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7 D IIKARST'S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 1013. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. — LANDS FOR SALE BY THOS. W. JACKSON, Fourth Nat. Bank Bldg. Bell Phone Main 5214. 728 ACRES. RIVER plantation, 24 miles west of Atlanta; 2S0 acres in culti vation, of which 100 Is river bot tom; 165 acres in pasture under wire fence; about 350 acres in timber; two 5-room houses and four tenant houses, bams and oth er outbuildings; two public roads. Spectul price if sold at once, In cluding all stock, Implements, tools and feedstuff. 140 ACRES. AN IDEAL colonial home: over 100 acres in high state of culti vation, balance in pasture with running water; 9-room colonial home in beautiful oak grove front ing graded road; 1 1-2 miles from County Seat. This place would have to be seen to be appreciated. Owner is a non-resident and would sell at a remarkably low price on easy terms, or exchange for rent ing property in Atlanta. 62 ACRES. A BEAUTIFUL little North Ga. home, in edge of good town, 40 acres in cultivation, balance in pasture and timber; improve ments cost $5,000 to build. Owner will sacrifice price for quick sale. 185 ACRES. ON CHERT road, beautiful build ing sites, and near railroad sta tion. This is one of the best buys in Fulton County No Informa tion over the phone. 1,430 ACRES. SOUTHWEST GEORGIA cotton plantation; 1,000 acres open, of red pebbly land, with clay subsoil, and lies almost perfectly level; balance in pasture and timber; 26 houses, barns and other outbuild ings. This place belongs to a non resident whose business is such that he can not devote any time to its promotion, consequently It is offered for sale or exchange for Atlanta property. DO ACRES. ABOUT 18 miles north of Atlanta, 45 acres In cultivation, the bal ance in pasture and timber; 5- room residence, 4-room tenant house, two barns and other out buildings. Good orchard, watered by creek and two fine springs. Would make an ideal summer place. Price. $40 per acre, or would exchange a part for Atlanta prop erty. 392 ACRES. ON PIKE ROAD, a modern, well- equipped dairy; 85 acres in rich level bottom land; 5-room cottage, beautiful oak grove, nice lawn, a large barn that cost $1,600. This property belongs to a non-resident, and I am in position, to make you a special price on easy terms. 28 ACRES. CHERT road and railroad running through the property. Fine for dairy, truck or poultry farm. In vestigate and make your offer. 61 ACRES. SIX-ROOM bungalow, a little beauty, barn, servant house and other outhouses; 45 acres in-culti vation, balance in pasture and tim ber. 30 miles north of Atlanta, one mile from depot, and near city limits of good town. Owner must sell. Take it for about what the improvements cost. Would take small cottage in Atlanta in part payment. TITOS. W. JACKSON, Fourth Nat. Bank Bldg. TOO LATE FOR CLASSIFICA-' TION. DON’T work for others. I started a very small mail order business a few years ago. Made 88.500 first year. To day am one of the large mail order op erators of the country. 1 want you to co-operate with me. I will put you into money-making business, supply you with everything to start and the work can be done at home in spare time. No canvassing, no experience. Instructive book free. Address Good Pay, Box 1026, American. 279-5-25 LINOTYPE instruction, 166 «old last month. Each week’s delay is expen sive Address Linotype School, Box 1041, American 230-5-25 II Bumper Crop Is Expected and Labor Supply Is Scarce in Sixty Counties, TOPEKA, May 31.—There will be no excuse for Idleness in Kansas dur ing the approaching summer. Re ports to the State Free Employment Bureau from seventy counties, each wJLi a large wheat acreage, indicate that there will be an unprecedented demand for help In harvesting the wheat crop. April 19 me State Board of Agri culture estimated the total acreage of wheat likely to be cut In the State to be greater by 1,190,000 acres than It was in 1912, with an average con dition 3.38 points better than it was at the same time last year. The State Free Employment Bureau has not received a report from a single county with a large wheat acreage where the condition Is below normal at this reason. Rains since April 19 make the prospects even better than they were at the time of Secretary Coburn’s report, and if the conditions continue as favorable as they are now the 1918 wheat harvest will be one of the greatest in the history of the State. In sixty of the wheat growing coun ties farm help is now reported to be scarce. In only nineteen counties is it reported to be plentiful. It there- iore tseerrs obvious that the harvest will this year demand more men than it did in 1M2, when the Employment Bureau issued a call for approxi mately 20,000 men It :s Impossible at this time to fix the dates when harvest will begin in the various sec tions of the State. In a few reports it Is juggested that It will begin from June 15 to 18. Most of the reports indicate t’»at r will begin a week later in the big wheat counties. How ever there will be a big demand for extra hands, to help take core of al falfa eariv in June and the advance guard of the army of men that will be needed to take care of the wheat should nave litrle difficulty *u secur ing employment at good wages. “Trouble Spots” in Farming That “Ground * ’ Farmers’Profits — Greatest Needs of Southern Farming Are to Feed the Soil What It Needs, to Use More Machinery, to Grow Horse Power and More Cattle, to Co-operate in Selling and Borrowing, to Supplant the Ignorance of I the Tenant With Brains of the Landowner, to Educate Agricultural Leaders for Every Community, to Instruct the Negro Farmer. LANDOWNER IS URGED TO GIVE COW TO TENANT J. D, Price, New Commissioner of Agriculture, Thinks Gift Can Be Investment. Pmtlfru ■"Looking in on some of 1 UUlti y farmers’ poultry houses: Why some of them succeed while others do not. By JUDGE F. J. MARSHALL BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES. WARE & HARPER BUSINESS BROKERS. ROOMS 724 and 725. ATLANTA NATIONAL BANK BLDG. Phone: Bell Main 1705, Atlanta 1868. djl QAA A well-equipped BOTTLING q5I ,Ouv PLANT; the only one in one of the best towns of Northeast Georgia of 3,000 population; big territory In every direction: lots of country stores. This is actual Invoice cost for fixtures and equipment, which are just as good as new. 30EA WELL established BOARDING tpOOU HOUSE; close to heart of City; cheap rent; making good money; in vestigate this. d»i AAA BEAUTIFULLY equipped; es- tablished and profitable high- class DELICATESSEN and FANCY GROCERY business In one of the very best and most thickly populated resi dence sections of the city, close In; owner can not give business personal attention. 700 and splendidly located FANCY GROCERY and MARKET; monthly business of $1,900; growing daily; owner going into wholesale brokerage business only cause of offer. 4s 1 OOO ESTABLISHED and splendid- tp 1,\JW iy located on a prominent corner, FANCY GROCERY and MAR KET, with living rooms attached; heap rent; a good opportunity In this line. $1 OKA GROCERY AND MARKET; good location; North Side; making money; well equipped. This Is actual invoice of the stock of mer- nandise on hand. T B y CHARLES A. WHITTLE Georgia State College of Agriculture. HE one biggest mistake of the Southern farmer Is single crop- $2,000; WELL established and splen didly located on a prominent corner: fine business street; SODA WATER, CIGAR, TOBACCO AND DRUG business; soda business alone averages $150 per month net; drug and soda water together, $200 to $250 per month net; one-half cash, balance easy. WATCH!—These ads changed dally—• WATCH! ABOVE FOR SALE BY WARE & HARPER. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. FOR SALE JOHN J. WOODSIDE HOME, LUOKIE STREET. (Near Pine.) Has five rooms, three up* two down; bath, water and basement. Price, $3,000. THOS. R. FINNEY, Sales Mgr , 12 "REAL ESTATE ROW.” ANNOUNCEMENT. ON ACCOUNT of a large increase in business I have moved my office to 717 EMPIRE BUILDING. RANDOLPH B. RAILEY, CIVIL ENGINEER AND SURVEYOR EXPERT SUBDIVISIONIST. Phone Main 2200. JL Bargain News P EOPLE read the Classified Section of The Georgian with the intense inter est that they read its news columns. The bargain news is a vital factor in keeping down living expenses. People who read and use The Georgian Want Ads save per haps as much money as they make in their profession or trade. Both Phones 8000 ping. When hie one crop re quires clean cultivation, hie biggest mistake is bigger still. For, be it known, the soils of the South are get ting desperately low in organic mat ter. This plight Is chargeable to the cotton growing habit—a crop that re turns exceedingly little vegetable matter to the soil. Corn Is no bet ter. Nor are potatoes or any other crop that requires clean cultivation. The South Is awaking to the neces sity of diversifying agriculture but the soils will not be improved and the adverse tide turned back until there is an Intelligent system of crop rota tion. A shibboleth has been cried In the South, “Raise on the farm what the farmer needs.” It is fide. It is the way to unshackle. But while raising what the farmer needs, care must be taken to raise what the soil needs else both may fail to be supplied. Thus soil feeding Is the big is«ue for the Southern farmer. His fail ure in this respect is his worst. No Economy Without Machinery. The census says that the average value of machinery on the Georgia farm is $72. All that resembles ma chinery where the ignorant tenant holds sway, Is a one-horse plow, a one-horse wagon and a hoe or two. Whereas, to till the average farm which is 92 acres In Georgia, would require about $500, to get efficiency and economy. The larger the farm the more economical the use of farm machinery becomes. The Increasing scarcity of labor would make it necessary to purchase labor saving farm machinery, even If economy of production did not war rant it. When a cultivator or harrow will do the work three or four times as quickly, therefore more cheaply, and do the work much better, why should a farmer follow all day long behind a single plow stirring only a bit of a furrow with each passage across the field of corn or cotton? What a de pressing waste of human energy! And it is a blushing shame that there are great territories each as big as a county; where one will not find a cultivator or a harrow. Yet with the awaking to new things, the Soutii is rapidly becoming a fine market for harrows, cultivators and other labor saving and better cultivating machin ery. Where one farmer ventures to try a cultivator, a harrow, a weeder or some such implement, the virus of progress takes and as soon as the surrounding farmers can rake togeth er the price, they too become custo mers of the machinery manufacturer. A few million dollars invested in farm machinery' would do wonders for agriculture in the South. Power in the South Too Expensive. The cost of farm power in the South is unnecessarily expensive by reason of the fact that so very few horses or mules are raised and prac tically all that are needed are bought at heavy expense from other section:! of the country. The purchase cost of horses and mules can be almost completely eliminated from the Southern farmers* expense account by raising colts. It can be done. It is being done. A grade Percheron mare costing less than a mule, efin do the work of the mule, foal a colt that in 6 months will be worth $150 or more. It not only can be done but has been done. Thus instead of paying out large sums of money for Western mules, the Southern farmer can raise on his own farm all of his work stock and some to sell. The cost of farm power is then reduced to a minimum and the profit side of the farming account is' increased. In this respect, as in others, there Is a breaking up of old-time ways, and it is becoming quite the usual thing in the South to hear talk of a company of farmers banding together to purchase a Percheron stallion to breed with native mares and produce good types of farm draught stock. It can be easily’ predicted that within the next five years there will be a tremendous revolution in respect to raising colts in the Southern States. How much there is to be done be fore the horse-pow r er revolution Is complete can be gathered from the recent census. Take Georgia for an Instance. It has been figured oqt from statistics on horses in Georgia that only one farmer In every hun dred Is averaging a colt. At this rate every farmer that has a colt for sale will have ninety-nine buyers among his neighbors. At present, according to census figures, Georgia is spending right around $1,000,000 a month, or $12,000,000 a year for horses and mules, spending it with the stock grower In other States, Isn’t It a shame to throw away so much good Georgia money when it Is easy enough not to? Live Stock the Soil Builders. In view of the growing deficiency of humus or organic matter in Southern soils and the necessity for crop rota tion, the question of how best to con serve the vegetable matter of the soil and return it to the land for fertility is important. Here one confronts another serious failure of the South ern farmer and that is general neglect of growing live stock. Via live stock the soil can be most successfully and economically’ enriched. The one dictum of the modem Southern farmer should be “Selling nothing off of tho farm which can be fed on it.” This is a sure policy of keeping soil fertility close home and in reach. If no real profit were made in feeding cattle for the mar ket, their contribution to soil fertil ity, would make it well worth while to feed them. But there is no rea son why cattle w’hich can graze nine months in the year, cannot be fed with cotton seed meal, silage and pea- vine hay and perhaps a little corn, all raised on the home farm, and pro duce beef in competition with any part of the United States, consider ing that the Southern farmer can find his market close home. But the silo is a rare piece of f.:-m architecture on the Southern fa m, and a part of the mistake of not r; attempted, will be more than likely attributable to a lack of the silo— the greatest waste saver ever asso ciated with cattle raising. The silo does not exist near as abundantly as the number of cattle grown in the South would warrant. The South has not taken up the silo seriously because it has not yet taken up cat tle raising very seriously. Lets Somebody Else Take His Money. Everybody -makes more money otY of the farm than the farmer. Take a carload of watermelons—Georgia melons if you please.* This is who gets the money: Received by farmer, $52, 8.33 per cent. Received by buyer, $240, 38.09 per cent. Received by railroad, $75, 11.91 per cent. Commissions of other agents, $263, 41.67 per cent. Paid by consumer, $630, 100 per cent. But 1t is not quite such a skin game when the farm products as a whole are considered. The distrlbu- wash. The brains have moved in large fioceuluent masses to adorn oar flourishing cities. The land of our fathers has been too largely commit ted to the hired man, his one mule, ten hounds and deeolation. Just 191,000 of the 291,000 farms of Geor gia, for instance, are operated by tenants. While the farm ow-ners in creased 10,000 during the last decade, the tenants swarmed 56,000 stronger. “Whoa!" to this. One step forward isn’t much when five are taken back ward. Considerable Georgia cattle are af flicted with ticks. Our absent land lords are elegant people but they are afflicting agriculture in the same way. They suck but give nothing back. Oh, yes, there is a sentiment evolved. The land has been in the family since the days of the crown, but sentiment don’t fertilize cotton and com, it does not build terraces, rotate crops, raise cattle and restore lost strength to the soil. Our sentimental absent landlords should either restore the lost brains to the soil and give them place along with their affections or else sell to tion of returns from the farm crops somebody who Is willing to get ”on of 1911 was as follows: Uv, “ V1 " v '~ ; ~ the Job” with his brains $6,000,000,000, i Community Needs Educated Farmer. Those who have been mixing most brains with the soils of the South have been doing best, In fact, are making good. It is inspiring more and more brain investment on farm lands. It is the meaning of the thirst for agricultural education and infor mation. Farming in the South has had no other outlook than cotton, but more and more the South Is get ting other visions and each vision requires information. Hence tho awakening interest In agricultural education in the South. The big need of the rural commun ity is a young man with a diploma from an Agricultural College, whose information, inspiration, broad out look, leadership, success, will open the eyes of the farm youth to their homemade opportunities. A southern 9tate that fails to do everything In its power to provide agricultural ed ucation. which does not put forth every effort to round up the country youth in a State College of Agricul ture, Is looking with too little pur pose to the future upbuilding of the South. With more concern should the South look to establishing a. high or der of brain efficiency to solve the complexities of farming, even more than to any other source of natural wealth. Neglecting the Negro Farmer. A very considerable part of the tenant class of the South is the ne gro. In large areas and sprinkled liberally everywhere, the black man is doing all the farming. The pros pects are that he will continue to do a very large part of thf farming for years to come. But this large mass of soil tillers can be likened only to the "Man With the Hoe.” His methods are as primitive as the country itself. For the most part those among them who have been raised up as leaders have “hot footed” to the cities. Only with great rarity and at vast intervals can there be found a negro farmer who is keeping step with farm pro gress. The agricultural revolution has largely revoluted around and on past the negro farmer, who in his lonely cabin neither read's nor dreams of w’hat is taking place in the world of agriculture. But the South cannot afford to be indifferent to the negro farmer, who, though an humble, ignorant man, »s yet a wide part of the foundation on which a very great part of the com mercial success of the South must rest. Build him up in agricultural faith tentlous r: l» r now p~.ni So°ut,l tT^Jer^rnVr" ?al°Cre5lt Commission of tho Unttad | ^“cce.. on his good broad shonl- ... It is a serious failure of tho South Of course eierybody + SJ® i that the gospel of improved ngricul- why already. It Is organization j tliro hoo nnt th£k Receivedby farmer, 46.1 per cent. Legitimate cost of selling, $1,200.- 000,000, 9.2 per cent. Received by farmer, $6,000,000,000, 3.8 per cent. Dealers’ and retailers’ profits. $3,746,000,000, 28.9 per cent. Waste in selling, $1,500,000,000, 12 per cent. Paid by consumer, $13,000,000,000, 100 per cent. But even to this time it will be seen that more than half of the profit of farming goes to the man outside of the plow handles. When it comes to putting your fingers on the man who is most responsible for the “high cost,” it will not rest heavily on the farmer. True the farmer would not be ashamed to take the money if he could get his hands on all the con sumer pays. Some few truck far mers' associations right here in Dixie are beating the game considerably by robbing the middle man, for which let congratulations only be extended —not that the middleman is very cul pable but just too much of a luxury sometimes. The way the truckers manage d, is to have an agent in the big mar kets who sells for delivery day after to-morrow, who wires his order id Mr. President of the Truckers’ Asso ciation. Thereupon the telephone gets busy a few minutes and the members arranee to have the truek on the depot platform at the required tour. Aw’ay it goes direct to the re tailer eluding some several hands which have been wont to digging into the proceeds of the farmer’s sweat. But for the most part the Southern farmer dances to the tune that emits from the little end of the horn, pay ing for the horn, the wind and the noise. Pays Considerably For Loans. In another kind way, we farmers are benevolently doable, even more so than the Egyptian Arab. We dig dow’n intb oQr geans for $85 to pay the interest on $1,000—the Arab es capes by paving only $80 out of his capacious bloomers. In France the farmers do not seem to be stock holders in the banks and refuse to pay more than $43 for the use of a thousand dollars worth of francs a year. In Germany they consent to pay $44. To get a close scrutiny of how European farmers manage the bank ers, how they blackball the commis sion men and how they manage to buy from, the manufacturer direct— in other words, how’ the farmer and consumer have short circuited—is the meaning of that large and pre now By Charles A. Whittle. “Make a present of a cow to every farm tenant.” Thus J. D. Price, the incom ing Commissioner of Agricul ture, would have it. The landowner is to do the presenting as an investment, if presents can be called invest ments. The new Commissioner of Agriculture for Georgia, who steps into office June 1, is like ly to be dubbed “The Cow Man,” because of his faith in a tenant plus a cow. It is a money-making propo sition to present cows to ten ants in two w^ys. according to Mr. Price. One is that a $35 gift cow will pay each year about fiO per cent on the in vestment by contributing fer tility to the soil. The other is that which is derived from better health, more labor and greater efficiency of a tenant who has added butter and bub termilk to his diet. The conditions of a gift cow, the new commissioner would have, are that the tenant should return to the farm all the fertilizing matter which she produces. Scientific analysis has re vealed that a cow’s contribu tion of fertilizing material is not less than $20 per year. No scientific data is available as to how much more and better labor would be obtained from a better nourished and more contented and interested ten ant, but it would not be a wild guess to say that, it would amount to more each year than the cost of the cow. Figured conservatively, a cow would yield 100 per cent annually in the hands of a ten ant, which is pretty good for cows and tenants. among farmers. But there are lots of interesting and profitable things to be learned In Europe especially by one who is not bothered with footing the bills. Restoration of Brains Needed. Southern soils have been sadly drained of their fertility and brains. ture has not been preached to the negro. Too much potential wealth is embodied in the negro farmers and too little efficiency is manifested in developing it, to leave any other than a serious obligation upon the white race to see to it, that the negro knows how to raise more cotton, more com, more potatoes, more peas, The soil has slipped away with the beans, clovers and grass, more cattle. Latest Skyscraper Is 32 Stories High Professional Building Rises In Man hattan—Twice as High as At lanta's Tallest Structure. NEW YORK, N. Y. t May 31.—An other ta'l building will be added to the skyscrapers of this city, accord ing to plans filed with the Building Department. It will be the Proies- sional Building, at the southeast cor ner of Seventy-second Street and West End Avenue. It will rise 465 feet from the curb, and will rank sixth in the list of New York's tali building3. They are as follows; Height, Building. Stories. (Feet.) The Woolworth 51 760 Metropolitan Life Tower .50 700 Singer Tower 41 612 New Municipal 24 560 Bankers’ Trust 39 539 Professional 32 465 The building is Intended to meet the needs of physicians, dentists, ar chitects, artists, and other profes sional workers. STEAM SUCCEEDS HORSE IN NORTHWESTERN WOODS REMIDJI. MINX.. May 31 -Steam ‘•kidders have ended the days of the horse in the lumber woods. The new machine is more* powerful, more tractable, its feed is the waste of the land, there is less danger, and it can work summer as well 'as winter. “Skidding” is taking the logs from the place where they are cut to the shipping point. For many years this has been done with hor >••.■ , which dragged them over the .snow The hardest part was rolling them up th< skids onto the cars. This operation ing beef cattle, or failure when it is also is dangerous to man and beast. Record Realty Deal In McDuffie County P. S. Knox's 4,000-Acre Farm to Be Subdivided Into Tracts—Settlers Are Invited. THOMSON, GA.. May 31.—One of the largest real estate deals ever pull ed ofT in McDuffie County is being arranged and contemplates the sale of the magnificent 4,000-acre farm of P. S. Knox, in small tracts of from 50 to 76 acres, at public auction. Mr. Knox, will still have left as much land as he Is selling, but realizes that smaller farms and more land owners are needed in this county, and takes this step to bring It about. $200,000 in Realty Is Held by Hermit Samuel E. Haslett, of Brooklyn, Saved and Bought Land—Estate Worth $1,000,000. BROOKLYN. N. Y , May 31—Samuel E. Haslett. the Remsen Street recluse, who a little more than a year ago was declared incompetent after a series of sensational developments resulting in the indictments of former Senator Frank Gardner and George Decker, a male nurse. Is possessed of an estate worth considerably more than $1,000,000, ac cording to the accounting filed by the Brooklyn Trust Company and. Lawyer John T. Bladen, loint committee in charge of the estate. The total value of the personal prop arty that was found In Air. Haaletts possession a year ago was $919,766.64, and the ten pieces of real estate that he owned in Brooklyn and Manhattan have an assessed valuation of more than $§00,000 The market value rnay be larger than that. LARGE CONTRACT MADE BY FULLER BUILDERS The George A. Fuller Company, contractors on the Ponce DeLeon Apartments and Winecoff Hotel Jobs in Atlanta is making a record in | building construction over the coun try. This concern is also building rious kinds of structures in Boston, Buffalo. Chattanooga, Chicago, De troit, Hot Springs, Kansas City. Lex ington. Knoxville. Milwaukee. Minne apolis. Mobile. New York. Philadel phia, Somerville, Spartanburg, Wash ington, White Sulphur Springs, Mon treal. Toronto and Winnipeg. In addition to the business of the George A. Fuller Company, if is stated the company during rhe venr has taken quite a substantial Interest in two large railroad construction con tracts, and work on both is now well under way. The amount of work in volved in these contracts will aggre gate about $5,744,125. Courthouse Sales to Draw Big Crowds A great deal of interest always centers around the monthly court- hou* sales, and Tuesday, June 3, proposes to be no exception. J. D. Brad well, administrator for the late Ermie Pope, will sell 14 and 16 Ponders Avenue, 60x100. The at torneys are Hendrix & Holomon. Dot 16 of the Porter subdivision on the northeast side of Stonewall Street, near Chapel Street, 50x200 feet, will be sold for the estate of the late Mrs. Lena Rosenthal. Eugene M and G. E. Mitchell are the attorneys. The estate of the late J. H. Ben nett will sell through N. M. Cameron, administrator, a lot on the west side of Hurt Street, Inman Park, 197 feet southwest of Euclid Avenue. A. A. and E. L. Meyer are the attorneys. Ex-Mayor Courtland S. Winn will sell for the estate of James R. As 7 kew one share of stock in the Grlffiii Hotel & Realty Company. W. W. Vlsanska is the attorney. Net Land Earnings $3,559,302 in Year NEW YORK, N. Y, May 31.—The ninth annual report of the United States Realty cod Improvement Com pany shows that the gross earnings of the post year were $3,569,302.96. This included $2,202,144.10 from in vestments and $1,357,158.86 from building contracts. Deducting inter est, depreciation, etc., the net earn ings com” to $2,078,062. Of this amount $808,140 was paid out in divi dends, leaving $673,422 as surplus for the year. The assets of the company are placed at $33,281,490.12. of which real estate and building^ are repre sented by $19,489,343.y4. It is not my Intention to belittle the furmer in any way, for he has I always been termed the backbone of the country, but at times this back bone needs stiffening in places. We frequently see places where we think it might be bettered to advantage without injuring the structure as a whole. A farmer is one of those in dividuals who gets into a rut where it seems so much easier to pull along in the rut than to make the extra effort to pull out of It. This is the case with many farmers in regard to their poultry, and other things, too, but the poultry is the one we have our eyes upon at this timq, Let us tell you at the start, how ever. that our picture does not cover the whole farm landscape, for there are a lot of farmers who have not been in these ruts for years but are making good money out of poultry and give it due credit for It has has brought to them. For we notice in getting around over the country that there are farmers who have good poultry houses and fixtures, as good as any one need want. Then we find a whole lot of places where the chicken has not a place It can set its foot and not be considered a nui sance. We might say they have not a place to lay their eggs, but they are not bothered much along that line, for it is a matter of getting enough to eat to sustain life, without being clubbed upon all sides. Roosting Places Scarce. It is also a matter of where to find a roosting place out of the rain, without roosting on the young man’s buggy top or the old man’s wagon seat. It is to thla class of chicken owners to which we want to talk. Now, dear reader, you may not be the one to whom we should talk, If not, will you please loan your paper to your neighbor who really needs advice. We have talked to them time and again face to face, and we think we know about the pitch of their tune. It sounds something like this: "No, we don’t take stock In the chickens; the old woman fusses with them some, but I have all I can do to look after the work that brings me in something, without tinkering with any pesky chickens that are more bother than they are worth, and always hungry and under foot to be kicked away before I can take a step. I know I would not keep a chicken on the place if the old woman didn’t want a few for eggs and the table.” Does not that sound about like the tune many of them give you when you mention chickens to them as be ing a profitable adjunct to other farm* products? Of course, we know that none of your readers ever talk that way but you may have heard it from some of your neighbors. No doubt they thought they were honest in what they were saying; at least they wanted to believe that it was true. Why? Simply because they did not want to invest in a single dollar in anything for the care of the chickens. Would Pay for House. They did not want to believe that a good but inexpensive roosting hous'e would go a long way toward doubling the egg yield during the winter. They did not want to be lieve that by so housing the hens the manure could be easily saved and In three or four years pay for the house, and at the same time save the boy’s buggy top. temper and a whole lot of other things equally im portant. They did not want to be lieve that the incubator would hatch the chicks so early in the spring as to make a fine lot of early fall laying pullets, to say nothing of the returns from the cockerels marketed as broilers. These things all cost money, there’s the rub! The farmers of this class are all opposed to any new-fangled way of managing the chickens, just as they were opposed to the mowing machine and wheat binder before they were obliged to become acquaint ed with them. They do not like to give up to the ideas which their wives have been advancing about better chickens, bet ter methods, more eggs and better eggs. They are the acknowledged heads of tho household and should not be forced to mibmit to any fool notions that the women folks might study up. Keep up the good work, wives; it may soak in after a while and do some good. But you say it causes more or less friction in the ■ household. Friction because it means more thought and more worry. But what of that. Friction is what has made this old world what it is to-day. Friction produces the elec tric current which causes the hun dreds of electric cars to pass from point to point in all our large cities, and besides seems destined to move the whole world. Friction produces tho fine polish upon all kinds of met al; upon fine woodwork. What does it not produce? Some Friction Needed. So it takes a certain amount of friction to get right in the line of producing more and better chickens; more eggs at less expense. Who is it that should not be willing to forego the added friction to both mind and body necessary ta effect the change? Farmers, let us listen to our wives Just this one time if at no other on the matter of taking care of our chickens and getting & better class of poultry to care for and which will in turn give us result* that we may well be proud of. Let us spend a few of those tight- fisted cotton dollars in building & cheap but comfortable roosting house, and let the hens pay you back ten fold later on, as they will do. Build some colony houses for those young sters to be reared it, letting them oc cupy it through the winter as a lay ing house Get an Incubators for your wife if she thinks she wants one, and we will predict that it will not be many years until you will be tell ing your neighbors about your chick ens and how much money WE are making out of them. We know a lot of farmers who are making money out of chickens. They are the converted kind. The kind that know a good thing when they see 1t coming down the road. In speaking of the young man's prospect for moneymaking on the farm one of these prosperous chicken farmers told me some time ago that the young man should take up poultry raising. A Farmer's Advice. “It is a mighty good thing to torn to,” said he. “I would rather have 1,000 good strain White Leghorn henir than almost anything that I know of. I can take 600 of those hens on five acres and make a living off of them. That is, I could make $1,000 as easy as falling off a log, and not work my self to death, either.” He said he would do It selling his eggs for mar ket purposes, furnished in the finest possible rhape so as to command an advance over the regular market price. But It would not be done with any kind of old hens by any means, for you can never tell what they are going to do for you like you can the flock of thoroughbreds. A real live farmer should take as much Interest in poultry as he does in his cotton. Ho should read as much about poul try as he does about cotton. If he did the latter he would soon be mak ing more out of the poultry than he would from the cotton. Many farmers are making good liv ings out of their poultry. Others are putting money in the bank be side. Then there are the really luoky ones, as people are wont to call them, who are really getting rich at the business. The way Is open. What has been done can be done again. Some of them run their place for eggs alone; others for stock and eggs com bined. Then w r e see great big farms out West covered with fine bronze turkeys. They are money makers. Wo have seen them raise 500 of these turkeys, getting $1,600 for them, charing $1,000. Some run to tur keys and ducks. Wake up, look around you and see what you and your farm and surroundings are best suited foF* and make up your mind to get it be fore another year rolls around. Capitalists Busy Improving Fronts Of Big Buildings Clean up your skyscraper, Mr. Bond Holder—spring is here. That’s the sort of tune that is being hummed around Atlanta streets these buBy days. The Piedmont Hotel officials originated it. They began scraping on the stone front of the Piedmont, to remove some of the smoke and dirt that had gathered there these many years. The work has gone along nicely and the Piedmont looks much better in its new dress. The Candler Building was next to feel the influence of clean-up days. Workmen started scouring the marble at the base of the building and to work upward. They haven’t finished yet. The Equitable Building was next, with a scaffolding where busy scrub bers might stand and remove some evidences of soft-coal consumption in Atlanta. Who’s next? Owners of buildings are angry with a certain type of citizen which in fests these parts. Explaining his at titude, one of the owners said: “I think people who chew tobacco shouldn’t be allowed in town. They don’t deserve to stand in the shadow of a decent office building.” Side Street Work With Peachtree Job During the time that Peachtree re paving has been in progress from Sixth to Fifteenth Street several in tersecting streets along the route have been vastly iinnroved. Sixth Street, for instance, which has never had a good paving between the Peachtrees, is now a thoroughly pass able highway, and the same is true of several other intersecting streets. Used a Billion Bricks. Building operations in New York City in 1912 required a total of 1,019,- 250.000 pricks, valued at $5,858,770, or $5.74 per thousand, as compared with 926.072,000 bricks in 1911, valued at $4,717,633, or $5.09 per thousand. This was an Increase of 93,187,000 bricks and of $1,133,137 in value in one year. Farmer Gives Away $20,000, An He Has Feels Better After Disposing of Es tate Left by Wife—Her Spirit Told Him To. HAMMOND, IND., May 31.—-Leburn Moyer, of Olchess, a middle-asred farmer, to-day gave away all his property, amounting to $20,000, and started to work for a livelihood. Two years ago Moyer’s wife died, leaving the property to him. His conscience began to trouble him a year ago. until he told his lawyer that he believed his wife's spirit was urging him to deed the property to her sister, Mary J. Porter. Since the deed was turned over Moyer has experienced a hapriness he had not felt in years. CHICKENS RECRUITED TO SAVE FRUIT FROM FROST FINDLAY, OHIO, May 81.—A few more than 200 chickens last night saved tho fruit crop of a farmer of Blanchard Township. Learning from the 'Weather Bureau that frosts might be expected, and knowing that his 800 cherry and apple trees were just far enough along to freeze, the hen nery was ransacked. The fowls were carried to a tree, some of the large trees containing six or eight chick ens. When the trees w’ere examined this morning it was found that the frost had not touched any of the blossoms. * The warmth of the chickens had saved them. Other trees in the neigh borhood were frozen. ALTERATIONS COST $21,000 IN CARNEGIE RESIDENCE NEW YORK, May 31.—Henry D. Whitfield, architect, has filed plans for enlarging the music room in the residence of Andrew Carnegie at 2 Easi Ninety-first Street, corner of Fifth Avenue, by building a one-story extension 30 feet wide and 7.2 feet deep and also putting in a new mar ble base in the vestibule. The cost will bo $21,000.