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Newspaper Page Text4 The SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL ATLANTA. BA., I MOBTM FOMYTH. ST. Entered at the Atlanta Postofflee a* Mau Matter «f «te Second Claaa. J - JAMES B- OAAT, Proeldant and Editor. • gVMG*.IFTIOM PBICB ‘ f ’Twelve **tte I -•••• Sir oxmtte *..< Tbraa tooets* •«••••• ■ Tt» Satai- Weet ly Jnnrnal la pebll*ted on Tuesday and Friday, and Is mailed by the •bortect rentes for early delivery. »* It coatala* news froa all over the wnrtd. bro««ht by weelal leased wire* Into <*r “"**• B It tea a ataff of diattesulebed contributor*, with stroai dev,rtmeats as special value to th* f teasa aad the farm. _ A rest* Wanted at every poetofflee. i-lber* l eotomtooton allowed. Ontftt free. Write to B. B. BRAniJST. Circotatv* Depf. The oaly travrtfac wo teve •are J. A- *rr«t. R- F. Brftoa. C. C. Cwyte. ;L H Klwbreflrh and C. T. Tatea. Wo will be reqpoeolble oaly for aewey paid to the above -«am«d traveling representatives. ■ „ ... -> BOTICI TO STJBSOBIBEBS i nv label o«d for yanr . mner shows tbe t’.me your subacrtptl n eiPlrea By renewing at least two ' the date o» tht. label, and ' • ttecto regular service. In ordering paper changed, be sure to meatloe yoer old. as well as yw saw addrrsa. If on a rural route ■ietee give the route anmher. P • We esetet enter onbocnptloaa to te eta with berk numbers. Bewlrtaarr* 'hoold be seat by poetal order or regie mß ’ I Address alt orders and nett neo f<w this denortwent to TRI SBMI-WBBKI T / WBXAL, Atlanta, Ga | L ' 1 I* Prstty women don’t aavs to vote to *t rot everything they want. Did you ever hear of a happy wife ■ being a militant auffra<ette? Too probably won't do your shopping now, but why don’t you do it? Men may not bo as bad as they are •painted, but women always look so. Weds ma Crule's love affaire have not £ yet been attributed to radio-activity. »♦ The World says Roosevelt is now referring to him as ' that man Taft. ’ William Jennings Bryan vigorously /denies that ho is a reincarnation ot .Josiah. When the poets speak of “hydcinthine hair.” do they mean it is purple, white, or curly? If Nanking is madp queen by the Chinese revolutionists .will Minister We her* . Is it possible that driving an auto can not be taught by mail? This is a blow fto the correspondence schools. , 5 With Christmas approaching, it is the high cost of giving rather than the high •cost of living that worries ua. Washington newspapers are Snaking quite a feature jg the fact that Hoke Smith, of got to town. / The nest peace conference at The | Hague will not be able to transact busl- • ness without a Chinese Interpreter. We wondei if there is a poor old horse shivering somewhere for every blanket taat is wrapped around an auto radiator. . i Harry Thaw is studying law. Prob ably he wants to find out what par anoia mesnr Only people whose position in . so ciety is well established can afford to be ill-mannered. • *» - . ?/... Frank James, former bandit has be- J - come a boarding-house keeper. He prob ably finds it more prof! tabla Doe Wiley th. n les it would help some -if there were more cook stoves and less pianos in the schools tor young women. • A turkey is reported to have commit fed suicide in New Jersey. Merely to 4 to b turkey is suicidal at this season. TY this equal rights business keeps ' on, the women will soon be entertain ing at smokers instead of sewing clr ****■ What's In a name? The Columbia State sugests, arguing from Internal evidence that Littleton is connected with the coal trust. | ..., The Martian canals are getting a lot of • .free publicity. Maybe the boaster of some “homeseeker” movement is on the .Job. a j ■ The theory that turkey is to become / , ex’inct is not as painful to contemplate ' the day after Thanksgiving as the day GJ ‘i. "-before. "The Long Roll.” written by Mary ** Johnston, has nothing to do with finance or Currency, though the title suggests a fat wallet. 4 Reckless autoists are being sent to Jail ■ for manslaughter in New England. There L are cases wnen Puritanical higor is a Rf good thing One of life’s little irritations: To have to chase all around over the neigh borhood on a cold morning to get a quar ter for the gas meter. ~ 1 ■ "■ - 1 11 The man who selected a scrubwoman for his bride may never be ecstatically happy, but the chances are he ll never be terriblv unhappy either. It is said of the girls who shot Stokes that they aimed low. Their aims couldn't have been very high, con sidering all the circumstanced "Resurrection cannot precede death, deciares a Louisville minister. Sounds i sound. But what we would like to 1 ‘be sure about Is whether it can suc eeed it SMona Lisa and Madonna delle Stella are probably off in a corner somewhere congratulating each other on their de- —r livery from the stare and comment of B tourists. fA Beau Brutnatel of Indiana high so ciety. has been convicted of wholesale • chicken stealing. The fact that he was > making a living probably aroused sus > piclon. > With Thanksgiving dinner*, baseball fr games. Sunday vaudeville and S drama, the government will soon be mak- E ing its penitentiaries so attractive that It Jx will not be worth any poor man's while 4 to remain honest. 2 -A New Tort man was blown out of f f his bath tuh and nearly killed the othe» I day by an exploding bomb. We have always believed it dangerous to bathe « in winter - - ■■ J The dispatches fail to state what i * kind of potatoes the Irish threw at the J Irish tn the recent theatrical riot. Were they spuds, or was it a case of yams to the hams. 3 . I Liver Ills # Are Cured by 5 HOOD'S PILLS 5 * 4 2SC. A CORN SHOIV CRAMMED WITH MEANING. To Georgia and her neighbor states, the corn show which opens next Tuesday at the auditorium is one of the most signifi cant and broadly interesting events of the year. It will present the frujts of a twelvemonth in an endeavor that is comparatively new and especially vital to the south’s welfare. These, it will bring vividly general public and'it will also furnish a fresh rallying point for those men and influences that are leading the campaign for progressive agriculture. The gospel of scientific farming, with its plea for diversified crops and efficient methods, has fallen upon fertile soil in Georgia. And one of its most heartening results is the substantial increase in the state’s annual production of grain. The time is not long past when the majority of our farmers took no particular or busi nesslike interest in raising corn and other food products. What they lacked in such commodities, they purchased from foreign markets and thus year after year the surplus of the money crop was soaked up. Under such conditions, the outlook for anything like deep-rooted and widespread prosperity among the' farming class was sorely beclouded. Within the past few years, however, this state of affairs has been rapidly changing. Georgia’s grain output has not only grown notably in aggregate bulk but has also increased ii? respect to the average yield per acre, facts which show that more corn is being planted and tnat is also being cultivated more intelligently. This progress is due largely to the work of the boys’ corn clubs of which there arc today ninety-six roganized in as many counties, comprising a membership of nearly seven thousand. Illustrations of the work of these young farmers will be one of the most en gaging features of the forthcoming exposition. Thirty of th em have this year produced over a hundred bushels of corn to the acre. That is an achievement for which the entire state has cause to be proud and gratified. It is,expected that a thousand or more members of the Boys’ Corn clubs will attend the show. They will be the guests of the people of Atlanta and the welcome accorded them will be homelike and warmly hospitable. The genera! public should find the corn show rich in interest. The displays will be well worth witnessing both within themselves and for the really great movemeat they represent. A number of distinguished public men, among them Governor Harmon, of Ohio, will make addresses in the course of the four-days* program. In every sense, the show will be an important event for the city and the state. WHAT CONGRESS HAS TO DO. The session of congress that begins Monday promises to be one of the most significant in all our legislative history. Os chief importance, no doubt, will be the matter of tariff revision down ward, to whieh the Democrats are pledged and which concerns the people’s vital interests. The trust problem in its relation to the Sherman act now bids fair to receive much consideration. On the part of the Democrats, there will also be further efforts toward retrenchment in the government’s towering expenditures, and the investigation of federal departments, particularly that of the post office, will, it is hoped, be pressed to a fruitful conclusion with a view of checking the abuses of power that have grown so flagrant. The tariff wil] be a weighty, if not the dominant, issue in the presidential campaign of 1912. It marks very largely the boundary line between those ideas of government which are liberal and pro gressive and those that are narrow and reactionary. To a great extent, it underlies the so-called trust issue, for it is a high pro tective tariff that nurtures monopoly and crushes out independent trade. ' The president’s message is said to be devoted chiefly to a consideration of the trust problem and to suggestions as to how it can be solved. Had he not vetoed the three measures of tariff re form passed by the Democrats at the extra session of congress, conditions in this respect would already have improved. From the present outlook, it appears that he will veto any other kindred measures the Democrats may enact, unless they chance to square with the report of his own tariff board. Such an attitude will but serve to heighten the people’s impatience with an administraticn that is unresponsive to their needs and will strengthen the chances of Democracy in 1912. In the extra session, this Democratic congress showed its abil ity, as Mr. Underwood recently declared, “to do business without rows, a fact which has done more to revitalize the party in ithe estimation of the American people than anything else within the past twenty years.’’ It was, indeed, their admirable spirit of con cord and unity that enabled the Democrats in the extra session to establish their splendid record of constructive work and to in crease the public confidence they had won. It is to be hoped that the forthcoming session will find them equally harmonious and equally loyal to their pledges and, if such is the case, as doubtless it will be, the rejuvenated party and the great cause they repre sent will soon enter into complete national power. TJTO VITAL IDEAS ON RURAL SCHOOLS ' • The most meaty and stimulating' address delivered thus far at the current convention of the Southern Educational Association in Houston, Tex., was that by Prof. L. Brittain, of Georgia, on the needs and the opportunities of the rural school. As state superintendent of education, Prof. Brittain is doing admirable work and he is coming into daily touch with facts and circumstances that enables him to speak with authority and to point the way to many needed reforms in the south’s system of country schools. Especially interesting is his plea that the course of studies taught in these schools be adapted more vitally to the piactical needs and the home needs of the pupils. Four-fifths of the south’s population, as he showed is engaged in agricultural pursuits. Evidently, therefore, more attention should be given to agriculture and the domestic sciences. The boys and girls should be trained more specifically forth i life of the farm and also with a view to making that life richer and more engaging. , Especially notable also is Prof. Brittain’s suggestion that the hundreds jjf »ne-room school houses that dot so many sections be consolidated into what he happily termed, “district institutions,” with an ample number of rooms, and grades, well supplied with teachers. These institutions, he showed further,/could be devel oped into community centers that would prove a gathering place and rallying point for the people of the entire district, for social and civic purposes. * i In many parts of the nation movements to establish such cen ters of common life and thought are now under way with the result that the school is' being brought into closer and warmer touch with the life of the people. These two ideas as advanced by Prof. Brittain —the revision of courses of study on a more practical basis and the cons6lidation of schools—should enlist the keen interest of the public at large as well as that of ‘his own profession. ITALY'S VINDICATION. The injustice of snap judgments based upon fragmentary oi biased reports is driven sharply home bV recent disclosures at Tripoli. A few week.- ago the English press and not a few Americans newspapers were led to condemn dr deplore the so called atrocities of the Italian army in its north African campaign. Civilization had been outraged, we were told, and the Cross itself had been dragged in the dust by a nation that had gone forth in the name of progress and human redemption. Later and more dependable dispatches indicate, howeter, that far from having indulged in wanton cruelties the Italian forces fought honorably and treated their captives with merciful and even kindly consideration. No sooner had this particular part of the record been set straight than seemingly authentic dispatches arrive, with an ac count ol sickening tortures inflicted by the Turks and Arabs upon their Italian prisoners. Naturally there has followed a reverse of popular sentiment in Europe and this country and the injustice that has been done Italy is becoming generally recognized. THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. ATLANTA. GA., TUESDAY. DECEMBER 5, 1911. THE MODERN MANIA FOR MEETINGS For many years ths churches of ths English-speaking nations have been holding all sorts of conferences, conven tions, and assemblies, in which the amount of talking done was quite out of proportion to the sum of good accom plished. These meetings may have had an inspirational value which can not be accurately stated in definite terms; but certainly their visible results have not seemed to justify the expenditure of time, energy, and money whitfh .has been bestowed upon them; and in their recent years many wise and good men have ex pressed privately doubts as to whether these gatherings have been worth all thfct they have cost. .. ' Such doubts, privately expressed, are now finding public utterance of the most emphatic kind, in very influential quarters. z Recently that very ably conducted periodical, The British JA r eekly of Lon don, has called attention to the reac tion which has set in agaihst these ever recuFring meetings, with their vast out put of pious talk- and fervid declama tion. The Editor goes on to say, "For twenty-five years at least the whole drift has been turned, congresses, con ferences public meetings, motor-car preachings, wanderings through the whole earth. Floods of oratory have passed over the church’s ground, and what has been the result? They have left it largely barren.” The London Inquirer, agrees with The British Weekly, and says that meetings have been multiplied until they threaten to become a weariness to the flesh, and affirms tnat they are "attended only by a small fraction of the religious world which has a taste for this particular kind of excitement." The words of the Inquirer point to the source from . which fondness for these over-done meetings springs; they arise from “a taste for this particular kind of excitement,” and they are a part of that pernicious sensationalism upon which a certain class of men have been relying for achieving religious re sults for soms time past. These spec tacular gatherings and pulpit sensa tionalism (in both peripatetic evangel ists and some others also) nave had tneir day together, for they were born together from a common parentage. They proceed on an essentially un scriptural principle, vis., that Christians ar« made by overwhelming the sensuous tn men by appeals to the senses, rather than by bringing men into obedience to Christ by the appeals of gospel truth to their hearts and consciences. On such a basis they were bound to bring to pass, sooner or later, a reaction against themselves; for it is of the nature of sensationalism to become more sensa tional every day In order to please the vitiated taste to which it playa, going from bad to worse, until it reaches a point at which it can go no further without becoming utterly repulsive and can not turn backward without losing the interest of its patrons. ThomaA Carlyle supplies a figure to express the case, in that of a dog with a tin can tied to his tail, who finally reaches a speed at which he can go no faster and will be frightened to death if he does not move more rapidly. It is noticeable that as the years have passed since these excessive meetings have been in vogue, the speakers who have been most popuar with them, have been men most given to making utterances more start ling than useful—utterances which have in some cases been nothing short of reckless. It would not be stating the case too strongly 'to affirm that many of these meetings have fallen to the level of shocking-machines for exciting the jaded nerves of men whose religious life was rooted in nothing deeper than their nervous systems. Such methode did not, and in the nature of the case could not. nourish genuine spiritual 'energy, nor private worthy religious activity. They produce convulsions, which! are succeeded quick ly by collapse. This inevitable conse quence the editorial of the British Weekly points out, and explains ifi these words: "There is a dangerous Alterna tive to Inaction and action. That alter native is speech. If we are not very much mistaken, this is how the passivity of the age expresses Itself. Men and women do not exactly say, ’We can do nothing, and it is vain to try.’ Nor do they say, ’We will do our little best, and leave the rest to God and man.’ What they say, or at least what large numbers iay, Is, "We tfiall hold a con iference and discuss 'tne matter thor oughly. This is a salve to the con science, and it is not disagreeable to apply it. We will arrange a series of huge meetings, and get this eloquent man and that eloquent man to address them, and then when the talk ends we shall feel more comfortable, because something must come of the talk.’ We are afraid that very, very little comes of the talk in the vast majority of Instances.” v In all this the British Weekly is emi nently correct. Viry little. If anything, comes of the talk, at least little of what was professedly aimed at, comes GREAT POULTRY SHOW WILL BE NEXT WEEK'S EVENT "From every section of the United states the very beet birds of which this country boasts are coming ( tb the show of the Southern International Poultry association,” declared T. M. Poole, sec retary -of thu organization, Saturday, the day after the entry list for‘the big event closed. Mr. Poole is enthusiastic over the show, which will be held at the At lanta auditorium December 11-16, in clusive. "I still have no idea of the total num ber of entries, but 1 am certain that there will be at least 4,000 birds in the big auditorium, when the show opens. And that in itself will be a sight which should draw thousands of visitors.” Mr. Poole with his entire office force has been working 15 hours out of 24 during the last three days, attending to the many details which necessarily accumulate before a show of the mag nitude of that of the Southern Inter national. Entries have literally poured into the secretary's office at such a rate that it will be Impossible for him to announce the exact total until next week. As Is usual with poultry ex hibitors, they did not negin sending their entries In until the last few days. Three days before the list closed there were scarcely I.OQO entries in the South ern International office. Since then practically every mail has brought a stack of letters so big that they couldn't be opened and counted before the next batch arrived. “We have the birds,” says Secretary Poole “The best in the country are coming to the show. In fact I do not 'believe that the poultry fanciers have ever sten as many really fine fowls in any show outside of Madison Square Garden tn New York as they will at the Southern International’s exhibit. “The exhibitors come from about 24 different states, and I believe that the best birds from all of those states will be on exhibition. "Os course, southern birds will have to be good ones if they want to walk away w<th the. prize money in the open BY BISHOP W. A. CANDLE*. igfca Bib of the talk. But something or an other sort does come of it. By it the consciences of the promoters and at tendants of these meetings are some what paralyzed; they have a sense of duty discharged by the glow with which they have heard the talk and held the meeting. Nothing la really done, but so far as they are concerned they are done with the matter. Moreover the speakers also In many cases are ill-affected by their own talk. They have talked so much they feel nothing more than talk should be asked of them. They are ready to talk some more, if anything furthe? is desired at their hands. They become infected al • so with an evil itch of speech. They conceive a passion for talking in meet ings, and they will compass sea and land to get a chance to address a con vention and s'now the by-standers how well they can speak. They become ar tists In accent and manner, and they train even their lacrymal glands to se crete timely tears to suit the occasions on which they are called to serve. A less evil result, although one not wholly unworthy of consideration, is the amount of money wasted on these needless convocations. In expenses of travel and entertainment, and in the outlay incident to these superfluous dieetings there is often expended an amount of money quite sufficient to ac complish the good ends they profess to serve, if ,the funds were bestowed di rectly Upon the work. Misaionary Con ferences have consumed resources which would have sustairted hundreds of efficient missionaries on the foreign field. If men and women really care for Christ’s command to go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature, why do they need so much addressing to move themselves 4o obey the command? Are their con victions of duty like half-worn pumps which require much water to be poured into them before they will draw any out? Nothing said by the British Weekly, and nothing contained in this article. Is designed to deprecate or discourage the regular convocations »>f the churches. The Baptists can not do their work suc cessfully witboat their associations and conventions. In like manner the Pres byterians must maintain their presby teries, synods, and assemblies, and the Methodists their well-ordered system of conferences. So also must tljie other churches preserve. their convocations which are authorized by their laws and necessary to their progress. Against none of these regularly constituted as semblies can be brought a word of just objection. Criticism is submitted against the superfluous gatherings which are re sponsible to nobody and vyhich begin, continue, and ehd in talk and resolutions only. It is possible, however, that some of the churches have themselves to blame for making provision for some needless meetings of a denominational character. Their people, perhaps, are meeting too much for the best results In pious living and useful service. They may waste all their force in religious dissipation. Are not the women and young people of some churches running about too much for the beat things in the home, which is God’s most sacred assembly? The prophet speaks of a time when many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be Increased. But many may run to and fro, without Increasing anything but shallowness, flippancy, irreverence, and talkativeness. Attendance on meetings which overthrows family altars -in not please God or promote the kingdom of heaven., , classes, but I convinced that in many Instances they will do it. “The fact that we are going to have such a splendid array of prize birds on exhibition Is certain to draw mam moth crowds to the auditorium during SI.OO-~Four Papers, One Year Each—s 1.00 T7D1717 Absolutely New * Eureka Bent Trimmer 11 // .... JJ See That Tension EIGHT-INCH SELF SHARPENING SHEARS ALL FOUR PAPERS—ONE YEAR SI.O9—AND THE SHEARS FREE Send Us $l.O0 —Sign Your Name and Address Below and We Will Send You The Semi-Weekly Journal One Year. The Home and Farm One Year. The Woman’s World Magazine 1 Year The Gentlewoman Magazine 1 Year. I And tile Shears Free Name 1 Town State.'... BISHOP WARREN A. CANDLER. WINTER STUDY FOR FARM BOYS Plant Growth in Its Various Stages Desor bed for the Bene fit of Our Boys Who Wish to Make a Study of It During the Winter Froxn fall till spring seems like a I long time to a boy, especially if he has a choice lot of seeds to put Into the ground. But there is a great deal to be done during the time of waiting. The boy who does not mean to waste his tlm© and labor, must learn some thing about -what his plants will need before’ he is even ready to prepare bis ground. The first thing needful is to under stand something about the make-up of the seed Itself. As seeds are quite simi lar in general characteristics, studying one closely will give a fair understand ing of others. The common white bean is easy to get, and to study, so we will take it a» afi example. Soak a few beans in water overnight. Then take one and cut the tough outer covering around the edge with the point of a pin. The halves can then be easily spread apart, and the tiny plant discov ered. It lies snugly cradled in one end of the bean.f You will see that it has two parts, a small waxen point, and a tiny, yellowish, folded leaf. The point is the root, and a tender, delicate thing it is. This little root must work its way down Into the ground, both to feed and to hold in place the little plant. If the ground is not well prepared, if it is too hard and cloddy, the little root may become so broken and bruised as to hinder, or perhaps entirely check, its growth. The tiny leaf, too, which must push upward, needs a soil that is soft and loose, if it is not to be injured. Plant a few seeds in a bed of wet sawdust, and you will soon see, branch ing out from the main root, many little rootlets. A little later, a set of fine hairs, called root-hairs, wiM appear on the rootlets. It iis through these that the plant gets its nourishment from the soil. They take up all the elements that the plant needs, and send them up through little veins to the stems and leaves, as your food la taken through your body by the veins, in the shape of blood. The plant's blood is called sap. The tiny ’mouths can only use the food In the soil when it is "In solution,” that is to say, when it is thoroughly dis solved. You can see that it will need NOTES OT THE SHEETTOX.D. AH pure- bred sires are not good. We would rather have a large, well formed, vigorous, virile scrub -»m than a puny. 111-formed, pure-plood. In buying ranks it is Just m necessary to study individ uality and it is to have pure blood. We have seen some mighty poor speci mens of men who boasted of their high lineage, and we have seen some ex tremely poor specimens of sheep that had pedigrees as long as your arm. A flock will go through a winter in good shape in an open shed provided it has a dry roof, but no flock will ever thrive on wet -footing. .Sheep axe nervous animals and of rather delicate constitutions and suffer more from bad ventilation and over crowding than any other animal on the farm; It is a mistake therefore to con fine sheep during the winter in close quarters. If kept dry their fleeces will keep them warm. Who ever heard of sheep freezing to death? The rams should ntver be fed fattening food, but should be given the kind of food that w... add strength and stamina. They must never be allowed to run with the ewes at will but should be separ ated from them. An Indian while swimming in Cache creek, Louisiana, discovered a buge cat fish and captured it with his naked hands, after a struggle of 80 minutes. The fish was five feet long and weighed 800 pound a A farmer near Toledo, Ohio, recently lost 100 chicks in a week front attacks from weasels. A small wound in the head or neck from which the weasel sucked the blood was the only sign left. £ • Cut down every rag weed on the place now—ought to have done it last month but better now than not at all. ■ . , - ... - . K ■ .. ..... the week of the show. "The sight of 4,000 birds, chickens of all varieties, pigeons, ducks, tarkeys, guineas and pheasants all gathered un der one roof will be worth a visit from anybody, whether he knows or cares anything abut poultry or not •‘Fanciers will be given a chance to see the very best birds In the United States. It matters not what variety or branch of the poultry industry they are interested in, it will be found at the au ditorium during the week that the Southern Internationa holds sway. "'As this will be primarily an educational exhibit, which the promoters wish all to share alike, the admission fee to tne auditorium has be<n placed at the nominal sum of 10 cents, and every one has a chance to see the wonderful dis play of birds. “The fact that the rrllroads ot the south have recognized the show by putting on reduced rates to Atlanta from all points, will bring thousands of visitors to the city. Generally the show Is going to be so big that It will be an event of im portance not only to poultry fanciers, but to the business interests of the city." . considerable moisture to do this. If i the ground is too light and loose, the water will all drain and dry away, and 1 no matter how rich the sail may be, the plant will die for want of fobd. So an important thing to keep in mind, when preparing the seed-bed, is that the top soil, to Xhe depth of sev eral inches, shoul 1 be worked up lightly and loosely enough so that the root can . eadily push through, and ' still be pressed firmly enough so that the moisture can not all escape. All over the stem and leaves axe little openings, called “pores.” It takes a miscroscope of quite high , power Jo detct them. These are the k plant's lungs. Through them it gets the air it needs to live on. If you cover a plant so tlghetly that it cannot get air. it will smother Just . as surely as you would with a blanket over your head. That is what will happen if you get your seeds in too deep, or if you let tbe ground get hard above them before «hey come up. If you wish to be sure Just how deep to plant your seeds, try this little experi ment Take a tall glass tumbler, or a pint fruit jar. and fill it with earth. .Press down Into It. next the glass, three seeds of any kind yA wish to test. Press the first clear to ths bottom, the second about half way to the bot tom. and the third leave within an inch of the top. Do not put them directly over one another. Wrap a heavy pa per around the glass to keep out the light, and keep the earth in it moist and warm. . Every day slip off the paper, and note how the seeds, are doing. Whichever one thrives the best is the one you want to take as your guide in the/ matter of depth. What do you th nk Will happen to the one at the bottom? You have noticed that there Is a great part of the seed that is not filled up by he baby plant. This part IS filled with blood upon which the plant lives until it gets roots long enough to feed Itself. After the food In the seed is all used us>, there must be other food In the soil ready for it to live on. This Is the criti cal tlm In a young plant’s life, if it is starved and stunted now, It wIU never make up for it. MAKING THE OLD FABM FAT. J It is a commentary on American agri , culture that in certain sections there are , farms of one hundred or more acres that i can be bought for less tnan the first • cost of thi buildings, and In some cases for less than the policy insurance com- ■ panles placed bn said buildings. 1 The old farm doesn’t pay. ' Its forests have been destroyed. Its p 1 soil has been tilled, and tilled till it ( would bear tillage no longer and nature I went out on one of her inevitable strikes. Can the old farm be made to pay? It certainly can not, by the old meth- > ods. The old owner may remain but the . old farming must stop. , Here are home suggestions. Put 50 | . acres of the 100 to growing trees. ( These may be forest trees or In part [ an apple orchard. ; If the farm has any smooth level land, dp the cultivation on that. , Stop starving and go to feeding all ' cultivated land if the amount is no more than five acres. - , For some crops as potatoes, on im . poverished soil, success is being had by the judicious use of commercial ter- ’ tillzera. “ i . > t L LIME IN THE STABLE. I To disinfect a stable and destroy de caying animal or vegetable matter lima I Is excellent to use. But manure should be preserved nd not destroyed, conse quently lime should never be used in or r about a stable where manure is made i or kept. Its use decomposes the manure > and liberates the most [ valuable element of plant food. Acid phosphate, ground rode phosphate and land plaster are the three best ma- > terlals to use If other absorbents are i scarce. Air slaked lime contains a mixture ot carbonate and hydrate of lime. it IS : not so caustic as fresh burned lime. Limestone is perfectly, neutral and has j the same value as dirt or road dust as an absorbent. It also possesses a value ’ on , sour, heavy soil because It neutral ( tzea the soil acidity and improves its I physical condition. JVBT HOBBES AND MULES. I Leave a horse untied when hooked to . a vehicle and he. wilt be likely to be , gone when you return for him. The greenhorn, when he goes to pur i chase a horse, generally takes from one to six greenhorns with him to M'iSt I in choosing the animal. The dealer, «o I der those circumstances,' generally ouV I wits them all. ( A dark stable often times brings os > eye disease. The horse, also the mule, . requires light, but it should not shins directly in their faces. Rather from i the rear. i Use a leather baiter rein instead ot , a chain when tying horses in their i stalls. They may become entangled and i the leather rein may possibly break and 5 * • release them without serious injury, while the chain will hold and often times cause their death.