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Farmers Worked Up Over Spanish “Lions” A wag's remark to farm tenants near Dover, N. 0., during tlx* SpanlHh- Amerlcan war caused much apprehen sion for several days to the simple folk of the countryside. He told them the American naval and military forces were superior hut Spain had "more lions." He even went so far as to soy 800 of the beasts had been landed at Beaufort, not fur away, the night before. Taking up the Joke, villagers rigged up a "horse fiddle,” or reslned box across which could be drawn a piece of wood ns a how, emitting sounds similar to the roaring of lions. This was secreted In the neighborhood and "played” throughout the night. The tenants were terrified and among some of them the belief In the lions re mained alive for a long time. Wil liam Wnrters, resident of Dover, re calling the tale, said that for several days barred doors and loaded guns were the rule in the district. —Detroit * News. I Only One Requirement Insisted On for Book The affable salesman In New York book stores are seldom surprised at any request—the public demand be ing what It Is. But one of them re ports that the other day he had a re quest from a dignified little old Indy that—to use his own words —"knocked him for a row of bookshelves." “I want a book —any kind of a book —with a Jacket that Is green, with ; red In It," the little old lady said. She Insisted It could ho a cook hook 01 one about the home life of the bee or I South pole explorations —anything a* 1 long as its Jacket was the colot scheme she described. “Site wanted it," the salesman ex I plained, “to match the decoration ot i her new rending lamp. Cun you beat it?” Safe Delivery A Melbourne man recently tele graphed from Sydney that he was about to leave by train for home. The message put up a stiff contest, and had the passenger walked from Spen cer street would undoubtedly have won the race. He took n taxi (in my opinion, an unfair advantage) and beat the wire home by a clear ten minutes. He wns explaining to his wife that the tele gram should have reached her the previous evening when his small daughter spoke up; “Daddy should have brought Ids telegram with him . . . those silly people might have lost It.” —Sydney Bulletin. Chineie Superstition There are towers in Shanghai where men watch for tires. When one ts discovered the fire-bell Is rung. When the old custom house was built a large clock was placed in its tower. For some weeks after this clock be gan to strike the hours there were very few if nny tires. The Chinese said it wns because the tire-god thought that every time the clock struck there was a tire an nounced, so he could rest without helping. Ail these things seem ridic ulous to us but are very reut to the Chinese. New York’* Early Day* An article published in the Clirls tinn Advocate says: “At the begin ning of the Nineteenth century the •commercial metropolis of the United States’ occupied only the lower end of Manhattan island, what Is now ‘up town’ being still made up of spacious farms and country estates. Including the little village of Harlem. The ac tual measurements of the city proper are given as three miles In length (from the Battery to Fourteenth street), one nnd n half miles In width uud eight miles in circumference.” Man and Fish A fish’s fear of uinu is born, a Car negie institute’s bulletin suggests, by tlie fact that he approaches from above, a direction from which the fish has learned to expect attack by birds or other enemies. When a man walks on the ocean floor In diver’s dress, fish large and small display the greatest curiosity. Even the tierce barracuda, after nosing the diver in friendly and inquisitive fashion, must be pushed out of the way and goes without show ing undue resentment. —San Francisco Chronicle. I London’s Wall Street Lombard street, the principal bank quarter of London, takes its name from the Lombards, Italian goldsmiths and money lenders wtio settled there in the Twelfth century. At that time they were commonly called “long beards” and the thoroughfare was called Longbord and Longebred. A century later It was called I.ange bourne —meaning “long brook”—and this title Is still maintained for the place where it was situated. Breathless The teacher was telling n story to the kindergarten and interest was in tense. “So that night the wicked red fox came and stole a chicken. The next night lie came and stole another chicken. And the next night he came and stole nnother chicken. And” — dramatic pause—“what do you sup- j pose happened the next nlghtl" “Oh, teacher 1” panted Peter. “Did he git another chicken?” Top-Dressing Cotton With Potash BY (Jl.oßGi: A. ToWN'SLND This cotton on the farm of Mr. I’anl Iturson at Monroe produced 1.720 lbs. of seed cotton per acre. A top-dressing of HP lbs. of muriate returned Dr. Frank McDaniel, of Conyers, 331 lbs. of seed cotton. In the southeastern cotton belt the comparatively new Idea of giving cot ton supplementary applications of pot ash as top-dressings is apparently coining Into feul favor. The practice seems to gain impetus in proportion to the number of farmers who try it. $3.50 for $1 For the three years, where potash top-dressing was applied in addition to the farmers’ regular cotton ferti lizer, it increased yields on 95.5 per cent of the farms. An average of about $5.50 in extra seed cotton was obtain ed for each $1 invested in extra pot ash. The farmers found that they could profitable apply an average of 3 1-2 times as much potash to cotton as they had applied in the past. In spite of the handicaps of exces sive rain, boll weevil, and tornado damage, the top-dressed plots averag ed more than 1,000 pounds of seed cotton per acre. Every effort was made to carry on the demonstrations under average field conditions on average soils. Each demonstration received the same culti vation as the cotton on the remain der of the farm. Two plots of uniform land were selected on which the prev ious fertilizer treatment and cropping system had lieen the same. To both plots the farmer applied his regular cototn fertilizer. Just aft r chopping lit* top-dressed one plot with potash. Hie amount varying from 50. to lt!8 pounds of muriate of potash peiwacre. On some farms kainit was used. In most cases the plots were one half to one acre in size. However, in many instances a potash top-dressed tenant farm of 15 acres of cotton was confpared with another tenant farm of equal area and as nearly uniform conditions as possible but not top dressed with potash. This was done to determine whether or not the pot ash top-dressing idea was applicable to the average southern farm unit — Hu- tenant farm. Demonstrations were placed on all of the major cotton producing soils of tin- South. These varied from day loams and silt loams to sandy clay loams, and sands. Some demonstra tions were on alluvial loams and lime stone soils. Potash top dressing gave good results on all of these soils, in fact it appears front the results that the previous fertilization and cropping of a particular soil has as much in fluence upon its response to potash as does the soil type itself. The effect on a soil of previous methods of fertilizing and cropping is Illustrated by a demonstration on the Taylor Farm at Summerville. Ga. The soil, a silt loam lying along a stream, had produced corn for several years without, being fertilized. When the cotton was planted, SOU pounds of 12-1-4 were applied to three plots. Plot 1 was a cheek. Plot 2 was toj>- dressed at dumping with 64 pounds Cotton on Taylor Farm. Summerville, ha. This land contains enough native potash to malic a hale |kt acre for 1,700 years, yet 128 lbs. of muriate of potash increased the yield 670 lbs. of seed cotton per acre. THE ROCKDALE RECORD. CONYERS. GEORGIA of muriate of potash per acre. At the same time plot 3 was top-dressed with 128 pounds of muriate of potash per acre. Plot 1 yielded 1076 pounds of seed cotton per acre; plot 2 yielded 1242 pounds; and plot 3 yielded 1740 pounds. Although the cotton on plot 1 received 800 pounds of fertilizer containing 4 per cent potash it began to show signs of rust early and to ward the close of the season many immature bolls were noticeable. A study of the demonstration results shows that on heavy clay soils small additions of potash gave no apparent returns while large applications gave outstanding yield increases. Such results are contrary to the general belief tha.t ((tile potash- is needed on clay soils. They give fur ther support to the statement that previous methods of fertilizing and cropping of a soil seem to exert as much influence upon the response of a particular crop to potash as does the soil type itself. A Better Ratio of Lint As to the beneficial effects of potash top-dressing on the cotton plant the farmers conducting the demonstra tions found that the top-dressed cot ton produced healthy, sturdy plants which put on squares very early. These plants set more squares for larger yields, and their shedding was reduced to a minimum. Their bolls were bigger and the cotton was easier to pick. The extra potash absolutely controlled rust and helped control wilt. By ginning the cotton from their plots separately some farmers discov ered that the extra potash increased the ratio of lint to seed. A typical case is that of J. W. Baxter, manager of the Kildare Farms at Huntsville, Ala. On one iilot, fertilized with 600 pounds of 15-5-5 and 100 pounds of nitrate of soda per acre, lie produced 1i.500 pounds of seed cotton. The same yield was produced on another plot receiv ing Hie same fertilizer treatment plus a top-dressing of 50 pounds of mur iate of potash. The 1,500 pounds of seed cotton, without the extra potash, ginned out 454.4 pounds of lint while the 1,500 pounds that got the extra potash ginned 490 pounds of lint from 1,350 gain of 20.6 pounds. N. S. Wolfe, of Mt. Olive, N. ginned 490 pounds of line from 1350 pounds of seed cotton which had been fertilized at the rate of 600 pounds of 8-3-3 and 100 pounds of nitrate of soda per acre. The same amount of seed cotton fertilized the same way but top-dressed with 100 pounds of muriate per acre produced 530 pounds of lint, or a gain of 40 pounds. Mr. Wolfe had 20 acres of cotton in each plot. If both plots had produced at the rate of 984 pounds per acre with no gain in yield for extra potash, the difference in the amount of lint for the 20 acres would have been 584 pounds. At 18c per pound this is $lO5- .12. The extra potash for the 20 acres cost less than SSO. Wherever extra potash is used in large amounts it seems to disrupt a few long accepted theories of fertiliz ing cotton. And it does this with the unanswerable argument of extra cash produced by extra yields and extra quality. “APRIL SHOWERS BRING MAY FLOWERS’* April Also Brings Days for Spring House Cleaning For these days we can meet your Screen Door and Window needs. We also have a large, dependsMe supply of Paints—and there is no better disinfectant For the Farmers and Gardeners Garden Seed We have various kinds of Implements-Distributors, Planters, different kinds of Plows, Rakes, Etc. Gar dens are never quite so good unless worked with the best tools that money can buy—the kind we sell. Figure with us; buy from us and then tell us how you saved and how easy it was done. METAL ROOFING Just received another car of corrugated Galvanized Roofing at $4.25 per square as long as it lasts. ~ MACK P. TRIBBLE Conyers Hardware p s° ne Company aSS? 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