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10 AND fe QUESTION AND ANSWER DEPARTMENT The Journal desires to increase the usefulness of Its agricultural pages in every possible way. For this purpose, the department of inquiries and answers is to be greatly enlarged. Any information pertaining to agriculture, the proper til lags of the soil, the proper use of fertilisers, sesding for crops, stock and cattle breeding, poultry raising—and in fact. all subjects pertaining to the farm upon which information may be sought or practical suggestions offered, will be published in these columns. We request our readers to use these pages freely. We will endeavor to furnish information. it the questions are asked. Letters addressed to Dr Andrew M Soule. President State Agricultural College. Athens, Ga., will receive prompt attention, and the replies will be published in The Semi-Weekly Journal. an abs?*ess on the nose. D- B. 8.. Gore. Ga.. writes: I have • mule that has a hard swollen place oni Me nose a little above the left nostril. whi< him a little like distemper. The mule is four years old. and I would like to know what to do for him. The swollen place on your mule s nose is probably an abscess This should be opened at its lowest point to get it well drained out. and should I* kept open and washed out with warm water and carbolic acid until it heals from the in side. Use one teaspoonful of carbolic acid to one pint of warm water as a wash. For the running at the nose and ~eyes | would suggest that you steam him. To do this pour some boiling water over some trash hay in the bottom of a bucket; add to this some oil of tar or turpentine: then place the bucket in the bottom of a sack and hold the upper end of the sack about the mule's nose so that he will breathe the steam arising from the bucket. Do this once a day for several days. CORN VERSUS OATS FOR HORSES AND MULES. E. T. 8.. Jefferson. Ga.. writes: We have to buy some grain for our stock this spring. Can get corn at sl.lO pe. bushel and oats at 65 cents. Which will give the most feed value for the money, using peavines and swamp grass, princi pally Bermuda, for roughness? What proportion of corn and oats would be best as a mixed feed? A good quality of oats contains a high er precentage of digestible protein than com. and while they contain nearly as much fat. they are low in carbohydrates, but the nutritive ratio is such that this cereal furnishes an almost perfect ration for farm animals. The oat is not as heat ing as corn, and is better suited to the needs of horses and mules than that ce real. Since you can buy two bushels of oats aggregating in weight 64 pounds for sl.» as compared with 5k pounds of corn for 11.10. and the oats have a little ad vantage over com as a concentrate for mules, there is little to choose between the two as a foodstuff. In fact, better re sults will probably be secured where you feed ope half to two-thirds oats and the balance com. A ration consisting of eight pounds of oats, five pounds of corn and two pounds of cotton-seed meal with from 1? to 15 pounds of peavine hay should fur nish a satisfactory ration for a 1 000-pound horse or mule during hard work. A PARASATIC DISEASE OF CHICK ENS D. T..* Monroe. Ga.. writes: I raised about chickens last year fn>m five hens, but they won't lay now and -their leg* are all scaly, and under their feet It looks like they have been standing on a hot stove. Please tell me what is the ! matter and what to do for them My ' husband lakes The Journal and we could not do without it. The trouble with which your chickens • are affected is parasitic in nature. The treatment I would suggest would be to make a salve of lard and sulphur and grease their legs aid feet with it once a day for a week. Then let them go for a week without the greasing, and after that give them a second treatment with the •alve if it seems necessary. BELIEVES IN THE JOURNAL* ‘ U F. H., Montezuma. Ga.. writes: I have gained so much information from The Semi-Weekly Journal, and especially the agricultural department, that I want | to ask a few mon- questions. 1 have been a reader of The Journal for 15 years and could not do without it. I have started on a small scale to raise hogs. I have a pasture with water and have sodded two acres in eats, and will plant some com and field peas and some ground peas, which I will fence. When will be the best lime to begin pasturing the spring oats’’ Will It pay to buy a cream separ ator for 8 or 10 gallons of milk a day? 1 can get 25 cents a pound for butter the year around. Or would it pay me best to buy a patent chum? The milk is so hard to chum in the summer. I am try ing to grow everything I need. The patrons of The Journal are more than welcome to all the information they secure through Its various departments, but of course it is pleasing to know that the subscribers find the suggestions made tn its columns of practical value in their agricultural operations. Spring oats may be pastured from now on. Os course, if you expect them to head up and form grain, you will have to take the animals off of them very shortly. We find rye and vetch a good crop to seed tn the fall to provide grat ing for hog’ as the crop is hardier than oats and will stand more tramping. By WRITE FOR OUR 1910 MATING LIST Eggs for hatching from Prize-Winning Stock. S. C. White Leghorns. Crystal White Orpingtons, S. C. Rhode Island Reds, Barred Plymouth Rocks, War Horae Pit Games, Houdans. Iperial Mammoth Pekin Ducks, and African Geese. Give us a trial order. We can please you. W. have «r id errry Berkshire Hog which hart to effer, and w 11 not h.ve any more . .... . for sale antiil fall. kIM BALLVILLE FARM Xew Kimball House. ATLANTA, GA. Faroyher FertjM. Ea ( ia« SAW MILL ter Saw MiUiag ' It Pays to Buy the Best! Woodniff Machinery Is the BEST! We Manufacture Woodruff Saw Mills, Shingle Mills, Lath Mills, Hay Presses, and are General Southern Agents for A. B. Farquhar & Co. celebrated Cornish Boiler Steam Engines and Grain Separators, and we carry’ all sizes in stock. Write to our factory’ for catalogs. Call in and see machinery at Our Branch House 70 South Forsyth Street, Atlanta, Ga. WOODRUFF MACHINERY MANUFACTURING CO. Winder, Georgia , | this we do not mean to abandon the oats. Probably the best crop jjou can have to follow spring oats is rape. This should I* seeded early In March. Get it in the ground immediately and sow in rows 24 inches apart and cultivate several times until the leaves spread across the rows. Some spring oats may be sown for graz ing to fallow the rape. Then, if you plant an early maturing variety of io\t|.eas, like Warren s Exira Early, or the New Era. and follow with later maturing va rieties like the Clay and Wonderful, you should be able to carry your hogs through until fall without the use of much corn. We would advise you to bring soy beans into the rotation, growing some of the extra early varieties like the Black, Me dium Green and the Mammoth Yellow. The soy bean requires longer to mature than the cowpea and will help to lengthen the grazing period. For fall grazing we would certainly have peanuts and chufas, and a patch of artichokes planted for the winter will prove a good investment. By bringing as many of these crops into the rotation as possible, and using late and early maturing varieties, you can have a fine succession of feed for hogs throughout the greater part of the year. It should pay you to buy a hand sep arator where you have as much as 10 gallons of milk to handle per day. There are various makes of machines on the market, and any of the standard makes will give you good satisfaction. A bar rel or box churn is as satisfactory as any type you can use. A separator enables you to concentrate your milk, ripen your cream withgthe use of but little ice for controlling™ he temperature, and there fore to put a better quality of butter on the market. Twenty-five cents for but ter the year around is a fair price, though you should be able to obtain at least 30 cents. Difficulty in churning is due largely to a failure to control tempera tures. Where this is properly done, milk can be churned as easily at one season of the year as another. You are right in suggestion that farm ers should grow the greatest variety of products possible at home and stop de pending so much on the town and city for things which can be made cheaper on the farm. What we need to do is to di versify crop production, engage more largely in live stock industries, and stop growing eotton for 15 cents a pound for which the net return to the farmer Is less than 7 1-2 cents when you take into consideration the supplies which he buys from other states and which he could raise at home with profit and satisfac tion. THE SPECIAL VARIETIES OF POUL TRY MANURE. G. W. 8., Rome, Ga., writes: I have a good amount of chicken manure which has never been wet. What should be added to it to make it analyze the same as the formula you recommend for corn land cotton? Is chicken manure good to put around garden plants and fruit | trees? Chickeq manure is generally regarded as being especially valuable for fertil izing purposes, and some will tell you that this manure compares very favor ably with high-grade commercial fer tilizer. As a matter of fact, this is an exaggeration, though chicken manure is valuable because of the readily avail- I able form in which the nitrogen exists. ' A ton of fresh chicken manure contains about 32.6 pounds of nitrogen. 30.8 pounds of phosphoric acid and 17 pounds of potash. There is wide variation, however, in the composition of this ma terial- A ton of chicken manure which I I has been carefully preserved contains 1 ' three-fourths as much nitrogen as a | ton of a 2-8-2 fertilizer, one-sixth as much phosporic acid and one-half as much potash. As a matter of fact, chicken manure ferments so readily that a part of the nitrogen is likely to be lost, and where the manure has stood for some time, the content of this element is in all probability consider ably lower than the figures given. In using this material as fertilizer, it should be applied rather liberally to se cure the best results. Two tons per acre is certainly a modest application. In that case, about 300 pounds of high grade acid phosphate with 50 to 100 pounds of muriate of potash would be about the right amount of commero'-’ • fertilizer to use. This will supply a j liberal amount of phosphoric acid and , all the potash required for most crops. . It would be better to make the appll j cation, as suggested, rather than to try . to prepare a compost out of this ma ! terial; but if you desire to use a com ■ post, 1,500 pounds of chicken manure , with 300 pounds of high-grade acid phosphate and 200 pounds of kainit will answer fairly well. This should be used at the rate of at least one ton per acre. Since chicken manure ferments very THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA. TufHSDAT, MARCH Z 3, I9HR By M. Dorset, M. D„ Bureau of Animal Industry. The beginning of hog cholera in a herd is marked by the sickness of one or two hogs. There is nothing par ticularly characteristic in the symp toms displayed, and the presence of the disease may not be suspected until u week or two later, when other hogs are attacked. As the number of sick bogs Increases the opportunities for the well animals to contract the disease are mul tiplied, and in a comparatively short time all hogs exposed to the contagion will be attacked. The symptoms observed In particular 1 cases will be Influenced by the vir ulence of the germ which is responsi ble for the attack, and also by the re sisting power of the hogs In the herd. ! If this resisting power is low, or if the germ which is the cause of a particular I outbreak is of high virulence, we may have tn such a herd a typical manifes ' tation of the acute type of hog cholera. : Ts this acute type, the chief symptoms I observed are sluggishness, disinclina tion to move, weakness, loss of appe , tlte, a high fever, inflammation of the j eyes with gumming of the lids, and tiiere may be diarrhoea. If the sick i animals are examined carefully, red or ‘ purplish blotches may be seen on the I skin, especially over the surface of the i abdomen, or the inside of the legs, and i around the ears and neck. As a rule I the progress of the infection is so rapid that the hog is not greauy emaciated before death; it is, in fact, usual in acute outbreaks for hogs to die aft er toeing sick only a few days. . In tne chronic type of the disase the are quite similar to those seen in acute cases. The sick hogs are sluggish and disinclined to move when disturbed, and coughing is frequently heard when they are suddenly roused, readily, as already noted it should be applied to the soil as quickly as possible after It is made, and covered lightly to prevent the loss of ammonia. This kind of manure is very good to use on farm and garden crops, and may also be used around shrubs and plants where you desire to stimulate growth. It would not be good to use around fruit trees unless tha tree is deficient in size and the growth needs to be stimulated. The manure should not be put against tne stems of the plants or trees, but in a circle from one to two feet away, de pending on their size. APPLYING LIME ON LAND. J. T. J.. Summerville, Ga., writes: I would like some Information on liming land. How much lime should be used on the average land, and how should it be applied? The best kind of lime to use Is the caus tic lime, and it should be applied at the rate of not less than 1,000 pounds per acre; 2,000 pounds is better. Lime need not be applied more than once in three to five years. Where it is desired to use onlj’ a small quantity, distribute it in small heaps over the field and cover lightly with earth until it is thoroughly slaked; then scatter uniformly over the ground. You should be careful to scatter the pile uni formly so as to leave no accumulation on land wher£ it formerly stood. Caustic or biting lime is more active than other forms; it also contains a minimum amount of water, and as you probably have to ship it in from some distance, we recom mend its use for the reasons given. The quality of lime depends upon the per cent of magnesia which it contains. If you ex pect to apply lime in large quantity, it is best to get what is known as a lime dis tributor. These implements are not cost ly, and enable the handling of this mate rial with expedition and much less an noyance. Oyster shells are a good source of lime, but as they contain more or less dirt, it is often not as pure, and hence ax active as lime made from high-grade rock. • • • BUILDING A SILO ON THE DAIRY FARM. D. M. W., Thomasville, Ga., writes: Can you give me some information in regard to a silo, as I want to try and keep fed through the winter for my cows? We built a silo on the college farm last year 15 feet in diameter by 32 feet high which will hold approximately 125 tons. It is what is known as a stave silo. The foundation is best made of concrete and it should be at least four feet high and eight inches thick. The only difficulty in constructing a concrete foundation is to see that the cribbing or mold is properly made. Dig out the foundation to a true circle 18 inches deep, construct the crib and fill with concrete mixed in the pro portions of one of cement, three of sand and five of rock. The concrete as it is put in should be reinforced with barb wire every six inches. The staves used above ground may be made of cypress or pine, and 2x6's dressed on both sides and free from knots should be selected. Tn making a silo 32 feet high the staves had best be 14 and 18 feet in length. The ends of the staves should be sawed and a 4xsxl-8-inch piece of sheet iron inserted so as to form a close joint. The 2x6's must be tongued on both sides and put together with splines, and if the joints are leaded the air will be kept out and the staves preserved for a longer period of time. The door of the silo should be 2 feet wide and the height of the silo. The door of the silo should be made of 4x4'B. and a piece of the same material should be cut 1-8 of an inch shorter on the inside than on the outside to make a neat turn, and the rods for binding the door frame together should be 5-8 of an inch in diameter and threaded on each end. Heavy washers should be used so when the rods are drawn tight they will be held firmly in place and not cut Into the wood. The door frame should first be put up and the staves set up around the circle of the silo. The staves should be braced so as to hold them I plumb and true. Barrel staves will answer very well for this purpose; they wilt about approximate the circle of a silo. When the staves are up the hooks and rods should be put on. These are made of 5 8 of an inch in three pieces and put together by means of lugs. The rods I should be put on two feet apart at the bottom, gradually widening until they are five feet apart at the top. Ten rods will be sufficient for a silo 32 feet high. A circular roof should be constructed on I top of the silo and a dormer window left ■ in the side for filling. A silo of this ; character was built on the college farm including painting, at a cost of about $250. It will hold more feed than we can put in the dairy barn, constructed of the latest type of roof so as to insure the largest storage space, and which cost about $1,200 as it stands. The shows you the economy of the storage space secured in a silo. This silo was put up under the direction of our farm foreman and with labor which should be avilable on every farm. PREVENTING COTTON RUST WITH POTASH O. T. H. Statesboro, Ga.. writes: As far as preventing cotton rust Is concerned, has kainit any advantage over muriate of potash? Cotton rust is not primarily a fungous disease, but is rather caused by unfavor able soil conditions. As the leaves are I the lungs of the plant, it is not surpris | ing that affected plants should not yield well. This trouble is thought primarily to be due to three things: First, the ex haustion of vegetable matter from the soil because of the long continued cultiva tion of cotton on the same land without the use of soil improving crops; second, a lavk. el ifeaUagfi Uua Is likeU CHOLERA IN HOGS Hog Sick With Mog Cholera (Chronic Type.) They may eat very little and usually lose flesh rapidly, finally becoming so emaciated and weak that they stagger or walk witn an uncertain gait, the hind legs particularly appearing to be very weak. The eyes become inflamed and the lids may be gummed together. After the first few days of illness there is apt to be a profuse diarrhoea, and li» these chronic cases tne hog may, ana usually does, linger for several weeks sometimes months, before it finally dies. It is extremely rare for such an animal to recover its Health and vigor sufficiently to become of value to the owner. It Will 'thus be 'seen that before death the appearance ot hogs affected with hog cholera is not particularly characteristic, for the symptoms, espec ially in acute cases, nre only such as might be expected in a severe disease of any kind, uUt if these symptoms are noticed in a herd of hogs, and it the disfease is seen to be contagious, snowing a tendency to spread from the gjck to the healjhy animals, it is likely that hog cholera is present, though in order to be sure ot this a post-mortem examination must be made. to develop most frequently in low, wet places; third, a deficiency of potash. It has been found that rust may be checked and very often virtually eliminated where liberal applications of potash fertilizers are made. Fifty pounds of muriate or 200 pounds of kainit have been suggested as a proper application. In some instances, however, twice these amounts may be used with advantage. Insofar as I am able to ascertain, there is no particular benefit to be derived from the use of kainit over the muriate for correcting this trouble. No doubt there is some diversity of opinion locally, but from a scientific point of view, I am inclined to think that there are few who would hold that one had a positive advantage over the other. APPLYING FERTILIZERS TO CORN AND COTTON. J. D. M., Dovedale, Ga., writes: How would you apply 800 pounds of fertilizer, 10-2-2 goods, per acre for corn and cotton for best results on red land? Does nitro gen have same effect on plants regardless of where obtained, whether from cotton seed meal, tankage, blood and bone or other sources? Personally, we would be disposed to prepare red land by thorough plowing, always preferable in the fall for both corn and cotton, unless a cover crop is to be used. Corn, of course, may be plant ed sufficiently late to let a cover crop mature and be cut off for hay or turned under; thus the soil may be enriched if you grow crimson clover or hairy vetch either with or without oats. If your land has not been broken already, plow as soon as possible, but not before the land is dry enough to pulverize well. Use a turning plow or disk and break up 8 to 10 Inches deep. Land broken in the spring should be rolled as soon as possible so as to produce a firm seed bed and bring the moisture to the' "Surface. Then, gather all the yard maauM or compost you can find and scatter over the surface if you have a sufficient amount to use 6 or 8 tons were acre; if .only a limited quanti ty of compost is available, put under the drill row and mix the fertilizer with the manure. There will be no objection to putting the fertilizer under the drill row at the time of planting the corn if you use a combination planter and fertilizer drill, and since you only used 2 per cent of nitrogen, there is not likely to be much loss of this element through leaching, es pecially if the nitrogen, as it should be. is obtained from organic matter. The nitrogen contained in tankage, blood, bone and cotton seed meal is probably available In about the order nknied. Any one of these materials is a good source from which to obtain this element for corn and cotton. You will probably find it profitable to top dress your crop with nitrate of soda at the rate of 100 to 150 pounds per acre unless your land is un usually rich and makes plenty of weed, since 2 per cent of nitrogen is rather a light application for both corn and cotton. See Libera! trial offer In full page announcement on la»t paste of this issue. GIRLS "geTpOSSESSION OF $15,000,000 ESTATE CINCINNATI, Ohio. March 19.—The two granddaughters of Alexander McDonald, the Standard Oil magnate who died last night at Long Beach, Cal., will come into the possession of his estate of $15,000,000. They are Laura and Helena Stallo, daughters of the only child of Mr. and Mrs. McDonald, who died five years ago In New York city. Mr. Stallo later mar ried the divorced wife of Dan Hanna who was thought very highly of by Mr. Mc- Donald. He himself took charge of his granddaughters and they were constantly with him, being seated beside his chair when he died suddenly at Long Beach last night. Misses Laura and Helena Stallo, aged 17 and 19 years, respectively, will bring his body to Cincinnati from California, and will then make their home at “Dal vay,” his $2,000,000 home on Clifton ave nue, in Cincinnati. They are his only descendants living, though a sister was with him when he died. 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This Contest closes May 1, 1910. All letters must be received in this of fice not later than May 3, 1910. Send all subscriptions and answers to The Semi-Weekly Journal Atlanta, Ga. FRESH AND WELL ROTTED MANURE There seems to be a difference of opinion as to the value and use of fresh and well rotted manure. Almost all authors on gardening recommend the use of “well rotted”, manure for all plants. That well rotted manure is the safest and best for immediate results in gen eral farm and garden practice is ad mitted. . But large quantities of this fertilizer are difficult to secure, while fresh ma nure is plentiful and may be secured at all times. Besides, manure which has rotted in heaps, unless properly handled, has lost a large share of its best fertiliz ing properties. The greatest objection to the use of fresh manure for immediate plant growth is that it burns the crop unless the growing season is very wet. This, too, will be admitted is the.usual case, yet the bad effects from the use of fresh manure arise from improper methods of applying the manure and the working of the soil after the applica tion. Fresh manure may or may not heat in the soil and injure plants according to the way it is worked in the soil. F/esh manure of course undergoes decomposi tion and'‘produces heat in the process and the more of it there is in one place the more heat there will be given off. Then to overcome the bad effects of the heat to growing plants fresh manure should be well scattered and well mixed with the soil so that no large amount will remain any one one place. The soil should be deeply harrowed and disced, or both, so that all the ma nure is thoroughly incorporated with the soil particles, leaving a uniform mixture. Then the decomposition will be slow, hence a less amount of heat evolved. This thorough working or mixing of the soil will also prove beneficial in many other ways, as every farmer and gardener knows. A neighbor, and successful farmer, said recently that he always aimed to do a large share of the cultiv i tion of a crop before it was planted. The soil, in good working condition, for any crop of plants cannot well be worked and mixed too much. This is especially true when manure of any kind is used. Fresh manure is strong, and its strength consists of valuable compounds for plant growth that has not been dissi pated through decomposition. In the soil, these plant foods are ab sorbed and held for plant growth; out of the soil, most of them are carried away by the air and waste. The litter In ordinary stable manure has absorbed much liquid products and this litter well mixed with the soil will give up these fertilizing compounds, and the litter itself will enhance the chem ical and physical condition of the soil. The improving of the physical con dition of the soil is of as much value as adding chemical fertilizers, for soil in a good physical state gives up its plant foods readily and makes a com fortable home for the roots of plants. It is held by many that fresh ma nure of any kind or quantity in the soil during a dry season is a detri ment. We have not found by repeated experiments that this is true. For several seasons we have applied fresh manurd to the surface soil of the garden crops and corn till late in the summer, working the manure into the surface soil with each cultivation. With corn the manure wagon was driv en down rows in the same manner as the two-horse cultivator goes, and the ma nure applied heavily between row's. The good effects were apparent after each rain when the soluble portions were carried into the soil and taken up by the roots of the growing crop. When this manure was cultivated into and w’ith the surface soil it acted as a mulch, increasing the moisture holding,ca pacity of the soil, and during very wet periods It retarded washing, decomposed rapidly without detrimental heating re sults. and produced rapid plant growth. We should use all well rotted manure that can be secured for the garden, but the garden should not be without manure when only fresh manure Is available. Os course, when fresh manure is used on the garden or truck patch the cultivation should be done with horse tools ao that The handsomest and most complete line it //P M /"• America. All sizes, for home or market can 51 11 fl zl I .51f|||A|C Onr canners have made North Carolins will VllllU WCI 1111 VI M canned goods famous tho world over. Cans and supplies. r "*oT N ra waxtesI ,u THARP HDWE. & MFC. CO.,Elkin,N.C. the soil may be worked and mixed deeply to thoroughly incorporate all fertilizers with the soil. When the hoe only is used nothing but shallow surface stirring results, and por tions of unmixed manure in the soil may cause burning of the plant roots. The horse tool which stirs the soil sev eral inches deep, especially during the early period of growth. Is the only culti vator to use in gardening, both for the saving of valuable labor and the improve ment of the physical nature of the soil. CHAMELEOhTMOST REMARKABLE ANIMAL r ZvSL N This chameleon is an African lizard or very peculiar form and structure. In the -first place, it has no external ears, and its neck is so short that it cannot move its head; but for this it is com pensated by having eyes that move inde pendent of each other—the only instance in animal life. The chameleon is also celebrated for its power to change its color and take on the color of surrounding objects. The chameleon’s tongue is most re markable. It is very long and the animal darts It at insects with unerring aim. In the picture it may be seen in the act of spearing a fly. Marshallville Fruit Safe MARSHALLVILLE, Ga., March 17. The fruit orchards in this territory were not seriously injured by the frost of Tues day night. A TT isr HJSWjLa I , Harvest Time, 71 Zl 11 // \ m / ’ t> s corn » cotton, or any other \ JuL I > Sb / crop ’ show you your profit from | a t I‘beral amount of I X Potash / yJ/, /s f < you put in your commercial fertilizer this / . | /M M ! W Z Spring, or drill, or broadcast to follow / ' n\i B *rrrS_‘ L *l In J manuring. n /W|\ ■ f IX Crop - can b* a success without a balanced // •nV hbiAh 7 4< feed ration.” See that there’s enough / / lit in the fertilizer you feed your / J m ff / cro P s —from 6to 12 per cent according to the • / / crop and soil. / / Ji rr fix' Potash Pays / / I H iIOJ' Urge . your ferti!iier Scaler to carry Potash / / r!■ Salts in stock. He will have no trouble in t• / buying them if he will write to us about it. l/ f iBUGIILIs/Bfi GERMAN KALI WORKS V it' U L Mg \ 22 CALIBER srXHUNTING length. Tho ■■■ ■ ■■B barrel is 18 in. j long and finely x’VA BY I ■ I ■* rifled. It hae a built MV. 11 II up steel jacket giv- ing it great strength \f . ytK t" fS |*W and durability. The rear ak iggl IV sight is open and adjust- C jNm < able and the front ts a c knife sight. Tho gun has Imdv, mV El B I the hammer action and the .mBX. —q M\/ shell is automatically thrown out when the barrel is "broken w I down” for reloading. The gun shoots 22 caliber long or short car tridgea This is one of the finest rifles made. VKgHBBk 1 want you to have one. All I ask is a WjSSjKX. little rasv work. Write today and I will tell you about the gun and how to get It. * ~ - 119 "-w-Ur WMv.. Pea Moines, Ta. Corrugated Sheet Metal / Storage Tanks Are 29 times stronger than plain ones. Omw last a lifetime. The reasons and catalog J foe the asking. • The Dixie Culvert & Meta! Ob., Atlanta, Ga. SIO,OOO REWARD Sugar Loaf Cotton Farm's Perfect-Bred Farm Seeds. The earliest, most prolific, largest yield ing cotton and corn. A New Year’s present. Soil I improvement, two and three crops annually, ro tation, seed selection and Improvement illustrat ed in catalogue and on post cards, sent free. . I. W. MITCHELL. PROP.. Youngsville. N. CL ".I- ■ ' - - II Xeedle,. Rods A Rooks, for locating Bw m N I wk M Gold, Silver sod Hidden Treosaros. ■ Mlw lßw II Folly Guaranteed. Booklet Free. V Address. P.AM. AGENCY, 20Z Ilk St.,Palmyra.Pa. PAULHAN, DISGUSTED, IS READY TO LEAVE NEW YORK, March 15—“ I am ready to leave and glad to leave this country,” declared Louis Paulhan, the aviator, to day. Paulhan said he was disgusted w’ith pat ent infringements, with what he consid ers lack of appreciation of his avlatior exhibits, with the weather, and with ex hibition business.
