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8 BIG MONEY IN CABBAGE By using our Oo«n Air and Hardy Frost Troof Cabbage Plants Our plants ar* large and stocky, and free of nut grass They will stand low temperatures and make heal* Satisfac tion or money refunded. Full count In each box Jersey and Charleston Wakefield. Succession snd Drumhead. 500 for 7.1c: 1.000 for SI.25; 5.000 for $5; 10.000 for $9- Order today the best Frost Proof Cabbage plants on the market from The Dixie Plant Co. Hawkinsville. Ga. agricultural jtttL Education -AM& Successful Farming ft. g>ouLE i THlt department rail meerjulip enaeaw to jurnvsn any information. Letters should be addressed to Vr. Andrew A!. Soule. president Stats Agricultural College. Athens, Oa. LEADING VARIETIES OF CORN BRANCH'S GENUINE RATTLES NAj*. WATERMELON SEED DMYWKST5AIM Carefully selected. Kept pure IH BUTCT STATES forty years. No other variety grown on plantation of 1500 acres. Pure seed impossible where different kinds are f rown. 1 oa, l5o—2 02. 25e—4 oa. 40o—t lb. 60c. lb. *1.00-6 lbs. $4.60—10 lbs. $8.60 delivered. Remit registered letter or money order. Send for Peed Annual. Msr.ua 1 on melon culture with all orders, hi I. MMCfl. Irn*lb. fo'ffiiUi foeitv. Eiartia. S. R. C. Mount Berry. Ga.. writes: What variety of corn would you sug gest for this section? Do you think the yield of corn or cotton is reduced the first year by carrying the seed 160 niiles to a new location? Which has proven best, close single rows or wide double rows, and putting the manure in drill or broadcasting it? Should the fertilizer be applied before planting or during cultivation? LEDBETTER “ONE SEED” PLANTER Plants peanut*, large or small, shelled or unshelled, •too com, cotton, peas, etc., with certainty and regu larity. Less seed, larger crops. Write for booklet. 852 Southern plow company. Danas. f*»w SWEET POTATO PLANTS Now Ready. NANCY HALL, Improved Red Providence and Porto Rico Yam. Plants, $1.75. per 1.000. Prompt shipment, safe delivery and plants true to name. Guaranteed. W. W. Morris. Fort Green, Fla. FOR SALE Nancy Tlall and Dooly Yam Sweet Potato Slips, $1.50 per thousand. Missionary and Excelsior Strawberry plants, $2.00 per thousand. Southern F*lant Company V.. J. flawkins. Mgr. Plant City, Fla. Summerour’s Half and Half Cotton Seed Pure and carefully selected. It is the high est linting cotton kn«*wn, besides producing more seed cotton than other varieties. It is drouth resisting, matures early, and picks easy. Price $1.50 per bu. JAS. W. SUMMExtOUR. Route 4, Loganville. Ga. EGGS From Best Stmiu of Buff, Wbito and Black Orpingtons, Rhode "Island Reds,.White Wyan- dottes, Barred Rocks, White. Brown and Buff Leghorns, Black Minorcas. Buff Cochins, Ban tams. Indian Runner Ducks* Bronze Turkeys. One to three dollars per sitting, six to twelve dollars per hundred. My three dollars per pitting and twelve dollars per hundred eggs are from show birds with prize-winning records. Also stock of all above breeds. EngPsh Berkshire pigs, six weeks old. $3.00 to $5.00 each, April delivery. College View Farm Route One College Park, Ga. FARM FfcNIit 4! INCHES HIGH 100 other styles of Farm, Poultry and Lawn Fencing direct from factory at save-the- dealer’s-profit-prices. Our large catalog is free. "iHSELSAN SB0S. Em 45 Mancie, bid 21 CENTS A ROD Fish Bite Like Hungry Wolves, Fill your Nets Traps or Trot Lines it you bait with MAGIC-FISH-LURE. Best bait ever used for attracting • all kinds of fish. Write for price list to-day and get a box to help introduce it. Agents'wanted. J. F. GREGORY, Dept. 2, St. Louis, Mo. Marvel» Fish Hooks SSSK* fcws tins/at ■XRVEl HOOK CO.. Dijji. SI, CLINTON. IOWA The choice of a variety of corn or cotton is a very important matter, and as you no doubt know, there is no one best variety. We think, however, you will find a prolific variety best adapt ed for growth oq upland soils such as you have at Mount Berry. We would suggest that you make your selection of seed from Marlboro, Hastings, Cocke's, Whatleys or Batts. W'e have tested * these varieties on the college farm and they have made very good yields for several years past. It Is best to secure seed from as near the locality where you expect to grow the corn as possible. Among the varieties of cotton which have given good re sults in our demonstration field are Culpepper, Uncle Sam, Layton, Cleve land, Russell, Middleton, Mortgage Lif ter, and some strains of Cook which have been selected with the idea of resistance to anthracnose. We thins, you would want a fairly early variety for your locality. In seeding prolific corn we’have found it desirable to plant in four-foot rows and put the plants rather close to gether. 1 think the same suggestion holds fairly well with cotton. The largest yields with cotton Have come from leaving two stalks per hill in stead of one. It is true the plants will not grow so large as where only one is left, but tfye two stalks will outyield a single one. By all means put the manure under the drill row at th$ time of planting unfess you have a very large amount of it. If you can use as much as- ten tons per acre, you may broadcast it. Mix the manure and fertilizer well together by means of a bull tongue before planting the corn and cotton if you can possibly do so. Some fertilizer may be used as a side application, but ordinarily not •over 300 pounds will prove profitable. Accord ing to our experience nitrate of soda, may often be used as a top dressing at the rate of 100 pounds per acre to advantage. * * * GROUND ROCK VERSUS RAW PHOSPHATE. R. O. H., Barnesville, Ga., writes: I would like your ideas on phosphate and what you think of using it In place of‘ acid. What would 1,200 pounds of phosphate, 600 pounds of cotton seed meal and 200 pounds of potash analyze? 5-muellekTcow-* Wanted Farmer or Farmer’s I with rig in every County to intro- »Son.t duce and sell family and Veteri- nary Fctnedie*. Fxtracls and Spices. Fine pay. One man made S90 one v/eeV. We mean busi* b and yrant a man in your County. Write u». i-Mc-llrr C«J3epl. 36 Cedar Rapids,Iowa ahores-i Elegant Thin Model vTa’r Watch $319 Hunting cue beautiful.* engraved, gold finished throughout, stem wind and stem set, fitted with jeweled American lever movement, guaranteed 20years, with tong rold finished chain for Ladies, vest chain or fob for Gents. $3. Guaranteed 20 Tears IK VOL SEE IT TOC Tr'II.L CUT IT.LetuessnditC.O.D.forexaalna. tVon a; your nearest exrrees office, and If you think It a bargain and equal in appearance to any fliXO gold flashed watch pay tho express agent our •pecitl sales price IC.50. Mention Iffou want Lid es\ Men’tor Boys’ site. Diamond Jewelry Co,,£38, l3J»lV.H»dUon St.Chicago.life Judging from the statement made In your letter, you refer to floats when you speak of pjiosphate. The ground raw rock, as you no doubt know, con tains the equivalent of 25 to 30 per cent of phosphoric acid, but it is In a, much less quickly available form than where the rock has been treated with acid. The best results from us ing phosphate rock have occurred on soils 'which contain an abundance of vegetable matter. If' -your land is sandy or has been cultivated without due regard to crop rotation for a good many years, we doubt the advisability of using floats. By enriching your land through the turning under of green crops or applications of yard manure you may bring it into condition where this material will answer fairly well as a source of phosphoric acid, but it will take you several years to accom plish this. Where the ground rock is used it should be applied in amounts ranging from 500 to 1,000 pounds per acre and upwards. A mixture of 1,200 pounds of acid phosphate, 600 pounds of cotton seed meal, and 200 pounds of muriate of potash will contain approx imately 207 pounds of avilable phos phoric acid, 30 pounds of available ni trogen and 112 pounds of available pot ash. Its percentage composition woulci be 10.3 per cent of phosphoric acid, 2.9 per cent of nitrogen and 5.G per cent of potash. This formula, would an swer very well on sandy land, but is higher in phosphorus ana potash than would be required on ciay soils, and somewhat lower in nitrogen. * * * GROWING SUGAR CANE ON DRAKE LANDS. L. S. R., Brunswick, Ga., writes: I would like to have a good fertilizer formulp. for sugar cane on dark sandy loam soil with fair drainage and clay subsoil. It has been cultivated for about twenty years. A variety of formulas may be used under sugar cane, but in our judgment one of the best consists of a mixture of 600 pounds of high-grade acid phos phate. 300 pounds of nitrate of soda, 100 pounds of cotton seed meal and 100 pounus of -sulphate or muriate of pot ash. This makes an application of 1,100 pounds per acre. Such a fertilizer would carry about 86 pounds of available phosphoric acid. 50 pounds of nitrogen and 59 pounds of potash. It would an alyze approximately 8 per cent of avail able phosphoric acid, 4.5 per cent of available nitrogen and 4.5 per cent of available potash. Land which has been cultivated for a considerable number of years is not likely to contain a large amount of nitrogen, yet nitrogen is very Important in the production of a large crop of cane, and therefore a high per cent of nitrogen has been advised. Sandy loamy soil is not likely to be rich and so a fairly heavy application has been suggested. This formula has been used to considerabe advantage under climatic and soil conditions similar to those pre vailing in your section of the state. COMPARISON OF NITROGEN CAR- I RIKRS. J. E. W.. Dawson, Ga.. writes: I would like to know the relative differ ence between sulphate of ammonia and high-grade blood as a source of nitrogen for fertilizing purposes. Which is the most desirable to use? GROCERY PRICES THAT SAVE YOU MOHEY-BY MAIL Don't pay fabulous prices for gr carries! Got letter goods than your dealer sells for to 1-:; less money. We buy in carloads and sell direct to you for less than your dealer pays at wholesale. Our tremendous business makes this possible. We guarantee full weights and highest quality on everything in the grocery lino. All our goods examined and passed by state food expert before shipment. rut out the middleman's profit -buy all your groceries direct from us. Money back if dissatisfied. Specials This Week A! Wholesale Prices Sulphate of ammonia, you no doubt know, is a by-product of gas works, and contains about 20 to 21 per cent of nitrogen. It is easily soluble in water and does not readily leach out of the soil, hut it is quickly absorbed by or ganic matter and retained in the soil until converted into nitrogen. It un dergoes nitrification very quickly, and since some plants have the power of absorbing small quantities of ammonia salts, it is regarded as a very desirable form. "of. nitrogen. Tt is used to ad vantage on soils which contain a fair amount of* lime. As our Georgia soils are deficient in this element, it will likely give its best results when ap plied on lands to which applications of pulverized rock have been made within the past few months. Blood is bne of the most desirable forms of organic nitrogen. It is a by-product of slaugh ter bouses, and when freed of impurities contains about 14 per cent of nitrogen. It undergoes fermentation veify readily in the soil and is one of the most valu able sources of organic nitrogen. A very high per cent of this material is available to the first crop. The choice of these materials will be based to some extent on their relative cost in propor tion to the available plant ^oOd they contain. Where soils are deficient in lime or where this element can not be supplied liberally, we are disposed to recommend the blood provided its cost was not greatly in excess of the sul phate of ammonia. * * * BLEEDING OF A SCUPPER NON G VINE C. B. P.,' Moultrie, Ga., writes: In January I cut off several large limbs from my scuppernong grape vine and it has been bleeding ever since. I put clay around the cut parts, but it has not helped it any. Is there danger of the vine bleeding to death and what would you suggest doing? What is the best thing to use for spraying peach and plum trees and when should the work be done? The most effective way to stop t^e bleeding of the freshly cut ends of a scuppernong grape vine is through fir ing. This is best accomplished by the use of a red hot iron which may be heated in a charcoal brasier. The seer- ing should be thoroughly done. Then the ends of the limbs should be wrapped with specially prepared cloth which is saturated with beeswax. Some times a plaster cast is made and used over the end of the limb to good advantage. Scuppernong vines bleed very freely and sometimes will exhaust themselves, es pecially where they are large and have a very vigorous root system. The meth od described has been used with success by us in treating these vines. For the plum and peach one should spray for the curculio as the calyx or shucks are shedding and again three weeks later. Arsenate of lead may be used. This may be added to Bordeaux for the second and third applications. For the San Jose scale the concentrated or boiled lime—sulphur solution should be used. Ordinarily where there is a bad infestation two applications should be made, one in November and the other in February. For the bark beetle cut out and burn all infested limbs during the winter For the borer 'wrap the trees at the surface of the ground with brown paper during the first week in August and pack the earth up around the trees. Worm the trees miring the last of Ocober. . * * * A BALANCED RATION FOR MULES. W. M. S.. Buford, Ga., writes: I would like the proportion of corn, oats and cotton seed meal to make a bal anced ration for mules, also the neces sary amount per day for an 800-pound mule. Should the corn and oats be ground? iGEORGIA’S LOSING GAME; FACTS FOR WIDE-AWAKE farmer and family BY H. CL HASTINGS. Georgia and, in fact, all the distinc tively cotton-growing states east of the Mississippi river, are playing a losing game in cotton-growing opera tions. An analysis of the situation shows that Georgia, instead of being proud of her record as an agricultural state, should hang her head in shame. Recently published statistics, based largely on figures from the state de partment of agriculture, show that the state of Georgia purchased during 1912 corn, oats, hay, meat, dairy and poultry products to the amount of $172,496,000. As against this we have our one cash crop of cotton, which on a liberal basis of estimate, brought in for lint and seed combined, $135,000,000, leaving a debtor balance against the state for the year 1912 of $37,496,000. The largest single item of these enor mous purchases was for corn. $58,930,000 going to western and northern states for corn that could have been grown at home for one-half or less the amount paid the merchant. No man can afford to buy dollar corn to grow even 15-cent cotton with and there are mighty few* years when cot ton ever reaches 15 cents or corn bought on credit from merchant or grain dealer is less than a dollar a bushel. The Iowa-Kansas-Nebraska farmer is a comparatively wealthy man, rides around in his automobile and can af ford to, while in considerable degree the Georgia cotton-grower pays the gaso line bill. What makes the difference in finan cial status between the Iowa-Kansas farmer and the Georgia. Alabama yr South Carolina cotton-grower? Simply this: The Iowa-Kansas farmer pays no man a profit, nor any railroad a transportation charge on the supplies for his family and the food for his live stock. The Georgia cotton-grower pays a half dozen profits and brokerage fees and a railroad or transportation charge on practically everything that his fami ly and live stock consume. How many readers of The Journal re alize how much a bushel of corn is “loaded” with profits and legitimate charges when it reaches a Georgia farm? First in the procession comes the Iowa or Kansas corn-growing farmer. He sells his surplus corn to a grain buyer in his nearest railroad town. He gets the cost of growing his corn plus a profit. The local grain buyer stores it in a grain elevator and there is a charge against that corn for handling and storage. This local grain buyer in turn sells the corn to a wholesale grain dealer in Kansas City or some other western city at a profit. Usually the corn is shipped to Kansas City, again handled and stored. This means a freight charge and another handling and storage charge against this corn. The Kansas City dealer has a broker in Atlanta who sells corn for him. Mr. Atlanta broker gets busy, goes and Sees the Atlanta wholesale grain dealer and if they can agree on a price, the trade is closed. The Kansas City dealer gets a profit, the Atlanta broker his broker age fee and when the corn gets in the Atlanta dealer's warehouse the freight charges for the long haul from Kansas City to Atlanta are charged up against it. • j The Atlanta dealer in turn sells that j corn to your merchant plus a profit for the Atlanta house. When it reaches your merchant, freight charges from Atlanta are again charged up against that corn. You go to your merchant to buy.some corn, some corn that should have been planted 0Y1 some of those acres you planted in sorry cotton seed last spring, the kind that never makes over 200 pound? of lint per acre in the best of season^. He has this western corn in stock, loaded with all this accumula tion of original cost, profits, storage and freight charges. Your merchant adds his profit on top of all these others, pos sibly 10 per cent if you are paying cash, anywhere from 20 to 30 per cent if you get it on credit. That 40 or 45 cents a bushel corn .on the Iowa or Kansas farm becomes $1 to I $1.25 corn when it reaches your farm. I It’s no use to say “thieves and rob- j bers,” for all these charges are legiti- j mate and the freight rates on this class of products are very low. These purchases runing up into the j hundreds of millions are hut the aggre- j gate of hundreds of thousands of indl- , vidual purchases. John Smith buys aj hundred dollars’ worth. Tom Sanders is responsible for $200 or more, and so j on through the list of practically every 1 farming communty in Georgia. Is it | any wonder that the cotton-grower is so seldom able to “pay out?” The wrtier has been intensely inter ested in the encouragement of the Boys’ Corn clubs of Georgia. Why? Because j the working out of this corn-growing problem means the saving to the future FERTILIZER FACTS No.- 4 SOIL CONSERVATION Conserving the soli means, In the first place, the saving of the soil from being washed away, and from being worn out by constant cultivation and cropping; from checking out it3 richness without making any return. If you have $10,000 in a baqk and keep on drawing checks on it without making any deposits the time will soon come when your checks will be dishonored, “turned down,” with the Cashier’s notice on the back—“Not sufficient funds.” What then? Why you are just broke and ready to go into bankruptcy. But conservation means something more than sav ing what the soil already has. it means also to add to its share of plant food, just as you would make deposits in the bank, always making heavier deposits in It than the amount of the checks you draw on it, thus causing your credit balance to increase con stantly instead of constantly decreasing. That is the logic of farming, just as it is in any other business— Always put in more than you take out. WHAT IS A RICH SOIL The richness of a soil, other things being favor able, depends on the depth and quantity of the sub stance that scientists call Humus but which I will call decayed, or rotted, leaves, roots, nuts, etc., which have accumulated on the land. It is what gives the top soil its dark color, compared with the subsoil. Formerly it was all alike—subsoil and top soil. That is Nature’s way to make a top soil. The farmer should adopt Nature’s own methods, improve upon them and supplement them. Not every farmer realizes the ways and means by which he may add vegetable matter, that contains so much plant food, to the soil. He does not consider the almost and sometimes altogether, wasted mate rials for soil building and soil enriching, that abound more or less on every farm. STABLE MANURE The first thing one thinks of in this connection is Stable Manure, the fundamental resource on every farm that works horses and mules, raises cattle and hogs and poultry. Part of the richness of the soil is checked out by the crops. Some of the richness is sold off in the form of cotton lint, cotton oil, butter, beef, pork, etc., but by far the greater part goes into the manure, and this manure is what the farmer should save to the uttermost; and not only save, but increase its amount by every means in his power. One of the most obvious ways to increase it is to raise more livestock, more grain and forage to feed them. The livestock, such as cattle, hogs, chickens, etc., should be fed to fatness and sold off tije farm. The manure from well-fed cattle fed on cotton seed meal and hulls, should be worth to the farmer well nigh all that the meal consumed could have sold for in the market, and the receipts from the animals sold off would be very largely clear profit. It is a fact that the manure from fattening cattle on cotton seed meal and hulls—mind you, solid and liquid, carefully saved and properly handled, is worth all that the meal cost, and the farmer gets as profit the flesh put on the beef cattle and the butter from the milch cows. But don't feed cotton seed—feed the cotton seed meal and hulls. 1 MATERIALS GOING TO WASTE Look at the leaves and twigs from the trees in and around the farmer’s yard. They are rich In plant food and humus-making material (humus, you re member, is rotted vegetable and animal matter). A ton of dry oak leaves is about equal in plartt food value to a ton of average stable manure. So when you add a ton of such leaves to a ton or more of sta ble manurq (in the stable or lot) you aro not reducing the strength of the manure so much as you are add ing to the quantity of the whole. I have never seen too much litter of this sort used for littering a stable lot. Look at the forests near by, the surface covered with leaves that have fallen and have been falling for ages, making the soil of the forest richer and richer. Gather these leaves—the trees will take care of themselves—and haul to your stable and' stock yards, to be walked over, trodden down, rooted up by hogs, and after a few months haul out and scatter In your furrows. Look about you, Mr. Farmer! Rich ness is lying around loose, littering the road, the lawn, the hedges and fence corners, the nearby road way. Get these into your barnyard, or pile them into broad pens, sprinkle with a little slaked lime, and keep moist, but not leaching. ASHES AND HEN ROOSTS What about ashes? The good wife, who generally bosses the garden and the fowl yard, knows that there is a very close relation between ashes and chicken manure and the garden and flower yard, and she will doubtless see that all are utilized. Chicken manure may be gathered up three times a week and put in barrels. Don’t put lime with animal manure of any sort. A word of caution: Do not let your stable manure—that from the stalls—lie out in loose piles, exposed to sun and winds and bleaching rains. If not ready to haul out to the fields, pile in compact heaps or pens and put a rough board or other cover ing over the top. It should be kept moist, but not leaching. Don’t let it get hot enough to epok an egg. THE CONCLUSION OF THIS WHOLE MATTER. I have often said, and I steadfastly believe, that an acre of soil may be literajly scraped off by means of a road scraper down to the rrd clay itself, and then made more productive than it ever was, by sowing in cowpeas with 250 lbs. to 300 lbs. of commercial fer tilizers t6 start it the first year, and returning to It the manure produced by a fattening animal fed on the cowpeas, hay and other crops grown on that acre. That is a bold statement, but I believe it firmly, not stating the time, but in less than ten years. That is the way old Dame Nature, makes rich soil; but hav ing plenty of time she has not worked in a hurry. That isn’t her way. Griffin, Ga, R. J. REDDING. Write for Bulletin, sent free on request. SOIL IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE Southern Fertilizer Association, Atlanta, Ga. •J.' 1I»r. Host Granulated Sugar... .$1.14 .100 lbs. Be>t Granulated Sugar.. .. 4.75 Ko. 10 pall Snowdrift (lard)..., .. .87 9 cakes Lenox Lmmlry soap 29 2 regular si/e packages Fearlino.. .05 No. 2 size can Piedmont Hold brand Tomatoes ... 10 1 dozen No. 2 size cans Piedmont Hotel brand Tomatoes 1.00 1-lb. package Victor Toy Oats 08 1 lb. ’Fancy Full Head Ilice. 10c value 08 5 lbs. Fancy Full Head Rice, 50c value 39 MAKE UP A TRIAL ORDER FROM 7 lb*. Pure Corn Grits $ .25 15 size package* Grape Nuts 12 3(t-oz. ‘package Fancy Seeded Rais ins, 15c value 09 10 lbs. Western Irish Potatoes . .. .17 1 can Piedmont Hotel Brand Soup <0 helpings) 10 1 dozen eans Piedmont Hotel Brand Soup (assorted) 1.00 1 lb. Santos Blend Strong Black Coffee (worth 30c) ..J .25 5 lbs Santos Blend Strong Black Coffee 1.15 THE ABOVE LIST AND MAIL TODAY. STOP THROWING AWAY YSIR MOSSY 'the above goods are only a few of the big values in our great, money sav ing price list. Every time you buy groceries without this price list you throw away money. You can pay the freigut and save your dealer’s profit. Tell your neighbors about our low prices. Get together and order in quantity lots and get still l°wer prices. Special discounts on large orders. Goods shipped immediately on receipt of order. We guarantee to save you money on everything In the grocery line, whether your order be large or small. Write today for our great Grocery Price List on everything needed for your table. Address Mail Order Department J L. W. ROGERS CO., 36 Pure Food Stores, Atlanta, Ga. A good ration for mules may be pre pared by mixing together 100 pounds of cotton seed meal. 150 pounds of oats and 500 pounds of corn and cob meal. Another ration which you will find very satisfactory may be prepared by mixing together 100 pounds of cotton seed meal, 400 pounds of oats and 250 pounds of shelled corn. The corn and oats may be ground together to good advantage and the meal mixed with them. This formu la should be fed at the rate of 1 5 pounds per day to a 1,000-pound mule doing fair ly hard work. If the teams are con stantly plowing or at work of equal stress, the ration may be increased to 17 or even 18 pounds per day. When doing light work or standing in the stable 8 to 10 pounds will be enough to feed. Of course, you should give in addition to the above 12 to 15 pounds of clean bright hay. * * * FERTILIZING AN APPLE ORCHARD. M. D. R., Cedartown, Ga., writes: I have about fifteen acres in apple trees and want to use some fertilizer. The trees are old and on low land. What kind and amount of fertilizer should I use to 140 pounds of calcium oxide. The amount of fertilizer applied will vary with the nature of the soil. On thin soils 600 to 1,000 pounds per acre should be used; on soils of natural fertility where the land has been well kept up through the use of cover crops, 300 to 400 pounds will be sufficient. If you have not fertilized your orchard for several years, we are disposed to think it will pay you to use. the larger amount suggested. Various formulas may be used for this purpose. We think an excellent one may be prepared by mixing together 125 pounds of sodium nitrate. 100 pounds, of sulphate of am monia, 725 pounds of acid phosphate. 180 pounds of potassium chloride and 870 pounds of kainit. Or you may use 600 pounds of cotton seed meal. 700 pounds of acid phosphate, 300 pounds of potassium chloride, and 400 pounds of laiinit. If the growth of the trees is not as vigorous as you desire, more nitrogen should be used. This may be added in the form of nitrate of soda. Cut down the kainit and increase the potassium chloride. Use this formula i at the rate of 10 to 15 pounds per tree, depending on their size and vigor. ♦ * * GROWING CORN ON SANDY LAND. I C. T. P., Augusta, Ga.. writes: We are preparing about twenty acres of ground for corn and can not manure farmers of Georgia hundreds of millions of dollars in clean, cold cash. According to Prof. J. Phil Campbell, state superintendent of Boys’ Corn clubs, the boys have, increased the corn yield of Georgia by *$30,000,000 in the last five years, an average of $6,000,000 a year. These boys have to kee-p books on their crops and know exactly what it costs per bushel to grow corn. The aveVage cost per bushel of the boys’ crops is about 40 cents; better corn than their fathers pay $1 for at the merchant’s. The real reason for the purchase of | these hundreds of millions of dollars’! worth of supplies is the failure of the j grown men farmers of Georgia to do their common sense duty in the produc- \ tion of corn and other home supplies. Are the / grown up” farmers of Geor- j gia willing to acknowledge that they have less brains, backbone and muscle than these Georgia boys eighteen years of age or less? Now, just two questions as a foun- ! dation for some thinking: Did you ever see a coton-growing farmer who buys all or most all of his grain and supplies that was not reg ularly “hard up?” Did you ever see a real farmer, one who grows all or practically all of his grain, hay and supplies, a farmer that “lives at home and boards at the same place,” that is ever “hard up.” unless through some accident or ^misfortune over which he had no control? A careful thinking over these two questions and an honest answer to them will show us all the way out. We are fully aware that this radical change can’t come about all in one year, but if each reader of The Journal will make 100 bushels or more extra corn this year, save an extra ton or so of hay or forage, fatten a hog or two, it will make a vast difference in farm finances at the end of the year. with the use of a formula containing’ 1,000 pounds of acid and 500 each of meal and kainit. We used 4 00 pounds to the acre. We’ make a fine stalk. Do you think it befft to use more acid and less potash? It is a,..great pleasure to us if we are fortunate enough to be of service to you in the matter of improving your farm practice. A formula such as you contemplate using would contain about 193.5 pounds of phosphoric acid, 4 3 pounds of nitrogen and 114 pounds of potash. Its percentage composition would he 9.16 per cent of phosphoric acid, 2.16 per cent of nitrogen and 5.7 per cent of potash. If you now make an abundance of stalk, we are inclined to think this formula would answer very well for your land. In most instances more nitrogen would be desirable for a corn crop. This might be applied to good advantage in the form of nitrate of soda used as a top dressing at the rate of 100 pounds per acre. We would suggest that you aply the- nitrate at least two weeks before the corn bunches to tassel as a later application may tend to produce stalk at the expense of the grain. Suppose you try on a#eas of your land this year top dress ing with nitrate, and then on another section mix your fertilizer formula at the rate of 1,000 pounds of acid phos phate, 900 pounds of cotton seed meal and 100 pounds of muriate of potash. This will giye you a formula carrying about 9 per cent, of phosphorus, 2.8 per cen of nitrogen and 3.4 per cent of pot ash. This will give you a formula'car rying about 9 per cent of phosphofus. 2.8 per cent of nitrogen and 3.4 per cent of potash. This will give you a very good comparison between a relatively high and low potash formulas and the use of a higher per cent of nitrogen de rived from organic as compared with inorganic nitrogen. It will cost you very little to make the experiment sug gested on areas of several acres each, and we think you will gather some in formation therefrom that will be of benefit to you. Frankly we are inclined to think that the formula you propose using with nitrate of soda will prove more effective than the latter one sug gested. If you do not care to under take the comparison, we would advise that you stick o he first formula. it as much as we would like. Would like to know what kind and quantity of fertilizer to use. The land is sandy with clay subsoil. Had peas on it last year and cows pastured on it. We have a lot. of ground phosphate which we will use as a filler to mix with what ingredients you, might suggest. The land has been two-horse plowed followed with subsoiler. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY FOR ALL INJURIES AND DISEASES OF STOCK Apple trees require rather liberal fertilization, as they make a heavy draft on the‘plant food constituents of the soil. Trees in their full vigor of growth require per Rare for the devel opment of the fruit, foliage and new wood from 30 to 75 pounds of nitro gen, 7 to 18 pounds of phosphoric acid and 33 to 72 pounds of potash, and 38 The Old Reliable Dr. Porter’s Antiseptic Healing Oil discovered by an old R. R. Surgeon. Stops Bleeding, Heals at tbe same time, and causes hair to grow. Thousands of Farmers and Stockmen know it already, and n trial will convince ..you that DR. PORTER'S ANTISEPTIC HEALING OIL is the most wonderful Remedy ever discovered for Barbed Wire Cuts, Wounds. Sores, Galls, Thursb, Scratches, Cracked ITeel. Shoe Boils. Nails in Feet, Warts, Mange on Dogs, etc. it will heal n gall while the horse is being work ed. Removes Warts that other remedies won’t remove. Continually people are finding new uses for this famous old Remedy. Sold by nearly all Druggists. If your Druggist hasn’t It, send us 50c in stamps for medium size, or $1.00 for large size, /'and it will be sent by Parcel Post. Money refunded If not satisfac tory. Wo mean it. PARIS MEDICINE CO.. 2624 Tine St., St. Louis, Mo., Makers of Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic, recognised for SO years as tho standard General Strengthening Tonic, also Laxative Bromo Quinine used the world over to Cure a Cold la One Day,—(.Advt.) We would suggest that you mix 1,000 pounds of your floats or finely ground phosphate • rock with 500 pounds of the best grade of cotton seed meal you can obtain and 500 pounds of kainit. Use this formula at the rate of 1.000 puonds per acre. This will give you about 15 pounds of available nitrogen, and about 30 pounds of available potash per acre. The amount of floats suggested is the minimum application you can afford to use. /In fact, it would be better if you applied it at the rate of 1,500 pounds per acre. Scatter it broadcast over the ground and work in with a disk, and then use the cotton seed meal and pot ash directly under the drill row. Floats has given us fair results in some con tests conducted on the college farm, but ir. those instances where it has proven satisfactory considerable quantities of green manure have been applied to the soil. We hardly think it will prove as satisfactory as acid phosphate, save on those lands which have been made rich by heavy applications of yard manure or the turning under of leguminous crops. Of course, i\ becomes available after so long a time where organic mat ter is present to promote fermentation. If you desire to use floats as the basis of your formula the suggestion made we believe will prove as satisfactory as any combination of materials you could use. * * CRITICISM OF A GIVEN FORMULA. R. E. Milledgeville. Ga.. writes: We ! are contemplating using this year for cotton 1,1.00 pounds of acid phosnhnte. ; 700 pounds of ’cotton seed meal end ; 200 pounds of muriate of notash. What will this analyze? The land is red with black and gray top soil and we made ten bales on twenty acres last year Increased Cotton Yields Old Fashioned farming produced only about 220 pounds of cotton. The new Process—fertilizing with Virginia-Carolina High-Grade Fertilizers with good cultivation, frequently \ produces 500 to 1,000 Pounds Lint Cotton per acre Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co. Box 1117 RICHMOND - VIRGINIA ARTI5TIC DESIGNS WARD Cheaper than wood, combin ing strength and art. Write for Catalogue. FENCE COM PANY j for Lawns,Churches,Crate-1 3OX *360 DECATUR. IND.J teries and Pablic Gronnds. 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