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6 THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1913. IS THE BOLL BIG ENOUGH EARLIEST VARIETY KNOWN “Sold on 9 MONTHS’ TIME” This shows our faith in the SEED L*t me send job “LIFE SIZE” Ph»«oa showin* bolls and limb* also reports from farmer* in your State, showing Earliness and Productiveness of this 4 ‘wonder” cotton. Seed $rowo in North Carolina. Have car lot in each state, so be quick if yon want a few “Sample Bate*” from point nearest you at insignificant cost, freight paid. T. J. KING, RICHMOND, VA- Hiteh a 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. Tou ought to know about 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, GA. Saw Mins, Engines, Shingle Machines, Gasoline Engines ■>< FREE BOOK on ALFALFA HOW TO GROW IT ON YOUR LANS "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 Stations, the best posted authorities and suc cessful growers. This information was secured at a great cost of time, money and research, and yet it is yours for the asking without cost. This book will convince you that your 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, 'on t put it off—write for free book today. • Y.LLOWAY BROS.-BOWMAI CO., BOX T24SWATEBL00.il, BIG MONEY IN CABBAGE By using our Open Air and Hardy Front Proof Cabbage Plants. Our plants are large and stocky, and free of nut grass They will stand low temperatures and make he*da Satisfac tion or money refunded. Full count In each box Jersey and Charleston Wakefield. Sueerasion and Drumhead, son for 7.1c: 1.000 for $7.25: 5.000 for $5. 10.000 for $9. Order today the beat Frost Proof Cabbage plants on the market from 0 The Dixie Plant Co. Hawkinsville, Ga. LEDBETTER “ONE SEED” PLANTER Plants peanuts, large or small, shelled or unshelled, also corn, cotton, peas, etc., with certainty and regu* tarity. Less seed, larger crops. Write for booklet. 832 *MC SOUTHERN PLOW COMPANY. Oallas, fau* BRANCH’S GENUINE RA'l TLESNAil WATERMELON SEED IWLY PURE STRAIN Carefully selected. Kept pure HMDnE^TUFS forty years. No other variety grown on plantation of 1500 acres. Pure seed impossible where different kinds are grown. 1 oz. loc-2 oz. 25c-4 oz. 40c—b lb. 60c, 1 lb. $1.00—5 lb3. $4.50—10 lb3. $8.50 delivered. Remit registered letter or money order. Send for Seed Annual. Manual on melon culture with all orders. M. I. BRANCH, |erztlia, Columbia County, Geiriia. 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. AGRICULTURAL Education / Education mo Successful Farming $ .Andrew 7^. Soule This department will cheerfully enileavnj to furnish, any Information. Letters should he addressed to Dr. Andrew M. Soule, president Stats Agricultural College. Athens, Go. Improving a Bermuda Grass Sod C. B. B.. Greensboro, Ga., writes: We are now plowing: up our permanent pas ture with two-horse turning plows and intend sowing something to supplement the Bermuda grass that grows there lux uriously. Would like for you to suggest some mixture that will give quick re turns as well as permanency. Fish Will Bite like hungry wolves, fill jour nefi ^trap or trot line if you bait with Magic-Fish-Lure. Best fish bait ever discovered. Over 60.000 boxes sold to fishermen last season. Write for price list to-day and get a box to help introduce it. Agents wanted. «I. y. Gregory, K-102. St. Louis, If o M Marvel Au, ° matie Fish Hooks land every fish that tries to take the bait. Write for free hooks to help Introduce. MARVEL HOOK CO.. Dept. 51. CLINTON. IOWA There is nothing which can be de pended on to furnish a larger amount of glazing or prove 'tnore profitable on a dairy farm than Bermuda grass. The only crops which are likely to smother out Bermuda and hold it in check are some of th© legumes. On land which grows a very dense sod of Bermuda these crops are not needed for soil im provement so much as on .thinner soil, but you may grow cowpeas or soy beans planted with an ordinary grain drill to advantage. The cowpea will prove to be a more effective smother crop than the soy bean, but will not produce as much grain. Either crop may be made into hay to advantage. There Is no permanent* grass with which we are ac quainted which will take root above Bermuda sod and hold It in check ex cept in shaded locations. Neither will any clover which we could recommend. The best thing for this purpose uAould be tall oat grass, red top and alsike clover. The best smother crop you can possibly -utilize is the velvet bean. This will not mature grain in your section of the state on a commercial basis, and it will be difficult to get the crop to sufficiently, ripen to cut for hay. It is for these reasons that we have sug gested for yo*u to use the cowpea or* the soy bean.* * • • PURCHASING “LONG-MIXED” GUANO E. C. S., Avera, Ga.,* writes: ‘ Is it ad visable to buy 9-2-3 guano which is one year old at standard prices? Personally we would prefer to buy freshly mixed fertilizer. There Is some chance that a part of the nitrogen may be transformed or lost where the mix ed goods have been allowed to stand for a year or longer. In many instances the fertilizer will often cake and it is necessary to screen it, which costs both time and money. Many of the lumps are very difficult to break, and the fertilizer is harder to distribute uni formly on that account. It is quite like ly that some of the phosphoric acid will revert into a less soluble form than that in which it was contained when the goods were freshly mlxed. N In pur chasing fertilizer, therefore, we would be disposed to insist on securing goods 6t as recent manufacture and admix ture as possible. * • * * KIND AND AMOUNT OF FERTILIZER FOR COTTON. L. D., Fitzgerald, Ga., writes: Please advise us what formula is best for cot ton planted on sandy loam and in what quantities should the application be made? The type of soil described in your let ter is more than likely to be deficient in phosphoric acid. At least this has been shown by a number of analyses which we have made in your section of the state. It will probably be fairly well supplied with potash, though this element may not be in an available form. If fresh land it will contain sl fair amount of nitrogen: if it has been culti vated for some time, especially without crop rotation, the chances are it will be rather low in this element as well. Some of the sandy, loamy types of soil found In Ben Hill county contain pw* acre to the depth of 13.6 inches, . 2,900 pounds of nitrogen, 1,300 pounds of phosphoric acid and 12,480 pounds of potash.Some of these soils are quite acid, arid It will take several hundred pounds of limestone in the form of car bonate to correct it. This should be done where one desires to obtain the best results, though the use of lime on land intended for cotton is not so important apparently as for corn and other farm crops. We would suggest that you use a formula on your soil, therefore, containing 9 per cent of phos phorus, 3 per cent of nitrogen and 3 per cent of potash. We think a fair ap plication would be at least 500 pounds per acre, 300 pounds under the drill row at the time of planting and 200 pounds as a side application. • • • OVERCOMING RUST IN COTTON. E. J. K., Yates, Ga., writes: I would like to know what kind of fertilizer to use on my land. It makes very good corn and the cotton grows off all right until it begins to fruit, when it will rust and the leaves turn yellow and fall off, and it will lose one-third of the fruit. The land is dark gray with red clay subsoil. When should the fertilizer be applied? Your cotton is evidently suffering from what is known as rust. This- is due to one of several causes of which three should be given special considera tion. This trouble is met with on lands which are low in vegetable matter, need drainage, or are deficient in available potash. In many instances the trouble referred to is overcome by liberal appli cations of potash salts. Should this fail 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 cotton 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. to give relief, you may be sure that the trouble is due to one or both of the other causes. It is important, therefore, to examine Into the conditions under which you are growing your cotton and see if all three of these causes are not affecting the development of your crop. We are quite sure your land will be benefited by increasing the supply of vegetable matter. We would therefore advise you to plan to rotate your crops and turn under a legume once In two or three years when it is in condition to cut for hay. For the present year we would advise you to use a formula running high in potash. Suppose you try about an 8-3-6 and apply as much as 600 pounds per acre. You may use an 8-3-3 formula and apply 100 pounds additional of kainit per acre. We would suggest that you apply 100 pounds of kainit on one part of the field, &00 pounds on another part, and as much as 100 pounds of muriate of potash on another section. This will give you a comparative test of the efficiency of two kinds of potash used in varying amounts. Make these applications in addition to the regular 8-3-3 formula. We believe by the use of the amount of potash suggested that you will be able to check and probably obviate any trou ble from rust the present year. Kainit is regarded as especially useful in fight ing rust. • * * A GOOD PLAN FOR SOIL BUILDING. S. F. P., Oak Hill, Ga,, writes: I have a piece of land that was in corn last year and with $9 worth of fertilizer I made seventy-five bushels of corn per acre. After the corn was gathered I turned the land and sowed it in wheat without any fertilizer. As soon as the wheat comes off 1 want to sow in peas, and in October will cut the peas for hay and sow in rye, and about middle of April will turn rye under and plant in corn. I have another piece of land on which I used yard manure and made sixty bushels of corn to the acre. As scon as weather permits will sow in oats and red clover, which I will mow in June and October, and % turn under second crop of clover for corn next year. What do you think of this plan and what fertilizer shall I use? GETS CONSTIPATED Cleanse Its Little Stomach, Liver and Bowels With “Syrup of Figs” 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 your 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 sour 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 not 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.) fertilizer to use and how to cultivate them. When should they be planted and how far apart? The best fertilized to use on land such as you have is about a 10-4, using 300 to 400 pounds per acre. If you de sire to grow an extra large crop 500 punds will be better. If your land Is at all thin a 10-1-4 will be desirable. This gives a small amount of nitrogen with which to help ^art the peas off quickly. As soon as the peas are har vested In the fall plow tne land and apply about 300 pounds per acre of an 8-1-3. This will be of benefit to the rye crop in supplying the two elements in which the soil is most likely to be deficient. When you plow the rye un der early the next spring to plant corn use about a 9-3-4 formula. We think 500 pounds is a minimum application to use under corn on land which has been properly prepared and enriched by the turning under of green crops. You will find it desirable to apply lime to this. land. .The lime might be put on as a top dressing after the rye has been sown. Use the finely ground rock at the rate of one ton per acre. There is no reason why you should not mix the fertilizer for the crops mentioned if you desire to do so and can do it to any material advantage to yourself. Of course, we think high grade acid phosphate, cotton seed meal and muri ate of potash desirable forms of mate rial to purchase. All high grade goods are relatively cheaper than low grade goods. There is no objection to your sowing spring oats and clover at this season of the year. It is important, of course, that the work be done at once. We think you will find it difficult to secure a stand of clover on any except very rich land and which has been well sup plied with lime. It is also desirable that you plant a resistant strain of clover seed, as much of the seed now on the market is not resistant to a blight or wilt which has destroyed many fields of clover throughout the south. Unfortunately It is extremely difficult to secure any of the resistant seed as only a £mall amount of it Is on the market. This seed has been developed through the efforts of the Tennessee Experiment Station, located at Knoxville, and possi bly they could tell you where you could secure a small quantity of the seed. If you seed oats in the spring it is desirable that the Burt variety be used, as this is one of the earliest maturing varieties. We believe you will improve your land to better advantage by not attempting to sow clover and oats, but rather select an early maturing variety of cowpeas and sow as soon as danger of frost is past. Cut the first crop of peas for hay and turn the second crop under for soil improvement after gathering a part if not all of the peas. You will be more certain to gather nitrogen from the air by this method and you will grow an equally valuable crop to the one you have in mind and which is more likely to succeed. For fertilizing the cowpeas see suggestions made above. For fertilizing the oats we would sug gest that you use an 8-3-3 formula at the rate of 400 pounds per acre. Some nitrate of soda may be used as a top dressing if the crop does not make a vigorous growth. • • • GRAZING VERSUS CUTTING BACK OATS. F. M. S.. Gray, Ga.. writes: I have some oats sown about November 1 on good, rich red land. It has been so wet and warm that they have grown too fast, and are about ten to twelve inches high. If they are not grazed or cut they will all fall down before they ever head. I would like your advice as to what to do with them. The first tljjng esential in growing flowers is to secure a soil which is rich, moist, loamy and well supplied with vegetable matter. It should be free from roots, weeds and trash. To this end you should either plow it very thor oughly as soon as possible, or if you only have a small area to work spade it up to a good depth. Cover it with a thick coating of well-rotted yard manure and work this well into the surface either with a harrow, disk cultivator, or with a spade, rake or shovel if the plot to be planted is a small one. Lay off your garden in drills about eighteen inches apart and plant your seeds there in. As you do not state what kind of flowers you desire to grow it is impossi ble to give you advice as to setting. In addition to the use of yard manure, we would suggest that you apply a formula containing about 8 per cent of phospho rous, 3 per cent of nitrogen and 5 per cent of potash. Scatter it uniformly over the ground and work in with the manure. Throughout the growing sea son a few spoonfuls of nitrate of soda alongside each drill row will be helpful. You should plant your flowers where you can water them freely. It is better to irrigate rather than to shower the water over them as this often spoils the blooms. Frequent Shallow cultivation of the surface is very important. If you can secure a quantity of teachings from a pile of yard manure it will be found helpful In stimulating the growth and improving the size and color of the flowers. • • • STIMULATING CORN AND COTTON. W. E. N., Butler, Ga., writes: I would like to know the best fertilizer formula to use on cotton on partly gray land with clay subsoil. Is it best to use part of fertilizer under and part around cotton and corn? Do you think it would pay to use nitrate of soda on oats that are already fine? that the land be sufficiently dry so yeu will not puddle or pack it by the weignt of the wagon or the tramping of the mules passing ever it. it is desirable to use from 1,000 to 2,000 pounds per acre. Apply it as a top dressing and let it stand. The tendency of lime Is to sink into the soil and it will work its way down quite fast enotigh. When you come to plant the peas you will of necessity have to turn the land or disk it thoroughly to put it In condition to receive the crop, and this will insure the burying of the lime to as great a depth as is desirable. * * * ENRICHING A BERMUDA SOD. W. P. S., Thomasville. Ga.. writes: I have a two-acre plot that was plant ed in Bermuda last March. It . w'as planted on very fine sandy land and I got a good stand but did not graze it last summer. Now I wish to fertilize it but have no barnyard manure. Would like to know what kind of commercial fertilizer will be test to use on this grass. WHITFIELD STOCK MEW PLAN PURE-BRED CATTLE (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) DALTON, Ga., March 11.—Enthusias tic over the plan to promote the live stock industry in this county, about a dozen prominent farmers and stockmen have pledged themselves to purchase For cotton on gray land with a good, clay subsoil, we would suggest an ap plication of 500 pounds per acre of an 8-3-4 formula. For corn use a 10-3.5-5 at the rate of 600 pounds provided the ground has been thoroughly prepared and is in good condition. Remember that corn makes a heavier draft on the soil than cotton, and it also requires land which contains a very considerable amount of decaying organic matter to insure the best results. We would sug gest that you put 300 pounds of fertil izer under the drill row at the time of planting the cotton. If practical it is well to open the furrow before bed ding for cotton and run the fertilizer therein and mix it well with the sub soil. The same* practice is advisable with corn. Sometimes it is not conven ient to prepare the land in this way, and in that event the fertilizer may be run under the drill row at the time of planting with one of the many imple ments now on the market for distribut ing the seed and fertilizer at the same time. We would be disposed to put 200 pounds of fertilizer on as a side ap plication. Where oats are making a rapid growth and seem to be well advancea we doubt the advisability of applying nitrate of soda. The winter has been so mild and open that over-stimulation of straw at the expense of grain might result if heavy applications of nitrate are used. * * • METHOD OF APPLYING LIMESTONE. J. A. S., Buford, Ga., writes: I have Just bought some limestone and want to ask if it would be advisable to put it on wheat, oats and rye that were sown last fall? I want to sow the land in peas as soon as the grain comes off. Would it do to broadcast it over the land or should I wait until I sow the peas? There is no objection to your apply ing pulverized limestone to such crops as wheat, oats and rye, especially if you desire to devote the land to peas after these crops have been harvested. It is best to scatter the pulverized rock as uniformly over the surface of the ground as possible, and It is importarit DR. WM. S. MYERS Director of Chilean Nitrate Propaganda 17 Madison Avenue, New York No Branch Officer CHCFAS AND HOGS ARE SYNONYMOUS IN SOUTH GA. Y'OU CAN'T GROW HOGS unless you grow ebufas. It don’t pay to grow ebufas unless you want to grow bogs. Grow both and grow in wealth and independence. We are booking orders for genuine chufas or hog nuts for shipment up to June 1st. W111 pay planters and dealers to secure stock at once, as the demand always exceeds the supply and prices will soar in April and May. Seed guaranteed clear of nut grass. Write us for prices and information. THE MANOR TRADING COMPANY. Manor. Ga. We do not think it would be advisable to cut the oats about which you inquire. We would prefer to’ graze them down if afraid they are making too much top. Grazing them when the ground i« very wet would be undesirable, however, as it tends to puddle the surface soil and make it pack, and the crop will suffer from a lack of moisture later on in the season. Young animals will graze them with less danger than older ones. We would hardly turn hogs on an oat field except as a last resort as they are liable to root up the ground too much. Calves would be the best to use though cows and sheep may serve very well provided they are not allowed to graze the oats too close. It would have been better if you could have grazed these oats earlier. No doubt the mild winter is resppnsible for the unusual growth they have made. * * • A BOY FLORIST’S AMBITION. A Subscriber, Augusta, Ga., writes: I want to raise flowers to sell to the florist, and want to know what kind of Always pour a strong solution of Red Sea * Lye down the kitchen sink after you’v washed the dishes and pots. It car ries off dirt an * grease — drives away bad smells. Powerful disinfect- a n t for closets, gar bage cans, hog pens, barns, etc.' Use it wash day. It makeshard water soft and saves soap. A1-- ways make your soap with Red Seal Lye. Ask your storekeeper for # Red Seal Lye— write us if he hasn’t got it. Book Free. P«C. TOMSON & CO. Dept, f, 29 Washington Aire., PWla., Pa. Big Sifting Top Can —Saves Money For Bermuda grass you will find an application of about 500 pounds of fine ly ground raw bone meal, and 200 pounds of kainit very satisfactory. High grade bone meal should supply 3 to 5 per cent of nitrogen and 18 to 20 per cent of phosphoric acid. We would suggest that this formula be mixed to gether and broadcasted over the Ber muda and worked in with a harrow. If you set the teeth of the harrow at a backward angle of about 45 degrees and run it with the rows, you will be able to incorporate the fertilizer for mula sufficiently with the soil to an swer every purpose. Of course, the ideal application for this land would be a smaller amount of the constitu ents suggester acompanied by a good top dressing with yard manure or com post. In the absence of manure we would advise the use of the formula suggested above. • • * GROWING CORN IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA. J. H. G., Clarkes ville, Ga., writes: Please send me a formula for mixing fertilizer for corn on northeast Georgia hillsides. "What is the meaning of the analysis 2-4-2 on commercial fertilizer? How deep should dynamite be put in the ground to blow up holes to set apple trees? An 8-3-3 formula should answer very well for corn on some of the richer hillside lands of northeast Georgia. If these lands are badly washed and eroded and no diversification of crops has been practice, it will be better to use a 9-3-4. Aji application of 500 pounds per acre should answer very well where this grade of material is applied. Ordi narily. in Georgia we speak of fertil izing formulas in this fashion: The first figure represents the phosphorus; the second the nitrogen, and the third, the potash. We judge that the meaning of the analysis about which you inquire is 2 per cent of nitrogen, 4 per cent of phosphorus and 2 per cent of potash. The practice of placing the nitrogen as the first element of the formula is followed in most states. In blasting holes for trees the dyna mite should be put down to a depth of three feet, and if you desire to blast out a good hole, it will be necessary to use as much as a stick. Of course, it is desirable that the ground be broken up sometimes to a depth of more than three feet, but It is not advisable that the earth be thrown out on top of the ground. Loosening the bottom of the hole is a good thing to do where trees are set as it enables the roots to develop and spread through the soil with greater ease. some pure-bred beef cattle, the move- I ment being promoted by Mr. H. J. Ver- | non. The men interested will meet next I week, perfect an organization and be I ready for business by the close of thia f year, at which time it is thought the county will be rid of the cattle tick. I The pure-bred stock will be purchased | immediately. At the meeting the organization will | decide on the breed wanted, and only registered stock will be purchased. PORTO RICAN GOV. HOME TO FATHER’S FUNERAL| (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, March 11.—With thi \ arrival of George R. Colton, governor o< Porto Rico, arrangements were complefr ed for the funeral today of his fathen Francis Colton, who died recently oi jaundice after an illness of several weeks. Mr. Colton, who was seventy* nine years old, for several years wai prominent in the railroad world. In 1864 he succeeded William Dean Howells al | United States consul at Venice. 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 corn, or one aid’ 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 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 RICHMOND - VIRGINIA 2B itKMfl' ilfi'ilfil Finish This Story A WORKMAN in an I H C ■L a. wagon factory was explaining the various stages of wagon construction to an interested visitor. Ha 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- f— dried and more thoroughly seasoned. It had retained the resinous sap which adds strength and toughness, while in the kiln-dried piece of lumber this sap had been drawn out by the too rapid application of heat. Every Stick of Lumber Used in IHC 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 eyo there was no difference between T1 these two pieces of lumber, but when put to the test there was a vast difference. So it is throughout the construe* tion of I H C wagons—Weber, Columbus, 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 IHC 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 suited to your work. See them for literature and full information, or, write International Harvester Company of America (Incorporated) CHICAGO AMERICAN EENCE ORIGINAL AND GENUINE Full Weight, Full Size pf Wire, Full Length of Roll. it is full Our rolls are full length. The Put the gauge to our wire size. weight of our fence is full and heavy. Test, compare and judge. 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