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Notions, rocErieS.. 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, 1 > A. I U A)N KG .oo i? i X' t o DA] 1 L Cl ll**' b.W 1 3 l l ^ ! ; ACK Id LTST E 7 a i i Lesvillo. SO 'ZTsaaBtssB*** | 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 A X ! ) 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. ■ 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 —