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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1913. «C.5° —63 EGGS T° n WE PAY FREIGHT tGreatest Bargain Erer Offered. Catalog FREE. PETALUMA INCUBATOR CO., ; Box 333 Petaluna, Calif. Box 353 Indlananolis, Ind. rr"5HOBES-MUE I REMEDIES B iWarvted | Farmer or Farmeri I with rig in every County to intro- •Soul duce and sejl Family and Veteri nary R?mediet. Extracts and Spices. Fine pay. One man made $90 one week. We mean busi* ness and want a man in your County. Write us. Shar«-Mn.llerC». 1 D«pt. 8S> Cfd.r Rapifelowa FARM FENCE 41 INCHES HIGH 100 other styles of Farm, Poultry and Lawn Fencing direct from factory at save-the- dealer’s-profit-prices. Our -large catalog is free. 21 CENTS A RGD .large alTSELMAN BEOS. Box <5 Mancie, Ind Whatley’s Prolific Corn * | Be-st yielding variety tested at Georgia State College of Agriculture for four years. More ; bushels per acre than any x prolific variety in n number of tests. The corn for those interested in increasing yield or in contests for greatest yield, per pk., $1.00: half bn., $1.75; bu. $5.00 • f.o.b. Carefully selected by originator and I bleeder. TOiyi WHATLEY, Helena, Ga. AGRICULTURAL J^nL Education , SUCCESSFUL ?AR.MIN%- t p A NI)KW ft 3oulc 125 Egg Incubator on f describe* I Wisconsin I Bo* FOR If ordered together. I Freight paid east of Rockies. Hot water, ! Copper tanks, double y i walls, double glass i no GROW MORE SWEPT POTATOES AMD LESS CO 1 TOM Slips $1.50 thousand, for booklet. Draws $1.50 M. SSend doors. Free catalog i them. Send for it today, f Incubator Co.. J{55 Re cine, Wts, C. W- Woughtel ‘Sweet Potato Specialist, Homeland, Ga SHOEMAKER’S lOOK on POULTRY fCSMwiii land Almanae for 1918 has 224 pages with many “ colored plates of fowls true to life. It tells all about chickens, their prices, their care, diseas es and remedies. A11 about Inenbators, their prices and their operation. Ali about poultry Douses and how to build them. It's an encyclo pedia of chiekendom. Ybu need it. Only Toe, C. C. SHOEMAKER, Box lost Freeport, I1L LEDBETTER “ONE SEED”"PLANTER Plants peanuts, large or small, shelled or unshelledj also corn, cotton, peas. etc., with certainty and regu larity. Less seed, larger crops. Write for booklet. 832/ T H£ SOUTHERN PLOW COMPANY, Dallas. Texas This department will cheerfully endeavor to furnish any information. Letters should be addressed to Dr. Andrew U. Soule, president State Agricultural College, Athens, Oa. LAMENESS IN A HORSE W. T. F., Haleyville, Ala., writes: I have a horse that is lame in his left fore foot, and X want a remedy. He holds out his foot and rests it as though he had sweeney, but all the soreness that I can find seems to be in the frog of his foot. * Large red skin imported Spanish peanuts, j SI.60 bushel. Small Spanish, $1.40. Fresh i Sec^. FORT VALLEY FRUIT FARM. FORT VALLEY, GA. Bite FOR SALE—COW PEAS Mix $2.00 bu., Iron $2.50 bu., Whips $2.25 bu., Clays $2.25 bu. F. O. B. ' F. A. BUSH, Richland, Ga, Like Hungry Wolves, Fill your Nets Traps or Trot Lines If you bait with M AU1C-FI8H-LURE. .Best bait ever used for attracting ^ all kinds of fish. Write for price . list to-dav and get a box to help introduce it. Agents wanted. J. F. GREGORY, Dept. 2, St. Louis, Mo. LOOK TOR THE RED WHEN BUYING RIFLE OR PISTOL CARTRIDGES IT MEANS mwemsmt Rifle and Pistol Cartridges. r It is plain to understand why Winchester cartridges, generally speaking, shoot better than other makes. It has to do with the reputation of Winchester rifles. You see, Winchester cartridges adapted to Winchester • rifles are made to get the best possible results out of them. As the same equipment, organization and system are employed in making all Winchester cartridges, it naturally follows that Winchester cartridges do the best shooting in all firearms. Winchester cartridges are made for all calibers and makes of rifles, revolvers and pistols and are sold everywhere. They always satisfy. Be Sure To Ask For The Red W Brand, ' \ m/Qr #0 AW, Crop Insurance In an old line company ■ You insure YOUR LIFE, you .insure your house—why not insure your crop? ’The best insurance against crop failure is liberal use of the fertilizer that HASN’T FAILED IN 27 YEARS (ESTABLISHED 188S) ROYSTER’S FERTILIZERS Judging from the symptoms given your horse appears to be suffering from founder. This trouble is bi-ought on by violent changes of food, by over exerting, or by feeding or watering when the horse Is very warm or dry. There are various conditions and degrees of this trouble'. Immediately on the na ture of the disease being ascertained the shoe should be pulled off and the horse placed in well bedded quarters Do everything to induce him to lie down and rest as much as possible. The af fected foot should be wraped with soft cloths or packed with moss and kept wet with cold water to reduce the in flammation. A heaping teaspoonful of saltpetre may be given three times daily as a dfench. In case the cold water does not relieve try aplications of hot water for twenty minutes at a time every two hours. The chronic form of founder may deyelop from an acute form. The treatment for the chronic form is rarely satisfactory. Tf possible, the horse should be placed in a clay stall or the feet may be soaked in a tub for two hours twice daily, wiped dry and oiled cith the following lotion: Turpentine—1 ounce. Pine tar—1 ounce. Beeswax—2 ounces. Fish oil—4 ounces. Melt together and apply with a brush to all parts of the foot. * * * MANAGEMENT OF A BERMUDA SOD N. M. N, Bowdon, Ga., writes: I have a field that has been in pasture for several years and is heavily sodded with Bermuda grass. I want to plant this field in cotton this year, and I want to know the best way to kill the grass and what fertilizer to use on the cotton. It is a gray soil with a red clay subsoil and very productive. I want to make a bale of cotton to the acre. The only thing you can do to prepare a Bermuda sod for cotton is to plow it as deeply as possible as soon as prac ticable. Two or three heavy mules to an extra large turning plow will en able you to turn the sod under to a gopd depth. Do not be afraid of in verting the -soil completely and turning the sod under as deeply as possible. A Spalding deep tilling plow would be found more effective than a disk but of course, it would not pay you to buy one. of these implements for a single operation. Such an implement can be used on any farm, however, of 100 acres or more where there is sufficient mule power to operate it. ’ It is the best implement for burying grass, weeds and trash that we have ever seen. After plowing the land thoroughly, as has been indicated, work down a good deep seed bed and then follow rapid shallow cultivation throughout the season. It is likely that grass treated in this way will grow up later on in the summer, especially if there is abundant rain and become thick on the ground. It may injure the development of the cot ton to some extent, but if rapid and persistent cultivation is followed, we do not think the sod will become thick enough to do much damage. We think it better practice judging from our ex perience to plow a Bermuda sod down in the fall and seed it to oats, and then follow the oats with cowpeas which help to act in the capacity of a smother crop. Use another smother crop for the fall and early winter, and then plow in the early spring for cotton or corn. In this way the grass is not entirely destroyed and you can again secure a sod with little effort, but you effectually hold it under con trol while the hoed crop is on the land. * * * DESTROYING WOLVES IN CATTLE. J. F. L., Gaffney, S. C., writes: I would like to know what to do for a cow that has something they call war bles or wolves just under the skin on her back. Look for this on every Ba$ TRADE MARK It is your your ;uard& ction REGISTERED F. S. ROYSTER GUANO COMPANY Norfolk, Va. Baltimore, Md. Tarboro, N. C. Macon, Ga. Columbia, S. G. Spartanburg, S. C. Columbus, Ga. Montgomery, Ala. Thoroughbred Cotton Seed and Nitrate Fertilization r Th ere is always a big demand for the Best grades of cotton. Grow the best lint from thorough- bred seed and fertilize your plants properly with Nitrate of Soda It is just as easy and twice as profitable to feed a thoroughbred 1 cotton plant as it is to feed a low-grade lint producer. I want , you to have a valuable book, Free, which I havfc prepared on the Cultivation of Cotton. DR. WM. S. MYERS Director of Chilean Nitrate Propaganda 17 Madison Avenue, New York No Branch Offices where our land is in the. best physical condition, all the fertilizer used is paced, under the drill row. We have grown as much as three bales of cotton per acre, using 1,000 pounds of fertilizer at one application, namely, before plant ing the crop. On our thin lands we have found it advisable to use a side appli cation. We would suggest, therefore, for corn that you put about 300 pound? under the drill row as a minimum ap plication, and then use 200 pounds as a side application early in the growing season, and possibly 100 pounds of ni trate of soda as a top application at least two weeks before the corn bunches to tassel. Where you put the fertilizer in the middle of five-foot rows scatter it ahead of the cultivator and work it well into the soil. Of necessity the ni trogen should be derived from an or ganic source. *. * * APPLYING LIME TO LAND. P. S. G., Burroughs, Ga., writes: I wish to apply lime to my land but have not as yet been able to find it on the Savannah market and to order it from more distant points wquld probably cause considerable delay and heavy freight charges. I can obtain burnt oys ter shell lime in Savannah. No doubt you are familiar, with this form of lime near the coast. Would you advise using this in case I cannot obtain the raw rock? HOW DOES STOCK LAW BENEFIT THE FARMER? First, it requires each man to fence his own stock, which is just and right and every farmer should be willing to take care of his stock alone and not want his neighbors to help him. Second, you do not have to get out of bed at 11 o’clock at night to drive stock out of your wheat field. I have a neighbor that owns 1,000 acres of land and he turned all of his hogs, sheep and cattle outside and they were all good jumpers, so it was impossible to fence against them. Since the stock law took effect he has fenced his own stock. Even those who were opposed to the law were the first to tear down their fences. They cleared and cultivated land that they could not have cultivated if they had to have fenced it. Those same people that yere opposed to the stock law are in favor of it now; they see what a great advantage it is to them. Our stock will be in bet ter condition by keeping them up^ for 1 I never saw stock that run at large'that were ever fat. We have never had any trouble of paying fines from stock getting out, as a great many predicted. It is a great satisfaction to know where your stock is, and saves much time running around hunting for your stock. I know of some men that spent half of their time running around looking for their stock; they could have fenced their farms in the time spent in looking for their stock. Another advantage to the poorer class that are not able to buy wire for fences, they can raise their crop in peace. I do not think the farmers of this country could ever be induced to vote against the stock law. for they see the benefits they have derived from it. And besides it makes a man a better Chris tian. For what man ever lived that would not get mad, and very mad, when he looked over his farm and saw his neighbor’s stock simply devouring his crop. And after he takes his shotgun and shoots at the stock, the next morn ing his neighbor comes and demands damages. It is all right for his stock to eat all of your crop, but a great wrong for me to hurt any of his stock. /IT l§ EASY TO BUY DIRECT FROM OUR FACTORYx And Save From SI 5.00 io S40.00 Just writ® your name and address on a postcard and mall to us. and we w, “ J w J!r M ? u v«hlrl«i Catalog, picturing, describing and pricing 125 latest style Golden Eagle and White Star and Harness. Select style that suits you best, and let "» ship direct to you at wholesale factory price. WRITE TODAY FOR .JUS! FROM FACTORY FREE CATALOG and Wholesale Prioet Dealers' price.$95.00 Our price 75.00 We save you..$20.00 125 Styles. Well built from tire to top and guaranteed from rim v.to roof. « ! t* Dealers’ price. 60.00 Our price 44.50 We save you .$15.50 FROM DIRECT TO YOU Buggies $38.50 up. Surreys $64.50 up. Carts . $12.85 up. Harness $8.21 up. We sate you the middleman's and dealers' profits. We save you..$25.50 MADE. We save you .$15.50 oO.OOO USERS WILL TELL YOU THAT GOLDEN EAGLE VEHICLES ARE THE BEST Your neighbor owns one. Write us for his name and examine his vehicle and ask him aoou us and our money-saving factory-to-consumer plan. # 82-42 Means Street, Atlanta, Ga. GOLDEN EAGLE BUGGY CO. Situated as you are there is no rea son why you should not use oyster shell lime either freshly ground or the burnt product. Oyster shell lime need not be burnt in our judgment for ordinary farm practice. Its value, of course, de- pends on the amount of dirt and foreign matter. Some grades of oyster shell Mme run very high in carbonate which is the most desirable form of this ele ment. We would advise you to purchase the lime on a guaranteed analysis. It should run 90 to 95 per cent of carbon ate if of good grade. Sometimes it runs as low as 50 or 60 per cent of carbonate, but in this event there is reason to be lieve that it has been mixed with some materials which should have been with held. Caustic lime, as you no doubt know, is more active than the raw rock. In other words, it will effect various changes in the soil more quickly, but it is liable to cause & considerable burn ing up or transformation of the vege table matter, and on that account its use is not so commonly recommended as for merly. Caustic lime is also more diffi cult to handle and apply. We think you would find it desirable to apply one ton per acre. It should be put on the same as the raw rock ordinarily, though it must be slaked in order to distribute it uniformly over the ground. Caustic lime has twice the sweetening power of the ground rock, and will correct acidity more rapidly than the ground rock. * * * WILL DYNAMITING LAND PAY? W. F. M., Conyers, Ga., writes; i would like your opinion in regard to dynamiting land. Do you think it will pay, and how much will it cost? I was thinking of dynamiting some gray land with red subsoil for corn and/cotton if you think it will pay. team labor. By doing so we believe you will secure just as large crops as in any other wy and save a great deal of money. * * e A PLANT FOOD RATION FOR COT TON. J. R, H., Meigs, Ga., writes: I would like to know if the following mixture would make a good balanced formula for cotton: 1,200 pounds acid phos phate, 600 pounds cotton seed meal, and 200 pounds muriate of potash. If not, kindly give me a better one. I want to use 200 pounds when planting and 100 pounds with soda around the drill. A formula composed of 1,200 pounds of 16 per cent acid phosphate, 600 pounds of cotton seed meal containing 6.18 per cent of nitrogen, 2.5 per cent of phosphorus and 2 per cent of pot ash, and 200 pounds of high-grade muri ate of potash would contain per ton about 197 pounds of available phos phoric acid, 37 pounds oT available ni trogen, and 112 pounds of available pot ash. The percentage composition would be about 9.8 per cent of phos phorus, 1.8 per cent 'Of nitrogen, and 5.6 per cent of potash. This would not be a well balanced formula for use oh our average farm crops, even though you expect to use nitrate of soda as a top dressing. We think a better formula might be prepared as follows: Mix together 1,000 pounds of acid # phosphate, 900 pounds of cotton seed meal and 100 pounds of muriate of potash. This formula would contain per ton about 183 pounds of phosphoric acid, 56 pounds of nitrogen, and 68 pounds *of potash. Its percentage com position would be 9.1 per cent of phos phoric acid, 2.8 per cent of nitrogen, and 3.4 per cent of potash. If used ak th e rate of 300 pounds and upward per acre on corn and cotton land it should answer very well for, these crops. Of course, heavier applications should be made for corn than for cot ton, because this crop is much more exhausting to the plant food constitu ents. In addition to this formula you will probably find it advisable on lands which ar e very low in nitrogen to use some nitrate of soda as a top dressing. • OFFICERS ARE NAMED BY STOCK DEALERS » COLUMBIA, S. C., Jan. 31.—At the meting Thursday night of the South Carolina Stock association, the follow ing officers were elected for the ensu ing year: ) President, James S. McIntosh, Doves- ville; J. M. Burgess, Clemson college, secretary and treasurer; vice presi dents, B. H. Boykin, Boykin; S. D. Cross, Chester; W. E. Dargan, Darling ton; W. T. Walker, Blackville; T. J. Kinard, Ninety-Six; T. T. F. Holtzhal- ser, Columbia; B. Harris, Pendleton, Increased Cotton Yields Old Fashioned farming produced only about 220 pounds of cotton. The new Process—fertilizing with Virginia-Carolina High-Grade Fertilizers with good cultivation, frequently produces 500 to 1,000 Pounds Lint Cotton. per acre Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co. Box 1117 RICHMOND - VIRGINIA PITTSBURGH PERFECT” JEEKXCE& ,| ff l r < *'iflfr > r-' X ‘fo'-jj ~ -jpvt Warbles are caused by a species of the bot fly. The adult insect is about the size of a honey bee. Her eggs are de posited in the summer on the skin of cattle in the region of the heel. This causes them very much discomfort and the animals lick the hair where the eggs are laid, thus taking them into the mouth where they hatch. After remain ing for some time in the oesophagus or gullet, they finally work their way into the cellular tissue beneath the skin on the back. Here they remain and develop until early spring, forming the lumps commonly known as warbles. When fully developed the grubs work their way out through small openings in the skin, drop to the ground into which they burrow and emerge as adult flies. The bot or gad flies cause much loss to the cattle industry as it injures the hides of cattle and causes them much discomfort as well. The adult flies are generally observed flying around cattle from January on. They should be killed and the grubs worked out of the back by hand pressure and de stroyed, or they may be treated by ap plying turpentine to the small pore or opening directly over the lump. If this practice were readily followed this pest | could quite readily be controlled. * * * METHOD OF FERTILIZING CORN. ! G. M. writes: I am thinking of fet- tilizing corn this year as follows: Put i about 150 pounds under the drill row at the time of planting, then when the corn is plowed the first time put 300 pounds in the center of the middles. Would this put the fertilizer too far from the drill row in five-foot rows? The college has conducted some ex periments in dynamiting land, partic ularly for corn. The area of land was carefully laid off in four-foot squares. The holes were bored to a depth of four feet with a hand auger and a "naif stick exploded in each hole. This was not enough dynamite to throw the bottom soil on top, but enough to loosen the whole mass of soil to a depth of four feet. The land was a fair type of red clay. You have much like it in Rock dale county. It cost between $40.00 and $60.00 an acre to dynamite this land according to the plan outlined. I under stand there are implements on the mar ket now by which the work can be done more expeditiously, and it is claimed that the land can be broken ifp in a fair ly satisfactory manner at a cost of $15 to $20 an acre. We were greatly dis appointed in the results of dynamite as we secured less than five busheds of corn increase per acre. This you will see was such a small return that the matter of dynamiting can only be re garded as unprofitable from our point of view. We think that others tvho have tried will agree with us though there are some ardent advocates of it. We are' inclined to suggest that you let it alone until more information has been ob tained, and that you plow your land well with two-horse turning plows and work and prepare it very thoroughly with ->v pSj T HE 163 different styles, sizes and weights of “ Pittsburgh Perfect ” Fence afford a variety from which to choose fencing scientifically designed to perfectly and economically inclose any field, farm, ranch and lawn, and the “Pittsburgh Perfect” chicken, poultry or rabbit yard and garden fences are famous the world over. When buying fence, select that style specially made for your' particular purpose, for in this way only can you experience greatest fence-efficiency and satisfaction at lowest cost. “ Pittsburgh Perfect ” Fences, made of heavily galvanized Open Hearth Wire, with every joint WELDED BY ELECTRICITY, excels in strength and durability, and invests your property with » distinctive appearance of neatness and prosperity. EVERY ROD GUARANTEED PERFECT Dealers everywhere sell “Pittsburgh Perfect” Fences. We will gladly send free our complete catalogue showing all stales and sizes, and giving valuable information on fence-building, etc. Write for it today. 1 PITTSBURGH STEEL CO., PITTSBURGH, Pa. Makers of “Pittsburgh Perfect” Brands of Barbed Wire; Bright, Annealed and Galvanized Wirej Twisted Cable Wire; Hard Spring Coll Wire; Fence Staples; Poultry Netting Staples; Regular Wire Nails; Galvauixed Wire Nails; Large Head Reefing Neils; Single Loop Bale Ties; “Pittiburgh Perfect" Fencing. EVERY FARMER NeedsThisBook ASK FOR IT AT ONCE * RED CROSS ♦ dynamite Our present experience indicates to us that it would be better to put a larger proportion of the fertilizer under th« drill row at the time of planting most crops than you propose to do according to your letter. The application of fer tilizer depends very much on the con dition of the soil. Land that is very thin and ptior and has not been rotated for many years can not utilize heavy applications of fertilizer to the same advantage as a soil which is in good physical condition. Where the land is indifferently prepared the fertilizer had best be pul near the drill row or under it. There was much agitation for some years with reference to the Williamson method of corn planting, but it seems to have disappeared. The fact of the matter is, our experience never led us to believe that this was a good method. It gave good results probably under Mr. Williamson’s conditions, but as I under stand it, his land was of superior grade and was fertilized very heavily. Of course, corn can often be planted in the water furrow to advantage on very sandy or thin soils. On the college farm, I T will be sent, on request, to any farmer who states the size and location of his farm, and about how many acres on it need stumping, boulder blasting, drainage, ditching, breaking up hardpan or tree planting. Send a postal TODAY for this FARMERS* HANDBOOK No. sss BU PONT POWDER CO. WILMINGTON, BEL FERTILIZER FACTS A $100,000,000.00 LOAN “Commercial Fertilizer”—well named since the commerce of this section is based upon it—is the sub ject commanding the closest attention of the agricul tural South today. There are two parties vitally concerned in this all- absorbing subject, as in ali great contributions which go to hasten agricultural development—the consumer and the manufacturer. Their interest is Identical—the ultimate success of the crop. The in terest of the consumer lies in his desire to secure value received in the plant food which he is buying in commercial fertilizer. The Interest of the manu facturer Is to see that the consumer gets the plant food, in the right proportion. But, beyond this, the manufacturer is concerned that the buyer does not waste his money In getting fertilizers out of pro portion to the needs of his soil and his crops. By this is meant that the consumer does not buy goods with more potash than the plant can use and less ammonia, or vice versa. The only way to insure crop success is by co-op eration, for after all, the consumer and manufacturer are partners. The consumer must study carefully what each Ingredient does for his crop; study the nature of the soil In which each crop is planted; consider what was planted and what the analysis of the fertilizer was that was used last year; also what were the resuits. The materials mixed in commercial fertilizer are: Which gives the stalk, or body, of the growing plant, life, strength and vigor. Which.gives vitality, growth and heafih Jto the fruit of the plant. Which gives body, tone and strength to each. Study these foods and determine in what propor tion they should be used this year on your crops. In order that the consumer may have these all-es sential elements of plant food, best found in com mercial fertilizers, the manufacturers make a loan of AMMONIATES Termed Nitrogen PHOSPHORIC ACID POTASH { { OVER ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS AN NUALLY to the consumers of the 8outh. (This loan stimulates and assists the growth of a BILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF CROPS In the South an nually.) This loan Is advanced in the spring on the faith that repayment Is assured In the fall, through Increased production per acre. Assistance in upbuilding Southern Agricul ture must, of necessity, bring prosperity to the ma ker, aa well as the user, of fertllizere. Hence, they have contributed thousands of dollars, annually, to Boys’ Corn Clubs, Girls’ Canning Clubs, Educational Trains and every other earnest endeavor In the In terest of better farming. * Bigger production per acre must be the aim and object of the South. Labor Is scarce and unsatisfactory, at best. Tb cultivate more land will cost more money. The solu tion of our problem is to CULTIVATE BETTER the land ndw being tilled. To do this satisfactorily and economically, use the RIGHT KIND of fertilizer and plenty of it. FERTILIZER COSTS LESS THAN LABOR. The manufacturers have Invested their capital In their factories, have faith in their goods, faith in the consumer, faith in the growing South, and are here to stay. The partnership Is formed but the manu facturer has more to lose than the consumer. A crop failure is only a temporary set-back to the planter—a failure on the part of the manufacturer to deliver THE BEST GOODS TO BE HAD means loss of customers and business bankruptcy. This is the first of a strles of articles which will be published by the Soil Improvement Committee 'named by the fertilizer manufacturers of the South. Others of interest will fol&w. The committee has printed, ready for distribution, articles of splendid advice from the leading authori ties in the South, showing how the beet crop results may be obtained through the use of commercial fer tilizers, intelligently selected and generously applied. Sent free for the asking: Address SOIL IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE Southern Fertilizer Association, Atlanta, Ga.