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Adding Humus (Vegotabls Matter) to Soils. **r-.‘ t >t<*r&>9ts&WUe3*Wzr'*V'* jS|aJL&, £&» ***•?■| T;.*";: Hoard's Dairyman. Ed. Hoard’s Dairyman—'Yo^r kind letter at hand, requesting me to write a short article on vegetable matter. I scarcely know where to begin. If 1 would go to preaohing the gospel I would get to talking vegetable matter before they could take up a collection. On my farm there is not a month but something comes up in front of me that backe up my theory of de cayod vegetable matter, humus, and physical condition of the Boil. The fall of; 1899 we hauled our potato tops from the patch to a poor spot in one of our grass fields and spread them over it. They laid there till the field went to corn, last spring, and when we were husking the corn through that spot my man said, “do you notice the large ears of corn where we hauled the potato tops?” The same fall I plojvod down a large crop of cowhorn turnips and crimson clover in cornstalks; the field went to oats the spring of 1900, sown broadcaf-t and without fertilizer for the firs* time,and I had a good crop of.oats in an exceeding ly dry season. Then the field went to wheat the fall of 1900, find one of my neighbors, looking at the Wheat the first of June, said, “that is the result of plowing down turnipB.” We cut the wheat in July, mowed the clover and made hay the middle of September, and tjp-day it is the finest field of clover,. I think, I ever saw, and this on land that eight years ago would not produce the seed. I think I will have it photo graphed. There is no other cause for this excopt plowing down vege table matter, and, Mr. Hoard, I be lieve if I can get the physical condi tion of my soil the way I want it, I can raise red clover just as easily find as large as my grandfather used to do, I have chaugod the color of my soil with vegetable matter. I should have stated at the beginning of this avtiole that my farm had been work ed until they could not raise any thing on it; then it was thrown away aud abandoned, and a man could not be found that would farm it. The color of the soil was a light yel low, and where I have used vegeta ble matter it has changed it to a dark brown. T know it is warmer in cold weath er, cooler in warm weather, and I noticed in the dry season of 1900 that it held more moisture in dry weather, aud th s wet season I no ticed it was dryer and did not get as muddy as land void of vegetable matter. This is queer talk. Warmer in cold weather, cooler in warm weath er, more wet in dry weatner, and dryer in wot weather, but I mean overy word of it. I have beon plowing do\pv orim- son clover, cowhorn turnips and dwarf Essex rape, at a cost of from (55 cents to $1.00 per acre. .This year I sowed seven different kinds of seeds in my corn as a catch crop. It was a very wet season, too*-wet for many crops, and some of them did not coine up to my expectations. The cowhorn turnips and rape are the best and not a failure by any means. I would rather have a legu minous plant, bqt the clovers will not give me the growth in five or six months that I get from the cow horn turnips and rape. I select these two plants because they have long roots and get to the Bubsoil Boon after sown, and aot as pumps to bring up the potash and phosphoric acid that I cannot get from there any other way. The decaying of the vegetable matter in the soil, in addition to the plant food brought there by it, un locks or releases some that the Al mighty locked up. The men before me worked out the humus and veg etable matter from the soil, until it was all gone, and the plant food was unavailable, and they shook the dust off their feet and turned their backs on the old farm and said it was worn out, and would not produce any more.- How true it is that “God moves in a mysterious way his wonders to perform,” If He did not we would use up everything in the soil and then try to pull down the very skies and use them. I am making some tests with clay and loam soils now, anfl hope to get them done before I go to New Jer sey to attend institutes/Nov. 11th. I am watching the drying out of the soils, taking into consideration the amount of humus in them, and when through I am go in sc to measure weigh, and then wash out tha de cayed vegetable .matter and humus and see what is left. I expect I am making this article too long, but I am a crank along this l ; ne. My boys wink at each other when I go around feeling my soil, like the miller feels the flour. I send you a photo of a field of cowhorn turnips and crimson clovfer, costing me about 80 cents per acre. You can use iifit you see fit. N. S. Seeds, Huntington Go., Pa. Lost Love’s Balm Per Pound. Now York World. In " a western breach-of-promise case, as the report comes, the pro posed assessment on the defendant is made specific instead of ad valo rem. The plaintiff says she has lost thirty pounds and means to make the plaihtiff pay for every one of them. So she sues for $10,000,000, or about $388 a pound, which does seem excessive. If this case can be established as a precedent, it will do much to sim plify proceedings in other suits of its kind. The ordinary breach-of- promise litigation depends too much on mere love letters, which may be “trifles light as air,” and which in any event carry no weight with cyn ical jurymen. They promote the gayei.y of tho world which reads the papers, it is true, but that is not pushing tho interests of the injured. Under the practice possibly to be introduced it will be advisable for the fair party to a new courtship carefully to register her weight at the beginning of the wooing. Then, in the event of a jilting aud conse quent emaciation, the avoirdupois of “before” and “after” may be pre sented with proper affidavits. It will bo strauge indeed if the scales of justice do not readily measure out that, which will balance the lost plumpness. > Alphabetical Abuse. The prosecuting attorney in a law suit had waxed especially indignant at tho defendant, whom he charac terized as an “abandoned, baneful, cynical, diabolical, execrable, feloni ous, greedy, hateful, irresponsible, jaundioed, knavish, lazy, meddle some, noxious, outrageous and prof ligate rowdy.” “The learned counsel on the other side,” said the attorney for the de fendant, when he rose to reply, “should have put his adjectives into a hat and shaken them up a little boforo using. You must have no ticed, gentlemen of the jury, that they were in regular alphabetical or der. This shows that he selected them from a dictionary, beginning with ‘a.’ He stopped at *p,’ but in his manner of reproducing them he has given us the ‘cue’ as to how he got them.” This turned the laugh against the other lawyer, and he lost the. case.— Exchange. A GOOD RECOMMENDATION. “I have noticed that the sale on Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets is almost invariably to those who have once used them,” says Mr. J. H. Weber, a prominent druggist of Cascade, Iowa. Wlmt better recommenda tion could any medicine have than for people to call for it when again in need of such a remedy? Try them when you feel dull af ter eating, when you have a bad taste in the mouth, feel bilious, have no appetite or when troub led with constipation, and you are certain to be "delighted with the prompt relief whioh they af ford. For sale by all dealers in Perry, Warren & Lowe, Byron. — ►-0-4 The Manufacturers’ Record says the migration of negroes to the cit ies of the east and north is not pleasing to the white people of those sections. This movement c(.f negroes to cities is noticeable in all sections of the country, and it is creating a new problem that is full of exasperating features. —— —■— : — Personal. The lady who had to leave the donation party the other night be fore it was over will. please call at our drugstore and get. a bottle of Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin. She has indigestion or she would not have been taken sick, and if she had taken Dr Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin she would not have had in digestion. In 50c and $1 bottles at druggists. A Talented Sheep. Colorado has a sheep that is not only able to care for itself, but looks after the welfare of cattle as well. The animai is a product of Montana, where it was raised by John W. Springer, president of the National Live Stock Association. It is now a pensioner on his Douglas county ranch. > ’ During the recent biting blizzard, which cost Wyoming and Montana stockmen thousands of head of cat tle, this sheep went out just as the fierce storm was brewing and round ed up the cattle in places where they could get shelter and food. With intuition that anticipated the storm warnings of the weather bureau, the little creature began looking after her flocks, and not a single animal refused to follow her advice. The result was that in this in stance alone she saved for the presi dent of the National Live Stock As sociation more than her weight in gold would equal. Some of the members of the association say that during the blizzard of last spring two of their number were lost and that the sheep was sent out to di rect them back to the ranch house. Sho could tell by instinct in which direction go, while the men were compelled to listen and then search. —Exchange. —*- «&~4 - It is reported that Attorney Gen eral Knox, in order to secure the confirmation of his appointment was compelled to promise that he would bring suit against the great trusts recently organized. The American anti-trust league asserts that this promise was made, and insists upon its immediate fulfillment. The Min neapolis Times tries to stir up Mr. Knox to activity by suggesting that few lawyers are so well aware as he of the inward working of the great trusts, aud that if ho will do his du ty now he will not only atone for the past, but win a high place on tho list of repentant sinners.—The Commoner. ► O «• A. J. Snell wanted to attend a party, but was afraid to do so on account of pains in this stomach, which lie feared would grow worse. He says, “I was telling my troub les to a lady friend, who said: ‘Chamberlain’s Colic,Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy will put you in condition tor the party.’ I bought a bottle and take pleasure in stating that two doses cured me and enabled me to have a good time at the party.” Mr. Snell is a resident,of Summer Hill, N. Y. This remedy is for sale by all deal ers in Perry, Warren & Lowe, By ron . THE OOm/ gOLD CURE, An Ingenious Treatment by Whlojji Drunkards aiv Being OuSe'd Dal ly in Spite of Themselves. No Noxious Do-os. No Weakening of tho Nerves. A Dlous.mt and Posi tive Cure far tho Liquor Habit. It is now getti'i'ttHy known nud under stood that Dmukeuuess is u disense and not a weakness. A. body filled with poi son, aud nerves eoiuplat 'ly shattered by periodioalor ooimtiuit use'of inrusmating liquors requires an antniofce oupablo of neutralizing and eradicating this poison and destrying the craving for intoxicants. Sufferers may now cure tliemselves at homo without publicity or loss of time from business by this womK-rfut ‘Home (Mil- CUE?,”,.which has been perfected after many years of close study and-treat- ment of inebriates. The faithful use ac cording to directions of- this wonderful discovery is positively y uarauteed to cure the most obstinate case, no matter liow hard a drinker. Our records show the marvelous transformation of thousands of Drunkards into sober,industrious and upright men. Wives cure £our husbands! Children oure your fathersl This remedy is in no sense a nostrum, but is a specific for this dis ease only, and is so skillfully devised and preparod that it is thoroughly solu ble and pleasant to the taste, so that it can be given in a cup of tea or coffee without the knowledge of the person tak ing it. Thousands of Drunkards have cured themselves with this priceless remedy, and as Many more have been cured and made temperate men by hav- b)'g the “Cure” administered by loving fiends and relatives, , without their knowledge, in coffee or tea, and believe to-day that they discontinued drinking of their own free will. Do mot wail. Do not be deluded by apparent and mis leading “improvement.” Drive out the disease at once aud for all time. The ’‘Home Goi«! Cure”'is sold at the extremely low price of One Dollar, thus placing within reach of everybody a treatment more effectual than others costing-$35 to $50. Full directions ac company eaob package. Specific advice by skilled physician when requested without extra charge. Sent prepaid to any part of the world on receipt of One Dollar. Address Dept. CI78, Edwin B. Giles & Company, 2830 and 2332 Market Street, Philadelphia. All correspondence strictly confidential. Subscribe for the Home Journal Asthmalene Brings Instant Relief and Permanent Cure in A)) Cases. SENT ABSOLUTELY FREeToN, RECEIPT OF POSTAL. WHITE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS P ATNLV. There is nothing like Asthmalene. It brings instant relief, even in the worst cases. It cures when all else fails. The Kev. O. F. WELLS, of Villa Ridge, 111., savs: “Your trial bottle of Asthmalene received in good condition. I oanuot tell you how thankful I feel for the good de rived from it. I was a slave, chained with putrid r.ore throat and Asthma for ten years. I despaired of ever being cured. I saw your advertisement for the cure of this dreadful nnd tormenliuir disease, Asthma, and thought, you had overspoken your selves, but resolved to give it a trial. To my astonishment, the trial acted like a charm. Send me a full size bottle.” Rev. Dr. morris fWecIisler, Rabbi of the Cong. Bnai Israel. New York, .Tan. 3,1001. L»ra. Taft Bros’. Medicine Co.; Gentlemen: Your Asthmalene is an ex cellent remedy for Asthma and Hay Fever, and its composition alleviates all troubles whioh combine with Asthma. Its success is astonishing and wooderful. After having it carefully analyzed, we can state that Aschmalene contains no ■ opium, morphine, chloroform or ethor. Very truly yours, Rev. Dr. Morris Wechsler . Dr. Taft Bros. Medicine Co., Avon Springs, N. Y., Feb. 1, 1.901. Gentlemen: I write this testimony from a sense of duty, having tested the wonderful offset of your Asthmalene, for the cure of Asthma. My wife lias been afflicted with spasmodic asthma for the past 12 yeaiB. Haviug exhausted my own skill na well as many others, I chanced to see your tign upon your windows on 180th street, New York,I at once obtained a bottle of Asthmalene. . My wife com menced taking it, about the first of November. I very soon noticed a radical im provement. After using one bottle her asthma lias disappeared and she is entirely free from nil svmptoms. I feel that I can consistently recommend the medicine to all who are afflicted with this distressing disouse. Yours respeotfally, O. D. Phelps, M. D. Dr. Taft Bros. Medicine Co , Feb. 5,1901. Gentlemen: I was troubled with ar-ttiaifi for 22 years. T linvo tried number less remedies, but they have all tailed. I ran across your advertisement and slurred with a tiial bottle. I found relief at once. I have since purchased your lull size bottle, and I am ever grateful. I have a family of four chihiren, and for six yours was unaole to work. I am now in tho best of ‘real h and am doing business every day. This testimony you can make such use of aa you see lit. 8. Baphael, Home address, 235 Rivington atreot. CT East 199tli st., City. Trial Bottle sent Absolutely Free on Receipt of Postal. Do not delay. Write at once, addressing DR. TAFT BROB.’ MEDICINE CO., 70 East 180th St., N. Y. City. FOR TEN m YEAR S EVER Muir V*r- * The above is a cut of the ‘VTTLCJ.AJSr PLG The best Steel Plow on the market. Sold by M. C. BALKCOM,Wsimu Gal W. N. FLEETWOOD, Jr. F. L. KLOPFEirf |jt|- "'a'-. dealers 418 POPLAR STREET; MACON. GA. JUG FILLING A SPECIALTY. // \-.v: ALSO i J ll0l»Rl«TOFU'» if PRICE LIST PER GALLON, Old Crow, $2.35, Capitol Rye §2,00; Monogram, 2.50, Robertson Countv Sour Mash §2,.75. Mill Creek cabinot Rye §3.00. KENTUCKY; SOUR Mark §3.00, Green Briar Sour Mash §3.50, OLD Taylor Sour Mash §4.00, North Carolina Corn S'ilbfii Ole Georgia Corn $2.00. Holland Gin $2.00, Double Stamp Juniper Gin, $2.50, New England Rum $2.00. Jamaica Rum $2.00. “WO -For many years wo have sold our Whiskies and Cigars to Wholesalers only and our brands aro preferred by them, as they aro superior to all others. 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All these 14 pieces with one box of our famous Cuban Specials and one quart bottle of our famous 10 year old Qut City Club Pure Rye cannot be bought for less than $12.00. We sell ..... Whiskey and Clears ln-glMS W ©<* OfO.0. D. with privilege of ex- eluding tho H prizes for WlU. I animation, while Whiskey and Cigar3 alone cost more than wo ask for the entire lot. Our Whiskey Is an Absolutely Pure 10 year old Bye ancPour GIgars genuine Cuban band- m&ae,clear Havana,made in our own factory. These cigars are far better ; than anything ever advertisedbefore. Wo Guarantee the goods and -"Cn-ril - - — — rncF X An Extra Premium of an elegant Pocket bn Ifo with two blades, lcork-screw, l cigar cutter and I I wholIJSe Price Lirio ,, b1ms cutt S r >_ , , f ® 3 - 97 »»«* advance with order. Goods sent In plain package. Write for who^aaJe ^Ra L^ts of Liquora and Cigars- Responsible - agents wanted. Order to-day,_ U. 8. DISTILLER’S DISTRIBUTING O., 131 North Clark St., Chicago, 111.