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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: