Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

I 16 D TlEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN. ATLANTA. DA . SUNDAY. JUNE 1. 19tt. “Trouble Spots” in Farming j That “Ground ’ ’ F antlers’ Profits _ I v k Greatest Nof Southern Fannin# Are to Food thoSoil What It Needs, j to Use More Machinery, to (Jrow Horse Power and More Cattle, to; Co-operate in Selling and Borrowing, to Supplant the Ignoranre of] the Tenant With Brains of the Landowner, to Edueate Agricultural Leaders for Every <'onununitv, to Instruct the Negro Farmer. By CHARLES A. WHITTLE Georgia State College of Agriculture. T HE one biggest mistake of the Southern farmer la single crop ping. When his one crop re quires clean cultivation, his 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 ihat re turns ex<eedlnglv little vegetable matter tc the soil. Corn is no bet- t«] Not are potatoes or any other crop that require* clean cultivation ' The South Is awaking to the neces sity of diversifying agriculture but t.h* soils will not b# improved and th* ad verse tide turned back until there jfe an intelligent system <*f crop rota tion. • A shibboleth has been cried in the South. “Raise on the farm what the farmer needs ’* It is fine It 1* the attempted, will be more than likely j wash. The brain® have moved in attributable to a lack of the silo large flocculuent masses to adorn our the greatest waste saver ever a*so- flourishing cities. The land of our dated with cattle raising. The silo fathers has been too largely commit- does not exist near as abundantly as led to the hired man. Ills one mule, ill* number of tattle grown in the ten hounds anti denotation. Just South would warrant. The South 191,000 of the 291.000 farms of Geor- has not laken up the silo seriously for Instance, ate operated by because It has not yet taken up cat- tenants. While the farm owners lit tle raising very seriously. creased 10.000 during the last decade. i ci- *r i ia the tenants swarmed 56.000 strong* L.t. Somebody El.e T.k. Hi. Monty. . whoa ... lhi „ H|p[ , forw “,. d Everybody make* more mone\ off isn't much when five are taken back- of the farm than the farmer. Take ward. a <arload of watermelons -Georgia 1 ° nj dderab'e <»eo gia cattle are af- melons if you please. This Is who 1|, '^ ed v|th n k *- ° ur «b®ent $52. 8.33 per « av to unshackle. But while raisin* Ramo w hen the farm products a what the farmer needs, tare must be tlfken to raise what the soil needs ejfe both may fail to be supplied. Thus soil feeding is the big issue, Recelvedbv farmer $0,000,000,(100, f<>r the Southern farmer. His fall- I 4B 1 per cent. utp in this respect Is his worst -No Economy Without Machinery. The census says that the average value of machinery on the Georgia fa v m is $72. All that re*embles ma chinery where the ignorant tenant holds sw ay, is e 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 $f»oo. to get efficiency and economy. The larger the farm the more economical the use of farm machinery becomes. The increasing scarcity of labor would make it necessary to purchase labor saving farm machinery, even if economy of production did not war rant it. When a cultivator or harrow will <5o the work three or four times as quickly, therefore more cheaply, and do the work much better, why should a farmer follow all dav long behind a single plow stirring only a hit of a furrow A$lth each passage across the Legitimat (KM).0OO. 9.2 pet- 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 corn. 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 somebody who is willing to get "on the Job" with his brains. Community Needs Educated Farmer. Those who have been mixing most •ost of selling, $1,200.- brains with Jlip soils of the South have been doing best. In fact, are gels the money Received by farmer- ten t. Received by buyer. $240, 38.09 per cent. Received by railroad. $75. 11.91 per cent. < 'ommissiona of other agents. $263, 4107 per cent. Paid by consumer, $030, 100 per cent. Rut it Is not quite such a skin whole are considered. The distribu tion of returns from the farm crops • f 1911 was as follows: cent. Received b\ farmer. $6,000,000,000. making good. it Is inspiring more I 3.8 per cent Dealers’ and retailers' profits. ($3,745,000,000, 28.9 per cent Waste in selling S 1.500.000.000. I2 1 per cent. Raid b\ consumer. $13,000,000,000, j 100 per cent. ^ But even to this time .it will be ; requires information seen that more than half of the profit awakening interest in and rntet brain Investment on farm 'ande. It is the meaning of ihe thirst for agricultural education and infor mation. Farming in the South ha"? had no other outlook than cotton, but more anti mote the South is get - ting other visions and each vision Hence th.’ agricultural fisld of tern or cotton? What a de pressing waste of human energ\ ! Anti (sometimes. if is a blushing shame that there are | The way the truckers tnanagt great territories each as big a of farming goes to the man outside education ,n the South, of the plow handles When it comes] The big need of the rural eommun to putting your fingers on the man q v H voung man with a diploma who is most responsible for the “high f rom 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 state that fails to do everything ; n its power to provide agricultural ed ucation. w hich does not put forth every effort to round up ihe country *olleg r of Agricul ture. is looking with too little pur pose to the future upbuilding of the ( South. With more concern should the •L I South look to establishing a high b. - ost." It will not rest heavily on th fa rmcr. True the farmer would not b ashamed to take- the money if could gel his hands on all the con sumer pays. Some few truck far mere' associations right here in Dixi a«* beating the game considerabl; by lobbing the middle man. for which youth in a St at 'et cotigratulaticms *>nl\ be extended —not that the middleman is very cu) pable but jusi too much of a luxury a | is to have an agent in the big mar- I ( j p1 n f brain effleiencs to solve th-* complexities of farming, even more than to any other source of natural wealth. Neglecting the Negro Farmer. A very considerable - part of the county; where one will not And a 1 kets who sells for delivery day aft cultivator <»r a harrow . Yet witli ( to-morrow, w he w em his ordei ; 1 the awaking to new things, the South Mr. President of the Truckers’ Asm- le rapidly beco-fiing a flue market fori elation. Thereupon the telephon • barrow*, cultivators and other labor (get* busy a few minutes and the • aving and better cultivating machin- ! members arrange to have the tru 'where one farmer venture* to j oh the depot platform at the requited tenant class of the South is the ne- -- In large areas and sprinkl-1 a cultivator. harrow, a weeder gro. Away It goes direct to the re or Bofttt Viich Implement; thCvlru* pH taller eluding some several hands liberally everywhere the black man progress rakes ami as soon as the «hieh have been wont to dlgglnu into | :s (loin* all yhe fartnln* Tha pro* surrounding farmers can lake togeth- the proceeds of the farmer’s sweat. 1 pecta are that he will continue 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 linnet -warily expensive by reason of the fact that so ver> few horses nr mules are raised anti pra* - thrift My all that are needed ar, bought at neav.v « vpens* from other section! of the country. The purchase coat of hoi But for the most part the Southern i do a vert large part of the farming farmer dance* to the nine that elrtlli for years to come. fiom the little end of the horn, pay- But this large mass of soil tillers Ing for the horn, the wind anti the can be likened only to the “Man no | Br With the Hoe His methods are as Pay, Considerably For Loan, primitive- a, the Country Itself. Kor tlie most part those among them wno In another kind v\a\, "e farmeis have been raised up as leaders have are benevolently doable, even more j *h 0 ( footed” to the cities. Only with so than the Egyptian Arab, W c* jdig j great rarity and at vast interv al* an there he found a negro farmer down into our geans for $85 to pay the Interest on $1,000- the Arab es capes by paying only $80 out of his spacious bloomers. in Prance the com •nase rust j »*» , and mules can be almost | farmers do not seem to be stock - liminated from the (holders in the banks and refuse ftouthein farmers expense account by l* ; *> ilmn $43 tor the use of a •an be done. It thousand dollars worth of franc A *:adc Perch*rO!i|.ve« r 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- , ve , a w |^ p part of the foundation on sion men and how they manage *0 w hieh a very great part of the com* hu> from the manufacture! direct merclal success of the South must in other words, how the farmer and r ^ Ht have short circuited—I** 1 ' raising colts. It 1= being clone, mare costing less than a mule, can do th* vveyk of the mule, foal a colt that in tV months will be worth $15b or more. It not only can be done lu' has been done. Thus instead of paving out large sums of money for Western mules, the Southern farmer <an raise on his own firm all of his work stink anil >onw to «♦!!. The cost of farm power is th<n reduced to a minimum and the profit side of the farming account is increased. In this respect, as in others, there rs a breaking un of o'd-time ways, and it is becoming quite the .usual who is keeping step with farm pro gress. The agricultural revolution lias largely revoluted around and on past the negro farmer, who in ills lon<=*!v cabin neither read® nor dreams .»f what is taking place in the world of agriculture. But the South cannot afford t<* be indifferent to the negro farmer, who. though an humble, ignoiant man consume the meaning of that large and pre tentious commission now prying about Europe under the title of “Ru ral (’redit Commission of the I'nited States." (if course, everybody knows the why already. It is organization among farmers But there are lots i f interesting and profitable tilings 10 ‘\ thing in the South to heai talk "f a learned in Europe especially ov (ompanv of farmer* banding togethei ; ono u ho ^ nol bothered with footing to purchase a Pert heron stallion t° ‘ tlie bills ";'r V " " IH " S a , nd V""l IU SL Restorat'on of Br.m. Noodert. good t> ; - of farm draught stock It .an be tasih predicted that within Southern soils have been satiiv Ik, next Av. veals there will he a drained of theii fertility and In tins, tremendous revolution in respect to The soil has slipped away with th>- r«i*ing colts in the Southern States j How much there is i«> be done be fore the hor*e-powcr revolution i complete can be gathered from th recent census. Take Georgia for an lweianoe. It h-.s been figured out fiY*m statistics on horses in Georgia that only one fanner in every bun dteri is averaging » colt. At this rate every- farmei that has a colt for aale will have ninety-nine buyers among his neighbor-. At present, recording to census ftgmres. Georgia is^ spending t igh: around $1.000.oou .• jiiontn. or $12.hho.ooo a yeai fori horses and mules, spending it with* tf>e *toc k grower in other Stales, Igp t it a shame to throw away so much good Georgia money when it i* easy enough noi to? L»vs Stock the Soil Builders. "In view of the growing deflt ien* \ of humus or organic matter in Southern s-blJs and the necetsitv foi » rop rota tion. the question ot how liest to « on 5t#rve the vegetable matter of the sol 1 gnd return it to the land for fertility Is Important. Here ttn* i-onfrontR e/i<Hher r-erious failure of ihe South- ;rn ftfmei and lliat i- general negb-tq «f growing live st>»*k. \'ia live stock the soil can i>e most sue* t ssfull.v atul economica I iv euricln-ti The one dictum of the niode.n Southern farmer sliould be 'Selling nothing eff of the farm vvhicii an be fed on it.’’ This »s a sure poliev of keeping sol! fertility close home and in reach. If n® real profit were /Wade in feeding c-aitle for ihe mar ket. their contribution to soil ferti’- !t). Would make it well worth v\hi!e rn feed thepi. Rut there is no rea son why cattle which can graze pin*’ months in the year, cannot be fed with cotton seed meal, silage anti pea vine hay and perhaps a little corn, a!' raised on the home farm, and prn- d he"? in competition with any per’ of the i'nited Statue, consider ng that the Southern farmer can I -hipp’ng pom 'ad his market close home {has boon •• n- with heroes. whi*-D Fur the silo is a rare piece of farm { dragged :h^m ov er the .«now. Th rcr.itectur* on the Southern farm j hardest part was rolling them up th*- if. a p&rt of the mistake of not rais- j skids onto th*^ < ara. This operati *. •i cattle, or failure when it is also is dangerous to man and beast. | Build him up in agricultural far. h and good works and the negro will heave the South to greater commer cial success on his good broad shoul ders. It is a serious failure of the South that the gospel of improved agricul 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 io see to it. that the negro knows how to raise more cotton, more corn, more potatoes, more pea*, 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 X. Y.. Mav St.—An other ta'I buildi.tg will he added t•» the skyscrapers of this city, accord ing to plans fi'e-1 with the Building Department. It will be the Profes sional Building, at the southeast cor ner of Seventy-second Street and West End Avenue. It will rise 46.*. feci from the curb, and will rank sixth in the list of New York's tali buildings. They arc a,s follows Tow t Building ’Pile Wool worth Metropolitan Idf Singer Tower New Municipal Bankers’ Trusi Professional The building is intend tile metis of physicians, d collects, artists, and oil sional workers STEAM SUCCEEDS HORSE IN NORTHWESTERN WOODS REMIDJ1 MINN . Mav ot Steam bidders have ended the days of tiie horse in the lumber woods. The new machine is more powerful, more tractable, its feed i* the v^aste of the land, there is less danger, and It can work summer as well as winter Skidding" is taking the logs from the place wh-?re thev are cut to »h<* For rr»an\ rears fids ies H eight. ( Feet.» 50 TOO 4 1 HI 2 2 4 560 19 .39 32 4H5 •ti io meet enlist*, hi- »**»• lirttfes- 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 <»ne of the largest real estate deals ever pull ed off in McDuffie J'ounty 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 75 acres, at public auction. Mr. Knox will still have left as much land as he is selling, but realizes tbai smaller farm* and more land owners are needed in this county und tak> * this step to bring it about. LANDOWNER IS URGED TO GIVE COW TO TENANT J. D, Price, New Commissioner of Agriculture, Thinks Gift Can Be Investment. By Charles ‘A. Whittle. "Makp a present of a cow to every farm tenant.” I hns J. (). I’rice. the incom ing Commissioner „f Agricul ture. would have it. The landowner is io do the present ini? as an investment, if presents can he called invest ments. The new Commissioner of Agriculture for Ceorffia. who steps into office June 1. is like ly to he dubbed “The Cow Man.'' because of his faith in a tenant plus a cow. It is a money-makin<; propo sition in present cows to ten ants in two ways, according to Mr. Price. One is that a $•(•> jfift cow will pay each year about HO per cent on thp in vestment by contributing fer tility to the soil. TIip other is that which is derived from better health, more labor and •treater efficiency of a tenant who has added butter and but termilk to his diet. The conditions of a srift 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 he 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 1(H) per cent annually in the hands of a ten ant. which is pretty good for cows and tenants. Pflfflfrv ■■■L°°ki n g in on some of 1 UU1U y farmers’ poultry houses: Why some of them succeed while others do not. By JUDGE F J. MARSHALL It i.« not my intention to belitfn the farmer in any way, for he has* Always been Homed th** backbone of the country, but at timer this back bone need? stiffening in places. VVc frequently sec places where we think it might be bettered to advantage without injuring the structure as a whole. A farmer is one of those in- diviouals who gets into a rut where it «eems so much easier to pull along in the ru» than to make the extra effort, to pull ou: of it. This is tin case with o many farmers in regard to their poultry, and other things, too, but the poultry is the one we have our eyes upon at this time. Let us tel! you at the start, how ever. that our picture does not cover the whole farm landscape, for there are a lot t.f farmers who have not been In these ruts for years but arc making good money out of pouitrv and give it due credit for it has lias brought to them. For we notice in getting around over the country that there are farmers who have good poultry houses and fixture. 1 ', as good as any one need want. Thfcn we find a whole lot of places where the chicken has not a place it can set its foot and not he 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 i" 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 this class of chicken owners to w hich we want to talk. Now, dear reader, you may not be the one to whom we should talk, if not, w ill .vou; please lo§n your paper to your neighbor w ho* really n< ed* advice. We have talked to them time and again face to face, and we think we k/iow about the pitch «-f 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 irn in something, without tinkering with any pesky chickens that ate more bother than they arc worth, and always hungry and under foot to he kicked a w av before 1 can take a step. I know l would pot keep.a chicken bn the place if the old woman didn’t want a few for eggs and the table.” • Does not tha* sound about like the tune man\ of them give you when you mention chickens to them as be ing a profitable adjunct to other farm products? Of cours*e. we know that none of your readers ever talk that way but «'oii may have heard it from ! fisted cotton dollars in building a I cheap but comfortable roosting blouse, ! and let the henw pay you back ten - ! fold later on, us they will do. Build I J some colony houses for those young- 1 sters to be reared it. letting them oc cupy it through the winter as a lay ing house Get an Incubators for I your wife if she thinks she wants one, | and we will predict that It will not • be many years until you will be tel 1 - j ing your neighbors about your chick- I ene and how much money WE are ! making out of them. 1 We know a lot of farmers who are some of y vir neighbors. No doubt | making money out of chickens. They the- thought thev were honest in I ', hfi converted kind. I he kind hat thev were saving; Hi leas; they that know a good thing when they see It 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 tim** ago that the young man should take up poultry raising. ' f. wanted to believe that it was true. Why? Simply because they did not want to invest in a single dollar in anything for the car* of the chickens. Would Pay for House. They did not want to believe that a good but inexpensive roosting hou.-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 thicks so early in the spring as to make a fine lot of early fall laying pullets, to say nothing of the returns from the cockerel.*’ 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 chjekens. 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 the household and should not be forced to submit to any ftx>! 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. Bin' 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 out large cities, and besides seems destined to move the whole world. Friction produces the 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 t hickens: more eggs at less expense. Who is it that should not be willing to forego the added friction to both mind and body necessary to effect the change? Farmer®, 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 a better class of poultry to tare for and which will in turn give us results that we mav well be proud of. Let us spend a few of those tight- A Farmer’s Advice. “It is a mighty gt»od thing to turn to." said he. ’I would rather have 1,000 good strain White Leghorn hens than almost anything that I know of. I can take 500 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 mv. self to death, either.” Hr s-aid he would do it selling his eggs for mar ket purposes, furnished in the finest possible *-hape 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 tel] 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. He 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 Are Getting Rich. Many farmers are making good liv ings out of their poultry. Other* are putting money in the bank be side. Then there are the really lucky 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*e see great big farms out West covered with fine bronze turkeys. They are money maker.-. We have seen them raise 500 of these turkeys, getting $1,500 for them, clearing $1,000. Some run to tur keys and ducks. Wake up. look around you and see what you anti your farm and surroundings are best suited for and make up your mind to get it be fore another .year rolls around. ALTERATIONS COST $21,000 IN CARNEGIE RESIDENCE NEW YORK, May 3L—Henry D. Whitfield, architect, has filed plans for enlarging the music room in the residence of Andrew Carnegie at 2 East 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 be $21.(too. II SAVE WHEAT 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 approa hlng summer. Re ports to the State Free Employment Bureau from seventy counties, each with a large wheat acreage, indicate that there will be an unprecedented demand for help in harvesting the wheat crop. April 19 the State Board of Agri culture estimated the total acreage of wheat likely to he 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 tit? condition is btiow normal at this -tason. Rains since April 19 make the prospects even better than they were at the time of Secretary Coburn’s report, and if tht- conditions continue as favorable as they are now the 1913 wheat harvest will be one of the greatest in the history of the State. In sixty <>f th** wheat growing coun ties farm help is now reported : .o be scarce. In only nineteen counties is it reported to bv plentiful. J,t there- lore seeirs 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 2‘t.rno m n n It .s impossible at this time to fix the dates when harvest wiil begin in the various sec tions of the Stalt;. In a few reports it is uggestet that It will begin from .June 15 to IS Most of the reports indicate I’ve will begin a week later in the big wheat’countics. How ever there will be a big demand for extra hands to help take care of al falfa eari.v in ,1un< and the advance guard of the army of m* n that w.ll be reeded to take care of the wheat should nave lit.le difficulty Li secur ing employment at good wages. Wage*; for haivest hands will he at ic;i»st as high as last year. The Em ployment Buttau will oe glad to hear .rom farmers .anywhere in :ho Stut<; w ho will need extra help or from men anywhere J r the country who desire t" find work in the harvest fields. Farmer Gives Away $20,000, All He Has | Feels Better After Disposing of Es i tate Left by Wife—Her Spirit Told Him To. | HAMMOND, IXD.. May 31. -Leburn ! Moyer, of Oicheas. a middle-aged farmei. 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. Hi? j conscience began to trouble him a year ago. until he told his lawyer that he believed his wife's spirit wat urging him to deed the property to her sister. Mary .1. Porter. Since the deed was turned over Moyer has experienced i happinesv he had not felt in years. LARGE CONTRACT MADE BY FULLER BUILDERS V Fuller ('mnpan> lh* Ponce DeLeon WineetuT IL»u i >•:•* aking a record u The George * on tractors on At art merits an oi Atlanta is makhq building * oust; action o\cr tne coun try. This concerq is also building rious kinds of strut, t ures i 41 Boston. Buffa v ('iiHl*Hiu>oga. ('hicago. De troit Hot Sprints. Kansas Oii>. Lex ington. Knoxville, Milwaukee. Minin apois. Mobile. New York Philade! - ohia. Somervi’> Spartanburg. Wash ington. White Sulphur Springs. Mon iresl. Toronto and Winnipeg. Jn addition to ihe business of the I George A Fuller Company, i* s stated hr compan> during the vec nas , 'ak**n quite a substantia! interest in jtwo large railroad con.eTru.tton cot - i r rafts. -»rd work u both is not weF j under way. Th*-,amount of work o- j'o.ved in the*-^ 'onrracts will aggre- * gate about So,744 125. SAYS COTTON WOULD DROP 2 CENTS UNDER NEW TARIFF Al'STIN. TEXAS. May 31. Gov- I ernor Colquitt is In receipt of a let- I ter from Governor Hall, of Louisiana, j asking for the Texas Executive's opin- j ion to thf* advisability of holding a conference of Southern Crovernors in Washington in the near future to pro test against those provisions of the I’nderwood tariff bill which might be regarded as influencing a downward price in cotton. Governor Colquitt has not replied, because he has been unable as yet to secure a copy of the I’nderwood bill as it passed the House, though he has written for it. Governor Hall sug gests that cotton would lose 2 cents a pound or more and that it might be well to hold such a conference, though he candidly writes ihe meet ing has been urged by sugar growers in his State. CHICKENS RECRUITED TO SAVE FRUIT FROM FROST FINDLAY. OHIO. May 31—A few more than 200 chickens last night saved the fruit crop of a farmer of Blanchard Township. I,earning from the Weather Bureau that frosts might b** expected, and knowing that his ,8oo cherry anti apple tree* were just far enough aiong to freeze, the hen nery was ransacked. The fowls were tarried tt « tree, some of the large trees containing six or eight chick ens. When the tree® "ere examined this morning t was found tha* th® frost had no' touch* any of th*- blossom 1 Th® «armth , ’*f ? i* hi kens had saved them Other frees in the neigh borhood were frozen. Nervous Debility its Symptoms and the Errors in Methods of Treatment By DR. WM. M. BAIRD W HEN I began the practice of medicine, these cases were entirely treated from the sympto matic outlook rather than from any real knowledge of the causes that were underlying the peculiar symptoms from which they suf fered. / ' rjj ;>v zv. DR. WM. M. BAIRD. Brown-Randolph Building. 56 Marietta St., Atlanta, Ga. The consequence was that men would consult a physician for some lowering of nervous vi tality, elderly men find ing their vital powers slackening perhaps, and the doctor would sim ply prescribe for them from that point of view without ever looking in- t o the causes that brought on the symp toms from which they suffered. The laymen little ap preciate the intricacies of the nervous system, the peculiarities of the nerve elements them selves and indeed it is only during the last ten years that we have had a proper conception of these ele ments, or the minute anatomy of the nervous sys tem. A better knowledge of it has entirely revolu tionized our ideas on the subject, and that during the last couple decades. When I pointed out some two or three years ago in one of my Sunday talks the peculiar pain and dis tress that occurred around the base of the brain, run ning down the neck, due to trouble originating in the prostate glands and its annexes, I was laughed at by some doctors. One gentleman met me on the street and said that my idea on the subject was all nonsense, and yet in the last year I have noticed sev eral articles in medical journals that point out the truth of the idea that I then stated. No one realizes excepting he who has been delving in these subjects for years how much an irritated or congested prostate gland, or a chronic seminal vesi culitis due perhaps to some errors in earlier years will keep up the distressing nervous symptoms. that he that understands his business to-day will treat every one of these cases alike. One case may need treatment for the prostate, another case may need treatment for the kidneys or some other trouble. The same way in women. In one case it may be due to ovarian trouble, and in another some other condition, each of which will need separate and distinct treatment, for he who follows out a rou tine treatment or attempts to treat each case alike will certainly meet with failure. The reader will remember that some time ago I published a letter from a gentleman from Stone Mountain who was very materially benefited by treatment by me for bladder trouble, and a little later a gentleman called on me, holding this write up in his hands, saying that his symptoms were identically the same, and he wanted the same treat ment. Now, when I came to go into his case carefully and thoroughly, I found that he needed an entirely different treatment, but while his symptoms were practically the same, yet the causes and the under- lying pathological condition were entirelv different. So we get back again to the old subject of diagno sis, which after all is the important thing. A new edition of my work on Nerve and Brain ex haustion will soon be out, and I will be pleased to send it to any one who will request it. Those who appreciate honest, conscientious ad vice and counsel, the outcome of over 35 years hard work and steady experience in practice, I will be pleased to see them any time at my office or to hear from them by letter, and if it is anything I can advise through the mail, I will be glad to do so. Office hours, from 9 to 6:30 daily. & ,jg| Sundays and holidays, from 10 to 12. Dr. Wm. M. Baird. Brown-Randolph Bidg., 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. Name P. O. Address P. O. Box or R. F. D. No State * i «]