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Newspaper Page TextAND SUCCESSW ♦* QUESTION AND ANSWER DEPARTMENT. ♦ ♦ Tbs Journal assirss to uteres as tbs aesfulnsss or its arncultnral ♦ ♦ para* In rvsry way posslbls. Po r thia purpose, the department of ♦ ♦ laqnlrlee and anaweru la to bo grea Uy enlarged. Any information per- ♦ taming' to agriculture, the proper ti Uago of the soil, the proper nee of ♦ ♦ fertilisers, seeding for crops, etoe k and cattle breeding, poultry raising ♦ «. -—e ta fact, tol subjects pertain tn* to the farm upon which informa- ♦ ♦ Mon may be nought or practical au ggeationa offered, will bo pubUahed o ♦ la these column*. ♦ ♦ Wo request our reader* to an o these pages freely. Wo will on- -o ♦ dearer to furnish information. If th o Questions are asked, tetters ad- ♦ ♦ dressed to Dr. Andrew M. Boule, President State Agricultural CoDege, ♦ w Athens, ue-. will receive prompt at tontion, and the replies will bo pub- ♦ o- Listed In The Semi-Weekly Journal. ♦ SUGGESTIONS RELATIVE • TO COTTON BUYING There is widespread interest tn seed cotton just at this time. Most people do not realize the importance of seed se lection as Influencing yield. On thia ac count some of the most important results obtained by Professor De Loach tn teste made at 'Athens tn MB are presented this week for the advice and information of our readers. A very Intereettnfg and instructive ex periment with the Broadwell cotton was a comparative test with fresh seed from the originator of the cotton and seed se lected on college plats, for two years consecutively The following results were obtained Broadwell s selection. 1153 pounds seed cotton per acre. College selection. 180 pounds seed cot ton per acre. This variety ranked number 13 in the variety test, but proved quite a high yleider under the conditions of the spe cial plats. Any variety of cotton will do better in a given community the second and third years if properly selected than they will the first, a fact possibly due to acclimation. Farmers who are not care ful to select their seed for plsntlng And that it takes only two or three years for the cotton to “run out,” however good it may have been to start with. Those who grow seed for sale are always trying to get the beet possible seed for planting their own patches, if they have anything worthy to be offered to the public. The Broadwell cotton grown at the col lege Is not quite as good as the best that Broadwell grows on his own farm, but seed selected here do better than newly supplied seed from him. However careful we are to observe the rules of the originator of a variety of a cotton, we can not do what he does with it till we fit it to the new environment. Long Shank seed planted at the college were gotten from Mr. John White Mor ton. of Clarke county, and gave fine re sults. though planted a little too late, and In a rather damp place. The yield was qblte good, being 1,892 pounds seed cotton per acre, while It came 11 In the variety test Davison, No. 560. Seed for this plant ing were obtained from Mr. R. E. Da vison. of Greene county. The cotton was rather late In maturing, but had 36 1-2 per cent good lint and the plant waa not al together unlike the Kilgore cotton. It had large green leaves, large oval bolls, and medium size greenish white seed. This is a new cotton, having been ob served by Mr. Davison in 1906. as an unusual Individual plant in his crop of cotton. He Is working hard with it. and will likely get good results. It is planted under the college number 550. Worth’s Improved and Simpkin s Im proved. These varieties were received from the Universal Oil and Fertilizer com pany. Wilmington. N. .C.. under the man agement of Mr. William E. Worth, and were dellnted. whi<sh did not seem to defect their vitality at all. They germinat ed fine and made good jrlelds, the former yielding 1.800 pounds seed cotton and the later 1.530 pounds per acre. Sea island cotton matures quite well here, only the lint is not as long as It Is down nearer the coast. For breeding work It does well. Chinese cotton. Unit ed States department of agriculture, P. 8.. No. 18,623. has been grown and select ed successively for three years now by the author, and it seems to have no future whatsoever here. It Is no better than reported by the de partment. the wool being crinkly and short, and low per cent of lint, but ex ceedingly strong. For the past three years the writer has made a great many ef forts to cross this cotton with the Amer ican cotton, |>ut failed In each instance. No effort has been made to study the morphological differences between the flowers of this cotton and the American cottons. SPECIALLY SELECTED COOK’S COTTON. Tn the year 1906 there was a great deal of cotton anthracnose over the entire state, and all the varieties of cotton planted at the Georgia Experiment sta tion had a pretty high per cent, the Cook's cotton being apparently more sus ceptible than any other variety. On ac count of the exceptionally high lint per If 9,896 Farmers and planters told you that their yields per acre of cotton, corn, tobacco, wheat, fruits, peanuts, rice, sugar cane and truck crops were greatly increased and even doubled By Using Virginia-Carolina Fertilizers and which they thought the best and biggest crop pro ducers on earth—wouldn’t you feel that you should, in justice to yourself, try these fertilizers and get the same increased yields on your own farm? We have many thousands of un-asked-for letters from farmers blessing the day they bought Virginia-Carolina Fertilizers. Many of these letters are in our iQioFarmers’ Year Book,which can be had free of your dealer,or by mailing us the coupon SALES OFFICES. ftkteaontf. Vs. Atlanta, G*. rtH Cous— Itortslk. V». IrMuk. Gs. (TiMtau Cmouma Cumtcax. S’ Feaaa Msd m • corr rt rnr W.sandAa.l.C, £***< tig®] Farawra’T«*f Boo« rtw W mm. Charle.coa. IC. feglMfcy I t~TIIII /mW DaltlaM*, M 4 o*. bp \ iryinin —. Moatgoncry. Ala. ■SmB&MT i' ti i • rriT*f M~vkU. Teua. *«> i »a»cT«p<xt. La, THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA. GEORGIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8. 191*. cent of this variety, a special interest centered tn its tendency to develop ar.- thracnoee. While trying to get the real per cent of diseased bolls in a small plat of only a few hundred plants, the writ ers attention was called to the excep tlonal variation of the different plants In the number of diseased bolls found on them. Having noted carefully this vari ation. it was thought that possibly some plants are more resistant to the disease than others, so out of the entire plat two plants were selected, one with only about 2 per cent of anthracnose and one with 80 per cent of the bolls Infected. In this way It could be seen If there is really any difference In the hereditary characters of plants toward this dis ease. This did not seem to be a very good showing, but among the offsprings of the plant containing only 2 per cent dis ease. three plants had no disease. These were put in as many plats and carefully studied. One of them had 350 plants, and very little anthracnose indeed. In fact, might be considered free from the much dreaded disease. From these were se lected plants that made the present se lect Cook's cotton grown on the experi mental plats of the State College of Agri culture. This year we grew from these seed about 1200 plants that are absolutely free from anthracnose, and yielded at the rate of more than two bales per acre. In fact, 2.6 W pounds of seed cotton and 43 per cent lint, making actually 1,152 pounds of lint cotton to the acre. While every effort has been made to get rid of the anthracnose, every plant selected has yielded in addition, at least 43 per cent lint cotton. All have been discarded that did not come up to this standard, and the consequence is that the present crop easily yields the requir ed per cent. In the entire plat work except the fer tilizer experiments on which a report will be made next year, there was used a 3-10-4 formula commercial fertilizer at the rate of 580 pounds per acre, and two tons of barnyard manure, all applied In the drill row. Total cost about 39.50 per acre. The land was broken in January about 11 inches with an Oliver chilled two-horse turn plow, and left in this rough condition exposed to the frost till April. It was then leveled with drag harrow, and put in rows, and the fertil izer and manure applied only a few days before planting began. My experience here is that other things being equal, all cotton should be put In the ground between Memorial day, April 26. and May 1. Cotton planted later than that fruits quite well, but does not seem to recover from the hurried growth at the beginning of the season, and has not given the yield .obtained from the earlier plantings. The total cost, aside from special work that had been done by skilled labor in the way of keeping up streets between plats, and printing and staking land, was about 332 per acre. That would In any event cover the necessary cost. The best cotton netted at that rate a little 1V» than 3100. while the poorest in any of the variety test plats netted only about 32.50 per acre. Surely one can see how important It is to Intensify farming and make large gains on what he plants. • • • Questions Answered PLANTING IRISH POTATOES. A. B. M.. Cherryville. N. C., writes: Please give me information about plant ing Irish potatoes. I want to open a fur row and fill with pine leaves, and sprinkle fertilizer on them and cover with two furrows. Please give me a fertilizer that will give good returns. You do not state whether your land is clay or sandy in character. If It is sandy we would advise a heavier application of fertilizer than where the clay predomi nates, especially red clay. Sandy lands are likely to be more deficient in all the elements of fertility than clays, but this applies especially to potash. A good fertilizer to use on Irish pota- MTASH Profit, not Necessity, is the Test V Why did you buy fine farm machinery, improved a- Jive stock and seed, and the best varieties of fruit? rßecause the man who sold them to you convinced you that they would pay. Proceed on the same basis when you buy fertilizer. Get the improved fertilizer—the yZz A kind with enough Potash in it to make a balanced "v* pl ant ration. Your dealer would get it for you if he 'Jr knew that you warted it. For grain, use 6: for corn. 8: and for roots.fruit and truck.lo percent, of Potash r i n the fertilizer. If your dealer has not such brands, get him to buy some Potash salt for you and put it in the goods yourself. t / To increase the Potash one percent, add two pounds of jjT muriate or sulfate of Potash, or eight pounds of Kainit to every TTVsW? 100 P° un^B of fertilizer. > Ts, \ L n. _L D___ Urge yonr fertiliser dealer to carry Potash Salta in —C H r OiaSfl I ay! ,tz>ck. He will have no trouble in buying them If he / will write to us about it. j z vk W rWr to Sales Office: te'f /* X GERMAN KALI WORKS tin/// t ,1 ft Casllsestal BnlMln, Baltiaare. Nd. wWwWiB - toes may be made as follows: Mix togeth er 600 pounds of high-grade blood,.that is, containing at least 13 per cent of avail able nitrogen; 1,000 pounds of 16 per cent acid phosphate; and 400 pounds of high grade sulphate of potash. This mixture would contain approximately 3.9 per cent of nitrogen, 8 per cent of phosphoric acid and 10 per cent of potash. We would use it at the rate of at least 1,000 pound's per acre where an early crop is sought. The fertilizer should be applied under the drill row, and there is no objection to using a compost consisting of pine straw, decayed leaves and litter from the for est at the rate of two tons per acre. We would open a furrow as you suggest and fill it with the compost, and then mix the fertilizer with It and plant the pota toes above but not in contact with the fertilizer. Blood furnishes nitro gen in an excellent form for pota toes, and it becomes available with sufficient rapidity to meet tue needs of this crop. FERTILIZERS FOR TOBACCO. I P. D., Dover, Tenn., writes: I intend planting several acres of tobacco on Cumberland river bottom land next sea son. This land is on a slight elavation, and is black sandy loam. Several suc cessive crops of tobacco have been made on same land very successfully, yielding fnom 1,000 to 1,500 pounds per acre. Small amounts of fertilizer and some barnyard manure have been applied at various timhs. If from this meagre information you .can give me a suggestion as to the knd V>f fertilizer to use, I will appreciate it very much. We yudge from your letter that you desire to grow’ a large yield of tobacco irrespective of color and quality of leaf. In otheY words, that you are raising dark tobacco, and therefore there will be no objections to using a considerable amount of vegetable matter on your land. Where quantity pf tobacco irrespective of cblor is vegetable matter may be used very freelj*. In the light tobacco regions, however, must be used sparingly and with discretion or the crop will contain so many mahogany wrappers as to reduce its value very materially. I would suggest, therefore, that you use from five to ten loads of farmyard manure per acre if you can secure the same, and a fertilizer containing the following Ingredients: 1,200 peunds of ground fish, 150 pounds of ni trate of soda. 100 pounds of bone meal, and 250 pounds of sulphate of ammonia. This would make an application of 1,700 peunds per acre and the mixture would contain approximately 153 pounds of am monia, 106 pounds of phosphoric acid and 125 pounds of potash. The ammonia in [this mixture would be equivalent to 126 pounds of nitrogen. The percentage i composition of this fertilizer would be about 6.3 per cent of nitrogen, 5.3 per cent lof phosphoric acid and 6.2 per cent of I potash. It would be considered lower in phosphoric acid and potash than is often ! advised for tobacco, but since exceptional ly good yields have been obtained from I this mixture we would suggest that you [try it. Os course, where ground fish can not be obtained, tankage or blood or cot- I ton-seed meal may be used as the source lof nitrogen. In teats where this mixture I was used, a yield of better than 1,300 I pounds of tobacco of fine quality was ob ! talned and a good profit per acre made. The land was also left in fine condition to seed to oats or wheat without the use of additional fertilizer. We advocate the use of a rather high percentage of nitro gen as you will see on account of the im portance of growing the leaf quickly and I uniformly in order to secure a large yield and the best quality of product. Os course, a great variety of formulas may be suggested for tobacco, but we . be lieve the one offered is a fairly satis factory one in view of the success we have had with It. A GOOD FERTILIZER FOR COTTON. A subscriber, Cumming, Ga., writes. What grade of fertilizer is best for cot ton on red land and how much should be used per acre. Also what grade of fer tilizer is best to use on sandy land. Please give me the amount of each ingredient which goes to make up the fertilizer. A very good fertilizer to be used under cotton on red land may be prepared as follows: Mix together 460 pounds of dried blood containing at least 13 per cent ni trogen ; 1,000 pounds of acid phosphate and 160 pounds of muriate of potash. To [this you will have to add 380 pounds oi 'leaf mold or well rotted farmyard ma ' nure to bring the total up to 2,000 pounds. This mixture would contain approximately 3 per cent of available nitrogen, 8 per cent of available phosphoric acid and 4 per cent of available potash, and If used at the rate of 600 pounds per acre should answer well on land such as you de scribe. For sandy land we would in crease the potash to 260 pounds and les sen the earth proportionately. If the land is very sandy we would add at least 100 pounds more of acid phosphate; A high grade cotton seed meal containing at least 7 per cent of nitrogen may be used In place of the blood If desirable. In that case you would have to use at least 840 pounds of meal to secure as much nitro gen as would be tontained In 460 pounds of dried blood carrying 13 per cent of nitrogen. High-grade cotton seed meal will In our judgment furnish the ni trogen about as cheaply as the blood. We think you will find It advisable to put as much vegetable matter Into your soil as possible for cotton. At least two tons per acre of well rotted compost or yard manure will be found highly bene ficial along with the amount of fertilizer suggested. YARD MANURE FOR COTTON. • • • L. E. T., writes: I want your opinion about the best fertilizer for Sweet po tatoes, and amount per acre. Is it prac t cal to use stable manure for all nitrogen; if so, how much potash and acid should I use per acre for best results? How many pounds of nitrogen are available in ton of stable manure the first year? Yard manure ordinarily contains from 9 to 12 per cent of nitrogen. Where the animals are fed on a ration containing a large amount of cotton seed meal or oth er food rich in protein the manure may possibly run as high as 16 per cent of ni rogen. Probably not over 9 pounds of nlt.ogen would therefore become avail able for each ton of manure used dur ing the year. While It is possible, there fore, to supply the needs of the potata crop with farmyard manure the applica tion would have to be heavier probably than most planters are prepared to make. For this reason it is advisable to use moderate amounts of commercial nitrogen in conjunction with yard manure for sweet potatoes. We think a fertilizer con taining about 2 per cent of nitrogen, 9 to 10 per cent of phosphoric acid and 8 to 10 per cent of potash w’ould answer well for your sweet potato crop. This fertiliz er may be prepared from a variety of materials, but by mixing together 600 pounds of high-grade tankage, that is, containing 8 per cent of nitrogen and 11 per cent of phosphoric acid; 900 pounds of high-grade acid phosphate; 400 pounds of sulphate of potash, and 100 pounds of rich earth, you can prepare a mixture which should prove satisfactory for the potato crop. This mixture will contain approxi mately 2.4 per cent of nitrogen, 10.5 per cent of phosphoric acid and 10 per cent of potash. • • • FIGHTING ANTHRACNOSE IN COT TON. G. E. W. S'., Round Mountain, Ala, writes: “I have a piece of red land which was tn cotton last year, and was very badly affected with what I took to be anthracnose. Will the same disease affect the cotton this year if I plant seed not affected on this piece of land, as 1 am anxious to plant this piece of land to cotton? Anthracnose of cotton is due to a fun gus which is in reality a true plant as much as the cotton itself. The spores are minute granules and form in count less numbers, on a diseased boll. As you have no doubt observed, the boll appears to be covered with a pink pow der at certain stages of the disease. These spores are very hardy and live over from year to year, and when the cotton is planted again in the spring and favorable conditions arise, they begin to grow and develop, sending out branched threads that grow into the tissues of the plant, obtaining tlteli food therefrom and killing it, or else they attack the bolls and cause them to rot. It is during a wet spell that it becomes almost epidemic in charac ter. The season, therefore, will have some Influence on the extent bf the damage which the disease may cause. In fighting this trouble the best meth od to pursue is a rotation of crops, since the fungus is dependent on cot ton for its food and does not grow on corn. The seed may also be treated in a manner similar to that employed for smut; that is, immersed in a solu tion of cwpper sulphite at the rate of one pound lo five gallons of water. The seed shotZd be drained and spread out to dry *>fter being in the solution for ten minutes. The best method of all is to secure seed as far as possible that are immune to this disease. Jack son's Limbless is one of the best va rieties so far as its natural resistance to anthracnose is concerned, though it is not as prolific as some other varie ties. You might secure what is known as Dillon, which is an improved strain of Jackson. We would suggest that you select your seed next fall from plants that are free from this disease, and therefore apparently immune to its attack, and when you have secured an immune strain you can grow cotton on the iffected land with comparative impunity. You should gather up and burn all diseased plants and bolls so as to keep from reinfecting the land. By fol lowing these directions you can prob ably grow cotton on the land on which you write with fair success this year, but you should remember that it may be very difficult to secure a resistant strain of seed, and if the season is very wet and unfavorable, you will probably be troubled with anthracnose in spite of your best efforts to hold it in check. A Chance to Make Money Yes. elegant free homesteads can still be had in Mexico, where many Americans are now locating. You need not go to Mexico, but are required to hare five acres of fruit trees planted within five years. For information ad dress the Jantha Plantation Co., Block 580, Pittsburg, Pa. They will plant and care for your trees on shares, so you should make a thousand dollars a year. It is never hot, never cold. The health conditions are perfect. DELEGATES NAMED FOR MEET OF COTTON MEN Governor Brown has appointed an Imposing Hat of delegates who will represent the state at the meeting In Atlanta on February 10, next Thursday, when effort will b'e made to organ ize a national cotton and cotton products as sociation. Many others than these will attend, of course. Everybody who comes will be wel come, says G. 8. Weever. of Atlanta, who bas been sending out as many invitations as ha could. Mr. Weever says It's Impossible to reach everybody who la Interested with an invita tion. bnt that everybody Irf Invited. Following Is the Hat of delegates named by the governor: T. G. Hudson of Americus, state agricultur al commissioner; R. F. Wright, of Elberton, as sistant commissioner of agriculture: K. L. Wor sham, of Atlanta, state entomologist; A. M. Soule, of Athens, dean of the state college of agriculture; R. D. H. DeLoach, of Athens; R. F. Duckworth, of Union City; Martin V. Calvin, of Experiment; E. C. J. Dickens, of Statesboro; W. G. Acree, of -—ton; J. ts. Collum, of Amer icus; J. H. Melson, of Carrollton; G. C. Ad ams. of Monroe; M. B. Dennis, of Barnes ville; H. R. Hunt, of Powder Springs: Joseph F. Hart: of Madison; W. H. Maxwell, of Clarkesville; J. N. Rogers, of Granite Hill; C. W. Davis, of Douglas and E. E. Dalits, of Atlanta. TWO STILLS FOUND IN MURRAY COUNTY DALTON, Ga., Feh. s.—Two stills were diicovered and destroyed by rev enue officers in Murray county this week, one being of 60-gallon capacity, which was discovered near Cisco by Of ficers Griffin, of Atlanta, and Camp, of Dalton. Fourteen hundred gallons of beer were found. Near Crandall another 50-gaTlon ca pacity still was found, ano there were 600 gallons of beer found. This sec ond raid was made by Officer Camp and Deputy Collector Hinton, of Wood bury, Ga. Taft to Visit Masons WASHINGTON. Feb. 4.-President Taft has agreed, other engagements not Inter fering, to attend the annual banquet of the Alexandria-Washington lodge of Ma sons, at Alexandria, Va„ February 22. This lodge, of Which George Washington was the first master, has under consider ation the erection of a memorial Masonic temple to the first president of the United States. SAYS ANTI-GAMBLING MEASURE IS ASSURED BY RALPH SMITH. WASHINGTON. Feb. 3.-Senator Jeff Davis, the Arknasas flre-eaterf assured the Farmers’ union executive committee last night that his bill to prohibit gam bling in products of the soil would be favorably reported by the agricultural committee of the senate in a week or ten days. •’And I propose to put somebody on record when it comes up,” he added, significantly. Davis has arranged to appear before the committee next Tuesday to explain hs bill, and has great faith in his power to convince the committee of its wisdom. The Davis bill proposes to make it a felony for any telegraph or telephone company to transmit any message cal culated to aid or abet gambling in farm products. The Farmers’ union executive commit tee and others who heard Davis’ state ment took it with a grain of salt. They were not impressed with his ability to accomplish anything in the United States senate. President Barrett spent a busy morn ing at the capltol, conferring with sena tors and representatives. He will return to Georgia tonight, to be gone until next Wednesday. The campaign here will not lag in his absence, however. Members of the executive committee will remain on the job. The 18 congressmen who attended the initial conference last Saturday night have perfoimed their work well, it is stated by Mr. Barrett. Each of them has seen at least two other members of the lower house in the interest of the anti-gambling crusade, and 36 additional votes have been secured for the passage of the measure. Congressman Scott, of Kansas, chair man of the house committee on agricul ture, has pledged his support to the bill. He assured Mr. Barrett today that a bill prohibiting gambling in farm products would be reported by his committee. He added that the campaign the union is making assures the passage of the measure through the house. statetreasurerls GIVEN JAIL SENTENCE LANSING, Mich., Feb. s.—Former State Treasurer Frank P. Glazier, of Chelsea, was sentenced by Judge Wiest, at Mason today to serve not less than five nor more than ten years in prison for misappropriating 3685,000 of state funds. Glazier controlled a bank at Chelsea which failed in December, 1907, and the money had been deposited in this bank contrary to law. SHIP SUBSIDY BILL WILLBE REPORTED WASHINGTON. Feb. 4.—The Humphrey ship subsidy bill was ordered favorably reported to day by the house committee on merchant marine and fisheries by a vote of 10 to 7. GOVERNMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS By Frederic J. Haskin. The present investigation of the Bal linger-Pinchot controversy is but one of hundreds of inquiries of great and small import that have been made by the gov ernment through its legislative and ex ecutive branches in the past 100 years. Millions of pages of testimony have been accumulated and embalmed in the rec ords of the congress, the executive de partments and the courts, and millions of dollars have been spent in the asking of questions and the gathering of facts. Usually it is congress itself that pro vides for investigations and probes, but often the departments do it on their own initiative. • • • At the present time there are at least five important investigations being con ducted by the government. The Balllng er-Pinchot controversy is being threshed out, the monetary commission has not finished its work, the Brownsville court of inquiry is still asking questions, and the meat trust is being probed. In ad dition to these the immigration commis sion still has work to do. As a rule all governmental investigations come high, but none are so expensive as the com missions created by congress. The im migration commission already has spent more than 3600,000 in probing the immi gration question, and it wants still more money. The monetary commission also is spending money by the hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the industrial commission was no more careful of Uncle Sam’s pocketbook when it made its investigations into industrial conditions. • • * Usually these commissions are little more than pleasure junkets. The mem bers travel abroad in regal style, and nearly all of them are on the rolls at the capitol. These commissions plan to go abroad just about vacation time, and the senator or representative who is a member manages to find a place for his secretary, who is thus enabled to draw two salaries from Uncle Sam, and have his expenses paid while making a trip to Europe. Whether these commissions really are worth what they cost is a question ebout which there has been much discussion. • ♦ • The senate Brownsville inquiry repre sents about the most fruitless effort to get at the truth that has ever resulted from a governmental investigation. It cost several hundred thousand dollars to conduct the hearings, and little more was known of the matter when the sen ate got through than before it began. The testimony fills books which would occupy a whole shelf in a sectional book case, witnesses having been brought from the four corners of the country. • • • i The Standard Oil probe made by the department of commerce and labor, and the beef trust investigation by the same department, are about the most impor tant investigations ever made under a cabinet officer. It will be recalled that in the beef trust investigation Commis sioner Garfield asserted that the packers made a profit of only 99 cents each on the cattle they butchered. Few Investi gations have been received with more incredulity. Nobody believed that Gar field had reached the bottom of his sub ject. The Standard Oil investigation was the one that resulted in the Kenne saw Mountain 1-andis verdict of 129,000,000 against the Rockefeller combination. • • • The house and the senate have some times been hoist by their own petard when asking for Information from the 1 C OO O P e °pl e Have Put Their J On This Biiggy IX. • / S V Sf //Veil Buy yonr Bnggy anfl Harness direct from our factory and get it at first cost. No / drummer’s expenses, jobbers’ commissions, wholesalers’ profits and dealers* enormous profits I /TcdTOy /’TX *** added to the price of Golden Eagle vehicles. We manufacture and seU direct to users. \ and save our customers $20.00 to $40.00. We also sell Harness at cost as an advertisement, r \ / A'LrwSK ~ SwH*. * Mail coupon today for 1910 Catalog. Get our Catalog now for Spring Buying. Golden Eagle Buggy Co., Station 3—150 Edgewood Ave.. Atlanta. Ga. Gentlemen: Please mail me postpaid, your new 5-color 106 page Catalog. 150 Styles 1* Big Tree Catalog. Poetoffice . R. F. D. No. .. „ .. f USE IH C BINDER TWINE SURE-STEADY KONOMIttIRESIIITS DON’T experiment with binder twine of low grade or unknown quality. Sisal or high-grade Manila, bearing the I HC trade-mark, should be your choice. You can be sure that they will stand the necessary strain. They have the quality and quantity of fiber in them that Insures strength to spare. -a Even-spun, smooth-running, no knots, thereby avoiding tangles in the twine box and consequent waste. These qualities give even tension— which means perfect binding and perfect tying. ♦ Inferior binder twine is dear at any price. It means not only waste of time and poor work, but a waste of the twine itself, possible loss of crop at harvest time; and it is not always full length to the pound. Every ball of I H C twine is Guaranteed to be Full Length And every ball runs smooth and steady so you can use all of it. Remember, we sell grain binders. Naturally, therefore, we are more interested in the quality of twine you use than the twine manufacturer who does not sell binders. Stick to Sisal or Standard Sisal 500-ft. twine. If you prefer Manila, you economize by getting high-grade Manila 600-ft. or Pure Manila 650-ft. Don’t befooled by alow price. Low-grade Manila costs as much as high grade Sisal, but isn’t worth as much. 85 to 90 per cent of the farmers know. 85 to 90 percent use Sisal and Standard. In any case, look for the IH C trade-mark to be sure of quality. Choose from any of the following brands: Champion, Deering, McCormick, Milwaukee, Osborne, Plano, International. Better let your local agent know well ahead of time how much you will need. Meanwhile, if you want more interesting facts on binder twine write us for particulars. INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER COMPANY OF AMERICA LU ZhicatgO (Incorporated) U, S. A. || A PERFECTED “HORSE-HOE.” ■ 1 Aa Automatic Machine, fits itself to ths row, follows, 1 erooks, terrace banks. Chopa the Oatton to • stand. g Oioana out the trass. OMoa s> the row. So“Litht, Handy, a boy can handle it. . SAMPLE ■ Md at a low prlca. Ou TiM or Cash. \ \ Chep. and side, up fro. 6 to 8 acre. |° U " daily,—one horse and one man—Greatest feMftUh I V Labor Saver ever iavented. I Jr R s ’ oo ° Samples Ready I ‘ ‘ 1 xX. ■ I jlt waßt 10 ,e * • mlch ‘ ,e out aoaw /PiK. \I i / /alee on lean or root *«ef* for trial (One |L- H I e»ly ia * aeizhborhood.) jaEUjk yjff 3-0 Write to-day. S ro °A *° betSe investor of a practical Hone liSfflKW The remit of 15 yeare of W Chopper »nd with to distribute 5090 eamplee this *nd labor. f year, ia order to prove to the cotton srowisf world the Large descript!,, circuit .ytoventio.. T. J. departments. Many readers will recall the time when the house asked for infor mation about the relations of mem bers of congress with the postoffice de partment. There was never a more in dignant set of men than the members of the house, when nearly all of them were embraced in this report. It was then that William Alden Smith made his sensational speech nominating Uncle Joe Cannon for president. The house that now quarrels with Mr. Cannon applauded itself hoarse that day. • • • Few Inquiries have attracted such wide interest as the Schley court of In quiry, in which it was attempted to set tle the controversy growing out of the battle with the Spanish fleet at Santiago. It is not too much to say that Admiral Schley was the popular hero, whatever may have been the technicalities of the case. Senator Rayner, of Maryland, was his principal counsel. The embalmed beef inquiry, after the close of the Spanish war, was one of the most important army investigations the service has seen. • • • In passing, one might metnlon the work of the industrial commission, which is remembered more for the saying of Hen ry O. Havemeyer, of the sugar trust, that the protective tariff is the mother of trusts, than for all the other mil lions of words of testimony it printed. The report of the commission was at one time the most widely quoted au thority on Industrial conditions in the country, but its vast volumes seldom are referred to now. • • • An important investigation was that of the New York custom house in 1877. Ches ter A. Arthur was then collector. He was Identified with Roscoe Conkling, and President Hayes wanted to remove him. Conkling fought it tooth and nail, but Arthur was forced out. Hayes then sent to the senate for confirmation as col lector, the name of a man who has since become a great factor in American poli tics—Theodore Roosevelt. Although no charges were filed against him, he failed of confirmation. The failure was not because of the lack of fitness of the ap pointee, but because of the pique of Ros coe Conkling. It is perhaps the only time in the history of the country that one future president of the United States was removed from a collectorship and an other failed of confirmation as his suc cessor. This overhauling of the cus toms office was almost as thorough as the one Collector Loeb has been making. There were perhaps more investigations of scandie in the seventies than in any other decade of American history. The disputes of the rival governments in some of the states, as on Louisiana, led to prolonged Inquiries. The troubles In Virginia and Mississippi were made the subject of congressional investiga tions. The greatest of all the scandals of this period was the Credit Mobilier, In which many well known statesmen were Involved. James G. Blaine and tLe famous Mulligan letters figured «in this affair. Mulligan had been! a clerk to a gentleman with whom Blaine had cor respondence. He secured Blaine s let ters, brought them to Washington and exhibited them. Blaine made an ap pointment with him to examine the let ters. Thinking the Maine statesman was acting in good faith. Mulligan showed them to him. Blaine promptly put them in his pocket and announced that no power under heavep could force him to give them up. He afterward did offer QTDAUf BERRY Send >2.50 for 1,000 plants. W 111 fl If PLANTS Can furnish Klondykr, Ihofflpsun. etc. JOHN LIGHTFOOT, DEPT. A., Chattanooga, Tenn. I to make them public, but Mulligan * always declared that Blaine kept back the really incriminating ones. A pro longed examination of the Credit Mo biller affair was made in Congress, but only two of its members were recom ’ mended for expulsion. 1 Other famous investigations of this i period were those dealing with the wbis > ky frauds, the quartermaster’s claims, the ship subsidy scandal, the Tilden ci- 1 pher messages, the star route cases, the public land frauds and the railroad lob bies. It was in one of these cases that 1 Senator Hoar, then almose a new mem ber, declared that every step of the building of the Uhion Pacific railroad. 1 from its inception to its completion, had been seeped in fraud. The house of representatives proudly ' styles itself the grand inquest of the na ' j tion, and very early in its life began to j assert its right to make inquiries of whomsoever it pleased. The first in i' stance was when charges were brought | against General St. Clair in 1792, while I Washington was yet president. The house at first asserted its right to Inves ’ tigate an army officer, but afterward | decided that as a matter of courtesy to the president It would waive its right and let him make the investigation. •• • • In 1837 the house wanted to investigate Andrew Jackson, but it was not long in finding out that it had caught a tartar in Old Hickory. The hero of New Or leans thought that the executive had an authority equal to that of congress, and he did not propose to have the leg- I islative end of the establishment investi gate the executive end unless it was for purposes of Impeachment. He replied as politely as his resolute manner would permit that “By the E.ternal, they could go to thunder with their probes.” The story of the inquires that have been made by the' government might be con tinued indefinitely. There have been dozens of investigations that were as full i of importance and significance in their time as the Ballinger-Pinchot probe is today. BIG HARNESS PLANT BURNED IN BUFORD BUFORD, Ga., Feb. k—Fire, which originated from an unknown source early this morning, completely destroyed the Bona Allen, Incorporated, Harness Plant and Box factory, entailing a lose !of between 175,000 and JIQO.OOO. The loss is only partially covered by insurance. The plant, which consisted of the fac tory and a warehouse, was one of the largest in the south, and employed 100 men, who are thrown out of work as a result of the conflagration. The build ing proper was two stories high and had a frontage of 75 feet, running back 200 , feet. The warehouse was 75 by 100 feet. , The harness makers lost all of their working implements in the fire. There is no clue to the origin of the fire, which was discovered before day light. The flames had swept over one portion of the building before the alarm could be given, and had gained such an extent that it was impossible to save th® I building when aid arrived, j The Bona Allen company plant was one of the most modernly equipped in j the south, and had a large daily output. I It is understood that the plant will be | immediately rebuilt. 5