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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1913.
Old Fashioned Spring
Tonic Is the Best
(iFrom National Health Journal.)
Statistics* show that not one person
Jn fifty emerges from the strains of
winter in good health. Due to various
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with impurities and the liver, kidneys
and bowels fail to perform their func
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"spring fever,” lost appetite, no energy
—in fact, feel sick without knowing the
cause.
For correcting these disorders there
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Get an ounce of kardene from any
druggist and dissolve in one-half pint
alcohol, then add one-half cupful sugar
and hot water to make a quart.
A tablespoonful before each meal
scon rids the system of impurities,
clears the skin and restores the whole
body to its normal, healthy condition.
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W. W. X., Doerun. Ga.. writes: I
have three acres of land on which I
put 15 loads of lot manure, and I wish
to put 50u or 600 pounds of guano.
Please tell me the best tor corn,
also tell me how to manure my land
for cotton. I have been using from
200 to 300 pounds per acre and making
about a half bale, but I want to man
age it so as to make a bale per acre.
The application of fifteen tons of lot
manure to three acres of land should
put it in good physical condition for
the production of a crop of corn. You
do not state whether you have broad
casted the manure or not. There is no
I objection to this practice though we
! are inclined to think that where one has
not over five loads to use per acre that
it is best to scatter it along the drill
row. Corn, as you know, is a gross
feeding plant and requires more liberal
fertilization ' than cotton. We would
suggest that you use a formula con
taining 10 per cent of phosphorus, 3
per cent of nitrogen, and 4 to 5 per
cent of potash. The sandier the land
| the more potash which should be ap-
! plied. We would put 400 pounds under
! the drill row at the time of planting
| and use 200 pounds as a side applica-
! tion. The side application should be
put on thirty days or so after the corn
, is planted. The too late use of a side
application will not prove efficient in
increasing the yield. If you have no
vegetable matter available to use on
| your cotton land, you will need to use
a fairly high-grade fertilizer. We
would suggest a 9-3-4 for sandy soils.
Put 300 pounds under the drill row and
use 200 pounds as a side application.
Remember that, constant surface culti
vation of the corn and the selection of
disease free seed are very important
matters.
* * *
CROPPING AS EFFECTED BY TYPE
OF SOIL.
H. C. B., Augusta, Ga., writes: I am
sending you some samples of soil taken
from my 110-acre farm, and would like
j to know what vegetation this soil is
; best adapted to, and what . fertilizer
the land needs. I expect to plant corn
and cotton on most of the land.
The darkest soil sent in would, ac
cording to our judgment, contain the
highest per cent of vegetable matter,
and therefore is more likely to be bet
ter adapted for corn than cotton. Corn,
as you no doubt know, requires a rich
er soil and does better oti soils con
taining a higher per cent of vegetable
matter than cotton. Of course, corn
land should be well drained to produce
this crop satisfactorily, and the same
is true of cotton. ' If the dark soil sent
ir. is from an area of low-lying land
resulting from overflow its producing
quality will no doubt be increased by
an application of pulverized lime rock
at the rate of one ton per acre.. The
lime may be put on now if you desire.
It is best scattered over the ground a
few days before planting the corn, and
should not be mixed with the fertilizer.
If you have grown corn on this la*d
before and find a tendency to produce
a large stalk and possibly not as much
grain as you desire, we would advise
the emphasis of phosphorus and, potash
in the fertilizer applied. If the land
just produces a normal stalk, then we
would use a heavier percentage of ni
trogen. We believe we could recommend
on these dark soils an application of
a formula containing 9 per cent of
phosphorus, 3 per cent of nitrogen and
5 per cent of potash for corn. On the
light soils which you expect to devote
to cotton, we think about an 8-3-4
should answer very well. If you have
noticed a tendency for the cotton to
rust, we would increase the potash. We
think the minimum application for corn
should be 600 pounds and for cotton
500 pounds. These amounts may be
somewhat high if your land is poorly
supplied with vegetable matter. Of
course, you understand that the profit
derived from fertilizer depends largely
on the condition of me soil to which
it is applied. Naturally, it must be in
good physical condition, and experi
ments have proven beyond question of
doubt that where liberal supplies of
vegetable matter can be used or where
the soil naturally contains this material
the best returns from fertilizer are se
cured. ■
• • •
LEADING VARIETIES OF CORX T .
J. B. D., Cochran, Ga., writes: What
variety of corn would you advise plant-
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ing on a dynamited area? The soil is
chocolate' loam and has been plowed
with a three-horse disc plow. Also please
tell me the best plan of preparation, cul
tivation and fertilization for corn.
As you no doubt know, there is no one
best variety of corn, but for soils in
your section of the state we think opr
experience justifies us in recommending
for general cultivation some of the pro
lific types. Whatley corn is produced
not far from your locality, and we be
lieve you will find it a useful sort to
test. The Cocke’s Prolific, Hastings,
Batts and Marlboro are all good stand
ard upland sorts of the prolific type.
Farmers generally find it best to secure
their seed from as near the locality in
which they expect to plant it as possi
ble. Therefore, we would advise you to
look Into the local seed supply very care
fully before purchasing elsewhere. In
planting corn it is first essential to pre
pare the land with care and to a good
depth. This you seem to have done.
We would next advise you to lay your
land off in rows four feet apart. If
yard manure can be incorporated un
der the drill row it will be a great ad
vantage. If you cannot do this secure
leaf hiold or litter from the woods. Sev
eral loads to the acre will prove help
ful. After opening the furrow and put
ting in the manure or leaf mold scat
ter thereon about 400 pounds of a for
mula containing about 10 per cent of
phosphorus, 3 per cent of nitrogen and
4 per cent of potash. Mix the manure
and fertilizer well with the subsoil,
draw the furrows together and plant
your corn on the level or in a very light
water furrow. Give shallow surface
cultivation as long ’nto the season as
possible. You may use one or two-horse
cultivators, as you find most conven
ient and no plowing of the ground with
a turning plow after the corn is plant
ed should be permitted. A weeder will
be found helpful in breakinng the crust
and helping the corn to get out of the
soil and in destroying small weeds in
the early part of the season. You should
use a single-horse cultivator, muzzle the
mule and cultivate the corn until after
the silking and tasseling period is over.
By so doing you conserve moisture and
help to mature the crop more perfctly.
* * *
FERTILIZING CORN AND COTTON.
B. F. C., Danburg, Ga., writs: I would
like to know the best formula to use
on sandy loam slightly buckshot land
for cotton and corn. Also state the best
preparation and cultivation for corn on
black loamy upland that was broad
casted with stable manure and worked
in cotton last year.
On sandy, loamy soil it will be best
to use a formula for cotton containing
about 8 to 9 per cent of phosphoric
acid, 2.6 to 3 per pent of nitrogen, and
3 to 4 per cent of potash. The potash
should be increased even more if there
is a tendency to rust on the part of
the cotton. For corn we would recom
mend a formula containing 9 to 10 per
cent of phosphoric acid, 3 to 3.5 per
cent of nitrogen and 4 to 5 per cent of
potash. We would be disposed to use
at least 100 pounds more of fertilizer
per acre under com than under cot
ton. In other words, if you use 400
pounds under cotton, use 500 pounds un
der corn. On land which is low in vege
table matter put about 300 pounds un
der the drill row at the time of plant
ing, and use the balance as a side ap
plication. On black, loamy land intend
ed for corn tho use of a fairly high-grade
formula is recommended. A 9-3-4 should
answer well for this purpose. Black
land generally contains rrfore vegetable
matter than other types of soil, and if
there is a tendency to produce stalk at
the expense of grain on this soil cut
down the nitrogen and increase the phos
phorus and potash. As you no doubt
know, corn requires more liberal fer
tilization than cotton because it makes a
heavier draft on the food supply of the
soil.
A good strain of King Cotton which
has been selected with care and which
is free from disease is one of the earliest
varieties to mature which you can grow.
It may not yield as abundantly as some
other types, but where you are seek
ing early maturity we can recommend
it. The Dongola cotton has given good
results in some sections. It has not
commended itself to us as much as some
other strains, however. As you no doubt
know, varieties of cotton are better
adapted to some localities than others,
and there is no reason why a farmer
should make a change . In his variety
unless the cotton shows an undue amount
of disease or is failing to yield satis
factorily.
* * *
MANAGEMENT OF BLACK, WAXEY
SOILS.
J. A., Boston, Ga., writes: I am now
turning a bottom of black, waxey land.
Will a commercial fertilizer be of any
benefit, and what grade shbuld be used?
I have turned a plat of same kind of
soil that is completely soded with John
son grass. What shall I plant on this
for best hay mixture? Is the yellow
prolific corn weevil-proof?
The black, waxey soil to which you
refer is quite likely to be acid, and we
believe you will find it desirable to
use the pulverized lime rock on it at
the rate of one tone per acre. We think
you will find the raw rock very sat
isfactory, but you should be sure in
purchasing the same to obtain a guar
antee with it that it runs high in car
bonate of lime and relatively low in
magnesia. After plowing the land scat
ter the lime over the surface and work
in with a harrow. Two weeks later
plant.either cowpeas or soy beans since
you desire to make hay therefrom.
We would fertilize the peas or beans
at the time of planting with a 9-4 for
mula, using 300 pounds per acre. Bot
tom lands, while they may be rich in
vegetable matter, are often poorly sup
plied in the mineral elements mention
ed. We would advise you to use a legume
on the land which is overrun with John
son grass, for we know of nothing that
will tend to hold it in check and smother
it out to better advantage than a legu
minous crop. Besides that, the combi
nation of this grass with a legume makes
a hay of extraordinary fine quality.
Yellow prolific corn is not wteevil-proof.
There is, in fact, weevil-proof corn.
Cocke’s prolific is one of the best for
this purpose on account of its hard,
flinty character. If you have not tried
it we would suggest that you experi
ment with it. If you will put your
corn in a galvanized iron crib and treat
with carbon bisulphide the weevil can
be destroyed, and this is the only sat
isfactory way of dealing with this trou
ble.
• * •
WHICH FERTILIZER IS BEST?
G. I. S., Omega, Ga., writes: I have
a piece of ground that I want to plant
in cotton. It is hard, pebbly and with
clay subsoil. W r hat would be a good
fertilizer to use? Would a 9-3-5 be all
rikht? What would 2,2250 pounds of 16
per cent acid phosphate, the same amount
of kainit and 1,500 pounds jf cotton
seed meal analyze?
A 9-3-4 should answer very well for
cotton on land such as you describe, un
less it is in very bad physical condi
tion and has been run down h^ a fail
ure to rotate crops. We hardily think
it necessary to use 6 per cent of potash
in Vour formula unless cotton tends to
rust badly. Two thousand two hundred
and fifty pounds of 16 per cent acid
phosphate, 2,250 pounds of kainit and
1,500 pounds of cotton seed meal mixed
together would contain approximately
(if high-grade meal is used) 397.5
pounds of phosphoric acid, 311 pounds
of potash and 96.7 pounds of nitrogen.
Its percentage composition would be
about 6.6 per cent of available phos
phoric acid, 1.54 per cent of available
nitrogen and 5.2 per cent of available
potash. This formula is low in phos
phoric acid and in nitrogen, and rela
tively high in potash. Cut out some
of the kainit and increase the cotton
seed meal or use a little sulphate of
ammonia, nitrate of soda or blood
the mixture to increase the per cent of
nitrogen. You should also increase the
quantity of acid phosphate. You can.
of course, let the nitrogen stand much
as it is now and put on additional ni
trogen in the form of top dressing in
the early part of the growing season.
We do not think this would be as good
practice, however, as to make the ad
justment suggested.
* * * ^
GROWING COTTON ON NEW LAND.
R. C. S., Waleska, Ga., writes:
would like directions for growing cot
ton on new land with three or four
inches of soil which is the product of
old field pines with red clay subsoil
five or six feet deep. How deep should
I plow and what guano and how much
per acre must I apply?
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Bilious, throbbing headache
means Bowels are clogged
and liver stagnant
You're bilious; you have a throbbing
sensation in your head, a bad taste in
your mouth, your eyes burn, your skin
is yellow, with dark rings under your
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you feel ugly, mean and ill-tempered.
Your system is full of bile not properly
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cleaning up inside. Don’t continue being
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never grip© or sicken. ^
It is very desirable that you plow
the land intended for cotton to a fairly
good depth. We would say to begin
with about eight inches. Do not at
tempt to subsoil it, however, at this
season of the year. Prepare a fine
seed bed. We think it better to break
the land with a turning plow rather
than to lay It off in furrows as is the
common practice. After preparing the
seed, bed secure all the litter you can
from the woods or from the stable lot
and piit in the drill rows which
had probably best be made about four
feet apart. We would leave two
stalks of cotton in each place about
eighteen inches apart. Two stalks will
not grow as large as one. but the two
will yield a larger quantity of lint. At
least this has been our experience.
After you have put all the litter in
the furrow you can possibly scatter
the fertilizer over it at the rate of 500
pounds per acre. We think an 8-3-:
will be about right for your location
and on the type of soil you describe.
Give shallow surface cultivation, and
keep it up as late in the season as
practicable. A top dressing may be
needed later on but this will depend
somewhat on the season; It is impor
tant that you select a good variety of
seed, choosing a strain which is free
from disease and which has given the
best results in your section. If you
can not secure any vegetable matter to
use in the drill row. we would be dis
posed to put only 300 pounds in the
ground at the time of planting and use
200 pounds as a side application.
The above suggestions ar e made for
the production of a fair crop. If you
desire to raise an extraordinary crop,
heavier applications should be made.
RO
A COMMENDABLE EFFORT AT
TAT ION.
H. A. C., Adrian, Ga., writes: I have
some light sandy loam land which was
broken eight inches deep in January
The land was planted last year in corn
and cowpeas, and some in corn and vel
vet beans. I -want to plant it this sea
son in cotton. What kind of fertilizer
would you advise and how should it be
applied?
HAMS AND BACON ARE
PLENTIFUL AT QUITMAN
QUITMAN, Ga., March 27.—It was
feared last year when hog cholera visited
Brooks, in common with other Georgia
counties, that the supply of bacon would
be materially cut down when the market
ing season began this spring'. But pres
ent indications are that about the same
amount of cured meat will be marketed
here as in past seasons. Up to date
Powers & Co., of Quitman, have bought
from* the farmers, 190,000 pounds of cured
bacon, at an average price of .11 cents a
pound. They estimate that they will
Handle fully lou.uuu pounds during the
season. This is about the amount of
bacon shipped from this point last sea
son.
The Brooks county farmer who raises
enough bacon lor his own use. and some
for market does not think of the perform
ance as anything remarkable, yet it is
affirmed that Brooks county raises more
bacon for market than all the rest of the
state combined. In addition to tne cured
meat sold there are from fifty to 100 car
loads of live hogs sold and shipped here
every season, at a price averaging from
$l,uuu to $1,200 for each carload. Last
season the meat cured and on the hoof
that was sold brought $65,000 to the coun
ty, not counting in the actual cash value
of the meat saved back to supply the
farms, or the by-products of lard and
sausage.
These Brooks county hams are deserv
edly famous; they are from hogs fed on
peanuts and have a flavor unsurpassed.
Every farmer who raises hogs plants
between his rows of corn a row of pea
nuts and after the corn is gathered the
hogs are turned into the fields to fatten
on the peanuts. In the fall a little corn
fed them. Hogs are never penned
here and are clean and healthy from
running in the pastures.
The bacon that has given the county
its reputation is very carefully cured.
After killing the meat is salted, the salt
well rubbed in, and laid skin side up, on
tables in the smoke house to cool over
night. Farmers who have not a regular
refrigerating plant on their places have
devised effective ways of using ice. They
get a block or two and lay it on a bed of
green pine boughs on the smoke nouse
ground. The meat is packed aroupd thU
ice closely, the skin side down this time,
and the joints all laid next to the ice.
The interstices in the carefully built pile
allow for ventilation and drainage; the
meat is covered over with pine boughs
and then with heavy canvas. Two thou
sand pounds of meat will keep thus two
weeks with the thermometer around 50,
and when uncovered it will be sweet and
dry. The meat when taken out has the
loose salt ribbed off and plenty of pow
dered red pepper rubbed in. It is hung
and smoked with oak and pine boughs.
The result is a ham or side of bacon
firm and sweet and of a flavor that will
compare favorably with any meat pro
duced. When baked according to the
recipes of the Brobks county housewives
it is one of the most delivious dishes Im
aginable arid one never forgotten.
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LONDON, March 27—The prison expe
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in a statement issued by her this even
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ter of Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, the
leader of the suffragettes, was released
March 21, from Halloway prison, where
she was serving two months’ imprison
ment for window smashing.
During her incarceration she went on
a hunger strike. After three days she
was told she w r ould be subjected to forci
ble feeding. She had made preparations,
she said, to throw' things at the doctor,
but when six women attendants entered
she could not bring herself ' to attack
them.
FORCED HER TOWN.
The women seized her and forced her
down on the bed. “After this,” says Miss
Pankhurst, "the doctors came stealing
in. They had not the courage to show
themselves until I w T as securely held.”
Miss Pankhurst tried to keep her teeth
clinched but by the aid of steel instru
ments, she says the doctors succeeded In
prying her jaws apart after causing her
great suffering. A tube was then forced
down her throat.
"I was seized with severe nausea,” she
continued, "ana after they had pulled
the tube out they left me on the bed, ex
hausted and shaking with sobs. The
same thing happened in the evening but I
was too tired to fight so long."
FORCIBLE FEEDING.
After two days of forcible feeding sre
says she was ordered to solitary confine
ment for refusing food and was deprived
of books. The forcible feeding continued
daily.
After being imprisoned twenty-six days
she says she was allowed to exercise
with Miss Seelie Emerson, of Jackson,
Mich., also serving a tw r o months’ term
for window smashing.
Miss Emerson, too, was on a hunger
strike.
I
Grow IV2 Bales Cotton
Where Only 1 Grew
Before
One te one-and-a-half and even two bales of cotton, or 60 to .90
bushels of corn per acre, require little more labor than smaller yields.
Simply use liberally the right fertilizer or plant food to the acreage
you plant, and cultivate the crop more thoroughly and oftener.
You cannot be too careful in selecting fertilizers and seeds.
Your soil deserves the best plant foods which are
Virginia-Carolina
High-Grade
Fertilizers
They arc made to give Available Phosphoric Acid, Ammonia or
Nitrogen, and Potash in the right combination for greatest yields.
These fertilizers produce big crops of COTTON, CORN, RICE,
TOBACCO, FRUITS, PEANUTS and TRUCK.
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Chemical Co.
Box 1117
RICHMOND - VIRGINIA
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PLANT ENOUGH CORN
FOR YOUR OWN USE
This is the time that farmers*were
preparing their land to plant corn. I
want to earnestly advise them to plant
enough corn to take care of their entire
needs.
Should France and Germany go to
war, you would see foodstuff go very
high and cotton very low. Of course,
we all hope this will not happen, but as
a warning to all farmers, they should
be prepared for this.
Plant enough corn for your entire re
quirements.
put in sufficiently early to enable you
to put your* potatoes on the market
when the price is favorable. To this end
you should lose no time in planting your
potatoes. Many truckers already have
their crop in, some of them several
weeks ago. While potatoes like a good
strong soil, and we would on that ac
count favor the red land for this crop,
you will find if it is not well drained
not so well adapted for this crop as
a sandy soil. You should make the
sandy soil as rich with yard manure
and litter or leaf mold from the woods
as possible, and use about a 9-4-6 fer
tilizer. The minimum application for
this crop we think w'oujd be 500 to 60t)
pounds. Some growers use as much
as 1,000 pounds to advantage.
* * *
BALANCING UP RED CLAY SOILS.
H. F. B., Midville, Ga., writes: I
have a plantation which has both red
clay and gray sandy loam. . The prin
cipal crops are corn and cotton. I
would like to have you advise me what
kind of fertilizer you tl)ink best for
each?
|^|ore than a
bale per acre
That was the rate of yield from Alabama soil top
dressed, at the rate of 100 pounds per acre, with
Nitrate of Soda
It matures cotton before the boll weevil affects it. In drought
it keeps the plant from shedding its bolls. Send a post card for
Free Book on the Cultivation of Cotton
which I have prepared, bearing especially on fertilization of cotton and con
trol of the boll weevil; tells how to grow big crops at little cost.
17 Maditm
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Office*
On soil of the type described in your
letter and situated in Emanuel county
you will likely find quite a marked
deficiency in phosphoric acid and nitro
gen. The chances are that this land
is also deficient in lime and somewhat
acid. While it may show on analysis
quite a consiaeraoie percentage or pot
ash, the question is whether this is in
an available form or not. Of course, its
availability may be hastened by a rota
tion of crops in which legumes are turn
ed under, and you seem to have started
this practice, so unless cotton rusts a
high per cent of potash need not be
used. We would suggest that you use
on this land and a. formula running 9 per
cent of phosphoric acid, 3 per cent of
nitrogen and 3 per cent of potash. We
would be disposed to put not less than
300 pounds under the drill row. If you
have litter, leaf mold or any other form
of vegetable matter to incorporate with
the soil then put 500 pounds under
the drill row. and use no side applica
tion save possibly 100 pounds of nitrate
of soda about the 15th of June. In
the absence of vegetable matter to use
in the drill row we would apply 300
pounds of fertilizer at the time of plant
ing and use 200 pounds as a side appli
cation.
PLANTING EARLY* CROP POTA
TOES.
J. W. R., Fort Deposit. Ala., wrties:
I am thinking of putting about five acres
into Irish potatoes this year. I have
red sandy soil, but it is rather low. and
I have some gray higher land. Please
tell me which soil would be the best
for Irish potatoes, and what fertilizers
to use?
For corn on your heaviest red day
land use a 9-3-4, and for cotton about
an 8-3-3. On your gray sandy land we
would suggest that you use a 10-3.5-5
for corn, and for cotton about a 9-3-4.
The amount of fertilizer you can afford
to use will depend much on the culti
vation ybu have given the land and its
content of vegetable matter. If it tis
very low in organic material, 300 pounds
should be the minimum application, but
it is doubtful if you will secure an ade-
qale return on as much as 500 to 600
pounds. Ordinary soils of this type
should respond when propery culti
vated to applications of as much as
600 pounds of the formula suggested
for corn and' 500 pounds for cotton.
We would suggest that 300 pounds be
used under the drill row and 200 pounds
as a side application. If your land
is low in vegetable matter you will
find some benefit from using top dress
ings of quickly available forms of
nitrogen.
You’d be surprised to know the great number of cases of typhoid
fever and other maladies caused by the poisonous gases and decomposed
matter contained in dirty kitchen sinks, drains, troughs, outhouses and garbage cans.
If you knew what a powerful cleanser, purifier and deodorizer Red Seal Lye is,
you’d never be without it. It neutralizes and drives eut all putrid matter, kills
m disease germs and keeps everything sweet smelling.
Red Seal ^e
Sure Preventive
it the strongest, best and cheapest lye on the market,
Sold in sifting top cans, prevents waste. In making Lye_
Hominy use Red Seal. Use it always with water fo;
cleansing dairy utensils, sinks, drains, garbage cans,j
barns, henneries and water closets. Also scrubbing
woodwork. It makes hard water soft and saves
soap. Use it as an insecticide for spraying trees
and vegetables. Red Seal is the best lye forjjj
making soap.
Ask your storekeeper for Red Seal Lye
—if he hasn’t got it, write us and we’ll
see you get supplied, and also send you free
valuable book.
P. C. T0MS0N & CO., Dept. P, 2? Washington Ave., PMla
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There is no reason why* the cultiva
tion of Irish potatoes should not be a
profitable undertaking provided the crop
is planted under proper conditions and
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