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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1913. Dig Ditches With <fflnnb 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. 9 Du Pont Powder Co. Wilmington, Delaware Pioneer Powder Mtkere of America Established 1602 IS THE BOLL BIG ENOUGH EARLIEST VARIETY KNOWN ‘V'old on 9 MONTHS’ TIME” Tb s shows our faith in the SEED Lot me send you “LIFE SIZE” pho«»* showing bolls and limbs also reports from farmers in your State, showing Earliness and Productiveness of this “wonder” cotton. Seed flfown in Norm Carolina. Have car lot In each state, so be quick if yon want a few ‘‘Sample Bag«” from point nearest you at insignificant cost, freight paid. T. J. KING. • rich mono, va- BIG MONEY IN CABBAGE By wing our Open Air and Hardy Froat Proof Cabbage Plants Our plants are large and stocky, and free of nut grass. They will stand low temperatures and make heaia Satisfac tion or money refunded Full count In each box Jersey and Charleston Wakefield. Succession and Drumhead, son for 75c. 1.000 for $1.25: 5.000 .for $5. 10.000 for $9. Order today the best Frost Proof Cabbage plants on the market from Tfte Dixie Plant Co. Hawkinsville, Ga. ES-MUCLLiiTSiV * Farmer or Farmer Is I with rig in every County to intro- *Sorv| duce and sell Family and Veteri nary Remedies, Extracts and Spices. Fine pay. One maa made $90 one week. We mean busi. r.ess and want a man in yonr County. Write us, 5hores-MnellerCo..Dept. 86, Cedar Rapids,Iowa ■ COSTS UTttEy MAKES'TJIG Mofix 4 . _ Learn why ours is better Write today MALLARY 6 TAYLOR IRON WORKS. Box 15 MACON, GA Mfgrs. of Engines, Boilers, Shingle Machines, Cut-off Saws, Etc — — -L —, FARM FENCE 41 INCHES HIGH 100 other styles of Farm, Poultry and Lawn Fencing direct from factory a I aare-the- deater’s-profit-priccs. Our large catalog is free ‘firrSEUUN BK0S. Box 45 AGRICULTURAL Education a Successful Farming U SUfelste J 1 A Nt)PEW J\ Soull . This department tcill cheerfully endeavor to furnish, any Information. Tetters should be addressed to Dr. Andrew U. Soule, president State Agricultural College, Athens, Ga. A SOUTH-CAROLINA FORMULA A subscriber, Bennettsville, S. jC., writes: I have been accustomed to mining ray own fertilizer by using 200 pounds of cotton seed meal, 200 pounds of kainit, 200 pounds of acid and 200 pounds of an S-4-4 with 200 pounds of carnalite used as a top dressing in June or July. My land is light and sandy. Please let me know if this is a good formula for cotton and if I can improve on it. I have been se curing from one to two bales per acre. The formula you are using contains about 20 pounds of nitrogen, 53 pounds of phosphoric acid and 37 pounds of potash 'exclusive of the carnalite. You are applying, of course, 1,000 pounds of plant food per acre and this is a liberal formula. The carnalite supplies additional potash and it may be well to use it on land which is light and sandy, especially if there is any ten dency for the cotton to rust. We think you are making a mistake, however, in withholding the application as late as July. We think you will find it better to put it under the drill row at the time bf planting corn or cottou. There'is no reason why you should not use another type of formula and con centrate your plant food supply and thus lessen the amount of material you have to handle and distribute in tbe form of fertilizer. We are inclined to think a formula which will run about 9 per cent of phosphoric acid, 3 to 3.5 per cent of nitrogen and 6 per cent of potash will be found about right. This may be ob tained by mixing together 1,150 pounds of acid phosphate, 600 pounds of dried blood and 250 pounds of muriate of potash. If you desire to use other ni trogen carrying materials than dried, blood you can easily do so. Thife formu la applied at the rate of 600 pounds per acre should answer well for cotton, 400 pounds to be used under the drill row and 200 pounds as a side applica tion. • * * TONIC TREATMENT FOR A COW. J. J. D., Butler Springs, Ala., writes: I have a cow that has a freaking out in little small lumps something like measles. The hair comes off and she licks herself all the time. I'would like to know what is the trouble and what to do for her? 21 CENTS A ROD • It is important that you examine the surroundings of your cow and see that everything is sanitary. If you are feeding anything but pure and whole some feed stop it at once. Clean out the mangers and stablea and burn all litter and trash. Disinfect thoroughly by whitewashing and spraying with a solution of one part of carbolic acid to thirty parts of water. The cow should be given a dose of Epsom salts as a drench, using a pound to a pound and a half. Be careful in administering the drench t<? avoid strangulation. Then you would probably find it desirable to use the following tonic powder for a few days: Sulphate of iron, 2 ounces. Nitrate of potash (saltpeter), 2 ounces. Gentian root (pulverized), 2 ounces. Nux vomica seed (pulverized), 1 ounce. Ginger root (pulverized), 1 ounce. Mix together thoroughly and give a heaping teaspoonful in the food three times a day. The whole coat should be thoroughly washed out with a solu tion of one part of any of the coal tar dips to fifty parts of water. This process should be'repeated several times. This will lessen the tendency to itch ing and will cleanse the hide and give the eruption a chance to heal up. The use of the salts and the tonic will no doubt effect a cure. If you have any green feed you can pasture the cow on, it will be an advantage. EDIBLE COWPEAS. A. E. C., Enterprise, Ala., writes: I would like to know a good late bearing pea for table use, also artichokes for pickles, and where I can secure the seed? secure seed from any seed man. You will find some advertised in this paper. * * * SHEDDING OF COTTON ON SANDY LAND. W. A. D., Tennille, Ga., writes: I have some sandy land on which cotton suf fers and sheds in July and August, and some of it dies. We intend to plant this sandy soil in corn and velvet beans. I also have some land which is stiffer and redder. If the season is dry the cotton sheds on this land also. All the land has been planted too frequently in cotton. Would like to know what fer tilizer to use to unlock the fertility of this land. Among the best varieties of cowpeas to grow for table use are the large Blackeye and the Lady. The former va riety is standard as a snap or shelled, and is considered one of the best table pea. The Lady variety is small seeded, but is a stronger grower and prolific and is prized highly for table use.« The peas are creamy white and of the finest quality. The Green Globe artichoke is a favorite French variety grown for its undeveloped flower heads. These are cooked like asparagus and make a most excellent vegetable. It can be eaten with butter sauce or French dressing. This sort is hardy i nordinary winters as far north as Athens, Ga., and correspond ing points in other states. The seed of this variety should be sown in hot beds immediately and transplanted in May. It may be sown outside in April Muorie, fnd In building up the soils about which you inquire, the first and most essential process is that of establishing a ro tation of crops and turning back into the land eabh year some vegetable mat ter obtained by growing and turning under a legume. In spite of all the suggestions we may make with refer ence to the use of fertilizers and the management of this land, the best re sults can never be secured until this is done. You should make a very de termined effort, therefore, to grow a legume either by itself or in associa tion with your corn crop, and turn all the refuse under save the stalks and ears. The stalks should be shredded and fed to live stock, and thus you will start to accumulate yard manure as a by product, and there is nothing which you can use on your land in association with fertilizer which will insure so large and uniform a yield even when seasonal conditions are adverse. The fact that your corn and cotton suffer on some of your soil areas, es pecially when there are short periods of drought, is due to one of several things* First of all, you may not have been breaking this land to a sufficient deapth. Deep plowing is very impor tant, especially on red clay lands. Of course, subsoiling is also desirable, but it would be bad practice to subsoil land at this season of the year, in view of the heavy rainfall of the winter. Sub soiling is best done in the autumn so as to $.void danger of puddling. Deep plowing can be accomplished even until the first of March with good adavntage. By deepening the soil you help it to store and hold water, and thus tide over drought periods. The shedding of cotton may be due to a lack of plant food sufficient to carry the number of bolls which the plant has set on. Of course, you understand that nearly all plants attempt to carry more fruit than they can mature. When shedding is very bad. however, it is an evidence of the need of moisture in the soil or a defl ciency in plant food. The plowing under of green crops will do more to enable the land to absorb arid hold moisture and successfully pass through a drought pe riod than anything else. The key to your situation, * therefore, is to get ready as rapidly as possible to supply a part of; ^our land with yard manure, to grow some leguminous crop 'to plow under, to practice deep and more thorough cultivation, and to adjust your fertilizer formulas to the needs of your crops. 1 am quite sure that this land will be benefited by lim ing, and you should make plans to lime small areas of it from year to year. We believe a ton of the pulvarized raw rock per acre scattered broadcast after the land is plowed will be an advantage. We have secured an increase of ten bushels of corn per acre from the use of lime here on the college farm, and it has given excellent results on le gumes and other crops on the various test plats we have established through out the state. For the sandy land on which you in tend to plant corn and velvet beans, we would suggest that you use 400 pounds of a 10-3-5 formula. This fer tilizer should be put under the drill row and thoroughly mixed with the subsoil. Then use 200 pounds as a side application from the first to the mid dle of May, and 100 pounds of nitrate of soda as a top dressing about two weeks before the corn bunches to tas sel. This is the very best suggestion we can offer, and while it may seem like rather a heavy application of fer tilizer, it is more likely to give you good results than any other formula with which we are acquainted. The ad visability of using nitrate of soda as a top dressing will bepend very much on seasonal conditions. When there is a well distributed rainfall and the corn is in a Sappy and vigorous condition, we would not be inclined to use the ni trate. On the cotton land we would be dis posed to recommend about a 9-3-4, put ting 300 pounds under the drill row at the time of planting, and using 200 pounds as a side application. Use some nitrate as a top dressing when ever a dry spell sets in as it will help to stimulate the crop and enable it to hold its fruits until rain falls again. Ou r experience in this respect has been quite satisfactory and we think you should arrange to fertilize part of your land at least with nitrate if seasonal BRANCH’S GENUINE RATTLESNAKE WATERMELON SEED j INLY PURE ST RAIN Carefully selected. Kept pure MNJf^TATES forty years. No other variety grown on plantation of 1500 acres. Pure seed impossible where different kinds are grown, loz. 15c-2 oz. 25c—4 oz. 40c—i lb. 60c. L 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 all orders. M. I. BRANCH, Berzelia, Columbia County, Georgia. LEDBETTER “ONE SEED" PLANTER Fl&uts peanuts, large or small, shelled or unshelled, also corn, cotton, peas, etc., with certainty and regu larity. Less seed, larger crops. Write for booklet. 832L SOUTHERN PLOW COMPANY. DfcllM. Texai Fish Bite Like Hungry Wolves, Fill your Nets Traps or Trot Lines if you bait with M AGIC-FISH-LURE. 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. 400,000 SWEET POTATO PLANTS I sell the Improved Nuncy Hall "at $2 per thousand. Nancy Hall Porto Rico Yarn and Norton Yam at $1.50 per thousand* 30,000 Tomato Plants—Red Field Beauty and Duke of York at $1.10 per thousand, f. o. b. lie re. Shipment commences March' 25th. M. F. MOORE, Brownsville, Fla. CANT GETAWAY WITH IT the rifle The rapid, repeat shots which the Winchester .22 Caliber Automatic Rifle delivers will over take any animal. You have only to pull the trigger for each shot, which enables you to keep aimed right on the 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 HATE CASTOR OIL. Delicious “Syrup of Figs” best to cleanse their little clogged bowels. Look back at your childhood days. Remember the physic that mother in sisted on—castor oil, calomel, cathar tics. IIow you hated them, how you fought against taking them. With our children it’s different. The day of‘harsh physic is over. We don’t force the liver and 30 feet of bowels now; w e 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 well—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 few hours. 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-clogged 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 children of all ages, also for grown-ups, plainly printed on the package. By all means get the genuine. Ask your druggist for the full name “Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna” prepared by the California Fig Syrup Co. Ac cept nothing else.—(Advt.) ground ten days before the seed, it will be a distinct advantage to do so, as this will ‘give them some time in which to break down. A very good formula to use where the seed is applied is 20 oushels of seed, 380 pounus of acid phosphate and 50 pounds of muriate of potash. If you desire to use kainit you would need to substitute 200 pounds of it for the 50 pounds of muriate of potash. The seed, acid phosphate and kainit used together under the drill row should constitute a very good fer tilizer for cotton. We think it much better to use the seed and fertilizer as suggested rather than to broadcast the kainit and seed and work in with a harrow. * * * TROUBLE WITH IRON COWPEAS. W. P. S., Thomasvi^le, Ga., writes: I planted iron cowpeas in August, 1911 and 1912, and the crop of vines was good in both years, but in 1912 the plants contained no peas. I used a 9-2-3 fertilizer about 400 pounds per acre, and broadcasted the peas both seasons. There was no nodules to be found on the roots either year, as I carefully examined 50 to 100 plants in different parts of the field. What was the cause of this and what will be necessary to produce nodules. fore these elements should be used in liberal amounts. •' * * AMOUNT OF PLANT FOOD NEEDED PER ACRE. I. M. R., Culletin, G. C., writes: I want to know how much special dresser to use per acre on corn and cotton. My land is high and sandy with gray soil and is three or four- feet to the clay. Tile amount of any special fertilizer formula to use depends largely on its composition and the character of soil to which it is to be applied. On sandy land a formula well suited for corn would be about a 10-3-5; for cotton about a 9-3-4. Use at the rate of 500 pounds per acre J putting at least 300 to 400 pounds under I the drill row at the time of planting I and putting 200 pounds as a j side application eadly in the season. If you use 500 pounds of a 10-3-5 for mula you would apply fifteen pounds of available nitrogen, fifty pounds of avail able phosphoric acid and twenty-five pounds of available potash. This we believe to be about the minimum amount of plant food considered to be quite readily soluble in water and thus conditions prove unfavorable in order that you may acquaint yourself with the benefits of this practice and see if it does not aid you in preventing the shedding of the bolls. These seem to be. about the best suggestions we can offer you under the circumstances and we trust they will be of benefit tv you. We appreci ate your offers of assistance and co- o'peration. ♦ * * PLANTING CORN AFTER COTTON. R. J. P., Bartow, Ga., writes: I have four acres of light loamy land with clay subsoil about four inches deep. I put this land in cotton last year and made a bale to the acre. I want to plant it in corn this year and want to make fifty bushels per acre. Please tell me how to mix acid phosphate, muriate of potash, kainit and cotton seed meal to make a good fertilizer. I broke the land about ten inches deep so tell me how; wide to have my rows and how thick in the drill and what time should I plant? Breaking the land to a depth of ten inches for corn is to be commended. Now, if you can secure any yard manure or compost to use under the drill rows you will find it of material advantage. Lay off your land in rows four feet apart and plant the corn so as to have a stalk every 12 to 15 inches in the drill. We would suggest that you use a prolific corn. In our experience cover ing nearly twenty 'years polifle corns have proven more profitable on upland soils than any other types we have tested. Of course,4 on rich river bot tom lands or on alluvial prairie soils the big-eared sorts will giVe a good ac count of themselves, but for general farm practice the prolific types should be given preference. Fertilize the land at the rate of about 700 pounds per acre. Put 300 pounds under the drill row at the time of planting if you have no vegetable matter, and 500 pounds if you can secure enough manure to use three tons or more per acre. Without manure put on two side applications; with manure, one side application. The side application ‘should consist of 200 pounds per acre of a* complete formula and should be scatteVed ahead of the cultivator and wrked into the soil. Shal low surface cultivation is desirable. On land which does not suffer from dought plant the corn on the level; on droughty land plant in a slight water furrow so you can throw a little earth to the corn as it develops. It may be advisable to use nitrate of soda on this land as a top dressing at the rate of 100 pounds per acre. You can tell as the season and the crop advances whether it will be desirable or not. You do not give the composition of the materials you expect to use, but presume they are of high- grade. We wourd suggest that you mix together 1,000 pounds of acid phosphate, 900 pounds of cotton seed meal and 100 pounds of muriate of potash. This for- ; mula will contain per ton 182.5 pounds of phosphoric acid, 50 pounds of nitro- | gen and 6S pounds of potash. Its per centage composition will be about 9 per cent of phosphoric acid, 2.8 per cent of nitrogen and 3.4 per cent of potash. ' * * * ALTERED MILK AND ITS CAUSE. i L. T. C., Decatur, Ga., writes: We are having trouble with our milk. About | three weeks ago it got so we could not ; get any butter. I notice some thick, i cloddy material left in the strainer. I i milk clean and in the open air and feed ; cotton seed meal and hulls. She will j bo fresh in July. I would like to know j wflat to do to remedy the trouble. The trouble with the fruiting of your cowpeas may be due to one of several things. The chances are you will find this land to be acid. If so, it will be necessary to afcply lime to correct acid ity before you will secure the best results with legumes. The application of a half ton of caustic lime on cer tain sandy soils in south Georgia re sulted in an increase of 1.360 pounds of peavine hay per acre. The outlay for the lime was a very modest sum and the’ increased yield secured highly prof itable on that account. You under stand, of course, that the bacteria which enables leguminous crops to gather nitrogen from the air and pro duce the nodules on the roots do not thrive advantageously in an acid soil, and this probably accounts in large measure for your failure to find any nodules when you examined the roots of your crop. We would suggest that you inoculate your peas this year, se curing soil from some field where they •have grown successfully, or using arti ficial cultures. If you seeure soil there is some danger that you may bring diseases resident in the land on to your farm. The artificial cultures have proven fairly satisfactory, and under the circumstances you would probably find it advantageous to give them a trial. After liming the land and * inoculat ing the soil, it would be well to use a high-grade fertilizer formula in larger amounts than you have been ap plying.. Your soil no doubt runs very low in phosphorus. In fact, the analy sis we have made of the type of soils in your section of the state indicates this to be true. We think, therefore, that you should apply not less than 400 pounds of a 16 per cent acid 'phosphate with at least 200 pounds of kainit and 100 pounds of cotton seed meal. This makes an application of 700 pounds per acre, and the formula, you will notice, is low in nitrogen. If you succeed in inoculating your peas propertly, they will only need nitrogen to insure their making a good start, as * they should then be able to gather and elaborate what is needed from the air.* They can not supply themselves with phos phorus and potash, however, and there- easily available to plant which should! be used on land of the type you de*’ scribe for a corn crop. Now if you de*j sire to use ainy specialized formula it will be all right to do so provided you apply enough of it to furnish the amount of available plant food up to the figures suggested. Nitrogen useful to farm props is chiefly derived from two sourc es, organic and inorganic. Sulphate of ammonia and nitrate of soda are the two principal carriers of inorganic ni trogen. Dried blood, tankage, cotton seed meal and fish scrap are the chief materials supplying nitrogen in an or ganic form. It is not necessary that you should use nitrate of soda as a top dressing except on very thin poor lands. On lands which contain a fair amount of vegetable matter the nitrogen may be supplied practically altogether in an organic form if you find it cheaper and more desirable to follow this method. In using specialized formulas from com pounds represented to be of special val ue for any purpose, all you need to do to protect yourself is to buy on a guar antee with information as to the source from which the materials composing it are derived. 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 Virginia-Carolina 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 roots. Our 1913 FARMERS’ YEAR BOOK or almanac tells how you may increase your profits per acre $50 or more with Virginia-Carolina Fertilizers, and proper, careful, thorough cultivation. Copy free on request. 1 Virginia-Carolina irgtaia-CaroltaaS Chemical Co. Box 1117 RICHMOND - VIRGINIA 2k Cabbage Plants 75c Per 1,000 We have millions of FROST-PROOF plants we are selling at above LOW price while they last. All leading varieties. Count guaranteed. GLOBE PLANT CO. f Hawkinsville, Ga. The trouble to which you refer is no doubt due to some infection of the ud der due to the entrance of undesirable bacteria. You should disinfect the ud der carefully by washing with a solution of 1 ..part of any of the coal tar dips to 50 to 100 parts of water and then rub it dry to keep it from chapping and in flaming. Next secure a rubber tube and insert a medicine dropper in one end and a funnel in the other end. Make a solution of 1 part of carbolic acid to 50 parts of boiled water, and after cooling insert into the udder through the tube. After the solution has acted for a few minutes it should be milked out. If the udder seems to be caked or hard in any portion, bathe with hot water for twenty minutes at a time, and apply an ointment made by dissolving two tablespoonfuls of gun camphor in a teacupful of fresh melted lard. All the utensils used in milking should be thoroughly disinfected, including the churn. Scalding water will be of bene fit, and placing the utensils in the sun and keeping them the^e will help the good work along. We are satisfied if you get rid of the bacteria which have evidently invaded the udder your trou ble will disappear. We do not think the feed you are using has any rela tion to the condition described in your letter. * * * • DAMAGED COTTON SEED AS FERTI LIZER. . G. H. N., Augusta, Ga., writes: I have a large amount of damaged cot ton seed which I expect to use to fer tilize my cotton, supplementing it with commercial fertilizer. I would like to know the best method of applying the cotton seed, whether broadcasting it on the land at present or putting it in the drill row when planting? I would also like in cotton. We think you will find it desirable to use your cotton seed under the drill ow about the time of planting the cotton. If you can put them in the 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 is 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 to 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 a.nd France as a basis of rental values. Before the lease is signed, the toll of the farm about to be rented la analyzed and the tenant agrees to pay for all plant food withdrawn from the soil, during hia lease, and not replaced, as shown by a subsequent analysis at the time that he gives up the farm. And, in return, the landlord agrees to repay the tenant for any plant food in the soil in excess of what waa there whan the tenant leased the farm. To furnish these elements of Nitrogen, Phosphorlo Acid, and PotaBh, best found in commercial fertili zers, the manufacturers search the ends of the earth. The Potash salts are brought from Germany; Nitrate of Soda from the rainless plains of Chili; bird exore- tions from the Islands of the sea; aulphate 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 fertilizers that sources of supply, of these all-essential ele ments, near home, 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 largo quota of the ammoniates now used and even Niagara, the wonderful, has been harnessed to catch nitrogen from the air. The manufacturers are spending millions to maka commercial fertilizers available and at a low coat for the benefit of the consumer of today, who real izes, moro than 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 ita alogan 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. "Miisbur&hPerfectFence The ‘‘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. 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