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Mother “My mother was troubled with consumption for many years. At last she was given up to die. Then she tried Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral, and was speedily cured.” D. P. Jolly, Avoca, N. Y. No matter how hard your cough or how long you have had it, Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral is the best thing you can take. It’s too risky to wait until you have consump tion. If you are coughing today, get a bottle of Cherry Pectoral at once. Three aizea: 25c., 50c., SI. All druggists. Consult your doctor. If he says take It, then do as he aayii. If he tell* you not to take It, then don't take It. lie know*. Leave It with him. We are willing. J. C. AVER CO., Lowell, Meat. 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GREEN'S SONS M’CANDLESS’ LETTER Description of Nitrogenous Fertilizer Materials. SUBSTANCES USED IN THEM. Value In Dollars and Cents and Their Agricultural ..Importance—Packing House Products—Dried Blood Rich est In Nitrogen. As you and others have wrlten me to know what is the value of the differ ent materials used in the manufacture of commercial fertilizers, 1 will give you at. this point a fairly complete ac count of the substances principally used. First we will consider in the order of their value in dollars and cents, and their agricultural import ance, the nitrogenous materials, or those which yield nitrogen to the plant. Such substances are also known as am moniates, because under certain con dltios the nitrogen which they contain can he converted into ammonia. Now nitrogen and ammonia are not the same tiling by any means, but still they are closely related, they are both gases. Nitrogen, as I have described to you before in another place, is a colorless, ordorless, tasteless gas, and constitutes four-fifths of the air or at mosphere which envelops the earth. Ammonia is also a gas and is colorless, but It lias a pungent odor, the same which you have noticed in spirits of hartshorn or spirits of ammonia bought from the drug store, it also has a caustic burning taste, and is easily dissolved in water, which nitro gen is not. Ammonia is made by causing nitro gen to combine with hydrogen. Four teen pounds if nitrogen combine with three pounds of hydrogen to make seventeen pounds of ammonia, so that ammonia always contains a large amount of nitrogen, but nitrogen never contains any ammonia. And right here It is wcdl for you to understand, that we iiave all fallen into a very unwise and erroneous habit of speak ing about a fertilizer as wntainlng such a i>er cent, of ammonia. Ae a matter of fact it is rarely, if ever, the case that a fertilizer contains any am monia, as such at all, but it does con tain nitrogen combined in various forms. As you know it is customary, in the careless way of talking obtaining among us all, to speak of cotton seed meal us containing eight per cent, of ammonia. That is wrong, it does not contain any ammonia, but it does con tain six and six-tenths per cent, of nitrogen in the form of albuminoids or protein, of which 1 wrote you so much in niv letters on feeding; and this six and six-tenths per cent, of nitrogen can under certain chemical conditions he converted into eight per cent, or am monia. I hope then I have made this plain, and when you buy a fertilizer in the future don't imagine, because, you smell certain peculiar odors about it, that you smell ammonia; that is rarely, if ever, the case; the odors you smell are usually due to animal matters, fish scrap etc., and indicate no greater value in the fertilizer than one which has no odor at all. In the same way a dark or black color is no indication of value in the fertilizer. In point of fact the highest grade fertilizer which could possibly be compounded by the art of man would bo snow white in color. The materials used for compounding such a fertilizer would be nirate of am monia and phosphate of potash, and i.tose salts when chemically pure are snow white salts. To return now to our description of the various nitro genous materials. Cottonseed meal, with which you are fully familliar, stands flirst in importance in Southern agriculture. Au average meal of good quality will contain six and six-tenths per cent, of nitrogen, which, if converted into ammonia, would be equal to eight per cent. It also contains an average of 2.7 per cent, of phosphoric acid and 1.8 per cent, of potash. It is a very valua ble fertilizer, and constitutes the nitro gen base of the greater portion of com mercial fertilizers manufactured in the South. ••PACKINGHOUSE PRODUCTtV’ As little is generally known of these and the manner of their production, I will give you a brief account of their manufacture. Tin- great packing houses are loeit ed chiefly in Chicago. Kansas City anil Omaha, where immense numbers of cattle are slaughtered, and the var ious parts of the body are put to some special use. Apart form the production of dressed beef, mutton or i>ork. there is of course a large quantity of waste to be utilized, but the material most intersetlng to us Is that which is used for fertilizer, this consists of blood, of bones, and a mixture of scraps of meat, skin, bones and blood. DRIED BLOOD. The material known as "dried blood” is the most valuablle fertilizing pro duet. and the richest In nitrogen. In preparing this material, the liquid blood is collected .n vats, where it is cooked; this process causes the separation of the protein of the blood from much of the water; it Is then put into presses where about one-half of fthe mater is pressed out. After pressing R is still damp and in the form of cakes; these cakes are next broken up and dried by passing them through a mechanical drier heated |iy steam. The damp cakes go THE BARNESVTLtE NEWS-GAS ETTE, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, WB- in at one end of the machine and the dry cakes come out at the other, when they are ground to a powder and l ull ed ready for market. This blood M'di usually contain about thirteen per dent, of nitsogen, which is the equivalent of about sixteen per cent, of ammonia, but as in the case of the cotton-ace 1 meal, there is actually no ammonig in It. TANKAGE. The next important product of the slaughter-house is whwat is known to the fertilizer trade as “Tankage. ’ This is a mixture of blood, bones, waste scraps of meat, etc. This ma teria] gets its name from the fact that it is cooked in huge tanks in the first preparation. It is cooked under steam pressure at a high temperature for several hours. A a result, most of the fat in the mass is melted and rises to ti<* top of the tanks, where it is skimmed off and utilized for soap-making and other pur poses. The bones and the cooked meat, etc., now lie at the bottom of the tank, and the tank water is dark and highly colored —is in fact a sort of soup, containing nitrogenous matter in solution. The solid matter, bones, etc., are removed and crushed or ground in the same way as was done with the dried blood product. CONCENTRATED TANKAGE. The tank water is run into a vacuum evaporator, the excess of water re moved, and a product known as “Con centrated Tankage” is the final result of the treatment. The finished mater ial contains about twelve per cent, of nitrogen. The dried and ground Bone Tankage, or what is known as simply Tankage, contains about seven per cent, of nitrogen, ten per cent, of total phosphoric acid and six and one-half per cent, of available phosphoric acid. BONE MEALS. There are also three kinds of bone meal produced; raw gone meal, regu lar bone meal, and steamed bone meal. The first Is, as its name indicates, produced by the crushing and grind ing of raw bones, after removing any adhearing fat or meat. 'This material contains about four per cent, of nitro gen, twenty-throe per cent, or total phosphoric acid, and eight and one half per cent, of available phosphoric acid. The regular bone met! is cooked under pressure for a few hot... in the tanks; this removes fat and also causes some loss of nitrogen, but makes the product grind easier and finer. This grade of bone meal contains about three per cent, nitrogen, twenty-seven and one-half per cent, total phosphoric acid and twelve and one-half per cent, available phosphoric acid. Steamed bone meal is the product of the glue works, and is made by grinding the bones left after boiling all the fat and glue out of them that can be obtained. This process reduces the percentage of nitrogen, so that steamed bone meal will hardly average more than two per cent, of nitrogen, but has about the same amount of phosphoric acid as the ordinary bone meal. HORN AND HOOF MEAL—MISCON CEPTIONS ABOUT. Horn and hoof meal is another pro duct of the slaughter-house. Imper fect horns and dark colored hoofs are fir.it thoroughly steamed, then dried and ground into meal. The better quality of horn and hoofs command very high prices, even as high as S2OO a ton, for other purposes, in the manufacture of buttons and novelties; hence the quantity of this material coming on the market is limited. There was formerly a great prejudice against it, and It used to be considered fraudulent to ’se it in fertilizers. Even in standard works on Agricul tural Chemistry of quite recent date the material is spoken of as being very slowly available as plant food. This, however, has in the past two or three years, been shown to be an error and the material is now regarded by the best in formed as a rich and highly available source of nitrogen. The quantity of it on the market is comparatively small. There are many other products of the packing house, but these are the chief ones of interest to the fertilizer trade and to the farmer. In the next letter I will finish describing the nitrogenous fertilizer materials, and write you something about phosphates. Yours truly, JNO. M. McCANDI.ESS. State Chemist. IRRIGATION. Mr. W. R. Welke in Farm and Ranch for July 26th, 1902, writing for his ow’n State. Texas, says: "If the rice farmer could find means to irri gate bis field and keep it lor weeks, and even months, under water, why should the cotton, wheat aud corn raising people not be able to give their fields one. or even two irrigations, one before r.nd another during the drouth The subterfuge that it costs too much, that the farmer is not able, is untena ble. The fact is that, either he does not believe in it, or he is too indolent to get out of the old rut. If he Is nor able to do it alone, cant he combine with his neighbor? It seems that the hundreds of thousands of dollars In vested every year in costly farm ma chinery rusting ami rotting in the rain, could have been better employed on Irrigation plants, that would enable the buyer to have something to reap and thrash. The best reaping and thrash ing machinery cannot harvest a crop that is not grown. Good cultivation goes far to make a crop, but. if there Is not sufficient moisture in the soil Hot Shot for Fall and Winter SHOES FOR ALL! Mens’ Women’s and LMIe-William? \ Children’s at LOW V wl Shoe Co’s price. Don’t buy any $2.50 Shoe, jshoeswithout seeing PL and P ricin £ my Men’s Sunday Shoes SI.OO, $1.35, $1.50, $2.00, $3.00 and $3.50 Men’s’Every day Shoes, SI.OO to $1.50 —full stock Ladies’ Sunday Shoes, SI.OO, $1.25, $1.35, $1.40, $1.50, $1.65, $2.00 —the BEST $2.00 shoe in Barnesville- Children’s Shoes —all prices—25/ to $2.00; Misses good Sunday Shoes, $1.00; Boys’ strong, stout and durable shoes at low prices. tGood Guarantee on Every Shoe I Sell. I am receiving new goods right along now, and in a short time will have my full winter’stock on hand. Times are hard and trade will be short, and I will have prices around the bot tom notch. Bargains may be expected in almost everything I handle. n 1 1 1 Sea Islands, Checks, Outings, Wool Goods at Close Prices Calicos, Percales and Dress Goods at Low Prices. Quick Sales, Large Sales and Small Prices. Rugs and Trunks for LESS Money Than Elsewhere==if not, don’t buy==Name and Address on Each Trunk, and Delivered Anywhere in Barnesville FREE. .V. # While my competitors are chasing bad debts, I am cutting prices for cash 12 months in the year. -jREMEMBERf~ to dissolve the plant and enable the root to assimilate the same, there will not be a paying crop, even on the best available bottom soil, even if the sub soil is taking some moisture from the lower strata and a half a bale of cotton or 20 bushels of corn to the acre may be raised on this exraordinary soil. Two bales of cotton and 80 to 100 bushels of corn to the acre with one good irrigation at the right time would make the gravest farmer smile. The upland or prairie farmer is still more in need of irrigation that the owner of rich alluvial bottom lands.” Now we will add to this remark of Mr. Welke'g irigation may not be prac ticlble on all Georgia farms, but there are sections of the State where it is practicable, and where it would se cure to the farmer immunity from drouth and consequent failure of crops. GA. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE. LINGERING SUMMER COLDS. Don’t let a cold run at this season. Summer colds are the hardest kind to cure and if neglected may linger along for months. A long siege like this will pull down the strongest constitution. One Minute Cough Cure will break up the attack at once. Safe, sure, acts at once. Cures coughs, colds, croup, bron chitis, all throat and lung troubles. The children like it. Jno.H. Blackburn, L. Holmes, Barnesville, Ga. Milner, Ga. If you take the salt out of sea water you deprive it of one-thir teenth of its weight. The fisherman catches the ter rapin with a pair of tongs on the eastern shore of Maryland. A SAD DISAPPOINTMENT. Ineffective liver medicine is a disap pointment, but you don’t wartt to purge strain and break the glands of the stomach and bowels. DeWitt's Little Early Risers never disappoint. They cleanse the system of all poison and putrid matter and do it so gently that one enjoys the pleasant effects. They are a tonic to the liver. Cures bilious ness, torpid liver and prevents fever. Jno. H. Bi.ackburx, Barnesvile.Ga. L. Hojmes, Milner. Ga. United States Consul Daniel S. Kidder reports that there is a good field fol automobile trade in Algiers. An estinate is made that the railroads of the country this year will expend $400,000,000 in bet termeuts, cutotfs, rolling stock, etc. j\\ r A positive specific for bilious fever, malaria, chills and fever, malarial Malaria and poisoning, malarial debility, malarial Ague Cure dyspepsia, dumb ague. Frice^Sots. Let us have your Orders for Mill Supplies or Shop Work. Mallory Bros. Machinery Cos., Mention this paper. MACON, GEORGIA. For the Next 30 Days we will sell No. 2 Shingles at $1.50 per thousand.— BARNESVILLE PLANING MILLS. FORTUNE FAVORS A TEXAN. “Having distressing pains in head, back and stomach, and being without appetite, I began to use Dr. King’s New Life Pills.” writes W. P. Whitehead, of Kennedale,Tex., “and soon felt like a new man.” Infalable in stomach and liver troubles. Only 25c at W. A, Wright’s drug store. One thousand five hundred and thirteen novels were published last year in England.