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THE GEORGIA BIRD LAW What Birds Should Be Killed and Those Protected. WENT IN EFFECT JANUARY 1, 1904 A* Hon. John C. King, County School Commisioner of Floyd County, Send* Out Very Important Letter and It Should Receive Careful Study. We heartily commend the action of Hon. John C. King, School Commis sioner of Floyd County, in requesting ’ the teachers of said county to read to their assembled schools .com time to ' time the following important Georgia j ■ Jaw. It would be well for every teach er in the entire Stale to do likewise, i The following are designated as ! game birds and may be killed in their I season; their eggs must not be taken nor their nests disturbed; Wild turkeys, pheasants or grouse, prairie chickens, patridges, quails, doves, woodcocks, snipes, plovers, rails, mudhens, coots, gallinules, swans, geese, brant, river and sea ducks, surLblrds, sand pipers, tatlers, curlews. The following are designated as In jurious birds and ntny be killed at any time; and their eggs and nests destroyed; but only the owls and hawks named, for all the others are Charmless, and the farmer’s friend: Great horned owls, sharp shinned hawks (commonly known as little blue darter), Cooper's hawk (known as the big blue darter, or chicken hawk), crows, crow blackbirds, field larks, English sparrows, ricebirds, jackdaws, cuckoos or raincrows. The following are some of the com mon and familiar birds that are classed as useful insect-eatiug, or song-birds, and cannot be killed at uuy time, There are many others: Barred or round-headed owl, all hawks, except two; all cranes and herons, all sparrows, except English; all woodpeckers, all finches, all vlreos, all warblers, bee martin (king bird), bluebird, bluejay screech owl, bullbat (chuck-wills-wldow), butcher-bird the shrike), catbird, cardinal (redbird), Cedarblrd (waxwing), hummingbird, Indlgobird, joree (ground-robin) king fisher, martins, mockingbird, ovenblrd (wood-thrush), orchard oriole, rose, breasted grosbeak, robin, redwing blackbird, rusty blackbird, snowbird (chickadee), swallow, scarlet tanna- ger, thrush, wrens, yellowhammer (Dicker). The penalty for violation of these .laws is $5.00 or thirty days In jail, or both, for killing, catching or having in possession alive or dead, any'pro- tected bird or part therof, or any nest tr eggs of part thereof, and this ap plies to each bird killed, or caught, and to each nest and eggs taken or de stroyed, but any person is allowed to have any bird as a pet, provided it Is not sold or exchanged or transporter out of the State. A certificate may be granted for a period of one year at a time, by the Commissioner of Agriculture, to any person over fifteen years of age, to collect birds, nests or eggs for scien tific purposes, provided such person has been recommended by two well known sc^ntific men as being of good character and fitness to be intrusted with such privilege, and such person must file with the Commissioner of Agriculture a properly executed bond in the sum of $200 as an evidence of good faith. “There are less than half the num ber of birds I nthe United States to day, that there were ten years ago. As the birds have been killed off, in sects have Increased. The damage to crops, gardens and orchards in 1902, caused by insects, as estimated by the United States Department of Agrlcul ture amounted in the United States to more than three hundred and fifty millions of dollars.” GA. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE. LETTERS ON AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY BY THE STATE CHEMIST. Letter No. 7. yielding both nitrogen and potash to the plant, but it is much too expen sive to buy in this form; it is there fore better, or rather, cheaper to buy nitrate of soda and muriate of potash separately, and then mix them togetli er, when we will accomplish practical ly the same results from a fertilizing standpoint, and for a smaller outlay of money, than if we bought the same ele- rnents In form of nitrate of potash. Ni trate of soda is such an Important salt for fertilizer purposes that I will go into some little detail about it. The entire supply at present comes from the western coast of Chili. It extends In a narrow strip of land run ning north and south for about 2G0 miles, at an average distance of about 14 miles front the ocean. The coun try where it is found is a desert, it never rains there and the whole region is bare of vegetation and destitute ol water. The nitrate rock is called “Caliche” (pronounced Ca-lee-chay) and the best quality has the following composition: Sodium nitrate 50 percent. Sodium Chlorida 20 per cent. Sodium sulphate 0 per cent. Magnesium sulphate 3 per cent. Insoluble matter 14 percent. Sodium lodate, sodium ni trate magnesium chloride, magnesium nitrate,, potas sium chloride 1 per cent. 1 100 The average quality of “Caliche” contains from thirty to forty per cent, of sodium nitrate, and the poorest quality worked ranges from seventeen to thirty per cent, sodium nitrate. The “Caliche" ocurs from six to ten feet below the surface of the ground, and the vein or stratum varies from a foot and a half to twelve feet in thick ness. The process of extracting and sepa rating the valuable nitrate of soda front the rest of the “Caliche” is done by means of water in which the ni trate of soda dissolves, and from which it Is crystallized. A description of the process would be tedious. Suffice it to say that a costly plant is required for the purpose, and that the work is so well done that the product when finished contains about ninety-five per cent, nitrate of soda, which is equiva lent to 15.G5 per cent, of nitrogen, or nineteen per cent, of ammonia. An enormous and annually increasing amount Is shipped every year. The amount exported every yeur to Europe and America is ubout one million tons. ANIMAL PECULIARITIES. NITRATE OF SODA. Cottonseed-meal, blood, tankage, etc., which I have described to you in the last letter, are known as “organic” sources of ammonia, or rather of ni trogen. Habit is so strong, you see, it is hard to get rid of the use of that word ammonia. Nitrogen is much the better term for our use. Besides the organic sources of nitrogen we also have what are known as the “in organic” sources. I have explained in a previous letter fully the meaning of these two terms, but lest you may- have forgotten. I will stop a moment to say that an organic substance may be either vegetable or animal, thus a leaf, a seed, a piece of meat or of skin are organic substances. An inorganic substance is the opposite of these, and is mineral in its nature. A piece of rock or of iron is inorganic. T'ne chief inorganic source of nitro gen, ,hen, is nitrate of soda, also com monly called “Chili Saltpetre;” salt petre because it has many of the prop erties of real saltpetre, which is ni trate of potash, and Chili because it is imported from Chili in South America. Nitrate of potash or true saltpetre is a very valuable fertilizing compound, Character of Nitrate of Soda and Meth. of Use. The material has a great number of uses besides its use as a fertilizer. It is used in the manufacture of nitrate of potash, which Is needed to make gunpowder and fireworks; It is also used to make nitric acid, is an essen tial in the manufacture of sulphuric acid, upon which the whole superphos phate or acid phosphate Industry de pends, besides a greut many other man- facturing processes. Its great impor tance as a fertilizer depends upon its high percentage of nltrcWfen and its complete solubility In water, thus be ing already In the form of a nitrate, the form In which plants prefer to take most of their nitrogen. Tho ni trate of soda being readily and freely soluble in water, is ready for appropri ation as plant-food us soon as it is put into the soil. Hence, it is evident that tho best way to use it is by ap plication as a top dressing Immediately before or after a rain, usually in the spring, when the plant is up and needs a good send-off to develop growth of stalk and foliage. Used in this way, the results are very sure and very striking. Flah and Crab* That Can Imitate Their Surround Ini*;*. Many insects, birds, animals and even fish and crabs ore wonderfully clever imitators. They will take upon them selves the color, shape or position of their surroundings so perfectly that neither friend nor enemy can discover tluylr whereabouts. There is a fish to be seen in the kelp beils about the Island of Santa Catalina which lias a clever way of making it self invisible. The body is slender, with u pointed head and prominent eyes. Along the back is a continuous frill, which is tile dorsal tin, while, opposite, the anal fin is equally ornamented. The fish vary in color. Some are amber, oth ers orange or vivid green, while some have two hues combined, dark and light green or olive and yellow. These pecu liarities of form and color render the fish marvelously like the kelp leaves among which it seeks protection. A number of these fish were placed in the tanks of the zoological gardens, where they might be observed. They showed great uneasiness, some of them even leaping from the tank. Another tank was prepared, where the natural surroundings of the fish were imitated as nearly as possible. A branch of mn- croe.vstls, with leaves hanging in the water, was suspended over the tank. The most uneasy of the fish were placed in the new home, ami their change of feeling was soon evident. One swam at once to the kelp leaves and poised It self, head downward. Another, with head poised upward, became a remark- aide Imitation of the hanging leaves in shape and color. The fish made no further effort to escape. Another inhabitant of the kelp bods is an olive green crab, which clings to the under side of the kelp tangles. This crab also showed great uneasiness when It was placed In a tank. When the kelp wus introduced It crawled up on It and was at once almost invisible, so much did It resemble the kelp leaves. Another crab makes itself look exactly like u rough stone. When it is alarmed it draws up its legs and appears a bit of Inanlmute stone. Several deep sea spiders which had been found at a depth of MOO feet were kept in a tank for several weeks. When taken from the dredging net they were a dark brown, though presumably the spot where they came from was so dark that they eould scarcely hove been seen. Yet even tills type of apparently slug gish life hud sufficient intelligence to realize that in the light of the tank it wus a conspicuous object, so it began to add seaweed to its back, Tho sea weed was plucked, then passed to the mouth and finally attached not to the hack, but to the point of the shell above the mouth so that It fell over the back like a gorgeous plume, making the crab very conspicuous. But when it was startled the plume of seaweed would point iipwurd and the crab would be come a rock with a tuft of seaweed growing upon it, well calculated to de ceive the most observing enemy.—New York Herald. Sulphate of Ammonia. One other Important inorganic source of nitrogen Is the salt known as sulphate of amonia. tl is produced chiefly as a by-product in the manu facture of illuminating gas from coal; the gas coals all contain a small per centage of nitrogen; when subjected to a dry distillation in retorts, the ni trogen is driven off In the form of am monia gas, and is finally absorbed In sulphuric acid, from which it is crystal lized as sulphate of ammonia. This prouuct usually contains about twenty and one-half per cent, of nitrogen, when purified, but if sold unpurifled, as brown sulphate of ammonia, It may not contain more than eighteen per cent, of nitrogen. Sulphate of am monia is freely soluble in water, and has tills advantage over nitrate of so da, ttiat it does not leach out of the soil so readily as nitrate of soda does, and may therefore be applied with other fertilizers in tho fall to fall crops without fear of serious loss through leaching during the fall and winter. I have not mentioned all of the various kinds of nitrogenous fer tilizer materials, but have sketched briefly the principal ones, from whicl. nearly ail the commercial fertilizers sold in the State of Georgia are made. The next great class of fertilizer ma terial we discuss will be the “phos phates.” JNO. M. McOANDLESS, State Chemist. Dill Not Go to Itooiit. A matter of fact mind, like Mrs. Sal ter’s, is a comfort to the person who has it and a never ending delight to the person’s friends. “I suppose you went to bed with the chickens while you were away,” said one of the neighbors ufter Mrs. Salter had returned from her vacation visit to u furm. “No, Indeed,” said Mrs. Salter Indig nantly. “They were very neat, quiet people, though they’ve never had city advantages. We hail rooms In tho front of the iiouse, on the second story, and the chickens slept somewhere at the back of the house. We never saw them after sunset, and we were there* nearly three weeks. I um sure farming people are often more particular than we hu've been led to suppose.”- Youth’s Companion. 1850 Fifty-Fifth Annual Statement. 1905 Aetna Life Insurance Company artford, Connecticut. MORGAN G. BULKELEY, President. The leading Insurance Company in New England, and the Larg- estin the World Writing Life, Accident, Health and Liability Insurance January 1st, 1905.- Receipts in I 904. Premiums -♦12 Interest, rents and from other sources. 11, Total Ineomein ii)04 $15 Disbursements in 1904. Death Claims $2. Matured Endowments 1 Death and Indemnity (Accident and Liabil ity) - 1 Dividends to Policy Holders . Surrendered Policies Commissions to agents . 1 Agency Expenses, Medical Examinations and Miscellaneous Expenditures Dividends on Capital Stock (Life). Dividends oil Capital Stock (Accident ) .. Taxes Total expenses (Accident and Liability Business).. .. 1, ,8(18,1)23 77 0(12, H3I1 ill) ,11111,55(5 7(5 8111), 58(1 (51 528,085 00 .281,1)22 (13 721,023 02 540,1180 71 ,007,-178 2(1 050,870 311 200,000 00 50,000 00 851,088 04 410,452 47 Total Disbursements in 1004 10,758,855 00 Excess of Income over Disbursements in '04 5,172,700 80 Paid Policy Holders in 1904 $6,971,793 55 Total Paid Policy Holders from Organization in 1850 to Janu ary 1,1905 $145,918,246 86 Life Insurance issued, revived and paid for in 1004 $28,850,007,00 Life Insurance in force January 1, 1005 21)7,5104,7110,00 Accident Insumnoc in force Jail. 1, 1005 217,230,101,00 Number of Policy Holders Jan. 1,1905 225,011 Assets. Heal Estate acquired by foreclosure (Hfloe Building (lush on band mid in hunks Stooks and Bonds Mortgages seeurud by Beni Estate Loans on Collaterals . Loans scoured Policies of this Company Interest due and accrued Dee. 31, 1004 Premiums m oonrso of collection and deferred Premiums (net) Market value of Securities over cost, less sets not admitted ($55,7-18 07) net Agents Balances and Bills receivable $ 173,104 74 400,000 00 7,070,023 30 24,400,880'90 82,080,317 72 1,051,304 02 3,801,504 08 818,782 05 074,112 08 As- 2,318,700 55 55,145 57 $78,000,178 81 Total Assets, January 1, 1005 .. Liabilities. Losses and Claims awaiting furl her proof, ami installment claims not yet duo (Life) $ 305,147 00 Losses and Claims awaiting further proof, and not yet duo (Accident and Liability) 588,727 00 Surplus Besorvo for special class of Policies and dividends to Policy holders not. yet duo 708,020 37 Premiums paid in advance and other Liabili ties.. 01,003 85 Reserve on Life. Endowment and term policies. 4 per cent, standard on Old Business and 8 b, per cent, on Policies issnd since 1900, 01,858,788 00 Loss value of Policies of Ro-insur anoe, $40,000,00 . 01,817,814 00 Special Reserve, in addition to the Reserve above given, 3,104,780 00 Unearned Premiums on accident and Liabil ity insurance 1,274,844 28 Special Reserve on Liuhilitv Insurance 100,000 0i> Total Reinsurance and Special Reserve mid all other Liabilities . _ .. 07,140,538 10 Guarantee Fund in Excess of requirements by Company's Standard 0 555,040 03 Total Liabilities Jan. I, 1005 73,000,170 81 Guarantee Fund in Excess of requirements by Standard of Connecticut and otiiur States . 8,850,420 05 Great Gains in Business in 1904 Increase in Assots $5,028,310 10 Inoreaso in Guarantee Fund ovor re quirements - 883,881 10 lnoreusuin Premium Income. 1,135,008 00 Increase in Total Income .. . 1,372,082 20 Inoronso in New Life Insurance issued and paid for ... $2,225,105 00 Increase in Life Insurance in Foroc 14,001,802 00 Increase in Accident Insurance in Force 8,018,020 00 Increase in number of Policy holders 11,048 F. M. BRYANT, District Manager, Newnan, Georgia. ODDLY NAMED TOWNS QUEER TITLES THAT DOT THE MAPS OF UNCLE SAM. Not Old Age. “Wecl, John, how are you today?” asked a Scottish minister on meeting one of his parishioners. “Gey weel, sir; gey wool," replied John cautiously; "gin it wasnn for j the rheumatism in the rleht leg.” “Ah, John, be thankful, for there Is no mistake you are getting old like the ‘ rest of us, nml old age doesn't come ■ alone.” “Auld nge, sir,” returned John. “I wonder to hear ye. Auld nge has ! naethlng tne dne wl’t. Here’s my ither leg jlst ns auld, an’ it’s soond nri’ sooplo yet.” Ilnril Cane For Wrcckort, Looking over the storm swept Pent- land firth, with its dangerous rocks and fierce currents, I remarked to the Ork ney pilot, “Tills must be a great place for wrecks.” “Wracks, man!” he shouted. “There’s mony a brnw farm In Orkney got out o’ wracks, but tho Breetish govern ment has put a leethoose hero and a leethoos there, and yon,” pointing to the double lighthouse on lb*- Skerries, “yon’s twa. There is no chance of , wracks for a puir fisher body noo.”— Cornhill Magazine. Had a I.onsr I.adder. Little Dot (seeing some workmen on I a tali spire)—Oh, mamma, there go some folks up to heaven. Mamma- Heaven Is a long way above that stee ple, my dear. Little Dot— I guess it Is, ’cause they’s taking a ladder up with them. Early Cotton. The invasion of the cotton states by the cotton boll weevil renders more • important than ever before careful ; studies of the early varieties. It has j been found that only the earliest va- ; rieties can be profitably grown in In- j fested regions even when all other j known methods of combating the wee- ! vil are employed. StoJciHm Worthy of tlic; Nmne. Younger Bister—What is stoicism? Elder Sister—Stoicism is the ability to congratulate the fiancee of the rnan you wanted to marry witliout showing any disappointment.—Cincinnati Com mercial Tribune. A torn Jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child., —Longfellow. Till. Nomenclative Peculiarity I. Not Confined to Any One Part of the Country, hut I.endH Itself Impar tially to All Section.. The names of some towns In (lie Unit ed States probably cause tlielr inhab itants. considerable vexations when away from home, says the Chicago Chronicle. These mimes have ccrtuin peculiar meanings in everyduy talk and ns soon as they ure mentioned they are apt to prompt troublesome questions by funmakers. For example, the man from Alone, Ky., might have to ex plain to a stranger living In New York how he eould do business If lie were the only inhabitant and bow the excise laVvs were enforced If the barkeeper, the toper, the policeman and the magis trate were all one and the same and in ease there were more than one person In Alone if all were bachelors and old maids. Citizens of Lonely, N. (’., and Lonesome, Ky., would encounter much, the same sort of questions, and all, of course, would finally be asked If they were once Jersey commuters. If a man hailed from Affinity, N. C., he would naturally bo supposed to be married and bis borne life an tmpiinc- tunted chapter of bliss, lie would be expected to wear as wide a smile as the citizen of Joy or Happy, Tex., or I’aru- (llse, Colo., with a temper us subdued as the Inhabitants of I’urlty, Minn. What would happen, however, If the man from Affinity should meet a man from 'Peace, Ala., would, indeed, be problematical. They might, after the fashion of some westerners, boom the merits of their respective towns with such ardor that at last these representa tives of Peace and Affinity would come to blows. They might at last develop as much disrelish for each other as the citizens of Cream, Wis., who should chance to take dinner with a citizen of caviar, X. J. On the other hand, they might become as chummy as the towns men of those three towns in the states of Colorado, Oregon and West Virginia which all hear the name of Crook. Any one coming from Eye, N. C„ could hardly expect to Join the New York police force and find tilings con genial. If he was a native of Lax, Ala., or Blind Bay, La., on the con trary, Ids duties as it metropolitan blue- coat might prove congenial. If lie said he was from Sodom, O., lie would most likely be told that Ids own town must need his services more. If lie replied that it didn’t, he might lie recommend ed to try to get a position in Pluto. Miss. r Near the Greene river In Kentucky and several miles south of Lewiston there is a town by the name of I’lg. It has never been recorded In any his tory of the United States whether the characteristics of the people of Pig are nny different from those of the people of Lamb, Ill., or Ohlcklcs, Pu, Tills Is certainly to bo regretted. It would certainly be Interesting to know If the worthy burghers of Pig are any moro happy and contented than other human beings, whether they linve such Ills as Insomnia, nervous prostration or mel ancholia,” whether there is any sale in Pig for appetizers, and what tho good people do on Fridays. Should a womun from Itlg Foot, Tex., or Antiquity, O., advertise for a husband it Is safe to say she would not get as many answers as a woman from Beauty, W. Va. The man who hailed from Jug, Ala., might have more dif ficulty lit being elected to the White Ribbon society than bis contemporary from Dry Town, Cal. The native of Magic, Ala., would no doubt be wel comed by certain Wall street officers where a citizen from Fairplay, WIs., would find the door shut. Should the woman from Alamode, Ga., or Fash ion, Gm., meet a woman from Jays- villc, O., the two might get. Into such a controversy that at the end they would both bo believed to be natives of Loon- eyvlllo, N. V. The citizen of Fossil, Ore., unlike tbc citizen of Quick, Neb,, would :io doubt feel very much at home In Philadelphia, and for much the same reasons tho representative of Fact, Kan., would find ii congenial at mosphere In Boston. Vegetarians should go to Grass, S. D. Any one might think that Ice, Ga., would become it more popular summer resort than Hell Hole, Colo. A Jury made up of men half of whom were born In Japan, Mo., and the other half In Uussla, N. Y., would be pretty sure to disagree. At any rate, they would not cull in a man from Jingo, Term., for a peacemaker. Should the girl from Loapyear, Tonn., become dissatisfied with things at home there is little dan ger of her settling In Bachelor, Mich. Neither would the man from Langor, Minn., think of moving to Jump, O. A man may travel from Dan to Beer- sheba nowadays and think It a very short Journey. There Is a Dan In Ken tucky and u Beorshelm over the line in Tennessee. Neither Is the trip from London to Pekin a long one In the United States. Ohio contains both a Pekin and a London, and It is not a long journey from Whisky Buttes, Mont., to Seven Devils, Ida. ■ ■ • Ata ■■ Peniston’s Drug Store Orane’s Spring Medieiue. Oruno’s Kidney and Bneknohe Ourp. Orane’s Cough Cure. Crime's Headache Relief. Crane's Cholera and Dinrrliooa Mixture. Crane’s Family Liniment. Crane’s Eczema Onro. Crane’s Liver Powders. Crane’s Pile Halve. Crane’s Liver Pills. Crane's Female Relief. These ore Stondurd Prepara tions end ore Sold and Recom mended at S Peniston’s \ Drug Store. ...While Barber Shop... C. T. BAILEY, Proprietor. Only first-class white bar bers employed. Prompt, re liable, courteous attention ■'Old service given all custom ers, at the usual prices. Wo have the only electric mas sage machine in the city. Give it a trial ; it does the work perfectly. Some men drink whisky because they like it, some because their friends drink it, and some because they know the devil wants them to do it. Cleaned for Action When tho body is cleaned for action, by Dr. King’s New Life Pills, you can tell it by the bloom of health on tho cheeks; the brightness of the eyes; the firmness cf the flesh and muscles; tho , buoyancy of the mind. Try them. At j J• T: Reese’s and Dr. Paul Peniston’s Drugstore, 25c.