WITH THE MOST MODERN IMPRROVED '' ; ppf-.-.-.— '' ' rrrv m \ \ .i MACHINERY. ing nervous influence upon our steps; Sparkling Artesian Well Water Possible. You our thoughts and our actions. We nfrij \-;)\\(\ni<,\:/. rxaxxmrnsmmmmiiig \i\\ w u |m!u can have it Absolutely Pure and Your Own. think quickly speak quickly and — — the "Wire Board Surface and Reservoir Water is fencing carefully ; compare it with act quickly. are compelled to do others, then buy which you think more or less polluted. We strongest, most durable andficonomieal If you do this we are will- I Guarantee First and Rapid Ex- so. If we do not act quickly, promptly Class Work ing to abid*1 by your decision. Write for free sample. ecution of Contract. and intelligently, the very time pieces The Truss & Cable Fence Co., f;]0 Cuvahuga Kldg.,Uevel&nd,0. JNO. W. RANDALL, White Plains, N. Y. say "got left," "got left," "got left." Correspondence solicited. The old clock said "don't hurry," the FENCE new one says "you get" and even the fWLAWN Many designs. Cheap i Virginia farmer has "to get" or "get wood. 32 page Catalogue free. Spectal Prices Ceme> Jeffees. to Uf DRILLING left." A. terles and Churches. Address C M COILED SPRING FENCE «0. MACHINES Box Q Winchester, Ind. "Your Plant Setter is the best thing ' IPM^B? We n teU y°u ,uo cheapest The moat successful money-maklns ma- . lfcl^**it» that ever struck the tobacco, tomato and best way to build it. Of chines ever made. Also machine* tor baring fjaBjl any kind of wire, for any requirement, wells with augers by horse power. Write and cabbage sections." Read Masters Rilf with cheap labor, no machine and we'll tell yon how Infix yonrold fences too. Write ws If you mean business. \ Planter Co.'s ad. in another column. B. FENCE CO., 142 W. 3rd St., foru, lnd. Loomis Machine Co., Tiffin, Ohio. B. 196 1004.] (THE SOUTHERN PLANTER

A STUDY IN MONEY ORDERS. Sixth Auditor Castle Shows a Group THE YORK of Congressmen the Complexities of I In Advance the System. Instructive Object Les- Improved Weeder Important point In We will si'iid any i son. Post Check Currency Would the has teeth ;t sponsible farmer •, N. Y. postmasters. More than 150,000 or- ders are daily handled in this room. Make Your Own Fertilizer The visitors then went to the at Small Cost with "Round table" room where other average Wilson's Phosi clerks were distributing an orders daily. The From 1 to 40 H. P. Also Bone Out- of 150,000 money terft. hand and power, for the poul- orders are thence taken (and the party Waste trymen; Isanti a-'cecl X131U, -IiiL:li, Biill-strorjt;, Pig and Chicken-tlghtv Wire at Wholesale Prices. Catalogue Free of the statements are preserved also KUselman Bros. Box 165 Muncie, Ind for a term of seven years. /\IS INSTANT'S PAIN and the dehorning job is smoothly done, no The effect on the visiting Congress- crushing or bruising if the men was startling. They learned also KEYSTONE are for less FENCE! MADE. Ball that the majority of orders Dehorning K.nlfe> etrong. ChJckeo $2.50 each. For their issue 3rd is used. Easy, sure and most speedy tight. Sold to the Farmer at Wholeaah than in operation. No evil results can fol- Prices. Folly Warranted. Catalog Free and 4th class postmasters get the en- low. Cuts from four sides at once. En- FKNGS CO., dorsed by veterinarians. Guaranteed. COILKU SPRING sec- Bo» '* KlE^nUr. tadlanx. C. 8. a tire fee of three cents. First and M.T. Phillips, Box 4S,Pomeroy,Pa. ond class postmasters employ high- this and the WE'LL PAY THE FREIGHT salaried clerks for work, iATEST CHewton's Patent.) cost to the service is still greater. The and send 4 Buggy Wheels, si,,- 1 Tire on, . * 7.25 Every Wiih Rubbtr Tires, $15.00. I mf;. wheels % to4in. paying of the orders, the bookkeeping, tread. Top Buggies, for $2S.75 ; Harness. $3.60. Write Dehornei* catalogue. Learn how to buy vehicles nnd partsdirect. and the transmitting of them to Wash- Wagon Umbrella KUEE. W . V. BOOB,Cincinnatl,0. ington, entail a heavy outlay for sala- IMPROVED Guaranteed THOUSANDS IN USE. ries, without a penny of compensat- Ask your hardware dealer for them or write ing revenue; so that, in addition to D. II. BROWN MFG. CO.. - • DECATUR, 114. Bristol, Tenn., A. D. REYNOLDS, the loss of time, in going to the post- and expenses to men Will consider the purchase of a good, second- for money orders, and WE PAY $33 A WEEK office, applying with rigs to Introduce Poultry Compound. In- hand STUMP PULLER, if the right make. awaiting their issue, is this additional ternational Mfg. Co., Parsons, Kan. 196 THE SOtTTHEKN PLANTER. [March,

pecuniary loss to the government. * When the tour of the office had been LAMP-FITS. ended the visitors asserted that Con- do you know what gress should, without delay, adopt How some plan whereby this expensive and chimney fits your lamp ? burdensome work could be reduced, or, at least, its enormous growth dis- Your grocer tells you. couraged. does he know ? The remedv for much of this evil How lies in the adoption of the post check He don't. plan, as post check currency would re- quire no auditing. The bill embody- Do you then ? A man in Virginia whose tobacco crop astonished his neighbors sent us a photo* ing this plan is now before the House that how it was done. This That's about how lamps graph shows Committee on Post-offices. A favora- tobacco was all planted the same day and fertilized alike except that that on the left ble report on it is expected at an early are fitted with chimneys by received a Top Dressing of day, and it is hoped that favorable of action by the House will not long be people who don't use my Nitrate Soda delayed. Urge your representatives (THE STANDARD AMMONIATE) Index; and they complain at Washington to support the bill. ioo pounds to the acre, and that on the right received none. Any eye can see if of bad chimneys ! Lamp- it was profitable. Any one interested in getting the best crops from his land will HIGH BRED ENGLISH SETTERS. find information worth reading in the Bul- Fits indeed ! Do you want letins which I send free to farmers. Mr. William G. Owens, of Midlo- Actual results, from the trial grounds of thian, owner of The Cedars poultry the Index? Free. Agricultural Experiment Stations with all sorts of crops are given, together with all and stock farm, has just added to his information on the use and value of Nitrate collection of high breds, a pair of Eng- in fertilizing. Send name and complete Macbeth, Pittsburgh. address on Post Card. lish Setter Gips that are entirely WILLIAM S. MYERS, Director, worthy to join the colony of blue 12-16 John St., New York. blooded bird dogs of Virginia and they - will no doubt be heard of in the Vir- LATE POPULAR MUSIC. ginia Field Trials Association meet- ings in the future. The most noted 19 Cents Per Copy, Postpaid. SAN JUSt SCALE of the two dogs is Miss Cambria A. [INSTRUMENTAL] SSvS K. C. No. 30064, by Manitoba Glad- HIAWATHA, two step or vocal. THE RAJAH, GOOD'S CAUSTIC POTASH stone dam the blue belted imported march. LAUGHING WATER, intermezzo. WHALE OIL SOAP. No. 3. field trial winner Jeannie Deans, KNIGHTS AND LADYES, waltzes. said to be the fastest [VOCAL] It also prevents Cur) Leaf. Endorsed by en- dog ever seen tomologists. This soap is a fertilizer as well as in America. Manitoba Gladstone A. DOWN ALABAMA WAY, new hit. Insecticide 60 lb. kegs, 52.50; 100 lb. kegs, $4 50. K. C. No. 7157, also a blue belted one, is BY THE DREAflY SUSQUEHANNA. Half barrels, 270 lbs., at 3>£c. per lb.; barrels, W 1AT BECOM ES of the BROKEN TOYS 425 lbs., at %%c- Large quantities, special rates. by Mark J. dam Cambria, a grand — J Send for circular. daughter of Champion Gladstone, who ANY RAGS, DEDEL1A, and 3000 other's JAMES GOOD. .CATALOGUE FREE. won four field trials and sired twen- 939—41 N. Front St., Philadelphia, pa. ty-five winners who won forty-nine WORLDJVIUSIC SUPPLY CO. trials and great grand daughter of Box 763 PHILADELPHIA, PA". Champion Leicester, sire of six field trial winners who won seventeen trials. Miss Cambria is a beautiful FRAZER HOME WORK for WOMEN black and white and a great field dog. Our book "Practical Ideas for Profitable Axle The very worthy sister mate of Miss Home Work" teaches women how to become Grease ^x Cambria is the bench winner Doning- independent without leaving home. It is Its wearing qualities are unsurpassed, ac- clear and practical, covering many lines of tons Song, A. K. C. No. 78574, black tually outlasting 3 bxs. any other brand, work. The finding of a market for your Not affected by heat. #3" Get the Genuine. white and tan by Larry Noble, he by goods in thoroughly discussed, and valuable FOR RALE BY ALL DEALERS. Ezra Noble dam Cornelia G, she by suggestions are given. Book sent on receipt of postal order for 55 cents Champion Gladstone dam Cornelia by Woman's Work Pub. Co., Amer. Tract Bldo., Champion Leicester. Ezra Noble is New York City. AGRICULTURAL by Imported Champion Count Noble who won four trials and sired twenty- nine fifty-four field POSITION WANTED AND BUILDERS' winners who won LIME trial purses. Song is not only a splen- As farm manager, by a thoroughly competent man. Have had large experience and can didly bred dog. but is very handsome Send for Circulars and Price-List furnish best of references. Apply to W. H. and stylish with a powerful well ELLER1NGTON, Naples. N. Y. FELLSWORTH LIME WORKS, knit symmetrical frame and in show REEVES CATT, Agent, conditions weighs fifty-five pounds. SECRET Both have been sent to Mr. Staunton, Virginia. dogs BENEVOLENT SOCIETY FOR FARMERS country at Midlothian, Owens' home AND THEIR WIVES. Pays $10 weekly sick, Va., and will be bred during the com- $20 weekly accident and $2,000 death benefit, j& ROOFING TIN j& ing spring. Song will be entered in and $50 old age pension. Organizers wanted; good pay. KNIGHTS OF AGRICULTURE,' all the kennel in this locality Iron and paper roofing, nails, builder'i hard shows Washington, D. C. ware, Bash, doors, etc., carriage and wagoti next fall and winter and it is possible goods, paints and oils, cook and heating stoves that Miss Cambria may be seen in the guns, pistols, rifleB, "Robin Hood" loaded shells field trials at Chase City next fall. WARNER'S Do you use any of the above? Write ub. CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL, at Bradford, Pa., teaches Shorthand, Bookkeeping and receipt for making Liquid Fertil- Penmanship by mail. Write now. HARRIS HARDWARE CO., A goes free with every Setter. Read gjg izer A neat Binder for your back num- Mention the Southern Planteb in Masters Planter Co.'s ad. on another bers can be had for 25 cents. Addresa writing. page. our Business Office. : '

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THE AMERICAN CREAM SEPARA- TOR. Warranted One of the most profitable invest- to give satisfaction. Spavin, Bok Spavin, BlnRboneor ments that can be made by a farmer Bone you any kind Ol IiIoiuIhIi— we have what is the purchase of a hand Cream Sep- need to make aceitaln cure. Guaranteed always-money right back If Jt ever falls. arator. The only question to-day is, is most efficient Fleming's Spavin Cure (Liquid) which machine and durable, and reasonable in for the soft bunches—Paste for the hard enoueh and the ones. A 45-mlnute application price to make it a good investment lameness goes. Lots of blemish Infor- mation in the free book we send. for the man with only two or three cows. The makers of the American Cream Fistula. Separator, the American Separator arvd Company, of Bainbridge, N. Y., have, Foil Evil we believe, met with all these require- possibly more, but GOMBAULT'S Do yourself what horse doctors ments and many charge big prices for trying to do. we cannot use the space here to Cure Fistula or Poll Evil In fifteen to thirty days. enumerate all the admirable qualities CAUSTIC BALSAM of their machine. Fleming's Fistula & Poll Evil Cure A safe, speedy and is a wonder—guaranteed to cure any They are also the makers of the positive cure for if it falls. Nocuttlng— case—money back American Treadle Power which re- no scar. Leaves the horse sound and Splint, Sweeny, free on Curb, Capped Hock, smooth. Write for our book duces one-half the arm power other- Strained Tendons, Founder, diseases and blemishes of horses. Wind Puffs, FLEMINC BROS., Chemists, wise required and can be adjusted to and all lameness from Spavin, Ringbone and other bony tumors. Cures all skin I n Ion Stock Yards, Chicago, III. fit of Separators and 280 any make Hand diseases or Parasites, Thrush, Diphtheria. other machines operated by hand, Removes all Bunches from Horses or such as churns, fanning mills, feed Cattle. cutters, etc. As a HUMAN KI!MKI»V' for Rhen- matiam, Sprains, Sore Throat, etc., it (See ad. page 195.) is invaluable. TOCKLICK IT Every bottle of Canxtic Hainan! sold Is |lSf=Tr Warranted to qrive satisfaction. Price $1.50 TOCK^UKE It per bottle. Sold by drufrjristsj or sent by ex- >* press, charges paid, with full directions for its use. Send for descriptive circulars, testimo- nials, etc. Address

THE LAWRENCE-WILLIAM COMPANY, Cleveland, Ohio.

BLACKMAN'S HOW TO FEED AND BREED HOGS

is of importance to swine growers. _ A. MEDICATED practical, clean, common-sense swine SALT BRI CK iper for farmers can be had from now

i January, 1905, by sending 10 Cent* The only ffaar&nteed Tonic, Blood Pnrf- la Stiver at once to fler, Kidney and Liver Regulator and aider of Digestion for all stock. A BLOODED STOCK,. euro hit on worms. Ticks cannot live. Oxford, Pa. No dosing, no drenching, and nowasta of feed. Yonr horse his own doctor. Endorsed _hy thousands WANTED! full descriptive circulars, testimonials, ALL KINDS OF etc.' addTess LIVE WiLD BIRDS AND ANIMALS Blackmail Stock Remedy Co. Particularly Deer, Wild Turkeys, White 030 HighlandPark, Chattanooga, Tenn. Squirrels, Ducks, Swans, Bob White Quail, Grey Squirrels, Bear, Etc. CECIL FRENCH, T 718 Twelfth St. N. W., Washington D. C.

A medicine which makes We are showing herewith a cut of sick animals well, the diseased the Separator with the Treadle Power whole, the weak strong and the attached as it appears in use. The thin fat. It will restore lost Appetite, expel Worms and cure Chronic Cough, Separator is advertised regularly in Heaves, Influenza, Distemper, Hide- our columns. No adequate idea of the bound, Indigestion, Constipation, Flat- merits of the machine can be gath- kulency and all Stomach and Bowel ered without a study of the catalogue; trouble. ^^ The finest of a!! animal |WPl and when prices are quoted, it becomes GREENSBORO, N.C. vitalizcrs and tonics cattle; all the more persuasive. It must not For the treatment of THE LIQUOR, OPIUM, MORPHINE «n<; be forgotten that the American is POWDER other Drug Addictions. TheTobbacco Habit, Nerve Exhaustion cient of digestibil- sold freely on trial. Every purchaser ity of protein. the to test fully has opportunity and 1 for himself befv:e .'5PKG5. *I25. prove completing Krausers' Liquid DAVID t,F0UT2 a bargain. We urge readers who ar? ''12Pkgs. * Z°9 Extract of Smoke in need of a Separator to send for the .Smokes meat perfectly In a few hours. Made from hickory wood. American catalogue, and investigate Delicious flavor. Cleaner, cheaper. No fully before placing an order. smokehouse needed. Send toreircular. E. KKAUSKR A IS !{«>., Miilun. fa. ^HEATH TO HEAVES NEWTON'S llea.o, Congh, ni«- tinaranteed temper and Indigestion Cure. A veterinary spuciric lur wind) i»"„throut and stomach troubles. A neat Binder for your back num- 11 Strong recommends. NO MORE BLIND HORSES— For Sped' J1.00 per Ophthalmia, can. Dealers. Mail or Kx. paid. bers can be had for 25 cents. Address Moon Blindness and other f The Newton Remedy Co., Eyas. BARRY CO., Iowa City, la., hav. Toledo, Ohio. our Business Office. emr*. 198 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [March,

WASHINGTON NOTES.

No better five and three quarter mil- TREES! TREES!! lion dollars can be appropriated by I offer a fine lot of whole root trees. ^SAlZERS the government than that carried by the agricultural appropriation bill as Apples, Pears, Peaches, FARM it passed the House, although this ac- Cherries, ^ tion does not mean that it may not be Plums, Grape largely increased or decreased in the Vines. Raspberries, Etc. SEEtHOVflJiES: Senate and in conference before it be- comes a law. There may be some Save agent's commission by send- things in it which could ing Salzer's National Oats. be eliminat- your orders to the nursery. ed, Most prolific Oats on earth. The without great harm to the country, V. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Wash- and there are certainly some sections CATALOGUE FREE. ington, says: "Salzer's Oats are the where additional appropriations best out of over four hundred sorts would be highly advantageous. All Stock Inspected and Fumigated. I tested by us." This grand Oat Those yielded in Wisconsin 156 bu., Ohio Congressmen who need help for re- WERTZ'S Salem. 187 bu., Michigan 231 bu., Missouri election will doubtless vote with avid- NURSERY, Va. 255 bu., and North Dakota 31u bu. per ity for the acre, $290,000 appropriation for \ and will positively do as well by you. Try it, sir, and be convinced. seed distribution. And right here in this section of the bill is a proviso, A Few Swora to Yields. which, did the majority of Congress Salzer's Beardless Barley, 121 bu. per A. Salzer's lloiuelmilder Corn, 304 l>u. per A. possess the statesmanship to grasp its Salzer's Big Four (hits, 25» bu. per A. possibilities, points the way to an op- Salzer's Hew Sati«nal»ats, 319 bn. per A. portunity to Premo Salzer's Potatoes. 736 bi. per A. put America head and Salzer's Onions, 1,©$» bu. per A. shoulders above other countries, agri- Dewberry All of our Farm and Vegetable Seeds are culturally, now and forever. This The earliest and pedigree stock, bred right up to big yields. most productive proviso sets aside $40,000 to be used Blackberry variety. Very large, jet black, firm and solid. Crop ripens rap- Salzer's Speltz (Emmer). in agricultural exploration in foreign idly. This ia the berry to plant for Greatest cereal wonder profit.Write atonce for prices and particulars. of the age. It is lands and the procurement and test not corn nor wheat, nor rye, nor barley, nor m Myer«S: Son, BrldBCvllle Nurseries, oats, but a golden combination of them this all, country of "rare and valuable Bridseville, l>el. yielding 80 bu. of grain and 4 tons of rich straw liny per acre. Greatest stock food on seeds, bulbs, trees, shrubs, vines, cut- earth. l>oes well everywhere. tings and plants with reference to Salzer's Million Dollar Grass. their introduction into this country." w Most talked of grass on earth. Editors and With a similar pittance during the College Professors and Agricultural Lecturers praise it without stint; yields 14 tons of rich last two or three years the explorers hay and lots of pasture besides, per acre. of the Department, have brought into Salzer's Teosinte. the United States new and improved Salzer's Teosinte produces Peach and Apple Trees, 113 rich, juicy, species and varieties are cer- sweet, leafy stocks from one kernel of seed, which 14 BONAVISTA NURSERIES, Greenwood, Va. feet high in 90 days; yielding fully 60 ^_ tain to bring us millions of dollars tons of green fodder per acre, doing fi&tfz] offer a fine lot of choice trees for well everywhere, East, West, .South l«M?J annually. Macaroni wheat is a single We or North. j>"^vA instance. This can be grown over a Fall and Spring planting Sap, Grasses and Clovers. belt of millions of acres, too dry for Our apple trees are the best—Wine Only large growers of grasses and Mammoth Black Twig, York Imperial clovers for producing ordinary wheat. seed in America. , Operate and Albemarle Pippin, all perfect and over 6,000 acres. Our Two hundred and ninety thousand seeds are warranted. We make well grown trees. a great specialty of Grasses and dollars! An annual sum sufficient to Clovers, Fodder Plants, Corn, Po- Our peach trees are the standard sorts, tatoes, Onions, Cabbage, and all ^'l[//i w.w? equip the present little section of sorts of Vegetable Stump, Elberta, Bilyeu's (Comet,) Won- Seeds. fSSlllLf \lUs Plant Introduction of the Department derful, Champion, Globe, Picquet's Late, For 10c in with machinery which reach Stamps would Albright's Winter, Crawford E. &L., etc. and the name of this paper, we every corner of the globe and search will send you a lot of farm We send out none but good trees and seed samples, including some out every growing thing which might never a complaint made by any of above, together with our have had be raised in this country and test it mammoth 140 page lllus- _^^ purchaser of our stock. Order soon, es- trated catalogue, for /SsJy^ thoroughly for a series of years in trees will but 10c in postage t^svi^ pecially Peaches, as good be stamps. ,^^^c every section where it would be likely very scarce this season. Send for same V?S?rd'A- to thrive. Then, as such introduction CHAS. F HACKETT, Manager. to-day. \HEifegj were found to be useful they could be distributed in sufficient quantities among farmers, through the campaign- ing Congressmen, if you will, so as ' ALFALFA to be of some real benefit to the farm- If you expect to sow Alfalfa, why not start er and to the nation. Most certain it right, by Inoculating your soil with the Bacteria of Alfalfa, the presence of which, we are told by is too that the distribution of such the scientists is necessary for the proper vitality things of real value would assist the of this, the most valuable forage plant. re-election of statesmen much more 2 bushel bags, $1.00 F O. B. Ewell's, Tenn. from a plot showing nodules in great abundance. ATE KINS' than the distribution of the seeds Address QEO. CAMPBELL BROWN, which, as a matter of fact, will result EWELL FARM. ... Spring Mill, Tenn. R from this appropriation. SEEDS The Bureau of Animal Industry gets RELIABLE BEST $1,287,680, of the agricultural appro- FOR LARGEST ALWAYS AND proviso HO/M priation bill. An interesting Because they are fresh and NEW. Strictly Iowa gJB*IW WATERMELONS of this section of the bill is the in- grown and Sure to Grow. Our big Twentieth After 40 years of experimenting and testing all notable Annual Illustrated Catalog tells you all about spection by the Department of butter, varieties of wa termelons, u e now recommend, especiaUy, Farm and Garden Seed and crop that "Tenderaweet" for home use and "Emerald" for both every other dairy products in- prows, It's Free if you mention this paper. N» cheese and home and market. We think they are the best obtainable. Fakes; Free Seeds; Trash and other Schemes; tended for exportation to any foreign Seeds loo a paper in silver. 24.000 papers. The purchaser who grows the largest melon of either variety will post. but good reliable Seeds cheaper than others sell country, after the methods employed tivelv receive one tenth of our gross sales of seedsof that >it wholesale. If in want of Seeds send for our Caution: Wrap your silver in a little paper. is to Variety. Catalog to-day. RATEKINS' SEED HOUSE, in meat shipments. The Bureau and write your name and P. O. Address plainly. Ala. .Shenandoah, Iowa. ascertain the "purity and quality of LEE SEED CO., Burnt Corn, '!1 —

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such dairy products, and may cause ; THE NEW STRAWBERRY the same to be so marked, stamped CLOVER that I Introduced last season has or labelled as to secure their identity again proved a wonder beat To the Acre. of them all. «T0NS and make known in the markets of cropper, bept seller Egyptian Clover—Direct the 40 other kinds to offer; bealtby, from foreign to they Nile Valley. countries which may heavy rooted; true to name. My plants Imported by us into the United States for the be sent, their purity, quality and pleaao all that plant them. They grow large first time. Ready to cut 48 days after sow- grade." crops of fine berries, and price low. The ing. First cutting- 14 tons, second cutting 15 best hand fertilizer sower ever used. Ply- The Secretary of Agriculture is al- tons, third, 13 tons of preen forage per acre, mouth Rock eggs, etc. Write to-day for fre« all in one season. of Agriculture Md. The Dcpt. lowed $15,000 to improve and continue catalogue. J. W. HALL, Mar lon Sta., at Washington special publishes a bulletin the Arlington experimental farm, endorsing it. The supply of seed is limited. Write at once if interested. Price per lb, which in many ways is to be the by mail 40c; 10 lbs. $1.75; 100 lbs. $25.00. This tract of about 400 acres of gov- SAFONI coSS LARGE ILLUSTRATED CATALOG ernment land, a part of the old Rob and a wonderful describing this wonderful Clover and thou- A beautiful white variety a model experiment farm in the country, t Jail ears to a stalk ; don sand other things of great rjalue to the yielder : 2 to 4 large ert Lee estate, is well situated Farmer or Gardener, mailed free. Write now. E for to try it. a farm and allows the scientists of the HIOH ORADE RED POLL and Aberdeen- CURRIEBR0S. Address, C0„%_M_rWJ: Department at Washington who are Ansrus Cattle, both sexes.— likewise practical agriculturists, an LOUIS B. QILLILAND, Jr., Clarksville, Va. excellent opportunity for carrying out New Strawberries. tests and experiments. Seed Corn! Seed Corn! MARK HANNA, The most wonderful berry The a err i cultural bill carries $10,000 BIG SHIVERY. in cultivation- 1,000 bushels per acre. "tc enable the Secretary of Agricul- best field varieties In cultiva- THOMPSON'S No. One of the 2, largest firm fancy ber- ture to investigate and report on the long grains and very small ry, and tion. Large, cost of "making" tea and the best cob. Pure white and makes the best bread THOMPSON'S No: 3, a seedling of Lady, meal of any corn grown. An Immense handsomer and firmer than parent. method of cultivating and preparing No one will yielder on good land. One trial will con- grow Lady who can get No 3. for market, the same so as to demon- vince any one of the merits of this popular - + >-ate whether it is practicable to in- variety Price, 35c. peck: 60c. half bushel; 150 Varieties, including Thompson's Earliest Thomaa- ii,..lnce its culture in the Southern $1 per bushel. H. J. CONRAD. Ripe here April 19th the last season. If you ville, N. C. want the earliest plant them, Thompson's No. States as a profitable industry." 3, a seedling of Lady. But superior In every Judging from the wording of this sec- SEED CORN. way, beautiful PEDIGREED color, immensely productive, tion of the bill the Department is like- corn. firmer, best shipper ever put on the market, Three varieties pure white ly to be to establish tea sa- Thompson's new berries are acknowledged required Huffman, large, late, for fertile soils to lead all others. loons the practical cost "of where only. Improved Watson, medium, for Cabbage Plants, Tomato, 5.000 Hardv making tea" may be demonstrated, King, espe- Monthly Rose, California Privet Dahlias, medium soils. Hickory unless Chrysanthemums. Send for my spring cata- "making" tea can be construed cially adapted for cultivation on thin logue. MARK T. THOMPSON, Rio Vista, into growing that article, which is no Price, $120 per bush., f. o. b. Va. uplands. doubt the Intention of the appropria- Normandy. PROGRESS FARM, tion. Box 52. Normandy, Tenn. We offer all kinds of : No work of the Department of Ag- riculture has increaased with greater -FOR SALE' ..Nursery stock. rapidity than forestry. From an in- Pride of York Seed Corn. 000, a=t Selected STRAWBERRY PLANTS at re- significant appropriation of $30 matures early, weighs duced prices; 1 doz. rooted GRAPE I remember, six or seven years ago It grows well, VINES of CONCORD, NIAGARA, the present agricultural bill apnropri- well, makes lots of good fodder. Bureau. WARDEN, etc., at $1; all healthy stock ates $400,000 for its Forestry Va. J. TABB JANNEY, Van Clevesville, W. and fumigated before shipped; grown Not only this but a special bill will on ideal land for fine roots and smooth doubtless pass Congress transferring bodies. the sixty odd million acres of forest SEED CORN FOR SALE. Seed reserves to this bureau. I have a nice lot of Hickory King Send for Special Price to Planters. Corn for sale. Large deep grains. The corn The agricultural bill specifically au- for thin lands and droughty weather. 90c. EMPORIA NURSERIES thorizes the Chemist of the Depart- per bushel here, sacks extra. C. S. TOWN- EflPORIA, VA. ment to inspect importations of goods LEY, Red Hill. Va. which may be adulterated and danger- No. 1 Agents wanted. We refer to ous to health, the Secretary of thf any business house here as to our hon- Treasury furnishing samples from esty. = WANTED original packages of such importations AGENT Good man in every county to sell for inspection and analysis. Broad j Scales Strawberry Plants, authority is given the two depart- Osgood Standard ments to restrict and refuse the ad- for store, Factory and Farm. j

All grown in fresh rich ground , healthy, line made 1903-4 Patterns mission of deTeterious foods, or those ! most complete Prefer well-rooted plants that will please you; Steel Lever Lock Scales are beauties. falsely or incompletely labelled. selling machinery and over 30 kinds to offer Raspberry plants man experienced in Anthrax spores are very tenacious implements Fine catalogue. No samples and Peach trees also; see us before you Can be handled nicely as side line. Liberal of life and will remain dormant for you that buy. Our stock has been thoroughly in- contract. Exclusive agency Have years; in certain cases on record soil man In mind. Show him this paper. He can spected and found free from any disease. him now. Act quick. has remained infected for twelve make money. We want Address JOHN LIGHTFOOT, Osgood Scale Co., 137 Central St., Binghamton years. also readily in this Sherman Heights Tenn. The spores are N. Y. Largest makers of Farm Scales transmitted one instance is country. and known , where the disease was carried some Strawberriesp distance on the boots and clothing of FOR SALE. 300 Choice Plants, Ex- a person who had been aiding in a press Prepaid lor 9 1 .60. post mortem examination. Hides and 100 each of early, medium and wool are probably the A Dederick Steel Belt Hay Press, most I late, None stronger or better. important Offer good to any express office in factor in the spread of the disease. In good order. Will sell at $150 V. S. It pays to pet the best. Beauti- ful Strawberry Catalogue Nearly all the domestic animals are Free. a bargain for cash. W. F„ Allen, Salisbury, subject to it—horses, mules, cattle, Md. | sheep, swine, goats, cats, dogs and J. M. STEGER, Hatton, Va. 200 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [March,

even man. Sheep are believed to be full face the most susceptible. You get FARMS FOR SALE! Another good roads bill has been in- troduced by Representative Aiken, of value, every time No. 27. South Carolina, which in common Seventy-five acres of fine Blue Grass with most of the other good roads measures creates a Bureau of Public Land, in Rockbridge county, Va., sit- you buyWilliams' uated one and a half miles from B. & Highways and appropriates $24,000,000 cash. 0. R. R. station, near Lexington, Va., of Uncle Sam's hard earned in a progressive and refined neighbor- Senator Teller, of Colorado, has in- Shaving Soap. hood. Twenty-five acresisseeded to troduced a bill o*f importance to the authorizing the Secretary of Ag- everywhere. Free trial sample wheat and grass, and the balance is in West Sold to grass; 2 acres in orchard consisting riculture conduct and carry on a for 2-cent stamp to pay postage. series of experiments, in conjunction of apples, pears and peaches, age of booklet to Shave." experiment stations, in the Write for "How trees 2 to 15 years old, all selected with the all non-corn growing States and Territo- Williams Co., Glastonbury, Ct. fruit. This farm is rolling and the The J. B. in fin- land faces the south and east. Beauti- ries, the breeding, rearing and ful large spring in a few yards of the ishing of live stock for market; in the • **-• VIRGINIA- FARMS • <•*-• also cistern. introduceion and development of house, good One-half poultry farm, 100 acres, good house breeds of horses, cattle, sheep and Nice little acre in strawberries. The improve- and orchard, 8500.00. Blue Grass, Stock and ments consist of a 9-room, 2-story swine, suitable for such regions and Fruit Farms. Address PORTER & GATES, Louisa, Va. brick house, a large barn, 55x70, with conditions, and also in the introduc- tion cultivation of crops for- all other necessary outbuilding, all in and and age plants, other than Indian corn excellent repair. The land is smooth FARMS which may prove of value to those VIRGINIA and rich and well fenced. There is S3 PER ACRE AND UPWARDS. States. The bill appropriates 23 ewes and over 30 lambs on this $50,000 EASY PAYMENTS. CATALOGUE FRITH. for the coming fiscal year and $50,000 farm and if the farm is sold before E. CRAWFORD & CO., Richmond, Vi. each for the four succeeding fiscal GEO. March 24th the sheep and lambs and Established 1875. wheat crop with the farm can be years. The money received by the de- partment from the sale of stock bought for $2,500—one-half cash, bal- raised is to be used over again in con- For full par- ance on five years time. If not sold ticulars write before the 24th the farm and per- tinued experiments. JEFFERS, sonal property will be sold at public A good practice with fowls seems to A. be to throw them, early in the morn- Go South. Norfolk, Va. sale on the 24th of March. Write quick for further information and a more ing, a few handsfull of small grain, detailed description. or cracked wheat, or cracked corn among a large amount of trash. After VIRGINIA FARMS No. 17. they have searched and exercised dili- gently for a half hour they will be In All prices and sizes. Free list on appllcatlea. 80 acres—15 acres in hardwood, bal- fine form for breakfast, to get which, CO., Richmond. V*. ance in grass, except 20 acres for corn. WM.B. P1ZZINI however, should require some exer- Fronts on pike; 5 miles from railroad cise. station. Watered by large branch. It is always a good idea to make a "In the Green Fields of Virginia." All in good state of cultivation. No small and sow a dozen short rows Homes for all; Health for all; Happiness and buildings. Price $18.00 per acre. Easy bed onion seed for growing "sets" for Independence for all. All sizes of Farms at terms. of next year. The largest of these sets corresponding prices, hut all reasonable. No. 5. will make fine little pickling onions. MACON & CO., Orange, Va. Contains 163 acres; one-half under Sets sell at 20 to 25 cents a quart and cultivation; balance in second-growth it is more of a pleasure than a trouble timber. Good seven-room dwelling and riUP rinUO in the great fruit grain and to raise a neck of them from such a Hilt rArmO stock section of VIRGINIA. necessary outbuildings; good orchard Near great little bed as above noted. Best climate and water in the U. 8. in fine fruit section. Farm lies near markets, with best educational advantages. The exports of bread Luffs since the Southern railroad, twenty miles from For further information, address beginning of the fiscal year July 1, are ALBEMARLE IMMIGRATION CO., Washington; well watered; a splendir" Charlottesville, Vft. much the lowest of any seven months Sam'l B. Woods, Pres. dairy farm. Price, $2,000. period during the last six years, being No. 16. only $103,000,000, against $129,000,000 / Can Sell Your Farm.... a year ago and $168,000,000 for the 130 acres—20 acres hardwood, bal- ene of these Virginia counties: seven months of 1899. If located la ance in good state of improvement, and corresponding Prince George, Chesterfield, King William, King and Queen, a splendid quality of red clay subsoil; The exports for January were $13,- Gloucester, New Kent, Hanover. Send description, stating price. 60 acres in wheat and timothy; 20 000,000 against $19,000,000 January a Alley, land, year ago and against $16,000,000 in De- JOHN JELINEK, 1111 Pine acres in meadow, balance is new Braddock, Pa. and will be for corn next spring. Situ- cember, 1903. ated in excellent neighborhood of re- Exports of cattle, hogs and sheep fined people. Twenty-two miles from have been large during January, being Washington, 5 miles from Herndon $4,055,000, being the only $4,000,000 Station. Fronts on pike. Comfort- mark reached in any month during To Homeseekers~ able 4-room house and all building the last four years. The exports for Farm watered by large branches. the fiscal year, thus far, have been "THE BUSINESS OF FARMING Price, $20.00 per acre. Terms, to suit $23,000,000 against $14,000,000 for purchaser. 1903 and $19,000,000 for 1902. IN VIRGINIA."

Exports of cotton for December Is the title of a new pamphlet Issued by the I have a number of other good farms and January, so far as value is con- Norfolk and Western Railway Company. We for sale, both large and small. Write cerned, have been record breakers as will gladly mail you a copy. for description and state just what you compared with those months of others W. B. BEVILXi, PAUL SCHERER, AgU want, and will be glad to serve you. years. December exports were $72,- G. P. A., Lands and Immlgratio», W. B. MILLER, Herndon, Va. 000,000 and January $46,000,000 Roanoke, Va. 1904.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 201

~- against $46,000,000 for December and INCUBATORS ON - 30 - DAYS - TRIAL. $39,000,000 for January a year ago and $43,000,000 for December and $40,000,- EA5YM0NEY Is made by installing a Hnwkcye- 000 for January two years ago. The Incubator. Littlo cost. IlMji tare, results furej profits larpo. 80 Duya' total exports of cotton since July 1, Fre« Trial. tatab-Kuo free. Mention If? (hit paper.— HuwLt > e Iiu-ubutor 1903, seven months, were $275,000,000 Co., Bos li». Newton, Iowa* against $206,000,000 in the correspond- ing seven months of both 1903 and BUILD YOUR OWN INCUBATOR 1902, against $215,000,000 in 1901 and You can do this easily with common tools and only $133,000,000 in 1900. Buve Mure Than Hull: > Our Complete Book of l'laus instructs fully. We sell you at Guy E. Mitchell. cost all fixtures like Tank, Lamp. Regulator, etc. No Experiment. Handsome Catalog Free.

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A certain and never failing Business Hatcher. NEW UNIVERSAL GARDEN TOOLS. Reasonable in price: best in quality, and always QUARTZ and MICA grinding mill for reliable. Thousands of these machines are in By way of calling attention to the sale on railroad; list of 500 custom- successful operation here at home and abroad. euxcellent line of hand garden tools Our handsome catalogue is free fof the asking, ers. Close to millions of tons of send for a copy at once, before you select a ma- manufactured by our advertising pa- quartz, feldspar and mica section. chine and make a mistake. Address The Stand- tron, the Ames Plow Company, of ard F. Incubator Co., Dept. 23, Rochester, N. Y. C. Boston, we are producing herewith a G. G. TEMPLE, Danville, Va. Mention this Journal. cut of their Matthews' New Universal

A FARMER. . . WANTED TO WORK ON SHARES, all Genuine Patented team and tools furnished; a good thing for OYPSlERS the right party (two men, or a man with INCUBATORS boys would suit better), good land and plenty of it. Green ARE GUARANTEED Address "J," care Postmaster, Bay, Va. To hatch a larper percentage of fertile *%£$* To produce larger and more vigorous chicks, To operate with less oil and expense. To require no supplied moisture, OR EXCHANGE To be self-ventilating, flator. To have a more sensitive, accurate and durable regu* WANTED TO SELL 180 acres im- To maintain a more even temperature. proved land Powhatan Co., Virginia. Particulars To be more strictly automatic in action and Togivebetter results in your hands than any other from M. M. PRESCOTT, Elizabeth, Penn. make or style incubator in the world. Seven yearn test bw proved our alaJnia W« back above guarantee bj ever; dollar we pos- I HAVE A LARGE LIST OF BeBB. If the Ciphers does notdoeatUfaotorv work iD your hands, you get your money baok. Endorsed and adopted by 3C Govern- Sped Drill. The Seeder drops so the by a and STRICTLY ment Experiment Stations and used FRUIT, POULTRY TRUCK FARMS arge majority of the leading poultry men operator can see the seed in the "-AUTOMATIC Catalog for 1904 free If you came thl* paper. Tea, Fifty and One Hundred Acres each, with AddreBB nearefltoffloa. ground before the action of covering THROUGHOUT good buildings, close to steam and trolley York. Boston. Cyphers Incubator Co, , Buffalo, Chicago, jjtl and rolling attachments. The Garden lines, easy access to the city. Also, Drill might be termed the ui.it of the GRAIN AND STOCK FARMS famous Matthews group of all purpose From 100 to 1,000 acre, at low price.—all the IT IS A FACT tools. The plow for furrowing and way from %5 to $50 per acre. Write for that poultry pays a larger profit ridging is one of them. The wide and Catalogue. for the money invested than any other narrow tooth cultivator is still an- I business; that anybody may J. R. HOCKADAY, Richmond, Va. make a success of it without long other, followed by the hoe for weed Box 257. training or previous experience; that the Reliable Incubator* and Brooders will give cutting and top soil stirring, and rake the best resultsinallcases. OurSSOth Century Poultry Book tells just why, and a hundred other things you for pulverizing and smoothing. The •hould know. We mail the book for 10 cents. Write Seeder may be purchased alone, or for to-day. We have 115 yards of thoroughbred poultry. a small amount a combination tool, IEUABLE INCUBATOR & BROODER CO., Boi 3-11 Quincy, III. combining all the above in one may be CASH BVILT TO LAST had. Wheel Hoes are made for both FOU IOCE Never outclassed—Sure Hatch straddle row and between row culti- Incubators. Built better than vation. Whatever the special need of your house. No hot centers; no OR ANY REAL ESTATE. chilling draughts on sensitive the gardener, it is admirably met by No matter where located. Send eggs. Every cubic inch in egg description and lowest cash price. chamber at uniform, blood tem- one or another of the tools in this line. I succeed bj giving personal at- perature of fowl. It's acontinual The Ames Company catalogue illus- tention. Interesting and valuable pleasure to hatch nearly every particular* FREE. Write to- fertile egg with a Sure Hatch. trates and describes each in detail. day. Bank refereucee. Free catalogue , D 3» with iriLLIAH T. BROWN, 1 14 Biwa Law B'ld'g, Lancaster, Pa. pictures tells lively utorr. to 8TJKE HATCH INCUBATOR CO. The company is a good one to look •Cloy Center, Neb. Indianapolis, Ind, for anything in the line of plow, har- rows, cultivators, corn planters, hay AND THE PLACE TO VICTOR BOOK tedders and a long line of other up-to- UflMCQ FIND THEM. . . tells why our machine is preferred date implements and machinery. nUMtO by users and all about artificial in- cubation. There's pointers that may No place in the United States can a mean dollars to you. We pay freight. man do so well at farming, for tt e money Guarantee goods as described or money back. The book is free. Some fools and their money are parted invested, as in Virginia. Lands are Write for it to-day. Postal will do. only at death. cheap; climate good, and the best of GEO. ERTEL CO , Quincy! 111. "How did I look when you proposed markets close at hand. It is the State to me?" of all others, for a comfortable all the SPECIAL "You looked as though you were year reund home. The James River OFFER StegE Valley Colonization We will St 11 a Hundred and Ten Egg taking your first ride in an automo- and Improvement Company ofler superior advantages to MICHICANDER" bile." Hot Water Incubator only SlO land purchasers. For free 36 page land and allow you to try it for 30 Days Free.Tried pamphlet, address and known to be perfect. Get a Catalog Free. "You are in my pew, sir," said Mr. (MSH 81 PPLV & MKOIO. Dr-pt. bb, K l till* /,<><>. ICH. W. A. PARSONS, Vinlta, Va. Upjohn, stiffly. C &OMain St. Depot, Richmond, Va. "Then I am s:'Uing in the seat of SURE OUARANTRRP CURE FOR GRAN- the scornful!" replied the stranger, ul.ted Eyes. My remedy will make weak Mention The Southern Plants* eye. strong. Write for particular.. Address getting out of it with alacrity and tak- corresponding L. A. MILLS, Emporia, Kansas. ing a seat further back in the church. when with adTerti«er*. 202 THE SOUTHEKN PLANTER [March,

MOOREWOOD POULTRY FARM, THE PRINCE HAD A BUSINESS HOLLYBROOK FARM. Wiseville, Chesterfield Co., Virginia. MIND. ..EGOS for SITTING.. The late Queen Victoria seems to have exercised a suzerainty over the From Pure-bred Poultry. pocket money of her grandchildren. In our poultry yards we have the following She held them tr a strict accounting thoroughbred poultry, all first-class stock, originally started from the best stock in matter in this the of expenditure, and if country, and carefully cross-mated so as to they did not make their allowances give strong and vigorous stock and the best last over a SDecifled period, she stern- laying strains of the different breeds that it 's possible to obtain: ly called them to account. One week BARRED P. ROCKS. $1.00 per sitting. when the present Prince of Wales was LIGHT BRAHMAS. $2.00 per sitting. at Eion, candy, tarts, and other school- SILVER LACED WYANDOTTE. Price, boy delights, proved his financial un- $1.50 per sitting. WHITE WYANDOTTE. $1.50 per sitting. doing. He had spent a month's allow- In addition to careful breeding, we pay ance in one week. With impecunios- special attention to the handling and packing ity and indigestion came repentance. of our Eggs, so as to ensure good fertility Accordingly he wrote a long mea and a good hatch. We have also for sale a few first-class culpa to his grandmother, confessing young cockerels of BARRED PLYMOUTH his fault, and asking for an advance ROCKS, SILVER LACED aand WHITE WY- on account of the next instalment of ANDOTTE. Price, $1.50 and $2 each, crated for shipment. pocket money. In reply he received HENRY W. WOOD, Richmond, Va. a long letter of admonition from the P. O. Box 330. Hollybrook Farm. Highest Grade B. P. ROCKS, W. WYAN- queen, refusing his request. The let- DOTTES, S. C. BLACK MINORCAS. ter closed with a sentence in which Breeding and Exhibition Stock and Eggs for SILVER-LACED the writer expressed the pain that it Bale at all times. Prices reasonable. Write to-day for our LARGE ILLUSTRATED CAT- gave her in having so to write to him. ALOGUE and POULTRY GUIDE, inclosing A few days later. Her Majesty re- WYANDOTTES. two-cent stamp. ceived another letter from the future a Egg's For Hatching. Great Richmond Shows of 1902 and i At the heir to the British throne. It ran Sl.OOper 15 from strong and 1A03, our stock won THIRTY-FOUR PRIZES, healthy birds of lending TEN OF THEM FIRSTS. No better utility much like this: strains. A few choice pullets stock can be had. "Dear Grandmother: —Yours re- at 81 each. Pure-bred Poland China Pigs ceived. Please don't bother any more at $5.00 each. a a, E. F. SOMMERS, - Somerset, Va. about me. I'm all right now. I sold Dr.H. H LEE, letter shillings to one R.F.D. 2. Breeder of the finest line bred your for thirty Lexington, Va. of our fellows here, who is collecting Barred Plymouth Rocks the letters of notable people."—Joel BUFF ORPINGTON EGGS. Coates, in Success. exclusively for 14 years. Write to me for POLAND-CHINA PIGS. what you want. Am sure can please you. Book your orders early for eggs from our My birds have been bred for laying qualities RAISE WATERMELONS SUCCESS- solid Buff Orpingtons. Orders can only be filled in turn. Sold out on cockerels as well as shape and plumage. Cockerels, $1 long FULLY. ago, and no stock till fall. Eggs, $1 per 15. $1 per set of 15; 2 sets, $1.50; to $2; eggs, Orpingtons only. Poland China pigs, $7 for M. B. Turkey eggs, $3 per dozen. Doubtless many of the readers of the pair; $3.75 for one. Southern Planter have had unsatis- OCCONEECHEE FARM, factory experiences in the growing of Mecklenburg; Co. f rom Fine Fowls. JEFFRESS, VA. EGGS watermelons. An old and very suc- Barred, Buff and White Plymouth Rocks; Sil- cessful grower has kindly furnished Wyandottes; ver, White, Buff and Partridge some points of practical value on the Barred Plymouth Rocks Langshans; Light Black Mlnorcas; Black cultivation of this luscious fruit. He Cochins; White For Sale. Brahmas; Buff and Partridge advises that the best results are ob- Leghorns. Farm raised Poultry, tine, healthy; both and Brown tained with a rich, fresh, sandy soil, 15 FOR $1.00 using well-rotted horse stable manure sexes. Wyandojtes w ch are $2.00 for 15 and wood ashes liberally. Plow deep- except the Eggs $1.00 per setting of IS. No stock except a few B. P. Rocks and Light ly and pulverize soil finely. Do not M. E. Hurt, Brahmas. C. J. WARINER, Mgr., Ruffin, N. C. cultivate while the dew is on, nor just ANDREWS, Va. Oakland Poultry Farm. after a rain. Cultivate rapidly and shallow, especially near the plants, until the melons begin to set. He has EGGS! had the greatest success with and ad- vises the planting of "Tendersweet" Barred Plymouth Rocks and "Emerald" seed—the first-named variety for family use, the latter for ONE DOLLAR FOR 15, market. This seed may be obtained Prompt attention. from Lee Seed Co., Burnt Corn, Ala., F. PAYNE, company MRS. JNO. at 10c per package, and the SILVER LACED AND WHITE WYAN- University Station, Charlottesville, Va. makes a bona fide offer of one-tenth DOTTES, NICE BIRDS AND PINE CLAIRMONT DAIRY FARM. their gross seed sales to the growers LAYERS. of the largest melon of either variety. All letters and ORDERS WILL RECEIVE Order seeds early and ask for full par- OUR personal and PROMPT ATTENTION. ticulars regarding this prize offer. BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS GRANITE POULTRY YARDS. R. P. D. No. 3, Salisbury. N. C. : EXCLUSIVELY : A little bird sat on a telegraph wire Strong, healthy, vigorous, farm-raised YOU CAN MAkT$3TO$10A DAY And said to his mates, "I declare, fitting glasses for us. Bier profits. stock, bred for laying eggs. wireless telegraphy comes into Oar 24-page FREE EYE BOOK If tells how. Write for it today. 75 CENTS PER SITTING. vogue, JACKSONIAN OPTICAL COLLEGE, Dept. 2098, We'll all have to sit on the air." Jackson, Mich. WM. B. LEWIS, Irby, Nottoway.Co., Va. 1904.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER 203

WHY THEY ARE POOR. LEGHORN POULTRY FARM ^ S. C. White Leghorns Their ideas are larger than their After improving this purses. variety for 20 years, ac- knowledged the leading They think the world owes them a strain of highbred. prize living. winners in north Virgin- ia. Large, vigorous and They do not keep account of their handsome. Largest expenditures. white eggs, 'ihe tfreat They are easy dupes of schemers winter money makers. Prices reasonable. Kggs, and promoters. breeding pens and a lot They reverse the maxim—"Duty of very handHome se- before pleasure." lected cockerels for sale. Address They have too many and too expen- J. B. HUNTER, sive amusements. Bothwell Farm, Vienna, va. They do not think it worth while to save nickels and dimes. They have risked a competence in Barred P. Rock trying to get rich quickly. From Sunnyside winter lay- They allow friends to impose upon Ringlet Strain $1.50 their generosity. good nature and 15. They try to do what others expect of From good thoroughbred them, not what they can afford. Barred P. Rocks 75c for The parents are economical, but the children have extravagant ideas. Incubator Eggs Moderate Price. They do not do to-day what they can SPLENDID COCKERELS (Ringlet), $2.50. possibly put off until to-morrow. Has for sale a limited number of S. C. If upon receipt of these birds you do not do not think it BROWN and S. C. WHITE LEGHORN They worth while to think they as good as you can get elsewhere Pullets and Roosters. Best layers known, put contracts or agreements in writ- for twice the money we charge, you can re- turn them and we will refund the Prize Winning Stock. Price, $1.00, $1.60 each. ing. purchase Eggs in season at $1.00 for 16; $2.50 for 50; price in full. No C. O. D. SHIPMENTS TO They prefer to incur $5.00 per 100. Satisfaction guaranteed. debt rather ANY ONE. SUNNYSIDE POULTRY FARM. than to do work which they consider Christiansburg, Va. Reference: Bank of Address A. T. MATTHEWS, Box 36, Parksley, Va beneath them. Christiansburg, Va. They do not dream that little mort- gages on their homes can ever turn ^j«40 VARIETIES*^ .. Eggs for Sitting. .. them out of doors. When you want eggs for your Incubator or They have indorsed their friends' BEST POULTRY. hens, why not give me a trial and get as good notes or guaranteed payment just for Fine large Poultry Guide, 6c. You •a the best at cut-throat prices. BARRED P. accommodation. cannot aflord to be without it. Price ROCKS, WHITE WYANDOTTES, LIGHT They risk all their eggs in one List FREE. Write to-day. BRAHMAS, WHITE and BUFF ORPING basket when they are not in a posi- JOHN E. HEATWOLE. Harrisonburg, Va. TONS. A number of Cockerels for sale. tion to watch or control it. BRUSHY HILL POULTRY YARDS, They think it will be time enough O. E. SHOOK, Prop. New Sterling, N. C. to begin to save for a rainy day when MY PURE-BRED the rainy day comes. S. C. Brown Leghorns, The head of the house is a good Are the best layers in the world lay man, but he has not learned to do — at all seasons. Place your orders early Farm=Raised Poultry. business in a businesslike way. for eggs, 15 for $1. Two distinct flocks of Mammoth Bronze Tur- The only thing the daughters ac- which make matings for breeding keys from we complish is to develop fondness for W. S. GUTHRIE, Childress, Va, purposes at reasonable prices. Eggs in season. smart clothes and expensive jewelry. BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS, They do not realize that one ex- WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS. pensive habit may introduce them to White Holland Turkeys* BIRDS AND EGGS. a whole family of extravagant habits. PROGRESS FARM, Boz 52, Normandy, Tenn They do not know that giving a full I have a few very fine Toms left; power-of-attorney to an agent or law- first orders will get them. WHITE yer puts their property at his mercy. PLYMOUTH ROCK Cockerels—some PIT GAMES On a six-hundred-dollar income, they nice ones. JOHN A. CLARK, Malvern try to compete in appearance with Black Devils and Red Cubans. a two-thousand-dollar-a-year neighbor. Hill. Va. These cocks won 90 per cent, of battles They subscribe for everything that (ought in 1902 and 1903, and have never lost comes along—organs, lightning rods, a battle when gameness and cutting quali- subscription books, pictures, bric-a- EGGS FOR SALE. ties could win. Eggs $2 per 15; stock for sale. brac,—anything they can pay for on WHITE HOLLAND Turkey Eggs $2 per 10. THOS. W. JARMAN, Yancey Mills, Va. the installment plan. Rosecomb White Leghorn Eggs $1.00 per 16; _^MWMHM^S^SMSBBBBBSBBBMSaHMSSMSaSBS«aiKV H^HM They have not been able to make $2.00 per 40. EGGS for HATCHING. much in the business they understand White Plymouth Rock Eggs $1.50 per 15. best, thought that they could Mrs. LIZZie OYER. Versailles, Teas. 75c. Per Sitting of 15. but have Light Brahmas, Black Mlnorcas, make a fortune by investing in some- thing they know nothing about. Ori- S. L. Wyandottes, Barred and W. — OAKSHADE II. B. Turkeys son Sweet Marden. in Success. Rocks, Brown Leghdrns S. and R. C; and Huguenot W. Wyandottes, White Leghorns 5. C. : FOR SALE : A few more Leghorn and Minorca Raised on 400 acre blue grass farm the Cockerels left. J. B. JOHNSON, Ma- The trouble with some people is — best 1 have ever seen. Eggs from White, nassas, Va. Clovek Hill Farm. allow themselves he dis- that they to BmTand Partridge Wyandottes in season criticism, and the trouble Mention The Southern Planter couraged by Address Huguenot Poultry Yards, when corresponding with advertisers. I with others is that they do not. ... Dublin, Va. —

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ZINKET SYSTEM . ...FEEDING OUR. A pig belonging to a widow nam^d * FILLER. PRESERVER, TESTER Murphy mysteriously vanished one JANO CARRIER. INDE- night, JSTRUCTIBLE IN FIRE and Pat Hennessy, a ne'er-do- OR WATER. TESTIMON- BABY CHICK FOOD well IALS AND BOOKLET was suspected of having had FREE. CHEAPER THAN •Tfi«WBO«B& * PRODUCES something to do with its disappear- National Egg Carrier Co. ance. He denied all knowledge of the SCRANTON. PA HEALTHY CHICKS. pig, however, and as there was no evi- LIVE AGENTS WANTED. SAMPLE FOR THE ASKING. dence against him he was allowed to go free; but at Mrs. Murphy's insti- INCUBATORS, :=: :=: gation the priest went to see him. Do You Want Layers? BROODERS AND "Pat," said the priest, "if you've no If you do, get your eggs for hatching from our fear of the law in this world, at least POULTRY SUPPLIES, Utility Strain of give a thought to the hereafter. ALWAYS IN STOCK. When you're before the Judgment Seat, Barred Plymouth Rocks BIRDS, FISH what are you going to say about that PET STOCK, GOLD $1. 00 for 15. EVERYTHING FOR THE FANCIER. pig?" Maxton, N. C. "Shure, I dunno," replied Pat. "Will D. N. McLEAN, CATALOGUE FREE. they be after askin' about th' pig in Having made a change in manage- Purgatory, yer Riverince?" ment we are better than ever, prepared FOR SALE to make prompt shipment. "They will," said the priest. "Will Mrs. Murphy be then., yer At Coggins Point Farm, 25 P. B. PLYMOUTH FANCIERS' SUPPLY CO., Riverince?" ROCK COCKERELS of Biltmore strain. En- S17-519 West Broad St., last from Bilt- Richmond, Va. "Yes Pat." tire stock purchased spring "An' th' pig?" more of prize winners. Price, $2. Address, "Yes, Pat" DAVID DUNLOP, Westover, Va. "Shure, I'll wait an' give it to her Kum C for Yosef thin, yer Riverince."—February Wo- man's Home Companion. This may not be pure Turk, but you will find BROWN LEGHORNS. PURE STOCK AT THE CEDARS POULTRY AND STOCK FARM THE IRISHMAN HAD HIS DOUBTS. Most fashionable strains JERSEY CATTLE, Eggs for hatching from splendid layers, $1 is Coll- DUROC JERSEY AND POLAND CHINA As well known. Rev. Robert per setting. Pens mated for best results. A R. Fowls, M. B. Turkeys, Eng- city, Swine, B. P. yer, of New York was a black- few White P. Rock Cockerels at $1 each. lish Setters and Beagle Hounds. smith in Germantown, Pa., before he Egg season is here; fanciers* stock, farm- preacher. Once, theie R. W. HAW, Jr., Centralia, Va. er's prices. became a when WM, G. OWENS, Midlothian, Va. was little work at hand, he asked a builder in his neighborhood for some- thing to do. The latter replied that BUFF LEGHORNS EGGS FOR SALE . all he could give him would be a job and Fancy Stock, progeny of New York win- BRONZE TURKEYS and ners for ten generations. Hens last year MAMMOTH cariying a hod. BARRED PLYHOUTH ROCKS, are my special- averaged 220 eggs. Excellent utility birds. ties. Mv flocks of both are derived from "prize "I'm your man," replied the black- Eggs. $2 per 15. Order now to avoid disap- winners" of the best strains in the world. smith promptly. pointment. A. R. VENABLE, JR.. Box 147, Pens No. 1.— Turkey eggs per 15. $4.00. Bar- Years afterwards, while ah impos- Milnwood Dairy Farm and Poultry Yards, red Plymouth Rock eggs per 15, $2.00. Farmville, Va. Pens No. 2.—Turkey eggs per 15, $3.50. Bar- ing edifice was being erected in Cni- red Plymouth Rock eggs per 15. $1.50. cago for Dr. Collyer, he was standing if you wish to secure eggs, file your orders at once. among the beams, watching the pro- EGGS FOR HATCHING PIRDMONT POULTRY PLACF, gress of the work, when an Irishman From finest strains in America. White Wjan. Miss E. Callle Oiles, Prop. Whittle's Depot, Va. came along with a hod of bricks. Dr. dottes, Barred Plymouth Rocks, 8100 per 18. Collyer scoke to him and he pausjd. CO., - Penn Laird, Va. From my S. C. Black PENN LAIRD POULTRY Minorcas and S. C. "This is har'-rd work, soir." said White Leghorns of the the Irismman. ii m. i very best strains. "1 know that well." answered Dr. S. C. WHITE These breeds are raised on separate farms, and LEGHORNS. ColJyer; "in have free range. Eggs, $1 00 per 15; $2.00 per 35; my day, I've carried the Fine Cockerels, Wyckofl strain, $1 50. 100. I guarantee two-thirds hatch, or $5.00 per hod myself." Fine Cockerels from Biltmore prize replace at half price. "The Irisman stared at me an in- birds, $2.00. Write for prices on pens, J. MILTON GARNETT, Prop., stant,' said Dr. Collyer, in relating choice matings. Eggs per sitting, $1.00. the incident, "and went on his way Mitchell's, Va. Mrs. J. W. WALTERS, Christiansburg, Va. mumbling something that sounded EGGS FOR HATCH'NG like, 'I wouldn't 'a' belaved th' parson was such a liar.' "—From Success. From WHITE WYANDOTTES, SINGLE Pure-Bred Eags COMB and BROWN LEGHORNS and PEKIN for Hatching. BARRED PLYMOUTH DUCKS. We breed only layers from layers, A YOUNG BUSINESS MAN. ROCKS. S. C BROWN and S. C. WHITES and get layers that commence eaity said keep LEGHORNS, BLACK LANGSHANS. $1 for Cohenstein family, at it. Vigorous stock, fertile eggs, asil^aae- The loudly weep- 15; $5 for 100. 400 hens. PARK POULTRY ful packing is our way. Eggs, 15 for ^leSO. ing, were gathered around the grave. YARDS, Harrisonburg, Va. DIXIE POULTRY COMPANY, R. R. No. 4, As the coffin containing all the earth- Richmond, Va. ly remains of husband and father was BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS being slowly lowered into its last rest- and BLACK MINORCA eggs for sitting at Barred Plymouth Rocks ing-place, little Ikey spoke up. 75c. for 15 eggs; $1.26 for 30; and $3.60 for 100. "Ach," he said, "papa owed me a Apply to Mrs. N. T. GARTH, Ellisville, Va., PRIZE WINNERS, THOROUGHBRED. Louisa county. The matchless F. F. V. strain founded on nickel." Bradley Bros., Thompson and others Ply- The weeping Mrs. Cohenstein dried Rocks, are recognized mouth as the best her tears, and, gazing proudly at the STEPMOTHER He general purpose fowl. Improve your stock New Idea Brooders by new blood. Fancy stock for show room. mourners the while she patted Ikey More good polou tbu bo y other. Rftleei 1 i*0 pr. oezii ofbethhj ohlcke. Complete . for filtureacoet cm lj$ ir Large, vigorous birds farm. Eggs, $1.50 on the head, she said, You mall* woodwork And MH heavj freight w.13 to $3 for 15. Circular free. VIRGINIA HILL "Ain't he the business man?"—Feb- ' Free CsUlofut Ulll til »boo tUlete * New ldw loc'btn POULTRY FARM. Bristol, Va.-Tenn. CILlNHOn7"sSOW * COBPAJVY, BOX 16b«)UUCY, IJXUOIS. ruary LIppincott's. !

205 1904.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. EMILY'S CHARGE. <^FOR SALE^* Ji. XT R XT S A Serial Tale by Mary Washington. A HANDSOME DAKK HAY HALF BRED HACK CHAPTER IX. FOR SALE. NEY MARE. NINE YEARS OLD, IN But it is now time we were return- Black horse, foaled JS95, by Eolus (sire of FOAL TO "CHERRYWOOD." ing to the orphans wlnin we have Eole, St. Saviour, Eon, Morello, Russell She Is a mare of magnificent carriage type, Diablo, Eurus, Eollan, Elkwood, Knight of already left too long. Veil it as she standing 16 hands high, and sound, with good Ellerslle, etc.). Dam Sample by Imp. Rother- might from the outside world, and action. Has been a winner at Toronto and (son of Cllfden); 2d dam Satllla by won the gold hlll Lord even from her own brother and sister, Ottawa, Canada, where she Imp. Buckdeu (son of Lord Cllfden) ; 3d dam medal for best mare. Her progeny can be Matilda, by Imp. Sovereign (6on of Emllius); Emily had become a changed crea- seen on the farm, which will prove her 4th dam Ruby Mare, by Imp. Ruby (son of ture from the time she had known ability to produce high class stock. Apply to Emllius); 5th dam Peytona, by Imp. Glen- New Market Road, three Ellis Gordon, and since he had gone MR. A. POLLARD, ooe; and so on 18 crosses to a Royal Mare. miles below Richmond (R. F. D. 5.), Va. she had busied herself Aurus Is a large, handsome horse 16 hands away, though high, weighs 1,250 pounds, with fine bone as actively as ever about her employ- and muscle, and a good disposition. Be- ments, still the spring seemed to have lieved to be sound and a sure foal getter. FOR SALE. little time Sold for no fault. Peytona was, perhaps the gone out of her life which a largest mare ever trained. She won the Pey- before seemed to have blossomed with FTNE TROTTING STALLION, ton stakes, four mile-heats, worth thirty such brightness and fulness of beau- WOOLFORD, 25539, by Judge Salisbury, thousand dollars, four heats— 16 miles. She son of Nutwood; dam Norma Sprague, by afterwards beat Fashiou four mile heats, who ty as she had never known before Geo. Sprague. etc. He is young, sound, hand- beat Boston the same distance. Apply to early womanhood had The years of her some and Impressive as a sire. Offered solely to Alice and R. J. HANCOCK & SON., Charlottesville, Va. been so wholly given up for want of use. Address W. V. THRAVES, Walter, and so filled with exertion and Belona, Va. responsibility that she scarce had JACKS AND JENNETS. FOR SALE room in her heart or life for the ro- FOR SALE. The finest lot of Span- mance of youth, so different had her ish Jacks and Jennets that lever lot been from that of most young girls. owned In my 20 yeHrs' experience. I defy competition as to quality and till late, COLTS Love did not come to her - TWO price. Twenty five though as fresh as reasons why the far- "Whitby," get of "Kittle B.," when her feelings, by 2:18%, mer should rnWe mules 2:24%. ever, had gained a depth and strength Call on or addre»s, Bay filly, 15% hands, 4 years old, high unknown in early girlhood. She had | gaited, up headed, light mouthed, handsome. had, as all young girls do, vague, BAKER'S JACK FARM, As 2 year old. 3 months from time of first fancies, about an bitting, trotted auarter In 40 seconds; at sweet dreams and Lawrence, Ind. second time of asking. An "A-l" race pros- ideal hero, a mingling of King Ar- pect. thur, Sir Galahad, and all other noble Free telephone connection from Indianapolis. Chestnut stallion colt, 2 years old handsomer than his sire, much stouter and and heroic characters, but never until smother made; shows duality all over; bro- now had the person presented him- ken last fall. "Nervy," clean gaited, level self who could raise the slumbering Knight & Jetton, headed; will make a race horse, if "here- dity" counts. The dam of these colts was Princess. Breeders of and Dealers it the gamest race horse, In 18 years driving, I. this time. Alice was eighteen, in By Jacks, Jennets, Stallions. ever raced. Won two 7 heat races, two the exquisite bloom of early woman- weeks in succession, and after breaking down Durham and Hereford thought (and trotted Pimlico track a trial in 2:18, half in hood, though Walter YEARLINGS. 1:08. Price of colts. $500, or would exchange him) that some one else agreed with Send stamp for Catalogue. for a fine team of 3 heavy farm mules, 4 to Emily's ripened loveliness was even Murfreesboro, Tenn. 7 years old. Both colts are "double gaited" was and the stud will make a fine "saddle horse" more attractive. Alice, however, sire, as he goes "all the gaits" in the pad- more striking in appearance. She dock barefooted, and all "Whitbys" the was very tall, and her eyes were large have "velvet mouths." Address Jacks, Jennets and Stallions brilliant brown, whilst her and of a FOR SALE. Fine Jacks T. WM. HEWITT, Weyanoke, Va. a hair was a bright chestnut, and her Specialty. Wh n writing complexion of creamy white, with a state exactly what you want or come and see our Btock. delicate rose tinge on her cheeks. In W. looking at her, Emily would often re- E. KNIOHT & CO., Route 5. Nasbvllle, "JAVANAI5" peat to herself the lines from Tenny- J3 Tenn. son's "May Queen," SALE OR EXCHANQF "There's Margaret and there's Mary, IMPORTED FRENCH 1 Maltese and 1 Spanish Jack, found a*d there's Kate and Caroline, sure, for good sheep or heavy stallion. Young little Alice in all But none so fair as slock preferred. W. S. MOTT, Dixondale, Va. COACH STALLION. the land, they say."

Will be In the stud at Mr. Pollard's A. Alice was not an accomplished "Dunraven Farm," three miles below Rich- Angora - Goats, young lady in the ordinary ucceptation mond, on New Market Road. of the term, but she was a cultivated In pairs to suit. Buck and Doe Kids Javanals Is large, handsome, and of idea one, and in knowledge of history and carriage conformation, and has proved at $15 or $20 per pair. Does in Kid, store of general information, would himself a sire of carriage horses. Pedigree $8 to $10. Some extra REG. ANGUS have borne off the palm from the on application. Fee, $20. common run of school girls, bhe had Bull Calves, low down. HORSES BOARDED winter or summer; also acquired a good knowledge of J. R. K. BELL, Pulaski City, Va. horses fitted for market. Colts broken to French and German from Emily. harness or saddle. A. POLLARD, R. F. D. Above all. she had grown up to be a No. 6 Richmond, Va. »re handsome, hardy and useful helpful and kind to AMPDDA PflATC woman, ANllUnA UUA I O profitable For large cir- every one around her, and after all, cular address E. W. COLE & CO.. Big Cliftv. Ky. Stallion FOR SALE,--My Trotting-bred this is the true end of education. GEORGE BURNS, foaled May 14. UN. Ma- Every one in that community had hogany bay, itar In face, left hind foot whits. become interested in the orphans and GOATS of good atyle, easy to handle; will make good attached to them. The proprietor of Wanted a flock of good common breed goats, not exceeding In number twenty year- breeder. Write for his breeding. the Springs and his wife who had ling females and two bucks. Answer M. D. J. TABB JANNHT, Van CleTesyille, W. Va, taken a great fancy to them, would L., Southern Planter, Richmond, Va. 206 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [March,

WANTED send them invitations whenever any- plant, thing especially pleasant or entertain- A. second-hand DRILL, one that will Water- ing was going on, and in this peas, oats, etc. C. P. HODGMAN, way, Berkshire Hogs! way, Va. many social pleasures were placed within their reach, during the season. WANTED As Alice was lust budding into wo- manhood, Emily thought it right to (In lots of 25 and up to 200) nice to buy accept all suitable invitations for her, Leghorn Pullets—any color. P. J. young and accordingly they attended this HOLMES, Ivor Va. summer a tournament and a ball given Sires in service, Rockland Majestic at Springs. the The former did not of New Era; his sire ! EGGS !! Rockland Gen- EGGS quite come up to the lists at Camelot Barred Plymouth Rocks, White Wyandotte try, champion of Americain 1903; grand B. Leghorn, M. Bronze Turkeys, or Ashby de la Zouche, still Alice en- and S C. sire, Baron Lee IV, crossed with wild. Book your orders now. joyed it vastly, and amongst the Hodel Lee IX, Croxton, Caroline Miss CLARA L. SMITH, throng of fair and elegantly dressed sire Gov. Lee, champion of America in county, Va. ______women present, none was more beau- 1589, Sows of EQUALLY NOTED tiful than herself, nor more lovely PLYMOUTH ROCKS, Strains. A few nice pigs for sale. BARRED than Emily. On this occasion, an old CORNISH INDIAN GAMES Write for prices BUFF COCHINS, friend came up and accosted them, and PEKIN DUCKS. Stock and eggs for guaranteed. Prices low. Allan Crawford, now at thirty, a far sale. Satisfaction JNO. CALHOUN, Clio, S. C. Rev J. W. HECKMAN, Cascade. Va. finer looking and more interesting man than he had been in his early j COLLIE PUPS youth. The next day he called at the By Imported Sires. Sable and white and tri cottage, and after that, he came daily. colors. Prices. 88 to $15. Older ones correspond- lnelv low- Book on Training, 50 cents: Free II It soon became evident that Allan you buy a Collie. MAPLEMONT STOCK FARM, 3 ' Albany, Vermonl. had changed his allegiance, and that Alice, the little pet and plaything of I B ERKSHIRE^ WANTED former days had become "the rare and country One or two medium sized horses for radiant maiden" of his choice. Be- young, sound, of ANNEFIELD HERD place in Virginia. Must be fore the summer was over, he had of- good appearance, broken to saddle, buggy and Contains the and gen- fered her his heart and hand, and light farm work, moderate in price Mares pre- tle enough for a lady to handle. during the autumn and winter, he Dr. ferred Address with full particulars. pressed his suit with such zeal that Finest Blood Lines 345 Wyoming Ave., Scran- THOMAS W. KAY, before another springtime came round, in England and America. ton, Pa. Alice had capitulated and Allan was DAIRY HfcRDS the blissful fiance of this lovely young Young Stock for Sale. care of creature. Inquiries cheerfully answered. Put in order; men trained to take them. Large experience. Highest references. Emily said it seemed like a proph- SPECIAL: A few extra 6-months old pigs, College graduate, with years of ecy of this event that she had always Agricultural either sex. practical experience in the dairy barn. Ad- had a sisterly feeling for Allan, and Tassel dress, WALTER A. CONANT, Van that there was no one in the world to EDW. G. BUTLER, Annefield Farms, Dairy Farm, Du Bois. Pa. whom she would be so willing to en- Briggs, Clarke Co., Va. trust "her dear child" as she called ORCHARD HILL PURE BRED Alice. Still it was a hard ordeal for her to give up Alice, and she looked Chinas ! with that Poland forward to the marriage ACCOMAC HERD A few pigs, brood sows, and boars for sale; mingling of pain and pleasure which also some S. C. B. LEGHORN Cockerels. seems to attach itself to all mortal Large ENGLISH BERKSHIRES. Charlottesville, Va. F. M. SMITH, JR., affairs. A choice lot of young Boars and R. F. D. No. 4. "It reminds me." said she, "of the Gilts now ready to ship; 60 nice pigs Oriental proverb, 'Do not seek thy for spring shipment; the best English thee.' "When Stock Farm fate; thy fate is seeking and American families. All stock Hawksley I brought Alice to these mountain eligible to registry. Write for prices. offers some extra fine fastnesses, it seemed as if I were cut- ALFRED P. WHITE, JR., ting her off from society and from BERKSHIRES. Parksley, Va. advantage, and yet her A top lot ot pigs not akin, ready for April every worldly delivery, „ _ . fate has sought her in this remote and 9. C B. Leghorn eggs at B P. Rock situation. She is marrying a man up- 81.00 per 15. J. T. OLI VER, Aliens Level, Va. HOLLYBROOK FARM. right, honorable, intelligent, well edu- cated, moreover in enjoyment of an Berkshire BERKSHIRE PIGS ample competence. And the crowning Pigs^v blessing of her lot is that she loves Are from first-class registered stock, Biltmore delivery, sired by him as well as he loves her. Without strain ; have free range and plenty of running Ready for January wpter, and are healthy, vigorous stock. Young for noth- my 18-months-old boar, CAPT. JACK this, all the rest would count pigs for sale. Write for prices. ing, for 'if a man would give all the 68623, who now weighs 680 lbs. in only HENRY W. WOOD, substance of his house for love, it fair breeding condition. The pigs are " would be utterly contemned.' Box 330. RICHMOND, VA. every respect and I will first-class in The ensuing few months were very responsible parties on ap- ship to busy ones at the cottage, Emily and for proval. Am now booking orders Alice being diligently at work on the pigs March farrow by Lustre's Carlisle trousseau, a task dear to the feminine "Feeds and Feeding' of Biltmore, 72057, recently purchased heart. Though they did not aim at an Prof. Henry's Great Book for one, they had skilful, taste- from Biltmore Farms. expensive Farmers and Stockmen. WOODSIDE STOCK FARM, ful fingers which could impart grace and beauty even to garments of simple Delivered anywhere for - - $2.00 Charlottesville, Va. materials. With the SOUTHERN PLANTER, 2.25 1904.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. '207

*&l ^5 tffM 10* i£F> *£F* w5* ^?* *2fr uP1 *2r* *3^ *2r* *3* W?* *a* ^9* Alice had one advantage over k wealthy girls who merely order their Cattle, Horses and Sheep trousseaus, the making of which is From Blue-Grass, Va. only a matter of dollars and cents be- BERKSHIRES V. tween themselves and their Boughton Commission ft dress- makers. Every article that Alice did We can furnish grade Shorthorn, Hereford and angus steers, not make herself was made by Emily, from L to 8 years old. High grade, and pure-bred, and thus served as a token and re- heifers and BEST, fc young bulls at low prices. 2 WE HAVE THE minder of her love. Yet though there Grade ewes, and purebred, rams, of Shrop- is a vast amount of shoddyism dis- shire, Hampshire, Southdown and Suffolk breeds. played in trousseaus, nowadays, still *• SADDLE, HEAVY-DRAFT ^ i^* v* •£ the principle is right, and is dictated and DRIVING HORSES. Write us your wants. by a sense cf "the eternal fitness of things." It is appropriate that we SHANNON BROS., POPLAR HILL, VA., Giles MINIBORYA FARM, fc should clothe ourselves with new and Co. 3 Telegraph Office and diverse garments as we enter on new Station, Dublin, Va,. N. & W. Railroad eras of life. It is suitable that a bride 3& Box 901. RICHflOND, VA. & should have fresh and beautiful cloth- GREENFIELD HERD OF ing. Every lovely tint und fabric and Aberdeen ornament seem fitting cymbols of the Angus Cattle. new era on which sh\ -Ancettral Champions. Poland-CHina Hog's. back to her old home. Write your wants and lor prices of heads for FOR S » LE : 2 yearling bulls, good ones, ready for service, sired by Verbena's Champion No. he'd!. An obedient husband up in Frank- 1298S1; some younger bulls, sired by Royal Chief JOHN T. and Q. B. No.;i85432; also some Fall Poland China shoats lin county, Me., was cr.-iccting to df> V of both sexes. Come or write. MANLOVE. Hilton ing certain work about the house, and Indiana. he Scripture to his wife,, VIRGINIA DIVISION. quoted show- ing that the household duties should FARMER'S MUTUAL BENEFIT ASSOCIATION. properly be assigned to the woman. - ROSEDALE HERD Chartered by State of Virginia. The good wife replied by reading to # A fire Insurance Association for farmers of her astonished liege II. Kings xxi., 13, Aberdeen-Angus Cattle* Kastern Virginia. "I will wipe Jerusalem as a man Organized January 9, 1899; amount In- C holce bulls, 4 mos. to 4 yrs. old. Prices as sured January 9, 1904, $370,000; policies se- wipeth a dish, wiping It and turning low as good breeding will permit. Inspec- cured by real and personal property, esti- it upside down." That husband has mated value, $1,000,000. For further informa- tion of herd and correspondence Invited. wiped the dishes ever since. Zion's tion address CHAS. N. FRIEND, Genera- — ROSEDALE STOCK FARM, JeffersonUm. Agent, Chester, Va. Herald. Va. 208 THE SOTJTHEKN PLANTER [March,

THE No. 6 IRON AGE COMBINED REG ISTER-ED] DOUBLE AND SINGLE WHEEL Angus Cattle For Sale Low. HOE, HILL AND DRILL SEEDER. SHORTHORNS. Our old, established herd of about forty good milking cows is headed by imported SIR WILFRED LAURIER, 144766 (a son of the great English champion Marengo); CEDRIC, 12608S (a grandson of William of Orange, of Marr Farm), and FRANTIS LAD, 210443 (a winner of second prize in senior bull calves at 1903 International One 5 year Young stock for sale, Trip cut shows the tool ready for old bay mare with black points, 16 hands, weight 1,150. Fine P. S. SON, sowing garden seeds in continuous LEWIS & family mare rows or in hills at four, six, eight, and a nice driver. Lot of Point Pleasant, W. Va. 7-8 grade twelve or twenty-four inches apart. Angus bull calves. Lot of 15 16 The change from sowing in contin- grade Angus bull calves. These ELLERSLIE grade calves FARM^- uous rows to that of dropping in hills look like thoroughbred Angus, Tiioronghbred Horses can be instantly made, or the reverse. and will please the most fas- tidious. 1 five old The seed sowing device 's very simple year Shrothorn cow with AND SHORTHORN CATTLE, and can he removed quickly, and the bull calf at foot, by our Reg. tool changed into a complete single or Angus Bull, a fine family milk cow; quality's Pure Southdown Sheep double wheel hoe by making use of the perfect. A splendid family milk cow 4 years old.. Will and Berks aire Pigs. small working tools, extra wheel, etc., drop a shown in the cut about the machine. calf in April next, by our Angus bull. Fob Sale. R. J. HANCOCK & SON, In designing the seed sowing device A splendid location for a saw mill. Charlottesville, Va. simplicity of construction, conven- Timber to last 3 years or longer one- ience of adjustment and perfection of half mile from the railroad. work were constantly COOK'S CREEK HERD kept in mind. W. M. WATKINS & SONS, The agitator is simply a revolving Saxe, Charlotte Co.. Va. Scotch-Topped brush of selected bristles, which abso- lutely will not injure the seed. The seed hopper holds two quarts. The Shorthorns ^ light weight of this tool, combined Herd Headed by Governor Tyler, 158.5 48. with the remarkable strength of same, Young Bulls for sale. Inspection and corres- V.P.I. cannot help but appeal to you as hav- pondence invited. ing excellent advantages, especially HEATWOLE & SUTER, Dale Enterprise, Va. since this is a tool that is to be pushed Farm Bulletin solely by hand. We are now offering some choice young This implement, as well as a com- MEADOW BROOK Bulls of the following breeds: plete line of garden tools, horse hoes and cultivators, riding cultivators, Shorthorn, Hereford, Aberdeen-Angus. SHORTHORNS, ae two-horse walking cultivators, special Write at once for pedigrees and prices. I have several very fine Shorthorn Red Bull trucking tools, potato planters, etc., Calves 6 to 10 months old, and several very are made by the Bateman Mfg. Co., nice yearling Shorthorn Heifers for sale at D. 0. NOURSE, Prof, of Agr. Grenlock, J., who guaran- farmer's prices. C. A. SAUNDERS, Meadow Box 167, N. Brook Stock Farm, Culpeper, Va. tee their implements to be as repre- Bl acksburg, Va. sented, and will be pleased to send their catalogue free to all who make FOR SALE OR TRADE inquiry for same. Swift Creek Stock and Dairy Farm 1 Registered Shorthorn Bull, Has for sale a large num- 5 years old to prevent inbreeding. ENGLAND. ber of nice young regis- A JOKE FROM tered A. J. C. C. 1 Registered Shorthorn Bull, At a recent Chamber of Commerce 6 months old. dinner the following story was told: JERSEY BULLS 50 bus. French White Artichokes, "At the time of King Edward's re- at 75 cents per bus. AND HEIFERS. covery from appendicitis, thanksgiving Standard bred Poland-China Pigs, 3 to None better bred In the South. Combining services were held all over the British 4 months old. closely the most noted and up-to-date blood dominions. The services were con- In America. Bulls 4 to 6 months old, $25; J. H. BOELTE & SONS, - News Ferry, Va Heifers, same age, $35. POLAND CHINA cluded at a certain place by the sing- West. PIGS, $5 each. Send check and get what ing of a well-known hymn, which hap- you want. pened to be in the back of the book. T. P. BRASWELL, Prop." Battleboro. N. C. I OFFER' " 'Let us close the services," the rec- 2 Reg. Ayrshire Bulls, tor said, 'by singing the hymn, 'Peace, REGISTERED old PRICK, $40.00. " OnelOuio*. Perfect Peace'—in the appendix.' One coming A y rs. old P R I OB, $65.00. Low considering Quality. Guernsey Cattle Registered and high grade HAMPSHIREDOWN TWO TOO MANY. Of all ages, for sale, including a 2-year of best breeding. Ram*. Ewes and SHEBP "Triplets," said wee Willie Winkle- old Bull, from a tested dam. Lambs for sale. Stock and Prices will suit. top with a very knowing air, "always J. D, THOflAS, Round Hill Va. Meadow Brook Stock Farm. come to poor ' families. It's when G. M. WALLACE, God sends them a whole line of sam- FALMOUTH, VA. AUCTION SALE ples to pick from, and they hasn't A neat Binder for your back num- CATALOGUE GUNS enough money to pay the expressman bers can be had for 25 cents. Address GOVT Pistols, Military Goods(lllustrated) to take two of 'em back."—February our Business Office. 15c, mailed 6c stamps. P. Ban nerman , 579 Broadway, N. V. Lippincott'B. !

1904.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 209

Catalog is Ready From barred buff and white your Buggy bufl Or- EDGtWOOD STOCK FARM, I lymouth Hocks ; DORSETS The Ohio Carriage Mfg. Co., 10 Sixth St., EGGS pingtons and Mammoth Cincinnati, Ohio, H. C. Phelps, President, bronze turkeys, [scoring^ to 96 points, at lar- Fall lambs now desires to announce to our readers that the new mers. "irlces. attractive 1904 catalogue of Split Hickory ready. Now Is time and Harness is now ready for free Vehicles and I BOOKINO ORDERS^FOR to order Dorset distribution, and will bo promptly sent, pre- rams. Write for paid, to all who request it. POLAND -CHINA PIGS* circulars and photos. As is well known to most of our readers, many of them regular customers of this great buggy Come to see our I have a herd from the greatest breeders in concern, the Ohio Carriago Mfg. Co. is the sole DorBets. J. D. & the world,— the best that money ran buy I H. manufacturer of the Split Hickory line of treat buyers as I wi«h to be trMited. Write for B. ARBUCKLB, Greenbrier Co., Maxwelton, of which thoy sell direct to the user vehicles, all prices and free circular. 15 years a breede- W. Va. at factory price, affording a great saving over other methods. J.JB. BEAMER, Pickaway, W. Va ...Woodland Farm. DORSET SHEEP, Beardless Spring Barley, EGOS for sale. From Prize Winning BUFF LEG- Choice Alfalfa Seed. HORNS and BARRED PLYMOUTH J. E. WING & BROS., Mechanicsburg, 0. ROCKS. Also choice Barred Rock Cockerels (Miles Strain). ....BARGAINS.... MISS JULIA P. JONES, DORSETS AND Bethanla, N. C. "WALSH'S HEREFORDS Barred PlymoutH RocKs H. ARMSTRONG, LANTZ MILLS, VA. High class combination utility and exhibition stock. Best blood. Bred from prolific layers of large browm eggs. Eggs, $1.50 per 15. AT FARMER'S PRICES. L. W. WALSH, Box 194. Lynchburg, Va. S. M. WISECARVER, - - Rustburg. Va.

Silver l.pced Vyar»d«rit« *». Aryshires, Berkshires and Oxford-Downs. No finer general purpose (owl in America. Bred for beauty and utility. Eggs from choice Ayrshire Calve* of both seres, Berkshire and pure bred stuck, $1.25 per IS; 82.00 per 30 Pigs and Boar and 2 Oxford- Down Rams for Twenty-three years a breeder and shipper. ale. MELROSE CASTLE FARM, - S. P. YOi'ER, Denbigh, Va. Bnos H. Hess, Manager, Casanova, Va. Cincinnati Ohio

" ' ~ ' »~ — » The beauty of the cover of the 1904 catalogue, ^ with its seven colors and artistic design, is but BfcST STRAIN for sale. feebly portrayed above in the small reduced illustration. The catalogue is a work of art and BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS. 3 Aberdeen-Angus Heifers, its contents are complete and authoritative. It lays special stress, very properly, upon the 1904 The ideal farmer's fowl. Eggs, 50c Bred from Hero of Bunker Hill, 31462. Split Hickory Special Top Buggy, priced at $50, per setting of 15 F. O. B. hpre. Mrs. the wonder and pride of the buggy user, the All three good individuals. WM. P. Bueks, R. F D. 1. Bedford City, envy of buggy makers universally. This Split Hickory Special has one hundred Va^ J. TABB JANNEY, Van Clevesville, W. Va. points of merit. These points comprise every late feature known in the manufacture of a —FOR PURE-BRED— strictly high-grade buggy. ANGUS & HOLSTEIN CATTLE. We ask our readers in sending for this 1904 cata-

I Registered and grades, of all ages logue to use the following coupon and to fill out WHITE LEGHORN ind sexes, and of champion blond mail it I the blanks carefully, and direct to The orthebeel and milk strains and Ohio Carriage Mfg. Co., 10 Sixth St , Cincin- eggs at 75c per sitting, address, it moderate prices Also Nursery nati, O. -tock of all descriptions Mss. W. P. ALLEN, Walnut Hill, Va. mMYER & SON, Brldgcville, Delaware. Name. A A BARGAIN I O E Address FOR SALE I Gibson Liquid Lice Killer kills all lice and "THE SURE HATCH IN ALASKA." 2 pure-bred Holstein Friesian mites or. Fowls, Cattle, Hogs and Horses. Bull calves two months old. Minto, Yukon, Jan. 7, 1904.—Seattle Easily applied and guaranteed to kill the lice Address, H. W MANbON, Crewe, Va, Produce Co., Eugene, Oregon. Gentle- or money refunded. Gallon can $1.00. Liberal men, Enclosed please find eighteen terms to dealers and agents. Write to-day — dollars for 150 size . . .5 PURE-BRED. . . 'or prices and circulars. ($18) another egg i incubator. Please send it as soon as LAMB, West Alexander, Pa. GIBSON & possible as I want to set it in the fore BERKSHIRE BOARS part of March. The one you sent me for saie, 2 months old, $5.00 each ~~~f last fall is all right and I want to set H. SWLNEFOKD, Richmond^Va. CORN PLANTING 8& two in March, or sooner if the hens gest cropCSyou want begin to lay. I will want some more a planter that will do the work right. "The SPECIAL NOTICE. Hamilton" Corn Planter is the best machine later. 1 enclose 20 cents for exchange Our new invention, used on every farm every on earth for insuring increased corn crop.~ of Canadian greenbacks. On my first Write for catalogue and price ft~- day, sells on sight, and is guaranteed for ,ten hatch I got 85 per cent, and have not «*> ITHE rl. P. DEUSCHER years. A great opportunity to make money for C0.,H30C got less than 95 per cent, since that Hamilton, Ohio, Manufacturers. parlies invest to g^ time. 'able to $500 51,500 for territory Ship the machine to Mrs. John lor thebaleof thislnvention. Kaiiroad Fare will Fussell, Minto, Yukon, care of Mr. be paid one way to responsible men who come ai d to do business, whether they decide Mention the Southebn Planteb in Wheeler, Royal Mail Service, White prei or not. Write for particulars to H. AOULPIf writing. Horse. MULLER, Eastern Agt., box552, Richmond, Va. 210 THE SOUTHEKJST PLANTER [March,

WASHINGTON'S REVERENCE.

An Anecdote of the Father of His &*3dr*8- * Country and of His Mother. No Trace of Disease Much of George Washington's firm any one of the three years, 1901, 1902 or 1903 at or follow- strength of character was due to his ing th> International Live Stock Exposition at Chicago. splendid ancestry, as the following lit- Is'it remarkable? If you saw the shows you know the tle anecdote will testify: countless thousands in value assembled. There was reconnoitering in Westmore- While anxiety among breeders. T" ey had to be assured against land county, Va., one of General Wash- the spread of contagious diseases. The management met ington's officers chanced upon a fine the demand each year by disinfecting with famous team of horses driven before a plow by a burly slave. Finer animals he had never seen. When his eyes had ZENOLEUM feasted on their beauty, he cried to Zenoleum exclusively. That's high, reliable testimony. Do yon nse the driver: ' Zenoleum? It destroys disease germs, avoids contagion, cures scab, cholera and skin diseases, kills lice, removes stomach and intestinal "Hello, good fellow! I must have worms, establishes and maintains for live stock ideal sanitary conditions. those horses. are just such ani- They "The Great Coal Tar Carbolic Disinfectant Dip." mals as I have been looking for." Sample gallon of Zenoleum $1.50, express prepaid. 5 gallons $6.25, The black man grinned, rolled up the freight prepaid. If you breed live stock you should learn what Zenoleum whites of his eyes, put the lash to the will do for you. Ask for free Zenoleum handbooks, "Veterinary Ad- viser" and "Piggie's Troubles." A postal will bring them. • horses' flanks, and turned up another iZenner* Disinfectant Co., 93 Bates St., Detroit, Mich. furrow in the rich soil. The officer waited until he had finished the row; then, throwing back his cavalier cloak, the ensign of rank dazzled the slave's eyes. "Better see missis! Better see mis- sis!" he cried, waiving his hand to the south, where, above the cedar growth, rose the towers of a fine old Virginia BIG BARGAINS mansion. The officer turned up the 'IN< carriage road, and soon was rapping the great brass knocker of the front ABERDEEN-ANGUS BULL CALVES. door. Quickly the door swung on its For prompt sale we offer as follows! ponderous hinges, and a grave, ma- 1 YEARLING BULL FOR $75.00 jestic-looking woman confronted the 2 8 MOS. CALVES, EACH $50.00 l ...": visitor with an air of inquiry. 2 6" " " E $40.00 "Madame," said the officer, doffing These calves are sired by our Bull Marvil, No. 40591, (direct descendent of the world-famous Gay Blackbird) found anywhere. These calves are in good his cap, and overcome by her dignity, out of as pure blooded cows as are to be condition, and fine specimens as to form, color, etc. Remember the bull i» half the herd—therefore "I have come to claim your horses in get the best. Come and see them or write. the name of the Government." "My horses?" said she, bending upon WILSON BROS. & CO., News Ferry, Va. him a pair of eyes born to command. "Sir, you cannot have them. My crops are out and I need my horses in the field." BERKSHIRE BOARS "I am sorry," said the officer, "but I must have them, madame. Such are the orders of my chief." "Your chief? Who is your chief, 6 months old, right in every way. pray?" she demanded, with restrained warmth. JERSEY BULL CALVES, "The commander of the American army—General George Washington," from superior cows. replied the other, squaring his shoul- ders and swelling with pride. A smile of triumph softened the sternness of Forest Home Farm, the woman's handsome features. "Tell George Washington," said she, "that Purcellville, Virginia. his mother says he cannot have her horses." THE. - OAI1S - STOCK - FARM. officer With a humble apology, the A. W. HARMAN, Jr.. Prop., turned away, convinced that he had We breed and ship the beu strains of decision found the source of his chief's Lars* and self-command. ENGLISH BERKSHIRES And did Washington order his officer Send us your order and get the best. to return and make his mother give up A Large Registered English Berkshire Boar, years old, extra fine specimen FOR SALE. her horses? No; he listened to the 1/i None better bred In this country. 6 coming report in silence, then, with one of his 2 year old JERSEY HEIFERS for sale; also rare smiles, he bowed his head.—Feb- 2 fine Jersey Cows; 1 yearling heifer, a per feet beauty. Write for price. ruary St. Nicholas. ALEX. HARMAN, Mgr.,LexIa(ton, Va.

Mention the Southebn Planter in When corresponding with our advertisers always mention the writing. Southern Planter. 1904.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER 211

BILTMORE FARMS, « Biltmore, N. C.

Headquarters for GOLDENLAD JEESEYS,

Also Get of TREVARTH and GEN. MARIGOLD. * * *

GOLDEN LAD'S SUCCESSOR. First and sweepstakes over all at the Pan-American Exposition, the champion JERSEY BULL OF AMERICA, and out of Golden Ora, our great prize-winning cow, both born and developed on these Farms, is among our service bulls. '_' ,___ Biltmore Jerseys are a combination of large and persistent milking qualities with an in dividuality that wins iu the show rinp.

SPECIALTY. Write for descriptive circular of the best lot of young bull calves ever oflered, both for breeding and individuality. They are by noted sires and out of large and tested selected dams. Many of these calves are fit to show and win in any company.

* ^ BILTMORE POULTRY YARDS. J>%J>1

SPECIALTY. Write for descriptive circular of eggs from our prize-winning pens. Over 50 yards to select from, made up of the winners at the leading shows for the last trro seasons. If you want winners vou must breed from winners.

Headquarters for the best IMPORTED ENGLISH BERKSHIRES.

apply to BILTMORE FARMS, biltmore, n. c ******•** E

The Imperial Fruit and Poultry Farm

^* ^a Is now booking orders for eggs for hatching from strictly pure, high-class ^a ^a ^ ^ poultry, at $1.00 for 15 eggs, except duck eggs, which are $1.00 for 13. ^ ^

BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS, WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS,

SINGLE COMB WHITE AND S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS, SILVER LACED AND WHITE WYANDOTTE, MAMMOTH PEKIN DUCKS.

Satisfaction Guaranteed. Write your name and address plainly.

P. M. HEYDENREICH, Prop., .• .' .' Staunton, Va. a

212 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [March,

MR. YERKES' FIRST DEAL IN SOAP Charles T. Yerkes, who is now busy supplying London with an adequate Local agencies and complete repair stocks everywhere rapid-transit system, began his busi- ness career with a successful specula- tion that did not involve the outlay of a dollar. It was a Saturday afternoon, and he was strolling along a wharf in Philadelphia, when he came to a store where an auction sale was in progress. MCCORMICK "How much am I offered for this box of soap?" asked the auctioneer. The thirteen-year-old boy looked at the brand and saw that it was the HARVESTERS same soap as that used in his home. He knew what his mother paid for it at retail, and so he made a bid. The auctioneer smiled at him, cried the bid International Harvester Co. of America, Chicago, U. S. A. once, and said: "Sold to—what's your name, bub?" "Charley Yerkes." "Sold to Charley Yerkes for ." Then another box was put up and bid in by the boy, and this was con- JLARGE YORKSHIRE HOGS tinued until fifty boxes had been THE COMING BACON BREED— struck off to him. He had a deposit THE MOST PROLIFIC BREED— of five dollars in a savings bank, which had been there for some months. He 48 pigs from four litters, ready for December delivery—our Fall showed the auctioneer his certificate of prices always the lowest. deposit, and said he would soon return and pay for the soap. INDIAN GAMES, the fashionable table fowl. He went to the grocer with whom the greatest layers. his family traded, and asked him if he WHITE LEGHORNS, wanted to buy some soap. The grocer WHITE WYANDOTTES, the best all round fowl. Also asked how much he had and what it was worth. The lad replied that he JERSEY BULLS and HEIFERS from cows with recorded but- had fifty boxes, and that he would sell ter tests of 18 to 24 lbs. in 7 days. the lot for a certain sum, naming an amount double that which the soap BOWMONT FARMS, Salem, Va. had cost him at the auction house. The deal was closed, and then the HILL TOP STOCK FARM. storekeeper asked the lad how we had come by»it. When young Yerkes told him, the man opened his eyes and said: "I had intended to go to that auction, but forgot it." The boy did A SPECIALTY' not draw his five dollars from the S. Brown Allen, who succeeds H. A. 8. bank, and thereafter it was his great Hamilton & Co. in the ownership and man- pride to add to it. "It is surprising," agement of this celebrated Stock Farm, said he, not long ago, in telling the with increased facilities, will make a story of his first money-making effort, specialty of breeding Berkshire Hogs and Southdown Sheep, without regard to cost, "how it grew from year to year. When from the purest and most royal strains of imported blood. I was twenty-one years of age the money of which this was the founda- My BERKSHIRE PIGS tion amounted to several thousand For this Spring delivery will weigh 100 pounds at 12 weeks of age, and for INDI- dollars." Success. — VIDUAL MERIT cannot be excelled in the United States. They will make show hogs against any and all competitors and are being engaged every day. The last of WHAT, INDEED? my Fall and winter pigs have been sold, and orders will only be taken for Spring The physicians were holding a con- delivery. S. BROWN ALLEN, Staunton, Virginia, (Successor to H. A. S. Hamilton & Co.) sultation beside the cot of the man sup- posed to have appendicitis concealed Star Pattern about his person. ALL THE OfiRDEN TOOLS Billings Planter and Fertilizer "I believe," said one of the surgeons, needed by the home or mar- fffffp '^rxr\ for corn, beans, peas, beets, etc. One ket gardener. A special tool J J) "that we should (((ill J/J operation. Seed and fertilizer dropped,, wait and let him get for every purpose. hills any stronger before cutting into in dis- him." tance apart. Before the other prospective ope- Trip and marker, It rators could reply, the patient turned attachments for Makes planting in rows his head and remarked, feebly: Things both ways if want- Grow: "What do you take me for— ed. cheese?" SsJSsh: Hand Wheel Plows New Universal (Matthews* New Universal) Hand Seeders and Cultivators. "Some men," said Hoe, cultivator and rake attachments. Uncle Eben, "will For every condition of truck growing from seeding to A combination lndispcnsible on farm. put in weeks prayin' for rain, an' den last cultivation. Most valuable combination tools. Widely Ask for orr free late catalogue of all garden tools. The up- adjustable, best made. Get free late catalog. to-date gardener's practice, line. kick cos' dey happens to git deir feet AMES PLOW COMPANY. SB MARKET STRFEY, BOSTON, MASS. wet." For S«l» by CRIFFITH * TURNER CO , Baltl noro, Md 21: 1904.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER.

Hallock's POTATO DIGGER Ideal. Plow and Pulverizer.

Can We Send You this Splendid Machine on Trial?

We have spent 20 years in perfecting this Potato Digger and are satisfied that it is the only successful one on the market. We are willing for YOU to say whether it is what we claim for it. If you don't like it, the Digger is

'•urs. The Southern Planter has examined its merits, and recommends its readers to send for it on trial. Will you do it? Let us mail you particulars. Write to-day. NOTICE THE AGITATOR on the wheel; remove it, and you will have the best plow in the world. '.

We want a good, active, responsible Energetic Agent in every section of the country to handle the IDEAL." We will sell the first machine in each locality at a greatly reduced price. We protect our agents. The wise man will surely act quickly for he must see that territory on this machine will be eagerly sought for. SPECI A L.

The Keystone Farm Machine Co., of York, Pa., have the exclusive right to manufacture our Hallock Flat Tooth Weeder for the Eastern and Southern territory. The Janesville Machine Co., of Janesville, Wis., have the same rights for the Western territory. Our friends will therefore have no difficulty in "securing this well known and valuable machine. The patents have been fully sustained by five different Circuit Courts.

Write for Circulars and Testimonials from Those Who Have Used the Digger. D. Y. HALLOCK & SONS, Box 813, YORK, PA.

If you will give us your name and address we will send you an elegant 32-page catalogue— A Treatise on Potato and Corn Culture. 214 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [March,

IF YOU ARE WELL-BRED You will be kind. You will not use slang. You will try to make others happy. You will not be shy or self-conscious. You will never indulge in ill-natured gossip. You will never forget the respect due to age. You will not swagger or boast of your achievements. You will think of others before you think of yourself. You will be scrupulous in your re- gard for the rights of others. You will not measure your civility by people's bank accounts. You will not forget engagements, promises, or obligations of any kind. In conversation you will not be argu- mentative or contradictory. You will never make fun of the pecu- liarities or idiosyncracies of others. You will not bore people by con- stantly talking of yourself and your affairs. You will never under any circum- stances cause another pain, if you can help it. You will not think that "good inten tions" compensate for rude or gruff 1:56*4 manners. PATCH You will be as agreeable to your THE FASTEST HARNESS HORSE in the WORLD social inferiors as to your equals and BE HOLDS THE FOLLOWING WORLD RECORDS: superiors. Bile Record, 1 ::.(!•, Half-mile Record 0:56 Mile Record to Wagon, - - 1:57k mile Record on Half-MUe Track, • 2:03k You will not sulk or feel neglected mile Record t» High Wheel Sulky, S:04Ji Tno-Bile Record 1:17 if others receive more attention than DAN PATCH HOLDS MORE WORLD RECORDS THAN ANY HORSE THAT HAS EVER LIVED. IN TWO YEARS DAN PATCH HAS PACED TEN MILES FROM 2:00 FLAT TO you do. 1:56X. IK TWO YEARS DAN PATCH HAS PACED TWENTY-TWO MILES IN 2:01^ TO 1:S6X. You will not have two sets of man- DAN PATCH PACED BLKV1.N MILES IN 1903 THAT AVERAGED 1:59 4-11 AND WAS ners one for "company" and SHIPPED 10,000 MILES DURING THIS TIME FROM JUNE TO DEC. — one for t^-DAN PATCH SOLD FOR »60,000 IN 1902 AND IS NOW VALUED AT $150,000. home use. You will never remind a cripple of HIS BEAUTIFUL co^oRio PICTURE FREE his deformity, or probe the sore spots PRINTED IIN SIX BRILLIANT COLORS of a sensitive soul. DESCRIPTION. We are owners of this World-Famous Stallion and have gotten out a Magnificent Colored Lithograph of Dan Patch 1 :b&H, printed in W Six Brllllaot Colors and Size 21 by 28. Dan Patch is universally You will not gulp down your soup acknowledged to be a most wonderful horse, and with his combined qualities of champion speed, good breading, conformation and very kind disposition the opinion ie freely expressed by horsemen that trlle Is The Greatest Stal- so audibly that you can be heard across lion That lias Ever Appeared On Earth. Agricultural Colleges send to us for his pictures to use in their college work. the room, nor sop up the sauce in This Beautiful Picture Contains a Complete Record of AH His Races and Fast Miles so that you have His Speed History your Complete. It makes a very fine picture for framing as it is Free From Advertising. This engraving shows the Cele- plate with bits of bread. brated Trainer and Driver, M. E. McHenry, and Dan Patch exactly as they appear in theirfamous miles. The colored picture we will send you Is a large reproduction of the above engraving and everyone pronounces it the moit life- You will let a refined manner and like hone picture ever published of a marvelous horse. Every lover of a horse ought to have one ef these pictures. superior intelligence show that you The demand is tremendous and oTer Two Million Copies will be sent out to farmers and horsemen. have traveled, instead of constantly IT WILL be MAILED to YOU FREE »~Postage Prepaid talking of the different countries you IF YOU ANSWER THESE 8 QTJESTIONS--AT ONCE. have visited. O l8t.—How Mueh Slock Of All Eladf Do Yon Own! 2nd.—Nam. Paper In Which Ton Saw Thl« Offer. O eV*Pictnro will Not be mailed unlets you answer questions '%& You will not remark, while a guest, 7 1 8 that you do not like the food which S 1 ^^^'CiZ&Zr'" ] "*— INTERNATIONAL STOCK FOOD CO., SInn^s ! DAN PATCH DIRECTTH 2:05«, ROY WILKES 2:06j£ Are Owned By INTERNATIONAL STOCK FOOD CO. has been served to you. >J 1:58V, SUllloes, Colls, Eat "Ioernational Stock K.od" Every Day. You will not attract attention by Onr Brood Mares, Cattle, Hege, Etc., either your loud talk or laughter, or show your egotism by trying to absorb conversation.—February Success. Jersey, Guernsey and Shorthorn CAR LOAD OF PURE BRED HERE- FORDS AT FOREST DEPOT, VA. A car load of pure bred Hereford Heifers from Kentucky have CATTLE arrived at. Forest Depot, consigned to the Elgton Stock Farm. They are said to Young stock registered in their respective Herd books, for sale. The SHORT be the pick of Kentucky's pure bred are owned neighbor, and are in our hands for sale. cattle, and will ,no doubt, be heard HORNS bred and by a A from in the show ring next fall. number of young BERKSHIRE SOWS due early in the year. BARRED PLY- This addition to their already large MOUTH ROCKS, S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS, a few BRONZE TURKEYS, TOU- herd of pure bred Herefords will, no doubt, make this one of the best and LOUSE GEESE and PEKIN DUCKS. All of above ready for delivery. largest herds of white-faces in this section of the country. M. B. ROWE & CO., Fredericksburg, Va. 1904.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 215

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TWO MODEL HUSBANDS. Two colored women sitting on their I am now prepared to book orders for front steps were overheard boasting pigs from imported Kingstone Poetoss, of the many lovable traits and manly bred by C.C. Smith, Kingstone Commons, virtues of their husbands. England. Also from Queen of '-assifern "Gawge sutainly is a good man to , me," said Mrs. Jackson with feeling bred by James Lawrence, of Shrivenham, In her voice. "Ah have nevah been England. Also from Queen Alfreda, without a day's wash sence Ah mahied from imported Loyal Mason, imported dat man. He gits me all the wasnin's Loyal Berks, imported Ah can do." PriDcess Alfreda, Prince Alfred, "Well, Ah has this to say foah etc. These are as fine as the world can produce, though I cannot Ezra," declared Mrs. Jackson with expect fancy prices for them like some breeders get. Bacon your mongsels and satisfaction; "when Ezra gits drunk start aright in the hog business. Remember me when pricing shorthorns (Durhams). he gits drunk like a perfec' gennel- man."—Caroline Lockhart, February Lippincott's. THOS. S. WHITE, Fassifern Stock Farm, LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA, 216 THE SOUTHERN" PLANTER. [March,

HE TOOK IT IN. Father B was a very popular Local agencies and complete repair stocks everywhere man in the old border town, W , up in Northern New York. Beloved by Protestant and Catholic alike, he lived a contented life among his people and his books. At the time of the miners' strike, when the price of coal was soaring, the good Father discovered that the coal DEERING supply of the church was practically exhausted and there was no money in the treasury to purchase more. Ac- cordingly he announced that he in- ARVESTERS tended taking up a collection for this purpose, and taking a plate, after his sermon, he went up and down the Internationa! Harvester Co. of America, Chicago, V. S. A. aisles, giving every one a chance to contribute. — Much to his surprise, as he extend- ed the plate towards one "old son of the sod" he was given a shrewd smile and wink instead of money. The Reg. HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN Father, however, thought this meant that Patrick was not prepared to give CATTLE of the Netherland, De Kol, Clothilde, Pietertje that day and would do so later. Not securing enough money at this and Artis families. Heavy milkers aud rich in butter time, the following Sunday he made another collection, paying particular fat. Stock of all ages for sale. attention to those who had not given the From noted strains. Imported Headlight, previous time. Coming again to Ree.** BERKSHIRES Lord Patrick, he was greeted in the same Bighclere and Sunrise. manner. Meeting him on the street a day or two later, the Father said, DORSET SHEEP= "Patrick, why did you not help us last Sunday?" B. PLYMOUTH ROCK CHICKENS, "Ah, that's alright, Father, it's al- right, an' I niver'll say wan wurd." N. & W. and Southern R. R. T. O. SANDY, Burkevllle, Va. "Why, Patrick," said the mystified priest, "you'll not say a word " " "It's alright SUNNY HOME HERD OF "What do you mean?" "Ha, Father," said Patrick, pulling ABERDEEN-ANGUS CATTLE. his forelock, "beggin' yer pardin', sor, but don't yer think I know that th' BARON ROSEBOY 57666 by the world famous CJU church air het be stame?"—February QAY BLACKBIRD heads the herd. Lippincott's. Females by such noted sires as Gay Blackbird, 14443, (sire of the highest priced American bred Angus bull), Ermon 18171, (by the champion sire of females Royal Eric), Eulalies Eric 15568, (2nd prize yearling bull at World's FOR 30c AND THIS NOTICE Columbian), Beau Bill 13G37 (champion of the West for two years), Baron Ida 20184 (champion at N. Y. State Fair 1898), Baronet of Advla 1226 (by the The John A. Salzer Seed Co., La- chanPope. I ron 'e Afc Horse Iloe and Cultivator has a range of A^Sahni/! , , , , , adjustment and written from re- adaptability that makes it its anecdotes of the Pope earn cost time and again in the field or track fa?m in north- e pr ed " Robbina Po*ato Planter -nill plant cent personal investigation u" f I from four to seven acres per day.^3 Has fertilizer attachment, and will Croke. Bismarck, drop loo per cent, of the seed correcSy Italy by W. J. D. e A8 1 1 ern '? Whe^'1 Cultivator is built correctly in material and pie.rfP Fme^°iVfor hillsides,fm praxa,princi, whose personality is of perennial in- plains, straight or crooked rows. of paper by the ' Is the subject a e w' Iro» A e Bool terest. °K^L S » describes a line of Implements that are backed Villard. descriptive of his by 8 f epUtation heir Promise for the future late Henry byht their,E«f^ / ;^ can bejud«* just performance of the past. Bend for the book. It's visit to the Chancellor in 1890, free. after the Prince's retirement. There are three articles in the in- dustrial and commercial field: "The Paris Bourse," by Cleveland Moffett, elaborately pictured by Andre Cas- taigne; "Economic Changes in Asia," by the Rev. Dr. Arthur Judson Brown, setting forth trade tendencies as ob- served by the writer in a recent ex- tensive trip in Asia; and "The Eye of being a downright considera- Improved Bobbins' Fear," Potato Planter. fit. 00 Iron Age Phut tion of labor unions by a stone-cutter, Wheel Cultivator* Mr. Robert Bruce Grant.

The March St. Nicholas opens charmingly with a full-page reproduc- tion of a pastel portrait of Miss X Baillie by J. Wells Champney, after X X Gainsborough, a sweet girl's figure and X face with deep, thoughtful eyes. The X ClSMONT DORSETS Ken- first story is of "Two Lads of Old X X tucky," by Virginia Yeaman Remnitz. Herbert Baird Stimson tells an inter- X X CISMONT STOCK FARM offers well developed young esting and true "Tale of the Cannibal X X Dorsets of the best blood of England and America. Islands." F. M. Jessup relates "Three X Little Stories of Jehee," a queer old Syrian humorist. "Lazy Coomaras- X Prices Reasonable. G. S. LINDENKOHL, Keswick, Albemarle Co., Va. X awmy" is an East Indian fairy tale re- X X lated by George Sylva. "How Proby Saved the Woods" is a brave story of •a brave boy; and "A Comedy in Wax" develops most exciting interest. In other fields the March St. Nicho- THE OAKS: las seems more than usually rich. There is a pretty description of "How OFFERS FOR SALE AT LOW PRICES Daubigny Decorated His Little Daugh- 2 SHORTHORN BULLS, ter's Room." George Ethelbert Walsh

tells the wonderful story of "Cutting Rising 1 yr. old ; a solid red with white points and a rich red roan. a Hemisphere in Two," the fascinat- Eligible to registry. Also a pair of MORGAN COLTS, 13 hands, ing history and possibilities of the Panama and Nicaragua canals. 2 inches high. B. B. BUCHANAN, Bedford City, Va. 218 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [March,

A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS.

Is the Lord & Thomas Advertising Agency the Head of Which Retired Local agencies and complete repair stocks everywhere February 1st. Possibly there is no line of industry in the United States that has grown in such proportion in recent years as that of general advertising, which includes publicity in newspapers and maga- zines and outdoor display advertising, CHAMPION and through its tremendous force the entire basis of modern merchandising has been revolutionized. The Chicago papers of the current HARVESTERS week devote much space and time to the wonderful growth of the advertis- ing business as a whole, and that of International Harvester Co. of America, Chicago, U. S. A. Lord & Thomas in particular, owing to the retirement of Mr. D. M. Lord, the senior member of the firm, who leaves active business life with a rich competence. The business of Lord & Thomas has been one of the most aggressive and progressive of its kind in the country, MEAT AND EGGS having in recent years been under the DO YOU WANT THEn NEXT WINTER AND SPRINd? active management of Mr. A. L. Thomas, whose judgment on advertis- Then why not get eggs from probably the largest egg and broiler plant in the state. matters is considered as authorita- ing My stock is thoroughbred Barred Plymouth Rocks, bred to lay. The tive by the vast body of publicity broilers of this breed are given a strong users. Mr. Thomas has succeeded Mr. Lord in the presidency and will con- preference on the Richmond tinue at the head of the firm. market. Mr. C. R. Erwin, the new Vice-Presi- Eggs $1.00 per 15; $2.00 per 40; $4.00 per 100. dent, has been connected with the com- pany for 20 years and is therefore a East Richmond P. O. , DDREss veteran in the field; associated with h. C. WARD, R. F. D. No. 3, Va. him and Mr. Thomas is Mr. A. D. Lasker, the Secretary and Treasurer. — To give some idea to the public of the growth of advertising as a whole, JBarrGd Plymouth Rocks / it might be stated that in two years the business of Lord & Thomas alone V "Pope & Pope ;:l has increased one million dollars in II Proprietors — Coiy NooK Poultry Fa^m. U the billing, and in the one month of January in 1904 this house has booked $750,000 in advertising contracts from the following concerns, whose names are household words in the United .EGGS FOR HATCHING. States: Anheuser-Busch Brewing Our yards are noted for the size, vigor and health of the birds. They are big fellows, prize winners Ass'n, St. Louis; Siegel, Cooper Com- and heavy layers. Our matings for this season are especially fine, and, if you want ribbon winners, pany, New York; Woolson Spice Com- it will pay you to order eggs from us. Cozy Nook Farm is one of the most perfectly equipped pany (Lion Coffee) Toledo. Ohio; plants of its size in America. Headed by birds scoring 92 1-2 to 94 1-2. We cull our eggs closely. They will give you fine, sturdy chicks. Price, per setting of packed in our special baskets. Hamilton-Brown Shoe Company. St. J2.00 15 Louis, Mo.; Sterling Remedy Com- POPE & POPE, - LOUISVILLE, KY. pany, (Cascarets), Chicago and New York; The Woman's Magazine, St. Louis, Mo.; Armour & Co.. Chicago; Michigan Stove Co., Detroit and Chi- S. O. WHITE LEGHORNS IIIIWIW Pacific Railroad Co., Oma- cago; Union Of fine quality. Great laying strain. Prices very reasonable. Satisfaction guaranteed. Write Milwaukee & St. Paul ha; Chicago, for prices before buying elsewhere. C. O. fl. FINK, R. P. D. 2, Richmond Va. Ry. Chicago; Rock Island R. R. Sys- tem. ASSETS, $900,000. Thirty-five years of wide experience in handling the publicity of a large proportion of America's most success- Virginia Fire and Marine ful advertisers have fitted Lord & Thomas to give most judicious and Insurance Company, of Richmond, Va. piofltable service to enterprising busi- ness firms in every line. Insures Against Fire and Lightning. The main offices of Lord & Thomas All descriptions of property in country and town, private Are in the Trude Building, Chicago, or public, insured at fair rates, on accommodating terms. and its Eastern Branch is in the American Tract Society Building, New AGENCIES IN EVERY TOWN AND COUNTY. York. W. H. PALflER, President. W. H. ilcCARTHY, Secretary. 1904.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 219

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U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D C. Bureau of at Soils. Circular 12. Reclamation Almost Butchers Price, Fancy Herd of of Alkali Land near Salt Lake City, Utah. Bureau of Statistics. Circular 15. Foreign trade in Farm and Forest Products. POLAND-CHINAS Office of Experiment Stations. Bulle- short courses tin 39. Special and We sold 20 pigs, boars and gilts at $8 eaeh. We still have in Agricultural Colleges. a lot of the same size at the same price. Office of Experiment Stations. Ex- periment Station Record, Vol. We have some smaller, about 60 to 80 pounds, at $7 each. XV., No. 1. We offer 7 fine brood sows and 10 gilts (150 to 200 pounds), Farmers Bulletin 55. The Dairy at 7 cents per pound, live weight, f. o. b. Doswell. Herd. Its formation and manage- ment. These prices just about pay crating and other expenses above Farmers' Bulletin 185. Beautifying butchers' prices. All stock not sold March 20th will go to the the home grounds. butcher. Farmers' Bulletin 186. Experiment Station work. Losses in manure. Here is a chance for starting pure bred P. C. herds at small Rations for laying hens, etc. cost—the very best strain. Farmers' Bulletin 187. Drainage of not furnish pedigree, though all stock is eligible farm lands. We do our Farmers' Bulletin 189. Information to registration. All stock offered, with the exception of the Cotton concerning the Mexican seven sows, are by our herd boar, a son of Proud Perfection. Boll Weevil. reliable Farmers' Bulletin 191. The Cotton The seven sows were bought of breeders. Five are of Boll Worm. Tecumseh B. strain. Arizona Experiment Station, Tuczon, Mr. W. J. Longan, Dunreath, Va., writes: "Am very much Ari. Fourteenth annual report year ending June 20, 1903. pleased, more than I expected." He ordered another pig for a Cornell Experiment Station, Ithaca. neighbor, Mr. W. J. Crank. Mr. J. W. Nunn, of Louisa, Va., 214. The ribbed N. Y. Bulletin saw the pig and ordered another. cocoon maker of the apple. Kansas Experiment Station, Manhat- Mr. W. S. Eaton, Morehead City, K C, writes: "I am tan, Kas. Bulletin 120. Tests of for- happy when dealing with such men." Address, est trees. New Hampshire Experiment Station, Durham, N. H. Bulletin 103. BULLFIELD FARMS. Dosweli. Va. Standard milk. Ohio Experiment Station, Wooster, O. Bulletin 142. Clover and alfalfa seeds. We positively guarantee to breed Bulletin 144. Experiments with and ship the \ EKY BEtT strains of sulphur sprays for the fall treat- thoroughbred registered LARGE ment of San Jose scale. ENGLISH BERKSHIRE Bulletin 145. Studies in Potato ro- Hogs for LESS MOIN EY tban any other sette. firm in the U. S., the superiority of our Pennsylvania Experiment Station, stock considered. Send us your order

State College, Pa. , Bulletin 64. and we will satisfy you both in price Methods of steer feeding. and stock. WALTER B. FLEMING. Virginia Department of Agriculture, Proprietor of the Bridle Creek Stock Farm, Warrenton, N. C. Richmond. Va. Annual report of the Department for 1903. Virginia (Hampton Institute.) Na- SPECIAL BARGAINS IN ture study leaflet No. 3. How to HOLSTEIN=FRESIANS.

know trees by their bark. From a few months to 1 year old, from dams t ) large producers, and with strong:, Virginia Weather Service, Richmond, official backing on both sides. The sire Is half the herd; it is important that you get Va. Report for January, 1904. the right one. We have that kind, and our prices are no higher than others are asking. West Virginia Experiment Station, LARGE ENGLISH BERKSHIRES, by such sires as Manor Faithful imp., Esau Princess Morgantown, W. Va. Bulletin 89. of Kilston, by Esau imp., Fancy Duke, a double G. son of Loyal Berks. Address Rural water supply. ury bTOCK farm, TH0S. FASSIT & SONS, Sylmar, Md. Bulletin 90. Sheep feeding experi- ments. Notes on parasites. Imperial Department of Agriculture for the West Indies, Barbados, W. CHESTER WHITES. mo- I. Barbados and Porto Rico Registered herd— First Premium Stock ; largest prolific lasses. and most hog on record : 3 Sows 41 Pigs breeding stock 400 to 700 pounds', easy feeders; ser- vice boars; sows bred. Fancy Pigs for sale. My time to this breed for 9 years. The best money can A neat Binder for your back num- buy and feed pro luce. P. M. FUNKHOUSBR, Winchester, Va. bers can be had for 25 cents. Address References: Farmers and Merchants National our Business Office. Bank, Winchester, Va. 220 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [March,

MR. CARNEGIE WAS BUSY WITH AFRICA. A crank of the gentler sort recently wrote to Andrew Carnegie, calling his FREE! attention to the fact that the Esqui- HOG BOOK meaux could not advance morally and The points most essential to successful intellectually so long as they had to hog raising, as found in my 28 years experi- expend all their energy in keeping ence as a specialist in the care of hogs and the treatment of their diseases, are treated in warm and seeking food; therefore it a thorough and practical manner in my book, was the clear duty of their neighbors " HOGOLOGY." which swine experts pro- nounce further south to aid them in overcom- the best book of the kind published. One hundred pages, fully illustrated. FREE ing the disadvantages of their habitat. if you mention this paper when asking for it. TRADE-MARK. To this end the writer proposed that Mr. Carnegie equip a fleet of coal-laden steamers, which, during the summer CASH FOR ALL HOGS THAT DIE months, should cruise along the Green- When remedy is fed as preventive. Write for plan. This is a bona fide offer and you land coast, leaving supplies of coal my a should consider the difference between it and the "would-be guarantee" whereby you are wherever needed for winter consump- "promised" a refund of the cost of the preparation if results are not as claimed. A guarantee tion. Stoves, cooking utensils, etc., that does not put the value of the animal in your pocket, in case of loss, is unfair to you. were also to be given to the natives. PRICES FOR REMEDY: 25-lb. can, $12.50: 12%-lb. can, $6.50, prepaid. Packages, $2.50, Mr. Carnegie, it is said, dictated the $1.25 and 50 cents. None genuine without my signature on package or can label. following letter to his secretary: "Dear Sir,—Yours is received. I JOS. HAAS, V. S., Indianapolis, Ind. am considering a plan to supply the natives of equatorial Africa with ice cream and electric fans; hence I can- not entertain your excellent proposi- tion just now."—Success.

CHEERING THE INVALID. DR. A. C. DANIELS Mrs. Barr, an elderly Scotchwoman, Can save you Money, save your Horse, had been seriously ill for weeks, dur- ing which time even the members of save your Mule or save your Cow. jftjt her immediate family had been ex- cluded from the sickroom. At last, however, she so longed to see her rela- Home Treatment forflorses and Cattle* tive that it was deemed advisable to Sick Horses Made. Well. Weak Cows Made Strong. Q Better Breeders and Milkers- admit them, one at a time. When the and Lame moment for Mr. Barr's visit arrived Book for the asking of your druggist or dealer, or send to the trained nurse cautioned him against showing too much emotion DR. A. C. DANIELS, 172 Milk St., BOSTON, MASS. over his wife's changed appearance. "What you must do," said the nurse, Mention the Planter. "is to cheer her up. You must tell her how much better she is looking, what a nice color she has in her cheeks, and how bright her eyes are. Above all things, you must be cheerful." Mr. Barr promised faithfully to say the proper things; but when he ap- proached the bedside and beheld the Black Leg Vaccine pitiful ravages that illness had made in Mrs. Barr's once plump counte- CHICAGO nance, he became so agitated that he Pasteur Vaccine Co SAN FRANCISCO forgot the nurse's caution and ex- claimed, in the rich Scotch brogue that strong emotion always called forth: REGISTERED "Oh Maggie, Maggie, woman! whaur wad ye like to be burrit?" A3NTD-OHIKTA "Ye'll no get a chance to bury me this time. William Barr," returned the i Pigs from 4 to 6 months old. Boars ready for service, andfyoung sows ~~ Invalid, with unexpected spirit. svith pigs. Tarn worth pigs 8 wks. old $5. Prices Reasonable. Apply to "You're altogether too anxious." It was afterwards said that Mrs. J. C. GRAVES, Barboursville, Va. Barr's rapid recovery dated from that moment—Carroll Watson Rankin, February Lippincott's. For a fine assortment of Apple Trees, a bargain in Plum Trees, fine lot of extra sized Ro*e Bvsbes, choice varieties, Hardy Flo.—You don't seem to be at all Ornamentals, specimen shaped bushes, Spireas, Weigelias, Deutzias, Hy- nervous about going to ask papa for me, she said. dranjeas, etc., —go or apply to Fred.—Oh, no! I've had experience both as an advertising solicitor and an GEO. E. MURRELL ORCHARD & NURSERY CO., insurance agent. This'll be easy. Send tor our Descriptive Catalogue—IT'S FREE. Fontella, Virginia. 1

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THE BEST IN TWENTY. How To Test Coiled Spring Wire. "I should like to call attention to Take apiece of No. 12 wire and coll It firmly around an Inch rod of Iron, an shown In the merits of the Southern Planter. liKnu's t or 2. Try to pulJ the coil out of it. You may think you have done ho, but upon r eleasint;. It will a- unit- -Impr hhown In Il(£iire3. Then look along the wire as you would is a paper that truly espouses the no 2 It a gun barrel; It will appear ae Bhown in no i 11 sure 4— lias the apptaiance of a tube. (Ml /F\ cause of the farmer. A young farmer |[[|[|fll[!lll!|rV tf\ ff\ ff\ ff< (f\ This explains the great advantage <>i ' llilllllillllillllllllillllliillllJIIilllliU) / \J \J \Jf \jf \ of this vicinity, after examining sam- COILED SPRING WIRE and Bowlt^ M 4 provides for eon tract ion and expansion. ML __ £ copies of over twenty agricultural ft ceis so ple The weave of our perfect that lull rtrengtn of every wire is 1 journals published in the Middle and Every twist is an expi ssion of streuKth. Qood enough to last a lifetii V.I 6 make it HIGH, South Atlantic States, decided that it HORSE BULL STRONG, PIG AND CHICKEN TIGHT, '' UBlue Only l " 1 1 Cm*Ml llenvlly OalranlirdColled Spring BtMl Wire; to getthiBgOOd emmt'li W6 •was unequaled for the farmers of this make it our^eivea. Be.st wire makes the best fence. We sliip any sty u* <»)' fence w e make section. It advocates improved stock, DIRECT TO THE FARMER ON 30 DAYS TRIAL, AT FACTORY PRICES, Intelligent fertilizing, cropping, etc., Kreitfht prepaid. Please writaut. We want to send you our Catalogue it in free. KITSELMAN BROTHERS, H"x270, Muncie, Indiana, U. S. A. giving hints and advice on all perti- nent subjects that are invaluable. This journal has been a great factor in de- veloping the agricultural interests ot ROSEMONT HEREFORDS. the South." e d clip the above from the Virginia We ?hS°famS5 s ACROBAT 68460, Citizen, published at Irvington, Va. We calf can assure the publishers and their SPECIAL NOTICE ! 10 nice, well-bred heifers, safe in correspondent, unknown to us, that to Acrobat, will De sold at very reasonable figures. we appreciate very highly this compli- ROSEHONT FARM. Berryville, Clarke Co., Va. & ment. We shall always try to de- *CWfflAT BB^SQ serve It.

THE LIVE LIST FOR 1904. Registered « Herefords, We are in receipt of a very neat and handy booklet of the above title from Herd headed by the Grand Champion the International Stock Food Co., Minneapolis, Minn. This booklet in- PRINCE RUPERT, 79539. pacers marked cludes all trotters and FOR SALE: 4 Bull calves, 8 to 12 mos. old. in 2:20 or better in 1903 and liable to All enquiries cheerfully Answered. race in 1904. It strikes us that all horsemen will want this book at once. It is certainly a compact and handy EDWARD G. BUTLER, interested reference and we invite all Annefield Farms. BRIGGS, Clarke Co., Va. PRINCE RUPERT, 79539. to send for it. This live, progressive and aggressive company is always doing something worth while and we 1 1 1 n 1 1 1 i n i 1 1 1 1X223 i a i i ,i in \ i \ i i s a i t i r t i i m never see anything from their presses that is not well worth having. This company manufactures the well known Bacon Hall Farm. International Stock Food and adver- tises with us regularly. They have a to which we invite cord in this issue, -:- attention. Hereford Cattle Berkshire Hogs REGISTERED-ALL AGES. MONEY FOR SPRAYER SELLERS. .As a money making proposition, Toulouse Geese, Huscovy Ducks. there is attractive reading in the lit- tle advertisement elsewhere of the MOTTO! Satisfaction or no sale. Compressed Air Kant-Klog Sprayer of the Rochester Spray Pump Com- E. M. GILLET & SON, - Glencoe, Haryland. pany of Rochester, N. Y. The basis of i i i i i i i i i i i i this proposition is the best all pur- CBBBB B i mB pose sprayer made. It mixes the liquid, throws nine different kinds of BEG-ISTEEJED spray from the same nozzle and is perfect working and perfectly adapted to all uses. It is a marked improve- .HEREFORD CATTLE. ment on anything in the compressed Service Bulls; Imported Salisbury 76059 a grand- air type of sprayer heretofore made. (19083), son <>f the famous Grove 3d 2490, and a descendant of the] Because of its nice adaptability to world renowned Lord Wilton 4057 from the 4th generation. everybody's use, it sells on sight. A Snowball, the dam of Salisbury, is now in the herd of His good agents are reaping a har- many Majesty King Edward VII. vest from handling it. Through the Lars, Jr., is by Lars of Western fame and his dam is Judy out r>f a Sir Richard the manufacturer, terms offered by 2nd cow This makes a great combination of the Grove 3d, Lord Wilton, Anxiety. are able to a nice thing in they make Peerless Wilton and Sir Richard 2nd strains. No br-tter breeding in the world today, furnishing a legitimate way, to buy- FOR HALE— Yearling: bulls by above sires. WANTED— Reg Hereford heifers, 18 ers an article of constant great service to 24 months old, not bred; will exchange bulls for heifers of equal quality. for everyone who raises trees, shrubs Extremely low prices to close out this bunch; only a few left. and vines. Any of our readers inter- Write your needs or call and make your own selection. ested should look up this little ad and write the manufacturer for terms. MURRAY B00C0CK, Owner, Keswick, Alb. Co.,Va. SSSSSSS^Bb — 4

222 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER [March,

DB LOACH SAW MILL. The saw mill plant of the De Loach SEED POTATO ES= Mill Manufacturing Company, of At- lanta, Ga. who are regular advertisers We have a select stock of ours is said to be the largest of the of Maine grown and sec- kind in the world. They not only ond crop Virginia grown have size to their credit, but have every other advantage, such as cheap seed potatoes of all the labor, and an abundance of the best best and standard varie- lumber, steel and iron at hand to turn ties. We have also a out a superior product. They thus have every facility for making good nice stock of grass and their claims of making the best saw clover seed, seed grain, mills in the world for the money. Up- onion sets and all veg- wards of twelve thousand of the De Loach Mills are now in use in all sec- etable and flower seed tions of the country. This fact alone ^of the highest quality is strong evidence of the high charac- . and germination; ferti- ter thev bear. The same concern makes a long line lizers for all crops, write of machinery closely related to the us for prices. saw mill, such as lath mills, shingle Catalog Mailed Free. mills, edgers, planers, etc. Also grinding mills, water wheels, gearing, J 709 East Franklin Street. pulleys, shafting, etc. DIGGS AND BEADLES, RICHMOND, VA. The De Loach catalogue is a valua ble machinery book for any one in- terested. It is mailed free. Sparks' Earliana -Tomato VIGOROUS PIGS. Pays big earliest large smooth tomato ever grown. Uniform The health and vigor of the new- size; beautiful color ; three times as pioduc- born pig is an important factor, de- tive as any other. termining as it. does in most cases, l 15c pkt.; 40c /2 oz.; 80c oz.; $2.50 K lb -: $° lb. the profit or loss on that particular animal for its owner in bringing it to Quick=Cash Cabbage maturity. It would be impossible to Well named. Yields more to the acro,and earlier than any other cabbage. Its solid flat heads can be market- avoid all such losses but the number ed before fully grown. Most profitable and desirable can be reduced to the minimum if early cabbage ever offered. proper attention is given to the breed- 15c pkt.; 30c y2 oz.; 60c oz.; $2 U lb. ing stock and this refers especially to Garden and Farm Manual—Free the care of the sow from the time she JOHNSON & STOKES Department A is bred until her pigs are weaned. By Special Appointment " Seedsmen to the Money. Maker l" 217-219 Market Street Philadelphia This important subject is thoroughly discussed in "Hogology" a most val- uable treatise on hog raising, by that eminent swine specialist, Dr. Jos. Haas, V. S., of Indianapolis, Ind. This 1,000 BOYS WANTED book will be sent free to any of our readers who will mention this paper TO GROW CORN $200.00 IN CASH PR[ZES when asking the Doctor for it. It is OUR BIG TWENTIETH Annual Illustrated Catalog tells you all about It. It also well worth the time of any hog raiser gives you full and accurate descriptions o£ all the seeds and crops that grow. All our to read it. seeds are fresh and new; grown in 1903 and guaranteed to grow. Our mail order prices, postpaid, are cheaper than others sell same seeds at wholesale. The catalog, a fine af- fair, mailed KREE to all who want to buy seeds of any sort. If you only mention this We have just received a beautiful paper. Address. lithographed hanger or poster printed in ten colors, sent out by the manufac- RATERINS' SEED HOUSE. Shenandoah. Iowa. turers of the "Iron Age" Farm and " ' TT ^ " ri r TP EgSBgSBS ^ ? ?~J ft St fT^ f^^ Garden Implements, Bateman Manu- TTTTTT— Miir? ?OS!I'^?-----""' facturing Company, Box 167, Gren- For loch, N. J. Many thousands of these Fine Premiums Selling are being hung up throughout the ALL you have to do Is send us your name and address. We send country in conspicuous places, where you 30 packets FRESH SEEU.eell '.hern at 3 cts. each return postpaid, this Sterling farmers and gardeners 90 cents to us, and we send you at once, cannot help Silver Finish Purse.wlth 4 ft. chain; this base hall, or any of but notice them. Besides showing 50 articles described in our large premium list sent with SEEDS. TO AGENTS. Write today clearly several of their leading "Iron BIG CASH COMMISSION M J. KTSDON SUED CO. Riverdale, Age" tools in operation in the field, it shows the factories of this company. We wish to here give the assurance to If so, list it with us. No sale, no charge. our readers, that the tools as offered Largest list of farms for sale in Virginia. by this company are thoroughly up- IS YOUR FARM FOR SALE? Write for Free Catalogue. to-date and all implements manufac- tured by them, whether bought direct R. B. CHAFFIN & CO., inc.) Richmond, Virginia. or indirect, are guaranteed to be as represented. Their 48-page "Iron Age" catalogue is sent free upon ap- Whn corresponding with o«r adTertUers always mention the plication. Southern Planter 1904.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 223

if rom Seed-Time Until Harvest

every growing plant takes its

food from the soil and exhausts it.

Restore this loss by using a fertil 'jt^

izer containing eight per cent, of Potash or Fruits. Grain, Grass or Roots Our Educational Books are Sent Free on Application GERMAN KALI WORKS, New York—93 Nassau Street, or Atlanta, Ga. —22^ So. Broad Stre- •

The Corn Planter Made Es

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^-fc CORN -*-* REM EMBER- PLAN 1 fcK We furnish them == with Hoe Opener when desired.

It does, and does well, everything a planter should do. Drills or drops at any distance any number of grains. It handles corn, peas, beans etc., equally well. Every grain is seen as it falls to the ground. The planters are furnished with runner openers or shovel openers. Thousands in use all over the South, and demand increasing every year. As of all good things, there are imitations, but see that you get the GENUINE WITH OUR NAME CAST ON THE TOP OF GRAIN HOPPER. Don't be mislead by being told some other planter is just as good; pay more if necessary and get a :"STAR." ASHTON STARKE, Richmond, Virginia. — —

224 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [March,

A MERE MATTER OF CURIOSITY. He was a long, lank countryman. He entered the car. and took his seat next Local agencies and complete repair stocks everywhere to a well-dressed man of middle age, •who sat evidently absorbed in his morning paper. Immediately he had seated himself he began a rapid Are of questions directed at the gentleman with the newspaper. him how many miles an MILWAUKEE He asked hour he thought the train could go at its full speed; and if he didn't like the looks of the country they were and what he thought HARVESTERS passing through; of the chances for crops down his way; and if he didn't think the trusts were and wasn't he bleeding the country; International Harvester Co. of America, Chicago, U. S. A. of the opinion that politics had gone to the dogs, anyway, and the whole land going to ruin; and didn't he think that Grover Cleveland was the great- est man that ever lived; and what was his opinion in regard to the Spanish war. At last the man with the news- Planet Jr. No. 4 is King. paper grew impatient. Shown below on the left. It is an outfit which every gardener ought to have. It is a seederwhich " plants in hills or "My friend," he said. T 've answered drills. It is a Hoe, Cultivator, Plow. Operator can quickly convert from one to the other and there's hardly a limit to its separate opening seed trench, dropping questions, and now, duties, such as a number of your seed, covering, rolling, hoeing, cultivating, furrowing, ridging. Works between or astride the to rows, throws earth to or adjusting han- if you have no objections, I'd like from plants. Most ingenious devices for sowing, marking, dles, etc. Strong, durable, simple and light running enough for boy's work. have a chance to read my paper." "Sure." his interrogator replied. "I Planet Jr. No 12* but The other won't bother you any more; tool shown, hoes, cultivates and plows. It works between or astride the rows, and throws earth to or from the plants. Wheels, frame and tools are most durably made, yet stranger, there's just one more ques- me of requsite lightness and ease of running. For a combination cultivating tool and tion I'd like to ask. Just answer nicety of work its equal cannot be found. Write to-day for the Planet see Jr. 1904 Catalog. It the embracing Plain this one, and I'll shut right up. I shows "Planet Jr." line, and Combined Seeders, Wheel Hoes, Hand Cultivators, Walk- leg. How'd the you've got just one ing Cultivators, H;rrcv>s, Ore and 1 v>c-Uorse hidins other one come to be off?" Cultivators, Beet Sugar Cultivators, etc. Over 100 illustrations, not including 16 btautiful halftones showing hom and foreign "If I answer this, you'll promise farm and garden scenes. to ask another auestion?" Free for the "Sure." replied the countryman, Asking. emphatic nod of the head. S. L. Allen with an &Co., ¥& "Well, then. I'll tell you. It was Box 1107 X Philadelphia. hit off." The recipient of this piece of infor- mation stared hard at the gentleman Made for the Mao with the newspaper, but he made no Who Wants the comment. Finally the situation be- THE GREAT WESTERN Sest. came unendurable; he shifted rest- Manure Spreader lessly in his seat, and his breath came started is the only Spreader runi I aa innnu and hard. At length he rose, and made that has an uNULUOO flrnUH the many advantages which it possesses. It's always down the aisle. in place and ready to receive the load without "I've given my word for it," he any turning back either by hand or complicated, easily broken machinery. The front and rear said, "and I'm not the man as goes axles are of same length which, with the promise; but I'll be gol- hack on his Broad Tires Prevents Rutting the damed if I wouldn't give a peck of of fields, meadows, etc. and makes on place to know best potatoes my LIGHT DRAFT. SPREADS ALL KINDS OF MANURE, ^d2S&Z£&2gS£££ while machineilli In motion— to 85 what it was this side of Perdition that hulls, etc. Can be changed Instantly t» spread thick or thin the 8 could have hit that man's leg off." GATE AND BEATER AND HOOD PROTECTOR IN USE Sa&SS^ [S&W=£UiEU breaking within one year Companion. and sold nnOITlUC PIIIDIUTCC as to quality* capacity and durability. All parts March Woman's Home charge. for free Illustrated and l>escrptlvo under a rUol I IVt UU&HAN I tt will be replaced without Write Catalogue—the best and most complete spreader catalog ever published. REMUNERATIVE. SMITH MANURE SPREADER C0.16 & 18 S. CLINTON STREET, CHICAGO, ILL. "Well. Bobby, how do you like church?" asked his father as they walked homeward from the sanctuary, ?****** first 1™*"^-L to which Bobby had just paid his SUCCESS v*a Leads every other machine for the mechanical spreading of visit. young manure. Its superiority ap- "It's fine!" ejaculated the pears in the fact that it is a dis- man. "How much did you get, tinct improvement on the Kemp Spreader, which we still manu- father?" facture and which has been the typi- "How much did I get? Why, what cal Spreader for 25 years. Spreads do vou mean? how much what?" asked all manures of every character and condition and all commercial fertil- the astonished parent at this evident izers. Pulverizes and spreads evenly, thick or thin, broadcast or drills in rows, any desired quantity per acre, unloading the largest load in 3 to 5 minutes; apron automatically returns to position in the next 65 feet driven. irreverence. A SPECIAL FEATURED MACHINE "Why, don't you remember when the for convenience of handling and perfection of work. Notably superior in its Beater Freeing derice.Direct Chain Beater Gear, Speed Regulation and Automatic Return of Apron. Positive and dependable in all movements. Sim- funny old man passed the money plest in gear, lightest in draft, least chance for breakage. The driver never dismounts for any purpose but con- trols everything from his seat. Made four sizes around? I only got ten cents."— in and sold under strongest guarantee as to materials, workman- ship and duty. Investigate fully before During. Catalogue with valuable chapter on farm fertilizing mailed free- March Llppincott's. KEMP & BURPEE MANUFACTURING CO. BOX 205. SYRACUSE. N. Y 1904.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 225 WILKES. NUTWOOD. WEALTH, 29579 -RECORD 2.10 Sire Gambetta Wilkes, 2 :1Q$, the leading sire of 2 :10 performers, leading sire of new standard per- formers for 1902 and 1903, with total of 147 in 2:80 list, one of the best sons of the immortal George Wilkes, one of the founders of the American trotter.

Dam, Magnolia, by Norfolk, he by Nutwood, 2 :18f , sire of 178 and of dams of 170. The founder of one of the best families of trotting bred horses, 2nd dam Beck Collins, dam of Choctaw, 2.30, by Woodburn Ilambletonian, 1639, 3rd dam, Rebecca (thorough- bred), by Blucher. Wealth, 2:10, foaled 1897, is dark bay, 16 hands, weight 1,200 pounds, of beautiful shape, style and finish, good disposition and commanding appearance. His breeding rep- resents the cream of trotting families, he being a cross of the Wilkes on Nutwood blood, with a strong thoroughbred foundation. His record, 2 :10, is not his speed limit, as he has gone quarters and even halves at a 2 minute gait. 1903 was his first season in the stud, though he has sired a filly which trotted in 2:25 in her 2 year old form. Wealth will transmit his speed and style to his off- spring. Mr. Cecil, owner of Gambetta Wilkes, in a letter dated January 14, 1904, says: "Wealth, 2:10, is as sure to be a very great sire as we both live." Breed to him. Mares bred at $20. the season, with usual return privilege, Mares sent me will receive best of care at $1.50 per month on grass, or if on grain at actual cost. S. F. CHAPMAN, CLIFTON FARM, GORDONSVILLE, VA, BUG DEATH PA YS!!! 12^1-2 lb. Box $1.00; lOO lb. Keg $7.00.j

DUSTER FOR APPLYING DRY, 25 cts. I Extra yield more than pays entire cost. Prevents blight, produces better quality. CONTAINS NO ARSENIC—KILLS THE BUGS on potato, squash and cucumber vines. Kills current, gooseberry and tomato worms, and all bugs that eat the leaves of plants, trees or vines. Pat. Mch. 16 and Nov. 9, W)7. Put. In Canada, Nov. 2, 1897, and Jan.. 25, 19U0. HORSE POWER^SPRAYER $65 00 HAND^SPRAYER $15.0< FOR APPLYING IN WATER

o SIXTEEN PAGE DanfortK CHemical Co., BOOKLET o MAILED Manufacturers, Leominster, Mass.1 FREE. PERCY JL. BA.NK.S, Manager NorfolK Branch, 41 Union St., NorfolK, Va.

• Car Lots or AGRICULTURAL LIME • PARIS GREEN ANY SIZE PACKAGE. LAND PLASTER, BUILDING LIME, SPRAYERS. write for prices. FERTILIZERS AND SEED POTATOES. T, C ANDREWS & CO., farm supplies, Norfolk, Virginia. " " —

226 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER [March,

BOBBY'S BARGAIN. Henry and Bobby, ages eight and ten GENUINE OLIVER CHILLED respectively, were little boys who BEAM thought and had tendencies. In con- PLOWS sequence of which, at times, they were RS. a source of great embarrassment to This far-famed and world- renowned their mother. Bobby, in particular, Plow we guaran- tee you is worthy of all that had the moneymaking propensity. He is said in praise of it. Wood saved his pennies religiously, and his Beam also furnished. Write for large Illustrated Cata- eye was keen for a bargain. logue. One evening at dinner their father We are general distribu- had as a guest a gentleman who was a tors of the GENUINE ONLY. great horseman. The boys listened at- tentively to the conversation for awhile, then Bobby opened fire with, INCUBATORS "Say, Mr. Smith, can you buy a Farm Tools and Supplies AND BROODERS. horse for a hundred dollars?" Large Illustrated Catalogue fop "Yes, Bobby," said Mr. Smith, 'you 1904 just issued, embracing can." Hand, Horse and Power Labor- "Can you get one for fifty dollars?" Saving Implements. "Yes." must save as well as make money. "For twenty-five dollars?" You "Yes." Write for this FREE catalogue "For ten dollars?" at once. "Yes." "For seven dollars?" "Perhaps." NORFOLK FARM SUPPLY CO. "Seven dollars, really?" said Bobby Implements Fertilizers Poultry Supplies Wheel Material Season is at hand. HEN wonderingly. "Would the horse be PRODUCTS higher than awfully fast?" ever. Our prices low. Write 41 to 51 Union Street, NORFOLK, VA. for Free Catalogue. "Well," said Mr. Smith, smiling, "you would not be likely to get a Lou Dillon or a Dan Patch, but the crea- ture might be able to pull a plough." Bobby thought for a moment; then, "But, Mr. Smith, could a horse you paid seven dollars for have a colt?"

"Possibly," said Mr. Smith gravely. ' Firo, "I have seven dollars in the bank," Water and . continued Bobby; "I guess I'll get a Lightning Pi oof horse. For if a seven-dollar horse could have a colt, and that colt have a colt, and that colt have a— Bobby's mother and father and Mr. Smith became seriously interested in the salad; the youthful Henry began Complete with nails and painted i cd on both sides at to fidget; the embryo stock farm con- tinued to grow—"and that colt have Most durable and economical roof covering made for houses, stores, barns, sheds, cribs, a colt, and that colt have a colt, and «S poultry houses, etc., h'indred and a other purposes for inside or outside use; cheaper and I that colt— will last longer than any other covering. Sheets are 6 and 8 feet long. Henry could stand it no longer. We Pay Turning to Bobby, he remarked in all to points east of Colorado. This roofing at $2.00 persquare is our No. 10 prade, semi-hardened. Very easy !

' a tone of impatience, "Say, as soon as to lay; requires no experience; hatchet or hammer the only tool needed. Comes in Flat. Corrugated, V Crimped, Brick Siding and Headed Gelling: or Siding. Prices on apnlio!Ui

A. C. SINTON. President, R. R. GWATHMEY. Vice-President, j. J. SUTTON. Secretary. ESTABLISHED 1840. The WATT PLOW CO., INCORPORATED 1893.

15th & Franklin and 14th & Main Sis.. Richmond, Va

Agricultural Implements,

Machinery, Vehicles and

Harness. «£«£<£<£ GEISER SAW MILL.

A full stock always on hand, and prompt shipments guaranteed. South Bend, Dixie and Farmer's Friend Plows and repairs. The Hancock Rotary Disc Plow, warranted to go in the ground where all others fail. Hocking Valley Feed Cutters, Cyclone Shredders, Smalley Feed Cutters, Dain Corn Cutters. Equal to any made. Staver Buck- eye Feed Mill and Horse Power Combined. Whitman All-Steel, full circle Hay Presses. George Ertel Company's full circle Hay Presses. Rapid Fire Horse Power Hay Press, for one horse, a good, cheap press. Will put EXTENSION TOP SURREY. up from 150 to 200 bales a day. The well known Minnich Brand Baling Presses. Hocking Valley Wine and Cider Mills. Hard wood rollers. The best mill made. BUCKEYE COMBINED MILL AND POWER. Hocking Valley Corn Shellers. for hand or power. Smalley Electric Pole and Wood Saws, for steam or horse power. Peerless Engines and Saw Mills always in stock. Several good second-hand Engines and other second-hand machinery for sale. "Pittsburgh Perfect" fencing, electrically welded. Barb Wire, Plain Galvanized Wire, Baling Wire, WEBER WAGONS. and Bale Ties. Continental Disc Harrows, Buffalo Pitts and Lean Spike Harrows. RODERICK LEAN LAND ROLLER. John Deere and Continental Disc Cultiva- tors, Corn Planters, etc.RA full line of Plant, Jr., Garden Tools. Your correspondence is solicited. We will mail copy of our new catalogue upon application.

I > l If , ( >| | ALL STYLES OFBUGGIES. FIREFLY GARDEN PLOW. SPIKE HARROW.

With and Without Fertilizer Attachment The Spangler Planter has a side gear which convenient and practical. The quantity of corn to be dropped can be regulated instantly without changing the quantity of the fertil- izer sown, or the quantity of the fertilizer can be changed without affecting the corn dropping, and either can be Aiseontinued in an instant and not sow at all. Hoosier Single and Double Row Planter, made entirely of steel, exceut handles—a very durable machine— Black Hawk, and John Deere single and double row planters. —

228 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [March, UNTIL YOU HAVE INVESTIGATED DON'T BUY GASOLINE ENGINES "THE MASTER WORKMAN" A two-cylinder gasoline engine: superior to all one-cylinder engines. Costs less to buy and 1> ss to run. Quicker and easier started. Has a wider Bphere of usefulness. Has no vibration; can be mounted on any light wagon an a portable. Weighs less than half of one-cylinder engines. Give 9ize of engine required. Pizes 1H, 2, 2%, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10 and 15 horse power. Mention this paper. Send for catalogue. THE TEMPLE PUMP CO., Meagh«r and 15th fits.. CHICAGO. UNDECIDED. One day a certain Professor of Math- ematics at O. University prepared to GRINDS SIMAPCORN set out on a short journey on horse- Corn in the ear and al? grains, any sort of chop mixture. For back. He was an absent-minded per- speedy and perfect work, saving feed and labor, the all-purpose grinding mill is the son, and while saddling the animal was thinking out some intricate prob- Fine Quick lem. Some students stood near and SCIENTIFIC watched him abstractedly place the Made in a variety of styles, including Power Mills, Sweep Mills, flill and Power Combined. The line that meets feeders' wants and saddle on hind-part-before. is right in price. Don't huy until you have seen our late catalogue. "Oh Professor." exclaimed one of Mailed free. Write for it to-day. the group, "you are putting the wrong TH£ FOOS MFG. CO.. Springfield, Ohio. end of your saddle foremost." RICHMOND ATLANTA-NASHVILLE- NEW ORLEANS "Young man," replied the Professor with some tartness, "you are entirely too smart. How do you know it is Established in 1866. 300 Acres Under Cultivation. wrong, when I have not yet told you in which direction I intend to go?" March Lippincott's. W. T. HOOD & CO., HIS FATHER WOULDN'T LIKE IT. "Mister," said the little boy t.o the Old Dominion Nurseries, Richmond, va. fanner leaning over the fence, "the mule has run away and spilt my load OFFICE: CHAMBERLAYNE and RENNIE AVENUES. o' hay. Won't you come and help me 2155. put it on the wagon again?" Take Lakeside Car First and Broad Sts. PHONE No. "I will," said the farmer, "if you City, Hanover Co. will come over here fuss an' he'p me Nurseries, BrooK Road Half Mile from and git my cows out o' the pastur'." "Oh," said the little boy, "I'm afraid Wholesale and Retail Growers of Q^rjg father wouldn't like that?" J^jg^ f| UrSery StOCk, "Why wouldn't he?" growled the farmer. Shade Trees, Lawn Trees, Shrubs, Roses, Etc. "Because," said the little boy, "he always taught me to look out for him first." FRUIT TREES. "Where is your father?" asked the All the Standard and New Varieties. We have experienced men to plant trees and lay out grounds farmer. when desired. Shade Trees a Specialty. Catalogues Hailed on Application. "Please, sir," said the little boy, "he's Paper.) under the hay."—Silas Xavier Floyd, AGENTS WANTED, Write for Terms. Liberal Commissions. (Mention this in March Lippincott's.

A COLORED HIBERNIAN. "Private" John Allen says that an old darky preacher in Mississippi was SPRAY PUMPS recently approached by a deason in the church, who desired to gain the reverend gentleman's consent to his of all Kinds in Stock. daughter's marriage with him, the deacon. "I doan' know 'buot dis," said the preacher, dubiously. "You ain'st sech a young man, deacon. I ain't shore dat you kin support mah chile!" The deacon bridled. "Dere won't be no trouble 'bout dat, sah!" he as- serted, warmly. "I kin support her all SPRAYED. right!" The two illustrations above show the results of spraying potatoes at the Ver- The minister reflected for a moment mont Experiment Station The sprayed vines yielded at ihe rate of 291 bushels you eber seen my Chloe eat?" "Has per acre, while the unsprayed vines yielded at the rate of 99£ bushels per acre, finally asked. he a difference of 191,^ bushels per acre. Then surely it pays to spray potatoes and "I has. sah!" came from the suitor. what is true of this crop is also true of other crops, especially fruits. Sprayed exclaimed the old "But, sah!" fruit yields more and sells better. Water supply and plumbing systems installed. preacher, impressively, "has you eber seen her eat when nobody was SYDNOR PUMP 6t WELL CO., (incorporated^ a-watchin' her?"—March Woman's Box 949. RICHMOND, VIRQ1H1A. Home Companion. ^ 1904.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 229 Perfected Implements for Spring Work.

To get the best results prepare your land with the WATT, CROWN or CRESCENT PLOW, made In sixteen

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OUR ROAD PLOWS will enter hard ground when no other will.

DISC HARROWS with or without solid steel weight boxes. Most dura- ble bearing with oil reservoir direct- ly over axle free from dust and clog- ging. Anti Friction Rollers. Adjust- able Seats. Easy to handle. Light in draft. ALL STEEL LEVER HARROWS made up of sections of 25 teeth each. Instantly adjusted straight or slanting by lever. THE EMPIRE CORN PLANTER

with or without fertilizer attachment « The Lightest Planter Made. Plants

SINGLE ROW PLANTER. any quantity and distance accurately. DOUBLE ROW PLANTER with or without Check Rower, Drill and Fer- tiliser attachments. Adjustable in width, distance of drop and quantity. DISC CULTIVATORS and HAR- ROW combined. Made of steel and malleable iron. Light Draft, Great Strength, High Steel Arch, Steel Axle, Steel Wheels, adjustable in width. Discs adjustable in depth and at any angle. WALKING AND RIDING CULTI- VATORS with four, six or eight shov- els and spring teeth.

FARM WAGONS built of air-dried timber and all material the best that can be procured. IRON AGE PATTERN CULTIVA- TORS and HARROWS, MALTA DOU- IMPERIAL ONE HORSE WAGON. BLE SHOVEL PLOWS. THE NEW MOL1NE. WEEDERS, FERTILIZER DISTRIBUTORS, FIELD ROLLERS with solid Steel Heads, BALING PRESSES for Hand or Power, GRAIN DRILLS, FEED CUTTERS,: PEA HULLERS, THRESHERS, ENGINES, SAW MILLS, GRINDING MILLS, &C, &C. Write for Prices. 13 So. Fifteenth Street, Between Main and Cary, THE CALL-WATT CO., Established by MANFRED CALL, Gen'l Manager. GEO. WATT, 1840. RICHMOND, VA. 230 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [March,

Seed House of the South.

The following list of papers and periodicals RED TIHOTHY, are the most popular ones In this section. CLOVER, We can SAVE YOU MONEY on whatever ORCHARD riAMMOTH GRASS, Journal you wish: CLOVER, RED TOP or CRiriSON HERDS GRASS, CLOVER, DAILIES. KENTUCKY Price With WHITE BLUB GRASS. CLOVER, Alone. Planter. RANDALL Times-Dispatch, Richmond, Va $5 00)5 00 LUCERNE GRASS, Post, CLOVER, The Washington, D. C 600 « 00 TALL MEADOW The Sun, Baltimore, Md 3 00 3 40 ALSYKE OAT GRASS, News-Leader, Richmond, Va 3 00 3 00 CLOVER, JOHNSON THI-WEEKLY. BOKHARA GRASS, The World (thrice-a-week), CLOVER, GERriAN N. Y... 1 00 1 25 MILLET, WEEKLIES. JAPAN CLOVER, BUCKWHEAT, Harper's Wepkly 4 00 4 00 OATS and Harper's Bazaar 100 1 40 BUR Montgomery Advertiser 100 1 00 CLOVER, CANE SEED. Nashville American 50 75 The Baltimore Sun 1 00 1 35 Breeder's Gazette 2 00 1 75 "Whatsoever One Soweth, That Shall He Reap/' Heard's Dairyman 100 1 35 Country Gentleman 150 1 75 We sell strictly reliable FIELD AND GARDEN SEEDS of every Religious Herald, Richmond, Va.... 2 00 2 25 variety at Lowest Market rates, included in which are Times-Dispatch, Richmond, Va 100 1 25 Central Presbyterian, " " 2 00 2 25 RAGLAND'S PEDIGREE TOBACCO SEEDS. Horseman 3 oo 3 00 MONTHLIES. ^ .©• & WE ALSO SELL Wool Markets and Sheep 50 75 Dairy and Creamery 50 76 Our Own Brands of Fertilizers . Commercial Poultry 50 75 All three 150 1 15 North For Tobacco, Corn, Wheat, Potatoes, &c. American Review 5 00 5 00 The Century Magazine 4 00 4 25 Pure Raw-Bone Meal, Nova Scotia and Virginia Plaster and St. Nicholas Magazine 3 00 3 25 Fertilizing Materials generally. Llppincott's Magazine 2 50 2 50 Harper's Magazine 4 oo 4 00 Parties wishing to purchase will find it to their interest to price our goods. Forum Magazine 3 00 3 25 Samples sent by mail when desired. Scribner's Magazine 3 00 3 25 Prank Leslie's Magazine 100 1 35 Cosmopolitan 1016 Main Street, Magazine 100 1 35 Everybody's Magazine •* 1 00 1 35 Wm. A. Miller & Son, LYNCHBURG, VA. Munsey Magazine 100 1 35 Strand Magazine 125 1 65 McClure's Magazine 100 1 35 Argosy Magazine 1 00 1 35 Review of Reviews 2 50 2 76 Blooded WHOLESALE Stock 50 60 Headquarters for Successful Farming 100 75 AND Southern Fruit Grower 50 86 Where you desire to subscribe to two or RETAIL. more of the publications named, you can ar- Nursery Stock. rive at the net subscription price by deduct- ing 50 cents from "our price with the PLANTER." If you desire to subscribe to We make a specialty of handling dealers' orders any other publications not listed here, write ALL STOCK TRUE TO NAME. us and we will cheerfully quote clubbing or net subscription rates. Apples, Nectarines, Pecans, Ornamental and Subscribers whose time does not expire Pears, Cherry, Chestnuts, Shade Trees, until later can take advantage of our club Peach, Quinces, Walnuts, Evergreens, rates, and have their subscription advanced Small Fruits, one year from date of expiration of their Plum, Almonds, Roses, Etc subscription to either the PLANTER or any Apricots, of the other publications mentioned. CALIFORNIA PRIVET, tor Hedging. WRITE FOR CATALOGUE. Don't hesitate to write us for any Informa- tion desired: we will cheerfully answer any . . AGENTS WANTED. . . T correspondence. 4-« FRANKLIN DAVIS NURSERY CO., Baltimore, Md. <£ We furnish NO SAMPLE COPIES of other periodicals. 1904.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER 231

PASSIVE CHRISTIANITY. "Little boy," inquired the minister, who had called to see the man of the house, "is your father a Christian?" "Yes," replied the boy, "I think he

is, but I don't believe he is working at it these days."—March Lippincott's. ——^———^^^^^— "Crop Growing TRAIN-LOAD OP MANURE SPREADERS—40 CARS. On the last day of the old year, December 31st, 1903, there was made Feeding." from the city of Syracuse, N. Y., the largest individual shipment ever and Crop made from that city, and the largest shipment of manure spreaders ever By Prof. W. f. MASSEY. made in the world. It was a train load of 40 cars, 1,800 feet long, of "Suc- 383 Pp. Cloth, $1.00; Paper, 60c. cess" Spreaders, the new machine of the Kemp & Burpee Mfg. Co., of Syra- cuse. The photograph from which the above half-tone was made was taken We offer this splendid work In connec- just west of Syracuse, when the train had got under way on its journey tion with the SOUTHERN PLANTER at the following prices: into the Great West. The train of 40 cars, containing 500 Spreaders, and Southern Planter and Cloth moved by three engines, ran solid over the Lackawanna, Nickel Plate and Bound Volume, $1.26. St. Paul railroads to the Mississippi river, where it was divided, part going Paper to the John Deere Plow Company, at Omaha, and the remainder to the Southern Planter and Bound Volume, 90c. Deere & Webber Co., at Minneapolis. The train was bannered from end to Old *r i™ »uh»rrlr Mnn« end, and ran only in the daytime. Great interest was manifested in the unique shipment all along the route. The value of the load was given as 155,000; the freight bill was $5,400. The Success Spreader is a distinct im- celebrated Spreader, THE CHAMPION provement in several particulars on the Kemp manu- saw eaves backache and doubles tbe output. factured by the same Company, and which has become a familiar sight on I ONE man cud saw over ONE cord per b our. Weight of I operator furnishes bulk of power. Cute my site tim- farms in nearly every section of the country. The shipment marks the limit ber, standing or flown. Weighs 45 lbo. Fine steel free. |' blade; ash frame. Saves money— tabor. Circular of capacity of the enlarged Kemp & Burpee factories for fifteen days. The FAMOUS MFG CO signal apreciation of the new Success Spreader, wherever its advantages are 122 Railroad Ava EAST CHICAGO known, is shewn by the fact that another shipment of like character to INDIANA other western points is to be made the latter part of this month. I

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Best Timothy Hay, per hundred 90c. Small Cans Tomatoes, per can 6c. No. 1 Mixed Hay, per hundred 90c. o Plugs of Grape, Peach, Plum, Apple, Rey- Good Corn, per bushel 60c. nold, S. C. Tobaccos for 25c. Good Oats, per bushel 52c. Old Crown Rye, per gallon $3.00 Best Meal, 18c. peck; or, per bushel 70c. Old Keystone Rye, per gallon 2.50

Ship Stuff, $24 per ton ; or, per hundred $1.25 Old Excelsior Rve^ per gallon 2.00 Bran, $23 ton; or, per hundred 1.20 Old Capitol Rye, per gallon 1.50 Pride of Richmond Flour, per barrel 5.75 Duffy's Malt Whiskey, per bottle 80c.

Daisy Flour, per barrel 5.50 Pure 1ST. C. Corn Whiskey, per gallon 2.00 Silver Leaf Lard, Piire, per pound lie. New Cut Herrings, 3 dozen for 25c. We have a full line of Groceries, Wines, Liquors Lake Fish, 2 dozen for 25c. and Feed. If you don't see what you want, write for Good Salt Pork, per pound 8c. and 9c. prices. Jugs, 10c. extra per gal. These prices are Large Cans Peaches, per can 12c. subject to market changes, and cash in advance be- Large Cans Tomatoes, per can 7c. fore goods are shipped. —— — ; "

232 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER, [March,

WHEN MANDY STARTS TO WASH.

When Mandy sets the b'iler on, An' hustles up th' Are, An' starts a-stirrin' up of starch Uncle Sam says it's An' hists 'er sleeves up higher, , W'y, then you know th' war is on. It ain't no time to josh, all right Th' on'y thing to do is git, When Mandy starts to wash. Uncle Sam, in the person of ten of his government officials, is always in charge of every department of our distillery. During the entire process of distillation, after the whiskey Cold beans an' bread an' coffee's all is stored in barrels in our warehouses, during the seven years it remains there, from the very grain we buy to the whiskey you get. Uncle Sam is constantly on the watch. We dare I'll git to eat that day. not take a gallon of our own whiskey from our own warehouse unless he says it's all right. An' 'tain't no use to stay eround And when he does say so, that whiskey goes direct to you, with-all its original strength, rich- An' git in Mandy's way, ness and flavor, carrying a UNITED STATES REGISTERED DISTILLER'S GUARAN- TEE of PURITY and AGE, and saving the dealers' enormous profits. That's why Fer then she'll set me hard at work HAYNER WHISKEY is the best for medicinal purposes. That's why it is preferred for A-rinsin' out—kersplosh other uses. That's why we have over a quarter of a million satisfied customers. That's why YOU should try it. Your money back if you're not satisfied. Ye can't stay round th' house an' shirk When Mandy starts to wash. Direct from our distillery to YOU An' so I kinder hem eround 'At my terbaccer's out, Saves Dealers' Profits I Prevents Adulteration I Fer clown at Job's (th' corner-store) Th' boys all set about A-lookin' jest as sheepish-like An' chawin' crackers—Gosh! I ain't the on'y shiftless one When Mandy starts to wash. HAYNER WHISKEY

'Nen I go amblin' down th' road, PURE SEVEN-YEAR-OLD RYE A-feelin' sneaky-like, To jine in with th' other boys 'At's sorter out on strike; FULL $*&-M EXPRESS A feller can't help feelin' mean 4 'S long 's he can't josh, QUARTS O PREPAID Th' on'y thing to do is git, When Mandy starts to wash. We will send you FOUR FULL QUART BOTTLES of HAYNER'S SEVEN- Grace G. Bostwick, in March Lippin- YEAR-OLD RYE for J3.20, and we will pay the express charges. Try it and if you don't find it all right and as good as you ever used or can buy from cott's Magazine. anybody else at any price, send it back at our expense, and your $3.20 will be returned to you by next mail. Just think that offer over. How could it be fairer? If you are not perfectly satisfied, you are not out a cent. Better let us send you a trial order. If you don't want four quarts yourself, get a The strongest magazine novel of the friend to join you. We ship in a plain sealed case, no marks to show what's inside. month is by all odds that published in Orders for Ariz., Cal., Col., Idaho, Mont., Nev., N. Mex., Ore., Utan, Wash, Lippincott's called "A Provident Wo- or Wyo. must be on the basis of 4 Quarts for S4.00 by Express man." This is written by Neith Prepaid or 20 Quarts for S1G.OO by Freight Prepaid. Boyce, author of "The orerunner," Write our nearest office and do it NOW. and it opens in a New York business office at a critical time for Cecilia THE HAYNER DISTILLING COMPANY Clayber. Her beauty and undeviating A.lANTA, GA. OAYT0N, OHIO ST. LOUIS, MO, ST. PAUL, MINN. calmness in all circumstances so com- 153 Distillery. Tkot, O. Established 1866 pel the admiration of her employer, Frederick Hawley, widower and mil- lionaire merchant, that he asks her to become his wife. His doctor has im- parted to him the information that he may drop dead at any time, which The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway news naturally shatters his nerves and Extending from Cincinnati and Louisville, and makes him feel that Cecilia is a veri- table rock on which to lean. She ac- cepts her new role characteristically THROUGH ITS CONNECTIONS.... and they spend the honeymoon in Eu- rope. There had been a budding love- THE BIG FOUR SYSTEM, from Chicago, St. Louis, Peoria, Indianapolis, affair between Cecilia and one of her Sandusky and Cleveland mother's boarders, and when she re- turns to New York the erstwhile lover THE OHIO CENTRAL LINES, from Toledo and Columbus; reappears unrle r other conditions THE CINCINNATI, HAMILTON & DAYTON, from Detroit, Toledo, Lima which add zest to the tale. and Dayton The March number contains eight short stories. Baroness von Hutten An e has never been more charming than FORMS THE MOST DIRECT S«r ROUTE. in her contribution entitled "Accord- ing to Ladv Movie: About Jessica Win- To 8TAVNTON, LYNCHBURG, CHARLOTTESVILLE, nock." "Mrs. McOstrich Gives a RICHMOND, PETERSBURG, NORFOLK, Party," by J. J. Bell, equals in humor —and perhaps surpasses—anything And Principal Virginia Points. which has yet been told about "Wee Macgreegor." H. W. FULLER, den. Pass. Agt. C. & 0. Ry., Washington, D. C. 11)04.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 233

NOT THE LIMIT. A Washing Machine is as great a necessity in the house as a wringer SIgnor Zanetti, the magician, had been displaying his dexterity to an in- terested crowd of spectators in a Ken- The Majestic Rotary Washer tucky town. Stepping forward, he has too many good points for explanation in an said: advertisement. Yourname on a postal card will "For my next trick I will require bring our booklet, with full particulars of our a small flask of whiskey. Will some six different machines and how to get them. One gentleman in the audience accommo- of them will certainly please you. All are made date me with the loan of a pint flask?" with electrically welded wire hoops sunk in No one stirred. The magician was grooves— our patent. Being the largest manufac- plainly nonplussed. With an appeal- turers of woodenware in the world, we can make ing gesture he said: better machines for the money than any one else. "I had received a different impres- If you want a machine that washes, buy one of sion than this as to Kentucky customs. ours. Perhaps you did not understand me? THE RICHMOND CEDAR WORKS, Richmond, Va. Will some gentleman kindly loan me a pint flask of whiskey?" Again there was no response, and, 1870. briefly apologizing, the magacian said CHARTERED he would be compelled to omit this from his repertory for that night. He was turning again to his table when MERCHANTS NATIONAL BANE a tall, lank man In the rear of the hall rose. OF RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. "Mistah," said he, "would a quart Capital Stock, $200,000.00 flask do as well?" ... producing a bottle of that capacity. Surplus and Profits, - - $672,445 75 "Just as well, sir," replied Zanetti. Designated Depository of the United States, City of Richmond and Commonwealth And every gentleman in the house of Virginia. rose with that size flask extended — H. I. Dobbins, in March Lippincott's. Being the Largest Depository for Banks between Baltimore and New Orleans, this Bank offers superior facilities for direct and quick collections. JNO. P.BRANCH, JNO. K. BRANCH, JOHN GOT HIS SHARE. F.GLENN, Pr<>iitrl»nt. Vlpe-Preslflent. Cashier Back in the seventies, when Dewey had command of a ship of the old Hartford type, he was lying in the Farms Steadily Improved and Crops Doubled harbor off Oenoa. Visitors were al- lowed on board at all times except is the verdict of customers who use Sunday morning, at which time in- spection took place. One Snndav a well-known American millionaire steamed out MAPES MANURES. with a party of friends in his private yacht and succeeded in are from getting on deck, where he was met by MAPES MANURES made Animal Bone and other Captain Dewey, who asked him to High Grade Materials and not only increase the crops, but leave. Mr. Money remonstrated, and, finally, exasperated by the cool firm- improve the mechanical condition and permanent ness of the officer, he burst out: productiveness of the soil. This is the great advantage "No, sir. I won't leave. I am an American citizen, and have a perfect Animal Bone Basis Fertilizers have over those made with Acid right on this vessel. I pay taxes in of America; I am on my own property; Phosphate as a basis. See page 76 Wood's Seed Book, or send part of this ship belongs to me!" for special circular about Mapes Manures. Prices quoted on request. Calmly Dewey opened his pen-knife, stooped down, and snlit off a piece of T. W. WOOD & SONS, Seedsmen, Richmond, Va. the deck flooring. Handing it to the incensed American citizen he re- plied— There is an old negro living in Car- A Christian Scientist, a friend of "There's about what you own, and rollton who was taken ill several days Dr. Herbert W. Spencer, used to scoff there's the ladder—now git!" at medicine. "You're convinced that ago and called in a physician of his And he got.—March Lippincott's. you can do anything through faith," race to prescribe for him. But the old said Dr. Spencer. "Yes," he replied, man did not seem to be getting any "faith will remove mountains." A "I suppose," said the condoling better and finally a white physician week later, with a swollen face and in neighbor, "that you will erect a hand- was called. Soon after arriving, Dr. some monument to your husband's great suffering from the toothache, he S felt the negro's pulse for a mo- memory?" entered the doctor's office and asked "To his memory!" ment and then examined his tongue. echoes the tear- for relief. "Have you tried faith?" ful widow. "Why, poor John hadn't "Did your other doctor take your tem- said Dr. Spencer. "You know faith any. I was sorting over some of the perature?" he asked. "I don't know, clothes he left to-day and found the sah," he answered feebly. "I hain't will remove mountains." "Oh. but pockets full of letters I had given him missed anything but my watch as yit, this is a cavity, doctor, this is a cav- to mail." boss." ity." —

234 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [March,

HAWKEYE INCUBATOR FACTS. jt Among the many incubators on the * THE market to-day the Hawkeye, manufac- tured by the Hawkeye Incubator Com- pany at Newton, la., is certainly very popular. This machine counts its suc- SEABOARD cess from the beginning, and the rea- son is apparent. None but the best material is used in the construction; AIR LINE RAILWAY skilled workmen are employed in every department; one part of the OFFERS THE MANUFACTURER, machine is made as carefully as an- THE STOCK RAISER, other; and no expense is spared to PROFITABLE keep it at the high standard it has THE DAIRYMAN, attained through its excellence and INVESTMENTS superiority. The hatching record of THE FRUIT GROWER, the Hawkeye stands out unparalleled T(W -»»*- THE TRUCKER. by anv other machine. This company aims to be always fair and just toward its patrons. This WHERE YOUR LABOR IS NOT IN VAIN. is evident in. their trial plan, in which they offer to send an incubator and Would a country where work can be carried on the entire year and wher* allow the customer to test it thorough- large profits can be realized interest you? ly 30 days. If not satisfied at the end of that time, their money is refund- The SEABOARD Air Line Railway traverses six Southern States and » ed. However, it is a rare thing for a region of this character. One two cent stamp will bring handsome illustrated customer to ask this, simply because literature of section. all their goods are first-class. This is descriptive the an unequaled record.

The Hawkeye Incubator Company is J. B. WHITE, EDW. W. COST, CHARLES B. RYAN, doing a larger business this season Gen. Industrial Agt., Portsmouth, Va. Traffic Mgr. Gen. Pass. Agt., Portsmouth, Va than ever before, which attests the popularity of their machines. Any reader of the Southern Planter who has not received a copy of their hand- When corresponding with our advertisers always mention the some catalogue, should write for it it is free. Southern Planter.

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are tHe best, therefore tHey are, tKe cKeapest :

They Plant CORN, BEANS, ENSILAGE CROPS, and distribute FERTILIZER any distance apart, and any quantity. make THRESHERS, HORSE POWERS, PEANUT MACHINERY, We ; I STRAW CUTTERS, WELL FIXTURES, and all implements formerly made by H. M. SMITH CO. CO.,

and J. W. CARDWELL ®L CO.

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AN INFERENCE. THE LOST "H's" BEWILDERED HIM. "She is extremely intellectual!" «|C PACKAGES "Great Scott! is she as thin as all A member of the Bar of Great that?*'—March Woman's Home Com- Britain, with a pronounced Cockney panion. Zosttns accent, once appeared before Justice KM Lawrence, of the Criminal Court. In AND BULBS The RICHMOND, FREDERICKSBURG the course of his remarks the advocate, who was appearing for the prosecution 10^ and POTOMAC R. R. FREE in a case evolving the theft of a c'-k 1 package each of Evening | halter, constantly alluded to the article Primrose, 'J* Monkey Vine, Bal- and WASHINGTON SOUTHERN R'Y of equine equipment as an 'alter. Jus- Moon Vine.Baby Breath, Blue Bella of Scotland, Eastern tice Lawrence, unable to stand it fur- Star, Pctonia, THE RICHMOND-WASHINGTON i Mixed Duisy, LINE. ther, called before him the clerk of Mixed Asters,Begonia, Mixed assize and asked, in perfectly serious Poppy, Mignonette, C'allion- The Link Connecting the MAYfLOWER GIRL •»»• Portullca, Sweet Peas, tones, albeit with a certain twinkle of Cyprcns Vine. Pansy (mixed;, Atlantic Coast Line R. R., his eye: I Larkspur. Nasturtium, Sunflower. Salvia, Bulsum, [Everlasting. Gloxinia, Wild Flower. Baltimore and Ohio R. R., "Is this the Crown court?" "Why, yes, my lord," answered the Chesapeake and Ohio R'y. 1 Madeira Vine, 1 Calla, Pennsylvania R. R., bewildered officer. 25 BULBS 2 Gladiolus, 4 Cinna- mon Vines, 1 Anemone, "Thank you; I am right, after all. I I 2 Hyacinth, 1 Tuberose, 1 Seaboard Air Line R'y Mayflower Lily, 1 Olympia thought, perhaps, I had found my way iLily. 1 Jericho, flowers in ten minutes. .-, Choice and Southern |Mixed Bulbs from R'y. into an ecclesiastical tribunal."—Suc- Philippine IslandB, 5 Bulbs for IIn "l-rln e Baskets. Between all Points.via Richmond, Va. cess. fe?W£k P 'tyf) UMIIII—WW— Fast Mail, Passenger, Express and ne Freight Route between Richmond, "Who's the slowest man you ever "'^Ki^S^^V *' collection of 25 packages Fredericksburg, Alexandria, Washing- knew?" fci^L.V,. Choice Flower Seeds and 20 Bulbs for 15 cents in sil- ton, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New "A chap in New York. He fell out ver or 8 two cent stamps. York, Boston, Pittsburg, Buffalo, and of a third-story window and did not »ff#' Will Bend Seed Check and Catalogue free by send all points North, South, East and reach the ground for an hour." s»- ing your order at once. West. "How was that?" OLYMPIA LILLY W. D. DUKE, C. W. CULP, "He caught in a tree at the second MCDFORD SEED CO General Manager. Asst. Gen'l Man. story and went in to visit some MEOFORD MASS W. P TAYLOR. Traffic Manazpr. friends."

W. J. CARTER, ["BROAD ROCK."] KELLY, 22283* Record, 2:27. Sire of McChesney, 2:\6% Etc. TURF JOURNALIST. f Bay horse, by Electioneer 125, first dam Esther, dam of Expressive 3, 2:12£; Express, 2:21, etc.; by Express, sec- Address P. O. Box 929, - Richmond, Va, ond dam, Colisseum, by Colossus. Kelly represents the highest type of a trotter, having Pedigrees traced and tabulated, stud circulars prepared, grand size and the form and finish of a thoroughbred. special attention paid to registration matters. FEE, $25 the season. Representing the .... W. J. CARTER, Richmond, Va. Times-Dispatch, Richmond, Va. Kelly will serve at my private stables, 1102 Hull St., Southern Planter, Richmond, Va. Manchester, Va. Sports of the Times, New York etc., etc. GREAT STAKES, 25521. CHORISTER Record, 2:20. Sire of Captain. 2.161; Foxhall, 2.191, etc. Bay horse, BY by Billy Thornhill. 2.24, dam Sweetstakes, by Sweep Stakes, 293. Fee, $25.00 the season.

FALSETTO-ADDIE C. W. H. NELSON, 1428 East Franklin St., Richmond, Va.

"One of the handsomest thoroughbreds in America and a sure success as a getter of race horses." Major Dainger- BURLINGAME 26235, Record, 2:18^. field. Brown horse, by Guy Wilkes, 2:151, dam Sable, dam of Standing 16X and weighs 1,300 lbs. He held the world's Sable Wilkes, 2:18, etc., by The Moor, 870. record for a mile as a 3 year old and is the sire of "Corrus- N. B.—Very fast and a great show horse. cate" who holds the mile record for Canada All his 1.38J4. FEE, $25.00. get win and are racing up to 8, 9 and 11 years of age, and won $30,000 in 1902. LISSAK, bay horse, by Burlingame, dam Helice, dam of Clarion, 2:151, by Norval, 2:143. Fee $50 00 cash, approved half bred mares $20 00 FEE, $15.00. Address, All possible care taken to prevent accidents or escapes but no responsibility assumed for any that may occur. SPRING GARDEN FARM, For further particulars apply to D. K. KERR, Manager Cool Well, P. O.. Amherst Co., Va., or Antrim Stock Farm, Warrenton, Va. ROBT. TAIT Norfolk Va.

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