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! TIMELY TALKS WITH FARMERS Conducted By C. H. Jordan ♦ Subscribers are requested to ad- ♦ + dress all Inquiries for Information ♦ ♦ on subjects relating to the farm. ♦ ♦ field, garden and poultry to the ♦ ♦ Agricultural Editor. AU Inquiries ♦ ♦ will receive prompt and careful at- ♦ ♦ tention. No Inquiries answered by ♦ ♦ mail. Please address Harris Jordan. 4* 4» Agricultural Editor. Monticello. Ga. + ♦ ♦ »•»»♦♦♦■! I' $ i H4I I I > I t 44 4 »■»♦» THE PACKING BUSINESS. Forty-fire years ago the south produced and furnished to the trade of this country • about one-third of all the cattle, hogs and sheep required for consumption in the United States and for export to other countries. Since that time we have grad ually lost in their livestock industry, sur rounding It to other sections of the union, ually lost In the Uvestock industry, sur largely dependent upon outside sources for all classes of food products. This was done too. in face of the fact that no other portion of the United States pos sessed superior advantages for raising cattle and hogs. Within the past few ‘ the farmers of the south have been up to the position of affairs and are now ?ngagc<iln effecting a change for t i.-e better which if persistently adhered ’ to, will at least place the south within the next decade or two upon a self-sus taining basis. The greatest Incentive to the develop ment of any farm product is a good mar ket at uome. That is the attractive feat ure in the production of cotton. A bale of cotton can be carried on the streets of any town in Georgia and sold in five minutes for the cash, and for about as good prices in one place as another. We have no such markets for cattle and hogs, there being no extensive packing houses at different points in the state, which forces the seller of cattle to ship a long way off and depend upon a distant market which is always unsatisfactory. As the business of cattle and hog raising grows and broadens out however, there can be no doubt us to the location of packing houses in our midst and the development of other needed facilities for the better handling of this line of busi ness. A Chicago Industry. During my recent trip through the northwest. 1 stopped over at Chicago for a couple of days and took advantage of the opportunity to inspect the big cattle yards there and to make a personal in spection bf the immense packing estab- Zishment of Swift A Co. The stockyards, located in close proximity to the packing or slaughter houses, cover many acres of land, whereon are constructed hundreds of pens or lots which hold the hundreds of thousands of head of cattle, hogs and sheep shipped into Chicago for sale by the producers. Immense barns are erected for holding the sheep, as they are not allowed to remain outside and take the weather like the cattle and hogs. Hogs have been recently selling at 7 cents per pound on foot delivered at Chicago and cattle and sheep in proportion. If the prices of beef, mutton, pork and lard have been advanced to quite high figures dur ing the past few months the western farm ers have fully enjoyed a goodly portion of the advance. Hogs selling in the stock yards at 7 cents per pound gross must of necessity come high to the consumer after passing through the hands of the packer, the Joober, the railroads and the retail merchants each of whom must have a commission above the cost of handling. Swift A Co. extended to me every cour tesy and facility for the inspection of the various departments of their mammoth establishment. I went first through their slaughter department, where I saw a large force of men engaged in butchering and cleaning 24# steers every hour during the day. week in and week out. I visited their establishment on Saturday afternoon, and the close of the week's work showed that aside from the average of 240 steers butch ered per hour, making a total of nearly 15.000 for the week. Swift & Co. had also slaughtered during the six days just passed 3.9C0 head of sheep and 4.800 head of hogs. This Is an enormous business to be done under one roof within the short spac, of a jsreek. particularly when we consider that every particle of these an imals is utilised in one way or another from hoof to tip of horns. I was informed that the only part about a hog which they failed to utilise was the dying squeal of the pig as he swung along over the butcher's head. With one of Edison's phonographs this. too. might be preserved and used to entertain listening ears in future generations. Swift & Co. did $170.- 000.000 worth of business at this packing establishment during the past 12 months, which is more money than a man could count tn a thousand years if he could keep at it regularly every hour in the day during that time. The office force alone, which looks after the correspond ence of the business, numbers more than 7» young men, all engaged on one floor >f the building. In order that no time shall be lost going out to meals the flrm keeps up a splendid restaurant under the same roof where these thousands of employes are at work, where a first-class breakfast or dinner can be had for 25 cents. A long lunch counter is also adjacent where coffee and sandwiches can be served at a lesser ’ price. Storage Departments. Tn the large cold storage departments I found in the first one the carcasses of , 3,000 steers, cut in halves and swung up. Steers that would dress from 1.000 to 1.200 pounds each, the finest, best beef *n the world. In other cold storage apartments I noticed thousands of mutton and hogs— PURE RYEfiWHISKEY 4f =u ll for $ »20 Quarts LX sgfaXfe TT Direct from Distilier to Consumer. ZjILLuL Exprew Charges Prepaid, Our entire product is sold I A Our Distillery was estab- dlrect to consumers, thus Mshed in 1866. We have avoiding middlemen's profits enjoyed 33 years continual ... w growth until we now have and adulteration. If you want Sne hundred and sixty-five pure Whiskey, our offer will HAY Nt fO thousand customers through interest you. • Jc.n-oJ) out the United States who are • using Hay tier’s Whiskey, We wii send four full quart YtTv which is an evidence of true bottles of Ha> tier’s Seven- zlk merit. We give you absolute- Year-Oid Double Copper Dis- fY b P« r ® Whiskey at the lowest tilled RveWhiskev for 53.20, possible cost. Such Whiskey Express Prepaid. We ship «s we offer for $3.20 cannot in plain packages-no marks purchased elsewhere for to indicate contents. When less than --- te —-t z. 'XCL - --reS’Sw Seierences—State Hoti Bank, you get it and test it, if it f B St. lowm.Third Sat'l Bank, Dayton, is not satisfactory return it i| ».j£f HE KI » B or an> of the Hpreas Companies, at our expense and we will K*MS?ew M.'x" WRITE TO NEAREST ADDRESS. THE HAYNER DISTILLING mutton that would dress 100 pounds and literally covered with fat. These animals never stop moving hardly from the time they are butchered until they are cleaned and hung up in the cold storage. Running alongside the front of the cold storage apartments are tracks on which are placed the cold storage cars, and the beef, mutton and pork are, after the ani mal heat has been frozen out. transferred to these cars and shipped out to all parts . of the country for supplying the trade. I One large department is devoted entirely to cleansing the entrails of animals slaughtered and into which is put the sausage meat. Small, medium and large i sausages are there in thousands and I thousands of pounds. It was in this de . partment that I came up on a group of l government inspectors, dressed In neat white uniforms, inspecting the meat and I seeing whether it was in proper order for the consumers to trust in their stom achs. If this inspection is properly car ried on. these packing firms cannot ship out to the world impure meats. The soap department of Swift & Co. ■ covers several floors of a mammoth build ing and the visitor can see all kinds of soap in process of manufacture, from the cheap laundry kind to the finest variety of toilet soaps. A large number of girls are employed in the sausage and soap departments. The soap is made principal ly from tallow, low grade entrail fats and South Georgia rosin. I noticed several thousand barrels of South Georgia rosin which was being used in the manufacture of cheap soaps. The soap when cooked is cooked down in receptacles holding sever al hundred pounds in one block. These blocks are then cut with machinery, and the finer grades are wrapped and packed into boxes for shipment. Swift & Co. have, perhaps, the largest glue factory in the world, and this glue is made from the pieces of bone and joints cut from the animals in preparing the meat for market. Fertilizer Department. In the fertiliser department of thia firm there is manufactured annually about 75,- 000 tons of fertilisers, made out of the blood, tankage and bone of the animals slaughtered. Swift & Co. use cotton sacks principally for th* guano they man ufacture and told me they preferred cot ton bags to jute. The bones after being steamed are ground up, treated with phosphoric acid i in order to make qulcaly available the phosphate contained in the bone. Ine blood is dried and ground up, which with takage gives them the source from which they derive the ammonia in their goods. It is an establishment worth the time of any man to visit and inspect, yet this is but one of many other packing houses lo cated at various points in the northwest. We need similar establishments in the south, and when the business of raising cattle, hogs and sheep becomes more gen eral the investment of capital in south ern packing houses will be a reality. We have all the facilities for the live stock in dustry in the south and there is no coun try in the world that could make the business more profitable. HARVIE JORDAN. INQUIRY DEPARTMENT. W. C. N.. Hamilton, Ga.—Please me where I can get the pure black winter oats for fall sowing. Answer—Write to H. G. Hastings & Co., of Atlanta, and if they do not keep them in stock, request thet they order them for you. R. A. P-. China Hill. Ga.—Please give me the address of some one who has thor oughbred game chickens or eggs for sale. Answer—Write to Messrs Ginn & Co., of Royston. Ga. W. C. H.. Bronco. Ga.—l am in the fruit business to some extent, and desire to go into it on a larger scale, My lands are red. with a deposit of iron running through them which is regarded as fine for peaches. Please inform me where I can secure a good fruit journal, as I desire a jountal devoted intlrely to fruit culture. Answer—Address the Southern Fruit Grower. Chattanooga, Tenn., and West ern Fruit Grower. St. Joseph. Mo. R. P. R.. Cumming. Ga.—Please inform me through The Journal whether I can buy Bermuda grass seed or not. and if so, where will I find them, and what will be the cost? Also, when and how to sow and how many pounds to put per acre. Answer—Bermuda grass seed may be purchased at about $1 per bushel from some of the good seed houses in Atlanta, Augusta or other cities, but the seed are unreliable, and I never advise their use to obtain a sod. You had best get the Bermuda rootlets and next April or May drop pieces in furrows three feet wide and two feet apart. Cover lightly, and by raising a crop of peas planted in the mid dles the first year, you can soon obtain a perfect sod. You can secure the rootlets easy and at small cost. The rootlets should be chopped up into lengths about two inches long, and one piece dropped in a place. I have considerable Bermuda on my place, and if you will write me next spring I will send you any quantity sired at the cost of gathering and **.-.p ping. It will not be safe to plant it in the fan. EXCHANGES. Fall Plowing. Exchange. Now is a gooc. time to plow land for spring crops. Turn it up and leave it rough. It will freeze a few times, and that will break it up nicely and a disk harrow at the proper time will smooth it down and level it nicely. By leaving the plowed ground rough, as suggested, more [surface is exposed to frost and the more perfectly it will pulverise ’ afterward. THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1901. Every farmer knows the advantage of a thoroughly pulverised soil over the same soil in a lumpy condition. Value of Investigation. Exchange. Many farmers make a practice of pok ing fun at the scientific farming done at the experimental stations. They call it "book farming." "whito shirt farming" and other equally significant names to in dicate that it is not practical. They think that a man who has been brought up on the farm knows all there is to be known about the business, and that no man who goes into the business on such a small scale as does the professor at the experi ment farm can tell them things they do not know about their work. It is human that it should be so. The Chinese look upon the attempts of the western world to •‘civilise" them in the same light, but that does not alter the facts that in each case the parties are laboring under a mistake. There is no Industry under the sun that is more complicated than farm ing. The diversity of interests, the num ber of different things that the farmer is expected to know, the number of "irons that he has in the fire" call for a vast amount of knowledge on his part if he would make no mistakes. It is true that a man may farm all his life, make a liv ing and die respectable without having fitted himself by special education for his business. All that signifies is that he has chosen a very lucrative occupation or he would have become bankrupt. It does not show that he would not have made more money if he had been better fitted to conduct the work he had before him. The fact that some farmers have better success with their cattle than others is not a piece of luck, but because of better management. It may be that the suc cessful feeder and breeder did not learn his methods in an agricultural school, but it does show that he had better meth ods than the man who raised nothing but scrubs. The man who always raises a good crop, year after year, while his neighbors, with just as good soil and other things equal, fails evpry two or three years to raise half a crop and nev er raises as good yields as the good farm er. may not be a college graduate, but he has methods that the others haven’t learned. These things show that there are better methods than the ordinary farmer uses. IN CASE OF ACCIDENT. Accidents will happen. Mother strains her back lifting a sofa. Father is hurt in the shop. Children are forever falling and bniis ing themselves. There is no preventng these things, but their worst consequences are averted with Perry Davis' Painkiller. No other remedy approaches It for the relief of sore strained muscles. There is but one Pain killer, Perry Davis'. RUINED BY LOVE. For Shame of Dual Life Man and Wo man Resort to Poison. CHICAGO, Oct. 21— While grieving over the dual life she was leading with Dr. Orville Burnette, a prominent Chicago dentist, Mrs. Charlotte Nichol, wife of W.’ L. Nichol, Jr., commercial agent of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis railway, committed suicide yesterday in the Marlborough hotel. Burnettte also tried to end his life at the same time, but was unsuccessful. The two were found in their rooms, both stretched across the bed, the woman dead and Burnette with his neck pierced with a hat pin, a bottle of morphine clutched in his hand, and the gas turn ed on from every one of the six jets in the suite. Dr. is still alive and has been arrested. • In one of the rooms was found a note written by the woman which told of her reason for the act. She said: “To Whom It May Concern: I did it because I loved him better than anything on earth and he loved me and we could not be separated. Goodby. “CHARLOTTE.” The note, supplemented with a state ment made by Dr. Burnette, tells of the tragedy enacted by the two lovers. According to the dentist's story he met Mrs. Nichol while yet a young girl in Nashville, Tenn., and fell in love with ner. Burnette moved to Chicago and mar ried several years afterwards. “Our love was still strong for each oth er,” said Burnette, “and she moved to Chicago to be near me. We were together nearly every day,. There seemed, howev er, to a constant remorse on her part on account of the dual life she was leading. Saturday we went down town together and after having several drinks she pro posed suicide to me, and we went to the Marlborough hotel and she produced a bottle of morphine she had hidden in her dress. She agfiin asked me to die with her and I consented. Then she swallowed nearly all the contents of the bettie and handed it to me. I drank what was left, but believing that I had not taken enough to prove fatal I tried to end my life by sticking the hat pin into my neck. I saw this was also going to be a fail ure. so I turned all the gas on and lay down .to die.” Burnette stated that his wife knew nothing of his attachment for Mrs. Nichol. A policeman who was sent to the Nichol home at 6518 Minerva avenue last night to notify Mr. Nichol of the tragedy, found no one there but the two little children of the dead woman, one boy of eight and the other a little girl of four years. They told the policeman that their father was out looking for their mother, who had been missing all last night and today. OLD VETERAN DR oTFdEAP. W. C. Bannon Goes to Macon to Re union and Dies Suddenly. MACON, Oct. 21.—Mr. W. C. Bannon, an uncle of the late J. C. Bannon, fell dead in the home of Mrs. J. C. Bannon on High street, this city, yesterday at 1:30 o’clock. He and his sixteen-year-old daughter had come from Hudson. N. Y., to attend the reunion of the Confederate veterans here on the 23d and 24th. He had just been to church and returning found several of his old comrades awaiting him at the resi dence. He talked with them for a time, seemingly in the best of health and spirits. When they left he took out his watch and remarked that it was just 1:30. He started into the doorway and without warning fell forward. He was dead within less than two minutes. His widow and eldest son were notified by telegraph at once and the son will be here tonight to make arrange ments for the funeral. It is thought the remains will be sent to Hudson, N. Y., for Interment. Mr. Bannon was sergeant major in the Twelfth Georgia regiment at the close of the war. He enlisted in company H of that regiment at Marshallville when he was a sixteen-year-old boy. He was at that time living with a relative, Mr. Newt Johnson. He rose rapidly in the esteem of his superior officers and was especially beloved by his captain, Mr. Oliver F. Evans, of Macon. He was several times wounded while campaigning with the army of Northern Virginia and was at one time taken pris oner and kept in Port Lookout barracks. After the war Mr. Bannon went to New York and married. He has reared an in teresting family of children. Uncle Lon Livingston is now trying to select the chaplain for the new Federal prison. It Is well for an expert like Uncle Lon to have a hand in these little mat ters. Our Best Offer. TWO LOVELY PICTURES FREE I rr | ~~— • mW” 1 M - 7 ilii every new subscriber who will send us $ i a 1 for one year’s subscription to the Semi- Weekly Journal we will send post paid one picture of our martyred President and one of Mrs. McKinley; renewals to count the same as new subscribers. * The pictures are mounted on black velour mats 11x14 inches and are beauties. Now is the time to get two good pictures free. 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Washington at dinner, if the story which comes from Releigh regarding the ousting of the negro in this state is true. A special contributor writes The Observer as follows regarding the passing of the colored brother in Tar Heel Republican circles: It has Anally leaked out, although it* was attempted to be kept a secret, that Pritchard and his federal ring served no tice at Greensboro on Col. James H. Young and John C. Dancy that all the negroes now in office Jn this state must get out immediately, before their term ends. Dancy has notified Pritchard that he will not ask for a re-appointment and Dancy Is promised something equally as good In Washington. Vica, the negro postmaster at Wilson, has nine months yet to serve and tie has been told that he must resign very soon* Deaton, a clerk in Collector Duncan's office, told Dr. Shepherd, colored, one of Duncan’s clerkfe. that it was m tended that Shepherd and Col. James H. Young shoud retire from Duncan’s office and be provided for in Washington. If Pritchard and his ring can keep control it is intended that no negro shall be a delegate from this state to .the national convention in 1904. The negroes fully understand the situation and they are organizing every day, and they intend to make a desperate fight next year to bring up delegates to the state convention against Pritchard. The dis crimination against the negroes because they are negroes by Pritchard and his ring Is fully equal to and as intense as ever proceeded from the Democrats. The only question now bothering Pritchard is how to arrange the precinct primaries next year so as to exclude the negroes. The negroes expect to be led *n tneir at tack on Pritchard and his ring by Russell, Mott, Lusk, Cobb, Cook, Harris and other white Republicans Who are opposed to the federal ring; and if Pritchard should succeed in packing the state convention next year with a majority of delegates composed of his officeholders, the oppo sition will bolt then and there and then set up another state organization and fight it out on this line if it takes ten years to down the ring. Note premium list in this Issue, make your selection and subscribe at once. | Horticultural Topics I Conducted By P. J. Berckmans ♦ Inquiries upon subjects relating ♦ ♦ to Horticulture are invited and an- + + swers will be given, whenever pos- ♦ •fr stble, through the columns of the ♦ ♦ Semi-Weekly Journal. Insertion ♦ ♦ will also be given to all communi- ♦ •fr cations of general Interest and free ♦ ♦ from animus. The opinions there- ♦ ♦ in expressed are in every instance ♦ those of the writers and not our ♦ + own. Address all communications + ♦ to The Semi-Weekly Journal. At- ♦ 4* lanta. Ga. 4* ®4444-4444 »♦»»♦♦♦ 11114 4 »♦♦♦ Camellia Japonica. In reviewing the many horticultural books where the camellia Is mentioned, cultural directions are given only for greenhouse purposes, which lead many persons to infer that these beautiful plants can only be grown under glass. Consequently we do not see as great an abundance in our gardens as could be grown were more general Information given as to their adaptation to open ground culture throughout a large area of the south. Those who have visited the magnolia gardens on the Ashley river 18 miles from Charleston, have seen what is unquestionably the most favorable spot in the southern states where these admir able plants have attained the greatest per fection, and where the largest number of varieties are brought together. The wealth of flowers produced during January to March is marvelous, and the visitor car ries with him a recollection of a wonder fully beautiful flowery scene. Here are found plants from a small size to enor mous bushes 15 to 18 feet high, and pro ducing myriads of flowers; not only did the late Rev. J. G. Drayton collect almost every variety contained in European nur series, but he has originated numerous seedlings, whose flowers are unsurpassed by the best Italian sorts. Among the most striking of these southern seedling camel lias we mention “Professor Sargent," with flowers of fiery scarlet-crimson, of the anemone class, or with the center petals narrow and erect, and with broader mar ginal petals; "Mrs. Drayton.” a most re markable large flower, of the imbricated or flat shape, center petals bright crim son, with dark blue outer petals; "Ella Drayton,” an exquisite bright rose-colored flower. These are only a few of the scores of excellent seedlings which to the true amateur grower form a most interesting study, snd shows what is possible to pro duce in our coast belt regions of the south. Camellias delight in a climate where the extremes of heat and cold do not prevail, the coast of South Carolina and Georgia, lower Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana are the most favorable to their, vigorous growth. They will adapt themselves to various soils, hut thrive best in loamy formations where leaf mold or humus predominates. They do not suc ceed so well Jn dry, sandy soils, and if planted in such situations an ample sup ply of humus must be mixed with the soil. Those requisites of soil and climate being found on our coast belt admits camellias to attain these unusually larger propor tions than further inland. We do not re member the exact size of the single red flowering camellia which was the first that was planted at the south, but a few years ago, when visiting the old Lucas place on the neck at Charleston. That re markable tree reached above the windows of the chamber floor of the house and measured 18 inches in diameter at the stem. It is truly a giant of Its class, and was planted in 1808. The outer limit in Georgia where camel lias cannot be grown successfully in open ground is at Atlanta, where we are told that only a few specimens of the single red have survived severe winters. While any good garden soli will suit these plants, it is desirable to select a situation where protected from the greater heat of the summer sun, the colder blasts of win ter and where surrounding buildings af ford a partial shade. They should never be planted too near large trees, where the roots of the latter take up the plant food; neither should they be too close to a building, as the plants will then grow one-sided. Give them ample room that their shape can keep symmetrical. A well formed camellia, when in full bloom is the noblest hardy evergreen plant of our southern gardens, and blooming at a sea son of the year when hardly another flow er is seen, makes this plant the more val uable. But every variety, and there are sev ers. hundred now described and in culti vation, will not give the same results even under similar cultured conditions. Some are not profuse bloomers, others are apt to cast their flower buds before they expand should a sharp frost oc cur; again, some don’t fully expand their flowers until late in the spring, when the plants start in growth, and then drop before reaching full size. Some varieties with white grounds and delicate rose pen cillings are very easily injured by frost and don't give as perfect flowers as when grown under glass. We cannot recom mend for open ground culture such sur passingly beautiful varieties as “Contes sa Lavlnla Haggi,” “Queen of Beauties,” "Duchesse d'Orleans,” and as a rule all delicately veined and penciled flowers with white ground. Still, that grandest of all white flowers, the old "Albaploena.” ob tained near Milan, in Italy, in 1844. by Jean Cassozetti, has never been surpassed by later comers. It is of robust consti tution, very profuse bloomer, exquisitely shaped pure white flower; begins to open as early as beginning of November and frequently giving flowers until February. It is one of the hardest sorts, whereas the “Fimbriata” (which is only a form of the "Albaploena,” but with the edge of the petals fringed, seldom perfects its flowers except when protected under glass. The semi-doublc varieties, of which there are many, give an abundance of flowers with large petals mixed with yellow stamens, giving them the appear ance of a large loose paeony are among the most desirable for open ground. Such varieties as "Gunellii,” “Chandelli,” “Elegans,” "Donkelaerii,” "Mammoth,” etc., are striking objects when planted singly and laden with a profusion of flowers. The “Single Red,” which is the type of the genus “Camellia Japonica,” while giving a rather indifferent flower as compared with its double flowering off spring, has the merit of being the heaviest of all. as well as the most vigorous, and deserves to be more extensively planted than it is, because it will often succeed where all other varieties fall. Another species of the Camellia, “Rosa flora;” this is a small shrub with slen der branches, small foliage and producing a great profusion of beautifully shaped small rose colored flowers. It is as hardy as the single red, but is seldom found in northern greenhouses because of its small flowers. South, it should be con sidered among our desirable sorts. The beat seasons for planting Camel lias south, below the 34th. or 32nd de grees of latitude, are from early Octo ber to beginning of November, and from the end of February to the end of March- Do not transplant in midwinter. After the plants are set out mulch the ground around them with well-rotted cow ma nure. and during severe cold prqtect with bagging or an empty barrel; remove pro tection when the weather moderates. Plants set out in spring must be protected from direct rays of the sun and kept carefully watered; they should also be mulched with straw, leaves or any non heating material, and that will prevent rapid evaporation. For pot cultivation in greenhouses the following suggestions are given: As stated for open ground cultivation, the temperature should be as even as practicable during winter, being also care ful to give as much light and ventilation as possible. Camellia must not be con sidered as hot house plants, but being frequently so treated many failures fol low. Give a cool greenhouse or - pit and unless during very cold weather, fire heat is not needed, but the plants must not be allowed to freeze, especially when the buds are swelling. Do not let the temper ature fall below 40 degrees or run up beyond 75 degrees during winter. Con siderable difference of opinion prevails among camellia growers as to the best potting compost, but one composed of equal parts of rotten sod, peat and cow manure, well mixed and allowed to stand six months has given the best results. Ample drainage must be given, if water stagnates in the pots the roots will de cay, the foliage assume an unhealthy col or and the flower buds drop. Highly stim ulating fertilizers are to be avoided, but an occasional dose of weak manure water, when plants shqw lack of vigor will be advisable, but should be used only during the growing period. Repotting depends upon the condition of the plants, but as a rule the best time is soon after blooming and before the new growth begins. This occurs in middle Georgia about March Ist. Watering must be very carefully done. Keep the soil evenly moist, never let it become too dry or too wet. both extremes will cause the buds to drop. Keep the foliage free from dust and es pecially from the oyster shell bark louse, a small scale insect which frequently in fests the leaves. The scale should be re moved with a soft brush dipped in a solu tion of whale oil soap or lemon oil. Black fungus is also a frequent annoyance and 1 never allowed to spread. No other care is required for successfully treating ca mellias in pots. When the blooming pe riod is over and the new growth becoming hardened the plants may be plunged in open ground and shady situation during summer and while in full growth daily watering and spraying the foliage will keep them in good condition. The flower buds begin to appear during July and Au gust. Forcing camellias for early bloom ing has not always proven successful. It is best, therefore, to select such varieties as will bloom in succession, thus flowers can be had continuously from No vember until March. Pruning to give a good form is frequent ly required when plants grow very vigor ously. This Is done by pinching in the ends of shoots during the earlier stages of growth, or after the blomlng is over and before the new growth begins. Among the most desirable varieties for open ground, we mention the following: White—Alba plaena, candldissima, no bilissima. Lady Hume's blush. 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