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portant Work by the New York
State Forestry Department.
the State 18 Propagating Trees for
waste Land. Pines and Other
Kinds Grown by the Millions on
Thin Sandy Soil Enriched by Ap
plications of Swamp Muck.
When you see 10,000 white pines
growing in a space of 12 feet by 4
feet you have reason to hope that the
depleted evergreen forests of this
country may vet be renewed. You
gre still more hopeful when you learn
(hat the state of New York is able
to furnish voung pines at $3.75 a
tponsand without losing money, and
that the percentage of loss from the
geed to the well-grown tree is very
small, writes a correspondent.
It is statistics of this kind that one
gathers at the state forestry depart
ment’s Dursery lying within sight of
the railway station called Saranac
{pn, about two miles from Saranac
Lake. At this nursery and at others
pear by under the care of the same
forestry station evergreens are grown
by the millions upon the thin sandy
«il of the Adirondacks enriched for
the seedlings by the application of
gwamp muck, barnyard manure and
wood ashes.
Here grow white pine, red pine,
geoteh pine, bull pine from the Black
Hills of Dakota, Nerway spruce, na
tive spruce, tamarack, all in large
quantities, and a few others in ex
perimental numbers. A specialist,
trained at the Cornell school of for
estry, has general charge of the work
on the ground, and at the busiest
geason of the year there are about
125 persons employed at the station
and in its work far or near.
Gathering the wuones.
puring the first three weeks of
September the evergreen seed crop is
harvested. The cones are gathered
by men who climb the trees for the
purpose. Most of the cones come
from the Lake Champlain region,
and the native Adirondack cones are
little used because conditions in the
region are not highly favorable to
the development of evergreen fruit.
The cones fetch from 25 cents to
$1 a bushel, according to quality
and season. If gathered too early
the seeds are apt to be immature;
if gathered too late the cones may
be opened up and shed some of their
seeds. Last year almost exactly 1,-
500 bushels of cones yielded nearly
1,450 pounds of seed, but a pound to
the bushel is a high average, and
there are years when it requires
nearly three bushels of cones to yield
4 pound of seed.
If the seeds are not too fat a
pound will vield about 10,000 seeds,
5o that last vear’s crop must have
been somewhere near 14,500,000
cells. Foreign seeds are bought at
bout $1.25 a pound, mostly in Scot
and and Norway.
When the cones reach the station
hey are placed in a house that has
' roof but no sides and upon shelf
ike, slatted platforms, just far
nough one above another to permit
f the comfortable handling of the
Top. Here the cones dry for about
W 0 weeks.
As they begin to open they are
aken out a few at a time, subjected
0 heat, and regularly threshed with
flail such as was used two genera
100s ago to thresh wheat.
Preparing the Seeds.
When threshed out the seeds are
assed through screens so that their
Ings may be taken off. The seeds
e then fanned with an ordinary ag
feultural fan run by hand. When
hus thoroughly cleansed they are
Ut up in tins so that they shall be
rotected alike from moisture and
vaporation and stored in an un
€ated room for the winter.
In the spring the seeds are sown
roadcast by hand in enriched beds
iclosed in wooden frames. Germi
ation takeg place at somewhat ir
‘®ular intervals, often in two weeks,
ud ,”"‘ tiny seedling comes up bear
g its seed on its head. Chiefly be
ause of thig latter fact the beds are
gf"’“@d With wire, the meshes of
Ich are tgq small to admit any
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bird, for birds take delight in eat
ing the seeds and incidentaily they
thus destroy the seedlings.
The 4 feet by 12 beds in which
the seeds are sown are to be the
abiding place of the seedlings for two
years. At the end of the first year
the screens are removed and the
seedlings are left open to the air
and sky.
Late frosts sometimes kill the
young seedlings the first year, and a
prolonged drouth is likely to destroy
a good many. Artificial watering is
found to be no very effectual sub
stitute for rain.
Work of Transplanting.
At two years the seedlings, about
four inches in height, are ready to
be transplanted, They now need
more room, so as transplants they
stand four inches apart in the row
and the rows are six inches apart.
Two men will transplant 500 seed
lings in an hour, or 4,000 a day. The
loss from transplanting into the beds
is extremely small. This Year it was
only one-half of one per cent.
It is these trees that, at three or
four years, are again transplanted
upon the waste land owned by the
state, and are sold at $3.75 a thou
isand. Similar trees are sold by nur
serymen in the middle west at about
$2O a thousand.
The state began the work of stock
ing waste land with such evergreens
in 1902, and has since planted near
ly 3,800 acres. Here again the loss
is small, and local sentiment in the
Adirondacks is so friendly to the
lwork that nobody disturbs the little
trees.
The work of transplanting into
the open is done between April Ist
and May 29th. It is sometimes said
that evergreens transplanted in the
fall will not live, but this in untrue.
In the Adirondack climate, however,
it is best that the newly transplanted
tree have a long period of growth
before it is forced to endure its first
winter under new conditions.
Trees thus transplanted to wild
land are set six feet apart and 1,200
to the acre. It is the theory of the
expert foresters that white pine thus
thickly set should have 35 years to
make their beight. They should
then be thinned, in which process
half the trees should be cut.
Twenty-five or 30 years more
should g've the trees sufficient girth
and additional height to make them
good lumber. In the ecultivated Ger
man forests pines of that age vield
from 60,000 to 70,000 feet an acre.
Last spring the sration planted 1,-
000,000 trees. There was an wunus
ually large appropriation then avail
able, and 400,000 trees were im
ported from Germany. Next spring
700.000 trees will be planted.
On 16 acres of nurseries at and
near the Saranac station the depart
ment has 4,500.000 young trees,
seedlings and transplants. The sta
tion carries on along with its propa
gating operations the study of tree
diseases and enemies, soils and the
like.
MORE REVENUE OR CUT WAGES.
Working Force of Central Cut 3,000
Since Panic Began.
‘“We must get more revenue or
make material reductions in the
wages of our employes,” declared W.
A. Winburn, vice-president of the
Central of Georgia railroad, at the
rate hearing before the interstate
commerce commisson in Atlanta.
Mr. Winburn was on the stand
during an entire afternoon. He
stated that the wroking force of his
road had been cut down about 3,000
men since the financial depression be
gan. It was not yet able to make
out-go harmonize with income, and
he admitted that substantial rate in
creases all along the line are being
considered, as those under investi
gation were not giving relief. He
said the present increases would net
his company about $42,000 annually.
“The part of this each individual
affected has to pay is infinitesimal
when compared with the number of
men who will be kept out of em
ployment if it is taken away,” he de-‘
clared.
REMEMBERS JOHN ADAMS.
Mrs. Bigelow Has Personal Recollec
tion of the Second President.
Mrs. George Tyler Bigelow, now in
her 91st year, is probably the only
person who has personal recollections
of John Adams, the second president
of the United States. She is the
widow of the chief justice of Massa
chusetts in succession to Lemuel
Shaw. As the daughter of Edward
Miller of Quincy, Mass.,, she was
present in her seventh year at the
reception of Lafayette, which took
place in Quincy, Mass., August 29,
1824. Monroe was president at this
time, and John Adams, living at
home, often entertained Mrs. Bige
low’s mother.
HORSE SWAPPERS CONVENTION.
Ye horse swappers of southwest
Georgia are invited to come and
bring your good, bad and indifferent
nags to Americus, Ga., on Tuesday,
Oct. 27th., and swap, sell, exchance
or give away, whichever you prefer.
There will be several hundred ani
mals changing hands on this occa
sion, as the event is well advertised,
and a big time is in store for those
who come. The eonvention is held
under the auspices of the Board of
Trade of Americus, Ga.
J. K. Jester, Groceries. 'Phone 87,
| Do not let anyone tell you that
something else is just as good_ as
DeWitt’s Kidney and Bladder Pills,
because there isn’t anything just as
good for weak back, backache, rheu
matic pains, inflammation of the
bladder, or any kidney and bladder
disorder. A week’s trial will con
vince you. Sold by Dawson Drug
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5,000,000 DOOMED T 0 DIE FROM GONSUMPTION
This 1s the Way Or. Irving Fisher Figures It Unles- Something
Is Done Startling Statement at Tuberculosis . ongress.
WASHINGTON.—That five mil
lion people now living in the United
States are doomed to fill consump
tives' graves unless something is
done to prevent it was the startling
declaration of Professor Irving Fish
er of Yale University in an address
on ‘‘The Cost of Tuberculosis’ before
the international congress on tuber
A SENATOR HAS MOST REMARK
ABLE GREENHOUSE IN WORLD
Aldrich Raises Grapes, Melons, Ap
ples, Pears, Peaches and Plums
in Pots at His Home.
PROVIDENCE, R. I.—On his War
wick Neck estates Senator Aldrich
has the most remarkable green
houses in the world. In its numer
ous subdivisions he grows perfect
'fruit on trees no more than three
feet in height; enormous bunches of
prize grapes on vines that stand in
flower pots; while up under the roof,
almost against the glass and held in
{place by rattan strips, are melons
‘that never touch the ground.
' The buildings are filled with fruits
and plants, all imported and all rare
ties. The seasons have no meaning
to the man under whose watchful
care miracles of nature are brought
to pass.
The senator’s gardener, Fred C.
Green, learned his business on the
great estate of Baron Rothschild in
England. He is an expert landscape
gardener and by a thorough knowl
edge of cultivation and pruning gets
results which seem to be marvelous.
Of the greenhouses there are two
devoted to the growing of peaches,
one for ferns, two for nothing but
grapes, and so on down the list. One
house shelters tuberous begonias..
There are two divisions of propaga
tion houses and two storage houses‘
for bay trees, laurels, azaleas and the
like. l
Peaches That Melt in the Mouth.
But of them all the most interest
ing houses are those devoted to the
growing of fruits, for almost without
exception these fruits are imported
varieties, and some of them have no
other example in this country or no
more than one perhaps—such, for ex
ample, as the Thomas Rivers, a new
peach of fine size, color and flavor,
a luscious, thin skinned fruit filled
with juice and with a pulp that fairly
melts in the mouth.
This peach comes from Sawbridge
worth, Hertfordshire, Eng., the home
of the grower whose genius in assist
ing nature originated it—a man as
noted in England for what he does
with fruits as is our own Californian,
Luther Burbank. In these houses
also are found the Perigrine peach,
a fine flavored fruit of which there
are but few examples in America.
And there are many other forcing
peaches, such as the Duke of York
and Alexander Noblesse, and a num-
CASTORTIA.
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THE DAWSON NEWS.
culosis today. Professor Fisher’s ad
:dress. which was the feature of the
iday, created a sensation among hun
dreds who l'stened to his statements.
}Professor Fisher further declared
that 138,000 persons who die of con
sumption annually in this country
cost in hard cash over one billion
dollars a year.
ber of rare nectarines, among them
the Early Rivers, Rivers orange, the
pineapple, the Davis, the Milon, Lord
Napier, Newton and others that are
)nothing more than names to even the
‘average American gardener and hot
‘house man.
~ Growing in large flower pots are
‘trees producing perfect Duchess of
Cornwall, Violette, Perigrine, Dy
mond’s, Royal George and Grosse
Migonne peaches, to name a few of
the leaders, and Spencer, Waterloo,
Stanwick Elinge, Cardinal and Im
proved Downtown nectarines among
others. That they have a place in
the greenhouse shows that they are
the best of their kind.
In pears there are the Conference,
a new variety; the Gloumirceau,
Louise Bonne of New Jersey and oth
ers. In apples some of the trees are
labeled Cox’s Pomona, Lady Stude
ley, Emperor Alexander, Benoni and
Pearsgood Nonesuch, old, yet good.i
There are Blue Rock plums and Out
lin’'s Golden Gage and there are—
but such a list means little to most
of us, after all.
Grown in Pots.
In much the manner in which the
Japanese produce wonderful tree
effects in minature, these fruit trees
are grown in flower pots until a
trunk and branches strong enough to
sustain the weight of a few perfect
specimens of fruit are produced.
Then the blossoms that come are
carefully picked off until only enough
to produce buds sufficient for the
strength of the tree to mature re
main. In this manner the fruit pro®
duced comes out of season and is ab
solute perfect, even to the smallest
detail,
With apples, pears, plums, peaches
and nectarines it is the same. And
it is thus with the grapes, which are
also grown in flower pots, the
strength of each vine being concen
trated on the bearing of a few speci
mens of perfect fruit. The bunches
on these vines are never handled,
for the bloom never returns to the
places from which the finger touch
removes it, and bloom counts 10
points in the judging of fruit.
Eevery specimen of fruit grown
under the supervision of Mr. Green
is cared for and handled as if it were
grown for exhibition, the result being
a delight to the eye as well as to
the palate. Even in the outdoor
garden, which includes that devoted
to flowers as well as that for fruits,
the same care is shown.
J. K. dester, Groceries. 'Phone 87,
Kennedy’s Laxative Cough Syrup
is used nearly everywhere, because
it not only heals irritation of the
throat and stops the cough, but it
drives the cold out of the system
through its laxative principle by as
suring a free and gentle action of
the bowels, and that is the only way
to cure a cold. You can’t cure it as
long as you are constipated. Insist
upon Kennedy’s Laxative Cough Syr
up. Sold by Dawson vrug Co.
YOU notice how dressy, stylish, distin
guished in clothes, some men always look.
Do you know how they do it> We'll tell
you. They buy here
HART SCHAFFNER & MARX
clothes; that means all-wool, perfect tailoring,
and correct style to begin with. They bu,
in addition to a fancy weave suit, a blick
thibet or cheviot, or a blue serge; and occa
sionally change off for a week,get the suit they
are not wearing pressed, give it a little rest in
the closet, and then put it on fresh, and new
looking.
You can do that; and you ought to; it's
clothes.economy.
We'll see that you're dressed ‘
right all the time if you say so
THIS STORE IS THE
House of Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes
A. J. BALDWIN & CO.
We Sell Heywood’s Fine Shoes for Men.
FOR THIS YEAR
MACON, GEORGIA, OCT. 27 TO NOV. T.
BY THE]
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Macon, State Fair Association.
Under the Auspices of the Georgia State Ag
ricultural Society.
While Agriculture will form the leading feature of the exhibi
tion, the commercial and manufacturing interests of the state will
be fully represented in the various displays.
Among the best attractions to be offered will be included
Fireworks, Balloon Ascensions, Horse Racing, Automobile Racing,
Military Displays and other first-class amusements.
Premium lists will be forwarded to all who wish them.
For all other information in regard to space for exhibitors,
prices and terms for privileges and concession, please write to
BRIDGES SMITH, Secretary. BEN. L. JONES, President.
R. L. M’KINNEY, Treasurer. W. A. HUFF, Gen. Manager.
Vehicle C '
A Strong Lesson!
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A ‘“flossy looking” vehicle built to sell at a tempt
ing price is the poorest investment you can make.
It’s an expensive economy. Even the horse beecomes
ashamed of such a vehicle. We don’t sell that kind.
Ours are the dependable sort with the guarantee
of a strong concern behind them—and, too, we are
here to make good if anything should go wrong.
We Sell All Styles
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of Vehicles
Have pleased some mighty particular people who
discovered we are satisfied with small profits. Have
a look in. More styles and better prices than you
are used to. We cannot get rich on admiration, it
is true, but we will take a chance on selling you.
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