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6 THE ATLANTA SEJII-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1913. IS THE BOLL BIG ENOUGH EARLIEST VARIETY KNOWN “Sold on 9 MONTHS’ TIME” This shows our faith in the SEED lit »• T°® "LIFE SIZE” showing bolls and limbs also reports hom iD yon. State, showing Earliness this wondor" cotton. «eed grown in norcis Corolla*. Ha*e car lot in each state, so be anlcit if yoo want a few "Sample B*** ‘ nearest you at insignificant cost, frelgnt pmtm. T. j. KING. • RICHMOND. v» AGRICULTURAL .f£s. Education SuccessniL Yailmin^ , 5fe J? Andkw ft. Soule i This -department will cheerfully endeavor to furnish any Information. Letters should be addressed to Dr. Andrew if. Soule. president Stats Agricultural College. Athens. Oa. POP CORN AS A SOURCE OF FEED R. E. H., Hampton, Ga., writes: I am thinking of growing pop corn for feed. A variety that grows a small stalk and several ears, and grinding stalk, fodder and com together, mix ing with proper proportion with oatis and cotton seed meal. What do you think * of this as a feed : for cattle, horses and hpgs? Hitoh ft Taylor Saw Mill onto a Tay lor Engine and your outfit will saw more logs, keep going better and MAKE MORE MONEY FOR YOU than any saw mill on earth. Yon ought to know aboyt our wire cable drive, ad justable idler and time-saving carriage- backing device; all sizes and prices. Write now for catalog. Mallary Machinery Company Dept. I, MACON, QA. Saw Mills, Engines, Shingle Machines, Gasoline Engines FREE BOOK «• ALFALFA HOW TO GROW IT ON YOUR LAN? **Alfalfa—Wonder Crop,” is the title of a new book just issued by us. It contains a fund of priceless information on alfalfa growing secured from many sources; United States Government, State Experi ment § ta *i° ns ’ tke best posted authorities and suc cessful grow ere. This information was secured at a great cost of time, money and research, and yet it is you re for the asking Without coat. This book will convince you thatyour farm has some land on which you can grow alfalfa; it tells how to get re suits from the first planting, how to select the field and prepare the soil, including fertilizing, plowing, liming, and how to prepare the seed; when to plant, how to plant. It tells you what to do during the growing period, how to get bigger than average crops, and how to cut and cure. This book is worth many dollars to the farmer interested in growing alfalfa, but we gladly send it without cost or obligation of any kind if you answer at once. Don t put it off—write for free book today. VLLOWAT IR0!.-M)*MM CO., 101 T241 WITEIIOO. 14. BIG MONEY IN CABBAGE By iMing our Opan Air and Hardy Froat Proof Cabbage Plants. Our plant* are large and stocky, and free of nut grass. They will stand low temperatures and make head* Satisfac tion or money refunded. Full count In each box Jersey and Charleston Wakefield. .Succession and Drumhead. .100 for 75c: 1.00a fer ST.25: 5.000 for *5: 10.000 for $9. Order today the best Froet Proof Cabbage plants on the market from The Dixie Plant Co. Hawkinsnlle, Ca. LEDBETTER “ONE SEED” PLANTER Plants peanuts, large or small, shelled or unshelled, also corn, cotton, peas, etc., with certainty and regu larity. Less seed, larger crops. Write for booklet. 882 *HC SOUTHERN PLOW COMPANY* Dallas. Texas BRANCH’S GENUINE RA1TLESNAK WATERMELON SEED MIT P«l£ SIMM Carefull> selected. Kept pure IN BRiTEB STATES forty years. No other variety grown on plantation of 1500 acres. Pure seed impossible where different kinds are grown. 1 oz. 15c—2 oz. 25c—4 oz. 40c—i 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 all drders. M. I. BRANCH. Berzelia, Calusibia County, Georgia. SEED CORN TO GROW GUARANTEED and tested, grown under perfect conditions. All our own productions. Big yields. Delivered at Memphis or Chattanooga, Tenn., or Dallas, Tex. Write for seed corn dope. W. F. Davis. Box 4, St. Joseph, Mo. Fish Will Bite like hungry wolves, fill your net ^trap or trot line if you bait with Magic-Fish-Lure. Best fish bait ever discovered. Over 60.000 boxea •old to fishermen last season. Write for price list to-day and get a box to help Introduce it. Agents wanted. J. F. Gregory. K-103. St. Lotiis, Mo Marvel & Fish Hooks land every fish that trie, to take the bait. Write for free hooks to help introduce. ■AWa HOOK CO.. Dipt. SI, CLINTON. IOWA # In my judgment you will find It more satisfactory to grow prolific corn in preference to pop corn. We think you will find the Marlborough, What- tley or Batts Prolific good sorts to grow on uplands in your section of the state. Plant these in rows four feet apart. Cultivate with skill and fer tilize with a fair degree of liberality. A cheap stock food can be made by running corn, ears and all into a silo. This will make you an excellent sub stitute for grass in the winter season. If you are anxious to maintain live stock you should establish a good large pasture’ and grow rye, vetch and clover for winter grazing. i’art of your land should be used for grain production so as to cheapen the ration of concentrates fed to your live stock. Corn, cotton seed meal and oats are excellent for this purpose. We have found it desirable to plant sorghum and corn together. The sorghum was planted first, say two weeks before the corn, two rows of corn were planted together and two rows of sorghum. When this crop is harvested and run into the silo it makes an .ideal succu lent food for winter feeding. This combination crop may also be cut with a corn harvester and fed after run ning through a shredder to excellent advantage. Pea hay constitutes a find form of roughness for use on a stock farm. ... GROWING SAT BEANS, VETCH AND PEANUTS. W. P. S., Thomasville, Ga., writes: I wish to plant soy beans, vetch and peanuts. My land is very find, and sandy with no clay subsoil at all. .Last year I made a complete failure of vetch and peanuts. Which would you advise me to use, the slaked lime or the ground lime stone? I 'would also like Information In regard to using lime for legumes, Including alfalfa. We believe you will find it desirable to use ground limestone of pulverized rock on land intended for soy beans, vetch and peanuts. We Would sug gest an application at the rate of one ton per acre. The raw rock should be so finely ground that the greater part of it will pass through a sieve of 100 meshes to the inch.. In other words, none of the particles should not be larger than a small grain of wheat. It Is Undesirable to have It In the form of an Impalpable powder as it tends tv- form concretions in the soil and is not so serviceable for the improve ment of the land or the development of the crop grown thereon.. Legumes respond particularly well to applica tions of lime which should he scatter ed over the ground about thirty days before the crop is to be planted. Do not mix the lime with the fertilizer. Work it into the surface with a har row, but do not plow it under, For alfalfa we would suggest the use of pot less than two tons of the ground raw rock. It would he best to put this lime on after a crop or cow- peas have been plowed under. Thir ty days later sow the alfalfa using re cleaned western seed, and about 1,000 pounds of a 10-3.5-6 formula on sandy land. You will find owe or me great est difficulties In growing alfalfa in your section of the State is due to the fact that crab grass will frequently crowd it out in spite of your best ef forts. We would hardly think It ad visable to sow alfalfa in your section without inoculating it either with soli from a field where the crop has grown before • or with a special culture, for unless the nodules form on the roots, the crop will not remain healthy and vigorous. * * * NEED OF PHOSPHORUS IN THIS SOIL/., J. P. A., Durand, Ga., writes: I have a plantation of very stiff red clay soil. I make the r.nest weed of any body* but am so often disappointed other ways. I have been testing my soil and find that it contains a large per cent of acid. I have pulverized lime and a lot of yard manure. Would you advise using them together? I want to mix my own fertilizer this year. Would you advise using ground phospha*2 rock, muriate of potash and cotton seed meal? , Land which makes a very large growth of weed at the expense of fruit is not likely well supplied with phosphoric acid and possibly potash in an available form. We would sug gest that you use a formula running high in these elements, at least much higher than you have used previously. On soil of this type we do not think a large amount of nitrogen is essential. Pulverized limestone should answer very well in correcting soil acidity on your land. It Is. important that this be accomplished for a plant cannot grow to advantage in an acid media, Thoroughbred Cotton Seed and Nitrate Fertilization There 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 cot.ton plant as it is to feed a low-grade lint producer. I want you to have a valuable book, Free, which I have prepared on the Cultivation of Cotton. DR. VVM. S. MYERS Director of Chilean Nitrate Propaganda 17 Madiaon Avenue, New York No Branch Office* though cotton is not go -sensitive to this condition apparently as some other farm crops. Use pulverized lime stone at the rate of one ton per acre, scattering it over the surface of the land after It has been plowed. Do not mix commercial fertilizer with the lime and do not apply any fertilizer until two weeks after the lime lias been scattered over the ground. We hardly think it well to use lot manure on soil where you are now producing an excessive amount of stalk in pro portion to the fruit secured. Use the lot manure under corn .on some area of your farm which is not so well supplied naturally with the essential elements of fertility as the area about which you inquire. We wculd not ad vise the use of ground phosphate rock under 4 your particular circumstances. We think you need a form of phos phorus which will become more quickly available, and would suggest that you use acid phosphate. We think you will find a mixture of 1,250 pounds of acid phosphate, 600 pounds of cotton seed meal containing 6.18 per cent of # nitrogen, and 150 pounds of muriate of potash a very good formula to use on your land. A ton of this, mixture would contain ap proximately 215 pounds of available phosphorus, 37 pounds of available nitrogen and 87 pounds of available potash. The percentage composition would be 10.7 per cent of phosphorus, 1.8 per cent of nitrogen and 4.3 per cent of potash. * * * FROM A CORN CLUB BOY. W. If. R., Ashburn, Ga.. writes: I want to enter the corn club contest, and want you to tell me how to prepare my land. I have two kinds—hard pebble land and* soft,- sandy land new ground. What kind of fertilizer shall I use? You are to be congratulated on your determination to enter the corn club contests for the present year, and you will have no trouble in securing a copy of the corn club bulletin issued by the state college of agriculture which gives you all the information and aclvice you need with reference to the preparation of soils, the use and application of fer tilizers, the selection of seed, and the cultivation of your corn crop. The bul letin has been prepared with the idea of giving information along these lines to boys who desire to enter the club con tests. In your section of the state on land such as you have we would be inclined to recommend the use of a prolific va riety of corn. Whatley’s Prolific has been developed in *south Georgia and should do well on sandy land as it has been developed on spil quite similar in general characteristics. If your sandy land is a new soil,and contains a fair amount of vegetable matter, we would be disposed to select it for the growth of your corn. The pebble land is shown by analysis to be richer quite often than the sandy land, but there are so many variations in sofl types in your section of the state that it is pretty hard to discriminate between them without a rather definite description in hand. Prepare your land by plowing it im mediately to a good depth, and if you phoose a sandy land for your corn patch plant in a slight water furrow. We would suggest that you use a rather high grade fertilizer on this typ© of soil, say about a 10-3.5-5; on pebbly land we think a 9-3-4 would answer very well. We would advise the use of not less than 300 pounds under the drill row at the time of planting; and 200 pounds as a side application early in the season. This will enable you to use a top dress ing of |iitrate of soda at the rate of 100 pounds per acre if the development of the crops indicated that it is desirable. * * * APPLYING GROUND LIMESTONE. F. P. H., Jefferson, Ga., writes: I am thinking of using some ground lime rock. TVhat do you think of it as a top dressing for oats and how much should it cost me? Do you think it will pay to use lime on thin land as a fertilizer helper? What would be a sufficient amount to broadcast on thin land where corn is to be planted? I have some land that I want to build up with some kind of forage. Could you suggest anything that I could raise two crops on the land This year? Some of this land I did not get sown in oats or wheat. GETS CONSTIPATED Cleanse Its Little Stomach, Liver and Bowels With “Syrup of Figs” 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., Hawkinsville, Ga. There is no reason why you should not buy ground raw rock f. o. b. cars at $1.00 per ton, and certainly not over $1.25. In addition the freight rates must be met and at the present time they are rather high as this matter has not been taken up as carefully by the railroads as its importance merits. There is agitation in this direction at the present time, and it is hoped that better rates will be made on lime at no distant ^date. Lime is not a fertll- 1 izer except*in very rare instances except that it may supply calcium on some soils where this element Is lacking. It is a soil amendment and improves the physical condition of some soils and helps to set free certain elements necessary to plant growth which may be in the soil, but unavailable to plants. We belidve that a minimum application of raw ground rock would be 1,000 pounds, and it would be better to use 2,000 pounds. It should be broadcasted on the land after it has been thorough ly plowed. We do not think it advisable to use it on oats at this season of the year, but would prefer to put it on land to be devoted to corn or legumes In some experlements cotton seems to have been benefited by lime, but enough .work has not been done in this direction to enable one to make a definite state ment regarding the benefits which may be anticipated from its use under cot ton. Lime should not be mixed with fertilizer and should be put *on two weeks before a crop is sown. The fer tilizer should be well mixed with the soil. By all means plant cowpeas or soy beans on the land you have already seeded to grain. The only wdy to grow two crops on the same land each year would be to plant an early matur ing variety of cowpeas as soon as danger of frost is past and cut the first crop for hay and let the second crop mature for grain. We have done this in many instances to good advantage. You could of course sow Burt oats this month and cut them for grain or hay and then follow with peas. A crop of early maturing cowpeas or soy beans can often be grown to advantage and followed with millet.* As millet is a relatively short seasoned crop it can often be matured before frost falls in the autumn and enable you to get two crops off the land in one year. * * * COMPOSTING BARNYARD MANURE i. E. J. M., Clyo, Ga., writes: 1 have? a large pile of stable manure packed. I am thinking of digging It up and putting ball potash in it to cut Look at the tongue, Mother! If coat ed, it is a sure sign that your little one’s insides, the stomach, liver and 30 feet of bowels are clogged up with putrefy ing waste matter and need a gentle, thorough cleansing at once. When you.’ child is listless, drooping, pale, doesn’t sleep soundly or eat heart ily or is cross, irritable, feverish, stom ach sour, breath bad; has stomach-ache, diarrhoea, sore throat, or is full of cold, give a teaspoonful of Syrup of Figs, and in a few hours all the foul, consti pated waste undigested food and soui- bile will gently move on and out of its little bowels without nausea, griping or weakness, and you surely will have a well, happy and smiling child again shortly. With Syrup of Figs you are mot drug ging your children, being composed en tirely of luscious figs, senna and aro matics, it cannot be harmful, besides they dearly love its delicious taste. Mothers should always keep Syrup of Figs handy. It is the only stomach, liver and bowel cleanser and regulator needed. A little given today will save a sick child tomorrow. Full directions for children of all ages and for grown-ups plainly printed on the package. Ask 3 r our druggist for the full name, “Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna,’ prepared by the California Fig Syrup Co. This is the delicious tasting, gen uine old reliable. Refuse anything else offered.—(Advt.) fall. Some are sown on cotton land and some on corn land wjtn peas. Do you think anything else is necessary besides nitrate of soda? The College of agriculture has no seed of the Sunbeam cotton for distri bution this year. Only a limited amount of seed of this variety has been produced and distributed as yet and a thorough re-selection of the seed is being made this year so as to stand ardize the variety and eliminate cer tain types which have developed there in. It Is hoped that a small amount of seed may be ready for distribution next year. It is not advisable in our judgment to fertilize oats at this season of the year with a complete formula. We would be disposed to wait a week or two and apply nitrate of soda as a top dressing, using about 50 pounds per acre which should be scattered over the surface of the ground after rather than before a rain, and should be put on when the leaves are dry. A second application may be made two or three weeks later of the same amount. It is not necessary to harrow tne nitro gen into the ground. We believe le will be better to use a complete fer tilizer formula on oats seeded on aver age cotton and corn land atj the tim« they are planted in the fall, but we doubt whether relatively slow acting materials such as phosphorus and pot ash will benefit the crop materially applied at this season, especially where they can not be well worked into the soil. • o • . VALUE OF WOOD ASHES. A subscriber, writes: I have pur chased a large pile of wood ashes ’from a lumber man, and would like to know how to use them on my land. Would th^y pay best for cotton or would you prefer to use them under corn, and how shoftld they be applied? rich would hardly think it will pay you to attempt to handle them in this manner. 9 • * GROWING COTTON ON SANDY LAND. A. M. C., Faison, N. C., writes: I have some sandy land to put in cotton this year and would like to do my own mixing of fertilizer. How would the following formulas do: 1,000 pounds of 16 per cent acid. 700 pounds of cotton seed meal. 200 pounds of muriate of potash and 100 pounds of nitrate of soda. Also, 800 pounds of 16 per cent acid, 800 pounds of cotton seed meal, 200 pounds of muriate of potash, and 200 pounds of nitrate of soda? What would these analyze and what would be the right about to use per acre? it up. Will the potash injure the ma nure in any way? We would not advise you to treat your manure as you have suggested. Unless you have an unusually large quantity of it you can handle it to advantage by scattering it broadcast over the ground and working' in with a disk, or better still, by putting ’it in the drill rows before planting either corn or cotton. You can afford to use this manure at the rate of two to five tons per acre, and a larger amount will be preferable. On the farm here we open a large, wide, deep furrow with a turning plow and scatter the manure in by means of a spreader. Our rows are just far enough apart to enable us to distribute the manure in two rows at a time. On a small farm this work may be done with a light wagon. After the ma nure ig put in the drill row mix it well with the subsoil with a bull tongue. This would be a more satis factory way of handling the manure than attempting to reduce it through application of potash, such as you have suggested. The best way to compost the ma nure and reduce it to a fine and fri able condition so as to make It easier to handle is to pile it in a compact heap where you can keep it wet ail the time. This prevents too rapid generation of heat and the loss of any considerable amount of nitrogen. If you cannot keep it wet and compacteu the chances are that it will heat so that a good part of the nitrogen will be transformed into ammonia and lost Into the air. The manure will be more effective in your soil if it is properly mixed with it if it is not re- diffced to an extremely fine condition. * 9 * FERTILIZING CORN AND COTTON ON SANDY LAND. Z. D., Augusta, Ga., writes: I would like to know what is the best guano to use for corn and cotton on pine land, with sandy soil. Sandy lands, as a rule, are low in available phosphorus and potash, and most of them are not well supplied with nitrogen. These soils will be more thoroughly benefited from an ap plication of vegetable matter than from anything else. No doubt you are so Situated that you can not secure any considerable quantity of yard manure or compost at this time, but such as you can secure you should put at least two tons under the drill row before the corn or cotton is planted. If you can not secure any composeut, then after plowing the land thorough ly. open wide deep furrows wheye you expect the corn and cotton rows to stand and mix well with the subsoil. For cotton use a formula containing about 9 per cent of phosphorus, 3 per cent of nitrogen and 4 to 5 per cent of potash. Certainly use 5 per cem of potash if there is any indication of rusting on the part of the cotton. The nitrogen should be derived princi pally from organic sources. Use 300 pounds under the drill row and mix with the subsoil by means of a bull tongue. Tfc.en apply 200 pounds bf the same fertilizer as a side application early in th s season, and if the crop does not make a vigorous and strong growth use nitrate of soda as a top dressing at the rate of 100 pounds per acre not later than the-first of July. Fur corn use about a 10-3.5-5 formula, piftting 400 to 500 pounds under the drill row at the time of planting and mixing well with the subsoil. Plant in a slight water furrow. Make your rows about four feet apart and use a prolific variety of corn, thinning to a stand of about 15 inches In the drill row. Use 200 to 300 pounds as a side application early in the growing season. Top dressing with nitrate of soda about two weeks befo.— the corn bunches to tassel. • * ». SUNBEAM COTTON SEED. .T. L. M., Mansfield, Ga., writes: I would like to get one busljel of Sun beam cotton seed. Would also like some information in regard to fertil izing oats that were drilled in last Always pour a strong solution of Red See' Lye down the kitchen sink after you've washed the dishes and pots. It car ries off dirt and grease — drives away b a ' smells Powerful disinfect- a n t for closets, gar bage cans, hog pens. barns, etc. Use it wash day. makeshardwatersoft and saves soap. Al- ways make your soap with Red Seal Lye. Ask your storekeeper for. Red Seat Lye— write us if he hasn’t got it. Book Free. P, C. TOMSON & CO. Dept. P, 29 Wishlnsten In., Ptilla., Pa. Big Sifting Tap Can —Save* /Honey IS ss JUS. The value uf wood ashes depends entirely on the type of tree from which they have been derived and the condition under which they have been stored. If the ashes have been al lowed to lay out in ^he * vicinity of a saw mill they are of little value. If obtained from pine lumber they will not be so rich in plant food constitu ents as if derived from hard woods. Unleached ashes contain four to eigl)t per cent of potash, one to two per cent of phosphoric acid and thirty to thirty-five per cent of lime. Leached ashes contain about one to three per cent of nitrogen and one to 1.5 per cent of phosphoric acid. It wiU hardly pay to haul them r.ny consic£ terable distance and distribute them if they have been lerached. If you un- would advise you not to try and mix them with other fertilizer materials, but to scatter them broadcast on the dertake to use these wood Ashes we land at the rate of 1,000 pounds and upwards per acre. Of course, you could put them in the drill row, but this involves a considerable ami/unt of labor and unless they are unusually The first formula suggested in your letter would, In our Judgment, be bet ter suited for cotton on land Such as you are cultivating than the last one. The first formula would contain ap proximately 177.5 pounds of available phosphoric acid, 59 pounds of available nitrogen, and 114 pounds of available potash per ton. It would anyalyze, therefore, about 8.8 per cent of phos-, phoric acid, 2.9 per cent of nitrogen and 5.7 per cent of potash. It is possibly, higher In potash than is necessary. You might reduce the potash by 50 pounds,, and add that much more phosphoric acid, unless your land is extremely^ sandy. The second formula would contain per ton 148 pounds of available phosphoric! acid, 81 pounds of nitrogen and 116 pounds of potash per ton. You will see that its percentage composition would not be well balanced for cotton. We think If you will apply 500 to 600 pounds Of the first formula, using 300, to 400 pounds under the drill row and 200 pounds as a side application, you will get the best results. Sea Wall Demolished RIO JANEIRO, March 8.—A furious, surf in the bay today tossed high waves, which demolished the large extension sea wall on the Avenue Beiramer. The adjacent streets were flooded and traf fic suspended. Many residents were im prisoned in their homes and communi cation Is being carried on by boats. Save Farm Labor Make it Produce More With practically the same labor, horses, mules, wagons and imple ments, you can produce bigger crops from the same, or less acreage. It takes no more work to raise 60 to 90 bushels of com, or one and a half to two bales of cotton, to the acre than it takes to make or dinary yields. It is not necessary to plant a larger acreage to get a bigger yield. Simply work and cultivate the same amount of land more thoroughly. You can produce bigger crops of COTTON, CORN, TOBACCO, AND ALL CROPS WITH i Virginia-Carolina High-Grade Fertilizers They contain plant foods which enrich the soil, increase the yield and make farming more profitable. Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co. Box 1117 VIRGINIA RICHMOND 2B vagagaaiiav ■ Rni'ck Tkio c ft L fi A WORKMAN in an I H C JA. wagon factory was explaining the various stages of wagon construction to an interested visitor. He picked up two pieces of long leaf yellow pine, which to all appearances were sawed from the same board, and asked the visitor to notice the difference in the weight of the two pieces. The lighter piece, he explained, was kiln-dried. The heavier piece was air- dried and more thoroughly seasoned. It Lon rolr. 4 V. .. me ea ami ---- - — — — LI _L had retained the resinous sap which adds m Krill’* L1UJU Ui iiC<11. Every Stick of Lumber Used __ 1HC Wagons Is Carefully Selected, Air-Dried Stock Here was something to think about. The visitor asked for a test as to the relative strength of the two pieces of wood. The air-dried piece held up under nearly double the weight under which the kiln-dried piece of lumber broke. The workman explained how the comparative life of air-dried and kiln-dried lumber has about as great a difference. To the eye there was no difference between these two pieces of lumber, but when put to the test there was a vast difference. So it is throughout the construc tion of I HCwagons—Weber, Columbu*, New Betten dorf, Steel King. They are built for real strength, light draft, and satisfactory service. After seeing the care used in the construction of every part of an IH C wagon, the visitor asked: “Why don t you let people know of the great care used in selecting material and in constructing IHC wagons?” This is what we have been trying to do, but we can not tell it all in one short advertisement. Weber and Columbus wagons have wood gears. Steel King and New Bettendorf have steel gears. IHC local dealers handle the wagons best suitedto your work. 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