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I 6 THE ATLANTA SEMT-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1913. AGRICULTURAL SS Education **> SuccessroL Farming- JumsM Smx.^ This department will cheerfully endeavor to furnish any Information. Letters should be addressed to Dr. Andrew M. Soule, president State Agricultural College, Athens, Qa. THE AUTUMN APPLICATION OF FERTILIZERS The season of the year is at hand when preparations for fall sown crops are in ofder. The wise farmer will hasten the preparation of his soil as much as possible, for relatively early seeding, according to observation and experiment made in different parts of the south throughout the past twenty years, has proven the most profitable. Of course, wheat can be seeded so early that the Hessian fly will often in jure and destroy it, and hence this point should be guarded against. Where early seeding is followed some crops may make too much top to go through the winter to the best advantage. This difficulty can be easily obviated by the reasonable grazing off of the particular area in question. While the us e of fer tilizers in the spring is generally con sidered essential, there is some differ ence of opinion as to the advisability of using them in the fall. There is a gen eral belief apparently that cereals do not need fertilization. Of course, much depends on the character of land on which fhe crop is to be sown and its previous treatment. Where lands de voted to cotton or corn have been very heavily fertilized there is undoubtedly some residue left in the soil, but it should be remembered that the latter crop is much more exhaustive to the soil than cotton, that is, where a yield of forty to fifty bushels per acre is ob tained as compared with a half to three- quarters or even, a bale of cotton per acre. To conclude that our thin soils will make heavy crops of oats, wheat or barley after corn, especially without additional fertilizers, has not been shown by the experience of our farmers or the tests of our experiment station workers to be a wise policy. Where lands have been built up by systematic rotation or where stock is kept in abundance as on dairy or beefproducing farms and there is a considerable quan tity of yard manure available, the use of fertilizers might be more or less questionable. Certainly, the formulas advised would be modified somewhat and the quantity per acre reduced. Under the general conditions prevail ing in the state cereals sown as winter cover crops or for the production of grain the following spring will, as a rule, respond to the use of fair applica tions of rationally compounded fertil izers. -Rye will require, relatively speaking, less plant food than wheat or oats. Cats will do better in pro portion than wheat with the same amount of fertilizer, that is. where the yield of grain is, taken as the measure of efficiency. It is unnecessary-to point out the very material advantages whicji Wood Shin No! No!! STOP the Awful Waste Fof wood shingles — the cause of disastrous /fires, leaky roofs and endless expense and f trouble. Use beautiful, indestructible Edwards "STEEL” Shingles. Costless, last longer than f wood—better in every way. Over 100,000men J now use Edwards “STEEL” Shingles--the shin- I gles that never rot, rust or burn. Ten times ] easier to put on. Each one dipped in molten zincafteritiscut. No raw or exposed edges. Patented Edwards Interlocking Device per- mits contraction and expansion — makes \ joints water-tight FOREVER! 810.000 guar antee against lightning loss FREE. START Saving Money By Using Edwards STEEL Shingles Fire-Proof! Rust-Proof! Leak-Proof! We sell direct from factory and pay freight. ^ SHINGLE BOOK FREE. Write for book and Prepaid Factory Prices. See for your self how much less Steel costs than wood- then get busy! If you give dimensions of your roof, we willquote prices on entire job, Send postal right off — Catalog No. 10353 and special prices will come by return mail. THE EDWARDS MANUFACTURING COMPANY 10353 Look St. Cincinnati, Ohio , Iatfert Makers of Sheet Metal Products in the World J the climate of Georgia offers for the production of winter oats of the rust proof varieties, rye and in less propor tion, wheat. Where these crops are to be sown after corn, the use of 300 pounds per acre of a formula containing 2 to 3 per ^ent of nitrogen, 7 to 9 per cent of phosphoric acid and 3 to 4 per cent of potash becomes advisable. This formula can often be used to advantage on cotton lands as well. The larger per centages should be used on sandy lands and the small on clay lands. The quantity to apply will vary from 300 to 500 pounds per acre. While a variety of materials may be used as the source of supply, it should be remembered that organic nitrogen, becoming rather slowly available and less subject to loss from the soil by leaching or its transference into quickly available and possibly volatile forms, j should be given prefernce. As a source of nitrogen for fall sown crops our ex perience indicates that cotton seed meal is one of the best. Tankage and other animal by-products have also proven satisfactory, but the choice of a source of organic nitrogen should be made largely on tis relative *cost to the farmer. Cotton seed meal, of course, is a home-grown product and the more ex tensively it can be utilized in our agri culture, the greater becomes the value of the seed and the better terms of ex change the farmer can secure. More over, it prevents the constant drain on the state’s fertilizing elements through permitting the meal to be shipped into other sections and used for food and fertilizer. Of course, it is to be regret- ed that it cannot all be fed to live stock, but as this seems impracticable in the present state of our animal industries, where the use of nitrogenous fertilizers becomes essential, it is well to remem ber its merits and utilize it as advan tageously as possible in the improve ment of our farms. The value which is placed upon cot ton seed by-products in other sections of the United States is not as fully ap preciated as it should be in the south. The writer was surprised this summer when visiting a number of stock farms a thousand miles away from the bor ders of the state to find it constituting the basis of the ration for dairy cows and being used as one of the principal sources of protein for the nourishment of beef cattle as well. Of course, the farmer who believes that some other source of organic nitrogen will supply his needs more economically and advan tageously should not hesitate to use the same. Naturally, the nitrogen should be combined with a sufficient amount of phosphorus and potash to provide formulas equivalent in percentages to t’eose recommended above. Fertilizers should be incorporated with the soil at the time of drilling in the various crops. There is not any danger of covering it too deeply, for if put down in the soil to a fair depth, it encourages deeper and more thbrough rooting of the plants growing on the land and will thus enable them to stand the vicissitudes of the winter to better advantage. WherJ fertilizers are intel ligently compounded and rationally used after the crops mentioned, there is no reason why a good yield of gram may not be expected the following spring. In fact, an opportunity to stifdy agricultural conditions through a long series of years in several of the south ern states evidences beyond question that Georgia can 1 produce winter oats, for example, to the very best advantage. Oats while not an exhausting crop crop to the soil require good treatment and respond in the matter of increased yield to the judicious use of fertilizers. It is very desirable that every farmer en gage in the production of winter cereals as extensively, as possible. They not only provide a cover crop for the land which arrests the frightful loss of soil elements due to erosion and leaching, but provide more or less grazing of the most desirable character and enable the farmer to supply a very considerable proportion of the grain he needs for the spring and summer maintenance of his live stock. • • * CONTROLLING SMUT IN OATS. H. R. N., Hoschton, Ga., writes: I have some very fine oats I want to sow hut they blasted so much this year and last. Please tell me what to do to prevent the blast or smut. 127) YOUR FALL*SUIT FREE Mad* to Your Moaauro $30 to $40 would not buy a better one, but you get it for nothing. Not a cent to pay. 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CirdaaaU, Ohia Several methods of treating smut in oats have been followed with success, and you may try any one of them which seems to you the easiest to carry into effect. First of all put the pats in a tub of cold water and skim off such trash as floats to the top. Some of the light and immature seeds as well as a good deal of smut will be gotten rid of in this way. • Then place the oats in a gunny sack and immerse in hot water for ten minutes. The water should be at a temperature of 133 defrees Farenheit. It is important that the temperature be exactly right, and that this temperature be maintained while the oats are in the water. At the conclusion of the treat ment cool quickly by immersing in cold water or stirring thoroughly while dry ing. This is a simple and inexpensive method, as you will see, though some difficulty will he experienced in getting the water at the right temperature and keeping it there for ten minutes. Bluestone or copper sulphate may also be used in the proportion of one part to five parts of water. Immerse the oats in the solution for ten minutes and then drain thoroughly and spread out to dry. Some sprinkle the seed with the solution by using a gallon to four bushels of grain and stirring until thor oughly wet. At the end of an hour dry. This treatment can hardly be as effective as where the oats are immersed in bags. Formalin may also be used for, con trolling smut, using a solution of one pint of formalin, that is, 0 per cent for maldehyde, to fifty gallons of water. They may either be sprinkled or im mersed for thirty minutes. in all the treatments the seed should lirst be immersed in cold water and the smut balls and trash skimmed off the top. Treatment afteF immersion may be hastened by using a small quantity of thoroughly air-slaked lime, but this is not essential. SEEDING HARRY VETCH. X. C. W., Meigs, Ga., writes: I wish to now some hairy vetch this fall. How should the laud be prepared and how much seed sown per acre. Which is best to use with it, oats, wheat or barley? Is it necessary to inoculate It? Where one intends to sow hairy vetch the land if in excellent physical condi tion may be disked and the seed# sown immediately. If the land is not in good physical condition and badly compacted and low in vegetable matter, we would j suggest that it be broken up, cross , disked and harrowed and even compacted i with a roller so as to provide a fria-! ble and firm seed bed. Plowing will loos en the lower areas of the soil and this , is an advantage, enabling the air and water to perform their share of the work in the soil more satisfactorily and also hastening the development and spread of the roots of the vetch. When seeding vetch we would advise the use of a bushel to a ^bushel and a half of oats, one of the rust-proof va rieties being selected, with 20 to 30 pounds of the best seed obtainable. We have had. very satisfactory results from this combination on red clay lands. Cer tainly the vetch should be inoculated on soils where it has not been grown be fore. We think you can secure cultures for this purpose free of cost from the bureau of plant industry, United States department of agriculture, Washington, D. C. We prefer oats as a nurse crop to either of the other two mentioned. The department will send you full in structions on how to apply the inocu lating material. • • • TESTING SOIL FOR ACIDITY. A. E. E., Roswell, Ga., writes: I sent for litmus paper to test soil for planting to alfalfa and they sent red instead of blue. Will the red do as well as the blue? SELECTING SEED FDD THE NEW CROP You should return the red litmus pa per at once and secure the blue, as the red would be of no value to you in determining soil acidity. When you have secured the blue litmus paper, scrape away the surface soil in the field where you expect to plant alfalfa to a depth of two inches. Take up some of the earth and place in a clean tin cup. By this we mean one which has never been used. Then pour sufficient rainwater on it to slightly puddle it. Insert the blue litmus paper and let it stand for a few minutes. If the pa per turns red quickly it indicates that the soil is quite acid. As a rule, the use of one to two tons of relatively finely ground raw rock as a top dress ing on land which has been properly prepared will answer very well for alfalfa in this state. One ton of the caustic or freshly burned lime will have about the same sweetening power as two tons of the crushed or pulverized rock. * * * SPRAYING GARDEN CROPS. G. F. V., Augusta, G,a., writes: I was troubled a good deal with bugs and worms In my garden this year and sprayed my corn and' collards with a solution of arsen ate of lead, about a teaspoonful to one quart of water. Is it entirely safe to eat collards and other vegetables thus treated? There is no reason why it should not be safe to use corn or collards which have been sprayed with a relatively weak solution of arsenate of lead as feed for live stock or human consump tion, provided the plants have begn ex posed to several heavy rains. One should take special care in preparing the col lards for the table and wash them through at least two waters. As corn is protected by the shucks, it would be less liable to carry the poison to hu man beings. While the use of arsenate of lead as a spray on plants of this character should be limited as much as circumstances will permit, it sometimes seems rtecessary to use it. There is much less danger in using it on the crops mentioned than there would be on cabbage or other close-headed plants, as the poison is liable to get on the in side and it is very difficult to remove unless the head is carefully separated and washed through several waters. • • • TREATMENT OF SORES ON NECK. F. H., Wayside, Ga., writes: I have a^ mule that has a breaking out on his neck and shoulders. It first starts in hard knots and then gets raw. & He is continually biting and rubbing hitnself. He seems per fectly healthy otherwise. Would like to know what to do for them. Trouble such as you describe is some times due to digestive troubles of a more or less chronic character and to the poverty of the blood. We would suggest that the sores be thoroughly cleansed by washing with tar soap, then wipe dry and rub thoroughly with a quantity of oxide of zinc ointment or some other bland ointment which is equally effective. Internally the mule should be given Epsom salts In four- ounce doses until the bowels move free ly. Then give for a few days a mix ture of nitrate of potash four ounces, common salt four ounces and sulphur ' ? “SYRUP OF FIGS” FOR Ten Important Suggestions Given Farmers by State Entomology Board The time has come when the farm ers of Georgia must select their cotton seed for next year’s planting; and in view of the many pests and diseases to which the plant is now subject, this is no simple qr easy task. The state board of entomology lays down ten rules or suggestions rela tive to cotton seed selection which, if followed carefully by the farmers, will materially assist them in eliminating plant pests and diseases from their fields. Generally speaking, the seed should be selected from the strongest and hardiest plants, such as are free from diseases and which have the greatest percentage of fruit properly located. Mor e specifically, the selection should be made, says State Entomologist E. Lee Worsham, with reference to re sistance to root knot and anthracnose; fruitfulness and earliness; percentage of lint; type of plant and distribution of fruit on the plant. In selecting for resistance to black root or wilt disease the plant should be chosen from that section of the field where the ordinary cotton suffered greatest damage. Here, however, the selection should be made of the nard- iest and most resistant plants, hardiest and best developed plants. WATCH OUT FOR ROOT KNOT. Care should also be taken to select those plants which ar e resistant to root knot or nematode worms. The nematode worm is a parasite on the roots of plants which causes knots, commonly known as nematode galls or root. The plant Is stunted and some times killed. As the common cpwpca Is very suscseptible to this work, it is dangerous to follow such a pea crop with cotton. The wilt resistant ^trains are somewhat resistant to root knot, and hte department believes by contin ued selection of the most resistant plants, this quality may be greatly im proved. \ Another thing to j be avoided in the selection of the seed is anthracnose, a fungus disease of cotton which causes the bolls to rot and some ^seasons does a great deal of damage, occasionally as high as 50 per cent of the bolls rotting off. All varieties of cotton are more or less susceptible to anthracnose. At present the best way to control this disease is by rotation of crops and by the use of resistant varieties through careful seed selection. A plant badly affected by anthracnose should not be selected, even though it Is very resist ant to wilt and is well fruited. Fruitfulness should be carefully con sidered in seed selection, with a view to increasing the yield per acre. Where possible, the department advises the se lection of the most fruitful stalks by comparison. GET EARLY VARIETIES. Earliness is another important point in selection, especially in southwest Georgia, where it will be necessary next year to meet the invasion of the cotton boll weevil. Two ways are sug gested of securing an early resistant strain. First by crossing the wilt re sistant strain wtih early varieties, and second by selecting the earliest plants from the resistant strains now at hand. It is believed that the individual se lection of the earliest plants will be the quickest and best method. The department advises that no stalk should be selected which yields less than 33 1-3 per cent of lint. In its own work it discards all stalks that two ounces. These materials should be thoroughly pulverized together and given twice daily in the feed. A heap ing teaspoonful constitutes a dose. * * • SUGGESTIONS ON WINTER OATS. J. B. D., Eatonton, Ga., writes: I would like any information you can give me as to the earllness. etc., of Fulglmm oats. Is it rust-proof and thoroughly acclimated? 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Ask your druggist for a 50- cent bottle of “California Syrup of Figs.” which has directions for babies, children of all ages and grown-ups printed on the bottle. Beware of coun terfeits sold here, so don’t be fooled. Get the genuine, made by “California Fig Syrup Company.” Ask this Man to Read your Life. His Wonderful Power to Read Hu man Lives at Any Distance Amazes All Who Write to Him Thousands of people in all walks of life have benefited by this man’s advice. He tells you what you are capable of, and how you can be successful. He mentions your friends and enemies and des cribes the good and bad periods of your life. His description as to past, present and future events will astonish and help you. All he wants Is your name (written by yourself), your birth date and sex to guide him in his work. Money is not neces sary. Mention the name of this paper and get a./Trlal Reading free. If you want to take advantage of this special offer and obtain a re view of your life simply s^nd your full name, address, the date, month and year of birth (all clearly writ ten), state whether Mr., Mrs. or Miss, and also copy the following verse in your own hand writing. “Your power is marvelous So people write; Please read my life « Are my prospects bright?” if you wish you may enclose 10 cents (stamps of your own country) to pay postage and cleri- eal work. Send vonr letter to flay Burton Vance. Suite 736-D, Palais-Royal, Paris, France. Do not enclose coins in your letter. Postage on tetters to France la 5 cents.—(Advt.) Fulghum oats were grown last year in our demonstration field and yielded as well as any other strain. It is dif ficult to say from one year’s test that they are superior in all respects to oth er varieties of oats. Last year they ma tured about ten days earlier than other strains and this is a decided advantage, They produce very large and rather coarse straw, and the quality of grain in very good indeed. They are a sport, as we understand it, from the rust proof strains and were originated in Warren county by a man whose name they bear. They were somewhat ex tensively grown last year by a number of farmers in Georgia who command them very highly. We are conducting further tests with this oat, and believe from what we know that it is well suited to our climate and soil and that where seed can be secured from reliable sources that it will be found a val uable strain to cultivate. * * * INTEREST IN PERCHERON HORSES. W. I. H., Gainesville, Ga., writes: I was much interested in the article on Percheron horses. I would like to know where is the best place to purchase these horses and' what is the best price they can be had for? Also what age horse would you recommend and what weight? Your interest in livestock farming is to be commended and I am glad that the article on Percheron. horses has in terested you to the extent of investi gating this class of horses with the idea of purchasing some of them. You can purchase animals of this breed in a number of places. They are more largely produced in Illinois and Iowa than elsewhere in the United States, but you can probably secure what you want from Timmons & Jarnagin, Jef ferson City, Tenn.; J. E. ’Hite, Galla tin, Tenn.; Henry Bow’en, Witten's Mills, Va.; J. R. K. Bell, Pulaski, Va.; and L. W. Jarman, Porterdale, Ga. I would suggest that you write to all of these gentlemen asking them to give you the best prices on such grade of animals as you care to purchase. For the production of colts for farm work high-grade mares will answer every pur pose. If you desire to sell the progeny for breeding purposes, it will probably pay you to buy a pair of pure-bred mares. A pair of three or four-year- olds will cost you from $500 to $800, depending on the breeding, and the size, substance and condition. We would ad vise you to buy mares relatively young as you can put* growth on them for much less than if you were to pay out the cash for mature animals. Of course, you have to wait some time for them to develop when purchasing as has been indicated. We have a team of pure- breds on the college farm which we purchased as long two's which we think are worth now close to $1,000. Natu rally, we did not have this much money to put into them in the beginning. Of course, you understand that the Percheron is essentially a draft ani mal and that they must be skillfully cared for and handled if you are to pro duce colts with certainty and economy and work the animals to good advan tage. We work them consistently on the college farm, and find we have no trouble with them save possibly during one or two of the hottest months dur ing the summer. Trade and Crop Re ports From the South —From Bradstreet’s. Richmond—Trade in seasonable com modities, particularly shoes and cloth ing, is stimulated by the fall season. Tobacco and cotton are being marketed in good quantities at prices in ex cess of last year. Lumber continues quieit, and some manufacturers have closed down their plants. Fruits and produce are plentiful, but find ready market. Growing crops continue in good condition, and with the exception of cotton will produce in larger yield than in any recent year. Little building is being done, as a consequence supplies are not active. Collections are slow. Charleston, S. C.—Trade and colec tions are good. Cotton is being picked rapidly and sold at present market prices. Maturing notes are being met promptly. Chattanooga—Wholesale trade holds its own. Manufacturers continue to book an average number of orders, and, on the whole, they regard conditions as favorable. Retail trade seems to be considerably stimulated by the approach of the fall season. Collections every where, especially in the. country dis tricts, have improved greatly, owing to the sale of the first of the cotton crop. Memphis—Wholesale trade is stimu lated by cooler weather and retail trade is active. Collections are fair. Farmers are busy picking cotton, whiph is being ginned rapidly. The yield is much bet ter than for several years. Savannah—Trade in all lines shows some improvement and cotton is moving rapidly, th*e price being well maintained. Collections are improving. Atlanta—Wholesale merchants in all lines are having a good trade and col lections are fair. Retail sales show a good increase and collections are bet ter. Crop conditions continue favorable, and some cotton is being marketed. Birmingham—Inquiries for pig iron yield less than 34 per cent of lint. The only satisfactory method of determin ing the quality of lint yielded by a stalk is to gin each stalk separately with a hand gin. Care should be taken also as to the type of plant chosen. The best stalks to select are those having long fruit ing limbs close to the ground, and with joints close together. The fewer large stalking branches a plant has the bet ter, provided the fruiting branches are more numerous. In the matter of distribution and ar rangement of fruit over the stalk, it Is best to select the plants that have the most fruit on the lower part, because these begin fruiting earlier. Roguing is regarded as an important practice in the selection of cotton seed. That is, where a field is to be used par ticularly for the selection of seed, the diseased and stunted stalks should be cut out about July 1 or August 1, to prevent crossing with the producing plants and thereby reducing their re sistance. CARE IN GINNING. The next thing is proper ginning. The cotton selected for seed should be ginned on a hand gin, if possible. This does away with danger of adulteration or mixture with diseased seed. If the cptton is ginned on a public gin. all of the seed should be removed from the breast of the gin and other parts before the cotton is run through, and the seed, should be allowed to drop on the floor or on a sheet; It should never be allowed to run through the seed carrying auger. The work on the wilt disease of cot ton, development of resistant strains and seed selection, has been in charge of Mr. A. C. Lewis, assistant state ento mologist, since 1905. Under his direction there have been developed a number of resistant hybrids, and this special seed has been furnished to farmers in many sections of the state. The state board of entomology will be glad to assist any farmer in mak ing individual seed selections. Where this assistance is desired, he should save a few rows on a portion of .his field without picking it, and write the state entomologist requesting to have some one sent to assist in making the selections. The state board, of entomology owns a small gin operated by electricity, and will take great pleasure in ginning, free of charge, small quantities of seed that has been carefully selected. The seed cotton can be sent by parcel post and the seed will be properly labeled and returned. ROTATION OF CROPS TO KILL PESTS ADVISED (By Associated Press. > WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.—Safe-guard ing thg corn crops oil the south and west, the experts of the department of agriculture today sent out a warning against the inroads of the southern root worm and the western corn beetle, two pests which have curtailed the crop out put in those two great producing sec tions. The habits of both have just been catalogued, after a lengthy inves tigation by scientists who virtually have slept in the rustling corn fields. Rotation of crops is advocated as the cure for the southern visitant, whose destructive work is accomplished by working principally around the roots of the young corn. He is the most dan gerous of the two, and the femAle of his species is even deadlier, for she uses the hollow stalk of the growing corn in ’which to cradle her young. “The worm is about the size of the striped cucumber beetle,” according to the scientists, “has a yellowish green color and black eyes. He is most likely to be observed feeding on the corn during late August or September, al though they frequently enter farm houses at night being attracted by the lamp light.” The eradication of both, however, is urged by the department in the inter ests of a greater food production. RAILWAY HEAD PLEASED WITH CROP REPORTS are fairly brisk. Building material is active. Dealers in dry goods, groceries and similar lines are doing the usual fall trade. Collections are fair. Mobile—Wholesale trade is improving. With the heavy movement of cotton a decided betterment in business and col lections is anticipated. Lumber and naval stores are very quiet. Montgomery. — Business, wholesale and retail, is improving. Collections are poor. Jackson.—Trade is stimulated by fall openings and merchants are anticipat ing a good business. Excessive rains retard cotton picking. The outlook for lumber is good. New Orleans.—Incessant rains have anrected crop conditions in Louisiana to some extent. Rice and cotton suffer ed the greater damage. It is difficult to estimate, but well posted authori ties are of the opinion that rice will probably be 'damaged to 10 or 15 per cent. It is not thought that quantity will be lessened to any appreciable ex tent but the loss will be* in quality. Most of the cotton planters report large losses to their crops from excessive rains and damage from boll weevil. General conditions are better than .last year, however, and the outcome of this year’s crop is looked upon with more favor than were the results of 1912. Notwithstanding this, a great many of the planters appear to be discouraged Jobbers are doing a fair volume of bus iness, and collections are fairly satis factory. A good deal of improvement is noted in retail trade. Muskogee.—In retail lines September business has been very pleasing to merchants. They state that trade is morp active than they had anticipated, and in many cases they have had to add to their original fall purchases. In this vicinity we are now having excellent weather for harvesting the cotton crop, and it is the general opin ion that the farmers will have ample pasturage for their stock and there will not be as much feedstuff bought as expected some thirty or forty days ago. Dallas.—Trade with jobbers and re tailers is quiet and collections are very slow. On account of heavy and contin uous rains cotton picking is at a stand still. The grade of cotton is being In jured, and unless weather conditions soon change serious damage will re sult. Fort Worth.—Excessive rains have fallen, thus damaging cotton, which is now open, and retarding packing. The moisture, however, is very beneficial to wheat and other grains and is making good pasturage for cattle. Business in all lines is slow on account of rain. Collections are only fair. Houston.—Over eighteen inches rain fall in twenty-five days in the rice belt of Texas and Louisiana has caused heavy damage t^ the Honduras rice crop. Less than 10 per cent of the crop has been marketed and the shocked rice is floating in the fields. The uncut Japan crop is covered with three to four feet of water. Business is retarded by the extraordinary weather conditions. Col lections are slow. San Antonio.—Wholesale'dealers re port only fair sales. Collections fair. Owing to exceedingly heavy rainfall during the last two days, heavy floods have done great damage in San Antonio, and the loss to cotton in this vicinity j is enormous. THE LATE CROPS Except in Texas and the lower Mis sissippi valley, where rains have been excessive and damaging to cotton and rice, the general weather report this week is a satisfactory one. Rains in the west and in the formerly drought- afflicted sections have been heavy, and followed by bright weather have improv ed late pasturage and allowed of winter wheat plowing and planting. Lost time is being regained, and it is now thought an increased area will go into winter wheat in the country as a whole. The last condition report as to corn will show an improvement, due to rains; this report, by the way, seeming to be puz zling some authorities, who are loath to recognize possibilities of Improvement in condition after having issued short- crop reports. Unprecedented heavy rains are a cause of concern in Texas and Louisiana, where, as one report puts it, eighteen inches of rain have fallen In twenty- five days. This rainfall has washed out much ripened cotton In many parts of Texas, suspended picking and ckused in terruption to movement. Poor reports as to cotton come from San Antonio, Fort Worth, Dallas and Houston. At the latter point rice is said to be floating in the fields. Damage to rice and cot ton is reported from Louisiana, but at| the same time it is stated the cotton) yield will exceed last year. In the Mem phis district the yield of cotton will] be larger than in either 1912 or 1911. In the eastern half of the cotton belt re- ports are better, and large yields bring ing high prices, are reported. Tobacco crop reports are better, and that crop is turning out better than ex pected. An 80 per cent crop is reported probable in eastern Kentucky and Ohio, while 70 per cent is indicated in western Kentucky. Virginia reports are good. Late reports frm the Lancaster, Pa., crop are better, but a larg epart of the crop was cut early to avoid frost. The Washington apple crop will be much smaller than last year, as will that of northern central New York. A good crop will, however, be made in the Hud son valley. Low Fares! Homeseekers tickets are sold at greatly reduced fares on the 1 stand 3rdTuesdays of each month; stopovers free and 25 days time, via Cotton Belt Route,—to Arkansas and Texas Winter tourist tickets (round trip) from southeast points to many points in Texas, Louisiana and New Mexico, will be on sale daily Nov. 1st, 1913 to April 30, 1914; with exceedingly long return limit of June 1st, 1914. Stopovers. All year tourist tickets on sale daily to certain points in Texas —90 day limit. The Cotton Belt Route is the direct line from Memphis toTexas, through Arkansas—two splendid trains daily, with electric lighted equipment of through sleepers, parlorcars and dining cars. Trains from all parts of Southeast make direct connection at Memphis with Cotton Belt Route trains to the Southwest. For full Information about Home- the undersigned, bookb aDoui iarra- ing in Sputhwest, sent free. Write! L. P. SMITH, Traveling Pais’r Agent, Brown-M&rx Bldg. Birmingham, Ala. 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