About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1925)
PAGE FOUR HOW SCIENCE | MADE AIR ASSET TOTHEFARMER Nitrogen Removed From Air Turned Into Nitrogen Com pound and Used As Fertilizer BY DAVE DIETZ The scientist is com.ng to the aid of the farmer by doing a job for' him that was formerly done only by certain kind of bacteria. The job is to take nitrogen out of the air ; and turn it into a nigrtogen com pound which cat. be used as a fertil- ’ izer. The farmer can appreciate the lament of the mariner at sea who said. “Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.” For the earth's atmosphere is four fift-.s nitrogen and yet one of the farmer’.- chief expenses is fertilizer containing nitrogen. Plants cannot grow without! nitrogen. But plants are totally uh-I able to use free nitrogen from the air. They can only absorb nitrogen | which ias been combined with] other elements to form salts or coin pounds and mixed with the sod. The normal nitrogen content of the soil is the result of the activity of certain bacteria in the soil which have the power of absorbing the nitrogen of the air and "fixing” it ! as the expression goes, in com pounds which the plants can use. In the past when the nitrogen 1 consisting of animal or vegetable' waste of upon nitrogen mined from a few existing nitrate fields in the world. But the scientist is now making l nitrates for the farmer direct from the nitrogen of the air. This year, Dr. F. G. Cottrell of the U. S. Fixed Nitrogen Research Leboratory at Washington estama tes 44 per cent of the nitorgen com pounds used in the world will be maunfactured direct from the nitrogen of the air. The story of how scentists dis covered that lightning flashes caus ed some of the nitrogen of the air to combine with the oxygen, the result ing compound being washed down with the rain to form nitric acid. Two American chemists, Bredly and Lovejoy, succeeded in repeating this progress with the aid of an elec trie arc in 1920. But so much elec tricity was consumed that the cost was prohibitive. A Cheapper process was discov ered during the World War. This was known as the cyanimed process. In this process, calcium car bide was first manufactured by melt ing coke and lime in an electric furnace. This was then treated while at a red heat with nitrogen. As a result a compound known as calcium cyanimid was formed. But the process chiefly used now is one which wgs developed in Ger many. Jn this process, which is far cheapen than any other, nitrogen and hydrogen are mixed under high pressure and passed at a duii red heat through a granular mass con sisting chiefly of specially prepared iron. Aa a result the nitrogen and hy drogen combine to form ordinary ammonia. Dr. Cottrell estimates that 70 per cent of the nitrogen compounds manufactured this year will be by this German process. ir i ■ i n MUTILATED BODY OF MAN FOUND IN WOODS - -I CHATTANOOGA. Tenn., Oct. 12 —Missing from home since last Thursday, the mutilated body of John Denny Maddux, 49, prominent farmer of Maddux in the north end of this country -was found in the woods near his home Sunday af ternoon by a searching party, and George Privett was arrested a few hours afterwards charged with the crime. ATE T(M FAST South Carolinian Took Black* Draught For Indigestion, and Says He Could Soon Eat Anything. Ballentine. S. C.—Mr. W. B. Bouknight, of this place, gave the following account of his use of Thedford's Black-Draught. “Just after I married I had indi gestion. Working out. I got in the habit of eating fast, for which I »oon paid by having a tight, bloated feeling after meals. This made me very uncomfortable. T would feel stupid and drowsy, didn’t feel like working. I was told it was indi gestion. Some one recommended Black-Draught and I took it after meals. I soon could <sat anything any time. “I use it for colds and bilious ness and it will knock out a cold and carry away the bile better and quicker than any liver medicine I have ever found." Eating too fast, too much, or faulty chewing of your food, often causes discomfort after meals. A pinch of Black-Draught, washed down with a swallow of water, will help to bring prompt relief. Bloat ed sensations, eructations, bad breath and other common symptoms of indigestion have disappeared after Black-Draught has been taken for several days. NC-164 • ..... I’s Irish Rose George Joseph Healey, of New York, whose ancestors were Irish I when Jerusalem was a cross-roads! town, has had his name changed to I Schwartz because he plans to marry! a Jewish girl, Ida Weinberg. But ‘ now an Irish giri, who lives in Brooklyn, declares she married the 1 ;ex-insnman in 1919, and Ida now I Isays her romance is off TOWN WIPED OFF MAP IS REVIVED 3 MILES AWAY Not Even Shack Marks Spot Where Once Town of 1500 People Stood SHERIDAN, Wyo., Oco 12.—[ j Just eight months ago the town ot 1 Old Lavoye, Wyo., was doing a bus- ' ' mess of $.;,0(?0,000 a year. Property in the town was valued 'll §775,000.1 Toady there isn’t as much as a, 1 shack to mark the spot where once the town of 1500 people stood. In place of the hotels, stores and homes stand only tall grease-cover- ! ed derricks. For it was "black gold” j that literally forced Old Lavoye off ■ the map. Already three miles distant a ' new Lavoye has been built. Some fcf I ’ the buildings were moved there ;n --1 tact others were torn down and re-, built and some weren't worth mov-1 ’ ing. ’ The story is one of the most vn ; usual arising out of the numerous ■ battles for oil in the otherwise bar- ■ ren lands of the west. For a time it was feared this dis- ' ’ pute would couse armed warfare in the Wyoming oil fields. * In 1920, Joseph Levoye, a Frcnch- ' Canadian, applied for a homestead 1 on the site of Old Levoye, but never ' i recived the final patent to the land.; 1 Then came a great oil boom in' 1 the rich Salt Creek field. The home-1 t stead was in the heart of the field. | 1 Lavoye leased lots to build stores , and the town sprung up with the 1 typical overnight rapidity of a trad ' ing center in the oil fields. Prices' 1 were high and Lavoye was getting '■'rich fast. 1 1 . All the geologists said great quan ’ ■ tities of oil were underneath .he' ' townjite. • The tall oil derricks came closer ’ and closer to the town. The Ohio ‘ Oil Company, which had the oil ■ rights to surrounding oil lands, 1 9 wanted to drill a well on the main ( cornor of the town. | 1 . Lavoye fought it through the; 8 courts until his funds were exhaust § ed. Then the townspeople took up', 'the fight. Appeals were made to' Washington, without avail, 1 Finally Federal Judge T. Blake Kennedy, who decided Teapot S Dome belonged to Harry Sinclair, decided that the townsite belonged 2 to the oill company and ordered Encouragement for Suffering Women j- “I surely can recommend Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription as a wonderful tonic and nervine for women suffering from inward weak ness and to mothers or prospective mothers,” said Mrs. Leon Sawyer, 1523 N. E. Ist Ave., Miami, Fla. (Picture above.) ’’Favorite Prescrip tion” was recommended to me when I was in a weak, nervous and run down condition. I lacked ambition and strength and just picked at my food—did not enjoy it. I found such real life-giving qualities in the ‘Favor ite Prescription’ that I took nine bot tles and my first child was a fine healthy boy. I have never had that feeling of weakness since and must say Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescrip tion has no equal as a tonic and ner vine for women who feel weak.” You should obtain this famous Pre scription now at your nearest drug store in tablets or liquid, or write Dr. Pierce, president Invalids’ Hotel in Buffalo, N. Y-, for free medical advice. that it be vacated. Revolt Wa» Feared The decision stirred the oil fields almost to the point of revolt, but the townspeople finally decidedt o abide by the decree. The new town has been built al-1 most as quickly as the old one, but. it is much cleaner and more attrac-' tive than Old Lavoye. But there isn't a derrick in sight, and the' ground which the :ew town stands is as yet worth nothing compared to the riches which underlaid Old Lavoye. Meanwhile, at Old Lavoye, “black gold' 1 contiiyies to come frdm the earth, but its founde- is getting no share of the treasure. The fight is over, but it has left bitter sores that may cause unrest in the oil fields for may years. The Outstanding Dress Event of the Season! 100 SMART FALL DRESSES $25.00 VALUE CSv Think of buying regular $25.00 Dresses at the heighth of the season for $14.95. Just another demonstration of the Bik /iOTL wonderful buying power of the Churchwell organization. The group consists of Satins. Crepe Back Satins and popu- ja lar cloth styles, the beautiful range of colors and styles, flares, pleats and other inovations that make the fall styles SfiSaMSP so attractive. We urge you to see these dresses and to take WSnln advantage °f this saving—Tomorrow. Wonderful Coat Values, : : : $24.95 j£g Coats of Fashion! Just another value demonstration in which we pass the un- \ usual savings to you. 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According to Mr. Hogan, who is secretary and treasurer of the Georgia Fox Hunters’ Association, the owners of the grounds have turned over things to the associa tion and big times are in store for those who take a part in the hunt.. Mr. Hogan invites the followers of the sport to meet there on Monday morning, Oct. 26. FORMER CONGRESSMAN I FOUND DEAD IN BED I i MARVEL, Ark. Oct. 13. —Robert I Bruce Macon , congressman from , ■ the first Arkansas district from i . 1903 to 1913, was found dead in bed at his hose here late Sunday I ' evening. Death was attributed to | i heart disease. Mr. Macon, 66 years i of age, practiced law and was aj i member of the Arkansas legislature! | before being elected to congress. | > ENLIST GREEK WOMEN IN RELIEF WORK ATHENS. Oct. 13.—Mrs. Percy . Pennback,' of Austin, Texas! chairman of the National Women’s! Comimttee of the Near East Relief, has arrived in Greece to enlist the TUESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOEt.R 13, 1925 co-operation of Greek women in the observance of Golden Rule Sunday, Dec. 6th, on behalf of the ref’xee' orphans of the Near East. Mrs. Pennybacker will inspect I the American relief work in Greece and Palestine as the representative of 45,000 women’s clubs in Amer ica who are cooprating in th sup | port of these schools and orphan cages. Lots of dull people wear smart I clothes. 6 6 6 it a prescription for Malaria, Chills and Fever, Dengue or Bilious Fever. It kills the germs. Wouldn’t it be awful if we al ways were as awful as we often are? Womans place is in the home and when shes out of place every thing else is out of place. WANTED ! Hens and Fryers Market Stronger AMERICUS HATCHERY AND SUPPLY CO . Americus, Ga.
