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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1913.
This department icill cheerfully endeavor to furnish any information.
Letters should be addressed to Dr. Andrew AS. Soule, president Stats
Agricultural College, Athens, Oa.
POTASH CARRIERS
Quite a variety* of materials carry
potash, and as this element is so exten-
sively^ used by our field crops, it is im
portant for the farmer to familiarize
himself with these various sources of
sifpply so that he maV be in position to
utilize the one best adapted to serve
his purpose with the greatest economy
and efficiency. This element is found
on the market as potassium chloride,
potassium sulphate, potassium and
magnesium sulphate, kainit, carnallite,
sylvinite, potassium nitrate, wood
ashes, cotton seed ashes, tobacco waste,
rock potash, and the by-products of
sugar mills.
Years ago when a deficiency in some
one of the elements necessary to suc
cessful plant production was first dis
covered, wood ashes constituted the
most important source of potassium. Of
course, there was only a limited amount
of plant food to be secured in this way,
and it soon became apparent that other
sources must be relied upon. For the
last third ofa centudy the principal
supply of potash compounds has been
derived from the Stassfurt mines in the
northern part of Germany, and as these
are the most common materials on the
market, and probbaly supply potash to
the farmer in a cheaper and more ac
ceptable form than can be secured from
any other of the carriers enumerated,
they will first be taken up and dis
cussed at greater length than the other
materials.
The so-called German potash sa^ts are
derived from materials mined out of the
earth. After the materials are blasted
out they are ground and dissolved in
■water which permits of crystallization
and the elimination of undesirable ma
terial and concentration. In a sense,
therefore, the more concentrated of the
German potash salts are manufactured
rather than natural products. As these
materials appear on the market they
are a rather gritty powder and vary in
fineness and color quite materially. Some
of them are almost white; others gray
or pink, all of which dissolve quite
readily in water and most of them have
a tendency to absorb moisture. They
should therefore be stored in a dry
place when kept for any considerable
length of time. The Stassfurt mines
seem to afford an inexhaustible supply
of this essential soil salt, the annual
output now being about seven million
tons of which one million tons come to
the United States.
The first and one of the most com
monly used of the German salts is po
tassium chloride known to the trade as
muriate of potash. It is found on the
market in several grades. The most
common form contains about 50 per
cent, of potash which is equal to about
41.5 per cent, of potassium. The chief
impurity of this material is common
salt which may vary from 7 to 20 per
cent. This grade of plant food can be
used acceptably on all crops except
Irish potatoes, tobacco and sugar cane.
Potassium sulphate is the next Stass
furt product in importance. It comes
on the market in several* grades, but as
a rule contains 48 to 52 per cent of
potash, equivalent to 40 to 43 per cent of
potassium. This form is used in much
smaller quantity than the muriate. Its
impurities consist of sulphate, chloride,
calcium, magnesium and sodium. It is
recommended for use on such crops as
Irish potatoes, tobacco and sugar cane,
because it seems to favor the produc
tion of a superior* grade of syrup, a to
bacco which burns more freely, and a
potato of a drier and mealier type.
Potassium and magnesium sulphate,
krjown commonly as double manure
salts, is a product obtained in the man
ufacture of high grade sulphate. It con
tains about 22 per cent of potaslj, ordi
narily equivalent to 18 per cent of potas
sium. It may be used with advantage by
many farmers if the price paid for it is
relatively the same as for the high grade
products.
Potash manure salts is a term applied
to low grade potassium chloride, which
contains 16 to 33 per cent of potassium,
or from 20 to 40 per cent of potash. This
material contains, of course, a larger
proportion of low grade elements which
probably have little or no beneficial ef
fect on crop production.
Potassium magnesium carbonate is a
product which is manufactured and
recommended for use in fertilizing tobac
co and some of the more important fruit
crops. This material is in a finely pow
dered condition and is easy to apply on
that account. It contains about 20 per
cent of potassium, equivalent to 24 to 27
per cent of potash.
Kainit is one of the untreated, or
crude, mineral products obtained from
'the potash mines. It is crystalline and
varies in color froTh white ^o yellowish
red. In the powdered form it is a dirty
white or gray. Commercial kainit con
tains from 10 to 11 per cent of potassium,»
equivalent to 10 to 13 per cent of potash,
and is extensively used as the basis of
commercial fertilizers and is often ap
plied with benefit on soils where there Is
a tendency for cotton to rust or a
marked deficiency in the 'supply of
potash.
The other forms of potash salts are
not of Special importance to the Amer
ican farmer, who will derive his supply
chiefly from the sources enumerated. Of
course, the concentrated products lessen
the amount of material to be handled,
but the available potash in one form as
compared with another has the same
relative efficiency, and therefore the
farmer should use whichever form is
likely to prove the cheapest from his
point of view. Mention has already been
made of the fact that only a very lim
ited amount of potash can be derived
from wood ashes, and the same is true
of cotton seed ashes, tobacco waste and
sugar factory waste. These materials
should be conserved and used v/henever
possible, but they only constitute at best
a drop in the bucket. There has been
much agitation with reference to secur
ing a supply of potash from various
rocks which carry this material in con
siderable quantities, but this source of
supply must be regarded as not likely
to prove satisfactory, and, in fact, the
whole matter is still in an experimental
stage, and the farmer cpuld not, at
present, be advised to select this form
of material as a source of supplying
the available potash his crops are likely
to need.
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FERTILIZING THE GARDN.
R. J., Clinton, Ga., writes: What
would be a good fertilizer for a garden
which has a dark fairly fertile soil with
heavy red clay subsoil? I can get noth
ing but commercial fertilizer.
Garden crops require to be liberally
fertilized because the value of a vege
table depends on its succulence and this
means that it must be grown rapidly
and brought to maturity as quickly as
possible. Very heavy red clay soil is
quite likely to be fairly fertile as com
pared with many of the soils found in
the state, but to secure good results
with vegetables, you will find it neces
sary \o have a very considerable quanti
ty of 'vegetable matter In the soil or'
added thereto artificial through the use
of compost or applications of yard ma
nure. We would advise you to use from
five to twenty tons of well rotted ma
nure. This may be scattered on the
surface an<J polwed in or used under
the drill row at the time of planting
the crop. A suitable fertilizer would
contain about 9 per cent of phospho
rus, 4 per cent of nitrogen and 6 per
cent of potash. We would suggest that
you use this under the drill row at the
time of planting, applying from 500 to
1,000 pounds per acre. Liberal fertili
zation will pay On garden crops, as a
rule. Some nitrate of soda may be
used as a top dressing from tirpe to
time alongside the drill row. Of course
we make' these suggestions with the idea
that you will cultivate the land intens
ively, that is plant in rows 18 to 24
inches apart and cultivate by hand.
* * *
SUITABLE FERTLIZER FOR OATS.
C. T. P., Augusta, Ga., writes: We
have a lot of oats coming up, and wish
to know if we would use equal parts
of kainit and cotton seed meal on the
oats if it would do as well as nitrate
o'f soda which is too high?
Cotton seed meal is a relatively slow
acting form of nitrogen and we would
advise its use as a top dressing, cer
tainly when it is not to be worked into
the ground by iheans of a harrow or
cultivator. No doubt you would do
this if you used the cotton seed meal
provided the oats are not too high al
ready. We imaging that they have made
a good deal of top in yoy rsection of
the state by now and that harrowing
would be a difficult undertaking. If
cotton seed meal was to have been ap
plied we think it should have been used
not later than the first of March. We
can see no particular benefit to be de
rived from application of kainit at this
season of the year. We think kainit and
phosphorus should be applied to the oat
crop in the fall when they can be well
distributed through the soil at the time
the oats are seeded. While nitrate bt
soda is relatively high, we think from
50 to 100 pounds of it will give a profit
when applied to the oat crop as a top
dressing on soils of the type found
throughout the greater part of the state.
You can use sulphate of ammoqia in
place -of nitrate of' soda with fairly
good results. Sulphate will give bet
ter results ’on land to which lime has
been recently applied.
* * *
WHICH S JRCE OF NITROGEN IS
BEST?
W. I. K., Douglasville, Ga., writes:
“Which source of nitrogen is most last
ing in the soil? Some say cottonseed
meal and others say tankage. I would
like your opinion as to a formula that
A/ill feed cotton points the longest and
from what source to drive the am
monia.
The relative rapidity with which dif
ferent forms of nitrogen become avail
able depends considerably on many lo
cal conditions. . The weather also in
fluences this matter to a marked de
gree. We think, however' that nitrate
of soda would be the most quickly
available carrier of nitrogen you could
use, and that following this would
come sulphate of ammonia. Next in
order in our judgment would come
dried blood and / then tankage, fish
scrap anc cottonseed meal. We are in
clined to think that this is the proper
rating to give these carriers judging
from such observation as we have made
with Reference to them and as indi
cated by results of experiments made
in various parts of the country. From
this you should not conclude that the
nitrogen in cottonseed meal will not
come available with sufficient rapidity
to meet the needs of growing--crop.
We think there is no doubt but that
most of the nitrogen will be used,
though, of course, there is probably
some residue of all forms of nitrogen
carriers which is not assimilated by
the crop to which it is applied, or a
relatively slow acting source of organic
nitrogen we think cottonseed meal one
of the safest materials to use and next
would probably come tankage and
blood.
* * *
GROWING VELVET BEANS ON
“GAULDED SPOTS.”
S. W. B., Olympia, Ga., writes:* I
have a piece of good clay land overlaid
with two inches of good sandy loam
which has been washed pretty badly by
the heavy rains of the past year. I
desire to grow corn and velvet beans
o i'lQ lanu this .year, me corn to be
.used as a support to the beans and
also i-s a good crop for forage or grain.
Wou-1 like to know something about
tli e fertilization and cultivation of this
crop and the varieties to use.
The first essential in growing any
crop is to prepare th© land with care.
Next lay it off, say, in four or five-
foot rows, depending on its natural fer
tility. Then plant on upland soils a
selected variety of prolific corn. Among
the varieties which have given good
results in tests made i the college ex
perimental field are Whatley’s, Hast
ings and Marlboro. If you desire to
get a considerable growth from the
beans and improve your soil materially,
we would be inclined to plant th© corn
in five-foot rows and plant a row of
beans down the middlo of each corn
row. They will npt climb so exten
sively the stalks of corn as where
planted in the drill, but you will get a
much more vigorous growth and there
will be a large reproduction of nitrogen
gathered from the air and a greater
improvement of the soil on that ac
count Wher© you plant prolific corn
it should be put in relatively thick in
the drill row. We would fertilize the
corn at the rate of 600 pounds per acre,
using a 9-3-3 on clay land. Then plant
400 pounds under the drill row and
mix well with the subsoil. Then plant
th© corn and use 200 pounds as a side
application about the second or third
cultivation. As soon as the ground
has warmed up plant the beans in
drills. A peck should be sufficient for
an ere. When putting in the beans
we would use an application of 300
pounds per acre of a 10-1-5. Give thor
ough shallow cultivation as late into
the season as possible,
i Fo Irish potatoes you should find a
10-4-6 satisfactory on clay soils. On
sandy soils use a little more potash.
A minimum application should be 500
pounds ‘per acre put under the drill
row before th© sets are planted. If
you can get some well decayed leaf
mold from the woods to mix in the
furrow with the fertilizer before plant
ing the potatoes it will be a material
advantage and will help to insure a
good yield.
♦ * *
A CASE OF INDIGESTION.
T. T. M., Farmington, Ga., writes: .1
have a horse that is what is called a
whistler, and would like to know what
to do for him. I have two acres of
fresh forest land that was in corn last
year which I want to put in corn again
this year, and want to make from 75
to 100 bushels per acre. What kind of
guano shall I use? Please recommend
a good tonic for horses.
We judge that the trouble about
which you camplain is aue to a mild
form of indigestion* It may even ap
proach what is termed flatulent or
“wind” colic. This trouble is best treat
ed by giving a quart of raw linseed oil
or four to six drams of aloes in a ball.
This will empty the stomach and cleanse
the intestinal tract quite thoroughly.
Then the horse should be carefully diet
ed for a few days. Give a moderate
amount of green feed and utilize a ration
containing one-third each of oats, corfi
and bran. Some horses find it difficult
to digest corn properly, and as a result
an undue amount of fermentation is set
up in the stomach, and this results in
trouble of the character to which you
refer. We would suggest that a change
in the ration be made immediately and
that the horse be kept on this feed for
a couple of weeks. If this does not af
fect a cure, the next best thing is to
give a condition powder for a few days.
Sometimes the digestion of an animal
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THE COTTON BOLL WEEVIL IN
THE SOUTH, OR, HOW A LITTLE
BUG IS DEPOSING A KING
BY B. I,. MOSS.
Twenty-five million dollars loss in one
year! This is the sum Mexican boll
weevil cost 36 South Mississippi cotiton
counties in the year 1912. A pretty
large statement, but to verify it one has
only ito take up the United States Cen
sus Bureau reports and compare the
cotton ginning figures, county by coun
ty, for 1912 with any average year
prior to 1909. Then turn to Louisiana
and note how parishes in that sitate
have gone down and down in cotton
production until in some cases they are
now growing less than ten per cent of
the cotiton they produced five years ago.
Then if you have a penchant for pro
phecy, turn to South Alabama, Florida,
South Georgia and the Carolinas; study
their climatic and other conditions and
no»te| their similarity to South Louisia
na and South Mississippi; and then de
duce, if you are so inclined, a reason
able hypothesis concerning the probable
effect of the eastward-marching weevil
on their cotton production.
History has no record of an insect
that has occasioned the loss that is
now being suffered from the ravages of
this pest. Crossing the Rio Grande in
extreme southwest Texas 21 years ago,
the weevil has moved eastward and
northward in ever lengthening zones of
infestation. Each fall, from Augusit
until November, natural forces impel
a migration in search of new fields.
These annual movements vary in extent,
but the average for the past twenty
years has been about 50 miles. At
present there is no reason to doubt
that ithe weevil will ultimately invade
every cotton field in the South.
It is difficult to conceive of the im
mense injury thait this little pest has
wrought. Nothing but an actual trip
through the once productive cotton
fields of ithe lower Central South can
give one an adequate conception of
the situation.
Let it be understood at the outset
tha*t weevil damage bears a close rela
tion to winter temperatures and sum
mer rainfall. In other words, in re
gions of low latitude, mild winters and
heavy summer rainfall, the loss from-
the pest’s depredaitions in usually ex
ceedingly, severe; while in the northern
regions of the cotton belt, where the
winters are colder and^the summer rain
fall comparatively light, ithe weevil is
almost a negligible factor in cotton
production. Between thes.e two extrem
es, as conditions vary, in favor of- the
weevil and againsit the cotton grower,
we find weevil damage in almost every
degree, varying from nothing to almost
total destruction. These facts explain
the weevil while ithe South Mississippi
cotton grower is prostrate and bank
rupt. The former has six to eight in
ches of summer rainfall and frequent
winter northers; the lattter has 16 to
20 inches of rain during June, July and
August, and hard freezes are rare. The
Texan will tell you that Texas is mak
ing more cotton now than before the
weevil came, and will prove it by Ithe
ginning figures of the United States
Census Bureau. The South Mississipp-
ian will tell you that attempting to c
grow coltton under weevil conditions is
Just as futile as to attempt to dip
the Mississippi river dry with a sieve;
and he too can buttress his argument
wilth some pretty convincing statistics.
The world outsme’ of the immediate
sphere of the weevil’s activities knows
but little of what this pest has meant
to a once prosperous region. In many
counties the cotton crop has been al
most totally wiped out, and with its
loss every dependent interest has cor
respondingly suffered. The credit
system is a thing of the past, since
cotton has been almost the entire basis
of credit in nine-tenths of the agricul
tural south; farm laborers have mi
grated toy the towns and cities and to
the northern sections of the cotton
belt by thousands; mules and other live
stock have been sold and shipped away;
and cotton gins and oil mills are idle
and falling down. Let the wheat farm
ers of the Dakotas or the corn growers
of Illinois imagine if they can condi
tions in their respective states should
their cash crop be 90 per cent of a total
loss for four or five years in succes
sion. It is the old story of disaster over
taking the imprudent man who placed
all his eggs in a single basket, whether
he grew wheat in Minnesota, oranges
in Florida or cotton in Mississippi.
Some cotton will doubtless always be
grown in the worst afflicted sections,
but cotton is no longer king. The king
has been forced to abdicate permanent
ly in favor of a diversified cropping
system.
Below are given tables showing the
production bt cotton in bales of 500
pounds each in a number of parishes
and counties in Louisiana and Missis
sippi before and since the coming of
the weevil. It will be observed that
these are grouped according' to^ their
latitude and their rainfall during the
months of June, July and August.
Winter temperatures and summer
rainfall are the most powerful natural
factors in weevil control, and both
these are modified unfavorably to the
weevil as we move northward in the
cotton states.
why the north Texas farmer laughs at
Cotton yields, 1906 to 1910, in Louisiana parishes with a summer rainfall of
18 inches, latitude 30 1-2 degrees north
St. Helena Parish ... .
Tangipahoa
East Feliciana ..
West Feliciana
East Baton Rouge
Pointe Coupee
St. Martin ..
1906
1907
1908
1909
1910
9,500
8,014
7,800
3,624
888
« 7,072
6,631
6,805
3,388
514
. 30,258
26,847
24,684
5,609
2,032
21202
26,674
11,285
1,371
431
. 29,893
231388
18,823
7,505
944
. 50,516
41,864
28,814
3,377
1,158
. 12,905
8,964
5,767
2,027
1,479
161,436 181,372 102,978
26,901
7,446
Reduction in yield, 95.3 per cent.
Cotton yields, 1906 to 1911, in Mississippi counties with a summer rainfall
uf 16 inches, latitude 311-2 degrees north
1906 1907
Plke ... 26,272 22,407
Lincoln 20,941 19,261
Amite 25,683 25,568
Franklin 14,857 15,046
Wilkinson ... ... 22,346 23,128
1908
26,845
23,322
25,889
13,064
17,720
1909
21,234
14.712
14,063
6,451
4,358
1910
9,121
6,552
3,'633
1,314
1,186
1911
3,742
2,157
1,398
690
1,628
Totals . ... 110.164 105,409 108,840 59,818 21,7(16 9,615
Reduction in yield, 91.2 per cent. ' .
Cotton yields, 1906 to 1911, in Mississippi counties with a summer rainfall
Claiborne
1906
1907
1908
1909
1910
1911
33,862
30,689
32,233
19,448
14,265
5,853
23,644
24,183
21,397
8,970
4,931
4,341
24,911
22,955
21^52
8,041
3,593
4,565
23,836
20,45./
14,155
1,700
1,062
2,204
106,253
98,282
99,036
38,154
23,851
16,963
Red** 'tion in yield 84 per cent.
1906 to 1911, in Mississippi counties with a summer rainfall
of 12 inches, latitud-e 32 1-2
Hifids
degrees
1906
. 49,521
. 16,378
north.
1907
51,767
15,446
1908
46.860
11,650
1909
31,035
11,925
1910
30,797
13,332
1911
21,585
9,404
. 23,302
9,002
11,702
11,329
8,395
8,177
. 46,137
52,609
46,531
32,181
40,950
24,767
Totals
. 135,338
138,824
116,743
86,470
93,474
63,933
Reduction in yield 52.7 per cent
Let us see what these figures mean in
dollars and cents. Taking the Louisiana
group first, we find that seven parishes
made 153,990 bales, or 95.3 per cent less
cotton in 1910 than in 1906, their last year
without the weevil. These 153,990 bales,
at $60 per bale, represent a total loss of
$9,239,400 in one year, or an average of
about $1,320,000 for each parish.
The census figures show that thirteen
western and southwestern Mississippi
counties made 351,755 bales In 1906 and
only 90,511 bales in 1911, or a loss of 261,-
244 bales, valued at nearly sixteen mil
lion dollars. By the end of 1912 the
weevil had covered all of south Missis
sippi, and the total loss that year-could
not have been less than $23,000,000. A
few years ago Mississippi and Georgia
were rivals for second place among the
cotton-producing states; but in 1912 Mis-
sississippi, for the first time in a gen
eration, will fall below one million bales.
This loss has fallen on farmers and
business * men alike. Everywhere the
weevil has appeared south of parallel 33
north latitude it has beeft accompanied
by a decrease in cotton production and
sometimes by panic and demoralization.
Especially is this true during the first
few years, when the cotton crop is al
most a total loss and no substitute for
it has been found.
The tragedy of the situation is found
in the lack of any real necessity for it.
It is a paradox that a land of such re
sources of soil and climate should fall
helpless before the onslaught of an in
sect. But for generation after generation
cotton has been almost the sole crop.
With a soil that will grow as fine corn
and oats as Iowa, the lower south has
for fifty years looked to the north for
its grain; and with excellent facilities
for cheap pork production, it has per
sistently fed from a smokehouse a thou
sand miles away. The practices and cus
toms of Ijalf a century are not changed
in a year or in ten, and with the loss
of their sole economic prop, many sec
tions of the lower south have floundered^
helplessly, their labor gone and their
lands barren and idle.
The cloud has its silver lining. A per
nicious credit system is being abolished,
and intensive methods are coming
through necessity. The Texas farmer
went through the valley and is now
stronger than ever in his history. Louis
iana made more cotton to the acre in
1912 than since the advent of the weevil,
in addition to food and feed crops that
were thought impossible ten years ago.
History will probably repeat ^tself, and
in their turn the States to the east will
pass through the fire and emerge on a
sounder economic basis than is possible
under a one-crop system. Out of the
gloom of it -all a new regime is appear
ing—a permanent regime that shall be
founded upon a diversity of crops and
the application of scientific principles in
their production.
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facturer and dealer in tobaco.
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Agents
Write Today. Be the one in your
town to got this astounding tailoring
offer. An offer to giv* you the nwellest
suit you ever saw FREE! But you must*
hurry. We want a representative in
your town right away. We will start
you In a big money-making busi
ness of your own—FREE! Plenty of
money and plenty of nifty clothes—for
Scrubbing Made Easy
Next time you scrub floors, doors, clothes—put!
some Red Seal Lye in the water and you’ll dol
the job right—and easier. It makes hard waterl
soft and saves soap. Red Seal Lye eats the dir«|
up—purifies, cleanses and disinfects. j
RED SEAL
Lye 98% pure
dissolved with water cleanses
sinks, garbage cans, water
closets, hog pens, etc. Best for
soap making—unites better and
quicker with fats. Sifting top
can saves you money. Ask your
storekeeper for Red Seal Lye.
If he hasn’t it, write us.
Valuable book fret.
Pa C. TOMSON A CO.
Dept. P,
29 Washington Ave.
Philadelphia, Pa.
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Hitch a Taylor Saw Mill onto a Tay
lor Engine and yonr outfit will aaw|
more logs, keep going better and
MAKE MORE MONEY FOR TOUl
than any sawmill on earth. You oughtl
to know about our wire cable drive, ad-[
justable idl.r and time - saving carriage-!
backing device; all sizes and prices.
Write now for catalog.
Mallary Machinery Company |
Dept. I, MACON, GA.
Saw Mills, Engines, Shingle
Machines, Gasoline EnginesI
BRANCH’S GENUINE RATTLESNM
WATERMELON SEED
YOU-if you write AT ONCE I No ; ONLY PURE STRAIN Carefully selected. Kept pi|
money nor experience necessary
WE PAY ALL EXPRESS CHARGES
Yes, w* pay everything. You take no
risk. Justtakeorders forourfineclothes
—made of the most beautiful fabrics
aad.in the latest classiest stvles. Keep
your present position and make
$50.00 TO • 100.00 A WEEK
on tha side; or go into the business
i right and make $5,000 to$5,000 a year.
■} PARAGON clothes sell lika wildfire.
Agents swamped with orders on NEW
plan. Nothing like It anywhere.
Write Today
rl»ht out to taks order* Get ouf WONDERFUL
iNEW OFFIR right sow. \V£ PAT ALL CHARGES. Sendapoatoard
NOW—while this great offer is still open. Don’t 4*lsy_WRITE TODAT.
Paragon Tailoring Co., Dept: 405 , Chicago, III.
IN UNITED STATES forty years. No other varlel
grown on plantation of 1600 aerf
Pure seed impossible where different kinds l
grown. 1 oz. 15c—2 oz. 25c—4 oz. 40c—i lb. 6(1
1 lb. $1.00- 5 lbs. $4.50—10 lbs. $8.50 delivered.
Remit registered letter or money order, Sendfl
Seed Annual. Manual on melon culture with F
orders. M. 1. BRANCH, Birzelii, Columbia County, Geinh. 1
Fish Will Bit!
like hungry wolves, flllyournl
trap or trpt line it yon halt wli
Mafjic-Kish-Lure. . I
Best fish bait ever discovered. Over 60.000 host
sold to fishermen last season. Write for price IIS
to-day and get a box to help introduce it. AgenS
wanted. jPf'. Gregory. K-108. St. Louie.
Consider Now
what it will cost and how much
money you will save on your next
season’s fertilizer bill if you should buy your
Nitrate of Soda
and other Farm Chemicals and mix them yourself.
Your own brand MIXED AT HOME will be better than any
patent brand and is sure ’to have in it just what you want.
Book of formulas and full instructions for Home Mixing
will be sent
FREE OF COST
Dr. WILLIAM S. MYERS
Director of Chilean Nitrate Propaganda
17 Madison Ave, New York
No Branch Offices
becomes badly deranged and it is al
most Impossible to correct* the trouble
without prolonged treatment and care in
the selection of a ration. A good tonic
condition powder for a horse is the
following: Sulphate of iron 2 ounces,
nitrate of potash 2 ounces, gentian root
2 ounces, nux vomica 1 ounce, and gin
ger root 1 ounce. Mix together thor
oughly and give heaping teaspoonful in
the feed three times a day.
On land such as you describe we
would advise you to use under corn a
9-3-3 fertilizer applied at the rate of
500 to 700 pounds per acre. Put the
greater part under tjjje drill row at the
time of planting the corn and use one
or two side applications.
* * *
CULTIVATION OF SOY BEANS.
P. B., Calgary, Canada, writes: Do
you think soy beans can be raised suc
cessfully in this section for stock feed
ing purposes? The thermometer goes
as low as 40 degrees below zero some
times, but these cold snaps are of short
duration.
The soy bean is especially adapted for
cultivation in the cotton belt, but it has
been grown over an extensive territory
with considerable success. It is general
ly believed that its limit of practical
cultivation about coincides with that of
corn. This plant has been grown very
extensively in China and Japan for many
years, and it is possible that some va
rieties may have been developed in the
extreme northern part of tne eastern
coast of Asia, which would be hardy in
the vicinity of Calgary, but we can not
give you definite advice concerning this-
matter. We know that the soy bean has
been grown with some success in Minne
sota, Ontario and Massachusetts, and,
we would suggest that you communicate
with the officers of the various experi
ment stations located in the tier of
states bordering on Canada, and see if
they can give you some helpful sugges
tions concerning the cultivation of this
plant and where you will likely secure
hardy and early maturing varieties
which of necessity you must have if
you grow this plant successfully in
your latitude.
■I H C Quality Shows in
Service
TX7’E could sell wagons for less
W money, but we don’t care to
sell that kind of wagon. We
want your second order, and your third,
and every order you give for a wagon. We
can’t be sure of getting those orders unless
the first wagon you buy from us proves so
satisfactory that you would not think of
going anywhere else for the second. We
have to tell you how good our wagons are
to get your first order. After that, we ex-
n et the wagon itself to do the selling.
1 C wagons
Weber New Bettendorf
Columbus
are made of selected, high-grade material throughout.
Come with us to the works where these wagons are
built, and see the tremendous sheds where the lumber
is air-dried—seasoned out of doors—for three years or
more before it is used. Do you know the
difference between air-dried and kiln-dried
wood ? One process takes years of time, and
leaves the fibres of the wood filled with and
cemented together by the natural resinous
residue of the sap. The other requires only
a few days’ time, drives out all the sap, resin
and all, and leaves the wood # brittle and weak.
fell
“3
removed.
Weber and Columbus wagons have wood gears; New
Bettendorf and Steel King have steel gears. The I H C
local dealer knows which wagon is best suited to your
work and will give you catalogues and full informa
tion about the wagon he sells. See him, or, if you
prefer, write
International Harvester Company of America
(Incorporated)
CHICAGO USA
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"Pittsburgh PerfectFend
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Heavy, Open Hearth wire, thor
oughly galvanized with pure
zinc, and
Welded by Electricity
"into a one-piece fabric of greatest strength and durability—this
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"Pittsburgh Perfect” saves you money on erecting, and since
there are no exposed ends of wire in the joints, it saves youfrom
loss of wool and your stock from wire-cuts.
Xt’e stay wires cannot be slipped, because electrically weld
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It saves you time, trouble and money by eliminating endless
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est fence-9ervice and satisfaction?
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Made in different styles and sizesfor FIELD. FARM, RANCH, LAWN,
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catalogue with hints on fence-building and how to test wire sent free.
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Maken of "Pittiborgb Porfeet” Bran* oi Barbed Wirai Bright, Annealed and Gahnniwd
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