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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1913. Dig Ditches With RED CROSS DYNAMITE Q UICKER and cheaper than the shovel method. Ditches from 50 feet upwards in length instantly excavated. One man does the work of many. No re-shovelling of dirt necessary. FREE BOOKLET Explains how to safely and efficiently use Red Cross Dynamite to ditch and drain land, blast stumps and boulders, plant trees, regenerate old orchards, subsoil, excavate, etc. Write today for name of nearest dealer, or expert blaster, and Farmer’s Handbook No. 386. Du Pont Powder Co. Wilmington, Delaware Pioneer Powder Makers of America Established 1802 IS THE BOLL BIG ENOUGH EARLIEST VARIETY KNOWN MONTHS’ TIME’ Th s shows our faith in the SEED Let me send you “LIFE SIZE” photos showing bolls and limbs also reports from farmers in your Stare, showing Earliness and Productiveness of this*'wonder” cotton. Seed grown in North Carolina. Have car lot in each state, so be quick if yen want a few “Sample Bags*' from point nearest you at insignificant cost, freight, paid. T. J. KING. Richmond, va. BIG MONEY IN CABBAGE By win* our Open Air and Hardy Frost Proof Cabbage Plants. Our plants are large and stocky, anti free of nut gfttss. They will stand low temperatures and make heate Satisfac tion or money refunded. Full count in each box Jersey and Charleston Wakefield. Succession and Drumhead. 50ft for 75c. 1.000 frf JJ.25: 5.000 for 55: Ift.ftOO far $9. Order today the best Frost Proof Cabbage plants on the market from The Dixie Plant Co. Hawkinsville, Ga. x Parmer or Farmers I with $ig in every County to intro- tSotv] duce and rdl Family and Veteri nary Remedies, Extracts and Spice*. Fine pay. One maa made $90 one week. We mean busi ness and want a man in your County. Write us, Scores-Mueller Co.,Dept. 8$, Cedar Rapids,Iowa _ _ _ ML, ICOSTS UTtflBF MAKEjf“BlG MONEY^jfi Learn why ours is better Writs today . MALLARY 8 TAYLOR IRON WORKS, Sox 15 MACON. GA Xfgrs. of Engines, Boiler*, Shingle Machines, Cut-off Saws, fcte -n. Education Successful Farming .Andrew 7^. Soule This department will cheerfully endeavor to furnish, any imrrmatlon. Letters should be addressed to Dr. Andrew M. Soule, president State Agricultural College. Athens, Qa. CULTIVATING CELERY A. E. E., Hendersonville, N. C., writes: I want some information on how to plant and cultivate celery. I am in the mountains of western North Carolina and want to grow celery. Celery seed should be a^wn * n «n.rly March in your section or the country In drills about 8 to 10 inches apart. The bed in which the seed is sown should be exceedingly fine and rich, and should be where it can be sheltered and protected from late frosts or extreme cold. Only a small bed is needed to pro duce a large number of plants. The bed should be made very rich with yard manure and very finely decayed vegetable matter such as leaf mold. This should be well worked into the soil. The seed should be covered to a depth of about one-quarter inch, and if the soil is very dry press the earth down with a spade or light roller. The bed should be kept clean of weeds so the young plants will not be smothered. When four inches high cut off the tops to make, the plant stock. Transplant from July to October. August and Septem ber plantings generally give the best re sults and require less labor to handle. When preparing to plant celery it is desirable that a trench 6 inches wide and 6 inches deep be made. In the bot tom should be put three to four inches of yard manure which should be worked into the subsoil. Set the plants six inepes apart and below the level of the ground. Press the soil firmly about the roots and earth up as the season progresses two or three times. Do not allow the dirt to get into the crowns of the plants. If you desire to have the crqp mature in the late fall, draw the earth well up to the top as soon as cold weather comes on and protect with boards and straw. By this method the stalks will be blanched perfectly and the crop may be allowed to stand in the field until needed. Liberal fertilization is ve^y esser^tial with this crop. Use a high-grade garden formula containing 8 per cent of phosphoric acid, 4 per cent of^nitrogen and 7 to 8 per cent of pot- asm. * * * WHAT TO USE ON PIMPLY LAND. E. E. C., Lumber city, Ga., writes: I have seven acres I want to plant in cotton and fifteen in corn. The land is pimply with \ stiff clay subsoil. Please tell me the best grades of fer tilizer to us© on each and how to mix them? calf which is about four months old. Everything she eats goes through her like water. I have tried several things but nothing does any good. FARM FENCE 41 INCHES HIGH 100 other styles of Farm, Poultry and Lawn Fencing direct from factory at save-the- dealer’s-profit-pridps. Our large catalog is free. ‘iUTSELMAN BEOS. Box 45 Mancie, lad The character of land 'you desire to cultivate has a retentive subsoil and therefore will hold any fertilizer ap plied to it to good advantage. This land should be broken to a good depth, and it is very important that you se cure a fine tilth even though you may have to work it extensively to attain this end. We recommend the thor ough breaking of the soil rather than the breaking out of the middles and listing thereon by running around two or three times with a light plow. We believe the thorough breaking of the soil can be done at about as little cost as where the methods pursued on many plantations are followed, and where the ground is thoroughly broken a bet ter crop is likely to be secured because of the greater ease with which the rcots of the crop may penetrate through it, and the ability of the land to ab sorb and hold moisture. On this character of land we would suggest that you use for cotton about an 8-3-3. Apply this formula at the rate of 4(j0 pounds at the time of plant ing the cotton. The nitrogen should be derived largely from organic sources, though some quickly available material should be used in the mixture. For corn we would suggest a 10-3.5-4. It may be advisable for corn to use a top dressing of nitrate of soda at the rate of 100 pounds per acre. It should be applied two weeks before the corn bunches to tassel; otherwise it may promote the development of the plant at the expense of grain. A good formula for cotton may be prepared by mixing together 1.(500 pounds of acid phosphate, 300 pounds of dried blood, 300 pounds of cotton seed meal, 160 pounds of muriate of potash and 240 pounds of dry ear^h. It is not necessary to add the earth. Divide the formula into three or foui parts and you will secure the same proportionate amount of plant food as if you added enough earth to bring ii up to 2,000 pounds. * An excellent formula for corn may be prepared by mixing together 90 pounds of high grade acid phosphate, 800 pounds of tankage containing not less than eight per cent of nitrogen and eleven per cent of phosphoric acid, with 160 pounds of muriate of potash and 140 pounds of dry earth. This mixture will contain approximate ly 9.2 per cent of available phosphoric acid, 3.2 per cent of nitrogen and four per cent of potash. * * * \ CHRONIC INDIGESTION. I. T., Oxford, Ga., writes: I have a cow in bad condition and want your ad vice. She is a heifer with the first Your cow i&^evidently suffering from a violent case of indigestion and this may be aggravated by the feed you are giving her. It is important that only clean, wholesome feed be fed. Musty or moldy fodder or corn will often pro duce this condition. You should there fore change the' feed immediately. We would first of all suggest that you give the cow a dose of oil, say about two to three pints. This has a purga tive and soothing effect as well, and it may be necessary to give oil more than once with an interval of two or three days. Then give Jamaica ginger as a tonic for several days, using at first two ounces and then cutting it dojwn to one ounce. It is very .important that you give the cow bran mashes and a variety of clean wholesome food. Some bright, clean ha.v will be found very desirable. As soon as you can secure auy green feed for her it will be an advantage. Do not allow the cow to gorge herself. Sanitary conditions and the use of wholesome feed with the suggestions given should enable you to effect a cure. Some animals you no doubt know' have a marked tendency to looseness of th e bowels. This is some times a hereditary defect and in that Case no sort of tonic or conditional treatment will prove effective and it is best to fatten and sell the animal as soon as possible. . \ 1 * * * DESTROYING WARBLES. S. S. T., Athens, Ala., writes: I would like to know what to do for my cow. She has worms or something of the kind in her back and they have, made knots. What causes them and what shall' I do to get rid of them? Your cow is suffering from what are known in some localities as wolf in the back. This is due to the fact that dur ing the supimbr bot flies often fly about cattle and lay eggs on parts of the body which cause them extra discomfort. These eggs are licked off by the animals and during the process of swallowing ar<^ hatched and find their way through the tissues to the skin on the back. In thq spring of the year they grow into large white grubs and little open ings appear above them. After a while the grubs can easily b© squeezed out and should be destroyed. If this work is carried on systematically the injury of bot fly can be reduced very much. It is important that the warbles be squeezed out, but the work should •not be undertaken too soon as it may cause the animal considerable pain. A little dilute turpentine dropped into the open ing over th© lump will kill the warbles, but if too much turpentine is used it will prove very irritating to the animal and cause unnecessary suffering This trottpble is comparatively easily controlled tty di£genpe on the part of the farmer. Since the hidefe of animals attacked by warbles are re duced in value every effort to eradicate this pest should be systematically car ried forward. * , * * SORGHUM AS A SILAGE CROP. R. E. L„ Darlington, Ala., writes: 1 want some information about sor ghum as silage. I believe it will pay me to have a silo in beef production even if I can raise an abundance of Johnson grass and leguminous hays. My idea is to use about a half ration of silage with hay and cotton seed meal. I am feeding a load of grade Herefords on hay and oil cake now. What do yop think of power plows for plowing? , My land is rolling and T fear the bearings on a tractor would wear out fast on that account. I would appreciate any suggestions along, this line. I have been Working ^n the winter legume problem for fif teen years, and as—it means feed and fertility we cannot know too much abyut it. There is no Question about the de sirability of using sorghum for silage purposes. Thpre is nothing which en ters into a ration for beef cattle of more importance than a good quality of silage. We have had experience in feeding beef cattle in several states and in considerable numbers, and un questionably the silo is one of the most important adjuncts on any farm where beef production is undertaken. Our plan here at the College of Agri culture is to. grow corn and sorghum together for silage. We plant the sorghum somewhat ahead of the corn from two to three -weeks. We plant generally in 3 1 -2-foot rows, two rows of sorghum and twf rows of corn! We have found the Cocke’s Prolific one of the most desirable varieties of corn to use with Red Head sorghum. The sorghum has the advantage of retain ing its juices and standing drought better, and therefore even if the corn should be stunted or suffer somewhat by dry weather, there is enough juice BRANCH’S GENUINE RATTLESNAKE WATERMELON SEED OTlIpB8EST**IN Carefully selected. Kept pure N UT-TEO STATES forty years. No other variety 1 grown on plantation of 1500 acres. Pure seed impossible where different kinds are grown, loz. 15c—2 oz. 25c—4 oz. 40c—£ lb. 60c, 1 lb. $1.00— 5 lbs. $4.50—10 lbs. $8.50 delivered. Remit registered letter or money order. Send for Seed Annual. Manual on melon culture with ail orders. M. I. BRANCH, Bsrzelia, Coiuffibia County, Georgia. LEDBETTER “ONE SEED’* PLANTER Plants peanuts, large or small, shelled or unshelled, aluo cem, cotton, peas, etc., T/ith certainty and regu larity. Less seed, larger crops. Write for booklet. 832 SOUTHERN PLOW COMPANY. Dallas. Texas \ J Like Hungry Wolves, Fill your Nets Traps or Trot Lines if you bait with M AGICFINH-tURE. Best bait ever used for attracting all kinds of fish. Write for price list to-day and get a box to help introduce it. Agents wanted. J. F. GREGORY, Dept. 2, St. Louis, Mo. SEEP SWEET POTATOES SOUTHERN QUEEN, right size for bedding, $1.00 per bushel. S. I>. RIEGEL & SONS, EXPERIMENT, GA. J-BCP WATCH. RINQ ,1" iftiLE, AND CHAIN Oar fnliy guaranteed, stem wind and set. richly engraved watch, proper 6ize; and brilliant 3-stone ring, are given FREE to anytfne . I for selling 20 jewelry f 1 articles at 10c each. \ Order jewelry now: • when sold send $2.00 end we will send you watch, ring and handsome chain 1 HOMER W ATCH CO., Dept. 14 CHICAGO j _ CANT GETAWAY WITH IT’ ''22.Automatic RIFLE iv The rapid, repeat shots which the Winchester *yr .22 Caliber Automatic Rifle delivers will over- Y take any animal. You have only to pull the ! trigger for each shot, which enables you to keep the rifle aimed right on tne object. It operates by its own recoil and shoots a cartridge that has accuracy and power. For small game, use the new Hollow Point cartridge, which upsets upon striking and delivers a hard, crushing blow. The .22 Auto matic is very simple, and just ordinary care will keep it in good order all the time. It is not costly. Always use Winchester cartridges in Winchester rifles as they are made for each other. EXAMINE ONE AT YOUR DEALER'S HITE CASTOR OIL. Delicious “Syrup of Figs” best to cleanse their little clogged bowels. Look back at your childhood days. Remember th e physic that mother in sisted on—castor oil. calomel, cathar tics. How you hated them, how you fought against taking them. With our children it’s different. The day of harsh physic js over. We don’t force the liver and 30 feet of bowels now; we coax them. We have no dreaded after effects. Mothers who cling to the old form of physic simply don’t realize' what they do. The chil dren’s revolt is well-founded. Their little stomachs and tender bowels are injured by them. If your child is fretful, peevish, half sick, stomach sour, breath feverish and its little system full of cold; has diar rhoea, sore throat, stomach-ache; doesn’t eat or' rest we'll—remember— look at the tongue, if coated, give a teaspoonful of Syrup of Figs, then don’t worry, because you surely will have a well,* smiling child in a Yew hours. j Syrup of Figs being composed en tirely of luscious figs, senna and aro matics simply cannot be harmful. It sweetens the stomach, makes the liver active and thoroughly cleanses the lit tle one’s' waste-fclogged bowels. In a few hours all sour bile, undigested fer menting food and constipated waste matter gently moves on and out of the system without griping or nausea. Directions for 1 children of all ag**s, also for grown-ups, plainly printed cn the package. \ By all means get the genuine. Ask your druggist for the full toamc “Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna’’ prepared by the California Fig Syrup Co. Ac cept nothing else.—(Advt.) EXTENSION WORK REACHES S OF in the sorphum to moisten the whole mass and preserve it in the silo in ideal condition. Sorghum by itself, even when allowed to almost mature before cutting, and this is the practice to follow, sometimes tends to make a slightly acid or sour silage. When mixed with corn this difficulty is over come. The corn also matures more grain and thus makes a better bal anced food for feeding purposes. In finishing cattle we have found it de sirable to feed from 30 to 40 pounds oi f silage, 5 to 10 pounds of mixed peavine hay or other leguminous hay, and from 6 to 8 pounds of cotton seed meal. This is a Maximum ration to feed to a 1,000-pound animal which you • desire to finish in the stall. Of course, one should approach the maxi mum amount of this ration very grad ually. In other words, you should take about three months to get your cattle on feed and thep about two months of high feeding' should finish them. v We have tried farm tractors on the college farm for plowing and we could not recommend them from our experience. There is much to be done regarding their improvement before they become practical. They may do fairly well on open, level prairie coun try, where the soil is of a very light texture, and even there we are some what doubtful as to its being possible to turn land over so much cheaper with them than With heavy Percheron grade mares. Our experience with Percheron horses has been very satis factory. We have recently sold a colt at six /months of agef rom one of our Percheron mares for $162.50. The mare originally cost us about $300. We hope to enlarge our horse breeding de partment during the present year. There is no doubt but that the heavy type of mare properly handled and su pervised will do as much work on the plantation as a mule. She can stand heavy draft work to better advantage than ishe mule and she may be made to drop a colt every year worth from $150 to $160 at six months of age. The south undersupplied with power in the collar, and on lands where the soil is heavy and rolling, the horse is to be for. m&ny years the principal source of motive power. W,e think our experi ence in this direction puts us in posi tion to give you first-hand advice rela tive to this matter. We are very glad indeedt o know that you are making such progress in the cultivation of winter legumes. Your success in this direction should be emulated by hundreds of farmers and no doubt will be in the near fu ture. As we get rid of the cattle tick certainly the live stock interests c*' the south are bound to look up, and there will be a great, development in this direction in the next few years. * * * PLANT FOOD NEEDED BY SWEET POTATOES. E. P. D., Charlotte, N. C., writes: 1 ! would like to know the best formula for fertilizing sweet potatoes on sandy land with clay subsoil. Would also like to know where I could secure a good book : oi^ the subject of sweet potato culture, j A very good formula to use under' sweet potatoes on land of the charac- ted described in your letter may be pre pared by mixing together 900 pounds of high-grade acid phosphate, 500 pounds of dried fish scrap containing not less than 8 per .cent of nitrogen and 8 per cent of phosphoric acid.* 200 pounds of sulphate of ammonia, and 400 pounds of high-grade sulphate of potash. This mix ture will analyze approximately 6.2 per cent of available phosphoric acid. 4 per cent of nitrogen and 10 per cent of pot ash. You will notice that the nitrogen is derived from two forms, organic and inorganic. This will result in its becom ing relatively slowly available through out the growing season, but with suf ficient rapidity to meet the needs of a long season crop like sw r eet potatoes. Possibly thfs formula may be a trifle low in phosphoric acid. This may be overcome by reducing the sulphate by 100 pounds and adding 100 pounds of gfeid phosphate. Unless your land is ex tremely sandy, the change would not be necessary. One of the best books printed on the subject of sweet potatoes is by James Fitz, and is published by the Orange Judd Co., of New York, N. Y. There is an excellent chapter on sweet po tato culture in Southern Farm Crops, published by the Macmillan Co., New l r ork. This is a much more general text, however, but a« an advisory book for southern farmers is well worth in vesting in. Estimated That Millions of Dollars Are Direct Returns, Clubs as Evidence Athens, Ga., March 3.—A summary of the work which the Georgia State College of Agriculture has done during tl\e past year, has just been issued by President Andrew M. Soule, revealing some remarkably interesting facts and figures. The college farm which had an income of $2,757.24 in 1908, yielded during the past year an income of $8,- 757.24 and net earnings amounting to $2,246.36. In 1908 the farm was un profitable in fact, a leached-out, eroded, run down farm. In .five years how ever under scientific methods, it has been reclaimed and made a paying proposition. The college dairy operated by mod ern methods, brought an income of $5,- 099.44 from a herd of thirty cows and net earnings of $1,817.60 for the past year. The herd has been built up from native cattle mated with pure bred sires, starting with practically nothing five years ago. These two items demonstrate the practicability of the instruction now be ing given the 350 students who are attending the college, 101,701 farmers of the state reached during the past year by extension lectures, the 10,000 corn club boys, the 4497 people who attended the girls’ canning clubs, the 25,000 farmers whose letters of inquiry have been answered, the 25,000 farmers reached with bulletins, the 200,000 or more farmers reached each week through the weekly papers by use of an agricultural plate service and others who have been instructed in various ways by the college. The college was re-organized five years ago. At that time it had prac tically no equipment and very few students. At present the property is worth $40,000, it lias an attendance of students of 350 with ±,360 instructed during the five year period. Starting with a staff of five persons, the col lege now has forty-four. The facili ties and equipment are unsurpassed in tfhe south, but are far from adequate to meet the requirements of the rap idly growing student body. Starting five years ago with no live stock, the college now has more than 150 head, representing one breed of horses, two breeds of hogs and three of cattle. Farm buildings and ani mals are now valued in excess of $20,- 000. % Excellent progress has been made during the year in research work, -such as developing a breed of cotton highly resistant to anthracnese, producing a strain of corn better adapted to up lands, determining crop systems best suited to rapid and economical up building of Georgia soils, testing fer tilizers with relation to .economic crop production, determining the deficiencies of Georgia soils by laboratory and plat tests, distributing pure-bred live stock, developing strains of cattle by mating pure breeds to native stock, etc.: while good work is being done in poultry hus- bandry in instructing farmers how to | market their eggs for better prices, by I supplying plans and specifications for I farm buildings, houses, etc., in super vising forest trees in the state, in pecan, ifi^uit and vegetable growing, in manu facturing and distributing hog cholera serum and disseminating veterinary in formation, each by the department that the work indicates, both from the college and by the extension force in the field. Bulletins have been issued treating of the utilization of cotton seed meal, the application of lime in Georgia, hog cholera prevention, varieties of cotton, the corn club work, the girls’ club work the corn dlub work, th© girls’ club work and one on outlines of the extension lectures—a veritable hand book of useful agricultural in formation. The demand for these free bulletins is greater than was ever known. * * * EXTENSION WORK BRJNGS MIL LIONS TO STATE. It is estimated that the extension work alone has brought millions of dol lars to the state. Concrete illustrations are afforded by the fact that 100,001 cans of tomatoes were put up by th« Girls’ Canning clubs during the year, estimated as being worth $10,000. Ten thousand Corn Club Boys .produced at least 400,000 bushelst of corn, which, valued at $1 per bushel would mean $400,000, but as a matter of fact it averaged nearer $2 a bushel as seed corn. In 1910, 300 boys averaged 45 bushels to the acre. In 1911 1,000 boys averaged 54 bushels per acre. In 1912, 2,500 boys averaged 60 bushels per acre under adverse weather conditions. As many as 72 boys produced an average of 215 bushels per acre at a cost of not more than 30 cents per bushel. At least 100,000 farmers have been influenced by the improved methods introduced through the clubs. Hon. M. L. Brittain, superintendent of state schools, says that the schools have been benefited be taking up the club work. Beginning with this year, the Farm ers’ Co-operative demonstration work has beeii correlated with the work of the college and is inaugurating a farm cam paign destined to materially assist in revolutionizing agriculture in th© state. Big Yields of Fruit Call for extensive cultivation, thorough spraying and heavy fertilization. To increase the quantity and qual ity of your yield per acre, apply Y irginia-Car olina High-Grade Fertilizers at the rate of ten or fifteen pounds per tree, spread well around the tree and worked thoroughly into the soil over the rpots. , Our 1913 FARMERS’ YEAR BOOK or almanac tells how you may increase your profits per acre $50 or more with Yirginia-Carolina Fertilizers, and proper, careful, thorough cultivation. Copy free on request. Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co. Box 1117 RICHMOND - VIRGINIA 2A Sunbeam Cotton Seed, Resistant To Anthracnose, frpm cotton producing hale to acre. Thin wonderful cotton originated and perfected by Prof. R. J. H. DeLoach of the State College. It is curly, prolific, big boll, yielding high in lint. My stock secured from State College. Can furnish carefully selected seed, giufied on private gin at $1.50 per bushel. 10 bushels, $1.25. 20 bushels or more $1.00 per bu. Prices F. 0. B., Meda, Ga. JOHN T. DENNIS, Jr., Elborton, Ga. FERTILIZER FACTS No. 3 BACK TO THE SOIL The press and the public have had much to say about the return to the farm. And well they may. In the language of the old song: “The farmer is the man who feeds us all.” The soil is the source of all wealth. Without agriculture there can be no true and lasting riches. Any increase In the world’s wealth must have its origin on the farm, in the land. To get the largest yield at the least cost is the ef fort of today. This is shown by the great interest and wonderful results of the Boys’ Corn Clubs the country over. Anything that will increase the yield per acre is a benefaction. The man or set of men who bring this about are benefactors. According to the Manufacturers’ Record: “It ia doubtful if any other country in the world ever made as much money in agricultural operations as the South made from the early part of the nineteenth century to 1860, of course, in the proportion to the population.” It was during this period the farm lands of the South were virgin and rich in those elements so necessary to plant life. The next great increase shown in the agricultural wealth and general prosperity was during the pe riod between 1899 and 1909, when the value of twen ty leading crops of the South increased from $901,- 017,000 to $1,710,541,000, a gain of 87.9%. During these ten years the use of fertilizers, to return to the soil those elements So necessary tp plant life, and which had been exhausted, was increased from 1,368,000 tons in 1899 to 3,144,000 tons in 1909. 'No means is at the farmer’s hand which would equal that of proper fertilization, for increasing the output of his land and his own profit. Liebig, the German chemist, sixty years ago, showed that every growing crop removed from the soil, in varying quantities, the three essential chem ical substances, so necessary to plant life—Nitrogen (ammoniates), Phosphoric Acid, and Potash—and, unless restored to the soil in equal quantity, the land would be impoverished. This fact is now recognized in Germany and France as a basis of rental values. Before the lease is signed, the soli of the farm about to be rented is analyzed and the tenant agrees to pay for all plant food withdrawn from the soil, during his lease, and not replaced, as shown by a subsequent analysis at the time that he gives Cip the farm. And, in return, the landlord agrees to repay the tenant for any plant food in the soil in excess of what was there when the tenant leased the farm. To furnish these elements of Nitrogen, Phosphoric Acid, and Potash, best found in commercial fertili zers, the manufacturers search the ends of tho earth. The Potash salts are brought from Germany; Nitrate of Soda from the rainless plains of Chili; bird excre tions from the islands of the sea; sulphate of ammo nia from England and Germany; dried blood from Argentine; and bones from India, by the thousands of tons. So great has been the demand and wonderful the success through the use of commercial fertilizer* that sources of supply, of these all-essential ele ments, near homey are being developed. Millions of tons of phosphate rock are annually mined in Flor ida and Tennessee, The cotton oil mills-of the South and slaughter houses of the West contribute a large quota of the ammoniates now used and even Niagara, the wonderful, has been harnessed to catch nitrogen from tho air. The manufacturers are spending million* to make commercial fertilizers available and at a low cost for the benefit of the coneumer of today, who real izes, more tharr ever, that fertilizer costs less than labor. It is through the Intelligent selection and generous application of fertilizer that the maximum yield per acre is secured at a minimum cost per unit of meas urement. , The fertilizer manufacturers are at the head of the ■ movement .which has • as its. slogan the subject of this talk: “Back to the Soil,” for they are causing to be, put back Into the soil, that which'causes the farmer to get maximum yield from his soil, at the minimum expense. Write for Bulletin, sent free on request. SOIL IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE Southern Fertilizer Association, Atlanta, Ga. FARMERS’ INSTITUTE HELD AT CEDART0WN (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) CEDARTOWN, Ga., Feb. ig.—An in- teresting and highly instructive farm institute has just closed here after a two days’ well attended series of lec tures and demonstration work. The work is in accordance with the Exten sion Agricultural school. Among the lecturers were: Profs. A. H. Soule. G. W. Firor, J. P. Campbell, L._ E. Rast, M. P. Jarna- gin and Dr. W. M. Burson, of the Geor gia State College of Agriculture, and Mr. George E. Benedict, president Polk County Farmers' Institute organization: Dr. William Bradford, assistant in charge of Boys’ Corn club, and W. O. Cornelius, district agent, all from Ce- dartown. Th® “Pittsburgh Perfect ” line of Electrically Welded Fences is the best looking, most effective and durable made for FIELD, FARM, RANCH, LAWN, CHICKEN, POULTRY and RABBIT YARD and GARDEN purposes. There is a special design for each special purpose, as well as the general farm fence styles. For greatest fence-economy and perfect and lasting satis- faction, buy the style best suited to your particular requirements. All “Pittsburgh Perfect” Fauces made of special Open Hearth wire, heavily galvanized, and, by Electrically Welding all wires wherever they touch, a one-piece fabric is produced which goes up easiest, and stands up stiff, even and firm during years of real fence-service. 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