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Vol. 64. 



OCTOBER, 1903. 



No. 10. 



CONTENTS. 



FARM MANAGEMENT: 



Editorial— Work for the Month 617 

The Leguminous Crops as Improv- 
ers of Land 619 

Lime as an Improver of Land 620 

Improved Farming in North arolina. ■. 622 

Editorial— Hairy Vetch rr„ 624 

Another Experiment in Curing Cow Pea Hay. . 625 

Notes on the September Issue 625 

Clover Seeding 626 

Good Yields of Wheat 626 

Enquirer's Column (Detail Index, Page 649).. 627 

TRUCKING, GARDEN AND ORCttXKi,. - l ° 

Editorial— Work for the Month. 633 

The Scarcity of Fruit in Europe 634 

Notice to Apple Growers 634 

The Virginia State Horticultural Society 635 

Orchard and Garden Notes 635 

The Grass Mulch Method of Apple Culture 636 

Germination of Seeds ^637 

Foreigners Want Our Apples 637 



LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY: 

Editorial — Texas or Tick Fever 638 

Prevention of Texas or Tick Fever , 639 

Hollow Horn— Hollow Tail 639 

Right of Owner of Pure Bred Cattle to Recover 

Damages from Owner of Scrub Bull 640 

Feeding Pigs at the Vermont Station 640 

Cattle Feeding Experiments at Tennessee Ex- 
periment Station 641 

Corn Ensilage for Steers 641 

THE POULTRY YARD: 

Editorial — Building a Hen House 642 

Picking a Good Layer 642 

Plucking Chickens 642 

THE HORSE: 

Notes 643 

MISCELLANEOUS: 

Selecting Seed 645 

Bulletins from the Virginia Experiment Sta- 
tion 646 

Motors and Methods of Moving Farm Products. 647 

Seed Wheat 648 

Cow Peas in Tidewater Virginia 648 

Fall Planting of Irish Potatoes 648 



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64th Year. 



Richmond, October, 1903. 



No. 10. 



Farm Management. 



WORK FOR THE MONTH. 

The month of September up to this time (20th) 
has been very like the preceding ones of the summer, 
cooler than normal and showery, though not quite so 
far from the normal as August, there having been 
about a week of really typical September weather, 
warm, clear and with nights dewy, but not too cold. 
This has helped crops to maturity, and corn and to- 
bacco are being cut all over the State and the adjoin- 
ing ones. Further South the crops are mostly har- 
vested except cotton, and this is being picked in all 
the States growing it. The first bale of Virginia 
cotton was marketed in Petersburg about the 17 th of 
September. Cow peas are being cut for hay, and 
second crops of clover and grass are being cut, and 
excellent yields are being secured. The corn crop 
of the South, except upon the river low grounds, is 
probably one of the best ever made, certainly this is 
so in Virginia. On the low grounds whilst there are 
some good crops, yet the majority are not up to the 
highest average. The land was too wet and cold at 
planting time, and good stands were not secured, and 
the weather has during all the growing season been 
too showery to permit of as frequent cultivation as 
should have been given. We know of many crops 
that have not had more than one working, and in 
which the weeds are nearly as tall as the corn. This 
will cut down the yield considerably. A good deal 
.of the crop is also late, and should we have early frost 
will suffer some injury. In this respect, however, we 
are much better off than the Western States, where 
the crop is also late, and already in many places much 
injured by frost. A gentleman from Dakota, a 



farmer in that State, called upon us a few days ago, 
and in the course of conversation said that he had 
crossed the whole corn belt in the course of his jour- 
ney to this State, and that no where in the course of 
that long journey of 1,500 miles had he seen a corn 
crop so good as in Virginia. He was astonished with 
the crops he saw here. Not only was this the case 
with the corn crop, but with the cow pea and other 
fodder crops. He went to see Mr. Bellwood's crops 
at Drewry's Bluff, Va., and saw them cutting cow 
peas and millet for hay. He said that he never saw 
as much feed cut off an acre of land anywhere in the 
West as was being cut there, and this was not an ex- 
ceptional field, but only one of many containing 
scores of acres equally good. Notwithstanding an 
abnormal season, the South is going to have "hog and 
hominy" in abundance for all, and more feed for live 
stock than probably ever before. This is largely to 
be accounted for in the greater attention given to the 
growing of forage crops. These are now staple crops, 
and are the indications of the greater attention given 
to live stock breeding and feeding in the South. This 
means that our people are becoming "farmers" and 
not "planters," and that greater prosperity is to be 
their lot in the near future. 



The conclusion of spring wheat harvesting in the 
Northwest has been marked by disastrous weather, 
and our prediction as to the shortage in the wheat 
crop is being fulfilled. The crop of winter and 
spring wheat together is going to be more than one 
hundred million bushels less than that of last year, 
and as the wheat crop of the world is also likely to be 



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a short one, we see no reason to alter our opinion that 
wheat will see a material advance in price; indeed, 
it is already worth from 10 to 15 cents more per 
bushel than it was a year ago. Corn is also likely, in 
our opinion, to be worth more money, as the Western 
crop is a late one, and certain to be much of it imma- 
ture when frost strikes it. The oat crop is very 
greatly below that of last year in quantity, and much 
of it is badly damaged. This will help to enhance 
the value of corn, as these two great feeding crops are 
used interchangeably. Whenever either crop is short 
the other always advances in price, and when both are 
short, as will be the case this year, they both ad- 
vance. 



The average condition of the tobacco crop is in ad- 
vance of the condition for several years, but we are 
afraid from what we hear that the quality is not likely 
to be of the best. There is pretty general complaint 
that the quality is coarse, and that there will be diffi- 
culty in securing a nice cure. We would urge that 
care be taken in this work, and that of grading the 
leaf when cured. For the best tobacco, notwithstand- 
ing what is being said as to the action of the trusts in 
depressing prices, we believe there will be a fair price 
paid, but it will largely depend upon the handling of 
the crop in curing and grading as to what each indi- 
vidual grower will obtain. We believe it is going to 
pay growers to do some of the work of the rehandlers 
for themselves this year. Whatever may be the out- 
come of the sales, one thing seems to be certain, that 
tobacco growers will need to organize themselves in 
order successfully to cope with the trusts. This 
should not be a difficult matter, and we trust that 
growers will devote some of their time during the 
winter to this work, so that the next crop to be plant- 
ed shall be only such an one as can be marketed with 
profit to the growers. There are plenty of other 
crops which can be grown at a profit until the trusts 
are made to understand that they must be prepared 
to give such prices for the product as will pay the 
growers or the crop will not be grown. 



Cotton is being picked all over the cotton belt, and 
is likely, if the weather continues open, to make a 
better yield than at one time seemed possible. The 
price is still high, and the indications are for this to 
be maintained. Stocks are low and the demand good. 



Sweet potatoes are making a good yield. The sec- 
ond crop of Irish potatoes is not going to be up to the 
average, as much of the seed rotted from the excessive 
rains at planting time. It will pay to give attention 



to this crop, as the Irish potato crop of the country 
is very seriously affected with blight, and will not be 
likely to be large or to keep well. 



The work of sowing the wheat and oat crops should 
receive immediate attention. It is already late to 
sow winter oats, but where the land is well prepared 
and the seed drilled so as to get good cover, they may 
yet be seeded upon well drained, sound land. Wheat 
should not be seeded until we have had frost, so as to 
avoid damage from the fly. In the mean time, let all 
the work possible be done on the land to make the seed 
bed a perfect one. More depends upon this than 
upon the quantity or quality of the fertilizer used. 
Have the under surface soil compact and the top two 
or three inches as fine as possible. To secure this 
condition of soil the roller and the harrow should be 
kept going. Where wheat is to follow corn, the corn 
should be cut as soon as possible, and either be got off 
the land or be set up in shocks as far apart in the rows 
as possible. Corn land that was deeply plowed in ] 
the spring and has been kept well and frequently 
cultivated during the growth of the crop may be seed- 
ed to wheat without being plowed again if the surface 
four or five inches is well broken with the disc har- 
row or a cultivator, and then brought into a fine con- 
dition with the roller and harrow. We have known 
quite as good crops to be made in this way as by re- 
plowing the land. In our last issue we wrote fully on 
the seeding of the wheat crop, and to that issue we re- 
fer our readers. One point to which we did not then 
advert we now press on the attention of readers. See 
to it that provision is made by furrows for taking off 
surface water as quickly as possible. Wheat cannot 
succeed when standing in water. It must have dry 
feet in winter or it will fail to make a crop. 



The showery summer we have had has made the 
growth of weeds very heavy. These should be got 
under ground as soon as possible in order that they 
may add to the vegetable matter in the soil. The 
ground is now cool, and there will be no danger of 
souring the land by turning down these crops, and 
they will greatly improve the condition of the land, 
especially if it is at the same time subsoiled 
and deeply broken. All other green crops not re- 
quired for feed may also be now safely plowed down, 
but wherever the growth is heavy enough to make hay 
unless the land badly needs the vegetable matter we 
would cut the crop, leaving a long stubble, and cure 
for hay before plowing. We have never had any 
liking for burying in the soil a crop which has cost 
money and labor to produce, unless the most impera- 



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tive need existed for such a course. We prefer to 
take its feed value out first and then bury the residue. 
After the crops of weeds and forage have been plowed 
down, give a top dressing of lime, 50 bushels to the 
acre, and harrow in lightly, and then seed with rye 
up to the end of November, and a preparation will 
have been made for a summer crop which will tell a 
tale in the harvest. ' 



Continue the seeding of vetches and wheat and rye. 
Hairy Vetch should be got in at once. English or 
Winter Vetch may be sown until the middle of No- 
vember. It is too late to sow crimson clover with a 
certainty of a stand, though we have known many a 
good crop raised sown in October. We would seed a 
few pounds per acre with wheat, rye or oats, or a 
mixture of the three grains. Much of the clover will 
probably live over the winter protected by these 
grains, and will add to the value of the feed and also 
improve the land. Seed the vetches with a mixture 
of small grain, say 25 pounds of vetch seed with three- 
quarters of a bushel of wheat, oats and rye mixed per 
acre, and if a pound or two of Dwarf Essex Rape be 
added per acre it will improve the pasturage. We 
have had a number of our subscribers to tell us that 
this mixture has given them the best spring pasture 
of anything they ever tried. 



Let all the forage crops be cut and cured as soon 
as possible. The nignts are now too cold for them to 
make much further growth, and the difficulty of 
curing them increases day by day. They will now 
require much more care to get them into a condition 
to be put into the barn than earlier in the season, but 
their value as feed will warrant this care being given 
them. Cut when free from dew or rain, and let them 
lie for 24 hours, then rake up into windrow and put 
up into small cocks. Let these stand for a day or two 
and then open out and sun, and put into larger cocks. 
Repeat this until the crop is ready for the barn. This 
will give a hay full of nutriment, and which will be 
eaten with relish by stock. 



Cut up the corn crop at the root and set up in 
shocks to cure. Much of the corn this year is yet 
very full of nature, and it will not- be safe to put it 
into large shocks. Have these smaller shocks well 
set up and tie them round the top with binder twine, 
so that they may stand well and cure. When dry 
pull the corn and have the fodder run through the 
shredder and packed in the barn. If you have not a 
shredder, let the fodder be carried to the barn or be 
stacked up under cover, if possible ; or, if not, then be 



made into stacks and be covered with straw to keep 
out the wet. Do not leave the fodder to waste in the 
field. It has cost money and labor to produce it, and 
is worth much as feed. Farming is not so profitable 
a business that you can afford to waste nearly one- 
half of the value of the corn crop. 



Irish and sweet potatoes should be dug before the 
frost cuts the tops. Dig only in dry weather, and do 
not let the tubers lie longer on the ground in the sun 
than just sufficient to dry off the adhering soil. In 
this issue in our Garden Notes will be found advice 
as to storing sweet potatoes. Irish potatoes may be 
stored either in a frost proof cellar or in pit or piles 
in the field. Do not put too many in one heap. Fifty 
bushels is enough to put in one pile. Make the piles 
on high dry ground, and cover at first with only some 
straw and a few boards to keep out the rain. After the 
potatoes have gone through the sweat, say in a week 
or ten days, cover with more dry straw and put soil 
on this sufficiently thick to keep out frost. 



Sugar beets and mangold wurtzel beets should be 
pulled before frost and be stored in a frost proof cel- 
lar or shed, or in heaps well covered with straw and 
soil. 



See that all barns, stables, sheds and pens are thor- 
oughly cleaned out and lime washed, and have all 
doors, windows and roofs repaired, so that when stock 
are put into the buildings they will be warm and 
comfortable. They cannot make the best use of the 
feed given them unless they are comfortable. It is 
a very extravagant way to use feed to warm buildings 
and barn yards with it. Make these warm by ex- 
cluding drafts and rain, and the stock Avill then use 
the feed to make flesh and growth. 



THE LEGUMINOUS CROPS AS IMPROVERS OF 
LAND. 

For years we have been iterating and reiterating 
the advice to grow the various leguminous crops, such 
as cow peas, crimson and red clover, vetches, s'oy beans 
and velvet beans, for feed or as improvers of land, and 
to a very considerable extent this advice has been fol- 
lowed throughout the South, but there are yet thou- 
sands of farmers who do not use them or only use them 
to a very limited extent. These men are standing in 
their own light and throwing away the greatest oppor- 
tunity ever given to men in any calling. In a recent 
visit to the farm of Mr. Bellwood, at Drewry's Bluff, 
Va.,"we were more than ever impressed with the truth 



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of this assertion. When Mr. Bellwood purchased his 
farm of over 1,000 acres about twelve or fifteen 
years ago it was a typical example of a run down 
farm. It had been cropped and cropped by renters 
and others until nearly all except the low grounds 
was almost too poor even to sprout peas. Shallow 
plowing, the want of a system of rotation, and the 
failure to grow recuperating crops, or to keep stock 
and apply the manure made to the land, was the cause 
of this condition. Naturally the land is good. All 
it needed was good management and farming to make 
it as it is now, one of the most fertile farms in the 
South. Mr. Bellwood and his sons set about to give 
it this, and the result is now seen. We doubt whe- 
ther there is in the United States a farm upon which 
heavier crops are grown than are now the rule every 
year on this place. This wonderfully improved con- 
dition has been altogether brought about by a good 
system of rotation, the constant growing of the legu- 
minous crops, and the keeping of a heavy head of 
live stock. Every year several hundred bushels of 
cow peas are sown, and vetches, soy beans and velvet 
beans are grown in large quantity. ISTot an ounce of 
commercial fertilizer has ever been used on the place. 
Each year crops of wheat averaging from 25 to 35 
bushels to theacre, and corn running all the way from 
50 bushels on the high land to 125 bushels on the low 
grounds to the acre, and hundreds of tons of timothy 
and cow peas and millet mixed hay, which latter crop 
makes as high as two or three tons to the acre, are 
made. We saw crops of this hay being cut, which we 
are satisfied would make nearly three tons to the acre. 
On all the poorer high land it has been and is the rule 
to grow two leguminous crops between the crops of 
wheat and corn, and these are now in almost every 
case cut for hay, leaving a heavy stubble to plow 
down. The only exception to this rule is when velvet 
beans are grown. These are always grown solely for 
a recuperating crop, and are plowed down during the 
winter. The experience of Mr. Bellwood is that vel- 
vet beans are the most valuable when used in this way. 
The growth is so heavy and the vines are so long and 
tangled that it is a most difficult matter to handle 
them for hay, and he finds that stock do not care to 
eat them when any other feed is in sight. As a re- 
cuperating crop they make a more permanent im- 
provement of the land than any other legume, and 
put so much vegetable matter into the soil that it 
is placed in the finest condition possible for the 
growth of any other crop. Upon one large field of 
upland we saw a crop of corn which will certainly 
yield 50 bushels to the acre where a few years ago not 
nubbins would have been made, and the whole im- 



provement has been made by the use of these legumi- 
nous crops. Every year hundreds of tons of hay, 
timothy and mixed is sold in addition to the wheat 
and large part of the corn. Where the manure from 
the stock has been used there is now growing a crop 
of silage corn, which looks like making 15 tons to the 
acre at least, and this was a few years ago a poor 
field, which would scarcely grow weeds. The silo at 
the farm is the largest we have seen. It is built of 
concrete, and will hold nearly 500 tons of silage. 
This large quantity is made every year and fed to the 
cattle with pea and millet hay. The silo corn is well 
eared, and the silage is therefore rich, and with the 
pea and millet hay makes nearly a balanced ration, 
whtch makes milk in quantity at a small cost, which 
milk is shipped to Richmond every day and brings in 
a constant income. This is profitable farming as 
practically the only outgo is for labor. Why cannot 
hundreds of other farmers go and do likewise. They 
may not all be able to make milk production a fea- 
ture, but they can make beef with the same feed, and 
beef will pay made in this way. 



LIME AS AN IMPROVER OF LAND. 

In this issue will be found an enquiry as to the 
advisability of applying lime to land and as to Its 
effect on crop production. This is only one of nume- 
rous similar enquiries which come to us during the 
year. In some cases the enquirers ask as to using it 
on light land, in others as to its effect on heavy land. 
We have deferred replying to many of these enquirers 
through our columns until this season of the year in 
order that we might bring the subject before our 
readers at a time when it is strictly in order for 
farmers to undertake the work of applying the lime. 
As readers of our columns are aware, we have for 
many years held strongly to the opinion that nearly 
all land in the South requires lime if the best results 
are to be obtained. We have been confirmed in this 
view in every case where our advice has been followed 
which has been reported to us. This view as to the 
necessity for the use of lime upon nearly all land is 
now being strongly enforced by experiments, which 
have been and are being made at a number of the 
Experiment Stations in different parts of the country. 
In the past it has been largely held that the use of 
lime could only be justified where the land was cover- 
ed with a strong growth of vegetable matter, or where 
the soil itself was filled with tough vegetable fibre, 
which required to be broken down by the caustic ac- 
tion of lime. Now it is being recognized by authori- 
ties that this is only one of the conditions under which 



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lime may be successfully used, and that its action is 
equally beneficial on most land even though little or 
no vegetable matter is on or in the soil. It has also 
been thought in the past that lime could not be profit- 
ably used in connection with phosphatic fertilizers, 
but now experiments have conclusively shown that its 
action in connection with these is most marked and 
beneficial. Lime is many sided in its effects on land. 
It acts both physically, mechanically and directly 
and indirectly as a fertilizer. Applied to light land, 
it makes it more cohesive and retentive of moisture 
and fertility. Heavy land it lightens and makes 
more porous, disintegrating the cohesive soil and 
rendering it permeable by the fine roots of the plants 
and checking baking and running together. It cor- 
rects acidity in the soil, and much land not thought 
to be acid is found upon chemical examination to be 
much too acid for the best growth of crops. There 
are very few crops which flourish in an acid soil. 
This is perhaps not so much because of the acidity 
of the soil, but because in such soils the microbes upon 
which largely depends the fertility of land cannot 
there live and work. More especially is this the case 
where the leguminous crops like clover and cow peas 
refuse to grow. These crops, upon which so largely 
depends the quick recuperation of wasted and infer- 
tile land, and the maintenance of fertility in all lands 
are almost wholly dependent upon microbic life in 
the soil for their vigorous growth. Where this is 
absent they cannot flourish, and wherever the soil is at 
all acid the microbes cannot live and the legumes fail 
and the farmer's cheapest source of fertility is lost to 
him. Lime again acts as a powerful solvent of inert 
fertility in the soil. Both potash and phosphoric 
acid existing in the soil in forms incapable of sup- 
porting plant life are rendered available to plants by 
the action of lime, and especially is this the case with 
potash. Probably all the different forms of lime 
compounds are more or less useful when applied to 
land, but in the form of a carbonate, in which it is 
found in the limestone of our mountains and in the 
oyster shell it is undoubtedly the most efficient 
Formerly it was thought that to secure good results 
it should be applied in heavy dressings. Frequently 
five tons to the acre was applied. It is now found 
that it is equally and probably more effective applied 
in less quantity and at more frequent intervals. One 
ton to the acre applied at intervals of four or five 
years will be found effective of great improvement on 
most lands. It may be applied in conjunction with 
other fertilizers, except those like barn yard manure, 
especially rich in nitrogen. Where it is applied in 
connection with nitrogenous manures it will cause a 



waste of the nitrogen. Where used in connection 
with nitrogenous manures it should be first applied 
and be thoroughly incorporated with the soil and 
then after an interval of ten or fifteen days the nitro- 
genous manure may be applied without risk of loss. 
It may be applied either in the form of ground lime- 
stone or as quick lime — that is, lime slacked with 
water after being burnt. Our experience, and ex- 
periments made at the Maryland Station confirm this 
experience, is that in the form of quick lime it is most 
effective. We always applied the burnt lime by put- 
ting it out on the land in small heaps, say about half 
a bushel at a place, setting these heaps on the plowed 
land near enough so that the lime when slacked could 
be spread with a shovel so as to cover the land half 
way to the heap on each side of the one being spread. 
These small heaps we then slacked with half a bucket 
of water, and after the heap had fallen to powder, 
which takes only a very short time, proceeded to 
spread at once, and then lightly harrowed in. In 
illustration of the effect which lime has in improving 
land recent experiment made by Dr. Hopkins, of the 
Illinois Experiment Station, in Southern Illinois, 
are most instructive. On the farm of a Mr. Hinkley 
in that section of the State, Dr. Hopkins found the 
land to be so acid that none of the legumes would 
grown on it. Mr. Hinkley applied lime in various 
quantities per acre. In one case he applied ten tons 
to the acre. His neighbors questioned his state of 
mind, and declared that nothing could grow in a lime 
kiln. But things did grow, and are . now growing 
where this heavy application was made. He now 
grows alfalfa successfully on this land, and when 
phosphoric acid is also applied and the leguminous 
crop is followed by wheat or oats profitable crops are 
raised on land that before this treatment would not 
grow weeds. Under Dr. Hopkins' direction a num- 
ber of other farmers in this same section of Illinois 
have applied lime to their lands and followed this 
with a leguminous crop, either cow peas or clover, and 
then with wheat or oats, to which phosphate was ap- 
plied, and have made excellent grain crops where 
formerly these crops were practically a failure. The 
foundation of this success is the lime which makes 
possible the growth of the legume and then the phos- 
phate supplies the special need of the grain crop in 
the way of mineral food, and the legume the nitrogen 
needed, and the result is a profitable crop and im- 
proved land. In a series of experiments conducted 
in Maryland the application of lime in three different 
forms, sulphate of lime (plaster), 370 pounds to the 
acre; quick lime (carbonate of lime) 2,000 pounds 
per acre, and shell marl, 8,000 pounds per acre, on 



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corn and wheat on a well drained loam soil showed all 
the applications to be quite beneficial, but the quick 
lime produced the greatest increase in yields. At the 
Rhode Island Experiment Station a series of experi- 
ments conducted for a period of four years in the use 
of lime in connection with different forms of phos- 
phatic fertilizers showed very decided favorable re- 
sults. The crops grown over the four years were 
corn, oats and hay. In 1894 one ton of lime was 
applied per acre to half the land. In that year the 
yield of corn on the cob on the plot on which no form 
of phosphate was applied, but which had been limed, 
was 2,613 pounds per acre. On the plot which had 
neither lime nor phosphate the yield was 1,893 per 
acre. On the limed plot, to which dissolved bone 
black was applied, the yield was 4,510 pounds of corn 
on the cob per acre. On the unlimed plot, to which 
dissolved bone black was applied, the yield was 3,698 
pounds per acre. On the limed plot, to which acid 
phosphate was applied, the yield was 3,953 pounds of 
corn per acre. On the unlimed plot, to which acid 
phosphate was applied, the yield was 3,255 pounds 
per acre. For the years 1896 1899 inclusive, the 
hay crop on the limed plot, to which dissolved bone 
black was applied, amounted to 19,837 pounds per 
acre. On the unlimed plot, to which bone black had 
been applied, the yield was 9,820 pounds per acre. 
On the limed plot, to which dissolved bone had been 
applied, the yield was 19,281 pounds. On the un- 
limed plot with dissolved bone the yield was 8,564 
pounds per acre. On the limed plot, to which acid 
phosphate was applied, the yield was 20,205 pounds 
per acre. On the unlimed plot with acid phosphate 
the yield was 8,951 pounds per acre. On the limed 
plot, to which pure ground bone meal was applied, tbe 
yield was 22,012 pounds per acre. On the unlimed 
plot with bone meal the yield was 11,855 pounds per 
acre. On the limed plot, to which no phosphoric acid 
in any form was applied the yield was 1 5,737 pounds 
per acre. On the unlimed plot, to which no phos- 
phoric acid was applied, the yield was 2,547 pounds 
per acre. Note how uniformly an increase is shown 
wherever the lime was applied. We invite careful 
consideration of the foregoing facts. We are satis- 
fied that those who use lime will realize profit from it. 
Those who use it in connection with acid phosphate 
or bone meal will realize still further profit. As a 
help to the production of a wheat crop we believe it 
will be found more advantageous than doubling the 
quantity of bone meal or acid phosphate, besides put- 
ting the land into a condition for growing clover or 
cow peas, which no other application can compare 
with. 



IMPROVED FARMING IN NORTH CAROLINA. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

I want your immediate advice along the line of 
crimson clover. I am told that as good a way to 
catch a stand as any is to sow the clover right among 
cow pea vines. How does this style strike you? I 
have some forty (40) acres sowed broadcast in cow 
peas, and most of them have a most luxuriant growth 
of vines. I am thinking of purchasing the clover 
seed at once and a good broadcast seeder, say "Ca- 
hoon's," and seed most of this pea vine bed to crimson 
clover. The land is in some places very sandy, and 
the whole is more or less sandy; just the right char- 
acter for bright tobacco. I said bright tobacco, but 
ain't we poor fellows catching it in prices ? Tell me, 
quick, how to manage as to the clover and land, would 
it do seeded on oat stubble, where there is a heavy 
growth of weeds and grass ? The oats were no good, 
say half a crop. I intended putting this to peas, but 
tobacco prevented. Would it do as well sown among 
the weeds and grass, or would you advise the imme- 
diate fallowing of the green stuff, and then sow seed 
and harroAv in? All I am after is the certainty of 
getting a stand of clover. I have no experience with 
clover. One more thing to ask, and please tell me all 
you can, and give me your very best advice. Most of 
my land is, as already stated, very sandy, and in some 
places rolling, all more or dess subject to washes. I 
notice your advice about using lime. I think that is 
what my land most needs. We have put lots of ma- 
nures and used lots of fertilizer. Tell me what char- 
acter of lime, when to use it, how much, and if broad- 
cast or in drill ? I think drill better for my land. 
Don't you think so ? Would lime not benefit any and 
all crops planted in sandy lands ? I am twelve (12) 
miles from depot, and the draying of lime would be 
at least one-half of my expense. I am trying stock 
raising, so as to keep up fertility of my soil. I be- 
lieve, though, that cow peas will beat all the stock in 
the world for this purpose, and to this end I am ex- 
perimenting. Stock require too much feed and close 
attention, and eat their heads off each winter; Can- 
not you tell me something about red Polled cattle? 
I have two bulls, one a red Poll and the other an 
Angus. The Angus, I find, is a strictly beef animal, 
and my object will be to sell him to some person or 
other who wants beef stock. I like the calves of Red 
Polls, and what I want to know is, How does this 
breed compare with Jerseys or Holsteins as to milk 
and butter? Do they give about the same as Hol- 
steins, and what about quality ? 

The foregoing letter received from a North Caro- 
lina farmer deals with so many matters of importance 
to farmers all over the South that we have published 
it in full as the text for an article dealing with the 
subject of improvement of land and live stock hus- 



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bandry. These two subjects lie at the root of all 
successful farming in the South. When Southern 
farmers realize this, as our correspondent evidently 
does, then they will cease to be "planters" dependent 
for a living on being able to sell one or two special 
crops like cotton and tobacco at profitable prices, and 
will become "farmers" with a variety of products for 
sale all through the year, the money from which can 
be largely kept at home and yet the fertility and crop 
producing capacity of their land be increased and the 
special sale crops like cotton and tobacco can be held 
until scarcity compels the manufacturer to give a fair 
price for them. At present even if the special crops 
are sold for good prices so much of the proceeds are 
required to be paid out for fertilizers that little is left 
wherewith to purchase home supplies and nothing for 
luxuries. In becoming "farmers" and not "plant- 
ers," Southern land owners will make their supplies 
at home and can live in comfort even though the 
"tobacco trusts" and "cotton trusts" shall become 
more numerous and exacting. Then the farmers will 
be able to dictate the price of tobacco and cotton, and 
not the trust, and prosperity and contentment will be 
the lot of our country people. The first step in the 
way to this end is production of leguminous crops like 
cow peas, crimson clover and vetches upon the farm. 
These make humus in the soil and feed in the barn. 
They gather fertility from the atmosphere and fix it 
in the soil. They make possible big manure heaps, 
and these, after all, are the true Savings banks of the 
farm. To secure these results the crops must be suc- 
cessfully grown and fully utilized. This is the sea- 
son of the year when the work of growing the clover 
and vetches should be started, and here at the very 
beginning many make their first blunder. Because 
they are told that leguminous crops are improving 
crops they at once assume that they will grow on poor 
land without any help. This is not so. All the 
legumes are large consumers of phosphoric acid and 
potash in their growth. Give them these mineral 
fertilizers and they will then secure the nitrogen, 
which they need, and more than they need from the 
air. In return for a supply of phosphoric acid and 
potash, where it is lacking in the soil, the legumes 
will fix nitrogen in the soil and make a heavy crop of 
vines and roots, which will supply humus to the soil. 
Where land has been deeply broken and well culti- 
vated for the summer crop crimson clover and the 
vetches will make a good stand without replowing the 
land. The surface three or four inches should be 
broken with a disc harrow or cultivator, and the fer- 
tilizer and seed be then sowed and harrowed in, and 
if the land is dry enough be rolled. Our correspon- 



dent asks if clover seed can be successfully sowed in 
a growing crop of cow peas. Whilst we have known 
a good stand of clover to be thus secured we have 
known many a stand to be thus lost. Where the peas 
are a heavy crop it is a very risky business to sow 
clover in them. As they mature they will fall down 
and smother out the clover. Better mow the cow peas 
and make them into hay, and then break the pea stub- 
ble with a disc harrow or cultivator and sow the seed. 
To seed clover or any other crop in a standing crop 
of weeds as suggested by our correspondent is bad 
farming. Even though the clover should make a 
stand it must of necessity be a weedy crop, and there- 
fore an undesirable one. Cut the weeds down before 
they seed, break the land and then seed the clover. 
Weeds are the great curse of most land in the South. 
They exhaust the fertility of the land and rob it of 
the moisture which it is so necessary here to conserve. 
No opportunity should be missed to lessen the weed 
crop. It is always an unprofitable one. The utiliza- 
tion of the leguminous crops is a matter of as great 
moment as their growth in the economy of the farm. 
Our correspondent suggests that simply using them 
as the medium to supply nitrogen and vegetable mat- 
ter to the soil by turning them down is more profitable 
than to use them as feed for stock. In this we are 
unable to agree with him. To turn under a crop so 
rich in the element (protein) absolutely essential to the 
growth of live stock is wasting money. A good crop 
of cow peas or crimson clover or vetches will make 
two tons of hay to the acre, worth at the very least 
$20 as feed. The full feed value of the crop can be 
taken out by live stock, and yet nearly the full ma- 
nurial value can be returned to the land by the careful 
saving and application of the voidings of the stock. 
We grant that it may in some cases be wise economy 
to turn down a crop of cow peas, clover, or vetches, 
but only where land is so absolutely devoid of vege- 
table matter (humus) as to be almost incapable of 
making a crop. In every other case the feed value 
of the crop should be utilized by some animal. Our 
correspondent's remark that "cattle eat their heads off 
in winter" can only be true where the feed is given 
to miserable scrub animals not worth raising or feed- 
ing. Well bred animals of either the beef or milk 
or butter type can everywhere be fed to profit either 
directly or indirectly. Thousands of animals are fed 
some years in England where the profit secured is 
represented solely by the conversion of the crops of 
the farm into manure, which enhances the fertility 
of the land and makes possible the production of 
heavy yields of grain and other crops without the 
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profit worth considering. As a result of such a 
utilization of crops an average of 30 bushels of wheat 
to the acre is made in England as against an average 
of 12 bushels to the acre in this country. What is 
needed here is a better type of animals into which to 
feed the crops. With such stock and the nearness of the 
great markets of the North and East there can be no 
doubt but that live stock husbandry can be made 
profitable in the South, and every crop we grow be 
made to produce a heavier yield and more profit. We 
believe firmly that with a larger growth and proper 
utilization of tbe leguminous and forage crops which 
we can so easily grow in the South, that one-half of 
the money spent in commercial fertilizers each year 
could be saved and yet heavier crops be produced. 
We know of farms in the South where not a dollar a 
year is paid out for commercial fertilizers, and yet 
where heavy crops are being made and a good profit 
being realized on the investment in the farm and 
stock. These farms are heavily stocked with animals 
of all kinds, and crops are specially grown to be fed 
to them in addtion to the roughage from the small 
grain and corn crops. 

With reference to our correspondent's enquiry as 
to the relative merits of the different breeds of cattle 
mentioned, we would say that the Angus is one of the 
best types of beef making stock, but is of no use for 
the dairy. The Red Poll is in our opinion the finest 
dual purpose cow in the world. She is good at the 
pail and good in the pen. She has done what no 
other breed of cows has ever done, taken first premium 
at the Fat Stock show for beef, and first premium at 
the Dairy Show as a milk and butter producer. She 
is the true general farmer's cow, ready to make either 
milk or beef profitably. Whilst she will not give as 
much milk per year as a good Holstein, nor as much 
butter per year as a good Jersey,, she will give as 
much of either product as the average cow of these 
breeds, and will make beef when not milking quicker 
than either of them, and the beef will be worth much 
more per hundred than that from either a Holstein 
or a Jersey. In another article we deal with the sub- 
ject of the liming of land. 



HAIRY VETCH. 

When advising the seeding of this crop for an early 
spring grazing and hay crops we are frequently met 
with the objection that the seed is very costly, and 
some of it unreliable in germination. This is no doubt 
true where it bas to be bought, but as we have fre- 
quently pointed out, there is no reason whatever why 
the seed should have to be bought. We can grow it 



here as well as it can be grown in Europe, from 
whence the supply on the market largely comes. We 
have known an excellent crop of the seed to be grown 
in Chesterfield county, Va. The Department of 
Agriculture has conducted some experiments in the 
production of the seed in Maryland and Ohio, with 
the following results : 

Great difficulty has been experienced in harvesting 
the seed when grown alone. It ripens very unevenly, 
and if left until most of the seed is mature it becomes 
matted on the ground and shells and moulds badly. 
It was found that by sowing with rye a sufficient sup- 
port was furnished to keep it off the ground and allow 
it to be cut easily with a mowing machine. Rye 
seems best adapted as a supporting crop on account of 
the time of ripening and the stiff straw. 

The best results were obtained with seeding from 
one-half to three-fourths bushels of vetch and one-half 
bushel of rye to the acre, sowing from the middle to 
the last of September. 

The crop should be cut about the time the last pods 
are formed and the vines are getting dry. The cut- 
ting is done with an ordinary mowing machine, after 
which the vines and straw should be put in piles and 
allowed to dry. The threshing can be done with an 
ordinary grain thresbing machine. 

The four acres in Ohio yielded 13 bushels of vetch 
and 61 bushels of rye. In Maryland the storms 
knocked the rye down so it did not fill well, but the 
four acres yielded 18 bushels of vetch and 8 bushels 
of rye. Reports from Mississippi show a yield of 
from 5 to 7 bushels per acre in that State. 

In many instances hairy vetch has been sown and 
proved a failure under ordinary cultivation. As it 
is adapted to a considerable variety of soils and a 
wide area, it is certain that the failure in most in- 
stances is due to the absence of the organism which 
produces the root tubercles and has the property of 
fixing the free nitrogen in the air, making it available 
for plant food. In sowing the areas referred to above 
the greater part was inoculated with the nitrifying 
organism, but a strip was left in each case on which 
none of the inoculating material was used. A vigor- 
ous growth of hairy vetch was obtained on the inocu- 
lated plots, while on the uninoculated plots in both 
cases the growth was very scanty and the ground al- 
most bare. This shows the ability of the vetch to 
make a very satisfactory growth by means of the in- 
oculation on ground where it proves an entire failure 
under ordinary cultivation. 

Unless hairy vetch has already been grown success- 
fully on a piece of ground, it should be inoculated to 
insure success. Inoculating material will be furnish- 



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ed by and all inquiries concerning it should be ad- 
dressed to Bureau of Plant Industry, United States 
Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 

See that a piece of land is seeded with vetch and 
rye during this month, and thus make certain of an 
ample supply of seed for next year. It will grow on 
poorer land than crimson clover and makes an excel- 
lent green forage crop and good hay. It should be 
grown mixed with oats, wheat and rye to make the 
best yield of feed. 



ANOTHER EXPERIMENT IN CURING COW PEA HAY 

Editor Southern Planter: 

Thinking that making posts, digging holes for 
them, nailing on cross pieces, placing the hay in be- 
tween, etc., was a tedious, slow, and expensive pro- 
cess in curing pea hay. I am trying this plan. I 
put an ordinary fence rail on four small forks, four 
and a half feet long, the two pairs of forks leaning a 
little toward each other, suspending a rail on each 
side by two wires over the rail sustained by the forks 
and resting against the forks about midway, then 
placing three tobacco sticks on each side, leaning them 
against the forks. 

On this frame work I build a rick of the pea vines, 
not having the vines more than two or two and a half 
feet thick anywhere ; the rick being eight or nine feet 
high will contain six or eight'shocks. The ricks have 
had a severe test of rain intermittently for two days 
and a night. The hay is cool and drying out. That 
in shocks is hot and beginning to rot. 

I believe I have found the way to cure pea vines, 
but I cannot yet cry Eureka, because the hay is not 
yet fully cured, but I write at once as some one else 
may wish to try this experiment before the season is 
over. 

Brace the framework with an extra fork while you 
"are building on it, after the rick is partly made re- 
move the fork, and the rick will be firm and steady. 
Have the sides and ends of rick steep. I will let my 
ricks stand until hay can be safely housed. 

Charlotte Co., Va. H. C. Rice. 



NOTES ON THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE. 

CHEAT CASSAVA LEGUMINOUS CROPS HOLLOW 

HORN HOLLOW TAIL. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

You have quite a symposium on the cheat question, 
and there is hardly any need for more on the subject. 
If Mr. Roberts, of Washington county, will sow clean 



oats on land where there are no cheat seeds he will 
never have cheat in winter oats. The great difficulty 
is that farmers fail to recognize the cheat seeds in the 
oats, for they look exactly like shrivelled oats grains. 
If they are all blown out, and only heavy and plump 
oats sown, no cheat will grow unless the soil is already 
infested with it. Then it takes the freezing of winter 
that kills oats at times, to germinate the hardy cheat 
seeds, and when oats are sown in spring all the cheat 
that has germinated is killed by the plowing, and the 
result is clean oats. But these clean oats put back in 
the fall on land infested with cheat will soon be found 
full of cheat, not because the oats turned to cheat, but 
because the cheat seed were there, and had the proper 
conditions for their growth. Whatsoever a man sow- 
eth that also shall he reap is as true of cheat as of any 
other plant. Sow cheat seed and you will get cheat, 
never oats. Sow only oats in perfectly clean land 
and you will have oats, and never cheat. I have 
grown winter oats here, and had them killed down, 
but never a cheat plant put in an appearance, for the 
soil has no cheat seed in it, and only perfectly clean 
oats are sown. But all around the oats turn to cheat, 
because the cheat seed is there. 

Cassava. — I have grown cassava here with success 
from cuttings planted in the early spring, and have 
made delicious puddings from the grated roots. We 
can, on the sandy soils in the eastern part of this 
State (North Carolina), grow cassava with perfect 
success. Even on the clay soil here I made an aver- 
age of half a pound of starch per root. The chief 
difficulty is in keeping the cuttings over winter. They 
keep fairly well buried in sand in a warm cellar. The 
plant is Avell worth growing as an ornamental plant. 
Its leaves resemble the castor bean, as it belongs to 
the same family, but the plant is decidedly more 
handsome than the castor bean, being more dense in 
growth, and the leaf stalks being red, form a contrast 
to the green leaves. Eor the centre of a sub-tropical 
flower bed the cassava is a very pretty object. 

Hollow Horn and Hollow Tail. — You have struck 
another old superstition like the cheat, and I expect 
that you will be getting letters from people who know 
that cattle have these so-called diseases. Did any 
one ever find a cow horn that was not hollow or a cow 
that does not have a soft, boneless place in her tail ? 
Cattle ticks and hollow stomach are generally the 
cause of the sickness. 

Legume Forage. — You are right in what you say 
to Mr. French. The great advantage we have in the 
feeding of beef cattle in the South is the great abund- 
ance of protein feeds that we can grow. Grass pas- 
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grass as much as she does legumes, and we can grow 
most of these to greater perfection than the Northern 
farmers can. Cow peas, soy beans, velvet beans, 
vetch, crimson clover, alfalfa, all furnish the costly 
protein and all can be grown in the South better than 
elsewhere. With plenty of legume hay we need grass 
only as permanent pasture, and in the Bermuda grass 
we have the finest of summer pastures in the country, 
and can afford to let the meadow grasses go while we 
produce better hay from plants that improve the soil 
they grow on. W. E. Massey, 

Editor of Practical Farmer. 



CLOVER SEEDING. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

There has been much complaint in recent years in 
our section of failure in securing a stand of clover. 
This year, however, the farmers have been more suc- 
cessful. Most of the failures were due to drouths 
generally in April and May, and sometimes in July 
and August. We can escape some of these if proper 
methods in seeding are practiced. 

It is our rule here to sow with wheat, and when 
that plant is making its greatest demand on the soil 
for moisture, it does not take much of a dry spell in 
May to kill the young clover plant, if it was sown late. 
I rarely fail to get a stand in wheat. My practice is 
to watch for an opportunity in February, when the 
ground is nicely cracked by freezing and the surface 
is dry. I regard February 15th as the best time, so 
that the elements will bury all the seed before there 
is warmth enough to sprout it. Nature will then 
bring it up at the proper time and early. It then 
gets well rooted before spring drouth sets in, then, 
unless the drouth is very severe, it will pass through 
it unharmed. By this method of seeding I save much 
labor in covering it, as has to be done by those who 
sow late. I have never lost any young clover by 
freezing, though I, have had wheat cut down in March 
when six inches high by a severe freeze. 

This spring there was no favorable time for seed- 
ing in February until the last day, when the seeder 
was brought out and 32 acres was sown. This field 
produced 800 bushels of wheat and one of the finest 
stands of clover I have ever had. Have just finished 
mowing over the stubble and cutting down the rag 
weed, and will gather some clover seed on parts of the 
field. 

The saving of labor in preparing the land but once 
and saving one year's time will prevent people taking 
your advice about sowing clover alone. 1 have prac- 
ticed sowing clover alone in small patches for years, 
and I have never failed to get a stand. This year some 
seeded that way was cut for hay August 1st, it being 
18 inches high. If my neighbor and friend, T. S. 



White, had stepped over this way he would have seen 
your opinion reinforced by my experience. 

In this connection may I say to those who imagine 
that other plants "turn to chess," if they will ob- 
serve closely in their fall seeding they will see the 
little chess plant coming up ready to overtop most 
other crops in the spring. I sowed last fall two and 
a half acres of corn stubble land in orchard grass and 
clover. I saw the chess up in it in a few weeks, and 
when I cut the hay this spring it was nearly all chess. 
I cut it again August 1st, and it was all orchard grass 
and clover. It now stands 8 inches high, nice and 
clean. T. M. Wade. 

Rockbridge Co., Va. 

Whilst early seeding of the clover seed on the wheat 
crop will materially help to secure a stand, yet our 
experience and observation has been that more of such 
stands are killed by the hot weather and a drouth after 
the cutting of the wheat than by spring drouths. The 
sudden exposure of the tender shaded clover plants 
to the full glare of the hot sun is most trying to them, 
and if followed by a dry period almost certainly fatal 
and especially so when the rag weed is allowed to grow 
and not mowed off. It sucks out the last vestige of 
moisture and the clover dies. — Ed. 



GOOD YIELDS OF WHEAT. 

Threshing has been ip progress on the Fort Hays 
Branch Experiment Station, Kansas, and some of the 
yields are very gratifying. There has been grown 
there this year 220 varieties of small grain, 105 be- 
ing fall wheat. The seed grains of these were fur- 
nished by the Bureau of Plant Introduction of the 
Department of Agriculture, and were known to be 
promising. The surplus seed from these varieties is 
being sold to wheat growers all over the wstern part 
of the State, so that the benefit of the station will be 
felt immediately. 

The following is a list of the varieties and yields 
that are considerably above the average : 

Kansas, No. 4, Kharkov, a Russian winter wheat 
(bearded), 40.90 bushels per acre. 

Kansas, No. 5, Beloglina, a Russian winter wheat 
(bearded), 32.24 bushels per acre. 

Kansas, No. 6, Ulta, a Russian winter wheat 
(bearded), 36.35 bushels per acre. 

Kansas, No. 7, Crimean, a Russian winter wheat 
(bearded), 40.61 bushels per acre. 

Kansas, No. 8, Chirka, a Russian winter wheat 
(bald), 36.67 bushels per acre. 

Kansas, No. 3, imported Turkey (bearded), 35.82 
bushels per acre. 

Kansas, No. 33, Kharkov (bearded), 35.28 bushels 
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Kansas, No. 35, Crimean importation (bearded), 
36.94 bushels per acre. 

Kansas, No. 37, Theiss (bearded), 40.97 bushels 
per acre. 
Fort Hays Branch Experiment Station, Hays, Kan. 

These varieties ought to be tested in the South. 
Possibly seed may be had for this purpose from the 
Department of Agriculture. — Ed. 



ENQUIRERS' COLUMN. 



Enquiries should be sent to the office of The Southern Plan- 
ter, 'Richmond, Va., not later than the 15th of the month for 
repliesjto appear in the next month's issue. 



Japan Clover. 

Please state in your next issue if "Japan clover" 
planted in the fall (and what time) will do as well 
as if sown in the spring ? Also, if sown in the moun- 
tains where a good deal of shade exists will it grow 
and make good grazing if thrown broadcast over the 
leaves ? A Subscriber. 

Albemarle county, Ya. 

Japan clover should be sown in Spring. All 
through Piedmont, Middle and Southern Vir- 
ginia Japan clover is found growing under 
the shade of trees where not too dense. It makes 
good grazing sown broadcast. There are hundreds 
of acres of it growing all through the South, where 
never a seed has been sown by man. Birds, animals 
and floods have carried the seeds and started the 
growth, and then it has spread uncared for and un- 
tended. — En. 



Hairy Vetch, Winter Vetch. 

Which is best adapted to this section, English 
Winter Vetch or Hairy Winter Vetch ? Will either 
do well sown after cow peas, and what time to sow ? 
The soil is gray. H. T. Kirkman. 

Guilford Co., N. C. 

Either will grow well in your section. The Hairy 
Vetch should be sown in September whilst the Eng- 
lish Winter Vetch may be sown into November, but 
is better got in October. They will grow after cow 
peas. Sow either wheat or oats or a mixture of the 
two, which is better, with the Vetches. Half a bushel 
of the grain to the acre, with 25 pounds of Hairy 
Vetch or 1 bushel of English Vetch. — Ed. 



Lame Horse. 

I have a mare about 12 years old, which has been 
lame in one of her fore feet for nearly eight months, 
probably caused by being overstrained. Eirst she 



became enlarged at the fetlock joints, also a soft, 
puffy swelling similar to wind galls, but cannot be 
rubbed away. At the same time she seemed to have 
pain in her shoulder, which, at times, becomes so se- 
vere that she can hardly walk. There also seems to 
be a wasting away of muscle on her shoulder blade, 
generally called sweeney. I have tried different 
remedies without yet having effected a cure. 

Simon Zirknitzer. 

Lunenburg Co., Va. 

This is one of those cases of sprain resulting in 
shoulder lameness, which are so common and yet so 
invariably difficult of treatment. The most success- 
ful remedy which can be used is rest. This may be 
supplemented by rubbing the joints and shoulder 
with belladonna or camphor liniment, and possibly 
blistering may be found of service. — Ed. 



Texas Fever Ticks. 

Please give information how to rid farms of ticks 
which you say cause fever in cattle. 

Albemarle Co., Va. J. H. Griffith. 

Texas fever ticks can be gotten rid of from every 
farm in Virginia if only farmers would make the 
necessary effort. What is needed is to keep cattle, 
horses and mules off a pasture for part of the year. 
This pasture will then be free from ticks, and will re- 
main free if no cattle infested with ticks are turned 
on to it. Northern cattle may then be put into it with 
certainty that they will not have the fever. Before 
any Southern cattle are turned into it they must be 
perfectly cleaned of all ticks. The best method of 
doing this is to use a mixture of one part kerosene oil 
to three parts of cotton seed oil. This should be 
rubbed on the cattle all over. Two or three greas- 
ings at intervals of a week or ten days apart will do 
the work effectually. The cattle ishould then be 
kept only on the cleaned pasture, and another pasture 
should be cleaned in the same way, until all the farm 
is clear of this Southern pest, which has cost the 
South millions of dollars. The State of Virginia 
can get rid of it and keep rid of it if the farmers so 
decide, and it will be worth thousands of dollars to 
them every year. See article in this issue. — Ed. 



Inoculating Cattle for Texas Fever. 

Will you have Mr. C. A. Williams, of Halifax 
county, N. C, tell us how he inoculates his cattle, 
and what he uses to make his cattle tick proof ? 

Lonoke Co., Ark. H. J. Lewis. 

Cattle are inoculated against Texas fever by draw- 
ing blood from a cow infected with the Texas fever 
germs, and after the same has been defibrinated in- 
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rendered immune. The operation requires a special 
inoculating outfit, consisting of a lancet, injection 
syringe, and measuring glass, so as to secure the 
proper quantity of fluid. It is usually done by a 
veterinarian, but there is no reason why a farmer 
should not learn to do it for himself. He could read- 
ily do so by seeing the operation performed at some 
Experiment Station. It is regularly done at most 
of the Southern Stations. The important point is 
to be certain that the animal from which the blood is 
taken is infected with the germs of the disease. She 
must have had the disease. — Ed. 



Grafting. 

In your next issue of the Planter I would thank 
you to give me directions for grafting fruit trees. 

Southampton Co., Va. J. L. Camp. 

When the season for grafting is nearer at hand we 
will publish ah article on this subject. At present 
all that can be done is to cut the scions as the wood 
becomes mature and to pack them away in a cool 
cellar, but where frost will not hurt them, in damp 
powdered moss or peat soil. These scions may be 
cut at any time during the late fall months or even in 
early spring. They should be carefully labelled with 
the name when cut, so that no mistake may be made 
when inserting the graft. — Ed. 



most valuable hay grasses that can be sown, and it 
also makes an excellent addition to a pasture mix- 
ture. We believe that the seed is principally grown 
in the Middle States, and is, we presume, harvested 
in the same way as orchard grass. The machine is 
set to cut only the seed stalks of the grass, and the 
bottom is afterwards cut for hay. Dr. Phares, one 
of the best authorities on grasses, admits that the seed 
is rather difficult to save, as it begins to ripen in six 
to ten days after blooming, and the top seeds ripen 
first, and at once begin to drop. He advises that as 
soon as the top seeds ripen sufficiently to drop the 
whole seed stalk be cut off and dried, when the seeds 
will all thresh out and be matured. Probably the 
Division of Agrostology of the Department of Agri- 
culture, Washington, may be. able to give you further 
information on the subject.- — Ed. 



Tail Meadow Oat Grass. 

I have been a reader of yoTir meritorious publica- 
tion for several years, and have noticed that when 
giving a list of grass seeds, which you recommend 
for sowing, you almost invariably include tall meadow 
oat grass, though I have not noticed an article on its 
merits since I have been one of your readers. I have 
been sowing this grass since 1899. and find it worthy 
of more notice, and compared with orchard grass 
for hay, I would give the oat grass the preference, as 
it does not get hard and woody when allowed to get 
ripe like orchard grass does. I would like to know 
how the seed is gathered, as the price of seed goes up 
from year to year, and is now nearly double what it 
was in 1898. It falls from the plant as it ripens, 
and if gathered a little green is likely to spoil, and is 
hard to cure. T have tried stripping by hand, which 
is slow. Hope you can give some information on 
the subject, as at present price of seed it would be 
very profitable to save it, and it may interest many 
of your readers. J. H. Thompson. 

Jefferson Co., W. Va. 

Whilst we have not written any special article on 
the merits of tall meadow oat grass, we have shown 
our appreciation of its value by constantly recom- 
mending it to be sown. We know it to be one of the 



Fall and Winter Plowing. 

We have some light land that had wheat on it the 
past year, and we expect to put it in corn and pota- 
toes next spring. Would it be of any advantage to 
plow this land in the fall? We also have some stiff 
upland that we expect to put in peas and beans. This 
land has been plowed rather shallow heretofore; we 
hope to plow it deeper this time. Should we plow 
it now or wait until spring ? Subscriber. 

Charles Co., Md. 

We advise the plowing of all land in the fall and 
winter. It can then, with safety, be plowed deep,- 
and thus the depth of soil be increased. The new 
soil turned up will be acted upon by the air and sun, 
and its plant food be made available. It is well 
when the plowing is done in the fall to seed with 
some winter cover crop like rye, winter oats or wheat, 
with crimson clover or vetches. This will conserve 
and add to the fertility. Eall and winter plowing 
greatly lessens the pressure of work in spring and 
land can often be plowed then, which could not be 
touched until too late in the spring for the best re- 
sults in the crop. — Ed. 



Smut on Corn— Grass for Name. 

1. What causes smut on corn ? 

2. Will the smut hurt horses, cattle, sheep or hogs 
to eat it ? 

3. Enclosed find sample grass head that grows 
about here. Tell me the name and value of it, and 
can I secure it at the seed store ? 

Catawba Co., N. C. A. C. Edwards. 

Smut is caused by a fungus known by the name of 
Ustilago zeae. It is a fungus of a simple nature, and 
entirely distinct from the smuts of wheat, barley or 
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one crop to another, but is usually conveyed to the 
field and thence spreads to the crop i- '-.aiiure from 
the barn yard or in rich soil, which ha b< on infected 
with smut spores from smutted ears or stuiks thrown 
down on the ground. The spores are carried in the 
air. and these sources of infection grow quickly on 
touching a moist, tender place on the ear or stalk. 
The only way to prevent infection or check it is to 
carefully destroy with fire or bury deeply or scald 
with boiling water every piece of smutted corn or 
stalk. 

2. Smut is not injurious to animals, indeed it has 
been found to be nutritious for cattle. 

3. The grass sent is Panicum ■proliferum, a weedy 
annual grass of no particular value as forage. You 
could not buv the seed of seedsmen. — Ed. 



Feed for Young Pigs. 

In the absence of milk, what feed do you consider 
best for young pigs seven or eight weeks old ? Would 
you advise blood meal to produce high class pigs — 



prize winners 



Subscriber. 



Dinwiddle Co., Va. 

Ship stuff with a little fine bran mixed with it and 
a teaspoonful of blood meal added to each feed mixed 
in water or kitchen slops. A spoonful of fine bone 
meal added to the food once a week will also be found 
beneficial. Let the pigs also have some green food, 
clover or vetches, and some wood ashes to eat when 
they desire. These will help to keep their digestive 
organs and bowels right. We have had some good 
reports as to the use of blood meal for both pigs and 
calves. — Ed. 



Protecting Peas and Beans from Weevil. 

I have some peas and soja beans that I failed to 
sow this season and wish to carry over for next 
spring's seeding. Is there any way I can treat them 
to prevent bugs eating them? If so, please give 
remedy through the columns of your paper. 

Pittsylvania Co., Ya. Farmer. 

Place the peas and beans in a tight bin or barrel 
with a close fitting lid. Procure a can of bisulphide 
of carbon from a drug store and fill a saucer with the 
liquid and place it on the top of the seed and close 
the lid. Leave for 24 hours, when the vapor from 
the drug will have sunk down through the seed and 
have killed every living thing in it. This should be 
repeated two or three times during the winter and 
spring, as the eggs of insects will hatch at intervals 
through this time. Be careful to keep all lights away 
from the carbon, as it is very explosive. The smell 
of the drug will pass off from the seed in a short 
time after exposure to the air, and it has no dele- 



terior effect on grain of any kind. It is equally ef- 
fective in destroying animal life of all kinds, there- 
fore do not inhale more of the vapor than can be 
helped. — Ed. 



Cheese Making— Sick Hog. 

1. Please inform me whether cheese can be manu- 
factured on a small scale — that is to say, on a farm 
where about ten cows are kept. If so, what equip- 
ments are necessary ? What knowledge is required 
to be able to operate a cheese factory with success; 
and can such knowledge be obtained in our agricul- 
tural institutions ? If so, what time is required to 
gain such knowledge ? 

2. I also desire to know something regarding my 
hogs, with which I have some misfortune. I bought 
a pair of Berkshire pigs from one of your adver- 
tisers. They were very fine ones, but one had a 
severe cough, which I treated in different ways, but 
with no success, the one affected being a sow. When 
she had pigs, which were very fine, I noticed that 
some of the pigs were also affected. I tried giving 
spirits of turpentine in food, but with no effect. 
One died. We cut it open and found that the pig 
was all swelled inside, having lumps on the lungs. 
I would like to know the disease, and what would be 
the best cure. George Sedivy. 

Dinwiddle Co., Va. 

1. Yes ; cheese can be made on a small scale on the 
farm. It was formerly all made in this way, but the 
cheese factory has now largely supplanted the small 
home industry. A better quality of cheese is made 
when larger quantities are handled and larger cheeses 
made. We believe there is a good opening for cheese 
factories in the South, as there is a considerable con- 
sumption of cheese, and it is all brought from the 
North. There was a factory operated in Orange 
county, Va., some years ago, and a good quality of 
cheese was made, for which a market was readily 
found, but it was destroyed by fire, and the business 
not resumed. The equipment required is not very 
costly either for home or factory work, and can be 
had from dairy utensil makers in the North. We 
would not advise the starting of home making, as the 
difficulty of finding a market for the small cheeses 
would be great. If the owners of 50 cows would com- 
bine together and start a small factory we believe it 
would be a profitable investment. A course in 
cheese making would require to be taken at some 
Northern or Northwestern Agricultural College, or 
a skilled cheese maker from one of these institutions 
would have to be engaged. There are several books 
published on cheese making, from which much could 
be learned, but a three months' course in a practical 
school would be best. Wisconsin Agricultural Col- 



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lege would he the best place to go to for this purpose, 
as they make the best cheese in that State. 

2. The hog probably suffered from chronic bron- 
chitis, which was transmitted to the pig which died 
and then developed into lung disease. Nitrate of 
potash in drachm doses given two or three times a 
week will often relieve this trouble. It is usually 
caused by exposure to cold drafts or from sleeping in 
dusty beds. — En. 



Plowing Down Peas. 

I planted peas in row in oat stubble as a prepara- 
tion for cotton. They have fallen down so they can- 
not be saved for hay, and there is about a half stand 
of volunteer oats. Would it be better to plow down 
this fall or leave the oats for a winter cover ? If the 
pea vines are left on top till spring will their nitrogen 
get into the soil or escape into the air. R. 

Lincoln Co., N. C. 

The best course to pursue in order to secure all the 
fertilizing value of the peas is to plow them down 
now and sow rye, wheat or winter oats on the land to 
conserve this fertility. If crimson clover or vetches 
were also sown with the grain this would not only 
conserve, but add to the fertility. If allowed to lie 
on the land all winter some of the nitrogen will be 
lost. — Ed. 



Calves Dying. 

Yesterday ( September 1 4th) I visited my son, who 
is managing the farm and taking care of mansion 
formerly occupied by the late Mr. Calvin Jeff ers, in 
Nottoway county, Va. His milch cows have been 
running, for several months, on a field of from 
thirty to forty acres, on part of which was wheat and 
the rest a very poor crop of oats this year. The oats 
were not worth cutting, and but few were cut. Three 
of the cows have a calf each with them. These 
calves have been confined through the day in the en- 
closure in which the house stands, and at night turn- 
ed with the cows, with which they remain till morn- 
ing, in a yard adjoining, in which there is nothing 
growing but very short grass. In the enclosure in 
which the calves have stayed through the day are a 
large variety of ornamental trees and shrubs, which 
they could eat of at will — for instance, spruce pine, 
oleander bush, cedars and a box hedge on each side 
of driveway. On Sunday morning one of the three 
calves was noticed with its head turned abruptly 
round, grinding its teeth, frothing at mouth, bellow- 
ing, staggering, falling, jumping up, and in thirty 
minutes from being first seized died. It was four 
months' old, in good condition, and always appeared 
perfectly healthy until this took place. Yesterday 
morning a second one died exactly in the same way 



about the same time of morning and died after suf- 
fering about the same time. It was about two 
months old. In skinning them there was noticed an 
abnormal quantity of nearly black blood about head 
and neck. What can be the cause? I have been 
breeding cattle for half a century, but have never 
met with a case like this. Alfred Stables. 

Lunenburg Co., Va. 

We have very little doubt but that the calves died 
from poisoning from having eaten some of the orna- 
mental shrubs in the yard. We believe that it is 
generally recognized that the oleander is poisonous 
to stock, and most of the ornamental evergreens are 
so. We have known many cattle to be poisoned by 
yew, laurestinus and laurel, and we believe also from 
box. — Ed. 



Fertilizers for Tobacco, Tomatoes and Wheat. 

Please give me the names of all ingredients to 
make fertilizer of the best kind for growing tobacco 
on poor land, and also the name of the best seed to 
sow for marketing purposes ; and also the best kind 
of tomato to sow for canning, and what kind of fer- 
tilizer to use for them to make the best yield. Is 
there much profit on such crops ? Also give me the 
name of the best fertilizers for growing wheat, as I 
made a failure on my crops. 

Northumberland Co., Va. T. L. Ashbukn. 

If the writer of this enquiry will read The 
Planter carefully he will find the question of the 
best fertilizer to use for these particular crops fully 
discussed previous to the time for planting the same 
each year. We do not undertake to recommend any 
particular make or brand of fertilizer, but tell what 
the particular crop calls for, and in what form this 
can be purchased. We have in the past two or three 
issues discussed the fertilizer required to grow wheat. 
Phosphoric acid is the element most needed, and 
this can be supplied by acid phosphate or bone meal, 
or preferably by a mixture of the two. Probably 
what the writer most needs is humus in his soil, and 
this he can get by sowing crimson clover and vetches 
now. — Ed. 



Canada Peas— Crops for Hog Pastures— Rape. 

1. What time should Canada field peas be planted 
here in Georgia ? 

2. Do they make as good hay as the common cow 
peas? 

3. What time in the spring should they be cut for 
hay ? I want to plant a succession of crops for hog 
pasture for winter and fall grazing. Expect to have 
about one hundred head of hogs and pigs. 

4. What crops do you think would be best for me 
to plant ? 



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5. When should rape he planted ? 

Thomas Co., Ga. W. L. Jenkins. 

1. Canada peas should be sowed in Georgia in 
December or January. Sow at the rate of 1-J bushels 
to the acre and cover 4 or 5 inches either by plowing 
them down or by drilling them, and then sow half a 
bushel of winter oats or wheat and harrow. 

2. They make good hay when grown in this mix- 
ture, and also good grazing for hogs. 

3. They should be cut or grazed before the warm 
weather sets in or they will be killed by mildew. 
They are a cold climate crop. 

4. The best crops to sow for fall and winter graz- 
ing for hogs are cow peas, sorghum, corn, rape and 
artichokes. 

5. Rape is a cold climate crop, and should be sown 
in Georgia in August or September for fall, winter 
and spring grazing or in February for spring grazing. 
Artichokes should be planted in March or April for 
the hogs in winter. They will root them out except 

. when the land is hard frozen. — Ed. 



Hair on Horse's Tail. 

Can you give me any remedy for thickening a 
horse's tail. I have a very handsome horse, but his 
tail is very thin. Any information along this line 
will be greatly appreciated. G. P. 

Marion Co., S. C. 

We know of nothing better to make hair grow on 
an animal than to keep the bare or thin spot well 
greased with vaseline. Grooms in England, when 
we were a boy, used to mix gunpowder with grease 
and apply it to make hair grow. Whether this use 
of gunpowder added anything to the value of the 
grease we doubt. — Ed. 



is often found not to be the best. This is largely 
caused by the nature and chemical constituent of the 
soils on which the crops are grown, and the availa- 
bility of the plant food in the soil. On most South- 
ern soils the controlling element in heavy yields of 
the cereal and leguminous crops is usually found to 
be phosphoric acid. For vegetables and tobacco the 
controlling elements, potash and nitrogen. The only 
true way in which to answer this question is to ask 
it of the soil. Test the different crops on soil of a 
like character with different combinations of fer- 
tilizing elements and with each element separately, 
and the answer given will be reliable for that soil. — 
Ed. 



Transplanting Trees. 

Will you please publish in your next issue the best 
time for transplanting trees, such as "white oak," 
etc., and how large could they be transplanted so as 
to live ? Subscriber. 

Sussex Co., Va. 

All trees except evergreen trees can be successfully 
transplanted in the late fall or early spring. Ever- 
green trees should be transplanted in the late spring. 
It is never wise to endeavor to transplant large trees, 
as even if they live they never make good growth 
afterwards. We have seen trees from 6 to 9 inches 
in diameter in the trunk transplanted, but whilst 
many of them lived they did no more than live for 
many years. Smaller trees, say half the size, would 
have made better trees in a few years' time. — Ed. 



Fertilizer Requirement of Crops. 

A subscriber askes us to give in a general way the 
special requirements of different crops in the way of 
fertilizers : 

Crops may be devided into the following groups, 
with their requirements : 

Group A. — Wheat, barley, rye, oats, timothy. Re- 
quire, first, nitrogen; next, phosphoric acid; last, 
potash. 

Group B. — Corn, cotton. Require, -first, phos 
phoric acid; next, potash; last, nitrogen. 

Group C. — Peas, beans, clover, hay. Require, 
first, potash ; next, phosphoric acid ; last, nitrogen. 

The foregoing may be taken as the theoretical re- 
quirement of the crops deduced from analysis of their 
constituents. In practice, this theoretic requirement 



Hog Husbandry in the South. 

1. I have a fine field of corn — worked out clean 
and level (though land is hilly), and have seeded rye 
(thin) and German clover on part of it. On balance 
I sowed wheat and oats thinly and German clover, 
and at one end I sowed about an acre or more of 
alfalfa (to stand if successful) twenty pounds of 
seed. I sowed black peas thinly over the whole 
piece, to afford shade during the fall after the corn 
is cut, and I thought they would improve the land, 
too. My object is to graze with pigs this winter 
(wrong for alfalfa, is it not?). Then I want to use 
the pigs on it so that I can get best results as to feed 
during the spring. Will I be able to let the grains 
mature and graze them off with hogs and then have 
time to sow a crop of peas % This is heavy land, and 
cannot be plowed except we have rain at that season, 
and there is a risk in that. Will the grain waste if 
kept for hogs. I suppose' they should be put on it 
when in the milk state. I would thank you for in- 
formation along this line. My land is good, and 
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ble from it. Then will it pay to risk a season for 
plowing and wait for the small grain, or tnrn under 
a green fallow in May and plant peas in drills ? I 
have had no experience in feeding hogs on crops of 
small grain. They do well in the stubble some years 
as long as it lasts. 

2. I have nearly finished fallowing a nine acre 
lot of good, heavy land, about half of it was in wheat 
this year, after peas last year, the other half was in 
clover cut off this year ; not a thick stand. Now, I 
want to use this field to best advantage in feeding 
hogs next season. Then shall I sow wheat and oats 
mixed (and rye, too?) and German clover or vetch? 
Is there anything better for fall feeding than peas 
with a sprinkling of corn grown all through it ? Or 
will there be more profit in growing wheat on this 
land or oats, to be threshed and feed the grain either 
whole or ground ? The land will bring fine crops of 
either, if fertilized with Charleston phosphate (and 
the oats do not winter kill, and not likely if drilled 
in early enough). Best results for hogs is what I 
want to reach. 

3. I want to grow one hundred or more fine hogs 
annually, and how to use my land to produce the best 
results for these or a greater number if I can feed 
them is what I want to do, and I will appreciate an 
outline for the yearly course of breeding, care of pigs, 
homes and yards, arranged to feed well, shelter well, 
and save manure to be easily accessible with manure 
spreader, and crops and quantity of land required to 
obtain greatest results at least cost. I think you 
gave an article nearly a year ago from Breeder's Ga- 
zette or some other paper on this subject, but I cannot 
find it. It would be timely reading again. It Avas 
about a hog farm, where, I think, they raised about 
200 hogs. I will thank you to refer me to it if you 
can cross it, and give what other information you can. 

4. My corn grows very tall, stalks ranging 12 to 
15 feet, and often more, and very large. It would 
make magnificent ensilage, but I have but few cattle 
to feed, and I need the grain for team and hogs. I 
would like very much to grow as fine ears as I do on 
stalks just half as high. Is there any variety of 
corn that grows big ears on low stalks ? Is there any 
way of saving the corn and ensilaging the stalk? 
Dry fodder corn as large as mine represents immense 
labor to secure feed, only a very small part of which 
is eaten, and which is considered least valuable for 
lack of protein. My fodder is in my way, though I 
cut it up. C. N. Stacy. 

Amelia Co., Va. 

1. The seedings of rye, wheat and oats and Ger- 
man clover and black peas will make good grazing 
for your hogs in the fall and spring. The alfalfa 
should not be grazed. It will not be wise to let the 
crops stand until the grain matures, but turn the hogs 
on when in the milk state or a little earlier, and the 



greater part of the crop will then' be eaten. If al- 
lowed to mature the grain the straw will not be 
eaten. As soon as the crop is fairly eaten down then 
plow down the residue and sow the peas. 

2. We would sow this field with the mixed small 
grain and German clover and vetch, say 10 pounds 
clover, 10 pounds vetch and half a bushel of mixed 
grain, and one or two pounds of rape seed to the 
acre. This should give you good winter and spring 
grazing, and then follow with cow peas and corn or 
sorghum for late summer and fall feeding. We 
think you will get more feed and better results in the 
hogs in this way than to sow in wheat or oats and 
thresh and feed the grain. 

3. The article referred to was published in the 
issue of December, 1902, page 698. It described 
a successful Illinois hog farm. Eighty acres were 
divided into four fields of 20 acres each, with a shed 
located in the centre so as to be accessible from all 
the fields. The crops grown were oats seeded with 
clover, clover pasture, soy beans and artichokes and 
corn. The oats were seeded after corn and sown with 
clover. Soy beans one part and artichokes on other 
part follow the clover, and these were followed by 
corn. Here we can improve on this rotation by using 
cow peas in the place of the clover, and crimson 
clover and vetches with oats, wheat and rye for Avinter 
and spring grazing in the place of the oats and red 
clover. Sorghum and corn can be planted in the 
place of the corn alone, and thus give better early fall 
feeding. The artichokes should be grown here, as 
they make the best of winter feed, which the hogs har- 
vest for themselves. Rape also may be grown here 
for fall, winter and spring grazing. Sow in August 
and September for fall and winter grazing, and in 
March for spring grazing. 

4. There is no way to prevent corn growing tall 
on good land in the South. Even if you get a dwarf 
Northern variety, it will in a couple of years shoot 
up until as tall as our Southern varieties. Our long 
growing season causes this. You can save the corn 
and make ensilage of the stalks and fodder if you will 
pull the corn as soon as it is glazed and dented, and 
then cut the stalks and run them through a cutter, or 
better, a shredder into the silo and wet them well 
with water as they are packed in the silo. Whilst 
not so good as silage made from corn grown specially 
for the silo and cut green, yet this fodder corn silage 
makes fair feed for stock if some grain be fed with 
it. — Ed. 



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Trucking, Garden and Orchard. 



WORK FOR THE MONTH, 

The gathering, storing and shipping of the apple 
crop will almost bring to a close the harvesting of the 
products of the garden and orchard for another year. 
It is lamentable to see with what a want of care this 
gathering and disposal of the apple crop is too often 
done in the South. Instead of carefully picking the 
fruit from the trees, the apples are too often shaken 
off or knocked off with poles, and thus so bruised and 
injured as to make them incapable of being kept for 
more than a very short time, and absolutely unfits 
them for shipping to market. Then when picked up 
from the ground they are, if intended to be sold, 
dumped into dirty barrels or boxes, or even into 
slatted crates or barrels and covered only with a 
piece of sacking, and thus shipped.No care is taken 
to keep varieties separate or to cull out bruised and 
diseased specimens. When they reach the market 
the commission merchant is at a loss what to do with 
them. No one wants such fruit, and the result is 
that the grower receives little or nothing for them. 
The fruit should be carefully picked and the sorts be 
kept separate, and all undersized, bruised and diseased 
fruit be kept at home and the large, good fruit, not 
needed for home use, be put into good, clean barrels 
and tightly packed and a good head be put on the 
barrel and pressed down so as to prevent shaking and 
bruising. Shipped in this way all fruit will find a 
buyer and at a fair price. There is a demand for 
apples in nearly every little town, and a large demand 
in every large city. Where only a few barrels are 



a good supply of apples for home consumption. These 
keep best stored in a cool, dry room or cellar in 
slatted bins, not holding more than two or three bush- 
els each, and these should be looked over every few 
weeks and the spotted fruit be picked out and used 
first. In this way a supply may be kept until the 
spring. 



The late and second crop of Irish potatoes should 
be dug as soon as they become matured. The sooner 
they are dug after this period and the better they will 
keep when stored. Do not let them lay out in the 
sun after they are dug longer than necesary to dry 
them so that the soil will leave them clean. Sort as 
gathered, and store as directed on another page of 
this issue. 



In this issue will be found advice as to digging and 
storing sweet potatoes. 



grown more than needed it will often 



pay to carry 



them to the nearest town put up in boxes holding a 
bushel each and neatly packed. In large cities there 
is also a demand for these small packages of fruit, 
and a much better average price could be made if 
this demand was catered to. There are thousands of 
people who can buy a bushel of apples who do not 
want a barrel. This neglect of the small home buyer 
is responsible for much loss on the products of the 
orchard and garden all over the country. The large 
commercial grower has not time to attend to this 
trade. He picks, packs and ships his fruit in the 
best manner possible, and then puts it on the whole- 
sale markets of this country and Europe, and gets its 
full value. The small grower too often gets nothing 
or next to nothing for his, but this is largely his own 
fault. We would urge attention to this subject. 
There is money in it. Do not neglect to store away 



Carrots, parsnips and salsify will keep safely in 
the ground where grown, unless the winter be a very 
severe one. To guard against loss from this, a part 
of the crop should be pulled and be stored in sand in 
a cool, frost proof cellar. Beets should be stored in 
the same way. Turnips Avill keep in piles out of 
doors protected with straw. These latter will, how- 
ever, yet grow much larger ; indeed, they will make 
more weight in November than during any other 
period of their growth. Do not, therefore, disturb 
them until severe frost is passed. 



Cabbage and lettuce seed may be sowed for plants 
to set out in early spring. Make the seed beds in a 
situation where they can be protected easily from 
severe weather in the winter by being covered with 
mats, leaves or straw. 



Cabbages for the early crop may be set out at the 
end of the month. They should be got into the fields 
just soon enough to get hold of the land with their 
roots before severe weather sets in, but not soon 
enough to make growth or they will be very apt to be 
killed by frost, as the young growth is tender. Lay 
the rows out East and West and set the plants on the 
South sides of the rows, so that they will be somewhat 
shielded from the coldest winds and weather. Have 
the land deeply broken and finely prepared, and do 
not spare the manure or fertilizer. Cabbages are 



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gross feeders. Give plenty of phosphoric acid and 
potash now, and give the nitrogen in the spring when 
the plants start growing. From 300 to 500 pounds 
of acid phosphate and from 100 to 150 pounds of 
muriate of potash should he applied per acre. 



Celery should be earthed up a little as it grows to 
prevent the plants from spreading out on the ground, 
but it is too early yet to earth it up to blanch it unless 
it has made good growth and is wanted for an early 
market. In putting earth to the plant hold the stalks 
together with one hand and pull the earth around with 
the other. This keeps the soil out of the heart of the 
plants. If allowed to get there the plants will canker 
and the stalks be spoiled. 



altogether there is every prospect of a good demand 
for American and Canadian apples, as there is prac- 
tically nothing else to come against them this sea- 
son." — Farmer s Advocate, Canada. 



In dry, warm, light land strawberry plants may be 
set out this month. If the land is in good fertility 
and fine order and care be taken in setting out the 
plants, and the plants be fine, strong ones, they will 
continue to grow almost as though they had not been 
moved, and will give a small crop next year. Land 
that has grown an Irish potato crop and been made 
rich for that purpose and been kept clean and worked 
makes an ideal place for this fall planted strawberry 
crop. 



Land may commence to be got ready for the plant- 
ing of orchard trees, hut it is too early yet to set them 
out. Let the land be well and deeply plowed and be 
set out in such a way as that the rows of fruit trees 
can be kept in straight lines and at uniform distances 
and so as to utilize the space to the fullest advantage. 



Clean up and burn all trash, leaves, prunings, 
weeds and waste in the garden, orchard and vineyard, 
and thus destroy all insect and fungous pests. Plow 
and seed all land not carrying any other crop in crim- 
son clover, vetches, wheat, oats and rye. This will 
conserve fertility and make humus when turned down 
in spring. 



THE SCARCITY OF FRUIT IN EUROPE. 

Additional evidence of the scarcity of fruit in 
Europe is furnished by a recent letter from Thomas 
Russell, fruit broker, Glasgow, to Mr. , W. A. Mac- 
Kinnon, Chief of the Fruit Division, Ottawa. Mr. 
Russell writes: "The apple crop in England, Ireland 
and Scotland is a very poor one, while on the conti- 
nent there is also a very light crop. Pears and 
plums are also scarce in England. So far as Glas- 
gow is concerned, we shall have to depend entirely on 
supplies of apples from America and Canada, and 



NOTICE TO APPLE GROWERS. 

Richmond, Va., Sept. 21, 1903. 
Editor Southern Planter: 

Dear Sir, — As previously brought to your notice, 
upon the active co-operation of the fruit growers of. 
the State must depend the success or failure, to a 
arge extent, of Virginia's fruit exhibit at the St. Louis 
World's Fair, so I hope each individual grower will 
do all that he can to make this exhibit a success. It 
will be necessary to obtain at least fifty barrels of 
apples from each of the leading apple counties of the 
State to enable a continuous exhibit to be made in a 
creditable manner during the entire period of the. 
Exposition, and if each grower will contribute a 
barrel or so of apples, each one will get equal indi- 
vidual advertisement and the burden will not bear 
heavily upon any. Please give me your active sup- 
port at once, and follow instructions carefully, as I 
am already receiving apples that through improper 
selection and handling are valueless for exposition 
purposes. 

DIRECTIONS. 

Apples should be carefully picked with the stem 
left on, must be free from defacement by worms, 
black ends, scab, cloud or other skin diseases, should 
be of normal shape and well colored. Great care 
should be exercised in handling to prevent bruising, 
and to this end apples, pears, etc., should be picked 
direct from the tree and each individual apple wrap- 
ped in paper, for which purpose newspaper or ordi- 
nary wrapping paper will answer. Pack in boxes or 
barrels, whichever may be most convenient, but in 
any case use plenty of packing and wrapping ma- 
terial, as a less quantity well cared for is more de- 
sired than a large quantity in bad condition. Size 
must be secondary to the perfect condition of the 
fruit, as it matters not how large if the specimen has 
a black end, is scabby or bruised, it cannot be ex- 
hibited. 

Pears, quinces and nuts, both wild and cultivated, 
are also desired. 

Ship to George E. Murrell, Supt, care The Mer- 
chants Cold Storage Co., Richmond, Va., by express. 
Yours very truly, 

George E. Murrei/l. 

We invite the attention of apple growers to the 
above communication, and would earnestly urge that 
each individual grower should make it a matter of 
personal care and a point of honor in the interest of 
the State to select a barrel of his best fruit and ship 



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it to Mr. Murrell. If this is done, Virginia can 
make an exhibit of apples which will be the means of 
bringing thousands of dollars into the State each 
year. — Er>. 



THE VIRGINIA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

I promised to send you particulars of arrange- 
ments for special railroad and hotel rates for the 
annual meeting of the Virginia State Horticultural 
Society, at Pulaski, on December 2d and 3d, but fear 
I cannot do so until your next issue, as I am still in 
correspondence with the railroads on the subject. We 
have met with most gratifying success from firms we 
have applied to to help us by offering premiums for 
the exhibits of fruits, vegetables, flowers and seeds. 
Several of our Virginia firms interested in supplying 
horticultural implements having shown their desire 
to encourage a fine exhibit by most liberal offers, 
among those who have done so are The Implement 
Co., Richmond, Va., a double hand press cider mill 
or an improved chilled plow ; Hening & Nuckles, 
Richmond, Va., No. 5 one horse, swing handle Farm- 
er's Friend plow; Watkins & Cottrell Co., of Rich- 
mond, Va., set of tools for pruning trees ; W. T. 
Hood & Co., Old Dominion Nurseries, Richmond, 
Va., 200 apple, 100 peach, and $10 worth either 
fruit or ornamentals selected from catalogue ; John 
A. Young, Greensboro, N. C, 50 winter apple trees, 
for the best seedling winter apple ; Sydnor Pump and 
Well Co., Richmond, Va., bucket spray pump (Fig. 
689 of their catalogue) ; T. AV. Wood & Sons, Rich- 
mond, $2.50 worth of garden seeds for the best ex- 
hibit of vegetables; Field Force Pump Co., of El- 
mira, N. Y., one "Empire King" spray piimp, mount- 
ed on 50 gallon barrel, and fitted with extension rod, 
hose and nozzles — "to the farmer fruit grower who 
makes the best exhibit of winter apples gathered from 
sprayed trees" : Spramotor Co., London, Ont., Can- 
ada, any outfit the Society may select from catalogue, 
price of which does not exceed $15. Party receiving 
same may exchange for any pump which is more 
elaborate by paying difference in cost. We have 
further offers of premiums which are not yet confirm- 
ed. The Society proposes to devote a session to dis- 
cussion of the subject of advertising our State's re- 
sources, with a special view to encouraging an exten- 
sive exhibit of fruit for St. Louis Exposition. Gov- 
ernor Montague has expressed his interest in this 
feature, and promises to attend and give an address 
on the subject if it is possible to do so. Speakers 
will open subjects for discussion who are well known 
to the fruit growing industry both in Virginia and 



other States. Our programme with particulars of 
the fruit exhibit will be published as soon as it is 
possible to have all the details collected in proper 
shape. Walter Whately, 

Secretary and Treasurer. 
Crozet, Albemarle Co., Va. 



ORCHARD AND GARDEN NOTES. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

Recently I was invited to go with the owner 
through a large apple orchard. Several things in 
the orchard impressed me very much. Many of the 
trees on the lowest land were shedding the foliage 
from the serious effects of roestelia and phyllosticta 
fungus diseases. The apple crop on such trees is 
very apt to be short next season, since the vitality of 
the trees is being very much lowered. The owner 
had not followed the advice given in the Spray Calen- 
dar published in the Planter last spring. The trees 
on the higher ground were not so badly affected. This 
is what one might expect. Never plant trees on low, 
wet land. Those who select orchard land for tree 
planting this fall should be very careful to get well 
drained land. There was a large amount of 
"wormy" and decayed fruit imder the trees on the 
ground. Hogs would have readily consumed this 
fruit with profit if allowed to do so, and thus would 
have prevented one source of spreading the codlin 
moth and bitter rot of the apple. A small herd of 
my own is doing well on apples and clover. Thou- 
sands of bushels of inferior fruit will go to waste this 
year in Virginia, which had far better been fed into 
pork. 

The time has come when fruits and vegetables 
should be stored away for winter. Too frequently 
this work is done carelessly. 



As I promised in the Planter last spring to dis- 
cuss harvesting and storing of sweet potato, some of 
the results of my experiments with this crop will be 
given here. 

An erroneous idea often prevails that frost should 
not kill the vines before digging. Sweet potatoes 
dug before or after frost made no difference in their 
keeping in my experience. There is only one test 
that I know of by which to tell when the crop is ready 
to harvest. If when a tuber is broken open it dries 
up with a white crust-like formation, the crop is 
ready ; but if the broken surface continues to show a 
watery, greenish appearance, the crop is not ready 
to be harvested. If taken up then there is great 
danger of loss from soft rot. The ground should be 



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dry, the day should be clear and bright, and the 
tubers should be left to dry a few hours in the sun 
before gathering begins. 

How to harvest the crop is quite important. One 
of the simplest and easiest ways I have found is to 
use a large turning plow with a rolling coulter on the 
beam, hitch two horses to the plow, let one walk on 
each side of the row, throw open a furrow on each 
side of the row six inches from the centre. This 
will cut the vines and throw the dirt away from 
the potato row. When the field is gone over in this 
way take off the rolling coulter and throw the pota- 
toes out by running the plow under them. 

In gathering, be careful not to bruise the tubers. 
The baskets or boxes should be lined with cloth. The 
first grade may be gathered by one party and the sec- 
ond by another-. All cut or bruised tubers should 
go in the second grade, since soft rot is liable to start 
on these unless handled with extreme care. 

The piles should be made very small until the crop 
cures. Examinations should be made each day for 
a week or ten days in search of all tubers which may 
have soft rot. When the tubers cure well all danger 
of soft rot is over. The crop may then be placed in 
a suitable potato house. Small quantities may be 
placed in clean, dry road sand and be kept in a warm 
place with ease all winter. Mice cannot go through 
sand to injure the tubers, which is a very important 
point to remember. Plenty of tubers should be put 
away for bedding out next season. Not enough of 
this most important vegetable (both for man and 
beast) is grown in Virginia. It can be grown on thin 
sandy soil, where the Irish potato fails. 



We have just received from the Virginia Experi- 
ment Station bulletins number 5, 6, 7 and 8, on the 
various phases of cider making. These bulletins 
constitute, perhaps, the most exhaustive treatise on 
the subject in the English language. We are sorry 
the station did not put all four bulletins in one, like 
the same material was published in bulletin form by 
the United States Department of Agriculture. Num- 
bers count for nothing. In this form some are apt 
to become misplaced or lost in the hands of the 
farmer. The bulletins are dated May, June, July 
and August, 1902, while the matter in all the bulle- 
tins is rather technical, but treat the various sub- 
jects also from a commercial standpoint. Noav, we 
would like to see Prof. Alwood try his hand on one 
for the practical farmer, who has only one or two 
barrels to make. It could be numbered 9, Septem- 
ber, 1903. R. H. Price. 

Montgomery Co., Va. 



THE GRASS-MULCH METHOD OF APPLE CUL- 
TURE. 

Experiments in mulching show that a lack of a 
uniform supply of moisture is responsible for seve- 
ral orchard troubles, which have been attributed to 
other causes. It is evident, therefore, that in the 
management of an orchard the aim should be to con- 
serve moisture and at the same time to grow a crop 
which shall add to the supply of vegetable fiber. The 
grass-mulch method seems, under certain conditions, 
to admirably meet the requirements as to vegetable 
fiber and soil moisture. It would be premature to 
attempt to say just what the limitations of the 
method are, but it appears to be widely applicable, 
and is especially advisable on hilly land — in fact, 
wherever cultivation is difficult — and on soil which 
washes and where grass can be made to grow. 

To Mr. E. P. Vergon, of Delaware county, 0., and 
to Mr. Grant Hitchings, of Onondago county, N. Y., 
is due the credit of demonstrating that apples may be 
successfully grown by this method. Both of these 
men have worked along essentially the same lines 
for about fourteen years. 

Thus far the method has been unqualifiedly suc- 
cessful, and merits a description; moreover, consid- 
erable misconception concerning it has arisen, hence 
there is not only danger of some going wrong who 
may attempt it, but many who might adopt it to good 
advantages may fail to see any good reason for doing 
so. 

Mr. Vergon planted his orchard in a field which 
had been a bluegrass pasture for about fifty years, 
and at about the same time Mr. Hitchings began 
planting a young orchard where an old one had stood 
in grass for about one hundred years. He has also 
planted an orchard in a field which had been in cul- 
tivation for the same length of time, but had been 
well cared for, and another in a wornout field. Both 
of these fields have been in grass from the time of 
planting. Both of these gentlemen dug large holes 
for the trees, and both mulched the newly-planted 
trees. Mr. Vergon made hay of the grass for a few 
years, but soon decided to take nothing from the 
orchard but apples. He has mulched the trees with 
the grass, and has also hauled in various kinds of ma- 
terial for the piirpose. Mr. Hitchings mulches his 
trees until they get well established and then cuts the 
grass and lets it lie. 

The trees in both Mr. Vergon's and Mr. Hitch- 
ings's orchards began bearing at an early age, and 
have given annual crops. It is especially noticeable 
that the trees are able to carry a crop of fruit and to 
form fruit-buds at the same time, while the fruit is 
well colored and hangs on remarkably well. Even 
in dry seasons there appears to be no bad effects from 
dry weather on the growth of the trees or upon the 
size of the fruit. The loss by dropping is insignifi- 



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cant. All of the results which are supposed to come 
from good tillage and cover-crops are found in these 
orchards in a marked degree. — Professor W. J. 
Green, in Bulletin No. 137 of the Ohio Experiment 
Station. 



GERMINATION OF SEEDS. 

Following table indicates the length of time which 
seeds will germinate with profit : 

Years. 

Asparagus 4 

Beans g 

Beets 5 

Cabbage 7 

Carrot 5 

Cauliflower 7 

Celery g 

Corn 2 

Cucumber 12 

Lettuce g 

Egg plant 7 

Melon * ' ' ' 

Onion 

Peas 

Parsnips 

Pumpkin 7 

Radish 3 

Spinach 3 

Squash 7 

Tomato 5 

Turnips 5 

With melons, cucumbers and squashes the older 
seeds produce luxuriant growth of vine and earlier 
setting of fruit. All others decrease in vitality with 
years. 

The following table shows the average time of ger- 
mination from planting of the more common seeds : 



The table below gives generally the time from 
planting to full maturity : 

Days. 

Beets 40 to 60 

Cabbage 90 to 115 

Carrot 90 

Celery 150 

Corn (sweet) 65 

Cucumber 55 

Lettuce 65 

Watermelon 125 

Muskmelon 125 

Squash (winter) 120 

Squash (summer) 90 to 100 

Egg Plant 150 to 175 

Onions 130 to 150 

Parsley 90 to 120 

Peas 40 to 90 

Pepper 140 to 160 

Radish 20 to 30 

Spinach 60 to 80 

Tomato 110 to 120 

Turnip 60 to 75 

Geo. H. C. Williams. 
District of Columbia. 



to 110 

to 160 

to 90 

to 75 

to 75 

to 150 

to 150 

to 150 



Days. 



to 10 
to 10 
to 10 
to 20 
to 10 
to 20 
to 8 
to 10 



Beans 5 

Beets # 7 

Cabbage 5 

Carrot 12 

Cauliflower 5 

Celery 10 

Corn g 

Cucumber g 

Endive . . .- 5 to 10 

L ettuce 6 to 8 

Onions 7 to 10 

Parsnips 10 to 20 

J eas 6 to 10 

Pe PP er 10 to 14 

Radish 3 to 6 

Salsify 7 to 12 

Tomato 6 to 12 

Turnip 4 to 8 



FOREIGNERS WANT OUR APPLES. 

The outlook for the export trade of American and 
Canadian apples is unusually bright. 

Writing from Edinburgh, James Lindsay & Son 
say : "Fruit of every description is scarce here, es- 
pecially apples, of which there are really next to 
none in Great Britain, and we are of the opinion the 
crop on the continent is less than Ihey claim. But 
even though the continental crop turns out more ap- 
ples than now anticipated, this will not materially in- 
terfere with shipments from America, as the quality 
of European fruit is so much inferior they can only 
be used for cooking purposes. Our opinion is that 
if shippers on your side continue to send a good grade 
of apples, there will be as many wanted here as last 
season." Henry Levy, fruit auctioneer of Covent 
Garden, London, reports high prices for fancy au- 
tumn apples, and believes Kieffer pears- should do 
well this season, packed in half barrels. 

A forceful reason for probable activities the com- 
ing six months is the unquestioned shortage of the 
European fruit crop. The yield of apples and prac- 
tically all fruits in the United Kingdom is very short. 
On the continent, moderate to fair crops are reported. 
Yet the excessively high prices ruling there suggest 
that the amount available for market is small, after 
all. The European apple crop, as pointed out from 
time to time in American Agriculturist, is made up 
mostly of autumn fruit, which is largely out of the 
way by the time our hard winter varieties are ready 
for market. — American Agriculturist. 



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Live Stock and Dairy. 



TEXAS OR TICK FEVER. 

We are glad to know from letters we have received 
that our remarks in reply to inquiries published in 
our last issue have aroused attention amongst farm- 
ers to this subject. In truth, it is one of the most 
vital interest for all Southern farmers, and especially 
for farmers in Virginia, where there is no reason 
whatever why with proper attention and exertion 
this serious hindrance to the improvement and ex- 
tension of our cattle industry should not be wholly 
removed. We have repeatedly stated, and we so state 
again with absolute confidence in our opinion, that 
the whole State of Virginia can be Drought out of 
quarantine and hundreds of thousands of dollars be 
added to the value of our live stock every year by at- 
tention to this subject. North Carolina is moving 
ahead much faster in this direction than Virginia, 
and has already secured the exemption of several 
counties from quarantine. The removal of this hin- 
drance to the free marketing of stock has added from 
one half to one cent per pound to the value of all 
stock shipped from those counties, a gain in one 
county alone of over $6,000 for one year's shipments. 
What is being done in North Carolina can be more 
easily done in Virginia, as we are further north, and 
our winters help us more in getting rid of the ticks. 
Once get rid of these, and Texas fever, or it is com- 
monly called, "Murrain," will cease to kill off our 
cattle. The way to get rid of the ticks is described 
in the following extract from instructions issued by 
Dr. Tait Butler, the State Veterinarian of North 
Carolina, under whose able guidance and careful 
work great progress has been made in that State : 

HOW TO EXTERMINATE THE CATTLE TICK. 

"Since it is only with a full knowledge of the habits 
of the cattle ticks and the manner in which they breed 
that the proper means for their destruction can be de- 
vised and understood, the following facts should be 
carefully considered : 

1. The full-grown female ticks, after filling them- 
selves with blood, drop off the cattle and crawl under 
leaves, grass or any other material with which the 
ground may be covered. 

2. In two or three days these ticks begin laying 
eggs and lay from 1,500 to 2,500 during the next two 
weeks. 

3. In real warm weather these eggs may hatch in 
three weeks, but the hatching may be greatly delayed 
or prevented entirely by cold weather. 

4. The young ticks (seed ticks) although extremely 



small, are active, and crawl up the weeds, grass or 
twigs and wait for cattle to come along and pick them 

5. Since these young ticks are not able to live 
longer without food, unless a cow, horse or mule 
brushes its legs against the object upon which they 
are waiting, within four or five months they will 
starve to death. 

6. From the time the young ticks get on cattle until 
they are full grown and ready to drop off is about four 
weeks, except in cold weather, when they frequently 
remain on much longer. 

7. Neither old nor young ticks crawl far, and a 
fence with a rail or board on the ground will certainly 
stop them, but wire fences do not always afford pro- 
tection. 

8. Ticks do not go from one animal to another. 

9. Eggs laid before the first of September will 
hatch the same fall, and unless the young ticks get 
on cattle, horses or mules they will die of cold or 
starvation before spring. 

10. Eggs laid during the cold weather of late fall 
and winter do not hatch until the warm days of 
spring. It is, therefore, the eggs and not the ticks 
that are able to pass through the winters of the north- 
ern and western portions of this State. 

With the foregoing facts in mind three methods of 
destroying the ticks at once suggest themselves : 

1. Keep all cattle, horses and mules out of the tick- 
infested pastures, lanes and lots after September 1st, 
and all eggs previously laid will hatch before cold 
weather and the young ticks starve to death before 
spring. 

2. Divide the pasture by a. fence with a rail or 
board tight on the ground, and the first year keep all 
cattle, horses and mules out of one-half after Sep- 
tember 1st. The second year put the cattle on the 
half left vacant the year previous, and also provide 
new lanes and lots on ground over which no cattle ran 
the year before. 

B. If practicable, burn the pasture over thoroughly 
early in the spring. Mix sulphur with the salt given 
the cattle — one part of sulphur to three parts of salt. 
Begin not later than April 15th greasing the legs and 
under parts of all cattle, and repeat it once a week 
all summer. While greasing the cattle look care- 
fully for any ticks that may have escaped the grease 
or attached themselves to the upper parts of the body, 
and if any are found, pick them off and burn. The 
grease may be one part kerosene and two parts any 
cheap sort convenient, such as cotton seed oil. If a 
little sulphur and tar be added the effect will be pro- 
longed and increased. The grease prevents young 
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on by plugging the small openings in the body 
through which they breathe. 

If the greasing and hand-picking be done thor- 
oughly and no ticks allowed to drop in the pastures 
lanes or lots, for four or five months during the warm 
season, the effort will be successful. 

Either of the first two methods, when they can be 
adopted, is always certain to exteminate the ticks ; 
but the third is not applicable to large herds, and 
will fail unless it is carefully and thoroughly carried 
out." 

We are in hopes that our State "Board of Quaran- 
tine will take up this question, and we invite their 
attention to it, and ask that they secure authority from 
the Legislature for a vigorous campaign against the 
ticks, and that the farmers of the State will support 
them by urging upon the Legislature the appropria- 
tion of sufficient money to make the work effective. 
The co-operation of county authorities will be needed 
and the Legislature should authorize these to make the 
necessary expenditure to secure effective quarantine 
and cleansing of all tick infested cattle and pastures. 
The passage of a "no fence" law would materially re- 
duce the cost of exterminating ticks and shorten the 
time required in doing the work. The State Veteri- 
narian should also be authorized and required to in- 
oculate all imported pure bred cattle on the request 
of the owners, and thus encourage the breeding of a 
better type of cattle. 



PREVENTION OF TEXAS OR TICK FEVER. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

I see that Mr. C. A. Williams, of Ringwood, N. 
C, after several trials and much loss, has discovered 
that by inoculation one may introduce pure bred 
cattle in the tick belt without much risk, and I am 
glad to learn it. You might mention in the next 
issue of the Planter that there is equally as safe 
and a much cheaper way to do it — viz., bxiy a calf not 
more than two months old, give him to a native cow, 
and after he has been in the tick country, say two 
months, let some ticks get on him. He will have the 
fever lightly, and then I think be immune. I bought 
a polled Durham calf last May just two months old 
from Messrs. Humbert Bros., who advertise in the 
Planter, and he has just gone through the fever to 
all appearances all right. Tiros. S. Norfleet. 

Person Co., N. C. 

Whilst there is no doubt that to proceed with a 
calf as directed by our correspondent will confer in 
some cases complete immunity aganist Texas fever, 
yet this is not so absolutely certain as to avoid the 
necessity for inoculation. The position as defined 
by veterinarians seems to be this. All calves at birth 



have a high degree of immunity against the tick fever. 
This natural immunity is gradually lost as they be- 
come older. If when the calf is from 4 to 6 months 
old it becomes infested with ticks a mild attack of the 
disease is produced. This attack is usually so mild 
that it is not noticed at all, but it confers further im- 
munity against the disease. Through repeated tick 
infestations and repeated mild attacks of the disease 
a complete immunity is gradually established against 
the disease. If the calf be inoculated between the 
ages of nine and fifteen months usually complete im- 
munity against the disease will be established. The 
attacks of fever before the age of nine months are 
usually only so mild as not to confer complete im- 
munity. The proper course to take when bringing 
in cattle to the tick belt is to bring in only calves not 
more than nine months old. These should be brought 
South in December, and be inoculated as soon as 
rested and then in Eebruary following be again in- 
oculated and the animals will then be ready to go on 
the tick infested pastures in April with little fear of 
future attacks. Older animals are liable to have so 
severe an attack of the fever after inoculation as to 
occasion some loss, though this is not usually more 
than 5 per cent. — Ed. 



HOLLOW HORN— HOLLOW TAIL 

Editor Southern Planter: 

I am a subscriber and a great admirer of the 
Southern Planter. I heartily agree with you on 
the cheat question, but cannot on "Hollow tail" of 
cattle. You say there are no such diseases of cattle 
as "HoIIoav tail" and "Hollow horn." I have 
handled hundreds of cattle: have been feeding and 
caring for them from the time I was large enough, 
and we usually kept from 50 to 100 head, and if I 
ever saw one with Hollow horn I didn't know it, 
though I have had a few men to have cows they said 
had Hollow horn, and asked me for treatment. I 
always advised them to bring them to my farm, and 
I would cure it by dehorning them, which they did, 
and afterward told me it was a success, but as far as 
my own. experience goes, if any of my cattle ever had 
Hollow horn I never knew it, and never believed 
there was such a disease. 

But as to Hollow tail, I know that cattle have a 
disease of the tail, which always proves fatal unless 
treated, but do not know that a veterinarian would 
call it Hollow tail. The symptoms are failing appe- 
tite, falling off in flesh, hair standing on end, dreamy 
eyes, not caring to come for feed. On examination 
you will find the bone about an inch or two from end 
of tail gone or badly diseased. On taking a sharp 
knife and splitting the tail you will find little or no 



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blood, with the bone slick and slimy. Eor treatment 
simply split the tail to the bone as far as is diseased. 
Some say put salt and pepper in it and tie up. I 
never do anything but split the tail, and I have cured 
dozens of them. You can see a marked improvement 
in three days, and in a week they will be improving 
rapidly. Once I had a valuable lot of yearling 
steers which kept falling off until very thin. I could 
not split the tails without help, and had none, so with 
the steers running, I caught one by the tail and sim- 
ply cut the tail off about four inches from the end, 
and he was all O. K. in a few days. I think, how- 
ever, that nine-tenths of the so-called "Hollow horn" 
and "Hollow tail" is a lack of care and feed. 

J. D. Stodghilt.. 

Shelby Co., Ky. 

No veterinarian recognizes such a disease as "Hol- 
low Tail." There may be some disease affecting- 
cattle of which a diseased tail is a symptom, but it 
cannot be of a serious character, if simply cutting the 
tail end off will cure it. Boils on a man indicate a 
diseased condition of the blood. Poulticing and lanc- 
ing them will cure the boils, but not the disease, 
which caused them. Our correspondent is no doubt 
right in his opinion that want of feed and care are 
really the true explanation of these so-called diseases. 
"Hollow stomacb" would be a more accurate name 
for them. — Ed. 



RIGHT OF OWNER OF PURE BRED CATTLE TO 
RECOVER DAMAGES FROM OWNER OF SCRUB 
BULL. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

The inqiiiry of J. L. H, in the September issue of 
the Planter, has been answered by the Supreme 
Court of Iowa, in the case of Crawford vs. Williams, 
48 Iowa, 247. In that case the court held the meas- 
ure of damages to be the difference in value of plain- 
tiff's cow for breeding purposes before and after meet- 
ing defendant's bull. 

In deciding the above case the court uses the fol- 
lowing language : 

"The intelligent public spirit which employs itself 
in the improvement of stock ought to be encouraged 
and protected. It will be found impossible to main- 
tain good breeds of stock if the owners of "scrub" 
male animals may permit them to run at large with 
impunity. Much skill and intelligence are requisite 
upon the part of stock breeders in selecting the most 
desirable crosses, so as to transmit the best qualities 
to the progeny. Each stock breeder has the right to 
make this selection for himself. If he is deprived 
of the right of making this selection he ought to be 



fully compensated for the injury inflicted. The 
value of thoroughbred stock consists in the proba- 
bility that the qualities of excellence will be trans- 
mitted to the offspring. It is evident that, to a 
breeder of fine stock a thoroughbred heifer, with a 
calf to a bull of impure blood, would be of less value 
than one with calf to a thoroughbred, or not with calf 
at all. The difference in value of the heifer for the 
purpose of breeding fine stock, before meeting de- 
fendant's bull and afterwards constitutes the proper 
measure of plaintiff's damages." 

I have no doubt the Virginia court would follow 
the Iowa ruling in such cases. 

Marshalltown, Iowa. Henky Stone. 



FEEDING PIGS AT THE VERMONT STATION. 

Sour skim milk has proved practically as good as 
sweet skim smilk in fattening hogs at the Vermont 
Experiment Station. When there has been any dif- 
ference at all it has been in favor of the sour milk. 
In seven years' experiments the value of skim milk 
for hogs has varied from 15 to 35 cents per 100 
pounds and averaged 25 cents. In one experiment 
pigs on buttermilk gained a little faster and were 
somewhat more profitable than pigs fed skim milk. 
The buttermilk in this experiment had a feeding 
value of 24 cents per 100 pounds. Whey in one test 
had a feeding value of 11 cents per 100 pounds. 

The best proportions of skim milk and corn meal 
to feed together have been studied in a number of ex- 
periments. The use of two ounces of corn meal to 
each quart of milk yielded pork at the least cost of 
food, but a more rapid gain was made when a greater 
proportion of corn meal was fed. In finishing off 
hogs more rapid and cheaper gains were made when 
12 quarts of skim milk were fed in addition to all 
the corn meal the hogs would eat than when but six 
quarts were thus fed. The feeding of bulky or water 
foods was found to conduce to a larger growth of 
stomach and intestines, and hence greater shrinkage 
in dressing. 

Corn meal in one experiment produced 11 per cent, 
better gains than wheat middlings with young grow- 
ing pigs and 23 per cent, better than rice meal with 
hogs weighing about 140 pounds. The results of 
two experiments show more rapid gains on ground 
than on whole corn, the difference being about 10 per 
cent. The extra cost of hauling and grinding the 
grain it is thought would probably counterbalance 
this gain. Wetting corn meal resulted in more profi- 
table gains than feeding it dry. The fertilizing value 
of the food fed in the various experiments has aver- 



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aged 56 per cent, of its market value. In nearly all 
the experiments profitable gains ceased to be made 
after the pigs had attained a weight of 180 ponnds. 
— C. B. Smith, District of Columbia, in Breeder s 
Gazette. 



CATTLE FEEDING EXPERIMENTS AT TENNES- 
SEE EXPERIMENT STATION. 

At the present time a large per cent, of the cattle 
grown in the Middle South are sold in the autumn as 
long yearlings, because of the general belief that they 
cannot be profitably winter fed, and it was for the 
purpose of determining whether these cattle can be 
stall fed or whether they should be maintained as 
stockers through the winter to be finished on grass, 
or whether it would be more advisable for the farmer 
to sell them in the fall that the investigations, results 
of which are recorded below, were undertaken. The 
results presented only cover one year's work, and the 
following resume is published because it contains in- 
formation which should be very useful to the farmers 
generally, as it warrants the conclusion that silage is 
a very valuable roughness if judiciously fed to beef 
cattle. It is proposed to repeat these experiments 
during the winters of 1903- > 4- , 5, so that the average 
of three years' trials may be had, and then it would 
seem that final conclusions might be drawn from the 
work. During the past winter 32 head of cattle were 
divided into eight groups of four each and fed 150 
days. Sixteen of these cattle received a moderate 
grain ration and were fed silage as a roughness, the 
object to finish them as nearly as possible for the 
spring market. The other sixteen were fed a limited 
grain ration along with different forms of roughness, 
the idea being to run them through the winter as 
cheaply as possible and finish them on grass the fol- 
lowing spring and summer. Group 11, receiving 
silage, cotton seed meal and corn and cob meal, made 
an average gain of 2.40 pounds per day, or 1,442 
pounds for the period. Group 12, receiving silage 
and cotton seed meal, gained 2.15 pounds per day, 
or 1,287 pounds for the period. Group 13, receiving 
silage, cotton seed meal, corn and cob meal and clover 
hay, gained 2.18 pounds per day, or 1, 305 pounds 
for the period. Group 14, receiving silage, cotton 
seed meal and clover hay, gained 2.19 pounds per day, 
or 1,313 pounds for the whole period. The cotton 
seed meal and corn and cob meal were fed in the early 
part of the period in the ratio of 2 to 1, the propor- 
tions being reversed toward the close of the experi- 
ment. An average of about 10 pounds of meal were 
consumed at one time by group 12, the average rang- 
ing close to 10 pounds, though these animals were fed 



at one time as much as 12 pounds per head per day. 
This is a little more than they could consume to the 
best advantage and it would have probably been bet- 
ter if not more than 10 pounds had been used at any 
time. These animals were in good condition, and, 
as the reader will observe, made an excellent gain 
throughout the period, which is the best answer to 
those who doubt the feeding value of cotton seed meal 
or who say it cannot be fed. The trouble is not so 
much with the cotton seed meal as with the method 
of feeding the same. — A. M. Soule, Tennessee Ex- 
periment Station. 



CORN ENSILAGE FOR STEERS. 

During the past winter (October 10, 1902, to June 
8, 1903.) the Kansas Experiment Station fed a lot 
of ten steers on corn ensilage, chopped alfalfa hay, 
and a grain mixture of equal parts ground corn and 
Kafir corn in comparison with another lot of twenty 
steers of the same average weight and quality fed 
exactly the same feed except ensilage. The results 
are shown by the following figures : 





M 
O 

d 


hi 

*o o 
o » 
Eh 


Grain con- 
sumed per 
lOOlbs.gain 
pounds. 


Roughness consumed 
per 100 pounds gain. 


Lot. 


Ensilage, 
ponnds. 


Chopped Al- 
falfa, pounds. 


With Ensilage. . . 
Without Ensilage . 


10 
20 


446S 
8359 


715 
733 


471 


327 
453 



Erom the above figures it will be seen that for 
every 100 pounds of gain the 471 pounds of ensilage 
saved 18 pounds of grain and 156 pounds of alfalfa. 
At the market prices of these feeds (54 cents per 
ewt. for grain and 27+ cents per cwt. for alfalfa), the 
471 pounds of ensilage made a saving of 52.62 cents. 

The steers were shipped to Kansas City and sold 
at the stock yards June 23d, at the following prices : 

Lot with Ensilage $4.95 per cwt. 

Lot without Ensilage 4.70 per cwt. 

Here is a gain of 25 cents per cwt. in the selling 
price in favor of the ensilage steers. Adding this to 
the 52.62 ceuts already saved it makes the 471 pounds 
of ensilage worth 77.62 cents, or at the rate of $3.29 
per ton. 

Making the above comparison on the basis of rough- 
ness alone, the 471 pounds of ensilage plus the 329 
pounds of alfalfa in the ensilage lot is equivalent to 
the 485 pounds of alfalfa in the lot without ensilage. 
This shows that the 471 pounds of ensilage was 
equivalent to 156 pounds of alfalfa. At this rate, 
3.02 tons of corn ensilage is equivalent to one ton of 
alfalfa hay. 

When sold the ensilage lot were pronounced excel- 
lent cattle and fat enough for the ordinarv trade. 

D'. H.Otis. 

Manhattan, Kan. 



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The Poultry Yard. 



BUILDING A HEN HOUSE. 

A subscriber asks us to give bim advice as to build- 
ing a ben bouse. It is ratber a difficult matter to do 
this without knowing something of what is intended 
to be done — that is to say, whether it is simply de- 
sired to keep a few fowls for supplying the family 
needs, to keep a large number of fowls for supplying 
eggs for sale, or to run a regular poultry farm sup- 
plying eggs and chickens for market. Each different 
branch of work requires a special outfit to meet its 
special needs. We will, however, assume that what 
is needed is a house in which to keep a limited num- 
ber of hens under ordinary farm conditions, permit- 
ting them to make their run over the farm, and thus 
not necessitating the provision of scratching sheds or 
enclosed runs. In providing such a house as we as- 
sume to be asked for, the first consideration should be 
the location. This should be, if possible, in a situ- 
ation sheltered from the north, northeast and north- 
west winds, and on dry ground. The next point is 
the size required. To arrive at this allow a space of 
1 square feet of floor for each fowl to be kept. Then 
let the height be 6 feet at the lowest part of the roof, 
rising sufficiently to give good fall to the rain, so as 
to have quickly a dry roof. The house may, if it 
complies with these requirements as to air space, be 
either square or longer than wide. We prefer to 
have it longer than wide, and to let this long side face 
to the South. This gives space for more more Avind- 
ows and thus enables the house to be kept warmer in 
winter with the aid of the sun and cooler in summer 
by substituting wire screens for the windows at that 
time. Let the sills be laid on brick or concrete foun- 
dations a foot or 18 inches in the ground, and rising 
to a foot above it, so as to keep out rats and other 
vermin. Weather board the outside and line inside 
first with building paper on the studding, and then 
with plain boards. Let the door be at one end of the 
house nearer to the side, rather than in the middle. 
In the south side place at least one, or better, two win-* 
dows. Let these be fixed so that they can be opened. 
The roof may be either hipped or fall all one way, as 
suits the convenience of the builder or the materials 
to be used, and may be covered with either shingles 
or other roofing material. If shingled, the rafters 
should be first lined with building paper. Let the 
floor be the natural clay beaten down solid, and then 
well covered with loose fine dust. The roost poles 
should run lengthwise of the building at the back 
and have beneath them a sloping board to carry the 
droppings down to a trough, from which they can be 



raked out with a hoe. The nest boxes should be 
placed in the front of the building under the window 
or windows, and be covered, with a sloping board, say 
a foot above them. Let both nest boxes and roosts 
be so fixed as to be easily removed for cleaning. Have 
the house well limewashed before the hens are put 
in. Have one or two holes cut in the front of the 
building near the ground so that the hens can have 
access whilst the door of the house can be kept locked. 



PICKING A GOOD LAYER. 

An old country poultryman makes the following 
suggestions as a help in selecting good layers : 

There are certain individual characteristics, one of 
which is the shape of the bird. If a straight line be 
drawn from the back of the head to the toes, the hen 
which is likely to be a good layer will usually have 
the hinder half of her body largest, whilst a hen which 
may be suspected of being a poor layer will show 
more in the front ; the reason being that a poor layer 
makes a better table bird, and has a larger, longer 
breast, whilst a good layer makes a poor table bird, 
and has a comparatively small breast, whilst the egg 
organs are more fully developed. Birds which are 
good layers are usually very active. They always 
look healthy, and in most cases their combs are 
usually fully developed, particularly if they belong 
to the long-contbed varieties, which are reputed to be 
the, best layers. A ben with a lolng comb may 
usually be regarded as a good layer, and if she is not 
there must be some special reason for the contrary. 



PLUCKING CHICKENS. 

In getting chickens ready for market, nearly every 
one has experienced a difficulty in securing a uniform 
appearance of skin and a uniformly clean plucking. 
In many instances the trouble is due to the manner of 
scalding. Over-scalding invariably causes the yellow 
bloom of the skin to rub off. For best results the 
water for scalding should be just at the boiling point, 
but not actually boiling. 

To scald the birds, immerse them in the water 
three or four times, and immediately after scalding 
remove the feathers, being careful not to break the 
skin. Poultry so treated should then be dipped in 
hot water for two or three seconds, and then placed in 
cold water for about twenty minutes. When the 
birds are to be packed in ice it is best to lower the 
temperature of their bodies by immersing in water 
of gradually lowering temperature down to freezing, 
when they will be ready to pack. 



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643 



The Horse. 



NOTES. 

World's records, both among harness horses and 
runners, have fallen with amazing rapidity this sea- 
son, and the doings of the present month may furnish 
further sensations still. Dan Patch, the brown pac- 
ing stallion, 6, by Joe Patchen, 2 :01L, dam Zelica, 
by Wilkesberry, lowered the record for lateral gaited 
performers at Brighton Beach, 1ST. Y., on August 19th 
to 1 :59, thereby displacing Star Pointer, 1 :59L, who 
was the first harness horse to reach the two minute 
mark. This performance was greeted with wide sat- 
isfaction, but when Lou Dillon, the chestnut mare, 6, 
by Sidney Dillon, dam Lou Milton, by Milton Me- 
dium, displaced Creseus, 2 :02], with her mile in two 
minutes flat at Beadville, Mass., on August 24th. 
Enthusiasm knew no bounds. But even now another 
champion is in sight in Major Delmar, the bay geld- 
ing, 6, by Delmar, dam Authoress, by Autograph, 
who trotted to a record of 2 :00 T { at Syracuse, N. Y., 
on the 9th of September, and with favorable condi- 
tions is likely to beat two minutes before the season 
closes.. Not only has Lou Dillon readied the two 
minute mark, but hooked to high wheel sulky at 
Cleveland, Ohio, on September 12th, she displaced 
the 2 :08f of Maud S., made eighteen years ago, by 
trotting a mile in 2 :05. 

(Since our correspondent handed in the above, 
Prince Alert, the pacing hero of a hundred races and 
the champion of a score of half mile tracks, went 
against the world's pacing record of 1 :59, held by 
Dan Patch, and beat it most decisively by clipping 
off two seconds, making the mile in 1 :57 flat at the 
Empire City track in New York city. — En.) 

t&ft t^* ^* 

Prospects were never brighter for the third annual 
exhibition of the Bichmond Horse Show Association, 
the dates of which are October 13th-17th, when Bich- 
mond will be the Mecca at which many thousands 
from various sections will gather. There will be 
five exhibitions at night, and a matinee on Saturday 
afternoon. Over $8,000 will be distributed in prizes, 
and many of the most noted show horses in the coian- 
try will gather on the tan bark and be paraded before 
packed houses. Both president J. T. Anderson and 
Secretary W. O. Warthen have exerted themselves to 
the utmost to make the affair a success, and all signs 
seem to point to a show of the most brilliant descrip- 
tion. The Marine Band of Washington, with fifty 
performers, will furnish music, and this will be an 
attraction of prime importance. 

^* ic& £& 

North Carolina's circuit of fairs and race meetings 
begins this month, and will furnish sport and pleas- 
ure galore for many thousand throughout the "Old 



North State." The circuit begins on the 6th instant 
and lasts throughout the entire month. Dates have 
been assigned six places, and at each of them with 
favorable weather conditions prevailing a record 
breaking attendance may be confidently expected. 
The same- dates were assigned Winston and Burling- 
ton, but these towns are so situated geographically 
that the conflict is likely to make no serious differ- 
ence, while the same applies to Charlotte and Fayette- 
ville. The oldest, best known and most important 
point in this circuit is, of course, Baleigh, where for 
generations past the fairs and race meetings of the 
North Carolina State Agricultural Society have been 
held, but the events fixed for other places along the 
line have assumed more or less importance, and each 
place has of itself a large following. The dates fol- 
low: Winston, October 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th; Bur- 
lington, October 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th; Greensboro, 
October 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th; Baleigh, October 
20th, 21st, 22d, and 23d; Charlotte, October 27th, 
28th, 29th and 30th ; Faveteville, October 27th, 28th, 
29th and 30th. 

J* J* & 

The brown pacing mare, Skyland Girl, who was 
campaigned with success on Maryland, Virginia and 
North Carolina tracks for several seasons prior to the 
present one by George E. Dyer, who then trained at 
Winston and Greensboro, N. C, but later shifted 
operations to Boanoke and Lynchburg, Va., is in 
good form again this year, and made a new record 
of 2 :15^ in a winning race of four heats at Goshen, 
N, Y., last month. Skyland Girl was bred by the 
estate of the late W. H. Wilson, Cynthiana, Ky., but 
was foaled the property of the wealthy tobacconist, 
B. J. Beynolds, of Winston, N. C. She was sired 
by Simmons, a great son of George Wilkes, dam the 
once famous trotting mare, Mamie Woods, 2 :20, by 
Woods' Hambletonian. Mamie Woods was pur- 
chased in Kentucky by Mr. Beynolds while carrying 
Skyland Girl in utero and after the latter was drop- 
ped the roan mare was bred to Baronet, 2:11^-, and 

other sires of more or less note. 
Jt JH j* 

The bay mare Lady Olga, 5, 15 :1, by Fesler, own- 
ed by Secretary L. S. Bicketts, of the Orange Horse 
Show Association, Orange, Va., was a frequent win- 
ner both at the Orange and Charlottesville Horse 
Shows. She was shown in the ladies' park saddle, 
the park saddle, and combined saddle and harness 
horse classes, and captured several blue ribbons. 

%&rl t£T* *£& 

One of the best bred and young stallions owned in 
North Carolina is the bay colt Agnel, three years old, 
in the stud of Ben. W. Southerland, of Mt. Olive. 



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This colt was bred by L. E. Tarlton, of Lexington, 
Ky., and sired by Guardsman, dam the great brood 
mare Zeta, dam of Miss Duke, 2 :13, etc., by Red 
Wilkes. Agnel is of fine size and promises to make 
not only a trotter, but a show horse as well. Mr. 
Southerland will have his speed developed and later 
retire him to the stud, where he should prove a suc- 
cess and accomplish much toward improving the 
stock in the section to which he has been taken. 

t&FI t0*l (<7" 

The well known Virginian, General William T. 
Townes, whose headquarters are with the American 
Tobacco Company, New York city, but who spends 
most of his leisure time at his stud farm, near Char- 
lottesville, Va., has recently purchased the Bradford 
place, near Culpeper, Va., where he intends keeping 
his thoroughbred horses. Eor years past General 
Townes has been quietly collecting a band of brood 
mares, and now owns some of the choicest specimens 
in the State, which, during several seasons past, have 
been bred to sires of note in Kentucky and Virginia. 
A recent addition to the General's stud is the chestnut 
mare Amulet, purchased from Harry C. Beattie, of 
Richmond, Va. Amulet was sired by King Bolt, 
dam Ecliptic, by imp. Eclipse, and she out of the 
famous Nina, by Boston. 

(£• ^» (£w 

Captain R. E. Landon, who has a fine farm near 
Cobb's Creek, Mathews county, Va., is the largest 
breeder of trotters and pacers in his section. He 
owns a select band of brood mares, and for a couple of 
seasons past has bred to the good sire Letcher, 2 :18f , 
by Director, 2 :11\, the famous son of Dictator. Some 
of the choicest youngsters on the Landon farm are by 
Letcher. Among the well bred matrons in this stud 
is a mare by Pretender. Her first, second and third 
dams are producers, and right back of them comes 
the noted Waterwitch, dam of five in the list, by 
Pilot, Jr. 

^W t0& 10* 

The Virginia bred trotter, Gold Bur, 2 :13£, by 
Bursar, 2 :174, dam Bertie, dam of Lamp Girl, 2 :09, 
by Signet, is highly thought of by his owner, W. H. 
Essery, of New York city, for whom he has shown a 
trial in 2 :10| this season. Mr. Essery expects to 
campaign this handsome chestnut gelding in 1904, 
and looks for him to trot to a record of 2 :10 or better. 

t£r> t&fr t£& 

Harry C. Beattie, vice-president of the Richmond 
Horse Show Association, M. F. H. of the Deep Run 
Tf nut Club, and equally well known as owner, breeder 
and horse show exhibitor, has quite a stable of hunt- 
ers, jumpers and high-stepping harness horses at 
Blooming-dale Farm. One of the best known mem- 
bers of the Bloomingdale stable is the chestnut geld- 
ing Buck, by Rover, the son of Abd El Kader. In 
the most select company this horse has been a winner 



at Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Atlantic City, 
Richmond and other big shows. In the class for 
ladies' hunters at Richmond in 1901 this unsexed 
son of Rover captured the blue ribbon with Mrs. 
Allen Potts up and did some sensational work. Other 
members of this string that promise to develop into 
performers of real class are Blizzard, chestnut geld- 
ing, 4, by Blitzen, the "Iron Horse," a couple of un- 
named geldings, both heavy weights, one being a 
chestnut, 6, by Abd El Kader, Jr., and the other a 
bay, 6, by Heimdal, dam by John Happy, and a 
toppy looking bay mare, 4, by Blitzen. The thor- 
oughbred division includes North Anna, chestnut 
mare, 5, by Blitzen, dam Gloriana, by Bend Or, her 
full sister, an unnamed chestnut filly, 4, a chestnut 
colt, 2, by Blitzen, dam Amulet, by dam Bolt, and the 
bay colt, 2, full brother to North Anna. 

(5* ^* ^* 

A Virginia bred horse deserving of more than pass- 
ing mention as a sire of hunters and jumpers is the 
chestnut stallion Abd El Kader, Jr., who was for- 
merly known and raced under the name of Aeronaut, 
and sired by Abd El Kader, the thoroughbred son of 
imp. Australian. His dam was Nina, by Senator, 
second dam by Richmond, third dam by Bethune, 
thus making him probably three-quarters thorough- 
bred at least. Abd El Kader, Jr., was bred by Geo. 
Turner, of King William county, Va., and foaled 
1882, hence the chestnut stallion has reached the 
sere and vellow, but is remarkably well preserved 
and yet vigorous. At four years old he passed to 
James R. Branch and Branch Cunningham, both of 
this city, and later to Fred. W. Scott, now of the 
banking house of Scott and Stringfellow. From Mr. 
Scott the son of Abd El Kader went to Edmund 
Ruffin, whose stud in Hanover county he ruled as 
premier for years. Since then the horse has been 
owned by N. J. Crull, of this city, from whom he 
passed to Thomas Winston, of Louisa county, and 
from him to his present oAvners, J. B. McComb and 
Brother, of the Glen Cove Farm, Somerset, Va. In 
his prime Abd El Kader, Jr., was a horse of remark- 
able beauty and finish, while he could take up weight 
and run fast both on the flat and across country. In 
the stud his work has been of a most satisfactory 
nature, because he has sired some of the best hunters 
and jumpers ever sent out from Virginia, and as he 
is still vigorous and likely to be for years yet, I look 
for others of this sort to spring from his loins. Meet- 
ing with James B. McComb, one of his owners, at 
Charlottesville, he informed me that Abd El Kader 
carried him through a stiff hunt in January last, and 
that the old stallion finished strong, certainly a re- 
markable exhibition of stamina and courage in a 
horse of his age, but the Abd El Kaders are a long 
lived tribe, and this scion of the family ably sup- 
ports its claims to longevity. Bkoad Rock. 



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645 



Miscellaneous. 



SELECTING SEED. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

The old maxim, "As the seed, so will the harvest 
be," is perhaps nowhere so clearly demonstrated as 
in farm crops. As a rule, farmers pay entirely too 
little attention to this, one of the most important steps 
in farm production. 

Not one of us would think of breeding our animals 
without some particular object in view, and to obtain 
this object Ave would select with care, for breeding 
purposes, the animals which would likely reproduce 
the type we desired. We would consider the size, 
shape, symmetry of build, rate of growth, capacity 
for producing beef, milk or pork, as the case might 
be, and any other features we may wish to see repro- 
duced. Then after breeding we would expect the 
offspring to represent that which we beheld in our 
mind's eye. 

Now, what is true in raising animals, is also true 
in raising the ordinary farm crops. By carefully se- 
lecting the seed, keeping always in mind the type of 
plant and kernel which will give a large yield, we 
may greatly improve the quality and quantity of our 
crops. This fact is forcibly illustrated in the pro- 
duction of sugar from beets. The Germans have, by 
seed selection, increased the average vield of su°'ar 
from five per cent, to an average of eighteen per 
cent. At Kleinwanzleben, the great sugar beet seed 
plantation of Germany, the selection of beets for the 
production of seed receives the minutest attention. 
This selection begins in the field. The tops must 
conform to a certain type of development, then the 
beets themselves pass under the eye of an inspector, 
and those not perfect in size and shape are discarded. 
Those which come up to the standard in this selec- 
tion are then taken to the laboratory and a core is 
withdrawn from each beet and analyzed. Again the 
ones which do not contain a certain per cent, of sugar 
are thrown out. Thus the seed are produced from 
absolutely perfect beets, and, consequently, the in- 
crease in yield of sugar is more than three times. 

Any farmer in the State may, at almost no expense 
and very little inconvenience, bring his cereal crops 
to a high state of perfection. 

Well selected seed from a crop on the farm will 
have the advantage of similar environment year after 
year. The soil, climate and treatment will be about 
the same, and then the farmer has the opportunity to 
adapt the type and quality to his special needs and 



uses, besides the educational value of watching his 
crops and the pleasure of seeing the improvement 
from one year to the next cannot be estimated. Then 
every farmer will be his own seed grower, making a 
specialty of the strains best adapted to his own pur- 
poses. 

In order to do this successfully, one must have in 
his mind a standard type of high quality, and plant 
no seed which does not come up to this standard. 

Let us take, for example, corn, a very easy crop to 
improve both in yield and quality. The selection of 
seed should begin in the field. Here the general 
growth of stalk can be taken into consideration, 
height, size, amount of fodder, position of ear on 
stalk, or better, if there are two ears, and maturity. 
In other words, the plant must conform to your 
standard type of growth. After husking, the ears 
are subjected to a critical examination. First select 
a perfect car as a type for comparison. This applies 
to the size, shape and color of ear and kernel ; the 
arrangement, number and space between the rows; 
the indentation of the kernel ; the filling out at butt 
and the tip ; color and size of cob. 

The cylindrical form of ear is preferable to the 
tapering, since the tapering, if it have much taper, 
results from the dropping of a row or more of ker- 
nels, and means, of course, a smaller proportion of 
corn to cob. The closer we keep to the cylindrical 
ear the greater the amount of corn the ear will carry. 

The shape of kernel has much to do with the 
amount of grain a given size cob will carry. The 
preferable shape is the long or medium wedge. The 
.circumference of the ear being two or three times the 
circumference of the cob, it is obvious that the wedge 
shaped kernel is the only kernel that will shell the 
maximum amount of corn. 

Number of rows on the ear and the furrows be- 
tween the rows should be taken into consideration in 
the selection of seed. A perfect ear of corn has not 
only a goodly number of rows made up of wedge 
shaped kernels of good length, but these rows, crowd- 
ing the shank at the butt, should run parallel with 
the cob well to the tip, covering entirely the point of 
the cob. Ears containing short or imperfect rows, 
or which do not conform to the standard type, should 
be discarded. 

By this steady method of improvement Illinois 
farmers have increased the average yield per acre of 
corn during the ten years between 1890 and 1900, 
22.8 per cent, over the average yield between 1880 



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and 1890. In Indiana the increase in yield during 
the last decade over the preceding one was 12.8 per 
cent, per acre. 

Why cannot Virginia farmers do as well, even bet 
ter ? Here corn has been given as an illustration, but 
the other crops grown on the farm can be improved 
just as well as corn. The time has come when labor 
and other conditions are such that it will pay us to 
attend to these important features of production. 

Meade Ferguson. 

Experiment Station, Blacksburg, Va. 



BULLETINS FROM THE VIRGINIA EXPERIMENT 
STATION. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

I have long believed that some of the bulletins is- 
sued by this Experiment Station might have been 
very much better, and consequently of more decided 
benefit to the Virginia farmer. Of course, the same 
might be said of bulletins from some other stations. 
While it is no desirable thing to be considered a 
critic, still a few friendly comments and suggestions 
on these bulletins in a State agricultural journal may 
not be out of place. After being in charge of some 
experiments at an experiment station for ten years, 
and writing eleven bulletins, I am familiar with 
many of the trials and difficulties with which an ex- 
perimenter has often to contend. I am firmly con- 
vinced that one of the greatest difficulties the average 
Station officer has to encounter in the United States 
is that of trying to fill two offices and carry on ex- 
periments at the same time. Each line of work is 
widely different from the other, and it is almost im- 
possible for one man to be a good college man and a 
good station man at the same time. I long to see 
the day when station work will be separated from 
college work, as far as possible, to be consistent with 
the organic law. When a college professor is crowd- 
ed with teaching he sometimes feels forced to write 
an essay on some farm topic, publish it in pamphlet 
form, and call it bulletin No. 100. Almost any in- 
telligent farmer could buy a book for $1.00 and write 
fifty such so-called bulletins. Such bulletins injure 
experiment station influence. A few bulletins is- 
sued by the Virginia Experiment Station are wholly 
exempt from such criticism, and I am glad to note 
have given entire satisfaction. 

I would like to see each bulletin issued be made 
as nearly complete on each subject as possible. The 
farmers will think more of them and take better care 
of them. Numbers count for nothing. Four good 



bulletins a year are all a station should be expected 
to publish. 

I notice Bulletin No. 132, dated January, 1902, 
which was written April 28, 1903. In other words, 
the idea might be conveyed to the farmer that the 
station was publishing bulletins more than a year 
before they were written. The value of that bulle- 
tin to the public is injured by dating it back in order 
to keep up with "monthly bulletins." I would like 
to see the excellent series of bulletins on "Orchard 
Studies" now being published in small pamphlet 
form, be put in one volume, and with a good paper 
binding. The farmer could easily file them away 
in his library then for "ready reference." 

Bulletin No. 131 is a valuable number on "Reme- 
dial Measures Against San Jose Scale." All or- 
chardists and nurserymen who desire information on 
this subject should send for this bulletin, and be pre- 
pared to fight this insect during the coming winter. 

Bulletin No. 145 gives some results of experiments 
with forage plants. Among the number are tests of 
a few cow peas in reference to their yield. I would 
like to see the Agricultural Department broaden its 
work with leguminous plants, especially with refer- 
ence to their value as improvers of much of the worn- 
out soil of the State. Include the various clovers, 
peas and beans. Make various tests with soil in- 
oculation with the bateria peculiar to each legume. 
Studv the plants in reference to their habits, soils, 
yield, seedage, etc. 

Bulletin No. 144 deals with stock and poultry 
powders, or condimental foods. This is a most 
timely subject for the Agricultural Department to 
take up, and the bulletin is interesting as far as it 
goes. T woiild like to see the station make some 
actual tests with these different foods to bring out 
their value or lack of value more forcibly before the 
public. The sale of these foods is increasing in the 
State. 

Bulletin No. 121 is on steer feeding. Results of 
tests with hay, corn, corn meal, silage, cotton seed 
meal and bran are given ; both singly and in combina- 
tion. Two steers in each lot were fed. I would like 
also to see this work broadened. Would like to see 
at least four steers in each lot, and after the feeding 
tests have the animals slaughtered and the beef passed 
on by an expert. Some good illustrations would help 
the bulletin immensely. 

The conclusions of this bulletin are interesting, 
and are here given : 

1. A combination of foods, both grain and rough- 
age, is best from every standpoint. 



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2. Ground corn better than whole corn after it has 
become hard. 

3. A mixture of corn meal and bran gave greatest 
gain, and with least expense per pound. 

4. Cotton seed meal was not, in these experiments, 
used with success, due, at least in part, to the fact 
that in former years the steers had not become accus- 
tomed to it. 

5. Silage was a very economical addition to the 
roughage. 

6. Stover gave bad showing when used without 
other roughage. 

I may add that in this county steers are often win- 
tered (frequently not economically) by feeding 
either hay or dry corn fodder, and letting the cattle 
,have access to a blue grass sod. Sometimes whole 
corn and fodder are fed, and hogs gather up what is 
left by the cattle. 

During last winter I fed ten steers on dry com 
fodder for two months, and then fed good timothv 
hay for two months. The steers had access to a blu( 
grass sod. T was surprised to note that they did 
better while eating the fodder. R. H. Petce. 

Montgomery Co., Va. 



MOTORS AND METHODS OF MOVING FARM PRO- 
DUCTS. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

The farmers of the United States, in different por- 
tions thereof, make use of five separate and distinct 
motors in transporting the products of the farm to 
market. Here they are — viz: 

Air, 

Tide, 

Horse, 

Steam, 

Electricity. 

If there are other methods than the above, I shall 
be glad to hear of the same, and revise the list ac- 
cordingly. 

The air is used when produce is sent from farm to 
market in little sailing vessels. The tide, where the 
tidal current is used to float the farm produce down 
to a central point or market in boats built for that 
purpose. The tide, in this case, being the only motor 
used. 

The wind and the tide are the cheapest motors in 
existence. The farmers of Eastern Virginia use 
both these motors extensively. They are the oldest 
motors in existence, because long before man was, the 
air and tide were both in existence. 

Eastern Virginia is a network of "arms of the 



sea" — salt water filled with fish and oysters, and on 
these "arms''— aggregregating in length thousands 
of miles of water transportation, the little sailing- 
vessels are used for fish, oysters, clams and crabs in 
their season, and for farm products the rest of the 
year. 

The third motor in the list — the horse — is in gen- 
eral use throughout the United States. More than 
ninety-five per cent, of the farmers of the United 
States depend upon the horse to get their farm pro- 
ducts to local markets. 

At the local market, steam, the fourth power on 
the list, takes up the work, and the "long haul" to 
market is by steam railway. In other words, ninety- 
five per cent, of the farmers of the United States de T 
pend upon horse power and steam power to get their 
produce from producer to consumer. 

Eastern Virginia farmers, while using the wind 
and tide as "motors," also use the horse; hauling mil- 
lions of dollars' worth of soil products by horse 
power to market over at least eleven of the finest 
turnpikes (shell roads) in the world ; said turnpikes, 
centering in this harbor and penetrating all portions 
of the trucking belt of Eastern Virginia. 

We may therefore say that nearly all the farmers 
use the horse and also steam power in moving their 
farm products to market; they use one or the other 
or both. 

Then comes electricity, the fifth and crowning "mo- 
tor" of the age. Only a few sections as yet are so 
favorably located as to be able to use the electric 
"motor" in sending their farm products to market. 

Eastern Virginia is one section thus favored, and 
no less than nine electric lines of railway are push- 
ing out into the "trucking belt" around this city in 
all directions. 

So the Norfolk section is using all these motors — 
air, tide, horse, steam and electricity. Then, too, 
the Norfolk section has still another point in its 
favor. Steam is used in two ways to transport the 
soil products of Eastern Virginia to nearly ten mil- 
lion consumers — the steamboat and the steam railway. 

The boats and railways are in healthy competi- 
tion, which keeps freight rates down to a very reason- 
able and favorable point, favorable to the producer. 

The freight rate here is lower than is enjoyed by 
the farmers of any other portion of the United States. 

In the struggle for existence eventually to come, 
caused by over-production or under-consumption 
(either or both) the "fittest will survive." The sec- 
tions best fitted by nature, having the best soil and 
climate, the cheapest access to the best and largest 
markets, will stand the strain and "continue to do 
business at the old stand." 



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[October 



"Motors" are important, especially important mat- 
ters for the farmer. Roads and motors are im- 
portant factors in the farming world. The "motors" 
are all right, but the roads of most sections can be 
greatly improved. A. Jeffers. 

Norfolk, Va., August 17, 1903. 



SEED WHEAT. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

Every provident: farmer has provided for clean 
wheat of the kind best adapted to his land. But as 
usual, careless farmers have not. The condition of 
their grain is not fit for seed, and barely will pass for 
"merchantable" on the market. Complaint is made 
by that class of the price of wheat. They fail to ob- 
serve that their "filthy wheat" has in its measure 
about one-fifth per cent, of "vile stuff" unfit for 
bread, and hence are offered 20 per cent, less than the 
price of pure wheat. Now is the time to prevent a 
recurrence of that heavy loss on the crop of next har- 
vest. Why continue this miserable folly, not to say 
insanity? While the business farmer is, with a 
pleasant face, receiving $1 for his pure seed wheat ; 
the drowsy fellow stands picking his finger nails de- 
murely considering his "hard lot." He has neg- 
lected the truth: "Whatsoever a man soweth that shall 
he reap." 

All the social combines will not help the sloven 
farmer. Associations have been formed to advan- 
tage, but they require everything to be of good qual- 
ity and order, which is to be sold under their super- 
vision. The careless or dishonest packer cannot en- 
ter the associations. Gentlemen, let us turn over a 
new leaf. Be good farmers or not at all. Do not 
disgrace the occupation. Elevate the standard. 

Augusta Co., Va. Old Man. 



COW PEAS IN TIDEWATER, VA. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

Recently a friend sent to our office two cow pea 
pods, one of which was thirty-three inches long, and 
contained twenty peas. He reported that he had had 
pods thirty-six inches long, just a yard long, or three 
feet in length. 

Surely Virginia is great on the "legumes," or we 
may say "long" on pea pods. But what does nature 
mean anyhow in forming and developing a great long 
fine looking pod tbree feet or so in length, and then 
putting only twenty peas in it, when there is room 
enough for forty or more ? 

What does nature mean in creating a great big six 
foot, broad shouldered man, and omitting to fill him 
with good thoughts, words and deeds? Why does 



nature allow, encourage or permit such a great big 
show, such a big blow and bluff and blarney just to 
cover and to hide or to develop a very few mean 
"measley" words, ideas, thoughts and deeds ? 

Why so much pod, why so few peas ? We were 
surprised at a pea pod thirty-three inches long, but 
we were sadly disappointed at the small number of 
peas therein. It is always thus. The man with few 
ideas (peas) in his head (pod), but who dresses well, 
puts on style, and has plenty of cheek, is always over- 
estimated and apparently very highly appreciated, 
but when Ave come to shuck him we find too much of 
empty show, too much empty pod, and too few ideas 
(peas). 

Nature starts out well with some, makes a great 
big show, a great big pod, and then fails to properly 
fill the pod with peas, the head with ideas. 

Who can report a pea pod longer than three feet ? 
Who can show a single pod with more than twenty 
peas in it ? Who can tell us how to grow forty peas 
in a three foot pod instead of twenty? Who can 
make two blades of grass grow where but one grew 
before ? A. Jeffers. 

Norfolk, Va. 



FALL PLANTING OF IRISH POTATOES. 

For several years past experiments have been made 
in the Eastern and Southern parts of this State and in 
the Eastern sections of North and South Carolina in 
planting Irish potatoes in late November and in De- 
cember, and we have reports from a number of these 
which go to show that the crop can be successfully 
grown in this way if the sets are properly planted. 
As it is desirable to lessen the pressure of work in the 
spring by any means which can be successfully adopt- 
ed, we describe the method followed in planting these 
potatoes, and suggest that growers in the sections 
named should give the plan a trial. Select a piece of 
dry, sandy loam land and lay off the rows three feet 
apart after breaking the land deep and working it 
fine. Run the plow twice in each row, thus throwing 
out the soil to a good depth. Scatter a good potato 
fertilizer in the bottom of the furrow and run the cul- 
tivator through it to mix it with the soil. Then drop 
the sets the usual distance apart and cover lightly 
with soil. On the top of the soil put a good covering 
of farm yard manure and plow onto this a furrow 
from each side, thus making a ridge over the sets. 
Early in the spring run a harrow over the rows to 
level down the ridges somewhat. If the potatoes 
should push through before danger of hard frost is 
past, plow a light furrow onto them as soon as they 
are seen. 



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DETAIL INDEX TO ENQUIRER'S 
COLUMN. 

Japan Clover 627 

Hairy Vetch, Winter Vetch 627 

Lame Horse 627 

Texa? Fever Ticks 627 

Inoculating Cattle for Texas Fever. 627 

Grafting 628 

Tall Meadow Oat Grass 628 

Fall and Winter Plowing 628 

Smut on Corn — Grass for Name.. 628 

Feed for Young Pigs 629 

Protecting Peas and Beans from 

Weevil 629 

Cheese-Making— Sick Hog 629 

Plowing Down Peas 630 

Calves Dying 630 

Fertilizers for Tobacco, Tomatoes 

and Wheat 630 

Canada Peas — Crops for Bog Pas- 
tures — Rape 630 

Hair on Horse's Tails 631 

Fertilizer Requirements of Crops. 631 

Transplating Trees 631 

Hog Husbandry in the South 631 



Advertisers' Experience. 

A couple of our advertisers met 
in our office the other day and I 
swelled our heads enormously 
about the great results they get 
from their advertising with us. 
Mr. W. Gr. Owens, a Buroc-Jersey 
and Poland China man, and Mr. 
J. T. Oliver, a Berkshire breeder, 
were the parties. The way Mr. 
Oweus talked about just refusing 
$45 for a Duroc sow, and the ease 
and rapidity with which Mr. 
Oliver disposes of his 3 and 4 
weeks' old pigs for $5, made us 
want to get back in the business in 
a hurry. Both of these gentlemen 
have fine stock, all pure bred, and 
we do not blame our readers for 
keeping them sold down so closely. 

Along in the mails the same day 
came letters from Judge Matthews, 
of Big Stone Gap ; Dr. French, of 
Washington, and E. M. Gillet & 
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Friend Gillet gives a list of recent 
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Seed Oats, Wheat, 

Rye, Barley, etc. 

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DEAFNESS CANNOT BE CURED 
by local applications, as they cannot 
reach the diseased portion of the ear. 
There is only one way to cure deafness, 
and that is by constitutional remedies. 
Deafness is caused by an inflamed con- 
dition of the mucous lining of the Eus- 
tachian Tube. When this tube gets 
inflamed you have a rumbling sound or 
imperfect hearing, and when it is en- 
tirely closed deafness is the result, 
and unless the inflammation can he 
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normal condition, hearing will be de- 
stroyed forever; nine cases out of ten 
are caused by catarrh, which is noth- 
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The Davis E. Foutz Co., makers of 
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Some bargains in the standard 
breeds of poultry are offered by the 
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Red Poll Cattle are offered by Messrs. 
Pierson Bros. They have been breed- 
ing them for a number of years, and 
have good stock. 

J. M. Garnett is offering some of his 
fine "Garnett Lavers." Look up his 
ad. 

Dr. Haas has something interesting 
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forest, using the same quanity, and sow winter OATS and CLOVER. 

SEND FOR CIRCULAR AND PRICES. 

A. S. LEE (EL SON, 

102 S. 13tK Street, -> Richmond, Virginia. 

O 



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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



65J 



Freeman 
Ensilage 
Machinery 



represents the modern idea. Illustra- 
tion shows typical cutter with blower at- 
tachment. 11 sizes, hand cutting to belt 
power, with capacity ranging from 5 to 
24 tons per hour. Traveling force feed 
reduces labor of feeding. Each machine 
easily and quickly fitted with shredder 
attachment. 

Also make Wind Mills, Corn Shelters, Wood 
Saws, etc Write for free catalogues 110. 

S. FREEMAN & SONS MFG. CO, Racine, Wis. 




You Try It. 

It costs nothing. Re- 
turn at our expense if 
this mill falls to grind 
shelled corn, ear corn, 
all grains or mixed 
feed stuffs, easier, fast- 
er and better than any 



New Holland Mills 

are the practical, every day mills for every 
day wants. No other good mill at so low a 
price. Made In 3 sizes. Adapted to any kind 
of power. Don't fail to get our free catalogue 
before buying. 

NEW HOLLAND MACHINE CO., 
Box 163, Nsw Holland, Pa. 




HEEBNER'S FEED CUTTERS. 



Feed all your fodder. By using Heebner's cutters with 
shredder attachment the whole of the nutritious stock is cut, 
crushed and shredded, and rendered edible. No waste. 
Animals eftt It greedily and thrive. Bhredder attachment Costa 15.00. The 
Bedel ensllat^ cutter. Al?o make Tread Powers. Lerer Powers, Little 
Giant and Penna. Threshers, Wood Saws, Feed Mills, etc Catalog free. 

IIKF.BXE It & SON 8, 85 Broad St.. Lonsdale, Pa. 



MEAL OR FEED 

Fine meal for family uao. Ear corn cniaher and grinder, corn cracker, | 
all round feed maker for every farm need. 

Monarch Mills 

attrition or genuine imported French burr styles. 
Thousands in use. Meet every house or barn purpose. [ 
Sold on 15 days free trial. 
Get Monarch catalog before buying. 

Sprout Watdron <$. Ccl 
Box 202, Muncy, Pa. i 




T«e"WelierJiinlor" 
Pamper' 




Qkntlso 
tonsxd 
tor other 
lowel 
parpoi 



Is all complete, ready to e» 
tach to pump. Equals 80 men 
pump ing water. 
Uses but little gas- 
oline. Is shipped 
crated eompleielj 
erected, all connec- 
tions made. Easy to start, any 
can operate it. Every 
guaranteed. Other sizes 
to GO H. P. Send for cat- 
Weber Gas <S Gasolirm 
Engine Co., Box llw 
Kansas City. Mo 



STOP THAT RATTLING, TIGHTEN YOUR 
OWN BUGGY TIRES. No heating; does not 
mar the paint; any one can operate. Machine 
complete with 100 ■washers sent on receipt of 
$2.00. Guaranteed to do the work. Your 
money back If not as represented. RAPID 
TIRE TIGHTENER CO., Sta'tlon P., Toledo, 
Ohio. 



it up and send for his free book, "Hog- 
ology." 

Kitselman Bros., old advertisers, re- 
sume their advertising in this issue. 
Lots of our readers already know aDout 
their Fence Machine, which is sent out 
on trial. 

A useful Cream Separator is offered 
by The Superior Fence Machine Co., 
Detroit. 

Foxhall Farm wants to buy some 
Angora Goats. Take notice ye An- 
gora men. 

The Coiled Spring Fence Co. has a 
couple of ads. in this issue, to which 
we invite the attention of our readers. 

The Folding Sawing Machine Co. of- 
fers a very handy and useful device in 
the shape of a folding hand saw. Look 
up their ad. 

Stonehurst Fruit and Stock Farm 
has some nice registered Herefords for 
sale. 

Sprout, Waldron & Co. are advertis- 
ing their Feed Mills again this year. 
You can have one of these mills on 30 
days free trial. 

Anybody wanting some nice colts 
had better correspond with Mr. I. L. 
Amberg, who has an ad. in another 
column. 

Squab raisers or those contemplat- 
ing going into the business had better 
read the ad. of E. C. Johnson. 

The Glen Rock Woolen Mills have 
a card in another column, which will 
surely interest numbers of our readers. 
Look it up. 

African Geese can be had of Miss A. 
Worthington, Ivy, Va. 

Milne Mfg. Co. are advertising their 
celebrated Hawkeye Stump Puller 
again this season. 

"W." wants to buy a lot of young 
cattle from the quarantine district. 
He prefers Shorthorns or other good 
grades. 

■ The New Holland Machine Co. is a 
new advertiser in this issue. This 
company has a good feed mill in which 
it would like to interest our readers. 

Wertz Nursery makes its usual fall 
offering in this issue. Look up the ad. 

H. D. Coleman wants to trade New- 
port News property for a farm. 

The Continental Plant Co. is adver- 
tising strawberry plants and nursery 
stock. 

Mr. J. F. Durrette doubles his ad in 
this issue. Poland-Chinas and Short- 
horns are his offering. 

Mr. Murray Boocock, owner of the 
Castalia Herefords, wants to buy some 
registered Hereford heifers. See his 
ad. 

Sydnor Pump & Well Co. has an at- 
tractive ad. in another column. If it's 
pumps you want, write this company. 

Strawberry plants are offered by Mr. 
John Lightfoot. 

International Stock Food Co. has a 
large ad. on another page. Look it up 
and send for their handsome free stock 
book. 



Wise Man's 
Wagon. 

The man who has had experience 
in running a wagon knows that it 
is the wheels that determine the 
life of the wagon itself. Our 

ELECTRIC A 

have given a new lease of life to thousands of old 
wagons. They can be had in any desired height. and 
any width of tire up to 8 inches. With a set of these 
wheels you can in a few minutes have either a high 
or a low down wagon. The Electric Dandy 
Wagon is made by skilled workmen, of best select- 
ed material— white hickory axles, steel wheels, steel 
hounds, etc Guaranteed to carry 1000 lbs. Here Is 
the wagon that will save money for you, as It 
lasts almost forever. Ourcatalog;describing the uses 
of these wheels and wagons sent free. Write for It. 
ELECTRIC WHEEL CO., BOX 116 QUINCV, ILLINOIS. 






WE LEAD THE WORLD 

We are the largest manuf at> 
turers of Grooved and Plain 
Tire Steel Farm Wagon 
Wheels in America. We 
guarantee our patent 
Grooved Tire Wheels to 
be the best made by anybody 
anywhere. Write us. 

HAVANA METAL WHEEL CO. 

HAVANA. ILL 



WE'LL PAY THE FREIGHT 

and send 4 Baggy Wheels, Steel Tire on, . «X 7.8» 
■With Rubber Tires, $15.00. I mfg. wheels H to lim. 
tread. Top Baggies, $28.75 ; Harness, $3.60. Write fot 
catalogue. Learn how to buy vehloles and parts direct 
Wagon Umbrella FREE. W. V. BOOB, ClnclanaU, •. 



THE IMPROVED 



Write for Prices. 





Chamberlin Mfg. Co., Olean, N. Y„ U. S. A. 
HERCULES STUMP PULLER 




Clears an acre of heavy timber land each day. 
Clears all stumps in a circle of 150 ft. without 
moving or changing machine, Strongest, most 
rapid working and best made. 
Hercules Mfg. Co., 413 17th St., Centreville, Iowa. 



652 



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[October 



Just Ask the Horse. 

He knows whether it's hard work to 
run a hay press. If he's worked on a 




RED RIPPER pV%s 

he will tell youthatitis thelightest running press in the 
market. A lever gives the compression, and thepowerin- 
creases with the resistance.but the horse doesn't know that. 
He knows that it is just as easy at the end of the stroke as 
it is at the beginning. The Red Ripper has an easy capacity 
20 bales per hour. It is a low priced, in fact, the lowest 
priced hay press in the market, and so strong and simple 
it never gets out of repair. It can be loaded on a farm wagon. 
Our 24 page Catalogue No. 43ft tells you more and contains 
many testimonials we have received from Red Ripper pur- 
chasers. Distributing points, Baltimore, Memphis, Cincin- 
nati * Address SIKES MFG. CO., Helena, Georgia. 



<@> 



The man who intelligently buys baling machin- 
ery will investigate the features of economy ana 
practical utility which have made 

Dederick's Baling Presses 

world-famed. Our catalogue contains the latest 
and largest variety made. We want you to 
have a copy. After reading it your knowledge 
won't permit of mistake when you buy. We 
send it free. Write for a copy at once. 
P. K. DEDERICK'S SOUS, 76 Tivoli St.AIbany, N.Y. 



The Hay Baler 



which is in a class by itself. 




"ELI" passes 

■■■■■l^aKl market. Taro-f 



bale fastest and best 

for shipping- and 

market. Largest Feed Openings. 

horse and steam powers, 33 8tyle3 and sizes. Many featured machines, 
standard of the world. Get the free £1! catalogue. 

Colflns Plow Co., 1185 Hampshire St., Qulncy, III. 



W [ I |_ DR!LL,NG 



MACHINES 



The most successful mouey-maklng ma- 
chines ever made. Also machines for boring 
wells with augers by horse power. Write 
us if you mean business. 

Loomis Machine Co., Tiffin, Ohio. 



WARRINER5 
CHAIN HANGING 
STANCHION. 



COMFORTABLE. 

FD.BYW.BIRUMB,ForestvillE,ronN. 




GET ALL THE CREAM, 

—BY USING— 

The SUPERIOR CREAM SEPARATOR. 

Does not mix water with the milk. 
It is the best Separator made. A 
trial convinces, and every Separator 
is guaranteed. Write todav for Cat- 
alogue to the SUPERIOR FENCE MA- 
CHINE CO., 291 Grande River Ave., De- 
troit, Michigan. 



MAGAZINES. 
The Review of Reviews is the best 
magazine for any one to take who 
wants to keep posted on all that is 
going on the world over. The editor's 
review of the leading subjects occupy- 
ing the attention of the master minds 
of the world and of all the current 
passing events is always well worth 
reading. In addition to this there are 
always a number of articles on mat- 
ters occupying public attention in the 
leading countries of the world by those 
most qualified to deal with them from 
special knowledge or practical ac- 
quaintance with the subjects. What 
is being said in other magazines on all 
subjects of popular interest can also 
be found in this magazine. 



The Cosmopolitan is one of the best 
of the cheaper magazines. It is most 
liberally illustrated with beautifully 
produced pictures. 



The October Century has an attrac- 
tive cover by Leyendecker of a mount- 
ed hunter and dogs, which gives a clue 
to the prevailing character of its con- 
tents, for it is a "sportsman's num- 
ber," containing, with much other mat- 
ter, a group of articles on field sports 
relating to Prance, Great Britain and 
America. The democratic tradition in 
France is represented by an article, 
"When the French President Goes 
Hunting," written and illustrated by 
Andre Castaigne. The aristocratic 
tradition is represented by Sterling 
Heilig's narrative, "With the Hounds 
of the Duchesse D'Uzes." J. M. Glee- 
son, the artist, writes of "Two British 
Game Parks," Powerscourt in Ireland 
and Drummond Castle in Scotland, and 
supplies pictures of both. But the 
most practical and acceptable article 
to American sportsmen, will be a re- 
view of "Field Sports of To-Day, " by 
Dwight W. Huntington, the well-known 
writer on this subject. Mr. Hunting- 
ton is also an artist, as witness his 
illustrations for his own article, in- 
cluding four in color, one of which, 
"The New and the Old Type of Sports- 
man," is the frontispiece or tne num- 
ber. There are three striking full- 
page pictures of big game by Arthur 
Wardle, the English painter, and "The 
Wild Bird by a New Approach," by 
Francis H. Herrick, who shows how 
birds may be slyly shot by the camera 
without in any way injurying the bird. 
Three articles df much variety by 
officers of the United States govern- 
ment deal in a popular way with topics 
of solid interest. Gen. Greely writes 
of "The Signal Corps in War Time," 
which may be called a piece of secret 
history; Hon. W. R. Merriam. director 
of the last census, of "The Census of 
Foreign Countries," and Dr. L. O. 
Howard, entomologist of the Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, gives the first full 
account of the recent experiments 
which determined the relation between 
yellow fever and the mosquito, experi- 
ments involving much personal sacri- 
fice on the part of those concerned. 



UNION LOCK POULTRY FENCING 

HAS BEEN FULLY 

TESTED AND FOUND 

SUPERIOR TO ALL 

OTHERS. 

Will fit uneven 
ground without" 
cutting. Every part 
can be stretched 
perfectly. Made of 
high grade galvanized steel wire. All horizontal 
lines are cables, making it stronger. Has fine mesh 
at the bottom for small chicks. We also make 
extra heavy for gardens, lawns, etc. The largest 
poultry farms are using this fence — over 700 rods 
by Lakewood (N. J.) Farm Co. We pay freight 
and satisfy every one or no sale. Can ship from 
N. Y., Chicago, or San Francisco. Write for 
f reejcatalog of Farm, Law n and Poultry Fencing. 
CASE BROS., Box 340, Colchester, Conn. 














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[,500 FEET OF WBRE 

from the Page Fence that stopped the big runaway 
racing auto at the Zanesville, O., fair, was cut up 
into short pieces and carried away as souvenirs by 
the people who saw the tragic accident in which so 
many were killed or injured. 
PAGE WOVEN WIUK PENCE CO., Adrian, Mich. 



Genuine Spiral Spring Wire 

FENCES AND GATES 

If your dealer does not have our 
goods in stock you can buy direct 
at Manufacturers' Price. Write 
for Catalogue and secure agency. 

INTERNATIONAL FENCE AND F. CO. 
Columbus, Ohio. 




itjniR&ffl&Mrti 



LAWN FENCE 

Many designs. Cheap as 
wood. 32 page Catalogue 
free. Special Prices to Ceme- 
teries and Churches. Address 
COILED SPRING FENCE «0. 
Box Q Winchester, Ind. 



SENT ON TRIAL 

A Fence Machine that will make over 100 
Styles of Fence and from B0 to 70 rods a day 

AT ACTUAL COST OF WIRE 

Horse-high, Bull-strong, Pig and Chicken-tight* 
Wire at Wholesale Prices. Catalogue Free. 

Kitselman Bros* Box 165 Muncie, Ind. 





FENCE! 



STROHGESl 
MADE. Bali 

strong. Chicken, 
tight. Sold to the Farmer at Wholesale 
Price*, folly Warranted. Catalog Free. 

COILED SPUING FENCE CO., 
Bam iS Winchester, Indiana, U. 8. A. 




BTONEMAN, with the FOLDING SAWING MACHINE. Itsaws 
down trees. Folds like a pocketknife. Saws any kind oftimber on 
ar.y kind of ground. One man can saw MORE timber with it than 
2 men i n any other way , and do i t EASIER. 239.000 i n use. Send 
for FREE illustrated catalog, showing latest IMPROVEMENTS 
and testimonials from thousands. First order secures agency. Address 

FOLDING SAWING MACHINE CO., 

6S-S;-o» No. Jefferson St., CHICAGO. ILL, 



A Steel Stanchion J^SS 

tying cattle. Lighter, stronger, neater. Swings on chains. 
Not in the way when lying down. Agents wanted Write tor Ape- 
cial terms and prices. J as . Boyle, Mfr.,Sa!em 



■ spe- 

,0. 



Mention the Southern Planter when 
corresponding with advertisers. 



1903.] 



THE SOUTHEHN PLANTER. 



653 



ELMWOOD NURSERIES, 

ASPARAGUS 

100,000 2-yr. old Asparagus roots, 
5 varieties. A special rate of $3.50 
per lOi'O for 2 mos. for BAKR'S, 
PALMETTO, CONOVER. 

APPLES 

A large general assortment, in- 
cluding WINESAPS and YORK 
IMPERIALS. 

Splendid Assortment 

of Ornamental, Shade 

and Fruit Trees. 



from B. P. Rocks, Light 
Brahmas, Brown Leg- 
horns at $1.00 per 13. 



WRITE FOR OUR CATALOGUE. 



J.B 



..RELIABLE SEEDS.. 

For Fall Sowing. 

Crimson Clover, Vetches, Rape, 
Rye, Barley, Seed Oats, White 
Pearl and other Onion Sets, Cab- 
bage, Lettuce, Radish and Turnip 
Seed and all varieties of Grain, 
Grass and Garden Seeds. 
Write us for prices. 

DIGQS & BEADLES, Seedsmen, 

1711 E. Franklin St., Richmond, Va. 

EMPORIA NURSERIES 

Offer a line of Nursery Stock, mostly 
APPLE TREES, 4 to 5 feet, and 
PEACH TREES, 3 to 4 feet, at reduced 
prices to clear land. All Stock healthy 
and free from Crown Gall, Aphis, San 
Jose Scale, or any other disease, and 
WILL BE FUMIGATED BEFORE 
shipped. 

Send for reduced price list. Good 
No. 1 Agents for 1904 wanted. 
C. S. LINDLEY, Prop., Emporia, Va. 

Also agents for Universal and Gard- 
ner's Dust Sprayers; far ahead of any 
other and cost of power is very small. 
Send for price and description. 

J& ROOFING TIN j& 

Iron and paper roofing, nails, builder's hard- 
ware, sash, doors, etc., carriage and wagon 
goods, paints and oils, cook and heating stoves, 
guns, pistols, rifles, "Robin Hood" loaded shells. 
Do you use any of the above? Write us. 

HARRIS HARDWARE CO., S&ST.: 



An account of Alonzo Clark Robinson 
of "The Destruction of PhilaV' sets 
forth the damage apparently done to 
this great historical ruin by the con- 
struction of the great Nile dam; there 
is an entertaining article on "The New 
Woman in Turkey," by Anna Bowman 
Dodd. and a budget of reaa-aloudable 
"Anecdotes of Leschetizky," by his 
sister-in-law, the Comtesse Angele Po- 
tocka. The fiction includes "The Old 
Dragon," a "Pa Gladden" story by Eliz- 
abeth Cherry Waltz; "The Object Les- 
son," by Edith Elmer Wood; "The Way 
of the Engineers," a story of the upper 
Mississippi, by Willis Gibson; "Sandy 
McKiver, Hero," by Herbert D. Ward, 
and the conclusion of "The Yellow 
Van," Richard Whiteing's novel of Eng- 
lish life. In the editorial department 
are plain-spoken words concerning the 
increase of lynching and other unfortu- 
nate national tendencies, and a discus- 
sion of "The Cant About 'Hard Work'." 



The novel in Lippincott's October 
number comes from Frederic Reddale's 
popular pen. Its title is "An Heir to 
Millions," and it deals with a fortune 
made in the California gold fields and 
inherited by a New York clerk with 
simple tastes. He begins in no very 
novel way to spend the money, but 
when he learns that it is his through 
trickery he shows his mettle by refus- 
ing to buy the silence of a rascal and 
stands ready to take the consequences. 
In his prosperity he has a little neg- 
lected his sweetheart of humbler days, 
but things come around her way in the 
end. "The Return," by Beulah Marie 
Dix, is a touching and powerful epi- 
sode, with a thrilling psychological 
thread. From an author who has done 
excellent, work in many magazines, 
this is unquestionably the best thing 
she has produced. Phoebe Lyle con- 
tributes "The Adventuress of Amaryl- 
lis," a sweet romance of picturesque 
Charleston, where a straight-laced little 
New England school teacher goes to 
recuperate after sickness and has the 
time of her life. The name "George 
Jones" is so palpably ungenuine that 
the reader feers more than a passing 
wonder as to the real author of the 
human little sketch called "The Day's 
Disdain." A racing story by Alfred 
Stoddart is called "The Lightweight 
Saddle Class," and contains love-inter- 
est as well as that of sport. Algernon 
Boyesen's original treatment of the 
divorce theme in his story, "The Prison 
House," arrests attention. A wife, 
having become fascinated by the leader 
of "new ethics," desires to leave her 
husband. His arguments prove vain, 
and he is inspired to suggest a test of 
the genuineness of the "leader's" views 
on platonic friendship. This worKs 
to perfection. But the tale must be 
read to be appreciated. With the ser- 
vant question so much in evidence 
everywhere Karl Edwin Harriman's 
humorous sketch on the subject must 
make many friends. It is called "The 
Cook at Conley's." When Agnes Rep- 
plier talks on paper people are eager 
listeners. Her long residence abroad 



Peach and Apple Trees, 

BONAVISTA NURSERIES, Greenwood, Va. 

We offer a fine lot of choice trees for 
Fall and Spring planting 

Our apple trees are the best — Wine Sap, 
Mammoth Black Twig, York Imperial 
and Albemarle Pippin, all perfect and 
well grown trees. 

Our peach trees are the standard sorts, 
Stump, Elberta, Bilyeu's (Comet,) Won- 
derful. Champion, Globe, Picquet's Late, 
Albright's Winter, Crawford E. &L.,etc. 

We send out none but good trees and 
have never had a complaint made by any 
purchaser of our stock. Order soon, es- 
pecially Peach«-s, as good trees will be 
very scarce this season. 

CHAS. F HACKETT, Manager. 



lOOO Per Cent. 
' Profit in.. 
WealtK and HealtK 

T"~ In fresh, luscious, home grown __^ 

ITRA WBERRI ES 

allowed to ripen thoroughly on the vines. 
We sell the plants packed to carry fresh 
anywhere in the United States. Our 120 
page manual (free to buyers) makes grow- 
ing for pleasure or profit plain to all. 
Plant now. Also save half on 

FRUIT TREES 

by buying direct from us, saving agents' 
profits. Write for free Catalogue, men- 
tioning this paper. 

CONTINENTAL PLANT CO. 

KITTRELL, N. C. 



TREES! TREES!! 

I offer a fine lot of whole root trees. 

Apples, Pears, Peaches, 
Cherries, Plums, Grape 
Vines. Raspberries, Etc. 

Save agent's commission by send- 
ing your orders to the nursery. 
CATALOGUE FREE. 
All Stock Inspected and Fumigated. 

WERTZ'S NURSERY, Salem. Va. 
Strawberry Plants, 

All grown in fresh rich ground, healthy, 
well-rooted plants that will please you; 
over 30 kinds to offer Raspberry plants 
and Peach trees also; see us before you 
buy. Our stock has been thoroughly in- 
spected and found free from any disease. 
Address JOHN LIGHTFOOT, 

Sherman Heights Tenn. 

T TOUR IDEAS 

J.000 offered for one in* 

vention; $8,500 for another. 

Book "How to Obtain a Patent" 

nd "What to Invent "sent free. Send 

rough sketch for free report as to 

patentability. We advertise your 

patenjt for sale at our expense. 

CHANDLEE & CHANDLEE, Patent Attorneys 

976 F Street, Washington, D. G 




654 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[October 



FINE FARM FOR SALE. 

I offer for sale a fine farm located 
twelve miles from Fredericksburg, Va., 
on the R., F. & P. R. R., and about one 
mile from the station. Contains 250 
acres; suitable for cattle raising, corn, 
wheat and tobacco. About 100 acres 
cultivated. Has a 10 room dwelling, 
large barn, two floors, small barn, cat- 
tle shed, tenant house, and other out- 
buildings. Farm well watered and en- 
closed with wire fencing. 100 acres in 
timber. Healthy location, magnificent 
view of surrounding country. Price, 
$5,000, on easy terms. Address 

JOHN P. SIMONTON, 
1124 S St., N. W., Washington, D. C. 

URIUIEQ AND THE PLACE TO 

nUIYIto FIND THEM. . . 

No place in the United States can a 
man do so well atfarming, for tt e money 
invested, as in Virginia. Lands are 
cheap; climate good, and the best of 
markets close at hand. It is the State 
of all others, for a comfortable all the 
year round home. The James River 
Valley Colonization and Improvement 
Company offer superior advantages to 
land purchasers. For free 36 page land 
pamphlet, address 

W. A. PARSONS, Vinita, Va. 

C &0 Main St. Depot Richmond, Va. 

TO HOMESEEKERS. 

"THE BUSINESS OF FARMING 
IN VIRGINIA." 

Is the title of a new pamphlet issued by the 
Norfolk and Western Railway Company. We 
will gladly mail you a copy. 
W. B. BEVILL, PAUL SCHERER, Agt, 
G. P. A., Lands and Immigration, 
Roanoke, Va. 

BEARING APPLE ORCHARD in "Piedmont" Va. 

Rich black loam, typical "pippin" land. Suitable 
Albemarle pippins, and other highest grade ap- 
ples 1.0G0 trees planted nine years: good crop 
this season. Coves side high mountain ; but re- 
markably smooth ; admirably adapted orchard 
work, and spraying. Wagons run all over. Large 
commercial orchards adjoin. Two bold mount- 
ain Btreams Four miles from depot; good road. 
Drive city two hours. Picturesque; good socially. 
4 room house; $2,500; half cash. Very desirable. 

For details, address 
SOUTHERN FARM AGENCY, Lynchburg, Va. 

WE HAVE A LARGE LIST OP 

FRUIT, POULTRY and TRUCK FARMS 

Ten, Fifty and One Hundred Acres each, with 

good buildings, close to steam and trolley 

lines, easy access to the city. Also 

Q RAIN AND STOCK PAUMS 

From 100 to 1,000 acres at low prices all the 

way from $5 to $50 per acre. Write for 

Catalogue. 

THE VIRGINIA LAND AGENCY, Richmond, Va. 

J. R. HOCKADAY, Manager. 

2 (lOOD DAIRY FAR/IS, 

Vicinity of Washington FOR SALE. 

Electric railway through one and near 
the other. For particulars, address 
L. E. WALT, 745 7th St., S E , 

Washington, D. C. 



moves her to write about "The Tour- 
ist" in her notably keen and witty 
manner. She covers all nationalities 
in her comparisons and has evidently 
given much thought to her subject. 
The series of literary talks by George 
Moore, begun in the SepcemDer num- 
ber and entitled "Avowals," is con- 
tinued this month. In speaking of 
Balzac, he says: "There is more vi- 
tality in a house described bv Balzac 
than there is in many an Englisn 
novel." 



The October St. Nicholas really 
should be issued on a Saturday morn- 
ing and not in the middle of the week, 
for the girl or boy who once taKes It 
up will find it hard to lay aside the 
tempting magazine till every page is 
read. There is a frontispiece that is 
both pretty and clever, "A Musical 
Genius — the Pride of the Family." The 
leading story is just as good for girls 
as for boys, and is well worth reading 
aloud in the family. "That Deer," an 
exciting California story by Marian 
Warner Wildman. "Dandy Dash and 
How He Gave the Alarm," is the true 
story of a dog by Grace Weld Soper; 
and "Boxer and the Goslings" is an- 
other good dog tale. "Poh-Hlaik the 
Cave Boy," told by Chas. F. Lummis, 
is the thrilling story of a little New- 
Mexican hero of five hundred years 
ago. In this number, too, Howard 
Pyle writes farewell to readers of "The 
Story of King Arthur and His 
Knights," which has been the strong 
fiction attraction of St. Nicholas the 
past year. "If so be," runs Mr. Pyle's 
farewell, "they make you think it is 
worth while to live a brave and true 
and virtuous life, doing good to those 
about you, and denying yourselves all 
those desires which would be ill for 
others and for yourselves for to yield 
to, then that which I have written hath 
not been written amis." But the Oc- 
tober St. Nicholas has plenty of read- 
ing more substantial and equally enter- 
taining. Rosalind Richards tells about 
"The Great Clock of Wells," nearly the 
oldest and certainly one of the most 
interesting clocks in existence. Of in- 
terest to grown-ups as well as to 
younger readers is Joseph Henry 
Adams' account, illustrated by the au- 
thor, of "A Trip Through the New 
York Assay Office." W. T. Hornaday 
tells his remembrance of Chico. the 
largest chimpanzee ever seen on this 
side of the Atlantic: and the pictures 
are interesting, though necessarily 
ugly. "Counting," some of the sim- 
plest helps to correct counting, the 
most striking applications of machin- 
ery to the purpose, is the topic dis- 
cussed by C. K. Wead. Annie . Kuip- 
er's interesting account of "Queen 
Wilhelmina's Lessons" is written from 
particulars obtained by the author di- 
rectly from one of the queen's former 
teachers. 



IF Y0JJJ1SH TO SELL 

VIRGINIA TaNDS 

Communicate with us. Write for fre« 
"Virginia Real Estate Journal," con- 
taining many splendid bargains. 
R. B. CHAFFIN & CO., Inc , 

No. 1 N 10th St., Richmond, Va 

I Can Sell 
Your Farm 

or other real estate, no matter where It Is or what It 
is worth. Send description, state price, and learn my 
wonderfully successful plan. W. M. OSTRANDER, 

376 North American Building, Philadelphia 

CI MT FAD MO in the great fruit grain and 
rlllt rAnlflO slock section of VIRGINIA. 
Beit climate and water in the U. S. Near great 
markets, with best educational advantages. 
For further information, address 

ALBEMARLE IMMIGRATION CO., 
Sam'l B. Woods. Pres Charlottesville, Va. 

VIRGINIA FARMS 

$3 PER ACRE AND UPWARDS. 

EASY PAYMENTS. CATALOGUE FREE. 

GEO. E. CRAWFORD & CO., Richmond, Va. 

Established 1875. 

For Sale or Exchange-^v 

FOR FARM OR TIMBER LAND, resi- 
dence and business property in City of 
Newport News. H. D COLEMAN, 
Newport News, Va. 

"In the Green Fields of Virginia/' 

Homes for all; Health for all; Happiness and 
Independence for all. All sizes of Farms at 
corresponding prices, but all reasonable. 

MACON & CO., Ora nge, Va. 

VIRGINIA FARMS 

All prices and sizes. Free list on application. 
WM B. PIZZINI CO .. Richmond. Va. 

SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA 

BLUE GRASS FARMS and MINERAL LANDS. 

Send for Free Real Estate Bulletin. 
Southwestern Va. Land Agency, Wytheville, Va. 



Go South. 



For full par- 
ticulars write 
A. JEFFERS, 
Norfolk, Va. 



A neat Binder for your back num- 
bers can be had for 25 cents. Address 
our Business Office. 



WANTED-FOR SMALL FARM IN 
Chesterfield County, an industrious 
man who understands farming, ad- 
dress A. G. W., P. O. Box 947, Rich- 
mond, Va. ^^^^^ 

MARK YOUR STOCK. 

USE THE 

KENTUCKY ALUMINUM EAR LABEL 

Made by F. H. Jackson & Co., Winchester, Ky 
Write to them for free samples. 



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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



655 



FARMS FOR SALE! 

Farm No. 2. 
Contains 265 acres; 215 under culti- 
vation; 50 acres original oak and 
hickory. Fronts on the pike running 
from Winchester to Alexandria; five 
miles from railroad; one-half mile 
from proposed electric railroad. Excel- 
lent six-room dwelling house, with 
broad halls, standing in a large, nicely- 
shaded blue-grass lawn; all necessary 
outbuildings; land chocolate clay, with 
stiff clay subsoil; all level, but rolling 
enough to drain well; fine for wheat 
and grass; well watered. Owner con- 
templates making improvements. But 
if sold before, price $25 per acre, on 
easy terms. 

No: 4. 

Contains 100 acres, all under cultiva- 
tion, and in good condition. Good 
frame dwelling and all necessary out- 
buildings in good condition. Situated 
on the pike, with market wagons pass- 
ing every day, paying Washington city 
prices for produce. Splendidly situated 
for fruit, poultry, dairy and trucking. 
Price now, $2,000, on easy terms. 

No. 10. 

This farm contains 100 acres — 40 
acres in white oak, chestnut and pine; 
60 acres in a high state of cultivation. 
In lots of from 8 to 12 acres in a 
field; well fenced. Especially adapted 
to fruit and wheat and clover. Has a 
nice 8-room house, two porches, new 
barn, double grainary, wagon drive 
and cow sheds. A good 4-room 
tenant house. Situated 2V 2 miles from 
station on main line of Southern rail- 
road; 5 miles from county seat of 
Fairfax county. Price, $20 per acre. 
No. 11. 

Contains 315 acres in high state of 
improvement. Large frame dwelling, 
10 rooms, 2 large cattle barns, and all 
necessary farm buildings in good re- 
pair. Land watered by spring branches. 
Situated in aristocratic neighborhood. 
Convenient to depot and to Washington 
market. Price, $50 per acre. 
No. 15. 

An excellent dairy farm of 144 acres 
situated in upper Fairfax county, 3 
miles from railroad station; about 100 
acres under cultivation, balance in 
white oak and hickory timber. This is 
a model, up-to-date dairy farm, with 
all necessary appliances and machinery 
for a first class dairy. The owner is 
now shipping about $10 worth of milk 
and cream per day. Write for descrip- 
tion and price. 

W. E. MILLER, 
. Herndon, Va. 



REPORTS. 

U. S. Department of Agriculture, Wash- 
ington, D. C. Farmers Bulletin 
No. 178. Insects Injurious in 
Cranberry Culture. 

Illinois Experiment Station, Urbana, 
111. Bulletin 87. The Structure 
of the Corn Kernel and the Com- 
position of its Different Parts. 
Bulletin 88. Soil Treatment for 
Wheat in Rotations, with Special 
Reference to Southern Illinois 
Soils. 

Iowa Experiment Station, Ames, Iowa. 
Bulletin G9. The Chicken Mite. 
Bulletin 70. Some Weeds of Iowa. 
Bulletin 71. The Keeping Quality 
of Butter. 

Hatch Experiment Station, Amherst, 
Mass. Bulletin 91. Injuries to 
Shade Trees from Electricity. 

Nebraska Experiment Station, Lincoln, 
Neb. Experiments in the Culture 
of the Sugar Beet. 

Ohio Experiment Station, Wooster, O. 
The Maintenance of Fertility. 

Rhode Island Experiment Station, 
Kingston, R. I. Bulletin 93. Com- 
mercial Fertilizers. 

Virginia Weather Bureau, Richmond, 
Va. Report for August, 1903. 

West Virginia Experiment Station, 
Morgantown. W. Va. Bulletin 86. 
Cranberries in West Virginia. 
Bulletin 87. Greenhouses. 

Imperial Department of Agriculture, 
West Indies Agricultural News, 
News, August 15th and 29th, 1903. 



CATALOGUES. 

Peter Henderson & Co., 35 and 37 
Cortlandt street, New York Autumn 
Catalogue. 

Peter Henderson & Co., 35 and 37 
Cortlandt street, New York. Agri- 
cultural Seeds for Fall Sowing. 

Florida Nut Nurseries. J. T. Jones 
& Son, Proprs., Monticello, Fla. 

John Lightfoot, Sherman Heights, 
Tenn., Catalogue of Strawberry and 
Raspberry Plants, etc. 

LIVE WILD GAME WANTED. 
Dr. Cecil French is advertising in an- 
other column for all kinds of live wild 
game. He wants particularly wild 
turkeys, quail, pheasants, grey squir- 
rels, bear cubs, deer, raccoons, foxes 
and the like. As the open game season 
is now upon us, our readers should be 
on the look out for some of the above, 
as Dr. French is ready to turn it into 
the coin of the realm for them. 



SALES AT BACON HALL. 

Messrs. E. M. Gillet & Son write us 
as follows: "We take pleasure in re- 
porting the following recent sales: 
Herefords, Mr. D. L. Flory, of Virginia, 
picked "Goodenough," a very good son 
of "Gold Standard," out of "Lovely." 

Berkshires: Mr. S. H. Anderson, of 
Virginia, writes: "I am very much 
pleased with the 3 sows and 1 boar I 
got from you." Mr. W. P. Husband, 
of Maryland, bought 1 bred sow and 
gave me 2 orders. R. T. Owen, of 
Pennsylvania, got 1 boar pig. Satis- 
faction or no pay is the motto of "Ba- 
con Hall." 



If your lamp- 
chimneys break, 
say Macbeth to 
your grocer — 
loud! 

He knows. 

You need to know how to manage youi 
lamps to have comfort with them at small cost 
Better read my Index ; I send it free. 

Macbeth, Pittsburgh. 

FREE SAMPLE 

Of "THE STORY OP MY IIFE ANI> 
WORK," By Booker T. Washington. 

Bend us your name and 
address. We want yon 
to have a copy of this 
autobiography of the 
greatest living Negro 
for the purpose of In- 
troducing it In your 
community. It la a 
remarkable seller, big 
profit; agents are mak- 
ing from $4 to $ 1 per 
day. Will you Intro- 
duce It by selling or 
getting us an agent? 
If bo, send at once for 
a sample. 
J. I.. NICHOLS & CO., 
' Atlanta, Ga. 

Selling Price SI. 00. «15 Austell building. 

DO YOU OWN STOCK? 

If so, do you know how to 
care for it when sick? Our 
Stock Book tells you all about 
animals and their diseases. 
Write for terms. Agents want- 
ed everywhere. Most liberal 
terms. Outfit free. 

B. M. ANDERSON & CO., 
Box 533. - Richmond, Va. 

Consulting Entomologist 
3f3 A. Arsene Qirault, fc jg3 




- iCARE ALLEGHANY ORCHARD CO., 



iSHfZZj. Paw Paw, W.iVa. j«» ~ 

Answering In detail, accompaning, where 
possible with specimens and explanatory notes; 
life-history a specialty; charges low. Not a 
bureau of information. Write at once and 

worry me. -s* _.• ■£. — _ . ■. j 



MA OCUIIMP OUR TISSUE REPAIRS FABRICS 
HU OLfllllU of all kinds; package. 10c. with 
Instructions. ZONEE flFO. CO., 2010 Cleve- 
land, Ave., Phila. 



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"October 



"Glen Rock' 

All Wool 

Clothing 

Direct from Mill. 

Men's, Boys' and Children's Clothing at a saving' 
of 50 per cent. We have the largest mill in the 
country selling clothing direct from the mill to the 
wearer and making the woolens from the raw wool 
under the same roof. Our goods are handsomely 
made of all wool and trimmed. The cloth is 
made from flue selected wools. Every garment 
hears our label and is guaranteed for one year. If 
not wearing satisfactorily, may he returned and 
another will he sent free of all expense. 

Our made-to- measure men's suits for $7.50 or $10.00 
would cost $18.00 to $25 at your tailor's. Handsome 
line of Fall and Winter Overcoats at an equal saving. 

Hand-shrunk Collars, 
Hand-made Button Holes, 
Padded Shoulder's. 

We sell either tailor-made or ready-made clothing. 
Men's all wool and worsted trouser's $2., $2. 50 and 
$3; handsomely made and trimmed. We have the 
cheapest, strongest and best all wool hoys' clothing. 
Also cloth by the yard or piece, and ladies' suitings 
and skirtings. Write to-day for samples, etc. 

CLEN ROCK WOOLEN MILLS, 
Somerville, N. J. 



HOW.. 



MONEY 
GROWS 



It is what you save and what your mon- 
ey earns, not what you earn, that makes 
wealth. Saving is easy, but knowing how, 
when and where to safely invest your 
earnings and 

GET LARGE PROFITS 

From Small Investments 

is the key to wealth. After all, money 
making is like horticulture — a matter of 
growth — Plant the seed at the nroper time 
in good soil, and your nan est is certain. 
He who makes two stalks of corn to grow 
where but one grew before, increases his 
income by doubling his harvest. So a few 
dollars invested at the right time in a 
good, d!vidend=paying enterprise will 
bear fruit a hundred fold. 

Send for Free Booklet, "Guide for In- 
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It may save you a loss or 

MAKE YOUR FORTUNE 



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Agents Wanted in every city and town. 



PARI WCT PHOTOS FREE. Write for combina- 
UnDlliL I tion offer of one dozen copied from 
any picture. CRAMER NOVELTY CO., Grenlocb, N. J. 



A neat Binder for your back num- 
bers can be bad for 25 cents. Addreu 
our Business Office. 



SWEET POTATOES. 

A pamphlet, "Cultivation and Storage 
of Sweet Potatoes," gives, as is be- 
lieved, a more practical plan for keeping 
potatoes tban any other that has here- 
tofore been placed before the people. 
Important and valuable information 
that is not contained in any other 
known publication is here given. Po- 
tatoes can thus easily be kept in good 
condition 12 months or longer. The 
pamphlet is worth, even to life-long po 
tato growers, much more than the 
price asked. 

A. F. Funderburg, Dudley, S. C, in 
speaking of this pamphlet, says: "I 
would not take ten times its cost for 
it." 

The pamphlet has been introduced 
into 19 States and 3 Territories. The 
plans are simple and easily understood. 
They can be made available for old 
style potato houses, or for new ones, 
specially built, preferably the latter. 
Order now. Do not delay. 

Price, 50 cents, postpaid. Address 
BRYAN TYSON, 
Carthage, N. C. 

I have a few copies of a formula for 
excluding moth from beehives that 
will be sent, as long as they last, with- 
out charge, to those who request it. 

B. T. 



LEHMAN HEATER. 
One of the most striking advertise- 
ments in this issue is that of Messrs. 
Lehman Bros., setting forth the merits 
of their carriage and wagon heater. 




The accompanying illustration will 
give you an excellent idea of this use- 
ful device. It is simple, neat, durable 
and very handy. Its makers ciaim 
that it will make a vehicle absolutely 
comfortable in the coldest weather; 
that it gives continuous heat for 15 
hours at a cost of one-half cent per 
hour; that danger from fire is impos- 
sible; that it is unbreakable and will 
last a lifetime. The fact that 200 000 
are now in use would seem to confirm 
the makers' claim. Refer to the ad. 
and send for catalogue. 



THE WARRINER STANCHION. 

This patent chain hanging cattle 
stanchion is advertised in this issue 
by Mr. W. B. Crumb, of Forestville, 
Conn. From glancing through his 
catalogue we find that numbers of 
prominent dairymen and Agricultural 
Stations as well, sing its praises. Bet- 
ter send for the booklet, if interested, 
or send for it and you will probably 
get interested. 



Full Sacks 

of plump, rich grain are obtained 
by the use of a fertilizer contain- 
ing not less than 6% actual 

Potash 



For Wheat, Rye, Oats, and 
all other grains, Potash is most 
essential. 

Write for our books, they 
are free to farmers. 

German 
Kali Works, 
Q3 Nassau St., 
New York 

Atlanta 0a. /££ V ."*S}?*" """^ 
Branch : 

22^ So. 

Broad 

Street, 

Ionian 

Bldg. 



SAN JOSE SCALE ^r 1 ^ 

OHH JUOl ""NIL trolled by using 

GOOD'S CAUSTIC POTASH 

"WHALE OIL SOAP. No. 3. 

It also prevents Curl Leaf. Endorsed by en- 
tomologists. This soap is a fertilizer as well as 
insecticide 50 lb. kegs, $2.50; 100 lb. kegs. $4 50. 
Half barrels, 270 lbs., at 3>£e. per lb.; barrels, 
425 lbs., at 3J^c. Large quantities, special rates. 
Send for circular. 

JAMES GOOD, 
939 — 41 N. Front St., Philadelphia, pa. 



Mention the Southern Planter In 
writing. 



FRAZER 



Axte Grease 



Best in 
the world. 

Its wearing qualities are unsurpassed, ac- 
tually outlasting 3 bxs. any other brand, 
Not affected by heat. 4®*Get the Genuine. 
FOR SALE BY ALL DEALERS. 



"Feeds and Feeding" 

Prof. Henry's Great Book for 
Farmers and Stockmen. 

Delivered anywhere for - - $2.00 
With the SOUTHERN PLANTER, .252 



Ml* 

GREENSBORO, N.C. 

for the treatment of THE LIQUOR, OPIUM, MORPHINE «nd 
ither Drug Addictions. The Tobbacco Habit, Nerve Exhaustion 




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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



657 



TOCK LICK IT 
TOCK^LIKJE IT 



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BLACKMAN'S 
MEDICATED 

SALT BRICK 

The only guaranteed Tonic, Blood Faul- 
tier, Kidney and Liver Regulator and 
alder of Digestion tot all stock . A 
sure hit on worms. Ticks cannot live. 
No dosing, no drenching, and no -waste 
of feed. Your horse his own doctor. 
Endorsed by thousands. 6pecial 
Offer of four bricks sent prepaid to 
any address on receipt of one dollar. 
Money refunded If not satisfied. For 
full descriptive circulars, testimonials, 
etc.' address 

Blackmao Stock Remedy Ca. 

930 Highland Park, Chattanooga, Tenn. 



150 Jacks, Jennets and Mules. 

Best assortment I ever owned. Can 
suit you exactly. Write for descrip- 
tion and prices. Also 
will sell 2 Pereheron 
Stallions at close fig- 
ures. 

BAKER'S JACK FARM. 
Lawrence. Ind. 




Knight & Jetton, 

Breeders of and Denlersin 

Jacks, Jennets, Stallions. 

Durham and Hereford 

YEARLINGS. 

Send stamp for Catalogue. 

Murfreesboro, Tenn. 




J3 



Jacks, Jennets and Stallions 

FOR SALE. Fink Jacks a 
Specialty. Wh> n writing 
state exactly what you want 
or come and see our stock. 

W. E. KNIGHT & CO., 
Routes. Nashville, Tenn. 



A nice, smooth BLACK JACK for sale 
foaled in 1900; also pure bred Fox Hound 
Pups of the celebrated Maupin & Walker 
strain, apply to 
SNOW HILL KENNELS, Woolsey, Va 

Sale op Exchange 

2 BEAUTIFUL JACKS, for pure-bred 
Red Polled cattle, good draft or coach 
stalliops. W. S . MOTT, Dixondale, Va. 

WANTED! 

ALL KINDS OF 

LIVE Wl _D BIROS AND ANIMAL: 

Particularly Deer, Wild Turkeys, WhiU 
Squirrels. Ducks, Swans, Bob White Quail, 
Grey Squirrels, Etc. 

CECIL FRENCH, 

718 Twelfth St. N. W., Washington 



Thirty-six years of continuous suc- 
cess. Just think what that means. 
Thirty-six long years in business, each 
year more successful than the previous 
one, with never a backward movement, 
always growing larger, ever increasing 
in popular favor. How many that 
were doing business 36 years age are 
even in existence to-day? Very, very 
few. In this age of development and 
fierce competition, a concern must do 
business right, treats its customers 
right, and sell what is right, to even 
hold its own, much less advance. To 
do otherwise means that the concern 
of to-day is likely to be out of the 
running to-morrow. The grave-yard 
of business failures is full to overflow- 
ing. But thirty-six years of contin- 
uous success and still growing. Think 
of it! How has it been accomplished? 
In just one way. By selling absolutely 
pure whiskey, direct from our own 
distillery to the consumer, saving bim 
the enormous profits of the dealers, 
and carrying out to the letter every 
statement or offer we make, thereby 
creating a confidence with our over a 
quarter of a million satisfied customers 
that cannot be broken. Read our offer 
elsewhere in this paper. The Hayner 
Distilling Company. 



IMPORTED "BRITISHER." 
We are certainly very much obliged 
to Messrs. Giltner Bros., proprietors of 
the Kentucky Herefords, for a hand- 
some lithograph of their splendid herd 
bull, Britisher, 145096. It immediately 
found its way to our walls. This splen- 
did bull is certainly entitled to be 
called the "Record Breaking Champ- 
ion," as he was champion over all beef 
breeds in England, and also won tb.fi 
sweepstakes championship in Here- 
fords at the International Show at 
Chicago in 1902. Look up this firm's 
ad. and send for a neat little catalogue. 



OUR NATIONAL SHAME. 
It cannot be denied that of late the 
spberest-minded men among us have 
been filled with a solicitude amounting 
to anxiety in noting the momentum of 
certain dangerous tendencies in Amer- 
ican life. The trend toward mob law 
in various sections of the country; the 
increased violence of the aggressions 
upon the right of workingmen to labor 
unmolested; the revelations of public 
and private corruption, and especially 
of the buying and selling of legislation 
and franchises; the growth of the 
gambling mania among women as well 
as men; the vulgar rush for social 
prominence; the widespread system of 
"graft" and blackmail which has grown 
up in all classes in the haste to be 
rich — these familiar phenomena are 
crowding upon our attention, straining 
our optimism and shaming our na- 
tional pride at the very time when we 
are called upon to exult in the com- 
mercial greatness of the country and 
its peculiar qualifications for redeem- 
ing the benighted regions of the world. 
— From an Editorial in the October 
entury. 



Horse Owners! Use 

GOMBAULT'S 

Caustic 




Balsam 



»S«w*'»- 



k Safa Speedy and Positive Corf 
The Safest, Bent BLISTER ever used. Takes 
the place of all liniments for mild or severe action. 
Removes Bunches or Blemishes from Honei 
and Cattle. SUPERSEDES ALL CAUTERY 
OR FIRING* Impossible to produce scar or blemish* 
Every bottle sold is warranted to give satisfaction 
Price $1.50 per bottle. Sold by druggists, of 
lent by express, charges paid, with full directions 
for its use. Send for descriptive circulars. 
fHB IiAWBBNCB-WIIJilAMS CO.. Cleveland Qt 



HORSE 

AND 

CATTLE 
POWDER 



A medicine which makes 
sick animals well, the diseased 
whole, the weak strong and the 
thin fat. It will restore lost Appetite, 
expel Worms and cure Chronic Cough, 
Heaves, Influenza, Distemper, Hide- 
bound, Indigestion, Constipation, Flat- 
iulency and all Stomach and Bowel 
trouble. ^^. 

The finest of all animal JBBBjfc, 
vitalizers and tonics and 
the only one which 
increases the coeffi- 
cient of digestibil- 
ity of protein. 



DAVID E.F0UTZ 

BALTJMOfiE.MD. 



Gtt the Genuine or 
send (out. Pamphlet | 
No. • Free. 



I2PKSS. * CI 
CHABOCS PAID. 



DEATH TO HEAVES 

tin a ran teed 




NEWTON'S Heave, Cough, Di*. 

temper and Indigestion Care. 

A veterinary specific for wind, 

^? tl throat and stomach troubles. 

'•" Strong recommends. $1.00 per 

can. Dealers. Mail or Ex. paid. 

Newton Horse Remedy Co., 

Toledo, Ohio. 



PERCHERON COLTS. 

I offer 3 pure bred last spring foals 
(2 stallions, 1 filly), sired by Brilliant 
Monarch. Jr. Wt. 1,800 pounds. Also 

PO LAN D CHINA 

Pigs, both sexes, 5 mos. old, sired by 
a son of Chief Tecumseh 2d, and a 
grandson of Chief Perfection 2d. Both 
colts and pigs are choice stock and 
eligible to registry. Write me. 

THOS. R. SMITH, 
Lincoln, Loudoun Co., Va. 

8 HORSE COLTS 

FOR SALE. 3 are 2 years old past; 5 are 1 year 
old past. All are sired by the fine registered 
saddle horses, OLD MAC and GENTRY D As I 
am unprepared to handle them this year, will 
sell any 3 or the 8 at a prime bargain. Corre 
sponrlence or visit solicited. 

I. L. AMBERO, Fletcher, N. C. 
(12 miles below Asheville, Southern R'y.) 

FOR SALE. 

Large English Berkshire Hogs, 
Barred Plymou'h Rock Chickens 

BEN. BOLT, 60747, 430 lbs. as a yearling at 
head of herd. <TTEGGS IN SEASON. 

JOHN P. FOSTER, Nocreek, Ohio Co., Ky. 



058 



THE SOUTHEEN PLANTER 



TOctober 



Little Chicks 

- thrive when fed on our 

BABY CHICK FOOD. 

C A perfect balanced food. Send for free 

sample and our large Illustrated! catalog 

of POULTRY SUPPLIES, 

INCUBATORS. and 

BROODERS. 
FANCIERS' SUPPLYCO., 
317-519 West Broad St.," 
Richmond, Va. 

EVERYTHING FOR THE FANCIER. 



FINE TURKEYS, ^ 



KED FO I REEDEKS.' 



Last year my Mammoth Bronze turkeys were 
very fine, but this year thebest I ever saw. They 
are the S. B. Johnston stock, derived from prize 
winners. SPECIAL RATES to those sending 
money before Nov. 1st., and the most select birds 
to first orders. I also have a few very fine thor- 
oughbred Barred Plymouth Rock cockerels for 
sale. Rates reasonable on all. Write for circulars 

PIRDMONT POULTRY PLACE, 
Miss E. Callie Giles, Prop. • Whittle's Depot, Va. 



BROWN LEGHORNS. 

Young stock for sale in 
Fall. Prices reasonable. 

White Plymouth Rocks. 

R. W. HAW, Jr., - - Centralia, Va. 

pit games: 

Black Devils and Red Horses. 

These cocks won 90 per cent of battles fought 
in 1901 and 1902 and have never lost a battle 
when gameness and cutting qualities could win. 
Choice lot of young and old stock for sale. , 

THOS. W. JARMAN, Yancey Mills,' Va. 



Reduced price 
ou eggs bal. of 
season. Get my 
fine catalog, is 
free for slam p . 
Many breeding 
birds to offer, 1 
can please you 



32 Varieties 
Best Poultry 

in either old or young Btock. 

JNO. E. HEATWOLE, Harrisonburg, Va. 

.... GARNETT'S LAYERS .... 

S. C. Black Minorca's & S. C. White Leghorns 

of the Best Strain's Extant. 
This is the month to order your cock- 
erels have a nice lot for sale, $1.00 each; 
no pullets for sale. 

J. MILTON GARNETT, Mitchell's, Va. 

FIRST CLASS FOWLS 

FOR SALE, CHEAP. 

Barred, Buff and White Plymouth Rocks, 
White Wyandottes, Light Brahmas, Buff and 
Partridge Cochins, Black Hinorcas, Black 
Langrshans, Brown and White Leghorns. 

Now is the time to secure bargains. 
Oakland Poultry Farm, 

C. J. WARINER, Mgr., Ruffin, N. C. 



With this issue the season's adver- 
tising of the familiar Monarch French 
Burr and Attrition Peed Mills starts. 
Old readers remember the advertise- 
ments from past seasons. These mills 
have found their way into the feed 
barns of many who read this paper. 
If there had been any note of dissatis- 
faction we should be sure to know it. 
These Monarch Mills are admirably 
adapted to the feeder's purposes. We 
have no hesitation in recommending 
them unreservedly. But an intending 
buyer need not buy on faith. Note the 
liberal time given to try before con- 
summating the purchase. It shows the 
serene confidence the manufacturers 
have in their product. Catalogue with 
full description can be obtained by 
writing the manufacturers. Sprout, 
Waldron & Co., Box 202, Muncy, Pa. 



DISCONTENT WITH WORK. 
That there is much discontent with 
work among the so-called middle class 
in America is due in large part to the 
pampering of children, to the supply- 
ing of their natural and artificial wants 
and to the sentimental idea that "their 
day of toil will come soon enough." 
In general, work is not a curse, but a 
blessing — a positive means of grace. 
One can hardly begin too early to im- 
press upon children lessons of self- 
help by tasks appropriate to their age 
and forces, and to beget in them scorn 
of idleness and of dependence on oth- 
ers. To do this is to make them happy 
through the self-respect that comes 
with the realization of power, and thus 
to approximate Tennyson's goal of 
man: "Self -reverence, self-knowledge, 
self-control." — From an Editorial in 
the October Century. 



RAISE MORE MULES. 
Baker's Jack Farm, which has long 
been advertising with us, sends us a 
little folder giving 20 reasons why 
farmers should raise more mules. We 
suggest that all interested parties send 
for it. Here are the first four: 

I. They can be raised cheaper than 
any other stock. 

II. Will go into the market sooner 
than horses. 

III. They are marketable any time 
from weaning time (four months old) 
until incapacitated by old age. 

IV. Are less liable to contract 'lie- 
eases than the horse. 



OLDEST CLOCK IN THE WORLD. 

The great clock of Wells Cathedral, 
in Somersetshire, England, is very 
nearly the oldest and certainly one of 
the most interesting of clocks in exist- 
ence. It was built in 1322, by Peter 
Lightfoot. one of the monks of Glas- 
tonbury Abbey, six miles from Wells, 
where it ran for 250 years, until the 
abbey was dissolved by Henry VIII.. 
and its last abbot hanged over his own 
gateway. The clock was then re- 
moved to Wells, where it has been 
running ever since." — From "The 
Great Clock of Wells" in October St. 
Nicholas. 



White Wyandottes, Buff Leg- 
horns, Bronze Turkeys. 

I can supply a few trios of White 
Wyandotte Cockerels and Pullets. Im- 
mediate delivery. Fine layers. 

Buff Leghorn Cockerels of extra fine 
laying strain ready for delivery in No- 
vember. 

Bronze Turkeys in pairs or trios. 
All at reasonable prices. 

One U. S. Separator in perfect re- 
pair. Capacity 350 pounds milk per 
hour. Cost $125. Price, $50. 

A. R. VENABLE, JR., 
Milnwood Dairy Farm. 

P. O. Box 147, Farmville, Va. 



Barred and White 

PLYMOUTH ROCKS 

Single and R. C. B. Leghorn, S. L. 
Wyandottes, Light Brahma and B. 
Minorca Cockerels for sale. $1 per sin- 
gle bird; a trio for $3. 
J. B. JOHNSON, Clover Hill Farm, 
Manassas, Va. 



$ 1 .00 each during October only* 

B. F. R. chicks bred from Hawkins, Thompson & 
Bradley Bros, prize winners. 
Protection Duroc Jersey pigs and Perfection 
Poland-China pigs. 

Only the best is bred at "The Cedars." Fan- 
cier's stock, farmers prices. 

THE CEDARS Wn. O. OWENS,~~~ 

P. and S. PARi*I. Midlothian, Va. 3 

Genuine B. Plymouth Rock chick- 
ens, M. Bronze turkeys, Toulouse 
geese, Guineas, Pea fowls. 

Eggs in season from chickens and tur- 
keys. 
Mrs. W. F. JACKSON, Olga P. O , 
Amelia Co., Va. 

Barred Plymouth Rocks, ffitJOt 

FOR SALE; strong, healthy, vigorous 
farm-raised pullets — bred for laying. 
WM. B. LEWIS, Ieby, N ottoway Co., Va. 

300 White Leghorn 

Pullets (| bred) wanted. Write me, 
stating how many you can sell and at 
what price. F. E. WILLIAMS, M. D. 

Capron, Va. 

AFRICAN QEESE Pure-bred African 

geese. A few pairs for sale, also Bro- 
ken Haired Bassett hound pups. Miss 
A. WORTHINGTON, Ivy Depot, Va. 

FOR SALE— 'Trio Toulouse Geese; 

1901 hatch, or will exchange for trio 

good M. Bronze Turkeys. 

DAVID W. LEARY, Mattoax, Va. 



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Market Toppers for Sale/ Low* 




Lot fine Reg. Angus bull calves, five 
to six mos., $75. 

Lot I grade Angus heifers coming 2 
years. Safe in calf by Reg. Angus 
bull. Price, 6ic. per pound. 

1 Bull Calf coming 4 mos., out of fine 
Hereford cow, by Reg. Angus bull. $40 

Lot i grade Angus heifers, coming 
1 year. Price, 6c. per pound. 

One 12 mos. old Reg. Angus heifer. 
$100. 

One first class black mare mule, 7 
years old; wgt. 1.200. Very quick and 
active. $150. Cheap at $200. 

One fine Dorset-Shropshire ram 
lamb, five mos., wgt. 75 pounds. $8. 

Pure white Plymouth Rock Cock- 
erels, each $1. 

Pure Silver Lace Wyandotte Cock- 
erels, each $1. 

W. M. WATKINS & SONS, 
Charlotte county. Randolph, Va. 

ANGUS BULL CALVES 

SIRED BY THE 
Champion Bull BARON IDA. 

These calves are choice individuals. 

ENGLISH SETTER PUPS. 
Sire and dam prize winners. 
WARREN RICE, Winchester, Va. 

5 finely bred registered 

Aberdeen Angus Heifers 

For sale at a bargain. 2 are 17 mos. 
old; 2 are 6 mos. old, and 1 is 8 mos. 
old. C. F. & J. BUTTON, 

Walker's Ford, Va. 
Laurel Hill Farm. 

Splendid Registered 

ANGUS BULL 

Age 17 mos., thoroughly tick proof 
(immune), for sale. Price, $250. Also 
a beautiful 5 mos. ANGUS HEIFER. 
No kin to bull, for $50. Write for 
breeding, etc. C. A. WILLIAMS, 

Ringwood, N. C. 

ilontebello Herd 

Aberdeen Angus Cattle 

Reg. bull calves; also first claBS BERK- 
SHIRE PIGS of Biltmore strain, for sale 
by L. H. GRAY, Lock box 58, Orange.Va. 



A NOTE IN PASSING. 

"Yes," said the bandmaster, "we do 
have troubles with our musicians 
sometimes. 

"Once we were engaged to play at a 
funeral. Our notice was very short, 
so we had no rehearsal. We reached 
the cemetery without any mishap, but 
there something happened. We were 
to play a solemn measure while the 
body was being lowered into the grave. 
Only a few instruments were needed. 
I was slowly and solemnly swinging 
my baton, the spectators were silently 
weeping, when suddenly the trombone 
gave a loud, long blast, enough to 
wake the dead. Some of the mourn- 
ers fainted, the players stopped in con- 
sternation, and I jumped over chairs 
and racks to where the trombonist, a 
dull, heavy German, sat, stolidly gaz- 
ing at his music. 

" 'What the devil did you mean by 
bursting out that way?" I shouted. 

"He raised his eyes slowly to mine. 

" 'Veil, I vas vatching de music, und 
just den a horse-fly got on de paper. I 
fought he vos a note, und I blayed 
him. Dat was all, ain't it?" — October 
Lippincott's. 



PRINCE RUPERT. 
Mr. E. G. Butler, of Annefleld Farms, 
breeder of Herefords and Berkshires, 
sends us a handsome lithograph of his 
celebrated stock bull, Prince Rupert. 
Mr. Butler has every reason to be 
proud of this bull, not only for his 
past record, but for his present per- 
formances. Look up his advertisements 
elsewhere in this issue and send for a 
photo of Prince Rupert. 



NONE ON HAND. 

"Dock" Squires was a queer old 
"yarb" doctor of decidedly limited edu- 
cation who flourished in New England 
a good many years ago. One day some 
one said to him: 

"See here, Dock, have you any di- 
ploma?" 

' "Wal, no; I ain't got none on hand 
just now, but I'm going to dig some 
soon as the ground thaws out in the 
spring." — October Lippincott's. 



DE LAVAL SEPARATORS. 
We are in receipt of a very neat 
brochure, printed in colors, giving de- 
scriptions and prices of the De Laval 
Separator. There is no advertisement 
of the De Laval Separator in this issue, 
but if any are interested in Cream Sep- 
arators, it might be well for them to 
write the above company, in New York 
city. 



THE QUIT EVEN. 

A red-headed man met a bald-headed 
man on the street one day. The red- 
headed man said to the bald-headed 
man: 

"Huh! there don't seem to have been 
much hair where you came from." 

"Oh, yes," replied the bald-headed 
man, "there was plenty of hair, but it 
was all red, and I wouldn't have it." — 
October Lippincott's. 



Kentucky 

Herefords 

Headed by the famous 

IHPORTED BRITISHER 

No. 145096 Champion Bull over all breed* In 
England and Grand Sweepstakes Champion 
at Chicago 1902 Live Stock Exposition. 

We can furnish buyers with anything they 
wish from the FANCIEST THAT CAN BE 
BRED to the cheaper class usually desired by 
the beginner. Write us before buying. Glad 
to answer Inquiries. 

Giltner Bros., Eminence, Ky. 

V.P.I. 

Farm Bulletin 

We are now offering some choice young 
Bulls of the following breeds: 

Shorthorn, Hereford, Aberdeen-Angus. 

Write at once for pedigrees and prices. 

D. 0. NOURSE, Prof, of Agr. 
Blacksburg, Va. 

HAYFIELDS STOCK FARM HAS 

FOR SALE 

Seven Registered HEREFORD BULLS 8 
months old to 2y 2 years. Two Registered 
HEREFORD HEIFERS 8 months old and 1 
year. Six OXFORD OWN BUCK LAMBS. 
Witt. D. MERRYMAN, 

Cockeysville, Md- 

n ORSETS AND H EREFORDS. 

Some Exceptionally Rare Bargains to Quick Buyers. 

My herd bull, bull calves and Dorset 

bucks. Registered stock. 
H. ARMSTRONG, la ntz MILLS, VA. 

A few fine ENGLISH SET- 
TER puppies for sale at very- 
reasonable prices. 

JOHN A. CLARK, 

Malvern Hill, Va. 

Scotch Collie Pups 

AND 

DerKshire Pigs, 

For sale, 1 boar ready for service. Sat- 
isfaction guaranteed. 

E M. BALL, Emory, Va. 



COLLIE PUPS 



By Imported Sires. Sable and white and tri- 
colors. Prices. $8 to S15. Older ones correspond- 
ingly low- Book on Training. 50 cents: Free if 
you buy a Collie. MAPLEMONT STOCK FARM, 
Albany, Vermont. 

Mention the Southern Planter in 
writing. 



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RED POLLED CATTLE 

FOR SALE 

One extra fine, pure-bred Bull 
calf, 5 mos. old, out of 1808*2 
Constance, by tbat grand sire, 
Flotilla 6225. 

Also, one 9 mos. , i grade bull, 
a fine animal, excellent for gra- 
ding up, and will knock the 
horns off every time, address 

PIERSON BROS., Summit, 
Spotsylvania Co., Va. 

Swift Creek Stock and Dairy Farm 

Has for sale a large num- 
ber of nice young regis- 
tered A. J. C. C. 

JERSEY BULLS 
AND HEIFERS. 

None better bred in the South. Combining 
closely the most noted and up-to-date blood 
In America. Bulls 10 to 12 months old, $25; 
Heifers, same age, $35. POLAND CHINA 
PIGS, $5 each. Send check and get what 
you want. 

T. P. BRASWELL, Prop." Battleboro, N. C. 

FOR SALE — A NO. 1 REG. HERE- 
FORD BULL, 7 months old, well 
marked, weighing over 500 lbs. 
Address WM. C. STUBB3, 
Sassafras P O . Gloucester Co., Va 

ST. OMER HERD 

Offers young bulls fit for service, out of 
tested dams with good yearly records. Strong 
in Exile of St. L., King of St. L. and Stoke 
Pogis of Prospect. Reasonable prices. 

JOS. T. HOOPBS, Bynum, Md. 

Aryshires, Berkshires and Oxford-Downs. 

Ayrshire Calves of both sexes, Berkshire 
Pigs and Boar and 2 Oxford- Down Rams for 
sale. MELROSE CASTLE FARM, 

Enos H. Hess, Manager, Casanova, Va. 

jfi* ANGORA GOATS &<* 

WANTED. We desire to purchase 25 to 
50 does, also the same number of does 
with kids by their sides. Write us 
stating lowest cash price. 

FOXHALL FARM, Norfolk, Va 

Purebred 
ANGORA BUCK 

2 years old, for sale. Price $20 f. o. I). 
Howardsville, Va. 

C. H. NOLTING, Medlock, Va. 

FOR SALE.— MY REG. ANGORA 

"Gilbert of Aganaw" 4 years old, and 
as good as anybody s goat. Must sell 
to avoid inbreeding. Price $25.00 
f. o. b., South Boston, Va. 
W. W. STOCKWELL, South Boston, \ a. 

AWPDDA Pfl ATC art handsome, hardy anil 
ANuUnA UUA I O profitable For large cir 
cular address E. W. COLE & CO., Big Clifty, Ky. 



POULTRY FENCE. 
New advertisers in this issue are 
Chase Bros., of Colchester, Ct. They 
make a specialty of M. M. S. and Union 
Lock Poultry Fence. Look up their 
advertisement and send for interesting 
circulars, etc. 



A LIMIT TO ALL THINGS. 

He had been away on a long journey, 
and upon his return his wife was de- 
tailing to him a number of reforms 
and improvements which she had suc- 
cessfully engineered during his ab- 
sence. 

"And you know," she said, "that 
closet that was locked for over a 
month and which you said couldn't be 
opened except by a locksmith? Well," 
— triumphantly — "I opened it." 

"Well, well, how in the world did 
you do it?" 

"With a hairpin." 

"And the furnace door," she con- 
tinued, "has been slopping around on 
one hinge for ever so long just because 
you were too lazy to fix it, but it's all 
right now." 

"Well, I'm glad you had it fixed." 

"Had it fixed! I fixed it myself — 
with a hairpin." 

"And then there's that crayon por- 
trait of mother that stood in the cor- 
ner for almost six solid weeks because 
you never would bring me any picture 
hooks " 

"Well, I intended to, but—" 

"Oh, 'but!' Well, it don't make any 
difference now; I got it up with a hook 
I made myself — out of a hairpin." 

"Ye gods!" he said. 

"And there's Willie; you've been 
coaxing him and bribing him for a 
year, trying to break him of biting his 
nails, and I broke him in a week." 

"With a hairpin?" he inquired 
weakly. 

"No!" she snapped, "don't be a 
goose! With a hair brush!" — Truman 
Roberts Andrews, in October Lippin- 
cott's. 



JACKS AND JENNETS. 
Our friends, W. E. Knight & Co., of 
Nashville, Tenn., start up the season's 
advertising with this issue. Jacks and 
Jennets are their specialty, and any 
one interested should send for circu- 
lars giving description of their offer- 
ings. 



CASTALIA HEREFORDS. 
Mr. Murray Boocock, owner of the 
Castalia Herefords, writes us regard- 
ing his present offering as follows: 
"I have a very choice lot of bulls for 
sale, from 18 to 20 months old, ready 
for service, at prices which cattlemen 
can afford to pay because the return on 
the money investment is quick and 
sure. I am offering these bulls at only 
a little over calf prices to meet the de- 
mand for Registered Hereford year- 
ling hulls at a low price. The present 
offering is one of the most useful lots 
I ever had. They are all rugged, 
thrifty, blocky fellows, and backed by 
the best of breeding." 



WARE VIEW FARM, 

GLOUCESTER, VA. 

- OFFERS FOR SALE = 

3 large Berkshire Boars : 
Beau of Biltmore, 
Columbiana's Mason, and 
Bob Loomis, Jr. 

Will be priced low, also about 100 
head of extra fine Boar and Sow pigs by 
the above Boars and out of the beet 
Sows. Entitled to registry. Price, $12 
each, or 3 for $30, Send stamp for reply. 
R S. CAflERON & SON, Props. 



m 



R ERKSHIRE S 

ANNEFIELD HERD 

Represents the 

Finest Blood Lines 

in EnglancToi' America. 

Stock for sale at all times. 



Correspondence Solicited. 

Inspection Invited. 



EDW. G. BUTLER, Annefield Farms, 

Briggs, Clarke Co., Va. 



CHOICE YOUNG 

BERKSHIRES 

of Both Sexes, for Sale. 

By Hlghclere Topper of Biltmore II, out of 
Imported Harlene. 

Miniborya Farm, Box 901, Richmond, Va. 




Southdown and 
Hampshiredown 



!' Sheep and Lambs 



FOR SALE; also ESSEX pigs. For 
prices, apply to L. G. JONES, 

Bethania, N. C. 

BERKSHIRES 

We offer some extra choice young boars, 
entitled to registry. These are particu- 
larly nice pigs, in fact, they are "tops," 
and we sell only "tops." Let me have 
your inquiries and orders. 
Hawksley... J. T. OLIVER, 
Stock Fasm, Allen's Level, Va. 

Poland Chinas, Chester Whites and 
Mammoth Bronze Turkeys at Far- 
mers prices 

S. M. WISECARVER, 

Rustburg, Va. 



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-6 Scotch Topped- 



SHORT HORN BULL CALVES 

6 Scotch Topped SHORT HORN Bull Calves 
3 to 15 months old; reds and roans; sired by 
Verbena's Champion No. 1298S1, and Royal 
Chief No. 185432, and he by Imp. Royal Stamp 
No. 146662. Poland China Spring pigs, good 
ones, sired by Oder's Perfection No. 56105. 
Pedigrees furnished with all stock sold. 

Come or write your wants. 

WM, T. THRASHER, Springwood, Va. 

ELLERSLIE FARM^- 
Thoroughbred Horses 

AND SHORTHORN CATTLE, 

Pure Southdown Sheep 
and Berkshire Pig". 

Fob Sale. R. J. HANCOCK & SON, 
Charlottesville, Va. 



COOK'SCREEK HERD 




Scotch-Topped 
Shorthorns ^ 



Herd Headed by Governor Tyler, 1585 48. 
Young Bulls for sale. Inspection and corres- 
pondence invited. 

HEATWOLE & SUTER, Dale Enterprise, Va. 

Qxiietude 

SHORTHORNS 

FOR SALE. 

1 vearling bull, 3 bull calves 2 two-year-old 
heifers bred to a pure Scotch bull, 3 yearling 
heifers and a few cows. This stock is first class 
and in excellent condition. Write to or come 
to see T. J. THOMPSON, Swoope, Va 

PURE BRED 

Short Horn Calves 

from fine Stock. Also 

Yorkshire Pigs 

of very Prolific Breed. 

JAS n. HOQE, Hamilton, Va. 

Only a Few of My 

Reg. SHROPSHIRES 

left, and they MUST go by Jan. 
1st, as I am discontinuing farming. 

I offer 1 yearling ram, 1 2-yr. old ram, 2 ram 
lambs, 2 ewes aged 4 and 5 yrs. at a bargain. 

Write at once. H. R. GRAHAM, Barclay, Md. 





0. I. C. PIGS 



jsmxssmm FRon reo. stock. 

EOR SALE. PRICES RIGHT. 
F. S. MICHIE, Charlottesville, Va. 



Registered g^fiUss: 



C. Whites. Fine large 

strains. All ages, mated 

not a in, 8 week, pigs. 

Bred sows. Service boars 

and Poultry. Write for prices and free circular. 

P. F. HAMILTON, Cochranville, Chester Co., Pa. 




HOG REMEDY. 
All readers of this paper are familiar 
at least with the advertisement of the 
Haas Hog Remedy, by Dr. Joseph Haas, 
of Indianapolis. Among them are very 
many who have regularly for many 
years relied upon it to wara off and 
cure the swine plague. It is enough 
to say of it that Dr. Haas' remedy has 
been on constant trial for twenty- 
seven years by the hog raisers of this 
country. It would long ago have 
passed out of mind if it had not proven 
effective. Readers should note the 
striking difference between Dr. Haas' 
guarantee and those ordinarily given. 
The common form is a promise to re- 
fund the money paid if not satisfac- 
tory. Dr. Haas goes further. The 
remedy not only costs nothing, but 
where his plan of treatment is follow- 
ed, he agrees to pay the market price 
for all hogs that may die. This guar- 
antee, coming from a man financially 
responsible, amounts to something to 
hog raisers, whose chief hazard is the 
dreaded cholera. The book "Hogology" 
mentioned in the advertisement else- 
where develops fully the Haas plan. 
A copy will be mailed free to all of our 
readers who request it. 



TOO SMALL FOR ITS AGE. 

A gentleman who had employed an 
old colored carpenter to do a piece of 
rather delicate cabinet work for him 
was pleased beyond his expectations 
with the result. 

Wishing to show his satisfaction, he 
— after paying the price the old man 
asked — took from the sideboard a bot- 
tle of extraordinary fine whiskey that 
had just been sent him and poured a 
little into a glass. 

"Uncle," he inquired, "have you ever 
tasted any whiskey fifty years old?" 

"No, sah, I never has," replied the 
old darky, his voice trembling with 
anticipation. 

"Well, try that, then," said his em- 
ployer, handing his the glass, "and tell 
me what you think of it." 

The old fellow received it rever- 
ently, took one sip, and raised his 
eyes in ecstasy. 

"Oh, sah! dat am sho'ly de fines' 
bev'rage ris chile evah taste. But," 
with an anxious glance at the very 
slight quantity in the glass, "don't you 
tink, sah, it am jus' a little small for 
its age!" 

It is, perhaps, needless to add that 
this gentle criticism had the desired 
effect. — October Lippincott's. 



WANTED to buy a few head young 
CATTLE, south of James river and east of 
Roanoke, Shorthorns or grades preferred, will 
also buy a few Angora goats. Address "W" 
care of this office. 

RAISE SQUABS: 

more profitable than poultry. The fa- 
mous P. R strain. Prices of breeders on 
application. E. C. JOHNSON, 
^^^^^^^^^^^ Manassas, Va. 

WOO DLAND D OR8ET8. 

NE of our customers writes: "My sales of 
y grade Dorset winter lambs run this year: 
first 87 head brought $870; then prices de- 
cided somewhat. I am looking for another 
good Dorset ram." Woodland Dorsets are 
standard In excellence. 
J. B. WING & BROS., Mechanicsburg, Ohio. 



A FAMILY NAME. 

The teacher of a county school asked 
his pupils, one day, if any of them 
could tell him who Joan of Arc was. 

The question was followed by pro- 
found silence. Some of the pupils 
stared at the teacher, and some turned 
and stared at one another,, as if seek- 
ing the information in the faces around 
them. 

Finally a boy burst out with: 

"O, yes, I know — she was Noah's 
wife." — October Lippincott's. 



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and Crop Feeding." 

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A neat Binder for your back num- 
bers can be had for 25 cents. Address 
our Business Office. 

Mention the Southern Planter when 
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EMILY'S CHARGE. 
(A Serial Tale by Mary Washington.) 

CHAPTER IV. 

Emily now began to turn her atten- 
tion to their "landed estate/' as she 
called the little tract of land bequeath- 
ed by her Aunt Melissa. At first she 
had thought of selling it, but on second 
thought it flashed over her mind, "Why 
should we be wanderers and homeless 
when we have even this little foothold 
to serve us as a home?" The more 
she thought of it the more she liked 
the idea of living in their own little 
cottage, among the grand mountains, 
green meadows and clear streams of 
a pastoral country, and she finally re- 
solved that if she could see any reason- 
able prospect of maintaining herself 
and the children, she would make her 
home there. But she determined to 
go there first herself and thoroughly 
examine the surroundings and pros- 
pects, for though her relatives called 
her Quixotic, she was by no means 
rash. She found the cottage occupied 
by a respectable couple, who had been 
living there for several years to take 
care of the place. The cottage was 
quite tasteful and comfortable, con- 
taining four rooms, and having a porch 
overrun by honey suckle and climbing 
roses. There was also a good building 
in the yard, containing two comfort- 
able rooms, intended for a kitchen and 
servants' room. There were twenty 
acres attached to the cottage, of which 
ten were in cultivation, and the re- 
mainder consisted of wood land. There 
was a nice little orchard of peach and 
pear trees, as well as several rows of 
choice grape vines, for Aunt Melissa 
had a talent for making herself and 
friends comfortable, and had planted 
out such fruit as would bear during 
the season she was there. Mr. and 
Mrs. Wheeler, the couple in charge of 
the place, had kept it in good order. 
They were plain people, but practical, 
industrious and kind hearted. Mr. 
Wheeler owned a small tract of land 
adjoining the cottage tract, and by 
tilling this, he made a frugal living. 
They seemed, providentially placed 
where they were for the help and pro- 
tection of the orphans. Emily hasten- 
ed to engage them to remain, arrang- 
ing for them to move into the outbuild- 
ing when she was ready to occupy the 
cottage. Finding that Mr. Wheeler 
understood the culture of vegetables, 
she proposed that he should raise 
these on her land and market them to 
the neighboring watering place, to- 
gether with the fruit from the little 
orchard her aunt had so providentially 
planted. The watering place afforded 
a very good market for such product* 
from June to September. 

But although her path seemed to 
grow a little clearer before her, Emily 
knew it would not do to depend en- 
tirely on the prospect of a little 
marketing during four months of the 
year, so before making her final de- 
cision to settle at the cottage, she set 
to work to ascertain what were her 
prospects for getting a school in that 
neighborhood the ensuing session. 



THE FOUR MONTHS OUTLINED IN THE ILLUSTRATION, 

Are the ones mostly feared for intense cold. Why not prepare for same 
and purchase a LEHMAN CARRIAGE AND SLEIGH HEATER? 
They will keep you comfortably warm at a cost of 2 cents per day, 
burning LEHMAN COAL, from which there is no smoke, smell nor 
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are known everywhere as the STANDARD, and are in use by the LEAD- 
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Write for circular with price list. Your local carriage, harness 
or hardware dealer sells our goods. 

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10 Bond St., New York. 45 E. Congress St., Chicago. 



Reg. HOLSTEI N-F R I E S I A N 

CATTLE of the Netherland, De Kol, Clothilde, Piete rtje 

and Artis families. Heavy milkers aud rich in butter 

fat. Stock of all ages for sale. 

Rce. BERKSHIRES From noted strains, Imported Headlight, Lord 
s * Highclere and Sunrise. 

DORSET SHEE P = 



B. PLYMOUTH ROCK CHICKENS, 

N. & W. and Southern R. R. T. O. SANDY, Burkevllle, Va. 



3t3C3*3**3t3l3t3r**3t3l3l3t3r*^^ 



WE OFFER 



a few well-bred registered Jersey 
Bull and heifer Calves at $30 each. 
They are four months old and from best strains of this 
breed ; also a few young Berkshire boars large enough 
for service at $15 each, and pigs eight weeks old at $6 
each — by p.air or trio, not akin. 

M. B. ROWE & CO., - Fredericksburg, Va 

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663 



Those proving favorable, she made up 
her mind to try living at the cottage 
for one year at least, and if she could 
not sustain herself there, to sell it and 
make such other arrangements as the 
emergency seemed to call for. She 
then returned to her old neighborhood 
for the winter, thinking it best to wait 
until spring before making a move. 
All their friends and neighbors opened 
their doors to the orphans with whole- 
souled hospitality, and under the roof 
of kind entertainers, they lingered a 
few months longer, in sight of their 
old home. Mr. Crawford, the creditor 
into whose hands "Soldiers' Joy" had 
passed, was not a stranger to Emily, 
he and his family having frequently 
visited in the neighborhood in her 
childhood. His son, Allan Crawford, 
to whom he intended giving the place, 
had been a playmate of hers, and she 
had a pleasant recollection of the 
frank, manly boy. He called to renew 
their acquaintance a few days after 
taking possession of "Soldiers' Joy," 
and seemed greatly embarrassed. His 
kindly nature was pained at the idea 
of turning a young woman out of her 
home, and this chivalrous feeling was 
strengthened when he saw into what 
a lovely and charming young woman 
his former playmate had developed. 
Emily, on her part, took much pleasure 
in renewing the friendship of childish 
years, and he brightened up the quiet 
winter by many acts of kindness and 
attention to herself and the young 
ones under her charge. 

When the spring fairly opened Emily 
began to prepare for their departure. 
Her friends all tried to dissuade her, 
begging her to remain and divide her 
time amongst them, but her resolu 
tion to go was unalterable. While the 
rest were voluble in expersing their 
regrets, Allen alone was so silent and 
constrained as to appear almost un 
friendly. A few days before their de- 
parture, one sweet April evening, when 
all nature had awakened, after the 
cold and snows of winter, with a new, 
lovely and serene life, Emily strolling 
on the lawn, saw Allan approach her. 
He held in his hand a bouquet of spring 
flowers, hyacinths, lilies of the valley, 
and white violets gathered from the 
flower beds of her dear old home. They 
brought so many memories rushin 
over her that it was several moments 
before she could speak. Allan, too, 
seemed equally agitated. 

"Dear Emily," said he, "I have come 
to beg you to return to these flowers, 
and to the old home. It seems so hard 
and cruel and unnatural for you to 
go away from them. I feel like an 
interloper, taking possession of these 
things, and you going away to buffet 
and struggle with the world." 

"But, my friend," replied Emily, 
"you are too chivalrous and tender 
hearted. It is morbid in you to blame 
yourself, or feel badly about our old 
home having passed into your posses- 
siin." 

"I do not ask you to return for this 
reason," cried he, passionately, "but 
because I love you, and want you to be 



EEG-ISIEEED 

.HEREFORD CATTLE. 

Service Bulls; Imported Salisbury 76059 (19083), a grand-l 
son < f the famous Grove 3d 2490, and a descendant of the] 
world renowned Lord Wilton 4057 from the 4th generation. 

Snowball, the dam of Salisbury, is now in the herd of His 
Majesty King Edward VII. 

Lars, Jr., is by Lars of Western fame and his dam is Judy out of a Sir Richard 
2nd cow This makes a great combination of the Grove 3d, Lord Wilton, Anxiety, 
Peerless Wilton and Sir Richard 2nd strains. No better breeding in the world today. 

FOR SALE— Yearling bulls by above sires. WANTED-Reg. Hereford heifers, 18 
to 24 months old, not bred; will exchange bulls for heifers of equal quality. 

Write your needs or call and make your own selection. 

MURRAY B00C0CK, Owner, Keswick, Alb. Co.,Va. n^fflx^;^^: 




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Bacon Hall Farm. 

Hereford registered Gattle 

ajasswr. : . Man ^.cr 
"TOP" BREEDING, |CALVES;NOTgAKlN. ^^^ 

MOTTO— Satisfaction or no sale. 



E. M. GILLET & SON, 



= Glencoe, Haryland. 
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VIRGINIA HEREFORDS, 

Herd headed by the Champion 

PRINCE RUPERT, 79539. 

Correspondence Solicited. Inspection Invited. 

EDWARD G. BUTLER, 

Annefield Farms. BRIGGS, Clarke Co., Va. 




PRINCE RUPERT. 79,539 



BARGAINS IN HEREFORDS. 



To reduce our herd, we are offering a goodly 
number of registered bulls and heifers ; not akin — 
at reasonable prices. (Telephone connection.) 
STONEHURST FRUIT & STOCK FARM, 

Fluvanna Co. Union Mills, Va. 




ROSEMONT HEREFORDS!. 



^ HEADED BY 
II THE FAMOUS 



ACROBAT 68460, 



Assisted by Marquis of Salisbuey|16th 138894, theibest 
son of Imported Salisbury. Correspondence 

solicited. Visitors welcome. ^^~* 

C. E. CLAPP. Berryville, Clarke Co., Va.^£ 




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[October 



ay wife." 

Emily was startled beyond the power 
of replying at first. It had never oc- 
curred to her to look on Allan as even 
a possible lover. With eloquent plead- 
ings he continued to lay his suit before 
her, not forgetting to assure her that 
he would provide for her brother and 
sister, as if they were his own. 

Blushing, trembling and confused, 
Emily hardly knew what to say, or 
even what to think at first, but at 
length she told him that while she had 
a warm friendship for him, she could 
not return the friendship he txpressed. 

He refused, however, to take this as 
a final answer, especially after draw- 
ing from her the avowal that there was 
no other attachment in the ;vay, and at 
length she agreed to defer giving her 
final answer for three days. Those 
three days were momentous ones to 
them both. There were many consid- 
erations that pleaded strongly in 
Allan's favor. He was a man she es- 
teemed. He had no bad habits, no 
ignoble traits. From a worldly point 
of view it was a desirable match, one 
which would cut short the perplexities 
and struggles of her existence. Then 
his brotherly spirit towards Walter 
and Alice, and his generous offer to 
provide for them, exerted a strong 
feeling of gratitude in her mind. 
Again, the idea of returning to her 
cVl home was a strong inducement. 
In short, there was everything to plead 
for him except one, and that was the 
voice of her heart— that unruly mem- 
ber which can neither be persuaded 
nor forced. She liked Allen, but with 
the liking any one might have for any 
friend, not with the sense of thorough 
companionship, the deep and subtle 
sympathy, the exquisite tenderness 
that a woman feels towards a man 
whom she loves with the strongest and 
deepest love in human life. Allan 
was not the fortunate prince who had 
succeeded in breaking through the 
thorn hedge, penetrating to the nalace 
of the sleeping beauty and awakening 
her. Emily's heart was slumbering 
yet. She did not love Allan, and she 
felt that she could never accord him 
more than a quiet/friendly regard, and 
she felt that she would do him an in- 
justice to marry him, and let him lav- 
ish his devotion on her, when she could 
only make so inadequate a return. On 
the day appointed for her final an- 
swer Allan, after a long interview 
with Emily, went away sadly, pain and 
disappointment stamped on his frank, 
manly face. I will anticipate the 
course of my narrative by telling my 
readers that he did not here relinquish 
his suit, but twice in the course of the 
next few years wrote and renewed 1 is 
offer to Emily. As her answer, how- 
ever, did not vary from her first one, 
he gradually settled down into a stead- 
fast friendship for his old playmate, 
a fact which spoke well for them both. 

It seemed Emily's fate to be always 
making decisions and taking steps 
that other people regarded as Quix- 
otic, and the last, seemed to cap the 
climax. With an alternate sign and 



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LARGE 

POLAND- 
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Closely related to such noted hogs 
as Anderson's Model, Ideal Sunshine and W. B. Tecumseh. 

Choice pigs, boars and bred sows. SHORTHORN bull and 
heifer calve3. Choice stock at farmer's prices. 
Write for prices and testimonials. 

J. F. DURRETTE, Birdwood, Albemarle Co., Va. 




POLAND 



CHINAS. 




I have a limited number of pigs by !=!? 
my fine boars Gray's Big Chief, 57077; GRAY'S BIO CHIEF, 57077. 

and Victor G, 57075, and can furnish pairs not akin or related to those previonsly 
purchased. Young boars and sows of all ages Send to headquarters and get the 
best trom the oldest and largest herd of Poland-Chinas in this State at one-half 
Western prices. Address J. B. GRAY, Fredericksburg, Va. 



SLIPSHUCK 



QHOpFl with a machine built especially for 
OIlIVLtIS southern trade. Built for the pur- 
pose. The only machine of 
the kind. Shreds fine, 
does not husk. Price two=> 
,, thirds that of huskers. A 

W <Lt\ ^^r^^W^^g^JL === ^_^ ton of Keystone fodder is 
A mV» ^^ XhJ^' lj^ ssssssi worth a ton of the best hay. 

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665 



Follow My Plan and Get Pay For All Losses 

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pay for all hogs that die at the highest market prices Write for full particulars. Twenty- 
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each. None genuine without my signature on package or can label. 

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TRADE MARK. 



smile, Emily reflected on the coinci- 
dence of this kind that had occurred 
since her mothers death, and wonder- 
ed if it would be always so, if when- 
ever anything that the world called ad- 
vantageous presented itself, there 
would be some internal barrier that 
forbade her to avail herself of it. 
These barriers seemed unreal, shadowy 
and fanciful to most people, but to her 
they were so real and strong as to be 
simply insurmountable. 

(To be Continued.) 



GOOD HOUSEKEEPING. 

TO PIT UP CORN IN THE SHUCK. 

When there is danger of an early 
frost and you have a good supply of 
corn in the garden or field, a quick and 
easy way of preserving it for use is 
valuable! I have tried this one re- 
peatedly, and with success always. 
Gather the ears before they are at all 
hard, and take off the shuck, leaving 
one layer to protect. the grains. Pack 
these closely in a clean, water tight 
cask, until they are within a few 
inches of the top, then weight it all 
down with a piece of plank and a 
stone. Pour over this a brine that will 
float an egg, shut it up and use just as 
you do the new corn. If the brine 
weakens, you can add a little salt. 



TO CAN CORN. 

Cut the grains from the ears with a 
sharp knife, being careful to select 
only the soft tender ears. Weigh and 
put it into a kettle with enough water 
to cover it. Boil ten minutes and then 
mix into every ten pounds one ounce 
of tartaric acid, fill your glass jars very 
full and screw on the top while it is 
boiling hot. When you cook this take 
it out of the can at least two hours be- 
fore you need it and cover it with 
fresh water, letting it soak that long; 
then pour off the water and use in any 
way that you use other kinds of canned 
corn. You will never lose a can if you 
use the acid, and it is perfectly harm- 
less if the directions are followed. 



APPLE FLOAT. 

Select for this kind of float large, 
acid apples. Wash them and put them 
into a new pan with a small quantity 
of water, and let them bake thoroughly. 
Then scoop out the pulp, being careful 




BERKSHIRES. 



Mr. H. F. Stratton of Erin, Houston 
Co.. Tenn., writes me on Aug. 15th 1903: 

"The little pig just received is a beauty, 
I am delighted with him — wouldn't take 
twice twenty dollars for him. He is thor- 
oughly patrician. I expect great things 
from him at the head of my herd of Royal Berkshires." 

So send to Thos. S. White for patrician pigs rather than buy plebeians for a little 
less, do not be "penny wise and pound foolish," and especially in thoroughbreds. 
I have had 13 sows to farrow in past few days with over 20 more nearly due, order 
promptly for fall shipments, I never have enough to go round. 
Short Horn (Durham Cattle) for sale. Write for particulars. 

THOS. S. WHITE, Fassifern Stock Farm, Lexington, Va. 



Hill Top Stock Farm. 

BERKSHIRE HOGS and 
SOUTHDOWN SHEEP 




=A 5pecia!ty.^= 

S. Brown Allen, who succeeds H. A. S. 
Hamilton & Co in the ownership and man- 
agement of this celebrated Stock Farm, with increased facilities, will make a 
spepialty of breeding Berkshire Hogs and Southdown Sheep, withoutregard to cost, 
from the purest and most royal strains of imported blood. 

SOUTHDOWN BUCKS. 

I have a few Southdown Bucks that cannot be excelled in this country, for sale. 
We have swept premiums on this stock for fifteen years over all competitors at 
Fairs in this and adjoining States 

S. BROWN ALLEN, Staunton, Virginia, (Successor to H. A. S. Hamilton & Co ) 



We Are Still 



the Business... 



"HILL TOP" Stock at Shcadwell, Va. 

Having changed our residence, we brought with us and have for 
sale a choice lot of HILL TOP stock. 

Jersey Cattle, Southdown and Shropshire Sheep, 
Berkshire Hogs and B. B. R. Game Chickens. 

Our Berkshire Pigs are now closely sold up, but we wilt have a fine lot ready to ship 
after September We will be glad to serve our old friends and are always glad to 
make new ones. 

W r e have won more premiums on sheep and hogs at State and County Fairs 
than all other breeders in Virginia combined. 

H. A. S. HAMILTON & SONS, Shadwell, Va. 



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[October 



not to carry any of the seed or core 
with it, and to a quart of this put one 
full cup of sugar, a little nutmeg and 
let it get very cold. Now beat very 
light the whites of four eggs, and have 
on the stove a large pan of boiling 
water. Slip the eggs on this and let 
them stay for five minutes. They will 
cook through without falling, and you 
can take them up with a skim, and 
beat them into the apples with no 
trouble, and you can make your float 
in the morning and it will be just as 
good as if made later and is far better 
than that made with stewed apples and 
raw eggs. I always serve float with 
cream seasoned with a teaspoon of 
vanilla and sweetened a very little bit. 



BAKED APPLE DUMPLING. 

Peel the apples and cut them from 
the core, then put them into a tray and 
chop them fine with the meat chopper, 
sweeten and season with nutmeg or 
grated lemon peel. Make a dough of 
one quart of flour, two-thirds of a cup 
of lard, one teaspoon of baking powder, 
and enough milk to make a stiff dough. 
Roll this out and cut into pieces about 
the size of saucer. Put in a large 
spoon of the apples and gather the 
edges of the piece together, pinchin? 
to make them stay. Arrange the 
dumplings in a pan and fill it half f" 
of water, springling sugar and nutmeg 
over them and boil them for about 
an hour. Serve hot with a hard sauce. 

Sauce. — Cream one cup of butter 
until light, then stir in gradually three 
cups of white sugar, season highly 
with nutmeg and vanilla; beat it hard 
for a few minutes, and set it in the 
ice box. 



CARAMEL PUDDING. 

Two cups of damson preserves, one 
cup of sugar, half cup of butter. The 
yolks of three eggs, a little nutmeg, 
half cup of milk, and a teaspoon of 
corn starch. Beat the eggs very light 
and stir in the other ingredients. Bake 
this on a crust, and when done spread 
over it a meringue made with the three 
whites and six tablespoons of sugar, 
seasoned with vanilla. 



GINGER CAKE. 

Two and a half cups of sugar. Two 
and a half cups of syrup — molasses 
will do. Five eggs, beaten into the 
molasses. One and three-fourths cups 
of butter, or half butter and half lard. 
Five tablespoons of ginger, one of cin- 
namon. Two and a half cups of but- 
termilk, with two and a half teaspoons 
of soda stirred into it. Ten cups of 
flour. Bake in sheets, and it is well 
to set one pan into another to prevent 
burning, as everything with molasses 
in it burns easily. Eat hot with sauce, 
or let it get cold for tea. 



GINGER SAUCE. 

Three cups of sugar, three cups of 
water, boil hard for twenty minutes. 
One tablespoon of ginger and teaspoon 
of cinnamon and a half dozen cloves. 
Cream a large tablespoon of butter 
with a tablespoon of corn starch, and 



JERSEY CATTLE. 

We have for sale, Young Cows, Heifers and Young: Bulls, 
from cows testing 18 to 24 lbs. of butter In seven days, and giving 
40 to 60 lbs. of milk per day. Also — 

LARGE YORKSHIRE PIGS, 

The coming bacon breed. Our stock is from the most noted breeders in 
England and Canada. 

Write for prices. Address — 

BOWMONT FARMS, ?»■*. 



x 



x ClSMONT DORSETS 8 



CISMONT STOCK FARM offers well developed young 
Dorsets of the best blood of England and America. 



X 

X 



X 
X 
X Prices Reasonable. 6. S. LINDENKOHL, Keswick, Albemarle Co., Va. X 



SUNNY HOME HERD OF 

ABERDEEN-ANGUS CATTLE. 

Baron Roseboy, 57666, by the great Gay Blackbird, dam by Eulalies Eric, 2d prize 
yearling at Columbian Exposition, 1893, heads the herd. Pedigree means only the tracing 
of good or bad qualities through several generations. The animals comprising this herd 
are direct descendants of the greatest prize-winners of the breed for the past twenty-five 
years. Does this mean anything to you, who . nc.o oi lii animal of this the GREAT- 

EST BEEP BREED? If so, come and see the best lot of calves we ever bred, or write. 

A L. FRENCH, Proprietor, R. F. D 2 , Byrdville, Va. 

(Note change of P. O. address). 
Depot and shipping point, Fitzgerald, N. C, on D. & W. R'y, 24 miles southwest of Dan- 
ville, Va. 



pos 



to breed 



itively guarantee 

the VERY BEST strains of 



We ___ 
anci ship 

thoroughbred registered LARGE 
ENGLISH BERKSHIRE 

Hogs for LESS MONEY than any other 
firm in the U. S., the superiority of our 
stock considered. Send us your order 
and we will satisfy you both in price 
and Stock. WALTER B. FLEMING, 

Proprietor of the Bridle Creek Stock Farm, Warrenton, N. C. 




THE OAK 

Has for sale, the grand Shorthorn bull, "Rock Hill Abbotts- 
burn" 155113, a grandson of Mary Abbottsburn 7th ; also a nice 
lot of Calves, Bulls and Heifers ; 2 Reg. Morgan Colts at a 
bargain. B. B. BUCHANAN, Bedford City, Va. 

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stir it into the sauce just before you 
take it off. This is one of the best 
cold day desserts I know of. 

Caraven. 



DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
Mrs. N. K. Guthrie. 

PICKLES HYDEN SALAD. 

One gallon chopped cabbage, half 
gallon of green tomatoes, one quart of 
onions, chopped, four tablespoons of 
ground mustard, two of salt, two of 
cinnamon, two of celery seed, and one 
of black pepper, and one of cloves. 
Add half gallon good cider vinegar and 
two pounds sugar, and boil for half an 
hour. 

TO CAN GREEN CORN. 

Gather corn as for present use. Cut 
from cob, and to every thirteen meas- 
ures of corn add same measure of salt 
(one cup of salt to 13 cups of corn). 
Cover with water and boil thirty min- 
utes and can as any other vegetable or 
fruit. When you wish to use the corn, 
pour off salt water that may be in 
can and soak corn one-half an hour in 
hot water, and then serve as you would 
in summer, for puddings, soup, stews, 
etc. This recipe for canning corn is 
the only one that I have found satis- 
factory, and I have tried many in the 
past thirty years. 



PICKLED PEPPERS. 

Take green peppers and cut a slit 
the length of one side and remove all 
the seeds. Soak in salt water for a 
week, remove and wash in fresh watev 
and fill with a mixtures of chopped 
stuff, as follows: Cabbage, green toma- 
toes, string beans, young cucumbers, 
and season the stuffing with cloves, 
cinnamon and celery seed, and sew up 
the slit. Cover with good vinegar and 
cook for twenty-five or thirty minutes. 



PICKLED MANGOES. 

Take young canteloupes (just before 
frost) about the size of a pint bowl, 
cut out a lobe and remove all seeds and 
soak in salt water for six weeks. Then 
freshen for one night in water and fill 
with the following mixture: One race 
of ginger mashed, white mustard seed, 
celery seed, small quantity of black 
pepper, one nutmeg grated, onions and 
cabbage chopped fine. Stuff each 
melon, put the lobes in place, and tie 
with a string. Place in a jar and fill 
with vinegar, then pour off vinegar and 
add to vinegar cracked allspice, cloves 
and ginger, and one cup of grated 
horse radish and one ounce turmeric 
and two pounds sugar. Bring to a 
boil and pour over mangoes. For one 
gallon jar. The cataloupe pickle 
will keep for years, and grows 
better with age. I make beautiful and 
delightful wine from garden and wild 
grapes, but recipes may not be iu sea- 
son. One I add for apple wine that is 
fine. To one gallon of sweet cider add 
three pounds of sugar. Put in open 
vessel and allow to ferment, then strain 
and put in a corked vessel (jugs or 
bottles, and in three months you have 
a splendid drink. 



This cut is not the 
machine but sim- 
ply shows the man 
ner of fastening 
the steel rope to 
the stump. We 
cannot tell you 
all about it 
here. Our cat- 
alogue shows 
Full Line of 
Stump 
Pullers 
testimonials, 
prices, etc. It 
will surprise 
and 

interest 
you. 



PULLS 




Yellow Pine Stumps 
or Trees. 

Our new 2-Horse 

Hawkeye 

is built for that pur- 
pose and does it 
rapidly and cheap- 
ly. A machine that 
will pull yellow pine 
stumps will pull al- 
most anything else. It 
is being used by many 
planters and most of 
the leading R. R. and 
levee contractors. It 
has 3 times the power 
.-=■ of our machines for or- 
dinary work and pulls 
8 acres at a setting. 

Milne Mfg. Co., 

834 Eighth St., 
Monmouth, III. 



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BERKSHIRE PIGS 



of choice breeding, and to make them more desir- 
able, they are fine individuals, properly fed; there- 
fore they develop well. Write 

Forest Home Farm, 

Purcellville, - - Virginia. 



NOW IS THE TIME to buy HOLSTEINS from the Ury Farm Herd. 

Ury Alwina Count Paul De Kol; De Kol 2nd Butter Boy 3rd No. 2, and Lord Harford De Kol head 
our herd. You know their official backing. There is nothing better. 15 bull calves at bargain 
prices. Their dams are of the De Kol, Aaggie, Netherland, Pietertje and Clothide strains and are of 
the producing kind. The best bulls are sold young; also a few cows and heifers. Choice ENGLISH 
BERKSHIRE pigs of the best strains. Before buying, correspond with or visit 

THOS. FASSITT & SONS, Sylrnar, Md. 



Prof. JOHN SPENCER, Veterinarian. Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station, says: 



Chloro-Naptholeum Dip 



" Insures the Destructions of Mites. Outbreaks which have oome under our notice have 
been thoroughly stamped out by dipping in a 2 per cent solution of Chloro Naptholeum Dip." 

It you've tried it you know how good it is, if you haven't, try it now. One Gallon sent pre- 
paid upon receipt of $1.50, money order or check. Booklet free. It can make money for you. 
F. V. GUNN & CO.. Richmond, Va.. Agts. Va. & N. C. • The WEST DISINFECTING CO., Inc.. Mfrs, 



Do You Ship Apples? 

If so, let us call your attention to the California and Oregon apple 
boxes, the coming packages for nice apples, particularly for foreign 
shipments. SOUTHSIDE M'F'G. CO., Petersburg, Va. 



IT STANDS FOR BIG CROPS. 

I For uniform drilling Of grains, a~y kind anrt any o mount 
B per arre for grass geed BOtflug a 1 d even distribution of 
■ lumpy, damp or dry Fertilizers, nothing eqnata tiic 

CPAMOE FR1 S-ow-Down 

l^^r firetBfc-B«aaGrainanlFcrtiii?r_ 

Positive force feed f.ir fertilizer, grain and grass seed. Dr. lis 
any depth, perfect regulation, low steel or wood frame, high 
wheels with br'md tires. Easy to fill and operate. Light 
draft. Investigate before buying. Write fnr free catalogue. 

|SPANGLER MAMEO. CO.. 501 QTJEEN STREET, YORK, PA, 



STANDARD EVERYWHERE. 

FULLY WARRANTED. 




668 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER 



I October 



THE "WE" THAT WINS. 

A young man employed in a respon- 
sible position by a great corporation 
was recently discharged to make room 
for another. Surprised and mortified, 
he sought an explanation from the 
manager of his department. "Will 
you kindly tell me why you do not 
want me any longer?" he asked. 

"Certainly," was the reply; "it is 
because you always said 'you' instead 
of 'we.' " 

"What do you mean?" 

"I mean just that! You never said, 
'We' should do so and so; or 'WE' 
ought to follow out such-and-such a 
policy. It was always 'YOU' in re- 
ferring to this company, of which you 
' were a part. In speaking to a fellow- 
employee about our business, you 
would say 'THEY' (meaning this com- 
pany), instead of 'WE.' This lack of 
a live personal interest in the success 
of the concern was expressed in your 
actions, no less than by your words. I 
should advise you to seek employment 
with some company to which you can 
refer as 'WE.' " 

A common criticism of an ambitious 
young man is: "He acts as if he owned 
the concern, and he's only a clerk." 
It is the young man who works as if 
he did own the concern who often be- 
comes the owner in time. 

"We're going to pay a dividend of 
ten million dollars next month," 
proudly remarked an office boy to a 
waiting visitor in the reception room 
of a railway president. That boy's 
salary is five dollars a week. He is on 
the right track. 

But it is necessary to think WE and 
act WE every hour of every day, as 
well as to say WE. WE means US, 
union, solidity, co-operative enthusi- 
asm. YOU means the other fellows. 
It's the WE that wins! 



HIS EDUCATION WASN'T COM- 
PLETE. 

No more courteous judge ever pre- 
sided at a trial than the venerable 
Chief Justice of the New York Court 
of Common Pleas, Charles P. Daly. 
The story is still told among our New 
York lawyers how, on one occasion, a 
young attorney, while trying a case, 
indulged in considerable vituperation 
of his opponent's witnesses, finally go- 
ing so far as to answer the court very 
sharply when requested to modify his 
language. 

Knowing that Judge Daly was some- 
what of a stickler for the dignity of 
the judiciary, lawyers and court at- 
tendants gazed at the offending attor- 
ney in amazement. 

There was a long interval of silence. 
Finally the judge leaned over the bench 
and said, with an ironical smile: 

"My young friend, before you are as 
old as I am you will have learned that 
it is about as well to read Chesterfield 
as Blackstone." — Success. 



Its Never Too Late. 



to get a buggy at a bargain of uh, we are in a position NOW to sell you a 

SPLIT HBCKORY SPECIAL at S47.50 %Mf£ 

The season'* rush is past. Want to keep our experts working. You pet the 

benefit. 30 Days 1 Free Trial. Write for catalogue and descriptions. 

OlIIO CAKK1AUK Mm CO., Station 41. Cincinnati, Ohio. 



A neat Binder for your back num- 
bers can be had for 25 cents. Address 
our Business Office. 




VIRGINIA DIVISION. 

Farmers Mutual Benefit Association 

A Fire Insurance Association, chartered by the State of Virginia, for 
farmers, under an amended and well protected plan. 

Insures in counties surrounding and accessible to Richmond, against Fire 
and Lightning, only country property — no stores or unsafe risks. Policy-holders 
amply secured — all legitimate losses paid. Average cost per year less than other 
plans, and a great saving to farmers. Amount of property now insured, $330,000, 
and increasing yearly. Estimated securiey in real and other estate, $750,000. 

For further information, address, CHAS. N. FRIEND, General Agent, 

MENTION THIS JOURNAL. CHESTER, VIRGINIA. 

TKis Cut 

shows a 70 ft., GO.bbl. tank tower, 
12 ft. wheel and pump — operated 
either by windmill or horse power, 
erected by us for the State Reform 
School at Laurel, Va. 

IF YOU HAVE 

TROUBLE 

with your water supply, 
write us for advice. 

Artesian Well Drillers. 
Water Supply Contractors. 

*» ^ ^ 



I 



(INCORPORATED.) 

P.O. Box 949. 




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1903.] 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



G69 



5 LBS. I DAY 1 1 EXTRAORDINARY GAIN 

Rockport, Kansas, Nov. 21, 1902. 
International Stock Food Co., Minneapolis, Minn. 

Dear Sirs: — Your "International Stock Food" is all you claim for it. We have the 
nicest pigs and hogs that we ever had. Tested it on one old sow that was very poor 
from suckling pigs. She could hardly make a shadow. We took the pigs away and 
fed her "International Stock Food" in her feed and I do really believe that she put on 
5 pounds of flesh per day. Yours truly, M. C. JERBY. 

S3-M> Hare Thomands of Similar Testimonials and Will Pay Ton $1000 Cash to Prove That They Are Not Oenolne and Unsolicited.*^*, 

Wo own "International Stock Food Farm," which is located 12 miles from Minneapolis and contains 650 acres. We feed S 
"International Slock Food'' every day to all of our World Champion Stallions, Dan Patch 1 : 59 V s and Directum 2:0BJ^J ? 
toour Young Stallions, Brood Mares, Colts, Work Horses, Cattle and Hogs. "INTERNATIONAL STOCK FOOD" J^r 3 FEEDS < 
fob ONE CENT "~ya8 is Prepared from Roots, Herbs, Seeds, and Barks and Won the Highest Medal at Paris Exposition in 19U0 as ) 
a Higb-Class vegetable, medicinal preparation to be fed to stock in small amounts as an addition to the regular feed. It is a ) 
Great Aid in Growing or Fattening stock because it increases the appetito and Aids Digestion and Assimilation so that each ( 
animal obtains more nutrition from the grain eaten. We positively guarantee that its use will make you extra money over the S 
usual Plan of Growing and Fattening stock. "International Stock Food" can be fed in safety to Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Goats, ? 
Hogs, Colts, Calves, Lambs or Pigs. It is Absolutely Harmless even if taken into the Human System. You insist on eating < 
medicinal ingrodients with your Own food at every meal. Salt is a stomach tonic and worm medicine, Pepper is a powerful i 
stimulating tonic. Mustard is a remedy for dyspepsia, Vinegar is a diuretic. You eat these medicinal ingredients almost with ) 
every mouthful of your food, and itisproven that these medicinee promote health and strength for people and improve their i 
digestion. "International Stock Food" contains pure vegetable medicinal ingredients tliat are just as safe and as necessary S 
jj^an addition to the regular food of your stock if you desire to keep them in the best possible condition. "International Stock Food" is endorsed by Every High-Class Farm ? 
P Paper. It purifies the blood, stimulates and permanently strengthens the entire system so that disease is prevented or cured. "International Stock Food" Is sold on a "Spot < 
(VCash Guarantee" by Fifty Thousand Dealers throughout the World. <0"Your Money will be Promptly Refunded in Any case of failure. It will make your Calves or Pigs grow i 
V) Amazingly and has the largest sale in the World for keeping them healthy, C£y Beware of the many Cheap and Inferior Imitations! No Chemist can separate all the Different ? 
V- powdered Roots, Herbs, Barks and Seeds that we use- Any One claiming to do so Must be an Ignoramus or a Falsifier. < 




WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT THUS BOOK. 

IUTKRNATIONA.I, STOCK FOOD CO., '* I INTERNATIONA!. STOCK FOOD CO., ODESSA. MO. 

Eau Claire, Wis. Dear Sirs: — Your "International Stock Book" duly received, 
Dear Sirs: — I received your "International Stock Book" and I I and it is the best thing of its class that I have ever seen. There is 
was more than pleased with it. It is worth more than $10.00 to I I a volume of useful articles in it from start to finish. 
me. Very truly yours, RICHARD J. MORRISSEY^^B^^^ Respectfully, GEO. W. NULL. 



A $3000.00 STOCK BOOH FREE 



IT CONTAINS 183 LARGE ENGRAVINGS OF HORSES, CATTLE, SHEEP, POULTRY, ETC. 

The CoTer of this Book is a Beautiful Live Stock Picture ^Printed in Six Brilliant Colors. Size of the book is 6^ by 9^ inches. It eost us $3000 to have our Artists and Engravers 
make these Engravings. It describes common Diseases, and tells how to treat them. It also gives Description, History and Illustrations of the Different Breeds of Horses, Cattle, 
Sheep, Goats. Hogs and Poultry. It contains Life Engravings of many very neted Animals, and also testimonials. The Editor Of This Paper Will Tell You That You Ought To Ha»» 
This Stock Book Id Tour Library For Reference. SSTlt Contains a Finely Illustrated Veterinary Department That Will Save Ton Hundreds of Dollars. 

WE WILL MAIL IT TO YOU ABSOLUTELY FREE. ^Postage Prepaid. 
We Will Pay Ton $10.00 Ga8h if book i9 not as described. Write us at once, letter or postal card, and A93WEB THESE 2 QUESTIONS: 

1st.— Name This Paper. 3d.— How Much Stock Have Yon? 



We Employ Over 300 People and have 
Hundreds of Thousands of Testimonials. 
Refer to Any Bank in Minneapolis. 



INTERNATIONAL STOCK FOOD CO., Minneapolis, Minn., U.S. A. 



Largest Stock Food Factory in the Woild. 

Capital Paid in, $1,000,000. 
600,000 Feetof Space in Our New Factory. 



THE REAL THING. 

Virginia Rosamond Josephine, our 
pretty colored maid from the Soutn, 
is the proud possessor of a rhinestone 
belt buckle which her mistress brought 
her home from Paris not long since. 
Teddy asked her the other day: 
"Are they real diamonds, "Ginny?" 
"No, indeedy," she replied, with a 
toss of her woolly pompadour. "Dey's 
real grindstones. Missy fetched 'em 
to me from Paradise!" — October Lip- 
pincott's. 



SOME PROVERBS. 

"Without sterling honesty of purpose, 
life is a sham. 

When thinking of your future never 
use "if," use "when." 

Fortune favors the brave. 

Tact and diplomacy is the oil of 
civilization. 

Early to bed, early to rise, makes a 
man healthy, wealthy and wise. 

Solitude is the nurse of wisdom. 

He that will thrive must rise at five, 
he that hath thriven may lie till seven. 



The| Chesapeake & Ohio Railway 

Extending from Cincinnati and Louisville, and 
THR0UQ1 ITS CONNECTIONS.... 

THE BIG FOUR SYSTEM, from Chicago, St. Louis, Peoria, Indianapolis, 

Sandusky and Cleveland ; 
THE OHIO CENTRAL LINES, from Toledo and Columbus; 
THE CINCINNATI, HAMILTON & DAYTON, from Detroit, Toledo, Lima 
and Dayton — 

FORMS THE MOST DIRECT "EEET&SS" ROUTE. 

To STAUNTON, LYNCHBURG, CHARLOTTESVILLE, 
RICHMOND, PETER BURG, NORFOLK, 
And Principal Virginia Poii>tr. 

\Yl. W. FULLER, Gen. Pass. Agt. C. & 0. Ry., Washington, D. C. 



670 



THE SOUTHEKN PLANTER 



[October 



THE GREATEST OF THEIR KIND 
IN THE WORLD. 

The largest city in the world is 
London, lying in four counties, and 
having a population of 5,250,000, equal- 
ling the combined populations of Paris, 
Berlin, Saint Petersburg and Rome. 
To walk through all the streets, aven- 
ues, lanes and alleys of the city, never 
traversing the same one twice, would 
require a ten mile walk every day for 
nine years. The streets, placed in a 
row, would reach round the world, and 
leave a remnant that would stretch 
frrom London to San Francisco. 

The largest geyser in the world is 
the Excelsior Geyser, in Yellowstone 
Park. Its basin is full of boiling wa- 
ter, from which clouds of steam are 
constantly ascending. At long inter- 
vals water is spouted into the air to a 
height of from 50 to 300 feet. 

The largest crater in the world is 
that of Haleakala, in the Sandwich 
Islands. The circumference of the 
crater is about 20 miles; its depth, in 
places, being 2,000 feet. If the in- 
terior were cleared of its debris, New 
York city could be placed on the black 
lava floor, and from three to five other 
big cities put over it before their 
spires would protrude at the top. 

The most magnificent work of archi- 
tecture is deemed to be the palace 
Temple of Karnak, occupying an area 
of nine acres, or twice that of St. 
Peter's at Rome. The temple space is 
a poet's dream of gigantic columns, 
beautiful courts and wondrous aven- 
ues of sphinxes. 

The largest library in the world is 
the National Library of Paris, which 
contains 40 miles of shelves, holding 
1,400,000 books. There are also 175,- 
000 manuscripts, 300,000 maps and 
charts, and 150,000 coins and medals. 

The finest gardens in the world are 
the Royal Gardens at Kew, England. 
They cover an area of about 270 acres, 
and are visited by about 1,500,000 per- 
sons a year. The gardens contain the 
finest collection of exotic plants In the 
world, a palm house, a winter garden, 
a museum, an observatory, and a school 
for gardeners. 

The largest cask in the world is the 
Blatner Cask of Nuremberg. It is 105 
feet in diameter and 51 feet deep, and 
its completion a few years ago was 
celebrated by a ball, at which over 500 
persons were on the floor of the cask, 
excluding musicians, waiters and as- 
sistants. 



The reporter was interviewing the 
Western millionaire. "Is it true that 
you are going to endow a chair in that 
university?" "Endow a chair?" he 
thundered; "why, b'gosh, I can give a 
whole set o' furniture, an' I'll do it, too. 
Say that in your paper! There ain't 
nothing cheap about me." 



"Jenkins is an artist in his line." 
"So?" "Yes; he drew a glass of beer 
so natural that a patron came in and 
drank it." "Well, who is Jenkins, any- 
way?" "Well, he's a bartender, of 
course." 



**3t3t*?«3«*3r*3t* C3C3l3t3t300(3C3C3e3t3t3l30C3t3e3t3000r3l3»JiC **************** 

I CoAxr Mill <r For The Whole World! 
I 4^dW IT 111 IS Big Ones and Little Ones! 

V All sizes from 4 H. P. Farmers' Mill that cuts 3,000 feetX'day, up to the biggest that's made. 

$ sea ^ MSB OVER 10,000 DELOACH patent saw mills in use. 

Our Large Catalog 
No. 66 

will interest you. It illus- 
trates and tells all about the 
famous DeLoach Patent Va- 
riable Friction Feed Saw 
flills, Shingle Mills, Planers, 
Edgers, Trimmers, Stave and 
Lath Mills, Bolters, Cord 
Wood and Drag Saws, Corn 
and Buhr Mills, Water Wheels, 
Mill Gearing, Pulleys, Shaft- 
ing, Etc. 

Please mention the Southern 
Planter when writing us. 
* We will appreciate it. 

I D6L0AGH WILL MANUFACTURING CO., BOX 666 HflOMO, GO- IfWyOFKBraEClUMLIMIllL 

2 The Largest Saw Mill Manufacturing Plant in the World. 




CHARTERED 1870. 

MERCHANTS NATIONAL BANE 

OF RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. 
Capital Stock, = $200,000.00 

Surplus and Profits, - - $672,445.75 

Designated Depository of the United States, City of Richmond and Commonwealth 

of Virginia. 
Being the Largest Depository for Banks between Baltimore and New Orleans, this 

Bank offers superior facilities for direct and quick collections. 
JNO. P. BRANCH, JNO. K. BRANCH, JOHN F. GLESN, 

President. Vice-President. Cashier. 



The HESSLER ^asaA 

ROUND, STRONG, DURABLE 

No Flip-Flap Contrivances. 
You can scrape the mail out with your 
mittens on. PRICE 

A square box is bothersome. $ 1 .00. 

Our box is the best and cheapest, fully up to the government's requirements. 

3DISCOTT1TT IIT DOZE1T LOTS. 

H. E. HESSLER CO., Dept. Z., Syracuse, New York. 




FINE HOLSTEIN BULL, 3 years old, 
eligible to registry, for sale. $40. 

ONE GRADE HEREFORD COW, with 
first calf, sired by registered Here- 
ford bull. $40. 

ONE GRADE HEREFORD HEIFER, 
crossed on Shorthorn, a model of 
beauty. $40. Address 

H. E. JOHNSON, R. F. D., Swansboro, Va. 



POLAND-CHINA and TAMWORTH 
PIGS, entitled to registration. Some 
ready for service. Also grade Here- 
fords, both sexes, for sale at farmer's 
prices, by J. C. GRAVES, 

Barboursville, Va. 



1903.] THE SOUTHERN PLA NTER. 671 

BILTMORE FARMS, = Biltmore, N. C. 

Headquarters for GOLDEN LAD JERSEYS, 

Also Get of TREVARTH and GEN. MARIGO LD. j» * * 

GOLDEN LAD'S SUCCESSOR. First and sweepstakes over all at the Pan-American Exposition, the 
champion JERSEY BULL OF AMERICA, and out of Golden Ora, our great prize-winning cow, both 
born and developed on these Farms, is among our service bulls. 

n Biltmore Jerseys are a combination of large and persistent milking qualities with an individuality 

* that wins in the show ring. 

SPECIALTY. Write for descriptive circular of the best lot of young bull calves ever offered, both for 
breeding and individuality. They are by noted sires and out of large and tested selected dams. Many 
of these calves are fit to show and win in any company. 

Jt * BILTMORE POULTRY YARDS. * ^ 

SPECIALTY. Write for descriptive circular of eggs from our prize-winning pens. Over 50 yards to select 
from, made up of the winners at the leading shows for the last two seasons. If you want winners you 
must breed from winners. 

Headquarters for the best IMPORTED ENGLISH BERKSHIRES. 

apply to BILTMORE FARMS, biltmore, n. c. 



IIIIPEBIHL FBU1T HHD PDOLTBT F B B BI 

Is now booking orders for Eggs from the best strains and careful matings of 

Barred, Buff and White Plymouth Rocks, 
Silver=Laced and White Wyandottes, 
S. C. B. Leghorns and Mammoth Pekin Ducks, 
AT $1.00 PER SITTING. 
EGGS FROM BLACK DEVIL PIT GAMES. 

Never known to run. The grittiest of all games. $2.00 PER SITTING. 

We give 15 Chicken and 13 Duck Eggs for sitting. Order at'^once. 
Write name and address plainly. Remember the express is no more on 2 or 3 sittings than on 1. 
Refer to Augusta National Bank and former patrons. Satisfaction guaranteed or money|refunded 

P. H. HEYDENREICH, - StauntorCva. 



672 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER 



[October 



DOMESTIC ECONOMY. 

To remove blood stains, use clear, 
cold water at first, then soap and 
water. 

It is just the right thing to have an 
embroidered bag to put one's night 
dress in. 

Use a pancake lifter to place cookies 
on the tin, and to remove them when 
they are baked. 

Cold boiled potatoes are more appe- 
tizing if a little flour is sprinkled over 
them while frying. 

If your washtub leaks, turn the bot- 
tom side up and fill the leaky place 
with good hard soap. 

When making soups or broths, put 
the meat or bones into cold water to 
draw out the juices. 

Leather goods can be freshed up by 
rubbing them well with a piece of 
cloth dipped in the white of an egg. 

To keep irons from sticking to 
starched pieces, lay a little fine salt 
on a flat surface and rub them well 
over it. 

When acid of any kind gets on cloth- 
ing, spirts of ammonia will kill it. 
Chloroform applied will restore the 
color. 

To remove grass stains, allow the 
spots to remain saturated with alcohol 
for a little time, then wash in clear 
water. 

When darning woollen hose, make 
the threads one way of stout thread. 
with the cross threads of woollen 
yarn. The result is a firm, smooth 
darn, which looks and wears well. 

To remove fresh tea and coffee stains 
place the stained linen over a large 
bowl and pour through it boiling water 
from the tea kettle, held at a height 
to ensure force. 

Paint spots on glass can be removed 
by moistening with a strong solution 
of soda — the common kitchen variety. 
This will soften them, when they can 
be rubbed off, and the glass should then 
be rubbed with alcohol. 

To prevent wooden bowls from 
cracking, immerse them in cold water, 
then set over the fire, bring to the 
boiling point, and let boil for an hour, 
and don't take them out until the wa- 
ter has gradually, cooled. 

A soothing drink for a sore throat 
that is recommended, is made of a 
pint of barley water brought to a boil 
over a hot fire, to which is added, 
while stirring until dissolved, one 
ounce of the best gum arabic. Sweeten 
to taste. 

To clean the ivory handles of knives, 
mix ammonia and olive oil in equal 
parts, and add enough prepared chalk 
to make a paste. Rub the ivory with 
this, and let it dry before brushing off. 
Several applications may be necessary. 



Your money back 

if you are not 'satisfied 

DO YOU SUPPOSE that a company with a capital of $500,000.00, paid in full, and the 
proud reputation of 36 years of continuous success, would make such an offer and not carry 
it out to the letter? 

DO YOU SUPPOSE we would jeopardize our standing with the public and our chances 
Of still greater success by failing to fulfil any promise we make ? 

DO YOU SUPPOSE we would make such an offer if we did not have the utmost confi- 
dence in the satisfying quality of our goods ? 

WE KNOW we can please you and save you money, for HAYNER WHISKEY goes 
direct from our distillery to you, with all its original richness and flavor, carrying a UNITED 
STATES REGISTERED DISTILLER'S GUARANTEE of PURITY and AGE and saving 
you the big profits of the dealers. That's why it's best for medicinal purposes. That's why 
it's preferred for other uses. That's why we are regularly supplying over a quarter of a 
million satisfied customers. That's why YOU should try it. 

Direct from our distillery to YOU 

Saves Dealers' Profits ! Prevents Adulteration ! "^ "" 

HAYNER WHISKEY 

PURE SEVEN-YEAR-OLD RYE 

4 FULL $$.20 EXPRESS 
QUARTS O PREPAID 

We will send you FOUR PULL QUARTS of HAYNER'S SEVEN-YEAR- 
OLD RYE for $3.20, and we will pay the express charges. When you receive 
the whiskey, try it and if you don't find it all right and as good as you ever 
drank or can buy from any body else at any price, then send it back at our 
expense and your $3.20 will be returned to you by next mail. How could 
an offer be fairer? We take all the risk and stand all the expense, if 
the goods do not please you. Won't you let us send you a trial order? We 
ship in a plain sealed case; no marks to show what's inside. 

Orders for Ariz., Cal., Col., Idaho, Mont., Nev., N. Mex., Ore., Utah, Wash, 
or Wyo., must be on the basis of 4 Quarts for 84.00 by Express 
Prepaid or SS© Quarts for $16.00 by Freight Prepaid. 

Write our nearest office and do it NOW. 

THE HAYNER DISTILLING COMPANY 



ATLANTA GA. DAYTON, OHIO 

156 Distillery, Tboy O. 



ST. LOUIS, MO. ST. PAUL, MINN. 

Established 1866. 





A WASHING MACHINE is as great a necessity in the house as a wringer 

THE MAJESTIC ROTARY WASHER 

lias Loo many good points for explanation in an ad- 
vertisement. Your name on a postal card will 
bring our booklet, with full particulars of our six 
different machines and how to get them. One of 
them will certainly please you. All are made with 
electrically welded wire hoops sunk in grooves — our 
patent. Being the largest manufacturers of wood 
enware in the world, we can make better machines 
for the money than any one else. If you want a 
machine that washes, buy one of ours. 

THE RICHMOND CEDAR WORKS, Richmond, Va. 



1903.] 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



673 



"MOORE" QUALITY "MOORE" QUANTITY 

J. S. MOORE'S SONS, 

Successors to J. S. MOORE & 50NS. 

CORNER EIGHTEENTH & MAIN STREET*, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. 

Wholesale and Retail 

... Grocers, Feed and Liquor Dealers ... 



WE CAN SAVE YOU MONEY. 



Read carefully below our low prices on best Groceries, Feed and Liquors. 
*&*SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO OUT OF TOWN ORDERS. 



Levering Coffee, per lb 9J 

Granulated Sugar, per lb 5 

Light Brown Sugar, per lb 4| 

Lion Coffee, per lb., Daisy 10 

Arbuckle's Coffee, per lb 9£ 

Best Green Tea, per lb 75 

Choice Green Tea, per lb 60 

Good Green Tea, per lb 40 & 50 

Black Tea, Best, per lb 50 

Good Black Tea, per lb 40 

Mixed Tea. per lb 30, 40 & 50 

Fair Black Tea, per lb 25 

Best Rice, per lb 8 

Good Rice, per lb 5 

Pure Leaf Lard, per lb 11 

Good Lard, 9c, or 3 lbs 25 

Cooked Sliced Ham, per lb 12J 

Good Salt Pork, per lb 8 

Choice Salt Pork, per lb 10 

Best Salt Pork, per lb 12 

Best Potted Ham and Tongue, can. 4 

I lb. can Chipped Beef 10 

New N. C. Cut Herrings, dozen, 

10c, or, per bbl 4.25 

New N. C. Roe Herrings, dozen, 

18c, or, per bbl., $5; or h bbl 2.75 

Our Pride of Richmond Flour, best 

patent, per bbl 4.75 

Our Daisy Flour, good patent, per 

bbl 4.25 

Our Excelsior Flour, good family, 

per bbf. 3.75 

Fresh Soda Crackers, per lb 5 

Ginger Snaps, per lb 5 

New Mixed Nuts, per lb 12£ 

Cocoanuts, 5c; or, per 100 3.50 



Fresh Mixed Cakes, per lb 

6 bars Colgate's Octagon Soap .... 

7 bars Octagon Shape Soap, 10-oz. 
cakes for 

10 bars Moon Soap, 8-ounce cakes. 
12 bars Hustler Soap, 8-oz cakes. . 
Small California Hams, per lb. . . . 
Good Salmon, can, 9c; 3 cans. . . . 

Large Mackerel, each 10 

Large cans Good Tomatoes, can . . 8 
Large cans Best Tomatoes, can. . 
2 lb. cans Best Tomatoes, can . . . 

Large Juicy Lemons, dozen 

Green Coffee, per lb., 9c; 3 lbs. . . 
Quart Mason Jars of Light Syrup 

I gallon Can Light Syrup 

1 gallon can Light Syrup 

5 bbl. Clipped Herrings 2.75 

200 pound sack salt, per sack 85 

100 pound sack salt, per sack 45 

Best Full Cream Cheese, per lb.. 15 

Lump Starch, per lb 4 

Best Water Ground Meal, per peck, 

20c ; per bushel 70 

Best Ship Stuff, per 100, $1.20; ton.23.00 
Best Bran or Brown Stuff, per 100. 1.10 
Best Mixed Oats, per bushel.... 48 

Cotton Seed Hulls 9.50 

Best No. 1 Timothy Hay, per ton. .17.00 
Porto Rico Molasses, per gallon. . 35 
New Orleans Molasses, per gallon. 50 
Good Dark Molasses, per gallon.. 20 
Maple Syrup, £ pint 10 

3 plugs of any 10c Tobacco for 25c, 
such as Peach, Plum, Grape, Reynold's 



CHOICE WINES AND LIQUORS. 

Moore's Crown, fine, per gal $3.00 

Moore's Excelsior, fine, per gal 2.00 

Moore's Keystone, 3 years old, per 

gal 2.50 

Moore's Old Capital, 2 years old, 

per gal 1.50 

Pure Va. Apple Brandy, gallon... 3.00 
Maryland Apple Brandy, gallon.. 2.25 
Imported Sherry Wine, gallon . . 3.00 

Good Gin, per gallon 2.00 

Best Gin, gallon 2.50 

Best N. C. Corn Whiskey, per gal.. 2.00 

Best Catawba, per gallon 45 

Blackberry Wine, per gallon 45 

Good Port or Sherry Wine, gallon. 1.00 

New England Rum, per gallon 2.00 

7 year old Pure Rye, 1896, Good 

Hyspire Brand, per gallon 3.50 

Duffy's Malt Whiskey, per bottle, 

80c; per dozen 9.00 

O'Grady's Malt Whiskey, per bottle, 

80c. ; per dozen 9.00 

McDermott's Malt Whiskey, per 

bottle, 80c; per dozen 9.00 

Pure Scotch Whiskey, User Brand, 

per quart 1.15 

Pure Fulcher Mountain Whiskey, 

per quart 1.15 

Pure Savage Mountain Whiskey, 

4 years old, very fine, gallon... 3.00 
Wilson Whiskey, $1 bottle; per 

dozen, 11.50 

With 1 dozen one-half pints free in 
case. 
3 year old pure Blackberry Wine, 

per gallon 1.00 

Jas. E. Pepper Whiskey, bottle... 1.00 



Sun Cured and other brands. 

We have everything in the Grocery, Liquor and Feed line, and can furnish anything not quoted 
at lowest market price. Prices on Staple Groceries and Feed subject to market changes. 

We know the difficulty farmers experience in getting good family liquors owing to recent leg- 
islation, and have made special arrangements to supply this trade. Plain packages— any size of 
any brand shipped promptly. SEND US YOUR ORDERS. 



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[October 




WAGONS and BUGGIES 

MADE 

RIGHT HERE 

AT HOME 

BY 

The BARBOUR BUGGY CO., 
The HUGHES BUGGY CO., 
The VIRGINIA WAGON CO. 

These vehicles are guaranteed to be as good as can be bought elsewhere; material and 
workmanship unsurpassed; all sizes and styles, prices low. We can save you time, 
money and freight by purchasing our vehicles. Send for our illustrated catalogues. 
Drop in our warehouse and inspect our stock. Inquiries cheerfully answered. 

AGENTS FOR DEERING MACHINES. 

RICHMOND BUGGY & WAGON CO., 1433 E. Main Street, RICHMOND, VA. 

J. T- DUNN, Manager. 




Ah of Virginia. 



^aTHIRD ANNUAL EXHIBITION^ 

Richmond Horse Show Association, 

RICHMOND, -:- VIRGINIA. 

October 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th and 17th, 1903. 



Night Exhibitions with Saturday Matinee. 
Over $8,000.00 in prizes. 

W. O. WARTHEN, Secretary, 
J. T. ANDERSON, President. 



FOR SALE: 



Pedigrees traced and tabulated. Catalogues compiled and 
circulars prepared. Special attention given registration 
matters pertaining to thoroughbreds and trotting horses 

. . . BY . . . 

w. j. carter (Broad Rock), 

P.O. Box 929 RICHMOND, VA 

Representing the .... 

The Times-Dispatch, Richmond, Va. 
Southern Planter, Richmond, Va. 
Spobts of the Times, New York. 
Kentucky Stock Farm, Lexington, Ky. 
Breeder and Sportsman, San Francisco, Cal. 



The Fine Thoroughbred Stallion 

ED. KEARNEY. 

Chestnut horse, 16. 0J hands high, weight 1,150 pounds. By 
Tom Ochiltree, son of Lexington and Katona ; dam Medusa, 
by Sensation, second dam Hilda, by imp. Eclipse. (For ex- 
tension of pedigree see Amer. Stud Book, Vol. 6, page 740). 

ED. KEARNEY was a fine race horse, and won a number of 
races both in the East and in California. He is a grand speci- 
men of the thoroughbred stallion. No horse sires finer colts 
from all classes of mares. Address 

ROBERT TAIT, Commercial Place, Norfolk, Va. 

AGNEL, 38033. 

Bay stallion, foaled 1900; sired by Guardsman 19355, record 
2.23£; dam of the great brood mare Zeta, dam of Miss Duke 
2.13, etc. by Red Wilkes. 

AGNEL has fine size and is a grand looking young horse, he 
is richly bred and has the action of a trotter. 
Fee $15.00 the season. 

BEN W. SUTHERLAND, Mt. Olive, N. C. 



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A. C. SINTON. President. 



R. R. GWATHMEY, Vice-President, 
Jt J* Jf J$ Jt 



J. J. SUTTON, Secretary, 



ESTABLISHED 1840. 




The WATT PLOW CO., 

15th & Franklin and 14th & Main Sts., Richmond, Va. 

Agricultural Implements, 
Machinery, Vehicles and 
Harness. ^ %* <£ <& 



INCORPORATED 1893. 



PEERLESS ENGINE. 



HOCKING VALLEY FEED CUTTER. 



STAR SWEEP MILL. 







SECTIONS OF WIRE FENCE. 



A full stock always on hand, and 
prompt shipments guaranteed. South 
Bend, Dixie and Farmer's Friend 
Plows and repairs. The Hancock Ro- 
tary Disc Plow, warranted to go in 
the ground where all others fail. 

Hocking Valley Feed Cutters, Cy- 
clone Shredders, Smalley Feed Cutters, 
Dain Corn Cutters. Equal to any made. 
Staver Buckeye Feed Mill and Horse 
Power Combined. Star Sweep Mill. 
Either grinds corn on cob or shelled. 

Whitman All-Steel, full circle Hay 
Presses. George Ertel Company's full 
circle Hay Presses. Rapid Fire Horse 
Power Hay Press, for one horse, a good, 
cheap press. "Will put up from 150 to 
200 bales a day. The well known Min- 
nich Brand Baling Presses. 

Hocking Valley Wine and Cider 
Mills. Hard wood rollers. The best 
mill made. 

Hocking Valley Corn Shellers, for 
hand or power. Smalley Electric Pole 
and Wood Saws, for steam or horse 
power. Peerless Engines and Saw 
Mills always in stock. Several good 
second-hand Engines and other second- 
hand machinery for sale. "Pittsburgh 
Perfect" fencing, electrically welded. 
See cuts showing weld. Barb Wire, 
Plain Galvanized Wire, Baling Wire 
and Bale Ties. Continental Disc Har- 
rows. Buffalo and Lean Spike Harrows. 

The celebrated Columbus, Ohio, Bug- 
gies, Carriages, Runabouts, and Traps. 

Farm Wagons and Delivery Wagons, 
a complete stock. 

Correspondence solicited. 




' 'I 'f M i 1 \ 

SPIKE HARROW. 








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The following list of papers and periodicals 
are the most popular ones In this section. 
We can SAVE YOU MONET on whatever 
Journal you wish. 



DAILIES. 

Price. With 
Alone. Planter. 

Times-Dispatch, Richmond, Va $5 00 $5 00 

The Post, Washington, D. C 6 00 6 00 

The Sun, Baltimore, Md 3 00 3 40 

News-Leader, Richmond, Va 3 00 3 00 

TRI-WEEKLY. 

The World (thrice-a-week), N. Y. ... 1 00 1 25 

WEEKLIES. 



Harper's Weekly 4 

Harper'3 Bazaar 1 

Montgomery Advertiser 1 

Nashville American 

The Baltimore Sun 1 

Breeder's Gazette 2 

Hoard's Dairyman 1 

Country Gentleman 1 

iteligious Herald, Richmond, Va 2 

Times-Dispatch, Richmond, Va 1 

Christian Advocate, " " 1 

Central Presbyterian, " " ...; 2 

Horseman « 



4 00 
1 40 
1 60 
75 
1 35 
1 75 
1 35 

1 75 

2 25 

1 25 
175 

2 25 

3 00 



MONTHLIES. 



50 

50 

50 

1 50 



Wool Markets and Sheep 

Dairy and Creamery 

Commercial Poultry 

All three [[''[ 

North American Review 5 00 

The Century Magazine 4 on 

St. Nicholas Magazine 3 00 

Lippincott's Magazine 2 50 

Harper's Magazine 4 qq 

Forum Magazine 3 00 

Scribner's Magazine 3 00 

Frank Leslies Magazine 1 00 

Cosmopolitan Magazine 100 

Everybody's Magazine 100 

Munsey Magazine 100 

Strand Magazine 1 25 

McClure's Magazine 100 

Argosy Magazine 100 

Review of Reviews 2 50 

Successful Farming 1 00 

Southern Fruit Grower 50 

Where you desire to subscribe to two 
more of the publications named, you can ar- 
rive at the net subscription price by deduct- 
ing 50 cents from "our price with the 
PLANTER." If you desire to subscribe to 
any other publications not listed here, write 
us and we will cheerfully quote clubbing or 
net subscription rates. 

Subscribers whose time does not expire 
until later can take advantage of our club 
rates, and have their subscription advanced 
•ne year from date of expiration of their 
subscription to either the PLANTER or any 
•f the other publications mentioned. 

Don't hesitate to write us for any informa- 
tion desired; we will cheerfully answer any 
correspondence. 

We furnish NO SAMPLE COPIES of other 
psriadlcaJs. 



75 
75 
75 

1 15 
5 00 
4 25 

3 25 

2 50 

4 00 

3 25 
3 25 
1 35 
1 35 
1 35 
1 35 
1 65 
1 35 

1 85 

2 75 
75 
85 
or 



Seed House of the South. 



RED 

CLOVER, 

nAMMOTH 

CLOVER, 

CRinSON 

CLOVER, 

WHITE 

CLOVER, 

LUCERNE 

CLOVER, 

ALSYKE 

CLOVER, 

BOKHARA 

CLOVER, 

JAPAN 



BUR 



CLOVER, 



eLOVER, 




TiriOTHY, 

ORCHARD 

GRASS, 

RED TOP or 

HERDS GRASS, 

KENTUCKY 

BLUE GRASS, 

RANDALL 

GRASS, 

TALL MEADOW 

OAT GRASS, 

JOHNSON 

GRASS, 

GERHAN 

MILLET, 

BUCKWHEAT, . 

OATS and 

CANE SEED. 



"Whatsoever One Soweth, That Shall He Reap." 

We sell strictly reliable FIELD AND GARDEN SEEDS of every 
variety at Lowest Market rates, included in which are 

RAGLAND'S PEDIGREE TOBACCO SEEDS. 

+■ & &■ WE ALSO SELL 

Our Own Brands of Fertilizers 

For Tobacco, Corn, Wheat, Potatoes, &c. 

Pure Raw-Bone Meal, Nova Scotia and Virginia Plaster and 
Fertilizing Materials generally. 

Parties wishing to purchase will find it to their interest to price our goods. 
Samples sent by mail when desired. 



Win. A. Miller & Son, •* 



1016 Main Street, 
LYNCHBURG, VA. 



, ^hs i-* i-» , :- v@wv^t*«^i jV». 2-». x*. x^ X*- 

Headquarters for 



Nursery Stock. 



WHOLESALE 

AND 

RETAIL. 



We make a specialty of handling dealers' orders. 
ALL STOCK TRUE TO NAME. 



* 



Apples, Nectarines, Pecans, 

Pears, Cherry, Chestnuts, 

Peach, Quinces, Walnuts, 

Plum, Almonds, Small Fruits, 

Apricots, 
CALIFORNIA PRIVET, for Hedging. 

. . AGENTS WANTED. 
FRANKLIN DAVIS NURSERY CO., 



Ornamental and *f» 

Shade Trees, «#> 

Evergreens, *§* 

Roses, Etc. *|* 

WRITE FOR CATALOGUE. *§* 

Baltimore, Md. ^ 

ii wit i¥- -*- -** 
v v v " 



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Latest Improved FARM IMPLEMENTS. 




Scientific Steel Corn Harvester. 

The best Harvester on earth, for standing corn 

Safety seats. Safety shafts. 



ROSS.... 

Fodder Cutters, Fodder 
Shredders, Cutters for all 
purposes, Corn Shellers, 
Grinding Mills, Horse 
Powers and Wood Saws. 




Chattanooga 
Cane Mills 

and 
Evaporators. 




Special prices given on Studebaker and 
Brown Wagons, Buggies and Carts. 




Aspinwall Planters, Potato Sorters 
and Cutters. 




CAHOON Seed Sowers. MICHIGAN Wheel- 
barrow Sowers. 



S3Sy/%!8&lffi 



¥&M. 




The Lyons Improved Fanning Mill. 




Superior Grain Drills. 

Plain and Fertilizer Hoe and Disc 

Drills— All sizes. 



TIGER Steel and Wood Self-Dump Rakes, 
GRANGER Steel and Wood Hand-Dump Rakes, 
all sizes. 

ELI BALING PRFSSfcS. (38 Styles.) 
Buckeye Force Pumps. Porce- 
lained Wood Pnmps. Wood and 
Steel Wind Mills. 



Milwaukee Corn Husker and Fodder Shredder, 



Read list of only a few of the many using the MIL- 
WAUKEE Husker: 



Has Steel Gears and Steel Clutches and Rolls Easily 
Adjusted to all Conditions of Corn. 

With Blower or Carrier. Manufactured in 5 sizes : Large machineslor 
threshermen, and small machines for farmers' own use. 




Virginia: 
R. L. Bruce, Medlock. 
J. C. Segar, Lewiston. 
J. A. Graham, Hanover. 
L. E. Williams, Enfield. 
Julian Ruflin, Old Church. 
Edmund Ruffin, Old Church. 
A. T. Broaddus, Old Church. 
H. S. Saunders, Shirley. 



M. L. Norvell, Island. 
S. D. Ivey, Petersburg. 
J. A. Maddox, Triangle. 
W. H. Walton, Rice Depot. 
T. S. Wilson, News Ferry. 
Geo. R. Land, Boydton. 

North Carolina: 
C. C. Moore, Charlotte, 



Mrs. Alice Bransford, Shirley. R. F. Broaddus, New Berne. 
C. C. Branch, Toano. Col. B. Cameron, Stagville. 

The above parties will cheerfully give you testimonials as 

to the merits of the MILWAUKEE. We are ready at all 

times to go in the field with any other husker made, and 

will guarantee the MILWAUKEE TO BE THE BEST 

MADE; and will also guarantee it to do more work than 

any other made, and SHELL LESS CORN. AND COST 

LESS FOR REPAIRS and last longer. Write the parties 

that are using them; also write for special circulars and 

testimonials we have, which will be sent with pleasure. 



HENING & NUCKOLS, c^I™, 1436-38 E. Mi SI. 



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3 Months Trial Subscription 



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for 10 CENTS or 3 for 25 CENTS. 



This [liberal offer should be accepted by thous= 

ands who are not now readers. 

Send in at once. 



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Not all for the dollar! 



Something for reputation. 



ASHTON STARKE 

THE LARGEST AND FINEST LINE OF HARROWS TO BE HAD. 



RICHMOND, 
VIRGINIA. 




BICKFORD and HUFFMAN WHEAT DRILLS 

Feed Cutters and Ensilage Cutters. 

FROM THE LARGEST POWER CUTTER TO THE SMALLEST HAND CUTTER. 



RICHMONDI^ENGINE AND PUMP COMPANY 

More of our Gasoline Engines made and sold than any three 
of the largest factories in the country. 



THE SIMPLEST, 
THE STRONGEST, 
THE BEST, 
THE HOST 

POWERFUL. 
NO OTHER ENGINE 
COHPARES WITH IT. 




ENDORSED BY THE 
NATIONAL BOARD 
OF FIRE INSURANCE 
UNDER-WRITERS 
AFTER 194 TESTS. 



PUMPS FOR HAND AND POWER. HYDRAULIC RAMS TANKS AND TOWERS. 

The Duplex Grinding Feed Mills, a specialty. 



680 



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[October 



A HIGHLY IMPROVED FARM, 
110 or 225 acres for sale, 5£ miles 
from Manchester. Fine new dwelling, 
new barns, etc. Abundantly watered. 
Young orchard; good neighborhood; 
excellent for stock raising or trucking. 
Address 
H. E. JOHNSON, R. F. P., Swansboro, Va. 

WANTED — Experienced middle-aged 
man and wife, without small children, 
to work and oversee medium sized 
farm in Virginia. Must be sober, eco- 
nomical and industrious, and must un- 
derstand care of stock and the work- 
ing of improved farm machinery. Give 
reference and state previous duties 
and wages. Address DR. THOS. A. 
KAY, 345 Wyoming avenue, Scranton, 
Pa. 



jft THE j» 



SEABOARD 



Mention the Southern Planter in 
writing. 



AIR LINE RAILWAY 

0FFERS THE MANUFACTURER, 

PROFITABLE 
INVESTMENTS 

TO»-« » »» > 

WHERE YOUR LABOR 



THE STOCK RAISER, 
THE DAIRYMAN, 
THE FRUIT GROWER, 
THE TRUCKER, 
IS NOT IN VAIN. 



Would a country where work can be carried on the entire year and where 
laige profits can be realized interest you? . 

The SEABOARD Air Line Railway traverses six Southern States and a 
region of this character. One two cent stamp will bring handsome illustrated 
literature descriptive of the section. 

j B WHITE EDW. W. COST, CHARLES B. RYAN, 

Gen. Industrial Agt., Portsmouth, Va v Traffic Nlgr. Gen. Pass, Agt., Portsmouth, Va 



Established by 
GEO. WATT, 1840. 



... IMPLEMENTS & MACHINERY ... 



MANFRED CALL, 
Gen'l Manager. 





FULL CIRCLE HORSE POWER PRESSES. 



'BOY" HAY PRES?. 




Hay and Cotton Press. 




(ALL qizES ) THE NEW MOLINE. WOOD AND STEEL ROLLERS. 

T^TC 1 ETC 

We solicit inquires for anything desired. Write for circul 

13 So. Fifteenth Street, 
Between Main and Cary 



RICHMOND, VA. THE CALL-WATT CO. 




catfa*iBeii ^A»-* wi- i^ J ' ^ i >ifa 'i' | J.^» - l ^ » g s sa r ag i2 wassBs«BgSeSc 



WHY USE DANGEROUS BARB WIRE 

an 55 INCH. ,=>« 

WHEN AN| 

ATTRACTIVE WOVM 
WIRE FENCE 

CAN BE BOUGHT AT EVEN 
LESS COST? ""* 

THE AMERICAN FIELD FENCING Is made in many heights and styles for 
turning the smallest to the largest a nimal. Write for speci al catalogue and prices. _^____ 

The Ohio Feed and Ensil- 
aqe Cutters. Built for Strength and 

Rapid Cutting. Furnished with Either cutter 
or shredder head, or both, and with blower 
or elevator when desired. Special catalogue 
mailed free. 






THE TIGER RIDING DISC CULTIVATOR. 



SINGLE and DOUBLE 

CIDER MILLS. 

THE TIGER RIDING DISC 
CULTIVATOR .... 

With its BALL BEARINGS, PIVOT TONGUE, 
which changes instantly the direction of the 
disc by the slightest pressure of the foot, Stag- 
gered Spoke Wheels, and gangs that can be 
changed almost instantly to throw either to or 
from the centre, is the most desirable made. 
MIDDLE DISCS furnished to change into Disc 
Harrows. Send for special catalogue and 
prices. 




BUGGIES and 

CARRIAGES, 

(ALL STYLES.) 

We carry the largest stock of any house 
south of Baltimore, and have " grades and 
prices to suit everybody. Special buggy cata- 
logue free. 

FANNING MILLS. We can strongly re- 
commend the "LYONS" for cleaning any kind 
of grain or grass seed. Does its work clean, 
and praised by every one who has used it. 

Everything the farm needs we can supply, 
and that a close price. 




THE IMPLEMENT CO., 1302 and 1304 E. Main St., Richmond, Va 



The Northwestern ,™nce'co. 

T „ t. ,. Biltmore, N. C, March 9, 1903. 

BII.TMORE ESTATE, Landscape Dept. Dm ' 

Office of Superintendent. 
My policies in the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, which I have heen carrying for a .num- 
ber of tars appeal to me as the best investments I have ever made. If I wished to carry more msurance I 
would Tt care ?ogo outside of this Company with a view of finding better security or greater dmdends which 
Ire based on broad but conservative business principles. It is a pleasure to me to testify as to my impres- 

C. D. Beadle. 
si oiis 

For rates and other Virginia and North Carolina testimonials, address, 

I UGIIBIU till!. MM W tOT !l. and 1. C; 1201 1 Jlil « «>lUJI 



STRONG. HEALTHY AND SLEEK HORSES 

Are the inevitable result of giving OWENS & KNOB'S MOSCOW- 
DITION POWDERS. If you wiuh fat and emooth Cattle and healthy 
Milch Cows, give 

DIXIE CONDITION POWDERS. 

For RHEUMATISM, SPRAINS, STRAINS and all PAINS use 
DIXIE NERVE AND BONK UNIMENT-M on earth for Man o, 

Beaat - La rge Bottle 25 cts.; everywhere. ^^ ^ mNoR druq cq Richniond( Va . | 



v ^ m v+s+ a *** * ***** * ^^ 



VIRGINIA-C AROLINA CH EMICAL CO. 

Southern Manufacturers 

.* FERTILIZERS <£ 



FOR- 



Southern Farmers. 



THE FACTS: 

Largest makers of Fertilizers! 
Largest producers of material! 

THE RESULTS: 

Better Fertilizers! Lowering prices! 
Increasing sales! 

Sales Offices: RICHHOND, Va., NORFOLK, VA., DURHAM, N. C. 
AQENTS, - - - - EVERYWHERE. 

^— -— ■%->.■# **■■ iiinft Hlll JOHN P. KLLETT, President. WM. M HILL, Cashier. 

TU- QTBTC PAMK OP VlRlilMlfl CAP.TAL, $500,000 SURPLUS, ^40,000;