Georgia Historic Newspapers

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Rheumatism
SEW ORLEANS, April 10. 1897.
IK RAT'WAY * CO.—
1 have been a »u:»er»r from Rheumatism for
mere tian six maatte. I coJll tea raise my
han's Io my head or put my hands behind tne.
ot even take off my own shirt. Before I had'
finished three-fwrths of a »t»le of Radway’s
R<ady Relief I o.uli my arms as well as
ever. You can see why I ha.e ouch great faith
in your RcMeC Your* truly. W. C. BAKER.
I tgir«-er at A JI ’nt !mo’s Root and Shoe Fac
tory. 939 Julia St- _____
RMNb
. . •; i .» itel-.-C is a owe cure («r ev
<ry I’.i.n. . praias. l;ral*s. Fains In the Back,
c l <»i an.l IJmt-
Tik n inwardly th re is rot a remedial agent
in the world th it will cure Fever and A*u-- and
al: other ma»~."tous. bilious and other fevers,
aided bv RAI»XV.xVS PILLS so quickly as
RAlrtl XT’S READY REIJEF.
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TEl.lz* now.
ft wfilleterewt ar.d pease row I know It win. It'S
tree. Write t .Uy- the h :e-y aennoa's earning.
J. M. JEMiDn wfti vipm a. ai.a-
WANTED.
Scap Iron. Dry Dones. Rajcs, Old
Brass. Copper. Zinc. Pewter, I.cad.
Etc., Hides, Tallow and Feathers.
!r .c I imished upon application*
Refer to this paper or any bank or
whole'.lie house in Atlanta.
EDW. 0. MILES & CO..
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res.s.. raw THE CONSTrrttTtnN.
Atlanta, Qa. I
Farms and Farmers
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THE CONSTITUTION.
(F. and F. Department.)
FERTILIZING COWPEAS.
In Inst week’s article tinder the hc.ul
••f “Plant Cowpeas,” nothing was snl<!
alto’ll fertilizin", and I was r. in!n<le<l of
the emission on readlnif ihe cycel’ent arti
cle elsewhere front the pen of Professor
Mass. y. to which the careful attention
of r. a.lers is directed. Many farmers ara
p-.'idv to express surprise at the sugfics
tion that the cowp'-i may he profitably
fertiliz'd. This surprise is probably due
to the fact that It has lieen considered i
that the c< wp< i Is a poor land plant.
The saying "too poor to sprout cowpeas"
ha»- b.-. n |on< used as expressively de- I
scriptlve of a poor s■»!!. the Idea conveyed
Iw-lng that the cowpea will grow In the
very p • >r. st soil. The necessary Infer
ence Is that It would be f 11 v to fertilize
a plant that will grow on the poorest
soil. Hut the cuwpea is by no means the
only plant that will gr ixv on a very poor
soil. On nearly « very farm In the uplands
of the sotfih mav be found wheat, pats,
corn. iton. potatoes, etc., growing on
Very poor soil. The teal and tieculfar fact
about the co-.vp._-a Is that It can procure
from the atmosphere one of the most ,
exp-nsive as well as most Indispensable j
e!< r-.ents of plant food. viz. nitrogen. This i
P -wer of extracting nitr -gen from the
air is not tiossessed at all. or In only a
■lml'.cd dt-ftree, by the other crops of the
farm. On a poor soil the most important
element of plant food required bv cotton,
c Tn. or small grain Is phosphoric add.
It is tiie dominant for nearly’every spe
cies of plants. The next tn importance
is nitrogen; and the last is potash, the I
last two changing plans In the order of j
importance In the case of sonic crops and j
on some soils. \\ hen we f< rtilize those
other crops we think of acid ph sphste. I
the first thing, as supplying phosphoric i
acid. Next we add nitrogen, sav in the '
form of cotton meal, or Uriel blood, or I
tankage, and this is the most expensive
fertilizing element that th- farmer buys.
Hut the cowpea does not r«<iuire the ]
application f nitrogen, it can help Itself I
from tlie air that surrounds its foliage
and that circulates through the soil. This
Is. therefore, the reason why the cowpea
thrives better on a poor soil than does
corn, cotton nr portatoes. It is not l> -eaus«
the cowpea does not just as imperatively
require nitrogen in the formation of its j
tissues as corn or cotton, but because I
It i an forage ui the air for tills elenient. I
Corn and evtton cannot secure the needed
nitrogen from the air. Hence we are
forced t > supplv it !>v the application of a 1
fertilizer containing it.
So far from not requiring nitrogen in '
priHiucing its vines anu fruit, tne cowjiea i
re.tu.res even more than is needful tor I
. rn and evttoo, as hi fully nr ven by the
anaiys.-s of the respective crops. The I
cowp-a. both in vine and fruit. Is esp.vlal
!v rich in nitrogen.
it is this very faculty <>f tlv cowpea— j
I«.s— ’.d in comm-'ii with the < ’overs. •
i w ■ • d. velvei
vet. hi-s and other leguminous plants—that i
luakis it such a valuable plant, that gives j
tie chief value of ail these legumes,
I have sa.’d th it phosphoric acid is
the ’’dominant" for most plants. *t is
•-specially to in th.- case of the cowpva.
C..l.'fully conducted experiments have
ii.n made and the results show that on <
in st clay soils, or o:tk and h'ckory soils,
phosphoric ac'.i !< all that is needed. On
sandy and plney woods soil a variable
proportion of potash may be necessary is
generally ne’essary. <»n ordinary up
lands m’xed clay and gray soils I would !
apply ?•’ t-» 2S>* pounds jn-r acre of any |
high grade acid phosphate. I’robably ;
|h:uu<l* per 3‘Tc would too much i
for pr.eit.ilde results. On sandy plney •
w ...I - aoiht, -X'ld on verj von licht soils |
ill the oak and hickory regions. I would i
add about twenty-live pounds of muriate
of i...t;ish. <.r W» pounds of kainlt. Every |
tarni.T max determine by actual .Xpert- i
ment whether il would pay to apply pot
ash In any form on his particular soil.
*
No "fnr.. r should li.-slt ite in regard to
the expedb ncy of applying acid phosphate j
to th s crop. If an acre of thin land wiki t
produce »n-h ilf ton of avlne hay .
without fertilizer, and the application of
_••• ;-.und~ of acid phosphate, would in
erva-c tiie yield to one ton of hay, no
furth.-r •■ali'iilating would be necessary.
And I Isdiev. that such a difference not
an unrc.tsonable improbable r. 'u.t.
Morcox. r in addition to the value of the
extra half’ton of hay the soil itself will
I* In a bctt.-r condition for a following
crop of wheal, or cotton —possibly enough
’.-iter to nay for the 81.59 worth of acid
•sidiate! il. J. REODINU.
CHEAT.
I have received quite n number of spec
imens of grrrine ••cheat” from readers
in r.*sponso to my request. In only on«
Blood Troubles? “
As the blood contains all the elements necessary to snstain life, it is impor-
it it l»e kept free of all u i;hi. ities, or it becomes a aouive of disease, Ma® r
r ...m:.!- instead of nourishing the hotly, and loss of health is sure to follow.
. ions enter the blood from without, through the skin by absorption, or
inoculation : ethers from within, as when waste products accumulate in the „
st item and torment, allowing disease genus to develop and be taken into the
circulation. While all blood troubles have one common origin, each has some h '
1 ilinritv to distinguish it from the other. Contagious Blood Poison. Scrofula, RE fl fl*
Cancer. Rheumatism, Eczema and other blood diseases can be distinguished by S3S<.9
a certain *ore, ulcer, eruption or inflammation appearing on the skin. Every , . . . rcs i stance .
disease *iiows sooner or later on the outside and on the weakest part oV the body, mwhere ,t finds
Many mistake the sore or outward sign for the real disease, and attempt a cure by the use •
external applications. Valuable time is lost and no permanent Ikuiefit derived from such treatm .
BLOOD TROUBLES REQUIRE BLOOD REMEDIES; the poison must »*
nentlv eradicated the blood reinforced, purified and cleansed, or the disease goes deeper and ..J - ’. * • sma ij
potash and arsenic, the treatment usually prescribed in this class of d seases, are violent P o **™*''J« en taken la SmaU
ES“- .ever cure, but.!« much Wn. b,- .be a iS ca» in
X”’ the Wood, antidotes and forces out all impurities, makes weak thin blood
J and healthy, and at the same time builds un the general h ;. alt t h ’ n S r^’ ®
-4 V purely vegetable blood purifier known, and the only one that can reach 1 p’•
blood troubles. A recoM of 5« vears of successful cures proves it to be a reliable,
. unfailing specific for all blood and skin troubles.
r.fzx- Frao Medical Treatment. Department is; in c ’’ ar ßs°*
& y 7 skilled physicians, who have made blood and skin diseases .1 life study, .
Contagious Blood Poison, Cancer, Scrofula, Rheumatism, Eczema, an Old bore or Ulcer,
or any similar blood trouble, write them fully for advice about your case. All cotTespon' erne ’ gpr'e'icin 1 co” Atlanta. Ga.
deuce. We make uo charge for this service. Book on blood and skin diseases free. SWIFT SrtLlr IL LU., Atlanta, ms.
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: ATLANTA, G-A., MONDAY, »TUNE 4, 1900.
or two cases is the belief expressed that
the cheat sprang from wheat or oat see.l.
Hut not a specimen so fir was ripe
enough for the seed to germinate. But
never mind. lam finding plenty of cheat
in our oats and will save seed with which
to experiment next year, and expect some
interesting results. I am saving letters
for future use and consideration.
Meanwhile, will some toll me how to
prepare the land or what treatment to
subject the seed or the plants to. In order
to cause wheat or oat seed to produce
cheat? R. J- R-
FARM CORRESPONDENCE.
Cough and “Humor” in the Blood.
To J. F. Betsill, Cross Keys, 8. C. I I
do not now recall the ease of the mare.
Rub the stiff and sore parts with a lo
tion of one-half ounce of acetate of lead
dissolved in one quart of water. Hold
tile nose of the young horse over a pall
of boiling water on the surface of which
you have placed one ounce of spirits
of turpentine, tiftcen minutes at a time
three or four tlni' s a day, wrapping a
cloth around the pail and tiie nose to keep
in the vapors. The itching is probably
caused by mange or by lice.
Moles, Peas After Oats.
Allen Reid. Temple. Miss.—i wish to
knoxx - what will destroy moles in a gar
den. 1 wish to also know which would
lie the b’-st way to plant peas alter oats
on good loam l»ottoin land; whether to
' plant them in rows or broadcast.
Answer—Traps are good for catching
moles, the kind called ••deadfall," or a
thick board with long sharp steel spikes
projecting four or live inches, and set
over the run. Press the foot down In
one place so as to close tin’ runway, set
! the trap so that the long trigger will
j He just over the pressed place, and so
that the spikes will penetrate the run
' way. <’r poison some corn, first soaking
it In water to soften it, then raise a little
tlap on the heart side of cnch grain and
Insert a little arsenic. Prop a grain
iiere and there in the runway through a
hole made with a smooth stick.
Castration —A Bad Job.
J. T. Means, Ida, La.- I had a horse
affected a 1 follov, ; Was thr'e years old,
trated thre< «■■■•.■ n■• . u M w• h
for one week afterwards; no swelling at
all Five or six days later was swelled
in an awful shape about flanks and belly. I
Swelling kept getting worse and going
t forward till large lumps come over each ,
I eve and under lireast. Horse tiled sliort-
I ly after swelling r< ach' d ids head. Can
i you tell me what the trouble was and
what could have saved him? Was in ,
this condition about one week.
Answer—l think it altogetlu r probable ;
that the cause of the failure of the oper
ation was due to unclean hands and in
struments, tilth' stable or unskillful ma
nipulation. resulting in blood poisoning.
It may also lie caused by an unhealthy
j state of tiie system.
Spasmodic Colic.
. To J. T. Means, Ida. I .a. I I think it
I probable that tiie mare had spadsniodto
I colic, in which there is no sweling, end- j
. Ing In tympanitic colic.
Stand of Cotton.
| To B. A. Morris. Monticello, Fla.: I j
I think it probable that the land you <le- |
I scribe needs to be underdrained. You j
I say you now have It jilant' jl in cotton
I two rows ami pindars one row, and the
cotton Is fertilized with 150 pounds of
add phosphate and kainlt per three
quarters acre. You ask if it would be
best to leave two stalks in a hill every
twelve or fourteen Inches, or thin to
I' one stalk, or chop out every other hill.
By preference 1 would have only one .
.•■■talk in a place every ten or twelve in- |
dies. One stalk every txvelve inches will i
I produce more than two stalks •■very twi-n-
I ty-four inches.
Rut you have not indicated how much
1 each of add phosphate ami kainlt are
loiitafned in the !.>• pounds; and where I
I is your nitrogen to come from the soil? j
i’avld Dickson was a good farmer but ,
he was not always right in practice, and .
it was a big mistake to plant ids cotton
in wide four toot rows and crowd it in ,
the drill. Cotton 3x2 xvili make more
j than it planted Cultivate shallow
, all the time.
Leucorrhea of Mare.
L. it i;. ri. . Red Hill, Ala. I have a ;
mare about twelve years old; she has j
s unething like a female disease. I put i
tier to jack this spring, but quit putting. |
She h'is discharged from vagina at times i
Ilk • uuttermllk of a bad smell; makes
water often like In heat; she gets weak
I in spills; ajipetd" very good, in g oil or
der She has ft by sj>el|s Sometimes her
water wi'l run from her without aid.
Never brought a colt as known. Owned
her three years.
Answer —It Is quite evident that v"ur |
; mare has the dls< ise known as leueor- 1
rhea, or "whites.” due to any one of .
several causes, old age being one. Inject ]
I into the vaginal canal warm water to :
: cleanse it. Thea Inject a little of u solu- |
t.on y f half ounce of sulphate of zinc. I
; half ounce of carbolic acid, one quart of I
i water. Repeat the cleansing and the lo- (
I tion once a day. if there are ulcers they |
I should b'- t >uched with nitrate of silver 1
■ every second da.\ until healthy. If th'- lo- i
j tion at» .ve described does not prove |
promptly effective change to a solution ot i
two ounces of peroxide of hydrogen in
four ounces of water. Inject at onee and
repeat every day. Oive her twice a day in
a bran mash two drams of copperas and
J half dram of nux vomica for two or three
! weeks.
Sorghum Hay.
John Nicholes.—l notice in The Consti
tution of recent issue that you recom
mend only two bushels of sorghum seed
Iter acre for hay. I have found that
amount to be sufficient unless the hay Is
to l>" baled. In w hich case 1 do not believe
that four bushels is too much. Last sea
son I sowed that amount and the straw
was small and pliant and no trouble to
ml] up ami fe< d to the press. Around the
edges of the patch the stalks grew so
large that it was tr ’tblesome to feed. I |
cannot understand how sorghum can be j
of more feeding value when young than
after it heads and the sugar begins to
form in the stalk I have fed sorghum
for a number of years and have always I
b'-en. and am still, under the impression |
that the sugar in the stalk was the most
• valuable food element. But 1 see that
Hon. R. W. Thatcher, of the Nebraska
experiment station shows by analyses
that the feeding value Is greater when
the sorghum ts only two feet high. Does
he mean by this that it would be more
valuable at that stage for work stock
and hogs?
Answer—T gave the average amount of
sorghum used for seeding. I have little
doubt that your idea is more nearly cor
rect. A recent Texas correspondent sow
ed as much as eight bushels ot seed per
acre. When sown thickly the develop
ment of sugar is very inconsiderable In
the early stages and the starch content
is fully equal in nutritive value to the su
gar into which it is later converted, the
chemical constitution being very nearly
identical, while the protein forms of food
elements are present in greater ue.rcent
age in the earlier stage. Mind you. the
comparison <>f Professor Thatcher is be
tween the younger stage and the stage in
which the seeds .are ripe.
Spavined Mule.
J. J. M., Blount. Ga.—l have a mule
that has a spavin knot on her left leg; Is
there anything that will move it? It has
been there al»otit two or three years; does
n t bother about work, only when she Is
worked verv hard. She is a little lame
next morning.
Answer—Assuming that it is a spavin
(for you do not describe it) 1 will say that
a number of eases of bone spavin can te
cured if taken in hand In time, especially
if the enlargement is low down and not
immediately.on the hock joint. Give com
plete rest until soreness has subsided;
tiii’n make a blister ointment by mixing
together two mams of canthai’ides, one
dram of binlodide of mercury and two
of lard. Rub in a little with the
ling< rs; let it remain twenty-four hours
and then w ish off ami grease with a little
lard. Repeat every second week until
three or tour blisters have been raised.
Give al least three months’ rest. If the
above treatment does not cure resort may
be had to tiring it with a hot Iron, which
will be describ'd when desired.
Gangrenous Quinsy.
L. D. Mcßrayer, Decora, Ga. —Please tell
mo wh.it is tiie matter wjtli my pigs ami
all the pigs In this .■■• et on. Pigs.from two
to three months old are nearly all slek
and a good many of them have died. I
tliought at the star? mine had cholera.
We give them bluestone, turpentine and
lye soap. Some of them have got better
ami some have died. They would take
something like a bad cold In a person.
They would cough ami xvheezo. Their
< yes Would close Up HRo a person with
tiie sore eyes. Before they die you could
hear them getting their breath for some
distance and pant like a lizard In the hot
sunshine, ami their ears would begin to
I»mi1 off. What Is the disease? and what
is tin r> tm ly? Tl .!! ■ tse seema to ii»
more prevalent among small pigs.
Answer—lt Is probable that the disease
Is a malignant form of quinsy, called
gangrenous quinsy. In the early stage
give to each Log t grains potasso-tartrate
of antimony, li grains of white hellebore,
mix and give in food, or throw it into
Hi back part of the mouth. For pigs
two to four months old use half the
stnove. Put 1 drain of chlorate of potash
in the water onee a day for each ani
mal. Separate the well lings and give
etch one-half dram of hyposulphite of
soda once a ilny lor a week In drinking
water.
Grass Staggers.
To 1,. D. Meßrt! er. Decora. Ga.—l think
It j s possible that your cow had an at
tack of indigestion of tiie form called
"grass staggers. ’ whereby the brain was
somewhat affected by reflex action. The
treatment Is aromatic and demulcent
drenches, such a ginger and flaxseed tea:
:,l<o I.oil 2 ounc of chamomile llowe’-s
2’l minutes in a quart of water, and when
cool gix'en at one dose thr*e times a day.
!•' constipated give i pound salts, *4 ounce
aloes, 1 ounce ginger, 1 dram powdered
nuxvomiea, ounce fluid extract beila
donna.
Eight Questions.
"W.” N< wIH-rry County, S. C. —1. Will
cheat’, mowed down ami cured, do to feed
a milch cow. I have been told it would
kill them. <1 mean, to cut the cheat while
it is green.)
I have a cow that eats well and bow
els net regiibtr, but she seems to drtig her
hirnl legs when walking, and when lying
down do’S not want t > get up. Seems to
have a pain in the thigh. Do you think it
rheumatism? She seems to iiave symp
toms of it.
3 is Paris green injurious to put it on
potato vim s to kill th ■ Colorado beetle;
that is. will it penetrate to th'- potato in
the ground and poi n the potato. I
have tried lime, but it does not have the
' 'j '[ have seen several horses lately with
n disease that is calle 1 pink eye. Is It.
contagious ami does it prove gene
rally? . .
5 I notice a great many apple trees
that the leaves are all turning a yellow
cast and upon examination they qj-e to
tally' cover' ■! over with small yellow spots
or bumps. Is it blight, rust or an insect
Dial causes it and will those leaves fall
off ami new ones come?
G Will pasturing a falla or lucerne
kill it. , , ,
7 Is there such a thing as male and
female trees? 1 have I Jap persimmon.
It Is t. n or twelve years old. and has
never had any fruit on it. Some parties
claim ft is a male tree, and say that is
tiie cause.
s’ 1 had a patch of two acres that was
full of wl’il onions anil I could not get rid
of them, and 1 plowed it up In the winter
with : Dixie Boy plow and sowed it heavy
in oats, put six or «• ven bushels ot seed
on it. and the onions disappeared. Did
the oats crowd them out ami kill them or
| lowing up the land in cohl weather do
Answer 1. Yes. cheat Is a grass, and
makes a tolerable hay. There is no harm
in it.
2. 1 do not think It is rheumatism, but
rather a mlltl attack of paraplegia, or
paralysis of the hit. 1 parts. It may be
caused by moldy so • 1. indigestion being
heavy with calf. In the latter case It is
due to compression of the nerves ami us
ually disappears afier calving. It may
also be occasioned by ergot poisoning, by
u blow on the spine.
3. I'aris green applied to the foliage of
potato plants will n t be absorbed at all
ami there will not be the slightest danger
from using the potatoes. After one good
rainfall there would be no harm in us
ing the tops for salad.
4. Pink eye is one of the names of spinal
meningitis, or eplzooty. a contagious and
infectious specific fever. It is also called
influenza and dost ly corresponds to la
grippe In man. It is generally fatal.
it is a species of leaf blight of which
there are several kinds. It Is not caused
by an insect. Inti by a fungus. The twigs
do not die as a rule.
fi. Lucerne does not bear close pasturing.
Indeed, it is better not to pasture it at
all.
7. Yes, some species of plants have the
Chill rg /
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THE BEST PRESCRIPTIOH IS
Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic.
The formula is plainly printed on every bottle—hence you
know just what you are taking when you take Grove s. Imitators
do not advertise their formula knowing that you would not buy
their medicine it you knew what it contained. Grove s contains
Iron and Quinine put up in correct proportions and is in a
form. The Iron acts as a tonic while the* Quinine drives the
malaria out of the system. Any reliable druggist will tell you that
Grove’s IS the Original and that all other so-called Tasteless
Chill Tonics are imitations. An analysis of other chill tonics shows
that Grove’s is superior to all others in every respect.
are- not experimenting when you take Grove s its superiority
and excellence having long been established. . Grove s is the
only Chill Cure sold throughout the entire malarial sections of
the United States. No Cure, No Pay. Price, 50c.
male flowers only on one tree, or plant,
and the female Hower on another. Such
plants are called diaeeiaus. Other spe
cies of plants have male flowers and J’e
male flowers on the same plant, as
melons, cucumbers, squashes, corn, etc.,
and these are called monaecious Still
others have perfect Howers, eaeli flower
containing both the male an»l female or
gans, such as cotton, beans ami peas,
peaches and other orchard fruits. rhe
persimmon is dlayclous.
8. It was doubtless the oats that xJkd
out tiie xvild onions.
t\Vhv not give your name and ad<lr» ss.
See rule 5, at head of this dep’v.’im m’).
Plants for Name.
To W. C. Wheeley, Txiws. N. C.—The
plant is p'tnpernella integerrlma. It be
loiil's to the parsley family, which fur
nishes sexetal medicinal plants, vis. an
irelfi i button snakeroot, carrot, etc., but
1 am not aware that th' genus punper
nella contains uny spec-es of economi
value.
Butterweed.
To D. Wheeler, Summerville, Ga. -The
plant of which you send a specimen i:
senecio iobatus, or butterweed. So fir as
I know it is good for nothing, being noth
ing but a weed.
Corn and Cotton in the Same Row.
The plan advised by "I.” Maysville.
Ga (he Goes not /<tve his nanx*;. o.
planting a hill of corn "every eight or
ten feet m each cotton row'’ is as "old as
the hills" and in my opinion has no merit
whatever. The belief that the corn would
not injur * the I'otton is cont iarx l•> ica.-oii
ami contrary to my experience ot more
thin thirty years ago. it was an old
dodge of the farmer who either had not
planted enough corn or hoped to make
a fe.x extra busli’l.t without injiux to
his cotton, but 1 have not seen a held of
cotton so planted In many rears. It w >um
1.0 much bvltfr to plow up a portion of
tiie cotton crop ami plant it in corn ami
pi as, or corn alone. (\<mr name next
time.)
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THE SOUTHERN COW PEA.
w F. Massey. In Farm and Record.
The* observant student of agricultural
progress cannot have failed to note the
advance that has bi.m made In recent
venrs in the cultivation of leguminous
plants for the feeding of cattle and the
hnprov. mint of the s-H. The il.’t.nmr.; -
tion of th.* agency which these plants
have in the fixation of " l,r, ’ k ' n J".
form of organic matter In th. sod, L
•one of the greatest aeeomp I-brn ’t- J
modern biological study. The fa. t th.
clover and some other plants did exert
a great Influence In Improving f'Ttil
itv of the soil was long known, but ho
they did It was a matter about wh eh
nothing wns knownunt
XnfTo V’ez™' ss by w.’ieh
legumes do acquire the n °
air through the ag< ney of micr.bis
ffig on thHr roots. But for the pracDeal
f irmer it is enough to know’ that th J
do Tt. Knowing the great good to th
soil which has been done In the north
through the use of clover, man) south
ern farmers have tried clover /rowing
with more or less success. lor ® ”
generally than success haxi ...
with elover In the south, particularly in
the cotton lands of the coast region prop
er And right there was where the ben
ellts of such a plant was most needed,
for the long, constant and clean culture
of cotton had so reduced the humus In
the soil that commercial fertilizers tali' d
to have the effect desired In their u.*e
and the soil suffered more seriously from
the effects of drought than when fresh
and fertile.
For generations the southern field or
cowpeas have grown In a desultory man
ner in the south, usually among corn
merely for the purpose of getting the peas
or for feeding hogs on the land after the
corn was off. Only In recent years have
the southern farmers begun to wake up
to the knowledge of the wonderful value
of the pea both as a forage plant and as
a soil Improver. Farmers who formerly
thought they were doing a good thing
for their land by letting it lie a year be
tween crops of cotton, growing up in all
manner of wee.ls and grass, have found
out that the most profitable way to rest
their land Is to cover it with peas Instead
of weeds, and thus get a valuable feed
crop when cured as hay. while the land
is improved In productive capacity for the
following crop. We are beginning to learn
that there Is no reason to regret the fact
that clover Is not a success in the south,
for we have at hand a plant fully adapted
to our climate, which will do all that clo
ver ran do for us, ami do In sixty to ninety
days what clover takes two years to ac
complish. It has fallen to my lot to take
an active part tn the battle for the pea,
and In urging on the southern farmer the
practicability, with Its aid. of Increasing
the fertility of his soil to the highest point
of productiveness without the purchase
of an ounce of nitrogenous fertilizers. The
cotton lands of the south, in the sandy
sections at least, need good supplies of
nitrogen, and this Is the most costly thing
to buy when bought in a commercial fer
tilizer. But the pea gives them this In
abundance, at the same time it is gixing
them the most valuable of stock foods. ,
The agitation that has been going on in
regard to the southern pea has attracted
ns much attention among the wide-awake
farmers in the northern states as in
the south. The introduction of early ma
turing varieties has enabled the northern
farmer to experiment with tiie southern
pea, and he, too, has found it is of Ines-
timable value, and that the "Clover of the
South” can well supplement the clover In
•ho north. Years ago It was thought that
the pea could not be made a success north
of Maryland and Delaware. But we have
I letters from farmers who have found it
I invaluable as far north as southern Ver
mont, northern Indiana and southern
. Michigan. Seed taken gradually from
south to north, as they will mature, have
enabled the plant to become acclimatized
much further north than was thought
possible a few years ago. Os course, it
reaches its greatest value and develop
ment in a warm climate and a sandy
soil. Few farmers supposed a few venrs
ago that the farmers of Illinois anil Mis
souri would be growing cow peas for
forage, and finding them a success. A
feeder of beef cattle for the export trade
In Missouri says that no food ho can got
will finish off a beef like the hay of the
cow poa.
Another mnn In Missouri whose business
is the raiclnp of thoroughbred horses.
! says there is no feed equal to cow’ pen hay
for finishing up a colt. From extensive
experiments at the station and among
farmers In the vicinity of the station, the
Mi sourl station advises the farmers of
i the state to grow cow peas for hay rather
than timothy. And yet the southern far-
■ mor has for years and generations been
regretting that he cannot grow hay in the
south as they do in the north, and lias
' accepted it as a faet that he cannot feed
cattle 1 cause of the lack of bay. With
the cow pea. which he can grow better
1 than it can be grown anywhere else, he
j can compete xvlth any part of the coun
i try in feeding cattle. If the Missouri
1 farmers find it mon 1 profitable to grow
row pea hay than timothy, it should be
■ found still more profitable to grow it in
1 the south where the pea is more at home.
' Our farmers have for years been exjier-
I imenting with various kinds of forage
riant-, such as eat tail millet. German
millet, teosinte. and ail the wee i that
have of late bfen sent out as forage
plants, while all the while they have had
in the pea a plant of surpassing excellence
for all the purposes of forage, while a
the same time it returns to the land more
than it takes away from it.
The wonder is t ot that the pea Is being
more extensively grown in the sou.h.
but that 11 has ever been neglect'd. But
it xvili not do to assume that the pea wt.
make any soil permanently fertile It
gives nitrogen-making humus, but in or
-1 der to do tills It needs feeding, for it
• Is a greedy consumer of phosphoric acid
I ami jHitash. We have for years urged
I upon the’ farmer the fact that by feed-
I ing the pea we can more rapidly increase
, the productiveness of our land than by
the short-sighted policy of applying fer
tilizers to the sale crop direct, ami buy-
I ing the nitrogen we could have gotten
j without cost and even at a profit. Appiy
! ing the cheaper forms of plant food to the
, pea crop we get a large increase in the
’ forage crop that is going to stay on tne
farm to be fed to animals. The more
stuck we feed and feed well the more
manure wo make at home and make t,i<
need for nitrogenous fertilizers still less.
Raising the richest of forage and feeding
it we will constantly be Increasing our
ability to fed as the productiveness ot
| the soil increases.
An increase in the pea crop must in
. variably be followed by an Increase in
j the crop that succeeds it, whither It be
I wheat, corn or cotton. Hence the feeding
of the pea and the increase of the for
age crop starts the Increase all around,
from tiie manure pile to the granary or
store houses, anil year by year it will go
on in an increasing ratio simply because
you feed the crop that feeds the land.
There has been a notion that it Is nec
essary to go to a great deal of trouble
to cure peas Into hay. The fact Is that
there is no hav more easily cured. Then
when the first pods turn yellow mow the
peas and after they have wilted during
the day rake them into windrows before
night. Turn the windrows over tiie next
day. The next day if you take a bunch
of the hay and give It a hard twist and
can see no sap run to the twist put the
hay away under shelter. A close barn
is best, but it will cure well enough under
shelter, or even in a stack. If the stack
Is capped by straw or grass that will
shed the rain. The wilted vines will heat
after storing and If you go to opening
them to cool them off you will certainly
make mouldy hay. but if left strictly
alone they will cure'into beautiful hay.
Seme have failed in this curing, but hun
dreds have succeeded. Where the hay is
very heavy it will have to be left out a
little longer than where light, but get it
in while the leaves are still limp or you
may lose the best part of the hay
B* ji the ,n ‘d foil Hate Alwavs Bought
——— ♦ 1
PRIME ON THE CROPS.
Season for Corn Has Been Very Dis
couraging.
New York Stockholder: Chicago. May 26.
The country has not experienced since the Ist
of Marell, 1900. a stngie consecutive week of
normal conditions. We hnve had a great deal
of cold, dry, as well as wet, backward weather.
Nearly everything we have done has been per
formed under great dtsadvantagss. Hence It
Is no wonder that the month of May came
to us with very little growth In anything ex
cept winter wheat and with crop prospects
generally not up to an average for the time
of the year. We ought at this season of the
year to be able to have some little idea of
what the country is going to get out ot its
grow ing season.
There Is one thing, however, which is abso
lutely certain, and that is that the prospects
for the winter wheat crop have run down very
decidedly during the month of May.
This situation has arisen almost entirely
from the development and ravages of the Hes
sian fly. The fly never’can be eradicated when
It has once found lodgment In the wheat ex
cept by change of crop. The present week has
witnesses a widespread development of the
Hessian fly very destructive in its effects. This
increases the area of damage very decidedly
from what it was thirty days ago.
In the southwest rains have been so genera!
during this month that the wheat has grown
very rank, which means a great deal of straw,
a light yield and poor quality of crop.
In the northwest we have been contending
greatly with dry weather. We can hardly call
it a drought yet, but unless we get rains next
week we shall see crop prospects running down
very penreptlhly in that area. There is no
part of the country where a surplus crop <f
grain is made where it is more difficult to get
at the real facts in the situation than in the
spring wheat belt.
The corn crop of the country Is not ail
planted. The season has l<een very discourag
ing and backward for getting the crop into th.
ground. In the most southern of th"
corn le-lt corn is being worked, but the ground
is generally so wet and weedy that the crop Is
npt showing up very well at the present time.
I look, how-ver. to aee tl cnq> in tbe
ground by the l«t of June, provided we have
no further setback or delas.
There are a good many points in the present
season similar to those in 1899 and if we can
make nny comparison and judge of final re
sults the prospects now, on practically the Ist
of June, would hardly Indicate an average
crop, except with very favorable condtti'ns
from now <n to the cb.se of the growing season.
As 1 have said recently, and repeat it now.
we are almost certain to have light receipts of
grain from now on until harvest.
At harvest I look for a free movement of
new winter wheat and at prices much better
than are ruling at the present time. St <s
of old winter wheat are so nearly exhaust- d
that a large percentage of the new crop wilt
go Into consumption at once and never reach
the Atlantic ports.
Fntil we know something more definite with
regard to the stand of corn and the growing
prospects for the eooatag erofk the m ment
of corn will be very light all summer. Prices
f- r e rn at home stii’. keep above thoee at pr i .
centers.
STOCKS GETTING SMALLER.
Likely To Continue So for Balance
of Season.
The IJ verpool correspondent of Th" Manches
ter Times, under date of May 12th. says:
"One of the points which Is coming into vi"w
Is that a fair proportion of the Liverpool stock
must now be owne-i by spinners. Merchants
have sob! cotton for forward delivery in very
many cases, and the result is that In many
grades and descriptions the available supply
offering is steadily diminishing. And as the
season advances this process Is likely to con
tinue as tiie stock gets smaller. Indeed, the
shipments from America to Great Britain are
still so very small as to show that an early
reduction in the Liverpool stock must be look’ d
for as an approaching certainty. What the con
sequences of such a reduction are likely to be
is another matter, and Is looked at in various
ways. The natural inference is that It mast
be in favor of higher prices, but there are con
siderations on Hie other side which should n :
he Ignored. F r instance, it Is certain that
the pr .spel ts of business for the autumn b. i
in Manchester and in New England have un
dergone a chang’* of late, and that the future
is overcloud'd. Already 10-,nis are stripping in
some Lincashir" distriets. Si indies l ive st
ped or an on halt Um- in Wigan and here an’
there in other quarters. Some mills are al" ;r
to make stoppages at Whitsuntide for repair-'
and there is r< a.- n to suppose that those st
pag->s may be prolonged ni-ire than usual. \i;
these things are Indications that old orders are
running out in many cases and new ones diffi
cult or Inq- ssibie to get at pres nt prices The
situation ..f c -urs. n:ay improve, but present
api-earances are rather that it is likely to sc
worse than t~-ttcr. or worse before It is better
Then there is th.- cnsid. ration that rhe chan ■ =
are in favor of good news of the new er t.
clear up to midsummer, and while distant cot
ton is selling at a set re discount, speculati -n
is natuar..y shy of buying the near, r month
at ■■ ■ ■nt raiw -. it is pt
the effect of a diminishing stock to a great-:
or lesser extent, hut whether they will b’>
strong enough to overt- wer them is atet’-
matter. Bulls say no. They insist that t! .t
will be no dlminuti'di or c nsumption suffi. ; it
to offset the small shipments. Then mav >
some short time, say the bulls, but when th-’
Shipments in a w.-k only replace two dav.
takings rt th" trade It is useless to argue t
I-.int. The stock will have to decline rn -
faster than any short time will extend a
the end will l,e a s ramble and higher o r i,..s
To all this bears r. pie- that the market con’ ’
not possibly look 1. ■ • like a scramble than
doea no*. Every merchant is not only willing
but anxious to sell all th. cotton he has T ! "
public will not touch cotton at these price
and there is no bear interest t > frighten in:
>’■'> taw !; •••■' ”. ffect, ''e' the i
l""ks much more as If the price had disc.-m:■■ i
the situation than as if there was any s -am
ble to come off later.”
OLD FOES WORK IN HARMONY.
Chattnnooga. Tenn., May 31.—(Special.)—
The Spanish-A mor lean War Veterans’ As
sociation of this city, at their meeting last
night, elected the members of the Grand
Army of the Republic posts and of N. B.
Forrest camp, United Confederate Veter
ans. to be honorary members of their < r
ganlzatlon. The local camp of the Span
ish-American War Veterans claim that
they are the first society in the conn :y
to take in the veterans of the nortii an 1
south into the same patriotic organization
of old soldiers.
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