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which calls up the oft-repeatec
question, “whats in a name!
The Bessemer, Ala., Workman
eiys that if yon go far into the
woods when the days are very hot,
yon will find that
The chigger
Is no bigger "
Than the point of a pin.
Bat the lamp he raises
Itches like blazes,
And there’s where the rub comes
The most'at
these mineral
soil we find to
quainted with
member there
rich soil 71.55
every 100 pouj
where it is hot all the year round
Scott’s Emulsion
sdls better than any where else
in the world. So don’t stop taking
i it in summer, or you will lose *
1 what you have gained.
. Send for a free sample,
f SCOTT & BOWNE, Cbemists,
409-415 Pearl Street, New York.
50c. and $i.oo;all druggists.
THE GAINESVILLE NEWS, WEDNESDAY JUNE 11, 1902
Cbe Gainesville Hern.
INDUSTRIAL
Official Organ City of G-ainosville
Gainesville, Ga., June 11, 1902.
Kodol
Dyspepsia Cure
Boer War Notes.
.There have been engaged on the
British side 847,661 troops.
Greatest number engaged at
one time 250,000.
In the field at the war’s close
225,000.
On the Boer side the total num
ber of men engaged has been 59,-
000.
Largest number engaged at one
time 21,000.
The war has cost England $1,-
125,000,000.
British soldiers killed or dead
from wounds 19,430.
Invalided home 64,830.
The Boers took and released 20,-
000 prisoners.
Pointed Paragraphs.
Fortune is the girl who loses
her temper and never finds it
again.
Ignorance is bliss until it be
gins to associate with egotism.
Scandal continues to be the
fashionable society game.
Many a good man blacks boots,
and many a bad one blacks char
acters.
It is a deplorable fact that a
girl can never get her first kiss
but once.
It is more difficult for some
men to collect their wits than
their bills.
Were it not for the things we
are going to do life would not be
worth living.
A young man may have no busi
ness to kiss a pretty girl, but h e
might manage to make a pleasure
of it.
Lots of men after laying up
something for a rainy day get dis
eouraged because it doesn’t rain
Probably you never heard of the
man who was killed by kindness
-but if you did it was nothing
more than hearsay.
Digests what yon eat.
This preparation contains all of the
digestants and digests all kinds of
food. It gives i nstan t relief and never
fails to cure. It allows you to eat all
the food you want. The most sensitive
stomachs can take it. By its use many
thousands of dyspeptics have been
cured after everything else failed. It
prevents format ion of gas on the stom
ach, relieving all distress after eating;
Dieting unnecessary. Pleasant to taka
It can't help
but do you good
Prepared only by E. O. De W itt & Go., Chicago*
The $1. bottle contains 2 l A times the 50c. size,
PUNT FOOD ELEMENTS
Nitrogen and the Way In
Which It Is Absorbed.
8TATE CHEMIST'S LETTER NO. 4
Actual Quantities of Plant Food In
Soils—What Determines the Crop
Producing Power of the Soil, Etc.
Interesting and Instructive Treatise.
The Philadelphia Times says that
Senator Beveridge has a fatalistic
premonition that he is to be pres
ident of the United states. If every
one else had a similar foreboding
in regard to Senator Bevridge,
what an exodus there would be, to
be sure! says Editor Hook.
They are now trying, to fix the
responsibility of the stories about
the army in the Philippines upon
General Miles.
“Brown sugar girls 4 ’ is what Sen
ator Penrose calls those girls who
are sweet but not refined, says the
Montgomery Advertiser. Might as
el 1 call them lassies.’
Japan’s richest man has come to
this country to talk over the sub
ject of a Pacific steamship trust
with J. Pierpont Morgan. Japan
will soon be so much like the Unit
ed States it can’t be told which is
which-
‘•Your hair is getting very thin
sir, u said the fat barber. “Glad to
hear it,“replied the touchy man
“corpulence is so vulgar.“
The present pole star is the one
ealledi Alpha, in the constellation
Ursa Minor.
It has.been the world’s pole star
for nearly 2,000 years.
Sydney, Australia, reports that
the bubonic plague is not commu
nicable between individuals. Bats,
mosquitoes, and vermin alone con
vey it.
A court trial at Columbus, Miss^
lately concerned a man named Gar
field, who was arrested by Game
Warden Abraham Lincoln, fc r
shooting snipe. He was tried by
Attorney Hayes before a jury
headed by George Washington.
Andrew Jackson was a spectator
and the name of the office cat was
William Jennings Bryan. All of
oft-repeated
$100 Reward, $100.
The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at last one
dreaded disease that science has been
able to cure in all its stages, and that
is Catarah. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is the
only positive cure known to the medi
cal fraternity. Catarrah being a con
stitutional disease, requires a constit
utional treatment. Hall’s Catarrah
Cure is taken internally, acting direct
ly upon the blood and mucous surfaces
of the system, thereby destroying the
foundation of the disease, and giving
the patient strength by building up the
constitution and assisting nature in do
ing its work. The proprietors have so
much faith in its curative powers, that
they offer One Hundred Dollars for any
case that it fails to cure. Send for list
of testimonials.
Address, F. J. CHENEY & CO.,
Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggist, 75c.
Hall’s Family Pills are the' best.
Accidents due to the increasing
use of wire fences have done much
to cause a decline in the popular
ity of fox hunting in England.
'Wickless Blue Flame Oil
s tove—something yon want, Guaran
teed against smoke, perfectly odorless
E. Smith.
A woman would rather be tyr
annized dy the man she loves than
tyrannize the man she doesen't
love.—Nhw York Press.
It is stated that Mark TwaiD
wept upon revisiting the scenes of
his boyhood recently, and that it
is the first published record of his
having done so since his menu r-
ab)e visit to the tomb of Adam.
Can it be possible that there was
an association in the two subjects?
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 crops, 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 around it in the air, no mat
ter how thirtsy 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 such enor
mous crops at sqch 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 4eaves; 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 utilise it. If we put any organ
ic matter containing nitrogen into the
soil, either vegetable or animal, as cot
ton seed meal, 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 a
nitrate ofter the decay of the ooriginal
sustance has been fully completed.
As a 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 describ
ed,* but there are few favored plants
which are able to obtain their nitrogen
out of the air through the instrumen
tality of certain 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 anil 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-
ayed organic matter of the soil, which
improves its mechanical.. condition,
?ives it a dark or black ^.olor, and
is one of the principal elements of a
clay soil. Iron, magnesia and sulphur
ic acid found in the soil are likewise
found in the ash of the plant. Only
small quantities of these however are
required by the plant and they are al
ways abundant in soils. Soda is like
wise found in both soil and plant, but
Is not essential to the plant. Phosphor
ic acid, potash and lime are found in
only small quantities in most soils,
but exist in considerable quantity in
the ash of the plants, and each one
of them is absolutely necessary to
the life, growth and development of
the plant. For this reason, the other
elements being usually abundant, a
soil is said to be rich or poor accord
ing to its contents of potash, phosphor
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.
- Weight 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 acid 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 the
Soil.
The question arises, is it soluble,
is it available? It is in such condition
that the soil 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 kainit and other
fertilizers on lands which are being
constantly cropped; it is because the
constant cropping has* exhausted or
aniTagncuItural jourfi^
far ®9|,
pers _ ju(
st&te have nobly backed
efforts.
Our most enterprising
longer have their corn cribs a™
houses in the west, as w» s th ^
several years after the great
It is time now that we were ha •
great packing houses in our o^ 3
supplied with the best of
our own stock yards. Ther
ready In the suburbs of AtlaV
packing house of T. R. Sawt ? !
other in Brooks county and 0 th ’
other, sections of the state. Th
scarcity of beef rrom the cat tie”
of the Union and the consequl*?
prices ought to wake up our **
the grand opportunity of
this important article of liet and t
ing in our own state the mose/!
now goes beyond our borders ;
Not only clover, alfalfa (or l ncer ,
and other grasses of the northerT*
die and western sections of the ty
flourish in many parts of Georgi^
our own native grasses and our l
enriching peavines in every sec%
the state give abundance of the b
hay and supply the finest pasters
stock.
The prosperity of our state \
gseatly increased by the establish
of great stock farms, not only ,
consequent cheapening of om ^
supplies, but also by the wonderfou
riching of the soil, wherever herdi,
cattle are kept.
GA. DEP’T. OF AGRICULTUHal
The scientists and
correspondents who are climbaj
Mont Pelee and telling abom
m the public prints are too
away from home to he pin
down in the event of exaggerate)
or outright lying, but it is sab
say that not half the atom
are hearing of ascents of M
and La Soufriere are true.—Ei
Messrs. Greene and Gaynor s|
evidently determined to fight
the last ditch and go to the <
of last resort rather tb&n
bronght again before Jid
Emory Speer. In view of
drawn out of the soil the soluble phos- j record of the fugitives ^
phoric acid and potash, available to resting in Quebec,
the plant, and we must either put on nation on their part is 8
a fertilizer containing them in a aolfl- compliment to j adge Speer.-ij
ble form, or we must let the soil rest I “ 6 *
a while, that is “lie fallow," in order | bftny Herald,
that a fresh supply of plant food may
be made available by the slow action J The country is promised one i
of the soil water, the action of car- ... f t t d fi erceat
bonic acid, and the other organic acids . ta8t6St ancl nerceet P 011B
resulting from the decay of vegetable skirmishes in the history of
and animal matters In the soil. If | country in the* tog of war beta
ship. Teddy is a born figb
Hanna a born strategist, aod
tween the two there are going
be a tew rounds that will
Mr. James Jeffries and Mr. This
as Sharkey look like about I
tenths of a dollar.—Ex.
The American astronomers
they have discovered a new
et; but the Montgomery Ad?
er declares it is only a hot
from Pelee. -
serves as an excellent retainer of
moisture and heat in the soil. Refer
ring now to the analysis of a rich soil,
which I gave you in my last letter, we
find that besides the organic fain
stance about which we have just been
talking, there are also the inorganic
or mineral 'substances, such as we
found in the ashes of the plant we first
analyzed.
Various Elements Found in the
Soil.
most'abundant substance of Jill
mineral or ash elements In the
we find to be silica, or as ydti are
it, sand. You will re-
was in this particular
pounds of .silica out of
pounds, and yet the wheat
plant grown on this soil only contained
two and three-quarters pounds of silt-
out of every 100 pounds, and even
this was not absolutely essential to
the health and growth of the plant.
Although we find -alumina in the soil,
find none in the plant. Alumnia
*° President Roosevelt and So.
tilizer or to let your land “lie fallow^ _
then your next resource is to rotate I Hanna for the republican ie
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
ih 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 soil cannot produce heavy
crops without the application of an, . ,
available potash fertilizer. If that soil P eo Pl e who rough t for
has only available potash enough in pendeut government and lost
It to produce ten bushels of com per than was this great Republic
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 com, 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
corp. 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.
The English king was &
deal more magnanimous to
an
government to those who
their cause, in 1865.
Another United States sen*
has distinguished hinaeetf
getting drank, wanderiDg i flfcc
handsome home on K. street
breaking np the furniture
he could be gotten by the
ington police.
Beef and Dairy Cattle. , v
For many years the Georgians have
given much attention to the improve
ment of the stock of dairy cattle, and
all over the northern and middle sec
tions and in some of, the southern
counties are many first-clas dairy
farms stocked with cattle of the best
known milk breeds.
It has been the effort of the depart
ment of agriculture to encourage thig
good work in. every way, and at the
same time to.present to our farmers | reached.
ago,
check
A good many years
Jay Gould wrote his
$2,000,000, the fame of so
ordinary event went round
world, and when a few ye® 18
ter W. H. Vanderbilt
single order on his bank *° r
000,000 the utmost limit in
direction was believed
But recently J*
every incentive to the improvement I pont Morgan wrote a c
of our peef cattle, aad.the^newsua- | the amaziug snm of $25,000: