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HEAD ACHE •‘Both my wife and myself Slave been using CASCAKETS and they are the best medicine we have ever had in the house. Last weelt my wife was frantic with headache for two days, she tried some of yourCASCARETS, and they 1 elieved the train in her head almost immediately. We both recommend Cascaret3. Chas. Stedeforp. Pittsburg Safe jc Deposit Cos., Pittsburg, Pa. M CATHARTIC a IOOCM TRADE MARK REGISTERED Pleasant. Palatable. Potent. Taste Good. Po Good, Never Sicken. Weaken, or Gripe. 10c. 25c. 50c ... CURE CONSTIPATION. ... Sterling Remedy Company. Chiengo, Montreal. New York. 317 Ufl-Tfl.RAn Sol<l a " rt guaranteed by. all drug till 1 U DAII gists to <llll Tobacco Ilatit. 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. G. POPE BUGULEY M. D., 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. 0- M. JONES, Prop., Main street, next to P. O. W. B. SMITH, F. D FINEST FUNERAL CAR IN GEORGIA EXPERIENCED EMBALMERB. ODORI ESS EMBALMING FLUIE W. B. SMITH, Leading Undertaker 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- ■ : ■■ 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 (Continue, j to Seventh Page.)