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I TIMELY TALKS WITH FARMERS Conducted By C. H. Jordan + Subscribers s/e requested to ad- ♦ + dress al! Inquiries for information + ♦ on subjects relating to the farm. ♦ ♦ field, garden and poultry to the + 4 Agricultural Editor. All Inquiries * + will receive prompt and careful at- + + tention. No Inquiries answered by ♦ + mail. Please address Harris Jordan. ♦ ♦ Agricultural Editor. Monticello. Go. ♦ ♦ ♦ i 111 1111 »♦♦♦♦■» l*M »♦♦♦♦❖♦•! PLANTING SMALL GRAIN. The season for planting wheat, barley and rye is now upon us and it behooves every man who advocates the policy of living at home on the farm, to be active in getting his lands ready for seeding down tn small grain. Between the middle of October and the last week in Novem ber should cover the period of sowing winter grain in .Georgia and adjacent states, with the exception of oats, which crop should be planted between the mid dle of September and the first of Novem ber if a good crop from fall seeding is desired. Unless the oat erop is planted early, and the plants given an opportunity to root out and secure a good hold in the soil, a serious cold spell in January or February is mbst likely to prove either fatal or damaging. With oats it has been clearly demonstrated by practical experi ment on an extensive scale in all parts of the south, that if the crop is drilled in stead of being sown broadcast, there is little or no danger of the roots of the plants being killed by the severest freeze# we have in February. It makes no particular difference wheth er the seed oats are distributed with a regular grain drilling machine or whether the furrows are laid off close together and the seed put in with a guano dis tributor. As a matter of economy ans desirability the improved implement is best, but in the absence of financial abil ity to purchase a drilling machine, some effort ought to be maae to plant the crop tn dose shallow furrows. Whenever any improved system has been clearly demon strated to our satiafactionas being better than old opes the progressive men of the country should at once adopt it. Preparing Land For Wheat Land for wheat should be of fair nat ural fertility, and then manured accord ing to the ability of the planter. Wheat requires, to make good growth and de velopment.ali the elements of a complete fertiliser, particularly that of nitrogen. It is a nitrogenous feeder, and analysts shows that a considerable quantity of that element must go into the grain to perfect R. The natural plant foods in any soil cannot be rendered available to the de mands of plant life, unless the soil ht s been thoroughly broken up and pulver ised. The nearer we put soil in the con dition of an ash bank, the nearer we come toward making that soil open up Its stores of plant food. Hence It must be insisted that the first requisite of the successful grain grower is to get his lands in as near perfect tilth as possible. Aside from rendering these natural plant . foods available by thorough preparation of lands, it is a fact known to tjll farmers that the young and tender roots of small grain will more successfully branch out in search for what it needs, than where the soil is full of clods and hardness. I have shown in a previous article that tn Booth Dakota where the finest crops of wheat in the union are annually raised, the soil freezes to a depth of four feet in winter, and while thawing out in the spring during planting time and later, it ft becomes fully pulverised to that depth. What nature does for the northwest we are forced to do. or should do as nearly as possible with the plow and harrow. Break the land as deeply as possible and then harrow until the soil is in proper condition. Labor is becoming a serious problem on many farms in the south, and whenever it is not possible to prepare as large an area as desired, cut the acreage down and do well, that which is done at all. Better results will be obtained and a bigger and more satisfactory profit on the undertaking will be realized at harvest time. Now this question of preparing the land, both for the field crop and patches is a most Important one and should re ceive the attention it tperits. The average yield of wheat per acre in Georgia is en tirely too low, compared with the possibil ities of the soil and what has been and is being produced here every year by men who take a deep Interest in that crop. The average should be easily raised from 12 to 15 bushels per acre to 25 and 30 bushels per acre. Fertilizing and Planting. I In all of my experience in growing Our Best Offer. TWO LOVELY PICTURES FREE I HHI ■ every new subscriber who will send us $ 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. i Send at once before the supply gives out. Address The Journal, Atlanta, Ga. wheat on the red lands of middle Georgia, covering a period of the past 20 years, I am free to confess that no fertllser has ever given me the results obtained from the liberal application of green cotton seed and I do not think any fertiliser for mula for the wheat crop has ever been made up out of any other material which is superior. But the farmers all over the country have gotten Into the habit of either selling their seed straight out to the oil mills or else exchanging the seed for meal. As the meal is not in itself a complete fertilizer, it is necessary to add the other two elements of potash and phosphoric acid to make it sb. Where a commercial fertilizer is used, either bought from the manufacturer complete or the ingredients mixed at home, the fol lowing formula has been tried sufficiently to recommend its use generally on all wheat lands in this and adjoining states; Acid phosphate <l4 per cent)....250 pounds Cotton seed meal 3*o pounds Muriate of potash 60 pounds Apply this mixture to each acre or re duce in proportionate parts. If kainit is used in place of muriate, take 200 pounds. In March apply 50 pounds of nitrate of so da broadcast per acre on the wheat as a top dressing. The nitrate of soda imparts new life and vigor to the plants, and pushes the crop rapidly forward in its growth toward ma turity. In planting wheat, either in drills or broadcast, the grain should be lightly covered. It is bad policy to sow wheat broadcast on unbroken land and then plow it tn with a turn plow, trying te do two things at once, breaking and covering Prepare the land first and then plant with a drilling machine, or if sown broad cast. cover with a harrow, dressing off with a common smoother or roller. A field of wheat, where the land has been prop erly prepared and fertilized, with the grain nicely planted, will always present an attractive appearance from time of planting to harvest. There 1s no better variety of wheat for the south, and Georgia especially, than the little Georgia purple stem. The heads are small, compact, always well filled under good culture and the yield In every in stance superior to other varieties shipped in here from a distance. Plant one bushel per acre, though some of our best wheat producers advocate one and a quarter bushel*. Never plant wheat without soak ing it a few hours in a solution of blue stone. One pound of blue stope melted tn boiling water and mixed with‘enough wat er to emerse five bushels of grain is about the right proportion. There will be no smut in the field the following spring if this rule is adopted, as the blue stone will kill out the smut germ before the grain is planted. Small Patches. No farmer should neglect having an acre or two planted either in wheat, barley or rye, as a green patch for grazing or cut ting during winter for stock and cattle. No home In the country looks complete without these green patches surrounding it. and no farmer is doing his duty by his stock unless he takes the time and pains to have this green feed in abundance for them during the long months of winter when everything in the pasture has been killed by freezes. There is no more beau tiful sight in winter than fields of green grain. Aside from their beauty, they help in the commendable desire to make the farm self sustaining. During the past few years the farmers of Georgia have exhibited a disposition along this line which if persisted in will solve many perplexing problems and free them from dependence so much on the grain fields of the west. Roller mills are being built in many sections of the state, and in such localities I have noticed that farmers are independent of western flour, and that the merchants handle the product of our mills in all towns where they are located. These are hopeful signs and point uneeringly to the not distant day when our people will once more live at home and enjoy the freedom of old time pros perity. HARVIE JORDAN. EXCHANGES. Wheat Yields In Georgia. Practical Fruit Grower. Georgia is not considered a wheat growing state, but the following item proves that large yields can be grown I there. Under the stimulus of the Inter est aroused by some of the leading busi ' ness men of Athens, who offered liberal prizes for best yields of wheat and oats, open to the farmers of ten counties around Athens, a number of farmers competed for the honors. The land was measured, and a committee witnessed the harvesting of the grain. Results: The first prize of >IOO was awarded to a far mer who raised 120 bushels of wheat on three acres. For best one acre, a Gresh amville farmer was awarded $25 for his yield of 47 bushels. Best three acres of THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOUKNAL, ATLANTA. GEORGIA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 2D. 1901. oats was made in Clarke county; yield, 257 bushels; prize, $75 in gold. The best single acre measured 100 bushels; S2O was the size of the prize. This shows what can be done by thor ough work. If business men in other parts of the country would imitate the example of the Athens men, they would be the means of doing a great service to their community. It is natural for any people to do better work if there is a prize tn prospect. Such a test as was made at Athens would give an impetus to thorough culture that would be per manent, and it would spread over the en tire country. Feeding Cattle. , An Exchange. Cato’s celebrated answer to the Roman senate when asked “what is the surest way to enrich a nation” is as true in A. D. 1901. as in B. C. 246. The answer was couched in two words, "feeding cat tle.” Cato was a great farmer and cat tle feeder, as well as a great general and statesman. Great truths like this live more than 2000 years. Our Wheat Crop. An Excnange. Europe has an estimated shortage of 400,000,000 bushels of wheat. This country has an estimated surplus of 300,000,000 bushels. Under the conditions wheat will bring a good price. Already the exports are running ahead of any previous sea son. On Monday last 1,754 000 bushels were shipped abroad, being the largest single day’s record in history by 89.000 bushels. The next largest day’s shipment was on the previous M0nday—1,,665,000 bushels. Ine heaviest shipments ever made in one week was last week, when they amount ed to 9,039,009 bushels. This shows that famine in this country is practically im possible. for conditions that shorten one bread crop benefit another. Raising Wheat. ( Following are conclusions arrived at by the Arkansas experiment station in re gard to wheat raising: 1. Breaking the soil deeper than 8 inches does not increase the yield of wheat, while below 8 inches the yield decreases as the depth of breaking decreases. 2. Thorough disking followed by rolling seems to be the best preparation for wheat Just before it is sown. 3. Thorough preparation gave an in creased yield of 50 per cent over poor pre paration. 4. Thorough preparation of the seed bed diminishes winter killing. 5. Thorough preparation of the seed bed diminishes ttie bad effects of drouth. 6. Five or six pecks of seed per acre gave the most profitable yields. 7. Growing such legumes as cowpeas, soja beans and beggar weeds on light sandy soil deficient in humus increased the yield of a following crop of wheat 56.5 per cent. 8. The stubble of legumes plowed under gave almost invariably a better field than the whole plant plowed under to the sub sequent crop when the latter is planted a short time after legumes were plowed un der. 9. Plowing under a large quantity of green material just before planting seemed to exert a directly injurious effect upon the subsequent crop. 10. Cowpeas sown after harvesting rye and Irish potatoes increased the subse quent crop of wheat 30 per cent when compared with that sown after Irish po tatoes and rye not followed by.cowpeas. 11. Wheat grown continuously on the same ground for three years and each crop preceded by a crop of cowpeas gave an increased yield of 46.7 per cent 4 com pared with breaking the wheat stubble and not sowing peas. 12. Fertilizing cowpeas with 200 pounds of acid phosphate and 100 pounds of mu riate potash increased the yield of wheat that followed 58 per cent. 13. Wheat sown upon cowpea stubble plowed under and fertilized with 400 pounds of a complete fertilizer gave an average yield of 64.4 per cent and 78.5 per cent increased yield the second year over soil treated only in the usual way. 14. Early Ripe. India Swamp, Purple straw. Pool, Red May, Red Wonder and Tennessee Fultz are the varieties that have given the best results. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of CHICAGO WINS TAX FIGHT. Millions Are Added to the Taxable Property of the Windy City. SPRINGFIELD. 111., Oct. 24.—The su preme court today affirmed the decision of the lower court in the Chicago teach ers’ case, in which they insisted that the capital stock of corporations should be assessed. The ruling will add over SIOO,- 000,000 to the taxable property in Chicago. MUNICIPAL FRANCHISES ARE ALL GONS GLIMMERING. CHICAGO, Oct. 24.—The tax decision given today by the Illinois supreme court relates to twenty-three local corporations enjoying municipal franchises, including traction companies, gas companies and electric companies, whose total stock was estimated to be worth $368,000,000, all of which had escaped taxation previously and was likely to be omitted again by the state board, which adjourned last Decem ber without assessing this vast amount of property. ' The trial of the case was begun before Judge Thompsan, in Springfield, March 23, and the decision was handed down May 2, commanding the board to reas semble June 13, and assess these corpora tions in accordance with the rules of the board in registered to assessment of the capital stock. But the board not only neglected to make the assessment, but re pealed the rules of the board on the sub ject which have been in force for thirty years and had been sustained by the United States supreme court as the only legal plan of assessment. What was con sidered the weak point in the teachers’ case was that the mandamus was asked while the board was still in session, and while it was protesting that it meant to do the very thing the mandamus required. The teachers’ contention was that of a continuing body and that it had refused for years to make these assessments and that if a mandamus could not issue until after the board had adjourned it might as well never be Issued at all and there was absolutely no way to compel the board to perforin its manifest duty. The teachers’ view of the case seems to have been sustained by the supreme court. Broad as is the sweep of this decision in itself, its logical results are -much greater as the decision, it is said, really applies as well to railroad corporations and every other corporation in the state and may lead to the collection of back taxes. Bohemian Author Burled in Chicago. CHICAGO. Oct. 25.—Paul Ailier, the Bo hemian author, killed by a railroad train in Texas, was buried here today. Thous ands of Bohemians, Including a delegation from Texas, and representatives of Bohe (nian organizations in various parts of the country, were present at the funeral. : THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL j The great twice-a-week weekly, printed on Monday • and Thursday of each week, presents the following list I of premiums to subscribers. | Subscribe now and make your selection of a pre- 1 I mium so we can begin your subscription to the paper ( . this month. ( Rand, HcNallay & Co’s. Atlas of the World. 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Upon application a ) sample copy of each paper will ba sent you free. i For $1.40 we will send THE SEHI-WEEKLY one year and anyone of the papers offered with THE SEHI- ’ WEEKLY at SI.OO, and the Vaseline Tellet Articles. This is the offer of the day and you should take advan tage of it at once. IN FIERY FURNACE NEGRO FIEND DIES . - * * AS THE FLAMES LEAP HIGH THE TORTURED MAN ADMITS THAT HE DCSERVED HIS FATE. COLUMBIA, Miss., Oct. 25.—8i1l Morris, the negro who assaulted and outraged Mrs. John Ball at Balltown, La., was burned at the stake today, the victim of the mob's fury calmly declaring that he deserved his horrible fate. He endured the agony of the flames with marvelous stoicism. He was today carried to the scene of his crime and there tied to a pine sap plfng with chains and his hands and feet chained to his body. Pine knots and pine straw were piled about the body and saturated with coal oil and the whole set on fire. The negro made no outcry when the flames first reached him and only when he was partly consumed did the spectators notice any movement on the part of the wretch, who had. com mitted the foul deed. He made no resist ance when being bound to the stake and said that he deserved his fate. Mrs. Ball, who conducts a store, was waiting on the negro when he clutched her by the throat, dragged her off down hill and accomplished his purpose. After that he beat her in the head with a pine kndt and tnought he had killed her. Going back to tl.e store, he% collected all the change that was in the cash drawer and had presence of mind enough to put coal oil on his feet when leaving the store. ' , Mrs. Ball, however, recovered conscious ness and crawled to her father-in-law s. ..e at once gave the alarm and the neighborhood gathered and commenced a search for the negro. He was round at his home about four miles from the scene of the tragedy and at once ran off, when he was shot at by one of the posse and wounded in the hip. IT~REQUIRES NERVE to stand the strain of nervous neuralgia, rains in the face, head or any part of the body These pains are quickly stopped by the use of Perry Davis’ Painkiller. The re lief Is immediate and lasting. Do not suffer a* moment longer but use the Painkiller as directed. Avoid substitutes, there is but one Painkiller, Perry Davis’. Price 25c. and 50c. gallowaycattlebreeders KANSAS CITY, Oct. 25.—The Galloway Cattle Breeders’ Association of America, whose members are meeting here, elected the following officers: ■ James Myers, president; James W. Byers Ohio, vice president, and J. P. Martin, Sutherland, la., third vice presi dent. Dr. Charles E. Stoner Dead. DES MOINES, la., Oct. 25.—Dr. Charles F Stoner a prominent physician ana recognized authority in bacteriology, died here from an attack of typhoid fever. He was 43 years old. Women of the South. Five dollars a year isn’t high to be comfortably shod. Two pairs of our Queen Bess $2.50 Shoes will do it easily. Send for catalog. 7. K. Orr Shoe Co., ATLANTA. AS WOMAN PRAYED SHE SHOT THE FALLS DARING MRS. TAYLOR SUCCESS- FULLY RIDES THE RAPIDS AND PLUNGES OVER NIAGARA. NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y„ Oct. 25.—Mrs. Annie Edson Taylor, 50 years old, went over Niagara Falls on the Canadian side yesterday afternoon and survived, a feat never before accomplished and never at tempted except in the deliberate com mission of suicide. She made the trip in a barrel. Not only did she survive, but escaped without a broken bone, her only apparent injury being a scalp wound one and one-half inches long, a slight concus sion of the brain, some shock to her ner vous system and bruises about the body. She was conscious when taken out of the barrel. The doctors in attendance upon her last night said that though she was somewhat hysterical, her condition’is not at all serious and that she probably will be out of bed in a few days. - Mrs. Taylor’s trip covered a mile ride through the Canadian rapids before she reached the brink of the precipice. Her barrel, stanch as a barrel could be made, was whllrled and buffeted through those delirious waters, but escaped serious con tact with rocks. As it passed through the smoother, swifter waters that rushed over into the abyss it rode in an almost per pendicular position with its upper half out of the water. As it passed over the brink it rode at angle of about 45 degrees on the outer surface of the deluge and descended grace fully to the white, foaming water 158 feet below. True to her calculation, the anvil fas tened to the bottom of the barrel kept it foot downward and so it landed. Had it turned over and landed on its head, Mrs. Taylor’s head must have been crush ed in and her neck broken. The ride through the rapids occupied eighteen minutes. It was 4:23 o’block when the barrel took its leap. It could not be seen as it struck the water ber low. because of the spray, but in less than half a minute after it passed over the brink it was seen on the surface of the scunr-covered water below the falls. It was carried swiftly down to the green water beyond the scum; then half way to the Maid of the Mist eddy and held there until floated so close to the shore that it was reached by means of a pole and hook and drawn in upon the rocks at 4:40 o’clock, seventeen minutes after it shot the cataract. The woman was lifted from the barrel and half an hour later she lay on a cot at her boarding place, in Niagara Falls, on the American side. She said she would never do it again, but that she was not sorrv she did it. “if it would help her financially.” She said she had prayed all during the trip, except during “a few mo ments” of unconsciousness just after her descent. The barrel in which Mrs. Taylor made the journey is four and one-half feet high and about three feet in diameter. A leath er harness and cushions inside protected her body. Air was secured through a rubber tube connected with a small open ing near the top of the barrel. Mrs. Taylor is a school teacher and re cently came here from Bay City, Mich. For $1.40 we will send The Semi- Weekly one year and the Five Vaseline Toilet Articles and any one of the premium papers offered with The Semi-Weekly at SI.OO. This is the greatest offer ever made and you should take advantage of, it without delay. Dairying and Live Stock I] Conducted By B, W. Hunt Readers of the Semi-Weekly t ♦ Journal era invited to send en- ♦ ♦ qulries about dairying live stock ♦ + and veterinary matters to B. W. ♦ 1 Hunt. Editor of this department, at ♦ I ♦ Eatonton. Ga. No questions an- + swered by mall, but careful atten- <*■ ' tion will be ffiven to inquiries and + ♦ answers will ba printed in this de- partment + Thoughts on the Harvesting of Forage. Too much forage can not be saved by the farmers. I have never observed another year in middle Georgia when as mueb hay and other so-called rough feed could be secured from the land as this season. If sufficient barn room for the hay cannot be found, stack it. Hay producing countries like England abound In stacks, and they are so care fully made that the hay or grain in the straw will keep perfectly for years. If the farmer has no skilled stack builder, It will pay him to hire one, if practicable, who has had experience in this line. Those who build the best hay stacks say the art consists largely in keeping the middle full and combing with a pitchfork the outside. This combing is to arrange the stalks of hay so they will point to the center of the stack, thereby forming a natural thatch about the stack to shed water like shingles on a roof. Keeping the middle fuller than the rest of the stack, which middle Is also better packed down by the man’s weight as each fork full is placed, gives all the grass in the stack a lean downward and outward from the center. The remark regarding the building of water shedding stacks is called for from the writer’s own experience, as well as from observation. No ordinary negro la borer can build a good stack that will shed rain. No stack eyer leaks water In Eu rope, where every laborer lives under a tight thatched roof of hay or straw. To day I have noticed hay mown, cured and hauled up to the stack in good order, that will be rotten before spring if left in the present stack, built by unskilled labor. A well built stack insures about as good hay as that in the barn, with the excep tion of a little on the outside necessarily exposed to the weather. Let us all profit from the exceptional grass crop. What has occurred this year cannot be undone. I mean the grass has taken possession of land heretofore bar ren, and the blessing of the exceptional rainfall of the summer of 1901 will abide as immortal as other good and evil things in life. Those to come after us will be, as we have been, benefitted by nature’s ex traordinary growth of vegetation. I have seen this year tons and tons of hay that has grown on land that hereto fore knew not the mowing machine. While it may be true that the selling of forage is like selling the soil from the land itself, but even this is not as rapid away of im poverishing one’s holdings of land as the barren clean culture that hastens the soil to the creeks and rivers by aid of washing tropic rains. The grass roots remain to hold the soil from washing, and enough of the stems are left to aid nature in her benificent laboratory work in man’s be half. The ideal farming, however, includes the , husbanding of ail possible forage crops, and the feeding of all saved upon the farm itself to the domestic animals on the place where the forage is raised. Every hay eating domestic animal is benefited by being furnished with all the clean hay he will eat. This In a manger or box cleaned from all rubbish daily. This department is charged with many inquiries regarding filth eating horses and mules. Such habits I have never known formed by copiously hay fed equine animals. I emphasize this matter because In the cotton states under the old regime it was customary to feed mules corn according to the worje, and corn blades in bundles carefully and economically counted out to each animal; The bundles of fodder were eaten up clean with no debris. W’ith hay such clearing of the manger is not prac ticable, for much of the mass In the hay from natural meadows is unfit for horse food. Hence there must remain much waste to be daily removed from the man ger to make room for the daily feed and to keep the horse in enjoyment of his hay ration. Better ultimate results arise from the sale of the animals or their products, rather than from the sale of raw ma terials. Such farming means a future for the boys and girls who are to depend upon the ever increasing producing capacity of the farm. If Henry George and the French sa vants who before him formulated the idea of state ownership of land, nave any truth in their theory, the system of farm ing which necessarily deteriorates the land is really an offense against the state. It also follows that he who benefits , the land under his care and keeping Is a bene factor to the people. I firmly am convinced that there is no happiness worthy of the name in life, ex cept that feeling that wholly arises from benificent acts on the part of the Indi vidual. HLNT. Mange. I have a pair of mules affected with a skin disease something like itch. One of them has had it for two years. They fre quently bite themselves. They get better for a while and then seem to be worse off than before. In the worst stages of this disease they sweat at night. They fall of in flesh for a few days and then pick up again. There are no chicken mites about tne stalls. I have fed them on sulphur; bled them in the neck, and washed them all over In bluestone water and they are not Please tell me through The Journal what the disease is, and what will cure R. L. VV• Scottsboro, Ga. Answer—For the ordinary mange mite, I use an ointment of common sulphur, 6 ounces; train, or other oil. 1 pint; spirits of turpentine, 3 ounces; mix and rub well Into the skin every third day for two or three weeks. Paint the whole wood w °rk with pure kerosene oil, soaking it into crevices of the wood. Soak harness in any kind of oil. . All these precautions are necessary to keep the mites from again Infesting the animals. Sulphur given in the food is nractically useless in mange. If you pre fer to use some of the patent mange cures, almost any of them will prove ef fective if you will apply every third day f£ a sufficient time to kill all those in the egg that subsequently hatch out. If this treatment does not cure, report back to me. B w ’ Big Head. Mv colt’s head Is enlarged between the the nostrils, rie Is a little stiff or tied up in his gait. Some people say the trouble is big bead. Please prescribe and oblige, SanfordviUe, Ga. Answer—You have a case of incipient so called big head. Hasten your treatment if possible to cure before grass Is Killed by frost. I have never known a case satisractor ily treated in winter, and never known a failure in summer, when the horse was turned to grass with the treatment I shall Ad vise. Commence by giving the colt one ounce a day in wheat brain of hyposulphite of soda and phosphate of lime, mixed equal parts by weight. Give this treatment for eight consecu tive days. Then for eight days give alternately a dessertspoonful one day of stramonium, and the next day a heaping tablespoonfal of sulphur. After the eight days on this latter treatment, go back to the first, and so on, until colt shall be cured. Do not feed any , hay, corn, oats or dry food other than the little wheat bran in which he takes the medicine, if you can turn him out to graze. During storms keep the colt protected from rain and feed him on green succu lent food cut fresh. In winter when green food cannot be obtained, treat the same way. only omit treatment for a few days. Don’t expect to cure until grass comes. The medicine, however, even in winter will hold the dis ease in check. The animal must have hay when there Is no green food growing, and this had best be wet the day before, so he will eat it moist. B. W. H. Cultivating the Southern Trade. Editorial from The Breeder’s Gazette. "That the southern field white unto the harvest should be longer neglected by the breeders of beef cattle would seem thor oughly out of consonance with the Intelli gence and enterprise that now direct the movement for the spread of improving blood. We have pushed the conquering columns of pedigreed blood far out into the western ranges. We look with covet ous eye on the South American trade and bewail the restrictions that have blighted our hopes, and yet for a third of a <.*n tury we .have neglected a field that lies only across an imaginary line. There has been plenty of talk about developing I the beef cattle industry in the south, but very little action. Fas-seeing breeders have long apprehended the situation the oretically, but no leader has arisen. The mountain has been to come to fl Mahomet. The mountain is practically Immovable. The figurative Mahomet, like the actual Mahomet the Prophet, should after all these years be willing to go to the mountain. Little driblets of streams of Improving blood have been started to ward the south where mighty rivers . should have rolled. With zeal kindled to a blaze of determination enterprising southern men—venturesome is perhaps the better word—have invested small and large sums in pedigreed cattle and have attempted a start. We all know the story. It Is told again in simple fashion by a correspondent in this issue. Their investmen- has been largely burned up by • the fever. That spectral Nemesis of southern cattle improvement stalks ever in the path. "Do our experiment stations sigh for farther worlds to conquer? How many of them have addressed themselves to the solution of this problem ’which once solved would redeem the south? Two sta tions out of the many interested have worked at it and to their everlasting credit be it said have achieved a gratify ing measure of success. Vaccination is now prophylactic to such a degree that it is reasonable and economical to prac tice it on all cattle that are to be shipped south of the deadly fever line. Hence pertinent enough is our correspondent’s suggestion that if auction sales are to be inaugurated in the south by breed asso ciations the cattle offered should, be ren dered Irimune to the fever. If cattie of that kind can be drafted we imagine that there will be no need of cataloguing the sort of bulls that Colonel Woods wants included in the discarded one-third; the better class will bring fair prices. Educa tion is not the prime thing needed In the south; money to project the improvement can be commanded. The imperative, the essential factor, is a guarantee against t loss by the destructive fever. Given this guarantee we believe that the enterpris ing agricultural leaders in the south would create a market that would absorb quickly the now rapidly-diminishing sur plus of our pure-bred beef herds. Espe cially would the bulls be cleaned out. “For be it understood that cotton seed and canebreaks, along with the native grasses of the south, will discount wholly the free range in cattle-breeding and feeding. The death-dealing blizzard blows not over the sunny south. Loss is nil. All the feed in the winter time does not go merely to sustenance. As a matter of fact the advantages offered by some sec tions of the south for the breeding and feeding of beef cattle are little less than marvelous, and the only wonder is that effort has not long since been made to de velop this industry there. But the south wants the assurance of value received for its investments. This burnt child dreads the fire. Offer catHe inoculated against the fever and it will buy. fl "This is a Macedonian cry that comes from the south. In helping those below the line northern breeders will help them selves. Is not the time ndw ripe?” One year’s care of cattle will extermi nate cattle ticks,the only carriers of cattle fever. This Is the proper method of pro cedure for the south. The truly economic way, vaccination, is a preventive, but the tick is then left with us to necessitate the raising of calves on tick-infested pas tures. If calves be raised about barns and first turned to pasture over a year old they will die as readily after being born south as cattle bom north of the St. Lawrence river in Canada. It Is not the place of birth that produces immunity in some southern raised cattie. Those that are Immune have been made so by the introduction Into the animal while young of the true fever germ. This is done by the cattle tick, which never has yet lived in sufficient numbers over winter about my barns to infect my calves and render them immune. I make them immune in one of two ways. 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