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6 Agricultural 3(Sd ucation w E4RMMG MT- w| ’-‘-■^U-U a w Andrew M Joule This department will cheerfully endeavor to furnish any information. Getters should be addressed to Dr. Andrew M. Soule, pesldent State Agri cultural College, Athns. Ga. Good Formulas to Use This Season What will constitute an acceptable fertilizer formula for the present year? is a question being asked by thousands of farmers. Os course, everyone real izes that abnormal conditions prevail in the fertilizer industry, and this being the case, it is first necessary to consider what can be secured, and then proceed to compound and use these materials in a manner which is likely to prove the most beneficial to the crops ordinarily grown. In this connection it is certain that, while prices may be higher than tn previous years, there are very con siderable quantities of cotton seed meal and acid phosphate available. No pot ash can be had. Crushed lime rock may be' secured in large quantities, but its use should be primarily restricted to liberal applications made to the land preferably be t ore the planting of legum inous crops. Floats are also on the mar ket, but. according to tests we have made up to teh present time, and in view of the small amount of organic matter in Georgia soils, it does not ap pear that this materia! can be depended on as a satisfactory source of available phosphoric acid the present season. Ni trate of soda is scarce and high priced. Sulphate of ammonia is limited in sup ply and also high in price. Blood and bone and fish scrap will probably be available in normal amounts. It appears from a hasty review of the T Fast | |l de Luxe | y Daily ■ || Train |' < between g| MEMPHIS I and TEXAS A All-steel equipment-through dining-car service =• *• via the Iron Mountain Route (STL .tM.SS.-T.tP.-| 5-G.Mj R I Lv. Memphis 10:15 pm. U l| I Only One .Xfght on the Hay J gl For rear-- -s—ez!f or writs E B JENNINGS D. P. A.. *' •01 Eoarth National Bank Bldg. Atlanta. Ga. ■ [&> ■ By znnd nr wheat and selling Boer need in ■ yoorcwrm jn.ty. It u for joa a cure, cteodr. ■ elaa and jr-acablß bcs.nt-s. Too caa. wuh ■ rompannve.y atra.l cap.tai. start a tnodrm KI Hour KUI v.tk t-e wonderful Doaey .mak.iis “Midget” Marvel H roller Boir tain, make as good ■ Boar as t..« b e mills and withvet f.-enoua M .tn ij»r e»iKf wltht ic aid of our lostrae- M tun Book and "C.-nurtent al Sell r-z Hlaaa’* U wblcb show yon h-.w to run the ■ mu and sell th* Boar. • t I Capa.- tv, J- I • t so and TS bbto. per day. 11 It is tojloi < f-etrat. Waa'Bt WyM. H Start's.K'-cleared tt.ua in 7 mor.ths: C.K. 1 II Brae'ibin. Gap. Pa-CMOS month: Woicot* M II U Co. X:.ClerKr.«.Mich_pT c».) in it months: Burr M Oak iKan-a«> MUI A I orator Co- fc oO in 8 ■ monthe. Join there rm .t earners. Y..acando (I as wea er better. V.r -»n-w f>r oar fee* book. It "TheStovv of a V. oaderf..i Flour Mi.L" prices, terms ■ C and tentulredacf tert:-ion jW gHw t Us of de! Zhted money- 1 RSsl taak-tz owners. % Z. ‘ ii.L Atft-iMrlca* MRI C». rJUta 91 EKN M ’5-?t Tr **' ■'-« :si : . ; ■■ Al NT At Cost xw *uut vac Aa.oney fctrl iu«. We todae woat übrt«« u ever Beard «H miml l*i- Midp.' lM*as*l«e In IK Fall IVV IU £wiw«Ar xteit a»k4 . fjiat. UM?»t la'UM* pa.nu >l.la gii. di lur*- larinev. Urit»* for ,i tu do work iuit labor alxu ors an I kind*. book over affvfd. tr an«t *:••! ’»« r Frank / c ‘ rn ** r - THE SOUTHERN MORTGAGE COMPANY FBI A BIJSHI.Ii pjn, ATI.AXTA, GA. Capital 8380.0U0. hollcita Appliratlons for FARM LOANS IN ’EORGIt AND ALABAMA IN AMOUNTS OF 51.009 TO In emirates «h,n- we Imre no r.nilar ,-or r-spondint. ami where th< stn-nnt wanted |< lo.con «r m-T- w.- will un>lertnke to baielle the 1-an d rert with the owner of the farm, at »-ry mt-onabie rate*. ••j" 3 I. Holleman. W. L. Kemp. 3. W. Andrews. Fresiaeot. Vice-Prnaideat. Secretary. list that acid phosphate is likely to prove the most acceptable carrier of phosphoric acid available to the farm er. and that he must decide on what he win use to supply nitrogen to combine with acid phosphate in the hope of se curing the best fertilizer available for use under existing conditions. Natu rally, if he has exchanged his seed for meal, or if he still has seed to sell, he will desire to use cotton seed meal, and, of course, a combination of 1,000 pounds of standard meal and 1,000 pounds of 16 per cent acid phosphate will give him a very good formula, con i taining 266.8 pounds of available plant food per ton. This is about the only combination he can hope to make which will supply his soil with any potash. This formula will run 9.2 per cent of phosphoric acid. 3.9 per cent of nitrogen and about 1 per cent of potash. A formula of this character is well sup plied with nitrogen for most farm crops and contains a very good amount of phosphoric acid, and, of course, the potash is a distinct advantage for use, particularly under truck crops or on sandy lands. It is not necessary that this exact combination be used, however, as the amount of meal may be reduced to 600 pounds and the acid phosphate left at 1.000 pounds. If 400 pounds of fish scrap be added to this mixture, a formu la containing a little better than 3 per cent of nitrogen and 10 per cent of phos phoric acid will have been obtained, though the potash will have been some what reduced. Along the coast such a formula might prove quite desirable; in other sections, tankage might be used In the place of fish scrap. By this ar i rangement the nitrogen could be main tained on a 3 per cent ‘ basis and the phosphoric acid raised to 11 per cent. In these calculations it Is considered that the fish scrap contains 8 per cent I of nitrogen and 8 per cent of phoshoric i acid, and the tankage 8 per cent of nitro gen and 11 per cent of phosphoric acid. As materials of this character vary considerably in composition, these facts must be kept in mind in making calcu lations as to the amount of available plant food a given formula may con tain. If one were desirous of seuring a for mula running very high in nitrogen de rived from different sources, then 1,000 pounds of acid phosphate with 600 pounds of cotton seed meal. 200 pounds of dried blood and 200 pounds of nitrate of soda might be used. In case it is desirable to use sulphate of ammonia, the same amount of cotton seed meal could be used with 200 pounds of the I sulphate, and the acid phosphate in creased to 1,200 pounds. Farmers who are operating on a soil which is in fairly good condition and do not think it necessary to use formulas carrying over 2.5 per cent of nitrogen, but a ; fairly good per cent of phosphoric acid, j may find it advantageous to mix 800 i pounds of cotton seed meal with 1,200 , pounds of acid phosphate. By this ar | rangement they will secure a formula virtually 2.5 per cent of available nitrogen. 9.6 per cent of avail able phosphoric acid and . 8 per cent of potash. In addition to using the largest ration of cotton seed meal possible as a source of potash in a mixed fertilizer to in crease the potash supply, about all the farmer can do would be to save and re turn to the soil in the form of compost as much roughage in the form of straw, yard manure and litter as possible. If this is in a well-rotted condition so much the better, as under these cir cumstances the plant food it contains will become more quickly available and the material can also be incorporated with the soil to better advantage. Ot . course, wherever wood is burned the farmer should save the ashes as these contain some potash and help to in crease the supply of this now very scarce, and«yet often desirable element, particularly for truck crops and for use on sandy soils. Where wood ashes are available, however, they should net be mixed with fertailizer under any cir cumstances but should be applied sepa rately. They could be scattered in the row with the compost and mixed with the subsoil and then a light furrow of earth should be turned -in and the seed bed for corn made thereon, one of the fertilizer formulas suggested above be . ing drilled in at the time the corn is planted. The cotton should, of course, be planted on a bed. The above mentioned formulas can be used in varying amounts, according to the soil type with which the farmer is working. Three hundred pounds is | probably a minimum amount to apply where the land has been handled with any degree of skill and success. In many instances, five hundred pounds can 'be applied to advantage. All of the material may be. put under the drill row or part used as a side application, some what depending on whether all the nitrogen is derived from organic sources or partly from carriers containing this element in a quickly available form. • • • GROWING ONIONS FROM SEED. K. F. M.. dye. Ga.. writes: Can onlona be zrown from the seed tbe first year? What time sbonM I plant the seed to have seta forth.» next year? I notice that you <lo not ad'iso mixing woo<l a«hea with commercial fertiliser. 1 would like to use about -"OO pounds of ashes per acre for cotton and thoucht 1 would mix that with 6'M) pounds of 10-2 fertilizer. Can't get anything but ashes for potash this year. Advise the best method of applying ashes and guanc. Situated as you are we would plant onion seed early. The writer has had his in the ground for some and the young onions should be coming up in a few days. These onions were planted in drills fifteen inches apart. A fairly lib eral amount of seed was used to insure a good stand. The ground was fairly well supplied with yard manure. Or dinarily some phosphoric acid tv>d pot ash should be used under this crop, but owing to the difficulty in securing potash at the present time only phosphoric acid was used at the rate of 300 pounds per acre. If you have some wood ashes you could secure some potash In this way. 1 think it advisable that the ashes be broadcasted over the land and hgrrowed in. Thin out the onions for use in the early spring and summer. If you do ! not thin them out too much leaving them, eay only a couple of inches apart in , the drill, they will form excellent sets, and if they are left thick they will not grow much larger than a lead pen cil. For several years I have used these sets to replant my bed in the fall. By this method I have been able to secure an unusually good spring crop of onions of very fine quality. Onions require liberal fertilization, 1 and there would be no objection to your ' using the 10-2 formula, at the rate of i 600 pounds per acre if your land is thin. THE ATLANTA SOH-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA„ TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 1916. LIEUTENANT SIR ERNEST H. SHACKELTON, the British explor er, fias returned to Sydney, Austra i lia, from his Antarctic expedition. wl / Tv I sSWwWII W '' ■ ' ■ —-wl ‘Sm|| BERRY HILL, A FARMER, STABBED BY HAMMOCK MOULTRIE, Ga., April 8 —Berry HUI, a farmer, now lies near death at a local sanitarium as the result of knife wounds he received this afternoon at 1 o’clock in a difficulty with J. T. Ham mock. The men met on a prominent corner in the downtown section of the city, and, after passing a few words over a business matter, they rushed together. Before they were separated a minute later. Hill had been gashed deeply in six places and physicians have little hope of saving his life. Hammock is widely known. He was arrested immediately. It would be especially desirable to use this formula in the amount suggested if you have no yard manure available. We suggest that you Increase the amount of nitrogen to 3.5 or 4 per cent. It is sometimes well to use nitrate of soda as a top dressing after the onions are out of the ground. The ashes and guano should of course not be mixed to gether. • • • FERTILIZING WITHOUT POTASH. A. K. H., Smithville, Ga., writes: I would like some information about ferti lizers without potaeh. Please advise if guiino is of any value to land that really needs a high per cent of potash. Jiy land is a loam sandy with a yellow clay subsoil. For tbe past few years I have used a ferti lizer of 4 per cent potaah, and made very good crops. Do you not think I would do as well not to use any fertilizer at all as to use that which contained no potash? My land mostly needs potash, but with present prices for fertilizers, I did not know that It was advisable to apply fertilizers with out potash to my land. The elements needed in Georgia soil are primarily three or four. The one to whom crops respond most readily of all is nitrogen; next would come phos phoric acid, and last, potash. Many soils that are acid need to be limed, the calcium contained in this material be ing especially beneficial apparently to legumes. You will thus see that while potash is an essential element of plant .food, it is not the most essential, and while your crops might be benefited by the use of potash, we do not think you would be following a wise and consistent policy to abandon the use of fertilizers altogether because you cannot obtain those which contain potash. In other words, we think you will find it profit able this year to use a formula for corn and cotton on land such as you de scribe containing 2.5 to 3 per cent of nitrogen and 8 to 10 per cent of phos phoric acid. We would use this formula at the rate of 200 pounds and upwards ;e- acre. Three hundred pounds would jv a fair application for cotton and 400 to 500 pounds can be used under corn to advantage. In the event you use that much under corn put 300 pounds under the drill row a*nd use 300 pounds as a side application. We believe this is the best advice we can give you. AN ALABAMA FARMER’S PROB LEMS. ’ F. A. S., Doraville, Ga., writes: I am running a iix-horse farm with negro ten ants on shares. They want to buy guano at S3B, me to bear half tbe expense. I do not see that it would pay to do this with out potash. I have suggested that they get woods earth, pine straw, etc., and I would get a carload of ground limestone. They In sist, however, on the guano. I am com pelled to make a crop. I’lease advise me in regard to this problem. I expect to turn land with a two-horse Syracuse, though it lias not been done so far. We think you can make a very good crop in your section of the state through the use of a formula containing only nitrogen and phosphoric acid. This can ce prepared by mixing together cotton seed meal or any other carrier- of nitro sen which will supply this element and acid phosphate. A good mixture would be 800 pounds of meal and 1,200 pounds of acid. Cotton seed meal, as you know, carries considerable nitrogen and some potash as well We believe it will pay jou to use a formula of this character at the rate, say of 300 pounds per acre, and 200 pounds to be applied under the drill row and 100 pounds to be used as a side application in the early part of the growing season. Potash would be less essential in your soils than those in many parts of Geor gia, for your land naturally contains a considerable quantity of this element, lour land should, of course, be thor oughly prepared and carefully worked. If you decide to use lime at all it should be applied previous to the seeding of legumes. We think you might use to considerable advantage a ton of the raw ground rock per acre. Plow the land and then broadcast over the land and l»arrow under. -At the time of planting a legume we would use a couple of hundred pounds of acid phosphate. We believe this Is the best advice we can give you under the circumstances. We advise that you use all the litter you can secure In the form of yard manure, decayed leaves or other vegeta ble matter. COTTON EXCHANGE IS FORMED IN ROTTERDAM (By Associated Press.) ROTTERDAM. April 7. — (Via London, April 8.) —The first step was taken today to make Holland Independent of the Liverpool and German cotton exchanges by the organization of a cotton exchange in Rotterdam. The meeting, under the auspices of the chamber of comerce. was attended by cotton traders, brokers, shippers .and bankers, including representatives of some prominent American cotton export ers. and resulted in forty-two joining the exchange. A guarantee fund of $20,000 was raised and it was decided to apply immediately for a royal charter and to start business at once. Atlanta Must Not Adopt Europe's Sabbath BY BISHOP WARBEIf A. CANDLER The matter of the Sabbath is of su preme importance. Civilization has pro duced much labor-saving machinery, and Iroin this fact men might infer that human beings in these times have more test than the men of former generations had. But such is not the case. With the increase of labor-saving machinery there has been also an enormous increase in the things which men require for liv ing, a#d things which were counted lux uries twenty years ago are regarded as indispensable necessaries now. Out ot this has grown a vast deal of unresting labor. Men toil as never before, notwith standing all the labor-saving devices of cur day. And, hence, never in the history of mankind was the Sabbath more need ed. While the Sabbath is more needed than ever before, it is threatened in our country with greater perils than ever before. In the north and west it has been nearly subverted. It has been bet ter observed in the south, but there are many evidences that multitudes even in the south profane it now without scru ple or hesitation. If encroachments upon the sacred day continue during the next twenty years as they have advanc ed during the last twenty years, we shall have nothing left of what we have proudly called the “American Sabbath,” except a fading memory. This is greatly to be deplored. It Is a far more seri ous matter than many suppose. It is to be feared that even many of the ministers of the Gospel do not fully appreciate how serious this matter is. They are very much concerned for the cause of prohibition, and that is a great cause; but it is of infinitely less im portance than the Sabbath issue. The very life of religion is involved in the observance of the Sabbath Day, and we shall not be able to advance the cause of temperance, or promote any other good cause, when the Sabbath has been overthrown. The morality and spirituality of any community depend absolutely and in variably on the observance of the Sab bath. tl is a simple fact that there is not a deeply religious community In America, or anywhere else on the planet earth, that does not observe one day in seven as a day specially devoted to re ligion. It is very well to talk about an “every-day religion,’’ but. there is cer tainly precious little of such Christiani ty where Sunday is not observed. The prevalence and permanence of piety in our country depend mainly on what can be done for them on Sunday. If the enemies of Christianity could overthrow the sacred day they would do more to destroy the power of religion which they contemn than all the sceptics have ever done, or ever can do. GREAT BRITAIN’S FLEET MORE POWERFUL NOW THAN EVER IN.HISTORY LONDON, March 10.—(Correspondence of the Associated Press.)—The recent sharp debate in parliament between the first lord of the admiralty, Mr. Balfour, and his predecessor in that position, Winston Churchill, as to whether capital •ships were being hastened to comple tion with sufficient rapidity to meet the menace of the German building pro gram, was obscured by the necessary reserve in referring to the actual de tails of capital ships, so that few out side of the naval experts understood the bearings of the remarks made by the admiralty chiefs. There is much information available, however, which explain® the status of these big ships. This information is of ficial and semi-official, open to the pub lic, and therefore not within that cau tionary reserve, as it was permitted to appehr in Jayne’s summary of the stat us of the navies of the world appearing last fall. This shows that the new cap itaJ ships, upon which the debate hinged, stood about like this: The Queen Elizabeth headed a class of six dreadnoughts provided in the estimates of 1912, namely: Queen Eliz abeth, Waspite, Valiant, Barham. Ma laya, and another unnamed. They were of 27,500 tons displacement, making them among the largest dreadnoughts afloat; with,eight 15-inch guns, as against the guns previously used; 12* to 16 6-inch gyns, 12 anti-aerial guns, and four sub merged 21-inch torpedo tube®. The Queen Elizabeth, standing at the head of these six monster ships, became the represent ative type, and the “Queen Elizabeth class" is now a familiar reference to ships of this new and formidable char acter. The Queen Elizabeth and her sister ships were duly completed, the first two, Queen Elizabeth and Warspite, being finished in October, 1914, and the Val iant, Barham and Malay in 1915. The Queen Elizabeth has been heard from during the Dardanelles operations. Be yond this, however, little is known, and there is rarely a reference to these for midable ships, although it is officially definite they were completed at the times stated, and must now be somewhere afloat with their formidable 15-inch bat teries. These ®hips were not primarily the ones under discussion in the recent debate, as they completed, but the Queen Elizabeth was referred to as the type of later ships around which the de bate really centered. FOUR MORE BIG SHIPS. Two more capital ships of the Queen Elizabeth class were provided in the 1914 estimates, namely, the Agincourt and the Renown; and two more of the Rcyal Sovereign class, with slightly less tonnage, namely, the Repulse and Warrantor to G/va Baf/afaaf/am Gomhault’s Caustic Balsam His Imitators But No Compatltors. A Safe, Speedy and Positive Cure for Curb. Snlint Sweeny Cappod Sock, Strained Tendons, Founder, Wind Puffs, and all lameuew from Spavin, Kingbont and ether bony tumors. Cures all skin diseases or Parasites. Thrush, Diphtheria. Removes all Runehes from Horses or Cattle. \*ery bottle o, Cauetio Balaam sold Is Warranted to rixe satlafictlon. Price 51.50 per bottle Bold by druggie to. or eent by ex procs, charaes raid, with full directions for Ito use HFSend for descriptive circulars, taetlmoniais. etc. Address The Lawrence-Williams Co., Cleveland. 0 In addition to the moral and spiritual value of the Sabbath day, the sacred institution is necessary to the physi cal health of the people and indispen sable for the preservation of social order. It is therefore an imperative measure of industrial economy. When the Sacred Day is no longer observed we may look for a vast deal of strife and contention in our land. Employers and employes, observing no Sabbath day, and having nothing to take the feverishness out of their clamoroAis covetousness, will engage in the most bitter and disturbing contentions. Ours is an industrial and commercial na tion, and as such it must preserve the Sabbath day, or perish. Hence, if we had no Sabbath, it would be the duty of the state to ordain one; and as we have it, it is equally the duty of the state to protect it, and to preserve to the people the material and vital benefits which it is so well calculated to secure. As a matter of fact, the state of Georgia has undertaken by law to or dain and protect the Sabbath day. But in some of the cities, Atlanta included, there is a growing disposition to nul lify these statues. City authorities un dertake to give permission to violate state laws, and all sorts of pseudo charitable schemes are brought forward as pretexts for profaning the Sabbath. It is time that the Christian people, and all good people, rose up against these encroachments upon our Sab bath. We cannot afford to exchange this holy and life-giving institution for any consideration whatsoever. “The American Sabbath” has been tried, and its moral and social effects have been blessed. We do not want in this coun try what is commonly called the “Con tinental Sabbath,” a name derived from a type of Sabbath observed, or rather non-observed, which is prevalent in most of Europe. “The Continental Babbath’’ has been tried and found wanting. More than thirty years ago Dr. J. C. Holland wrote in Scribner’s Monthly concerning this matter. He said: “The most religious and earnest of the Catholic clergy of Europe lament the fact that the Sunday of their church and their several countries is a day of amusement. “Go to Italy, France, Spain or Ire land —to any part of Germany, Catholic or Infidel, and find if possible any people so temperate, pure, chaste, truth ful and benevolent as the Sunday-keep- Ing communities of America. It cannot be done. The theater, the horse race, the ball, the cricket ground, the lager beer saloon, have nothing in them that can take the place of the institutions of religion.’’ the Resistance. The first two were to be of 27,500 tons, the others of 25,750 tons. All were to have 15-inch main batteries with 12 to 16 6-inch guns, anti aerial guns, etc. The Agincourt was to be built at Portsmouth, the Renown at Fairfield, the Repulse at the Palmer yard, and the Resistance at Devenport. These were part of the ships under dis cussion in the debate. Except for the foregoing known information as to their authorization, size, power, etc., nothing more is known of them, officially or otherwise, and quite properly as a mat ter of necessary reserve. All that is known is that the Agincourt and- her big sister ships were provided for, but no further reference has ever been made to them. Five more big new dreadnoughts were provided in 1914, namely, the Royal Sovereign, Royal Oak, Resolution, Ram iiles and Revenge. These have since become known as the “Royal Sovereign class.” The capital ships were to be of 25,750 tons, with eight or ten 15-inch main guns and twelve 6-inch. The first two, the Royal Sovereign and the Royal Oak, were actually completed, the first at Portsmouth in December, 1915, and the Royal Oak at Devenport at the same time. The Resolution, Ramllle and Revenge were, according to the last information permitted in Jayne’s sum mary, building at the Palmer, Beard more and Vicker yards, and to be com pleted in 1916. Beyond this nothing is known of the ships of this aclass, ex cept that the Royal Sovereign and Royal Oak were completed and are now afloat somewhere with their 15-inch guns. The foregoing are the ships around which the recent debate centered, and on details of which ships there Is com plete silence except on the known facts before given. The rare references to the ships of the grand fleet usually mention ships of an earlier date, such as the Lion, completed in 1910; the Royal Princess, in 1911; the Queen Mary, in 1943, and the Tiger and Iron Duke, of 1914. Admiral Sir John Jellico, in command of the fleet, dated a recent letter to the Times from on board the Iron Duke, and this and the Lion and Tiger are frequently referred to. But it is ever the later ships of the Agin court, Queen Elizabeth and Royal Sov ereign class that the veil of complete silence is drawn except for the fore going known details. Without adding details on the prog ress or completion of the foregoing ships, Mr. Balfour in his recent speech declared generally that “the fleets are much stronger than they were six months ago. They are still stronger than they were twelve months ago, and their excess over what we possessed nineteen months ago is still greater. ’’ THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL 18 MONTHS SI.OO AND EXCELSIOR WONDER KNIFE FREE Worth Its Weight in Gold to Every Farmer, Stockman and Sportsman Fvprv Kniff* The il'iustratlon shows exact size of the knife. Besides the large K. VC I y mill C blade, m hich is two and three fourth Inches long, this knife has a Uuaran- smaller jmnch or reamer blade two and one-eighth inches long, and I cuts round hole, and size, in leather, with ease. Both blades are of t€?etl finest tempered tool steel, finely ground and polished. You have paid 91.00 or $1.50 for a knife not as good as this one. By special suTangement with the manufacturers we are getting this knife at a price whereby we can give you one with The Atlanta Semi-Weekly Journal 18 months for only <I.OO. 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International Harvester Company of America (Incorporated) e a tfit CHICAGO USA [fl] [MI Champion Dccriag McCormick Milwankoa Osborne PlaM a ~ HAND POWER. I xssw 13 Stump Puller \1 i?i* “JJ? wl“h V. Work, on any land. Operated by hand! lio horsea; 11 this wonderful b no digging. Made of forged Krupp steel —guaranteed. 11 machine. Adopted and need by U.S. Government officials and many state*. 1 1 ~ Send rB,B illutt-ated book on Land Clearing*** special after. and Eddie Pullen third with 3:38:26 2-5. Teddy Tetzlaff and R. C. Durant finished fourth and fifth respectively. Burman died in a hospital at River side twelve miles away. Mrs. Burman was with her husband when he died. As she stood beside him in the council chamber of the Corona city hall, where Burman was first taken after the acci dent. a woman came beside the cbt. When she left Mrs. Burman accused her of taking from her husband’s clothing a diamond pin valued at SBOO. A. C. Ramsey, chief of police, ordereu ter searched. He reported that two nurses found the pin concealed under her corset. The woman was held pending the filing of a formal charge. Bob Burman was born at Imlay City , Mich., in 1884, and did his first racing in Michigan. Burman held the world’s straight away records up to and including one mile, and many dirt track marks. In three races on the Pacific coast this sea son he finished second twice and won one event. <
