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Newspaper Page Text6 Agricultural O aw .successful earming KS-Jr AwdriwM Joule This department will cheerfully endeavor to furnish any information. Let should be addressed to Dr. Andrew M. Soule, president State Agricultural Coßwce, Athens, Ga. Which Form of Nitrogen Is the Best Which form of nitroSen is best? This s a pertinent question at the present . -ime and thousands of farmers are in erested in the answer, for war condi tions have upset prices and curtailed i the normal supply of not only potash out carriers of nitrogen as well. Among * the pnaterials which the southern farm er must depend upon for his commercial supply of nitrogen are nitrate of soda, sulphate of ammonia, cotton seed meal, * blood, tankage, fish scrap and calcium cyanamid. Os course, yard manures and compost are valuable as carriers of ni trogen. and the farmer is supposed to use all of these materials possible, but if he does the very best he can In this direction, he will probably not be able to supply his soil with all the nitrogen needed by the average farm crop, and it is quite likely that he will find it to his advantage to buy some nitrogen, and In that event, the question is which form to buy and what he may expect as the result of using any particular form. There is an idea prevalent in some quarters that certain forms of nitrogen become very quickly available, so much , . so in fact that they exert their primary affect in a very short time, and crops * suffer from a lack of this element to wards the end of the growing season. * Some believe that Inorganic forms of nitrogen are the best, and others that * - the organic form should be given pref- erence. As a matter of fact, all forms of nitrogen have merit, and should be considered on this basis. In purchasing attention snould be given to that source which will supply the available plant - food needed in the cheapest form and * in a manner best likely to serve the . needs of a growing crop. Where quick ii.» stimulation is an essential matter as »- with truck crops, nitrate of soda will be found available. Sulphate of ammonia can also often be used with profit t . When it becomes necessary to Incor porate nitrogen with the soil, some of these materials can be applied to ad- - vantage, but as a rule organic nitrogen will be found more satisfactory because * it becomes more slowly available, and * is therefore not likely to be lost from the soil through leaching or excessive * i erm en tat ion before the plant Is in posi tion to assimilate and utilise the nitrates which have been elaborated. Organic nitrogens are also more likely to exert r what Is termed a lasting effect In the * soil and to be better for long reason .rops on that account than for truck * crops, though to exclude their use from truck crops would be extremely foolish, lust as muchas to hold that quickly * available forms of nitrogen, like nitrate ‘of soda and sulphate of ammonia, -should r- never be used under field crops. The claims made, for instance, that . o: genic ’forms of nitrogen, such as cot ton seed meal, will become more quickly j i exhausted in the soil than blood and ’. tankage is also not well founded, at • - '.east It seems correct and proper to make such a statement from the ob- serrations and deductions which have rl been made in our demonstration held where all the principal carriers of mtro - gen have been tested side by side for >, some years past to determine the * residual influence they exerted on wheat when associated with uniform rations • of acid phosphate and muriate of pot ash. In these tests cotton seed meal • made a better record than any other * -Ingle nitrogen carrier used, calcium r*nam!d and nitrate of soda standing ; second and third respectively. Farm • era need not hesitate, therefore, to use * cctton seed meal as the basis on which to build up the nitrogen content of - their fertilisers, for these tests show x that It exerted as important an influence va the crop during the growing season ’ as any other fertiliser used and its last - Ing effect was better sustained than • that of any other nitrogen carrier used in the experiments in question. “* rnd»r normal conditions, even for uuck crops, a combination of some or ganic nitrogen, such as cotton seed meal with nitrate of soda or sulphate of am monia can be used to good advantage. It is probably true that a good part of the nitrate of soda should be reserved H and applied ns a top dressing, the or ganic nitrogen being mixed with the . soil at the tiflie the crop is planted. Certainly, cotton seed meal If combined with nitrate of soda or sulphate of <ummonla as a top dressing will be 'found valuable for truck crops. On field J- crops where there Is a longer season of growth the value of cotton seed meal has already been demonstrated. / CAROLINA \ \ CHEMICAL / AFW \ CO. / \<a X IA BACK OF THIS MARK O is a Great Company and a IW /J Great Product. Thousands vvL of Farmers look up to it vM [lf with respect and apprecia- !■ tion, as V-C Fertilizers ' have shown them the way to Greater Prosperity on their Farms, for V-C is MAKING SOIL AND CROPS PAY MORE. Every Farmer can do the same if he will farm the V-C way. Our FREE Crop Book will tell you how, just drop us a postal and state what Crops you are interested in. Most valuable and interesting Crop Books ever published. ( ROP BOOK DEPT.—V-C. FERTILIZERS. BOX A J Iftltt. RICHMOND, VA. Those, of course, who hold the idea, that they would like to use more than one form of nitrogen can gratify their wish by using some blood, tankage or fish scrap along with the cotton seed nieal. Questions of this character, however, should be determined largely by the relative ease with which the various materials can be obtained and the cost of the same. While the use of cot ton seed meal as a fertilizer rather than a foodstuff is to be deplored, etill it constitutes one of the most impor tant and desirable carriers of nitrogen available to the farmers of the south at fairly reasonable prices under exist ing conditions. Therefore, it should be given very careful consideration, be cause. after all. it is a by-product of the farm and combines well with such materials as are available to provide the most satisfactory rations which the farmer can hope to use in 1916 in the absence of potash salts. CHOPPED OATS AS A CALF FOOD. A corr«*spondent of Greenfield, Tenn., writes: What is meant by chopped oats? 1 bare been told that w hole oats are not good for young calves on account of the hulls. In feeding shelled or threahed oats should they be ground or fed just as threshed whole? How high should the trough be from the ground ? • By chopped oats I mean oats which are very coarsely ground or only run through the burs once. This breaks the husk but leaves the oat in a coarse condition and thereby requires very complete mastication on the part of th© animal consuming It. Personally, I have seen whole oats fed to young calves for long periods of time without any injury whatsoever. The . calves i should of course be watered a little while before eating oats, as the only ‘ injurious results 1 have seen from eat-, ing whole oats is a few oases of bloat-1 Ing du© to the calves eating the oats and then drinking water. For calves, how ever. I believe I would like to grind or chop them as indicated above. The trough should of course be eight-1 een inches from the ground and should have a rail running around it, say four to six inches high, to keep the oats from being knocked out on the ground. Where one has no silage the best method to practice is to run the coarse dry feed through a cutting box, add a little salt and moisten by sprinkling with water. Let this stand for a few hours before feeding. For instance, prepare the night's feed in the-morning. Then scatter the grain over the mass of teed. This gets rid of the dust in the coarse feed and also increases its pal atability. The dry feed is best placed in a rack where the animal can pick it over at will. In the days before the silo thousands of farmers followed this method of feeding and management and were able to make beef economically and maintain breeding stock very satisfao tci ily. FOOD AND FERTILIZER VALUE OF VELVET BEANS. J. W. 8.. Manassas. Ga, writes: Three varieties of velvet beans were raised in thia 1 coonty in 1915 and the yield was bountiful. We have bad them hulled in considerable quantities and some have been crushed in the pod. The grist is eaten by cows, horses and bogs with avidity. What are the possl ’ bi titles of velvet bean meal as a fertllicor? Pleaae give the accurate values of the vel i vet bean in nitrogen and pota-li Will the velvet bean meal ever have a food and fer tiliser value rivaling cotton seed? It is gratifying to learn of the success you have had In cultivating velvet beans ' in Tattnall county, and It Is to’be hoped that you will extend the cultivation of ’ this important soil building crop in the ' immediate future. Through the medium ‘ of the velvet bean you can enrich your soils materially and obtain, not only hay of considerable value as a food, but a ’ very considerable quantity of grain, as 1 you have already demonstrated, is of great value in the nutrition of the sev ’ era! classes of live stock kept on the 1 average farm. You will find the velvet bean a tower of strength to you when r the boll weevil invades your section of - the state. You should therefore give it I a permanent place in any crop rotation ■ system adopted in Tattnall county. For your information I will say that l not as much is know about the velvet 1 bean as should be. The seed, however, ■ contains 18.1 per cent digestible protein, b 50.8 per cent digestible carbohydrates . and 5.3 per cent of digestible fat. When 1 the seed and pods are ground together f they are found to contain 14.1 per cent b of digestible protein, 51.9 per cent of i digestible carbohydrates and 3.8 per cent i digestible fat. i Cowpeas contain about 19.4 per cent . digestible protein. Navy beans 18.3 per THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1916. cent digestible protein; field peas, which ! are so extensively grown in the north, | contain 19.8 per cent, and peanuts with the hulls 18.4 per cent of digestibe pro tein. You will thus see that velvet beans compare favorably in the content ( of digestible protein with many legum-1 inous crops. Os course the meal is much | lower in food value than cotton seed 1 meal, in so far as the protein content is, concerned, but velvet bean meal will be 1 invaluable to mix with corn, oats or any other grain crop which can be produced successfully and profitably in your county. Corn, as you know, is especially’ low in protein and we should grow some crop in Georgia to feed with it. Velvet beans seem to be a crop which prom ises to answer the purpose successful ly In your section of the state. In this connection I will say that velvet bean seed contain 66.6 pounds of nitrogen per ton. The seeds and pods together con tain 54.8 pounds. The beans contain 20 pounds of phosphoric acid and 34 pounds ot potash per ton. When the beans and pods are ground together a ton of the mixture contains about 16 pounds of phosphoric acid and 34.4 pounds of pot ash. fighting anthracnose in cot ton. G. N., Augusta, Ga., writes: I planted last year some long staple cotton. It was very promising and I made four bales of cotton and received 16c per pound for the lint. I planted five acres of land. The only trouble I found was the destruction of such a large proportion of the fruit from anthracnose. The balance of my farm was planted in Toole seed, and I never saw a single boll on any plant on the whole place that had anthracnose, but on the long staple variety there were 15 to 25 full-grown bolls that rotted. Please advise if it would be wise for me to continue to plant thia seed, and in the same ground in which they were planted last year. Will the anthracnose develop to a greater extent the second year? Does the soil become infected, or is it the seed? Some varieties of cotton are more readily attacked by anthracnose than others, and to this end we have made some efforts at the college to develop a strain of cotton as largely resistant to this trouble as possible. About the only way you can fight this disease is to secure resistant strains. It is quite probable that the variety’ which you grew last year has not been selected with the idea of making it strongly resistant to anthacnose- We do not think it well to cultivate any variety of cotton the bolls of which show a high percentage of this disease for obvious reasons. First of all, there is the great loss due to the destruction of the bolls. Second, there will certainly arise the permanent In festation of your land with the spores of this disease which live for a long time in the soil, and are therefore in position to perpetuate themselves from year to year. Planting the same seed on the same ground this year we think would be a very great mistake, as that simply means that you are following a method which Fs calculated to intensi fy the damage wrought by the disease last year. We think that Covington's Toole, Simpkins, Poulnot, Cleveland’s Big 801 l and Sunbeam all good varieties to grow on land Infested with the spores of the disease you mention. We think you should not have difficulty In securing good strains of seed of these varieties. GROWING COTTON ON BOTTOM LAND. A. L., Kinsington. Ga.. writes: Please advise me In regard to the cultivation of cotton. I have twenty-five acres of bottom land composed of a good loam, which has plenty of humus. I expect to put in a long staple seed. Please suggest the most im proved methode of cultivation. In your section of the state we would be disposed to plant cotton about the 15th to the 20th of April if seasonal conditions are favorable. Early plant ing is desirable. Sometimes the seed may rot owing to a spell of wet, cold weather but we would rather take the chances of having to replant than waft until nearer the Ist of May to put the seed in the ground. Tn other words, we have had the best experience through a series of years from early planting. A great varelty of fertilizer formulas may of course be used under cotton. Pre sumably your land is in good condition if it is of the character described in your letter. It should of course be well drained for this crop. Probably there is nothing yoif can use to better advan tage this year than a mixture, say if 1.100 pounds of acid phosphate, 800 pounds cotton seed meal and 100 pounds of sulphate of ammonia. It wiW be practically impossible of course to se , cure any potash at a price where yon I could aff< rd to use It. We suggest that 'you try about 500 pounds of the above • formula per acre, putting it under the drill row at the time of planting the j crop, provided your land has been well I prepared. If it is not in the best condi tion we would advise that you only put 300 pounds under tlfe drill row and use 200 pounds as a side application. The ride application should be put 6n in jronr section of the state shortly after the co.ion has been chopped to a stand. There are of course many varieties of cotton which can be grown with success tn Georgia. The long staple upland types which have done fairly well at the college are: Sunbeam No. 80, with a length of staple 1 1-16 inch; Trice and Bramblett have also shown the same i length of staple while the length of •sta ple oi the Columbia was 1 3-16 inch. Seed of any of these varieties can no doubt be secured through a reliable seed man. Among the early maturing standard short staple varieties which we have tested arid which we can recommend for earliness are the following: College No. 1, Trice. Sunbeam, Cleveland, Hooper's. Caldwell’s, Toole, Cook’s. Poulnot and Dixie. CARRYING SILAGE OVER TO NEXT SEASON. D 9.. Denton. Ga.. writes: In case we 4.-, not feed all «W silage this season will it keep until another season. Wonld Jt be advissh’e to put more sllare on top or ft to refill the silo? If advisable to let It • stav over until next season, what would von recommend us nuttine over the silage after we are through feeding for this sea ion? What do you think of planting China cane to be us<-d as silage? . , It is of course practical to keep si lage over from one year to another and If you attempt to do this the best meth od of practice should be to thoroughly wet down the top of the silage with wa ter when you stop using It. We have found in our experience here at tho college that the silage will spoil from a depth of six Inches to a foot and the re mainder will keep alright. Tn other words, the molding and partial decay of the top layers seems to thoroughly ex clude the air. Tn attempting to keep ■the silage during the summer we Im agine it would be a good idea to wet i the top down several times If you at tempt to refill the partially filled silo we would remove all bad silage from the top before starting to again fill the structure. Personally we would not be Inclined to keep sliage over. We believe you can feed it up to good advantages dur ing the spring and summer. It will be sometime yet before grass is in good condition and there are often enough drough spells tn t*" spring and summer when it can be fed to advantage. Wo believe it is better practice to clean th? i structure out and fill In with fresh si page the next year. There are reports to the effect that silage has been kent I successfully for several years. We | know it to be practicable for at least i two years. Bv China cane you probably have In , mind Japanese cane which Is used to j some extent for tolling silos in south (Georgia and Florida. There is no ob jection to its use. It gives a large ton nage. If allowed to properlv mature it cuts satisfactorily and makes a pa latable nnd desirable silage We have not thought It well, however, from our experience and observation to displace Kafir corn, sorghum and field corn as •Uage crops with Japanese sugar cane. Count, Arrested, SpendsßadNight In Fulton TotOer Semanson, the Coffee Sales man, Goes From Divorce Court 'to Jail and Doesn't Like It a Bit Count C. N. Semanson, having spent a restless night in his cell at the Tower, arcse Wednesday, brushed his blue serge suit, caressed the crease in his trous ois, waxed the mustache on his upper lip, set his black silk hat at a rakish angle over his perfectly polished ear and, lighting a cigarette stuck in a he Id er six Inches long, strolled out to bor row a match from his bunkie. "Pardon,” said the count, "a match.” Those were the first words the count had allowed himself to address to his cellmates since officers arrested him Tuesday night in the lobby of the Hotel Ansley for nonpayment of alimony. Having lit the cigarette, the count took one, two, three correct puffs, glared at his four comrades in durance vile, swung his cane over one arm and per mitted himself the luxury of a gentle sigh. "This,” said the count, "is an outrage. They promised mo a private room. They have put me in a hole. Never have such Indignities been. I will see my lawyer.” So saying, he refused a plate of beans and corn bread thrust to him by the turnkey, declaring such fooa was not fit for a dog to eat. The "Count” is a coffee salesman. He is well known- He travels widely. Club circles know him In Savannah and Jack sonville. They have his .cards, “Count C. N. Semanson," in many southern ci ties. In Atlanta his cloth-topped boots have twinkled on many a dance floor and never yet dirtied a lady's spats. But Tuesday the Count got in big trouble. It began In the morning, when he was forced to sit in Judge Pendle ton’s court and hear an ordinary bar rister call him a ’pusilanimous plaintiff” and "the man with a harem.” Such de scriptions he took with nobless oblige, even bearing up bravely when they said he ran after manicurists, stenographers and other charmers, even when they said he presented one of the ladies with a dog, even when the case was decided against him and the jury gave Mrs. Elizabeth Semanson a first decree In divorce. His fortitude was scarred Tuesday night, however, when they arrested him. "I haven’t paid alimony?” he ex claimed. "I do not have to. My wife was never awarded alimony.” Just the same officers took him to the Tower and lodged him in “East Four, Cell Two,” with men accused of all sorts of offenses. The Count’s cell-mates do not like him. They said he refused to chat with them, that he clung fondly to his cane and his hat and his tan gloves, that he spent his time sitting in seclusion on his own couch or pacing restleslly up and down the room and that they couldn’t sleep at all on account of it. They were even denied a laugh at the Count s expense, they declared, for Wed nesday morning, when they all lined up to wait for the Count’s appearance, ex pecting him to step out blear-eyed and tousled. k tlfe nobleman appeared briskly, as dapper as a day In June. “I have removed no clothes at all, ’ said the count. “Say. bo,” said one of his irreverant bunkers. "You ain’t no count? Semanson refused to reply, so a re porter put the query more gently- "I do not care to discuss rrfy line age,” said he. "My card.” If this was a challenge to a duel, the reporter proved himself a coward, for the Count’s card was taken simply as his one and, to him, sufficient proof, of rank. • NORFOLK AND WESTERN EARNINGS SHOW BIG GAIN NEW YORK. April 4.—February enrnlngs Os the Norfolk and Western railway indicate a continuance of the re ent heavy tonnage opera tions in the soft coal regions of the south and southwest. . Operating revenue increased $1,640,294 with an increase of $1,152,658 in net revenue. The Ginner’s Profit is measured by the CAPACITY of hia plant—what it will do in a day’s ruo. Whether you tin forty bales in ton hours or fifty bales in the ssme time, the eost of operation of your plant ia the same. Inorease your out put twenty-five per cent, and your profit is increased two-fold. It is a fact, proved every ginning day in the year, that a Continental Plant, operating under the same con ditions, will turn out MORE COT TON in a day than a plant of any other make. Have you received "The Heart of the Gin Plant,” our hendtotne booklet telling you about the latest improvements in Continental Gin stands? If not, write immediately to nearest Continental Sales Office, and it will be sent you. Continental Gin Company Sales Offices: Birinlngham, Ala.; Dallas. Tex.; Memphis Tenn.; Atlanta, Ga.; Charlotte, N. C. THE SOUTHERN MORTGAGE COMPANY ESTABLISHED l‘7o, ATLANTA, GA. Capital $300,000. Solicits Applications for FARM LOANS IN GEORGIA AND ALABAMA IN AMOUNTS OF SI,OOO TO $25,000 tn counti<-s where we have no regular cor respondent, nnd where the amount wanted Is Ss.<t)o or more, we will undertake to handle tho lean direct with the owner of the farm, at very reasonable rates. "J” J, T. Holleman, W. L. Kemp, J. W. Andrews, President. Vice-President. Secretary. COUNT C. N. SEMANSON, as his visiting cards proclaim him, snap ped outside the Fulton county tower Wednesday, just after his night in a cell, where he was lodged on the charge of not paying ali mony. The count refused to pose unless his six-inch cigarette sold er and his gold-headed cane were in the picture. ■ißlr’' ■* IK? w*? -:wL- j| I Dodd Writes Neu) Page in Heroic Annals Junius Wood Tells How United States Cavalrymen Rode Upon Bandits in Town of Guerrero BY juirrus B. WOOD. Staff corrnspondant for The Atlanta Journal and Chicago Dally Bewa. WITH THE AMERICAN PUNITIVE EXPEDITION IN MEXICO, April 2. (By Army Motor Truck to Columbus, N. M., April 4. —The early morning surprise of hte Seventh caval ry under Colonel James B. Er win mAkes a page in the heroic annals of the American army. One of these columns was commanded by Colonel George A. Dodd, other two being led by Colonel William C. torown and Major Ellwood W. Evans. The latter two were colored troopers of the 10th cavalry. Tuesday two Mexicans were captured by the cavalry ’scouts. They declared they were deserters from Villa’s army Pleading for mercy, they insisted that they had not willingly followed tne bandit, but had been impressed into his ranks with others when he fled from Columbus. In every fight they said they had been put in the front rank, while more sincere bandits were behind with orders to shoot them down should they lag in the fighting. In the brush with* Carranza soldiers of the previous day they had escaped in the confusion fol lowing the wounding of the chieftain The two prisoners gave Colonel Erwin general idea of where the Villa forces were Then the seventeen-hour ride started. All day Tuesday the cavalry men plodded forward. To anyone who lias seen the towering mountains and the rough bolder-strewn roads, little more than Canyon skirting bridle paths, that ride can be appreciated. All that day they hurried forward, and the band its were not sighted, though traces of their march—abandoned blankets, oc casionally a dead horse, a spot where they had evidently camped and built J fires, and stores wrung from reluctant natives —were plentiful. As the sudden tropical darkness fell the American guides informed Colonel Erwin that they were approaching the town of Guerrero. Knowing the habits of the Mexicans, the American officers assumed that they would bivouac for the night in the town and commander the homes of the natives for shelter Twenty miles from the town "Halt" was called for a few hours nest for tired horses and men. No fires were lit, for no chances were taken on a zealous Villa, sympathizers carrying a warning to the town. . The men munched hard crackers and chewed jerked beef. THE SURPRISE. At midnight the order was given and they were again in their saddles. It was figured to reach the sleeping town at 4 o’clock in the morning and sur prise the sleeping band. In the dark ness the guides lost the way and dawn had broken before the town, nestling in a valey between the mountain ridges, was sighted. The bandits were sleeping off the ef fects of a night of feasting, the first satisfying food they had enjoyed for many days, but one vigilant outpost was awake. The Seventh was a mile away when he sighted them. Spurring his horse, he dashed into the sleeping town, firing his rifle and shouting: "The gringos. They are coming. Fly, fly for your lives." He kept right on going and was the first to leave the town. Spurring up their tired hores, the troopers entered the town almost at the heels of the terrified outpost. The bandits were rushing from the doors of every house on the little main street. Some of them fired rifles or revolvers as they ran. Others dropped everything and .throwing sa'ddles over their horses’ backs, sought safety in flight. A lieutenant who was in the fight and brought the only eye-witness report to General Pershing, said there was no or ganized resistance. Eliseo Hernandez, who had been left in command by Villa, was one of the first killed. As the fire of the galloping troopers swept the town the shots of the bandits ceased and those who had succeeded in reach ing horses were all that remained of the band. These were pursued for five Own An IH C Binder 1 KNOWING the conditions in your harvest fields as well as you do, it will be an easy matter for you to pick out the right grain binder for your work. Note the details of construction — How is the main frame built? Is the main wheel large enough and wide enough to give plenty of traction? Is there a simple means provided for quickly and easily taking the strain off rhe canvas at night, or when the binder is out of use? Are ball and roller beannra provided to lighten the draft? Will the elevator take care of both light and heavy stands of grain? 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In one adobe hut four of them were \ found. The nearest count of the total number killed was sixty. From some of the wounded further information was gleaned of the where abouts of Villa. They corroborated the story of the two deserters that he was seriously wounded. Other cavalry columns were rushed to surround his supposed hiding place. The others in the vicinity are: : Detachment composed of two compa nies of the Thirteenth and two of the Tenth, under Major Frank Tompkins, of the Thirteenth. Squadron of the Thirteenth, under Ma jor Elmer Lindsley, of the cavalry head quarters of the western department at San Francisco. Squadron of twenty picked men and horses from each company of the Elev enth, under Major Robert L. Howzee, of the army war college at Washington, D. C. BANDITS ABANDON EVERYTHING. In their flight the Villa bandits aban doned everything except what they had on. Many did not nave time to throw on their coats. Blanket rolls, som breros, saddlebags, all the pack mules and even rifles and revolvers, some of which had been taken from American victims, were left behind. Women and even a couple of children, who had been carried along by the bandits, were FERTILIZER FACTS NO. 29 The Little User Makes The Price—The Big User Makes The Profit . By reducing the amount of fertilizer used per acre in the cultivation of his corn and cot" ton crops in 1915, that farmer paid the penalty in reduced yields. With the exception of the reduced cost in the fertilizer used on that a’cre, the other costs, land rent (or interest on investment), plowing, w planting, hoeing, picking, etc., yere the same. With the reduced production per acre, there came a short crop and a good price. He prob ably spent $3.00 for fertilizer and made a third of a bale of cotton which brought him $20.00. The fertilizing farmer used MORE FER" TlLlZEß—probably investing SIO.OO in fertile izer on each acre—and produced a bale of cot" ton on it for which he received $60.00. He invested only $7.00 more in fertilizer and made a profit of $33.00 more. In addition, the fertilizing farmer gets three timeb as many cotton seed from the heavily fertilized acre as does the other from the lightly fertilized field. The farmer who used only $3.00 worth of fertilizer per acre reduced the crop and ad vanced the price. The farmer who used SIO.OO worth of fertil" izer per acre got the advantage of it and made the profit. Write to-day for revised bulletin No. 11 on “SECOND AND THIRD APPLICATION OF FERTILIZERS,” sent free on request. SOIL IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE Southern Fertilizer Association Atlanta, Ga., U. S. A. J busbHs of potatoes bedded onourmodelfarm. Scientiflcally W grown to grow. Varieties: Early Triumph. $1.50 P©r 1.000. *1 Nancy Hall. Porto Rico and Georg a Yam ■ va • ■ Prompt delivery and satisfaction guaranteed. Millions of sturdy Tomato> andjother Plants ■ for sale. Valuable booklet free. Write now, before our high grade plants are gone. Bal- ■ lard’s never fail to give best results. • H. & R. BALLARD, Dtpt. B ASHBURN, GA. • Sample Watch Free p^wmsui^^^s^ > 1 ,I Arbh , ■ ,Ti<rt sod dis tee»v R R gtv.e ®slqss A—s. —isxa gZ_Z_LIgaWgMMI mm .1.4 U c . ■. - ei. ai st mu f.r •y s- RS. T, »4wd» •»>•»«■ ».4~r,rw»« :r ..p ** <b.m wd H.npd.s w»sr»4<ir«*»y o“L R r.* the only prisoners to fall Into the troop ers’ hands. The exploit adds new laurels to the victory of the Seventh cavalry. It was this regiment which was led by Custer In the massacre of the Little Big Horn. It also was In close quarters at the bat tle of Wounded Knee when the Buffalo colored trwopers of the Ninth cavalry, on account of their kinky hair, came up and turned the tide against Sitting Bull. A victory of the regiment was at Wasatach, Indian Territory, in the ’7os against the Black Feet Indians. Hardships are being endured by the American troops without complaining. Some of the columns have campaigned in tw o feet of snow. The days, in sharp contrast, are of tropical Intensity. On all sides except In the narrow valleys, are the mountains crowned the year around with snow. For two day« a blizzard has been sweeping down from their frosty peaks. HEFLIN RESOLUTION PASSES IN THE HOUSE (By AMoeiated Press.) WASHINGTON, April o.—The house today passed the Heflin resolution pro viding for the collection by the cen sus bureau of statistics on the quan tity of cotton used In the manufacture of explosives. The vote was 69 to 139. The resolu tion directs the census bureau to col lect and publish statistics of raw and prepared cotton and linters, cotton waste and hull fibre consumed in man ufacture of gun powder and explos ives The present law confines the sta tistics to raw cotton.