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BARGAIN STORE.I
A fertilizer is any tiling that
aids or increases the production of
farm crops. Nitrogen, phosphor
ic acid, potash and dime are the
essential fertilizing elements, be 1 -
otiose they are more important
than some of the others which
plants require; and a soil is useful
in proportion to the amount and
availability of these constituents
contained in it. These four only
are liable to be exhausted by any
system of cropping.
Usually in ^peaking of plant
food we use the word “form.”
This term “form” thus used re-*
furs to the union of the element or
constituent in question with oths
ers, the combination or association
in which it is bound. In other
woids we may say the won
“form” serves to point out, so to
company the plant food
ir in-stance, we may say j
lat pol.-h i ice urs in the "“form”'
of sulphate, i. c., this plant food
oxi.-its, united with sulphuric acid
as sulphate of potash, differing |
from the muriate, carbonate, silie- |
ate or other forms in which it j
might have occured. There arc
creasing where
nown.
2. Nitrogen with three parts of
hydrogen forms a gas, which, when
dissolved in water, makes the we
known ammonia water of the drug
store. The gas of ammonia com
bined with sulphide, acid forms am
monia sulphate, about the only
ammonia salt used as a fert ilizer. |
ll is derived childly as a by pros I
duct from the manufacture of gas
by the dry distillation of coal It
is sometimes secured in the maim
factum of bone-black for sugar
refiners.
;>. The third form is organic
matter. This form is obtained
from a variety of sources, and is
composed of both animal and veg^
(■table matter as cotton seed meal,
dried blood, ground bone, lish
scrap, tankage, Ac. These mate
rials are not soluble in water, and
thus they are not immediately
available to plants. 15y this we
can readily see, that their yulue as !
j many of these forms. Some are j a soiree of nitrogen, is measured
useful, some inert and some at ; by conditions which favor the
i times may be harmful. Then wc rapid change of their nitrogen into
■ may say the form in which a for- i an available form,
i tilizer occurs, is an index to the j As plants assimilate nitrogen
availability and service to plant ' only in the nil rate form, wo must
I life. To illustrate: phosphoric ! <-' hiin - rc ' lU fonn * (,f
lime, ' t° A*e 1111rati
Stopping
■ acid linked with one part of
is soluble in water, but when uni-
i ted with three parts ofli me it is in-
! soluble. In the last case the form is
lioes,
Hats,|
Furnishings,
undesirable because thesovcral sol-
1 vents of the plants and soils break
I down such combinations and thus
' render them available for plant
I food. Again when we treat plios
| phale rock with sulphuric acid, its
| phosphoric acid is made soluble
! and plant roots can disintegrate
the new union and use it. The
phosphoric acid has not been
! changed in any respect;
form has been altered.
MTKOCl EN.
but its
itrogeu
form. This change
is brought about in the soil by a
process known as nitrification,
i. e., the work of bacteria mention
ed above.
All the functions of nitrogen are
not thoroughly understood but it
has been observed, that it pro- j "
motes stem and leaf growth (aud j 10111,1 (< *'
if in excess sometimes delays seed •
and fruit formation); deepens the
coloration of leaves; and may in
crease or lessen the amount of
nitrogen in the plant according to
the amount used. Then if there
are large quantities of nitrogen in
the soil the leaves will he vigor-
“There are just as many ways
of stopping a street car as there
are of skinning a cat,” said an old
Evanston citizen as he stood at
AYil : <m avenue and saw his car
Hrd Mondays in April and Octo
ber. J. .1. ICimaey, Judge, Clove-
land, Ga. W. A. Charters, Solici
tor General, Dahloncga, Ga.
i Hash by according to thu Chicago
COUNTY OFFICERS.
JUUUS, iMJUUIlS, UllltS, Mi
Clothing* ;t specialty.|
r riiev will sell you clothing for cash?
|at Gainesville or Atlanta prices.
At
take I
Juice line of samples and will
Svour order for tailor made goods. t
ous and of a dark green color,
Nitroiren is (he most expensive I wllil(5 th| , flovvcr ftlul see{ ] will be
element of fertilizers. It is a color- j mm cxvhid rctai -.i e( |. o n the other
less, 1 nsteloss,. odorless gas, com- | | mm j, if there is a deficiency of
prising lour-fifths of toe ail and i- j n j tl . 0£ r on j n p u , so jp then
essential to all organised life,
, whether animal or vegetable. It
! is the principle ingredient of flesh,
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| milk, &c. We apply it as a forii
lizpr in the combined state; and
j when thus combined with other
i elements in minerals or organic
I materials it is, to a great extent,
I available to all plants. In the
j gaseous state only the leguminous
| plants have the power of using it.
| This process of taking free nitro -
: gen from the air and storing it in
the plant, is due to a living germ
which penetrates the roots and
j multiplies rapidly, causing the
i nodules so often seen on the roots
| of peas or ch>ver. Growing legu-
j mi nous crops is the cheapest way
| of supplying nitrogen to the soil,
i Nitrogen is present in mineral or
| organic compounds .in amounts
I usually varying from a fraction of
I one per cent to twenty pi r cent,
i We use nil-ref on u fertilizer
in three forms, us nitrates, as
■ amonia salts aud as organic unit*
| -tor. We will speak briefly of each
[ form.
1. The strong acid known as
j nitric nei 1 Is formed by the union
of hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen
i more
scanty foliage is noticed and the
seed is apt to mature earlier than
usual.
Chas. W. Davis, N. G. A. 0.
A' School Farm.
Of four hundred acres of land
of the farm belonging to the Ag
ricultural an I Mechanical College
of North Carolina, 300 have been
in crops this year. Early in the
•year there were wheat, oats and
rye, which were followed by corn,
cowpeasand different glasses, the
purpose being never to leave the
land bare of crops. The work on
the farm, which has included the
clearing or rocks, stumps, small
pines and shrub oaks from the
land, is done bv the students, who
are paid at ihc rate of ten cents an
•hour as an aid toward meeting
their tuition expenses. Under
this system the farm has been
brought inti a high state of culti
ration and is making money.—Ex.
Reflections ofa Bachelor.
as IT NOR. Now if the “II” in the
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General Merchandise.
acid is replaced by a base as pot; s-
I sium or sodium, we have the salts
cftlle 1 nitrates which we call potass
I sium nitrate and sodium nitrate.
1 The two nitrates just uumed are
; the only two used in the fertihz r
) trade. Nitrate of soda is a dirty,
! whitish, coarsely-chrystalline salt
) which gathers moisture rapidly
A woman never knows why she
loves a man, he ncyer cares.
Some people are so nuturaiiy
wicked they don’t get any worse
even when they go into politics.
Once there was a woman who
did not believe every word in her
love letters; hut she never got any
If a man knows how to make his
garden grow his wife can belieyc
lie knows how to do most any
thing.
You can never make a girl who
knows how to make angel cake be-
Chronicle. “And I believe there
arc thirty-nine ways of skinning a
cat,” he continued as ho shook his
fist at the conductor on the disaps
pealing car.
It was an angry crowd that st.r-
old man. Home of
them had been standing on the
corner for fifteen minutes. Others
had been there twenty minutes and
some not so long. Some had seen
three cars pass without stopping
and some had seen only two.
“Well, just try one way, old
man, and pass up the other thirty-
eight,” said one prospective pas
senger as he saw another car hear
ing down upon them. The old
man scratched his head. Then ho
beckoned to the driver of a coal
w igon. Then the old man took
Up a collection. “Contribute free
ly, gentlemen,” said the exhorler.
“It's for the good of cause, and if
you make it interesting enough I
guarantee t< stop the car. ’
The hat went around and the old
man called to the driver of the c ml
cart.
“Could you be induced to drive
across the track'*” asked the old
limn.
The driver looked at the glisten -
ing coins and said he might.
“Well, here comes a car. The
ehaucos are that it will pass, but _
the chances are that it won’t if you j
drive your wagon actoss the track.
In the first place, the cart is heavy.
That is a guarantee that the car
won’t pass. In the second ,,
“Hold on! Do I get the mon
ey?” inquired th ■ driyer.
“ Ton do,” was the answer, and
the cart was across the track when
the car was still a block away.
Thu molorman struck his gong,
but the driver stuck to Ins post.
The inotorman saw that he could
have or avoid a collision. There
was no collision. The car came to
a stop. The passengers got on,
cheered the old man and threaten
ed to gag the conductor if lie
didn't stop his sv\earing.
John I In If, Ordinary.
John II. Moore,Gleik.
James M. Davis Sherifl.
E. J. Walden, Tax Collector.
James L. Healan, Tax Receiver.
V. ll. liix. County Surveyor.
Joseph B. Brown, Treasurer.
D. C. Stow Coroner.
CITY GOVERNMENT.
R. II. Baker. May or.
Aldermen: E. S Strickland, J.
E. McGee, F G. Jottec. J. W.Boyd,
T. J. Smith. W. 1*. Price,Jr.
Win. J. Worley, Clerk.
Geo. W. Walker, Marshal.
RELIGIOUS SERVICES.
Baptist Church —
, Paster. Services Sunday at
11 and at night. Prayer meeting
Thursday night.
Sunday School at fi o’clock.
Methodist—Services every Sun
day at I 1 and at night. Rev. E. (J.
Marks, Pastor Prayer meeting
every Wednesday night.
Sunday School at fi o’clock.
Presbyterian—Services only on
1st and 3rd Sundays.
I). J Blackwell, pastor.
Sunday School fi a. rn.
MASONIC.
Blue Mountain Lodge No. 38, F.
& A. M., meets 1st Tuesday night
of each month.
11. H. Bakeu, W. M
K. of P.
Send IT
Your
from the air. It is soluble in wa- fieve she wouldn't be a useful wife,
ter and is immediately available to 1 —Exchange.
Jiw
Gold City ’Lodge No. 117, Dah-
loneya, Ga, meets in their Castle
Hall, over Anderson & Jones’ store,
the first and third Mondays in each
month at 8, p. m. All visiting
brothers who are in possession of
the. S. A. P. W . are hereby cordially
invited to attend all meetings. W.
W. Crissop, C. (!., W. E. Ricketts,
V. c, D. J. Bhi kwoll, P.; I). C.
Slow, It, It. A S.; F. M. Meadors,
M. of F.; Wharton Anderson, M. A.
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IH
Will. .1
Attorney at Law,
AND REAL ESTATE AGENT,
Dah'oneya, Ga.
Ur. it C. WHELCBEL,
Physician & Surgeon,
(Dahlonega, Ga.
li. H. BAKER,
Attorney at Law
Dahlonejja, Ga.
All legal bushiest* promptly attended to
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