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Vol. 69. DECEMBER, 1908. No. 12. CONTENTS. our subscription CAMPAIGN 10 5i LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY FARM MANAGEMENT: (Continued): Aberdeen Angus Cattle Editorial—jWork for 1071 the Month 1{Jm Auction Sale of Berkshire Hogs at the The Problem of Fertility in Eastern Va...l055 Virginia State Fair 1072 Thoughts Suggested by the November The Future of Cattle Improvement .' . .1072 Issue 1056 T>ME POULTRY^^po. Those Loafing Acres 1058 Poultry Corn Growing and Improving Land 1059 Notes. . . ?>s. 1073 Comments on November Planter 1059 Practical Pure Bred vsTSss, 3s 1074 Fertilizer Problems 1060 Poultry Keeping on a Farm/. 1075 The Plow Problem 1061 THE HORSE: Farm Labor in Eastern Virginia. 1063 Notes Kaffir Corn Growing in the South 1063 ; How Colts Thrive in Virginia TRUCKING, GARDEN AND ORCHARD: 1077 The Horse Markets 1077 \ Truck Growers' Meeting and the Virginia MISCELLANEOUS: Truck Experiment Station 1064 The State (Prison) Farm Annual Meeting of Virginia State Horticul- 1078 Farmers' Winter Course tural Society 1065 of Lectures and Demonstrations at Home-Made Soluble Oils for Use Against the Agricultural and Mechanical College, San Jose Scale 1066 Blacksburg, Va 1079 Meeting of Commissioners Market Gardeners Organize 1067 of AgriculturelOSO The Farmers' Club The Curing and Marketing of Tobacco in iqsi The Better Farming Special the Northern Neck of Virginia in 1796.. 1067 Train—Live Stock Feature LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY: 1082 Results of Demonstration Work 1084 Making Cheap Pork with Grazing Crops.. 1068 Enquirers' Column (Detail Index p. 1138) 1123 Feeding Corn and By-Products 1071 Advertisements • 1085

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WORK FOR THE MONTH. The average yield per acre of wheat this year in Mary- land is sixteen bushels in Virginia, eleven bushels in of another year, with all the crops har- At the close North Carolina, ten bushels in South Carolina, and ten vested and with a fine fall giving opportunity for the bushels in Tennessee. These figures compare with a six- seeding of another wheat crop, farmers in the South have year average of fifteen, ten, seven, seven and nine bushels cause to be thankful for the rewards which have fallen respectively. The average yield of corn in Maryland this to their lot for their labors. With the exception of the year is thirty-six bushels per acre, in Virginia twenty-six wheat crop, which has fallen somewhat below the yield bushels, in North Carolina eighteen bushels, in South of previous years, all crops have given increased yield Carolina fourteen bushels, and in Tennessee twenty-four per acre, and the aggregate production is considerably bushels. These figures compare with ten year averages in excess of the average for the past ten years. Fortun of thirty^wo; twenty-two, fourteen, ten, and twelve bush- ately for us, the drouth which visited the Northern and els, respectively. This, in the aggregate, means a great of the middle and Western States, and which most increase in the production. The oat crop also shows an caused much damage and loss to the crops, did not trou- increase in yield in each of the States named. ble us, and to this cause must be attributed somewhat of the success we have attained. But the great factor which The total production of corn is now estimated at 2,642,- has operated in our favor is the much better system of 687,000 bushels and compares with 2,592,320,000 bushels farming which now prevails so generally throughout this in 1907 and 2,827,416,000 bushels in 1906. Whilst, there- section. The old one-crop system of "planting" is giv- fore, we have a little more corn produced this year than ing place rapidly to "farming" with a rotation of crops last, which at one time did not appear to be at all likely, and the growing of legumes, especially crimson clover and and would not have occurred but for the exceptionally cowpeas, to supply humus to the soil, and the much fine fall which permitted the maturing of late crops there greater prevalence of the keeping of live stock to con- is to be set against this small increase the fact that the sume the fodder andi forage crops. These with better quantity of corn left over from last year is very much preparation of the land before planting and more careful less than was the case a year ago. Then we had a sur- cultivation of the crops, are now beginning to show their plus left over of 130,995,000 bushels whilst this year we effects and, if persisted in, must soon place the South have only 71,124,000 bushels surplus. In the face of these in that lead over other sections which our climatic con- figures it does not seem likely that corn will fall in price. ditions give us the right to expect. It is rarely that we Oats also, though a somewhat larger crop than last year, suffer from drouth in the Atlantic Coast States, and our show a great falling off from the yield of 1906 and also winters are so mild, as a rule, that winter killing is a large reduction in the surplus and are not likely to see reduced to the minimum, whilst our long crop growing lower prices. season gives us the opportunity to replant over so long

a period that it is rare that it is necessary to miss a crop Tobacco shows in the aggregate a reduction of about of some kind on the land. As an instance of our possi- 70,000,000 pounds, accounted for by the decrease in the bilities in this respect, it has this year been demonstrated Kentucky -crop. In Virginia the crop is estimated at by Messrs. T. W. & Sons, Seedsmen, of this city on Wood 93,543,000 pounds against 74,556,000 pounds in 1907. In their seed trial farm that two crops of oats can be grown North Carolina the production is 117,S70,0'00 pounds as in on the piece of land and both fully one year same against 100,875,000 pounds in 1907. The average yield per mature and make a good yield). Our Western and North- acre in Virginia is 815 pounds as against 760 pounds in ern competitors will have to make extraordinary large 1907. In North Carolina the yield is 670 pounds as against yields to compete with us when our lands are properly 625 pounds in 1907. The quality in both States is much farmed and advantage taken of our possibilities. It is in advance of that -of 1907. and the crop is selling at true that are long making the yields we yet a way from higher prices and will bring the growers much more ought to make per acre of wheat, oats and corn that we money. but each year shows an advance and all that is needed is persistence in the adoption of good systems of rota- The cotton crop is not likely to be any larger, if as tion adapted to the section, the use of the legumes, and large, as that of a year ago, but is being much more better preparation of the land, and the use of lime and rapidly ginned and gotten ready for market. Up to the fertilizers adapted to the needs of the crops and land first of November over 8,00'0,000 bales had been ginned as to be planted, instead of the buying of ready-made mix- against only 6,000,000 bales a year ago. If this means instead of upon a guaranteed tures selling upon a name the immediate sale of a similarly larger proportion of the analysis proportioned to the requirements of the land and crop the price is not likely to advance, as consumption crops. Our farmers are gradually getting out of the way is not now so active as it was a year ago. It will depend of relying upon a and are insisting upon the quality name largely on the ability of the cotton producers to hold the of the goods and their adaptability to the land and crop. crop as to the price to be realized. The gospel of good farming is beginning to have its eggs all effect and science to have its influence. Beef, mutton, hog meat, butter, poultry and 1908.] THE SOUTHEKN PLANTEE 1053

still keep at good prices, indeed, are selling to-day higher or three men working with teams of ten or twelve horses than a year ago, and, with the revival in trade conditions and with some machines., such as reapers which has and threshers set in since the electon of Mr. Taft to the with teams of twenty horses, and doing the work which presidency the indications are for an advance rather than here in the South is done by more than three a reduction. times as We are of opinion that all meat products many men. There you will find the whole work of seed- are likely to see higher prices on account of the scarcity ing a crop of grain completed at one operation of stock. During and with the drouth in the middle and Western one team. The plow has hitched behind it the harrow or States, farmers rushed stock on to the markets as they cultivator and the roller and behind could this follows the drill, see no prospects of feed for them for the winter and thus at one crossing of the field the land and there is prepared is now no large surplus supply to draw from, and the crop put in. We have got to come and this must to this, and have its effect on the markets. When- the sooner we make the start the greater will be the ever feed is abundant we are of opinion that it will pay gain. The beginning of another crop year is the time to to feed it to goo* stock even though corn is selling on give this question consideration and this is our reason the market at for much beyond the average price. We have introducing the subject at this time. The two great prob- had abundant crops of forage and fodder and these —have" •""»lems confronting Liie , ,, , ,, wunuuuug the farmersjLciiuiers ofor thistnis country mostly been "iimuycountry now are how well saved. If now + . thev are utilized asa« theyth^v to produce^ crops ^ ™«,t, + * r, xi. sufficientlyy large to meet ought to be they J 5 meet the require- should be aa. sourcesnnri> B ofnf profitnrn.fi t t. *>,„ * _ _„ . , .. to the ments of a population now rapidly producers and be growing up to the the means of greatly enhancing the fer- 100,000,0'00 mark and to improve at the tility of the land. same time the fertility and" crop producing capacity of the land. In the solution of these problems machinery is to play the The labor difficulty has this year most been one of less impor- important part and hence the necessity for its considera- tance than for several years- past. The effect of the tion. Greater crops cannot be money panic made without better prep- of 1907 was to cause almost a complete cessa- aration of the land and this cannot tion of new development work be made without bet- and the building and ter and heavier implements except at a labor cost which improvement of railroads and other public works. Thou- will be relatively too large. sands of hands were discharged and many of these found their way back to the farms and were willing to work It is too late now to plant any further crops for wages which farmers could afford this year to pay, and thus except it may be Canada peas and oats, in the relieved the situation. The true remedy, Tidewater however, for section of this State and scarcity of labor on the Eastern sections of North the farm is the substitution of ma- and South Carolina, and even in these sections chinery, and this has made great the seed- progress in the South. ing of this crop at this time is only justified Human labor is too costly to be used by the con- even at low wages, S1 deration that the work is gotten out and farmers who have substituted machinery of the way of wherever it other pressing work can be in the early spring months. Seeded used have realized this and can get along and now, the crop will be no do more work with earlier than if seeded in Janu- less than half the labor formerly ary or February unless the winter should required. These men are not likely be very mild to go back to the and if it should be severe the risk of injury old days of the single plow with one will be con- or two hands and siderable. The crop light is valuable as an early grazing teams, however low may be the wages. crop The tend- for hogs and for green ency every feed for stock and for an early day is to increase the power and strength of hay crop and it comes the machines used and off early enough to be followed by to use horse, mule and steam or corn or some other forage crop. kerosene power to operate Sow two bushels of them. We are looking forward peas and cover deeply, say five or six to the time when much of the horse inches, and then power now required sow one bushel of on the farm oats and cover three or four inches will be dispensed with and engine power be substituted. A great saving will result from this Though too late to change sow any crop, it is not as the engine only consumes when working, too early while to begin to get the land horses and mules ready for crops. One of the have to be fed at all times. In Europe greatest faults of Southern farmers this change is being largely is that they fail to made already and it will make use of the fine open winter soon come about here. plowed weather which we have We with steam more than They argue forty that because we have years ago and in many sections not generally any of England to-day severe frost the that plowing the land in travelling steam plow and cultivator winter does not is as common effect any good purpose. as the steam threshing This, is wholly wrong Whilst outfit. Owners, of threshing out- we may not have the severe frost fits also operate steam plows and, which the Northern after finishing up the farmer gets, w e yet have sufficient frost threshing, set out with the steam plow and to greatly ameli- plow and fit orate land open to the land for its influence, and another seeding at so much per acre. great pur- The co-opera- pose served is that tive ownership by winter plowing we break the of these outfits by a number of land farmers in and make it permeable any section would by the rain and thus prevent result in great economy in production washing and admit the air and sun and would make farmers largely into it. Land plowed independent of labor dif- now may require ficulties. Until to be replowed later though more this change comes about we would fre- urge quently, if the plowing be that farmers as they need done deeply now, and espe- new implements buy only cially if it be also subsoiled, this the ones capable of doing the work further breaking may of two or three of be well done the old ones by the disc or cutaway harrow. and operate these with heavier But even teams and if it be necessary to thus economize on replow it this is not to be regretted man power. In the West we find two as what all our land most needs to make it more produc- [December, THE SOUTHERN PLANTER 1054 montji amount to several inches each I mulch, will breaking of the soil dust plowing and * * * * objection is sometimes urged tive is more frequent midsummer. An the air, the sun, in disintegrate it and admit saturated with water dur- to thoroughly that fall-plowed soil becomes colder later in into it. wetter andI and the water ,-»-» ,ng the winter and remains issuedMj,MDr. is extracts from a Bulletin unbroken in the fall. This "The following the spring than land left of the Farmers and where Special Agent in charge land not sufficiently drained Knapp, the *aU true only upon Work, on this suh.ecto passes through deep Cooperative Demonstration is shallow. Water ot sound the breaking so pertinent and so full reasonable drainage, it is cnH winter Blowing, are breaking readily, and, with for republishing them. the spring. we make no excuse earlier than lands broken In "sdom that every ready for planting re-read and pondered by and drainage poor, ought to be read and * * * * When land is nearly level They ridges upon: flat-broken, but be left in farmer and acted the soil should not be for moisture is essentia to six feet wide, suitab of heat, air, and lands about five or e The presence or narrow win- the preparation of plant between. This provides chemical rind germ action in nlanting with a dead furrow penetrate the water, depths to which these the pulverized soil out of od Tn the sotl. The ErlrSnie and keeps provided * * * A deeper the depth of the plowing, even if unbroken. * he soil depend upon which is important plowing down was the Ra- is no use in pulverized seed bed , ft is well drained. There more thoroughly the soil proved and ^culture, water. It has been England built an improved nto a subsoil full of tion upon which plants Penetrate fte sort generally accepted here for beyond question that the roots of and thl principle has been plowed land. Thus, m years until the aver^ and feed deeper in deeply than one hundred and sixty deeper plowed more * Do he stated that when the soil is has increased nearly fivefold. general, it may age production The have three inches of food too much of the subsort. inches deep the plants not bring to the surface three of break they have six inches that is, to follow the six inches deep, plan is to double plow; when plowed best nar- inches deep they have ten furrow with -a subsoil plow or and when plowed ten ing plow in the same food the and go that the bottom portions of scooter (with sides removed) inches of food. The fact rower plow or a available plant food as Generally the disc plow may plowed land are not as rich in down as deeply as desired. the necessity of getting more ten inches * the top portions shows be sent down eight or The if the laud^ deeper tillage. fall, and especially^^f down to them by done in the air and heat plowing is that soil is a constant sup- * * * * There is no question most essential condition for fertile Plowed twice or more. can envelop the depth of eight to ten or moisture, so that a film of water and pulverizing to a ply of breaking ten nutritive elements. The hair economical. The cost of breaking soil particles and absorb twelve inches is nourishment. If there is disc plow, should not he of plants drink this for deep, when done with a roots inches six films for the soil parti- in excess °l breaking any more than enough to serve as more than fifty cents an acre and it should plenty of food all the capillary matter, there is too much Whether a plant has cles and inches deep. between determined by digging a hole time makes the difference be drained off. This can be time or only part of the standing water in the twenty inches deep. If there is a good crop and a poor crop. much water in the matter upon the land to bottom of the hole, it indicates too Turn down all the vegetable to too wet to * * * * capacity of a given soil plow when the land is soil or subsoil. The make humus. Do not depends upon how finely hold film and capillary moisture work well. upon the amount of humus in it. during the it is pulverized and should have attention pul- Land needing draining retain but little water. Thoroughly in the South Unplowed lands months. Very much of the land store enough to winter soil three inches deep cannot productiveness by the low- verized would be greatly improved in * * * * Southern States there are the make a crop. In all level. This is too near ering of the natural water drought, sometimes not serious, to make every year periods of our best lands to permit them the crop. surface on most of sufficiently protracted to reduce water does not but generally are capable of. Because capacity for the yields they this is increased Storage indication that The remedy for surface constantly is not an by deep and thor- stand on the moisture. This can be accomplished Wherever water stands in land does not need drainage. the soil with humus (partly needs ough tillage and by filling eighteen inches deep that land has been a hole dug twelve or decayed vegetation). The effect of deep tillage water sogged land and draining. Plants cannot grow in to greatly increase the explained. The effect of humus is water that does the injury, not that it is the underlying for water and to reduce evapora- few storage capacity of soils surface and merely standing for a and one-half falling on the pound of humus will store seven to increase the tion. A the underlying water off so as sand, and the sand days Get times as much moisture as a pound of can circulate and then of the isoil in which the air three and one-half times depth will lose its water by evaporation whether the season crops will have a chance to succeed clay soil will store only more rapidly than the humus. A Drains should be put down from humus, and will be a wet or a dry one. one-fourth as much moisture as be filled up about thirty-six inches deep and should * * * Plants thirty to evaporation twice as rapidly. * soil lose it by rocks or trash but with the stiffest An acre of good not with loose use an enormous quantity of water. the drains to draw out of them. This will cause during its growth nearly du- corn will absorb and evaporate land on either side of the the° water from the adjoining About three-fourths of this amount rocks ten inches of water. service. A drain filled with of its drain and thus do full during the last seventy-five days falling will be required simply carry off the water inches ot and loose trash will the rate of two and two-fifths adjoining growth, or at will not suck it out of the evaporation from upon its course and water a month. This is in addition to that falling on this water is drained out retarding influence of a land. When the soil, which, even with the —

1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER 1055 the surface all over the field will soon find its way down •Have all fodder and forage crops not already to the depth of the stored drains and will do no harm. The under cover or stacked at once hauled out of the fields greatest difficulty experienced in draining land in this and placed in the barn, or in stacks over which State is the absence a good of tile works which make3 the tile roof should be fixed, and let these be located near the cost too much money, as they have to be brought from barn for handiness in feeding. the North or West. It would pay farmers in every sec- tion of the State to establish cooperative tile works for Fix everything tidily and snugly about the farm build- supplying themselves with the tiles needed. Drainage ings and home, and make good should be footpaths from the house done at a cost of from $15.00 to $20.00 per acre to the farm buildings, wood-house and other conveniences, at the outside and the increased productiveness of the so that in bad weather the land necessary work may be at- would in a few years repay this many times over. tended to without wading through mud, slush and snow. We have drained scores of acres of land and therefore know from practical experience the truth of what we A Merry Christmas and Happy say. and Prosperous New Year to All. The work of cleaning up land intended to be brought into crops THE PROBLEM OF FERTILITY IN EASTERN and cultivation ought to have attention. Do this work thoroughly. VIRGINIA. Don't leave rocks or stumps to interfere Editor Southern Planter: with plowing a straight furrow from one side of the field Some writers tell us there is to the other. Left in the ground, these ob- enough potash and phos- structions phate in tlhe subsoil to last cause broken implements, waste of land, loss hundreds of years, and that or temper it is only necessary and harbor briars, weeds, insects and fungoid to use long tap-rooted plants, such diseases. as peas Clean them out as they are met with. and clover to bring this up, and add humus; others tell us that potash and phosphate must be used, Digout or the land will and haul off onto the roads through the farm get too poor to sprout peas. all rocks Now, which side interfering with the cultivation of the land and is right? With the price of the in- gather the gredients now almost loose rocks from the fields and haul these on prohibitive, what will it be when to the everybody begins using them? roads and fill up all deep holes with them and Besides, will the mines cover with hold out much longer? If farmers gravel, first, breaking the stones into small have to depend on pieces so that these ingredients, •their future is a gloomy they will set. Fill up the ruts by pulling in one. I have the sides and several times used a mixture of potash bring the surface of the road into good shape, and phosphate on highest in peas on light land, but saw no benefit, the the center and lowest at the sides, and plow fertilized and out unfertilized bringing a fair crop. the ditches on each side to ensure good drainage and thus make Manure made from pea hay will not begin to a road which will be permanent and dry. cover the land from which it was taken. The cattle will drop Old fences much in places where it will do no good. should be repaired and new ones be fixed where Much land in Eastern Virginia was never rich. needed, but do not multiply them unnecessarily, You as they may make a clearing in the woods, and it are a constant source of expense, and should only will produce but be put a very little better than an old cultivated field. up when absolutely necessary to the effective work- All ing of the farm the discussions in the farm papers seem to apply solely on a good system of rotation. Make all fences to stiff clay lands. Much land is in as good a straight and in parallel lines as far as possible, mechanical condition to economise after it is harrowed once as it would be if gone time in working the land. Put gates into every fence over a hunldlred times, still it produces poorly. to admit of access to the fields, and to en- sure stock being kept where placed. H. T. FAUNT LE ROY. New Kent Co., Va. Clean out the All the heavy lands and ice pond, and get it filled with pure nearly all the light lanas on clean water, ready a clay subsoil have both for the first frost. Clean out the ice- potash and phosphoric acid suffi- house and repair it, cient in them to produce crops ready for use. If you have no ice- good for hundreds of years, house, if only the now is the time to build one. The best ice-house same was in an available condition, but is one largely these are built above ground, and is practically nothing unavailable, and must remain so until more than released by deepening one house within another one, with a space and cultivation of the soil, and the between introduction of a regular the walls of the two houses of eighteen inches course of rotation of crops. A or prime requisite two feet, which must be packed tight with sawdust. for all the lands of Eastern Virginia is The humus in the soil. natural ground makes as good a floor as any, and Long cultivation in clean hoed crops should has consumed all the have logs laid on it, with open spaces between vegetable matter in tfhe soil, and them to keep without the presence of this in the ice out of water draining from the ice. abundance, the potash and This water should all phosphoric acid will not become available. fall to one point, from which it Humic acid, should the produce of decaying be carried off by a drain, which drain should be vegetable matter in tne soil, is trapped essential to dissolve out with a bent pipe, which will stand full of water and make available the phos- to exclude phoric aoid and potash. inflowing air. A double roof should be placed The surface soil in these sec- tions—and this is largely on the house, with a good air space between the inner true all through the South and outer has been so robbed of its roofs, and plenty of ventilation should be pro- vegetable matter and mineral plant food vided to carry off all warm air. by a long system of poor farming, that it —

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must have some help to get it started in the produc- be under no apprehension as to the failure of the phos- tion of this vegetable matter; hence, the advice to apply phate mines for years to come. There are millions of acid phosphate and potash to give the needed help. The tons of phosphate rock in Florida and Tennessee already proper crops to use for supplying the vegetable matter known and worked, and in all probability, there are de- are the legumes, cow peas, soy beans and crimson clover, posits elsewhere not yet exploited. For potash we are as these crops, when they have the needed mineral plant as yet dependent on the great mines of Germany, which food (phosphoric acid and potash) can get the nitrogen are apparently inexhaustible, and it may yet be found from the atmosphere, and thus avoid the necessity for that we have similar deposits in this country. Where

buying the costliest form of plant food—nitrogen. It potash is needed to be supplied it can be bought at about is impossible to secure a heavy growth of any of these the same price per unit as phosphoric acid, and there- legumes on the lands of Eastern Virginia without the fore, is a cheap fertilizer, seeing that only a small quan- use of these minerals, and until a heavy growth has been tity is needed per acre: say, from fifty to 100 pounds for secured and turned into the land, the unavailable fertility the staple crops. Our correspondent is a pessimist like, cannot be utilized. We have never known the production sadly, too many of our farmers. He anld they need to be- of these crops and their return to the soil for a year Or come optimists. If they will only do their share of the two to fail to make these lands productive, so that with work with intelligence, Providence will give the reward. the adoption of a proper system of rotation following prof- Hitherto they have largely violated the laws of nature itable crops of other kinds could not be made. The lack by taking everything and giving back nothing. Plow deep of available phosphoric acid in all the old cultivated soils in the fall and winter, and a little deeper every year of the E'ast, is next to the lack of humus, probably the in the spring; grow the legumes both winter and sum- most important factor requiring attention, and it is well mer; feed these with phosphoric acid, and then feed them that this is so as this can be supplied at the least cost of to the land either as vegetable matter turne|dl down; or, any plant food. It is stating the point extravagantly to say better, through the medium of live stock as manure, care- the price of these mineral plant foods is nearly prohib- fully saved under cover, and applied at once to the itive of their use. Acid phosphate, in which the phos- land, and adopt and follow closely a rotation of crops, phoric acid is at once available, can be bought at from which, shall bring at least one legume crop on to the $10. (r0 to $15.00 per ton, according to the amount of land—and it is easy enough in our climate to bring two available acid present, and the application of 300 pounds each year between each staple crop removed, and In the acre, costing from $2.00, cannot, surely, to $1.50 to be five years' time there is not an . acre of land in Eastern considered a, prohibitive price to ensure a heavy growth Virginia which cannot be made to produce profitable of a legume crop, which will make from two to three crops, unless it is in need of drainage to lower the nat- tons of hay of the most valuable feeding quality, if cut ural water level. Crops and stagnant water cannot co- off, and yet leave from seventy-five to 100 pounds of exist.—Ed. nitrogen added to the soil for the production of the next crop, and which, if properly balanced by the addition of THOUGHTS SUGGESTED BY THE NOVEMBER ISSUE. the necessary amount of phosphoric acid and potash, will Editor Southern Planter: make a profitable crop of a non-legume; or, if a legume I was much interested in Mr. Grizzard's views on the is again sown, a much heavier crop than the one removed. cultivation of corn in Southampton county, Va., and am When once the land is supplied With humus and nitro- gen by the growth of legumes, the staple crops can be glad to see him courageously standing for a practice which produced profitably with phosphoric acid alone, as has has proved successful in spite of the contrary advice of are been demonstrated in all that section of the State, and the experiment stations. Both he and the editor especially by Dr. Stubbs, in Gloucester county. Our cor- absolutely correct in everything they say; he in his prac- respondent should read the article from the pen of Dr. tice and Mr. Jackson in his principles of agriculture. Mr. Stubbs, published in our October issue, and follow his- Grizzard says that plowing dirt to corn insures a larger advice and practice, and he will soon see that Eastern Vir- yield, and the editor says it exposes twice as much sur- ginia lands can be made productive at comparatively face to the action of the sun's rays, thereby leading to that small cost. The need of applying potash is doubtful, a more rapid evaporation. Now, it has so happened even on the sandy land, except for the production of I have seen both sides of the picture, for I was born tobacco and Irish potatoes. Dr. Stubbs finds it unneces- and raised on the north shore of Long Island, a terminal sary in Gloucester county, an\i we have the same report morain formed by a glacier which rested in the valley of from other counties in that section. The use of lime at the Connecticut River several years before Adam, and the rate of one ton to the acre will, in nearly all cases, which, upon coming in contact with the main waters of 'suffice to set free sufficient potash to supply the needs the Atlantic Ocean melted, and made the deposit which of the staple crops, and this can be had at from $3.00 to is now selling for $1,000 an acre. The north shore of the $5.00 per acre, and only needs to be used once in every island is a succession of sand hills, with gravel beds three or four years; thus, practically only costing about and boulders interspersed here and there, and there is no $1.00 per acre per year, surely not a prohibitive price soil other than sand, and vegetable mould, and no regu- for this valuable ameliorative of the condition of the lar subsoil whatever, except the same sand and gravel soil, for lime acts not merely as a releaser of potash, but down as far as you can go. on these light lands as a binder of the soil, making it As an illustration, I may mention that the well on our more cohesive and retentive of moisture. Our friend need place was 106 feet deep, and you could see stars from the 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER 1057 bottom at mid-day. It is on soil of this character that a nitrogen accumulation. Mr. Marsh says the farmers about shallow level cultivation is absolutely essential; in fact, Ithaca use from 300 to 1,0'00 pounds of 10.8 goods to every effort of the agriculturist must be bent toward secur- the acre. A crop of wheat yielding sixty bushels to the ing and conserving moisture. A high spot in a field is acre would require approximately only 300 pounds of ten synonymous with a poor spot, and if there is any un- per cent, phosphoric acid, provided there was none in the drained basin in a field where water that falls on frozen soil, and twenty-four pounds of actual potash, which he ground will pond during the winter, that is invariably would get from 300 pounds of eight per cent, potash the richest part of the land. At the age of twenty-four would a little more than balance it. It is a sensible com-

I left this country, and bought a farm in Tidewater Vir- bination, and well adapted to the wheat crop, where the ginia that is nearly square, and has no part excepting the natural nitrogen content of the soil is sufficient to grow river bank which is twelve inches higher than the average, sixty bushels of wheat per acre, but what in the world where a fall of six inches in 100 yards is called a hill, they want with 1,000 pounds of such a fertilizer is beyond where the average well is eight feet deep, and during my comprehension. 1,000 pounds of ten per cent, phos- most of the year every horse track is a mud hole, and phoric acid would be lO'O pounds actual phosphorous, every post hole a very capable well, where a high tide enough to grow 200 bushels of wheat per acre, provided comes within four feet of submerging the whole farm, the land could furnish the additional six and eight-tenths and where there still remains on the adjoining farms pounds needed, together with the necessary nitrogen. Of traces of the dikes which, prior to the war, were used as course, these excessive amounts of fertilizer are more for, .a defence against the invasion of the "gurt tides." I applicable to a corn than to a wheat crop while corn may, therefore, fairly say that I have experienced both and spring wheat have practically the same analysis, so extremes in the problem of water conservation and water far as phosphoric acid and potash are concerned, one

•elimination; and, I found not only by observation, but usually expects about twice the yield per acre from corn partially by dear bought experience, that the level culti- and 1,000 pounds of 10-8 goods would furnish the min- vation of my youth was a sure road to crop failure, and eral constituents for an enormous crop, even were the starvation when applied in practice in middle age, and composition of both corn and fodder dependent upon the that the problem here was not the conservation of mois- chemicals applied, as the following figures will show,potash ture, but its elimination, that crops might suffer here being the controlling factor: from drouth, but were absolutely destroyed by drowning, Analysis of corn—ears and fodder, N., 1.76; Ph. a., .54; that successful agriculture consisted not in saving all the Pot., .89. Actual potash in 1,000 pounds of 10-8 goods, 80 80-=- water that fell, but in getting rid of all that the land lbs. Formula: .89 per cent. X 2,000 = 17.8; 17.8=4%

would not absorb, before it would work an injury, and tons per acre, or four and one-half average two-horse only saving the balance by cultivation and the forming loads of unshucked corn, as it is usually hauled to the of the mulch. fodder shredder. It must say that I am afraid it is a It is unquestionably true, as Mr. Jackson has pointed larger yield than the average here in the Tidewater sec- out, that a shallow level cultivation will preserve the tion, though it is not impossible on land such as Mr.

moisture, but why recommend it to a man who already Marsh describes, that is overdosed with nitrogen from has entirely too much moisture now, *and who, by plow- stable manure and supplemented by such heavy applica- ing his field full of ridges, can expose a larger surface tions of mineral fertilizer. to the sun, and thereby do by aeration what he possibly cannot afford to do by drainage. To sum up the situa- Professor Massey has misrepresented the experiments tion: A system that is applicable to a Long Island sand of Professor Stubbs, at Valley Front, in describing them bank will not grow corn on Virginia lowgrounds, and the as conclusive as regards the deficiency of potash in the will Virginia system which succeed on low grounds will soil, for it was just the other way about. He demonstrated destroy the productive capacity of a sand hill 200 feet that he had plenty of potash, but lacked phosphoric acid high. As you leave the lowest of the wet lands and the and nitrogen, the latter of which he purposes to supply highest of the dry lands, you will find the methods ol with stable manure and legumes, and the former by acid culture to vary, ana various methods successful until be phosphate. I have had the pleasure of visiting Mr. Stubbs you meet on the mutual ground, where any method will at his ancestral home, and have heard him describe the give a good crop, the one essential thing being to move whole procedure to the assembled members of the Farm- soil the particles, and destroy the weeds at regular in- ers' Club, of Gloucester county. He has done a great tervals. work there, and the farm which was regarded as synony- mous with poverty, due to neglect for a long period after Mr. Marsh sounds a warning which may be applicable the war, now grows excellent crops and supports a large

to Northern New York, but which will be but little heeded quantity of live stock. As I understand it, Mr. Stubbs has in Virginia, at least in Tidewater, for, while we may have done this without the purchase of any great quantity of occasionally small pieces of land used for trucking which nitrogen, and with practically nothing, but the tolls from become too rich in nitrogen to produce good crops there is his grist mill in the way of auxiliary feeds for the main- little danger, I am sorry to say, of any one's whole farm tenance of live stock and building up of the manure pile. getting into that condition. Our people grow grain and This in itself is a great achievement, and gees to prove "hay, the former of which contains large amounts ot that our lands may be made more and more fertile with nitrogen, and apply little of any fertilizer, but phosphoric nothing outside their own resources but phosphoric acid. acid and potash to the soil, they have little to fear from Whether or not a profit can be made in the doing is more 1058 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER [December,

than has yet transpired. I have heard it intimated that to work, as the value of time wasted in turning around Valley Front was a losing investment for Professor Stubbs such obstructions is very great. during the years of its incipiency. It should pay its way With the heavy machinery in use in modern agricul- now» if any farm can. ture, a man must have a clean sweep across the field, it he is to be successful. Often a few dollars would put in

I can appreciate Mr. Baily's difficulty in turning under an underdrain and transform a worthless swale into fer- foul land with a chilled plow. I used to try do such tile land. The same amount would take out the stones things myself when I first moved here, but fortunately for or root out the trees. Trees are all right in their place, my venture, I came here too young for the matter of habit but their place is near the fence, or in a clump by them- to have any very serious effect upon my comprehension. selves, not scattered all over an otherwise profitable field. Of course, I don't know from experience anything about Often we see several acres of rough land which is not foul land on hillsides; but on my own land I have never in a shape to be cultivated, loafing in weeds and brush, seen any growth that could not be handled by a big between live, producing fields, simply because the farmer Champion or Dixie plow, and my choice would depend has not the ambition to fence them in. If such land can- upon my teams. Neither plow will choke when moving not be put under cultivation with profit, it should be at the required speed, but the Champion is better suited fenced and turned into pasture, or if the farmer wishes to a fast team than the Dixie, and has the additional to grow trees, let him set out some useful variety; but advantage of lighter draft. Both plows are designed for he must not allow the land to loaf away with his profits, the same class of work, the handling of loose land that is growing weeds, brambles and brush, for though many more or less matted in patches, and covered with loose farmers do not seem to know it, there are just as many trash. The difference is that the Dixie has a more abrupt weeds in the shape of worthless trees, as in ordinary crops. turn to the mould board, and consequently works at a Another way in which your acres loaf, is by growing lower speed. Neither plow is fit to use in sod, and no crops in small patches, which can be seen all over the Southern farm is well equipped without two sets of plows country. Here not only the land loafs, but also the farmer, the size and style of which should depend largely upon the hired man and the teams in time spent in turning the team and the tenacity of the soil. I use 1,100-pound corners, and wasted in cultivating small patches. In order horses and a No. 19 Oliver for sod, and a No. 11% to succeed with modern heavy machinery, the farmer must Champion for all other plowing. The draft is about be able to cultivate long stretches. the same, but the chilled plow cuts a shade the largest Cut out all parts of your farm that are loafing, and furrow, and is the most economical to use wherever it not producing, even if it takes half your farm, and run will do good work, but I have no use for one in the gar- the rest on a short rotation with clover or other legumes, den or in a stalk field. and you will produce more crops, with one-half the man and team labor. I am much interested in Professor Soule's diagrams for Another way of allowing your land to loaf, and espe- hog lot rotations, and recommend their careful study. cially in the older portions of the country, is not to supply This is a very practical subject, and his illustrations are sufficient plant food to bring a profitable crop to maturity. excellent. Perhaps it appeals to me more than to others The farmer's land is his bank. A part of the plant food because I have been hunting for some cheap method of is made available each year from nature's inexhaustible making pork without recourse to the corn crib ever since supply, the rest must be supplied, and if he takes it out I can remember, and have never found any system which faster than it is renewed, his crops will fail. How sad it

exactly fulfilled my requirements. is to see a farmer plow, cultivate, sow, harvest and thresh PERCIVAL HICKS. half a crop from a field, when with the same amount of Matthews Co., Va. fabor he could have prevented his field from loafing, by The comment on Professor Massey's remarks on Dr. supplying the amount of plant food needed to grow a full Stubbs' article is founded on a mistake made by the crop, as is done by successful farmers all over the country. printers, and is, therefore, inapplicable. Professor Massey What to use can only be found out by experience and wrote "Phosphoric Acid," and the printer made this "Pot- advice from the experiment stations and practical farm- ash." The mistake was corrected, but the correction was ers, but if clover and other legumes are grown, and a overlooked. Professor Massey calls attention to this in large amount of manure made, very little nitrogen will be this issue.—Ed. needed. But it is probable that the mineral plant food will be deficient, especially potash and phosphoric acid, which THOSE LOAFING ACRES. can be obtained separately as potash salt's and acid phos- Editor Southern Planter: phate, or in mixture, prepared especially for those farm- ers who rely on atmospheric nitrogen. As a usual thing, How many loafing acres have you that are not yielding however, the latter class of farmers have fewer loafing a profit, nor even making taxes and interest? clean fields . aces, and they produce maximum crops on Every day, as I travel over the country I see fields supplied with sufficient potash, phosphoric acid and nit- which are claifned to be worth a hundred dollars per acre, rogen, as shown by carefully conducted tests with the with a swale running across, a couple of stone piles in plant food elements. To the farmer with loafing acres 1 a corner, or a few scrawny, half dead apple trees scat- can only say: Get rid of loafing acres and other loose tered over them. These acres are loafing ,and what is ends first, then you will be in a position to emulate the worse, not only loafing, but costing the farmer hard- example of the " close to nature farmer." earned money every time he sends a man into the field G. FRED. MARSH. 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER 1059

CORN GROWING AND IMPROVING LAND. do not turn the furrows completely over, but edge them Editor Southern Planter: so as not to destroy the connection of the turned furrow In the January number of the Planter of this year 1 with the subsoil. In this way the capillarity of the soil Dcticed the demonstrative work being carried on by the will be maintained, and the moisture from below will rise farmers in the vicinity of Burkeville, under instructions in the land and ensure the decay of the clover crop, and from Mr. T. O. Sandy. I determined to know how this provide humus for the next crop. We greatly prefer to mode of farming applied to raising corn would do in grow some crop on the land to utilize the nitrogen gath- Southwest Virginia, so decided to try the plan on about ered by the clover, as there is risk of loss of much of five acres on my farm in Carroll county, and the experi- this by leaching if the land be left bare during the sum- ment has proved a success, though I did not follow his mer months. Better grow only half a crop of cowpeas instructions in full. I did not subsoil, and did not plow than run this risk. The acid phosphate will give you the land until early spring, but broke it from six to seven the phosphoric acid needed just as well as the bone, but inches deep. I applied lime, one ton to the acre, and har- it will De more completely used in one crop than would rowed it in; also applied 400 pounds of bone meal on two the phosphoric acid in the bone. In acid phosphate the and a half acres, and acid phosphate, sixteen per cent, phosphoric acid is immediately available. In bone it is on the other half. I find that the: corn on which the acid only slowly available, and its benefit will be seen in sev- phosphate was applied was the equal, if not better, than eral crops following the application.—Ed. where the bone meal was used. In working the crop i followed his instructions as to sowing crimson clover at COMMENTS ON OCTOBER PLANTER. the last working, and have a nice stand. I do not think Fertilizers. our seasons are long enough here to wait for the clover Editor Southern Planter: to get in full bloom before turning under, and then make In regard to Mr. Marsh's article on manures in last loss a crop of corn next summer; and, therefore, am at a month's Planter, I would suggest tnat one has to take into in how I shall proceed further. I want to put this land consideration not only the needs of his soil, but the special corn in 1910, and have been thinking that when the clover needs of the various crops. One who studies his soil as gets in bloom, which, I suppose, will be about the first Dr. Stubbs has done, may find out that he needs but one of June, that I will cut it down with my disc harrow, and of the mineral elements. Dr. Stubbs says that his soil wilts, let it remain until it then turn it under as deep needed phosphoric acid rather than potash, though I was as I can, and in September sow it back in clover, adding made last month to say that ne found potash the one I will about a bushel of rye to the acre, on which apply thing needed. But if Dr. Stubbs was growing tobacco or acre. about 400 pounds of acid phosphate to the potatoes it might be that he would find potash needed for Acid phosphate seems to answer the purpose of bone these crops.. Some of the best and most thoughtful farm- meal with equal, if not better, results for the first crop, ers in Eastern North Carolina insist that phosphoric better last longer but bone meal may be much and much acid does no good on their lands, while potash is needed. crops. I from in the end for future would like to hear And this is the difficulty with the ready-made fertil- you about this. izers. Thousands of tobacco growers are using every year C. L. HANKS. the regular 3-8-3 goods for tobacco, not understanding that Co., Va. Carroll the percentage of phosphoric acid is entirely too large, We think you should be able to grow a cowpea crop for while the percentage of potash is too small for their hay, following the turning down or cutting in of the crop, and not stopping to inquire the source of the three crimson clover if you did not wait until the clover is per cent, of potash in the article, which is generally from in full bloom, and then follow this crop with crimson the muriate, and hurtful to tobacco. But so long as farm- clover and grain mixed (wheat, oats and rye in equal ers buy fertilizer by the brand name, and without any part, one bushel to the acre, and twelve or fifteen pounds study of the needs of their soils or crops they will go of crimson clover, with an application of 300 or 400 pounds on wasting money in what they need not buy, and depend- of acid phosphate per acre). In the event of your adopting ing on fertilizers merely to get more sale crops. this course, we would cut in the crimson clover crop with Corn Culture. the disc harrow instead pf plowing it down, and drill the Mr. Grizzard would hardly sever a hog's gullet to make peas at the rate of two pecks to the acre, using the grain him grow, and does he understand that the only part of drill with every other spout stopped. Cut for hay in Aug- the root of corn or any plant that is getting food from ust or September, and then cut in the stubble and fertil- the soil is the small part out near the end of the root

ize with the disc harrow, and sow the crimson clover fibers that has root hairs on it, and that when these are and grain mixture. This would enable you to get a crop cut off the root is perfectly useless to the plant till it of good feed, and yet put the land in better condition for can make new fibers and new root hairs? Corn may the following corn crop, and this without the cost of suffer on flat land that needs drainage when cultivated two plowings. If you do not think you could succeed with level, but the cure is in draining the land. With Mr. the cowpea crop in your section—here we have no diffi- Grizzard's method there is too much human labor involved. culty in doing this—then your plan of plowing down the Farmers complain of the scarcity of labor, and yet put one crimson clover will be all right, except that you should man to one mule, and go several times in a row, when one

let it get more than wilted, or you may at that season man with two mules to a riding cultivator could do the of the year sour the land. Let it get most of the natural work faster than two men with the plows, and do it bet- moisture out of the crop before turning down, and then ter. I have grown corn on as flat land as any in South- 1C60 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER [December,

anipton county, and never ridged it up with a plow in mal bred into dairy type is to that extent a poorer beef laying by, and grew heavier crops than my neighbors who animal. Doddies often top the beef market, duals never. did so. In fact, I have made over 100 bushels of corn Salt in Hay. per acre on land behind a big dyke to keep the salt water I am glad that Editor Jackson sits down on the salt-in-

off, and I know that deep preparation and shallow culti- hay business. I have never been able to understand why vation is beat even there. Mr. Grizzard says that the people want to put salt on the hay and keep it from earth is thrown up to make a niulch. It is thrown up and drying out. Once when I was busy making ensilage, a dries out, while if it had been left level and the surface farmer came up and said, "Ain't you going to put salt

scratched, it would have held the moisture for the roots, on that stuff" , I assured him that I was not. "It will and the feeding roots down the middles would not have certainly spoil if you don't." When I opened the silo been cut, and the corn starved. He says, make the siding for feeding he came, and was astonished that the green shallow, but break the middles four inches deep. Does corn had not rotted. Salt would really have done less he realize that at that time the feeding roots have crossed harm to the silage than to hay. Let the salt-in-hay go each others rows, and running deep in the middles is with the moon and sign farming. cutting the roots of both rows? W. F. MAS SBY. Turning Down Green Crops.

Mr. Bailey wants a plow to turn down green crops. I FERTILIZER PROBLEMS.

do not, for I would never turn down a green crop in hoi Editor Southern Planter: weather for a sown crop, because of the serious danger Professor Massey, on page 871 of the October issue, of souring the soil. The only green crop I would turn takes me to task for the (according to his dictum) mis- under is crimson clover or rye, in the early spring, and take of recommending the purchase of nitrogen. for a hoed crop. While the Oliver plow is an excellent In order to set myself fairly before your readers I will one for most purposes, it chokes worse than others in digress a little, and explain what I am trying to show. this use, and the Syracuse is much better. I have had The purchase of fertility I regaru as a simple business little experience with disc plows, but I do not believe proposition. When fertilizers are high and crop mar- they will turn under a good growth. There is in use kets low, so that the nitrogen, phosphorous and potas- here for cutting sweet potato vines a revolving disc cut- sium in a bushel of corn costs more than the bushel of ter, right in front of which is an iron bar sloping back- corn will sell for, as has been largely the case for the

wards from the end of the beam to just in front of the past few years I have always advised against the ap- disc. This presses the vines down and keeps them from plication of any fertilizer to the corn crop, but when fer- riding up over the cutting disc. With something of this tilizers are cheap and corn is high, so that a farmer sort on the front of a plow beam I believe we could do may buy the nitrogen, phosphorous and potash neces- away with the chain. sary to produce a bushel of corn, pay the cost of trans- Farm Papers. portation and distribution, and the cost of marReting the Mr. Carlton hits a point that has often occurred to me. additional yield, and still find the price of a bushel of How is it that farmers will take farm papers and still corn in excess of the cost of production, it seems to follow the old ruts till some one gets them to try a me good business to increase the yield per acre as far "demonstration." The demonstrations are all right, ex- as it can be done, while leaving a margin of profit. cept that they seem to be demonstrating more how much Now, in regard to the purchase of nitrogen, I take a fertilizer a man can use than anything else. But how similar view; first, produce all you can at home in man- is it that a farmer will take a paper and not profit at ure and by the growth of legumes, then apply so much all by what he reads. That is what has always both- phosphorous and potassium as is necessary to balance the ered me. I get letters continually from farmers asking nitrogen on hand>, which will, generally speaking, be advice about matters that we have discussed over and very Ittle, but as soon as you have reached this point, over again in the papers they take and do not read. the purchase of additional phosphorous and potash is ab- There is just the trouble: the paper is taken and thrown' solutely useless, unless you also purchase nitrogen in aside and rarely read carefully, and suggestions that are due proportion, as compared with the mineral elements made for one man, but which would equally suit another required by the crop in question. are not seen by the other man till some condition impels What I protest against is the heavy application of phos- him to ask the same question that has already been an- phoric acid far in excess of the possible requirements of swered. I thoroughly believe in heavy seeding of grass the crop. Take the wheat crop, for example. Professor and clover. My neighbors used to laugh at me for sowing Massey, on page 127, of his invaluable publication "Crop a peck of clover seed per acre, but my clover was always Growing and Crop Feeding," which should be in every enough heavier than theirs to pay for the difference in farmer's library, says: "An average good crop of wheat seed many times over. Mr. Carlton's nine quarts of grass of twenty bushels per acre will remove from the soil seed will answer very well where clover is also sown. in the grain alone—and this is all we need be concerned Doddies. about, since the straw will go back on the land, 28.32 I hope that if the Doddies will give an abundance of pounds of nitrogen, 10.68 pounds of phosphoric acid, and

milk for the calf that Mr. French will let it go at that, 7.32 pounds of potash. It will be seen that the relative and not try to get them into that mythical class called importance of these food constituents is pretty much as "dual purpose," but raise them for what they are noted, they stand. But so far as nitrogen is corncerned, we the making of the finest beef in the world? A beef ani- will have enough left over in the organic matter of the 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER 1061

clover, and the manure applied to the corn crop in a quantities, that most of the goods are 6-7-5 or 6-7-6 or 7-7-7, three-year rotation to provide all the nitrogen the wheat and that nobody tries to produce any early potatoes with- will need." He then goes on to say that we must supply out a fertilizer rich in nitrogen, and that the common phosphoric acid enough to balance this nitrogen, and so demand is for 7 per cent. No man is more interested far, I agree with him; but now, let us see how much it in scientific agriculture than I am, and no one more thor- will take. We find that it will come out as follows: oughly follows out the growth of legumes between each 1100 -h .14 = 79. So, if this acid rock is really an avail- cereal, nor more painstakingly covers with sfable manure able form of P2 05, seventy-nine pounds of it will pro- every acre he ever plants in corn, but I am not so duce twenty bushels of wheat per acre, but if, on the con- immersed in my theory as to be blind to what is prac- trary the acid rock, after being applied to a soil contain- tical, and when I see whole communities buying nitrogen ing lime, and all productive soils contain some lime, re- to grow crops and making money in the transaction on verts to an Insoluble form by taking up an extra molecule one side of the bay, while on the other they are buying of lime, and becoming a tri- or tetra-calcium instead of practically nothing but acid phosphate and kainit, and a mono- or di-calcium phosphate, why, then we must neither the farms nor farmers are growing much richer,

apply enough to use up all the available lime in the why I conclude that my theories are wrong and I take soil, and still have enough over to furnish the seventy- a lesson from the practical man who is making a suc- nine pounds for our wheat crop; and, right here is my cess of his business. PERC1VAL HICKS. objection to acid phosphate. If apply it soil full we to Mathews Co., Va. of lime it tends to revert and become insoluble; and if

we apply it to soil containing little lime, it still seeks THE PLOW PROBLEM. this base in the soil, and thereby neutralizes the little alkalinity we have. In our last issue Mr. E. M. Bailey, ofi Giles county, Va., On our high, well drained lands, acid phosphate is a raised the question as to the best plow to use for doing

help in growing clover, but if we apply it year after certain kinds of work. The effect of this has been to year to our low grounds in the Tidewater section we will bring us letters from a number of subscribers and others

find that it becomes increasingly difficult to get stands of on the subject. We herewith present a selection from

clover, and that finally it refuses to grow unless the land this correspondence, which we think will be of help in has an application of lime, and that will not always re- deciding ap to the plow or plows to purchase.

store its productiveness. So then, I maintain that if acid phosphate is an available source of phosphoric acid on Editor Southern Planter: your soil, you are safe in applying seventy-nine pounds I see E. M. Bailey, of Giles county, inquires about the per acre for land that with this help, produces twenty best plow to turn under green crops. bushels of wheat, and that 158 pounds per acre should I think all farmers are too backward in giving their grow you forty bushels of wheat, and that in all cases neighbors the benefit of any information they may have where farmers apply 300 and 400 pounds per acre, they gained by experimental work or otherwise. are either furnishing more phosphorous than is needed, I will give, through your paper, my experience with a or the phosphoric acid they apply is seeking bases in disc plow. I have turned under rag weed as high as the soil that render it insoluble, in either of which cases my horses' backs and not one particle of the weed was they are making a mistake, for in the first instance, they to be seen behind the plow. I consider it the best plow had best work for some other source from which to derive that I have ever used in fallowing land. The only their phosphoric acid; and, in the second, they had best objection I have to it is that it pulls a team very hard. stop applying phosphoric acid as soon as that ceases to I also find that the ground is more easily prepared after be the controlling factor in the production of the crop, a disc plow than any other. One man and three good and apply a fertilizer so composed as to supply whatever sized horses will do more and better work -than two ordi-

is deficient in the soil. And that is the reason that l nary plowmen. have taken the trouble to compile the figures necessary As Mr. Bailey is from the adjoining county to this one,

to get at the exact requirements of crop production accord- I should think he- could use the disc as well as I do. My ing to analysis, and that is why I say that here in the land is also very rolling. Tidewater section farmers are not generally getting I am glad to see the farmers of Virginia taking more enough nitrogen from the growth of legumes to produce interest in better farming. The farmers of tlhis section the maximum crops, with nothing but acid phosphate are just now showing -more interest in better farming and Kainit, for they generally apply enough to grow them than I have ever seen, and have at last gotten together over a hundred bushels of grain per acre, were all they and organized a Farmers' Association of Sonthwest Vir- apply available, and were that the controlling factor in ginia. J. R. K. B. the production of the crop. Pulaski Co., Va. If my readers will take the trouble to vist the Eastern We commend J. R. K. B.'s remarks as to the duty of Shore where over two million dollars a year are paid out every farmer to help his fellow-farmer by giving his dn two small counties for the potato crop, and which I experience and the result of his experiments to the atten- regard as by far the most prosperous section of the State, tion of our readers. Let us hear from you so that w« and examine the analysis on the bags of fertilizer at any may make The Planter a "clearing house" of practical railroad station, he will find that these people who are agricultural information. We are glad to know of the practical and successful men are buying nitrogen in large organization of the Southwest Virginia farmers. Every 1062 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER [December, section should follow this example. Organization means of crimson clover or cowpeas with the ordinary hand mutual help and the greatest good to) the members organ- plow. Inasmuch as he mentions a Syracuse plow as well ized.—Eld. as an Oliver as failing to do the work, we feel at liberty to make reply to his article through you. Editor Southern Planter: Before going into the matter in detail, we would say I noticed Mr. Bailey's inquiry for a good plow to plow that we have at the present time an expert in the State down green crops. of Virginia who is on his way still further South. If we I will give you my experience with the disc plow. It can get hold of him in time to have him visit Mr. E. M. is the plow of all plows for sod land, plowing down pea Bailey, of Giles county, we believe he can give him con- vines, weeds, corn stalks, broom straw, wire grass, or any- siderable information and assistance. If you will kin/dly thing else with ease to the man, or it can be done by a furnish us Mr. Bailey's address, we will take steps imme- pleasure. twelve-year-old boy or girl with ease and You diately to have our expert call. Whether or not it results do not need to roll down anything ahead of it, as the disc in any business to us, the principle thing is to straighten plow will do all of that and do it better than anything out the difficulty at that particular point. It is simply else. You must not hook a pair of donkeys or goats to along the line we are pursuing of educating farmers when- it and expect to do good work. It needs a pair of good ever the opportunity arises. (We sent Mr. Bailey's mules or horses, or three of them, if you want to plow address, as requested.—Ed.) deep and do good work and not strain the horses too Going back to the subject, we would state that the much. You can regulate (the disc to plow a furrow any greatest handicap to jgood work in the Southern States width or any depth from one inch to twelve inches. to-day is the almost universal use of small plows, which I was plowing a piece of sod land near the roaJd some- are incapable of properly covering the trash where it time ago and one of my neighbors came along and stopped is very rank. The reason for this is apparent. The more me for a talk. I got off my plow and started the mules abundant the growth to be covered, the more soil there on. They went to the other end of the land, which was should be to do it, the width of the furrow being very about two hundred yards, and there a man at work turned important. Where there is no attempt to plow wider thau them in on the other side and started them, and they eight or nine inches and four or five inches deep, there came back and did as good work as if I had been with is not enough soil turned over to cover. With similar them. difficulties in the North and West to contend with, the The disc plow is the best plow I ever saw to plow new trouble is easily overcome by using a plow of sufficient land that is covered with weeds and brush, but it will capacity. take a young and active man to do that work, as the Our first and most important recommendation to the disc will throw you' as quick as a young mule when it Southern farmers is that they use plows of greater capac- strikes a stump or a root it cannot cut, though I have ity. Our second recommendation, which is nearly as seen it cut a pine knot three inches through easier than important, is that they familiarize themselves with the any man could with a sharp axe. use of a jointer. This attachment is entirely unknown I notice Mr. Bailey said his land was hilly. I think if to probably three-quarters of the Southern farmers, and he will get the Chattanooga Reversible Disc he will do of the remaining quarter, more than half cannot be made to will do, it the work perfection, and he say as I is the to believe in it. We have seen a plow of proper capacity plow of all plows. W. H. WILSON. even used in a field with a very rank growth of weeds Norfolk Co., Va. without a jointer, which left a fringe of weeds between every furrow, and by the addition of merely a jointer Editor Southern Planter: working at the proper depth, every particle of trash was In reply to your inquirer, Mr. E. M. Bailey, I will say turned under. We do not say that simply a jointer will that I have u-«d one of the Chattanooga Plow Company's overcome Mr. Bailey's troubles, but we believe it will be disc plows and have found it good for turning under any a very great assistance to him in connection with the kind of standing weeds or crop, also, for plowing hard use of a plow of more capacity. We believe that you can ground. However, if a crop is lodged and matted on the render very valuable assistance to Southern farmers by land, this plow will not stay in the ground. advocating the use of a jointer at all times. I have used for one season Clark's Cutaway Harrow If Mr. Bailey has no objection to the expense, and is (double action) shown at top of page 1039 November willing to purchase a Sulky plow, we could guarantee to Planter, and found the device most excellent, but the send him one that would do the work desired in a satis- tool itself of too light construction for use in this section. factory manner. Were I to buy another disc plow it would be Clark's We ourselves make as good a disc sulky plow as there Reversible Cutaway, as I am satisfied that the cutaway is on the market, but we would not recommend it for plow would work as much better than the solid disc plow the work mentioned. A disc plow can only be satis- as the cutaway harrow excells my old style disc harrow. factory, in the first place, in ground entirely free from Tensas Co., La. W. C. VAIL. stones of any size. The second condition is that the ground be very hard or be loose and inclined to be sandy. Editor Planter: Southern If there is any sod, or the top soil is held together by We notice in the current issue of the Southern Planter tenacious roots or weeds, the work done by a disc plow an article by one of your subscribers telling his troubles will be entirely unsatisfactory. in not being able to cover satisfactorily a rank growth To sum up, the disc plow, to do nice work, requires 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER ioea

furnishing either unusually hard and dry ground, or loose ground, pay shares or money rent, if the landlord is and in either case free from stones and 1 without a sod all supplies. covering. The reason that a disc plow will not do nice With few exceptions, they do not receive from their ten- work in sod ground is that the furrow is cut entirely ants as much as they advance. Our most prosperous land free, and the rotary motion of the disc gives it an irregu- owners in this country are those who own small farms lar fling. Sometimes the furrow will land in its proper and do not furnish homes and employment to negroes. place, but more often it is flung way over on to the On the other hand, our large land owners, who furnish unplowed ground, or back on the top of previous furrow. homes and employment to those without are doing so, in The work of after cultivation when a disc plow is used a majority of cases, at a financial loss by allowing their will be considerable. tenants to get into slack business methods. The Syracuse Plow Co. We all know that as a race the negro is the best collec- Editor Southern Planter: tor on earth and they must be taught to pay their debts and conform to a contract or else the whites must enter for informa- I have just read Mr. E. M. Bailey's desire into no contracts with them and seek other farm laborers. crops. I'll tion as to a good 'plow to plow under green In our business relations we very properly draw no dis- attention. give him my experience, and I think it worth tinction as to color, and the man who complies with his plow, with a B. F. I use a No. 463 steel beam Syracuse obligations is respected. and can at all times find a friend sufficient long Avery's moon rolling coulter and a chain to aid him in time of need. It would be an incentive to for the work I want done. I use No. 463, the next heavier the irresponsible, don't care kind of a person to know sized is better, but 463 is heavy enough for ordinary that he can only expect to receive a just compensation outfit, fear horses for steady plowing. Now, with my I for his honest efforts. Our land owners must apply bet- nothing in the shape of pea vines, clover or weeds, no ter business methods to their laborers or be not sur- choke matter how matted, tangled or high, and I'll not prised when the tax collector advertises their land. Far weeds up once in five hundred yards. I can turn under better raise trees on your land than tenants at a loss. coulter and as high as my horses' backs> but I want the In my next I will endeavor to give some of the remedies plowing you chain adjusted right. When I get through for some of our ills. FARMER, too, cannot tell what was there. Corn stalks go under, Southampton Co., "Va, and you never see or hear from them again. The trouble Mr. Bailey is having will make a man say [anything but KAFFIR CORN GROWING IN THE SOUTH. good trim, he would have his prayers, and, to keep in Editor Southern Planter: to go to a revival every ten days. I care no more for I desire to get in touch with men in Virginia "and pea vines, clover, etc., than I used to for hen weed grass. Maryland, or even in States farther South, who are exten- I wish he could see a field I plowed this year, the first sive growers of kaffir corn varieties, commonly called time in seven years (before I came here). The broom kaffir corn. There is a possibility of developing a con- sedge was waist high and pines knee high. When I was siderable market for these goods in the Eastern United through harrowing the field looked like it had been States. I am not yet entirely certain that they will be prepared for grass. I put this land in peas with acid profitable seed crops in this section, but wish to secure phosphate, and the crop you ought to see. The moon coul- the experience of men who have had them under culti- ter can be bought in Richmond. L. H. CARLTON. vation for several years. There is already a demand for King and Queen Co., Va. the goods, which at present is supplied with seed shipped from the States of the plains region. I would be very glad to have you bring this matter to the attention of FARM LABOR IN EASTERN VIRGINIA. your readers. CARLETON R. BALL, Editor Southern Planter: Dept. of Agriculture, Agronomist in Charge of Washington, D. C. Sorghum Investigations. It has been said that "the negro farm laborer does not strike for higher wages as imported white laborers would Carrots, turnips, parsnips, and cabbage are not injured be liable to do." Now, we land owners of Southampton county know from experience that as individuals they by freezing, but are improved in flavor if allowed to freeze make bargains and enter into contracts and yet quit work slightly. No house or other covering is required except that they at will without provocation. Often it is that after having be buried in a pit where the earth can come in "wintered" upon our farms, when balmy spring weather direct contact with them. A heavy covering of earth is appears, they disregard their contracts and leave for not essential, as freezing and thawing will not injure these the 'mills, factories and railways. We also know that vegetables provided they are in contact with the earth thawing. It is easier the more wages they get the more bad corn whiskey I when much to get at the vegetable they are going to drink and the fewer days they are (if the ground is not frozen hard; a covering of straw over going to work. Often is it the case that our land own- the earth mound will guard against this. ers will advance from two to three hundred dollars per For cabbages, dig long ditches wide enough to take two year to a ten dollar per month man and receive back rows of heads, or wider still where there is a large quan- only from one to two hundred dollars for the same. The tity to store. Pull up the heads and pile in the ditch with term "tenant" implies that they are working another's the stalks up. Cover with earth and round off the top land, and the difference in results is small, whether they of the mound. 1GG4 THE SOUTHERN" PLANTER [ December, Trucking, Garden and Orchard.

"TRUCK GROWERS - MEETING AND THE VIRGINIA markets. It is the custom of the produce growers to TRUCK EXPERIMENT STATION. send a committee to Liverpool, London, and other large centers to watch the selling of their products. If the Planter: Editor Southern consignment of goods reaches a commission merchant The annual meeting of the Southern Produce Company, in a damaged or unsalable condition, the committee and an association of some 350 truck growers, was held in the commission merchant, together, determine what shall the Eagle's- Hall, Norfolk, Va., October 28, 190'8. The be done with the damaged articles, thus the growers as regular order of business was dispensed with in order to, well as the commission men are represented in the deal. listen to addresses by Prof. Corbett, of the United States The advisability of the produce growers inaugurating Department of Agriculture; Mr. G. W. Koiner, Commis- some such scheme was strongly urged. the State of Virginia, and Prof. sioner of Agriculture of Processor Johnson confined his remarks to the work of the Virginia Truck Ex- T. C. Johnson, Superintendent of the Virginia Truck Experiment Station, and extended an periment Station. invitation to the members of the Association to visit the the importance of proper seed Prof. Corbett discussed station in a body. He pointed out the work of the sta- co-operative methods in selling truck selection, and of tion in controlling insects and fungous diseases, show- illustrations showing the products. He cited numerous nig two instances where the values of crops had been growing plants from seed true very great importance of doubled by proper applications of fungicides. The im- strain. The importance of to name, and of the proper portance of crop rotation, fertilizers and forage crops conditions was very strongly strains adapted to local was also emphasized. At the close of these remarks the a given variety of potatoes emphasized. The fact that Association adjourned to the Monticello Hotel, where a Maine than are others; thus used is more productive in bountiful six-course dinner was enjoyed by 150 members. have advantages when or that certain strains of cabbage At the close of dinner the members of the Association or that the Rocky Ford grown in New York or Wisconsin, took the trolley car to the Experiment Station. Represen- the high altitude and dry cantaloupe is well adapted to tatives of the station met the party at the trolley, and Region, or that cer- atmosphere of the Rocky Mountain escorted them over the farm. The barn, packing sheds in the market gardens tain varieties of tomatoes lead and implement room were the first places of interest in- will all around Chicago is no indication whatever they spected. reach an equally high state of perfection when grown The party was conducted over the grounds and through under local soil and climatic conditions. The very fact the buildings in order to get a somewhat general idea that these plants lead in their respective localities is a of the nature and scope of the station work. Then the strong indication that they are not best suited for this several points of interest were taken up more in detail. region. It was also pointed out that market gardeners The sweet potato work was both interesting and instruct- and truck growers often lose a large per cent, of their ive. The station has growing a collection of about ninety crops because the seeds they planted are of inferior va- different varieties: practically all the known American riety, or are not true to name. A truck grower cannot varieties of any importance, together with many of the afford to assume the risk of planting inferior seed when sorts grown in foreign countries. Specimens of nearly he expects to spend from $100.00 to $200.00 per acre in a!l of the varieties were arranged in several closely re- growing and marketing the crop. The speaker urged the lated groups thus greatly facilitating intelligent exami- importance and advisability of the Association growing nation. Both the good and bad points of the leading at least a large portion of the seeds used in this vicinity. varieties were discussed. Some of the heaviest yields This could be accomplished by having some of the seeds Were poor in cooking qualities, while others were lower grown locally, and the others produced under contract in in yield, but better for table use. Here were shown pota- localities where the seed reaches its highest state of per- toes varying in color from almost white to deep purple fection either at home or abroad. and red. One or two varieties of varying sizes, shapes Co-operative selling was also emphasized. There is and colors were certainly interesting to all sweet potato scarcely any other line of business in which men will growers. invest all their capital and labor to produce a marketable commodity, and then consign this commodity to a non- The work on Irish potatoes was even more interesting interested party in a distant part of the country, and ask in some respects than that on the sweet potatoes, sixty- him to sell it, and return to the producer what he three of the leading varieties having been under close pleased. In other words, men engaged in practically all study during the season. Seed for the first crop was other lines of production insist on watching closely the planted in the early spring and the mature tubers har- sale of the product as well as the production. It was vested the first week in July. From these tubers a sec- suggested that the Produce Association take up this ond planting was made in order to determine the adapta- phase of truck work as a special feature. bility of the different varieties for second crop work in Commissioner Koiner, in his remarks, gave special em- this locality. Some three or four* varieties showed a stand phasis to the methods practiced by the French market of from ninety-five to ninety-eight per cent., while others growers in selling their products in English and other fell as low as three or four per cent. It was thus shown 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER 1065 plainly that many of the popular varieties are not adapted apples, and giving confidence to the buyers. The Society to second crop work, while others are. is fortunate in having secured the attendance of Hon. A. The station has inaugurated a series of fertilizer tests MioNeill, Chief of the Division of Fruit under the Canadian that are of extreme interest to the trackers. In plan- Government, who will give the experience of Canada on ning this work an attempt was made to use practically these lines, where it has been in practice for some time. all the fertilizer ingredients known in the trucking sec (2) Adjustment of Express Rates, also a matter of vital tion. For instance it is desirable to know whether nit- •importance to our fruit growers. (3) The Future Policy rogen in the form of sulphate of ammonia, nitrate of soda, of the Society, with regard to its more extended scope dried blood, or Peruvian guano is. preferable for certain of work. In addition, we are going to have as one ot truck crops, and also what amount of the different fer- the features of the meeting an afternoon devoted to a tilizers may be used economically. The results of this Field Demonstration of Spraying in the city park, with work are interesting and instructive. It shows that much explanations by competent demonstrators. Manufacturers is yet to be learned in the practical application of fer- of sipraying outfits are invited to show the workings of tilizers to truck crops, some combinations now in use their machines, both hand and power. Three stereopticon being of very little value, while others are exceedingly lectures will be given, one at each night session. One profitable. of these will be on the best shade trees for street plant- A number of forage crops consisting of combinations ing, at the request of the Civic League. Another will- be of sorghum, Kaffir corn, cowpeas, soy beans, millet. New- a comparison of conditions existing in Pacific Coast man beans, and several other leguminous and non-legum- orchards as compared with Virginia, with samples of the inous plants were grown as catch crops to be sown after Pacific Coast apples and their manner of packing, to com- winter cabbage is harvested. The tests show that cer- pare with Virginia apples. Addresses will be made on tain combinations of cow peas and mixed sorghum yielded various' topics of horticultural interest by Hon. A. McNeill, as high as 10,700 pounds of cured forage per acre, while Ottawa, Canada; Dr. M. B. Waite, United States Depart- other combinations in which millet was substituted for ment of Agriculture; Hon. G. W. Koiner, Commissioner the sorghum yielding as low as 2,400 pounds per acre. of Agriculture, Virginia; Dr. S. W. Fletcher, Director;

This forage crop work has proven exceedingly interest- Prof. H. L. Price, Dean, and Prof. J. L. Phillips, all of ing especially to the dairyman. Blacksburg; Prof. H. E. Van Deman, the well-known hor- A high pressure spray pump, specially fitted for truck ticultural expert; Hon. Henry C. Stuart, S. B. Woods, Dr. crop work was exhibited. This machine is arranged to Emerson, Mr. W. W. Siproul, H. C. Wysor, and others, ot spray four rows at once. ' The nozzles being so placed Virginia; Mr. Wesley Webb, the well-known Secretary of that the liquid strikes the plants from the side, thus the Peninsula Horticultural Society of Delaware, and pos- wetting both the top and the bottom of the leaves. By sibly- Colonel Brackett, of the United States Department use of this arrangement the station has almost com- of Agricultural, Washington, and Dr. S. A. Robinson and pletely cleaned large cabbage plants of aphides and other Prof. Alwood, of Albemarle Co., Va. injects. In order to accomplish this, however, the liquid That the Virginia fruit exhibited by the Society at the was applied under a pressure of ninety to 100 pounds. State Fairs in North and South Carolina was admired, The members of the party were very well pleased with the subjoined letter shows. The Society was most fortu- the work accomplished by the station in the first year nate in the selection of their representative. Mr. H. C. of its existence, and expressed high hopes of its future Wysor, of Pulaski county, who installed the exhibit at usefulness. These visits which bring the station and the various Fairs, and lost no opportunity of praising the farmer into close relationship are always desir- his native State, a fine type of the Virginia gentleman, a able. Personal touch counts for a great deal in advanc- practical apple grower, and possessing tact and humor, no

ing agricultural work of any kind. "Visitors Welcome" man better fitted to fill the position could have been is one of the fundamental principles of the management selected. A good premium list has been issued for the of the station. fruit exhibit to be held in conjunction with the annual A MEMBER. meeting. Arrangements have been made with Prof. H. E. Van Deman to act as" judge of awards, a position he Fair in Richmond. Admis- ANNUAL MEETING CF VIRGINIA STATE HORTICUL- ably filled at the recent State TURAL SOCIETY. sion to all sessions (except that set apart for executive business) will be free to the public, who are cordially Editor Southern Planter: invited to attend. Special arrangements have been made The annual meeting of this Society will be held in the for members of the Society at the leading hotels, and Y. M. C. A. Hall, and the fruit exhibit in the Masonic the Lynchburg Traction Co. will transfer the members Temple, Lynchburg, on January 6th, 7th and 8th, next. to and from the City Park for the Field Demonstration The scope of the Society's work having been so much free of charge. A strong local committee headed by Hon. extended this year necessitates a three-days' meeting in- George E. Murrell, President of the Society, will look after stead of only two, as in previous years. The three prin- the entertainment of the visiting members. ciple subjects for discussion are (1) Fruit Packing, reports Crozet, Albemarle Co., Va, WALTER WHATELY, of experience of the first year's working of the two Pack- Secy. & Treas. State Horticultural Society. ers' Associations, and plans for the future working on November 16, 1908. these lines. This guarantee of packing up to grade marked is the very best means of increasing the demand for our The following letter, received by Mr. Walter Whately, L066 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER [December,

of Crozet, speaks for itself. Several Albemarle county the matter and in the way of making arrangements, plac- growers were represented by exhibits in this collection: ing fruit and showing it to the best aJdlvantage. N. C. State Fair, West Raleigh, N. C, Oct., 1908. This year we were hardly prepared for the exhibit, as Mr. Walter Whately, Secy., I did not know what was coming until recently. Next Va. State Horticultural Society, Crozet, Va. year we shall have far more room and far better facili- Dear Sir: —The Virginia fruit exhibit at our State Pair ties for such an exhibit, and we would be glad indeed to is indeed a very creditable one. 1 am very glad that you see an exhibit from you again. had this fruit sent down here, as it is helping out our I was very glad to meet Mr. Wysor, who is looking after exhibit wonderfully, and it is also an eye opener to many your exhibit in fine shape. With best wishes, I am, North Carolina farmers, showing them that excel- of our Yours truly, F. C. REINER, lent fruit can be grown in the mountains of the South. Director Horticultural Exhibits of State Fair. I hope that you will continue to make an exhibit here in future years. We shall do everything to help you in This is indeed encouragement.—Ed.

HOME-MADE SOLUBLE OILS FOR USE AGAINST SAN JOSE SCALE. Editor Southern Planter:

The lime-sulphur preparation has many advantages over the prepared oils, by no means the least being its cheapness, the cost being about one-third. It also has the advantage in that it controls peach leaf curl, if applied before the touds swell in the spring,' and helps in a general way to clean up and improve the condition of the trees. It has yet to be proved that the oils do not act in the opposite way, and that repeated applications of oil would not he a serious detriment to the trees. Lime-sulphur Ts a little more trouble to

prepare. If it is to be used in large quan- tity, a steam outfit may be desirable, though the method of cooking in kettles over an arch is very satisfactory. Both should, of course, be applied thoroughly, so as to coat every part of the tree. The accompanying cut shows an orchard well sprayed with lime-sulphur. If a long hose and rod are used in applying lime-sulphur, cation was made at a strength of one to twelve of water. and care is taken in making the application, it is not The results were not quite as good where it was used at necessarily such a disagreeable material to handle. one to fourteen, except on a tree where the application A method of preparing oils at home is now coming into wad very thorough. use, the product being known as the Home-Made Soluble Mr. Green used about four thousand gallons of this ( Oils. These oils were tested by us last spring and proved emulsion, diluted one to fourteen, the past spring, with to be just about as effective as the prepared oils and the fairly satisfactory results, but we cannot recommend its cost is about one-third. We tested three formulae that dif- use weaker than one part to twelve parts of water. fer in the kinds of oil to be made soluble each being about The method of preparation is a little more complicated equally effective if the same per cent, of oil is used. than lime-sulphur, because of the fact that more materi- There is a slight difference in favor of formula No. Ill, als enter into its composition, but the operation is not dif- in which paraffine oil is used, but the cost is also a little ficult. There are three distinct processes in making this greater. spray material: Orchard tests of these oils prepared by formula No. Ill First, making the soap solution.

were made by W. J. Price, of this office, March 4, 1908, in Second, adding the required amount of oils and water the apple orchards of Melvin Green, located near Win- to make the soluble oil. chester, Va. Two plots, each containing fifty six-year Third, diluting the soluble oil with water to make the trees, were sprayed with this material at the rate of one emulsion ready for applying to the trees. part to twelve parts of water and one to fourteen parts No heat is needed except in making the soap solution, of water, respectively. and in this the material is easier to handle than lime- No injury was observed to any of the trees. Examina- siflphur, but it is easier to make up a small lot of lime- tions August 30, 1908, indicated that 99 1-5 per cent, of the sulphur than of the oil. If some one will prepare the

insects (San Jose scale) had been killed where the appli- material for the entire neighborhood it can be used very 1067 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER

not know what sunshine is in late fall and winter. Look- nicely on small orchards, as it will keep almost indefin- ing out over the lake one does not see the sharp skyline itely. we see on the Eastern seaside, but water anli1 sky seem It does not seem necessary to go into methods of prep- .mingle into a smoky haze. aration, since the report on this work is now in press, and to If they can make money growing vegetables under glass can be obtained in a short time by addressing the State climate, could i.i Entomologist, Blacksburg, Va. in that murky winter what the growers the upper South do with greenhouses in their abounding Trees infesteld! with San Jose scale should be sprayed sunshine! day the truckers of Southeast Virginia each year during the dormant season. It is best to apply Some and North Carolina will understand the advantage they the spray in the fall, since the weather is usually more have, then there will be a real competition in winter favorable at that time, and one is not so rushed with other and products, with the advantage in favor of the Southern work. J. L. PHILLIPS, Association Blacksburg, Va. State Entomologist. men. The organization of the was E. A. Dun- bar, of Ohio, President; S. J. Perry, of Michigan, Vice- MARKET GARDENERS ORGANIZE. President; S. W. Severance, of Kentucky, Secretary; S. B. Chester, of Ohio, Treasurer. Various directors were also Editor Southern Planter: chosen as an Executive Board, and a Vice-Fresident for On the 30th of October, from one hundred and fifty to each State. The Market Growers Journal of Louisville, two hundred earnest men met in the city of Cleveland, Ky'., was chosen as the organ of the Association. As a Ohio, for the purpose of organizing a national associa- member of the Executive Board and Vice-President for tion that will take to all the truckers, station investi- Maryland, I hope to get our truckers to take an interest gators in horticulture and editors of journals engaged in in the new Association and add to it members from the the promotion of horticultural work. trucking sections of the South. W. F. MASSEY. There were representative gardeners from Massachu- setts, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio, Kentucky, THE CURING AND THE MARKETING OF TOBACCO Indiana, Illinois and Michigan, and the result was the IN THE NORTHERN NECK OF VIRGINIA organization of the "Association of Greenhouse Vegetable IN 1796. Growers and Market Gardeners of America," an ambitious Editor Southern Planter: title, and one which, it is hoped, will expand to gather in Isaac Weld, an Englishman, an exceptionally well in- all the men North and South who are engaged in market formed and accurate observer, who made a tour of this gardening either out doors or under glass. As represent- country in 1795, 179G, and 1797, published at London in ing the South, I felt that I was going into the "enemies 1800 two volumes of American Notes. He was in the country," but the men gathered there from the North gave Northern Neck of Virginia the spring of 1796 and writes earnest attention to what I had to say about the advan- as follows of the method of handling tobacco there: tages of the South. "When arrived at maturity which is generally about the The first morning session was spent in an interchange plants are cut driven of views and the appointment of a committee on Consti- month of August, the down, pegs are tution to report the following day. In the afternoon, into the stems, and they are hung up in large houses, under the guidance of one of the larger growers there, built for the purpose, to dry. If the weather is not favor- able for leaves, fires lighted, the Mr. Reutneke, we all went in wagons and motor cars out drying the are then and into the market garden suburbs of Cleveland and examined smoke is suffered to circulate between the plants; this is place after place. We found growers there with acres also sometimes done to give the leaves a browner color under glass and all devoted to the growing of the Grand than what they have naturally. After this they are tied Rapids lettuce, and I saw at once there was here no com- up in bunches of six or seven leaves each, and thrown in petition with our North Carolina lettuce growers, for they heaps to sweat; then they are again dried. When suffi- . could not sell that sort of lettuce in the Eastern markets ciently cured, the bundles are packed, by means of presses, if they grew it, for the markets of New York and Phila- in hogsheads capable of containing eight hundred or one delphia demand a heading lettuce, while the Western cities thousand pounds weight. The planters send the tobacco

take the loose, curly Grand Rapids. In this I think they thus packed to the nearest shipping town, where before

are right, for I grow it for my own use and prefer it exportation, it is examined by an inspector appointed for to the head lettuce, for when slightly crowded the leaves the purpose, who gives a certificate to' warrant the ship-

blanch finely and are far more tender than those of the ping of it, if it is sound and merchantable, if not, he head lettuce. But in growing for market the gardener sends it back to the owner. The inspectors are all sworn, must grow what his market wants,, and the Eastern mar- are paid by the State, and are not suffered to take any kets want head lettuce, and the grower cannot afford fees from any individual. Skilful merchants can accur- to do missionary work and teach them better. ately tell the quality of the tobacco from knowing the

But seeing acre after acre of lettuce in these green- warehouse at which it has been inspected. houses, and hearing that at Ashtabula the culture was much Where the roads are good and dry, tobacco is sent larger, one wonders who will eat all the lettuce. I saw to the warehouses in a singular manner. Two large pins them cutting for market Grand Rapids lettuce from their of wood are driven into either end of the hogshead, by greenhouses no larger than I have at home out doors, and way of axies; a pair of shafts, made for the purpose, are I realized the advantage of a little more sunshine. In attached to these, and the hogshead is thus drawn along fact, it seemed to rnie at Cleveland, and it has seemed by one or two horses; when this is done great care is before at Chicago, that up there on the Lakes they do I taken to have the hoops very strong. Prince Edward County, Va. ALFRED J. MORRISON. a

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Live Stock and Dairy.

MAKING CHEAP PORK WITH GRAZING CROPS. made a gain of .88 of a pound per head per day, which (Continued from November issue.) it is plain to see, would effect a considerable saving in Editor Southern Planter: the grain where a large number of hogs are handled. A Review of the Experimental Data on Hog Grazing. review of some of the more important investigations A Average Food eaten STATION. Rations Fed. Per 100 los. will Dai.y Gain with regard to pasturing hogs not be out of place, gain. though, strange to say, this important subject has not

received the attention which it merits. In certain Virginia Rape* experiments ma'de by the writer the yield of pork per Alabama i urn Meal and Rape. .56 290 Wisconsin Corn 2. -Middlings 1, Rape 1.07 362 from various crops as follows - winter acre was With Wis-cunsin. Corn 2 Middlings 1 Clover 1 00 390 oats sown early the previous fall, 643 pounds; with Whip- V\ isconsin Ci rn Meal & Middlirgs equal pt- .71 437 W iSLOi-sin. Corn Meal, Middlings and Rape.. .88 420 poorwill cowpeas, 562 pounds; with sorghum, 400 pounds, and with soy beans, 600 pounds. The hogs were con- *Rut litt:e more ttjan maim aired. > s2'3 o _ bo region ft is doubt- -r grade animals are used. In the peanut C3 o o> Q ful if the farmer who can obtain seventy-five to 100 bush- U ah Gain ."4 430 els per acre, and from two to four cents per pound for Utah 1.21 3*5 Utah 1.22 400 the cured nuts c an afford to utilize them for the pur- Utah Wheat and Alfalfa..- 1.30 376 Utah pose of grazing hogs, even where he is curing fancy hams, but soy beans and cowpeas make excellent sub- But little more than maintained stitutes, and, of course, the hogs will gain a good deal' Rape and Adjuncts. on the nuts which are overlooked by the harvest hands. In certain experiments made at the Virginia Station a 0> a br year ago, it appeared that rape in a luxuriant condition d be STATION. Rations Fed. was a maintenance ration for brood sows. At the Ala a; >> < d bama Station, where rape and corn-meal were fed, th? Q gain per head per day amounted to .56 of a pound, Arkansas Peam ts .57 1252 showing that cheap gains can be made from this com .:-<5 592 Arkansas Com .n 436 bination. In Wisconsin rape was fed with two parts of Grain Raili n: < oin Meal 2, Cowpeas 1. 50 188 corn and one part of middlings, and a gain of 1.07 1 pounds .41 Alabama rimia> made. Where the hogs were grazed on clover with the y2 Grain V a 'ion: Corn Mea 2 Cowpeas 1 1.46 — same grain ration a gain of one pound per head per day 1.36 ** was made. At the same station hogs fed grain and mid- dlings malde a gain of .71 of a pound per head per day. Sorghum and Miscellaneous Crops. Another lot similarly fed, but allowed to graze on rape. Sorghum is probably a much over-estimated food for .

1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER 1069 grazing hogs, and, in the writer's judgment, cannot be this line. In tests made in Oregon it appears that arti- utilized to much aid-vantage, and is not to be compared chokes would not maintain hogs alone, but where a small

•to some other crops which might be grown with profit amount of shorts or corn meal was fed, a, fair gain might in its olace. be expected. In other words, artichokes and 3.1 pounds The feeding value of corn when combined with cow- of grain made a pound of gain where five pounds of peas was brought out nicely in an experiment made in grain would ordinarily be required. In experiments made Alabama, where the grain alone made a daily gain of .36 in Canada, it was found that an acre of artichokes, when of a pound; whereas, hogs on corn and cowpeas pasture fed in conjunction with corn meal, barley, etc., would gained .97 of a pound per head per day, or more than yield pork worth about $140.00 per acre. In experiments twice as much as on the corn alone. Thus, a good cow malde at the Missouri Station, one bushel of artichokes pea pasture would more than replace half the grain ordi- and three bushels of corn were found to be equal in narily fed. feeding value to four bushels of corn, and as artichokes Pumpkins and apples have not a very high feeding will yield anywhere from 400' to 800 bushels per acre, value for hogs, though the pumpkins are worth consid- it is quite clear that this crop can be utilized to great erably more than the apples. As by-products going to advantage for the winter grazing of these animals. waste on the farm they could be used to advantage, but B tn' they will not add much to the body weight of the ani- Ration Fed consuming unless fed with rich grain ration. STATION. mals them a Oh" There is often much inquiry as to the feeding value c a- fa a, of various forms of roots, particularly sugar beets. These

Oregon ! Artichokes and Shorts .81 309 do not seem to be worth much as food for hogs. For Canada Aitiehokes, Corn meal and mixed grain. 1.57 96 Instance, at the Montana Station, where grain alone was fed, the gain was 1.20 pounds; with grain and roots, Dry Roughness in Winter Feeding.

1.26 pounds. In comparative trials to test the value of The question is often asked to what extent dry rough- turnips, mangels, forage beets, etc., the gain in every in- ness in the form of protein hays may be fed to hogs. stance was unider one pound. Like pumpkins and apples, The answer is only in very moderate amounts. In ex- roots may be occasionally utilized, but as a daily diet periments made by the writer, an attempt was made to for hogs they do not possess a high feeding value, and use silage and chopped pea hay. The results were nega- their place could be taken to advantage by some other tive. In elaborate experiments made to test the value of foodstuff. alfalfa hay, it was found that only about one pound of hay would be consumed for from eight to ten pounds gain lbs. eaten of grain to advantage. Where hogs are confined on a STATION. Ration Fed. 100 gain. Average single grain ration of a fattening and enervating nature Dally Food per like corn, a little finely chopped, or ground, hay will often prove palatable and acceptable, and will min- Sorghum: Corn Meal 2, Cowpeas 1 .71 328 .36 586 imize the cost of the ration to some extent. Whenever .97 307 animals can be induced to eat a moderate amount of

it will Sweet and Irish Potatoes. roughness, be an advantage, but a large amount cannot fed Irish potatoes are sometimes utilized as food for hogs. be with success, for the animals will not When fed raw they are practically worthless; when cooked consume it. they make but little gain. Sweet potatoes are often re- C BO commended as a food for hogs, but in experiments made ccj o STATION. Kation Fed. c - — in various States, they have not sustained the claims O 0> sometimes made for them by farmers. The only favor- D fc. a. able report on their use is from South Carolina, where 1.08 528 it was estimated that 200 bushels of sweet potatoes would Grain and Alfalfa Hay 1.13 544 produce about 370' pounds of pork. In nearly all other The foregoing presents a brief summary of the instances the gain from their use was slight. It is quite more facts obtained clear that sweet potatoes will not prove profitable as a important with reference to the feeding anld grazing of hogs, and shows to grazing crop for hogs, and should not be utilized. the mind of the writer that where intelligence and care are exercised, grain may 0>X2— be made to go at least twice or three times as far as * -.' Fed. 0)0 C3 STATION. Ration it ordinarily does; that after all, there are only a com- > — O *» br O 0} paratively few crops well suited for grazing by hogs, and Q * a. these can be almost universally cultivated with success Grain 1.20 S3 7 and with the greatest ease on the part of tne farmer. Grain and Roots 1.26 426 Cooked Iri^h Potatoes . It is quite clear that with a rational system of hog pas- Skim Milk and Meal... 1.00 289 Sweet Potatoes .86 3247 tures, that twice or three times as many animals could be maintained on the corn and grain raised as at the pres- Artichokes for the Winter. ent time; and, of course, there are unlimited opportuni- While artichokes are generally recommended as a food ties for extending the cultivation of corn and other im- for hogs, comparatively little work has been done along portant cereals. It is also well established that pork of 5

1070 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER [December, the highest quality can be made on these grazing crops, vestigations covering the value of corn and skim milk and that dairy by-products are not essential in hog for fattening swine:

. ' _,_; raising. .e-i

i—i sheep that it is per 100 pounds. As the hogs usted in this experiment not necessary to incur any risk by feeding it to hogs. were purchased in a half-fat condition from a farmer, Cotton seed meal has one advantage which should not and sold when fattened at a good profit, it is further evi- be overlooked, in that it seems to produce a harder, dence that the farmer can utilize all the by-products on firmer bacon, which is a very important matter, as some his farm to good advantage, and should finish his hogs other crops which are utilized largely for grazing, notably before selling them. peanuts, make soft pork. Corn, as a rule, has been used Corn, Dairy By-Products and Protein Foods. to harden up the flesh, and has seemed to be very satis- It was thought for a long time that corn meal and skim factory up to the present time. In Canada, where export milk furnished an ideal ration for hogs. Later investi- bacon of a high quality is made for the English market, gations have indicated that corn meal skim milk and barley has been used for the hardening process to great some protein meal will give still better results. To de- advantage, and as barley can be grown as a winter crop termine this point a series of experiments were made by with success in the South, its cultivation might be prop- the writer with the following results: erly extended, and in the course of time it should be- come an important adjunct in feeding. O-C. 05 RATION. ox Winter Maintenance and Finishing. a a O M EH In conclusion, it will be proper to call attention to some investigations made to ascertain the cost of fatten- Corn meal and water .50 81.05 118.7 orn meal 1, Skim milk 8 1.35 4.96 309.0 ing hogs during the winter, for it will sometimes happen Corn meal 2, Wheat meal 1, S. Milk 8. 1.30 4.13 304.3 Corn meal 2, Soy beans 1, S. milk 8 1.30 3.38 307.0 that they cannot be finished on grazing crops alone. As Corn meal 2. Wheat meal 1, S. milk 3. 1.35 7 63 813. a rule, an attempt is made to fatten them on corn meal Corn meal 2, Wheat meal 1, S. milk 9. 1.40 6.62 330.7 straight. This, as the following results will show, is a Notice that the cost of a pound of gain was much mistake. Five lots of hogs were fed as follows two greater with the corn meal and water, than with any winters ago, at the Virginia Station: Lot 1 receiving other ration, and notwithstanding the fact that soy beans corn meal and water, gained .24 of a pound! per head per were charged up to the hogs at a high price, it still day; lot 2, corn meal, two parts, and middlings, one part, proved an economical ration; and where wheat meal was gained .67 of a pound; lot 3, corn meal, one part, and used in addition to corn meal and skim milk, the net middlings, two parts, gained .86 of a pound; lot 4, corn cost of a pound of gain was the same for bota rations. meal, one part, and middlings, one part, gained 1.35 Observe, however, that the hogs receiving corn meal, pounds; lot 5, shelled corn, one part, and mildkllings, one wheat meal and skim milk made a larger profit than part, gained 1.26 pounds. From these results it is clearly those receiving corn meal and skim milk alone. It is evident that corn meal by itself is not a good fattening evident from these facts, as well as some previously feed for hogs, much less satisfactory as a maintenance

1 stated , that better results will follow the use of corn ration; but that when combined with middlings excellent meal and some protein meal with or without skiim milk, results will be obtained, and it is economy to make the as the combination insures larger gains at a lower cost combination suggested. and a superior quality of hams and bacon. There is thus everything to encourage the breeder and Corn and Dairy By-Products. feeder of hogs in the South, whether he contemplates In the following table is given a summary of some in- finishing his animals on pasture or in pens during the 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER 1071 winter. The cheapest pork and the largest profit will Digestible Nutrients in One Ton. always be made from the proper utilization of grazing Gluten feed consists largely of the whole grain less a crops, and this is the method, according to the evidence part of the -starch, and because of its fine physiological presented, which should be followed by our farmers. condition and richness in fat and protein, it is well adapted

There is a bright future ahead, for those who engage in for use with other less concentrated grains in the pre- hog ranching and follow it up along intelligent lines. parations of rations for beef and dairy cattle. In feeding A. M. SOULE. experiments it has shown up favorably in comparison Agricultural College, Ga. with cotton seed! meal and linseed meal, though not so rich in digestible protein as these substances. Gluten FEEDING CORN AND BY-PRODUCTS. meal, which does not contain the hull and germ, is very (Continued from November issue.) valuable as a source of fat and protein, and can be fed Editor Southern Planter: similarly to gluten feed, though owing to its richness, By-Products of the Corn Grain. only moderate quantities should be used in rations for Corn is extensively used in manufacturing various dairy cows. Corn oil meal or cake consists of the pressed forms of food for man and beast. As a result, there are germ of the corn grain, and is very rich in fat and pro- a number of important by-products derived from this tein. Only moderate amounts should be fed per day. cereal which are worthy of consideration, and attention Corn bran and corn germ, which consist chiefly of hulls is especially attracted to these for the reason that it and germ, are rich in fat and carbohydrates, and make is clearly evident from this resume of investigations as very good substitutes for corn meal. Hominy meal, con- to the feeding value of corn that some concentrate should sisting of the softer parts of the grain, contains less be fed along with it, for nearly all classes of live stock, water than corn meal, one to two per cent, more protein, and practically under all circumstances. If it is neces- and twice as much fat, due to the presence of a consid- sary for the farmer to buy something to feed in con- erable proportion of the corn germ. Hominy meal is nection with corn, the question naturally arises asi to rated as having ten per cent, greater feeding value than what he should use. He should first grow and utilize as corn meal. The extensive series of by-products result- extensively as possible the leguminous crops, which are ing from the manufacture of corn into palatable forms rich in digestible protein. It has been conclusively shown of food for man can be fed advantageously on the aver- that these can be made to take the place of a very con- age farm, especially as a number of them are rich in siderable amount of the high-priced protein foods which protein, and hence, combine admirably with corn. have hitherto been purchased and used in connection In conclusion, both corn fodder and corn stover can be with corn in feeding all classes of farm live stock. This utilized extensively and profitably for the winter mainte- is a point of such vital economic importance that it can- nance of live stock kept on the average farm. Their feed- not be emphasized too strongly. ing value is not as generally appreciated as it should If leguminous crops fail or are unavailable for one be, for a review of the situation reveals the fact that reason or another, some other forms of concentrates must shredded stover and corn fodder can be made under fav- be used, and it is frequently desirable to use some sub- orable conditions to replace timothy hay. Corn of itself stance rich in protein, and those foods classed as high- is an unequalled food for fattening purposes, but not protein foods would be the ones tne intelligent farmer being well balanced, it will give better results when fed to would select to supplement his ioods. Among the most beef and dairy cattle, in combination with cotton seed important of these would be cotton seed meal, linseed meal, or some leguminous hay, like alfalfa or red clover. meal and gluten meal, the latter being a corn by-product For hogs, corn in combination with skim milk, or some obtained in the manufacture of corn starch. As a rule, protein food-stuff, like wheat or soy bean meal, gives cotton seed meal will be the cheapest and most desirable much better results than when fed by itself. of these to purchase, especially in the South. Linseed These views are somewhat at variance with those held meal and gluten meal will probably be cheaper, and as by many farmers, but they are based on experimental satisfactory in proportion to use in the West and North- data, and on that account should carry conviction to the west. mind of the average man. The digestible nutrients in the principal corn by-pro- A. M. SOULE. ducts is shown below, and some notes on their feeding Agricultural College, Ga. value will not be out of place. That the value of gluten feed may be properly estimated, the digestible constitu- ABERDEEN ANGUS CATTLE. ents in a ton of cotton seed meal and linseed meal •are Editor Southern Planter:

also shown in this table: In the November issue of the Planter, I -see Mr. French's article on Angus as milkers. I can substantiate what Brother French says in regard to the Angus cows as 'milkers. I also have raised calves weighing 500 pounds w at five month old, with nothing except their mother's

milk, and I have made as good calves as I have seen Corn bran 148 1196 92 Cluten meal 516 866 220 anywhere, on one-half of the milk and no feed. I never Germ meal 180 1224 124 Hominy Chops.., 150 11P4 136 have had a bad milker since I have owned an Angus Linseed meal 564 802 56 herd. I know of of the Cotton seed meal 744 338 244 some herds beef breeds in my section that do not supply the family in milk and but- —

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ttr, rliHt are treble the size of my Angus herd. There son, $15.00. Eighth—No. 269, Belle of Virginia, sow, to are grade Angus cows in my county that cannot be T. J. King & Co., $13.50. Ninth—No. 30'6, Lady Bedford, bought for $100.00, on account of their milking qualities. sow, to J. C. Kidd, $14.50. Tenth—No. 307, Count of Bed-

I know they are not generally considered good milkers ford, boar, to J. C. Lawson, $10.00. by those who have never tested them. All I ask is for a

trial. I have a neighbor who owns twelve acres of land, and lives on the mountain, who keeps three or four half- THE FUTURE OF CATTLE IMPROVEMENT. bred Angus cows, and makes butter to sell. He tells me If the beef cattle breeders of America have not wholly that he would not exchange them for any other breed ceased to think, they will soberly confront a few startling that he has tried, and says they winter and do better on facts and govern themselves accordingly.

a. third less feed. BELL. Meritorious cattle of all the breeds are bringing low Pulaski Co., Va. prices at sales. Soma have been sacrificed on the bargain counter. Trade in general is at a low ebb. Many holders AUCTION SALE OF BERKSHIRE HOGS AT THE of pedigre": beef cattle, who made a well-intentioned start VIRGINiA STATE FAIR. in the industry when prices were on a much higher level, On Wednesday, October 8th, 1908, there was an, auction are discouraged. Some of them are throwing over their sale of Berkshire hogs held in the swine pavilion of the stocks at much sacrifice. Incalculable damage has been State Fair. There were a fine lot of excellent hogs done the entire movement which makes for beef cattle offered for sale, but the prices received were exceedingly improvement in this country. poor, in many cases being no better than pork prices. Causes are plain. A severe and widespread drouth, the One cause of the low prices was due to the fact that disastrous effect of which few people appreciate to its full there were too many boars offered for sale, and too few measure, is the chief cause. The long-continued high price sows. The sows were in the greatest demand, and of corn and other grains contributes a material factor; brought better prices, but even they brought exceedingly the panic with its consequent slackening of the wheels low figures. of commerce and lessening of consumptive capacity, and Those desiring registered Berkshires missed a golden the fall in price of market cattle following the industrial opportunity of getting fine hogs at exceedingly low fig- paralysis, all contributed elements which have affected un- ures. It is to be hoped that at the sale at the Fair next favorably the business of the pedigree cattle breeder. A year the buyers will turn out in force, and get fine stock lightening of the ballast of -the ship has resulted. We have at their own prices. pleaded with breeders against needless sacrifice, but at The hogs sold were as follows: such times all appeals fall on dull ears. Sold by Moore's Brook Sanitarium Co., Charlottesville, But even the blindest must see a great light in the facts Va.: First—British Lord, three-year-old boar, to W. H. and figures now available. A mighty nation, suddenly Brauer, $26.00. Second King of the Brook, two-year-old — stayed in its onrushing upbuilding that was watched by A. Willeroy, $26.00'. King II., boar, to W. Third—Lady's the world with wonder, has incontestably begun again to yearling boar, to T. J. King Co., $21.00. Fourth—Bon- & gather impulse. Like a huge grayhound of the sea, which nie's King, under six months' boar, Dr. F. A. Pettit, $11.50. strikes its iron prow against a rock, and with reversed Fifth Bonnie's King II., under six months' boar, to S. — engines reels under the shock, but is quickly pulled off un- R. Carter, $11.00. Sixth Bonnie's King III., under six — scathed and trembles again under the forward movement, months' boar, to J. C. Kidd, $12.50. Seventh—Princess' so industrial America has survived the shock of its finan- King, under six months' boar, to W. B. Wood, $11.00. cial distress and Dounds forward to material development, Sold by Mr. W. A. Willeroy, Romancoke, Va.: First interrupted but not destroyed by the panic. This means Pride of the Farm, under twelve months' boar, to W. H. a maximum consumption by an imperial people whose

Brauer , $10.00. Second—Leone's Son, under twelve standard of living is the highest in the world. Meat is months' boar, to W. H. Brauer, $10.00. Third—Forgot- the fundamental basis of its daily rations. ten's Lad, boar, under twelve months, to W. H. Brauer, The law of supply and demand is seldom suspended, $5.00. Fourth—Maiden Mattaponi, sow, under twelve never abrogated. Demand is beginning its march toward months, to T. J. King & Co., $11.00. Fifth—Lass Forgot- the maximum. What of supply? The figures of the mar- ten, sow, under twelve months, to vV. B. Frasier, $9.50. ket place show that during the past ten months there has Sixth—Morning Mist, sow, under twelve months, to J. L. been a shortage of nearly 1,000,000 cattle at the large mar- Nuckols, $8.00. Seventh—Mark No. 94, sow, under six kets of primary receipts. If demand had been normal months, to Dr. F. A. Pettit, $8.00 only the imagination could have set limit to the price of Sold by J. H. Fraser: Sow, under one year, to J. S. beef. Liquidation has proceeded for more than two years Walker, $18.00. farm, until stand face to face with a Sold by E. L. Ross, Bedford City, Va.: First—No. 328, from range and we of such vast volume as to occasion seemingly Pride's Duke, boar, to J. T. Dawson, $12.50. Second shortage predictions of future prices of beef. Stock yards No. 360, Glen Duke, boar, to J. L. Nuckols, $7.00. Third- wild to talk 9-cent cattle and 10-cent No. 251, Silver Leaf, sow, to J. T. Lawson, $9.50. Fourth- trade does not hesitate first-named figure No. 252, Golden Leaf, sow, to W. H. Brauer, $9.40. Fifth- cattle during the next six months. The have No. 398, Count Richmond, boar, to F. A. Pettit, $8.50. was nearly reached this year and would undoubtedly Sixth—No. 234, Duke of Hilton, boar, to W. H. Frasier, been touched but for the restricted consumption.—Breed- $7.50. Seventh—No. 280, Glen Beauty, sow, to J. T. Law- ers' Gazette 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER 107a The Poultry Yard

POULTRY NOTES. first class goods, and in the next place, if everybody This month will doubtless establish a new record for would produce first class eggs and butter, the consump- prices on fresh laid white eggs, as they sold in New York tion would be enough greater to consume the supply. on November 20th, for fifty cents per dozen wholesale. The man who produces uniformly first class goods of any This means nearly six cents a piece for such eggs to the kind, always has the best class of customers, and realizes consumer. These figures show very plainly that there is top prices for his wares. The man who produces low a great shortage in cold storage eggs, and also a limited grade, shoddy goods soon sinks to the level of low grade, supply of fresh laid stock. If Southern farmers could shoddy customers. This is true of every kind and char- be made to realize the possibilities of this winter egg acter of merchantable commodities, and it is especially of fruits, dairy trade, and would unite to supply it with first-class stock, true products and eggs. the South could not only supply the Northern consumers If the farmers of Virginia and the South generally, during the winter months, but could hold a great share would grade their flocks of fowls so they would produce of the trade throughout the entire year. eggs uniform in size and color, and would feed for qual- At the same time that fancy white eggs were selling ity, then see that nothing but strictly fresh, clean eggs at fifty cents per dozen, Southern eggs were quoted at went to market, then ship to a first class market, and twenty-three to twenty-seven cents. Many people cannot sell under a guarantee, Southern eggs would sell at top understand why there should be such ,a great difference prices in a very short time. This month is a good time in these quotations. It is wholly a matter of quality. We to read and think and study. There should be a greater can, and a few of us do produce just as good eggs here feeling of unity among the farmers. There must be more in the South as can be produce1 :! anywhere, but the trouble co-operation in producing, in buying, in selling. There is that so many people are careless, and do not produce is no reason why we cannot produce as good eggs in Vir- good eggs to begin with, and then do not handle them ginia as can be produced in New York, Massachusetts, with any thought of realizing any particular prices for or Rhode Island. Our hens lay them just as fresh, the them. Many people think that eggs are eggs, and that eggs are just as large, the material is just the same, then they will sell at the market price anyway. Commission why not the price? Simply because we are too indifferent men buy eggs in two ways. First: Strictly fresh, fancy, to give the business that care and attention necessary to clean eggs, guaranteed, and common stock. These fancy get the eggs into the markets of the North in the condi- eggs come from individual shippers who have a trade- tion that the trade demands. What are these conditions? mark, name or brand on each and every crate, and the First, we must grade our hens so that the eggs will be buyer and consumer knows that every crate contains more uniform in size and color. Second, we must feed full count, and every egg just what it is represented to better. By this, I mean, we must feed a greater variety be. The general supply of eggs sell wholesale as com- of grain, vegetables, meat, etc., to give the eggs body mon stock, at a price much below the price of fancy and color. Third, we must be careful to grade the eggs eggs, yet many of those may be just as good in every as to size and color of shells, and have them clean. respect as the fancy stock, but the buyer has no guaran- Many people do not believe that this will make any dif- tee, and buys them at a risk. There are many dealers ference in the price. Try it. Take, say five dozen nice, who make a business of buying this common stock, and clean white or brown eggs, all clean and uniform in size, unpack them, candle them, clean them, and assort them in one basket, and five dozen mixed colors and sizes and into three grades, and realize a good profit. An experi- dirty and stainedj in another basket, and go into the mar- enced candler can tell strictly fresh eggs at a glance, ket in any city, and see which lot will sell first, and for also preserved eggs, cold storage, stale eggs and every the highest price. Fourth, we must put them into market other grade. By sorting, grading and cleaning these promptly, and. in an attractive way. Have your name promiscuous lots of country eggs, these dealers sell them or some brand on every package, and guarantee every under a guarantee, and consumers know exactly what egg in every package. When all this is done and con- they are buying. I have seen crates of this common tinued for a short time, Southern eggs will sell at prices stock sold at fifteen cents per dozen, and after they were equal to any. candled, sorted and washed, sell at twenty, thirty and The same is true of poultry for table use. I have seen forty cents per dozen. Many of these eggs were strictly live poultry in coops in front of provision stores in Rich- first class, but they were in bad company, and sold at mond, that for variety, equalled the colors of Joseph's the price of common stock in consequence. The price coat. Old hens, blind hens, sick hens, lame hens, lean is fixed by the lowest grade in the lot, and the producer hens, hens with scaly legs, that looked as if they were of the first class eggs received third or fourth class prices wearing felt boots, lousy hens, big hens, little hens, hens for them. of every color. Roosters, too. Lame, halt and blind. I have heard it said many times that if every one Veterans of many battles. Some with spurs large enough would produce first class eggs and first class butter, the to make hunters' horns that would call to the chase all market would be overstocked, or glutted, and the prices the hounds within many miles. I saw one old bumble- would all seek the lower level. This is absurd in the footed fellow that crowed lustily at the jollification pa- extreme. In the first place, everybody will not produce rade when Cleveland was elected in 1884. Oh! Shades. 1074 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER [December, of Delmonico! Table poultry? Is it any wonder that was in fashion, he won a place in the prize list; yet I roosters sell at thirty cents, and hens at "two bits"? Is am free to say that in my thirty-two years of experience this picture overdrawn? Halt! Let them live a few with Barred Plymouth Rocks, I never have seen the time months longer, and die of old age, rather than slay them when I would be willing to keep that prize bird in my in their dotage. A wise man said to me a few days ago, flock past the next killing day. "I love ancient history, but not when it is covered with On this question of undercolor, the farmer should not feathers. Please bring me a modern bird for Thanks- be misled. By this term is meant the color on the lower giving." Really, if we would buy some of these birds for part of each feather, the soft, downy portion. It is a table use, we could realize the truth of the old darky's well-known fact that practical men who are breeding remark about the one he picked in the "wee small hours,' Plymouth Rocks for market chickens, or for capons, select "Fore de Lawd! Dis am de rooster dat crowed when light males, which are entirely unsuited for show pur- Peter denied his Marster." No, no! Give us something poses. The very finest golden skin, and brightest yel- to tempt the palate; to please the eye; to enlarge the low legs and beaks often; yes, usually go with an under- heart and open the purse. Give us fresh eggs without color which is white or nearly white. ice, and table poultry that is modern and toothsome, and Another instance came to my attention last winter the demand will be equal to the supply, and "Thy days when the smallest Plymouth Rock hen in the line was shall be long in the land, and thy latter end be like his. awarded first prize at the Washington Show. She had CAL HUSSELMAN. considerable black in the beak, and the foundation color was more white than yellow. She also had dark spots or scales on her legs, but she had fine color points in . PRACTICAL PURE-BREDS vs. SHOW BIRDS. Editor Southern Planter: plumage, and this usually wins the ribbon. There were The season of the poultry show is upon us, and our in the same competition hens with pure golden beaks and friends, the exhibitors, will soon be advertising their win- legs, denoting much better market quality, and of larger nings. Some of your readers have asked me what I con- size, and equally uniform and pleasing surface color, hut sider the best markings for a Barred Plymouth Rook they received no awards. I do not say that the judging bred for a prize winner. In reply, I wish to say that the is poor, but I do say that we, who are breeding table Standard of perfection by which all judges are supposed poultry for market, and to improve the stock of the to be bound, or guideld, is the only official or recognized 'country, must select our stock by a standard which dif- authority on this subject, and if the revising of the stand- fers somewhat from that which the best show room judges ard were wholly in my hands, I would not make many adopt. In other words, the breeder who has a long list radical changes, except to recognize the fact that nature of premiums to his credit, does not necessarily have the intended that in this breed, the males should be lighter birds best suited to improve the flock of the practical in color than the females, and I would not give equal breeder, who keeps thoroughbreds for use as well as for weight to surface color and under-color,, for I think the pleasure. surface color, which determines the beauty of the bird, is What I have said specifically of Plymouth Rocks ap- of more importance than the under-color, which can only plies to all our American breeds which have mixed color- be seen when we have the bird in the hand, and open up ing. It seems to me that table quality, which has done the plumage with the fingers. so much to make them popular, is too much ignored in Now, it often happens that in applying the rules of the the show room, and judges are too willing to forgive a standard, and awarding prizes in the show room, the little deficiency in size, when size is. one of the vital awards in the table poultry classes: the Rocks, Wyan- characteristics of the breed. dottes, Reds, Brahmas, etc., do not go to the fowls which Personally, I seldom care to breed from a male bird have the greatest excellence for practical purposes. Let of my own breeding which will not weigh ten pounds at me give a few illustrations: maturity, the full standard weight being nine and one-half In a certain well-advertised show which I attended, pounds, and probably a large majority of Rocks now bred there was a long row of Barrel Rock cockerels. Among are falling below the standard, as there is a general ten- them was one bird which I noted at once as a cull. Why dency to sacrifice size for show rocm coloring. he should be sent to a show I could not see. His bill was The Progress of the Flock. almost dark enough for a Wyandotte, and a distinct green- The past month has been one of heavy feeding and ish tint showed all the way down the front of his legs. rather rapid growing with the 450 young Plymouth Rocks His outer color was dark also, and I knew that if dressed which we are raising. Pullets of our own breeding, he would not show the golden skin for which the Ply- hatched April 2d, began laying late in October. These mouth Rocks are so justly prized. When the male bird are the only Rocks in this neighborhood which have laid shows so much dark color in his beak and legs, the skin this fall at less than seven months, so far as I have is nearly always of a pale whitish, or nondescript color. heard. The first pullets sired by males from the Maine Well, when the judge came to score this bird, and the Experiment Station are now seven months and three days feathers were parted, it proved that the dark barring old, and have not yet laid:, but seem to be making prepara- was more distinct down next to the skin than en the sur- tions. Cockerels of this blood weighed seven and one-half face of the plumage. In fact, if each feather could have pounds at seven months old. They are of fine table been pulled out and reversed, the bird would have been quality, are maturing with fair rapidity, and nearly all better in appearance than before. So, because the cock- of them will be far larger than their .sires, and with bet- erel had rare strength in "under-color," and "under-color" ter markings. Cockerels whose colony house is so located 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER 1075 as to give mostly field range, are growing faster than half feet high in rear, seven and a half feet high in those having chiefly woods range. It takes faith in the front. They have open fronts, covered with wire, and business to keep 100 cockerels and 300 pullets on full in severe weather I drop a curtain down over opening, feed at present prices when they are yieMing nothing in and on real bleak nights use a curtain close to the roosts return. As we are aiming to keep this venture on a inside the house. In this way I never had a comb to paying basis, we may have to sell 100 1 pullets, instead of freeze at any time last winter, although we had some real wintering all, as we first planned. cold nights. I clean my houses about four times or more, The Selling Club. if needed, a year, and use plenty of slaked lime to keep

The Southern Table-Poultry Club was mentioned in my down odors and absorb moisture. I believe it very im- last letter, but as my address was not given (through portant to keep everything dry and plenty of dust in the oversight) several inquiries reached me later. We are poultry houses. Fowls are let out each day, after ten simply selling through one house, and binding ourselves o'clock in the morning, in winter time, except on snowy, to observe the rules of shipment on our distinctive Blue or very cold days. I kept my Leghorn pen up for one Label. No membership fees, nor salaries to pay. Each month at one time, and they seemed to lay better in shipper helps to establish a reputation for all. We have close confinement than any other way. The pen con- as good facilities for selling as Washington affords, and sisted of twenty-one hens and one cock. They averaged are glad to co-operate with all shippers of first-class stock fifteen eggs in January and February, and one day, when to this market. For Blue Labels address, it was down to and below Zero, I got nineteen eggs from W. A. SHERMAN. this pen. Can anyone beat that? For a winter ration, 1 Vienna, Fairfax Co., Va. feed mostly dry grain—wheat, corn and oats in straw; give them a bran mash three times a week, and keep POULTRY KEEPING ON A FARM. some grain in deep litte» all the time to keep them busy. I corn before going to Editor Southern Planter: At night feed them whole just roost. For green food, I feed cabbage, beets, potatoes, November 14th, with the snow eight inches deep and etc. Cook my potatoes and feed them hot with bran. still snowing, I am going to give the readers of the Oyster shells are kept before them all the time. The Planter my experience in the poultry business. I have question of keeping hens busy cannot be over-estimated; been raising poultry only four years, and will say I did a lazy hen is good for nothing, but the table or market. not start in it for pleasure only, and I have not been Good dry quarters make hens happy, and we should see disappointed. I am raising only two breeds, and I don't that they have such, if we want them to lay eggs this want any more, for I think they are the best. The Barred winter. They are now forty cents a dozen. Straw or leaves Plymouth Rocks and Single Comb Brown Leghorns were make a nice litter for a scratching shed, and no house is the breeds I decided upon at first, and I have never re- complete without some preparation of this kind in win- gretted my selection; as there are no two prettier or ter. Give plenty of warm water, or the dish water from more interesting breeds of fowls grown to-day. For sev- the kitchen, and milk occasionally. I sold all my hens eral years I have read with much interest accounts of down to fifty in May, while prices were good to make large profits derived from producing eggs and young chick- room for my young stock. ens for market; and describing the different modes of handling and caring for flocks, feeding, etc. Previous I hatch most of my chickens in incubators, and raise to 190'8 I flept no record of expenses or receipts. But them in brooders and with hens. This way we get all desiring to know if the large profits claimed to be made our chickens out by May 1st, and they all grow to ma- by writers in poultry papers could be realized, I decided turity about the same time. Now, one word about incu- to find out myself, and the results have been entirely bators: Buy the best at any price, and you will find satisfactory. The test was made on my farm of seventy- them cheapest in the long run. I ran a medium price three acres, uuder conditions as they exist, or could, at machine twice, and I sent it back, and you could not a small outlay, be made to exist on most of the farms give it back to me as a gift, since using the ones I have of the State. The test began January 1, 1908, and is now. I never got a fifty per cent, hatch out of it. While not completed, yet, but I am so well satisfied that I want I get from eighty-five to ninety-three per cent, hatch out to give results before a new year begins, in the hope that of ones I have now. If any of your readers care to know it will help some one to start and make money out of what kind of machines I am using, I will write and tell their farm poultry. When the test began I started with or help them in any way I can. I did not start hatching fifty hens and fifty pullets. Fifty of each breed. I kept very early last spring but want to commence this sea- one yard of each kind entirely separate from each other son the first of February. to get my eggs from to set. The rest of the flock run Now, a word about feeding young chickens. Take them together without any male birds with them. Now, I want out of incubators or from the hens in the evening, when to say I have to-day over 100 March, April and May pul- they are thirty-six hours old, and put them in brooders, lets, and twenty-five old hens, besides some to eat. So, or with hens in their coops, and feed them next morning after selling what we have done, we still have twenty-five when they are forty-eight hours old. I never feed any- more than we started with. Now, I want to tell you thing but dry feed to little ones from the first, as I the kind of houses I use. I built them myself, and am a have found they do much better when fed this way. Give great advocate of fresh air for healthy fowls. My houses them a little water in a chick fountain. Will tell you face the southeast, on a good slope, so water can run more about feeding a little later. All feed was raised away. Size of houses, twenty by twenty feet, four and a (Continued on page 1087.) 1076 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER [December,

The Horse.

NOTES. with Miss Caleta, 2:29%, who, with Mr. Winston up, had to be driven out to finish on even terms with her BY W. J. CARTER ("Broad Rock"). infantile rival. This colt is known as Sinbad at the

Mr. Winston's Fine Trotters. track, while the other yearling is a bay filly, called Sceptre and her dam is Script, by The Bondsman, sec- Of all Virginians that I recall, certainly among those ond dam Luzelle, 2:15%, one of the best three-year-olds "bred here and to the manor born, not one has shown of her year, by Patron, 2:14%,, from Rachel Ray, a great greater aptitude as a student of blood lines and pedi- brood mare, by Overstreet Wilkes. A black filly, by Oak- grees than James O. Winston, who has ever been loyal land Baron, 2:09% out of Miss Caleta, 2:29%, is another to the trotting horse. As senior member of the big con- good yearling bred by Mr. Winston and he thinks well tracting firm of Winston & Company, with offices at of her, too, as she trotted eighths in 17% seconds this Richmond, Va., and Kingston, N. Y., Mr. Winston is a fall. This filly looks much like Lady Gail Hamilton, very busy man, though his trotters furnish a lot of 2:06%, the fastest daughter of Oakland Baron. The two healthful diversion, and, for an amateur, he can team a weanlings in Dolphin's stable are both fillies, and by fast horse to a rousing good finish either on the track Sahib, one a bay, from Mabel S., and the other a brown, •or road. With the contract awarded less than twelve out of Script. All of these youngsters, well bred, are months since, and the work now well under way, the entered in The Horseman, The American Horse Breeder, Winston Brothers, James O. and Thomas S., who make The Kentucky Futurity, and other rich colt stakes. up the firm, assumed a mammoth undertaking, one rep- resenting more than thirteen millions, in building the Choice Brood Mares in the Winston Stud. Ashokan Reservoir, which will furnish the water supply for Mabel S., a good looking roan, ten years old, by Ash- New York City, some eighty miles distant. This is land Wilkes, dam Mattie Swope, 2:30, by Young Jim; one of the world's largest contracts; in fact, being second (Script, stoutly made bay, of five years, by The Bondsman, to only one other yet awarded, something to be proud dam Luzelle, 2:15%, and Miss Caleta, a brown, ten years of by these two clever Virginians who have essayed to old, by Bingen, dam Caleta, by Advertiser, 2:15%, make carry out the specifications. Mr. Winston and family now a choice trio of brood mares. Mabel S. and Script are reside at Kingston, but the works are at Brown Station, with foal by Sahib, while Mss Caleta was bred to Guy same ten miles distant, while his horses are quartered Axworthy, 2:08%, one of the fastest and handsomest sons at the Kingston Driving Park, with Thomas Dolphin in of Axworthy, 2:15%, the sire of great trotters like Ham- charge. Dolphin was formerly one of Allie Trout's as- burg Belle, 2:04%, and Genera] Watts, 2:06%, world's sistants at Maplehurst Farm, near Boston, where the champion three-year-old. Miss Caleta is a fine roadster, famous sire, Baron Wilkes, ruled as premier for years. as with speed she combines rare good manners and few At Kingston Driving Park. daughters of her famous sire are more attractive in Dolphin this Bingen at The Kingston Driving Park is right near town, and appearance. marked daughter of while Doi^hin occupies the main training barn, with some ten Poughkeepsie during the summer meeting there, or twelve horses, all of them trotters, of which Sahib, her daughter, Lady Caleta, by that wonderful sire of to record 2:23%, the brown stallion, 6, by Bingen, 2.06%, out or early speed, Peter the Great, 2:07%, trotted a five-year-old Margaret J., by Lady Ethylwyn, by Jack Daw, 2: 28%, is probably the of 2:15%. The gray mares, best Kyrillie, 2:14%, son of Kremlin, 2:07%, dam Salvage, known horse in the stable. One of the best indi- viduals by Maztlan, and Toyah, by Peter the Great, dam among the sons of his far-famed sire, Sahib came 2:26%, Jolla dam of Binjolla, by Advertiser, from to his speed early, as at two years he could better than La 2:17%, famous old Sally Benton, 2:13%, the champion four-year- 2:20 speed, while he worked a mile in 2:18 at three, one in 2:14 at old of 1883, and she out of the wonderful Palo Alto four, and his record was made at five, with a trial in around 2:14. brood mare Sontag Mohawk, dam of eight, among them This Conductor, 2:14%, grand sire of Walnut Hall, 1, 3, 2:08%, season the brown stallion trained off and when he are being driven to pole. Both mares were mated in rounded to no attempt was made to give him fast spring Sahib, Toyah missed, but Mar- work. Sons of Bingen are proving wonderfully success- the with though ful in the garet J. is plainly with foal. stud and the get of Sahib seem already to indicate vhat may be expected of Lady Ethylwyn's son as sire, Alice B. in Kentucky. a though so far he has only four foals, two of which are yearlings and the others only weanlings. Of Alice B., 2:23%, the bay mare, 8, by Idolita, 2:09%, this lot ,all bred and owned by Mr. Winston, the yearling- out of Wilbooka, 2:19%, by Wilkes Boy, 2:24%, is now in colt, out of Mabel S., by Ashland Wilkes is now an the stable of Ed. Benyon, at Lexington, Ky. This blood- impressive looking youngster, full fifteen hands high, like, elegant daughter of Idolita has lightning speed at who, with little else than mere breaking, worked eighths the trot, as she has shown better than a two-minute quite handily around 18 seconds, a 2:24 gait; in fact, clip, but she will probably be bred to Peter the Great in on a cold, windy day in November I saw Dolphin work the spring, and later become a member of the court this sturdy, well-made colt nearly that fast in company of Sahib, son of Bingen and Lady Ethlywynn. 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER 1077

HOW COLTS THRIVE IN VIRGINIA. There is only one draft horse for this country, and that Editor Southern Planter: is the Percheron." Messrs. Blain & Evans, large operators in horses, who I send you a clipping from The Breeders' Gazette of extensively in importing Clydes and October 28th: were very engaged Shires, said "the best selling horses on the market were "Your inquirer, W. H. McK., asks if 760 pounds is a grade Percherons. F. J. Berry, who has handled as many good weight for a colt at seven months of age. It is. as 27,000 horses in a year, said: "For a' draft horse, the I have a Percheron stallion colt which, at foaling time, is horse. cities all want them in pref- weighed 270 pounds, at one month, 330 pounds, at two Percheron the Our erence to any other breed." Colonel J. S. Cooper, one months, 400, and at four months, 615 pounds. I have also of the largest dealers in the United States, said: "For a filly which, at three months, weighed 435, and at five drafters the Percherons are the best of all breeds, and months, 635 pounds. Is not 270 pounds a very great " in our circulars we recommend the use of stallions or weight for a foal at birth? - this breed." Now, I don't know what our colts weighed at birth, I bring to my backing men whose business it is to but I am quite satisfied that it would have taken all but keep posted, and whose years of experience in handling two of them to equal this 270 pounds. I don't want any the Percheron on commission, should have given them 270 pounds in mine; but as we don't weigh them that to their customers, and young, cannot positively state the weight at birth. One the knowledge that they impart is of dealers, not the of our stud colts at three months tipped the beam at the public at large. It a case the opinions deserve weight, as they sell 500 pounds; at five months, 700 pounds, and at six months, breeders, whose only 780' pounds. The small gain of this last month may be on commission. F. accounted for by the fact of weaning. JOHN LEWIS. Rockingham Co., Va. A filly at two and a half months weighed 464 pounds; the conclusion that the Per- at four and a half months, 670 pounds, and at five and We have never questioned cheron was a draft horse for city work, nor that he is in a half months, 760 pounds. It is rather interesting to note the gradual closing up of the distance between her demand all the time for this purpose. Our point has been and her mate. that for a work horse on the farm the Suffolk Punch is The smallest colt we have got, at five months, weighed a better fitted, more tractable animal, with an intuitive long years oi 610 pounds, and the next one to" it, 650 pounds at the predilection for farm work, derived from same age of five months. As these two colts came in use for this purpose, and, therefore, is what we need in the last two days in May, they caught a remarkably Virginia on the farm to take the place of the light-limbed sultry time to get away, and in my experience great heat animals which are no use in handling the heavy modern if to is worse than moderate cold for a very young foal. I agricultural machinery, which must be used we are don't know whether our friend of the clipping was more compete successfully in the production of crops. From

favorably placed in the season or not. Giving it to him, these heavier Suffolk mares grade Percherons can be we can carry the odds and then win. bred which will meet the need of city buyers as above These colts had a few oats and some bran from the stated, and they will give us mules of size and weight time they would eat. And their mothers some oats from for farm and city work.—Ed. the time the pastures got bare. The pasture was just plain, ordinary, every-day Virginia broom sedge. And We have published statements of weights achieved by there is no use disguising the fact that it is broom sedge draft-bred colts owned by subscribers. A tyro in the we've got, but we are trying for better. From these re- business wants to know how it is all done. Have mares sults on broom sedge, we feel encouraged to expect some- of draft blood—the more the better—mate them with thing pretty good when we get blue grass for the mares the best draft stallions available, feed the mares liber- and their progeny. ally during pregnancy, and after the foals come give the youngsters all they will eat as soon as they will eat it. F. M. MoCLOY. Oats with the husks sieved out, or, in fact, oatmeal, Albemarle Co., Va. should be the first food given the colt as soon as he will

nibble at it. This will probably be at from four to five THE HORSE MARKETS. weeks of age. Thereafter he should have just what he Editor Southern Planter; will clean up, and in two or three weeks a trifle of bran may be added. the colt grows along to be nine I send the following views of the horse commission As or ten weeks old he have the oats prushed, and salesmen on the Chicago markets, which may prove of may interest to your readers. about a fifth of the weight of the total ration in bran. It is only a little that will eat, it will Newgass, who handles about 25,000 horses a year, said: very he but make a marvelous difference in his growth and condi- "I have a large retail trade in heavy horses which de- tion. Then the dry dusty of mands the best type of Percheron, and will have no other when and days August come along, the is breed," and that seventy-five per cent, of the draft horses and pasture bare and brown, he should sold by him to the trade were Percherons. Mr. Jacob have some green corn in order that he may not lack for succulence. he is! well accustomed to eat Koehler, who is one of the largest dealers in the Chicago When grain market, said: "There are only two kinds of horses which and at about the age of five months he may be weaned, little farmers can breed that will be sure to make them money, and what milk he was getting from his good Percherons and smooth, stylish-acting coach horses. dam at that time will make small difference to him.— Breeders' Gazette. 1078 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER [December,

Miscellaneous.

THE MAIN BARNS AND SILO, STATE FARM, LASSITBR, VA.

THE STATE (PRISON) FARM. tions. Not all of the above number o^men are available for work, as the aged, crippled, maimed and tuberculous Several years ago, in order to relieve the congestion in have to be deducted; thus his working force is not so the State Prison, also to provide a more healthful and large as appears at first sight. The farm has been well sanitary place for convicts in poor health, the State Leg- cleaned up, drained and ditched, and suitable buildings islature authorized the purchase of a farm in G-oochland erected for both men and stock. county, about thirty miles from Richmond. The land is shown at the purchased consists of considerably over 1,000 acres, and A general view of the barns and silo taken, the was a part of the estate of the late General Joseph R. head of this article. Since this photograph was covered, and is Anderson. The farm, which consists of low grounds, sec- space between the two barns has been cattle, numbering about ond low grounds and high land, lays well for easy culti- now used to house the dairy this shed vation, with pretty nearly any kind of machinery. At eighty head. A splendid result of the use of entirely that time the farm was pretty well worn, but by careful as a cow shelter is, that tuberculosis has been herd is, therefore, in an and intelligent handling, the Superintendent, Hon. T. J. gotten rid of. The entire dairy Davis, has brought the greater part of it up to a high absolutely healthy condition. state of cultivation, as evidenced by the splendid crops The silo is solid concrete, with a capacity of 300 tons, he is growing from year to year. He usually has in his and is a model of its kind. It is practically indestructible,

A BUNCH OF YOUNG MULES, STATE FARM, LASSITER, VA.

20'0 charge from to 300 men, so he is able to carry on I and should last for centuries. It is needless to say that quite extensive farming, canning and quarrying opera- 1 it keeps the silage in splendid shape, and by its use, Mr. 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER 1079

Davis can economically and handily furnish his stock Du'roc boars at an early date. Practically all the pork with plenty of succulent feed throughout the winter. raised is consumed on the place. There is plenty of room for hay in the enormous barn Where such large farming operations are undertaken shown at the left. There needs to be plenty of room for there is, of course, the problem of teams. Mr. Davis the storing of this crop, as 370 tons of first class hay has found it more profitable to raise mules than to buy was saved during the past season. them, and in consequence has on hand at present some Another profitable and extensive venture of SuperiL- twenty-nine head of unbroken mules. In the very near tendent Davis was the planting of eighty-five acres in future he will, therefore, have all the teams he wants. tomatoes from which $12,000 worth of canned goods were The farm owns its own jack. sold last year. AH of the work in connection with the There is another source of revenue to the farm, and canning is done on the place, and a strictly first clais which, by the way, finds plenty of work when the men article is put up. Indeed, we are informed that- the de- are not otherwise engaged, and that is a rock quarry. mand quite exceeds the supply at profitable figures, and Mr. Davis has had installed a rock crusher of great capa-

SOME HOME-MADE PORK, STATE FARM, LASSITER, VA. thus a tidy sum is realized, and naturally applied to the city, which he has set in front of about a quarter of a great expense of feeding, clothing and guarding the pris- mile of solid rock, which is crushed and ground into bal- oners. last and sold to the railways in enormous quantities. Another interesting crop this season was 185 acres of Perhaps some of our county supervisors may be able to about the best corn ever seen in the James River Val- persuade Mr. Davis to sell them some of this valuable ley. We "have not yet been informed as to the yield, but road-making material. He has an inexhaustible supply from reports, it must have been highly satisfactory. of rock, and it may be that after a while he will be solic- Where there are so many men to feed, the meat prob- iting orders. lem is naturally a serious one. Mr. Davis has, however, We congratulate Mr. Davis on his capable management successfully solved it with a herd of some 200 head of and the good results he is showing in all the departments hogs of Duroc-Berkshire cross. At present he is using of his work. We are quite sure that the Prison Board Berkshire boars, but will, in all probability, change to will concur in these sentiments. SHEPHERD.

FARMERS' WINTER COURSE OF LECTURES AND machinery, silo and ensilage machinery, pruning, spray- DEMONSTRATIONS AT THE AGRICULTURAL ing, etc., in the afternoon. AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE, BLACKS- No entrance examinations required. All are welcome, BURG, VIRGINIA. regardless of age or education.

In the winter of 1907-1908, the Virginia Agricultural Subjects of the Short Course.— 1, Agricultural Chemis- and Mechanical College offered for the first time to the try and Fertilizers. 2, Soils and Maintenance of Fertility. farmers of the State a short course in agriculture and 3. Farm Crogp and Rotation. 4. Farm Machinery and Im- kindred subjects. The results were satisfactory in every plements. 5. Farm Management and Book-keeping. 6. way. Farmers representing twenty-two counties in the Principles of Seed Selection. 7. Stock Breeding and Feed- State were present, and expressed enthusiastic satisfac- ing. 8. Stock Judging and Treatment. 9. Silos and En- tion with the work given. This course will be repeated, silage Machinery. 10. Dairy Principles arid Practice. 11. and lectures and demonstration work will begin Tues- Water Supply on the Farm. 12. Land Measurement and day, January 12th, and continue for four weeks, closing Leveling. 13. Poultry Breeding and Feeding. 14. Fruit February 10th. Growing and Marketing. 14. Insect Pests and Plant Di- As stated, the course will consist of lectures and demon- seases. strations—the lectures being given in the morning, and While all are advised to take the full course, it will be demonstrations of stock-judging, dairy practice, farm seen that the above list of subjects can be grouped into ——

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Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, General Dairying, and Response to Address of Welcome—Commissioner W. A. Horticulture. While not accurately divided, it may be Graham, North Carolina. . stated that, roughly speaking, General Agriculture will Report of Committee on Uniform Pure Food and Feed be given the first week, Animal Husbandry the second, Laws. Dairy Husbandry the third, and Horticulture the fourth. Address—President of the Association, T. G. Hudson, In addition to the practical instruction given during the Georgia. day, one or more illustrated lectures on popular sub- jects will be given at night during each week of the Subjects for Discussion. course. 1. Reports of Work in the Several Departments of Agri- While all of the foregoing courses are popular, rather culture during the past year, including Improvements in than technical, in their presentation, sufficient laboratory Old Lines and the Additional New Ones during the pres- instruction is given to enable any intelligent dairyman to ent year—Commissioners of Agriculture of Alabama, Ar- acquire reasonable accuracy in making a test for butter- kansas, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, North fat, and to enable any farmer to test his soils for acidity, Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia. and' his farm seeds, etc., for viability and purity. 2. The Needs of Agriculture in the South—-E. J. Watson, Expenses. Commissioner of Agriculture, South Carolina. The expenses of the farmer for this winter course of 3. The Management of a Two-Horse Southern Farm four weeks may be estimated! as follows: J. N. Harper, Director Experiment Station, South Caro- Tuition Free. lina. Board, per week $3 00 4. Uniform Regulations for the Enforcement of Feed Heat, light and laundry, per week 1 25 Laws—E. W. Magruder, Department of Agriculture, Vir- Matriculation, for course 1 00 ginia. rooms will The be furnished without charge with single 5. Uniform Regulations for the Enforcement of Food iron bedsteads. The bedding must be brought from home, Laws—Benjamin L. Purcell, Department of Agriculture, and should include pillows, sheets, blankets, and, if pos- Virginia. sible, a single mattress. Where mattresses cannot be Discussion of above two subjects—R. E. Rose, State brought from home, they can be rented here, but the Chemist, Florida. charge for three weeks' rental will be twenty-five cents. 6. LTniform Laws for Stock- Feeds and Condimental No text-books required. Foods—B. W. Kilgore and C. D. Harris, Department of Tickets should be bought over the Norfolk and Western Agriculture, North Carolina. to Christiansburg, from which point a short railroad line 7. Progress in the Execution of Food and Stock Feed of eight miles runs to Blacksburg. Farmers upon arrival Laws—R. E. Stallings, Georgia; W. F. Hand, Mississippi; should report at once at the President's office, wnere, after R. E. Rose, Florida; C. A. Moores, Tennessee. registering, quarters will be assigned. Farmer students 8. Progress Made in Tick Eradication—W. P. Ellenber- will not be subject to the usual college discipline, but are ger, United States Department of Agriculture, Washing- expected to conform to the program adopted for this ton. D. C. course, and to act as law-abiding citizens. Discussions by Tait Butler, North Carolina; H. A. Mor- Farmers can board at the hotel, or with private par- gan, Tennessee; C. A. Carey, Alabama. ties in the town where desired. We have made provision 9. Results of Demonstration Work—D. N. Barrow, in the agricultural building for approximately 100, and Clemson College, South Carolina. any one who wishes a place reserved there, at the above 10. Immigration— G. W. Koiner, Commissioner of Agri- rates, will please write in advance to culture, Virginia. DR. P. B. BARRINGER, President. 11. Demonstration Work in South Carolina—Ira Wil- Blacksburg, Va. liams, United States Department of Agriculture, Wash- We commend this subject to the attention of our read- ington, D C. ers. Either go yourself or send your sons. The cost 12. The Use of Winter Legumes—C. L. Goodrich, will be repaid a thousandfold.—Ed. United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.

MEETING OF COMMISSIONERS OF AGRICULTURE. 13. Conserving the Resources of the Commonwealth The Southern States Association of Commissioners of A. M. Souie, University of Georgia, Athens, Ga. of Industrial Agriculture and other agricultural workers held its tenth 14. The Possibility of the Production Experiment annual meeting in Nashville, Tennessee, October 20-22. Alcohol in the Southern States—B. B. Ross, There was a very good attendance at tnt meeting, in- Station, Alabama. deed, nearly all of the States were well represented. There 15. Local Agricultural, Horticultural andl Live Stock of Agri- were from Virginia, Mr. G. W. Koiner, Commissioner of Organizations—H. E. Blakeslee, Commissioner Agriculture; Dr. E. W. Magruder, State Chemist; Mr. B. culture, Mississippi. L. Purcell, Deputy Dairy and Food Commissioner; Mr. 16. The Menace of the Creamery Promoters in the Georgia. J. Rice Smith and Mr. F. B. Carpenter, both of the Vir- South—C. L. Willoughby, Experiment Station, ginia-Carolina Chemical Company. 17. The Duty of a State in Regard to Forestry—Alfred The program, an excellent one, was as follows: Ackerman, University of Georgia, Athens, G. Address of Welcome—Governor Malcolm R. Patter- 18. The Farmers' Relation to the Prosperity of a son, Tennessee. State—J. Rice Smith, Virginia. 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER 1081

19. Fertilizer Control Laws—J. T. Welch, Louisville, held at the home of each family. From the neat little Ky. program it is evident that each member has a name for 20. New Laws Needed in the South—J. A. Wilkinson, his place and that the meetings are changed from one Commissioner of Agriculture, Alabama. place to another by turns. In March, for example, the 21. Address—John Thompson, Commissioner of Agricul- the meeting is held at Laurel Glen, the home of W. G. ture, Tennessee. On some subject relating to the work of Howe; in June it is held at Willow Lawn, the home of his Department. Peter W. Hounshell. In their little booklet one page is The papers on food and feeds were the most interest- devoted to each meeting, with the name of the month ing, and brought forth most discussion. The Standing boldly at the top, place of meeting following, title of Committee on Uniform Food Laws presented draft of a paper to be read, by whom, discussion, and for after- uniform stock feed law, which was agreed to by all of noon two or three topics to be taken up. One topic may thei States represented, and the Association will endeavor interest the gentlemen exclusively an'di another be dis- to have this enacted into law as soon as possible. A cussed by the ladies.

uniform law for stock feeds for all of the Southern States The preamble to the Constitution of this littie club will be a great step in advance. is of particular interest and reads as follows: The City of Nashville and its good people entertained "Desiring to promote good fellowship and neighborly the Association most lavishly, giving them a smoker, a feeling, of securing our mutual improvement in mind and trip to The Hermitage, "Old Hickory" Jackson's old home, morals, of seeking the best methods in husbandry and and a trolley ride around the city. The meeting was a housewifery, and helping on that good time 'when our most helpful and profitable one to all in attendance- garners shall be full, affording all manner of store, and The officers for the ensuing year are: our sons shall be as plants grown up in their youth, and President—H. E. Blakesley, Commissioner of Agricul- our daughters may be as cornerstones polished after the ture, Mississippi. similitude of a palace,' we, the undersigned, do form our- First Vice-President—Captain R. E. Rose, State Chem- selves into an association known as the Black Lick Farm- ist, Florida. ers' Club, and for our government do adopt the following Second Vice-President—John Thompson, Commissioner Constitution and By-Laws." of Agriculture, Tennessee. Another idea of a club coimes from one that we know of

" Secretary-Treasurer—B. W. Kilgore, State Chemist, that is broader and yet limited in its membership, as fol- North Carolina. lows: Assistant -Secretary-Treasurer—E. W. Magruder, State "Any one actively engaged or materially interested in Chemist, Virginia. farming shall be eligible to membership. Applications The Association will meet next year in Mississippi. shall be endorsed by the Executive Committee, and an unanimous vote of the members present at any meeting THE FARMERS' CLUB. shall be necessary to election. Membership shall be lim- Editor Southern Planter: ited to fifty." The writer has always appreciated the value of farm- The object of this Farmers' Club in their ers' clubs, or agricultural societies, but special attention Constitution reads as follows: was called to their value by the recent Farmers' Insti- "The object of this club shall be to bring together enter- tute, and it really is to be regretted that some able prising young men actively engaged or materially inter- person who had the experience and advantage of being ested in farming, for the purpose of exchanging ideas, a member of a local club was not called upon to give securing the more profitable production of farm products, us an address, or at least to open the ball in a dis- and developing the agricultural resources of the State." cussion of this valuable topic. This club has annual dues to the amount of five dollars. Agricutural clubs, either county or more local, are of If the membership is kept full there would be an annual very great value in 'disseminating information, increas- income of $250 per year. If this club should meet once ing the genuine sociability of the neighborhood, assist- a month it could easily have a good speaker each time. ing their members in the more profitable conduct of farm Frequently the speakers would not cost the amount of and live stock affairs, and in developing agriculture gen- $5.00 in expenses, and when some other speaker, whose erally. These local associations would be quite as valu- expenses would be greater, was desired, more money could able in the course of the year as Farmers' Institutes. be used. Members from the Experiment Station staff and There exist now several of such local clubs in the State from the Agricultural College of Virginia (V. P. I.) would of Virginia. The writer has had the pleasure of attend- be glad to discuss various subjects for such clubs, and ing the meetings of several of such clubs and taking part the outlay for their services would only amount to their in the proceedings. expenses.

There is such an organization known as the "Black The writer recalls an agricultural club in Yorkshire, Lick Farmers' Club," located in Wythe county, but not a England, which he had the pleasure of visiting twice. county association. In fact, it is rather an exclusive one This club consisted of fifty members, each paying one and consists of but ten or twelve families, the heads of pound ($5.) annual dues, which was expended in procuring the families being the members. It is the intention of the services of a professor of agriculture who met with this club to be limited to an even twelve families. The them one evening every week, gave them a lecture, arid meetings occur once a month, and the annual program discussed the same with the club. Frequently the sub- shows the arrangement to be that one meeting is to be ject extended over two or three meetings, and at other 1082 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER [December, times a subject was taken up and finished at one meet- sit down. In the by-laws of one club there is this pro- ing. The value secured to every member of such a vision: "Members may not occupy more than ten min- club is inestimable. The profit arising froim the many utes on essay or discussion, and shall confine themselves valuable things learned and used in his business affairs to the topics under discussion, which shall have to do would many times repay the outlay of five dollars dues. with husbandry or housewifery, and should avoid alto- The interest such a club would build up in each and gether the vexed questions of politics and theology." It every member in his own affairs, would also be of great is also provided that "the refreshments shall be plain and value. A club that employs regular speakers or meets simple, and the invitations to the meetings of the club for the discussion of various subjects could perhaps bet- shall be limited to the hostess of the day." This applies ter meet at some central point where a hall, schoolhouse to the club of twelve families which visits the various or church could be secured. In a club consisting of homes in turn. It should certainly be the object of every from twenty-five to fifty members there would unques- member of such a club to carefully avoid assuming too tionably be many specialists, such as breeders of different much authority, taking more than his share of the time lines of live stock, poultry fanciers, apiarists, and others, and honors, but, on the other hand, to endeavor to do who would take up special subjects in their turn and his part in every particular. Each member of such a club discuss them fully. There should always be three or should unselfishly endeavor to give his best efforts for the four members selected who are especially interested in success of the club, and not only its general upbuildinfi, the topic to be discussed, that they might prepare them- but the strengthening and benefitting of every individual selves especially for the occasion and bring out the impor- member. The adoption of the following motto would tant features of the subject in the discussion. insure peace, harmony and good will throughout the mem- The remark of a farmer that such clubs always end in bership of such a club: dissension, misunderstandings, or in one or two wish- "There is so much good about the worst of us, ing to run the whole thing, causes me to make the sug- And so much bad about the best of us, gestion that it is well to provide in the constitution and That it behooves none of us by-laws for a change of all officers at the annual election, To talk about the rest of us." and it is doubtless advantageous to have some limitations Agricultural College, WALTER J. QUICK, in order to give long-winded brethren an opportunity to Blacksburg, Va. Prof, of Animal Husbandry.

THE "LECTURE ROOM" CAR CROWDED WITH INT ERESTED FARMERS.

THE BETTER FARMING SPECIAL TRAIN—LIVE Western Railway over its lines, for which speakers were -STOCK FEATURE. provided from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, exhibited Editor Southern Planter: interest and appreciation of an exceptional nature in the The farmers who visited the special train run in theii talks on live stock and the advantages of diversification interest from November 3d to 13th by the Norfolk & in farming. Hundreds of questions were asked and undi- 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER 1083 T vided attention was given to every phase of the many short course for farmers this winter continuing four weeks, ideas offered along animal husbandry lines and advice beginning January 10th. given for improving agricultural conditions, the fertility The limited and unsatisfactory amount of information of the land, and better financial returns, by the adoption to be given in the short train talks may be quite fully of stock farming and a suitable rotation of crops. understood when I state that a dozen or fifteen lectures At many stops the time was so limited for each speaker of an hour each are required in the winter short course. that no subject could be fully covered this being espe- The course is so scheduled and the different subjects are cially true from a live stock point Of view. grouped so as to permit' farmers who are unable to be The specific questions of breeds, crosses, grading up, away from their farms more than a week or ten days live stock management, feeding, care and handling for to select the lectures they desire to hear—in horticulture, market could only be touched upon incidentally. But agronomy, fertilizers, animal husbandry, etc. —to attend enough was said to arouse such an interest as to cause at the time such lectures are to be given. the farmers to follow up with questions, conversations Many expressions of satisfaction in the "Traveling Agri- after the talks, requests for the Experiment Station Bulle- cultural College," were heard from those who visited the tins on live stock, feeding, etc. exhibition car, secured literature along lines in which It is a great advantage to have animals on exhibition they were most interested and listened to the lectures for illustration. A breeder of Holsteins and a dairyman in the auditorium cars. Many compliments were passed at Farmville placed the writer under many obligations on the management of the train by Mr. F. H. LaBaume, by having one of his fine cows, in full flow of milk, at Agricultural Agent of the Norfolk & Western Railway; the train. Many questions of practical importance were also, upon the speakers, though some of the latter com- asked by the farmers as we used the animal as an object pliments, as might have been expected, were rather of a lesson in our talk. left-hand character, and a few adverse criticism were not The impossibility of discussing in detail the many vital withheld by the critics until they were beyond hearing.

THE BETTER FARMING TRAIN INTERESTS THE SCHOOL GIRLS. questions pertaining to live stock in a thirty or forty One of these, after he had listened three minutes, said, minute talk was so evident that all farmers seemed to as he backed out of the car: "I know mor'n that feller appreciate the disadvantage and many at every stop can learn me in a week." Another remarked, as he expressed their hope of attending the V. P. I. winter withdrew: "That man can't learn me nothin'." Mr. Fer- 1084 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER [December,

guson, so well and favorably known, and who heard the The farmers agreed it was necessary to prepare a last remark, wittily said, loud enough for all to hear deep and thoroughly pulverized seed bed, well drained; who had heard the remark: "That man told the truth," to break in the fall to a depth of eight, ten, or twelve which was heartily endorsed as evidenced by the laughter. inches, according to the soil, with implements that will This occurred at Farmville, where we were greeted by not bring too much of the subsoil to the surface. our largest, most intelligent and appreciative audience, The demonstration plainly showed a depth of at least and by continuous visitors until the shades of night pre- eight inches by turning plow, and ten to twelve inches vented. At night Dir. Fletcher's lecture was well attended more by the subsoil plow. in the auditorium of the Normal School by a delighted The presence of heat, air and moisture is essential to audience, who were evidently deeply interested in civic chemical and germ action in the preparation of plant betterment, the lecturer's theme being appropriately and food in the soil. The depths to which these penetrate forcibly illustrated by stereopticon pictures of "before and the soil depend upon the depth of the plowing, provided after." the soil is well drained. Reverting to our subject, the farmers everywhere Mr. T. Stephen Canada, of this county (Halifax)., was agreed with the writer, many with significant nods of induced to try this method of preparation for corn, and the head, that Southern agriculture has suffered terribly after applying one ton of lime per acre, and 500 pounds from the one crop system, want of rotation, and diversi- of pure raw bone meal, on land that had previously fied farming, with horses, cattle, swine and sheep as the produced but twenty-five to thirty bushels per acre, four corner-stones of successful agriculture. this year gathered seventy-two bushels per acre, nearly In every section of the world where one crop is the 300 per cent, increase. Mr. Canada received the first money crop the lands soon deteriorate and must sooner prLe of $25.00, offered for the ki.'gest production per or later be abandoned as unproductive. The advantages acre. of the use of the crops produced in rotation for develop- Another prosperous farmer, Mr. R. T. Edwards, tried ing or fattening live stock or producing dairy products the same method, and increased his yield from some was fully discussed with the farmers and, in certain sec- twenty to twenty-five bushels to sixty odd bushels per tions, the dairy husbandry question, building up the dairy acre, and fully demonstrated to his mind the advisability herd, breeding, feeding, care and management, being most of deep plowing, subsoiling and liming. Mr. Edwards interesting to and desired by the farmers, received the received the second prize for large production. major part of our time. As we have indicated, nothing In the Farmers' Co-Operative Demonstration Work can add to the interest in these particular subjects like great stress is laid upon a more thorough preparation a few animals, both good and poor specimens, from a of the soil in the autumn, because in our Southern clim- dairy herd. We want to recommend that since so much ate the frosts do not penetrate the soils sufficiently to interest seems to attach to object lessons in lecture work, open them and admit air. We must, therefore, do by whether it be lantern pictures,, animals or apparatus, that plowing in the fall and by some winter cultivation what the visits of an agricultural train would be additionally nature does in the colder North. advantageous and that the crowds would be larger with In the richest soils there is but little food ready pre- greater interest if a local committee was formed whose pared for the plant, and nature's plan is that this food business it would be to secure for the half day's Farm- shall be prepared more or less daily by the action of ers' Institute specimens of live stock, etc., to be used by the air, the moisture in the soil, and the sun. the speakers for the enlightenment of the hearers. This These three active forces cause the food to be pre- committee would greatly assist in advertising the event, pared so that the plant can be properly nourished. This and might increase the interest and attendance, as was cannot be done without plowing and cultivating, to admit accomplished at Brookneal by a perfectly grand and thor- air, and the earlier this work is commenced in the fall oughly satisfying farmers' dinner, served in a tobacco the greater the effect it will have upon the crop the fol- warehouse by the attractive wives and beautiful daughters lowing season. of farmers. the Such arrangements would cause all to The effect of using good seed is not sufficiently appre- look forward with greater pleasure to the return next ciated, nor perhaps is it understood just what makes year of the Better Farming Special Train. good seed. It must be the best variety, carefully selected V. P. I., Blacksburg, Va. WALTER J. QUICK, early in the fall, and stored in a dry place. Prof. Animal Husbandry. The judicious use of commercial fertilizer is one of the most important matters in modern agriculture, for RESULTS OF DEMONSTRATION WORK. it furnishes plant food directly and indirectly to the young plants. There was held at the hospitable home and farm of W. H. Dorin, Mount Laurel, Va., on Friday, November The most important factor relating to the permanent 13th, a meeting of the Farmers' Co-Operative Demon- fertility of the soil is the abundant and judicious use be stration Workers, and some forty or fifty farmers gath- of all the animal and vegetable matter that may ered to see a demonstration of deep plowing and sub- found on every farm. soiling. A special agent of the Agricultural Department It is to be hoped that every farmer reading this article was present, and talked on several subjects, among will 'try to plow and subsoil at least two acres this fall them deep plowing, subsoiling, liming and seed corn. and follow the Agricultural Department's suggestion, At noon a light luncheon was served, and afterwards and thus show the possibility of raising Virginia's aver- the farmers went to the field, and saw the plowing age from twenty to sixty or seventy bushels per acre. and subsoiling. D. 1908.] THE SOUTHERN" PLANTER 1085

THE PUBLISHERS' NOTES. TO ADVERTISERS. Southern Planter Please bear in mind that we must Poultry PUBLISHED BY have all copy or instructions for ad- vertisements by the 25th of each THE SOUTHERN PLANTER PUBLISHING CO., month without fail. Every month we Srupplies. RICHMOND, VA. are compelled to omit advertising in large volumes for the simple reason If you want eggs during the win- ISSUED ON 1ST OF EACH MONTH. that copy does not reach us in time. ter, you must feed Animal Foods, such as J. F. JACKSON, Editor. A NEAT BINDER. Meat Meal, If you will send thirty cents to our Beef Scraps, B. MORGAN SHEPHERD, business office, we will send you a Business Manager. neat binder made of substantial Bris- Blood Meal, tol board, in which you can preserve B. W. RHOADS, an entire volume of the Southern Bone Meal, Western Representative, 844 Tribune Planter. Many of our readers find to take the place of the insects, Building, Chicago, 111. this a useful device, as they always worms, etc., which poultry get in save their copies for reference. summer. MANCHESTER OFFICE. OYSTER SHELLS and W. J. Carter, 1102 Hull Street. GRIT are also prime necessities.. WHOSE MONEY? Write for Prices and Catalogue tell- ing -what to use for Success and Profit ADVERTISING RATES On August 21st we received $1.00 Will be furnished on application. with Poultry. in one of our return envelopes, post- marked, Painters, Va., without any The is mailed T,W. Wood & Sons, Seedsmen, SOUTHERN PLANTER address attached. are, to subscribers in the United States, name or We - VIRGINIA. Mexico and island possessions at 50 of course, unable to give the sender RICHMOND, cents per annum; all foreign countries, credit. We carry complete stocks of Cyphers' $1; the city of Richmond and Canada, Incubators and Brooders, Poultry 75 cents. Foods, Egg Producers, Lice and REMITTANCES should be made BACK NUMBER WANTED. insect Powders, Poultry direct to this office, either by Regis- Remedies, etc. tered Letter or Money Order, which We will be very much obliged to Helpful Catalogue mailed free. will be at our risk. When made other- anyone who will let us have a copy wise we cannot be responsible. of the Southern Planter for March, failing receive SUBSCRIBERS to 1907. Drop us a postal before send- their paper promptly and regularly will confer a favor by reporting the ing it and we will remit for it. A fact at once. perfect and clean copy is desired. LOOK* WE INVITE FARMERS to write us AT THIS PRICE *T •n any agricultural topic. We are always pleased to receive practical WITH THE ADVERTISERS. It buys a Strictly articles. Rejected matter will be re- High-Class The Fern Hill Poultry Farm starts turned on receipt of postage. SEWING No anonymous communications or the season's advertising this month. J. enquiries will receive attention. Wallace Snelling, Prop., is a top notch MACHINE Address THE SOUTHERN PLANTER, breeder all the time. RICHMOND, VA. Morrill & Morley are advertising GUARANTEED 10 YEARS ENTERED AT THE POST-OFFICE their Eclipse Spray Pump in another And has all the up-to-date improvements that VA., every lady appreciates. It is splendidly built of AT RICHMOND, AS SECOND- column. thoroughly dependable material and handsomely CLASS MAIL MATTER. finished. Has elegant Oak Drop Leaf 5-Drawer Cab- The Evelyn Heights Farm is an ad- inet, complete Set of Attachments, full instruc- tions how to use them, and the outfit "will be sent dition ranks you "Freight Free" to the of poultry adver- on MB ^E% tisers this month. 9Q PAYS FREE "TRIAL Blatchford's Calf Meal is advertised by S. T. Beveridge Co. We sell DIRECT at ONE & PROFIT, savins you the Jobber's, Retailer's and Poultrymen will doubtless be inter- Agent's profits and sell- ested in the advertisement of C. H. ing expenses, & exactly The cleanest- the same machine they Dickinson, Luray, Va. will ask you $:!0.00 for. lightest,— and Send at ONCE for OUR BIG NEW FREE most comfortable The old established seed house of J. M. Thorburn & Co. has an attractive SEWING MACHINE announcement on another page. CATALOGUE SLICKER Most complete and in- The forthcoming Herndon Poultry structive book of its at the same time character ever publish- cheapest in the Show is advertised in this number. ed in the South. It pict- ures and describes every end because it Write A. H. Kirk, Secy., for catalogue. part and particular of the greatest line of positively High-Grade Sewing1 wears longest Four very fine horses are offered by Machines ever offered. We are the largest Sewing Mrs. G. M. West, Vinita, Va. Uachine distributors in the South, and, at prices *3QP Everywhere asked, for qualify guaranteed, our Machines are un- Dr. F. E. Williams, Ivy, Va., is of- matchable. This catalogue describes and prices high-grade Pianos, Organs, Steel Ranges, Cooking Every garment guar- fering some finely bred Berkshire Stoves, Heating Stoves, Phonographs, Dinner and anteed waterproof Toilet Sets. Prompt shipments, safe delivery and boars at reasonable prices. Catalog free satisfaction guaranteed, or your money back. The great Richmond Poultry Show MALSBY, SHIPP & CO., has an announcement on another page. Dept.1^ 41 S. Forsyth Street, ATLANTA, CEORCIA

CAPITAL, $1,000,000 00. SURPLUS, $475,000.04, OF RICHMOND Special attention paid to out-of-town accounts. Correspondence invited. Three per cent. Interest Allowed In Savings Department Main and Ninth Street*, Compounded Semi-Annually. :

1086 TTIE SOUTHERN PLANTER [December,

Send your name to W. R. Todd, Sec'y, Southern for a catalogue. "After the Christmas Dinner," a very breezy little book suitable for a Holiday remembrance, is advertised by the Atwell Co. are beginning to realize the wonder- Rhode Island Reds, good ones, can be had of L. E. Smith, Appomattox, ful advantage to be Va. gained by dairying. The printers "pied" a line in the 1st. It benefits the Wyandotte ad. of R. O. Berger last soil and increases its issue. See corrected ad. this month. value. Myer & Son, Bridgeville, Del., are 2nd. It insures a offering Angus cattle and Hackney steady income. horses at exceedingly fair prices. The most successful dairymen Note the change in the advertise- use ment of the Biltmore Farms on an- other page. » - „ a. ~_.~ James M. Hobbs is offering some special bargains in both White Hol- because of their simplicity, dura- land and Mammoth Bronze Turkeys. bility and efficiency. Some very nice young Hereford The Tubular appeals to South- Bulls can. be had of H. A. S. Hamil- ern farmers because it fulfills, ton & Sons. easily and well, the conditions The Standard-Bred Poultry Farms American Centrifugal Pumps prevailing in the South, especially have an attractive announcement on m^, GUARANTEED iSMf^ where inexperienced help is em- another page. Their several breeds Highest mechanical ployed. are kept on separate farms. efficiency. Saves 25$ of The Tubular has been proven The Rockford Engine Works have power over all an ad. in another column to which at- other pumps. the ideal separator for the South Give us your tention is asked. — it stood the test right in your pump specifi- The Cable Co. has a prominent ad- cations. locality. Manufactured vertisement on another page. Pianos, Catalogue 290 tells why. Write by Organs, etc., of the highest quality for it— sent free. THE AMERICAN WELL WORKS are offered on easy terms for the Aurora, 911., U. S. A. THE SHARPLES SEPARATOR CO., home, school, church and public Branch Offices West Chester, Penna. halls. Chicago, I1L, First National Bank Building. Torocio, Can. San Francisco, Calif. Chicago, II!. New York, N. Y., 2-4 Stone St. H. J. & C. G. Sanger have some San Francisco, Cal., 305 Market St. poultry bargains announced on an- New Orleans, La., J. H. Menge & Co. other page. Dallas, Texas. Joplin. Mo. Buys This Large Handsome I Q^ ' Nickel Trimmed Steel Range The Raney Canner Co. is offering its

without warming1 cioset or well known canning outfits and your reservoir. With high warm The Improved ing closet, porcelain lined attention is invited to tne advertise- reservoir, just as shown in ment. New Stump Puller cut, S17.35; large, square, oven, wonderful baker, 6 cook. Write for Prices L. D. Kline is offering ing holes, body made ot cold Mammoth rolled steel. Duplex grate ;burns Bronze Turkeys and F'ekin Ducks, woodorcoal. Handsome nickel trimmings, highly polished. which he says are the best he has OUR TERMS thl ever had on his farm. most liberal ever made. You can pay A fertilizer Mixer is advertised by after you receive the range. You can take "B," at Box 197. Wilmington, N. C. it into your home. use it 30 days. If you don't The Studebaker wagon is attractive- find it exactly as represent- advertised in this issue. ed, the biggest bargain you ly elsewhere ever saw equal to stoves re- [tailed. for double our price, We call attention to the advertise- ireturn it to us. We will pay ment of Deere & Co. This well known freight both ways. dbVIt*. TnrlavlgUd for our beautifully Illustrated Stov* house makes a most popular line of ' J catalog No. * 221; a postal card will do, 166 styles to select from. Don't buy until you get it. farm implements. ILL. Chamberlln Mfg. Co., Olean, N. Y. MARVIN SMITH CO., CHICAGO, Sashes, doors and blinds at bargain prices are offered by the Gordon Van ANY WOOD IN AMY POSITION National Field and Hog Fence Tine Co. ON ANY CROUNO 4 In So S ft. Through The Aermotor Co. has a striking ad- SAWS! a vertisement in another column. 1 Man s£,„g i&ffiE Beats 2 fSLSSlZ 6 lo 9 cords dally Is the usual average lor one man. Harrison's Nurseries start the sea- BITES B1SV f V. r\ . 8AW8D0OT son's advertising this month. No JBaeioche J J. J. H. Gregory & Son are adver- ives beat service, lasts longest, causes no trouble. Don*t tising their old established seed bus- ay a. fence until you have written about this, our iness this month. 4 RANGER HUMANE"• OcrlOOP. will L*— or"^'^v^Ranger Barb Wire.,^?!Tell Model Machine Saws faster.runs easier and ever. minute tosuttal2- — i- «j us what you require and The Rochester Spray Pump Co. has last longer than Adjusted in a year-old boy or the strongest Iran. Send for catalog we wl " name you special didd uiidc a card in another column of interest latest Improvements. order gets agency, EV0LV1N6 DAKD TflKt delivered price. chowlng First g - fo. din Sawin 3 Mach. Co., 153 E. Harrison St. .Chicago, IIL OoKalb Fanes Co., DeKalb, III. Kansas City, Mo. to fruit growers. !

1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER 1087

Fertilize and Plant With a Sloan's Liniment, well known to hundreds of our readers, is adver- tised on another page. New Deere The Bateman Mfg. Co., makers of the celebrated Iron Age implements, have several advertisements in this is- BHIi sue. Deere & Mansur Co. have an adver- WHAT DO YOU SAY? tisement on this page which should Several hundred thousand farmers say that the best investment they ever made was interest our readers. when they bought an Hs POULTRY KEEPING O'N A FARM. Electric "$Zgon Cow wheels, (Continued from page 1075.) wide tirss; easy work, light draft. We'll sell you a set Of the best steel wheel» on farm, except bran, grit and a few tnadeforyourold wagon. Spoke united with fcub, guaranteed not to break nor work looam, powders. All eggs and chickens were Bend for our catalogue and save money. sold to merchants at wholesale prices. ELECTRIC WHEEL CO.. Box 146 .Qulney.lll. Lowest price received per dozen for eggs, twelve and a half cents; high- For One Horse est, twenty-

in ten and a half months . . $ 64 07 The day we get your name and address Value of eggs used for table.. 12 00 on postal or by letter we send you our Amount received for hens atest Free Books-and keep sending you valuable information Free about values sold 30 00 Mix your own and farm machinery improvements, If yon write us. Keep posted by writing Amount received for young this . us. Find out now all about New/ chicks sold 92 10 Deere Drill by sending for our FERTILIZERS Value of hens and young FREE BOOK and save money. "CORN— More and Better" chicks eaten 20 50 To know point for point how to compare We make the only practical home all farm machinery and get best value, asfe mixer on the market. Will pay for for our Free Corn bsok and New Deere Total $218 67 itself first season. Write for circu- Drill book Ho. 11 Expenses. lar. Deere & Mansui* Go* 40 bushels corn at 50c $ 20 00 B —Box 197. Wilmington, X. C. Molina, III. 20 Bushels wheat at $1.00.. 20 00 30 Bushels oats at 40c 12 00 1000 Lbs. bran ($20.00 per ENGINES FOR 3ALE. ton) 10 00 Ten horse traction $250; 10 horse Oyster shells 2 00 portable, $150; 12 horse portable. $200; Flaxseed meal, etc 3 00 « horse boiler and engine, $90; 1 horse gasoline engine, $40; 3 horse, $60; 6 horse, $125; 10 horse, $175. Boilers and Total $ 67 00 ONE MAN DOES nnglnes from 1 to 100 horse carried in stuck for Immediate shipment. WORK OF TWO Leaving a profit of $151 67 Casey Boiler Works, Springfield, Ohio. With Iron Age Riding Culti- vators. You can doit easier and Or a little over $1.51% per hen. better, because they are built on Rockford Engine Works. lines that make this possible WM. F. COYNER, JR. Dept. 35, Rockford, 111. Hoes are under perfect Augusta Co., Va. control. Can regulat The Engine that will please you depth and keep noes desired distance Before you from growing Franklin Co., Tenn., Oct. 6, 1908. contract or plants. More I bought a Galloway Wagon Box ftdvantag buy write for es in our Manure Spreader last spring. It does Iron o»r proposi- Age good work, and I am well pleased tion Xeat-Xobby-Hnndy. with it. I tried it in all kinds of All Styles 3 to 30 h. p. manure, and it save satisfaction in every respect. Do not see how I could do without it. All who see it lake Your work are well pleased with it. It Own Fertilize! at Small Cost witn . is all O. K. BATEMAN MFG.CO.,Box i67C,Srenloch,HJ. WILSON'S PHOSPHATE »[U| W. H. RICH. From 1 to 40 H. P. AlsoMoao Cutters, band and powes for the poultrymeo; jrri» Implements Save Brunswick Co., Va., Mar. 13, 1908. and shell tnilla, farm {Md PLANET mills, family grist mills, JR. yon money, I like the Southern Planter and do bo rap cake mills. Send tof L. 9. Allen * Co., Box 1107X, Phila- not wish to miss an issue. aatalcff. v delphia. J. W. BAILEY, Jr. Bret, Soft Ift^EutMi"!, 1088 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER [December,

UNFAIR COMPETITION. JTPERFECT POTATO BaRGAIISIS IN PLANTING Several Mail Order Houses, adver- .SAVE tisers of ours, have called our atten- 2nd Hand Machinery, Every farmer knows the importance' HIRED' of proper potato planting. Here's a tion to some very reprehensible machine tnat doesit perfectly. Has HELPJ THE WATT PLOW COMPANY, none of the faults common 'with com-, methods by which they are being at- mon planters. Opens the furrow tacked class of prin- Richmond, Va. perfectly, drops the seed by a merchants, correctly, covers it uni- cipally in the West. It seems that

formly , and best of all never bruises or Iron Age these merchants have organized them- 1 16 H. P. (8x10 cylinder) Pitts [Improved Robbing]! — En- punctures the srine boiler. Potato Planter r selves into associations, whose princi- and Mounted on Steel seed. Send a Wheels. postal for ple business seems to be nosing around our 1909 railroad stations free and hunting for ship- 1—8 H. P. Geiser Engine and Boiler Boofe. ments consigned to some local farmer on wheels in first-class condition. from one of these Mail Order con- 1—10 H. P. Geiser Engine and Boiler cerns. Then they take the farmer in on wheels. In fine condition. 'No Misses hand and undertake to dictate to him 'No Doubles 1 12 H. P. Geiser Boiler NoTroubles where he shall spend his money and — Engine and on wheels in good condition. 167 P otherwise browbeat and bulldoze him - BATEMAN MFG . Grenloch, CO.. N. J. ] a-ra,, i| miiMimmm— | i „ n III into "keeping his money at home." 1—12 H. P. Ames Engine and Boiler One of the favorite methods is to on wheels. get some of their tribe to order goods 1—20 H. P. Geiser Engine and Boiler 8 REASONS on approval and then reject them, on wheels In first class condition. why you should buy the thereby inflicting a great deal of loss Triple-Ceared, Double-Cut 1 No 2 American Saw Mill with saw Ball-Bearing and trouble on the shipper. Another — and belts as good as new. method is to get a few hundred of ITTO their henchmen to write for the enor- 1—No. 1 Lane Saw Mill with 52-inch cut off mous catalogues and file a list of arti- saw, all belts. One swing saw. Both in good order. cles alleged to be wanted for quota- Write for them. A few bushels of corn at tions, without the slightest idea of 1—4-inch, 4-sided Molder. present prices buys it and it's good for many spending a cent. In other words, years' work. It saves a fifth to a third of the feed. they do pretty nearly everything 1—22-inch Planer, Matcher and Mold- der complete with countershaft and No Money in Advance to harass these houses and make pulleys. Sold on a real free trial. Keep it if it the farmers buy locally, except works to your satisfaction. That's my safe advertise in their local papers, hustle plan for you. Grinds anything and does it fast for and easy. Send for FREE catalogue now, to the business, offer high-grade goods at low prices or accommodating terms G. M. DITTO, BOX 48, JOLIET, 1LLIN0ES We invite your correspondence and or treat him fairly and squarely. The win gladly give any information de- whole performance is a species of sired. "Night Riding" which ought to be broken up. We have always consid- THE WATT PLOW CO., BUCKEYE FEED MILLS ered firms like The Chicago House- 1426 E. Main St., Richmond, Va, There should be a Feed Mill Wrecking Co., and Montgomery Ward on every farm. Ground grain is [ better assimilated, goes further & Co. of Chicago a great bulwark be- Ife and does more good. Economize by grinding it yourself, then it tween the farmers of the country and pala- rQ, MAKE YOUR OWN i fresh and will always be high prices. table. Buckeye MillB REPABRS GRIND EAR CORN TKeAwl' and all small grain. Strong, simple, For All easy to operate. Many styles and AGRICULTURAL LIMB. | Save the money Engine, Popular i for Horse or you pay the harness man farmers. In- T. C. Co., of Norfolk, l progressive Andrews Va. among & by using Myers' Lock ' vestigate our Safety Steel Frame have just completed several large Stitch Awl. It stitches both catalogue and ask your dealer. 1 [ "Wood Saw. Write for sides like a sewing machine and Lime Kilns and will BUCKEYE FEED MILL COMPANY, BoxW, Springfield, Ohio manufacture all mends harness, saddles, shoes, fur coats, robes, canvas, gloves, carpets, etc., perfectly. mm grades of Agricultural Limes. Atten- Something constantly needed, always ready for use and tion is called to their ad. in this issue. costs only $1. 00 prepaid. If your dealer hasn't it write us direct. Better still, securetheagency and make money. Agents wanted. Booklet Efxee. It may be with a saw, but not so A PLACE FOR JEREMIAH. C.A. MYERS CO., 6537 Woodlaiffn Ave., Chicago when the KEYSTONE DEHORNER A certain prosy preacher recently is used. It cuts from four sidesat once; makes a sliding, sharp shear gave an endless discourse on the pro- cut. Any stock-raiser can do it phets. First he dwelt at length on easily. No crushing or splintering of horns or tearing of flesh. Done the minor prophets. At last he fin- in 2 minutes. Send for f ree booklet. the r ished them, and congregation M. T. Phillips. Bos 4 , Pnmprnv, Pa, gave a sigh of relief. He took a

long breath and continued: . Steam, Gasoline and Water Power Mills "Now, I shall proceed to the major Planers, Shingle Mills and Corn Army Auction Bargains prophets." WE PAY THE FREIGHT. Tents -$1.90 up Old Pistols - - - $ .50 up Send for Catalogue. " " After the major prophets had re- Shoes - 1.25 Officers' Swords, new 1.75 " " DeLoach Mill Mfg. Co.. Bridgeport, Ala. ARMY SADDLES 3.00 Cavalry Sabres " 1.50 ceived more than ample attention the " " Box 2G5 Bridles - 1.00 Uniforms - " 1.25 " LegginSjPr. 15 7 Shot Carbine " 3.50 congregation gave another sigh of re- LIKE SIXTY 1007 MILITARY CATALOGUE, 2601arje pages, con- lief. GOES illustrations—with 190S SELLS LIKESIXTY^ tinuing thousands of beautiful "Now, that I have finished with the :$60 supplement, wholesale and retail prices. Mailed for 15 SELLS FOB SIXTY cents (stamps). 15 ACRES GOVT. AUCTION GOODS. minor prophets and the major proph- GILSON FRANCIS BANNERMAN, 601 Droadway, New York ets, what about Jeremiah? Where is IGASOLENE Jeremiah's place? " ENGINE At this point a tall man arose in or Pumping. Cream irators. Churns, Wash Ma- the back of the church. "Jeremiah WEPAYSSOlMTIISAUinr chines, etc. FEEE TKIAL and fkirnS&h rsg ond all expenses tf© «;i6roduco poultry can have place," he said, "I am Askforcatalog-al! sizes and stock powders,; now pcan; Bfeady work. Address my UiGLEri COMPANY. X378s SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS. going home." gilson mfg. co. 476 PhS St. Port Washington, Wis. —

1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER 1089

ANNOUNCEMENT OP REPORTS. ___ " U. S. Department of Agriculture, Investigate by Writing FT Washington, D. C. Bureau of PAiE FENCE Biological Survey. Circular 52. For Our Free Book and Terms Directions for Destroying Pocket "JUBILEE YEAR" Gophers. $375 to Bureau of Chemistry. Bull. 1.14. $500 This is the Quarter - Centennial or "Jubilee Year" Meat Extracts and Similar Prep- of Page Fence. To celebrate the twenty-five years* RcacJyto triumph of the Pioneer Woven Wire Fence, we are arations. Preparing a "Jubilee Edition" of the Page Fence Use in All atalog for free distribution. It is the most interest- Office of Experiment Stations. Ex- Weather* ing, unique and valuable Fence Book ever printed. It tells the story of Page success, from the first fence periment Station Record, Vol. xix, sold to the present time, when over 800,000 progressive Nos. 11 and 12. farmers own and praise Page Fence. Gives the reasons for the use of Page Fence by the Govern- Office of Experiment Station. Ex- ment as the highest standard of quality. Handsome- ly illustrated. Filled with important Fence periment Station Record, Vol. XX facts.factf Send today. Its FREE. No. 1. I PagePa Woven Wire Fence Co.cj Forest Service Circular, 152. The Box 51C Adrian, Mich. analyses of Turpentine by frac- tional distillation with steam. Forest Service, Circular 157. A prim- Tour stock is er of Conservation. kept inside and other stock out- Forest Service. Circular 135. Chest- BLACK MOTOR side if your pastures^ are enclosed with nut oak in the Southern Appal- I SUPERIOR chians. Buggies for Service WIRE FENCE Forest Service. Circular 139. A Get our interesting "Black Motor Buggy" primer of wood preservation. Book about the only motor buggies that are This is unquestionably the good city or countryroad "mudders" and "hill most substantial fence made Circular 151. The preservative climbers" and built for practical use. owing to the high carbon coiled No spring steel wire and the Superior treatment of Loblolly pine cross jarring—No blowups on tires—Speed 2 to 25 Heavy W eight Lock used in its con- arms. miles an houi—Run 30 miles on one gallon o' struction. gasoline—Safe—Reliable — Especially —equip- All styles, weights and spacings. Circular 154. Native and planted ped for professional use—10 horse power ' Get t Steel Gates for every purpose. there" and "back again*' every trip, and save • timber of Iowa. time, worry and expense. Right prices and Low Prices Easy Terms Bureau of Plant Industry, Circu- Write for Free catalog. terms. Write for Book A- 221 lar 12. Dry land grasses. THE SUPERIOR FENCE CO. Office of Public Roads, Bulletin BLACK MFG. CO. Dept. J, Cleveland, Ohio 124 E. Ohio St. Chicago, III. | 34. Dust Preventatives. Bureau of Plant Industry. Circular 15. The Fertilizing Value of BEARING VNOT THE BEST Hairy Vetch for Connecticut To- BALL '•AUTOMATIC GATE AUTOMATIC bacco Fields. HARNESS GATE ON THE MARKET J SEND JT BACK Bureau of Statistics. Circular 17. By Mail Government Crop Reports: Their Yon can liny custom-made Value, Scope and Preparation. roak-tanned harness direct from >ur factory at wholesale prices Farmers' Bulletin, 333. Cotton ou save two profits— the oubber's and dealer's. Write for our new il- Belt. lustrated catalogue and see for your- Farmers' Bulletin, 334. Experi- self just how much money yon can save. All our harness is guaranteed, M0NEYREFUNDED IFNOT SATISFACTORY ment Station Work, XL.VIII. and we leave you to be the judge. If IN EVER.Y WAY yon'renot satisfied, money back. Every Plant Breeding on the Farm; farmer should have our booklet. Write E.W.ADAMS, Sorghum for Silage. The Keep- to-day and ask for catalogue O. STATION A, TOPEKA.KAN. THE KING HARNESS CO., ing of Apples; Forage Crops for 16 Lake St., Owego, Tioga Co., N. Y. Pigs; Profitable and Unprofitable THE NEW CENTURY GATE Cows; Blackhead in Turkeys. Can be opened or closed from Farmers' Bulletin, 335. Harmful your wagon by small child. gnrr.i U.S.W. FIELD and HOG FENCE springs, and Beneficial Manuals of the No no hinges, nocast|l^| easily ings, Highest quality—superior lock— no cog-wheels, no wood, 'J '\itt\ Arid Interior. no saging. no draging. So sira- "W— 1~ erected strong—low Farmers' Bulletin, 338. Macadam- — pie, so easy, no harness and almostno machinery; nothing priced. to wear out or break, nothing to be getting out of fix! ized Roads. Write us, stating Not affected by drifting or deep snow, sleet or ice. Always Farmers' Bull. 329. Experiment ready for use and will last a life-time. A model of simpli- what you can use and city, durability and cheapness. If there is Station Work—Improvement of no Agent in will you your locality, please write we name New Century Steel, Wire & Iron Works, Soils. Hogging off Corn.etc. Sandy special delivered price. «02 S. REGISTER ST. BALTIMORE, MO Bull. 336. Game laws of Farmers RANGER HUMANE We make the largest 1908. line of poultry, _ lawn and field fencing in the of ALWAYS IN ORDER Bureau of Agriculture, Department REVOLVING country. MANLOVE the Interior, Government of the Phillippine Islands. The Phillip- UNION FENCE GOil Kansas'city, Missouri Automatic Gate pine Agricultural Review, Vol. I., .!o Saves time, mm adds 7. """'«* to value, safety, Nos. 6, 6, H beauty and pleas- Arizona Experiment Station, Tuczon, p ure of home. For a 22-inch Hob Fence; lGcfor MANLOVE GATE CO., 272 E. Huron St., Ariz. Bulletin 57. Timely Hints lt)c for 31-inch; 22 l-2c CHICAGO, ILLS. 26-inch; for Farmers. '£__ for 3±-inch; 27c for a 47-inch Farm Fence. 50-inch Poultry Circular 74. Timely Hints for Fence 37 c. Lowest prices ever farmers on Sheep farming. made. Sold on 30 days trial. uLd^LuA LAWN FENCE Catalog- free. Writeforittoday. -- Many designs. Cheap ** wood. 82 page Catalogue California Experiment Station, Berke- KITSELMAN BROS., Box 14. MUNCIE, iSIB. free. Specia I Prices to ley, Cal. Bulletin 195. The Cali- lijniMMMi hi" Churches and Cemeteries; Coiled Spring Fence Co, fornia Grape Root worm. Box Q Winohester lad Bulletin 196. Eucatyptus in Cali- fAl VFQ"11186 Them Without Milk. fornia. v'rt l-, v E"'3 Booklet Free. Please mention the Southern Planter Bulletin 197. Grape Culture in S. T. Beveridge & Co, Richmond, Va. 1090 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER [December,

California; Improved Methods of Making Wine. Bulletin 198. The Grape Leap-hop- per. SHIP flE YOUR California Experiment Station, Berke- ley, Cal. Circular 39. Instruc- tion in Practical Agriculture at f; the University Farm, 5or«iS* Davis, Cal. OLD METALS Cornell Experiment Station, Ithaca, Are you tired of mend- N. Y. Bulletin 254. Drainage in ing your roof? New York. Bulletin 255. Bean Anthracnose. Colorado Experiment Station, Fort HIDE5 Genasco Collins, Col. Bulletin 131. Ar- senical Poisoning of Fruit Trees. Idaho Experiment Station, Moscow, Ready Roofing Idaho. Bulletin 64. Planting Ap- RUBBER ple Orchards in Idaho. is made of Trinidad Lake\ Press Bulletin No. 15. Information Asphalt and gives you Concerning Alaska Wheat. Kansas State Board of Agriculture, long years of service. Topeka, Kan. Report for Quarter SCRAP IRON ending September, 1908. Profitable Doesn't dry-out, crack, P'oultry. Kansas Experiment Station, pulverize, rot, nor rust. Manhat- tan, Kan. Bulletin 155. Alfalfa. Car Lots a Specialty Saves you trouble, time, Press Bulletin lfi3 Hessian Fly. Louisiana Experiment Station, Baton and money. Rouge, La. Bulletin 108. A Pre- liminary A written guarantee with every roll, Report on Some Diseases backed by a thirty-two million dollar of Chickens. company. Bulletin 111. Rotation Experiments Mineral or smooth surface. Ask any with Cotton, Corn, Cowpeas, and 50,000 dealer, and stick for Genasco. Look for Oats! the trade-mark. Write for Book 62 Maryland Experiment Station, Col- and samples. lege Park, Md. Bulletin 129. Si- Hides Wanted THE BARBER ASPHALT los and Silage in Maryland. Bulletin 130. Nurseries and Nur- PAVING COMPANY sery Inspection. Largest producers of asphalt, and largest Maryland State Horticultural for PriceB. manufacturers of ready roofing in the world. Society, Write PHILADELPHIA C. P. Close, Secy., College Park, Satisfaction Guaranteed Md. Public Meetings New York San Francisco Chicago and Sched- No Commissions. ule of Premiums. Michigan Experiment Station, East Lansing, Mich. Bulletin 251. In- The. FARMERS' GARDEN^ A Seed Drill and Wheel Hoe is in-i| sects of 1907. dispensable not only in a Tillage Oheckb Sent Same — f Bulletin 252. Fertilizer Analyses. garden but on largest farms. Farmers should grow all manner Michigan Experiment Station, East Day Freight Bills vegetables "live on the fat of and Lansing, Mich. Circular No. 3. of the land." Should provide Abb Marked Paid. succulent roots for Cattle, Swine, Corn Selection, Storing, Curing Poultry, and save high m^^fOuiv One of1 and Testing for Seed. priced feed stuff. Great j± ^^W Many labor saving tools _"tf^ S Hron AgeTooll Minnesota Experiment Station, St. of special value Park, Minn. Bulletin for the' home Anthony as wel 1 as the 111. Flour Bleaching. market gar- den. Send Press Bulletin, No. 32. Insects Af- for free fecting Wheat and other Grains book. in Minnesota, 1907-1908. Clarence Cosby, Nebraska Experiment Station, Lincoln, Neb. Twenty-first Annual Report. Established 1890. North Carolina Experiment Station, West Raleigh, N. C. Bulletin 198. RICHHOND, VA Handling and Marketing of Milk and Cream. New York Experiment Station, Gen- Largest Dealer in Free to Agents eva, N. Y. Bulletin 303. Inspec- This Solely Tea Kettle. Just patented. tion of Feeding Stuffs. Scrap Iron, Metals, Hides, Greatest kitchen utensil invented. Enor- mous 6eller. Kig profits. $10 a Station, day sure. Costs no more than or- Pennsylvania Experiment Etc., in the South. dinary kettle. Impossible to burn State College, Pa. Bulletin 87. hands from steam. Contains no lid. Made of copper nickel plated. Some Poultry Experiments. Wears forever. Just show to make sale REFERENCES: Write for Free offer, illustrated book a.._ Purdue Experiment Station, Lafayette, Selling Pointers to men and women agents, National > Act quick. Safety Tea Kettle Company, Ind. Newspaper Bulletin 145. Re- Bank of Virgin 33 Jefferson Avenue, Detroit, Michigan. sults of Variety Tests of Winter Bank of Richmond, Wheat. Bradstreets and Dun Tell the advertiser where you saw Rhode Island Experiment Station, his advertisement. Kingston, R. I. Bulletin 128. A 1908.] THE SOUTHEEN PLANTER 1091

Further Study of Soil Treatment in Greenhouse Culture. STO1 Bulletin 129. Experiments With Feldspathic Rock as a Source of Potassium. Bulletin 130. Analyses of Commer- This Christmas WE BOY cial Fertilizer. Bulletin 131. Further Soil Tests in Paraffined Wire Baskets. South Dakota Experiment Station, WE ARE EXPORTERS. Brookings, S. D. Bulletin 109. Your Desire 5Tou don't experiment or donate a profit to a half-dozen middlemen when Rusts of Cereals and other Plants. shipping to us. We pay the best South Carolina Experiment Station, prices for Mink, Lynx, Skunk, Coon, Otter, Pox, Mmskrnt and all Clemson College, S. C. Bulletin other Raw Furs. We are an old and 138. Analyses of Commercial reliable house (Est. 1S72) in this, the largest, Quickest and l>est Raw Fertilizers. Gen Be Realized Pur market in the V. S. or Canada. Texas Experiment Station. College We remit promptly—positively free of any commission. Station, Texas. Bulletin 106. The Write for our Fur price List, S'EJIK'E' Trappers' Production of Active Nitrogen in r F5L.& a i s o list of Traps and Catch th.e spirit of the season and you supplies, tags, etc. ; also learn how the Soil. .an pet. absolute'v FRER any one of our make up your mind now to write Five handsomely bound Trappers' guides. Bulletin 108. Winter Bur Clover. Texas Experiment Station, College us at once, get acquainted with the Station, Tex. Bulletin 107. Com- prices, terms and the superior qual- mercial Fertilizers and Poisonous ity of our line of Insecticides in 1907-8. Virginia Experiment Station, Blacks- BtTY A burg, Va. Circular 4. Selecting BOSS FEED MILL Seed Corn. PIANOS and save 1-3 of Virginia Department of Agriculture, of your grain. Richmond, Va. Bulletin 41. An- will grind They nual Report of Commissioner and AND faster, pull lighter wear longer than State Board of Agriculture. any other mill Virginia Health Bulletin. Department manufactured. of Health, 1110 Capitol St., Rich- guar- ORGANS Sold on a mond, Va. Vol. I. No. 3. Ty- antee, 10 days trial, if not as represented the money phoid Fever; A Disease that Can refunded. A full line of sweep and Be Prevented. Don't let this Christmas pass Belt Mills. Write for circular and Fourth Annual Report of the Henry without taking advantage of the price-list before buying any other mill. Manufactured by Phipps Institute for the Study Special Holiday Bargains We Are J. C. WOODCOCK & CO., Treatment and Prevention of Tu- Extending to Our Customers. Litchfield, Ills. berculosis. Philadelphia, Pa. If you want a PIANO or ORGAN Wisconsin Experiment Station, Madi- FOR KKTAL, Fireproof Complete son, Wis. Bulletin 167. The Uni- MOTHERS. Hatching and Brood- ing Plant for $7.80; versity Dairy Herd—Management The Church, two quarts of oil will and Records. 1907-8. hatch and brood the chicks. Our nest sys- The School, tem is the latest dis-

' TRAINING STRAWBERRY rovery. Full line of RUN- The Home p ou 1 1 r y supplies. NERS. Lo-west prices. Fro* catalogue. Write to-day. The most common error made by you will make a mistake not to CYCLE HATCHER CO., the beginner in Strawberry growing Bex 40», Elmlra, New York. write us. We have a most Com- is that of securing an "over-stand" of plete stock. plants. Believing that the amount of Mason Hamlin and Chicago Cot- fruit from a certain area will be in & Hatch Chfckeris tage the Famous Cable proportion to the number of plants Organs and ! and Line of Pianos. By Steam "Excelsior " blossoms thereon, plants are fre- "and " ^Yooden lien" quently set close when starting the No matter how much or how lit- Incubators hatch erery bed and the late tle spend, give fertile egg. Kequire little runners brushed along you want to we can attention ; solve problems of heat, by the cultivator instead of being re- you the very best values for the moisture and -ventilation. Cata- moved. logue free: GEO. II. STAHL, Box r

j()92 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER [December,

NEW OFFER ON FEED MILLS. Oil Those who will need a grinding mill Paint Without this season will be glad to learn that the Quaker City Grinding Mills, which Cuts AGRICULTURAL KemarkaMe Discovery That have been so popular for over forty Down the Cost of Faint Seventy- years, will be sold direct from the rive Per Cent. factory at manufacturer's prices this year. Having been sold through deal- Evexy- LIME. A Free Trial Package is Mailed to ers heretofore, the change in policy one Who Writes. will mean a material reduction in of L Rice, a prominent manufacturer A process of prices. Yet Quaker City Mills are Adams.' N. Y., has discovered a PLAIN ROCK making a new kind of paint without the use better than ever this year, having new It comes in the of oil. He calls It Powdrpaint. improvements for which patents are OR required is form of a dry powder and all that is proof, fcre still pending. Besides, these mills cold water to make a paint weather adheres to proof and as durable as oil paint. It will now be sent out on 10 days free SHELL LIME spreads and any surface, wood, stone or brick, one-fourth as trial to all responsible men. Another BAGS OK BULK looks like oil paint and costs about attractive feature of this new policy North ""write to Mr. A. L. Rice, Manuf'r., 2 is to accept six months bankable notes Adams, N. Y., and he will send you a free SPECIAL FINE HYDRATED LIME St., instead of cash, trial package, also color card and full informa- as an accommodation good many tion showing you how you can save a when wanted. All this will mean more FOR DRILLING. Write to-day. dollars. business than ever for this firm, and If in the market for any grade and they are ready for it, having recently lime to Paint enlarged their plant and increased fa- any quantity of Let us quote cilities in every way. They have still you prices on further increased the number of styles Paint that will and sizes of the Quaker LAUD LIME XBROj give you satis- City mill also, faction. Color until now, no matter what a man may cards and all in- want in the way of a grinder he will our price listparticularB. formation cheer Write for find fully furnished. that one of the Quaker City Fam- "Write to-day. ily just meets the requirements, in T. C. ANDREWS & GO., Inc. RlCHMOND-VA Llebermnth style, size and price. The great de- _ itoAf Bros. mand for is Richmond, Va. these mills due to the fact that each has a wide range of usefullness, is easy to adjust for kills Prairie Dogs, Wood- Chucks, Gophers whatever grade of feed, flour and meal or Grain Insects. "The wheels is desired, is extremely light running, of the Gods grind Blow, so that large capacity is possible with but exceedingly small." So the weevil, but you can stop their grind with little power. The forty-second annual PUMA CARBON BI-SULPHIDH catalog just issued by the Straub Co. «,8 others are doing. It fumigates is a splendid book, containing descrip- poultry houses and kills hen lice. tions and illustrations of the various Edward R. Taylor, Penn Yan, N. Y. mills which makes every feature per- fectly clear, and enables a man to CATTLE INSTRUMENTS) pick out the mill suited to his needs are "Easy to llse,'' no veterinary experience necessary. A lew dol- for prices. Write without any trouble whatever. It also lars invested in our goods will save j contains a good article on "The Profit hundreds of dollars. Pilling Milk Fever A Great Discovery. Outfit for Air treatment recommended by In Grinding Grain for Stock." | DROPSY Those Mill: with vege- U. S. Agricultural Deof.. price $3.00.' Silver CURED who think of buying a grinder should Tubes Outfit $4.00: table remedies; re- 500; Tent Slitter $1 50; Garget write for this book and investigate Capon Tools. Horse and Cattle Syringes, all sent pr»- moves all symptom id with full directions. Booklet. Write for free 2i , of dropsy In 8 to 20 this liberal direct-from-factory offer. FILLING * SONO<».. Areh «(.. PhilnoVlpbi days; 30 to 60 days Address your requests to The Straub ""iSL'E SgsnDSSgmWEPvwgg effects permanent cure. Trial treat- Co., 3739 Filbert St., West Philadel- ment furnished free phia, Pa. Just mention the fact that to every sufferer; you noticed this comment and would nothing fairer. For circulars, testi-. like to have more information. ECZEMAguaranteed cure CAN BE CURED. My mild, soothing, monials and free does it and PEEK SAMPLE proves it. STOPS THE ITCHING trial treatment and cures to stay. WRITE NOW—TODAY. write DR. H. H. GREEN'S SONS, The buyers of apples seem inclined Dr. Canaday, 354 Park Sq., Sedalla, Mo. Atlanta, Ga. to wait until growers are disposed to KILL SAN JOSE SCALE WITH part with their fruit at lower prices than they now ask. There is a fairly GOOD'S EffESSEZiSOMP NO. 3 LUMBAGO. good crop in eastern staies this year James Good, 959 N. Front Street, and the quality in most cases is fine. Philadelphia. CURED BY Growers think they should realize nearly as good prices as last year, Trappers—-Fur Traders YAGER'S when the quality was much inferior to that of the 1908 crop. On the other Ship your Furs direct to the World's largest Fur market, where prices are hand,, buyers believe that there is CREAM CHLOROFORM, always highest. "Write for our latest not enough storage room to accommo- Price List, giving highest prices for date all of the large crop and so they Furs and Pelts of all kinds from all EINIMENT are content to wait. sections. It's FREE. MYERS-BOYD COMMISSION CO., At the market the call for nice red TIJYITjDlNCE^SSCTS. St. Louis, Mo. apples is good, but the tone of the trade in general is more nearly quiet Tell the advertiser where you saw Please mention, the Southern Planter than active. his advertisement. ' —

1908.] THE SOUTHEKN PLANTEE 1093

SENT FREE—A PRACTICAL BOOK- LET THAT EVERY PARMER NEEDS. "SUNSHINE" ma Just Write to the American Harrow Company, Detroit, Mich, for MAIL Your Copy. SPRAYER Their free book on fertilization is if you can't call on us in person. We maintain a MAIL ORDER DEPART- chock full of dollar-making facts and MENT in charge of a man skilled in the ideas. Unless you already have one of interpreting orders by mail, with over 20 of their free booklets on the "Care, Do You Spray Your YEARS' EXPERIENCE in catering to the tastes Value and Application of Manure'' and needs of our OUT-OF-TOWN CUSTOMERS. and their 1909 American Manure TREES, VINEYARDS, Our system of measurements is so simple that it's an easy matter to order; and we send goods anywhere Spreader Catalogue, it will be worth approval, your while to write PLANTS and on which enables you to satisfy yourself for them at once. about fit, quality and pattern before PAYING A The Catalogue fully describes the PENNY ON THEM. famous American Manure Spreader, VEGETABLES ?

1094 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER [December,

THE GALLOWAY MANURE DO YOU HEAR WELL? Idle SPREADER. Make Your Money The Stolz Electrophone—A New, Sci- entific and Practical Invention Many of our readers are familiar for Those Who Are Deaf or Earn You Interest with the advertising of the William Partially Deaf—May Now Write the FIRST NATIONAL, BANK Galloway Co., in which it makes some be Tested In Your of Richmond, Virginia, for information very strong claims for its manure Own Home. concerning its certificates of deposit, spreader. Having had a so arranged that One Per Cent, may great deal Deaf or partially deaf people may be collected every Four Month* of inquiry on the subject, we decided now make a month's trial of the through your nearest bank or store. to investigate the matter at first Stolz Electrophone at home. This is Our experience proves this form for unusually important news for hand. So wrote the company for a the savings to be the most satisfactory deaf, for by this plan the final selec- plan yet devised for deposits of JlOO.Ot list of users that we might ask them tion of the one completely satisfac- or more. what they thought of it, or to give tory hearing aid is made easy and in- Our Capital and Earned Surplus lr> their experience with it. The com- expensive for everyone. This pany readily complied with our re- new in- vention (U. quest, S. $1,600,000 and submitted a list of some Patent No. John B. Puree 11, President. thirty or forty names—all readers of 763,575) ren- Jno. M. Miller, Jr., Vice-Prea. Cashier. the Southern Planter. We wrote ders unneces- Chas. R. Burnett, Asst. Cashier. them as follows: "We understand sary such clumsy, un- J. Joplln, Asst. Cashier. that you are using C. a Galloway Ma- sightly and nure Spreader. Would you mind tell- frequently ing us just what you think of it? harmful dev- ABSOLUTELY SAFE d'/o BONDS Does it come up to its makers' ices as trum- We sell strictly safe OKLAHOMA claims? pets, horns, School, County, Municipal and Street tubes, ear Pretty nearly Improvement Bonds. We pay 4 per everybody answered, drums, fans, cent, on deposits. and their replies should certainly be etc. It is a Guaranteed by STATE Laws of OK- exceedingly gratifying to the Gallo- tiny electric telephone that fits on the ear, and LAHOMA, Cap., $200,000 way Company. It seems that all which, the instant it is applied, mag- Write for Bond Circular B 16. claims as to capacity, durability, OKLAHOMA TRUST CO., nifies the sound waves in such man- Muskegee, Okla. lightness of draft and ease of opera- ner as to cause an astonishing in- tion are amply justified. The wagon crease in the clearness of all sounds. It the buzzing and roar- box feature seems to appeal to all. overcomes ing ear noises, and also so constantly FARMERS fact that The the spreader box can and electrically exercises the vital Insure Your Buildings, Live Stock, be attached to the running gear of parts of the ear, that, usually, the Produce, Etc, In Virginia Division any wagon, makes it possible for natural UNAIDED hearing itself 'is gradually restored. FARMERS' MUTUAL BENEFIT practically every farmer to own a spreader. The price is about fifty ASSOCIATION. Proniinent Business Man's Opinion. per cent, of most spreaders, and the Stolz Electrophone Co., Chicago.— Best security. Property insured, work done, about 100 per cent, of |500, (i00. Average cost per $1,04)0 per am pleased to say that the Electro- year, 15.00. Territory limited to coun- any. We give below extracts from phone is very satisfactory. . Being ties of Chesterfield, Amelia, Powhatan, a few of the letters. small In size and great in hearing Nottoway, Dinwiddle, Prince George, qualities makes it PREFERABLE TO Surry, Charleb City, New Kent and Oconee Co., S. C, Nov. 11, 1908. ANY I HAVE TRIED, and I believe City. plan and James For membership I own a Galloway Manure Spread- I have tried all of them. I can re- write to commend it to all persons who have er, and would not have in CHARLES N. FRIEND, General Agent, invested defective hearing.—M. W. HOYT, Chester, Va. it had they not made such a liberal Wholesale Grocer, Michigan Ave. and Organized January 9, 1899. offer to show me that it would do River St., Chicago. ( LET US exactly the same work that the best Write or call at our Chicago office TELL YOU ABOUT PATENTS! spreaders in the land would do. It for particulars of our personal home test offer and list of prominent en- Full Information Without Charge. is well made and practical, has no dorsers who will answer inquiries. Our free books tell WHAT TO IN- complicated machinery and no com- VENT and HOW TO OBTAIN A PAT- Physicians cordially invited to in- ENT. Write for them. plicated price. It is well and aggres- vestigate. Address or call (call if Send sketch for free opin- sively advertised, and has a man of you can). ion as to patentability. We brains and actual field experience be- STOLZ ELECTROPHONE CO., advertise patents for sale hind it, and is amply guaranteed. Tt free. Patent obtained or 1534 Stewart Building, Chicago. for fee returned. Highest class needs nothing more nut more Branch Offices: Philadelphia Cincin- of services. Ask for our farmers to give it a trial and see nati. Indianapolis. Los Angeles, Se- references. exactly for th^ms^lves. attle, Des Moines. Toronto. WOODWARD & CHANDLEE, H. EUGENE FA NT. Foreign Office: 82-85 Fleet St., Registered Attorneys, London, Eng. Mathews Co., Va., Nov. 5. -ISO'S. 1237 F. Street, Washington, D. C. I have a Galloway Manure Spread- er which I purchased one year ago, ^Feeds anc^ Fggdin^ PATENTS mM%°lo and have used it for all kinds of ma- nure, and it is giving perfect satis- Send sketch for free report as to AND patentability. Guide Book and What faction. T never have anv trouble to Invent, with valuable list of inven- with it, and T think the Galloway peo- Planter tions sent free. The Southern wanted One million ple are all right. dollars offered for one invention; $16,000 for others. Patents secured by GEO. G. HUNT. for only 93.IE, Including delivery of us advertised free in World's Progress. tho hook. This la Profoooor Henry** Sample free. Scott Co., Va.. Nov. 4. 190S. great work on Foods and Feodlnaj la tho rocognlmod standoff WILKINS, I have used the Galloway Manure Btock and EVANS & Bvory one with half 848 F Street, Washington, D. C. ovorywhoro. Spreader for two years. It is ahead dozen hoad of stock should novo It of any spreader I have ever seen THI5 PIEATED PANAMA DRESS SKIRT work, and Is Hsrht on a team. Tt is Southern Planter, - - BROWN WULTAIUWLD FUUWiDIH BUCK BLUE 8 the best investment I ever made in OM 2HH.a THREE ilH. SILK FOlDS-AlWAtS SOU) <*1-i°» STATE SIZE 6 MAGAZINE YOU SAW THIS AD. IN, of it gives SBNT PREPAID UPON RECEIPT OF 4l98 a piece machinery, as per Richmond, Va. feet satisfaction. I am not afraid to BfWWISWW recommend it to my neighbors or Pleaat* Mention the Southern Planter 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER 1095

anybody that wants a good light draft spreader. Send Your Order For H. L. ANDERSON. PUBLIC SALE Halifax Co., N. C, Nov. 4, 1908. Real Estate and Personalty SEEDS I am using a Galloway Manure Spreader, and it is satisfactory in On December 19th, 1908, I will, as every respect, having fulfilled every agent for the heirs at law of M. C. Thomas, deceased, proceed to sell at claims the manufacturers make for it. BULBS public auction, on the premises, at J. H. DURHAM. and 10 o'clock A. M., that certain tract We have pleasure in publishing of land located four (4) miles east of Blacksburg, Virginia, on the this notice, as it seems to be a case POULTRY FOODS waters of the North fork of Roa- of well-earned praise. to noke River, containing 396.5 acres. B. M. S. The land will first be sold in four DIGGS BEADLES separate parcels containing 148%, & AMERICAN 97, 100 and 51 acres, respectively, THE SQUADRON and will then be offered as a whole. THE SEED MERCHANTS ABROAD. The tract of land consists of about The departure of the United States 100 acres river bottom land, the up- 1709 K. Franklin St. fleet on a world-wide cruise to the land being well set in blue grass, and the place is located RICHMOND, VA. nations of the earth was an occasion within four (4) miles of stations on' two rail- We are headquarters for su- of no small importance to our coun- roads. try. errand ever under- perior Seeds of all kinds, also No such was TERMS OF SALE: One-fourth of the purchase and Supplies. taken by any nation before in the (%) money to be Poultry Foods paid in cash; the balance in history of the world. It will undoubt- three Grit, Shells, Bone, etc. Write us equal anual installments, with in- edly demonstrate to our neighbors for prices. Tour correspond- terest from the day of sale, the de- what a world-power we are, besides ferred payments to be secured by a ence solicited. tending to cement more closely than lien on the land sold. A copy ever our ties of friendship and good- of the map, showing the division according to which the sale will with all peoples of the earth. will be made, can be seen by ap- This act may justly be regarded as plying to J. Walker Slusser, who a master-stroke of diplomacy. lives on the premises, or any ad- ditional information And what an experience it is for desired can be would obtained by applying to me. If yon those of Uncle Sam's boys who were get the largest yield At the same time and place I will, your ground will give, plant , fortunate enough to make the voyage; as Administrator Gregory's Seeds. Always sold of M. C. Thomas, under three warrants. Here's one Think what an education it is for them deceased, sell at public auction, the specials we offer this year : of the to come in contact with the peoples personal property on the place, con- EARLY MORN PEA^gSjjgL— sisting of live stock, farming and customs of so different im- the earneauearliest, largesti»ib"> 1 ^K 6E«BJH many me SEES* plements, household furniture, etc. podded pea known. countries; and think of the experi- Quality of the best. STANLEY W. MARTIN. ences which they necessarily must SEED BOOK FREE Lynchburg, Va. Our new Seed Book sent to have before they get back. anyone. Write to-day. J.J.I*. GRE60RT 8 SON One curious incident has recently M»R8LEHE»0, MASS. come to our notice by the receipt of Jl»«» Acre a photograph from far-away New Zea- land. It pictures Admiral Sperry, commanding the American Squadron, FARM [OR SALE. upon his arrival at Auckland. There, At a bargain, 3 1-2 miles from Haxt amid the throng gathered to do him Station In Charlotte Co. Well located. honor, he stands receiving this British convenient to schools, churches, mills, new mm mmm fund stores, well watered by spring* dependency's welcome under a roof OWW «»F 1 MM H(M'f. ind branches, land well adapted to to- «•• covered with Genasco Ready Roofing, bacco and all crops grown in this sec- Fine stock of plant* for fall log cabin on the dascriptlv* circnl*) that American product made by the tion. Only one new llvwry. 8«nd for land; timber enough en the place to othsr nursery pro- Philadel- of the W«rd. For Barber Asphalt Paving Co., io necessary building. Price IS per acre g*nwral i>rtc« list. duct* end tt^r phia. It reminds us that the world Is '.lme given to suit purchaser. and rKKD SBOOSMITH. Hoy*, Pa, not so large after all when we can Wo M. ATKINS, Saxe, Va. Cheater, Va. W travel to the antipodes and there find Address either offt<:«. our old home-friends. The important Special Attractions 1» prove tnat oujf , ToBlizzard fact which the Company emphasizes Melt Ever- is the fitness of Genasco for use in will LoudouFCountyr Va., Farms. .greens pvery climate and every weather con- m grow in all parts "of thecountrv we offer to send dition under the sun and the peculiar I will show you any farm for »mi« i , 6 Fine Spruces *4 to h ft. tall free to property owners. Whole- merit that this product of natural In the County FREE OF CHARGE. sale value and mailing expense over Trinidad Lake asphalt must have 30 cents. To help, send 5 cents or not DeL. S. CRITTENUKN, the as you please. A postal will biinsr when it gains favor not only to so colored Broker, Ash bom. Va. trees and our catalog containing many Write photo plates of our choice Blizzard Belt Fruits. large an extent in our own country, today. The Gardner Nursery Co., Box 105, Osage, la. but in the distant islands of the sea as well. "In the Green Fields of Virginia/*' COW PEAS Genasco does have exceptional mer- it because it neither rots, rusts, cracks Homes (or all; health for all; hnpftfirewK* and Independence (or i»U, .All »»»«-» «>C AND nor breaks. It defies heat, cold, acids, Farms at corresponding prlcect, but ALL, SOJA BEANS alkalies and every weather condition reasonable. which a roof is subject to, and con- MACON & CO.. ORANGE. VA. tinues to sive lasting service in every New crop for sale. Write for prices. STRAWBERRY PXt*.NT<. quarter of the globe. HICKORY SEED COMPANY, Send $2 for 1000 plants—Excelsior; Hickory, N. C. Lady Thompson, Aroma, Klondyke. Augusta Co., Va., Dec. 27 ,'08 Gandy, etc.—first class stock, true to A Neat Binder for your back num- The Southern Planter is valuable name. 5,000 enough fo* 1 acre, only $8. Cat. free. bers can be had for 30 cents. Address and interesting, and I must have it. JNO. LIGHTFOOT, Dept. 7. Bast Chat- our Business Department. L. A. ZIRKLE. tanooga, Tenn. 1096 THE SOTJTHEKN PLANTER [December,

RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY THE SELECTED OFFERINGS IN FARMERS' NATIONAL CONGRESS, STOCK MADISON, WIS., 1908. VIRGINIA REAL ESTATE "That we hereby favor the move- ment for the better conservation of $20 PER ACRE. the natural resources of the country, Contains 250 acres, about 60 in tim- ber, balance in especially the conserving of soil. grass and under culti- vation—situated in Loudoun County, FARMS The movement to stop wanton waste Virginia, one-half mile to railroad sta- has not commenced a moment too tion on two public roads—Land is soon. We commend the far sighted gently rolling, stream of lasting FARM. water A FINE FRUIT statesmanship of President Roose- running full length of farm, well at house, apple orchard in bearing of> land, very fer- velt in calling the Conference of 97 acres of mountain about two acres (winter apples), six miles from railroad station;

the bill introduced in Congress by RARE BARGAINS Attention Hon. C. R. Davis, of Minnesota, to in- augurate in secondary schools of the IN HOMESEBKBRS AND INVESTORS. several States the industrial education I sell and exchange Virginia Real first established by the Congression- Estate of all classes, such as Grain, al land grant, act of 1862, which re- Northern VirginiaFarms Dairy, Fruit, Stock, Truck, Poultry and sulted in the founding of our State Bluegrass Farms, Village Homes and colleges of agriculture, mechanic, arts Business Places of all classes. The A Few Specimens: reason I make a specialty of the two and domestic science. suburban counties—Loudoun and Fair- "That the secretary of this Con- fax offer homeseekers more No. 162. Contains 280 acres 80 acres —they the gress instructed — advantages combined than any country be to correspond in timber, balance cleared. This land known to me. This fine portion of with all other important farming and is a splendid quality of grass, hay and Virginia, extending from the national educational organizations and with corn land. It is smooth and level. capital to the top of the Blue Ridge associations concerned with home Fronts on a good level road ZYz miles Mountains, is not only beautiful and from station. Farm Is very well healthy, but is very accessible to Wash economics, urging such organizations fenced and watered by streams with a ington and Alexandria cities by rail to join with the Farmers' National good well at the house. About one and pike, which gives all producers a Congress in securing for this bill the acre in orchard, apples and peaches. fine home market. Buildings: new six-room house, barn friendly active support of every A My facilities for locating you in this and 30x40 for horses and cows, corn crib section of Virginia are second to none. member of Congress in order that we and hen house. 75 acres of this land State what kind of property would In- may thus bring this much needed is in meadow. This a bargain for a terest you. I have a large number and progressive man. Price $5,000. great variety of properties, and can form of industrial education close to very likely suit you. New catalogue the homes of the farmers and other and map mailed free on request. industrial classes in every State." No. 172. Contains 315 acres—40 acres in oak and hickory timber; 5 miles Other resolutions were adopted, in- from station, situated near the village; W. H. TAYLOR, Herndon, Va. cluding one commending the work of considered one of the best wheat and Legislative Agent John M. Stahl, of grain farms in Fairfax County. The land is little rolling; W. L. Ames, and resolutions of con- a machinery can be run all over it. The land is all In dolence in respect to departed mem- good state of cutivation; well fenced bers. Among them was a resolution and watered by springs and running in praise of Madison to the effect: streams. Improvements are a good 7- room house with elegant shade, good 229A.—1% mile from R. R. Sta. "That the most hearty and sincere stable and all out-houses In good re- $3,500. Running water, county thanks of the Farmers' National Con- road front and other attractions. pair. Price $20 per acre. MO A.—large orchard, barns, dwell- gress are due to all who have in any ing, farm fenced into fields and way contributed to making its 1908 No. 176. Contains 346 acres, about 70 other improvements. Land In high session, held at Madison, Wis., a rec- acres in timber, mostly oak and hick- state of cultivation Price $4,000. ory, situated 1 — ord breaker in attendance and inter- mile from store, school 82 A. —near electric line, necessary church, shops, etc.; 6 miles from R. R. est. are under deep obligations buildings, running water, fine We station. This land is a little rolling truck and poultry farm—$2,600. to Mayor Schubert, ex-Mayor Groves and is a fine quality of chocolate clay 488 A.—Valuable river farm—2 ml. and the people of Madison for their soil, excellent for grass and grain of from R. R. station. $7,320. — hospitable and courteous treatment. all kinds. Good orchard of about 200 Write for complete list. apple trees. Farm is well fenced and are especially indebted to Presi- FRANK H. COX, We watered by never failing streams. dent C. R. Van Hise and the agricul- Spring in every field. Improvements: Resident Agent. Ashland, Va A tural faculty of the University of Wis- good 2% story dwelling with 8 large rooms, 4 attic rooms, consin, notable Russell, Profes- basement, barn. Dean 40x70, in good repair, other out-build- sor R. A. Moore, A. S. Alexander and ings, all in good condition; farm is lo- MARYLAND A. R. Whitson, for their efforts to cated on good road, and about $10,000 make our visit enjoyable and profit- is subscribed to macadamize this road AND to the railroad station. Price per acre. able, and for the places which they $30.00. VIRGINIA have taken on our program. fARMS NEAR WASHINGTON. are also to the "Our thanks due No. 193. Contains 156 acres, smooth Onsurpass'ed as money-makers; best speakers who have honored us with land, chocolate clay soil, with good place on earth for farmers, dairymen, their words of instruction, to the stiff clay subsoil, just rolling enough stockmen or poultry men; mild climate, to drain newspapers who have so faithfully well, 30 acres in good timber, seat markets In country; highest balance cleared, watered by running prices; no such word as "Fail" for in- reported our meetings, to the Wo- stream, very well fenced. In good dustrious man. Big bargains here now. man's Club for its social functions, to neighborhood located 7 miles from 8,600 places to select from. Catalogue our wives and daughters." railroad station, in Loudoun county, free. sufficient fruit of all kinds for family THE SOULE CO., Washington, D. C. use, 5-room house in fair repair, other Largest Farm Dealer* In the Sooth. small outhouses in good repair. Price BOG SPAVIN. $3,000.00. Charles E. West, Gotebo, Okla., writes, November 15, 1907: "I am in No. 194. Contains 175 acres, 25 acres in good timber, receipt of your letter of recent date. balance is cleared, 9 Old Virginia Farms. acres in orchard in full bearing, good I purchased your Absorbine from the six-room house, Climate and ProductlTenesa unex- old barn, good gran- •druggist and applied it according to ary, hen houses, dwelling in a grand celled. Largest sale list In Stats. oak shaded lawn, full particulars and Free Cata- directions as given for Bog Spavin spring at house, For farm watered by streams logue address and had grand success One bottle and springs, situated on good pike. One hour's CASSBLMAN * OOMPAJTY, was enough to do the work. drive from Leesburg, Va. Owner is anx- ious RICHMOND, VA. Absorbine penetrates to the seat of to sell. Price $3,500.00. trouble promptly and effectually, with- out blistering or removing the hair. REAL ESTATE FOR SALS. Does not require the horse to be laid Send for From the Mountains to the Ocean. up. Mild in its action, but positive my Complete List, Catalogue free. Loans made on farms. in its results. It will give you satis- Established 1875. faction. $2.00 a bottle at druggists. GEO. E. CRAWFORD A CO., Wm. Eads Miller, Manufactured by F. Young P. D. 1009 E. Main Street., W. RICHMOND, VA. F., 109 Monmouth Street, Springfield, Branch, Norfolk, Va. Mass. HERND0N, VA. 1098 THE SOUTHEEN PLANTER [December,

SOMETHING N E W—L ATE IM- PROVEMENTS IN STOVES. SOUTHERN The newest and latest improvement in base-burner construction is the hot air flue which takes the cold air off the floor, passes it up through the POULTRY stove, throwing out hot air at the top, creating a circulation that will change the air in a room fifteen feet square GUIDE every forty minutes. This was not VIRGINIA FARMS had by the old-style construction. The Hoosier Stove Co., of Marion, Indiana, This is Cal Husselman's great $8 per Acre and up have just built the latest thing in with improvements. Good Poultry Book, now on press. It productive soil, abundant this line. The hot air flue in Hoosier water supply and best climate on earth. Near rail- is freely illustrated with num- road and good markets with best church, sciool and Stoves is guaranteed to have fifty-four erous useful and handy home- social advantages. For list of farms, excursion rate» cubic inches more heating capacity and our beautiful pamphlet showing what others made accessories to the poultry have accomplished, write to-day to P. H. LA than any stove heretofore put on the BAUME, Agrl. and Indl. Agt., Norfolk & Western business. It contains his 40 Box Ry., 500 , Eoaaoke. Va. years' experience as a poultryman It is the best poultry book ever printed and just what you want. "iQirniuia arid chicken business than you ever stock and grow hay and grain; 100 read. 150 pp., cloth bound. Price? acres in thrifty pine and oak; several We will almost give it to you. creeks and springs supply never-fail- Just send $1 will enter ing water; 2-story, 6-room house, pi- and we azza; also cottage; pretty shade; two your order for the book and barns, stable, ice house, poultry house, throw in a year's subscription to tobacco sheds; one-fourth mile to school the Southern Plantei. Book will and store; must be sold immediately be out before December 1st. to settle estate and price is cut to ?5,000—$3,200 will be left on easy terms; see details, page 16 "Va. List SOUTHERN PLANTER, 21," copy free. E. A. Strout Co., Scotts- Richmond Va. yille, Va. ANTED 134 ACRES ON RIVER $1,700. To hear from owner having Fine location for stock raising'; good A tiOOD FARM. pastures, hay and crop fields; estimated to be 5,000 cords of- wood, 200,000 ft. sale. particular about lo- For Not market, and it is said on account of oak and pine timber; apple orchard; 2 cation. Give price and description this improved hot air flue to heat story house; excellent spring water; 3 and reason for selling. State when miles to town and R. R.; owner has possession can be had. Will deal at least one room more, with the other business and price is cut to unique with owners only. By my same amount of fuel, than the old- $1,700, part cash and easy terms. See plan of selling properties you pay style make of corresponding size. One full details page 22, "Va. List 21," not a cent of commission to any easily of get- copy free. B. A. Strout Co., Scotts- for full can see the advantage one. Write to-day partic- ville, Va. ulars. Right now I have more cus- ting a stove with these new improve- tomers for farms than I have farms ments, as the saving in fuel will soon for sale. If you want a quick sale pay for the cost of a stove. The let me hear from you immediately Virginia Farms Hoosier Stove Factory is located at and I know you will be pleased and surprised with my new methods of Marion, Indiana, 102 State St., and to « iST SELECT LIST, and in »li u» bringing buyer and seller together. any one that will send their address tioas of the State. L. DARBYSHIRE, on a postal the Hoosier Stove Com- PRBB CATALOOUE. Box 443. Rochester, N. Y pany will mail free one of their sixty- R. B. CHAPPIN & CO., lac. four-page catalogues and quote their Richmond, Va. lowest factory prices direct to you. STANDING TIMBER "They allow you to try a Hoosier Stove or Range thirty days free in FARMS. Mineral and Timber Lands. For sale—A splendid piece of oak and your own home," and will send it to Free list on application. pine timber on about 100 acres of you freight prepaid, so that you are land 1-2 mile from station, good haul- W. A. PARSONS A CO., not out one penny. If you need a ing. About 500,000 feet is the estimate 1527 East Main St., Richmond, Va. stove should try one of these Will sell in a lump or have it cut on you Davie Hotel Bids;. shares, taking 1-3 of hauling price for before buying. my part. The wood also can be handled with a good profit. Farms, Orchards , Timber, W. M. WATKINS, Saxe, Va. INVALUABLE. 'otton Lands in Virginia and the South Rosendale, Man., Jan 20, 1908. ALBEMARLE IMMIGRATION So- ciety, Charlottesville, Va. Mill for Sale. Dr. B. J. Kendall Co. Enosburg Falls, Vt. "AFTER THE XMAS DINNER." Up to date, 36 bailer, water-power, A delightful, fascinating and laugh- roller mill and saw mill, in good grain Gentlemen, Would you kindly send section, close to schools, good brick — able little book. Just the thing for a dwelling, garden and spring. Will be me your Treatise on the Horse and Christmas remembrance, only 25 cents. sold cheap. His Diseases? I have used your THE ATWELL CO , Richmond, Va. Spavin Cure and find it invaluable. DIXON BROS., Lexington, Va. Respectfully, Tell the advertiser where you saw Please mention The Southern Planter. JAS. T. BLACKFORD. his advertisement. 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER 1099

FREE SAMPLE OF A STRONG What's It Worth? ROOFING. You Can't Talk Farmers wiho are buying ready roof- ^ ing on the strength of the appearance it too strong. What? of a sample often overlook the impor- tant feature of the density of materi- = Gombault's =r als. The densest roofing on the marker is Amatite; that is, it has the most Caustic Balsam stuff packed into it for its thickness. As a Liniment Amatite could, no doubt, have been made twice as thick without using any more material to the square foot, For the Human Body but it would then be more porous and Springfield. 0., Sept. 19, 1904. more open to the penetration of air Lawrence-Williams Co.,Cleveland, 0.— Lewis Evelsiz- er, Urbana, R. F. D., a farmer,had a bad cancer on back and water. of bis hand. When I firet saw it he was on his way to havo his hand amputated. I persuaded him to first try Instead of that, Amatite is pressed GOMBAULT'S CAUSTIC BALSAM, which he did, and on under great rollers till it is as tough second application could rest well at night— the first for weeks. In less than three months he was at work and dense as it can be made. The on the farm. He will certify to this statement over hit weight per roll tells the story. In- signature. Then Mr. Jenkins, storekeeper and post- master at Seth, O., had a bad cancer on his cheek-bone. vestigate this before you buy. Full I saw him at a grange meeting and told him to use Kendall's Spavin Cure information CAUSTIC BALSAM twice a day, rubbing it in for five or and sample will be sent ten minutes. In three months it was healed over and Luna, Ark., June 23, 1907. in reply to a postal addressed to the Is now all sound. These two are all that I have the Dr. B.J. Kendall Co., Dear Sirs:—Please send me your address of just now. I have had CAUSTIC BALSAM "Treatise on the Horse." 1 have 30 mules and have found nearest office of the Barrett Manufac- used on old shin sores. One man had walked with Kendall's Spavin Cure to be the greatest liniment crutches for more than a year, and several pieces of ever turing Co., used. It has been worth $500 to me in the last three New York, Chicago, Cleve- bone had come out. I persuaded him to try CAUSTIC years. Yours truly, J. P. Uoodwin. land, Allegheny, Kansas City, St. BALSAM, and today you "vould not know he was ever lame. Then, it is a sure cure for piles, using it with No other horse remedy Is so powerful or so generally Louis, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, New sweet oil. I could tell of dozens of cases where I have used the world over. Tested over a generation, never Orleans, Boston induced diflerent ones to use CAUSTIC BALSAM. I have found wanting. Cures, without blemish, Spavin, Curb, and Cincinnati. been the means ol more than fifty bottles being bought, Splint. Ringbone. Swellings. Lameness. because I know just what it will do. You can't talk Price $1 a bottle: 6 for $5. Au excellent liniment for tt up strong enough. I wish you success. household use. Sold by druggists. Ask them for free THE YOUTH'S COMPANION FOR R. L. HOLMAN, book, "Treatise on the Horse" or write 1 to 1909. In charge Co-operative Work of Ohio State Grange. Price $ 1 .60 par bottle. Sold by druggists, or sent DR. B. J. KENDALL CO.. EN0SBURG FALLS, VT. The amount of good reading given by us express prepaid. Write for Booklet H. to subscribers to The Youth's Com- The LAWRENCE-WILLIAMS COMPANY. Cleveland. 0. panion during the year is indicated by the following summary of contents Fistula^ for 1909: and Fifty .star articles contributed by men and women of wide distinction in "RAMA" MEAT MEAL public life, in literature, in science, in 85 per cent. Protein, 7 per cent. Fat business, in a score of professions. Any person, however inexperienced, Two hundred and fifty capital stor- is a can readily cure either disease with Fleming's ies, including six serial stories; hum- orous stories, stories of adventure, POULTRY FOOD Fistula and Poll Evil Cure character heroism. —-even bad old cases that skilled doctors l Free from preservatives, chemicals have abandoned. Easy and simple: no One thousand up-to-date notes on or foreign matter of any descrip- cutting; just a little attention every fifth is builder, bone- day—and your money refunded If it ever current events, recent discoveries in tion. It a meat fal'o. Cures most cases witnin thirty days, the world of science and nature im- maker and EGG PRODUCER. It is Icdng the horse sound and smooth. All the lean fibre of beef, clean and particulars given in portant matters in politics and gov- pure, appetizing and odorless. Thor- Fleming's Vest-Pocket Veterinary Adviser. ernment. oughly dry, ready to feed, or may Best veterinary book for farmers. Con- Two thousand one-minute stories be used in the mash, as you pre- tains 192 pages and 69 Illustrations. Dur- fer. Sample on request. ably bound in leatherette. Write us for inimitable domestic sketches anec- a free copy. of selected dotes, bits humor, and Sack, 100 lbs. - - - $3.25. FLEMING BROS., Chemists, miscellany. The weekly health arti- 880 Union Stock Yards, Chicago, 111. cle, the weekly woman's article, time- RICHMOND ABATTOIR, ly editorials, etc. Box 267, Dept. M Richmond, Va. A full announcement of the new vol- Send for the "Rarva" Booklet. ABSoRBINE ume will be sent with sample copies of the naner to anv address on re- Cures Strained Puffy Ankles, Lymphangitis, quest. The new subscriber for 1909 Poll Evil.^f istula, Sores, Wire Cuts, Bruis- who at once sends $1.75 for the new es and Swellings, Lameness, and Allays extra PRACTICAL FARMING" Pain Quickly without Blistering, removing volume (adding 50 cents for the hair, or laying the horse up. Pleasant postage, if he lives in Canada,) will F. Massey's latest and best to use. Prof. W. $2.00 per bottle at dealers or de- remaining issues livered. Horse Book 5 D free. receive free all the nook Is now on sale. It retails for ABSORBINE, JR., (mankind.sl.00 bofr for 1908, including the double Holi- $1.60, and is worth It. We shall be v tle.)For Strains, Gout,VaricoseVeins.Var- icocele.Ilydrocele, Prostatitis, kills pain. day numbers; also The Companion's very pleased to send you a copy at W. F. YOUNG, P. D. F., new Calendar for 1909, "In Grand- ibove price and will include a year's 109 Monmouth St., Springfield, Mass. mother's Garden," lithographed in subscription to The Southern Planter. thirteen colors. Remember, we deliver the book and 8MTI»fO»EA«I THE YOUTH'S COMPANION. give you a whole year's subscription temper u4 ladigestta* Cnv* A veterinary Remedy forwiikf 144 Berkeley St. Boston, Mass. for the price of the book, $1.60. throat and stomach IxoabSt* Richmond, Va. Strong recommend*- $10© p* SOUTHERN PLANTER, can.ofdealers orexp. prepfcH The Newton Remedy Oe Campbell Co. Va., July 29, '08. Toledo, Ohio. I never saw an issue of the South- A Neat Binder for your back num- ern Planter that was not worth the Going Blind. Bar- bers can be had for 30 cents. Address ry Co., Iowa City, whole year's subscription. HORSES our Business Department la. Can cure. M. C. HEATH. —

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EDGEHILL POULTRY FARM, HINTS BY MAY MANTON. Luray, Va. HERNDON C. H. DICKINSON, MANAGER The work apron that is really pro- tective and practical is the one that POULTRY SHOW wise women demand. This one is just Eggs for hatch- ing from the as well adapted to the artist and the 1 following high studio as it is to the housewife, and Second Annual Exhibition. ^ scoring birds: will keep the gown of either fresh |Dunston strain White Wyan- and free from soil no matter what Herndon Poultry the occupation of the moment. In | dotte, Silver Laced and the illustration it is made of gingham, - Partridge Wy- but many women like butcher's linen - Association andotte, Bilt- for the purpose, as it is and more Barred durable HERNDON, VA. Plymouth Rock grows handsomer with each washing, Buffl and White and plain colored linens and cham- Jan. 13, 14, 15, 1909. Plymouth Rocfe brays share the honors with the fig- Liberal Cash Prizes. Beautiful Ribbons. Whitman strain Brown Leg- ured ones and with percale or any Silver Cups and Gold Specials. horn, Cornish one of the simple printed wash fabrics. Entries close Jan. 8th. Write for Indian Games, Buff Orpington, R. C. R. The apron is simply made, is full premium list. s I Red ; Northrup strain Black Min- and gathered and allows a choice of orcas. . Price, $1 for 15. Special prices H. A. Sager, Prest. A. H. Kirk, Sec'y, for large quantities. A few choice Box 44. Trios for sale. Cockerels $1.25 to $2.00. Pullets $1 to $1.50. I have quite a "RINGLET" large number for sale and my birds are finer than ever. Satisfaction guar- BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS anteed. EXCLUSIVELY. Carroll Menefee E. B. Thompson's celebrated strain. My birds won at Richmond Show, 1908, 1st and 3d Cock; 1st and 3d Hen; 1st FANCIER Prize Pen and Association's Special Sperryville, Virginia for BEST DISPLAY in Barred Rocks. They cannot be excelled in egg pro- Offers for immediate acceptance a duction, size, vigor and beauty. My select assortment of Fancy Cockerels breeding Cockerels at $2.50, $3.00 and and Pullets of each of the following $5.00 each; some exceptionally fine varieties: ones at $8.00 and $10.00 each. Good Black Langshans, White Faced Span- breeding Pullets at $1, $1.50, $2 and ish, White Leghorns, Silver Spangled $3.00; extra fine ones at $5.00 each. Hamburgs, S. C. R. I. Reds Red Pyle Satisfaction guaranteed. Games, S. C. Black Minorcas, Buff Wy- LESLIE H. McCUE, andottes. This is an excellent opportunity for Box 4, Afton, Va. those who wish to start in the busi- ness or improve their poultry—as Barred, Buff and White nothing but fancy stock is offered. Member and Va. Secy. National Black Langshan Club. PLYMOUTH ROCK Member American Black Minorca Club, R. I. Red Club of America. PULLETS A. C. Hawkins strain, from prize- SPRING HITCHED winners at Richmond Poultry Show, 1907; also S. C. White Leghorns, heavy layers. Cockerels from any of these COCKERELS breeds. Eggs and baby chickens in season. AND SYSONBY GARDENS, Inc. Petersburg, Va. PULLETS. 6131 Work A p. on, 32 to 42 bust. VALLEY FARM of the following breeds. To be Made With High or Square BARRED P. ROCKS SILVER LACED, and WHITE WY- Neck, Long or Three-Quarter S. C. B. LEGHORNS ANDOTTES; Sleeves. S. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS, WHiTE Large and better stock; and BROWN LEGHORNS. the high neck with collar or a square Ringlets and Forsyth FINELY BRED, VIGOROUS STOCK. strains. Write me your Write for prices. one and of three sorts of sleeves wants. At Va. State the long ones with deep cuffs, the Fair in Rich., Oct. 6- CHARLES C. WINE, 10, we won 14 ribbons, including 7 long ones with straight bands, and Mt. Sidney, Va. blues, on above breeds. the three-quarter ones finished with ELLERSON POULTRY YARDS, bands. It consists of the yoke and BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS, J. W. QUARLES Prop. Ellerson. Va. the skirt portion, which is gathered E. B. Thompson's Celebrated Strain. and joined thereto. the high Wilmont Dairy and Poultry Farm. When A few Fine Cockerels ror sale; also Thoroughbred Polled Angus Bull First neck is used the roll-over collar com- Calf. class breeding stock from the Reasonable Prices. pletes it. sleeves are full S. C. R. I. Reds (Tompkins and De- The and C. Neale Stacy, Graff strains) $1.00-$1.50 each. Spec- whatever the length or the depth of Amelia, Va. ial rates in large lots. B. P. Rock the cuffs they are gathered at their pullets (Bradley B. P. ROCK ROOSTERS. strain) $1.00 each; upper and lower edges. $11.00 per dozen. A grand lot of fine birds. Buy Satisfaction always guaranteed. The quantity of material required now. Price low. Forty other MRS. F. E. WILLIAMS, for the medium size is 9% yards 27, breeds. Big catalog, 10c. List Charlottesville, Va. 7 yards 36 inches wide. free. JOHN E. HEATWOLE The pattern 6131 is cut in sizes Box L. Harrisonburg, Va. Always mention The Southern for a 32, 34, 36,38, 40, and 42 inch Planter when writing advertisers. bust. Price 10 cents. Please mention the Southern Planter. 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER 1101

Berger's The fad of the one-piece garment Pure-Bred. White Wyandottes has extended to the realm of under- wear, and the drawers that are made Barred Plymouth Rocks The leading strain in one piece are the latest shown. .In layers Hens, of heavy and the illustration they are trimmed with Cocks, Pullets and Cockerels noted winners at for sale; one Mammoth Bronze Tom- State Fair, 1908, frills of embroidery and with those of also Va. Poland-China Pigs. Low rates to in strong competi- the material trimmed with insertion quick buyers. tion. 1st and 5th and both styles are equally correct. Piedmont Stock and Poultry cocks; 1st, 2nd and Farm, The feature of the garment is to be 5th hen, 5th cockerel Miss E. Callie Giles, Prop. found in the perfectly smooth fit at 5th pullet, D. J. Lam- Whittle Depot, Va. bert, Judge. A few the waist line combined with abund- more choice cock- ant flare at the lower edges. All ma- RINGLET erels and pullets for terials that are used for underwear sale. Correspondence solicited. are appropriate. Barred Plymouth Rock R. O. BERGER, (City Address) 10 No. 20th St. Richmond, Va. Cockerels, E. B. Thompson strain, $2 to $5 each. Satisfaction guaranteed. THE NATIONAL A. J. S. DIEHL, Port Republic, Va. White Wyandotte S. C. White Leghorns Club of America

Offers to its members only, a hand- First prize Pen some Silver for best display of Pullets; 1st prize Cup en e ls rd Hen ' - 5th Cockerel White Wyandottes at the Richmond £ J? i J at Va. State Fair, 1908. Stock and eggs Show, Dec. 7-12, 1908. Send in your ap- for sale. 66 plication at once, with membership fee of $1.00 for one year to State Sec'y, R- W. R. TODD O. Berger, 16-N. 20th St., Richmond, 426 N. 6th St. Va. Richmond, Va. ROSE COMB TAYLOR'S WHITEWYANDOTTES RHODE ISLAND RED White Holland Turkeys and White Pullets Muscovy Ducks. 6016 One-Piece Circular Drawers, from prize-winning stock for sale Win where shown. Pullets now far Orders for eggs received, $1 22 to 32 waist. for sale at $1 each. 15; 3 sittings for $2.50. Place order early. R. RANDOLPH TAYLOR, Hickory Bot- The drawers are cut in one piece L. E. tom Farm, Negrofoot, Va. R. F. D. and are circular in shape. The upper SMITH, Appomattox, Va. 2., Beaver Dam, Va. edge is finished with an under-facing Walker's that is stitched to form a casing at WHITE ROCKS. Poplar Hill Poultry Farm the back portion, and in this casing Fischel's Strain Direct. tape or ribbon is inserted to regulate Am booking orders and can make S. L. WYANDOTTES the size. prompt delivery of breeding A choice lot of young- The quantity of material required pens, pullets and cock- sters for now ready for the medium size is yards 36 erels. Finest stock shipment. Cockerels, 1% I p have ever raised. Glad $1.25 to $1.50 each. Pul- inches wide, with 3 yards of embroid- ii to answer inquiries. ery, 4 yards of insertion; or yards lets, $1. and $1.25. 2% C. M. WALKER, Mine are not only 36 inches wide with 5 yards of inser- Herndon, Va. high scoring birds, but tion when frills are of the material. egg producers. Satis- BLACK faction to every cus- The pattern 6016 is cut in sizes tomer. for a 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, and 42 inch DR. H. H. LEE. waist measure. Price 10 cents. R. F. D. No. 4 Address The Southern Planter, LANGSHANS Lexington, Va Richmond, Va. Some nice stock for sale. . 50 Pure-hred HOW TO MAKE POULTRY PAY. JOHN C. ADAMS, S. L. WYANDOTTE There's no great secret about it. Bristol, Va.-Tenn. Pullets and 12 Cockerels for sale, It's more a matter of plain, every- $1 each or $10 per dozen. Satisfaction guaranteed or birds may be returned day common sense than anything else. FOR at my expense. Remember, first, that your hens are Bl&CK J. H. SHAW, Bracey, Va. confined and can't help themselves. L&NGSHANS If you give them^ liberty and unre- of quality write to stricted range they would solve their Glenview Orpingtons, A. M. BLACK, Tazewell Va. own problems without your help. But, S. C. BUFFS EXCLUSIVELY. being confined in yard or house, it SPRING BROOK POULTRY FARM. Cnlpeper, Va., H. H. Scott, Prop I will not sell any eggs for hatch- becomes positively necessary that you ing next season. If you want some of replace natural conditions by some- Breeder of Northrup strain Black the best stock of Orpingtons In the thing so much like them that the hen Minorcas, Whitman strain of Brown Prices reasonable. Leghorns, and the best Silver-Laced South, BUY NOW. In other State your exact wants. won't know the difference. Wyandottes. Have been breeding Black B. S. HORNE, Keswick Va. words, you must help her to get out Minorcas seven years, always with the of grain, meal, milk, meat, or what- best type In view. Stock and Eggs In elements would season at very moderate prices, con- MISS LOUISE V. SPENCER, ever you feed, the she sidering the quality. Write me for Blackstone, Va. help herself to. if she were out in prices and full particulars. Headquarters for pure-bred R. C. the fields picking at grass and leaves, Rhode Island Reds. insects and worms. This isn't impos- A neat Binder for your back num- bers for 30 cents. Addrent Stock for Sale. sible nor is it difficult. "The Dr. can be had our Business Department. Member R. I. Red Club. Hess Idea," put in practice, is a com- —

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breeders of ARISTOCRATS ONLY.

Barred Plymouth Rocks, Black Minorcas, S. C. Brown Leghorns, S. C. White Leghorns

For sixteen years I have bred these birds on my farm with free range. They have constitutions; are essentially aristocrat egg-shellers; have, and jj 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, feniale 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. Address J. WALLACE SNELLING, R. P. D. 1, MANCHESTER, VA. °°i

Fall Sale Now On. MAMMOTH nlete answer to the whole poultry GUINEAS problem. BRONZE TUBKIlYSS PEKIN DUCKS WHITE Dr. Hess has shown, beyond ques- 57 beautiful, pure-bred toms and' tion, that everything hinges on the WHITE WYANDOTTES hens for sale. perfect performance of the digestive ENGLISH SETTER PUPS. function. That is, cause your hens to TOULOUSE GEESE Good ones, Blue "Belton strain. Also digest, without unnecessary waste, Berkshire Pigs entitled to registra- at Madison Bred from winners the greatest possible amount of the tion. Write your wants. Square, Jamestown Exp., Phila., and food given, and there will be no lack MRS. GEO. M. Vlnlta, Va. State Fair. WEST, Clearance sale White Leghorns, cel- of needed elements for either growth MAMMOTH ebrated Wyckoff strain, 75c each. or egg production. BRONZE TURKEYS FARM, EVELYN HEIGHTS It is a mistaken idea to think that and Pekln Ducks. Turkeys of Wolf. Catlett, Va. W. W. Thomas, Prop. a hen will do this any way. She Bird Bros., and other strains.' Duck.-* of Rankin and other strains. can't without the assistance of a ton- We have JOHN'S RIVER FARM. the largest and finest birds this sea- ic, because overtaxed organs soon- Berkshites and Wyandottes. her son that we have ever bred. er or later refuse to accomplish their Will book orders for a limited num- Shenandoah Valley Stock Farms, office, under the continued strain of ber of Berkshire pigs for early spring Leslie D. Kline, Vaucluse. Va. delivery. heavy feeding and the inactivity of extra nice, Send me your orders for confinement. Right at the very start, A Few large, Silver-Laced Wyandottes at then, the poultry man should begin a each. For further information $1.25 system of care and feeding that will FINE TURKEYS address; JOHN M. HARSHAW, Proprietor, render impossible any such trouble for sale. Well developed birds. Bronze Collettsville, N. C. as this. with slight trace of Wild. We spoke a moment ago of the ne- MRS. P. H. WILKINSON cessity of helping the hen to get from Indian Jlunner Ducks. Route 1 Alexandria. Va. her food while confined the elements she would get if allowed to forage for The greatest layers on earth, easy to Pure-Bred large. rai.^e, no lice. Prize winners Va. State herself over the fields at Fair. Also R. C. Reds and S. C. B. Poultry Pan-a-ce-a—a true tonic MAMMOTH Leghorns. makes this possible because it in- BRONZE TURKEYS MRS. R J. GRASBERGER, creases digestion. By increasing di- Va. For Sale. Write for prices. ItlllUpHMM, gestion you also increase assimila- J. A. Reidelbach, Bucknert), Va. WHITE] HOLLAND TURKEYS tion. The more food digested the more the hen to use, and the full- and WHITE CHINA GEESE. has MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEYS er the egg basket. pair; White Guineas, $2.50 per and $5 per If it fails you are no loser, for you pair, all bred from our prize-winners. get ypu'r money back; if it does for GOLDEN WYANDOTTES WHITE POILTRY YARDS, you what it has done for others you Cockerels and Pullets. C. P. GARTH, Prottlt, Va. J. P. Duustoii, Prop., Lorraine, Va. will get substantial profits out of the poultry industry. A Few Fine ST. BERNARD PUPS MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEYS of Imported and Prize-Winning Stock, for sale, both old and young. Prices We notice everywhere that rich soil for sale. For particulars, address right to early buyers. is a great help against bad seasons. E. F. HENKENIUS. W. C. SHACKLEFORD, JR. It is a good thing, when we pray to Tyler, Hanover County. Va. Stony Point, Va. the Lord for good weather, to be backed up with plenty of manure and Always mention The Southern Please mention the Southern Planter. of the right kind. Planter when writing advertisers. 1908.] THE SOUTHEKN PLANTEE 1103

BETTER SAUSAGE—MORE LARD Fine ANGUS Calves LESS WORK. U S. SOLDIERS HOME FARM, Washington, D. C. Probably there is no more disagree- Sons of a 32.25 pounds sire. We are AT FARMERS' PRICES. able work connected with farming offering Holstein bull calves, sired by Several 15-16 Grade Angus Ball than "Hog Killing." Butchering is a the only living son of the great Fre- Calves ready for service. Will make disagreeable job, but the preparation nesta Hengerveld De Kol. Butter 7 superb bulls for grading up herds. of the meat for winter keeping mak- days 32.25; average fat 4.70. Out of Several Registered Angus Bull and granddaughters of De Kol 2nd's But- ing sausage and trying out lard, in- Heifer Calves. Fine Individuals, whost ter Boy 3d, De Kol 2nd's Mutual Paul development has been pushed since the volves downright hard work of the and other noted sires. At farmers' day they were dropped. roughest kind. Much of this labor can prices. Two beautiful registered yearling Angus heifers, just bred to our herd be avoided by having proper tools, bull, at $60 each. and nothing will prove more effective Farmington Stock Farm Two splendid 3 months old registered than an "Enterprise" butchering out- bull calves, at |40 each. (Owned by Warner Wood's estate.) All these calves will be sold at fit, consisting of an "Enterprise" Meat farmers' prices. Write at once If you and Food Chopper and an "Enter- Short Horn Cattle. want one of them. prise" Lard Press and Sausage 'Stuf- Yearling HeiferB and young bulls W. M WATKINS, for sale at farmer's prices. Pedigrees Saxe, Charlotte County, Va. fier. furnished. Trains stop on farm. First These are labor-saving devices of station west of Charlottesville, C. tt O. Ry. Write for further CATTLE. incalculable value, but they also in- particulars ANQU8 to P. E. McCAULEY, Mgr. Birdvrood, SOUTHDOWN SHEEP. crease the earnings from your hogs. Va. This outfit will pay for itself in one E88EX PIGS. season. PURE-BRED Three fine bulls, 4 mos. to 2 years The "Enterprise" Meat Chopper old; one choice 5-year-old cow, bred; chops meat quickly, uniformly and a number of young cows. A few early SHORT HORNS spring lambs left. A number of young perfectly. It cuts the meat without pigs for November and December de- crushing or grinding so that each min- A nice lot of heifers and a couple of calves for sale at livery. All stock first-class. Prices ute piece will retain all of its natural roan bull a bargain reasonable to quick buyers. goodness and flavor. Tobaccoville N. C. L. G. JONES, This increases the value of your J. F. CAMPER, Springwood, Va. sausage—it's better flavored—better WALNUT HILLS HERD tasted in every way and will com- mand a better price. RARE OPPORTUNITY. Reg. Angus Cattle The drudgery of lard rendering and To secure pure-bred stock. Chester the hard work of sausage stuffing are White, Poland-China and Berkshire Yearlings Calves for sale. Pigs Jersey Bulls and H«lfera; Lin- and overcome by the "Enterprise" Saus- | J. P. THOMPSON, - ORANGE, VA. coin, Hampshire and Shropshire Down age Stuffer and Lard Press. You get Sheep | Scotch Collie Dogs. Variety ef REGISTERED more lard and better lard with this poultry. Send 2-cent stamp for cir- cular. machine in any other way, with DEVON BULL CALVES than EDWARD WALTER, West Chester, Pa. one-tenth the work. FOR SALE. The "Enterprise" Sausage Stuffer THOROUGHBRED From the largest and best herd of has a patented corrugated spout whioh pure-bred Devons in East Va. prevents air entering the casing, thus BERKSHIRE BOARS, J. P. TALIAFERRO, Caret, Va. assuring the preservation of the saus- JtHSEY BULL CALVES, age. You can't stuff sausage skins as Established 1884. Hamp- DORSET BUCK LAMBS. Devon Herd effectively by hand nor with any oth- shire Down Flock Established 1880. Him of Calves, FLYING FOX, •E4K, er machine. •on of Flying Fox, who sold for »;'»•«• A most practical and economical •t the Cooper sale, 1»»I. DEVON CATTLi way of increasing the yield from poul- All stock in best condition and an "Enterprise" Bone, guaranteed as repre»«nt»<) BULLS AND HEIFERS, try is to get F. T. ENGLISH. Geatrevdle, M4L HAMPSHIREDOWN SHEEP, Shell and Corn Mill. Put a few cents' RAMS AND EWES. worth of dry bone, old shells or corn | Edgewood Stock Farm ft ROBERT J. FARRER, Orange Va. into an "Enterprise" Bone Mill and it VALLEY FRONT FARM. will increase its value tenfold as a poultry food. "DORSET SHEEP Sassafras, Gloucester Co., Va. There's no food so good for poultry Our lambs are coming again, so we are ready to book your orders. Don't as variety nor a way to save money I have a nice lot of registered Here delay writing. Our lambs are out of ford Bull* and Heifers, for sale at so easily as to grind your poultry large, strong-boned ewes and sired by farmers' prices. Also a number of food, using an "Enterprise" Bone Mill. rams descended from the best blood in grade Heifers and cows. My herd rep- and address to The England. Give us a trial. We can resents best Btralns and choice indi- Send your name Enterprise Manufacturing Co. of Pa., please you. Addre=?. viduals. H. H. ARBCCKLE. Maxwelton, W. Vn. Wm. C. Stubbs, Prop. 223 Dauphin St., Philadelphia, for a copy of the "Enterprising Housekeep- WOODLAND er." This is a cook book containing Ingleside Herefords over 200 choice recipes and other FARM practical kitchen helps. DORSETS. Polled and standard bred—200 head We can spare a choice lot of young in herd. All ages, both sexes. Write A TJSEiFUT, SOUVENTR. ewes, coming yearlings. Write for for catalogue and prices. Inspection prices before they are gone. The Planters' National Bank, Rich invited. Farm near Alderson, W. Va., J. E. WING * BROS., mond, Va. is sending out a very neat R. R. Address. MechnnloKlinrsf O. on C. & O. and useful souvenir in the shape of a S. W. Anderson, Blaker Mills, W. Va. leather match case. Along with it ANGORA GOATS. they send a statement of the financi- FOR SALE— 1 buck and 10 does, FOR MORGAN COLTS al condition of this old established healthy and in good order. Price for institution, wherein is shown that as the lot, $50. Buck not akin. Going out and Fillies and Hlgh-Bred Fox Hound a safe and conservative depository it of business. Puppies. Address, Lee, Va. is not excelled in the South. Look up DR. E. L. TOMPKINS, Dr. JOHN D. MASSENGILL, C. & O. R. R. Blountvllle, Tens. the ad. 1104 THE SOTTTHEKN PLANTEE [December,

BLUE RIBBON MODERN CONVENIENCES. BERKSHIRES Comparatively few people recognize FINE HORSES. the fact that in this day Herd headed by Virginia's Premier and age, with the FOR SALE CHEAP. Rival, first prize boar in his class at aid of modern machinery, they One sorrel gelding, coming Va. State Fair 1908, in strong compe- may have all the conveniences of the 4 years old, compactly built, easy to tition. boars have attracted keep, well Few city at small expense for the first cost broken to work anywhere, very more attention. He has a strong gentle, and maintenance. "We refer to the drives and rides well a splendid fam- arched back, is evenly and heavily — use of pneumatic and elevated ily horse; price $150. quartered, with a short wide, and well tank One chestnut water supply mare, 9 years old, dished face, nicely proportioned, in systems by means of weighs 1200 lbs., blocky and easy to style, finish, and quality is not sur- which a country home may have hot keep, a first-class brood mare, in foal passed by any young boar. His qual- and cold water in each room of the to a fine Hackney stallion, well broken ifications compare more closely with to ail farm implements and drives house and at the Lord Premier Rival than any of the stables, barns, etc. well in harness. Price, $150. noted sons or grandsons of this fa- These conveniences are a great lux- One dark bay mare, 9 years ©Id, mous sire. Gilts for sale bred to this ury to the farmer's wife and the day weighs 1,100 lbs., closely built, «asy to boar for March and April farrow, nice keep; No. 1 farm and brood mare, has is rapidly approaching when no one lot fall pigs for sale, also B. P. Rock fine colt at foot by Hackney stallion cockerel and pullets, large Pekin can be without them. By means of and has been bred again to same horse, drakes. Send for circular. a gasoline-gas machine an excellent will work well everywhere and rides well also; price, mare and colt, $165. E. F. SOMMERS, quality of gas light can be in had the horses will be sold under full Somerset, Va. These house, and from the same machine guarantee in every respect. THREE GRAND YOUNG gas can be obtained for operating a W. M. WATKINS, Saxe, Va. gas range or stove and a gas engine and pump. Where such an expense is BERKSHIRE BOARS not advisable, the hot and cold water COOK FARMS. can be obtained by the of Seven months old, by Charmer's means a JACKS, SADDLE* HORSES, TROT= Premier 94553, out of a fine registered gasoline engine and pump with a TING AND PACING STALLIONS. pneumatic sow. Satisfaction guaranteed or money tank buried in the ground "We are the largest refunded. Price $15 each—worth $25. or put in the basement, or by the use Breeders and Importers F E, WILLIAMS, M. D., Ivy, Va. of a windmill or ram. of jacks in America. Where one cannot afford to go to Write us your wants. TAMWORTHS. much expense for conveniences of this J F. COOK & CO., Lexington, Ky. kind, which have now The lean bacon hogs—pigs, bred become necessi- Branch Barn, sows, and service boars, all regis- ties, a hand pump can be substituted Wichita, Kansas. tered and of best blood. BERKSHIRES. for the windmill, gasoline engine, or ram in order Pure-Bred Fine pigs and service boars en- to reduce the expense. titled to registration and of blue Attention is directed to the ad. of PERCHERON ribbon stock. Am out of Poland- the Sydnof Pump & Well Co. in this BELGIUM HORSES anlt China pigs at present. issue. This firm has been installing J. C. GRAVES, Barboursvllle, Va. We have more and better horses this class of machinery for twenty and will sell them cheaper than ever years and their experience makes an before. A nice lot of young stallions SUNNYSIDE BERKSHIRES. estimate from them worth consider- from weanlings up; also mares. ing. C. A. ALEXANDER & CO., Boars in service. "Premier Duke," Harriston, Augusta Co., Va. on of Premier Longfellow; "Peerless GREGORY'S NEW SEED BOOK Premier," sired by Lord Premier IIL, SENT FREE. PERCHERONS and imported "Hlghtlde Commons." 1%^ Before you do any planting or buy Two 2-year-old and two 3-year old of sows rich In Premier Also a number seeds you should by all means write Stallions, all registered, sound, good blood. Prices reasonable. for a copy of Gregory's new seed clean flat bone, good style and action. Walker, UNION, S. O. Will sell low considering quality as I W. R. book. This book is published strictly am cramped for room. in the interest of farmers and garden- THOS. R. SMITH, ers. Not only does it illustrate and Lincoln, Loudoun Co., Va. STERLING HERD describe the new and old varieties, REG. DUROC-JERSEYS but it helps make the planting a suc- cess by giving expert advice on the HORSES FOR SALE raising of various vegetables. In ad- Four good ones, three mares, one SWINE dition to the information AND TAMWORTH contained horse, all by "Chiswick." Will be 3 in this book, the publishers are Baroe Boars ready for serviee. will- and 4 years old next May. Oldest are ing at any time to answer questions broken. Write me for prices and par- Petersfcwrg, V*. R. W. WATSON, by mail. This fact alone means a MRS. G. M. WEST, Vlnita, Va great deal to the man who is striv- QUALITY ing to get the biggest returns from his planting. TAMWORTH PIGS. Poland - Chinas. All ycu have to do to get a copy From Registered Stock of Fine of Gregory's Seed Book—the book Breeding. Lest you forget we have the best Knowle of Cook Farm 5057 at that helps solve all the problems of breeding and individuals in P. C. head of herd. Sire 2nd prize boar blood in Va. at farmers' prices. Young planting—is to write J. J. H. Gregory at Royal Show, Eng., 1907., Dam, pigs and bred sows "the best ever." & Son, Marblehead, Mass., and a copy 1st prize gilt at same show, 1907. of the "King of All" A son Them will be sent by return mail. at head of our herd. Write us your VOLNEY OSBURN wants. To learn all about the many new 8 Blueniont, Loudoun Co. Va. H. B. BUSH & BRO., varieties listed this year, and the best Mlchnux, Powhatan Co., Va. methods of planting, write to-day for a copy of Gregory's Seed Book re- ROCK SPRING FARM Offers for Sale CHESTER WHITES ferred to above. Remember, it's free. Best hogs on earth. Pigs now ready REGISTERED GUERNSEYS for fall delivery. Stock A No. 1 Co., Va., Jan. '08. the Caroline 7, of ; Satisfaction Guaranteed. best strains Registered Duroc and Berk- The Southern Planter is all right shire Swine ; Breeding stock and eggs from S. M. WISECARTBR, Rnstburg, Va. B. Rocks, Pekin Ducks, White Holland Tur- and every farmer in the South should keys and Guineas. Please mention The Southern Planter. take it. E. C. MONCURE. H. T. HARRISON, Prop. Leesburg, Va. 1908.] THE SOUTHEKN PLANTEK 1105

SOME FINE COCKERELS AND PUL- BRADLEY BARRED ROCKS, BARRED lets 90c. Buff Orpington, Rose and to skin with yellow legs, broad body, Single Comb Brown Leghorns, White fine shape. Pullets, hens and cock- Wyandottes and Black Minorcas. erels. Mrs. C. M. Bass, Rice Depot, ant Ads. Mrs. Frank Johnson, Route 1, Louisa, Va. Va. Rates 2 cents per word. Cash with BLACK LANGSHAN COCK, HEN, FIVE order. Initials and figures count as S. C. RHODE ISLAND RED ROOST- pullets for sale, $10. or exchange one word; 25 cents minimum charge. ers, $1; pullets, $1; some three- Barred Rock pullets. Robert Allar- quarter hens, 75c; bred for eggs. dice, Hurlock, Md. POULTRY, ETC. White Guineas, $2 pair. W. E. Birch, Afton, Va. FOR SALE—WHITE HOLLAND TUR- BARGAIN SALE OF WHITE, BROWN keys, beauties. Hens, $2; Toms, $3. per trio. Miss and Buff Leghorns, rose or single I CAN SERVE FANCIERS AND $6 A. Ellebrecht, comb; Barred, White and Buff Rocks; breeders who desire strictly first Hewlett, Va. Silver Laced, White and Buff Wyan- class Barred Plymouth Rocks. Cock- dottes, Orpingtons, Rhode Island erels and Pullets $2 to $10. L. W. MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEYS FOR Sale. Reasonable prices. Mrs. J. Reds, Turkeys and other breeds. Walsh, Lynchburg, Va. Box 248. E. Abell. Rox FaVm, Ivy Depot, Va. Buy your roosters and breeding stock BRONZE now. Write me; I can please you in FOR SALE—MAMMOTH Orders LIVE STOCK. stock and price. Big catalogue 10c, Turkeys. Toms $5. Hens $3. filled until Jan.lst, 1909. Mrs. Belle list free. John E. Heatwole, Box B., SELL Harrisonburg, Va. Bumpass, R. F. D. No. 1, Ashland, WANTED—TO ONE LIGHT Va. brown mare 4 years old, perfectly FINE WHITE HOLLAND gentle and kind, weighs 950 lbs., FOR SALE— well bred, clean limbed, good action, Turkeys; line bred Barred Plymouth FOR SALE—SOME FINE PEKIN Virginia raised, price $200. Also 2 Rocks, beautiful markings, and a ducks from my winners at Madison mules, 2 years old, well formed, Vir- Indian Runner Drakes. Write Square, Jamestown, Phila., and Va. few ginia raised, well grown, $150 each. all. M. F. Gooch, Som- State Fair. Evelyn Heights Farm, for prices of Thornton Jeffress, Crewe, Va. erset, Orange Co., Va. Catletts, Va., W. W. Thomas, Prop. GOLDEN SACRIFICE SALE OF SINGLE COMB HOLSTEIN BULL CALF, OUT OF TURKEYS — MAMMOTH, cow now giving eight Bronze, from prize-winners. Young White Leghorns, Wyckoff Strain, If gallons, four y"ou want something good is per cent, milk a day. Born Sept. 14, toms, $5; pullets, $3; 1907 hatched now your chance. Virginia 1908. Will sell right. toms, and $10. Hens, $4. Write me, Poultry & $35. Regis- $7 Berry Farm, Sutherlin, Va. tered and transferred. please you. Mrs. J. Raleigh Very large I can and well Johnston, Bluff City, Va. grown. Wm. W. Jackson, FOR SALE—A FEW CHOICE S. C. R. Bizarre Dairy Farm, Farmville, Va AND POULTRYMEN— I. Red Cockerels. These are very fine FARMERS birds from winning strain. While REGISTERED Plan to make a few entries and visit POLLED DURHAM OR they last $1.50 each, $4 per trio. J. Hornless Shorthorn the Herndon Poultry Show, Jan. 13, bull. 4 years I. Berger, Guilford, Maryland. old Oct. 5th. For sale to 15, 1909. Send for catalogue and avoid in- 14, breeding. Or will is offered in cash and spec- exchange for bull see what MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEYS.— calf A. H. Kirk, Secy., of same breed, Rrice $100. J. M. ial premiums. Clearance sale of fine birds now on Herndon, Va. M. Steger, Box 64, Scottsville, Va. Box 44, at $3 each. Sunnyside Farm, Jones- MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEYS—ONE ville, Virginia. BEFORE BUYING YOUR BERK- and two yearling hens shire Pigs write me for my prices yearling Tom FOR SALE — MAMMOTH BRONZE and no kin. The three for $10. Young breeding. It will pay you. Dr. Turkeys, Toms $4 apiece; White Wy- toms and hens at $3 each. All pure Charles G. Cannady, Roanoke, Va. andotte and R. C. Rhode Island Red bred and of good size with beautiful cocks and cockerels. John Camp- plumage. D. J. Lybrook, Banner ONE PAIR MATCHED ROAN MARES bell, Route 2, Beaverdam, Va. five years old, Elk, N. C. 61 inches. One pair matched Shetlands. One child's pony, BRACE'S STRAIN S. C. BROWN LEG- gentle and kind. Jno. SALE—SOME FINE S. C. RHODE M. Cunning- FOR horns. Excellent pullets, Hens and ham, Brandy Sta., Island Red cockerels at $1.50 each Va. Cockerels for sale. Prices Also pure-bred mammoth Bronze reason- able. Satisfaction guaranteed. Mrs. LARGE YORKSHIRE PIGS AT BAR- Turkeys, Toms, $5 each; Hens $3 gain Gentry, Ivy C. M. Bass, Rice Depot, Va. prices. Parents registered and each; $7 per pair. A. B. of best breed and Depot, Va. exceptionally fine MAMMOTH BRONZE TOMS $3. WHITE specimens. Must sell to make room BUFF WYANDOTTES, THE IDEAL Holland $6 a trio. Indian Runner for others. Paul Bouton, Ivy Depot Drakes $1.25. White Leghorn Va. fowl for color, eggs and table. My hens 60c. Buff Cockerel, Pullet and Orpington Cockerels $1. T. birds won 1st W. Wood, Hewlett, Va. WANTED TO BUY Pen at Richmond last January. Hens —TWO PURE-BRED grey Percheron mare coifs, entitled Cockerels for sale. Try me. and PURE MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEYS to registry, at reasonable prices; Geo. W. Osterhout, Bedford City, Va. for sale; $7 per pair; $4 for Tom. also one Victoria sow, 3 to 6 months Mrs. W. F. Jackson, R. No. old from registered stock Address, LAYING STRAIN RHODE is- 2, Jet- HEAVY ersville, Amelia Co., Va. J. A. Dove, Cornelius, land Reds; March pullets .and year- N C. ling hens, $1.50 each; Eggs, $1 per BUFF ORPINGTON AND S. C. BIG ENGLIfcH BERKSHIRES, PRIZE- Pedigreed Collie paps and grown RHODE 20. Island Red cockerels for sale, $1 winning Mammoth Bronze Turkeys, dogs, also Pointers trained. Shady each. Fine specimens. Wild Rose R. C, R. I. Reds, White Muscovy Farm, Route 2, Roanoke, Va. Brook Poultry Farm, Golddale, Va. Ducks. Ducks $3 per trio. H. B. Howe, Dublin, Va. BEFORE WINTER I WILL SELL ONE COCKEREL AND, TWO HENS, some special bargains in S. C. White Standard bred Buff Rocks, $3.50. TO REGISTERED Leghorn hens and pullets. Buff Leg- WANTED BUY Bred for size and eggs. Jno. E. Mor- Poll Durham or Hornless Shorthorn horns, B. Minorcas, R. I. Reds, White ris, Jr., Orange, Va. bull calf. Do not want anything but I. Games, White Rocks, White and Buff Cochin Bantams. C. L. Shenk, the best. J. M. Steger, Oakwood Luray, Va. FOR SALE—SEVEN CHOICE RHODE Farm, Scottsville, Va. Island Red Cockerels, $2 each, five WHITE HOLLAND TURKEYS—A FEW at $1 each. M. H. Chalkley, Rich- FOR SALE—THREE JERSEY BULLS, select pure-bred birds for sale. Toms, mond, Va. two grades and one fine registered Price reasonable. C. M. $4; hens, $3. Will exchange one animal. Tom, weight 25 lbs., age 2 years, for FINE WHITE WYANDOTTE COCK- Bass, Rice Depot, Va. one of same stock, to get new strain. erels, snow white, $1.50 each. George Mrs. Helen Briesmaster, Sabot, Va. Osborne, Hurlock, Md. REGISTERED LARGE YORKSHIRE Hogs, Hampshire Sheep and Bufi FOR SALE—PURE-BRED FAT PEKIN S. C. BLACK MINORCA COCKERELS, Plymouth Rock chickens. J. D. Ducks. Mrs. Armstrong, Union Mills, Northrup strain, $2 each. H. L. Ches- Thomas, Round Hill, Va. ter, Elko, Va. Fluvanna Co., Va. WANTED TO SELL PURE BRED CHOICE BUFF ORPINGTON HENS COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES—PURE- Holstein bull 2 years old, very fine and pullets, $1 each. Allen Wood, bred cockerels and pullets, $2 per specimen. Address J. H. Janer, Tam- Route 4, Petersburg, Va. head. C. V. Campbell, Oliver, Va. worth, Va. 1106 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER [December,

Live Stock (Continued). FARMER WANTED—I WANT A MISCELLANEOUS. good man to run my farm or part FOR SALE — TWO REGISTERED of it for the coming year. He to Percheron yearling stud colts. Mc- furnish labor and I to furnish the WE WANT SWEET GUM LOGS, 15 Cloy, Agt, Birdwood, Va. land, team, feed for teams, etc. Crops to 30 inches in diameter, clear of to be grown, oats, corn, potatoes, to- knots, sound and straight, 32 to 56 SOME DUROC GILTS AND BOARS 4 bacco if desirable and other small inches long. Also White Sap Poplar to 6 months old. Eligible to register. crops if mutually agreed upon. Im- 42 to 56 inches long. Send us prices Cheap for quality. C. L. Shenk, provements all good, fruit abund- per 1,000 feet, delivered in Manches- Luray, Va. ant, place perfectly healthy and un- ter, or f. o. b. cars your station. usually attractive. Farm can be Also, state when you can make de- BEST BREEDING OF YORKSHIRE bought if desired. Reference re- livery. Manchester Basket, Rattan & hogs at farmers' prices. W. E. Stick- quired. Geo. B. Morton, 2805 Q St Woodenware Works, Manchester, Va. ley, Strasburg, Va. Washington, D. C. ESTATE. MAGAZINES, NEWSPAPERS — WHY REAL MANAGER WANTS POSITION—FOR not save money, time and trouble on ten years manager of largest stock your magazines and newspapers. One FOR SALE—TWO HUNDRED ACRE farm in Eastern Pennsylvania. Thor- remittance, the lowest price, to me, thir- farm; $1,000 worth of timber; oughly practical and experienced in covers the transaction. Send for teen room slate roof house; fine base- modern farming. Horses, dairy and price list clubs. Prices quoted on stalls; four ment barn, forty cow sheep. Poultry, handling men, etc. any periodical on request. Refer- other barns; wagon house; silo; Forage crops, silo and ensilage. ences as to reliability the best. In- of water piped to buildings; plenty Strictly temperate. Give full partic- quiries solicited. E. W. Lipscombe, fruit; a" business farm. Price, $6,000, ulars. Address, Temperate, care Box 80, Richmond, Va. $3,000 cash, balance eight years at Southern Planter. five per cent. Hall's Farm Agency, WANTED—TO BUY ALL KINDS Owego, New York. WANTED Responsible man Wild Birds and Animals, particularly — with horse Tame Deer, Wild Turkeys, White REAL ESTATE and buggy in each community, sal- WE BUY AND SELL Squirrels, Peafowl, Otters, Red Foxes anywhere. Let us sell ary $5 to $10 per day to take of any kind, Gray Squirrels, Partridges, Pheas- have applicants orders from owners of farms, orch- your farm. We ants, Beaver. State price when writ- for Virginia farms and ards and home gardens. A splendid every day ing. Dr. Cecil French, Naturalist, supply the demand. List opportunity for farmers' sons, also cannot Washington, D. C. your property with us, we produce fruit tree and sewing machine agents results. Rittenour, 427 Munsey Build- to make a business connection which FOR SALE—ONE DANDY WINDMILL, ing, Washington, D. C. will become more profitable each 60 ft. tower, 10 ft. wheel, guaran- year. Address: P. O. Box 6," Young's teed to be in first class condition RENT SMALL FARM Island, S. WANTED TO C. for "want of of buying; highly pro- and good as new. Sold with privilege and no other reason. Address, ductive; good markets; a No. 1 use Inc., Box neighborhood; good roads. Northern POSITION WANTED BY Stanton Tanning .Co., 155, YOUNG Richmond, Va. Va. or Md. preferred. Dr. E. Boyn- married Englishman as working ton, Barnum, W. Va. foreman on farm; has been on farm OR EXCHANGE FOR all his life and has had experience FOR SALE cows 1 nice rubber tire SALE—TWO FAUQUIER COUN- with stock; will take place under good — FOR carriage, something swell and ty blue grass farms of 300 acres supervision of another or will take close as good as new, at a great bargain. each; one Vi mile from station, the charge of cattle; open for immediate No commission to 1 spring wagon good as new, price other 1% miles. engagement. J. M. care Southern mower (second Apply to J. W. Latham, Planter. $40. 1 Champion agents. Address W. E. Calverton, Va. hand) price $20. Highfill, Box 303, Danville, Va. YOUR FARM DIRECT TO POSITION AS GENERAL FARM MAN- SELL ager by educated man, age un- ONE 3-HORSE POWER buyer. Write J. H. Bonnell, James- 42, FOR SALE— derstands agricultural Vertical Steam Boiler and Engine. town, N. Y. machinery, the care of stock and management of (Engine attached to boiler.) In CHEAP LAND WHERE INVALIDS colored help. Wife willing to take first class running order with all fix- complete. Address Jno. S. get well without medicine and raise charge of butter and poultry or act tures as housekeeper. Manager, Ewell, Jr., Hickory Grove, Va. $200 in fruit per acre. Eden Fruit care Colony Company, Dewberry, Harnett Southern Planter. Co., N. C. FOUR OF THE MOST IMPROVED machines. Corn Binder, Double Disc WANTED — A GOOD RELIABLE Cutter with FOR SALE—STORE HOUSE AND GIN young or middle aged married man, Plow, Disc Drill, Silage new. . Thos. house with latest machinery; 4 vil- on a grain and stock farm. Work the blow pipe, all good as Grove, Box 33, Keswick, Va. lage lots included in Adams year round. Wages $30 per month Christian, care Va. Terms easy. J. B. Thomas, with house, and one cow to milk. M. Drewryville, Va. M. Spence, Fairbury, 111. W. H. COFFMAN'S ILLUSTRATED herd catalogue of his magnificent DAIRY FARM 204 ACRES to mail FOR RENT— MANAGER EXPERIENCED, STRICT- Berkshire Hogs is now ready well equipped with cows and ma- — breeders at their request. Ad- ly temperate, with references, wants free to chinery. 46 miles from Washington, dress, Bluefield, W. Va. charge of a large farm or estate. 1 mile station. Address Linden Farm, Calverton, Va. Address Manager, care Southern Planter. OLD VA. HAMS—RECIPE FOR PER- fectly curing without becoming hard, BUY BEST VIRGINIA FARMS DIRECT finest flavor, for 50e. M. Cook, 220 save money. J. of owner and Write WANTED POSITION AS MANAGER Citizens Bank, Norfolk, Va. H. Bonnell, Jamestown. N. Y. on large farm. Twenty (20) years experience. No family. Reference. WOODWARD & SON, RICHMOND, VA. FOR SALE—LIVERY STABLE WITH Address Farmer, Va. Trust Co., Rich- Lumber, Laths, Shin- 75 acres land and 7 village lots. RICHMOND mond, Va. gles, Sash, Blinds, Terms easy. J. B. Thomas, Drewry- Doors, Frames, ville, Va. WS^D POSITION VIRGINIA Mouldings, Asphalt WANTED— AS SUPERIN- Roofing. Yards and tendent of a large estate by POSITIONS—HELP. a man buildings covering ten acres. who can give good references and - make good. B. Ellwood, WANTED—A PRACTICAL POULTRY W. Center- GRADING? man thoroughly experienced in feed- ville, Ind. TERRACING? DITCHING? Best level for $6.66. Write ing for eggs, operating incubators, $10 farm at once for special offer. Frank brooder houses, etc., desires position AGENTS WANTED TO INTRODUCE Wright. Mf., Cave Springs, Ga. on in plant operation or with man our new Metal Hameless Horse Col- having suitable farm and capital to lars to farmers and teamsters. J-S. plan, build WANTED—100,000 READERS FOR, and manage plant on Company, Box P, Caro, Mich. salary. No enterprise on farm pays "After the Christmas Dinner." At- as high interest on capital invested well Co., Richmond, Va. as raising of market eggs. Corres- WANTED—A STRONG, HEALTHY IN- pondence solicited. Highest refer- telligent middle aged woman as COW PEAS WANTED, ANY QUAN- ence. Address 'L" care Southern housekeeper. King & Hill, Kendalia, tity, will pay cash. W. S. Murray, Planter. W. Va. Hollins, Va. 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER 1107

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If you could put a lot of heavy fowls in A-l market condition and "finish" them just when scarcity makes high prices, you'd consider it good business, wouldn't you? That kind of thing' is done by hosts of farmers and poultrymen who have no better birds and no more fattening foods, than you or any one else. It isn't so much what a fowl eats as what a fowl digests that does the business. These men "skim the cream" because they give their fowls a regular daily portion of Dr. Hess Poultry Pan-a-ce-a once a day. That is the secret, and you can get just as good results as they if you follow their way.

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makes a fowl thrive because it contains tonic properties which are a most positive aid to the digestive organs and it cures gapes, cholera, roup, and the like. It causes the greatest possible assimilation of nutrition, hence, the (nvatrst possible crowtli Poultry Pan-a-ce-a is "The Or. Hess Idea." He believed that good digestion was the foundation of all success in feeding. it That was possible to aid digestion and thus reduce food waste. Poultry Pan-a-ce-a does this verv thinir Hens that receive a little of it daily are always laying eggs and always healthy. Little chicks grow fast and escape chicken ills it most if s given to them ; and when moulting time comeB, Poultry Pan-a-ce-a strengthens all fowls to pass this trying time safely. Dr. Hess Poultry Pan-a-ce-a makes good blood and car- ries dead poisonous matter out of the system. It is endorsed by leading poultry associations and sold on a written guarantee. A penny's worth is enough for 30 hens one day. J>., 11>S 25c; mail or express 40c. Except in Canada DR. HESS & CLARK 5 lbs, 60c; IS lbs. $1.25; 35 lb. pail $2.50 and Extreme West and South. Ashland. Ohio. Send 2 cents for Dr. Hess 48- page Poultry Book, Free

Every time a steer, cow, horse or hog, gets a little of Dr. Hess Stock Food in its grain DB HESS STOCKED ration, the animal is made stronger to digest and use its food. This is "The Dr. Hess Idea" and the true theory of feeding—make the maximum amount of ration digest and assimilate and gain will be rapid and steady. Dr. Hess Stock Food is composed of beneficial elements—iron for the blood, bitter tonics and cleansing nitrates. It increases milk, hurries fatting and gives good health to all domestic animals. Promoting stock health and condition is also a profitable feature of feeding Dr. Hess Stock Food. Sold on a written guarantee. 100 lbs. $5.00; 25 lb. pall $1.60. Except in Canada and Extreme West and South. Smaller quantities at a slight advance.

Send 2 cents for Dr. Hess Stock Book, Free. INSTANT LOUSE KILLER MILLS LICE

KNEW WHEN HE WAS HAPPY. The soul of an editor who had died Brompton Stock Farm. of starvation was being conducted to the Elysian fields. As they passed the portals of the infernal regions, We offer for December delivery several Young Jersey Bulls and two Guern- he asked his guide if he might not go in and look around. The guide sey Bulls, six and twelve months old, Jersey yearling heifers in calf, and, a lot consented, but warned him not to stay of high grade Jersey and Guernsey heifers, one and two years old. Brown but a few minutes, as he could not Chinese Geese, Toulouse Geese, Bronze Turkeys, Muscovy Ducks and Plymouth wait long. A long time passed, and the editor Rock fowls. Also Collie and Fox Terrier puppies. had not returned; so the guiding an- gel went in search of him. He found him before a cage in which a num- ber of doomed wretches were being toasted on red-hot 'griddles. Over the M. B. ROWE & CO, Fredericksburg, Va. cage was the sign "Delinquent Sub- scribers." "Come," said the guide; "we must be going." JERSEY CATTLE. "Don't wait for me," replied the editor. "I'm not coming. This is Hlgb-bred Cows Freak to Pall. heaven enough for meT"—November Heifers Bred to Calve* In Spring. Lippincott's. Bull*—'All Age«—A Few Ready for Service. Rockingham Co., Va., Aug. 3, '08. BERKSHIRES. The Southern Planter is still ahead of all other agricultural jour- All Ages and of Excellent Breeding;. Get my prices before placing your order. nals. JOHN I. WOOD. EVERGREEN FARMS, W. B. Gates, Proprietor, RICE DEPOT, VA. 1108 THE SOUTHEKN PLANTER [December, Ft. Lewis Stock Farm THE BEST PLACE FOR BLOOD AND REGISTERED BERKSHIRES White Leghorn, all breeds of Plymouth Rock, Black Minorca and Rhode Island Red Fowls. Esse from these pure-blooded birds for sale. DR. W. U NOLEN, PROPRIETOR, SALEM, VA.

HELPS FOR THE POULTRY INDUSTRY. FOR 8ALBS I The incubator has doubtless done more for the poultry industry than BERKSHIRE (JILTS and BOARS. has any other singe factor. "Raising chickens" was of little importance be- WELL DEVELOPED fore this machine was invented, sim- ply because "hen-hatched" chickens could not be matured early enough in JERSEY BULL CALVES the season to sell at a profit. How- ever, the incubator now makes it pos- sible for chicks to be well matured CORRECT DAIRY TYPE. GREAT PRODUCING ANCESTORS. by the time most hens begin to show signs of broodiness. Thus incubators have come into pu v i LU5, common use, and some few makes Forest Home Farm, n , a have established their right to the ^ confidence of the public. Prominent in this class stand DUROCS SHORTHORNS POLLED DURHAMS SHROPSHIRES .the "Excelsior" ro) and "Wooden Hen," the former THE DTJROC is the most prolific hog on earth. The large fairs of the West having been one prove that they are the most popular hog of that section. The demand for of the earliest of them in the South shows conclusively that they are the coming hog of the the artificial South. "We have the largest herd in the East and one of the most fashion- hatching machines put on the market. ably bred herds in the world. Our herd averaged over eleven pigs to the Both types are built upon practical litter this year. Send for printed catalogue if you are interested in hogs. lines, and have won the approval of Boars, Sows in pig, Shotes and Fall Pigs for sale—two hundred in all. Send thousands of poultrymen everywhere. "Dnroc Facts." for , They are made in sizes varying from Shorthorn Cows, Heifers and bulls, dual purpose, pure Scotch and Scotch fifty to six hundred eggs, thus adapt- topped, at prices that will make you buy. ing themselves to poultry plants great and small. Shropshire Rams and Ewes, Yearlings and Lambs. In "Excelsior" and "Wooden Hen" LESLIE D. KLINE, Vanclnse, Va. Incubators the principles of heat, moisture and ventilation, so vital to the development of healthy chicks, have been perfectly worked out. Reg- ulation of the heat, which may be sup- plied by kerosene, Glenburn Berkshires. gas or electricity, is practically automatic, reducing to almost nothing the attention required Lord Premier and Premier Longfellow are dead, but we have their best to keep the machine going. sons. Our LORD PREMIER III is not only a son of Lord Premier, but is a litter mate to Lord Premier II. and a brother in blood to Lord Prem- "Excelsior" and "Wooden Hen" In- ier's Rival. Our PREDOMINANT and DOMINANT are probably the best cubators and Brooders are illustrated sons of Premier Longfellow. IMP. ROYAL HUNTER Is a great indi- Premier, Premier, and described in attractive catalogues vidual. We have Lord Longfellow, Masterpiece, Cham- and br*s Duke XXIII., and fine imported sows. literature issued by the manufac- FORFARSHIRE GOLDEN LAD JERSEYS. turer, George H. Stahl, Box 76-B, Quincy. 111., who will gladly mail Write for Catalogue. same to any address upon request. Dr. J. D. KIRK, Roanoke. Va. THE COOK FARMS. J. T. Cook & Co., Lexington, Ky., the well-known Jack breeders, advise us that their winnings at the various IF YOU WANT THE BEST HOG Fairs this year are greater than ever. Buy from those who glvu their sole attention to the production of the greatest Berkshire Type. This means a great deal, of course, ——WE DO. as they have always gotten their Our herd comprises the most splendid lines of breeding; and Individual* share. Only once in seven years have that money can bay or experience develop In American and English Bred they lost Berkshires. the premium in the herd "LORD PREMIER OF THE BLUB RIDGE," 103555, the greatest Uvtns ring at the Kentucky and Tennessee boar, heads our herd. If yon are Interested -write. Fairs. THE BLUE RIDGE BERKSHIRE FARMS, ASHEVILLB, N. O. 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER 1109 Hygeia Herd Pure-Bred Holstein-Friesians. The herd offers a few more well bred bulls and bull calves from large milk and butter producing dams and sired by Pontiac Calypso's Son, No. 39469. The dam of this richly bred young sire, Pontiac Calypso, No. 61,100, has an official record of 28.43 pounds of butter in 7 days, with a milk record of 560.3 pounds, or an average of nearly 10 gallons per day for 7 days. His sire's dam, Beryl Wayne, No. 32,496, produced 27.87 pounds of butter in 7 days. The breed not only holds the milk, but also the butter records of the world, It pays to get the best blood to head your herd, therefore write for pedigrees and prices. No females offered for sale at the present time, as the herd will be numerically increased as rapidly as possible. HYGEIA HERD. W. Fltzhugh Carter M. D., Owner, Crozet Albemarle County, Virginia. Address: W. F. Carter, Jr., Agent.

1 HOW I MET GEN . SAM HOUSTON. HERD In early December, 1859, I left Bal- THE HOLLINS timore in the pursuit of my profession —OF— as a civil engineer to take part in the construction of railroads just be- HIGH-CLASS HOLSTEIN-FRIESIANS. ginning in Texas. The journey from In the year. Baltimore to Austin was then a mat- A working herd—working every day ter of weeks instead of days as at present. A journey with many chang- This herd of 22 head, of which 14 head are heifers with 1st or 2d calf, es by rail brought me to Memphis, milked from the 1st of Oct., 1907, to the 1st of Oct., 1908; then a week's leisurely journey on one of the fine packet steamers then 195,941 IiBS. OF MILK; plying on the Mississippi, loading cotton, brought me from the snow An Average of 8,906 lbs per cow per year. and ice of the North to the balmy sunshine at New Orleans. On a YOUNG REGISTERED BULLS FOR SALE. bright sunny day I stood on the wharf at Berwick's Bay on Bayou JOS. A. TURNER, General Manager, Atchafalaya, where the Vera Cruz Holling, V«. steamer, Orizaba, was to take us to Holllna Institute, Galveston. A tall gentleman in clerical attire THE GROVE B'ARM. was there introduced to me as Bish- op Gregg, the newly elected Bishop HOLSTEIN FRIESIANS of Texas for the Protestant Episcopal Church there, and he seemed to take BERKSHIRES

a great interest in the young ' man who was to be a traveling companion HACKNEYS all the way to Austin. It was a bright Write me your wants. Sunday morning when we arrived at T. O. SANDY, Burkcville, Va. Galveston. There was then no rail- N. & W. and Southern Railways. road connection northward from Gal- Wkk veston, and we had to wait till Mon- day afternoon for a steamer for Hous- ton, so that I had the pleasure to hear the first sermon preached by biltmqre,n.c. I Bishop Gregg in his new Diocese. BILTMORE FARMS, Our steamer to Houston was the j regular flat bottomed Mississippi river type, but even such a boat stir- f BerKshires==Jerseys==Poultry red up the mud in the shallow wa- ters of Galveston Bay and it was J Titers is mmmn » night by the time we entered the — out about the Good Things We are tortuous stream known as Buffalo ONLY ONE WAY to find f that is to Write To-Day. We Can't Tell It ail In This Bayou, and it was a slow passage for Offering, and our big steamer up the narrow Advertisement. stream, where the trees almost met BUT We have a Bunch of Literature which we will send free overhead, so that it was morning upon request, which Wells All About It. when we reached Houston. There we found the terminus of the then only railroad in Texas, run- (Address BILTMORE FARMS, ning out to Hemstead on the edge of F. D. No. 2. BILTMORE, N. C. the Brazos bottoms seventy miles, R. from which point we took a stage f Ask for special price on our entire loft of pigeons and loft fittings. drawn by six horses, and had to pay ten cents per mile for our passage and were allowed forty pounds of baggage, while my trunk, with in- TELL THE ADVERTISER WHERE YOU SAW HIS ADVERTISEMENT. 1310 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER [December, ROSE DALE HERD ABERDEEN-ANGUS CATTLE We offer to the farmers and breeders «f the Bast strictly eholoe Young Registered Bulls from weanlings to serviceable age. They are of the straight, broad-backed, low-down, compact, blocky type. Many of them show ring animals. They represent the blood of Mas- ter II. of Meadow Breok; Oay Lord, Jr.; Heather Lad II., Zaire V., Ermine Bearer, Blackbird of Corskle IV., Black Abbott, Abbottaford, Coquette X., Etc, They are well grown out, in thrifty condition, but not pampered. Come and see them or write us your wants. Prices right, vTe can please you. Angus Cattle are our specialty. We raise ne other stock, but give them our undivided personal attention. To avoid Inbreeding we offer an exceptionally good herd bull. Write for particulars. Address SOSEDALE STOCK FARMS, JEFFERSONT0N, VA. struments and books, weighed near- OTHER HERDS COME ly 200. But after settling for the ex- AND GO BUT THE OLD ESTABLISHED cess, and seeing the stage piled high with baggage, we were told that the SUNNY HOME HERD passeri? n-H would have to walk sev- eral miles to the other side of the Brazos, since the team could barely OF haul the stage and baggage through the deep mud of the bottoms. It was ABERDEEN ANGUS CATTLE the first time I ever paid ten cents per mile for the privilege of walk- ing. Continues steadily along furnishing cattle of the better class and choicest breeding at the very lowest prices consistent with high quality. Two better Crossing the river, we soon came bred bulls than "Baron Roseboy" 67666, and "Jester," 60071, are not owned in up from the low "hog-wallow" the South, and the females of the herd were sired by some of the most fa- mous bulls of the breed. Young calves only for sale. prairie to the rolling uplands at Chap- el Hill. Bishop Gregg, however, was A. L. FRENCH, Owner, R. F. D., Byrdvllle, Va. a very agreeable traveling compan- Station, Draper, N. C. at the farm. ion, a splendid conversationalist, and, as day after day passed and night after night for we were from Tues- day afternoon till Friday morning go- NO REASONABLE OFFER REFUSED ing from Hemstead to Austin, and "" ANGUS CATTLE and HACKNEY HORSES slept on the stage, the time passed in a very agreeable manner. At sacrifice prices. A destructive fire left us without adequate shelter for our stock and we Wishing to see as much as possi- are forced to sell it. ble of the country, I rode in the day Every animal we offer is all right in breed- ing backing of our establishment, time on the box with the driver, who and has the the Delaware Stock Farm. Simply our misfor- seemed to take a great interest in tune affords you a rare chance to buy first class making a young tender-foot acquaint- stuff at your own price. Write us your wants. ed with Texas and its customs. At MYER & SON, Brldgeville, Del. that time every one went armed in Texas, and, wishing to do in Rome as Rome did, I had bought a Navy Colt and belt and holster, and the driver, after a careful examination of my **» gun. anrroved it, and laughingly said * Young Hereford Bulls that with such a guard he did not fear the road agents. We have a few Good Young Bulls for sale at reasonable prices, quality Getting into the Black-jack coun- considered. Will gladly give description and prices to prospective buyers. try, he pointed out here and there a H. A. S. HAMILTON & SONS, Shadwell, Va. tree where he said a man had been hanged at different times. I asked CHESTER WHITES. what they were hanged for. "Hoss Registered herd; first piemium stock; stealing," he said. "Do they hang largest and most prolific hot, on rec- people here for stealing horses?" ord; 3 sows, 41 pigs breeaing stock, said I. "Well, youngster, what would 400 to 700 pounds; easy feeding; Ser- you hang a man for if not for steal- vice Boars, Sows bisl. Fancy Figs for inne horses?" was the rejoinder. sale. My time to ihis breed, 11 years. ana leed pro- Since mustangs The best money can buy were worth then $10 duce. P. M. FINKHCTTSER, Winches- to $15 per head, I though that the ter, Vn. penaltv seemed severe, but said noth- References: Farmers and Merchants National Bank, Winchester, Va. ing. At noon in the Black-Jack coun- try we drew up to a noted wayside When corresponding with our advertisers always mention Southern Planter. 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER 1111

Pure-Bred WHITE HOLLAND Pure- and MAMMOTH BRONZE Bred TURKEYS. Farmers do not delay. Now is the time to buy and save money. POULTRY Choice 15- to 16- pound White Holland Toms, $5 each; Younger Toms, $4 each; 2a-pound Yearling Pure-Bred Farmers, now is the time to Toms, $6 each. White Holland order your Breeding Birds for 1909. Hens of this year's hatch, 8 to 12 I have choice birds of the follow- pounds each, $4 each, or $7.50 for HOGS ing breeds. Barred, White and two hens. I have the finest lot of Berkshire, Buff Plymouth Rocks, White, Brown My Mammoth Bronze Turkeys are Poland-China, Chester White, York- and Buff Leg-horns, White and Sil- extra good this year, and the prices shire and Tamworth Pigs and Hogs ver Wyandottes, White, Black and for December are as follows: 30- I ever owned. I can mate Pigs and Buff Orpingtons, Rhode Island Reds, to 35-pound Yearling Gobblers, $6 Shoats for breeding 2, 3, 4 and 6 Silver Spangled Hamburgs, Indian each; lS-to 20-pound Young Toms, months old, and have fine 150-to Games, Black Minorcas, and White $5 each; Later hatched, 15-pound 200-lb. Service Boars and Bred Sows Face Black Spanish chickens; Rou- Toms, $4 each; 12- to 14-pound ready for immediate shipment. Now en and Pekin Ducks, Mammoth Early hatched Hens, $4 each; 9 to is the time to order and get them Bronze and White Holland Turkeys. 11-pound Hens, $3 each. in their winter quarters. Write to- Do not delay, place your order I can please you, and have over day a list of your wants. Satis- today and get advantage of lowest 200 Pure-Bred Turkeys for sale all faction guaranteed and references prices. Address in perfect health. Order to-day and furnished. Address, JAMES M. HOBBS, secure the choicest birds. Address JAMES M. HOBBS, 1521 Mt. Royal Avenue. JAMES M. HOBBS, 1521 Mt. Royal Avenue. BALTIMORE, MD. BALTIMORE, MD. | 1521 Mt. Royal Ave, Baltimore, Md. inn known as Cunningham's. As the REDUCED PRICES ON stage drew up in front to stop for •dinner and change horses, I noticed a large and rather roughly clad man BRED BERKSHIRE GILTS sitting on the porch with a lady in for next 30 days only. black. The panic drove hundreds of breed- ers of business. next twelve "There he is," said the driver, out The months will see them tumbling over "the greatest man in Texas.". "Who one another to get back—as the de- is it?" said I. "Why, Gin'l Sam Hous- mand and prices advance. I staid in n ton." 1 n .d a letter of introduction the boat, kept up my herd and adver- to General Houston, but concluded tisements, hence am well equipped for orders. My Berkshires are as fine as that this was not an opportune time the world can produce. Price in easy to present it. but preferred to wait reach of everyone. Scores of pigs ready till he was inaugurated Governor, for for shipment. he was then, with his wife, on his THOS. S. WHITE, way to Austin to be inaugurated for Fassifern Stock Farm, LEXINGTON, VA. the last time Governor of the State he had had such a hand in the mak- Prize- ing of. Winning But at the dinner table he and Mrs. Houston sat opposite to me, and BERKSHIRES FOR SALE. I got a picture in mind that has Our herd won 33 ribbons at Rich- never faded. Dressed in a rather roush coat, no collar, but with a red mond 1907, and Lynchburg and Rich- worsted scarf around his neck, and mond, 1908; also won silver cup offered leopard a vest of skin with hair and by American Berkshire Assn. for best spots on. General Houston, neverthe- boar). less made the impression of great under-year herd (3 sows and physical and mental power. We have Masterpiece, Lord Premier, He was traveling with his wife in Beryton Duke and Biltmore strains. their private carriage towards the PIGS SALE. «ity of Austin, but not like us, travel- BRED SOWS, GILTS, YOUNG BOARS AND FOR ing at night, and we left him at the MOORE'S BROOK SANITARIUM COMPANY, CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. hostelry. I reached Austin several days before the time for the inaugu- ENGLISH AND AMERICAN BERKSHIRES. ration, and had an opportunity to LARGE quality early matur- hear some of the discussions in the Size, with and ity. I offer for sale a few of the fin- Legislature which showed that even est ready to breed gilts and ready for then there were mutterings of the service boars I have seen this season. storm that was soon to break over the Also a great number of choice pigs country. The political majority of the 8 to 10 weeks old. They, are out of the best sows to be found in the State Legislature was opposed to General and were sired by my great breeding Houston, and there were fire eaters )oars, Hunter of Biltmore, 3d and there who were reported to have left Earhart's Model Premier. the East for the good of the East. My prices are very reasonable and I guarantee entire satisfaction or It was curious, too, to note at that will refund your money. Write for prices and description to time that almost every one spoke of D. E. EARHART, Bristow, Va. the remainder of the country as the "States," and at times, on going to When corresponding with our advertisers always mention Southern Planter. 1112 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER [December, the post-office for letters, I was told "No mall from the States to-day." The day hefore the inaugural cere- mony, General Houston sent a polite message to the Legislature, saying that he had heard that the galleries in the Capitol (the old one) were un- safe, and that as there would he a large crowd, he suggested that the inaugural ceremonies take place on the portico in front of the Alamo monument. But, in the spirit of pure cussedness, the House sent him word that they would have the galleries strengthened, and did have timber props placed all around under them. Much of the chronic lameness in horses is clue to neglect. In the morning, I concluded that it would be as safe to be on top as any See that your horse is not allowed to go lame. Keep Sloan's where, so I went to the gallery. At Liniment on hand and apply at the first signs of stiffness. the appointed hour, the General, still It's wonderfully penetrating goes right to the spot—relieves dressed as I had seen him at the — country tavern, walked up the aisle the soreness — limbers up the joints and makes the muscles to the speakers' desk, and took the elastic and pliant. oath of office. Then, turning to the assemblage, he said, "Ladies and gen- tlemen, any one who may wish to hear the remarks I may have to make Slonxf will please adjourn to the front of will kill a spavin, curb or splint, reduce wind puffs and swol- the Alamo monument, as I shall speak from that place.'And out he len joints, and is a sure and speedy rcme Hr for fistula, sweeney, walked, with the whole crowd and founder and thrush. Price, 50c. and $1.00. the Legislature tumbling after him, and, taking off his overcoat and his Dr. Earl S. Sloan, - - Boston, Mass. red scarf, he made his inaugural ad- Sloan's book on horses, cattle, sheep and poultry sent free. dress just where he intended to make it. And in that inaugural he indicated the policy that he after- wards followed in the shock of war, BURKE'S GARDEN POULTRY evidently grieved that the State he had fought for and which he had BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS spent his best days in making a mem- WHITE WYANDOTTES S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS ber of the great Union, should be in REDS ZT fa&itoL S. AND R. C. RHODE ISLAND the hands of those who wished to B. TURKEYS.*-^. , . -JWH1TE HOLLAND TURKEYS turn her loose again. MAMMOTH :: f^fctt -*_- W_J i~ L. . FROM ^ A few days afterwards I presented BEST STRAINS POSSIBLE. my letter of introduction, and for the RIGHT, FED RIGHT, GROW RIGHT, STAY RIGHT. first and last time grasped the hand BRED on a separate farm, under the personal care of a of the old veteran. Seeing me shrink Each breed is reared specialist. Our stock is all healthy and vigorous. a little from the lion-like grip of his YANKEE QUALITY AT SOUTHERN PRICES. hand, he said, "My young friend, if Stock $2 to $5 for single specimens. Trios and pens at special prices. you stay in Texas, we will make you Eggs, $1.60 to $5 a setting. tougher than that." I was in Austin STANDARD-BRED POULTRY FARMS, Burke's Garden, Va. at times during the whole of that ses- sion of the Legislature and could but EGGS FOR HATCHING see that the old man was waging a Pens No. 1 —Fancy Orpingtons that win. losing fight against that Legislature. ,,j 15 for $ 4 00 But that is history. We did little 45 for 9 60 that winter in railroad building, and 90 for 14 50 2 Breeders. the tracks got little beyond Hemp- ; / ^S^^V???; Pens No. —High-Class /; '$&•'•• • ; for 2 00 stead, and when the storm of war W %- "*>K^NxM?rf? 15 $ >«*.=<* ' --.Y*«jf 45 for 4 80 about to break I went back '' seemed : 90 for 7 20 C'lll^' WT3 " "S :J 3 Utility to Virginia. P"' v XY/L* > pens No. —Thoroughbred .\:r,..>^^iS' >r? Stock. Salisbury, Md. W. F. MASSET. ,v]#:.sr 15 for $ 1 oo MF IP ' 45 for 2 40 -W'" ' 90 for 3 60 ^"""^M , CATALOGUES. '\:^jKv -.',.' •[email protected]'s%A Single-Comb Buff Orpington Stock :~, ; "-'-""-^~- times. Write for ffiffif^yy-:.'''..- ^wMmSF^r^' for sale at all J. B. Watkins & Bro., Elmwood Nur- '"' s "imW ^$3 Wr^py -•' '-';Y i?0 prices. series, Midlothian, Va. Catalogue of ^Jap 'C'.^\C:- : HENRY J. and CHAS. G. SANGER, '-'^ ,;si ;•""•W "~ \.. . ., - of Ethermore Fruit nursery stock and ornamental trees, ft -r~- %.iir^; Proprietors The '--'}'-'. '-.••--v " //.-±i £»*.£ - z&i^^- and S. C. Buff Orpington Farm. ,.•'.-:'-•— : -- vines plants. This is an old and - R. F. D. No. 2, DAYTON, VA. and 'Vi:i;5'\ ^^V^/ ; 1 reliable firm, who give personal at- W45Hcsi»r »H^kE-x'*mS' The Best All-Purpose Fowls Known

tention to the production of good '08. Caswell Co., N. C, Aug. 13, '08. Shenandoah Co., Va., June 8, stock. is one I esteem the Southern Planter a I think the Southern Planter W. R. Harrison & Co., Massilon, O. valuable aid to the farmers of this of the best- Southern papers that we Tornado Feed and Ensilage Cutters. country E. B. FOOTE. take. J. D. BURNER. 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER 1113

MORVEN PARK ESTATE.

The Property of WESTMORELAND DAVIS. Esq.

Large Yorkshire Swine.

These pigs are hardy and prolific. The two boars that took the first prize in their classes at the Virginia State Fair had been exposed without cover or shed for a year in the open. They had, as have all our pigs, well developed carcasses, covered with heavy growth of hair that insures against scurf or skin troubles in hot climate. These pigs mature early, are good mothers, and are very pro- lific. They are the bacon pig of England and of the West. WE HAVE THE FINEST STRAIN OF IMPORTED BLOOD FOR SALE.

Registered Guernsey Cattle.

Dairymen shipping to the city markets will find a Guernsey bull most valuable to cross on their herds, thus increasing the content of butter fat in their milk or cream. Especially is this cross desir- able when shipping to cities where dealers pay upon the basis of butter fat. At the Pan Amercian Exposition, the only time the Guernsey met other breeds in competition, the Guernsey led all breeds for the most economical production of high-class butter.

We Have Brilliantly Bred Bulls For Sale. Dorset Horn Sheep.

We have the largest flock of Imported Dorsets In America. They are of one type and both thrifty and prolific. WE ARE BOOKING ORDERS FOR NEXT YEAR'S DELIVERY OF LAMBS.

For further particulars, address,

LIVE STOCK DEPARTMENT, MORVEN PARK ESTATE,

LEESBURG. LOUDOUN CO., VA "

1114 THE SOUTHEEN PLANTEK [December,.

GOOD HOUSEKEEPING. Potato Soup. Six potatoes, four turnips, one small onion, five pints of milk, three heads of celery, two teaspoons of ENTERPRISE "Enterprise" Meat and Food Choppers cut the meat salt, one-half teaspoon of black with a revolving steel knife against a perforated pepper, a large spoon of butter. Meat steel cutting' plate without tearing or crushin. Boil the turnips until they are Easily cleaned. Practically unbreakable, and will last for years. tender, add the potatoes and onions and The No. 5 "Enterprise" Chopper and boil until they can be mashed. costs only SI. 75. No, 10. shown in Drain off the water and cream the cut, $2.50. They are standard family vegetables; add the milk, salt and Food sizes, and not only save ha] f the work at butchering time, but are useful in pepper, and return it to the fire and the kitchen every day in the year. let it come to a boil. Cream the Chopper Made in 45 sizes and styles for Hand, Steam an butter very light, and add it just is trie Power. We also make cheaper Food Choppers, recommend the above for the reasons given. Illustrated you take it off the Are. The celery catalog free. Sold at Hardware and General Stores, etc. can be chopped and added when you mix the vegetables and milk, or it may be boiled with the potatoes and creamed with the other vegetables. A dust of celery salt and of Cayenne is ENTERPRISE an improvement. Serve very hot Lessens the labor at butchering time. No. 25—4 quart with small squares of toasted bread. Two machines in one. Well made and Japanned Sausage Price $5.50 Roasted Turkey. does its work quickly and surely. Cyl- sizes inder is bored true and plate fits accur- 4 Always kill the turkey a day be- Tinned and ately. Pressure cannot cause meat to rise Staffer Japanned fore you want to use it (three days above the plate. The Patented Corru- is better). It should be picked and gated spout prevents air from entering drawn at once and hung up in a dry and casing, ensuring perfect filling and pre- servation of sausage. cold place. When .ready for cooking Machine can be changed into a Lard plunge it into hot water for ten min- Lard Tress in a minute's time. Can also be utes. Have a dressing made with used as a Fruit Press. bread crumbs, salt, pepper, celery Press Your dealer should be able to supply you seed, a pint of fat oysters, and a with the "Enterprise" Sausage Stufferand Lard Press. If not, order direct of makers. large spoon of butter, mixed well, with a few tablespoons of hot water. Fill the body and the crop of the turkey with this dressing. Put it in to the roasting pan with a quart of boiling water and a slice of middling. ENTERPRISE Turn and baste frequently. It takes The "Enterprise" Bone, Shell and Corn Mill is good, general mill for farmers, poultrymen, etc., from three to five hours to cook a a Bone, and for compactness, strength and durability is turkey. Thicken the gravy and chop unexcelled. Handy for grinding poultry food and making bone meal fertilizer. Mill shown incutS8.50, the giblets in it. Serve very hot. Shell weight 60 lbs., grinds 1 '4 bu. corn per hour. Look for Scalloped Oysters. the name "Enterprise" on the machine you buy. Grind up dry bones, oyster and other shells, corn, Drain the liquor from the oysters. etc., for your hens and watch results. Have a baking dish the size you will and Other famous " Enterprise" household special- ties are: Coffee Mills; Raisin Seeders; Fruit, Wine need. Put in a layer of oysters with and Jelly Presses ; Cherry Stoners ; Cold Handle a fork, season with pepper, salt and Corn Sad Irons, Etc., Etc. Sold at Hardware and General Stores, etc. a dash of Cayenne, then a layer of Write for "The Enterprising Housekeeper," a book stale bread crumbs, with bits of but- Mill of 200 choice recipes and kitchen helps. Tree on request. ter about on it, then a layer of oys- ENTERPRISE MFC. CO. of PA., 223 Dauphin St., Philadelphia, Pa ters, and so on, till the dish is full. THE Let the crumbs form the last layer, with the butter, salt and pepper on it, then pour over it a cup of rich milk, or of the oyster liquor. Cover with Poland - CKinas. a tin pan or plate and bake thirty

: minutes, then take off the top, and A superior lot of Pigs by "Top B^ " '-*H bake half hour longer, unless, the Chief," Gray's Ideal 65S05, and other dish is very small, then it does not noted boars. (an furnish pairs not take so long. akin to those previously purchased. Pickled Beets. Come to headq uarters and get the Put the beets on in an iron pot best at one-hait "Western prices. Old- as early as you can after breakfast, est herd in the State. and let them boil gently until dinner J«, "*- is ready. Cut them up (after rub- j. B. GRAY, Fredericksburg, Va. . T0/>.,Cf/£f 1 bing off the skin) into thin slices. Make a sauce of a cup of vinegar, half a cup of water, half a cup of EXCELLENT sugar or more, salt, pepper, a tea- spoon of celery seed. Let this boil SHORTHORN HEIFERS AND BULLS. the Scotch topped Bull, Royal Lad (advertised by the old reliable breed- hard for ten minutes, then pour it,, By ers, P. S. Lewis & Son, as the best bull ever bred on their farm) by th« over the beets, and let them boil in International winner, Frantic Lad, son of The Lad for Me, champion of it. Serve hot. , America in 1900. Also a few fresh Shorthorn Cows. Cold Slaw. Pure Yearling SOUTHDOWN RAMS by Senator, a prize winner in Can- ada as a lamb and a yearling. He was bred by Hon. George Drummond, th» If you have no slaw cutter, buy foremost Southdown breeder In America. one. They can be had for about fif- 11. J. HANCOCK & SON, "Ellerslle," Charlottesville, Va 190S.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER 1115

B>B>B>B>B>B>B>BIC>B>B>B>S>B>BK:>B»B>B>B»B>B>B>B>B>B>B>B*B>B>B>B>B>B>B>B>B>B>B>B>B u Incorporated 1007. "STANDARD OP EXCELLENCE." Capital Stock, SI 00,000. THE VIRGINIA STOCK FARM CO. incorporated. Bellevue, Bedford County, Virginia.

J. ELLIOTT HALL, General Manager.

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Copyright, 1908. THOROUGHBRED STALLION Drawing by Geo'. Ford Morris. By The Virginia Stock Farm Co., Inc. Standard Type of the kind to sire Heavy Weight Hunters. BUT A SAMPLE!

The above is but a sample of the many superb illustrations contained in our new Catalogue, "Inaugural Announcement." It also contains many other illustrations, showing the Standard Types of the different breeds handled by this concern. In addition to the illustrations and in connection therewith are brief chap- ters of valuable information pertaining to each breed. This book tells what breeds are the best adapted to Virginia and why they are the best. It also explains in detail the objects and purposes of this concern. It Will interest all farmers! It will interest you! "Write for one to-day. They are free, and a post card, with your name and address is all that is necessary. Please do us and the publishers the kindness to mention The Southern Planter when writing. Address the Company as above, or the General Manager.

J. ELLIOTT HALL, Bellevue, Virginia.

FOR SALE.—Combination mare. Park chestnut, some white. Six years old. City broke and safe for a lady's use. Nice in harness. Superb walk, trot, canter mare. A bargain. Price $300.

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teen cents at any hardware store, and not only lessen the labor, but make the slaw much nicer. Shave the cab- bage fine, and pour over it a dress- ing made of one cup of good vine- gar, boiled; beat two eggs with one- half cup of sugar, one teaspoon of mustard, one teaspoon of celery seed, one teaspoon cf salt, a little bit of black and red pepper, a large table- spoon of butter. Beat hard and pour the boiling vinegar over it. Return to the fire and let it thicken. When cold add a cup of cream. Scalloped Tomatoes. Turn the tomatoes out of the can into a pudding dish, season with salt, pepper, sugar, and spread over the top of it a layer of fine bread crumbs with bits of butter about on it, bake for nearly an hour with a plate over it. then allow it to brown for a few minutes. Candied Sweet Potatoes. Drop the potatoes into a pot of boil- ing water and cook them until they are tender. Take them out and drop them into cold water for a minute; this makes the skin slip off more eas- ily. After they are skinned slice them ANSORA GOATS neatly, and spread the slices on a pan. Put a bit of butter on each for sale. I have a very fine lot of does ! slice, and sprinkle well with white sugar, and a dust of nutmeg. Put ; as well as some excellent bucks which the pan into the stove and let the potatoes brown and glaze. Serve very I will sell at reasonable prices or ex- hot. Pumpkin Pie. change them for Horses or Mules. Peel the pumpkin, and cut it into

: thin slices, boil in just water enough Write me at once, to prevent its sticking and burning. ;

: The best way is to let the pan set WYTHV1LLE, on the back of the stove all day and M. M. SUTHERLAND, VA. simmer. When they are tender mash I them through the colender. To one .quart of the pumpkin add one quart of rich milk or cream. One teaspoon RED POLL CATTLE. of ginger, one of cinnamon, one -jf nutmeg. The grated rind of two lem- I offer for sale 1 three-year-old bull, ons, a pinch of mace, one teaspoon 4 cows, 2 two-year-old and 3 yearling' heifers; also 3 heifer calves. All regis- of salt, two teacups of sugar, half a tered and eligible to registry in Red cup of butter, and six eggs, beaten Poll Herd Book. Choice breeding and In separately. Let it get cold and bake good condition. Fine opportunity for es- tablishing herd. Will sell lot or in deep pie pans, lined with rich pas- a single individuals. Foundation stock try. Just before serving sprinkle selected from best Ohio herd. with sugar. JOS. E. WILLARD. White Caramel Cake. Address: Six eggs, four cups of flour, two A. C. Bleigkt, Supt Fairfax. Vm. cups of sugar, one cup of butter, one cup of milk, one teaspoon of soda, "and two of cream tartar, juice and rind of a lemon. Filling: Two cups ANIMAL DIP- DISINFECTANT- LICE KILLER -WORM POWDER of white sugar, and one of milk, a USED AT 44 AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES tablespoon of butter; boil until thick. js for sale AT ALL DEALERS everywhere Pour out and flavor with pineapple or lemon, and beat until it thickens, then spread over and between the layers. Cheap Fruit Cake. Five heaping cups of flour, two of sugar, one of butter, six eggs, half pound of raisins, half pound of cur- rants, one-fourth of a pound of citron, one teaspoon each of cinnamon, nut- FOR FREE 64 PAGE VETERINARY meg nnd cloves. One glass of brandy. SEND BOOK , in Bake loaf. IF ZENOLEUM IS NOT SATISFACTORY, EITHER vur OR YOUR DEALER WILL REFUND YOUR MONEY 93 Apple Preserves. THE ZENNER DISINFECTANT CO.. MAKERS. LAFAYETTE AVENUE. DETROIT, MICHIGAN Peel and quarter the apples. Drop 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER 1117 them for ten minutes in weak lime wa- ter. Weigh them and allow three quar- ters of a pound of sugar to each pound of apples. Sprinkle the sugar over the apples, adding ginger, mace and all- GOOD spice. Let it stand for several hours, then add water to half cover and put mm UMC on the stove. Let it boil hard for ten minutes and set away in the kettle till EVEN the next day. Boil half an hour and ruts they are ready for use, but are better r for keeping a while. Mince Meat. NEWCLUB SHOT SHELLS Two quarts of cold beef chopped in all combinations ofshot and BLACK POWDER : ™y it ] fine. One pound of suet, very dry, chopped, three pints of raw apples, MAKT These uniform hard hitting shells have stood cut in very small pieces, two pounds the of seeded raisins, three pounds of cur- mm, * test of time; more are sold than all other rants, one quarter of a pound of cit- makes of black powder shells combined. Their shredded, one quarter of a pound ron, 20 years of popularity proves their superior of butter, one pint of stewed dried ap- quality. Only the best ples, one tablespoon each of salt, cin- powder wads and shot namon, alspice, cloves, ginger, nutmeg, used in their loading. Look for the red ball juice of two lemons, the yellow rind U. M. C. trade mark. of two lemons, two quarts of sweet Write for Free Game Laws. cider, three and half pounus brown sugar, one cup of good brandy or THE UNION METALLIC CARTRIDGE CO., Bridgeport, Conn. whiskey. Mix well and pack in jars. Agency, Pound the spices and cook the cur- 313 Broadway, New York, N. Y. rants in a little water for fifteen min- P^ utes. CARAVEN.

HOW TO SAVE $45.00 IN" FATTEN- ING THIRTY HOGS. One of the neatest and most com- Keep Your Savings Safe. plete 1909 catalogues that we have re- ceived this season has just reached Money deposited with the Planters National Bank, is not only ab- our desk from the well-known firm, solutely safe, but is earning- you a liberal rate of interest, and is pro- Rippley Hdw. Mfg. tected by the LARGEST SURPLUS AND PROFITS OF ANY NATIONAL Co., Grafton, 111., BANK SOUTH OF WASHINGTON, D. C. [manufacturers of We invite your account. Whether large or small, it will receive 'whitewashers, cook- the same courteous and liberal treatment that is accorded the thousands of our well-satisfied depositors. 1 ers, sprayers, pre- 3 Per Cent, interest paid on savings accounts from date of deposit. pared spraying mix- Write to-day for booklet, "How to Bank by Mail." tures, etc. We note that breeders, fruit growers and farmers who use their $5.00 whitewasher claim one man with Planters National BanK, it will whitewash more buildings, and do a better job, in one hour than five Richmond, Va. men could do with brushes in the same time. Stockmen that use their Capital, $ 300,000 00 cooker claim they save one-third to Surplus and Profits $1,140,000 00 one-half their feed, and their stock and hogs fatten in one-fourth less time. Examples in their catalogue show how you can save $45.00 in feed CLARK'S SAMPSON TOBACCO PRESS AND JACKS. on thirty hogs by using one of their tobacco grower should have one or more ©f No. 20 Cookers. Their cookers are Every these presses. Save money by using this press; make also used for boiling spraying mix- money pressing for others. The platform «f this tures, heating hog and poultry houses, press is 3% feet wide and 4 feet long. The height work shops, heating water in stock in the clear is 4 feet. The press or jack stand is on top overhead. This is a very powerful tanks, and for ordering tobacco of Itfie beam there press. is not a better and cheaper machine Many Hundredsof them are now In use in the tobaec* to use on the market. Sections The Rippley Co. also sell a full line We sometimes make them much larger for special work. It is for pressing in bar- of poultry supplies, and it will no used rels, hogheads and cases, fruit, to- doubt pay you to get a copy of their bacco, dry goods, also for tank 1909 catalogue, and state you saw scrap, etc. It weighs about 660 lbs. their advertisement in the December The wood work is made of the best issue of the Southern Planter. hard maple, ash or oak. The iron work is constructed of the best mal- leable iron and steel, strongy bolted Roane Co., Tenn., Mch. 16, '08. together. Write to-day for FREE I have a high regard for the South- BOOKLET and Special Prices.

ern Planter and find many things in CUTAWAY HARROW CO , 861 Main St., HIGGANTJM, CONN. its columns to interest me. W. C. SHAW. TELL THE ADVERTISER WHERE YOU SAW HIS ADVERTISEMENT. 1118 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER [December,

A JOURNAL OF EASTERN TRAVEL. Landing in Japan. Article III. By "Traveller." We had had visions of landing in Japan in Lampans, flat native boats, poled with a back motion, followed by a rigid examination in the customs, and proceeding thence by rickshaws. However, we soon learned that the Alfalfa thrives •way of the tourist is made easy, and best on a soil in the beaten paths everything is in well supplied with POTASH, -phos- foreign style. phoric acid and lime. We sped up from our anchorage to In preparing your land for alfalfa this the hatoba in a steam launch, did not fall enter the custom house, and our don't forget to insure your crop against weeds and friends brought us to the Grand Hotel winter-killing by applying, broadcast, ten days be- in their carriage. The stormy recep- fore planting, 600 pounds of 2-8-10 fertilizer per tion of the Peace Commission which we had dreaded did not occur for the acre. Most fertilizers are -weak in Potash. Make feeling had quieted down very much, them complete by adding Potash— io/o —or 25 and there was a long line of police out lbs. Muriate of Potash to each 100 lbs of fertilizer. to prevent a demonstration. Things looked so entirely natural as we drove Call on your dealer for POTASH at once as next week up the water front or Bund that we may be too late to get the goods delivered in time for use. thought it could not really be Japan. The Standard Oil place met our eyes Potash Grows Alfalfa at one corner, the Singer Sewing Ma- Send for our books containing facts about soil, chine at another. All the buildings crops, manures and fertilizers. Mailed free were in foreign style, and the Grand I GERMAN KALI WORKS, Candler Bldg., Atlanta, Oa. Hotel might be any where in Europe \^ NEW YORK—93 Nassau St. CHICAGO—Monadnock Bldg. or America. Our friends left us here to rest up for the afternoon. Obse- quious clerks bowed us to our rooms and our trunk came in so short a time that we soon felt entirely settled. Our room "boy," a toothless old man of seventy-five, brought us water and SAN JOSE SCALE writing materials, and strove to make us feel quite at home by bobbing and Our product for killing San Jose Scale has all the good features and none smiling. Scarcely had we taken off of the bad ones of other remedies. It is not an experiment in any way. our wraps when a knock came at the door and Tom, the famous Chinese tailor, arrived with samples of linen, WE CAN SAVE YOU 50 PER CENT pongee and crepe, patterns and meas- urements, ready to fit us out in pur- The first cost of our product is less than Lime Sulphur and large fruit ple and firte linen. The Chinese are growers report it to be more effectual than any other remedy. important figures in Japan, and are expert clerks and accountants as well as tailors. In the last role they are Write Now For Our Free Book very successful, and few people can large fruit grower using 40 bbls. a season who has tested everything, resist them, but we were not pre- A writes us "I will give your product preference over every make." pared at this time to combine dress making with sis:ht seeing. Tom was F. G. STREET & CO., 27 Railroad Street, ROCHESTER, N. Y. followed by humbler members of his trade and they in turn by shoemakers, women with embroidery, washerwo- men, maids, or ayahs. Finally, a ACTION very elegant- gentleman came and said CURK'S DOUBLE CUTAW4T" HARROW. WITH EXTENSION HEAD is needed on every farm. Hke to iguide, but he would be our It will increase your crops 25 to 50 per cent. This 1 we politely ' declined his offer. When machine will cut from 28 to 30 acres, or will double-cut we got tirecj of these visitors, we de- 15 acres in a day. It is drawn by two medium horses. cided to go out and see something of It will move 15000 tons of earth one foot in a day, and can be set to move the earth but little, or at so great the place. We went into the court to an angle as to move all the earth one foot. Runs true call two rickshaw boys, and a dozen in line of draft and keeps the surface true. surrounded us at once. We asked BIG All other disk harrows have to run in half lap. | one whose looks we liked if he spoke CROPS The jointed pole takes all the ,*=ss3! English and he replied, effusively, weight off the horses' necks, and "Yes; I speak English, " a common, keeps their heels away from the disks t but ill-founded illusion among the jjafff Wo make 120 sixes and styles of flf iMj Japanese. "What is your name?" we Disk Harrows. Every machine fully Mr^F asked, replied, "Yes," warranted. Entire satisfaction W y and he again *" nAKKUWinnw which was all we could get out of guaranteed. to-day for free Booklet with full particulars. him, thoueh his running capacity Send proved excellent. We stepped into CUTAWAY HARROW COMPANY, 861 Main St., HIGGANITM.CONN. tlhe rickshaws, which are small, two- wheeled carts, with a cover over them, somewhat resembling a baby TELL. THE ADVERTISER WHERE YOU SAW HIS ADVERTISEMENT. 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER 1119 McCOMB & BLOCK COMMISSION MERCHANTS ESTABLISHED 1890. CATTLE, SHEEP, LAMBS, HOGS, FRESH COWS, CALVES

In Carloads and Small Lots. To Buyers of Live Stock: We solicit correspondence from those wishing to buy Stock: Cattle, Feeding Steers, Breed- ing Ewes, Feeding "Wethers and Lambs; In fact. If you wish any kind of Cattle, Sheep or Hogs, we will sell them to you at lowest market prices. Pure-Bred HAMPSHIRE RAMS ready for delivery. OFFICE UNO PENS: UNION STOCK YARDS, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, 'PHONES: OFFICE 139*; RESIOENCE.3224; P. O. BOX. 183

carriage, and our little brown ponies, in their blue cotton blouses and loose pants, with straw sandals and mush- room shaped hats, started off. The Annual Poultry and Dog Show first sensation of the ride was amuse- ment at being trundled about by a POULTRY ASSOCIATION man smaller than I was, but the com- VIRGINIA fort of this mode of locomotion soon RICHMOND, VA. DEC. 7-12-1908 won me over to it. We whisked out A high class exhibition of pure-bred Poultry Pigeons, Pet Stock and Dogs. of the foreign settlement on the Bund Exhibits desired. Premium list showing list of handsome special and cash and into the great shopping districts, /Tizes now ready. Write for same to W. R. Todd., Secy., 426 N. 6th St., Benten and Houchi-Dori. with their Richmond, Va., curio and silk shops. We stopped at, We Want You to Attend and Show With Us. an exchange shop and got ten Japan- ese dollars or yen for a five dollar THE BANN ER SHOW OF THE, SOUTH. gold piece. The Mexican standard is used throughout the East, and the cur- rency is very simple. The yen and sen are half the value of our dollars and cents. Silver was so high when we were there that we got no ex- TRAVELING change on our gold sometimes WHEN and lost. ALWAYS CARRY My first impression of Japan was the simallness of things there. Every- thing seemed to be on a miniature scale. The houses were small, low and crowded together. The streets were filled with ouaint little peonle, all in draperies, so that it was diffi- PER cult to distinguish the sexes, except by the different arrangement of their BOTTLEi straight, black hair. Their physique was not very prepossessing, their al- mond-shaped eyes give a wierd look to the face which is redeemed, how- ever by their good-natured expression. We ended our insnection by a visit to Theatre street, which is for all the world like a scene from opera bouffe, with its side shows, booths and stalls. Before the theatres there were the most lurid posters, and ticket agents clamored lou^lv for natronas:e. to the beatiner of drums, which silenced their comnetitnrs in other cheat) amuse- hwwm ments. In the onen booths there were 1 hiehly colored pictures, masks, charms THE GREATEST ;:£JC,: and other showy gewgaws, as well OP ALL PAIN CURES as sweets and cakes. Bovs selling AT HOME OR ABROAD A SAFEGUARD AND NECESSITY the evening paners ran through the PREPARED BY streets with chimes of bells around their waists. Others with stransje GILBERT BROS. & CO. r** BAL TIMORE MD. hieroglyphics on their backs attract- ed our notice, and we found thev were apprentices, wearing the badge o r When corresponding with our advertisers always mention Southern Planter. 1120 THE SOUTHEKN PLANTER [December, their masters. A shrill whistle an nounced the blind masseur, groping through the street with a stick. Mas- sage is much used in Japan, and the ohnDeere occupation is left for the blind. Much talk and laughter mingled with the Li£kt Draft Plows click of high wooden clogs, and the Standard. For Two Generations swish of drapery. In the twilight, TRADE. * MARK lanterns began to flash about like huge "2^•iuu.-U.M4. fire-flies, and soft cries of Kuruma! Kuruma! (rickshaw) resounded JOHN DEERE invented the steel plow. through the air as business closed and His plows have been the world's stand- workers went home. ard for seventy years. It takes the largest steel -plow factory Reaching the hotel, we consulted in world to build enough of these high- our watch and found we had been out the 5**1* grade plows to supply the demand. an hour. "Ikura?" (how much), we innocently asked our boys. Discover- A Plow for You ing by our question that we were new- No matter where you may live, or what comers, or "griffins" in slang parlance, crops you grow, there is a John Deere they promptly answered, "one yen." plow made specially for your kind of As we dropped the coins into their work. 1000 different styles and shapes. out-stretched hands, a lady came up Buy a John Deere and get the highest in great indignation and protested. quality put in a plow. By actual tests the She assured us we were giving them lightest draft plows made. Finest finish, the full fare for a whole day. Even longest life. s so. One always has to buy experi- Write ior Free Booklet No. ence. This incident put us on our Beautifully illustrated. Shows photos of plowing guard for the future and led to our scenes from all countries. Lots of valuable infor- booklet and mention this paper. forming a warm friendship for the mation. Give No. of lady who protected us. She, with DEERE & COMPANY, Moline, Illinois her husband, Col. iS., became our guide, philosopher and friend in the -> East—our peerless Lara. We next went to the office to have a cable message sent home, inform- Cotton and Corn Planters Praise ing our family of our safe arrival in Japan, and the clerk asked us please to sign a chit for it. Thus we were Blount's "True Blue" Middle-Breaker introduced to that Oriental system Over 50,000 in Use tin Mississippi Alone ! Greatest Labor Saver on the Plantations! Here Are Brief from Letters Prominent which goes hand in hand with perdi- Extracts of Planters Throughout the South: O. H. Teal, Colfax, La., writes: E. J. Mullens, Clover Hill, M ; Joshua Mulligan, Wesson, Miss., tion. One can sign a chit or I. O. U. "Blount's 'True Blue' Middle- writes: "I consider I have made writes: "The 'True Blue* is strong- for anything under the sun, a Brenkers are very satisfactory. $1,000 of cotton on land which would ly made. Two yoke of cxen could from Their beams are short and you have had to lie idle if I had not not bend the beam." can make smaller turn rows. gotten your 'True Blue' Middle- postage stamp to a. house and lot. L. E. Lea, Brookhaven, Miss., They take the ground readily. I Breakers." writes: *'I think they are When our bills came in, we had al- have several that I have been the BurchWil]iams,EvansviHe,Miss., greatest labor savers of any plow ways several dozen chits, as we writes: "I consider any land in the made." Mississippi bottom can be bedded had the hotel to pay everything for thoroughly with these plows. I had James Spencer, Summit, Miss., 50acres that the cotton says: "The 'True Blue* is the best us. I was drowned may mention en passant, that out on and the water grass came up cotton tool we have." the cablegram which we sent frorr from 6 to 8 inches high. I com- J. H.Whjttington, Summit, Miss., pletely covered this and it decayed writes: "It saves the labor of one Yokohama on the afternoon of Octo- perfectly and I made 2,000 bushels man. There is no other that can of corn that season." take its place." ber 16, 1904. reached our Virginia home on the morning of October 16th, Saves HALF in TIME -MEN -MULES'1 so wide is the difference between Ori- Hundreds of planters back up this statement. ental and Occidental time. You'll find their letters in the "TRUE BLUE" BOOKS-Sent FREE. Write for The hotels in the East are very these books and the Catalog: today. Cut the expense of satisfactory in their charges, and planting: and cultivating: by there are no extras on the bill. We using the "True Blue " paid from 3.00 to $4.00 per day, which BlOUnt PlOW WorkS, included everything, heat, light, Evansvil.l^nd. baths and afternoon tea. Thus we Leading Dealers Sell the "True Blue" Line always knew beforehand what our expenses would be. Our first dinner in the East was interesting. The The "Kanf-Klog" Sprayer large dining-room was crowded with Gets twice the results with same labor and fashionable patrons, and profusely de- fluid. Send postal today for free interest- corated with pink chysanthemums. A ing booklet, explaining how the "Kant- silver epergne in the center of the Klog" gives room held perhaps 200 large vase? Nine Sizes of Round or Flat of them, and each table had shaded Fine or Coarse Sprays pink lights to match, and a cunning 7~=L ._ or solid sfeams all from the same nozzle. dwarf plant of some sort in a pot. A ;==__ Ten different styles of sprayers for all kinds full Japanese band was playing gaily Starts or Stops of spraying, whitewashing, etc., etc Some little princes of the blood had the Spray Instantly AGENTS WANTED the seats of honor. The Marchion- Rochester Spray Pump Co., K% '„!I.Vr "*V. ess Oyama, with her children, was another striking figure. She stands for the highest development on con- When corresponding with our advertisers always mention Southern Planter. 1908.] THE SOTJTHEKN PLANTER 1121 servative lines of tine New Woman of Japan. CLAUDE G. STEPHENSON, Many Americans were present, and Virginia the smiling countenance of William Properties, Herndon, Va. J. Bryan cast a glow over one end of the room. He was making the Farms For Sale in Northern Virginia, within one to two hours run of same trip as we, and at every place the National Capital. where he stopped, he was well re- ceived and royally entertained. Our boy pulled back our chairs, and LOUDOUN handed us the menu, with a low bow. COUNTY, We looked it over and discovered a queer name which we knew must be THE FAMOUS BLUE-GRASS REGION. Japanese, and we ordered it, but 290 acres could not eat it when it came. Here of the finest bluegrass land; large stone house; fine barn and out- buildings; excellent orchard; we asked for "consomme," but the running water in every field; well fenced; beau- tifully located only four miles from the railroad by excellent roads. No better boy could not understand, and stock farm in the state. Price, $19,000; terms if desired. brought the steward, an Englishman, 180 acres of excellent blue grass land and most conveniently located; brick who asked us please to order by the and stone buildings and in good shape; well watered and fenced; good orch- ard. Price numbers after the things, as the boys $13,500. 155 acres of the best blue grass land; fine orchard; well watered and fenced; could not understand the names. brick house with hot and cold water and bath; splendid farm buildings and Then we noticed for the first time all in perfect condition; located within four miles of Paeonian Springs where that everything on the menu was is found the finest school in the county. This is in every way a superior prop- erty. Price $12,400. Easy terms. numbered, and we dined off of 7, 10, 150 acres of fine blue grass land; with good improvements; splendid orchard; 13, 17 and 21. Seventeen was pea well watered and fenced and desirably located. Price $9,000. Terms if desired. hulls, a new dish to us, and not very 325 acres of fine quality blue grass land; convenient to Round Hill; large nice. They are pulled before the peas brick house; good barn and outbuildings; well watered; fine neighborhood. mature, are boiled and seasoned with This would make a magnificent stock farm. The cheapest really good prop- erty in the county. Price $7,500. One-half cash and the balance in two and butter. Other Japanese dainties we three years. got acquainted with were bamboo 120 acres of good blue grass land; improvements fair; only 4 miles from sprouts and lily roots, both very edi- good town on the R. R. Price $6,000 ble. We never oared very much for the fruit, though the persimmons are large and look pretty. They serve a quantity of mandarin oranges, fresh FAIRFAX COUNTY. figs, grapes and apples. Most Conveniently located and Nearest Washington City. We soon found ourselves pleasantly 550 acres and over, launched out into the life of Yoko- with good improvements; large frame dwelling, and all necessary farm buildings; excellent soil, and splendidly watered. This is with- hama. It is such a gay, amusing out doubt naturally the best stock farm in Fairfax County. Price $13,000. Terms place that many travelers cannot tear reasonabe. themselves away from it, but pass 130 acres well improved and in good condition; fine location; good water their whole visit to Japan in the big and orchard. Price $10,500. 28% acres at Herndon, the great dairy town of Northern Virginia; carved chairs and sofas of Grand good the house with bath. Only $4,500. Hotel. We would sit for hours on 50 acres near Herndon; fair improvements; fruit and well fenced; conven- the terrace, watching the passing iently located. Price $3,500. show. Outside there were jugglers, 58 acres convenient to Herndon, within three miles; well improved; abund- ance of fruit; well watered. Suitable for dairy and poultry; only singers, dancers and dwarfs to $2,500. SPECIAL, BARGAINS. amuse us. Peddlers brought their ^.ell improved packs, and a Singalese jeweler 227 acres and conveniently located; stone house; fine blue grass land. This farm with all stock, farm machinery and household goods is tempted us with his unset stones. Be- being offered cheap. fore us lay the bay with the ships 310 acres of good land with magnificent house and barn and good outbuild- of the nations upon it, and behind ings; fine fruit; very productive; offered for less than house cost to effect us was glorious Fuji-yama, the sa- immediate sale. cred mountain of Japan, a volcanic CLAUDE G. STEPHENSON, peak, 13,000 'feet high. After getting HERNDON, VA. a view of this peerless mountain, we felt that its beauties had been very inadequately depicted on China, JOHN F. JERSVIAN, fans and screens. The Japanese hold it in great honor on account of the le- gends and traditions associated with Headquarters for Virginia Property, Fairfax Va. it. About 18,000' pilgrims ascend it annually. The base is cultivated up Washington Office, No. 1220 H Street, N. W., and Vienna, Va. to 1,50'0 feet, and above this is a If you want to buy a grain, dairy, fruit, truck, poultry or blue grass farm, grassy moorland for 4,000 feet. The city or village property, or any kind of business proposition, such as hotel*, stores, livery stables, schools, or any kindd of shop, it will pay yo» to send summit consists of a series of peaks, for my 60-page catalogue. It is full of bargains, near steam and electric rail- D. the best surrounding the crater, which is 2,000 roads and near Washington, C, where we have of markets. I an always ready to show my property. I try to please. feet in diameter. Painters .and poets MY MOTTO: HONESTY AND FAIR DEALINGS.' find much to admire in the union of grace and majesty which it presents. When corresponding with our advertisers always mention Southern Planter.

UNTIL YOU INVESTIGATE "THE MASTER WORKMAN,* a two-cylinder gasoline, kerosens %t

: afcon engine, superior to any one-cylinder engine; revolutionizing power. Its weight and bulk are half that of single cylinder engines, with greater durability. CostE '.< 5*0 tfo Buy—Lese to Run, Quickly, easily started Vibration practically overcome. Cheaply mounted on any wagon. It is a combination portable, stationary or traeUW fiKSaj&s, 9mem WO* 0*x*Jt«roil T1LK TEMP" .* PUM.P CO Mfr» Hit-asher Mil X<3th ism." Chicago THIS IS OUR FIFTY-FIFTH YEAR, —

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A Japanese poet speaks of it as "Great Fuji-San, towering to the sky." While idling in Yokohama, we picked up some bits of the Japanese language, which proved very useful to us in our travels. Knowing one important word will often save the situation. The language is soft and pretty, and has many sounds resem- A December Bargain bling Italian. It abounds in horrofics and humilities. Everything pertain- ing to the first person is vile and Send today for our magnificent despicable, whilst everything relating offer of 10 fruit trees : 2 Peach, 2 to the second person is honorable and praiseworthy. The construction Apple, 2 Cherry, 2 Plum and 2 of the language shows all the wind- Pear, for only $1 —with copy of ings and turnings of the Oriental our matchless new 1909 cata- mind, and translated literally All these English would make utter nonsense logue. trees are of the For example, "Don't do that" is trans- best standard kinds, 4 to 6 feet lated "Honorably abstaining condes- high, and of the superior Har- cend," and "Excuse me" is "August, rison quality that has pardon, deign." A foreigner talking made our with a Japanese lady through an in- Nurseries famous everywhere. terpreter found that her name was Miss Nightingale. Aiming to be very Fruit Trees Worth $2.30 to You for Only igallant, he said, "I wish I could put $1 you in a golden cage and carry you Write us now, and by return mail you will get coupon good for $1.30 of the away." When the interpreter trans- $2.30 which is the regular price of the ten trees. Such a bargain is so unusual that lated his remark, the lady became you should not fail to take advantage of it. Don't put it off —send today! very cool, and the polite foreigner did not discover until long afterwards J. G. HARRISON & SONS, Box 214, BERLIN, MARYLAND that his remarks had been trans- You will become a regular customer if you try our stock ; hence this special offer of first-clas» lated, "I wish I could shut you up trees at bargain prices. We want a trial order from you and will make it worth your while to send it. in a box." The Japanese read a great deal, but literature is at a low ebb with them. Its place is supplied by charming 42 YEARS EXPERIENCE. myths and folk lore. Poetry is highly esteemed, and in the olden times, women were prominent in this voca- OLD DOMINION NURSERIES, tion. The 'censorship of the press is so severe that the jails are full of editors. Nothing is more common W. T. HOOD & CO., Prop., than a notice that a certain paper has been stopped by Imperial decree. Richmond, Va.

The Temple Pump Co., of Chicago, Growers of High Grade Nursery Stock* is the pioneer in the manufacture of the Multinle Cylinder Gasoline En- Inducements In Peach and Kleffer Pears for Commercial Orchards. gine. The "Master Workman," a Special double cylinder gasoline engine, was Full line of Fruit Trees, Ornamental Trees, Roses, Shrubbery, Etc. Plant the first on the field. Now, the whole a California Privet Hedge—none better. course of progress in the making of for our descriptive catalogue of 64 pages—Correspondence Solicited. gas engines is towards the multinle Write cylinder type, ensines of two, four, six, and eight cylinders being made. The Temple Pumn Co. are now manu- facturing two and four cylinder en- gines for general farm use. ..ELMWOOD NURSERIES.. The advantages of the two and four cylinder engines for the farm aro: Economy in the use of fuel, greater are Growers and Offer a Fine Assortment of certainty of continuous running, quick We and easv starting, less cumbersome- APPLES, PEACHES, PEARS, ness and adaptation not only for sta- CHERRIES, PLUMS APRICOTS, tionery use. but for portable and trac- NECTARINES, GRAPE VINES, CURRANTS, tion use. Sooner or later the need of OOOSERBRRIES. STRAWBERRIES, DEWBERRIES, an engine for traction purposes as RASPBERRIES, ASPARAGUS, HORSERADISH, well as for stationary will be felt by ORNAMENTALS. SHADE TREES, HEDGE PLANTS. every agriculturist. This is the fifty-fifth year of the W RITE FOB CATALOGUE. Temple Pump Company. & BRO, Midlothian, Va. Please mention the Southern Planter. J.B.WATKINS 1908.] THE SOUTHEEN PLANTER 1123

INQUIRER'S COLUMN. All inquiries must reach us by the 15th of the month previous to the issue, or they cannot be answered until the month following. SOWING APPLE AND PEAR SEEDS. Will you please state in the next Issue of Southern Planter the best time for planting apple and pear seeds to raise seedlings for grafting purposes. J. P. PHIPPS. Ashe Co., N. C. The seeds should be sown as early In the spring, as the frost is out of the ground. The soil should be well prepared and the best is a loamy soil about five or six inches deep. Do not cover too deeply. Sow in rows and keep cultivated during the sum- mer so as to encourage growth. They THE BEST should be planted out in the nursery rows the following spring.—Ed. IS INVARIABLY TO REMOVE WARTS. THE CHEAPEST We have a fine mule that has two warts on it: one on its ear, and one on its side about the size of a quar- ter. Will you please give a remedy for removing them. This Rule Applies A. M. ALLEY. Particularly to seeds Rockingham Co., N. C.

If the warts are attached to the skin by a hard dry neck, clip them off pair with a of scissors, or cut Ours are backed by a with sharp knife, a and touch the Reputation of over 105 root of the neck with lunar caustic. years standing If the neck is a soft fleshy one. tie a silk cord tight around it as close to the skin as possible, and thus cut OUR CATALOGUE is a guide to the Horticulturist or Agriculturist, and is off the supply of nourishment to the invaluable to the Professional as well as to the Amateur Gardener. wart, and it will die and drop off. If the warts are flat hard substances, lying close on the skin, burn them off with caustic potash, or lunar caus- Our Seed Catalogue Ready^ January 1 tic—Ed. MAILED FREE PIGS COUGHING—LAME COLT. I see in your valuable paper an in- quiry in the September number of J.fM. THORBURN & CO. Mr. A. E. Royall, asking as to whn' to do for his pigs. I will give him 33 BARCLAY STREET, through tol38J»ARK5 PLACE my experience. I had some affected the same way, and I found that al- Dept. S NEW YORK lowing them to stay under the barn, where there is so much dust, getting in their throats, causes them to — cough. I stopped mine - from going

under the barn and stopped the ! cough. Another innuirer, Mr. Oliver City Seedsmen Prices BBimHIHEraB Coleman, asks about. his colt. I can MMKBM Lgf us sen(j yOU our catalog of seeds==lt's give him some experience also. If different. It tells you facts, and why we can save you money, and give you a guaranteed SQUARE DEAL. Just drop a postal today and see the difference in buying your seeds in he will have a shoe made with a ^ country or city. FORREST SEED CO., Box 42 Cortland, N. Y. piece of iron about half an inch f welded on the toe of the shoe ex- tending up on to the hoof about one inch, and put these shoes on ooth front feet, and allow the colt Farms in Northern Virginia to walk around, this will correct the DAIRY, GRAIN, STOCK, POULTRY, FRUIT. trouble. I had one shod in that way, Near "Washington and Baltimore, and in easy reach of Philadelphia and New York. and it came out all right, and had Unlimited markets and unsurpassed shipping facilities. "beautiful feet. As the feet came back Reasonable in price. Near good live towns, schools and churches. Write us. I increased the size and weight of CL.AUDE G. STEPHENSON. the piece on the toe of the shoe. I (Successor to Stephenson & Rainey, Herndon, Va.) 1124 THE SOUTHEEE" PLANTER [December, saw these inquiries as I was look- ing for some information which is al- ways to be found in the Southern Planter. I consider it the best paper Buy Hot-Bed Sash NOW printed. One copy I sent to my sis- ter, Mrs. W. R. Capehart, of Avoca, got you lots of subscribers, which I and Grow Garden Stuff for Early Market was glad to see, when I went over Don't qnit the gnme just when the biggest profits of the year are in sipht. "' The there. Wishing you grand success. early vegetable market is the cream of the entire season. will sell vou (•«if| V; W^ keep the chickens warm during the cold snaps of winter, and spring will find your RESTORING FERTILITY. 1 Hot-Beds, ready to force the early vegetables on the market at fancy prices. ,,.. :Kpp . i. mw . I am a merchant here, but have re- Genuine Cypress Sash, 3x6 ft., with 45 Lights of Glass,

'.«- < cently bought a small farm, more to ."rToinfi '">} ;1 -if .,„,l(-i at Less than Dealers Ask for Ordinary "Open" Sash divert my mind from business than m, e| i^j 51 Gordon-Van Tine 45-Light Hot-Bed Sash will enable you to grow vegetables l to They are a wonderful improvement over old-style anything else. I have been taking jj from January January. the sash. The 45 overlapping lights produce a Hot-House temperature perfectly. =HH| : '. wiWIjij 'ipii your farm paper, and have been fol- -f>_ ; The sash are genuine Louisiana Cypress. Glass rut in with putty and points. Bars firmly secured to bottom rail. Entire sash coated with Pure Linseed Oil. teachings near as I lowing your as Our Drice for the sash, complete with glass, ready for immediate use, is less than could, and have always found them retail dealers ask for ordinary unsrlazed sash. We carry a tremendous stock, and ship to gardeners everywhere, un

| i profitable. I find that as a fertilizer :i|ipii | tion. Save time by ordering direct from this advertisement! nothing will equal stable manure, but L it is not always convenient to get Storm Sash at Cut Prices it in the quantities I want. What I Order your 8torm Sash enrlyl These fuel -savers insure cold weather comfort and want to ask is, Is there any combi- 45-Light Sash protect your health, at trifling cost. We sell at bO/c below retail dealers' prices. nation of fertilizers that will add 3x6 ft., 1% thick, Complete with Glass, Grand Millwork and Builders' Catalog Just humus to the land and that will equal stable manure? Will commer- Out! Free to You! Write Today! $gj?s£3£2}i* $i„69 Doors. Windows, Moulding, Roofing. Inside Finish, Stair and Porch Work, Hard- cial fertilizer and legumes turned wood Flooring, Lumber, etc. Over 5.000 Bargains! Buy all Building Material direct from America's Greatest Millwork Plant and save the dealers' outrageous profitsl under do it? I will appreciate it if you will write something bearing on GORDON-VAN TINE CO., 1398 Case St., Davenport lows this in the Southern Planter, or if you prefer, write, me direct. Tennessee. "X." ESTABLISHED 1850. 1,200 ACRES.

There is no fertilizer of a commer- cial character that wiil directly add humus to the soil, but through the proper use of the legume crops one can add humus more rapidly through s> *& the use of the proper fertilizers for them, than he could ever hope to with stable manure. And the grow- We are wholesale growers of first class nursery stock of all kinds, Fruit, ing of these crops will give him the Shade, Ornamental Trees, Shrubbery, Hedges, Small Fruits, etc., Asparagus, food material that will enable him to make more manure, for while the Strawberries, and California Privet In large quantities. turning down of a legume crop will The BEST Is the CHEAPEST. Ours Is the CHEAPEST because It Is the at once add more humus-making ma- BEST. Handling Dealers' orders a specialty. Catalogue free. terial to the soil, it is always better economy to mow and use the crop as feed, for you can save at least eighty per cent, of the manurial value, and NURSERY COMPANY. get the feeding value, too. I have FRANKLIN DAVIS tried to put this matter in plain lan- guage in my last book, "Practical Farming," and you can get more Baltimore, Maryland. from that than in many letters. Adopt a short rotation in which peas and clover come in frequently on the land, and always have a cover of some growing crop on the land in winter to save nitrates that would GROUND PHOSPHATE ROCK be washed out, and to restore hu- 28 to 30 Per Cent. Phosphoric Acid. mus-making material in the spring for Higher in Phosphoric Acid than Bone or Acid Phosphate, and at one-third the hoed crops. Then use a manure the cost. Unequalled for composting, mixing with barnyard manure, or direct spreader to make your manure go application. For prices write. Pleasant, Tenn. further, and you will soon be able W. B. ALEXANDER & CO., Mt. to cover a cornfield with manure an- nually. When you arrive at that point, the way is clear. W. F. MASSEY. AGRICULTURAL LIME. from FERTILIZER FOR GRASS. MANUFACTURER TO FARMER CHEAP Would you please guide me in the No Agents I following? I run a small dairy, and Lime Screenings and Run of Kiln. have a fairly large pasture (about TAZEWELL WHITE LIME WORKS, - - - - - No. Tazewell, Ta. five or six acres), which does not — —

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yield much grazing, but seems full J ;SB!S53r^aBHSBB of small white clover. I expect to leave this farm next fall. I want you 3 Postal to tell me what fertilizer I should use to produce me a heavy crop of

grass and clover, on this pasture dur- W'Free v*j:'v ing next spring and summer. If I W use bone meal when should I apply it to have the full benefit of the ap- i W plication? What fertilizer should I follow up with in the spring. I in- tend pasturing some rye until the grass gets ahead good. CHAS. JEWETT. Princess Anne Co., Va.

Under the conditions you name I hardly think it would pay you to use AMEMCAM bone meal largely, since you expect to keep the place but one season. Month's A&nrovat Test- The best thing to encourage a good Soid Direct to You—On a Gash os* Time Payments -Freight Aiiowed growth of the grass will be to apply The AMERICAN Manure Spreader has proved its merits to the American Farmer— about 100 pounds per acre of nitrate as the STANDARD tor all Manure Spreaders—and that is why it has so many over 25 years actual manufac- starts in the imitators. The AMERICAN is the result of of of soda as growth turing experience and will pay for itself in less than a year, out of the time spring. This will be used at once, and money it saves you. One man and an American Spreader will do as much work as three men and twowagonsspreading manure theold way and will rapidly encourage the growth —and do it better besides covering twice as much ground. Write - for our proposition, prices and Catalog and our Free Book of of the pasturage, and will ans^ valuable information on Fertilization. your purpose better than anything I AMERICAN MAttRBW COMPANY .Ge*A can suggest otherwise. 62S Hastings St., Detroit, NSJch. W. F. MASSEY. Our branches enable us to make prompt ship- ments. Get an American Manure Spreader : PriC(? :: or a Detroit Tongueless Disc Har- OAT GROWING—GRASS SEEDING. Freii row by ordering early, Direct AHibweri I have a field that I wish to seed in oats in the spring. The field was jSS^W.WAWW.W^ in corn this year, made about forty bushels per acre without any fertil- izer. The land has been in cultiva- tion three years: one corn crop, one rye crop, and one corn crop. White oak timber and black soil. Do you On a First'Qiass mmmm^® spreatrer think it will pay to use fertilizer on Yours to Try Free My MEW Roller feed &$3F>&a$fep, this land? Fertilizer is costly here, 30 Days— Freight Greatest thing In tfs& sgss-'&adet* as we have to haul it twenty miles. line t&elsiy *^& A fourteen per cent, phosphate costs Prepaid $20.00' per ton here. Let me tell you something- I'm mak- ing a quotation on the Galloway Wag- Would you use a grain drill to seed on Box Spreader so low that farmers all over the country are taking notice— oats in spring? Is it safe to sow clo- ^jf%S)j§! and sending in their orders while they caJi ff -Su-iaSi ver, timothy and red top in March, get them at this figure. The name— or would the frost kill it? QALL&WMY J. M. STEPHENS. is a guarantee of manure spreader excel- Patrick Co., Va. lence all over the United States—and every one of my Spreaders is backed by my $25,000 Gold Bond. 1. After taking three grain crops Here are four things to remember In connection with the Galloway: I. It's the only successful from the land without returning any- wagon box Spreader in the U.S. 2. It has 7 distinct, $Q.S,QQ& Guarantee separate, original patents. Nothing else like it—or or high-wheel wagon, and is made in 4 sizes, np to thing to it, it is not at all likely as good. They alone make it worth 825 to $30 more 70 bushels. My big. Free Spreader Catalog and my that you will be able to secure a sat- than any other. 3. My own Factory turns 'em out Special Red Hot Proposition are waiting for you capacity, Seventy Complete Spreaders a day. 4. I Spend a cent for a postal today and get your name isfactory third crop of grain without make you a price that sells them. That price Is the to me at once. I'll make you the lowest price ever lowest ever made on a first-class Manure Spreader. offered on a first-class Spreader— Freight all paid— giving the land some help. The prac- But before you risk one cent on my Spreader I and show you how to clean up 850.00 clear cash tice of following one grain crop after Send it to you to try 30 days free. profits. Write me pcrsonally-TODAY. ^The Galloway Wagon Box Spreader fits any truck Wm. Galloway, President another for several years is bad farm- Tho Wm. Gallow&y Go. 219 Jefferson St., Waterloo, la* ing, and ought not to be followed. 9 Each grain crop should be followed by a crop to feed the land, and if you had followed the first corn" crop j& SAVE MONEY j& with a crop of crimson clover seeded By writing when in need of any description of in the corn at the last working, and plowed this down, or cut into the Machinery, Boilers, Engines, Tanks, Cars, land with a disc or cultivating harrow in May or June, and then planted Kail Beams, Channels, Plates, Angles, threaded Pipe sizes (1 to 6 inches.) cowpeas for a fodder crop, and fol- All sizes iron pipe and shells for road draining, etc Boxes, Shafting, Pul- lowed this with crimson clover again leys, Hangers, Cable, Belting, and thousands of other useful? articles in the for a winter cover, you would now Largest Stock in the South of used have had a piece of land which would J? have made you a better corn crop SUPPLIES & 1519-31 St. than ever before, and this at very lit- CLARENCE COSBY. East Cary RICHMOND, VA. tle cost beyond labor, and that would L. D. Phone, No. 3526. have been more than repaid by the y

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cowpea hay crop. The proper time to have used acid phosphate on the Get Our Factory Price land was for the pea crop, and this would have given you a return both in the pea crop and the corn crop, Direct to You which you propose to plant, which would more than have paid for the On 30 Days Approval Test- outlay in phosphate, as if applied at Gash or Tame—Freight Allowed the rate of 300 pounds to the acre, It costs you nothing— at our risk —to /' it would only have cost according test the Detroit Tongueless on your to your statement, $3.00 for the acre. work for a month. We believe that it would pay you to We sell only direct, so take this way of apply this quantity to the land when proving to you that imitations of the preparing the same for the corn crop, Detroit Tongueless are in no way its equal. dealers or agents so and the earlier it is applied the bet- We have no their profits on the price you ter. It will not leach out. Sow crim- you save direct. Keep the difference in son clover in the corn at the last pay us pocket the genuine, working, and follow the system of your own and get original and highest class, guaranteed giving the land at least one legume crop for its recuperation each year, nt&TiBfMY Tongueless and better two, and you will be able EJSm S ff%9JB S Disc Harrow to maintain its fertility with but lit- The Forward Truck does away with all of the annoyance on the tle fertilizer, especially if you will team of the old "tongue"— all neck weight—side draft and sore feed one of the legume crops with necks. Note back of the Disc Blades the TRANSPORT TRUCK the straw and fodder of the grain —an extra attachment—upon which you can mount the ma- chine, taking the Disc Blades oft? the ground, so you can crops to stock and carefully save the drive over stony ground, rough and sandy roads, manure and apply it to the land each bridges, etc. Write today for our price—proposi- tion to you and new 1908-9 Catalog sent FREE. year. miERIGAN HARROW COMPAXY 2. You can safely sow clover and 65 2 Hastings St., Detroit, Af/cA^ grass seeds in March, though it is Branch houses in all trade centers better to sow them in August or Sep- enable us to make prompt tember, as they then make a safer shipments. Get an Amer- ican Manure Spreader stand. Use a grain drill in seeding — or Detroit Tongue- the oats.—Ed. less Disc Har- row by or- dering ALFALFA—HUMUS MAKING- early, LIME—CORN GROWING. Your correspondents usually omit one very important item in their pre- scriptions and experiences. They fail to state on what kind of soil Write for Price and Guarant Lowest Priced they are performing. Riding Harrow 1. Do you know whether alfalfa Pulverizing YlfiS^ A f*IUiE Harrow, CtocS Lightest Dratt can be grown successfully on stiff 1 Slid MUlflb Crusher and Leveler red soil, mixed with a sort of granite For many years the favorite because it is "the gravel, and at an altitude of a hun- harrow of all work" —the only implement a man needs dred feet above the river and creek for following the plow in any field—or stirring any bottom lands? kind of soil. It Crushes, Cuts, Lifts, Turns, 2. Which would add the most hu- Smoothes and Levels in One Operation mus to land: a pea crop that would Yet it puts less strain on the horses than any other harrow, ^fep^ O ur book by experts on "Prep- yield two and one-half tons dry hay owing to the sharp, sloping knives. The knives cut through ^^^^. aration of the Soil." The per acre, plowed under green, or fif- the sod or stubble turned under by the plow, leaving the trash be- ^^^ study of this book means low teen tons livery stable manure? the surface, while other harrows drag this to the top, where its ^^^. larger and better fertilizing value is wasted. ^^^^ crops for you. 3. Would the green crop add more Also Best For Covering Seed. The curving coulters turn every inch of ^^^^ Write postal useful material to the soil than the the soil. Made in different sizes, from 3 feet to 1TA feet in width. ^^^_ now. Examine the Acme at your dealers. If not there, we will ship direct. dry hay, and how much? Write for Catalog and Valuable Book on "Preparation of the Soil." Free to you. 4. Does unslaked lime lose use- H. Inc., fulness to soil when piled in field PUANE NASH, 146 Central Ave., Millington, N. J. and allowed to get wet so often that it goes into small harsh lumps instead of powder (as it does when only once slaked)? CLIP YOUR HORSES 5. Is it possible to add manure and Every horse should be clipped in season. Clipping makes commercial fertilizers enough to land your horses look better, feel better and work better. Clipped rest their does them in one year to make land produce 10° horses dry quickly, well and food good. Progressive farmers and horse owners everywhere now clip bushels of corn per acre instead of regularly, The easiest, quickest way to clip is with the thirty bushels? Stewart No. 1 Ball Bearing C. E. BLUE. $^.50 Albemarle Co., Va. Clipping Machine — Price, only § = This splendid machine has all gears cut from solid steel bar, in dirt proof gear case; all wearing parts are file hard; 1. Experience has shown conclus- enclosed 6 ft. highest grade flexible shaft and the famous Stewart clip- ively that alfalfa can be most suc- ping knife. We guarantee it to please you better than cessfully grown on stiff red soil, if any other machine made at any price or it may be re- turned at our expense for refund of all money paid only this soil is in a good mechanical out. Get it at your dealer's or send $2.00 and we will ship and physical condition, well drained, C. O. D. for the balance. Ask for big new catalogue. and supplied with lime, and in a good Chicago Flexible Short Co. lfQOhioSt. Chicago. state of fertility. —

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Southern Planters Should Get My Tear Out this Coupon and Mail It to Me for My 1909 Book and Special Price VERY ATTRACTIVE OFFER. Proposition to You. William Galloway, President Wil- liam Galloway Co., 219 Jefferson St., Waterloo, la. Quote me your lowest factory price on a 1909 Galloway Spreader. Send me your Spreader Pay-for-Itself proposition and 1909 Book Free.

Special Light Draft for Southern work

Wagon-BoM Saves You SO Per Cent on Price, Fits any Truck, Don't Break up Two Teams Takes Two Horses, Try it 30 Days Free, Keep Your Money In Your Pocket tt You Say So, $25,000.00 Guarantee,^! Prepay Ail Freight to You

f ' I'veGot the CaplH and the Factory, So I My New ttcler feei islhe Lates oflSeveo CPI I IlVfi DI AM* ,inrlv,JIlWPPfiVFMFIVTQ*v ulT,Ln OELLinU fL/in. tan Atioro lo Walt forth: Price. * °« lilstinct ixclu.ive he-.iu.es if th=lb lial o'y

I am the original maker find only successful mtnufattu'er My Galloway spreaders n ill d i betler work than any $l_5.i u of wagon-box manure sprraders, and I make you a price SO spreader that's made. And I more than cut the price in two. Low thai you can't aford nnt to gel one Direct from Factory. Pile it full of any kind of manu e. Trot the horses Slam I sell niy mature Fpreaders on any plan to suit \ ou. the Gear. Abusd it if you want to. Try it any way you want Keep your notev in your own pocket if tbar mits you. to. I don't care how you try it—only give it trie hardest trial But try a Galloway on your* oik 80 Days Free—rght now you can think of. All I ask you to do is to be your own judge. when y(.u need It most. You are the judge and juiy and I Here are flur things to remembe in connection with the

don't want you

I ship a so for prompt delivery , direct to you from my factory United States today. sub-sations at Minn-apolis, Minn.; Madison, YVIb. and iansas 2. It has 7 di»tinct, separate, original patents. Nothing else City, Mo. Alwayi write me to Waterloo, Iowa. like it or as good. They alone make it worth 825 to $30 more than any other. Just as Good as a Gov't Bond, I Deposit MV UU/\.I\.r\nfil T A P A MTPP" 3. My own factory turns them out—Capacity Seventy Com- 1T1 1 1 CC 1,25,000 In a Nat'l Bank to Protect You. plete Spreaders a day. ,-.. I don't ask you to take my word for atiythii g. I'm just tell- 4. 1 make yon a price that sells them. That price is the low- ing about the Calloway, bf cause you ought to know Every est price ever made on a first class Manure Sprea ier. Tbts'is stat-ment 1 make in this ed is backfd by a J25.000 bond. a rare and wonderful comDi'ia ion when you stop to think of What. I want more than anythit g else right now Is a spread it. Best Spreader. Lowest Price. v,-. er in your locality. Send me a postal or the above coupon to- Up Down on Side Hll,s Winter, in special propos'tion. the first can * - Summer day for my Be one and you Wnrk"TT UI if line's* • ** uucs ' Snow, Ice, in save money. Mon*y back with 6 per cent from date of pur- " R and Mu , ii Works Earlest.

chase if not satisfactory. The Galloway Manure Spreader is The Galloway is the lightest draft spreader for two horses < the best manure spreader on the morket. 1 have no hes- mules that ever was made You d in't have to break this, itancy in saying not only because I know every up two teams, when you neea them mos , by using ounce o'' ma eria 1 that goes in it, know that it is perfect, three hoses, as on other spreaders. The Galloway is enow 'hat it is built along the lines that exierierce has made so simple, yet strong enough to use anywhere, SAVE shown to be the best, but I have results from all ov r the U. S. in any kiad of stuff. Write me to-dey for my Special Proposition to you on any YOUR- size Galloway Sprea del* that you want to try 30 Days Free at SELF_ Risk. I live s This is My make isees all illustrated aud described in My Bis 1909 Book Free. Also shows our latest new complete 70- My bushel Spreader, mounted on all-steel running gear. Saves you $50 JVelrV about $40.00 on the price and you get a better, complete Roller spreader than any other made, or Feed. , Wm. Galloway, President MORE WM. GALLOWAY COMPANY

Jefferson

': SPECIAL NOTICt! This illus- J traiion shows my new Roller Feed, ,;;Ai; mare m three pieces end used on #& m^-xrm # msc^^. ^musm*. my , H , (( Galloway Spreaders Noth- ing like u in the spreader world It lbs. and is built of weighs only 15 unbreakable bull-nntal malleable, on the mo i of mechanics— rolling powerful p'inciple the lever-uedg' . It beais the worl ,• spreading all k'iuds of manure richt. GET MY NEW CAT LOG which explains nm 1128 TPIE SOUTHERN PLANTER [December,

2. The pea crop would supply the Larscst most humus-making matter, as livery stable manure is always very largely dung, and contains but little straw or other vegetable matter. The liv- ery stable manure would supply more Superior plant food, but without a sufficiency of humus in the soil, this cannot be made fully available. between the she 3. The only difference StucieJjaker ^^ For 56 years the name Studebaker on vehicles and har- two is that the green crop contains Piant Covers ^^r ness, has carried with it an absolute guaranty of the high- a /larger proportion of water, and lOI Acres ^^r^ est quality in both materials and construction. this, beyond sufficient to cause the The man who buys a Studebaker is absolutely sure that he has vegetable matter to decay, adds obtained full value for every cent he has spent. He runs no risks. nothing of value to the soil. It will pay you to 4. Yes, very largely. When lime gets into the condition you describe, and only very it is practically mortar, See the Studebaker Dealer slowly disintegrates in the soil. The and get his prices on farm wagons, buggies, carriages and harness. It sooner lime is spread and mixed with means long service, freedom from repairs and perfect satisfaction. the soil after it is slaked, and the If you don't know the Studebaker Dealer, we'll be glad to send you more effective it is. his name. Mention this paper and send ' done, but ! 5. Yes. This has been us two cents in postage and we will with profit in the crops.—Ed. TTJ33~!3 never mail you free Studebaker 1909 Farm- er's Almanac, CHICKENS. containing, "In Oklaho- LEG WEAKNESS IN ma," Cyrus Townsend Brady's inspir- My chickens, when they get to be ing story of pioneer days. frying size, get so they have no con- Studebaker Bros. Rlfg. Co. trol of their legs. They do not seem South Bend, Indiana to be sick, for they eat heartily, but tbey can't walk. Since spring I have had them like this. At first, I would kill them, then I let them alone, right many became all right after three or four weeks. Will you tell FOUR MOVING PARTS me what is the trouble, and how to Our engine is three timet rGmGdv it? That's all there are to the McVicker's valve the best because it is three MRS. PEYTON HUNDLEY. action. simplest times the simplest. Yet it Essex Co., Va. That's why the McVicker is the engine the easiest to understand and run. costs no more than the com- — plex. of engines, yet your There are 499 other makes In fact, it is cheapest by I is the cause of Leg weakness parts to its each has 12 and more moving far because its simplicity trouble. This is usually most trouble- gasoline valve action. And that's where most saves on fuel, oil and repairs. raised in bottom- some in chickens engine trouble occurs. Don't buy an engine till heated brooders. Chickens want a You'have but to compare the McVicker with you know all about the Mc- cool floor and warm above. "Usually one of these and you have compared it with Vicker. "We have a great all are practically the same our en- many features to tell after the chickens get on to the nat- all, for — you gine, only, is different. You can decide in this about in our catalog—all of the trouble ceases. In ural ground way which is the best engine made. which bear on this astound- chickens frying size, your case with We invite comparison, for we know of no ing simplicity. we think the trouble is caused by the better way to sell you one of our engines. We make all types—from 2 to 30 horse-po er mount- absence of mineral matter in the leed. in the largest and w — The McVicker is made ed in all ways for all uses. Feed some bone meal in the mash costliest gas engine factory in the United Also traction engines. two or three times a week. Chickens States. Nearly 3,000 were sold last year. We send free plans for a never used en- like all animals when growing, need Thousands of farmers who model farm power-house when gines before have bought ours. Also thou- you write tot the catalog. Do mineral matter to make strong bones. sands who have used others. The McVicker it today—a postal—now—be- The phosphate of lime in the bone appeals to the latter most, for they have had fore you forget it. meal supplies this.—-Ed. experience. They know. ALMA 3IFG. CO., The McVicker is the simplest engine in the Station : . Alma, world. • SHEEP HUSBANDRY—SWEET PO- Mich. Our marvelous patents do away with all TATOE—IRISH POTATOES- cams, gears, ratchets, tumbling rods and other ALFALFA. ;i"ii trustifying "jim-cracks." All others must employ them, for they can't 1. What, in your opinion, is the run without them. best breed of sheep for this section of Virginia (central part) ? 2. What are the chief valuable THE McVICKER characteristics of Southdown Shrop- shire, Cotswold, Dorset, Hampshire- down, Merino? 3. What is the best kind of soil i^AftriWiW^ for sweet potatoes, red or gray? For Economical, Reliable Running Wafer Service Irish potatoes? A constant supply wherever you want it. Automatic in action—no expense for power 4. I have about half an acre of or repairs. It's easy with a very fine land I wnnt to trv alfalfa on, but it is taken with rich weed. RIFE HYDRAULIC RAM Large and small rams forCountry Places, Irrigation, Supply Tanks,_Town would this do: Put in Irish po- How Plants, etc For every foot water drops to ram it is raised 30 feet. 7,000 in use. tatoes; then, as soon as they are dug WRITE FOR FREE PLANS AND ESTIMATES sow cowpeas, and turn the latter un- RIFE ENGINE CO., 2I13TRINITY BLDG..NEW YORK —

1129 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER der in early fall, when ready to put in the alfalfa? X. Y. Z. Buckingham Co., Va. BUYAWAGON 1. We are of opinion that the Shropshire is the best breed of sheep for Virginia, except where the prime object is the production of lambs, for ONCEIN YOUR LIFETIME the early market, in which case Dor- sets are the best. The Shropshire has acclimatized and maintained his size and vigor better in this climate than any other of the breeds. 2. The valuable characteristics of ^ the Down breeds (Southdown, Shrop- shire and Hampshire downs) are the high quality of the lamb and mutton produced with a good salable fleece of wool. The Dorsets are valuable as early lamb producers, and make fine fat lambs. The Cotswolds have POOR wagon is the poorest kind of an investment. not, in our experience of them here, do, the loads maintained their size and vigor. They There is too much hard work to are too A too heavy, the roads are too rough and the wear and have long wool for our climate. There are few now kept here. The tear too great for a wagon of inferior material and poor con- Merinos are valuable as wool produc- struction to stand the strain. It is the wisest policy to buy a ers. Among the Down breeds the wagon that has a record as a durable wagon. r Southdowns are the smallest, but to make the primest mutton, the Shrop- If you are about purchase a wagon why not assure shires come next in size. The yourself in advance of long, satisfactory service by buying Hampshires and Oxfords are the larg- one of the well known and dependable I. H. C. wagons? est. 3. A sandy loam is the best soil The Weber The Columbus The New Beiiendorf for Sweet and Irish potatoes. The first wagons are old timers, well known all Sweets do best in a light sandy The two named over the country as of superior build and material and giving long fatisfac- loam; the Irish in a loam of heav- tory service. The Weber wagon has been manufactured 64 years. ier texture. Many a farmer is able to testify that his Weber lasted him all the years 4. You must get rid of the weeds of his active farm life. And as many more farmers are using the first before you can grow alfalfa. The plan Columbus wagons manufactured. These are standard high grade you propose should enable you to do wagons, and there can be no possible mistake in purchasing them. this, but we would suggest that in- The New Bettendorf is the all steel gear wagon, practically un- stead of plowing the down, cowpeas breakable. It is the wagon for all climates and a guarantee against you cut them off for hay, and then breakdowns and repairs in all kinds of heavy work. cut the stubble lightly into the land Why not make sure of long wagon service? with a disc or cutaway harrow. The There is no better place to begin than with the International agent in deep and thorough preparation for the your town. Go and see and talk wagon to him. He will supply you with c ita- Irish potatoes should cause most of logs and give you all needed information. Or write direct to the Home Office. the' weed seed to come near enough International Harvester Company of America, Chicago, U. S. A. to the surface to sprout, and the cul- (Incorporated) tivation of the crop would destroy these. Those left the cowpeas should smoother, and by not plowing the crop in, you avoid bringing up weed seeds again to bother the alfalfa. Dr. Stubbs found this method of prepar- ing the land after a cowpea crop to VPLXX give him a clean stand of alfalfa. Ed. ELLY g iindingMms! rPHE only mill in the world made with a double set of grinders or burrs. Will DRAINAGE—WILD, ONIONS. * grind ear corn, shelled corn, oats, rye, wheat, barley, Kaffir corn, cotton seed, corn in shucks, sheaf oats, or any kind of grain, coarse.medrom or fine. grinding surface just double that of any other mill of 1. Will you kindly have some art- The Kelly has a equal size, and can, therefore, do twice as icles on field drainage during the much work with less power, as it is the year? 2. Does anyone know how the taste of wild onions can be removed from milk? mill made. Simple iu construction G. H. GOODE. easily operated, strong and efficient. Chesterfield Co., Va. Never choke. Six sizes, any power. tS'Ei^UV AD4PTED FPR GASOLENE ENGINES. 1. We will endeavor to comply Write to-day for our catalog describing and illustra- with your request during the winter ting the Kelly Duplex grinding mills. months. In this issue in the article MANUFAtfURINi CO., Work for the Month you will find THE DUPLEX MILL & some advice on the subject. The Box 20 SP

BUCKEYE FEED MILLS-SAWS-HORSE POWERS At the present price of grain, farmers must study economical methods of feeding'. By grinding you save 15 to 25 per cent, of the grains you feed. Buckeye Mills grind ear corn and all small grains and soon save enough to PAY FOR THEMSELVES. All sizes and styles feed mills for horses or engine, also a complete line of horse powers and safety saw frames to suit the farm. Our machines are all strong, well built and capable—FULLY GUARANTEED. Send for cata- logue and prices. Full stock carried at Richmond, Va. Prompt shipments. Made by The Buckeye Feed Mill Co., Box W. Springfield, Ohio. Sold by The Implement Co., Richmond, Va.

taken, and a plan laid down, so as to ensure that when done it shall be effective. There is a little book IMERICANSAW MILLS written by. Dr. Chamberlain, price thirty-five cents, which gives full in- RELIABLE FRICTION FEED structions on the subject, which we can supply. Ratchet Set Works, Quick Receder, Duplex 2. There have been many attempts Dogs. Strong, made by different methods to get rid Steel ACCUHAiE "NDRfcLIABLE of the onion flavor from milk, but with only, partial success. The best, Best materia) and probably, ' is to heat the milk (not workmanship, light then running; requires boil it) as soon as drawn, and little power; simple, pass it over an aerator. The odor is easy t o handle; thus volatilized, and largely got rid won't get out of order. of.—Ed. u BELT FEED MILLS in all sizes. SHEEP HUSBANDRY. Log Beam Carriages can be furnished with any of our mills. Please advise an inexperienced per- No. 1. Warrantet to cut 2,000 feet per day with 6 H. P. engine. Seven son how to commence raising sheep. other sizes made. Also Edgers Trimmers,, Shingle Machines, Lath Mills, Rip pnd Cut-Off Saws, Drag Saws, Feed Mills. Catalogue sent sufficient feed and pasture for Cordwood Saws and I have free. 100 or 20*0. S. "Rowe, Mass., October 24, 1905.— T have a No. 1 American Saw Mill and King William Co.. Va. 'send you an order for another just like it. I run it with my 8 H. P. portable gasoline engine; have sawed 5,000 feet of lumber in ten hours with it without any trouble. I use a 48-lnch saw. A man "who has had no experience Yours truly, BRADLBT C. NB2WBLL. small with sheep should begin in a AMERICAN SAW MILL MACHINERY CO., 137 Hope St., HackettNtonrn, N. J. way, and, gradually grow into the OUR AGENTS.—Watt Plow Company, Richmond, Va.; R P. Johnson, business, land thus learn the require- Wythevllle, Va.; Hyman Supply Company, New Berne and Wilmington, N. C; Gibbes Machinery Company, Columbia, S. C. ments of ' a flock. Twenty-five ewes and one buck are plenty to start with. These should be preferably grade Merino ewes, and great care should be taken to get them from a section where there has been no trouble with LISTEN! MR. FARMER! the stomach worms. These parasites are the great hindrance we have to Have you heard of the NEWEST and successful -sheep husbandry in the South. If a flock is once infested MOST UP-TO-DATE GASOLINE EN- with them profit is at an end. Sheep from the mountain sections of West- GINE on the MARKET?. If not, write Tennessee, ern North j Carolina, East and West Virginia are the most like- as about it at once. It's called the ly to be free from this infection. The "NEW-WAY" air cooled and made In ewes should be one- or two- year-old sheep with a sheep. Don't buy a 2%, 3% and 7 H. P.—Prices guaranteed broken mouth; that is, to say, with her teeth worn down or lost. They to be cheapest of any high eln«n en- usually begin to show this condition for at five or six years old. With the . vine. It can be used every FARM ewes a pure-bred buck should be urpose imaginable, and is so simple mated in September. The buck may be either a Shropshire or a Dorset. that anyone can run it. Either will get lambs which will be ready for the market in the early when prices are the best. The spring, STQCKDELL-MYERS HOW. CO. Dorsets are' probably the best for the very early lambs, as Dorsets and Dor- Petersburg, Va. set grades will take the buck earlier than other breeds, and can be so managed as to produce two crops of lambs per year, though this is not a desirable practice to be continued TELL THE ADVERTISER WHERE YOU SAW HIS ADVERTISEMENT. —

1908.] THE SOUTHEKN PLANTER 1131 irect To You—At Reduced Price—A * On FREE TRIAL DWeaker City Feed Mill No Money Down "16 m^jy 40 Years The Standard and Better this Year than Ever Before 1111*1 * s&f'Q^bm -wmr w*_ wi__« m^M. Write for the book now and pick out the one you want *'irtPjZj& We Pay Freight to try. Convince yourself that it grinds faster, does better work, needs less power, less attention, and meets a jO* t/lQQ^ff You w '^ agree that this is the most greater range of requirements than any other grinder at any price. From grinding ear corn making Graham flour rtArtP ^t> eral offer ever made to Jw —grinds soft and wet as well as dry corn you'l! f.nd a Quaker ttv But what we want you to note particularly — ji^r City superior. If not, send it bac! at our expense. Try all ^^ is that this offer is Quaker City Mills—-the on mills, if you like, and keep the best. That's all we ask. grinders that have been the standard of quality for 40 years—the mills that are See Our Improvements more widely and more ough Quaker City Mills favorably known than have been given added all other makes put improvements re- cently, which put together— the mills them still farther that have never ahead of any other been sold before at mill — although the the close manufac- price would have to turer's price. CS & H 12 be higher than be- We have cut out 11 Sizes—22 Styles fore if sold through the Jobber?, Deal- From Hand to 20-Horse Power dealers—yetyou can ers, all Middlemen, get one now for less, and give you the benefit of saving their profits. much less, than ever. And we pay the freight, remember. Write today for Free Book, and get our Trial Offer, guaranty You can prove, too, at our risk, that the Quaker City and factory prices. Specify Feed Mill Catalogue. One of the that it is mill is all we claim, the you want, before you Quaker City Family will just meet your needs and fit your pay us a penny. pocketbook. Write today—now. The STRAUB COMPANY 3737 Filbert Street W. Philadelphia, Pa.

regularly. Three crops in two years is as much as ought to be attempted. The ewes, if bought now, will have STRONGEST FENCE MADE served, been and a buck need not be When yon buy our High Carbon Colled Spring Fence yon bay strength, bought until next August. The ewes service and durability combined. Twenty years of experience—hard knocks, has taught us that the best fence Is made from heavily galvanized Colled should be given a good pasture Spring Steel Wire through the winter and be fed a lit- CLOSELY tle grain, oats, peas and a little corn WOVEN FROM are best. Give a pint per head per TOP TO BOTTOM Our Fence Is so closely woven that smal I p 1 gs cannot "wiggle" through it. day. A shed, open on the south side 1 * So strong the vicious bull cannot "faze it. We have no agents. We do is all the shelter they require. In not sell to dealers but sell direct to the user this a rack should be fixed, in which AT WHOLESALE PRICES pea hay or a mixture of pea hay and good meadow hay should be fed. Do FREIGHT PREPAID Colled Wire provides for contraction and expansion and prevents sagging not put more hay in the rack at one between posts. Every pound of wire In our fence is made In our own wire time than the sheep will eat up clean mill from the best high carbon steel. We give in a day, as sheep are fastidious eat- 30 DAYS FREE TRIAL ers, and will not touch hay that has That our customers may be sure they are satisfied. We make a full line of been picked over by them by other FARM AND POULTRY FENCE. Our Wholesale Prices will save you or money. VV rite todsy for our 40 page free Catalog. mimals. Let them have pure water COILED SPRING FENCE COMPANY, x> drink, and give them salt once or wice a week. In the shed keep a Box 52 Winchester, Indiana* rough in which a mixture of cut to- >acco leaves or tobacco dust and salt hould always be kept. This will revent and clean out the worm para- ites. When the ewes are near lamb-

lg, out off the grain almost entirely, I GET OUR FREE SAMPLE which we send for inspection. Test it for iving only oats and a few peas un- I strength, stiffness and rigidness, then look to the galvanizing. File lit and see how thick that is. We want you to satisly yourself il after the are dropped, and lambs I that for YOU Brown Fence is the best fence to buy for Horses, ie flow of milk is established, and Cattle, Sheep, Pigs, Chickens, etc. Our fences are made of extra heavy Steel Wire both strand and stay wires | No. gauge. ie lambs are taking it freely, then — g SELLS AT 15 to PER ROD DELIVERED. jsume the mixed grain ration in full 35c WE PAY THE FREIGHT. Easytoputup. Stands staunch, solid rigid. or nd increase as the lambs grow. A and Won't sag I bag down. Our prices are less than you would pay for much ew pasture of crimson clover lighter fences.—fences not half so durable. | Write today for sample catalog styles. nd mixed grain is the proper and showing 150 . lace on which to put a flock of The Brown Fence &. Wire Co., Dept. 68 Cleveland, Ohio. wes and lambs, and ought to be al- BULL PD00F ays provided. Do not make this AND PIG TIGHT ~Ss<\isl-e: ffzeiez isture too large, but rather have vo or three smaller fields, and TELL, THE ADVERTISER WHERE YOU SAW HIS ADVERTISEMENT. 1132 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER [December,

change the sheep every two or three days. Change of pasture as fre- quently as possible is essential to Test The Superiority of success with sheep. Better change on to a poorer pasture than not to change at all. The lambs should "EVERLASTING" after they are two or three weeks old, always have a clover or grain pasture to which they can resort CORRUGATED METAL CULVERTS. apart from the ewes if the greatest They are being used generally by the largest railroad systems and success is to be attained. The lambs wire-awake county road supervisors prefer them to all others. should pick this over first, and then the ewes follow them, and another field be given up to the lambs. Creeps through the fences should be made so that the lambs can have ac- cess apart from the ewes, but yet be able to return to the ewes to suck whenever they desire. In this way fat lambs can be had for the market when they are two or three months old. The lamb that sells the best in the early market is a fat one weigh- are special analysis Ingot Iron- ing not over forty or fifty pounds. Corrugated Metal Culverts made of The lambs should be weaned when double galvanized. lasting. four of five months old, and the ewes They are strong and be put on a poorer pasture until they They are not affected by climatic conditions. are to install. loose their milk. After this they They easy may be gradually got into good con- They are inexpensive. under Letters Patent 559,642. dition again, ready to take service Manufactured No. Illustrated Catalogue for the asking. in August, September and October. The period of gestation in the ewe is five months. The ewes should be shorn of the wool in May. A flock of ewes should easily pay a profit of 75 to 100 per cent, per year if well cared for.—Ed. ANALYSIS OF SOIL—FERTILIZER FOR CORN—IRISH POTATOES- CONSERVING THE VALUE OF MANURE FOULTRY MANURE —TO PREVENT WASHING OF "Everlasting" Tanks, Smoke Stacks and Well Curbings are the cheap- LAND. est after all. There is a life time's service with every one installed. The farmer 1. Is there any place in Virginia the '"Ever- where we can send samples of our who wants the best for the least always puts his money in lasting" line of Corrugated necessities. soil for an analysis to determine Write now telling us of your wants, stating sizes desired, and we what plant food it is most deficient will send literature and enticing quotations. 'Twill pay well to learn in. more of the "Everlasting" line. Better start to-day! 2. I expect to plow under a crop of rye on one piece and vetch and VIRGINIA COMPANY, oats on another, using both for METAL CULVERT corn another vear. What fertilizer, Sole Manufacturers. if any, would be best to use? The j 1701-1715 E. Cary Street, soil is a gray loam with a good deal

'< -,'" • . ~ ~| Richmond, Virginia. of sand, light chocolate subsoil. 3. Will Irish potatoes do well on new land, or should the land be cul- tivated a year or two first? 4. Where you have plenty of sta ble room so you can keep adding fresh bedding on top of the manure mm CURED all winter, does it pay best to leave No Experiment. manure in stable or keep it cleaned Morphine out and haul right to the field where Alcoholism, you have to put it on top of the land and other drug addic and not plow it in until spring? tions cured in from four 5. I sprinkle lime and ashes in my to six weeks. 28 years poultry houses three times a week and then once every two weeks rake successful experience. it all out clean. Does the lime and Write for our booklet. ashes waste the fertilizing qualities "What do You Drink" of the poultry droppings or conserve The Keeley Institute. same? GREENSBORO. N. C. 6. Will some reader of The Plant- er give me a remedy for the unsight- ly hillside ditches that will save ray When corresponding with our advertisers always mention Southern Planter. 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER 1133

Water Supply For Country Homes = PNEUMATIC PRESSURE TANK SYSTEM =====

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In each system the very latest and most reliable tiling made. Our expert mechanics are sent to install these plants. Our charges are no greater than the unreliable jobs found about the country. RICHMOND ENGINE & PUMP CO., ASHTON STARKE, Richmond, Va. Iron Fencing a Specialty. Mention this paper.

land from washing on our steep hill- sides? W. S. CARRIN'GTON CITY COMFORTS Amherst Co., Va. may be enjoyed in the i 1. Yes. Send the sample to Dr! Magruder, the Chemist of the De- COUNTRY partment of Agriculture, Richmond. As we frequently said, we do not By Means of Our Pneumatic place much value on an analysis of soil to determine how it shall be Water Supply Systems made productive. The chemist in his laboratory can find constituents in At Small Expense. the soil and determine approximately the quantity which the plant cannot GAS RANGES make available because unable to control the conditions affecting the GAS LIGHT same. The true way to analyze the GAS ENGINES soil is to lay off experiment plots and treat each one with different ele- Can all be used With our ments of fertility, give one nitrogen, one phosphoric acid and another pot- Gasoline Gas Generators ash, then give still another nitrogen and phosphoric acid, and another nitro- Gasoline Engines, Wind gen and potash, and another a mix- Mills, Rams, Tanks, ture of all these constituents, and Wood Saw Frames. put the same kind of crop on each plot and the plots will answer the Write for particulars question as to what the soil needs to grow that crop successfully. The Sydnor Pump & Well Co., inc. chemist cannot tell you this. Dept B, 2. The rye will only add humus to RICHMOND, VA. the soil, the vetch and oats will sup- ply nitrogen and humus. On both plots we would apply acid phos- phate, say, at the rate of three hun- dred pounds to the acre. On the rye farquharfortabl£ sjCwMs plot probably some nitrogen in the Made in seven sizes. Variable Friction or form of straight belt feed with rack ind pinion, or nitrate of soda would also be cable attachments. Celebrated Karquhar of service. The acid phosphate can Chain Set- Works absolutely accurate and quick receding. Built strong and durable. be applied at any time during the Don't buy any o her until you investigate preparation of the land for the the merits or the "Farquhar." Guar- crop, anteed in every respect. but the nitrate of soda should not Ournew 68-paaecatalogex- be applied until plalns In detail all our Saw the crop has started Mills. Engines. Rollers and to grow. The acid phosphate will Threshers. We'll mall you copy free upon request. not leach out, the nitrate will, unless A. B. fagggM CO.. LTD.. rORK. HL there is a crop to utilize it at once. As you are doubtless aware, we have always doubted the advisability of applying commercial fertilizer of any THE IMPROVED RANEY CANNING OUTFITS kind to the corn crop. By doing it The Simplest and Finest Process Ever Invented. you may and probably will increase Made In All Sizes, and Prices from $5.00 Up, and "Well Suited to Both the yield of the crop, but it is rarely Home and Market Canning. The finest Canned Goods in the World put by that the increased yield pays for the up farmers and their fami- lies. Write now, and get our free catalogue, giving full information, and fertilizer. You can improve the fer- prepare for the next crop. . ter. t tility of the land, but must look for THE RANEY CANNER CO., Chapel Hill, N. C. ;

1134 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER [December,. the profit in subsequent crops. Barn yard manure is the proper fertilizer to use to grow corn applied on a clover or pea fallow. Phosphatic NATIONAL fertilizers will pay on the clover and pea crops and these and manure will make a profitable corn crop. Water Supply 3. No. You will not find the Irish potatoes will do well on new land. The plant food in the soil is not in a sufficiently available form to meet System. the quick needs of this crop. A crop corn will usually be the best of FARMERS, LET US IN- thing to put on new land, as its ex- STALL. OUR GREAT COM- tensive root system enables it to PRESSED AIR SYSTEM OF search out and utilize the inert plant WATER SUPPLY lit YOUR food and the cultivation necessary RESIDENCE, BARN, more DAIRY for the crop makes this fertility OR OTHER BUILDINGS. available and puts the land into a better mechanical and physical con- It will dition for the next crop. furnish you an abundance of water f«r all pur- poses from any source. conserve the Write ps. giving depth and capacity 4. The best way to of your well or spring, and we will cheerfully submit an value of stable manure is to get it estimate and make suggestions as to your requirement!. out on the land as fast as made. No Satisfaction Guaranteed. loss of its value is caused by leaving DAVIDSON, BURNLEY A CO, RICHMOND, VA. it spread on tbe top of the land dur- 010 East Main Street. ing the winter. Where this cannot be conveniently done, then, leaving it in the stable, trod down solid, con- serves its value best, but this prac- with the best HERCULES Sfee! Stump Machines. tice is not compatible CAST IRON hygienic condition of the stable, and do the work of three iron grubbers T it is absolutely fatal to successful RtPREiEim\ No staking down required. Pull stables and cow barns ™ power V trees as well as stumps. Less cum- dairying. The Strength to ^ bersome than iron, easier handled, should be cleaned out daily and the the square jSXpwllwJ manure either be spread on the land inch price almost as low. The only 16,000 pounds or be put up in a compact heap un- .TimwuiweN. steel grubber and it's un cover or be covered with soil •TSV'reakable. We pay der STEEL as riled, or, if a covered barn yard for three years. is available, it should be put there STRENGTH Write for catalog and and cattle be kept on it to compact . TO THE price list. it. There is no doubt the most eco- SQUARE INCH nomical way to handle the manure HERCULES MANUFACTURING CO., is to harve it dumped directly from 120.000 LBS. Dept. 416 Centerville, Iowa, U. S. A the stables and barns every day into the manure spreader and put it on the land at once. It is then only once to handle and no portion of its value is lost. Add to the manure as Pulls Stumps or Standing Trees, made forty or fifty pounds to the ton Clears & two acre circle with one sittings-pulls anything1 the wire rope will reach; stumps, trees, grubs, rocks, hedges, etc. A man and a boy with one or two horses can run the of acid phosphate. This will make it twice as valuable as a fertilizer. COMBINATION STUMP PULLER, 5. The sprinkling of lime and * Stump Anchored op Self Anchoring. ashes on the hen manure causes loss A minute and a half is all It rakes fortheordinarystutnp. No heavy chains or rods. Note the strong wire rope with patent coupler—grips the rope at any point. Does not of the ammonia (nitrogen), the most chafe rope; far ahead of old-style"take-ups." Smallest rope we furnish stands 40,000 lbs. strain. It generates immense power and it's made to stand the strain. We also valuable part. Dry dust or dust and make the Iron Giant Grub and Stump machine, the I. X. L. Grubber and Hawkeye Grub and illustrated plaster mixed conserves it best. Stump Machine. 'Write for free catalogue. land Largest manufacturers of Stump Pullers In the World, 6. The way to prevent washing Established 1X84. and gullying is to plow deep into the subsoil. Give the water the MILNE MFG. CO., chance to ge into the soil and it will 034 8th St., Monmouth, III. take care of all of it and no washes be seen.—Ed. CDCE CATALOG '08. NO HAMMER TO HAMMER Albemarle Co., Va., Feb. 8, rntc ofthisTHIS ,-— It gives me very great pleasure to SHOT GUN get a new subscriber for the best farm magazine of North America. If SIX SHOTS IN FOUR SECONDS it were possible for it to do the No unsightly and unsafe hammer to catch on the clothing or cause premature States could make no better invest- discharge il the gun falls. Noopening to catch dirt, twigs, rain or snow. Ham- a » — merless and covered mechanism. Those are the features. Seud todav for catalog. ment for the agricultural advancement ros $5 TO $27 T"E UNION FIRE ARMS C0.2S6 Auburntialc. Toledo, 0. of the Commonwealth than to appro- BSr5nm5nc mItm! priate a sum sufficient to place one year's subscription to the Southern Clemont Co., O., May 4, '08. Gloucester Co., Va., Apl. 28, '08, by Planter in the hands of every Virginia I am very much pleased with the "We would not be without the Soutl farmer. Southern Planter and renew with ern Planter for anything. CARTER. DR. WM. FITZHUGH pleasure. RUBEN WAITS. G. W. SMITH Plat 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER 1135

The One and I. By Elizabeth Free- mantle. Published by Gerge W. Jacobs & Co., Philadelphia, Pa. A pretty little story in the form of a diary. The plot is slight. The BUY scene is laid in the Canadian North- west. A clever young English girl is engaged to a "cowboy," whom she calls "The One," but she has liter- ary aspirations, and yearns, at times, Battle Axe Shoes. for the civilization and easy life of England; and so finds it hard to de- ' r cide upon a life of fiourishing the dish-cloth, and playing hide and seek Solid Made BATTLE AXE Shoes with the eternal dustpan." An Eng- lish friend has told her that it will SAVE FARMERS MONEY. be "using afive-pound note, to clean a pipe-stem." "The One" is absent, but may come at any time for her answer. Whilst waiting for him, she — pays visits to her friends, assists at Their her Father's second marriage; makes SPLENDID STYLE maple sugar with the Indians, and roams at will through the woods un- COMFORTABLE FIT til the end of the story. The reader is uncertain whether love or ambition will win, but "The One" falls ill, and LONG WEAR seems likely to die, the heroine quick- ly fnds out, that life without him, LOW PRICE would be unendurable. The book will appeal to those who feel the "Call of Explain why the Celebrated, Solid Made BATTLE AXE the Wild." The descriptions of the Shoes^are so widely known and called woods at all seasons, and by day and night, are delicately drawn by one who evidently loves nature. The min- *t or characters are quaint, and the "Pippin" amusing. The book, no "The Farmer s Friend. doubt reflects very accurately the state of mind of a clever, refined girl, called upon to choose between love with poverty on the one hand, and a life of comfort and intellectual success on the other. John C. Calhoun. By Gaillard Hunt. STEPHEN This is one of the American Crisis Biographies published by George W. PUTNEY Jacobs & Co., Philadelphia, Pa. In this book the author endeavors SHOE to show not only the chief events in the political career of John C. Cal- houn, but his complete identification COMPANY, with two opposing popular move- ments, how he helped to form a broad RICHMOND, national sentiment, the part he played in the struggle in his State VIRGINIA. against that sentiment, and his lead- ership of the triumphant sectional sentiment. He shows that as Cal- houn was a popular leader, he was dominated by popular forces, and that his power lay in his correct interpre- Don't Forget that Steam is the tation of the will of his people. To study his public life, therefore, is to study the course of public opinion in Most Reliable Power the South during a momentous period Farmers arid planters who Install Leffel Steam Engines have no power troubles. There when it formed into a great move- is no failure to start or to run—no tinkering, ment to resist a greater movement. no coaxing, no vexatious delays. We have The book will be read with interest built thousands of by everyone interested in the strug- gle which reached its crisis soon af- Leffel Engines ter his death, and which has come by Fop Farm Use No planter ever thinks of exchanging tile dependable dispassionate historians to be treated Leffel forany other kind of power He can under* as the effort of honest men impelled stand bis Leffel Engine. Quick, easy steamers. No other style of power so economlca . The numerous by honest motives. styles and sizes of Leffeis lnsur^ /our getting a power that exactly fits yonr needs. Don t buy any engine till you write tor our tree book. 'Sou1 Always mention The Southern JAMES LEFFEL & COMPANY Planter when writing advertisers. Bex 213 Springfield. Ohio 1136 THE SOUTHEKN PLANTER [December,

CLUBBING LIST In this list will be found prices en 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 8 00 The Post, Washington D. C 6 00 6 00 The Sun, Baltimore, Md.. 3 00 8 40 THRICE A WEEK. The World, New York 1 00 1 26 WEEKLIES. Times-Dispatch, Richmond, Va. 1 00 1 26 Southern Churchman, Rich- mond, Va 2 00 2 26 Central Presbyterian, Rich- mond, Va 2 00 2 26 Harper's Weekly 4 00 4 00 Breeders' Gazette 2 00 1 60 Country Gentleman 16© 1 75 National Stockman and Farmer 100 100 Hoard's Dairyman 1 00 1 SO

Memphis News-Scimitar. . . 50 76 Cotton Journal 1 O'O 1 00 "SEMI-MONTHLY. Kimball's Dairy Farmer.. 1 00 76 MONTHLIES. The Century 4 00 4 26 St. Nicholas 3 00 3 26 Lippincott's 2 50 2 50 Harper's Magazine 4 00 4 00 Delineator 1 00 1 40 Harper's Bazaar 1 00 1 40 Scribner's '.-». 3 00 3 26 American 1 00 1 35 Cosmopolitan 1 00 1 36 Everybody's 1 50 1 75 Munsey 1 00 1 36 The Strand 1 20 1 60 Argosy 1 00 1 35 Review of Reviews 3 00 3 00 Field and Stream 1 50 1 60 You Can Cover Your Roof With Woman's Home Companion 1 00 1 26 Modern Farming 1 00 1 00 Reliable Poultry Journal.. 50 76 Mycoroid Industrious Hen 50 75 Rubber Roofing Poultry success 50 75 " fcei Blooded Stock 50 65 And Then "Forget It i or 1D( Successful Farming 50 60 i ten Jour. 75 Because It requires no coating. Amer. Fruit and Nut 60 as

Southern Fruit Grower. . 60 86 It is absolutely waterproof. ern

Shepherd's Criterion 60 76 It is practically Fire Proof, (i Commercial Poultry 60 76 it does not taint water When two or more publications are Write for Samples and Booklet. wanted, the price for them can be We also carry a full line of Galvanized and Painted Corrugated and V Crlnii found by deducting 50 cents from Hoofing in rolls and boxes "price with Southebn Planteb." We cannot, under any circum- stances, furnish sample copies of other McGRAW- YARBROUGH CO., Richmond, Va. publications. We will cheerfully quote our best price on any line of publications sub- P mitted to us. When corresponding with our advertisers always mention Southern Planter. Hit 1908.] THE SOUTHEEN PLA>T TEE 1137

Subscription Bargains

We are making a specialty this season of attractive subscription offers. We have made arrangements with a number of publishers of high-class periodicals whereby we can give you from 10 per cent, to 100 per cent, on your reading matter this winter. Read this list and show it to your neighbor and get him to join you in one of these offers.

NO. 1. NO. 7. NO. 16. The Garden Magazine—Farming, The Times-Dispatch, any edition, Southern Poultry Guide, or Forty Farm Journal (2 years) and The Daily and Sunday, $6; Daily, $5; or Years With Poultry, and Southern Southern Planter. Weekly, $1, and The Southern Planter. 'Regular price, $2.50; our price, $1. Planter, for the price of the Times- Regular price, $1.50; our price, The Garden Magazine—Farming is Dispatch alone. $1.00. the most beautiful of all agricul- The Southern Poultry Guide is tural magazines. The Farm Jour- Cal Husselman's great poultry book. nal well everybody knows it is a NO. 8. — — It contains 150 pages of hard, clean, lively little paper, read by com- millions of farmers. The Etude, for every music lover, mon sense on the poultry industry. Magazine and Southern American The author has had forty Planter. years' practical experience, NO. 2. Regular price $3.00; our price $2.10. and knows what's what in the chicken busi- Pictorial Review and Pattern, ness. The book is nicely got up, Ladies' World, Modern Priscilla and NO. 9. Southern Planter. and well illustrated. Regular price $2.50; our price, $1.50 St. Nicholas (new) McClures', The first three appeal to the la- Woman's Home Companion and NO. 17. dies, but will be found interesting Southern Planter. Regular price $6.25; our price $3.75. to the entire family. Farm and Garden Hints and Southern Planter. NO. 10. NO. 3. Regular price, $1.00; our price 50c. "Farm and Garden Hints" is a 50- Farm and Fireside, three colored Everybody's, Delineator, St. Nich- pictures, and "Kid" Calendar. a.r«» olas (new) and Southern Planter. page booklet which we had Prof. Southern Planter. Regular price, $6.00; our price, $3.50. W.' F. Massey write for us. This is Regular price 75c; our price, 50c. a valuable little work, which will You get thirty-six helpful issues 11. retail for 50 cents, but we will give if you accept this offer. NO. a copy absolutely free to anyone J Century, St. Nicholas (new) and who will send us a new subscriber v NO. 4. Southern Planter. to The Southern Planter at 50 cents. ** Regular price, $7.50; our price $5.50. Southern Fruit Grower and South- ern Planter. Regular price, $1.00; our price, 50c. NO. 12. NO. 18. Surely these two monthlies are •a- worth anyone's half dollar. Review of Reviews, St. Nicholas Duggar's "Agriculture" and South- (new) and Southern Planter. ern Planter. Regular price $6.50; our price, $3.50. Regular price, $1.25; our price, $1.00. NO. 5. This is the work which was Southern Industrious Hen and NO. 13. Planter. adopted by the Department of Ed- Regular price, $1.00; our price, 50c. ucation for use in public schools in Success, McClures', St. Nicholas Hen is a breezy, up-to-date The Planter. Virginia. This fact alone is suffi- poultry monthly. We can furnish it (new) and Southern price our price $3.50. on this offer for nothing. Regular $6.00; cient recommendation.

NO. 14. NO. 19. NO. G. Lamb and Southern Farmers' Account Book. Any $1.00 Magazine and The The Winter A simple and complete record for Southern Planter. Planter. keeping farm accounts; good for 3 Value $1.50, both for $1.25. This book, by Jos. E. Wing, sells contains valuable tables or 4 years; cents but we will give one and information. Retails for 50 for 50 at $1.00. cents. You may have one free for NO. 15. with a 3-year subscription a 3-year subscription to the South- book is neatly gotten up and county paper and The The ern Planter at $1.00. Any $1 sheep. $1.10. is a valuable treatise on (Send 10c. to cover postage.) Southern Planter, both for

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DETAIL INDEX. Sowing Apple and Pear Seeds 1123 To Remove Warts 1123 Pigs Coughing—Lame Colt. 1123 Restoring Fertility 1124 Fertilizer for Grass 1124 Oat Growing—Grass Seeding 1125 Making Lime VICTORIA Alfalfa—Humus — Corn Growing 1126 Leg Weakness in Chickens 1128 Sheep Husbandry—Sweet Pota- RUBBER ROOFING. toes—Irish Potatoes—Alfalfa. . .1128 Drainage—Wild Onions 1129 Sheep Husbandry 1130' Weatherproof. Always pliable—never hard Analysis of Soil—Fertilizer for Waterproof— Corn Irish Potatoes—Conserv- — or brittle. Any climate, all conditions. ing the Value of Manure Poultry Manure—To Prevent Washing of Land 1132 OUR PRICES WILL INTEREST YOU. MULCHING STRAWBERRIES. SEND FOR SAMPLES. The object of mulching strawberries winter is to prevent win- during the Galvanized Eoofing Sheets, Eoll Tin and ter-killing caused by the freezing and Patented and thawing of the soil during an open Tar Paper. winter. It should be applied just be- »» TEKNE PIATE5. QALVAN1ZED FIAT SHEETS. ROOHNO MATERlALa fore or directly after the ground has TIN frozen, which will usually be the last half of November. The material used should be free from weed seeds and heavy enough to prevent its being moved by strong winds. Coarse marsh WUrACTURERsTjOBBERS hay and straw are among the best ma- 1104 E-CATr STREET terials, while pine needles, leaves of RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. deciduous trees, corn stalks, strawy manure and boughs of evergreen trees may be used with good results. Cover evenly and lightly so that part of the Cutting and Shredding be seen through the- foliage may All with one machine. "Ohio" En- mulch. The finer the material, the silage Cutters also make efficient shred- thinner it should be applied. Over- ders. Simply remove the knives and put shredder blades in their place. mulching is as bad as not mulching A few minutes' time, no additional is used at all. When light material speed and but slight additional power it is advisable to apply brush or sim- required. Double value at trifling ilar material to prevent lifting by extra cost. "Ohio" Shredder Blades have pro- winds. heavy jecting steel teeth—no two in succes- Summer mulching retards evapor- sion travel in the same path. They ation, keeps the land free from weeds split and tear corn stalks into a nicely and provides a clean bed for the ber- shredded condition. Power, 2 to 15 h. p., according to size. Blower or car- ries to rest upon. The winter mulch rier elevators handle material perfect- if not too coarse, may be used for this ly. Our 96-page catalog sent on re- purpose by raking a portion into the quest, "Modern Silage Methods," 224 10c. Please mention over the row as much pages, this paper. walks, leaving SILVER MFG. COMPANY, Salem, Ohio. as the plants can grow through. Some Send for circular "New Model" Clo- hand work may later be necessary in ver Cutter and sample cut alfalfa. helping the plants through if the mulch is heavy or very fine.—Market Growers' Journal. SHELLS EASY AND QUICK Buncombe Co., N. C, June 12, '08. mini, uvea ' the Any woman— a ti-year oid caiiu can. 1 an it. i eo- ufaark Hawk I like the Southern Planter pie have beendoingit for22 years. Black Hawk Snellen " _ , „ uresowell made tuatl best of any of the farm papers which give repairs free. Shells 8 to 14 bu. Corn Shelters per hour. Parts built lor strain are malleable iron ; bear. come to me. S. H. GIBBS. iligs chilled iron. Clamped with a twist of lingers to box, barrel tub or ' bin. Mighty convenient. If your dealer can't iurnish a genuine Black Kawk, ask forpriee delivered your depot. Hooklet bYee. Write Now. Agents Wanted. Chesterfield Co., Va., Sept. 3, '08. A. H. PATCH, Clarksville, Tenn. Maker of Corn SheDers nnd Hand Grist Mills exclusively. I have been a reader of the South- ern Planter for a good many years lifetime subscrib- and expect to be a PERFECTLY RESIGNED. thin' you have handy," was the quick er. C. C. CLARK. An old Scotchman who was threat- rejofnder. ened with blindness consulted an ocu- "Ah, that's the trouble! " exclaimed Caroline Co., Va., June 15, '08. list. the oculist. "You'll have to stop very glad indeed that I sub- " I am "Will you have a little stimulant? drinking or you'll lose your eyesight." the Southern Planter, as 1 scribed to inquired the Doctor. The old chap pondered a moment. think it the most practical and useful The old Scotchman smacked his "A weel, Doctor, it doesn't much paper In Its line that I ever saw. lips in eager anticipation. JOHN MASTERS. matter. I hae seen everythin' that's "Ou, aye, I'll tak' a drink o' any- worth seein', anyway." :

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pending and the new machines have just been placed on the market by The Hercules Mfg. Co., Dept. 416, Cen- terville, Iowa.

HICKORY BOTTOM k ..._, P oultry Yards WON AT VIRGINIA STATE FAIR. 1st White Holland torn, 1st White Holland pullet, 1st Muscovy drake. ON WHITE WYANDOTTES; 3d Cock, 4th cockerel, 4th hen,

2d 3d and 4th pen (old) . R. RANDOLPH TAYLOR, Prop., SOMETHING NEW IN STUMP and unwieldly iron machines used R. F. D. 2. formerly was overcome. PULLERS. Beaver Dam, Va. The Company has now followed up Since Bulletin No. 150, issued by their first great advancement in YOU CAN BVY A CHEAP INCUBATOR the United States Agricultural Depart- stump pulling machinery by design- It Fire-Proof? Is It Insurable? ment, claims that machinery cleared ing and building a new triple power But Is Why Take R)*ks when you can buy a Cyphers Fire land is more tillable than if cleared puller, illustration shown herewith. Proofed Insurable Incubator—for years the leader in by explosives, renewed interest has hatching more and stronger chicks than any other? It will be seen that the pulling Our 212-page Poultry Guide Bookis full of valuable poultry developed in stump pullers. cable is run over three pulley wheels, information, as well as illustrated description of these In- surable Incubators. It is Free if you send us names and Three years ago the Hercules Mfg. thus tripling the power of the rope addresses of two acquaintances who keep poultry. Co., of Centerville, Iowa, placed on and machines, working on the same CYPHERS INCUBATOR COMPANY, Buffalo, N. Y. New York City, N. Y.; Chicago, 111.; Boston, Mass.; the market the first stump pullers principles as a triple tackle block. Kansas City._ Mo.; Oakland, Cal. made in solid steel. The weight was In this way it is said lighter ma reduced 60 per cent, and the pulling chines and lighter cable may be used A Neat Binder for vour back num- capacity increased 400 per cent., thus for heavier work than formerly. bers can be had for 30 cents. Address the principal objection to the heavy Applications for patents are now our Business Department. GENUINE PERUVIAN GUANO

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THE CENTURY IN 1909. question, with the writer's own re- dent's residence at Princeton, and his A series of articles on Lincoln's lationship to tariffs present and past, interesting r.nd influential connection life and character—to include hith- especially to the duty on steel. with the affairs of a great university. erto unpublished documents from his Mrs. Alice Hegan Rice's new novel, own pen and that of one of his sec- "Mr. Opp," which is to run serially in ST. NICHOLAS IN 1909. retaries, will be one of the strong The Century during 1909, is rich in features of the Century in 1909. Fred- the humor and pathos which made A jolly feature of St. Nicholas in erick Trevor Hill has written of "The Mrs. Wiggs such a joy and in the hu- 1909 will be a series of rhymes and Lincoln-Douglas Debates," the fiftieth man quality which touches the heart. pictures by W. W. Denslow, the illus- anniversary of which occurs this Plain-spoken neighbors call Mr. Opp trator of "The Wizard of Oz," "Fath- year; and there will be later papers a fool, he does talk too much, and er Goose," "The House That Ja'-.k on "Lincoln as a Boy Knew Him," his business success is always lurk- Built," etc. "When I Grow up" will "Lincoln as a Peace Negotiator," ing in some Spanish castle; but the be the title of the series, which will "Lincoln and the Theater," etc. reader forgives all and loves the portray the "day dreams" of an The autobiography of Augustus quaint character for the heroism that American youngster. Besides the Saint-Gaudens which The Century is gives up cheerily the plans of a life black and white pages, each number to publish during 190'9 contains a vi- and the woman he loves, to care for will have two pages of "When I Grow vid account of life in New York dur- and make happy day by day the patn- Up" in color. ing the Civil War Period, when young etic little half-sister whose mind is That prirm favorite, Ralph Henry Saint-Gardens was an apprentice and clouded from babyhood. Barbour, has written for serial pub- an ambitious student of art. Such a In "Mr. Opp" Mrs. Rice has cre- lication in St. Nicholas in 1909 an- picture of city life from the view- ated another character that will live. other story of the Ferry Hill young point of a youth is believed to be The Century is to publish a series folks' fun and adventures, "Captain unique in our literature. of interesting interviews, of unusual Chub." "Dick," Harry," and "Roy" Ernest Thompson Seton's new story, character, set down by Daniel Greg- are all in it; but "Chub" will be the "Domino Reynard of Goldur Town," ory Mason—records of familiar talk hero. the history of a silver foxJ which is with notable musicians, among others, Bradley Gilman, a classmate of to be one of the fiction features of Paderewski, Gabrilowitsch, and Knei- President xtoosevelt at Harvard, has The Century in 1909, has for its—pur- sel. written a story of adventure in pose—in the author's own words "to The Century has under way, for Egypt called "A Son of the Desert,'' show the man-world how the fox- early publication, papers, from sever- which will Le published serially in world lives—and above all to adver- al sources, which will give the pub- St. Nicholas in 1909. A young Amer- tise and emphasize the beautiful mo- lic an intimate view of the methods, ican lad is a leading character; and nogamy of the better-class Fox." motives, and character of the late the narrative has, among other inci- Andrew Carnegie has written for Grover Cleveland. The papers will dents of stirring interest, an account The Century an article on the tariff, include an illustrated sketch by Prof. of a terrific sand-storm, and a cap- dealing, among other aspects of the Andrew F. West, on the ex-Presi- ture by brigands who are outwitted

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by Thomas L. Masson; a strikingly as a preservative against insects. your hams still more secure if you beautiful Christmas poem, "Jesus Next the hams and shoulders should will wrap a large newspaper, or sheet unto Mary," by Chester Firkins, and be rubbed thoroughly and plentifully of wrapping paper around them be- other contributions. with salt, and lastly with a mixture fore putting them in the bags. It is of molasses, brown sugar and black not desirable to have your smoke- THE PROPER MANAGEMENT OF pepper. A touch of Cayenne pepper house light and sunny, but better to • HAMS. also will not be amiss, both kinds of have it cool and dark. From my own Mary Washington. pepper being ground. Then pack experience, I should say that smok- It is a generally conceded fact that them away, and let them remain un- ing is unnecessary. It may possibly Virginia produces the finest hams in disturbed for a month or six weeks. add to the keeping of a ham, but not the world, as superior to the gross, In moderate weather a month will to its flavor. An unsmoked ham has, swill-fed porkers of Cincinnati and suffice for the salt and seasoning to to my taste and that of many others, Chicago as the nectar of the gods is strike in, but in very cold weather a finer flavor than a smoked one. I to common beer. The delicate fla- six weeks will be better. Put them in made this discovery by pure acci- vor so highly esteemed by epicures a dry place, else they are apt to dent. In my early housekeeping days is largely due to letting the hogs feed mould, especially if there should be it was not convenient for me to have on clover and mast until six weeks much rain. When you unpack the a smoke-house, and during this time before they are killed, when they hams and shoulders, lay them out my hams had such a peculiarly de- should be put up and fed on corn. singly for a few days, so they may licious flavor that when I, at length, Great size and fat are to be carefully dry off before you bag them. If the got a smoke-house, I simply used it avoided. You will get the most deli- seasoning does not seem to have to hang the meat in, and never cately flavored hams from a bog taken well, rub on a little more. I smoked it. weighing not more than 150 pounds, also think it is a good plan to rub on and not over a year old. If you have another teaspoonful of borax before The mode of cooking a ham has a buttermilk to spare, you will find it bagging them. I have found this the good deal to do with its excellence. pays you well to give it to your hogs. best device I have ever tried for It should be put on in a boiler of It produces a delicate fat and a finer keeping off insects. Make bags of cold water, cooked slowly and left in flavor. coarse, unbleached cotton and bag the boiler till the next day. In this The hogs should be cut out the your hams, tie them up securely and way it will reabsorb some of the next day after killing, and the hams hang them before the cold of winter juices given out in the boiling pro- and shoulders rubbed with a teaspoon- relaxes and the insects begin to stir, cess. It should then be skinned, and ful each of saltpetre and powdered and lay their eggs. In a mild win- stale bread (preferably beaten bis- borax. The first gives the meat a ter, they will begin to do this by the cuit) grated over it. Then it should pretty red color, and the second acts middle of February. You will make be set in the stove a few minutes

and catalogs 1908 1908 H. G. CARTER. W. J. CARTER. Stallion cards, folders In the Stud compiled; pedigrees of trotters and AT THE GROVE FARM H. Q. CARTER & CO., thoroughbred horses traced. My libra- ry includes Year Books, Trotting Reg- Bnrkevllle, Va. Successors to F. H. DEANB & CO. isters, Stud Books, Files of turf jour- THE GENERAL2nd. HAY, GRAIN, MILL-FEED nals and other references. Special IMPORTED HACKNEY STALLION. AND FLOUR. attention to registration of horses. Magnificent chestnut horse, over 16.2 1105 East Cary Street, hands In height; weight 1250 pounds; VA. Address W. J. CARTER, with superh conformation, RICHMOND, grand ac- Cary Street, Richmond, Va. tion and perfect manners. He was Im- 1105 E. 1908. In the Stud, 1008. ported by H. K. Bloodgood, the noted or, 1102 Hull St., Manchester, Va. hackney breed«r. of Massachusetts, es- HACKNBJT STAXX.ION. pecially for use In the stud. His get, PATRICK HENRY. Representing The Tlmes-Dispateh which are very fine specimens, be may Planter, Richmond, Va.; seen at The Grove Farm. Chestnut horse by "Squire Rlckel," and Southern Fee for the fall season of 1908, $li; ton of the famous Cadet: dam, "Mar- The Trotter and Pacer, New York; Ingle leap $10, due at time of service. lorle," a gold medal winner by "Rose- berry." Horseman, Chicago, 1111.; The Address The A POLLARD * SONS, Breeder, Boston, T. O. Swody, Dr. John Yonng or Dr. J. American Horse R. F. D. No. Richmond, G. Ferneyhough, Owners. 5, Va. Mass. BURKEV1LLE, VA. Dunraven Stock Farm, N. B. We are offering for sale at at- tractive prices, two y«ang hackney The Ainslie Carriage Company, DR. FRAZER A. SMITH, stallions, years old, both one and two Nos. 8, 10 and 12 South 8th Street, registered and splendid Individuals. Richmond, Virginia. Veterinary Surgeon. Office and hospital, 14 South 10th St CAN CANCER BE CURED? Designers and builders of fine pleas- ure and business vehicles. Large as- Richmond, Va. IT CAN. sortment of carriages, buggies, wagons, etc. Repairing a specialty. We wast every man and woman Estimates Promptly Furnished. In the United States to know what WOODLAWN STOCK FARM we are doing—we are curing Can- WEALTH, 20570. Record 2il0 Hunters, jumpers, high class harness cere. Tumors and Chronic Sores horse, 16 hands; weight Bay 1,100 horses and Shetland Ponies for sale. without the use of the knife or by pounds, by Gambttta Wilkes, world's X-Ray, and are endorsed by the leading sire of standard performers, The Woodlawn herd of Shetlands la over 20f In the list; Senate and Legislature of Virginia. with dam Mag- headed by the prize winning stallion, nolia, by Norfolk, 3670, sire of Miss Glenn, fee $16 season. I am We Guarantee Our Cures. Nelson, 2:11%, etc. Wealth combines Governor fine size and good looks, ^lth great offering some choice Shetland brood natural speed. mares at reasonable prices. KELLAM HOSPITAL Fee— $26 Insurance. Address: Address, 1615 West Main St., Richmond, Va. I. J. COFFIN, HARRY C. DEATTIK, FRED C. KELLAM, President. R. F. D. tio. 5, Richmond, Va. Woodlawn Farm, Richmond, Va. ? 1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER 1143 n THE IMPLEMEMT COMPANY 1302 East Main St., Richmond, Va. Headquarters for the best in f/^ff IMPLEMENTS. Implements that work easy and wear well are the kind we sell.

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3144 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER [December, for this coating to brown. It will surface of the jelly stock, forming a ine. Truly, the hog is a versatile then be thick coating when it is thoroughly genius. "A dainty dish to set before a king." cold. Instead of skimming off this I recently came across a brilliant If you have some delicate middling at once, I adopted the plan of leav- 'bon-mot" in connection with the hog. and will rub on it the same prepara- ing it till just as I was ready to make Sir Moses Montifiore, the eminent tion you put on the hams, and bag the jelly, and as it made the stock Jewish philanthropist, happened to be it similarly (dividing larger pieces of impervious to the air, I kept it per- in company with an ill-bred man who middling into two) you will have fectly sound for many days, espec- was running down Jews. The latter home-cured meat just as nice as the ially when kept in a cold place. When suddenly checked himself, exclaiming breakfast bacon you buy at a high skimmed off this oil, which is very "But I must stop. Sir Moses looks price from your grocer. delicate, is nice to rub on harness, as if he could eat me up." "Oh, no," In connection with the subject of melted before applying it. Home- exclaimed Sir Moses. "The tenets of hams, I will say a few words about made jelly stock makes delightful my religion forbid it." the jelly stock prepared from the charlotte russe, as well as jelly, if it hog's feet. This makes far nicer jelly is nice and light colored. A pint of than gelatine, though, on the other it will answer for a quart of cream. hand, it is much more troublesome. Use the whites of six eggs stiffly The feet should be dropped into a tub frothed. Dissolve the jelly stock in of cold water, and stand there sev- a tea cup of fresh milk, boiling hot, eral days, if the weather is cold and when it becomes lukewarm, drop enough, otherwise the time will have it slowly into the cream (stiffly to be shortened. Each day the water frothed) and the eggs, to which add should be changed, and the feet well a teacup of sugar and teaspoonful of scraped with a sharp knife. They vanilla. Then pour into a bowl, or should be nice and white by the third bowls, and set in place. For a cold The above illustration shows Miss Phillis Hunt, day, and they should then be boiled a family of five or six persons, you of Iowa, engaged in loading corn fodder on an in a large ham boiler (without salt, may halve the above proportions, as Electric Handy Wagon made by The Electric Wheel Co., Quincy, 111. of course,) the feet taken out when both the cream and whites of eggs This young lady, according to reports, likes^ tender, and the juices strained and double their bulk when beaten. It nothing better than loading and hauling corn fod- low wagons. She is about 16 years old poured into a large bowl, or bowls. seems strange that any part of so der on these and weighs 110 pounds and thinks she is able to I used to feel compelled to make up gross an animal as the hog can enter haul as much corn fodder on a Handy Wagon in this stock in a hurry for fear of its into the composition of such a deli- one day, as a full grown man can haul on the ordinary high wagon in the same length of time. tainting till I hit simple ex- upon a cious and fairy-like dessert; also it Miss Hunt, however, according to her letter, is periment which enabled me to keep not willing to undertake to haul all the corn fodder seems strange that this animal should and it would be useless for any of our young it more than twice as long. de- A imagine that they could avoid furnish part of the material for such farmer readers to posit of oil (commonly known as all this work, by contracting a matrimonial alliance- neat's foot oil, I believe,) rises to the a terrific explosition as nitro-glycer- with Miss Hunt.

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The Triangular Frame is oak heav- ily bolted. Two sweeps are furnished and two baskets are included. The feed is alternately discharged into either basket by cut-off. The mill can thus be fed and feed taken away with- out stopping the team. No trough or conveyor to choke, freeze up or clog. Both quantity of feed ground and quality of work dono are regulated in a moment, without stopping team, by The above illustration is that of the Ross Wood Frame Pole Saw for saw- convenient hand screws easy to oper- ing all kinds of timber, both long and short. The construction of same is the ate, or plates opened so they can be very best. The lumber used is hard wood and good size, not frail in any run empty. By loosening two thumb particular. The bearings are all babbitted. The arbor is extra large, size screws (upper case and hopper open- 1 7-16 inches, and has heavy fly wheel. Frame is not nailed together, but ing on hinge), plates can be changed mortised and tennoned and bolted. They are as good as the best and better in a moment. No tedious bolts and than the majority of others. The table is equipped with rollers, making it nuts to worry. convenient to handle heavy timber. Write for special catalogues and prices.

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1146 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER [December,

Wagons S Kipped on Approval. It does not make any difference where you live, we will ship you one of our Spotless Farm Wagons and let you examine it and try it before paying- a cent on it. If not satisfactory return it at our expense. All we ask you to do is to deposit with your bank the cost of the wagon and have them write us that you have done so. If the wagon is satisfactory, they are to pay us the money. If not, they are to give it back to you. Is this fair enough? These wagons have been on the market for twenty years and have an established reputation. Previously they have been sold under a differnt name. Bach wagon carries a guarantee for one year as shown below. Now LooK at tKe Prices!

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281790 l Al x % 3 ft. 2 In. ZV. x 8 in 9* in. i% in. 7 It. 6 in. 1500 $27.75 $23.40 2BI792 \\i X 6-16 31t. 2 in. %% x 8 in. 9U in. 4% in. 7 ft. 6 in. 1800 28.75 24.38 THIMBLE SKEIN TWO HORSE VVAQON COMPLETE

2B1793 •ty-i x s iy x A ft. 4 In. 4 ft. 11>£ in. 6 in. 9 fc 6 in. 20 JO $44.40 $37 80 9 % 2BI794 2% x 8% 1^x7-16 3 ft. 4 In. 4 ft. 11^ in. 7^ in. 9 ft. 6 in 2500 45 60 39.00 2SI796 3 X 9 i^s y* 3 ft. 4 in. 4 ft. llj^ in. 8>| in. 9 ft. 6 in. 2700 46.80 40.20 ONE HORSE STEEL AXLE WAGON With Double Box, Spring Seat and Shafts.

2B1798 > 7 %y. x 2 in. 3% x 8 in. I 9% in. 4X in. 7 ft. 6 in. H00 $27 75 $23. 40 m : IB I 800 VyjZ. 5-16 3J4 x 2 in. i ft. x 8 In. 9^ln. 4% in. i 7 ft. 6 in. 1800 28 80 $24 60 STEfcL AXLE TWO HOKSE WAGONS COMPLETE.

2B1802. 1^X3^ 3 ft. 4 in. 4 ft. 11)4 In. 6 in. 9 ft. 6 in. 2000 $46 80 $40 20 281804 x 8% V-A. x 7-16 3 ft. 4 In. 4 ft. ll!4in. 9 ft. 6 in. •2.TO0 48 00 41.40 2B1806 1% l&x ^ 3 ft. 4 in. 4 ft. 11^ In. 8^in. 9 ft. 6 In. 2700 49.20 42 60 WAQON EXTRAS Shafts, for one horse wagon, complete S.4© each Body Brakes^ for sne horse wagon, complete. 2.75 each Gear Brakes, for one horse wagon, complete. S.4* each Oear Brakes, two horse wagon, complete 4.S0 each Li.rk Chains, two horse wagons, complete... .47 each

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Wire Pence, Drain Tile, etc. SEND FOR CATALOGUE BALDWIN & BROWN. 1557 E. MAIN ST., RICHMOND, VA. THE EVERLASTING TUBULAR STEEL PLOW DOUBLETREEsT Guaranteed Inot to Break or Bend. Send for Our Number 8 Catalogue Furnished with Hook or Ring for Plow Mnssle. for 1909. Get acquainted with our complete line. also Traces. THEIR USE SPELLS ECONOMT. We manufacture a Ask Your complete Dealer for line of Dou- Them and Take no bletrees, Singletrees, Other. and Neck Yokes of This Pattern, No. 105, made In three every description.

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