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No Remedy Equals It. Dr. 0. Laux,of Los Angeles, Cal., who lias been a druggist and chemist for for- ty-oue years, says: “I can honestly say that I have never made or sold a rheu matic remedy that gives such a large percentage of cures ns URICSOL.” It also pleasantly builds up the general Bystem. Every sufferer should try it nud not be deluded into trying other things said to be “ju-t ns good." Drug gists sell it ac $1.00 per bottle, or six bottles for $5.00. PENNSYLVANIA FUBK BYE, BIGHT YEARS OLD. OLDSHABBB WILLIAMS Four ful.Quarts of this Fine Old, Pare RYE WHISKEY, $3.50 EXPBESS PAID* Wo ship on approval in plain, sealed boxes, with no marks to indicate contents. When lyou roooivo it and toBt it, if it 1b not satisfactory, return it at our oxponso and wo wil return your utoi $8.60. Wo guarantee thiB brand to bo EIGHT YEARS OLD. Right bottles for $0 60, express prepaid ; bottfos for $0 60 express prepaid. 12 Ono^allon Jug, express prepaid, JJ3 00 •, 2 gallon jug, dxpro'ss prepaid) $6 60? -Tgofi ‘ ' No ohargo for boxing, Wo liamllo all tlio Ion Uourbon Whiskios and BO Pot* Cent, on Your Purchases: Wo liamllo all tlio loading brands of Ryo and *’ 'will save you Kentucky Star Bourbon. Ulkrldgo Bourbon 40 Boon Hollow Uourbon Oolwood Puro Ryo.... Monogram Ryo 66 MoUrayor Ryo 00 Maker's A AAA..., 05 O. O. P. (Old Osoar Poppor).. Old Crow Plnohor's Golden Woddlng Hoffman Houso Ryo Mount Vernon, 8 years old 100 OldDlllingorRye, 10years old,.... 125 Tho above are only a fow brands. Bond for a outaloguo. All other SoodB by tho gallon, suoh ns Corn . dAppio BrandlOB.eto., Quart, Gallon. $1 26 165 101) 190 2 00 220 240 240 76 260 2 60 800 360 126 400 Whlskoy, Poaoli and Apple Brandies, oto., sold onnally ns low, from $125 a gallon and upwards womako a speoiasty of the Jug Trade, S nd all orders by Mail or Telgerajph will avo our prompt attention: Special Inducements offorod. Mail Orders shipped Same day of tho receipt of order. The Altmnyer & Plateau Liquor Company, GOO, 508, 510, 512 Fourth Street, near Union Passenger Depot. MACON, GEORGIA PERFECT PASSENGER AND SUPERB SLEEPING-CAR SERVICE BETWEEN ALL PRINCIPAL POINTS IN THE Connecting at SAVANNAH with STEAMSHIP LINES PLYING BETWEEN Savannah and New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore AND ALL POINTS NORTH AND EAST Complete information, rates, schedules of trains and sailing dales, of steamers cheerfully furnished by any agent of the company. THEO. D. KUNE, W. A. WINBURN, General 8up't, Traffic Manager, d. O. HAILE, General Pasa'r Agent, f. J. R9WN80N, Ass’t General Paw'r Agent 8AVANNAH. QK Description of Nitrogenous Fertilizer Materials. 8UBSTANCES USED IN THEM, JOB WOB.K NEATLYBXECUTMD AT THIS OFFICE - Value Irt 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, I 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 lq 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- ditios the nitrogen which they contain can be converted into ammonia. Now nitrogen and ammonia are hot the same thing 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 haa a pungent odor, the same which you have noticed in spirits of hartshorn or spirits of ammonia bought from tho drug store. It also s 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 amonnt of nitrogen, but nitrogen never contains any ammonia. And right here it 16 well for you to understand, that we have all fallen into a very unwise and erroneous habit of speak ing about a fertilizer as containing such a per cent, of ammonia. As 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 customaVy, in the careless way of talking obtaining among us all, to speak of cotton-seed meal as 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 I wrote you so^mucli in my letters on feeding; and this six and six-tenths per cent, of nitrogen can under certain chemical conditions bo 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 odorB about it, that you smell ammonia; that Is rarely, if ever, the case; the odors you smell are usually due to animal matters, flsh-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 be snow white in color. The materials used for compounding such a fertilizer would be nirate of aim monia and phosphate of potash, and these salts when chemically pure are snow white salts. To return now to our description of the various nitro genous materials. Cotton-seed meal, with which you are fully familliar, stands flirst in importance in Southern agriculture. An average meal of good quality will contain six and six-tenths per cent, of nitrogen, whteh, if converted into ammonia,'w^uld 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 bfffee of the greater portion of com mercial fertilizers manufactured in the South. “PACKING-HOUSE PRODUCTS..” As little is generally known of these and the manner of their production, I will give you a 7 brief account of their manufacture. The great packing-houses are locat ed chiefly in Chicago, Kansas City and 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 pork, there is of course a large quantity of waste to be utilized, but the material most interseting 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” a s\ v. • is the most valuahlle fertilizing pro duct, and the richest in nitrogen. In preparing this material, tho liquid blood is collected in vats, where it is cooked; this' process causes the separation of the protein of the blood from much of the water;' It is then J put into presses where about one-half j of fthe water Is pressed out. After pressing it 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 by steam. The damp cakes go In at one end of the machine and the dry cakes come out at the other, when they are ground to a powder and sack ed ready for market. This blood will I usually contain about thirteen per cent, j of nitrogen, which is the equivalent of j about sixteen per cent, of ammonia, but as in the case of the cotton-seed? meal, there is actually no ammonia 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 terial 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. As a result, most of the fat in the mass is melted and rises to the top of the tanks, where it Is skimmed off and utilized for soap-making and other pur poses. The hones 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 iu 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 aboqt four per cent, of nitro gen, twenty-three per cent, of total phosphoric acid, and eight and one- half per cent, of available phosphoric acid. The regular bone meal is cooked under pressure for a few hours 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 phnsmhpric acid. Steamed bone meal is the product of the glue works, and Is made by grinding tho 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 firat thoroughly steamed, then dried and ground into meal. The better quality of horn and hoofs command very . high prices, even as high as $200 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 a® 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 1 write you something about phosphates. Yours truly, JNO. M. McCANDLESS, j^[4State Chemist. The Only Guaranteed Kidney Cure is Smith’s Sure Kidney Oure. Your drug gist will refund your money if after tak in g ond ! buttle you are not satisfied with results. 50 cents at Gater’s Drugstore. Long service, least cost {or repairs, ease of erec tion (simply , stretch and staple It) high grade steel at a low price—that’s what makes it The Fence of Economy ' Made in six heights, 18-inch to 58-inch. In styles for fields, orchards, lawns, hen yards, etc. It keeps stock and small r animals where they be- , long, and protects crops. It’s The AH’Round Fence Examine the way the Ellwood Fence is woven. The eye oi a practical man will L see at a glance why it stands strains— never sags, buckles, pulls J out posts or 1 breaks. You can see an Ellwood Fence in use in any part of the country, almost any neighborhood. There’s a dealer handling them everywhere. If yours should not have them, write to Amcrlcnn Steel and Wire Co., Chicago, No York, San Francisco, llenier. ‘ The Kind You Have Always Bought# aud which has been, in use for over SO years, has borne the signature of and has been made under his per sonal supervision since its infancy* Allow no one to deceive you in this* All Counterfeits, Imitations and “ Just-as-good” are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger tho health of Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment* What Is CASTORIA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare goric, Drops aud Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. 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