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6 THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA.. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1913. AGRICULTURAL Education, gEST""**’ Successful Farming j SsES’fe $ Andrew ]*[. |>ouU i Croiu Is Farmers' Friend, Say Government Experts This department wilt cheerfully endeavor to furnish any information. Letters should be addressed to Dr. Andrew M. Soule, president State Agricultural College, Athens, Oa. , FINISHING BEEF CATTLE IN STALL A considerable number of Georgia farmers are now turning their attention to the winter finishing of beef cattle. By this is meant taking them off the grass and feeding them on grain, forage >r silage until ready for slaughter. There is a great diversity of opinion at present relative to the proper length of the feeding period, and it is this phase of the subject in particular that will be emphasized in this article. The length of the feeding period will depend on a number of conditions. First, if the animals are extremely thin and poor when brought in off the grass, it will take a longer time to finish them. Two classes of cattle are ordinarily placed on the market. The first of these would be regarded in the light of “warmed up” beef; that is, they are in better condition for slaughter than ani mals brought directly off the grass, but would not class as high grade animals. In fact, a great many feeders in the condition mentioned are sold and re- bought by other farmers to be more completely finished before sent to the abattoir. It is to the interest of the feeder to buy his animals in as thin a conditon as possible. The reason for this is self-evident, as animals of this class take on weight more rapidly than those in good condition. This is due to the large amount of “fill up” which takes place. In this connection it is important to make.a clear distinction between fill up and increase in body weight through the fattening process. Before animals can be brought into good condition to fatten, they must be filled up, as it were,.and the body surfeited with the materials out of which flesh' and fat are formed. On local markets or where there Is not any great discrimina tion exercised as to the finishing of animals, the “warming up” of cattle by feeding them for about ninety days ca*n be carried on with some advantage. The cheapest gains are made in this part of any feeding period, but animals Wood Shingles? No! No!! No!!! STOP the Awful Waste fof wood shingles — the cause of disastrous J fires, leaky roofs and endless expense and /trouble. Usebeautiful, indestructible Edwards ' 'STEEL” Shingles. Cost less, last longer than I wood—better in every way. Over 100,000 men J now use Edwards “STEEL” Shingles—the shin- I gles that never rot, rust or burn. Ten times 1 easier to put on. Each one dipped in molten | zincafterltfscut. 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In fact, they will sell for from 1 1-2 to 2 cents below it, and if sold on the larger markets, the chances are they will be discriminated against even more severely with the result that the owner is more likely to suffer loss than if he fed for a longer period and offered them to the market in a highly finished condition. In feeding beef cattle the farmer must determine whether he will un dertake to finish his animals or warm them up. It will require at least 120, and in most instances 150 days or fiv< months to finish animals satisfactorily. When attempting to warm animals up, they may be pushed vigorously from the start and fed all they will eat up clean. The amount of the grain ration will be more liberal as there is much less danger of surfeiting and throwing them off feed in ninety days than in 150 days. The average farmer who at tempts to warm up cattle will probably desire to use cotton seed meal and hulls. In this event he should begin the feed ing period with say two to three pounds of cotton seed meal per head per day and as much hulls as will be cleaned up readily. This will probably amount to twenty or twenty-five pounds with animals weighing, say 800 to 1,000 pounds to begin with. The meal ration may be increased one pound a week until from eight to ten pounds ar x e be ing fed for the last twenty to thirty days of the feeding period. If hulls are not fed and stover or other forms of roughness substituted therefor, very good results will be obtained from this ration, but the chances are that tho most economic gains will be made If silage can be fed along with some of the forms of dry roughness mentioned above. The chances are if the animals seem thin to begin with it will take from thirty to forty days to*fill them up, hence gains in flesh and fat will only be in progress for forty to fifty days, and a heavier ration than would otherwise be justified or, as a matter of fact, fed with safety may be in dulged irf on account of the shortness of the actual feeding period. If ani mals at the end of this time are to bo shipped considerable distances it -will be found good practice to feed corn for the last two weeks of the feeding pe riod. It may be made to take the place of one-third to one-half of the meal which would otherwise be fed. In fact, a little more corn should be fed in proportion than this. Where animals are to be fed for 120 to 150 days, the work must be under taken in a much more systematic man ner than has been outlined above. The profit* to be made from beef animals de pends primarily on a uniform gain from the beginning to the end of the feeding period. Should the animals be thrown off feed and fail to gain for ten days or so once or twice during the progress of the feeding period, the profits will be cut nearly in two. Therefore, keeping the animals on feed uniformly ffom the beginning to the end is a matter of the utmost importance.' Even though the animals be thin to begin with, the filling up process should be a gradual one. Do not commence by feeding more than two pounds of cotton seed meal per head per day, with silage, hulls and such other roughness as may be available. The meal ration should be increased about a half pound a week for about twelve weeks until the animals reach a maxi mum of from eight to ten pounds per head per day, depending upon their age and weight. All discussions of rations for beef animals are based upon 1,000 pounds of live weight. If they fall be low this figure cut the ration down in proportion to weight, and if they rise above it increase it accordingly. In the writer’s experience, which cov ers some years, ten pounds of cotton seed meal has been found about the maximum ration which can be fed with advantage to beef cattle where it is de sired to give them a high finish through stall feeding. Increasing the amount of concentrates in the ratio suggested gives about thirty days in which to finish the animals where they are to be fed for four months only. If they are to be fed for 150 days, it will hardly pay to in crease the amount of concentrates more rapidly than a half-pound every ten days. In other words; the idea is to hold them on the maximum ration for from thirty to fifty days. It is difficult to keep them gaining uniformly and utilizing the maximum ration for longer periods than this. Where animals have been fed on ra r tions such as have been indicated for 150 days and are to be shipped long dis tances, it will be a good idea to feed some corn for the last thirty days of the feeding period. About one-third corn and two-thirds cotton seed meal will be found very satisfactory. If corn is aboundant or relatively cheap, the amount may be increased to one-half the ration. It should be understood in this connection that more corn should be used weight for weight than cotton seed meal, since the meal is much rich er in protein than the corn. Of course, the corn is used to harden off and finish the animals “and to insure the laying on of a little more fat in proportion to lean meat. Cotton seed meal is essen tially a protein food, and therefore, the ratio of fat to lean will be improved somewhat if a little corn is fed at the end of the feeding period. Animals fin ished on corn also hold their weights and ship long distances to good advan tage, and especially is this true where the roughness has consisted of silage or other succulent foods. * * * HASTENING THE FINISHING OF HOGS. M. A. S., Brownsville, Ga., writes’ I i ike to know the quickest way to fatten hogs to make meat. I have mine ,n a ten-acre woods lot. Should thev be put in pens? How do you feed wheat bran to hogs? What is the best to feed to brood sows ? Consumes Enough Grasshop pers,. Cut i Worms, White Grubs and Other Insects to Make Him Valuable BY RALPH SMITH. WASHINGTON, u. C., Oct. 23.—Con demned, despised and slaughtered for decades as a bird destructive in agricul tural fields, the crow is about to come into its own and be given everlasting recognition as the farmers’ friend. The case of the crow was recently reopened by the department of agriculture, and as a result of an investigation by the biological survey it has been decided that the bird is of great value to the farmers. Instead of being persecuted and fright ened by divers means, the farmery should encourage the crow, according to the experts of the biological survey. The scare-crows that adorn the farms ana gardens should be stripped and the idea of thus frightening the crow abandoned for all time. After a careful study of the habits and examination of a large number of stom achs, the department experts have reached the conclusion that the crow consumes enough grasshoppers, cut worms, white grubs and other injurious insects to make him highly valuable to the farmers. ONE BAD HABIT. There is, however, one bad habit which the crow has, and that is the destruction of young birds and birds’ eggs; but this trait, in the opinion of experts, is out weighed by the good the bird is doing the farmer in the destruction of worms and insects. “The one danger from the crow,” says the department of agriculture in a re port, “lies in large numbers. If the crow population can be kept down so that its normal food is sufficient, there is every reason why the farmer should encourage the bird to remain about thein farms. “Not long ago an agent of the de partment was watching a crow feeding in a corn field. It seemed that the bird was pulling the young corn and carrying it to a nearby nest to feed its young. After the crow had left the nest, the agent climbed the tree and secured the young birds. An examination showed that instead of young com, the older bird had been feeding the young ones with cut worms gathered from around the corn plants. NOTORIOUSLY CLANNISH. “Crows are notoriously clannish birds, and except during a few weeks at nest ing time are usually seen in flocks. Moreover, even while nesting, they are more or less gregarious, for, although two nests are seldom built in the same tree, yet half a dozen pairs often build within easy hearing distance of each other, and if one is disturbed all are likely to unite for common protection or protest. “When the young are able to fly, the parents accompany them, forming little family parties of six or eight, and these soon associate with similar parties. They commonly travel in flocks and often congregate in large numbers, but only during winter do they unite to roost in immense communities. Many roosts are kown where not less than 10,000 crows spend the night during this season of the year, and most of these roosting chaffy for animals with a limited ca pacity as to the size and content of the stomach, as is true in the case of hogs. For brood sows skim milk is essential whenever it can be had. It should be fed sweet when possible, and may be mixed with middlings and corn. A good ration Would be two-thirds middlings an one-third corn. Feed as a rathfer thin slop. Give the sow good, clean, comfortable quarters. Supply her lib erally with water, and if you can give her a pasture or wood lot in which to roam and take exercise and gather a part of her food, it will be an advantage to do so. • . * FOUL IN THE FOOT. F. D. B., Andrews, N. C., writes: I have a fine cow with what we call the sore foot and it has a bad smell. Would be glad for any help. The trouble about which you write is known as foul in - the foot. The best treatment will be to poultice the affected part thoroughly for about twelve hours. The cleft may be cleaned by drawing a rope through it, then applying a liquid antiseptic, such as white lotion, a 5 per cent solution of carbolic acid, or copper sulphate one ounce to one pint of water. Pure turpentine is also good. After the antiseptic has been applied, powdered air-slaked lime or calomel may be dusted into the cleft to dry up the discharge. In very severe and bad cases it is some times necessary to burn out the sore with lunar caustic. It is very important to keep the, affected part thoroughly clean. Of course, the injury may be due to something besides the invasion of bacteria. You should examine the foot thoroughly dnd see if you can dis cover the cause. Trouble of this char acter sometimes comes from animals standing in manure or filth- or running in muddy yards. ... RATIONS SUITED TO, DAIRY COWS I, 11 w., Barnesville, Ga., writes: I would like to have an economical and ef ficient ration for my dairy cows. I have good corn silage for the winter months. Would you advise the use of cotton seed hulls 1 _____ A great variety of rations may be used successfully in Georgia with dairy cows. You do not state just what you have on hand, and therefore, the sug gestions may not be as definite as they otherwise would. While grass remains good feed some cotton seed meal; two to four pounds per day will be about right. We would feed an equal amount night and morning. A little dry rough ness for the cows to pick over will be an advantage. Some peavine hay is ex cellent for this purpose. Shredded corn stalks, oat straw or any other rough ness which can be fed in open racks in the yard's will be all right. A roof should be built over these racks to keep out the rain. Let the cattle re main on the pasture as long as prac ticable, and if you have any cereals sown and they make sufficient top grazing on them from time to time will be an advantage. As soon as the pas tures get short and you house your cows for the night, silage will naturally con stitute the principal roughness. You should feed along with this from four to six pounds of cotton seed meal. If you have some corn why not grind it and make til eration abou tone-third corn meal and two-third^ cotton seed meal. If you happen to have any oats, you might make the ration one-fourth oats, one-fourth corn and cob meal and one-half cotton seed meal. We suggest the use of the larger proportion of cot ton seed meal because it furnishes pro tein more cheaply than any other con centrate. We would feed of the mixed grain from six to ten pounds per day, depending on the flow of milk and the 11-GENT “CflSCflRETS” STRAIGHTEN YOU UP Where one desires jto fatten hogs with the utmost rapidity, penning them is probably desirable, though a better qual ity of meat will be made where the an imals are allowed a considerable degree of liberality, but the gain per bushel of feed will probably not be as great as where the exercise is cut down by pen ning. Where hogs' are penned they should be kept in clean quarters and given an abundance of pure, fresh water. The grain may be fed whole, though preferably ground- and fed as a rather thin slop. Some meat meal may bh added to the ration* of com meal to ad vantage, say five to ten pounds per 100 pounds of corn. Middlings can also be added to corn to advantage, making the mixture one-third middlings and two- thirds corn. Wheat bran is not one of the best foods for hogs. Of course, it is a muscle builder and contains some phosphorus and is rather laxative in its effect, and thus can sometimes be used to advantage, but it is rather light and When headachy, bilious, con stipated, stomach sour, breath bad. G^t a 10-cent box now. Turn the rascals out—the headache, biliousness, indigestion, the sick, sour stomach and foul gases—turn them out tonight and keep them out with das- carets. Millions of men and women fake a Cascaret now and then and never know the misery caused by a lazy liver, clog ged bowels or an upset stomacri. Don’t put in another day of distress. Let Cascarets cleanse your stomach; re move the sour, fermenting food; take the excess bile from your liver and carry out all the constipated waste matter and poison in the bowels. Then you will feel great. A Cascaret tonight straightens you out by morning. They work while you sleep. A 10-cent box from any drug store means a clear head, sweet stom ach and clean, healthy liver and bowel action for months. Children love Cas carets because they never gripe or sicken.—(Advt.) FOR CONGRESS 1 respectfully announce for Congress. My platform Is to learn and carry into effect the needs and wishes of the white people of tbu Second Congressional District. If you think me worthy help me. Respectfully, (adv.) FRANK PARK. size and age of the cow. Some hulls to pick over in the middle of the day will be an advantage. A few poupds of dry' roughness fed along with the silage and the ration of grain suggest ed will increase and help to maintain the flow of milk. * * * PLANTING OATS ON BOTTOM LAND. C. E. G.. Andalusia, Ala., writes: Please tell me the best time to plant oats on our low, flat sandy lands, and bow to prepare the land. When and what kind of ferti lizer should be used? Winter oats should be planted * as soon as practicable in order that they may have sufficient time to make a good top and also a good root develop ment before cold weather. On low, flat sandy land we would certainly select some of the best known of the rust proof varieties. It is important that you get a well selected strain, because much of the seed now planted is not really rust-proof. The oats may be drilled in rows 8 to 16 inches apart, depending much on the condition of the land. Where land is in fine tilth and the oats are sown, say .after cowpeas, disking the land and planting the oats with an ordinary grain drill has given us excellent satisfaction. Where the land is in only fairly good physical con dition and low in fertilizing constitu ents, we have had the best results from breaking it, firming it thoroughly and then planting in open furrows. Too loose a seed bed for the fall planting of any of the cereals is not desirable. We would suggest on sandy land that you use about 3 per cent of nitrogen, 8 per cent of phosphoric acid and 4 per cent of potash. We think 300 pounds per acre at the time of planting the crop a good application to use. We would suggest that you use a formula in which the nitrogen is derived from organic sources. The fertilizer should be incorporated with the seed at the time of planting, though care should be taken to see th'at they do not come in contact with each other where cot ton seed meal is used as the basis of the nitrogen supply as there is some danger of its injuring the germinating qualities of the seed. * * * PLANTING CRIMSON CLOVER. E. H. J., Gainesville, Ga., writes: How much crimson clover seed to plant per acre, and how should it be planted and fertil ized? !r A Here is what Marion Harland said in 1906 about I illl! i SflW lWn |U ' t. Cottolene ' Many years ago, I discontinued the use of lard in my kitchen '' substituted for it, as an experiment, Cottolene, then com paratively a new product. Since my first trial of it I can Truly say mat it has given complete satisfaction. I honestly believe it to be the very best thing of its kind ever offered to the American housekeeper.” MARION HARLAND. are tender when they are cold—that is a sure test of a Try it yourself. Make the biscuits like this: BAKING POWDER B1SCUIT8 Cottolene makes biscuits that good shortening. Won’t you followtheexample of famous cooks and make Cottolene THE fat for all your cooking ? * Order a pail from your grocer; also send to us for the valuable FREE Cook Book, HOME HELPS. 2 cups flour, 3 teaspoons baking powder, 1 teaspoon salt, 4 table spoons Cottolene, 3-4 cup milk. Sift flour, salt and bakW powder together rub in Cottolene; mix lightly and quickly; mixture should not be dry; roll out on board, cut into small biscuits, bake ten to fifteen minutes in hot oven. To make biscuits richer, mix with cream. Whole wheat, graham or rve biscuit may be made in the same way.—Edith L. Clift. t™iM- FAIRBANK company] CHICAGO advance his material interests to tjie fullest extent. There are hund.reds of little streams in Georgia which might be made to light the home and pro vide power for grinding just as you have done, and certainly it adds much to the comfort and attractiveness of the home as well. Leaves may be composted or handled in one of several other ways to con siderable advantage. If they are suf ficiently wet to compact fairly well, it is good practice to haul them out im mediately and scatter them over the ground and plow them under. Their decomposition in the earth will be quite complete and there will be little loss of the mineral constituents they contain, especially if you keep a winter cover crop on the land. Moreover, the vege table matter which they afford will be more effective in mellowing the soil if incorporated with it than if left on top. If you are especially interested in pre paring composts, we shall be glad to give you a formula to that end, but we think that when coarse material of this kind can be used as indicated, it is cheaper to so handle it and more ef fective as well. There is no reason why you should not incorporate vetch with the oats which you expect to sow on your bot tom land. We would suggest that you plant the crop as soon as possible in your latitude. The land may be disked for the oats if there is a good season in the soil and we judge this to be We advise the planting of 12 to 15 pounds of crimson clover seed. There is also a white blooming variety of crimson clover which comes on a lit tle-later than the red and lengthens the season for pasture and hay. The com bination of the two is often followed with considerable Success, especially by dairymen who desire to have green feed for the longest season practicable. Crimson clover, as you know, is an ex cellent cover crop and does well in Georgia when planted under rational conditions. Our experience is that the soil should be in good tilth and that it can often be mixed with cereal crops to good advantage. We have sown crimson clover and rye and crimson clover and oats together for grazing purposes and have found the clover to make a good bottom. It may, of course, be sown by itself. This is pre ferable where it is intended to be used for hay. Relatively early seeding is desirable for this crop. While we have planted it as la£e as October 15, we think it desirable to put it in early. We have not had great success in putting it in corn and cotton early in the sea son, as advocated by some. Of course, if you can get a favorable season in the soil and secure a good stand sat isfactory results will follow. Distribute the seed with a Calhoun or any one of the broadcast seed sowers, and cover to a depth of one-half inch. Fertilize liberally. Bone meal may be used for this purpose in combination with tank age, blood or cotton seed meal. Organic nitrogen is the best to use. We would use 500 pounds of a formula relatively high in phosphorus ana potash. Lime will be of great benefit to clover. Use say one ton per acre of the crushed rock and put it on a few days before seeding or applying fertilizer. • * • COMMENTS OF A LAWYER FARMER. M. A. H., Clayton, Ga., writes: I find the adviec given in the Semi-Weekly Jour nal of much interest and help. I am a law yer-farmer and want to be as up-to-date in lny methods as possible. As proof of this will say that though I am five miles in the country I am writing by an electric light as good as any made by power from a small water wheel run by a stream that only runs ten gallons a minute, but I get 200 feet fall. I have an abundance of leaves and woods dirt and want to know the best way to use this on the land for next season’s crops. I have about three acres in com and I want to sow in oats for forage and then sow in cowpeas. What about mixing vetch with it? I am sending some twigs taken from my apple trees. Would like to know what is the matter with them. What grasses would you rec ommend for permanent pasture? The Semi-Weekly Journal is endeavor ing in every possible way to make its page lor Georgia farmers unusually helpful, and it is. of course, a pleasure to know' that you have found the ad vice contained in these columns so helpful. You are to be congratulated on pur chasing a Yarm and endeavoring to build it up even though you have other inter ests which occupy part of your time. The fact that you desire to be up-to- date is also worthy of special comnien- dation for one of the reasons which makes farming more uncertain and diffi cult than it otherwise might be is the prejudice sometimes exhibited toward adding those comforts to the home and taking full advantage of the opportuni ty which science affords the farmer to AMERICAN ORIGINAL AND Fryffl GENUINE fXNU More Big Fence News! More Farm Profits! American Steel Fence Posts 1 Cheaper than Wood and More Durable. Get Catalog. Better and better I Best news Is, heavier galvanizing. Positively does not chip nor crack. More years of fence life. No extra cost to you. More farm profits. More good news is, perfectly uniform fabric. Improved automatic machinery, the reason. No extra cost to you. Larger business enables us to keep down prices. 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We have used oats and vetch hay extensively" on the college farm and can recommend It to your fa vorable consideration. The twigs you sent show evictence of bacterial blight. About all you can do for this trouble is to cut them off'about six inches below where there is any evidence of injury. Use a good sharp pruning shear for this purpose, and every time a cut is made immerse, the shears completely in a solution of cyanide of mercury made in the propor tion of 1 to 1,000. If you cannot secure the cyanide of mercury, bichloride of mercury will answer, though it wl\l rust the tools more than the cyanide. All the twigs cut off should be carefully col lected and burned. In your section of the state we think you will find red top, meadow fescue, orchard grass and tall oat grass of value for pasturage in just about the order named. The red tob and fqfccue will combine well together. There is. no objection to incorporating orchard graffs in the mixture, but as it grows in tus socks, the sod is not so uniform and s,mooth with it as where it is left out. It is an excellent grass, however, to use for semi-shaded pastures. No doubt you can grow timothy with considerable success in your section of the state, but we would not regard it as so valu able for pasture purposes as some of the other varieties mentioned. WALKER COUNTY FARMER- NOT ARRESTED BY U. S. (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) ROME, Ga., Got. 23.—William Walker, the Walker county farmer who Is accus ed nt violating: the Mann act, has not yet been taken into custody by the fed eral authorities. He Is being sought by Deputy United States Marshal Ward- law under a warrant sworn out by the girl’s father. Walker is under a charge of kidnaping In the state courts, but is out under bond of 1760. EAST COAST RATES HELD UNREASONABLE WASHINGTON, Oct. * 23.—Freight rates on vegetables In mixed carloads, and potatoes in hampers, exacted by the Florida East Coast railway from Florida points to Chicago, Ill., today were held by the Interstate commerce commission to be unreasonable and ex cessive. The rates must be readjusted. BRITAIN’S NAVY TO TAKE PART IN NAVAL MEETING FEATHER BED BARGAINS Send us $10.00 and we will ship you one first- class new 40-ponnd Feather Bed, one pair 6- pound new Feather Pillows ($2.50); one pair full size Blankets ($3.50); one dandy Comfort, full size $3.50,) all for $10.00. * All new poods and no trash. Biggest bargain ever offered. Satisfaction guaranteed. This offer is for a short time only to introduce our goods. Mail Money Order now, or write for circular and or der blank. Southern Feather & Pillow Co., Dent. 1012, Greensboro, N. C. BIG BARGAIN! $10 Money Order brings you one 36-lb. Feather Bed; 1 pair 6-lb, Head P llows; 1 pair Shcim Pillows or Bols ter, (8 lb.) 1 pair Ladies fancy or black Hose, 1 25c Needle Book, 2 paper Pins; 1 pack Post Cards, 1 bu reau Rug. 1 Handkerchief, 1 Testament and one pair Turkish Towels, and all for cnly $10 to introduce our Feather Beds. No one oan give a better quality of goods for the money than we do. Agents wanted. Address Grover Bed Works, Grover, N. C. Return this ad. with Money Order and get EXTRA, one set of Lace Curtains or one Japan ese Rug. 30x60. % LONDON, Oct. 23.—Great Britain to day accepted the invitation from the United States’ government to send rep resentative vessels of the British navy to the gathering of the international fleet in Hampton Roads early in 1915. The fleet will celebrate the completion of the Panama canal by making a voyage to the Pacific through the new waterway. The foreign office has turned ovei the arrangements as to the war vessels to be sent to Hampton Roads to the admiralty, with a recommendation that the British navy be “liberally represen ted.” The United States ambasasdor, Wal ter H. Page, is to be the guest of honor tonight at the banquet of the league in celebration of Trafalgar bay battle THREE NEGROES SHOT IN A REVOLVER BATTLE JACKSON, Miss., Oct. 23.—In a re volver battle between negro timber la borers and United States officers in Pike county near the Louisiana line this morning Deputy Marshals J. P. Feale and Carlan Duncan were slightly Wound ed and three negroes shot. One of the negroes may die. Fearing that a lynch ing may result, United States Marshal Ligon here prepared to send more of ficers to the scene. From reports reaching here, it seems che officers were trying to enforce a federal injunction relative to timber lands which the negroes did not want to need. It is reported the negroes opened fire when the officers remonstrated with Lhem for ignoring the injunction orders. The fight lasted half ©an hour before .he negroes were subdued. ROOFING ^ m m me More than $325,000 0*111 IN worth of every wHI la* ■*■ make and kind of brand new, dependable roofing now be-, ing offered at such remarkably low* * prices, that we ask all in need or who contemplate buying to hesilate placing orders until they get these remarkable Bankrupt Prices. This lot consists of every known make of roofing—Galvanized, 2Vc per sq. ft.; Corrugated Steel, Die per sq. ft.; Rubber Surfaced Ajax Roofing 82oper square, etc. We now own the Ohloago House wrecking Company and Incorporated for 310,000,000: this tremendous purchase is the first result —nothing like It ever before attempted by anyone. Every dollar’s worth of the roofing tuaranteed brand new. Every quality. Write , or free samples and remarkable prices. BROS. CO|W , ** lv Dept. BM-184 Chicago, Ill. Try One in Your Home FREE I will lend yon a genuine Victor Talking Machine \riPTAB ot Victrola for a ________ VICTOR FreeTrialinyour 13 own home — any one you may vir'TPrfcl A choose from my complete, illua- V1 KULA trated catalog with six double faced record* (12 pieces to play). You need not send a cent. If, after the free trial, you decide to keep it, l will aell it to you oa my easy payment plan. One Year to Pay $2.00 a month will pay for a Victrola. If you decide that you don't want to keep it, just notify me and send it back at my expens*. The risk is all mine. I trust you. Write to-day for my handsome catalog. It is Free. PETER GOODWIN. President, Petar Goodwin Mercanti* ~ Victor and Victrola Di»tribu- tors^^^Jl019^Cantur^BIdjrMSt^Louis^l«L BORAH WON’T COMPROMISE WITH MILITANT METHODS .BUILT FORI WINTER AND > SUMMER USE. One side a succession of soft, , springy feather sections, snug and warm I for cold weather comfort. The other side for summer | [ use, firm, smooth and cooling. Mattress weighs 35 lbs. | A Feather Mattress Built Not Stuffed, j Guaranteed for a lifetime;satisfaction or I money refunded. A’.i fe it hers in this- mattress are J I new, clean, odorless, sanitary and hygienic. Built I in strong eight ounce A. C. A. Ticking. J Write for catalogue. Agents warned. Make big | money. Reference: Broadway National Bank. Address: PV-’TY BEDDING CO. I 3ox £44, Dept, (j NachvUle, Tenn. ] i WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.—Senator Sorah, of Idaho, has written the Wom- •n’s Political union bf Newark, N. J., ie will not take part in any suffrage athering where Mrs. Emmeline Pank- iurst appears without taking the op- jortiyiity to denounce militant methods, lis letter was in response to an invl- ation to speak in Newark Saturday fight. “While I am most anxious to assist in the cause,” wrote Senator Borah, “1 k vill not by silence or by the most in- lirect way seem to indorse the vicious •rinciples which have been invoked in he fight for woman suffrage in other ountries.” Senator Borah has not decided wheth- r he will attend the meeting. ASK REAPPOINTMENT OF GEORGIAN CLEMENTS (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.—Chairman Clark, of the interstate commerce fcom- nission, today asked President Wilson o reappoint Commisioner Clements. Mr. Elements has served several successive -erms on the commission. He is a Georgia Democrat. Hundreds of our agents *re making 910 a day in their spare time. Many are beat- ,ng that and are getting their own clothe* Free. We are dead sure you can do it. Such a thing aa failure ia Utterly impossible with our new and complete outfit which we send by express- all chargee prepaid. Our fine line of styli c h,\vell made, carefully finished clothes, guaranteed fit—beats everything ever offered. Lowest prices. Our Outfit is magnificent—our styles and fashions , simply wonderful. Strong selling plan* that bring the ordere and Big Money for you evory week, in hard cash. Pants i3i°p Suits $98^^ Can you boat It? Be a PROGRESS agent. Earn #tf it the Outfit, order blai V in vournpe-re time while doin* other «... no money. Eveiythingia FUSE. No expatier Get the Outfit, order blanks, aUtlonei id everythin* necessary to start you ( Monty Making Hue menu of your own. Writ* gross Tailoring Co., 0«*19040 Chicago TRY THIS FINE RAZOR SEND NO MONEY Guaranteed USE IT TEN DAYS Too will enjoy the *tnooih- est and moat comfortable shaves of your life. If it pleases you. send our DIRECT WHOLESALE KuCE OF >1.66 at tb» «*nd of ten day", and we send you without farther charge our SI Strop and our Fscner Hone, snd by riointr uh favor you m«v earn the bruah and mirror shown. If Razor doesn’t please you, just return it at end of ten davs. CUT OUT TH1* adver tisement, and write us saying: “I accept this offer, and *rr#e to pay vou ©r return Razor promptly after . trial.” Writ/* now-—you cannot lose. MIDDLEBROOKS CO., Dapt. 87, Chloaga 4