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maammmm — J THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1913. AGRICULTURAL joSl EDUCATION _ -A«c. Successful Farming- JS> Andrew ft. £>ovtf will also find a solution of carbolic acid in the proportion of one part to twenty parts of water, or creolin and other coal tar dips in the proportion of I to 50, sprinkled about stables and walls a great help in lessening the ir ritation due to flies. IMPROVING CLAY SOILS J. P. Tv., Columbus, Ga., writes: I have about four acres of red clay laud that seta very hard after n rain and goes together like putty. - It will got so bard that it is al most impossible to plow it. How should this land be treated in order to cultivate it sat- isl'uetoiUly ? What do you think of the idea of spreading sand over the laud? Why Yields of Wheat and Corn Rapidly Decreased A FEW FACTS AND FIGURES FOR YOU TO THINK ABOUT This department trill cheerfully endeavor to furnish any information. Letters should he addressed to Dr. Andrew M. Soule, president State Agricultural College, Athens, Ga. THE BOY WHO MADE GOOD J OHNNY was a little twelve-year- old boy. He did not differ espe cially from other boys of his age. He lived on farm of considerable area where the main crops cultivated were* corn and cotton. Like other boys rais ed in tho open country, tie enjoyed the freedom of its fields, ranged through the woodland hunting with his gun whenever opportunity afforded, fished and seined in the streams, and enjoyed the Oxd swimming hole like hundreds of other boys had done before him. The beauty of the country and the opportu nities of the- farm had not appealed with particular force to Johnny be cause they were just things of every day life and nobody had told him about the latent possibilities of his surround ings. Like other boys on neighboring ♦arms he went to school, and on one occasion was greatly impressed by the Visit of a stranger who said he had come to co-operate with the teacher and the county school officials in the organization of a boys’ corn club. He asked how many ‘of the boys in that particular school would care to under take to cultivate an acre of ground that, spring in corn according to cer tain methods and suggestions which he would tell them about. Quite a number thought this would be an interesting experiment, provided their fathers would consent to it, and among them- was our young friend. As soon as school was over the boys went home, and though Johnny's fattier was not much impressed with the idea through the assistance of his mother, he finally won parental consent to en tering the corn club contests of that year ana cultivate an acre of land by the “new tangled’' methods which the itinerant corn club agent had told the boys about that morning. It was a new experience to Johnny and a pleasant re sponsibility in spite of all the labor an® effort involved to feel that he was to be master of a piece of ground and institute and follow thereon methods which were considered out of the ordi nary in that section and therefore of Questionable value. Just as soon as the weather would* permit, and that was very early in tne spring, Jonnny plowed his ground very thoroughly, using two mules and break ing it to a depth of ten inches. He selected an acre of-land of average fer tility for that w r as all they would give him, and he had to spend much labor and effort in clearing it up and get ting it in shape to plow. Alter plowing tlie land he harrowed it several times so us to put it in a perfectly level condi- i lion and break the clods and lumps, lie even hauled off some loose stones. Larly in March he planted his corn trom seed which he had tested ana selected with care and according to the instructions sent to him trom tne state college of agriculture. As a result tie SM , a perIect stand, fie used a pro lific variety of corn and planted in rows tnur teet apart leaving r.ls hills about 15 inches apart in the drills, Betore he planted the corn he opened T lth a turnin s plow to a good depth and put in the bottom several one-horse loads of leaf mold which he had gathered up. from depressions in the woodland. The fertilizer was then scat tered on the leaf mdid and he used 50u pounds of a 4-3-4 formula. The nitro gen was derived from cotton seed meal the phosphoric acid from acid phos phate, and the potash from muriate of potash. He used this formula advis edly because the cotton seed meal fur nished nitrogen in an organic form, yet he was told this would become quick- 1> enough available to supply the needs o_ his crop. The acid phosphate and muriate of potash furnished these ele ments in about as cheap and desirable a form as he could secure them. lie had learned from the instructor that it would require a good deal of plant food to make a yield of 100 bushels of corn per acre, which was about seven times as much as his father had been raising on an acre. He therefore fer tilized his land liberally, and he used a formula which he was advised would most likely meet the conditions of Ills soil and the crop he was cultivating. The fertilizer and leaf mold and rich i lower earth of the soil were thoroughly mixed together by means off a bull tongue. The furrows were then drawn together and the corn planted on this rich seed bed which had been liberally supplied with vegetable matter and the essential fertilizing constituents in a relatively speaking readily available form. Johnny now proceeded to cultivate his corn frequently and with shallow im plements that only stirred the surface of tne soil for the teacher, had said that i. would not do to destroy the little fine feeding roots of the plant. After the corn was about knee high he put on 200 pounds of a formula containing 9 per cent of phosphoric acid, 4 per cent of nitrogen and 3 per cent of potash. The nitrogen in this instance consisted of equal parts of cotton seed meal and ni trate of soda. This fertilizer he scat tered down the middle of the drill rows and worked well into the soil while cultivating his crop. He did not use a plow in his corn field after breaking the land save to prepare the seed bed. He did keep up cultivation as late into the season as possible, putting a muzzle on his mule so he could not injure the corn. He, also cultivated frequently, thus preserving a .dust mulch. By so doing it was not necessary for him to hand hoe- his crop. His corh grew beautifully throughout the season and possessed a fine color. It did not suffer from drought because he had stored water in the soil early In the spring and had kept it - there bv his method of cultivation. The crop promised well throughout the growing season, though a hail storm and several violent winds damaged some of his plants and twisted and broke down oth ers. Still his crop was a landmark as far as it could be seen inanv di rection. and friends and neighbors who had laughed and joked came to see what Johnny was doing and how he had ob tained such a wonderful result. After a while harvest time came and two disinterested and responsible par ties appointed by the county school commissioner came out and helped Johnny harvest and weigh his crop. To the surprise of every one he had made a yield of 100 bushels of corn, and thu* established for all time in his mind the great possibilities which a better understanding and appreciation of na ture mean to the boys of Georgia. He learned that through the use of scien tific principles he could master and dominate nature; he could grow much more corn than his father had been growing by his indifferent and careless methods. He learned that he could bal ance up the food supply of the soil in an acceptabel manner, and by seed se lection, careful preparation and plant ing, he could help his crop to get by those drought periods which have so often proved destructive in the history of our agriculture. Atfer harvesting his crop Johnny se lected the best ten ears he had, ac-. cording to the standard furnished by the college of agriculture, and took them to' the county fair, where pre miums of various kinds were offered to those boys excelling in the production of corn. He also submitted a written report showing just what it had cost him to grow his crop and how he had prepared the soil, and fertilized and cul tivated his corn. The splendid report he made, and the clearness with which he presented the facts, together with the excellence and uniformity of the ten ears exhibited won him immediate recognition from the judges, and John ny became the proud possessor of a scholarship which enabled him to spend a part of the winter studying and fit ting himself the better to be a mod ern and progressive farmer in his na- *tive state. * Johnny’s achievement brought new hope to the community, and now in stead of being an unknown and unap- jpreciated little boy, he is looked upon as one who has given a new vision to his county and is proudly introduced to every one as the boy who grew 100 bushels of corn on an acre of land. Johnny's demonstration is being emu lated by thousands of other boys In Georgia and every liberal minded" citi zen will certainly rejoice that there is so much in agricultural education that he expects to prepare himself to enter the college of agriculture so that he may become a leader in the agricultural regeneration of his state. There are pieces of land of similar character to that described in your let ter occurring on many farms and plan tations in Georgia. We have some soil of this type on the college farm. It is one of the most difficult to handle we have ever had experience with. It is apparently quite devoid of vegetable matter, and contains so much cla.y that it is very adhesive and sticky, and it is difficult .for plants to establish them selves, and, of course, the cultivation of a soil of this type is expensive be cause of the difficulty with which it works down. It is a good soil. how r - ever, when properly handled, and in our judgment you will find it beneficial to plow this land to a depth of twelve inches and then subsoil it four to six inches deeper. It may take two or three seasons to accomplish this, but we re gard this the first and most important step. Soil of this type will also be bene fited by underdraining, and we would advise you to lay unglazed tile every fifteen feet to a depth of at least three feet. Then plow under green crops sys tematically for two or three years until you have accumulated a body of vege table matter in the land. Before plow- under the cowpeas, we would sug gest the application of not less than two tons of caustic lime per acre. This should be put on as a top application, and it may be necessary to repeat the application of lime later as this will have a tendency to cause the clay to flocculate and will improve the physical condition of the soil. This may look like an expensive undertaking, but it will be economy in the long run, and will enable you to put this land in condition where it will grow large and profitable crops for it is naturally a strong type of soil. It might be beneficial to spread sand over the soil to a certain extent. Of course, the expense would be very great, and the results obtained would probably not justify you in undertak ing the use of sand. There is some tendency to make a soil of this type con solidate unless you use a good deal of sand. This, of course, is not a new proposition to you, for you have no doubt observed that when sand and clay are mixed in the right proportions, there is a tendency for the soil to cement, as in the case of sand-clay roads. INOCULATING SOY BEANS. J. A. y.. MiHedgeville. Ga., writes: A mail on our farm planted a large crop of soy beans this year. I noticed this morning in places a good many were dying. On ex amination the roots seemed to be affected. I am sending a specimen of the diseased plant, and ask that you examine the mune, and ask that you give me what suggestions you can with reference to the plant and the disease. SUMMER RATIONS FOR DAIRY COWS. S. S. R. r Summerville, Ga.. writes: Please give me some information in regard to the amount of cotton seed products which can be fed to milch cows before producing toxic effects. The amount of cotton seed meal which may be fed to a cow with safety and satisfaction depends on the size and age of the animal and the amount of milk she is producing. In our expe rience with several hundred cows cover ing a period of more than fifteen years, we have found from four to five pounds per day -abou.t the right amount of cot ton seed meal to feed. We have fed as much as six or eight pounds, but this has only been in exceptional cases and for limited periods of time. Five pounds of meal may be fed per day to a 1.000- peund cow for almost indefinite periods of time without the least injury, and this is especially true where you have pasture for them to run on in the summer and green feed of any descrip tion to use in the winter. There is nothing better than silage. Lacking- silage pastures consisting of burr or crimson clover or any of the winter cereals will be found satisfactory. Of course, you should feed during the win der time some dry feed such as hulls or cornstover. Hulls may be fed in amounts varying from ten to fifteen pounds per day. The meal may often be mixed with the hulls to advantage. The above ration should be divided into two equal parts and fed morning and night. Cotton seed meal is a very coix- centrated food, containing more than four times as much digestible protein as corn. Therefore when you feed five pounds of meal per head per day, you are giving the protein equivalent of twenty pounds of corn. People do not realize how rich this concentrate is and are disposed to overfeed it with the re sult that they sometimes produce In digestion which may become chronic. The roots of soy beans enclosed would indicate that the land on which the crop is growing is not inoculated tor this particular crop, though it is possible that the nodules which should ordinarily form have been dried up or shattered off as they are very fragile. In our experience we have found it much better to sow soy beans in drills 24 to 30 inches apart rather than to seed them with a grain drill where ev ery tube is left unstopped and the crop stands thick upon the ground and in rows six to eight inches apart. We have found it much better not to cover the seed too deeply. It is important to have the ground for this crop in the very best possible condition when it is planted. If the ground has been work ed wet or is a heavy sobby piece of clay, the beans do not do well as a rule. Of course, you can inoculate the seed by getting earth from a field where soy beans have grown successfully be fore, or you may use an artificial cul ture. In our experience broadcasting this crop has not been' satisfactory. It seems to respond well to some cultiva tion when young, and we are disposed to think if you will follow the sugges tions made in this letter in the future, you will have better success in the cultivation of this crop. It often hap pens that when soy beans or cowpeas do not do well on a piece of land the first year that succeeding crops do bet ter. You should also bear in mind the fact that your land may be strongly acid, thus preventing the development of the bacteria which enable legumes to assimilate atmospheric nitrogen through the nodules forming on their roots. An application of caustic lime if it is acid at the rate of one ton per acre will be profitable for many years, and will put th^ land in condition to insure gerater success in the cultiva tion of soy beans. • • • NOTES ON ALFALFA CULTIVATION. E. W. M., Eatonton, Ga., wrfl'es: I want information In regard to the cultivation of alfalfa. Can it be grown successfully in this section, and is it necessary to inoculate it% A reader in northwest Tennessee says that “wheat yields have become so low that, generally speaking, wheat is no longer a profitable crop. Corn is now the principal crop, but there is evidence that this is also decreasing in yield. Red clover grows fine, but much of the hay is sold, there being too little live stock to consume it. I believe too large a part of the land is planted to corn. What is the rem edy?” The remedy is a common-sense, ra tional system of cropping, which will maintain soil fertility. That the wheat failed is no new experience, nor is it an unusual result that the yields of corn are decreasing. A crop of fifty bushels of corn removes: Nitrogen, 47.5 pounds. Phosphoric acid, 19.6 pounds. Potash, 14 pounds. « If the cornstalks, crabgrass, and other materials on the corn land are burned, as is sometimes done in this and other sections, from 30 to 40 pounds more of nitrogen is driven into the air. Then if a ton and a half of clover hay is sold off an acre, litle more nitrogen will be left in the soil than was there before the growth of the clover, while there will be removed in the ton. and a Is there any wonder that lands treat ed in this way fail to grow* wheat profit ably after a time, or that the yield of corn grows less? It would be a miracle if such were not the results of such farming; but as a matter of fact, it is generally true in the south, and perhaps elsewhere, that those sections having the richest soils are doing the poorest farming. An other fact, which is still more unfor tunate is that frequently the farmers of Sugar sells at about $2.85 per 100) such sections favored with a rich soil, think they have nothing to learn, while in reality they have not yet learned the A B C’s of what constitutes a success ful and permanent agriculture. I suggest, in response to this inquiry, that a system of farming or cropping j must be adopted which will put into these soils, every year or rotation pe riod, more—considerably more—nitrogen than is removed by the crops sold from the farm. Much nitrogen is leached from the soil and that is why more must be put into the soil than is taken off by the crops. The red clover will do this if plowed under, or, better still, if the corn—grain and silage—is fed along with the clo ver hay, and sufficient clover grown, the manure and clover sod will main tain the nitrogen and humus supply in the soil. Also, if the supply of phosphoric acid is becoming depleted, or is deficient, it must be purchased; lor there is no way of maintaining the phosphoric acid in the soil except by buying and feeding large quantities of grains or by buying ground phosphate rock or acid phos phate. With the system of farming which has been in practice. lime may also have become deficient, unless it was original ly very abundant. In short, you cannot continue to take from the soil without putting back about as much as you take away, and if the humus and plant foods arc put back in the .soil the most economical way, this is good farming. To take all out of the soil possible in tho way of high-priced products and put back as much at low cost is the true business of the farmer MISO pounds on the Liverpool, England, mar- L fi! PEACE CONGRESS United States Is Asked Not to Fortify Panama Canal as Convention Ends Session (By Associated Press.) THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Aug. 25.— The twentieth universal peace congress had its closing sitting today. The dele gates voted to hold the next congress at Vienna in 1914. The peace congress finished its la bors after recording a further series of good intentions and its appreciation of President Wilson’s attitude towards peace. The thanks of the congress were telegraphed to President Wilson. The question of the fortification of the Panama canal was resurrected today by Prof. Slayden, of Washington, and Prof. Slocum, of Colorado, who secured the passage of a resolution asking the United States government not to fortify the canal. In another resolution delegates ex pressed their satisfaction at President Wilson’s proposal for the submission of disputes which could not be settled dip lomatically for investigation by an in ternational committee. "" treat™ JAPAN EXPIRED YESTERDAY ket. What's wrong with the tariff onj' sugar, the refineries, or our system of retailing? We pay from 32 cents to 80 cents per 100 pounds for the transportation of freight from Chicago to our shipping point. On carload lots of certain mate rial from that point to this the freight ra^tes will run from 16 cents to 35 cents per 100 pounds. Query: How can one pound of a certain kind of such mate rial cause more pressure on the rails of the railroad, or take up more space in a car, than a pound of practically the same material? One is liable to u fine of $500 if he writes a letter and encloses it in_ a par cel post package. Why? Compare the parcel post rate on a five-pound pack age from your postofficc to Chicago with that of the express rates. Why should the government come so nearly charging as much for this service as the express companies, with their multi-j owners, stockholders, officers, etc*., allj of whom pocket a good, fat dividend ev ery year from their present rates? Again, somebody please tell us why it costs two cents to carry an ordinary letter from New York to Philadelphia', or from New York to San Francisco, while a parcel post package mailed from New York to San Francisco will cost $1.20. against 42 cents if sent only to Philadelphia. In other words, has our parcel post system been simply placed on a competitive basis with other modes of transportation, or is it to be merely self-sustaining, with a small surplus as a safety x’alve. the common people reap ing the benefit of it through reduced cost of living? We recently heard of a farmer who sold his merchant some apples at 60 cents per bushel. Within five minutes thereafter the same apples were being priced by the merchant at $JL.25 per bushel. Another instance: A southern farmer sold a carload of watermelons to commission men for a little over $50, this being about 5 cents each, to pay the man for raising them, hauling them to tho station and loading them into the car. The commission man shipped them to St. Paul, receiving! $240 for them, paying the railroad' company $75 for transportation. The same melons retailed in St. Paul at' from 6u to 75 cents each, and there were a few melons over 1,000 in the' car. “Chestnut:’’ Where did the over $500 difference in the first selling price (to the consumer) go? When will our farmers ever learn the lesson of co operative marketing, which would shut out these fat-living commission» men and divide their spoils between the pro ducer and consumer? A poor road running past your farm cuts a good-sized slice from the value of your land, in case you should want , to sell (and who knows but that you rni y-i v. bile a good n ad adds«ma terially to the attractiveness and value of your farm. Good roads enable one to make a drive to town or deliver his products to market much quicker and easier than he could over poor roads. Then, the economy realized by such roads in avoiding the wear and tear on vehicles, harness and ' l l ho se?- is more than man / of us would believe; while the east) and comfort afforded both man and beast in travel ing good roads cannot be estimated in . dollars and cents. Individual effort of course counts for much in this good road movement, but do you realize the vast amounts congress is yearly appropriating for the improvement and maintenance of the rivers and harbors of our country? What has that to do with good roads, you ask? Just this: The ’people interested in these river and harbor appropriations let their congressmen know about it; they urge, petition, insist that these auxiliaries to commerce—the very life and limb of their existence—demand improvement, and that the public in general will be the beneficiary, all of which is true—and the appropriations usually come. What avenues of ccn» merce could possibly be of as much viuii interest, especially to the Ameri can farmer, as our highways are? Do you think your congressman is a mind reader, and knows exactly where you stand on such issues? Means of Arbitrating Califor nia Land Law No Longer Exist (By Associated Press.) . WASHINGTON. Aug. 25.—The arbi tration treaty with Japan expired by limitation today and a supplementary treatyproposed to extend its provisions remains unacted upon by the senate. News of arbitrating the California anti- : alien land question or other disputes no longer exist, unless a special agree ment should be made. WORLD’S LARGEST DAM TO BE DEDICATED COLUMBIA DRY NOW; LOCKER CLUBS RAIDED COLUMBIA, S. C., Aug. 25.—For the first time in many years the city of Columbia is “dry.” The lid is clamped down hard and tight, and sun down there is no place where liquor or beer can be bought. The dispensaries' during the daytime are the only places where the thirsty can get relief. The city police, under orders from Mayor Gibbes, raided the so-called “so cial” clubs so frequently and seized so much of their stuff that they had to go out of business. Formerly it was the custom to raid the alleged “tigers' 1 at certain intervals and take whatever was visible and make the proprietor put up a bond of $40.75 which he for feited by his nonappearance. This ran along for about two years until suddenly a few days ago Mayor Gibbes got ’to enforcing the raids so vigorous ly that the owners of the places where illegal traffic in liquor and beer has been going on had to shut up. State constables, acting under orders from the governor, raided the Colum bia, The Metropolitan and Ridgewood clubs, where the locker system prevails, seized what refreshments were on hand and instructed the. management that unless the lockers were removed the entire furniture of the clubs would be seized and an injunction taken out. Ac- cordingty all the clubs are now “dry” and nothing heavier than soda water is allowed. (By Associated Press.) KEOKUK, Iowa, Aug. 25.—The largest water-power dam in the world will be ! dedicated here next Tuesday. The plant, built at a cost of $27,000,000 in the Mississippi river where the states of Iowa, Illinois and Missouri join, is expected to develop 300,000 horse power. The dam, stretching nine-tenths of a mile across the river, is 53 feet wide at the top. It consists of 119 arched spans, each thirty feet between six-foot piers. In each span is a spillway thirty feet high, topped by a steel gate eleven feet high. By opening and closing a variable number of these gates, the water above the dam is kept at a certain height and sufficient water for naviga tion below is always passed through the dam. The water power, converted into elec tricity, is for use in the new power zone along the Missippi extending from Burlington, Iowa, to St. Louis, the latter taking 60,000 horsepower of current. In order not to obstruct, navigation on the river the power company has built a lock which is to be the property of the United States government. It j has the same width as tlie Panama i canal locks and a lift one-third higher j than any one lock on the isthmus. The power house is one-third of a i mile long and contains thirty of the i largest turbines ever built. The lake above the dam has an area of 100 square miles and its water is kept at a constant level by the opera tion of gates in the dam. TONIC MIXTURE FOR HOGS. J. D. S., Brookfield, Ga., writes: I want to make a good condition powder for my bogs to be kept where they may eat it at will, and wuld like to know a good formula for this purpose. Also is there anything better than pine tar for keeping licef off rnogs? I want to secure some kind of liquid for spraying on horses and cows to keep the flies and ticks away. Please advise me what is the best thing to use. The best tonic condition powder to use with hogs may be prepared as fol lows: Wood charcoal 1 pound. Sulphur 1 pound. Sodium chloride 2 pounds. Sodium bicarbonate 2 pounds. Sodium hyposulphite 2 pounds. Sodium sulphate 1 pound. Antimony sulphide 1 pound. These ingredients should be kept in a box in the pens or pastures where the hogs can have access to it at all times. This is considered to be one of the best 1 Classy $25 Sint Made to Order Bigsest tailoring offer ever mode, i Classy tailor made clothes. Wads of < money. Brand new offer. Biggest-most start- li/ij! offer yoa ever heard about. Send no money bat writs today for ful* particu'— * Make $60 aWeek/ If we give you a sample suit t will you act as our agent? Your / choice of hundreds of style* end mater- < »-■m i jio.oo a Pay rigu . BAT. $200.00 i\ week Is not out of the t ordinary. Big new scheme is a winner. I Get in on the ground door. Write for full particulars. NO EXPERIENCE. OR CAPITAL NEEDED. * * “ i day will make it pay. An hour We Pay All the Express You take no risk at. all. We pay for I everythin*. YOU TAK U IN THE MONEY. ’ We back yoa up from the minute you con- [ sent to be our agent. Write Today SSidte'tSKr Get full particular* of this big new tailor- in* offer, It’e the one beat bet, Remem- Reliable Tailoring Co^Drpt ittZ Reliable Bld», Chicago combinations yet devised for the pur pose you have in mind. Any of the coal tar dips will prove satisfactory for use as sprays on animals to protect them from lice. Mix in the proportion of one quart of creolin, for instance, to 100 parts of water. If this does not prove effective you may increase the strength 'to 1 to 50. These materials are sometimes used in the proportion of 1 to 30, but this is rather unusual and liable to prove irritating to the skin of the animal. You understand, of course, that there are a variety of coal tar dips on the market most of which if properly made are effective and may be used in the same propor tions as creolin. You may apply any .of these dips with a hand spray pump, as suggested in your letter. There is nothing better than fish oil for protecting animals from flies. You can purchase this through any drug store. Of course, all debris and manure accumulating in the stable should be removed. The manure should be sprink led lightly with gypsum or lime to prevent the hatching out of additional broods of flies. Various proprietary preparations are on, the market for pro tecting animals from these insects. You Alfalfa is not an easy crop to estab lish and maintain, and those intending to sow it should prepare the land some time in advance of its seeding. It is well to plow under a crop of cowpeas or velvet beans. Alfalfa is a deep-root ed crop and does best on lands well drained and sufficiently porous for its roots to penetrate to a considerable depth. Land intended for alfalfa should be limed at the rate of not' less than one ton per acre of caustic lime. Put the lime on shortly after you have broken the land and work it into the top soil with a harrow. Then let the land stand for a couple of weeks. Fertilize with 1,000 pounds of a 10-3-6 mixture which may be broadcasted on the land and worked in with a harrow. Then sow twenty pounds of recleaned American- grown seed, and cover with a weeder. The seed should be sown not later than October 1 if the season is good, so as to permit of a good stand being se cured before cold weather comes on. One of the great enemies of alfalfa in this section of the south is crab grass. You should hold this in check as much as possible by liming liberally, fertilizing highly and keeping the al falfa clipped yery close so as to pre vent the grass from obtaining a foot hold and developing sufficiently to choke or crowd out the alfalfa. It is not well to pasture your alfalfa when it is young. It should be cut for hay when just coming into bloom. Alfalfa is a very valuable hay, mak ing an admirable substitute for other hays* and it will pay you to test small patches of it, and thus acquire the ex perience necessary to its establishment on larger areas of ground. You should inoculate the seed before sowing it. This may be done by securing 200 pounds of earth from a field where al falfa has been grown successfully be fore, and scattering it over the surface of each acre of ground, or you may mix the seed with the soil before sowing. GERMAN INDUSTRIES PLANNING EXHIBITS May Come to Frisco Notwith standing Government's Absence (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.-—Many Ger man enterprises and industries may be represented at the Panama-Pacific ex position, despite the Berlin govern ment’s decision not to participate, ac cording to cable advices received today by Director John Barrett, of the Pan- American union. Special freight rates and privileges are being planned for prospective exhibitors, who are to meet soon to discuss their participation. Mr. Barrett’s advices come from an offi cial of a large German business house. ITALIANS THREATEN TO LYNCH STREET CAR CREW (By Associated Press.) KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 25.—A mob of several hundred persons threatened the lives of a street car crew here to night after Georgia Oddenano, twenty months old, had been struck and drag ged under the car in the Italian quar ter. As the car stopped the mother crawled beneath it. pulled out her baby and held it up, mangled and bleeding. Frank Holmes, motorman, and J. L. Robinson, conductor of the car, alighted to obtain names of witnesses. A crowd surounded them with cries of “lynch them.” Police arrived and rescued them from the mob. Holmes and Robinson later were re leased on bonds of $1,000 each. The chila o right foot was amputated. Its life probably will be saved. FRANCE WILL REFUSE TO RECEIVE MEXIC MINISTER Stark aid Cupid Cunning Plotters Many a New Home will Have a Little Sunbeam to Brighten It. PLEASANT STOVALL ARRIVES AT BERNE (By Associated Press.) BERNE. Switzerland, Aug. 25.—Pleas ant A. Stovall, of Savannah, Ga., pre sented his credentials today as United States minister to Switzerland. He suc ceeds H. S. Bouteli, of Illinois, There is some dread in every woman's mind as to the probable pain, distress and danger of child-birth. But, thanks to a re markable remedy known as Mother's Friend, the period is one of joyful antici pation. Mother’s Friend is a penetrating, exter nal application. It makes the muscles of the stomach and ab domen pliant so they expand easily and naturally without pain, and with none of that peculiar nausea, nervousness and other symptoms that tend to weaken the prospective mother. Thus Cupid and the stork are rated as cunning plotters to her ald the coming of a little sunbeam to glad den the hearts and homes. Thousands of women know from experi ence Mother's Friend is one of our greatest contributions to happy motherhood. Sold by all druggists at $1.00 per bottle. Espec ially recommended as a preventive of cak ing breast Write to Bradfieid Regulator Co., 231 Lamar Bldg., Atlanta, Ga.. for their val uable book to expectant mothers. (By Associated Press.) PARIS, Aug. 25.—The Agence Na- tionale says it is practically certain that, both President Poincare and M. Pichon, the. foreign minister, will de cline to receive Francisco de la Barra, the former provisional preident of Mexico, who recently was appointed minister to France. His position, it is added, is considered similar to that of General Felix Diaz, the special ambas sador now on his way to Japan, whom the Japanese government has refused to receive officially. WOULD STOP SLUSH FUNDS IN NATIONAL ELECTIONS WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.—Senator Clapp’s bill to stop the flooding of doubtful states with money for na tional elections or pre-convention cam- i paigns was reported to the senate to- j day with a recommendation for pas- i sage by the elections committee. It ! would permit a national committee to pay expenses of speaking campaigns, advertisements marked paid for, and other specified items; but would pre- hibit the general interstate movement of campaign funds. NAVY RAITNING SCHOOL COURSE OF FOUR MONTHS WASHINGTON. Aug. 25.—Secretary Daniels today ordered that, beginning October 1, enlisted men in the navy may be required to remain in the training schools at the discretion of the com mandant, four months instead of three; and in some cases they have to stay as long as six months. Such schools are located at Chicago, San Francisco, New port and Norfolk TENNESSEE S0L0NS END LONG SESSION Legislature Adjourns After Meeting Since January 6. Many Laws Passed (By Associated Press,) NASHVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 25.—One of the longest and most turbulent sessions or the legislature ended at noon today when one house simply “adjourned” and the other adjourned sine die. Six mem bers were present in each. An early call for an extra session to pass on ap propriation bills is expected. This session began January 6 and ex cepting the usual recess has continued, being kept alive by regular Democrats, though since April 1, when the fusion filibuster began in the house, only on three days has a quorum been recorded in both houses. Among new laws passed are those providing convict paroles, indetrminate prison sentences, compulsory education, giving the schools a third of the reve nues, vital statistics law, creating bank ing departments, state auditing depart ment, exacting interest on state deposits and giving Nashville, a commission gov ernment. The prohibition laws were not affected Regular Democrats attempted to amend the election laws, but the legality of the procedure has yet to be passed on by the supreme court. MULHALL TESTIFIES BEFORE LOBBY PROBE (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.—Martin M. 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