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FARM EDUCATION
Some Suggestions on Making Syrup
From Sugar Cane
There are a good many things to
be considered in the making and mar
kaiing of syrup, foremost among
which is the idea of the consumer as
< i to what constitutes a good syrup. The
individual who purchases syrup has
learned to expect certain qualities,
colors and flavors. When he finds
them, the article is high grade. When
he fails to find them, the product is
, “off.” The farmers in Georgia have
A for many years been making syrup
of good quality. This syrup, when
put upon the market, often brings a
good price. The problem remaining,
however, is to standardize the syrup
purchased. In judging, there are
three considerations, viz: body, cplor,
flavor.
By body we mean the proper den
. z sity or consistency. It must not be
too thin nor too thick. The commer
cial buyer of syrup has had so much
practice that he can tell you in a mo
ment that the syrup is all right or
that it is not. The way in which he
often tests it is by pouring a few
drops of the syrup op a piece of pa
per, tilting one edge and watching
how it runs. A good instrument for
determining whether or not the body
of the syrup is satisfactorj’’ is the sac
charometer, an instrument' which.
“ registers the density of the syrup. Us
ually, a cold syrup has a density of
37 degrees to 38 degrees Beaume.
The buyer would call this just right.
Preference is given to a light-color
ed product, so much so that from Sc
to lOe more a gallon will be paid for
* it. Under color, the brightness of the
syrup is to be A per
fectly clear and transparent product
is not to be desired to the extent of
sacrificing color. Some of the best
priced syrups are slightly milky in
appearance.
This cloudiness should not be too
pronounced, as it will severly affect
the selling qualities of the syrup. In
the case of cane syrup, the market
requires a straw-yellow or greenish
yellow syrup. The nearer the color
of the syrup can be made to resem
ble that of a piece of yellow amber,
the more nearly perfect is its color. '
, The judging of color of syrup by the j
consumer is also done by placing a !
little of the sample on a piece of j
white paper and watching it run.
\ It is a difficult thing to describe
just what flavor is desired, yet, the
best price depends upon the flavor
of the syrup. Syrup should not have
the raw twang that is often found
in a syrup that has been made from
juice not properly clarified. A prop
erly made syrup will have just a
suggestion of caramel flavor due to
the caramelization of a part of the
* sugar in making.
Milling
It must be remembered that the
larger the amount of juice extracted
from the cane, the greater will be
the amount of syrup realized. This
point needs to 'be emphasized in con
nection with the use of, small two
roller mills. Better results will be
obtained with a three-roller mill
than with a two-roller mill.
Clarifying the Juice
The raw juice coming from the
mill should pass into storage tanks.
* These may simply be rough barrels
. or metal or concrete tanks. These
tanks or barrels should* be provided
with a fine sieve or mesh screen to
remove particles of cane, dirt, etc.
It is preferable to have at least three
tanks so that one tank may be filled
while another is being emptied and
4 the third tank provided) for the set-
* tling of the juice. There are two
methods of clarifying sugar cane
juice in general use. One process
consists essentially in treating the
juice freshly expressed with fumes
of burning sulphur (SO2) and milk
of lime. The juice is heated and the
coagulated impurities allowed to set
tle or removed by settling and skim
ming, after which the clear liquid
is evaporated to syrup.
The other and simpler process con
sists in heating the juice and skim
k ming off the coagulated material
which rises' as the juice becomes hot.
Both of these methods have serious
disadvantages. In the first case, the
chemicals used in clarification often
injure the flavor of the syrup. Too
much lime makes the syrup very
* dark and too much sulphur dioxide
gives it a metallic taste. The second
v and simpler method of clarification
is slow and wasteful, and, unless
very carefully executed, the clarifica
tion is not complete.
A new method of clarifying cane
juice has been worked out with a
resulting clear syrup free from dirt
and dredge and at the same time
s retaining its natural flavor. This
process consists of filtering the juice
with a small amount of infusorial
earth. This new method of clarifica
tion is not considered practicable,
however, from the standpoint of the
individual farmer who raises only a !
few acres of cane and makes this
cane into syrup by his own labor j
and that of his hired help.
In this latter case, a good cheap
filter may be made as follows: Make
t a wooden box four to six feet long,
1 sixteen inches wide and sixteen
Inches deep. Bore a hole In one end
near the top. Clean, tightly packed
straw should fill the box. The juice
from the mill should enter the box
from one end and pass out the hole
in the other end. The straw causes
the Impurities to be deposited by the
1 juice as it percolates through, mak-
* ing the juice which comes out of the
box require less skimming and mak
ing a better syrup. The box must !
be cleaned with water twice a day
and the straw replaced by new. The
old straw should be run through the
mill to press out the juice.
Tn addition to this filtering, the
juice should be skimmed during the
evaporaticn process. When the raw
juice is heated, a coagulation of the
albuminous matter occurs, causing it
to rise to the surface where it can
be skimmed off.
Neutralization
Tn certain seasons and with cer
tain varieties of cane, the raw juice
may be high in acid. To partiall} 7
neutralize this acid, lime is added by
some makers. Th? procedure is as
follows: Slack completely a quantity
* of lime with water‘and then add
m.-re water to produce a thin white
wash. Strain through a screen to
* remeve lumps. Only enough of this i
’ solution sholud be added ' to neu
tralize the acidity, this point to be
determined by the use of litmus
paper. Dip a piece of blue and a
piece of red litmus paper in the
solution. If it is acid, the blue litmus
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i paper will, turn red and the piece of
red litmus paper will remain un
-1 changed. If the solution is alkaline,
• the blue litmus paper remains un
‘ changed in color, while 'he red lit
-1 mus paper turns blue. If neither' one
! is affected, the solution is said to be
1 neutral in reaction. Too much lime
■ should not be added as this spoils
the flavor and color of the syrup. It
is better to have the juice slightly
acid as an alkaline juice produces
an inferior grade of syrup.
Evaporation
The mills should never be more
than several hours ahead of the
evaporator and no more juice should
be extracted on a day than may be
finished in the same day. In the
evaporating pan, as thin a layer ot
juice as possible, not over 1 1-2
inches to 2 inches deep, should be
carried, and the evaporator should
be set so that the depth diminishes
to about one-half inch at the outlet,
or finishing end of the pan. A thin
layer causes quick evaporation and
less color is developed when, con
centrating to a syrup.
During the last few years many
improvements have been made in
the evaporating pans put upon the
.market. These patent evaporators
have many points of superiority to
recommend them. The Various com
partments are connected and an
automatic supply valve is so placed
that the depth of the liquid in the
evaporator can be regulated. Their
construction is such as to produce
a quick concentration without the
danger of burning or scorching the
syrup. During the boiling, as im
purities reach the surface, constant
skimming is necessary to obtain a
clear, finished product. This skim-
I ming may be accomplished by the
use of a perforated ladle. Commer
cial syrup skimmers can be bought
upon the market and are not ex
pensive. In large plants, tlje con
centration is carried on in steam
evaporators.
Standardization
Finished syrup, upon cooling,
I should have a moisture content of
I not over 30 per cent. One gallon
of such a syrup should not weigh
less than 11 1-4 pounds. As the
syrup comes from the evaporator,
it is difficult to fill and weigh a
gallon measure, and the weight
would be correct only when the
whole was cooled down to about 60
degrees Fahrenheit before weighing.
There are two methods for de
termining the finishing point of
syrup. The first is noting the tem
perature at which the syrup is boil
ing and the other is to measure the
density by means of a Beaume’
hydrometer.
By Thermometer
Water at ordinary pressure at sea
level boils at 212 degrees Fahren
heit, while a sugar solution with 70
per cent of solids boils at 223.7 de
grees Fahrenheit. If a thermome
ter is placed in the boiling syrup,
one can roughly judge the density
of the product. In testing the
syrup for its density by this man
ner, it would be well to test the
accuracy of the thermometer by
placing it in boiling water and not
ing the boiling point. The syrup
should be finished at a point 12
to 13 degrees higher than the
boiling point o? water. Altitude af
fects the boiling point of a liquid.
For every 500 feet above the sea
level, the boiling point/ is lowered
approximately 1 degree Fahrenheit
so that at a poipt 2,000 feet above
sea level, the boiling point of water
would he at 208 degrees Fahrenheit
and a finished syrup at 220 degrees
Fahrenheit.
By Hydrometer
A hydrometer or spindle is an in
strument for showing the density of
a liquid. Hydrometers are grad
uated to various scales and for va
rious purposes. The one generally
used for syrup making is the
Beaume’. With this make of hy
drometer, the graduation is from
zero to fifty,# divided into degrees.
The density is measured by floating
the hydrometer in a small portion
of the hot liquid in a tall cylinder.
The point on the scale to which'
the instrument sinks in the liquid
will indicate the density. A small
quantity of syrup may be removed
from the evaporator, placed on an
upright cylinder of tin or glass and
the hydrometer inserted. A hot
syrup that will have a density of
33.5 degrees to 34 degrees Beaume'
has been sufficiently boiled. This,
on cooling, will give a density of
37 1-2 degrees to 38 degrees, which
is the body required by the market.
Note: The hydrometer and ther
mometer must be used while the
syrup is at or very near boiling
temperature.
Officers Scout Story
Os Man Implicating
Wife in Murder Plot
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Dec. 7.
Authorities said today they placed
little credence in the statement cred
ited to Arthur Jones, 35, to the ef
fect that his wife, .Ada West Jones,
27, knew something>about the death
of Hyatt A. Grissom, Greensboro,
N. C., druggist, whose body -was
found in a creek near here last Feb
ruary. The couple, giving Colum
bus, Ohio, as their home, are being
held in the county jail here pending
further investigation.
Jailer Al Tucker quoted the wom
an as saying she knew nothing
about the matter and that her hus
band "must be crazy.” Jones de
clined , to be interviewed by re
porters.
While Jones was being held in the’
Orlando jail on disorderly conduct
charges, he is alleged to have told
the authorities there that his wife
* knew all about the Grissom case.”
Mrs. Jones said she. had left her
husband on several occasions, the
•last time about a month ago, and be
cause she refused to return to him
he had devised a plan to bring about
her arrest.
Grissom’s automobile was found
submerged in the creek at the end
of a blind road last January 18. His
body was recovered a month later.
The belief was expressed that he
had driven his car into the creek
while travelin gat night.
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
AUNT JULIA’S COUNCIL
A Friendly Meeting Place for All Tri-Weekly Journal Readers
THE LETTER BOX
FOR THE BOYS AND GIRLS
1
“Help for the Helpless—Kindness to
All Dumb Things”
Rules
No unsigned letter printed.
No letter written on both sides of
paper printed.
All letter not to exceed 150 to 200
words.
Dear Children: Let’s begin to get
ready for Christmas. You will all
want cake and candy with loads of
nuts. Your part is to gather the
nuts, crack and pick’ out the meats.
To be really helpful, if you have to
work in the house, spread down pa
pers, when you have finished your
job, take up these papers. Put up
the crackers, dr hammer and nut
picks. Don’t leave the cleaning up
for mother to do.
Let’s try to make this a Merry
Christmas for everybody.
Lovingly,
AUNT JULIA.
Dear Aunt .Tulia and Cousins: Move over,
nousins, and jive me a seat by Aunt Julia
as it is rainins outside. I enjoy reading the
letter* very much. lam a little girl of ten
summers. My birthday is June 15. Have I
a twin? I am a blonde, have brown eyes
and hair. I go to a country school and am in
the fifth grade. As this is my first at
tempt to write will close before I break
Aunt Julia’s rules. All of you cousins write
to me. Best wishes to all. A (new cousin,
LULA GILLESPIE.
Pickens, S. C., Route 3.
Dear Aunt Julia and dousins:; Will you
please let an Alabama gjirl in your happy
band of boys and girls? Please let me sit
by Aunt Julia. Come on Alabama boys and
girls, don’t let the other folks beat us. I
live on a farm like most of the girls and
boys do. Who has my birthday, April 7? I
am thirteen years of age. Who is my twin?
Have I one? We take The Atlanta Tri-
Weekly Journal. I can hardly wait for the
paper to come. I want all of yoti cousins
to write to me. I will assure you an answer. z
I will close for this time before I break
Aunt Julia's rules. Your loving new
BELLE WATSON.
Hacoda, Ala., Route 1, Box 49.
Dear Auntie and Cousins: Will you please
open the doer and let me in, I’ll promise not
to stay long. I have a nice number of
Bourbon Red turkeys, they are Just beau
tiful, Come again Mrs. Ike D, Mayer, your
letter was so sweet. I think I will write te
you soon. I see most of the cousins take
a subject. If I was to select one it would
be on kindness, but as I promised not to
stay long I’ll go now. Aunt Julia, please
print this for me. I’ll come again when I
have lots of little chickens and turkeys
to feed, as I dearly lece the work. Hop
ling to hear from lots of you cousins and
Aunt Julia, too. Lovingly,
(Mrs.) JULIA POLSON.
Andalusia, Ala., Route F.
P. S.—Find 30 cents for the baby.
Dearest Auntie and All: Will you admit
two lonely Alabama girls into your happy
band of boys and girls? We’ve been silent
readers of the Letter Box for a long time
and decided to try our luck. We, like most
ot the otner cousins, live on a farm and
like it fine. What do you cousins do for
pastime. We plal the organ, the Victrola
and read. Will some one please send us the
words to the following song: “Will the Cir
cle be Unbroken?” and we’ll appreciate it
very much and return the favor in any way
possible. Come on, Alabama boys and girls,
and let’s don’t let the other states get
ahead of us. We’ve seen only one letter
from this part of Alabama. We’ll go and
give space to more gifted writers. Will an
swer all cards and letters received. Please
send mail separate. Love to auntie and all.
(Miss) GERTIE BEASLEY.
(Miss) EDNA BEASLEY.
Ariton, Ala., Route 2,
Dear Aunt Julia: Some time has elapsed
since’ I have, written .to the Council column
on account of my health. I ant inclosing
post order for o'J cents for Inez, hoping she
will make a good and useful woman.-and the
good seed youo are sowing may bring much
fruit. Very respectfully.
JOHN LATHAM.
Hickory, Miss.
Dearest Aunt Julia: Here comes a boy
from sunny Florida to Join the cousins for
a while. I’ve never written to the Council
before, but guess you all remember seeing
my sister, Ruth’s, letters, she has had two
letters printed and received so many nice
letters. My niece', Edna Mae Langford, is
writing to the Council also. We are going
to see which gets the most letters, ho hope
Aunt Jnlia will print our letters. I live in
the country three miles front* town and like
my home fine. I have an Overland- touring
car and Ford truck.' I am at. preserft haul
ing clay to build roads. Wonder who can
roads in Polk county. Wonder who can
guess m?’ age It’s between enghteen and
twenty-seven. My birthday is December 25,
To the one guessing my age I'll send a photo.
I’ll not write any more now, but if 1 see
this in print I will call again later. Would
appreciate a letter from you cousins. IT
go now. Your friend,
HARDY L. LANIER. JR.
Fort Meade, Fla., Route A, Box 68-A.
Dear Aunt Jnlia: Here comes an Ala
bama kid. to join your happy band of boys
and girls. My mother is taking The Journal
and me, being the judge, is the best paper
of all, especially the Letter Box. You can
hardy imagine how eager I am to get the
dear old paper and read the cousins’ letters
first. I. like lots of others who writer live I
on a farm, although so near to a little '
town I can realize town and country life too. ■
I would prefer the latter as I think it more I
healthful to he on the farm. You can get j
plenty of exercise helping your parents I
make a living and you are not tempted to
do so much mischif on the farm. Show mo
a healthy country girl and I will show you
one who doesn’l , need much paint or pow
der, and does little tasks with pleas
ure. Now, I don't mean for a girl to plow,
chop crossties or roll logs, but there are hun
dreds of little jobs on the farm 'which are
healthful and a pleasure for the industrious
boy or girl. I have thought for a long time
yf writing to the Letter Box but just neg
lected It, really was afraid of the wastebas
ket and thought some more gifted writer
should have the space. As to pastime I
have that in almost everything I go at, only
I get tired us thinning coin and cotton. If
any of you cousins want to hear from a
bobbed-haired, fourteen-year-old high school
girt, write to MITTIE KUYKENDALL.
Guinn, Ala., Route 1,
Hello, There Aunt Julia and Cozs.: How
are you this fine morning I have 'written
twice before but failed to see my letter In
print. Don't you cousins love Aunt Julia?
I certainly do. She seems to be so kind ami
ov '. n .”’ ." !1 ° llas nI Y birthday, November 11,
lp-3' 11l be between fifteen and twenty’
Io the one who guesses my age I’ll send a
photo. Aunt Julia, I want to ask a favor
.of the cousins, if any of you have the song
les. m e Have No Bananas Today,” please
send it to me. I won’t describe myself this
time. Will bid you all farewell. Aunt
Julia, please print as I want to surprise mv
girl friend, Dollie jbucas. I am voiir new
co ” si »- „ RUTH HOWARD.
Duke, C., Route 2.
Ruth, you and I are twins and both of
nf its fortunately “Armistice twins.”—Aunt
Julia.
Dearest Auntie and Cousins; Here I am
again. Please open the door and let me in.
It s so cold out Jjere. Move over, cousins;
let me have a seat by Miss Lila Little.
Now listen at Lila laughing at me. Just be
Quiet for a few minutes, please, cousins. I
haven't any special suggestion, but l’ do
love to read your letters discussing powder,
paint and bobbed hair. I want to say a few
words on the “hair subject.” Isn’t it much
nicer, to have long, pretty hair than have
bobbed hair? You can’t fix it any other
way. When your hair is long you’ can fix
it any way you please, and there are many,
many ways one can fix their hair that is
Very becoming. ? How man yof you agree
with me? I’m sure Cousin Augustus H.
Trick will, even if he is opposed to girls.
I guess most of you cousins who live on a
farm are through gathering now, aren’t
you? Well, we are not quite through yet,
but will be soon. I ant expecting to go to
Georgia on a visit soon. I will leave for
Georgia about November 15. I hope I shall
have the pleasure of meeting some of the
cousins on my visit. I shall be. in Georgia
until about Deccmher'TO. Miss Lillian Tate,
of Mississippi, will you please write time?
I meant to write to you, bi. t lost yonr ad
dress. Will some of the cousins serd me
the following songs, “Let th? Rest of the
World Go By,” “The Ship. That Never Re
turned” and “ 'Til We Meet Again?” I
will return the favor in any way I cgn. I
will send a story bock if required, or songs
either. How many ccusins like to read?
My! Just look at the hands. Well. I do.
too. I read everything In the dear old Jour
nal. I would like to correspond with both
girls and boys who are interested in music.
I am a nature lover. There is nothing I
love better than out-of-doors sports. I just
love to roam’ in the " woods and over the
mountains, rock and rifi. Boys and girls,
write to me. To the first five who write I
will send nfy photo. Cousin Ulysses V.
Stancill. what has become of yon and your
little wife? I will close by thanking dear- ,
THE QUESTION BOX
FOR EVERYBODY
Rules
1 All questions must have full
names and addresses signed. If it
is desired that names do not appear
in the paper, add your initials or
some chosen name in adition to your
full name.
2. All questions must be written
on ONE SIDE of the paper only.
3. No legal or medical advice can
be given, either in the Question Box
or by personal letter.
4. All letters requiring personal re
ply MUST inclose stamped, self-ad
dressed envelope.
5. Letters for the Question Box
MUST NOT be included in letter for
Aunt Julia’s Letter Box. The ques
tions must be sent separately and
must be addressed to Aunt Julia’s
Question Box, The Atlanta Tri-Week
ly Journal, Atlanta, Ga.
Dear Folks': Am giving you these
gelatine recipes for the Christmas
season, because they can be made
ahead of time, put away to chill, and
served when you are ready.
Rice Jelly With Pineapple
1-2 envelope of gelatine.
1-4 cup of cold water.
1-2 cup of scalded pineapple juice.
1 cup of cooked rice.
1 cup of whipped cream.
1 tablespoon of lemon juice.
Few grains of salt.
<• Soak gelatine in cold water five
minutes, and dissolve by standing
cup in hot water. Add pineapple
juice, sugar, salt and rice. Strain
into this the gelatine, and mix thor
oughly, cool slightly, add lemon juice
and whipped cream. Turn into
mold, chilled with cold water and
lined with sliced pineapple (canned).
Serve with cream. x '
Cordially yours,
AUNT JULIA.
I have for the moment misplaced
the two letters asking for a glue or
yaste for mending china, which ad
mits of wasning the china, after
mending in hot water. Major's ce
ment, I found successful in mend
ing china. Please take this as an
answer to your letters.
Ethel: Yes, there is a crusade
against the pulling of holly. The
holly trees and Pushes have been
frightfully demolished. This year a
plea has gone out for the use of red
immortelles in Christmas wreaths.
Let’s help give the holly a chance
to grow again.
Mrs. B.: The custom of the
Christmas candle 'started in Russia,
I believe. The legend was that
Christ visited the earth again on
Christmas eve and every window
that carried a candle welcomed him
and he blessed this house. It is cer
tainly a pretty custom, and is fol
lowed all over the Christian world
today.
Everyday: My dear I wish you
had not asked me to keep your name
for my own information, your idea
is such a beautiful one. Everyday,
you say, should celebrate the birth
of Christ, and in, doing so, we should
make a gift of kindness to some one,
and offer a prayer of thankskiving
that we are able to do so. On De
cember 25, we have an outward vis
ible sign in Christmas gifts. Thank
you for this thought, which I am
here passing on 'to our readers.
Jennie B.: Wrap up, so no cold
will result from your carrolling, get
your crowd together, and under the
windows of your neighbors, on
Christmas eve, sing Christmas songs
and carols. Be sure that your songs
are in keeping with the spirit of
the season.
est anntie in advance. for printing my letter'
Oodles of love to auntie and all the cousins
(MISS) LILLIAN TATE.
Round Mountain. Ala.
S nU Mi , ss IJIa Llttle > let ’» hear from
you. Ibank you for your nice birtbdav
present. Who has my birthday? October
29 I was nineteen.—V. L. T.
Dear Aunt. Julia: Never before have I
attempted writing to a paper, although I’ve
often wanted to. I was always afraid I
might take up space that could be ot more
benefit if used for another’s letter. Rut
now I’m a real grown girl apd have spent
lots ot time thinking, and since reading so
many letters from the cousins, I desire to
say just a little, if I may. I noticed in a
recent issue Arie Gulloway was “begging”
for the poor little birds. How nice of you,
Arie, to think of them! I can’t see why
boys enjoy killing the dear, pretty little
things. I believe our good Father made the
birds and flowers to make our world pleas
anter, and, without them, wouldn’t this
be a gloomy place? I’m glad I was made
to love the woods, the brooks, birds and
flowers, and I’m glad I am living in the
“dear old southland,” where they are all
to be found. Os course, there’s advantages
in the city that can’t be had on the farm,
and, naturally, some like the city best,
hut somehow the crowded streets anil white
lights mnke me lonesome. It all seems
to call for something that. isn’t there.
Really, it s very little I’ve ever stayed
in a city. Maybe I’d like it better than I
think I would if I should live there a while.
Some people even say there isn’t, any nice,
decent people in our large cities, but I think
that s all wrong. I’d surely hate to believe
that way. Os course, we must admit we
have bad folks in all cities, and countries,
too, but we do have good ones everywhere,
too. Surely we do. It’s such a bad habit
to talk about the faults of others so much.
If we only knew just what our brother
- to 80 thro,, sh we’d sympathize with
him many times rather than scorn him. I
like the phrase, “There’s a little good in
tjie worst of us, and a little bad in the
best of us." A few things I love most
are kindness, truthfulness, honesty and
music; and a few things I dislike are gos
siping, deeeltfulness, intemperance and sel
fishness. Please, won’t some one or all of
you cousins write me long letters? Winter
is the most lonely time to me, unless I am
going to school, and the things that help
me pass away time are reading and writing
letters. I delight in both. I think it would
be awful nice to send Aunt Julia a post
card shower Christmas. Much love to every
one > FORA HOWSE.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will vou
make room in your circle for another Ala
bama boy? I, like the majority of the cous
ins, live on the farm and like farm life fine,
though the farmers of this section have
made very poor crops this year owing to the
heavy rains and the boll weevil. As this is
■my irst attempt to write I will not take
any subject. I will leave my age for you all
to guess, though it is between twenty-three
and twenty-nine. I was in the army nearly
ten months, eight of those were served over
seas. I wasn’t in any battle, though as I
had measles and influenza and was in hos
pitals a good whille. I had one brother who
gave his life fcr his country. He died of
disease in Manchester, England. How many
of you cousins like to go to Sunday school?
I for one, and go nearly every Sunday. If
any of my comrades in the army see this
and care to write I would be glad to hear
from them. 1 will appreciate a letter from
any of the cousins. From an ex-soldier.
„.. „ . G. L. THURSTON.
Coffee Springs, Ala., R. F. D. 2.
Dear Auntie and Cousins: Wonder what
all the cousins are doing for pastime these
void and rainy days? I’m sitting by a warm
fire. I want to say that I certainly do en
joy reading the many good letters on the
dear old page. Guess most of the cousins
are in school by now. I’m not going this
winter, but wish I could. I think an educa
tion the greatest thing ever, and think all
young people should strive to get a good ed
ucation. If you will please give me space,
ask a favor and go. Will any one. who
ha? th* song “Absence Makes the Heart
Grow Fonder, please send it to me. I’ll re.
turn the favor any way I can. Any one
wanting to write to a north Alabama girl
of eighteen, let your letters come to.
T , . „ PARTHENIA MAPLES.
Union Grove, Ala., Route 2.
Dear Aunt Jnlia and Cousins: Will you
permit a Georgia soldier to join your happy
corner for a few minutes? I was greatly in
terested in the cousins’ Letter Box before
I came to Honolulu. I miss The Journal so
much over here. So I decided to write to the
Letter Box for my first time since I left
the dear old state of Georgia. T left At
lanta December 19, 1922, went to Charleston.
S. C., and sailed from there Christmas eve’
for Hawaii!. I landed at Panama on Fri
day afternoon in Christmas week, and spent
the night. I surely did enjoy the trip through
DOROTHY DIX DISCUSSES LIFE
TALKS ON HEART AND HOME ./
Mothers of Sons Just Can’t Be Rec
onciled to the Changed Order of
Things When Sons Marry—The
New Wife Treats Him as a
Strong, Healthy Man, Not
As a Boy to Be Petted
and Coddled
THE other day an elderly wom
an called at the office of the
prosecuting attorney of the
city in which she lived and com
plained to him that her son was
slowly being starved to death be
would have to
cause his bride
didn t cook the
; ? ' va V sh e did ’
And, with tearJ
i'i her eyes, she
begged the pros-
u 4#* ecutor to take
steps to save
atSpk The prose-
X. cutor told the
MjP’ distressed worn-
-iX an that t h
vou ng man
JF** 1 •Imake his own
c om P laint.
Whereupon the
mother wept aloud.
“That is just the trouble, sne
wailed. “The poor boy seems to hke
his wife’s cooking, but I know what
is good for him. He has a delicate
stomach, and should have plain, nu
tritious dishes, instead of the flub
dubby food she gives him to eat.’
This little story from real life is
humorous or pathetic as you see it,
and you will laugh over it or cry
over it according to whether you
have married children or not. But in
it you will find lhe very crux of
one of the greatest problems in the
world. And that is why good, kind,
motherly women so often look upon
their daughters-in-law with susp.-
cion and believe that the girls their
sor.s married are deliberately trying
to ruin them instead of trying to
be good wives to them.
It is not with intent and purpose
that a woman is antagonistic toward
her daughter-in-law, and the two
generally maintain merely an armed
neutrality when not engaged in open
warfare. Far from it. Every mother
would prefer to love her son’s wife
and have her become really another
daughter, not only because peace is
more pleasant than strife, but be
cause she knows that the only way
that she can keep x her son is by
maintaining a friendly relationship
with his wife.
For it is cruelly true that after
a man is married, in ninety-nine
cases out of a hundred, his attitude
toward his mother is determined by
his wife’s. If the wife likes his
mother and is of a generous nature,
she sees to it that he sends her
presents and helps her if she needs
help. But if ihe wife hates her
mother-in-law, she weans her hus
band away from the mother who
bore him. She encourages him to
neglect her and she raises such a
row when he gives his mother any
thing that he never sends her a
penny and excuses himself to his
own conscience by saying that his
first duty is to his wife and chil
dren. I
Knowing all this, it would seem
that mothers would exhaust every
resource of diplomacy to get along
the canal, it la one of the prettiest places
I have ever seen in all my travel. Also 1
could see South America of/ at a great dis
tance. It has some great mountains and I
have also seen those on the Reel, too. 1
have a good idei of the country. I was on
the Pacific and Atlantic waters nineteen
days and nights. Was in one storm on the
last night just before we got to Honolulu.
Rough, I should gay it was, and most all the
crew were sea sick, too. But by the hand
of the Good Shepherd we landed safe on Ha
waii’s shore. This is a trip I will never
forget. And I hope to land safe on the
shore's of California again in 1925. Os
course, time is passing by fast for me over
here. I am liking army life fine, and this
surely is a beautiful place, and Honolulu is
a pretty city. The scenery is great, from
Waunai to Diamond Head, also I was over
to Hilo to see the great volcano, it surely is
a great sight to see, and a real pretty town,
there are some great mountains, and snow
stays on them all the yea round. The weath
er is great, cool all the year round over
there, but here at Schofield it is cool at.
night and pretty toot in the middle of the
day, but I can't tell any difference in the
seasons only by the rain during the winter
months. They call the winter season "the
rainy season.” Fields of sugar cane, pine
apples, bananas, paupies, and a few cocoa
nuts grow here. Some apples and a lot of
vegetables, as cabbage and beans, turnips,
carrots, lettuce, watermelon, cantaloupes and
peppers grow here on the islands and all
kinds of berries. Those Hawaiian girls wear
grass dresses, wooden shoes, and swimming
and fishing is a great sport among the na
tives of Hawaii. Well, I guess I had better
close or I will break the rules. I wish to
hear from all the cousins who care to write
to me and I will answer all letters received.
My best regards tn Aunt Julia and all the
cousins. PVT. ROBERT O. VINCENT.
Hospital Co. 31. 11th Me.dical Regiment,
Schofield Barracks, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Dearest Auntie and Cousins: Will you
admit a girl from the dear old state ot
South Carolina into your happy circle? I
guess your age to be twenty-three. Am I
correct? Who can guess my age, between
twelve and eighteen? My birthday is Jan
uary 2., Have I a twin. If so, please write
to ine. Well, as my letter is getting long.
I will close. All who would Hke to write
to a blue-eyed girl, let your letters come to
Vanwyck, 9. C., Route 1.
ANNIE MAE JACKSON.
Union, 7; Hobart, 3.
October 22. Cecil Jenrette. I guess your
age to be fifteen, and Mr. Delph Arnold, I
have written onee before but guess Mr.
W. B. got it. Wonder what you cousins
are doing for pastime? I read and help
to school. Our school won’t start until
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: I have,
knocked three times for admittance, but
have not been admitted yet, so please, dear
Auntie, let me in out of the cold this time.
I am a little Florida girl, 13 years old. I,
like most of the cousins, live on a farm
and like farm life fine. Who has my
birthday, September 25? I guess the rest
of you cousins are in school now. Ours has
not started yet. I will be glad if it ever
does start, as I surely do like school. I
think every one should strive to get an
education. I am in the seventh grade. My
favorite flowers are roses, and Easter lilies,
and baby wreath fern. My favorite authors
are Mrs. Georgie Sheldon, Libbie Sprague
Philips, and Annie M. Barnes.. Ivey Law
rence Sharpe, your letter was fine, come
again all of you, don’t let every one beat
ns Florida boys and girls. I am going to
ask a favor of you cousins: Will some one
please send the song “Where is My Wan
dering Boy Tonight?” I’ll return the favor
in any way I can. Let the cards and
letters come to JEWELL SMITH,
Jasper, Fla.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Here I
come again knocking for admittance. I
have written to tlie letter hex once before,
but was not admitted. Come on you Florida
kids, tlie other states are ahead of us, but
I believe we can catch up if we try. I
live in Suwanee county, near the famous
old Suwanee river. I know all of you have
heard the song, “Way Down Upon the
Suwanee River,” haven’t you? I live on a
farm and like farm life just Would
not exchange with any city boy or girl. I
am going to school and am in the seventh
grade. For pastime I read and crochet.
How 'many of you like to read good books?
Oh, look at the hands that went up. Well,
I guess you are all wandering how I
look, so here goes. I am between ten and
fifteen years old. Let's see how many can ]
guess my age. 1 have blue eyes, fair com- ■
plexion and dark hair. Well. I had better ’
go before I break Aunt Julia's rule, for I ,
sur«( want this printed. If any of you I
wish to write to a Florida kid, just let '
your cards and letters come tn.
Your new cousin.
(Miss) GLADYS BASSETT, I
Live Oak, Fla., Rte. A, Box 81.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: This is a
rainy day and I must avail myself of the
opportunity to write. I have been a reader
of Tlie Atlanta Tri-Weekly Journal for
twelve years, and think it is just a grand
paper. I have often intended to write, but
from day to day that pleasure was post
poned. You are a jolly bunch and if I am
admitted I am sure I shall enjoy myself.
I, like most of you cousins, live on a farm.
I can do housework splendidly. I surely do
my part, too. For pastime I zeha work and
embroidery. I am very fond of reading. My
favorite book is the “Way to Win.” Uli
not take a subject, but if I were to I
■xUiikjDAY, DE< FMiiEM 11,
with her daughters-in-law. But they
don’t. Simply because they can’t.
The primitive instinct of the mother
—the animal instinct to protect its
young—rises up in them and over
powers the sense of expediency and
all thoughts of their own safety.
For every mother looks upon her
son not only as a sort of archangel
but also as a helpless infant who
must be coddled, and protected, and
taken care of; and when she sees
him married to a perfectly ordinary
human woman who not only treats
him as a plain man instead of as a
demigod, but who expects this au
gust creature to prefer her above
himself, why, it is just too much for
mother.
She dons her war paint and rushes
to the rescue, regardless of the con
sequences to herself.
Not only this, but every mother
has a carefully cherished legend
about each of her children. She en
dows this child with a poor stomach
and she spends hours cooking spe
cial dishes for it. She gives that one
weak lungs and swathes it in flan
nels. She attributes nerves to an
other and walks on eggs to keep
' from irritating it, and excuses all
sorts of bad temper on account of
its unfortunate neurotic condition.
> So when these children get married
mother expects their wives to un
derstudy her and go on spoiling them
and cultivating their little idiosyn
crasies, and when the wives don’t
do it, and expect great big husky
men to act like men instead of pam
pered babies, it is not to be won
dered at that mother sheds bitter
tears over her poor persecuted dar
lings and feels like murdering the
women whom she regards In the light
of arch-fiends.
At every wedding the bridegroom’s
mother is always in tears. This is
because she feels that she is not only
losing her son, but she is turning
him over to the Philistines to be de
spoiled. She is risking not only his
happiness, but his life. Fop what
does this foolish young creature,
whose brief life has been spent in
amusing herself, know about taking
care of a man?
Mother has spent from twenty-five
to thirty years catering to him, and
she knows just the things that agree
with him and the things that upset
his digestion, and so sh w shudders
as she thinks of his being left to the
tender mercies of a bride who doesn't
know a thing about balanced rations
and vitamines, and whose bread may
be heavy, and. who, likely as not, will
feed him on fancy salads and
whipped-cream desserts.
Nor can the ordinary mother pre
vent herself from begrudging her
daughters-in-law every dollar she
spends. She just feels so sorry for
her poor little boy, who has to work
so hard to support a strang© woman.
And the worst of it all is that her
son likes his wife’s cooking and en
joys spending money on his wife.
Talk about the human triangle!
The one that incloses the greatest
tragedy is that which is made of a
mother and her son and her daugh
ter-in-law.
(Copyright, 1923.)
Wouldn’t take anything but what we need
today, and that ia ’“Friendship.” Friend
ship 1* a most potent factor in our lives.
It acts as an incentive to higher and better
things. I am trying to live Mr. Cornwell's
advice each day. 1 find it brings happiness
to my own life and others. "There la bo
much bad in the best of us and so much
good in the worst of us, that it hardly be
hooves any of us to talk about the rest of
,us.” Sometimes we do not appreciate some
of our very best friends until it is too late.
My sentiments are to be friendly with every
body until you know positively they are un
worthy. I (lave spent five years in high
school. I went to summer normal. It is
the greatest object in the world to be a
leader. Don’t you cousins think Aunt Julia
is one? I do. I taught last winter. In
some ways I like teaching fine. There is
joy in it, and unbelievably rich reward in
the love of the students and their apprecia
; tion. I am not an old maid teacher now,
■ not by any means. Am a girl who believes
|in sincere smiles and love. My age is be
tween twenty-two and twenty-six. How
many of you cousins are trying to accom
plish something for profit and pleasure? I
have made sixteen pretty quilts in less time
than five years. I consider it an indus
trous woman who makes quilts. Any one
who wishes to correspond with me, let your
letters and photos come. !■ hope to hear
from you girls and boys. As I like to make
friends. Good-by, cousins, write your new
brunet, black-eyed cousin.
i) (MISS) NOVELLA PITTS,
j Tunnel Springs, Ala., Route 1, Box 29.
Dearest Auntie and Cousins: How many
of you remember me? My first and last let
ter was published some time during the
month of October, 1922. One professor
| thought I was an old maid, but I passed
jmy twentieth land mark ilay 21, 1923.
; Aunt Julia, I am sending you one of my
■ photos, as I have the honor. I believe, of
j seeing it in the dear old Journal. I will
( soon be in school again and down to work,
j Oh, yes. it is not long until Hallowe’en, is
jit. when the witches are abroad, when
■ fences fall, doorsteps move away and wag
; ons mount to house peaks, hope all you
cousins and auntie a joyous Hallowe’en. All
you cousins write to me. By-by,' everybody
„ . „ „ LUCY DEES.,
Kershaw, S. C., Route 3.
Hello, Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you
please admit a lonely girl into your happy
circle? This is my first time, but I think
I will be admitted for auntie is so good, don’t
you all think so, too? I wonder what you
cousins do for pastime? I go to school and
stay with one *f my neighbors at night when
her husband is on the Hoot Owl. I live 'in
town and like it fine. I am fourteen yeirs
of age. Who has my birthday, October 8?
If any of you good looking boys and girls
want to hear from a new cousin, send your
letters to me, I will try to answer all I re
ceive. A new cousin,
(Miss) RUBY LEE SUTTON.
Copper Hill, Tenn.
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Hello, tnere! Who are you?” said
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said he, “but it seems to me it is
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“You—you look like a Turtle to me,”
said he at last rather lamely.
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“Not if we can nelp it,” spoke up
Nanny for the first time.
Gopher looked surprised. “Yo’
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Gopher slowly and solemn’?
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he. “Ah was born here, and Ah.
reckons it is the finest place in all
the Great World. My home is here.’*
“Where?” asked Danny eagerly.
“That is a very personal question,
suh,” replied Gopher. “It is mah
own private business. But, seeing
that everybody hereabouts knows
it, Ah don't mind telling yo.’ There
it is, suh, over there.” He nodded
toward the mound of sand and the
hole in the ground, which Danny
and Nanny had thought must have
been made by a cousin of Johnny
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number 4 221
wheat crops needing nitrogen an
increased yield of 5 bushels per
acre can be expected from each 100
lbs. of Nitrate of Soda applied per
acre.” Demonstrations in Penn
sylvania have shown an average
gain of bushels of wheat per
acre and 37% increase in thestraw.
New Jersey f
Experiment
Station shows that the'
largest yields of potatoes are -
obtained when Nitrate of Soda is
used as the sole source of Nitro
gen. What is true of potatoes is -
ue of other vegetables.
mam cr °p® bc ’
» come better
and more prolific when Nitrate of
Soda is used. This is why Market
Gardeners use such largequantities.
vi?g 1 im o a
periment Sta
tions report
wonderfully profitable gains from
the use of Nitrate of Soda on to
bacco. My own demonstrations in <
Pennsylvania prove that 200 lbs. '
of Nitrate of Soda used at planting .
time will add 100 lbs. or more to
bacco to the acre.
* ment Stations
in the apple districts now recom
mend Nitrate of Soda as necessary, ,
and are recommending its use in
the spring before blossom time.
This applies equally well to Peach
es, Pears, Cherries and other fruits.
Why not try it
on your crops?
My Free BULLETIN SER VICB;
covering the use of Nitrate of Soda on
all kinds of crops, is issued for your In
formation and explains how to use it.
whereto use it, when to use it. If you
want it send me your address, name the
crops you grow and to identify thia ad
vertisement add the number fIO3J
Dr. William S. Myers, Director ’
Chilean Nitrate Committee
25 Madison Avenue New York
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