Established 1840. 



THE 



Sixty-Fifth Year. 



Southern Planter 

A MONTHLY JOURNAL 

DEVOTED TO 

Practical and Progressive Agriculture, Horticulture, 
Trucking, Live Stock and the Fireside. 

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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER PUBLISHING COMPANY, - - 

J. F. JACKSON, Editor and General Manager. 



Vol. 65. 



FEBRUARY, 1904. 



Proprietors. 



No. 2. 



CONTENTS. 



FARM MANAGEMENT : 



Editorial— Work for the Month 77 

79 
Substitute for Cutting Box 

Of) 

Points to be Observed 

81 
Raising Alfalfa 

Improving Eastern Virginia Lands 82 

Tile Draining 

Enquirer's Column (Detail Index, page 109).. 83 

TRUCKING, GARDEN AND ORCHARD: 

Editorial— Work for the Month 91 

Pecan Tree Not Bearing Nuts 92 

Pruning and Training Fruit Trees 



Polled Angus Cattle— Texas Fevei Ticks 98 

The Large Versus the Small Dairy Cow 99 

Molasses for Hogs 

Virginia Veterinary Medical Association 100 

Milk Records for 1903 



100 



THE POULTRY YARD: 

Raising Chickens by Natural Means. 



101 



The New York Co-Operative Egg-Producing Ex 

periments 

Ducks and Winter Laying 

Potato Fertilizer— Chemical Fertilizers 102 



102 
102 



Trucking 

The Lime-Sulphur Wash for San Jose Scale. 

LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY: 



1 

., 94 
TO , 



THE HORSE: 

Notes 



103 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



An Experiment with Aberdeen Angus Steers. 

95 
Hog Raising in the South 

Herefords at the International Stock Show. . . . 97 



7 ^' //tr - --Agricultural Teachers and Writers— 

' ' [0 °O Dr. W. C. Stubbs 105 

An Irish Potato Digger 10j» 

North Garden Farmers' Club _ 

Editorial— Country Life vs. City Life iu< 



95 



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DEVOTED TO 



PRACTICAL AND PROGRESSIVE AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, 
TRUCKING, LIVE STOCK AND THE FIRESIDE. 



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65th Year. 



Richmond, February, 1904. 



No. 2. 



Farm Management. 



WORK FOR THE MONTH. 

We had hoped that hefore we were called upon to 
write our usual article on Work for the month for our 
February issue that weather conditions would in the 
South have returned to something like normal con- 
ditions but in this we have been disappointed. For 
now more than two montli3 the land has been locked 
in icy embrace and the indications still are as un- 
promising for a change as they were at the start. For 
once our agricultural situation is practically the 
same as that of the farmer at the North. Never since 
the weather records have been systematically kepc 
has the South had such a long continued spell of win- 
ter weather. The mean average temperature for the 
month of December was nearly G degrees below the 
normal for that month and so far January has been 
more severe than December. The result of this is 
that all work on the land has been brought to a stand- 
still for a longer time than we have ever known, and 
with the scarcity of labor which is common through- 
out the South, much incom r enience is going to be 
caused, and it will be difficult for the usual areas of 
crops to be planted. Work will have to be rushed all 
through the planting season and doubtless much of 
the crop will be planted in poorly prepared seed beds 
with a consequent probability of small yields. This 
is a very discouraging outlook but even that does not 
cover all the probable loss. Wheat, winter oats and 
grass seeded in the fall arc sure to have suffered 
severely as there ha? been little snow anywhere South 
to protect the plants. Possibly this may not turn out 



as disastrous as we fenr from the fact that the land 
was very dry at the time when the frost set in and 
there has been but very little thawing at any timo 
during the winter, hence the land has not heaved as 
it would have done had it been full of water when 
first frozen. Usually this is the case and the heav- 
ing of the land when thawing breaks the roots and 
•loes much of the damage which follows. We trust 
this may turn out to be the case. If not it is possible 
that much of the fall seeding will have to be done over 
again and thus add to the press of work in the spring. 
Wherever land was plowed previous to the commence- 
ment of the frost it will be in fine condition for seed- 
ing without much labor as the frost will have so disin- 
tegrated it as to make it fall into a fine seed bed with 
a touch of the harrow. The Southern farmer has, how- 
ever, one source of comfort denied to his Northern 
brother. The sun in February has a power which it 
does not acquire in the North until several months 
later and if we only once get rid of the cold icy 
blasts from the Northwest it will not take long to 
thaw out the land and permit of the beginning of 
work. When this happens not a moment of timo 
should be lost in setting the teams to work and fitting 
ihe land for seeding oats. We have never been advo- 
cates for spring sown oats in the South as they rarely 
make a profitable crop but in a season like this Avith 
the probability of disaster to the fall sown crop and 
extra land to put in crop in a curtailed planting sea- 
son, it may well be' politic to sow oats in the spring 
and thus get some of the land out of the way and pro- 



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ducing sometliing. If the crop can be seeded in Febru- 
ary we would sow Virginia grey winter oats, but if 
not ready to seed until March, and we would not sow 
later than March, we would then sow Rust proof oats. 
It will pay to prepare the land well for oats and not 
merely to sow them on the top and plow them down as 
is too often done. Where the land is not in a fertile 
condition they should also have the help of some acid 
phosphate, say 250 or 300 pounds to the acre and 
when they commence to grow freely a top dressing 
of 100 pounds of nitrate of soda to the acre will help 
them wonderfully. The oat crop in Virginia last 
year was grown on 200,529 acres and the average 
yield was only 13 bushels to the acre or little more 
than one-half of the average for the whole coimtry. 
This ought to be improved upon and can be if onlv 
our advice is followed and a fair season follows. 



Canada peas and oats may be seeded for a grazing 
and forage crop as soon as ever the land can be got 
ready but should not be seeded later than March, 39 
this is essentially a cool weather crop and should be 
off the ground before the hot weather comes or it will 
be worth little for either purpose. The peas mildew 
as soon as ever the hot weather sets in. The land for 
this crop should be well prepared and the peas at the 
rate of l£ or 2 bushels to the acre be seeded first and 
be either drilled deep or be plowed down or be worked 
in with a disc cultivator so as to give them a cover of 
5 or G inches. The oats, three-fourths of a bushel to 
the acre, should then be sown on the land and be cov- 
ered with a harrow. This ci'op makes one of the best 
early grazing crops for hogs and if not wanted for 
this purpose makes fine hay and comes off the land 
soon enough to be followed by peas or corn or another 
forage crop. A dressing of 250 or 300 pounds of acid 
phosphate to the acre will help the crop considerably 
and usually pays well. 



Dwarf Essex Rape may be sowed this month and 
in March for a grazing crop for bogs, sheep or young 
cattle. Plow and make the land fine and sow either 
broadcast or in drills 2 feet apart. Three pounds 
of seed will be sufficient for an acre sowed in drill. 
Five should be seeded broadcast. This crop can only 
be used as green feed. It cannot be cured for winter 
use. The crop can be followed by a pea or corn crop 
the same season as it will not stand through the hot 
weather. 



It is too early to sow any other crops than those 
above mentioned and therefore all the time available 
after these are seeded should be given to preparing the 



land for other spring sown crops. All recent investiga- 
tions and experiments go to support the position wo 
have long taken up, that perfect preparation of the 
land before seeding the crop has more influence on 
the yield than the fertilizer used. The latest investiga- 
tions by the experts of the Department of Agriculture 
go to prove that there is in all land, except the most 
barren, more than sufficient mineral plant food to pro- 
duce paying crops for years to come and that the prob- 
lem to be solved is how to make this available. It is 
not more mineral plant food that is needed but such a 
physical and mechanical condition of the soil as will 
result in the holding of such a moisture content as will 
dissolve this food and thus render it available. This 
can only be brought about by deep plowing, sub-soil- 
ing and cultivating the land so as to reduce it to the 
finest consistency and the greatest depth of soil and 
the filling this with vegetable matter which will hold 
the moisture and make the soil fitted for the habita- 
tion and working of the soil microbes upon which the 
availability of the plant food mainly depends. Al- 
ready some few of the most successful farmers in the 
South have demonstrated the truth of these positions, 
and have either altogether abandoned the use of com- 
mercial fertilizers or still use only the particular ele- 
ment of plant food which they have by experiment 
and experience proved to be lacking in their soil. 
We know of one farmer farming over 1,500 acres of 
land who has never used an ounce of commercial 
fertilizer in his life, and yet he makes some of the 
heaviest crops of any farmer in the South, and does 
this with the greatest profit. The farm on which he 
accomplishes this was twenty years ago as poor a one 
as could be found in the section in which it is located. 
The whole improvement has been made by deep plow- 
ing, perfect cultivation, the growth of leguminous 
crops, and the application of the farm yard manure 
made by a large head of stock. These methods have 
put the land into fine physical and mechanical con- 
dition, and filled it with the soil microbes essential 
to successful crop production. The yields so pro- 
duced are converted largely into beef, pork, milk and 
ether concentrated products, or when in excess of the 
necessity of the place, are sold on the markets in the 
form produced, and the resulting cash comes back 
to the farm without a fertilizer bill to pay out of it 
What one man has done all may do, though we fully 
realize that on many, probably most, farms, the use of 
one or more of the elements of plant food may often 
be found both useful and profitable, but the use of 
factory mixed commercial fertilizers we most unhesi- 
tatingly say is unwise and has never received any en- 
couragement in this journal. The farmers of the 



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South throw millions of dollars away every year in 
the use of these mixed goods. Eind out what element 
of plant food your soil needs hy asking it the question 
in a experiment on a series of small plots, giving to 
one plot one element and to the others others, either 
singly or in combination and giving to another plot 
nothing but deep and perfect cultivation. In this 
way you will know what, if anything, needs to be sup- 
plied, and then buy that only, and save hundreds of 
dollars now going to the fertilizer makers for some- 
thing you do not need. Our own personal expe- 
rience has been always on this line. We never bought 
a factory mixed fertilizer in our life, and we never 
advise one. Bo not wait until you are just ready to 
use- the fertilizer before ordering it. You ought to 
have so laid out your system of rotation and crops 
for this season that you know now what fertilizer, if 
any, you will need. Order at once and then you will 
have it when vou Avant to use it. 



If after the frost goes some of the wheat and winter 
oat fields are found to be so badly injured as not to be 
likely to produce a paying crop instead of seeding 
them with spring oats break wth a disc harrow or 
cultivator and make into a fine seed bed and sow grass 
ami clover or grass alone on such part of the land as 
was enriched with fertilizer for the failed crops. 
xMthough we are not advocates for the spring seeding 
of grass usually, yet we think that in such a season as 
this, where disaster in many cases must necessarily 
have overtaken the fall sown crop, such a departure 
is justified, and if the season be at all a normal one 
will, if sown without a grain crop, in all probability 
make a stand, which will supply the place of the killed 
fall sown one. We have had recently a considerable 
number of letters from subscribers in different parts 
of this State and from adjoining States, approving 
our often expressed advice to sow grass without a 
nurse crop, experience having resulted in complete 
success where the old practice had too often resulted 
in failure. Grass may be seeded in the spring at any 
time up to the end of March. On the land not fitted 
to produce a grass stand, work with the disc harrow or 
cultivator and make fine and sow on part Hairy Vetch 
and oats for green forage or hay, and on other part 
rape (Dwarf Essex) for grazing for the hogs and 
young cattle. Hairy Vetch is best seeded in the fall,, 
but we have known a good crop made seeded in the 
spring. These crops may be seeded from Eebruary 
to the end of March, but it will be useless to sow 
them later with any certainty of success. 



soon as ever the weather will allow of this bein§ 
done. We expect to see a large reduction in the area 
of tobacco grown in North and South Carolina in con- ' 
sequence of the high price and prospective high price 
of cotton. This should lead our growers in this State 
to plant more liberally as the price of the crop cannot 
fail, if the quality be good, to be favorably affected- 
Get seed of a good type like the Orinoco and Pryor 
varieties wherever the land is suited to these types, 
and in the dark shipping sections sow the seed of 
heavy broad leaved types, and not the long, narrow 
One sucker variety. 



In the cotton sections we would urge that oud 
friends should not lose their heads because cotton is 
now so high, and plant nothing but cotton. Make 
plenty of cotton, but do not fail at the same time to 
make provision for raising all necessary home sup- 
plies, and do not slip back into the old rut of growing 
cotton to buy home supplies with. Let the cotton be 
a surplus crop, and then it cannot fail to be a profit- 
able one. A slipping back into the old rut means 
sooner or later bondage to the storekeeper and land 
running back into poverty again.. Maintain and en- 
hance the fertility of the land by growing peas and 
other forage crops, and keeping stock, and then the 
yield of the cotton crop will also be enhanced, and a 
bale to the acre will be made for less than the cost of 
the present average yield. Read what we have said 
as to the preparation of the land and the use of mixed 
commercial fertilizer, and act upon the advice given. 
It will pay the cotton planter to do so as well as the 
general farmer. 



Make out orders for seeds required and send them 
to the dealers at once, and thus be certain to have your 
seed when you need it. Test a small sample of each 
seed bought, and thus be certain that you have some 
knowledge of what proportion of the seed will germi- 
nate, and thus have a guide in seeding. Place the 
sample to be tested on a piece of damp flannel in a 
saucer in a moderately warm place and cover with 
another piece of damp flannel, and the seeds will soon 
show what proportion will germinate. 



Tobacco plant beds should be burnt and seeded as 



SUBSTITUTE FOR CUTTING BOX. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

It may interest any one whose cutting box is broken 
to know that corn fodder can be rapidly cut with an 
ordinary buck saw and horse as stove wood is pre- 
pared. Place a bundle of fodder in the horse, hold it 



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[February 



with one knee and cut into any length, faster than a 
cutting- box with lever power. 

Montgomery Co., Md. Otis Ercrxow. 

The revolving cutter is now so cheap that no one 
havinc; a few head of live stock oueht to waste time 
with the old lever cutting box, or a buck saw. — Ed. 



POINTS TO BE OBSERVED. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

TIow to obtain the largest net return is of all ques- 
tions the most important in farm management. In 
the solution of this problem the farmer has others to 
settle — namely which crops to produce and what fer- 
tilizers to use in order to produce them. Soil, cli- 
mate, geographical position, markets, transportation 
facilities, labor, political and social conditions must 
all be considered before these questions can be in- 
telligibly answered. 

In the laboratory, where chemical and physical 
researches are conducted, all conditions that can pos- 
sibly influence results are under control or can be 
definitely determined, and experiments can therefore 
be conducted with all the accuracy demanded in the 
strict methods of scientific investigation. 

On the other hand, in the experiments with field 
crops, we have to deal with living organisms, which, 
in the activity of their growth and development are 
influenced by any slight changes in their environ- 
ments. Changes in location, soil and culture all have 
a corresponding effect on plant production. 

The careful work that is done at experiment sta- 
tions and on experiment farms is useful mainly for 
the study and definition of scientific principles, and 
is thus of great value and importance as a source of 
general information. The practical application, how- 
ever, in individual 'cases should depend on home ex- 
periments. TIcre the results obtained under the ex- 
isting conditions will be more definite and of far 
greater specific value than those arrived at under 
other influences. 

An experiment which would pay every farmer to 
make, Avhether he farms on a large or small scale, is 
that of testing the improved varieties of the different 
agricultural plants which are being constantly put on 
the market. l\Iany of them possess real merit, but 
just Or. with the different breeds of animals, they are 
not all adapted to the same section. Some of them 
which on one farm would greatly increase the profits 
over an old or another variety, might on another 
farm, only a few miles away, be a failure. The 
writer has had an experience of just this kind with 



tobacco. On one farm a particular variety was 
grown very successfully, while only four miles away 
it was impossible to grow this variety at anything 
but a loss, though here another sort was grown very 
profitably. Like instances, perhaps not so marked 
as this one, are known of other farm and garden 
plants. If the yield can be increased by changing 
the variety the gain is clear, since it costs as much 
to grow a poor sort as it does a good -one. 

The farmer cannot afford to risk his whole crop, or 
any large part of it, with a variety which he has not 
tried himself. Consequently he should plant each 
year a few plots to some new sorts. The extra cost 
and labor would amount to almost nothing, when com- 
pared to the profits and satisfaction of knowing and 
having the best. 

Some few fertilizer tests on the farm where fertil- 
izers are used would be very valuable as well as edu- 
cational. The different available elements of plant 
food found in the soil vary greatly in quantity ac- 
cording to location, formation and system of crop 
rotation. 

No farmer can use commercial fertilizers intelli- 
gently and economically until he knows just the kinds 
and amounts of plant food he must apply to his soil 
in order to produce the most paying crop. Whenever 
too much or too little of an ingredient, or one which is 
not needed is used, he loses eitltcr in direct cash or in 
his crop. There is no doubt that large amounts are 
annually lost in this manner. 

It seldom, if ever, pays to use one of the so-called 
complete fertilizers. It is much more economical to 
buy your ammonia or nitrate, phosphoric acid and 
potash, and apply them to the land cither separately 
or mix at home, than to pay a manufacturer several 
dollars per ton for mixing an article which may be out 
of all proportions to your needs, besides the extra 
freight and cost of handling a large amount of filler 
which is often used. 

All that is necessary for making some interesting 
and valuable tests are a few small plots of land, usu- 
ally of one-tenth or one-twentieth of an acre each laid 
out on an even, level portion of the field. These plots 
are all broken, seeded and tilled in precisely the same 
manner, but are treated differently as to application 
of plant food. Some of the plots receive no fertilizer, 
others one or two or all three of the plant food ingre- 
dients and in varying proportions. The crops from 
each plot are harvested separately, carefully weighed, 
and the quality noted. Thus, the results obtained 
from the various plots show the effectiveness of the 
different fertilizer combinations in producing yield 
and quality, and the man who tills the soil will know 



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exactly what his own particular soil needs in order to 
produce the best crops. 

Mkaoe Ferguson, 
Assistant Professor of Agriculture. 
Experiment Station, Blacksburg , Va. 



RAISING ALFALFA. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

A friend living in the West has written to me, stat- 
ing that a land agent had offered to sell him a farm at 
$10 per acre, and had told him that he could make 
$2,000 yearly from 50 acres of alfalfa. My friend 
"wants to know whether such profits are possible. 

In answer to this and many other inquiries I wish 
to say that the future success of such an enterprise de- 
pends upon several conditions. If it is intended to 
sell the hay at prices yielding $40 per acre revenue 
there must first be a convenient market for the hay. 
The price of hay depends partly upon local condi- 
tions, bnt is always influenced by the market prices in 
the nearer towns. If you live near a city like 
Richmond, for instance, hay will command a good 
price at all times, no matter whether the immediate 
neighborhood is in need of hay or not, because the 
city will consume the surplus and much more than 
will be raised for many year3. 

Perhaps more important even than a market is the 
condition of the soil. Alfalfa will not grow on wet, 
clammy land nor in poor sand or gravel. Properly 
cared for, alfalfa will yield large crops; improperly 
cared for, the profit will be small. 

Taking it for granted that the land offered for $10 
is of proper quality, the next question is: How many 
acres are cleared, free from brush, rocks, etc. If the 
farm consisted of 300 acres and only 100 acres were 
cleared and in good condition, our friend should 
charge the entire price of the farm to this one hun- 
dred acres, and every acre would then cost him $30 
instead of $10. lie might, perhaps, be able to sell 
the other 200 acres, and thus reduce the cost of the 
remainder. If he is going to farm, he will have no 
time to attend to cutting or selling wood, lumber, etc. 
He will have plenty to do to get his farm in order. 

If there is any ditching or laving of tile to be done, 
that would have to be added to the cost. And fencing 
will cost some money also. Another point to be con- 
sidered is the state of fertility of the soil. Some 
lands are poor, others in fair condition. It may 
easily take $10 per acre for fertilizer to make the 
poor land as fertile as the fairly rich soil. 

T.et us suppose that our friend has bought 100 acres 
<5f clear land suitable for alfalfa. If he sows a small 



patch, say 5 or 10 acres to alfalfa, he will have a nice 
iot of green feed and some excellent hay to feed his 
otock, and a few tons to sell, lint to make hay rais- 
ing a business requires doing things on a larger scale. 
And if he thinks to do the work of setting the land to 
alfalfa little by little from year to year he will get old 
and gray before he gets through, because fanning the 
other lands will keep him busy. Tie should put off 
buying stock and implements except what may be 
absolutely needed to work his alfalfa, and he should 
devote the first year entirely to that one crop. He cau 
better afford to buy feed for his teams than to post- 
pone working his alfalfa. Feed can be bought at all 
times, but well-set alfalfa fields are not for sale at any 
price. 

Alfalfa requires well prepared and Avell fertilized 
soil. Plow the land in the spring. Have the sub- 
soil plow follow the turning plow to loosen the soil 
deeply. Harrow immediately after plowing, unless 
too wet. Spread 20 bushels of lime and 300 to 500 
pounds of rock phosphate and some potassium chlo- 
ride, if the soil needs "potash." Harrow well and sow 
thickly to cow peas, but wait until the ground is warm 
enough. You can keep up plowing and subsoiling and 
sowing peas until June. 

In July begin plowing under the first sowed peas, 
Disk the land in half-lap every week until September, 
then spread again 20 bushels of lime and 500 to 1,000 
pounds rock phosphate and also some potassium 
chloride, if needed. If the disking has been properly 
done, the field should be free from weeds. Never 
plow the land shortly before sowing alfalfa. While 
alfalfa requires deeply stirred soil, the land must be 
well packed again by frequent working of the surface, 
and should be well settled. Harrow the land to a fine 
tilth and sow from 25 to 80 pounds of the best West- 
ern seed. If you have a press drill, 15 pounds of 
seed to the acre will do. If broadcasted, use a roller 
and follow Avith the smoothing harrow. Do not cover 
the seed too deeply, but be sure that all is covered. 
Infect the seed with alfalfa bacteria before sowing or 
infect the land. The bacteria will be furnished free 
by the Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. 
O., with instructions. 

Keep everything off the field during fall and win- 
ter, even dogs, for the young plants are very tender, 
and Avill surely die if stepped upon, and there is no 
way of filling the gap. 

Next spring and during summer mow the field 
every two weeks to kill the weeds. Leave the cutting 
on the field as a mulch, but never allow large lumps 
of hay or trash to lay nn the field. 

The following spring, if the land be dry, before the 



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alfalfa starts to crow, disk it lightly, setting the disks 
itraight, following with a smoothing harrow cross- 
ways to keep the land level. If the land be wet, keep 
the disk off. 

After harvesting the first crop, disk well, setting 
the disks to tear up the surface and to split the top 
roots. Follow again with the smoothing harrow. 
Disk and harrow again after each cutting not only 
to kill weeds and grasses, but also to provide a dust 
blanket to prevent the soil from drying out. Disk- 
ing, of course, is not advisable when the ground is 
wet or very moist. 

Each and every year supply the field with 10 to 15 
bushels of lime and 500 to 1,000 pounds of rock phos- 
phate and some potassium chloride, if the soil is in 
need of "potash." Stable manure can be used to bet- 
ter advantage on your corn field. 

Cut your alfalfa whenever the field is in full 
bloom, but don't wait until every plant blooms, be- 
cause the leaves will drop off too easily if alfalfa is 
permitted to bloom too long. The leaves are the best 
part of the hay, and great care is needed to prevent 
them from dropping when handling the hay. Cure 
the hay in small cocks like red clover. If the hay is 
ricked or stacked, put on covers. Xever allow alfalfa 
to grow to seed, as it will ruin the field. 

While alfalfa enriches the soil even more than 
clover, don't let anything tempt you to plow up au 
alfalfa field unless another has been set to take its 
place. Alfalfa will remain twenty and perhaps one! 
hundred years if properly cared for. Be on the look 
out for dodder. If any appears, pull it out or mow 
it before it goes to seed. It does not grow from 
roots. Don't allow broom straw to grow to seed near 
the alfalfa field. 

Of course, you can raise alfalfa without doing the 
work properly, but slip-shod work always produces 
poor crops. You may get some sort of a crop by 
using less fertilizer. That reminds me of an old 
German farmer. He was told that agricultural 
science was progressing in such a way that he would 
Boon he ahle to carry the fertilizer for an acre in his 
pocket. "Yes," he admitted, "and you can carry the 
crop home in the other pocket." Lands must be fed 
as well as animals. You know the fable of the man 
who loft his donkey to his six sons, to be used hy thorn 
alternately. The first son said to the donkey: "^ly 
brother will food you to-morrow. You can do one 
day without feed." But the second brother and the 
others thought likewise, and on the seventh day the 
donkev died. Too many Virginia farms are being 
treated like this poor donkey. 

If properly treated, alfalfa will yield from 4 to S, 



and even more, tons per acre every year. It will 
withstand drouth better than any other plant. If 
poorly treated the weeds will crowd out the alfalfa, 
and the crops will be poor. For the last eight years 
hay has never been long below from $12 to $15 per 
ton, often more. The cost of harvesting, if done with 
the aid of proper machinery, should not exceed $3 
per ton, including baling. And it is more than likely 
that the crop of any 100 acre field could be sold in 
almost any neighborhood without having to haul it. 
The cost of fertilizing and disking would prohably 
amount to $10 or $12 per acre every year. Does 
alfalfa pay? Try it. And, by the way, do you 
know of a well set alfalfa field in Virginia near a 
large city that could be bought, for $100 per acre or 
for $200 or for $'500 ? K 

Hanover Co., Va. 



IMPROVING EASTERN VIRGINIA LANDS. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

I have derired much pleasure and profit from read- 
ing your reminiscences of Mr. Edmund Iluffin and 
other agricultural writers in your January issue. I 
fear much of Eastern Virginia is yet in about the 
same fix as it was at the time Mr. Ruffin began his 
experiments to find out what ailed the soil of that 
part of the State. Much of our lands are so wanting 
in lime and humus as to be almost worthless. I have 
sought for the reason of this lack of lime. Some 
five or more years ago Tiichmond made her gas from 
coal, since then she has adopted water gas. The 
coal gas was passed through bodies of shell lime to 
purify it. This lime was made at the works. Since 
they have made water gas they have stopped making 
shell lime. The lime from the purifiers accumulated 
in large heaps, and was bought by farmers for half a 
cent a bushel. It was constantly hauled and spread 
upon our lands, and notwithstanding some deleterious 
matter, it did a world of good. It made the lands 
improve easily, converting the organic matter into 
plant food. In the absence of the lime clover does 
not set, the lands are getting poor and acid. We 
must go to work and feed the soil with crops of rye 
in the fall, followed by peas in the spring, and haul 
lime, if it does cost six or seven cents a bushel, and 
the hauling. It will be money well spent. Twenty 
or thirty bushels per acre will do wonders with plenty 
of vegetable matter in improving our worn out soils. 
Crops are bringing money to our farmers, and they 
must be up and doing, and help to make good the 
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crops. There is no use cultivating two acres to make 
what one will produce with a little help. 

E. Guy. 
Henrico Co., Va. 



TILE DRAINING. 



Editor Southern Planter. 

The soil of my farm is decomposed, rotten, Poto- 
mac rock, gneiss, schist, etc., which, under water, be- 
comes quick sand and compels in the laying of tile 
extraordinary care and accuracy. In ignorance of 
this fact, all my first laid tile ditches proved expen- 
sive failures, as they were put in as though my land 
was stiff Ohio clay, with which I was experienced. 
I found that I must ditch only when the ground was 
dry and solid in August, September and October; 
next, that the joints must be perfect, and when laid 
should be covered with paper or some such matter; 
and thirdly, the grade or slope must be accurate aud 
uniform. To secure the latter essential, I tried va- 
rious means without true success, until I adopted the 
following plan : 

"When the ditch has been dug to near its bottom, 
on each side, at its head and foot, stakes are driven, 
and to these boards are fastened with cheap quilting 
frame clamps, costing 10 cents each, the upper edges 
of the boards being seven feet above the tile bed or 
groove. Intermediate at intervals of from 50 to 75 
feet similar stakes are driven, to which boards are 
similarly fastened. By sighting over the tops of the 
end or guide boards, perfect grade is secured. Now, 
over all the boards a strong twine is drawn taut, 
which, of course, throughout its entire length is pre- 
cisely seven feet above the tile bed. The ditcher with 
a seven-foot measuring stick can bed his tile with 
perfect accuracy as to. grade or slope. No engineer 
with his instruments can get a truer tile bed than my 
colored ditcher with his stakes, boards and twine. 
Piunninrr Avafer has been recommended for finding bot- 
tom. This will do on stiff clay soil, but fails on my 
quicksand, for if the grade be, say 24 inches to the 
300 feet, water will run freely, though there be a 
bump in the bottom of the ditch 8 or 10 inches high. 

Any iregularity in the bottom of a quicksand tile 
ditch soon brings failure. Paper will last until the 
earth above the tile has firmly settled. The longer 
the twine the better. If the ditch be 500 feet long 
use a twine of that length, for then there can be no 
deviation from grade. P. S. Lacy. 

Alexandria Co., Va. 



ENQUIRER'S COLUMN. 



Enquiries should be sent to the office of TnE Sotttttehh 
Pt.anteh, Richmond, Va., not later than the 15th of the 
month for replies to appear in the next month's issue. 



Nitrate of Soda— Humus. 

Please inform me if there is any trouble or dan- 
ger in handling "nitrate of soda" and will it pay to 
put on wheat that is looking very bad. Also take pity 
on my ignorance and tell me what is "humus" and 
how may a person know when there is much in the 
land or otherwise. Mus. L. W. Couktney. 

Northumberland Co., Va. 

Nitrate of soda may be handled without any dan- 
ger. It is like coarse salt Do not, however, spread 
it on land where chickens or stock are feeding, or it 
will poison them. This, however, will only happen 
when they are on the land when it is sown. It is as 
soluble as salt, and will all have disappeared in 24 
hours if the weather be at all damp and in less time 
with rain. It will help the wheat wonderfully. Ap- 
ply 100 or 150 pounds to the acre just when the Avhcat 
begins to grow, not before, as the plant requires to be 
in an active condition, so that it can at ouce absorb 
it. Humus is simply decayed vegetable matter. You 
find it in all fertile soil, and is what our lands in the 
South need much more than fertilizer. Any vege- 
table matter makes humus as it decays. The darker 
the soil usually the more humus it contains. — Ed. 



Warts on Horses— Scratches. 

What will take a wart off a colt 1 This one is upon 
the head between the eyes. What is good ■ for the 
scratches ? Wm. II. Bag by. 

King and Queen Co., Va. 

If the wart is only small, clip it off with a pair of 
scissors and touch the place with bluestone to stop the 
bleeding. If the neck of the wart be very thick tie 
a fine silk thread round it and keep drawing tighter 
until the wart drops off or burn it off with bluestone 
or caustic. 

Eor scratches, give a laxative ball of 5 drams of 
aloes. Wash the legs well and wipe dry, and then 
apply vaseline 1 ounce, sugar of lead 1 dram, and 
carbolic acid 10 drops mixed together. — Ed. 



Silo Filling— Silage. 

1. In filling silo, what power is necessary to make 
reasonable progress in cutting and elevating, say 15 
feet ? 

2. Will the silage keep well in the South, and in 
case not all used, will it keep over summer for next 
winter ? 



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3. Will bamboos grow well in North Alabama ? 
What are the principle uses? What u known as to 
their value in the States? L. T. Ayres. 

Winnipeg, Canada. 

1. A 5 or G horse engine with cutter and blower is 
necessary to make good progress. 

2. Yes. 

3. '\Ye arc unable to give you definite information 
as to bamboos. Some of the varieties are said to be 
hardy as far north as Philadelphia. AVe believe the 
Department of Agriculture has published some mat- 
ter on this subject, but cannot put our hands on it. 
Write the Department at Washington. — Ed. 



Crops for Hogs. 

1. What can be grown in the spring of the year 
that will come in and make the earliest pasture for 
hogs ? 

2. Could you sow rape and oats together and after 
cutting the oats have the rape for hog pasture ? 

3. Would I get a stand of clover by sowing the 
three together, or could I sow rape and clover to- 
gether ? 

4. Can I get a stand of crimson clover and red 
clover together or would one smother the other out? 

5. Please give me what would be the best succes- 
sion of green crops for hogs during the summer, and 
which may be the best way to feed ; to cut and give to 
the hogs, or to turn the hogs in and let them eat them 
down. A New Enquirer. 

Albemarle Co., Va. 

1. Canada peas and oats sowed together, or rape 
will make the earliest pasture for hogs of anything 
that can be sowed in spring. Sow as soon as the 
weather will allow. In this issue will be found ad- 
vice as to these crops. 

2. Pape should be sown alone to make the best 
yield. You cannot sow rape and oats together and 
cut the oats for a crop. If sown together they will 
have to be pastured. 

3. No. 

4. We have known crimson and red clover sown 
together and make a success, but the crimson is very 
apt to kill out the red. 

5. To make a good succession of crops for hogs, 
work should begin in the fall by sowing crimson 
clover and oats and wheat together in one plot, and 
hairy vetch and oats and wheat in another. These 
ehenld be followed by rape in another plot sowed in 
February or March. Then should follow artichokes 
planted in March or April for winter feed. In May 
soy beans, cow pca3 and sorghum should be sowed, 
and in June corn and sorghum. These several crops 
will then come in in order to supply feed for the hogs 



the whole year. The hogs should graze all the crops 
except the sorghum and corn, which are better cut 
and fed to them. — Ed. 



Diseased Fowls. 

Will you kindly give me a remedy for my fowls? 
They have a disease something like the gapes. They 
are continually clearing their throats. 

Henrico Co., Va. A Subscriber. 

Your hens have got a slight attack of roup from 
sleeping in cold, drafty quarters. Catch those af- 
fected and confine them to themselves and wash out 
their nostrils and throats with comphorated oil or 
herosene and give them a small quinine pill each. 
Continue the treatment for a few days, when they 
should be all right. The disease is like an influenza 
oold, infectious. — Ed. 



English Blue Grass— Hungarian Brome Grass. 
Coculus Indicus. 

1. Owing to the cold dry fall and hard freezing 
weather we have had this winter I fear our fall seed- 
ing of grass has been killed. I wish to try sowing 
Randall or English blue grass on land I sowed in 
wheat last fall. The Breeder's Gazette recommends 
sowing blue grass in January and February on land 
that has been seeded to wheat. Please tell me if you 
think a stand of English blue grass can be gotten if 
seeded in these months ? 

2. Where can coculus indicus (fish berries) which 
you recommend for lice on cattle be bought ? 

3. Will Hungarian or Awnless brome grass come if 
sown on wheat land in this or next month ? 

Fluvanna Co., Va. J. S. Payne. 

1. All the grasses do better in the South seeded in 
the fall, but when fall seeding fails we should not 
hesitate to sow in the early spring. February and 
March are the best months. Harrow the wheat and 
ihen sow the grass seed, and if dry enough roll; if 
not, leave as harrowed. 

2. You can get the berries named at the drug stores. 

3. Hungarian Prome Grass has succeeded well in 
this State sown in the fall. Like all the other grasses, 
it does better and is more certain to make a stand sown 
alone, but will sometimes succeed with a grain crop. 
Sow in February or March as directed for Randall 
grass. — Ed. 



Sheep Pulling Wool— Lump on Cow's Jaw. 

1. What is the disease that causes sheep to bite at 
their wool, and pull it out? Please give remedy. 

2. I have a cow that has had a swelling or lump on 
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and burst sometimes. She keeps a good appetite, but 
she is losing flesh and seems to be on the decline. 
Please give me disease and remedy. 

Charlulle Co., Va. Surscrtrer. 

1. The sheep have lice on them, and should be dip- 
ped in one of the sheep dips, which you will find ad- 
vertised in our columns frequently during the year. 
Laidlaw, MqKill Co., of Kichmond, Va., make one 
of the best dips. 

2. The cow is very probably suffering from the 
disease called Actinomycosis. Iodide of potassium 
is the remedy for this. Give one and a half drams of 
the drug daily in one dose dissolved in a pint of water 
until improvement is noticed. Then decrease the 
dose to one dram. Usually in about ten days the 
disease is cured. — Ed. 



Devon Cattle- 
Would like to know through your paper your opin- 
ion of the Devon breed of cattle, also where they can 
be bought. E. J. Pannile. 

Henry Co., Va. 

The Devon breed of cattle whilst not now very 
popular, is a breed that has many points of excel- 
lence to recommend it for certain sections. It is a 
breed that will do better on thin, rough, stony high- 
lands than almost any other, as the cattle are easy 
keepers and very hardy. They make the finest of 
working steers, as they are more active than most 
cattle, and yet strong and wiry. The steers also make 
good beef, although they do not attain to a very heavy 
weight. They are also useful milch cows in such 
sections as we have indicated. ]\f. B. Bowe & Co., of 
Fredericksburg, Va., advertise them in our columns. 
—Ed. 



Utilizing Bones— Coffee Grounds —Soy Beans. 

1. What is the most practicable and economical 
way to utilize bones for fertilizer? 

2. Dave coffee grounds any value as a fertilizer? 

3. TIow do soja beans compare with cowpeas for 
broadcast sowing for improving the land and making 
hay ? I am well pleased with the soja bean as a culti- 
vated crop. The only drawback to the crop is the dif- 
ficulty in cutting them, as I have not been able to cut 
them with a mower, but have to use a stub scythe 

I regard Tue Planter as the standard of excel- 
lence in Southern agriculture, and look eagerly for 
its monthly visits. J. W. Bryan. 

Wayne Co., N. (7. 

1. Bones are difficult to utilize for fertilizer in any 
other way than by grinding them in a mill, and this 
requires much power. They may, however, grad- 
ually be made available by making a trench in clay 



ground and putting in a layer of the bones and then 
a layer of wood ashes until the trench is full, and then 
making them moist with water and keep them in thns 
condition until the}' become soft and so that they can 
be mixed with soil. 

2. We can find no analysis of coffee grounds. We 
do not suppose they have any fertilizing value other 
than as so much woody fibre, which, as it rots will 
add that much vegetable matter to the soil. 

3. Soy beans make an excellent hay crop but even 
for this purpose they make a better yield sown in 
drill wide enough apart to allow of being worked once 
or twice. They will then on land of fair fertility 
soon cover all the land. They may be cut with an 
old short bladed mower, cutting one row at a time. 
We know several growers who keep their oldest fash- 
ioned mower for this purpose. — Ed. 



Worms in Hogs. 

We have a number of enquiries as to what to give 
for worms in hojrs. Give half an ounce of turpentine 
for each hog in the feed every day for a week. — Ed. 



Broom Sedge in Orchard. 

I have a wine sap apple orchard which is badly 
taken with broom sedge, would it injure the trees to 
burn it? it. T. Massey. 

Westmoreland Co., Va. 

We would not advise burning broom sedge in an or- 
chard. It might result in serious injury to some of 
the trees. Plow the sod and keep the orchard in cul- 
tivation until July and then sow crimson clover and 
a few oats, say 12 pounds of crimson clover seed and 
three-fourths of a bushel of oats per acre. This will 
smother down all weeds and make a crop which will 
feed the trees. Let this crop die down on the land 
and then plow under, make fine, and seed to grass in 
August or September. — En. 



Draining Land. 

Will you kindly give me in the February issue of 
The Planter the cheapest and best mode of under- 
draining wet land. 1 have used chestnut poles cov- 
ered with strong chestnut plank which is convenient 
but muskrats can easily choke up a ditch or turn it 
when material of this kind is used. 

Nelson Co., Va. P. L. Camden. 

The only means of making a permanently good job 
of draining land is by the use of drain tile. These 
when properly laid with sufficient fall and good clear 
outlet will practically last forever and are rarely 
stopped up. The only thing which interferes with 
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deep enough and find their way through the joints 
and then increase in size until they stop the drain. 
The roots of willows are usually the worst for doing 
this. The cost of doing tile draining depends largely 
en the facility for getting the tiles. Unfortunately 
they are not made in many places in the South and 
hence are burdened with heavy freight charges. If 
tiles are to be had at a near point the cost should not 
exceed $20 per acre. — Ed. 



Improving Mountain Land for Orchards— Seeding to 
Grass. 

We have a mountain place some 1,800 feet eleva- 
tion in Northern Virginia on eastern slope of Blue 
Ridge, soil red clay intermixed with gravel, with con- 
siderable quantity of loose stone on surface, which we 
are clearing of the forest growth and planting to ap- 
ple and peach. We wish to keep up fertility without 
using commercial fertilizer and give good cultivation 
to the trees. Have tried cowpeas but they do not do 
very well, seems to be t oo cool for them. Corn ripens 
very slow and soft. The fodder makes good growth. 
Would Canada peas be likely to do better than cow- 
peas on this place ? Have a lot of some ten acres we 
wish to get in blue grass to pasture our mules and 
cows. Would it be well to sow this to Canada peas 
and oats this spring, and sow rye with blue grass in 
August or September? Subscriber. 

Rappahannock Co., Ya. 

The Canada Pea sown with oats will no doubt suit 
your conditions much better than the cowpea. Can- 
ada peas are natives of a cool climate and the difficulty 
we have in growing them successfully in the central 
plain and coast sections of the Southern States is oc- 
casioned by the great heat of the early summer. To 
grow them here they should be planted in January 
or February and be cut in May. In your mountain 
land you will grow them successfully sown in March 
or April and they may be either cut or grazed down. 
For your purpose of improving the land they should 
be grazed in the summer. Sow two bushels of peas 
and one bushel of oats per acre. 

We would sow the blue grass in August after the 
pea crop has been plowed down and the land been well 
prepared. Sow the grass alone or with a very light 
seeding of rye. We prefer sown alone. — Ed. 



Cross-breeding Sheep. 

I am a breeder of Shropshire sheep and find dif- 
ficulty in getting them to breed in time for early 
market lambs, and have been eontcmplatinc; purchas- 
ing some Dorsets to cross the Shropshire bucks with. 



Kindly tell me if the first cross could be used for 
early breeding with any success. 

Florence, Md. J. N". Warfiei/d, Jr. 

We do not advise the cross breeding of Shropshire* 
and Dorsets or indeed of any pure breeds. A cross 
of pure bred animals is always an uncertain factor. 
The prepotency of these pure bred animals is great 
and what the result of a cross under such circum- 
stances may be no one can tell. As both Shropshires 
and Dorsets are very prepotent it is especially uncer- 
tain what the result of a cross would be. We would 
prefer to use Dorset bucks on grade Merino ewes 
rather than on the Shropshires to get the rsults de- 
sired. We know this to be a success and the second 
and third cross will give sheep practically Dorsets in 
appearance and early breeding propensity. — Ed. 



Bermuda Onions. 

Can you give me any information in regard to the 
Bermuda onion ? 

1. How are they propagated, from seed or sets like 
the hill onion ? 

2. Can you tell me bow to plant and cultivate 
them. A Subscriber. 

Roanoke Co., Va. 

Bermuda onions like all the Spanish and Italian 
varieties are grown from seed which may be sowed 
either in the fall or spring. The most certain way 
is to sow the seed in a gentle hot bed and then when 
the plants are big enough to handle to set them out on 
'.he bed where they are to grow in rows Avide enough 
apart to allow of cultivation and about 4 or 5 inches 
opart in the row. When the plants are raised in the 
fall they should have the protection of a cold frame 
during the winter and should not be set out in spring 
until the weather becomes mild. — Ed. 



Cocke's Prolific Corn— Maize. 

Where can I get some Cockes Prolific Seed Corn 
and the price of it per bushel? Where can I get 
maize seed? T. L. Asiiburn. 

N orlhumherlcmd Co., Va. 

You will find Cockes Prolific Corn offered in our 
advertising columns and it can be had from T. W. 
Wood Sz Sons, Richmond, Va. Maize is simply the 
botanical name for corn. — Ed. 



Cocke's Prolific Corn— Lime— Earliana Tomato. 

1. Of whom can I get Cockes Prolific Corn, as I 
wish to plant some of it this year? I see it is highly 
recommended in Southern Planter. Of whom can 
T get the Spark's Earliana tomato seed? 

2. What is the difference in the agricultural 
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lime? I wish to lime about sixty acres this spring 
and I wish to use the kind of lime which is best, tak- 
ing into consideration the cost P. S. Simmons. 
Prince George Co., Va. 

1. You will find Cockes Prolific Corn and the Ear- 
liana Tomato advertised in this issue. 

2. There is no difference in the chemical composi- 
tion of rock lime and oyster shell lime. They are 
both carbonates of lime and either may be used with 
advantage. Lee's prepared lime is made from a 
private formula and we do not know its chemical com- 
position but know that many farmers use it with suc- 
cess. — En. 



Hog Pasture. 

Will rape, if sown in Eehruary, mature sufficiently 
by the first of April to pasture hogs on and how long 
will it last if not grazed too closely ? I have a two- 
acre lot which I wish to seed to something for spring 
and summer pasture for hogs. I wish to pasture them 
from about the first of April to the first of August. 
The entire two acres is under one enclosure. What 
would you advise? T. T. Erazier. 

Durham Co., N. C. 

We know of no single crop which you could now 
plant which would give you grazing for your hogs 
from April to August. If you had seeded crimson 
clover, oats, wheat and rape together in the fall on 
half the land this would have made grazing to June 
and the other half seeded to cowpeas in May would 
have given good grazing in July and August. Papc 
sown now should give grazing by April but the crop 
dees not usually stand the hot weather of summer. 
Perhaps the best course would be to seed half the land 
in rape, five pounds to the acre broadcast, as soon 
as possible and then seed the other half to cowpeas 
or cowpeas and sorghum in May. Together this com- 
bination would give you the grazing you seek. — En. 



Pecans. 

1. I have about 10 acres T want to put to pecans. 
Would it pay me to get seedlings at $0 per 100 and 
graft twigs from the best varieties into them, when 1 
can get trees of the best varieties at 70 cents per 100 ? 

2. Which variety would you advise me getting to 
realize the most from my orchard ? 

3. Can you give me the recipe for making grafting 
wax ? J. R. Reaves. 

Lalla, S. C. 

1. We presume you have made a mistake in thi? 
question. We assume that you mean ''best varieties 
at 70 cents each." We would buy trees of the host 
varieties even at 70 cents each in preference to seed- 



lings at $0.00 per hundred. Seedlings are very un- 
certain in their production. 

2. We believe you would realize more and more 
quickly from the trees than the seedlings grafted. 

3. Grafting wax is made of three parts of rosin, 
three of beeswax and two of tallow, melted together. 
—Ed. 



Seeding to Grass. 

We are working on a hillside with the object of 
needing it in grass as an extension to our lawn. It has- 
been washed by rain, leaving upper part of very poor, 
red soil. We are treating this hillside as follows: 

Dumping wagon loads of compost made last year 
in piles convenient for spreading also making more 
compost from last year's fall of leaves. In these com- 
post heaps Ave have used acid phosphate freely. A 
small lot of sheep in a moveable pen were started on 
the hillside the latter part of October. In addition to 
this the hillside is now about half covered with barn- 
yard manure, which we haul and spread as conven- 
ient. We are still further hauling good soil from bot- 
tom land, where we can spare it, and placing in heaps 
ready to spread. Our intention is to plow shallow as 
possible in the spring, after spreading compost and 
soil, and follow plow with subsoiler and harrow. The 
article in your October number convinces me that 
lime should be applied, but I am at a loss to know the 
best time and method of applying it in view of the 
progress already made. 

Any advice you can give will be appreciated. 

Transvylvania Co., N. C. A Subscriber. 

Now that you have got manure on the land it would 
not be wise to apply lime as it would release the am- 
monia which the grass will need. We think you will 
succeed in getting a stand and can then give a top 
dressing of lime next fall and harrow in lightly. — En. 



Oyster Shells. 

Would ground oyster shells be as suitable and as 
readily available for our coast soils as burnt and 
slacked lime? E. M. Sjiepp. 

Harrison Co., Miss. 

Ground oyster shells would be just as effective as 
ground rock lime but neither are so effective as burnt 
-lacked lime. Ground rock lime is being used quite 
extensively in some sections and whilst slower in it3 
action is being found effective. The grinding, how- 
ever, requires to be very fine. — En. 



Windbreak. 

1. I live about eight miles east of "Richmond and 
would like to plant some evergreens for a windbreak. 
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mate? "\V i ] 1 Norway spruce, hemlock or American 
arbor vitae do well here? 

2. What bamboos are bardy in this latitude, where 
the scuppernong grape grows wild ? Air. H. Drcer 
states that 13. Turea, P. ]\!etake, P. Nigra and P. 
Simon i are bardy at Philadelphia. 

Hanover Co., Va. John Flick. 

1. Norway spruce will answer best though it is not 
apt to be very long lived in tins State. Hemlock will 
grow but takes a long time to make a break. There 
are one or two species of foreign arborvitaes which 
have been recently introduced by the Department of 
Agriculture which appear likely to make good wind 
breaks. They are Italian species. The American 
arborvitae does not do well in the South. 

2. We cannot advise yoii as to the bamboos. We 
believe the Department of Agriculture issued some 
information on these plants sometime ago but we can" 
not put our hands upon it just now. A letter to the 
Department at Washington might get you this. — Ed. 



Grass for Name. 

Please give the English and Latin names of the en- 
closed grass. Also state if it is good for forage. 

Richmond Co., Va. M. C. Lewis. 

The hotanical name of the grass is Panicum clan- 
desttnvrn. We cannot give the English name as it is 
known locally by various different names. It is not 
known to have any forage value but experiments will 
be made by the Department of Agriculture to test 
this. — Ed. 



good as corn. It is usually threshed like wheat, and 
the grain ground or fed whole. It is les3 wasted 
when ground, as unground mnch of it passes through 
cattle undigested. It will succeed anywhere in the 
South. It is planted, worked and harvested like 
corn, but may be dropped closer in the rows. The 
grain weighs 50 Dounds to the bushel. 

Soy beans are harvested for the beans by cutting 
with a short bladcd reaper or scythe and set up in 
shocks to dry and cure out like wheat or oats. — Ed. 



Kaffir Corn. 

Please give me some information in the columns of 
your paper concerning the cultivation, harvesting and 
threshing of Kaffir corn. It is said to be raised ex- 
tensively in Kansas. Why does it not figure more 
frequently among our crops here? How much does 
the grain weigh per bushel? Also kindly state the 
proper way to harvest and gather soja beans not for 
hay but for the beans ? To revert to the Kaffir corn — 
is it safe to feed horses the grain in the plumes, un- 
threshed ? Enqdicek. 

Middlesex Co., Va. 

Kaffir Corn is one of the non-saccharine sorglmm3. 
It has frequently been grown in this State, and with 
great success. We always advise that some should 
be planted for a forage crop, ,ms whilst it is not quite 
such good food as the saccharine sorghums, like the 
Early Orange or Karly Amber, yet it is more certain 
to make a crop in case of a drouth. In the drouth 
sections of Kansas and other Western States it is 
largely taking the place of corn. The grain is as 



Stock on Wild Range Near the Seacoast. 

I want to run a mixed herd of cattle, horses, sheep 
and goats on wild land with grasses, reeds, rushes and 
shrubs for pasturage. Part of the land is high and 
part low and wet. Do you think it would be well to 
have such a mixed herd? Closs Gibbs. 

Hyde Co., N. C. 

This is a subject on which we hesitate to advise, as 
its success will depend so largely on local conditions, 
a? to pasturage, etc. We doubt, however, whether it 
would be advisable to attempt to run sheep on 9uch a 
range. A limited number of cattle, horses and goats 
might succeed. — Ed. 



Forage Crops. 

My farm is situated at the junction of and between 
the James and Warwick rivers, Mulberry Island, Va. 
Upon it has been raised, for many years, corn, pea- 
nuts, potatoes, etc., also live stock such as sheep, 
cows, horses and hogs. Having set aside sufficient 
land to raise corn for horses, hogs and poultry and 
wishing to simplify the farm work kindly request 
you to let me know what you consider best to plant, 
as forage, Avhere corn or peanuts have been raised. 

Warwick Co., Va. P. Lederiio"!. 

Plant soy beans, cow peas, sorghum, teocinte and 
millet (Cat Tail, German and Hungarian). Any 
or all of these crops will make fine forage. — Ed. 



East India Giant Clover. 

T would be glad to learn about the "East India 
Giant Clover" (Polygonum sacalincnse). It see it 
described in Encyclopsr-dia Pritanica, Vol. 26, page 
liSO. Where could I get the seed of it? 

Halifax Co., Va. Wm. "M. Pannebaket*. 

We know nothing of this plant. Write the agros- 
lologist of the Department of Agriculture at Wash- 
ington for information on the subject. — Ed. 



Varieties of Apples and Peaches to Plant in West- 
ern North Carolina. 

Would be glad to know your opinion of the best 
apple trees to plant in these mountains, Brevard (20 



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miles from Hendersonville), King, Albemarle Pip- 
pin, Winesap, Belle Elower (yellow), Maiden Blush, 
Limbertwig. 

What is the best peach tree for this locality? 

Transylvania Co., N. C. IT. E. Tener. 

For summer apples we would advise Early Har- 
vest, Red Astrachan and Yellow Transparent. For 
late summer and early winter, Bonum, Carolina 
Beauty and Rome Beauty. For winter, Arkansas 
Mammoth Black, Ben Pavis, Limbertwig, Winesap, 
Nansemond Beauty and l r ork Imperial. 

Peaches for very early, Alexander and Sneed. For 
early, Bishop and Early Crawford. For medium, 
Elbcrta, Oldmixon Cling and Free, and Stump. 
For late, Bilveu and Smock. — Ed. 



Cotton Seed— Cotton Seed Meal— Stable Manure. 

Kindly give the relative value of cotton seed and 
horse stable manure as a fertilizer. Is a ton of cot- 
tom seed worth as much as a fertilizer as an equal 
quantity of cotton seed meal ? 

Perquimans Co.. N. C. Tuos. K White. 

The analysis of cotton seed gives on an average 
3J 3 per cent, of nitrogen, 1.27 per cent, phosphoric 
acid, and 1.17 per cent, of potash. The analysis of 
an average sample of cotton seed meal gives G.64 per 
cent, of nitrogen, 2. OS per cent, of phosphoric acid 
and 1.79 per cent, of potash. The analysis of an 
average sample of stable manure gives 0.50 per cent, 
of nitrogen, 0.60 per cent, of potash, and 0.30 of 
phosphoric acid. The statement, however, of the ac- 
tual content of the chemical plant food in stable ma- 
nure does not give a true estimate of its actual value 
as an improver of the soil, as in addition to the value 
of the chemical plant food manure adds humus to the 
soil, which is often more valuable in the improve- 
ment it effects than the actual plant food supplied. 
Manure also promotes the growth of microbic life in 
the soil, and without this there can be no great fer- 
tility.— Ed. 



Book on Truck Growing- -Fertilizer for Cab- 
bages, &c. 

1. Will you kindly tell me what is the most com- 
plete and best book on garden work for Virginia and 
what is the price and where can T got this book ? 

2. Will you tell me how much night soil and hard 
wood ash.es to mix to apply per acre in the drill for 
cabbage and for all kind of garden vegetables? 

Dinwiddle Co., fa. Webster. 

1. Truck farming in the South, by Ocmler, is 
about the best book published for this section. Price, 
$1.00. We can supply it. 



2. Wood ashes should not be mixed with manure 
or flight soil, but be applied alone. When mixed, 
they have a tendency to waste the ammonia. They 
are valuable mainly for the potash they contain 
(about 5 per cent.). They may be applied with ad- 
vantage up to 1,000 pounds to the acre for vegetables. 
Night soil contains 0.S0 per cent, of nitrogen, 0.30 
per cent, of potash, and 1.40 per cent, of phosphoric 
acid. It is not, therefore, very valuable as a fertil- 
izer, and should be supplemented by some nitrogen 
and phosphoric acid when used with wood ashes to 
make a balanced fertilizer. Mix with it 300 pounds 
of acid phosphate per acre, when applied, and give a 
top dressing of 100 pounds of nitrate of soda per 
acre when the plants start growing and then you 
will be likely to make vegetables of all kinds. — Ed. 



Improving Land. 

Is there any quicker way of improving land by crop 
rotation than sowing rye in the fall to be turned un- 
der or pastured down in June, then sow in peas and 
turn under or pasture down in the fall? 

Roanoke Co., Va. E. E. Enoeematt. 

Yes. You can improve the land faster by grow- 
ing crimson clover or hairy vetch sowed with wheat, 
oats and rye mixed in the fall. Rye adds nothing to 
the soil except some vegetable matter, but conserves 
any nitrates in the soil, and to that extent only is 
useful as an improver. Crimson clover and hairy 
vetch add nitrogen to the soil taken from the atmos- 
phere, and more vegetable matter than rye. These 
crops can be plowed down in May or June, or can bo 
cut for forage, be made into hay, or be grazed off, 
and then be followed by cow peas or soy beans, which 
will add still more nitrogen to the soil as well as 
vegetable matter, and thus rapidly and permanently 
improve the land. To make the best progress, these 
leguminous crops (clover and vetch) should be help- 
ed with some acid phosphate, say 200 or 300 pounds 
to the acre, so as to ensure a heavy growth, and thus 
smother down all weeds and shade the soil. Tho 
shading is important, as it largely tends to the ac- 
quisition and conservation of nitrogen. A dressing 
of lime, 25 bushels to the acre, applied after the cow 
peas or soy beans are turned down, and before seed- 
ing the crimson clover or hairy vetch, will also greatly 
help the work of improvement by creating an alkaline 
condition of the soil, which is conducive to the multi- 
plication of soil microbic life, and to the growth of 
clever especially. We have known a piece of land 
so improved by the growth of these crops for two years 
as to yield an increase in the corn crop the following 



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year of 25 bushels, and of wheat 10 bushels, with a 
good stand of grass and clover to follow. — Ed. » 



Tobacco Fertilizer. 

Please give amount of ammonia and potash (and in 
what form) to be added to Peruvian Guano to make 
it a well balanced fertilizer for tobacco. 

Old Subsceibee. 

Prince Edward Co., Va. 

Tbe only tiling needed to be added to genuine 
Peruvian Guano to make it a complete tobacco fertil- 
izer, and even that is not absolutely necessary, is some 
eulphate of potash. We would add 50 pounds of sul- 
phate to the ton of Peruvian Guano. For some years 
it has been difficult to get Peruvian Guano, but 
Messrs. Mortimer & Co., of 13 William street, New 
York, are now appointed agents for it in this country, 
and are importing it in ship loads. We have just re- 
ceived particulars of the analysis of a cargo just 
landed. As tested by the Pennsylvania Experiment 
Station, this analyses 1G.22 available phosphoric acid. 
4.82 potash, and 4.37 ammonia, with, in addition, 
7.20 insoluble phosphoric acid. The insoluble phos- 
phoric acid in Peruvian Guano is much more readily 
available than in acid phosphate, and is comparable 
with the phosphoric acid in bone in this respect. We 
believe this Peruvian Guano will grow good tobacco 
without any addition of potash on our lands. Messrs. 
Mortimer will gladly quote prices delivered in this or 
other States on this guano, and on all other chemicals 
required for mixing fertilizers. — Ed. 



Sores on Mules' Backs. 

Can you recommend any remedy for knots and raw 
places of long standing on mules' backs ? 

Fkank Pueyeae. 

Chiclcasaiv Co., Miss. 

If the wounds are of so long standing as to have 
become sit fasts, the hard portion must be dissected 
out with a knife and then the wound be treated with 
a weak carbolic acid lotion. Keep the harness from 
pressing on the places by pads until healed. — Ed. 



Brussels Sprouts. 

Please tell me in your next issue when and how to 
grow Brussels Sprouts from seed. 

Alexandria Co., Va. A. Bowie. 

Raise like late cabbage plants and set out, manure 
and cultivate just like late cabbages. — Ed. 



so, when ? The flat tooth is the sort I have. My ex- 
perience with cotton is that when young it is very 
tender, easily bruised and thrown down, and when 
down seldom regains the erect position. Would not 
running the weeder over field just before cotton comes 
up kill many germinating seeds and result in a bad 
stand ? Geo. S. Banee, Jr. 

Franklin Co., N. C. 

We should hesitate before putting a weeder into a 
cotton field. The young plants are too tender and too 
easily buried to risk such rough usage. — Ed. 



Weeder in Cotton. 

I would like to know if a "weeder" can be used 
with safety and to advantage in a cotton patch. If 



Improving Land. 

I am just starting in the farming business, and 
would be very highly appreciative of some advico 
relative to same. My farm, consisting of about 500 
acres, 100 of which is cleared, but only about 60 in 
a tillable condition ; has been "miss-farmed" for the 
last twenty years by tenants, and consequently is in 
anything but good condition. Have both red land 
and sandy land, former predominating. Planted 15 
acres in wheat, 5 in oats, and used 200 to 250 pounds 
potash mixture, 10-2 and 12-3 per acre. Was ad- 
vised by farmers in neighborhood that I was using 
too much. They use 100 to 150 pounds per acre. 
Any general advice as to crops, seeds, etc., that you 
may give me will be thankfully received. 

Thad. S. Tboy, M. D. 

Randolph Co., N. C. 

If you will carefully read and folloAV the advice 
given each month in .the Peanteb you will soon' see 
an improvement in your land, and get profitable 
crops. What your land needs more than fertilizer 
is humus in the soil. Do not attempt to make staple 
crops until vou have improved the land by growing 
cow peas, crimson clover and hairy vetch. When 
you have got plenty of humus into your soil you can 
profitably use commercial fertilizer in the form of 
acid phosphate, not at the rate of 100 or 200 pounds 
to the acre, but at the rate of 500 pounds to the acre. 
—Ed. 



Cow Pea Hay. 

I wish to sow a crop to cut for hay. Could I sow 
a mixture of cow peas and oats ? If so, which would 
be best, spring or winter oats ? Please answer in 
next issue.. Newcomee. 

Nottoway Co., Va. 

You cannot sow cow peas and oats together. Oats 
should at latest be sown in March, better in Feb- 
ruary, or better still, be sown in the early fall in the 
South, whilst cow peas cannot b« sown until May. 
They will not grow until the ground becomes warm. 
For a hay crop, cow peas and sorghum can be sown 
together. They make good feed. — Ed. 



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Trucking, Garden and Orchard. 



WORK FOR THE MONTH. 

The long hard winter we are passing through has 
caused a complete suspension of all outdoor work and 
where in an ordinary winter much of the work of 
preparing the land for the spring crops has heen 
already done, now everything is as it was left in 
the fall. This is going to cause a great accumulation 
of work and it will require the strictest economy of 
time to be exercised when once the season opens. We 
trust, however, that the work of preparing compost 
and manure for the crops has heen receiving atten- 
tion during the hard weather. This is work that 
could well be done aud with good effect on the subse- 
quent results. Farm yard manure, woods mould 
leaves should have been gathered together in heaps in 
the different fields and have been well mixed together 
and had acid phosphate and muriate of potash mixed 
with them. These mineral fertilizers are much more 
effective when thus mixed than when applied sepa- 
rately just previous to the planting of the crop. They 
require time to become assimilated with the other 
manure and soil to do their best service. Farm yard 
manure whilst the most valuable of all forms of fer- 
tilizer in that it supplies both plant food and humus 
to the soil and also tends largely to the introduction 
of microbic life into the soil, yet lacks in the min- 
eral forms of plant food to be a full ration of feed 
especially for truck and garden crops. Up to 1,000 
pounds to the acre of acid phosphate and 200 pounds 
of muriate of potash to the acre may with advantage 
be applied along with a heavy dressing of farm yard 
manure and compost to land intended to be planted 
to all vegetable crops. In addition to these nitrogen 
in the form of nitrate of soda, say from 100 to 150 
pounds to the acre, may also be applied with advan- 
tage to all crops except English peas and snap beans. 
For these two crops only a light dressing of nitrate 
should be given as it is , has a tendency to make them 
run too much to vine. Indeed these two crops al- 
most invariably do best on land manured for a crop 
the previous year as on an Irish potato fallow or a 
cabbage field. In such a place they will make a good 
yield without any further manure being applied. 



It is too early yet to plant any crops except in 
Tidewater Virginia and Eastern North and South 
Carolina. In these sections English peas and Irish 
potatoes may be planted during this month if the 
weather becomes mild and the land is dry enough to 
work freely, but do not attempt planting on wet land 



nor even working the land. Land worked wet will 
ehow the result all through the crop season and can 
never be made a satisfactory seed bed. English peas 
•diould be planted in drill 2 feet apart, and be given 
a good covering of soil, say 4 or 5 inches. Scatter 
the peas thickly in the drill and tread or roll firmly 
into the soil before covering. Irish potatoes should 
not be planted much before the end of the month and 
not then unless the weather is mild. They are very 
susceptible to damage from frost if they break 
through the land before freezing temperatures are 
past. Instead of planting them too early it is a good 
plan to get out the sets and spread them thinly on a 
dry barn floor where frost will not hurt them and 
there let them commence to sprout. They will make 
short hard sprouts which will not easily damage 
when handling them for setting and will then come 
up much more quickly when planted in the soil. The 
land for this and indeed all other truck crops should 
receive the best of preparation before planting. What 
we have said in reference to this matter of prepar- 
ing land in our article on "Work for the Month" for 
the farm applies with still greater force to truck 
crops. More depends on the perfect preparation of 
the land than on the fertilizer. Irish potatoes are 
one crop which can usually be grown more success- 
fully with commercial fertilizer than with farm yard 
manure. Farm yard mantxre is especially apt to 
cause scab on the tubers and will certainly do so 
wherever there has been scab on the last crop and any 
of the vines or small potatoes have got mixed with 
the manure. Wherever there is any indication of 
scab on the sets they should be dipped either in a solu- 
tion of formaline or corrosive sublimate before being 
planted. When using the corrosive sublimate solu- 
tion be careful to keep it and the dipped tubers out of 
the reach of men or animals as the solution is very 
poisonous. The proper strength to use the corrosive 
sublimate solution is 2 ounces of sublimate to 15 gal- 
lons of water. Dissolve the sublimate in hot water 
and then add cold to make up the quantity. The 
solution may be used for dipping repeated lots of po- 
tatoes until all used up. Dry the sets and then cut 
them. Cut the sets just before planting and not in 
quantity before needed. Do not cut to less than two 
eyes. As a fertilizer for the crop mix 

300 pounds of nitrate of soda, 

GOO pounds of cotton seed meal or fish scrap, 

800 pounds of acid phosphate (12 per cent). 

300 pounds of muriate of potash. 



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to make a ton and apply at the rate of from 500 to 
1,500 pounds to the acre. If only 500 pounds or 
less is used apply in the drill mixing well with the 
soil before dropping the sets. If more than 500 
pounds is used apply broadcast. 



Sow small patches of lettuce, radishes and other 
early salads in sheltered spots or where they can be 
protected with brush or mats in case of frost. 



Lettuce in frames should be getting ready for 
market. Give air in all mild weather but see that 
frost is excluded. As the plants are cut fill in other 
plants from the fall sown seed beds. 



Asparagus beds should be worked over and be cov- 
ered with well rotted manure and good soil to the 
depth of 10 or 12 inches. New beds may be set out 
in March. The land should be got ready now by 
being deeply worked and the trenches be thrown out 
to the depth of 2 feet if possible by running the plow 
two or three times in them, throwing out the soil with 
a shovel. Throw the top soil to one side and the bot- 
tom soil to the other side of the trenches. Put two 
or three inches of the top soil into the bottom of the 
trench and set the plants on this and cover lightly 
with more of the top soil then spread the bottom soil 
between the trenches. The trenches should be from 
4 to 6 feet apart. Set the plants as soon as received 
from the growers. 



Spinach and kale may be sown where the crop is to 
mature towards the end of the month. Sow in rows 
2 feet apart. Cabbage seed may be sown in cold 
frames for plants to follow the fall set crop. 



Prepare material for making hot beds for raising 
tomato, egg and pepper plants. 



PECAN TREE NOT BEARING NUTS. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

Inquiry having been made through your journal 
by Mr. J. W. Lewis, of Horry county, S. C, for some 
remedy by which unproductive pecan trees can be 
made to yield abundantly I take pleasure in offering 
a remedy which I have tried with splendid results. 
Some time before the sap begins to rise he should 
take an axe and chop the tree j>erpendicvlarhj, several 
1 iracs, carefully, however, so that no damage is done 



to the tree. Pecan trees become hide-bound and this 
is the cause of their failure to bear. Chopping re- 
lieves the congestion, and enables the tree to produce. 
I have a tree probably 50 years old, which for a 
number of years scarcely bore at all. Two years ago 
I chopped it slightly, as a test, and it bore probably 
'■hrce pecks of pecans. Last year I chopped it again 
and the result was a yield of about a flour barrel of 
pecans. January or Eebruary are good months in 
which to chop trees. I have chopped pear trees also, 
with good results. If the South Carolina correspond- 
ent desires more explicit information he can write 



me. 



James B. Lloyd. 



Tarboro, N. C. 



PRUNING AND TRAINING FRUIT TREES. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

A safe rule to follow in pruning trees is to cut no 
limb off without being able to give a good reason for 
it. One should also be able to predict the effect such 
an operation would likely have upon the tree. 

Pruning is the operation of taking off undesirable 
parts. Training is directing the growth of succeed- 
ing branches. Therefore, correct ideas concerning 
training should come before successful pruning. Each 
tree and vine presents a separate and distinct prob- 
lem to solve before the knife should be used. Too 
many people begin at the trunk and prune upwards, 
whereas they should begin at the top and prune down- 
wards. The greatest mistakes are made, however, in 
pruning the young tree before it begins its first year's 
growth. The form of top desired for each fruit and 
locality should be decided upon before the orchard is 
set. For the untrained man, this is not an easy mat- 
ter to decide. The crown or top should be started at 
the point best suited to the tree. If the location is 
rather high and dry the crown should be started much 
lower down than with trees growing in lower, richer 
and more moist soils. The tops of forest trees in 
near by forests will give some idea. The peach tree 
will require a different method of pruning from that 
of the apple, since the fruit is borne on one year old 
wood, and consequently, will be further away from 
the trunk of the tree each year, unless held back by 
careful pruning, and finally, will all be produced on 
the ends of long limbs. These split and break off. I 
like the method of "heading back," especially for the 
peach. The tree is better enabled to make new bear- 
ing wood for next year, the fruit is thinned, the lia- 
bility of splitting and breaking is much lessened, 



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the fruit is borne nearer tlie ground where it is eas- 
ier to gather, and the branches are made to grow 
more stocky. 

The young tree as it comes from 
the nursery is tall and slender, fre- 
quently it has no side branches. 
Many growers think the tallest 
tree is best, which is often a seri- 
ous mistake. Such trees grew in 
a crowded condition and were 
forced to grow in a switch-like 
form. AVken set out in an or- 
chard their surroundings are en- 
tirely different, consequently they 
are apt to reform their present 
top by throwing out branches low- 
er down. If left alone, the top is 
apt to be very ugly. The wind is 
apt to blow the young switch-like 
tree about and do it great in- 




f Young tree as It came 
from the nursery. 



3 U1 7- 




I have always found it best to cut the 
young top back very much when set- 
ting. If an apple, I would cut the top 
back within about two feet of the 
ground for Virginia ; if a peach, I usu- 
ally cut it back within a foot and a half 
of the ground — frequently leaving a 
single straight stub. The roots should 
also be cut within about six inches of 
the trunk — if a peach I would cut 
closer. If very young trees are used, 
the side buds will usually come out and 
start a good top. Older trees frequent- 
ly do not do so well and the grower may Tree pruned and 

" " re i iv lor the or- 

have to leave the top where the nursery- en trd. 
man left it. Very little pruning will be required at 
the end of the first year, but it is quite important to 
go over the orchard and shape up the tops to conform 
to the ideal adopted. 

At the end of the second year, visible results of the 
pruning and training will be plainly evident. An 
open spreading top to carry a heavy load of fruit 
should now be constantly worked for. Sun light and 
air are extremely important for highly colored fruit 
and for excellence of flavor. 

In many orchards of the State were found last fall 
a large per cent of fruit that was off in color, size 
and flavor. This was due to the trees being over- 
loaded and much of the fruit not having enough sun 
light. On more open and branching tops, the crop 
was much finer. T never saw so many instances where 
the ill effects of bad pruning were so plainly marked 



:is were seen last season. Begin to shape up the tops 
now while the lesson is still fresh in the mind. It is 




Effects of fruit at ends of long limbs. 

often claimed that we should not prune in the win- 
ter. Very little damage is apt to occur where small 
limbs are cut off. Serious damage is apt to follow 
pruning if done when the sap is active. A coating of 
white lead paint over the wounds is excellent. 

After trees become several years old, severe prun- 
ing should not be given the trees during any one sin- 
gle season. I have seen some good orchards ruined 
by a severe pruning. The tops should be opened up 
and cut back gradually. 




Three-year-old tree after pruning. 

In cutting off limbs, the surface of the cut should 
be made parallel with the body of the tree, and scarco- 



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ly ever inside of what is known as Hie "collar." This 
will enable the cut to "heal over" Letter. 

Some drawings I have had made from trees grown 
in my experimental peach orchard may bring out the 
points more plainly. R. II. Price. 

Montgomery County. 



TRUCKING. 

This term is generally applied to growing any and 
almost all kinds of vegetables for table use. The truck 
farm is supposed to be a small farm rather than a 
large one. It is expected to yield very large crops, 
and is generally looked for near a large city or along 
the sea coast. Of course such a farm is expected to 
be richer than ordinary farms for growing the cereals, 
cotton, hay and rice. 

But in the rapid development of this country, 
which has built up cities and factories almost like 
magic, the unexampled growth of the commercial in- 
dustries has brought about changes in the trucking 
business. Thousands are now engaged in this kind 
of farming without the advantage of special location, 
or special markets, or special training. 

The high prices of the various vegetable crops have 
induced them to try to grow them. The high price of 
land near the cities has compelled them to locate far- 
ther off. Put the increased facilities of transporta- 
tion have changed this into almost a help instead of 
a disadvantage. 

It is for these thousands of beginners that we 
write. We do not expect to enlighten the old hands 
who have been taught this kind of farming. 

As we have said, the truck farm is expected to be 
rich. Near the cities immense quantities of manure 
can be obtained for this purpose, but those who live 
farther off cannot get it this way. They cannot make 
the land rich, hence they must do the next best thing. 
They can and must feed the crops with highly con- 
centrated and readily available plant food. They 
need ammonia, phosphoric acid and potash. They 
need the ammonia to make the plants grow, the phos- 
phoric acid to increase the fruit, and the potash to 
form starch and sugar in plants, and as size and fruit 
are both dependent upon starch and sugar, we see 
that potash has an important function to perform. 

Proper feeding makes the crops strong so as to re- 
sist diseases of all kinds. As a feeble person is lia- 
ble to contract all contagious diseases, so is a feeble 
plant. We see this proven very often — one man's 
wheat or oats resist rust and make a good crop. An- 
other man's, on an adjoining farm, take rust and are 
ruined. The vigorous healthy plant is more or less 
immune or resistent. Again, the price of trucking 
crops is always good in the early season and lower 
later on. The healthy plants can be expected to come 
in early and thus give the trucker a higher market. 



Good preparation, plenty of fertilizers, good seed, 
and rapid culture will bring success. 

Study what your market needs and then what you 
know how to grow to the best advantage and you will 
find truck farming an enjoyable life. One great ad- 
vantage of this kind of farming is that it brings in 
money all the time. The trucker docs not need to run 
long accounts, and pile up debts, and give mort- 
gages. James B. Hunnicutt. 



THE LIME SULPHUR WASH FOR SAN JOSE SCALE 

Editor Southern Planter: 

By some means or other, the amount of sulphur 
given in the formula for lime-sulphur wash printed 
in The Plawtek last issue, was not exactly correct, 
as used by the Virginia Experiment Station. Tho 
exact formula taken from bulletin No. 141 on th» 
"Lime- Sulphur Wash" is as follows: 

Lime (unslaked) 30 pounds. 

Sulphur (flowers) 30 pounds. 

Salt 10 pounds. 

Water 100 gallons. 

Some extracts are made here from the above men- 
tioned bulletin in regard to making the wash. "Put 
4 to 5 gallons of hot water in an iron kettle (20 gal- 
lons capacity), add l. r > pounds lime, stir with wooden 
paddle so as to spread it about; then as soon as in 
full ebulition from slaking add 15 pounds sulphur 
and mix briskly with lime, adding boiling water as 
needed to bring entire mass into a thick paste. Work 
the mass into a perfectly homogeneous paste, then add 
water enough to make 10 or 12 gallons, and boil for 
30 to 40 minutes. Tt is better to add hot water, as 
I he cooking will thus proceed more rapidly, but if 
cold water is used the resultant wash will be the same. 
Add the salt, 5 pounds, when the paste is diluted. 
When the wash is cooked, strain and dilute to 50 gal- 
lons. This will be best accomplished by pouring it 
into the barrel already partly filled with water. Hot 
or cold water may be used at convenience of the opera- 
tor, as there will be no marked difference in the re- 
sult. 

The quantity sufficient for 1 00 gallons of wash may 
be cooked in a 25-gallon kettle but this is rather con- 
centrated and needs attention. Tn whatever manner 
ihe wash is cooked, it should be stirred occasionally. 
Small quantities for use on a few trees can be made 
in small iron kettles. * * * The cost of the in- 
gredients to make the lime-sulphur wash by the above 
formula is about 1 cent per gallon, which renders its 
abundant use on trees very cheap in comparison with 
soap or the kerosene washes. Tt is very important to 
strain the wash as it is run into the tank or barrel." 

Montgomery county. R. H. Price. 



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95 



Live Stock and Dairy. 




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AN EXPERIMENT WITH ABERDEEN ANGUS 
STEERS. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

The steers shown in illustration -were procured as 
calves in Illinois and immunized by inoculation, to 
Texas fever. Over forty head were thus successfully 
immunized. Of these, 15 were steers and have been 
since fed preparatory to marketing them in Chicago. 
They are now a little over two years old. The feeds 
used were the by-products of our three great staples — 
cotton seed meal, rice bran and molasses. In addi- 
tion they have had the run of the pastures in summer 
and home raised hay in winter. Except when heav- 
ily infected with ticks in September, they have made 
satisfactory gains and they average nearly 1,500 
pounds a piece. Cotton seed meal has cost $20 to $24 
per ton. Rice bran $8 to $13 per ton and molasses 
3 to 5 cents per gallon of 12 pounds. 

The experiment has demonstrated the ability of 
these home products, to make as fine beef as can be 
made upon the best blue grass and corn fields of the 
Middle West. A bulletin with full description of 



the animals, feeds and gains will be given later. 
These animals were sent to the International Stock 
Show at Chicago. W. C. Stubbs. 

Experiment Station, Baton Rouqe, La. 
Since the foregoing was in type we have a letter 
from Dr. Stubbs informing us that the steers were 
eold on the market at Chicago and brought $5.65 per 
100, the top of the market. This demonstrates con- 
clusively that the South with its refuse feeds can 
make as good beef as the 'West with its best feed. Why 
not do so and make this refuse into dollars ? — Ed. 



HOG RAISING IN THE SOUTH. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

Eriend Mereier handed me a communication from 
you in regard to ''those cheap hogs" of his neighbors, 
whose methods he used to illustrate his article on 
'"'Earming as a Eusincss," (published in the !Novem- 
her issue of Tin? Plantick). 

I rather think he would have been more careful 



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[February 



about jumping into tbe frying-pan bad be known 
tbat he would be called upon for the facts, but as I 
think a great deal of neighbor Mercier, I will try to 
help him out of the difficulty. 

I am a Northern man who came South for health 
and a milder climate, and am engaged in building 
up one of those old, run-down plantations which orig- 
inally was good soil but which has been skinned and 
re-skinned by the raising of cotton exclusively, until 
that which was in cultivation "would not sprout 
peas," as they say, and I am also trying to demon- 
strate to the Southern farmer that he can make a liv- 
ing without depending entirely upon cotton. 

The crops I grow are chiefly oats, peas, soy beans, 
peanuts, sweet potatoes, corn, vetch, rape and rice by 
irrigation, and I feed these crops on the place to cat- 
tle, ho<rs and Angora goats. 

I mention these crops as they play a very impor- 
tant part in the raising of cheap hogs. 

I am doing but a small business in the raising of 
hogs, but generally have about one hundred head 
most of the time. 

As to the methods you asked for, I will try to give 
them as clearly as possible. 

My stock is a cross, produced by crossing thorough- 
bred Poland China sows with a thoroughbred Chester 

crossing these two 



White male. My reasons for 
breeds are that the crossbred hogs have the easy fat- 
tening qualities of the Poland China, and the ability 
to rustle and graze of the Chesters, and the cross also 
produces an animal with a very deep side and a heavy 
ham. The crossbred hogs are all white, and a white 
hog dresses much nicer than a black one. 

I breed tbe sows to farrow in October and Novem- 
ber, and feed them on rice polish and wheat bran 
mixed with water, and give them the run of the pea 
and sweet potato fields. 

As soon as the pigs are old enough to eat I take tbe 
grain from the sows and give to the pigs at the rate 
of half a pound per head each day until they are six 
months old, and let them run on the fall sown oats 
until March ; then they are taken off and allowed to 
run on oats, rape, and other crops sown expressly for 
them. I then put them on crops of speckled peas an3 
sorghum, then cowpeas, peanuts, sweet potatoes, rape, 
etc. 

When the pigs are six months old I feed them grain 
at the rate of one pound per head per day until they 
■re put up for finishing, when T feed four or five 
pounds of rice polish or corn per day for four to six 
weeks, when they are ready to kill and fat enough 
for any one, and weigh from 250 to 300 pounds gross. 



I do not claim that larger bogs cannot be grown in 
the same length of time, but I do claim that hogs of 
the same weight cannot be raised at much less cost. 
The cost of raising varies from two to three cents per 
pound srross according to the seasons for growing 
crops and the amount of grain used in finishing. This 
year the fall crops were short on account of extreme- 
ly dry weather, very little rain falling after July. 

As soon as the pigs are weaned the sows are turned 
info the fields and pastures and receive no more grain 
until the next litter comes. Some may ask why I do 
not raise two litters a year. My reasons are that the 
cost of keeping the sows in good condition to raise 
two litters would be much greater, and it would take 
much more grain to make the spring pigs large 
enough by fall to make into bacon and ham than is 
required for the fall pigs, which have grown slower 
and cost less. I buy most of the grain I feed, and 
find that rice polish is the best and most economical 
I can buy. 

Three great requisites in raising cheap hogs are, 
plenty of range, shade and water. It also needs plan- 
ning of crops so as to keep a constant supply of green 
food. One needs, too, a half mile of panels or hur- 
dles for movable fences, so as to feed the crops suc- 
cessfully without waste. It is useless to think of 
raising hogs for cheap meat without these necessaries. 
The writer has grown hogs in Iowa for years and 
can truthfully say that hogs may be grown in the 
South by these methods at less cost than in the North. 
Then why not, brother farmers, raise at least the 
meat needed on your own place, and stop this waste- 
ful dependence on the North for your pork, when you 
can raise a better article than you can buy, and at 
much lesB cost. 

Another important item is tbe restoration of the 
soil bv raising these crops and feeding them on the 
'and, and then returning to the soil 56 per cent, of 
the grain fed. This will soon bring up your depleted 
soil to such a condition of fertility that it Avill pro- 
duce a paying crop of cotton again and I know of no 
method of farming that enables a man to come so 
near "eating his cake and keeping it" as this. 

The wanton depleting of the soil by washing and 
the atter disregard by most farmers of the destruc- 
tion of the lands by the present methods of farming, 
are among the gravest questions that confront the 
Southern farmer to-day, and until we give up the 
present one crop system of farming and produce more 
of what we consume and purchase less, we need not 
expect permanent prosperity. 

Wilkinson Co., Miss. Cuas. L. Dewey. 



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97 



HEREFORDS AT THE INTERNATIONAL STOCK 
CHOW. 

Editor Soviliern Planter: 

Hereford cattle scored a complete triumph at the 
International Stock Show, Chicago, held recently and 
it goes to show the prepotency of Hereford blood, 
when Col. Eerguson, of Perth. Scotland, the judge of 
the fat cattle,, liimself a hreeder of Aligns cattle, 
awarded the grand championship of the show to the 
grade TIereford steer, "Challenger," over an Angus 
bullock. 

''Challenger" was sired by a registered Hereford 
bull, "McOinty," and his dam was a cross bred llol- 
stein-Shorthorn cow. ITe had the form of a Here- 
ford, white head and white on back, his body being 
a blue gray, and weighed 1,750 pounds. 

The grand championship for car loads of fat steers 
was won by the ITerefords, they being sired by reg- 
istered Hereford bulls and were yearlings, weighing 
over 1,100 pounds. They were bred, fed and exhib- 
ited by the same man. 

The ITerefords won in almost every class where 
they competed, and beside winning with the cham- 
pion steer, also won the grade bred class. 

It was generally acknowledged that in the exhibi- 
tion of breeding cattle, the ITerefords were much 
more uniform in condition and quality and the devel- 
opment of the young stock was the admiration of all. 

The fact that the grand champion steer "Challen- 
ger" was selected, fed and exhibited by the Nebraska 
Experiment Station and that the reserve steer, "Clear 
Lake Jute 2nd," was 'fed and exhibited by the Min- 
nesota Experiment Station, i3 worthy of note, as the 
grand championship was won in 1902 by the Iowa 
Experiment Station, and it illustrates the fact that 
successful feeding by individuals must be done with 
some regard to scientific principles and not at ran- 
dom, and also illustrates the wonderful work that is 
being carried on by the Experiment Stations, and 
that they combine practical results with scientific 
teaching. 

The irrcat number of thoroughbred sires that have 
been brought into Virginia in 1003 is the best indi- 
cation of advancement in agricultural methods. It is 
to be hoped that the value of these thoroughbred sires 
will be so generally appreciated that their importa- 
tion will be greatly increased during the forthcoming 
year. E. G. B. 

Clarke Co., Va. 



Challenger, the champion steer mentioned above, 
"was bought out of a lot of cattle in a feeding yard in 



April, 1903. He was at that time very wild and cost 
$5 per hundred or just about $05. Professor Smith, 
of the Nebraska Experiment Station, says of his 
feeding: 

"On the 15th of April we began feeding this steer 
and fed him for about six and one-half months, dur- 
ing which time Ave made a total gain of 550 pounds. 
During the last two months he has increasaed just 
280 pounds, until this Aveek Ave shoAved him here in 
the pink of condition. 

"For the first tAvo months Ave fed a ration made up 
as f oIIoavs : 

Per cent 
Corn 60 



orn 
Oats 
Uran 



15 

10 

Oil meal 15 

"After the first two months, during which time he 
was gradually Avorked up till he Avas in feeding condi- 
tion, the amount of this ration was varied and in- 
creased according to his capacity, as Avell as that of 
the other tAA'o steers that Avere fed with him. At the 
beginning of the third month we fed a ration made 
up as follows : 

Per cent- 
Corn 60 

Oats 20 

Rran 15 

Oil meal 15 

"As the feeding progressed we gradually cut doAvn 
the feed of bran and increased the oilineal feeding. 
IToAveAer, this change Avas made very gradually, as 
you may understand. After September 1 Ave had in- 
creased the oilineal in the ration until his feed was 
made up of 20 per cent, of the oilineal. 

"On October 1 we began the feeding of sugar beets. 
At first Ave fed two pounds per day, but gradually 
increased until Ave Avere feeding the steer ten pounds 
per day of sugar beets. 

"As a roughage AA'e fed alfalfa and prairie hay. 
The former, however, Avas fine, being practically the 
leaves of the alfalfa. Loth with grain and the rough- 
age the limit of feeding Avas the steer's capacity. 

"The feeding of Challenger and his tAvo mates was 
done by Charles Shumat, Avho came to us three years 
ago with no experience as a feeder, having previous- 
ly been a brakeman. We haA r e carefully calculated 
the amounts of the rations and haA r e left the execution 
in a large measure to Herdsman Shumat, to Avhom 
we OAve a great deal for this steer's success. I watched 
Hie steer very closely, and particularly during the last 
part of the feeding, and paid particular attention to 
the dung to note any unfaA r orable changes, but there 
AA'cre none, and the feeding progressed Avith entire 
satisfaction to Professor Purnett and myself, and the 
favorable development of the steer. During the later 



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[February 



stages of feeding this steer readily consumed twenty- 
five pounds of grain per clay with comparatively lit- 
tle effort. I lay the success of this steer's feeding 
capabiliries to his excellent form, coming from good 
breeding and a strong, active digestion." 



POLLED ANGUS CATTLE— TEXAS FEVER TICKS. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

I notice in the comparative table given in a late 
issue of The Breeder's' Gazette, showing the number, 
etc., of thoroughbred hoof cattle sold last year at pub- 
lic sales, a report very favorable to the Aberdeen 
Angus cattle. 

I'll is table gives the average price realised for all 
the beef breeds and is as follows: 

Sbortborns $17-1 

Ilerefords $173 

Aberdeen Angus $220 

Galloways $110 

Tolled Durhams $155 

Red Polls $145 

From this it appears that the Angus did better 
than the best of the other beef breeds, by more than 
25 per cent. 

The extent to which the Angus are gaining in favor 
with the brooders of thoroughbred cattle, with the 
range people, with the feeders and last, but most im- 
portant the butcher, should give encouragement to 
those who have been predicting this outcome for sev- 
eral years. 

I wrote you last year about the probable efficacy 
of salt and sulphur as a preventive of Texas fever, 
which you very kindly published with the foot note 
that you did not have much faith in it. I am still as 
firm as ever in that belief, if the mixture is kept con- 
stantly before the cattle in covered troughs for shel- 
ters, from May 1st to October 1st for this latitude, 
and access given to no other salt during that time: — 
Though my cattle run in old fields they have ticks of 
no sort on them. 

I beg to call your attention to the fact that the U. 
S. Bureau of Animal Industry now recommends the 
use of this inixture as a precautionary step against 
the Texas fever. 

Now if such a simple thing is efficacious, what is 
to prevent the complete extermination of the fever 
tick from the South, if the agricultural and secular 
press will take it up and publish it every year. Its 
efficacy I suppose should be proven first by govern- 
ment or State experiment, which would be an easy 
matter and could be done in more than one way. 

In sections of this State and I suppose everywhere 

in the South there are certain fields in which the 

Texas fever prevails whenever susceptible cattle are 

pastured on them. 

'I would suggest that a lot of such cattle be put on 



sulphur the first of April, and be put in one of those 
pastures the first of May, giving the sulphur time to 
saturate the system before the cattle are exposed ; 
that another lot of cattle which are susceptible be 
placed in the same field and that this lot be given salt 
without sulphur; that each lot of cattle be penned to 
itself at night and each receiving in the pen the sul- 
phur or the salt without sulphur, of course neither 
salt nor sulphur to be given in the field. 

Another way to test the matter would be to give 
the salt and sulphur mixture for one month and then 
place on the cattle thus treated a sufficient number 
of the fever ticks to give the disease, and continuing 
the sulphur as long as the animal carries the ticks. 

I would also suggest that when the spring opens 
you suggest this preventive and request that all who 
use it or have used it in the past will give the results 
in detail in the late fall. 

The success of its use depends on keeping the mix- 
ture constantly before the cattle during the spring, 
summer and early fall months, so that the system will 
be saturated with it all the time. Even if a cattle 
owner has only the common tick he should use this 
preventive of ticks getting on cattle, as they sap the 
blood of the animal, and the sulphur is a harmless 
substance. 

I would not take so much of your time with this, 
but T realize the importance of stamping out the tick 
fever if it can he done, for the land and cattle owner 
of the South. A Stockman. 

Fluvanna Co., Va. 

Wo are strongly in favor of the use of sulphur 
along with the sait for all cattle as it undoubtedly will 
largely tend to keep them free from ticks of all kinds, 
and whilst all ticks are not dangerous like the Texas 
fever tick, yet they all tend to make cattle less thrifty 
and are a heavy drain upon the system. Sulphur is 
no doubt objectionable to the Texas fever tick and 
cattle whose systems are thoroughly saturated with 
it will no doubt be less infes' d with the ticks and 
therefore less liable to suffer trom Texas fever, but 
we have seen no such results reported as would lead 
us to advise any stock owner to rely upon its use as a 
specific for the fever. The only way to get rid of 
Texas fever is to get rid of the ticks altogether by 
keeping cattle off the pastures for at least six months 
and thus starve the ticks to death. This can be done 
by cleaning one pasture each year until all are cleared 
and then keeping them clean by seeing that no cattle 
'nfested with ticks are turned on them in future. Al- 
low no tick infested cattle to come on the farm and 
urge the adoption of a "no fence" law in every county 
thus getting rid of wandering cattle. These straying 
cattle cost the farmers of the South hundreds of thou- 
sands of dollars every year. — Ed. 



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99 



THE LARGE VERSUS THE SMALL DAIRY COW. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

No act of Congress h as been of greater advantage 
to the farmer than the act establishing and aiding the 
State Experiment Stations; and no special work done 
by those stations has been of greater importance than 
that done in -the interest of the dairy farmer. It is 
less costly to learn at another's expense than at one's 
own ; and by giving heed to the disinterested, non- 
partisan work done by the stations, the dairy farmer 
may save himself much bitter disappointment, and 
not be misled by following the false teachings of cer- 
tain dairy writers and breed partizans. As its most 
valuable work in this line, the Wisconsin Experiment 
Station has recently issued bulletin No. 102, entitled 
''Studies in Milk Production." The present Wiscon- 
sin Experiment Station herd was established in 1808, 
and the bulletin covers the work of this herd for a 
period of four and one-half years. 

In order to make comparison of results on a basis 
of type, the herd was divided into three classes — the 
small dairy, the large dairy, and the dual-purpose 
type. The men making this division were Messrs. 
F. IT. Scribner, breeder of Jerseys; Charles L. Hill, 
breeder of Guernseys; Geo. McKerrow, breeder of 
Short-horns; and W. V>. Pichards, Assistant in Dairy 
Husbandry at the Station. 

Pasture was figured at $1.50 per month, and other 
feeds at average Wisconsin market prices; while the 
butter was figured at 20c. per pound, and the skim 
milk at 15c. per 100 pounds. The butter was com- 
puted on the basis of 85.7 per cent, of one pound of 
butter-fat in the milk equivalent to one pound of fin- 
ished butter; usually known as adding one-sixth to 
the butter-fat, the standard now used by the Ilolstein- 
Friesian and Guernsey Associations in their official 
records made under the supervision of the Experi- 
ment Stations. 

The conclusions reached, as a result of the most 
painstaking work through a period of almost five 
years, in which all the food given each animal was 
weighed, and each treated as though she alone were 
on test, confirm my teachings of 20 years past that 
the larger tvpe of dairy cow is the more profitable for 
the dairy farmer. Space will not permit me to give 
as much as I would like; but, as conclusively in favor 
of the large dairy type, of which the Holstein-Frie- 
sian is the best exponent, T quote the following: 

"Cows of the large dairy type preferable. — From 
the data presented it will be seen that, everything con- 
sidered, cows in group B, representing the large dairy 
type, are clearly in the lead for economic production 
of milk and butter-fat. The results of over four 
years' work with cows of the extreme dairy type, 
represented in group A, not only failed to establish 
the claims for the superiority of cows of this type 



over a much larger and apparently stronger dairy 
type, but clearly showed that they are not as large 
producers, nor as profitable dairy animals, as the lat- 
ter. 

That the extreme dairy type has been popular, at 
/east in this state is evidenced among other reasons, by 
the fact that three of the cows selected for the Uni- 
versity herd at our solicitation by prominent dairy- 
men in our State were fair representatives of this 
type of cows, and are included in group A. Our in- 
vestigations have been conducted under the most 
favorable conditions possible for this type of cows; 
the stable in which they have been kept is considered 
a model one, as regards cleanliness, light, ventila- 
tion and general comfort of the animals, and water 
is provided for them in the stalls so that they are not 
exposed to inclement weather *t any time. They are 
2jiven the best of care and attention at all times; 
being fed liberally; kept during the hot summer 
months in the cool, darkened barn, protected from 
sun and flies ; and are fed various green feeds and 
jzrain in summer, as well as protected from cold in 
winter. 

In view of the ever-increasing demands on the part 
of dairymen for cows that will have endurance and 
ability to withstand diseases, as well as great produc- 
tive capacities, we do not hesitate to state that in our 
opinion it is not the part of wisdom for our dairymen 
to select the small refined cows with a spare habit of 
body in an extreme degree as the most desirable type 
of dairy cows. 

The Farmers' or Dual-Purpose Type. — Neither is 
it the part of wisdom for the dairyman, as such, to 
select cows of a type similar to those in group C, rep- 
resenting the dual-purpose type, and to expect the 
greatest profit from them in the production of milk 
and butter-fat. For the dairy farmer, the large type 
of dairy cow will, we believe, everything considered, 
be found the most profitable. En view of the results 
obtained with the different groups, it is apparent that 
cows with the greatest capacity for consuming rough 
feed are generally the most economical producers. 
This may be accepted as a fundamental characteristic 
of all cows capable of large and economical produc- 
tion in the dairy. 

The station's comparisons by breed are very strik- 
ing, and, as usual, the IIolstein-Friesian breed is 
found to excel. Indeed, it seems that with fair rep- 
resentatives this great breed will always win in any 
net profit comparison, where both the butter-fat and 
skim milk have values assigned. The average results 
of the breed comparison are as follows: 



Holstein. Guernsey, 
i bs. 



Annual yield of milk 9,987.3 

Annual yield of fat 351.6 

A' nual value products $94 03 

Annual cosi of food 46 46 

Annual net profit 48 47 



Lb3. 

6, 30.7 
319.4 

$8 J 31 
37 37 
44 94 



Jersey. Shorthorn 
Lbs 



Lbs. 

5,700.2 

301.1 

$77 10 

35 22 

41 88 



7,121 4 
281.7 

$74 26 
38 17 
36 09 



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[February 



A careful study of this table will show the dairy 
farmer that it is not the cow that gives the richest 
milk, but the cow which produces the largest amount 
of butter-fat that wins out. During all those years, 
and for all their milk taken in bulk, the average for 
the llolstein-Friesian milk was 3.52 per cent, fat, 
while the Jersey average was much higher; yet we see 
that the Ilolstein-Friesians averaged annually over 
50 pounds more of butter-fat for each cow than did 
the Jerseys. 

But this table does not tell the whole story; the 
Wisconsin Station had even better grounds for decid- 
ing in favor of the larger, hardier, more vigorous 
cows. If a farmer went into the dairy business for 
five years he would take account of stock at the be- 
ginning and at the end of the specified time; and if 
he found that the herd had increased or decreased in 
value, he would take such increase or decrease into 
consideration. The Wisconsin Station did not do this 
because it was making a study of milk production 
only; but it gives a resume of each cow, and we can 
follow it out for ourselves. The Jersey list reads 
like a column of obituary notices: Out of 12 cows, 
one died of congestion of the lungs, one of bronchitis, 
two were got rid of because of loss of part of the 
udder from garget, two because found tuberculous, 
two because such delicate feeders as to be unprofita- 
ble, and one because of lack of constitutional vigor 
and dainty appetite ; only three left out of twelve, and 
they not the best. 

The hardy, vigorous llolstein-Friesian cows fur- 
nish a surprising contrast to this list: One did so 
well that a California breeder purchased her last 
summer at a long price, and took her to California. 
The rest are there and still doing business at the old 
stand, though there is one that II.-F. breeders would 
no doubt, be glad to get if they could. This is Alma 
Marie Josephine, who at three years old made a rec- 
ord of 18 pounds, 5.8 ounces butter from 400.0 
pounds milk, showing an average for the seven days 
of 3.77 per cent, fat in the milk. The net profit for 
the one week was estimated to be $2.72. 

The main deduction which the thinking dairy 
farmer must draw from the exhaustive work shown in 
this bulletin is that for the greatest net profit he needs 
cows of the large dairy type, such as the Ilolstien- 
Friesians; for, not only do they give a larger net 
profit, but by reason of their hardiness and great 
vitality, the large, vigorous ITolstein-Friesians thrive 
on work which will break down and destroy the weak- 
ly constitutions of the small, delicately formed Jer- 
seys. Mvt.coi.m II. Gardner. 

Darien, IFt'.s., Dec. 21, 1903. 

Tn justice to the dual-purpose cow it should be 
stated that the value of the calves produced by them 
is much higher than those of the pure dairy types, as 
they make the best of beef steers and thus add largely 



to the income from the herd over a period of years. 
—Ed. 



MOLASSES FOR HOGS. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

I had a barrel of all sorts of molasses the drainage 
from measuring cans that I directed my clerks to 
turn upside down, after filling an order, into a big 
funnel that was placed into the bughole of this par- 
ticular barrel. When I quit merchandising I brought 
this barrel of molasses to the farm. I found that my 
pigs were not relishing their bran mashes and it oc- 
curred to me to put one and a half gallons of this 
molasses to each 50 gallons of bran mash. In 35 
years of pig raising experience I never saw such a 
sudden and rapid improvement in pigs as resulted 
from feeding the mixture. I fill a 50 gallon barrel 
one-fourth full of bran and shorts. I then put in 1^ 
gallons of this molasses and fill the barrel from my 
heating apparatus with milk-warm water and feed at 
once, keeping the mixture thoroughly stirred while 
feeding. I add all the greasy slops and milk I can 
get to the mixture, and when this is very scarce I cook 
for each barrel of mixture a half bushel of unmar- 
ketable potatoes, the marbles as thev are sometimes 
called. Tiios. S. White. 

Rockbridge Co., Va. 



VIRGINIA VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, 

The Virginia Veterinary Medical Association met 
in Richmond on the 14th of January. This was un- 
doubtedly the most successful meeting in the history 
of the association. Much important business was 
transacted, officers elected, some very interesting 
cases reported, operations performed, and a paper 
read by Dr. J. G. Ferneyhough, State Veterinarian, 
and Assistant Professor of Veterinary Science, in the 
Veterinary Department of the Virginia Polytechnic 
Institute at Placksburg, Va. 



MILK RECORDS FOR 1903 

At the Melrose Castle Farm,, Casanova, Va. 
Editor Southern Planter: 

The milk produced by the full blood Ayrshire 
herd at the above farm, advertised in another column 
of this journal, is weighed at each milking. 

The records show an average production of 5,329 
pounds of milk from 35 cows. Throwing out three 
heifers for first period of lactation, the average for 
32 is 5,545 pounds. Twelve of the 35 produced over 
6,000 pounds and the best cow produced 7,079 
pounds. Enos. II. IIf.ss, 

Manager. 



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101 



The Poultry Yard. 



RAISING CHICKENS BY NATURAL MEANS. 

Editor Soullicrn Tlanter: 

Arrange to- have a number of hens hatch at the 
same time so that more chickens can be given to each 
hen and they are less trouble to care for proportion- 
ately. Since the hens are the best brooders, where an 
incubator is employed to hatch the chicks, they may 
be raised by hens. To do this set one hen at the same 
time the eggs are put into the machine and divide her 
eggs amongst a few other broody hens when the eggs 
are nearly ready to hatch. After a hen has been on 
the nest with one or two chicks under her she will 
undertake the task of raising a large family with- 
out any trouble, and the chicks from the incubator 
hatched eggs may be given these hens, say at the rate 
of 20 to 25 to each hen. 

The time of hatching controls to a considerable ex- 
tent the size of the fowl. Early hatching tends to 
produce larger fowls. It takes an average of three 
eggs to produce one live healthy chick. This is the 
conclusion which has been reached at some of the 
experiment stations. Of course this takes into ac- 
count all losses and yet many people continue to be 
sorely disappointed if they buy a setting of eggs and 
one-third of them fails to hatch. 

The last thing that the chick does before leaving 
the shell is to draw into its body the yolk of the egg 
from the white of which the body of the chick has 
been developed. Eull and plump as it is when it 
comes from the shell, it does not require any food 
for the first twelve to thirty-six hours. Tn that time 
it has learnt to use its legs and is much more active 
than at first and will readily pick up food supplied 
to it. During the first two or three days the chicks 
require warmth more than food, and the hen should 
be disturbed as little as possible. The best food for 
the first few days is stale bread soaked in milk and 
squeezed nearly dry. This should be crumbled fine 
and placed where the chicks have free access to it, 
and where they cannot step on it. The first meal, 
recommpnded by Prof. Ohas. E. Thorne, director of 
the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, is beaten 
egg with two tablespoonfuls of milk. After beating 
the mixture is set in a warm place until it coagulates 
or "sets" in+o a custard, and should be fed in this 
condition. Polled oats (oat meal grits) make an ex- 
cellent food for chicks. There is, perhaps, no better 
grain food for young chickens than oats prepared in 
this manner. This may be fed after the third day in 



connection with the bread sopped in milk. The chicks 
should be fed regularly five times a day for the first 
month and no food allowed to sour. After the first 
ion days more uncooked food may be fed. x\ mixture 
jf wheat bran, corn meal, and a little linseed meal 
mixed makes a valuable food. This should be scald- 
ed but not made soppy; boiling water makes it stick 
together better and partially cooks it. In this condi- 
tion it is more easy to digest. The addition of a lit- 
tle bone meal supplies an abundance of bone making 
material and counteracts any tendency to diarrhoea. 
Dry grains, such as cracked wheat, cracked oats, mil- 
let seed and screenings from the various grains scat- 
tered through litter induce exercise and give a varie- 
ty. These should be given three times a day and soft 
food should constitute the other two meals. Hard- 
boiled eggs may be fed from the beginning, but like 
milk, require more skill than the feeding of bread 
soaked in milk. The eggs should be mixed with 
bread crumbs, one-half of each and fed once a day, 
say every other day for the first week. Too much 
'oiled ezg is not jjood for the chicks. 

One of the great difficulties in raising fowls is to 
carry young chickens through the first two weeks 
without bowel disorders. Improper food, injudi- 
cious feeding and cold each play an important part 
in producing these disorders. The best corrective is 
scalded milk substituted for the drinking water. 

If the fowls are confined in coops a very little fine- 
ly chopped meat should be given once a day, — a piece 
as large as a walnut will be sufficient for a dozen 
chicks. Dried blood or meat meal will serve the pur- 
pose as well. Coarse sand makes an excellent grit 
for very young chickens. As they get older some 
coarser material must be provided. 

During the first eight weeks of their life chicks 
should have plenty of room to run, yet they should 
not be allowed to tramp around in the wet grass. With 
runs of medium extent they should receive three 
meals a day during the second and third months. 
Mash in the morning and grain in the middle of the 
day and at night. 

When the mother shakes off the chickens they 
should be protected from the cold. It is a good plan 
to place thq hen and chickens in the house where you 
wish to keep the chickens after the hen has left them. 
They will huddle together and so keep warm. 
Twenty-five is sufficient in each flock so as to pre- 
vent over-crowding. Do not furnish roosts for the 



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[February 



young chickens. Crooked breast bones are aften 
caused by roosting too young. During the hot months 
shade must be provided. Let them out early, they 
will hunt and enjoy life during the morning hours. 
At 10 or 11 A. M. you will see them lounge in the 
shady places. Then a few hours before sunset they 
will scatter again, until fed the last meal, and then 
retire happy and contented with life. If one has 
an orchard it is an ideal place for shade and insects. 
A five or six foot wire fence should inclose the fowls. 

Geo. IT. C. Williams. 
District of Columbia. 



THE NEW YORK CO-OPERATIVE EGG PRODUC- 
ING EXPERIMENTS. 
In a comparison of the different breeds of fowls 
the White Leghorn pullets came out first, second and 
fifth in the eggs laid per 100 fowls per day, and a 
flock of mixed fowls, pullets and hens, came out third 
and fourth. In the food cost of one dozen eggs, the 
White Leghorn pullets came out first, second and 
third, and a mixed flock of pullets fourth. Ply- 
mouth Lock pullets came out sixth in eggs laid per 
100 fowls per day, and twelfth in food cost of one 
dozen eggs. Black Minorca pullets came out thir- 
teenth in eggs laid per 100 fowls per day, and eigh- 
teenth in food cost of one dozen eggs. In the experi- 
ment in 1002-1003 a flock of White Leghorns, con- 
sisting of 500 pullets and 18 cocks and cockerels, 
made a profit (excess of value of eggs over cost of 
food) of $40.45 per 100 fowls. A mixed flock of Wy- 
andottes, Leghorns and cross breed Wyandottes and 
Leghorns and Buff Leghorn pullets and hens mixed 
made a profit (excess of value of eggs over cost of 
food) of $41.00 per 100 fowls. Another flock of White 
Leghorn pullets made a profit of $40.58 per 100 
fowls. In the winter of 1002-1003, while the price 
of foods remained about the same as in 1001-1002, 
the price of eggs from about the 1st of February on 
was remarkably low. This covers the period when 
the greater number of eggs were laid, consequently 
the profits are much less in 1002-1003 than in 1001- 
1002. 



DUCKS AND WINTER LAYING. 

Ducks, as a rule, do not lay well in winter, if we 
except the Indian Runner breed, and yet eggs at this 
time are very much wanted by those who hatch and 
rear early ducklings for market. The eggs of the 
Runner can he had without much difficulty, but this 
'•reed is of little value for the purpose referred to. A 



breed which grows quickly and puts on plenty of flesh 
of fine quality is what is wanted. Good condition, 
without being overfat, is what is demanded in the 
stock birds, and, in addition, they muct be provided 
with comfortable quarters, and supplied with good 
and stimulating food. Animal food must form a 
liberal share of their diet. Ducks can stand a lot of 
r his, and during the winter they lay all the better for 
it. Cooked vegetables, such as cabbage and turnips, 
are also very necessary, and should always accompany 
a diet rich in nitrogenous elements. Mere fat-pro- 
ducing food is of little value, though a certain amount 
is necessary to supply the carbon demanded by the 
low temperature of winter. In this respect, corn 
meal is useful, but should be combined with one-third 
its bulk of bran. 

A cross between Pekins and Aylesburys often pro- 
duces ducks which have a tendency to lay earlier in 
the winter than the pure bred parents, and it often 
suits to cross these birds another year with pure Ayles" 
bury drakes. When Indian Runner ducks are cross- 
ed with Aylesbury drakes plenty of early eggs are 
secured, and the young ducklings are fairly satisfac- 
tory growers, but if this cross is again mated with 
an Aylesbury male the results are generally very 
satisfactory. Fggs can usually be got at the time 
they are wanted, and the ducklings grow fast, and 
put on a lot of meat. If the top prices are usually 
secured by pure bred Aylesburys, the latter cross, at 
any rate, ranges high up, and, everything considered, 
is very satisfactory. — Ex. 



Potato Fertilizer— Chemical Fertilizers. 

AVill you let come out in your February issue the 
different cbemicals to make a good potato fertilizer, 
and where they can he bought, and proper proportions 
to mix the same, and how much to the acre. If pos- 
sible, give names of parties selling chemicals, as we 
have applied to some companies and they refer us to 
the agent, and he wants to sell lis a manufactured 
article, which we do not want. Also can you give us 
l he wholesale price list on chemical fertilizers from 
the parties you recommend? 

J. Sinclair Seldex. 

If you look at Work for the Month in the Garden 
Department you will find instructions as to Irish 
potato fertilizer. You can get chemicals for mixing 
fertilizers from Mortimer & Co., 13 William street, 
Yew York city. They will quote you prices deliver- 
ed in this or other States. They are a reliable firm, 
and will sell you the goods as cheap as they can be 
bought anywhere and of guaranteed analysis. You 
will find a price list of chemicals in this issue. — Ed. 



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103 



The Horse. 



NOTES. 

The Eastern Shore of Virginia breeders, the Floyd 
Brothers, whose establishment is near Bridgetown, 
in Northampton county, are branching ont and in- 
fusing new blood into their trotting stud year after 
year. Their premier sire is Sidney Prince, 2:21}, 
son of Sidney, and his stud companions are Bed 
Oliver, by Electrite, from the great brood mare Lady 
May, and a young horse by Baron Dillon from a pro- 
ducing dam. There is no more popular horse in 
Virginia than Sidney Prince, and bis book for some 
seasons has filled to overflowing. At the recent 
Easig-Tipton sale, New York, the Messrs. Floyd 
added eleven head of well bred hrood mares to their 
collection, and the addition of these matrons is likely 
to produce results of a highly satisfactory nature. 
They are by successful sires and mated with the 
Floyd stallions should throw race winners. The 
mares in question are Tlario, bay, foaled 1898, bv 
Allerton, 2 :09j, dam Ptroness Spragne, by Baron 
Wilkes, bred to Expedition, 2:1.5^; Nonamusu, a 
brown, foaled 1!)00, by Allerton, dam Kate E., dam 
of Birchwood, 2:1:", by Mamhrino Boy, bred to Ex- 
pedition; Egoria, a black, foaled 1901, by Wilkes 
Boy, dam Equina, by Expedition, bred to Allerton; 
Bed Rock, a bay, foaled 1893, by Egotist, 2:22, dam 
Dixie Phallas, by Phallas, 2:13}, bred to Allerton; 
Baroletta, 2 :17+, pacing, a bay, foaled 189G, by 
Grand Baron, 2:12}, clam Collcta, 2:19], by Nut- 
breaker, 2:21], bred to G rattan Hoy, 2 :0S ; Alselma, 
a bay, foaled 1899, bv Altivo, 2:18£, dam Anselma, 
2:294, by Ansel, 2:20, bred to Axworthy, 2:15J; 
Czarina, a brown, foaled 1!>00, by Henry Jay, dam 
Sugar, dam of Peppina, 2:18}, bv Lumps, 2:21; 
Bessie Gillig, foaled 1899, by Gil'lig, 2 :23|, dam 
Cecil, dam of Ti Point Mary, 2:17|, by Waltham; 
Miss Thayer, a black, by Simmons, 2:28, dam Es- 
prit, by Cuyler Clara McGregor, a chestnut, foaled 
1880, by Robert McGregor, 2:17}, dam Clara Mor- 
ris, by Mamhrino Patchen, bred to Managing Direc- 
tor; and Clemnnce, a bay, foaled 1899, by Cresceus, 
1:59^, dam Aureola, sister to Delegate, 2:27}-, by 
Dictator. 

J* Jl Jt 

The brood mares purchased by the Floyd Brothers 
and placed in their stud should make history for the 
Eastern Shore of Virginia, as most of them are bred 
in fashionable lines and carry the blood of the most 
successful sires of the present flay. Nearly all of j 
them trace to George Wilkes, Electioneer and Alex- 
ander's Abdallab, a trio holding the first rank among 
the sons of Ilambletonian, 10. Some of these mares 
are yet young, and will be trained and raced before 



being retired permanently to the stud, while others 
are already staid matrons and were purchased spe- 
cially for breeding. Those by Allerton, Expedition, 
Wilkes Boy and Robert McGregor are the get of 
sires of proven merit, and likely to attract most at- 
tention, of course, but I confess more or less par- 
tiality for Clcmonee, the daughter of the stallion 
Icing, Cresceus, l:59f, not wholly because she is by 
that mighty warrior, but on account of her carrying 
I he blood of Dictator on the maternal side, through 
her dam, Aureola, the sister to Delegate. When 
mated with Sidney Prince, Clcmonee should throw a 
race horse, as the prospective foal will carry blood 
that has produced Lou Dillon, 1 :58|, queen of trot- 
lers, and Cresceus, l:5Uf, who reigns as king of 

them. 

J* J* # 

Felly, 2:27, full brother to Expressive, 2:12}, is 
doing finely in the stable of W. J. Carter. Expres- 
sive was the greatest trotting race filly as a three 
year the world has ever seen. She has great size, and 
•■vas recently sold at auction in New York for $1,700 
when thirteen years old. Felly is a son of Elec- 
tioneer, out of far-famed thoroughbred Esther, dam 
of four trotters. lie has sired McChesney, 2:lGf, 
and other speedy performers. This horse transmits 
his level bead, speed and exquisite finish to his get, 
too, and breeders can make no mistake in sending 
their best mares to his court. 

Jl J* J 

Amonsr the trotters that are being wintered at 
Spring Garden Farm, the country home of Robert 
Tait, the Norfolk seed merchant, are Burlingame, 
2:181, the brown stallion, by Guy Wilkes, dam the 
famous brood mare Sable, by The Moor; Lissak, son 
of Burlincame and llclie, by Norval, and such brood 
mares as Ilelice, dam of Clarion, 2:15+; Miss Mack, 
dam of General Johnson, 2 :12} ; Sweetstakes, dam of 
Great Stakes, 2:20, and others of note. Burlingame 
was a trotter and a great show horse as well, and he is 
the premier sire at Spring Garden, but Lissak is a 
young horse, with good looks and speed, and some of 
the best mares at the farm will be mated with him 
this season. 

Jt J* J» 

Some of the best mares in the State were mated 
last season with W. II. Nelson's bay stallion, Great 
Stakes, 2:20, and the son of Billy Thornhill is likely 
to be well patronized during the coming one. Great 
Stakes is the sire of the crack roadster, Foxhall, 
1 :19f , and other fast ones. Some of the best bred of 
his get are fast enough to win and will take records 
when started. One of the most promising of his 



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[February 



daughters of the chestnut mare Princess Kenton, was 
sold for export to Europe last season. Her record was 
only 2 :32, but she could trot in 2 :15. 



The meeting of the Virginia State Veterinary As- 
sociation held in this city a few days since, was har- 
monious and productive of good results. Officers were 
elected and matters of importance discussed. Dr. 
Faville, of Norfolk, was chosen president; Dr. Thom- 
as Eraser, of Richmond, vice-president, and Dr. Gil- 
christ, of Norfolk, secretary and treasurer. The 
Board of Censors consists of these officers and Drs. 
Drake, Bannister and Eppes. Dr. J. G. Ferney- 
hough, who occupies the position of State Veterina- 
rian at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacks- 
burg, read a most interesting and valuable report of 
his work, while other papers of interest to the profes- 
sion were also read and discussed. On adjournment 
of the Association the State Board of Veterinary Ex- 
aminers, consisting of Drs. Gilchrist, Drake, Ban- 
nister and Willis, met and proceeded with the exam- 
ination of applicants to practice in the State. 

^w <5* ^* 

Among the two year olds in the string of J. O. 
Keane, the Kentucky trainer, who invaded Russia in 
1D02 and won more races than any one else, is Certi- 
orari, chestnut colt, by Eon dam Cara Belle, by imp. 
Charaxus, dam Ada Belle, by Eolus. Certiorari was 
bred in the Ellerslie stud, Charlottesville, Va., where 
his sire, the son of Eolus and War Song, rules as pre- 
mier. 

1G" V* *2* 

One of the highly prized brood mares in the Kings- 
ton stud of Baker & Gentry, Lexington, Ky., is the 
Ellerslie bred mare Charola, a chestnut daughter of 
imp. Charaxus and Eola, the sister to Eole, by Eolus, 
dam the famous War Song, by War Dance. The first 
foal of Charola, a filly, was sold at auction in New 
York last spring for $1,800. She has just dropped 
her second foal, a handsome chestnut colt, by Jack 
Point. 

. t^w ^* i&& 

The stable of trotters owned by L. G. Roper arc 
being wintered at Lonsdale Stock Farm, Roper, N. 
C, and the horses are all doing nicely. By the record 
Harry Woodford, 2 :17-|, the brown gelding, by Clem- 
ent R., dam Maud, by Harry Clay, is the fastest 
member of the stable and ]\ir. Roper considers his able 
to trot right around 2:10. Among others in this 
string are Lady Thelma, 2 :20 }, by Clement R. : 
Simol Stakes, 2:212, by Great Stakes; Mabel R., 



by the same sire, and Tar-LTeel, by Clement R., all of 
whom are out of the great brood mare Sue Norfolk. ^ 
Sue Norfolk, the daughter of Norfolk and Lady Man- 
chester, is in foal to Alto Bell, by Day Bell,"son of ' 
the ex-stallion King Palo Alto, 2:08$. The nicest 
colt at Lonsdale is a year-by by Foxhall McGregor, 
dam Sue Norfolk. Tn addition to these Sue Norfolk 
is the dam of Foxhall, 2 :10£, Harry Woolford, Lady 
Thelma and Simol Stakes were raced last season and 
Mr. Roper may conclude to send them out again dur- 
ing the coming one, along with some younger horses 
owned at the farm. 

(^* *2™ w* 

n. M. Johnston, Bedford City, Va., has sold to 
George D. Wingfield, same place, the California bred 
stallion Albenson, 10240, a bay, by Alberton, 4023, 
dam Lady Nelson, by John Nelson, 1S7, second dam 
Oregon Nell, dam of Maid of Oaks, 2 :23, by Mis- 
sourin Copperbottom. Albenson was foaled 1889 
and bred by W. S. Enos, of Independence. 

X0*i i2"i w 1 * 

William W. Bennett, whose stud of thoroughbreds 
is kept on his farm, near Buchanan, Botetourt coun- 
ty, Va., has recently added to his collection the chest- 
nut mare Sea Drift, by Knight of Ellerslie, dam Sea 
Foam, by Lisbon. The former good race horse and 
now successful sire of hunter and jumpers, Bohe- 
mian, son of Ten Broeck, who heads the Bennett stud, 
is wintering nicely and promises to be well patronized 
during the coming season. 

t^V x£* \0*l 

A meeting of the Staunton Horse Show Associa- 
tion, of Staunton, Va., was held there recently and 
plans laid for an exhibition this year. The Association 
has secured the services of Julian Morris, who suc- 
cessfully managed the Lynchburg Horse Show in 
1003. The officers of the Staunton Horse Show Asso- 
ciation are: Hon. Edward Echols, president; J. N. 
McFarland, vice-president; L. G. Straus, treasurer; 
Hugh C. Braxton, secretary, while the Board of Di- 
rectors is made up of S. II. Ellerson, AV. W. King, 
L. L. Bowman, Julius Witz, Raleigh Carrier, J. B. 
Guntner, William A. Grubert and S. C. Neff. 

Broad Rock. 

%£• «5* v* 

Errata. — Tn onr January issue, in the last para- 
graph in the Horse Notes, a mistake occurred which 
we desire to correct. The gentleman referred to as 
"Mr. Samuel" should have been Mr. Samuel ITair- 
ston. He breeds pure bred cattle and hogs and fine 
horses. — En. 



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105 



Miscellaneous. 




AGRICULTURAL TEACHERS AMD WRITERS. 

DR. W. C. STUBBS. 
In the article in our last issue on this subject it was 
our intention to have included a short sketch of Dr. 
V» T . C. Stubbs, but we failed to receive his portrait in 

time to .have a half 
tone cut made. We 
have since received 
same, and have now 
the pleasure of pre- 
senting a life-like 
likeness of Dr. 
Stubbs. Dr. Stubbs 
is one of the men 
of whom Virginia 
may be proud, al- 
though, unfortu- 
nately for Virginia, 
his life work in the 
advancement of ag- 
riculture has been 
done in another 
State. Dr. Stubbs 
is a native of Glou- 
cester county. Va., where he still owns the old ances- 
tral plantation on which his forbears were born and 
helped to build up the State. This plantation he not 
only owns but works, the same being managed by his 
nephew under direction. He is there setting a fine 
example of scientific farming and daily increasing 
the fertility of the place and building up a fine herd 
of pure bred cattle. Dr. Stubbs, after serving 
Through the war resumed his studies at the Univer- 
sity of Virginia and graduated there. In 1869 he 
accepted a profesorship in East Alabama College, 
and in 1872 was made professor of chemistry in 
Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical College, and 
later State Chemist. In 1885 he was called to take 
charge of the Louisiana Sugar Experiment Station, 
established by the planters of that State. He was 
shortly after appointed professor of agriculture in 
Louisiana State University and Director of the State 
Experiment Station at Baton Rouge. Later he was 
made State Chemist of Louisiana, and also Director 
of the North Louisiana Experiment Station, at Cal- 
houn. He still discharges the duties of these various 
positions and has done so so efficiently and with such 
manifest advantage to the agricultural interest of the 
State that the Legislature has constantly increased 



the appropriations made for the different interests 
under his charge. The work which he has done in 
connection with the introduction and breeding of 
richer types of Sugar cane and the growth of these 
and the introduction and perfection of means for 
more completely extracting and refining the juice has 
resulted in the addition of millions of dollars of 
wealth to Louisiana. In other lines of agricultural 
advancement he has taken forward ground, and is 
now doing all he can to increase interest in live stock 
breeding and feeding, with a view to the utilization 
of the waste products of the rice, cotton and sugar 
fields. In this issue will be found a short article 
dealing with his latest experiment in this line in 
which he has demonstrated that Louisiana, with her 
rice bran and molasses and forage crops, can feed 
beef which will top the Chicago market. Dr. Stubbs 
has been a prolific writer on the Sugar cane and 
sugar production, and his works are recognized as 
authorities on the subject. He has also written 
largely on other agricultural topics and has fre- 
quently favored us with articles of great value to 
Virginia and other Southern farmers. Although so 
busy a man he never fails to respond to any request 
from us for an article likely to be of help and value 
lo his old Virginia friends. 



Bermuda Grass. 

You will please advise me if you think Bermuda 
Grass would grow in Franklin county, Va. I am 
anxious to secure a stand of several acres if you think 
same will grow here. Advise best methods of sow- 
ing it. Will order the sod if 3 ? ou think best. Name 
land best suited for it. W. 1\L Paekee. 

Henry Co., Va. 

Yes, we believe it will succeed. Plant sod and not 
seed. It does best on good loamy land. Plow and 
work the land fine, then ojien shallow furrows about a 
foot apart drop in at intervals of a foot a few of the 
roots and cover with the plow and roll. The roots 
are much more reliable than the seed. — Ed. 



If you have some pure bred birds, enter them for 
competition. The score card of the judge will give 
you an idea of their value. 



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[February 




AN IRISH POTATO DIGGER. 

The scarcity of labor now common throughout the 
trucking sections of the country and which is being 
seriously felt in this and adjoining States, has led us 
to make some enquiry and investigation into the 
merits of an Irish potato digger which has recently 
been put on the market by D. Y. Ilallock & Sons, of 
York, Pa., the introducers of that well-known and 
appreciated implement, the weeder. In the trucking 
sections of this and adjoining States millions of 
biishcls of early Trish potatoes are grown every year. 
In the past the digging and gathering of this crop 
has been done chiefly by negroes, but the demand for 
labor has taken away to the mines, railroads and 
factories thousands of these men. Something in the 
shape of machinery is needed to take their place, and 
from our investigation into the merits of Messrs. 
Hallock's digger, we believe they have struck the 
needed want. Diggers in the past have not given 
full satisfaction. They either failed to dig cleanly 
or bruised and buried the potatoes after they were 
lifted. The devices adopted by Messrs. Ilallock in 
their new machine seem to us likely to meet all these 
difficulties, and we are assured by those who tested 
the machine last fall that it did excellent work. We 
feel that growers may with confidence give this ma- 



chine a trial, and we shall be glad to learn that they 
are doing so. Machinery is bound eventually to sup- 
plant human labor in this work, and those who first 
get the right machine are sure to be rewarded in the 
quick and economical handling of the crops. 



NORTH GARDEN (VA.) FARMERS' CLUB. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

The North Garden Farmers' Club held its 14th 
annual meeting at the home of Mr. S. B. Woods, on 
i he 19th of December. The inspection committee, 
consisting of Messrs. Harry Martin, W. II. Suther- 
land, G. W. White, reported Mr. Woods' large herd 
of pure bred Red Polled cattle in fine condition. He 
has also ten fine pure bred Poland China brood sows 
and 108 fine Bronze turkeys, for which Mr. Woods 
expects $10 each. His large orchards are in good 
condition. Since the last meeting he has erected a 
large and handsome barn. 

After the inspection the club were invited to a most 
excellent dinner, among the viands being a splendid 
wild turkey, roast bear, oysters, etc. After doing 
f.mple justice to these good things the Club adjourned 
to the parlor, where small tables Avere groaning un- 
der the weight of cakes and cream. After partaking 



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of all these creature comforts the Club was ready for 
business, and proceeded to the election of officers for 
the ensuing year. Mr. Harry Martin was elected 
President; Vice-President, W. II. Sutherland; Sec- 
retary, L. B. ohnson; Corresponding Secretary, J. 
I\. Faris. 

The drawing of the months in which each member 
will entertain the Club during the coming year then 
took place. There being no special subject for dis- 
cussion, the talk took a wide range, from the Panama 
Canal to the raising of chickens. The subject for 
discussion at the next meeting was agreed upon — 
yiz. : What new crops can we undertake to raise with 
fair prospects of success ? S. B. Woods and S. M. 
Page to open the discussion. 

The Club adjourned, to hold its next meeting at the 
heme of Mr. W. L. Carpenter. 

J. N. Paris, Corresponding Secretary. 



COUNTRY LIFE VS. CITY LIFE, 

Editor Southern Planter: 

I have been an interested reader of your practical 
and helpful journal for some five months, and, with 
your permission, would like to rise and ask a ques- 
tion. I have been a travelling man, am living in a 
city, and come in contact with all trades and profes- 
sions of importance. Among every class I find the 
same feeling of discontent and the idea that the man 
in the other class has the best job, and the easiest 
living. Almost universally they end their plaint 
with the statement, "The farmer is the most inde- 
pendent and has the best living of any working 
man." My query then, is, can a frugal, indus- 
trious man, who owns his own home in the city, and 
is Avorking on a fairly good salary, improve his con- 
dition and get ahead faster than could the same man 
with the same capital invested in a good farm, as Avell 
located with reference to markets as the city man is 
to employment, and allowing average success in each 
location ? 

I have a home in mind, which will illustrate the 
way in which the ordinary city man lives, and how 
his money goes. He owns a house of eight rooms, 
with all improvements, on a lot 35x100 feet, on a 
clean street and good neighborhood, within three 
minutes' walk of car line, stores, school, churches, 
etc. His property is worth about $3,000. He works 
nine hours a day on a salary of $50 per month. The 
family consists of three adults, and there is no work 
hired in the house, his wife doing the washing and 
ironing. The expenses of maintaining this home are 
about as follows : 

Taxes per year $ 30 00 

Food per year 180 00 



Fuel per year 35 00 

Water rents per year 6 00 

Gas, fuel, light per year 25 00 

Clothes per year 100 00 

Pepairs per year 20 00 

Car fare per year 40 00 

Lunches, 25c. per day 74 00 

$510 00 

Year's salary $000 00 

Total expenses 510 00 

Balance $90 00 

These figures, I believe, are as low as a family of 
three can live in this city respectably. This leaves, 
as you see, only $00 for incidentals and for a rainy 
day. You can imagine how much is saved ! 

The United States Commissioner of Labor reports 
that the estimated cost of living for a family in this 
city is $450 per year, and the average salary received 
as $40 per month, many in debt and getting more in- 
volved each year. 

[Now, Mr. Editor, I can see where a large part of 
the above $510 could be cut off in the country, with 
one's own cow, poultry, fruit and vegetables, so that 
perhaps one-half could be saved and placed on the 
credit side of the farm. But how about the crops 
and the income obtainable from a $3,000 farm in old 
Virginia ? Suppose we find a farm well located as 
to markets, of say a 100 acres, with fair buildings, 
water, etc., such as we see advertised in your State, 
and plan it to have, say — 
25 acres in timber for fuel. 

2 acres in yard and buildings. 

3 acres in orchard and poultry yards. 
10 acres in hog pasture. 

20 acres in corn. 

5 acres in wheat. 

5 acres in oats. 
30 acres in pasture, together with timber. 

100 

Suppose he kept. 500 or 1,000 laying hens, hatch- 
ing by incubator, and turning off as many early 
broilers as possible. Also 10 or 12 brood sows to run 
on the pasture, keeping them supplied with green 
feed by rape and other forage crops following the 
corn, etc. With a silo and a little surplus capital he 
might buy a few head of thin cattle, keeping them 60 
or 90 days, and so get more manure and market his 
corn and roughage at home. If such a course was 
pursued, what could he reasonably expect to realize 
above his living? I would feel very glad if you 
should consider this query of enough general interest 
to devote a little space in the Planter to a discus- 
sion of the subject, and give us your opinion of the 
"better life" and facts to show what can be done. 



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[February 



"Anything that will help to put intelligently con- 
ducted farming on a business basis with other pro- 
fessions, and stop the rush of young men to the al- 
ready overcrowded cities, seems to me to be of prime 
importance. Authorities tell us that 3 per cent, of 
the men who start in business make a success. How 
is it in farming? The latter business surely makes 
less nervous wrecks, and I believe affords the most 
satisfaction in life to one adapted to it. 

Cleveland, Ohio. H. C. King. 

The foregoing question is one which has been re- 
peatedly addressed to us, and one which we have on 
more than one occasion essayed to answer. The 
great difficulty which always confronts us in dealing 
with the subject is one of the man and not of the 
farm. Given the right man, one who knoAvs some- 
thing of country life and has a genuine love for the 
country and for working in the land and amongst 
animals, and there can be no doubt but that such a 
man can succeed as a farmer either in this State or 
in any other good farming State, and that he can not 
only provide better for the daily wants of his fam- 
ily, but can save more money than he can as a clerk 
or employee in the city on such a salary as the average 
man can command. And yet with this certain as- 
surance we always hesitate to advise a man to break 
up a city home and throw up a situation to become a 
farmer. This hesitancy is occasioned by fear lest 
the man and the new occupation shall not be found 
in harmony, especially under what are almost certain 
to be the rough experiences of the first two or three 
years, and that he will become discouraged and lose 
what he has saved and invested in the new place. 
With $3,000 to commence the life of a farmer in 
this State any man at all capable of running a farm 
and with health, strength and willingness to work 
and learn, ought to succeed in five years' time in 
securing a beautiful home and an abundance of 
everything needed to make life worth living, and 
after that save money each year. We would say 
first do not buy too large a place, 100 acres is enough, 
even less would be better than more. Do not invest 
in the farm more than half your capital. You will 
need money to meet running expenses and to provide 
household needs for at least two years, and probably 
something in addition to what the farm makes for 
another year or two beyond that time. In this 
State for $1,500 there are hundreds of places for sale 
of from 75 to 150 acres, with fairly comfortable 
houses and buildings on them, which, with good, 
energetic and scientific management, will, in three 
vears, make most desirable and profitable homes. 
The mistake nearly all make who come here from 



I he North and West is that they buy too much land. 
They are surprised at the low price of our lands as 
compared with the price of land North and West, and 
overburden themselves at the start, thus locking up 
rheir capital when it is essentially necesary that they 
-hould have means available to improve lands which, 
though naturally good, have been wasted by years of 
unscientific farming. On such a place as we have 
suggested, located within a reasonable distance of a 
city or town, a system of diversified farming, making 
dairying, hog raising and egg and poultry produc- 
tion leading features and raising on the farm all the 
rough feed needed and as much of the grain food as 
can be done, success should be assured. We have in 
mind a gentleman in this State who gave up a situ- 
ation as a drummer for a commercial house about ten 
years ago and went on to a farm owned by his wife 
in Southside Virginia. This farm had been rented 
for years, and was so badly run that the last tenant 
refused to live longer on it, even rent free, as he 
could not scrape a living out of it. Fortunately the 
gentleman in question had great love for farm life, 
and had been trained at the Agricultural and Me- 
chanical College of the State, and had, therefore, 
some knowledge of the work before him. Beyond 
the farm he had only a few hundred dollars of capi- 
tal. This he invested in a team and a few cows and 
hogs, and set about the work of improving 50 acres 
of his farm. He has worked steadily on the place 
from that time to this, and now owns one of the 
prettiest places in the whole section, producing on 
100 acres of the improved land some of the heaviest 
crops ever grown in the State, which are fed to a fine 
heid of cattle and to hogs and poultry, whose pro- 
ducts are shipped to this city and sell at top market 
prices, producing a fine income and constantly en- 
hancing the value of the farm and stock. What this 
gentleman has done you can do, if, like him, you 
are adapted to the life. 



Remember, the best-looking birds are not al- 
ways the best performers, and before completing the 
bargain learn something of the characteristics of 
these birds; the number of eggs per year the flock 
laid (or, better still, the individual records of some 
of the hens); if they lay through the winter; the 
kind of house they are in (if heated with stove, or 
oilier means, during cold days or nights, don't have 
them at any price), and other questions that may sug- 
gest themselves. Have a clear idea what you want, 
and if you are asked a price equal to one dollar per 
pound, "don't pinch down for a chip." 



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DETAIL INDEX TO ENQUIRER'S 

COLUMN. 

Nitrate of Soda — Humus 83 

Warts on Horses — Scratches 83 

Silo Filling— Silage 83 

Crops for Hogs 84 

Diseased Fowls 84 

English Blue Grass — Hungarian 

Brome Grass — Coculus Indicus. . 81 
Sheep Pulling Wool — Lump on 

Cow's Jaw 84 

Devon Cattle 85 

Utilizing Bones— Coffee Grounds — 

Soy Beans 85 

Worms in Hogs 85 

Broom Sedge in Orchard 85 

Draining Land 85 

Improving Mountain Land for Or- 
chards^ — Seeding to Grass 86 

Cross-Breeding Sheep 86 

Bermuda Onions 86 

Cocke's Prolific Corn — Maize 86 

Cocke's Prolific Corn — Lime — Ear- 
liana Tomato 86 

Hog Pasture 87 

Pecans 87 

Seeding to Grass 87 

Oyster Shells 87 

Windbreak 87 

Grass for Name 88 

Kaffir Corn 88 

Stock on Wild Range Near the Sea- 
coast 88 

Forage Crops 88 

East India Giant Clover 88 

Varieties of Apples and Peaches to 

Plant in Western North Carolina. 88 
Cotton Seed — Cotton Seed Meal — 

Stable Manure 89 

Book on Truck Growing — Fertilizer 

for Cabbages, etc 89 

Improving Land 89 

Tobacco Fertilizer 90 

Sores on Mules' Backs 90 

Brussels Sprouts 90 

Weeder in Cotton 90 

Improving Land 90 

Cow Pea Hay 90 



PUBLISHER'S NOTES. 



TO ADVERTISERS. 



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



Our Holiday Number. 

It is with a feeling close to pro- 
found gratitude that we acknowl- 
edge the numerous letters and ex- 
pressions of commendation and 
congratulation we have received 
on our January issue. From all 
quarters of the country have come 
words of praise of our effort. We 
have been made to feel that we 
have really done something worth 
doing. We are sure that we have 
gathered enough inspiration from 
these letters to last us through this 
year, and to urge us to still greater 
effort in the future. We append 
a couple of letters, which are fair 
samples of those received, and as 
they come from such competent 
sources, you need not blame us if 
you find us suffering with an at- 
tack of "swelled head" some time 
when you drop in on us : 

Raccoon Ford, Va., Jan. 12, 1904. 

I have been reading The Southern 
Planter for many years, say, from 
its foundation, in 1840, sixty-four 
years, and I am sure I have derived 
much benefit from it, and I hope it 
will survive and prosper for the bene- 
fit of generations to come. 

I am now almost eighty-eight years 
old, and am still giving my active at- 
tention to my farm operations. This 
is a blessing vouchsafed to very few, 
and I trust I am not unmindful, but 
often cherish a deep sense of gratitude 
for my vigorous health and activity in 
my old age. 

With best wishes, I am, very truly, 
Your friend, P. P. Nalle. 

Adrian, Mich., Jan. 11, 1903. 
The Southern Planter, 

Richmond, Virginia. 
Gentlemen : 

The writer has gone through every 
page of your current issue, and be- 
lieves, without exception, it is the 
most interesting number of any agri- 
cultural paper that ever came to his 
office. 

We congratulate you upon your 
grand success. Very respectfuly, 

Dr. J. H. Reynolds, Advertising Man 
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Truckers and Farmers 

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Wood's Seed Book will be mailed free 

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cane, cotton and tobacco. 
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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[February 



DEAFNESS CANNOT BE CURED 
by local applications, as they cannot 
reach the diseased portion of the ear. 
There is only one way to cure deafness, 
and that is by constitutional remedies. 
Deafness is caused by an inflamed con- 
dition of the mucous lining of the Eus- 
tachian Tube. When this tube is in- 
flamed you have a rumbling sound, or 
imperfect hearing, and when it is en- 
tirely closed, Deafness is the result, 
and unless the inflammation can be 
taken out and this tube restored to its 
normal condition, hearing will be de- 
stroyed forever. Nine cases out of ten 
are caused by Catarrh, wnich is 
nothing but an inflamed condition of 
the mucous services. 

"We will give One Hundred Dollars 
for any case of Deafness (caused by 
catarrh) that cannot be cured by 
Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circu- 
lars, free. 

F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0. 

Sold by Druggists, 75c. 

Hall's Family Pills are the best. 



WITH THE ADVERTISERS. 

R. B. Williamson is advertising his 
"Invincible Sprayer" in this issue. He 
has a very interesting illustrated cir- 
cular he would like to send to inter- 
ested parties. 

P. S. Lewis & Son are among the 
new advertisers in this issue. Their 
splendid herd of Short-horns, in which 
will be found the splendid bulls, Lord 
of Spring Creek, Cedric, Imp. Laven- 
der Lad, Imp. Sir Wilfred Laurier, is 
well worth investigating before pur- 
chasing elsewhere. 

This firm is going after the trade in 
this section, and will treat prospective 
buyers right, both as to price and 
quality of stock. 

The Hard Steel Fence Co. has a card 
in another column. Many of our read- 
ers are familiar with their goods. 

Hon. A. W. Harman, Jr., comes out 
with a Berkshire ad. in this issue. He 
offers some choice stock. 

Latham & Co. are offering Spraying 
outfits. Look up their ad. and send for 
descriptive circular. 

The Merchants' National Bank pub- 
lishes a comparative statement cover- 
ing 15 years of its business, which 
makes very interesting reading for 
any one interested in a safe and re- 
liable banking institution. 

R. J. Hancock & Son are offering 
for sale their noted horse, Aurus. Look 
up the ad. and send for his pedigree 
and price. 

J. W. Randall would like to dig you 
an Artesian well. Look up his ad. 
elsewhere. 

James Leffel & Co. have an interest- 
ing card on another page. 

The Cash Supply and Mfg. Co. are 
advertising their "Michigander" Incu- 
bator. 

W. M. Ostrander, the Philadelphia 



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SALZER'S NATIONAL OATS. 

Yea, farmers of America lend me your ears while I chant I 
the merits of this new Oat Novelty. 

Editors. Agricultural Writers. Institute Orators, all talk 
and write about this new Oat. Itvielded in Wis 156 bu in 
Ohio 187 bu., in Mich. 231 bu., in Mo i5o bu andinWo 
310 bu. per acre, during 1903, and in 1904 vou can grow just 
as easily 300 bu. per acre of Salzer's Nationn 1 Oats, as 
we can. Your land is just as good, just as rich and vou are 
just as good a farmer as we are. We hope you will try this 
Oat in 1904, and then sell samefor seed to your neighbors 
at a fancy price, next fall. 

Macaroni Wheat. 

i & C It d ° e s well on arid, dry lands as also on rich farm lands, 

« yielding from 30 to 80 lni. per acre. 

Speltz and Hanna Barley. 

Greatest cereal food on earth. Yields 4 tonselegant straw 
hay and 80 bu. of grain, as rich as corn, oats and wheat 
ground together! Does well everywhere ITanna Barley 
grows on dry, arid lands, yielding 60 bu. per acre. 

Salzer's Home Builder Corn. 

Positively the biggest eared early corn on earth, yielding 
in Ind.1,,7 bu , Ohio 1G0 bu., Tenn. 198 bu.. Mich 220 bu. 
and S. D. 27« bu. per acre. It is really a marvelous corn. 
Sinks its roots deeply alter moisture and nourishment and 
grows like a weed. 

Bromus Inermis and Alfalfa Clover. 

Bromus Inermis is the most prolific grass for permanent 
pastures on earth. Yields 7 tons hay per acre Good on 
sand, lime, clay, gravel— yes, on all kinds of soils ' 

Alfalfa Clover produces more hay and better hay than 
any Clover known. It is good for 7 tons per acre. 

Potatoes 736 bushels per Acre. 

The Editor of the Ri'ral New Yorker says, "Salzer's 
Earliest Potato is the earliest out of 58 early sorts tried, and 
yields 464 bu. per acre, while Salzer's Early Wisconsin 
yielded for them 736 bu. per acre. Salzer's Potatoes for 
yield challenge the world '" 

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1904.] 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



Ill 



real estate man, has a prominent ad. 
on another page. 

The Rocker Churn Mfg. Co. is a new 
advertiser in this issue. They offer a 
churn of considerable merit. 

The seed firm of Johnson & Stokes 
has a card on another page. 

The J. B. Williams Co. are advertis- 
ing their celebrated shaving soap. 

The Truss & -Cable Fence Co. resume 
their advertising with us again this 
season. 

Look up the ad. of Dan Patch. The 
International Stock Food Co., his 
owner, have something interesting to 
say about him. 

The Cozy Nook Poultry Farm is 
another new advertiser this season. 
They have some choice stock at right 
prices. 

The Bullfield Farms are offering 
their Poland Chinas. Look up the ad. 
L. W. Walsh has some high-scoring 
Plymouth Rocks for sale. 

A. P. White, Jr., owner of the Acco- 
mac herd of Berkshires, offers a choice 
lot of stock in his ad. in another 
column. 

Miniborya Farm has some splendid 
Berkshires for sale. 

Morewood Poultry Farm is adver- 
tising its prize-winning stock. 

The Chicago House Wrecking Co. 
has four ads. in this issue, and we in- 
vite the attention of our readers to 
all of them. 

Buff Rocks are offered by H. L. Tro- 
linger, another new advertiser, in this 
issue. 

Some splendid young mules can be 
had of Louis de Lacroix. Refer to his 
ad. 

Rose Dale Stock Farm has a choice 
offering of Aberdeen-Angus cattle. 

The famous Mapes Manures are ad- 
vertised on another page. 

Single Comb White Leghorns are a 
specialty of C. G. M. Fink, as will be 
seen by his ad. in another column. 

Some choice Essex Hogs can be had 
of L. G. Jones. 

The Ohio Carriage Mfg. Co. is going 
right after the carriage and buggy 
trade of this section, as will be evi- 
denced by their large ads. to be found 
elsewhere. 

Hollybrook Farm offers some choice 
Berkshires, and also eggs from the 
prominent strains of pure-bred poultry. 
Some choice Angora bucks can be 
had of M. S. Valentine. He sends us 
a splendid sample of mohair, taken 
from one of these bucks in last Novem- 
ber. It was then about 6 inches long. 
J. T. Janney has three ads. in this 
issue, to which we ask your attention. 
The Bona Vista Nurseries have a 
large ad. on another page. They are 
offering some choice stock, which will 
be found in good, healthy condition. 



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[February 



The LANSING" 
PERFECT TUBULAR SILO 

is the Best S'.lo Made. 




A. M. D. HOLLOWAY, 

Builders Exchange, Phila., Pa., U. S. A. 

Write for Catalogue and Prices. 

Clark's Tools for Large Hay Crops 

1 Clark's Rev. Bush Plow and Harrow 

'■^i, cuts a track 5 ft. wide, 1 ft. 
~jt?<fH: k deep. Connects the sub- 
] soil water. It is an ex- 
cellent machine for 
» covering in sugar cane. 
'Strength guaranteed. 
* Can plow a newly cut 
' forest, stump, bush, or 
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Clark's Double Action Cutaway 
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^Send for Circulars. 

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One or two furrows five 



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No side draft. No similar 
plow made. When Clark's grass tools are used 
as directed in his grass circular, we, the C. H Co. , 
guarantee them to kill wild mustard, charlock, 
hard hack, sunflower, milk weed, morning glory, 
Russian thistle or any other foul plant that 
gTows, or money refunded. Now is the time to 
commence work for next year's seeding to grass. 

THE CUTAWAY HARROW CO., 

Hlgganum, Ct., U. S. A. 



All Grinding; 

Ear corn, with or without 
husks, and all grains ground 
fine or coarse as 
wanted with the 

KELLY 

DUPLEX 

Grinding Mills. 

They neverchoke. Double cob 
breakers an I double el burrs e ve greatest speed. Take lit- 
tie power, any kind. Strong and durable. 4 sizes. Catalog free. 

THE O. S. KELLY CO., Springfield, Ohio. 




A NEW FERTILIZER. 

NITEATE OF POTASH. 

A fertilizer chemical about which 
little is known by the average farmer, 
but to-day the cheapest source of 
potash and nitrogen, is Nitrate of 
Potash. It is practically the only ex- 
tensive source of potash not controlled 
by the Potash Trust. 

Nitrate of Potash is imported from 
India. The total exports from that 
country to all points are about 20,000 
tons, of which about 6,000 tons comes 
to the United States, 6,000 to England, 
4,000 tons to China and Japan, 2,500 
tons to the Continent, and 1,500 tons 
to Mauritius. Of the 6,000 tons 
brought to this country, about 2,500 
tons are used by the packers, 2,000 
tons by powder manufacturers, and 
1,500 tons by fertilizer manufacturers 
It is only during the last two years 
that fertilizer manufacturers have 
used the material, but the consump- 
tion in this direction is increasing. 
All Nitrate of Potash is sold under a 
guarantee of "under 6 per cent, re- 
fraction"; in other words, 94 per cent. 
Nitrate of Potash. Ninety-four per 
cent. Nitrate of Potash contains about 
45 per cent, actual potash and 16 per 
cent, ammonia. In other words, 2,000 
pounds of 94 per cent. Nitrate of 
Potash, analyzing 45 per cent, actual 
potash and 16 per cent, ammonia, con- 
tains as much actual potash as 1,850 
pounds of 90 per cent, sulphate of 
potash, and as much ammonia as 
about 1,675 pounds of 96 per cent, 
nitrate of Soda — over 3,500 pounds of 
the two combined. 

This material is worth to-day at 
New York for February-March de- 
livery in lots of one ton and over 
$70 per ton, f. o. b. cars. In car-load 
lots, ex vessel, $67.50 per ton. It is 
in mixtures where potash in the form 
of sulphate is usually used as in to- 
bacco fertilizers that this material 
shows the greatest economy. Tobacco 
stems, when distilled, produce potash 
in the form of Nitrate of Potash, 
which would certainly show that this 
material is an ideal source of Potash 
and Nitrogen for this crop. 

With nitrate of soda, worth $42.50 
per ton, and sulphate of potash, 43.50 
per ton, in car-load lots at seaboard, 
Nitrate of Potash, at $67.50, com- 
pares as follows: 
1,850 lbs. of 90 per cent, sul- 
phate of potash at $43.50 

per ton $40.23 

1,675 lbs. of 96 per cent, nitrate 

of soda at $42.50 per ton . 35.59 



3,225 lbs $75.82 

2,000 lbs. of 94 per cent, nitrate 

of potash, their equivalent. 67.50 



1,525 lbs saved in freight and in 

cost per ton $8.32 

Nitrate of Potash is a white crys- 
talline material, easily soluble in 
water, and, of course, its potash and 
nitrogen contents are at once avail- 




No Money 
In Advance. 

We will send any re- 
sponsible farmer a 

DITTO'S 

™&%\"Xh, FEED GRINDER 

to test on his own farm. Grinds ear corn 
and all small grain. If it is not the easiest 
I running, with largest capacity, don't keep it. 
It is strong and powerful — a time saver and a 
money maker. Send for circulars and full 
particulars. 

G. M. DITTO, Box 48 Joliet, Ills. 



You Try, It. 

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

New Holland Mills 

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

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



Leave Off Chopping. 

wasting your time and strength. It is easy 
work— turning the wood pile into money or ] 
keeping up your own fires with 

Freeman's Wo s d a w S . 

Easy, perfect 
working machines 
of varied patterns 
and right prices. 
We also make thei 
famous Freeman 1 
Windmills, Corn I 
Shelters, Feed Cut- \ 
ters, etc. 

Ask for our cata- 
logue 110 

I S. FREEMAN & SONS 

MFG. CO., 
I Racine, Wisconsin. 



file "Weber Junior' 
Pumper' 




■ KB UBRd 

tor other 

#owei 

purpot. 



Ts atl complete, ready to a* 

tachtopomp. Equals 30 men 
pump log water. 
Uses but little gas- 
oline. Is shipped 
crated complete)/ 
_ erected, all connec- 
tions made. Easy to start, any 
one can operate It. Every 
one guaranteed. Other sizes 
up to 50 H. P. Send for cat- 
■iirtir- Weber Gas & GasoV-- 
Engine Co., Box 128 
Kansas City- Po 



Your Own Fertilizer; 

at Small Cost with ' 

Wilson's Phosphate Mills 

From 1 to 40 H. P. Also Bone Cut- 
ters, hand and power, for the poul- 
trymen; Farm Feed Mil In, Gra- 
ham Flour Hand Mills, (*ril and 
Shell Mills. Send tor catalogue. 
WILSON KROS., Sole Mtrs., 
Enston, f':i 



WE PAY $33 A WEEK and expenses to men 
with rigs to introduce Poultry Compound. In- 
ternational Mfg. Co., Parsons, Kan. 




1904.] 



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113 



b t e h s e t SPRAY PUMP ON 



EARTH 



We know its merits 
from practical expe- 
rience. Having used al- 
most all known pumps 
in our own orchards, 
consequently we are 
able to judge of its su- 
periority over all oth- 
ers. It is the most 
durable pump made. 
The easiest working 
pump; no stuffing boxes 
to look after. The han- 
dle is adjustable to suit 
the height of the ope- 
rator. The agitator is a simple, direct mo- 
tion, and keeps the solution thoroughly mix- 
ed. A pressure of 150 to 200 pounds can be 
easily obtained. Hand and Geared Vineyard 
Sprayers a specialty. Patented and manufac- 
tured by LATHAM &. CO., 

Sandusky, O. Send for Catalogue. 




Century Sprayer. 

Best barrel sprayer made. Capacity and adapt- 
ability to suit all requirements. 
These are features : Its valves are 
bronze balls. Cylinder and plung- I 
er are brass. Indestructible 
packing crimps. Large air 
^chamber. Agitator that agi- 
tates. Its low 

PRICE PL EASES 

We make twenty styles ' 
sprayers. Every need 
specially met with Hand, 
Bucket, Knapsack, Pow- 
er Sprayers. Spraying- I 
catalog free. Booklet on 
insects and plants and | 
fruit diseases 10c. 

THE DEMING CO., Salem. 0, 

Henion $ Bubbell ,WeeternAgta 
Chicago , III. 



Get the Best 

A Good Spray Pump earns big ( 
profits and lasts for years. 

THE ECLIPSE] 

a good pump. As prac- I 
ical fruit growers we I 
were using the com- 1 
mon sprayers in our I 
own orchards — found 1 
their defects and then invented 
The Eclipse. Its success | 
practically forced us into man- 
ufacturing on a large scale. 
Tou take no chances. We have | 
done all the experimenting. 

Large fully illustrated 
Catalogue and Treatise ^ 
on Spraying— FREE. 

MOKRIT.L, & MOK1.ET, Benton Harbor. Mich. 




WvM 


%~ FORCE PUMP * 




36. , ■rfj 




li^W 3S 


I HAS NO EQUAL 
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-^ BUFFALO. N.Y. 


FIRE | 




Defender 
Sprayer 

All brass, easiest work 
ing, most powerful, auto- 
matic mixer, expan.ioa 
valves, double strainer. 
Catalogue of Pumps and 
Treatise o« Spraying free. 
Agents Wanted: 
J. F. Q.rlora, Box 82 CaUUll, 11. T. 



able, as is the case with nitrate of soda 
and sulphate of potash. 

In certain provinces of India, during 
the dry season, this material comes to 
the surface and crystallizes. This 
crude product is scraped up and taken 
to Calcutta, where it is refined to 94 
per cent. Nitrate of Potash. 

Edmund Mobtimee & Co. 

New York. 



JUDICIOUS SPREADING OF MA- 
NURE. 

Probably no branch of farm work is 
of as much importance to the progres- 
sive farmer of to-day as the distribu- 
tion of manure in such a way as to 
derive the most benefit, consequently 
his attention has turned to the more 
adequate way — that of spreading by 
machinery. 

Several of the manufacturers of 
farm implements have put Manure 
Spreaders on the market in the last 
few years, and among these, reaching 
towards the height of perfection, is 
the Great Western Endless Apron 
Spreader. There are many strong 
points in favor of this machine, any 
one of which might serve to put it in 
a class by itself. Principal of these 
would seem to be the Endless Apron, 
which admits of reloading without the 
trouble of stopping to crank it back 
and of hauling about double the 
amount of manure that can be handled 
by a half apron machine. 

The combined hood and end-gate 
serves the dual purpose of keeping the 
manure from beater while loading, 
and acts as a hood or shield while in 
motion, and is changed from gate to 
hood by means of the lever, which 
throws the machine in operation, with- 
out leaving seat. The beater will not 
carry over hard chunks or bunches of 
manure until they are thoroughly torn 
to pieces or pulverized. In fact, every 
detail for spreading has reached a sur- 
prising degree of completeness in this 
machine. It also spreads straw, chaff, 
sawdust, etc., for mulching strawberry 
plantations, etc. 

We might say a great deal more for 
the Spreader, but feel you will get 
more good from the large illustrated 
catalogue which the Smith Manure 
Spreader Company will gladly mail 
you if you ask for it. See their adver- 
tisement in another column. 



Hastings, Fla., Nov. 13, 1903. 
Griffith & Turner Co., 

Baltimore, Md. 
Gentlemen: 

It is a pleasure to say that all my 
dealings with you have been more 
than satisfactory, and so far as I know, 
all of your stuff that has come in here 
has given satisfaction in price and 
quality. Yours, 

C. G. White. 



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



Wise Man's 
Wagon. 

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

STEEL 
WHEELS 

have given a new lease of life to thousands of old 
wagons. They can be had in any desired helght,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 Bandy 
Worod is made by skilled workmen, of best select- 
ed material— white hickory axles, steel wheels, steel 
hounds, etc. Guaranteed to carry iOOO lbs. Here If 
the wajron that will 6ave money for you, as It 
lasts almost forever. Ourcatalog describing the usei 
of these wheels and wagons sent free. 'Write for it. 
ELECTRIC WHEEL CO., BOX 146 QUINCV. ILLINOIS 





WE'LL PAY THE FREIGHT 

and send 4 Buggy Wheels, Steol Tiro on, ■ $7.25 
With Rubber Tirei, $15.00. I mfg. wheels % to i in. 
'tread. Top Baggies, {28.75, Harness, {3.60. Writs for 
catalogue. Learn how to buy vehiclea and parts direct. 
W agon Umbrella HIKE. W. V . BOOB, Cincinnati, O. 




With a FOLDING SAWTN1 MACHINE. 9 CORDS by ONE WAT in 
10 hours. Send for FREE illus. catalogue showing latest improve- 
ments and testimonials from thousands. First order secures agency 

Folding Sawing Macb. Co. 55 N. Jefferson St. Chicago, 11! 



STEEL ROOFING 

iOO SQUARE FEET $2.00 

Painted two tddee; nnlls included. 

Strictly new, perfect. Semi -Hardened Steel 
Sheets, 6 feet long. The best Roofing:* 
Siding- or Celling you can use. No ex- 
perience necessary to lay it. An ordinary 
hammer or hatchet the only tools you 
need. Either flat, corrugated or "V*' 
crimped. Write for our Free Catalogue 
N°- 166 on Farm Supplies, Furniture, etc. 
CHICAGO HOI sK HUM K I Mi CO., W. 35th & Iron Sts., Chicago 




WARRINERS 

CHAIN HANGING 

STANCHION. 

*^J CLEANS AFE, 

£iiJ8«* COMFORTABLE. 

FD.BYW.B.CRUMBForestvillECoNN. 




WAITED. 



To send to every town sample of the 

new "Kant-Klog" Sprayer. First 

applicant gets wholesale prices and 

agency. Big money made with sprayers 

during winter. Full particulars free. 

Address, Rochester Spray Pump Co., 

21 East Ave., Rochester, N.Y. 




114 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[February 




"WIRE • PENCF 

Heavy lateral wires, heavy bard steel stays, coil 
ed spring wire, i-tire Grip Ltck. In strength 
appearance ar d durability, the Hard Steel can 
rot be e"> celled. Wiite tor cataio tiictrn riic e 
THE HARD STEEL FENCE CO.. Cuyahoga Falls, 

Don't Be Talked 




into buying a weak" flimsy fence, buy one that has 
strength and durability then Ton pet your money's 
worth. Let as mail you free B»mp1e 
The Truss & Cable Fence Co., 6 *-'njahoga BIdg., Cleveland, O. 

2,000 Coils 

of No. 8 Galvanized Fenc- 
ing Wire FOR SALE. 

Price, $;;.4u cash per 100 lbs. Average weight 
ef coils, 11? lbs. 

RICHMOND MERCHANDISE AND TRAD- 
ING CO., Richmond, Va. 



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DON'T YOU WANT 

to try a better fence this year than that you 
bought last year? You'll find it in the PAGE. 
PAGE WOVEN WIRE FENCE CO : Adrian. Mich. 



10 Hi 

1 SMOOTH GALVANIZED WIRE 

| put up 100 lbs. tu a bale, gauges from 
11 to '4 inclusive. Lengths miming up 
to 250 ft. Per 100 lbs. 81 40. Fence 
Staples, all sizes, per lOolbs. 12.00. 
V/ire Nailfl, assorted in a keg, per 
100 lbs. »l.70. Barbed Wire, per 
lOOlbs. J2.C0. Poul'ry IVettlne. Field Fence, etc., at 
low price*. A»U for free catalogue No. I ' , on 
merehriniliienr all kinds fi omfiheritlsnnd Hecelverp sales 
UlltAUU IIUISK WiltlLIM, to., g&tfa & lro» bis, Chicago. 

Genuine U\\i\ Spring Wire 

FENCES BND GATES 

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

INTERNATIONAL FENCE AND F. CO. 
Columbus. Ohio. 



LAWN FENCE 

Many designs. Cheap a? 
wood. 32 nape Catalogue 
free. 8[x»rtnJ Prlten to Come" 
tcrieuanrJ Churches. Adcinjew 
COILED SPRIHG FESCE 80, 
iJoi t^ Winchester, Ind. 





j A Fence Machine that wiD make over 10C 
I Styles of Fence mid from 60 to 70 rods a duy 

AT ACTUAL COST OF WiRE 

Bonxhlgb, Ball-ilronir, Pig and CWekeo-tlght, 

wire at Wholesale Prices. Catalogue r'ree 
S2E225J Kitselman Brof.Boxl65 Muricie, Ind 






I STROMCSSS 
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sirring, (bicker' 
'«5«E35E5 t:kfht Ho1 " to th " Parnn-r at Wholoufc 
[iX.oo a.afl l*n»e». »»»r H»rr»nt«i. c-nalog rree 
CO ILK O BPUSfl KRMX < ()., 
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THE BEEF BREEDS. 

The present position and future of 
the three great beef breeds, as evi- 
denced by the International show. 

(We take the following comment 
on the breeds from representative 
breeders writing for the Breeders' 
Gazette.— Ed.) 

HEREFORDS. 

The position of the Herefords as one 
of the greatest if not the premier beef 
breed of America appears to be more 
firmly entrenched than ever. Recent 
events, most notably the International, 
have emphasized the great merit and 
the wonderful popularity of this breed. 
Despite many unfavorable influences, 
such as internal strife in the associa- 
tion and the general decline in values 
of beef cattle, as well as pure-bred 
stock, and although many of the most 
successful and well-known showmen of 
the breed were, unfortunately, not rep- 
resented, the exhibit of Herefords at 
the International was of such merit as 
to make the heart of every Hereford 
breeder rejoice. The hardy and rug- 
ged white-faced grazers — hustlers and 
rustlers everywhere — fought their way 
to the front places in nearly every 
inter-breed contest in the great show. 
The exigencies of the present low-price 
period demand just such easy keeping 
and early maturing cattle as were 
placed at the head of those wonderful 
classes, and as the basis of these de- 
cisions, as stated by the Scottish judge, 
was their fitness for the block, the 
farmer and the feeder, who of neces- 
sity has the block as the goal for his 
cattle, has in these winners the ideal 
type for their breeding and feeding cat- 
tle — the Hereford type, compact, close 
to the ground, with ample bone; good 
side and top lines, full heart girth, 
a symmetrical frame well covered and 
filled with valuable cuts, a type with 
little waste for the butcher, and with 
a grand, intelligent head for the 
breeder; a head full of character, re- 
finement and promise of future useful- 
ness in the herd. The "white-face" vic- 
tory was made more emphatic when 
the car-load of yearling Herefords was 
made the grand champion load of the 
shew, being a victory for early ma- 
turity and a substantiation of all 
claims that ».ave been made as to the 
early maturing qualities of this breed. 
"Truly a great Hereford show," would 
be an apt appellation for the recent In- 
ternational, and that can be said with- 
out a desire to cast a shadow over the 
magnificent showing of the other beef 
breeds. * * * 

Grass has certainly been produced 
for the farmer as his most profitable 
crop, and the Hereford has no doubt 
been created as the best converter of 
that crop into prime beef. Compare 
the broad, capacious muzzle and the 
powerful jaw of the Hereford with the 
long, slender head and small nose of 
the other breeds; the short, wide head 
and short neck, short legs and strong 
bone. This beast truly was intended 



A * A A A A ± 



UNIOM LOCK POULTRY FENCING 

HAS BEEN FULLY 
TESTED AND FOUND 
SUPERIOR TO ALL 
OTHERS. 
Will fit uneven 
ground without 
cutting. Kvery part 
can be stretched 
perfectly. Made of 
high grade galvanized steel wire. All horizontal 
lines are cables, making it stronger. Has fine mesh 
at the bottom for small chicks. We also make 
extra heavy for gardens, lawns, etc. The largest 
poultry farms are usingthis fence — over 700 rods 
by Lakewoud (N. J.) Farm Co. We pay freight 
and satisfv every one or no sale. Can ship from 
N. Y., Chicago, or San Francisco. Write for 
free'catalogof Farm, tawnand Poultiy Fencing. 

CASE BROS., Box 340, Colchester, Conn. 




HSf^SlP'Iff We'll tell you iho cheapest 

-Slfe ro^lltai and best way to build it. Of 

any feinti of wire, for any requirement, 

■with cheap labor, no machine and we'll tell 

I yon how to fix yourold fences too. Write 

I B. B. FENCE CO., H2 W. 3rd St., Peru, Ind. 




<S3rP^ 



.FEED MILLS. 

Every Man His Own Miller. 

The latest improved. Uo> s all kinds 
of work Most durable; has ground 
over 15,000 bushels without repair or 
expense. 'I he fastest grinder; has 
ground 3(10 bushels in 4 hours. 
Lightest draft and lowest price The 
World's Best ! Send for prices to the 
manufacturers 

N. M. FIELD MFG. CO., St. Louis, Mo. 




DRILLING 
MACHINES 



The moet successful money-maklne ma- 
bines ever made. Also machines for boring 
wells with augers by horse power. Write 
is If you mean business. 

Loomis Machine Co., Tiffin, Ohio. 



ARTESIAN WELLS 

fini DRILLED ANYWHi RE. W 
I use the most modern machii ery. ex- 
ecute orders promptly and gutmintee 
satisfaction, Corresp ndence sol cited. 

JN0. W. RANDALL, White Plains, N. Y. 



M@ HUI¥9BU6.Bngi.r. n -. 

bwlno V, Slock Murker and Calf Dehf.rnor. Stopa snaw 
from rootles. Mokes ■13 different car marks. Estraots 
Horns. prk-o?1.50. ScndSl for trill. If ItBuitB.Bendbal- 
»„-n. Pnt'd »'-» «. 1902. Hog and Calf Colder oulj. 70c. 
GEORGE EJOOS, M5r. t FAIRFIELD, IOWA. 




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115 



TbckLiEkif 
tijcj^ukeit 



BLACKMAN'S 
MEDICATED 

SALT BRICK 

The only gnsranteed Tonic, Blood Puri- 
fier, Kidney end Liver Regulator and 
aider of Digestion for all stock. A 
sure hit on worms. Ticks cannot live. 
No dosing, no drenching, and no waste 
of feed. Your horse his own doctor. 
Endorsed by thousands. ' 



full descriptive circulars, testimonials, 
etc." address 

Btackman Stock Remedy Cs» 

830 Highland Park, Chattanooga, Tenn. 

— ■in i P jjjJ f ■»» ' JM . «W,g W M. ' JU,l|iH,)l ' , -I ' jUg 



L\imp 



Save the animal— save your | 

herd— <ure every case of ' 

Lump Jaw. The disease is 

fatal in time, and It spreads. Only one way 

to cure it— use 

Fleming's Lump Jaw Cure 

No trouble— rub it on. No risk— your moriey 

back if it ever fails. U*»d lor seven years 

by nearly all the big stockmen. Free"book 

• tells you more. 



and RilMJ-ftOlM 

Once hard to cure — easy now. A 45-min- 
ute treatment d.ies it. l^o other method 
so easy— no other method sure. 

Fleming's Spavin ar.d Ringbone Paste 

cures even the worst cases— none too old 

or bad. Money back if it ever f-nls. Fne 

lllimtr*iit<'(l book about Lump Jnw, 

Spavin, Einsbone, Splint, V,' a. Spavin 

i and other stock ailments. Write for it. 

FLEVIINC BROS., Chemists, 

280ITnIon Stock Yards, Chicago, HI. 



CATTLE 
POWDER 



DAYI0 E FOUtZ 

3ALT/MCPB..MD. 



A medicine which makes 

sick animals well, the diseased 

whole, the weak strong and the 

thin fat. It will restore lost Appetite, 

expel Worms and cure Chronic Cough, 

Heaves, Influenza, Distemper, Hide- 

1 bound, Indigestion, Constipation, Flit- 

■■^ulency and all Stomach and Bowel 

trouble. 

The finest of afl animal 
viulizers and tonics < 
the only one which 
increases the coeffi- 
cient of digestibil- 
ity of protein, 




BEATH TO HEAVES 
tinaraaleed 




KKWTOW'8 Reus, r.nrh, Dl». 

temprr «n<l ImllKtnlluo Car*. 

A veterlunry *pe<;iii<j for wiud, 

^^ throat and atuiu&ub iruuolea. 

-J**^ dtrcmg recommit dt. |l.ou per 

can. beaters. Wail or Kx. paid. 

ttewUia Hone Itemed/ Co.. 

Toledo, Ohio. 



to go over the pastures much as does 
the great modern wheat header, 
thrasher, and sacker combined, har- 
vesting the crop quicker and better 
than the old-time sickle, and all ready 
for market at one operation and one 
expense. The "white-face" is the up- 
to-date steer. He is only fast enough 
for the times. What a mouthful he 
crops at one bite! Taking less exer- 
cise and covering less territory, he 
quickly fills the first stomach; lies 
down and goes to making beef. In a 
mixed bunch of cattle, you will notice 
the Herefords all down first and masti- 
cating their quickly-harvested break- 
fast of grass, while the Short horns 
and cattle of other breeds, with slender 
nose, long neck, leg, and large paunch, 
will not be down till the Herefords are 
almost ready to start again. Is there 
any better reason why the "Herefords 
should make more beef from grass 
than any breed of which we have 
knowledge"? Where man has a need, 
Nature invariably supplies the same, 
and that close at hand. Man has, 
through all the Eastern and most of 
the Middle States, by continuous rob- 
bing of the land produced a great sick- 
ness of the soil. Nature and the care- 
ful breeding operations of the found- 
ers and fosterers of the Hereford breed 
have provided a remedy. Talking with 
a Virginia farmer at the International, 
the writer was much impressed by his 
remark that the greatest need of his 
State and surrounding States was blue 
grass, clover and Hereford cattle. The 
combined use of these three great pro- 
ducers of wealth will in a decade re- 
store to former conditions of fertility 
the soil, will double or triple the value 
of these farms, and develop a condition 
of thrift unsurpassed by that even ex- 
isting in the vales and hills of Western 
England. A remark made recently by 
one of our local butchers impressed me 
with the fact that ultimately the breed- 
ing and feeding cattle of all the Mid- 
dle States must one day wear that 
stamp of excellence, the white face. 
He said: "While I cut many good 
carcasses from grade Short-horn, An- 
gus, and cattle of mixed breeding:, I 
rarely find a white-faced steer or heifer 
that does not cut out more profitable 
meat for me tnan the average, and I 
can even afford to pay a little more 
money for them and still make more 
profit. Besides that, their rich-ribbed 
carcasses attract more attention hang- 
ing in my shop, and increase my sales 
of good meat. What I like is the ave- 
rage of the Hereford carcasses; they 
are nearly always good." Another 
butcher very recently pointed to a car- 
cass hanging in his shop, stating that 
there was a heifer that had been with- 
out a bite of grain for a year, and was 
the fattest beef he had butchered in a 
year. 

These plucky cattle, the breed that 
has revolutionized the beef industry of 
the country; the breed that has covered 
the range and the desert of the Far 



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We can save you money on your wants fQ 
this line. We otter you Two-Ply Tarred 
Roofing Felt, 108 square feet to the roll, 
complete with caps, nails anil cement, 
per roll, $1.15, Three-ply comple e, per 
roll, $1.85. Vulcanite, the highest 
grade on the market, complete ap above. 
Price per roll, £1 .50, We have all kinds 
ot Roofing. Write for Free Catalogue No. 
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Receivers' Sales CH1CAUO HOUSE WRECK- 
ING CO., W. 35th and Iron Streets, Chicago. 



^ ROOFING TIN j& 

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

HARRIS HARDWARE CO., SK 





, you accept our offer a; d pi:t it on 
tiial on your own premises, where- 
in lies the superiority of the 



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can afford to let. o ny man try. That I 
seiiSit. You'll not find fault -with [ 
the price. You should read the J 
meiican I ook. Ask for it. It' .s free. 
AMERICAN SEPARATOR CO., 
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Your ground costs so much, 
and your labor costs so much. 
Get the most out of them by 
using the right seeds — not 
merely seeds that grow, but 
seeds that produce fine, early 
vegetables, commanding high- 
est prices. Send for our 

Garden and Farm 
Manual — Free 

Shows by actual photographs what 
our seeds have produced and what 
you can grow yourself. No ex-' 
aggeration. Plain facts and sen- 
sible money -making advice. 
JOHNSON & STOKES Department A4 
By Special Appointment 
fct Seedsmen to the Money Maker s ' 

317-219 Alarket St. Philadelphia! 



DIGGS & BEADLES 

RELIABLE SEEDS 

We sell strictly reliable Garden, Flower 
and Farm Seeds of the highest quality 
and germination: With us Quality is 
the first consideration always. It our 
aim now and always to sell the very 
best Seeds that can be had at as reason- 
able prices as the best can be sold for. 

We carry also a full line of FERTI- 
LIZERS for Corn, Tobacco, Wheat and 
all Vegetable Crops. Ask us for prices 
before placing your order. Our Catalog 
is mailed FREE on request, write for it. 

DIGGS & BEADLES, 

J 709 E. Franklin St., - Richmond, Va. 



•FOR SALE' 



Selected Pride of York Seed Corn. 

It grows well, matures early, weighs 
well, makes lots of good fodder. 
J. TABB JANNEY, Van Clevesvllle, W. Va. 

22H™ APPLER OATS. 

They mature quicker than any 
other variety. Jt j» For Sale by 

C. A. DOOLITTLE & SON, . Augusta, 0a. 



West with green vistas, adorned by 
mighty, rich, red herds of wmte-faced 
cattle, that are marching victoriously 
into Mexico on the south, and ruggedly 
resisting the rigors of Canadian cli- 
mate, are destined to perform prodi- 
gies of as great wonder through Mid- 
dle, Eastern and Southern States at no 
distant day. The breed itself is pluck 
personified, and in present depressing 
days, breeders, too, must emulate their 
noble breed of cattle. 
"Pluck wins; it always wins, 

Though days be slow, 

Anu nights be dark, 'twixt days that 
come and go. 

Still, pluck will win. Its average is 
sure. 

He gains the prize who can the most 
endure — 

Who faces issues; he who never 
shirks; 

Who waits and watches, and who 
always works." 
A word or two more, and that in re- 
lation to the accomplishment of this 
glorious future for the Hereford breed 
of cattle in America. Two great means 
are at hand — the Hereford bullock at 
our great fairs and shows and at the 
little district and county fairs, and 
the Hereford bull in the agricultural 
college herds of this country. The pa- 
triotic individual breeder must make 
a demonstration of the early maturing 
qualities of his white-faced steers at 
every local fair. It is easy to prove 
there that the Hereford steer can be 
ready for market at any time from 
calfhood to ripe three-year-old form, 
and top the market always. The asso- 
ciation directors must concern them- 
selves in increasing the prizes for 
grade and pure-bred steers, and giving 
six instead of three prizes in each 
class, and must find the means of in- 
troducing into the herds of all our 
agricultural colleges the best Hereford 
bulls obtainable. The "Rah, Rah!" of 
the enthusiastic students, full of priae 
for their winning favorites, and the 
produce of the great sires in their col- 
lege herds, is resounding through all 
the show pavilions of modern times. 
An irresistible influence is being 
wielded by these colleges which is 
bound to be spread abroad and estab- 
lished wherever these intelligent young 
farmers make their homes. When toe 
history of modern agriculture and of 
the live stock industry is written, 
Hereford cattle must be closely asso- 
ciated with the grand progressive and 
upbuilding influences exerted by . the 
agricultural colleges of America. 
Macon Co., Mo. S. L. Brock. 

THE ABERDEEN-ANGUS. 
Looking back over what the Aber- 
deen-Angus have accomplished since 
their first importation to America in 
numbers of any importance just 
twenty years ago, we may be justified 
in the prediction that in the next 
twenty years America will be "black, 
and all black," and that the other 
breeds will have surrendered to the 



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3,000 bushels CLAY, BLACK, RED 
RIPPER, WHIP-POOR-WILL and 
MIXED, $1.15 per bushel sacked, f. o. 
b. Hickory; also few hundred bushels 
SOJA BEANS, same price. 

We offer 1 young black Spanish Jack, 
30 months old, 54 inches high, nice, 
smooth iimbs and feet. Price, $150. 
Also a few choice BERKSHIRE PIGS 
from registered stock. Address 

HICKORY MILLING CO., 
Hickory, N. C. 



ALFALFA 

If you expect to sow Alfalfa, why not start 
right, by inoculating your soil with the Bacteria 
of Alfalfa, the presence of which, we are told by 
the scientists is necessary for the proper vitality 
of this, the most valuable forage plant. 

2 bushel bags, $1 .00 F O. B. H well's, Tenn. 
from a plot showing nodules in great abundance. 

Address GEO. CAMPBELL BROWN, 

EWELL FARM. ... Spring Hill, Tenn. 



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After 40 years of experimenting and testing all notable 
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home and market. We think they are the best obtainable. 
Seeds 100 a paper in silver. 24,000 papers. The purchaser 
who grows the largest melon of either variety will posi. 
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Variety. Cnntlnn : Wrap your silver in a little paper, 
and write your name and P. O. Address plainly. 
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117 



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Sweet 
Trees 
are 
Trees 
That 
Please 



If you desire the very best fruit 

trees that can be grown — large, 

smooth, disease free, true to 

name, well rooted, fresh dug, buy 

Sweet's 

GENESEE 

VALLEY 

TREES. 

We' have Apples, Plums, Pears, 
Cherries, Peaches, Apricots. Quin- 
ces, Grapes, all kinds of Aspara- 
gus, Rhubarb and Ornamental 
Deciduous Trees. Every standard 
variety and many tested new 
kinds. Our new catalog-tie names 
and describes each. Gives much 
valuable information to orchard- 
ists. fruit growers and others. 
Write today for a copy. Sent free. 
Ceo. A. Sweet Nursery Co., 
22 Maple St. Dansville, N.Y. 
■ ■ MiiiiMiii in ■■■mi . 



TREES! TREES!! 

I offer a fine lot of whole root trees. 

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

Save agent's commission by send- 
ing your orders to the nursery. 

CATALOGUE FREE. 
All Stock Inspected and Fumigated. 

WERTZ'S NURSERY, Salem. Va. 






Premo 
Dewberry 

The earliest and moat productive 
rtlack(.crry variety. Very large, jet 
black, firm and solid. Croij ripens rap- 
idly. This, la the berry to plant for 
proat.K"ri teat once for prices and particulars. 
Myer& Son, Brirfire v i 1 i e Nurseries, 
Brldgcville, Del. 



New Strawberries. 

MARK HANNA, The most wonderful berry 
In cultivation- 1,000 bushels per acre. 

THOMPSON'S No. 2, largest firm fancy ber- 
ry, and 

THOMPSON'S No: 3, a seedling of Lady, 
handsomer and firmer than parent. No one will 
grow Lady who can get-No 3. 

150 Varieties, including Thompson's Earliest 

Ripe here April 19th the last season. If you 
want the earliest plant them, Thompson's No. 
3, a seedling of Lady. But superior in every 
way, beautiful color, immensely productive, 
nrmer, best shipper ever put on the market, 
Thompson's new berries are acknowledged 
to lead all others. 

Cabbage Plants, Tomato, 5,000 Hardv 
Monthly Rose, California Privet Dahlias, 
Chrysanthemums. Send for my spring cata- 
logue. MARK T. THOMPSON, Rio Vista, 
Va. 

SURE GUARANTEED CURE FOR GRAN 
ulated Eyes. My remedy will make weak 
eyes stroDg. Write for particulars. Addrew 
L. A. MILLS, Emporia, Kansas. 



outstanding quality of the "doddie." 
Then there were a few importers pro- 
claiming facts that sounded like fiction 
regarding the premium paid for Angus 
beef in the markets of the Old World. 
Now there are three thousand good 
American cattle-men interested in the 
welfare of this great breed, and nearly 
one thousand breeders recording cattle, 
while the "fairy tales" of the early im- 
porters have been demonstrated to be 
true by fifteen years of consecutive 
market-topping in the greatest fat cat- 
tle markets of our country. Then 
Black Prince, imported especially for 
the occasion, won down on the Lake 
Front at the old American Fat Stock 
Show in Chicago, with only a few of 
the faithful to do him honor. Now 
the Angus grand ehampions at the In- 
ternational Exposition are the popular 
ones, and are crowned amid th« 
greatest clatter and enthusiasm, and 
where an Angus contestant for grand 
champion honors fails to receive the 
purple ribbon, applause is withheld 
and the judge himself feels that he has 
made a mistake, and begins at once 
defending his position on the award. 
Then, Angus breeders would have been 
exceedingly proud of a grand cham- 
pionship. Now they expect it, and, like 
spoiled children accustomed to being 
denied nothing, are absolutely broken- 
hearted if they fail to get it. 

Especially is this true in car-loads 
where fourteen years prior to this year 
they have furnished the highest-priced 
car-load each year sold on the Ameri- 
can markets. This year they were so 
unfortunate as to have their crack 
car-load protested on account of age. 
The contest was for the best car-load, 
any age or breed, and this load was 
given the award by the judge, yet, as it 
was not properly entered in its class, it 
was thrown out of the show altogether, 
and the reserve Hereford load was 
given the grand championsnip. The 
Angus were thus deprived of furnish- 
ing the highest-priced car-load of 1903, 
as the price went simply as the Inter- 
national Exposition ribbon went. In- 
cluding this reserve champion load, 
which was awarded the grand cham- 
pion prize, there were sold at public 
auction during the International Ex- 
position of 1903, according to The 
Gazette, twenty-four car-loads of grade 
Herefords at an average of $5.96 per 
cwt.; twenty-four car-loads of grade 
Short-horns at an average of $5.63 per 
cwt., and twenty-four car-loads of 
grade Aberdeen-Angus at an average 
of 6.33 per cwt., being 37 cents per 
cwt. more than the Herefords and 70 
cents per cwt. more than the Short- 
horns, in actual competition at auction 
among stock-yards buyers. So that the 
term "market topper," as applied years 
ago by your journal to the Aberdeen- 
Angus breed is as applicable as ever, 
and they still mean one and the same 
thing. These prices prove that it is 
not impossible to find one load of som« 
other breed that will equal in quality 



<stfflwhPI-l"ipc RASPBERRIES, BLACK 

on dwuu ries, bkrkies, grapes, cur- 
rants, GOOSEBERRIES, NOVELTIES, 
etc. Buy your plants from us and we will 
catch your ground moles. Best mole trap on 
earth FREE with every order. Our 60 page 
1904 catalogue FREE. HUNTSVILLE NUR- 
SERIES, Huntsville, Ohio. 



Offer 

;pill send | 
prepay these cho 
ties: 12 Climax, 
Early Hathaway. 12 Challenge, 
12 Lyon. Select plants. 1 srrow 
strawherriesexeliisivelvanri thev 
'lead the world. Beautiful Illust- 
rated Strawberry Catalog Free. 
W. F. Allen. Salisbury, Md. I 



BERRY PLANTS and Berry 



Dtnni TLHI1IO growing has 
been my Specialty for more than 25 
years. 40 of the best new and stan- 
dard varieties; vigorous, well root- 
ed and true to name. THE NEW 
STRAWBERRY I introduced last season has 
proved a winner again the past season. It will 
pay you to plant my plants, they grow and pro- 
duce large crops of big berries. Catalogue Free. 
Write to-day. JOHN W. HALL, Marion Sta., Md. 




The Fruit Grower, 

published at St. Joseph, Mo., 
will be sent 1 yearif yousend 
25c and names of 10 farmers 
who grow fruit. "The Fruit- 
Grower is the best fruit paper 
we have, East or West." — Prof. 
Price, Dean Ohio Agl. College. 

Illustrated. Regular pries 60o l year. 
For sample ad drees 

FRUIT-GROWER CO., 
1 2S. 7th St., St. Joseph. Mo. 



Strawberry Plants, 

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

Sherman Heights Tenn. 



PEDIGREED SEED CORN. 

Three varieties pure white corn. 
Huffman, large, late, for fertile soils 
only. Improved Watson, medium, for 
medium soils. Hickory King, espe- 
cially adapted for cultivation on thin 
uplands. Price, $1.20 per bush., f. o. b. 
Normandy. PROGRESS FARM, 

Box 52. Normandy, Tenn. 



We offer all kinds ef : 

..Nursery stock. 

STRAWBERRY PLANTS at re- 
duced prices; 1 doz. rooted GRAPE 
VINES of CONCORD, NIAGARA, 
WARDEN, etc., at $1; all healthy stock 
and fumigated before shipped; grown 
on ideal land for fine roots and smooth 
bodies. 

Send for Special Price to Planters. 

EMPORIA NURSERIES 

EHPORIA, VA. 

No. 1 Agents wanted. We refer to 
any business house here as to our hon- 
esty. 



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of them. 

They zre/ree. Send postal card. 
GERMAN KALI WORKS 
New York— 98 Nassau Street, 
or 
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SAN JOSE SCALE "-r^r 

Urtll JUUU UUNLL trolled by using 

GOOD'S CAUSTIC POTASH 

"WHALE OIL. SOAP. No. 3. 

It also prevents Curl Leaf. Endorsed by en- 
tomologists. 'I his soap Is a fertilizer as well as 
InBectli-lde 6n lb. kegs, g-J .=>0; 100 lb. kegs Jl .so. 
Half barrels, 270 lbs , at 3^c per lb.: barrels, 
425 lbs., at s'/^e. Large quantities, special rates. 
Send for circular. 

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



FRAZER 

Ax'e Grease 

Its wearing qualities are unsurpassed, ac- 
tually outasilng :\ bxs any other brand, 
Not affected by heat, Km Get the Genuine. 
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B- WAIUTI-D -: 

Shipper* of POULTRY of all Kinds, 
Dressed HOGS, GAME, etc., to write to 

E W. EVANS & CO., 
1313 E. Cary Pt., RICHMOND, VA. 
For prices bpfnrp shipping p]*P\vhpre. 

WANTED! 

ALL KINDS OF 

LIV C Wl D BIRUs AND AN'MALS 

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

CECIL FRENCH, 

718 Twellth St. N. W.. Washinn'or. 0. C. 

Mpntlon the Soutiiehn Planteb in 
• riting. 



that of the Angus, but when it comes 
to a number of car-loads, the universal 
quality of the Angus is simply out- 
standing. Mistakes may be made. 
Judges may differ and technicalities 
may arise to deprive the Angus of 
some small honor, but his inherent 
quality of flesh and his ability to fat- 
ten at an early age will cause him to 
continue to top our markets for the 
next fifteen years, as he has the past 
fifteen, and then go on throughout ages 
of market-topping as he has done in 
the markets of the Old World. A quo 
tation that Col. Harris once made use 
of in reference to his favorite breed 
seems very appropriate here: "Men 
may come and men may go" — but the 
Aberdeen-Angus goes on with his 
market-topping forever. — W. C. Mc- 
Gavock. 

THE SHORT-HORNS. 
So far as the Short-horn breed is con- 
cerned, it never was, it seems to me, in 
a better condition in itself than it is to- 
day. When one looks back twenty-one 
or two years ago to the condition of 
the breed at that time, the change for 
the better is something wonderful. At 
that time we were torn with 'quar- 
rels and dissentions, criticising each 
other's cattle, breeding in divergent di- 
rections, having different ideals as to 
what should be aimed at, and the 
whole strength of the great interest 
was being destroyed and dissipated. At 
the same time, rival breeds were being 
brought in upon the temporary wave 
of prosperity, stimulated by novelty, 
and breeders in every direction were 
abandoning the Short-horns and raking 
Herefords and Angus. The extrava- 
gant claims of these newer breeds in 
this country have been tested by time, 
and the world again decided, as it has 
done before, that they are local and 
limited in their usefulness, that the 
Short-hom is the one universal breed, 
and that the world over the Short-horn 
cow is the farmer's cow — the universal 
remedy for the scrub. — W. A. Harris. 



THE PROPER AMOUNT OF SLEEP. 
A proper amount of sleep is, of 
course, absolutely essential to con- 
tinued good health; but if dietetic 
habits are correct, it is a matter which 
will regulate itself. If a rule is need- 
ed, one will follow naturally from the 
fact that almost every one feels 
languid on waking, and is disposed to 
take another nap, no matter how long 
he has been sleeping. This is a morbid 
sensation, which it would take, too long 
to explain here. It is enough to say 
that lack of sleep should be made up, 
if possible, at the beginning and not 
at the end. The best general rule is 
to rise at a given hour every morning, 
whether tired or not, and go to bed 
when sleepy. — February Century. 



Gerald — Can you give me no hope? 
Geraldine — None whatever; I'm go- 
ing to marry you. 



For the sake of 
your face, use 
only Williams' 
Shaving Soap. 

Sold everywhere. Free trial sample 

for 2-cent stamp to pay postage. 

Write for booklet " How to Shave." 

The J. B. Williams Co. , Glastonbury, Ct. 

WANTED— A gardener to take charge of 
flower and vegetable garden on a gentleman's 
place, near Warrenton, Ya. An unmarried 
roan preferred. Applications must give refer- 
ences, and state experience and wages ex- 
pected. Address A, care Southern Planter. 

WANTED 



A PRACTICAL MAN who understands th« 
spraying and care of orchards, to take twa 
thousand (2,000) apple trees twenty (20) years 
old on shares. Apply to H. E. HARNISH, 
Swansboro. Va. 




£3 1 |3 P Good second-hand Wrought Iron 

l Ir fci 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. 3 1.4 ets. L 1 :,' inch, per foot, 4 1-4 cte. 

We handle nil kinds of well casing. Write us your 

wants in the pipe line. We have ail kinds of snnniies of 

this character. Write for Free Catalogue No. 166. 

CHICAGO HOUSE WRECKING CO., 

West 8&th and Iron Street. Chicago, 



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GREENSBORO, N.C. 

For the treatment of THE LIQUOR, OPIUM, MORPHINE «nd 
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tion allowed/ Francis Bannerauui, JiU Broadway, N . i . 




Krausers* Liquid 
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Smokes meat perfectly in ft 
few hours. Made from hickory wood. 
Delicious flavor. Cleaner, cheaper. No 
smokehouse needed. Scud for circular, 
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Fitting i-'lasses for U3. Big profits. 
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119 



FARMS FOR SALE! 

No. 16. 
130 acres — 20 acres hardwood, bal- 
ance in good state of improvement, and 
a splendid quality of red clay subsoil; 
60 acres in wheat and timothy; 20 
acres in meadow; balance is new land, 
and will be for corn next spring. Situ- 
ated in excellent neighborhood of re- 
fined people. Twenty-two miles from 
Washington, 5 miles from Herudon 
Station. Fronts on pike. Comfort- 
able 4-room house and all buildinsre 
Farm watered by large branches. 
Price, $20.00 per acre. Terms, to suit 
purchaser. 



No. 17. 
80 acres — 15 acres in hardwood, bal- 
ance in grass, except 20 acres for corn. 
Fronts on pike; 5 miles from railroad 
Station. Watered by large branch. 
All In good state of cultivation. No 
buildings. Price, $18.00 per acre. Easy 
terms. 



No. 19. 

215 acres In upper Fairfax county, 
20 miles from Washington; 6 miles 
from railroad; fronts on pike; near 
village with stores, post-office, churches 
and shops. Splendid brown chocolate 
clay soil. Seven fields, watered by 
branches and springs. A good 6-room 
frame house and all necessary farm 
buildings; 60 acres sown in wheat and 
grass; 25 in rye and grass; 30 in 
meadow, balance in pasture and for 
corn — all in good condition. Price, 
$25.00 per acre; one-third cash, balance 
on 6 years' time, if desired. 



No. 5. 
Contains 163 acres; one-half under 
cultivation; balance in second-growth 
timber. Good seven-room dwelling and 
necessary outbuildings; good orchard 
in fine fruit section. Farm lies near 
Southern railroad, twenty miles from 
Washington; well watered; a splend: 
dairy farm. Price, $2,000. 



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. Ex- 
cellent six-room dwelling house, with 
broad halls, standing in a large, nk-ely- 
ehaded blue-grass lawn; all necessary 
outbuildings: land chocolate clay, with 
stiff clay subsoil; all level, but rolling 
enough to drain w^ll; fine for wheat 
and grass; well watered. Owner con- 
templates making improvements. But 
if sold before, price $25 per acre, on 
easy terms. 



I have a number of other good- farms 
for sale, both large and small. Write 
for description and state just what you 
•want, and will be glad to serve you. 






W. E. MILLER, Herndon, Va. 



PLANET, JR., No. 4, ILLUSTRATED. 
We are giving place here to an illus- 
tration of the Planet, Jr., No. 4, Com- 
bined Drill, perhaps the most popular 
of all the famous Planet, Jr., line of 
garden tools. We call it Drill for 
brevity, but it is much more compre- 
hensive. The gardener finds in it 
almost every tool for hand work he 
needs. As a seeder, it drills and also 
plants in hills with greatest accuracy, 
and it may be set so that they shall be 
4, 6, 8, 12 or 24 inches apart, as de- 
sired. It is but the work of a moment 




to remove seeder attachments and sub- 
stitute the pair of hoes, the three hol- 
low steel teeth or the plow, and you 
have an ideal wheel hoe, cultivator or 
plow, as the case may be. Its handles 
adjust to suit either man or boy. Sim- 
ply raising the handles cuts off the flow 
of seeds instantly. As a hoe or culti- 
vator, it may be used either in the fur- 
row, or by means of an extension 
piece; when plants are small you may 
hoe or cultivate both sides of the row 
at once. With all its width of duty, it 
most simple, and it is most durably 
built. An idea of its real genius can- 
not be conveyed in so small a space as 
this. It is advertised elsewhere. S. L. 
Allen & Co., of Philadelphia, the manu- 
facturers, will gladly send catalogue 
fully describing. It is a good invest- 
ment to send a postal card for it. 



THE FARMER'S TRICKS OF TRADE 
The up-to-date agriculturist has dis- 
covered that one of the tricks of the 
trade lies not in rooting the weeds out 
after they have started, but in not 
letting them start at all. There is one 
way to prevent their starting, and only 
one.' That is by the thorough and fre- 
quent cultivation that is only possible 
with a thoroughly good weeder. 

For the points that go to make a 
thoroughly good weeder. The York Im- 
proved Weeder is hard to excel. It 
combines the two essential virtues in 
weeders — strength of frame and flexi- 
bility of tooth. The teeth are made 
of square spring steel, with round 
noints. Being narrow, and yet of 
great flexible strength, they cultivate 
without injuring the plants. 

The manufacturers, The Snan°-ler 
Mf». .Co., York, Pa., will send further 
information on request, as well as 
catalogue of agricultural imolements 
and special machinery. Write for it. 



Mpntion the Southern Planter In 
writing. 




•.-*-• _ VIRGINIA' FARMS »^« 
Nice little poultry farm. 10n acres, good house 
and orchard, $5 0'. Blue Grass, *tock and 
Fruit Farms. Address PORTER & GATES, 

l.nuiea. Va. 



VIRGINIA FARMS 

S3 PER ACRE AND UPWARDS. 

EASY PAYMENTS. CATALOGUE FRBB. 

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

Established 1K7B. 



For full par- 
ticul^is write 
A. JEFFERS, 
■ Norfolk, Va. 



VIRGINIA FARMS 

All prices and sizes. Free list od appllcatlsa. 
WM B, P'ZZINI CO., Richmond. Va. 

"In the Green Fields of Virginia./' 

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

MACON & CO., Orange, Va. 

CIWE CADMC ln tne sreat fruit grain and 
riilL rMnmO slock section of VIRGINIA. 

lieai climate ami water in the U. S. Near great 
markets, with best educational advantages. 
Kor further information, address 

ALBEMARLE IMMIGRATION CO., 
3am'l B. Woods. Pres (Jhanottesville, Va. 

/ Can Sell Y<>ur Farm.... 

!f located In one of these Virginia counties: 
Prince George, Chesterfield, King William, 
Gloucester, New Kent, King and Queen, 
Hanover. Send description, stating price. 
JOHN JELINEK, 1116 Pine Alley, 
Braddock, Pa. 

QUARTZ and MICA grinding mill for 
sale on railroad; list of 500 custom- 
ers. Close to millions of tons of 
quartz, feldspar and mica section. 
G. G. TEMPLE, Danville, Va. 



IF YOU WISH TO SELL 

OH. BUY — 

VIRGINIA LANDS 

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

No. 1 N 10th St , Rlchtiond, Va 

♦To Homeseekers*. 

"THE BUSINESS OF FARMING 
IN VIRGINIA." 

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



120 



THE SOUTHEKN PLANTER. 



[February 



Help Yourself 

by Helping 

Others. 



fs. _ it what has made all 

Oo-Uperation large and succe ssful 
enterprises, and is what may be relied 
upon to make farming pay greater 
profits with less work. 



The New National Organization for 
the Benefit and Promotion of 

FARM INDUSTRY, 

which has just been completed is now 
preparing to put into practice what 
has long been sought after by the 
farmers of this country, big and little, 
with a view to bettering their condi- 
tions and increasing their incomes. A 
32-page Booklet, handsomely illus- 
trated, will give full particulars of this 
new and worthy enterprise, which has 
been endorsed by the best, most intelli- 
gent and influential men in this coun- 
try. It will interest you and will be 
sent FREE to any address for the ask- 
ing. Write to-day. You will be under 
no Obligations. Address Correspon'ce Dept. No. 26. 
Epitomist Experiment Station, Spencer, Indiana. 

UnMEQ AND THE PLACE TO 
nUMLo FIND THEM.. _,___ 

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

W. A. PARSONS, Vinita, Va. 

C &0 Main St. Depot, Richmond, Va. 

viso-iyiA 

Grain, Fruit, Dairj and Bine 

brass * arm* of Every Class within 
one hour of Washington, D. C. 

LOUUOUN COUNTY 
t-' rum a Specialty.... 

Catalogue on application. 

P. B. BUELL & SON, 
Real Estate Brokers, 

Merndon, Fairfax Co., Va. 

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



WASHINGTON NOTES. 
In many farm sections the usual 
method of disposing of the body of a 
dead animal is to drag it off into the 
woods and let the crows and buzzards 
make away with it. As the country 
becomes more thickly settled, this 
practice carries a serious menace, espe- 
cially where animals die of contagious 
diseases. It has even been found that 
in cases of virulent diseases, like an 
thrax, ordinary burying is not an en- 
tire safeguard. The germs of such 
diseases retain life for many years, 
even in the soil; if they are left above 
ground or thrown into a ditch or 
stream, the danger of disseminating 
the disease is increased many fold. 
The Department of Agriculture recom- 
mends deep-burying of such diseased 
bodies, with the free use of lime, and 
also burning. The Nevada station re- 
commends the lime method for small 
animals, and burning for large ones. 
Professor McDowell, of that station, 
describes the complete destruction of 
a thirteen-hundred pound body, burned 
in a tFench three feet deep, through the 
use of five gallons of kerosene oil, five- 
eighths of a cord of wood, and the time 
of two men each for two and one-half 
hours. If the animal is to be dragged 
any distance, it should be placed upon 
a litter or rough sled, which should 
also be burned; otherwise germs may 
be distributed along the entire trail. 

The Department of Agriculture has 
in type. a timely farm publication, en- 
titled "Rations for Laying Hens." Pro- 
fessor Wheeler, of the New York Ex- 
periment Station, states that when the 
egg yield of a hen is one hundred per 
year, the production of a pound of eggs 
required 4.56 pounds of digestible or- 
ganic nutriment in the feed, and as the 
egg yield increases, the proportion of 
nutrients increases. The natural feed 
of poultry, it is stated, consists of 
grain, insects, green forage and grit, 
and, accordingly, in domestication, it 
is reasonable that they should be fed 
cereal grains and mill products, such 
animal foods as meat, meals, and skim- 
med milk, and also an abundance of 
green food, or such substitutes for it 
as roots or steamed clover. Oyster 
sheels, grit, and an abundance of clean 
drinking water are also prime requl- 
* * * 

Why not determine to spray every 
apple tree this spring and not have a 
wormy apple. Spraying against some 
of the fungus diseases, such as grape 
rot, for instance, is a very laborious 
task, since the operation has to com- 
mence with the first swelling of the 
buds, and be repeated every fifteen or 
sixteen days until the grapes are pretty 
nearly grown, so that if one has only 
a small private vineyard it may well 
be considered too much trouble; but 
killing the codlin moth and having 
worm free apples is too easy and sim- 
ple a task to let go by. The moth lays 
its egg in the blossom, and all you 



Lamp-chim- 
neys that break 
are not 

Macbeth's. 



If you use a wrong chimney, you lose a 
good deal of both light and comfort, and 
waste a dollar or two a year a lamp on 
chimneys. 

Do you want the Index ? Write me. 

Macbeth, Pittsburgh. 

VIRGINIA DIVISION. 

FARMER'S MUTUAL BENEFIT ASSOCIATION. 

Chartered by State of Virginia. 
A fire Insurance Association for farmers of 

Eastern Virginia. 
Organized January 9, 1899; amount In- 
sured January 9, 1904, $370,000; policies se- 
cured by real and personal property, esti- 
mated value, $1,000,000. For further informa- 
tion address CHAS. N. FRIEND, General 
Agent, Chester, Va. 

Frame Your Pictures At Home. 

Our instructions teach you how to make 
any kind of a FRAME Handsome and attrac- 
tive. Will last a lifetime. Can be made in 
five minutes by any one. Material cost 
scarcely nothing. Ladies and children send 
us 25c. in stamps or coin with your name 
and address and our instructions will be 
mailed at once. We have lady agents mak- 
ing $2 to $3 per day teaching their friends 
this work. ART MODEL FRAMING CO., 
Van Buren, Ind. Lock Box No. 403. 

FOR SA.LE. 

A Dederick Steel Belt Hay Press, 

(Cost $150), in good order. Will sell at 
a bargain for cash. 

J. M. STEGER, Hatton, Va. 

I HAVE A LARGE LIST OF 

FRUIT, POULTRY and TRUCK FARMS 

Tea, fifty and One Hundred Acres each, wltn 

geed buildings, close to steam and trolley 

Uses, easy access to the city. Also, 

GRAIN AND STOCK FARMS 

Frem M0 te 1,000 acres at low prices— all the 

way from $5 to $60 per acre. Write for 

Catalogue. 

J. R. HOCKADAY, Richmond, Va. 

Bex 257. _____ 

POSITION WANTED by a young man on a 
stock farm. Understands veterinary science. 
Address WM. N. E., Ferguson's Wharf, Va. 

Mention the Southern Planter In 
writing. 



1904.] 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



121 



want is to get some Bordeaux mixture 
and arsenic there first, so that the 
young larra will eat and die. 

In the United States corn is a favor- 
ite feed for chickens, though, as Pro- 
fessor states, common grains '"seem 
practically interchangeable." 

In Ontario, an important poultry re- 
gion, according to Professor Graham, 
of the Ontario' Agricultural College, 
•wheat is the most popular feed. Corn 
is not used there to so great an extent 
as in New England, though, he be- 
lieves, from its high fuel value, that 
it is an important addition to winter 
rations. Oats, owing to the large per- 
centage of hull, are somewhat indi- 
gestible. Barley is very good, and by 
many considered next to wheat. 

The practice of successful poultry 
raisers and the results of numerous 
tests show that the day's rations 
should be made up of both whole grain 
and grain ground up into a mash. 

Opinions differ as to the proper time 
for feeding whole grain and mash. An 
objection to feeding mash in the morn- 
ing, it is stated, is that the hen is 
likely to become gorged with food and 
take to the roost for the rest of the 
day, resulting in her becoming too fat 
and egg production small. The objec- 
tion to feeding the mash at night is 
that it becomes quickly digested, and 
the bird has not sufficient food to last 
it during the long winter night; but 
this objection can be overcome by giv 
ing a little whole grain after the mash 
at night. 

In experiments at the West Virginia 
station, the egg production was practi- 
cally the same, whether the mash was 
fed in the morning or at night. 

A test at the Utah station showed 
that pullets fed dried blood as a part 
of the ration began to lay earlier than 
those given none. 

The experiments of the New York 
station bring out very clearly the im- 
portance of providing laying hens with 
rations containing an abundance of 
mineral matter, a point sometimes 
neglected. Rations should be well sup- 
plied with lime and phosphates, es- 
sential in the formation of bone, shells 
and tissues. Mineral matter is largely 
lacking in grains, but can be supplied 
by animal food, oyster shells and bone 
ash. 

* * * 

An effective way to retard early swell- 
ing of fruit buds, which are thus liable 
to get nipped by a late spring frost, 
is to spray with whitewash. White 
surfaces, it is well known, will not 
readily absorb the sun's rays, and ex- 
periments have shown that treatment 
of this sort on peach trees has delayed 
blossoming nearly a week. 
* * • 

Okra is a plant which should be In 
every garden. Okra soup is a great 
Southern dish, but in the North it i3 
not so well or generally known. The 
plant is a prolific yielder, though it 
i?. a little hard to start In heavy 



CASH FOR 
YOUR FARM 

NO MATTER WHERE IT IS 



Diy:j,-i-::: sell;: z-l.^.y and" ■with the least possible expense? 

Do you -want to sell it at a reasonable price instead of sacrificing a good portion of its valne? 

D: y:u -want i: szli. with tut t--licity ? 

If these are stuck wants, I can fill them. 

Fcr sight years I have been filling' these wants for people in every section of the country. 

The result is the largest real estate brokerage business in the world. 

Isn t thatcr : :.-.=.: I have_Lt-r. j-'.^V.'.r.f mvjlihns an . ii- : i:_suhtr:t-t eviie-:e that I car. sell ycur crot>errv ? 

Etg-tt years -rperitntt. t-_ its :.. :r...:: r al .-.-»• :r:~ . :=:c- :i 5 = - Frantic: . b.zirtis zf sztz.h'. retrsstnHn-.-'ts 
'. =". *r.:t:. : :.:r . : ■ t: $:z 3. year in advertising, give ntr tetter fa;:.it:»3 : r ;t..:r. _- -. . „r - r - — '-an anv 

ler broker anywhere. 

It ii-tsn : — atttr whether y- n rrcperty is wcrth $5:0 or $500,000 cr in what state ct :trr.'.zrr It U 1 -eaten If 
3 will send me a description, including ycur lowest cash trict, I will tell y : _ j-_st h:- =:; ■ ; _.-'-.- sell 

ur property fir cash and* at the least possible expense to ytu. It will cost you nothing to get this infcmtaScn'and I 
1 sure you will be glad you asked for it. 

If yon want to buy any kind of a property in any part of the country, tell me ycur requirements. I will guarantee 

t." t~ ;r;n::.y an 1 5 a* t y: - s:~ t nt inty at :r.t fime t:~ e. 

W. M. OSTRANDER, 376 North American Building. Philadelphia. 




cx>vy Nook Pbultry..ratin 

v -Pope Apope- 

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They are big. and strong, and healthy. Good layers and Ribbon Winners. Our 
Birds take the ribbons wherever shown — Interstate Fair, Kentucky State Poultry 
Show, Owensboro, Louisville, etc 

Cozy Nook is one of the most perfectly equipped plants of its size in America. 
Headed by birds scoring 92H to 94^. Satisfaction guaranteed to each and 
every purchaser. Write today for free illustrated catalog. 
Eggs, $2.00 for 15 packed in special baskets. 

Pope « Pope, COZY NOOK POULTRY FARM. "™m«. 




STrlCTLY 
-AUTOMATIC 
THROUGHOUT 1 



The Cyphers Guarantee 

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itttr.rl in, iess tr. _. .e and nitre sitiitact: n.'ln a ren_:nt. patented 

CYPHERS INCUBATOR 

than in any other make or you get your money tack. The genuine Cyphers is the only pat- 
ent diaphragm, non-moisture, self-ventilating', self-regulating' incubator. Adopted and en* 

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PROFITABLE " PEEPERS" 1 

Welcome sounds — the first fain: -peeps" from cracking shells — 
beard coming from the evenly heated egg chamber of the 

Sure Hatch Incubator 

Those sounds mean money profit for the owner. A Sure Hatch 
starts chicks in life with strong lungs, solid bodies and sood con- 
stitutions. Our free catalogue D 32 tells how. Write now. 
Sure Hatch Incubator Co., Clay Center, leb., or Indianapolis, lod. 



S. 0. WHITE LEGHORNS 



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Of fine quality. Great laying strain. Prices very reasonable. Satisfaction guaranteed. Write 
for prices before bnyinp elsewhere. C. G. H. FINK, R. F. D. 2. Richmond V«. 



122 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[February 



INCUBATORS = ON - 30 - DAYS - TRIAL. 




A certain and never failing Business Hatcher. 
Reasunab e in price: best in quality, and always 
reliable. Tb usands of these machines aie in 
successful operation here at home and abroad. 

Our handsome catalogue is free for ti>e asking, 
send !'>r a copy at t nee, befo e you select a ma- 
chine and make a mistake. Address The Stand- 
ard F. C. Incubator Co., Oept. 23, Rochester, N. Y. 

Mention this Journal. 




VICTOR 

Incubators 



are truthfully pictured and their 
actual working luid in about 30 
of the 80 pa.es of our new cata- 
1< gue. The rest of the book 
gives information about the 
chicken business. Webeerin the story in the egg and end 
it with the marketing of the fowls. There's knowledge 
which will benefit anyone and mny mean dollars to you. 
1 Our incnbatorsaredrivinghens outof business. They work 
regardless of weather or of seasons Y< u can counton ' 
hatching every fertile egg. Money back if not ?1 1 we claim. 

LWe pay freight. The booh is free. Tust say "Send Victor 
Bonk"and we'll doit. GEO. ERTEL C3.,Quinrv, IT, 
■iHMl ii^ii ■■■im ■■■!■■■ 



CHICKS THAT LIVE 

get strong and healthy — gain 
steadily in weight, are chicks 
hatched in Heliable Incubators. 



The Reliable 




provides automatically a constant 

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Hot Water Incubator only $! 

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CASH SI I'PLV & BFG CO. p f pt bb* k UAMAZOO, BiCH, 




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results sure, profits large. 80 iVuye' 
Free Trial. Catalogue free. Mention 
this paper.— Haw Ley e Incubator 
Co., Box 4t>, Newton, Iowa. 




BUILD YOUR OWN INCUBATOR 



You can do this easily with common tools and 
Save More Than Half, > Our Complete 
Book of Plans instructs fully. We sell you at 
cost all fixtures like Tank, Lamp, Regulator, 
etc. No Experiment. Handsome Catalog Free. 
tliAN.VUN, SNOW A CO., J>epl. i5g^uincy, 111. 



KEEPS ECC8 FRESH 

UNTIL THEV ARC U.ED. 

ZINKET SYSTEM . 

* FILLER. PRESERVER. TESTER 
lANO CARRIER. INOE- 
J.TRUCTI8LE IN FIRE 
OR WATER TESTIMON- 
IALS AND BOOKLET 
FREE. CMLAFC. THAN .TNAwaOAnD 

National Egg Carrier Co. 
Scranton. P. 

LIVK AGENTS WANTED. 



Mention the Southern Planter in 
writing. 




ground, and should be sowed thick 
enough to allow for thinning three- 
fourths of the plants. A row fifty feet 
in length will supply a large family, 
and also dried pods enough for many 
fine winter soups. It is about as good 
this way as fresh, and, to my taste, 
fully as good as the canned okra, 
which is quite expensive. 
* * * 

As a cultivated plant, the Dandelion 
is assuming a place of some importance 
in farm gardens, and in the New Eng- 
land market gardens it is grown exten- 
sively, yielding large returns per acre. 
They are sown in the early spring, cul- 
tivated during the summer, and thin- 
ned to eight or ten inches apart. They 
are not fit for market until the fol- 
lowing spring, and are then best when 
partially blanched. The Maine station 
states that they can be grown profit- 
ably at 50 cents per bushel, though 
the price received is often much 
higher. 

* * * 

The good roads sentiment is appa- 
rently growing. Representative Aiken, 
of South Carolina, has just introduced 
a bill similar to the one introduced 
the other day in the Senate by Senator 
Latimer, of the same State. It pro- 
vides for a Bureau of Highways and 
for the construction of good roads by 
the Federal Government and the States 
in co-operation, each to bear one-half 
of the expense. The bill appropriates 
$24,000,000 for this purpose. 

* * * 

Representative Trimble, of Ken- 
tucky, has introduced a bill to prevent 
the adulteration of blue grass, orchard 
grass and clover seed. Authority is 
given the Department of Agriculture 
to inspect all such seeds offered for 
sale, and any adulteration, mixing or 
misbranding discovered will subject 
the offenders to fines ranging from 
?100 to $1,000 for each offence, and 
also imprisonment. The bill is care- 
fully drawn, and discusses the various 
species and varieties of blue grass, 
clover and orchard grass, and their 
adulterates, at some length. 

Adulteration of all of these grasses, 
and particularly Kentucky blue grass, 
appears to be a common practice with 
many seed men. For this purpose, 
Canada blue grass (poa compressa) is 
used in mixture with Kentucky blue 
grass (poa pratensis), and many sam- 
ples received by the Bureau of Plant 
Industry have been found to contain 
a major portion of the inferior or 
Canada species. More than five per 
cent, of the inferior species is consid- 
ered, in the meaning of the bill, an 
"adulteration." The bill gives the De- 
partment of Agriculture authority to 
act only in cases of interstate ship- 
ments or importations. 
* * » 

Temple Farm, Yorktown, Va., the 
scene of the surrender of Lord Corn- 
wallis, is to be purchased by the Gov- 
ernment, if a bill introduced by Repre- 



MOOREWOOD POULTRY FARM, 
Wiseville, Chesterfield Co., Virginia. 







Highest Grade B. P. ROCKS, W. WYAN- 
DOTTES, S. C. BLACK MINORCAS. 
Breeding and Exhibition Stock and Eges for 
tale at all times. Prices reasonable. Write 
to-day for our LARGE ILLUSTRATED CAT- 
ALOGUE and POULTRY GUIDE, inclosin* 
two-cent stamp. 

At the Great Richmond Shows of 1902 and 
1S03, our stock won THIRTY-FOUR PRIZES, 
TEN OP THEM FIRSTS. No better utility 
stock can be had. 

E. F. SOMMERS, - Somerset, Va. 

Breeder of the finest line bred 

Barred Plymouth Rocks 

exclusively for 14 years. Write to ma for 
what you want. Am sure can please you. 
My birds have been bred for laying qualities 
as well as shape and plumage. Cockerels, $1 
to $2; eggs, $1 per set of 15; 2 sets, $1.50; 
M. B. Turkey eggs, $3 per dozen. 

"WALSH'S 

Barred Plymouth RocKs 

High class combination utility and 
exhibition stock. Best blood. Bred 
from prolific layers of large browa 
eggs. Eggs, $1.50 per 15. 

L. W. WALSH, 

Box 194. Lynchburg. Va. 



B. P. Rock Cockerels. 

A few superb birds at $2.50 each. Return 
If not satisfactory, and your money will be 
refunded. SUNNYSIDE POULTRY FARM, 
Christiar.sburg, Va. Reference Bank of 
Christlansburg, Va. 



Barred Plymouth Rock 

EGGS FOR HATCHING 

From my heavy laying strain, $1 per 15. 
DON. M. McLEAN, Maxton, N. C. 



■FOR SALE- 



B. Plymouth Rock Cockerels 

of Hawkins and other noted strains. 

MARVIN P. KLINE, Vaucluse, Va. 



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123 



HOLLYBROOK FARM. 

..EGGS for SITTING.. 

From Pure-bred Poultry. 

In our poultry yards we have the following 
thoroughbred poultry, all first-class stock, 
eriginally started from the best stock in this 
country, and carefully cross-mated so as to 
give strong and vigorous stock and the best 
laying strains of the different breeds that it 
's possible to obtain: 

BARRED P. ROCKS. $1.00 per sitting. 

LIGHT BRAHMAS. $2.00 per sitting. 

SILVER LACED WYANDOTTE. Price, 
$1.50 per sitting. 

"WHITE WYANDOTTE. $1.50 per sitting. 

In addition to careful breeding, we pay 
special attention to the handling and packing 
of our Eggs, so as to ensure good fertility 
and a good hatch. 

We have also for sale a few first-class 
voung cockerds of BARRED PLYMOUTH 
ROCK? SILVER LACED aand WHITE WY- 
ANDOTTE. Price, $1.50 and $2 each, crated 
for shipment. 

HENRY W. WOOD, Richmond, Va. 

P. O. Box 330. Hollybrook Farm. 

BUFF ROCKS. 



EGGS from Choicely 

Mated Birds, ^ ^ j* 

The best general purpose fowl 
in existence. 

PRICES VERY REASONABLE. 

ADDRESS 

H. L. TROLINGER, - - Pulaski.Va, 

EGGS fr° m Fine Fowls. 

Barred, Buff and White Plymouth Rocks; Sil- 
ver, White, Buff and Partr dge Wyandottes; 
Black Minorcas ; Black Langshans; Light 
Brahmas; Buff and Partridge Cochins; White 
and Brown Leghorns. 

♦♦♦♦15 FOR $1.00 ♦♦♦♦ 

except the YVyandojtes which are 8'2.0j for 15 

No stock except a few B. P. Rocks and Light 
Brahmas. C. J. WARINER, Mgr., Ruffin, N. C. 
Oakland Poultry Farm. 

BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS 

: EXCLUSIVELY : 

Strong, healthy, vigorous, farm -raised 
stock, bred for laying eggs. 
75 CENTS PER SITTING. 
WM. B LEWIS, Irby, Nottoway r p ., Va. 

EGGS! EGGS1! and PIGS! PIGS!! 

If you are pleased, tell your friends, 
If not, tell u« — but don't forget 

That only the best is bred at 

THE CEDARS P. & 8. FARM. 

Now bonking orders for Eggs and Pigs for 

Spring delivery. Finest B. P. Rocks in Va. and 

Giant .Jumbo srrain H. B Turkeys. Protection 

Duroc Jersey and Perfection Poland China pigs. 

WM. Q. OWENS, Midlothian, Va. 

Mention the Southern Planter in 
writing. 



sentative Maynard, of Virginia, be- 
comes a law. This farm comprises 
about five hundred acres, and the old 
manor house was used as the head- 
quarters of Washington, Lafayette and 
Rochambeau. The Government has 
already erected a handsome monument 
at Yorktown to commemorate this vic- 
tory, but its surroundings are neglect- 
ed. Considerable sentiment, Mr. May- 
nard says, has already been worked 
up in favor of this movement, in- 
cluding memorials from the legisla- 
tures of Maryland, Ohio, New York, 
Delaware, North Carolina, Massachu- 
setts, West Virginia, Utah and South 
Carolina, and also various patriotic 

organizations. 

* * # 

Don't make the mistake of putting 
sawdust on between the strawberry 
rows or, in fact, on any cultivated 
land. It is ruinous. 

Guy E. Mitchell. 



Hartford City, Ind., Jan. 15, 1904. 
Dr. Jos. Haas, V. S., 

Indianapolis, Ind. 
Dear Sir: 

When I received your Hog Remedy 
my hogs had the cholera in earnest. 
Out of seventeen shoats, four had died 
and five were sick when the Remedy 
arrived. Four of the five that were 
sick died, as they were too far gone to 
eat, but the other was able to eat, and 
is now well and doing fine. No more 
took sick, and all are doing well now. 
Have been feeding them your Remedy 
twice a day. I had two young sows 
that would weigh 175 lbs. each that 
took very sick, and would not eat for 
three days. I took them away from 
the rest of the herd and put them 
where they could get no food except 
that which I gave them. I mixed some 
of your remedy in mill feed and put it 
before them. At the end of the third 
day they ate a little, and now, at the 
end of the tenth day, they are eating, 
and seem to be all right, and no one 
could tell they were ever sick. If there 
is any sickness in the rest of the herd, 
I have not been able to detect it. I 
have been feeding your Remedy every 
day for ten days. I will say this for 
Dr. Haas' Hog Remedy: It is the only 
Remedy that I have ever fed that I 
thought did any good. I will always 
feed it, for I am satisfied it has ar- 
rested disease in my herd. 
Yours truly, 

R. F. D. 10. David Melick. 



The "Acme" Pulverizing Harrow is 
made entirely of cast steel and wrought 
iron — is, therefore, practically inde- 
structible. 



Before deciding upon buying an in- 
cubator, write the George Ertel Com- 
pany, Quincy, 111., for a copy of "The 
Victor Book." It is free, and will be 
gladly sent. It contains lots of valua- 
ble information. Just use a postal 
card. 



LEGHORN POULTRY FARM 




Has for sale a limited number of S. C. 
BROWN and S. C. WHITE LEGHORN 
Pullets and Roosters. Best layers known, 
Prize Winning Stock. Price, $1.00, $1.50 each. 
Eggs In season at $1.00 for 16; $2.50 for 50; 
$5.00 per 100. Satisfaction guaranteed. 

Address A. T. MATTHEWS. Box 36, Parksley. Va 

.. Eggs for Sitting. .. 

When you want eggs for your Incubator or 
hens, why not give me a trial and get as good 
as the best at cut-throat prices. BARRED P. 
ROCKS, WHITE WYANDOTTES, LTGHT 
BRAHMAS, WHITE and BUFF ORPING- 
TONS. A number of Cockerels for sale. 

BRUSHY HILL POULTRY YARDS, 
O. E. SHOOK, Prop. New Sterling, N. C. 



SILVER-LACED 

WYANDOTTES. 

New blood, choice specimens, 
strong and healthy birds of 
fine plumage, ready lor ship- 
ment at $1.00 each. A\*o 
purebred POLAND-CHINA 
PIGS at $5.00 each. 

Dr. H. H. LEE, 

Lexington, Va. 



EGGS for sale. 

Prom Prize Winning BUFF LEG- 
HORNS and BARRED PLYMOUTH 
ROCKS. Also choice Barred Rock 
Cockerels (Miles Strain). 

MISS JULIA P. JONES, 

Bethania, N. C. 




FOR SALE 



M B. Turkeys, B. P. Rocks, White Wyan- 
dotte and S. C B. Leghorn (the great winter 
layers) Chickens; Pekin Ducks, all of finest 
stock. Addiess Miss CLARA L. SMITH, 
CROXTON, Caroline, Co., Va. 



EGGS for SITTING. 

Pure-bred B. P. ROCK Eggs, 

$1.25 FOR 15. 

P. MAXWELL CONNER, Box 316. Richmond, Va 



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Farm=Raised Poultry. 

Two distinct flocks of Mammoth Bronze Tur- 
keys from which we make matings for breeding 
purposes at reasonable prices. Eggs in season. 

BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS, 
WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS. 

BIRDS AND EGGS. 
PROGRESS FARM, Boz 52, Normandy, Tenn 

PIT GAMES 

Black Devils and Red Cubans. 

These cocks won 90 per cent, of battles 
fought in 1902 and 1903, and have never lost 
a battle when gameness and cutting quali- 
ties could win. Eggs $2 per 15: stock for sale. 
THOS. W. JARMAN, Yancey Mills, Va. 



ORPINGTON CHICKENS and 
POLAND-CHINA PIGS. 

r EGGS rom my best strain of Buff Orpingtons, 
81.00 per 15, S3. 00 per 50. A few Cockerels at$1.00 
to $1.50 Poland-China Pigs 8 to 10 wks. old at 
83.75 each, or 87.00 pair, 810.00 trio. These carry 
the very best blood. 

OCCONEECHEE FARM, 

mecklenburg Co. JBPFRESS, VA. 

PURE-BRED 

M. B. Turkeys, S£.g 

Toms, $3.00; hens, $2.50. Also 

B. P. Rock Cockerels, 

$1.00 each. 
C. T. JOHNSON, Beaver Dam, Va. 

EGGS for HATCHING. 

75c. Per Sitting of IS. 
Light Brahmas, Black Minorcas, 
S. L. Wyandottes, Barred and W. 
Rocks, Brown Leghorns S. and R. C; 
White Leghorns S. C. 

A few more Leghorn and Minorca 
Cockerels left. J. B. JOHNSON, Ma- 
nassas, Va. Clover Hill Farm. 

_*40 VARIETIES**- 

BEST POULTRY. 

Fine large Poultry Guide, 6c. You 
cannot afford to be without it. Price 
List FREE. Write to-day. 

JOHN E. HEATWOLE, Harrisonburg, Va. 

MY PURE-BRED 

S. C. Brown Leghorns, 

Are the best layers in the world — lay 
at all seasons. Place your orders early 
for eggs, 15 for $1. 

W. S. GUTHRIE, Childress, Va. 

OAKSHADB n. B. Turkeys 
and Huguenot W. Wyandottes, 

: FOR SALE : 

Raised on 400 acre blue grass farm — the 
best 1 have ever seen. Eggs from White, 
Buff and Partridge Wyandottes in season 
Address Huguenot Poultry Yards, 
...Dublin, Va. 



THE EDITOR OF THE RURAL NEW 

YORKER, 
than whom there is no better potato 
expert in the country, says: "Salzer's 
Earliest Potato is the earliest of 38 ear- 
liest sorts, tried by me, yielding 464 bu. 
per acre." Salzer's Early Wisconsin 
yielded for the Rural New Yorker 736 
bu. per acre. Now Salzer has heavier 
yielding varieties than above. See 
Salzer's catalogue. Just send 10c. in 
stamps and this notice to the John A. 
Salzer Seed Company, La Crosse, Wis., 
and receive lots of farm seed samples 
and their big catalogue, which is brim- 
ful of rare things for the gardener and 
farmer, easily worth $100.00 to every 
wide-awake farmer. 

It describes Salzer's Teosinte, yield- 
ing 160,000 lbs. per acre of rich, green 
fodder; Salzer's Victoria Rape, yield- 
ing 60,000 lbs. of sheep and hog food 
per acre, together with Salzer's New 
National Oats, which has a record of 
300 bu. per acre in 30 States; so, also, 
full description of Alfalfa Clover, 
Giant Incarnat Clover, Alsike, Timo- 
thy, and thousands of other fodder 
plants, Grasses, Wheat, Speltz, Bar- 
leys, etc. 



We are the only distillers in this 
country selling direct to consumers. 
Like every success, we have imitators 
who "claim" to be distillers. They are 
not distillers, and have no connection 
with a distillery. For proof, you need 
not take our word. Just see Govern- 
ment reports! They are simply deal- 
ers, and can "doctor" tneir whiskey 
as much as they like and call it any 
age, for, unfortunately, the Govern- 
ment does not control dealers as it 
does distillers. Now, these dealers are 
in business for profit, so when they 
offer 8 to 12-year-old whiskey for the 
same or less money than we, as distil- 
lers, can sell 7-year-old, the inference 
is plain. Their whiskey is not the age 
they claim, and is adulterated and 
watered. The cheaper they sell, the 
more water and adulteration you get. 
Beware of our imitators. 

If you want honest whiskey, direct 
from our own distillery, with all its 
original richness and flavor, carrying 
a United States registered distiller's 
guarantee of purity and age, and sav- 
ing you the dealers' enormous profits, 
then accept the offer we make you else- 
where in this paper. It is backed by 
a company with a capital of $500 000.00 
paid in full, the proud reputation of 36 
years of continuous success, and over 
a quarter of a million satisfied custo- 
mers; sc you run no risk. The Hay- 
ner Distilling Company. 



The "Acme" Pulverizing Harrow, 
while a "general-purpose" Harrow, is 
pre-eminently adapted to the prepara- 
tion of ground for winter and other 
grain, where the drill is to be used, and 
for covering in the ssed, wher« the 
drill is not used. 



White Holland Turkeys* 

I have a few very fine Toms left; 
first orders will get them. WHITE 
PLYMOUTH ROCK Cockerels — some 
nice ones. JOHN A. CLARK, Malvern 
Hill, Va. 

EGGS FOR SALE. 

WHITE HOLLAND Turkey Eggs «2 per 10. . 

Rosecomb White Leghorn Eggs $1.00 per 15; 
82.00 per 40. 

White Plymouth Rock Eggs 81.50 per 15. 
Mrs. LIZZIE DYER, Versailles, Tenn. 

FTNF TTTCKEYS: ■>****> *°» BtmB8 " • 

The Mammoth Bronze is the finest speci- 
men of turkey In the world. I do not hesi- 
tate to say that I have the finest birds In 
Virginia. If you will file your orders now 
you will get choice ones out of a choice 
flock. I also have a few Barred Plymouth 
Rocks for sale. My fowls are all thorough 
bred. Write for circulars and rates. 

PIEDMONT POULTRY PLACE, 
Miss E. Callle Giles, P rop. ■ Whittle's Depot, Va. 

Mammoth Bronze Turheys, 

$8.00 per trio, some half wild stock. 

Healthiest and best I ever raised; 2 year 

old Goblers, $5.00. B. P. Rocks, (Hawk- 

n's strain) trio $4.00. Mrs. ANN E. WINN, 

Blantons, Va. 

HawKsley StocKlFarm 

has 2 nice Berkshire Boars for sale, 6 
mos. old; will have no more pigs to sell 
until April. A few S. C. B. Leghorn 
Cockerels left a $L. each. Eggs in seas- 
on. J. T. OLIVER, Allen's Level, Va. 

BROWN LEGHORNS. 

Young stock for sale in 
Fall. Prices reasonable. 
White Plymoath Rocks. 
R. W. HAW, Jr., - - Centrqlia, Va. 

S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS. 

Fine Cockerels, Wyckoff strain, $1.50. 
Fine Cockerels from Biltmore prize 
birds, $2.00. Write for prices on pens, 
choice matings. Eggs per sitting, $1.00. 
Mrs. J. W. WALTERS, Christiaosburg, Va. 

COCKERELS FOR SALE, 

Barred Plymouth Rock and S. C. B. Leghorn. 
Biltmore and Thompson strains. 
Splendid birds $1 each. 

MRS. JNO. F. PAYNE, 
University Station, Charlottesville, Va. 
CLAIRMONT DAIRY FARM. 



HOW TO FEED AND BREED HOGS 

is of importance to swine growers. A 
S practical, clean, common-sense swine 
aper for farmers can be had from now 
) January, 1905, by sending IO Cent! 
* -\ Sliver at once to 
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I INSURE HOGS 

and Pay for All That Die 

when my Remedy is fed as a preventive. 
"Write for plan. 28 years unparalleled success 
and the biggest money-maker for hog raisers 
known. 




TRADE-MARK. 
It will Prevent and Arrest Diseases, Expel Worms, 
Stop Cough and Pay for Itself Many Times Over by 
the Extra Flesh Produced without Extra Feed. 

PRICES: 25-lb. can, J12.50; 12y 2 -lb. can, 
J6.50, prepaid; packages, $2.50, $1.23 and 50 
cents. None genuine without my signature 
on package or can label. 



Govans, Md., Nov. 18, 1903. 
DR. JOS. HAAS, Indianapolis, Ind.: 

Dear Sir,— Since I began feeding your Rem- 
edy my hogs have greatly improved, and 
none have died. My hogs were all sick be- 
fore I began using the Remedy — in fact, I 
had lost about 70 head. Yours truly, 

CHRISTIAN GERMAN. 



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will be sent FREE, if you mention Southern 
Planter when asking for it. It has been re- 
vised and enlarged, contains 100 pages, fully 
Illustrated, practical and complete, and worth 
many dollars to any swine raiser. 

JOS. HAAS, V. S., 

INDIANAPOLIS, IND. 






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COLLIE PUPS 



By Imported Slrea. Sable and white and tri- 
colors. Prices. 88 to $15. Older ones correspond- 
ingly low- Book on Training. 50 cents : Freb if 
you buy a Collie. MAPLEMONT STOCK FARM, 
Albany, Vermont. 



GOOD HOUSEKEEPING. 

CHICKEN PIE. 

In these days of high prices, any 
hint as to how to make one chicken do 
the duty of two will be welcome to both 
city and country housekeepers, so I am 
reminding them of good, old-timey 
chicken pie. 

As Marian Harland would advise, 
"first catch your chicken," and do it at 
least a day before it is to be used. 
Dress it as for roasting, and put it into 
a closely-covered pot, with enough 
water to cover, and with a small piece 
of onion, a pinch of thyme, and a 
pinch of sage — not enough of any of 
these to give a decided taste — and 
let it boil until tender, but do not let 
it drop to pieces. Cut the chicken up, 
taking out the largest bones. Line the 
deep pan with a rich biscuit dough. 
Lay the pieces in and sprinkle pepper 
and salt over it. Slice three hard- 
boiled eggs over this, and pour the 
water the fowl was boiled in over it, 
adding some, if necessary, to cover the 
meat and eggs. Put dabs of butter 
about and sprinkle a generous hand- 
ful of flour over the whole. Put the 
top crust on and bake to a rich brown. 
Make a small hole in the middle of the 
top crust to let the steam escape, and 
prevent spoiling the edges. The left- 
over scraps of a turkey or roast 
chicken make fine pies, and are made 
just the same way. 

CELERY SAUCE. 

This can be made with the outside 
pieces of the celery and small pieces of 
the root and ends, which are of no 
use for the table, and is good with 
almost any boiled meat or fowl. Wash 
and scrape the celery, cut it into small 
pieces, cover it with water, and boil 
until tender. Add a dust of nutmeg, 
salt and pepper. Cream a large table- 
spoon of butter with a tablespoon of 
flour to a pint of sauce. Take the 
celery out, rub it through a sieve and 
return it to the water with the butter 
and a cup of rich cream. Let it boil 
and it is ready for the table. 

SALSIFY CAKES. 

Scrape the salsify and drop it into 
cold water for awhile; then boil until 
tender, and put through the potato 
masher; add to it equal parts of 
creamed Irish potatoes; heat well to- 
gether, and to one quart of the mixture 
add a large spoon of butter, one raw 
egg, salt and pepper. Make it out into 
cakes as big as a biscuit and fry in 
hot lard. 

TOMATO SAUCE. 

With this we can make a very appe- 
tizing dish of a most untempting-look- 
ing cold roast of beef. Slice one large 
onion and put it on a hot pan, with a 
heaping tablespoon of butter and let it 
fry done, but not brown. To this add 
a half a can of tomatoes and let them 
cook until tender, then put them 
through a sieve. Return this to the 
pan and add a half-pint of soup stock, 
made of the bones of the cold roast, a 
teaspoon of black pepper, a teaspoon of 



BERKSHIRES 



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BERKSHIRE PIGS 

Ready for January delivery, sired by 
my 18-months-old boar, CAPT. JACK 
68623, who now weighs 680 lbs. in only 
fair breeding condition. The pigs are 
first-class in every respect and I will 
ship to responsible parties on ap- 
proval. Am now booking orders for 
pigs March farrow by Lustre's Carlisle 
of Biltmore, 72057, recently purchased 
from Biltmore Farms. 

WOODSIDE STOCK FARM, 

Charlottesville, Va. 

ACCOMAC HERD 

Large ENGLISH BERKSHIRES. 

A choice lot of young Boars and 
Gilts now ready to ship; 60 nice pigs 
for spring shipment; the best English 
and American families. All stock 
eligible to registry. Write for prices. 
ALFRED P. WHITE, JR., 
Parksley, Va. 

English Berkshire Pigs, 

8 weeks old, $5.00 each. 

Barred Plymouth Rocks, 

$1.00 each. 

Eggs in Season at $1.00 for 15. 

M. E. ANDREWS, Hurt, Va. 
HOLLYBROOK FARM. 

Berkshire Pigs^v 

Are from first-class registered stock, Biltmore 
strain ; have free range and plenty of running 
water, and are healthy, vigorous stock. Young 
pigs for sale. Write for prices. 

HENRY W. WOOD. 

Box 330. RICHMOND, VA. 



B ERKSHIRE 

Boars, bred by Biltmore Farms, for sale 
cheap. They are of the best blood, and are 
sure breeders. R. S. CAMERON & SON, 
Gloucester, Va. 



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RERKSHIRES; 



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. 



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THOROUGH-BRED.... 

Berkshire Boars, 
Dorset Buck Lambs, 
Jersey Bull Calves. 

All stock In best of condition and 
guaranteed as represented. 
F. T. ENGLISH, Centreville, Md. 

POLAND -CHINAS 

For sale, 3 months old pigs not akin; 
choice bred gilts 8 to 12 months old, 
sired by a grandson of CHIEF TE- 
CUMSEH 2d and CHIEF PERFEC- 
TION 2nd & IDEAL SUNSHINE Boars. 
I also offer choice B. P. ROCK COCK- 
ERELS. THOMAS R. SMITH, 
Lincoln, Loudoun Co., Va. 

ESSEX PIGS. 

I am now offering 
some splendid pigs, 
'not related, from re- 
corded stock. You 
Ht cannot do better 
than breed the Essex. 

L. O. JONES, Bethania, N. C. 

ESSEX SOWS. 

Two fine ones, 8 mos. old, entitled to 
registry; will SELL CHEAP as last we 
will have. Registered BERKSHIRE 
SMOATS cheap, and plenty of Berk- 
shire pigs in the Spring. 

DALKEITH STOCK FARfl, 

■^"™— South Boston, Va. 




Registered fc^'jE 




C. Whites. Fine large 
strains. All ages, mated 
not a in, « week, pigs. 
Jiredsows. Service boars 
and Poultry. Write for prices and free circular. 

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

Mention the Southebn Planter in 
writing. 



celery seed, a dash of red pepper, salt 
and a tablespoon of flour. Let it boil 
up and it is ready. Serve with cold 
sliced meat, or slice the meat and put 
it into a pan with a small quantity of 
nice drippings or butter. Let it get 
hot, and after putting it on a large 
dish pour the sauce over it. This 
sauce is a delightful addition to broiled 
steak, poured on just as you take it 
from the fire. 

BUCKWHEAT CAKES. 

One quart of buckwheat flour, one 
cup of corn meal, half a cup of yeast, 
or half a yeast-cake soaked for two 
hours before using; one teaspoon of 
salt and one teaspoon of molasses; 
enough water to make a stiff batter. 
Beat in two eggs; set it to rise, and 
in the morning stir in a teaspoon of 
soda dissolved in a little warm water 
and a large tablespoon of lard and but- 
ter mixed. Fry on a very hot griddle, 
with plenty of grease. 

SYBUP (TO EAT WITH THE BUCKWHEAT 
CAKES. ) 

One pound of maple sugar and five 
pounds of white sugar in five quarts of 
water. Boil till there is only a gallon. 
If you cannot get the maple sugar, use 
six pounds of brown sugar, and season 
it with the yellow inside bark of a 
hickory-nut tree. The imitation is 
almost perfect. I sometimes dissolve 
a half-box of gelatine in the syrup just 
before I take it off the stove. This 
makes it so much thicker, and is a 
variety. 

MEKINGUE PUDDING. 

One quart of stewed apples (the can- 
ned ones do just as well as the fresh), 
a cup and a half of sugar (more if the 
apples are sour), the yolks of six eggs 
beaten very light, the juice and grated 
rind of one lemon, one cup of rich 
milk, one dessertspoon of corn starch 
dissolved in the milk. Beat all well to- 
gether and bake in a deep pudding- 
dish for forty minutes, then spread 
over the top a meringue made of the 
whites of the eggs beaten light with 
six tablespoons of sugar and a tea- 
spoon of vanilla. Put it back in the 
oven and let it brown. Serve with 
cream. This is good made with evapo- 
rated apples or apricots. 

HOME-MADE MUSTARD. 

Four tablespoons of ground mus- 
tard, one tablespoon of flour, one table- 
spoon of sugar, one teaspoon of salt, 
one teaspoon of black pepper, one tea- 
spoon of celery seed. Mix these in- 
gredients together and then rub them 
into a paste, with a little cold vinegar, 
and pour over it one cup of boiling 
vinegar. Let it boil up, and it will 
keep any length of time. 

SWEET PICKLE MADE OF EVAPORATED 
PEACHES. 

In the springtime our pickle jars are 
generally empty, or nearly so, and in 
the country it is not so easy to fill 
them at this season; so I think some 
will be glad to know that the dried 
fruit makes pickle almost, if not quite, 
as good as the fresh. I like to use the 




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Products Are Good 

English Berkshires. 

Berkshires are the most profitable 
pigs to raise, because of their great 
size, early maturity and the fine 
quality of the meat. Breeders who 
desire to. improve the quality of 
their stock will be interested in our 
new folder about the young Filston 
Berkshires, the progeny of noted 
English prize winners. Correspond- 
ence solicited. 

Filston Farm, Glencoe, Md. 



O.LC. 



0. I. C. PIGS 

FROn REd. STOCK. 
EOR SALE. PRICES R1QHT. 
P. S. MICHIE, Charlottesville, Va. 



AT FARMER'S PRICES. 

S. M, WISECARVER, • ■ Rustburg. Va. 

WHITE YORKSHIRE PIGS, 

Entitled to registration, FOR SALE. 

HENRY H. CLARKE, "Chantilly," 
Broad Street Road, Richmond, Va. 



FOR SALE. 

Black horse, foaled 1895, by Eolus (aire of 
Eole, St. Saviour, Eon, Morello, Russell 
Diablo, Eurus, Eolian, Elkwood, Knight of 
Ellerslie, etc.). Dam Sample by Imp. Rother- 
hill (son of Lord Clifden); 2d dam Satilla by 
Imp. Buckden (son of Lord Clifden); 3d dam 
Matilda, by Imp. Sovereign (son of Emillus); 
4th dam Ruby Mare, by Imp. Ruby (son of 
Emillus) ; 5th dam Peytona, by Imp. Glen- 
toe; and so on 18 crosses to a Royal Mare. 

Aurus is a large, handsome horse 16 hands 
high, weighs 1,250 pounds, with fine bone 
and muscle, and a good disposition. Be- 
lieved to be sound and a sure foal getter. 
Sold for no fault. Peytona was, perhaps the 
largest mare ever trained. She won the Pey- 
ton stakes, four mile-heats, worth thirty 
thousand dollars, four heats— 16 miles. She 
afterwards beat Fashion fonr mile heats, who 
beat Boston the same distance. Apply to 

U. J. HANCOCK & SON., Charlottesville, Va. 

FOR SALE,- -My Trotting-bred Stallion 

GEORGE BURNS, foaled May 14, 1900. Ma- 
hogany bay, star In face, left hind foot white, 
of good style, easy to handle; will make good 
breeder. Write for his breeding. 
J. TABB JANNBY, Van Clevesvllle, W. V*. 



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127 



REGISTERED 

SHORTHORNS. 

Our old, established herd of'abqut 
forty good milking cows is headed by 
imported SIR WILFRED LAtJRlER, 
144766 (a son of the great English 
champion Marengo); CEDRIG; 126088 
(a grandson of William of Orange, of 
Marr Farm), and FRANTIS LAD, 
210443 (a winner of second 'prize "Tn 
senior bull calves at 1903 International 
Young stock for sale, 

P. S. LEWIS & SON, 
Point Pleasant, W. Va. 

FOR SALE OR TRADE 

1 Registered Shorthorn Bully 

5 years old, to prevent inbreeding. 
1 Registered Shorthorn Bull, 

6 months old. 

50 bus. French White Artichokes, 

at 75 cents per bus. 
Standard bred Poland-China Pig.s, 3 to 
* 4 months old. 

J. H. BOELTE & SONS, - News Ferrjy Va 
«^ ^ ^— — 

ELLERSLIE FARM **- 

Thoroughbred Horses 

AND SHORTHORN CATTLE, 

Pare Southdown Sheep 
and Berkshire Pigs. 

Fob Sale. R. J. HANCOCK & SON, 

Chablottesville, Va. 

WM. T, THRASHER, Springwood, Virginia, 

BREEDER OF PURE BRED 

SKort Horn Cattle and 
Poland-CKina Hog's. 

TOR SALE : 2 yearling bulls, good ones, ready 
for service; also some nice Fall Poland-China 
shoats of both sexes. Come or write. j 



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. 



Angora = Goats, 

In pairs to suit. Buck and Doe Kids 
at $15 or $20 per pair. Does in Kid, 
$8 to $10. Some extra REG. ANGUS 
Bull Calves, low down. 

J. R. K. BELL, Pulaski City, Va. 

AUPDDi PfllTC are.handsome, hardy and 
AnUUnA UUA I O profitable For large cir- 
cular address E. W. COLE & CO., Big Clifty, Ky. 



evaporated fruit best, but the common 
sun-uiied peaches will do. 

Seven pounds of peacnes, five pounds 
01 sugar, between two and tnree quarts 
qt vinegar. rowder coarsely mace, 
cloves and alspice, and add seven tea- 
spoons of this mixture and a few pieces 
of bruised ginger. Four over the 
peacnes and let tnem stand over night. 
Cook until tender, and as soon as cold 
it is ready for use. 

O.UEEN OF PUDDINGS. 

One quart of milk heated and poured 
over tne well-beaten yolks of four 
eggs, into which stir one cup of sugar 
and a neaping cup of finely crumbled 
bread (stale is best) ; season with nut- 
meg and let it get cold. Just before 
gutting it into the pudding dishes, add 
a fuli cup of seeded raisins; bake 
about forty minutes, or until the pud- 
ding is well set; then take it but and 
spread a layer of some acid jam or 
jefly over it, and over this put the 
whites of the eggs beaten and sweet- 
ened with a half cup of sugar; flavor 
with lemon and sat it back to brown. 
Eat cold with cream or hot with wine 
sauce. Cakaven. 



ONE ASSET HAD BEEN OVER- 
LOOKED. 
. H. Gerald Chapin, editor of The 
American Lawyer, takes considerable 
delight in telling how he was once foil- 
ed by a woman whom he was examin- 
ing as a witness in supplementary pro- 
ceedings. 

, "I had been admitted to the bar but 
a short time, and was a fair specimen 
of. the average theory-stuffed, practice- 
wanting, law-school graduate. How 
joyously were the commands of the 
managing clerk obeyed! Here was the 
looked-for opportunity to demonstrate 
my ability in the noble art of search- 
ingly examining a recalcitrant witness. 
Of the two I fancy, however, that it 
was the lady who was the more self- 
possessed when the proceedings open- 
ed. She was a dressmaker, and had 
been sued by a dry-goods firm. The 
examination dragged its slow length 
along, revealing no assets, until finally 
came the omnium gatherum query ask- 
ed as a finisher. 

" 'Have you any property of any 
kind or nature, real or personal, or 
any right or interest in property which 
you have failed to mention?' 

"Perhaps it was my tone she dis- 
liked. At all events, her eyes snapped. 

" 'Well, I've got what perhaps you 
wouldn't call an interest, but it's 
almost as good. It's an expectation. 
Must I answer?' 

" 'If you please.' 

" 'Well, you see, it's this way. I've 
got two sisters, and both of. 'em have 
married finely. Now, neither of 'em 
begins to be as good looking. as I am.' 

"'Well, I really don't see why I 
shouldn't have the same show.' 
i "Needless to say, no .receiver was 
appointed to administer this 'asset.' " — 
Success. 



Products Are Good 

Scotch Collies. 

Among the famous sires now at 
Filston are Lord Tweedmouth,sire 
of Dorothy C. and many notable 
prizewinners; Filston' s Galopin, 
Filston 's Hero and many others, 
representing the best collie blood 
ever brought to America. 

These dogs are at stud, or pup- 
pies of this choice stock may be 
procured from time to time. Cor- 
respondence solicited. 

Filston Farm, Glencoe, Md. 

150 Jacks, Jennets and Mules. 

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




BAKER'S JACK FARM, 
Lawrence. Ind. 



Knight & Jetton, 

Breeders of and Dealers in 

Jacks, Jennets, Stallions. 

Durham and Hereford 

YEARLINGS. 

Send stamp for Catalogue. 

Murfreesboro, Tenn. 




£il2* 






Jacks, Jennets and Stallions 

FOR SALE. Fine Jacks a 
Specialty. Whin writing 
state exactly what you want 
or come and see our stock. 

W. E. KNIGHT & CO., 

Route 5. NashTlIU, Teoa. 



MULES 



FOR SALE 



One pair choice young Mules, coming 
4 yrs. old; thoroughly broken. Address 

LOUIS DE LAGROIX, Oxford, N. C. 

SALE OR EXCHANGE. 

1 Maltese and 1 Spanish Jack, sound and 
sure, for good sheep or heavy stallion. Young 
stock preferred. W. S. MOTT, Dixondale, Va. 

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



128 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER, 



[February 



Angus Cattle For Sale Low. 









1 Reg. Bull Calf 12 mos. old, very 
fine. 1 Reg. Bull calf 7 mos. old, very- 
fine. Angus herd bull 6 mos. old, a 
very fine animal. Lot of 1 grade bull 
calves. 1 15-16 grade bull calf. Sev- 
eral nice I and 1 grade heifers 1 year 
old. These grade calves look like 
thoroughbred Angus, and will please 
the most fastidious. 1 five year old 
Shorthorn cow with bull calf at foot, 
by our Reg. Angus Bull, a fine family 
milk cow; quality's perfect. A splen- 
did family milk cow 4 years old. Will 
drop a calf in April next, by our Angus 
bull. A splendid location for a saw 
mill. Timber to last 3 years or longer 
one-half mile from the railroad. 

W. M. WATKINS & SONS, 
Saxe, Charlotte Co., Va. 

ANGUS CATTLE, 

THE WORLD'S 
BEEF MARKET 

"Top Notchers" for 15 
years. Good Pedigree, 
Breeding and Individual 
merit our aim. Young 
Stock for Sale. 

JOHN T. and Q. B. 

MANLOVE. Hilton 

Indiana. 

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. 

MONTEBELLO HERD 

ABERDEEN-ANGUS CATTLE 

FOR SALE— 2 Registered Bulls, calved 
Dec. 17th, 1902, and Aug. 28th, 1903. 

BerKsKire Pigs, 

(Biltmore Strain.) 
farrowed May 1903. For terms, apply to 

L. H. GRAY, Orange, Va. 

ROSED ALE HERD 

Aberdeen-Angus Cattle* 

q hoice bulls, 4 mos. to 4 yrs. old. Prices as 
low as good breeding will permit. Inspec- 
tion of herd and correspondence Invited. 

ROSEDALE STOCK FARM, Jeffersonton, 
Va. 




CULTIVATING AND WEEDING 
FIELD CROPS. 

We believe the Keystone Adjustable 
Weeder, which is advertised in these 
columns, has a larger beneficial use on 
growing crops than many very good 
farmers believe. Its purpose is to de- 
stroy weeds which start quickly on the 
soil's surface, at their first showing, at 
the same time mellowing and culti- 
vating the soil for the benefit of the 
crop. Many might fear that destroy- 
ing the weeds would at the same time 
destroy the crop. This does not follow. 
Exactly the opposite is the truth. The 
crop is deeper rooted than the young 
weed, and whatever disturbance there 
is tends to its better "stooling out," re- 
sulting in many cases in an increase 
in product of from 25 per cent, to 40 
per cent. This Keystone Weeder has 
the popular Hallock Fat Tooth, and is 
manufactured under license. An im- 
portant feature about the tool is its 
adjustability. Primarily, it is intended 
for work in sowed crops, as grains 
and grasses. As such, it has a width 
of 7% feet, but it is only the work of 
a moment to narrow it down to 30 
inches, when it becomes an unsur- 
passed weeder and cultivator for work 
between the rows of corn, beans, pota- 
toes, etc. It is manufactured by the 
Keystone Farm Machine Company, of 
York, Pa., who will be glad to send de- 
scriptive matter and full information 
to any one writing for it. 



SPRAYING PAYS. 
Readers of Southern Planter are 
coming more and more every year to 
recognize the value of spraying, not 
only for fruits, but for vegetables, 
melons, tobacco and other crops. If 
one has the right solution, any sprayer 
is better than none at all, but when 
one considers that the cheapest lasts 
only a little time, and costs almost 
as much as the best sprayer, it will be 
seen that there is no economy in buy- 
ing sprayers of doubtful quality. One 
of the most complete lines of sprayers 
for all purposes is made by Morrill & 
Morley, of Benton Harbor, Mich., who 
are advertising elsewhere in this issue. 
This firm was engaged in the actual 
growing of fruit before they embarked 
in the spraying business, so that their 
goods are eminently practical, and will 
do all that they claim and that any one 
will expect. We can recommend the 
firm and the line to our readers. If 
interested in this subject, as every 
farmer ought to be, write to-day for 
their catalogue, which will be gladly 
sent you if you mention having seen 
their ad. in this paper. 



Mother — I hope that young man 
never kisses you by surprise? 

Daughter — No, mamma; he only 
thinks he does. 



Be sure you are right — then, instead 
of sitting down and thinking it over — 
go ahead! 



REGISTERED 

IMMUNE HEREFORDS. 

Sale of 50 head at AUBURN. ALABAMA. 
February 17, ISM. 

Under the management and auspice* of the 
Alabama State Experiment Station. This 
consignment Is a pick of four of the beat 
herds In Kentucky. Bulls and Female* of 
ages to suit all. IMMUNE to Southern fever 
by INOCULATION. 

For particulars and Illustrated catalogues 
address GILTNER BROS., Eminence Ky., or 
Auburn, Ala. 

We have a choice lot of cows, bulls and 
heifers for sale at our Kentucky Farms. 
Prices are reasonable. Write ms befere bay- 
ing elsewhere. 

V.P.I. 

Farm Bulletin 

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

Shorthorn, Hereford, Aberdeen-Angus. 

Write at once for pedigrees and prices. 

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

Swift Creek Stock and Dairy farm 

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

JERSEY BULLS 
AND HEIFERS. 

None better bred in the South. Combining 
closely the most noted and up-to-date blood 
in America. Bulls 10 to 12 months old, 125; 
Heifers, same age, $35. POLAND CHINA 
PIGS, $5 each. Send check and get what 
you want. 

T. P. BRASWELL, Prop.' Battleboro. N. C. 



*3H 



I OFFER- 



2 Reg. Ayrshire Bulls, 

One 10 mos. old PRICE, 840.00. 

One coming S yre. old PRICE, $66.00. 

Low considering Quality. 
Registered and high grade HAMPSH1REDOWN 
S HE B P of best breeding. Rami, Ewes and 
Lambs for sale. Stock and Prices will suit. 

J. D, THOriAS, Round Hill Va. 
Meadow Brook Stock Farm. 

FOR SALE. 

3 Aberdeen-Angus Heifers, 

Bred from Hero of Bunker Hill, 31462. 
All three good individuals. 

J. TABB JANNEY, Van Clevesville, W. Va. 



J I 



I ANGUS & HOLSTEIN CATTLE. 
Registered and grades, of all ages 
and sexes, and of champion blood 
for the beef and milk strains and 
at moderate prices Also Nursery 
stock of all descriptions. 
MYER & SON, Brldgevllle, Delaware. 



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



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129 



fl ORSETS AND H EREFORDS 



S*ae Exceptionally Rare Barjalm to Quick Buyers. 

My herd bull, bull calves and Dorset 

bucks. Registered stock. 

H. ARMSTRONQ, LANTZ MILLS, VA. 

Woodvale DORSETS. 

Good January 1903 Rants FOR 

SALE — cheap. 

FRANK ELLSWORTH, 

R. P. D. No. 4., Charlottesville, Va. 

...Woodland Farm. 

DORSET SHEEP, 

Beardless Spring Barley, 

Choice Alfalfa Seed. 

J. E. WING & BROS., Mechanicsburg, 0. 

Aryshlres, Berkshlres and Oxford-Downs. 

Ayrshire Calves of both sexes, Berkshire 
Plgi and Boar and 2 Oxford-Down Rams for 
S«le. MELROSE CASTLE FARM, 

Enos H. Hess, Manager, Casanova, Va. 



JJ395 HEW W a USEH FIFLES FROM GOUT. ARMORY 



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Cibson Liquid Lice Killer kills all lice and 
mites or. Fowls, Cattle, Hogs and Horses. 
Easily applied and guaranteed to kill the lice 
or money refunded. Gallon can $1.00. Liberal 
terms to dealers and agents. Write to-day 
'or prices and circulars. 

GIBSON & LAMB, West Alexander, Pa. 

The RICHMOND, FREDERICKSBURG 

and POTOMAC R. R. 
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The Link Connecting the 
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EMILY'S CHARGE. 
A Serial Tale by Mary Washington. 

CHAPTER VIII. 

In order to explain to our readers 
Dr. Gordon's abrupt departure, we will 
have to go back and give an account 
of some episodes in his early life. 
When in his teens, he had a boyish 
love affair with his cousin, Lucy 
Gordon. Their fathers were brothers 
and were neighbors, the families, of 
course, intimate, the estates contigu- 
ous, and the immemorial custom in 
Virginia was for cousins to marry. In 
short, everything seemed to pave the 
way to the match and point to its de- 
sirability. The engagement, formed 
in their early teens, ran on till they 
had reached a mature age, and would 
have been consummated ere now but 
for reverses that had befallen Ellis' 
father, of late years, whilst his uncle, 
who was a shrewder and more success- 
ful business-man, had become very 
prosperous, and thus there had arisen 
a disparity between fortunes of Lucy 
and Ellis which, at the outset, had 
been about equal. It was a matter 
both of pride and principle with Ellis 
not to take a bride — even a wealthy 
one — until he could support her; so it 
was understood between him and Lucy 
that they were not to be married till 
he could support her by his practice, in- 
dependent of anything" she might 
possess. Both of them were very well 
satisfied with this arrangement. They 
did not have that ardent affection for 
each other that made them feverishly 
impatient for the time of probation to 
be over, nor that deep and continual 
longing for each other's presence that 
makes separation a trial to those who 
love. They were fond of each other 
rather as brother and sister than as 
lovers. Their betrothal had been en- 
tered into when they were very young, 
and was brought about more by con- 
tact and by the. furtherance of friends 
and relatives than by their own de- 
liberate choice. The only perturbation 
that had ever ruffled the course of their 
wooing was produced by some con- 
scientious scruples aroused in Lucy's 
mind about marrying a first cousin, 
while she was being educated in the 
convent in Georgetown, a school very 
popular for young girls in Virginia, 
even in Protestant families. Like 
most young girls who go there, Lucy 
fell very much under Roman Catholic 
influences — so much so as to make her 
waver not only in her allegiance to the 
Protestant Church, but to Ellis — in 
view of the strong opposition the 
Catholic Church offers to the marriage 
of first cousins; but when she returner) 
home, old habit and the memories and 
associations of her early years re- 
asserted their sway, and she made no 
move to untie the bond between Ellis 
and herself. 

Though far from being an impas- 
sioned lover, he had a tranquil affec- 



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THE SOTJTHEKN PLANTEE. 



[February 



tion for Lucy, and never felt their 
betrothal to be a fetter until he came 
to know Emily. When he first saw the 
latter, he felt strongly attracted to- 
ward her. She and her young sister 
eeemed to form together such a lovely 
vision of peace, purity and sweet young 
womanhood. Later, when he met and 
talked with Emily at the dancing 
party, he felt so powerfully drawn to- 
ward her, so delighted and startled at 
hearing her express thoughts and sen- 
timents that seemed like the voice of 
his inner heart, that he began to think 
it would be better for his honor and 
peace of mind to keep away from her; 
and, therefore, on calm reflection, he 
decided that it would be wiser for 
him not to call at the cottage, though 
he had requested permission to do so. 
When Alice was taken in, however, 
there could be no question as to the 
duty — nay, the necessity of his going 
there. He went, and the results of 
close attendance and intimacy at the 
cottage, we have already described. 
He etruggled against his love for 
Emily as soon as he became clearly 
conscious of it. Hampered as he was 
by another tie, it occasioned him ter- 
rible inward conflicts. For days and 
weeks he had an inward tribunal, ar- 
raigning and judging himself, and try- 
ing to decide what was right. One day, 
glancing over Tennvson'e "Elaine," 
his eyes fell on the lines: 

"His honor, rooted in dishonor stood, 
And faith unfaithful, kept him 
falsely true." 

"That would apply to me," he ex- 
claimed, "if I were to go through the 
hollow form of making Lucy my wife. 
I would do a terrible wrong and in- 
justice both to her and myself to 
marry her, feeling as I now do. I 
had better tell her the truth, even if 
it inflict some temporary pain and 
humiliation, rather than take a false 
ptpp that would make us both unhappy 
for life." 

The more he thought over the mat- 
ter, the more he became convinced that 
this was the right course. H.e thought 
it best not to see Emily again while 
things were in this unsettled state. 
Hp had no idea whether she returned 
his feeling or not, and, of course, 
would make no effort, as long as he 
was bound even nominally to Lucy; 
hence his abrupt departure, without 
taking leave of Emily. 

By a strange coincidence, he was 
=iimmonpd to go to Lucv almost simul- 
taneously with his decision to take the 
iournev. A telegram from Lucy ar- 
rived just as he was starting, asking 
him to come to her at. once, as her 
father was very 111. Arrived at his 
dp=tination. hp found that his uncle, 
who had been in feeble health for some 
time, had bp°n nrecinitated into a fatal 
attack of naralvsis bv sudden business 
failure, and Lucy, reduced to poverty 
and bpreaved of her father, threw her- 
self into Ellis' arms, sobbing out, 






DR. A. C. DANIELS 

©Can save you Money, save your Horse, 
save your Mule or save your Cow. jtjt 

Home Treatment for Horses and Cattle* 



Sick and Lame Horses Made Well. Weak Cows Made Strong. Better Breeders'and'Milkers- 
Book for the asking of your druggist or dealer, or send to 

DR. A. C. DANIELS, 172 Milk St., BOSTON, MASS. 

Mention the Planter. 



THE - OAKS - STOCIi - FARM. 

We breed and ship the best strains of 

to ENGLISH BERKSHIRES 



Send us your order and get the best. 



A Large Registered English Berkshire Boar, 

V/i years old, extra fine specimen FOE SALE. 
Writs for price. 





HILL TOP STOCK FARM. 

Berkshire lis id SoiUdon tep 



A SPECIALTY 

S. Brown Allen, who succeeds H. A. 8. 
Hamilton &Co. in the ownership and man- 
agement of this celebrated Stock Farm, 
with increased facilities, will make a 

specialty of breeding Berkshire Hogs and Southdown. Sheep, without regard to coat, 

from the purest and most royal strains of imported blood. 

My BEBKSHIRE PIGS 

For this Spring delivery will weigh 100 pounds at 12 weeks of age, and for INDI- 
VIDUAL MERIT cannot be excelled in the United States: They will make "how 
hogs against any and all competitors and are being engaged every day. The last of 
my Fall and winter pigs have been sold, and orders will only be taken for Spring 
delivery. S. BROWN ALLEN, Staunton, Virginia, (Successor to H. A. S. Hamilton & Co.) 




BERKSHIRES. 

SEE WHATMY CUSTOMERS SAY : 

B, P. Van. Horn, Toyalo, Texas, just 
a little ways from old Mexico, says: "I 
have already made cost of my pigs in 
outside service of boar." 

This was just a few weeks after 
shipment. 

W. W. Cornelius, of Blue Springs, Miss., bought four in December, 
writes: "Am delighted; can certainly give you a good name in Mississippi." 
W. P. Hubert, Crawfordsville, Ga.: "Pigs arrived safely, and I am well 
pleased." 

R. L. Kirkwood, Bennettsville, S. C, writes: "Delighted." 
T. M. Arrasmith, Greensboro, N. C, says he got much better value than 
he expected. 
R. Broughton, Oxford, N. C, is delighted. 

P. H. Rudd, Mariner's Harbor, Staten Island.. N. Y., has bought a whole 
herd from me, and is making money as a breeder now. These are just a few 
scattering letters received in last few days out of thousands that I have re- 
ceived. North Carolina alone can show at least a thousand of my pigs, and 
every purchaser happy. I am one of the oldest DIRECT importers in the 
United States, and own one of the finest and largest herds. If you want to 
try a novice in the business, I am not the man. 

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



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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



131 



"You are all that is left me in the 
world." 

It would be difficult to imagine a 
more cruel and difficult position than 
the one in which Ellis Gordon now 
found himself, nor a greater compli- 
cation of conflicting duties. The 
situation in which he found Lucy 
seemed to deprive him of the power of 
acting in freedom and of taking the 
step which he was convinced would 
save them both from life-long unhap- 
piness. But when the orphan girl, the 
betrothed of his early years, threw 
herself into his arms, exclaiming, "You 
are all that is left me in the world," 
his fate seemed sealed. It was impos- 
sible to say now to this clinging, trust- 
ing, desolate young girl what he had 
intended saying, if he had found her, as 
he had expected, in the enjoyment of a 
father's love and protection and of 
abundant property. 

For the first few days after his arri- 
val all were taken up with performing 
the last sad offices for the departed, so 
Dr. Gordon did not realize as fully, as 
he did later, the cruel dilemma in 
which he was placed; but when the 
household had settled down into quiet 
again, he sank into a sort of gloomy 
apathy. He was no longer disturbed 
by perplexity, for his fate seemed 
sealed. He was so hedged in there was 
no alternative. He could not release 
himself from Lucy in her affliction and 
poverty. One thing was clear, how- 
ever. If he was to marry her, he must 
never again look on Emily; so he set 
about making arrangements to go to a 
new place. He had a restless longing 
to go off somewhere to a great dis- 
tance and be alone. He thought he 
might grow calmer, after awhile, when 
away from agitating influences, and 
might become better prepared to ex- 
tend to Lucy that brott erly kindness 
and protection which were all it wa3 
in his power to give. He felt the 
necessity of quickly getting t<* work, 
lest he should stagnate in his unhappi- 
ness. Listless and moody, he felt that 
the spring of hope and joy had gone 
out of him; still he felt eager to re- 
sume his work, partly from the rest- 
lessness of unhappiness and partly 
from his native energy and love of his 
profession, which could not be quench- 
ed by any personal pain or disappoint- 
ment. 

Lucy was dimly conscious that some- 
thing was wrong, but she was too 
much grieved by her father's death 
to notice this as much as she would 
have done under ordinary circum- 
stances. Besides, as Ellis had never 
been an ardent or demonstrative lover, 
it did not seem strange he should not 
be so now. He was, however, always 
considerate of her, gentle and gravely 
kind; and, more than this, it was im- 
possible for her to be. 

He wrote to a friend, who had gone 
a few years before- to the West, asking 
if there was any opening for him at 
the place where his friend had settled. 



Selling Out at Almost Butchers' Prices 



50 HEAD OF 



POLAND-CHINAS 

of the best strain, out of son of Proud Per- 
fection, who sold at $7,000.00. 



Boars, ready for service - S8.QO. 
Gilts, 5 mos. and over - - - S8.00. 

Greatest bargain ever offered, worth three times 
the price asked. Entire herd to be sold immedi- 
ately — none reserved. Owner compelled to dispose 
of herd owing to other business interests elsewhere. 
Will sell single animals, or in lots to suit purchaser. 
Send money order or draft with order. Orders will 
be rilled in the order in which they are received. 



Address 



POLAND- 
CHINASi 

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

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




R ^ toJ POLAND-CHINAS. 



Pigs bred from some of the best strains 
in America. The Kind That Grow Large. 
Fine individuals. || 

Black flinorcas & B. P. Rock Chickens. || 
Prices reasonable. Write for further par- % 
ticulars. W. M. JONES Crofton, Va. 




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132 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[February 



Receiving a fairly encouraging reply, 
he hastened to resign his former posi- 
tion and start for the West. When he 
left Lucy, it was with the understand- 
ing that they were to be married a 
year hence, and meantime she was to 
remain in charge of a widowed aunt in 
Georgetown— a relative to whom Lucy 
was much attached. 

FERTILIZER CHEMICALS. 

The prices quoted below are those 
at which the goods can be purchased 
in lots of one ton and over, in original 
packages, delivered f. o. b. cars at New 
York city, and are for cash. 

In all cases carload lots of any one 
of the materials can be purchased for 
less money, and, if possible, farmers 
should combine and order in not less 
than carload lots. 

AMMONIATES. 

Per ton. 

Nitrate of Soda— Packed in bags 
weighing about 200 lbs., and 
containing 15 to 16 per cent, ni- 
trogen $45 00 

Dried Blood— Packed in bags 
weighing about 200 lbs. and 
analyzing about 10 per cent, ni- 
trogen 40 00 

Tankage — Containing about 7 to 
8 per rent, nitrogen and 20 to 25 
per cent, phosphoric acid. . . 35 00 

Sulphate of Ammonia — Contain- 
ing about 20 per cent, nitro- 
S en 65 00 

POTASHES. 

Nitrate of Potash—This material 
contains both potash and nitro- 
gen in a highly concentrated 
form, analzing 45 to 46 per cent 
actual potash and 13 to 14 per 
cent, nitrogen 70 00 

Muriate of Potash— Containing 
about 50 per cent, of actual pot- 
ash, packed in 224 lb. bags 41 00 

Sulphate of Potash— -Containing 
48 to 49 per cent, actual potash 
packed in 224 lb. bags ... 46 00 

Kainit— Containing 11 to 12 per 
cent, actual potash i 2 00 

PHOSPHATES. 

Peruvian Guano— A natural ma- 
nure, free from all acid treat- 
ment, and containing about 4 
per cent, ammonia, 4 per cent 
actual potash, and 23 per cent, 
total phosphoric acid, in 200 lb 
h3 % s ' 30 oo 

Acid Phosphate — Confaining 14 
per cent avail, phosphoric acid 
and packed in 200 lb. bags., . 'l2 00 

Bone Meal— Containing about 3 
per cent. r»i frozen and 50 per 
cent, bone phosphate of lime.. 25 00 

There was a y0U ng heiress called 

Kooker, 
And the lawyer named Luke tried to 
hook" her; 
But the heiress was shrewd, 
Though her question was rude- 
Do you look at my looks, Luke or 
lucre?" 





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of the 

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known all over the continent. You can make more money this year than last 
if you will decide now to let them help you. Look at the good points of 

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Potato Planter. 




Figure out how much time, work, seed, fertili- 
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outlay, by buying Iron Age implements. 
They have won their way by hon- 
est performanceof every promise. 
Write for free book. 

BATEMAN MFC. CO. 
Box 167, 
Crenloch, N. J. 



No. 60 Iron Age 
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LARGE YORKSHIRE HOGS 



THE COMING BACON DREED- 
THE MOST PROLIFIC BREED- 



48 pigs from four litters, ready for December delivery — our Fall 
prices always the lowest. 

INDIAN GAMES, the fashionable table fowl. 

WHITE LEGHORNS, the greatest layers. 

WHITE WYANDOTTES, the best all round fowl. Also 

JERSEY BULLS and HEIFERS from cows with recorded but- 
ter tests of 18 to 24 lbs. in 7 days. 

BOWMONT FARMS, Salem, Va. 



" BRED-IN -THE- PURPLE. " 



-id tt i<r rr 23 B ^ t s:^ 

BERKSH IRES. 

THE VERY BEST— The whole story in three words! 

A limited number of young stock for immediate shipment. 
Farmer's winter prices for February. Orders booked now 
from Spring farrows. Money cannot buy better stock. 

DUNTREATH STOCK FARM, Richmond, Va. 



We positively guarantee 

VERY BEST strains of 



to breed 
and ship the 

thoroughbred registered LARGE 
ENGLISH BERKSHIRE 

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

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




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WmUhtm PUmtir. 



1904.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER 133 

BILTMORE FARMS 

Annual Brood Sow Sale, 

FEBRUARY 9, 1904. 

70 - Head of Imported Large English Berkshires - 70. 

Our 1903 Importation will be offered at unreserved auction on 
the Farms, Col. R. R. Bailey, Auctioneer; sale held under cover. 



65 Selected Brood Sows all guaranteed safe in pig to the greatest English 

and American boars. 
5 Selected Boars, including champion boar, English Royal. 

All either prize winners themselves or bred by prize winners. 

This offering has been selected without reserve ; without limit as to price, and is from the herds of 
the leading English breeders, such as Edney Hayter, R. W. Hudson, His Royal Highness^ Prince Chris- 
tian, and C. C. Smith, Philo L. Mills, J. A. Ericker, etc., and will be sold absolutely without any re- 
serve price, if only one bid is made. 

INDIVIDUAL MERIT. Visiting breeders who have recently inspected the offering unite in the ver- 
dict that no such collection of Berkshire Brood sows has ever been gathered together at any one place, or 
can be found in any other breeding establishment. They have even more size and uniformity of type 
than our last importation, good as that was, and in addition the greatest possible care has been taken to 
exclude all that did not indicate the best of constitution and feet ; early maturity, extra finish and style 
combined with good heads, backs and hams. In short, they are the kind that cannot be found every day, 
and that we confidently expect will be approved of in the sale ring by the expert judge and will well 
repay both our efforts and the investment of time and money for the breeder to secure. 

BLOOD LINES. Only the best of the tested reproducing English families are represented. These 
we have proven here for many years, and have given great results in the hands of other American breed- 
ers, and they are families which are producing the winners for many years at the leading English Shows. 
They are not the results of any experiments which we do not wish to try here or induce our patrons to try. 
Among the prominent families are those of The Huntress, Eoyal Berks, Handley Cross, Eirst Catch F., 
through Manor Eavorite, Swansea, Blenheim, Rubicel. through Queen of Hearts, First Rank F., High- 
clere Topper and His Majesty. Ten great boars, which include the Champion at the English Royal, 
also the Champion at the Pan-American, and many other prize winners will be used on these sows, se- 
lected to nick to produce the best litters that many years' experience with these blood lines indicate. 

CATALOGUE will be ready for mailing early in January. MAIL BIDS will be carefully and con- 
scientiously treated by the Farms; or, if selection of an outside expert is wished, write Mr. Geo. W. 
Jessup, Rockville, Ind., who has kindly consented to act in this capacity. 

SPECIAL RAILROAD RATES of one and one-third fares for the round trip can be secured from all 
points north of the Ohio and west of the Mississippi rivers by calling for Winter Tourist's Tickets to 
Asheville (1| miles from the Farms). For further particulars address 

BILTMORE FARMS, Biltmore, N. C. 



134 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[February 



THE BILTMORB SALE. 

The 7,000 edition of the Biltmore 
Farms Catalogue of their fourth an- 
nual sale of large imported English 
Berkshire brood sows (all guaranteed 
6afe in pig to one of their great boars) 
has been mailed out to all breeders, 
and a few reserved for those who will 
send a postal card for one. 

The boars they have been bred to in- 
clude Loyal Lee II., of Biltmore, a 
Loyal Berks-Longfellow hoar, cham- 
pion of America and gold medal boar 
of Pan-American; Danesfleld Warrior, 
first and champion English Royal 
Show, 1902, and many others, and he is 
included in the sale; The Duke (im- 
ported), a Highclere- Parish-Council- 
Minting boar; Danesfleld Hunter and 
Huntsman, both imported and in the 
sale, and of the richest breeding, being 
by a son of Manor Favorite and out 
of Danesfleld Huntress (in the sale 
also), a winner of first and reserve 
for the champion at the Royal at Som- 
erset and Tunbridge Wells; first and 
champion at Central Buckingham- 
shire, and second at Peterborough and 
Oxford. She is also the dam of 
Danesfleld Governess and Mistress, 
two great winners; and, finally, she is 
out of the Huntress, the head of the 
remarkable family. To mention the 
choice sows in the offering, that for 
quality and breeding cannot be dupli- 
cated as an offering of exceptional high 
quality, would be to name nearly every 
one. They are by boars that are house- 
hold words with the best English 
breeder, Faithful Commons, that best 
6on of Loyal Berks Commons, a High- 
clere boar, also in the sale; a Danes- 
field Loyal, by Loyal Berks, and out of 
a Sallie Sow, Lisle Grand Duke, the 
most prominent winner of 1903, beat- 
ing the Royal Champion (who sold 
for $550.00) at the Royal Comtes; and, 
finally, the Highclere Topper boar, 
Handley Cross, sire of the winning pen 
of sows at the Royal, 1903, are a few. 

We must not close without calling 
attention to these, also included in the 
sale: Their dam is equally well bred, 
being Stratton Polly Br making the 
three sows Windsor Royal Winner I., 
II,. and III., full sister to the sow 
winning first and reserve for the cham- 
pion at the Royal of 1903. Another full 
page could be filled easily with the 
winnings of other full sisters and near 
relations. Purchasers at former sales 
who remember the individuality of the 
produce of Queen of Hearts, Rubicel 
Sow, will mark with interest that four 
of her daughters, by Lisle Grand 
Duke are included in the offering. 
They are showing great development, 
and many tempting offers at private 
sale have been refused them, and a 
great future is assured for them in 
the right hands, either as show ani- 
mals or foundation stock, for, in com- 
mon with all the offering, they are 
from tried and producing strains. 




Nitrate of Soda 

(The Standard Ammoniate) 

to an acre of Timothy. From this acre he made 4,800 pounds barn-cured 
hay more than from an acre next to it, which had no nitrate. That pays. 

This illustration is from a photograph of the two fields. 

I want a farmer in every county in the United States to make a similar 
trial on a measured plot of meadow. I will furnish the Nitrate of Soda 

ABSOLUTELY FREE 

if the farmer will use it as I direct and report actual results of the trial to me. 
My object is simply to collect and publish information about the value 
of Nitrate af Soda on hay production in every locality. 

\ Send name and complete address on Post Card for instruc- 
tions, conditions and Bulletins on Grass and other Crops. 

WILLIAM S. MYERS. Director, 12-16 John Street, New York. 



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BERKSHIRE PIGS 



From the herd where they grow to 200 pounds at 6 months. Trio, $25. 
A few JERSEY BULL CALVES from cows making 360 to 400 lbs. 
butter per year. If you wish to improve your herds, better buy your 
stock here. 

Forest Home Farm, 

Pvircellville, - - Virginia. 



IT fOjR WC? TO nCXmnDM Hornless cows give more milk. 
KB rMF& S19 XJfSLnUMnm Hornless steers make better beef. 

< man e £d; h aS 'to ^"Se Keystone Dehorning Knife 

CiKson four Flrios at once, without cniRbtnir or brnisf nor. Hiphest award at world's fair. 
Or*"7-^thrn=-!ifl'lp,irro7^(:hi'->irroifdr"<ired Send for circulars. M T. PHILLIPS, B0X45 . POMEROY. PA. 




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Southern Planter. 



1904.] 



THE SOUTHEKN PLANTER. 



135 



REPORTS. 
U. S. Department of Agriculture, 
Washington, D. C. Annual Re- 
ports Department of Agriculture 
1903. Report of the Secretary. De- 
partmental. Ask your Senator or 
Congressman to send you a copy 
of this report. It is full of inter- 
esting information. 
Bureau of Soils. Field Operations 
1902. Fourth report with maps of 
sections investigated. The Alhe- 
marle area in Virginia and the 
Hickory and Mount Mitchell areas 
in North Carolina are included in 
this report. 
Report No. 75 Indian Corn in Argen- 
tina — Production and export. 
Office of Experiment Stations. Ex- 
periment Station Record Vol. XV, 
No. 5. 
Bureau of Statistics. Wages of 
farm labor in the U. S. 1866-1902. 
Farmers' Bulletin No. 183. Meat on 
the Farm. Butchering. Curing, 
Keeping. 
Farmers' Bulletin No. 184. Market- 
ing Live Stock. 

Crop Reporter. December. 1903. Sup- 
plement and January, 1904. 
Columbus Horticultural Society, Co- 
lumbus. O. Journal of the Socie- 
ty. December. 1903. 
Virginia Experiment Station, Blacks- 
burg. Va.. Bulletin 141. Orchard 
Studies XIV. The Lime Sulphur 
Wash. 
Virginia Weather Service, Richmond, 

Va. Report for December. 
Impl. Department Agriculture for the 
West Indies, Barbadoes, W. I. Ag- 
ricultural News. January 2, 1903. 



PAMPHLETS, BOOKS. ETC. 

Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meet- 
ing of the Georgia State Horticul- 
tural Society. Ausrust. 1903. Hugh 
N. Starnes. Secretary, Experi- 
ment, Ga. 

American Breeders' Association. Pro- 
ceedings of first annuaL meeting 
St. Louis, Mo., December 20.. 1903. 
' This is a nev. organization of an- 
imal "and plant breeders -of which 
the Hon. James Wilson. Secretary 
of Agriculture, is president and 
W. M. Havs, of St. Anthony Park, 
Minn., is Secretary of the Council. 
The object of the Association is 
stated by the constitution to be 
"To study the laws of breeding 
and to promote the improvement 
cf plants and animals by the de- 
velopment of expert methods of 
breeding." 

Union Stock Yard and Transit Com- 
pany, of Chicago. 38th annual Live 
Stock Report for 1903. 

An Unappreciated Source of Typhoid 
Infection. By P. B. Barringer. M. 
D., of Charlottesville Va. 



ssceossesoeeeoeeeeeeeeooeeoooeo 



CATALOGUES. 
The Bateman Manufacturing Com- 
pany. Grenloch, .N J., makers of 
the celebrated Iron Age Farm and 




DAN PATCH 1=5614 
THE FASTEST HARNESS HORSE in the WORLD 

QE H0LBS THE FOLLOWING WORLD RECOIDS: 

TTile Record, l:5lii, Ilalf-Jllle Record, .... 0:56 

Tills Record to Waeon, . - - 1:57« Mile Record on llali'-Hil. Track, - 2:«Sfe 

Mile Record to High Wheel Sulky, - 1:04% Ino-HUe Record, .... 4:17 

DAN PATCH HOLDS MORE WORLD RECORDS THAN ANY HORSE THAT HAS ETER LIVID. 

IN TWO YEARS DAN PATCH HAS PACED TEN MILES FROM 2:00 FLAT TO l:3Cy. 

IN TWO YEARS DAN PATCH HAS PACED TWENTY-TWO MILES IN 2:01% TO 1:S6K. 

DAN PATCH PACED BLEYEN MILE! IN 1903 THAT AVERAGED 1:59 4-11 AND WAS 

SHIPPED 10,000 MILES DURING THIS TIME FROM JCNE TO DEC. 

tSTUkS PATCH SOLD FOR *60,000 IN 1902 AND II NOW VALUED AT $150,000. 

HSS BEAUTIFUL coToRgo PICTURE FREE 

PRINTED IN SIX BRILLIANT COLORS 

DESCRIPTION. Wo are owners of thlf World-Fameus Stallion and have gotten out a Magnificent Colored 
lithograph of Dan Patch 1 :58Jf, printed in »V Six Brilliant Colors and Size 21 by 28. Dan Patch is universally 
acknowledged to he a most wonderful horse, and with his combined qualities of champion speed, good breeding, 
conformation and very kind disposition the opinion is freely expressed by horsemen that OSrHe Is The Greatest Stal- 
lion That Has Ever Appeared On Earth. Agricultural Colleges send to us foj his pictures touB« in thtircallege work. 
This Beautiful Picture Contains a Complete Record of All His Races and Fast Miles so that you have His Speed History 
Complete. It makes a very fine picture for framing as it is Free From Advertising. This engraving shows the Cele- 
brated Trainer and Driver, M. E. McHenry, and Dan Patch exactly as they appear in theirfamous miles. The eolored 
picture we will send you is a larje reproduction of the above engraving and everyone pronounces it the most life- 
like horse-picture ever published of a marvelous horse. Every lover of a horse ought to have one of these pictures. 
The demand is tremendous and over Two Million Copiei will be sent out to farmers and horsemen. 

IT WILL be MAILED to YOU FREEi*" Postage Prepaid 

IF YOU ANSWER THESE 55 QTJESTIONS--AT ONCE. 

1st.— How Much Sloek Of All Kinds Da Yon Oml 2ml .- N»m' Paper In Which Yon Saw ThU Offer. 

•^Pictnre will Not be mailed unless you answer questions. -^3i 

«— INTERNATIONAL STOCK FOOD CO., SSSXJi 8 



[ Eirgest Stack F.od Faet.ry la the World. 
| Capital Paid In, $2,000,000. 



J£ DAN PATCH 1:5<% DIRECTUM 2:05!<, BOY WILKES 2:06!^ Are Owned By INTERNATIONAL STOCK FOOD CO. 

A Onr Stallions, Brood Hares, Coll s, Cattle, Bags, Etc., Eat "Iiiernatic.mil Stock F.od" Every Day. 



Jersey, Guernsey and Shorthorn 

Young stock registered in their respective Herd books, for sale. The SHORT 
HORNS are bred and owned by a neighbor, and are in our hands for sale. A 
number of young BERKSHIRE SOWS due early in the year. BARRED PLY- 
MOUTH ROCKS, S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS, a few BRONZE TURKEYS, TOU- 
LOUSE GEESE and PEKIN DUCKS. All of above ready for delivery. 

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



136 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[February 



Garden Implements. These im- 
plements have been so long In use 
that their special fitness to do the 
work intended is recognized 
everywhere. Each year the com- 
pany introduces some new feature 
into some one wr more tools and 
their long experience guarantees 
that this meets a needed want. 
The catalogue is a very full and 
complete one and will be found 
useful to every trucker and farm- 
er. The catalogue will be sent 
free on application. Mention 
Southern Planter. 

Peter Henderson Co., Cortlandt St.. 
New York. Everything for the 
Garden. The catalogue is got up 
in the firm's well known fine style 
and ought to be in the hands of 
every lover of a garden. 

J. M. Thornburn & Co., New Vork, 
Seedsmen, 103rd successive an- 
nual catalogue of High Class 
Seeds. One of the oldest if not the 
oldest seed house in the country. 
Their specialty is high class 
seeds. Not the cheapest but the 
best. 

S. L. Allen & Co.. Philadelphia. Pa., 
makers of the celebrated Planet. 
Jr., Farm and Garden Implements. 
These implements comprise every 
variety of hoes, cultivators and 
drills and will be found the best 
adapted tools for working a gar- 
den or truck patch which can be 
had. 

Johnson & Stokes, Philadelphia. Pa.. 

Seedsmen. This well known house 
issues a very nice catalogue which 
they describe as "A Modest Cata- 
logue with honest descriptions and 
'illustrations.," As the pictures 
are from protographs this may 
well be true. 

W. F. Allen. Salisbury, Mr., Straw- 
berry Catalogue. Mr. Allen is one 
of the largest strawberry growers 
in the East. 

Ratekins Seed House, Shenandoah, 
Iowa. This is a reliable Western 
seed house, handling Iowa grown 
seeds. 

J. G. Harrison & Sons, Nurserymen, 
Berlin, Md. 

Alexander Seed Co., Broad St., Au- 
ensta, Ga.. Seeds, Garden and 
Field Implements 

J. W. Jones & Son, Allen, Md., Straw- 
berry plants. A well known East- 
ern grower of s-ood plants. 

Jas. Vicks Sons. Rochester, N. Y.. 
Seedsmen. Garden and Floral 
Guide. 

Fourth Annual Berkshire Brood Sow 
Sale Biltmore Farms, Biltmore, 
N. C. 64 sows and C> boars, the 
1903 imnortation of nrtze winning 
large English Berkshires. The 
.^]r> talnc nlarp on the 9th Feb 
ruary, 1904. All who want some 
some of the best blood in the 
world should attend this sale. All 
will be sold without reserve. The 
name "Biltmore" is a guarantee 
that only the best will be offered. 



DeLoach Saw 







Special for the Man with Light Power and Heavy Timber. 
Cuts 2,000 to 10,000 Feet per Day. 4 to 20 h. p. 

This Pony Mill is especially adapted to the use of thresher- 
men who have engines, enabling them to secure profitable all 
winter employment when the threshing season is over. 

We Make All Styles 

Saw mills from smallest to largest capacity. A threat, ex- 

clu-uve feature in the Da Loach Variable Friction Drive. 

Our advantages In cheap Southern labor and 

superior and low-priced lumber, Iron and steel 

enable us to make the best saw mills for losst 

, money of any manufacturer In the world. 

Our Mill Machinery Line includes shinrfe 

Mills, Planers, Edgers, Trimmers, Stave Mills, Lath 
'Mills, Water Wheels, Portable Grinding Mills, Shaft- 
ing, etc. Ask for Saw Mill and General Machinery 
Catalogue. Mailed free for the asking. „ 

De Loach Mill Mfg. Co., 

Box GOO Atlanta, Ga. 





Portable Saw Mills 

with Engine* and Boilers Complete. 
Hade In seven sizes, friction feed, cable 
lightning gig, patent chain set works and 
Improved dogs. AJAX VENTER 
CRANE ENGINES are constructed 
with especial reference to the peculiar 
work required of them. This com- 
bination of engine and mill 
makes the best sawmill 
outfit on earth. 

A. B. Farquhar Co., Ltd 

York, Pa. * 



Reg. H O L S T E I N-F R I E S I A N 

CATTLE of the Netherland, De Kol, Clothilde, Pietertje 

and Artis families. Heavy milkers aud rich in butter 

fat. Stock of all ages for sale. 

From noted strains. Imported Headlight, Lord 
: Highclere and Sunrise. 



Reg. BERKSHIRES 



DORSET SHBEP^ 



B. PLYMOUTH ROCK CHICKENS, 



N. & W. and Southern R. R. 



T. O. SANDY, Burkevllle, Va. 



SPECIAL BARGAINS IN HOLSTEIN=FRESIANS. 

From a few months to 1 year old, from damstha t are large producers, and with strong, 
official backing on both sides. The sire is half the herd; it is important that you get 
the right one. We have that kind, and our prices are no higher than others are asking-i 

LARGE ENGLISH BERKSHIRES, by such eires as Manor Faithful imp., Esau Princess; 
of Fllston, by E3au imp.. Fancy Duke, a double G. son of Loyal Berks. Address 



URY STOCK FARM, 



THOS. FASSIT & SONS, Sylmar, Md. 



1,000 BOYS WANTED 

TO GROW CORN $200.00 IN CASH PRIZES 

OUR BIG TWENTIETH Annual Illustrated Catalog tells you all about it. It also 
fives you full and accurate descriptions of all the seeds and crops that grow. All our 
seeds are fresh and new; grown In 1903 and guaranteed to grow. Our mail order prices, 
postpaid, are cheaper than others sell same seeds at wholesale. The catalog, a fine af- 
fair, mailed KREE to all who want to buy seeds of any sort. If you only mention this 
paper. Address. 

RATEKINS' SEED HOUSE, Shenandoah, Iowa. 



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Products Are Good 
their herds with the finest blood to be procured 



T has recently been decided to spare from the Filston 
herd of Jersey cattle a few fine young bulls not imme- 
diately needed in the herd. Three of this group were 
imported from the Island of Jersey, the rest are home bred 
from the most celebrated strains of Island stock. This is 
an unusual opportunity for breeders of Jerseys to head 
The individuals for sale are as follows : 



NOBLE NAME, 61427, A. J. C. C. 

By Nobleman, winner of First over Jersey in '98 and Reserve over 
Jersey in 1900, out of Golden Phenomenon, another noted Island win- 
ner. Noble Name has 25 per cent Golden Lad blood by each parent. 
Bred by A.J. Arthur, St. Ouen. Dropped March 27, 1901. Now 
in his third year, and at the beginning of his usefulness. 

GOLDEN FERN'S FOX, 62458, A. J. C. C. 

Another grand young imported bull, a son of Flying Fox, sold to 
Thomas W. Lawson in 1902 for $7,500, and a grandson of Sultana 
Rosette, one of the most famous cows ever produced on the Island. 
Bred by Philip Le Mournat, St. Saviour. Dropped January II, 1901. 

„ GOLDEN PETER, 57426, A. J. C. C. 

A bull of splendid breeding and of proved quality as a sire. His 
pedigree traces twice to Golden Lad, and twice to Wolseley. Bred 
by A. Le Gallais, St. Brelades. Dropped October 5, 1899. 



CEDARVALE GOLDEN HAMLEY, 63988, A.J. C. C. 

A son of Golden Hamley, out of Mon Plaisir's Gold Beauty. 
His pedigree traces five times to Golden Lad and includes many cele- 
brated Island Winners. Dropped December 3, 1 90 1. 

ST. HELIER'S GOLDEN GRAND. 

A son of Golden Grand and a grandson of Golden Lad. A 
beautiful young bull of great promise. Dropped May 22, 1902. 

BULL CALVES. 

In addition to the above there are four young bull calves : one by 
Flying Fox, one by Shy Fox, one by Fox's Foxhall and one by Noble 
Name, young animals of the choicest breeding and the most striking 
individual merit. 



Write for full information concerning any of the above. 
Pedigrees with -photographs will be forwarded on application. 

HEIFER CALVES. 
It has not hitherto been possible to secure heifer calves of Filston breeding, as it has been the 
policy of the management to reserve all heifers for the home herd. It has now been decided to 
spare a limited number from each year's increase. As this number is small, possible purchasers 
should inquire at once as to breeding, prices, etc. Address 

filston farm, glencoe, MARYLAND. GEO. A. SWARTWOUT, Manager. 



Walter A. Wood Mowing and Reaping 
Machine Company, Hoosick Falls, 
N. Y. Catalogue giving full in- 
formation as to the "New Cen- 
tury" binder sold in this country 
for the first time this year. Send 
for this catalogue before buying 
a machine. This machine has 
given great satisfaction abroad 
where thousands were used last 
year. 

The International Harvester Com- 
pany of America, Chicago, 111., 
makers of the McCormick, Cham- 
pion, Deering and Milwaukee Har- 
vesting Machines. This company 
sends us finely illustrated cata- 
logues of their different machines. 
All who contemplate buying a 
mower, harvester, or binder should 
send for these catalogues and com- 
pare the merits and points of the 
different makes before buying. 



A roll of bills stopped a bullet which 
struck a Chicago man in the breast, 
thus saving his life. Yet there are 
reckless people who will go right 
ahead day after day without a roll of 
Mils ea tt«!r persons. 



SUNNY HOME HERD OF — ■»" 

ABERDEEN-ANGUS CATTLE. 

BARON ROSEBOY 57666 by the world famous 
<3AY BLACKBIRD beads the herd. 

Females by such noted sires as Gay Blackbird, 14443, (sire of the highest 
priced American bred Angus bull), Ermon 18171, (by the champion sire of 
females Royal Eric), Eulalies Eric 15568, (2nd prize yearling bull at World's 
Columbian), Beau Bill 13637 (champion of the West for two years), Baron Ida 
20184 (champion at N. Y. State Fair 1898), Baronet of Advla 1226 (by the 
"Judge" champion of the world). 

Families represented in the herd are Coquette, Queen Mother, Nosegay, 
Westertown Rose, Old Rose of Advia, Violet, etc. We claim for our herd as 
good breeding as any herd in America. The individual animals in the herd 
have been selected with the one aim "quality" in view. Come and see, or write 
your order and let us guarantee a first-class animal. 

Shipping point and depot, Fitzgerald, N. C, on D. & W., 24 miles S.-W. of 
Danville, Va. 

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




ABERDEEN ANGUS BULLS 

FOR. SALE. 
"Every Bull a Show B\»ll." 

The choicest lot of young bulls in Southwest Vir- 
ginia, all out of prize winning families at low prices. 
Do you want a bargain? If so, come and see us, or 
Address W. P. ALLBN, Prop, of Qlen Allen Stock 
Farm, WALmrr Hill, Va. 



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[February 



MAGAZINES. 

In the February number The Cen- 
tury makes a new experiment in color 
printing, giving two examples of 
copies by the late J. Wells Champney 
of famous pastels of the French 
school, — one Madame Le Brun's por- 
trait of herself and daughter, the other 
Nattiers portrait of the Princess Lou- 
ise. Two other color pictures are by 
Maxfield Parrish of "Roman Villas" 
in the group of articles by Edith Whar- 
ton now running in The Century. One 
of the subjects is the famous Villa 
Medici, with the dome of St. Peter's in 
the distance. 

What may be called the "battle of 
the naturalists" is renewed by a paper, 
the first of a group, by John Bur- 
roughs on "Current Misconceptions in 
Natural History," which includes an 
unpublished letter on the subject by 
President Roosevelt. Ernest Thomp- 
son Seton continues his short sketches 
under the name of "Fable and Wood- 
myth" John La Farge contributes a 
paper with his own illustrations enti- 
tled "A Fiji Festival" which includes 
the Story of the War of the Fish Hook 
as he heard it related during his visit 
to the Fiji Islands. There is a sug- 
gestive article of practical use by Dr. 
Roger S. Tracy on "How to Live 
Long," a narrative "In the Alps on a 
Motor-Bicycle," by Joseph Pennell, 
with pictures by the author, a paper 
on "Bric-a-brac Auctions in New 
York," by Albert Bigelow Paine, illus- 
trated by Orson Lowell. 

The fiction of the number includes 
the fourth part of Mrs . Goodwin's 
"Four Roads to Paradise," the second 
part of Mr. Jack London's novel, "The 
Sea-Wolf," in which the hero shows 
something of the strenuous life of an 
Alaskan sealer, and other shorter sto- 
ries: "The Suicide: A Comedy" by 
Anne Douglas Sedgwick, author of 
"The Confounding of Camelia," etc.; 
"Mrs. M'Lerie's Stuffed Birds" by J. 
J. Bell, author of "Wee MacGreegor"; 
"A Victim of Cleanliness" by George 
Schock; "The Absent Guest" by Roy 
Rolfe Gilson, these being illustrated 
respectively by Metcalf, Williams, 
Steele and Miss Stilwell. Editorial 
articles deal with "Tolerance in the 
South." "A Hero, and Certain Hero- 
ines," (Dr. Howe, Laura Bridgman, 
and Hellen Keller), "We Americans 
and Other Animals," apropos of the in- 
terest in natural history, and "Inter- 
national Arbitration," which is pro- 
nounced "better than battleships." 

The February St. Nicholas is rich in 
pictures of quaint little men and wo- 
men of long ago, two articles, "The 
Baby's Cap" and "The Story of the 
Glove," as well as the timely story of 
"A Pointed Valentine," offering oppor- 
tunity for some unusual illustrations. 
N. Hudson Moore's "The Baby's Cap" 
goes as far back as 215 B. C. to the 
dress of women and children, and the 
funny laws governing it, and has pic- 
tures of a Dutch baby and its nurse, 
from a portrait by Franz Hals; of a 



ROSEMONT HEREFORDS. 



HEADED BY 
THE FAMOUS 



ACROBAT 68460, 

SPECIAL NOTICE ! 10 nice, well-bred heifers, safe in calf 
to Acrobat, will be sold at very reasonable figures. 

ROSEflONT FARM. Berry ville, Clarke Co., Va. J 




ACTKSKT 6B1WV 



Registered « Herefords, 

Herd beaded by tbe Grand Champion 

PRINCE RUPERT, 79539. 

SPECIAL : 4 Bull calves, 7 to 11 mos. old. 
Correspondence Solicited. Inspection Invited. 

EDWARD G. BUTLER, 

Annefield Farms. BRIGGS, Clarke Co., Va. 




PRINCE RUPERT, 79589. 



Bacon Hall Farm. 

Hereford Cattle -:- Berkshire Hogs 

REGISTERED-ALL AGES. 

Toulouse Geese, fluscovy Ducks. 

MOTTO! Satisfaction or no sale. 

E. M. QILLET & SON, - Glencoe, Haryland. 

wpiw ^ 1 " 111 - 11 » ' ■ ■"■■■ ■■■■■■■ »» 



.HEREFORD CATTLE. 

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

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

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

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

Extremely low prices to close out this bunch; only a few left. 

Write your needs or call and make your own selection. 

MURRAY B00C0CK, Owner, Keswick, Alb. Co.,Va. ZS^££&,$&8z 





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figures lor2. Try to pull the coil out of it. You may think you have doneso,butupon 
releasing, it will assume shape shownin figures. Then look along the wire as you would 

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li gure 4 — has the appearance of a tube. 

This explains the great advantage of 

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Using only Illjrh i'nrbnn Heavily Galvanized Colled Spring Steel Wire; to get this good enough we 
make it ourselves. Best wire makes the best fence. We ship any style of fence we make 

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Freight prepaid. Please write us. We want to send you our Catalogue. It is free. 
KITSELMAN BROTHERS, Box270, Muncie, Indiana, U. S. A. 




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buggy on the market. Below we give a few of them. 

Split Hickory seoond growth wheels with screws through the rims 
to prevent splitting; H inch round edge steel tires set hot, longdis- 
tance, dust proof axles with cemented axle beds, two more clips on the 
axles than are furnished on other buggies, oil tempered, graded and 

fraduated springs, choice of wooden spring bar or Bailey body loop, 
6oz. imported all wool broadcloth upholstering, open bottom spring 
cushion, solid panel spring back, water-proof top with genuine No. 1 
enameled leather quarters and back stays, back stays padded and 
stitched, all wool headlining, 28 oz. Fairfield rubber roof and back 
curtain, back curtain lined and reinforced, four roll up straps, rubber 
side curtains, full length velvet carpet, panel carpets and toe carpet, 
padded, patent leather 13 inch dash, longitudinal center spring, board 
boot on back of body, quick shifting shaft couplings, 16 coats of 
paint, oil and lead foundation, all wood work carried 100 days in pure 
oil and lead before priming. • We furnish this 
buggy with any color ge;ir wanted, with the 
body plain or fancy atripe, with three 
or four bow top, high or low wheels, 
arched or dropped axles, wide or 
narrow body, different design 
of upholstering in cushion and 
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perfect satisfaction. 

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at wholesale prices. 



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child with its parrot, from a portrait 
by Mierevelt: of the little son and 
daughter of James II. of England, the 
original painting by Largillere being 
in the National Portrait Gallery, Lon- 
don, and of Charles and Marie-Ade- 
laide of France, by Drouais. Mary 
Dawson's "The Story of the Glove" Is 
full of romance for the girls and of ad- 
venture for the boys; and it, too, is 
attractively illustrated, "His First 
Gloves" showing a mite of royalty 
proudly putting on his odd hand-gear. 
V. K. Frye's "A Pointed Valentine" is 
a pretty story of life in our colonies 
early in the last century, and shows 
pictures of the little Puritan maidens. 
Temple Bailey's "The Judge and the 
Cur" is a charming story of two dogs, 
a boy, and a judge. Very interesting, 
but of quite another tone, is P. W. 
Humphreys' "The Animal Ship," 
which tells of Jefferson Davis Cleve- 
ar n ri McKinley O'Toole and his skill 
Q/ith the fierce exiles of the forest. The 
pictures will please all young readers. 
There is a story also of "Alligator 
Hunting," written by Frank R. Stock- 
ton. B. L. Farjeon's "A Comedy in 
Wax" grows in thrills. George Hunt- 
ington's "Jack Longshort" is a tale of 
a tall boy who shrunk into a pigmy. 
There are two anecdotes of General 



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mechanical condition and permanent productiveness of the soil. 
This is the great advantage Animal Bone Basis Fertilizers have 
over those made with Acid Phosphate as a basis. IMPROVED 
MECHANICAL CONDITION AND PERMANENT PRODUCT- 
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or send for special circular about Mapes Manures. 
Prices quoted on request. 

T. W. WOOD & SONS, Seedsmen, Richmond, Va. 



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[Fekrmary 



Washington, with two interesting pic- 
tures of the Father of His Country. 
The second installment of H. Irving 
Hancock's "Japanese Athletics for 
lioys" will delight the lads; and Kath- 
arine Louise Smith tells of "Our 
Northern Neighbors' Winter Sports." 
Clara Marie Piatt's "After You Were 
Asleep' will piease younger readers; 
and Boris GJav.ss "Simple Science for 
Simple Simons" will furnish enter- 
tainment for an evening or a rainy 
Saturday. 

Ai.m.-i ?.lartin Et-te? brook's novel in 
the February number of Lippincott's 
Magazine more than confirms the be- 
lief in her ability to write a good long 
story. Short fiction from her pen has 
appeared in many magazines and won 
much deserved commendation. "Cous- 
in Patricia," her present novel, is a 
tale of modern life. It entertains, pre- 
eminently, from beginning to end. In- 
vention is clever throughout, and the 
climax shows a blending of strength 
and charm in the writing which is 
highly satisfying. 

Arthur Symons' name is arrestive in 
the list of short stories. His contri- 
bution, called "Peter Waydelin's Ex- 
periment," shines with the human 
element as portrayed through a man 
who loved art "for art's sake." 

The author of "That Mainwaring 
Affair," A. Maynard Barbour, writes 
a tale of love and a gold-mine entitled 
"A Controlling Interest." Francis 
Howard Williams is the author of a 
lovely idyl of a golden wedding called 
"A Little Child Shall Lead Them." 
"Yvonne of the Folies Bergere," by 
Prince Vladimir Vaniatsky, tells of a 
model husband whose sons make a 
discovery about their father — by no 
means to his credit — which they are 
quick to use to their own advantage. 
An unusual story, called "The Fatal 
Chamber," is by Clinton Dangerfield. 
A country-bred girl with a love for 
beauty decorates her sanctum in ac- 
cordance with her advanced views. 
She has three suitors, and as each 
one puts th' question she leads him 
to this room. Two of them fall down 
lamentably and the one who stands 
her test is the onr she supposed would 
flee from a girl who loved nymphs. 
Ella Middletcn Tybout excels in darky 
sketches, but not to the exclusion of 
other veins in literature. "The Voice 
of the Harp" proves this. Temptation 
comes to a pretty "Little Sister of the 
Poor" to taste "the fleshpots of 
Egypt," and the way looks easy and 
pleasant. In the lovely harp Inter- 
mezzo of Cavalleria the little maid 
hears the voice of conscience before 
taking the irrevocable step. "Dear- 




Angora Bucks. 

I have 6 Angora Bucks left 
which I wish to sell to avoid in- 
breeding; if ordered in the next 
20 days, will sell for $15 and' $17 
f. o. b. Rock Castle. They were 
sired by the famous BAILEY 
BUCK (10213). The mohair is 
now 7 to 9 inches long and will 
sell for $1 per pound in May. 

M. S. VALENTINE, 

Rock Castle, Va. 




ClSMONT 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. 



... EDGEWOOD STOCK FARM ... 

■<****»„ DORSET SHEEP. m 

Breeding DORSETS our business for 12 years. We can now offer Dorsets of high qual- 
ity. Our ewes lamb In the fall. We have fall lambs now ready. Last season these lambs 
weighed 135 pounds in June. Allow us to insist that you buy only GOOD SHEEP when 
you buy Dorsets. Dorset sheep have a special place in Virginia. No other breed can take 
their place In the early lamb business. Write us for facts to prove this. We ship our 
sheep on approval. 

J. D. ARBUCKLE, Greenbrier County. H. B. ARBUCKLE, Maxwelton, W. Va. 



.. .. REGISTERED .. 



POLAND-CHINA 

Pigs from 4 to 6 months old. Boars ready for service, and young sow* 
with pigs. Tamworth pigs 8 wks. old $5. Prices Reasonable. Apply to 

" ■ " J . C. GRAVES, Barboursville, Va. 



THE OAKS 

OFFERS FOR SALE AT LOW PRICES J $H0RTH0RN BULLS, 



Rising 1 yr. old ; a solid red with white points and a rich red roan. 
Eligible to registry. Also a pair of MORGAN COLTS, 13 hands, 
2 inches high. B. B. BUCHANAN, Bedford City, Va. 



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est," by Harriet Boyer, is a well-told 
story of young love which stands the 
strain of time, and foreign travel, and 
disguise. Elliott Flower can be very 
funny, an-l in "The Man Who Never 
Lived" he surpasses himself in amus- 
ing conceit. 

The February Review of Reviews is 
another notable triumph in monthly 
journalism. Almost every topic treat- 
ed in this number Is directly related 
to the news of the month. The far 
Eastern crisis and its bearings on 
American trade interests are editori- 
aally discussed in the department de- 
voted to "The Progress of the World;" 
"Korea as the Prize of War" is the 
subject of an illustrated article of 
great value by the Hon. J. Sloat Fas- 
sett; "The Railways of China" are de- 
scribed by Dr. Arthur J. Brown; Gov- 
ernor Taft's administration in the 
Philippines, just closed, is reviewed 
by Frederick W. Nash; Entomologist 
Howard, of the United States Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, writes on the 
Mexican cotton-boll weevil, which re- 
cently caused an extra session of the 
Louisiana Legislature, as well as a 
special appropriation of $250 000 by 
Congress; Mr. W. T. Stead sketches 
the personalities of the three commis- 
sioners who have been intrusted by 
the government with the practical re- 
construction of the British army sys- 
tem; Mr. John S. Wise contributes 
sympathetic character sketches of the 
two great Confederate chieftains who 
died early in January, — Generals Gor- 
don and Longstreet; the recent New 
Orleans meetings of the American His- 
torical, Economic and Political Science 
Associations are described; the Pan- 
ama situation and Wall Street's rela- 
tion to Presidential politics are treated 
by the editor; and in the Review's 
series of illustrated papers on Ameri- 
can industrial development Mr. Philip 
Eastman contributes an interesting 
account of "Windmill Irrigation in 
Kansas." Many other timely topics 
are covered by the cartoon department 
and by the "Leading Articles of the 
Month." "Periodicals Reviewed," "New 
Books," etc. 



T. W. WOOD & SONS CATALOGUE. 
We are in receipt of the seed and 
plant catalogue of T. W. Wood & Sons, 
of Richmond, Va. This is a greatly 
enlarged and improved edition of the 
catalogue of this well known seed 
firm. It is replete with the fullest in- 
formation on the growth and culture of 
every kind of farm and garden seeds 
and will be found a constant source 
of information on the production of all 
kinds of crops. In addition to seeds 
of all kinds the firm supplies plants 
of the staple crops grown for the mar- 
ket which plants are raised by Messrs. 
Wood & Sons on their farms and can 
therefore be relied on as true to name 
and variety. Send for the catalogue 
lefore ordering your seeds. 



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be turned i n its own length. Made in two styles and four sizes. Capacity 30 to 70 bushels. It saves t iroe, labornnd money 
and will double the crops. Makes all manure so fine and spreads it so evenly thatit isimmediatelyavailablefnr plantfood. 
I 1DCC P&TAI flCIIC lOby 13 inches, with 8 large cuts shows the spreader perfectly and describes it fully. Tellsalsohow 
LA II DC UOIflLUaUE to apply manure to secure best results. Mailed Tree. 

SMITH MANURE SPREADER GO* 16 & 1SS.CUNTON ST., CHBCARfK m »_ 



Planet Jr. Companion Tools 

No. 3. Planet Jr. Hill and Drill Seeder shown below on the right holds its position as the tool 
for perfect hand seeding. Converted in an instant from drill to hill planter and back again. 
Plants in hills 4, 6, 8, 12 or 24 inches apart. A convenient cut-off prevents seed waste in stopping, 
no hills missed in starting. A steel marker rod lines out rows 6 to 20 inches apart, and it opens 
the furrow, drops the seed, covers different depths, and rolls down. Operator drills or plants in 
hills all garden seeds with great accuracy, aided by an excellent graduated index at top of handle. 
No. 12 Planet Jr. Double Wheel Hoe is the ideal companion tool for the above. The crop is 
never too small or too large for it to work perfectly. Its hoes, cultivator teeth and plows are quick- 
ly set to do almost every kind of work. Cultivates between or astride the rows, scuffles, kills 
weeds, furrows, ridges, etc. Wheels are adjustable for wide or narrow rows and for 
depth, and handles adjust to suit the operator. Leaf lifters avoid injury to low 
plants and permit close cultivation after plants are large. 
Pia.net Jr. 1904 Catalogue shows forty different machines, in- 
cluding Seeders, Single and Double Wheel Hoes, Hand, One 
and Two Horse Cultivators, Horse Hoes, Beet Sugar Cul- 
tivators, etc. Over 1U0 illustrations, including 16 beautilul half 

tones of home and foreign farm and garden scenes. Mailed jrfTIH 3^*»€^i 



WMM 



free to all. 

S.L.ALLEN 
&C0., 

i Box 1107-X, 
I PHILADELPHIA 
PA. 



TWO GR0P ESSENTIALS 

are cultivation and keeping down weeds. 
More important than deep cultivation is 
keepiDg the surface stirred, breaking the 
crust due to rains, and allowing the light, 
air, moisture and warmth to penetrate 
quickly to the roots of the growing plant. 
; For doin<j just these things the ideal imple- 
ment is the 

laf ITV&Ttf&ialir Adjustable Weeden 
HLl^8HglLi and Shallow Cultivator 

It kills the weeds at first showing, the top soil is pulverized and kept mellow, the plant roots are not 
disturbedand themoi^t fcoilisnot broughtup to dry in the sun. Adjustable in width. Narrows to 30 
Inches, widens to T% feet. Strong and steady running. Furnished either with round teeth or with flat 
to suit different soils, a-* we are licensed to manufacture the famous Hallock Hat tooth. Write today tor 
catalog and booklet of field scenes showing half tone pictures from photographs of weeder in actual use* 

Both free for the asking. 

KEYSTONE FARM MACHINE CO., 1 554 N. Beaver St., York, Pa. 





THE YORK Improved Weeder 

The flexibility of the leetb is the important thing in a weeu'er. The York Improved 
Weeder has teeth of square spring steel with round points. These teeth have 
great flexibility, and being narrow in the body they do not whip or brnise the 
growing plants as flat teeth do. This strle also allows more clearance and 
prevents clogging. Our square teeth do not break. The frame is made of 
strong flexible angle steel and handles and shafts are adjustable. Send for 
free circular. The Spangler Corn Planters and Grain Drills are the befit for 
you to use SPAN GLER MFG. CO., 501 Queen St., York, Pa. 



142 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[February 



AETNA LIFE. 

Its Remarkable Progress in 1903. 

The condensed statement of the Aet- 
na Life Insurance Company, of Hart- 
ford, Conn., which appears elsewhere 
to-day is a showing of growth and 
strength that must be especially grat- 
ifying to policy holders of this ster- 
ling company, coming as it does after 
a year in which financial institutions 
have had many unusual conditions to 
contend against. 

In these days of insurance progress 
one naturally looks to the leading in- 
surance company in New England, and 
to the largest company in the world 
issuing Life, Endowment, Accident^ 
Health and Liability insurance for big 
results, but when one looks over the 
Aetna Life's record for 1903 the mag- 
nitude of the favorable results fairly 
astonishes him. 

The Aetna Life, which is now over 
half a century old, has developed into 
one of the famous companies of the 
country, and is a notable monument of 
the business and financial ability of 
the president, Ex-Governor Morgan G. 
Bulkeley. When he took the helm 
twenty-five years ago it had in round 
numbers $26,000,000 of assets, and 
was carrying about $78,000,000 of life 
insurance. To-day it has over $68,- 
000.000 of assets, and is carrying 
$226,000,000 of life insurance, to say 
nothing of over $208,000,000 of acci- 
dent insurance. A very large and im- 
portant part of this splendid growth is 
due to the wonderful stride made in 
the accident and liability department 
of its business. 

These are the important facts about 
what the Aetna Life has been doing. 
It is not only a matter simply of in- 
terest to its policy holders, or to its 
managers, but to every citizen of the 
country at large who seeks for the 
Tery best there is of insurance that 
really insures. 



VERY POPULAR. 
The "Osgood" Standard Scales, man- 
ufactured by Osgood Scale Co., .137 
Central street, Binghamton, N. Y., 
are the subjects of an illustrated an- 
nouncement to the trade, in this issue. 
They emphasize the fact that they 
want dealers and agents everywhere to 
handle the farm scale, the house adds 
a proposition to ship scales on a thir- 
ty-days' trial. The wagon scales made 
by this firm are becoming very popu- 
lar and the sales are larger than was 
expected. A catalogue will be sent on 
application. 



LEGAL LORE. 

Just after the war an old darky came 
up to the Governor and said, — 

"Marster, kin you make me jestice 
ob de peace?" 

"Well, Uncle Ned, in a case of sui- 
cide what would you do?" 

Uncle Ned thought deeply. "Mars- 
ter, I'd make him pay de costs of de 
court and support de child." — Decem- 
ber Lipplncott's. 



ACME 



SIZES 

3 to 1Z}£ feet 

Agents 
Wanted. 



Pulverizing Harro.w 

* Clod Crusher and Leveler. 

The best pulverizer — cheapest Riding Harrow 
on earth. We also make walking ACNES. 
The Acme crushes, cuts, pulverizes, turns 
and levels all soils for all purposes. Made 
entirely of cast steel and 
wrought iron — indestructible. 

Sent on Trial 

To be returned at my ex- 
pense if not satisfactory, 
Catalogue and Booklet. 
"An Ideal Harrow" 
by Henry Stewart, 
mailed free. 
I deliver f.o.b. at New York, Chicago, Columbus, Louisville, Kansas City, Viinneapol Is, San Francisco, Portland, etc 

DUANE H. NASH, Sole Manufacturer. Millington, New Jersey* 

Branch Houses: 110 Washington SI., Chicago. 240 7th Avs. So., Minneapolis. 1310 W. 8th St., Kanaaa City. 

please memtion this papeb. 




FOR THE PLANTER 

the Clnner, the Farmer, the Miller, the Sawyer, or Anybody Else who desires a 
highly efficient power which will require little space, nothing quite equals the 

I AffAi^m^M Engine and Boiler 

■Wl^^ B 9 ^La^ B lL ^ y entirely self-co tained. Machinery can 
be belted to either side of engine sha.t. Ex- 
ceedingly safe. Free from escaping sparks. We make them from 6 up to 
io h. p. Being mounted on skids with engine on top, they are easy to 
handle and will stand the hardest kind of usage. Great favorites with 
saw mill owners. We also make other engines in great variety. Write 
at once for our special book on "Power Economy and Efficiency." It . 
is sent free for the asking. 

James Leffel& Co, Box 134 Springfield, O. 



GRINDS SNAP CORN 




KL 



Com in the ear and al5 grains, any sort of chop mixture, 
speedy and perfect work, saving feed and labor, the 
all-purpose grinding mill is the 



For 



Fi ne 



SCIENTIFIC 



Quick 



Made in a variety of styles, including Power Mills, Sweep Mills, 
riill and Power Combined. The line that meets feeders' wants and 
is right in price. Don't huy until you have seen our late catalogue. 
Mailed free. Write for it to-day. 

THE FOOS MFG. CO.. Springfield. Ohio. 



RICHMOND ATLANTA NASHVILLE- NEW ORLEANS 



SPRAY 



of all Kinds ^8p 




PUMPS 

in Stock. 




SPRAYED. 

The two illustrations above show the results of spraying potatoes at the Ver- 
mont Experiment Station The sprayed vines yielded at ihe rate of 291 bushels 
per acre, while the unsprayed vines yielded at the rate of 99J bushels per acre, 
a difference of 191>£ bushels per acre. Then surely it pays to spray potatoes and 
what is true of this crop is also true of other crops, especially fruits. Sprayed 
fruit yields more and sells better. Water supply and plumbing systems installed. 

SYDNOR PUMP <St WELL CO., (incorporated.) 

Box 949. ^-«^ RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. 



1904.] 



THE SOUTHEKN PLANTER 



143 



Hallock's 
Ideal. 



POTATO DIGGER 

Plow and Pulverizer. 




Can We Send You this Splendid Machine on Trial? 

We have spent 20 years in perfecting this Potato Digger and are satisfied that it is the only successful one oa 
the market. We are willing for YOU to say whether it is what we claim for it. If you don't like it, the Digger ia 
''lira. The Southern Planter has examined its merits, and recommends its readers to send for it on trial. Will 
you do it? Let us mail you particulars. Write to-day. NOTICE THE AGITATOR on the wheel; remove it, and yon 
will have the best plovi in the world. 

We want a good, active, responsible Energetic Agent in every section of the country 
to handle the ' IDEAL." We will sell the first machine in each locality at a greatly 
reducedTprice. We protect our agents. The wise man will surely act quickly for 
he must see that territory on this machine will be eagerly sought for. 

S PEC I AL. 



The Keystone Farm Machine Co., of York, Pa., have the exclusive right to manufacture our Hallock Flat Tooth 
Weeder for the Eastern and Southern territory. The Janesville Machine Co., of Janes ville, Wis., have the same 
rights for the Western territory. Our friends will therefore have no difficulty in securing this well known and 
valuable machine. The patents have been fully sustained by five different Circuit Courts. 

Write for Circulars and Testimonials from Those Who Have Used the Digger. 

D. Y. HALLOCK & SONS, Box 813, YORK, PA. 

If you will give us your name and address we will send you an elegant 32-page catalogue— 
A Treatise on Potato and Corn Culture. 



144 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[February 




Good Buggies and How They Are Made 

on the construction of a buegy from the ground up, but teacheo the 
. u e f. how to . tcl1 ? .eood buggy from a poor one. No matter 
whether you intend buying a new buggy now or later on this 
book contains information that will be of great value to 
you. as it not only U-Us you how each and every part of 
the buggy 13 made, but illustrates by actual photo- 
graphs, taken from our factory, the method of mat 
ingand finishing the different parts. If you have 
never had the opportunity to go through a large 
carriage factory and see juat how the work is 
done, this is a chance for you to do the next best 
thing; in fact, this really gives you a better 
opportunity to study the different methods of 
construction than you would have in a hurried 
trip through a factory. The regular price of 
the book is FIFTY CENTS, but for a 1 mited 
time only it will be sent absolutely free of 
charge, postage prepaid, to any reader of this 
paper who will answer the questions in the 
coupon below. Address, 

H. C. PHELPS, President and Treasurer, 

The OHIO CARRIAGE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, 

2010 Sixth Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. 

Cut out this Coupon and Mail! 
1 did you buy your last buggy ? . . . 



When will you buy & new one? 

Hare you one of our Catalogues ? 

If not, would you like to have one, with complete information of our 
plan of felling our vehicles, direct from factory to consumer, at wholesale 



prices and on thirty days Free Trial?. 
Name 



Town State. 



.Rural Route 




BALTIMORE'S SEED AND SUPPLY 
HOUSE. 
The Seed House of Griffith & Turner 
Company, of Baltimore, who grow 
seeds in the North, South, East and 
West, each kind in the section of 
country where it develops best, is a 
good concern to consider when placing 
this spring's orders. Their plan of 
sectional growing of seeds brings uni- 
versal satisfaction to their patrons. It 
requires but a statement of how they 
proceed to convince every planter that 
the plan is right. We suggest that 
our readers send for their catalogue 
and learn more of their plan of doing 
business. They also handle a full line 
of Farm, Garden, Dairy and Poultry 
Implements, Tools and Appliances 
These several departments are each in 
charge of a competent head, and they 
are enabled to keep a large force busy 
throughout the year instead of for a 
6hort period at seed-selling time. Their 
advertisement will be found elsewhere. 
Consult it, and then write them for the 
catalogue at the particular address 
there given. 



The kind of garden tool you use has 
about everything to do with the success 
of the crop, as well as the pleasure peo- 
ple get out of the calling. The line of 
Planet, Jr., tools is suited to every 
purpose. The users all tell the same 
story. One of them in Iowa, C. F. 
Sanderson, of Linn Junction, puts it 
this way: "I purchased a No. 4 Drill 
of Hamilton Brothers. It is the best 
tool of the kind I ever saw. It can be 
used in so many different ways. You 
can discover a new use for it every 
time you use it." Don't fail to notr 
the Planet, Jr., advertisement else 
where. 



Established in 1S66. 



300 Acres Under Cultivation. 



W. T. HOOD & CO., 

Old Dominion Nurseries, Richmond, va. 

OFFICE: CHAMBERLAYNE and RENNIE AVENUES. 

Take Lakeside Car First and Broad Sts. PHONE No. 2155. 

Nurseries, Brooh Road Half Mile from City, and Hanover Co. 

High Grade Nursery Stock, 



Wholesale and Retail Growers of 



Shade Trees, Lawn Trees, Shrubs, Roses, Etc. 
FRUIT TREES. 

All the Standard and New Varieties. We have experienced men to plant trees and lay out ground! 
when desired. Shade Tree* a Specialty. Catalogues Hailed on Application. 

AGENTS WANTED, Write for Terms. Liberal Commissions (Mention this Paper.) 



\The 



^=n 



MIOCKER CHURN 

29 Bt Gets the batter from the cream down to the one 
thousandth part. Made of tasteless wood and the churning process is 
entirely the result of its own motion— no machinery inside or out to 
get out of order or require oiling. 

Its Special Advantages 

I are: 1— Simplicity. 2— Least friction. 3— Gravity does the churning) 
a child can operate it. 4— Absolutely no adjustments, always ready. 
6 — Nothing but the churn box to clean, easily accessible 6- Violent 
agitation of cream without paddles or dashers. 7— Gives the finest 
grade of butter of any churn on the -market. WE PAY THE FREIGHT. 
Your money back Iff not satisfied. In eight convenient sizes, 8 to 60 

I gallons. Price as right as the quality. Illustrated circulars free. 

I Rocker Churn Mfg. Company, Forsyth, Georgia,, 



"Got any oysters?" asked the guest 
in a restaurant. "No, san," replied 
the sable waiter; "ain't got no shell- 
fish, 'cept eggs, sah." 



Black Leg Vaccine 



Pasteur Vaccine Co 



CHICAGO 
SAN FRANCISCO. 



1904.] 



THE SOUTHEEN PLANTER. 



145 



AGENT = WANTED 

Good man in every county to «ell 

Osgood Standard Scales 

for store, Factory and Farm. 

most complete line made 1903-4 Patterns 
Steel Lever Lock scales are beauties. Prefer 
man experienced in Felling machinery and 
implements Fine catalogue. Nosamiles. 
Can be handled nicely as side line. Liberal 
contract Exclusive agency Have you that 
man in mind. Show him this paper. He can 
make money We want him now. Act quick. 
Osgood Scale Co., 137 Central St., Binghamton, 
N. Y. LargeBt makers of Farm Scales in this 
country. 



= WA NTED = 

A good live man who understands 
farming, desires to rent a farm; has 
2 good men to work with him; will 
give half crops or pay cash rent; can 
give bond. Address "O. A. G." care 
Southern Planter. 

FOR RENT. 
A 400 acre farm, 100 of which is 
James river bottoms, none better; 
300 acres clay, chocolate and gray 
soil; 300 acres arable. Buildings good, 
large new dwelling house. Nine 
miles from Richmond, Va., 1J miles 
from electric cars, well watered, a good 
farm. Apply to JAMES BELLWOOD, 
R. F. D. No. 1, Manchester, Va. 



"1,000 BOYS WANTED." 
A thousand boys wanted, is the way 
the Ratekins' Seed House, of Shenan- 
doah, start off their seed advertise- 
ment in this issue of this paper. This 
old reliable firm is among the oldest 
established seed houses in the United 
States, and their twentieth annual 
illustrated catalogue is one of the best 
that has found its way to our table. It 
is a fine affair of over 80 pages, and 
will be sent free to all who mention 
this paper. See their advertisements 
in another place in this paper, and 
send for it to-day, and be sure to say 
you sav/ their advertisement in this 

paper. 

HALLOCK POTATO DIGGER. 
Bonnerton, N. C, July 8, 1903. 
Messrs. D. Y. Hallock & Sons, 

York, Pa. 
Gentlemen: 

Enclosed you will find my check, 
which is to pay for the digger shipped 
to Mr. J. F. Cowell, Bayboro, N. C. He 
tells me that he is very much pleased 
with the digger, and that those who 
saw his work were well pleased, and 
that he was sure he could sell as many 
as thirty or forty this coming spring, 
and that he would want another for 
his fall crop. Now, Mr. Cowell says 
that he saved 3c. per bbl. on his crop, 
which would pay for the digger alone. 
Yours truly, W. H. Whitley. 



AFTER THE WEDDING. 

He — "It certainly was «a pretty wed- 
ding, and everything was so nicely ar- 
ranged." 

She — "That's just what I think; and 
the music was especially appropriate." 

He — "I don't remember. What did 
they play?" 

She — "The Last Hope." — Christmas 
Lippincott's. 



A DANGER SIGNAL. 
At a wedding in a church, noticing 
the dim religious red light that burn* 
over the chancel, Teddy asked his 
bachelor uncle, "Is that a danger sig- 
nal, Uncle Tom?" and Uncle Tom, who 
is suspected of hovering on the brink 
of a proposal, was heard to reply 
"Yes." — December Lippincott's. 



FOR SALE 



50 BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCK 

Hens, last Spring's hatch, $1 ,00 each. 
E. fl. SANDYS, Burkeville, Va. 

"Feeds and Feeding" 

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

Delivered anywhere for - - f 2.00 
With the SOUTHERN PLANTER, 2 25 



Y¥W*V 



gggg g; ^\f\sr^^ n ^^/ ~w^^^r^rw'irw'^r^ y ^ ! ^^^ ' ^ w ^^^ ' ^ '^^ 



Peach and Apple Trees. 



£1 




Bonavista Nurseries, Greenwood, Va. 

We Offer a Fine Lot of Choice Trees for Spring Planting. 

Our Apple Trees are the best : 



Wine Sap, Mammoth Black 
Twig, York Imperial and Al- 
bemarle Pippin, a 11 Perfect and 
Well-grown Trees . 



Stump, Elberta, Bilyeu's 
[Comet], Wonderful, Cham- 
pion, Globe, Picquet's Late, 
Albright's Winter, E. & L. 

We send out none but good trees, and have never had a complaint made by any pur- 
chaser of our stock. Order soon, especially Peaches, as good trees will be very scarce 
this season. CHAS. F. HACKETT, Manager. 



JaVAAAAAAAAAAA ^SAAAA, 



148 



THE SOUTHED N" PLANTER. 



[February 



THE SILK GROWING SEASON OF 
1904. 

The public interest in the revival of 
silk growing in the United States con- 
tinues unabated. Substantial progress 
has been made during the year just 
closed and the prospects are good for 
increased output of silk cocoons the 
coming spring. Silk growing associa- 
tions are being formed in many States, 
and public schools are introducing the 
study into their systems. Among the 
latest formed associations are the 
American Silk Growing Association 
of Vineland, N. J., of which the Presi- 
dent is the well known financier, Hon. 
Wharton Baker, of Philadelphia. The 
Silk Growers' Association of Pat- 
chogue. Long Island, has been organ- 
ized with Dr. Franklin Sylvester, of 
New York, as President. A number 
of towns in Michigan grew silk in 
1903. In California the industry is 
centered about San Diego, where there 
are quite a number interested. In 
Georgia the Tullulah Falls Company 
are increasing their plant, and an in- 
dustrial school to teach silk growing 
and domestic arts has been planned 
there and will soon be in operation. 
Steps are being taken to establish a 
Echool similar to that at Tu""lah Falls 
In Western North Carolin Silk cul- 
ture in America has come to stay. 
When carried on as we have recom- 
mended, as a household industry to 
occupy spare time of the women, chil- 
dren arid aged or feeble members of 
the family, silk growing cannot fail to 
fill an important place in our social 
economy. It will furnish useful and 
remunerated employment for labor 
otherwise unproductive. It will add 
to the comforts and happiness of the 
aged and young and poorer classes of 
our population. It will make country 
life more bearable to the young of both 
flexes who now look even to Hfo in t^o 
factory towns as a relief from the 
hardships of the farm. 

But silk reels and silk weaving mills 
must necessarily follow the establish- 
ment of silk farms, and the State 
which fosters silk growing will in the 
end secure a bountiful reward in gen- 
eral prosperity. North Carolina can 
easily and without detracting from 
any profitable industry already estab- 
lished add to the wealth produced in 
the State not less than $6,000,000 an- 
nually. This is a sum worth striving 
for. 

The North Carolina Department of 
Agriculture will Import from Italy in 
February a sufficient quantity of silk 
worm etrirs to supply all silk growers 
In the State who make application in 
time, or during the month of January. 
The prices of egps will be the same as 
last year, viz: Per ounce, $3.00; per 
ene-half ounce, $l.fi0; per one-quarter 

WANTED 



To bnv some POLLED ANO.US Heifers 
or cows. 

E. M. SANDYS, BurkevlIU, V«. 



Your money back 

if you are not satisfied 



DO YOU SUPPOSE that a company with a capital of 8500,000.00, paid in full, and the 
proud reputation of 36 years of continuous success, would make such an offer and not carry 
It out to the letter? 

DO YOU SUPPOSE we would jeopardize our standing with the public and our chances 
Of still greater success by failing to fulfil any promise we make ? 

DO YOU SUPPOSE we would make such an offer if we did not have the utmost confi- 
dence in the satisfying quality of our goods ? 

WE KNOW we can please you and save you money, for HAYNER WHISKEY goes 
direct from our distillery to you, with all its original richness and flavor, carrying a UNITED 
STATES REGISTERED DISTILLER'S GUARANTEE of PURITY and AGE and saving 
you the big profits of the dealers. That's why it's best for medicinal purposes. That's why 
it's preferred for other uses. That's why we are regularly supplying over a quarter of m 
million satisfied customers. That's why YOU should try it. 

Direct from our distillery to YOU 

Saves Dealers' Profits I Prevents Adulteration ! " 

HAYNER WHISKEY 

PURE SEVEN-YEAR-OLD RYE 

4 FULL $^.20 EXPRESS 
QUARTS O PREPAID 

We will send you FOUR FULL QUARTS of HAYNER'S SEVEN-YEAR- 
OLD RYE for $3.20, and we will pay the express charges. When you receive 
the whiskey, try it and if you don't find it all right and as good as you ever 
drank or can buy from any body else at any price, then send it back at our 
expense and your $3.30 will be returned to you by next mail. How could 
an offer be fairer? We take all the risk and stand all the expense, if 
the goods do not please you. Won't you let us send you a trial order? We 
Ship in a plain sealed case; no marks to show what's inside. 

Orders for Ariz., Cal., Col., Idaho, Mont., Nev., N. Mex., Ore., Utah, Wash, 
or Wyo., must be on the basis of 4 Quarts for S4.00 by Express 
Prepaid or SO Quarts for S16.00 by Freight Prepaid. 

Write our nearest office and do it NOW. 

THE HAYNER DISTILLING COMPANY 

ATLANTA, GA. DAYTON, OHIO ST. LOUIS, Ma ST. PAUL, MINN. 

150 DI3TILLEBT. TBOT, O. ESTABLISHED 186ft. 




The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway 

Extending from Cincinnati and Louisville, and 
THR0UG1 ITS CONPsECTIONS.... 

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

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

FORMS THE MOST DIRECT "iSSST&SSlr ROUTE. 

To STAUMTON, LYNCHBURG, CHARLOTTESVILLE, 

RICHMONU, PMTE* BURG, NORFOLK, 
And Principal Virginia Point*. 

H. W. FULLER, Gen. Pass. Ajt. C. & 0. Ry., Washington, D. C. 



1904.] 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



149 



ounce, 80 cents; per one-eighth ounce, 
45 cents. No one without previous 
experience should attempt more than 
one-eighth ounce the first year. Those 
who have had experience and who 
have a supply of mulberry leaves at 
hand may attempt a full ounce. The 
Department will find a market for all 
the good cocoons produced in North 
Carolina this year at $1.00 per pound 
for choked cocoons. There need be no 
fear that the market will be over-sup- 
plied. We can sell any amount at the 
price named. The Department makes 
no charge for its services to citizens 
of the State. 

We can still supply to farmers only, 
rooted mulberry trees suitable for 
feeding silk worms for $1.00 per hun- 
dred postpaid. A small number of 
copies of our silk Bulletin, No. 181, 
still remain, and will be sent free to 
those wishing to take up silk culture. 
A new circular giving estimates and 
detailed drawings for erecting scaf- 
folding ■ • ■ ' hti. , '->g trays oj-cii which 
io 2 ow the worms will be issued next 
month. From these directions any 
onn handy with tools can construct 
all the apparatus needed out of com- 
mon pine lumber. 

More silk growing associations 
should be organized in North Carolina. 



This affords a good opportunity for 
far-seeing and philanthropic persons 
in every community to benefit their 
reighbors by organizing such associa- 
tions and starting silk growing. The 
governing bodies of almshouses, hos- 
pital? and girls' schools should also 
take steps to introduce this industry 
with a view of enabling their popula- 
tions to earn a little money each year 
without any great risk or hardship. 
Teachers in graded schools mignt well 
introduce the care of silk worms as 
a species of nature study as well as a 
profitable art. 

Applications for silk-worm eggs and 
mulbeny trees should be made to the 
undersigned and must in every case 
be accompanied by the full amount of 
cash in postage stamps or money or- 
ders. Address 

GERALD MCCARTHY, Biologist, 
N. C. Dept. Agriculture, Raleigh, N. C. 



HE SAW WHERE THE MISTAKE 
LAY. 

The following interesting and point- 
ed story is taken from Dr. Orison 
Sweet Marden's editorial, "Superiority, 
the Best Trade-Mark," in the February 
Success: 

"Never put your name to a certifi- 



cate of a piece of work, unless you 
know it is worthy," said Senator Geo. 
F. Hoar, in an address to students; 
"throw up your job first. Let no em- 
ployer's command move you to do that 
which you know is wrong. The city 
of Lowell was built on the Merrimac 
river. Dams and canals were con- 
structed to conserve the water power. 
There was no competent engineer for 
such work in America at that time. A 
young Englishman named Francis 
came over and was employed. He 
looked over the work already done. He 
learned that, sixty years before, there 
had been a great flood in the valley. 
He went to the directors of the com- 
pany. 'Gentlemen,' he said, 'you must 
rebuild Lowell and the works.' 

' "We can't do that,' was the answer; 
'we have spent large sums, and must 
take a risk.' 

' "Then, gentlemen,' said Francis, 
'here is my resignation.' 

"The directors reconsidered, and re- 
built under Francis' direction. In a 
j'ear a flood came, and the town and 
the works stood the test. Under the 
former conditions, they would have 
been swept off the face of the earth. 
There is a lesson. Learn it." 



The "STAR" 



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pecially for Southern Corn end 
Pea Planting. 



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PLAIN 1 blY We furnish them 

with Hoe Opener 
when desired. 




It does, and does well, everything a planter should do. 

Drills or drops at any distance any number of grains. It handles corn» peas, beans 

etc., equally well. *J* 

Every grain is seen as it falls to the ground. 

The planters are furnished with runner openers or shovel openers. 
Thousands in use all over the South, and demand increasing every year. 
As of all good things, there are imitations, but see that you get the GENUINE WITH OUR 

NAME CAST ON THE TOP OF GRAIN HOPPER. 
Don't be mislead by being told some other planter is just as good; pay more if necessary 

and get a "STAR." 



ASHTON STARKE, Richmond, Virginia. 



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[February 




11 



The folio-wing list of papers and periodicals 
are the most popular ones in this section. 
We can SAVE YOU MONEY on whatever 
journal you wish: 



3 40 
3 00 



1 25 



4 00 
1 40 
1 00 
75 
1 35 
1 T 
1 35 

1 75 

2 25 

1 25 

2 25 

3 00 



DAILIES. 

Price With 
Alone. Planter. 

Times-Dispatch, Richmond, Va $5 00 $5 00 

The Post, Washington, D. C 6 00 6 00 

The Sun. Baltimore, Md 3 00 

News-Leader, Richmond, Va 3 00 

THI-WEEKLY. 
The World (thrice-a-week). N. Y... 100 

WEEKLIES. 

Harper's Weekly 4 00 

Harper's Bazaar 100 

Montgomery Advertiser 100 

Nashville American 60 

The Baltimore Sun 1 00 

Breeder's Gazette 2 00 

Heard's Dairyman 1 00 

Country Gentleman 150 

Religious Herald, Richmond, Va 2 00 

Times-Dispatch, Richmond, Va 1 00 

Central Presbyterian, " " 2 00 

Horseman 2 00 

MONTHLIES. 

Wool Markets and Sheep 50 75 

Dairy and Creamery B0 75 

Commercial Poultry 50 75 

All three 1 50 1 15 

North American Review 5 00 5 00 

The Century Magazine 4 00 4 25 

St. Nicholas Magazine 3 00 3 25 

Llpplncott's Magazine 2 50 2 50 

Harper's Magazine 4 00 4 00 

Forum Magazine 3 00 3 25 

Scrlbner's Magazine 3 00 3 25 

Frank Leslie's Magazine 100 135 

Cosmopolitan Magazine 100 135 

Everybody's Magazine 100 135 

Munsey Magazine 100 135 

Strand Magazine 125 165 

McClure's Magazine 100 135 

Argosy Magazine 1 00 1 35 

Review of Reviews 2 50 2 75 

Blooded Stock 50 60 

Successful Farming 100 75 

Southern Fruit Grower BO 85, 

Where you desire to subscribe to two or 1 
more of the publications named, you can ar- I 
rive at the net subscription price by deduct- I 
lng 60 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 y Rubbing or 
net subscription rates. ■-' r - 

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 
1 r-rlodlcals. 



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We sell strictly reliable FIELD AND GARDEN SEEDS of every 
variety at Lowest Market rates, included in which are 

RAGLAND'S PEDIGREE TOBACCO SEEDS. 

■#> ■£> & WE ALSO SELL 

Our Own Brands of Fertilizers 

For Tobacco, Corn, Wheat, Potatoes, &c. 

Pure Raw-Bone Meal, Nova Scotia and Virginia Plaster and 
Fertilizing Materials generally. 

Parties wishing to purchase will find it to their interest to price our goods. 
Samples sent by mail when desired. 



Win. A. Miller & Son, * 



1016 Main Street, 
LYNCHBURG, VA. 



Headquarters for 
Nursery Stock. 



WHOLESALE 

AND 

RETAIL. 



We make a specialty of handling dealers' orders, 
ALL STOCK TRUE TO! NAME. 
Apples, Nectarines, Pecans, Ornamental and 

Pears, Cherry, Chestnuts, Shade Trees, 

Peach, Quinces, Walnuts, Evergreens, 

Plum, Almonds, Small Fruits, Roses, Etc, 

Apricots, 
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THE CRESCENT PLOW. 



IMPLEMENTS FOR SPRING WORK. 

To get the best results prepare your 
land with the WATT CROWN or 
CRESCENT PLOW, made in sixteen 
sizes and adapted to every variety of 
work in all kinds of soil. Guaranteed 
to be the best general purpose plows 
made and sold subject to approval by 
trial. 

OUR ROAD PLOWS will enter hard 
ground when no other will. 

DISC HARROWS with or without 
solid steel weight boxes. Most dura- 
ble bearing with oil reservoir direct- 
ly over axle free from dust and clog- 
ging. Anti Friction Rollers. Adjust- 
able Seats. Easy to handle. Light in 
draft. 

ALL STEEL LEVER HARROWS 
made up of sections of 25 teeth each. 
Instantly adjusted straight or steady 
by lever. 

THE EMPIRE CORN PLANTER 
with or without fertilizer attachment 
The Lightest Planter Made. Plants 
any quantity, and distance accurately. 

DOUBLE ROW PLANTER with or 
without Check Rower Drill and Fer- 
tilizer attachments. Adjustable in 
width, distance of drop and quantity. 

DISC CULTIVATORS and HAR- 
ROW combined. Made of steel and 
malleable iron. Light Draft, Great 
Strength, High Steel Arch, Steel Axle, 
Steel Wheels, adjustable in width. 
Discs adjustable in depth and at any 
angle. 

WALKING AND RIDING CULTI- 
VATORS with four, six or eight shov- 
els and spring teeth. 

FARM WAGONS built of air-dried 
timber and all material the best that 
can be procured. 

IRON AGE PATTERN CULTIVA- 
TORS and HARROWS, MALTA DUR- 
IWPERIAL ONI HORSE WAGON. ABLE SHOVEL PLOWS. THE NEW MOLIME. 

WEEDERS, FERTILIZER DISTRIBUTORS, FIELD ROLLERS with solid Steel Heads, BALING PRESSES for Hand or 
Power, GRAIN DRILLS, FEED CUTTERS, PEA HULLERS, THRESHER8, ENGINE?, 8AW MILLS, GRINDING 
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[February 



THE TOP PRICE FOR A COW. 
General Russell A. Alger, former 
Secretary of War, and now junior 
United States Senator from Michigan, 
is said to have paid the record price 
for a cow — and that a dead one. Fifty- 
odd years ago he was an orphan in 
Richfield, Ohio, without a cent, and 
with but one suit of clothes. He 
wanted to attend school, and went to 
a doctor, who lived in a neighboring 
Tillage, to ask for a chance to work for 
his board. The doctor did not need 
the services of a boy, but was so much 
impressed by young Alger's earnest- 
ness that he took him into his family 
and sent him to school. He did no 
work except to care for the doctor's 
horse and cow. The years sped on, 
and Russell A. Alger became a mil- 
lionaire, while his benefactor was re- 
duced to strained circumstances. One 
by one the doctor's children died, and 
he and his aged wife were left alone. 
But the old man kept his pride, and 
when General Alger assisted him he 
was forced to do so in roundabout 
ways. A dozen years ago the general 
paid the doctor a visit, determining to 
aid him. 

"Why, Alger, you don't owe me any- 
thing," said the old man, "and I won't 
take anything." 

"But I owe my education to you." 
"Bosh! You owe that to yourself." 
"But I caused you trouble and ex- 
pense, for which I want to repay you." 



"The trouble need not trouble you, 
and there wasn't any expense worth 
talking about. In fact, the only ex- 
pense that you caused me, so far as I 
can remember, was the loss of a cow. 
Do you know, Alger, that, when you 
came to live with me, I had the best 
cow in these parts, and that your 
awkwardness completely spoiled her? 
Within three weeks you had made her 
so skittish that no one could go near 
her, and I had to sell her for beef." 

"Then I owe you for that cow. I am 
going to pay you for her, and to add 
a little interest for the use of the 
money for about forty years." 

After long argument the old man 
reluctantly consented to receive pay 
for his cow, and the check that Gen- 
eral Alger drew to his order kept him 
in comfort for the remainder of his 
life. — Success. 



A SAFE DIET RULE. 

Eat the Smallest Amount of Food 
That Will Preserve Good Health. 
How shall one determine, then, how 
much food to eat? Too much mystery 
has been thrown about this subject. 
Let your sensations decide. It must be 
kept in mind that the entire function 
of digestion and assimilation is car- 
ried on without conscious supervision 
or concurrence. It should be entirely 
unfelt and unknown, excepting by the 



feeling of bien-etre which accompanies 
and follows its normal accomplish- 
ment. Satiety is had. It implies a sen- 
sation of fullness in the region of the 
stomach, and that means that too 
much food has been taken. The exact 
correspondence, in a healthy animal, 
between the appetite and the amount 
of food required is extraordinary. As 
a rule, the meal, unless eaten very 
slowly, should cease before the appetite 
is entirely satisfied, because a little 
time is required for the outlying 
organs and tissues to feel the effects 
of the food that has been ingested. 
If too little has been taken, it is easy 
to make it up at the next meal, and 
the appetite will be only the better and 
the food more grateful. 

No one was ever sorry for having 
voluntarily eaten too little, while mil- 
lions every day repent having eaten 
too much. It has been said that the 
great lesson homoeopathy taught the 
world was this: That whereas physi- 
cians had been in the habit of giving 
the patient the largest dose he could 
stand, they have been led to see that 
their purpose was better subserved by 
giving him the smallest dose that 
would produce the desired effect. And 
so it is with food. Instead of eating, 
as most people unfortunately do, as 
much as they can, they should eat the 
smallest amount that will keep them 
in good health. — February Century. 



Merchants National Bank, Richmond, Virginia. 



JOHN P. BRANCH. President. 



JOHN KERR BRANCH, Vice-President. 
Comparative Statements for tH« Following; Yearsi 

AS^RTI 



JOHN P. OLENN, Cashier. 



Closk of Business on Dec. 31. 


1888. 


1893 


1898 


1903. 


Time an - ' Demand Loans . 


$ 667,661 76 

60,000 00 

2.250 00 

525,000 00 

90 000 00 

8,480 00 

301 787 38 


$ 788,099 01 

79,093 71 

9,000 00 

421,000 00 

20,000 00 
133.142 50 
341,023 17 


$1,029,973 19 

75,767 42 

5,625 00 

998 100 00 


$1,367,607 95 


United States Bonds for Circulation and deposit 

State and Citv Bonds for United States Deposits 

Premium on United States Bonds 

Miscellaneous, Stocks and Bonds 


72,103 93 
10,000 00 

761,000 00 
293,500 


45,000 00 

364.826 83 

1,140,676 23 


25 000 00 
566,622 43 


Cash and Due from Banks 


1,941.077 73 






Total 


$1,655,179 14 


$ 1,791,358 39 


$ 3,659,968 67 


$5,036,912 04 





LIABILITIES. 








Close of Bobimess on Dec 31, 


1888. 


1893. 


1898 


1903 


Capital Stock 


$ 200.000 00 

1 8 12-.' 76 

45 roo 00 

1,292,0:6 38 


$ 200 000 00 

215 991 53 

180 000 00 

1,195,366 8o 


$ 200,000 00 

3'6 931 91 

111,400 00 

2,971,536 76 

60,100 00 


$ 200,000 00 
660 120 19 


Circulation 


200.000 00 




3,685,191 85 


Bond Liabilitv Account 




291 600 00 








Total 


$1,655,179 14 


$ 1.791,3 8 39 


$3,659,968 67 


$ 5,036,912 04 



This bank does a general banking business and respectfully solicits the accounts of individuals, corporations and 
banks, promising every facility which th^ir balances, business and responsibility warrant. 

VVh mike a specialty of our collection department, and such business given us will have careful and prompt 
attention. 

We pay three per cent, interest on deposits in our savings department or on certificate of deposit, payable on de- 
mand and bearine interest from date of deposit. 

United States, State and City Depository. 



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153 



A. C. SINTON. President, 



R. R. GWATHMEY. Vice-President, 
Jl j$ # * jt 



J. J. SUTTON, Secretary, 



ESTABLISHED 1840. 




The WATT PLOW CO., 

15th & Franklin and 14th & Main Sts„ Richmond, Va. 

Agricultural Implements, 
Machinery, Vehicles and 
Harness. «£«$<£<£ 



INCORPORATED 1893. 



PEERLESS ENGINE. 




HOCKING VALLEY FEED CUTTER. 



DAIN CORN CUTTER. 




STAR SWEEP MILL. 






SECTIONS OF WIRE FENCE. 



A full stock always on hand, and 
prompt shipments guaranteed. South 
Bend, Dixie and Farmer's Friend 
Plows and repairs. The Hancock Ro- 
tary Disc Plow, warranted to go in 
the ground where all others fail. 

Hocking Valley Feed Cutters, Cy- 
clone Shredders, Smalley Feed Cutters, 
Dain Corn Cutters. Equal to any made. 
Staver Buckeye Feed Mill and Horse 
Power Combined. Star Sweep Mill. 
Either grinds corn on cob or shelled. 

Whitman All-Steel, full circle Hay 
Presses. George Ertel Company's full 
circle Hay Presses. Rapid Fire Horse 
Power Hay Press, for one horse, a good, 
cheap press. "Will put up from 150 to 
200 bales a day. The well known Min- 
nich Brand Baling Presses. 

Hocking Valley Wine and Cider 
Mills. Hard wood rollers. The best 
mill made. 

Hocking Valley Corn Shelters, for 
hand or power. Smalley Electric Pole 
and Wood Saws, for steam or horse 
power. Peerless Engine* and Saw 
Mills always in stock. Several good 
second-hand Engines and other second- 
hand machinery for sale. "Pittsburgh 
Perfect" fencing, electrically welded. 
See cuts showing weld. Barb Wire, 
Plain Galvanized Wire, Baling Wire 
and Bale Ties. Continental Disc Har- 
rows. Buffalo and Lean Spike Harrows. 

The celebrated Columbus, Ohio, Bug- 
gies, Carriages, Runabouts, and Traps. 

Farm Wagons and Delivery Wagons, 
a complete stock. 

Correspondence solicited. 




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SPIKE HARROW. 








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[February 



THREE SPECIAL COURSES OFFER- 
ED AT THE STATE UNIVERSITY, 
KNOXVILLE, TENN. 
Three special courses are being of- 
fered this winter to the farmers of 
Tennessee at the State University. 
The first of these covers work in ce- 
real judging and practical feeding and 
commences on January 18. The 
course is designed to give the farmers 
of the State an opportunity to learn 
something about the methods of se- 
lecting and improving corn and other 
leading cereals and how to feed the 
live stock of the farm to the best ad- 
vantage. 

The stock feeding work is carried on 
in the experimental barns. It includes 
practical work in feeding dairy and 
beef cattle, swine, etc. In the time 
devoted to the subject one can learn 
the best methods of combining food- 
stuffs and preparing rations for the 
different classes of live stock so as to 
secure the largest profit from their 
use. 

The work in stock judging and dai- 
rying commences on February 1. The 
course provides training in judging 
and handling the different classes of 
farm live stock. Work with the score 
card is an important feature. The 
student is brought in direct contact 
■with living animals and their good 
and bad points called to his attention. 
In dairying he is familiarized with 
the operations of butter and cheese 



making and the testing of milk. 

The course in farm poultry com- 
mences on February and lasts one 
week. It is under the direction of Mr. 
T. E. Orr, of Beaver, Pa., Superintend- 
ent of Poultry at the World's Fair and 
Secretary of the American Poultry As- 
sociation. Mr. Orr is a recognized au- 
thority on the subject and will give a 
series of lectures and demonstrations 
on judging and handling the different 
classes of fowls and on the breeding, 
feeding and management of the same. 

These three special course?, should be 
attended by hundreds of farmers as 
the information to be derived from a 
visit to the Agricultural College and 
Experiment Station in itself would 
more than pay one for the time and 
money expended, not to speak of the 
valuable instruction that can be ob- 
tained at the same time. 

Those intending to take any of these 
courses should communicate with 
Prof. Andrew M. Soule, Knoxville, 
Tenn., at the earliest possible date so 
that satisfactory arrangements can be 
made. 



Mamma: "Willie, shut that window 
screen. You're letting the flies in." 

Willie: "Well, you've got to let 
some of 'em in." 

Mamma: "Why?" 

Willie: "'Cause if you don't let 'em 
in, how are they goin' to get on the 
fly paper?" 



A rather simple-looking lad halted 
before a blacksmith's shop on his way 
from school, and eyed the doings of the 
proprietor with much interest. The 
brawny smith, dissatisfied with the 
boy's curiosity, held a piece of red-hot 
iron suddenly under the youngster's 
nose, hoping to make him beat a hasty 
retreat. "If you'll give me half a dol- 
lar, I'll lick it," said the lad. The 
smith took from his pocket half a dol- 
lar, and held it out. The simple-look- 
ing youngster took the coin, licked it, 
and slowly walked away, whistling. 

When "Long John" Wentworth, a 
famous Chicago character, was a can- 
didate for mayor of that city, there 
was a vigorous discussion over a two- 
headed calf on exhibition in Clark 
street. 

Somebody had asked the question 
whether the calf was two calves with 
one body or one calf with two heads. 
The city was all torn up about it. 
There were letters in the newspapers, 
and many acrimonious domestic and 
public discussions. At length it was 
decided to leave the matter to Mr. 
Wentworth. 

A committee waited on him and 
stated the case. 

Wentworth listened to the argu- 
ments carefully. Then made this de- 
cision: "Inasmuch as I am a candi- 
date for mayor, I decide that both 
sides are right." 



W. J. CARTER, ["BROAD ROCK."] 

TURF JOURNALIST. 



Address P. O. Box 929, - - - Richmond, Va, 

Pedigrees traced and tabulated, stud circulars prepared, 
special attention paid to registration of thoroughbred and 
trotting horses. 
Representing the ... . 

Times-Dispatch, Richmond, Va. 

Southern Planter, Richmond, Va. 

Sports of the Times. New York. 

Breeders and Sportsmen, San Francisco, Cal. 



FOR SALE: 



40 Head Fine^Mules, 

Large, sound and grand lookers. Having finished a contract 
these Mules will be sold at bargains. Do not write for prices 
but come and look them over. 

SIDNEY P. CLAY, 601'North 31st"Street, Richmond, Va. 

GREAT STAKES, 2552 J. 

Record, 2:20. 

Sire of Captain. 2.161; Foxhall, 2.19|, etc. Bay horse, 
by Billy ThornhilL 2.24, dam Sweetstakes, by Sweep Stakes, 
893. Fee, $25.00 the season. 

W. H. NELSON, 1428 East Franklin St., Richmond, Va. 



KELLY, 22283* Record, 2:27. 
Sire of McChesney, 2:\6%, Etc. 

Bay horse, by Electioneer 125, first dam Esther, dam of 
Expressive 3, 2:12£; Express, 2:21, etc.; by Express, sec- 
ond dam, Colisseum, by Colossus. 

Kelly represents the highest type of a trotter, having 
grand size and the form and. finish of a thoroughbred. 

FEE, $25 the season. 

W. J. CARTER, Richmond, Va. 

Kelly will serve at my private stables, 1102 Hull St, 
Manchester, Va. 

WEALTH, 29579. Record, 2:10. 

Bay horse, 16 hands high, by Gambetta Wilkes. 2:191; 
dam Magnolia, by Norfolk, 3670. 

Note — As a prolific sire of speed and race horse quality 
Gamberta Wilkes is unexcelled. 

FEE, $25.00 the season. 

W. H. CHAPMAN, Gordonsville, Va. 



BURLINGAME 26235. Record. 2-.u%. 

Brown horse, by Guy Will.es, 2:151, dam Sable, dam of 
Sable Wilkes, 2:18, etc., by The Moor, 870. 

N. B. — Very fast and a great show horse. 

FEE, $25.00. 

Lissak. bay horse, by Burlingame, dam Helice, dam of 
Clarion, 2:151, by Norval, 2:142. 

FEE, $15.00. Address, 

SPRING GARDEN FARM, 
Cool Well, Pi O., Amherst Co., Va., or 
ROBT. TAIT, Norfolk Va. 



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155 



START ■ THE ■ NEW - YEAR - RIGHT 

By Purchasing Your Supplies At 

J. S. MOORE'S SONS, 

whoie^ie and Retail G roce rs and Feed Dealers. 

18TH & MAIN STREETS, - RICHMOND, VA. 

We quote prices on a few articles in our enormous Holiday Stock. 

Look over the list and send us your orders. If you don't see 

what you want mentioned here, write for prices on it. 

j* j* j» 



Florida Oranges 

California Oranges 

Eine Apples 

Large Lemons 

Best French Candy 

Choice French Candy 12 

Good French Candy 8 and 

Plain Mixed Candy 

Chocolate Drops 

Fine Buttercup Candy, 5-lh. pails 

Sultana Eaisins 10 and 12 

Best New London Layer Eaisins 

New, Clean Currants 8 and 

Best Muscatel Eaisins 

New Seeded Eaisins 

New Figs 

New Figs, 1-lb. package 

New Dates, 6 lbs. for 

New Dates, 1-lb. packages. 

New Mixed Nuts 

Best Soft Shelled Almonds 

Best Shelled Almonds 

Best Pecans 12 

Best Filberts 12 

Best Palm Nuts 12 

Best English Walnuts 

Best Cocoanuts 

New Citron 



.25 doz. 
.12 doz. 
25 pk. 
.12 doz. 
.15 lb. 
1-2 lb. 
.10 lb. 
.08 lb. 
.15 lb. 
75 each 
1-2 lb. 
.10 lb. 
.10 lb. 
.09 lb. 
.10 lb. 
.08 lb. 
.10 lb. 
25 
06 

.12 lb. 
.15 lb. 
.30 lb. 
1-2 lb. 
1-2 lb. 
1-2 lb. 
.15 lb. 
.04 each 
.14 lb. 



New Orange Peel 12 1-2 lb. 

New Lemon Peel 12 1-2 lb. 

Choice Evaporated Peaches, 9c, or 3 lbs for .25 

Fresh Country Butter 22 lb. 

N. C. Corn Whiskey $2.00 gal. 

7-year-old Maryland Eye 4.00 gal. 

Old Crown Eye 3.00 gal. 

Old KeystoneEye 2.50 gal. 

Old Excelsior Eye 2.00 gal. 

Old Capitol Eye 1.50 gal. 

California Sherry Wine 1.00 gal. 

Imported Sherry Wine 3.00 gal. 

Catawba Wine 45 gal. 

Jamaica Bum 3.00 gal. 

New England Bum 2.50 gal. 

Virginia Apple Brandy, 4 years old 3.00 gal. 

Maryland Apple Brandy 2.50 gal. 

B. B. Brandy 45 gal. 

Port Wine 1.00 gal. 

Pure Apple Cider 25 gal. 

Geneva Gin 2.50 gal. 

Holland Gin 2.00 gal. 

Virginia Mountain Whiskey, 4 years old. . 3.00 gal. 

Duffy's Malt Whiskey 80 hot. 

Wilson Whiskey 1.00 bot. 

Fulcher Whiskey 1.00 bot. 

Buchu Gin . . . '. 1.00 bofe 

Paul Jones Whiskey 1.00 bot. 



These prices are for cash strictly before goods are delivered, 
must accompany all orders. 



Post-office orders or registered letters 



WE - WANT - TO - BE - YOUR - GROCER 

A trial order will convince you how easy and cheap it is to "go to market" by mail. 



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[February 



Latest Improved FARM IMPLEMENTS. 





HAND POWER CUTTER. 

These machines sell at sight. They have heavy fly 
wheels and make three ems to each turn of the crank. 
They will cut hay, straw or fodder, and will cut from 
Yz to 2 inches. They are shipped K. D., securing the 
lowest possible freight rates. 

LITTLE OIANT CORN SHELLER. 

The frame is made of thoroughly dry hard wood. The 
joints mortised tenoned and bolted. The bearings are 
bolted on the frame instead of screwed. The iron work 
is made from the very best material, every piece is care- 
fully inspected before being put on. This machine is 
high-grade all the way through. It is handsomely 
painted, striped and varnished. 



ROSS.,., 

Fodder Cutters, Fodder 
Shredders, Cutters for all 
purposes, Corn Shelters, 
Grinding Mills, Horse 
Powers and Wood Saws. 



'SCIENTIFIC FEED MILLS, All Sizes." 




The SCIENTIFIC Grinding Mills. 

Are unequalled for grinding ear corn, shucks on or oil, 
Corn, Oats, Wheat and all other n. r n'"< -■ « <- mixed, j 






POWER MILLS in five sizes 
2 to 30 horse-power 
Si Scientific Sweep mil* In five Blzej. 
fe' J Geared— plain and combined, with 
horse-power. 

Asplnwall Planters, Potato Sorter* 
and Cutters. 






" ANJKtyDS'* 



Bement Disc Cultivator, 
with 6 or 8 Disc. 

Built entirely of steel, steel forgings 
and malleable iron. The most simple 
and easiest adjusted cultivator on the 
market to-day. Write for circulars 
and testimonials. 



ELI BALING PRESSES. 

68 styles and es. For horse or steam power 
Write for prices and catalogues. 

Send for our Catalogues 

and Prices on any 

Implements you 

may need. 

WOOD HARROWS— All sizes. 
DISC HARROWS— All sizes. 

SPRING TOOTH HARROWS— All 

sizes. 

ACME HARROWS— All sizes. 

Harrows of all styles kept in stock 
at lowest net prices. 

One and Two-Horse Planter, Plain 
or with Fertilizer Attachment. 

Special prices given on Studebaker 
and Brown Wagons, Buggies and Carts. 

Studebaker Buggies, all styles, 
Studebaker Carriages, Studebaker 
Carts, Studebaker Runabouts. 

Frick and Aultmen and Taylor En- 
gines, Saw Mills and Threshers. 




Asplnwall Planters, Potato Sorter* 
and Cutters. 



[IENING & NUGKOLS 



Successors to 

CHAS. E. HUNTER, 



Aspinwall Potato Planter. 

Automatic, Accurate and Reliable. 
Used by thousands of practical grow- 
ers the world over. Over twenty 
years on the market. Don't be fooled 
by imitations and make-shifts, but 
write for attractive illustrated cata- 
logue. 

1436-38 E. in St., IlilD, VA. 



WHY USE DANGEROUS BARB WIRE 

WHEN AN 

ATTRACTIVE WOVEN 
WIRE FENCE 

CAN BE BOUGHT AT|EVEN 
LESS COST? 

THE AMERICAN FIELD FENCING Is made in many heights and styles for 
turning the smallest to^the largest animal. Write for special catalogue and prices. 





























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The Ohio Feed and Ensil- 
aqe Cutters. Built for Strength and 

Rapid Cutting. Furnished with either cutter 
or shredder head, or both, and with blower 
or elevator when desired. Special catalogue 
mailed free. 




IDEAL FEED MILLS AND POWER combined grinds all kinds of shell 
grain as well as corn and cob. THE POWER attachment is very valuable for 
RUNNING WOOD SAWS AND OTHER MACHINERY. 

IDEAL DUPLEX FEED MILLS for steam power are very strong and 
grind rapidly. 





Triple Geared Feed Mill and 
Power Combined. 



No. 19. l-horse ungeared feed mill 
grinds corn and cob and shell grain. 
Price, $16.00. 

No. 20. 2-horse ungeared feed mill 

The BIRDSELL with STEEL SKEINS . . *«*«■*.,.„ 

grinds corn and cob and shell grain. 
Is the highest grade wagons manufactured. See catalogue Price, $19.00. 

and get our prices. Special catalogues on application. 

BUGGIES. CARRIAGES, HARNESS ROBES. WAGONS. CORN SHELLERS, WOOD SAWS, THE FULLEST 
STOCK OF AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. 

THE IMPLEMENT CO., 1302 and 1304 E. Main St., Richmond, Va. 



IKs Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Comoanv. 

THE NEW POLICY 

Of the Northwestern is believed to be the most desirable contract offered by any company, covering almost every 
contingency that can arise in the future. Absolutely the only policy issued under which the insured is given the 
option of using the dividends annually in cash or to purchase additional insurance, or of leaving the surplus with 
the company for accumulation for either ten, fifteen or twenty years, no selection being required until the first 
annual dividend is due. In some companies the insured is limited to take annual dividend; in others he is offered 
only the deferred dividend plan. The Northwestern policy contains other unique and valuable features. 



•WRITE FOR A PROPOSITION AT YOUR AGE.— e 



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T.ARCHIBALD CARY, General Agent for Virginia and North Carolina, 

fWWMMHi *™1 East Main Street, RICHMOND, VA. 



STRONG. HEALTHY AND SLEEK HORSES 

Are the inevitable result of giving OWENS & MINOR'S DIXIE CON- 
DITION POWDERS. If you wiflh fat and smooth Cattle and healthy 
Milch Cows, give 



DIXiE CONDIT!38l POWDERS. 



For RHEUMATISM, SPRAINS, STRAINS and all PAINS use 
DIXIE NERVE ANT3 BONE LINIMENT- Best on earth for Man or 

Beast. Large Bottle 25 cte. ; everywhere. 

— — — , ■ OWENS & MINOR DRUG CO., Richmond, Vo. 



The Trap Has Been Set, But 1he Farmers " Are on to /'•' 

THE WALTER A. WOOD MACHINES, 



THEY ARE= 
GOING TO 



BUY 




Why? 



Because 



It is the Best Machine made. 
It belongs to no combination. 
Its Repairs Cost Less. 
It Trusts Only in its Super- 
iority. 



The Wood Binders, Reapers, 
Steel Hay Rakes, Tedders, 
Corn Harvesters, Knife 
Grinders —the world knows 
and the world endorses. 



Send for Special Catalogue. 



WALTER A. WOOD MOWING and REAPING MACHINE CO., Richmond, Va. 



The STATE BANK OF VIRGINIA 



JOHN S. KLLETT, President. WM. M. HTIX, Cashier. 

CAPITAL, $500,000. SURPLUS- $240,000- 
RICHMOND. - " " VIRGINIA