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THE FARMERS’ FORUM CROWING GEORGIA WHEAT By J. C. McAULIFFE There is no doubt but that onoo sgain Georgia farmers are going to raising grain aad this season whoa: and oats planted in the fall will play an important part. There is a great deal es valuable information to ba gleaned by studying soil and fertilie era, t* say nothing of varieties, when it comes to planting oats and wheat. For a long number of years Georgia farmers lived under the delusion that wheat could not be profitably grown, but a fen- years ago it was demon strated that this was wrong and many Georgia planters made a suc cess at the business. Only the high price of cotton and the moderate price of grain prevent ed the work from being carried on for a longer time and by some hook or crook the work was allowed to drop, but now it must be once more resumed. Many farmers around Au gusta have signified their intention of trying to grow exceptionally large yields of wheat and oats, especially of the former, as splendid oat crops are already raised. From an article by Prof. S. D. Conner, of the Indiana experiment sta tion. to Farm and Home the follow ing facts have been gleaned and they will no doubt be of great Interest to 'armers throughout this section: The virgin fertility of much of our Georgia farms has bean depleted to a po at where the average farmer is beginning to ask the question: "Does it pay to raise wheat any more?" If he keeps on farming in the same old way, he may be safely assured that it will not pay. The remedies that will turn this loss iato a profit are: First, more thorough preparation of the soil, to gether with a good rotation of crops, which Includes a legume every three or four years. Second, the more care ful production and preservation of farm manure. If this product is reinforced in the Stable with other phosphates or crude potash salts, whichever ele ment is most dpfleient In the partieu lar soil upon which it is to be used, the increased yield of the crop will bring large profits. A few farmers are already doing all this, and still they say it is not sufficient. As it would not be either practical ] or profitable for all farmers to go into the dairy or live stock raising THE POULTRY CORNER Don’t Crowd Chickens During The Winter There is » disposition on the part of many poultry raisers to keep more fowls than they have proper accom modation for and the result is les sened profits. Mrs. Lembke, a well known lowa poultry woman, says on this subject: The great loss each year from over crowding runs up in the thousands of dollars. This can be easily remedied by spending a few cents for half a dozen organ or piano boxes, which would accommodate several hundred chickens. We use these boxes for our chickens by putting two gunny sack partitions in the former and one in the latter. Bach room thus made af fords room for 50 little chicks. See that they do not all crowd in one room, but separate them so there will Bot be more than 50 in each, and 25 Is even better As a rule you will find that the majority of breeders have overcrowded brooder houses and yards, which is due to nothing but. carelessness. Most overcrowding is found in brooders, and the most, common mis take made is not to consider the rap idity with which a chick develops and hence the necessity of more spacious quarters The secret is to separate the chicks into small lots and never •K CAREFUL WITH POULTRY DISEASES It ia Dangerous To Delay In Giving Attention To Trouble with Chickens. A prominent authority on poultry states that. "That to suceed In doctor ing a stubborn case of sickness of a persistent epidemic In his flock is one of the worst misfortunes that ran be fall a poultrykeeper" meaning there bj that it is much better, from the dollar* and cents standpoint for the poultrrman to kill fowls as soon as they exhibit symptoms of dtsaease than It It to potter about and en deavor to treat the infected birds. A* a general rule, this udvtre holds geed Unless a man ran detect the trouble, diagnose the disease, and ap V*- treatment in the early stage* of Is of much avail. If he mangea obci* or twice to b» successful In checking a mild epidemic, or curing an individual case here or there, he gets, into the habit of tutting about branches ®f agriculture extensively enough to furnish all the manure needed to keep up the fertility of the land, it is necessary to do more; sup plement with commercial fertilizers. Fertilizer is not intended to and will net take the place of good farming, hut always used to supplement it. It may be safely said that whenever the soil becomes so exhausted that the use of stable manure produces a material increase, then it will also pay to use fertilizers. As it is the best practice to use the j stable manure on the corn crop, there seldom is enough of this valu able by-product to properly feed the wheat crop, hence it has been the practice of the middle western farm er to commence the use of fertilizers on wheat, which will sooner than any other crop respond to thetr applica tion. On lands sueh as the ordinary clay and loam soils of the central states, which have been good wheat, produ cing soils, phosphorous is the element which is liable to become deficient first, hence phosphoric acid is most largely applied with good returns, and la recommended in all cases. Unless heavy legume crops have been turned undtr, or barnyard manure applied roeantly, some nitrogen will be found to pay. On white clay er very black soil, potash will be found j very profitable. The following mixture is recom i mended by the Indiana experiment station for wheat: 900 pounds steam ed bone meal, 900 pounds high-grade acid phosphate, and 200 pounds muri ate of potash. These materials can be purchased of most all fertilizer companies, aad can be easily mixed on the barn floor with a shovel. This fertilizer will have a formula of about 1. per cent nitrogen, 17 per cent phos phoric acid and 5 per cent potash, and should he drilled with a fertilizer attachment on the wheat drill, at the same time the wheat is sown, at the rate of 200 pounds per acre. On land especially poor in nitrogen, 50 to 100 pounds of nitrate of soda broadcast ed in addition on each acre of the growing wheat, early in April, will return handsome profits. By applying to the experiment sta tion of his state any farmer can get information as to how lie can easily to let them pile up. Overerowdlng results in lack of exercise, food and drink, which means bowel trouble and other diseases. I,ack of pure air weakens their systems; it. is better to cull out half of vour flock and raise the remainder in health and vigor than to overcrowd them and suffer the loss of your whole flock. Keep the quarters clean to rid them of mites and lice which sap the life out of them In a short time. Never allow the young stock to be confined In houses and yards that, are occupied by old birds, as they tramp and run over them, nad thus stunt their growth. Stunted chickens are like stunted pigs—no good at all; they may pull through to maturity hut they can’t develop Inte healthy birds. Many a promising bird has died on account of being run over and tramp ed open If you feed young and old chicks together the former must risk their lives to get a morsel to eat, say nothing about pecks on the head and hack, and yet mnn.v times obtain scarcely enough food to sustain life. The per cent of good chicks raised each year is very small compared with the number that could be mar keted If better quarters were provided for them —Rural World. his fowls, dosing them up when they get sick, and usually ends up with a lot of birds of enfeebled constitu tions, predisposed to disease, a lit tie knowledge of the different fowl disease is essential to success in the poultry-raising, but more as a means of detecting disorders in the early stages than for applying remedies to cure th* trouble. The one fact that a poultryman wants to be able to graap firmly is that, when once dis ease becomes established In his flock, the best thing he can do is to use a good sharp hatchet pretty vigorous ly. In the long run It will prove more profitable than all the drugs In the world —lnland Farmer A wfnter overcoat of strawy manure Is a good thing for the asparagus and rhubarb beds. Apply It now Good time to dig borers out of the tree trunks. Use a small knife and o flexible piece of wire When building a poultrv house look for convenience Much labor Is saved if verytblng is properly arranged. ♦♦♦♦4444444404444 ♦ THE FAIR SEASON 4 ♦ The finest In American agri ♦ ♦ culture is best brought before ♦ ♦ the people at the autumn fairs ♦ ♦ and exi>ositions. The fair sea ♦ ♦ son witnesses the culmination ♦ ♦ of tlie year's efforts to produce ♦ ♦ more and better plant or animal ♦ ♦ products. When rightly spent w ♦ no time can be more inspiring. ♦ 4 informing and full of greater ♦ ♦ satisfaction than a trip to the ♦ ♦ groat, tairs. > ♦ The close observer often dp- ♦ ♦ rives more real benefit from the ♦ ♦ show ring than the winner of 4 ♦ the blue ribbon. Exhibitors who ♦ ♦ fail of prizes return to their ♦ ♦ farms determined to make still ♦ ♦ greater efforts. We only sei our ♦ ♦ ideals higher as we see the ♦ ♦ finer achievements of others. 4 ♦ Our best must be better. The ♦ ♦ possibilities of fine farming are ♦ ♦ only partly realized. The fu ♦ ♦ ture holds achievements far ♦ ♦ grander than we can imagine. 4 ♦ Only the progressive will sue 4 ♦ ceed by diligent and thoughtful 4 ♦ effort. —Farm and Home. 4 4444 44 44 444 444 44 4 THE HARLEQUIN BUG ON GEORGIA COLLARDS This omnipresent little pest, with its cnlico coat and Irrepressible deter minatton to be everywhere at once, has given more trouble to gardeners than possibly any other one insect. It extends, too, over such long sea son, beginning in spring and only run to cover by hard frosts, that It manages to do a vast amount of dam age. Of no product is it more de structive than the eollard In late sum mer. The dickens of It Is that it can not be combated as most other insect depredators by one or the other form of poison or deterrent. Being a suck ing insect it is immune from the ar sentte sprays, it can not he smothered with kerosene on account of the dam age to the product and it laughs at tobacco and pyrethrum and hellebore. Hand picking is so far the only re liable method of control, aided by “trap crops" of mustard, planted around the eollard or cabbage plat. Mustard and even turnips it prefers to the more valuable members of the family—cauliflower, cahbages or col lards Front the mustard plants which may be renewed as often as neces sary. the bugs may be stripped by hand in numbers or the whole row pulled up and burnt. —Southern Cultivator. test the soil of his farm by means of fertilizer plats so that he can tell what is the best kind of fertilizer to be used for his specific case. GREEN FOOD FOR ALL THE_POULTRY Grazing Lot, or Cut Feed Adds Greatly To the Profits iu Raising Chick ens and is Needed in the Winter. Greend feed comes next lo grains in importance; in fact, it will to a groat, extent fill the place of everything but grain, and an abundance of It will lessen the quantity required of that. The question is how to keep a plenti ful supply of this class of food In our long dry season, and where many fouls are kept In all seasons It is dif ficult to furnish them with mifllelent fresh green feed; snd this causes more failure in making poultry profit able than any other tiling Where there is the space, one may always have an abundance of succu lent vegetation. Hut some poultry raisers have little ground for this pur pose. Grass, young grain, chard, iet \ tuee and other salad plants, kale, cab ! bage, nsarly all kinds of vegetable tops, alfalfa and fresh raw vegetables, ! belong to this class of food, ami are relished by the fowls In the order | named I To supply green feed when oilier | things fall, grain may be sprouted; In I fact, where one is willing to take the trouble, this Is profltab.e at any time, as the bulk and value of the grain is Increased four fold It Is flue for the i noon feed, and with laying stock may take the place of maah on alternate ; 'lays, while for breeding stock It ; might he used to advantage Instead ■ of mash Harley I* the best grain for this puropse; cover It with very warm wa ter and let it stand 24 hours; then draw off the water and empty the grain into a shallow box with holes Jin the bottom for drainage; keep It moist with warm WHter and turn of ten that all may sprout alike; set in | the sun and cover with sacking, and | ln * G>w da; it It will germinate and begin to grow; when It has made a healthy green sprout, begin to feed It. By keeping a number of boxes, a constant supply may he had -South western Stockman. If you want long keeping pumpkins •nd aquashea, gather and atore them before they are frosted A Toll, dry, ’frostproof room la a better place to jke»p them than a cellar. THE AURUSTA HEKALU Autumn Flower and Fruition By ./. C. McAULIFFE The Golden Rods, and many other glorious (lowers that come with the fail time are hero. No matter how wonderful is the spring-time and how full of promise the summer there Is something more definite about au tumn than of any other season Everybody knows that many of the tender plants of spring-time fail to survive the first trials of existence' and the uncertainties of summer makes it impossible to count the results that may come of the sun shine and rain of the season. And winter! What a fearful thing It is when viewed from the stand point commonly selected. Nothing but dreary fields ot unending gray, nothing but the desolate winds and the creeping cold. No flowers, no atmosphere laden with the sweet perfume that arises from earth ttqelf when nature ts aglow with activity. What a scenery! Autumn comes. Around It clings ihe most magnificent flowers that bloom. The rose greets one hire and there with beauty as fresh and fragrant as if kissed by the first soft dews of summer and nurtured by the warmth of southern breezes. The chrysanthemum rears its beautiful blooms above the luxuriant foliage and half a hundred other dowers give an added attraction to the decline of the year. But there Is more that: flowers In autumn. It brings frul tion as well as flower and makes life’s tolling seem worth the strug gle. It matters not now if the year has been fraught with uncertainties, and the vicissitudes of life did gather (hick and fast at times, the trials are now over, the triumph has begun There are only a few more morVis of winter's chilling blasts and lh\ again the glorious spring-time, re splendent with new hope, more prom ising I hail over before. The world is advancing steadily nowadays. Time once was when farmer; laid aside most of their work at this season and waited for the coming of another year, but this is changed. The Helds are no longer always barren and grny during the winter. Down here around Augusts, and throughout all the south, the farmers are looming new methods that make it possible for farming operations to go on apace through out. the entire year. New crops grow on through winter and appear won Some Poultry Notes By FANNIE M. WOOD Give the late hatches extra care ta hurry them along. Damp quarters are fatal to health snd health ts the greatest fartor to success with poultrv. I know you are very busy this nice fall weather hut among all iha hustle let’s try lo find time to do Iht right thing liv the chick'ns. It is getting near the season when fowls catch cold easily. Kc»p close watch on the condition of your poultry. A good remedy for colds is one grain quinine pill given three nights in succession. Put. the ailing bird In dry quarters away from other fowls. Save the fowl with o broken leg br wrapping the leg with narrow strips of cotton cloth saturated In melted glue. Some folks don’t want to bellow that mixed chickens, all nlgeg and colors, deteriorate In slxe hut ll ;* a fact nevi rtheless. It Is s mistake to think that nuts destroy plants It Is generally plant or root lice that cause the destruc tion; but, of course, the ants tire re sponsible for the presence of the lice The latter are really the anls’ dairy cows. They care for them and place (Item on plants of their liking to get the "honey dew” secreted by the lire If the lice are aboveground spraying with kerosene emulsion will destroy fhem. if they are on the roots of the plants a liberal applies tlon of tobacco dust placed at the roots of the plants, and this worked Into the surface layer of the soil will prove effective. Home advocate pour ing boiling water Into the ants’ bur rows, but if the lice are already on tiie plants the destruction of the snts will not remove the lice On the other hand. If the lice are killed the ants will usually l«8ve There Is a constantly growing de mand for eggs that are both uniform In size and color. Such eggs, while not demanded, are generally the first selected, and all other things being even, they will sell more readily f About the only wav one ran Judge ;of egg* off-handed Is by their *p pearanee and If all are uniform In color and size they will be more like ! ly to command a hotter price. Conducted By J. C. McAULIFFE derfully pleasant wherever they are seen. Progress hns made a mark that centuries of time cannot obliter ate. Wheat, outs, rye, barley and some other crops are now used to traits form the' gray of winter into living green. Alfalfa, vetch, clover and other plants of similar nature are now decidedly successful throughout this section. What a change they are making in the south! Back of the progress with the soil stands the man on the farm. He Is responsible lor the advance, and equally responsible It It Is not made. But it scorns that there ts a spirit abroad that make even the oldest farmers realize that some activity must tie displayed in the future and that the world needs men who are willing workers in a cause that will advance humanity’s interest. Men no longer live out I heir use fulness Many of thorn are passing along the throe-score years and ten and are still stragglers lu the com mon ranks of men, fighting for the higher life, working for the noble* cause, and never erasing in their ef forts to create now Interest in bet ter things. About the best there Is In life are the little children com ing on undaunted lo engage In the struggle of years anil the old folk who have almost finished their light and still are keeping the faith. What a bi>nnt iful Master reigns over Ihe two! On thv grout mass of mortals between the two nmv eoine summer time's destructive rains, or the blighting touch of drouth that may put to flight the dreams of work to lie accomplished Uut what ot the other twe! For one the freshness and beauty of spring with ail Its glorious pleasure and foi the other? The fruition that comes after the toil ts almost passed and also tbe wonderful flowers of both spring and autumn, ul! combined to make the recipients feels that after all ts said mid done the recompense In a moment of enternlty pays buck for all the trials of time. And how miieh greater must Ihnt sentiment he when tt Is realized line Just beyond the horizon of mortal view Is stretrh ed onl Illimitable eternity. Home limes It soma hard to one In Hint oth er great Hass to be debarred from re velling in the )oys of childhood or realizing the pleasures ot a life well spent, but It is only the living of It that makes the end seem sweeter. FOR PROFIT AND PLEASURE If you want winter eggs gel the hens Into condition and slarl them laying In the fall, and aim to keep I hem laving after they are once started. The hens do not, enjoy hunting for their grub on a rainy autumn day and its up to you to see lhey have pleasant quarters and a sufltelnut rn tlon these days. The liens reel one lay’s neglect ’I hen* is trouble coming around the comer far 'lie poultry raisir who crowds his fowla, and falls to observe the laws of cleanliness and sanitation. KggH aie money Just tfow and you can't have eggs without giving feed f'ven when there is plenty of forsgi II Is a mistake '.o send 'he hens to hed without their aupper. Fine white dust around crevice 111 the poultry house Is a sure sign mites are numerous whether you see them or not. Many who keep poultry think they enn get along very well wl'hout oyster shell grit and charcoal, hr we find the hens are better when these things are kepi before Ihoni Young Mills develop rapidly I ties' days No trouble to tell positive!* as to the quality. ir I hey ire good ones, and you want to sell them, k*h the people about It win want to buy. And a good place to talk I ) them Is through tin* columns of a good farm paper. Any scaly legg.-d hens eonepleuoin on your farm - ' Much birds spoil th looks of the flock. (letter sell ihem It you haven't time to separde them from the others and cure them. My neighbor across the way, a poultry raiser, and a vondeifully successful one, picks out Ills earliest hatched pullets ,it this season and separates them Into a colony of their own, where they have a lithe ••(fa attention In the way of fc'd and can lo Induce them to start laying early, Now another thing to remember Is that ducks and geese need a dry place to stay and dry bedding wheii the nightn get cool. The plane where they stay at night peed not be wsrtn but It should be dry. Damd peas causes rheumatism, a trouble that ia hard to euro—lnland Farmer “Be A Booster!” 7 ( Through the courtesy of the Arch Booster, Mr. Samuel Graydon, of the "Boost club,” of New York.) The Booster Club of Augusta IS Doing Great Work in the Present Emergency. Get in the Game. Be a Booster. The Reliable Babcock, The carriage which It built to be good first, one which Incorporates proved mechanical principle* throughout. These principle! are em bodied in good materials and good workmanship. A carriage which avoids the freaks, fallacies and the experiments of more Imitations. The carlrage which combines tbe efforts of brains, axperlencs and skill and produced under complete manufacturing facilities. Such a carriage Is the cheapest for tho owner, and suoh a carriage Is tha Re liable Babcook. H. H. Coskery, 749-751 Broad St. AUGUSTA. GEORGIA. George E. Payne & Co., 1106 Broad Street. Wishes Id announce to his friends and former patrons that he has established a soft drink, cigar and tobacco store next door below liis old stand, and lie solicits their patronage. Dear Reader, Do You Want the News? Then, Read The Herald It (jives It First It Gives It To-Day, Not Early To-Morrow It Is Read By the People Now Is Subscription Time THE WANT ADVERTISEMENTS ARE ‘•HUMANIZING!” When more people come to use and answer classified advertise mente, more people will know each other— More People With Interests Will Meet more people will find channels and opportunities for reciprocal ser vice. Truly, the want ads. are "humanizing" people—shaming away the acorn of small things, the scorn et "bargaining," of exchanging useful but not used things for useful snd usable ones USE HERALD WANTS fOR RESULTS. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4.