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PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
DR. J. M. ANDERSON,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
BAKNESVILLE, GA.
Residence: Thomaston street.
’Phone No. 25.
A. PIERCE KEMP, M. D.,
GENERAL PRACTITIONER,
BAKNESVILLE, GA.
Office over Jordan’s Drug Store.
Residence: Thomaston street: 'Phone 9.
C. H. PERDUE,
DENTIST,
BARNESVILLE GA.
Pg“ Office over Jordan’s Drug Store.
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BARNESVILLE, GA.
Office hours, 1-11 a. m., 2-r-4 p. m.
J. A. CORRY, M. D.,
BARNESVILLE, GA.
Office: Mitchell building.
Residence: Greenwood street.
J. P. THURMAN,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
BARNESVILLE, GA.
Office over Jordan Bros’ drug store.
Residence, Thomaston street; ’Phojje, No. 1.
Calls promptly attended.
GEO. W. GRICE,
PHOTOGRAPHER.
Work done promptly and neatly.
tST*Office over Middlebrooks Building.
A. A. MURPHEY,
LAWYER.
BARNESVILLE, GA.
C. J. LESTER,
Attorney at Law
BARNESVILLE, .... GA.
Farm and city loans negotiated at
low rates and on easy terms. In of
fice formerly occupied by S. N.
Woodward.
R T. Daniel. A. B. Pope
DANIEL & POPE,
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Offices at Zebulon and Griffin.
EDWARD A. STEPHENS,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
BARNESVILLE, - GEORGIA.
General practice in all courts—State and
Federal.
Loans Negotiated.
W. W. LAMBDIN,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
BARNESVILLE, - GEORGIA.
Will do a general practice in all the courts
—State and Federal —especially in the counties
composing the Flint circuit.
Loans negotiated.
Jordan, Gray & Cos.,
Funeral Directors,
Day Phone 44. Night Phone 58.
CITY BARBER /HOP.
Hair cutting a specialty, by
best of artists. My QUININE
HAIR TONIC is guaranteed to
stop hair from falling out.
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Main street, next to P. O.
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BARNESVILLE. GA.
BETTER CUT THIS OUT.
Every mother should be quickly sus
picious of worms when their children
act as if they were going to be sick.
Worms are known to be the first cause
of much ill health. Young and old
very often are sufferers from worms
when a mother thinks it is something
else. Remember, a very harmless, yet
always effective remedy for stomach,
tape or pin worms, is a 25 cent bottle of
Mother’s Worm Syrup.
THE BARNESVILLE
CHAUTAUQUA.
Barnesville, Ca., June29th
to July 6th, 1902.
Wedemeyer's Famous Fifth Regiment
band, supplemented with members of the
Marine Band of Washington City, for the
entire week.
Also for the entire week, the OTTUMWA
MALE QUARTETT, the finest quartett in
the U. S., including Mr. lott, the most
superb bass singer in the world.
Every feature of the Chautauqua will be
a treat in itself, and the program is a grand
collection of America's greatest lecturers,
musicians and entertainers. You cannot
afford to miss the great BARNESViLLE
CHAUTAUQUA for 1902.
THE PROGRAM:
Sunday, June 29th.
10:30a. m. Sermon —Dr. E.B.JAmlrews,
Chancellor University, of Neb.
Monday, June 30th.
10:30a. m. Lecture —Rev. Frank
Dixon. Hartford, Conn., brother
of Rev. Tom Dixon.
2:30 n. m. Organization of Inter-
County Teachers’ Institute.
Bp. 1.1. Grand Concert —Fifth Regi
ment Band and Ottumwa Male
Quartett.
Tuesday, July Ist.
10:30 a. m. Lecture—R ev . Frank
Dixon.
Bp. m. Entertainment —Mr. J. Wil
liams Macey, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Wednesday, July 2nd.
10:30 a. m. Lecture —Dr. E. 1!. An
drews ; subject: “Robert E. Lee.”
8. p. m. Lecture, with experiments,
on Liquid Air —Prof. J. E. Wood
land, of the Institute of Mechani
cal Arts, Rochester, N. Y.
Thursday, July 3rd.
10:30, a. m. Educational Rally—lnvi
tations for addresses extend Gov.
Aycock, of N. C.; Dr. Charles Mc-
Iver. Greensboro, N. C.; Dr. E.
C. Alderman, New Orleans; Hon.
Hoke Smith, Atlanta, and others.
Bp. m. Entertainment, moving pict
ures, illustrated song, etc. —Ideal
Entertainers, Saginaw, Mich.
Friday, July 4th.
10:30 a. m. Lecture —Hon. Henry
Litchfield West, Washington, D.
C.; subject, “Conventions, Cam
paigns and Candidates.” Intro
duced by Senator Clay.
Bp. m. Lecture, with experiments, on
Wireless Telegraphy —Prof. J. E.
Woodland.
Saturday, July sth.
10:30a. m. Humorous lecture—Col.
George W. Bain, Louisville, Ky.
Bp. m. Grand Closing Concert—Fifth
Regiment Band, Ottumwa Male
Quartett, and the Ideal Enter
tainers.
TEACHERS’ INSTITUTE.
An Inter-County Teachers’ Institute will be
held in connection with the Chautauqua. About
a dozen counties will combine in this work
Besides the regular experts, a contract has
already been closed with Prof. E. E. Utterback,
probably the most notable directors of manuel
south, will have charge of this department of
work. It will be a rare opportunity for the
teachers of Georgia. This is a subject which is
receiving attention from the leading educators
and statesmen of Americu. Prof. Utterback
will demonstrate what Manual Training really
is, the position it should occupy and its true
function as a factor in education. He will have
drawing, painting, modeling, construction in
paper, cardboard sewing and weaving. It is
also practically certain that a Professor from
John Hopkins University will deliver several
lectures on physiology, and will be illustrated
with life-size manakins and other drawings and
charts, so as to make them plain alia yet
attractive. The examinations for teachers’
license now includes questions on Physiology
and this science must be taught in all public
schools. These lectures are therefore timely
and of inestimable value.
A rate of one far.e for the round
trip has been granted by the rail
roads from all points in Georgia,
and the ticket will include admis
sion to the Chautauqua. The best
homes in Barnesville are open to
all visitors at rates from 60 cents
to SI.OO per day. The whole
Chautauqua will be a marvelous
treat for every Georgian.
When a youug husband becomes
a father he feels as happy as looks
scared.
HowTo
Gain Flesh
Persons have been known to
gain a pound a day by taking
an ounce of SCOTT’S EMUL
SION. It is strange, but it often
happens.
Somehow the ounce produces
the pound; it seems to start the
digestive machinery going prop
erly, so that the patient is able
to digest and absorb his ordinary
food, which he could not do be
fore, and that is the way the gain
is made.
A certain amount of flesh is
necessary for health; If you have
not got it you can get it by
taking
ccotrs gjdsKn
You will find K juris* useful in summer
as in winter, and if you are thriving upon
it don't stop because the weather is warm.
50c. and SI.OO. *ll dratftaU.
SCOTT a BOWHE, CtornuU, tUw York.
THE BARNESVILLE NEW3-.OAZETTE, THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1902.
PLANT FOODELEMENTS
Nitrogen and the Way In
Which It Is Absorbed.
STATE CHEMIST’S LETTER NO. 4
Actual Quantities of Plant Food In
Soils—What Determines the Crcp
Producing Power of the Soil, Etc.
Interesting and Instructive Treatise.
Naturally the nitrogen we find in the
plant by analysis next claims our at
tention. As I told you in my last let
ter that there are nearly eighty gal
lons of nitrogen in one hundred gal
lons of air, you would quite naturally
exclaim that there would be no need
to bother about providing nitrogen for
the crp,?s, as they ought to be able to
obtain' all they want from the enor
mous oceans of it floating all around
and about them. Yes, one would natur
ally suppose so, but alas, it is not true;
the plant is helpless to feed on the ni
trogen abound it in the air, no mat
ter how Tlfirtsy it. may be for it. It is
like the shipwrecked sailor in the open
boat at sea, though parched and dying
with thirst, yet he can not slake his
thirst, though there be nothing but
water, water, all about him.
It seems as though there were a cer
tain malice in Nature in so constitut
ing plants that they cannot take the
nitrogen out of the air directly, yet
perhaps it is a good thing they cannot,
because if they could, life would be so
easy that we probably would not exert
ourslves as much as we should. Ni
trogen being the most expensive ele
ment of plant food, if it were provided
free of cost like the carbon, hydrogen
and oxygen, we could grow sjg h enor
mous crops at such small cost, that the
cost of living would be so reduced, that
a man would not have the same urgent
stimulus behind him to work and to
labor that he now has.
The Form in Which Plants Absorb
Nitrogen.
But to return to our subject, the
plant requires nitrogen, but it cannot
take it through its leaves; it has to
take it up through its roots, and in or
der for the roots to take it up, the ni
trogent must be combined with nitrate.
It must be In the form of nitrate of soda,
or nitrate of lime, or nitrate of mag
nesia, or nitrate of potash, or some
other form of nitrate before the plant
can utilize it. If we put any organ
ic matter containing nitrogen into the
soil, either vegetable or animal, as cot
ton seed r>eal, blood, meat, or even
if we plow under green crops, they will
begin to decay and putrify in the soil,
until the nitrogen which they con
tain in the form of protein (about
which I wrote you so much last year)
is changed into a number of other
forms, being finally converted into i
nitrite ofter the decay of the ooriginal
sustance has been fully completed.
Asa nitrate it is in a condition
where it dissolves easily In water, and
is then absorbed by the root hairs
and drawn up into the circulation of
the plant. Now the vast majority of
plants have to obtain their nitrogen
in the roundabout manner just descr'b
ed, but there are few favored plants
which are able to obtain their nitrogen
out of the air through the instrumen
tality of minute organisms or
microbes in the soil. We will have
more to say of this later on. When the
organic matters I have described
above, animal or vegetable, as cotton
seed meal, blood meat, manure or
turned under green crops decay in the
soil, the carbon and hydrogen which
are contained in them are not ab
sorbed like the nitrogen through the
roots into the plant, the plant does
not get Its supply of carbon and hy
drogen In that way. They simply re
main in the soil to form what Is known
as the humus of the soil, or the de
cayed orgaalc matter of the soil, which
improves its mechanical., condition,
gives it a dark or black color, and
serves as an excellent retainer of
moisture and heat In the soli. Refer
ring now to the analysis of a rich soil,
which I gave you in my last letter, we
find that besides the organic subi
stance about which we have just been
talking, there are also the inorgan c
or mineral substances, such as We
found in the ashes of the plant we first
analyzed.
The Various Elements Found in the
Boil.
The most abundant substance of ail
these mineral or ash elements In the
soil we find to be silica, or as you are
quainted with it, sand. You will re
member there was in this particular
rich soil 71.55 pounds of silica out of
every 100 pounds, and yet the wheat
plant grown on this soli only contained
two and three-quarters pounds of sili
ca out of every 100 pounds, and ev< ti
this was not absolutely essential to
the health and growth of the plant.
Although we find alumina in the so.:,
we find none in the plant. Alumnia
is one of the principal elements of a
clay soil. Iron, magnesia and sulphur
ic acid found In the soil are likewi a
found in the ash of the plant. Only
small quantities of these however aie
required by the plsnt and they are 11-
ways abundant in soils. Soda is like
wise found in both soil and plant, b t
is not essential to the plant. Phosphor
ic acid, potash and lime are found in
only small quantities in most soils,
hut exist in considerable quantity in
the ash of the plants, and each one
of thorn la absolutely necessary to
tbs Ilfs, growth sad development of
tho plant. Par this reason, tbs other
elements hahtg nasally abundant, a
Ball is said to ho or poor accord
btt to ty ossNslsif potash, phosphor-
A Ji^
r s(f&o
Lunch-
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ic acid, lime and nitrogen.
Potash and phosphoric acid are
usually contained in soils in small
quantity, varying from about one-tenth
of a pound in a hundred pounds of
the soil to one pound in one hundred
pounds. Although that amount looks
small; let us figure it by the acre.
We ! ght of the Soil Per Acre.
An avereage soil, when dry, if taken
to the depth of nine inches, will
weigh three to three and one-half mil
lion pounds to the acre. Therefore a
soil containing one-tenth of one per
cent of phosphoric acid, would really
contain three thousand to thirty-five
hundred pounds of phosphoric acid per
acre, or as much as could be obtained
by the application of ten to twelve tons
of high-grade acid phosphate per acre.
You would at once then say that a soil
containing one-tenth per cent of pot
ash or phosphoric acid ought to be a
rich soil and should not require any
fertilizers, but there you would be
wrong, because it matters not so much
what is the total amount of potash
or phosphoric add in an acre of soil
as it does to know in what condition
that phosphoric acid or potash exists.
Availability of the Plant-Food in tho
Soil.
The question arises, is it soluble,
is It available? It is in such condition
that the sojl water can take it up and
convey it to the roots and root hairs
of the plant, ready for absorption by
them into the plant-circulation? That
is why we find it necessary to put
acid phosphate and kaini| and other
fertilizers on lands which are being
constantly cropped; it is because the
constant cropping has exhausted or
drawn out of the soil the soluble phos
phoric acid and potash, available to
the plant, and we must either put on
a fertilizer containing them in a solu
ble form, or we must let the soil rest
a while, that is "lie fallow,” in order
that a fresh supply of plant food may
be made available by the slow action
of the soil water, the action of car
bonic acid, and the other organic acids
resulting from the decay of vegetable
and animal matters in the soil. If
you cannot afford to either put on fer
tilizer or to let your land “lie fallow,
then your next resource is to rotate
your crop; that is, to plant on the soil
which has begun to fail you some
other crop of a different nature, which
may not require so much of a certain
element of plant food as the previous
crop did. For Instance, follow cotton
with peas or clover.
What Determines the Crop-Producing
Power of the Soil.
In considering the capacity of a soil
to produce crops we must remem
ber one thing, and that is that the es
sential element which exists in the
smallest amount settles the qustion of
th crop-producing powr of a soil. That
is to say, if a soil is vry rich in avail
able phosphoric acid, nitrogen, lime,
magnesia, and the other essential ash
elements, and yet be poor in available
potash, that soli cannot produce heavy
crops without the application of an
available potash fertilizer. If that soil
has only available potash enough In
It to produce ten bushels of corn per
acre, or two hundred pounds of seed
cotton per acre, then all you are going
to get out of that soil is ten bushels
of corn, or two hundred pounds of
seed cotton, no matter whether there
was available phosphoric acid and ni
trogen and lime, etc., in the soil
enough to produce forty bushels of
corn or fifteen hundred pounds of seed
cotton. This brings us to the question
of soil analysis, which we will treat in
our next letter.
JOHN M. McCANDLESS.
CASTOR IA
For Infanta and Children.
Hi Kind You Hm Alsiji Botflt
Kodol Dyspepsia Cops
PlB—U what you Mb
COM’R STEVENS’ TALK
Some Wholesome Advice to
Farmers of Georgia.
ESPECIALLY THE YOUNG ONES
He Repeats Some of the Timely Sug
gestions of Last Year, Laying Stress
Upon Raising Abundant Corn and
Forage Crops.
Although the season is backward,
resembling in that respect the condi
tions of one year ago, faithful and skill
ful work will, without some special
hindrances, give us good crops for the
coming summer and fall.
The experienced and successful farm
er needs no advice as to the
best method to be pursued in order to
make his land yield abundant crops;
but so long as there shall be coming
into the agricultural field new and in
experienced toLers, so long will there
be need of line upon line and precept
upon precept. Hence, the necessity of
repeating in part advice already given
from year to year. The old farmer,
when he sees in agricultural journals
and monthly talks of commissioners,
the same familar things in substance,
(however changed in expression), may
turn away and exclaim “The same old
song and dance!” But to the young
farmer desiring all the light that he
can get, these same hackneyed themes
are new and full of just the help he
needs.
Therefore I must be excused for re
peating some of the suggestions of
last year.
Cotton.
As cotton is one ol the chief crops
now engaging the thoughts and hands
of the farmer, let me again remind
planters that this plant re
quires abundant sunshine, and im
peratively demands that kind of man
agement which will not take up the
strength of the land for the stalk anu
leave not force enough in the soil to
bring forth fruit to perfection. The
great essentials are to keep the cotton
clean and not to allow the plants to
be crowded, lest there be too much
shade with consequent Increase of the
stalk and decrease In the number, size
and quality of the boils.
The distance between the plants
should be from inches to 3 feet in
the drill. Of course, the fertility ol
the soil is an important factor in ue
elding the distance to be observed.
I jet the young farmers not only read
all that they can find in one or more
of the excellent agriaulturai Journals
that are issued monthly, but let them
consult those who from long practice
of the best methods have learned how
to secure the strength of the soil tor
the frlut and to obtain abundant yields
to the acre.
Eczema, Psoriasis, Salt
Rheum,Tetter and Acne
Belong to that class of inflammatory and disfiguring skin eruptions that
cause more genuine bodily discomfort and worry than all other known
diseases. The impurities or sediments which collect in the system because
of poor digestion, inactive Kidneys and other organs of elimination are
taken up by the blood, saturating the system with acid poisons and fluids
that ooze out through the glands and pores of the skin, producing an inde
scribable itching and burning, and “ 1 can cheerfully endorse your 8. s. 8.
the vellow. watery discharge forms as a cure for Eczema. I was troubled
into crusts and sores or little brown
and white scabs that drop off, leaving u ,t ntf a few bottles of 8.8.8. was entire
the skin tender and raw. The effect ly relieved. Wm. Campbell,
of the poison may cause the skin to 318 w - Central St., Wichita, Kan.
crack and bleed, or give it a scaly, fishy appearance; again the eruptions may
consist of innumerable blackheads and pimples or hard, red bumps upon
the face. Purification of the blood is the only remedy for these vicious skm
diseases. Washes and powders can only hide for a time the glaring
■ ——blemishes. S. S. S. eradicates all poisonous accumu-
lations, antidotes the Uric and other acids, and
VV VjN, restores the blood to its wonted parity, and stimulate*
KjJ and revitalizes the sluggish organs, and the impuri
k,./ ties pass off through the natural channels and
relieve the skin. S. S. S. is the only guaranteed purely vegetable blood
purifier. It contains no Arsenic, Potash or other harmful mineral. •
•Write us about your case and our physicians will advise without charge.
We have a handsomely illustrated book on skin diseases, which will be sent
free to all who wish it. Tit BWIVT SPECIFIC CO.. Atlsato. Gm*
Sugar Cane.
In those sections of Georgia where
sugar cane is the best paying crop, it
is plainly to the interest of the farm
er to devote the ton of ills brain and
hanus to this important industry. As
much good sense is shown in deciding
what crop to raise as in making the
soli do its best with what is cultivated.
The syrup business of southwest Geor
gia continues to increase, and the in
troduction of first-class syrup mills and
sugar refineries is putting new life into
what, when properly developed, will
bring great increase of wealth to not
only the farmers, but also to the manu
facturers and merchants of Georgia.
When agriculture flourishes, Com
merce and manufacturers lift up theii
heads and all rejoice together.
Cassava.
In diversity there is wealth. Hence,
we welcome and encourage in every
possible way any crop that promises
to open up new fields of enterprise.
Cassava is well suited to many sec
tions of the southern tiers of counties
In Georgia. The result of many ex
periments gives strong proof of the
profit to be derived by the farmers of
southern Georgia from the cultivation
of this new crop.
While the species of this plan!
raised in Georgia is useful as feed for
Btock and is also a good table vegeta
ble, its chief recommendation is its
great ability to produce the highest
known grades, as well as the greatest
abundance of starch. One acre of
south Georgia planted in cassava will
yield 4,000 pounds of starch, which is
far in excess of the quantity produced
by the best potato lands of Illinois or
Michigan.
This plant is propagated by cuttings
of the stems and atialnß maturity In
’six months. The production is said
to be sixteen times that of wheat.
Diversified Industries.
As this new agricultural industry
progresses, great starch factories will
be built up, just as the cotton crop has
built up great establishments for the
manufacture of cotton fabrics, and just
as the cultivation of sugar cane is
bringing in syrup mills and sugar re
fineries, while the merchants of our
rapidly growing cities and towns are
accumulating wealth from the handling
of the manufactured products, derived
from the crops raised by the farmers.
Thus agriculture, manufactures and
commerce are making Georgia great
and strong, and giving her the money
to build up her schools and churches,
thereby advancing the great interests
of education and religion, which, with
hand Joined in hand and working har
moniously together, will make a people
powerful and rich in all the elements
of true^gfcyatness.
W fn and Forage Crops.
Let tlie'.f'atrmer look well to his corn
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