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• 25) cents per pound; but *bout : 100
pounds may be obtained, from. Dr. A."
M* ; Winn, & Son, of Lawrencevilie f GA,
at 15 cents'per pound, or 12 cents a
pound,..if as much, as 10’pounds am
bought; also 160 pounds can be obtain
ed from Mr. J. T. Baxter, pf Su wanned,
Ga., at the sam% price. Tne forego
ing information ’ is "furnished largely
,by Mr. J. T^Baxter, who lias success
fully grown Rescue Grass.
STATE DEPT OF AGRICULTURE.
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CASTOR IA
Forlnfantsand Children.
The Kind You Have AlwarsBoogM
Virginia to Texas. Now, fully half of
tins colossal forest has been exhausted
and experts in timbering and naval
stores estimate that the supply of virgin
timber is sufficient for only fifteen years*
cutting.
The long-leaf pine has within recent
years furnished a vast supply of resin,
and since the largely increased demand
arose during the last five years for resin
and turpentine, these forests have been
destroyedwitfi frightful^rapidity, saj s
the AtlantaJournal. - ' ' '
In a bulletih just issued by the United
States department of agricdlture, Ex
pert Charles H. Herty describes a new
system of toxpentiiiC orcharding which
is designed to prevent the*waste of the
forests by preserving! the trees' and *
which seems also, from experimental
tests, to yield a large supply of" reSin
undersimilar conditions. '
The system in use at the present time
AN INTERESTING
Potcsh—Its
process la somewhat complicated
Blither brimstone from Sicily, o
pyrites, which Is a compound of sitf
phur and iron, some of which is im
ported from' Spain and, some produced
from mines in this country, are the
raw materials'used in the manufac
ture. ....
The brimstone or pyrites are burned
In specially constructed burners, and
the sulphurous gases which i esult from
the burning are caused to mix with*
nitrous gases produced from nitrate Of
soda, anddrawn into great towers
made of lead and packed with flints;
thence they are drawn Into Immense
leaden chambers or rooms, usually
three In a row connected together. 1 In
these chambers the sulphurous and ni
trous gases, are mixed with steam, and
condensed ^to sulphuric acid, which
falls' In rain on the floors of the lead
en chambers. U is, necessary to con
duct these chambers of lead, because
almost any other material would be
Improtanco aa a Plant
Food; Sources From Which Derived.
Wood Ashes—Staasfust Deposits..
The. only source of potash known
So our fathers was ashes, mainly wood
ashes, and while potash Lorn this
source is a most excellent manure,
yet evidently the quantity available
must be quit© limited. The great
majority of soils, * especially those
which contain much day, usually bold
a large reserve of potash, and do not
appear to require the special applica
tion of potash as a manure. Light
sandy soils. f on the. pther hand; and
some clay soils also appear to be quite
deficient in potash and are much bene
fited ;by applications of that fertilizer.
.Soils of this nature, therefore, stand
as. much In need of constant potash ma
nuring as of phosphoric acid and ni
trogen applications. .
. Wood ashes, whilst they may be
cheap and easily obtained' In countries
where ldrjar-forest; areas are • to, be
deared, in older .countries cannot be
so easily obtained. Long before fer
tilizers became a commercial commod
ity wood ashes weire highly thought
*>f by farmers. But usually when a
former buys ashes he buys, in the
lark, owing to the fact that ashes
vary so widely in their contents of
uo’tash. As a rule, ashes from hard
woods are richer in potash than, those
from soft woods. The ash of the red ,
oak’-for instance contains about 6 per
cent of potash, that*, of, the hickory
about 9 per cent, some pine woods
about 4% per cent. No definite per
centage, however; can be laid down for
any special wood, as the same wood
will vary in different localities, and
the wood of different parts of the
same tree will vasy, the ashes from
the twigs and young limbs being rich:
er In potash than the ashes^from the
body or trunk of the tree.
It Is impossible to fix the value of.
a lot of ashes, except by special analy
sis of the particular lot, owing to this
great variability in composition, and
owing to the further fact that the
ashes may have been leached or mixed
with more or less dirt. The average
analysis for good unleached ashes may
be taken aa A Per cent of potash,
per cent of phosphoric acid, and 32%
per cent of lime.' According to,the
values'for fertilizers adopted for the
present season, a ton of good average
aahes at the coast should be worth
four dollars and fifteen cents. This
calculation allows no value to the lime,
although of course it has a decided, val
ue on such soils as are deficient In it
Luckily since the middle of" the lact
century, farmers have eeen no longer
compelled to rely on ashes as a source
of potash, but have come to adopt in
their stead 'almost universally what
are known as the German or Stassfurt
potash salts.
These .salts are rplnei in Stassfurt
CHEAP COLONIST KATES
A genius'lias diacoveredthat the diape
of a kiss is a-lip-tickle, according to the
Atlanta Journals •
Georgia has about fifteen hundred
peach growers, and they are all said to
be making money. ;
Judge Mitchell’s demotion of the
jpoedo-colonels is receiving hearty plau
dits from the press of the state.;
LIMB, SALT AND SULPHUR.
For San Jose Scale Will . Be Made as
a Summer Treatment. <
The need of an effective remedy for
the San Jose scale for summer use
has'long been felt and although many
substances bavd beeh' tiled, nothing
baa given anything like satisfaction.
For the past two, yeaip I have been
experimenting with the lime, sulphur
and salt wash aa a winter treatment
- for- scale and the results have been
quite satisfactory as set forth in bul
letins 4 and 6 of the Georgia State 1
Board of Entomology.
Duriag the present season I am mak
ing etui tests with this prepay
tioo as a summer treatment for scale
and so for the results have been very
encouraging. While the mature in
sects are not immediately killed, by
applications of this wash the breed
ing la nht only quickly checked, but
the young perish soon after they is
sue; The. presence of the wash pre
vents the young insects from establish
ing themselves and tney are hither
killed by the caustic action of the
substance or perish from lack of food.
Just what takes place is not yet well
understood, but the fact remains that
the young die and the parent insects
soon follow their example.. And, that
is just what is desired. Instead of
Increasing at an incredible ratio, as
on untreated trees, the number of
scales dwindle in the presence of this
wash until the trees become compara-.
tively clean. /
It should <not be understood, how
ever that this means eradication. At
present it seems that no wash can be
so thoroughly applied as to complete
ly'destroy this pest. The object Is to
control and not to eradicate. ,
Application of the Wash.
The principal difficulty in the way
of applying summer washes is ths her goods and a big
presence of the foliage which Is likely following low prices:
ta be injured by preparations of suf- Morgan & Wrightj
fleient strength to be effective against ,,r J* < l ual * t y- at °"‘V *
the San Jose scale. A thorough spray- $,05 pJir ? q **
lug of a tree Is, therefore, cat prac- Inner Tubes, 65 cts
ileal and the application m,ust made j < hains.65 cts and
by hand., The trunk and larger limbs Pedals. 60 cts: and l
can be thoroughly painted by mean* ■ l or other prices sc
Oar hustling neighbor, Valdosta* lias
secured the next annual meeting o£ the
George GrahdT<tfge of Odd Fellows.
destroyed and eaten ett .by the action
of this corrosive acid.,,
The phosphate rock is hauled to the,
factory, usually a building located
alongside the sulphuric acid, chambers.
it Is there thrown into crushers which
break it into small pieces; thence coc
keyed- to the grinding ~ machinery,
either /steel mills . or buhrstones,
where it ie pulverized Into', a fine meal
or flour. You would naturally ask
at this point, why not use this 'fine
phosphate meal directly on the soil,
without, mixing It with the caustic
corrosive sulphuric acid? It is sijn-
ply because this meal is of a rocky_
nature and only dissolves with diffi
culty In the soil waters, and we have
seen, plants require their food* to be
easily, soluble in water, so that the
roots suck it in. The phosphate rock
meal, no matter how finely ground,
'dissolves only to a very limited ex
tent in water, and It Is necessary to so
treat it as to liberate the rock-bound
phosphoric acid; and render it solu
ble in water. Hence the necessity
for the sulphuric acid.
The phosphate meal (say it is from
South Carolina rock, and contains 28
per cent of phosphoric acid, combined
with lime to form 61 per cent of bone
phosphate of lime) is first weighed,
and we will take say 1,000 pounds of
It, and dump it Into a circular cast-iron
mixer, into which has already been
introduced 1,000 pounds of sulphuric
add - of the proper strength.
The acid and meal are now thor
oughly mixed togethed by machinery
In the Iron pan. The mixture be
comes very hot, the strong sulphuric
acid attacks the lime combined with
the phosphoric acid of the phosphate
meal with amazing and furious ener
gy and appropriates to itself the great
er past of the lime in the form of sul
phate of lime, gypsum or land-plaster,
and liberates the same moment the
phosphoric acid, which is only allowed
to retain its hold on a small part of
the lime, with which It was first com
bined.
This smaller portion of lime and
the phosphoric acid with which It is
combined Is what the chemists call
mono-caldc-phosphate, er superphos
phate of lime. It is also known as
the acid phosphate of lime. This
acid phosphate of lime, or superphos
phate, is soluble 1n water; we have,
therefore, accomplished what we set
out to do, rendered the phosphoric
acid soluble. This dicovery was made
by the great chemist Liebig, who thus
put the entire world In his debt, lay
ing the foundations of the great fer
tilizer Industry, and rendering an in
estimable boon to modern agriculture.
JOHN M. McCANDLESS,
State Chemist.
Nothing has ever eqnalled it.
Nothing can ever surpass it.
^ inches wide, 7 inches long and 8 1-2
' inches' deep; is cut in'ihe side of the tree
near the base, as a receptacle Tor the
resin. The surface of the tree id then^
r/f t‘cliipped'’ or scarified, above the box
•the' resin which exudes through
these wounds trickles dow^iinto the box.
f ,4,?h® principal arguments urged againi t
l * tills method are,' that it lessens the vi-
* tality of the tree; that much of the tur-
ts pontine evaporates from the resin before
? - it finds its way'into the box; that the
e action of the atmosphere on the exposed
^ resin changes the wood into fat pine,
jr and produces a deterioration in the
quality of the resin; that it weakens the
b ise of the treesjand renders them more
is liable to be blown down; and chiefly
that it makes the tree very iDfsmmable,
and causes untold thousands to be de
stroyed every year by fire. •
a- The new method
Dr.King’s
New Discovery
A Perfect For All Throat and
Cure: Lung Troubles.
Mcney back if It fails* Trial Bottles free*
Good News
known as the
“cup-and-gutter” system, and has been
already noticed in these columns, 'lit
whs devised by Dr. Herty after an ex
haustive study of turpentine methods
.both in this country apd in.Europe, and
is in fact an adaptation of the French
process. 1
Instead of a cavity in the tree, an
earthenware cup, similar to a flower
pot, is affixed to the tree near its base,
and the rosin from-the scarified trank is
conducted into the cup by means of the
tin gutters.
It will be seen that this method, has
none of the disadvantages above men
tioned as attaching to the box system.
Exhaustive tests have been made on
an experimental tract near Ocilia, Ga.
The results were eminently satisfactory,
and seemed to establish beyond question
the superiority of the cup-and-gutter
system.
It is to be hoped that turpentine opera
tors xjill adopt this or some similar
method whereby these valuable forests
may' be preserved and not wantonly
wasted as in past years. The future of
the industry] depends bn this and the
problem is one which involves many
millions for the south.
WERTZ & SON,
The Columbia State says: “A* con
temporary fears the President will be de-
manding a raise in salary to defray hie
traveling expenses? Bless its innocent
heart! Why, it doesn't cost him a cent.
He actually saves living expenses. And
yet some people are so unkind as to hint
that our great corporations liave no
souls!” *
Wholesale Retailersl
Thom as vi He, Gs
CHICHESTER'S ENGLISH
PENNYROYAL PUS
Bra gorge of rock a little more than
two hundred feet wide the United- States'
government has decided to construct a
dam of solid masonry, the first under
the Hansborough-Newlands act, at the
Tonto Basin side, that willfcreate in the
valleys of the upper Salt river and Ton
to creek the lorgcst artificialflake in the
warid. It will irrigate 200,000 acres.
We have frequently referred to the
Summer _. School of the University at
Athens ip these columns and expect to
continue to do so. ’ The instruction that
ean be secured there is superior to any
thing that has ever before been offered
in the South. The climate of Athens is
delightful and Athens people are »«w*ing
the most cultured, [cordial and kindly
enwsrth: Just tb'live among them for
tax weeks wouldjbe worth twice the cost
; of attendance at the Summer School.
• Wo wish we wbre^a fceacherj that we
might go too. . x
Rheumatism
Rescue Grass.
One of our friends has requested
that we republish an article that ap
peared about two years ago on “Res
cue Gra»ss.” We take pleasure in
complying with this request.
Rescue Grass Is probably the finest
for winter grazing and the most pro
lific in southern latitudes. It re
quires a rich, loamy soU, and comes
up In September, growing rapidly dur
ing even the coldest winter. It JkSrarda
a rid pasturage of the * most ^succu
lent stems ani-d leaves from-December
1 to May 1, or it may be mowed for
hay two or three times during April
and May and then allowed to mature
a crop of seed, which in gathering
will shatter, o*'leave enough seed on
the ground to reseed the lapd, so that
one sowing, if properly treated, will
suffice.
After mowing two or three times,
'from 100 to 160 bushels of seed may
The seed may
uric acid. It never fail*, and baildauS
the health and strength -while using it.
Send stamp for book of wonderful cer-
Uflc*t«. Price, n per bottle. For sale
by druggists. If your druggist can not
PMp * !i npon
Oricsol GbenicalJ^iss AagSles.Ca).
Laur & RauktaOrugCo., Ationt*. 6a.
Distributing Agents.
- The Thomasville CGa. )| Times-Enter-
prise, referring to what Thb Advertise
said about some papers^failing to give
credit, says it has received some of its
Georgia contemporaries with as many as
a dozen cribbed editorial items. That is
•not a fair and square way for brethren
to treat each other, and they should stop
it. Cribbing type or whitefpaper would
be little moire reprehensible.—Mont
gomery Adyejtiser. Amen, again.
Lime (unslaked) .
Sulphur (ground)
Salt.
Water to make .,
. .30 lbs.
.. .20Ibs.
;..15Ib».
.100 gals.
For sale by R. Thomas, |r.
be made on an acre,
be sown from June to February, but in an iron kettle over a fire and when
to get the best results it should be it reaches the boiling point add the
sown in June, when -peas are sown for j lime, which immediately produce ; e
forage. ' J violent boiling. Stir in the sulphur
There are some peculiarities about as rapidly as convenient and from time
this grass seed. It will not germinate to time add a small quantity of water
In summer. The celder the weather as needed to prevent boiling over or
In winter, the faster it grows, unless horning. The sulphur gradually goes
the stems have commenced jointing, into solution and the mixture, at first
When a freeze will kill it down, only thick and pasty, becomes thinner aod
to come out again/however, greatly thinner, changing in color through
increased in thickness. When not several shades of yellow. After at
mowed, the grass grows slowly, but least one hour’s constant boiling the
when it Is mowed or grazecl upon, the salt should be added and the boiling
growth Is- hastened. The plots upon continued for another half hour. Then
whliph the grass has been sown can dilute with the , required amount of
be broken up from June 1 to 15, fertil- water, preferably hot water. If «
Ized and sown-In peas; or planted in suitable boiler is convenient the mix-
corn and field beans. By this meth- tore may be more economically cooked
The new proprietors of the Augusta
Chronicle have enlisted the aid of Sam
-Jones to pntnew life into the old town.
Their justification is that desperate cafes
require desperate remedies, says the
GriffihLNews//
doubtless be obtained, though, of
course, at greater cost, from such wa
ters as those of the “Dead Sea." There
need, therefore, -be no fear of the sup
ply running short Having now giv-
• The sentiment fof Cleveland jnafe
won’t down, says the Brunswick News.
No, it’s aU hot air, and is sailing like a
balloon in visionary heights. Sense,'not
sentiment, is what we need in onr can-.
en you a brief account of the differ
ent raw materials used In the 'man
ufacture of “truano’* or rnmmoroliil
, The Americas Press speaks sense when
it says the Rev; Newell Dwight Hillis
is seeking notoriety in ayvery ugly way,
and he will pay very dear 'for whatever
degxee of it he manages to reap.
Mules and Cows.
■We have 10 head mill and fann nmi-.
also 10 head.- Jersey, Holstein and
Durham cows with yonng calves for sale,
at reasonable prices. For further 1
motion write to ns at Boston Gal ° r