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TIEARST’S Sr\nAY AMERICAN. ATLANTA. OA.. ST’NDAY. MAY 25. 1013.
South Could Add Millions to Cotton Crop
Without Any Further Expense to Growers
Right Seed Selection, Correct
' Bed Preparation, Fertilization,
Sorting at Gathering, Good
1 Baling and Care After Baling
Will Achieve Best Results.
BY CHARLES WHITTLE.
The South c«n get 50 p«r cent,
more for its cotton crop simply
by producing and marketing it
correctly.
Bv correct production is meant
rigfit soil preparation, planting of
good seed, proper cultivation.
By correct marketing is meant
gathering of the crop in good
condition, grading according to
requirements of the buyer, proper
baling and care till sold.
And this calls for no other ex
pense to the farmer than that to
which he is now put. Further
more it is not just talk on paper.
Farmers are doing it.
T
n<v=
warehouse gets a
he investment, th
the mills fan
iealers in the
ige to create a
aod
HE cotton crop pays everybody
through whose hands it passes
to the ultimate consumer, bet-
than it pays the farmer, chiefly
-use every one manages his but»-
s better than the farmer. The
ood per cent, on
cotton merchant
pretty well and
finished products!
manage to create a satisfactory profit.
A fair profit to the cotton grower
will come not so much through the
increase in the selling price of cotton
.as through economy In its produc
tion an 1 marketing. Does this
. sound like agricultural heresy? Well,
.it isn’t.
To permit the price of cotton to
go too high, is to kill (he goose that
laid the golden egg. The tilt In the
.scale is bound to reverse. Never
is th(%e a condition so satisfactory tni
producer and consumer as when there
.is an equilibrium Hence the cot-j
ton grower should look not so much
, to bulling the price as to cutting the
. cost of growing and marketing.
Preparing a Seed Bed.
Deep fah plowing of land on which
some legume has been growing, fol
lowed by spring harrowing or disk
ing are the most favorable prellmi-
'naries.
Right preparation of seed beds in
cludes the application of right fer
tilizers. Live stock manure is al
ways the right kind, but where this
’cannot be had in sufficient quanti
ties. the commercial fertilizer must
be supplied. One cannot apply fer
tilizers intelligently without knowing
-the requirements of the soil. In what
is the soil deficient? How much ni
trogen. how much potash, how much
phosphorus, are questions which very
few farmers ran answer concerning
their soils. If they do not they ma\
buy plant food of one kind that the
land and the proposed crop do not
require, or they may not buy enough
of another kind to get any benefit, in >
either case there would he waste or
unnecessary cost.
Nor is a seed bed properly prepar
ed that is deficient in vegetable or
organic matter, for not half of the
value of fertilizer wjll be obtained
by the crop unless there is sufficient
humus in the soil, as well as proper
breaking and pulverizing. To ob-
Thcso two eottou plants ol same variety were (frown side by
side under same field conditions. One produeed 56 bolls, the other
23. The difference is that one was grown from good, strong seed,
tin* other from poor, weak seed.
this must be done while the plant Is
still standing in the field, or at least
before the bolls have been removed
from the plant. Tke average num-
boll
her of motes t
based* upon a
gathered from
localities in fie
Prof R. J. «H.
To get cotton gnu
Middling." there mu
about 1 1-2,
eounty of l.ooo bolls
ixteen widely separat”
rgia and numbered by
DeLoaeh.
<1 above "Good
be no motes*.
mote
A
mil. depending upon the amount of
defective fiber caused by disease and
the number of motes, the cotton will
take various grades and prices.
Naturally then, the cotton bolls
that have the fewest motes, should
he set aside for the germination test.
Preferably none with more than one
hould be selected.
Germination Test,
rmlnation test consists of de
termining what percentage of the
seed will sprout. This can easily
be done by taking f»oo or 1.000 of tii *
selected seed, placing them under a
moist blotting paper and maintaining
a temperature of about 68 degrees far
a week. If 100 owed of the 1.000 fail
to germinate the germination record
is then to hf * 90 P er cent.
No seen should be planted which
do not show from 85 to 90 per cent,
germination record. This will as
sure a good stand without which, of
course, cotton growing is not profit
able. It is well worth the time It
takes to make germination tests.
If we have 5,000 plants to an acre
sod means a ays’
ll in which is in-
which can be
v hich leave consid-
be put beneath the
tain humus in
tern of crop rotati
eluded those crop*
turned under, or
erable stubble t(
surface.
Good Seed Means Much.
Not until the crust is broken with
harrow or cultivator after the hard
the coming up
eed bed finally
and previou
* cotton. Is
rly prepared
linat:
met!
expense above
employed by the
loo
enty
of In
This
ake the \
fiat produces as many
\ he no larger nof
than one that bears
bolls <>r legs. Why
nee? it is largely in the
be more exact. In the re-
power of tile seed,
of course, knows well
gather seed from the plant
yield tor future planting
• meaning of plant $elcc-
very few cotton growers
iains to do it. The ma-
Ihai av
erJi?** 20 hulls to
Die plant, we.
will niskr
n hale of c
•ntton to the j
fKT(\ .(
film
atlng; 70 bolls
to the pound
If \Y(
pert to make
two hales to
the ad
’(■ o
rie must hav(
^ plants with
40 bolls
i. T1
„■ •tn-hnll-prodiK inK plan's j
con no
t hr
> obtained bv
guess work.!
The see
mI m
mst be selecte
d from plant*
with r*
■ i •, >;
ds like that
or better.
Five
the
usand plants
to an acre
moil ns
a 81
alk every twi
) feet in rows
four feet apart. This allows only
for 4HO missing plants from the stand.
No Increase Without Selection.
It must be apparent from . thes<
ftgur s and estimates that a farmer
can never hope to raise two bales of
cotton to the acre 'without selecting
seed in the first place from good,
healthy s alks, which have on them
enough bolls to average two bales
and more per hop*; by testing for
motes and discarding thooe plants
that produce
them; by
tests to know
power of th
not and by
cultivation,
hen t h
Id he v
of one,
scolore
number of
•onductlng germination
whether the reproducing
» seed has run out or
proper fertilizing a.id
fectlve bolls ire lighter and rarely
ever diseased ,in all four locks, tin
loss from thl? source would average
$2.00 per bale.
But the cotton that remains after
the defective is taken out, will bring
at least 2 cents more par pound, or
$10 per bale. Here we have a net
gain of $8.00 per bale in consequence
of carrying two bags into the cotton
field in place of one.
Appreciable Coloring.
If 10,000 diseased cotton bolls got
mixed up with 100.000 bolls in a hale,
there would be a very appreciable
coloring of the bulk. When the cot
ton grader came to appraise its mar
ket value he would rale it at feast
one and a half grades lower than
If it were clear of color.
Viewed another way, for every
eleven bales of cotton going to th**
mills* ungraded or sorted, the defective
fiber and the motes cause the mills
to get only ten bales. This is a loss
of 9 per cent on the entire crop—
a loss that comes home to the farmer.
The farmer who leave? his cotton
out in the rain and weather during the
winter suffers a loss of at leapt $5
on the bale because of the discolora
tion and deterioration caused by the
weather. \nd yet. tad to say. there
are thousands and thousands of farm
ers in the South who treat their cot
ton that way, believing that it does
not hurt. In fact, some think it
help? the fiber, When they come
to s*ell. they do not understand the
mysteries of grading. ’ do not ques
tion it, they are ignorant of the fact
that hv their own carelessness they
have caused their cotton to grade low
and their proceed* from the crop to
diminish. Through improper stor
age of cotton, the South can count it. ;
loss in the millions each* year.
Poor Baling a Loss.
Hf no le>*s loss to the cotton indus
try of the South*4e that which coifies
of poor baling. The exposed fiber
scuffed against a thousand dirty sur
faces from the wagon bed to w a ro
wan house to car floors, from
to dirty trucks and to dirty
of ships and on to the manufac-
saeh handling making the fleecy
blacker, each hook of ihe han-
yatvking some of the fiber out,
move reducing its value. It
not be near so bad if the ha!-
•re done in well-bound bundles.
e cotton picker goes into
could carry two bags in
put in one the diseased
d bolls and Into the other
If v
the fh
stead
and d
the sound' and white, the farmer
would net as much as $s.00 more
per hale than If he baled all together.
It has been estimated by Professor
He Loach that only about 4 per cent
of the defective bolls would be kept
out of the better bale by this prn-
« *>ss of separation. Inasmuch as de-
house,
cars
holds
t urer,
staple
die re
each
could
ing w*
with bagging that will not only pro
tect against dirt but against the ruth
less extraction of ci tton from the bag
by the hooks.
How much more the cotton cron
would be worth utter a good seed bed.
after obtaining a good stand, by prop
er method? of cultivation, or by co
operative financing the loans that
maj be required or a dozen oth*
ways that enter into proper ways of
combating disease, pests: and the like,
will not be detailed here, enough hav
ing been given it is believed to demon
strate that the value of the cotton
crop can be increased at least 50
per cent without entailing upon th
farmer additional expense.
•d
the
come, trustir
poorly.
If one wer
•plant that b<
gft from ea
4ucer. hut he
better than t
hazard plant
IftcV some
• —Select
- -It every Vh
seen from t h
ir. the field. Y
i.'
and reaping
• to select seed from a
re F»6 bolls, he will not
h seed a 5ft-boll pro-
will certainly get much
ne average yield of Imp
ing, for in spite of all the
nature, like will beget
extent.
Producing Seed.
tgn farmer would select
5 best produ
Cuba Becomes Better
Market for U. 5. Fruit
ME OF FSOO
Southern Railway President’s Ad-,
dress Before Congress Points
Out Remedies.
POULTRY
Twenty-five years of thoroughbred
poultry raising has brought the busi
ness from a freak footing U P to a place at the top of the field.
Effort and energy expended by pioneers have borne fruit and
millions of dollars is now invested in it.
BY JUDGE F. J. MARSHALL.
WASHINGTON. May 24 Follow-
ing the recent publication of the Good
Roads . Year Book, which presents
the road situation in the I’nited
States to date, the American High
way Association has begun the issu
ance of a series of instructive papers
presenting the most important phases
of road improvement from the stand
point of both the layman and the en
gineer.
Among the first to be issued is a
reprint of the address by W. W. Kin-
ley, president of the Southern Rail
way. at the recent American Road
Congress, on “Good Roads and the
Cost of Living.' Mr. Finley holds
that the cost of living is largely an
economic question and that efforts
should be turned toward Increasing
he area of farm land under cultiva
tion and increasing the yield of farm
products per acre. He points to the
well known fact that prospective
farm settlers are largely governed by
raBroadband public road facilities and
that when these are not adequate
farm operations are discouraged.
Increasing farm products by get
ting more people on to the land and
by bringing a large area under more
intense cultivation is largely a mat
ter of transporation,” said Mr. Fin-
ley.
Concerning public roads as feed
ers to railways. Mr. Finley says:
May it not be a fact that the trans
portation needs of many localities
that seem to be waiting on railway
construction would be met more sat
isfactorily and more comprehensively
by a system of good roads connecting
them with existing railways? The
railway should be located with refer
ence to the main traffic channels. It
can no more take the place of the
wagon road for the collection and
distribution of traffic in a rural com
munity than the wagon road can re
place it as a main highway of com
merce. Considered as parts of a gen
eral transportation system, th* rail
way and the wagon road supplement
each other, and I believe that this
relation should be recognized in the
formulation of plans for road im
provement."
Man Crosses Oceans
For Bartlett Pears
Trader From Interior Africa Travels
to California to Eat
Fruit.
LOS ANGELES. May % 24.—Some
months ago some one shipped from
Southern California to London a
crate of Bartlett pears. Later this
crate was shipped to a German trad
er at Kilolevel, on the east coast of
German maudseharo, 10,000 feet above
sea.
'Phis trader shipped a portion of
the fruit to Tangangebra Lake, more
than one hundred miles inland
through the*’jungle. All but one had
been eaten by the settlers w hen Rein-
hold Radok, a wealthy rubber plant
er. who has a plantation sixty miles
inland, arrived there after eight
months of travel. By chance the
first thing he tasted was this pear.
All this has to do with the arrival
here of Radok. When Radok ate that
pear it tasted so good to him that he
decided to visit the land where they
grew. Therefore he journeyed from
Tangangebra Lake to the coast, took
passage to London, and came here by
wav of New York.
How often we hear people say how
the times have changed, and yet the
people of this day and generation are
very much the same as they were
twenty five years ago in that they
want company in all their new un
dertaking. They want to lie sure
that the general public will not accuse
them of chasing butterflies. When
began breeding thoroughbred
poultry as a business exclusively
breeders were few and far between
so that it was s<* much of novelty
that we had many visitors who would
come miles to see our poultry and the
manner in which we took care of it.
At times it seemed to bV a matter
of mere curiosity, while with others
it was an honest desire to get infor
mation.
The women usually led in these
trips of investigation and investing.
We well remember a certain couple
who eg me to our plant to investigate
matters and purchase stock if need
be, how the husband took particular
pains to tell us that his wife was
very much concerned about fine poul
try but he just came along to drive
and be company for her. He would
frequently forget himself, however,
and become more interested then he
pretended, in what was said and seen,
which led me to believe that he was
head rooster at home but wanted
outsiders to think that he was away
above the chicken business, so took
his wife along to lay it on to.
Poked Fun At It.
At that time when the chicken
business was new and novel, people
were disposed to poke fun and make
light of it. How my old farmer
friends used to sneer and tickle them
selves over the idea of chickens be
ing a business, when it was really
such a small thing and should be
beneath the notice of any man and
sjuited only for women and children.
Any one who would fool with poul
try must be a little light in the up
per story or slightly unbalanced.
Perhaps we were both. Nevertheless
we got a good deal of free advertis
ing. by being called the chicken
crank of our country and time. But
we lived through it all and have
passed into a period and time when
we have all the company that we are
looking for in this same business.
Men have become bold enough, too.
so that it is not necessary for them
to take their wives along to shoulder
the blame.
In spite of all the sneering and
talking that these men (fid they were
always looking for some chance to
buy three dollar eggs for twenty-five
cents. A common trick was to watch
the time when we were marketing a
part of our product at the store and
slip in and get them at the market
price. But this kind of them did not
last long for we very soon fixed the
eggs so they would be none of the
hatching tricks although perfectly
good for the table.
Had to Cultivate Trade.
while a limited number of us had
the fancy field pretty much to our
selves we also had to cultivate the
trade. In other words we had to be
everlastingly telling people the value
of good stock. Why it would pay
them to invest in it. That it really
was as we had been representing it.
We increased our trade by getting
what might be called colonies started
in various sections of the country.
When we got a setting or two of eggs
or some breeding stock in good hands
in a* neghborhood we were particular
to see to it that this party did some
talking about where he got his stock
and so on.
We would give him to understand
that the more he talked about it and
where it came from the more we
would do for him thereafter. Soon
neighbors were ordering stock from
us until it was not long before we
had a regular colony of customers
who would come to me year after
year for a chance of males, some
eggs and the like. This plan would
work well where the breeder was
particular to give value received at all
times. Prices in those days were
good, but not unreasonable by any
means. But few high priced get-rich-
quick-schemes were in vogue at that
time as we see then* to-dav in many
places. We presume such tradesmen
had not recognized the poultry busi
ness as fertile field for their opera
tions.
Own Battles Fought.
It was a question of fighting our
j own battles in those days if we suc
ceeded in bringing our good poultry
into prominence. All our poultry
journals could be counted upon the
fingers of one hand, and the farm
papers printed but little pertaining
to poultry, while as to the dailies they
had not even dreamed of it as yet.
j When we had anything for sale we
j had to put out the good cold .cash
' dollar for dollar to tell the people
1 about it.
It was like every other new thing,
i the people had to become educated to
it. But we kept hammering away,
i and the customers would come drop-
] ping in one by one giving up their
money rather grudgingly, something
like the householder pays his plumb
er’s bill after the freeze is over. We
saw the Silver Wyandottes come to
light, and they were called just plain
, Wyandottes. and*were made of about
I as many imperfections as one could
jLOs Angeles Citizens
;.H : ; I Ask for Woma n Judge
imagine might be crammed into one |
chicken. Then the Blacks popped |
up and a variety name had to b<
given the silvers and they were
designated. These were followed
the Goldens, Whites, Bluffs. Partridge I —
and Silver Penciled. The Whites and i Practicing Lawyer for Many Years,
Silvers have enjoyed great popular
ity while the others have had a fair
share of trade.
Barred Rock Beginning.
We saw* the Barred Rocks when
they were crude also and had a hand
in developing them to the point where
they stand lo-day. We saw the Whites
appear and go along for a number <>f
years before they were followed by
the Buff, Partridge and Silver Pen
ciled. The Barred and White have
had years of unprecedented popularity
which no other varieties have ever
seen so far. Some twenty years ago,
the Rhode Island Red was introduc
ed and bred lightly over the country,
mostly by curiosity seekers.
They failed to make a hit at that
time and had about passed from sight
and thought until a goodly number
of admirers with the determination
and the money took up the cudgel
in their behalf singing their praises
on every hand The general public
took up the refrain passing it on from
one to another until it developed
into one grand chorus for the Reds.
A regular epidemic began for Reds.
Not that they were the best chicken
in the world but they had the best
boosters in the world behind them.
They are a good practical fowl for all j
general purposes. In fact they are-
better for the utility man than they j
are for the fancier, as they are so ;
hard to breed true to feather. The ;
fever is a little on the wane however,
and the Orpington tribe is having its j
inning at this time.
Energy Has Made Business.
We have observed duflhig these)
years of our poultry experience that
the popularity of a breed is not depen
dent upon its sterling worth entire
ly, but is the result of well spent ef
forts and energy for the men who
have them in hand and are determin
ed to make a success of them.
If they happen to be men of strong
capabilities and a determination to
win. their variety will Vie a winner
right from the start. Such a class
as this has been behind the Barred, ,
the White Rocks. Silver and White
Wyandottes, and Rhode Island Reds. I
Whenever you can determine that
such a class of individuals are behind !
a new and apparently practical breed
you can afford to join the procession
and put your money into it. We
have observed, however, that during ;
all of these years of chicken breed
ing in this country that the rank
and file of the people demand some- j
thing practical and full of utility
points. For this reason no freak
fowl has ever become really popu
lar.
Mrs. Foltz May Now Sit on
Bench.
LOS ANGELES. May 24.—Peti
tions have been prepared asking Gov
ernor Johnson to appoint Mrs. Clara
Shnrtridge Foltz as one of the s4x
additional Superior Court judges re
cently authorized by the Legislature
for Los Angeles County. Mrs. Foltz
is a Republican and a lawyer, who
has practised for years at the Los
Angeles County bar. In the last cam
paign she supported Mr. Taft.
Not Compolsory>
it is almost pathetic when a
woman's hair begins to fade and
she realizes that it is turning gray.
And yet there is no one to blame
but herself for neglecting it, for
the hair responds very quickly to
the proper care and treatment. The
hair turns gray because it has lost
vitality, and when you pull out the
first few white hairs as they ap
pear you pimply enlarge the cells
and coarsen your hair, and it will
turn gray more quickly than if left
alone.
For many years we have handled
all of the good hair preparations,
and we believe there is nothing ;
better to be had any where than our
Robinnaire's Hail Dye. It is not
the ordinary vulgar bleach or arti
ficial coloring. We should have
named it a Restorative, because it
simply restore? your hair to its
own original color and beautiful,
healthy condition, and there is no
reason why you should hesitate to
use it if your hair is fading and
losing Its color.
It is our own laboratory product
and we guarantee it to be pure and
harmless. It has been in use for !
over a quarter pf a century, and
we have' yet to receive the first
complaint, but we can show you
hundreds of letters, unsolicited,
telling of the wonderful results ob
tained from it.
No woman need have gray hair
undesired, if she will give a little
time and care to its treatment. The
hair always responds quickly. Rob-
On the other hand I do not know l innaire's Hair Dye is easily applied
what would have been the condition > and it is non-sticky and does not
of the utility poultry business in this j stain either skin or scalp. If you
country if it had not been for the J want to **ee what it will do. get a
eternal vigilance of the breeders of
pure bred poultry during all of these
years in their efforts to put their
good stock into the hand of the farm
er and general poultry raiser. It
would evidently be about one tenth
of the importance that it is to- \
day. | \
\ 25c trial size (by mail 31d and use
i it on a small part of your hair, say
[• back of the ears. Ydu will be sur-
• prised and pleaded with it. Regu-
| lar ‘large size. 75c; postpaid, 83c.
. For sale by all Jacobs’ Pharmacy
Stores and druggists generally.
gro
ent.
from the held
II. H. do«s m
WASHINGTON. May 24.—Cuba is
developing into a very good market
for American fruit, tTnited States
ihtain an j Consul General James L. Rodgers of
hi.v crop. Havana finds. This • means really
mean if the opening of an entirely new mar-
•f>(j it; ket ;o the fruit grower of the United
have not States, as until recent years the Cu-
ery com- : ban people had not learned to eat
> exercise I the tart fruits of the Temperate Zone
this re- and tlu* A meric
. H,
Shipments in Box®
and j
Cotton Seed.
their price in Havana at about 30
per cent over the New York job
ber’s price on board ship. Peddlers
and fruit stands usually sell these
poor apples for 2 or 3 cents each.
"The dried or evaporated fruits,
such as apples, pears, prunes, plums,
peaches and apricots, are more wide
ly distributed as to origin, many
countries contributing to the supply,
xporter had not j The United States. however, fur
nish to make upl nishes a majority of the commoner
fruit l acked in j .apples, p ars, peaches, apricots and
prunes, but France and Spain send
tin large quantities of high grade dried
I fruits of one kind or another
is no general classification of
these dried fruits, but it is to be as
sumed that the hulk Of the Imports -
tion consists of products not within
th* seope of American producers.
Canned Fruits Wanted,
“('aimed fruits of all kinds, and
esp«M-iail\ tho-o highly swvetened. are
constantly growing in favor in Cuba,
but the preference is toward peaches,
pears, and strawberries, as far as
on* c.ui judge by the quantities ap
pearing in the stores. Of a total of
2.522.45ft pounds of all kinds of pre-
. grades | ni i veil fruit imported in the fiscal
■ v'liy up- .'ear of luiu-ll the United States
:i apples < sent about 55 p r cent. Spain about
8S to! 33 per cent, and France about 4 per
a pears! cent. These import percentages will
Havana hold about true in any year, since
ling du-J they re ognize the United States as
cos’ tht tie easiest and cheapest source of
1 States! supply and show the patronage of
is about { Spain ter national reasons, as well
mv being iin ported t<
!i**ii from many sec-J fi
United States. Mr. JT
but those front the
la ten appear to be in
I. owing to their ap
and their abilities
Unban climate. But
other countries than
:es go to t uba. Mr,
mil the pears ar* al-
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T HE public has been much interested recently in
the report of a gentleman who took a poison
tablet by mistake, and interviews with prom
inent physicians in cities hundreds of miles distant
show the absurdity of the “Code of Ethics.” These
physicians without know
ing anything about the
real facts in the case rush
into print to say what
ought to be done and con
demn the treatment given
and in another case prom
inent surgeons propose to
save his life by surgery.
There’s “Ethics” for
you with a great big E.
The facts are that he
has in all probability had
the very best skill that
could be had anywhere
and that the distant doc
tors are willing to give a
lot of flippy interviews
which can only be inter
preted as censuring the
doctors in charge, and for
what?
Why, for the free ad
vertising they get out of
it, nothing else.
I prefer to kick hy
pocrisy in the gutter and
get my advertising legitimately.
We all hope the unfortunate patient will fully re
cover, but there are 99 per cent of chances that he has
had the best skill that could be given. But why in
common decency didn’t these eminent men, when
asked for an opinion, tell the truth and observe the
ethics that should regulate every decent man’s life
and say to the interviewers just what I have said
above, that their opinion was of no account unless
they could be at the bedside and know all the details
of the case.
In the same city where this patient lives a doctor
sometime since said to a patient, “I do not know
whether you have Specific Blood Poison or not, but
you had better let me give you 606 anyway.”
He gave it and from my point of view was guilty
of vicious malpractice, for to-day the patient is suf
fering from the effects of the poison and in danger of
permanent injury from its effects.
That doctor is quite probably a stickler for the
Code of Ethics, but he had better get some idea into
i ' !'■'' '
DR. WM. M. BAIRD.
Brown-Randolph Building.
56 Marietta St., Atlanta, Ga.
his gray matter as to the duty of a physician to his
patients. In this case his code of ethics was for the
good of his pocketbook and NOT the good of the
patient.
There lies before me a most pathetic letter from a
patient who fully realizes now when too late the evil
effects of this remedy and writes me urging me to
save him from the further bad effect.
Having been steadily in this work for over 35
years, I have seen some of the evil effects of routine
treatment without a little common sense to back it up.
Here is a man who has received wonderful relief by a
very little treatment, who has had his urethra ham
mered, punctured and lacerated for months for
stricture and he never had a stricture at all.
We all know, laymen as well as physicians, that a
specific chronic urethritis is one of the most serious
diseases with which the physician has to grapple,
and yet day after day patients go to doctors who
encourage them for the sake of a fee to believe they
can cure them in a few days.
When surgeons say that from 65 to 85 per cent of
ALL operations performed on women is due to this
one primary cause, isn’t it about time the matter is
treated candidly and the patient’s good is thought
of before a false and hypocritical Code of Ethics?
I may be ahead of my times, but the world “do
move” and is coming to see my view of it just as sure
as Atlanta is one of the most progressive cities in
the U. S. A.
If you are interested in this work, in good work,
in work that is in the interest of the patient’s good
rather than in a lot of buncombe and false promises
for the sake of a fee, call and see me. Consultation
free, or write for my literature on health subjects.
Office hours, 9 to 6 daily; Sundays and holidays 10
to 12. Consultation free.
Dr. Wm. M. Baird.
Brown-Randolph Bldg.,
56 Marietta St.,
Atlanta. Ga.
Please send me your booklet on Specific Blood Poison. Also
one on Health, and as soon as it comes from the press, your re
vised article on Brain and Nerve Exhaustion, and other articles
you may publish from time to time.
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