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(SB 1 AND QUESTION AND ANSWER DEPARTMENT. ♦ ♦ Th* Journal asiini to lncr»»M th* usefulness of 1« trrlcultuni ■» page* la every way po**ibl*. For thia purpose. th* department of ♦ inquiries and answer* la to b* greatly e alar red. Any information per- ♦ Saining to agriculture. the proper tlllage of th* boll, th* proper use of ♦ fertiliser*. seeding for crop*, rtcc k and cattl* breeding, poultry raising «. —and in fact, all *nb)*cta pertaining to the farm upon which informa- ♦ tlon may be nought or practical *u ggeetion* offered, will be published ♦ in the** column*. ♦ We reqneat our reader* to nee theee page* freely. We will en- ♦ leaver to furnl*b information, if th * question* ar* naked. Letter* ad- ♦ dressed to Dr. Andrew M. aoule, p reeldent l*ate Agricultural College, ♦ athene, Ga., will receive prompt at tention. and th* replies will be pub- ♦ Uahed Ln The Be nu-Weekly Journal. ♦ The Importance of Potash As a Fertilizer Who shall say that the soil would not be materially improved by the use of the very considerable quantity of farmyard manure which would be applied to it a* a result of feeding the cotton seed meal now manufactured to dairy cow* and, other tarm live stock. Moreover, animal industries would be fostered materially by utilising the meal for feed, a profit able business developed, ano our home markets supplied in abundance at re munerative prices with what we may now almost regard a* luxuries. A good cow will give two gallons of milk a day for at least eleven months of the year, or 330 days. She can be fed where silage is used as the roughness and at present prices for meal at a cost of about 13.5 cent* a day. If we allow 30 cents for feed, care and the cost of delivering th* milk, when It sells for 35 cents a gallon, she will make u* a profit of 50 cent* a day. If butter is *old at 35 cents a pound a profit of 15 cent* a day will be obtain ed with 5 cents more for the skim milk produced. Thus, a cow milking for 330 day* would give a profit to her owner of $165. per annum. If it coats 20 cents a day to keep a cow and her milk bring* 50 cent*. the profit per year will be W>. Even if these figures are cut in two, the profit would be $45 per annum per cow. and a man who can not operate a dairy and make his herd average this sum should go out of the business. Since six pound* of cotton seed meal per day i* an ample ration of this concentfate for a 1.000 pound cow, a ton will feed her for 333.3 day*. A cow - yielding two gallons of milk would produce in this time $66.6 gallon*, which at 3$ cents a gallon would be worth $23131. We may attribute whatever part of this sum of money we please to the individual merit of the cow. the wfeill of the dairyman, th* in fluence of the silage or gras*, or to •uch other concentrate* as may be fed with the cotton seed mall, and still it must be apparent that from S4O to sm) profit can reasonably be expected from feeding a ton of cotton seed meal under proper management. At least 80 per cent of the mineral matter contained in a ton of meal will be voided by The cow, which at present price* for commercial fertil isers would amount to about $24 a ton, or approximately the cost of a ton of meal, leaving the dah-yman the profit of S4O to S6O a ton cited above. When will we recognise the opportuni ty which cotton seed meal ha* placed within our rea?h. and utiliae it so as to obtain at leant the greater part of it* potential value to southern agriculture. When we reach this point the question of maintaining soil fertility will be greatly simplified, for at present we are not making enough cotton seed meal to feed 900 pound* per annum to the animal* classed as dairy cows in the south. The voiding* of a horse weighing 1,000 pound* are worth each year about $24.74; from a cow of equal weight. £9.27. The animals on Georgia farms at the present time make annually this bast* fertiliser worthy approximately $4O.0*i».OOO; yet it is safe to say comparatively little attention 1* given to this by-product, so important and essential not only in the mainte nance of fertility, but to profitable crop growing as well. Here is a leak amount ing to millions of douar* in the aggre gate which may be stopped by develop ing animal industries and taking care of the farmyard manure, which is a by product of this industry. The farmer who maintains a herd of thirty cows which can be done on 145 acres of land will find It necessary to purchase about 25 tons of cotton seed meal. At $24 a ton his outlay will be J6fO. Eighty per cent of the plant food contained in the meal should be returned to the soil, and this would amount to approximately 2.800 pounds of nitrogen, !.»»> pounds of phosphoric acid and 1.000 pound* of potash. He should grow enough surplus on bis farm to enable him to buy this meal without taking funds from hi* milk or butter trade; and while the manure applied to his land would not be POULTRY. HIGHEST OUALITT—B C. Rhode liltn-1 Reda. 8 C. white Ixtiorn. buff Orpington*, white Wvandotiea. white and barred Plymouth Rocks eggs H-M P»r W ** 7 * per 30; Mammoth Pekin Dick* egg* »1.» per 11; Mamnwth tronae turttev eggs I 2 W par 9. Catalogue free. Hem.lt>ge Poultry Farm. Route 11. Header soavUle. lean. Berds and Plants SEED Chufaa for eale. 34 per bushel. Apply to T 8. Agner. Dowling Park. Fla. REX ALL Cotton Seed. tl SO bushel, yields 1 bales cotton to acre. Testimonials on appli cation. 8 A. Rodgers. Sumter. Ga. FOR SALE—Cotton seed. Several hundred bushels Layton Improved. 21.00 per bushel fob Austell. G» Joel Hurt. Atlanta. Ga COTTON SEED Hastings* Mort gage-Lifter and Cook’s Improved Oetton are the best varieties planted la the Booth. I offer guarantred pure, sound seed of either variety, at folhmlng prices: 1 ba.. Met 3 bu. lots. SSe; ten bo. lota, »c. or In S ho lota at 73c per bushel. Put up In new aaek* and shipped upon rrceip eof order. Write for circu lar and s>rlcea tn larger quantities. M. C. BTAKTOX, B. T. D. Vo. f. Mansfield. Ga. Finest Lot Cotton Seed in South Grown on own farm, ginned on own private gin; absolutely sound and pure. Broadwell Double-pointed. SI.SO bushel; Cook's Improved. 11.00; King's Early. >1.00: Mortgage Lifter. SI.00; Tatums Big 8011. >I.OO (ftne); Schley. B*e; Cul pepper. 85c; Pnterkin, »sc; Texas Burr. Mac. Write for special prices large lots. M. D. TATUM. Fairview Farm, Palmetto, Ga. well balanced, it would cost him compar atively little to buy the additional amount of phosphoric acid and potash needed to maintain hi* soil in a high and efficient state of fertility. On the other hand, if he pursue the practice of the average farmer of simply depending on commer cial fertilisers, he would find his S6OO bare ly sufficient to buy 25 tons of a 3-10-3 fer tiliser. which would contain but little more than half as much nitrogen as the farmyard manure, though 3.800 pounds more of phosphoric acid and 440 pounds more potash. Even the purchase of this plant food would only enable him to apply about 330 pounds to 145 acres and he must look forward to laying out this much money annually, and even an in creased amount if he hopes to grow prof itable crops. Even then he will find it exceedingly difficult to farm successfully through the use of mineral plant food alone because his land will be depleted of humus, and it* physical and mechani cal condition will steadily grow worse. The stock farmer, on the other hand, will find his land improved because of the 1 increased store of humus he has added to the soil, and he will reap a material ben , efit from such commercial plant food as • he does purchase and use. Surely, all the conditions favor the development of an- ' Imai industries because the prosperity of | all I* involved in the permanent success of the farmer, and it 1* apparent to all thoughtful men that the true economic* of agriculture include the growing and maintenance of live stock on our lands in sufficient quantities to consume all the by-products of our farms that can be fed advantageously. In the south we are ■ reaping but a tithe of the profit that * may be justly ours from cotton seed i meal and various other great natuitii ‘ agencies which we are not utilising in accordance with the dictates of natuie. Let us change our present irrational practice, solve successfully the problem lof maintaining soil fertility, and place our farmers on a more substantial bus iness basis than they have ever enjoyed before. ANDREW M. SOULE. Georgia State College of Agriculture. ♦ QUERIES ANSWERED ♦ ♦ Destroying Bermuda Grass C- R R. Norcross, Ga., writes: I have a piece of land with spots of Bermuda grass on it. Can I kill it by covering it up with pine straw, or will lime or salt kill it out? If your land is so you can cultivate it thoroughly during the summer, we would suggest that you plow it shallow this spring; harrow it very thoroughly bring ing the Bermuda sets to the top of the ground, and then gather them up and burn as many as possible. After that we would put the land in cowpeas or velvet beans; anything that will provide a cover Crop that will hold the bermuda in check during the growing season. If there vZ>re evidence of some of the sets being left over in the fall, we would plow the land again shallow' and leave it exposed to the winter freezes. In the spring we would harrow it out thoroughly and rake up every piece of root and burn as be fore. and then put in cowpeas or velvet beans for a second season. We think you can get rid of the bermuda as completely in this way as by any method with ! which we are familiar. We do not think you could smother it out with pine straw, or eradicate it with lime or salt unless you put on an excessive amount, sufficient probably to injure rather than benefit the land. The other method we think to be practical and effective if the work is properly managed. Com for Upland Soils R. H. 8., Cornelia. Ga., writes: Do you know any variety of com that would be better for this section than Hickory King? We have about fifty acres planted in apple trees, and are using com the first year on some o fit Can you advise me where I can get fertilizer from head quarters so as to cut out the middle man's profit? Will want about two car loads and will pay cash for it. Hickory King corn is certainly a good variety to use on uplands. We have tested this variety very carefully for several years and find it yields well when com pared with other strains. The ear is small and the grain unusually large, which constitute two of the principal ob jections to IL It is also probably not as hard and flinty as some varieties, and would not be well adapted, therefore, to sections where the weevil is especially bad. But for your locality it should an swer very well. Some of the best large eared varieties to try would be Henry Grady and Boone County White. These varieties will do well on rich upland soils and make a larger ear than Hickory King. We think liberal fertilization for corn is desirable, as it makes a heavier draft on the soil in proportion than cotton. We would use at least 300 pounds per acre of high-grade fertilizer. New land will not need as ; heavy fertilization as that which has been subjected to cultivation for some time, j and a strong clay soil is of course richer in all the elements of plant food than san -1 dy land. You can certainly make an excellent fertilizer from cotton seed meal, acid phosphate and potash. We w’ould reserve the nitrate of soda to use as a top dress ing on most crops, though there is no objection to placing a little in the drill row along with the cotton seed meal to help start the corn, cotton or potatoes off quickly. For ourselves if desiring to purchase fertilizers, we would obtain all addresses posable of persons who handle the goods, and then we would write to each one and secure their prices. We ; would also ask for prices on unmixed | goods and on mixed goods, according to ’ the formula we desired to use. After ob- I taining their prices, we would figure i which would furnish the materia) at the • lowest cost, and whether we could buy them ready mixed as cheaply as we could buy the raw ingredients and mix them ourselves. If the dealer will furnish them mixed as cheaply as you can axix THE ATLANTA SEMIWEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1909 SECRETARY OF STATE. i ■ —■ wk * J ■ *' '-'Ll 1 — PHILANDER CHASE KNOX of Pennsylvania. SECRETARY OF TREASURY, ■' 1 —————w ■ L k ' 48? A L FRANKLIN M’VEACH of Illinois. ATTORNEY GENERAL, * "" ’ Jb GEO. W. WICKERSHAM of New York. • * • them yourself, we see no reason why it is not advisable to buy them ready mixed. The farmer or groups of farmers who buy fertilizers in carload lots and pay cash for the same certainly get better prices than the man who buys on credit and in small lots. There is much money to be saved in buying and handling fertilizers intelligently. We would suggest that you write to the following firms for prices on goods de livered. f. o. b.. your city: Virginia-Car olina Chemical Co., Atlanta; Swift Fer tilizer Works, Atlanta; Armour Fertilizer Works, Atlanta; German Kall Works, At lanta; Coweta Fertilizer Co., Newnan; Empire State Chemical Co., Athens; Me- Caw Mfg. Co., Macon; Southern Cotton Oil Co.. Atlanta. Sore Eyes in Horses. J. I. W„ Uchee, Ala., writes: There seems to be something the matter with my horse's eyes. Within the last ten days there appears to be a skin growing over them. He seems to be in good health, otherwise. I would like to know what to do for him. v There Is a thin fleshy membrane in the corner of the eye of the horse, commonly called the "haw,” which can be swept across the eye to remove oreign bodies. This membrane is naturally best develop ed in animals which can not rub the eye. Sometimes this membrane becomes inflamed or swollen and is partially drawn across the eyes. This condition is often called "hooks" by horsemen. Sometimes the affected haw is cut out. hut this oper ation is generally regarded as cruel and unnecessary. Operations of the eye. owing to the delicate nature of this organ and the danger of permanent injury, should only be performed by a competent vete rinarian. The trouble to which you refer may be due to another cause. One can hardly tell without an opportunity to make a personal examination, but if the anima) Is a valuable one, we believe It is your to interest to secure the services of a veterinarian, and be certain that you are having the proper treatment pre scribed. Disposing of Diseased Apple Trees A. P. C., Ball Ground, Ga., writes; I would like to ask a few question through the agricultural columns which I enjoy very much. I have some apple trees which have been set out about £Tx years, and the dirt has beaten away from the roots. What must I do for them. Would you put manure around them and wash with lime. There is a large piece off the roots right around the top of the ground. I also have some land I want to build up. W’ould velvet beans be the thing? I have some sedge fields in pasture that are becoming covered up with pine bushes. How can I kill them without digging them up? I want to plant same in grass. What kind would you recom mend. Your trees are probably suffering from one of two things; either crown gall or what Is known as hairy root. There is much dispute as to th* exact cause of crown gall, though it is now thought to be due to a certain form of bacteria which infest the tree. One can avoid this trouble tfy having the trees examined by the state entomologist at the time of purchae, and it is an important thing to look after, because it is certainly a great waste of money. and effort to plant a tree that is diseased and will certainly die before it comes into profitable bear ing. There is no known remedy for hairy root. If you only have a few of these trees, probably the best thing you can do Is to dig them up and burn them. Put lime tn the holes they occupied and do not plant trees on this land again for two or three years. This disease is liable to spread and infect all of your orchard if it has now attacked only a part of it. This is the reason, therefore, that we advise drastic measures in the treatment of this trouble at onee. We have seen mafiy farmers try to save their orchards and it has always ended tn disaster, so we t...nk ft is better to give you this in formation now, so you may lose no time THE NEW PRESIDENTS CABINET SECRETARY OF WAR, I JACOB M’GAVOCK DICKINSON of Tennessee. SECRETARY OF THE NAVY ■khT * ■ Uli GEO. VON LENGERKE MEYER of Massachusetts. SECY. COMMERCE AND LABOR, "" ■ . ? c L'-, ~ CHAS. NAGEL of Missouri. In starting over if you desire to do so. Velvet beans make a good cover crop, and will grow Very well in this section of the state. They will not yield, however, but may be grazed with some advantage by catlie and other classes of stock, and the roots can ,u«n be turned under to enrich the soil.' This cajop should be plowed under before frost so as to se cure the benefit of the vegetable matter and nitrogen which it will add to the soil. A crop should then be planted on the land to act as a cover crop during the winter. A good thing to use would be vetch and oats, or crimson clover. We know of no cheap and effective way of destroying pine sprouts without digging or grubbing them out. Tiier? are few if any kinds of grass that will make much progress in a sedge field unless it is thoroughly summer fal lowed and a smother crop like cowpeas grown on the land for a year or two. If you want to make a pasture we doubt if there is anything better than Bermu da, as it stands the vicissitudes of our climate better than anything else. For hay probably tall oat grass is one of the best varieties to grow. If the land Is low and moist, red top will answer very well. For pasture on rielf soils that are well shaded, orchard grass does fairly well, but will not yield as much grazing, nor stand the tramping and hard usage accorded to Bermuda. Amount of Fertilizer To Use Under Cotton T. L. L„ Canon. Ga., writes: I want some advice in regard to fertilizers. I want to use a dry mixture .composed of phosphoric acid, muriate of potash and cottonseed meal on a plat of gray sandy soil. Subsoil is yellow with some sand. I have Just turned it with two mules about seven inches. It has made for the last two years 1,000 pounds of seed cotton to the acre. I would like to know how much fertilizer to use at planting time and as a top dressing. You may prepare a good fertilizer for cotton by proceeding as follows: Mix together 800 pounds of high grade cot tonseed meal, that is, containing at least 7 per cent of nitrogen, 1,000 pounds of high grade acid phosphate and 200 pounds of muriate of potash. This mixture will contain approximately 4.1 per cent of nitrogen, 8.8 per cent of phosphoric acid and 5.6 per cent of potash. We have made the contents of potash rather high because you wish to use this fertilizer on gray sandy land, which is more likely to be deficient in potash than the clay lands found so commonly in some sections. Then, potash in the form of muriate and kainit is one of the best remedies for correcting rust of cotton which has yet been discovered. The rusting of cotton is due. as you know, to an impoverished condition of the soil which naturally i fish can tWut of our SEINES and NETS and lookwhat we offer you at the price SEINES -’HOOP NETS VXI ALL RIGGED READY FOR USE Seines, 15 feet, 6 feet k inch, - 81.30 •• 20 “ 4 “ 1 0 twine, - - - - 1.10 •• SO “ » “ 1 “ » “ - - - - 1.90 •• <0 “ 1 “ M " .... 3.98 Hoop net, 354 feet height, double throat, - - 1.50 ,r »* • >• •• “ . 5.40 .. 4 .. « •• . 3.00 Write for price list of all kind* of net* BOURNE & BOND. Louisville, Ky. Threshing Machinery Catalogue Free Dunn machinery Co. Dept. “1" ATLAMTA. GA. SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE, KU. "9 J I JAS. WILSON of lowa. • • SECRETARY OF INTERIOR, '•■ < • ' WrMivW RICHARD ACHILLES BALLINGER of Washington. POSTMASTER GENERAL, FRANK HARRIS HITCHCOCK of Massachusetts. reduces the vigor and healthfulness of the plants grown thereon. It, therefore, seems to us good practice to use potash in fairly liberal amounts on sandy soils. You will see also that this fertilizer contains a liberal amount of phosphoric acid which has so much to do with hastening the maturity of the plants, and insuring the development of a per fect seed. The nitrogen content of the fertilizer is not high; in fact, it is a little low. You may increase the nitro gen content of your soil by using the litter from the woods or compost scat tered broadcast or under the drill row. All the farmyard manure you can pos sibly make or secure should be used on land intended for corn or cotton, as vegetable matter improves the mechani cal condition and is also necessary to the development of a strong, vigorous plant. We would advise the use of this mixture at the rate of 500 pounds per acre. Fertilizer Formulas for Corn and Cotton. W. C. G., Geneva, Ala., writes: I would like to know how to mix .cotton and phosphate for corn. Will It pay to use nitrate of soda, and when should it be applied? Will 20 bushels of cotton and 200 ponds of phosphate make 30 to 40 bushels of corn per acre on average land? It is difficult to determine whether you propose to use cotton seed or cot ton seed meal in the fertilizer you de sire to mix tor corn. If you have any considerable quantity of seed and can obtain as much-as 320.00 or more a ton I for it, or can exchange them at an oil mill on the basis of 1,600 to 1,800 pounds of ineal for a ton of seed, it will pay you to malee the exchange, since 900 pounds of meal may regarded as about equal to one ton of seed In fertilizer value. The meal is easier to mix and handle than the seed, and you can prepare a fertfiMzer to better ad vantage on that account. When seed go below 20 cents a Bushel it will often pay you to keep them on the farm and use them as fertilzer, but it is to your advantage generally to sell them or exchange for meal when they go over this price. A good fertilizer for corn may be prepared as follows: Mix together 1,000 pounds of cotton seed meal, 900 pounds of acid phosphate and 100 pounds of muriate of potash. Only high-grade goods should be used. This formula should make a fertilizer con taining 3.5 per cent of nitrogen and potash respectively, and 8.2 per cent of available phosphoric acid <and when used at the rate of 300 to 500 pounds per acre should give you good results on corn. It is not often necessary to use nitrate of s»da on corn except in an unfavorable season, or when thS is late and backward and you de sire to force it. in that case an appli cation of 100'to 150 pounds per acre as a side dressing when the crop is partly made will be the most effective way. NO MOUNTS FOR THE HORSE GUARD WASHINGTON. Jan. s.—lnability to ob tain satisfactory mounts after their ar rival in Washington kept the Governor s Horse Guard, of Atlanta, from participat ing in the inaugural parade yesterday The liverymen of Washington held the few “hack horses” they had at exorbitant prices, and this, combined with the ad verse weather conditions, decided the Guards in their determination not to par ticipate in the parade. However, the troops w'ere milch in evi dence about the streets of Washington, and enjoyed the occasion even more than if they had been in the parade. They came at their own expense, and did not share in the money raised by popular sub scription in Atlanta. NOTICE TO TEACHERS. A free trip to the Alaskan-Youkon Exposition, to be held at Seattle, Washington, next summer, will be given teachers In public schools. Five Dollars per day for incidental expenses will be allowed. For particulars address C. L. Rockwell, Publicity Director, H-1000 N. Grand Ave., St. Louis, Mo. WSTATE SPENDS FOR EDUCATION GEORGIA RANKS 42ND BUT SHOULD RANK HIGHER, AS SHE SPENDS $7,000,000 AN NUALLY INSTEAD $3,011,«75. The startling declaration that the state of Georgia spends annually for the edu cation of Its children some four milllion dollars more than it gets credit for, is given out unofficially in the offices of the state school commissioner. Georgia ranks forty-second among the states of the union, in point of money spent for education. South Carolina, among the southern states, follows after it. Other southeastern states rank about with Georgia or a little ahead of it. The addition of four million dollars to the state's showing of cost of education would place it several numbers higher up on the list, and would probably place it at the head of all the southern states, excepting Texas. It would at least head all the southeastern states. Figures Should Be $7,000,000 The total cost of education in Georgia is shown by the 1907 report of the state school commissioner as $3,011,678.46. or slightly less than a million more than the state itself appropriated. According to the claim of the state school depart ment, those figures should be approxi mately $7,000,000. The aggregate amount shown for 1907 Included reports from only 26 of the two or three hundred prlvato educational institutions in Georgia. In other words, by the laxity or neglS* gence of private institution heads in Georgia, the state is being deprived of some four million dollars' credit on the national records. A strenuous effort is being made in those offices to collect such statistics as will insure that at least a part of that credit be recorded in the 1908 report of the state school commissioner, now being prepared. According to the foregoing, it is an au thoritative claim that in addition-to the two millions and a quarter, approximate ly, that the state of Georgia appropri ates annually for it* schools, plus the million other dollars, approximately, re garding which information is collected each year as having been expended in the cause of education in nrivate schools and which is incorporated in the commis sioner’s annual report, there yet remain not less than four and possibly five or six, million dollars that are spent In private Institutions in Georgia and that are not accounted for to the extent of even a dol lar In the statement which Georgia an nually gives forth to the country as show ing her expenditure* for enlightenment of the young. Commissioner’s Opinion State School Commissioner Pound and Assistant Commissioner Merry, both of whom are capable of expert opinion in the matter, are in accord on this claim that Georgia is being annually rated as a state spending about three millions on educa tion when as a matter of fact she 1* en titled to classification on * basis of seven millions, at a conservative estimate. Every effort is being made this year to collect the valuable information that bears so directly upon the state's good name. But as the Institutions to which the missing millions would be credited are not in any way» under control of the state school department, the only course the commissioner’s office can pursue Is to ap peal directly to the institutions them selves to furnish the commissioner's of fice with the necessary information and statements on which the true showing could be based of Georgia's annual ex penditures for the education of her young er generajrton. » PROF. DE LOACH SPEAKS ON “DEBT TO BIRDS” Before a large and appreciative au dience, Professor B. J. H. DeLoach, of the chair of cotton industry at the State Agricultural college, delivered on Friday afternoon a highly Interesting lecture on “Our Debt to the Birds,” at a meeting of the Atlanta Kindergarten Alumni as sociation. Professor DeLoach cam* as a repre sentative of the university extension, lecture system, and his address w*s greatly enjoyed. Unser three principal heads, Professor DeLoach stressed the general field of bird study and litera ture, the economic, and finally the aes thetic value of bird*. It will be recalled that just a year ago Professor DeLoach entertained John Burroughs, the great naturalist, while he was on a tour along the south Atlan tic seaboard. At that time Professor De- Loach was at the head of the department of botany of the Georgia Experiment Station, and Mr. Burroughs visited him at Experiment. , In speaking of the work at the State Agricultural college, Professor DeLoach said that recently splendid new equip ments, valued at $15,000, had been in stalled In the large, new building, which rendered the equipment there practically Unexcelled in the southern states or throughout the entire nation. The agri cultural college is only at the beginning of a broadly widened and extended use fulness to the farmers and citiaens gen erally of the entire state. WAR ON TUBERCULOSIS STARTED BY BRYAN NEW YORK, March 6.—William J. Bryan was in this city today on nts way to Newark. N. J., where he lectured to night and called on Nathan Straus to consult him about the way in which he could best help in the warfare against tuberculosis. It is Mr. Bryan’s Intention to give con siderable time and effort the next few years to compaigning against tubercu losis by spreading the knowledge of the Pasteurizing methods which Mr. Straus has used in his 17 years' fight against the disease and by attacking tuberculosis at its origin, the infected milk from tuber- , culosis cows. i “I have been impressed,” said Mr. 1 Bryan, “with the array of facts, vividly shown In the tuberculosis exhibition now in Philadelphia and I hope that this ex hibition wTTI be brought to the great west so that the people out there cai. be shown the dangers and the way to overcome them —by fresh air, healthful habits, clean lives and the pasteurization of milk.” RUNAWAY SENATORS COME BACK HOME NASHVILLE, Tenn., March a.—After spending just one week at Hopkinsville. , Ky., eight of the thirteen state senators who ran away from here to break a quorum and thus prevent the passage ot objectionable election bills, returned to Nashville from Kentucky at 10 o'clock this morning. The runaways were ac corded a rousing reception when they stepped from the train at the union sta tion,, and were escorted to the capitoi oy their friends, where they took their usual seats in the senate chamber. The returning senators say that an agreement has been made whereby the coalitionists promise not to attempt to force a ratification of Wednesday s elec tion. but will leave the matter as it now stands to be tried out in the courts. Both the state-wlders and admlnistrationists have had legal advice and each side claims to be within the law. The remaining five runaways are ex pected here today. 1 GROWERS Os SOUTH WITH EXCHANGE ORGANIZATIONS IN SEVERAL STATES PATTERN AFTER THH GEORGIA FRUIT EXCHANGE. ORANGE SHIPMENTS LIKELY. Fruit, melon and vegetable grower* of the south are organizing, following the ' success of the Georgia Fruit exchange, and. having adopted that organization's shipping plan, are co-oper?»!ng with it for better prices that would result from J improved facilities and the avoidance of -Jg glutted markets. The organization of the Georgia ex- "• change has encouraged other states to take similar steps. Organizations have either been formed, or are in process of formation, in Texas, Florida, Oklahoma and Tennessee, and several growers ot 5 Tennessee and South Carolina have joined the Georgia exchange and will j ship through it. It is very probable tnat the orang* growers of Florida, and also the vegeta- . ble growers there, will act with the Geor- I gia exchange and handle their shipments through it. Such an organization as this would be eminently practicable, because • the shipping seasons do not conflict ax . I to time, and the combination would have the effect of keeping the full organize- . tlon of the Georgia exchange active tne year around. Manager I. M. Fleming, as southeaster*! agent of rhe Armour car line* hai " handled the Florida shipments and wouio be in a position to handle them again fur the Georgia exchange. Oklahoma Organizes .j 3 The Oklahoma State Fruit Growers* ./j| association, which met in Fl Rent’ on ’,i February 27. and organized, and the Lo- . gar County Fruit Growers’ association, ot Guthrie. Okla., have both adopted flans similar to those of the Georgia Fruit ex change, and have promised their co- f operation. The Texas fruit growers h| formed an organization after the plans of the Georgia exchange, and have prom- . ised their hearty co-operation. It la re- ■ ported that 50 per cent of the Texas peach crop in the vicinity of Morrill has been killed. The Tullahoma. Tenn., growers wrote the exchange for information about Us plan, and say that they will adopt. K. President Tagley. of the Georgia ex ; change, has met with the Cleveland grovf- J| ers and addressed them on the Georgia , plan. The South Carolina growers have al- . “ ready joined the exchange and the can- 1 teloupe growers of Oglethorpe, Ga., I through D. P. Cooglcr. have notified th* ; exchange that they want to join it. Th* ? exchange officers announce that tney will be glad to explain their plan to anyon* Interested, and promise their co-opera- | tion. j. President H. C. Bagley, of the Georgia Ct 'exchange, is enthusiastic, over the out look for co-operation among southern growers. ti “It must be understood at the outset, he said, "that our plan is not a trust, and has no radical or Socialistic tenden cies. So far from benefiting the grower alone, it is a protection for the conimls- M sion men, and has been indorsed by most J us the leading members of the National 7 ' League of Commission Merchant*. Tho I railroads arc heartily in sympathy with : it, and the growers themselves—or at least 85 per cent of them in Georgia—have g ' shown their faith by pledging to ship ’ ' through the exchange and by subscribing | ! to its stock. | “There is nothing radical in our plan. I It is simply the systematizing of a plan I already in use. It is a protection to the , grower against glutted markets, dishonest commission men, poor packing, and save* him the trouble of adjusting claims with the transportation men, gives him e. bet ter system of schedules, and takes th* details of shipping from him. “The commission which the dealers j share with the exchange goes back to th* . growers as a dividend on their stock, do far from the exchange costing the anything, it gives him a profit. On th* other hand, the commiston men, being as-.wj sured against the glutting of the market, gets more commission on higher price*, j,; and has his f. o. b. shipment* protected. The railroads profit by settling all claima , or disputes through one man, th* manager of the exchange, instead of with individu al growers. The exchange, moreover, is not a prl- fi vate enterprise, run for the profit of on* grower or set of growers. Al) grower*, large and small, profit in proportion to the amount of their shipments. ej “The exchange will widen th* markets. I should be glad to answer any inquiries , which may be directed to me, and 1 am i gratified to know that the growers of th* south show such a disposition to get to gether.” LAW SOAKS TARDY INSURANCE FIRMS Eighteen insurance companies which did business in Georgia during 1908. will be outlawed in this state aurjng th* • rest of the year, is the startling fact that ■ has just come to light over at th* oapi- g toL • , ’J All insurance companies are required by law to file their semi-annual state- , ments with the governar within sixty days after the expiration of the j>*riod .• they cover. On March 1, sixty days af* ter January 1, eighteen companies; had 5 not yet filed those statements—either ? through neglect or indifference. In event of failure to comply with thl* requirement, provides the law, the gov- ; ernor shall report all delinquents to tho insurance commissioner (Comptroller- Q General W. A. Wright), who shall can cel their licenses to operate in Georgia during the rest of the current year. Wherefore eighteen insurance com panies. of which several are said to be Georgia organizations, have already for felted their right to operate In this stat* until Jan. 1. 1910. 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