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Vol. 69 APRIL , 1908. No. 4. CONTENTS FARM MANAGEMENT: THE POULTRY YARD:

< Editorial—Work for the Month 315 Poultry Notes 335 A Seed-Corn Patch for Each Corn Grower. . 319 Pure-Bred Notes 337 Alfalfa Experience 319 More Money from Our Poultry 337 Threshing Cow Peas 320 Notes on Co-Operative Poultry Selling 338 Mixing Commercial Fertilizers 322 Some Notes on the March Planter 323 THE HORSE: Increasing the Yield of Corn 325 Long Corn-Stalk Manure 326 Notes 339 How to Grow Corn 327 Heaves—A Remedy ; 340 Reply to Article Commenting on Mr. Sandy's The Farm Horse Needed in Virginia 340 Demonstration Farm Report 327 The Virginia State Fair, Richmond, Va 341 TRUCKING, GARDEN AND ORCHARD: Silo Experience 341

Editorial—Work for the Month " 329 Crop Pests 329 MISCELLANEOUS:

Formulae for Spraying 330 1 Making a Hot-Bed for Striking Sweet The Cotton School in Georgia 342 Potatoes 330 Death of Mr. George M. Clark 344

Cultivation of Rhubarb : 330 Making the Most of Life on the Farm 344 Pushing the Crop LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY: 344 Professor Lyman Carrier 345 Some Considerations in Judging Swine.... 331 Farming in the Old Times in South Carolina 345 Dairy Education 333 Common Sense and Good Health 346 Dairying in Virginia 333 Profit in Breeding Draft Horses 346 Overton Hall Farm 334 Enquirers' Column (Detail Index p. 404) 382 in the South-Atlantic Live Stock Coast States 335 Advertisements ; 347

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

69th Year. RICHMOND, VA., APRIL, 1908. No. 4. Farm Management.

WORK FOR THE MONTH. enced by the atmosphere to make the plant food in it The month of March, to the twentieth day, has been of available for the crop and its admixture with the surface an exceptionally mild character. Instead of "coming in soil may have a prejudicial effect upon the yield. The like a lion and going out like a lamb," it has been the fact that this is so does not, however, lessen the neces- reverse. Whether this mildness is to be continued to the sity for the breaking of the subsoil. A deep, open soil end remains to be seen. It hardly seems likely at this is essential in order that if the season be a wet one the

writing (21st inst), for the ground is now covered with surplus moisture may be carried off, and if it be a dry- snow which has fallen all over this State to a depth in one that sufficient of such moisture as falls on the land many sections of five or six inches. The wind has gone may be retained for the use of the crop. We never knew into the northeast, and is cold and raw, with slight frost. a crop grown on subsoiled land to be injured seriously At this late period of the month, however, it may be rea- by drouths. The importance of so preparing the soil as sonably assumed that we have with this snow about got to insure as far as possible the best possible yield is the last touch of winter. The sun is now getting power- emphasized this year by the fact that the reserve of all ful and when the sky is not overcast its beams rapidly the cereal grains is this year much lower than the nor- dispel the frost of the night and prevent any hindrance mal. The yield of the corn, wheat and oat crops was last from this cause to work in the land. The fine weather year much below that of the previous years and much

of the month has dried out the land and, except upon the of the corn matured so badly that it has had to be sacri- low grounds which are still, in many cases, too wet for ficed in any way possible to save any value there was in ploughing, great progress has been made in fitting the it. Even the best matured corn in many of the great land for planting. The plows have been kept running corn growing States has been found to feed so poorly as and the land has begun to warm up and vegetation to to necessitate a much larger consumption to get results, grow. Fall and winter ploughed land has been broken and now, at the end of winter, the reserve left is nearly with the harrows and cultivators and is working down three hundred million bushels below that of the two previ- into a fine seed bed. Those who utilized the fall and ous years at the same time. Whilst the reduction in the winter months in ploughing their land and subsoiling it wheat reserve is not large, it is yet a reduction of nearly have now the satisfaction of knowing that they will be ten million bushels. The oat reserve is the smallest for able to plant as soon as the proper season arrives and ten years. This would indicate that for all these cereals be able to put their seed into a welljprepared seed bed there is likely to be a good market this year and, there- if they will only continue to give the land the work that fore, every effort should be made to secure good yields. is due it. A crop well planted is a crop half made. Whilst it is yet too early to say anything definite as to

Where land is yet to plough, we would urge that every the condition of the winter wheat crop, yet, so far as it opportunity be availed of to get this work done. In our is possible to frame an opinion, the condition is not over- last issue we wrote fully upon the importance of this promising and there are reports of considerable presence work. We now only mention it again to emphasize the of fly and some green bugs in some sections. point that no heavy crop was ever yet made upon land that was not well ploughed and finely prepared. The In the cotton growing States the work of preparing the preparation of the seed bed is of infinitely more impor- land for the planting of the crop should have immediate tance than the fertilizer used in securing a good yield. attention, as the importance of early planting to avoid Wherever possible, break the subsoil with a subsoil plow insect damage has been clearly and definitely established. or coulter as well as turn a good furrow, but it is too late The crop last year has now been ascertained, and, as we now to bring this subsoil to the surface. There is not indicated some time ago as likely, is not much in excess time for it now to become sufficiently aerated and influ- of eleven million bales—eleven milion two hundred and 316 THE SOUTHEKN PLANTER [April,

fifty thousand bales is stated as the maximum. This is a crop crop should have all the time which can be given to it two million bales less than that of the previous year. With from this date until the crop is planted. It is possible this much smaller i yield it would seem that there to get along without some crops altogether or with only a is ample room to make more cotton this year than last small area planted, but without a good, large corn crop year, and yet not overcrowd the market. The European there can be no success in farming in the South. It is demand is still large and the millions of spindles added the one indispensible crop and, therefore, everything else last year in England would seem to indicate that the should give way to the necessary preparation of the land spinners of that country do not anticipate a decreased at this time for this crop. In the past, Southern farmers demand for the staple. Whilst this is encouraging for the have, in the great majority of cases, given much too little making of a full cotton crop, we do not wish to see the attention to the perfect preparation of the land before planters rush to the other extreme and seek to make an planting the crop. They have put off ploughing the land abnormally large crop. Plant a full acreage, but do not in the fall and winter months when there was no reason at the same time reduce the acreage of corn. It never pays why this should not have been done and then in the to grow cotton to buy corn with the money. In our last spring have been delayed in doing this by the unfit con- issue we advised as to the importance of making a better dition of the land until, in order to get a crop planted at preparation of the land for the cotton crop. The average all, it has had to be put in in land only partially broken yield per acre is still much below what it ought to be and in a rough and cloddy condition. This is the great and what It can be made to be by proper rotation ol reason why the average yield made is so small. It mat- crops and a better preparation of the land before plant- ters not how well land be fertilized, if it be not perfectly ing. This better preparation and the growing of the prepared before the crop is planted, the yield will not be legume crops like peas and clover in a rotation with the satisfactory. Every great crop made of which we have cotton will insure a heavier yield of cotton much more any record has been made on land deeply ploughed and certainly than will a greater increase of the use of fer- finely prepared before it was planted. The capacity of tilizer and at much less cost. In this matter of the use the corn crop to utilize plant food in the soil is enormous of fertilizer, we would urge that a better grade of fer- but it cannot exercise this capacity unless the soil is so tilizer should be bought. The use of cheap and low-grade finely and deeply broken that the roots can extend in fertilizer is never profitable. As to what fertilizer should every direction without hindrance from clods or unbroken be used, this depends greatly upon the manner in which soil; nor can it get this plant food unless the particles the land has been previously cropped. Wherever cow- of soil are so finely broken that each little rootlet can peas or crimson clover have been grown on the land, penetrate them and lay hold of the food necessary for its these will furnish the nitrogen required by the crop and growth. This fine breaking of the soil permits of the pene- only the mineral fertilizers—phosphoric acid and potash- tration of the air and water and together these elements need to be supplied. The need of the crop can in such make the food available through the active work of the cases be supplied by the application of three hundred soil microbes which cannot exist or multiply in a dense, pounds of acid phosphate and one hundred pounds of close soil. • Whilst many farmers are ready to admit that kainit to the acre. Wherever barn yard manure is avail- some of the roots from one row of corn will extend across able, this will give the best results if used liberally, but the space between the rows, yet few of them have any if only a light dressing can be applied, then it should be conception of the extent to which these roots will run in supplemented with some acid phosphate and kainit. search of food under favorable conditions. Where only commercial fertilizer is available it has been Discussing this subject a few years ago with Professor determined by numerous experiments that on average cot- Newman, of the South Carolina Experiment Station, he ton land the quantity of fertilizer to be used should be told us that in order to demonstrate the truth of the such an amount as will supply fifty pounds of phos- extent to which corn roots would extend to some doubting phoric acid, fifteen pounds of potash, and twenty pounds South Carolina farmers, he had had a corn plant which of nitrogen to the acre. This can be supplied by mixing had grown in well prepared land washed out of the soil 1,200 pounds of acid phosphate, 600 pounds of cotton seed by a hose and strong stream of water so as not to break meal, and 200 pounds of kainit to make a ton, and apply- off any of the roots and rootlets. After hours of working ing this at the rate of 800 pounds to the acre. We are in following the roots to the extremity of their growth, expecting to see a great change in the method of produc- the plant, with all its roots and fibres, was got out of the ing the cotton crop in the State of Georgia, as the result soil and the roots spread out on a canvass sheet and of the efforts now being put forth by Professor Soule at dried. It was then seen that the plant had a root system the Agricultural College of that State. In this issue will so large that the canvass, when stretched out in the be found a report of the work done at the Cotton School lecture room of the College, covered the whole of one which he has held this winter at the College, and which side of the room. The capacity of such a root system to has been attended by several hundred of the sons of the extract food from the soil could then be well understood cotton planters and the planters themselves. They have and it became possible to realize that even if the soil there had put before them the requirements of the crop was not over-rich such a plant could, when given the and the proper way to meet these and the way to handle opportunity by proper preparation of the soil, make a it so as to make it more profitable, and this practical good yield of corn, and that if properly supplied with addi- teaching cannot fail to be effective in results. tional plant food, a heavy growth of stalks could make almost an unthought of yield of corn. It was such a crop The preparation of the land for the planting of the corn as this, grown under these conditions in South Carolina, 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER- SIT which made 250 bushels of corn to the acre, and similar ash, or where lime has not been used, some potash can conditions in the James River Valley in this State pro- often be used with advantage to the yield, but we advise duced a crop of 180 bushels to the acre. Whilst it is not that lime be applied at the rate of a ton to the acre when possible to duplicate these yields everywhere, it is possi- preparing the land and this will usually make sufficient ble easily to so prepare the land as to insure that the potash available to meet the needs of the crop. On the average yield shall be greatly in excess of that now made thin, sandy lands of the eastern section of this State and in the State (22 bushels to the acre), and that without North Carolina, cotton seed meal has been used with any increase in the amount of fertilizer used. The proper advantage in conjunction with acid phosphate. Wherever place in a crop rotation for corn is on a sod and, by more than 200 pounds of commercial fertilizer is applied preference, a clover sod.On this sod should be applied per acre it should be spread broadcast and be worked into during the fall and winter, and the earlier it is got on the land, in this way encouraging the roots to forage over the better—a good dressing of farm yard manure fresh all the land and thus get the benefit of the fertility natur- from the pens and stables, and this should be turned under rally existing in the soil. After the land has been finely early in the spring and the land be then finely prepared. prepared and fertilized, keep it stirred at frequent inter- The question of the time when it is best to apply farm vals to admit the air and allow it to become warmed and yard manure to secure the best results in the corn and fit for the seed, but do not be in too great a hurry to wheat crop has been under experimentation in Maryland plant. Corn will not germinate and grow off rapidly until and the following results reached: Manure applied in the the soil is warm, and a crop that germinates slowly and summer and ploughed down in the fall gave a yield of gets a set back at starting rarely makes a heavy yield. seventy-five bushels of corn and twenty bushels of wheat. Be careful in selecting the seed to be planted, both as to Manure applied in the fall and ploughed down in the fall variety, the type of ear, and as to the vitality of the seed. gave a yield of sixty-two bushels of corn and seventeen There is a great complaint in the West as to scarcity of bushels of wheat. Manure applied in the summer and seed of good germinating power. The crop there matured ploughed down in the spring gave a yield of seventy-eight badly and a very large proportion of it is unfit for seed. bushels of corn and twenty-one bushels of wheat. Manure Whilst our crop in the South matured much better, it applied in the fall and ploughed down in the spring gave will be prudent to test the seed before planting so that a yield of sixty-nine bushels of corn and eighteen bushels only the best be used. Take a few grains from each ear of wheat. Where fresh manure was applied before plough- selected and put them between a damp cloth in a warm ing the land, it gave a yield of eighty-seven bushels of place and note how many sprout within three or four corn and twenty bushels of wheat. Where manure was days and thus be able to judge fairly as to the probability applied after ploughing, it gave a yield of ninety-eight of the stand. The missing hills have much to do with the bushels of corn and twenty-two bushels of wheat. If, with small yield frequently made and these can be avoided the manure, an application of forty pounds to the ton of by testing the seed. Do not send too far away for the manure of acid phosphate is also made, a much heavier seed. A variety which has been grown in the section, yield may be safely counted on, as farm yard manure is though it may not look so well as one from a distance, lacking in phosphoric acid for the best results to be will make usually a better crop. Corn requires to be secured. The question as to what fertilizer should be used acclimated before it will do its best. We hesitate to advise where farm yard manure is not available is one upon as to any particular variety to plant, as local conditions which discussion is now being had in the columns of this so largely control the yield, but it will be a safe rule to fol- and the last issue. On the one side it is being urged that low not to plant seed raised on rich, low ground on high bone meal should be used and on the other side that acid land, and high land corn rarely makes the best yield on phosphate should be applied. A careful examination of low ground. Boone County White is a good corn for low nearly all the experiments which have been made in this and medium low lands, whilst Hickory King is a good country in applying fertilizers to the corn crop goes to high land corn. Plant in rows three feet nine inches prove that outside farm yard manure it is rarely that any apart and eighteen inches apart in the rows where the fertilizer can be used with direct profit. Both bone meal land is in good average fertility and well prepared. You and acid phosphate will increase the yield, but the increase cannot make a heavy yield without the stalks to bear is rarely sufficient to more than pay for the cost of the the ears, and wider planting than this will not enable a fertilizer used. Where bone meal is used, a greater per yield of fifty to seventy-five bushels to the acre to be manent improvement of the soil will result because of the made and at least this yield ought to be tried for. See fact that the phosphoric acid is more slowly available that the corn is planted in straight rows and the seed put than is the case with acid phosphate, but where cowpeas in to a uniform depth so that cultivation may be easy or crimson clover are sown at the last working of the with machinery and no hoe work be needed. corn after using acid phosphate, we are of opinion that the greatly increased humus content of the soil will result in The land intended to be planted in tobacco should, if quite as large a permanent increase of the fertility of the not already ploughed, be ploughed at once and be worked land as if bone meal was used, and this will be obtained as frequently as possible up to the time for planting so in this way at less cost. The Experiment Stations have that the soil may be in as fine a conition as possible. almost universally endorsed acid phosphate at the rate of Whilst tobacco is not a deep rooting plant, it is essential from to 400 20C pounds to the acre as being the most likely that the soil in which it is planted should be deeply broken to result in profit. Wherever the land is lacking in pot- so that it can hold a good reserve of moisture for the need 318 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER [April

of the crop and be capable of carrying off any excess following years and the land was then left filled with of rain falling on the land quickly. One of the primest humus and nitrogen to help the succeeding crop. No more necessities in successful tobacco growing of the heavy type powerful illustration could be given of what it is that is a soil well filled with vegetable matter, and it is there- our tobacco growers need in order to make their farms fore important to select land of this character. Land which profitable. has grown cowpeas or clover makes, therefore, a good It is now proposed to grow corn on this land in order location for a tobacco crop of this character. Bright to see whether with proper preparation of the land for tobacco requires less humus in the soil as an excess of this crop corn can be successfully introduced in a rotation it or of any fertilizer has a tendency to make the crop with tobacco. It is proposed to apply the manure made on too coarse and off color. The experiments made by the the farm to the grass and clover sod and then to prepare

Department of Agriculture and the Virginia Experiment the land well and plant corn and it is believed that this Station at Appomattox, Virginia, in the dark tobacco sec- can be done without in any way injuring the land for the tion have demonstrated fully that the reason why our production of another tobacco crop after growing a crop growers of this type of tobacco do not make such profit- of cow peas following the corn. With 'such a rotation able crops as they might do is because they do not use a as this, the tobacco crop can well be afforded to be fertilizer properly balanced for the needs of the crop nor heavily fertilized and thus secure a heavy crop of fine sufficient of it. They have shown that if a properly com- tobacco which will not only sell for a good price sufficient pounded fertilizer is applied in sufficient quantity that to pay for the fertilizer and labor, but will leave a residue a highly profitable crop can be made in an average sea- of fertility in the land, which will produce two other profit- son and that if a proper rotation of crops is planted on able crops and then secure a sod which will add to the the land a most profitable system can be inaugurated. permanent enrichment of the soil with humus, which is In illustration of this we cite the following results secured the most needed element in all our Southern soils. in 1907: The Bright types of tobacco have not yet been suffici- ently experimented with for us to say definitely how far One plot of land (one acre) was planted without any they can be used in a rotation with other crops, nor yet fertilizer applied. plot 810 pounds of being This made what is the best fertilizer to use to produce them profit- tobacco, which sold for $59.19. Another acre fertil- was ably. So far, it has been demonstrated that they cannot 3-8-3 ized with 800 pounds of the regular mixture. The be successfully produced of a fine and silky type on land of tobacco, sold yield of this plot was 1,070 pounds which too full of vegetable matter. It has a tendency to make for $82.18. Another acre was fertilized with nitrate of them coarse. The organic form of nitrogen as found in 500' acre. soda alone at the rate of pounds to the The cotton seed meal seems to meet their requirements better this plot of tobacco, which sold yield of was 1,280 pounds than the mineral form and with this should be used a lit- fertilized home-made lor $93.20. Another acre was with a tle acid phosphate or bone meal and some sulphate of mixture specially prepared to meet the needs of the crop. potash to secure good burning quality. In growing this mixture of fish, l.OO'O pounds; This was made up ground type of tobacco, it is well to be not over liberal in the use nitrate of soda, 150 pounds; acid phosphate, 200 pounds. of fertilizer of any kind. The finest bright tobacco has Bone meal, 100 pounds, and sulphate of potash, 200 pounds. been generally grown on newly cleared land of a fine, This mixture cost $32. The yield of tobacco was 1,650 light texture. The experiments now in progress near Chat- which sold for conclu- pounds, $154.37. This experiment ham, Virginia will, in a few years, determine how these sively shows how unprofitable and unwise it is to use types can be most successfully made and at the same time factory-mixed goods unrea- for tobacco growing and how how far they can be grown in rotation with other crops. sonable it is to expect to make a profitable crop from the use of 3-8-3 goods in the small quantity usually applied. The plots of land which are used for growing The peanut crop is now becoming one of much greater tobacco at this Station and to which these different fer- importance in this and the adjoining Southern States tilizers have been applied since 1904 have been put into This State already produces a large proportion of the the following crops and with the following results. The crop marketed and for the last two years there has been tobacco has been followed by wheat first. On the plot a considerable increase in the acreage planted, and yet to which the 3-8-3 was applied, the yield was 12 bushels the demand for the nuts keeps pace with the supply and per acre. The wheat following the heavy application of the prices keep good. The complaint of the old growers fertilizer to the tobacco mentioned above and without is that they cannot produce a sufficiently large yield per any further fertilizer applied, made 29 bushels per acre. acre to make the crop profitable. With an average yield This was followed in part by red clover, which made 2.81 of 30 to 35 bushels per acre, this is no doubt true, but tons (nearly three tons) of field-cured hay to the acre, there is no reason whatever why only such a small yield and in part by redtop timothy and clover mixture. The should be made except that the growers will persist in yield of hay was over five tons to the acre. This part had growing the crop year after year on the same land with lime at the rate of one ton to the acre applied before seed- only the help of a few hundred pounds of low-grade fer- ing the grass, and nitrate of soda at the rate of 300 pounds tilizer like the 2-8-2 goods. The new men who have gone to the acre was applied to the grass in the spring. From into the business make no such complaint. One of them this it will be seen that the heavy application of fertilizer wrote us a few days ago that he makes at least 75 bush- to the tobacco not only made a highly profitable crop of els per acre. He succeeds in doing this by growing the tobacco, but a heavy crop of wheat and hay in the two crop in a rotation with other crops, as we have advised foi 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 319

many years. The peanut, for its best success, requires select about twenty-five of the best and most typical ears to be grown on light, friable, loamy land, well filled with of corn of the seed to be planted this year. A germina- vegetable matter and, to secure this, the growing of the tion test should be made of each ear in order that no cowpea and crimson clover should form part of the rota- weak ears may be planted. Shell off and discard the tion, and a grain crop or two should also come in in due small and irregular butt and tip grains. Then shell tht- course. Lime also is a necessity to preserve an alkaline ears together and mix thoroughly. At the usual time of condition of the soil, as this crop, like all the other planting, plant this corn on the south or west side of legumes, is very sensitive to an acid condition of soil. the field to be planted with the same variety. This loca- The microbic life so essential to the successful produc- tion should be changed if it be near a field planted with tion of all the legumes cannot live and multiply in an another variety. Give this patch usual good cultivation acid soil and without this life the crop cannot produce keeping the ground free of weeds and preserving a loose as it ought to do. Lime ought to be used once in each soil mulch. When the corn is five or six inches high, rotation, preferably to secure a good stand of crimson go through the patch and remove all weak or backward clover as a winter cover crop to be turned down in ad- plants. Also when the tassels begin to appear, go vance of the peanut crop. Where this has not been done through and remove them from all stalks which are lime may be yet applied with advantage to the crop, say, wither weak, barren, smutted, badly suckered or for other at the rate of 1,000 to 2,000 pounds to the acre, spread reasons undesirable. When the corn is mature and not broadcast after ploughing, and be worked into the soil. later than October 15th, the seed should be harvested. Work the land into a fine condition before planting and Select the seed ears from the strongest stalks with a mix thoroughly with the soil a fertilizer made up oi large leaf development and those bearing the ears four 300 pounds of cotton seed meal, 80 pounds of acid phos- or five feet from the ground, and holding it in a right phate, and 240 pounds of kainit, or 65 pounds of muriate position. of potash in the place of kainit This quantity should be Through the seed corn patch the farmer can do much

applied per acre. Plant the seed in rows three feet apart to fix a. desirable type in his corn and to reduce the and drop the nuts twelve inches apart in the row. Cul- a umber of barren, diseased and suckered stalks that ap- tivation should be frequent to keep the weeds thoroughly pear in his field. It also furnishes him a convenient place subdued until the plants begin to bloom. Keep the land from which his seed corn in the fall can be selected and level all the time and a fine soil mulch on the surface. he knows that it is from the best seed that he planted.

May is soon enough to plant. G. I. CHRISTIE. Purdue Experiment Station, Lafayette, Ind. Although it is yet too early to sow forage crops for winter feed, it is not too early to get in a field of cat-tail ALFALFA EXPERIENCE. millet to cut for green feed forthe stock in June or July Editor Southern Planter: when, if the weather is dry, pastures begin to fail In the fall of 1904, I seeded about nine acres to alfalfa. or get woody. This millet is frequently advertised under This land had been in potatoes, with 750 pounds per the name of Pencillaria. It should be sown broadcast on acre of high-grade fertilizer and had been manured. fully prepared land at the rate of a bushel or a bushel Only a very medium stand of alfalfa was secured and and a half per acre and be lightly harrowed in. The last three crops of hay were cut during 197J4. half of the month will be soon enough to sow it. It will In 1905, after cutting the second crop, the stand had give an abundance of feed which the stock will eat readily. become so diminished that I ploughed the land first week It should be cut before the seed forms and the land can in August and harrowed at intervals until the first of then be put into cowpeas or sorghum for a winter forage crop. September when the ground was limed with burnt stone lime, using over a ton per acre, harrowing well. Soil was all that had A SEED CORN PATCH FOR EACH CORN GROWER. scattered over the field from the spots the best stand of alfalfa. I obtained bacteria from the Under average methods of seed selection in field condi- Department of Agriculture and treated the seed, which tions there is from year to year more or less deteriora- was sown on 12th and 13th of September. On May 16th, tion in all varieties of corn. This "running out" or "los- 1006, I cut my first crop. The stand was uniform and ing in quality and producing power" of a variety is largely thick and the field averaged twenty-two inches high, due to mixing and careless selection. yielding about one and a half tons per acre. I now

Corn growers are also finding that much trouble and t bought that my efforts had been crowned with success. loss is resulting from seed corn harvested late in the My field was the talk of the neighborhood and my friends fall. They recognize that the best results can be obtained congratulated me. No prettier field could be imagined. only when the seed is selected early and stored in a The second crop cut July 5th was not quite as high as proper manner. For these reasons corn growers should first, but was good and thick and looked healthy and employ methods in selecting, planting and harvesting prosperous. which will give seed of the highest quality and strongest Then came the deluge. We had rain continuously the vitality. rest of the summer. Sheep sorrel had appeared in One way in which every corn grower can do much to some places in the field and crab grass and foxtail had Improve and maintain the quality in a variety of corn taken possession by the latter part of August. A fine is by planting a seed corn patch. For this patch he should crop of the last mentioned grasses was there for hay but 320 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER no alfalfa could be seen, for what was there was hidden 'We submitted this statement to our friend, Mr. W. O. by the foxtail and crab grass. I cut this mess as soon Wing, whose experience in alfalfa growing is as great as the frequent rains would allow me and had it raked as that of Mr. Joseph E. Wing, and have received from in windrows when we had twelve or thirteen days suc- bim the following opinion and advice as to the proper cessive rain. I went on the field as soon as possible and course to pursue.—Ed. hauled off the grass, even when my wagon wheels would I should diagnose this case as a plain one of lack of sink five or six inches in the soil and put it all in my two things: underdrainage primarily and phosphorus cattle yards for manure. The alfalfa sprang up again next. It is even possible that there is needed more lime except m the windrows where it was dead, but the stand and some potash. had decreased about 50 per cent., while the sheep sorrel It is plain enough that, the land needs underdrainage. had spread over at least two acres. In 'the spring of The fact that the alfalfa 'thrived so well during the 1907 the alfalfa came out well and I got some pretty drought is proof of that. Do you not see that if you can hay the first cutting, but the sheep sorrel, plaintain and make the land perfectly dry> that is, permanently with "bullrushes" had made great headway. The summer of dryness enough about it so that the air can penetrate

1907 was a very wet one also and the aforementioned it, the alfalfa is sure to succeed? Alfalfa bacteria must pests flourished at the expense of my alfalfa, only about have air. Without air they stagnate and die. That gives one-third of a stand remaining. I am now manuring the all the ether water-enduring plants a chance to come on field again for potatoes in the spiring on which I will sow ahead. It costs money to underdrain land, from $20.00 to about 750 pounds of fertilizer per acre. $35.00 an acre, but nothing pays better where it is In the spring of 1906 we had no rain at all from about needed. On Woodland Farm this season we have laid the second week in April until between the 25th and 30th an additional mile of tile underdrain, and each year we of May. Pastures were not growing and hay fields looked do about the same amount, sometimes more. This keeps a total failure. During all this time my alfalfa grew us "poor," but the result is that the farm now grows rapidly and I was able to begin cutting May 16th, as about 300 tons of alfalfa a year, and last year about before stated, and got the entire field cured and in my 8,000 bushels of corn. barrack without one drop of rain. The alfalfa was so We should unhesitatingly underdrain this fine field the thick in places that it had become slightly bedded, and first thing. Then we should manure it well and re-sow this without enough rain to lay the dust for six weeks. alfalfa. We think that there has not been used quite There are many places on this field with good thrifty enough lime. An acre is a large spot of land, and 1,000 plants, but not more than enough to make one-third of pounds of lime spread over it make® a pretty thin coat- a stand while plaintain and sheep sorrel are spreading. ing. We should put on several tons to the acre of un- This is good land, with clay subsoil under' a loam, per- burnt ground limestone. This cheap stuff, costing no fectly drained and just rolling enough to surface drain more than about 31.00 per acre, and it is effective in perfectly. I want to get a field of alfalfa, as I know its curing acidity without affecting the humus in the soil. value from what hay I obtained from this field while it I should apply to a part of this field at least as much as flourished. I want it on this field particularly, on account eight tons to the acre of this ground lime stone, which of its proximity to my barrack and other reasons. I have makes as much as 100 pounds to the square rod and this attributed the failure to the two very wet seasons in is a permanent benefit to the soil. It endures for many, succession that fostered the growth oi weeds and grasses, many years. but were unfavorable to alfalfa, and not to the land which Next, when again the alfalfa is sown, I should use is fairly good potato land, not too light, as it is some- plenty of phosphoric acid, and after the alfalfa was es- what stiff in places. Would it be advisable, in face of my tablished should freshen it up every year with more two failures, to try this field again after potatoes? The phosphoric acid. Alfalfa is greedy for phosphoric acid. manure and fertilizer used on my potatoes will further Grasses are not so eager. Thus alfalfa may be stimulated improve the land and I can have potatoes off the field to get ahead of the grasses. by the middle of August. I have one of Clarke's double- All this may sound formidable, but my brother Joseph action- cutaway harrows that is unsurpassed for fitting knows this part of Maryland, and tells me that the land potato or cow pea land for grass or wheat. This land has slight value, unimproved, and it would surely yield would need no further inoculation. good returns on a cash valuation of $300.00 per acre in I would like all the information I can get on this sub- gcod alfalfa. WILLIS O. WING. ject and would particularly like Mr. Clarke of Connecti- Mechanicsburg, Olio. cut, or Mr. Wing, of Ohio, to advise me, on account of their experience in alfalfa. THRESHING COW PEAS. While another failure on this field would not stop me from Editor Southern Planter: my efforts to get alfalfa, it would be a great expense In I have just returned from a trip down in Tennessee. seeding, cultivation and loss of the land during my ex- The journey was undertaken for the sole purpose of see- periments, and I have already spent enough money, time ing a machine that I have been looking for for twenty and patience to get my desired results. years. That is a perfect cowpea thresher, and at last District of Columbia. WM. F. HOLMES. I have found it. Now do not all speak at once and ask Farm is situated in Frin.ce George County, Maryland,, me what machine I am writing about and where to get

twelve miles from Washington, D). C. it and at what price, for I wil not tell you, as I am not 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 321

In the free advertising business. It will soon be on the ran them out clean at the rate of half a bushel per minute market, and will be advertised in the Southern Flanter, by my watch, and I took handful after handful as they Cor a strong company has been formed to manufacture ran out and in no instance could I find more than one

It. I have had this machine in view for several years (I split pea in a handful. We threshed soy beans with it have not a cent's worth of financnal interest in it) and too and cleaned them perfectly. Hence, after studying the have been watching its improvement, until now I am machine carefully, I am glad to be able to say that the glad to say that we are about to have a perfect pea perfect pea thresher will soon be offered to the farmers, thresher. The machine I saw and fed myself with the and they can sow the peas broadcast and save them. mown pea hay from the mow alongside of me, was made Of course the hay is not as perfect as though cut earlier, by the farmer and his boys in a little shed on the farm, for in order to cure the peas properly the crop must be and it is needless to say that they have a fine farm and allowed to become more mature, and most of the leaves are growing peas, for in that beautiful region of East will be lost. But it is still excellent feed as I saw de- Tennessee there is a real reason for the failure of red monstrated by the cattle themselves which have been fed

clover, as it is there attacked by a fungus disease for on it. Therefore farmers can plant peas with the cer- which no remedy has as yet been found. Hence the cow tainly that the machine will be on the market by the timti :pea has attained great importance there. the crop of this season is ready, and the day of $3 per busbel peas will soon be a thing of the past. Then, too, it seems that the cow pea seed crop of the future is to be grown in the upper South and lower Mid- But what awful roads they have in the mountains of

dle States, for it has long been known that the oow pea Tennessee. I drove twelve miles, crossing the Tennessee does net seed much in the lower Gulf region, and tho river on a ferry, and over the worst roads I ever saw a sugar planters of Louisiana have been depending on the wheeled vehicle get over safely. I had a fine pair of seed from North Carolina for many years. Now that the horses and a light buggy, and it was all they could do to price of peas has advanced to nearly or quite $3.00' (and pull it. Here is a problem that is of vital importance to 1 heard of a sale recently at $3.25) the economical pro- farmers in every section, for bad roads are found not duction of the seed crop becomes of the first importance. only in Tennessee but in every other State. With such

Some time ago a farmer in Guilford County, N. C, wrote roads as I traversed the farmers are shut up, for no me, "Before you began to preach cow peas I could buy hauling can he done under such conditions. North Caro- the seed here for fifty cents a bushel and land was worth lina seems to be doing more in the way of making good ten dollars per acre. Now they are $3 per bushel and roads than any Southern State I know of. Passing home- land is worth anywhere from $30 to $75 per acre, and ward by way of Raleigh, N. C, I was pleased to see It is all your fault." Well, I am very glad to be blamed fine smooth roads leading out from the chief towns I

for such conditions. passed. While it took me an entire day to traverse that twelve miles in Tennessee, starting early in the morning But I took a trip that cost $50 for the sole purpose of and getting back at night, after spending but two or three seeing for myself what that pea thresher would do. I hours with the machine, I saw a road leading out from have for twenty years been insisting that the only machine Durham, N. C, over which 1 could have driven the twelve for saving the pea crop must be a machine that will take miles with the lively team 1 had in a little over an hour, the mown peas and thresh them and slave the hay feed. while in Tennessee I took from seven in the morning to The wheat threshing men have tried various attachments near noon to make the trip. to their machines for the purpose, but I have never seen one chat would not break half the peas. Then there are But there are some magnificent valleys in that country various machines run by hand that will hull the peas with limestone soil of great fertility, and it should be a after they are gathered. But the gathering by hand is paradise for stockmen, where grass and peas can bo the chief thing that makes them costly. Then there arc grown to perfection. It was interesting to note the ad- machines that claim to gather the peas from rows and vance of spring time. My trip was made the 13th ot thresh them to be afterwards cleaned by hand power. March. In East Tennessee the only sign of spring was the But these sacrifice the hay, and they will not do. The "pussy" willow with its silvery catkins, and a slight green- great difficulty with those who have tried to thresh them ing of the grass. Passing eastward over the mountains from the mown vines has been that the pea vines have past AsheviJle, N". C, there was hardly a sign of spring. a very tough fibre and will wind up and choke the cylin- But as we descended to the sunny side of the Blue Ridge, der. In the machine I saw this is entirely obviated. It the evidence of spring increased, and by the time I cuts the vines into short pieces and leaves them in the reached Raleigh on the evening of the 14th spring was in best shape for baling. The inventor sent me a sample evidence all around, the hyacinths and daffodils were in •of the peas threshed by his machine over a year ago. full bloom, the Forsythia bushes were a shower of gold : I did not know the man and had no means for deter- and the laws were green, and the fragrant bush honey mining that the sample was not picked. But in that suckles (Lonicera Fragrantissima) perfumed the air. Crim- sample I could not find over one per cent, of broken peas son clover was over ankle high, and in less than a month climate, with and I was much encouraged. In the recent trial in which will be In bioom. And with all that lovely I participated the peas were piled in a mow where they a soil capable of great development, I saw men in the had lain to cure. They were Whippoorwills, and not fields with the same one-mule plow, scratching the hill- heavily podded. I estimated that the crop had not been sides, and preparing for the summer torrents to wash off over eight or ten bushels per acre. But the machine the little loose soil down to the hard clay, while deeper 322 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [April,

plowing would have held the moisture there for the Third. Fotssh salts ^including the muriate, sulphate, summer droughts. kainit and sylvanite) and al the various forms of vege- Sometimes it seems that with all the efforts we may table ashes.

make in the Southern Planter we succeed very slowly These are the substances I wish to discuss in this paper in getting the farmers to farm better, and oue can hardly because their composition is simple and more easily hope to see the day when good farming will be the rule handled than the complex materials containing two or instead of the exception. more fertilizing ingredients such as the slaughter house I met one large farmer in North Carolina who says if products containing bone and blood, fish scrap and kindred that pea thresher is what I say it is, and he believes me, substances containing both nitrogen and phosphoric acid. he i3 going to sow 500 acres in pejas if they are now Nitrate of potash, containing both nitrogen and potash, costly. W. F. MASSBY. and lastly the still more complex, castor pomace, cotton seed meal, tobacco stems, and Peruvian guano which con- MIXING COMMERCIAL FERTILIZERS. tain all three fertilizing ingredients, in varying propor- Editor Southern Planter: tions. These materials are divided and sub-divided ac- The planting season being now at hand and farmers cording to the different percentages of their contents like studying the seed catalogues and debating within them- the slaughter house products, and into different chemical selves upon the relative claims of this and that brand of combinations like the mono di and tri-calcium phosphates

fertilizer ( their name is legion) a few figures upon the which go to make up the available reverted and original question of percentages preparation may assist some in forms in which we buy the commercial acid phosphate, forming a correct judgment of the probable worth of the as well as the tetra-calcium phosphate which appears in goods he contemplates purchasing. basic slag, making in all about thirty different substances; It may be safely assumed that the readers of the South- but reduced to elementary principles we find that only ern Planter have long ago graduated from the school of the original numbers, or fifteen, need our consideration. our ancestors who are supposed to have bought their Some of these articles, such as fish scrap, wood ashes,

fertilizers by the aid of the nose (i. e, the more they tobacco stems and cotton seed hulls ashes are of only smelt the higher the value) and have learned to be gov- local importance, slaughter house products will not be erned by the analysis printed on the tags, allowing to considered in relation to mixed goods as they vary so each ingredient its proper value per pound. These values greatly in composition and involve a complicated calcu- fluctuate slightly, but will approximate fifteen cents per lation to find their value and generally command so high pound for nitrogen, five cents per pound for phosphoric a price by themselves as to make them expensive forms acid and five cents per pound for potash, which figures, in which to buy either nitrogen or phosphoric acid for though not absolutely correct, will be used in figuring the the manufacturer of low grade goods, which it is the pur- values in this paper. pose of the present paper to discuss. Cotton seed meal

In fact, for the purpose of comparison only, it is not is too valuable for feed to be within reach of the ferti- necessary to be exact or to trouble with small changes lizer mixer in Virginia. in the market values of phosphoric acid and potash. It If we eliminate the above substances our choice is nar- is only when purchasing complete goods, especially where rowed down to nitrate of soda and sulphate of ammonia a high per cent, of nitrogen is desired, that care should from which to derive our nitrogen; acid phosphate and be had to be thoroughly posted on the current wholesale basic slag as sources of phosphoric acid and potash salts prices. to furnish the potash. This brings me to the point I Our Department of Agriculture publishes a quarterlj have aimed to reach, that nitrate of soda, acid phosphate entitled "The Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture ot and potash salts are the chief sources from whence we Virginia," which gives the values assigned 1o the three derive our nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash. principle constituents of fertilizers, and should be con- Let us see then how these chemicals combine in making suited before buying any sort of ertilizer. In this con- a ton of mixed fertilizer, taking as the first example the nection I suggest to our good friend the Editor that he well-known 2-8-2 combination. publish as a permanent feature of the Planter a state- Two per cent, of nitrogen or 40 pounds to the ment showing the ruling wholesale prices of nitrogen, ton obtained from nitrate of soda analyzing 16 phosphoric acid, potash, Paris green, sulphur, blue stone, per cent, would require 250 lbs lime, etc., so that we may all be kept informed of any Sight per cent, of phosphoric acid or 160 pounds change in prices which occur between the issues of the to die ton obtained from acid phosphate an- quarterly bulletin before referred to. alyzing 14 per cent, would require 1,143 lbs In considering the source from whence we derive our Two per cent, of potash or 40 pounds to the ton materials for the manufacture of mixed fertilizers we find obtained from muriate of potash analyzing 50 there are about fifteen elementary substances which fur per cent, would require 80 lbs nish nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash in sufficient quantities to be of value for this purpose. Three fur- Making a total of 1,473 lbs nishing nitrogen alone; three furnishing phosphoric acid of fertilizer to which must be added 527 lbs alone, and three furnishing potash alone. These comprise: of filler of some sort, usually gypsum, or First, Nitrate of soda, sulphate of ammonia and ground oyster shells to make up S.OCO lbs slaughter house products which do not contain any bone. or one ton of fertiliser and filler combined. Second. Phosphate rock, bone black and basic slag. 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER 323

It may tie objected that were kainit used in place of Here we have a 2-8-4 goods needing only 12 pounds of muriate of potash it would take about four times as much filler and costing $18.00 per ton to make, and we may rest or 320 pounds instead of eighty to make up the per- assured that it does not pay to buy any complete fertilizer centage in which case only 287 pounds of filler would be of lower grade and lower price than this. necessary instead of 527, but this only means that the In all probability, a 2-10-73$ goods made up of filler is a different material as the additional weight of 250 pounds of nitrate of soda, costing $ 6 00 the kainit is made up of chloride of sodium or common 1433 pounds of acid phosphate, costing 10 0u' salt, which is even more worthless than the gypsum or 300 pounds of muriate of potash, costing 7 50 oyster shells, when viewed from an agricultural stand- point. It is of course to the farmer's interest to buy as 1983 $23 50 little filler as possible for he must not only pay the extra and requiring 13 pounds of filler to make up a ton would freight but haul and distribute material which is abso- furnish a cheaper source of potash, where freight rates lutely useless to him. It then becomes a matter of in- are high, and produce better crops for the money invested terest to know just how rich a fertilizer one must buy than the first mixture, as it would not require as much to insure the use of pure chemicals, or at least to enable to the acre unless nitrogen was the controlling factor, in the maaufacturer to approximately make up a ton of which case the proportions could be modified to supply mixed goods out of the chemicals in their original state more of that element and less of others. without adulteration, for it must be evident that when In the preparation of the 10-2 mixture largely used for the farmer asks for a ton of mixed fertilizer of so low (he top-dressing of grass and clover, where no nitrogen is an analysis that the manufacturer can find nothing on the required, we find much the same undesirable use of filler. market that will combine and make it, there is abso- This requires lutely nothing else for him to do but to make up a com- 1433 pounds of acid phosphate, costing $10 00 bination of chemicals in the proportion asked for and 333 pounds of kainit, costing 2 00 then thin it down with filler until it comes to the analy- sis and price to suit the purchaser. If a customer wants 1766 $12 00 to drink milk so thin that no breed of cow will give it poor This mixture needs 234 pounds of filler to make a ton, enough in its natural state, there is no alternative but to when made of kainit. If the muriate of potash be sub- put a little water with it to bring it to the desired stituted lor the kainit, the proportions used would be specific gravity. The manufacturer is not in any way to 1433 pounds of acid phosphate blame for the use of filler, in fact it is almost impossible 80' pounds of muriate or potash to figure out combinations of chemicals that will contain 487 pounds of filler the percentage of nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash If we desire a fertilizer of this character, we had best desired for the various crops on different soils without purchase 11-2 34 goods containing 1537 pounds of acid phos- the use of some innocent material to balance up the sum phate and 417 pounds of kainit and requiring only 66 total. The manufacturer guarantees certain percentages pounds of filler, or if we use muriate of potash in place and if the fertilizer comes up to the guarantee he has of kainit, a 14-3 goods, using 1866 pounds of acid phos- done his duty If you ask his advice he will generally phata and 120 pounds of muriate of potash and calling for recommend the high-priced goods, for he knows that the 14 pounds of filler.

purchaser is getting better value for his money, but if After discussing these more simple chemicals, the his customer insists upon low grade goods at low prices, temptation is strong to take up the complex slaughter- he must sell him that kind, and if he furnishes what he house products, and Peruvian guano to see how they com- agrees to furnish he lias done his full duty in the bine with nitrate of soda and sulphate of ammonia to premises. increase the nitrogen content, with acid phosphate to And now let us see how a grade of complete fertilizer supply the phosphoric acid, and with the different pot- can be made of nitrate of soda, acid phosphate and kainit, ash salts, where a high per cent, of the latter is desired, and about what it ought to cost, and then we will know but, to properly take up this last phase of the subject, when we have reached a limit in price and analysis, to would require even more space than that which has gone

go below which involves us in the purchase of useless before. I feel that it is time to close. material we had better leave where it is. We will first PERCIVAL HICKS. consider a 2-8-4 goods, which will require as follows: Mathews Co., Va.

250 pounds of nitrate or soda, analyzing 16 per SOME NOTES ON THE MARCH PLANTER. cent of nitrogen, will contain 40 pounds at 15 cents per pound, and cost $ 6 00 Editor Southern Planter: 1066 pounds of acid phosphate, analyzing- 15 per What Mr. McCullough says about lime is all very valu- cent, of phosphoric acid, will contain 160 able, and I agree with him in the main, but when he says pounds at 5 ceuts per pounds, and cost 8 00' never buy lime that has magnesia in it he is placing those 666 pounds of kainit, analyzing 12 per cent, of pot- whose only limestone is magnesian in a tight place. ash and containing 80 pounds actual potash at Magnesia is plant food as much as lime, and while one 5 cents per pound, will cost 4 00 gets lime for the lime, and should get, if practicable, a pure lime, there are many places where only the mag- 1982 $18 00 nesian lime is available, and it is used in Eastern Peon- 324 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [April,

with sylvania good results by hundreds of farmers. Pure occasional application to the legume crop of acid phos- lime, as one such can get in the Valley of Virginia, will phate and potash, with a little lime applied once in six slake a larger bulk than the magnesian lime of the Sus- years, and it would soon be demonstrated that that land Schuylkill quehanna and Valleys, but I would not hesi- can make 100 bushels per acre without purchased nitro- tate to use the magnesian lime if it the accessi- was most gen, for I know men who are doing it. I heard a lec- ble. turer at a Farmers' Institute in Maryland recently tell' Cover Crops in the South. the farmers all about mixing complete fertilizers for every crop, and not half dozen It is true, as Mr. Franklin well says, that nature abhors a men in his audience had bought a pound of nitrogen for twenty years, a vacant soil, and yet I have seen soils that have been and yet are grow- ing crops of forty so constantly kept in hoed crops that nature seems to or more bushels of wheat and seventy- five have given up the task of trying to cover them. This bushels of corn per acre. Another item I would add to what Mr. Bergman about week I rode from Raleigh, N. C, to Portsmouth, Va. All says peas among corn. Some along in the tobacco-growing section about Henderson have asked if they do not damage the corn. I answer,, no; but, the and Kittrel, N. C, the whitish soil was absolutely bare on other hand, the com among which peas- are from last year's cultivation, and untold years before, and sown will be actually better than if the peas were not there. it side side almost hurt one's eyes to see it. Here and there there Try by and you will see that I am right. bacteria gleamed a little patch of crimson clover from about an The on the legume roots are nitric fer- eighth to a half-acre, and in only one case did I see a ments. They oxidize the free nitrogen and the result is whole field of this clover. The wonder was that when peas take this up and any plant associated with them will also get a share of men see how well it grows in little patches, they do not by reason the peas being there. Mr. Bergman's article is a seem to realize that it would be well to have it over all good demonstration for any one their bare land in winter. And these lands are generally who will study it. Cost hills and wash badly, and yet the farmers (?) were at of Growing Corn. work scratching the dead cotton stalks down with a mule Mr. Porter made corn at the rate of thirty-seven bush- and a little plow, not seeming to know that that, com- els per acre at a cost of 12.45 cents per bushel. His bined with the bare land, has been just what has made showing is a very satisfactory account. But suppose his land had point it wash so badly. And further along the road the same been improved to the of making seventy- practice was seen in operation, turning the soil three five bushels per acre? The cost of handling the crop would inches deep for the peanut and tobacco crops, hoping evi- have been a little heavier, but the actual cost per bushel dently to squeeze a little crop out of that old dead skele- of the grain would have been still less. The smaller the ton of sand and clay with a little commercial fertilizer, crop the greater the cost per bushel. Many cotton farm- with an infinitessimal amount of nitrogen in it, for which ers declare that it costs them seven to eight cents per they pay a round price, while the man driving that mule pound to make cotton, while I know of one good farmer and holding that little plow is wading in a sea of nitro- who said that he grew it at a cost of two and a half gen from which he could draw full supplies without cost cents per pound. The difference was that the men who while building up the humus in his land with a legume make the crop at the greatest cost take five acres or more crop growing on it all winter. Then after his poor crop to make a bale, while the other man made two bales on is harvested, the fertilizer man gets the lion's share, one acre. and the soil is again left bare all winter to lose more Pork in the South. than it lost in summer. Such sights are saddening to one And yet, even at the low cost the good farmer was able- has been spending the best part life who of his in the to produce cotton, it is evident that even farmers like effort to get better farming in the South. him had better make a smaller area in cotton and make Nitrogen Buying. more pork. Hogs can be produced more cheaply in the South than in the West, and the Western farmer Mr. Bergman has written an article that should be read yet makes the hogs, sells them to the packers, they make and studied. It is the idea that I have been trying to get a profit, the railroads theirs, the our farmers to absorb for many years, that with general handsome and add mer- chant adds his, and then the man wno sticRs to all- grain farming a man who buys nitrogen is wasting his cotton pays them all out of his one crop. money. Of course, a heavy application of a good article of pure raw bone meal will greatly increase the corn Corn Breeding. crop, but at $30 per ton the man who can make its use Well, I like to be skinned occasionally, so that, like the profitable qn the corn crop will do more than I have fish woman's eels, I will get used to it. Mr. McComb ever done, and so far as the phosphoric acid in it is con- does it in a very gentlemanly way, but I still do not see- cerned, he can buy that cheaper in some other form and that I am wrong. If the lot of corn that took the prize a more readiiy available form, too. A farm "demonstra- as the most perfect ears happened to belong to the varie- tion," to be of real value, must run through a series of ty that made the highest yield at the Experiment Sta- years, and show how land can be increased in productive- tion, was there any evidence that that sample of corn ness while making paying crops. A demonstration show- would make a greater crop when planted than any of the ing that by the liberal use of fertilizers a bigger crop can numerous samples shown of the same variety, that did be made, is of little value. Land that will make 60 bush- not get a ribbon? There was nothing there to show that els of corn without manure or fertilizers is already in the crop from which that sample came had made any- very good heart and only needs a good rotation and an more than any of the others. The aim seems merely 325 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER.

per acre on the same particu- typical, and thirty-sevn bushels get tlie biggest ears of a particular form. Is a to that score card land from typical ears, I must conclude lar type of ear necessarily connected with a greater yield in corn judging of ears only will never advance us much per acre? If. so, let us learn what that type is. Mr. culture. W. P. MASSBY. McComb asks "Who is it that wins at these corn shows?" The man who shows the prettiest ears, no matter what INCREASING THE YIELD OF CORN. style of plant it grows on or whether it made twenty-five or seventy-five bushels per acre. If the ears pass the Editor Southern Planter: which so little atten- score card, that is enough, though the! ears may have been There is no other cereal grown to seed as the corn crop. and probably were only one ear on a stalk. A certain tion is given in the selection of with the type of ear is essential to pass the score card. Is that The general custom, until of late years, about planting the only type that will give us the heaviest crop per acre? majority of farmers, was to go to the crib and use them for May not some other type of ear be fully as productive? time, select large, good-looking ears, year until their I visited, a few weeks ago, a farmer in one of the best seed, pursuing this course from year to and quality. farming sections of Maryland, who is himself a thought- crops would begin to deteriorate both in yield who, ful and successful farmer. He showed me two piles of They would then procure seed from some farmer, for several sea- com. In the one pile the ears were rather small and perhaps, had pursued the same course a different quality of hardly an ear would have passed muster in a corn show. sons, blieving that corn grown upon The other pile was large ears and these ears would have soil would improve their yield. change often times proved been highly rated by corn show judges. He said that he I do not- doubt but that this permanent improve- bought the seed of the showy ears from a neighbor who helpful for a season or two, but no order to was an enthusiast and had gotten the corn from a corn ment could ever result from such a practice. In breeder a few years before. His old stock of corn was represented by the pile with the small ears, and he had been selecting it for prolificacy for years. Most of his crop was planted with his old stock, and very fortunately too as he said, for the two corns were planted at the same time on soil of the same character, and cultivated alike. His old stock of small ears that would have been passed by by the score card judge, made seventy-five bushels of corn per acre, while that from the score card breeder made thirty-seven bushels per acre, or less than half the crop his own stock made. And this was not unacclimated corn, but corn that had had sieveral years acclimation. A prominent farmer in Maryland told me recently that he found that the small-eared Cocke's Pro- lific made him far more corn than the large-eared sorts per acre, and said that the only objection to it was that he had to husk so many ears on an acre. If Mr. McComb thinks that I have gained my experience in a warm office or in the shade, he is greatly mistaken in the man. If there is any one thing I have studied in the field it is corn. In North Carolina, the small-eared Cocke's Pro-

lific, planted alongside the twelve-hundred-kernel Learn- ing, made fourteen bushels per acre more than the Learn- ing. Prolific I have used mainly as an the quan- The Cocke's permanently improve the quality and increase illustration in breeding, but it makes no difference about carefully as we breed tity, seed corn should be bred as the particular variety if it has the prolific habit of making our live stock. more bushels per acre than its competitors. I have not sheep, swine, poultry, In the breeding of horses, cattle, the slightest objection to the big, pretty ears, but if the selection of both male etc., great care is exercised in the ear the stalk will make but 1,200 grains, I have with cattle breed- one on and' female. It has passed into a maxim over 1,500 on two ears. While I have not often made ers that the male is half the herd. the slightest objection to the typical score card ears, fanciers who can give the pedi- I know pigeon and rabbit to is the making of these the only what I have objected grees of all their pets. extended illustrate my test in an exhibition. The score card shouM be The most careless breeder of swine, to plant, the amount of corn running of all jto Include the whole corn point, would not allow the indiscriminate crop per measured acre. animals. grown on the plant and the the males of a litter with his brood type that the score farmers, who come Then, if it can be shown that the About the first question asked by is always accompanied by the greatest yield their pedigree. Whilst card calls for to buy swine of me is concerning prac- one to give the pedigree per acre, we may learn something that the present it is utterly impossible for any corn, he seventy- product grown as extensively as tice does not teach. But so long as a man makes of any vegetable what varieties have been chosen entirely non- should be able to tell five bushels of corn per acre from ears 326 THE SOUTHEKN PLANTER [April,

for pollination; which one was used as the female parent should be left, to thoroughly mature, harvesting them pistillate), and which for the male parent (staminate), when the corn was thoroughly ripened. and Ms reason for such method of breeding. I do not The cylindrical ears were selected from this thoroughly recognize the use of the term "pedigree" when applied matured corn and I have found it to be of a very high to wheat, corn, etc., as, scientifically used, it should be percentage of germination. applied only to the animal kingdom. Without any heavier fertilization of the soil or more A pedigree of an animal is a record of its male and frequent cultivation, the yield has been increased from female progenitors for a series of generations. When we thirty-five bushels to almost fifty-one bushels of shelled consider that the tassel of a Ftalk of corn produces from corn per acre by actual measurement of land and corn. three million to four million pollen granules, and that Corn is a gross consumer of potash. I therefore com- these are carried to the silk, proceeding from an ovule, pound a fertilizer from 14 per cent, available phosphoric by the wind or insects, we at once recognize the impos- acid and muriate of potash, using 150 pounds of phosphate sibility of deciding with certainty which particular ovule and fifty pounds of muriate of potash per acre. was fertilizer, or even from which stalk the pollen was This gives me twenty-one pounds of phosphate and produced. twenty-five pounds of actual potash, or a 10% per cent, Unless each ovuJe is thus influenced by pollen, it will phosphate and a 12% per cent, potash fertilizer. I have fail to develop into a kernel and a blank space will appear discarded tbe fertilizer attachment of the corn planter and upon the cob. apply the fertilizer with the grain drill. By this means Hence, the importance of having well developed stalks 1 give an additional cultivation to the soil before planting rich in pollen which shall mature when the silk is in the and distribute the fertilizer where it is available during proper condition to convey the influence of the pollen the entire growing season. to the ovule. When the fertilizer is distributed only in the corn row,

I shall not attempt in this article to show how we can the corn has a forced growth at starting, but the termi- almost absolutely control this influence, but rather relate nals of the roots and the hair-like roots (the feeders)) what I have done during the last four years in the estab- soon get beyond the fertilizer and the plant largely lives lishing of a breed of corn conforming to my ideal. I upon the general condition of the soil, the fertilizer often wished to breed a variety that would grow from eight remaining inert during the greater part of the growing to ten feet in height, low-eared, short-jointed, with long season. and broad foliage. I am in thorough accord with the views of Professor I have bred two distinct varieties, but, for the pres- Massey that the entire stalk should be taken into consid- ent, shall relate my method of procedure with the Boone eration in awarding prizes at agricultural fairs. County Special. Very fine ears are sometimes found on objectionable I made my selection of seed from a pile of very finely stalks and have grown surrounded by stalks having very grown corn, taking only ears that had nearly the same poor ears, these stalks, no doubt, having furnished the thickness throughout their entire length; these I style pollen for the fine looking ear. cylindrical ears. I doubt that a stalk can produce pollen that will fer- Every school boy of average intelligence has learned tilize its own ear, and, if it could, I doubt the germinative that a cylinder of a given diameter and height will have power of the kernels thus pollinated. twice the surface of a cone of that same diameter and For upwards of fifty years, I have searched for a per- height, and, consequently, the cylindrical ear would have fect ear upon an isolated grown stalk, but have failed to twice the surface upon which kernels could be formed find one. that a true conical ear would have. Note.—The shortest ear in the illustration of this arti- No ear, however, is a true cone, but the nearer it cle is eleven inches. approaches that form, the less will be its yield. Powhatan Co., Va. s. B. HEIG-HES. Besides having greater surface, the kernels do not diminish in size to as great an extent as they do on a LONG CORN STALK MANURE. conical ear towards the tip. Editor Southern Planter: The photograph that I have had taken of these two I was very much interested in Mr. Massey's notes in types of ears fully illustrates this point; the outer ears the January issue, especially the part concerning the feed- (conical) having small kernels for about two inches of ing value of shredded stover vs. long stalks, quoting Mr. their entire length; the inner ears (cylindrical) carrying Sherman as saying where the stalks were fed in racks, the full sized kernels well to the tip. the long stalks go into the manure, and the man who can Cylindrical ears of the same diameter and length of haul it out without using "cuss" words at times is rare. conical ears by repeated tests have yielded from 15 per As there is generally a remedy for every evil under cent to twenty per cent, more shelled corn. the sum, and as I have long since found out the remedy Two important factors in the production of my ideal corn for the worst of all abominations, a pile of cow dung have now been well established; ears low on the stalk with long corn stalks in it, I will give you the benefit and at least 95 per cent, of cylindrical ears. of my plan which will help any who may care to try it. To accomplish the first, I have gone through the field, In connection with this I will state that in an experience selecting stout stalks having one or more ears no higher of tirty-five years feeding long fodder in every conceiva- than my hip, topping them so that when the corn was ble manner I have used the common horsepower cutter, harvested, by cutting off at the ground, these stalks 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 327

Tornado shredder and steam husking and shredding ma- vator from the time the corn is five Inches tall chine and with every machine found the game never until the corn is waist high, and thin the corn paid for the candles. The best results, besides the com- to one stalk on a hill, then turn it loose and trust fort and convenience to feeder and cattle has been ob- to Frovidence. Following this plan for thirty-nine years tained by feeding long fodder in wide, deep racks in open out of forty, I have had corn to sell. This one year my sheds. In short order the sheds will be thoroughly lit- corn was nearly destroyed by hailstorm. One year with tered with corn stalks in the most objectionable condi- another I average from fifty-five to sixty-five bushels per tion. acre, sometimes seventy-five bushels, all without fertil- Now for the remedy. izers. Before cleaning out the sheds which, by the way, The great mistake with our farm papers and farmers makes a good job for a cold rainy day, I get a load of is preaching up commercial fertilizers and ignoring the fresh horse stable manure that has not been fermented barn yard manure. I sometimes think tiiere must be a and throw it out along where the dump from the sheds combine between the agricultural paper specialists, so- will be. Then clean out the sheds and place the stalks calJed, and the commercial fertilizer establishments for on the manure, using a layer of fresh stable manure robbing the poor farmer of his hard earnings by paying for each time the stalks are moved. By May there will be something that impoverishes his land and the owner both. a pile of manure that can be hauled out on land for corn I take it that drinking whiskey and using the present-day in a condition that can be handled with impunity by the commercial fertilizer will ruin any man who keeps it most orthodox. J. W. A. up. Stop and think, brother farmers; turn about, go back Loudoun County, Va. to your stabe and barn yard manure, try it side by side with the highest grade commercial fertilizers as I have HOW TO GROW CORN. done, and see for yourself which is best in the long run. Editor Southern Planter: I know what I say will raise a howl, but who cares; I am speaking the truth as I see it from trial and experi- I see so much printed matter on scientific office farming ence, c. P. HURT. that I would like to tell something of forty years' ex- Bedford Co., Va. perience shuffling the dirt for a livelihood in old Vir- ginia. I will take for my subject the mainstay or sup- If our friend will turn to the issues of the Southern port of the farmer which is corn and corn raising for Planter for years back, he will find that we have always profit. If the land is in sod I break it in the fall or opposed the use of commercial fertilizers for growing the winter eight to nine inches deep, then apply all the ma- corn crop and advised perfect preparation of the land nure to thin parts that I can get up to planting time, before planting, farm yard manure and level cultivation. the first of May, and harrow thoroughly in April until —Ed. the land is in good condition. If there should come heavy rains, harrow again as soon as dry enough. This REPLY TO ARTICLE COMMENTING ON MR. SANDY'S pays in two ways—it kills in the sprout all noxious weeds DEMONSTRATION FARM REPORT. and grass, and puts the soil in a mellow condition. By the first of May the ground should be warm and ready for Editor Southern Planter: the corn to sprout at once an a few days after planting. I read with great interest Mr. T. O. Sandy's article in I never want it to check up until the crop is matured. I the January number of your valuable journal, concerning plant in rows four and one-half feet apart and eighteen the noble work being carried on throughout the Southern inches in the step (or from hil to hill). Use no com- States under the auspices of the Agricultural Department mercial fertilizer about it at all; plant three to four grains at Washington, aided by a generous donation from the to the hill. Co-operative Educational Association—of which enterprise I have used the variety I plant without a single change Dr. A. S. Knapp is the General Manager, and Mr. Sandy for forty years (originally seed Flint mixed Gourd and the Superintendent for Virginia—and I have carefully half and half). Every season I pick the best ears for seed, noted the criticisms made by Mr. K. A. Bergman in the selecting for depth of grain, small cob, firm, compact rows. March number. as Every grain has vitality on its face and needs no proof The latter gives some good advice about thorough cul- to its quality. I always nub off an inch or so from the tivation of the soil, the increased use of leguminous crops,, small before twelve end shelling the ear. The ears have winter covering for cultivated lands, all of which is care- to eighteen rows of corn, and about fifty to sixty-five fully taught, and strongly urged by Dr. Knapp, Mr. Sandy, grains to the row. and their corps of assistants, but I strongly disagree with As soon as this corn is up three to four inches, I put him about the crop value of certain kinds of fertilizer, and a big double harrow with sharp teeth on. You may pull I most earnestly deprecate his unkind allusions to the loss, up a few stalks now and then, but this is a small beneficent work which is being attempted by these gentle- counting the good the harrow does in killing weeds. men, to aid the farmers of our section by advice and In a few days I use the double coulters as close up to counsel, and assist them to build up their worn-out farms. the all young corn as possible and run as deep as I can, I would say in the beginning that Mr. Sandy faced a con- through the balk or between the rows; then, every eight dition, at least in Southside Virginia, of obsolete methods, days I give shallow level culture as near as possible; depleted soils, and a spirit of hopelessness regarding the go over twice in a row with five tooth culti- profits of farming in this section, and, by his teachings,. 328 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [April,

enthusiasm and example, has literally "made two blades taking part in this discussion. One great object we had of grass grow where one grew before" on many a poor in view in publishing the article commented on was to pro- hillside farm in this State. mote discussion of a subject of vital importance to our We could not afford to wait on the slow methods of farmers. We had no idea or intention of reflecting on the improvements advocated by Mr. Bergman, but needed good work being done in the State by Dr. Knapp and Mr. immediate aid for our soils, and I do not concede that acid Sandy when we admitted Mr. Bergman's article to our phosphate is a good fertilizer for corn, or that it adds any- columns and we did not and do not now see that he unfair- thing to the permanent improvement of the land, but, on ly or unjustly reflected on those gentlemen or their work. the contrary, I believe it is generally admitted that its We have repeatedly commended and encouraged this virtue is exhausted during the first season's crop, while work. We believe that it is doing a great deal to advance bone meal improves the soil permanently, and its good the agricultural interests of the State. As to Mr. Sandy's effects can be seen in many succeeding crops. The plans own work on his own farm, no one could have said or done of both of these gentlemen include an application of lime, more than we have done for years in bringing it to the and Mr. Bergman proposes to use 600 pounds of floats and notice of the farmers of the State. It reflects the highest 400 pounds of acid phosphate on the corn and 400 pounds credit on him and has made us feel and say frequently more before the grass seeds are sown in the following that whatever advice he gave might be safely followed by summer, while Mr. Sandy advises the use of 500 pounds his brother farmers. All this, however, does not seem of bone meal for the corn crop and 500 pounds for the to us to be sufficient reason why we should not put before grass, at a difference in expense of about $4.60 and 400 ihe farmers of the State the ideas of another farmer, who pounds less weight of fertilizer to haul and distribute. thinks that he has solved the problem of making a poor The advantages of the latter plan are a saving in haul- farm profitable in some other way and especially when he ing of fertilizer, a saving of one working of the land (for proposes to accomplish this end with a less immediate the spring sowing of peas and millet), and I feel sure expenditure of money and as he contends with quick return that it will produce nearly double the crop of grass, and of crops. Discussion and experimentation is thus promoted at least one-third corn, and give more a permanent and the end will be advancement. We have a difficult improvement to the soil. I also claim that the crimson problem to solve in this State. The fanners who most need clover is hay just as valuable to the farmer for his own help in the improvement of their farms are, many of them, stock as the peas and millet suggested by Mr. Bergman, so impoverished that the outlay of $30 for a ton of bone I there is and think no crop that impoverishes the soil as meal at one time, to be used on an acre or two of land, quickly as millet, and that it take nutriment would more is more than they can, or, rather, than they are willing, from land than the could be supplied by the peas grown to afford, and hence they hesitate to make the venture. with it. We are daily in receipt of letters complaining that they I do not agree with Mr. Bergman either about being cannot afford to follow our advice in the production of able to pick peas seed are when sown at the last work- their crops because of the cost of the fertilizer recom- ing of 'the corn, for I have sown peas in this way several mended, and yet we always carefully consider this point times, and in no case did they mature before frost, though of cost before giving the advice to use the fertilizer. it that his may be last working of the corn was on an ear- These men must be led on gradually and must see results lier date than mine. I have tried his plan of attempting to as they go. We have always been strong advocates for improve the land with peas and acid phosphate, and found the use of bone meal for the permanent improvement of it too slow a process, I too though used no lime, as I was land, and have used scores of tons in our experience far from the railroad at time. that and never without securing good results in the long run, For several years past I 50'0 have used 400 to pounds but for results on quick growing crops we have found of bone meal per acre on corn, and clover sown crimson other fertilizers to give more immediate returns. at the last working, which has produced a rapid improve- For the corn crop, the experiments made at the various ment.]: know of no land in this State which will produce Experiment Stations have almost uniformly showed that sixty bushels of corn per acre without fertilizers, unless outside farm yard manure no fertilizer has been used with it may be in the James River bottoms, if such but there be immediate profit, but that acid phosphate comes nearer giv land, its owner may not need the assistance freely offered ing this result than anything else. This was the result by Dr. Knapp and Mr. Sandy, while there are thousands shown in the experiments recently made at the Virginia of hillside farmers who are gladly accepting advice; that Station, of which we published reports last year, and I do not mean to reflect in any way on Mr. Bergman, hence they, and we advise its use for this crop. We for many of his suggestions are good, but this article readily grant that it is not so permanent in its effect is intended as a defence of Mr. Sandy and his methods, in improving the land. This permanent improvement is which I heartily endorse, and I am firmly convinced that he an end for which all farmers should work, but they, is engaged in a great work, which will be of much benefit unfortunately, cannot all afford to do it all at once. The to the farmers of Virginia. phosphoric acid in bone meal is almost wholly in an His own farm, his increasing prosperity, and his four unavailable form, and this militates against its use as tons of hay to the acre, are an ample demonstration that his ireely as it ought to be used, but wherever it can be methods are correct, and I believe his efforts should be afforded and the buyer can afford to wait, it, like floats encouraged instead of being weakened by adverse criticism. NOTTOWAY. (raw rock), ought to be used in conjunction with the We beg to offer our thanks to our correspondent for legumes which make the phosphoric acid available.—Ed. 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 329>

Trucking, Garden and Orchard.

WORK FOR THE MONTH. nitrate of soda was used there was a yield ot but 910 prime The genial spring-lik weather of the first half of heads per acre. Where 300 pounds of the March has no doubt induced many truckers and gardeners fertilizer was applied in two dressings the number of prime heads to put the first crops into the ground. If the weather was 3,260 per acre. Where the same quantity was applied should continue mild these will no doubt make early in three dressings the yield of prime heads was 5,390 per acre. crops, but it is doubtful whether we can safely count on a On land where 400 pounds of nitrate was applied continuance of such fine weather uninterruptedly through in two equal dressings the yield was 4,160 prime heads, April and one or two sharp frosts will work havoc with and when the same was applied in three equal dressings 7,580 prime these early planted crops. We have never found it advis- heads were cut. able to plant a full crop of anything except Irish pota- The tomato, pepper toes and English peas before well into April and it is and egg plants raised in the hot- bed which should usually quite as well not to plant a full crop until May. now be growing freely should, as soon as large enough to Small plantings may be made in the first half of this handle, be pricked out in cold frames to grow on and, month, but the time will be better employed in putting as they grow, should be hardened off gradually the land into finer order and in getting the manure and so as to be ready to set out in the open ground in May. Do not force fertilizer into the land and getting it ready for planting the growth so as to make them weak and spindling. in the last half of the month and in the first half of What is needed is a stout, stocky plant with May. Before doing any planting, lay off the garden in a plenty of roots. regular plan so as to give ample space for each crop Bed sweet desired to be grown and lay off the rows the long way of potatoes in the hot bed for sprouts to set out in the garden and wide enough apart to permit of horse May or June. In the March issue, on page 224, will be found cultivation. Where narrow rows are laid off and the culti- advice on making a hot bed and Professor Massey vation of the crop depends on the hand boe work with in this issue answers an inquiry on the same subject. other crops on the farm frequently causes this essential work to be neglected and the crop is lost or only makes See that the strawberry half the yield it ought to do. An hour or two with a crop has cultivation to induce horse cultivator will be found time for when a day or growth and flowering, and if the plants are not making a good, strong growth, two with the hand hoe could not be put in. Begin plant- give a top dressing of acid phos- phate, ing on one side of the garden and continue the putting 200 pounds; muriate of potash, 200 pounds, and nitrate of in of the different crops in regular order across the piece. soda, 100 pounds to the acre, and work into the soil. This will enable one to cultivate the earliest planted crops Mulch the land between the rows with pine tags or without treading the rest of the land sad again and thus waste hay or straw to keep the berries clean and con- necessitate re-working. serve the moisture wherever it is possible to secure the materials for this purpose.

In the Tidewater trucking sections of this State and North Carolina the planting of the Irish potato crops has Clean up the flower garden and lawn and make every- thing neat and tidy already been largely done and is now being pushed on for the summer. Dig over the beda and give a dressing fast to a completion. In the other sections of the State of manure well rotted and work into the soil and rake fine. where this crop is grown as a farm crop the work should Buy a collection of flower seeds and at least a few bedding have immediate attention if the tubers are grown for the plants like Geraniums, Cannas, Fhlox, Coelus. spring and early summer market. Where the crop is Sow and set these out in the end of thi3 month, or, safer, in the beginning grown for the fall and winter market, it is too early yet of May, and make the place look attractive to plant. June and July are soon enough. and as though it belonged to some one. It will pay in keeping the family attached to the place. The fall and winter planted cabbage crop should now have frequent cultivation to push the growth. Where the crop does not appear to be taking good hold of the soil CROP PESTS. and making vigorous root growth a top dressing of nitrate We are in receipt of the Sixth Report of the State of soda sown down each side of the rows at the rate of Entomologist. This report deals in a general way with 100 to 150 pounds to the acre will be found to be of great the work of the Crop Pest Commission during the past advantage. The use of this fertilizer has been found to two years in the inspection of orchards and nurseries and give remarkably good results on the cabbage crop where gives some statistic? gathered by the Commission in con- sufficient manure and mineral fertilizer has been applied nection with this work, showing the phenomenal growth of to the land previous to the planting of the crop to give the fruit industry in the State during the past few years. abundant feed for a great root growth. In an experiment Special attention is called to peach growing and the effect made in North Carolina, it was found that where no of peach yellows on this industry and the methods adopted 330 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [April,

it an advantage to mix plenty of oak leaves with the In Michigan for the control of this disease. We are also manure to make the heat more lasting. with frames in receipt of two circulars dealing with Peach Yellowy But and glass sashes I have never found hot-bed of any and some special phases of the preparation and use of a advantage in starting the hme-sulphur against the San Jose Scale. This report sweet potato plants, and I always bed in pure, clean sand to avoid any fungus growth. F. and the two circulars should be in the hands of all fruit —W. Massey. growers. They can be obtained from office of the State Crop Pest Commission, Blacksburg, Va., on application to CULTIVATION OF RHUBARB. the State Entomologist, Professor J. L. Phillips. C. L. Allen, Long Island, N. Y. FORMULAE FOR SPRAYING. All varieties of rhubarb are readily propagated from seed although generaly root division early spring. Editor Southern Planter: by in On many accounts, prefer growing the roots from In the March issue of The Planter just received, on page we seed. In whatever way it may be increased, the soil in 216 (Formula for Spray Mixtures), you say Bordeaux Mix- which it is grown should be worked very deeply, and ture, (2), copper sulphate, 3 pounds; unslaked lime, 6 made rich to insure the full development of the leaf pounds; water, 50 gallons, for all stone fruits after leaf- stalks, for upon their size, rapidity of growth, and con- ing out I have found this amount injures peach trees, sequent tenderness of tissue, much of their merit depends. making them drop their foliage. I use one and a half The seed should be sown in drills feet apart, and pounds copper sulphate, three pounds lime, fifty gallons two the plants thinned to six inches in the drill. In the water, which is perfectly safe and about as strong as can autumn following they will be fit to transplant into per- be safely applied on foliage. This is used as a preventive manent beds, to be set three feet apart in the rows, for monilia rot (ripe rot), and I have found it quite which should be four feet apart. For the first year the effective. Professor Alwood gave me this formula some ground between the rows be used for lettuce, beans years ago. may or low-growing crop; but after the second year the In your copper sulphate solution you say copper sulphate, any leaves will cover the whole space, and require it all for two to four pounds, and fifty gallons water for dormant their full development. trees, i have used this form of solution for many years, and never use more than two and a half pounds copper The after culture consists in keeping the ground clear from weeds and to encourage rapid growth, breaking off sulphate to fifty gallons water, nor less. This is an old the flower stalks as appear, and their development formula, and possibly yours is more up-to-date. Where they and seed producing not use up the plant food required did you find it? (This was advised by the Virginia may for the roots. Experiment Station.—Ed.) We have found that we get This plant is admirably adapted for forcing. Upon the less sediment and a "smoother" mixture by using seven- approach of freezing weather, take desired number teen and a half or even twenty pounds of lime to fifteen up a cover pounds sulphur (flowers) in the lime, sulphur and salt of clumps and put them under an open shed, and with a little soil. After a good hard freezing, bring in mixture. It is also said that salt is an unnecessary arti- a few clumps and place them near the furnace, la the cle, though I have never omitted it yet, believing it cer- cellar or greenhouse bench, with earth tainly does no harm, and may do good. under a and cover fairly moist. short time Albemarle Co., Va. WALTER WHATELY, or sand, and keep Within a Secretary State Horticultural Society. the stems will be long enough for cutting. The flavor is much better than that grown in the ope*. Rhubarb MAKING A HOT-BED FOR STRIKING SWEET intended for forcing should not be cut the previous season, POTATOES. but given the highest cultivation, in order to make strong crowns, as upon these the new growth derives its I propose to make a hot-bed for striking sweet potatoes. strength.—American Agricultural Trust. A man here who raises a good many uses corn stalks; I propose to use cobs. These are put in for drainage. Will Did you ever hear a farmer say that he has no use work well stalks? the cobs as as the for a garden—that it does not pay? The man is a loser FRED WETHERBEE. who holds to such notions. He misses the pleasures of having vegetables to eat in their season, and he has to Using the cloth, you may need some gentle bottom heat pay household expenses which would not accrue if a good in the bed. Bedding sweet potatoes in sand, I use glass garden were allowed to contribute to the food supply. sashes only, and after bedding keep them close till the Mushmelons and cucumbers should be planted in the sprouting begins, when I give some air. But you can make hot-bed by the middle of the month. Look out for mice, a better hot-bed for sweet potatoes by using wet oak moles and beetles. These pests can do a lot of harm leaves and tramping them down tight in a pit three feet in a short time. Trap the moles, poison the mice, and deep. A little fresh lime scattered through the leaves drive out the beetles by dusting the plants with wood- will hasten the fermentation. Or, you can use spent tan aches tainted with kerosene or turpentine. bark from a tan yard, if it is handy. Either of these will be better than the corn cobs or corn stalks, unless the Stick some cucumber seeds in a pasteboard box and stalks were finely shredded, and either of them will be have them ready to set out, two inches high, when other less likely to encourage rot than a hot-bed made with people are planting the seeds in the ground. Then you manure. In making a manure hot-bed I have always found can enjoy cucumbers so much earlier. 1908.] THE SOUTHEKN PLANTER. 331 Live Stock and Dairy.

SOME CONSIDERATIONS IN JUDGING SWINE. 6. Constitution vigorous, robust, showing size and Editor Southern Planter: substance 5 B. Head and Neck: It is now generally recognized that there is a distinct 7. Snout of medium length and fineness 1 delation between the conformation of hogs and their utility 8. Eyes full, mild, bright and large 1 for certain purposes, and, owing to the greater difficulty 9. Face short, cheeks full 1 of producing pork with high-priced cereals at a profit, a 10. Forehead broad, high and full 1 study of a standard for swine should be beneficial to all 11. Ears of medium size, fine and soft ± 'interested in breeding this class of live stock. It is gen- 12. Jowl strong, neat and broad 1 erally recognized that swine are among the most profit- 13. Neck of medium length, thick 1 able animals produced on the farm, if handled skilfully, C. Forequarters: and though vast improvement has been effected in the 14. Shoulder vein full 1 rorni and character of the carcass in the past few years, 15. Shoulder broad, deep and full; top compact. ... 7 much remains to be done. A discussion of a standard 16. Breast full and wide 2 for swine will therefore not be improper at the present 17. Legs straight, short and strong; feet medium time, and may serve to crystallize the half-formed ideas size 3 of many breeders into concrete conceptions of what they D. Body: should seek for in selecting their breeding stock. It may IS. Chest deep and broad; girth large 10 also emphasize more clearly to the mind of the layman 19. Sides deep, lengthy and closely ribbed 8 that the use of a larger number of sires of marked quality 20. Back broad and straight; thickly and evenly and possessed of desirable characteristics is a matter of fleshed 4 serious import to them. 21. Loin wide and thick 3 In discussing a standard for swine, it is well to bear 22. Belly straight 2 in mind that it must of necessity vary somewhat with 23. Flank even with underline 1 each particular breed. Therefore, it can only be taken up E. Hindquarters: in a general way. It is also well to remember that there 24. Hips wide apart and smooth 3 are two quite clearly defined classes of swine irrespective 25. Rump long, wide, straight and evenly fleshed 4 of breed raised in this country. The one type is known 26. Hams deep, wide and heavily fleshed 8 familiarly as the lard type and is a product of the corn 27. Thighs iieshed close to hocks 4 belt of the United States. This hog is characterized by the 28. Twist deep and plump 1 free production of fat as a covering over the body and a 29. Tail tapering 1 large amount of lard, more particularly in the region of I 30. Legs straight, short and strong; feet of the kidneys. The other type is rather longer in the leg, medium size 4 somewhat flatter in the ribs, and similar in the body with a deep side, and the head is longer and more pointed. Total 100 This type is now coming to be more generally known a3 Among the more important considerations taken up under the bacon type. » the first head are weight according to age, an important It will aow be proper to proceed to a consideration of factor to be clearly fixed in the mind of the farmer who what may be termed a general standard for swine, and, hopes to make pork production profitable. Many have If necesary, to later define the difference between the their standard on this point entirely too low, due to the characteristics sought in these two general types, for it fact that the hogs are not of the right quality or not fed Is the principles or fundamentals of swine production that so as to keep them growing uniformly from the birth concern the general reader. The score card for swine is period to maturity. There cannot be a very clear idea as based on a total of one hundred points divided under five to the proper conformation that should be sought in the general headings, the first dealing with the general appear- hog or else there would be a smaller number of long- ance, the second with the head and neck, the third with legged, long-snouted porkers seen on our farms. .A good the forequarters, the fourth with the body, and the fifth type of hog, whether bred chiefly for bacon or lard pro- with the hindquarters. duction, should have a deep, broad, low, symmetrical con- Scale of Points for Swine. formation, and while compactness is desirable, the middle Perfect piece of the bacon hog will, of course, be longer and A. General Appearance: Score. deeper in proportion than that of the lard type. Quality L Estimated weight lbs., actual lbs. is an essential and important consideration in swine and 2. Weight according to age, 6-8 months, 200-250 this Is indicated by fine hair, thin skin and clean bone. lbs 6 Of course, the bone should be of sufficient weight to carry

3. Form, deep, broad, low, symmetrical, compact, tke body easily, but a coarse bone is indicative of poor standing squarely on legs 6 feeding qualities and slowness in maturing. A quiet dis- 4. Quality: bone clean, hair silky, skin fine 6 position is an important consideration In any breed of

5. Disposition quiet 4 hogs. There should be every indication of a vigorous con- 332 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [April,

stitution, as shown by what are more familiarly known as the streaking of fat and lean will not be so well marked. size and substance and breadth and depth through the Therefore, those who propose to breed the bacon type chest. should give especial attention to the length, depth and- The snout of a well-bred hog will be rather short and character of the side, and especially to the quality shown comparatively fine. The Tamworths are somewhat of an in the slaughtered animal. It is, of course, true that the

exception to this rule, but it will not be improper at this flesh of hogs of any breed will be influenced, to a certain time to say that though the bacon hog is not as smooth and extent, by the character of food given, but this discussion

symmetrical in appearance as the lard type, yet if a repre- presupposes that the bacon hog will be raised on grazing, sentative of one of the well-defined bacon breeds, he is crops or on foods in which protein elements predominate- possessed of many attributes embraced under the term largely. A broad, straight back, slightly arched, but thick- quality, and is not an ungainly, long-legged, cathammed ly and evenly fleshed, is always desirable, and a loin that, animal, as many have supposed. This idea has probably is wide and thick is an essential characteristic of any- gained undue prominence in the minds of many breeders good breed. The flanks should be low to the ground and" because of the success attending the production of hams the underline comparatively straight. in many parts of the South from a hog of a very exag- The hips should be wide apart, smooth and level. This-

gerated bacon type. This animal, however, 1 is the pro- is necessary to insure the development of a large ham, and

duct of indiscriminate breeding, is not the representative as this constitutes the most desirable meat in the carcass of any breed, nor does he possess the ideals that should these points cannot be emphasized too strongly, provided characterize a good bacon type. While much success has the symmetry and correlation of parts in the body are- attended the efforts of farmers who are producing bacon properly preserved. In other words, the over-development

and hams from this class of hogs, it is generally recog- of any part is to be deplored, as it indicates inherent weak-

nized by those who arc thoroughly familiar with the situa, nesses, which it is not necessary to discuss at this time. Lion that improvement can be effected by the use of A long rump, wide, straight and evenly fleshed, is an improved sires of the clearly defined bacon types on native important condition, and, of course, the hams should be- stocks of the character under discussion. particularly deep, wide and heavily fleshed. An over-

Naturally, the eyes of a healthy hog will be full, bright abundance of fat on the ham is not at all desirable, and large. Small eyes showing a large amount of white because the fat is, to a very considerable extent,. are objectionable, indicating a bad disposition, which is not a waste product, and the quality of the ham will be deter- characteristic of animals that fatten advantageously. A mined largely by the proper blending of the fat and lean. well-defined and broad forehead, ears of medium size, a The thigh should be fleshed down close to the hocks so- jowl that is strong, neat and broad, but not overpendant, as to insure the production of a large, plump ham. a neck rather short, thick, wide and deep are all charac- These are some of the more important considerations teristics to be sought in the lard type of hog, and for the that should be clearly fixed in the mind of the hog grower- most part in the bacon type as well, except possibly that and he should strive by every legitimate means to secure the neck is a little thinner and not quite so well developed them in the animals he is handling. Of course, the stand- as in the lard type. dard for the pure-bred will necessitate the breeder giving

An important point in any breed of swine is to have the special attention to these points, but it is the general shoulder vein, or what is sometimes called the neck vein, grower of hogs that is more in need of brushing up on what well defined. A broad, deep and full shoulder and a wide, really constitutes a good animal, setting his standard full l»e*st are important considerations in any breed. higher, and striving by every means within his power to Locomotion being an important consideration so the ani- obtain animals of superior quality whatever his purpose mal can get around freely and gather food, particularly in maintaining them may be. Of course, in a short arti- if he is to be fattened on grazing crops, calls for legs that cle, it is impossible to go into many of the fine points that are straight, short and strong and well placed under the might be taken up with propriety, but it is the general body. There is a tendency to weakness of bone in some or fundamental considerations that must first be impressed of the pure-breds, due, possibly, to a failure to give them on the farmer before improvement can be hoped for, and if" as, much exercise as is necessary to properly develop the he becomes interested in the study of animal form and bones, and to an attempt to secure over-refinement of its relation to economic production, he will quickly come bone on the part of the breeders. Activity and capacity to realize the value of many minor points which have not to rustle, even at the expense of extreme fineness of bone, been mentioned in this article and the value of which he is a matter that should never be overlooked. has probably not fully appreciated before.

It is desirable that girth in the hog be large. The lard There is a striking contrast between the lard and bacon type will be more nearly round at this point than the bacon types, and as there is a growing and discriminating market type. The sides should be deep, long and closely ribbed, in this country for pork products of high quality, those and this' is a characteristic that is especially emphasized farmers who are situated in regions where cereals are in the bacon type because the utility of this hog depends comparatively high-priced but where the legumes can be very considerably on the character of this part of the car- grown for grazing crops, thus insuring the cheap produc- cass. The bacon hog should have a finely-blended flesh, tion of pork, should give more attention to the bacon type characterized by what is familiarly known as a "streak of and study the qualities and characteristics sought more fat and a streak of lean." The lard type, on the other carefully, and by grading up on the native stocks obtain hand, will have a thick covering of fat over the body and larger returns per individual animal in the yield of meat 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER 33;

from the slaughtered carcass, and a better price because To illustrate the importance of intelligence and profit, he of the superior quality of the meat which may be produced related the following incident: by intelligent feeding without the use of any considerable Professor Wing, of Cornell, wanted to demonstrate the quantity of high-priced grain. man side of the question. He selected a herd of cows In many instances where breeding is carried on with- that had been kept by an unprogressive dairyman, and out reference to proper ideals, a large proportion of cheap, had given a very poor account of itself. Profesor Wing rough meat that sells for a low price is obtained. The bought the herd, but left it on the farm under the care same food fed to a different type of animals would pro- of its previous owner for a year. During this time he duce a considerably larger amount of high-priced meat and made frequent visits to the farm and got a complete record affect the sale price of the hogs very materially. of the work of the herd. At the end of the year the herd The production of bacon hogs has not assumed large was taken to the Experiment Station. They were put proportions in the United States, but, as already mentioned, under the care of a better manager and looked after there is a growing demand for animals of this character properly. Feed was more expensive, but the milk flow of and this demand is likely to be accentuated in the future these cows greatly increased. They were kept at the because of the rapid development of industries and a con- Station for three years and, during that time, gave more sequent increase of population in many sections where corn than double the amount of milk that they had given on cannot be as cheaply produced as in the middle West. the farm, and the revenue from their milk was consider- There will thus, in the near future, be a well-defined mar- ably larger. The fourth year the herd was sent back to ket for pork products of the highest type and quality, its previous owner aud subjected to the same miserable and it will pay farmers in various localities to develop conditions that formerly existed. As a result, at the end a special grade of meat for a given market just as it now of the year, the cows were giving just about as much pays them to grow various kinds of truck crops and fruit. milk as they did when he had been there four years previ- That a profitable industry can be built up in a short time ously. This goes to show that the bad showing of the has been markedly shown by the success attending the cows was due to the man, the cows were not at fault. efforts of Canadian and Danish hog raisers in the English There we have it in a nutshell.—Hoard's Dairyman. market, and it is desirable that breeders should study more particularly what the English market demands and a fair DAIRYING IN VIRGINIA. average of the prices obtained there for the various cuts. Editor Southern Planter: The English method of cutting varies considerably from What a future the State of Virginia, and, in fact, the that followed in Chicago, which is the standard for this whole South, holds for the dairyman! All about us we country, a fact worthy of careful note, for we have now see the results of new inspiration and broader and better learned that in entering an established market we must knowledge, among the agriculturalists. In this rejuvena- conform to the wishes of the class to whom we propose tion of the immense agricultural interests of Virginia the to cater if profitable returns are to be obtained. dairy must have its share of attention, if the State is to This question of bacon production, while not one of experience its best and broadest development. When so wide concern in many sections of the United States, should large a portion of the butter and cheese consumed in the not be passed over lightly, for there is a growing demand State comes from farms outside of the State, it is time for the product of hogs that approximate the true bacon for us to get busy. A small portion of the dairy products type quite closely, and this demand Is bound to increase of Virginia is shipped to points outside of the State; not- more rapidly as our people become familiar with the ably milk and cream to Washington, a phase of dairying superior quality of meats which show a fine blending of in which many of us in the northern part of the State fat and lean as compared with the over-fat bacon and are engaged. The quantity that is, or will ever be, dis- hams produced from the exclusive feeding of corn. Furth- posed of in this manner is small indeed in comparison ermore, it may not be improper to mention that spring with the amount that should be produced within the State pigs raised on grazing crops can be made into profitable in order to supply the full demand of home consumption porkers at comparatively small cost by the late autumn in Virginia. and that they are more likely to be free from disease than It would be interesting to know how many cows there those confined in pens. The Southern States afford one of are in the State from which marketable milk, cream, the best opportunities for raising this class of meat of any cheese or butter is .made, and the total returns for the section because of the ease with which we can grow the products sold. So far as I am able to find, the Commis- grazing crops and the length of time that these are avail- sioner's report reveals nothing along that line. It is to able for grazing. We can make in this way meat at less be hoped that the new Department will see fit to glean cost than any other section of this country, and our farm- data of that character. ers^ should devote more attention to this branch of industry There are many phases of industrial life that never than they have hitherto done. impress me quite so strongly in their relation to income ANDREW M. SOULE. as by comparison. I read some time ago an article in College of Agriculture, Athens, Ga. Hoard's Dairyman giving a report of the number of cows in the State of Wisconsin, the number of men engaged in DAIRY EDUCATION. . dairying, and the annual income from the cows. I recol- At a recent meeting of the Eastern Ontario Dairymen's lect that there was said to be about three thousand cream- Association, Professor Pearson spoke on Dairy Education. eries and cheese factories in the State, to which some- 334 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER [April,

thing like sixty thousand farmers contributed the milk sible, the cows which do not keep a safe balance in their ] from over half a milion cows. These cows returned to bank accounts. their owners something like twenty^five million dollars I hope to have the privilege of presenting, in some sub- annually. What a tidy sum that is to be the income from sequent issue of The Planter, my views on the various the cows on the farm. How good we would feel if a like phases of the dairy industry, taking up each separately. sum were coming to the pockets of the farmers of Vir- For the present, however, I want to propose three lusty ginia each year from their cows. We would then be large- cheers for the Virginia State Dairymen's Association, and ly independent of the fertilizer trust and the rest of them, tthe good work that it has inaugurated in the first year of and would practically eliminate note settlements for fer- its existence. Let us hope that the new office of Dairy tilizer and machinery. and Food Commissioner will bring us many good things The future holds as much for the dairy interests of Vir- as the years go by. ORVILLE A. THOMAS. ginia as it ever held for them in any other State; more, it seems to me now, as I look forward a few years, and con- Fauquier Co., Va. template the development that is surely coming. Certain it is that all intelligent dairymen who are located so that We heartily welcome this contribution to our columns. they can supply milk and cream for city trade, or can We shall be indeed pleased to find space for full discus- patronize creameries and cheese factories, can live happy sion of dairying problems to be confronted and mastered and independent lives, if only they will follow a few well by our farmers. We have always strongly emphasized the defined principles which are employed in all lines of suc- importance of farmers keeping cattle and have repeatedly cessful business. said that there was an opening for dairying in this State It is imperative, first of all, that a man shall have the second to none. The evidence of this is the fact that we good sense to realize that the business of farming or buy 86 per cent, of the dairy products we consume outside dairying as distinctly requires application and energy as the State. Unfortunately, our people have had so little any other line of business. He must also have the dis- experience in this branch of husbandry that we have been position to bestow upon this work his inteligence and unable to secure its discussion in our columns to the energy. It is also imperative that he shall know, or shall extent to which we desired. We rejoice with our corres- immediately learn to select, the right kind of cows. He pondent in the success of the effort made by the Dairy- must learn to recognize dairy form and temperament in men's Association in securing the appointment of a Dairy cows. After having his cows, he must secure the most Commissioner with an appropriation to support this effort. economical production of feed, and at the same time must We shall look to see great results from this and especially secure as wide a range of variety as possible. And then, shall we look shortly to see a census of our live stock, espe- with as much attention and forethought as any good busi- cially of our pure-bred and dairy herds, so that we may ness man gives to a successful business enterprise, he know where we stand. We have repeatedly urged that must open an account with each cow, and must know, as this work should be done, but hitherto without any effect. the days go by, whether his cows, or any of them, are It is a reflection on the Commissioner of Agriculture and not paying him well for his time, labor and feed. Lastly, the State Board that we are still in the dark as to the perhaps, he must eliminate from his herd, as soon as pos- number of pure-bred dairy and beef cattle in the State.—Ed.

OVERTON HALL FARM. Among the foremost breeding estab- lishments in the South is Overton Hall Farm, Nashville, Tenn., owned by J. M. Overton, Esq., and under the management of Mr. Reuben Gentry. Since Mr. Gen- try took hold some three years ago, the panoramic view of the farm has been changed. Buildings have been construct- ed and arranged for the feeding, handling and care of the animals with a minimum of cost and maximum of comfort and convenience. Paddocks have been laid out and all accessories arranged for the proper breeding of strictly high-class stock. In the selection of the breeding herds, every effort of Mr. Gentry to secure only animals of the greatest individuality and best breeding has been heartily seconded by the proprietor, with the result that 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 335

in 1906 this farm won 80 prizes on Jer- seys at 72 shows,, and 155 prizes on Berk- shires at 123 shows—all State Fairs. The record on the 1907 Circuit was simply a succession of victories never before equalled in the history of the breeds. With an absolutely complete plant, stocked with the bluest of blood of the respective breeds, "Overton Hall's" influ- ence and imprint is being felt and seen on the live stock industry of the South. The recent Public Sale of Berkshires, February 24th, proves this. Practically the entire offering went to Southern buy- ers, who paid good prices for good stock, showing that the South has the money to invest in a first-class article. In addition to a splendid equipment and splendid stock, "Overton Hall's" business methods must necessarily add to its popularity and public favor. In the first place, it puts its reputation behind every purchase. all animals are registered at actual cost—75 cents. Full extended pedigrees are furnished with all animals An invitation is extended our readers to visit the farm and proper registration papers are made out free and and inspect the stock.

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LIVE STOCK IN THE SOUTH ATLANTIC COAST his county alone at least $75,000 worth of fat cattle, be- STATES. sides hundreds of feeders and thousands of lambs, are sold each year to Pennsylvania, Maryland and Northern In writing on this subject in our last issue, we inad- markets. He says that he believes Highland county has vertently did an injustice to a section of this State which better bred cattle and sheep than any other county in has been pointed out to us and which we hasten to cor- Virginia. We recognize that Mr. Sullenberger is right in rect. We said that outside of southwest Virginia the making his protest against our statement. We wrote hur- rest of the State and the other Southern States only riedly and inadvertently made the statement too broad. made a grade of beef so low that it could not pay the That we should have done so illustrates how important cost of production. We ought to have excepted from thiss. it is that we should have readily available a census of statement that portion of the northwestern part of this the number and value of live stock in each county in the State bordering on West Virginia. In these counties, State. We have repeatedly urged that this should be notably in Highland, Augusta, Rockingham, Shenandoah, made, but the State Department of Agriculture has done Frederick and Clarke, there are fine herds of cattle and nothing in the matter. No man any where in the State flocks of sheep kept and prime beef and mutton made or out of it has the means of ascertaining the facts on for the northern markets. One of our subscribers from this subject except once in ten years from the United Highland county, Mr. Sullenberger, writes us that from States census.

Farmers are increasing their breeding to supply the neighborhood needs one or two good stallions, but few great industrial demand for more good draft hrses as the more can be imported for this spring breeding and there demand is far greater than the supply. are not enough imported and home-bred stallions now The horse importers and breeders who have faith in available to supply the demand. their horses are selling their stallions at their regular prices, and must get more horses to supply the demand. The export trade would take large orders if the horses Farmers should rally to their breeding and get all of could be bought right, but the farmers are masters of the best high-grade and pure-bred draft mares to breed thesituation. The demand, in spite of the panic, is great- regardless of price to get into the market as soon as er than the supply and with all the possible breeding we possible with more good big geldings. Almost every cannot supply the growing demand for several years. 336 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [April.

The Poultry Yard. gg

POULTRY NOTES. ing. A few drops of rain from a passing cloud sends them into the brooder pellmell. Less three The busy days are here now for the poultryman. The than week* old, but they long ago have learned the story a- cheerful song of the busy hen, the merry cackle, the of mother's love. What do we feed them? Coarse corn meal moist shrill notes of the chanticlere, the busy, contented peep- ened with sweet milk, cracked corn, whole wheat, a few peep of the hundreds of little chicks, all tend to make oat flakes, wheat rneal„ steamed three to four hours untii glad the heart of the hen man. There is an ever return it is soft, grit, oyster shell, and, once per day, a small ing newness in the poultry business to the man and feed of parched corn, parched until some of it is black,; woman who really loves the business lor more than the This is run through a hand-mill and broken so they can hard cash gained by it. Every chick possible should be eat it. This is ^he best form of charcoal. Fresh watei gotten out of the shell this month and next. We must and heat completes the story. It is folly try to raise be especially watchful of the breeding stock to be sure to chicks without brooders and brooder houses. may they have plenty of the right land of feed. Good, sound One raise a few by means of boxes and hot-water jugs, but corn, wheat, oats, wheat bran, meat meal, oyster shell, when it comes to hundreds of them, deliver me. Good grit, charcoal, and a run on the grass will keep them busy motherly hens will raise them if you have the hens and looking for nests. A few days ago I took seventeen eggs can keep them free from lice and mites. from one nest in one day. I have thirty nests for my Several subscribers ask for a feed ration to make yel- flock of nearly three hundred layers, and it is real amus- low yolks. complain that the yolks are almosft ing to watch them during the busy part of the day. Many white. breeds and some strains are inclined to lay Twenty-four of these nests are exactly alike, but the Some eggs with pale yolks. Some people feed too much cab- hens don't think so. Five or six of them will quarrel bage, salsify, Irish potatoes and vegetables of all kinds. and fight about one particular nest like a lot of politicians ration, with white corn, will make white or pale about a rotten plank in a platform that not one of them Such a less vegetables, clover in some form, and intends to stand on. But the hen means business. She yolks. Feed corn. Southern eggs are always quoted lower in wants to lay her egg in her nest. She wants to add her yellow markets than Western eggs, and it is on account mite to the revenues of the day. She does this and many Northern of this paleness of the yolk. My feed always includes times is too busy to cackle about it, whilst the politi- yellow corn per day. Clover in some form, cian does nothing but draw his salary and his breath one feed of green or in the form of alfalfa meal, or cut clover and flop his wings and cackle. either steamed and fed in the bran mash. Also feed sail! Our first hatch came off February 26th. The madam the at the rate of one teaspoonful to twenty insisted on putting them in boxes and keeping them in in mash feed sulphur. This will make pale the house. She has a soft place under the ribs on her hens daily. Some yolks. Plenty of sunshine also makes them more yellow. left side, and I indulge it. The chicks were put in the Several write about fowls losing their tale feathers, Tboxes, the heater kept at fever heat, but the chicks me the feathers about the head and neck. One man longed to get the soles of their feet in contact with and hens have some disease that causes their Mother Earth. And they longed and waited and pined writes: "My tail feathers to die and come off, leaving a dead quill and homesickness set in and a few of them went "home." in the flesh." This is not a disease, but is caused by an The cheerful peep gave way to discordant notes, and insect that feeds on the feathers. You can see grey the music they made was like unto the nerve-racking clusters of them just above the quill in the fine web of screech of a cracked violin in the hands of a frolicking ever found: gar- the feathers. Here is the best remedy I have boy who is trying to drive rats out of an abandoned ounces turpentine, two chicks must go Six ounces neats foot oil, two ret. The madam became frantic. Those ounces of oil of tar, and two ounces oil of origanum. into the Iwooder at once. The lamp was trimmed and the affected parts with pipes, new Shake well together and rub onto filled, boiling water put into the tank and a soft cloth or sponge. This will kill the insects and hover clothes put in, and the chicks transferred to it. heal the skin and new feathers will soon appear. This When they felt the warm, downy cloth on their backs, homesickness is one of the best healing liniments I have ever used for all was serene as a summer day and the scratches, harness and saddle galls on horses, or any old disappeared and the discord became the music of con- sores on human flesh. This receipt is worth more than tentment and home cheer. The first night a few of them no four times the cost of The Planter for a year. gave way to that "everlasting longing," and were more. Then they braced up and every one since that Here is another question: "What ails my hens? Their morning has kept the pledge and is on the way to use- combs turn purple or black; the hens stand around foi Heat. fulness. What did we do? What did they need? a day or two, then crawl into some out-of-the-way place the Drop- Heat in contact with their backs. Exercise on and die. One or two go this way every week. at is ground in the open air. Feed given often and a little pings, yellowish green." Many call this cholera. It a time. inflammation of the liver. Give the Douglass mixture ifc look into the yard and see the drinking water. I have given this several times in As I write these notes, I Planter, but wll give it again: Dissolve eight ounces them scurrying about, unmindful of the strong wind blow- The 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 337 sulphate of iron in two gallons of water. Put into a gave the late chicks the same care that the older ones jug and add one ounce sulphuric acid. Shake well before received. Each brood began laying at just about seven using. Put in the drinking water at the rate of one-half months, the August pullets being as prompt as any, and gallons of water. Kill and they pint of the mixture to four have made large birds. They are in full laying now burn the sick fowls and you can stop the disease. at the very beginning of the natural hatching season, and Highland Springs Va. CAL HUSSELMAN. mature enough to make good, safe breeding stock. On March 17th the best hens sold by the coop in Wash- PURE-BRED NOTES. ingon at 15 cents per pound. I put one of these August pullets on the Editor Southern Planter: scales and she weighed six and three- quarter pounds. There was a value of $1.00 at wholesale In your February issue I outlined my plan for develop- prices for table use at seven months, 10 days of age, ing a flock, of Barred Plymouth Rocks as far as it may and that for August chicks. prove profitable without becoming too burdensome to a Does it pay to feed chicks all they will eat from the family force of six growing children. start? Can you do some things with good stock which The general proposition is that with a foundation stock you cannot, do with scrubs? of females bred by our own family for thirty-two years Can you best afford to bother with early chicks in cold under free range farm conditions, and averaging at weather and let them hunt a living and mature slowly maturity about a pound above the standard weight of the all summer, or hatch them in the natural season, feed breed, we needed some pronounced egg strain as an out- abundantly, hurry on the maturity, and shorten the unpro- cross, and for this purpose I secured two males from the ductive period by two months? two hundred egg strain of the Maine Experiment Station. The man with some good strain of thoroughbreds will Now, I have to confess that these males, coming from have his answer to these questions. If they set some one a line selected by egg record alone for 'eight years, are else to thinking, they have accomplished half their both small and off-color as compared with my own cocke- pur- pose; if he acts, they have accomplished all. rels, and I am advising everybody who knows what a good Vienna, Fairfax Co., Va. w. A. Plymouth Rock looks like to go slow on this stock until SHERMAN. they are sure it suits them. MORE MONEY FROM OUR POULTRY. In my own flock, I have colonized my hens and pullets elsewhere until these two Maine males have not a pullet A Selling Plan. with them which weighs less than six and a half pounds, Editor Southern Planter: and, I think, not a hen under eight pounds. Since many Some of your readers have asked me for the addresses of these females are very strong in color, I hope to get of reliable commission merchants in Washington who a fair proportion of handsome as well as useful birds. handle first-class products. This has set me to thinking However, we are literally not putting all our eggs in more particularly about the best ways of selling our one basket, for we have separated two flocks of our own poultry products, and I conclude that we who raise good stock where we use our own large males, aiming to keep table poultry should learn a lesson from the successful up our size for future use, and to-day I colonized a little fruit growers' associations, which do so large a part- of flock of eight old hens, each of which has a well-known the fruit shipping of the West. history of productiveness as well as a very attractive per- The cardinal principle of these organizations is that sonality, and most of them going over the eight-pound nothing can be sold under the Association name and brand mark on the scales. which does not come up to an established standard, and Here I use a blocky male of the best color my flock that every man must dispose of his culls s under his own affords—a bird weighing about nine pounds at eight name and in his own way. Following this plan, the brand months—and from this little flock I want males to use of the association comes to stand for recognized quality, with the pullets raised from the Maine matings. I am risk- and the buyer knows just how many apples will be found ing these hens nearly a half-mile from the house in order in each package of given dimensions. Thus each man to get a few chicks, which I will know to come from soma helps to establish the general reputation of all, and a of the best layers of my large type. wide market is secured and higher prices realized than is It is by attention to details like this that strains of high possible for the individual shipper who sends his goods value, either as layers, table fowls, or exhibition stock, into the general trade. are produced. Does it not seem to furnish a reason why Now, the man who sends a good, uniform coop of well- stock thus carefully bred on free range is worth more fed poultry to the Washington market' may get the high- than stock raised in a promiscuous flock or in a series of est price, and yet he may not. If the merchant is over- small yards in close quarters? loaded that day, or the market dull, his coop may chance I have a word to say about the time of hatching. The to go in with a large number of ordinary quality at a early chick is always popular, and I am always glad lump price per pound. If his birds reach an appreciative when some one else wants to buy all my February and buyer, it is so long before he sends another coop that March eggs for hatching, as has been the case this year. his name is forgotten, if the buyer ever knew it. In fact, I had not a chick hatched last year before the twenty- the buyer seldom knows the grower's name, as he deals third of April, and it will be about that time this year wholly with the commission house, and if he gets good

when our first get out. These pullets laid at seven months stock he i simply comes back looking for. more good chick- and made big hens. We hatched up to August 5th and ens, and not for Smith's or Brown's or Jones' chickens. 338 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [April,

Now, my idea is that if a large number of farmers and and a more stable market. Mr. Sherman is a thoroughly; poultrymen who are raising good table poultry—using responsible man and one well qualified from long experi- males of any of the well-known table breeds, such as Ply- ence in marketing poultry to inaugurate the new move- mouth Rocks, Wyandottes, Rhode Island Reds, Orpingtons, ment.—Ed. or even Light Brahams—would agree to use a uniform and distinctive shipping tag, and to consign to the same NOTES ON CO-OPERATIVE POULTRY SELLING. commission house, each man agreeing to ship nothing Editor Southern Planter: under the Association's tag which did not show good table The members of the proposed Southern Table Poultry quality and to dispose of his culls otherwise, then the sell- Club could do much toward attracting a good class of buy- ing house would have a sufficient number of coops of good ers by observing some simple rules in shipping which will grade so that buyers would know where to go for uniform help to keep live birds in good condition. One thing is good quality and would know that the coops with the tag to make sure that the droppings are fairly solid before marked "Southern Table Poultry Club" contained only the birds start, and to bring about this condition a good well-fed birds of fairly uniform quality and size. proportion of oats should be fed for a few days before Thus while Mr. A, B, and C would each ship under his shipment and soaked oats or other whole grain should own name and would get Ms own individual returns, yet, be the last food before starting. by using the tag of the Club, each would help establish Express charges will not be materially increased by a a reputation for all. little sawdust, chaff, or even fine-cut hay or straw in the During the last thirty years we have bred only pure crates. Any precaution which makes for cleanliness will Barred Plymouth Rocks—a large strain of high table pay in the long run, and is likely to pay on each shipment. quality—and have sold hundreds of males to farmers to The Club would attract attention to its stock if every improve the common stock. I observe that in almost all member would attach a card to his shipment, or to each oases the cross-bred or half-blood chickens show much of coop or crate stating that the fowls therein had been on- the color and the yellow legs and good size of the male full grain feed since date, inserting the date parent. The same is true, to a greater or less extent, when full feeding began, which, of course, should be of all the other good table breeds. It would only be "since hatching." necessary to use good males, and to promise to ship no No man can expect to catch a lot of half-grown chicks sick, poor, or black chickens under the Club's tag, to out of a mixed flock of all ages and have them accepted build up a trade which would bring us enough increase of as full grain-fed because he has thrown out a lot of grain price to cover several times over the cost of all the pure twice a day for old and young to scramble for. Full feed- stock we would need to buy and the value of all culls ing means that each chick must actually have a full crop sold to local dealers. of grain at least twice a day. Black chickens may be good to eat, but the Washington If shippers, all using the Club's tag and all testifying market does not like them, and the best prices can be to the fact of full feeding, would actually see to it that had for coops containing no black birds. nothing went into those shipments which did not in its

I have no interest in any commission house or com- condition bear out the claims made for it, then the best mercial business of any kind in Washington, but I am class of buyers would soon be putting in advance orders in a position to secure correct knowledge each day of the with the selling house for stock coming under the Club's real state of the market and would know whether or not tag, and every shipper would get the benefit of a reputa- our fowls ware bringing us the right prices. The best tion which he had helped to make but could never have commission men will be glad to get this trade. made alone. This plan can be made to include both live and dressed The Secretary should be notified by postal of each ship- poultry and both old and young. As the Club's member- ment with brief statement of number of crates or fowls ship grew and the quality of its members' shipments be- shipped. This is to enable him to check up the business came known, its trade would be sought by other selling with the sellers and to know what the volume of the houses and better terms could be made than any indi- Club's output really is in case he thinks best to offer its vidual shipper could secure for himself. trade to another house.

I am willing to undertake to act as Secretary for such The weak point in the plan as here outlined is that a club, and will answer personally or through The the Secretary has made no provision for his own compen- Planter all who wish to join in this movement. sation or for clerk hire, and, therefore, could not devote The organization need not cost the members a cent ex- as much time and postage to personal correspondence as cept that postage must be enclosed when inquiries are he would like to do. He surely could not answer any written. The Secretary cannot give both, time and post- communication which did not enclose a stamp and would age. I will be glad to help in any way possible all those have to make The Planter a means of giving all general si who want to improve their poultry even if they are not instructions or suggestions.

interested in my particular breed—Plymouth Rocks—and if all interested ! Now, the readers of The Planter who are : will answer all inquiries which contain a stamp for reply. in the Washington market and who wish to give this Vienna, Va. W. A. SHERMAN. plan a trial, will write me an estimate of the amount or number of fowls they will probably ship per year, I will We commend the foregoing sugestions for improved put the plan before one of the oldest commission houses marketing to the attention of our readers. We are satis- in town and report results. W. A. SHERMAN. fied that cooperative action will result in better returns Vienna, Fairfax Co., Va. 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 339

The Horse.

THE HORSE. was raced and driven on the road until well along in years before being put to breeding, but she has several By W. J. Carter, "Broad Rock." foals at Riverside and they are showing speed, among A Randolph Howard, of Fredericksburg, Va., has sold to them being the bay horse, Matambo, by Matagorda, the Lawrence Jones, Louisville, Ky., the noted show horse, son of Son of Mazatlan, 2:26 and Aid de Clare, by 1 2:26%, Royal Regent, brown gelding, by Bow Bells, 2:19 /4, dam Lord Russell. Fortuna will be bred back to Lord Redmore, dam of Red Sphinx, 2:26%, by Red Wilkes, sec- Roberts and that son of Arion, 2:07% and Nancy Hanks ond dam the great brood mare, Sea Gull, by Strathmore. 2:04 should sire a stake winner from the daughter of Price private, but presumably a snug sum, as a number Florida. Lord Roberts has developed into a splendid of stiff offers have been declined for the elegant son of looking horse of 1,150 pounds and Judge Bennett think? Bow Bells. Before being docked and taught to step high, the bay stallion would trot in 2:05 if placed in trainin? Royal Regent was a fast trotter, being credited with 2:15 again. speed, while in the show ring his career has been of the sensational sort, as brought out and exhibited by Mr. James W. Graves, of this city, has recently purchased Howard at New York and other big places, also at all the five-year-old chesnut gelding, Don Gascon, thorough- of the prominent open affairs in the East and in the bred son of de and Gascon, Longfellow, Virginia Circuit as well, has won championships and blue Don Oro La by and will use him as a hunter. is a fine, big ribbons galore, and established a reputation as a harness Don Gascon horse, over 16 hands high impressive in horse equalled by no other performer in this State. and appearance The son of Don de Oro is now in the stable of W. Lawrence Jones, the purchaser of Royal Regent, is one W. Osborne, of Gordonsville, he is being ridden to of the best known and most critical of horse exhibit- by whom hounds at the semi-weekly ors in America, among his possessions having been the meets of the Blue Run Hun; Club, of Mr. is the great show performer Guy Fortune, 2:11%, and others of Orange. Graves Secretary of Deep at its this note. Run Hunt Club and meets season has ridden regularly to hounds the prize winner, Kinsman, a ver.n handsome brown gelding, by Guardsman. Later on both Since the sale of Royal Regent, Mr. Howard has pur- Don Gascon and Kingsman will be shaped and taken chased of E. Knell, Carthage, Mo., the bay stallion, Royal through the Virginia Horse Show circuit, along with the Swell, 34892, foaled 1901, by Bow Bells, 2:19%, dam the Osborne stable, and both horses are likely to figure as great race mare and producer, Rachel, 2:08%, by Baron blue ribbon winners. Wilkes, 2:18, second dam, one of the very greatest pro- ducing daughters of the immortal George Wilkes, and back of that the golden blood of Mambrino Fatchen, The Virginia Circuit of fairs and race meetings has through Puss Prall, one of the best of foundation brood been formed for 1908, to begin at Galax the first week in mare. With the most fashionable breeding; in fact, his September and to be followed in direct succession by Tazewell, Raonoke, Lynchburg the blood lines are of exceeding richness, he combines indi- Radford, and Richmond, viduality of the rarest sort along with nice size, superb latter to take place during the week of October 5'th-lOth. beauty and finish. Mr. Howard has also purchased ot Walter Janvier, New York, the former owner of Royal The Virginia State Fair Association's third annual exhi- Swell, an elegant two-year-old son of the latter stallion, bition will be held at Richmond and big preparation? from Nianaza, by Robert McGregor. This colt is so hand- are being contemplated for the event. The North Can- some that he has been the means of securing a lot of Una State Fair at Raleigh follows directly after Rich high-class mares for his sire already. Royal Swell will mond and the management is jubilant over the prospec: make the season of 1908 at Allandale Farm, Fredericks- ahead. A series of early closing purses for trotters and burg, Va., and even thus early about forty mares have pacers will be offered through the circuit, while the open been booked to the splendid son of Bow Bells and Rachel. purses will range from $300' to $500 each.

Fortuna, 2:22 the brown mare, by Florida, owned by The first annual special sale of high-class horses a: Judge W. G. Bennett, at Riverside Farm, Weston, West the Southern Stock Yards, Richmond, Va., promises to Virginia, was recently cornered by another mare and a be an important affair. The dates are April 28, 29 and 30. remarkably fine, large Lord Roberts colt kicked out of her, when several hundred head of trotters, pacers, saddlers, which is much regretted by Judge Bennett. Though driving and business horses will be offered, also matched foaled back in 1886, Fortuna is well preserved and a mag- pairs and high steppers. Among the special features o*. nificent looking mare, being over 16 hands high and splen- the affair will be the dispersal sale of the Montezuma didly proportioned, while her breeding is pleasing, too, Farm racing stable, also the stallions, choice brood seeing that her dam was Emily, dam of three, by George mares and young things owned at that well-known breeding Wilkes, 2:22; second dam Sue Stout, dam of Alexis, 2:18, establishment. by Surplus; third dam The Lear Mare, dam of Jim Irving 2:23 and Young Jim, the sire of Trevilian, 2:08%, Fortuna The dispersal sale of trotters, hackneys and thorough- 340 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. QApril, breds owned by the estate of W. N. Wilmer, deceased, horses are the result of long and selective breeding of at Plain Dealing Farm, near Scottsville, in Albemarle thoroughbreds upon the native stock until a perfect typ& county, Virginia, will furnish an opportunity for buyers was established. to secure horses, some of which would not have been parted In Virginia size has been sacrificed to speed. We have* with their late owner, who valued them on account ol no farm horse type in this State, although there are good- rich breeding and good qualities. The sale is fixed for sized horses in some sections. We have very 'fine thor- Wednesday, May 6th, beginning at 1 P. M., and the offer- oughbreds and standard-bred horses and a lot of scrubs, ings include fine stallions, choice brood mares, and young all too light for heavy farm work. Our stock has been things), the get of famous sires like Allerton, 2:09%; steadily degenerating in size compared with other States. Norval, 2:14%; Onward, 2:25%, etc. We have too many stallions of the race-track type. Ini this specializing age the average farmer has no more busi- HEAVES—A REMEDY. ness to breed these types than he has to build automo- Editor Southern Planter: biles. The average Virginia farmer does not breed for n I have seen several inquiries in The Planter as to the market at all, but for his own use only. In fact, we are treatment of horses with heaves. Having a valuable mare annually importing farm horses from Western States. suffering from this disease, and being fairly successful in While the professional breeder may find a profitable mar- treatment, I wish to give my experience for the benefit of ket for race horses of special merit, there is no market any one with horses afflicted in this manner. For feed, at all for such thoroughbred grades as the average farmer one quart of ground oats, one quart ground corn, and one raises. quart wheat bran mixed and thoroughly moistened with water three times a day; good, clean hay of any kind, The Oligarchy can afford race horses and racing auto-

also well moistened so there will be no dust, and twice a mobiles; the farmer needs threshing engines and power- | week give in the feed one dram of sulphate of iron and ful horses. Farm implements are not operated on a trot

half an ounce of ground gentian root. This mare of mine, or run, but on a walk. The man walking behind a pair i so treated, never shows any distress now; occasionally, of 800 or 90'0 pound horses cannot do a day's work. The when bad weather is threatening, a very slight cough railroads have increased the size of their engines until is heard. I have been feeding her on corn mostly this one engineer can haul ten times as large a load as hei winter, but keep up sprinkling the hay of whatever kind. did fifty years ago. The same economic force compels Never omit to sprinkle all hay when feeding to horses the Virginian to-day to do twice as much work as form- suffering from heaves, for the disease is apt to return erly, if he is to compete with the Westerners. That

if you do. Bad feed and bad feeding cause very much means he must operate with three or four large horses I of our trouble with horses. A. R. CLARY. instead of a couple of ponies. It seems a pity to sacrifice so many good points of thefl THE FARM HORSE NEEDED IN VIRGINIA. Virginian horses in the mesalliance with Percherons, I Clydes, Editor Southern Planter: Shires and Bergians. But the farmer must have I bigger horses and bigness is represented types, a In defending the Virginia horse in your March issue, by these If you could persuade I Professor Massey displays more patriotism than judgment our farmers that the German coach is really superior for his purpose, I should be glad of I

it. Of course, we might, by selective breeding, develop H

a good, large farm horse type from our native and racing !j stock, but it would require many generations and that pro- I cess would not meet the present demand. N.

With this subject of the need of a larger and heavier type of horses for farm work in the South we are in hearty sympathy, as we regard this feature as being one of our greatest needs from several points of view. We need more power to handle the much heavier implements which are now on the market and are found to be much more efficient in doing better and much more work in the same time and with much less wear and tear on team and man. We need these also because with this type of horse we get a more phlegmatic animal, one which will not fret itself into a temper and become difficult of con- trol and be in a bath of perspiration all the day and at night be so worn out as to be incapable of eating suffi- Pragon, 42725, 4-year old imported Percheron Stallion; weight, 1,996 pounds, owned by Thomas R. Smith, Esq., cient feed to maintain itself. We need these larger Loudoun County, Va. Pragon is a splendid speci- Lincoln, heavier men of the breed with plenty of bone and style and is horses also to enable us to breed bigger and adorned with a matchless mane and tail. mules. For these there is a constant demand at good That thoroughbred blood is desirable no body denied. prices and to meet this demand they are brought in from In fact, I recommended the German coach horse as the Tennessee and Kentucky and other Southwestern States, ideal farm animal. The Hanover and Oldenburg coach where they keep larger and heavier mares. The question 1908,] THE SOUTHERN" PLANTER. 341 is which breed of horses is the best to cross on our Vir- THE VIRGINIA STATE FAIR, RICHMOND, VA. ginia mares to get this heavier type? The Percheron is practically the only breed which has yet been used with The management of this Pair, under the capable direc- success. The Shires and Clydesdales are too heavy for tion of the Hon. H. C. Stuart, the President, has already farm work. They are essentially dray horses for- town .taken the initiative steps for ensuring the holding this hauling, and we have never approved their use as farm year of the greatest Fair ever held in the South. In this horses even in England, and here they are still lesjs issue will be found the first advertisement of a series adapted for that purpose. The German and Belgian which will be run regularly up to the time of the holding horses are very much of the type of the Percheron, and of the Fair, October 5th to 10th. This advertisement are to be preferred to Shires and Clydesdales, bu£ we are should have the attention of our farmers, truckers and of opinion that there is another breed of horses which gardeners, as it gives particulars of the various classes would better meet our needs than any of these breeds. of farm and garden products for which premiums will be This is the Suffolk Punch. We knew this breed in the offered. The appearance thus early of this notice will old country. In this country it is little known, but, as remind intending exhibitors of the opportunity to be afforded them to the crops In the old country, so in this, wherever known it is the and encourage them put out ideal farm horse. That has been the purpose for which and make preparation to ensure their successful produc- the breed has been perpetuated for hundreds of years tion, and this should result in a much larger exhibit of in the eastern counties of England and there few of any products and of much finer type. It will also be noticed other type are used on the farms. Speaking of this breed that money premiums take the place of ribbons in classes of horses, Mr. Johnstone, the author of The Horse Book, for which ribbons were formerly the only reward, and recently published by the Sanders Publishing Co., of that where money premiums were formerly given these

intends, if • Chicago, says: "It is doubtful if this breed has ever have been increased in amount. The Society received in the United States the recognition to which possible, to secure such an exhibit of farm and garden products hitherto in the South, its many good qualities entitle it. * * * It is very hard to as has never been seen persuade some folks that the very hairy-legged Shire and the and we strongly urge our subscribers to second these very smooth-legged Suffolk are bred in the same Island. efforts by raising the needed products and entering them There has always been a lurking suspicion in the public for competition. In an early isue, the live stock premi- mind that .these clean-legged, heavy-quartered chestnuts ums will be advertised in the same way, and thus give were French horses of some sort masquerading under a live stock owners the opportunity to prepare the neces- the name to which they had no right. * * * In so far as they sary stock for the Fair. We want this Fair to be have been given a trial here, they have made good. The banner Fair of the South this year, and ask our sub- Individuals do not run as large as the Shire and have scribers to second the effort. proved themselves eminently well suited for crossing on rather small mares. Their progeny is wonderfully uniform SILO EXPERIENCE. and they make most excellent workers. It is doubtful if there is in the entire list of draft breeds one which Editor Southern Planter: has a better disposition or greater tractability. In their I am aware that you and other writers urge farmers native land it is the custom of their drivers to break to build silos, but, in spite of this and the fact that our these horses to work entirely without reins. In the plow, Experiment Station has proved beyond a doubt the great on the road, in the show ring, you may often see three saving in silage feeding, very few of our farmers have one; I feel sure there are not over six or eight in this hitched tandem guided by one man and not a rein in sight. county. For simple endurance, it is again questionable if this breed is surpassed. In that part of England where they Influenced by your advice and the fact that the most progressive farmers I know or have read of use a silo, are used, it is the custom to hook up the Suffolks as I built one of thirty-ton capacity last year. I was unable early in the morning as the daylight will permit and keep to much more than half fill it, so the feed gave out th» them ploughing continuously until * ' the daylight fades. first of March. Since then I have been feeding my milch Suffolks are being bred successfully in a number of the cows on nice, bright, cut stover with one gallon of wheat States and a ready market is found for the surplus while bran and half a gallon of ground corn and cob meal twice a day. They don't give as much milk as they did a few are brought from England each year both by the big on fifty pounds of silage a day. Of the fifteen tons I importers and by private individuals who have tested the fed, very little was wasted and then only that part of it breed and discovered its real merit." We can entirely which was cut about two inches long, proving to me confirm what Mr. Johnstone so well says and, in our that silage should be cut into quarter-inch lengths. The opinion, this is the breed of horses we want and want same amount of corn stover fed would have shown a loss of about 45 per cent. This fact alone it seems to me badly in the South. Who will set the example of bring- would make a silo pay. Later, if you can spare the space, ing them here? There is money in sight for whoever I will give exact cost and tell how I built this silo with does so and a quick relief for a pressing need amongst out any professional help. FARMER. Southern farmers.—Ed. Powhtan Co., Va. 342 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [April, Miscellaneous.

GROUP OF STUDENTS ATTENDING THE COTTON SCHOOL. COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE, ATHENS. GEORGIA.

THE COTTON SCHOOL IN GEORGIA. farmers of the State most efficiently, the Board of Trus- Editor Southern Planter: tees authorized the organization of a Cotton School in The cotton crop of the United States in 1906 was esti- January of this year. This school lasted for a period ol mated to be worth more than $800,000,000. It constituted ten days and was the first attempt ever made to brins. the major portion of our exports to foreign countries and together in a systematic manner vital and practical infor- brought in a flood of foreign gold to our farmers. To mation concerning cotton. It was the plan of those in cotton we awe the splendid prosperity and marvelous charge of the work to so arrange the course of study that industrial progress which has been witnessed in the South it would be of an intensely practical character and easy of in the past few years. One might naturally suppose that appreciation by even those of limited educational advan- a plant which has been the means of converting a vast tages. It was intended primarily to put within the pos- area of country from a desolate wilderness to that of a session of the planter known scientific facts and princi- smiling landscape covered with happy and prosperous ples of farm practice which he could apply successfully homes would have been exploited to the fullest extent. in his operations. It was believed that any farmer who While it is true that cotton has occupied a large share would come to the school in an unprejudiced frame of of our attention from the standpoint of its utilization in mind could learn enough to pay him many times over for our varied industries, comparatively little attention haa his actual expenses. It was also thought that if this been given to its improvement, and very little, if any, school could be made a success it would show the farmers money spent for the scientific investigation of the many of the State that instruction of this kind could be success- problems which confront the cotton grower. We know fully conducted, not only in the district schools, but intro- comparatively little of the fertilizer requirements of the duced into the rural consolidated schools, as well as in cotton plant. We know that it suffers from the attack many city and county high schools. It was believed thai of many insect pests and fungous diseases which cause it would lead the farmers to have greater confidence in losses estimated at more than $160,000,000 annually to agricultural education, and to realize that their hope of the farmers of the South. Yet we are doing little to ascer- success in the future rested on a more accurate knowl- tain the best methods of meeting these insidious foes edge of the soil and the needs of the plant to be grown and saving a part of the wealth which they destroy every thereon; that in order to fight the Insects and fungous year. The fugitive investigations which have been made pests which attack their crops, they must have full knowl- with reference to cotton lead us to see that a large part edge of their origin and habits and characteristics that of these losses might be avoided through a better knowl- in order to conserve the fertility of the land and increase edge of the nature and character of these insect pests its productiveness, they must understand the composition and fungous diseases. of the soil, its relation to air and moisture, and the effect Since it has been shown that a much longer and finer of the various soil ferments and bacteria which have been staple of cotton may be produced on uplands than is now shown to be associated with the permanent maintenance grown and the yields greatly increased through more judi- of fertility and the production of" large and profitable

+ cious methods of soil cultivation and crop rotation, is i crops. The instruction was therefore arranged to cover not time that an effort was made to put the vital sta- the various points mentioned, and included a series of tistics concerning cotton in a pedagogic form and have lectures on the soil, fertilizers and fertilizing materials, it presented through properly co-ordinated courses of in- farm machinery, seed selection, and diseases and insect struction to our farmers and planters. Believing that in pests attacking cotton. this way the State College of Agriculture could serve the. The students were provided with sets of notes on the ;

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various lectures presented. In all about fifty of these ers all their lives, they had not had an opportunity, on sheets were given out during the course of the school, thus account of the matter not being presented to them in a constituting a book of information about cotton. Among clear and intelligent manner before, to grasp a hundred the special features of Instruction given in this school were vital truths as they affect the cultivation of cotton in the exercises on the combing of cotton intended to show the most skillful and economical manner. farmer the great difference in the length of the staple The second day after the school opened a number of produced by individual plants and by the several varieties students stated that they had been amply repaid for com- as well. The possibility of using a hand gin for obtaining ing, and this spirit characterized the student body to the selected strains of cotton was practically illustrated. last. It is not often that 104 representative and intelli- Some time was also devoted to a study of varieties of gent student farmers have come together in a Southern cotton plant This work was made peculiarly valuable College of Agriculture for the purpose of learning about by placing the plants before the students. There were also the Souths great staple crop, and it is needless to say lectures on cotton warehousing, which were greatly en that the success of this movement has inspired those in joyed. The mixing of fertilizers, and the tremendous loss charge of the work of the State College of Agriculture to suffered by the cotton growers from insect pests and continue it in the future. It has shown the Board of plant diseases were fully discussed, and the means of Trustees and the administrative officers that the farmers combatting these enemies of the cotton grower were fully of the State are thirsting for knowledge. It has demon- explained. For the first time in this school, score cards for strated that the farmer is appreciative of information thai the cotton plant and for the grading of cotton were sue will serve him. It has shown that he is not the unintelli- cessfully used. The Cotton School was thus made the gent, narrow-minded individual he has so often been called, medium for acquiring much exact information with refer- but that with capable leadership and avenues of informa- ence to the Souths greatest industry. tion of a practical character opened up to him, he becomes One of the most important features of the school and an appreciative and aggressive student, anxious to master one which was emphasized very strongly was the grading the details of his business and to utilize the latest and of cotton. In this work an attempt was made to familiarize best knowledge available in his farm practice. That the the cotton grower with the different grades of cotton that students were appreciative of the work of the College is he might know when placing his crop on the market what voiced in their own resolutions, one of which is here the market sought; what were the real characters by which included, and which we trust sounds the slogan of a uni- the different grades are distinguished and the actual differ- versally growing interest throughout the South in the ence in money value between the same. With this knowl- needs and value of agricultural education. edge before him, he would become a more intelligent "Resolved, That in view of the fact that the Agricultural grower of cotton for he would more nearly try to meet the College has no funds at its disposal at the present time, market demands. He would also be in position to sell that it is not properly equipped with buildings, laborato- his cotton intelligently and receive the proper price for ries and the necessary facilities for instruction and re- his labor. It was remarkable the success which attended search, that we request the Legislature of the State at its this feature of the school and how quickly and thoroughly, next session to make an appropriation of $50',000 a year for comparatively speaking, farmers who had never given any the maintenance of the College from any funds which may thought or consideration to this most important subject be available in the State treasury; that we ask for a spe- grasped the truths and principles involved. It was a pleas- cial appropriation of $50,000 with which to complete and ure and a delight to see how appreciative they were of equip the Agricultural Hall now in process of erection, the value of this knowledge. and for a special appropriation to pay off the indebtedness that the College incurred by reason of the failure of the As to the character of students who attended the school, last session of the Legislature to make an appropriation there is little but praise to be said. They came from every for its maintenance during the fiscal year 1907-'08. Inas- part of the State of Georgia, some of them traveling as much as the income of the State is approximately $5,000- many as two hundred miles. They represented more than 000 a year, it is certainly not asking too much that one. fifty counties and varied in age from twenty to sixty years hundredth part of this revenue be set aside for the main- a grave, intelligent body of students which any instructor tenance of agricultural education, which is the backbone might have been proud to address, and the writer has of this State." never yet seen a more enthusiastic or industrious com- pany of men come together for any purpose. Though they Surely, it is time that a measure of the State's revenue received four hours of lecture work every morning, two were set aside for the dissemination of those agricultural hours of grading in the afternoon, and an hour and a half truths through the medium of our schools and colleges lecture at night, they were faithful and diligent to the which will place within the reach of all who till the soil last. There may be those who presume that these men that knowedge which is vital to their best success and simply came out of idle curiosity and that they carried for the continued prosperity of the Commonwealth in which they away no fund of information with them. If such is their may happen to reside. conclusion, they are badly mistaken, for these men were It is needless to say that those in charge of the work leaders in their communities and a clear-headed lot of learned a very great deal about better methods of organ- individuals capable of discussing all the questions pre- izing and conducting it in 1909. At that time it is thought sented to them with a marked degree of intelligence. At the new agricultural building now in process of erection the same time, while most of them had been cotton grow- will be ready for occupancy, and then sufficient room for I

344 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [April, housing the students and conducting the work along more their own field of work in life! There is the farmer who comprehensive lines will be available. The difficulties of think that he would like to move to town and have a organizing this school will scarcely be recognized, and pos- store. Then there is another who thinks that his ideal sibly not believed by those who have given no thought in life would be reached if he had a place on the railroad. to the subject. It was found almost impossible to secure So it goes through life, each one thinking that some othei men who, though they had been growing and handling place is better than the one that he is filling. cotton all their lives, were capable of putting this knowl- In such cases we forget that we are well acquainted edge in a pedagogic form. It was startling to find how lit- with the ups and downs of our own work and we compare tle was really known after all, and how much remained this full knowledge with the rosy side of the desired for the investigator to work out for the salvation of the place in the world. cotton planter. It was good to see how quickly the In farm life we meet many who are always having a students realized the necessity of comprehensive investi- tough time, everything is drudgery to them. The sunshine gations being undertaken at the earliest possible date in in the skies is not reflected in their faces for there are order that many of these problems might be adequately only clouds there. solved. It was also a revelation to see how quickly the Unfortunately, there is too much of this kind of per value of agricultural education made its impress on the sonality on the farm. There are bright skies ahead every- minds of those who sometime in the past have opposed where if they are watohed for by the farmer. Let the it because not familiar with the benefits it should confer. farmer reach tne conclusion that he is an important fac- All in all, the Cotton School of 1908 must be accounted tor in the world, and not excuse his presence by saying a success from every point of view. It has shown us the that he is "only a farmer." Confidence begets confidence, practicability of placing this information within the reach and the banker who deals with the farmer having confi- of farmers. It has taught the farmers themselves their dence in himself will have a better opinion of farmers need of help. It has indicated to the investigator many for the experience. of the problems he must set resolutely to work to solve Agriculture is one of the oldest arts of the world, and as quickly as possible. It has demonstrated to the teacher, in no field of knowledge is there a greater demand for investigator and student alike the vital relation of agri- brains and the well-trained hand than on the farm. But cultural education to the permanent prosperity of the Com- no class in the social world ever gives much consideration monwealth. It has shown that money expended for the to the farmer, for the reason that their education is sadly right type of agricultural education is the best possible one-sided in many ways. People of the cities are depend- investment the State can make, and that it will return ent on the farmer for all that goes to supply them in like bread cast upon the waters after many days, some food, work, and other demands. Yet in the education of yielding tenfold and some a hundredfold. The Cotton the children how much attention is given to consideration School has, served as an inspiring influence to those who of the men who feed the world? There is a sad neglect came in contact with it, and it has shown that the future in modern education in the lact of appreciation of the supremacy of the South in cotton production can be ade- farm and farm life. quately and successfully maintained, but that in order to The organizations for the benefit of the farmer mean bring about this most desirable end, the State College of much for the future life on the farm. The farmer will Agriculture must be liberally supported in order that it meet his brother farmers and all will be benefitted by the may conduct research work on a comprehensive scale and contact. provide that efficient leadership without which our farmers The greater the confidence in the and, the greater will cannot hope for permanent success. be the spirit of the nation. The more the children are ANDREW M. SOULE. taught gratitude to the hand that feeds them, the better Ga. State College of Agriculture. citizens will they become. The future welfare of the nation depends largely on the hand that holds the plow, and the more honor that is We regret to announce the death of Mr. George M given to the man who tills the soil, the greater will Clark, President of the Harrow Hig- Cutaway Company, of become the spirit of our country. ganum, Connecticut. Mr. Clark was often a contributor Nottoway Co., Va. J. B. WEEMS. to our columns, giving valuable advice as to the grow- ing of grass and alfalfa. He made some of the heaviest PUSHING THE CROP. crops of these staples ever raised in this country and Editor Southern Planter: induced hundreds of farmers to go into this business by his forceful description of the methods which had enabled Did you ever watch the fireman shovel coal in the furnace him to make these great crops. The harrows and other of an engine? The coal is placed in the smallest part of implements which he invented have revolutionized the the engine, but it is hot there and the heat causes the methods of preparing land for seeding and they are used water to change into steam at high pressure and the f all over the country from the Atlantic to the Pacific. engine pulls the great freight train. When the farmer ploughs the land and plants the crop he has done quite a little work even if it is only on an acre of land. It requires MAKING THE MOST OF LIFE ON THE FARM. just the same work to plough the land and sow the seed Editor Southern Planter: for a poor crop as it does for a good one. If we should How many of those we have known are dissatisfied with see ithe fireman of the locomotive placing a shovelful of 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER.

coal in the furnace now and then, with the fire barely which comes under the designation of agronomical work. burning and the train at a standstill, how we would We hope shortly to make the personal acquaintance of laugh at him! There would be the great engine, the track, the cars and the freight, but not enough coal in the furnace to make steam to move the train. This condition is too common in farming. There is the farm, the land ploughed, the seed sowed and everything ready for the crop, but the energy is lacking in the way of plant food. The more that we can study what nitrogen, potash, and phosphoric acid means to the soil, the more will there be known regarding the capacity of the soil to produce the crops. The application of suitable amounts of manure and of the best grade of fertilizer largely determines the value of the crop. It is the foundation of all the work that has been put on the crop. Every one wants to make

the land produce its best, and to do this it should have the best that can be given it in the way of plant food and preparation of the soil. When the land is starved, the cattle are starved as well as the crop and the farmer. It pays to give the land the chance to produce the best possible crop, and then good cattle and good crops will naturaly follow. Too often the excuse is made that manure and fertilizers cannot be used, as the farmer cannot make or afford to pay for them.

The poor man on the farm is the one who cannot afford to have the poor results and he is the one whu should have and must have the best of plant fooa for his soil if he does not desire to remain poor.

The keystone of success in producing good crops de Carrier the pleasure of presenting pends on the food that is given to the soil to feed the Professor and to have some of his work to our readers. Ed. plants. J. B. WEEMS. — Nottoway Co., Va. FARMING IN THE OLD TIMES IN SOUTH CAROLINA. Editor Southern Planter: PROFESSOR LYMAN CARRIER. There is no doubt but that the average farmer of to-day Born October 11, 1877, at Duffield, Michigan. Graduated is far better posted in the sciences and arts, which, from the high school at Potterville, Michigan, in 1897. taken together, make up what is known as agriculture, Taught school winter of 1897-'98. Entered the Michigan than were the farmers of fifty or seventy-five years ago. Agricultural College in September, 1898, and graduated in Yet the knowledge and performances of disciples of the June, 1902, from the four-year Agricultural Course. soil who lived in the first half of the last century were Worked one year for the Michigan Experiment Station. equal in many respects to the accomplishments of modern Taught science and agriculture in the Elyria High School and up-to-date agriculturists of this electric age. As the at Elyria, Ohio, year of 1903-'04, and in the Union lesser half of a committee appointed by the Pendleton Academy of New York, 1904-'0'5. Was appointed Scientific Farmers' Society of South Carolina for the purpose of Assistant in Agronomy in the United States Department bring together all available data relating to the history of of Agriculture July 1, 1905. Resigned December 31, 1907 this Society, Col. J. C. Stribling (the greater half) and I Author of Farmers' Bulletins Nos. 280 and 292. have unearthed records that read like a novel and records Elected Professor of Agronomy at the Virginia Poly- instructive as well as interesting. technic Institute, January 1, 1908. At a meeting held in the Farmers' Hall at Pendleton, S. C, on the second Tuesday in October, 1843, Mr. Ruffin, We welcome the new Professor of Agronomy to our of Virginia, was, by request, one of the principle speak- State Institution and trust that the State may soon real- ers. At this meeting a public dinner was given by the ize the benefit of his presence on the staff. There is Society and various toasts responded to by members and wide scope for agronomical work in the middle eastern guests. The Hon. John C. Calhoun responded to: "Agri- and southern sections, where much of the present wasted culture, the most important, but the most oppressed branch condition of the land is due to neglect of the production of industry." The Hon. T. G. Clemson, for whom Clem- of the grasses and legumes and the keeping of live stock son College is named, responded to: "In the absence of and the raising and saving of crops to feed them, all of marl, permit me to propose to the citizens of Pendleton 346 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [April,

a more familiar acquaintance with the effects of the ap- keep it in good condition. Do not let Providence run the plication of lime to those soils which contain potash machine for you. Providence helps us in many, many soda and magnesia." The toast of Captain John Maxwell cases, but at the same time let us see that we do our share was to: "The man who made twelve bushels of wheat towards keeping the body in the best of condition and per acre on poor mountain land and thirty gallons of it will be found that good health and happiness are two corn stalk syrup to the acre." of the greatest blessings that we can possess. Dr. O. R. Broyles' toast was to: "Dry land ditching and One of the most frequent causes of sickness is that a judicious rotation of crops, the first and the most im- which results from exposure. It is too often a tempta- portant by far in the practice of agriculture and yet they tion to the farmer to take the risk of catching cold by are almost entirely neglected in this district." not providing himself with rubber boots and oiled suits. A toast by Mr. B. F. Sloan was: "The Agricultural An outfit of this nature costs less than Ave dollars, and Interests: The only great interest that has neither asked will save the cost over and over every year. nor received the protection of the general government." The average farmer of to-day would laugh at being told In the family there is much to be learned as to the ques- that syrup and sugar could be obtained from corn stalks, tion of proper footwear. Light shoes and thin soles are- yet some day they may be important sources of both. too common. The dry land ditching referred to in toast offered the It is a difficult matter to purchase at the ordinary store Dr. by Broyles has developed into the system of terraces shoes that really protect the feet in a sensible manner. now so generally practiced throughout the Piedmont cot- Most of the shoes are evidently intended for the drawing! ton sections. room or the parlor. When it is realized that one cannot things How have changed since 1843, when agriculture take cold more readily than by wet or cold feet, the- was the one great interest receiving no protection from demand will be made and insisted upon that proper foot- the general government. wear be sold by the ordinary store. On Friday, October 13, 1843, the Pendleton Farmers' Did you ever discover that the merchant leaves the se- Society awarded various premiums on crops and live lection of his stock of shoes to the dealer. This is often stock. Mr. William Roland produced 105 bushels and 16% the case and the customer buys footwear not intended for pounds of upland rice on an acre, the rice weighing 42 the country. The farmer has the right to consideration pounds to the bushel. Dr. O. R. Broyles grew 110 bush- in such matters and he will get it when he makes the els of upland rice on an acre, the rice weighing 43% demand for it, but not before. pounds to the bushel. Dr. Broyles' rice was grown near Protect yourself and family against wet clothing and Eighteen Mile Creek on what is now known as the Pelzer wet and cold feet and you will discover that the invest- Farm, a few miles out of Pendleton. In the upper Caro- ment in suitable material of this nature will return to linas and Georgia there are thousands of acres of creek

you many times the cost. J . B. WBEMS. bottoms as well suited to upland rice as those of Eighteen Mile Creek. Nottoway Co., Va. Premiums were also paid for various farm crops and animals, for silk thread and for silk half-hose, the silk grown and the articles made in the District. PROFIT IN BREEDING DRAFT HORSES. Various instances and occurences of interest and value Editor Southern Planter: have been found in old manuscripts and newspapers, as It is seldom that you meet any one, not even a horse- well as in the records and minutes of the Society, which man, who can tell you, even approximately, the possi- are to be incorporated in the forthcoming history. Many bilities of a mare bred at two years, and which drops filly names prominent in the nation's history are found in the foals for efght years, and they, breeders, like their dam, membership rolls of the Society. Many others are associa- In ten years the total would be thirty-one head, and, count- ted with Pendleton and the surrounding country, among ing half of them "horse" colts, you would have fifteen them, Maverick, of Texas; Major Wheat, of Louisiana head in the herd, quite a source of revenue from one Tigers, and Mayor Wyck, of New York. animal, especially if she is a regular worker on the farm, Clemson College, S. C. C. L. NEWMAN. thereby paying her board, if no more. I once owned a mare that had seven colts to seven leaps, and I know a gentleman in the adjoining county of COMMON SENSE AND GOOD HEALTH. Augusta that is so far ahead of me on two mares that Editor Southern Planter: I will not mention his case, but let him tell it himself. I bought a pure-bred Percheron six year old filly when There is no place where sickness is more costly than horses were "selling for a song," and the spring she was on the farm. If the farmer is sick or unwell a few days twelve years old I sold her, and she was then with foal. only at the time when the crops must be sowed, it is not She and her colts fetched me a profit of $3,350. As she only the expense for the doctor's visit, but the loss of was a regular worker on the farm, she never had two time cannot sometimes be recovered, and the farmer is colts in successive seasons, and I never kept one of her behind hand for months. All know what a few days colts till it arrived at the age of thee years. may cost in the busy season too well. The body is a highly organized machine, and it pays to Rockingham Co., Ya. JOHN F. LEWIS. ,

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THE PUBLISHERS' NOTES. Southern Planter WITH THE ADVERTISERS. Attention is invited to the adver- PUBLISHED BT tisement of the Merchants National Wood's Grass Bank. The savings department, in TIE SOUTHERN PLANTER PUBLISHING CO., charge of Mr. Jeter Jones, is splendid- RICHMOND, VA. ly equipped to handle mail order «» Clover Seeds banking. ISSUED ON 1ST OF EACH MONTH. Best Qualities Obtainable and The Richmond Abattoir has a of Tested Germination. couple of advertisements in this issue J. F. JACKSON, Editor. which you are invited to look up. We carry one of the largest and stocks in this country. Mr. Murray Boocock is making a best Specialties that we offer to ad- B. MORGAN SHEPHERD, special offer of Hereford cattle this Business Manager. month. vantage, are Look up the advertisement of Mr. Alfalfa, Japan Clover, B. W. RHOADS, offerings Vfestern Representative, 844 Tribune R. R. Smith. His of Short- Building, Chicago, 111. horns are superb. Tall Meadow Oat Grass, Benjamin Hammond is advertising Paspalum Dilatatum, MANCHESTER OFFICE: his famous "Slug Shot" again this 1102 Street. Johnson Grass, W. J. Carter, Hull season. Bermuda Grass, etc. ADVERTISING RATES The Red Jacket Pump Company has an advertisement of its well- Will be furnished on application. Our Catalogue gives fuller descrip- known pumps in another column, to tions and information about Grasses. and than any / is mailed which attention is invited. Clovers Farm Seeds The SOUTHERN PLANTER other seed catalogue published. to subscribers in the United States, / Raney an Mailed free on request. Write for it, 50 The Canner Company has Mexico and island possessions at and prices of any seeds required. cents per annum; all foreign countries, announcement in this issue which is fl; the city of Richmond and Canada, sure to interest those who contem- 75 cents. plate doing any canning this season. T.W. Wood & Sons, REMITTANCES should be made direct to this office, either by Regis- The Dowden Manufacturing Com- SEEDSMEN, - Richmond, Va. tered Letter or Money Order, which pany is advertising its potato digger. will be at our risk. "When made other- The John Deere Plow Company, Bal- wise we cannot be responsible. timore, is Eastern headquarters. SUBSCRIBERS failing to receive their paper promptly and regularly The State Test Farm, through Dr. Curing Rack will confer a favor by reporting the E. W. Magruder, is advertising some Bell Hay fact at once. nice stock this month. WE INVITE FARMERS to write us on any agricultural topic. We are Attention is invited to the offerings o always pleased to receive practical of the Glenara Stock Farm, in which S articles. Rejected matter will be re- are included some dual purpose w turned on receipt of postage. Shorthorns. o No anonymous commmunications or *! enquiries will receive attention. . The Abrams Paint Company is a O Address THE SOUTHERN PLANTER, new advertiser. Look up its an- 9 RICHMOND, VA. nouncement. 3on ENTERED AT THE POST-OFFICE T. C. Andrews & Co. are using o AT RICHMOND, VA., AS SECOND- CLASS MAIL MATTER. liberal space this month in offering a agricultural lime and insecticides. Farmers are particularly requested to © place their orders early for the latter. THE MENWO KNOW The Huber Manufacturing Company (Patented October 15, 1906.) Solves the problem of curing? pea THE SUPERIOR is advertising its well-known traction vines, alfalfa or other hay almost re- QUALITIES OF \ engines this month. gardless of weather conditions, as the racks give interior ventilation and Dr. W. L. Nolen is advertising keep hay from touching ground, there- Berkshires and several varieties of by causing it to cure out nicely when poultry this month. other methods fail. One handling com- pletes the work and the hay Is safe. O. H. Robertson is advertising his For prices and circular giving full SLICKERS, SUITS Chain-Hanging Stanchion in another particulars, address column. H. E. BELL,, BurKeville, Va. AND HATS Agent* Wanted In Every County. fcf) Jerseys offer- are the men who have Some finely bred are put them to the hard- ed by Major A. R. Venable, Jr., at Dr. G. C. BOWIE very low prices. His poultry yards est tests in the rough- Physician, Surgeon and Office are offering eggs from prize winning est weather. Consultant. Get the original Rhode Island Reds. No. 401 East Franklin Street, Towers Fish "Brand Leibermuth Brothers are adver- Richmond, Va. made since 1836 tising their well-known brand of Hours: 9-12 A. M., 1-4 P. M. CATALOG r/t£E FOR TH£ ASKMG "Lebros" Paints this month. Evenings and Sundays by ap- pointment. The Philadelphia Silo U advertised,

CAPITAL AND PROFITS EARNED, 81,200,1 Special attention paid to out-of-tewn accounts. Correspondence lnYited. BANK OF RICHMOND, Three per cent. Interest allowed In Savings Department. Main and Ninth Street*. Compounded Beml-Annually. 348 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [April,

as usual, this season by E. F. Schlich- DISC HARROWS AND DISC PLOWS. Clark's Double-Action Cutaway Har- ter. ONE row—the greatest labor saver. IB- W0RH ©F Our farmers should be interested in comparable work. TWO the advertisement of the Virginia With Iron Age Riding Culti- vators. Yon can doit easier and State Fair, Richmond, to be found on < better, because they are bailt on lines that make this possible. another page. Hoes are under perfect control. Can regulate The advertising of Rife's Hydraulic depth and keep noes No. 82 PItoI Wheel. A new Ram is resumed with this issue. desired distance Model from growing r^n Age" plants. More Rider. The Kansas City Hay Press Com- advantag pany starts the season's advertising es in our this month.

TO ADVERTISERS. Does in one trip what ordinary disc harrows cannot do in three and four Please bear in mind that we must trips. have all copy or instructions for ad- Combination Disc and Mold-Board Turns the s«d all the vertisements by the 25th of each Plow. way over and buries the weeds, etc. BATEHIAH MFC CO.,Box t67C,urenloch,N.J. month without fail. Every month we are compelled to omit advertising in large volumes for the simple reason HERCULES that copy does not reach us in time. A NEAT BINDER. Stump Pulle If you will send 30 cents to our business office, we will send you a neat binder made of substantial Bris- tol Board, in which you can preserve Leaves the land easy to harrow and level; not set on edge and in bumps an entire volume of the Southern like other disc plows. Planter. Many of our readers And These are the tools of to-day. these a useful device, as they always CUTAWAY HARROW CO., 45 Mala save their copies for reference. St., Hlggannm, Conn. Clears an acre of heavy timber land ASHTON STARKE, Southern Sale* each day. Clears all stumps in a Agent, Va. elrcle of 150 feet without moving, or ADVERTISERS' ANNOUNCEMENTS. Richmond, changing machine. Strongest, most rapid working and best made. HERCULES MFG. CO., What Those Seeking Your Business 413 17th St., Centreville, Iowa. Have to Say in Condensed Form. Fern Hill Poultry Farm, J. Wallace THE IMPROVER Snelling, proprietor, Manchester, Va. Coupling Pivot kxk Interesting circular describing his 1 CisHfaator^cor ;. aristocrats in Barred Rocks, Minorcas Plan'er and Fertilizer v-nrlto i«f Ptiet, and Leghorns, Brown and White. His Attachment completes regular advertisement will be found in Cne Machine. Awarded in this issue. COLO MEDAL Evergreen Farms, W. B. Gates, pro- at World's Fair, St. prietor, Depot, Descriptive Louis. A "wonderful Rice Va. improvement in cnlti- folder of Jerseys, Berkshires, Leg- .vators. combining every possible movement of horns, the farms' specialties. Several gangs and wheels re- quired. Easily changed advertisements in this and all issues. to different styles. Modern Hog Raising, an exceeding- Thousands in use. JPfr'sof all kindof Ag : r 11m- plements. Agents wanted ; write for circular. » ly interesting booklet, published by The Hench & Dromgold Co., Mfrs. York, Pa. the American Steel and Wire Com- pany, Chicago, in the interest of its celebrated hog fence. Drop a postal THE CAMBRIDGE. Chamberlin MTg Co., Olean, N. Y. for it. CORRUGATED LAND Cattle Stanchions. A well gotten Roller and Pulveriser. up brochure, setting forth the merits STUMP PULLER. of Robertson's Chain-Hanging Stan- Gffir chion made by O. H. Robertson, Warranted the most practical machine made. One man can lift 20 tons. Made Forestville, Conn. It is prominently :.'../»/ '// in 3 styles, 10 sizes. Screw, Cable and advertised in this issue. H»J 4 / / .AW! Hand Power. We manufacture a Tile Learn to Say Gilbert's! This is the Ditcher and best CORN HARVESTER •erer made. Cuts two rows with one title of a neat booklet issued by Gil- horse. Agents wanted. Write for bert Brothers & Co., Baltimore, Md., catalogue. setting forth the merits of their THE BEST IN THE WORLD. H. L. Bennett A Co., Box 14, Wetter- various extracts and preparations and Used by the State Test Farm, Vir- vllle, Ohio. ginia Agricultural College, Sweet Briar giving splendid reasons why you Institute, Miller M. L. School and some should "Gilbert's" when your mer- of the best farmers in the State. Monarch Hydraulic say chant asks you what kind. Address Self-Opening Gate. The Manlove R. F. HARRIS & CO, Charlottesville, Virginia. Gate Company, Chicago, encloses a Great strength and cs. its correspondence pacity; all sizes; als& neat folder in CSTIMf* IE* STRONGEST gasoline, eiitriue* giving particulars and prices of its ^BLaw&raLmm m *™ made, buh- steam ensrineis self-opening gate, which is advertised •r ^~ strong chick- saw nulls, tnresfc en-tight Sold to the user at Wholesale ers. Catalog fret regularly in these columns. PricpB. We PaT Frelirht. Catalogue free. COILED SPRING FENCE CO., 3*airch Machinery Co., 39 Cortlandt St..H«a TtH^ Room 170 The Separator News. Dairymen Box 63 Winchester, Indiana. j . s •r*

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will be interested in this publication, Can Save a Lot of Work.' which emanates from the advertising Can Save a Lot of Monevi LONG office of the Sharpless Separator Com- Can Increase Your ComforU' pany, West Chester, Pa. A postal will Cin Increase Your Profits -' bring you a copy, which will be found If you are interested in those things _ I A we'd like to send you ournew book about SERVICE interesting, as will the j regular cata- logue, No. 290, offered on another STS page. 1 ELECTRIC W„ee,s The Virginian. This is No. 1 of Handy Vo. 1, of a neatly printed bulletin jW ELECTING Wagon ^k a million and a quarterque of them are issued by DeL. S. Crittenden, real More than In use and several hundred thousand farmers Bay estate broker, Ashburn, Va. Parties that they are the best investment they ever made. interested in Northern Virginia prop- They'll save you more money, more work, give bet- satisfaction than any other erty will do ter service and greater well to send for this metal wheel made--beeause They're Made Belter. paper. By every test they are the best. Spokea united to the hub. If they work loose, your money back. Don't buy wheels nor wagon until you read our book. It may save you many dollars and it's free. Abbeville, S. C. ELECTRIC WHEEL CO., Burke's Garden Cattle Company: Box 14G Quirscy, tils. Dear Sirs,—The pair Mammoth Bronze Turkeys was received in good shape promptly and found entirely satisfactory. You may send me a sitting of your eggs at your convenience. WAGONS Yours truly, W. P. WHANN. '"THE wagon that breaks down -*- and has to go to the repair shop every once in a while is not a CAN RELY ON CAUSTIC BALSAM good wagon to buy. EVERY TIME. CARRIAGES. SURRIES. Such a wagon is a poor one because it is poorly constructed, and because it Please give me advertising matter is made from poor and improperly sea- BUGGIES, for Gombault's Caustic Balsam. I soned material. It is dear at any price. have used it and find it a good lini- In the building of Weber and Colum- CARTS, bus wagons there is always a rigid ment. I can rely upon it every time. — observance of these four indispensa- L. Thompson, Pearisburg, Va. HARNESS, ble requisites: 1. Proper wood materials, WAGONS, 2. Thorough seasoning, 3. Superior ironing, THE VIRGINIA POULTRY ASSO- We are headquarters for high grade 4. The best of skilled workmanship. CIATION. goods only. Oar spring stock la These are the things which have built low ready for inspection. up the excellent reputation every- Richmond, Va., March 3, 1908. Write us your wants. where enjoyed by RICHMOND BTJGGY AND WAGON Weber and Columbus The Southern Planter, Richmond, Va.: COMPANY, Wagons. Dear Sirs,—Thinking that it will 1433 Main Street, Richmond, Va. be to our mutual interest and benefit, The New Bettendorf Wagon we below give you the outcome of the has steel gears which it a make regular meeting of this Association wagon for any climate, and practi- cally unbreakable. last night, in the election of officers Reduce Your Guano Bill. Strength and durability should be for the ensuing year: first considerations when you buy a President, J. W. Quarles, Ellersons, wagon. The Weber, Columbus and Va. New Bettendorf wagons can be relied First Vice-President, C. E. Harwood, upon for long, satisfactory service. They are built to haul heavy loads Richmond, Va. and to stand the rough usage to which Second Vice-President, R. R. Taylor, farm wagons are always subjected. Beaver Dam, Va. These wagons are in the front rank Third Vice-President, Charlie Brown, high-grade wagons. of Cartersville, Va. With all the strength and durability of these wagons, they are not made Secretary, W. R. Todd, Richmond, excessively heavy. They are noted Va. for their light running qualities. Treasurer, A. J. Warren, Richmond, International local agents will be Va. glad to show you these superior wag- We had- a full and interesting meet- Drill and gefc ons and furnish catalogs with all de- Use a Lindsey Compost the greatest returns from your stable sired information. Call and take the ing and the spirit of harmony pre- ind lot manure, etc. Fully guaranteed. matter up with them or write direct vailed to the extent that each and A. postal will get our catalogue. to the home office. every successful candidate for office LINDSEY & SONS, Box 28, Crystal International Harvester Company of received the full, unanimous vote. America, Chicago, U. S. A. Springs, Ga. (Incorporated) The assurances of co-operation ex- pressed, and the harmony exhibited, BOSTROM'S IMPROVED FARM LEVEL. WITH TELISOOPE insures for the Association contin- a P»t'd 1903. Is no MAKESHIFT.butthe Wheels. Freight Paid $8 75 uance of its steady and healthy best one made for Terrac- ing, Irrigation and Drain- for 4 Kuggy Whrels Slwel Tilfw on. u " '' Kul.l,, r growth. Tir«s $15.20. I lulu, wlmela % 10 4 in. trt-ad. Rubber > age. Price §12.50, including TlrnTnu IIcl-u-i.-. $41; Hiihi™.. $5. Write for cuilut. Thanking you for your numerous Tripod and Rod, delivered Learn ht»w to buv dl*-oot. it<>pnlrVV heel*. $5.60. courtesies we are, to yoa. Write for descrip- 1 ""'™"''.". Wagon Uuibiv.iaKKfcK. W.V Boob, circulars. Treatise on Very truly, W. R. TODD, tive Terracing, etc., Free. Always mention The Southern Secretary Virginia Poultry Associa- Bostrom, Brady Mfg Co» Planter when writing advertisers. tion. 8 Madison Ave.. Atlanta, Qsk. 350 THE SOUTHE RN PLANTER. [April.

EASY WAY TO GET A BOOK THAT MAKES YOU YOUR OWN HORSE DOCTOR. YOURBfi^f In nine cases out of ten the man KAND0ASMUCHI who is well posted on veterinary mat- "WORKASAMAN ters can successfully treat an ailing horse, cow or other animal. In many instances veterinary doctors are not pKRAUS PIVOTAXK at hand, anyhow, so it is necessary ^SULKY for the stock owner to rely entirely CULTIVATOR He simply steers it—the machine does all the upon his own good judgment and work. A slight pressure of the foot moves the whee's and shovels simultaneously to the right or knowledge. • Every reader of this left at the will of the driver/while the widthbetween paper should know as much as pos- gangs and depth of shovels are instantly and easily sible about the common diseases of adjusted while machine is in motion. animals and the simple methods of Hillsides, Uneven Land Crooked treatment. A very handy practical and Rows as Easily Cultivated as little reference book on this subject Level Ground. New Deere Gang can now be had by writing to the Simple id construction- Tuttle Elixir Company. This book, nothing to pet out of order. On cold mornings you may want to walk Made entirely of steel and mal- while plowing. Maybe your boy is so small which is the product of an eminent leable iron — every part inter- he can hardly raise a gang plow with the changeable. Built for wear authority on veterinary surgery, con- and work. Lizht draft foot-lift when the horses are stopped. In high wheels and perfect balance. is tains in shell either case the trouble overcome by a nut the description There is just one Kraus— using and symptoms of many animal dis- if your dealer does not have it accept no other—but write eases and tells how, by the aid of us. Send today for free catalog. simple remedies, any man can treat AKRON CULTIVATOR CO., __DEPT.^7 AKRON, OHIO sick animals, without going to the r"AO£ MP.P*" Auxiliary expense of hiring a medical expert. Since the book is sent free, all post- age paid, it would be well for every TO GROW A GOOD reader of this publication to get a GARDEN pood cultivation is absolutely neces- of it at once. copy Then when some sary, but it can't be done with poor unexpected ailment seizes a horse or tools. Here's an Iron Age Tool especially made for garden work. It steer or other unfortunate animal, the not only does good work, but it is information for reliable treatment will easy to operate. The boys The New Deere and girls can do the be right at hand. If you want the gardening and pro- is the only gang so duce big crops, if made that you can valuable little book, send your name you'll equipthem with raise the plows with Iron Age and address to the Tuttle's Elixir Tools. Send a foot-lift or with a Company, 147 Beverly Street, Boston, for our hand lever—or with 1908 cat- Mass., mentioning this paper in your alog. both. The auxil- iary hand lever letter. folds out of the way when net in use. OVERTON HALL FARM SALE. The public sale of Berkshires of Beautiful Mr. J. M. Overton, of Nashville, Tenn., The Booklet Bateman Mfg. Co., Box167G, Crenloch, H.J. on Monday, February 24, 1908, was shows plows ancient and modern. Illus- trated by photos of actual plowing scenes largely attended by representative from all over the world. breeders from all sections of the Ask for booklet No. 30 Mention this paper. United States. , There were no sensational sales made and all who made purchases SUPERIOR went home congratulating themselves ) TW RAM raiS A TRW STOUT > on the bargains secured. ROYAL 2-HORSE DISC A new public sale record for a Berk- GRAIN DRILLS PLOWS Insiston seeing the superior before you Were new and shire sow was made when Mr. W. V. buy. We make Grain Drills of every different, but Zimmer, of Atlanta, Ga., paid $1,625 style and size. Also Potato Planters, Corn they made good. Planters, Corn Drills and Disc Harrows. All seeing- them for Sensation's Majesty 98292, a Catalogue and our 1908 Almanac FREE want them. daughter of Sensation 90909, the grand on request. Write SUPERIOR DRILL C0.,Dep!.14,SprinsrfieId,0. for free champion boar of 1906, whose remark- booklet, " Dise Division The American Seeding -Machine Co., Plows and Royal able show record has widely adver- Incorporated. Disc Plows." Tells about Disc Plows of tised the Overton Hall Farm herd. all kinds and descriptions. ^Chattanooga implement & Manf'g Co., The last two sales of Mr. Overton lUCP*. V ' CHATTANOOGA. TENN. have placed Tennessee on the front line with States making the best pub- FIX YOUR ROOF lic sale records, and show up as fol- Ri» Dar Cnnara —We will guarantee to put lows: Ul> rtl CqualC, any id i ea ky, worn-out, lake Your Own Fertilizer Year. No. Total. Average. rusty, tin, iron, steel, paper, felt or shingle roof in at Small Cost with perfect condition, and keep it in perfect condition 1907 50 $12,650.00 $243.30 foriur 6cuu perpel squaretqu.i per year. WILSON'S PHOSPHATE MILLS The Perfect Roof Preserver, makes old, 1908 42 8,070.00 , 192.14 From 1 to 40 H. P. Also Bone worn-oat roofs new. Satisfaction guaranteed Cutters, hand and power or money refunded. Our free roofing book for the poultrymen; crrit Roof-Fix tellsi all about it. Write for it today. and shell mills, farm feed 92 $20,720.00 $225.20 Hie Anderson Manufacturing Co., Dept. 61 . Elyria, Quel. mills, family prist mills, sold, prices paid scrap cake mills. Send for The animals the our catalog. and the purchasers are as follows: VETERINARY COURSE AT HOME. Wilson Bros., Sole Mfrs., Easton, Pa. Guthrie, Ky., sow, ear aut* upwards ran oe made taking our Yeter- M. W. Blair, ^.1 9(1 fl y v leiUU inary Course at home during spare time, taught Loyal Cindrella 2nd, 108779, $45. lu simplest English; Diploma granted positions obtained

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Brumbach Brothers, Thompson Sta- tion, Tenn., Model's Beauty 6th, 93817, $115; Columbus Queen 92310, COLUMBUS $115; Loyal Cindrella 108062, $100;

Siyio. Rival's Empress 1st, 102529, $155; Columbus J502S BUGGY Rival's Empress 2d, 102530, $155; Rival's Empress 3d, 102531, $155; Pre- mier Chief's Model, $115; Premier's Alexis Belle 108230, $125; Premier's Columbus SfySo Buggy Book FREE Alexis Belle 2d, 108241, $100; Royal ] We manufacture Bup-ffies, Runabouts, Driving Wapons, Cindrella of O. H. F., 91221, $85; Art- Phaetons, Stanhopes, and a large Surreys, Carriages, ful's variety of light Pleasure Vehicles, and sell them Violet, 102630, $200; Oaklawn DIRECT TO THE CONSUMER Huntress of O. H. F. 2d, 108227, $65; It costs no more to get the latest style and "Columbus" Daisy Duke. 101659, $165; Sensation's has always led i u style. We will furnish you your vehicle, paiuted and trimmed just the Columbus, 109202, $105. way you want it; properly *iwwfl 9 Columbus proportioned and mechanic- \* "iX /|^|MJ| Quality Clarion Farms, Norwich, Conn., ally coirect. Write for our \ XfW pb ' ce Sensation's Columbus 2d, 109203, $30. FREE CATALOGUE m ^^Jlt #5252 atonoe. Our lowprices W. J. Cocke, Asheville, N. C, Pre- for Cohimbus Quali- mier's Premieress, 108235, $185; Mas- ty, Style and Work* manshipvrill surprise ter Tips, $350. you and will save you Hall, 40 to 60%. The Catalog W. S. Corsa, White 111., Duke's will cost you nothing. Eunice, 103610, $110. Look our styles over and compare our prices before you purchase. Write today for the FREE CATALOGUE. J. D. B. DeBow, Nashville, Tenn., THE COLUMBUS CARRIAGE & HARNESS CO. Lee's May Belle 4th, $220. 20 8 So. High Street, - Columbus. Ohio W. J. Fitts, Gallatin, Tenn., Pre- mier's Lady Isabella, 108236, $130. C. M. Haynes, Olive Branch, Miss., Director General, $40. J. D. Kirk, Roanoke, Va., Model's Brass-Lined, Double Acting. of Belle Meade, 108237, $110. Beauty For any kind or depth well. A. M. Lothrop, Washington, D. C, The Philadelphia, the Best on Earth When asking for prices, state depth Has the longest test and most in Lord Premier's Bessie of O. H. F., and kind of well you have. use. Continuous opening from top to 108058, $115. RED JACKET PUMP CO., bottom. Osburn, 111., Ken- Alt. Vernon, Ind. THE ONLY OPENING ROOF MADE. William Morris, TANKS AND TOWERS. tucky Beauty, $55. Ask for price and catalogue. W. K. Pickens, Livingston, Ala., E. F. SCHLICHTER CO., 10 South Charmer's Violet 2d, 92346, $390. Eighteenth St., Philadelphia, Pa. J. W. Russwurm, Nashville, Tenn., Oxford Belle of O. H. F, 97211, $150; Fuller Brothers Silver Duchess, 100049, $155. CCONOMYSILO DANVILLE, VA, J. F. Tucker, Smyrna, Tenn., Pre- Medal and highest award at the Jamestown Exposition mier Chief's Rachel, 104969, $150. Economy SHos are constructed on mechanical Are sole agents for the 'and scientific principles. The best material J. C. White, Knoxville, Tenn., Pre- is used in their construction throughout. mier's Leda of O. H. F., $95. Our patent continuous doorway is a Marvel of Simplicity and Perfection. Doors only Whittaker & Son, Columbia, S. C, Imperial Chilled Plows. eight inches high. Any boy can handle them. Permanent ladder and hoop supports. Lee's May Belle, 3d, $205. "Write for free illustrated catalogue acd experience of users. W. V. Zimmer, Atlanta, Ga., Sensa- Made by Bucher & Gibbs Plow Co., Economy Silo & Tank Co. tion's Majesty of O. H. F. 2d, 98292, Canton, Ohio. Box 38G Frederick, Md. $1,626; Fanny Kingsclere 3d 103547, No BETTER Plow Is made or sold. $95; Durham's Lady Premier 98308, $70; Durham's Short Face, 98309, $70; MONEY saved Premier's Lady Isabelle, 108236, $130; IS MONEY EARNED Oaklawn Francis 2d, 91775, $1,000; THE CLIPPER. Sensational Annie of O. H. F 2d, will cut tall grass, Order direct. short grass and 97220, $450; Oaklawn Huntress of We make En- weeds, and do all gines from 2 O. H. F, 10S226. $80; Armlet's the trimming ,to 15 H. P. Duchess, 94442, $100. along the fence, Station* ry walks and drives. and Portable If your dealers Send for Cat- A CORN GROWING CONTEST. do not keep them, alog. let us know, and will cir- BAUROTH BROS., Somebody is going to get $5 or $10 we send •1 Fisher St., Springfield, Ohio. culars and prices. by participating in a corn growing contest which is being fathered by Clipper lawn Mower Co., Dixon, 111. FOR SALE the Binghamton Seed Company, Bing- A complete canning plant in good hainton, N. Y. A description of this Drills bape, including cranes, valves, steam contest, with others, which amount, in Well and water pipes, kettles, steam For Horse, Steam or Gasoline Power vats, all, to $50 in prizes, is explained in trays, tables, Are pots, gasoline tank and pump, good stock of cans, cases the new catalogue just published by Weil Augers and solder. Can be removed with this firm. For Horse Power mall cost. Readers of our advertising columns Address ALFRED L. BUTLER. are familiar at this time with the tOOIKIS MACHINE Ct> DREWRY'S BliUFP, VA. announcements of the W. H. Taft TIFFIN. 0HI9 Strawberry. This is only one of this Always mention The Southern firm's specialties. Besides this, they Tell the advertiser where you saw Planter when writing advertisers. are pushing hard on their "Fire Dried his advertisement. 352 THE SOUTHERN" PLANTER [April,

Seed Corn." Of this they have a limited quantity. Buy in New York Every planter of corn is interested The Way "Our Folks" Buy F — Plant in getting the kind that will develop Ms You Over 75,000 Reliable Articles ! the largest profit. The new Queen With Two-Row Drill Shown In This a Corn specialized by this company pro- 700-Pago duced last year in New York State CORN 200 bushels of matured ears per acre. WHm.VANGLAHN &C0.1 The new. 1908 catalogue referred to YORK PLANTER Illustrated above, gives a description of this Edge' corn and all of specialties Orop their other in flower seeds, garden seeds, etc., etc. PHggs GOOD HOUSEKEEPING. On Small or BRUNSWICK STEW. Large Quantities postal Put into a stew pan two cans of \ Just write a j tous—theOldestMail- tomatoes with such scraps of meat 1 Order House in Amer- j ica—so ve can send and bones as you have left from the you Free this Catalog tliat costs us to practically day before. I sometimes use cold No. 94 , $1 print—showing every reliable article you need for home or shop, i ncluding beefsteak or the carcass of a cold Hatcnes, Jewelry, Tools, Hardware, Implement s, Guns, Traps, Fishing Tackle, Cutlery, Vehicles, Pumps, Boots, Corn Raisers everywhere have had great- roasted fowl. j est yucceys on ''worn out" land—or where Chop a small onion Shoes, Builders' Hardware, Wire Fencing, Blacksmithing Tools and materials. Metal and other Kooflns?, Hose, Pipe & soil productiveness has been decreased by and put it in with a handful of dried I continued cropping—by using our Fertilizer Fittings, Painie, Varnishes, Hope, Bells, Stoves, Ranges, Attachments on a Two-Row Drill No. 9 butterbeans. Cover and let boil for Washing machines & Thousand* of other Reliable Articles. Deere Corn Planter. See bv -^''lau^^u. You'll also set our Premium List cf over 100 valuable how tbe fertilizer contair'—s are placed an hour and a half; then add two and useful articles given Free to our customers. Also our ba-.1 ! 01 tue ?eefl contain^-s. You get all cans of corn and three Irish grocery list of guaranteed Food Products saves you p potatoes standard features . ~:: xamous No. 9 hut one-third. One letter or postal brings all this money- when wanted as a two-row drill no check cut up. Let it boil an hour longer; saving information. Write us today. "We guarantee wire Is furnished. For tull particulars satisfaction or money refunded. We guarantee safe season with salt and plenty of pepper. delivery of all goods ordered. We refer by permission to Write a Postal to Deere and Toast a number of slices of bread, publishers of this paper as to our absolute responsibility. White, Van Glahn&Co., 15 Barclay St., New York City Get Your Name On Our arrange them on a platter. Pour the Oldest Mail-Order Rouse in America, Estab. 2816 hot stew over them and serve at once. IRISH POTATOES AND MEAT CAKES. Use cold creamed potatoes; add to Dig Your Potatics With a them an equal quantity of ground ham; to each pint add two well-beaten From the day we get your name and ad- eggs and a tablespoon of butter; sea- DOWDEN dress on a postal we keep you Informed of all latest improvements in farm imple- son with salt and pepper and form ments—and you become the best judge of farm machinery real values. into round cakes and fry with hot Our famous No. 9 Corn Planter Is only drippings. Serve very hot. one of many of our Implements you ought to know all about. There are practical reasons for every BREAKFAST LOAF. Improvement on Deere Durability ma- chines, made famous by half a century of Take any remnants of meat you success. To learn how accurate the edge-drop is have on hand and chop as for salad; in drilling corn with this machine and all mix with creamed potatoes and sea- its valuable exclusive features ask for The greatest labor saving machine "More Corn" Book—No. 91—Free. son highly with pepper, salt, celery on the market. Gets all the potatoes seed Deere & Mansui* Gom and catsup. Add well-beaten in any soil—deep or shallow, hilly or Mollne, III. eggs and form into a loaf; sprinkle level, light or heavy vines. Potatoes clean and sound. The machine fine crumbs all over it and a table- come that works right, lasts and needs no spoon of melted butter. Set it into repairs. the stove and let it brown quickly— Write for catalogue for detailed in- about twenty minutes will be long formation. JOHN DEERE PLOW CO., General dripping. Serve very hot. Agents for Maryland, East and West ENGINES FOR SALE. Virginia, North and South Carolina. SCALLOPED EGGS. Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsyl- Ten horse traction, $250; 10 horse vania. portable, $150; 12 horse portable, $200; Boil one dozen eggs hard and chop Dowden Mfg. Co., Box 870, 6 horse boiler and engine, $90; 1 horse them, not very fine; butter your pud- Prairie City, Iowa, V. S. A. gasoline engine, $40; 3 horse, $60; 6 horae, $125; 10 horse, $175. Boilers and ding dish and put in alternate lay- Engines from 1 to 100 horse carried In ers of bread crumbs and the chopped stock for Immediate shipment. eggs; season with salt and pepper. THE HOOVER POTATO Coney Boiler Works, Springfield, Ohio- When the dish is full have the crumbs Th e most successful dig ger on top. Pour over it three cups of made. Saves time, labor and DIGGER boiling milk seasoned with salt and potatoes. Sat- SAVE MONEY f pepper and three tablespoons of but- isfaction guar on BerpyBoxes anteed. ter. Bake a nice brown and serve and Baskets hot. Fruit and Vegetable Packages and Grow- STUFFED EGGS. ers* Supplies of all Send for .kinds. Write for free imniev -eav I ngen t- 1 Catulogue> t aloKiudpricelletl*. fiew Albany Box Boil a dozen eggs very hard and . ofDleesrs. ^4 Basket Co. , Rev Albany, Ind . when they have been peeled cut a *>• Pickery -Largest Factory of Its Kind and Sorters. in the Country. slice from each end to make them HOOTER MFG. CO., Box 89, Aver; , Ohio. stand well, cut in half and take out Df A NIPT ID Implement* save the yelks; rub these up with a table- GINSENG rLiAimi «J IV e you money. S^X^StS spoon of butter, pepper, salt, celery and 1MT. Popwlar priew. For fartkar t»- Allen Co., X Philadelphia. S. L. & Box 1107 , seed, fine cracker crumbs, about two fermatlM addraaa C. F. CABTSR, tmm tablespoons, a tablespoon of vinegar; hfVLM FORD. VA. Tell the advertiser where 70a i*w two tablespoons of home-made catj- kit advertisement sup and one tablespoon of Worcester Please mention the Southern Planter. — —— —

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sauce. Mix all well into a paste and THE HESSLER RURALMAIL BOX. fill the whites nicely. Put them in a pan and bake a few minutes. Serve The Hessler Rural Mail Box Is one the folks all like, cold. The handiest of the handy, The prettiest on the pike. TO COOK ASPARAGUS. The height of mail invention That stands the U. S. test, Wash well and scrape off the tough The Box that is the safest, skin from the ends; let it in water The Box that is the Best. lay for an hour, then tie up in bunches The Hesslers' Rural Mail Box and drop into a kettle of boiling The FARQUHAR Rake Is nothing to wear out, water. Thirty minutes is long enough It is by far the strongest SEPARATOR Threshes and cleans all kinds of grain, Because they make it stout. to cook it. Make a sauce of one cup wheat, oats, etc., perfectly. Built for steam It cares not for the weather, of milk, one tablespoon of butter and or horse power. Light running and simple. In storm it stands the brunt, one tablespoon of flour; add one cup Made in three Bizes. The Hessler Rural Mail Box Write for new 130-i catalog of engines, Is always at the front. of the water in which the asparagus boilers, saw-mills and threshing machinery. See our exhibit at St. Louis in the Palace had been boiled; season with salt. of Agriculture. The Hessler Rural Mail Box H. r'AROl MAIt—& CO.. Ltd., York, Pn. Place slices of toast in the bottom — Is one of highest rank, No rust and no corrosion of the dish and arrange the asparagus It's safe as any bank. on it, then pour the sauce over it and It's made to last a lifetime, serve at once. And you are sure it will. JfariniMJh^r$emdek It fills the want long wanted In all ways fills the bill. SEAFOAM CANDY. A constant supply for as many purposes on your place as you desire, No trouble, iFrom far you see its signal Four cups of brown sugar, one cup no expense when you have installed a That never plays you tricks; of water, the whites of two eggs, one It's proof against the burglar teaspoon of vanilla; boil sugar And never out of fix. the RIFE HYDRAUUQ RASH On every road and highway until it is done enough to make a Pumps water from spring, stream or It has the Right of Way ball when dropped in cold water. ond automatically. Inexpensive, The Hessler Rural Mail Box Simple, reliable. Satisfaction (Always cook it few minutes after Is one that comes to stay. a Guaranteed. Raises water 30 you are sure that it is done.) Beat feet for every foot of fall. The Hessler Rural Mail Box is for the eggs dry and put the vanilla into ',000 in use. sale by leading dealers or shipped Write For Free Plans them; then pour the boiling sugar book of valuable direct. Write for souvenir button. and suggesstions. E. CO., 51© North Sulina slowly over the beaten egg and con- H. HESSLER v* Street, Syracuse, N. Y. tinue to beat until it is almost hard. RIFE ENGINE CO. 113 Trinity BMg. Butter the dishes and drop the mix- Mew York Robertson's hSngU Stanchion ture from a spoon in cakes. It will cool at once and is very dainty and Is used and toothsome. endorsed by thousan ds ; Machinery. willallowthe PINEAPPLE PIE. 2nd Maml animal per- THE WATT PLOW COMPANY, fect freedom One cup of grated pineapple (small to He with its can), three cups of boiling water, Richmond, Va. , head in or four tablespoons of corn starch, four 1—25 H. P. Geiser Engine and Boiler out of the I on .skids. In first-class order. eggs beaten separately, four cups of ; manager. 1 15 H. P. (SxtO cylinder) Pitts En- Sold — | subject sugar, four tablespoons of butter gine and Boiler. Mounted on steel to a 30 days wheels. free trial creamed with sugar, the rind and in 1 25 H. P. Geiser Engine. Mounted sta- of lemons one large — your own juice two small or Boiler on skids. Almost ble. on 30 H. P. Write one. Mix the corn starch with a lit- for booklet. new. tle cold water and pour the boiling 1—12 H. P. Kelly Engine and Boiler on wheels. In first-class order. O. H. ROBERTSON, water over it; then stir in the pine- No. 18 Camp Street, ForestvHle, Conn. apple and a part of the sugar and 1—15 H. P. Frick Engine and Boiler let it get cold before adding the other on wheels. Rich- Ingredients. Add the whites last and 1 No. 1 Ijane Saw Mill with mond Iron Works Feed, 40-inch bake in rich crusts without a top Inserted Tooth Saw and all neces- crust. These are delicious. sary belts. In first-class order.

i|!NE|^a^SlANCHION I —No. 8 Fnrquhar Cable Feed Saw CINNAMON CAKES. Mill with three Head Blocks and 50-inch Inserted Tooth Saw. As Half pound of butter, half pound Hon. Carter Glass, Montview Farms, good as new. Lynchburg, Va., writes: sugar, one pound of flour; three eggs, In- "I desire to state that the 60 leave out the yelk of one egg and 1—No. 1 Lane Mill with 50-inch Tooth Saw. As good as new. Stanchions bought of you have given mix the cake and roll them very thin, serted us perfect satisfaction in every par- ticular." whip the yelk with a little rosewater 1—6 H. P. Peerless Engine and Boiler The purchaser takes no risk, as the and with a feather spread it over the on wheels. Stanchions are shipped subject to 30 cake; sprinkle sugar and cinnamon days trial. Send for booklet. 1 —7-inch 4-Sided Molder. over this and bake quickly in a 1 4-Sided Molder. W. B. CRUMB, South Street, —4-inch Forcstville, Conn. biscuit pan. —ALSO 1 48-inch Inserted Tooth Simonds BATTEK PUDDING. Saw. CUTAWAY TOOLS FOR LARGE HAY CROPS. 1—54-inch Inserted Tooth Simonds Three of Clark's Intense Cultivators One quart of flour, seven eggs, half Saw. produced this year on 14% acres, 102 cup of melted better, one teaspoon of tone of well dried alfalfa, timothy invite your correspondence and and salt, one teaspoon of soda, two of We trodtop hay. If you want to know will gladly give any information de- laow, enclose a 2-cent stamp to cream tartar, enough sweet milk to sired. <3»ORGE M. CLARK, Hlgganum, Conn. make a thick batter. Pour into a mould or a bag and boil. Eat with THE WATT PLOW CO., Please mention the Southern Planter. brandy sauce. 7426 E. Main St., Richmond, Va, 354 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [April,

Th,s BRANDY SAUCE. s £Ue„, MASTERS One cup of fresh butter, one cup of TOBACCO, pulverized sugar creamed until light. SHIP flE YOUR CABBAGE, Mix with it two tablespoons of TOMATO AND brandy, the juice of one lemon, a nutmeg. Stir it slowly into SWEET POTATO dust of a cup of boiling water; let it sim- TRANSPLANTER. mer a moment and pour it into a Has been thor- warm sauce dish and serve with the OLD METALS oughly tested in pudding or any boiled dumpling. the field during the past three seasons CARAVAN. and every suggest- ed improvement has been adopted, THE SUP2RIOR GRAIN DRILL. HIDES so that we now offer the dealers For many years the Superior Drill and growers the has been recognized as the standard grandest little tool of drill perfection, and if you will ever devised for RUBBER setting all kinds of ask a Superior user how he likes his plants. Does better drill, he is pretty likely to tell you work than can be that there is no other drill like it; done by hand and more than twice that it is the best on earth. However as fast. Will set that may be, unquestionably the Su- SCRAP IRON plants cheaper perior Drill has given the very best than the horse satisfaction in planter, acre by of the hands of farm acre. Will do per- users. The man who will investigate fect work where the drill question cannot but be con- the horse planter vinced that the drill is a profitable Car Lots a Specialty will not work at all—amongst rocks investment. In the first place, careful and stumps and on tests by the Experiment Stations have side-hill land, and demonstrated that drilled oats yield far more satisfac- tory in every way. on an average seven bushels more Read the following testimonials: than oats sown broadcast, which I helped out set 25 acres of tomatoes shows that it won't take very long to for Hudson & Co., with one of your 50,000 Planters and we secured a fine stand make the price of the drill on the of plants. A good test was made in oats you raise. When oats are used the middle of one field, where we set as a nurse crop, the Superior Drill a big patch the old way, and to-day is especially desirable, as you can sow Wanted they are not half as good as those set Hides with your Planter. your grass seed at the same time you SHIRLEY G. COX. sow your oats, and by the grain be- Mattituck, Long Island, N. T., June ing in drills, which gives plenty of 14, 1906. Write for Prices. Please reserve for circulation of air and sunlight on me Talbot county satisfaction Guaranteed. my agency, as a great number of the grass seed, the result is that a farmers have told me they want a Commissions. uniform and good stand is almost in- No Setter the coming spring. The first day I went out I sold 14 Planters and variably the rule, it being a much I find this is just the tool every farmer easier matter to get a stand of clover, and grower should have. timothy, etc., where put in with CHARLES G. PEARCE. Checks Sent Same Easton, Md., February 17, 1906. drilled oats than it is where it is I have used the Masters Plant Setter sown with broadcasted oats. Day Freight Bills for two years and am well pleased The Superior Drill Company ask with it. W ould not take $50 for mine Are Marked Paid. you write for full particu- and do without it. Can recommend that them them for use in the dryest kind of lars and secure their booklet which land, etc. G. T. ADAMS. they have issued under the title of Pilot Mountain, N. C, October 3, 1906. I bought one of your Planters last "Orilling Versus Broadcasting," as spring and set out 40.000 tobacco well as their large Superior Catalogue plants and find that it fills the bill and 1908 Almanac, which will be exactly. Would not take many times mailed you free if you mention The its cost if I could not get another, etc. ilarence Cosby, D. J. DENNY, J. P. Southern Planter. Pinnacle. N. C, October 7, 1906. The Planter I bought of you this spring acted like a charm, and is just WHAT IS VULCANITE? Established 1890. the thing that every man should have who plants anything in the ground. A great many farmers and builders I would not be without it for its are asking what "Vulcanite" is. Vul- VA. in gold. I it setting RICHHOND, weight have used canite is a mineral rubber compound, out tobacco, tomato, cabbage and sweet potato plants with perfect suc- and has been used for over sixty years cess, etc. A. W. SMITH. in the manufacture of ready roofing. Largest Dealer in South Hill, Va., June 20, 1906. It is one of the most durable mate- The Planter I bought of your agent, Metals, Hides, Charles G. Pearce, last spring, has rials ever discovered for the purpose Serap Iron, given me perfect satisfaction. My son and makes a roofing hard to equal. Etc., in the South. can set out twice as many plants with It is particularly adapted to farm it in a day as he could with anything buildings of all kinds; is more lasting else he ever used, and the beauty of it all is that thev all take root and than shingles or tin; much cheaper REFERENCES: grow. GEORGE BUCKLEY. in first cost and costs next to nothing Easton, Md., February 7, 1906. National Bank of Virginia, to maintain, as it does not require For full particulars, wholesale and Bank of Richmond, retail prices, address annual painting. Vulcanite is not affected by rain, Bradstreets and Dun. MASTERS PLANTER COMPANY, snow, sun or frost—weather does not 178 So. Water St.. CHICAGO, ILX. injure it in any way, and it makes a —

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handsome appearance on the building. For making old roofs new, espe- Paint Without Oil cially old shingle roofs, Vulcanite is the most satisfactory thing you can use—simply lay it right over the old Remarkable Discovery That Cuts Down shingles and make the roof better the Cost of Paint Seventy-Five than new—no expense or time re- Per Cent. moving old shingles. For further particulars write to the A Free Triul Package Is Mailed to Patent Vulcanite Roofing Company, Every One Who Writes. A. L. Rice, a prominent manufacturer 626 S. Campbell Avenue, Chicago, 111., of Adams, N. Y., has discovered a pro- for free samples and their roof book. cess of making a new kind of paint Kindly mention this paper and the without the use of oil. He calls It book will be sent free also. Powdrpaint. It comes in the form of a dry powder and all that is re- quired is cold water to make a paint Meadow Brook Farm, Round Hill, weatherproof, fireproof and as durable Va., J. D. Thomas, proprietor, is of- as oil paint. It adheres to any surface wood, stone or brick, spreads and fering large Imperial Yorkshires. Mr. looks like oil paint and costs about Thomas has been advertising with one-fourth as much. us for many years and knows how to Write to Mr. A. L. Rice, Manufac- turer, 203 North St., Adams, Y., please his customers with this popu- N. and he will send you a free trial package, andaiioth- lar breed. also color card and full information APPLE showing you how you can save a good A POPULAR HORSE. many dollars. Write to-day. trees do Director, Jr., the son of Director PEACH and Mamie Wilkes, by Red Wilkes, their best PEAR that was purchased last fall by J. M. W npr° " Vaughan, of South Hill, Va., has de- P veloped into a grand looking horse, e PLUM £ with a satin like coat of rich ma- hogany bay renders him very attrac- tive in appearance. The bay stallion SPRAYED sires fine colts, and since being taken to South Hill has become very popu- Have y*u any fruit treca that lar. Director, Jr., is one of the yield poor, wormy, knarled, blight** straightest bred horses in Virginia, and imperfect fruit T Do you spray being by a great race horse and sire WRITE FOR PRICES. them? If not you are of champions, from a maternal line that has made history. Time to Paint ABSORBINB FOR SHOE BOILS. Let us quote LOSING MONEY you prices on S. Farnsworth, Luenburg, Mass., Paint that will give you satis- writes, April 4, 1907: "My horse had EBROj faction. Color All klnda of apray pumpa at a large shoe gall, I should say as cards and all in- prices from $3 up. large as a quart measure, and Absor- formation cheer- fully bine took it all down and I have used furnished. Our Spray Pumpa are reliable, Write to-day. only half of the can. I should not be BROsJ simple and durable. V-S'BEHMUTH Lelbermuth afraid to recommend it to any one." Bros., Used by the Virginia and North Absorbine is a mild and pleasant Richmond, Va. Carolina Agricultural Departments. remedy to use. It is prompt and positive in its action and will remove PREVENT ROT. blemishes, cure lameness and pain SYDNOR PUMP & WELL CO., Doubles the life of fence posts, porches, without blistering or removing the tanks, sills, etc. Prevents warping •£ DEPT. B. hair. Horse can be used. Send to shingles. Use AVENARIUS CARBO- address below for free book "How to LINECM. Endorsed by the U. S. De- partment of Agriculture. On ths RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. Blemishes." Absorbine is Remove $2 market since 1875. Booklet free. per bottle at dealers, or express pre- Surest remedy against Chicken Lies paid upon receipt of price. W. F. and Mites. Carbolineum Wood Preserving Co., Young, P. D. F., 109 Monmouth Street, Defender 346 W. Broadway, New York, N. Y. Sprayer Springfield, Mass. All brass, easiest work> THE BEST TIME IS NOW. SAVE YOUR TREES ing, most powerful, aute= Don't let them be destroyed by scale, matic mixer, expansion Spring is a busy season not only worms and insects. Spray them with ralves, double strain**. on the farm, but everywhere else, GOOD'S caustic pot- cnap fun 3 Catalogue of Pumps an* bUUU » asH WHRLE OIL awr NU. J Treatise on Spraying fiaa, and, in the best interests of our read- Agents Wamthd. ers, we urge upon them the advisa- 50 pounds $2.50, 100 pounds $4.50, }'t. Oaylord, Bex 82 OatskiU, «. K> larger quantities proportionately less. bility of making early preparation Insecticide and fertilizer combined. for their Spring work. No detail of Dissolves easily in water. Contains kills Prairie Dogs, Wood practical fanning is more important no sulphur, salt or mineral oils. Used Chucks, Gophers and and endorsed by the U. S. Department Grain Insects. "The wheels than that of fertilizing. All farmers of Agriculture. Write for booklet on FUMfl of the Gods grind slow, are aware of the benefits of Nitrate Plant Diseases—free. but exceedingly small." So the weevil, JAMES GOOD, but you can stop their grind of Soda as a fertilizer. We must re- with Original Maker,!)."!! N. Front St., PUMA CARBON BI-SULPHIDE mind them that this is Nature's own Philadelphia, Pa. as others are doing. It fumigates land-renewing agency and that it poultry houses and kills hen lice. must be applied when the plant, no Tell the advertiser where you saw Edward R. Taylor, Pen Tan, N. T. matter what kind, is in an early stage his advertisement 356 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [April,

of its growth. In late Winter and early Spring the railroads and store? HIGH GRADE are rushed with business, and delays DROP-HEAD in delivering this most effective fer- LIGHT RUNNING ecA tilizer are certain. insure To having nitrate on hand at the right time, we SEWING MLE GREASE urge all our readers to order their MACHINE Positively the greatest supply now. It will do little or no Sewing Machine value adds years to the life of ever offered. By our direct selling: plan, we good if it comes late. Order it now. save you all dealers' and agents' profits. This a a wagon. Just what Machine is equal to farmer, teamster or dray- any usually sold by HEAVES, THEIR CAUSE AND agents for $30.00. man needs to make the Is substantially CURE. wheels go round" with made of best Every one who owns a horse or material, and is least wear and most profit. equipped with who has charge of horses should know the latest im- Poor grease cuts the what to do and how best to help a provements. Ele- gant oak drop-leaf boxes out of your wheels horse when it is afflicted with the cabinet, 4 drawers heaves. In the first place, it and full set of at- — don't use it — get should tachments. We give be understood that indigestion is Mica Axle Grease and our binding 10-year primarily the cause of heaves. Over- guarantee with each machine. Order one today, try it 30 save the wagon. days audit not found in every way satisfactory, we will re- feeding causes an abnormal condition fund your money. We are the largest sewing machine dis- of the stomach and violent exercise tributers in the South, and make prompt shipment. Send for complete catalogue mailed free on application. thereafter interferes with the expan- sion of the lungs, retards the circu- MALSBY, SHIPP & CO. lation, and in a short time the pecu- Dept. 14 Atlanta, Ga. liar cough which accompanies the disease is heard. Now, the remedy that is a guaran MYEHS LOOiC STITCH teed cure for the heaves in any stage whatever is Newton's Heave, Cough, J?L SEWSNO Distemper and Indigestion Cure. It AWL is highly praised by horsemen because it does its work of curing quickly and thoroughly, and leaves no ill effects of any kind. The price of this remedy is $1.00 a can, for sale by all dealers, or will is the most practical little device ever invented, for mending harness, shoes, canvas, carpets, etc. be sent by express, prepaid, on re- Sews like sewing machine. Every family needs ceipt of price by the manufacturers, one. Sample ready to use $1 postpaid. Book E. C. A. Myers Co., 6537 Woodlawn Ave., Chicago jj The Newton Remedy Co., Toledo, Ohio. This Company publishes a book, entitled "Horse Troubles and Stable COIL SPRINB FENCE Made of high carbon Steel Wire Hints," which will prove of great in- ; Hors?-hicrh,B'.;Il-stron£;,, Chicl; ~T en-tight. Sold d:reet to ttie terest to any horse owner. Farmer at lowe-t manufac- Send for It. turers prices on CO Days Free [L^ Trial, freight prepaid. 100 pi.ge £ Catalogue and price-list free. $50.00 AN ACRE AHEAD. KITSELMAN BROS., Box 14 MUNC1E, IX A few years ago we set out a num- ber of acres of Holland cabbage dur- ing the last week of June, writes a HANLOVE AUTOMATIC GATE subscriber. The weather came off Saves time plants adds to value • but, our S - UR D very dry and hot, as " safety, beauty I « F C were ready, we went ahead and set RETURNED and pleasure them out, working a full ten hours of home. Send sketch for free report aa t» every day. We were making a test Manlove patentability. Guide Book and What Gate Co., 272 to Invent, with valuable list of Inven- that year to find out if liquid fertiliz- Huron St. tions sent wanted free. One million er was any better than plain water, Chicago, 111. dollars offered for one Invention; $16,000 for others. Patents secured by to set with. We, therefore, set ten us advertised free In World's Progress rows of plants througn the fields us- Sample free. ing only water to set with. Then we s4^&v, Li,* LAWN FENCE EVANS & WILKENS, set ten rows and used liquid fertil- Many designs. Cheap itc 848 F Street, Washington, D. C. wood- 32 page Catalogue izer instead of water, and we contin- free. Special Prices to ued this plan clear across the field. Churches and Cemeteries* Pence Co, set ten Coiled Spring T YOUfflDEAS After the plants had been Box Q Winchester Ind.

$100,000 for one inventions h days, you could easily distinguish the _ jther $8,500. Book "How to jbtain a Patent" and "What to In- difference. Wine Fmso® sent free. Send rough vent" sketch for fre* The rows set with liquid fertilize' 29* report as to patentability. Wc advertise your i 48-in. stock fence per rod only ' Best higdl carbon coiled steel spring ': i|A patentfor sale at our expense. . grew considerably larger and were of « tools and supplies YB32L Patent Obtained or Fee Returned. Catalog offences. a dark green color, and you could Buy direct at wholesale. Write today*. CHANDLEE & CHAHDI.EE. Patent Atfyi, ,' MASON FENCE CO. Box 80 Leesbuis. * (EatabliHudlSjeart) easily see the difference clear up into 1 Street, ington, 94 P. Wash D. C | September and October. Those set - I nf i ... „ I, — — with water were not nearly so rug- 4-fc# A Neat Binder for your back num- ged and were of a paler color, and UM'P8tC£LJ HIGH GRADE - bers can be had for 30 cents. Address when we came to harvest them about CATALOGUE FREE. our Business Department. the first of November, the rows set )0W WIRE & HRG.W WKS. UOUISVILLE-Klf. 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 357

with liquid fertilizer turned off about fourteen tons to the acre, while those IT PAYS TO set with water only turned off about nine tons to the acre, and as cabbage SPRAY The Iron Age 4-row Sprayer were worth that fall $10 a ton out of gives perfect satisfaction. Puts solu- tion just where needed and in foe- the field, those set with liquid fertil- like mist. Pumpdelivi rsspray under high pressure, thusreachingevery izer turned out full $50 an acre " Eart of vine, effectually kilt ahead of those set with water, and )g bugs and preventing blight. Has Orchard Poultry-raisers have found that the labor and cultivation were the Iron Age the better the incubators and bprayin^ attach- Tools. brooders they use, the better same in both cases. ment. Write for A postal nrings the Masters Rapid free Catalog foods they feed, the more money it. Wnte today. they make, and the Planter Company gives this formula illustrating more pleasui'e they Sprayer fret out of their fowls, we want to sup- free to every purchaser of one of ply you with the better incubators and and g>rooders, foods and supplies. We manufac- their plant setters. See their ad. in other ture and market the best poods in the world in our line. The "United" Incuba- this issue. tors and brooders— standard the world ov- er, and favorites with poultry people— are our loaders in the machine line. "Ban- Overbrook Farm, ner" and "Fidelity" Foods need no rgument to convince you of theirmerits. Baltimore, Md., March 12, 1908. We manufacture and guarantee them. Southern Planter: 167S,3renioch H.J. I'.y BATEMMJ MFG. CO.,Bos s . buying all your supplies at one •wv P lace you will fave on freight, Four of our large Yorkshire sows and will always get a quality you have just farrowed— two of them 12 can depend on. Send us Superior both your orders and save money. pigs each, one 13 pigs and one 11 pigs, Before you buy elsewhere write in growth and for our free catalogs. Do it a total of 48 pigs. Forty-eight pigs nutritive qual- to-day. Wood's Virginia from four litters is "coming some." ities. Our En. United Incubator & Poultry silage Corn has a- Supply Mfg. Co., Dept. 17 This shows what large Yorkshires of chieved a big rep- 26-28 Vesey St., N, Y. C»-y. the best breeding will do. Ensilage Corn, utation wherever In selecting our Yorkshires several planted. years ago, we required every one to We are headquarters for all Farm Seeds, Cow Peas, Sorghums, Millets, Crimson be of a litter of 12 pigs, or more, and Clover, etc- Prices quoted on request. this is now giving us results. Write for prices and Wood's Crop Special, It has struck us as quite funny that giving interesting information about Farm breeders generally do not seem to pay Seeds. Mailed free on request. Buy from the man that knows. any attention to this matter. We I am not a manufacturer. I am a have sold a good many pigs, and yet, T. poultry breeder. I am Southern W. WOOD & SONS, selling agent for one of the best have never once had an inquiry as to SEEDSMEN, RICHMOND, VA. Incubators and Brooders on the the size of a litter. While breeders market. in price. Medium Guaran- should require good breeding they teed for five years. Write me for METAL MOTHERS catalogue and further Information. should also require good individuals Complete Fireproof from large litters. Yours very truly, Hatching and Brood- CAL HUSSELMAN, ing Plant for $7.50; It, F. D. 1, Highland Springs, Vs. OVERBROOK FARM, two quarts oil will G. D. Buddecke, Owner. hatch and brood the chicks. Our nest sys- SCIENCE AND FARMING. tem is the latest discovery. Full line One of the many important facts poultry supplies. in modern farm science most worth Lowest prices. Free catalogue. Write to-day. the attention of farmers who think, You'll Start CYCLE HATCHER CO., Raising is the new system of feeding live Box 400, Elmira, New York. CMckens When You stock. Present ideas which have Get My Price grown • from and out of old-time Let me quote you my 1908 low price for a Chatham which will start you making methods within comparatively re- extra chicken profits when you read my PRAIRIE STATE INCUBATORS. valuable new free book. cently years, put the whole feeding Chatham Free 1903 Book question on a truly scientific basis. UNIVERSAL HOVERS. Gives you the benefit of my ' The proportion and composition of New Idea machines. Hatches th« (JO years' successful experi- ence FREE—write nearest foods is fully explained by agricul- largest and most vigorous cbicka. office for it today. Guaranteed. Recommended, us«d tural science and wise breeders and Thelllanson Campbell Co., Ltd., and endorsed by the Government 166 Wesson Ave., Detroit, Mich. feeders pay sufficient attention to the Stations. Send for convincing fact circulars. Address Dept. 59 Kansas City; St. subject to reap great benefit from it. Paul; Portland, Ore.; Na8tmUe,Tenn.; Harriaburg, Pa. Facts upon which the entire struc- VIRGINIA POULTRY SUPPLY CO.,

ture of the cattle feeding business . . Box 358, Richmond, Va. rests are so well attested that there POULTRY SUPPLY DEALERS. EARLY HATCHED CHICKENS is no gainsaying them, and first and Make early broilers, next, win- foremost in actual importance is the ter's early layers. Old Biddy takes tonic idea. It teaches one common her own time, which is genarally when you are not ready. sense principle—no animal under the Poultry is a profit- "Model" Incubators and Brooder* continued strain of heavy feeding can able crop on the are always ready—less trouble, no make satisfactory growth or produc- farms wheie Hce—every advantage over th# Model Incuba' tion the digestive apparatus tors and Brooders are used. If you are sitting hen. without j not making big money on your chick- "M6del" Incubators and Brooders is strengthened to meet such strain. ens, write lor mv book. It tells how. are manufactured by Chas. A. To attempt to bring a fine bunch MODEL INCUBATOR CO., Cyphers, of Buffalo, N. T. We ar« Chas. A. Cyphers, Pres. his authorized agents. Catalogue of thrifty steers up to the proper sell- 359 Henry St., Buffalo, N. Y. is free. Ask for it. ing weight, or to get a large average MMMHBBMH If you have not received our production of milk from a herd of Poultry Supply and Feed Price Lint cows, leaving nature to settle alone Iron and Wire Fences you are not on our mailing list. Send the constant overdrafts on ani- Plain find heavy, also light and or- in your address—do it now. made nauiental.

If fatting cattle and cows in milk were always at liberty to select what instinct tells them is best or neces- sary, there would, of course, be no need of the tonic. But here is where POTATO BUGS the difficulty arises. Cattle cannot choose or select for themselves, but must eat what the feeder furnishes, Are Always a Sure Crop. and besides endure a stuffing process for weeks and months. Is it any wonder that an overtaxed and unas- Better Order a Sack of 100 sisted organism breaks under the strain? Lbs. or Our Give your cattle a tonic—something to strengthen digestion—and growth will be continuous because then there PARKS GREEN can be no interruption caused by in- digestion, loss of appetite, or compli- cations of a more serious nature. MIXTURE Another great advantage in the tonic idea is its economy. Cattle re- ceiving it, because of greater appetite, eat more rough fodder and thus re- PRICE $1.50. duce feed bills. Besides, it is a well-attested fact Don't Wait Until the Rush that there is great saving of nutri- ment where the tonic is given, which would otherwise enrich the manure is on. Make Your Idle Money heap. Without going further, then, into Andrews & Co., Inc., Earn Interest details, this one fact stands out above T. C. You everything else in the new farm Write the FIRST NATIONAL BANK science—a "food tonic" is a necessity. Norfolk, Va. of Richmond, Virginia, for information Eminent medical writers, such as concerning its certificates of deposit, no arranged that One Per Cent, may Professors Winslow, Quitman and be collected every Four - Mouths Finley Dunn, tell us certain elements through your nearest bank or store. are always beneficial bitter tonics, Our experience proves this form for — savings to be the most satisfactory which aid and strengthen digestion; WANTED plan yet devised for deposits of $100.00 iron, well known as a blood builder, or more. - and nitrates, which act as cleansing * Bills to Collect Our Capital and Earned Surplus Is agents to remove poisonous matter In all portions of the United States. from the animal system. These are No collection, no charge. Agencles- $1,600,000 the ingredients found in the tonic, and wanted everywhere; 25 years' expe- John B. Purcell, President. healthy growth, production and con- rience. PALMORE'S COLLECTION AGENCY, 911 Main St., Richmond, Va. Jno. M. Sillier, Jr., Vice-Pres. Cashier. dition are sure to follow in cattle, Chas. R. Burnett, Asst. Cashier. horses, sheep or swine when these VIRGINIA LANDSCAPE J. C. Joplin, Asst. Cashier. elements are given. THE AND MAINTENANCE [CO. INC. FARMERS A VALUABLE POULTRY BOOK. 41< Watt, Rettew & Clay Building, The book that will be read with a insure Your Buildings, Live Stock, ROANOKE. VA. great deal of interest, on account of Produce, Etc., in Virginia Division BatsmoloKlata, Foresters, Lavdseaoc the rapid growth of the poultry indus- Architects, Engineers. FARMERS' MUTUAL BENEFIT try and the profits to be realized in <•• you. ASSOCIATION. this field, is Greider's 1908 Catalogue Best security. Property insured, Supplies, prepared by tt 1500,000. Average cost per $1,000 per of Poultry and year $5.00. Territory limited to coun- B. H. Greider, the well-known poul- PRACTICAL FIRMING" ties of Chesterfield, Amelia, Powhatan, tryman, of Rheems, Pa. Nottoway, Dinwiddie, Prince George, Prof. W. F. Maesey's latest and best At the price asked ten cents post- Surry, Charles City, New Kent and — book, Is now on sale. It retails fer paid is well worth send- James City. For plan and member- —this book fl.10 and is worth it We shall be ship write to ing for and should be in the hands of rory pleased to send you a copy at CHARLES N. FRIEND, General Agent, poultry rais- Chester, Va. every one interested in lb ore price and will Include a year's Organized January 9, 1899. ing on either a large or small scale. lubscriptlon to The Southern Planter. Enclose the price to Mr. Greider, at Remember, we deliver the book and A Great Discovery Rheems, Pa., and we believe you will jive you a whole year's subscription' DROPSY be perfectly satisfied with the for the price of the beok, $1.60. CURED with vege- bargain. table remedies; re- SOUTHERN PLANTER, Richmond, Va. moves all symptoms of dropsy in 8 to 28 FREE SOUVENIR. days; 30 to 60 days HEAVES CURED! gggm*^ effects The Walter A. Wood Co. offers to permanent troubles. Cores Heaves. cure. Trial treat- send free to any of our readers who Coughs, Distemper *ai ment furnished free write them one of the medals such as Indigestion. Veterinari- to every sufferer; ans use and recommend they the St. Louis nothing fairer. For distributed at PRUSSIAN circulars, testi- World's Fair. This was one of the HEAVE POWDERS monials and free most popular souvenirs of that Expo- Druggists will get them. trial treatment Price 50c at dealer, 60c by - sition and thousands of them were write Dr H. mail. Send (or Free book. GREEN'S SONS, of a Atlanta, Ga. given out. This medal is made PRUSSIAN REMEDY CO.. ST. PAUL. MINX- —

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metal called "Goldine," and, when IHND YOUR ORDER FOR worn on the watch chain or fob, looks SEED CORN like the real thing. THE EXCELSIOR—A PEDIGREED On one side is stamped a haying CORN. scene, the other side contains the Collier's Excelsior is king of corns, name of the Company. The Wood not because I say so, but upon the TO Company will send one of these word of the best authorities in this others. medals, while the supply lasts, to country—governmental and DIGGS & BEADLES Too many corns are advertised as any user of farm machines who will wonders and world beaters with noth- THE SEED MERCHANTS state whether or not he is in the mar- ing to sustain the assertion except the ket for a machine and mentions the parties word advertising It. Behind Excelsior are authentic records un- RICHMOND, VA. name of the paper. Address Walter paralleled by any corn yet produced. Mowing and Reaping Ma- I wish to inform the readers of The We are headquarters for A. Wood chine Company, Hoosick Falls, N. Y. Southern Planter that I yearly test, in superior seeds of all kinds co-operation with the Maryland Agri- Seeds, Grass supply of these Garden and Flower Write now, as the cultural Experiment Station, all corns Clover Seeds, Peas, and Cow medals is limited and no more will of note, new and old grown in Mary- Field Beans, Seed Potatoes, present sup- land, as well as many varieties from Onion Sets, etc. Also Poultry be gotten out when the other States, and I am thereby in a Meal, exhausted. Foods and Supplies—Meat ply is position to speak authentically. No Shells, Mixed Bone Meal, Oyster corn, white or yellow, has yet proven Feeds, etc. Southern agents fer the equal by a wide margin to my the celebrated Cornell Incuba- A NEW ADVERTISER. the Advertisers using Excelsior. tors and Brooders. Among new Write for free corn booklet giving "Write to-day for our free this issue is the firm of F. C. Hoen- best references possible. Tells of catalogue (B). You need It. niger & Bro., Inc., Richmond, Va. battles won and none lost. It helps. This firm has recently moved into W. OSCAR COLLIER, Your correspondence solicited. more commodious quarters on East Proprietor Springrvood Seed Farms, Main street, and is fully equipped to Easton, Talbot County, Sid. serve the farmers with everything needed in the Implement, Machinery, Vehicle and Repair line. Refer to SEED CORN COW PEAS their advertisement and see what a Warner's Gold Standard AMD splendid line of goods they carry and write for quotations on what is No. 10. needed. STRAIN SOJA BEANS This is the earliest and highest CATALOGUES. yielding strain of yellow Dent Corn that has yet been produced; will to Grow It. Pub- We are headquarters. Nothing bet- Alfalfa and How yield from 15 to 20 bushels more tor for hay and fertilizing purposes. lished by TheJ. E. Wing & Bros. Seed shelled corn per acre than any Write for prices on any quantity. Co., Mechanicsburg, Ohio. The cata- variety of Yellow Dent Corn I have found in 15 years' test. also with all other clover Free Bulletin on the "Cow Pea" and logue deals Free illustrated circular giving catalogue "1" on request. and grass seeds and will be found a prices, etc. useful reference catalogue. HICKORY SEED CO., H. W. WARNER, Peter Henderson & Co., 35 and 37 Route 2, Easton, Maryland. Hickory, N. C. Cortlandt St., New York. Implement Catalogue and Farmers' Manual for 1908. PLANT T. W. Wood & Sons, Richmond, Va., Seedsmen. Catalogue of high- grade seeds and guide for the farm SEED CORN THE NEW "WARD" and garden. This is specially pre- farm- WING'S Improved WHITE CAP. A pared for the use of Southern variety we have been breeding and BLACKBERRY. ers, truckers and gardeners and will improving for 15 years, and is now be found of constant use as a refer- bred up to the very highest standard. I offer for spring of 1908, strong. Reid's Yellow Dent. An early yellow ence book. corn. Ears are medium in size with No. 1 Plants at $2 per 100 No. 2 John W. Hall, Marlon Station, Mary- deep grains. These two varieties at |1.60 per 100. Send for descrip- can't be beat. Write for CATALOG land. Second crop and Northern- tive circular of the Ward. No. 35 and free instructions on grow- grown seed potatoes, berry plants, etc. ing alfalfa. Full line of Fruits Trees and Mr. Hall has advertised with us for J. E. WING & BROS., Box 435, Mechanicsburg, Ohio. •mail Fruit at planters' prices. many years and has a reputation for Bend fer price list. supplying good seed potatoes and TODD SHOOSMITH, HOYT, PA. plants. SEED CORN. Hickory Seed Co., Hickory, North Collier's Excelsior.—First prize White Corn Virginia State Fair, 1907, and 1 Corn, Cotton, Cowpeas, Carolina. wherever shown. My stock is field se- Soy Beans, Sweet and Irish Fotatoes. lected and shelf dried. Seed either oa the ear or shelled. Wood's Co., Philadelphia, Pa. S. L. Allen & Price $1.50 Per Bushel; $1.40 for Twt Seeds. The makers of the celebrated Planet Bushels or More. Cow Peas. indispensible for the Jr., implements, J. B. McCOMB, Somerset, Va. We are headquarters for all Farm Seeds-^ trucker, gardener and small farmer. Millets, Sorghums, STRAWBERRY PLANTS Cow Peas, Soja Beans, Co., Limited, York, Ensilage Corn, Crimson Clover, etc. prices A. B. Farquhar Fruit Trees, etc. Strawberry Plants, quoted on request. Pa Engines, Boilers, Saw-Mills, 11.76 per 1,000 in 6,000 lots er orer; Write for prices end Wood's Crop Special, Separators, Stackers, Horse-Power Trees, 8c. each. Send for free cata- giving about Farm logue. JOHN LIGHTFOOT, Bast Chat- interesting information Planters, etc. Seeds. Mailed free on request. Drills, Corn tanooga, Tenn. James Good, 939 N. Front St., T. W. WOOD & SONS, Philadelphia, Pa. A pocket manual Tell the advertiser where you saw- plant diseases and their remedies. his advertisement. SEEDSMEN, • - RICHMOND, VA. of 360 THE SOUTHEKN" PLANTER. [April.

Bauroth Bros., Springfield, Ohio. Gas and Gasoline Engines. F. B. Myers & Bro., Ashland Pump and Hay Tool Works, Ashland, Ohio. Charles E. Fendall & Son, Towson, AGRICULTURAL j/Bmmtmim Md. Strawberry plants. The Fendall UeLIMBERS strawberry a specialty. Imperial Nasturtiums, 20 varieties import- ed seeds, novelties. Sweet Peas, 50 gay col- Prairie State Incubator Co., Homer ors including Countess Spencer Hybrids. City, Pa. Nature's way of hatching LIME. 20 mixed ornamental sorts. Japan Gourds, chicks. Incubator Morning Glory, enormous flowers, gorge- Brooders. ous colors. Cypress vine, scarlet and white' Charles C. Wine, Mt. Sidney, R. F. Cinnamon vine, pretty, hardy, cinnamon PLAIN D. 1, Va. Plymouth Rocks, S. C. ROCK fragrance. This collection will cover 100 Brown feet of fence or border with a showy tangle Leghorns, Berkshire Pigs. OR of flowers and foliage. With it we give free J. H. Yoder, Dienbigh, Va., Cypress apackage of the marvelous climber ECH- Springs Poultry Yards. INOCYSTUS LOBATA and seeds of 25 White Wyan- SHELL LIME herbs used in seasoning. Send two dimes dottes.' or stamps today and ask for the $45.00 Prize BAGS OR BULK E. D. Crouch, Twining City, offer and 1908 catalog. Bioghamton Seed Co., D. C. 103 Court St., Bingham ton, N. Y, Rose and Single Comb Black Minor- cas. SPECIAL FINE HYDRATED LIME W. A. Shook, McGaheysville, Va. FOE DRILLING. Rhode Island Reds exclusively.

ALL. VARIETIES If in the market for any grade and THE SCHOOLBOY BRAIN. 50Y OR 50JA BEANS, BUCK- any quantity of WHEAT, MILLET, CANE SEED, One of the most substantial and genuine of delights for those of hu- BLACKEYE PEAS, WHIPPOR- morous appreciation consists in a MV LIME WILL PEAS study of the answers made by school- gii'ls and school-boys in examination Write for our pricelist and particulars • Send us your orders and g^t lowest papers. A writer in the current Har- prices. In ordering from Richmond per's Weekly has collected a new yon get low rates of freight. T. C, ANDREWS & CO., Inc. batch of these, of which the follow- Highest market price paid for Wool ing specimens are NORFOLK, VA. and only deduct freight charges. among the most choice: WALLERSTEIN PRODUCE CO., "Blood consists of two sorts of Richmond, Va. cork-screws—red cork-screws and white cork-screws." AGRICULTURAL Asked to explain what a buttress is, one boy replied: "A woman who makes butter." LIME SEED One pupil defined primate as "the Northern Grown, over 99 per 'Ni&Sj wife of a Prime Minister." cent pure. Should produce $40.00 '-L, SCREENINGS. worth of hay per acre annually. »*P~vjW Gravity was discovered by Isaac Free instructions on growing. Write >iftfv,".'* Walton. It is chiefly noticeable in for free sample and Catalogue No. 35. Cheap in bulk by carload. ^ jpjy the autumn, when the apples are fall- GRAIN AND GRASS SEEDS1 ing from the trees. To the question, "What is a limit- Northern Grown and of strongest vitality. We Tazewell White Lime Invite you to get government tests on our sam ed monarchy?" this answer was re- pies. T HE J. E. WING & BROS. SEEB CO. turned: Works Box 335, - Mechenicsburg, Ohio "A limited monarchy is government North Tazewell, Va. by a king who, in case of bankruptcy, j& IF YOU WANT & would not be responsible for the en- Thrifty, stocky tire national debt. You have the Vegetable same thing in private life in limited Plants, liability companies." grown in an Nitrate of Sods ideal plant cli- mate we have thousands o t Birkenhead, Eng., Oct. 30, '07. NITRATE SOLD IN Cabbage, Although a Liverpool cotton broker, ORIGINAL BAGS Egg Plant, Cauliflower, I must testify to the great merits of Celery and the Southern Planter. I do not know Agencies Tomato Plants. that we have anything better in the The Nitrate Write for cir- cular and pre- "Old Country." CHAS. HIBBERT. mium list. Company E. W. JONES NITRSERY COMPANY, Woodlawn, Va. Erie Co., N. Y., Dec. 17, '07. 64 Stone Street, New York I consider the Southern Planter the Be Your Own Doctor. best agricultural paper I have ever Orders for All Quantities Promptly IN RAISING read. I have just returned from a Filled Write for Quotations FARM PRODUCTS trip through your State and have come By scientific use of your manures, to the conclusion that if the farmers using a table giving analyses of farm of Virginia would follow your teach- ONSTAD'S "one application crp.ES" M products and manures, and formulae showing how they are applied. Full ings they would find farming a most LUMPY-JAW CAPSULES crops guaranteed if followed. Write profitable pursuit. GUARANTEED BtST^'RITE FOR PAKTIClLAiBj for particulars. Price, $1. THE ONSTAD CHEMICAL CO. W. W. HURT, Damascus, Va. HENRY A. BLEY. 101 Key Street Indianapolis, lni| 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 361

IMPORTANT IMPROVEMENTS IN Northern VirginiaFarms CREAM SEPARATORS. Great Opportunity, acres From the very general satisfaction 190 in Herndon, Fairfax county. Va., a thriving town of 1,200 inhabi- Here Are a Few Bargains. derived from the use of the better tants, with 5 churches, 2 schools, stores mills, No. 132. Contains 50 acres of smooth, class cream separators for some years etc.; three-quarters mile from railroad station gently-rolling, fertile land divided Into it has seemed that the separator had and post-office; 6 trains daily; four fields; pure running stream run- 27 miles to Washington, r>. C. All reached the point of practical perfec- the land lies ning through the farm. The land is. within the town limits on all in good state of cultivation; choco- tion. one of the best macadam roads in the late clay with stiff subsoil. The house Hence it is a little less surprising county. It is high and healthy, with a beautiful outlook, Is a comfortable 6-room dwelling, ex- than would otherwise be the case to affording excel- cellent well at the porch; stable, com lent building sites. One can live here house, granary, all in good condition. note the many and novel changes and enjoy farm life and still enjoy the Farm is situated in Loudoun County found in in the new 1908 De Laval numerous benefits the town has to- on a good level road, miles from offer, and be in easy 2% machines, and still less so perhaps access of Wash- the station. Price, $2,000. ington, besides. from the fact that the De Laval ma- There are 30 acres in No. 130. This farm contains 270 second growth chines were first in the beginning and timber. The balance is in a high state acres; situated in Loudoun County, 7 of cultivation their makers have spared no effort or and all has been sowed miles from the station In a thickly set- to grass with tled community; close to schoel, church, the exception of one expense to maintain their position in field. Well post-office, store and two mills; rural fenced with wire and rails- separator trade. watered by delivery at the gate. This land Is all the two springs; inexhaustible wells, wind comparatively level, all a quality power. The barns are well good lighted clay soil; adapted bluegrass and ventilated, modern and in to and excellent grain of all kinds. It is naturally a condition; stanchions for 60 fine quality of land, but ha* bean cows and stalls for 9 horses. Good worked hard, but there are no galls or carriage house and a new 2-room gullies. It has one of the finest bear- tenant house. The buildings could not ing apple orchards In the county. The be built for less than $3,000. One could dwelling is a 6-room house in fair con- stock this place, put a' dition; a large brick storehouse and a tenant on it and make this a paying good stable with room for 8 horses. investment at once. It has been This property belongs to a widow lady, operated as an up-to-date dairy farm whose husband has recently died, and for several years, the cream bringing she desires to sell at once, and haa $1 per gallon the year round. The priced the property at a very low figure owner wants to sell as she does not to Induce a quick sale I can sell this wish to engage in active business any property for $12 per acre, one-third longer. cash, and the balance on very easy Land is being bought up rapidly in terms. this locality. New York and Penn- sylvania families have just bought No. 131. A handsome Rockbridge farms near this property and are County farm of 316 acres, situated 1% making extensive improvements, and miles from a live, active and very pro- the house and grounds adjoining are gressive town. This farm Is a natural considered one of the most beautiful stock grazing farm In a high state of around Herndon. cultivation productiveness; and fenced Will sell the 190 acres, with with modern woven wire fence. improve- The ments, for $13,000, $8,000 buildings are all in excellent down, balance condition, to suit, or 100 acres, the most of them are new and of with improve- ments, for $9,000, $4,000 down, balance modern plan; they consist of a hand- to suit. some 8-room brick dwelling, plumbed Virginia Stock and Dairy Farms near for hot and cold water; a large cattlo Washington barn, horse and hay barn, large double a specialty. corn crib, wagon and machine sheds, P. B. BUELL & SON, cow stable, carriage house and other Herndon, Va. small outhouses, all In excellent re- pair Farm is watered by springs, and branches In every field. Located in a fine neighborhood of refined citlzena Price, $16,000, on easy terms. Farm No. 76. Contains 243 acres, 3E acres In good timber, balance is cleared A SECTIONAL VIEW. FARMS and well fenced with wood and wire fences. This farm Is one of the finest The changes begin with the supply little farms In Loudoun County. Every can at the top and extend to the very field has been lag screws in the base of the machine, For limed, and the land 1* Sale. in a high state of cultivation. It Is and even include a change of color, natural bluegrass and clever land. which is now altered from the long If you want a farm to raise grass, Two-thirds of the land Is now well set familiar De Laval blue to black, be- grain, stock, fruit or tobacco, buy In clover and will yield enormous crops cause of the Japanned finish being from us. Chocolate soli with red next year. The farm Is situated on an baked on, as with sewing machines, subsoil. Address elevated point, on rolling ground, in very high temperature gas ovens, with W. W. BARNES & CO., a fine view of the mountains on one which renders impossible the reten- LAND AND TIMBER AGENTS, side, and the other side is a beautiful tion of the blue color, the extreme Amelia Courthouse, Va. stretch of cultivated lands. This farm heat turning blue into black. Is all smooth, free from stones and The capacities are increased from stumps, rolling enough to drain well, 10 to 20 per cent., while there is but would be considered comparatively claimed to be a noticeable improve- level. The house is an 8-room house, ment in the still more complete sepa- Virginia Farms perhaps 10 years old, but well pro- ration of the butter fat from the milk, served. Fine water. There are all the particularly under the more difficult, Handsome Country Homes and TIHisa necessary outbuildings, in good con- but frequently unavoidable, circum- Grade Farm Lands a Specialty. dition. Horse barn with stalls for le stances of ordinary farm and dairy 1 J. E. WHITE, "THE LAND MAW," horses and cattle barn with stalls for use. 26 head. Charlottesville, Va. Excellent orchard of all kind* The supply can Is now low enough of fruit. This farm Is one mile from to meet the objection that has some- railroad station. Price, $37.(0 per acre. times been made to the lifting of VIRGINIA FARIB/$ Farms of any size with imurfVeHieate Send for my mew List. into it. It is milk spun from a single Prices in reach of all. Free Hat. WM. BADS MILLER, HBRNDOI, TA. sheet of tin plate, so that it is seam- PORTER A GATES, Louisa, Va. 362 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER [April,

fless and absolutely sanitary, while it Farm Bargains Attention 'is globe shaped and thus avoids any splashing over of the milk. a. 200 acres fine red land, with HOMESEEKERS AND INVESTORS. The bowls retain, of course, the dis- good clay subsoil, in good state of cultivation; well tinctive "Alpha-Disc" and "Split- watered improved by I sell and exchange Virginia Real 9-room frame house recently over- shaft, Laval fea- Estate of all classes, such as Grain, Wing" tubular De hauled, in excellent condition; good Dairy, Fruit, Stock, Truck, Poultry and tures, but have been scientifically re- barns and other buildings for 45 head Bluegrass Farms, Village Homes and designed, from engineering considera- cattle; tenant house, etc.; near Hern- Business Places of all classes. The don, the great dairy town of Northern tions, so as to involve the least air reason I make a specialty of the two Virginia; within 25 miles of Wash- suburban counties—Loudoun and Fair- resistance in being driven and in the ington. Only $8,000, cash $5,500, fax—they offer the homeseekers more discharge of cream and skim-milk balance to suit. combined than any country 6. 300 acres splendid bluegrass advantages from them. known to me. This fine portion of land in Loudoun county. No better Virginia, extending from the national In consequence, notwithstanding farm in county or State. Good brick capital to the top of the Blue Ridge the greater capacities, the bowls are house; stone barn for 10 horses; dairy only beautiful and barn, 65 head; 4 tenant houses, Mountains, is not actually smaller than before, while other healthy, but is very accesible to Wash- buildings; only 2% miles from good ington and Alexandria cities by rail they require less power,, which, of railroad village; very convenient to and pike, which gives all producers a course, means greater ease of opera- Washington. Farm well watered and in fine state of cultivation. fine home market. tion and saving of wear. Price $75 My facilities for locating you in this per acre and worth $100. section of Virginia are second to none. The bowl is likewise more sanitary c. 335 acre bluegrass stock farm, 6 State what kind of property would in- in its construction, being free from miles from railroad, in Loudoun number and county; excellent larvd; terest you. I have a large tubes, wings, orifices or any parts well watered; great variety of properties, and can 12-room brick house; good barn and very likely suit you. New catalogue which are not easily unassembled and other buildings. To be sold at once and map mailed free on request. may not be quickly and completely to close estate; $9,000, one-third cash. cleaned. CLAUDE G. STEPHENSON, Northern Virginia Properties, Herndon, Va. W. H. TAYLOR, Herndon, Va. The supporting spindle now sets well up under the bowl, at the center COUNT RY HOMES MARYLAND FARMS of weight and balance, while this spindle, which is the backbone of the IN VIRGINIA. separator and quite as important and 1. A grand old place in a noted and picturesque region; 10 acres of fertile land; all 1,314 acres, part 434. sensitive as its human namesake, is timber, part cleared; fenced; fine water and splendid shade; commodious brick 8-room dwelling, barn and new and different from anything made dwelling, some modern improvements; attractive extended, outbuildings; only 8 miles from before. well-shaded lawns; flower other gardens; large orchards; barns this city near macadamized road. are subject and The new machines the tenant houses; glorious view; perfect Price $2,500. , a of much favorable comment by the environments one mile 432. 260 acres highly improved land; from station, fenced and well watered; 235 acres Experiment Station and other five miles from a city of 10,000 Inhabi- all tants. Price, cleared, 15 in woods; 6-room dwelling, authorities. $65,000. two tenant houses, two tobacco barns, 2. A choice home in a select neigh- The accompanying section view of borhood; 650 acres, arable in stable, etc.; 9 miles from this city on part and turnpike, macadamized nearly to farm. one of the machines illustrates some well timbered; very attractive 11-room residence, with land is adapted to the growth of the new features mentioned. modern equipment. This bargain; of wheat, corn, tobacco, potatoes, fruit Great $17,500. and grasses. Fine community. Price A full description of these and other properties sent upon application. $8,000. IN THE BACKWOODS OF H. N. L. SANSBtTRY, 719 Thirteenth St., VIRGINIA. W. HILLEARY & CO, Charlottesville, Va. Washington, D. C. A Sketch of Provincial Life. "Alice Winston." TWO THOUSAND There are people in the South who THE PENINSULA SECTION Maryland, are called "Crackers" in Georgia, The Peninsula offers equally as good, if not better, advantages to the farmer "Gophers" in Florida, "Sand Hills" in than any other section of Virginia. Virginia South Carolina, "Tar Heels" in North Write us for information. Carolina, and in Virginia the negroes PIEDMONT AND TIDEWATER LAND Stock, Dairy, Fruit, Business Farms. call them "Poor white trash." To COMPANY (Inc.), Suit all requirements. Don't buy give the origin of this class of our Box P, Williamsburg, Va. until you have seen our list, which population, I will have to go back to farms in this sec- includes the finest old Colonial days. tion. State wants. When gentlemen emigrated from Mill For Sale. SOULE, Washington, D. C. England in those days to better their Up to date, 86-barrel, water-power, fortunes in the new world, they roller mill and saw mill, in good grain A GOOD brought over with them numerous fol- section, close to schools, good brick lowers, who settled in obscure corners dwelling, garden and spring. Will be sold cheap. of the great estates, and who had Dixon Bros., Lexington, Va. neither ambition nor industry enough Stock, Grain or Dairy Farm at to raise themselves above their lowly Reasonable Figures. condition. Revolutions and wars have DeL,. S. CRITTENDEN, not changed them, except in some Real Estate Broker, Old Virginia Farms. rare instances. free schools ASHBURN, VA. , The seem powerless to conquer their tal- Climate and Productiveness unex- celled. Largest sale list in Stats. ent for ignorance, inspire or to a wish For full particulars and Free Cata- MONEY-MAKING FARMS in them to improve their mode of ex- logue address rnn en c in fourteen States. ' istence. In the backwoods you come CASSELMAN * COMPANY, 6000 rUK oALt«Strout's List 19," across settlements of these people in the largest illustrated catalogue of RICHMOND, VA. farm bargains, with reliable informa- the valleys, or "hollows," as they call tion of farming localities, ever issued, them. They prefer a low, damp situa- including Bond good for railroad fare, tion, so as to be near a spring. Their mailed FREE. Dept. 159, E. A. are of logs, chinked with red STROUT CO., Land Title Building, dwellings Farms, Orchards, Timber, Philadelphia, Pa. mud, with stick and mud chimneys. Cotton Lands in Virginia and the South. They rarely have more than two ALBEMARLE IMMIGRATION So- Please mention the Southern Planter. rooms, on the ground floor. There ciety, Charlottesville. Va. 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 36a

was a man near us who made an am- TOflNSURE AMAXIMUM bitious attempt to have an upstairs apartment where a winter supply of blackeye peas could be stored, and First Class also where his numerous sons could CORN YIELD spread their pallets at night. As the planks were not of the right length Farm Implements AND THE BEST RESULTS to make connection with all the raft- ers, a careless movement from the at reasonable prices. FROM THESUCCEEDING sleepers would cause them to tilt and CROP sometimes the old people who were You save Labor, Time just below would be aroused by a and Money when you USE shower of sons and beans. buy Implements that The men will sit for hours on the wear well and work well. rail fences, chewing home-cured The kind that we sell. tobacco and doing nothing. They We issue one of the best and most Bone Phosphate also love to congregate at the nearest complete of Farm Implement Cat- store and tell long inconsequent stories It gives prices, descrip- 22% Per Cent. Phosphoric Acid, 4% X alogues. about coon hunts and horse swops. tions and much interesting infor- Per Cent. Ammonia. The women are pretty in early mation. Mailed free upon request. (Guaranteed Analysis.) youth, with fair skins, large, dark Write for it. eyes, and abundant suits of brown or A Pure Animal Bone yellow hair. If they could but know The Implement Co., it, they are overworked, and ought, by the rules of health, 1302 East Main St., Fertilizer to die under it. They help "pitch a crap," as planting RICHMOND, • VIRGINIA. In the manufacture of which NO is called, hoe it and lay it by after- CHEMICALS are used. wards; tend to the garden; look after We are headquarters for Ton (2,000 pounds) 28 50 the numerous tow-headed children; V. Crimp and other Roofing, Wire cook, Sack, 200 pounds $ 3 00 milk, churn, sew, mend, knit, Fencing, Barb Wire, Poultry RICHMOND ABATTOIR, scour their houses, wash, knit, and Netting, etc. weave blue and white yarn counter- Write for prices on any supplies or Box 267, Richmond, Virginia. panes. Oscar Wilde would think it a Farm Implements you require. Offices: Sixth and Cary Streets. hopeful sign that even this life of ceaseless toil cannot kill the love of VIRGINIA FARMS. the beautiful, for all these women MINERAL AND TIMBER LANDS. raise such humble flowers as are in their power, and will part with their list en application. Free Agency last dried apple to the travelling pic- established 1875. Address W. A. PARSONS & CO., ture dealer. 1527 East Main Street, Richmond, Va. Their imaginations, cramped in most and O. Opposite C. Depot. things, take fine flights in naming SAMPLE fREE their children. I know of one girl Virginia." "In the Green Fields of named "Rosadalis," and another call- Homes for all; health for all; happtmoao ed "Era." One young lady bears the You have been fooled enough with and Independence for all. All sla.es of -worthless Lice Powder*. pround title, Maud Elmore Farms at corresponding prices, but ALL Florence Try the Best at our expense. reasonable. Gineora. Argetta and Isetta are also Powder MACON A CO., ORANGE, VA. fashionable appellations in backwood Conkey's Lice instantly and is harmless to the fowl. circles. There is great excitement kills Send 5 cents for postage and get sample Virginia Farms every year when preaching is to be for and also Valuable Poultry Book FKEE. several days at church. It is called THE G. E. CONKEY CO. 428 OTTAWA SLOG., CLEVELAND, OHIO MOST SELECT LIST, and in all lee "the big meeting," and is the event of Hone of the State. the year. Pink calico is considered PRBB CATALOGUE. the most elegant toilette on these oc- R. B. CHAFPIN &. CO., Inc. casions. One debutante at a recent Richmond, Va meeting created a profound sensation by drawing on the resources of her KILL THE LICI Maryland and Virginia Farms. grandmother's chest for her costume. -*,«££ CHICKENS ww. It consisted of a dark brown mousse- bluegrass, Stock, dairy, grain, fruit, line with a tomb stone and weeping truck, poultry and Tidewater farms, PRUSSIAN In any section of either State. Your willow in light grey on each »width. requirements fully met. The best The waist and sleeves having tfieae LICE POWDER ottered opportunities on the market designs in reduced sizes. This sounds Sore Death io Lice and Vermin for your consideration. Catalogue free. incredible, this dress is actually but it io N. L. SANSBURY, 719 Thirteenth TheThey can't live where it is. Easy to apply. Dust in existence. Street, Washington, D. C. "Killed every louse in my flock of Another festival is the preaching of 250 hens."—D.Perry, Monroe, Wis. VIRGINIA FARMS funerals, which takes place long after Price 25 and 50c a Pkg. By mail. 40 and 70c_ Prussian Remedy Co.. St. Paul Mimn.!^ the burials. Indeed, one of our L 98 PER ACRE AND UPWARDS. Easy payments. Catalogue Free. neighbors put off having his first wife's Loans made on country Real Estate. funeral preached for so many years Gape Cure GEORGB E. CRAWFORD & CO., 160t Hackett's wife, Bast Main Street, Richmond, Va. Es- that his second with her half- It's a powder; dust it over the tablished 187S. grown children, graced the occasion. chicks; the chicks inhale it; kills the half pound There is always a roasted pig, fried worm as well as the germ; sample by mail 25c. Dealers and A Neat Binder for your back num- chicken and apple pies for dinner after Agents wanted. Special inducements bers can be bad for 30 cents. Address the oration is over. The preacher to jobbers. our Business Department. must stand in need of refreshment by T. C. HACKETT, Hlllsboro, Md. 364 THE P UTIIERX PLANTER. [April,

that time, for his address has been delivered with many whoops ana much waving of the arms. The more D* HESS action he shows the more eloquent I'lliBHiimi ho is thought to be. I hear of one Stockmen and farmers who use the Cooper Dips who is considered a Boanerges because have healthier animals— get more wool and better prices. More than half the cloth and flannel of in one of dipped TOCK FS8D year he thumped out one the world is made Cooper wool. Tanks supplied at cost to all users of the Cooper Dips. Animal growth and milk production are Bible and two hymn books. a healthy When there was a canal through dependent lor lull development upon il'iiDUHBEEHlini digestion. The hey to the leeder's problem the James river valley, the locks were The leading sheep dip for 65 years. Used on over 250 million every year. Kills ticks, lice, nits derange- sheep then, is a suitable tonic to prevent kept by "poor white trash," and who, and eggs in one dipping. Does not stain the wool, the yield and improves the quality. ment ol the digestive organs. Dr. Hess in consequence were looked upon by but increases Price-25gal. pkt. 50c; 100 gal, pkt. $2.00. Stock Food is such a tonic. By making the their friends in the back districts quite greatest proportion ol lood digestible, it keeps as men of the world. The lock near ffiilJiMHIlll.HIJ growth and the animal in health, causes rapid farm was kept by an old man and for all animals. A highly concentrated, non- poisonous fluid dip of marvelous strength. Mixes lull measure ol production. a his sons, who never stirred in cold readily with cold water, whether hard, brackish, weather or salty. The only pure liquid dip—no sediment. except to open and shut Goes farther th;m Coal Tar dips and therefore their gates. They sat hare-footed cheaper. Positive remedy for scab, mange, ticks, lice, ringworm, eczema, sores, bites, stings, etc. among the hot ashes of the hearth, One gallon makes 200 gallons lor general dipping, leaving the out-door the or 3i)0 gallons tor disinfecting. Price— Qt. can 60c; work to & gal. can $1.00: 1 gal. can $l7i6; 5 gal. can $8.60. females of the family, which included the getting and chopping of fire wood. EEEMEEEIEHHa A sure reined v Tor intestinal worms in Horse; A gentleman got off the packet boat Sheep, Cattle and Hogs. These tablets offer the doses and certain re- one night, expecting to great advantage of correct be met by a sults. Dose—one tablet for lamb orshoat; two for resident friend who, however, had not sheep or hogs; three for horses and cattle. Price — lOtablots 20c postpaid; bos <-f 100 tablets $1.50postpaid. received his letter. The old keepei hospitably invited him into the lock COOPER'S "LAVENE" house, and there being no other re- The most effective skin dressing for Horses. Cattle and Dogs. Cures wor>t case of Mange and source, the gentleman accepted. The Ringworm at one dressing. Searches the skin and old ousted several soiled attacks the disease at its root. Improves the coat man looking and renders hair soft and glossy. Is used by many children from bed to make room for of the best breeders in preparing an imals for show. Price-Quart can SI. 00: gal. can $3.00. his guest who, feeling dubious of the cleanliness of his intended resting COOPER'S TREE SPRAY place, remarked the night was too Fluids V 1 Winter and V 2 Summer have cold to undress, caused a revolution in tree spraying. The^e new and scien- and the host heartily tifically prepared spray fluids stand alone for the ahsolute Professors Quitman, Winslow and Finley assented: "That's so, sir. In cold destruction of all living insects. eggs, fungi, etc. One gal- Dun endorse tlie ingredients in Dr. Hess lon makes 100 gallons of wn*h. Price—Gallon can. £3.00. weather taint no use to undress. Stock Food. It is the prescription of Dr. Hess Why, WHERE THERE IS NO DEALER (M. D., D. V. S.) and is sold on a Written I ain't taken off clothes for is can supply you Guarantee. my weeks." If yon live where there no dealer who The next morning, when the gentle- with the Cooper preparations, order from Win. Cooper & 100 lbs., $5.00\ Except in Canada and Nephews. 177 Illinois St., Chicago, and deduct 10% from any 35 lb. pall, 1.60/ extreme West and South man intimated a wish to wash his of above prices (Worm Tablets excepted) for freight account. Smaller quantities at a slight advance face, the old G. A. KELLY CO.. Pittsburg, Pa., man looked at him sor- PURCELL, LADD & CO., Richmond, Va., or Where Dr. Hess Stock Food differs in par- if rowfully as he discovered he was a Illinois Street, Chicago ticular is in the dose—it's small and fed but Wm. Cooper & Nephews, 177 twice a day, which proves it has the most di- fop, but went off and presently return- gestive strength to the pound. Our Govern- ment recognizes Dr. Hess Stock Food as a ed with a vegetable dish filled with medicinal compound, and this paper is hack water and with greasy scraps stick- of the guarantee. If your dealer cannot supply you we will. ing to the sides. Before they parted, the guest reinstated himself in the DR. HESS & CLARK, ASHLAND, OHIO host's opinion sufficiently to get a val- Also Manufacturers of DR. HESS POULTRT PAN-A- CE-A and INSTANT LOUSE KILLEU. uable piece of advice: "Don't you never get married," he said. "I know Be Sure a man who got powerfully in the no- and tion once, but he thought he would find out how much it would cost be- Workthe fore he began to wait on any girl. He Horse was living to 'hisself, and he sot a plate at t'other end of the table, and every time he helped hisself three HE CAN WORK. times a day he helped that there plate. He never moved it for a solid week, EVERY DAY and the sight of vittles piled up thar If you use Bickmore'sGall Cure yourteanis scared him, and he gin out, he couldn't can work right along and be cured of Saddle and Harness Galls,Cnafes, Rope Burns, Cuts, afford to marry." Scratches, Grease Heel, etc. while in har- ' When the Richmond and Alleghany ness. The more work the quicker the cure. Railroad bought out the canal and BICKMORE'S GALL CURE built a track along the tow path, is the standard Remedy for all these and similar troubles. Is excellent for Mange and there was great commotion in the Sore Teats in cows. Above trade mark ison backwoods. the news spread every box of Genuine Bickmore's Gall Cure. When For sale by dealers everywhere. Money re- that on a certain day the train would funded if it fails. Sample and Horse Book every farmer should read 10c. make a trial trip as far as New Mar- Biokmore Gall Cure Co., Box 935, Old Town, Maine. ket, the "poor white trash" arose as - one man and resolved to see the Going Blind. sight. By day break the cliffs of Nel- Woodlawn PoultryYards Barry Co., Iowa son and Buckingham counties were HORSES cur«. M. B. Turkey (45-pound Tom) Eggs, City, la. Can filled with spectators, who arranged $3 per 12. Tell the advertiser where you saw themselves among the rocks, with as E. W. JONES NURSERY COMPANY, his advertisement. critical an air as "the four hundred" VVoodlaTvn, Va. 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PiL NTER. 365

have in their private boxes the open- ing night of the grand opera. Of You Can't Talk course, the train was behind time, but, alter many hours of patient waiting, a it too strong. What? rumble was heard and presently an engine and one car puffed slowly in = Gombault's sight with a procession of men and —J] boys walking behind it. The first whistle threw the audience into great Caustic Balsam alarm, which panic was shared by their "yailer curs," who fled howling. As a Liniment The lock keeper, recovering his pres- Sortie ence of mind, and wishing to show For the Human Body fforjC himself perfectly familiar with the re- Loosen up bis hide and his Intestinal Springfield. 0., Sept. 19, 1904. system, purify his blood, drive out the worms, quirements of railroad service, rushed Lawrence-Williams Co., Cleveland, 0.— Lewis Evelsiz- give liiin an appetite and power to digest and out and flung his lock gates wide open er, Urbana, R. P. D., a farmer.had a bad cancer on back get tbe full value of all his feed. You can of hie hand. When I first saw it he was on his way to do all this by the systematic use of as though to say: "Open your gates havo his hand amputated. I persuaded him to first try GOMBAULT'S CAUSTIC BALSAM, which he did, and on as bigh as the sky let and King second application could rest well at night—the first George's troops come by." for weeks. In less than three months he was at work PRUSSIAN onthefarm. He will certify to this statement over his signature. Then Mr. Jenkins, storekeeper and post- HORSE TONIC master at Seth, 0., had a bad cancer on his cheek-bone. BOOKS. I saw him at a grange meeting and told him to use and have your horses strong, healthy and CAUSTIC BALSAM twice a day, rubbing it in for five or high strung. Mix with feed. Only a small The Production and Handling of ten minutes. In three months it was healed over and is now all are quantity required. 1,200 measures En the big Clean Milk. By Kenelin Winslow, M. sound. These two all that I have the pall. Price only S3. 50 prepaid. address of just now. I have had CAUSTIC BALSAM Ask your dealer for the standard remedies, D., size 6% by 9%, 207 pages. Illus- used on old shin sores. One man had walked with crutches for more than a year, and several pieces of Prussian Spavin Remedy trated. Price, $2.50, postpaid. Pub- bone had come out. I persuaded him to try CAUSTIC Prussian Heave Powders lished by William R. Jenkins Co., 851 BALSAM, and today you would not know he was ever Prussian lame. Then, it is a sure cure for piles, using it with Worm Powders Sixth Avenue, New York. A conv Bweet oil. I could tell of dozens of cases where I have Prussian Gal! Salve induced diflerent ones to use CAUSTIC BALSAM. I have plete, plain, practical and authorita- been the means ot more than fifty bottles being bought, Write us what stock you own and we will because I know just what it will do. You can't talk send you our Horseman's Hand Book Free. tive guide to the production and dis- it up strong enough. I wish you success. Write today. tribution of clean milk for farmers, R. L. HOLMAN, In charge Co-operative Work of Ohio State Grang». PRUSSIAN REMEDY CO. health officers, milk inspectors, stu- Price $1 .SO per bottle. Sold by druggists, or sent St. Paul, Minn. dents of agriculture and dairying, by us express prepaid. Write for Booklet H. country gentlemen, physicians, and The LAWRENCE-WILLIAMS COMPANY. Cleveland. 0. others interested in matters pertain- ing to dairying and hygiene. Now feC JS that the question of improving the quality of the milk supplied to the cities is receiving so much attention, this book wiM be found a most useful one to all who are engaged in dairy- ing and especially should it be in the MEAT MEAL hands of those supplying milk for No matter how old the blemish, horse, or how many doctors city trade. We can supply it at the how lame the have tried and failed, use 85 Per Gent. PROTEIN 7 Per Cent. FAT publishers' price. Fleming's IS A Spavin and Ringbone Paste USEFULNESS OF TURPENTINE. Use it under our guarantee — your money refunded If It doesn't make the horse eo POULTRY FOOD Turpentine will remove wheel- sound. Most cases cured by a single 45- occasionally two re- THAT IS tar stains. minute application — grease, pitch and quired. Cures Bone Spavin, Eingbone and A few drops added to water in Sidebone, new and old cases alike. Wot used ECONOMIC, on soft bunches. Write for CLEAN, which clothes are boiled will whiten Fleming's Vest-Pocket them. Veterinary Adviser PURE. It will exterminate roaches if Best book on blemishes, and we send It A SURE sprinkled in the place where needed. free. Read it before you treat any kind of lameness in horses. 192 pages, 69 illustra- Moths will leave if it is sprinkled tions, durably bound in leatherette. FLEMING BROS., Chemists, EGG PRODUCER about. 880 Union Stock Sards, Chicago, HL AND A few drops on a woolen cloth will clean tan shoes nicely. MEAT BUILDER Clean gilt frames with a sponge moistened with turpentine. The Food sQRBINE Ivory knife handles that have be- m yellow can be restored to their To Feed come Cures Strained Puffy Ankles, former whiteness by rubbing with Lymphangitis, Bruises * n

HINTS BY MAY MANTON. Every woman likes to own a variety WHITE WYAND0T1ES of shirt waists and plain simple ones, such as this make an important fea- ture in the collection, Linen Madras S. C. BUFF ORPINGTONS and variety of a inexpensive wash The Winning Kind—the Laying Kind. fabrics are worn at all seasons of That we have the goods, is evidenced the year, while the model also suits by the fact that we won the Sliver the taffeta and the wash flannels and Cup for best display, 9 first, 7 second and 1 third on 20 entries, and 8 spe- the still lighter wools, such as cash- and cials and all National \V. Wyandotte Few choice "White Holland mere, which are so serviceable during Mammoth Bronze Toms at reduced Club Ribbons at Herndon Poultry prices, and they are extra large the colder months. The roll-over col- Show, January, 1908. Our breeding pens contain prize fine birds. Turkey Eggs of both lar and the three-quarter sleeves are our winners. breeds at $4 per dozen or $7.50 for Eggs—$2 for 15, $5 for 45. Write ideally comfortable and are very apt for list, two dozen. Hens all sold of the mating which will convince White Hollands. Few extra fine to be becoming, but this season that you of the quality in our pens. Bronze Hens at $4 each. style and the plain one with stock We guarantee 75 per cent, fertility, and a square deal. Pure-Bred Chickens.—I have few collar and long regulation sleeves are Black Spanish Cockerels left at $2 HUTCHISON & HEITMUELLER, equally correct and the model pro- each; S. C. Black Minorcas; White, Two Breeds. Two Farms. Black and Buff Orpingtons—as fine vides both. Also it is closed in a dis- Two Specialists. as they grow and at bargain prices tinctive manner, the two box plaits Members Herndon Poultry Associa- if ordered at once. Have Buff Or- meeting at the front tion and National W. Wyandotte Club. pington Cockerels weighing 8 to 10 edge and allow- Virginia. pounds each at $2.50 each or $6 for ing effective use of buttons. Herndon, three. White Orpingten Cockerels, $2.50 each. Barred, White and Buff TAYLOR'S Plymouth Rock Cockerels; White, Buff and Brown S. C. Leghorns; WHITE WYANDOTTE EGGS White and Silver Wyandottes, Rose and Single Comb Rhode Island Can sell a limited quantity from my ribbon stock, for for Reds—all strictly pure bred—at blue $1.25 15, $2 prices that are right. I have a few 30, $3.25 for 50 and $5 for 100. Orders Trios of extra good Silver Wyan- booked as received. dotte birds at $6 trio—and they are WHITE HOLLAND TURKEY EGGS. worth twice that. Single Silver From winners at Jamestown, Virginia Wyandotte Cockerels, also Golden State Fair and Virginia Poultry Asso- to Wyandotte Cockerels, at $2 $3 ciation Show, $3 for 15. Only a few of nil of each. Eggs for hatching more clutches left that I can sell. the breeds named above, and in Therefore, those who want the best addition Light llrnhmiis, at $1.50 to will kindly write at once. $2.50 per 15. Special prices in lots of 50 and 100. I have some fine WHITE MUSCOVY DUCK EGGS. Light Brahma birds at $2.50' to $3 Also from winners at Jamestown, Vir- for Cockerels and $2 to $2.50 for ginia Poultry Association and Virginia extra good Pullets and Hens. Also State Fair—have always taken the Silver Spangled Hamburgs and In- blue. Eggs at 20 cents each. dian Games. I have some fine Write your wants. Correspondence Pekin and Rouen Ducks at $2 to $3 a pleasure. each. Duck Eggs of both breeds R. RANDOLPH TAYLOR, at $2 per 15 or $10 per 100. Incu- bator Eggs in lots of 100 to 500 at Hickory Bottom Poultry Farm, Negro- special prices, according to breed foot, Va., R. F. D. No. 2, Beaver and time of shipment. I) am, Va. PURE-BRFD SHEEP. Now is the time to order your Rams and Ram and Ewe Lambs to secure pick of flock at lowest prices. I have some grand coming Eggs For Hatching 2-year-old Shropshire, Dorset and Southdown Rams, also yearling From blue ribbon win- Rams and Ram and Ewe Lambs. ners at Virginia State Write to-day and engage what you Fair and Virginia Poul- want in the sheep line and have try Association. Strictly same shipped when ready. first-class stock and PURE-BRED HOGS. matings of the follow- I have some very fine Bred Sows ing varieties: and Service Boars of Poland- Silver Laced, White and Chinas, Berkshires, Chester Whites, Partridge Wyandottes; Duroc-Jerseys and Tamworth. Fine Island Reds. Pigs soon S. C. Rhode lot of Fancy Spring 5890 Shirt Waist or Blouse, $1.50 per 15. breeds, ready for shipment of all $8 per 100. so send along your orders and have 32 to 40 bast. them shipped soon as ready. I POULTRY YARDS, also have some fine 4, 5 and 6- To Be Made With Roll Over or Stock ELLERS0N months-old Boars and Gilts—all Collar, Three-Quarter or Full- j7*W. Quarles, Prop., Ellerson, Va. and eligible to strictly pure bred Length Sleeves. registry. I also have Yorkshire Pigs that will be ready for ship- HITE ment In a few weeks. Do not de- The waist is made with the fronts wYANDOTTES lay, but order at once. Satisfaction and back. When the roll-over collar Busin««s and references fur- Exclusively.—Bred for guaranteed is used it is joined to the neck and nished. Address JAMES M. HOBBS, standard qualities. 'Will Avenue, if the stock collar is used the neck is As well as No. 1521 Mount Royal please the farmer as well as tha BALTIMORE, MD. finished with a band the collar made fancier. Eggs from choice pens, li, separately and closed at the back. $1.26; 30, $2. Satisfaction guaranteed. The sleeves are of moderate fulness. Circular free. Those of three-quarter length are J. H. VODER, DENBIGH, VA. gathered into bands to which the cuffs are joined, but the long ones EGGS FOR SALE are finished with openings, overlaps From PureWhlte Plymouth Reeka, 91 and cuffs. per ittina- of IS, and Whit* Pakla Ducks, $1 for 19. material required The quantity of ..(areas MRS. L. B. WILLIAM*,.. for the medium size is 4 yards 21 or B, F. D. 4, LouUa, Va. —

367 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. EDGEHILL POULTRY FARM, 24, 3% yards 32 or 2 yards 44 inches V. H. DICKINSON, PROP., wide. Lnray, Va. Valley Farm The pattern 5890 is cut in sizes for Eggs for hatcu- (RINGLET) a 32, 34, 36, 38 and 40 inch bust ing from the measure. following higti. scoring Barred Plymouth Rocks bishop dress is always a be- birds.: The Dunston strain coming one for the little girls and White Wyan- quantity. Quality, not can be made simply from plain ma- dotte, Silvej- S. C. B. LEGHORNS. terial or more elaborately from Laced ana First prize at Har- Partridge as liked, and consequently risonburg. Eggs from flouncing, Wy a n d o t t e> my choicest matings, it suits almost all occasions. This Biltmore Hai- $1.60 and $2.50 per IB; model also allows a choice of high or red Plymouth Incubator Eggs, $7 Rocks, £ long or short sleeves B u CHARLES C. WINE, low neck and of and White dainty per 100. and is just as attractive and Plymon t k. Circular Free. as well can be. In the illustration Rocks; Whit- M«. Sidney, Va. combined with em- man strali. Persian lawn is Brown Lea- "RINGLET" broidery, but in the back view the hem, Cornisk. 1 dress is shown made of flouncing with man strain Brown Leghorn, Bun and White Leghorn, Cornish Indian Games.. BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS the sleeves of plain material, also it Buff Orpington, R. C. R. I. Reds; EXCLUSIVELY. can be made with a hemstitched edge, Northup strain Black Minorca*. Price, E. B. Thompson's celebrated strain. as the skirt portion is straight and $1 for 15. Special prices for large quality, not quantity. quantities. for Bred for high suits such treatment admirably well. A few choice Trios at Virginia Poultry As- sale. Cockerels, My winning similar ma- $1 to $1.25; Pullets, $1. sociation Show, Richmond, prove it. All the pretty lawns and Satisfaction guaranteed. First and third prize Cock, first and terials used for little girls' dresses third prize Hen, and first prize Pen and for the older BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS. dis- are appropriate and Association's special for best Fine large fowls, correct birds can- girls the model also is attractive in plumage play in Barred Rocks. My crossed with prize-winners of Thom|»- production, size, light weight wools that not be excelled in egg made of the son and Bradley strain. Grand yards mated Cockerels. vigor and beauty. make such serviceable dresses for $1.50 to $2. Yearling Hens, $1.50; le- They will pro- for 1908 egg season. Months Pullets, $1.26; Eggs, will please you. every-day wear. $1, p« duce results that sitting, $1.50 per two. per 15; next Eggs from best yards, $3 Imperial Pekin Ducks—large, health? per 30. Satisfaction best, $2 per 15, $4 birds—Drakes, $1.60; Ducks, $l.li guaranteed. Eggs, $1 per sitting; $1.50 for two. Address LESLIE H. McCUE, Box 4, Mammoth Bronze Turkeys, Natloaa? Afton, Va. Strain, unusually fine this year; beau- tiful plumage. Eggs, $3 per dose*. BARRED Orders filled promptly. Mrs. R. E. WILHOIT, Somerset, Va, Plymouth Rock 'eggs, eggs, eggs. Pulleta and Yearling Hens, bred from trap- If you are interested in Barred P. nested stock, for sale at Bocks, Buff Wyandottes, Rose Cosafe reasonable price*. Eggs R. I. Reds, Golden Wyandottes, S. C< In hatching season. White Leghorns, Silver Wyandotte* Mammoth Bronze Turkeys, write to nu R. S. SHOWALTKR, before placing your order for Eggs o& Dale Enterprise, Va. Fowls. Catalogue free. Cockerels at head of flock from hen ALTA VISTA POULTRY PARK. A-26. laid 266 eggs, Sire B-14 from Mrs. R. B. Fray, Prop., hen A-21, laid 271 eggs per year. Advance Mills, Va. BARRED ROCK EGGS. Barred Plymouth Rock At the Virginia State Fair, 1907, In a Eggs for Hatching from Choice 8- class of 83, my Rocks won 3rd Ck., -year-old Hens, descended from 236- Srd Ckl.. and 2nd pen. At the recent Egg Trap-Nest Record Stock, mate* show at Richmond In a class of 70, to Park's April-hatched Cockerels, they won 1st., 3rd., 4th., and 6th Ckl.; Price $1 per 15; $5 per 100. No bai- 2nd and 8rd Pullet, 2nd and 4th pen. ter bred-to-lay B. P. Rocks in tail I am now booking orders for Eggs country. from choice matings. Let me have FRED. B. JONES, Gloucester, Vs. your orders. I guarantee to please you. A few choice Cockerels yet. CHARLIE BROWN, BARRED ROCKS Route 1, Cnrtersvllle, Va. Hens and Pullets mated with first and second prize Cockerels at Virginia State Fair, 1907. No better or finer BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS 5903 Child's Bishop Dress, matings. Size, markings and laying qualities the best. Eggs, 75 cents for EXCLUSIVELY. 2, 4 and years. Yard headed by some world re- 1, 15, $4 per 100. Send check, postal or nowned prize-winning blood. To Be Made With High or Low Neck express money order. beauti- MRS. WILLIAM P. BURKS, Route Me. Eggs from strong, healthy, Sleeves. fully Barred, farm-raised birds, unex- Long or Short 1, Bedford City, Va. laying qualities, size, vigor celled in consists of the yoke, the and beauty, selling at farmers' prices The dress EGGS EGGS EGGS $1.25 for 15 or $2 for 30. Toulouse dress and the sleeves. The sleeves W. Holland Turkey, 26c. each; B. Plymouth Rock, $1 per 15, $1.50 per SO; Geese Eggs, $1.25 for 7, $2 for 14. the dress and the two are joined to Toulouse Goose Eggs, from large JOHN MAHANES, Trevillun, Va. and joined to are gathered together matured stock, 30c. each; Indian I mi- the yoke. The closing is made at the ner Duck Eggs $1 per 11. BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS My birds are of the best breeding, (Hawkins Strain) large In size, good layers and correct strain), required S. C. White Leghorns (Wyckoff The quantity of material in plumage. Give me an order and S. C. Brown Leghorns (Blltmore strain), for the medium size (4 years) is 3% you will be convinced as to their S. C. Buff Leghorns, Mammoth Bronze excellent 2 yards, 36 or 44 inches laying qualities of my birds. Turkeys, Mammoth Pekin Ducks. yards 24, Satisfaction guaranteed. Have a few of all- Stock and Eggs for sale. Satisfaction wide with three-eighths yard B. P. Rock Cockerels for sale. guaranteed. I ovpl . embroidery» and 2% yards of Mrs. M. F. GOOCH, Somerset, Oranx* MARION POITLTRY^ YARDS, Marlon, *%£ of flouncing 24 County, Va. | Jgj™ M1 r|

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inches wide with half yard of plain material 36 inches wide. THBDEAD These patterns will be mailed to any address by the Fashion Department NI?W FARM LINE a •^m of this paper on receipt of ten cents. White Plymouth Rocks Beware REPORTS. v« £ tJM^r Best stock FISCHEL strain 4 ?^T of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, "dead line" Washington, D. Eggs $1.00 per setting; JLi^l in the poultry C. Office of the Secretary. Circular birds lor Hyj^ business. When 26. The No sale. 1 "•'' y° ,lr hens are Adulteration and Misbranding of X ' V> -'%idr few droopy and Alfalfa, A also |i, ^'"'"J'^afP^ your Red Clover and Grass HAMPSHIRE PIGS " chickens dying ^' fewr because Seeds. The black hog" with white °^ ^ce ' ts t ' lue t0 re " S^jjt^T ' Report of the Secretary of Agricul- IfrajJEr orgailize and take a fresh belt. Prices reasonable,* ^ start. Lice cost poultry-men ture on the Southern Applachian thousands of dollars ayear—dollars and White Mountain water sheds. S. M. GEYE3, Manager, that might easily be saved by a Farmers' Bulletin 314. A method Norfo k Wes'ern simple resort to a sure remedy. & Ry. Farm, Ivor, Va. of breeding early cotton to escape bool-weevil damage. Farmers' Bulletin 316. Experiment fcSgf^*1 "CirginU and Whipping; Insfiint Station work; winter killing of peach buds; color of apples; sup- plement to corn for hogs; hoppers for poultry feeding, White RocKs etc. Louse Killer Bureau of Animal Industry. Cir- Fishel strain. Ten years experience* cular 124. Suggestions for horse back of the breeding. Pine Cocekrel«4 kills lice so thoroughly and effectu- and mule raising in the South. at right prices. Eggs $2 per sitting?. - ally that one application will most Office of Experiment Stations. likely end your trouble. Instant Ex- J. C. JOHNSON, Box S, Academy, periment Louse Killer is the formula of Dr. Station Record, Vol. West Virginia. Hess (M.D., D.V.S.), and destroys XIX., No. 5. lice on horses and cattle, ticks on Office of Experiment Stations. Bul- sheep, cabbage worms, rose slugs and White PlymovitH Rochs! V letin 195. Simple exercises illus- bugs on melon, squash and cucumber — trating some applications of At Herndon Show- "Clean Sweep." vines. It is also an excellent disin- Have mated first Cockerel with first chemistry to fectant and deodorizer. .Comes in agriculture. Hen, first pen and second Pullet from shaker-top cans, hence easy to apply, Forest Service. Circular 127. Forest this show. Can spare few eggs from because you can dust it over roosts, tables; Western yellow pine. this pen—$2 for 15—guaranteeing fer- nests and platforms in a tility. My stock is excellent. few mo- Forest Service. Circular 128. Pres- ments' time. See that the word C. M. WALKER, HERNDON, VA. ervation of piling against marine ''Instant" is on the can—none other wood borers. Secretary of Herndon Poultry Asso- is genuine. ciation. Forest Service. Circular 136. Sold on a written guarantee, The seasoning and preservative treat- 1 lb. 25C. } Except in Canada ment of arbervitae poles. FINE *» and extreme REiDEKS »»- nn. r 3 IDS. bOC. West Forest j and South Service. Circular 139. A g Poultry Catalogue If primer of your dealer cannot supply you, we wood preservation. for 1908 is larger ond better than ever, m will send i lb. by mail or express, pre- Forest Service. Circular 140. What Tells all about pure-bred poultry and J paid, for 35c. illustrates varieties. Contains 10 11 Forestry has done. GO Tlanuiactured by beautiful cliroruos of leading breeds—

Bureau of Plant Industry. Bulletin pretty enongb to fram< . Tci sc: best Louse , j DR. HESS & CLARK, 102, Part VII. A new method for Killer, how to cure diseases, make money. 'I Only lOe r>o6tuaid. Send to-day lor a copy.jfl Ashlanci, Ohio. the determination of nicotine in B. If. C REISER, Kueeras, Pa. ' tobacco. Bureau of Plant Industry. Bulletin . EGGS FOR SALE 105. The relation of the Barred Plymouth Rocks, compo- From Pure- Bred Brown S. C. Leg-] Rhode Inland Reds, sition of the leaf to the burning horns and S. C. Rhode Island Reds, Brown Leghorn*, qualities of tobacco. Prize-Winners, at Hagerstown, Fred- Backs. erlck, Rockville, and Washlngtoa I Mammoth Pekln Bureau of Plant Industry. Bulletin Poultry Shows. I can also f urnlsk I 7Sc. par 16; 14 per 199; Duck Eggs at 121, Part III. Results of Loco Eggs from Fine Pens of Barred Ply- Eggs, $1 per IS; R. I. Red Eggs, *1 mouth Rocks and Black Javas. Writ* I Cochin Bantam Eggs, 6«. weed investigations in the field. per 15; Buff to-day for prices, and address each. Few nice Leghorn and R. I. Bureau of Soils. Bulletin 50. J. M. HEAGY, Rockville, Md. Red Cockerels, $1 to $2 each. Moisture content and physical JOSHUA COOPER, Surry, Va. condition of soils. SPRING BROOM POULTRY FARM, Report - of the Secretary of the In- Cnlpeper, Va., H. H. Scott, Prep. Eggs For Hatching. terior for the fiscal year 1907. Breeder of Northup strain Black Department of the Interior, Bureau Mlnorcas, Whitman strain of Brow» FROM NOTED WINNING STRAINS. Leghorns, and the best Silver-Lace* Barred Plymouth Rocks, $1 per 15; of Agriculture. Farmers' Bulle- Wyandottes. Have been breeding Black Mammoth Pekln Ducks, $1.50 per 15. tin 15. Tobacco growing in the Mlnorcas six years, always with taa Lower rates made on larger numbers. Philipines. best type In view. Stock and Eggs la season at very moderate prices, con- A few choice M. B. Turkeys, Ducks Arizona Experiment Station, Tucson, and Cockerels for sale. sidering the quality. Writ* m« fo» Arizona. Bulletin 56. The scale prices and full particulars. Vanclnse, Va. Leslie B. Kline, insects of the Date Palm; the extermination of Date Palm scale. Rhode Island Red 8. C. BROWN LEGHORNS, WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS. Illinois Experiment Station, Urbana, —AND— 111. Bulletin 119. Type and vari- BARREB PLYMOUTH ROCK LAYERS. HEAVY ability in corn. Eggs, 15 for 30 for 59 f«» Eggs *1 Per 15. $1, $1.76, Bulletin 120. Milk supply of Chi- $2.50. Pure-bred and strictly first- WHITING'S POULTRY YARDS, class. cago and twenty-six other cities. Harmony Village, Middlesex Co., Ya. C. L. BLAlfTON, McBnff, Va.

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1908.] THE SOUTHERN" PLANTER. 369 — FERN HI LL POULTRY &* LBREEDERSOFAR1STOCRATSIONLY.' BARR EDTPTYMtTuTH^^recTKST^ BLACK MINORCAS. STC. BROWN LEGHORNS S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS For fifteen years I have bred these birds on my farm with free range. They have constitutions; are essentially aristocrat egg-shellers; have, and can. hold their own against the arrogant boast of any blue-ribbon winners. Have won prizes running from first to fourth, wherever shown. Highest scoring male, female and ten highest scoring fowls in the show. Never had better quality nor more vigorous utility. A few cockerels of each variety at $2.50 each, all strictly first-class birds. Shipped on approval. Eggs $1.50 Per Sitting, $6 Per 100; Minorca Eggs 97 Per 100. Address J. WALLACE SNELLING, R. F. D. 1, MANCHESTER, VA. (Yards, Stop 9, Richmond-Petersburg Trolley.) ESTABLISHED 1893.

Kansas Experiment Station, Manhat- tan, Kan. Press Bulletin 159. Green Bug. SEE. MY Plan for eradicating animal tuber- EGGS! PRICES. culosis. £u«WH'iu>Hf>^a Louisiana Experiment Station, Baton BARRED AND WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS, WHITE AND Rouge, La. Bulletin 99. Japa- SILVER LACED WYANDOTTES, AND WHITE AND BROWN nese persimmons. LEGHORNS, BLACK LANGSHANS, ONLY $1.20 FOR 15 OR Maryland Experiment Station, College $C PER 100. Park, Md. Bulletin 121. The R. C. and S. C. Rhode Islands Reds, Rhode Island Whites, beef cattle industry of Maryland. S. C. Buff Orpingtons, R. and S. C. Black Minorcas, S. C. Buff Bulletin 122. Stable manure ex- Leghorns, $1.30 per 15; $6.50 per 100. All Eggs from high- periments. scoring birds, bred to lay—the money-making kind—thirty Bulletin 123. San Jose Scale and other breeds. My big catalogue tells all about them. Peach Lecanium. Massachusetts Experiment Station, JOHN E. HEATWOLE, Box L, Harrisonburg, Va. Amherst, Mass. Bulletin 118. Molasses and molasses feeds for farm stock. Bulletin 119. Inspection of com- WOODRSDGE POULTRY YARDS. mercial fertilizers. BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS, direct Bradley Bros. Strain. St. BUFF WYANDOTTES, RHODE ISLAND REDS, BUFF ORPINGTONS, Minnesota Experiment Station, AND BUFF WYANDOTTES. Minn. Bulletin WHITE AND BROWN LEGHORNS Anthony Park, We have won more than our share of premiums on our fowls, and shly 102. Soil investigations. all stock on approval. We can furnish eggs in 100 or 1,000 lots. FREE Bulletin 103. Dissemination of REGISTERED SCOTCH COLLIES FOR SALE tuberculosis by the manure of ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. infected cattle. J. S. YOUNG, 1110 EAST MAIN STREET, RICHMOND, VA. Missouri Experiment Station, Colum- bia, Mo. Bulletin 76. Fattening cattle for market. Superior Tritp Nests. I Eoderly" Poultry Yards Nebraska Experiment Station, Lin- Are the most practical, reliable and S. C. Brown and Whit* coln, Neb. Bulletin 103. The bud inexpensive. Breed from your best Leghorns Exclusively. root of carnations. layers, cull out the drone hen. Write I can fill orders Press Bulletin 27. Losses from promptly with strictly for price list. corn stalk disease. fresh eggs at the fol- Breeder of White Wyandottes that lowing prices: $1.50 psr North Dakota Experiment Station, have quality—unequaled egg shellers 15, $2.50 for SO, $3.(« Fargo, N. D. Bulletin 70. Paints for 50 eggs or $6 psr winners wherever shown. Eggs, $2.50 and their composition. 100. For further in- per 15, $4 for 30, $5.50 for 45. formation address South Carolina Experiment Station, Mrs. Jas. Rnssell Early,

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Virginia Section Weather Service, iSTRICTLY FRESH EGG* Richmond, Va. Annual summary, Good Eggs for Hatching a specialty. I guarantee my eggj 1907. fresh; have used the greatest care t< Jingle Comb Brown Leghorn Eggs, Virginia School Repfort, 1905-'06, have them fertile from pure-bred carefully-selected stock. breeding per 100, per 1,000. 1906-'07. Superintendent of Pub- My tl for 15, $6 $50 birds are well developed, large Single Comb White Leghorn Eggs, lic Instruction, Richmond, Va. healthy, good bone with handsome SI. 50 for 15, $8 per 100. Wisconsin Experiment Station, Madi- plumage. son, Wis. Bulletin 153. Portable Eggs for sale from the folowlng) Single Comb Buff Orpington Eggs, varieties: Mammoth Bronze Turkeys) hog houses. (2 for 15. White Holland Turkeys, Half-Wilt Bulletin 154. A creamery method from Bronze Cross, $3 per dozen; Line Turkey Eggs, $2.50 Vhite Holland for the determination of water in Bred Barred Plymouth Rocks, $1 pelt $1.50 for 30; Pekli •or 10, $10 for 50. butter. 15, Mammoth Ducks $1 per 11, White African send orders for Orpington and Bulletin 155. The distribution of Guineas $1 per 18. I guarantee 75 pes' Turkey Eggs to Mrs. Cal Husselman. stallions in Wisconsin. cent, eggs fertile seventh day test. J postal will bring you my 1908 circular full Bulletin 156. A simple test for We guarantee fresh fertile eggs, giving full description of my stocl ;»unt, safe delivery and pure stock casein in milk and its relation and prices. Tom eggs from each breed. We can- to the dairy industry. E. F. SOMMERS, Somerset, Va. Special Bulletin. Tuberculosis of lot guarantee the hatch. We ship from Wilmont EGGS Wilmon send private check. domestic stock and its control. llichmond. Do not Tompkins' strain of S. C. R. I. Red* Oo not waste time in writing for dis- Special Bulletin. The seeding, at $1.60 per 15. growing and curing of alfalfa. DeGraff & Shove strain of S. C. R. ] rounts. We can fill orders promptly. Indiana, Purdue Experiment Station, Reds and Bradley strain of B. P. Rock' at $1 for 15. Three sittngs for $2.6( CAL HUSSELMAN, Lafayette, Ind. Twentieth an- A Niagara Hydraulic Ram, No. ( S, F. D. 1, Highland Springs, Va. nual report. never been used, for sale. Kentucky Experiment Station, Lex- Satisfaction Always Guaranteed. C. LEGHORNS S. BROWN ington, Ky. Bulletin 130. *The Mrs. F. E. WILLIAMS, CharlottesvlUfl o S Brace's strain Virginia. New York. Hens In mj food of the crow blackbird—the best pen are from Mr corn, root worms. Warren's birds. Prize BELMONT POULTRY FARM. winners at Virginia Eggs for hatchini State Fair, 1907; James- MAGAZINES. from White, Bull ant great town show, 1907; Brown Leghorns ; Bal Of specially notable interest in the T Richmond show, 1908 red, W hite and Bufi Cocks direct from Mr. April Century is the discussion of Plymouth Rocks; Whit. Brace's best pullet- "The Age of Mental Virility," by and Silver WyandotteiJ pen, that took bred M W. A. Newman Dorland, M. D., who R. C. Rhode Islam first prize at Madison Reds, S. C. Bind' presents re- Square show, Nev. in this paper the main Minorcas. Eggs, $1 fo: '•rk, last year. Eggs from this pen sults of three years' investigation 15. Special prices foH nice birds. (2.60 per 15. Eggs from into the records of achievement of large quantities. A fevf 50; II per 15; $1.75 per 30; $2.76 per choice Trios for sale. 1 the world's chief workers and think- L. W. NICHOLS, Luray, Vn. «5 per 100. fl EVERGREEN FARMS, Rice Depot, Vn. ers. The conclusions set forth are BYRD'S based upon the careful compilation Eggs. Fresh. Fertile* and analysis of four hundred records S. C. B. Leghorns. of men famous in various lines of in- Guarantee safe delivery and gootj tellectual activity. Dr. Dorland's hatch. Eggs from fine, large, heavyd Inclusively. Pens headed by Straw- weight breeders in M. Bronze Turkeys? sorry Hill Cockerels. Eggs for hatch- records indicate fifty as the average headed by prize Tom. Also WhitM ng at very reasonable prices. Place age for the performance of the mas- Orpington, White Wyandotte, Barren] reur orders with us for best results; terwork. Rock Eggs for hatching from besti :hey will receive our careful and hens of prize matings and leading jrompt attention. Address The feature beautiful of the April strains. Few Barred Rock Cockerel:] UEVEL GREEN POULTRY YARDS, issue is the second of Robert Hichens' yet. My aim to please. Write and try) Drewry's Bluff, Va. series, in which "The Spell of MISS C. L. SMITH, Egypt" is caught and portrayed for Landor Poultry Yards, Croxton, Va. J EGGS! EGGS! sympathetic readers by the author's Rose and Single Comb 3trictly fresh and text and by the paintings of Jules 'ertile Eggs from pure- Guerin. Denderah and Karnak Leg- RHODE ISLAND REDS ->red S. C. Brown Karnak, whose notes are "triumph horns. Great layers White Wyandottes, B. I tnd prize winners, $1 and deathless peace, the bugle call 'or 16, $6 per 100. and silence"—hold the spell this Rocks and S. C. B. Leg guaranteed. Satisfaction month, the three color pages showing horn Eggs for hatchini at $1 per 15, $1.75 pe i JAN. C. MOFFITT, ffJt^M the of Karnak, the Great Temple 30, $2.75 per 50, $5 pel Home 1, Rnniseur, N. C. Sacred Lake at aKrnak, and the Tem- 100. R. C. R. I. Re. ple of Hathor. and White Wyandott Eggs by the 100 for in now]Being A paper of authority and interest j Orders Booked, cubators on s h o r I —FOR— is a discussion of "The Instinct of notice. Animals," by Benjamin Kidd. The VALLEY i. C. B. Leghorn Eggs $1 for 15 VIEW POULTRY YARDSJ Buff Rock Eggs $1 for 15 author of "Social Evolution" and J. D. Gllck, Proprietor, ?ekin Duck Eggs $1 for 11 "Principles of Western Civilization" Box 41, Route 1, Dayton, Va. W. H. Turkey Eggs $2 for 9 has made a study of animal instincts Stock of Abo-re Breeds for Sale. LAUREL, HILL POULTRY FARM, and animal intelligence for over Carolina Poultry Farm l Roxbury, Va. twenty years, and presents many in- C. H. PETTIGREW, Proprietor, teresting and suggestive facts. He Route 5. Reidsvllle, N. C. PURE-BRED concludes: "There is to be observed Eggs for hatching, $1 per IB, $1 everywhere throughout life one defi- per 106. White and Barred Plymontl Eggs For Hatching nite upward line of development Rocks, Rose and Single Comb R. I namely, the rising curve which marks Reds, Single Comb White, Brown ant! FROM LARGE, VIGOROUS STOCK. Buff Leghorns, Partridge Wyandottes Toulouse Goose Eggs, per 6. the ascent of mind." $1.50 Buff Orpingtons and Single Com! S. C. Black Minorcas, 15. $1 per Black Minorcas- J. A. HICKS, Highland Springs, Va. With all the many good things in SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 373 SYSONBY GARDENS, PETERSBURG, VA. SPECIAL FOR 30 DAYS We are going to sell Eggs from our special breeding pens of Barred, Buff and White Plymouth Rocks, A. C. Hawkins, Bradley or Fishel's strains, at $1.00 per sitting; White Leghorns at 75 cents per sitting. Here is a chance Mail your order at once. We will ship the day you say. All Eggs guaranteeed to be true to color. Fifteen hundred Young Chicks for sale from 15 to 25 cents each. Fifty S. C. White Leghorn Pullets for sale, $10 per dozen. Incu- bator Eggs $5 per 100. All letters cheerfully answered.

SYSONBY GARDENS, Inc. T Sam McEwen, Mgr., Petersburg, Va.

ROSE-COMB St. Nicholas, it seems often as if the SINGLE-COMB St. Nicholas League were hest of all, especially now that each month brings RHODE ISLAND REDS. Rhode Island Reds "The Album of the League." The April issue has reproductions of the Five years ago I purchased a SB< EXCLUSIVELY. Prize-Winning Trio from a noted eMt- Best general purpose photographs of sixteen young people having strain, with the intention of breeding fowl known, gold winners, the best Reds in the South. Thli size, hardiness, who have been badge beauty, strain has been so that quick maturity, egg pro- some of whom have outgrown the improved m? birds are now vastly superior to th« ducers in winter and League and are now contributors to trio. Buff eaters. Eggs for Leghorns averaging ov«) small periodicals. Month after 200 hatching from prize-win- grown-up eggs were discarded because th« Reds were more profitable tgg-proa» ning stock. Book your month, the verse, the prose sketches, cers. I believe I have the best fancy- orders early. First come the drawings, the photographs, and utility strain on earth. It will pa? first served. demand the puzzles submitted are of fresh in- you to investigate. ; Last year the Big, Pink, Fertile Eggs, $2 for II. i for my stock was so great terest and real worth, often marking Book orders early. A few wonder- could fill only half the the steady development of a young I ful Males and Choice Females to apart orders for March, April and May. writer or artist. All praise to the St. DR. J. H. C. WINSTON, MISS LOUISE V« SPENCER, Black- Nicholas League and its unique edu- stone, Va. Hampden-Sldney, Virginia. . Member of Rhode Island Red Club. cational work.

RHODE Contents of The American Review £ggs Fori Hatching ISLAND for April: Senator Red- —FROM— REDS of Reviews S.C. field Proctor, frontispiece; The Pro- Prize-Winning Stoch Bryant's strain of Mas- gress of the Wold—Record of Current sachusetts. Eggs from Events, with portraits; Current Topics Black Langshans, Mottled Anconak S. C. Buff and White Leghorns. best pen—birds that are in Cartoons; John Bigelow, of New Woi red to the skin and free silver cup at Harrisonburg, Va. Egg^ York, with portrait; The Art Season from smut—$2.50 per 15. $1 to $1.50 per 15. Satisfaction gua» Eggs from nice birds, in New York, by Ernest Knaufft, with anteed. Send for free booklet. Writ* to-day. $1 per 15, $1.75 per 30, reproduction of St. Gaudens' new $2.75 per 50, $5 per 100. statute; The Hudson Tunnels, J. S. WENGER, DAYTON, VA EVERGREEN FARMS, Lincoln Louis E. Van Norman, with por- Rice Depot, Va. by and other illustra- traits, cartoons PURE-BRED R. Rhode Red lachians, by Thomas Elmer Will, with Special rates for Inc.*- Eggs illustrations; The Greatest Naval from my pen of 10 hens, bator Egge. headed by the cockerel that took pre- Cruise of oMdern Times, by Winthrop mium at State Fair, per 15. $2.50 portraits and other Miss LIZZIE G. SMITfc Eggs from three pens of beautiful L. Marvin, with utility fowls, headed by cockerel just illustrations; An Improved Naturali- R. F. D., Wellvllle, Vt, as good as the premium bird, but hens zation System, by Alford W. Cooley; not so even colored, $1.50 per 15. The Nation's Anti-Drink Crusade, by NO BETTER BIRDS OR LAYERS IN RHODE ISLAND REDS THE STATE. Ferdinand Cowle Iglehart; Leading BOTH COMBS. Articles of the Month, with portraits A. R. VENABLE, Jr., Farmville, Va. Eggs from pure-bred, high ciaw and other illustrations; Leading stock at $1.50 per 15, $2.50 per Si PURE-BRED R. C. Financial Articles; The New Books, and $4.50 per 60. with portraits. Also a nice home and store for aai< or rent. Main building has 14 room* RHODE 1*1111) IED All necessary outbuildings. Tho whol« Spottsylvania Co., Va., Nov. 23, '07. nearly new. Write Eggs for hatching. Prices Please renew my subscription to the CLINTON HENSLEY, Prop. Elktok to please. Southern Planter. I do not think I Poultry Farm, Elkton, V&, Correspondence invited. could carry on farming if I did not Miss Mamie H. Herbert, take such an agricultural journal as Route 2, Blackstone, Va. Rhode Island Reds the Planter is. W. T. DEACON. BURRED PLYMOUTH ROCK McDowell Co., W. Va., Diec. 20', '07. ROSE COMB Large, handsome fowls; spleadic Eggs for hatching, 15 for $1. Strong I prize the Southern Flanter very ayers. Chicks grow fast and art and healthy. better layers nor is indispensible to me. My No highly, it inexcelled for the table. Utility fowls. No other fowls on farm. interest grows with every issue. PURE-BRED EGGS $1 PER U WILLIAM B. LEWIS, Route No. 1, Blackstone, Va. REV. C. W. HOLLIS. E. YOUNGLOVE, SCOTLAND, VA. |

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R.oyal IVeds—Orpingtons. TWO MENSAHIBS (LADIES) IN INDIA. SINGLE COMB BROWN LEGHORN!! Bred to lay from quality that wins. Rose (Tuttle First Cockerel, Richmond, 1908. strain) and Single Comb No. 4. The Taj-Mahal. (Hansen strain) R. I. Reds and Buff Orpingtons (Willow Brook strain), the "Traveller." very best strains extant. Winners at York, Washington, Jamestown. Eggs From Delhi we proceeded to Agra, $2 and $4 per 15, $8 per 100. Baby which required a journey of four Chicks, per 15. $3 hours by railroad. Here we took up Locust Mount Poultry Farm, George our W. Sweeting, Sharon, Harford quarters at the "Hotel Metro- County, Maryland. pole," and devoted almost our entire time to that peerless gem of art and ESTABLISHED 1882. architecture, the Taj-Mahal, the mau- S. and R. C. It. I. Reds, soleum built by Shah Jahan for his White Wyandottes, S. C. Tt. Leghorns and R. P. favorite wife, Muntaz Mahal, "tht Rocks. Eggs for hatch- pride of the palace." ing $1 for 15; $1.75 for Driving beyond the city, through a 30; $2.75 for 50; $5 for 100. pretty park, with a statue of Queen RIVERSIDE POULTRY Victoria in it, we entered an outer FARMS, court, where we left our carrige and J. B. Coffman & Sons, passed into the Taj garden by a mag- Props., Dayton, Va. nificent gateway of red sandstone, in- laid with verses from the Koran in EGGS FOR HATCHING white marble. The garden is laid out in flower beds, planted with PRIZE-WINNING R. C. FROM cypresses and has water flowing Rhode iSLamn reds through it in marble basins. The Strawberry Hill Poultry Yards, At $1 per sitting of 15 or three sit- tomb stands at one end of the garden Va. tings for $2.50. overlooking the river, on a raised Box 287, Richmond, Supi marble platform tall, . Davenport Williams, Prop, and MRS. It. E. SMITH, Appomattox, Va. with a graceful minaret at each corner. It is built of Mem. Am. Leghorn Club, purest white marble, inlaid with ex- Mem. Am. S. C. B. Leghorn Club, EGGS! EGGS! EGGS! Mem. Va. Poultry Abso. quisite' designs of wreaths and scrolls, Crystal Springs Poultry Yards, At Richmond, January 9-15 (Judg«i| in precious gems and colored marbles. Stafford & Croy, Props., Trigg, Va. "Vittman), 1st Cockerel, 1st, 2nd, IrM We will offer some exceptional It seems to glow with a soft, pearly \nd 4th Pullet; 8 specials, Including ralues in Eggs for hatching during light as if there were a soul within •iilver cups for best display in cla«: :he season following breeds: >ffered by Am. S. C. B Leghorn Clu from it. The style of architecture is very Barred Plymouth Rocks, per 16, $1.50; n two or more sittings. Satisfaction the building, enclosed by screens cockerel line, $3 per 15, $5 for 30, $ ruaranteed. Write us for further of carved marble, are the tombs of Cor 50, $10 for 75, $12 for 100. Fror J particulars. the Emperor and Empress, though the itiliy matings, $1 per 15, $6 for 101 I Two-thirds hatch guaranteed or num actual bodies lie in a vault below. prict I ber of eggs duplicated at half ; Poultry Profits ! Shah Jahan's tomb bears this florid -itock for sale at all times. Handsome catalogue which describee inscription in Arabic: and quotes lowest prices on R. and "The famous grave of his Imperial Fresh Eggs a Specialty. S. C. Rhode Island Red Eggs; White and Columbian Wyandottes, White and Highness, the Resident of Paradise, I have been raising line-bred Barre'jl eight years Barred Rocks, Minorcas, Orpingtons the second Alexander, the Lord of the Plymouth Rocks for ami have bred them up to be fine winte Anconas; White, Brown and Buff Leg- two Worlds, the King Shah Jahan. |j horns; Buff Cochin Ban- layers. My fowls are all large, fine jl White and Barre-j] tams; 25 varieties of pur«-bred fowls May his grave be fragrant." pure-bred birds. Line-Bred for $1.5 li Will be pleased to mall catalogue on This mighty monarch was imprison- Plymouth Rock Eggs, $1 15, for 30; Toulouse Geese Eggs, from 20 receipt of stamp. 3 ed for seven years before his death jl pound geese, old matured stock, ' C. L. SHBNK, Box S, Luray, Va. by his son, who usurped the throne, cents each; White Holland Turkey! but promised that his father should fine size; also Mammoth Bronze, egg I from both, 25 cents each or $2.25 fo|l EGGS FOR HATCHING be buried beside his

H01.LY GROVE POULTRY FARM roosting in it. In former years, this ^^ Headquarters for Mammoth Bronze Turkeys building had suffered much from Standard Bred vandalism and there was even some Silver L. Wyandotte*. talk of pulling it down to sell the mar- Eggs now at "panic Prize winners, largest strains. Eggs bles, but since the firm establishment prices"— $1 for 13; $2 ' for I from pen headed by 45-pound Tom, $3 30. have shipped of English rule, it has been complete- for per 12; choice lot of extra heavy Toms eggs hatching every at panic prices. ly restored and is now under the pro- season since 1882. Business Motto: Choice lot of S. C. B. Leghorns. tection of a Society (of which Lord The Golden Rule. Whfte P. Rocks and Barred P. Rock Curzon is a prominent member) for Cockerels at special prices. Pure and Circulars Mailed Free. extra large. the preservation of the monuments of S. P. YODER, We also have mated for this season India. Whenever we were discour- Denbigh, Va. the finest pens of White P. Rocks and aged by the heat, or the discomfort, S. C. Brown Leghorns we have ever or the forced marches had to en- Poplar Hill Poultry Farm produced—great layers. Leghorn eggs, we $1 per 15, ?1.75 per 30. W. Rock eggs, dure in India, we would recall the Dr. H. H. LEE. $1.50 per 15, $2.7.5 per 30. Taj-Mahal, and feel that it made up Prop., R. F. D. 4, BYRD BROTHERS, Salisbury, N. C. to us for everything and was worth Lexington, Va. Breeder the and ship- coming around world to see. per of Silver Laced Wyandottes. Fresh The fort, containing the English Mammoth Bronze Turkeys Eggs for hatching garrison, is almost as fine, of its from high scoring Fifteen eggs $3. No finer birds In the State. Book your orders ahead. kind. It contains three separate im- birds, bred to lay, $1 per 15. No more S. C. Buff Orpington S. perial palaces, built by the great and C. Brown stock for Leghorns of the very sale at best strains; Moguls. First, there is the palace present. 15 eggs $1, 30 for $1.75, 100 for $4. of (the B. O. POULTRY YARDS, R. F. D. Box Akbar great soldier, the 27, Rapidan, Va. Napoleon of India) in plain, red sand- GOLDEN stone, and next, the one built by WYA NDOTTE § THE A Specialty. Johangir, his son, in which there is Pure bred, strong, WHSTE HOLL/iND TURKEY some fine Hindu carving, and rich vigorous stock, bred for winter layers. mam. effects in general. The climax is Eggs $1 per 15, $1.75 G. W. MOSS. GUINEY, VA. reached in Shah Jahan's palace which per 30, $3 per 50, $5 Eggs as follows: White Holland is a dream of beauty. Again he em- per 100. Turkey, $2 per dozen, $15 per 100; ploys white marble inlaid, and one Miss Katie Thompson, White Plymouth Rocks and S. C. W. Route 1, Clifton apartment another Leghorns, 75 cents per 15, $3.50 per sumptuous follows Station, Va. 100; Pekin Ducks, $1 per dozen. until the eye and brain of the behold- er become weary of loveliness. From PURE-BRED MILLVIEW POULTRY FARM the Pearl Mosque one goes through GOLDEN BRONZE TURKEYS the halls of audience to the gem mosque, private for the royal ladies, From prize takers at Chicago, Indi- Silver Laced Wyandottes anapolis and "Virginia State Fair. and thence to the Jessamine Tower, Eggs $4 per dozen. which exhibits the fine work of a MRS. S. F. BADGETT, Route EGGS FOR SITTING AT $1.25 PER 15. 1, Farm- jeweler rather than of a builder. ville, Va. John M. Hurshaw, Collettsville, N. O. WHITE HOLLAND TURKEY The last large city we visited in India was Calcutta, the capital not "EAST VIEW" Eggs, $2.50 per 10.; Indian Runnei Duck and White Guinea Eggs, $1.50 only of the Province of Bengal, but SILVER LACED WYANDOTTES. per 15; Rose Comb White Leghorn of the Indian Empire. To reach it, Exclusively. Rob Biddy for wooden Eggs, $1.25 per 15, $3 for 45. MRS. LIZZIE we had to travel for a day by railroad hen. Eggs $1 for 15, $S for 50, $5 f«r DYER, Route 1, Rock- 100, $7 for 160. vale, Tenn. through Bengal, which is a large and Mm. W. S. Chichester, Aquasco. Hi. rich province, and was one of the most Black valuable possessions of the East Langshans India Company. The Viceroy and the "MapleHurst" court reside at Calcutta, and its num- Eggs for Sale from Prize-Winning Stock. erous handsome buildings have given The home of choice birds—B. P. Rocks, it the name of the "city of palaces." A Few Good Cockerels Left. Buff Orpingtons and S. C. R. I. Red*. The Maidan or Esplanade is one of JOHN C. ADAMS, Eggs for sale at $1 for 15, $1.75 for drives of the East. On the 30, $2.50 for 50. Write to Bristol, Virginia-Tennessee. the finest other hand, the hotels are abomi- T. J. THOMPSON, R. F. D. No. 7, Staunton, Va. BLACK'S nable, and there is little to interest the tourist. We would much rather DeWITT'S FINE POULTRY CATALOG. have given the time to Cawnpore or Sixty varieties of Pure-Bred Poultry- BLACK LANGSHANS Lucknow, hut we were obliged to go Illustrated. Prices of stock and eggs upon request. Catalogue 10 cents, to Calcutta to take the train for the Are the leading Lang- redeemable on first order. shans In the South. South. The most welcome sight to DeWITT POULTRY FARM, Improve your flock this our eyes was Cooke's office, where we Highland Park, Richmond, Va- season with blood from and had Sam (our this noted strain. got our mail, ROSE COMB Bred for all standard guide) brought to order. When we requirements, combined complained to them of how trifling he with superior egg pro- said he duction. had been, the chief clerk RHODE ISLAND RED Choice Birds for Sale. would have a talk with him on the Eggs for sale at $1 per sitting of It. Eggs $2 per 15, $3.50 subject. Calling him in, he cursed per SO, $10 per 100. Send No other chickens raised on the farm. in Hindu, by the spirt of his an- for descriptive circular him and show record. cestors, for a thousand years, and Mrs. JOSEPH M. HURT, Blaekstone, Y«. threatened him with all the demons A. M. BLACK, Tazewell, Va. if he did not behave better. This S. C. Rhode Island Red spirit very chastened our guide's Eggs, $1.25 per sitting; two or more $1 Tell the advertiser where you saw much, and he promised amendment. each. his advertisement. He went out and found us a nice car- JOHN W. MORRIS, Wnldrop, Va. 674 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [April.

riage to show us the sights. We told HYGEIA HERD him we wanted to see the native city, JERSEYS so he carried us to Kalighat, a suburb Three Bull Calves, 8 to 10 weeks oldi which gives the name to the whole from HoIstein=Friesians. cows giving 20 and 32 pounds o:| city. In it is a temple dedicated to milk of 6 per cent, butter fat. Pricei

$25 each. . SONS OF Kali, and built on this spot over 300 years ago, because of the legend that One Young Bull, over 12 months, fi! for service, son of Miss Bruce, whij when Kali was cut to pieces one of gave over 6,000 pounds of milk of 4.i Pontiac Calypso'sSon, her fingers fell here. The temple has butter fat in 12 months. Price, $40. acquired a great reputation for sanc- Ten Young Heifers from 18 monthit FOR SALE; tity, and is very rich from the gifts to 2 years old, and 10 Young Heifei Calves, all from my best cows. of pilgrims. Sacrifices of lambs and 3am Pontiac Calypso, A. R. O., it.it My herd of 20 cows is giving 4.1 — goats are constantly made to the gallons of 5.6 milk a day, and thlij rounds. much dreaded goddess, and the streets includes the product of 6 young heifers I Sire's dam—Beryl Wayne, R. O., A around are full of these innocent Correspondence solicited. 17.87 pounds. young animals, which supply the blood following A. R. VENABLE, Jr., Farmville, Va> Trom A. R. O. cows: of the sacrifices. The courts reeked FRONTIER JESSIE VEEMAN, with hot blood which splashed on the A. R. O., 20.70 pounds; flowers and offerings, and we had to SHADEiAND DUL.CIBEL IV,, step over pools of it. MRUE FARM R. O., 20.92 pounds; A. We next demanded the Burning H. C. GROOME, Proprietor. MANOR GRACE PIETERJE, Ghats, where the Hindus dispose of A. R. O., 20.92 pounds; their dead, and insisted on going 1BTHERLAND FANCY ROSETTA, there, though our driver, a Mohame- tan, was violently to do- A R. O., 20.53 pounds. opposed our Ayrshire Cattle ing so. At the gate he tied up his THE BULL IS HALF head and looked in the other direc- CHOICE OFFERINGS OF YOUNG tion. Sam accompanied us to the THE HERD—Get the Best outer court from which we could see AND MATURE STOCK. fires burning, but advised us not to go Prices and pedigrees sent on appli- inside. "Sometime not very nice," ADDRESS cation. he said. Within the attendants spied Address AIRLIE FARM, Warrentoa, Come at once and make your own us and motioned us to come in. Curi- Virginia. telection or write us your wants. osity got the better of us, and we Address: Crozet, walked right up to the Ghats. Two 3". B. Loomis, Supt., Albemarle Co., bodies were burning, but were almost 3r. W. F. Carter, Prop. Virginia. destroyed and scarcely distinguish- Fine ANGUS Calves able. They were in two deep holes in the ground, filed with a rail pen AT FARMERS' PRICES. which consumed them it burned. "Glenara Stock Farm" as Several splendid family Milk Cown The body is brought in a grave cloth, young, fresh and gentle. dipped in a tank of tar, and put down Several 15-16 Grade Angus Bui Spring Offering Calves ready for service. "Will malM in the Ghats. The fire once started mperb bulls for grading up herds. Reg. Shorthorn (dual purpose) blazes fiercely. Attendants with long Several Registered Angus Bull an< whost Bull Calves. poles stir it, and soon the mortal Heifer Calves. Fine individuals, t-velopment has been pushed since th< Reg. Dorset Ram Lambs and a body is dust to dust and ashes to lay they were dropped. few Yearling Rnms. ashes. The process is awful to look All these Calves will be sold a Reg. Poland-China Boar Pigs. at, but, oh, so sanitary! farmers' prices. Write at once if yoi Dams and sires of all breeding want one of them. We related our experiences at the piece of standing Pim stock offered imported to Virginia A splendid hotel, on our return, and created and Oak Timber, half mile from rail from England, Canada or "Western quick buyer great consternation, we learning now road, for sale cheap to a United States. Farmers prices. SON, for the first time that an epidemic of W. M. WATKINS & Saxe, Charlotte County, Va. Address JOHN BUTLER SWANN, smallpox was raging in the city, and residents were not ventur- Marshall, Va. the foreign WALNUT KILLS HERD ing near the eastern quarter. The Ghats we visited were those where Reg. Angus Cattle THOROUGHBRED the victims of the disease were burn- BERKSHIRE BOARS, ed. "Really, ladies," the hotel clerk Yearlings and Calves for sale. said, "you should not have gone J. P. THOMPSON, ORANGE, VA CALVES, IERSEY BULL there." We did not stop to argue the PURE-BRED DORSET BUCK LAMBS. matter with him, but sent off our guide at once to change his clothes of Calves, FLYING FOX, 6645* Bull Calf Jire and our Angus ton of Flying Fox who sold for J7,5#< while we did the same hung April 1, 1907, for sale. vt the Cooper sale, 1902. things in the sun. For several hours Calved condition 1 MEBANE, N. C. .1! stock in best an* we felt very uneasy, and kept examin- W. A. MURRAY, ruaranteed as represented. Ji T. ENGLISH, CentrevlUe, M*. ing our skin for signs of breaking out, but the feeling soon passed away. "meadow brook farm There is always some excitement in ereford Cattle the East. In nearly every place we Lnrge Improved Pure-Bred Registered or Several voung, Yorkshires from visited, there was pest, plague itulls for sale at farmers' prices. Excel- best Imported stock riots, but the fact apparently does not •mt strain and fine individuals. Alio at reasonable disturb the white population. ^rade Hereford Cows and Heifers. William C. STUBBS, Valley Fronlj prices. We took up our sight seeing again, IfRrm. Sassafras, Gloucester Co., Va. J. D. Thomas, Prop., and drove out to a Jain temple. The Round Hill, Va. Jain sect was founded in Mahariva, Please mention the Southern Planter 1908.] THE SOUTHEKN PLANTER. 375

GROVE FARI1 a contemporary of Gantamo, and it greatly resembles Buddhism, of which Test Farm Brred Heif- Jains and one prospers dedicates ' ers and Bull Calf dropped April II who RED POLL BULL CALF. 1907, out of Imp Lady Simon, by Mil- a shrine to his protecting deity. E. W. MAGRUDER,, Dept. of ford Lassie II. Anchor the Bull that We asked to see the Black Hole of Address Va. win*. Calcutta, but our guide had never Agriculture, Richmond, Our Berkshires were unbeaten heard of it, and we had to find it for wherever shown. Write for prices. ourselves. All the old buildings and Berkshire Pigs Devon Herd Established 1884. Hamp- the fort in Calcutta have been pulled shire Down Flock 1880. Established down and the site of the Black Hole For Sale is one end of the present post-office. DEVON CATTLE A marble slab, with an appropriate Any one wishing to purchase the inscription, marks the spot. very best strains of Berkshires at BIXLLS AND HEIFERS, write and We were very much interested in reasonable prices should HAMPSHIREDOWN SHEEP, set prices and description of my stock. seeing the fine government buildings, the very verj RAMS AND EWES. I am offering pigs from and were proud to think of the grace imported and American straini ROBERT J. FARRBR, Orange, Vau best Pedigree with which an American woman for from $5 to $15 each. each pig. My hogt REGISTERED (Lady Curzon) had presided there for furnished with have a range of over 400 acres, art years, and how she had won the love always heathy and dovelop strength LARGE YORKSHIRE PIGS and admiration of those around her. and muscle. All inquiries cheerfully Out of the very best imported sows and promptly answered. (Holywell). Also Bred Gilts. » REFORMED SPELLING AGAIN. W. A. WllXEROT, PURE-BRED Sweet Hall, King William County, V*. Captain Harry Graham, the witty Englishman, S. C. BUFF ORPINGTONS vwhose verses have long Eggs for hatching, 15 for $1.25, 50 for tickled the American, as well as the $4, 100 for $7. English sense of humor, takes a fling BERKSHIRES From select pens Pure-Bred (Cook's): No. 1, at President Roosevelt and simplified A nice lot of 15 for $2.50; No. 2, 15 for $2. at very reasonable spelling in a little book called Pigs PRIVETS FOR SALE. PI "Familiar Faces" (Duffield & Co.). Draft Stud Colt. RIVERSIDE PARK, Morganton, Also a fine N. C. Among these verses the following are GLENMOOHE FARM, HUNT, to the point: D. D. Charlottesville, Va. LARGE YORKSHIRE "When Theo: Roos: unfurled his IMPORTED BRED SOWS, bann: As Pres: of an immense Repub: SUNNYSIDE BERKSHIRES. plan BRED GILTS AND PIGS. And sought to manufact: a Boars in service. "Premier Duke," For saving people troub: Premier Longfellow; "Peerles" Flatt breeding; from the Armitage son of His mode of spelling (termed pho- Premier," sired by Lord Premier III., and Lord Roseberry Herds. The best. and Imported "HlghUde Commons.' net:) sows rich in Premier OVERBROOK FARM, 8 W. Conway Also a number of Affec: my brain like an emet:. blood. Prices reasonable. Street, Baltimore, Md. R. WALKER, UNION, S. C. "I grudge the time my fellows waste W. Completing words that are so Tamworth Pigs comm: Wherever peop: of cult: and taste . . BerKshires . . Habitually predom: From Registered Stock Biltmore Sows have a fine lot of of Fine 'Twould surely tend to simpli: life My Spring Pigs that will be sold at wean- Could they be curtailed a trif:. BREEDING. ing time at the small sum of $5 each. VOLSBT OSBURN, "For is not "Brev: the Soul of Wit?" Pedigrees furnished if desired. Blnemont, Loudoun Co., Va. (Inscribe this mott: upon your H. E. WATSON, Stuart's Draft, Va. badge), ON THE EASTERN The sense will never suff. a bit, FARMS SHORE OF MARYLAND EDWARD WALTER If left to the imag:, Grain and Stock Farm of 107 acree. Breeder and Shipper Since any pers: can see what's Productive soil, 10-room dwelling, barn, granary, corn cribs, poul- of meant large Registered Cheater Wnite, Poland- houses, wood houses, etc. All In China and P!g«; By word so simp: as "husb:" and try Berkshire Scotch Col- repair. In elegant neighborhood, tte Dog« ?ood and a variety of Poultry. "gent:." church, school and store. Price Send 2-cent stamp for circular and close $3,000, $1,200 cash, balance on easy prices. Come, see my stock and select Will pay you for yourself. at meal (at dinn: for terms. Great bargain. "When some Only hours from Eureka Stock Farm, Wat Cheater, Pa. to investigate. 3% inst:) both Baltimore and Philadelphia. You hand your unc: an empty plate, Catalogue free. CHESTER WHITES. Or ask your aunt (that charming TUe J. W. Funk Co., Denton, Md. VThe best hog on earth." Shall be spinst:) pleased to fill your orders for spring To pass you the potat: A Neat Binder for your back num- Pigs. My stock is A-No. 1. Satisfac- tion guaranteed. They have too much sagac: I trust bers can be had for 30 cents. Address S. M. Wiseearver, Rustburg, Va. To give you sug: or pep: or must:." our Business Department. 376 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [April, Golden Rod Farm SOUTHERN HUMORISTS. Duroc-Jersey Pigs, sired by Golden- MAEY WASHINGTON. EDGEWOOD STOCK FARM rod Chief, son of If You "Beat Him In addition are Can." Boars old enough for service to the writers who sired by Quick's Perfection. professed humorists, we have some White Wyandotte Egg's from very who, though not exclusively such, best laying strain. nevertheless possess a rich substratum J. T. COX, Manager, Byrdville, Va. of humor. In this category we may ORSETS. place Thomas Nelson Page, in whose STERLING HERD works we often find admirable in- stances of pure humor, and still more Our fall lambs are now ready for REG. DUROC-JERSEYS frequent ones of a blending of humor you. Let qs hear from yon promptly and pathos. Of the first "Pulaski's this year. Tournament" is an excellent example, SWINE J. D. ARBUCKLE & SONS, AND TAMWORTH amongst numerous others. Duroc Boars ready for service. James Lane Allen, too, has a vein Maxwelton, Greenbrier County, H. W, WATSON, Petersburg, Va. of humor, although it is generally West Virginia. blended with the pathetic, which is a predominant element in his writings. DUROC-JERSEYS. "The Two Gentlemen of Kentucky" from registered affords a good example of the ming- OORSETS. stock, as such ling of these two veins. Wrenn's Chief and We offer a number of flock headers Jumbo Dick, and In a recent compilation of "Ameri- in yearling, two and three-year-ol<3 related to Golden can "Wit and Humor," edited by Tom Rams; also, few choice Imported Ewes. Glen Chief, the 1 Masson, of Life, I note that the com- {W^ world's greatest Write us soon before this lot is culled hog, which sold piler includes several women in his over. for $6,000. Fine lot of Pigs for May list—Carolyn Wells, Mary Mapes delivery. This high quality stock will Dodge and Josephine Dasram, al- J. E. WING & BRO., Mechanicsburg, O. be an advertisement to any one. though heretofore it has been a T. H. WRENN, DISPUTANTA, VA. mooted point whether women pos- SCOTCH COLLIE PUPS DUROC-JERSEYS sessed humor, or were capable of pos- FOR SALE. sessing it. Acting, however, on the offering you at reasonable One Boar, I am now farrowed July 20th, $12; precedent established by Mr. Masson, prices some very choice Scotch Colli© two Boars, farrowed October 19th, $10 are beauties. Sables with I will here class Ruth McBnery Stuart Pups. They each Also a fine lot of Boars and very fancy markings. Parents trained Sows farrowed in December, $5 each. amongst the humorists of the South, registered. These Pups> Eggs from pure-bred drivers and White Wyan- as humor is her most pronounced trace to such Ch. dogs as Ormskirk dottes and Partridge Cochins, $1 per 15. characteristic. This quality sparkles Emerald, Finsbury Pilot, Christopher, J. D. DILLON, Purcellville, Va. Kirkdale Patrick and Wishaw Clinker. throughout her tale entitled "Sonny," Write me at once. I can please you. Reg. P. Chinas as well as through her other writings. Address H. H. ARBUCKLE, Edgewood Berkshires, C. Whites The Outlook pays her the following Stock Farm, Maxwelton, W. Va. Large strains. Al tribute: "She has various gifts, skill ages, mated, not akii. Catalomia characterization, feeling for / g* Ef C Imported Bred Sows. Servict in her J t+ i» > & Malyorea and Kem- Boars. Guernse; background good sense, which shines tncky Mammoth Jacks and Jeauaet% Calves, Collie anc in well phrased reflection'; but her Saddle Horses, Trotting and Paeinf Beagle Pups anc Stallions, Poland-China and Tnmwortfe most original gift is humor, unforced, Poultry. Write for prices and free cir Hog>i. Our Importation of Spanish cular. spontaneous, kindly, full of humorous Jacks, which arrived Aug. 13, is th« P. P. Hamilton, Cochranville, Chester tenderness 'Napoleon Jackson,' aptly largest and finest ever brought to th» County, Pa. United described in the subtitle as 'the gen- States. Our herd of Tamworth* is headed by the first and second prise tleman in the plush rocker,' is, in its boars at the Royal show in England. Dunnlora Poultry Farm way, a liner masterpiece. It is a bit Our catalog is the finest ever issued by any Jack breeders. Write us your Breeders of High of life, reproduced with contagious Class wants or visit *ur farms. Poland-China Hogs and mirthfulness, with genuine skill and White J. F. COOK * CO., LEXINGTON, KT Wyandotte Chickens with keen insight into character." Branch Barn, Greenville, exclusively. Choice Pigs Texas. and Again find a rich vein of humor Eggs for sale. Write for we prices and particulars. in Miss Mary N. Murfree ("Charles KENTUCKY JACK FARM. Egbert Craddock"), and this N. P. PEEBLES & BRO., gives Is the wholesal* house for Jacks, Carson, Va. highness and charm to her pictures mm of the rough, narrow, monotinous we breed and raistt the Big, Mammoth lives of the mountaineers. Few Kentucky Jacks, and NOT A SICK HOG sketches of modern times show a finer can sell you a first- vein of humor than Miss Murfree's class Jack 26 to Ife In the seven years I per cent, cheaper have raised them. Can't sketch of the dance in "Harrison's than a dealer or be better. Cove." speculator can. Write O. I. to-day for prices c. Miss Alice Caldwell Hegan (now •u tBUumiAWV is the hog to raise. Jacks, Jennets and Mules. A large 1*>* Mrs. Rice) also shows a decided vein to select from. F. S. MICHIE, Charlottesville, Va. of humor (mingled with pathos) in JOE E. WRIGHT, Junction City, Kyi. her very popular tales, "Mrs. Wiggs ANGUS CATTLE. of the Cabbage Patch" and "Lovey ELLERSLIE FARM. SOUTHDOWN SHEEP. Mary," and Miss Mollie Elliot Sea- wall's works are lavishly THOROUGHBRED HORSES ESSEX PIGS. interspersed with gleams of wit and humor. Still, AND Some choice Yearling Rams and in spite of the instances I have ad- Lambs for May and June delivery. SHORTHORN CATTLE, duced of humor in women, I must A few Essex Pigs for May delivery. Pure Southdown Sheep and Berkshire Two choice Pure-Bred Young Bulls. confess that, on the whole, they are Pigs for Sale. I*. G. JONES, TOBACCOVILLE, N. C. decidedly inferior to men in this quality. I believe the world has never R. J. HANCOCK & SON, Please mention the Southern Planter. known a great female humorist (un- Charlottesville, Va. —

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I THOROUGHBRED, less it be Jane Austen) whilst the other sex has given us Cervantes, SKire Stallions. HORSES FOR SALE Goldsmith, Swift, Thackeray and in- Four and five years old, black and numerable other great humorists. gray, weight from 1,200 to 1,400 Mabel Lyon, Brown Filly, by im- If I may strain a point and intro- pounds, with four or five crosses of ported Fatherless, foaled May 15, 1904, duce among my "Southern Humorists" imported horses. Hereford and Shorhorn Bull Calf, 10 No. 40106; first dam, Sarmaline by im- a man who evinced this vein solely ported Order. months old. Kathleen Gray, Black Mare, by Jim through his conversation, I will make B. F. A. MYERS, Clifton Station, Va. Gray, foaled April 16, 1895. No. 6447; mention of the late Bishop Richard first dam, Katie C, by imported Wilmer, a native of Virginia, though Charaxs. BLUE AND GRAY. Bishop of Alabama. His vein of wit Agnes Gray, Black or Brown Mare, Chestnut horse, by Hindoo; dam, by Jim Gray, foaled May 23, 1901, No. and humor was fully equal to that Red and Blue, by Alarm; second dam, 29554; first dam, St. Olga, by imported of Sidney Smith, and I have fre- the famous Maggie B. B., dam of Blaise. St. quently regretted that he did not Iroquois, by Imp. Australian. A fine Chestnut Colt, No. 40105, foaled type of the thoroughbred stallion and have (like Smith) a biographer April 7, 1904, by imported Potentate; who one of the best bred horses in Virginia. •first dam, Grayon, by Jim Gray. would have handed down to posterity His get make grand hunters. Terms Chestnut Colt, 2 years old, by im- the brilliant gems of wit and humor very low. ported Fatherless; first dam, Grayon, by Jim Gray. that fell from his lips in every-day Address MANN S. VALENTINE, Correspondence solicited. conversation. There is, I believe, no Stokes, Goochland County, Va. 5. H. WILSON, Byrdville, Va. written or printed record of these, and only a few of them have been Bargains in Horses. preserved by tradition. I will repeat STONEWALL JACKSON 4995. Celts, one of these "bon mots" as it was A splendid pair of Mare Mule Probably the handsomest specimen of omlng 2 years old. Extra fine; large related to me by a near relative of he Morgan family in existence. An is ordinary 3 year old; drives nicely ild picture of Godolphln Arabian, to Bishop Wilmer's. In a certain parish o a buggy or light wagon. Will be Thorn all Morgan horses trace through where he officiated in his early cleri- !Old at a bargain. fustln Morgan, Is a striking likeness One 7 -year-old Dark Bay Mare, 15 cal life there was a lady whose table )t him. In pose, conformation and lands; weight about 1,000; compact and especially of a peculiar crest, ear and was loaded with the richest food, and »asy to keep. A reliable worker every- ilnd leg and abnormal distance from who was notorious for being a gour- vhere and a capital Brood Mare. lye to ear. This stallion Is naturally One splendid 2-year-old Sorrel Geld- jraited also has the straight trot of the mand. From overindulgence she had ng; drives nicely, single and double; larness horse. Will make the season contracted a serious form of indiges- -ery compactly built. Will make a >f 1908 at BUFFALO STOCK FARM, tion, one which, in addition to its •plendid family or work horse. Greene County. For pedigree, term*, These horses are perfectly sound and physical ills, oppressed her spirits fceep of mares, etc., address cSll be sold at a bargain te the quick E. T. EARLY, AMICUS, VA. wlith deep gloom, especially in re- • urchaser. Not responsible for accidents. gard to her spiritual condition. In W. M. WATKINS & SON, Saxe, Charlotte County, Va. Capt. J. A. Early, Doylesville, Va., one of these spells of indigestion and writes December 2, 1907: "I am In my consequent gloom, she told Mr. Wil- 42nd year; have seen and raised many mer she felt as if she were possessed Year's Subscription to 8ne horses, but my son's colt by A 3tonewall Jackson is the finest In size of evil spirits, like the people at the «.nd form I ever saw." time of our Lord's advent. "Ah, THE SOUTHERN FRUIT GROWER. Madam," replied he, "this kind can FREE. go forth by nothing but by prayer and Every reader of The Southern - fasting." Planter who subscribes or renews -It the stud his subscription to The Southern A gentleman of his acquaintance Planter during the next sixty days DICK WILKES, Jr., the perfect having lost his wife, erected over her will receive FREE for the asking a horse and blue ribbon winner at State remains a tombstone bearing this year's subscription to the Southern Fair; sired by Dick Wilkes, 2:11; dam Fruit Grower. Contains from 32 to Blackhawk Morgan Pet. Grand dam, legend: "The light of my life has 40 pages monthly. Devoted to sired by Ethan Allen, Jr., by Hill's gone out." A couple of years later fruit growing in the South. It Blackhawk Fan. when the disconsolate widower had does not make any difference whether you are commercial PILOSO, 102, the only Imported Cata- married a second time Bishop Wil- a lonian Spanish Jack in this section. orchardist or whether you grow mer remarked, on passing the tomb fruit for home use, you will derive This stock will bear inspection, and much valuable information from it their colts speak for themselves. and reading the inscription, "Well, and it will save money. Re- Owned he has struck a again." you by match member that you can get two W. J. STRAIN & SON, Soon after the war Bishop Wilmer papers now for the price of one 50 cents. If desire a sample R. F. D. No. wrote a work entitled "The Recent you 1, Richmond, Va. copy of the Southern Fruit Grower Past," but it was not as brilliant as Meehanicsville Farm. write them at Chattanooga, Tenn., his conversation. Bishop Wilmer has and send orders to "us. left behind him a nephew who has DIRECTOR, JR., THE SOUTHERN PLANTER, 32294. very much the same vein of wit and Richmond, Va. Bay horse; height, 15.3 hands; humor, the Rev. C. Breckenridge Wil- "weight, 1,100 pounds. Sired the by mer, now of Atlanta, Ga. Amongst great race horse and famous sire, RHODE ISLAND RED of Director, 2:17%; dam, Mamie Wilkes, other witticisms, one Mr. Breck- Eggs at $1 per 20, $4.50 per 100, dam of Mary B., 2:19%; Directum enridge Wilmer's has been widely from prize winning, heavy laying Wilkes, 2:19%, etc., by Red Wilkes, quoted and applauded, to this effect: strain. 1749, sire of 177, grandsire of John CHAMPION BRED COLLIE PUPS. R. Gentry, 2:00%, etc. Director, Jr., "That the mischief with Virginians of Is righly bred and grand individually, is, that they think if they are born From daughters Imported Thorn- dale Hope and Champion Rightaway. sand his get take after him. Virginians they need not be born Terms—$10 cash for single service; Cheap this month. Also grown and ^25 insurance. again." brood Collies cheap. Address J. M. VAUGHAN, Owner, WOLF STRAIN M. B. TURKEY '07. South Hill, Va. Rhea Co., Tenn., Nov. 25, Eggs large size, brilliant plumage, The Southern Planter is a valuable $4 per dozen. FOR MORGAN COLTS aid to me in my work, and I am sure SHADY BROOK FARM, Route 2, Roanoke, Va. it must be an important factor in the *nd Fillies and High-Bred Fox Hound improvement and progress in agricul- Puppies, address Or. JOHN D. MASSENGI1,1„ Blount- tural methods in the South. Tell the advertiser where you saw vtlle, Tenn. P. D. BENHAM. his advertisement. 378 THE SOUTHERN" PLANTER. [April,

EGGS—BOTH COMBS. RHODE SINGLE COMB RHODE ISLAND Island Reds, winners Harrisonburg, Reds—Eggs from pure-bred stock Hagerstown, Richmond. Washington; $1.50 per sitting of 15. H. S. Par- America's best line bred laying sons, Watha, N. C. Want Ads. strains. Convincing circular. W. A Shook, Box 16, McGaheysville, Va. FOR SALE—EGGS FROM PURE- Rates Bred Brown and White Leghorns 2 cents per word. Cash with CORNISH INDIAN GAMES, SINGLE- 15. •rder. and B. P. Rocks $1 per Also a Initials and flgurss count as Comb Buff, Brown and White Leg- one word; few Pure-Bred Brown Leghorn Hens 26 cents minimum charge. horns. Thoroughbred exhibition and Pullets, $1 each. Laurel Glenn stock, bred from best winter layers. Poultry Yards, Ceres, Va. POULTRY, ETC. Circular free. S. A White, Box P. Tlmberville, Va. FAVEROLLES—THE GREAT WINTER SALMON layers, mature early as broilers. A FAVEROLLES, THE LEAD- S. C. BUFF ORPINGTONS EXCLU- few Cockerels for sale, and Eggs for ing utility fowl, 13 eggs $6; Silver eively. A fine utility strain on free hatching in season. L. O. Stlckley, bpangled Hamburgs, Partridge Wyandottes, range; every bird carefully selected. Strasburg, Va. Silver Laced Wyan- Eggs 75 cents per 15. Rev. E. W. dottes, Golden Sebright Bantams, White Moyer, Church Road, Va. EGGS FROM HIGH-BRED STOCK AT Rocks, White Pekln Ducks, reduced price $1 per sitting of each; Indian Runner Ducks, White — Guineas, BEAUTY AND UTILITY, PRIZE Buff Leghorn, White Wyandotte, Pearl Guineas, 13 eggs $1; winners, heavy layers. Buff and Mammoth Pekin Ducks. Buff Leg- Bun* Bronze Turkeys, 11 eggs Guineas $2. Brown Leghorns, White Rocks. horn Pullets $1 each. J. B. Watts, and Hamburgs for sale; Eggs $1 per 15. Circulars free. Pulaski, Va. Guineas, pair. Si. 60 to $3. Hamburgs, J. N. Coffman, Edinburg, Va. |2; male or female trio, $5. Write for BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCKS Ex- circular. A. E. Parsons, Berk- clusively Eggs from best range- shire, WYCKOFF SINGLE COMB WHITE — New Tork. Leghorns exclusively. Breeders grown hens with a fine laying FERTILE tested by Hogan's system; 15 eggs, record; 15 for $1.25, $5 per 100, EGGS FOR HATCHING— $1.50, 100 $5. Grandscope Poultry Cockerels and Pullets for sale. Mrs. If you a buy sitting a or a thousand Ranges, Branch A, Apple Grove, Va. J. P. H. Mason, Accotink, Va. eggs you get them from same pens we hatch ourselves from improved EGGS—S. C. BUFF AND WHITE SINGLE COMB RHODE ISLAND REDS heavy-laying strains of New York and Orpingtons, Buff and White Wyan- for sale. Excellent stock. Write New Jersey Single Comb White dottes, Rhode Island your wants. Eggs, 16 for $1.50; SO Leghorn. Eggs Reds and M. B. $5 per 100, $1 per Turkeys; Angora Bucks. Write for $2.50. Thomas N. Berry, R. F. D. 1, sitting, 16; White Plymouth Rocks- only prices. C. C. Russell, Hagan, Va. Sweetwater, Tenn. one grade, the best—$1.60 sit- ting, $7 per 160. Place orders early. Belport WANTED—BIDS ON WHITE ROCK IMPERIAL PEKIN DUCK EGGS FOR Poultry Farm, Box 16. and hatching, "Rankin" strain. have Portsmouth, Wyandotte Cockerels; half We Va. brothers to Richmond and James- the best. Eggs, 15 for $1.50, $6 per ROSE-COMB town winners. Burke's Garden 100; eggs from my selected S. C. BUFF LEGHORNS FOR Cattle Co., Tazewell, Va. White Leghorns, $1.50 per 15, $7 sale. My entire stock, including six Yards, Washington, per 100. Willow Poultry D. C, prize winners; BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCK COCK- South Mills, N. C. Single-Comb BufTs, including second erels for sale, $1.60 and $2; Pullets Cock and Cockerel, same show. Also Buff $1 or $11 per dozen; Eggs $1.60 per K FEW S. C. BROWN LEGHORN Plymouth Rocks. Will sell per 45 or Cockerels for sale. $1 each. Eggs single, 16, $4 $8 per 100. A. J. S. in trios or pens. Write for Diehl, Port Republic, Va. in season. Miss Iola R. Brags, Oor- particulars and prices. Fifteen years donsville, Va. a breeder of Buffs. J. W. Sllcott. PURE-BRED FOWLS 85 Bluemont, Va. —EGGS CENTS for 15. Buff Orpington, White BUFF ORPINGTONS. LARGE SIZE RINGLET Wyandotte, S. C. Black Minorca, Solid Buff, strong and healthy. Eggs BARRED ROCK EGGS R. C. Brown Leghorn. Mrs. Frank $1 and $2 per 13. W. A Tanner, from handsome, clear barred birds, Johnson, Route 1, Louisa, Va. Bristol, Va.-Tenn. winners of two first, two specials for best shaped and best barred S. C. R. I. RED EGGS FOR SALE—$1 MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEY EGGS, Cockerel and Pullet, Herndon, Va f. o. b. her*. J. Edge show, per 15, $4 per 100. Fowls have free 13 for $3, 1908; 16 eggs, $1.60; Mam- range; only one breed on farm. Faris, Red Hill, Va. moth Pekin Duck, 12 for $1. J. A. McCarty, Mi S3 Cornelia C. Cammack, Gold- Monroe Grove Poultry^ dale, Va. BUFF ORPINGTON EGGS, 76 CENTS Farm, Aldie, Va. per sitting, $2 for 60. Mrs. E. P. SINGLE AND REDS THAT ARE RED—BOTH Wood, Beaver Dam, Va. ROSE-COMB BLACK combs, 15 eggs $1.10, 30 eggs Minorcas; 1908 winners; $2, 11 entries; 50 $3; 15 Barred Rocks or Black S. L. WYANDOTTE HENS AND 11 prizes six specials — and four Minorcas $1, 30 $1.80; Anconas, Cockerels for sale. Eggs a spe- Rose-Comb Club ribbons. Eggs Stock guaranteed. Mrs. guaranteed greatest layers known, 15 eggs $1.25. cialty. to hatch, regardless of Page Valley Poultry Yards, Luray, B. H. Carter, Rice Depot, Va. distaance. Circular free. Edgar Va. Crouch, Twining, D. C. GOLDEN BRONZE TURKEY TOMS— WHITE WYANDOTTES, RHODE the pink legged strain—at the low WANTED—MAIL BIDS ON 3 COCK- Island Reds and Barred Plymouth price of $4 and $5 each. Eggs, $3.76 erels, 6 Pullets and 3 Yearling Rocks. Eggs $1.50 per 9, $5 per 12. Mrs. Raleigh John- Hens, Black per 15, $5 per Langshan; the pick of 100. Stock for sale. John A. Good- ston, Box 7, Bluff City, Va. 50; rest going to market. This win, Highland Park, Richmond, Va. number first includes cockerel, first S. C. WHITE LEGHORN EGGS, $1.60 pullet, first pen Virginia Fair. Best EGGS LEGHORN AND INDIAN for 15, $6 per 100. from free range April offer — RUN- gets them. Burke's Gar- ner Duck, $1 per sitting; Berkshire stock. Speedwell Poultry Farm, den Cattle Co., Tazewell, Va. Swine; Early Hollybrook Soja Salem, Va. Beans; Fauquier and Goodwin Corn. FOR SALE—A FEW FINE PEKIN Fairfield Farm, Nokesville, Va. PURE-BRED SILVER SPANGLED Drakes and White Wyandotte Cocke- Hamburg Eggs for sale, $1 per 15. rels from prize winners at James- FOR SALE—EGGS FOR HATCHING Best strain. A. G. Hudson, Mitchells, town, Madison Square, Philadelphia, from exhibition Barred Plymouth Va. State Fair, etc. Evelyn Heights Rocks and S. C. White Leghorns, Farm, formerly $1 Thomas & Coates. per 15, $4 per 100. M. K. Streud, PIGEONS, MATED FOR BREEDING, Catlett, Va. Herndon, Va. for sale. Blue, 75 cents pair; White, $1.25. Address Tillman Jeter, Paces, PURE-BRED S. C. BUFF ORPINGTON Va. Eggs for hatching, $1 for EGGS FOR HATCHING—BUFF ORP- 16, $1.75 lngtons, for 30 (best winter layers). Will $1 per sitting; White Lang- shans, $2 per sitting. Rose Lawn. S. C. B. LEGHORN EGGS, 75 CENTS also spare a few sittings of S. C. Box 56, R. F. D.. No. 2, Richmond, per 14. Hens and Cockerels for sale. R. I. Reds. Address C. W. Schools, Bass, Rice Doswell, Va. Stock guaranteed. B. G. Va., care Meadow Farm. Va. (Mention this paper.) Depot, EGGS FOR SALE FROM S. C. BROWN EGGS FOR SALE FROM PURE-BRED Leghorns, Brace's strain; Barred WHITE WYANDOTTES — PRIZB- Silver Laced Wyandotte stock, prize Plymouth Rocks, Bradley strain; winning strain of splendid egg pro- winners at Virginia State Fair, 1907. choice eggs. Guarantee satisfaction. ducers; 15 eggs $1, 100 for $4.60, Eggs, 15 for $1. Miss Phaup, River View Poultry Yards, Rice 11 M. B. Turkey Eggs $1.75. Sunny- Pilkinton, Va. Depot, Va. side Farm, Jonesville, Va. —

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(Poultry, Cont.) WANTED—BIDS ON COMING FIVE good 12-room house; good improve- years (May) McGregor-Nutwood ments; well and spring water; stallion; 16 hands; weight 1,300 variety of fruits; situation suitable BLACK MINORCA EGGS FOR SALE. him M. Catterton, Stack, Va. pounds. M. T. Grattan numbers for business man. Box 85, Broad among the best yearlings he ever Street Road, Richmond, Va. BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS Ex- raised. Burke's Garden Cattle Co., Tazewell, Va. clusively. Eggs, 5 cents each, $4 REAL ESTATE FOR SALE—IF YOU Virginia per 100. Noah Moses, Chatham, Va. are contemplating a trip to REGISTERED GUERNSEYS FOR to buy or rent a farm, or if you DUNNLORA POULTRY FARM IS sale; two very nice well-grown Bull are looking for timber lands, write of one offering rare bargains in White Calves, 10 months age, and Anderson Real Estate and Law Com- Wyandottes and Poland-Chinas. See large, 4-year-old Bull; from an pany, Eleventh Street, Richmond, Register dam. Prices lots of farms dirt our ad. N. P. Peebles & Bro., Car- Advanced Va. This firm has ' Falmouth, son, Va. moderate. G. M. Wallace, cheap, with prices and terms to suit. Va. Be sure and write them before you BUFF ORPINGTON AND ROSE COMB come or buy. Brown Leghorn Eggs, $1 per 15; REGISTERED HOLSTEIN COW FOR good stock. Mrs. May Wood, Pe- sale at a bargain to a quick buyer. CHEAP LAND—WE WANT YOU TO Recently fresh and has a fine record. that invalids get well here tersburg, Va., Route 4. know James T. Brower, Winston-Salem, without medicine and then clear N. C. $200 per acre raising fruit. Eden MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEY Dewberry, Harnett Eggs, 15 for $1. B. O. Poultry Fruit Colony, Yards, Rapidan, Va. DUROC-JERSEY, WHITE WYAN- county, N. C. dottes exclusively. Three very fine BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS; Boar Pigs, six months old, sired by EXCHANGE—A CHOICE TRACT OF acres, beauties. Eggs $5 per 100. Mrs. Quick's Perfection, at bargain level prairie land, 470 half McLaren Spencer, Rocks, Md. prices. Eggs for hatching, $1 per mile from town of 2,500 population; 15; large Cockerels, $1.50 each. three railroads; in Colorado county, LOOK!—RHODE ISLAND WHITES, J. Thomas Cox, Byrdville, Va. Texas; free of debt and good title, debt and excellent layers. Eggs, $2 per 15. for Virginia farm free of 42 title. Address T. E. Hudson, S. M. Spencer, Rocks, Md. FOR SALE—SEVERAL PONIES, good to 48 inches; gentle for children. Norfolk, Va. GENUINE RED BLACK BREASTED John M. Cunningham, Brandy Sta- Game Eggs for sale, $1 for 15. E. A. tion, Va. FARM, 196 ACRES, 11-ROOM HOUSE; barns, one 30x75 with basement Smith, Route 1, Box 5 8, Bumpass, two Va. FOR EXCHANGE—FOUR FINE JER- and concrete floors, 30 cow stalls sey Heifers for a good work mare. and one 32x42; two hen houses; to sta- R. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS AND Address A., care Southern Planter. large silo, 22x29; two miles White Wyandottes. Eggs for sale tion; 28 cows, all Holsteins; good All to quick buyer at $1 per 15, $6 per 100. John TWO YOUNG MULES FOR SALE; IN money maker. a fine condition, without a blemish, for $4,500, $2,500 cash, balance five Campbell, R. F. D. 2, Beaver Dam, Va. two and three years old; will sell years at 5 per cent, interest. Hall's one or both. L. G. Blankenship, Farm Agency, Owego, N. Y. SELECTED EGGS FROM PEN OF Box 202, Roanoke, Va. beautiful S. C. Buff Orpingtons, $1 WANTED TO RENT, WITH OPTION per 15. H. D. Thrift, Wicomico FOR SALE—REGISTERED AYRSHIRE of purchase, farm in Virginia; must Church, Va. Bull, 18 months old, price $45; 12 be in running order, well situated in Angora Nannies, $6 each; 2 Angora regard to markets, roads, etc., with LIVE! STOCK. Bucks, $10 each. Dr. William Craw- good buildings and suitable for first ford Johnson, Frederick, Md. class farming operation. B., care FOR SALE—AT A BARGAIN—BERK- Southern Planter. shire Pigs of finest breeding; on hand FOR SALE AT FARMERS PRICES P. IN now 4 sows and 3 boars, sired by Pure-Bred Berkshire Pigs, B. FOR SALE—COUNTRY STORE Premier Rex, grandson of Premier Rocks and Pekhi Duck Eggs. Dille- Fairfax county, Virginia; 25 miles Longfellow, dam of Premier Rex Im- muth Brothers, Blackstone, Va. from Washington, 3 from station; poultry neighbor- ported Juliet F. B., out of Montview fine dairy and Belle, she by Manor Faithful 68312, REAL ESTATE. hood; good business; 14 years es- dam Highcleve Lady, of Biltmore, tablished. Address "Excellent Open- 81673. Satisfaction guaranteed or FINE TIMBER FARM FOR SALB3— ing," care Southern Planter. Farm has 600 acres and 3,000,000 money refunded. Oak Hil 1 Stock Farm, Wenonda, Va. feet saw-mill pine timber. Only S POSITIONS—HELP. miles from Southern Railway. 6- WANTED—BUYER FOR CONQUEROR room dwelling, 3 tenement houses, YOUNG LADY WANTED—WE WANT outhouses; 20(3 ladies in the country to sell II.; sire a junior champion Short- and all necessary young horn by World's Fair sweepstakes, acres arable land, responsive soil; pretty souvenir post cards for nice the Choice Goods; dam a Rose of Sharon well watered. Schools and churchei premiums or cash. We send you country. at once and splendid individual, red, calved convenient. Healthy Very cards on credit. Write and November, 1906; also yearling red cheap. Terms reasonable. J. B. get the cards. LeRoy Bargain Co., Roanoke, Va. by Imported Fairy, of an old, re- Thomas, Drewryville, Va. Box 202, liable Burke's Garden family. Both TO ready to sell, ship and serve. WANTED—TO RENT OR WORK ON COUNTRY MILLER WANTED river, corn, water power; Burke's Garden Cattle Co., Taze- Shares—Fine Farm on Dan grind wheat and wheel; will pay well, Va. close to fine market for milk, but- good stand; overshot ter, etc., and all farm products. Good part of toll; mill in Lunenburg NICE BAY SADDLE MARE, EIGHT buildings, etc. Station on farm only county, Va. L. G. Blankenship, Box years old; absolutely sound; do not a few hundred yards from dairy 202, Roanoke, Va. need Her and offer at $125 delivered. barn. A bargain for the right man Choice three-months registered For particulars address Oak H11J WANTED—POSITION AS FARM or overseer by experienced Berkshire Boar Pifc $5.50. Positively Stock Farm, Wenonda, Va. manager man, 36, of good education bargains. W. G. Hundley, Callands, German Va. FOR SALE—FARM, 56 ACRES, and habits. Address Box 85, Crewe, modern dwelling and good stable; SH Va. A FEW CHOICE BERKSHIRE PIGS miles from Richmond, Va. ; ten one richly-bred Short Horn Bull Calf minutes to electric cars and 6-cent MISCELLANEOUS. fare to any part of city. Price for sale. Address M. B. Quisenberry, AS Mineral, Va. $6,000, Including one horse, one mule, THE EXPERIENCED BUILDER, four cows, farm machinery and 308 well as the young carpenter, can information and in- PURE-BRED BERKSHIRE PIGS, chickens, with suitable houes and get valuable $5 care struction from The American Car- each at 8 weeks old; also Incubators. Addres» Bargain, White Leg- and Builder. Send us $2 for horn Hens, 65 cents each. Southern Planter. penter L. B. year's subscription. Published first Johnson, Route 4, Charlo.ttesville, Va. FOR SALE—150 ACRES GOOD LAND, each month. Kindly send us the BEFORE house, orchard and timber; 15 miles address and business of friends in- BUYING YOUR BERK- building. Morrisette shire Pig's write me for price? west of Richmond near station; terested in my 240 S. P., and breeding. $1,500. Address Box 61, Route 2, Subscription Agency, Box It will pay you. Dr Va. Charles G. Cannaday, Roanoke, Va Midlothian, Va. Richmond, TRY LARGE YORKSHIRES HOGS— 126-ACRE FARM, NEAR RAILWAY BABY NO. 1 DE LAVAL CREAM station, on gravel pike, 5% miles Separator; capacity 500 pounds (60 You will wish no better. W. B does perfect Stickler, Strasburg, Va. from city limits, 75 timber, 50 clear; gallons) per hour; 380 THE SOUTHERN" PLANTEK. [April,

Miscellaneous (contd.). THE LOCKPORT PTTBLISHING COM- LIME—WE MANUFACTURE HIGH- pany is offering a book of analyses Grade Building and Agricultural work. First check for $50 will se- which is a money saver to the Lime. Write for prices. Alleghany cure this machine. Too small for farmer. It contains the formulae of Lime Company, Inc., Christiansburg, present herd reason for selling. most of the veterinary remedies Va. Address Evergreen Farms, W. B. used in this country. It enables the Gates, Prop., Rice Depot, Va. farmer to make his own stock food, WANTED—LIVE WILD TURKEYS poultry powder, liniments, etc., at for breeding purposes. I will pay * THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL, IS PUB- one-tenth the present cost. The good price for those not injured lish'ed to please persons who appre- book costs $1 and will save several when captured. R. L. Blanton, Box ciate nice houses and grounds; has times that amount annually. Write 761, Richmond, Va. departments devoted to interior ar- the L. P. Co., Lockport, N. Y. rangement and decoration, the FOR SALE—ONE J. I. CASi OOM- garden, furniture and everything TWO SPLENDID RABBIT AND FOX bination Threshing Machine; new that will interest any one who owns, Hound Puppies, four months old, and cheap. M. M. Stoddard, Rox- rents or contemplates building a thoroughbred. Will sell choice to bury, Va. home. The price has been reduced. quick purchaser. Perfect matches Send us $2.50 for year's subscription; and beauties. L. Deyerle, Route 2, FOR SALE—A HEATER FOR A 50- comes each month. Kindly send us Charlottesville, Va. foot brooder house; manufactured -address of persons who will like by Cyphers Incubator Co. Apply to House Beautiful. Single copies upon SPECIAL OFFER ON FIRST ORDER John L. Bouldin, Gloucester, Va. receipt of 25 cents. Morrisette Sub- for our new style automatic gate scription Agency, Box 240 S. P., in any county. Address, with stamp, SEED CHUFAS FOR SALE; 80 CENTS Richmond, Va. Manlove Gate Company, 272 Huron per peck. J. O. Matthews, M. D., Street, Chicago, 111. N. WANTED—TO BUY ALL KINDS Clinton, C. Wild Birds and Animals, particularly SLIGHTLY-USED 5-H. P. MIMI GASO- Tame Deer, Wild Turkeys, line Engine, mounted, guaranteed DEPENDABLE SEED CORN FOR White sale Boone County White, Hickory Squirrels, Peafowl, Otters, first-class condition. Stockdell- — Red King; while lasts, $1.25 per bushel. Foxes, Grey Squirrels, Partridges, Myers Hardware Company, Peters- Dr. Walter Stuart, Farmville, Va. Pheasants, Beaver. State price when burg, Va. writing. Dr. Cecil French, Natural- WANTED—EPICURES TO TRY OUR FOR SALE—ROAD MACHINERY OF WANTED—ONE HUNDRED GRAY Jamestown Maple Syrup and Buck- every description. L. A. Arthur, Foxes, either young or old ones. wheat. Burke's Garden Cattle Co., Leesville, Va. Will take any part of this number Tazewell, Va. at any time. Write, stating how FOR SALE—ONE 25 H. P. CENTER- many you can furnish, and at what FOR SALE—ONE I. H. CO.'S ONE- Crank Engine. Will take a 15 H. P. price. Address J. C. Goode, Boyd- Horse Power Hay Baler very cheap. in part payment. Alfred L. Butler, ton, Va. N. W. Lewis, Charlie Hope, Va. Drewry's Bluff, Va.

GREAT JERSEY SALE. It is with great pleasure, mingled With no little regret, that we call at- SALE tention to the advertisement of the FOR dispersal sale of the Overton Hall Farm Jerseys. The pleasure lies in •directing our readers to what will JERSEY BULLS undoubtedly be the greatest Jersey offering of the year. Our regret is that the Jersey world is going to lose BULL CALVES. one of its most prominent breeders in the retirement of J. M. Overton, Tuberculin tested by U. S. Government. Esq., proprietor of Overton Hall Farm, Nashville, Tenn. Great pressure of private business has caused Mr. Over- pu lle ton to take the step, which is sure Forest Home Farm, vTrq1nia to cause sincere regret among the entire brotherhood of Jersey fanciers. His name and fame as a breeder and buyer of the best is world-wide. In the 110 head which will be sold at Brompton Stock Farm. auction on May 12th, without reserve, are numbered some of the greatest performers and prize winners the WE OFFER THIS MONTH ibreed has shown. For instance, the One Registered Polled Angus Bull, 3 years. great Imported Bull, Brookhill Fox, One Registered Jersey Bull, 2 years. champion of England and America; One Registered Guernsey Bull, 6 months. Berkshire to farrow In April. King Eldorado, the great son of the Young Sows famous Golden Fern's Lad, and out A few Bronze and White Holland Gobblers. B. P. and S. C. B. fowls, Brown Chinese aiid of the unbeaten Lady Veronia, thir- Eggs from Rock Leghorn teen times champion over Jersey; the Toulouse Geese, Pekin and Muscovy Ducks. great prize-winning cow, Golden PEDIGREED COLLIE PUPPIES. Jolly's Lady Viola, by Golden Jolly and out of Lady Viola, the champion cow of England; highly commended M. B. ROWE & CO., Fredericksburg, Va. daughters of the champion, Flying Fox; Brookhill Lady Fox, a full sis- ter to Brookhill Fox; daughters of REGISTERED BERKSHIRE BOARS. Agatha's Flying Fox, Oxford Lad, Golden Leda's Lad and other im- Ready for service, for sale. Also a few Jersey Cows, fresh and to come fresh; ported sires; superb daughters of Mel's Charm, 108023, a wonderful dairy cow, bred by A. M. Bowman, Salem, "Va. Golden Fern's Lad, and so on through the entire list. From this brief men- RIVER VIEW FARM, C M. BASS, Prop., Rice Depot, Va. tion, it will be seen that the herd is — —

1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 381 Ft. Lewis Stock Farm THE BEST PLACE FOR BLOOD AND REGISTERED BERttSHIRES White Leghorn, all breeds of Plymouth Rock, Black Minorca and Rhode Island Red Fowls. Eggs from these pure-blooded birds for sale. 'DR. W. L. NOLEN, PROPRIETOR, SALEM, VA.

bred in the purple and every animal offered will be capable of earning good for its BILTMORE FARMS. money owner. A full and complete catalogue is being com- BSu. BILTMORE N. C. piled and will contain a record of every animal and its ancestors, so Jerseys there will be no guess work as to A SELECTED YOUNG what you are buying. Everybody FEW CAREFULLY who has attended a sale at "Overton Hall" always goes to the next one, as Bulls and Heifers the hospitality dispensed is alone suf- At reasonabe prices, representing rare combinations—Utility and Beauty ficient to draw one the second time. Milk and Butter on both sides as far back as they go—and the type that breeders are all after. Add to the hospitality, this magnifi- cent offering and it is sufficient to Berkshires draw every Jersey breeder in Chris- Representing combinations of Imported King Hunter on Western type of tendom, and we hope it will. Don't sows, and Premier boars on imported sows. Breeders need this kind of forget to send in your name at once blood. Prices right. for a catalogue. Standard Poultry WHAT DID SHE MEAN? Wyandottes, Leghorns and Rocks. For price lists, etc., address Mrs. Armitage had a negro servant FARMS, R. F. D. NO. 2, BILTMORE, N. C. who continually prated of a certain BILTMORE Mrs. Reed for whom she formerly worked. Weary of hearing Mrs. Reed quoted so often, the mistress asked one day: "Well, Samantha, what kind of JERSEY CATTLE work did you do at Mrs. Reed's, any way?" "Well, honey, I cooked foh huh, I The best herd In the world. Headed by two bolls that coat over 910,M* did, an' I cleaned foh huh, an' I each. BULLS AND HEIFERS for Mile. swep' foh huh, an' I washed huh pussonel appea'ance."—Lippincott's. Aim WHITE ORPINGTON FOWLS, the beat general purpose brecdi CORNISH INDIAN GAMES, the beat table LEGHORNS, tfca HER MAIDEN EFFORT. fowls WHITE world's greatest layers. A certain judge had been away from his native city for several years, and For particulars, address BOWMONT FARMS, Salem, Virginia. upon his return found it difficult sometimes to recognize former ac- quaintances. One morning a youngish woman, accompanied by a tall boy, entered the trolley car and sat down EVERGREEN FARMS! next the judge. "How do you do, judge?" she said I am offering FOUR REGISTERED JERSEY BULLS, out of grand cows, and sired by pure St. Lambert's Jersey Bull, "Rinoras Rioter of St. L., cordially. "I don't believe you re- my of Bowmont Farms. member me? I am Mrs. X." REGISTERED BERKSHIRES. "Why, so it is! Mrs. X., I am de- Boars and Sows ready for service. Nice lot of Pigs 8 weeks old. My lighted to meet you again. How do prices are reasonable for this high class of stock. Address you do? And who is this with you? W. B. GATES, PROP., RICE DEPOT, VA. It can't be your son! Bless me, I Prince Edward County, Norfolk and Western Railroad. would not believe you had a son so big." "Oh, yes," replied the guileless Mrs. X., flattered by his cordiality. "He DurooJerseys Shorthorns Sfaropsbires. is my first-born—my maiden effort, judge." Lippincott's. — Durocs are the most prolific hogs on earth. Our herd averaged 11 1-10 pigs to the litter last year. They are the most popular hog, and the great CARDS IN THIRTY DAYS. and Increasing demand for them is due solely to their merits. We have forty bred sows and gilts for sale, three herd boars, "But why," asked ten young boars ready his lovely fiancee, for service, and pigs of both sexes, five to seven months old—the blood of "do you object to a long engagement?" Ohio Chief, Beat Him If You Can, Orion, Commodore and the Colonels. The "Because," he urged, "the cost of prices are right. living Short Horn Bull Calves by Imp. Best of Archers. Pure Scotch and Scotch increases every day, dearest. Topped Bulls. The longer we wait, the greater our Shropshire Rams of the best imported blood cheap to close them out. -expenses will be."—Lippincott's. LESLIE D. KLINE, VAUCLUSE, VA. 382 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [April,

ENQUIRERS' COLUMN. All enquiries must reach us by the 15th of the month previous to the Issue, or they cannot be answered un- til the month following. COWPEAS. I wish to sow peas for hogs. Tell me what kind to sow and when to sow, how many to the acre, and at what time to put the hogs on them. Sussex Co., Va. SUBSCRIBER. Early Chicks Pay Best May, June and July are the proper months in which to sow peas. In Take advantage of the first suitable weather conditions in early spring our next issue we shall write fully on and "set" as many broody hens as possible. You may have plump, this subject and to that issue refer tender-meated chicks, from one and a half to two pounds weight, in ten you. It is no use sowing cowpeas un- weeks' time after hatching if you give them proper feed and attention. Any of the foods commonly given is all right and your success will til the ground is warm. They will not be ample, provided you escape a large per cent, of loss from the very grow, but will rot in the ground.—Ed. common diseases which trouble young chickens. APPLYING LIME TO WHEAT. Most chicken ailments come from dampness or overfeeding. Keep the quarters dry and give a little of Will it injure my wheat if I apply 1,000 pounds of lime per acre with drill fixing discs so as not to cut up the wheat? Can I at' the same time sow clover seed through the grass seed attachment, or will the action of the lime injure the germination of the clover? The lime is thoroughly air-slaked. I use the Southern Planter as my once a day in one of the feeds, and you will save nearly every chick. text-book in farming. Where Poultry Pan-a-ce-a shows its great worth is as a tonic to correct H. CARTER REDD. the first tendency toward indigestion. Its use gives the organs a proper ' Hanover Co., Va. ' tone "and maintains them in perfect health so that the growing chick is steadily deriving from its food every element required to hasten growth.

Poultry Pan-a-ce-a (the prescription of Dr. Hess, , D. Lime can be applied to wheat with- M.D. V. S. ) contains iron to enrich the blood and nitrates to cleanse the system of organic out injuring it after it has commenced poisons. It makes hens lay, shortens the fattening period for market to grow, but it ought to be applied fowls, and, by its germicidal properties, wards off disease. Endorsed by to the land before the wheat is sown leading poultry men in both the United States and Canada. A penny's to get the best results. It will only worth is enough for 30 hens one day. benefit the crop slightly, if at all, applied now. Yes; you can sow the SOLD EVERYWHERE ON A WRITTEN GUARANTEE. in clover seed if you apply the lime. The \% lbs. 25c, mail or express 40c ) Except Canada 5 lbs. 60c ; 12 lbs. S1.25 > and extreme lime will not hurt it. —Ed. 25 lb. pail $2.50 j West and South Send 2 cents for Dr. Hess 48-page Poultry Book free. CURING SKIN WITH FUR ON. DR. HESS CLAR Will you please give me a receipt & Instant Louse Killer Hill: for tanning hides with the fur on? Laurens Co., S. C. T. B. BROWN.

ROBERT R. SMITH, PROPRIETOR. See page 184, February issue—Ed. Silver Herd TREATMENT OF FIELD TO BE Spring of SHORT HORNS. MOWED. ROBERT B. SMITH, PROPRIETOR. Cfcarleatown, W. Va. r\p WleklUe, Va.. I have a field that was seeded in Jefferaoa Co. —\J IS.— Clarke Co. alsike clover, timothy and red top in Three 1-Year Bulls to sell, all by the Scotch Bull Mina's the fall of 1906, which yielded a fine Secret. These Calves are from 14 to 16 months and weigh 800 pounds each; are wintering- under an open shed and doing well; of hay last year. After cutting mow six Bull Calves from 6 to 10 months, wintering under earn* it some time early in July, I let it conditions. Also a lot of Heifers for sale. I could sell a few stand and have not grazed it. Now Young Cows with Calves at foot at very attractive prices If a man would come to see them. Why not invest a few extra there is a large covering of dead dollars in foundation stock of good blood and have your feed grass on it and I expect to have a fine and care earn double the money common stock brings, it be mow again this year. Would LOOK FOR DATE OP MY PUBLIC SALE, MAY ISSUE. best to let it remain on the land, graze it off, or burn It off? Please VALLEY COTTAGE FARM give me your views. HENRY C. ADAMS. BERKSHIRES. St. Mary's Co., Md. Choice February and March Pigs. Herd headed by Dudley 83672, pure im- Rake off the old grass with the ported blood, and Longfellow 93437, horse rake and haul it away or it will pure Biltmore strain. Males $5, females $6. Pigs mated no akin. greatly spoil the quality of your hay C. S. TOWNLEY, The Hogman, Red this year by raking up into it. —Ed. Hill, Va. 1908.1 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 383 W00DSIDE BERKSHIRES EVERYTHING SHIPPED ON APPROVAL. IT WILL PAY YOU TO READ THIS CAREFULLY.

We are now offering a grand lot of Pigs sired by our three boars—Charmer' s Premier, 94553,

1-year old, weight 550 pounds ; Master Lee, 79379, 2-year-old, weight 760 pounds; and Lustre's Car- lisle, of Biltmore, 72057, 3-year-old, weight 790 pounds, and out of royally-bred sows weighing from 500 to 600 pounds each. Also Young Sows guaranteed safe in pig to Charmers' Premier and some extra good Young Boars from 4 to 8 months old. We can always furnish pigs not akin. In order to show our confidence in what we offer, and insure satisfaction to our customers, we ship everything on approval. You need not send check until after you receive the pigs, and if they are not entirely satisfactory in every respect, you can return them at our expense and it costs you absolutely nothing. We leave it to you whether this is a fair proposition. Address WOODSIDE STOCK FARM, R. S. Farish, Prop., Charlottesville, Va

MANAGEMENT OF YOUNG DAIRY COW. Opportunity Please tell me the best way to man- A [Great age a young cow with a calf so as to bring out her best milk-giving quali- Is offered the readers of The Planter to secure Pigs sired by two of the ties. greatest of all Berkshire boars. I LOUISE V. SPEN'CER. have a very choice lot of Pigs now ready for shipment, sired by the great Hunter of Biltmore III., 86468, and Take the calf away from the cow as Valaria, 88706. These Pigs are out of soon as it is calved and raise it by large sows of the very best blood and hand. No cow that suckles her calf quality, and (like their illustrious sires), have great length, depth and ever makes the best yield of milk finish. So sure am I that they will she is capable of doing. Nature regu- please you, that I will agree to ship lates the flow of milk to the require- them subject to your inspection and if they are not what you want in every particular, can return at expense and they will not cost you ments of the calf, and long before you them my a penny. the period of lactation which the cow BE SURE TO GET MY PRICES AND DESCRIPTION BEFORE PLACING should reach has expired, she will be YOUR ORDER. dry, as the calf does not need the D. E. EARHART, NOKESVILLE, VA. milk. To make a good dairy cow do her best, she should be milked regu- larly at the same hour twice each day. Every drop of milk which can be No Finer Herd on Earth Than Mine. drawn from her should be drawn at The service boars or Imported Sir Bull, II., No. 76416: Uncle Sam, each milking, and this milking should John No. 79671; Columbus Lee, III., No. be done quickly and gently. She 92309. right from the loins of Lord should be fed with a generous ration Premier, No. 50001; Fassifern Master- an- of sound,' wholesome feed, say, either piece, a fac-simile of his famous cestor, Masterpiece, No. 77000. I have clover or mix hay or pea vine hay just added Belle of Biltmore, No. and bright, sweet corn fodder, what 100572, sire King Hunter, No. 79378. she will eat each day and have a grain She should farrow November 10, 1907. Also a Canadian sow and additional ration of from eight to twelve pounds imported Luster's Bachelor sows. I per day made up of corn meal and keep about thirty brood sows. A number of these are imported. bran in equal parts, and two or three pounds of cotton seed meal or oil S. WHITE, Lexington, Va. meal (old process is best) until the THOS. pasture is good enough to give her all she will eat when the grain ration may be cut down to two or three BEST HOG pounds per day.—Ed. IF YOU WANT THE Buy from those who givu their sole attention to the production of the greatest Berkshire Type PINE STRAW AS A FERTILIZER. — WE DO herd comprises the most splendid lines of breeding and Individuals Tell. me if pine straw spread broad- Our that money can buy or experience develop in American and English Bred cast over land will be beneficial as a Berkshires. „_. manure for corn. F. M. POWELL. "LORD PREMIER OF THE BLUE RIDGE," 103555, the greatest living Southampton Co., Va. boar, heads our herd. If you are interested write. THE BLUE RIDGE BERKSHIRE FARMS, ASHEVILLE, N. C. No; there is little or no manurial value in pine straw It will help to TELL THE ADVERTISER WHERE YOU SAW HIS ADVERTISEMENT. 384 THE SOUTHERN" PLASTER. [April,, lighten heavy land, bot that is about all it is worth.—Ed. YIELD OF WHEAT HAY. Tuttle's Elixir I have thirty acres sown in wheat that I am thinking about cutting tor The Horse Remedy of the Age hay when it gets in dough state. The same land made last year about thir- No stable is now well equipped without teen bushels of wheat to the acrp. this incomparable liniment on the shelf. It How much hay do you think I ought has cured more blemishes and made more to make to the acre provided it is as horses clean limbed than any other remedy in good a wheat year as last? Do you the world. It never fails to locate lameness. think it would pay me to harrow the wheat and give a dressing of guano? $100 Reward Forsythe Co., N. C. C. E. SHELTON' Our offer is always open. Some cases have passed the curable stage. But whenever a You should make from one and a cure is possible we will pay $100 for any fail- half to two tons of hay per acre. A ure of Tuttle's Elixir to cure Spavin, Curb, top dressing of one hundred pounds Splint, Sprain, Colic or Lameness. of nitrate of soda per acre would It is the i main dependence of Veterinaries, most probably poy you well in the in- Express, Livery and Transfer Stables as a creased yield of hay. We have known such an application to increase a hay crop nearly a ton to the acre.—Ed. Leg and Body Wash LOSS OF FERTILITY FROM SOIL. Beware of all blisters; they give only temporary relief, if any. Land planted in peas or velvet Tuttle's Hoof Ointment, Worm Powders, beans first year rested second year Condition Powders, White Star Liniment and allowed to grow weeds, planted in and Family Elixir are other excellent cotton third year. Will the weeds and specifics. "Veterinary Experience," rest take any ammonia from the land an infallible guide for horsemen, is free. provided weeds are all .ploughed in for cotton? SUBSCRIBER. Every disease and symptom made plain. Charleston Co., S. C. Write for copy. Postage 2c.

The weeds will have used the nitro- Tuttle's Elixir Company, gen (ammonia) accumulated in the 75 Beverly St., Boston, Mass. land by the peas or velvet beans in making and perfecting their growth Montreal: H. A. Tattle. Mgr., 32 St. Gabriel St. So. Far ng ton. S.: and seed and there mi N. C H. R. Croclcer. Mgr. will be little left Chicago: C. F. Tuttle, Mgr., 311 East 6?d St. for the following crop. The "resting" Los Angeles: W.A. Shaw, Mgr„ 1921 New England Av. of the land will also have wasted the nitrogen which is soon washed out of the land if there be no crop growing to utilize it. The so-called "resting" THE HOLLIIMS HERD of land is a wasting process and ought to be abandoned. Keep it producing —OF— something either for man or beast and nelp it to do this profitably by good HIGH-CLASS HOLSTEIN-FRIESI/XNS. preparation of the soil and cultivation of the crop.—Ed. Cows with Official Records of over_21 pounds of butter In seven days. Cows with Official Records of over 86 pounds (10 gallons) of milk In CURING one day. SKIN WITH HAIR ON— Heifers that have milked over six gallons of milk in one day (with WORMS IN HORSES first calf). Please publish A son of the great Hengerveld DeKol, sire of 77 A. R. O. daughters. In a good receipt for the herd. tanning a sheep or goat skin with Five handsome, well-developed Bull Calves, from 6 weeks to S months wool or hair old, for sale. on; also, a treatment for worms in colts. w. R FOX BUFF ORPINGTONS JOS. A. TURNER, General Manager, Albemarle Co., Va. Hellins Institute. FOR SALE. Holllna, Va. The method of curing skins with the hair on will be found on page "Fat or Lean, Yon May Have Them." 184 of the February issue of this year. POLAND-CHINA It depends upon what kind of worms AND TAMWORTH the horse is suffering from as to the Two Tamworth Boars, ready for remedy to use. If they service $15 are the com- Berkshire mon intestinal Two Boar Pigs, 3 to 4 worms which are al- months old t most like the common earth worm One Poland-China Boar, 2 years the old, registered best remedy to use is to 20 give Eight-weeks-old Pigs, April twice daily for three de- or four days a livery 5 drench composed of turpentine, one ounce, and linseed oil, two or three ounces, to be followed on the J. C. GRAVES, fourth day with a physic of Barbaroes aloea BARBOURSVILLE, ORANGE COUNTY, VA. 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 385 RED POLLED GATTLE. Will sell Thirty Head to reduce herd te fifty »•««** tabling: for winter. Special terms to those atartfar herds. Part cash, part time. The RED POLLS am beat for the Sooth or for the fanner anywhere. IDs-' amine their recorda for milk, butter and beef.

A few DORSET SHEEP for aale . We Imparted Back and Ewea from England laat year. First prlM at Royal Counties nnd Royal Agricultural shows.

POLAND-CHINA HOGS, Pure-Bred Poultry, Albe- marle Prolific Seed Corn. ARROWHEAD STOCK FARM, SAMUEL B. WOODS Prop. Charlottesville, V«

•one ounce. Let the horse fast before •giving the drench. If the worms caus- ing the trouble are the pin worms in ide Herefords testing the large bowels, injections in OWNED BY S. W. ANDERSON, BLAKER MILLS, "to the rectum of infusions of tobacco or quassia chips, one-half pound to a GREENBRIER COUNTY, W. VA. gallon of water once or twice daily A choice lot of Bulls, Cows and Heifers for sale; aJ physic, lor a few days, followed by a a few Polled Hereford Bulls, recorded In the Natioaal are most beneficial.—Ed. Polled Hereford Record. PLANT FOR NAME. Write for Catalogue and Prices. "What is the name of the enclosed FARM NEAR ALDERSON, W. VA. plant? E. R. BAILEY. Telephone and Telegraph, Aldersen. Lee Co., Fla. The plant is wild vetch.—Ed. NITRATE OF SODA. Please tell me what difference there HEREFORD CATTLE is in nitrate of soda and the ordinary bread soda as a fertilizer, and what FOR SALE nitrate of soda sells for. Beaufort Co., N. C J. H. RHEM. Three-Year-Old Bulla, ready for* active service, Cows and Heifers with calf at foot or in calf. Nitrate of soda is the most avail- These cattle are as well bred as any in America, and some of them are able form in which nitrogen can be rarely beautiful in conformation and quality. purchased as a fertilizer It supplies PRICES LOW ENOUGH TO MEET PRESENT CONDITIONS. about 15 per cent, of nitrogen, which I have sold twelve head in the past two weeks, all in Virginia. is immediately available to the crops. Keswick is on the C. and O. Railway, near Charlottesville. Visitors met The price varies according to suppiy at station. Intending buyers are respectfully urged to come to see these and demand, but usually runs from good cattle and to take advantage of the opportunity to buy low. $40 to $50 per ton. Bread soda has no fertilizing value at all. —Ed. MURRAY BOOCOCK, Owner, BERMUDA GRASS—CAPONS. KESWICK. VA. Will you kindly tell me whether or not the grass plant herein enclosed is the Bermuda grass spoken of in your paper? Will sod of this grass, if it is Powerful Traction Engine. Bermuda srrass, catch and grow in a The Most woods pasture, thinly growa over with The "New Huber" Traction Engine The cut shows you how heat from develops most power with least fuel the fire passes forward in a large fire will this sod have to be pines? How because its boiler is the perfected flue through the water and then comes sown of a ca.tch is expected? "return-flue" type. through tubes to the smokestack in Will you kindly tell me something the rear. Thus, the heat goes through the twice, heating for water giving double about the market in the South capacity. There are many other ex- capons, and whether or not a farmer clusive features about the "New could profit by caponizing early or Huber." We tell you about all of them in our new "School for Threshermen," late incubator-hatched chicks? which we send free on request. I am a young farmer from the No matter who you are—nor where Northwest, and have been in the you are—nor how you wish to use a up year/ Traction Engine—before making South for a short your mind which one to get, you The Southern Planter, is far the should send for this new book, which superior of any other monthly farm we mail to you FREE and post paid. 1 "Write for it to-day. paper. J. C. COURTER. MANUFACTURING CO., Va. THE HUBER Amelia Co., Dey«. 2, Marion, Ohio. The grass sent is Bermuda. Ber- Planter. muda is' very intolerant of shade and When corresponding with our advertisers always m.enti.Qn Southern 386 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [April, therefore is not suitable for growing amongst trees. It wants all the sun it can get and the more it gets the bet- ter and more permanent it is. Shade of any kind will soon kill it out. The What's best way to secure a stand of Ber- muda is to sow or plant cuttings of the roots. The roots should be run Here ?l through a fodder cutter and be made Mmm into inch lengths. They will strike A good reliable tonic that will keep this litter and grow at every joint. Seed can be free from worms, keep them healthy, increase the appetite, increase the digestion, increase the power of the system to assimilate and appropriate more food, keep them in a grow- bought, but as it is all imported ing condition, get them to market forty days sooner and get bigger hogs. You can do all mostly from Australia, as the grass this with seeds but little, if any, in this country, STOCK TONIC. it is not at all reliable to germinate The gain will cost less than a tenth of the feed you save or what you make in extra weight. and grow successfully. Prevents cholera and other disease, "A Wonderful Flesh Producer." Hogs gain 3 lbs. a day each, Caponizing has been practiced to John Heibers, one ot my customers, ted Prussian Stock Tonic to his hogs that he was fattening and weighed them several times while feeding it, and they made an average but very little extent in this State. gain o£ three pounds per day to each hog. Conrad Meis, Templeton, Iowa. We have known of two or three par- 25 lb. Pail, Over 1200 Feeds, at Dealers or Prepaid. ties who have experimented with Hogs Bate from Cholera if Prussian StockTonicis fed regularly and pens disinfected with. Prussian Knapo-Curo. IF YOU LOSE ANY HOOrS AND have been usinc Prussian Stock Tonic for thirty days capons and they reported to us that as directed and disinfecting with Knapo-Curo, WE WILL REFUND for ail the Prussian Stock Tonic they did not find satisfactory mar- used. Knapo-Curo kills hog lice and all germs. Send for our book and direction, they are Free. Mention a this paper when writing. ket for them in the South. They had pRUSS|AN REMEDY CO., St. Paul, Minn. Manufacturers of Prussian Hog Worm Powders, Heave Powders, Etc. to ship North to get a price which was profitable.—Ed.

CRIMSON CLOVER—RED CLOVER.

1. Please advise me if it will be safe to sow crimson clover in July with Glenburn Berkshires. cowpeas, so that when the peas are cut it will leave the clover there to grow through the fall and winter. Lord Premier and Premier Longfellow are dead, but we have their beat sons. Our LORD PREMIER III. is not only a son »f Lord Premier, but in » 2. Will it be safe to sow clover with litter mate to Lord Premier II. and a brother in blood to Lord Premier's Rival wheat in September and when the Our PREDOMINANT and DOMINANT are probably the best sons of Premier wheat is cut in the next June have Longfellow. IMP. LOYAL HUNTER is a great individual. We have L*>rd the Premier, Premier Longfellew, Masterpiece, Charmer's Duke XXIII., and Bnt clover there to be turned under Imported sows. the next September for wheat. FORFARSHIRE GOLDEN LAD JERSEYS. H. J. WILSON. Wilson Co., N. C. Write for Catalogue.

1. Yes; this practice is largely fol- Dr. J. D. KIRK, Roanoke, Va. lowed in this State and good stands are obtained. 2. Yes; we always advise the seed- ing of the clover and grasses in the THE GROVE FARM fall. If the winter is a hard one, they may be partially killed out, but BREEDER OF PURE-BRED BERK it is an easy matter to sow a little SHIRE HOGS AND HOLSTBIN more clover seed in the spring when FRIESIAN CATTLE. TWO FINELY this happens.—Ed. BRED BULL CALVES FOR SALE. T. O. SANDY, BTJRKEVILLE, VA. COW WITH DEPRAVED APPETITE. I have a cow that seems to have a mania for eating sticks, ends of plank and such like. Please advise what Against Water, Weather will prevent or stop this mania. She and Wear is in good condition, well fed on pro- Use "VulcaDite" Ready Roofing and in- vender, corn and millfeed, with salt sure your roof against damage by water, in her trough. Is giving good milk. YOU! weather and wear. It assures long life to buildings absolute protection to their I have a heifer that is acquiring the and contents. For over 60 years its superior same habit. I suppose from seeing qualities have been recognized wherever the cow. The heifer is well fed and roofing is used. It is today the recognized standard Ready Roofing of two continents, fat. W. O. CHEWNING. is cheaper than shingles or tin— lasts longer, requires Spottssylvania Co., Va. no annual painting; easily put on— not affected by rain or snow, wet or dry, heat or cold: is fire-resist- ing, acid-proof and smoke-proof. Put on over old It is very probable that deficiency shingles it makes the old roof better than new. of lime in the drinking water is re- Before you build or repair writt for free booklet, "The Right Roofing and the Reasons Why." sponsible for the depraved appetite. Write today. You may easily corect this by throw- ing a small quantity of lime into the Birmingham Supply Co.. Dept. 39 watering tank. In such cases there is 7 IS. Forsythe St.. Atlanta. Ga. always an acid condition of the diges- 2014 Avenue A., Birmingham. Ala. tive organs and an antacid in food or water is indicated. Bicarbonate of soda given in food twice daily in ta- TELL THE ADVERTISER WHERE YOU SAW HIS ADVERTISEMENT. —

1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 387 ORVEN PARK

The Property of WESTMORELAND DAVIS. Esq.

vittiA Registered Dorset Horn Sheep.

Dorset Horns are one of the oldest and most valuable English breeds. Unrivalled for fecundity, early maturing and the production of early lambs. They are adapted to all climates and possess hardiness of constitution so essential to the improvement of the grade flocks of this country. In their pure state they are the producers of the early lamb—the most profitable phase of sheep raising. For crossing purposes they have no equal, and even on grade ewes the result is marked in the strong, vigorous and easily fattened lamb and the earlier season the lambs will wean. Dorsets are the best feeders, heaviest milkers, carry a heavy fleece of compact wool and produce mutton of the highest quality. *W&k The MORVBN PARK FLOCK of Ewes was founded on selected Ewes from the choicest of the English flocks. They are remarkable for their even and family likeness, their great size and sub- stance, their hardiness and robust constitutions. They are very prolific—each season dropping a high percentage of twins and triplets are not uncommon. Their milking qualities are unsurpassed. The Service Rams are chiefly imported English Royal Winners, and some have been shown in America—in each case taking all the firsts. At the Virginia State Fair, 1907, the flock won two championships, two reserve championships, eight firsts and seven seconds. j We are now booking orders for fall born Ram Lambs for June delivery. They are a grand lot full of quality and true type with grand substan ce and bone. They are not forced, but kept growing

to be fit for service Hhis season and will weigh from 110 to 130 pounds, averaging 120 pounds at six months.

ALSO BREEDERS OF Improved Large White Yorkshire Swine

AND _, t Registered Guernsey Cattle.

Address LIVE STOCK DEPARTMENT, MORVEN PARK, LEESEURG, LOUDOUN CO., VA.

mm 3SS THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [April,.

blespoonful doses is the common remedy.—Ed. SELMA STOCK FARM BUTTER FAT IN MILK. Your answer to C. T. Roane's in- quiry as to bad milk, in February PURE-BRED. REGISTERED number, is exactly the opposite to my

experience in one respect; i. e., you PERCHERON STALLIONS, say that a cow's milk at the end of a HARES AND COLTS, long period of lactation becomes much less rich in butter fat. Now, my Imported and Home-Bred. Blue Ribbon experience is that although the milk Winners wherever shown in France and becomes less in quantity it increases America. Postively Highest Quality. in quality, making much more but- COME AND INSPECT THEM. ter after a long period of lactation, in proportion to the amount of milk given, than when the cow is fresh. I E. B. WHITE, Prop., have inquired of quite a number of dairymen as to this, and they all say Leesbura, Va. their experience is the same as mine. I would like to hear from some of your subscribers on this subject. JOHN K. MYERS Warren Co., N. C.

Our own long experience in keeping LIVE STOCK AUCTIONEER. dairy cows, during which time we have handled hundreds of such cows, I offer my services as a Stock Salesman to the breeders of the East In doing ae, has convinced us that we were right I will say that I have equipped myself both by having taken a course at the Jones, in the statement we made in answer National School of Auctioneering, amd by years of breeding and selling Pedigreed Stock. I make a specialty of Pedigreed Sales. to the inquiry. This also is borne out by the majority of the tests made If I may be permitted to say it, I will suggest that I believe I cam render Breeders better servloe salesmen residing in remote parts of the country, aa I aaa with dairy cows for records. Especi- than thoroughly familiar with conditions obtaining In this section. Then, too, I will ally is this true when the cow is not probably not be quite as expensive as to railroad fare, etc, and besides, I mast airs only far advanced in lactation, but is satisfaction or I make no charge for my services. also carrying another calf. The milk Write me or 'phone me via Winchester over Southern Bell Phone far data*. and butter fat function is largely a Prompt attention assured. nervous one. Milk is formed by the constant breaking down of the sub- Roy P. Duvall, Stephenson, Va. stance of the cells of the udder into the proteid fats and, to some extent, sugar of milk. This process is fol. lowed by the rapid rebuilding of the udder cells. The quality of the milk depends upon the natural characteris- tics of the cells of the udder and can- not he altered to any considerable ex- gMtJg sj- ^ tent by the feeding. The cells of the ^ S ' 1 ?T- is udder being made of a substance similar, chemically, to the proteids of the milk, there must be abundance of protein in the food to constantly re- build these cells as they liquify into milk. In a state of nature the pro- duction of milk is only continued so long as the calf needs it for its main- tenance and the period of lactation is short. Artificial conditions intro- CORRUGATED V-CRIMP ROOFING, RUBBER ROOFING, TARRED PAPER. duced in the handling of the cows for ROOFING TIN IN ROLLS A SPECIALTY. supplying milk for human feed has WRITE US TOUR WANTS. lengthened this period and increased the proportion of butter fat in the MCGRAW-YARBROUGH CO., Richmond, Va. milk, but this has been a slow process extending over many generations and Just Write the Davis Boys only permanently established by care- For a Catalog and Prices Today ful, selective breeding and manage- They will send it by return mail post- ment. A reversion to natural condi- fiaidandyou will be surprised at the ow. reasonable prices they are asking tions occurs with almost every cow for their Improved 1807 model as she advances in the time of lacta- tion and though she be fed ever so DAVIS CREAM SEPARATOR well, constant lactation cannot be direct from their large fac- *"«'»«'Straight Wholesalehhuibmi. r«,iwfFactory nug)PriCOS ifyou writetoduy and maintained. Nature will assert itself tory. They'll quote you answer this ad, and save you 20 to 60'£ if you wane to buy a standard, up-to-date cream separator. Note cut of newmachine in this ad. It's and the cow will go dry. It is true a little beauty with thesmnll. wonderful, conebowl, alwaysin balance because it's made so true i t balances itself. There- tore that the average butter fat content in bound to run easier, more easily regulated to skim close and produce heavy or thin cream. Low supply can, large capacity, simple enclosed jearing, easy running, easy to clean. It's made of best materials and fully guaranteed] They prepay the milk will not decrease so rapidly freight and guarantee safe arrival at your nearest depot Say on a postal or in a letter right now, "Send ins your Mon.ys.vir.flCat.ioa no, t?(j • as the flow will do. This, as we have Davis Cream Separator Co., 54» North Clinton St.. CHIC«B8. U. S. a, 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 389

Wyldewood Farm Jerseys.

Herd numbers 300, including some of the finest the island has pro- duced, headed by the great sire Stockwell, whose abbreviated pedi- gree is given below, ......

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Imported Stockwell, 75264.

{ Golden Fern's Lad, P. 2169 H. C f Flying Fox, €1441. Sire 1 Sultan's Rosette, 149740. Oxford Lad, P. S123 H. C.

( I Count Wellesley, P. 92S H. C [.Oxford Lass, P. 3582, H. C. [ Oxford Primrose, P. 2252 C. Stockwell. <

f Boyle, P. 1559, H. C. f Golden Fern's Lad, P. 2160 H. C. J Dam (Golden Fern, P. 4711 H. C. I Golden Leda, P. §000 H. C. f Golden Pearl, P. 1975 H. C

. Leda, P. 663B H. C. 1 Eminence, F. 7124 H. C.

For Particulars of Offerings, General Information, etc., Address Wyldewood Farm, Fredericksburg, Va. 390 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [April, REGISTERED ABERDEEN-ANGUS BULLS For aale at farmers' prices. Strictly Top Notch. Many of them Show Ring Animals. Also Good Females not akin to halls. We are closing oat, at little over beef prices, twenty head of pure-bred, bat ineligible, females, foor months to seven years old. A rare opportunity for farmers to get pore-bred stock at little more than the cost of common cows. Special prices on March orders for Ball Calves. To avoid Inbreeding, we offer for sale oar Herd Ball, "Knobley's Editor," 66220. Age 4% years, weight 2,000 pounds. A magnificent herd header—broad, block and royally bred. Write for booklet. CORRESPONDENCE AND INSPECTION OF THE HERD INVITED R0SEDALE STOCK FARMS, JEFFERSONTON, VA. Shipping Point, Warrenton, Virginia.

said, as a nervous function which feed- ing but little effects. As, however, it is one depending largely upon the pro- tein in the. feed, if this is kept up and SUNNY HOME FARM not diverted to other uses, the fat con- tent of the milk will continue near the average per cent, of the cow's natural ABERDEEN ANGUS CATTLE production of fat, but the amount of butter produced will become less each Are the sort that "breed on," because of the superior breeding of the animals comprising the herd. lactation and a less percent- month of The herd bulls are "Baron Roseboy" by the famous Gay Blackbird, and age of the fat will be recoverable in "Jester" by Imp. Equester (the best bred Eric Bull ever imported). the butter. If the cow is bearing an- Females are by Gay Blackbird, Beau Bill (champion over all breeds In America in 1894), Ermoor by the great Royal Eric; Eulalle's Eric, a Colum- other calf, the protein in the food will bian winner, and by the noted Heather Lad II., and some of the best In the be diverted from cell rebuilding to the In the herd are by our own Baron Roseboy. "We have only young calvss building up of the bones and muscles for sale, but want to book you for one of these finely-bred ones befere they are all sold. Write unborn foetus and hence the of the A. Ii. FRENCH, PROPRIETOR. milk and butter fat producing func- Stations Draper, N. C. • Byrdvllle, Va. tions will be largely suspended and eventually almost entirely cease, as the cow advances in pregnancy until THE DELAWARE HERD OF the calf is born when nature again re- asserts itself and milk rich in fat for the nourishment of the newly born ROYAL ANGUS CATTLE Is not surpassed either In breeding indlvida*! given. The protein or calf is abundantly animals by any herd in the East. At the head in the food is diverted back to cell re- of our herd Is building.—Ed. PRINCE BAR ARA, 68604, the son of the great $9,100 Prince Ito. Females aS equally choice breeding. Write your wants. Re-

! SHEEP DYING. member, we take personal care ef our cattle; kaea no high-priced help; incur expense of exhibit- suddenly taken no My sheep have been ing, all of which enables us to offer stock a* with some fatal disease, and I have equitable prices. Send for pamphlet. 16 Bulls from 2 to IE months old for sal*. lost four in two weeks. They have been well cared for and are looking MYER & SON, Prop. Bridgevllle Del. fine and fat. There is not a flock in the State in better condition. QUALITY When taken, it comes on quick and the sheep will not eat at all and will POLAND-CHINAS fall down headlong on the walk and The large, mellow kind—NOT tl ground helpless and apparently seem coarse and reach type. They »»< I blind, and die in from three to four good with saeh a herd header or some subscriber of days. "Will you BLACK PERFECTION, a MB ot tl and treat- The Planter suggest disease •Id kins; of Poland-Chinas, Chief Pe ment at* once ? fectloa II. A few CHOICE PIGS «J ADAMS. STEPHEN BRED SOWS for sale. Matthews Co., Va. H. B. BUSH A BRO, Mlchanx, Pawhataa Cowry, Ta. Hundreds of sheep have died in

UNTIL YOU INVESTIGATE "THE MASTER WORKMAN," DON'TBUYGASOLINEENGINES a two-cylinder gasoline, kerosene or Its bulk are half that of'single . weight and ^«^^g™' or any wagon. It' Isa TOmblna^on pomoiBjTOTOnwy^^SJ^^^S'or'tlsSSHmu» lLess to Buy-Less to Run. Quickly, easily started. Vibration practically overcome. Cheaply mounted on THIS IS OUR FIFTY-FIFTH YEAR. •nglne. Send fob Catalogue. TU£ TJ£MPA.K PUMP CO., Ml"., Meagher and loth S.U. Ch Icu'ko. 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 391

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DIS PE RSAL SALE .. Finest Jersey Herd in America

Overton Hall Farm, Nashville, Tenn. May 12th, 1008.

Increasing demands of my business have determined me to offer, WITHOUT RESERVE, my entire herd of 110 head of IMPORTED AND AMERICAN BRED, REGISTERED, TUBERCULIN-TESTED JERSEYS, including the Imported Bull, Brookhill Fox, the Champion of England and America; King Eldorado, the son of the famous Golden Fern's Lad, and out of the unbeaten champion cow, Lady Veronia, thirteen times first and champion of the Island of Jersey, the entire show herd containing animals of national reputation—every one a splendid individual, and not a defective udder nor a spoiled teat in the entire consignment. This sale will indeed be a feast for Jersey lovers, as they can make their own selections and name their own prices. The wide range of breeding affords unlimited choice for even the most fastidious. The performance at churn and pail of each animal and its ancestors will be given in detail in the Catalogue, so you can see for yourself exactly what returns on your investment will be.

Don't Fail to Attend This Sale.

M. OVERTON, Prop., Overton Hall Farm, ----- Nashville, Tenn. J, J Z SEND YOUR NAME NOW FOR A CATALOGUE. *

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First Grand Annual Spring Sal® OF THE Richmond Special Horse Sale Company, AT THE SOUTHERN STOCK YARDS, Richmond, Va. Kit April 28, 29 and 30, 1908. INC., AND "ToNDTJCTBD BY SMYTH BROTHERS-McCLEART-McCLELLAN COMPANY, KXINE-THROOP, JOSEPH LASSITER. - _ " with and without records; fast Roadsters, The'offerifigs" will include high class Trotters and Pa^er"i, rich breeding, speed and individuality, fit for the Drivers, Saddle and Business Horses; also Stallions of track or stud; fine Brood Mares, Colts and Fillies. the dis- A GRAND ARRAY OF SPEED will he offered, too, especial attention being directed to property of James C. Smith, Richmond, Va., who is retiring persal sale of Montezeuma Stock Farm, the holdings, including high class campaigners from breeding and racing, and will dispose of his entire Brooklet Chimes 2:16%, one of the »°?»*™» and money winners, like Estuary, 2:15%; Zack, 2:15%; good and consistent race horse in his class; Nettie May, 2.24%, and in the South- Alto Down, 2:17y4 , a Mares, Colt and Fillies. Full particulars of the others without records; also young Stallions, Brood any address. numerous offerings may he had from catalogue, mailed free to ~~— RICHMOND SPECIAL HORSE SALE COMPANY, Southern Stock Yards, Richmond, Va. 392 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [April, southwest Virginia the past two months, due to Over-stimulating diet, such as corn, millfeed, cotton seed first acute in- meal, etc., -producing an USED FROM OCEAN TO OCEAN FOR 20 YEARS. liver, followed by a flammation of the Sold by Seed Dealers of America. suspension of its function and yellow atrophy, which poisons the entire sys- Saves Currants, Potatoes, Cabbage, Melons, Flowers, Trees and Shrubs from Insects. Put up in popular packages at popular prices* tem, the toxic matters are attracted Write for free pamphlet on Bugs and Blights, etc., to by affinity to the brain. The chief post- B. HAMMOND. - Fishkill-on-Hudson, New York. mortem changes are confined to the liver, which is small and yellow, and easily broken, the gall bladder is usu- aly distended with greenish yelow Bitter than Shingles bile, the small bowels contain large Shingles are get- quantities of bright yellow bile. ting so scarce and of such poor quality There is no treatment in severe -and Cheaper that builders every- cases; they all die; mild cases are where are using benefitted by purgatives of castor oil "Vulcanite" Roof ing in their place. It makes a splendid roof, wears longer than and a restricted cooling diet. shingles or tin, looks better, is easier and quicker laid; much Prevention consists in proper feed- cheaper and does not warp or rot. For a thoroughly reliable, durable, economical roof Vulcanite" solves the roofing prob- ing. Oats, bran and clover hay, lem. It is the standard Ready Prepared Roofing in this and „ avoiding corn and corn fodder, especi- foreign countries— for over 60 years it has been used on all kinds £§ of buildings so successfully 3* • ally that grown on rich bottom land, that its sale is increasing at a won- derful rate. Once laid the roof the expense stops— it does not re- which has been overflown during quire annual painting. Before you build or repair get our free past season. JN'O. SPENCER, booklet, "The Right Roofing and the Reasons Why," tells Veterinarian. why you should buy "Vulcanite"— the kind that's right. Write for it today. Expt. Station, Blacksburg, Va BIRMINGHAM SUPPLY CO., Dept.39 FERTILIZER FOR PEANUTS. 7 N. Forsythe St., Atlanta. Ga. 2014 Avenue A., Birmingham, Ala. Will you be good enough to let me know what fertilizer is best for pea- nuts, and how much per a ere and when to apply it? W J. COX. Georgetown Co., S. C. In this issue, in our article on Work for the Month, you will find advice on this subject.—Ed. A Wonderful Medicine SCUPPERNONG GRAPE. I was much interested by A. D. Dart's article in the January Planter FOR ALL on the Scuppernong grape. Will you kindly tell me through your columns Albe- if this grape can be grown in Inflammation marle county, Va. What is tne best time to plant, and should cuttings or Strong in natural mineral properties and, therefore, soothing and healing, the rooted vine be used? Where can either be obtained? A. I. M. has become famous as the greatest natural cure for all forms of (Miss) A. G. DAVIS. internal and external inflammation. Orange Co., Va. This grape will not succeed in your For Cuts, Wounds and Old Sores and Burns, for Sore Eyes and for all county.—Ed. classes of Skin Diseases APPLYING FARM YARD MANURE- SOWING THRESHING COWPEAS— Iron is CRIMSON CLOVER. Acid Mineral a Great Cura 1. When is the best time to apply farm yard manure and how is it best As a remedy for Indigestion, Infantum Flux and other prevalent stomach to apply it, as a top dressing or to and bowel troubles, A. I. 91. has proved a sure and lasting cure. plough it down? to get cow- 2. How is the best way It is a Natural Medicine, obtained from powerful Minerals—man cannot peas out of the pods when picked off make It. the vines in the field? clover (German) be 3. Can crimson Stop enduring the pains that can be cured. Buy a bottle of A. I. M. sown amongst cowpea vines in August from your Druggist or General Store. If you can't get it, send us your or September successfully? CHAS. L. DYER. dealer's name and $1.00 for two 50-cent bottles. Chesterfield Co., Va. application 1. This question of the of farm yard manure to land has been under observation and experimentation Acid Iron Mineral Company at the Maryland Experiment Station ,of seven for a period, on one field Richmond, Virginia. years, and on another field for three years. The full report on these ex- 1

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ROYAL, SWELL, 34892, Bay Horse, 15.2% hands high, by Bow Bells, 2:19%, dam Rachel. 2:08%, by Baron Wilkes, 2:18. A Trotting Stallion that lives up to his breeding in conformation, style and gait—a show horse all over. His tabulated pedigree, which follows, shows him to be one of the best bred trotting stallions in the world:

/ Hauihletoiiiannai iii vieLuiuan 10m' J "The great fountain head - Electioneer, 125. of trotting speed." Sire of Sire of Dexter 2:17% (World' Bow Bells, 13073 Arion 2:07% Champion). Record 2:19%. Sunol 2:08% Sire of Palo Alto 2:08% And 163 others in 2:30 Beausant 2:06% >. Green Mountain Maid t Matin Bells 2:06% Sires of the dams of The great mother of Billy Andrews 2:06%" Klatawah 2:05% trotters." i Bellewood A 2:07% Dolly Dillon 2:06% Dam of Elaine 2:20; Pros- Prince Selma 2:10% Lisonjero 2:08% pero 2:20; Elista 2:20%; Z Bel Esprit 2:12% Wild Bell 2:08% Dame Trot 2:22; Lance- 2:09% Janie T. (2 yrs.) 2:14 Cavaliero lot 2:23, and 4 other (Champion 2-yr. filly; Crafty 2:09% 2:3 trotters. Futurity winner.) V. Beautiful Bells Ringing Bells 2:13% Record 2:29% r The Moor, 870: 2:37

Wilkes Belle 2:14% Champion trotting brood ! Died at S years including mare Sulton 2:24 Boreal, 3 yrs 2:15% Dam of And others. Sire of Belleflower 2:12% Boralma, 5 yrs 2:07 Belsire 2:18 -I Minnehaha ROYAL SWELL, 34892. (Futurity winner 1899; Bell Boy, 3 yrs 2:19% I Dam of t MAHOGANY BAY .Transylvania winner in Bow Bells 2:19% Baron Rose 2:20% 1900.) Hinda Rose. 3 yrs.. 2:19% Alcazar 2:20% with black points; near Pan Michael 2:03 Palo Alto Belle 2:22% Mascot 2:25% t hind heel white. Own brother to Adbell, 1 yr 2:23 Pawnee 2:26% 4 yrs 2:23% FOALED FEB'Y 5, 1901. Chimes 2:30% Monbells, San Gabriel 2:29% yrs 2:24% i Bred by Marcus Daly, Sire of St. Bel, 4 Beautiful Bells 2:29% The Abbot 2:03% Bell Bird, 1 yr 2:26% Bitter Root Farm, Hamil- (World's Champion in Adbell 2:29% ton, [ George Wilkes, 519; 2:22 Mont. 1900.) Baron Wilkes, 4758 A perfect individual Electric Bell, sire of Record 2:18. Sire of Champ, stallion, 1868-71. with great beauty, perfect Captor 2:09% Bumps 2:03% Sire of 83 2:30 perform- disposition, extreme speed, St. Bel, 2:24%. sire of Rubinstein 2:05 ers, and dams of 183 2:30 a pure gaited trotter, and Lynne Bel 2:10% Rachel 2:08% performers. as richly and fashionably Rachel Oakland Baron 2:09% bred as any horse ever Record 4 yrs., 2:08%. Seven others in 2:10 Belle Patchen, 2:30% foaled. Winner of 9 races. Twice And the dams of Dam of i 2d; once 3d; twice 4th, Lady Gail Hamilton. 2:06% Baron Wilkes 2:18 and never unplaced. Rollins 2:08 Great Spirit.. 2:11% India Silk 2:10% fGeorir e Wilkes, 519; 2:22 t Dam of Circle 2:11% Sire of t The Envoy (Peace Great Spirit 2:11% Harry Wilkes 2:13% Comm'ner) 2:25% Willie Wilkes, 2:28 And 82 others in 2:30 list. Sire of Dam of Sire of dams 183 in 2:30. Bedelia B 2:27% Rachel, 4 yrs 2:08% Sire of 102 2 30 sires. Town Founder...... 2:18 Great Heart 2:21%

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periments has been just issued and is published as Bulletin 122 of that Sta- tion. This can be obtained on appli- cation to the Director of the Station, College Park, Md. Here we have not space to do more than give a short summary. Later in the year, we ex- pect to write fully on the subject. ,|D01WII5E| The land experimented upon has grown the following rotation of crops: First year, corn (planted on sod), crimson clover (seeded at last work- ing of corn). Second year, crimson clover turned under for corn (wheat seeded on corn stubble). Third year, wheat (timothy and JSSSSSk^BARyESTER?^^, clover seeded in wheat). Fourth year, timothy and clover hay. The results given in the table rep- ^IF NOT WHY NOT? ^^ resent the average yields obtained from four crops of corn and two crops enables you to get every particle easy running, easily cleaned and are of wheat, thus passing through the IT of butter fat from the milk. You built to cause the least possible trouble can't get it by hand skimming. rotation twice. The yields of hay in operation. You will have fresh, warm, sweet You should be satisfied with nothing were lost, so cannot be given. skim-milk for calves and pigs—a most but the best separator you can buy. The The applications of fresh manure excellent feed. When you skim by hand, I. H. C. cream harvesters are designed were made by taking it directly from the milk is cold and stale. and manufactured to be as nearly per- fect the stable and spreading it on the It saves work. You have no idea how working machines as possible. Both land at the rate of ten tons per acre much drudgery a cream harvester will have stood the hardest tests ever given any cream separator. Every applied with a manure spreader. save if you have never used one. machine is given a thorough factory test You want your dairy products to be of In the rotted manure series plots before it goes out. There is no possi- the highest grade. Everywhere it is the 2 and 4 of field 38 received well rotted bility of your getting I. cream harvester users who make the an H. C. cream harvester manure at the rate of ten tons per prize products. That's another good that is not right working. acre taken at each application from a reason why you should use one. International local agents can supply you with catalogs, hangers and full par- larg heap of that material. The International Harvester Com- ticulars Call and take the matter up pany of America offers you For each of the other rotted manure a choice of with them, or write the Home Office. two of the best machines plots a ton of fresh manure was haul- manufactured. You will be interested in seeing a copy ed out and heaped near the plot in The Bluebell, a gear drive machine of booklet on the "Development of the and the Dairymaid, a sufficient time before spreading to al- chain drive ma Cream Separator" which will be mailed chine, are both simple, clean skimmers on request. low it to decompose into a condition which would be generally recognized International Harvester Company of America, Chicago, U. S. A. as well rotted manure. (Incorporated) The results given in the following table are the average of twelve one- tenth acre plots. Fresh manure was applied to six plots and rotten ma- nure to six plots, the plots alternated. Comparison of yields from application AMERICAN SAWMILLS of fresh and rotted manure on Field No. 38. RELIABLE FRICTION FEED Yields Per Acre in Bushels. Corn Wheat Ratchet Set Works, Quick Reoeder.Duplox Bushels.* Bushels. Unmanured (average Steel Dogs. Strong, of plots 5, 10, 15, 20 38.1 16.1 CURATE AND RELI BLI Fresh manure (aver- age of plots 1, 3, 7, Best material and work 9, 13, 1G) 70.7 19.7 manship, light running, Rotted manure aver- requires little power; age plots 2, 4, 8, simple, easy to handle; 11, 14, 17) 65.1 19.1 won't get out at order. Gain from fresh BELT FEED MILLS manure 32.6 3.6 In all sices. Gain from rotted Log Beam Carriages manure /27.6 3.0 can be furnished with Gain of fresh over any of our Mills. rotted manure 5.0 0.6 No. 1. Warranted to cat 1,600 feet per day with « H. P. engine. Seven ether slies made. Also Bdgers, Trimmers, Shingle Machines, Lath Mills, Rip and Cut- Average of 4 crops. off Saws, Drag Saws, Cerdwoed Saws and Feed Mills. Catalogue sent tree. fAverage of 2 crops. "Rowe, Mass., October 24, IMS.—I have a N*. 1 American Saw Mill and send The yields of fodder and straw yen an order tor another Just like It I nm it with my 8 H. P. portable gasoline were in favor of the fresh manure and •nglse; have sawed 6,000 feet ef lumber la ten hours with it without any trouble. I ase a 48-inch saw. Tours truly, BRADLEY C. NEWELL. were in about the same proportions as given for the grains. The observa- AMERICAN SAW MILL MACHINERY CO., 137 Hope St., Haokettstown N. J. tions on the growth of grass showed OUR AGENTS.—Watt Plow Company, Richmond, Vs.; R. P. Johnson, Wythe- decidedly in favor of the fresh manure rille, Vs.; Hyman Supply Company, New Berne and Wilmington, N. C. ; Gibes Machinery Company, Columbia, 8. and were even more marked than C. with the other crops. Ab to when the manure shall be ap- plied, the experiments covered this TELL THJD ADVERTISER WHERE YOU SAW HIS ADVERTISEMENT. , : ,

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point also. The manure was applied at four different periods—summer, * fall, winter and spring. The applica- tions were made on sod land before ploughing and previous to planting the land to corn. The results were TEN YEARS AHEAD as follows: Yields Per Acre. OF ALL OTHER a H tf e p p £ • *- z

Pall (Nov. 27' . .69.1 18.4 68.0 17.3 In efficiency, simplicity, Winter (Jan. 12) .58.2 17.9 skimming durability and con- venience, the 1908 Spring (Mar. 16) .57.5 17.8 6.14 18.0 new improved De Laval Cream Separators are fully ten years ahead of any other machine on the market to-day. Thirty * Average of 4 crops. years of experience, protecting patents, and the fAverage of 2 crops. many valuable improvements devised and perfected by the De Laval engineers in all parts of the Ploughing Under vs. Top Dressing. world during the past three years are responsible for this fact. Every feature of the De Laval has been improved, Corn. Wheat. from the supply can to the base. The new center-balanced bowl with its separate spindle is alone a triumph in sepa- rator construction and must be seen to be fully appreciated. Then, there is the new one-piece "anti-splash" sanitary P supply can, adjustable shelves for skim-milk and cream a receptacles, new frame designs, and many other but less important improvements—all combining to make the pa De Laval as nearly ideal as a separator for farm and dairy use can be made. There is the proper size machine for I I c every size dairy, from the smallest to the largest, and no H '3 cow owner can afford to be without one of these improved h « o t. +J machines. It will cost you nothing to see and examine the O oa new De Laval and right at your own home, too, if you will Before plowing. .87.2 6950 20.3 1080 but say the word. Our new illustrated catalogue de- After plowng 98.1 7500 22.3 1160 scribing the De Laval improvements in detail is sent for Gain from using the asking. Write us at once and you will receive this manure as a interesting book by first mail with full information as to

top dressing. . .10.9 550 2.0 80 how you may have a free demonstration of the improved De Laval in your own home. It will pay you to do so and Corn. Wheat. your only regret will be that you didn't investigate sooner. The De Laval Separator Co.

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fa | I I Drumm & Sacramento Sts. 107 First Street c T3 SAN FRANCISCO NEW YORK. PORTLAND. OREG. a '5 cd 2 2 o L, fa CO Before plowing. .82.3 6550 19.8 760 After plowing. . .82.6 6450 20.7 960 Gain from using manure as a top dressing... 0.3 100 0.9 200

The above results are clearly iiy LIGHTNING HAY PRESSES favor of applying the manure after The Old Reliable. In Use 25 Years. ploughing as a top dressing. They HORSE POWER AND BELT POWER also show decidedly in favor of the use of fresh manure. Our Various Styles Meet All Demands. 2. There is a machine for threshing Self-Feed Wood or Steel Pitman. cowpeas now being made and which Quality Gives Best Results. will shortly be on the market. The Send for Catalogue. picking of the pods will then be aband- KANSAS CITY HAY PRESS CO. 162 Mill St.. Kansas City, Mo. oned. So long as they are picked, the only way is to beat them out with a flail. WHIJMANS^weELDSj 3. Yes; it Is regularly done with suc- ^ARjSE^atMOST^ RFECT £." IN A|MtR*CA^ cess. —Ed. UN TO HA \/£ no EQirnk •£ ROTATION OF CROPS, FEANTJTS. ALSO LARGE LINE FrR£ J CLASS AGRIC IwURtfLMAjCHlliERY v&P^" -*= ENID : : I have for the past several years OR CAT. [|pc*&u e. ^v^°> : been rotating my crops as follows: LGO. ST, Five shifts—first year, corn, with all Received Grand Prize, manure possible applied before break- highest awarded on Belt and Horse Presses, World'! Fair, St. Louis. ing land generally; after cutting off corn, put in oats or wheat. Second When corresponding with our advertisers always mention Southern Planter. 390 THE SOUTHERN" PLASTER. [April,

year, after harvesting the oats or AUTOLOADING. wheat, land ploughed and put in soy beans or cow peas. Third year, Remington. SHOT GUN Spanish peanuts; after peanuts are harvested, land is seeded to wheat or oats. Fourth year, after harvesting the grain, I aim to put in some legume —clover preferred. This year my corn land will all be manured or have To The Man Who Wishes crimson clover for fallow and part of A Good Modern, All Around Shot Gun that top dressed. I am breaking the land eight to ten inches deep, with three horses. I have some years sub- for field and trap shooting, especially adapted for wild fowl, we corn and will like- soiled the land for present the ly break some of it so this year. The only defect I can see in my system is the following of the soy bean or cow- Remington Autoloading Shot Gun pea with the peanut, but I do not sse well. how this can be avoided very It is reloaded by its own recoil without working a lever or slide. My yield of corn for the past three A large part of the recoil is thus taken of fthe shooter's shoulder. years has been, by careful estimate, from thirty to forty bushels per acre. It is hammerless, shoots 5 shots and has an absolutely safe peanut yield last year (1907) on The solid breech. Price, $40 list, subject to dealers' discounts. the improved land was nearly sevtntj bushels per acre. Drop a postal illustrated catalogue. I have a piece of land to come in for peanuts this year, which grew a heavy REMINGTON ARMS COMPANY, llion, New York crop of soy beans last year. This land is well filled with humus. What Agency, 315 Broadway, New York City. treatment would you advise to make a maximum yield? Would also like to have your idea as to my rotation. A. R. CLARY. Prince George Co., Va. ilkhart Buggies and Harness do not see how we could well "" We j are sold direct from our suggest any material alteration in factory to the user. In buy your rotation likely to result in con ing from us you save the dealer's stant permanent improvement of the expenses and profits. 35 Years Sell- fertility of the soil with profitable ing Direct is our record, and we crop production as an accompaniment. are today We think perhaps it would be an ad- vantage to sow crimson clover with a The Largest Manu- mixture of wheat, oats and rye on the facturers in the soy bean and cowpea stubble, so as World to have a winter cover crop on the selling to the con a fallow to turn , land and to make 5oible-Fe^erl^ri»Tompiete7,f8!oS: SUmer exclusively down for the peanut crop. This would As good as sells for «35 more. We ship for exam add to the humus in the soil, which is ination and approval, guaranteeing safe delivery. a great factor in successful peanut No cost to you if not satisfied as to style, quality growing. This crop would also save and price. Over 200 styles of Vehicles and 65 styles of the nitrogen accumulated in the soil Harness. Send for new, by the soy bean and cowpeas, which S€HCl is easily lost by leaching where nc FOF ELKHART CARRIAGE & N ©ss Combination Buggy with Stanhope land to utilize it. HARNESS MFG. CO. °- crop is on the New, Free Bika pear and extra spindle i Your corn crop should be larger than Elkhart, Ind. i'ri o complete, 934. SO. As 600<* *9 Bella for |25 i thirty to forty bushels to the acre and we think soon will be, if you turn down a manured clover sod for its pro- duction. Use forty pounds of acid Plhosphate per ton of manure, as it is Bill Galloway Says You Owe made and applied. This will help materially to increase the corn yield. Him a Letter or See also what we have said in this TffiHi —^ —_ A j- "H Galloway says he's too busy ship-, I111L Manure Spreaders to write the iRCltfl 1 ^ issue as to the time of applying * Vk7&4LftA an "ad" this week. But he wants manure to the sod for the corn. In a you to write him, anyway, and save yourself 650 just by doing it. fiend him a postal today. reply to an enquiry in this issue, you Then he'l 1 show you right on the jum p enlarged upon. how to clean up 850 and make $200 to will find this subject 6300 extra on your crop. He'll fix it so In this issue, in our article, Work for you can put his Spreader on your place Free, and work it SO days, just to prove the Month, you will find our advice as bis claims, before you let loose of a cent. Galloway has the only successful Wagon Box to growing peanuts.—Ed. Spreader. Seven Original Patents. His factory- turns out 70 a day. Galloway makes you a price that is right. When you g^t "his Red Hot Proposition you'll bo in for a Free Trial right away. Write Galloway this very day. TOMATO GROWING. Simply say, "Send Me Your Spreader Proposition and big Free Catalog," and address him personally* Wm. Calloway. Prcs.. WM. CALLOWAY CO.. Freight 1. Will tomatoes do well after cab- 21G Jcifcrson St.. Waterloo, Iowa Prepaid bage? lor 30 Day* ;

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2. Which is best, land facing south, north, west or east? 3. Give me name of some canning factory. Fortelling| the Future 4. How many pounds of seed for one acre? W. C MARSHALL. Carroll Co., Va. of a Painting Job

1. There is no reason why tomatoes should not do well on land that has grown cabbage if only there is fertil- ity enough left in the soil or it be sup- plied by manure or fertilizer or both to support the plants. Cabbage is a gross feeding plant and, therefore, if a tomato crop be planted to follow the cabbage, the land should have plenty of plant food applied to make good the draft made on it by the cabbage. 2. A Southern aspect is best for the crop. 3. We do not know the name of any The outcome of your canner in your county. There are paint investment, involv- many canneries in Bottetourt, Rock- ing gallons of paint and bridge and adjoining counties. Froba- many dollars' worth of bly a letter to the Postmaster of some of the towns in these counties labor, can be foretold, so would secure you the information. far as the durability of 4. You will require to plant from materials is concerned, 2,500 to 3,500 plants to the acre, but by examining a very small we are unable to say what quantity specimen of the White of Seed you will require, as we do Lead which you propose not know how many seeds go to the ounce or pound. The seed is light to use. and small and a few ounces will Paint is made of a pigment and a liquid, The pigment, in grow a great many plants. Probably order to have the best paint, must be Pure White Lead, the liquid your seedsman will tell you the quan- Pure Linseed Oil, and these ingredients should be bought separately tity required for an acre.—Ed. and mixed fresh as needed.

To test the paint, take a small bit of the White Lead, before it is mixed SEED CORN—A VOIDING CUT- / WORM INJURY TO CORN- with the oil or coloring matter, and blow a flame upon it with a blowpipe. HEAVES. If little globules of metallic lead form, the White Lead is pure, and you may allow the painters to go ahead. If the mass is stubborn and refuses to turn 1. In selecting seed corn for medium poor land, would you advise selecting to lead, the outlook is bad. The White Lead has been adulterated and you corn grown on land of like fertility, will rue the day you allow the imi- or corn grown on rich lands? tation paint to be used on your house. FULL WEIGHT KEGS 2. I have an old field that has not The Dutch Boy Painter on a keg guarantees not only pur- been in crop for three or four years, We will send a Blowpipe free ity but full weight of White Lead. Our packages are not lias some broom sedge on it. What weighed with the contents The connection between this test and the contains the amount time would you plant it to avoid cut- each keg durability (and consequent economy i of paint of White Lead designated on booklets. worms and get the best crop, if no is told instructively in one of our the outside. This book, together with a blowpipe to test fertilizer is used? White Lead, will be sent free to any house- owner who intends to paint this season. Ask for Test Equipment 3. What is a good ration and con- dition powder for a horse with the NATIONAL LEAD COMPANY heaves? R. in whichever of the following cities is nearest James City Co., Va. New York, Boston, Buffalo, St. Louis, Cleveland. Cincinnati, Chicago, 1. We would select corn grown on Philadelphia [John T. Lewis & Bros. Co.]; Pittsburgh [National Lead & Oil Co.) land of the like character as to soil and location, but would prefer that it. should be richer in fertility rather than poorer. The corn grown on the THE AMERICAN WELL better land would be likely to be of a better type and having a tendency to WORKS, greater prolificacy as the result of Aurora, Illinois, U. S. A. better conditions for perfecting its> growth and maturity. Chicago, III. Dallas, Tex. 2. Late planting is usually best on MANUFACTURE FULL LINE land infested with cut-worms. They Jetting, Rotary, Coring, Rock are the larva of a moth which lays its eggs in the summer and fall Drilling and Prospecting months and hatch and come forth to Machinery. do damage in the early spring. The land should be kept bare of vegeta- Any Diameter or Depth. Strong tion of any kind and poisoned bait be and Speedy. put out and this will be eaten when CATALOG MAILED ON REQUEST. —

398 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER [April, nothing else can be had. The besi bait is bran moistened with molasses and then poisoned with Paris green This should be made into balls and be put about on the bare land, or RUITS green clover may be sprinkled with Paris green and be dropped about on of all kinds can be made a the field. After the worms have been source of bio- and sure returns dosed with these poisons, the corn o may be planted with a fair chance of to the grower who will take the escaping injury. trouble to look into the vital 3. See article in this issue in the subject of scientific fertilizing Horse Department for remedy for heaves.—Ed. and the value of APPYING LIME TO CLOVER- CRIMSON CLOVER—WHITEWASH. 1. Will it hurt to apply lime on clover (Mammoth) now? POTASH 2. Can crimson clover be put into which insures full-sized, highly-colored and finely- a silo and make good silage. 3. Is there any danger in feeding flavored fruit. crimson clover to stock in August, Send for valuable book, free. Prepared by experts. Should September and October? be in the library of every farmer and planter for ready reference. 4. I mixed a lot of Government Send for it to-day. Address whitewash and put it in a barrel and the lime has now settled to the bot- GERMAN KALI WORKS water is on top. I fol- tom and the New York—93 Nassau Street Chicago—Monadnock Building lowed the directions carefully in mix- Atlanta, Ga— 1224 Candler Building ing. After heating it, it gets thick and dry, and when applied to wood- work, it will not stick. York Co., Va. ANDREW P. PETERSON. TEAM POWERS are as serviceable as any other style of 1. If the lime is applied when the power in everyway, better than any other style in clover is dry, it will not hurt it nor many ways. This is particularly true when applied to planters' uses. do we think it will much help it. Lime should be applied before the clover is sown and be worked into the soil to get the best results. In this LEFFEL column, in reply to another enquirer, engines supply steam as well as power. you will find that we have discussed Many the time you have use for steam. Leffel engines give you something you this question. can depend on -for power and steam. 2. None of the clovers make good No trouble about making them work. Sizes and silage. Make them into hay. styles for all requirements. Write for Book, 3. Crimson clover, after the seed James Leffe! & Co., Box 202, Springfield, Ohio forms, is not a safe feed for horses, but we have never heard of its injur- ing cattie. 4. You should thin down the white- wash with water when it is heating until you get it the proper thickness to apply.—Ed. Direct to Yovi' have We more than 100,000 satisfied customers In more than 17 000 owe*. ' TOBACCO FERTILIZER. villages and towns in the Cm fed States who have eaca saved from asi» tm by buying a Kalamazoo stove or range 1. I have a two-acre piece of ground on with gray soil with stiff red clay sub- 360 DAYS APPROVAL I wish to put into one direct soil, which from our factory at actual factory prices. No store or rant* haft a higher sucker tobacco. How would 500 reputation or gives better satisfaction. You run l risk. Yoo save all dealers' profits. We pay the freight per cent, acid phosphate pounds of 14 Send Postal For Catalog No. 400 nitrate of and 100 pounds 16 per cent, VA see list of towns where we have satisfied customers. soda per acre do for this piece of JCatamazoe Stove Company, Mfra., Kalamazoo, Utah. Qnr patent *Ten thermometer m»kei biking land? and Touting my. use 2. What articles would I have to to make a 6-8-6 fertilizer? Also using this same kind of acid phosphate and nitrate of soda and mix it myself? E. T. HOPKINS. Give Us a Chance Powhatan Co., Va.

Read our article "Work for the By writing for prices on anything you need before elsewhere. Month," as to the proper fertilizer to ordering Sell Anything use for making heavy tobacco. The We quantity of acid phosphate proposed MORRISETTE REPEATING ARMS COMPAUT, to be used is much too large. Tobac- Box 240 S. P., Richmond, Va- 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 399 co does not require phosphoric acid largely. It makes It coarse and of a poor color—600 pounds nitrate o£ soda 1,200 pounds phosphate (14 per cent.), Plain Talks on Fertilizers and 200 pounds muriate of potash to make a ton would give you nearly a Improving and Increasing Tobacco Crops 6-8-6 fertilizer.—Ed. No soil is rich enough in otherwise the TOBACCO GROWING. Please publish in your next issue all the foods the tobacco plant results will the kind and quantity of fertilizer to needs to produce it at its best. not be satis- use per acre to make rich, heavy to- bacco. My land is a deep, light gray Many tobacco soils, how- factory. soil, with a light red subsoil. to- My ever, contain natural ele- Over one bacco grows too poor and bony. The more ready mixed fertilizer I use the ments, rich in certain valu- million tons of coarser and rougher the tobacco able plant foods, but lack- Virginia -Caro- grows. My corn also grows too much lina Fertilizers stalk and too little ear. Would an in- ing in others. And just as crease of potash make richer tobacco were sold last a dead or dying soil must and more grain? I have tried bone year, a sure meal, and it seems to make the tobac- be fed with a complete plant co worse. Some of my land was in proof of their great popularity food, so these partially grass last year and some in peas. The and value. peas were left on the ground, only fed soils need specially the seed gathered. Would this need a The whole story of prepared food to supply different fertilizer from the grass the composition, treat- land? J. F. WATKINS. what they lack, and ment, and productivity Charlotte Co., Va. balance the unequal of the soils of the In this issue, in our article, Work fertilization supplied are for the Month, we have given advice by nature. tobacco region and quoted the results of experiments government When these special told by made with different fertilizers in and private experts in growing heavy tobacco Read this. It nourishing elements should help you. are added to the soil, the Farmers Year You will have to correct the tend- Book or Almanac of ency of your corn to make too much crops multiply enor- stalk by selection of seed of a better mously; quality improves, and the Virginia-Carolina Chemi- type. No fertilizer will change this. —Ed. profits are cal Co.—sent free if you doubled and write to any sales office of ACID PHOSPHATE ANT) MANURE. trebled. To- the Company. My plan is as follows: All the ma- nure made in the summer and fall is bacco is seldom used for top dressing my clover and planted nowa- VIRGINIA-CAROLINA timothy sod, and the manure made days without through the winter in the yard ana CHEMICAL CO. stables is handled directly on the the use of some wheat, and used as a top dressing, be- Richmond, Va. Durham, N. C. fertilizer ; but ing too coarse to put on grass sod. Norfolk, Va. Charleston, S. C. the great point I noticed in your valuable paper an Columbia, S. C. Baltimore, Md. article "How to Farm Make Yard Ma- to remember is Atlanta, Ga. Columbus, Ga. nure More Valuable, which has greatly Ga. interested me, but the experiments to have the right Savannah, Ala. differ from the way I use my manure Montgomery, fertilizer in the suffi- and I have never had any satisfaction Memphis, Tenn. in top dressing either wheat or grass cient quantities. Shreveport, La. with any kind of fertilizer. What I would like to know is would the acid phosphate benefit the manure any used as a top dressing? I have this season been using about forty pounds 'Improved Weeder of acid phosphate to the l.O'OO pounds TheYVRfi of stable manure applied on my wheat. Write and Strength of frame and flexibility of teeth are combined in the Am I doing right or wrong? Weeder. The teeth are of square spring let us tell York Improved made JERRIE NORRIS. you more steel with round points. Being' narrow they do not injure the plants. clogging. Ask your dealer to show you The York about No , Charles Co., Md. it carefully, and you will see that it has Weed era. Improved Weeder, examine the advantages of efficiency and economy over all other weeders. If your dealer doesn't sell this weeder, we will sell it to Your practice is all right and you you direct. Spangler Corn Planters and Grain Drills al- will find that the use of the acid phos- ways give satisfaction— durable, perfect in operation. phate on the manure will give you Write for our free catalogue. much better returns than the manure SPANGLER MFG. CO., 604 N. Queen St York, Pa. alone. Farm yard manure is relative- ly wanting in the mineral fertilizers, whilst rich in (nitrogen). ammonia "When corresponding with our advertisers always mention Southern Planter. — —

400 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [April,

It needs the acid phosphate to make it a better balanced feed for the grain and grasss which both demand a liber- al supply of phosphoric acid to enable eliable> them to make their best growth and yield. You are using the acid phos- phate liberally, instead of forty pounds ower to 1,000 pounds, forty pounds to 2,000 pounds will more nearly balance the manure. If you only top dress lightly as a the mixture you are using will be prob arm ably more satisfactory than the small- as it will give a er quantity named, established a new order of things. better supply of phosphoric acid to the Any one who will carefully consider soil and this is the most needed ele- the matter must see that they are money ment in all our Eastern lands.—Ed. makers and money savers. They make short, easy, pleasant work of what always has been hard, slow work. COWPEAS. FARMERS are getting- over doing FERTILIZER FOR things the hard, slow way. The They save the farmer's strength, save him wages of hired men, save time, and I want to sow some cowpeas and I very general use of farm powers enable him to do more work and make have some cotton seed meal that I is an example. As a matter of fact, the farmer has as more money out of his farm than ever use for fertilizer. Will you want to great need of a reliable power as the was possible before. please tell me what will be best to gc mechanic. There is no doubt that on the average stiff farm an I. H. C. gasoline engine will with the meal. The land is a Take the average barn for illustration. more than repay its first cost each year. subsoil. W. CLARK. Locate one of the simple, dependable clay W The nice adaptation of these engines I. H. C. gasoline engines, such as is to all farm duties is one of their most shown here, outside the barn door, or Cotton seed meal is a nitrogen-sup- excellent features. within the barn, forthatmatter, and what fertilizer and cowpeas do not They are built in : plying a world of hard labor it will savel You VERTICAL, 2 and 3-Horse Power. need nitrogen applied to them, as they will have a power house on your farm. HORIZONTAL (Stationary and Port- can get it from the air where it is It will shell the corn, grind feed, cut able), 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 15 and 20-Horse gotten ensilage, much cheaper than it can be turn the fanning mill, pump Power. water, run the cream separator, elevate for from anywhere else. Cowpeas need TRACTION, 10, 12, 15 and 20 Horse hay to the mow, fertilizers phosphoric and do a dozen other Power. only the mineral things. acid and potash, and, on your land, AIR COOLED, 1-Horse Power. The old way was to use the horses in a Also sawing, spraying and pumping only phosphoric acid is probably tread power or on a circular drive, to outfits. 300 pounds of operate a needed. Apply 200 or complicated system of gear There is an I. H. C. engine for every acid phosphate per acre and work into wheels. purpose. The consequence was that most of the the soil before planting the peas. Use It will be to your interest to investi- hard power jobs were hand jobs. the cotton seed meal on your other gate these dependable, efficient engines. I. H. C. engines, being so simple, so Call on the International local agent feed it to your crops, or, better still, efficient, so dependable, and furnishing manure and get catalogues and particulars, or cattle and then apply the abundant power at so little cost, have write the home office. it to the crops. In this made from INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER COMPANY OF AMERICA. CHICAGO. U. S. A. way you will get two profits from it (Incorporated) its feeding value, which is great, and its fertilizing value, which the feeding ,of it does not lessen very much.—Ed. Evan's "Model" Disk Corn Planter for Corn and Peas, APPLYING LIME TO CLOVER. With or Without Fertilizer Attachment. It is made with steel frames, making it strong 1 I have a sheep sorrel lot which and durable. Plates are furnished to drill accu- from 8 to 48 inches apart, dropping the seeded to red clover last April, and I rately corn perfectly, covering it and crushing the but I want have a fine stand of clover, clods. Also one plate for peas and beans. The to lime and, not knowing wbat time gearing is chilled so that it will not wear out. has a positive force feed Fertilizer. Fur- best to apply it, I will be very glad is nished with or without Fertilizer. if you will tell me. J. B. MORGAN. The device for throwing corn and .Nottoway Co., Va. fertilizer in and out of gear is close to the operator and convenient to applied during handle without stopping the team, Lime is always best ?hich prevents waste at the ends the fall and winter months and on land of rows. As straight a this way row can be made with that is under cultivation. In and exerts it as with a single it gets mixed in the soil shovel plow. As you no doubt know, Our 1908 Cata- its best action. logue giving de- exerts it is not strictly a fertilizer, but scriptions and a physical and mechanical effect on prices of im- proved Farm Ma- the soil and destroys acidity, thus best chinery mailed promoting microbic life and the free to any ad- growth of the leguminous and other dress. however, frequently crops. We have, The Implement dressing on grass applied lime as a top Company, with advantage, though it is then slow- er in effecting the necessary changes No. 1302 K. Main Street, in the soil, as it has to be absorbed the into the ground mainly through Richmond, Va. action of the worms as it is only slow- ly soluble in water. If you decide to top dress the! clover,, do it at once, so that it may* get into the bottom, of. the TELL THE ADVERTISER WHERE YOU SAW HIS ADVERTISEMENT. 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 401 crop and near the roots. Apply when the crop is dry.—Ed.

A MARE THAT WON'T BREED. I have a mare that is 13 years old; Perfect System had one colt about eight years ago; tried to breed her the last two years and would not breed. Is there any- thing I can do to help in any way? A SUBSCRIBER. of X &i Banking Gloucester Co., Va.

The only thing you can do will be to use the artificial impregnator, which you will find advertised in the horse Mail journals. Crittenden & Co., Cleveland, By Ohio, sell the instrument. It has been often used very successfully, and if the mare will breed again this would We have a system which affords superior very probably be successful. If, how- advantages of doingyour Banking Business ever, she is barren from any cause this would not be effective unless the with this strong institution by Mail. It is cause of the re- barenness can be carried to the very door of every thrifty moved by an operation.—Ed. man and woman in the country— supplying INSECTS INJURING CANTALOUPES them with every facility and convenience AND CUCUMBERS. in depositing their money—besides afford- Last year, for the first time, a small ing a great saving in time. green worm cut through all my can- taloupes and cucumbers. Can you give We invite your account. a remedy? I had my watermelon patch on the river and we had a freshet the last of May, which washed 3 per cent. my patch away. I planted it again on the 18th of June, which was very Interest Paid iate. Thought perhaps that was the reason the worms destroy them. On Savings Accounts, Compounded semi- HUGH BROOKING. Orange Co., Va. annually from date of deposit.

The damage was done either by the squash vine borer or the melon or pickle worm. If the squash borer Merchants National Bank this is difficult to deal with, and tue best course is to try to prevent his 1101 E. riain St., Richmond, Va. getting on the vines by planting a trap crop of early squashes or melons and when it has had time to infest the crop badly then pull the plants I Capital, $200,000 Surplus, $830, 000 up and burn them and thus destroy the eggs from which the worms hatch and then plant the crop from which you expect to gather the crop. 'Safest For Savings." You should not plant on the same Mention Southern Planter. land this year, as it will be infested

** , * ** ** ** " ** " ***2**; with the worms. If the trouble was *I*-I I 1 I I **I"I" I I I I I caused by the pickle worm or by the melon worm, these two are worms O- which cut the foliage and can be "He who by the plough would thrive, him- 4. poisoned by spraying with Paris self must either hold or drive." & And he who would greatly succeed must green 1 pound ;o 20 gallons of water — invest the fruits of his labor intelligently. —when they are first seen, and if later The earth yields its wealth too grudgingly they appear when the fruit is getting to justify risking the hard-earned dollars in investments. nearly ready for gathering then by speculation or insecure We pay Three Per Cent. Interest, com- spraying with Paris green—1 pound pounded semi-annually from date of deposit, to 130 gallons of water.—Ed. on savings accounts. Write to-day for free booklet "Banking by Mail." BURNT BONES—RUST ON COTTON. SAVINGS DEPARTMENT

1. Will you please tell me in your PLANTERS NATIONAL BANK, next issue if burnt bones have any RICHMOND, VA. fertilizer, if so value as a and what Capital $ 300,000 OO

fertilizing elements they contain? Surplus and Undivided Profits . . $1,090,000 OO 2. Also if cotton planted on land 402 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [April, vhere crimson clover has been plowed mder is liable to have the rust. M. J. SANTON. Northampton Co., N. O. Stands Like a Stone Wall

i. Yes, burnt bones have a fertiliz- Turns Cattle, Horses, Hogs—Is Practically Indestructible ng value. They contain and consist ilmost wholly of phosphate of lime, vhich is a slowly available source of phosphoric acid. 2. Rust is caused by an impoverish- ed condition of the soil, especially 'rom a lack of potash and nitrogen, tnd probably also of phosphoric acid. The clovers, instead of causing the - lisease are more likely to help to pre- rent it, as they supply nitrogen. If >n the clover stubble some Kainit is 5^ k-. .^sjwWfl3py*S ipplied to supply the potash the lisease will probably not trouble rou.—Ed. AMERICAN FENCE ' big, heavy wires, the WARTS ON MULE—WOOD ASHES. Buy your new fence for years to come. Get the hinge joint, the good galvanizing, the exactly proportioned quality of steel *• 1. What can be done for a mule that is not too hard nor too soft. _ vnat has several warts or fungus We can show you this fence in our stock and explain its merits and growths about the size of goose eggs superiority, not only in the roll but in the field. Come and see us and get >n different parts of his body. I have our prices. .ried carbolic acid and caustic potash Our Complete Catalogue ef Improved Farm Machinery sent to aay vithout perceptible effect. I wish to address free. enow the best way to remove these varts; also what to give inwardly to THE IMPLEMENT COMPANY, prevent their coming again. 1302 E. MAIN ST.. - - RICHMOND. VA 2. Are wood ashes effective to cor- rect sourness in soil, as they contain lime? A. BUFFAT. Knox Co., Tenn. 1. If the growths are attached to FARMS -.he by hard cord VIRGINIA body a dry cut them jff and touch the cut place on the and rapidly Improving section; three hours ride to end of the cord with lunar caustic. If Healthy productive and Washington; thirty minutes to Richmond. Good local markets. Electric r section .he cord connecting the growth to the steam railroads. Fine poultry, stock, tobacco and general farming oody is a soft, fleshy substance tie a Four Thousand Dollars will buy a most desirable farm, containing 146 orchard, over 100 acre, silk cord round it to arrest the circu- acres, with necessary buildings and fencings, large of cultivation, convenient to Ashland. Many other lation in it and tighten this a little cleared and in good stae attractions. every day until all connection is cut off and the fungus growth will then die and can be cut off and the place H. l>e touched with caustic. If 'the FRANK COX growths are flat on the skin they will Virginia. aave to be burnt off, either with lunar Ashland, Hanover County, caustic or the actual hot iron cautery. 2. Yes, wood ashes are a corrective of the acidity of the soil. This is JOHN F. JERMAN, practically the reason why they act clover. They so well in producing Virginia Property, Fairfax Va. have also 4 or 5 per cent, of potash, Headquarters for which helps. The best corrective of Va. Washington Office, No. 1JM H Street, N. Tf.. and Vienna. icidity, however is freshly burnt lime- poultry or bluegraw farm, stone or shells. The ground limestone If you want to buy a grain, dairy, fruit, truck, kind of business proposition, such as hotele, effective but slower in action. —Ed. city or village property, or any s schools, or any kinds of shop, It will pay you to .end stores llverf stables, •Igtrlc ral^ 50-page catalogue, It Is full of bargains near steam and for my market. I am TURKEYS. road and near Washington. D. C, where we have the best of BOURBON RED always ready to show property. I try to please. We have had several enquiries for MY MOTTO: "HONESTY AND FAIR DEALINGS." r.his breed of turkeys which are not idvertised hy any breeders. We un- ierstand the following parties breed in Northern Virqinia Price, R F. D. 2, Farms them: Mrs. C. W GRAIN, STOCK, POULTRY, FRUIT. Ohio; Mrs. Ellora Sonne- DAIRY, Belmont, and in easy reach of Philadelphia and Mrs. James Near Washington and BaBltimore tnaker, Glasport, 111.; NeW Fleming, Vienna, 111.; Mrs. Allen M. markets and unsurpassed shipping facilities U^nm'ited and churches. Write«„,„ us.„ Brown, Williamsport, Ohio. We are Reasonable in price. Near good live towns, schools told that they are very domesticated CLAUDE G. STEPHENSON Herndon, Va.) and good mothers.—Ed. (Successor to Stephenson & Rainey, e Bought a Tubular

THiS MMM USED TO CARRY HALF TOM OF BUTTER TO HiS HOGS

I EVERY YEAR

THAT'S what Mr. McKerrow did for repairs and saves you fuss, worry and trouble. allows it to stand Idle twelve years previous to 1903. Then It would pay to sell one of the cows and buy inhisdaii-y house. That he bought a Tubular. When he a Tubular. means $225 rusting! He discovered how wasteful he had uses a'iubularinstead. been with cream, he says that he felt like Putting in Milk. Why? "Not for all the "kicking himself." Listen to him: money in the Universe" Herkimer, New York. No high lifting; no says he "will I break slipping milk pail and Gentlemen:—Did you ever feel like kicking; my wife's back, ruffle lost profits with a Tubu- her temper or spoil her ?ourself? I have felt like that every time I throwing away lar. The waist-low can digestion by requiring nlnk of what I have been for solves the problem. her twice the last twelve years. Six tons of butter to wash a day Skimming is fun for the those 35 'pie plates' 365 carried to the hogs in that time ! I made whole familv from the days in the year." 315 pounds per cow in 1904, deep setting; 368 six-year-old up. It is pounds per cow in 1905, using Dairy Tubular. a pleasant anticipation for 20 cows makes 1060 S3 pounds per cow .because the exercise Fill Out the Coupon. pounds: this at 28 cents makes about $300. I lis not exhausting and has paid for itself all right, fuess the Tubular the operation is with- We have asked you kim-milk worth double too. out fatigue. questions which we Wm. McKeeeow. This is the way one suspect you will be This is not an isolated case. Thousands of man views the "high willing to answer. If you will fill out the cou« thankful families all overthe globe are rejoic- up" kind: pon and forward to us we will see that you get ing in the possession Of this profit-bringing, "Gentlemen:—To say that we are pleased just the treatment that will make you a lasting cream-saving machine. It seems like a friend with our Tubular is putting it mildly. We friend of ours. We shall not force ourselves ever after the first week. Even one day's have used a disc-filled, bucketbowl for several upon you to make you feel unpleasant and lack of use makes the dairy- under obligations. All we ask man or farmer miss it tre- is for you to give the Tubular mendously. a reasonable trial alongside of as many other separators as Ten Things a Tubular you wish, or alone. If it does SHARPLE3 not perform as we claim, you needn't keep it. -^ Surely Does. We feel no fear ina TU SEF^RjVrOR making this offer" daily for months and BULAR 1—Runs when nearly 75,000 months without a hitch. One separators leave man writes that in three our works years he paid out 40 cents for repairs. years. We find that we have been losing quite every year. This num- 2—It skims so clean we guarantee it to leave a percentage of cream besides 'climbing up ber alone is a strong only one-half of that left by any other to the top of the house and pouring proof that our claims machine. the milk down the chimney.' For ease are not overstated. 3—It turns easily, requiring one-half the of operation, rapidity, and thoroughness of Where you see a Tubu- fower needed by other machines, separation, there is no comparison between lar, there you will find t will run one-half longer without clogging the two." a satisfied, enthusiastic than any other machine. owner. Be sure to get 5— It delivers one-half less froth in cream Turning a Tubular. our catalog mentioned than any other separator. in the coupon below 6—Needs only a tablespoonful of oil twice a All working parts run in oil. Every part is and learn all about this week. adapted so perfectly to the other that once money-making machine " -It requires little attention from the ope- got in motion it's a joke to keep the bowl rator because every part is thoroughly spinning. tested and inspected by experts at our fac- The oil compartment cannot possibly leak tory before shipping. nor at any time allow the oil to spatter on or 8— It requires one-tenth the time in washing contaminate crertm or milk. The machine required by any other separator. takes care of itself and does not worry anyone 9—The receiving csn is the lowest of them all with clogged oil holes or leaking bearings. and most convenient to clean and adjust. Thus your cream and butter are free from the 10— A Tubular causes you no worry, fuss or remotest possibility of ever being rejected muss. It's just a tried and true workman because of machine-grease, odor or sugges- that is always on time; always sober. tion of rancidity. This one feature saves you much worry. A Tubular Will Pay for Itself. Washing a Tubular. We don't care where you live. If you own eight or ten cows you can use a Tabular and Only three pieces in the bowl to wash, all pay for it in cream saved in a year. Buy the easily gotten at. Nothing to rake and scrape easiest machine to fill, to turn, to wash. A your knuckles norskin your wrists and fingers. separator that skims clean, needs next to no One man who owns a "bucket bowl" machine THE SHARPLES SEPARATOR CO., west Chester, pa. Toronto, Ontario, Chicago, Illinois, San Francisco, California.

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190 6. How far are you from a railroad station? The Shaeples Sepabatok Co. ._,. .... Gentlemen:-I would like to know more about What is its name? your Tubular Separators. In order that you may 7. Send me your catalog No.290 and other free treat me intelligently I will answer the questions literature explaining all about the Tubular, below which I deem proper. ! understand that this coupon with my signa- , j _•„ o ture attached does not obi gate me in any partic- 1. How many cows do you milk? ular. I am filling out this coupon to obtain in- _ _ . , „ formation about Tubular Separators. 2. Have you a separator? What style? Name .... ' 3. Have you ever seen a Tubular skim? 4. Are there any of your neighbors who use a Address Tubular? Town State 404 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [April, DETAIL INDEX.

Cowpeas 382 Applying Lime to Wheat. ....:... 382 Curing Skin With Fur on 382 Treatment of Field to be Mowed. .382 Management of Young Dairy Cow. .383 Pine Straw as a Fertilizer 383 Yield of Wheat Hay 384 Loss of Fertility from Soil 384 Curing Skin With Hair on—Worms in Horses 384 Plant for Name 385 Nitrate of Soda 385 Bermuda Grass—Capons ...... 385 Crimson Clover—Red Clover 386 Cow With Depraved Appetite 386 Butter Fat in Milk 388 Sheep Dying ' 390 Scuppernong ' Grape ' ,392 Applying Farm Yard Manure- Threshing C o w p e a s—Sowing Crimson Clover "399 Rotation .". of Crops—Feanuts. .395 to Growing„, ... Tom<^ : , ; ..,,.,. , ,396 ;Seed Com—Avpjcljng1 Cut-Worm Injury to Corri-^-Heaves 397 Applying Lime to Clover—Crim- son Clover—Whitevyash 398 Tobacco Fertilizer 398 Tobacco Growing .399 Acid Phosphate and Manure 399 fertilizer for Cowpeas 400 Applying Lime to Clover...... 400 A Mare that Won't Breed 401 Insects Injuring Canteloupes and Cucumbers *. -401 Burnt Bones—Rust on Cotton 401 Warts on Mule--Wood Ashes.. 402 Bourbon Red Turkeys .j 4&$

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' Any boy old enough t drive can 'cultivate as much & rea in the same period of time ^s a farm hand, pro- ving he has the Kraus Pivot-Axle Sulky Cultivator. This is not a new machine—it has been on the market for years and thousands are now in use in all sections of the country. For simplicity and effectiveness it has no Fredericksburg it Richmond, & Potomac R*R* peer. Built for wear and work wins new friends wherever shown. The Krause does all the work—no and muscle is required. At will, while the machine is in operation, the shovels and wheels are moved simultaneously Washington Southern Railway* to the right or left by a slight pres- sure of the foot, while the width of THE DOUBLE-TRACK row or depth or angle of the shovels LINK. THE GATEWAY may be as easily adjusted. It is sim- Connecting the operation and between the ple in construction and Atlantic Coast Line working order. High cannot get out of Railroad, NORTH AND SOUTH. wheels and perfect balance gives it a Baltimore St Ohio Rail- the work light road, light draft, making Chesapeake A Ohio Rail- PAST MAIL, for the horses. way, Before buying a cultivator investi- Pennsylvania Railroad, PASSENGER, Line Kail- you cannot get it Seaboard Air gate the Kraus. If way, EXPRESS AND from your -dealer take no other- Southern Railway cultivator for you Between All Points via FREIGHT ROUTE. there is just one Richmond, Vs.. and Write the Akron Washington, D. C. and it is the Kraus. Dept. 17, Akron, Cultivator Company, W. P. TAYLOR, Traffic Manager. W. M. TAYLOR, Trav. Pass. Agent. Ohio, for catalogue and particulars. 1908.] THE SOUTHEKN PLANTEE. 405 YAGERS CREAM CHLOROFORM LINIMENT- FOR MAN OR BEAST

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WASHINGTON" NOTES. A Great Contributor to Agriculture. The first director of the office of Experiment Stations of the Depart- Trinidad Lake Asphalt in street-pave- of Agriculture was the late Professor Atwater, and one of his earliest recom- ments has withstood heat, cold, air, rain, mendations was for the issuance by traffic the Department of a series of farm- snow, sun, acids, and heavy for ers' bulletins which should briefly and twenty-five years. plainly describe important results at- •:ained by the various Experiment Stations, to be put, as he said, in a form "so plain that the intelligent farmer will understand it, so brief that he will read it, and so practical that he will take it to heart." "The first Farmers' Bulletin," said Ready Roofing Dr. A. C. True, the present Director of the Office of Experiment Stations, in speaking of this early recommenda- is made of Trinidad Lake Asphalt. No tion of Professor Atwater, "was pub- lished in 1889. This series proved so wonder it lasts longer than any other popular that it was soon transferred roofing. from the Office of Experiment Stations and made a general series for the De- Ask any wide-awake dealer for Genasco. Refuse imitations and sub- partment of Agriculture. Congress stitutes. You want your roof weather-proof to stay. Write for Book 62 made a special printing fund for these and samples. bulletins and the Congressmen under- took their distribution on a large THE BARBER ASPHALT PAVING COMPANY scale." Largest producers of asphalt, and largest manufacturers of ready roofing in the world Considerably over three hundred o t these buletins have been issued, a PHILADELPHIA large number of which were prepared 'inder the supervision of Dr. True, New York San Francisco Chicago the editions of many have aggregated hundreds of thousands of copies, and the total output of Farmers' Bulletins by the Department has been many mil- ions of copies. The annual output of these very popular bulletins by the Department now approaches close to the ten mil- don mark. BUY YOUR 6ATES Ireat Value of the Experiment Station Work. Direct from us and save the profit of the jobber, the dealer As a public official working in a and the sales- man. Our Gates are sold to you at vide way in the organization and man- wholesale, saving you 50 per cent. igement of enterprises for the gener- When buying from us you pay the ac- tual cost of making, with al good," says Dr. True in an eulogy only one manufacturer's profit added. of his late brother agricultural scien- tist, "Professor Atwater has earnea 'he lasting gratitude of his country- men, especially by what he did in con- WE WANT AGENTS nection with the agricultural Experi- In every county in the State. One of ment Stations and the nutrition in- our agents sold twenty-four Gates to -estigations. To this work he brought one man. No trouble in selling them, as they are without question the best «, well-trained mind and a true scien- Iron Gate on the market for the money. mc purpose. He had the enthusiasm Write for our catalogue and special md persistence necessary to impress proposition. uner men with the importance of his THE INTERNATIONAL PENCE CO., enterprises and to carry him success- Box jJA,.. 098, Columbus, Ohio. fully over periods of opposition and ••• tOaaSJ/iV* - tiscouragement. He had unusual abil-

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- - * AT HARVESTT1NE - * - - Every break-down at harvest time means time lost. The consumption of every natural product of the Every minute lost may mean grain lost. country is so far in excess of the supply that the cost of Every bit of grain lost means profit lost. raw material is increasing annually, but by owning these Tou cannot afford to take chances on break-downs and properties and purchasing all other supplies in large delays with harvesting machines built of doubtful materials. quantities, this Company secures every advantage of You don't have to. highest quality. Because the International Harvester Company has Every bit of material —wood, steel, iron, malleables, bought mines to get the best ore—built its own mills to paint, etc., is subjected to the most rigid tests in special produce the best iron and steel, bought timber lands and testing departments before being used, so the farmer buy- built its own saw mills—to give you material in your ing an International Machine may be sure that the material harvesting machines that you can always depend upon. is always the best. An individual manufacturing concern could not afford to take, such precautions to protect you against poor (Only large capital and a strong organization make materials, but the manufacturers of the these advantages possible, because an individual manufac- turer would be compelled to take what he could get and champion, Mccormick, osborne, pay whatever price was demanded. deering, milwaukee, plano, In shipping, as well, the magnitude of this Company's harvesting machines operations insures a great saving of cost. Steel, iron and lumber are shipped to the various save you many dollars by putting always dependable mate- plants in train loads, while copper, rivets, tacks, buckles, rial into their machines. canvas, etc., are received in car loads. The modern harvester is essentially a structure of iron In July, 1907, the lumber yards at one of the plants and steel, and even as far back as the Mexican War time, contained 56.500,000 feet of lumber of the following woods: the founder of one of the Company's plants, with only one Ash, birch, basswood, cypress, cottonwood, fir, gum, hem- factory turning out his machines, was compelled to join lock, hickory, locust, maple, oak, pine, pecan, poplar, elm, With two other manufacturers in the erection of their own spruce, sycamore, and yellow pine. iron foundry so that they could give the farmers machines About 75 per cent, of the lumber is air-dried, which built of good iron. insures a very tough material. To-day, in order to give you the best materials in These are but a few of the many advantages which your harvesting machines, the International Harvester mean the best quality in every International Machine you Company is compelled to own, in addition to Its fourteen buy. complete manufacturing plants: The several plants have also been able to improve the —22,459 acres of coking coal lands in Kentucky principles of construction, to improve workmanship, and to —100,000 acres of trees in Arkansas, Mississippi and employ every means that will increase the machines' Missouri, with a 12-mile canal system, logging railroads, efficiency and durability. saw mills and other buildings YOU GET THE BENEFIT IN THE END. —40,000,000 tons of ore in Wisconsin and in the Call on the International dealer and get a catalogue. Mesaba Range with six standard gauge locomotives and If you don't know an International dealer write us, and steam shovels that strip the surface and heap a 50-ton rail- we will be glad to give you the address of the one nearest road car in ten swings to you. —a complete 93-acre steel plant with three blast fur- Equal in importance with a perfect machine is perfect naces, Bessemer steel mill, Blooming mill and Merchant twine. The most perfect twine made may be had in Cham- bar mills, having a capacity of 500,000 tons of steel and pion, McCormick, Osborne, Deering, Milwaukee, and Piano, 360,000 tons of iron every year. sisal, standard, Manila and pure Manila brands. INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER COMPANY OF AMERICA (INCORPORATED) U. S. A.

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ity in the conception and formulation of broad lines of work, and in attract- ing and holding men competent to FERTILIZERS give him such aid as he needed to complete his plans, put them into LEE'S PREPARED AGRICULTURAL LIME successful operation, and secure sub- Never fails to give good results when properly used. Wheat is now selling stantial results." at a paying price, and from accounts of the present crop is likely to continue In connection with the great work to maintain present prices. The present troubles in Russia will, no doubt, reduce ahead of the Agricultural Experiment her exports, and the foreign demand will continue to be good. The use of $3 or $4 worth per Stations, Dr. True said (and while he acre will increase the yield eight to ten bushels per acre, thereby paying over speaks broadly, his work as director 100 per cent, on the cost, besides improving the land and insuring a good stand and growth of CLOVER. of the Office of Experiment Stations shows that he knows how to get sali- LEE'S SPECIAL WHEAT FERTILIZER. ent information before the farmer). Our sales for the season of 1906 were 62 per cent, larger than those of "Already, the work of the Experi- 1905. Those who have tried it bought more largely the next year, and say ment Stations has created an entirely they have a better stand and growth of Clover and Grass than they have new agricultural literature, and laid from any fertilizer they have ever used. the foundations for a sound agricul- tural pedagogy, and they must ever LEE'S HIGH-GRADE BONE & POTASH. supply the new materials by which the FOR POTATOES, CABBAGE AND OTHER VEGETABLES. courses can be strengthened and im- proved. But their work has a far more IMPORTED THOMAS BASIC SLAG. fundamental and far-reaching purpose; Millions of tons are used in Europe. It is the best and most lasting crops on namely, to make agriculture a pro- Fertilizer for Wheat, Grass and other the market, having 16 per cent. Phosphoric Acid and 40 tb 50 per cent, of Free Lime. It is a COMPLETE gressive industry and the masses of FERTILIZER. agricultural workers progressive men. "As an arouser of desire for im- provement and a stimulator to intelli- A. S. LEE & SONS CO., Inc gent effort to make the country a bet- ter place to live and work in, the agri- RICHMOND, VA. cultural Experiment Station has its chief importance and its highest mis- sion. And it is for this service that the Stations especialy commend them- ..ELMWOOD NURSERIES.. selves to all the friends of rural pro- gress, for if these fountains of new knowledge are kept strong and pure, Fine their waters will spring up forever to —We are Growers and Offer a Astortmen tof— replenish the life of countless genera- APPLES, PEACHES, PEARS, tions of rural people." CHERRIES, PLUMS APRICOTS, Assassin Bugs are Good Friends. NECTARINES, GRAPE VINES, CURRANTS, The Assassin bugs number more than GOOSEBERRIES, STRAWBERRIES, DEWBERRIES, 2,000 species and 150 inhabit the RASPBERRIES, ASPARAGUS, HORSERADISH, "United States. They are predatory in ORNAMENTALS, SHADE TREES, HEDGE PLANTS. habits, attacking other insects whose bodies they pierce and suck out the WRITE FOR CATALOGUE. blood with, their strong, sharp beaks. Much good work is done by these bugs J. B. WATKINS& BRO., Midlothian, Va. in exterminating other insects harmful HENRY C. STUART, President. JOHN STEWART BRYAN, Vice-President. M. A. CHAMBERS, Secretary.

1908 - Virginia State Fair - - 1908 RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. OCTOBER 5-6-7-8-9-10. In keeping with the primary object of the Virginia State Fair Association—the development of the interests of the Agriculturists of Virginia—attention is directed in this, the first, announcement of the 1908 Virginia State Fair, to the FARM PRODUCTS DEPARTMENT, a classification of Graius, Grasses, Vetgetables, etc., etc., of which 4s set out below. Special attention is called to COUNTY EXHIBITS. First Second FARfl PEODUCTS DEPARTMENT. remium. Premium, CORN. One peck Parsnips, hollow crown 1 00 50 First Second Six bunches Moss Curled Parsley 1 00 50 Premium. Premium One peck peas, in pods 1 00 50 Best 10 ears White Corn $3 50 $1 50 One peck Bull Nose Peppers 1 00 50 Best 10 ears Yellow Corn 3 50 1 50 One peck any other variety Peppers... 1 00 50 BBest 10 ears Mixed Corn 3 50 1 50 Best six plants of ornamental and Best ear of White Corn 1 00 50 useful Peppers to be shown in pods. 1 00 50 Best ear of Yellow Corn 1 00 50 One peck Early Irish Potatoes 2 50 1 00 Best samples of 10 ears Pop Corn.... 3 00 1 00 One peck Late Irish Potatoes 2 50 1 00 Best samples of 10 ears Sweet Corn.... 3 50 1 00 One peck White Sweet Potatoes 2 50 1 00 Best display varieties of Corn on Stalk 3 50 1 00 One peck Red Sweet Potatoes 2 50 1 00 GRASSES, WHEAT, OATS, ETC. One peck Jersey Yellow Sweet Potatoes 2 50 1 00 One peck Red Yams 2 50 1 00 Best quarter bushel Longberry Wheat. .$3 50 $1 50 One peck White Yams 2 50 1 00 Best quarter bushel Fultz Wheat 3 50 1 50 Radishes, White, 6 bunches 1 00 50 Best display of Wheat in Sheaf 3 00 1 00 Radishes, Yellow, 6 bunches 1 00 50 Best quarter bushel White Oats.# 3 00 1 00 Sandwich Island Salsify, 6 bunches.... 1 00 50 Best quarter bushel Mixed Oats 3 00 1 00 Half bushel Spinach, any variety.... 1 00 50 Best display varieties of Oats in Sheaf 2 00 1 00 Crook Neck Squash, 3 specimens 1 50 50 Best quarter bushel White Barley.... 3 00 1 00 White Bush Squash, 3 specimens 1 50 50 Best display of Barley in Sheaf 2 00 1 00 Casliaw Squash, 3 specimens 1 50 50 Best quarter bushel White Rye 3 00 1 00 Heaviest Squash 1 00 "Best display of Rye in Sheaf 2 00 1 00 One peck Turnips, purple top 1 00 50 Best display of Alfalfa Hay, bale or One peck Turnips, white top 1 00 50 bundle, to weigh at least 20 pounds. . 2 50 1 00 Three Yellow Field Pumpkins 1 00 50 Best display Orchard Grass, bale or Three Sweet or Pie Pumpkins 1 00 50 bundle, to weigh at least 20 pounds. . 2 50 1 00 Heaviest Pumpkin 1 00 50 "Best display of Red Clover, bale or One peck Purple Tomatoes 2 50 50 bundle, to weigh at least 20 pounds. . 2 50 1 00 One peck Red Tomatoes 2 50 50 Best display of Crimson Clover, bale or Best display of two varieties of Water- bundle, to weigh at least 20 pounds. . 2 50 1 00 melons 2 50 1 00 Best display of Alsike Clover, bale or Best specimen of Cantaloupes, green bundle, to 2 weigh at least 20 pounds.. 50 1 00 flesh, any variety._._ 2 00 1 00 Best display of varieties of clover plants 2 50 1 00 Best specimen of Cantaloupes, yellow Best collection of Alfa plants, not less flesh, any variety 2 00 no than 6 stools 2 50 1 00 For best collection of Vegetables.... 10 00 00 Best display of Soy Beans on vine 2 50 1 00 COUNTY EXHIBIT—Collector's Class. Best display of Cow Peas on vine 2 50 1 00 The products shown may be collected by one, or more Best and largest display of varieties than one. individual, but must have been produced in the of Sorghum on Stalk 2 50 1 00 i county for which they are shown. The exhibits will be Best display of German Millet in bundle 2 50 1 00 classed in three groups: First, all the territory west of Best display of Hungarian Millet in the Blue Rid^e; second, the Piedmont section; third, the bundle 2 50 1 00 Tidewater and Middle sections of Virginia. Fruit products Most complete display of varieties of will not be graded in this competition. whole plants, including Wheat, Corn, For a collection of the Farm Products I Clovers and Grasses, made by an enumerated above, one first and one - individual or firm 7 50 2 50 second prize to be awarded to each of Sweepstakes. the three divisions above noted. For best quarter bushel of Wheat, any (Total of all premiums in this

variety, to be grown by exhibitor. . 5 00 group, $225.00) $50 00 $25 00 For best 2 ears Corn, any variety, County exhibits of farm products should consist of a to be grown by exhibitor 5 00 complete and attractively arranged display of the field Display of Grain, Grasses and Forage and garden crops of commercial value in the county. Crops, In grain and stalk; 25 samples Samples of corn should be shown in the ear and on the must be shown; exhibitor must be a stalk, small grains threshed and in the straw, hay and farmer, but not necessarily the forage crops in commercial samples and in stalk specimens. grower of all the items 20 00 10 00 Grains samples should contain not less than one gallon VEGETABLES, ETC. of each variety, and no sample may be older than the growth of 1907. The awards will be made on the basis Wax Beans, one peck 1 00 50 of 25 per cent, for number of different samples, 50 per cent. 'Stringless Beans, one peck 1 00 50 for quality and 25 "per cent, for artistic display. Pole Lima Beans, shelled, one peck.... 1 00 50 PEANUTS. Bush Lima Beans, shelled, one peck. . . . 1 00 50 Bassano Beet, for table use, six bunches 1 00 50 Exhibit of Peanuts, unpolished $5 00 $3 00

Any variety Beets, including Stock Exhibit of Spanish Peanuts, unshelled. . 5 00 3 00 Beets, half bushel ,'.' 1 00 50 TOBACCO—GROWERS' CLASS. Flat Head Cabbage, any variety, six heads First Second Third 1 00 50 Premium. Premium. Premium. "Heaviest head of Cabbage: 1 00 35 Sun Cured, crop of 1908 $30 00 $15 00 $5 00 One peck Carrots, topped, any variety. 1 00 50 Olive Stemming, crop of 1908.. 30 00 15 00 5 00 Half peck Cucumbers, for slicing 1 00 50 Brown Shipping, crop of 1908. 30 00 15 00 5 00 Half peck Cucumbers, for pickling.... 1 00 50 Brown Stemming, crop 1908 30 15 Best three Egg Plants, any variety.... 1 00 50 of 00 00 5 00 One peck Red or Yell6w Dry Onions.. 1 00 50 BRIGHT CROP, 1908—"FLUE CURED." One peck White Dry Onions ! 1 00 50 Wrappers $10 00 $5 00 One peck Yellow Danvers, Onion Sets.. 1 00 50 Cutters 10 00 5 00 ". One peck White Onion Sets . 1 00 50 Fillers 10 00 5 00 peck Okra, variety... One any 1 00 50 Smokers ; 10 00 5 00 Watch this page for additional announcements in the Farm Products Department, also for information as to premiums on Horses, Sheep, Cattle, Hogs, Poultry, Domes tic Art, etc., etc. The unqualified success of the Fairs held by this As sociation in 1906 and 1907 has proved the importance and necessity to the farmer of such exhibition—and the help of all is solicited, Information with regard to any matter connected w ith the Fair will be cheerfully furnished. Address MARK R. LLOYD, General Manager Virginia State Fair Association. Richmond. Va. 9

410 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [April, to agriculture. Such an assassin is the wheel bug, common through most The Imperial Disk Harrow with of the United States. The egg of this Fore Truck bug resembles miniature leather bot- tles standing on end and in NO TONGUE, NO hexagona'i WEIGHT, NO clusters, seventy NECK or more in a group, SIDE DRAFT. UMI. and attached to the bark of trees, FORM CULTCuA* fence rails, or wherever the female TION SECURED. happens to be. The young insect has a blood-red abdomen. While young it feeds upon soft-bodied insects. As it grows older, it attacks larger insects, and, when full grown, destroys large caterpillars. It captures its prey not by agility, but by stealth. The color- ing of the adult being neutral, it crawls up to some caterpillar or other insect, advancing one leg and another with a movement so slow as to be al- most inperceptible. When once with in striking distance, however, the beak is thrust into the victim, which is at the same time grasped with the front legs with a movement which is quite the reverse of slow. The digestion of the assassin bugs appears to be good, since he seldom stops at one victim. This implement embodies several new and valuable features and represents a marked advance over the The Origin of Veterinary Schools. ordinary type of Disk Harrow. Instead of being guided by a tongue to which the team is hitched, this Harrow Many of the early wars in Europe is controlled by a two -wheeled truck attached to the were seriously hampered in their op- front end of the frame. The wheels are pivoted, move erations and in some instances termi- under the frame and allow a square turn to be made. nated for the time by reason of the The truck exercises a positive guidance and control prevalence of horse epidemics. These over the Harrow which follows it just as the rear wheels of a wagon follow the front wheels. The position of the visitations were considered, however, frame on the fore truck is adjustable. This is impor- as acts of Providence, and little at- tant because to secure a uniform depth of cut the frame tempt made toward remedy. It was should be level with the surface of the ground. If the not until near the middle of the eigh- front end of the frame is too high the inside disc blades the outside will cut teenth century that veterinary schools will cut too deep; if too low, disks too deep. When the frame is level all the blades cut were established and systematic in- alike, and uniform cultivation is secured. The hitch struction in animal pathology com- also is adjustable and may be made considerably lower menced. The first veterinary school than on a tongue harrow, the lowest hitch hole being was established at Lyons, France, in only 14 inches from the ground. The line of draft is consequently lower and the pull of the team therefore 1761, and the first one in London in more effective. 1791. The study of the subject was Send for our complete Catalogue, which gives further stimulated by the invasion of prices of different styles of harrows, and our deadly epizootics which followed the full lne of up-to-date Farm Machinery. course of the armies in all parts of the Continent and threatened the annihia- tion of all domestic animals. Fear has U/>e Implement Co. aways been the best incentive to work NO. 1302 EAST MAIN ST., RICHMOND, VA. and it was the fear that the plague would cut off the food supply that aroused the authorities of early days fi fi to the necessity of coping with the DON'T BUY A FENCE disease. Glanders was known to the until you have investigated the merits Greek and Latin writers as one of the, most serious diseases of horses and of SUPERIOR FENCES. Made of 8, asses. For a long time during the six- and 10 HIGH CARBON COILED SPRING teenth century the idea held that STEEL WIRE, locked with SUPERIOR glanders was not contagious which re- HEAVY WEIGHT LOCK — All styles, heights sulted in the loss of ten of thousands and spacings — unquestionably the BEST FENCE of Europe's best horses. Finally, in- Also very oculation and experiments proved the made for all purposes. a swell line of STEEL disease contagious beyond question, GATES both plain and ornamental. Cheaper than wood when its control became a simple mat- PRICES LOW. EASY TERMS. Write for illust'd catalog ter. THE SUPERIOR FENCE CO. Dept. J CLEVELAND, O. The same thing may be said of pluro-pneumonia in cattle. For many years there waged a fierce warfare as to whether the disease was contagious, Made of 1-8 inch Thick HEAW BOILER STEEL Trough for $2*4-5 "So Strong no Beast or Man Can Break or Injure." finally resulting in the estabishment of Here is the best and most durable trough ever made. Guaranteed to please you or money re- the fact it that was contagious. Many funded. Will last lifetime. No expense for re- other animal diseases could be cited pairs. 13 inch wide x 7-inch deip x 5-ft. long, weigh 40 lbs., each 83.15 or 3 fo- 17.85 aWtct in which the same controversy was my the freipki. eft. $3.15; 7 ft. S3.85; aft. carried on for many years, resulting in .1.40; 10 ft. -4. CO. Don'tmls^thisgreatbargaln. Everyuog-raiser should write forfree circular describing these troughs to t. K. BOWKS CO., take St., CMeifO, 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER 411

the spread of the disease and the loss1 totals were presented for the entire In addition large numbers were im- of thousands of valuable animals. By country. ported. no means all is known to-day regard- In 1840' the total value of tobacco The census of 1905 dwells on the in- ing live stock maladies, hut so much products reported for the country was teresting circumstance that the manu- more is known than was determined $5,819,568, with Viirginia leading; in facture of cigars and cigarettes is one half a century or even a generation 1850 the total was $13,491,147. The of the few factory industries to be ago that we would seem, comparative- capital invested then amounted to a found in every State and Territory. ly, to have reached almost the acme little more than $5,000,000, and the New York led in the returns with a of knowledge on these subjects. number of wage-earners was 14,236. product valued at $60,623,617. Missis- The laboratory of the Department of But how the industry has grown since sippi came last, with a total of $9,310. Agriculture for testing the chemical that time! The census of 1905 reports Alsike clover is a prime wet land and physical properties of road ma $331,117,681 as the total value of the crop. It will thrive on the low, sog- terial, in collaboration with the Bureau tobacco products,, $323,983,501 as the gy places of the fam whether other of Chemistry, determines the charac- amount of the capital invested, and grasses fail to make a crop worth the ter and suitability of material pro- 159,408 as the number of employes cutting. It produces a finer quality of posed to be used in any plan of road engaged. hay than ordinary clover and is read- improvement and thus may save peo- The increase of women wage-earn- ily eaten by stock. Mr. Henry Wal ple who may be embarking on good ers has been remarkably large. Fifty lace, of Iowa, never tires of preaching road construction the loss and dis- years ago the women employes repre- the growing of alsike clover on any couragement resulting from mistakes sented about one-seventh of the total soil too damp for other crops. in selecting materials. The work of number; in 1905 they represented 41.6 Mr. C. A. Carlisle, of the great the laboratory Is practical and impor- per cent. Most of the workers are en- Studebaker firm, says that pure-bred tant. gaged in the making of cigars and stock has a wonderful stimulating in- All Go Up in Smoke. cigarettes as were 16,385 of the 16,828 fluence in developing a keener inter- Between the Federal War on the manufacturing establishment. est for the boy and the man on the "tobacco trust" and the burning of Census Bulletins report that the farm and develops better care, more tobacco warehouses by night riders, consumption of cigars and cigarettes careful handling, judicious mating, and much popular attention is being di- increased 27.5 per cent, between 1900 results in greater profits, pleasure and rected to the tobacco industry. Sta and 1905. Roughly speaking, in the pride. tistics on the subject made their first thirty-five years ended January 1, The first great step toward improve- appearance in the census of 1810. 1905, the consumption of cigars in- ment of the herd is the discovery, by Virginia and Pennsylvania were prom- creased sevenfold, and the population scales and test, of the cows whose inently mentioned. The manufactured of the country but twofold. In the product does not pay for their keep products of the former State, aside calendar year 1904, a total of 7,376,- just as the improvement of a flock re- from snuff, were referred to as Span- 669, 742 cigars were made in this sults from the weeding out of the hen ish cigars, and American cigars. No country and 3,433,993,422 cigarettes. that eats .her head off. A Summer Necessity Because the New Perfection Wick Blue Flame Oil Cook-Stove concentrates heat at the openings on the stove top, it boils and bakes in less time than a coal or wood stove, which wastes heat by radi- ating to the farthest corner of the room.

This is the reason, too, why the New Perfection " keeps your

kitchen so uniformly cool while you're working in it. This wonderful comfort-quality, combined with great convenience and economy, makes the NEW PERFECTION Wick Blue Flame 00 Cook-Stove

the best of all stoves—especially for summer use. If heretofore you have considered it impossible to do kitchen work in a restful way a trial of the "New Perfection" Oil Stove will surprise you. Made in three sizes, fully warranted. If not with your dealer, write our nearest agency.

u are trou ec by flickering f?5V%/{\ T A 1WP ^ y° ^ ^ gas and large quarterly MX&MfU JuxxJ Am bills for the same, get a Rayo Lamp—the best, hand- somest and most economical light for a home, If not with your dealer, write our nearest agency. STANDARD OIL COMPANY (Incorporated) :

412 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [April,

The best American cattle have the top of the market in England. They are considered better than those im- ported from Canada or from Argen- HEADED CABBAGE IN APRIL tina. A great deal of American beef, you can have by planting too, is sold and eaten as British beef. the James Ray Geraty Company's Frost-Proof Farm improvements are usually Cabbage Plants. Guaranteed to stand 18 above zero without Injury. Four hundred plants, express charges prepaid on Southern Express Company's lines, good investments, but it is not always for $1. Market gardeners in Tennessee and Kentucky are wise to make them at the expense of buying In orders ranging from 500,000 and increasing the mortgage. 1,000,000 at a time. GUY ELLIOTT MITCHELL Write JAMBS RAY GERATY COMPANY, Telegraph Office, Youngs Isand, GUSTATORIAL. S. C. p. o. Adams Rub, S. O. A summer tourist was passing through a German village in the West recently, when a stout German girl came to the front door and called to a small girl playing in front. WHOLESALE "Gusty! Gusty!" she said, "Come in TREES. and eat yourself. Ma's on the table, AND and pa's half et!"—Lippincott's. First Class Nursery Stock RETAIL, POOR CONSOLATION. of all kinds. Aunt Lucindy was in deep distress over the loss of her son, Jim, and a neighbor sought to console her, say- We make a specialty of handling dealers' orders. ing: ALL STOCK TRUE TO NAME. "Don't grieve for him, Aunt Apples, Nectarines, Pecans, Ornamental and Lucindy. He has gone to a land flow- Pears, Cherry, ing with milk and honey." Ghestnnts, Shade Trees, With a dismal countenance, the old Peaeh. Quinces, Walnuts, Evergreens, darky replied Plum, Almonds, Small Fruits, Bosei, Bte, "Jim never did like milk, an' honey prieoto, always make him sick."—Lippincott's. CALIFORNIA PRIVET. Isr Hedglse. WRITE FOR CATALORUB. Amherst Co., Va., Dec. 21, '07. . . AGENTS WANTED. . . Your articles on poultry alone are worth the price of the Southern FRANKLIN DAVIS NURSERY CO., Baltimore), Md. Planter. JAS. H. WHITTEN.

I want you to get the most literal proposition ever made on a Gasoline Engine. It will save Ten money. When a company like this, the eldest and biggest exclusive gasoline engine manufacturers in the country, make such a proposition, It means some- thing. I have placed my proposition In the hand.- of our representatives. Write to them or to mo, and you will receive it by return malL JAS. B. SSLA.GER, Gen. Mgr. Olda Gas Power Co. The Olds Engine is the best and cheapest Engine yon can buy. It is the simplest In construction, mos» economical to run, will do your work at the smallest expense, and does not get out of ecgeCc Our New Hopper Jacket Engine on Skids. All Olda Engines run properly, are easy to and r This company has been making engines— start, winter and summer. The U. S. Govern- nothing else—for thirty years. We are engine specialists. ment uses them. It stands to reason that a big, successful con- Don't fall to write for our Dew catalogue and cern like this, that makes one thing, must make the liberal propositions at once. Address the that one thing well. home office or any representative. Our factory Is the most complete and up- new any other engine until you have to-date engine factory in the United States. Do not buy Because of its complete equipment we can build got my liberal proposition. It Is something engines of the highest efficiency at the very annsuaL You certainly want to know about It. lowest cost. That is why we can give you a durable, sim- OLDS GAS POWER CO. ple, strong, highest-grade, perfect-working, long-lived engine at a low price. Office, St., Lansing, Mich- This liberal proposition is the crowning Heme 949 Seager reason, on top of a lot of good common sens* Boston, (9-76 Washington St., N. ones, why you should buy an Olds Engine and San Francisco, Cor. Jessie and Ecker Sts. none other. Kansas City, 1226 W. Eleventh St. Any Kind of an Omaha, 1018 Farnum St. We Have Binghamton, N. T., 11 Washington St. Engine You Want Minneapolis, 113 S. Third St Our new catalogue tells about them In detail. Philadelphia, 181C Market St. I especially want to call your attention to our Portland, Oregon. Hopper Jacket Engine on skids or wheels, S to Elgin, 111. 12 H. P., which is ready to run when you get Kempten, Pa. it. Fill It with gasoline, throw en the switch, Houston, Texas. turn the wheel—that's all. No piping to connect, Norfolk, Va. nothing to set up, always ready, can be moved Miami, Fla. anywhere. .

1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 413

CLUBBINQ LIST In this list will be found prices on papers, magazines and periodicals which are most called for by our readers. We have club rates with nearly all reputable publications, and will quote them on request. DAILIES. WITH ALONE S. P. Times-Dispatch, Richmond, Va $6 00 $6 00 Times-Dispatch (without Sunday) 4 00 4 00 News-Leader, Richmond, Va 3 00 3 00 The Post, Washington THE IMPROVED RANEY CANNING OUTFITS D. C 6 00 6 00 Made in all sizes and prices from $5.00 up, and suited to both The Sun, Baltimore, Md.. 3 00 3 40 HOME AND MARKET CANNING THRICE A WEEK. We have made many special improvements for the coming season, and are determined that living shall give better for the The World, New York 1 00 1 25 no one value same money. Our catalogue will give full particulars, and much valuable information. WEEKLIES. Every farmer and housekeeper in the land should have it and learn of the Times-Dispatch, Richmond, great improvements that have been made in putting up fruits and vegetables. We are glad to mail it to any one interested. Va 1 06 1 2S*| Southern Churchman, Rich- The Raney Canner Company, Cha pel Hill, N. C. mond, Va 2 00 2 25 Central Presbyterian, Rich- mond, Va 2 00 2 25 Here's An Interesting Use For the Harper's Weekly 4 00 4 00 Breeders' Gazette 2 00 1 50 Handy Wagon As Portable Country Gentleman 1 50 1 75 National Stockman and Farmer 1 00 100 Convict Quarters Hoard's Dairyman 100 1 30

Memphis News-Scimitar. . . 50 75 SEMI-MONTHLY.

Kimball's Dairy Farmer. . 1 00 75 MONTHLIES. The Century 4 00 4 25 St. Nicholas 3 00 3 25 Lippincott's 2 50 2 50 Harper's Magazine 4 00 4 00 Delineator 100 140 Harper's Bazaar 1 00 1 40 Scribner's 3 00 3 25 American 1 00 1 35 Cosmopolitan 1 00 1 35 Everybody's 1 50 1 75 Munsey 1 00 1 35 The Strand 1 20 1 50 Madame 100 1 00 Argosy 1 00 1 35 It's indeed surprising to realize the various pur- trated catalog of the Electric Wheel Company of Review of Reviews 3 00 3 00 poses for which the famous "Electric" Handy Quincy, III., who make these Handy Wagons and Field and Stream 1 50 1 50 Wagon has been used ali over the world. The Electric Steel Wheels of which over a million have above shows the Portable Convict Quarters been sold in all parts of the world. This company's 25 picture Woman's Home Companion 1 00 1 as used by the County Commissioners of Etowah free catalog shows over 125 pictures from actual

Reliable Poultry Journal . 50 75 County, Alabama, and looks like a bos car set on photographs, illustrating the use of their Handy Industrious Hen 50 75 top of a Handy Wagon. Wagons and Steel Wheels and specially designed As it takes four mules to pull the quarters, it Steel Trucks of all kinds, and you will find it most Poultry Success 50 75 can readily be seen how strong and durable these interesting to see, for example, the kind of a truck Blood Stock 50 65 Handy wagons must be. They are used all through used at John D. Rockefeller's estate for moving the South in this way and are regular living houses enormous trees. Successful Farming 50 60 as hauled place to for the convicts they are from You will also be interested to see and read are confined Amer. Fruit and Nut Jour. 50 75 place to build roads. The prisoners about Electric Handy Wagons as made for farm- in box-like at night and this car shown Southern Fruit Grower. 50 85 the car top ers and planters in Cuba, Porto Rico and Mexico to above will accommodate from 25 30 men. as well as for miners in Alaska and for various Shepherd's Criterion 50 75 roads are being built in this way all through Good uses all over the world. More especially, you naturally there is fast growing Con*mercial Poultry 50 75 the South. And a will be interested to see the economical saving in tendency among the people to keep the roads good When two or more publications are time, labor and in first cost, and to read the de- by passing wide-tire laws. These low Handy scriptions of Electric Handy Wagons as well as wanted, the price for them can be Wagon Steel Wheels are wide-tire wheels and Electric Steel Wheels which would prove most everywhere found by deducting 50 cents from farmers and planters are using them. useful on your own place. They are also much lighter draft. "price with Sottthekn Planteb." One reason we have for showing the above pic- Find out all about this subject for your own good and learn the good reasons why farmers and cannot, any circum- ture in telling our readers of this is that the "Elec- We under planters tric" Handy Wagon is such an all around useful all over Jhe United States have bought stances, furnish sample copies of other wagon to have on any farm or plantation. It's Electric Steel Wheels to put on their own wagon publications. most economical to buy, most convenient to use trucks—more than a million of these wheels. and its low steel wheels with broad tires make it Just write your name and address on a postal cheerfully quote our best We will the easiest wagon to work with as there is no high card and say that you are one of our readers and price on any line of publications sub- lifting and it is very much lighter draft than high address it to the Electric Wheel Company, Quincy, wagons. 111., and will their mitted tp us. wooden wheel they promptly send you valuable We believe that every one of our readers will be and interesting Book. Be sure to mention that intensely interested in the handsome color illu- you are one of our readers, to get it promptly. 414 THE SOUTHERN" PLANTER. [April,

spreaders. Another thing that has been a great help to Mr. Galloway in the revolution he is working in the manure spreader business is the liking farmers have for the direct from the factory to the farm plan. That is a cardinal Galloway principle.

5-10-'06. Epworth, N. C. Dear Sir—Hawks visited my chickens every day. After using your Chicken Powder they came no more. Yours truly, J. B. PITTMAN. 7-30-'06. Massaponax, Va. Dear Sir—I have tested your sample of Macnair's Chicken Powder and found it a safe and reliable tonic, as well as a sure cure for cholera. Very respectfully, FRED NUSSET. THE GALLOWAY SPREADER. cies is to be found in the monumental Cock of the Walk. "Hawk" The Barnyard Robber. We publish herewith a very good Galloway spreader business of this illustration of the Galloway Manure day. Mr. Galloway's spreader, as is Spreader, which has very largely revo- well known to most of our readers, lutionized the spreader business in is of the wagon box type—that is, he the last two or three years. The manufactures and furnishes the maker is William Galloway, of Water- spreader box with all the operating loo, Iowa, a man who is, himself, a machinery, and allows the farmers large land owner and farmer, who to use it on their own wagon running knows practically the benefit of gears. That may be called the "Gal- spreading manure by machinery, laway Idea." We believe it is origi- I take Macnair's Died after eat- knows what a manure spreader should nal with him. It enables him to put Chicken Powders ing a chick of that and feed my chil- old rooster, which be, and knows what is a fair price the price of a high-class speaker dren on them, too. had been fed on to sell it at. When Mr. Galloway a where every farmer could afford to Look at me and Macnair's Chicken few years ago perfected his spreader, own one. The Galloway Spreader has observe the hawk. Powders. Alas! a doodle doo. Alas! and put it on the market at some- borne the test. He knows he Is jus- Cock MACNAIR'S CHICKEN POWDER thing like $55, there were numerous tified in his fearless and broad offer Kills Hawks, Cures Cholera, Gapes, prophecies that his enterprise would of a free trial of thirty days to all Roup, Indigestion, Leg Weakness and be short lived. Even farmers had responsible farmers. The machine is keeps them free from Vermin, thereby produce abundance been led to believe that a high-class making good. The price is extremely causing them to of eggs. Sample package, including spreader could not be sold at such a low. The spreaders at work are help- postage, 25 cents. price. The answer to these prophe- ing Mr. Galloway to sell more W. H. 3JACNAIR, TARBORO, N. C.

Implements, Machinery, Vehicles.

Fairbanks-Morse Gasoline and Kerosene Engines, Wind Mills, Towers, Tanks, Pumping and Electric Lighting Outfits, Com- plete for Farm and Suburban use, New Holland Corn and Cob Mills, Wood Saws, Owensboro and Buckeye Farm Wagons, Hickory and Peters Buggies and Carriages, Bissell and genuine

Dixie Plows and Repairs, J. I. Case Portable and Traction Engines, Separators, Repairs For All Farm Machinery.. POSTAL US FOR CATALOGUES OR ANY IMFORMATION DESIRED F. C. HOENNIGER & BRO., INC. 1 432 East Main Street, Richmond, Va.

(F. C. Hoenniger, Pres. & Tres.; T. W. Hoenniger, V.-Pres. & Mgr.; L. O. Boone, Secy.) 1908.] THE SOUTHE RN PLANTER. DeLOACH CORN MILLS

Produce more meal and better meal tkaa aaj> mills on the market. Both Pulley and Geared Mills Under Banner Mills, 18 to 48 Inches. Top Runner Mills, 30 to 48 Inehes. With the famous Virginia ar Baoyu Stamen, World beaters (or making table meal. Also French Buhr Mills for all Kinds °f Grinding

Turbine and Over-Shot Water Wheels. The famous DB LOACH VARIABLE: FRICTION FBKD SAW MILLS, SH1NGLB MILLS, PLAN BURS, GANG BDGERS, LATH MILLS AND WOOD- WORKING MACHINERY. Engines, Boilers and Gasolene Engines

Send for Catalog-lie and tell us fully what yor want.

DeLOACH Hill Mfg. Co. Box 265, Bridgeport, Ala.

w. K. BACHB. 8. 8. MUIjFORD. HARDIN K. BACHB3. f!TRUS MeC. BACEUE. W. K. BACHE, SONS & MULFORD.

1406 Bast Main Street, Richmond, Va. "Everythinjrusedoti the Farm," Farming Hachinery, Vehicles, Harness.

"Fairbanks-Morse" Gasoline Engines. "New Holland" and "Peerless" Cob and Cora Grinders. "Challenge" Horse Powers and Grinders. "Appleton" Common Sense Saw Frames Com The "Bradley" 7 Blade. All Steel bined Pole and Wood Saws. Stalk Cutter, with Neck Yoke, Double- "Tennessee" and "Thornhill" Farm Wagons. "Anderson" and "Ames" Buggies Surreys, etc. bar, and Singletree*. Themo st per- "Ontario" and "Pennsylvania" Grain Drills. fect machine on the market for cut- "Swiss" Hand and Power Feed Cutters. ting Cotton and Corn Stalks. Land Rollers, Baling Wire and Twine. m mm — — S

416 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [April, DISPERSAL SALE. Trotters, Hackneys and Thoroughbred Horses, owned by the estate of William N. Wilmer, deceased, will be sold at auction WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1908, AT 1 P. M., at Plain Dealing Stock Farm, Scottsville, Albemarle County, Virginia. The offerings include Stallions, Brood Mares, Colts and Fillies, by noted sires, from richly-bred dams. Among the famous sires represented are Allerton, 2:09%; Axworthy, 2:15%; Elk Nutwood, 27229, 2470; Norval, 2:14%; Onward. 2:25%; Kentucky Prince, 2470, and others. The Stallions include Virginia Chief, 27267, one of the best known sires of good and useful horses in Albemarle County; Abineer, 30923; Plain Dealing, 30921, and Surprise W., Hack- ney. Among the Brood Mares are daughters of Allerton, Norval, Onward and other sires, with foal by, and others bred to, Bon Axworthy, the son of Axworthy and world famous Sunol, 2:08%, by Electioneer. The younger horses range from sucklings and yearlings upward. For further information and catalogue address JOSEPH WILMER, ADMINISTRATOR. N. B.—Some of the best Mares listed for the sale will be bred in 1908 to Bon Axworthy, which should mate- rially increase their value. RED DILLON, 38696. FRED HERR, 45239. PATRICK HENRY. Bay horse; foaled 1902; height, 16 3*y horse; foaled 1961; height 16. HACKNEY STALLION. fl*nds; weight, 1,200 pounds. Sired by nands; weight, 1,100 pounds, by Charley Herr, 2:07; dam, Jessie P., dam of Baron Dillon, 2:12; dam Zlnda Lake by Chestnut horse by "Squire RIckeL" Red Lake. 2:15%, sire of Lake Queen, Annie Lee, 2:07%; Jessie Herr, 2:18, 8:06%, etc. Red Dillon Is an Inbred ate, by Neapolitan, 9963. son of the famous Cadet; dam, "Mar- season; insurance. Wirkes, world's greatest race horse Fee, $10 $15 Jorle," a gold medal winner by "It»se- of mares Address A. T. BROADDDS, R. F. D. family. For terms and keep oerry." Vddress JOHN B. VAUGHAN, Owner. Ko. 1, Highland Springs, Va. *.shland, Va, For terms, address A. POLLARD & SONS, Dunraven Stock Farm, R. F. D. 47826." grandee? HEADLIGHT BASSETT No. 5, Richmond, Va, N. B. Horses handled and condi- Registered French Coach Stallion, Chestnut horse. 15:3, weight 1,200 — chestnut horse, 16.1 hands, weight pounds. Sired by Kalaukau 9549, dam tioned; also boarded and kept in any 1,300 pounds. Blue ribbon winner Vir- Bessie B.. dam of Karnock, 2:21%, by manner desired. ginia State Fair at Richmond, 1906 Cosher 9206. and 1907. FEE—$25 INSURANCE. FEE—$12 INSURANCE. Address CARL H. NOLTING, W. H. JOSEY, Owner, Scotland Neck. Trevillan, Louisa County, Va. N. C. N. B. —Rich bluegrass pasturage for COLONEL PATRICK visiting mares. FOR SALE Record 2:10%, trial 2:05%. The fastest trotting stallion owned in North Caro- R. H. RICHARDSON, The handsome trotting stallion, Red lina. Richly bred and a race horse of Manufacturer of Guy, 21052, a rich bay, 16 hands, 1,100 — Grand Circuit capacity. Brown horse, SADDLES, HARNESS, COLLARS. pounds, sired by Guy Moor 14885, dam sired by The Conqueror, 2:12%; dam Dealer In Edna Wilkes, 2:23, by Red Wilkes, — Godelia, 2:16%, by Aberdeen, 27. Hardware, Paints, Oils, Glass, Farm 1749, etc. FEE— $50 TO INSURE. "Wagons, Buggies, etc. Bargain to quick buyer. 1810 Hull Street, MANCHESTER. VA AUGUST H. KLOCKE, Crewe, Va. Address M. H. WHITE, Hertford, N. C. Established by MANFRED CALL, Geo. Wait, 1840. THE €MIL- WATT CO., Manager. 13 South 15th St., Richmond, Va.

IMPLEMENTS, MACHINERY, WAGONS.

THE UNIT ROAD MACHINE THE EMPIRE CORN AND FERTI- LIZER PLANTER.

The Simplest. Easiest Managed and Least Expensive of Any. Requires but one Man and one Team to Operate It. Saves Labor Enough to Pay for Itself TWO-ROW CORN PLANTER. in Two Days' Use. With Shoes or Discs and with or THE DISC CULTIVATOR without Fertilizer Attachment and SPRING TOOTH CULTIVATOR AND THE PRICE BRINGS IT WITHIN Check Rower. DISC HARROW COMBINED. THE REACH OF ALL. ACCURATE, SIMPLE. STRONG. BALING PRESSES FOR HAND. HORSE AND STEAM POWER. FERTILIZER. LIME AND PLASTER SOWERS. EIGHT STYLES AND SIZES. rEA HULLERS, GRINDING MILLS, HORSE POWERS, POLE AND WOOD SAWS. ROAD ROLLERS, ROAD PLOWS, WHEEL AND DRAG SCRAPERS. PLOWS AND PLOW CASTINGS IN GREAT VARIETY. WK SOL' *T CORRESPONDENCE. AJ*» ARE, PREPARE*} TO MAKE LOW PRICES, 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER 417

LEADING 1908 UP-TO-DATE LABOR SAVING 20TH CENTURY MACHINERY. tion, bogus, cheap goods. The only culars of any implement wanted. We in town who claim to sell Oliver Chilled warrant our goods "A" grade and ean store in Richmond, Va., to buy Genuine ship promptly from our store all or- Oliver Plows and Repairs is at ders. Get our prices and be convinced. HENING & NUCKOLS. We carry In nt.uk all sizes and styles of Scientific Mills. r^-r THE! NO. 20 POWER MILL,. T ,V *' '**" ,,y .";'' * K THE SIMPLEX PRESS. m Simplex Little Giant Baling Press for farmers' own use. Has large capacity. . Write for circulars and prices. ^[JmSw-

i yoo ont d$ » Mm orojp 'i

ONE AND TWO-HORSE PLANTER, PLAIN OR WITH FERTILIZER ATTACHMENT.

OLIVER SULKEY PLOW NO. 11. Corn Light, durable and effective. Simple Case and Tiger Double-Row and novel device for turning. Plows Planter. Plants two and a half to five feet. Plain or with Check-Row At- the most difficult soils and does it well. Can be used with or without tongue. tachment. Also furnished with Fer- Depth easily regulated. Turns square tilizer Attachment if wanted. corners without lifting out of ground. Made in both right and left hand. The No. 11 Sulky Plow can be fitted with either the No. 20 or 40 regular steel beam plow. Write for circulars and prices on Riding and Gang Plows.

ANTI-DIRT MILK PAIL,. First. It prevents dirt, hair and other substances from dropping into ASPINWALL POTATO PLANTER. the milk while milking. Auomatic, accurate and reliable. Second. It strains the milk twice Used by thousands of practical growers through two fine strainers while milk- the world over. Over twenty years ing. on the market. Don't be fooled by DON'T FORGET! All the merchants We mail our General Catalogue imitations and makeshifts, but write Plows and Repairs only sell the imita- promptly on request; also special cir- for attractive illustrated catalogue.

HENING & NUCKOLS, 1436-38 E. Main St., Richmond, Va. —

418 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [April,

Spotless Paint at only 97 cents Per Gallon.

THIS LARGE TWO STORY HOUSE

PAINTED L'FOR $12.21

A Large, Two-Story, Tenor Twelve Room House like thin painted with Spotless Ready Mixed House Paint, two coats, for $12-21.

This large house, meas- uring 28 feet wide by 40 feet long and 24 feet in height will require 11 gallons for body 10 gallons at 93 cents per gallon... $9 30 1 gallon at 97 cents per gallcn 97 2 gallons for trim- ming at 97 cents per gallon 1 94

$12 21 DO YOUR OWN PAINTING and buy your Paint from us and thereby saving 810.00 to $20.00 on every building painted. Hake your nonse and buildings proof against time. Increase their value and have the handsomest house in your section. A Large Modern Bam Like this Painted with our SPOTLESS WEATHERPROOF PAINT, two coats, for $8.45. This large barn, measuring 30 feet wide by 50 feet long and 22 feet in height, will re- quire 12 gallons for body, 10 gallons at 59 cents per gallon '.%. $6 90 2 gallons at 64 cents per gallon* 1 28 2 gallons for trimming, at 64 cents per gallon 1 28

$8 46 of our Spotless Weatherproof Mineral Barn, Roof and Fence Paint, the most durable mineral paint made. Guaranteed to wear five years. We sell f1.50 Paint at 87 cents per gallon, or as low as 84 cents per gallon in larger quantities. It is as good a paint as the kind you pay your dealer $1.60 per gallon for. OUR FREE TRIAL PLAN. We make every shipment under our binding guarantee that you may open and use any three gallons of paint you wish, putting It to the hardest test, and if you And that we have not shipped you a paint of as high quality as you can buy

complete catalogue, sent free, or order from this ad, lrif in a hurry,hnrrv itTt meansm.ano aQ saving*J\,\nJ of„* more~T- it than one- third on your paint bills. 122 SPOTLESS CO., INC., s%2gr* RICHMOND, VA. " 8 bU"d,ne you nt ,ir amount paint' /ecesslry To^cover uVc^y! *' ^ ™ to *> a,nt ™ ^ te» «» * SEND FOR OUR FREE CATALOGUE AND COLOR CARD TO-DAY. . .

THE WATT PLOW CO., Richmond, Va.

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