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ITEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, OA , SUNDAY, .71 T NK 1, 1913.
"Trouble Spots” in Farming
That "Ground , y F armers’ P r of its
Greatest Needs of Southern Farming Are to Feed the Soil What Tt Needs,
to Use More Machinery, to Grow Horse Power and More Cattle, to
Oo-operate in Selling and Borrowing, to Supplant the Ignorance of
the Tenant With Brains of the Landowner, to Educate Agricultural
Leaders for Every Community, to Instruct the Negro Farmer.
By CHARLES A. WHITTLE
Georgia State College of Agriculture.
T HF> one biggest mistake of the
Southern farmer Is single crop
ping. When his one crop re
quire* 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 1s 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 sollw-wlll not be Improved and the
adverse tide turned hack until there
is intelligent system of crop rota
tion.
A ahtbboWh has been cried in the
South* "Rais# on the farm what the
farmer needs." It Is fine. It is ttye
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 lasue
for the Southern farmer. His fail
ure In this respect is his worst.
No Economy Without Machinery.
The census says that the average
valne of machinery on the Georgia
farm la $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 acmes 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 ranch better, why should
a farmer follow all day long behind a
single plow stirring only a bit of a
furrow with each passaire across the
field of oorn or cotton? What a de
pressing waste of human energy! And
1t Is a blushing shame that there are
great territorlm each as big as a
county; where ons will not And a
cultivator or a harrow. Yet with
the awaking to new things, the Routh
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 q/
progress takes and as soon as the
surrounding fanners can rake togeth
er the price, they too become custo
mers or the machinery manufacturer.
A few' million dollars Invested 1n
farm machinery’ would do wonders
for agriculture In the South.
Power in the South Too Expensive.
The cost of farms power in the
South la 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 coat
of horses and mules can be almost
completely eliminated from the
Southern farmers' expense account by
raising colts. It can he done. It
is being done. A grade Percheron
mare costing less than a mule, c&.n
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
rums 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
tremendous revolution in respect to
raising colts in th# Southern States
How’ much there Is to be done be
fore the horse-power revolution Is
complete can be gathered from the
recent census. Take Georgia for an
Instance. It has been figured out
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
male 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 Ike grow ing 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 t.erious 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 dictutn of the modern
Southern farmer should be “Selling
nothing off of the 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-
-on why cattle which can graze nine
months in the year, cannot, be fed
with cotton seed meal, silage and pea-
ne hay and perimps a little coin.
' raised on the home farm, and pro
duce beef in competition with any
art of the United States, consider
ing that the Southern farmer can
find his market close home.
But the silo is a rare piece of farm
architecture on the Southern farm,
fend a part of the mistake of not rais
ing beef cattle, or failure when it is
attempted, will be more than likely
Attributable to a lack of the ilio—
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 off
of the farm than the farmer. Take
a carload of watermelon®—Georgia
melons if you please. This is who
gets the money
Received by farmer, $52, 8.23 per * ^Meting agriculture
I 11'Otr r l hftV mini/ V.11
cent.
wash. The brains have moved tn
large flocculuent masses to adorn our
flourishing cities. The land of our
fathers has been too largely commit
ted to the hired man. his one mule,
ten hounds and desolation. Just
191,000 of the 291,000 farms of Geor
gia, for Instance, are operated by
tenants. While the farm owners 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
in the same
give nothing
way. They suck but
Received by buyer, »240, 38.09 per bax ' k Oh yes, ,here *" a sentiment
1 evolved. The land has been In the
cent.
Received by railroad, *78. 11.91 per 1 f nmlly * l , n,e ,he day8 of ,, thp ‘Town
i i i l t O/i n t i m on t dnn*1 f oefri 1 i wa c.ntt ,.n
cent.
Commissions of other agents, $263,
41.67 per c«nt
Paid by consumer, $630, 100 per
cent.
But 1t Is not quite such a skin
game when the farm, products aa a
whole are considered. The distribu-
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
tlon of returns from the farm crops I i'J r 2 lc L« s J w , n * to on
of 1911 whs as follows w Bh his brains
Receivedby farmer. $6,000,000,000, ; Community Needs Educated Farmer.
46.1 per cent. i Those who have been mixing most
Legitimate cost of selling, $1,200.- brains with the soils of the South
000,000, 9.2 per cent. tmve been doing best, in fact, are
Received by farmer, $6,000,000,000, j making good. it is inspiring more
3.8 per cent. and more brain investment on farm
Dealers’ and retailers’ profits, j lands. It Is the meaning of the thirst
$3,745,000,000, 28.9 perfor agricultural education and infor-
Waste In selling, $1,500,000,000, 12 , mation. Farming in the South has
per cent. j had no other outlook than cotton,
Paid by consumer. $13,000,000,000, ! but more and more the South Is got-
100 per cent. I ting other visions and each vision
But even to this time it will be
seen that more thnn half of th# 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 th# "high
cost,” it will not rest heavily on the
farmer.
True the farmer would not he
requires information. Hence the
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
ashamed to take the money If he homemade opportunities. A southern
could get his hands on $11 the con
sumer pays. Some few truck far
mers' associations right here in Dixi'*
are beating the game considerably
by robbing the middle man, for which
let congratulations only he extended
not that the middleman Is very cul
pable but Just too much of a luxury
sometimes.
The way the truckers manage tt,
Is to have an agent In the big mar
kets who sells for delivery day after
to-morrow, who wires his order to
Mr. President of the Truckers' Asso
ciation. Thereupon the telephone
gets busy a few minutes and the
members arrant?** to have the tru ■',<
on the depot platform at the required
hour. Away it goes direct to the re
tailer eluding some several hands
state that falls to do everything In
its pow’er 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 IfUfl areas and »prinkl i i
liberally everywhere, the black man
which have been wont to digglrlfc into Is doing all the farming. The pros-
the proceeds of the farmer’s sweat. I pects are that he will continue to
But for the most part the Southern j do a very large part of the farming
farmer dances to the tune that emits for years to come.
from the little end of the horn, pay- j But this large mass of soil tillers
ing for the horn, the wind and the 1 can be likened only to the "Man
noise,
Pays Considerably For Loans.
In another kind way. we farmers
are benevolently doable, even more
so than the Egyptian Arab. We dig
down into our gen ns for $85 t o pay
the interest on $1,000—the Arab es
capes by paying 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 mot's 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
tentious commission now prying
about Europe under the title of "Ru
ral Credit Commission of the United
States."
Of course, everybody knows the
why already. It is organization
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 hills.
Restoration of Brain* Needed.
Southern soils have been sadly
drained of their fertility and brains.
The soil has slipped away with the
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.. May 31— An
other ta”. building will be added to
the skyscrapers of this city, accord
ing to plans filed with the Building
Department. It will be the Protes-
sibnal 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
buildings. They are as follows:
With the Hoe." His methods are as
primitive as the country itself. F*
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 he 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 reads nor dreams of
what ia 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, h
yet a wide part of the foundation or
which a very great part of the com
merdal success of the South must
rest.
Build him up in agricultural faith
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 th.
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 corn, more potatoes, more peas,
beans, clovers and grass, more cattle
Record Realty Deal
In McDuffie County
P. S. Knox’s 4,000-Acre Farm to Be
Subdivided Into Tracts—Settlers
l
Are Invited.
Building
Stories.
Height.
(Feet.)
The Wool worth
51
750
Metropolitan Life
l\»wer .60
700
Singer Tower ....
41
612
New Municipal
24
560
linkers' Trust . . .
.... 39
539
Professional
n
465
The building is
intended
o meet
the needs of physicians, dentists, ar
chitect*, artists, and other profes
sional workers.
STEAM SUCCEEDS HORSE
IN NORTHWESTERN WOODS
REMIDJI. MINN . May 31.-—Steam
Mkiddrrs 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 horses.
THOMSON. GA., May 31— One of
the largest real estate deals ever pull
ed off 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 75 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.
LARGE CONTRACT MADE
BY FULLER BUILDERS
The George A Fuller Company
contractors on the Ponce Del^eon
Apartments and VVinecott Hotel jobs
in Atlanta is making a record in
building construction over the com,
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
treat, Toronto and Winnipeg.
In addition to ihe business of the
George A. Fuller Company, i! js stafed
the company during the year ha
taken quite a substantial interest in
irgp railroad construction ooi
dragged them over the *?no\\ Th j trai ts, and work an both is now well
hardest part «hs rolling them up the under wa'. The amount *»f work in
skids onto the cars This operation voiced in these contracts will aggre
also is dangerous to man and beast. I gate about $5,744 125.
LANDOWNER IS
URGED TO GIVE
COW TO TENANT
J, D. Price, New Commissioner
of Agriculture, Thinks Gift
Can Be Investment.
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 he 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 ways, according to
Mr. Price. One is that a $35
gift cow will pay each year
about fifl 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
grreater efficiency of a tenant
who has addpd butter and but
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 ton-
ant, which is pretty good for
cows and tenants.
Farmer Gives Away
$20,000, All He Has
Feel* Better After Disposing of Es
tate Left by Wife—Her Spirit
Told Him To.
HAMMOND, IND., May 31.—Leburn
Moyer, of Oichess, a middle-aged
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. HO
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 happinesv
he had not felt in years.
SAYS COTTON"W0ULD - DR0P
2 CENTS UNDER NEW TARIFF
AUSTIN, TEXAS. May 31.—Gov-
ernor Colquitt is in receipt of a let
ter from Governor Hall, of Louisiana,
asking for the Texas Executive’s opin
ion to the advisability of holding a
conference of Southern Governors in
Washington in the near future to pro
test against those provisions of the
Underwood 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 Underwood 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 bold such a conference,
though he candidU writes the 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. Learning from
the Weather Bureau that frosts might
be expected, and knowing that his
800 cherry and apple trees were Just
far enough atong to freeze, the hen
nery was ransacked. The fowls were
carried t< a tree, some of the large
trees containing six or eight chick
ens.
When the trees were examined this
morning it was found that the frost
had not touche^ any of the blossom.'
The warmth of the chickens had
saved them Other trees in the neigh
borhood were frozen.
PnifltfV "-L°°ki n £ in on some of
1 UUlll y the farmers’ poultry
houses; Why some of them succeed
while others do not.
7 By JUDGE F. J. MARSHALL
It is not my intention to belittic
the farmer in any way, for he has
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 f*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 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 an*
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
ore 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 this class of chicken
ow’ners 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
thin:
“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 l 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 thickens 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.
Th$y did not want to believe that
a good but inexpensive roosting
house 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 w’hich 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 fool
notions that the women folks might
study up. Keep up the good work,
wives; it may soak in after a w’hile
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 w’hat 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
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 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 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 care for and which
will in turn give us results that
we may well be proud of.
Let us spend a few of those tight-
fisted cotton dollars in building a
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 w r ants 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 dut of chickens. They
are the converted kind. The kind
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 fanners
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 turn
to,’’ said he. “I w’ould 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 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.
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. Others
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 we see great big farms
out West covered with fine bronze
turkeys. They are money makers.
We have seen them raise 50ft of these
turkeys, getting $1,600 for them,
clearing $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 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 31.—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 $21,000.
Bumper Crop Is Expected and
Labor Supply Is Scarce in
Sixty Counties.
TOPEKA, May 81.—There will b*
no excuse for idleness In Kansas dur*
ing the approaching .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 th#
wheat crop.
April 19 the State Board of Agri
culture estimated the total acreage
of wheat lively 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 season. 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 1913 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
fore seems obvious that the harvest
will this year demand more men than
it did in 1912, 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 wiil begin in the various sec
tions of the State. In a few reports
it is suggested that it will begin from
June 15 to 18. Most of the reports
indicate t’*<tt ,* will begin a week
later in the big wheat counties. How
ever there will be a big demand for
extra hands to help take care of al
falfa early in June and the advance
guard of the army of men that Wall
be needed to Lake care of the wheat
should nave little difficulty in secur
ing employment at good wages.
Wages for harvest hands will be at
least as high as last year. The Em
ployment Bureau will oe glad to hoar
trom farmers anywhere in the State
who will need extra help or from men
anywhere in the country who desire
to find work in the harvest fields.
Nervous Debility
Its Symptoms and the Errors in Methods ot Treatment
By DR. WM. M. BAIRD
‘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.
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 it§ 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.
So that he that understands his business to-day
DR. WM. M. BAIRD,
Brown-Randolph Building,
56 Marietta St., Atlanta, Ga.
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 entirely 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 he 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 he
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.
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