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Vol. 64. 



AUGUST, 1903. 



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No. 8. 



CONTENTS. 



FARM MANAGEMENT: 



Editorial— Work for the Month 489 

Alfalfa 492 

Grass Seeding 493 

Alfalfa 494 

Hessian Fly 495 

Oats Turning to Cheat ". 495 

Vetch, Cow Pea. and Soy Bean Hav as Substi- 
tutes for Wheat Bran ' 4 q fi 

Borers \\\\\ J™ 

Clover in Eastern Virginia 497 

Cheat or Chess " 4 98 

The Inadequacy of the Prevailing M 
Applying Fertilizers Throughout tt 80 I 



Applying Fertilizers Throughout tt 80 I a J\[ 9SIj tf airoofi 
States Atto- . l __y 



Raising Colts 

A Notable Shipment of Berkshires for Bilt- 

more Farm 

Ticks on Cattle 

THE POULTRY YARD: 

Eggs and the Cost of Production 

Don't We Keep Too Many Roosters? 

Hawks Again .- 

Gapes 

Lice 

The Tomato An Insect Repeller. . 



Enquirer's Column (Detail Index, Page 521) 
TRUCKING, GARDEN AND ORCHARD: 



498 
500 



505 
505 



Editorial— Work for the Month 

Growing Strawberries in Pots. . 

Orchard and Garden Notes 506 

Fire Blight on Pears '.'..'.'.'. 507 

LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY: 

Editorial — A Dehorning Pen . . 509 

Live Stock at St. Louis 50 o 

The Profitable Colt " " 50 g 

More Live Stock 510 



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Notes 



MISCELLANEOUS: 

Editorial— The Virginia Crop Pest Law 

Virginia at the St. Louis Exposi- 



tion 



Sa 'e of Pure Bred Short Horns. 

Hogs and Strychnine 

Crops and Stock in Pulaski Co., Va.. 

California Privet '. 

Fertilizer for Raspberries and Strawberries 

Improving Poor Land 

Root Pruning of Trees 



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Richmond, August, 1903. 



No. 8. 



Farm Management. 



WORK FOR THE MONTH. 

With the first days of July we had the first touch 
of real summer weather, and the temperature became 
more nearly that which we are accustomed to have 
in May and June. Since that time, up to the date of 
this writing the temperature, though below normal 
for July, has yet been seasonable and has been ac- 
companied by warm rains at intervals close enough 
to prevent any approach to drought. This most de- 
sirable change has had a great and beneficial in- 
fluence on the growing crops and they are now making 
good progress, but are yet much behind their normal 
condition at this time of the year, and we shall need 
a continuance of this genial weather for some time 
to bring them so forward as that early frosts may 
not catch them before maturitv. 



The wheat crop of the country has now been all 
harvested, except in the North and Northwest, and 
the latest reports place its average condition as below 
that of last year. All through the sections where 
threshing has been done the yields are disappointing, 
and especially is this so in the South and East. The 
indications are that the crop will fall very much short 
of what has been predicted. 



The very cold, wet and unfavorable spring has had 
a disastrous effect on the corn crop prospect. Owing 
to the impossibility of preparing the land and plant- 
ing the crop the acreage in corn is greatly reduced. 
The government report makes the reduction in area 
over 4,000,000 acres, whilst other more sanguine 



estimates place it at something over 3,000,000 acres. 
But this alone does not tell all the tale. That planted 
was so backward in growth on the 1st of July that 
much of it, unless the weather is most propitious and 
the frosts late, will have great difficulty in reaching 
maturity. In the great corn belt the condition is 
from 15 to 20 points below that of last year at the 
same time. In the South, whilst the average condi- 
tion is higher than in other parts, it is yet below that 
of the ten-year average. The indications, therefore, 
are for a considerably less crop than that of last year 
and below the average of a normal year. 



The cotton crop is still reported as very late and 
small in growth, with considerable injury from boll 
weavil in the extreme Southwest and a very irregu- 



lar growth in other States. 



The tobacco crop is planted on a larger area than 
that of last year and is making good progress, though 
somewhat late. The outlook in the bright sections is 
not so promising as in the sections where darker types 
and shipping are grown. Some of the reports from 
rbe Carolinas are very disappointing as to the 
quantity and quality of the leaf. 



The apple crop throughout the South is still pro- 
mising, a smaller proportion of the fruit having drop- 
ped than the average. From the Piedmont section of 
this State we hear some excellent reports. 



Live stock is doing well generally, as pastures have 



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[August 



kept full of feed owing to the rains. The demand on 
the market keeps good and prices are firm. The man 
who has plenty of stock is not likely to regret it. 



Forage crops are making good growth and a large 
acreage of these, especially peas, has been planted 
within the past month. It is not yet too late to plant 
peas or peas and sorghum to make a hay crop, but no 
time should be lost in getting them in. 



The harvesting ,of these crops will require atten- 
tion as they become ready. D'o not wait until the 
leaves and stalks are being dried up before cutting. 
Where the object in growing these crops is forage, 
and not seed, they are in the best condition when 
just forming the seed. Peas should be cut when 
the first pods are turning yellow. The pea crop is 
best cut with a grain reaper which throws the crop 
out of the way of the horses when coming round 
again. If cut with a mower hands should be em- 
ployed to follow the mower and throw back the cut 
crop, or much of it will be injured by the tramping 
of the team. Leave broadcast until thoroughly wilted 
and partially cured, then rake into windrow and leave 
for a day or two, then put up into cock and leave 
to cure out, but do not leave the cocks standing in 
the field until they are wasted and weather-beaten. 
If the weather be fine and dry twenty-four hours in 
the cock will make the hay fit to store in the barn. 
Before hauling open the cocks to the sun to dry off 
any excess of moisture caused by heating or dew, or 
both, and the hay may then be safely packed away 
closely in the barn where it will heat and cure out 
finely. Be particularly careful not to haul the peas 
when at all damp with rain or dew or they mould and 
spoil. Soy bean hay should be cured in the same 
way, but it is less susceptible to injury from rain 
than peas and may be left in the cock longer without 
loss. Where peas are grown for the seed the crop 
should be allowed to stand until the most of the pods 
are turning ripe and then be cut with the mower, 
reaper or scythe and be handled as carefully and 
little as possible to avoid shelling the peas. Put 
into cocks as soon as fairh' dry and leave there to 
cure out. 

Soy beans, when grown for seed, are best cut 
with a reaper and tied and set up in shocks like 
grain. 

Sorghum should be cut like corn, but be allowed 
to remain laid on the ground for several days to wilt 
and largely cure before being shocked up. It is 
a crop which does not spoil easily with the weather 



and may remain in the field without loss for several 
weeks if need be. 

Millet should be cut before the seed forms. It 
is at its best for hay when in bloom and should be 
cured like a grass crop. By the end of the month 
the corn crop intended for silage will be sufficiently 
matured to cut and store. See that you have the silo 
ready and the cutter and elevator, or better, the 
blower, in place. Do not hurry the work of filling 
the silo. Better silage is made and much more can 
be put into the silo by filling slowly. Cut half a day 
and fill half a day, thus giving opportunity for the 
mass to settle and get up a good heat to expel the air. 
There is no necessity for treading the silage or 
weighting the top of the filled silo, as was formerly 
thought necessary. All that is needed is to keep a 
man or two in the silo when filling to see that the 
corners and round the sides are kept well filled and 
the cut ears distributed equally over the silo. When 
full or the whole crop put in, cover with a foot of 
freshly-cut marsh grass or chaff or cotton-seed hulls 
or cut straw. Water this covering well and in a few 
days it will be all matted together with mould, which 
will effectually seal the silage and keep it good. 



The seeding of forage crops to provide winter 
and spring grazing and for cutting for green feed in 
the spring and for an early hay crop and to conserve 
the fertility of the soil and improve the land for 
next year's crops, should now be attended to. Crim- 
son clover is one of the best of these crops. The 
only drawback attending it is its liability to be killed" 
after germinating by the sun and drouth. As, how- 
ever, it may be sowed from this time to the end of 
September, or even the middle of October, there is 
ample time within which to secure a stand. The 
best way to proceed is to sow an acre or two and 
then wait a week and sow another acre or two and 
so on until all the land available has been seeded. In 
this way some part, if not all, will make a stand 
and a crop, larger or smaller, will be secured. It is 
too valuable a crop as feed and for an improver of the 
soil not to be worth some special effort to secure a 
stand. We have known a crop of it to so improve a 
piece of land as to make it produce from ten to 
twenty bushels more of corn to the acre, and this, 
after having served as pasturage for a large number 
of animals during the winter and spring. Prepare 
the land well and if poor give a dressing of 300 
pounds of acid phosphate to the acre and sow twelve 
to fifteen pounds of seed per acre. When seeding 
this crop always sow with it about three-fourths of a 
bushel of wheat and oats mixed and one pounds of 



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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



491 



Dwarf Essex rape per acre may also be sowed along 
with the seed if the crop is only intended for pasture 
and as an improver. Where it is intended to be 
cut for hay the rape should be omitted. A pound or 
two of turnip seed per acre may also be sowed if de- 
sired and will provide a nice crop of roots for winter 
pulling and feeding. The advantage of sowing this 
mixed seeding is that if the clover should be killed 
there will be sure to be something left to cover the 
land during the winter and thus conserve the fer- 
tilitv of the soil and provide some humus making 
matter to be turned clown for the benefit of the fol- 
lowing crop. 

Another crop which should not be overlooked is 
hairy vetch. This should be seeded in August and 
September and will make spring pasturage and a fine 
hay prop, which can be cut in May and be followed 
by corn or peas. This is one of the leguminous crops 
which add fertility to the soil and conserve the 
land. Sow twenty pounds of seed to the acre on 
well-prepared land and sow with it three-fourths of 
a bushel of wheat and oats mixed. Harrow in and 
if the land is dry roll. If the land is not in good 
fertility apply 300 pounds of acid phosphate. It 
makes an excellent pasture for hogs and cattle in the 
early spring and will make a hay crop of from two 
to three tons to the acre. 



The work of preparing the land for the wheat and 
winter oat crops should be commenced at once. Ex- 
periments have fully demonstrated that the success 
of these crops depends much more on the physical 
and mechanical condition of the soil than upon the 
fertilizer applied. In a series of rotation experi- 
ments conducted recently in South Dakota, where 
wheat has been grown after a great variety of differ- 
ent crops and also after a summer fallow, during 
which the land was continuouslv worked and brought 
into a fine mechanical condition, the yield of the 
wheat was greater after the fallow than after any 
crop. Where wheat succeeded wheat the yield was 
only a little over three bushels to the acre, whilst after 
a summer fallow it was eighteen bushels to the acre. 
Wheat grown after com always made a better yield 
than after a crop that was not cultivated, thus show- 
ing that what is needed to secure a profitable growth 
of wheat is perfect preparation of the land so as to 
make available the plant food in the soil. The yield 
of wheat after corn was only about a third of a bushel 
less per acre than after a summer fallow. Get the 
plows into the fields intended to be sown with wheat 
and oats as soon as possible and plough the land 



deeply. Follow the plows with the cultivator, har- 
row and roller and. keep these going over the land 
every week or ten days until time to seed the crops. 
The better and more frequently the land is worked 
the better will be the yield. Let the land to be seeded 
to winter oats receive first attention, as these to be 
grown profitably — and they are, on an average of 
years, the only oats which can be grown profitably 
in the South — ought to be sown in September, whilst 
wheat should not be sown until after we have had a 
frost or two, say, in October or November. The 
essential for success in wheat growing is a fine, 
deeply-broken seed bed, yet with a compact subsurface 
and land free from weeds. By breaking at once and 
frequent harrowing and cultivating these essentials 
can be secured. 



Turnips should be sown this monlh. To make the 
heaviest yield they should be planted in drills 2 feet 
G inches apai't and be thinned out after they have 
made two or three leaves, so as to stand about nine 
inches apart: in the drill. The land should be finely 
broken and the seed be drilled in — about two pounds 
to the acre — and be rolled with a light roller. If 
sown broadcast it will take three or four pounds of 
seed per acre. Turnips, to make a heavy crop — we 
have made thirty tons to the acre — require heavy 
fertilization. From ten to twenty tons of farm-yard 
manure to the acre may be applied with advantage, 
and in its absence, or even as a supplement to it, 
400 or 500 pounds to the acre of acid phosphate 
should be used. A crop of turnips makes such a 
valuable addition to the winter rations of cattle, sheep 
and hogs that an effort should be made to secure 
them. With turnips, straw or corn fodder and a 
pound of cotton-seed meal per head per day young 
cattle can be carried through the winter in a con- 
stantly improving condition. 



Dwarf Essex rape should now be seeded for a fall, 
winter and spring pasture for sheep and hogs. This 
crop is one of the most valuable for these animals 
and will make meat and growth very cheaply. Sow 
two to four pounds to the acre broadcast on well-pre- 
pared land and harrow lightly and roll. Let the 
plants make a fair growth before turning stock on 
to them, and do not graze too closely and they will 
then continue to make growth all through the winter 
and spring and provide constant pasturage. 



Do not pull fodder, but wait until the corn is 
glazed and dented and then cut up at the root and 



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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[August 



shock to cure and thus save all the crop, which has 
cost labor and money to produce it. Pulling fodder 
means wasting a large part of the crop and injuring 
the vield of corn. 



ALFALFA. 

In recent issues we have strongly urged the growth 
of this crop in the Southern States, and have most 
satifactory reports as to the success made in experi- 
ments with it in various sections. The only dis- 
couraging report is that recorded in this issue from 
South Carolina, where, in one case, a fungoid dis- 
eae has attacked the crop. Notwithstanding this we 
still urge that efforts should be made to establish the 
growth of alfalfa as one of the regular crops of the 
southern farm. Its value as a feed asd sale crop 
and the great yields which it makes for a series of 
years on suitable land when once established, war- 
rants some risk being taken of its being now and 
then and here and there attacked by this fungoid dis- 
ease. Even if it should only stand one year it will in 
its several cuttings, make a yield of hay three or 
four times heavier than clover or any grass crop. 
An average yield per year may be taken, on suitable 
land, at 8.000 pounds of dried hay per acre. Ten 
thousand pounds, and even more than this, has been 
frequently cut. It should be cut when one-third of 
the blooms have 'appeared. It is then richest in 
feeding value. We are asked frequently as to grow- 
ing it on poor land. In reply, we would say that it is 
not a poor land crop. No plant producing such yields 
as it does can be expected to flourish on poor land. 
Experiments made at the Minnesota Experiment- 
Station show that an average crop of 8,000 poimds 
t-o the acre will remove from the soil 200 pounds of 
potash, 98 pounds of phosphoric acid, 80 pounds of 
lime and 22 pounds of magnesia. It, therefore, calls 
for a soil rich in the mineral fertilizers, potash and 
phosphoric acid. The nitrogen it requires it obtains 
from the atmosphere when once it is established and 
the soil fully inoculated with the specific alfalfa bac- 
teria. A suitable fertilizer to apply as indicated by 
this analysis of the plast food removed, would be 300 
pounds ofmuriate of potash and 500 pounds of acid 
phosphate (14 per cent.) per acre. This should be 
applied broadcast some weeks before seeding and be 
well worked into the land and an application of 
lime — twenty-five bushels to the acre — should be also 
made broadcast and well mixed with the soil. When 
the crop is once well established it should be top 



dressed each year with farm-yard manure, supple- 
mented with 1 50 pounds of muriate of potash and 300 
pounds of acid phosphate per acre to maintain the fer- 
tility of the soil and sustain the draft upon the land 
of the heavy crops which will be produced. We refer 
our readers for further information as to the crop 
to our articles in the June and July issues. 

Since we wrote the foregoing we have had the 
pleasure of a call from Dr. Stubbs, the director of 
the Louisiana Experiment Station, who was on his 
way to spend his vacation on the old family planta- 
tios in Gloucester county, Va. This plantation the 
Doctor is bringing into a highly fertile and profitable 
condition under the management of his nephew. He 
has already a considerable acreage in alfalfa, some 
of which has already stood for five years, and off 
which he has this year cut already two heavy crops 
with a third now ready for cutting. He finds that he 
can cut on the average four crops per year, each ave- 
raging from one and a half to two tons to the acre. 
"For this hay he has a demand for all that he can 
tpare and finds it a most valuable sale crop, as well 
as a feed crop for his stock. He intends to put at 
least one third of the plantation into alfalfa as fast 
as he can get the land into good enough order and 
rich enough to grow it, and he will then be able to 
carry a heavy head of live stock all the year round. 
In summer he will cut the alfalfa and feed it to the 
stock and in winter will feed the hay along with his 
other roughage. We asked him about the fungoid 
disease above referred to. He said that he had had 
experience with it. It attacked one of his fields one 
year, being brought, he believed, with the seed. As 
soon as it was seen to be spreading he had the crop 
cut down with the mower as close to the ground as 
possible. The alfalfa was at once put up into lumps 
and allowed to heat. This heating destroyed many 
of the fungoid spores. The crop was then dried out 
and then set on fire and burned up completely, and 
he had no further trouble with the disease. He has 
also had "dodder" to attack the crop. This is a 
parasite like the "dodder" which attacks clover, and 
is brought into the field with the seed. The only 
remedy is to cut the crop and burn it up as soon as 
it is attacked and before seed is formed. The Doctor 
is emphatic in his opinion that neither the fungoid 
disease nor any other hindrance should be allowed to 
stand in the way of growing alfalfa. His experience 
with the crop, both in Louisiana and in Virginia, is 
large, and he is satisfied that it has in it elements of 
more permanent value for the farm and the farmer 
than any other crop whch can be produced. 



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493 



GRASS SEEDING. 

For many years past, indeed ever since we have 
edited this journal, we have been urging, m season 
and out of season, that Southern farmers should 
grow grass and forage crops for hay and pasture and 
for the permanent improvement of their farms. Ex- 
perience the world over has shown that only those 
countries which have made these crops a leading 
factor in their systems of agriculture have become 
permanently agriculturally prosperous. Without 
these crops it is absolutely impossible to carry live 
stock on the farm with profit, and without live stock 
no system of farming can, in the long run, result in 
anything but the ruin of the land and of those owning 
and farming it. The months of August and Sep- 
tember heing the time of the year when grasses cau 
be sown in the South with the greatest probability of 
success, we propose to say something on the proper 
method of proceeding in order to secure a good stand. 
At the outset let us say that statistics go to show that 
the South is making progress in grass growing. The 
value of the hay crop on the farm in Maryland, Vir- 
ginia, North and South Carolina was, in 1902, 
$14,280,220. This nearly equalled the value of the 
wheat crop in those States in the same year, which 
was $15,285,225. It was nearly three times the 
value of the oat crop in those States. The average 
value of the hay crop per acre in those States in 
1902 was $14,98; that of wheat was $6.41; corn, 
$10.87 ; oats, $7.94. When the cost of producing the 
crop of hay is compared with the cost of producing 
any of these cereals, it will be seen how much more 
profitable it is to grow hay. But this does sot ex- 
haust the advantages. In producing grass and hay 
not only is there a large saving in labor, but there 
is at the same time a large conservation of the fer- 
tility of the land and permanent improvement of the 
farm. Another great factor is that the hay crop can 
practically be made to a very great extent a sale crop, 
for which there is an unlimited demand in the 
large cities of the South, a demand which the South 
does not begin to satisfy, as hundreds of car loads 
of Western and Northern hay are shipped into the 
South every year. Growing forage crops at the same 
time as the hay crop sets the hay free to be sold, and 
yet permits of the keeping of a heavy head of live 
stock, which can be profitably carried on the forage 
crops alone or supplemented with a little cotton-seed 
meal. The average yield per acre of hay in the South 
is nearly as large as that of the Northern and West- 
ers States, whilst the average value per ton is greater 
than in most of those States. We know farmers who 



have been selling hay nearly all last winter and du- 
ring the spring at from $18 to $20 per ton on the 
farm. With such an opening and prospect before 
him it is time for the southern farmer to cease kill- 
ing grass and go to producing hay and permanent 
pasture. The essentials for success in growing grass 
are rich, finely-prepared land, the seeding at the best 
time with proper varieties of grass, the seeding of 
grass alone without a grain crop and the keeping of 
stock off the newly-seeded land until a dense sod 
lias been secured. One of the great causes of failure 
to secure a stand of grass is land inadequately pre- 
pared for the crop and not made rich enough. Whilst 
grasses are shallow-rooted plants it is essential to their 
success that land shall be deeply broken in order that 
the soil may be capable of holding a reserve of moist- 
ure to meet the needs of the crop during a dry time 
and over a series of years. It is also essential that 
there should be an abundance of available plant food 
in the soil, and nothing so much conduces to the avail- 
ability of this food as repeated cultivation of the 
land so as to secure that to the depth broken the soil 
should be in as finely a broken condition as possible. 
Grasses will not germinate and grow well unless the 
soil is so finely broken as that the seeds are closely 
surrounded wth fine soil into which the tiny rootlets 
can make their way and absorb the plant food. This 
deep breaking should be followed by the cultivator 
and roller until the seed bed can be made no finer. 
Grasses call for all the elements of plant food, there- 
fore a complete fertilizer should be applied. Where 
barn-yard manure can be had no better fertilizer can 
be used as the basis for the fertilization. This, how- 
ever, can be usefully and profitably supplemented 
with acid phosphate or bone meal and possibily with 
=ome potash, though if lime has been, or is, applied to 
the land this may, in most sections of this State, be 
omitted, as there is a reserve of potash in most of our 
soils which only requires to be made available by the 
use of lime. Our own experience is strongly in favor 
of the use of bone meal as a permanent fertilizer for 
grass. It is slower in its action than acid phosphate, 
but more lasting. Where acid phosphate is used it 
should be supplemented with some nitrate of soda, 
though we would not apply more than 50 or 75 
pounds to the acre at seeding, and would top dress the 
stand in the spring with another 75 pounds after 
the grass has commenced to grow. Apply 500 pounds 
to the acre of acid phosphate or bone meal before 
seeding and work this well into the soil. The variety 
and quantity of seed to be sown is an important poin^ 
Ji the field is intended for a meadow then onlv those 



494 



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[August 



varieties should be seeded which mature at the same 
time. If intended for a pasture the greater the 
variety seeded within reasonable limits the better, as 
this will prolong the grazing period from spring to 
fall. The grasses in a pasture should keep succeed- 
ing each other all through the grazing season, and in 
the South this practically means all through the year. 
At the foot of this article we give particulars of varie- 
ties of grasses to be sown on different soils for 
rhese different purposes. We are strongly in favor of 
heavy seeding. We would never sow less than two 
bushels of seed to the acre, and prefer two and a half, 
except in the case of timothy, when seeded alone, 
when a peck is sufficient. The majority of the grass 
seeds are so small and so liable to be of uncertain 
germinating power, owing to climatic conditions at 
blooming time, that it is never safe to rely upon light 
seeding. To be valuable a meadow or a pasture should 
as quickly as possible be covered with a dense sod. 
This can only certainly be secured by the use of 
plenty of seed. Sow the seed broadcast — half one 
way of the field and half across the first seeding. 
Harrow in with a light harrow and then roll. Do not 
sow any grain crop with the grass. The practice of 
seeding grain with grass is one not adapted to the 
South. It succeeds in the North and in England, 
from which country it was introduced here, but the 
climate there is very different from here. Here, in- 
stead of being a "nurse crop," it is a robber crop, 
depriving the grass seeds of the moisture and plant 
food which they need and causing the growth to be 
spindling and weak and then just when shade is most 
essential the grain is cut and the grass perishes in 
the hot weather. Sown alone the grasses make a 
strong, vigorous growth and are gradually inured to 
the heat of the sun and go through the hot weather 
without injury, if only there be sufficient moisture 
in the soil. In thus advising seeding grasses alone 
we speak from experience. We have tried both ways 
many times, and whilst we have often failed when 
seeded with grain, we never failed to secure a stand 
when the grasses were sown alone or only with clover. 
We are in favor of seeding some clover with all grass 
seeds, except timothy, which always sells best when 
clear timothy alone. The clover helps to make a 
heavier crop the first year before the grasses are 
thoroughly established and in the decay of its roots 
in subsequent years makes food for the grass. Sow 
the clover at the same time as the grass and not in 
the spring. If the fall seeding is killed out it may 
be resown in the spring. When grass is sown alone 
a crop may usually be cut the first year in the early 



fall. No stock, except it may be sheep or calves, 
should be pastured on the grass the first year, and 
these should not be alloAved to be on the land when it 
is wet. Pasturing with heavy cattle or horses before 
the grasses have made a good root-hold and the sod 
is thickening, is certain to result in permanent injury. 

Grass seed mixture for a meadow on good loam 
soil. — Orchard grass, tall meadow oat grass, meadow 
fescue, perennial rye, red top. 

Grass seed mixture for permanent pasture on good 
loam soil. — Tall meadow oat grass, Virginia blue- 
grass, orchard grass, perennial rye, red top, Kentucky 
blue, meadow fescue. 

Sow with the meadow mixture six pounds of red 
clover per acre, or alsike clover. 

Sow with the pasture mixture five pounds of red 
clover and five pounds of white clover. 



ALFALFA. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

If it is not asking too much will you please give 
me some information about a piece of "alfalfa 
clover" that I prize very highly. It was seeded the 
first of last September on a piece of rich, loamy soil 
that had been freed of weeds. It was twenty-seven 
inches high the 15th of last December, and I cut it at 
that time, as you advised me to do. I have cut two 
crops of hay off it this spring and it is now about 
twenty-six inches high and beginning to bloom. After 
cutting it the last time I top dressed it with fertilizer 
(2-8-2 goods) at the rate of about 600 pounds to the 
acre. I find now that here and there the leaves and 
stalks are turning yellow and dying. I have ex- 
amined it carefully, but cannot find any insect or 
parasite preying upon it. Any information or ad- 
vice you may give me will be very much appreciated. 

The rapidity of its growth in dry weather was 
simply wonderful. It' grew, by actual measurement, 
sixteen inches in eleven days during the dry spell 
ice had in May. Dr. G. H. Finch. 

Mecklenburg county, Va. 

When we received the foregoing communication 
we wrote Dr. Finch that we thought it probable that 
the trouble he complained of was caused by the wet 
weather of June. The alfalfa plant is easily injured 
by water standing or wet vegetable matter lying upon 
the plants. These cause the crowns of the roots to 
decay and the plant then soon dies. We have known 
one or two good stands to be lost from these causes, 
hence the importance of seeing that land seeded to 
alfalfa has good drainage, and that after the crop is 
cut it is quickly made into hay and got off the field. 



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If the hay is caught in a wet season and cannot be 
quickly dried, it should be hauled off the field to the 
barn yard and be made into manure and thus save 
the plants, which will give another crop to take the 
place of the lost one in a month or five weeks. Since 
we wrote Dr. Finch we have received the following 
communications from another subscriber, Mr. Rod- 
dey, of Rock Hill, S. C, which may explain the 
trouble. We trust, however, that this is not so, as we 
should regret to know that the disease mentioned is 
prevalent in these South Atlantic States. We have 
known several good stands of alfalfa in this section 
which have stood for a number of years, and heard of 
no indications of the disease. Mr. Roddey says : 

I have read with a great deal of interest your ar- 
ticle in the Southern Peaxtenr of July, 1903, 
and as T am interested in alfalfa, it occurs to me to 
give you the benefit of my recent experience. I have 
about an acre of alfalfa, from which two good cut- 
tings have been secured this year. Quite recently it 
appears to have been attacked by a fungus disease, 
and I sen* some specimens of the diseased alfalfa to 
the Department of Agriculture at Washington, and 
enclosed you will find a copy of the letter which I 
received in reply to my comumnication relative to! 
the subject. Quite a number of our farmers pro- 
posed planting alfalfa this fall, and quite a local en- 
thusiasm has been manifested in its growth. The 
department's letter, however, is a knockout blow and 
Ave are somewhat at a loss to know how to proceed 
further. My present idea is to discontinue its culti- 
vation and to advise my friends who intended grow- 
ing it that in view of the fungus disease which has 
appeared, it would probably be best to go slow in 
any further experiments in its growth. 

Copy of letter referred to : 

Washington, D. C, July 6, 1903. 

Mr. 11". L. Roddey, Rock Hill, 8. C: 

Dear Str, — Your letter of the 1st instant with the 
accompanying specimens of diseased alfalfa .has 
been referred to this office. An examination of the 
specimens shows that they are badly attacked by a 
fungus disease generally called leaf-spot, known to 
botanists as pseudopeziza medicaginis (Lib.) Sacc. 
Tli is disease has been reported from several States, 
especially in the East, and has proved particularly 
troublesome in some parts of Delaware, where some 
experiments have been carried on in treating it. 
Thus far, however, no satisfactory remedy has been 
found. Tt is possible that some benefit may be de- 
rived from a thorough treatment with Bordeaux mix- 
ture if commenced early in the spring before the 
plants are attacked. Where the plants have become 
so badly diseased that there is no hope of curing them, | 



it would probably be best to burn the field and plant 
it to some other crop. Very truly yours, 

(Signed) C. L. Shear, Pathologist. 



HESSIAN FLY. 



As is the case in almost every year, we have this 
year had complaints of "fly" in the wheat from 
various sections of this and the adjoining States. 
Now is the time of the year when effective steps can 
be taken for lessening the risk of damage from this 
pest. If every farmer would act now the damage 
could be reduced to the very smallest proportions, 
but if only an isolated farmer here and there takes 
the proper steps, whilst some good may be done, no- 
thing like extermination can result. Each farmer 
should at once plough a bed of land across a field 
and sow it with wheat ; very soon after it becomes 
green with the young plants if any Hessian flies are 
nbout they will settle upon it and lay their eggs. 
When the strip is thoroughly infested with the flies 
plough the crop clown deep and roll the land. This 
will bury and destroy the flies and their eggs, and 
then if the seeding of the wheat crop be deferred 
until after we have had a sharp frost very little fear 
of damage need be apprehended from this source. 
Where only one or two farmers in a section adopt 
this course only partial relief can be secured, as the 
flies will be bred on one farm and make their way 
to others. Urge your neighbors to join you in this 
campaign. 



OATS TURNING TO CHEAT. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

In the last issue of the Planter a subscriber asks, 
"Will gray winter oats turn to cheat ?" You reply 
that neither oats nor wheat nor . any other kind of 
grain will turn to cheat or chess. 

Now, Mr. Editor, I am aware that your answer 
is in conformity with the prevailing opinion of bota- 
nists and scientists. However, in the light of recent 
experiments by horticulturists and others upon va- 
rious shrubs and plants in the way of hybridizing, the 
theoretical deductions of past scientists have fre- 
quently come to grief. 

I will say for the benefit of your subscribers that 
cheat, or chess (Bromus secalinus), is a hybrid (or 
like a hybrid) of the order Graminacea?, originating 
from the changed condition of the organization of 
either wheat or oats, and perhaps other grains, and 
thereafter, like many other hybrids, retaining the 
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All this may be demonstrated by seeding to either 
fall wheat or oats a plat where excessive Avater and 
frost in the latter part of winter shall so nearly ex- 
haust the vitality as to change the organism of the 
plant, yet not quite destroy it. Many of the plants 
will show up chess when headed. 

I can call to mind several instances in my memory 
where I have seen this, and also several examples of 
wheat and chess grown on the same root and very 
carefully examined to see that no mistake was made. 

York county, Va. B. F. Weight. 

We would like to have the opinion of some of our 
specialists on plant breeding on this question. The 
best authorities we know are entirely opposed to the 
idea that one plant can change into another. They 
stand by the doctrine that "like produces like." We 
grant the possibility of such a combination of un- 
favorable circumstances as may cause a plant or an 
animal to degenerate into a wretched specimen of the 
original and true type of the species or breed, but 
that such degeneracy should cause a change so great 
a? to make the species or breed a perfect plant or 
animal of another kind is beyond our conception. 
Bromus secalinis (cheat or chess) is a distinct botani- 
cal species of grass reproducing itself truly gene- 
ration after generation and showing little or no varia- 
tion in type. So also are wheat and oats. They all 
belong to one great botanical family, and it is beyond 
our comprehension that any one of them should, 
under any circumstances, change so as to become a 
perfect plant of another member of the same family. 
If wheat and oats can change to cheat, why not cheat 
change to wheat or oats. Such a change has never 
yet been recorded so far as we know. Hybridization 
has, no doubt, produced some strange freaks, but 
it is, we believe, an essential in all cases of hybridi- 
zation of plants that there should be a cross fertiliza- 
tion of the pollen of the flowers. Contrary to this 
principle the claimed change or hybridization of 
wheat or oats to cheat occurs in winter when there is 
no pollen or flowers on either plant. — Ed. 



VETCH, COW PEA, AND SOY BEAN HAY AS SUB- 
STITUTES FOR WHEAT BRAN. 

The object of the feeding experiments herein de- 
scribed was to ascertain whether hay made from hairy 
vetch, cow peas and soy beans could be advan- 
tageously substituted for most of the wheat bran in 
the ration of dairy cows. 

The folloAving values per ton were used in calcu 
la ting the cost of food: 



Wheat bran, $2(X00 ; vetch hay, $10.00 ; cow pea 
hay, $10.00 ; cotton seed, $12.00 ; cotton seed meal, 
$20.00 ; cotton seed hulls, $5.00. 

Vetch hay proved fully equal in feeding value to a 
similar weight of wheat bran. By this substitution 
the cost of the food required to make a pound of but- 
ter was reduced 25 per cent., which is equivalent to a 
monthly saving of $22.20 in a herd of twenty cows. 

With the vetch ration the cost of food for one 
pound of butter averaged 10 cents in contrast with 
13.4 cents when wheat bran was fed. 

The waste in feeding vetch hay was, with most 
cows, about 6 per cent, of the amount offered and 
with cow pea hay about 16 per cent. ; the latter resi- 
due being useless, is charged as a part of the ration. 

That portion of the cow pea hay actually eaten 
proved fully equal in feeding value to a similar 
weight of wheat bran. Charging the cows with all 
the cow pea hay offered them, we find that cow pea 
hay had 86 per cent, of the feeding value of wheat 
bran, one ton of this hay being equal to 1,720 pounds 
of wheat bran. 

When wheat bran Avas worth $20 per ton cow pea 
hay was worth $17.20, and vetch hay $20.00. 

The monthly profits per cow were $4.65 on the 
vetch ration and $4.35 on the cow pea ration. 

One of the Jersey cows used in this test produced 
butter at a cost for food of only 8 1-3 cents per pound, 
when fed on the vetch ration. 

Running cow pea hay through a feed cutter did not 
decrease the waste in feeding this food. 

Foiir and a half per cent, more butter was pro- 
duced with soy bean hay than with cow pea hay, if 
we take account of the portion of each actually eaten ; 
however, a larger proportion of the coarse stems of 
the soy bean hay was left uneaten. 

When corn hearts was substituted for wheat bran 
the yield of butter was increased by 8 per cent. 

J. F. DuGGAR, 

Agriculturist Alabama Experiment Station. 



BORERS. 

One pint of carbolic acid, five gallons of whitewash, 
one pound of sulphur, half pound of salt, one quart 
of soap — used in Georgia largely for peach trees, and 
prevents borers. Use just before the trees bloom. 
Dig around the tree close to the body, exposing the 
mots slightly, and apply the wash from roots to crotch 
of tree. The scent of the acid remains three months. 
When this wash is used, one never has any trouble 
with wormy preaches, the scent probably keeping 
eurculios awav. 



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CLOVER IN EASTERN VIRGINIA. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

It is generally agreed and understood by tillers of 
the soil that, clover is the best, friend the farmer has 
in I he line of grasses. The general idea and verdict 
is, that if clover will grow, and there be a substantial 
subsoil, such land can be easily brought up to a high 
state of cultivation, and to a great degree of produc- 
tiveness. In short, nearly everybody has a good 
word and kindly feeling for clover on the farm. 

In my correspondence and conference with people 
from the East, West and North , T find the idea 
generally prevailing that clover will not do well in 
the South. This seems to be the general opinion. 

Plow this idea gets its hold upon so many people 
I cannot say; but presume it may be from the fact 
that clover is not more generally grown in the South. 

Then, too. in some portions of the South the soil 
may he too poor, and the subsoil too light, or the dry 
spells in summer too long, or the winter frosts too 
severe. 

But none of these causes or drawbacks can be 
urged against the growing of clover down here in 
Eastern Virginia. The soil is of alluvial character, 
very friable, easy to cultivate and the subsoil is a 
good, substantial clay. 

The coldest drop of the thermometer very seldom 



gets below 20 degrees above zero, and the summer 
months are liberally supplied with rains. The 
monthly average rainfall for July and August during 
the past thirty-three years being almost six inches 
per month, and, as a result our pastures and meadows 
are about as green in July and August as in April, 
May and Juoe. 

The one lone Jersey cow, shown in the accom- 
panying cut, seems to have a government contract 
under her feet to keep down the volunteer growth. 
of white and red clover on a ten acre patch of land, 
which, only a year ago, was in potatoes. 

In March, 1002, potatoes were planted where the 
cow now stands. In June and early July, 1902, the 
potatoes were dug and the surface smoothed down a 
little with the harrow. At once the crabgrass took 
full possession of the potato patch, and in October, 
1002, one and one-half tons of crabgrass to the acre 
wns cut and stacked for consumption on the farm. 

In the mean time the owner having sold his farm 
to a syndicate to be cut up into little five acre garden 
farms, did not touch this plat, and when we took our 
photograph, about the middle of May, 1903, the 
clover covered the ground almost completely — a vol- 
unteer crop. This shows how rapidly the clover 
comes in and occupies the land where it is given a 
chance and where the soil is in fair condition. 

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only cloven-hoofed animal on a 500-acre farm, ex- 
cepting, perhaps, a venerable old "Billy goat." 

AH a man has to do here is to keep some stock 
on the farm and let the clover seed get into the 
manure heap and get. scattered over the farm, and 
it will come up here, there and everywhere, often 
getting where it is not wanted, as our truckers class 
clover as a "weed." So it is often a weed, as the 
definition of a weed is a "plant out of place." 

Our people do not like clover in the potatoes or 
corn or in the berry fields. They root it up and dig 
lit up yhen it gets in the way, and do not seem to 
understand that, properly cared for, and encouraged, 
and permitted to grow it would soon lift the mortgage 
off every farm in Eastern Virginia. 

I long to see the day when we shall see clover 
fields and herds of Jersey cows on every farm in 
Virginia.. It was a beautiful view, this May morn- 
ing, t«. see this fine Jersey cow in the clover field. 
The sun shining warm and genial, the bees indus- 
triously at work at the clover blossoms, a light haze 
between us and the distant woodland, the song of 
birds, the shouts and laughing of the berry pickers in 
the adjoining fields, making a combination of sights 
and sounds very pleasant to the senses. 

When Virginia is once properly settled and farmed 
it will lead the entire country. We should grow 
cl iv or- —plenty of it — red, white, mammoth and crim- 
eon. 

There should be a herd of cows and clover fields 
on everv farm. Whv not ? Nature encourages and 
permits, and the markets demand. 

Why not raise the clover and the cows ? 

Norfolk, Va. A. Jeffers. 



CHEAT OR CHESS. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

I noticed in the July Planter the question asked 
if oats will turn to cheat. This question was dis- 
cussed for years by my father and myself, my 
father contending that cheat was a grain of itself and 
was not a degenerated grain, whilst I maintained 
a contrary opinion. I thought I brought ample proof 
to sustain my views, but could not convince him. 
After his death I saw a case that I think would have 
compelled him to give up his view. The case was 
this : 

Mr. William Brackman, a neighbor of mine in 
Louisa county, had been sowing winter oats for a 
number of years. They became so filthy with cheat 
and cockle he concluded he would sow them in the 



spring so as to cleanse them. He sowed in the spring 
two years and got them perfectly clean of all cheat 
and cockle. He then sowed them in the fall. (I saw 
them every few days from the time they were seeded 
until cut.) They stood the winter well. When they 
began to head I noticed that the first heads were all 
cheat. I thought that it was owing to some cheat 
that was in the land and being a volunteer crop 
was earlier than the oats and that later the oats 
would head, but to my surprise the whole crop was 
cheat. I do not think I would put it too strong to 
say there was not a head of oats to a thousand of 
cheat. Mr. Brockman cut the crop for hay, and 
it was as fine a crop as you generally see. The 
crop that came up after the cheat was cut was oats. 

These facts can be proven by as good and honest 
farmers as you will find in this section. This has 
proven to me what I have always known, that cheat 
is a degenerated grain, not only of oats, but of wheat 
as well. 

Now, Mr. Editor, I do not write this to try and 
change your views in the matfer, but if there is any 
one who doubts this let him sow winter oats twice in 
the spring then sow them in the fall and he will see, 
to his sorrow, the truthfulness of my statement. 

Orange county, Va. J. II. Elijs. 

In this issue will be found some further remarks 
by us on this subject in reply to a communication. — 
Ed. 



THE INADEQUACY OF THE PREVAILING METHOD 
OF APPLYING FERTILIZERS THROUGHOUT 
THE COTTON STATES. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

Over and over again I have been confronted with 
the question, Do fertilizers impoverish land ? and 
just as often as I am asked the question, just that 
often I answer it both in the affirmative and in the 
negative. 

Fertilizers applied in an improper manner are 
liable to impoverish even the very richest of soils. 

I have repeatedly stated the fact heretofore that 
the chemical fertilizers — nitrogen, phosphoric acid 
and potash — put in the very best work of which they 
are capable in correcting known deficiencies in the 
soil. 

2. In bringing about an increased yield of a 
cash or sale crop, let the crop be what it may. 

3. To fertilize the crop that is to be used strictly 
for recuperative fertilizing purposes. 

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present time to transpose this arrangement of mine 
and place the last-named use of the chemical ferti- 
lizers first, in front and on top all the time. 

Now, I have no kick to make ahout which method 
of nse of these all important agents is of the greatest 
importance to any individual farmer. The point I 
wish to make and emphasize is that the prevailing 
method of using fertilizers, as invariably used 
throughout the entire South by the average user of 
fertilizers, is utterly and entirely inadequate to sub- 
serve either one of the above named three uses. 

I refer to the customary, reprehensible, yet, un- 
fortunately, widespread habit, that has somehow or 
other gained hold, of applying 200 pounds of a low- 
grade fertilizer per acre, said low-grade fertilizer 
analyzing about 8-2-2. 

These 8-2-2 goods are not adapted to the needs of a 
cotton crop on any soil : not adapted to a corn crop 
on any soil ; not adapted to a vegetable crop on any 
soil : not adapted to even a cow pea or clover crop, 
nor any other leguminous or renovating crop of any 
kind. T fancy I hear one say, If this is the case, why 
is such a fertilizer manufactured r ' To this I would 
answer : In order to cater to the popular demand for 
a "fancied" cheap fertilizer. Even if the fertilizer 
was the fertilizer par excellence for the crops (cot- 
ton or corn) for Avhich it is put up and sold, which 
it is not, 200 pounds of it applied per acre is utterly 
and entirely inadequate to either furnish said crops 
of cotton and corn with a sufficiency of plant food 
to ensure even good, much less best, results, and also 
utterly and entirely inadequate to even maintain, 
much less increase, the fertility of the soil. This 
brings me again to the question, Do fertilizers im- 
poverish land \ To this query I would answer: It 
is not that which is applied to the soil that impover- 
ishes soil, but that which is withheld from it. The 
fertility of millions of acres has become exhausted 
North, East and West, as well as in the South. Wa3 
it the application of chemical fertilizers that caused 
their exhaustion ? Not at all, for not an ounce of 
fertilizer of any kind was ever applied to them at 
any time. What, then, is the cause of their exhaus- 
tion ? It was caused by the annual taking off of 
everything possible from the soil and never putting 
anything back. Not, satisfied with the destruction 
of fertility brought about by this system of wholesale 
spoliation, for the accommadation of a Mustang pony, 
as well as for the ease of the soil tiller, the residue, 
after both man and animals have gotten off all they 
possibly could utilize, is set fire to and burned. 

Many tons of fertilizer are annually sold of even 



a lower grade than the 8-2-2 goods, analyzing 8-1^-1. 
It is needless to state that either of these are entirely 
too low a grade to either be sold, bought or used. It 
is through a very costly ignorance that farmers can 
be prevailed on to use them at all. This deplorable 
ignorance annually costs the farmers more than suffi- 
cient to obtain a thorough, practical education along 
this line that would be ample to prevent his being 
imposed upon by dealers who often are as ignorant 
as the farmer himself of the general principles that 
underlie the truly scientific (hence intelligent, judic- 
ious, rational and profitable) system of fertilization. 
The manufacturers make money on them, pandering 
to the popular demand for something cheap. The 
dealers are going to so handle them to make money 
on them anyhow, while the plants starve on any such 
an insufficient, innutritious diet ; the lands are con- 
tinually growing poorer under their use, and the 
poor, deluded farmer has to bear all the losses, while, 
unfortunately, the blame for this condition of things 
lies with himself exclusively. Through his own neg- 
ligence he is forced to furnish the feathers for the 
other fellows to feather their nests with. A little 
study on the part of the soil tiller would so change 
the face of things os to make the fertilization of the 
various cultivated crops a never ending source of 
satisfaction, profit and delight. 

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever." A judicious 
system of fertilization would undoubtedly make the 
"thing of beauty" just as surely as liberal and judic- 
ious feed and intelligent care and painstaking will 
make a beautiful cow, horse, ox or hog. A yield per 
acre of 5 bales of cotton ; 100 or upward bushels of 
corn; 150 bushels of oats; 60 bushels of wheat; 6 
tons of hay ; 700 bushels of potatoes, etc., etc., have 
often been, and could still oftener be, obtained by 
judicious (which means economical) fertilization. It 
is false economy to buy low-grade goods at any price. 
There is no true economy in it. The best of anything 
and everything is none too good, and the best is al- 
ways the cheapest in the end, regardless of price. 

By applying 200 pounds of low-grade 8-2-2 
goods per acre one applies but 16 pounds phosphoric 
acid, 4 pounds ammonia and 4 pounds of potash per 
acre. Now, if any of my farming brethren will 
show a single ctiltivated crop that will abstract this 
amount from the soil and no more and still make a 
profitable crop ; or, if any one. let him be whom he 
may, can show that this compound or combination is 
adapted to cotton or corn, or anv other crop for 
which it may be recommended and so adapted, that 
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expected therefrom, T will agree to give that party 
my head for a foot-hall, or to he branded for an igno- 
ramus to the end of my days, or to he dumped off 
into the nearest creek with a rock around my neck 
and say "here goes nohody." A fertilizer analyzing 
8-3-3 or 10-3-4 and from 500 to 1,200 pounds ap- 
■ plied per acre will, when coupled with deep prepara- 
tion and thorough culture, ensure hest — i. e., most 
profitable — results. This being the case, this latter 
seemingly very liberal application is, in fact, the 
most economical application that can be made, for 
the reason that it gives the greatest profit or largest 
cash returns. 

An application of less than 600 pounds per acre 
of even as high grade as above, tends to impoverish, 
instead of enriching, the soil, as in this case the fer- 
tilizer acts somewhat as a stimulant and causes the 
plant to withdraw from the soil more plant food than 
the applied fertilizer furnishes. 

To this extent, and to this extent only, do the 
chemical or commercial fertilizers actually impover- 
ish soils. Messrs. Lawes and Gilbert, of Rotham- 
stead, England, after upward of a half century's ex- 
perience in their use, summarize results by stating 
that: 1. "Complete fertilizers are not exhaustive, 
and land can be kept permanently fertile by their 
use. 2. Heavy applications of fertilizers are the 
most profitable." This is also the experience of all 
those who have used them extensively in this country. 

Burgess, Miss. G. H. Tuknee. 



5. If it would be advisable to sow land in cow 
peas before seeding it with alfalfa ? 

6. What soil is adapted to the growth of Dwarf 
Essex rape for fall, winter and spring grazing for 
hogs ? 

7. How should the land be prepared for same? 
Amelia county, Va. G. C. A. 
In our articles in June, July and this issue we 

have, we think, fully covered all the questions asked 
.by our correspondent as to alfalfa. We refer him 
to these. 

In this issue we give advice as to sowing Dwarf 
Eseex rape. A fertile loam soil is the best for this 
crop, though it will often do well on heavier land if 
well prepared and in good fertility. Any soil that 
will grow turnips or cabbages will grow rape. — 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 
replies to appear in the next month's issue. 



Alfalfa. 

Having read a great deal about alfalfa in the 
Pi.axter, I have become interested enough to try it, 
especially for grazing for hogs in spring and early 
summer. Would like to have answers to the follow- 
ing questions in your next issue : 

1. On what kind of soil will it grow, and if it will 
grow on comparatively poor land well manured and 
fertilized ? 

2. What kind of commercial fertillizer should be 
used in conncr-tion with stable manure? 

3. Where could the bacteria-infected «oil be got- 
ten : how applied and how much per acre? 

4. How should the land be ordered and what time 
should the alfalfa be sown? 



Cattle With Sore Eyes. 

I have noticed several of my cattle with sore eyes, 
and a great deal of water runs from the eye, and it 
looks as though it was blind. The cattle have good 
pasture and there are some woods they can go to. Is 
it probable that some poisonous weed has gotten into 
the eye ? Will you kindly let me know what to do 
and if it is a disease is it a dangerous one ? 

Warren county, V a. E. C. Gate wood. 

This looks very like a case of specific ophthalmia. 
This generally appears in an enzootic form and 
affects a number of the cattle at the same time. It is 
characterized by a mnco-purulent discharge of the 
eyes, an intense degree of inflammation, swelling of 
the eyelids and opacity of the cornea, making the 
animals appear blind. There is a constant flow of 
tears, sometimes streaked with blood. The un- 
affected animals should be at once removed to another 
location possessing a different character of soil, feed 
and water. Those affected should be housed in a 
cool, dark stable and be supplied with plenty of 
fresh water to drink and be fed on soft, succulent 
feed. Give a dose of one pound of Epsom salts to 
each sick animal in two or three pints of water. Give 
tincture of veratrum veride every two hours in 
thirty drop doses and half an ounce of saltpeter three 
times a day. For an eye wash use boracic acid, one 
drachm, and pour four ounces of boiling water over 
it. Use this frequently, applying it directly to the 
eye. — Ed. 



Cement for Walls. 

Tn the June issue, a reference was made to cement 
walls for an ice-house. How would same do for a 
house cellar wall and for well curbing in place of 
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would be best ? What proportion of cement and sand 
would give best results. Could ordinary field stones 
be used as a filler? 

Please suggest a way of building same. 

Spotsylvania county, Va. Concrete. 

See reply to Subscriber as to concrete building in 
this issue. The concrete will make a good wall. 
Make the wall nine inches thick. — Ed. 



Concrete Buildings. 

(an you oblige me by giving some information 
through your Inquirer's Column concerning the con- 
struction of farm buildings out of a mixture of air- 
slacked lime, sand, gravel and stones ? 

I understand that most masons use unpacked 
lime, but I have heard that air-slacked lime has been 
used in some cases. 

Can you tell me what proportion of lime should be 
11 seel and just how the mixture should be prepared to 
put in the wall so that it will not crumble? Can 
such a wall be built so that it will not be damp on 
The inside ? Will slate stone put into the wall pre- 
vent moisture from going through? 

Any information on these subjects will be very 
gratefully received by Subscriber. 

Spotsylvania county, Va. 

Buildings for all farm purposes, and even for dwel- 
lings, can be erected with concrete. They are prac- 
tically indestructible and are damp proof. They are 
largely built in some parts of the North and in Can- 
ada. Neither air-slacked nor water-slacked lime can, 
ho -sever, be used for this purpose. The material 
used to bind the sand and stone together must be 
cement. The buildings are erected by mixing the 
stone, sand and cement into a mortar and pouring 
this into wooden moulds. These -moulds are fixed 
on the site of the building and when filled are allowed 
to stand until the concrete has set and are then 
raised and again filled until the height of the wall 
lias been built. The proportions for good concrete 
arc, for one cubic yard : Crushed rock, 27 cubic feet ; 
gravel, 13 cubic feet; coarse sand, 6 cubic feet; 
cement, 3 cubic feet. — Ed. 



Alfalfa. 

Would you advise sowing alfalfa clover in the 
fall, and at what time for this section? Can you 
inform me where infected soil may be obtained? 
What fertilizer would you advise for alfalfa on land 
where red clover sod has been turned under ? 

Albemarle county, Ya. H. R. Boswell. 

See our reply to (t. C. A. in this issue. In all 
sections where it is safe to sow red clover in the fall 



alfalfa may be there sown at that time and this would 
cover your section. Sow as soon as you can get the 
land ready so that good root-hold will be obtained 
before winter sets in. Use acid phosphate on the 
clover sod, 300 to 500 pounds to the acre. In the 
mountain sections of the western part of this State it 
will be better to sow in the spring, as the winters are 
often severe enough to kill out any of the clovers. — 
Ed. 



Seeding Winter Oats. 

Can you advise sowing winter oats on corn land 
well prepared as for wheat, or would it be too late 
for oats ? We cannot be ready before the last week 
in September. C. A. S. 

Culpeper county, Va. 

If the oats can be gotten in in September they may 
be sown with a good prospect of success. — Ed. 



Plant for Name. 

I enclose specimen root and flowering branch of a 
plant which seems to propagate itself freely in this 
section. It is relished by stock, both in the green and 
cured states. An identification will be greatly ap- 
preciated. Subscriber. 

Lowdnes county, Miss. 

The plant from Columbus, Miss., sent for identifi- 
cation, is Prairie Mimosa — acuan illincensis. 

This plant is native from South Dakota to Florida 
and Texas. It is more abundant in the southern part 
of its range. It belongs to the mimosa family, but is 
not a true mimosa. So far as I can learn it has not 
heretofore been regarded as a forage plant of any 
particular value, but if stock eat it with relish, and 
without any ill effects, as stated, it is doubtless of 
some value as a pasture plant. 

Lyster H. Dewey, 
Botanist in Charge of Fiber Plants. 

Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



Plant for Name. 

The enclosed plant is springing up after wheat in 
Franklin county thick and flourishing. Can you tell 
me what it is and if of any value as a fertilizer? 
Stock will not eat it. W. H. Workman. 

Roanoke county, Va. 

The plant sent for identification is Bracted Plan- 
tain- — Plantago aristata. 

Lyster H. Dewey, 
Botanist in Charge of Fiber Plants. 

Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 

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of the Mississippi Valley. It is an annual and pro- 
pogates from seeds, of which it produces a great num- 
ber. It has probably been introduced in the East 
and South largely in clover seed. The only way to 
get rid of it is to put the land into a hoed crop. 
If not checked it is likely to become as troublesome 
as rib grass. It is of no value either as a feed or a 
fertilizer. — Ed. 



Grass for Name. 

I enclose a head of grass that came up in my oats, 
Will you please give its name and its value as hay ? 

Isle of Wight Co., Va. Thomas B. Weight. 

The grass is chess (Bromus Secalinus). It is of 
small value as a hay grass. — En. 



Improving Land for Corn. 

We have about seven acres of land of a light sandy 
soil with a yellow clay foundation in peanuts this 
year. This land, when planted in cotton, will pro- 
duce about 1,000 pounds to the acre. After the pea- 
nuts are dug we want to put the land in something 
that will improve it for corn next spring. Please 
tell us what to get and how much ? What kind of 
fertilizers and how much ? Please give us all the in- 
formation you can, as we want to try to make a suc- 
cess the first vear. Heney & Moeeis. 

Bertie Go.', N. C. 

As soon as the Peanuts are dug apply 25 bushels of 
lime to the acre and harrow in. Then in a week or 
ten days apply broadcast 500 pounds to the acre of 
acid phosphate, and 50 pounds of muriate of potash, 
and sow a mixture of 10 pounds of Crimson clover, 
15 pounds of sand vetch and half a bushel of wheat 
and oats mixed. This should make a good green 
fallow to plow down for the corn in April. — En. 



Cramp in Horses. 

In our last issue, in the reply to the enquiry of Mr. 
H. Jackson, on page 443, there occurs an unfortunate 
printer's error, which we desire to correct as early as 
possible. We wrote that a proper remedy to use was 
chloral hydrate one ounce in a half pint of water. 
The printer makes ixs say ten ounces. One ounce is 
the proper dose. This is apparent later in the reply 
where the remedy is again mentioned for another 
form of cramp. 



Home Made Pickles, Wine, Grape Juice. 

We have had several enquiries recently as to mak- 
ing these, and have not been able to give satisfactory 



replies from the absence of personal knowledge on the 
subject. We have now secured a correspondent, who 
will give information on these and other household 
questions. The first article will be found in this 
issue in the Publishers' Department, in columns 
alongside the advertisements. The Department of 
Agriculture, Washington, has just issued a Farmers' 
Bulletin, No. 175, giving information as to grape 
juice, etc. This can be had on application to the 
Department. — Ed. 



Fertilizer for Clover. 

Five years ago I moved to a wornout farm. Since 
that time I have improved it very much by sowing 
cow peas and hauling woods mould, but have never 
made much success with clover, especially red clover. 
It starts off nicely, but turns yellow in early spring 
and does not grow much more. Will you kindly ad- 
vise me what fertilizer to use to remedy this, for 
it seem deficient in something? In giving me your 
opinion of a fertilizer please give me the analysis 
also. I shall sow clover in August in corn. 

Accomac county, Va. W. S. Nelson. 

We are of opinion that if you would give your land 
an application of lime — say at the rate of 25 to 50 
bushels to the acre — that you would secure a good 
stand of clover. This should be repeated — say, every 
five years. The lime is best applied in the fall 
and winter, after the land has been plowed. Spread 
broadcast and harrow in lightly. As you propose to 
sow clover in the corn, and it will not be practicable 
to spread the lime in the corn, we would give the 
application on the clover in the early spring. — Ed. 



Rotation of Crops for Hogs. 

Your valuable journal has, I think, been worth 
much to me, and I come 'for some more information, 
though you have detailed it time and again, b\it I 
haven't time to look the particiilar Planter up, so a 
repetition will perhaps help some other poor fellow. 
It is this. I have a lot of some 15 or 16 acres, at 
present divided in half, and I wish to divide the two 
halves, making four lots out of the whole, as suggest- 
ed by the Pdantee some time ago, and keep this in 
something for my hogs. Last year I had seven acres 
of this land, in peas and soy beans, and my hogs got 
fat eating them. This year I have eleven acres of 
the same land in peas. I sowed soy beans, but they 
failed to come up, so I sowed in peas. Now, what \ 
wish to know is this. What crop must I put in each 
of these lots for first, second, third and fourth, so as 
to have something for the hogs all the time as near 
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crop, but it is said to be uncertain in getting a stand. 
If you suggest that, could you suggest something to 
be sown with it, so that in case of failure in clover, I 
would have the other '? Would it pay to put one 
or two of the lots that are now in peas (after the 
hogs eat the peas) in oats, and when they begin to 
turn in June next, turn the hogs in on them, then 
follow in peas again. Information on this line will 
be generallv helpful no doubt. 

K E. Hayes. 
A.9 soon as the peas are off seed one of the lots in 
crimson clover, wheat, oats, rape and turnips. In 
this issue in the article, Work for the Month, will be 
found the proportion of seed to use. Seed another 
lot a little later with Hairy Vetch, wheat and 
oats. In December or January seed another lot with 
( 'anada peas and oats, two bushels of peas and one 
bushel of oats to the acre. As these different crops 
are consumed seed the lots in order in cow peas, sor- 
ghum, soy beans and corn, to follow for eating in 
summer and fall. Plant part of one lot in artichokes 
in April to make winter feed. — Et>. 



Johnson Grass. 

Can yon tell me in your August number anything 
about the seeding of Johnson grass? Can it be sown 
in the fall with a reasonable prospect of getting a 
stand '. If so, about what time and with what kind 
<>f preparation ? J. 0. Babksdale. 

Johnon grass may be sown in either fall or spring, 
but if sown in the fall it must be got in early — 
enough to get good root hold before severe frost. Pre- 
pare the land as for other grass seeding and sow one 
and one-half bushels of seed per acre, so as to secure 
a thick stand, and thus a finer growth of stalk. — Ed. 



Peach Trees Dying. 

You will find a sample of small black beetle which 
is very abundant upon one of my pleach trees. The 
tree is, and has been, loosing a branch here and there 
for the past three months; the bark looks dry and 
fly specked. This is the third tree I have had affected 
in this way in three years. Both the others died 
after a few months. Can you tell what is the trouble 
and advise a remedy through the columns of the 
Piaster. Percival Hicks. 

Mathews county, Va. 

We referred the foreging to Professor Galloway. 
The following is the reply received. — Ed. 

Your letter of the 15th instant addressed to Prof. 
Galloway, of this department, duly received and re- 
ferred to this office for attention, inasmuch as the 
samples submitted show insect injury, and therefore 
do not fall within the province of his bureau. 



The insect sent, on examinatiin, proves to be one 
of the smaller species of lady birds, Pentilia misella 
Lee, which is one of our most efficient natural ene- 
mies of the San Jose scale. The fact that your sub- 
scriber has callected these specimens on his trees, to- 
gether with the report of damage to the trees, would 
seem to indicate the presence of the scale insect men- 
tioned. To confirm this belief, it will only be neces- 
sary for you to send to me a few branches of these 
infested trees showing the injury noted. The reme- 
dies for the San Jose scale are detailed in two circu- 
lars of this office, copies of which I enclose. 

L. O. Howard, Entomologist. 

Department of, Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



Alfalfa. ' j ■ <\ 

I am very much interested in your articles on 
alfalfa clover. I have two acres I want to seed this 
summer or fall. About what time would you advise 
seeding it ? It is in wheat stubble now. 

Worcester county, Md. A. C. Hoi/low ay. 

Plow at once and harrow and encourage the weeds 
to grow. Kill these by reharrowing as fast as they 
germinate. Then in the first half of September sow 
the alfalfa. See replies and articles in this issue as 
to alfalfa. — Ed. 



Cross-Breeding Sheep. 

May I ask if a cross of a Dorset ram on Shrop- 
shire ewes is desirable ? A New Subscriber. 

Bedford county, Va. 

We do not think the cross would be a desirable one. 
The Dorset is not as good a mutton and wool sheep 
as the Shropshire, whilst, as an early lamb producer, 
it is not much better. The two breeds each fill a 
distinct place in sheep husbandry, and should be kept 
pure to fill that pi ace, or, if crossed at all, should be 
crossed on grade Merinos, whose quality as lamb pro- 
ducers and mutton and wool makers they can and will 
influence favorably. It is rarely good policy or profi- 
table to cross two pure breeds. They scarcely ever 
"knick" well, and the result is often a nondescript 
of no value. — Ed. 



Apple Scab— Bitter Rot or Brown Rot. 

I wish to trespass upon your space to ask our 
Blacksburg friends, so well versed in sporeology, 
if sclerotinia fructigena is the English Latin, whilst 
deutriticum fucicladium is the American Latin for 
apple scab ? 

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Agriculture gives the following solution: Sulphate 
of iron, 25 pounds; sulphuric acid, 1 pint; water, 
50 gallons, to be used as a spray when buds are 
dormant, as an application against what reads from 
its description as being apple scab, though called by 
the Board of Agriculture brown rot, and which is 
possibly the same as our bitter rot. The description 
is : ''Brownish scattered patches on the skin, followed 
by the growth of dull-gray tufts arranged in irregu- 
lar concentric rings. The fruit attacked does not 
rot or decay, but becomes mumnified." 

Anything tending to fight the terrible scourge of 
the more especially beloved winesap, must be of 
interest to its growers. An attack of scab as fruit is 
setting is by many misconstrued to frost, cold wind, 
etc., instead to the insidious spore destroying its 
prey. 

Let us not deceive ourselves, thinking all will be 
well another season, though a dry one may bring some 
amelioration. Either the grower must get the better 
of his enemy or hope deferred will cause regret of a 
tolerance in not surplanting. I encountered the 
owner of a large orchard of winesaps not long ago 
who accounted for the barrenness of his trees by 
their being all "he" trees, and consequently not bear- 
ing ones. If a microbe has a sense of the ludicrous 
how it must have been amused. W. M. 

Albemarle county, Ya. 

Will the Mycologist at the Experiment Station 
kindly note and reply. The inquiry reached us too 
late for us to send it to him for reply in this issue. — 
Ee. 



Bermuda Grass. 

Can I set a field in Bermuda grass and seed it in 
wheat at the same time and get a stand of Bermuda 



grass 



O. E. Shook. 



Iredell county, N. C. 

Whilst we have had no experience in planting 
Bermuda grass and wheat together, yet we do not 
doubt but that you can succeed in getting a stand in 
this way. If the wheat crop is thick the grass will 
not make much growth until the wheat is cut, as 
shading heavily is one of the best methods known for 
destroying Bermuda. — Ed. 



Spraying Fruit Trees. 

I dare say it is quite puerile to say what I must 
in this. It is about spraying fruit trees with the 
different preparations given in your March num- 
ber. I know nothing of the orchard. Have never 
before had the care of one, so don't know when nor 
how to spray them. My apples and pears are doing 
moderately well. Pears are better than apples ; but 
peaches and plums do all right till the turning 



period. Then they rot, shrivel up. The orchard is 
low and almost sobby. I remember my father used 
to bore into the body of his trees and fill the hole 
with sulphur and stop it up, but for what purpose 
I've forgotten, or with what result. I dug around 
a few of my trees last spring and put lime around 
some, sulphur around others and sol. carbolic acid 
around others — experimenting. So far can see no 
difference. I am in the country forty-odd miles from 
a market, so find it inconvenient to get the sprays 
as per your journal. I keep a dispensary on hand — 
am an old druggist. Is there no cheaper method of 
treating my sick trees and no way more convenient 
than that given in the Southern Planter ? 

Berkley county, S. C. James Joyner. 

The advice given in our March issue as to spraying 
trees is founded on the best authorities on the subject 
in this country. No other means are known for the 
control of fungoid and insect enemies than those 
given in the spray calendar. You might as well 
bore holes in the trees and fill them with wine in 
order to strengthen them as fill them with sulphur or 
any other drug to cure them. The trees will not 
untilize either the one or the other. It will remain 
inert in the holes. — Er>. 



Ice House. 

I wish to build an ice house convenient to my 
dwelling, but cannot build in the ground on account 
of water rising. I can go down about five or six 
feet in the ground and get drainage, and what I 
wish to do is to have the house six feet in the ground 
built up with rock and cemented and six or seven 
feet above ground; double wall packed with saw- 
dust. JSTow, what I wish to know is will ice keep 
next to rock or cement ? I have also heard that ice 
will not keep for five or six feet below the earth's 
surface on account of the heat in the earth to that 
depth. Is this true ? If so, of course all above would 
melt and the house would be a failure. Please give 
me the above information in your August number. 

A Subscriber. 

Whilst an ice house built below ground, with either 
stone or cement, will keep ice if the walls are thick 
enough, yet the best modern ice houses are now alto- 
gether built above ground as being cheaper, more con- 
venient, and equally effective. What is needed is a 
building with double walls a foot apart, and the foot 
space tightly packed with sawdust, with a double roof. 
There must also be good drainage provided, and the 
drain should be trapped by having a bend in it to 
hold water so as to prevent the access of warm air. 
Provide for good ventillation over the top of the ice 
by having a ventillator in each end of the roof. — Ed. 



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Trucking, Garden and Orchard. 



WORK FOR THE MONTH. 

All crops of fruit and vegetables should be care 
fully gathered as they mature and become fit for 
market or storage. They should be placed under 
cover and out of the sun to cool off before being 
either packed for shipment or put away in storage. 
Carefully sort and cull out all defective specimens 
and ship or store only the perfect ones. If the de- 
fective culls amount in quantity to more than can be 
conveniently used at home ship them in separate 
packages and mark them distinctly as culls and they 
will not then prejudice the sale of the best. Mixed 
shipments always sell for the price of the poorest. 
As far as possible keep the defective products off 
the markets as they only serve to glut them and bring 
down the price of the first quality. 



Fall cabbage seed should be sown at once on rich 
beds in a moist situation and push on the growth of 
the plants as quickly as possible, so that they may 
escape the attacks of fly and worms. A light sprink- 
ling of nitrate of soda over the beds just previous to 
a gentle rain will help them. The plants should be 
ready to set out in September and they will then 
make nice heads in the late fall. Flat Dutch and 
Savoy are good varieties. 



Broccoli plants may be set out during the latter 
part of this month. They will make heads for cut- 
ting in October and November. Treat like cabbages. 
They are as easily grown as cabbages and sell well. 
Thev make a head like a cauliflower. 



English peas and snap beans may be sown for a 
fall crop in Eastern Virginia and North Carolina. 
They are uncertain as to yield, but if the fall be 
mild and frosts hold off they make a crop which sells 
well and is always acceptable at home. 



Kale and spinach may be sown at the end of the 
month. 



In our last issue we wrote on the fall Irish potato 
crops, and to this issue refer our readers. No time 
should now be lost in getting the crop planted. 



Celery plants may now be set out from the seed 
beds. Celery requires rich, moist soil in order that 
the growth may be quick or the stalks will not be ten- 



der. Make the land rich with well rotted farm-yard 
manure, which may be supplemented with a fertilizer 
having 7 per cent, of ammonia, 5 per cent, phosphoric 
acid and 8 per cent, potash. The land should be 
deeply broken and cultivated finely. The plants 
should be set out about six inches apart, so as to 
grow closely and exclude the light and thus help in 
bleaching the stalks. If the variety grown is not a 
self -bleaching variety the plants should be set in 
rows five feet apart, so as to allow banking the soil 
up to the plants to bleach them. When setting out 
in rows we always set two rows of plants about six 
inches apart in each row and they can then be earthed 
up together. As the plants grow a little soil should 
be drawn to them at intervals so as to keep the plants 
from spreading out, and then when fully grown be 
earthed up to the top. When banking the soil up to 
the plant hold the stalks of each plant close together, 
so as to keep the soil out of the hearts of the plants. 
If celery can be set out where it can be irrigated it 
will be a great advantage, as it succeeds well with 
frequent irrigation. 



As the crops mature clean the land of all trash 
and waste, and if not wanted for any other crop sow 
crimson clover to occupy the land during the winter 
and conserve and improve the fertility. 



All cultivation should cease in the orchard and 
small fruit patches, so as to encourage ripening of the 
wood. 



The land for strawberry planting should be 
ploughed and harrowed so as to encourage germina- 
tion of the weeds, which can then be killed. 



GROWING STRAWBERRIES IN POTS. 

A subscriber asks us to tell him about growing 
strawberries in pots to secure plants which will give 
a crop the first year. There is no difficulty about 
this work. Some writers advise that pots should be 
filled with soil and be sunk in the ground near the 
old plants and the runners be trained and pegged 
over them so as to root in the pots ; but this is a 
work which causes much unnecessary labor. We 
would fill the pots with good rich soil, providing 
plenty of drainage in each, and then cut off runners 
which have commenced to form roots and set them in 



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the pots and keep them moist and shaded for a few 
days, when they will at once commence to grow. In 
selecting the runners take the plant first formed on 
the runner for potting. It will be the strongest plant. 
Growth shotild be encouraged in the pots by water- 
ing with Aveak manure water or water in which a 
little nitrate of soda has been dissolved, and on the 
approach of cold weather they should be protected 
at night. In the early spring they should be turned 
out of the pots without disturbing the roots and they 
will continue their growth and make fruit. 



ORCHARD AND GARDEN NOTES. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

Harvest time in the orchard and garden has now 
tome. The fruits of our labors can now be seen. 
The pleasures that come from gathering and eating 
the fin i fruits and vegetables from our own gardens 
are great. These fruits and vegetables, as they ap- 
pear growing npon the trees and vines look much 
more beautiful and taste much better than those 
bruised and inferior flavored ones that are shipped 
long distances to the cities. Many of our city friends 
do not know any thing about the best fruits and 
vegetables. 

While we are gathering these fine products we 
must not fail to learn lessons about effects that dif- 
ferent varieties, different soils and different cultural 
methods have produced upon the quality and quantity 
of the crops. I have had an opportunity to notice 
the fruiting habits of Early Harvest, Red June and 
Transparent apples, and to test. their table qualities. 
Each one of these early fruits has some special claim 
in its favor different from the others. 

Red Tune has a better color, but appears to be 
rather a shy bearer; Early Harvest is a little small, 
but is prolific and of good flavor, and Transparent is 
almost too acid, unless extremely ripe, but it is of 
good size and bears quite young. 



leave the old homestead to learn about city life by 
himself. A few dollars spent for the family in this 
way may prove to be the best investment the farmer 
can make. Try it. Let the boy go with a large ship- 
ment of produce to the market and watch the various 
ways it is handled before it reaches the consumer. 
This will teach him how to prepare things for market 
in the best possible manner. This question of how to 
market products is of as much importance frequently 
as how to grow them. The farmer should study tne 
marketing now when taking his vacation. 



The great rush of spring and summer work is now 
over. The farmer usually has more spare time du- 
ring this month than any other summer or spring 
month. I want to suggest that the farmer's family 
take a few days for rest and recreation. Let us change 
the scenes a little. "All work and no play makes 
a dull boy." Take an outing. Drive the family to 
some good spring near by and spend a few days. 
Dine at some good hotel in the city and let the boy 
get a glimpse of city life. Then explain to him how 
city folks live, so that he may not be so anxious to 



Shall the farmer's boy be sent to college this year ? 
If so, where ? This is one of the most important 
questions that usually engages the farmer's attention 
during this month. D'oes the farmer's boy need an 
education ? If not, why do men go to colleges to 
study law and medicine ? The father sometimes tells 
his boy that he (the father) has made a success in 
life without a college education and his son ought to 
do equally as well without one. This kind of reason- 
ing has frequently decided the fate of many bright 
and ambitious farm boys. While such reasoning ap- 
pears sound on its face, still it is very unsound and 
misleading. The same father might ask also how 
many men without a college education have made 
failures. Conditions have greatly changed since he 
grew up. People are more thickly settled, population 
has increased, competition has become great and the 
requirements of society and the business world have 
grown immensely. There are many more avenues 
of pleasure opened up to the educated man than the 
uneducated. He is of more benefit to his fellow-man 
and the community. Instead of leaving the young 
man so many dollars to spend after the father is 
dead it would often be far better to spend the money 
in educating the young man and leave him a well- 
trained mind and a sound manhood. The boy will 
climb the ladder then instead of coming down. 

But what kind of an education is best for the farm- 
er's boy ? This question should be discussed with the 
boy very frankly, and some time should be given be- 
fore making a decision. If the boy wants to make 
a farmer the decision is made at once. Send him to a 
good agricultural and mechanical college. While a 
good farmer's boy will usually be successful in most 
any business or professional line he may choose to 
enter, still the great demand now is for men trained 
in the technical branches. The demand for men 
with a classical education has become very limited. 
The dead languages no longer hold the greater in- 
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is sent to college to make such things his main study, 
that is his first step in being educated away from the 
farm. The dignity of farming in Virginia and other 
Southern States is gaining groud rapidly. Virginia 
has an ex-Governor who was pround of the title, 
"Farmer Governor." Some of the wealthiest and 
most influential men of the State now own large 
pippin orchards or fine herds of registered cattle. 
One of our senators delights to spend his summers 
on his farm. Things are turning f armerward in Vir- 
ginia. Encourage the boy to be a farmer. Teach him 
that it is honorable. There is at least one good col- 
lege Avhere he can go, at small expense, to study agri- 
culture or horticulture. He will be respected and 
encouraged in his work at this institution. Send a 
pOstal-card for a catalogue of the Agricultural and 
Mechanical College ("Virginia Polytechnic Institute) 
located at Blacksburg, Va. This catalogue is now be- 
fore me, and I notice that a two-year course in "prac- 
tical agriculture" is given at this institution. I 
would like to see a number of young farmers take 
this course. The President of the Board has ap- 
proved the short winter course idea that I suggested 
in the Planter, and I hope to see this course offered 
at the college in a short time. More money is 
needed for broadening the agricultural features at 
this institution, and I hope the necessary money will 
be given by the next Legislature. The Legislature 
of Illinois recently gave the agricultural college of 
that State $100,000 for "equipment and instruc- 
tional work in the Department of Agriculture." 
Virginians have not been educated up to the point 
to even ask for such an amount, both for equipment ' 
and building, for the agricultural work of the State, 
but we are coming. If the farmers will vote in the 
primaries this fall for those who favor the advance- 
ment of the agricultural interests of the State we 
will be coming faster. R. H. Price. 

Montgomery county. 



FIRE BLIGHT ON PEARS, 

At the Virginia Experiment Station at Blacks- 
burg, a pear orchard was planted in 1S89, in which 
were set out over thirty different varieties. This 
orchard has had the constant care and attention of 
the Horticulturist and Mycologist of the station, with 
fhe hope of demonstrating the possibiliy of growing 
pears successfully in this State where fire blight has 
been a constant source of loss and discouragement 
to orchardists. Up to 1899, when the orchard was 
10 years old, this care resulted in gratifying suc- 
cess, there being to that date only slight attacks of the 



disease, and these were controlled by cutting away 
the diseased portions supplemented by thorough use 
of the Bordeaux spray. During 1900 the attack of 
blight became very severe, and regardless of cutting 
out wood and thorough application of Bordeaux, 
some of the trees were entirely destroyed before mid- 
summer. In a further effort to save the orchard 
the trees were carefully gone over in the winter of 
1900-1901 and all blighted wood removed, except 
blight spots on the trunks asd main limbs of trees 
that were desired to be attempted to be saved. These 
were carefully scraped, removing all the dead bark 
as far as possible and later the trunks and main limbs 
were treated with a lime-bluestone wash made by 
using two pounds of bluestone, four pounds of lime 
and three gallons of water, and was prepared as 
follows : The bluestone was dissolved in hot water, 
the lime carefully slacked in hot water and the two 
were then mixed together and thinned so as to make 
three gallons of the mixture. This was applied so 
a? to thoroughly coat the trunks and main limbs. 
The trees themselves were thoroughly sprayed in 
March with a solution of bluestone — two pounds to 
fifty gallons of water. In April and twice in May 
the trees were sprayed with Bordeaux mixture. Not- 
withstandisg all this work and the cutting out of all 
diseased wood, the blight continued to make head- 
way. 

On June 4th tht pear blight was again qiiite gene- 
ral throughout the orchard, and certain trees were so 
badly diseased that it was decided to remove them. 
At the end of the season of 1901 the orchard pre- 
sented a most serious condition of affairs. A con- 
siderable number of trees had already been removed, 
others had been cut to stumps, and it was now neces- 
sary to again remove a considerable number of trees 
and to cut others back to mere stubs or to short spurs 
of limbs around the head of the trunk, in order to 
remove, as far as possible, the diseaseu wood. 

The subsequent efforts made to combat the disease 
and the result are described in the following- bulletin 
from the Mycologist, Professor Alwood : 

During the winter of 1901-1902 the trees wore 
carefully searched for blighted wood and the same 
removed, except where certain blight spots on the 
trunk and main limbs could not well be cut away 
without destroying portions of the trees which were 
yet alive. Those trees which were thought to be quite 
beyond remedial treatment were cut out. All the 
wounds made in the heavy cutting of diseased tissue 
were covered with thick white lead paint, this being 
our usual custom in such work. 

During the last week in March the pear orchard 
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the trees with a lye wash, made by using concentrated 
lye in solution, so as to give a strength of 3 degrees 
on the Beaume spindle, it requiring about seven 
pounds of the concentrated lye to each fifty gallons of 
water to make the strength required. This wash was 
giver, for its cleansing effect, as has been our custom 
to do about once in three years. 

On April 3d the trees still remaining in the pear 
orchard were treated as follows with a prepared fer- 
tilizer composed of 300 pounds of 16 per cent, dis- 
solved South Carolina phosphate and 150 pounds of 
muriate potash. There were seventy-five trees still 
standing in the pear orchard, and this quantity of 
fertilizer was sowed broadcast in equal quantities 
around these trees, thus making an application of six 
pounds per tree. The ground had been previously 
cultivated with a disc harrow, and after the applica- 
tion of fertilizer was made a slight cultivation was 
given with a straight-tooth harrow. The trees were 
still dormant. About two weeks later the orchard 
was recultivated with the disc harrow^ and no further 
cultivation given for the year. 

On April 25th the pear orchard was given the first 
spraying of Bordeaux, made in the usual manner. 
The buds were just bursting at this date and the 
trees were coated so as to show a thin layer of bluish 
powder when dry. 

On May 7th the pear trees were given the second 
spraying with the Bordeaux mixture, care being taken 
to thoroughly treat all parts of the trees and to again 
coat the limbs and trunks with the spray preparation. 
This was the last treatment with Bordeaux for that 
season. 

Slight trace of blight showed here and there on the 
early growth, but no serious development of the dis- 
ease occurred. The only noticeable progress that the 
disease made during the season was on limbs and 
smaller branches adjacent to hold-over cases which 
were not cut out at the winter pruning as noted above. 
ISIo summer pruning for blight was attempted during 
1902. These slight occurrences resulted in the death 
of a few large limbs and occasional branches, but there 
was no spread of the trouble to the young wood as the 
season progressed. The trees, in many instances, took 
on a new vigor, and the appearance of the orchard at 
the close of the summer of 1902 was far better than 
at the close of 1901. In fact, the disease was so de- 
cidedly checked that one could not help being greatly 
encouraged with the result. 

It should further be stated that, with the checking 
of the blight in the pear orchard, scarcely a twig 
blighted in the large variety apple orchard standing 
adjacent, whereas, the previous year twig blight oc- 
curred very generally throughout the apple orchard. 
spring of 1903. 

This season the orchard has been treated as fol- 



lows: The few dead limbs and branches resulting 
from last season's action of blight were cut out when 
still dormant. No winter wash was used. Though 
the orchard has a dilapidated appearance from severe 
cutting, it shows no particular extension of blighted 
areas on trunks and limbs. Unfortunately, the im- 
passable condition of our road to the depot rendered 
it impossible to secure the material for making the 
tonic fertilizer as early as we had wished. The 
application was prepared, however, as specified 
under a previous section of this report, and ten 
pounds used broadcast around each tree, on April 22, 
1903, spreading the same for a radius of six to eight 
feet about the trees. 

The first Bordeaux treatment was given April 
20th, just as buds were opening, and the second May 
18th, after bloom had fallen. 

The orchard has been cultivated three times with 
a disc harrow, and will be given no further culture 
or treatment of any sort. The coming fall we ought 
to be able to make pretty positive statements as to the 
results of this tonic treatment for pear blight. 

At this writing (June 1, 1903), the trees are, with 
few exceptions, making a vigorous growth, and in 
some cases forming new heads from bare trunks 
where the tops were cut away at 12 and 13 years 

CONCLUSIONS. 

1. Our efforts to stay the fire blight by cutting out 
diseased tissue and by the use of Bordeaux sprays 
over the entire trees, and washes on the trunk, have 
tailed to hold the disease in check, but we think this 
preliminary effort to control the disease should not 
be neglected. 

2. It appears that we are warranted in saying that 
the fertilizer used on pear trees suffering from fire 
blight has enabled them to resist the disease to a 
very marked degree. These tests must be repeated 
for a series of years, and under varying conditions, 
before a final pronouncement can be made. 

3. It is, in our opinion, bad policy to cultivate pear 
orchards in summer, or, in fact, after the bloom falls, 
and such orchards are apparently more healthy if 
planted on rather dry, stiff soil. 

b. After our experience with the blight we suggest 
the following list of varieties for home use and com- 
mercial planting. Well treated, these would appear 
to promise the best results : 

For summer. — Bartlett and Tyson. 

For autumn and late fruit. — Seckel, Bosc (finest 
quality, amateur only), Louise, Butter, Kieffer (espe- 
cially for commercial purposes) and Lawrence. This 
latter, if well handled, can be held until late ; quality 
is fine. Wit/liam B. Alwood, 

Mycologist, etc. 
Experiment Station, Blacksburg, Va., June 30, 

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Live Stock and Dairy. 



A DEHORNING PEN. 

A subscriber writes us asking that we give him 
some points about building a pen for holding cattle 
whilst being dehorned. A very simple arrangement 
will meet all the needs of a dehorning pen. Indeed, 
we know of one gentleman who every year dehorns 
a large number of cattle whose only pen (if such it 
can be called) is simply a forked tree. Near to his 
stable a large tree has grown which, at about three 
feet above the ground, divides into two limbs be- 
tween which the head of a cow can be easily passed. 
When once through, pressing the head down a little 
and holding it there by the nose, fixes the animal so 
that the head cannot be moved. The horns are then 
taken off and the head of the cow raised and the 
animal set at liberty. A dehorning pen can do no 
better than follow this simple plan, except that it 
should be made of strong rails down each side so 
that when once in it the animal's body will be also 
confined, so as not to have room to move to either 
side. Make the end of the pen through which the 
head projects of two strong upright posts and a 
couple of rails near the bottom to hold these together 
and let the space between these two uprights be only 
sufficiently wide for the head below the horns to pass 
through. Fix a strong cross-bar with a hinge to the 
top of one of these uprights and when the head is in 
position between them close this down on the neck 
and fasten with a staple in the other upright and thus 
hold the head fast. 



LIVE STOCK AT ST. LOUIS. 

F. D. Coburn, Chief of the Department of Live 
Stock of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, has 
arranged for a total of over 26,000 prizes in the 
classifications for horses, cattle, sheep, swine, poul- 
try, etc., for the World's Fair show next year. These 
are unprecedented in amount and are divided among 
twelve breeds of beef and dual purpose cattle with 
2,352 prizes ; four breeds of dairy cattle, 560 prizes ; 
nineteen breeds of horses, 3,458 prizes ; eleven breeds 
of swine, 2,772 prizes ; fourteen breeds of sheep, 
2,548 prizes; 375 varieties of poultry and pigeons, 
10,300 prizes ; fifty-seven breeds of dogs, 2,604 prizes. 
There are thirty-two additional prizes for single cows 
and herds entered in the dairy demonstration ; five 
for oxen; fifty-five for mules and 1,310 for the esti- 
mated displays of pet stock, vehicles, etc. 



Provision has been made for five cash prizes and 
two honorable mention awards in most sections ex- 
cept poultry. The final arrangements of the classi- 
fications may still further enlarge the number of 
prizes offered. 



THE PROFITABLE COLT. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

In many cases some of the work horses on the 
farm may be brood mares. Usually such mares have 
less to do in winter. They can have their colts in 
November and suckle them through the winter 
months. Sometimes it is difficult to get the mares to 
breed at the desired time of the year. At least have 
the colt come in April or not before September 30th. 

As soon as the colt comes into the world see that 
its nose is uncovered as soon as the body is exposed 
to the air, and there may be cases where the navel 
needs attention, but nature generally takes care of 
that. Leave the colt with the dam for awhile and 
let her take care of it, but if after two or three hours 
it has not had any milk help it to get some. As a 
rule the foal gets a good portion within a half hour 
after being born. Be sure the dam has sufficient 
milk, or if the udder is full and hard rub it and 
start the flow. If the milk does not move the bowels 
properly a little castor oil should be given, and some- 
times it is necessary to give an injection. When the 
colt is about a day old go into the stable and get in 
front of him, sitting down several feet away. Just 
sit still with your hat off so he will not knock it off 
and scare himself. He is a very curious little fel- 
low and will not be long in getting to see what you 
are. Be very quiet, and let him have his own way till 
he begins picking at you. After giving him time to 
become interested reach out quietly and tickle him a 
little on the breast, which he will greatly enjoy. 
After a short time you may begin to rub him a little 
and tickle him between the forelegs till he begins to 
try to lay down on you. Now yott have his confi- 
dence, which, if you will repeat the lesson once or 
twice more, you may have always, if you will treat 
him kindly. Always catch the colt and hold him 
by putting one arm in front and one back of him. 
The pivotal point of action is the center of the body — 
fasten him in front and he tries to go backward; 
fasten him at the rear and he tries to go forward. 
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under the neck and the other under the ham. Handle 
him first on one side then on the other, and give him 
a lump of sugar. He may not eat it at first, but pass 
it around his mouth and he will soon learn to like it. 

When about a week old put on a strong, neatly- 
fitting halter and tie the colt up. If the halter does 
not fit he will soon learn to rub it off and a habit is 
formed that is almost impossible to cure. If he 
pulls back, to counteract this, piace a strap around 
his body just in front of his hind legs. Attach a 
rope to this and run it through a ring in the halter. 
When the colt goes back pull him up to you; then 
give him some sugar. By the time he is two weeks 
old he should have been taught to lead and stand 
while his mother is taken out to water. Next put 
on the headstall with a bit and let him get accus- 
omed to it. 

The mare should be kept in a box stall for a short 
time after foaling, and as soon as the colt becom 
accustomed to being haltered tie the mare in a 
single stall. When she goes to work he should not be 
allowed to follow her, but is better off in the stall — 
all the better if a paddock is attached. For the first 
month if the colt cannot be taken to the dam she 
should be brought up in the middle of the day to 
suckle him. If she is on pasture the" colt will early 
learn to partake of the same. Teach him to eat when 
from 3 to 4 weeks old by providing a self-feeder 
where he can get oats and bran at all times. There 
is no danger of him eating too much. Aim to keep 
him growing well and see to it that he is getting a 
good grain ration and is in good thrift at weaning 
time — 5 or 6 months old. Separate the two so they 
cannot see or hear each other and by kindness and 
perseverance the colt will soon forget to worry. To 
dry the mare feed straw and decrease the amount 
of water. 

The first year after weaning is usually the hardest 
time in the life of the colt, and we should give him 
extra care and feed at this time. Some breeders 
feed much grain the first winter. At any rate, he 
should be. kept growing, but not at all fat before he 
is 3 years old. There are no grain feeds better 
adapted to growing muscle and bone than oats and 
bran with an addition of about a pint of oil meal 
a day. No corn is needed, except in cold weather. 
Clover or alfalfa hay and bluegrass pasturage fur- 
nish excellent feed. Grinding feed is unnecessary, 
as the operation takes time and money. The time 
of the colt is not worth anything; therefore, he can 
safely put it in grinding his own feed. He has no- 
thing else to do and likes it. He will not pass any 




grain whole if he is in perfect health. Potatoes are 
an excellent food for the colt. It is well to cut them 
and dust over with a little grain. Carrots are also 
renommended as a feed to build a good frame and 
solid body. If he is nervous decrease the quantity 
of oats. 

Allow him free range and exposure to outdoor 
weather common to older stock in the more clement 
seasons. Keep the feet straight with a rasp. 

A fall colt thus treated is ready to make full 
growth, and instead of being at two and a half years 
no better than the 2-year-old, as is often the case, 
he will be about as good as a 3-year-old. 

George H. C. Williams. 
United States Department Agriculture , Washington. 

D. C. 



MORE LIVE STOCK. 



Editor Southern Planter: 

The market conditions for stock-raising — includ- 
ing all meat-producing animals — offer such in- 
ducements to farmers as ought to influence them to 
produce all the live stock their farms will sustain. 
Beef is way up in price, and the demand is greater 
than the supply. This is just what the farmer wants. 
Breeding stock is also scarce and must be grown to 
meet the demand. So also is good dairy stock. For 
milk and butter prices are so favorable and demand 
for good milk and butter so great — that of the "gilt- 
edge" variety, especially — the supply does not begin 
to meet the demand. 

Prices of both mutton and wool are high, and in- 
dications point that they will go still higher. The 
heavy sheep losses in Australia and the great de- 
crease in exports of both sheep and wool from such 
an extensive shipping point, indicate at least no de- 
crease from present prices. 

The losses among the flocks and herds throughout 
the Northwest will also influence prices for some 
time to come. 

Every one at all acquainted with stock raising- 
knows of the shortage in hogs for both breeding and 
market purposes. Hogs bring quick money, and if 
properly handled plenty of it and good returns on 
capital invested. 

Sheep are easily handled and they also bring 
quick money and from two sources — mutton and 
wool. 

Cattle have made many rich, and will still make 
many more rich, unless vegetarians get us. Goats 
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speak truly they can be profitably bandied, espe- 
cially so where land is to be cleared of weeds and 
scrub growth. 

Fortunately, there is variety enough of live stock 
for each man to select that which best suits his fancy, 
•his ability or his surroundings. He can select which 
ever breed of stock suits his purpose best, but when 
choice is followed thus far let him stick to it. Rarely 
ever does the man who changes from sheep to hogs 
and hogs to cattle and perhaps from cattle to horses, 
do well. There are exceptions — this only proves the 
rule — where circumstances are such that a change is 
beneficial, even essential; but ,generally speaking, 
the man who studiously makes his choice, sticks to 
it and is carefully observant of the details of his 
business is the successful man. 

Another condition besides that of the markets 
must be considered by the farmer. The time is pass- 
ing when cattle and sheep can be run on the plains in 
any number. These plains are rapidly being turned 
into farms, and for some years ranches have been 
moving farther and farther west to give place to 
settlers. Sheep and cattle have moved nearer to- 
gether, until the result has been the war between 
the sheep and cattle men so disgraceful to our his- 
tory; and the end is not yet. These wars but prove 
the shortage of grazing lands. In all of the Western 
States range lands are taken up by settlers — thou- 
sands of farms in each State every year — until the end 
must be — and that not far distant — when live stock 
growing and grain growing must, be done together 
on the farm. This has great advantages for the 
farmer, especially those who possess farms where 
grain growing solely has weakened the soil, as in the 
southern part of the United States, separated from 
the North and West to some extent by the civil war 
and the consequences resulting. Here are many large 
farms where part of the land is cultivated, part in 
timber and much left unused, save for commons. 
Take, for example, the State of Virginia. These 
conditions are existant here. Grain and tobacco are 
produced in considerable quantities; much commer- 
cial fertilizer is used. Thoroughbred stock for breed- 
ing purposes is raised throughout the State to some 
extent: but little feeding is done, however. Where 
either is followed the difference in the condition of 
that farm and those joining is amazing. There are 
many sections of the United States where grass for 
hay or grazing purposes cannot be produced that 
will compare with that grown in these places. Com, 
grains and clovers, including alfalfa, will compare 
well with those raised in other sections, and the 
water supply is as good as can be had anvwhere. 



Land throughout this section can be bought very 
cheap — from $:1 per acre up — in some instances very 
good improvements included. However, when the 
farmer awakes to the fact that the best way to market 
farm produce is in the shape of meat or dairy pro- 
ducts, these conditions will change. 

Tf every farmer would put, or keep, on his place 
all the stock it would carry until every field and 
pasture came into a high state of fertility, the ease 
and profit with which he could handle his farm would 
be a pleasant surprise to him. The more stock he 
raised the more and better grain he could grow, aud 
with more grain more stock would follow, until our 
lands attained as high a state of fertility and cultiva- 
tion as the world-renowned agricultural lands of 
England. 

While there is much to be said in favor of herding 
on the ranges, there is to that, as to most things, two 
sides. Range stock is frequently exposed to diseases 
by bringing in new stock, to poison from eating 
poisonous plants when grazing is scarce or when 
moving from one place to another; also, some loss 
from wild animals, more especially among sheep, and 
in time of drought to intense suffering and loss for 
want of both feed and water, and every winter leaves 
tales to tell of snow-covered ranges, where the weakest 
in every herd succumb to cold and starvation. 

Any, or, indeed, all, of these conditions may con- 
front a farmer-stockman, but at the same time he has 
at hand means to combat them that a range man has 
not. With a part of his land in grass and cultiva- 
tion he can, in the most unfavorable season, provide 
enough feed to bring his stock through. By 
judiciously fencing, water can be provided on most 
farms so as to be available in each grazing field, and 
facilities are at hand for separating from the herds 
those in a poorer condition and giving to them the 
extra attention required to put them into shape. 

There is also an advantage in producing stock as 
near as possible to Avhere it is to be marketed, and 
this can be done here to a far greater extent than it 
is anywhere east of the Mississippi river, where 
markets are so near at hand and of the highest. 

The time is at hand when every farmer — yes. and 
stockman — must settle this matter for himself and 
put it into practice. The time is past when a man 
who was not possessed of wit enough for anything else 
would do for a farmer. The government has done 
much toward educating as to the need of scientific 
farming and farming as a business investment, by 
publishing and freely circulating the annual reports 
of the Departments of Agriculture in each State, the 
Experiment Station reports and by aiding State ag- 



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ricultural colleges, etc. When we really know what 
we need we are sure to have it. In the last decade 
we have made rapid progress in our farming methods, 
both as to agricultural features and stock raising. 
The up-to-date farmer has a comfortable home with 
some of the luxuries in it that are so attractive to 
the people, that were exclusively city conveniences 
not many years ago. He has a carriage and horses 
that are frequently used by the family, also has 
time and sympathy for social enjoyments. These 
things, with an agricultural college education, will fit 
the young people to become good farmers. Simplv 
because a certain boy is a little more intelligent than 
the average is no reason why he should go away to 
the city to shut himself up in a little, dark office and 
for fifty weeks a year do precisely and exactly as he 
is told or lose his job. Many do that when they might 
be the owners of fine farms with fields of waving 
grain and herds of sleek cattle and sheep grazing 
contentedly on the pastures, and all as a: result of 
their own ability and management. 

A man is tied to his farm ? Certainly, who is not 
tied ? It is only the question of the length of the 
rope with which he is tied, and, broadly speaking, 
the salaried man of the cities is tied with the shortest. 

Fluvanna county, Va. E. A. Kennicott. 

When sending us the foregoing, Mr. Kennicott 
said: "It has been my lot to become acquainted 
with farming and stock-raising conditions through 
the North and West, and in no place have I seen 
equally good conditions, naturally, as here. I have 
also seen corn and forage grown here that are en- 
tirely convincing as to what can be done." He said 
that a friend of his, one of the editors of the Chicago 
Daily Drover, had recently visited him in Fluvanna 
county. This was his first visit to this part of the 
country and he remarked that he had never seen 
such possibilities for sheep raising as in this part 
of the State of Virginia, though his travels had been 
considerable. Mr. Kennicott is one of a class of men 
of whom we want to see hundreds in the South. A 
man who realizes and knows what are the possibilities 
of live-stock farming and who appreciates the truth 
of what we have so frequently asserted, that there 
is no location in the whole country so well fitted in 
every way for the wideawake, live stockman as this 
Atlantic coast section of the South. — Ed. 



/ 



RAISING COLTS. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

Your correspondent, "R," of Henderson county, 
X. C, whose inquiry for "points" on raising colts, 



suggests that he does not incline toward the scrub 
product, as usually seen on our farms. Breeding and 
raising colts is very much like cropping, it depends 
wholly upon your theory of what you want to pro- 
duce. If you intend to raise a first-class animal you 
must begin the operation before the colt is born by 
selection of dam and sire. An over-worked, poorly- 
nourished mare cannot be expected to produce a 
good colt from a cross-roads scrub sire, nor , could 
any mare, no matter how high bred, for that, matter. 
There is a difference of opinion whether it is best 
for the colt to be born in the spring or in the fall. 
As a matter of fact, it does not make as much dif- 
ference as some people imagine, provided the dam 
and colt have the proper food and nourishment. The 
dam should not be worked but very lightly during 
the suckling of the foal. There are many reasons 
for this. Among others, the mare needs all her 
nourishment to maintain her own physical condition 
during the period of suckling her foal. If she be- 
comes heated during work it affects the colt through 
the milk, and the colt is often injured in following 
its dam while at work. 

Up to the fourth month of age the colt will thrive 
on its mother's milk alone; at that age it can be 
taught to eat finely-ground oats, one cupful, and 
one teaspoonful of old process linseed oil meal twice 
a day. At six months this should be increased to 
one pint of ground oats and two teaspoonsful linseed 
meal twice a day. It makes no difference whether the 
colt is on grass or hay, it should have the grain 
ration. Beginning with the winter it should have 
one pint of ground oats, one pint bran and one table- 
spoonful linseed-oil meal three times a day with a 
light hay ration. Never overfeed colts with hay. 
This can be increased until at springtime, say, 12 
months old, it is getting one quart ground oats, one 
quart bran, one tablespoonful (heaping) of linseed- 
oil meal at a feed. When ready for pasture nail a 
small box to a post about the right height for the 
colt to feed easily and give him a quart of whole oats 
morning and night. Keep a piece of rock salt in the 
box all the time. If the pasture is of poor quality 
increase the oats. You cannot grow a good colt 
without good feed. You cannot raise a good crop 
without good land or plenty of fertilizer for plant 
food. This rule holds good in 999 cases out of 1,000. 
I have often heard of a scrub turning out to be a 
rarely good horse, but the other 999 were scrubs pure 
and simple. The fact of the matter is, you cannot 
produce something from nothing. Only the Al- 
mighty can do that. You cannot raise a colt, cow, 
sheep or hog without feed ; the better the feed the 



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better the animal, provided always, it has the proper 
progenitors. We do raise horses, cows, sheep and hogs 
without much feed, and when we sell them we do not 
get much for them ; but we get much loss in time, 
labor and fruitlessness of effort. One well bred, well 
fed, well grown colt is worth two or three scrubs, so 
far as profit goes, and worth twenty times as much 
so far as pride goes, and who has no pride ? 

Mecklenburg county, Va. Whitby. 



A NOTABLE SHIPMENT OF BERKSHIRES FOR 
BILTMORE FARM. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

Berkshire breeders do not need to be reminded 
of that notable shipment made from the leading Eng- 
lish herds in 1902, for they have before them the 
record of the annual sale held at Biltmore on Feb- 
ruary 3, 1903, when the world's average for Berk- 
shire auction sales was made. The sound judgment 
and expert knowledge displayed by Mr. G. F. West- 
ti-i i and his most able assistant. Mr. K. Gentry, in 
making that notable importation, was more than con- 
tinued and justified by the grand result then obtained. 

Experience has proved that, notwithstanding the 
size of the Biltmore herd, it has been of itself unable 
after supplying the heavy requirements of private 
customers, to accumulate a sufficient reserve for its 
annual sale, and hence for this object, as well as be- 
cause there is no question but that the results secured 
from English stock are such as justify their impor- 
tation, another visit has just been made to England, 
and, to the surprise of both Mr. Weston and Mr. 
Gentry, they have been able to secure for their fourth 
importation a selection of swine which, for their 
grand breeding," individual merit and typical charac- 
ter are far ahead of any of the previous importations. 
Why is this so many on your side will naturally be 
inclined to ask. The reply is, however, one easily 
given — namely, that the recuperative power of the 
English herds is so great that were 75 per cent, of 
their best pigs taken the breeders would, with perfect 
ease, from those left soon produce as good, or even 
a better, lot. 

The main reasons why Mr. Vanderbilt, by the aid 
of the consummate judgment and skill of Mr. Western 
undertakes these annual importations, is a most 
laudable one — namely, the improvement of the breed 
in America. The experience at Biltmore is such that 
there is now no question but that if one desires to 
secure the most typical and best Berkshires he must 
either secure the services of an English animal or 
some of their direct descendants. This having been 



proven beyond dispute, there is no further occasion 
for argument, and it may, therefore, be anticipated 
with certainty that the Biltmore sale on February 
9. 1904, will prove equally as successful as the pre- 
vious annual sales have been, which, like the forth- 
coming sale, consisted entirely of imported stock. 
The present importation left England en the 19th 
of June under the personal control and management 
of that well-known expert and judge, Mr. Gentry, 
and, like all the preceding importations, contained 
only animals of the very choicest pedigree and breed- 
ing, which were either themselves or their sires and 
dams prize winners. In fact, none but prize winning 
stock have been taken. Another, and probably 
equally important sine qua non was also made a con- 
dition of selection- — namely, that no pig, no matter 
how choice its pedigree or perfect its symetry, was 
included unless it had plenty of stamina, sound con- 
stitution, good joints and feet and that had not in its 
veins that blood which had in previous importations 
proved itself to be specially fitted for crossing with 
American-bred stock. 

The present consignment of about seventy-five 
head includes the following noted swine, which were 
selected regardless of cost and at about from 25 to 
30 per cent, higher prices than the previous importa- 
tion, which arose from two facts — first, higher 
quality; and, secondly, on account of the increased 
demand for Berkshires in England: 

Taking the different herds in order, we first deal 
with that record selection made from the herd owned 
by Mr. R. W. Hudson, of Danesfield, Marlow, Berk- 
shire, from which forty-eight head were selected, a 
fact that at once discloses the very exceptional merit 
of this notable herd. All the show pigs of the pres- 
ent year, except one, were taken, this one having been 
previously sold. The first selected was Danesfield 
Warrior, by Manor Favorite out of D. Porter's 1st, 
tracing to the well known Pinnock blood. This boar 
is a noted winner of first and champion prizes, includ- 
ing the Royal Show at Carlisle. He was left last 
year because he had not then proved himself a stock 
getter, this he has done and will be a valuable acqui- 
sition to any herd. 1). Julius, an own brother to this 
boar, is now stud boar in Sir A. Henderson's herd. 
Xine other boars are included from this herd, amongst 
them Danesfield Huntsman, First at Royal Counties 
Show this year. His own brother, who has been bred 
on many of the imported sows, being also included. 
The last named, by a very choice boar by Danesfield, 
Haymaker, out of Danesfield Huntress, one of the 
choicest strains of blood. The old sow, The Huntress, 
has also been secured from Mr. E. Hayter. and is in- 
cluded in this consignment. The Vain Maid blood 



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is typically represented by B'anesfield Swansea, a 
choicely bred boar, for be comes out of a daughter of 
old Vain Maid, imported by Mr. Vanderbilt in 1S98, 
and whose produce has been eminently successful 
wherever exhibited. 

The sows and gilts from Mr. Hudson number 
thirty-eight head, a notable lot they are, space 
will not allow of detailed mention of all, but 
we take a few as typical of the rest. Gentle Jane 
is the dam of Swansea, stud boar at H. R. 
H. Prince Christian's farm, and a dam of many win- 
ners, including the Royal Show from 1901 to 1903. 
Danesfield Huntress, to which reference has been 
made above, and three of her best daughters, all by 
Lord Carnarvon's noted stud boar, Drogheda. Two 
grandsons out of Danesfield Mistress by Danesfield 
Haymaker, five sons out of Danesfield Governess, who 
was not for sale, her value being so great. These have 
as their sire Danesfield Loyal, a son of Loyal Berks, 
whose value is so well known and appreciated in 
America as to render any further reference unneces- 
sary. Then we have that grand sow, Highclere 57th, 
by Blenheim, a most valuable strain of blood. This 
soav's exportation is a serious loss to the English herds 
because with her goes almost the last of this most 
valuable strain of blood; three of her daughters go 
with her, all by that notable boar, Danesfield Hay- 
maker ; Danesfield Countess, out of Danesfield 
Duchess by Manor Favorite, served by Danesfield 
Loyal, goes as well, a grand, typical son of highest 
merit. Links Alive, by Manor Very Choice, by 
Julius Ca\sar, is another valuable sow. Manor Very 
Choice was sire of many animals sold at Biltmore 
sale in 1900, and is a double cross of Ministry blood, 
a line of blood that has been most successful both in 
England and America. 

Mr. E. Hayter's grand herd, one of those small, 
select herds which are good all through, supplies six 
head, amongst them The Huntress, a grand sow, 
founder of her line of blood, and one so highly ap- 
preciated at Biltmore that an effort is being made to 
secure the whole of it, no less than five generations 
are now at Biltmore. Tact, by History, a notable 
boar, being a combination of very choice lines of 
blood, is a grand brood sow, a dam of prize winners 
for two of her gilts were at Andover in keen compe- 
tition and are included in this selection, as is also 
Sterling Balm, a daughter of the noted Blenheim, 
out of a Stumpy Sow, whose pedigree includes those 
noted sires and dams Ministry, Hampton Park, by 
Longstock, out of Wicket Lass. The other animal 
from this herd is Lord Lyon, by Handyman, im- 
ported as a stud boar for Biltmore. He will not be 
included in the Bale unless laler arrangements cause 



alteration. He is about the best boar that has left 
England for many a day, and his stock, if all goes 
well, will be of the highest value. 

Mr. C. C. Smith's herd provides a very typical lot 
of sows, mainly of the Rubicell blood, as represented 
by that grand old sow, Old Queen of Hearts, already 
well known to Americans by her produce at previous 
sales. These are sired by Lisle Grand Duke 1st at 
Andover ; 2d at Southampton, and 2d at the Bath 
and West of England in 1903, two other gilts by Col- 
lege Boy, out of Lisle Duchess, a thoroughly typical 
lot of highest merit. A pair of specially well bred 
sons from Mr. P. L. Mills of the noted Melody strain 
of blood, by Flagstaff, and a selection of special 
merit and quality concludes this most notable ship- 
ment, which takes from England some of the choicest 
of her Berkshires to enrich and improve those of 
America. W. W. Chapman. 

London, England. 



TICKS ON CATTLE. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

Referring to your remedy for ticks on cattle, in 
reply to inquiry from T. C. Massie, please allow me 
to suggest a better and simpler one : Mix equal parts 
of common table salt and sulphur, pulverize and put 
in the throughs or on any clean, hard surface where 
the cattle can lick it, giving as much as they will 
lick up clean, say, as much as can be picked up in 
tihe hand, and give regularly once a week during 
the tick season. If ticks are very bad three parts 
sulphur to one part salt can be used. The sulphur 
Avorks out through the pores of the skin, making the 
ticks drop off, and it is also a fine blood purifier, 
keeping cattle and all kinds of stock in excellent con- 
dition. The cattle seem to like it, and mine lick it 
up clean. T put it on clean, flat rocks, boards, in 
troughs, or if none of these are convenient on bare, 
hard ground. 

I started out this year to keep my cattle free from 
ticks if possible, and had often heard of the sulphur 
remedy before, but had never given a thorough and 
persistent trial. I put my cattle on pasture March 
30th, and at first gave them a mixture of one part 
sulphur to three parts salt. First ticks appeared 
April 27th, and T at once increased the sulphur to 
one half. Since then my cattle have been compara- 
tively free of ticks and in first-class condition in 
every way. Occasionally I will see one with a few 
ticks, but they do not amount to anything. Last year 
they were covered with ticks. The mixture must be 
thoroughly pulverized and mixed together, and given 
once or twice a week, as necessity demands. 

Lafayette county, A la. Walter Atcukews. 



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The Poultry Yard. 



EGGS AND THE COST OF PRODUCTION. 

In our October issue last year we published a re- 
port giving the results of co-operative experiments 
made in New York State with a number of different 
flocks of poultry to ascertain the average cost of 
winter egg production. The experiment was under 
the supervision of the Cornell Experiment Station. 
This experiment, which concluded in March, 1902, 
was continued with four of the flocks then amalga- 
mated into three, so as to cover a whole year. The 
flocks experimented with were A, B and C and K. 
The following report gives the result of the year's 
work : 

YEARLY PRODUCTION OF EGGS. 

Average Total No. of Average No. Average daily 
Flock. number of eggs of eggs production per 

hens. produced. per hen. 100 hens. 

A 508J 59446 116.9 31.3 

BandC. .. 2S9f 39813 137.4 36 8 

K 308f 41641 134.8 36. 



Average. . 



129 7 



34./ 



It will be seen by the above that the average num- 
ber of eggs produced per hen is much less than that 
often claimed. Records of 200 eggs and more per 
hen have been frequently published in the agricul- 
tural press and elsewhere. Inasmuch as these flocks 
represent the better class of poultrymen, and the 
fowls were in all probability much better fed and 
cared for than average flocks, it would seem that all 
claimed records of more than 150 eggs per hen per 
year should be abundantly verified before being 
accepted. 

FOOD COST OF ONE DOZEN EGGS. 

The average monthly food cost of, one dozen eggs 
for each flock per year was: For Flock A, 10.1 
cents : Flock B and C, 7.7 cents ; Flock K, 10. Ave- 
rage, 9.2 cents. Average selling price, 21.4 cents. 

PROFIT AND LOSS. 

By "profit and loss" is simply meant the relation 
between the cost of the food consumed and the value 
of the eggs produced at market rates. No account is 
made of anything else, and it is, therefore, not really 
a discussion of profit and loss, but the term is used 
for want of a better. In the table below is given for 
each flock the total cost of food, the total value of 
product at market rates, the total profit and the ave- 
rage profit per hen. 

PROFIT (EXCESS OF PRODUCT OVER COST OF FOOD.) 

Cest of Value "Profit" 

food of "Profit." per 



Flock. 



Average 
number. 



Total 
cost of 

food. per hen. eggs. hen 

A 508 J $499.58 $.982 $1060.72 $561.14 $1.10 

BandC. 2^9f 257.10 .887 694.38 437.28 1.51 

K 308| 347.85 1.119 757.18 409.33 1.33 



It will be seen that it cost just about $1 each to 
feed the 1,200 fowls under experiment for one year, 
and that the value of the eggs at market rates ex- 
ceeded the cost of food by $1.31 each. From this 
must come the cost of labor, interest on investment 
and equipment and profit to the owner. Of the 
gross income very nearly 44 per cent, was required 
for food, leaving 56 per cent, for cost of labor, in- 
terest on investment and profit. 

CONCLUSIONS. 

In the year from December 1, 1901, to November 
30, 1902, in three flocks representing 1,250 fowls, the 
average daily production of eggs was 34.7 per cent. 

The total yearly production per hen averaged 129.7 
eggs. 

The average food cost of one dozen eggs for the 
year was 9.2 cents. 

The average cost of feeding a hen for the year was 
99.6 cents. 

The average value of the eggs at market rates ex- 
ceeded the cost of food by $1.31 per hen. 

Forty-four per cent, of the total value of product 
was required for food. 



Average. 



.996 



1.31 



DON'T WE KEEP TOO MANY ROOSTERS? 

Editor Southern Planter: 

I see in July Planter you say to "Enquirer" not 
to keep over twenty hens to one rooster. Now, Mr. 
Editor, I would like for you to unravel a puzzle of 
mine. It is this: Last February and March I had 
from 400 to 500 hens and about twenty-five 
roosters. I set in those months 130 hens, which all 
hatched out by the middle of April about 1,600 
chickens. As I did not wish to set any more eggs I 
disposed of my roosters except four. Those I kept 
to do the crowing for the farm. I have raised to 
eating size 1,500 chickens. Now, in the last few 
days two hens that stole their nests have come out 
and brought twenty beautiful chickens. We have 
found the nests and one hen sat on eleven eggs and 
the other on twelve eggs — only three this hot weather 
that did not hatch and one rooster to 100 hens. Now, 
this is my puzzle. Will you be so kind as to answer, 
and oblige your friend, John O. Otky. 

Charles City county, Va. 

Our friend puts to us a poser. When we advised 
keeping one rooster to twent}' or twenty-five hens 
we wrote from our long practical experience in 
poultry-keeping, during which time we had always 
found that we got best results from about this pro- 
portion. We have known good hatches to come from 
eggs where onh r one rooster ran with fifty hens, but 



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this is very uncertain in our experience. Every 
poultry keeper knows that roosters have ; like human 
beings,' their favorites amongst the female members 
of their flocks and will be found always consorting 
more continuously with these than with the whole 
flock. The larger the flock the greater the proportion 
of neglected hens and the larger the percentage of 
unfertilized eggs. In explanation of the good 
hatches made by the two hens mentioned it may be, 
and probably was, the case that these two hens were 
favorites with one of the roosters and hence the fer- 
tility of the eggs. We know it to be possible to keep 
too many roosters for the best fertility of the eggs. 
Between this and keeping too few there is, no doubt, 
a considerable margin, but we are inclined to the be- 
lief that we came near the correct proportion in the 
figures named. What say others on this subject ? — 
Ed. 



HAWKS AGAIN. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

Will some of the gentlemen who have been kind 
enough to give the information about killing hawks 
with strychnine help me a little further on the same 
subject while the case is up ? 

I have tried to keep hens for laying purposes, and 
only raise enough chickens to keep the stock up, and 
although the information about young chickens is 
very valuable, it does not meet my case, which is 
this : When I do not have young chickens the hawks 
take the bens, and you know the best layers are 
always the greatest foragers and will wander far 
from the house, so that it is impossible to watch them. 
The hawks then strike them down a long distance 
away and eat them on the spot. The hawks have 
grown so cunning that to trap or shoot them is out 
of the question. Now, what I want to know is, can 
I give strychnine to the grown hens so as to be effec- 
tual in killing the hawks and not hurt the eggs for 
eating or hatching purposes ? As this poison gets 
assimilated with the blood will it not affect the eggs 
more or less ? 

If any one can answer they will help me very 
much, for I can scarcely keep a hen on the place, 
much less make anything by them. 

Chesterfield- county, Va. H. Denhurst. 



say, four or five times during the time the chickens 
are small and most liable to the disease. A little ex- 
perience will tell how long this will be necessary. 
This has always with me been a certain preventative. 

One day I observed a little chicken gaping. I 
procured a pinch of black pepper, inserted it in his 
mouth, dropped him and off he went rejoicing. I 
observed the brood more closelv and nearlv all had 
gapes. Same treatment cured all completely and at 
once. This is my remedy. S. E. Morgan. 

Wood county, W. Va. 



LICE. 

I notice several persons are enquiring through 
your columns for a preventative of vermin in poul- 
try houses. One that we have tried and found very 
effective is common coal tar. Simply paint the 
nests and roosts with it and they disappear as if by 
magic. 

It is also good to dab a little on the hogs' backs 
with a paddle, but be careful not to rub it in too 
much or it will cause the skin to peel. 

Louisa county, Va. J. E. Tiiomassok. 



GAPES. 

To an enquirer in July I give my preventative 
and remedy for gapes. Mix a small quantity of red 
pepper, pulverized for cayenne) with the dough. 



THE TOMATO AN INSECT REPELLER. 

"I planted a peach orchard," writes M. Siroy, of 
the Society of Horticulture, "and the trees grew 
strongly. They had just commenced to bud when 
invaded by the curculio (pulyon), which insects were 
followed, as frequently happens, by ants. Having 
cut some tomatoes, the idea occurred to me that by 
placing some of the leaves around the trunks and 
branches of the peach trees I might preserve them 
from the rays of the sun, which are very powerful. 
My surprise was great upon the following day to find 
the trees entirely free from their enemies, not one 
remaining, except her and there, where a curled leaf 
prevented the tomato from exercising its influence. 
These leaves I carefully unrolled, placing upon them 
fresh ones from the tomato vine, with the result of 
banishing the last insect and enabling the trees to 
grow with luxuriance. Wishing to carry my experi- 
ment still further, I steeped some leave's of the 
tomato in water and sprinkled this infusion on other 
p Units, roses and oranges. In two days these were 
also free from the innumerable insects which covered 
them, and I feel sure that had I used the same means 
v ith my melon patch I should have met with the same 
result. I, therefore, deem it a duty I owe to the 
Society of Horticulture to make known this singular 
and useful property of the tomato leaves." 



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The Horse. 



NOTES. 

The Virginia Circuit of horse shows has assumed 
much greater importance than its originators even 
looked for, and the present season promises to be 
the most successful in its history. The horse show 
is an educator and certainly merits the generous 
patronage so freely accorded it by the best people of 
the communities in which its exhibitions are held. 
It opens and provides markets for our highest class 
horses and has been of untold benefit in encouraging 
and promoting the breeding interest. The season be- 
gan with a fine show at Leesburg in June and was 
followed by another of equal merit at Upperville 
during the same month. Then those at Culpeper, 
Manassas and Orange came off in July. During the 
present month the Front Royal show is booked for 
the 5th and 6th; Berryville the 12th and 13th; 
Harrisonburg the 19th and 20th, and Warrenton the 
26th and 27th. The dates fixed for Charlottesville 
are September 2d and 3d, which marks the last of the 
open-air affairs, and then the scene shifts to Lynch- 
burg, where active preparations are being made for a 
high-class show during the week of October 7th to 
10th, to be held in the amphitheatre erected for the 
purpose. The Richmond Horse Show will come off 
during the week of October 12th to 17th, and will be 
the greatest affair of the kind ever seen in the South. 
It has also been decided to hold a show atNorfolk, to 
follow right after Richmond, and substantial men 
are backing the venture and will doubtless make it 
a success. 



Recent foals at Belgravia Farm, Mount Jackson, 
Va., the property of James Cox, include a bay filly 
by Kelley, 2 :27 ; dam Frances S. Dayton, 2 :27 3-4, 
by Cadmus ; second dam, Daisy Dayton, of Lake 
Erie, 2 :13 1-2, etc., and a bay colt by Kelly, dam 
Cherie, by Axtelloid; second dam Lady Purdy, the 
sister to Charlie O, 2 :13 1-4, by Sam Purdy. The 
colt is stoutly made and rather on the coarse order 
of its dam ; but the filly has all of the exquisite 
quality and elegance of Kelly, son of Electioneer 
and famous thoroughbred Esther, dam of Expres- 
sive, 3, 2 :12 1-2, that heads the Belgravia stud. 
Kelly has a record of 2 :27, but in his work while 
being trained could show two minute flights of speed. 
Lucy Montrose, the bay mare 4, bred and owned 
at Belgravia, is in the stable of Tom Cannon at Bal- 
timore, as is Helen Wilmer, the chestnut filly 2, 
both of whom are by Kelly. Lucy Montrose shows 
speed and is highly thought of, but for elegance of 
form, beauty and finish Helen Wilmer is not sur- 



passed by a 2 year old in all Virginia. She is out 
of the great brood mare Erena, 2 :19 3-4, dam of 
Allercyone, 2 :17 1-4, etc., by Alcyone, 2 :27, son of 
George Wilkes and Alma Mater. 

ti5* (5* t2* 

Virginia horses made quite a clever impression at 
the recent Atlantic City Horse Show, especially those 
from the stables of Charles H. Hurkamp, of the 
Boscobel Farm, Fredericksburg, and Courtland H. 
Smith, Hampton Farm, x\lexandria. The Boscobel 
horses were badly shaken up by the car being struck 
heavily just before shipment, and all of them were 
thrown down. Amaret, the crack high jumper, and 
Hornpipe, the sturdy roan heavy-weight hunter, both 
escaped with shaking up, but Field Marshal, Meadow 
Plume and Colonel Hawkins were not so fortunate, 
and sustained considerable injury. Hornpipe was 
first in the class for heavy-weight hunters and Amaret 
second in that for jumpers, open to all, his success- 
ful competitor for first being the noted Heather- 
bloom. 

i0& t3& ^* 

Lucy Sutherland, from the Hampton stable, was 
first in the classes for light-weight hunters, green, 
and in that for thoroughbred hunters. This good- 
looking bay daughter of St. Carolus and Expensive, 
by Spendthrift, was formerly a member of the brood 
mare band at Hampton, but since being taken up and 
schooled to jump she has developed into a performer 
of real class. Among the competitors in the field 
for thoroughbred hunters were the brown gelding 
Joker, owned by T. L. Evans, of Warrenton, and 
Colonel Hawkins, from the Boscobel stable. The 
two last named came second and third. In Class 38, 
open hunt clubs, for best three hunters from one 
hunt, ridden by members or subscribers of the re- 
spective hunts in the hunt uniform, the blue ribbon 
went to the Cameron Hunt Club, Alexandria, and 
the red to the Deep Run Hunt Club, of Richmond. 
Jl Jt jH 

One of the most prominent and probably the best 
known of North Carolina breeding establishments is 
beautiful Alamance Farm with its thousands of 
fertile acres near the busy manufacturing town of 
Graham, and it is there that L. Banks Holt, a 
wealthy cotton factor, banker, man of affairs, breeder 
and owner of trotters and pacers makes his home and 
dispenses hospitality of the typical southern kind. 
John R. Gentry, 2 :00 1-2, ex-pacing King, and one 
of the greatest and handsomest of trotting bred 
lateral gaited performers, was formerly a member of 
the Alamance stud, and some of his get are there 



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now, among them the beautiful brown stallion, Giles 
Mebane, who now heads the farm. He has a pacing 
record of 2 :16 3-4, and is out of the great brood 
mare, Winnie D., dam of four in the list and others 
to follow. Gregorian, 2 :29 3-4, the sire of Glencoe, 
2 :16 1-4, and otber good horses, is the stud com- 
panion of Giles Mebane, while the brood mare band 
includes Winnie D. and Blondette, dam of Governor 
Holt, 2 :15, and Eliza Ingram, 2 :21 1-4. 

t5* *^* v* 

In Peter Paul, Robert Bradley has a worthy suc- 
cessor to Robert Waddell, the noted son of Aloha 
that won the American Derby in 1901. Peter Paul 
is also by Aloha, and, like Robert Waddell, may be 
returned a winner of the American Derby, as he is 
entered in that event for 1903. This 2-year-old 
unsexed son of Aloha was bred at Mr. Bradley's 
Greenway Farm, near Wilcox Wharf, and has clearly 
shown himself to be one of the greatest youngsters 
out this season, as he retains his form and wins about 
two races each week on average. Peter Paul's dam, 
Eminence, the daughter of Imp. Kyrle Daly, is 
owned at Greenway, and was bred again last spring 
to Aloha. The latter is Mr. Bradley's principal 
stallion, and at 18 is vigorous and well preserved. 
Little chance has been given the brown son of Imp. 
St. Mungo to distinguish himself as a sire, but his 
get are coming to the front as race winners, never- 
theless. 

t^W i&* i0* 

The annual catalogue and orize list of the Rock- 
ingham Horse and Colt Show Association has been 
issued, and premiums are offered for thoroughbreds, 
trotters, high stepping harness horses, park saddlers, 
hackneys and various othtr classes. The show will 
be held at Harrisonburg August 19th and 20th, and 
is one of the most important in the Virginia circuit, 
being right in the midst of a big breeding and grazing 
district. Mr. J. Samuel Harnsberger is the presi- 
dent of the Association, and Dr. John A. Myers has 
served as secretary for years past, while the board of 
directors is made up of these gentlemen along with 
other well known and prominent breeders and stock 
raisers in the "Valley of Virginia." 

^* (^* ^* 

Mr. Henry L. Upshur, of the Elkington Farm, 
Eastville, Va., who is one of the best known owners 
and breeders of trotters and pacers on the Eastern 
Shore, writes us that his horses are all doing well. 
Salem, son of Iroquois and Fernwood, by Lance- 
wood, is the premier sire at Elkington, and some of 
his get are being worked for speed over the half mile 
track at the farm. Sam Patch, 2 :23^-, the bay geld- 
ing by Salem, dam Pansy, by Bajardo, is in train- 
ing, and will be raced again this season. He is in 
fine shape and will be likely to materially reduce his 
record. Hardy H, by Salem, has trotted to a re- 



cord of 2 :1Y^ this season in a long drawn out race, 
and Sam Patch is considered equally as fast. 
Among others in the training stable at Elkington are 
Monnie J., bay mare, 4, by Salem ; bay gelding, 4, b; 
White Tip, dam by Lancelot, fast but erratic ; and a 
couple of promising three-year-old colts, one owned 
by Albert Savage, Stewart's Wharf, Va., and the 
other by W. Gibb, Capeville, Va. The Savage colt 
was sired by Bursar, 2 :17 -}, the dead son of Stranger, 
dam, the dam of Stella, 2 :24r[. He is a pure gaited 
trotter and promises speed and race horse quality 



of a high order. 



^* ^* t£T* 



One of the best looking yearlings around here is 
the bay colt by Eloroy, 2 :14 3-4, dam Fern, 2 :18 3-4, 
by Petoskey, owned by his breeder, W. H. Nelson. 
Eloroy, the son of Simmons, that sired this youngster, 
was a horse of more than ordinary finish, looks and 
speed, and highly regarded by the Nelsons, who sold 
him for export to Austria in 1902. Fern, the dam, 
is now owned by Luther Libby, who bred her this 
season to Great Stakes, 2 :20, and she appears to be 
in foal to that good son of Billy Thornhill. 

^* t2& tc* 

Dr. .1. T. J. Battle, of Greens boro, N. C, has sold 
to George R. Richmond, who trains at the Deep Run 
Hunt Club track, this city, the bay pacing gelding 
Doug. Thomas, 2 :16f, by Blue Hal. This horse is 
much faster than his record indicates, as in the 
hands of T. M. Arrasmith he paced a trial in 2 :10gr 
last fall. The price was close to $1,000, and to 
Richmond the big sou of Blue Hal is worth the 
money. 

^* &?■ t5* 

Among the thoroughbred foals of 1903., the prop- 
ertyl of P. S. Hunter, Loretto, Va., dropped at 
Otterburn Stud, are a bay filly, by Judge Morrow, 
dam Ginka, by imp. Emperor, and a bay colt, by the 
same sire from Sneeze, by imp. Mortemer. Judge 
Morrow, the son of Vagabond, that heads Mr. Hun- 
ter's stud, was a crack race horse, and will most likely 
sire winners. Broad Rook. 

t5* *2r> to* 

Dr. Kerr reports the following foals at Antrim 
Stud, Warrenton, Va. : 

January 31st, Valorous, by imp. Stalwart- 
Minority, a bay or brown colt by Chorister. 

February 10th, Onslea, by Fremont-Nellie Van, a 
bay colt by Chorister. 

April 10th, Bona Dea, by imp. Eolus Sis O'Lee, 
a bay colt by Chorister. 

May 18th, Merrie Antoinette, by Buchaman-High- 
lander mare, a bay colt by Chorister. 

April 30th, Chestnut Mare, by Knight of Eller- 
slie- Pogeine, a bay colt by Chorister. 

May 12th, Thirty, by St. Blaze-Habinera, a bay 
colt by Chorister. 



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519 



Miscellaneous. 



THE VIRGINIA CROP PEST LAW. 

The Virginia Crop Pest Commissioners invite 
attention to the provisions of the act passed by the 
Legislature amending the law and providing funds 
for more efficient dealing with some of the serious 
pests like San Jose scale. The Commission has been 
reorganized, and has prepared a bulletin setting forth 
the terms of the law, and pointing out the lines of 
work thought to be most expedient. Acopy of this 
bulletin can be obtained on application to Professor 
J. L. Phillips, the State Entomologist, Experiment 
Station, Blaeksburg, Va. 



VIRGINIA AT THE ST. LOUIS EXPOSITION. 

The Commission appointed for collecting and ar- 
ranging the exhibit of Virginia at the Exposition is 
actively engaged in securing exhibits, and asks that all 
who desire to see Virginia well represented will com- 
municate with them as to anything worthy of being 
exhibited. An effort is being made to erect on the 
grounds at St. Louis a State building as a centre for 
the distribution of matter calculated to help in the ad- 
vancement of the interests of the State. The Com- 
mission has no power to use any of the money appro- 
priated by the State for this purpose. If, therefore, 
a building is to be erected it will have to be by public 
subscription. Any who may desire to help in this 
matter should send their contributions to the Com- 
missioners, care of the State Department of Agricul- 
ture, Richmond, Va. 



SALE OF PURE BRED SHORT HORNS. 
Major W. W. Bentley, of Pulaski county, Va., and 
Major J. T. Cowan, of Montgomery county, Va., 
both well known and long time breeders of the finest 
strains of Short Horns, announce in this issue a sale 
of fine stock. Major Bentley will practically sell 
the whole of his herd, only reserving a few animals. 
The reputation he has sustained for a lifetime for 
breeding only the choicest. strains and the finest grown 
cattle will be sustained by the animals he will offer. 
The draft from Major Cowan's well known herd will 
include some finely bred animals. We bespeak for 
these gentlemen a good attendance at the sale and 
hope to hear that good prices have been realized. 
Those who want Short Horns — and a better breed of 
beef and milk producing stock cannot be kept — 



should make a note of the date of sale and be on hand. 
The sale will take place at Radford, on the Norfolk 
and Western Railroad, and will therefore be con- 
venient for attendance. 



HOGS AND STRYCHNINE. 



Editor Southern Planter: 

I see a communication from Burfort, S. C, from 
Senex, saying strychnine would not kill hogs. I was 
once bothered, as he says, that certain parts of Geor- 
gia were, with hog thieves. I had gathered my corn 
from the river bottoms, and was going to turn my 
bogs out to glean the fields. I had heard that feed- 
ing hogs strychnine would kill the thief, and not hurt 
the hogs. I put about a teaspoonful of strychnine in 
slop for thirty hogs. The first eleven that got a 
swallow or two died. Some of them did not take 
time to turn over. They were dead almost before 
you could say "scat," and I believe it woiild have 
killed the whole thirty if I had let them eat the slop. 
The hogs weighed from two to two hundred and fifty 
pounds. I never lost any more hogs by thieves or 
strychnine. Would like "Senex" to explain why 
strychnine killed my hogs. Let those who want to 
catch hog thieves by poisoning hogs be careful or 
they will get the hog first. I have used strychnine on 
a good many, things, and have never had it fail on 
anything that had an eye or heart, even if it was 
born or hatched blind. I hope the letter of Senex 
will not catch any one as I was caught by relying 
on the old saying, "Poison the hog to catch the thief." 
I cannot see how any animal can get enough poison 
in its system by taking it to kill another animal or 
man without serious effects. 

Subscribek. 

Chester county, S. C. 



CROPS AND STOCK IN PULASKI CO., VA. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

The season has improved things for us very much 
in the last month. But the crops still show the ef- 
fects of the drouth in the early season. The cattle 
market is very unsatisfactory. Cattle in the county 
are fully up to the standard at this season of the 
year, notwithstanding the short feed crops of last 
year, only the price seeins wanting. We have no 



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[August 



complaints,, through the press or otherwise, against 
the beef trust, only the farmer suffers this time. The 
spring lambs have helped us some, as they have so 
far brought fairly good prices, and this county fur- 
nishes quite a large supply to the Northern markets. 
There was shipped to Jersey City on June 1st one 
carload of half Suffolk Down lambs, every one a 
black face, and the average weight was 99 pounds. 
They brought a quarter of a cent per pound over the 
top of the market. If any county in the State can 
beat that for the same date of shipment, we would 
like to hear from them. The Suffolk has so far 
proven to be an excellent cross on our native and 
high grade sheep. They are large and handsome, 
with very black faces and legs. The cross rarely 
ever fails to bear in a marked degree these charac- 
teristics. It is the most striking and attractive bred 
of sheep I have ever seen. I believe your excellent 
paper better adapted to the practical use of the Vir- 
ginia farmr than any other agricultural paper in 
the country. I wish it came every week instead of 
once a month. D . M. Cloyd. 

Pulaski Co., Va. 



CALIFORNIA PRIVET. 



In our last issue the types make our correspon- 
dent, Mr. Wallis, when writing on this subject, make 
a most annoying blunder in the botanical name of the 
plant. What he wrote was "Ligustrum ovalifolium," 
and not as printed. We corrected the proof, but the 
printer overlooked the correction. We apologize for 
the error. 



Fertilizer for Raspberries and Strawberries. 

I raise, for family use only, strawberries and resp- 
berries. I do not like to fertilize with stable manure, 
because it introduces grass, clover and weeds. I 
have some chicken manure, but not enough. Can I 
profitably apply commercial fertilizers ? If so, what 
should I use for each; how much and when should 
it be applied ? Would it not be well to mulch the 
raspberries thickly with forest leaves ? 

Would it pay to sow crimson clover as late as 
October to plough under in the spring ? C. W. 

Potash is a most desirable fertilizer to use on all 
fruit crops, as it improves the quality and appear- 
ance of the fruit. You also need some phosphoric 
acid. The chicken manure will give you all the 
nitragen you need. Apply 300 pounds of acid phos- 
phate and 100 pounds of muriate of potash per acre 



with the chicken manure. Although October is 
rather late to sow crimson clover, yet we have known 
good stands made sown in that month. Mulching 
will help both raspberries and strawberries. — Ed. 



„ Improving Poor Land. 

I wish you would please answer a question for me 
and make any improvement you think best on my 
plan of raising corn on poor, gray land: Eirst, 
plough land deep and harrow until thoroughly pul- 
verized ; streak off in rows eight feet apart and 
plant corn eighteen inches apart with 500 pounds 
potash and phosphoric acid per acre; cultivate with 
weeder and cultivator and at the last cultivation sow 
peas broadcast, using 150 pounds potash and phos- 
phoric acid broadcast; then cut corn and sow in 
annual clover or annual clover and something else 
(how about rye?) using 200 pounds some fertilizer; 
cut for hay and pursue same method. Now, will my 
land improve under sulh a system carried out fully 
and continually cropped in those three plants, two 
of them being legumts ? G-eobge Tabey. 

Vance county, N. C. 

If you will follow out the rotation you have de- 
scribed you will undoubtedly succeed in making the 
land produce good crops and become fertile. We 
would suggest that you make the fertilizer acid phos- 
phate and potash rather than potash and phosphate. 
What you most need is phosphoric acid. We would 
apply two-thirds acid phosphate to one-third potash. 
If you would give a dressing of lime, say 25 to 50 
bushels per acre, we believe you need not apply any 
potash or only a very light application, 'say 50 
pounds of muriate of potash per acre. After two or 
three years you should be able to make your corn 
rows closer than five feet, say three feet six inches. 
We assume that you intend to plow down the peas at 
any rate for a year or two.— Ed. 



ROOT PRUNING OF TREES. 

The Netherland Pomological Society records in its 
year book an experiment made in root pruning. The 
experimenter selected 1-, 2- and 3-year-old apple and 
pear trees. One half of each lot were transplanted 
in the usual manner, whilst the others had their roots 
so severely pruned that only a stick was left. The 
trees of the first lot started off most vigorously in 
the spring, but before the end of June the closely 
pruned trees were larger than the others, and this 
lead was maintained throughout the season. When 
the trees were dug up it was found that the closely 
pruned ones had developed a much better root system 
than the others. 



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PUBLISHER'S NOTES. 



DETAIL INDEX TO ENQUIRER'S 

COLUMN. 

Alfalfa 500 

Cattle With Sore Eyes 500 

Cement for Walls 500 

Concrete Buildings 501 

Alfalfa 501 

Seeding Winter Oats 501 

Plant for Name 501 

Plant for Name 5 

Grass for Name 5 

Improving Land for Corn 5f 2 

Cramp in Horses 502 

Home-Made Pickles, Wine, Grape 

Juice 502 

Fertilizer for Clover 502 

Rotation of Crops for Hogs 502 

Johnson Grass 503 

Peach Trees Dying 503 

Alfalfa 503 

Cross-Breeding Sheep 503 

Apple Scab — Bitter Rot or Brown 

Rot 503 

Bermuda Grass 504 

Spraying Fruit Trees 504 

Ice House 504 



TO ADVERTISERS. 



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pertaining to advertising must 
reach us by the 25th of each 
month. Please bear this in mind. 



Trial Subscriptions. 

August, in this section, is es- 
sentially a month of picnics, bar- 
becues, camp-meetings, etc. It is 
something of a holiday for the 
farmer after his arduous work of 
spring planting and summer har- 
vesting. We wish to ask our 
friends who attend these various 
gatherings not to forget the South- 
ern Planter. 1ST umbers of farm- 
ers in the South do not take the 
Southern Planter or any other 
agricultural journal, which fact 
accounts for us being behind the 
JNTorth and West in our farming 
operations. These are the farmers 
we want to get at. To induce such 
to subscribe, we will accept a 3 
months' trial subscription for 10 
cents. If any one feels that he 
hasn't gotten his money's worth, 
and a great deal more, just say so 
and we will refund the money at 
once. We know, however, from 
experience that a large majority of 
such subscribers renew their sub- 
scriptions after having read a copy 
or two. Mention this little offer 
to your friends, and we will return 
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PERFECT BLISS. 

William's table manners were noto- 
riously bad — so bad that he was fa- 
cetiously accused of spoiling the man- 
ners of a pet coon chained in the back 
yard. He gripped his fork as though 
afraid it. was going to get away from 
him, and he used it like a hay fork. 
Reproaches and entreaties Were in 
vain. His big sister's pleading, 
"Please, William, don't eat like a pig," 
made no impression upon him. 

One day William and his bosom 
friend, a small neighbor, dined alone, 
and William was heard to say in a 
tone of great satisfaction as he plant- 
ed both elbows on the table, "Say, 
Harry, there's nobody but us. Let's 
eat like hogs and enjoy ourselves." — 
Caroline Lockhart, in July Ldppin- 
cott's. 



Wood's Seeds 

FOR FALL SOWING. 

Farmers and Gardeners who de- 
sire the latest and fullest informa- 
tion about 

Vegetable and Farm Seeds 

should write for Wood's New 
Fall Catalogue. It tells all about 
the fall planting of Lettuce, Cab- 
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which are proving so profitable to 
southern growers. Aiso about 

Crimson Clover, Vetches, 

Grasses and Clovers, 

Seed Oats, Wheat, 

Rye, Barley, etc. 

Wood's New Fall Catalogue mailed 
free on request. Write for it. 

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Seedsmen, » Richmond, Va. 



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[August 



BEWARE OF OINTMENTS FOR CA- 
TARRH THAT CONTAIN MER- 
CURY, 

As mercury will surely destroy the 
sense of smell and completely derange 
the whole system when entering it 
through the mucous surfaces. Such 
articles should never be used except on 
prescriptions from reputable physi- 
cians, as the damage they will do is 
ten-fold to the good you can possibly 
derive from them. Hall's Catarrh 
Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney 
& Co., Toledo, O., contains no mercury, 
and is taken internally, acting directly 
upon the blood and mucous surfaces of 
the system. In buying Hall's Catarrh 
Cure be sure you get the genuine. It 
is taken internally and made in Toledo, 
Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & Co. Testi- 
monials free. 

Sold bv Druggists. Price, 75c. per 
bottle. 

Hall's Family Pills are the best. 



WITH THE ADVERTISERS. 

Slug Shot, for cabbage worms, is 
advertised by Benjamin Hammond, 
Fishkill, N. Y. 

The German Kali Works renews its 
contract for another term, beginning 
with the card elsewhere in this issue. 

Antrim Stock Farm has an an- 
nouncement in another column. 

Celery plants are offered by Mr. E. 
A. Swineford. of Richmond, Va. 

Mr. W. B. McGregor has Aberdeen- 
Angus cows and bulls for sale. 

Ormsby Bros, are new advertisers 
in this issue. Fine Scotch Topped 
Shorthorns are their offering. 

Look up the advertisement of W. 
T. Brown, the Pittsburgh real estate 
man. 

Foxhall Farm, Norfolk, Va., has an 
advertisement in this issue. 

Majors Cowan and Bentley adver- 
tise a public sale of shorthorns. Look 
up the advertisement for particulars. 

Mr. A. E. McMurdo has some good 
wine barrels for sale. 

The Havana Metal Wheel Company 
is a new advertiser in this issue. 

Mr. James Boyle is advertising his 
steel stanchion and modern sanitary 
stalls. 

Ware View Stock Farm has some 
choicely bred Berkshires at reasonable 
prices. 

The Spangler Low Down Drill ad- 
vertisement makes its appearance in 
this- number. 

H. R. Graham offers his entire flock 
of registered Shropshires. 

D. M. Cloyd has some Suffolkdowns 
for sale. Look into the merits of this 
breed. 

The Chicago House Wrecking Com- 
pany has three advertisements in this 
issue. 

The Florence Wagon Works is with 
us with an advertisement again this 
fall. Their product has been on the 
market for 22 years and always gives 
satisfaction. 

Polled-Durhams can be bought of J. 




husker and shredder is a "Little Giant" when it 
comes to considering the amount of work it will do 
in a day. Every corn grower can well afford to own 
the McCormick "Little Giant" husker and shredder. 
The machine has capacity enough for several farms 
where two or more want to join together in the 
purchase. The stover from the McCormick is 
relished by the stock. 



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Cabbage Worms 



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Sold by the Seed Dealer For 
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address. B. HAMMOND, 
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Lee's Prepared Agricultural Lime is 
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and send for testimonials and circu- 
lars. 

Byrd Brothers are offering good, 
growthy Poland-China pigs at pork 
prices. 

Arrowhead Stock Farm is offering 
some royally-bred Poland Chinas; also 
registered Shropshires. 

Note the change in the advertise- 
ment of the Hayfields Stock Farm. 

Sunny Home Aberdeen Angus cat- 
tle are in fine shape, so Mr. A. L. 
French, the proprietor, tells us. 

International Stock Food Company 
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HOW TO HANDLE LIVE DUCK 
FEATHERS. 

The feathers of Pekin ducks are of 
especial value from the fact of their 
being white. What are termed "live 
feathers" are always in demand, and 
this means feathers picked from live 
geese and ducks. As feather producers 
alone, Pekin ducks may be made a 
profitable industry on every farm. 
They will produce some three or four 
crops of feathers during the months 
that are sufficiently warm to pick them, 
and a dozen ducks will soon furnish 
one with a beautiful new pair of 
feather pillows. 

When the ducks begin dropping their 
feathers, or molting them, as the pro- 
cess is called, they are then ripe, and 
fit for picking, and the feathers can 
be pulled out without having blood left 
in the end of the shaft. Better to 
pick, and thus save the feathers, than 
to have the farm covered with them. 
Ducks well washed in cold or warm 
water before picking then put on clean 
straw to dry, give beautifully white, 
clean feathers. 

When the picking is done, put the 
feathers into several sacks of very thin 
material and hang them out of doors 
in the air all day and every day. I 
have learned by experience to put the 
clown into one sack, and the feathers 
into another, when picking. To take 
from new feathers the disagreeable 
odor that stays with them so long 
usually, and which comes from the 
meaty end of new picked feathers, they 
can be plunged into very hot water, 
left there to scald for a little time, 
then rinsed and hung in the hot sun 
to dry. Having taken the precaution 
to keep down and feathers separate, 
the feathers will dry in fluffy shape 
and make desirable pillows. 

In one lot of feathers in which we 
put a heavy picking of down, and then 
scalded, we found they would not re- 
turn to their original state of light- 
ness, but were inclined to be pasted to- 
gether with the down, and remain 
somewhat rolled. 

After feathers have been scalded and 
dried, the down can he mixed with 



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 wVeVls 

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 Handy 
Wagon is made by skilled workmen, of best select- 
ed material — white hickory axles, steel wheels, steel 
hounds, etc. Guaranteed to carry 4000 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 146 QUINCY, ILLINOIS. 






WE LEAD THE WORLD 

We are the largest manufac- 
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. 

HAYANA METAL WHEEL CO. 

HAVANA, ILL. 




WE'LL PAY THE FREIGHT 

and send * Buggy Wheels, Steel Tire on, - #?.*£ 
With Eubber Tires, $16.00. I mrg. wheels J* to * to 
tread. Top Buggies, $28.T6; Harness, $3.60. Write to: 
catalogue. Learn how to buy vehicles and parts direct 
Wagon Umbrella FREE. W. V. BOOB, Cincinnati, 




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. 



521 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[August 



Crop Success 

never conies from faulty sowing. 
A few dollars invested in the 

Improved Low- Down Pennsylva- 
nia Force Feed Fertilizer 
Grain Drill L 



a 



Brings the biggest return 

of any investment you ever made. 

Sows all grains— all grass seeds— all 

fertilizers, whether damp, lumpy or 

dry. It's the all-routul i '1 fur all 

farmers. Made with hoer < ■••; .<cs. Wnte 

for free illustraiiit cutui' 'ue of farm 

machinery and implements. 

A. B. F/IRQUHAR CO., Ltd., York, Pa. 



Just Ask the Horse. 

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




RED RIPPER Kg 



Press 

he will tell you that it is the lightest 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. 433 tells you more and contains 
many testimonials we have received from Red Ripper pur- 
chasers. Distributing points, Baltimore, Memphis, Cincin- 
nati * Address SIKES MFC. CO., Helena, Georgia. 




STEEL 



is a world-beater. Send 
for our catalogue and get 
posted on the latest and 
improve- 
ments known in bal- 
ing machinery. It 
"■ surp rise you. 
p. K. 
Dcderlek's 
Sons, 
76 

St. 
Albany. 
^ N. X. 




STEEL ROOFING. 

Strictly new, perfect, Semi-Hardened 
Steel Sheets two feet wide, six feet long. 
The bent Roofing, Siding or Gelllnic 
\ on can u»e. We furnish nails free and 
paint roofing, two sides. Comes either 
Hat corrugated or "V" crimped. Deliv- 
ered free of all charges to all points in U. 
S. east of Mf-slgsippi River and north of 
Ohio River at #8.2 ft PER SQUARE. 
Prices to other polntp on application. 
A square means '^ square feet. 
Write tor Free Catalogue No. 166 on material bought 
from Sheriffs' and Iteccivers' Sal. 58. CHICAGO HOUSE 
WRECKING CO., W. Coth und Iron St... Chicago. 



Mention the Southern Planter when 
corresponding with advertisers. 




them if desired, or kept to make down 
cushions arid pillows. If the feathers 
are not scalded, the disagreeable odor 
of new feathers remains a long time, 
yet it disappears if the sacks of feath- 
ers are kept out of doors or in an open, 
roomy chamber or storeroom. 



CURIOUS GRAFTING. 

Professor Green, of the Minnesota 
State School of Agriculture, has, by a 
process of grafting, grown fully de- 
veloped tomatoes on a potato vine. He 
cut off the young shoots of a notato 
vine, making a V-shaped slit in the 
top, into which he inserted a freshly 
clipped young tomato plant, and bound 
the joint with straw and supported it 
by long rods. Nature did the rest; 
the tomato drew its substance from the 
earth through the roots of the potato, 
and in return furnished what was re- 
quired in the way of the action of 
light and air upon its own leaves to its 
adopted roots. Professor Green's sole 
object was to show what could be done 
in the way of grafting widely separated 
plants. The work is a proof of skill in 
the graftsman, but it shows the extent 
to which nature will act to repair a 
wound. It shows also that the action 
of the stalks is not dependent wholly 
upon the action within its own particu- 
lar variety. The plant is now nearly 
five months old, and several tomatoes 
have ripened upon it, and fairly de- 
veloped potatoes have grown in the 
ground. There are no leaves sugges- 
tive of the potato on the plant, which 
is three feet high. 



ANGUS CATTLE AT "ROSE DALE." 

Mr. A. G. Parr, Superintendent of 
Rose Dale Stock Farm, Jeffersonton, 
Culpeper county, Va., writes us that 
his cattle are in fine shape, and that 
he is selling splendid stock at low 
prices. This popular breed has cer- 
tainly excelled all others in winning 
honors in the hottest sort of compe- 
tition during the last year or two, the 
world over. Angus, Bulls are prepotent 
sires, invariably stamping their most 
desirable characteristics, smooth, 
blocky, harnless, black carcass on 
their grade offsprings. 



LEGERDEMAIN. 



A man in a certain New England 
town was noted for telling extravagant 
stories. One evening while loitering 
in the country store the conversation 
turned upon feats in gunning. The 
man listened attentively and in silence 
for awhile, then suddenly he exclaimed 
excitedly: "Wall, boys, I can tell you 
a queer thing that happened to me the 
other day. I went to Rye Beach shoot- 
ing when I see a nice, large flock of 
yellow-legs. 'Aha,' says I to myself, 
'now for a shot at them.' So I crept 
up near by, raised my gun to my shoul- 
der and fired. But I aimed jest a hit 
too low, and they riz up and flew off. 
As I walked along the beach I found 
two bushels of their yellow legs that I 
had shot off." — Lippincott's for June. 



Freeman 

Feed 
Cutters 

are in a class by 
themselves. All 
sizes to meet all . 
requirements. & 
Smallest h a n di 
lever to largest 

I self -feed cylinder cutters, shredders 
and carriers for fodder, ensilage, etc. 
Widely popular through many years 
service. Also Wind Mills, Corn Shelters, 
Wood Saws, etc. Catalogue 110 sent free. 

S. Freeman Sl Sons Mfg. Co., 

Racine, Wisconsin. 



tile "Weber Junior" 
Pumper 




Tor other 

>oprei 
4urpob 



Is atl complete, toady to at- 
tach to pump. Equals 80 men 
pump i ng water. 
Uses but little gas- 
oline. Is shipped 
crated completely 
erected, ail connec- 



tions made. Easy to start, any 
one can operate it. Every 
one guaranteed. Other sizes 
up.to 50 H. P. Send for cat- 
alog. Weber Gas A Gasolirm 
Engine Co., Box L28 
Kansas City- M< 



WELL DRILLING 



MACHINES 



The most successful money-making 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. 




jjjU I ^> p Good second-hand Wrought Iron 



Steam, Gas or Water Pipe, in 
sizes from one half to twelve inches diameter. 
It is complete with threads and couplings. 
1 inch, per foot, 8 1-4 cts. IX inch, per foot, 4 1-4 ets. 
We handle all kinds of well casing. Write us your 
wants in the pipe line. We have all kinds of supplies of 
this character. Write for Free Catalogue No. 166. 
CHICAGO llOCSE WRECKING CO., 
West 85th and Iron Street, Chicago. 



SEPARATOR 

FOR SAL*? OR EXCHANGE 
A De Laval Humming Bird Separator, 
in perfect condition, used about 20 times; 
will sell cheap for cash or will exchange 
for a pure-bred Bull Calf of any Beef 
Breed — Polled preferred. 

W. H. MacNAIR, Tarboro, N. C. 



CULTIVATORS BELOW COST! 

Roofing Materials.— Tin plate, iron roof- 
ing, paper roofing, nails, hardware. Car- 
riage and wagon materials. Cook stoves 
etc. Don't write us unless you want the 
best at the Lowest Price. 

HARRIS HARDWARE CO., SSJfiWI: 



ROUND SILO 



THE PHILADELPHIA. 

The only Perfect Continuous Open Front 
SILO made. See Open-Top Patent Roof. Aak 
for Catalogue. B. P. SCHLICHTBR, 

321 Vine St., Philadelphia, Pa. 

Also made in the West by Duplex Mfg. 
Co., South Superior, Wis. 



1903.] 



THE SOUTHEKN PLANTER 



525 



am 



I MANl,0Vi tiATE CO . 
272 HURON ST.CHICAGO, IlL, 



Operated easily 
| by any vehicle, 
always in order. 
In reach of every 
home at factory 
prices. No fine 
] driveway com- 
plete without it. 



STEEL TUBULAR 
FEI\JGE POSTS, 

Absolutely indestructible. A • 

manent Fence Post suitable tor i' rl- 
farms, pastures, etc. Made of a o 
piece tfollow tube, costs no more i!-.... 
the ordinary cedar post. We I : ve ;>i 
kinds of wire fur sale. Write for i : !^eCa!a 
logueNo. 166 CHICAGO I10USC WRECKlNuCO 
West J5ih and Iron Streets, Chicago. 



"A* w/ 



Genuine Spiral Spring Wire 

FENCES AND GATES 

" !^ " 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. 





For Urss'ig'y Stock 

ti'. fenc ■ pquala Tbf> PA G A. it's eo ranch r1 n - ■■ 
PA«K HOVKN Hir.M KKNi'K CO.. Adrian. 

STOP THAT RATTLING, TIGHTEN YOUR 
OWN BUfiGY 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., Station P., Toledo, 
Ohio. 



pppr from anxiety over 
I II LL wasn (j a y are those 
who useaDILLEY QUEEN 
WASHER. We manufac- 
ture three styles of wash- 
ers; to introduce them 
we will give you the ad- 
vantage of our factory 
prices for a short time. 
Write for catalogue and 
prices. Our Up-tn-Date 
at $2.50. 

LYONS WASHING MACHINE CO., Lyons, Mich. 



WINE BARRELS 

A few 160 gallon wine barrels for sale. 

A. E. McMURDO, 

Charlottesville, Va. 




beats an 
youeversaw I 



A Steel Stanch eon 

tyingcattle. Lk-htrr. itroagw, nrnier. Swli gsoncnalue. 

Not id the way when l\iui;down. Atrentx wanlcil Wma tor 8p»- 

e»i terms .od pr,ce 6 . j as . Boyle, Mfr., Salem, O. 

Consulting; Entomologist 
A. Arsene Qirault, 

OARE ALLEGHANY ORCHARD CO., 
Paw Paw, W. Va. 

Answering in detail, accompaning. where 
possible with specimens and explanatory cotes; 
life-history a specialty ; charges low. " Not a 
bureau of Information. Write at once and 
worry me. 



A SOUND REASON. 

At a rural watering place the guests 
were sitting on the front piazza, which 
overlooked the street. 

A rustic, who was greatly under the. 
influence of liquor, found his way up 
there and became offensively "agree- 
able." Being admonished to desist, 
from his attentions many times, he 
persisted, and at last approached one 
of the ladies and commenced to an- 
noy her with crude attempts at smart- 
ness. 

A gentleman who had been watching 
him closely, but saying nothing, now 
swiftly approached him and tossed 
him over into the wet sand below. 

He got up, pulled a much-foiled 
handkerchief from his pocket, wiped 
the sand from his eyes and mouth, and 
then, looking up as he swayed back 
and forth, addressed the man who did 
the deed: 

"Yes, you! I suppose you 

think you're smart, but I don't. I ex- 
pect you think I don't know what you 
done that fer; but I'll let you know 
that I do. Blank your buttons! the 
reason why you throwed me over them 
banisters was that you don't want me 
up there you!" — July Lippincott's. 



AN UNFORTUNATE INVESTMENT. 

A Southern clergyman had married 
a pair of negroes. Aft^r the ceremony 
the groom asked, "How much yo' 
chahge fo' dis?" 

"Well," said the minister, "I usually 
leave that to the groom. Sometimes I 
am paid five do! Tars, sometimes ten, 
sometimes less." 

"Dat's a lot ob money, pahson. Tell 
yo' what Ah'll do. Ah'll gib yo' two 
dollahs, an* den ef I fin' I ain't got 
cheated, I'll gib yo' mo' in a monf." 

A month later the groom returned. 

"Ah's vere, lak Ah promised, pah- 
son." 

"Yes," said the minister, expectantly- 

"Ah tol' yo' dat ef it was all right, 
Ah'd gib yo' mo' money, didn't Ah?" 

"You did." 

•'Well, pahson, as dis yere am a sort 
of spee'lation. Ah reckon yo' owe me 
about a dollah an' eighty-five cents, an' 
Ah come ter get it." — Philadelphia 
Telegraph. 



A well-known judge on a Virginia 
circuit was reminded very forcibly, 
says Harper's Magazine, of his increas- 
ing baldness. 

One of his rural friends looked at 
him and drawled, "It won't be so very 
long, jedge, 'fo' you'll hev to tie a 
string round your head to tell how fer 
up to wash yer face." 



A cople of pretty girls at the church 
fair last night tackled Alec. Smart to 
take a 10-cent chance on a piano. He 
flashed a $20 note on them, thinking 
they wouldn't have any change. 

But they did have it, eh? 

No, they told him they never gave 
any change. 



Free 
Books 



These 
books are 
compiled from 
the publications 
of the various 
Agricultural Ex- 
periment Stations, 
and are of great 
value to all prac- 
i tical farmers. 
We mail them free to all 
farmers who apply for them. 

German Kali Works, 
93 Nassau Street, New York. 

ATLANTA. GA. BRANCH : 
22>£ So. Broad St., Inman Bldg. 



SEED OATS r 0R SALE 



1,000 BUSHELS 



VIRGINIA WINTER GREY or TURF. 

These oats were sown in the fall, are of a 
superior quality and EXTRA HEAVY. 
Grown in Albemarle county, in the Piedmont 
section of Virginia, where the best seed oats 
obtainable are produced. Address 

WOODSIDE STOCK FARH 

P. O. Box 145, Charlottesville, Va. 

TURNIP SEED. 

Fresh Stock of 
All Varieties. 

DIG' S & BEADLES, 

Seedsmen, 

1711 E. Franklin St., RICHMOND, VA. 



20,000 Celery Plants 

FOR SALE 

GIANT PASCHAL, the finest variety and 
easiest to raise. Plants ready to ship now. 
Should be set out this month. 25 cents per 
100 f o. b. here. No plants sold after August 
31st. E. A. SWINEFORD, 1110 E. Main 
street, Richmond, Va. 



SAN JOS: SHALt 



and other insects 

can be con- 
trolled by using 

GOOD'S CAUSTIC POTASH 
WHALE OIL SOAP. No. 3. 

It also prevents Curl Leaf. Endorsed by en- 
tomologists. 'J his soap is a fertilizer as well as 
insecticide 50 lb. kegs, $2.50; 100 lb. kegs. 84 50. 
Half barrels, 270 lbs., at 3>£c. per lb.; barrels. 
425 lbs., at 3J4c. Large quantities, special rates, 
Send for circular. 

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



526 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[August 



UnMCQAND HE.PLACETO 



FIND THEM. 



No place in the United States can a 
man do so well at farming, 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. Th^ 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. 




CASH 

FOR YOUJ1 



OR ANY REAL ESTATE. 

No matter where located, fiend 
description and lowest rash price. 
I succeed by giving personal at- 
tention. Interesting and valuable 
particulars FREE. Write to- 
day. Bank ret'ereuceB. 
WILLIAM T. H110WN, 114 Brown Luw BMd'g, Lancaster, Pc 

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 SCHBRBR, Agt., 
G. P. A., Lands and Immigration, 
Roanoke, Va. 

WE HAVE A LARGE LIST OF 

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 

ORAIN AND STOCK FARMS 

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. 

IF YOU WISH TO SELL 

OR BTT-ST 

VIRGINIA LANDS 

Communicate with us. «Vrite for free 
"Virginia Real Estate Journal," con- 
taining many splendid bargains. 
R. 8. CHAFFIN & CO.. Inc , 

No. 1 N I Oth St , Richmond, Va 

VfRGINIA FARMS 

S3 PER ACRE AND UPWARDS. 

EASY PAYMENTS. CATALOGUE FREE 

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

Established 1875. 



PIEDMONT 



And all that 
it Implies." 

Good land, climate, markets, shipping fa- 
cilities, churches, schools, good health, mode- 
rate prices, easy terms. 
riACON & CO., - Orange, Va. 



SUGGESTIONS TO HAY RAISERS. 

In the past it was considered that 
baling hay was only profitable where 
the crop was large, and with the in- 
tention of shipping. It has come to 
be a recognized fact, however, that 
there is economy, and consequent 
profit in baling hay, whether the crop 
is to be shipped or used for feeding 
purposes. For shipment baling is an 
absolute necessity. The economical 
points of having the crop baled for 
feeding or storage purposes are read- 
ily admitted — viz., ease in handling; 
no loss from exposure or transport- 
ing; saving of space; destruction by 
fire almost an impossibility. 

According to the statistics of the 
United States Department of Agricul- 
ture, the hay crop is the most valuable 
crop raised in this country. Under 
these circumstances, modern methods 
should be employed in handling it. Do 
not wait for your neighbor to get a 
press, get one yourself. 

The Kansas City Hay Press Co., of 
Kansas City, Mo., have been for twenty 
years in the manufacture of hay bal- 
ing machinery. Their line is very ex- 
tensive, presses being offered for hand, 
horse or steam power. From these nu- 
merous styles the purchaser has no 
difficulty in selecting a machine to 
suit his needs. Every press they make 
is absolutely guaranteed, and each in 
its class is unexcelled by anything on 
the market. It will pay the reader to 
send for their catalogue. 

This company also make a line of 
Standard Scales, of guaranteed accu- 
racy and durability. 

Their gasoline engine made in differ- 
ent sizes is adapted to all farm pur- 
poses, and has become very popular in 
the last few years owing to its eco- 
nomical and durable features. Write 
them for prices, terms and further in- 
formation. Refer to this paper when 
making inquiries. 



AN ECONOMICAL MOTHER. 

Small Katherine, who had been for- 
bidden to touch the ink bottle, had ac- 
cidentally spilled its contents not only 
all over her mother's desk, but on the 
rug, several chairs, and her own apron. 
Her mother, on discovering the state 
of affairs, had expressed more surprise 
than pleasure. When the father of 
the family returned at night his little 
daughter met him at the door and 
asked — 

"Papa, how much does a bottle of 
ink cost?" 

"Oh, about five cents." 

"Five cents!" exclaimed the ag- 
grieved youngster in a tone of deep 
disgust. "And to think that mamma 
would make all that fuss about one 
little bottle of ink." — July Lippin- 
cott's. 



"The new railroad's comin' our way." 
"Yes, an' soon as we kin git damages 
out of it we're a-goin' to grade the 
cemetery an' plant the town hall." 



SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA 

BLUE GRASS FARMS and MINERAL LANDS. 

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



CIWL" CADMC iu the great fruit grain and 
Milt rAnlYlO stock section of VIRGINIA. 

tsest 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 

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



Go South. 



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



WANTFn TO BUY A FARM OF 50 OR 60 
tt rill I IvLJj acres, with 4 room-house, out- 
buildings, good water and some wood— in Southi 
Southwest Virginia, or North Carolina. I will 
pay $4 to 85 per acre. Detailed statement, ad- 
dress "R. K." Care of Southern Planter. 



A Splendid Opportunity for an Ex= 
perienced Trucker, address, 
W. S. MATHEWS, 

Big Stone Gap, Va. 



_WANTED 

By an experienced farmer, a position as man- 
ager on large farm. Can take charge at once. 
Best references given. Address "FARMER," 
R. F. D. No. 5, Richmond Va. 



WANTED 

A white man for general farm work. Not a 
manager. Good wages. Good home. Near 
Richmond, Va. Address GEO. M. WEST, 
Richmond, Va. 



WANTED— A WHITE FAMILY TO WORK 
for wages in the country; woman to cook; 
another to work in house and dairy (fuel 
and water right at hand) and a man or boy 
care for driving horses, work in garden, 
etc. All at the same home. Address, 
WALTER RANDOLPH CRABBE, 
Hague, Westmoreland Co., Va. 



FRAZER 



Ax J e 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. 



MARK YOUR STOCK. 

USE THE 

KENTUCKY ALUMINUM EAR LABEL 

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



1903.] 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



527 



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 2 J 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. 12. 

A desirable farm of 96 acres, all 
under cultivation. Situated in upper 
Fairfax county, Va., 22 miles from 
from Washington, D. C, by railroad; 
6 miles from station on Biumont Di- 
vision of the Southern railroad; front- 
ing on a Macadamized pike leading into 
Washington. A substantial dwelling 
house with five rooms; stable and 
granary. A large orchard of apples 
and peaches in full bearing. Land all 
in good state of improvement and is 
productive; fine for wheat and grass. 
One mile from village with post-office, 
stores, churches, canning factory and 
mill. Water by spring branch, well 
and cistern. 

Market wagons pass this home every 



day, paying cash for all country pro- 
duce. Price of farm $1,800, on easy 
terms. 

No. 13. 
An excellent little farm in lower 
Loudoun county, Va. Contains 117 
acres; 90 under cultivation, balance 
in hardwood timber. Land is choco- 
late clay and loam with a stiff clay 
subsoil. Adapted to grain and grass. 
Has a new 9-room dwelling, with a 
fine cold well at the back door; good 
barn, 35x40; large wagon and machine 
sheds and granary. Situated 4 miles 
from railroad station, 20 miles from 
Washington, D. C. About 100 apple 
and peach trees in bearing. Land is 
gently rolling and well drained. Price 
$27.50 per acre, on easy terms. 

W. E. MILLER, 
Herndon, Va. 



Fertilizer is a very important, item 
to every farmer. In buying his fer- 
tilizer he should know that he is get- 
ting an article that is not only going 
to stimulate and increase the yield for 
a short time, but an article that will 
permanently enrich the soil and keep 
up the fertility of the farm, and to ac- 
complish this bone, tankage and blood 
should be extensively used in the 
manufacture of high grade fertilizers, 
because the nitrogen and phosphoric 
acid in these ingredients are not leach- 
ed out of the soil by heavy rains, yet 
are in the best and most available form 
of plant food. The fertilizer should 
be made from well cured stock, which 
has been carried long enough to insure 
the material going through the drill 
as easily as the wheat. 

The question of chemical proportions 
must be thoroughly considered in the 
manufacture of fertilizers, and a fully 
equipped chemical laboratory is an ab- 
solute necessity. The analyses of the 
different grades of tankage, bone, 
blood, potash, nitrate of soda, etc., 
vary considerably. To produce a high 
grade, even product requires a num- 
ber of careful analyses by expert chem- 
ists. 

To the farmer, especially in the fall, 
the question of prompt delivery is all 
important — he does not want to wait 
for his fertilizer — his needs then are 
imperative. The shipping season for 
fertilizer is so short — from the first of 
August to the later part of September 
— that large warehouses and perfect 
shipping facilities are necessary to 
prompt shipments. Positive assur- 
ance of prompt, shipments can only be 
given bv factories well equipped and 
of sufficient capacity to handle large 
quantities on short notice. 

The advertisement of the Armour 
Fertilizer Works, in another column 
of this paper, calls attention to some 
of the foregoing points. The name of 
Armour has always been synonymous 
with the production of reliable goods; 
their equipment is unsurpassed, and 
their success indicates the character of 
their business dealings in the past. 



Horse Owners! Use 

GOMBATJLT'S 

Caustic 




Balsam 



1 Safe Speedy and Positive Carl 
The Safest, Beat BLISTER ever used. Take* 

the place or all liniments for mild or severe action. 
Removes Bunches or Blemishes from Honei 
££ £&!!?;* SUPERSEDES ALL CAUTERY 
OR FIRING- Impoitxble to produce scar or blemUh, 
Every bottle sold is warranted to give satisfaction 
Price $1.50 per bottle, sold by druggists, or 
lent by express, charges paid, with full direction* 
for its use. Send for descriptive circulars. 
rHB LAWRBNCE-WLLL1AMS CO.. Cleveland 



DEATH TO HEAVES 

Guaranteed 



NEWTON'S Heave, Cough, Ms* 
jipiT and Indigestion Core. 



hisuiwu^*> uruiper ana indigestion Lure. 
IT" iilrtfySfh) A veUir * n,i rj specific for wind, 
W^SSSffiSf 7^r, throiit and stomach troubles. 
gSp^^^^^I* 1 *"* Strong recommends. Jl.uo per 
can. Dealers. Mail or Ex. paid. 
Newton Horse Remedy Co., 
Toledo, Ohio. 



Why Not Get the Best? 



tierce's Celery Compound 

for Constipation, Dyspepsia, Malaria and 
Chills and Fevers, and a general tonic tablet. 

Send for free sample, it? costs you nothing to 
try the best family medicine on earth. 

AGENTS WANTED. 

NATURE'S REMEDY CO., 

WASHINGTON, D. C. 



HrrffiTE 

EENSBORO, N.C. 

the Lreatment of THE LIQUOR, OPIUM, MORPHINE „nd 
•< Drug Addictions. TheTobbacco Habit, Nerve Exhaustion 



Little Chicks 

•thrive when fed on our 
BABY CHICK FOOD. 

A perfect balanced food. Send! for free 
sample and our large illustrated' catalog 
of POULTRY SUPPLIES, 

INCUBATORS. and 

BROODERS. 

FANCIERS' SUPPLYiCO., 

517-519 West Broad St., >5 

Richmond, Va. 

EVERYTHING KOR THE FANCIER. 



Three 
in One. 



NO HUMBUG. 

SwIdg V , Stock Marker mil Calf Dehoroer. Stop, iwlne | A \ 
from rootinR. Makes 4* different oar mirks. Extracts IP / 
Horni. Prlc.fl. 60. Send %\ for trial. If lUuiU.send hnl ■ 
ansa. Pat'd May 0, 1902. Hog and Calf Holder only 75c. 
FARMER BRIGHTON, FAIRFIELD. IOWA. 




AkJPDDA on ATC ar e handsome, hardy and 
ARullnA LlUA I O profitable. For large cir- 
cular address E. W. COLE & CO.. Big Clifty, Ky. 



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[August 



ELMWOOD NURSERIES. 



ASPARAGUS 

] 00,000 2-yr. old Asparagus roots, 
5 varieties". A special rate of $3 50 
per lOi'O for 2 mos. for BAKU'S, 
PALMETTO, CONOVER. 

APPLES 

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

Splendid Assortment 

of Ornamental, Shade 

and Fruir Trees. 



EG 



O from B. P. Rocks. Light 
A Brahmas, Brown Leg- 
Is h. rns at $1.00 per 13. 



WRITE FOR OUR CATALOGUE. 



IB. 



.I! 



FREE SAMPLE 

Of "THE STORY OF MY LIFE AND 
WOKK," By Booker T. Washington. 

Send us your name and 
address. We want you 
to have a copy of this 
autobiography of the 
greatest living Negro 
for the purpose of In- 
troducing It In your 
community. It Is a 
remarkable seller, big 
profit; agents are mak- 
ing from $4 to $10 per 
day. Will you intro- 
duce It by selling or 
getting us an agent? 
If so, send at once for 
a sample. 
jjJ.B. NICHOLS & CO., 

'Ji'iUlllliHH Xiiwmiiffilftwv Atlanta, Ga. 

Selling Price $1.00. oi.S Austell "uilding. 



special sale: 

Pen, very fine Barred Plymouth hock chick- 
ens, as follows: 

8 % full stock 1 year old hens, my own raising; 
1 thorough-bred hen from S. B. Johnson yards; 1 
thorough-brtd cockerel, my own raising. These 
are very fine birds, beautifully marked. They 
are weil worth $15 00, but to sell quickly will 
take $12.00. This is a rare opportunity. 

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




32 Varieties 
Best Poultry 

in either old or young stock. 

JNO. E. HEATW0LE. Harrisonburg, Va. 

Mention the Southern Planter when 
corresponding with advertisers. 



Reduced price 
on eggs bal. of 
season. Get my 
fine catalog, is 
free for stamp 
Many breeding 
birds to offer, I 
can please you 



SHREDDED FODDER. 

About one-half the feed value of the 
corn crop is in the stalks, and when- 
ever this fact is thoroughly understood 
the corn grower considers it just as 
important to shred the fodder as to 
husk the ears. If the stalks are allow- 
ed to stand in the field until after the 
corn is husked, the fodder has little or 
no value as feed stuff, and this ex- 
plains much of the misinformation 
that is still extant relative to shredded 
fodder. Neither timothy nor clover 
would make good feed if allowed to 
stand too long before cutting. If, 
however, the corn is cut at the right 
time, the fodder when shredded makes 
excellent feed, which analysis shows 
to he fully as nutritious as timothy 
hay. The McCormick Husker and 
Shredder enables the farmer to husk 
and shred his corn at one operation, 
thus saving time as well as all of the 
corn, and practically doubling the 
value of the crop. 



The advertisement of the Eli Hay 
Presses, manufactured by the Collins 
Plow Co., Quincy, 111., is running in 
our columns. Our readers cannot help 
but be familiar with these famous 
presses. As made to-day they are the 
result of many years' experience in 
hay press manufacture. A feature of 
the No. 1 continuous travel two-horse 
press, which perhaps has the widest 
use of any, is the immense pressure 
applied to the hay for the power used, 
the manufacturer stating it as 65 to 1 
or concretely, a horse draft of 500 
pounds exerts a pressure of upwards 
of over 30.000 pounds. This explains 
the solid compact bales for which this 
press is noted. This, with their uni- 
form shapeliness, gives the Eli pro- 
duct a preference in the market, re- 
ceiving' also the favor of shippers, who 
are able to get the maximum amount 
in the car. The Elis are strong and 
durable machines, have large feed 
openings and do rapid work. The ad- 
vertisement should be consulted by 
every prospective buyer. 



DANVILLE MILITARY INSTITUTE. 

On page 2 of the cover of this issue 
will be found the advertisement of 
this well-known school. "We invite 
the attention of every father to this 
card, and ask that they send for the 
year book of this institute. In addi- 
tion to being one of the handsomest 
catalogues we have ever seen, it con- 
tains a full and thorough description 
of the plan and scope of the institute, 
explaining fully everything necessary 
for a parent to know before sending 
his boy to college. Colonel Horace 
Campbell, A. M., Ph. D., will take 
pleasure in giving his personal atten- 
tion to all inquirers. 



How did you come to get the medal?. 
Were you first in the class? 

Tommy: Naw; I licked de boy what 
was. 



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. 



WANTED! 

ALL KINDS OF 

LIVE Wi D BIRDS AND ANIMALS 

Particularly Deer, Wild Turkeys, White 

Squirrels, Ducks, Swans, Etc. 

CECIL FRENCH, 

718 Twelfth St. N. W., Washington, D. C. 



FOR SALE. 

Large fnglish Berkshire Hogs, 
Barred Plymouth Pock Chickens 

BEN. BOLT, 60747, 430 lbs. as a yearling at 
head of herd. flr-rEGGS IN SEASON. 
JOHN P. FOSTER, Nooreek, Ohio Co., Ky. 



... DUROC JERSEY ROOTERS... 

THE KIND YOU SHOUi D HAVE. 

Fancier's Stock ::: Farmer's Prices 
Spring pigs all sold, now booking orders for 

Fall pigs; you'd better get in line 

Finest strain 8. P. Kocks in Virginia ! 

THE CEDARS W/1. O. OWENS, 

P. and S. FAR!"!. Midlothian, Va. 



READY FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY: 



A limited number of big bone POLAND- 
CHINA pigs. Good, growthy, thrifty stock, 
8 to 10 weeks old at pork prices to make room 
for young stock. 

W. P. ROCKS Cheap. 

BYRD BROS., R. F. D. 3, 

Salisbury, N. C. 



WANTED 

If you have any GOOD ANGORA GOATS 
to sell, give lowest cash price on a lot from 
twenty-five to fifty does — also on same num- 
ber of does with kids at side. Address, 
FOXHALL FARM, Norfolk, Va. 



... FOR SALE... 

Six Beagle Pups pure bred and beautifully 
marked. 

C. T. SMITH, 

Croxton, Va. 



• COLLIE PUPS • 

By Imported Sires, sable and white and tri- 
colors. Prices. $8 to $15. Older ones correspond- 
ingly low- Book on Training. 50 cents : Free if 
you buy a Collie. MAPLEMONT STOCK FARM, 
Albany. Vermont. 



1903.] 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



529 



Market Toppers for Sale, Low, 




•wiiiS^f^s* "assmca 



One thoroughbred Angus cow, unregistered. 

coming 3 yrs., with heifer calf at foot 
Four three-fourths Angus heifers, two coming 

3 yrs., two coming -1 yrs , bred to reg. Angus 

bull. 
Four c even-elghths Angus heifer», coming2yrs., 

bred to reg Angus bull. 
Three seven-eighths. Angus heifers, oominglyr. 
Four one half * ngu' heifers, coming 1 yr. 
Several fine reg Angus bull calves from 3 to 7 

mos. old at a bargain 
2 nice grade Dorset ram lambs at a bargain. 
One 12 mos. old reg. Angus heifer. 
All of the above catt'e are blac v . and as well 

polled as a thoroughbred Angus. Address 

W. M. WATKINS & SONS, 

Randolph, Va. 
Charlotte county. 



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. 

FOR SAX,K 

My ABERDEE N-ANGUS Herd Bull, 

Hero of Bunker Hill, No 31,4(52. 
He is au extra good breeder. 
J. TABB JANNEY, Van Clevesville, W. Va. 

. . . FOR SALE. . . 

HOLSTEIN BULL 

Pure bred, 2 years old, fine order, perfectly 
gentle, and SURE: reasons for selling is kin 
to my stock; also offer a pure bred calf by 
above Pull. JOS. HARD1E. Brown Summit, 
X. C. 

Swift Creek Stock and Dairy Farm 

Has for sale a large num- 
ber of nice voung 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 
jou want. 

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



FOR SALE Kssacagfet 

10 JERSEY COWS : 1 SHARPLES SEPARATOR 
10 cans and jackets for same, 1 ICE BOX. 

Am changing my business, so will sell the 
above at very reasonable price, address 

C. n. BASS, Rice Depot, Va. 



YOU WILL FIND THIS INTEREST- 
ING. 

By a resolution of the Virginia Com- 
mission of "the Louisiana Purchase 
Exposition," the undersigned have 
been designated to superintend the 
collection of minerals and mineral pro- 
ducts for exposition at St. Louis, and 
to prepare a description of the mineral 
wealth of Virginia. 

We, therefore, request all owners of 
mines or mineral lands, and all per- 
sons interested in the mineral re- 
sources of Virginia, to aid us in mak- 
ing this exhibit a creditable one to 
our State, their district and them- 
selves. 

To do this, send, without delay, a 
statement of what minerals you have 
and propose to exhibit; what develop- 
ments have been made on these — that 
is, whether or not they have been 
opened up and are being worked, and 
if so, to what extent. If the material 
has been analyzed, send copy of the 
analysis, with date and name of 
chemist. 

On receipt of this information, we 
will at ence send full information how 
to select a specimen for exhibition, 
with directions for shipping. We de- 
sire to call special attention to build- 
ing stones, and in case a good build- 
ins stone is known to exist, and has 
been partially developed, which is not 
now being worked (quarried) else- 
where in this State., we will, on receipt 
of a sample, sent by mail or express 
prepaid, examine the same, and if we 
find i f of sufficient value, send an ex- 
pert to assist in collecting a specimen 
and attend to its being properly cut 
and finished for exhibition. 

We are also endeavoring to have a 
creditable exhibit of the clays of Vir- 
ginia, and desire to call the attention 
of owners to clay lands to the advant- 
age presented by this exposition to 
draw attention to their valuable de- 
posits. 

Owners of mineral springs are re- 
quested to notifv us if they desire to 
make an exhibit. The commission is 
endeavoring to make this part of the 
exhibit as complete as possible. The 
exhibit should consist of bottled 
waters, with analysis, date and name 
of chemist, photographs of surround- 
ings of springs, hotels, etc. 

All communications should be ad- 
dressed to us at 17 South Twelfth 
street. Richmond.. Va. 

Fboehutto & Robertson. 



Kentucky 
HEREFORDS 

Headed by the famous 

ACROBAT 

No. 68460 and the celebrated 

IHPORTED BRITISHER 

No. 145096 Champion Bull over all breeds 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. 



Poland=China and 

I amworth Pigs for Sale — 

eligible to registration ; also 

Hampshire Down Sheep 

and ^rade Hereford cattle, ]/ z or % 

bred. Calves, yearlings and 2 yr. old. 

J. C. GRAVES, Barboursville. Orange Co., Va, 



HAYFIELDS STOCK FARM HAS 

FOR SALE 

Seven Registered HEREFORD BULLS 8 
months old to 2% years. Two Registered 
HEREFORD HEIFERS 8 months old and 1 
year. Six OXFORDDOWN BUCK LAMBS. 

WHI. D. MERRYMAN,* 

Cockeysville, Md- 



D0RSETS and HEREFORDS. 



CAMPBELL PANNING MILL. 

The M. Campbell Fanning Mill Com- 
pany has an advertisement on another 
page in this issue. Look it up and 
write to them for their most liberal 
terms for this machine. They will 
take pleasure in forwarding catalogues 
or any other information desired. 



I am now offering my superior herd bull 
ROY MAY, 80183; and some~fine male calves. I 
am also booking orders for Dorset rams and 
ram lambs. 

H. ARMSTRONG, UNTZ MILLS, VA. 



V.P.I. 

Farm Bulletin 

Our Jersey Herd Bull for sale— PEDRO'S 
VIRGINIUS, 45919, grandson of Pedro, 3187, 
and of Marjoram Second, 12805, both of 
World's Fair fame. The Bull offered has 
been used in our herd for several years, and 
is sold to prevent in-breeding. Price low, 
quality considered. 

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



What is better than presence of 
mind in a railroad accident? Absence 
of body. 



ST. O M ER H E R D 

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. HOOPES. Bynum, Md. 



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



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[August 



WARE VIEW FAR 



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 best 
Sows. Entitled to registry Price, $12 
each, or 3 for $30, Send stamp for reply. 
R S. C Ail ERQN& SON, Props. 



, 



R ERKSHIRE S 

ANNEFIELD HERD 

Represents the 

Finest Blood Lines 



in England.or 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 Highclere Topper of Biltmore II, out of 
Imported Harlene. 

Mlniborya Farm, Box 901 , Richmond, Va 

Registered Berkshires 

Duke of Mansfield (68561) 2% years. $15.00. 
Mansfield Cricket (68709) 2 years to Farrow 
September, 1903, $20.00. 

2 Gilts 4 Months, $8.00 each. 
Write at once. 

W. ELLIOT HAMMOND, 

Goochland C. H., Va. 

Hawksley Stock Farm 

has some extra nice Berkshire Pigs 
for sale. Also one handsome young 
boar, seven months old. All entitled 
to be registered. 

J. T. OLIVER, 

Aliens Level, Va. 

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



MAGAZINES. 

The midsummer holiday Century is 
characterized by articles on unknown 
regions, by a varied personal interest 
and by an appeal to artistic taste, both 
in color work and in black and white. 

The most out-of-the-way articles are 
"New Light on Lhasa, the Forbidden- 
City," with unpublished photographs 
taken by a Kalmuk pilgrim which Mr. 
Rockli ill, the Tibetan traveller, in a 
prefactory note, pronounces "of extra- 
ordinary interest," and "An Artist in 
the Antarctic," by F. W. Stokes, whose 
pictures are the first news in color 
from that still mysterious region. 

Other out-door subjects are Yellow- 
stone Park ("A Place of Marvels"), by 
Ray Stannard Baker, in "The Great 
Northwest" Series, illustrated by 
Blumenschein, and "An English Game 
Park," with text and pictures (ante- 
lope, rabbits and foreign animals) by 
the artists, Gleeson and Knight. 

The personal articles comprise let- 
ters of Walter Scott, recounting his 
"Later Days," with much variety of 
detail; "Chapters from a Diplomatic 
Life," reminiscences of people and 
events, by Andrew D. White, and 
"Wesley's Days of Triumph," a pen 
portrait of this great preacher and in- 
teresting character, by Professor Win- 
chester, supplemented by an editorial 
article, "Wanted, Another Wesley." 

An authoritative and important spe- 
cial article on a topic of current in- 
terest to both town and country is "A 
City's Campaign for Pure Milk," by 
Miss Fallows, with pictures by Miss 
Harding. 

The fiction includes "The Yellow 
Van," Richard Whiteing's novel, with 
a scene revealing high play at bridge 
whist among English women of so- 
ciety; a short tale by David Gray (a 
horse-sale story) ; "Overhauling the 
Politicianers," a humourous sketch of 
the Maine coast, by George S. Wasson; 
"Chills," a tale of a Missouri overflow, 
by R. E. Young; "To Her Who Loved 
Him Best of All," by Cyrus Townsend 
Brady — in a new vein for that 
author — and "The Tramp," a curious 
"Pa Gladden" story by Elizabeth 
Cherry Waltz. 

T. B. Aldrich contributes a paper 
of random observations on life and 
literature, and there is an example of 
Frederick MacMonnies's portraiture 
and the usual humorous miscellany. 
* * * 

Lippincott's Magazine for August 
provides a feast of fiction for idle days. 
The opening novel, by Elizabeth Duer, 
is called "The Green Dragon," and 
possesses all the qualities desirable in 
a, magazine novel. There is not a dull 
paragraph in it. Through an oppor- 
tune spill out of his automobile the 
"Greek type" chauffeur is cast upon 
the hospitality of an engaging widow, 
who sees it her duty to take him in 
and do for his broken hip-bone until it 
mends. By that time lots of unex- 
pected things happen, not the least 
of them being a bit of burglary, which 



POLAND-CHINA Vo*%l& 

sired by a son of Corrector, the 
great prize winner that sold for 
$2,500.00 and out of sows by 
Chief Tecumseh II, Zenith 
Chief, J. H. Sanders and other 
prize winners. No better bred 
in the U. S 

Pure bred Shropshire Sheep. 

ARROWHEAD STOCK FARM, 

SAMUEL B. WOODS, Prop. 

Charlottesville, Va. 




LARGE 

~ POLAND-CHINAS •■= 

Choice pig?, boars and brood sows, reg- 
istered . Shropshire Sheep and Short= 
Horn Cattle Write for prices and tes- 
imonialB J. F. DURRETTE 

Biedwood, Albemarle Co.. Va. 



.. BURKE'S GARDEN DORSETS ... 

I NOW HAVE READY A NUMBER OF 

CHOICE YOUNG RAMS 

and about 300 fine grade Ewes. Prices 
within reach of all Correspondence 
solicited. SAM'L T HEN1NGER, 
Burke's Garden, Tazewell Co., Va. 



*oOl»UNI> DORSET*. 

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



DORSET RAM 

Woodland No. 118 (1723) for sale. He is 
three years old, and in first class condition, 
and a twin getter. Must sell to prevent in- 
brc-eding. FRED. E. BEECHER, Cismont, 
Va. 



150 JACKS, JENNETS 

1L and Mules 150 

^^^^_^^^ Best assortment I ever owned. 

^K H Can suit you exactly. Write 

^PH^^H for description and prices. 

■ IIaIso will sell two Percheron 

^MsB^^^/l Stallions at close figures. 

BAKER'S JACK FARM. Lawrence. Ind. 

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

S. M. WISECARVER, 

Rustburg, Va. 



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531 



-6 Scotch Topped- 




SHORT HORN BULL CALVES 

6 Scotch Topped SHORT HORN Bull Calves 
3 to 15 months oil; reds and roans; sired by 
Verbena's Champion No. 129SS1, and Royal 
Chief No. 185432, and he by imp. Royal Stamp 
No. 146C62. Poland China Spring pigs, good 
ones, sired by Coler'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" 1 . 

Fo« 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. 

FOR SALE 

Two good young SCOTCH TOPPED SHORT- 
HORN BULLS, a red and a roan, about six 
and ten months old. Will sell low if taken 
soon. Also some nice heifers and Berkshire 
pigs. Address, ORMSBY BROS., Lakeland, 
Ky. 

SHORTHORNS, bred hornless. 

The corning breed of beef cattle. 
Have all the merits of Shorthorns and 
more, because they have no horns. 
Buy a Polled -Durham Bull 
J. L. HUMBERT, Charlottesville, Va 

REG.STERED jersey BULLS F0R SALE 

AT A BARGAIN. 

Calves 1 and 2 yr. olds; also 

EGGS FOR HATCHINC, W. & B. P. Rocks, 
W. & B. Leghorns, and S. L. Wyan- 
dottes, 75 cents for 15. 

J. B. JOHNSON, Manassas, Va. 
"Clover Hill Farm " 



REGISTERED ABERDEEN ANGUS 

Cows and heifers for sale. 
Prices low. 

W. B. MACGREGOR, 

Avon, Va. 

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



is specially thrilling in the telling. 
Needless to say, the end is love. 

Marion Harlan outdoes herself in 
the powerful story she contributes to 
the August Lippincott's, called "The 
Seventeenth of August, 1844." The 
title smacks of history, but the 
pathetic tale is pure fiction of the most 
appealing sort. An adventure story 
by William Le Queux, called "The Man 
with the Black Spectacles," is a 
rousing good one about a royal dis- 
guise and what comes of it. 

The way a medical man sacrifices 
himself for a friend, whose wife finds 
some compromising letters in her hus- 
band's pockets, is told under the title 
"Another Man's Excuse," by E. Spence 
de Due. This sounds true. 

Edward Boltwood's sketches of west- 
ern camp life are well liked. That in 
Lippincott's August number, entitled 
"Cupid in the Horse-Camp," is one of 
his best. 

Churchill Williams tells stories as 
if he saw before him what he is writ- 
ing about, and so impresses it upon the 
reader. His tale of a strike at the 
Sampson Steel Mill, called "The 
Siren," is most graphic and interest- 
ing, showing what one man can do 
against many. 

"For A' That," by Clinton Danger- 
field, hides a moral under a parable, in 
which a German monarch and an 
American ranchman become the best 
of friends. There is an amusing easy- 
dialect tale by Ella Middleton Tybout, 
entitled "The Offending Eye." 

A single exception to fiction in the 
August number of Lippincott's Maga- 
zine is a paper entitled "Father Kneipp 
and His Cure," by Maud Howe. She 
says that Father Kneipp dislikes "wo- 
men who wear gloves, a veil and a 
good bonnet," so let all such beware 
if their troubles lead them to him for 
a cure. 



REPORTS. 



U. S. Department of Agriculture, 
Washington, D. C. Year Book of 
the Department of Agriculture, 
1902. This is a most excellent 
issue of this valuable publication, 
and ought to be in the hands of 
every farmer. Write your con- 
gressman or senator for a copy. 
The department itself has no more 
copies allowed it than suffice for 
its correspondents. 
Bureau of Plant Industry, Bulletin 

43. Japanese Bamboos and Their 
Introduction into America. 

Bureau of Plant Industry, Bulletin 

44. The Bitter Rot of Apples. 
Division of Foreign Markets, Bulle- 
tin 32. Distribution of the Agri- 
cultural Exports of the United 
States, 1898-1902. 

Bureau of Forestry, Circular 25. 

Forestry and the Lumber Supply. 
Progress in Secondary Education in 

Agriculture, by A. C. True. 
Practices in Crop Rotation, by G. K. 

Holmes. 
Bureau of Soils, Circular 10. — The 



My] Fine' Herd ffof JRe^istered 

SHROPSHIRE SHEEP 

:.— FOR i SALE— As I retire from farming after 
t his year, I otter the ab ove at a v ery great dis- 
count. Write me for prices on come," see them. 

H. R. GR AH An, 
BARCLAY, P. 0-, Queen Anne Co., Md. 



FOR SALE 

SHROPSHIRE SHEEP 

1 yearling buck, 1 two year old buck, 

and several buck lambs, all registered. 

Apply to, ANTRIM STOCK FARM, 

Warren ton, Va. 



"Meadow Brook Stock Farm." 

Shropshire SHeep. 

Very fine yearling bucks, sired by best 
English bucks, from pure-bred native 
ewes. Fine ewe lambs for sale. 
C. A. SAUNDERS, Culpeper, Va. 

Suffolk -Down Sheep For Sale. 

I now offer Buck and Ewe lambs of this 
splendid breed which has proven itself 
the best adapted for crossing for early 
lambs Single Buck, $15.00; Buck and 2 
Ewes, |40 00. 
D. n. CLOYD, - Dublin, Va. 



Registered k&'jE 

C. Whites. Fine large 

strains. All ages, mated 

not a in, 8 week, pigs. .j^s^JB 

Bred sows. Service boars ^asSBL- 

and Poultry. Write for prices and free circular. 

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




Aryshires, Berkshires and Oxford-Downs. 

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

Enos H. Hess, Manager, Casanova, Va. 



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and POTOMAC R. R. 
and WASHINGTON SOUTHERN R'Y 

Form the Link connecting the 

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Chesapeake and Ohio R'y. 
Pennsylvania R. R., 
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Fast Mall, Passenger and Express Route be- 
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Points North, East and West. 

W. P. TAYLOR, Traffic Manager, Richmond, Va 



Mention the Southern Planter in 
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Use of Alkaline and Saline Waters 
for Irrigation. 
Publications of the United States 
Department of Agriculture for 
sale by the Superintendent of Doc- 
uments. 
Farmers' Bulletin, 159. Scab in 

Sheep. 
Farmers' Bulletin, 173. A Primer 

in Forestry. 
Farmers' Bulletin, 174. Broom Corn. 
Farmers' Bulletin, 175. Home Man- 
ufacture and Use of Unfermented 
Grape Juice. 
Farmers' Bulletin, 176. Cranberry 

Culture. 
Farmers' Bulletin, 177. Squab 
Raising. 

Alabama Experiment Station, Auburn, 
Ala. Bulletin 123. Vetch, cow 
peas and Soy Bean Hay as Sub- 
stitutes for Wheat Bran. 
Bulletin 124. The Horticultural 
Law. Notes on some of the insect 
and fungous diseases affecting 
horticultural crops. 

California Experiment Station, Berk- 
ley, Cal. Bulletin 147. Culture 
Work at the Sub-Stations. 1899- 
1901. 
Bulletin 148. Resistant Vines and 

Their Hybrids. 
Bulletin 149. The California Sugar 

Industry. 
Bulletin 150. The Value of Oak 
Leaves for Forage. 

Idaho Experiment Station, Moscow, 
Idaho. Bulletin 38. Grass and 
Forage Plants in Idaho. 

Kansas Experiment Station, Manhat- 
tan, Kan. Bulletin 117. Bacteria 
of the Soil. 
Bulletin 117. Flesh and Fat in 
Beef. 

Maryland Experiment Station, College 
Park, Md. Economical methods 
for Improving the Keeping Quali- 
ties of Milk. 

Maryland Agricultural College Quart- 
erly, May, 1903. 

Missouri Experiment Station, Colum- 
bia, Mo. Bulletin 62. Hessian 
Fly in Missouri. 
Bulletin 61. Apple Growing in Mis- 
souri. 

Nebraska Experiment Station, Lincoln, 
Neb. Bulletin 80. Experiments 
in Mulching Garden Vegetables. 

New Hampshire Experiment Station, 
Durham, N. H. Bulletin 102. In- 
sect Record for 1902. 

New York Experiment Station, Geneva, 
N. Y. Bulletin 232. Popular 
Edition. An Unsuccessful Cab- 
bage Rot Remedy. 

New Mexico Experiment Station, Me- 
silla Park, N. M. Bulletin 44. 
Ash Analysis of Some New Mexico 
Plants. 
Bulletin 45. Pumping for Irrigation 
from Wells. 

Ohio Experiment Station, Wooster, O. 
Bulletin 139. A Rosette Disease 
of Potatoes. 

Rhode Island Experiment Station, 
Kingston, R. I. Fifteenth Annual 
Report. 

South Dakota Experiment Station, 



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Imported Sir John Bull, No. 3609— B. H. B. 
Imported Dansfield Roland, No. 60528— B. H. B. 
Imported Columbia, No. 60527— B. H. B. 
Imported Royal Carlisle, No. 4841— B. H. B. 
And that Immensely Princely Hog 
Uncle Sam, No. 7233 are the sires of my Spring and Summer offerings of 
pigs. Does this list of Royalty suit your fancy? They represent the most famous 
Berkshire breeders of England. Fancy stock, moderate price 

Fancy Pups and fancy pigs do not fancy each other ; be prompt if you want 
a read y-for-fi eld pup at a sacrifice. 

Short Horn (Durham Cattle) for sale. Write for particulars. 

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



HILL TOP STOCK FARM. 

Berkshire Hogs and South- 
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A SPECIALTY. 

S. Brown Allen, who succeeds H. A. S. 
Hamilton & Co in the ownership and man- 
agement of this celebrated Stock Farm, offers a few Berkshire Pigs that have 
been bred without regard to cost, and one and two year old 

SOUTHDOWN BUCKS, 

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We positively guarantee to breed 
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and we will satisfy you both in price 

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



Chloro-Naptholeum Dip 



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

If 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 81.50. money order or check. Booklet free. It can make money for you. 
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Brookings. S. D. Lamb Feeding. 
Fattening Sheep on Grass. 
Virginia Experiment Station, Blacks- 
burg, Va. Virginia State Crop 
Pest. Commission Announcement 
in Regard to Enforcement of the 
Law. 
Virginia Weather Bureau, Richmond, 

Va. Report for June, 1903. 
Imperial Department of Agriculture 
for West Indies, Barbadoes, W. I. 
Agricultural News, June, 1903. 
PAMPHLETS. ETC. 
Sheep Upon the Cotton Fields and 
Other Matters. By Edward Atkin- 
son. An address prepared for sub- 
mission to the Southern Cotton 
Spinners Association. 
Fuel— What We Don't Know About It. 
By Edward Atkinson. There is 
much food for thought and many 
suggestions of value in this pam- 
phlet. 
International Live Stock Exposition, 
Union Stock Yards, Chicago, No- 
vember 28th to December 5, 1903. 
Preliminary classification. 
St. Louis Exposition, Department of 
Horticulture. Circular of infor- 
mation as to exhibits and methods 
of preparing and preserving them. 
Copy will be sent on application 
to F. W. Taylor. World's Fair, St. 
Louis. 
Franklin Davis Nursery Company, 

Baltimore, M. Catalogue. 
Danville Military Institute, Danville, 
Va. Prospectus, 1903-1904. This 
is a most beautifully got-up pam- 
phlet with a pile of information 
as to this excellent school. 
American Devon Cattle Club, Newark, 
O. Year Book for 1903.' L. P. 
Sisson, Secretary, Newark, O. 
International Stock Food Company, 
Minneapolis, Minn. Dan Patch 
March. Composed by Carl Willis. 



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Volume 1 to 10 (1841-'50). N. S., 8, 
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Volume 38 to 40 (1877-79). 

Volume 18, No. 12— December, 1858. 

Volume 19, Nos. 1, 9, 10 — January 
September, October, 1859. 

Volume 21, No. 6 to 12 — June to 
December, 1861. 

New Series, Volume 1, Nos. 1 to 5 — 
February to June, 1867. 

New Series, Volume 6, Nos. 5, 6, 
7— May, June, July, 1872. 

New Series, Volume 7, Nos. 2 to 
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Volume 37, Nos. 5 to 12— May to 
December, 1876. 

Volume 41, Nos. 2 to 6 — February 
to June. 1880. 

Volume 43, Nos. 9, 11— May 15, 
June 15, 1882. 

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Volume 50, No. 10— October, 1889. 

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[August 



EMILY'S CHARGE— A BID FOR 
WALTER. 

CHAPTER II. 

A few days after the funeral the or- 
phans received a visit from their 
father's brother, Dr. Henningham, a 
man who, whilst possessing much of 
their father's frankness and geniality, 
was very different from him in some of 
his traits and habits. Dr. Henningham 
was of a convivial nature, and though 
not a confirmed drunkard, he drank 
enough to impair his vigor, both of 
mind and body, and to cast a shadow 
over his household. Emily had many 
a time turned away with tearful eyes 
and burning cheeks as she observed 
the thick utterance and shaking hand 
of. her uncle, whose kindly and genial 
nature attached her to him, despite 
his weakness. 

Dr. Henningham had no son. His 
family consisted of his wife and two 
daughters, and he now proposed to 
adopt Walter. Grateful as she was 
for the kind spirit displayed in the 
offer, Emily shrank back reluctantly 
from accepting it. True, her uncle 
had his good points and attractive 
qualities, but with his fatal weakness 
this would but render his influence 
stronger, and hence more dangerous 
to a youth under his charge*. Dissipa- 
tion would appear more tolerable and 
even attractive in a person so agree- 
able and warm-hearted, than in a 
churlish and ungifted one. Besides, 
she could already discern a family 
likeness between her uncle's tempera- 
ment and Walter's, which would make 
the risk all the greater, were she to 
give up the boy into the former's keep- 
ing. True, he could give Walter more 
material comforts and advantages than 
she could possibly do, but then she 
had learned from her mother to con- 
sider, first of all, what would nourish 
and conduce to the higher life, and 
then to take a secondary view of those 
that conduce to natural life, and when 
these conflicted, she always aimed to 
make the lower and transient give 
way to the higher and the enduring. 
Looking at the subject in this way, 
she could not feel it right to accept 
her uncle's offer for Walter, especially 
as she had promised her mother to 
guard the boy from temptation, as far 
as in her lay. After maturely consid- 
ering the subject, she came to the con- 
clusion that her uncle could give Wal- 
ter no advantages that would offset or 
neutralize the harmful influences and 
examples to which the boy would be 
exposed, and, therefore, she thanked 
her uncle, affectionately, but declined 
his offer. 

"I think I must try to keep Walter 
myself." she said. "He is almost like 
my own son, and my mother was so 
anxious for me to keep him with me, 
if possible." 

"But. Emily," exclaimed her uncle, 
"you surely cannot realize what you 
are saying; what you are declining 
for Walter. I propose to support and 
educate him, as if he were my own 
son. You will not find It such a light 



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job to do this. In fact, you will find 
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"I think, uncle," she replied gently, 
but firmly, "I shall keep him with me, 
and do the best I can for him, though 
I thank you from my heart for your 
kind offer." 

"How do you propose to support 
him?" asked her uncle, half in kind- 
ness, half in irony. 

Emily detailed their resources, their 
little piece of property and her plan 
of teaching school, adding that she had 
collected a hundred dollars of rent just 
before her mother's death, and she had 
a few pieces of old family silver to 
dispose of. 

"A blue prospect!" exclaimed Dr. 
Henningham. That little cottage and 
tract of land, if sold in the present 
depressed condition of real estate, 
would scarcely bring enough to sup- 
port you six months." 

"But I don't want to sell it," replied 
Emily, my plan is to live there and 
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[August 



"Teaching is a precarious business," 
said her uncle, "and not well paid. 
Still you might make a living by it if 
you only attempted to provide for 
yourself; but with two mill stones 
around your neck — " 

"One point you overlooked, uncle," 
she rejoined. "Walter is now twelve. 
In a few years, say, five or six, he 
will probably be able to support him- 
self and protect and help his sisters." 

"It is not so easy," replied her uncle, 
"for young men to find openings to 
support themselves, and Walter will 
find unusual difficulties if you presist 
in debarring him from such advant- 
ages as are within his reach. You are 
so quixotic, so Utopian, I scarcely 
know whether to laugh or be provoked. 
You are as ignorant of the ways of the 
world as a baby. I give you a year, 
however, to come to you senses, and 
then I shall prepare to receive Walter. 
Doubtless some of the other relatives 
will adopt or help yon to support 
Alice, and then you may reasonably 
hope to support yourself by teaching, 
after you have given up the impracti- 
cable task of trying to keep your 
brother and sister." So saying, he 
arose and took his leave, a little testily, 
though not unkindly, reiterating to 
Emily as he started that she might 
consider his offer as holding good for 
twelve months. 

(To be Continued.) 



FIFTY DOLLARS FOR A BOTTLE OF 
GOMBAULT'S CAUSTIC BALSAM. 

Jonesboro, Tenn., Feb. 4, 1903. 
The Lawrence-Williams Co., Cleveland, 
Ohio: 
I have used your GOMBAULT'S 
CAUSTIC BALSAM for wind galls, 
saddle galls, collar bruises, cuts by 
barbed wire, splints, knots, etc. I have 
part of one bottle left, and if I thought 
I could not get another I would not 
take fifty dollars for it. — D. G. KEEB- 
LER. 



WOODLAWN SEMINARY. 

Elsewhere in this issue will be 
found the advertisement of the Wood 
lown Seminary and Musical Institute, 
of Gordonsville, Va. This splendid 
boarding school for girls is beautifully 
and healthfully situated in the Pied- 
mont section of Virginia. Under Pro- 
fessor Edgar Stinson it has all the ad- 
vantages of a Christian home, fitting 
pupils for college, teaching or the ac- 
tive duties of life. Send for further 
information. 



Bacon: A dog that runs under a car- 
riage is called a carriage dog, is it not? 

Egbert: Certainly. 

Bacon: Well, what would you call a 
dog that runs under an automobile? 

Egbert: A dead dog. 



SEETft&r 



This 
illustration shows our 
STEEL RIBBON 

GRAIN TUBE 

It is made of one continuous piece 
of Ribbon Steel. It is perfectly col- 
lapsable and flexible. It can not 
buckle or stop the flow of Grain or 
Fertilizer. It is used on all 

Farmers' Favorite 
Grain Drills 

Our FREE Grain Drill Literature tells all about our other 
features. Write for it to-day. 
Bickford & Huffman Division American Seeding Machine Co., Dept.g , Springfield. 



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, Rita-.*. 



JOHN S. FUNK, 

GLEN FARM. 

— IMPORTER AND BREEDER OP — 







Poland °China Hogs. 



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Durham 

Cattle, 

Shropshire Sheep, 
Southdown Sheep, 

Berkshire Hogs. All carefully bred regardless of cost. 
SINGER'S GLEN, VA. 



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



8 Cismont dorsetS 



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



Prices Reasonable. 



6. S. LINDENKOHL, Keswick, Albemarle Co., Va. 



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\ BILTMORB FARMS, = Biltmore, N. C. 

I Headquarters for GOLDEN LAD JERSEYS, * 



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Also Get of TREVARTH and GEN. MARIGOLD. * * * \ 

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^ GOLDEN LAD'S SUCCESSOR. First and sweepstakes over all at the Pan-American Exposition, the fc 

^ champion JERSEY BULL OF AMERICA, and out of Golden Ora, our great prize-winning cow, both fc 

1 born and developed on these Farms, is among our service bulls. fc 

i. Biltmore Jerseys are a combination of large and persistent milking qualities with an individuality Ik 

that wins in the show ring. * 



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^ SPECIALTY. Write for descriptive circular of the best lot of young bull calves ever offered, both for k 

^ breeding and individuality. They are by noted sires and out of large and tested selected dams. Many * 

1& of these calves are fit to show and win in any company. , 

J J- * BILTMORE POULTRY YARDS. + * j* 

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m 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 ^ 

Kj must breed from winners. fc 

5 Headquarters for the best IMPORTED ENGLISH BERKSHIRES. fc 

5 apply to BILTMORE FARMS, biltmore, n. c. £ 



IIIIPEBIHL FBU1T HBP PDOLTBT F B B III 

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 ior 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, - Staunton, Va. 



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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[August 



GOOD HOUSEKEEPING. 

In the July number of the Southern 
Planter there was a request for a 
recipe for putting up cucumbers for 
pickle. This suggested the idea that 
a Housekeeper's Column might add 
something to the interest and value 
of the magazine, so we have decided 
to make the experiment, and the read- 
ers may rest assured that any recipe 
published has been thoroughly tested 
and found reliable. Most of them are 
in constant, use in a country neighbor- 
hood which has long been celebrated 
for its "good living." 

Brined Cucumbers. — I like the 
cucumbers for pickle to be about two 
and a half or three inches long. They 
should be gathered every morning and 
put into a jar or tub of weak salt 
water; after a few days take them 
out and pack them closely in a tight 
keg or a large jar and pour over them 
a brine made of one quart of salt and 
one gallon of water and an inch or 
two of horseradish; boil and skim 
and pour it over the cucumbers hot. 
The horseradish prevents moulding. 
After nine days they are ready for 
making up, but they will keep a year 
if you prefer to make the pickle just 
as you need it. The pickle we get in 
the stores in .barrels is prepared by 
soaking all the salt out of the cucum- 
bers (and it takes about three days, 
changing the water twice a day), and 
pouring over them enough boiling 
vinegar to cover, in which you have 
boiled one cup of brown sugar, one 
pod of red pepper and one tablespoon- 
ful of black pepper and a small piece 
of horseradish to each gallon. Tie it 
up and let it stand for two months. 

Green Cucumber Pickle. — A f t e r 
soaking the salt out of the cucum- 
bers put' them into a brass kettle, 
a layer of cucumbers and a layer of 
grape leaves, until the kettle is full. 
Pour over them a weak vinegar, or one 
quart of strong vinegar to three quarts 
of water, and set them on the stove 
and cook very slowly for several hours, 
or til! they are a bright green. Take 
them out and wipe them dry and pack 
two gallons into a jar and spread be- 
tween the layers three tablespoons of 
white mustard seed, two tablespoons 
of black mustard seed, three table- 
spoons of celery seed, two tablespoons 
of whole black peppers, one tablespoon 
of cloves, one heaping tablespoon of 
allspice, one tablespoon of cracked 
ginger, one tablespoon of cracked nut- 
meg, one stick of cinnamon, two pods 
of red pepper and one cup of grated 
horseradish. Pour over it all three 
quarts of good vinegar, in which you 
have boiled ten cups of brown sugar. 
Heat the vinegar two mornings and 
the pickle will be ready for use In a 
month, but is better if kept. 

Mexican Mixed Pickle. — Two dozen 
large cucumbers cut into large pieces. 
Chop eight heads of cabbage, six dozen 
onions, two dozen green peppers. 
Sprinkle nearly a quart of salt over It 
all and turn it into a bag ind hang it 



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CHAMPION PRINCE 
RUPERT No. 79,539, 
....at head of herd 



A Few High Class Bulls and Calves For Sale. 



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Write me 
LJjj before buying 
\\ elsewhere. 



EDWARD G. BUTLER, 

"annefield FARMS," 

ERIGGS, - VIRGINIA. 



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Service Bulls ; Imported Salisbury 76059 (19083). Lars Jr. 85297. 

FOR SALE — A choice lot of bull calves and yearling bulls The bull calves sold recently 
weighed 60u lbs. at 6 mos old. Call and make your own selection Prices right. 

MURRAY BOOCOCK, Owners, Keswick, Va. 



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Bacon Hall Farm. 

Hereford registered Cattle 

"TOP" BREEDING, CALVES NOT AKIN. 
MOTTO— Satisfaction or no sale. 



1 E. M. GILLET & SON, 



Glencoe, flaryland. 



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HEREFORD CATTLE —CalYes, entitled to registration, $75 to $100. Grade Calves by "Sir Ed- 
ward" 825 to 840. 

SHROPSHIRE SHEEP.— Bucks, one year old and over, 815 to 820. Buck Lambs, July delivery, 
$10 to $12. Ewe Lambs, July delivery, $8 and $10. 

POLAND-CHINA HOGS.— Pig*, six weeks old, $5. Pigs, two or three months old, $7.50. Pigs, 

five months and over, $15 to $20. 
M. BRONZE turkeys.— Toms, $4. Hens, $3. Eggs, per sitting of 12, when in season, $4. 
MUSOOVY DUCKS.— Pure White Drakes, $1.25. Fare White Ducks, $1. Pairs, $2.25. Trios, $8. 

BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS. 

ROUEN GEESE.— Ganders, $2.50. Geese, $2.50. Eggs, per sitting, $3. 

WILLIAM L., Jr., No. 21058, half brother of Aztell, will serve a limited number of mares tor 925 
the season. Mares boarded at lowest figures per month. 



1903.] 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



539 



St. Blbans School, IRaoforo, Virginia. 




This school is beautifully located on a sunny headland, above the banks of the New River, in the famous Blue 
Grass Region of Virginia. Ideal spot for health and sanitation. Prepare your boy for thejUniversity or business 
by sending him here. 

Prof. W.H. Randolph, Headmaster, would like to mail you a catalogue containing the "Plan of St. Albans School " 



up on the clothes-horse to drip. The 
next day squeeze it well and put it 
into a kettle, sprinkling four ounces 
of white mustard seed, four ounces of 
black mustard seed, six ounces of 
turmeric, four ounces of celery seed, 
three-quarters of a pound of ground 
mustard between the layers. Dissolve 
eight pounds of sugar in two gallons 
of best vinegar and pour it over the 
mixture; boil until the vinegar begins 
to thicken. This makes about four 
gallons and is the very best pickle in 
the world. 

Ripe Cantaloupe Jam. — This was an 
experiment one summer when we had 
more melons than we could use and 
very little other fruit, and it proved 
such a success we always make It, 
whether we have a quantity of other 
fruit or not. The melons must be 
really ripe. Peel them and chop into 
small pieces and put them on and boil 
until mushy. Then add three fourths 
of a pound of sugar to each pound of 
the fruit; season a ten pound lot with 
four pieces of white ginger, one dozen 
cloves and three sticks of cinnamon. 
Boil until clear and put into glass jars. 



FOR SALE 

BERKSHIRE BOAR ready for ser- 
vice, longbody. short stout legs, well 
quartered & correctly m arkeo , price 
$20 00 Will also take orders for 
pigs ready for September shipment 

FOREST HOME FARM, 

PURCELLVILLE,VA. 



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OFFERS 

FOR 
-SALE- 



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2 Registered SHORTHORN COWS, 

2 Registered MORGAN COLTS, and a few 

good yearling SHROPSHIRE RAMS. 

B. B. BUCHANAN, Bedford City, Va. 



540 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[August 



This burns so easily that you must stir 
it all the time after adding the sugar. 
Crush the ginger. 

Cheap Sponbe Cake. — Six eggs, 
beaten separately, very light; to the 
yolks add three cups of sugar; beat 
again; then add one cup of cold water. 
Sift four cups of flour twice with two 
teaspoons of baking-powder. Put the 
flour and whites of eggs in alternately 
and stir as little as possible. Flavor 
with nutmeg and bake in thin jelly- 
cake pans, or in cards in the biscuit 
pans. This is good with a sauce. 

Caraven. 



TOPPING THE MARKET. 

Cattle fed on shredded corn stover 
have repeatedly topped the live stock 
market in price. The great nutritive 
properties of shredded corn stover 
make it an ideal stock food, easily ac- 
cessible to all farmers. 

The size and price of huskers and 
shredders, until recently, made it im- 
possible for the small growers to se- 
cure a machine for the preparation of 
corn fodder. The advent of the Deer- 
ing Two-Roll Husker and Shredder, 
which meets the wants of the indi- 
vidual farmer, placed it within the 
means of the small grower to enjoy 
all the benefits of shredded corn 
stover. The Deering Four-Roll Husker 
and Shredder is a strong, reliable ma- 
chine designed especially for the large 
grower or a club of farmers. 

The scientific construction of the 
Deering shredder head makes the 
shredded stover produced by Deering 
machines especially wholesome and 
nutritious. Deering shredded corn 
stover is famous for its quality. It 
makes fat cattle. 



HTS IDEA OF A PRAYER. 

Harold, the 5-year-old son of the 
Presbyterian minister of Dayton, Ky., 
was being prepared for bed. He had 
spent a very active day at coasting, 
and was weary and very sleepy. 

"Now, Harold, kneel down by 
mamma and say your little prayer." 

"But. mamma — " half asleep, with 
his head on her shoulder. 

"Be mamma's good boy, now," coax- 
ingly. "Thank God for all His good- 
ness to you." 

But. Harold was asleep. 

His mamma gently aroused him. 
"Harold, don't be naughty. Be a good 
boy, now, and thank Jesus for the nice 
home you have, the warm clothing and 
fire to keep you warm and a mamma 
and papa to love you. Think of the 
poor little boys who are hungry and 
cold to-night, no mamma to love them, 
no warm bed to go to, and — " 

"But, mamma," interrupted the 
sleepy boy, roused to a protest, "I 
think them's th' fellers that ort to do 
the prayin'.' — Will M. Hundley, in 
August Lippincott's. 



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



ARMOURS BLOOD iEALTJT 

First proved by the Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station, and sinca 

corroborated by thousands of leading stockmen who have used it without 

a single failure. Equally effective for the diarrhea of all animals. 

PREVENTS weak bones, paralysis of the bind legs and "thumps" 

in pigs; "big head" of foalsj "rickets" of all young animals; 

abortion due to incomplete nutrition, and a host of other troubles. 

A Potent Food for Work Horses, Dairy Cows, Poultry. 

Write us for booklet giving valuable information about Blood Meal and our 
other feeding products. Consult us free of charge regarding stock diseases. 

THE ARMOUR FERTILIZER WORKS, 

Chicago. Omaha. Baltimore. Atlanta. Jacksonville. 



We Are Still in the Business.. 



"HILL TOP" Stock at Shadwell, 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 will have a fine lotready to ship 
by September 1st. We will be glad to serve our old friends and are always glad to 
make new ones. 

We 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. 



WuRLVRBt 

IS SO NECESSARY TO THE 

FARMER AND STOCK RAISER 

that he cannot afford to be without the 

best means of pumping it 

ADVICE FREE 




if application is made to us. 

Rams, Windmills, Gasoline Engines 

for pumping and farm use 

SYDNOR PUMP & WELL CO., Inc. 

Box 949. RICHMOND, VA. £ 



IT STANDS FOR BIG CROPS. 

SPANGLE 



STANDARD EVERYWHERE. 



For uniform di tiling of grains, ary kind and any amount 
per acre for grass p. id sowing a.i.d even distribution of 
lu 



I lumpy, damp or dry fertilizers, nothing equals the 
Or /*«B la L.SC.1'1 Grain and Fertiizer _ 
Positive force feed f »r fertilizer, grain and grass seed. Drills 
any depth, perfect regulation, low steel or wood frame, high 
wheels wira or >ad tires. Easy to fill and operate. Light 
draft. Investigate before buying. Write for free catalogue. 
SPANGLER MANEG. CO.. 501 QTJEEN STREET, YORK, PA. 




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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



541 



We are Going to 




MYou a CHATHAM FANNING MILL 

On 60 Days' Approval 



to convince you of its superiority over any fanning mill you ever heard 
of. If that isn't long enough time we will take your Three If ears Mote. 
WK KNOW what the Cbatlian* will do for you, how much money it 
will make, how much it will save you, how strong it is, how easily it runs 
and the porfect work it accomplishes. It will clean and grade your 
seed grain, will enable you to sell your clean grain at the top price, will 
save the timothy seed from the yearly crop of grain, save the screenings 
for feed for your stock. Tiie Chatham will clean and grade any 
kind of seed or grain. The new bagging attachment saves the work of 
one man. We have already sold OVER one hundred thousand (100,000) 
of them in every part of the U. S. and Canada, and are not going to stop 
until we place one in the hands of every farmer, stock raiser and seeds- 
man in North America. We want you to send us your name and address. 
We will then send you the most instructive book, free, 

"How to Make Dollars Out of Wind." 



It tells ways of making easy money that you never thought 
of. We will also outline our THKEE YEARS' 
Plan of selling you a Chatham. It will surprise you 
by its liberality and convince you that we believe in our 
mill. It gives you a chance to let the mill pay you before 
you pay us for the mill. 

Here are some of the things others have done with the 
help of the Chatham Fanning mill: 

Fred Dletz, Ransomville, N. T., got $108 cash for timothy 
seed out of hia wheat, and dldn' t know there waa any there. 



fot $550 more for 1000 bushela 
'erkins used the Chatham; 



High Shoals Manufacturing Company, 

YARNS, SH1HT1NGS, CHECKS, STRlPKS. ETC. 



Talmage Hardware Co.. «r, . r/>, / <o? .. 

Agents for Chatham Fanning Mills, x/Ciy/i JAoa/>, :SV/.._ ™y 25th, 1903 
Athens, Ga., 
Gentlemen: 

The Chatham Fanning Mill bought of you is by far a more valuable 
machine than I first thought. As you know 1 did not get thi3 machine until 
afer I had begun to plant my cotton. When the Fanning Mill arrived, in order 
to test its merits, I fanned out a lot of the remainder of the seed of my 
cotton and to my surprise on looking over the farm 1 found that the seed 
fanned before planting came up a great deal better. In fact one would not r ' 
believe that the Fanning Mill would make such a difference. In addition to 
the stand of cotton I saved at least one-third of the seed. I do not think 
that 1 can afford to do without this machine even at double the price I paid 
for It. I have had several of my neighbors to fan their seed and they all 
speak in the highest of terms so far as they can see at present. I have only 
ueed it on cotton seed and fanning peas , and as stated above I would not 
think of doing without It at even twice the cost. 

Your9 respectfully, 
Dtot. to V. G. A. J. Baxter.. Supt. 



O. E.Perkins, Hallsport, N.Y., 
of wheat than his neighbor did. 
neighbor didn't. 

D. M.Bethune, Bethune, S. 0., obtains $1 extra on every 
100 pounds of rice by using the Chatham. 

G. Woodrlng, So. Charleston, O., secured $157 worth of graaa 
seed from cleaning up the refuse in barn floors and mangera. 

Bead this letter from the Superintendent of the High Shoals 
Manufacturing Company. 

Now write us and get that free book and our 
proposition to make you money. Address 

M. CAMPBELL FANNING MILL CO., Lid. l Manu£ac F u a r n e S!n° e ft Mli? hatham 116 Wesson Avenue, Detroit, Mich. 



A NOVEL HAT. 

Rev. John Mathews, who was a 
pioneer Methodist preacher of Ala- 
bama, has been remembered for his 
strict views and many peculiarities. 

His wife, who was more liberal in 
her ideas, was fond of dress, and once 
sold a bureau and with the money 
bought a new hat. 

The following Sunday Brother 
Mathews, being disturbed at the be- 
ginning of his discourse by several of 
the congregation turning to see the 
late arrivals, said: 

"Brethren and sisters, don't bother 
to look around any more. I'll tell you 
who comes in." 

This he did, calling each one by 
name, much to the mortification of the 
tardy members. His wife was among 
the last, and when she walked down 
the aisle he said: 

"Make way there for Sister Mathews. 
She is coming with a bureau on her 
head." — August Lippincott's. 



Mr. Nabor: I witnessed your hls- 
band's performance at the play last 
night, and I must say it was a great 
success; I never saw more natural act- 
ing. 

Mrs. Tartar: Indeed! Personating 
Mephistopoles, I suppose. 



The DeLOACH 



Saw Mills are Sure Winners. 

Eight sizes, from Farmers'4 h.p. up to 200 h.p 

, If Interested, write for large illustrated catalogue of DeLoach Patent Saw Mills to Buit any 
power from 4 to 20'i h. p : ?ningle Mills, Planers, Edgers. Trimmers, Stave and Lath Mills, Bolt- 
ers. Corn and Buhr Mills, Water Wheels, etc. To introduce our New Farmers' Saw Mill, fitted 
with DeLoach Patent Variable Friction Feed, we make this special ofler: 

We will deliver on cars at factory our 
No. Pony Farmers' Saw Mill, with Duplex 
Dogs, imnroved H<>ad Block., and Ratch- 
et Set Works, complete as shown in cut, 
except it has Carriage made in two 4 foot 
sec Ions, with Rope Dri»e instead of Rack 
and Pinion without Saw or Belt, for 
S1 15.00 Spot Cash! 
Wi'h 36" Solid r-aw, $127.50; 40", 3132.5 

44", $140.00: 48", $150.00. 
With 36"Inserted Paw $147 50: 40",$162.50 

44", $160.00; 48", $170.00. 
Best Rubber Belting, 4-ply, 6", 20 cents 
per foot ; 8", 30 cents per foot, net. 
No discount from these prices. 

Our Warranty: This mill is w«rranted to be made in a workman- ike manner, of first class 
material throughout, and to give perfect satisfaction If operated according to our printed in- 
struction?, which are so simple thai a boy can understand them Any one with ordinary intelli- 
gence can set and operate without the assistance of an experienced sawyer : will easily cut 2 000 
to 2,500 feet of first class board lumber pe.i day with only 4 h p. ; 3,000 feet with 6 n. p. ; 4.000 feet 
with 8 b. p. : is adapted to any kind or size power up to is h. p. 

DeLOACH MILL MANUFACTURING CO., Box 600 Atlanta, Georgia, U. S. A. 

The DeLoach is the onlv mill made that is shipped to all parts of the world. Over 10,000 in use. 




When corresponding with our advertisers always mention the 
Southern Planter. 



542 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER 



[August 



DAVID AND GOLIATH. 
(A true and fair account, in common 
metre, of this single combat, by an 
Irish bard. Written by Gen'l Basil W. 
Duke.) 

The brightest boy ould Jesse had 

Was David, youngest son, 
Ha was a bould and active lad, 

Well loiked by ivery one. 

Altho' he had to moind the sheep, 

To lam he was so sharp, 
Whin other boys wor' fast asleep 

He'd practice on the harp. 

Twould make the birds av hiven hide 
Their heads to hear him sing. 

He'd murther half the country side 
Wid pebbles and a sling. 

And thin the soothin' ways he knew 
To capture young and old; 

The female sex — Och, Whillielu! 
'Twas there wor' his best hold. 

Whin David was some eighteen years 

Of age or thereabout, 
Betwane the haythen and Judear 

A bloody war broke out. 

His brothers 'listed for the war— 
Begorra! they wor' daisies; 

His father tuk a conthract for 
To sell the army chases. 

"David," the ould man said wan day, 
"You'd loike a little thramp, 

Jist load some chases on the dhray 
And take 'em down to camp." 

He dhrove to camp and sought straight- 
way 

The commissary's tent; 
He got a voucher for his pay, 

Thin to his brothers went. 

He found thim lookin' mighty blue 
And in a dhreadful fright; 

Retrate was what they wished to do 
And divil a bit to fight. 

A big, black bully, tin foot tall, 

Was blnffin' all the Jews, 
And throops and staff and Gin'ral Saul 

Wor' quakin' in their shoes. 

Goliath was the craythur's name, 

A howlin' Philistine; 
His sword was loike the lightnin's 
flame, 

His staff was loike the pine. 

He wore upon his back and breast 
Tin thousand pounds of brass; 



PURE BRED 

Short Horn Calves 

from fine Stock. Also 

Yorkshire Pigs 

of very Prolific P>reed. 

JAS H. HOQE, Hamilton, Va 



22 Years 
the best 
WAGON 

MADE. 



THE 



FLORENCE 

FARM WAGON 



is FULLY GUARANTEED to be the very best, strong- 
est and lightest draft wagon for all farm pur- 
poses. Neat, handsome, substantially con- 
structed from best grade seasoned timber, 
well ironed, it possesses every quality that 
makes it desirable. See the FLORENCE 
at our nearest agency. If there is no agency near, 
write us direct and we will send you free our illus- 
trated Catalogue, our attractive periodical "The 
_ Florence Waggin' Tongue," and make you an offer 

to supply you with a FLORENCE WAGON on liberal terms and at a low price. 

i today to Dept. C. FLORENCE WAGON WORKS, Florence, Alabama, 



With' 
without 

'Pat. Coil SpringsN 
under the Bolsters. 

Tlie Western Farmer's Favorite. 



"C<K}<H>W<HXK>#0 




MM PREPARED^ 




The Old Reliable for WHEAT, OATS, 
CLOVER and OTHER GRASSES; has 
stood the test for twenty-five years, 
being composed principally of Hydrate 
of Lime, Sulphate of Lime and Potash. 



OUR SPEC1ALHWHEAT FERTILIZER. 

We put this brand on the market only a few years ago, and have had 
very flattering results. The best farmers say that they get better 
STAND and GKOWTH of GRASS and CLOVER from it than from 
oth»-r fertilizers. This we can confidently recommend for CORN= 
LAND or anv other land of fair fertility. 



FRUIT TREES. 



Maj G. A Barksdale of Richmond, Va , has used our PREPARED 
LIME on his fruit trees, and says it has made wonderful improve- 
ment, both in the condition of the trees an<l quality of the fruit. 



5 PLAIN SHELL LIME 

S. v Constantly on hand at lowest prices. 

I No. 1 WOOD=BURNT LIME 

£ In car lota at lowest market price from kilns, 



S If you wish to IMPROVE your land, use a ton r.o four acres for WHEAT 

5 and CLOVER, or if you wish to seed it for other GRASSES where the land 

<> is in good condition, use the same quanitv and it will give vou a goo>l STAND 

g. and GROWTH of GRASS. For reclaiming POOR land, where there is little { 

a- or no VEGETATION, COVER naked places with litter from the barnyard or -r> 

1 forest, using the same qua; ity and tow wit-ter OATS and CLOVER. 

SEND FOR CIRCULAR AND PRICE.S. 

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102 S. 13tH Street, 



Richmond, "Virginia. 



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543 



"MOORE" QUALITY 



"MOORI" QUANTITY 



J. S. MOORE'S SONS, 

Successors to D. O'SULLIVAN, and J. S. MOORE & SONS. 

CORNER EIGHTEENTH & MAIN STREETS, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. 

Wholesale and Retail Grocers, Feed and Liquor Dealers. 

WE ARE THE LEADERS OF LOW PRICES. 



Pride of Richmond Flour $4.35 

No better can be gotten. 
Daisy Flour, which is a fine ar- 
ticle 4.00 

Mill Feed, Ship Stuff, sacked, per 

100 $1.15 

Brown Stuff, sacked, per 100 1.10 

Country Meal (fine), sacked, per 

100 1.40 

Coarse Meal, sacked, per 100 1.20 

Cotton- Seed Meal, sacked, per 100 . 1.40 
Chop Food, sacked, per 100 1.25 



We are the leaders in our line of 
goods. We are new in the retail busi- 
ness, but we know how to treat our 
customers, as we have been doing for 
years. 



SOAPS! Now we have lots of Soaps. 
The brands are of such variety that it 
would be taking up your valuable 
time in putting the brands in rotation, 
but we will give you prices on our lead- 
ing goods: 
Moon Soap, 8-oz. bars, 100 to the 

box, per box $2.00 

Hustler Soap, 120 to the box, 8-oz. 

bars, per box 2.25 

SALT. 

200 pound sack, per sack 80 

100 pound sack, per sack 45 

Ice Cream Salt, per sack 70 

Rock Salt, for Cattle, per 100 lbs. . 80 
CAKES. 

j Nice Mixed Cakes, per box 6 i 

Prices Subject to Market Fluctuations. Order Now. 
Write for prices on anything in above line not quoted 



Ginger Snaps, per box 4 

Cream Crackers, per box 61 

Soda Crackers, per box 4 

LARDS. 
Pure Leaf Lard, 50 lb. can, per lb . . 10£ 

Compound Lard, per lb 9 

HERRINGS. 
We have a fish that will count 

700 to the barrel, per barrel. .$4.25 

Roe Herrings, per half barrel 2.75 

WHISKEY. 

Old Capital, per gallon $1.50 

Excelsior, per gallon 2.00 

Keystone, per gallon 2.50 

Crown, per gallon 3.00 

N. C. Corn Whiskey, per gallon.. 2.00 

Gibson, per gallon 3.00 

Apple Brandy, per gallon 2.25 



The Most popular Machines in use for Peanut Picking and Grain Threshing are the 

HEEBNER'S. 

LITTLE GIANT and 

PENNSYLVANIA 

Machines, and they have splendid improvements for 1903. 
They are built in first-class manner, and are strong and 
durable. The ^rice is within the reach of all We guaran- 
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: : "RUBBER, LEATHER 

AND 

GANDY BELTING. 
-ECLIPSE" 



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ENGINES and BOILERS. 

ERIE ENGINES and BOILERS. 



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pickers, cutting 



STRATTON & BRAQG CO.. 20=22 N. Sycamore St., Petersburg, Va. 



544 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[August 



The shine av him, complately dhressed. 
Would smash a lookin'-glass. 

And ivery day the haste would sthrut. 
Inflamed wid dhrink an' pride, 

And kept all Israel closely shut 
In lines well fortified. 

"Come out," he'd bawl, "Come out av 
there, 

Beyant your dirty works; 
Come, ave ye dare, and fight me fair, 

Ye bloody Habrew Turks." 

But ivery faithful Israelite 
Said, "Lave the blaggard be. 

Av coorse no dacint Jew can fight 
Wid such low trash as he." 

This sort av thing was well and good. 

Till David jined the throop, 
Whin he the matter understood, 

Bedad, he raised a whoop. 

"It is a burnin' sin and shame," 

He said, "upon me word, 
To hear this haythen hound defame 

The chosen av the Lord." 

"And since no other mon has felt 

A wish to tan his hide, 
I'll fight him for the champion's belt 

And fifty pounds a side." 

The corp'ril av the guard, he tould 

The off'shur av the day 
What David said, and he made boulrl 

To mintion it at tay. 

The edge-du-kong was in that mess. 

And heerd the whole discourse; 
So he — he couldn't do no less — 

Tould Gin'ral Saul, av course. 

The Chafe of Staff tould the High 
Priest 

To send pre-emptuous ordhers 
For David to report in haste 

At Gin'ral Saul's headquarters. 

But whin the son of Jesse kim 

And Saul beheld the lad, 
So young, so thinder loike and shlim, 

It made him tearin' mad. 

"Oh, Houly Moses! look at that," 
Said Saul, "The boy's consate; 

How can it be that such a brat 
Can match that heavy weight? 

"Wid that blood suckin' giant thafe 
This baby cannot strhrive; 

The Philistine, it's my belafe, 
Would eat him up alive." 

Thin David said, "My lord, it's thrue, 
This sames a rash intint, 



Uncle Sam says it's 
all right 

Uncle Sam, in the person of ten of his government officials, is always in charge of every 
department of our distillery. During the entire process of distillation, after the whiskey 
is stored in barrels in our warehouses, during the seven years it remains there, from the 
very grain we buy to the whiskey you get, Uncle Sam is constantly on the watch, We dare 
not take a gallon of our own whiskey from our own warehouse unless he says it's all right. 
And when he does say so, that whiskey goes direct to you, with«all its original strength, rich- 
ness and flavor, carrying a UNITED STATES REGISTERED DISTILLER'S GUARAN- 
TEE of PURITY and AGE, and saving the dealers' enormous profits. That's why 
HAYNER WHISKEY is the best for medicinal purposes. That's why it is preferred for 
other uses. That's why we have over a quarter of 'a million satisfied customers. That's 
why YOU should try it. Your money back if you're not satisfied. 

Direct from our distillery to YOU 

Saves Dtalers' Profits ! Prevents Adulteration I """ 

HAYNER WHISKEY 

PURE SEVEN -YEAR - OLD RYE 

4 FULL $3:20. EXPRESS 
QUARTS <3 PREPAID 

We will send you FOUR FULL &UART BOTTLES of HAYNER'S SEVEN- 
YEAR-OLD RYE for 13.20, and we will pay the express charges. Try it and 
if you don't find it all right and as good as you ever used or can buy from 
anybody else at any price, send it back at our expense, and your $3.20 will be 
returned to you by next mail. Just think that offer over. How could it be 
fairer? If you are not perfectly satisfied, you are not out a cent. Better let 
us send you a trial order. If you don't want four quarts yourself, get a 
friend to join you. 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. , Utan, Wash, 
or Wyo. must be on the basis of 4 Quarts for S4.00 by Express 
Prepaid or 20 Quarts for S1G.OO by Freight Prepaid. 

Write our nearest office and do it NOW. 

THE HAYNER DISTILLING COMPANY 

K.lANTAi GA. DAYTON, OHIO ST. LOUIS, MO, ST. PAUL, MINN, 

153 Distellbet, Troy, O. Established 1866 




CHARTERED 1870. 



MERCHANTS NATIONAL BANE 

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

Surplus and Profits, = - $628,000 00 

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, 

President. 



JNO. K. BRANCH, 

Vice-President. 



JOHN F.GLENN, 

Cashier 



LIGHTNING SCALES 

COMPOUND BEAM ON ALL WAG 
ON' SCAI ES. TIMBER SPECIFI 
CATIONS AND WORKING PLANS 
FURNISHED FREE. ■ 
EVERY SCALE GUARANTEED., 



' Kansas Oty Hay Press Co. ' 



LIGHTNING HAY PRESSES 
WILL BALE MORE HAY IN LE5S TIMc mnnt. inm.mLj 
AND MORE COMPACT BALES AND AR£ EASIEP DRAFT 

THAN ANY OTHEP PRES* 

" gasolik; ENGIN'. 

GREATES" POWER WIT 
LEAST FUEL NO VALV 
NO FOUNDATION 




"lH'/ Mih5t„Kan5AsCity. Mo/ 



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545 



But while I weigh but nine stun' two, 
I'm full av divilmint. 

"A lion and a bear kim down 
The mountain's rugged sides; 

I slew the bastes and went to town 
And thraded off their hides. 

"And since for roarin' bastes like thim 
I've found I'm tough enough, 

I'm quite convinced that I can thrim 
This blaggard haythen rough." 

"Avick!" says Saul, "ye're full ave 
pluck, 

And wag your little chin 
Loikc wan who ra'ly thrusts his luck 

And manes to thry and win. 

"I'll give ye my best coat av mail — 
A new spring suit jist made — 

Tuck it a thrifle in the tail, 
And pad the shouldher blade." 

But David didn't understand 

The use av sich a thing, 
And only wanted in his hand 

His staff and thrusty sling. 

Whin Goliath saw little David ap- 
proachin', after havin' heerd proclama- 
tion that a gra'at champion was comin' 
out to fight him. musha, he laughed for 
to split his sides; and by reason av 
what passed bechune thim in the way 
av talk, I dhrap out av po'thry for a 
bit, bekase, whoile poth'ryis moighty 
foine for sintimintal dailogue, it's no 
good at all for a ra'al sthrong, forst- 



EMPIRE DRILLS 



ACCURATELY MEASURE 

ALL KINDS OF GRAIN 

WITHOUT CHANGE. 

That is, if you set the Empire 
Feed to sow any amount from 24 
to 128 quarts per acre, it will sow 
exactly that amount of wheat, 
oats or any other small grain 
without further change. A good 
r stand of grain is assured.when you 
'sow with an Empire Drill. 
Empire Grain Drills do not bunch, 
skip or choke. Made in all styles and sizes. 
Write for Free Catalogues. 

EMPIRE DIVISION 

AMERICAN SEEDING MACHINE COMPANY, 

2S Monroe Street, Springfield, Ohio. 




A WASHING MACHINE is as great a necessity in the house as a wringer 

THE MAJESTIC ROTARY WASHER 

has too 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. 




WAGONS and BUGGIES 

MADE 

R!QHT HERE 

AT HOME 

BY 

The BARBOUR BUGGY CO., 1 
The HUGHES BUGGY CO., 
The VIRGINIA WAGON CO. j 

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 DEER1NG MACHINES. 

RICHMOND BUGGY & WAGON CO., 1433 E. Main Street, RICHMOND, VA. 

J. T- DUNN, Manager. 




All of Virginia. 



546 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[August 



class, breezy blaggardin' match. 

"Oh, Jases!" said Goliath, wid the 
vvather bilin' out av his eyes for 
laughin', "what sort av thing is that? 
May the divil admire me!" he says, 
"iv I don't belave it's a monkey escaped 
from an organ grinder." 

"Ye'll foind me a moighty bad thing 
to monkey wid," says David, "ye big 
thafe, wid a pot on your head loike a 
cupolo on a sthame fire engine, and 
your dirthy black mouth loike the 
hole av a coal cellar." 

"Ye little skinned pole-cat," says 
Goliath, beginnin' to grow mad, whin 
he diskivered that David's rhethoric 
was suparior to his, "do ye think I'm 
a dog that ye've got a sthick to bate 
me wid?" 

"Bedad," says David, "I wouldn't be 
afther cloin' a dacint dog such in- 
justice; but it's dog mate I'm goin' to 
make av ye." 

"Hear that!" says Goliath; " 'arrah. 
Now, tache your gran-mother to faad 
ducks!" 

"Dhry up!" says David, "Bad scran 
to ye," he says. "Ye haven't the since 
av a catfish. By the light that shines, 
your bad grammar gives me a cramp 
in the stummick." Och, David had a 



tongue in his head loike a Jews-harp. 

"Tear an' ouns!" says David, "I'll 
give the buzzards a picnic wid yer 
karkiss, and shure !t 'ull make thim 
sick to ate ye." 

"Ye're a liar," says Goliath. 

"Ye're another," says David, "an' 
an opthalmic ould Cyclops to boot." 

Wid that. Goliath lost his temper 
intoirely. He pawed up the ground 
and kim at David wid his eyes shut, 
a-bellowin' — and that brings me back 
to me poth'ry: 

Goliath poised his mighty spear, 

Twas fifty feet in length, 
And unto David dhrawin' near 

He punched wid all his strength; 

But David was surprisin' quick 

And sphry upon his pins; 
So, dodgin' nately, wid his shtick 

He whacked Goliath's shins. 

Wid pain the gaint howled and grinned. 

And dhrapped both shield and lance 
To rub his leg the lick had skhinned; 

Thin David saw his chance. 

Takin' a brick from out his scrip, 
He put it in his sling, 



And, whirlin' it 'round head and hip, 
He let it dhrive full swing. 

Right to the mark the darnick flies, 

As sthraight as to a hod; 
It smote the wretch betwane the eyes 

And stretched him on the sod. 

Thin David, for to prove him dead, 
In sight av all beholders, 

Chopped off his unbelavin' head 
From his blasphamious sho'lders. 

* ** * * * * * * * 

Whin the Phenaysian sailors sought 
Long since ould Erin's sthrand, 

A prince of David's blood they brought 
Who settled in the land; 

From him the Irish race had birth, 
And that's why we delight in 

Beyant all other thribes on earth, 
The harp's swate sthrains and 
fightin'. 

That this surmise is in nowise thin 

Can easily be shown, 
For sthick and harp have ever been 

As Erin's imblims known. 

So let her inimies beware 
How they indulge their hate; 

Let England thremble lest she share 
Goliath's dhreadful fate. 



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Special prices given on Studebaker and 
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Studebaker Buggies, all styles, Studebaker 
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Buckeye Force Pumps. Porce- 
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Superior Grain and Fertilizer 
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Successors to 

CHAS. E. HUNTER, 



m i in si, 



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547 



A. C. SINTON. President. 



R. R. GWATHMEY, Vice-President, 
* J» J« J» * 



J. J. SUTTON, Secretary, 



ESTABLISHED 1840. 




The WATT PLOW CO., 

15th & Franklin and 14th & Main Sis., Richmond, Va. 

Agricultural Implements, 
Machinery, Vehicles and 
Harness. •* *$ ** *$ 



INCORPORATED 1893. 



PEERLESS ENGINE. 



HOCKING VALLEY FEED CUTTER. 



DAIN CORN CUTTER. 



SECTION OF WIRE FENCE. 





WATT PLOW 






SECTION OF WIRE FENCE. 



A full stock always on hand, and 
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Plows and repairs. The Hancock Ro- 
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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 from 150 to 200 
bales a day. The well known Minnich 
Brand Baling Preses. 

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- 
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The celebrated Columbus. Ohio, Bug- 
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Farm Wagons and Delivery Wagons, 
a complete stock. 

Correspondence solicited. 



IP 

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[August 




Seed House of the South. 



The following list of papers and periodicals 
are the most popular ones In this section. 
We can SAVE YOU MONEY on whatever 
Journal you wish. 

DAILIES. 

Price. With 
Alone. Planter. 

Tlmes-Dlspatch, 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 (thrlce-a-week), N. Y.... 1 00 1 25 

WEEKLIES. 

Harper's Weekly 4 00 

Harper'3 Bazaar 100 

Montgomery Advertiser 100 

Nashville American 50 

The Baltimore Sun 1 00 

Breeder's Gazette 2 00 

Hoard's Dairyman 1 00 

Country Gentleman 150 

Central Presbyterian, " " .... 2 00 

Religious Herald, Richmond, Va 2 00 

Times-Dispatch, Richmond, Va 1 00 

Christian Advocate, " " 1 50 

Horseman 3 00 

SEMI-MONTHLIES. 

Wool Markets and Sheep 50 

Dairy and Creamery 50 

Commercial Poultry 50 

All three 1 50 



4 00 
1 40 
1 00 
75 
1 35 
1 75 
1 35 

1 75 

2 25 

2 25 
1 25 
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3 00 



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1 15 




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TALL MEADOW 

OAT GRASS, 

JOHNSON 

GRASS, 

GERHAN 

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BUCKWHEAT, 

OATS and 

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North American Review 5 00 5 00 

The Century Magazine 4 00 4 25 

St. Nicholas Magazine 3 00 3 25 

Lippincott's Magazine 2 50 2 50 

Harper's Magazine 4 00 4 00 

Forum Magazine 3 00 3 25 

Scribner's Magazine 3 00 3 25 

Prank Leslies Magazine 1 00 1 35 

Cosmopolitan Magazine 100 135 

Everybody's Magazine 100 135 

Munsey Magazine 100 135 

Strand Magazine 1 25 1 65 

McClure's Magazine '. 100 135 

Argosy Magazine 100 135 

Review of Reviews 2 50 2 75 

Successful Farming 1 00 75 

Bouthern Fruit Grower 50 85 

Where you desire to subscribe to two or 
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 
one year from date of expiration of their 
subscription to either the PLANTER or any 
of 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 
periodical! 



"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. 
.*• £f &■ WE ALSO SELL 

Our Own Brands of Fertilizers 

For Tobacco, Corn, Wheat, Potatoes, &c. 

Pure Raw-Bcne 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. 

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\i~> i- *' 



Headquartersfor 
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We make a specialty of handling dealers' orders. 
ALL STOCK TRUE TO NAME. 

Pecans, Ornamental and 

Chestnuts, Shade Trees, 

Walnuts. Evergreens, 

Small Fruits, Roses, Etc. 



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Almonds, 



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. AGENTS WANTED. 

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Baltimore, Md. 






1903.] 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



549 



THE CLOCK STRUCK ONE. 

The head of the family, with his be- 
loved sweetbriar and his favorite mag- 
azine, had settled back in the rocker 
for a quiet, comfortable evening. 

On the other side of an intervening 
table was the miniature counterpart of 
himself, the wrinkling of whose 8-year- 
old forehead indicated that he was 
mentally wrestling with some perplex- 
ing problem. After a while he looked 
towards his comfort-loving parent and, 
with a hopeless inflection, asked: 

"Pa?" 

"Yes, son." 

"Can the Lord make everything? " 

"Yes, my boy." 

'Every thing?" 

"There is nothing, my son, that He 
cannot do?" 

"Papa, could He make a clock that 
would strike less than one?" 

"Now, Johnny, go right upstairs to 
your ma, and don't stop down here to 
annoy me when I'm reading." 

Johnny went and wondered still. — 
August Lippincott's. 



SARAH'S GLOVES. 

A family in the South had a coal- 
black cook named Sarah, whose hus- 
band was suddenly killed in a quarry 
accident. For the time being her grief 
was allayed by the preparations for 
an elaborate funeral, and on the day 
of this event, so dear to negroes who 
desire to show their importance, she 
appeared before her mistress in deep- 
est black, but on her hands were a 
pair of white gloves, such as soldiers 
wear at dress parade and guard 
mount. 

"Why, Aunty," exclaimed her mis- 
tress, "what made you get white 
gloves?" 

Sarah drew herself up indignantly 
and said in the chilliest of tones, 
"Don't you suppose I wants dem 
niggahs to see dat I'se got on gloves?" 
— August Lippincott's. 



FORGOT SOMETHING. 

It was in a western hotel, and a girl 
of sweet sixteen had left the table, at 
which her parents were still seated, 
and had gone the entire length of the 
dining-room, when she paused in the 
doorway and her fresh young voice cut 
the air with the word — 

"Maw!" 

"Well?" replied her "maw," shrilly. 

"I forgot my gum. Fetch it when 
you come upstairs. It's stuck under 
the table right underneath my plate. 
I'll want it for the m&tinay this after- 
noon, you know." — August Lippin- 
cott's. 



CREAM TO BURN. 

Two little girls were engaged in an 
animated discussion as to the merits 
of their respective homes. 

"Well, anyway," said one little 
maiden in a triumphant tone, "you 
may have more bedrooms than we 



have, but we have more cream than 
you do. We have enough for our 
cereal every single morning." 

"Pooh!" said the other, "that's no- 
thing. We own a Jersey cow, and we 
get a whole cowful of cream twice 
every day." — August Lippincott's. 



A TUNNEL THAT HELPS TO DIG 
ITSELF. 
In the new Simplon tunnel under 
the Alps, which will be by far the 
greatest tunnel in the world, having a 
length of fourteen miles, and which, 
it is now reported, will be completed 
in July, 1905, the quantity of water 
flowing out of the southern end, from 
the many veins encountered in the 
heart of the mountain, amounts to 
fifteen thousand gallons a minute, and 
furnishes sufficient power to compress 
the air by which the drills are worked, 
and to refrigerate the tunnel. The ne- 
cessity of refrigeration may be judged 
from the fact that the heat in the 
deeper parts of the tunnel rises as high 
as one hundred and forty degrees Fahr. 
when not ■ artificially reduced. Life 
would be impossible in the tunnel if a 
successful system of refrigeration had 
not been devised. When a continuous 
hole through the mountain has been 
made, the temperature can more easily 
be kept down. — Youth's Companion. 



Mrs. Brown (nudging Mr. Brown, 
who snores with his mouth open) — 
William, you'd make less noise if you'd 
keep your mouth shut! 

Mr. Brown (only half awake) — So'd 
you! — Life. 



FOR SALE.— A McCORMICK 
Corn Binder and a Hawkeye 
Stump Puller. All in perfect 
condition. W. E. THOMAS, 
Nassawadox, Va. 

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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[August 



THE PLAN WAS SUCCESSFUL. 
There are many ways of fixing a mis- 
demeanor upon the person who has 
committed it. It is commonly thought 
that lawyers, and not clergymen, are 
the men most competent for this prac- 
tice, but the following story leaves one 
feeling that the honors may be equal: 

"Last Sunday," said the clergyman 
to his congregation, "some one put a 
button in the collection basket. I won't 
mention names; I will merely say that 
only one individual in the congregation 
could have done so, and after the ser- 
vice I shall expect the same member 
to replace the button with a coin." 

After church a well-to-do but close- 
fisted individual, sought an interview 
with the clergyman in the vestry. 

"I — er," he began, "must apologize, 
sir, for the — er — button, which, I can 
assure you, was quite an accident. I 
happened to have the button in my 
coat pocket, together with a quarter, 
and took out the former by mistake. 
However, sir, here is the quarter." 

"Thank you," said the clergyman, 
taking the quarter, and gravely hand- 
ing him the button. 

"By the way, sir," said the man, "I 
cannot understand how you could have 
known that it was I who — er — commit- 
ted the — er — much-to-be-regretted mis- 
take." 

"I didn't know," replied the clergy- I 
man. ! 



"Didn't know! But you said, sir, 
that only one individual in the congre- 
gation could have done it." 

"Just so. You see, sir, it is scarcely 
possible that two individuals could 
have put one button in the basket; is 
it, not?" asked the clergyman, with a 
bland smile. 

It was so much easier for the button 
contributor to say "good-day" than to 
answer this puzzling question that he 
made his bow at once. — Western Chris- 
tian Advocate. 



SHORTAGE IN WOOL PRODUCTION. 

The following from the American 
Wool and Cotton Reporter seems to 
emphasize the value of opportunities 
at the present time for engaging in the 
wool and sheep business in the South: 

"There will be an appreciable short- 
age * * * The decrease is caused 
by the extensive winter losses on the 
ranges and elsewhere, due to the se- 
vere storms and by the extended 
slaughtering of sheep in a number of 
sections * * * The president of 
the Montana Board of Sheep Commis- 
sioners estimates the winter losses in 
that State at 1,500,000 head, or about 
10,000,000 pounds (of wool). Wyo- 
ming's losses are placed at 1,000,000 
head, or about 7,500,000 pounds (of 
wool). The Utah clip may be 3,000- 
000 pounds short (indicating a loss 
of about 400,000 head). From Wash- 



ington and Idaho there are reports of 
losses also." 

If winter storms in the West, after 
decimating the flocks to the extent of 
4,600,000 sheep, and curtailing the wool 
productions to the amount of 35,000,- 
000 pounds, do not destroy the attrac- 
tions of sheep husbandry in the colder 
sections there ought to be no trouble 
about making the business pay in the 
South, where these serious drawbacks 
do not exist. 

No better demonstrations of the suc- 
cess of this business throughout the 
South are desired than those which are 
daily being brought to public attention, 
but the number of such examples 
should be vastly increased. 

MARK TWAIN'S MEMORY. 
I remember the day I was born. It 
was bitter cold. I came into the world 
without clothes. I was astonished. I 
spoke of it to my parents. They had 
no explanation when taken so sud- 
denly, except the old excuse that it 
was customary. What was custom to 
me at that age? All you care then is 
how you look. I never felt so embar- 
rassed in all my life. — Mark Twain. 



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Fine young Jack, sure foal getter, and his colts are good 
ones. Will be priced right to party meaning business. 
Address, 

WHITNEY B. DAVIE, 



WHITNEY STOCK FARM, 



RICHMOND, V*. 



— FOR SALE — 

Featherbone, a richly coated dark bay or brown colt, 
foaled May 27, 1902. Sired by Whalebone, 7872, dam 
Alcyrene, 2:271, trial, 2: 19 \, by Alcyone, 2:27; second dam 
Bessie Oliver, by Kearsarge, the son of "Volunteer and 
famous Clara, dam of Dexter, 2: 17 J, and Dictator; third 
dam Jessie, by Volunteer, and back of tha't the golden blood 
of Mambrino Chief. This colt is inbred to George Wilkes, 
his sire and dam being grandson and granddaughter, re- 
spectively, of that world famous progenitor of race horse 
quality and speed. Alcyone got McKinney, 2:11J, the great 
sire of race winners that sold for $25,000 in 1902, and nearly 
paid for himself that season in stud fees. This colt is 
high class individually, and partakes of the beauty of form 
and finish so often seen in his family. Price, $125, which 
is far less than his real value. Address 



W. d CARTER, 



V. O. BOX 929 



RICHMOND, VA. 



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. 
Spokts of the Times, New York. 
Kentucky Stock Farm, Lexington, Ky. 
Breeder and Sportsman, San Francisco, Cal. 



WHALEBONE, 7872. 

Sired by Abdallah Wilkes, son of George Wilkes, 2.22. 

dam Maggie O., by Abdallah, 15, sire of Goldsmith Maid, 

2.14; second dam Viley Filly, by Pilot, Jr., sire of dam of 
Maud S., 2.085. 

Note.— Whalebone is a richly colored bay horse of fine 
size, handsome and well formed. His disposition is perfect. 
He has sired Visitor, 2.26J, and other winners. 

FEE, $15, with usual return privilege. 
Address W. J. CARTER, 

P. O. BOX 929, RICHMOND, VA. 



1903.] 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



55 i 



MEASURING CORN. 
Two cubic feet of sound, dry corn in 
the ear will make a bushel shelled. 
Then to determine the number of 
bushels in the crib, multiply the length 
by the breadth, and the product by the 
height of the corn in the corn crib; 
divide the product by two, and the re- 
sult will be the number of bushels of 
shelled corn in the crib. To measure 
corn in the husk, fill a barrel full — the 
larger the barrel the better (say one 
that would hold four bushels of ap- 
ples). Husk the corn and weigh it. 
Allow 70 pounds of corn in the ear 
when it is dry, for a bushel of shelled 
corn. Then the unhusked corn may be 
measured in the barrel, keeping tally 
of the barrels: multiply the number of 
barrels by the amount of corn which 
the first barrel contained. We know 
of no accurate rule for determining the 
number of cubic feet necessary to con- 
tain a bushel of corn with husks on. 
Of course you could determine the 
number of cubic feet in the barrel, or 
you could use a box of a given number 
of cubic feet, fill it with unhusked corn, 
husk it, and divide by 70 to get the 
number of bushels of shelled corn. 
You would then have a unit for deter- 
mining in the crib the number of 
bushels of shelled corn. This might 



be quite as accurate as the other 
method. 



PERHAPS. 
Bishop Potter is amusing his friends 
with an account of a recent visit he 
paid to a Sunday school class in New 
York, presided over by a staid young 
clergyman. The Bishop was asked to 
question the children, so that he might 
be edified by their knowledge of mat- 
ters Biblical. As a starter, he said to 
a little girl whose face beamed with in- 
telligence: "Who were the foolish vir- 
gins, my dear?" "Them as didn't get 
married!" was the prompt and em- 
phatic answer. 



Education's a good deal like eating — 
a fellow can't always tell which par- 
ticular thing did him good, but he can 
usually tell which- one did him harm. 
After a square meal of roast beef and 
vegetables, and mince pie and water- 
melons, you can't say just which in- 
gredient is going into muscle, but you 
don't have to be very bright to figure 
out which one started the demand for 
pain-killer in your insides, or to guess 
next morning which one made you be- 
lieve in a personal devil the night be- 
fore. And so, while a fellow can c 
figure out to an ounce whether it's 
Latin or algebra or history or what 



among the solids that is building him 
up in this place or that, he can go right 
along feeding them in and betting that 
they're not the things that turn his 
tongue fuzzy. It's down among the 
sweets, among his amusements and 
recreations, that he's going to find his 
stomach ache, and it's there that he 
wants to go slow and to pick and 
choose. 



A solid ton of ice contains about 36 
cubic feet. Multiply together the 
length, breadth and height of your ice 
house in feet (allowing for space occu- 
pied by sawdust), and divide the pro- 
duct by 36, and the result will be the 
number of tons capacity. Allowance 
for ice in bulk would be very variable, 
depending on the accuracy with which 
it is cut and piled. If it could be 
weighed beforehand in loads, like hay, 
a more exact result would be reached, 
but with some trouble. A leading ice 
company estimates a cubic foot of ice 
to weigh 56 pounds, providing it is all 
water ice. After the house is filled 
they measure up, and allow 45 cubic 
feet to the ton. Their ice is cut 22 by 
32 inches, and a space of four inches is 
left on the long way. Shrinkage in the 
course of the season average 50 per 
cent. In a small house it might be 60 
per cent. 



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PROOF BEARING BOXES, FLEX- 
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GRAIN AND FERTILIZER DRILLS, with Disc or Hoes. For Grain, Corn, Peas and Fertilizers, accurate work 
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THE GARDNER PEA HULLER. Does not break peas and will not choke. Guaranteed to give satisfaction. 

THE IMPERIAL ONE-HORSE WAGONS. Steel Axle and Thimble Skein. Built of best material and fully guar- 
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THE AMERICAN FIELD FENCING Is made in many heights and styles for 
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The Ohio Feed and Ensil- 
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With its BALL BEARINGS, PIVOT TONGUE, 
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