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6 FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD By S. A. COOK. Poultry “Keeping.” Every state and county fair year by year gives some little impetus to im proved poultry keeping Jn the South. People of all sorts attend the fairs, and there see the finest specimens of various breeds of chickens. A good many of these, carried away by the fine show of fowls and by the wonder ful statements of those who have them for sale, either buy some of the fowls on the spot or return home with minds made up to embark in poultry raising just as soon as possible. There are two distinct kinds of poultry keeping. One where eggs and chickens are rais ed for eating purposes and the other for the purpose of raising fowls and eggs for breeding purposes. The latter are to be sold at fancy prices—prices that foitoid either being used as food. The one kind of poultry keeping has been carried on by farmers and farm ers’ wives ever since they began to farm. It was a very small side issue to the main business, but it amount ed to enough in the aggregate to sup ply the mass of the people with chick ens and eggs that they could afford to eat. Whether it was very profitable to the individual raiser, it nevertheless put upon the market frying size chick ens at 10 to 20 cents and eggs at from 10 to 25 cents per dozen, according to season. It would appear that the ma jority of farmers care little for eggs and ehickens as food. At any rate, they sell pretty much all they man age to raise to the city and town peo- j Pie. At the best, there is never any great ! sum realized by the farmer and his ' •wife, but whatever it is it helps con siderably in providing tea, coffee, med icine, etc. Up to the present time it has been the only source of supply for the non producer and consumer. Without this supply our tables would be quite desti tute of eggs and chickens. The time is approaching, though, when commer cial poultry raising will probably sup ply to some extent the demand for "broilers"—fryers we should say, prob ably. But the poultry keeping that inspires the visitor to the fairs is of that kind denominated ’fancy," where fine birds are to be raised to bring fancy prices. They are to be raised to meet the de mand from others that become in spired later on to go Into the business. One in twenty perhaps will establish a reputation in the business and be able ’ to sell all the eggs they raise at $2 per dozen and trio of fowls at $lO to sls. It takes at least three or four years to establish a good business in fancy poultry—that is, a business that will Justify it as an exclusive business oc cupation, suspectible of yielding a good income. There are many ups and downs in the business. It is one that requires the utmost regard for details, for the highest display of energy, watchfulness and fore-slghtedness. A man or woman can easier be a good money lender and many other things than a good, first-rate poultry keeper. There must be a suitable location for the purpose. There must be perfect provision for pure water all the time, for the utmost cleanliness that will forestall disease and insects of all kinds. There must be proper mating fo insure fertile eggs—one male to six females. The roosting place of the laying fowls must be warm, protected from all cool winds. These fowls must be fed on egg-producing food, such as whoie wheat, with a small ration of parched corn. They must not be over sur'fett 86 thCy W, “ gCt to ° fat Never The beginner without any expert- 1 ence will have much to learn from his own observation. The nests for setting hens should be made on moist soil to begin with—a little straw or chaff on the soil. Put only as many eggs in nest as hen will cover easily-usually thirteen. l e ' v da ys before hatching time rnh n p ? l,Bht, y with sulphur or hen Vhta’Jm . breaat fathers of the hen This w 111 insure chicks free from Plnin Culture'. Plums stand next In importance to apples as an orchard crop, but are not cultivated as extensively as they ought to be, says the Epltomlst. The culture of plums has not extended, hut has positively declined. Plums are not difficult to cultivate, and they are among the hardiest of our orchard fruits. Renewed interest in this fruit has been awakened by the introduc tion of choice Japanese and other for ?h*V a J! eUe * and by a realization of ltU h nf d ne * B and other valuable qual ities of our native sorts. There are Th!£ v , ariet,e " " under cultlvatto£ There is a variety suited to almost ? nd,tlo r of e'lniate In the Unit hl.ti, and a " klnda of " 0118 from clays to the lighter sands. Do- G, cen Gage. Lombard. Bradshaw and lellow Egg Damsons known and a?c*,tilHlgh ly prized for home use. although the fruit is considered of Inferior quality Japanese vurieties including Abunl K*e'ir l! '.^!i Urbarik ' H< “ d Jun ' > ' Chabol. Kerr and many other varieties differ widely from those commonly grown in America. The majority of plums MS "®'. w • "nd "lost of them set no fruit at all unless two or three va rieties are mixed in the orchard. The trouble is. that the blossoms of most varieties do not pollinate (or fertilize) themselves. one must be pollinated rrom the blossoms of some other kind; an;’ kind of plum which blossoms at the same time will answer for the pol lination of any given variety. Many varieties prefer a heavy soil, while ° <ber may 1* grown on light sandy soil. Taking all varieties Into consid eration, the best soil for plums Is a loose, deep gravelly soil with an open subsoil such as Is suited for apples or potatoes, although almost any soli may be used, provided It Is well drain ed. When setting out, strong yearlings give the best satisfaction with most vurieties, but with Domestlcas and Damsons, 2-yenr-old tree* are best. Spring is the best time for setting, but If the work Is done by one who knows how to plum the trees, fsll planting will do. Trees should be set fifteen feet apart each way with all varieties. Wept Burbank, which should be twenty feet or more, A good method for pruning young trees when set In the ori hard, is to prune the top to a straight whip, and rut the whip back to two or three feet, this dtqwnds on the variety and the strength of the young tree. Doting the summer a lumber of side branches are grown <*t front the sides of tbs straight stalk; from four to six of the most desirable of these are well distributed around the trunk and allowed to grow, while the remainder are to be taken off. At the last of August or early in September cut off the tops of these branches to stop growth and harden them. Remove all suckers as they first appear. In the spring of the second year, prune all branches back to a length of six to eighteen Inches, but this depends on the vigor of the tree—the weaker the tree the more closely it is shortened in. One to three new branches are allowed to grow, on each primary branch, and are handled In the same manner as they were the preceding year. When treated this way, the tree is usually in bearing condition at the end of the second year, and should give a moderate crop of fruit the third year. Cultivation should be given between the trees ev ery spring until the middle of the summer, and then seeded to some cov er crop, or the weeds allowed to grow. Mulching with straw, march hay, etc., are preferable to cultivation, as mulched trees have given a superior quality and size of fruit. Many use a two-horse spring-tooth cultivator and a five and a half foot disk for cultivating while the trees are small, and a one-horse fine-toothed cultivator when the trees have grown too large for the two-horse tools. The use of these tools keeps the surface soil loose and fine. Where exposed to winds or sloping so as to be in danger of wash ing, oats or rye sown in August is a good preventive. Oats are the best as the rye is hard to kill in the spring by shallow cultivatiofi. Barnyard manure should be applied to the soil every year, and wood ashes may be applied , with advantage to soil deficient in . lime. By thinning the varieties, a ! finer fruit can be secured and this pre- | vents deterioration of the size of the : fruit from year to year. Thinning does i not increase the total yield of plums, j but heavy thinning reduces the total | yield materially. Thinning does not : pay where the market does not dis- j criminate in price between medium i sized and large plums, unless the trees decidedly overbear. Black knot can j be controlled by prompt removal with ; a pruning knife as soon as seen. The brown rot or ripe rot of the fruit which comes on as the fruit is ripen ing is controlled by heavily spraying the trees with a solution of copper sulphate, just as the buds are begin ning to swell in the spring and before the leaves put out, and with Bordeaux mixture after the blossoms fall. All diseased leaves, fruits and twigs ; should be gathered and burned. For ; the plum curcullo, jarring, spraying j with Paris green, and growing enough ( plums for both curcullo and horticul- , turist are good. Picking and market ing plums should be done as soon as | they are well colored and some va rieties even earlier. An eight-pound grape basket is a good package for lo cal market purposes, but for shipment the six-pound basket carrier is best. Late plums usually bring the best prices. About Breed* of Hor*e. On this subject, Henry Wallace gives the following useful Information; The thoroughbred horse is the run ning horse, the race horse, and has been bred for making high speed on a run for a short distance, and is, there fore. quite distinct from the standard bred horse.. The standard-bred horse is the trotting and pacing horse, which is a composite breed in which thorough bred or running blood forms a lead ing feature. The studbook of this breed has the distinct merit of being based largely on performances, as shown by the following rules: 1. The progeny of a registered standard trotting horse and a regis tered standard trotting mare. 2. A stallion sired by a registered standard trotting horse, provided his dam and granddam were sired by registered standard trotting horses, and he himself has a trotting record of 2:30 and is the sire of three trotters with records of 2:30, from different mares. 3. A mare whose sire Is a registered standard trotting horse, and whose dam and granddam were sired by registered standard trotting horses, provided she herself has a trotting rec ord of 2:30 or is the dam of one trotter with a record of 2:30. 4. A mare sired by a registered standard trotting horse, provided she is the dam of two trotters with records of 2:30. 5. A mare sired by a registered standard trotting horse, provided her first, second and third dams are each sired by a registered standard trotting horse. When an animal meets these re quirements and is duly registered, It shall be accepted as a standard-bred pacer. 1. The progeny of a registered stand ard pacing horse and a registered standard pacing mare. 2. A stallion sired by a registered pacing horse, provided his dam and granddam were sired by registered standard pacing horses, and he himself has a pacing record of 2:25, and is the sire of three pacers with records of 2:25, from different mares. 3. A mare whose sire Is a registered standard pacing horse and whose dam and granddam were sired by registered standard pacing horses, provided she herself has a pacing record of 2:25, or is the dam of one pacer with a record of 2:25. 4. A mare sired by a registered standard pacing horse, provided she is the dam of two pacers with records of 2:25. 5. A mare sired by a registered standard pacing horse, provided her Blood Poison Cured Without Hot Springs I con cure you of blood poison by a simple non-macurlnl method I can remove every sore from your face and body in less than a fortnight. I will have the disease under control at the very outset, and my cure will be t so rapid and thorough that not even your best friends will see any sign of such disease. I cure blood poison no matter how acquired, whether by heredity, whether by accidentslly using a cup. towel, sent, etc., used by a person having this disease, and whether you are In the first, second or third stage of the terrible scourge The men that I cure are free from the taint forever. They can marry, or, being already married, they can have perfectly healthy children without fear of the disease breaking out in them. I use a eompound method, con sisting of a recently discovered European serum and a specific constitutional treatment. In that way all sores ulcers, swellings, pains, blotches, eruptions, falling hair’ etc., are immediately controlled and cured in a ably short time. It will save you a useless trip to Hot _ . . Springs, save you publicity among your friends and Recognised a* tlic family doctor, for I can cure you In your own city Oldest KHtabllalt- without detaining you from vour business or Interfering itl nnd Most It*- with your usual habits. Call on me and let us talk the liable Sprs-lnHat. matter over. I will charge you nothing for exsmlna. lion, counsel and advice. Remember niv specialty—all Chronic Diseases of Men and Women If you live too far awny to call, write me for booklet on your special diocese, which I will send you absolutely free of cost. No I. for Diseases of Men: No. 2. Throat nnd Lung Troubles; No. j, Female Diseases (new edition); No. 4. htrteture. No. R. Varicocele; No, 6. Blood Poison (in detail); No. 7. Kidney, Hi idd*r nnd Rheumatism; So. I, Nerv ous Debility and Weakness of Men (enlarged new edition). Also write for Kelf-Egniiilnation Blank for your special disease. No. 1 for Men, No. t for Women. No. 1 for Hkln Diseases, No. 4 for Catarrhal Dtaease*. No, 8 for Piles, Hheumallam, Disease* of the Heart, Liver and Kidneys. Write for one of the*e hooks and blanks to-day. They will show you how to b* cured Whsthei you call or write, the address t J. NEWTON HATHAWAY M D , IRA Bryan dtreet, Havannah. Ga, Office hours, la. m. to 11 m., Ito L T to I p. m. Sundays It a. m. to 1 p. m. SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. NOVEMBER 21. 1904. (Qm. W,v4j h/enf. ' (l (Mmi VC JvKl. 0 fj§§ (UA. omi* -tirvL 'on-r^O/rv^, first, second and third dams are each sired by third dams are each sired by a registered standard pacing horse. 6. The progeny of a registered standard trotting horse out of a regis tered standard pacing mare, or of a registered standard pacing mare out of a registered, trotting mare. The standard - bred horse is an American breed developed largely by the late John H. Wallace. While this breed has been used largely for track purposes with the idea of developing exceedingly rapid speed for a short distance, it has in it the possibilities of a coach horse, the road horse, and the common purpose horse for the AVeatern farm. In other words, the larger and more showy types of the standard-bred horse can be developed and we be lieve will be. into a coach horse sec ond to none under proper manage ment. While the thoroughbred horse must always be used largely for rac ing purposes, the standard-bred horse has a field of exceedingly wide utility. Durr Clover for Winter Pasture. I have raised burr clover for the past thirty years for winter pasture for hogs, goats, cows and chickens, says a l'armer in Southern Cultivation. I consider it the best winter pasture one can have for the money expended, as it reseeds itself. One sowing will last a life-time, though easily destroy ed when desired. By planting Ber muda grass he can have both winter and summer pasture, as they do not conflict on same land. The clover can be pastured from Decemb?r until May, so it may reseed itself by the first of June; then up comes the Bermuda to give you pasturage until frost. The two combined will bear close grazing and harder us'.ige than any combina tion I have ever seen tried. The long er you have it the better you will like It. I think it advisable for every one who owns his home to plant one acre for his cow and hog. After one trial he will be convinced. He will have the best return for the money ex pended by seeing your cow enjoy mowing it down which will give you golden butter equal to finest Jersey. You will then appreciate the value of it. I do not understand why so rrtany ask such questions to know If barley or rye and oats will make good pas turage for stock. We all admit they are good feed, but find it not only laborious but too expensive. To get the benefit of pasturage you have to pre pare your land and buy new seed every year. Now, why not plant burr clover, as one planting will last a life time; again, when it matures its seed by the first of June, you may plant in corn year after year. I have done this for a number olj years. I never fall to have nice roasting ears, as the clover seems to enrich the land, the corn having a dark, rich green color. The Scrap llook. Products of the Corn Plant —Among the products of the corn plant are oils, paper, pith (that is used in battleships to stop shot holes below the water line), whisky, three kinds of sugar, and two each of syrup and molasses; many food elements, different kinds of cellulose, vicose, pyroxylene and amy loid; many products useful in the arts —celluloid, collodion, sizing, varnishes, films, flfaments for Incandescent lights, artificial silk, guncotton, smokeless powder and fine charcoal; many varie ties of starch and of glucose; several kinds of gum, grape-sugar, corn-rubber (used for buffers on railway cars), corn oil cake and meal, malt, beer, wines, alcohol and fusel oil, even shuck m'ats and shuck mattresses. A Texas Cattle Queen—With a productive cattle ranch nearly twice the size of Rhode Island, Mrs. Harriet M. King, near San Antonio, Tex., may well be termed the cattle queen of the state. Her Santa Gertrude ranch is ninety miles long, and includes 1,- 500,000 acres within its barbed wire fences. Two thousand employes care for its one hundred thousand cattle and fifty thousand sheep. Mrs. King re cently added 110,000 ‘acres to her hold ings, at a cost of S3O per acre, and last year she sold 22,000 young steers and heifer*. The Income of the ranch is between $300,000 and $400,000 a year and the owner laughed at the offer of a Cattle syndicate to buy it for $6,000 - 000 a year or two ago. Mrs. King is ■the personal manager of this vast do main, and it is said that no step of any Importance is taken upon it with out consultation with her. Lameness—Whenever a horse goes lame make a close examination of the foot the very first thing, as more than three-fourths of all lameness in horses has its source below the pastern Joint. Clean the hoof out well, then wash the sole to soften it and scrape it all over to see if the horse h'as picked up a nail or punctured the sole with a sharp stone. If any wound is found, pare down the sole about it and make a free opening down to the “quick" to allow the escape of any pus that may form. The next thing to do is to render the wound thoroughly aseptic, and the usual agent is carbolic acid. While a 5 per cent, solution is strong enough to use as a lotion, we use a 10 per cent, solution on hoof wounds, as this strength slightly cauterizes the sore and is sure to kill ail germs of d.s ease. After the application of the 10 per cent, wtash the wound with hot water and apply the usual 5 per cent, solution of carbolic acid three ■times a day. Never plug up a nail wound with tar, but kep if open and use the carbolic acid solution as di rected.” English Farmers Giving Up Grain Raising.—The area devoted to the wheat crop in Great Britain has de creased about 13 per cent, as compared with last year. The barley crop also shows a decrease in acreage. A part of the land withdrawn from wheat and barley has been devoted to the oat crop, but the total acreage of all three crops is the lowest recorded since the official returns were first issued, thir ty-six years ago, and is 111 acres less than last year’s total. Some of the land withdrawn from the grain crops have been devoted to specialties, such as fruits, flowers and vegetables, while other areas have been turned into parks, pasturage and mowing. Poultry and Orchards.—lt is fre quently asserted that orcharding and poultry raising go together. This per haps is true on a small scale, but we can hardly conceive of a great com mercial orchard comprising hundreds of acres of land being made also a poultry range. In such a case the com bination would be overdone, as the shade from the trees, being constant, would militate against the health of the fowls. On a small scale the -com bination is a happy -one. The bugs and worms are eaten by the fowls and the grass forms a handy adjunct to the feeding operations. The grass is not wanted anyway In the orchard, and if the poultry can keep it down so much the better. It will then not be necessary to even run the weeder over the ground to keep the weeds from be coming a nuisance. The plum orchard is a very good kind of orchard in which to keep poul try, as the limbs of the trees do not shut off too much sun from the birds. We have seen poultry yards of small size, in each one of which was a sin gle plum tree growing and thriving. There is no reason why trees in such locations should not prove to be very fruitful. They are certainly sure of not becoming grass-bound. Electroculture.—Electrocutture is a somewhat new word in our agricul ture. It means the science of mak ing plants grow by the help of elec tricity. Little experimentation has been done in this line on the American con tinent, except by growing plants In the glare of electric lights. But in Eu rope the matter Is receiving a good deal of attention, the electricity being applied there directly to the plants in various ways. In France pamphlets are being published' on the results. Under the intensive agriculture fol lowed near the great capitals of Eu rope the acceleration of growth means a. great deal. Some of the land under glass near Paris rents for 2,000 francs per acre per year. It is evident that it is a very important matter to be able to increase the production only a little. In the United States it is at present different, and we are not yet driven to applying electricity to the growing of farm crops. The results obtained in Europe are interesting though not extraordinary. Many plants grew more rapidly when the soil was supplied with electricity nnd in some cases the seed germi nated much more quickly. Thus peas sown in ground that was supplied artificially with electricity germinated in tivo and a half days, while without being supplied with electricity they germinated in four days. It was found that an induction current caused the most rapid growth of the plant, while with the continuous current the yield was larger. So one kind of a current would be needed for lettuce and an other for peas. ~T, he , French scientists do not find it difficult to get very good results, but say that they are unable to overcome the obstacle in the way in the cost of electricity. Therefore electroculture is as yet not a practical science The question of profit cannot be yet con sidered, that depending on a greatly . reduced cost of making electricity. Pear and Apple Blight.—ln the case of pear blight, and apple twig blight and quince blight—all essentially the same, though the latter two are less vir ulent than the former, too much em phasis cannot be placed on the immedi ate cutting and burning of the branches which, by the turning black of the leaves, show the presence of the blight. And this cutting should be done in the healthy wood, five or six inches below the affected branch, in orde.r (1) to be certain of removing all the diseased wood, and (2) to keep the knife, or saw, from becoming infected. For the instrument which has cut into blighted wood will carry the blight to a per fectly healthy branch, if it Is used to cut into it without being disinfected. This disinfection, when necessary, should never be omitted. The simplest method probably, is to pass it a num ber of times through the flame of a lighted lamp. When done carefully, the temper will not be lnlured. How to Feed Corn to Hogs.—While the majority of farmers who have a range for their hogs during the sum mer cut off the corn supply almost en tirely, it is questionable if this is the best plan. On the other hand, it will not do to feed corn entirely. In feeding corn to pigs the best re sults come when it Is given to them once a day if they have grass to run on during the day, or if they have skim milk or middlings once a day. Gluten meal may take the place of the middlings if desired; It will do quite as much good and is cheaper. There is no question about the value of corn at the fattening period, but mistakes are sometimes made here In feeding the hog too long; that is, after it has reached about the top notch for market. Corn fed,beyond that period is simply wasted. Horse Colic and Its Cure —“One of the most fruitful causes of colic Is the too common habit of allowing horses to partake of large draughts of water Immediately after finishing a feed of oats. There is no surer way of gen- i crating an attack of colic titan this, j the reason being that when a large quantity of water is thus Imbibed It has the effect of carrying with it out of the stomach and Into the inteatlnea some of the freshly eaten grain. This grain, being still In a raw and undi gested condition. Its effect when It reach** the Intestines Is to give rise to Irritation and Inflammation, which are the immediate cause of the colic. In dealing with rts*s of this kind the most obvious course to adopt is to take precaution* to prevent Ih* anl- 1 mala from drinking large qttaiitlties of water under the circumstances Just referred to. When an animal falls a victim to an attack of colic Ik* best Continued us ksvenlb I* age- CORN THE CROP OF THANKSGIVING MAKES THE DAY GLAD OR SAD. PRODUCTS OF CORJf SUPPORT A THOUSAND INDUSTRJES. From #le Rnildlnu of a Battleship to the Making of a Child's Rubber ball—America's Cora Crop Nearly Four Times as Large as That ot the Rest of the World Pat Togeth er—lllinois the Greatest Cora State—The Value of Its Yearly Crop Far Exceeds the Combined National Revenue of Sixteen Re publics. By John H. Machray. Chicago, Nov. 19.—0f all the fruits of the earth and the blessings of Providence for which a good American gives thanks on the day appointed by the Chief Executive, corn ranks first and foremost. It is the greatest of American crops, the typical American crop. On corn the prosperity of the United States depends in a larger measure than it does upon any other single article. Corn vitalizes a thou sand industries, and affects in some degree almost every nerve and sinew of the commonwealth. If the corn crop is bad, Thanksgiving Day seems a hollow mockery to mil lions; if it is good, Thanksgiving Day is the heartiest of festivals. It may well be so. The corn crop of 1902 throughout the United States amounted to 2,523,648,000 bushels; while the corn crop of all the rest of the world put. together only totaled 659,- 162,000 bushels. This is the latest com parison available, the statistics of the corn crop of 1903 for the world, exclu sive of America, not having been com plied. The Greatest Cora State. The state of Illinois—the greatest corn-growing state in the Union—alone produced during 1902 a great deal more than half as much corn as the whole of Europe—namely 264,057,431 bushels as compared with 422,526,000 bushels. The total production of South America, Africa and Australasia was not much more than half of that of Illinois. Australasia produced 7,- 847,000 bushels. No fewer than twen ty-six American states and two terri tories individually did better than that. The American corn crop of 1903 was harvested from over eighty-eight mil lions of acres; or 137,500 square miles. This area Is much larger than the whole of Great Britain, or Italy and Greece put together, and more than twice as large as European Turkey. Close to a Hillion Dollar*. The value of the 1903 crop was esti mated by the Department of Agricul ture at close on a billion dollars, but that was only the direct value of the crop when harvested and sold or awaiting sale in the farmers’ hands. It took no account of the many other uses to which corn is put. For ex ample, the live stock industry of the United States, which, with all its countless ramifications, is by far the greatest industry of its kind in the world, is very largely dependent on the corn crop. It has been estimated that over 5,000,000 sheep and 12,000,000 beef steers are fattened in the great corn belt which has Springfield, 111., for its center. And then there are chickens, hogs and dairy cows innu merable. Illinois’ corn last year was worth more than ninety-five millions of dol lars—about one-tenth the value of the crop, and about S2O for every man, woman and child in the state. lowa came net with a crop worth over $87,000,000. That is more than the national revenue of either Austria- Hungary, China, Canada, Belgium, or the whole of the British colonies, ex cluding Canada, India and Australasia. It far exceeds the combined revenue of Sweden, Switzerland and Norway. Outvalue* Revenue* of Republte*. The state of Illinois gets far more money for its corn crop than the combined revenues of all the Latin- American governments, except the four most important ones—Mexico, Chile, Argentina and Brazil. Take the sixteen sovereign republics of Hayti, Santo Domingo, Salvador, Costa Rica. Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecu ador, Peru, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bo livia, Cuba and Panama, and you will find that their national revenues do not exceed seventy millions of dol lars annually. Illinois gets twenty five millions of dollars more for her corn crop. And it must be remembered that all this vast wealth is of recent creation. As late as 1859, the United States imported corn from England, but the great extension of maize growing in the Middle West and the South soon made that forever impossible again. But 1879 Illinois was producing 105 bushels per head of its population, and since then the corn production has increased by leaps and bounds. Wyoming now comes lowest on the list of the states and territories in the matter of com. Its crop in 1903 amounted to the mere trifle of 45,784 bushels, but that was larger than the production of many of the sovereign Powers o! Europe. Great Corn Growing State. Illinois, lowa, Kansas, Nebraska, In diana, Missouri and Ohio are the great est corn-producing states; tout it must be borne in mind that the corn crop, apart even from its food value and its Importance as a vitalizer of the money market, is the sovereign consideration In manufacturing centers throughout this broad land. It has been well said that “com permeates the industrial fabric.” It furnishes the raw material for a thousand Industries. It is used in the building of a battleship and in the making of a child’s rubber ball. There is no staple of which the by products are more numerous and valu able. Nearly all of the long array of breakfast foods, served to us in so many disguises nowadays, consist In reality of com. So do an Infinite num ber of jellies, meals, starches, syrups, caramels, gumdrops, and other eat ables. Into which glucose, starch and other properties of corn largely enter. Cellulose, which Is a by-product of com, is used for packing the coffer dams of battleships, and the navies of Constipation, ft* Cause and Curt. A person in order to be healthy must get rid of the waste product* (or poisons) of the body. Nature has provided four way* to get rid of them; The Bowel*, the Kidney*, the Bladder and the pores of the Skin. If the bowel* become inactive, that portion of the food which should be thrown off lies In tbs Intestine* and decompose*, causing blood, nerve, liver and kidney trouble, and rlosas the porea of the akin, thus cresting dthsase in the entire system. You can Immediately relieve and permanently cure yourself of stubborn constipation or dis tressing stomach trouble and i*i tartly regulate your kldoet • and liver by taking on* dose a da> of IHMKK 6 PALMETTO WINK. Any reader of this i■*!■*'r ran secure absolutely fra* a bottle by writing to Drake Formula Cos.. Drake liuiid mi, Chisago A fillU! trial bottle alone baa brought beaitt sod vigor to lussy, so you owa it to ye'll self is bcove whs'. It will do In pour csss. Witt* tbs wgaoy Otis v.r# 4a#. HIDES. WAX. FURS. SKINS. Highest Market Prices Paid. A. EHRLICH & PRO,, Wholesale Grocers and Liquor Dealers THE CHASMAR KINO SUPPLY CO^T 126-130 Bay Street. West JOBBERS. FIXTURES. SANITARY PLUMBING GOODS, WROUGHT HiON PII E FTITINGS. etc. All supplies for STEAM. WATER and GAS, Sole Agents for the celebrated Hl’Xli EY VALVES. “ Wool, Hides, Wax, ‘Raw Furs and Skins, Write for Prices. D. KIRKLAND, <lls TO 421 ST. JU I,IAN STREET, WEST. ' FINE FURNITURE Not for many seasons has there been such a demand for the finer qualities in housefurnishings. This de mand finds a ready welcome with us, as our stock is made up of what is best in the furniture and carpet world. The tasty buyer will find right styles in the fine line we show in SOLID MAHOGANY DRESSER ’ CHIFFONIERS SIDEBOARDS AND DINING TABLES BRASS BEDS. LADIES’ DESKS. PARLOR FURNITURE. RUGS AND DRAPERIES. This week a lot of Wicker Work Baskets, £i.so value for 98c. LINDSAY & MORGAN KALO LA (Crystallized Mineral Water) Nature’s Perfect Harmless Remedy. Cures by removing the cause of disease. Hundreds of voluntary testimonials by home people, among whom is numbered Mr. B. Dub, the popular pro prietor of Screven House, this city. Kalola restores the weak and feeble to perfect health and vigor by giving*strength and appetite. "TakeKalola Six Days and Eat Anything You Want." Not equaled as a morning laxative. Recommended by physicians and all who try it. For sale by all druggists, 50c and SI.OO. KALOLA COMPANY, 23-21 Bay Street, West, ..... Savannah, Ga. BELL PHONE 2173 - BOARDTRADE BLDG. the world would find it hard to get along without it or to get an equally satisfactory substitute. The wine and beer trades depend upon corn for their raw material to an extent that would surprise the layman. Germinated brewer's meal comes from corn, and who has not heard of the famous “c’on whisky?” Americans have carried it right round the globe, like the corncob pine. • Corn In Medicines. When the doctor prescribes medicine for you it is a safe bet that a large proportion of the Ingredients come from corn. When you ride your automobile or your cycle you are under an obli gation to the corn crop, for a compo sition of rubber is now made from corn, and is largely used in place of the real article from the forests of South America. When you buy a gaily-colored shirt or print frock you may be pretty sure that the coloring matter for it has been obtained from cqrn. The list of by-products might be lengthened almost indefinitely. Mil lions of whirring factory wheels would have to stop running for lack of raw material If. for any reason, the corn crop utterly failed, and millions upon millions of operators would be out of work. Corn ns Fnel. Out on the wide, treeless plains of the West, in Kansas and Nebraska, It was the custom, until recent years, to burn corn for fuel. In many places, when it was down to ten or fifteen cents a bushel, It was cheaper to grow it for this purpose than to transport any other kind of fuel that was avail able. A hundred bushela were reckoned equal in heating power to a cord of the best hard wood. But corn has ceased to be used for - this purpose, even on the Western prairies, since Its rise In price In recent years. More than with most other crops, the problem of transportation plays a supremely important part in the cal culations of the American corn grower nnd com buyer. A bushel of corn has usually to be carried many hundreds of miles by railway before it can be put on a lake steamer at Duluth nr an ocean-going vessel at one of the ports on the Atlantic or the Paciflo seaboard. And then It haa to ha trans ported thousand* of mil** to tfaa mar kets of Europe or the Far East, as the case may be. It may well hap pen that before it reaches its destina tion the original price of the bushel has been mere than doubled by the cost of transportation. ’Frisco's Corn Kxpnrta. At San Francisco an Immense ship ping is required every year to carry away the corn crop that comes pour ing into that busy city. The available tonnage varies largely from year to year, and there is annually much spec ulation there, which turns mainly on the rates of freight. These vary •with the supply, In some years, all the way from sl4 to sl9 a ton; and great for tunes may be lost or made in a day in San Francisco simply by speculating in the perplexing problem of the transportation of corn. It is not generally known that there are more than three hundred varieties of corn, and that they differ among themselves more than those of any other cereal. Some comes to maturity in two months; others in seven months. Some are as many feet high as others are Inches; some have ker nels eleven times larger than others. Mut of all these varieties, only three are common and widely grown—the “Flint,” east of Lake Erie and north of Maryland; the "Dent,” south and west of those points; and the “Hore tooth” in the South, where It grows along with the "Dent.” "Green" corn, the great American delicacy of to-day, was a most im portant article of food among the North American Indians In their prime, and many tribes celebrated Its season by religious festivals and elaborate thanksgiving ceremonials. The white Ajnerlcan of to-day only follows the example of the-red Ameri can of yesterday In giving thanks for corn first nnd foremost of all the fruits of the earth. Corn Is still, a* it was then, the bulwark of the social order, the mainspring of industry, the creator and suatalner of civilization. I.anther ('Hr Seltaol House flamed. Lumber City, Gu., Nov. 20.—'The school building here and sit its fur nishings was destroyed by lire last night at 10 o’clock. Ths origin of ths firs is unknown. Ths loss la $,009, partially covsrad by iuauruua.