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D II KARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN. READ FOR PROFiT-AMERiCAN WANT ADS-USE FOR RESULTS ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, AUGUST 17, 1913. REAL ESTATE FOR SALF ADAIR’S LIST AUBURN AVENUE .. INVESTMENT. NEAR ctye cerrfnr • of '.Tafrksrtn' Street, frbnrtqg 404 feert on AinMirn Avenue. and rtmnlni?' through th® blool^ 110 feet to, f>l(J ( Wh» pt Street, $\«> offer 0 'hollies,' tyf-Jnfing in ;in inoolPo <>t 457 u*r month Tsk«-" 1r>|f* eon arte ration the fact that tjils piece of pro^ejr- tv Is near three good streets, runs through the •biyck, and has v steady, • montUhly inrdme' of $$7. Thee** facts assure a steady en hancement In value, the property fh the meanwhile bringing in a substantial Income. Price, $9,000. Terms. Suburban Cottage Near East Lake Road A, SIX-ROOM COTTAGE on lot 190x200. half a block from car line, in growing section. Price, $3,'000 Terms. $250 cash and $25 ,a, mrmth. Jackson Street A $4,250 Residence : N#XT to the corner of Jackson 'Street and Highland Avenue, a two-story, seven-room house, well built and in £ood repair A home you can occupy a while and make some money on. Ohe-thlrd cash. Piedmont Avenue, Near Fourteenth St. WE have made a subdivision of the two blocks on Piedmont Avenue*, between Twelfth and Fourteenth Streets; lots are about 70x200 in Haw; prices range from $316 to $!S5 a front foot. This Is among the choicest building front age in Atlanta, and Is well suited for apartments. Railroad Front Near Bell wood Ave. AN ENTIRE BLOCK, fronts 225 feet on A., B. and A. Railroad; triangular in shape; has three renting houses*. An Income prop erty with railroad background; lies well for factory site. Price. $2,500. Crescent. Avenue. A $4,500 I Lome. BETWEEN Eleventh and Twelfth Streets, facing east, an attractive six-room cottage on Crescent Ave nue, lot 60x150. When we sell this $4,500 home, the edition will be out of print; there will not be any more at the price. WEST END HOME. ON LAWTON Street, just off Oor- don. we offer a modern. 7-room bungalow, on lot 50x150. This home is up to date in all respects and is in perfect keeping with the usual high standard of West End residence property.* Price, $5,000. ReaMnable terms. Prvor Street A 12 Per Cent Invest ment IT If} NOT OFTEN you ran buv a TO nor nr.nl ln...n..n ... li U er cent investment on a main-pAved etrrv t, all improve ments down and enhancement a certify. We o/Tpr an apartment building on Pryor, near Vassar Street, lot 50x166; rents four ten ants at $19 each; total rent $52. Price. $5,200. Tenants pay water bills. This is standard income property Renting Property Near Davis Street THREE BLOCKS from A.. B. and A. freight depot, a corner lot 100x105; has two Hngh* and one double house; room lor dnhthur double house. Rents $30 abo\e wa ter bills; price, $3,200 This is wry close to Terminal Station and al ways rents. EAST LAKE ROAD. A Ten-Acre Tract. CORNER East I^aky. Road and and Boulevard D^Kalb: fronts 4r>7 feet; adjoining tracts owned* by J. H. Porter. W. T. Gentry. Ma^or W. R. Dashiell and Adam W. Jones, a residence site de luxe Price, $16,000. COUNTRY HOME SITE At East Lake. SMALL acreage tract (about 4 acres): has spring and clear spring branch on It; suitable for chicken ranch or gardens, itne building site, with trees; car line runs through property. Prie**. $4,000. AT EAST LAKE Fronts 400 Feet. THIS tract is on Skiff Avenue, faj- ing club grounds in next block to Joseph Richardson’s new resi dence. Price of entire tract. $4,000 easy terms. Fair Street At East Lake ONE BLOCK from Country Club, a pretty lot In oak grove. lOOx 200; close to paved road: a ’de sirable bungalow site. Price, 11,- 500; terms. FORREST & GEORGE ADAIR. Loan AGENTS NEW ENGLAND LIFE INSURANCE CO. College Park Busy Building Many Pretty Homes • • ■!•••!• -I- • -5* - •!•»•{• Steady Population Increase Is Noted in Suburb The accompanying illustration shows a typical bungalow of the College Park section. Prominent in its construction is the wide porch across the front of the house, the attractive stone pillars at the aid* and rear, and the wide, sweeping, symmetrical eaves. The stone harmonizes well with the white trimmings, and the contrast in White and dark effects is good. The cost is about $3,000. Autumn Renting Business To Take on Roseate Hue Agents Preparing for Rush That Follows Return of Tourists From Summer Resorts. September is "moving time" in At lanta. Next month the local moving vans will do the heaviest business in the year, and the renting agencies will have their hands full until the rush is finally over. Parents are busy selecting schools for their children, and this figures largely in determin ing changes' of residence. Each fam ily wants to*be as near .a school- house as pd e siblr. and the best loca tions are ajv avs spoken for early. Another thing that ,causes the fall renting business to be unusually heavy is the return of .thousands bf people from the summer resorts. Families and couples which have formerly rented houses are moving into apart ments. and apartment dwellers are seeking homes with front yards. Be tween the tourists and the people who want locations near the schools, the renting agents are kept busy devising means of aceommodhtlbn. Scarcity of "Good" Houses. 1 .Has 1 * for •« long ,Ume have been. » xHiring in" Scv^tymbeH and October and when a lease is out there are usually half a dozen people who want to* roll* the liyuse. f4trpt]£ e as may seem, there are .never enough "good’ bouses in Atlanta to take care of each year’* surplus population. '"If we had 50 houses of a certain type!" declared M. S. Rankin, of the Am 1th, Ewing .& Rankin Renting Agency, Saturday, "we could All them with ^tenants in a week's time. The greatest denrjand . is for seven and eight-room houses on the North Side, easily accessible to the schools, ami renting, from $3f» to $50 a month. Builders who would make a specialty of this kind of house' could sell or rent with a minimum of trouble. Bun galows naturally are popular, and are rising higher and higher in percent age each year." An Interesting Factor. Colonel John J. Woodslde. who makes a specialty of retjtin*. also predicts u record business His of fice force has been carefully through old lists, cancellhg out-of-date list ings and adding new ones, to be ready for the business that is expected to develop next month. Tenants, as- -euis Colonel NVoodside, are becoming more and more fastidious about bath rooms. Whereas many families were formerly convent with one bathroom, thev now almost invariably call for two. especially when there Is a bed room on the ground floor of a twq- [story house. The minimum for poo** ple" 1n the sb-ealled "upper middle" Watch Charm Given To Chas. P. Glover Former President of Realty Agents Honored—Presentation Speech Is Made by M. F. Ramsey. Charles P. Glover, vice president of the National Association of Real Es tate Exchanges and formerly presi dent of the Atlanta Real Estate Board, is in possession of a hand some gift from his fellow real estate men in recognition of his services as head of the board during the past year. This is a watch charm, studded with a diamond solitaire, to represent the rising sun, and containing the figures of a stork and a frog. It was presented to Mr. Glover at the month ly dinner of the land dealers at the Hotel Ansley Friday at noon. •M. F. Ramsey, who made the pres entation speech, referred to „Mr. Glover as "a man of remarkable energy and sterling worth, who has done more than any one person to make the Atlanta Real Estate Board a force in the community." Mr. Glover declared: "I wish it were in rpy power to reply as beautifully In accepting as Mr. Ramsey has spoken in presenting this prized, but unexpected, gift.” "S. B. Turman explained that tire stork on the fob was symbolical of hope rather than of realization Eu* gene S. Kelly, of the Glover Agency, was responsible for the suggestion. Mr. Glover was given an ovation. That the presentation was delayed was due to the haste with which lo cal delegates got away to the Winni peg convention. Many Atlanta Business Men Live Co 771/716 TCC Chamber Aid in Quiet Suburb to South—Sec-! j-* F 3 J« n I tion Noted for civic Plan. From Local Realty Board The completion of a large number of new homes in College Park places that community in the forefront of local -suburbs as regards building. Never before, say College Park citi zens, has there been such a steady demand for good homes, and this ap plies alike to expensive houses and in expensive ones. The,census of 1910 showed the pop ulation of College Park to be slightly more than 2,000, and an estimate of the number in 1913 is easily 2,500, and probably 3,000. Building has jumped ahead in proportion College Park is the home of some of the best known business men in Atlanta. These men find it profitable and pleasant to work in the midst of skyscrapers during the day and to enjoy a cooling car ride home in the quiet of evening. They are the origi nal "commuters" drawn from sections on which the city depends largely for original forces in business. Six miles south of Atlanta, College Park is a unique suburb. Ever sine-' it was laid out by its founders it has been an educational and home-loving community. Its builders made wi fe streets, beautiful parkways and erect ed tine homes and educational insti tutions. Not long In this process and if was a modern Utophi, and still is. • College Park and Decatur are pro totypes, .Each has its boys’, .school, Committees Named For Realty Board its gfFls' school, its focal 'government, its churches and tine homes, its rail road and its street car system. Each is six miles and 30 minutes from busy Atlanta. In the College Park and Decatur radius are the Chattahoochee River station on the west and Bu'ck- heal 6n tse north. Men Who Will Do Big Part of Work During Year Announced at Local Dinner. Standing committees which will do a good deal of the work of the At lanta Real Estate Board in the com ing twelve months have just been an nounced and are ready to take up their respective duties. These committees are on member ship, arbitration,- renting legislation, entertainment and public good. The committee on membership is composed of J. Hope Tigner, chair man; Ben Treadwell, J. F. Mayfield, II. C. Blake and A. S. Hook. The committee on arbitration is Edwin P Ansley, chairman; B. M. Grant. Edward L. Winn, J. P. Stur geon and W. E. Treadwell. The committee on renting is Eugene S. Kelly, chairman; Albert S. Adams, Raymond Robson, Forrest.Adair, Ed win P. Ansley, Ft. < >. Cochran, Albert Boylston. A. J. Mayfield, E. Rivers. S. B. Turman, M. L. Thrower, John J. Woodslde, Thomas Cheatham, J. II. Ewing and S. L. Dallas. The committee on legislation is \V. P. Walthall, chairman: Walker Dim- son. C. A. Home. R. C..Eve and W. a. Sharpe. * Tho ►comthlt tea- on entertain meat is J R. Smith, chairman; Frank Adah* Thomas Cheatham, John O. Dupree and E. T. Luckie. The committee on public good is S. W. Carson, chairman; M. D.. Eubanks. L. <>. Turner, John S. Scott* and Thomak ft- Finney. t hi Real Estate Curies "I’m going to put my spare money on Broad street," asserted a promi nent real estate agent the other day |n speculating on the best trading (•enters for 1914. "Broad hasn’t yet risen near the height of its possi bilities. Wait until we get those chickens off the street and put ftp a few new and tall buildings and you (sill see the change. Railroad de velopment on the West Side w*ill have Its influence. Cinders and smoke will remain, but Whitehall and Peachtree buildings manage to exist with both, so I suppose Broad can." class is two bathrooms, and the max imum is whatever wealth and taste | want to make it. A tendency to re-lease. Indicating ! satisfaction with places now occupied, j has been noted by Manager Aycock. fof the renting • iep.minont of the l Charles P. <7 over Real Estate Agen- cy. . Other renting agents have joined in t) q jg< j eral i redU tion ol a record au tumn business and after the rush tsf over they Hire expected to call on the builders g>r more houses of the •good" Charles P. Glover, formerly presi dent of the Atlanta Real Estate Board and now vice president of the National Association of Real Estate I Exchanges, mingled with "royalty" at the recent real estate men’s con- i ventlon at Winnipeg, according to his companions on the trip. Mr. Glover is a stickler for ceremony, and he found that the Canadians used it every day and Sunday, too. Henc\ when convention guests gathered, they heard everybody addressed from King to Constable. Mr. Glover's speech was important, and he sought a Canadian friend on the form of Introduction The pre liminaries ran something like this: "Your Majesty, Your Grace, Your Worship, Your Lordship. Your Lady ship. Delegates to the National Con vention. Ladies and Gentlemen." Following Mr. Glover's perfect rendition, a Canadian made a bad mistake in his preliminaries, and with I bended head and flushed face he said "Sir. I humbly beg pardon for this seeming indiscretion " I King George could not be present, but the Pro vine: Governor General of th*: m’ngled with the guests. Nearly every time arty public dis cussion of a downtown corner arises, it awakes witn it memories of what might have been Half a dozen real estate dealers could have bought low and sold high hut they didn't. NoA. they declare, it’s out of sight! Same with the Conns 11.v property, southeast corner of Whitehall and Alabama. "Lordy, Lordy!" sighed a leading real estate dealer a few days ago. ”1 came within an ace of leas ing that In 1910 for 99 years at 126,000 a year, and now it's easily worth $60.000! I wop I'd have put a big building—you bet!" That Atlanta must take a giant stride forward in street improve ments if she is to rival the progres sive towns of the Pacific Coast is the opinion of H F. West, of the A. J. & H. F West Real Estate Agency, who has just returned from an extensive trip • "1 have been all over certain West ern towns." declared Mr West, "and 1 fiqd that the street conditions are so far ahead of Atlahta that there is no comparison. Miles and miles of beau tifully paved thoroughfares make lo comotion a pleasure. If work is need ed to be done, the order is given, and the money is forthcoming. There is no delay, no haggling about it. "I don’t mean that the principal streets are the only ones that are I>aved. Nearly all thoroughfares have been improved to such an extent that the poorer classes of people living in the outlying c!istrict eive benefit The same is true ofAjghting. num- 7* bering and naming streets. Atlanta js far behind in this respect, and she can better her condition when the leading citizens of the community take a more active interest in civic affairs." « Who will be the next patriot to give the city another park? Real estate men have been won dering. What park spaces the city has aYe filling a great need, but more parks must come The large tract;*? which could once have been bought for a song are now mostly cut up into city lots and many individuals hold deeds to them. The Peters property on Peachtree between Fourth and Fifth streets will soon be cut into store lots—unless it is purchased for a park. Ten years hence, if the city has not acquired this, citizens will recall that It could have been bought for comparatively ; little. Another illustration is the triangle ! at the northern junction of tlif Peaehtrees—a good place to cut di octagonal space resembling roughly : Columbus circle in New York, and a 1 splendid place for a handsome statue : of -some pioneer citizen. " This trian- ! gle extends southward to Seventeenth street, out the southern extremity of it has been built up with houses. "For sale" signs are on most of the rest of it, for that matter. Speaking ' of parks, a real estate ' man pointed out the other day that i the so-called "park patriots” don't | seem to be with us any more. "Peq- i pie offer parks these days with com mercial motives," said he. "It has | been a leng time since anybody of- ; fered a park who didn’t expect to get ' as much out of the city as the city got out of them." Chas. D. McKinney Presents Plan to Advertise Through State Organization. What can the members of the At lanta Real Estate Board do to help? the work of the State .Chamber of Commerce? This question was put forcibly at th • regular monthly dinner 6f the'real estate men Friday at the Hotel Ans ley, and it has set the land dealers to thinking. '‘It seems to me." declared Attor ney Charles D. McKinney, represent ing the State Chamber, "that it lies within the power of the real estate men to give this project as great a boost as any other organization can give it. I want to know now or later whether the chamber can count on the Atlanta Real Estate Board to co operate with it in advertising the ad vantages of the State and in bringing in a desirable clan's of settlers. Central Body Needed. "Georgia is one of a very few States which does not have a central organization for the dissemination of this detailed data. We have no way in this State of giving outriders in formation on every phase of agri culture, population, labor and lands. In Atlanta we are also somewhat de ficient in telling of the city. "Texas has organizations whose sole purpose is to bo.-<m the resources of the State, and she is doing it in a very effective manner. 1 sent for some literature and I received a pack age which it required 38 cents to car ry through the mail." The real estate men took no defi nite action on the suggestion, but assured Mr. McKinney that they would be glad to consider the matter further. The monthly dinner was by far the best that the land brokers have held. Fifty were present and there nas great enthusiasm over the work which iies ahead-—to secure if pos- o 5 K1.. , i... ..; ■ i .. — siblc the nin’h annual convention of the National Association of Real Es tate Exchanges and to a.-eist next ir in the proper entertainment of tht> thousands of visiting Shriners. List of Agents Present. Fharles P Glover, S. B. Turman and Harris G. White told of their re cent trip to Winnipeg, and declared that Atlanta must wake up if she is to rival the growing towns of the great Canadian Northwest. Mr. Glov er said that 5,000 settlers pass each week through Winnipeg. The towns, he said, boosted Western Canada above everything. If settlers were not satisfied to «*tay in town they were advised to move on the farms but always to stay in Canada. The suggestion has been made that hereafter dinners be held oftener than omv a month, and it is possible that something will be done to get the real estate men together every two weeks. Among those present Friday, in ad dition to those named above, were F. R. Graham. Philip I/Engle, Eugene P. Kelly. It. L. Turman, Haralson Bleckley. Van B Smith, G. T. R. Fraser, John D. Babbage. George H. Bonnell. L. O. Turner. H. W. Dillin, C. I). Galloway. Edward Morris, John H. and Crawford Maddox. Joseph D. Greene. G. M. McKinnon. T. B. Gay, Fitzhugh Knox. L. M. Anderson, Her bert Kaiser. Hal Steed, M. C. and Horton Kiser Newton S. Thomas. Ben Treadwell. J. Hope Tigner. S. E. Davidson, E. L. Winn. \V. H. S. Ham ilton. J. F. Mayfield, Walker Di|ti- son and H. S. Willingham. Six Crops of Alfalfa in , * Season; Big Opportunity for Farmers of South CHARLES A. WHITTLE. (Georgia State College of Agriculture.) Think of from four to alx crops of hay off a field in a year, and you are thinking of the possibilities of alfalfa growing in the South. Think of cutting from one to one and a half tons per acre each time and figure that ea<ch ton is worth at least $25 and you arrive at a very snug income with mighty little sweat as compared to cotton, for instance. But be not deceived. Learning to grow alfalfa in the South is the big gest thing about it. Anybody who takes it as a matter of course that all he has to do is to stir the land and plant ana thereafter watch the ne groes harvest, is more than likely to be enrolled with the long list of those who have proven alfalfa failures in the South. With a*1 the good things that can be said of the soil of the South, it can pretty generally be said that Southern lands are not naturally "cut out" to grow alfalfa. This Is not saying that alfalfa as a rule will not grew in th* Sou t h. nor is it reflecting in any wise on either the soil or the climate. The point is that all South ern soils have to be given special treatment and preparation before al falfa will be at home in it. Alfalfa on Every Farm. "Alfalfa on every farm," the slo gan now going the rounds, does not point to an impossible ideal, but if anyone thinks it can be attained in the South without a considerable rev olution. he may be easily deceived by trying it. With all. it Is easy enough to pre pare the *oil for alfalfa and go along producing it, if the prospective grower will follow good advice—but there is the rub. The ordinary cotton grower of the South will have to practice crop ro tation. be will have to add inocula tion to his vocabulary and practices, and he will have to get lime into his soil. Those who have been teaching this sort of doctrine and have ob served how far it has taken root in the South will understand how much farming practice will have to be changed to realize "Alfalfa on every farm." To the average Southern farmer to mention inoculation is to elicit in quiries. What is it? Why? And to tell the truth, it is neither easy to understand nor to explain. A full ex planation. indeed, is impossible. In oculation means to introduce friendly bacteria into the soil. W ithout cer tain nitrogen fixing bacteria present in the ordinary soil, alfalfa and other legumes make poor headway. Cer tain It is that some of these bacteria can take the nitrogen from the al and fix it in the ground, converting at the same time the nitrogen into food for the growing plant. Alfalfa Bred Bacteria Best. It is believed that almost any soil has some of the nitrogen fixing bac teria present in it, but as a matter of fact in some soils these bacteria are few and apparently so starved as to be unequal to the task imposed bv thrifty alfalfa. The best bacteria with which to inoc ulate are those which have been bred in a good alfalfa field. Good bacteria c'an be grown artificially and it is with such artificially grown bacteria that seed are inoculated. When sprinkled with a solution in which the artificially grown bacteria have been turned loose, the seed carry on their surface enough of the bacteria to start up business in a new’ field. Of course the bacteria are invisible except under a compound microscope. The farmer can not see them and w hen h e buys he buys on faith. If his alfalfa grows and produces good crops he believes in inoculation. If it does not, he is likely to have no tions of his own about inoculation. Tt is possible for seed to be perfectly inoculated and by reason of improper handling may fall to show results. Sunlight destroys Bacteria and inocu lated seed left exposed to the sun light w ill become sterile. To escape the danger of sunlight It is neces sary, of course, to shelter the bac teria, and it is wiser to sow or to ap ply the inoculation medium late in the afternoon or during cloudy weath- Again, the seed may be properly inoculated, due precaution may be taken to get it into the soil w’ith the least injury from the sunlight, but the soil may be sour, w’hich is no sort of soil for a nitrogen fixing bacteria. Lime Necessary to Alfalfa. To correct sourness of soil lime is necessary. The fact is that prac tically all soils in the South are de ficient in lime. This may never be come apparent so long as cotton or corn is grown, but it is certainly true when It comes to growing legumes. The lime is not needed as a ferti lizer. It is merely a tonic to nitrogen fixing bacteria. Soils generally are supplied with all the lime that the crops need. Experiments have shown that most of the crops grown in the South are benefited by the use of lime, a benefit that is attributable to in creasing bacterial activity. Bacterial activity means increase of plant food, for bac teria in effect are minute lab oratories changing the elements non- available for plant food into elements of the soil that are available. Of course there are good and bad bac teria. Some of those that might be classed as bad operate to change available plant food into non-avail- able. Of such are the denitrifying bacteria, which instead of preparing bacteria for the plants change it into perhaps free nitrogen that returns again to the air. These friendly bacteria have been isolated and named and are nurtured, coaxed and strengthened to do their best. Only the border of the realm of these soil agents has been entered, and it may be reckoned with a degree of certainty that as the scientist ven tures further into the mysterious country of the unseen that he will bring back to the farmer knowledge that will mean two bushels w'here one is now grown, all by learning which are the good bacteTia that are serv ing plant life and how* to encourage their grow’th. The first great contribution of the scientist in looking into the teeming soil world is that lime is good for ni trogen-fixing bacteria, and since ni trogen is the most expensive plant food and one of the most important, it is a wonderful discovery this jf lime and its relations to bacteria. Since nitrogen-fixing bacteria op erating to the good of alfalfa set up shop on the roots of the plant and there extract nitrogen from the air that has penetrated the soil, to know that lime will make it thrive is equiv alent to saving that without lime al falfa w 111 not 'grow in mapy Southern soils, for it is a fact* that most Southern sdil* 'are deficient in lime and are too tour for nitrogen-flxiing bacteria. Some pretty well-known, highly re spected and Intelligent*men have said that they do not believe fn inocula tion nor in liming for alfalfa. They point to their successful alfalfa patch to show you that neither is necessary. Unwittingly such well-meaning peo? pie have been the means of the down fall of others In their attempts to grow alfalfa. Do not get an idei that there are many such alfalfa suc cesses in the South, especially among those who have not used lime. Even where the soil has been formed by the disintegration of limestone rock, where there is a foundation of lime stone in the soil, is to be found a marked deficiency in available lime. The lime has leached out. ‘ It must be supplied. < >n soils which for some reason, exceptional to the rule, there is sufficient lime, alfalfa may be start ed and grown successfully even with out inoculation. The reason for the unnecessary inoculation will be found to be that the soil has already been stocked with nitrogen-fixing bacteria through the medium of clover, cow- peas, beans or one of a hundred othor legumes. Some of the authorities are now ad vocating going to the roadside, the fence corners or other places where sweet clover or burr clover, or lespe- deza, or some other legumes are grow ing, taking some of the soil from un derneath. scatter it over the alfalfa seed bed and harrow it under. By this mean nitrogen-fixing bacteria will be added to the soil, bacteria that have been making their living off the very kind of soil in which they are ap pointed to continue operations. Better still, of course, would be soil taken from • a field in which alfalfa had grown, a field where conditions are similar as to character of soils climate, growing zone, etc. Naturally bacteria that have been feeding on al falfa must have established alfalfa- loving characteristics. Suppose some cotton farmer gets inspiration enough to get out of the ruts and takes the advice of the man who does not believe in inoculation or liming, and suppose he fails, as ne Is likely to do, what a pity! When again will he be in frame of mind to try? Preparing the Seed Bed. The preparation of the seed bed with reference to weed eradication ** important. It is time well spent f two years are taken in preparing the land for alfalfa. If barnyard manure is applied, it is better to follow witn a crop of corn as a weed eradicate’ This followed by rye or oats drilled betw’een the corn row’s at the last time the corn is worked, will afford not only a winter cover crop, but good pasturage for the colts and calves during the winter. After the rye or oats, as the case may be. is taken off. the cow’pea or soy bean will provo excellent for keeping the weeds from getting a start. Turning under the eowp< as or soy beans and harrowing the ground until it is in find tilth, is good a seed bed as could be obtained for growing alfalfa is prepared. . Weeds and alfalfa do not »do well together. If the farmer can not get rid of the weeds, he need not look to alfalfa to do it. Many* farmers have had fits of despair over the weeds an-i opab grass which have made their appearance in their alfalfa patches. But weeds are not formidable ob stacles to growing alfalfa where the precautions described have been taken. Even w’here the weeds have appeared in an alfalfa patch there a fighting chance for alfa.l if the right steps are taken to keep dow’n the weeds. Thj method usually rec ommended is to run a disk harrow over the field. This blays havoc with the weeds, but harms the alfalfa very little. By some it is claimed that the harrowing will break up the alfalfa crowns or bunches and start new plants. Weed eradication in the field will rarely be necessary if the seed bed is properly prepared in advance. Then Put In Lime. Having brought the seed bed through two seasons of preparation and having broken and harrowed the ground, the next important step is to put in the lime. The amount of lime to apply will depend upon the degree of acidity or sourness of the land, not on the amount of lime already in the, soil. The degree of sourness ik usual ly determined by the use of litmus pa per, a prepared paper that can be purchased at any drug store. This pa per when imbedded in fairly moist soil and left a short time, when taken out will show by the change of color how acid the soil is. If the change of color is very marked plenty of lime should be applied. The application will vary from one to two tons per acre. Lime is comparatively inexpensive and when once applied serves Its pur pose five or more years. Ground lime stone is the form which is most gen erally used. The price is determined largely by the cost of freight. At lime manufacturing centers the ground limestone can usually be bought at $1 per ton and even less, especially where the lime is a by-product. The lime should be broadcasted or drilled in. If broadcasted, then har rowed under. Sourness of soil is attributed to an incomplete stage of decomposition of vegetable matter which has been turned into the soil. The lime Is the one element that will at once adjust conditions and permit other bacteria as well as the nitrogen fixing bacte ria to do their work. The vegetable matter which has been turned under in preparing the seed bed and Is in process of decomposition, that is, which is being transformed by bacte*- ria, proceeds with its processes most favorably in the presence of lime, be comes humus and then plant food. An application of nitrate of soda after the alfalfa has come up, espe cially if it is not showing good color, has often proved helpful. Alfalfa hay Is good, rich hay and ranks very near wheat bran in the amount of nutriments, ton for toq. Wheat bran costs about $30 per ton laid down in the South. Raise al falfa hay and the wheat bran need not be purchased. Thp alfalfa has a feeding value of nearly $30 per ton at present prices, but at the outset of this article a selling prices of $25 was set as an average. As a feed alfalfa is a producer of high-class barnyard manure. Con sidering that the feeding value of al falfa is nearly $30 per ton and the manure produced of high fertilizing value, the conclusion is that alfalfa is most profitable to the farmer when he feeds it to farm animals and ap plies the manure to the land.