Newspaper Page Text
8
/ M TBT/iTT■ I |z A I/s
AND
'Andrew
QUESTION AND ANSWER DEPARTMENT
The Journal desires to increase the usefulness of its agricultural
pares la every possible way. Tor this purpose, the department of inquiries
and answers is to bo greatly enlarged. Any information pertaining to
agriculture, the proper tillage of the soU. the proper use of fertilisers,
seeding for crops, stock and cattle breeding, poultry raising—and in fact,
11 suh'octa pertaining to the farm upon which Information may bo
sought or practical suggestions offered, will bo published in those columns.
wre requsst our readers to neo these pages freely. We will endeavor
to furnish information, if the questions are asked. Letters addressed to
Dr. Andrew M. boule. President State Agricultural College. Athens, Ga.,
will receive prompt attention, and the replies will be published in The
Wemi Weekly Journal.
agricultural developement
along educational lines
PART 11.
That the campaign being waged for the
improvement of cotton seed and the ex
* tension of the use of its by-products is
bearing fruit need not be emphasized to
those who are cognizant of the facts.
•» It la quite possible, however, to Increase
r average yield of lint now secured
from the seed by 1« per cent. Stop and
F reflect for a moment what this means.
If the lint from the crop of 19W was
worth the additional value
? a thus secured would be $64,700,000. or more
than $? annually for every man. woman
and child in the south. It has been shown
conclusively that cotton seed may con
* tain from 28 to 56 gallons of oil per ton.
KWhat would the • standardizing of the
seed mean to this great industry. To
say that the by-products of cotton seed
may be made worth rw.000.000 as against
000.000.006 or thereabout today is stating
the case mildly. In standing for the
proper utilisation of cotton seed and Its
by-products in the south the colleges are
playing for great stakes, much greater
ttban the average individual probably ap
preciates. for the statistics of the federal
government indicate that tn 13 years we
lost $360.0)0.000 in gold through permit
ting the export of 6.300.000 tons of cotton
seed meal to stimulate the annual indus
tries of foreign countries.
pt The use of better Implements is being
promoted. In one community which the
FI writer recently visited he was informed
B that ® two-horee plows had been sold
within a space of 12 months as the result
of holding a farmers’ institute in that
country. What does the use of better im
plements and the multiplication of mule
power as compared with hand power
to the south? Who ban figure out
this problem accurately? On the college
farm four mules hitched to a gang P*°*
do much more complete and
i work than four negroes and four mules
’’ used to do with the old type of plow.
What a marvelous conservation of labor
What a vast improvement In methods of
£ tillage, and how the old red hlils are go
ing to respond to thia deep and thor-
of fairly fertileUand con
tains approximately S.OOO pounds of ni
trogen. 2.000 pounds Os p
‘ and 12.000 pounds of potash. W here d P
prevail*. the air. the •“"hlne
Ed the rain are all given an oppor-
Snlty to work oa this store of un *'* i ’*
f able plant food. In the old
the soil was stirred to a depth of Jonly
four inches, the elements were given an
•gportunlty to work on but 1,000 pounds
ofiritrogen. 6« pounds of phosphoric
acid and 4.000 pounds of potash. The
roots of a plant strike into the soil from
two to five feet. Trebling the area
through which the roots may penetrate
freely by the new method of cultiva
te tlon is but Incidental to the lasting ben
efits which the use of additional mule
power, the disuse of the negro, and the
rj introduction of modern tillage imple
ments mean to the south.—
S’ Deep plowing will result in better cul
, ttvation and in a larger return from the
fertiliser now used. It will insure the use
of a much larger amount of commercial
plant food than heretofore. The average
fanner still uses an 8-2-2 fertiliser at the
rate of 200 pounds per acre. This means
, that if he plants his corn in rows four
feet apart and two feet apart in the drill
» row. there would be approximately 5.420
plants per acre. Think of the Herculean
~ struggle which must go on in the vain
t endeavor of these 5.420 plants to secure
‘ the little particle of nitrogen due each
one when only four pounds are applied
per acre. The grain and stover of a 30-
bushel corn crop will extract from the
soil 46 pounds of nitrogen, 15 pounds of
phosphoric acid and 40 pounds of potash.
Is it surprising where a crop rotation is
not practiced, unintelligent fertilisation
of the land as Indicated above pursued,
and indifferent fertilisation of the soil
persisted in that the yield of corn'should
be M) to 12 bushels per acre? Is it not piti
able that human energy and human life
>» should be wasted in a struggle so uneven
as this?
F What must be the impression on the
mind of the boy and girl raised up under
these conditions? Are you surprised that
, the rural population Is crowding the cities
and the farms abandoned? Yet the solu
tion of the problem is easy, for the chem
ist in bls laboratory has shown what the
corn crop extracts from the soil; the
physicist has Indicated how the natural
agencies surrounding the farmer may be
made to do a part of the necessary work
in producing his crops. Let this infor
mation be conveyed in proper form to th«*
rising generations and the south will in
deed "blossom as the rose," th® energy
. now wasted will be conserved, and the
talk of doubling the corn crop will no
NIR. PLANTER: Here, at last, is the perfected horse-hoe cotton |
and we wish to place 5000 Samples with reliable cotton
.' Y growers on ano money cost plan. Read
B King Grassing Plow. 1 t h e fo r i e f description—then apply quickly and |
look at it 1 get the sample for your neighborhood. We J
Jdo this to prove value of the tool.
try -To/
THIS / AJlffiTrMniiD A PERFECTED “HORSE-HOE.** ■ I
_ A* fits itself te the raw, fell***, 1
TOO. I ft |f V/Vy'l'fl crwlu. terrace baeha, Oftejsa tbe OsftM.ls.s_.UU
eat the grass. flW«« ap th* raw, Jj
WLighU Haady. a boy cas handle it w SAMPLE
Cotton, Com and Trook. **cbX.‘ /ZTaid^^fJ^C^S|° UR
A Stroddlo Row Cultivator that, plow* Labor Saver ever la vested, ~ I 7-
..4 doe. hos-work M U«* h Mt JJ "I X
all the grass »'<— to, of tbe row. ptire tbe OgUUU I ■ ■ I / Uta
•arth aieely cloaoto plant. Can’t Injure . JF I
roots. Csoses vigorous growth of cotton, aaaples Bessy I We realize the tumen will
corn and truck. Does tbe work of 6 hoc \\ ■ V® l,r ßy ny 1 111 want ,o •** * msebine
hands, besides plowing Mt the whole row. uf I \ before baying, sad so wo
Automatic, fits Itself to tho row cots y-* wllt put ®“*
wry death. Weight eai, 80 lbs. Best straddle 11 / *••• «*
vow over made—cultivates tbe top of »esto/o>»rias (One
tho row— antoacbed by all others. A boy can I—. I eal» la a aeighborhood.)
handle it- Address: Wriw
_ _ -to- - —proud to oHte lavcDtor of a practical Hone
KING WEEDER COMPANY, IrfErd/ Tbe result of IS yean ol Chopper and with to distribate 5000 sampler this
to to. to. M to.a fiflOFexperimeo t. gad isbor. year, la order to prove to the cotton growing world the
RICHMOND, VA. I «_—- ...crlDtiva elreutar value of my invention. T, J. KING, Inventor.
longer be a suggestion, as many imagine,
of the fertile mind of a so-called scien
tist, but a full-grown reality. Can it be
in view of the statements here portrayed
that there are those who still doubt the
mission of the agricultural college and
question the advisability of appropriating
funds from the state treasury for the
support of such institution?
Another suggestion along this line may
not be out of place. Two thousand six
hundred and eighty pounds of seed cotton
yielding 43 per cent of lint, or a total of
1,152 pounds of lint to the acre were
produced on the demonstration field of
the State College of Agriculture last year.
Two tons of barnyard manure and M)
pounds of a 3-10-4 fertilizer were applied
in the drill rows underneath this cotton.
The total cost of the fertilizer was $9.50
per acre. The cost of growing this crop
including some extra labor on account of
its being an experiment, was $32 per acre.
The cotton sold for 15 cents a pound, or
1117X80. and the seed was worth at least
S3O, making the total value of the crop
$192.50, or a net value per acre of $160.»).
What is land such as this worth? It will
pay 10 per cent on $1,600. But you will
say this is the exception and not the
rule. There are millions of acres of land
in the south which adequately handled
may be made to duplicate these figures.
In the experiment noted. 41 pounds of ni
trogen. 72 pounds of phosphoric acid and
47 pounds of potash were applied to an
acre of land. Contrast this for one mo
ment with 4 pounds of nitrogen, 16 pounds
of phosphoric acid and 4 pounds of pot
ash which are so commonly used. When
an intensive system of cultivation is fol
lowed, when agricultural education comes
into its own. who can portray the condi
tions which will prevail in this country,
and yet we are at the threshold of a de
velopment which the most enthusiastic
southerner up to this time has not be
lieved possible.
Another thing which is being impressed
on the farmer is the necessity for rotating
crops. A corn crop yielding 30 bushels of
grain with the stover if grown on the land
for three years will remove from it about
222 pounds of nitrogen. A three years' ro
tation properly arranged will insure larror
crops and remove from the soil about ill
pounds of nitrogen, insuring a saving of
U1 pounds of nitrogen to the land owner
every three years. This nitrogen can not
be purchased for less than 19 cents a
pound, or a saving of $21.09 per acre of
one of the essential elements of plant
fqod. What will be saved on the nitro
gen is after all but Incidental to tbo
other benefits which rotation Insures be
cause it means the production on the
farm of the rough feed needed, an in
crease in the output of the value of the
live stock, and a saving of part of the
enormous sum of money which is annu
ally sent north, east and west to buy the
necessities of life which can be raised on
the plantation' cheaper than anywhere
else.
The question of how to destroy and
utilize the germs which now play so im
portant a part in the production of crops
is being agitated, and that the impor
tance of this matter is being appreciat
ed is shown by the ever-increasing areas
of land devoted to the cultivation of le
guminous crops, and the greater interest
evidenced in seed selection for the sake of
securing varieties of cotton, for example,
resistant to anthracnose or boll rot, and
the so-called wilt or black root disease.
The fact that the colleges of the south
have developed strains resistant to these
diseases which have threatened the exist
ence of cotton cultivation In many sec
tions is the best evidence of the close re
lationship existing between scientific in
vestigation and a permanent system of
agriculture.
• • •
Questions Answered
INDIGESTION IN CATTLE.
J. C. W.. Snider, Ga., writes: I wish
to know what Is the matter with a
neighbor's cow. Until about two months
ago she was in good condition and pro
ducing a large yield of milk. At first
she was noticed acting very crazy and
eating broom sedge, dirt, and every scrub
and bush she came to. This lasted about
two hours, since then she has been eat
ing her food as well as ever, which is
corn, corn meal, shocks and fodder, but
her yield of milk has decreased to one
half gallon per day. She is also very
thin and poor.
The cow of which you write is evidently
suffering from some digestive disorder,
which was in all probability the cause
of the first attack which you mention.
We would suggest that you change the
feed ration so that it will not consist of
over one-half corn, and add to it bran,
THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOTTRNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA.TUESDAT, FEBRUARY 22, 1910
Plants and Trees for theSouth!
Hardy and Decorative! Nursery stock
to meet every requirement of the South
ern planter and householder. All kinds
of Fruit and Economic trees and plants
©adapted to the South
and the Tropics.
Bamboos and Grasses,
Pal ms. Ferns. Water Lillies,
Shade Trees, Shrubs. V ines.
Bulbs and hosts of odd
plants from all over the
world.—in fact, the greatest
collection in the South,
gathered together in the
past 27 years.
Our handsome illustrated catalog of 17 Depts.,
tells all about them, and when to transplant, etc.
Write now and we will send a copy FREE I
If you have any special needs to meet in laying
out your grounds, send us details and we will
cheerfully furnish information.
Our naturally-grown Palms and Decorative
plants for indoor decoration cannot be equalled
for beautiful, thrifty growth.
Packing a specialty; we send by MAIL. EX
PRESS. or FREIGHT SAFELY to the most
distant points. Write TODAY 1
REASONER BROS., Oneco. Florida.
Effect of the Spoken Word-
Many persons once addicted to the use of opi
ates and Honors are today cured and leading use
ful lives, because some friend directed thorn
to Dr. B. M. WOOLLEY and his son, Dr. VAS
TER WOOLLEY. Tbeir book on ttese habits
and their cure will be sent free to any one
interested who will write them at Atlanta, Ga.,
end mention The Atlanta Journal. "1 desire to
express mv gratitude for your wonderful cure.
I commenced your treatment September, vm,
■nd in July. H*oß. took the last dore, and 1
had taken opium 35 years.” Mrs. Sarah Farxer
son. R. F. D. No. 3, Box 17. Bainbridge, Ga.
“I quit your treatment (about ten years ago)
because I was cured. I have no appetite for
whisky.” C. H. Beall. Lstcntown, Pa. Sev
eral years ago (about eight) I took y°hf treat
ment and was cured of the morphine habit,
and have never had any desire for it si rye. 1
tried other treatments and Jailed.” T. 8. Fer
guson, R. F. D. No. 2, Edgemoor. S. C.
or succulent roots, such as beets, turnips,
carrots, potatoes, etc. Give the cow a
liberal allowance of common salt. In
addition have the following mixture pre
pared and give her two tablespoonfuls
two or three times a day. Powdered nux
vomica 2 ounces, powdered gentian 4
ounces, powdered sulphate of iron 4
ounces, and linseed or flax seed meal 6
ounces.
• • •
WHAT THE MILLS MAKE OUT OF
SEED.
W. H. 8., Powder Springs, Ga., writes:
Please inform me how many pounds each
of meal, hulls, oil and lint there are in
a ton of cotton seed.
There are probably not more than 807
pounds of high grade meal in a ton of
seed. It is probable that some mills
make from 900 to 1,000 pounds of meal
per ton of seed, but in that case some
hulls are added to the product. The
farmer of course is Interested in secur
ing only a high grade meal since it con
tains a higher per cent of protein, the
food useful to animals, and a higher per
cent of nitrogen, the food useful to plants.
A ton of seed contains approximately 700
pounds of hulls and from 40 to 42 gal
lons of oil. Oil weighs about 7 1-2 pounds
to the gallon, therefore there would be
from 300 to 315 pounds in a ton. The
linters run about 40 pounds, leaving about
138 pounds of waste per ton. Occasional
ly the waste runs down as low as 113
pounds and sometimes as high as 160 to
170 pounds.
• • •
LOT MANURE FOR CORN.
W. C. C., Carnesville, Ga., writes: I
have five acres of land I want to make
60 bushels of corn per acre on. Three
acres are a dark red soil with a deep
red subsoil, and two acres are a gray
soil with a red subsoil. Both plats have
been sowed in wheat and oats every oth
er year and followed with peas. The
two-acre piece has been highly manured.
I have about 20 tons of cow and horse
manure. How much of the compost shall
I use per acre, and how much high
grade fertilizer? Should I make more
than one application? Would 200 pounds
of nitrate of soda be too much to use
per acre? The land was well broken
last fall and is in a high state of culti
vation. •
Your land Is undoubtedly much the
same in character and origin. Two acres
have evidently been subject to leaching
to a much greater degree than the ather,
and this accounts for the difference in
surface color. I am glad to know you
have been rotating this land and putting
In crops which would tend to build it
up from year to year, and that you de
sire to make a high yield of corn. This
is very commendable, for if our people
would give a little more attention to the
cultivation of corn, they would not have
to buy nearly so much of it and even
15-cent cotton can not be produced at a
profit where one has to pay $1 a bushel
for corn to feed the mules, and espec
ially when this corn should be raised at
home at a cost of 25 cents a bushel. Some
will say that my estimate is too high,
but even if it costs 30 cents a bushel,
it would be better to raise It at home
than to buy It. In other words, do not
stint the amount of work put on It in
a fine friable condition before planting
time. Then open your drill rows, say four
feet apart and then run the compost In
at the rate of four tons per acre. We
would make this furrow rather deep so
as to put the oompost two or three inch
es below the seed. The fertilizer may
be mixed with the manure or put in at
planting time. It should not, however,
come directly in contact with the seed.
The corn should be planted about 18
inches to two feet in the drill row. Va
rious varieties may be selected. Some
prefer a one-eared variety, but our ex
perience has Indicated that a two-eared
variety gives us the best results. We
do not strive for extra large ears, but
say two, eight to ten-ounce ears to the
stalk. Where one wishes to grow show
corn for exhibition purposes, a one-eared
variety is best. Probably the Boone coun
ty white, the Welchel, or Henry Grady
are as good varieties of this type as are
Continued on page 9
mWgi IM IwHowOUS
I
(ronulke lerl -
\i ™ --m
THE TWO SALVATIONS
“For Gold so lovs“ the world that he gave his
only begotten Son, that whosoever beheveth in
him should not perish, but have everlasting
fife.”—John 3:16.
‘‘Christ also love u the church and gave him
self for it, that he might sanctify snd cleanse
it by the washing of water by the word, that
he might present it to himself a glorious ohuroh,
not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing;
but that it should be holy and without blem
ish.”—Eph„ 5:25 27.
TAMPA, Fla., Feb. 20.—Pastor C. T. Russell,
of Brooklyn Tabernacle, preached twice here
today in our largest auditorium to the Bible
students’ convention. The large audience seem
ed deeply interested. He said:
Some apply the first text only and think of
the Divine program as being merely an en
deavor to rescue mankind from aln and death
to righteousness aud eternal life in the present
time. Such as hold this view are much con
fused. because it must be acknowledged that
comparatively little has been done or is now
being done for man’s uplift. After 6,000 years
it is still true that "the whole world lieth in
the wicked one;” darkness covers the earth
and gross darkness the heathen.”. In order to
have any confidence at all in tula theory those
who hold it are obliged to greatly lower their
standards. They are forced to hope that God
will admit millions of unfit people, crude, ruda,
ignorant and wicked to eternal life and happi
ness, or perchance provide for them purgatorial
experiences, to make them fit, righteous and
acceptable for life eternal. As a whole, Chris
tian people are greatly bewildered. The ten
dency of their bewilderment Is doubt,
skepticism, atheism.
The other view briefly stated is that God
never intended the salvation of the world, but
merely the salvation of the church, elect nc
eording to the foreknowledge of God through sanc
tlflcating of tbe spirit and belief in the truth.
Those who hold this theory nave great confu
sion also, because it seems incomprehensible
that God would make no provision for “thou
sands of millions” of Adam’s race, but arrange
for them to be born in sin, shapen In iniquity,
and to go down to the tomb (or worse) without
a clear knowledge of God and His purposes and
will respecting them.
As we have already frequently set forth, both
of the described theories are erroneous. The
Scriptures set forth two salvations, entirely
separate and distinct. They are different as
respects time, in that the one "salvation began
to be spoken by our Lord” at His first advent,
and began to be applicable to His church at
Pentecost, and will wholly cease at His second
coming in the end of this age. Tbe other sal
vation neither applied before our Lord’s first
advent nor during this gospel age, but will
apply to all mankind, except the church, during
the millennium—the thousand years of the reign
of Christ aud the church, specially designed for
the blessing of tbe world and its uplifting out
of sin and death conditions.
These two salvations are distinctly different
as to kind, as well as respeers tbeir plan of
operation. The salvation of the church during
this gospel age—since Pentecost —means not only
a deliverance from sin and death conditions to
eternal life, but provides that the eternal life
will be on the heavenly or spiritual plane and
not on the earthly or human plane of exist
ence. Thus tbe apostle declares that our "in
heritance is incorruptible and undefUed and
fadeth not away and is renewed in heaven for
us. who are kept by the power of God through
faith unto salvation.” (1 Pet., 1:4, 5.) Our
Lord also told that in tbe resurrection we shall
be like unto tbe angels. Tbe apostle also de
clares that ultimately we shall be partakers
of the divine nature and like our Lord and Re
deemer.
Hence, all who participate in this salva
tion of thia gospel age are scrlpturally spoken
of as new creatures in Christ Jesus, whose
“Citizenship is in heaven.” These are assured
that at the Lord’s second coming they will
constitute the first resurrection class. They
are guaranteed that only the blessed and holy
will have part therein, and that all participat
ing in that first resurrection will be royal
priests nnto God and unto Christ, and reign
with him a thousand years. (Rev., 20:6.)
They are assured that tbe transformation of
mind which they now experience through the
begetting of the Holy Spirit will, in their resur
rection. result in a complete transformation,
providing them with spirit bodies. Thus It is
written of tbeir reap tree tlon, "It is sown in
weakness; it is raised In power; it is sown
in dishonor; It Is raised In glory; It is sown
an animal body; It is raised a spiritual body.”
(1 Cor., 15:42. 44.) Os those who will share
in the church's salvation, the apostle says,
“We shall not all sleep, but must all be
changed,” because “flesh and blood eannot in
herit tbe kingdom of God.”—l Cor., 15:50, 51.
Tbe world’s salvation which will follow will
be wholly different from this. It will not In
clude a change of nature from earthly to spirit
nature. It will mean a rescue from sin and
death to full harmony with the earthly per
fection of the original creation of man, in the
image and likeness of bls Creator, and sur
rounded by every necessary blessing for his
comfort. Human perfection and the Eden
home were lost through disobedience to God.
The divine arrangement la that tbe merit of
our Lord's obedience unto death, when ulti
mately applied for mankind, shall fully cancel
the death sentence upon him. More and better
than this, God has promised that the same
sin offering shall seal a new covenant between
Himself and mankind. Tbe blessings of that
new covenant arrangement will then immedi
ately begin. The great Redeemer will thence
forth be the great Mediator of that new cove
nant. The whole world of mankind will be
fully under His supervision and government for
their blessing, their correction in righteousness,
their uplifting out of sin and death conditions
—back, back, back, to all that was lost in
Eden. All of this was the original design of
the great Creator. All of this will be out
worked through tbe Great Redeemer. All of
this was secured or suretled by His death, fin
ished at Calvary.—Heb., 7:22.
Bt. I’eter, pointing down to that glorious
time of the world’s blessing, calls it “times
of refreshing and times of restitution.” He
tells us that all tbe holy prophets described the
blessings of those restitution times—tbe thou
sands years, the millennium. (Acts, 3:19-21.)
When once we get the eyes of our understand
ing opened, we find tbe apostle’s words thor
oughly corroborated by the Divine records, which
describe the wonderful blessings that are to
coms when the earth shall yield her increase.
Then Paradise lost shall be Paradise regained.
Then God will make His earthly footstool glo
rious. Then tbe blessing of tbe Lord shall make
rich and He will add no sorrow therewith, then
streams shall break forth In the desert and the
wilderness and solitary places shall be glad.
But most glorious will be the change in hu
manity. The Lord promises to turn to the peo
ple a “pure message” instead of the contradic
tion of creeds of heathenism and churchlanlty.
He promises that Satan shall be bound for that
thousand years, that be' may deceive the na
tion no more. He promises that then all tbe
blinded eyes shall be opened and all tbe deaf
ears shall be unstopped. (Isa., 35:5; II Co., 4:4.1
In other words, tbe great work of Satan shall
be undone. God promises that “every knee shall
bow and every tongue confess” to the glory of
the Lord. (Isa., 45:28.) He promises that tbe
kbowledge of the Lord shall fill the whole earth
as the waters cover the sea, so that none shall
need any longer to say to his neighbor and
brother, “Know ye the Lord!” because ail
shall know Him. (Isa., 11:9; Heb., 8:11.) He
promises that all the willfully, deliberately
wicked evildoers shall be cut off In the second
death. He assures us that then there shall be
no more sighing, crying or dying, because all
the former things shall have passed away. He
assures us that every creature in heaven aud
in earth and under tbe earth shall be heard say
ing, “Blessing, and honor, and glory, and power,
be unto him that sltteth upon the throne, and
unto the Lamb for ever and ever.”—Rev., 5:13.
TWO SALVATIONS—ONE SAVIOUR.
Both of these salvations, according to tbe
Bible, result from the death of Jesus, our Re
deemer, who died in obedience to the Divine
will, "Died, the just for the unjust, that he
might bring us to God.” (I Pet., 3:18.) The
Scriptures clearly show not only the two salva
tions, but also two parts of the Redeemer’s
work, distinctly separating His work for tne
church from His work for the world. In His
death there was a Divine general provision for
the sins of the whole world and a special pro
vision for the sins of the church. The two
thoughts are frequently brought out in the
Scriptures. One text distinctly declares “He
la the propitiation (satisfaction) for our sins
(the church’s sins) and not for ours only, but
also for the Bins of the whole world.” His
death constituted the satisfaction price. The
Redeemer applied that merit for the church’s
sirs, “for us,” long ago, 18 centuries before
we were born. Only when we became believers
and entered into a covenant of sacrifice did we
obtain our share in the merit of that great
sacrifice. The world hrs not yet received its
i hare of that promined blessing, but the opera
tion of the Divine plan Is sure and will bring It
to them “in due time,” as St. Paul declares.—
I Tim., 2:6.
To suppose that God had made an arbitrary
selection of one part of humanity to be the
church and to get spiritual salvation and of
the other part of humanity to get the privi
lege of human perfection would be Incorrect.
True. God would have the right to discriminate
In the giving of His blessings, but the Scrip
tures intimate that there Is no favoritism with
God. except as justly based upon character,
consecration. We are exhorted to be "without
| partiality” and like unto our besveuty Jfatber.j
of whom it is written, “God is no respecter cf
persons ’’—Acts, 10:34.
The drawing and calling of the ehnreb has
not been along the lines of human perfection,
for all are sinners and none righteous or per
fect. And many of those drawn of the Txwo
were by nature much more fallen and depraved
than some who give no evidence of the work
of grace In their hearts. The Lord's calling
and drawing seem to be along the lines of
justice, love of righteousness, faith, humility
and obedience. These qualities will all belong .
to the perfect man. But all have lost them In
varying degrees. Such as respond to the Lord’s
call now are accepted as being in the right
heart attitude which, if they had perfect
bodies, would constitute them perfect men. In
other words, they have qualities of heart
which. If brought to a knowledge of the truth,
would prove some of them to be pure in heart
and such as the Lord would desire should have
eternal life and all of His favors. But more
are called and drawn by God’s providence and
the preaching of His message than He designs
to save in the present salvation. He is choos
ing a very select class for a very special pur
pose and therefore makes the terms snd con
ditions of their salvation extremely difficult.
As a consequence we read, “Many are called,
but few chosen” —under this “high calling of
God in Christ Jesus.”
TERMS OF SALVATION DIFFER.
Os coarse, these different salvations Imply
different terms or conditions. God’s require
ment of Adam, that he might continue to live
forever and everlastingly enjoy divine favor,
his Eden home, etc., was obedience to reason
able, just requirements. It was his violation
of the divine law that brought ni>on him the
sentence of death—“ Dying thou shalt die’’—
with all that this has implied to him and his
posterity of mental, moral and physical decline,
weakness, death. The requirement of God for
the world of mankind during the millennial
age will similarly be—obedience to God's just,
reasonable regulations, law. Whoever then
will render obedience may with proportionate
rapidity go up on the highway of holiness to
ward perfection at its end. Whoever refuses
obeu.ence to the extent of his ability will fail
to make progress and ultimately die the second
death, from which there will be no redemption |
and no resurrection.
Bnch obedience as will be required of man- ;
kind in tho great Mediator’s kingdom will in- -
elude tbeir co-operation in the resistance of
their own fallen weaknesses. It will Include
the exercise of patience and kindness, towards
their fellow creatures, fellow sufferers. The
divine law of love to God with all the heart,
mind, soul, strength and for the neighbor as
for one's self they must iearn fully. As they
will realize tbeir own blemisbea and strive
to overcome them and ask, not tbe Father,
but the Mediator for forgiveness, they will
be obliged to follow the divine rule of exer
cising towards others similar mercy and for
giveness to that which they desire for them
selves.
But they will not be required to enter into
the covenant of self-sacrifice, self-denial, etc.
All the blessings of God on the earthly plane
will be for them fully and freely to use and I
enjoy, in harmony with the divine regulation. '
Instead of laying down their lives day by day,
they will daily add to their mental, physical
and moral health and strength. Instead of
suffering for righteousness’ sake every good
deed will bring its reward and assist in their
own recuperation and uplifting. Thus gradually
day by day and year by year they will be
perfected in tbe flesh and may finally regain
all that was lost in Eden. They wiU sit.
every man under his own vine and fig tree,
with none to molest or make afraid. The
blessings of the ransom sacrifice of Christ will
be apportioned to the world, under and through
the new covenant to be executed with Israel.
It will not be for them to lay down, to sacri
fice, but for them to have, to keep, to enjoy
forever.
The conditions governing tbe salvaUon of tbe
church are wholly different from those which
will appertain to the world. The church is call
ed out of the world under a Divine invitation
to suffer with Christ in tbe present -.e and
during thia gospel age and then to reign with
Christ during the millennial age, participating
in His mediatorial kingdom for tbe blessing,
uplifting, salvation of the world. It is not in
vain, therefore, that our Lord and tbe apostles,
in setting forth tbe call of tbe church durlug
this age, specified particularly snd frequently
the necessity for all wbo would share in this
salvation to participate with the Redeemer la
His sacrificing, in “His death,” and consequent
ly participate in ‘ His resurrection” and in ma
reign of glory. Hark to the words, “Be tnou
faithful in death and 1 will give Wee a crown
of life;” “To him that overcometb will 1
grant to sit with me in my throne;’’ "And who
soever doth not bear his cross, and come after
me. cannot be my disciple.”—Luke, 14:37.
Let us remember our Lord’s words to tbe dis
ciples James and John, respecting a place in Illa
millennial throne. He Intimated that We get
ting to We throne at all, in any place, would
Imply great humility and self-sacrifice. lie
asked the disciples. "Are ye able (willing) to
drink of tbe cup that I shall drink of and to
be baptised with the baptism (into death) wat
I am baptised with? (Mark, 10:3«.) Hearken
again: This cup of which He tells us we must
drink, if we would sit in His throne, is His
communion cup. It is offered, not to the
world, but to His consecrated followers. It Is
not another cup, but “My cup.” The Invita
tion was, “This is my blood of the New Testa
ment, which is shed for many for tbe remis
sion of sins. Drink ye all of it.” (Matt.,
26:28, 27.) It must all be drunk before tne
many, the world, can get their share of tne
intended blessing through the new covenant,
which thia blood seals. And only tbe disciples
of Christ, only those who desire to walk in HU
steps, are Invited to drink of that cup. AH or
them are so invited and they will drink all of
It. None of it will be left for the world cur
ing the milllennial age to drink. It is a
special privilege to drink of this cup. With
the drinking of it goes the special blessing of
the special salvation of this gospel age. Except
we eat of His flesh (appropriate the merit of
His, sacrifice), and unless we drink His blood
(Join In sacrifice with him), we have no lite
in us—inherent life, immortality. .
In view of these things can we wonder that
the apostles so repeatedly urged the faithful
to lay down their Ilves, to present tbeir bodies
living •acrlflces, holy and acceptable to God
through Christ? Can we wonder that thsy de
clare that only “if we suffer with Him shall
we reign with Him? “if we be dead with Him,
we shall live with Him?” From this stand
point we are not surprised that all who shall
be saved in the salvation of this gospel age
must become dead with Christ, not only to sin,
but to all earthly rights and prospects and priv
ileges. Those earthly rights which the world
will get to keep and to enjoy forever are now
in advance loaned to us, reckoned to us as tbe
basis for our sacrifice, that we may be jolnt
■acnflcers with our Redeemer and joint-sharers
in His kingdom glory.
Bo far as our hearts and minds are concerned
at the time of our consecration they must be
fully given up to the Lord ere he will accept
them. We could be no more fully consecrated
if we had absolutely perfect bodies and were
absolutely free from all tbe entailment of Ad
am’s condemnation. But God’s requirement is
that no sacrifice may eome upon His altar,
except such as la without spot or blemish.
Hence he eould not accept our offering, our
consecration, even though it were as completely
and fully made as was our dear Redeemer's.
Hence His first provision was that the right
eousness of Christ should be imputed into us
an account of our faith and obedience, in order
to pemlt us to offer sacrifices holy and ac
ceptable to God.—Mai. 3:3; Rom. 12:1.
This view of our participation in the Redeem
er’s merit separately and apart from the world’s
participation in it —by faith and Imputation of
merit and not actually—the Bible declares to
be a “mystery,” which not many are able to
discern—only the spiritually minded—only the
spirit-begotten. Those wbo can see and bear
and understand the terms and conditions of this
greet salvation of this gospel age are specially
blessed—“ Blessed are your eyes, for they see,
and your ears, for they hear.” (Matt. 13:16).
To see, to hear, to understand, that glory, hon
or, immortality, eternal life on the spirit plane
are the rewards of a few years of eelfdenlal and
self-sacrifice Is to hear of a pearl of great
price, of which few know. And to know of that
pearls and not to be willing to sell all that we
have to obtain It would demonstrate to the
Father our unworthlness of life on this high
plane. We exhort so many as see and hear
an- appreciate, in the words of the apostle,
“Let ua make our calling and election sure,”
by a full and hearty compliance with gracious
high calling of which we have learned and
which our hearts have accepted.”—2 Pet, 1:10.
Trappings Muskrats
A farmer’s wife near Milford, Del.,
earned $l5O last year trapping muskrats.
In addition to this work she found time I
to do all the house work and attend to
the needs of her three children.
Make a muskrat trap in a sugar bar
rel. Set it in the water about half out.
Put in plenty of bait or apples, carrots
or parsnips.
Take two or three poles, two to three 1
inches in diameter, let one end float or
rest on the mud at the water's edge
and fasten the other end at the top of |
the barrel. The muskrats climb up the
pole and jump in and they cannot get
out. Six or seven have been captured in j
such a trap during om night. I
Salt of the Earth
a i so th e most abundant in the plant. Unless
it has enough Potash in soluble form at the right time %
it cannot use the other plant food you or your soil may >
K supply. Take no chances. Tie to facts, grrTTrf
K not to theories. Many soils need only Potash y
g to raise big crops. All soils need Potash /
■ sooner or later. Begin to use it before the f
I crops starve. Do it now, for h
\ POTASH PAYS ~ ;
W Urge your fertilizer dealer to carry Potash salts f
in stock. You and he will have no difficulty in « \
buying them if you will write to us about it II *
Write to Sales Office: P-. J
GERMAN KALI WORKS Jf. M
Coati seats! BMg., Baltiasre, M 4. x
A Republic \
Ornamental Fence
at vm.ll Cort, will add more to tho r*luo of _ i- rJ jjk" S * ,
your rloro than any othor imprr. T . nl onl lh«t 1 I [fl
you c»n m.ko and provide pooitive ond per-
mln.nt protection for your lawn .nd r»rden«. w - T / \ f
Republic Ornamental Fence Fabrics rA \j A
are mode by c.blmr heavy hnriiontal wir»« together and inserting at fro-
queat intervals heavy wir. picket! -I ■J’l L W
crimpod only at point of intoroection. > A « a * 4.4. .ffi f fl
thereby overcominr therarting of full J
rrmpod.Uv.commonlvu.ed Everted
w,th woolen p,*.U or .t«l po.ta w>U> H »(TYWhWfI
apecial wrought ateel laie. M' Ll-1 1 I 1 1-144-1 1 I I I- Mt. IFF! HLg I H I II
Our free Stylo Book .how. many fl ||[|||| |[|| | | | ||J| W | ‘l'lVl Illfl I I M
beautiful pattern, of fence, cemetery S| T M 11111 111 I I iTTfI fll i ill 111 KI I II
archee. trellnee, eV- fleUi-i-14 | i L-Ll || I I' l4-1 <3 KL , liiujff II IM I'hr I I I'lt'lfl
Wrtt» for It today g fMfh g (n fll Plflirflll
Y' -I need farm c»m* f ’ «r'r »; H! II IT Illi FlI; 111 ■, L, ti i t; , J £i ‘■ r< l i> mI t Isl
CaUnrenlar BTI 1111 [I 1111 II 11111 111 ''ll i[ _W
Republic Fence and Gate Co , JglillllWlM>4l4MlH»H. IHilitrg ' l '? ‘ll' —.fl
818 Republic Bt., No. Chicago, Hl.
I _ 80 DAYS DRIVING TEST
■. I /yCI A gdiarantee good as a Gold Bond; a trial as liberal as
■ A. \ / \ •■■■■■* am ant could ask for. and aporltive saving of from 810 to
■ d p fy gj-j. reputable concern In the U. 8. to duplicate our
■L. u.— 1 prlws on vehicles of tbe qualities we guarantee. Our guarantees
■ are the strongest and moot liberal ever made, and are positively
■ V /MvxA\ 7\//WyiW x bindinc* oar vehicles muot prove them in actual eervlcw
■ vSZI \ I \ be to-e we’ll expect you to be satlafled. We do not compete with
A I I people who have no reputation to lose, or wbo misrepresent tlielg
BITMIA UECCTiMIIT FOR <64 00 vehicleo,
I Send To-Day For Our Big New Free Catalog, No. 105
■ modern Style, of the highest grade KuaaAoutg,
I MALSBY, SHIPP & co.
Deep Furrows
"With hogs Belling above $8 in the Chi
cago markets they are better than 4
per cent railroad stocks, even if corn
is high.
Isn’t it a shame that the wheat lands
of this country produce an average of
only about 12 bushels per acre?
The man who sells his calves for veal
and his young steer for other people
to breed is robbing his own family.
Th girl who has learned to make good
bread will bring to her husband an ac
complishment more valuable than the
girl who has learned to play classical
music on the piano.
The man who keeps cattle, hogs and
sheep and owns a manure spreader will
never be In fear of the fertilizer trust.
You can breed the nubbins out of the
corn just as easy as you can breed the
scrub cows out of the dairy herd.
We have seen millers in Illinois dump
the bran Into the creek because nobody
wanted to buy it. But that was 30 years
ago—they don’t do it now.
The gasoline engine, valuable as it
is, will never entirely take the place
of really good horses on the farm or
anywhere else.
The hired man who shirks or dodges
his work to save a backache will never
be anything but a hired man.
It Is not good policy to keep a boy
on the farm if he has the ability to
earn the wages of a dozen hired men
in the city. Let him go.
If your best brown mare is worth
S2OO to the man over in the next town
ship you may be sure she is worth more
than that to you—keep her.
Curing Mange and Killing Ver
min
Mange can be cured, although it re
quires a litle patience. First clip off all
the hair on the affected parts of the dog
then apply green soap and allow it to re
main five hours. When it is washed with
warm water scabs and scurf will come
off. The parts should be wiped dry and
the following remedy applied by rubbing
it thoroughly into the diseased skin: Creo
lin 1 ounce, oil of tar 1 ounce, flowers
of sulphur 1 ounce. Lard of vaseline 8
ounces. Mix all together and rub Into
the afflicted skin once daily for three or
four days, then withhold for a week and
apply again.
A few years ago the “creamery shark” fnfMt
«d to land and organized creamery compam.m
Among farmers in order to equip the creamer
ies with machinery at about fivs times iTr.av
it was worth. This business died as ssch en
terprises must. Now comes the condensnrj
with golden tinted stories of what farmers
might make by organizing co-operative condens
ing factories.
It is a wise man who acknowledges his
mistakes—fools seldom change their
minds. i
3 Bales of Cotton Per Acre
Mr. John B. Broadwell averaged three bales of
cotton per acre on his entire crop by using fertilizers
at the rate of 1,000 pounds per acre. You should be
able to do as well as Mr. Broadwell
By Using
Virginia-Carolina
Fertilizers
Get a copy of our 1910 Farmers’ Year Book or Almanac
from your fertilizer dealer, or write us for a free copy.
Mr. Broadwell tells in this book his own story of how
he got this big yield.
SALES OFFICES:
Richmond, Va. Atlanta, Ga.
Mail ns thia Conpon Norfolk, Va. Savannah, Ga. ,
Colombia. 9. C. _
Virginia ca«olina Cmxmical , M
Company. Dorhara. h C
Pleaae »er4 me a copy of yonr 1910 WinMon-Salem. N. V.
Farmer.' Year Book free of com. Charleaton, S. C. üBSsBS- t'CTtlj
Baltimore, Md. —j ‘
Columbua, Ga. KAiTffl HI d'C-dFO It Ila J
State Shreveport, La,
SAWMILLS
Ml size* built. Have the most accurate Set Work*
and best Variable Feed Works, Saws. Edgers,
Trimmers, Swing Saws, Lath and Shingle Ma*
chincry, Planers, Resaws, .Engines, etc.
■aaaf*et«r»4 by Write far Free Cstelegaa*
SALEM IRON WORKS. Winston-Salem. E.O,
POULTRY
PrTze^W'N S i’jfd S* c/ * * "island*‘ffeSih
Barred Plymouth Rocks, Buff Orpingtons,
Wnite. Brcwn ami Buff Leghorns eggs >l.o®
per 15: >2.75 per 30; Mammoth Brome turk-X
eggs $2 50 per $5 per 20; Mammoth Peking
Ding eggs, $1.50 per 11; $2.75 per 22. Our
birds hive been Carefully bred for show quail*•
ties and superior egg production. Good hstela
guaranteed. Hermitage Poultry Farm, Route 5.
Hendersonville, Tenn. i
SIO,OOO REWARD
Sugar Leaf Cotton Farm’s Perfect-Bred F.-irnS
Seeds. The earliest, most prolific, largest yield
ing cotton and corn. A New Tear’s present, toil!
improvement, two and three crops annually, ro
tation, seed selection and improvement illustraty.
ed in catalogue and on post cards, sent free.
I. W. MITCHELL. PROP.. Youngsville. N. C.
—
To Become a Good Farmer
The man who wants to become a good farmer
must not mnke the mistake of hiring out to a
poor one. Never work for a man who cannot
teach you something about the business. The
successful farmer docs not succeed by alieer
luck. He succeeds because he knows how to
farm better than bls neighbors or because bo
makes better use of common methods. The man
who learns his secrets will add to his own value
and be able to earn better wages or succeed
when he goes to farming for himself. The hired
man who is working for wages alone and
has no ambition to become an expert iu
his business has no sympathy from me. If he
has the opportunity to learn the secrets of the
successful farmer who employs Mm and dots
not do so he will be a faUure. The secret of
any successful business is Information and
the man who knows his business from every
angle, whether te is a farm hand or a railroad
president and then puts ginger and rommoa
sense in bis work, will win as he deserves.
Has a man the right to go into the bus
iness of farming on borrowed capital ? asks
a Pennsylvania correspondent. It de
pends largely on the man. If he has faith
in himself, knows his business and Is rea
sonably prudent in his affairs, he not only
has the right to strike out for himself
but owes it to his family and the corny
munlty.
It coat $1(3.42 to feed Adelaida of B<*«ch>
lands, the year she produced 1.000 pounds of
butter. Peside this she ate 1,200 pounds ol
carrots and nearly four tons of kale and was
on pasture five months. If a cow which pro
duces 200 pounds of butter a year and eatt
$35 worth of feed is worth SSO, what is Ade
laide of Beechlande worth as a revenue makerl
Considering her yield of butter this cow was
fed very cheaply. •
