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■MMi - —w — ■■■■ - - ■ *- 6 B TIEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN. READ FOR PROFIT-AMEKItAN WANT AOS>USE FOR RESULTS ATLANTA, GA, SUNDAY, JULY 27, 1913. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. ANSLEY PARK—7-ROOM i BUNGALOW 4RIGHT OFF PIEDMONT AVENUE OAR LINE THIS brand n*-w hnm<> is a HKAT'TY; 7 large rooms, sleeping porch, beautiful fireplace. FITRNACK HF.AT, hardwood floors, fine baseruent rooms, large lot. Ij'lug absolutely perfect This Is the best bungalow for the money In that entire section. $fi,r>0<> on terms. (iRANT PARK ( OTTAGE—$3,500 ON GEORGIA AVENI R, right at the Park (Georgia Is going to be some avenue soon, tool, five large rooms and hallway, elevated lot, all conveniences, laisy terms. See ua. GRANT PARK COTTAGE—A BARGAIN. $2,r>:,o. AT .124 ORMOND STREET, right ul the Park, we have a dandy little cottage of five good rooms, hath, water, gas, and on good lot. cash and the balance like rent. Why pay rent when you can get your own home in this home section on the same terms. THOMSON & LYNES 18 AND an WALTON street. PHONE IVY 718. Twice as Many Cattle Could Be Raised in the South By Use of the Modern Silo Permits Greatest Amount of Food Per Acre, Con serves the Waste, Furnishes Appetizing, Succulent Food. By CHARLES A WHITTLE. Atlanta Beats Building Average of Big Cities 4**4* 4*«4* 4**4* 4**4* •*•••?• 4**4* 4**4* +•+ +•+ 4*#4* Hot Fight Begun for Realty Convention in 1916 ~i§ TYPICAL BUNGALOW OF INMAN PARK SECTION §T WHITEHALL STREET WITH thc rihange in the grade of this the main artery of the Sotrth Side, values will advance rapidly, and the eyes of the foresight tod buyers are already turning that way. Buy now, before the grade is finished, then sell and take your profits. CORNER OF WHITEHALL AND BROTIIERTON STREETS, lot 491-2x110. Two-story brick building, divided into two stores, loft and one five-room apartment. Stores and loft are rented to neliablo tenants under lease. Apartment has hath, stationary washstands, gas and sewerage connections. Prices and terms giwen at our office. WHITEHALL^ TERRACE. In a few feet of Whitehall Street, we have an,apartment house of ten rooms, divided into two five-room apartments, now renting for $32.50 per month. House in good shape. Lot has an alley around two sides. No loan to assume. We are authorized to sell this property at a price, which makesdt one of the best investments in this section. THE L. C. GREEN CO. 305 Third National Bank Building. Phones, Ivy 2943, 4546. J. R. SMITH J. H. & EWING Real Ivy 1513 Estate, Renting, Loans 130 PEACHTREE Atlanta 2865 EDGEWOOD AVE. $325 PER FRONT FOOT will buy 60 feet frontage on Edgewood Avenue, in the busy retail section. Only a short distance from the center of the city. Will consider some first-class renting preperty as part payment and give attractive terms on the bal ance. CONE STREET $600 PER FRONT FOOT will buy 25 feet of front age on the east side of Cone Street, 75 feet north of Luekie Street. Will consider 5 to 10 acres of suburban property or small farm in part pay ment. Thi6 lot should soon be in the $1,000 PER FOOT class, as it is in the shadow of the Candler Building, Piedmont Hotel, the Ansley Hotel, aud is within 600 feet of the most valuable section of Peachtree Street. EXCHANGE WE CAN exchange a splendid piece of acreage on the North Side for improved property inside the city. A GOOD TRADE can be had in this tract and the lucky party will make A BIG PROFIT. SMITH & EWING SPECIAL SACRIFICE PRICE— REAUTIFUL PIEDMONT AVENUE 7 ROOM BUNGALOW, in that expensive section this side of Piedmont Park. Fixtures, mantels and everything in the house is jam-up. Has east-front, 50-foot, shady lot. If you want a home in this high-class section at a low price, it will pay you to investigate this at once. Price only $6,250. Positively cut from $7,250. See or call GALLOWAY & SMITH, Agts. 213 EMPIRE BLDG. MAIN 140. WHY PAY RENT WHEN $20 PER MONTH WUL BUY this brand-new six-room bungalow, located In Ormewood Park, on the corner of Ormewood and Woodward avenues, a modem six-room bungalow with all conveniences, price $3,750; $250 cash and $20 per month. Just one block from car line This section is being rapidly built up and offers splendid opportunities to home-seekers with moderate means. L. P. BOTTENFIELD 1021 Empire Bldg. •THE MAN THAT SELLS " M. 3110 See Mr. Lynch or Mr. Bell, Sales Managers With a silo It Is possible to grow two cow9 where one was grown be fore. More succulent, food can be groan on an acr** for the silo than can be grown In any other form. When con verted Into ensilage more of the food content of a plant is conserved than when kept In any- other shape. Tattle fed from the silo with suitable quan tities of other food, are kept health ier and thrive better than when fed in any other manner. The silo 1* both a source of econ omy and efficiency. 'Pen times as much space is required for storing corn field-cured than when put In the silo. Three times as much space is required to store hay in the barn than in the silo. So it is that the silo makes 1t possible to have smaller barns, carry less insurance, save cost of repairs. In feeding, the silo preserves from waste a larger quantity of food ma terials than is possible in any other 1 way. True, there Is some waste from j fermentation in the silo, but the cur- j ing process of corn 1n the field or {other flHd-cured crops, exceeds by far the waste from the silo. Economy of Silo. The chief economy In using the silo Ih that it is the means of converting portions of the plant Into appetizing food which otherwise the cattle would discard In the trough. The equivalent of four tone, of hay In feeding value can be easily ob tained from an acre of silage. Four tons of hay per acre, of course, arc not to he had, except from a good patch of alfalfa. Crops for ensilage can be grown on most any kind of land and with little trouble. It is not ho exty to get hay crops. No part of the country affords the opportunity that the South presents* for growing at lowest cost, abundant allage matter. Corn and sorghum with cow peas can be gathered in great abundance from a field of ordi nary fertility. Nothing like the equal amount of feeding matter can he grown in any other way. Consider ing that the silage crop can b* grown as a second crop of the long growing season in the South, it is apparent, of course, that the kinds of crops that can be grown are not alone the South's advantage. Necessity of the Dairy. To keep a dairy up to maximum milk production all the year, of course, requires care In feeding. Ex perience has put beyond all question that no food eouree betteT serves the j dairyman than the silage which he can get in great amounts from a small tract of land. Aside from the unquestioned econ- ^ FARMS FOR EXCHANGE. LANDS FOR SALE BY THOS. W. JACKSON, 4TII NAT. BANK BLDG. BELL PHONE M. 5214. 392 ACRES. VALLEY plantation, on chert road, 85 acres of level bottom in high state of cultivation; nice residence, large barn; cost $1,500 to build two years ago; two tenant houses, an ideal country home. Owner non-resident and will offer at a very low price on easy terms for the next 30 days*. Own er will be on the place to show it. In. vestigate and make your offer. 450 ACRES. SOUTHWEST GEORGIA, on two good roads, nice residence, barn, tenant houses and other outbuild ings; good, strong land, level and In high state of cultivation. Will sell for half its value If trade is made on or before August 15. If you want a farm I it-will be to your interest to see this j place at once. 1,869 ACRES. NO BETTER location for a large .«tock farm; f»00 acres of open land, 500 acres in timber, 200 In pasture, fine waterpower, 7-room residence, 5 tenant houses, several barns and other c-uthouses. I am In position to give you a bargain or exchange for At lanta property. 728 ACRES. ONE MILE front on the river near Atlanta, can be bought for less than $20 an acre; 100 acres of bottom, 7 settlements. 250 acres In cultivation, 165 1n pasture, with wire fence and running water, 400 acres in timber. Will include 8 head of mulee, imple ments, tools necessary to run the place. 60 ACRES. 18 MILES from Atlanta, large creek running through the place, 10 acre? bottom, 40 acres timber. Enough to pay for the place. Price. $1,250 cash. 82 ACRES. 17 1-2 MILKS from Atlanta, two good house?, barn and other outhouses, two fine snrings, 45 acres In cultiva tion, balance pasture and timber. Owner non-resident. Will take $2,000 cash. OTHER LANDS. I CAN place you In an*- county in th( State, any size tract, and price and term? to suit you. Let me know what you want. Have 40 agents always 01 the lookout for bargains. THOS. IV. JACKSON, 4TII NAT. BANK BLDG. "OXYGEN-ACETYLENE WELDING. "It STICKS like a bull pup." But this . process doesn't sim ply stick things to gether. It MELTS the inetal at the crack or break and runs it together again. We weld any thing made of any kind of metal. Nothing too small or too large. AT LA NT A W ELDING COMPANY. BELL PHONE IVY 5367. 74 IVY STREET. omy, the silage has special value ! n maintaining a healthy condition of the animal. It operates ag a mild laxative and when properly balanced with cotton seed mea) and some dry hay, the cow is in prime condition for ths maximum production of milk. If a dairy Is maintained on small acreage near a city where land ‘s expensive, pasturage is out of the question, and the silo alone is the so lution of an economic feed. For mos f parts of the South, however, pas turage is abundant and easily main tained, bo that it 1b the cheapest pos sible source of food tor cattle. Con- eiderlng that there is a nine-month pasturage season on lands covered with Bermuda grass, where one might consider that from $1 to $1.50 per month would he a fair charge as pas turage cost, it is apparent at once that cattle growing in the South need not be an expensive proposition. The cheapness of pasturage, together with the long growing season, makes it unnecessary to go to the lengths in providing silage to which more Northern farmers have to go during the longer period of stall feeding. But a long glazing season on In expensive pasturage does not abate the necessity of a silo. The mere fact that cattle graze so much in tjie South makes the silo the more neces sary, for no food better follow* or precedes pasturage than succulent si lage. They supplement each other splendidly. For Beef Production. Because of the healthy condition which silage produces In the animal, and because of the enlarged capacity for food which feeding silage creates, beef growers have long recognized the value of leading up to the fin ishing season by using silage. Recent years have developed that silage is not only good as a succu lent food between pasturage seasons, j but is a food that can be carried along ! till the feeding Is finished. Former- i iy it was said that cattle fattened by use of silage did not kill out well,! that the meat did not have good j color and the bone was too hard, that In shipping the shrinkage was greater than in the case of strictly corn fed ' animals. Careful experiments have! largely disproved these claims. At ' the Virginia station 124 beef animals 1 were fed with reference to testing si- I lage in beef production, for a period j of 149 days and were then sold on the market. These cattle were fed » from eight to nine pounds of con centrates per day from twenty-five to thirty-nine pounds of silage per day and about two pounds of dry stover or hay. When shipped to mar ket the shrinkage was not as large as usually prevailed on shipment of corn-fed cattle from the same terri tory. The lot of cattle dressed out 56.9 per cent; a very creditable rec ord, considering that they were grades, fed only 149 days. Instead of the meat being Inferior, it turned out superior In quality. The fat and lean were well blended and the color was excellent. It will be noted that some dry mat ter was fed. This Is generally ad vised as a check on the laxativeness of the silage. Professor Charles Plumb, one of the greatest feeding experts of this country, connected with the Ohio State University, while strongly advocating silage, believes that to feed silage twice a day and hay once would prove a good policy. Others, however, claim that no more dry matter need be fed than by ex periments prove Is necessary to pre vent too great a laxativeness of the animal. The most rapid and economic gains made in a car load of cattle averag ing 800 pounds each and fed from March 17 to July 15, by the Indiana Station, were those made from feed ing 33.81 pounds of silage, 14.6 pounds of com. 2.34 pounds of cotton seed meal, 2.38 pounds of clover hay. This experiment, as will be observed, was conducted during the summer months The cattle relish silage in the sum mer as well as In the winter. For those sections of the country where droughts occur, the summer silo is considered a most important adjunct to cattle raising. The Illinois station used silage for finishing choice Hereford steers along with a ration of broken ear corn and alfalfa. The cheapest gains were made where the silage exceeded the alfalfa, but the most rapid gains were made where the proportion of alfalfa to silage was greater. Corn silage, when supplemented with oats and hay and used for calves intended for beef production, will produce 35 pounds more gain per steer during the season at the same cost of ration than when shock corn similarly supplemented is fed, ac cording to experiment conducted oy the Illinois station. Another experiment where cattle were fed a ration of silage, shelled corn and cotton seed meal, as against another group that was fed all the corn and clover it would eat. The cost of gain per 100 pounds in the first was $9.79 and in the second $12 .99. This experiment was con ducted by the Indiana station. Many instances might be multiplied giving the advantages of silage feed ing in the cost of beef production, but enough has been given to indi cate the general results. The more live stock grown per acre the greater the amount of manure available for enriching it. Since the silo makes it possible to raise two cows where one has been grown by other methods, so the silo makes it possible to get twice as much soil fer tility for the same outlay—a matter well worth considering in these days when acquiring soil fertility is be coming more and more expensive. Moreover, the silo la a means for returning to the soli the largest pos sible amount of the plant food con tents which the crops have taken out. Each plant grown on the farm robs the soil of a certain amount of fertil ity. If It is corn that is grown and the grain is sold off of the farm, rath er than fed on It, that much of soil fertility that has gone Into the grain leaves and If its equal is to be ob tained the farmer must go forth and buy It. If a part of the stalk of the corn Is permitted to waste in the field, or is permitted to cure in a form that th£ cattle do not eat, so much of food content of the soil Is thrown away. But when It is cut up and put in the silo, all of the plant is made palatable and available for food. Thus, the least possible amount of soil fertility taken up by plants is permitted to go to waste. After being fed, of course, it goes back to the soil to that extent which the ani mal has not converted into bone, blood, sinew and fat. It is estimated that about 75 per cent of the elements of the plant get back to the soil % •• m? ■ ■' - .■ ■ ■ ■ 4 i- - : . The accompanying cut shows a typical bungalow of the Inman Earn section. There are many more, costly homes, hut few that are prettier. Inman Park is essentially a residence neighborhood, and its citizens give a great deal of attention to lawn, gar den and tree effects, as well as to homes. Big dwellings of earlier days have been superceded largely by pretty bnngalows. Bradstreet’s Shows 119 Places Spent $352,857,205 in Con struction First Half 1913—Gate City Ahead of Average $150,000 Bradstreet’s review of building sta tistics throughout the United States for the first six months of 1913 re veals that Atlanta has beaten the av erage of 119 leading cities by $146,691. These cities spent $352,857,205, or an average per city of $2,965,196, while Atlanta spent $3,111,777. New York City, with its $84,036,496 expenditure, does not figure in the above calculations. Taken without New York, the other .cities gained $26,494,702 over the same period last year. Atlanta’s Good Business. Atlanta’s business in the first half of 1912 was $3,624,840. and this year shows a loss of $513,063, which is considered normal on account of the fact that 1912 was an unusually pro ductive year. The gain in the 119 cities was 7.9 per cent over 1912 and 10.7 per cent over the first half of 1909. In other words, the country’s building expen diture during the first six months of 1913, New York excepted, was larger than in any preceding six months in its history. A precise measure of the past eight years’ building record is to be had by comparing the building returns at 66 identical cities for halt-yearly ana annual periods back to and includ ing 1905. This permits of the fol lowing comparisons: Interesting Table of Fi gures. Sixty-five First Second Tot ul for Citle*. Six Months. Six Months. Y ear. 1905... ....$294,536,160 $300,823,254 $595,359,414 1906. . . .... 347.035,084 277.091.712 624.126,706 1907... .... 315.256.543 239.691,717 .554.948.260 1908. . . .... 222.6S4.84S 287.264,561 509.899.409 1909. . . .... 382.498.361 311.04S.65S 723.547.019 1910 .. .... 354,903.233 312.4S9.260 667.452,493 1911... .... 320.991.141 322.119.1S6 643.110.327 1912.. . 1913.. . .... 350,229.622 .... 333.470.571 330,322.018 680,561,650 This year the expenditures at 65 cities for the first six months were $333,470,571, which fall behind those of a year ago at the same cities by 4.7 per cent, but exceed those of the last half of 1912 by almost 1 per cent. Compared with the boom year. 1909, the decrease in the first half of the year from last is 12 per cent, while the gain over the first half of 1908, the low-water mark year, was 5ft per cent. when fed through the silo and re turned to the soil in the form of ma nure. All sections of the United States have better appreciated and made use of the silo than the South. True, some sections of the Sowth devoted to dai rying and beef raising have been using silos with great profit for a number of years. One can ride half across some of the Southern States and never see a silo. It is the great est need of the Southern dairyman. It Is doubtful if beef production can be generally carried on with success in the South without the use of the silo. A silo can be constructed cheaply: in fact, more cheaply in the South than elsewhere. A farmer can build one himself at little cost. Usually it pays to have one built according to some of the best designs and at greater expense than the cheapest and more temporary kind, because of the lasting qualities, as well as its better arrangement. A silo can be built at a cost anywhere* from $50 to $250. In the South they should be built with less diameter than In the North, be cause Of climatic conditions. Any college of agriculture or ex periment station will furnish plans and specifications for a silo. Some of the railroads will also do the same. It would seem that there is no ex» cuse for the Southern farmer not having a silo. HISTORIC INMAN PARK LURES HOMESEEKERS Sixty Acres Laid Off in 1892 by Joel Hurt—Story Of Venture in Early Subdivision. Probably few people in Atlanta real ize that Joel Hurt, who is construct ing the Hurt Building, who built the Equitable as the first office structure In Atlanta, and a street car line out Edgewood avenue as the first trolley line, is in reality Atlanta’s first sub- aivisionist as well. Mr. Hurt laid off about 60 acres of land in 1892 and called it Inman Park. He had plats made and invited his neighbors to buy large lots, with am ple restrictions for the protection of the residents. He reserved a 20-foot strip around the entire tract to keep others from encroaching. Many lots were sold and many fine homes built, and along with a realiza tion of Ids dream of a second large office building Mr Hurt is about to realize an ambition In Inman Park— completed Inman Park, for there is very little land left to build on. Early Project Abandoned. An interesting story is told of Mr. Hurt’s early operations as a street railway magnate. In planning for a suburban street car line, his eye fell on West End as a good prospective terminus. About that time a land company was organized which bought considerable acreage where Mr. Hurt’s line was expected to go. Mr. Hurt thought he would take advantage of the enhancement, so he built out Edgewood avenue rather than into West End, and opened a subdivision of his own. His idea was to make of Edgewood avenue a broad and popular boulevard leading into the city, and he has never got away from Edgewood, for both his office buildings are on it, and he is planning other buildings either on or adjacent to it. Beautiful Home Neighborhood. Inman Park is completed in the sense that there is very little land in the original acreage tract that has not been built up. Beautiful homes with large front yards and yards of great depth are seen on every hand, and there is an air of quiet and rest about the section that is felt In very few city neighborhoods. Most of the lots built up with the finer houses are of 100 feet frontage and 200 by 300 feet deep, but since restrictions lapsed in ten years, or about 1902, bungalows and narrower lots have found a place. Several nice apartment houses re cently have been completed in Inman Park, and the section which was for years the home of the Candlers, the Hurts, the Inmans and the Kings i* assuming an appearance that is as progressive as it has been aristocratic. REAL ESTATE GOSSIP Van B. Smith, newly-elected secre tary of the Atlanta Real Estate Board, has taken hold of his new job in a hurry. Having been named at the dinner of the real estate men Friday night a week ago he dropped around on Saturday by the of fice of John D. Babbage to pay a social call. During an intermission Mr. Babbage called his stenographer and said, "Please take a letter," and he dictated to the Atlanta Real Es tate Board the following, which the presence of Mr. Smith had inspired: “Please accept my resignation to take effect as of this date." "Wait a minute—don’t do that!" broke in Mr. Smith. And thep Mr. Smith went into the history of real estate boards and their advantages. So eloquent was Mr. Smith's major premise, his minor premise and his peroration that Mr. Babbage was overcome and he tore up his letter forthwith. If you don’t believe it, ask. Mr. Bab bage! • • * It pays to "tote fair" with realty clients, according to George P. Moore, of the real estate agency which bears his name. "Some people believe," de clares Mr. Moore, "that a real ('state agent will knowingly sell them a ‘slow’’ pieop of property. 1 believe this is a mistaken idea, because when an agent sells a money-maker the cus tomer will buy from him again; but if he loads you you will pass him up in the future. We know that It is to the agent’s interest to put up live propo sitions, so that customers will come back.” * * • There la at least one thing that Harris G. White hopes to do while he is president of the Atlanta Real Estate Board, and that Is to Increase the number of agent? attending the monthly dinners of the association. “Out of 175 members of the board,” declares Mr. White, "we should have half at every dinner that we give. In this way the good work of the board can be carried out effectively, whereas a lack of co-operation will not do us any good. My plan Is to make each member feel that he has some little duty to perform, and In this way more men will become ac tively interested. I expect the fall business of the Atlanta real estate men to go beyond their fondest hopes. We will prob ably have a medium-sized crop, but it will be a good one, and lots of money Is going to be turned loose in Atlanta. Then after that, we have Panama Canal and immigration in fluences to contemplate. This section is in the path of progress and the in fluence will be first felt in local real estate." * * * Complications having arisen in a lease situation, the Atlanta School of Medicine Building at the northwest corner of Luekie ’and Bartow street* will probably not be sold for some time This property was to be dis posed of, according to recent an nouncement. following the consolida tion of the two local medical colleges, Then it was discovered that the Southern College of Pharmacy held triree years of a five-year lease, with space on several floors of the building. Some adjustment will probably be made, however, which will enable the medical college authorities to sell as contemplated. The value of the property has been estimated at $100,- 000. Shelby Smith’s Return. Shelby Smith, chairman of the Board of County Commissioners, who has been out of town on a short vaca tion, is expected back this week. Dur ing his absence S. B. Turman, vice chairman, has been officiating at county board meetings. Atlanta and Memphis in Competi tion for National Ass’n Meeting • Three Years Hence—Interest ing Correspondence Exchanged., The Atlanta Real Estate Board has been "challenged” by the Memphis Real Estate Association. Both of these worthy organizations are members of the National Asso elation of Real Estate Exchanges, which meets Monday in Winnipeg, and both want the ninth annual con vention in 1916. For some time Atlanta real estate men have n x 1 their sails set for this gathering, im agine their surprise, therefore, when the Memphis association sent along a request that the Atlanta board sup port Memphis for the convention! Letter From Memphis. A letter from President George M. Person declared that the Memphis delegation to the Winnipeg convention would carry Invitations from the Mayor, the Business Men’s Club and the Merchants’ and Cotton Ex changes; that Memphis would have by 1916 a $1,000,000 auditorium-ar mory, and with six large hotels and a number of smaller ones could ac commodate the crowd. "The East will claim the conven tion next year, possibly Pittsburg or Buffalo," said the letter, "and in 1915 Los Angeles will secure It. In 1916 the South should win. and Mem phis, in our opinion, should get it. We sincerely trust you will instruct your accredited representatives to use their valuable influence in behalf of Memphis, assuring you that we may be counted upon for reciprocal fa vors." * Now, Harris G. White, president of the Atlanta Real Estate Board, has a sense of humor, and he did not fail to appreciate the situation. He wrote in substance as follows: Mr. White’s Reply. "I have your letter and thank you for writing us In this connection. It will be impossible for us to comply with your request, inasmuch as At lanta is also trying for the same con vention. Your delegates to the 1912 convention at Louisville will recall that there was a strong sentiment fa vorable to Atlanta as the convention city in 1913. many of the delegation* so expressing themselves. "The convention for this year was tentatively offered Atlanta, and our delegation decided to work for the next possible chance, which, it seems, is 1916. We need Memphis’ support, and if it is possible for you to give it for 1916, we shall be glad to pull for Memphis In 1917. We have an audi torium large enough to accommodate any ordinary gathering, ample hotel facilities and three more hotels build ing, and expect to carry along invi tations from the Mayor, the City Council and other organizations." Concerns Want Space In Chamber Building Some interesting announcements of space leased to business concerns are expected soon from the directors of the Chamber of Commerce Realty Company, which owns the new Chamber of Commerce home at the southeast comer of Auburn avenue and North Pryor street. A local bank is figuring on most of the ground floor space. The Chamber of Commerce execu- , tive offices will be on the second floor, 1 and the merchants’ and manufactur ers’ exhibits on the four top floors. One floor will have to be added to make the six, the total cost of altera tions to be $50,000,