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The Southern Plaiiter. 



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PRACTICAL AND PROGRESSIVE AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, 
TRUCKING, LIVE 5T0CK AND THE FIRESIDE. 



Agriculture Is the nursing mother of the Arts.— -XENOPHON. 
Tillage and pasturage are the two breasts of the State. --SULLY. 



65th Year. 



Richmond, March, 1904. 



No. 3. 



Farm Management. 



WORK FOfl THE MONTH. 

The whole of the Southland is this winter passing- 
through abnormal weather conditions and especially 
is this so in this and the immediately adjoining States 
north and south of us. Since the middle of November 
(now more than three months ago) the ground has 
been almost continually hard frozen and it has been 
impossible to run a plow for a day and the end is not 
yet. At the time of this writing (20th February) 
the frost is still intense and within the week just past 
the thermometer has made the lowest record of the 
month, and of the winter in Middle Virginia. Here 
in the city of Richmond it has marked 8 degrees (24 
degrees of frost) and in the country within a few 
miles of the city, has been down nearly, to zero. The 
winter in State has been the coldest but one since rec- 
ords were systematically kept. It is also exceptional 
in that it has been the longest continued cold of which 
we have any record. Indeed this abnormal coldness 
has continued ever since last June, January being the 
eighth month in succession in which the mean average 
temperature has been below the normal for the State. 
In another respect also the weather has been abnor- 
mal. There has been a deficiency in the rainfall for 
the past three months in this section, and for more 
than that period in other sections. Very similar 
conditions have prevailed through all the Southern 
States except those bordering on the Gulf, where 
somewhat more normal weather has been experi- 
enced. In our last issue we ventured to hope that we 
were then nearly at the end of the period of abnormal 



we.ather and that some progress might be made in 
preparing the land for crops during the month of 
February. In this we have been disappointed and 
the work we suggested to be done in February still 
remains unexecuted. We refer our readers to the 
February issue for those suggestions and urge that 
at the very earliest break in the weather they may 
receive attention. With the use of all the diligence 
capable of being exercised, and assuming the weather 
to be fairly normal, there is going to be much diffi- 
culty in getting an average acreage of crops planted 
this year in seasonable time and in well prepared 
land. The early advent of winter cut off at least a 
month of the usual fall plowing season and much 
land usually now only waiting for the drying out of 
the winter rains to be cultivated and prepared for 
seeding is yet to plow. This, added to that usually 
plowed in the spring, is going to make very heavy 
work for the teams and hands, and we are afraid 
must necessarily result in many crops seeded in bad- 
ly prepared land or a reduced area put into crops. 
Notwithstanding this aspect of existing conditions 
we would still urge the point we have so often made 
at this season of the year, that greater attention be 
paid to the preparation of the land before seeding 
even though the result be a reduction of the area put 
into crop. If as a consequence of this abnormal sea- 
son the result should be the doing of more intensive 
work the experience will not have been without its 
advantages. As Professor Roberts in his work on 
the "Fertility of the land" well savs, "Since the soil 



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and the subsoil contain such stores of potential fer- 
tility as analysis has abundantly demonstrated, and 
since tap-rooted leguminous plants bring to the sur- 
face abundant quantities of nitrogen with some min- 
eral matter, and since^pany fields receive applica- 
tion of farm manure from time to time, some far- 
reaching cause or causes must be present ever tending 
to seriously restrict production. It will be found 
that in this country the principal causes of low 
yields of farm crops are imperfect preparation of the 
land, poor Ullage, and hence a lack of available plant 
food and insufficient moisture during some portion 
of the plants life." That this is so has been abun- 
dantly demonstrated by numerous experiments 
made in almost every State, and is further illus- 
trated by results obtained in other countries. The 
yield of the wheat crop in the different countries of 
the world is a striking illustration of this fact. In 
England, where the most intensive system of farm- 
ing is practised, and where the land receives more 
preparation for a single crop than is here usually 
bestowed on three or four crops, the average yield of 
wheat per acre in 1903 was 31.76 bushels, nearly 32 
bushels per acre. In Holland, where careful and 
good preparation is made, the yield was 28.57 (28£) 
bushels per acre; in Belgium the yield was 27.70 
(27f) bushels per acre; in New Zealand 26.93 
(nearly 27) bushels per acre; in Germany 25.44 
(25^) bushels per acre; in Sweden 25.29 (254J 
bushels per acre; in France 18.80 (nearly 19) bush- 
els per acre; in Canada 16.92 (nearly 17) bushels 
per acre; in the United States 12.76 (12f) bushels 
per acre; in Spain 10.80 (nearly 11) bushels per 
acre; in India 9.95 (nearly 10) bushels per acre; in 
Russia 8.80 (nearly 9) bushels per acre; in Aus- 
tralia 6.38 (nearly 6^) bushels per acre. These 
varying yields are almost certain evidence of the de- 
gree of preparation bestowed upon the land before 
the seeding of the crop. We make this assertion with 
personal knowledge as to the method of preparing the 
land in a number of the countries named and from 
information received from the others. What is true 
of the wheat crop is true of all other crops. The 
mechanical and physical condition of the soil in 
which the seed is planted has more bearing upon the 
yield than any fertilizer that may be applied, yet 
we are daily in receipt of letters from farmers all 
over the country asking us to tell them what fertil- 
izer to use and what quantity to apply in order to ob- 
tain certain named yields of crops. Upon most of 
the lands of the parties asking these questions, and 
indeed upon most of the land of the South, it would 



not be possible to secure maximum yields of crops 
of any kind even though fertilizer of the highest 
grade was poured out in tons instead of pounds to the 
acre. What all the land of this country most needs 
is deep plowing anj^ perfect cultivation so that all 
the soil is broken into fine particles to the depth of 
at least 12 to 18 inches, and that this soil so broken 
shall be filled with decayed vegetable matter (hu- 
mus). When put into this condition the soil will 
hold moisture and mainly upon the moisture content 
of the soil depends its ability to dissolve and make 
available the plant food naturally contained in it, 
and that which may be supplied in the form of ma- 
nure or fertilizer and upon this ability depends the 
crop yield, as all plant food is taken up by plants in 
liquid form alone. Without an abundant supply of 
labor and teams it is impossible to do this full jus- 
tice to the soil over a large area of land, but a small- 
er area may be so handled, and if so handled, may be 
made to yield as much as the larger area would do 
imperfectly prepared, and the subsequent cultivation 
and harvesting of the increased crop cost but little 
if any more than a small yield on the same area. 
With such a backward season as the present one 
and with the scarcity of labor, common all over the 
South, it is essential if profit is to be made, that in- 
tensive and not extensive farming should be done. 
The first step in this system is deep and thorough 
preparation of the soil. Let this have attention as 
soon as the weather will permit. It is too late to 
turn more than a very little of the subsoil on to the 
surface now, but it is not too late to break this sub- 
soil with the subsoil plow or a single tooth cultivator 
so that it may become a reservoir to hold moisture 
for the use of the crop during the hot season. 



For the benefit of the hundreds of new subscribers 
who have come on to our list since the February issue 
was mailed we repeat the suggestion as to crops 
which should be planted at once as the weather has 
prevented this being done in February. The first to 
receive attention should be the oat crop. It is now 
too late to sow Virginia Grey Winter Oats. We 
would now seed Rust proof Oats for the main crop. 
Sow not less than two bushels to the acre, better 
three. A new oat, of which we hear very good re- 
ports, is the Burt Oat. It is claimed for it that it 
will mature in 90 days and thus if planted now will 
escape damage from the hot weather of the early 
summer. It is claimed also to be largely rust proof. 
We would advise a trial of this variety. Except in 
the Piedmont and Western mountain sections of the 



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•Southern States we would not now advise the seeding 
of the Canada pea crop. In those sections it should 
prove valuable as an early forage or hay crop seeded 
any time during this month, Sow one and a hail to 
two bushels to the acre with a bushel of oats. Sow 
the peas broadcast and work in with the cultivator 
so as to give them four or five inches of cover or 
drill them in and then sow the oats broadcast and 
cover with the harrow. A good loamy soil is the best 
for this crop. 



Grass and clover seed should be sown this month 
if it is decided to try to increase the area fall seeded, 
which is the best and proper time for seeding all 
grasses and clover in the South. Probably as a con- 
sequence of the severe winter it will be found that 
much of the fall seeded grass and clover has been 
largely killed. Where this is the case it is not worth 
while to try to mend the stand by patching but bet- 
ter results will be attained by reseeding the whole 
field. Mr. Clarke, the most successful hay grower 
in this country, says that he has never found it profit- 
able to endeavour to improve a stand of grass by par- 
tially reseeding. Whilst we cannot say this, as we 
have on many occasions succeeded in materially im- 
proving a stand by a partial reseeding in the spring, 
yet as a general proposition we think Mr. Clarke is 
probably right, certainly so where the stand left is 
only a very poor one. If the fall seeding is only 
killed in spots we would endeavour to improve the 
look of the field by reseeding these spots, first break- 
ing the land shallow with a disc or sharp toothed har- 
,row then seeding and cover with the harrow and roll 
if dry enough. Sow all grass and clover seeds alone 
and not with a grain crop, and use plenty of seed, 
say not less than two or three bushels with ?ix or 
eight pounds of clover seed to the acre. For a 
meadow on dry sound land sow a mixture of orchard 
grass, tall meadow oat and red top with the clover. 
For low wet land sow red top or red top and Italian 
rye with clover. For a pasture sow a mixture of or- 
chard grass, perennial rye, tall meadow oat, red top, 
meadow fescue and Virginia blue grass with a mix 
ture of red, alsike and white clover. 



this crop as a hog pasture. He says his hogs thrived 
and kept in good condition upon it. It will only do 
well during the cool weather. When the hot summer 
sets in plow the residue of the crop down and sow 
cow peas. 



Dwarf Essex Rape may be seeded this month as 
early as possible for a grazing crop for hogs, sheep 
and young cattle. Sow four or five pounds of seed 
broadcast and harrow in, or three pounds in drills 
two feet six inches apart. If sown in drill cultivate 
two or three times. We have a report from a sub- 
scriber just to hand speaking in the highest terms of 



Plant a field in artichokes for fall and winter 
feed for the hogs. Prepare the land as for a corn 
crop and set out the rows three feet apart and drop 
the sets two feet apart in the rows. Five or six bush- 
els of sets will plant an acre. Cultivate the crop two 
or three times during growth. The hogs will harvest 
the tubers for themselves in the fall and winter, or 
they may be plowed out and stored like Irish pota- 
toes and may be fed with advantage to either hogs or 
cattle. A yield of from 400 to 600 bushels to the 
acre is frequently grown on good land, and twice 
this quantity has been grown. 



In this issue will be found an excellent article 
or forage crops for hogs by Prof. J. S. Newman, of 
the South Carolina Agricultural College. We invite 
attention to this. Prof. Newman has had long prac- 
tical experience in this work and speaks with the 
authority of one with both a practical and scientific 
training. 



In laying out the land for the crops do not fail 
to make provision for growing an ample supply of 
forage crops for green feeding and for winter feed. 
The experience of this winter ought to be a warning 
to all farmers to make ample provision for feed for 
the stock during the winter months. Simply to rely 
upon the fodder from the corn crop is not sufficient. 
To make a farm pay it should be well stocked with 
cattle and these cannot do what they ought and can 
do towards improving the farm and making money 
unless they have always plenty to eat. Let them al- 
ways have feed to convert into manure and the fer- 
tilizer bills can be brought into very small compass 
and much more permanent improvement of the land 
-can be effected than through the use of commercial 
fertilizers. Whilst the effect of the use of commer- 
cial fertilizer is usually exhausted in one year or two 
at most the effect of an application of farm yard ma- 
nure can be counted on for many years. 



Tobacco plant beds should be burnt and seeded 
at the first opportunity or the plants will not be 
ready when they ought to be. Good tobacco is im- 
proving in value on the markets. Sun-cured has sold 
at $24.50 per hundred. We anticipate a reduction 



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in area of the tobacco crop in North and South Car- 
olina on account of the high price of cotton. This 
should give our Virginia growers a chance to make 
a bigger and more profitable crop. Much is being 
said as to the importance of co-operative action in 
raising and selling this crop and endeavours are 
being made to secure this. Whilst not deprecating 
such action we do not place the same high value on 
it as many do. We are of the opinion of Col. J. S. 
Cunningham, the largest tobacco grower in the world, 
that the way to secure profit from the tobacco crop is 
to diversify the crops on the farm and especially to 
make first all necessary home supplies. The tobacco 
crop can then be made a surplus product and be held 
until the market calls for it at a price sufficient to 
pay the growers. Instead of forcing it on the market 
to meet the cost of living let the manufacturer have 
to seek it and then the grower can fix the price. 



Land for the cotton crop should be got ready for 
planting as soon as fit to work but do not attempt to 
fit it whilst wet. The importance of early plauting 
is now being emphasized in connection with the dam- 
age done by the Boll weevil. Practically this is the 
only remedy which is so far suggested for the weevil 
with any hope of success. Whilst it is true that we 
are not yet troubled with this weevil in the Coast 
States yet there is no telling how soon we may be, 
as it has annually made great strides northward, and 
it will be well to be provided against its coming as 
far as possible. Fertilizers for the cotton crop can 
with advantage, be applied several weeks before the 
actual planting of the crop, and be incorporated with 
the soil whilst fitting it for planting. The maxi- 
mum quantity of fertilizer that can be generally 
used with advantage on average cotton land has been 
concluded to be such an amount as will furnish 50 
pounds of phosphoric acid, 15 pounds of potash and 
20 pounds of nitrogen to the acre. A fertilizer made 
up of 1,200 pounds of acid phosphate, 600 pounds of 
cotton seed meal and 200 pounds of Kainit will sup- 
ply this need, applied at the rate of 800 pounds to 
the acre. 



FORAGE CROPS FOR HOGS, 

Editor Southern Planter: 

I have read the Planter for many years and con- 
sider it the best edited paper which comes to my 
office. Your practice of pointing out unorthodox 
matter in contributions is highly commendable and 
add* much to the value of your journal, while it pro- 



tects the inexperienced from misleading statements. 

It is too often the case that the mere tyro in knowl- 
edge, practice and experience is the most frequent 
voluntary contributor to the agricultural press. 

This by the way. My object in writing is to com- 
mend the letter of Mr. Chas. L. Dewey, of Wilkin- 
son county, Miss., and to suggest some additional 
hog crops and an economical and convenient movable 
fence. 

For twenty years I have taught in my class-room 
and practiced in the field the use of "hog crops" 
peculiarly adopted to the South. One of my grad- 
uates, Mr. R. L. Bennett, former director of the Ar- 
kansas Experiment Station, profiting by my instruc- 
tion, has made quite a reputation by demonstrating 
by experiment at the Newport branch station, Ark., 
that pork could be raised more cheaply than at the 
North by a judicious use of these specially adapted 
hog crops. I have demonstrated the same thing in 
Alabama and South Carolina. There is no other part 
of the world in which pork can be grown as cheaply 
as in the middle belt of the cotton States if proper 
use is made of the crops especially adapted to being 
harvested by the hogs. 

The following crops are available for a supply 
throughout the year. There should be a Bermuda 
pasture, adjacent to the area to be occupied by the 
other crops, to be used when the ground is too wet 
to be rboted by the hogs. Bermuda will keep hogs in 
a healthy growing condition all summer without 
grain, but both common vetch (vicia sativa) and 
hairy vetch (vicia villosa) should be broadcasted 
over the Bermuda sod in summer to afford late win- 
ter and early spring pasturage. These will reseed 
themselves from year to year. 

In addition to these, the following crops are avail- 
able, viz. : Dwarf Essex rape and crimson clover 
sown in September. Rye sown with common vetch 
in September for winter and spring pasturage and 
then allowed to make seed for late spring use. Win- 
ter grazing oats and hairy vetch sown in September 
to be pastured till 1st March and then allowed to 
make seed or be cut for hay. Red clover and orchard 
grass sown in September for spring pasturage and for 
fall and spring pasturage afterwards. Wheat sown 
last September to be pastured till middle of February 
and then allowed to make seed to be harvested by the 
hogs. Early amber sorghum planted in drills in 
March for early harvest for hogs. Orange or Lynk's 
hybrid planted at the same time for later harvest. 

Spanish peanuts, chufas and Jerusalem artichokes 
planted in March, the peanuts to be fed off in early 



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fall, the artichokes in December, and the chufas 
later. Qn land which is capable of producing 1 5 to 
20 bushels of corn, peanuts «will produce 75 bushels. 
artichokes 500 bushels and chufas 200 bushels. Two 
plantings of sweet potatoes, one early and the other 
from vine cuttings, preference being given to varie- 
ties which produce small roots (hogs will root out 
large tubers and leave them to waste). Two plant- 
ings of cow peas, one of some early variety such as 
New era, Black or Speckled and another of a later 
ripening variety. Soja beans planted in early spring, 
the beans to be allowed to ripen and fall on the 
ground and become swollen and softened and picked 
up by the hogs. Lastly a patch of prolific corn on 
which the fattening hogs are to be turned to harden 
off the meat for the knife. 

HOW TO UTILISE THESE CROPS ? 

The, cable wire fence solves the problem of a mov- 
able fenee by means of which the crops may be gath- 
ered, as desired, as follows: 

Trim Out of some tough timber a post hole punch, 
have the point shod with iron, band the top with iron 
and pass a rod through near the top for convenience 
in handling. With this the holes for the posts are 
easily made. Instead of fastening the wire to the 
posts, spike on a piece of inch plank and fasten the 
wire to this. When necessary to move the fence the 
plank is pried from the post and rolled up with the 
wire to be moved to the next plot to be pastured. The 
posts being again set at the original distance apart 
the planks are again nailed to them and the work is 
finished'. 

By means of this readily movable fence any part 
of the field may be partitioned off and the inclosed 
crop completely harvested without waste. If this 
plan was generally adopted by the farmers of the 
South they could not only grow all pork needed on 
the. farm but have a large surplus for sale. The 
matter is too plain to need argument. 

J. S. Newman. 

Clemsdn College, 8. O. 



SHREDDING AS THE BEST MEANS OF PREPAR- 
ING CORN AND FODDER FOR FEED -IMPORT- 
ANCE OF LIVE STOCK, 

Editor Sovtliern Planter: 

The annual report of the State Board (if Agi icul- 
ture of Virginia and of Commissioner Koiner has 
much of value to the Virginia agriculturist and per- 
haps the very best of the whole series of papers is 
that on the use and value of our wild birds for the de- 



struction of noxious seeds and insects prepared by 
the Audubon Society. All of the testimony collected 
for this report, sems to concur in urging the neces- 
sity of live stock as the most important factor in suc- 
cessful farming in Virginia. Mr. Beverley's (the 
President of the Board) experience in cattle raising 
in Tidewater Virginia is encouraging and sets forth 
very well the results of his operations in his particu- 
lar branch of the beef producing industry. But very 
many of our farmers here in the county of Essex 
have determined that the veal market is a more profit- 
able source of revenue than that for more matured 
cattle. They argue that a herd of cows kept solely 
for producing calves to be sold at six or eight weeks 
of age, or even two or three months, will be more 
remunerative to the farmer than if their offspring 
are all kept until they are three years old, and when 
the calves will bring $12 to $15 each at the above 
mentioned age, this view may be correct. The 
real point of importance, however, in the profitable 
production of live stock is the supply of the best and 
most economical food. 

I have lately been experimenting with the shred- 
ding machine and am encouraged to hope much from 
it? agency in the preparation of good food for stock. 
But while it will improve even injured or slightly 
mouldy hay by tearing it up and knocking off the 
dust and mould, it can, of course, not be expected to 
make good feed of bad material. Therefore the first 
object should be to harvest and cure the material to 
bo shredded in the best possible manner. Then when 
this has been done by having corn stover, pea hay and 
bright oat straw fed in alternate supply to the shred- 
der the feed will be nicely mixed and contain a 
variety of different constituents. There are, how- 
ever, several considerations necessary in the use of 
this shredded food. First, there must be a suitable 
place for its storage on farms which have not suffi- 
cient barn room. One plan is to make rail or pole 
pens in the fields leaving an opening near the top 
for the shredder's carrier and to have these pen? 
thatched with straw or fodder to prevent the access 
of water. Another consideration is the method of 
feeding the stock. In stables and stalls where mang- 
ers and close racks can be built there is no difficulty, 
but in the open fields some arrangement of boxes or 
racks would be necessary both to prevent its being 
trampled by the cattle or blown away by the wind. 
Also, it would have to be carried from the storage 
place to the fields in bags, while, when used in a barn, 
hampers or boxes would only be necessary and much 
more convenient than the bags. A little ingenuity 



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[March, 



would soon surmount these difficulties, but there still 
remains the need for a fair tariff of charge for the 
use of the shredder and engine, as few farmers could 
afford to own the whole outfit themselves. 

In the West, I believe, the rate of charge is some- 
times made by the acre. In other places by the day 
of so many hours for the use of the machinery. The 
machine I used was the Keystone and it proved very 
satisfactory, but if the outfit is to be hired by the 
farmer I would much prefer the large sized shred- 
der as it not only works faster but has more power 
to shred large corn stalks and coarse pea vines. There 
are several sizes and while the smaller ones require 
less power to drive them, they are not so well-adapted 
to the rough use of shredding coarse material. There 
seems to be little doubt that the shredder is greatly 
superior for food manufacture, to the cutting ma- 
chines which simply cut the material into lengths in- 
stead of tearing and splitting it into a fibrous mass 
a? the shredder does. 

There seems to be a growing disposition on the 
part of our farmers to abandon the production of 
corn and wheat for tobacco or what they call truck 
farming, strangely enough on the ground that the lat- 
ter pavs them better because labor is so scarce and 
unsatisfactory. Now the tobacco grower and trucker 
both require much more and better skilled labor than 
the corn and wheat grower, and while it is indisputa- 
ble that an acre of several other kinds of crops may 
yield more revenue than one planted in corn or wheat 
are the latter not prime necessities and if their culti- 
vation is abandoned how are thev to be supplied ? 
Tf the farmer has labor and capital enough to pro- 
duce both the "trucks" and the cereals this mav be 
well, but the ground upon which the "trucks" are ad- 
vocated is the scarcitv of labor and capital, and there- 
fore that it is apod policy to make most revenue from 
the arreaffe in cultivation even when he-;will have to 
tipp f ne rnonev or a gTeat part 'of it to buy food for 
his honoehold and stock, at the most exorbitant rates 
even if he can eet it at all. The annual report before 
us most wisely advocates the production of more corn 
instead of less. Intensify methods and make as 
much corn on an acre as posible consistent with pro- 
per economv fas we have heard of some verv large 
yiehls in competitive trials costing" more in fertilizer 
and labor than they were worth), but every Virginia 
farmer should rank the production of corn as the 
prime factor in agricultural success. 

Essex Co., Va. P. S. Hunter. 

Sending us the foregoing our correspondent com- 
ments on the fact that in making up the report, which 



almost entirely consists of clippings from agricultu- 
ral journals and experiment station reports the Com- 
missioner has almost invariably resorted to Northern 
and Western agricultural journals and reports for 
his information. He doubts very much whether such 
sources of information are the best and most reliable 
for Southern farmers as conditions of climate and 
crop production are here so different from those ex- 
isting North and West. We concur in this view. 
Surely there is some work done by Southern Ex; 
periment Stations and by Southern agricultural jour- 
nals which is worthy of being cited as deserving the 
attention of Southern farmers. It is poor encour- 
agement for Southern Experiment Stations and 
Southern agricultural journals to see their work so 
treated and their efforts to help Southern farmers so 
slighted. It is, however, a consolatory reflection to 
ourselves that the farmers themselves do not so regard 
our own labors as is evidenced by the fact that we 
now send out more copies of The Southern Plant- 
er every month than the Commissioner of Agricul- 
ture of this State sends out every year of his report. 
—Ed. 



FARMING AS A BUSINESS, 

Editor Southern Planter: 

Let it be understood, first, that land in itself is 
worth nothing. It is valuable only when productive. 
Anyone laboring under the delusion that land in 
the Old Dominion is cheap because we don't under- 
stand the farming business will part with some of his 
coin to learn better. If you think that you are buy- 
ing a farm by paying two, three, five or even twenty 
dollars an acre for a piece of land with buildings oh 
it, you may find yourself sadly mistaken. The build- 
ings may be worth all you paid for the farm and 
surely you will enjoy living in this wonderful - esti- 
mate but as to the business end you have probably 
bought only a place for a farm. It is overlooking 
this fact that has proven the. fatal stumbling block in 
the path of many beginners. Buying a few hundred 
pounds of fertilizer will not bring back the fertility 
that cropping for generations and the elements have 
taken from the soil. 

One should no more think of farming soil, empty 
of plant food, than he would think of starting a store 
with an empty building. Convenient location to 
railroads or markets doubles the value of farm land 
as it would the value of a store site. Hauling is 
among the heaviest items on a farm. Clearing tim- 
ber and brush land usually costs as much as clear 
land can be bought for. 



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Start farming as you would any other business. 
Provide the raw material for the soil. Spreading 
commercial fertilizer with lauish hands is not al- 
ways successful as it is apt to wash away. The safest 
and surest road is the one that the Southern Plant- 
er has pointed out for these many years: growing 
leguminous crops, such as cow peas, clover and 
alfalfa, but to depend upon these agencies alone would 
take too long. You would be wasting years without 
remuneration from your farm. Buy no more land 
than you can afford to stock with plant food and do 
not buy stock until the farm produces the wherewith 
to feed it, else the cattle, hogs, horses and sheep will 
eat the bottom out of your purse. As a business 
proposition no man can afford to waste his time im- 
proving only a few acres. If you haven't the means 
to handle fifty to a hundred acres, try trucking. A 
smaller farm will not be a paying propositon. 

Next to feeding the soil or perhaps even more im- 
portant is proper cultivation. If you have settled 
on your place disk as many acres as you know you 
will be able to handle. Disk in half-lap. Then plow 
deeply. If you can, let the subsoiler follow the turn- 
ing plow. Always harrow immediately after plow- 
ing, unless too wet, to prevent the land from drying 
out. Then disk again until it is warm enough to 
plant. Unless you are located in the limestone re- 
gion, spread 20 to 50 bushels of lime to the acre. 
Lime costs from $2 per ton to six and seven cents 
per bushel. Spread also 500 to 1,000 pounds of 
ground rock phosphate. It costs $7 to $8 per ton. 
Also not less than 200 pounds of potassium chloride 
(muriate of potash — En.) It costs about $41 per ton. 
Harrow to a fine tilth and soav or drill thickly to cow 
peas. 

Begin plowing the peas under in July (we would 
suggest August, as the peas will be then more nearly 
matured. Turning a crop of peas under when full 
of sap and growth is apt to sour land in this warm 
climate — Er>.) and disk the land every week in half- 
lap until time for fall sowing. If you have Used 
only 20 bushels of lime in the spring, sow now 20 
bushels more. Also sow again 500 pounds rock phos- 
phate and some potassium chloride (muriate of pot- 
ash). The land is now ready for alfalfa or German 
clover. Devote as much as you can to alfalfa. See 
February issue of the Southern Planter for in- 
structions how to grow it, 

On the land not needed for alfalfa sow German 
clover. The land or the seed should be infected with 
bacteria if German clover has never been grown on 
the field (bacteria can be had from Washington). 



Next spring plow under the clover, spread 10 to 15 
bushels of lime, 500 pounds of rock phosphate and 
some potassium. Sow again to cow peas or soja 
beans. This crop is also to be plowed under. 

Your land will now be in fine order for oats if you 
wish to sow a few acres. But the land intended for 
corn the following spring should again be sowed to 
German clover to prevent leaching during winter. 
As land is rated here by the number of barrels of 
corn it will produce, it should now yield 10 barrels 
or fifty bushels if properly cultivated. The time has 
come then to get some good graded stock and to ex- 
tend the work of improving to the rest of the farm. 

Don't imagine, however, that you can now ?i fiord 
to let your stock of fertility run down. Of course, 
your alfalfa field will get richer every year and you 
will have more stable manure but even then it is ad- 
visable to keep on growing peas and clover. Land in 
the South should never be bare of vegetation. When 
a crop is removed, sow peas or clover immediately 
according to season, peas for summer, German clover 
for winter. Always use lime, phosphorous and po- 
tassium for these crops. 

You have plowed under four crops at a cost of $5 
for seed, with 70 bushels of lime, costing $4 (in car 
load lots), 2,500 pounds rock phosphate, at $10 and 
800 pounds potassium chloride at $16. Your work 
of plowing, seeding, disking, etc., should be worth 
$16 per acre. If the land is near market or station 
your improvements are more valuable than on land 
less conveniently located. Life will be easier now 
since the alfalfa field has reduced the acreage under 
plow. The decaying crops have supplied the soil 
with humus and the land will produce now as well as 
land sold for $100 or more in Illinois and your pro- 
ducts will bring from 50 to 100 per cent, more than 
they would in most Western sections. N. 

Hanover Co., Va. 

We would advise the seeding of hairy vetch as well 
a;> German clover for a winter cover crop. The clover 
is somewhat uncertain to stand every year whilst :tlie 
vetch can be relied on. — Ed. 



WHAT ALFALFA IS GOOD FOR, 

It is excellent for soiling, that is to feed fresh-cut 
to cows, especially when the pastures are sun-burnt 
and the flies troublesome. It is fine for horses, after 
letting it sweat a few hours. It fattens hogs green 
or as hay. Chickens eat the hay as well as green 
alfalfa. It makes the very richest and best hay and 



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is as nutritious as bran and is good for all kinds of 
stock. Sheep and cattle will fatten on it. It conies 
early in the spring, can be cut three or four times and 
stays green late in the fall. It will live 100 years 
and will make poor farms and poor farmers rich. 



HAY SUBTITUTES FOR STOCK FEEDING, 

Editor tSouthem Planter: 

In giving consideration to articles of food for cat- 
tle during the winter season, we are apt to expend 
more thought on the various grains and concentrated 
feeds, than on the more bulky materials, commonly 
mentioned as roughage. This is but natural, as the 
former are much more expensive, but particularly 
because most farmers expect to raise enough of the 
coarse articles and supplement with grains and mill 
feeds as may be necessary. 

Occasionally, however, the question of economy in 
use of hay, corn stover, etc., forces itself upon us, and 
when this occurs, the best solution of the problem be- 
comes of vital importance. 

During the season of 1902, this vicinity was visited 
with a drought of unusual severity, almost no rain 
falling from April 1st to middle of September. About 
two-thirds the usual amount of corn was grown per 
acre, half of a wheat crop, while of hay we had per- 
haps, a tenth the usual amount 

When such drought prevails, stock of all kinds 
fail to increase in size or flesh or to give the flow of 
milk, that would be the case in ordinary seasons, but 
worse still, they go into winter quarters in bad con- 
dition and with scanty feed of all kinds, to carry them 
through. One may sell a portion of his stock, if he is 
so fortunate as to find a market, but as prices that 
must prevail will be very low, and as the same cat- 
tle would probably be needed the following season, 
the tendency is, to keep as many animals as can be 
kept alive, trusting to an open winter and good for- 
tune rather than good feed to carry them through. 

As we had but little hay. but more wheat straw and 
a very good amount of corn stover, and particularly 
as cotton seed "hull? were being shipped into our im- 
mediate neighborhood, it seemed a good time to study 
the values of these articles as "hay substitutes.'" \Te 
also had a good amount of silage, and this and the 
roughage mentioned above was given to the cows pro- 
ducing milk, while to a lot of fourteen spayed heif- 
ers, the hay, straw, corn stover and cotton seed hulls 
were given, as shown in a following table. 

HAY SUBSTITUTES FOR DAIRY COWS. 

Eor this work Ave selected fourteen cows of good 
constitution and size, (most of them being Holstein 
grades) and with as nearly like conditions, concern- 



ing time of dropping last calf and date of becoming 
fresh again, as circumstances would allow. 

To these cattle we gave each a certain amount of 
silage, viz. : 34 pounds per day. They also had 12 
pounds of grain from a mixture as follows : 

1 parts of corn and cob meal. 
4 parts bran. 

4 parts cotton seed meal. 

5 parts dark feeding flour. (Commonly called 
daisy middlings or red dog chop.) 

2 parts linseed meal (old process). 

The above cost almost exactly one cent per pound. 

As will be noted, three of the cows were very poor 
milkers, Xos. 2, 9 and 13, but there was no reason 
to think they would fall off in flow more rapidly in 
proportion to amount given, than the others, and 
they suited better for the work than balance that were 
available. These were the most common stock of the 
lot and have since been slaughtered for beef. 

The trial was continued for eleven weeks, and it 
would be natural and it was expected that in that 
time, all animals would fall off somewhat in flow of 
milk, and the amount of such reduction would be an 
indication of relative value of food consumed. Be- 
side the silage and grain given, each cow was allowed 
all the roughage she would consume and of kinds as 
indicated in tables. 

Nbs. 1 and 2, dry straw, mixed with the silage be- 
fore feeding. 

ISTos. 3 and 4, dry corn stover. 

Nos. 5 and 6, wet corn stover. 

Nbs. 7 and 8, dry straw (not mixed as with Nos. 
1 and 2.) 

ISTos. 9 and 10, wet straw. 

ISTos. 11 and 12, dry hulls. 

ISTos. 13 and 14, wet hulls. 



TABLE I. 



- a » . 

-Q aT, 



SqoS 



138 8 
97.8 
247.4 
185.4 
175 3 
185.7 
215.3 
201. 
82 9 
135.7 
169.8 
222.3 
13| 103.3 
14l 158 3 



144.5 

69.6 

216.1 

195 6 

190. 

188 6 

168.3 

142.5 

52.8 

134.4 

154.6 

173.8 

81.5 

99.7 



AVERAGE LBS. CONSUMED PER WEEK. 






+57 
—28.2 
—31.3 
+10.2 
+14.7 

+2.9 
—47. 
-61.5 
—30.1 

—1.3 
—15.2 
-48.5 
—21.8 
—58.6 






104.2 
99.1 



100.2 
95.6 



93 6 

97.7 



53.3 
31.7 



fe 



20 
36.5 



28.7 
35.8 



A portion of the cows were fe' 5 
roughage, to see if the J***' 



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tability and consequent greater consumption and 
with resultant better yield jyf milk. 

Cows given a moderate ration of grain and silage, 
could not be expected to eat these coarse materials, 
with any great relish, and if by any manipulation 
we can make them more palatable, we may use them 
t«> better advantage than would otherwise be possible. 
If we consider first, cows Nos. 3, 4, 5 and 6, the 
iformor pair given dry and the latter wet, stover, the 
;aimonnt consumed was slightly more with the cows 
igiven the dry article, if we judge by the averages as 
;given in the table. In comparing the pairs, how- 
ever the table is not absolutely accurate. After the 
stover was once wet (and the same applies with 
equal force to the other articles) it is impossible to 
re-dry it and leave exactly the same amount of mois- 
ture it had before the wetting, hence any food that 
was left, had to be weighed back as nearly correct as 
possible, but with an unavoidable element of error. 
Understanding this, the amount of stover con- 
sumed was practically the same in each case. Three 
<out of four of these cows, made a gain, rather than 
a loss in the flow, No. 3 alone giving a reduced yield 
'by 31.3 pounds, as indicated by the minus sign, and 
this becomes rather more of note as only one other 
cow '("No. 1) in the entire list, made a gain in milk 
production. If we now glance at Nos. 7, 8, 9 and 10, 
the former pair given dry and the others wet wheat 
si raw, we find again that more of the former than of 
the latter, was eaten. Of the whole four, only one 
would eat as much as five pounds of straw per day, 
going without roughage (except the silage) rather 
than eat more of the kind offered. This being the 
•case it is not to be wondered at. that each cow de- 
creased in flow of milk. 

When we turn to the last lot of four animal?, we 
find a condition very unlike the others, seems to exist, 
but in reality the large amount of hulls eaten by 
Nos. 13 and 14 is-not due alone to. the moistened con- 
dition. 

.Ait&v vainly attempting for two tf-eeks to get the 
cows to eat the moistened hulls we found it would be 
impossible to get them to consume any appreciable 
amount. We also found Nos. 11 and 12 did not 
relish them, at times leaving in the manger almost 
the entire amount that had been given. For these 
reasons we not only moistened the hulls given Nos. 
13 and 14, but we mixed with them a portion of their 
grain ration, the dry grain given \ them being re- 
duced by the amount placed on the hulls. By this 
means they consumed over three times as many 
hulls as did the two preceding. To find the exact 



amount of these moistened and grain covered hulls 
that was consumed, was extremely difficult and ut- 
most care was necessary, that only such amount 
should be given as would be eaten. 

Realizing that wheat straw would not be relished 
by any of the cows, we concluded to not only moisten 
it for one lot, but to set aside a third pair, giving 
them straw mixed with their silage and feeding il 
after it had been mixed for a shorl time, to give it a 
chance of getting the flavor of the silage. h\ this we 
were not disappointed, for both cows ate a very con 
siderable amount of the straw and the yield of milk 
was second only to the stover fed lot. The straw 
could not be easily separated from the silage, by the 
cow, and the whole was eaten with evident relish. 

Noting the conditions under which these two cows 
seemed to thrive, we, in February, began feeding a 
considerable number in our herd (about twenty cows) 
with silage and straw mixed. Our method of hand 
ling it was, in the afternoon, just before dusk, we 
placed in a room convenient, alternate layers of 
silage and cut straw. This was allowed to remain 
until next morning, when the whole mass would be 
quite warm and the straw soft. It was fed to the 
cows during the day and another lot prepared. By 
this means we used a large amount of straw and ob- 
viated the necessity for buying hay. 

D. O. Nourse, Agriculturist. 
Experiment Station. Blackshurg, Va. 
(To be continued next month.) 

We had intend- 
ed to publish a pic- 
ture of B r o f . 
Nourse in our Jan- 
uary issue but fail- 
ed to receive same 
in time. We have 
now pleasure in 
presenting same in 
connection with 
this article. Prof. 
Nourse has be 
the Agriculturist 
at Blacksburg for 
many years and. 
we have published 
a number of valu- 
able contributions 
from him. — Ed. 




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ENQUIRER'S COLUMN. 



Enquiries should be sent to the office of Tiie Southebn 
Planter, Richmond, Va., not later than the 15th of the 
month for replies to appear in the next month's issue. 



Tomato Growing— Potato (Irish). 

Please give a full treatise on the best commercial 
fertilizer suitable for the different crops. What com- 
poses the best fertilizer for tomatoes ? I fear that 
the tomato subject is too much neglected in Virginia. 
Do you not know that Roanoke and Botetourt coun- 
ties produce more tomatoes than any other two coun- 
ties in the United States ? What is needed for toma- 
toes is something that will act from the very first and 
help to retain moisture during the drouths that gen- 
erally occur while tomatoes are maturing. A fertil- 
izer that has a tendency to hasten the maturity too 
rapidly is worse than no fertilizer at all. Will not 
the editor and some of our well experienced growers 
give us a full treatise on the best mode and plans for 
cultivating this delicious vegetable "by the fields 
full ?" Another question, What is the largest smooth 
potato grown in the South ? 

Roanoke Co., Va. E. E. Engleman. 

We will endeavour to write an article for this issue 
on tomato growing. If net found in this issue it shall 
appear in April. Meanwhile sow the seed in boxes 
or in gentle hot beds so that the plants may be grow- 
ing ready for transplanting to grow stocky plants 
for setting out in the fields in May. We are aware 
that the two counties named make large crops of to- 
matoes but we doubt whether they grow more than 
some of the Maryland counties. They are also now 
largely grown in Tidewater Virginia. 

By "Smooth" potatoes we presume you to mean 
Irish potatoes. Burbank. Peach Blow and Carmen 
No. 3 are generally reputed to grow the largest sized 
tubers. In writing on the several crops in each is- 
sue we always state the particular plant food for 
which the crop calls, but never advise any particular 
brand of mixed fertilizer. We do not advise the use 
of readv mixed fertilizers at all.— Ed. 



Improving Land— Seeding to Grass and Clover. 

We have 60 acres of medium grade land (30 acres 
plowed in fall) which we are trying to improve. It 
is our idea to sow sapling clover and a few timothy 
and red top seed. How early in spring would you 
advise sowing, and would you sow any small grain ? 
Tf so, what? Our main object is to improve the 
soil and get grass. A. G. P. 

Culpeper Co., Va. 

Unless this land is really fertile and rich we would 
not advise attempting to get into grass and clover at 



once by spring seeding. The fall is the proper time 
to sow grass and clover in the South. We would ad- 
cise you to prepare the land well by deep plowing and 
cultivation this spring. Apply 300 pounds of acid 
phosphate to the acre and then sow cow peas, one 
bushel to the acre. Cut this crop for hay in August, 
leaving a long stubble. Then cut up this stubble with 
a disc harrow and apply 300 pounds of bone meal to 
the acre and sow two bushels of grass seed (a mix- 
ture of orchard grass, tall meadow oat grass and red 
top in equal parts, and eight pounds of red or sapling 
clover to the acre. Cover with a light harrow and 
if dry enough roll. The grass seeds should be sown 
not later than September. Sow no grain with the 
grass seeds and you will then probably succeed in 
getting a good stand of grass. — Ed. 



Alfalfa— Fig Trees— Bermuda Grass. 

1. Please give me some information in regard to 
alfalfa. I sowed some last spring about 1st of April, 
and I sowed some last October. I find I only have a 
small stand on each piece of land. Would you ad- 
vise me to run a disc over these lots and put in more 
seed ? The first piece sowed, in spring has right 
much grass and clover in it. Last fall I mowed it 
twice and let it lay on the ground for a cover. 

2. I have also a nice lot of fig bushes on the farm, 
and they grow every year, and always have a heavy 
foliage of leaves, and look very thrifty, but never 
bear any fruit at all. Can you explain the cause of 
this ? Is there anything that can be done to make 
them bear fruit? 

3. I have also some grape vines that don't bear. 
They may be too old. 

4. Is there any way to get rid of wire' grass in a 
garden? R. P. Taliaferro. 

Gloucester Co., Va. 

1. Probably the reason why the alfalfa has not 
made a good stand is the absence .of the necessary 
alfalfa bacteria in the. soil.. When the land, is dry 
enough run a disc harrow over it and sow 10 or 15 
pounds more seed -to the .acre, first infecting this. seed 
with alfalfa bacteria Avhich you can procure from the 
Department of Agriculture, Washington, or sowing 
over the field a bushel or two per acre of soil pro- 
cured from a field having already a good stand of 
alfalfa. Until the land is thoroughly infected with 
the bacteria the alfalfa will not grow luxuriantly. 

2. As to the fig trees we have had several similar 
complaints, but are Tinable to suggest a remedy. 
Write the Experiment Station, Raleigh, !N~. O, for 
their Bulletin on fig growing. . Possibly this will give 
you information which will help you. 

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Dig them up and work the land well and set out new 
young vines. 

4. The way to get rid of the wire grass in a gar- 
den is to dig it out. It is possible if you can spare 
the garden for a year to smother the grass out with a 
heavy growth of cow peas. — Ed. 



Tomato Blight— Winter Cabbage. 

1. Would you kindly tell me the best remedy for 
blight on. tomatoes, the same having nearly killed my 
tomato vines the two last years just about the time 
tlie tomatoes began to ripen. Is it not better not to 
put any manure near the roots when setting out 
plants? 

2. Would you also state the best time to sow late 
cabbage seed, and the best time to set out plants for 
winter use? 

3. What is the best remedy for worms or other 
insects on cabbage? 

4. What is the best remedy for chicken cholera ? 
Warwick Co., Va. Subscriber. 

1. Spraying with Bordeaux Mixture is the best 
known remedy for tomato blight but is not always a 
specific. You should change the location of your 
tomato plot as the land where they have blighted for 
two years is no doubt infested with the spores of the 
disease and will give it to any plants set out in the 
same ground. 

2. The seed for winter cabbage plants should not 
be sowed until July and the plants should then be 
pushed on by plenty of manure and cultivation so as 
to have them ready to set out in August and Sep- 
tember. • 

3. In the spray calendar in this issue you will 
find the proper remedies for cabbage worms. 

.■■4. We know of no certain remedy for chicken 
cholera. It- is a germ disease and when once a flock 
has become infested with the germs which are con- 
veyed from one fowl to another by the droppings 
nothing can certainly be relied on to stop it. A little 
carbolic acid in the drinking water and the disinfec- 
tion of the runs and houses with solution of copperas 
is a.bout. the- best that can be done. — Ed. 



lieved to be a fungoid disease and that the germs are 
carried on the stalks and damaged leaves left in the 
field and that from these the soil or the manure used 
becomes infected and carries the disease to the next 
crop. It is not a wise practise to fallow the stalks 
in wherever specking has injured the crop. Better to 
burn them and all trash from the crop. — Ed. 



Specking of Tobacco. 

; 1. Do tobacco stalks sneck tobacco put on land in 
the spring and fallowed ? 

2. From what cause docs tobacco speck ? 

3. I had a good lot of tobacco last year, as I 
thought, hut when I classed it T found that it was 
specked with white specks. G-. T. Aeeen. 

Lunenburg Co., Va. 

The cause of tobacco specking is obscure. It is be- 



Grass Seeding. 

I have a piece of land that I sowed to grass in the 
early part of October last. I purchased my seed of 
T. W. Wood & Sons, Mixture No. 3. About one- 
sixth of the seed came up. Will you tell me what 
will be best for me to do. Must I break my land 
afresh this spring and sow to oats and grass, or grass 
alone, or will it answer to harrow the land thoroughly 
and reseed, or will it be safe to wait and see if the 
seed which has lain dormant Avill come up this 
spring, as we had very dry weather last fall and 
winter ? The land is steep and subject to wash. 

Surry Co., N. C. E. J. Mileer. 

We would wait and see if the seed which did not 
come up in the fall would yet germinate. We think 
probably much of it will do so, seeing the dry condi- 
tion of the land and the late period at which it was 
sown. — En. 



Sweet Potato Growing. 

1. When must I bed potatoes for growing slips, 
and when should the slips be set out? 

2. How many bushels of potatoes should I bed to 
get slips sufficient to set four acres ? 

3. Would you advise fertilizing ? If so, what kind 
and how much per acre ? The land is a light sandy 
soil, and is very productive. 

4. Which is the best variety? 

5. Please send specifications for a house that will 
hold eight hundred bushels. Geo. W.. Shipp. 

Catawba Co., N. C. 

1. In your section the potato slips may be set out 
in the' field from May to. July. It usually takes 
about five weeks to grow the slips from the time of 
bedding the tubers. This will give you an idea when 
to bed the tubers according to when you want to plant 
them in the field. 

2. Medium sized potatoes will grow from 2,000 
to 3,000 slips per bushel at two or three drawings. 

3. If your land is very productive it is not likely 
that it Avill be wise to fertilize it as this would pro- 
duce excessive vine growth and reduce the crop of 
tubers. 

4. If the potatoes are intended for a Northern 
market a dry mealy variety like the Yellow Nanse- 
mond should be grown. If for a Southern market a 



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soft sugary potato like a Yam should be grown. 

5. We will deal with the question of a storage 
house for sweet potatoes later in the season. — Ed. 



Strawberries— Raspberries. 

Should strawberries be cultivated in the spring 
when planted in the fall ? Will raspberries bear fruit 
the summer following fall planting ? C. M. Bass. 

Yes. Cultivate the strawberries as soon as the 
ground is dry enough and thus encourage growth. 
Raspberries will not bear much fruit the first sea- 
son. They may carry a small crop, but it is better 
^hat they should not be encouraged to do so but rather 
be encouraged to grow and make wood for next sea- 
c on , s bearing. — Ed. 



senic shall I use to obtain "worm free" apples, and 
vvhen is best time to use it ? 

Charlotte Co., Va. Mrs. Charles Guthrie. 

1. Make the lime wash for fruit trees just as you 
would for lime washing a building. Place a few lime- 
stones in a tub and pour water on them and let them 
slake and fall, then thin down the mixture with more 
water until thin enough to spray or apply with a 
brush. 

2. Mix 4 ounces of Paris green with 50 gallons 
of Bordeaux mixture. Spray as soon as the blossoms 
have fallen and whilst the young fruits are standing 
upright so that the arsenic of the "green" may settle 
in the calyx of the fruit as that is the place where 
the worm enters the fruit. — Ed. 



Irish Potato Growing. 

With a suitable season this year. I want to raise a 
large crop of Irish potatoes, and wish to get the 
largest possible yield per acre. My land is in a fine 
state of cultivation, having had stable manure broad- 
casted over it four years in succession, and have had 
peas on it twice during the time. What I wish to 
know is, Avhat kind of fertilizer shall I use to get the 
biggest yield (give formula), or do you think it best 
to buy Peruvian guano d see it advertised in vour 
columns), and add potash, etc., to it? If so, please 
state what amount of potash and ammonia, if any, to 
get a maximum crop. Cosmo Benson. 

Rockingham Co., N. C. 

A crop of 300 bushels of Irish potatoes to the acre 
removes from the soil about 55 pounds of- nitrogen. 
25 pounds of phosphoric acid and 85 pounds of pot- 
ash. To supply this a fertilizer made up of 100 
pounds of nitrate of soda, 200 pounds cotton seed 
meal, 500 pounds of bone tankage, 400 pounds of 
acid nhospate and 200 pounds of muriate of potash 
may be used. This will give an excess of the require- 
ments of a 300 bushel crop and with land in the con- 
dition in which you describe, yours should enable you 
to make the maximum yield of which your land js 
capable if the season be a suitable one. In applying 
the above mix well with soil before planting the sets 
as it is a verv concentrated mixture. We think that 
the above mixture will nrobablv be more likelv te 
make a maximum crop than would the use of Peru- 
vian Guano supplemented with potash. — Ed. 



Whitewash for Fruit Trees— Wormy Aooles. 

1. Will von kindlv furnish r^cirie for whitewash 
to nrc^vnt earlv swelling- of fruit buds ? 

2. What proportion of Bordeaux mixture and ar- 



Preserving Skins of Animals— Horses Rubbing 
Tails— Vetch Seed. 

1. Please inform me how to preserve the skins of 
animals so the hair will not fall out. 

2. What causes horses to rub the roots of their 
tails ? If it is worms, what will relieve them ? 

3. Is it best to procure vetch seed from a seedsman 
or a store ? E. Y. P. 

Campbell Co., Va. . \ ■ 

1. The skins of animals may be preserved by 
sprinkling them with a mixture of two parts saltpeter 
and one part of alum. Pulverize finely and sprinkle 
all over the flesh side of the skin and fold the skin 
flesh to flesh and roll up and let it lie a day or two, 
then with a dull knife remove the meat and fat if any 
on the skin and hang to dry. When about half dry 
commence to rub and work to make the skin supple 
and continue at intervals until dry. 

2. The itching of the root of the tail may be caused 
by lice on the skin or arise from pin worms in the 
bowels. If from lice wash the itching part with a 
solution of tobacco made by boiling tobacco in water. 
If from pin worms an injection into the rectum of an 
infusion of quassia chips, half a pound to a gallon of 
water once or twice daily will give relief. Give also 
a physic ball of Barbadoes aloes 1- ounce. 

3. Buv the vetch seed from a seedsman.— Ed. 



Ginseng. 



Will you kindlv give me some information in next 
month's Planter regarding the culture of ginseng? 
and whether it requires light or stiff soil ? 

Hanover Co., Va. H. J. Rosbach. 

We do not think that it is at all desirable for 
the growing of ginseng to be undertaken as a business 
by our Southern farmers as we doubt much its profit- 
ableness in the long run. It is a slow business to 



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begin with as the roots take two or three years to be- 
come large enough for market except for plants to 
set out new beds and when all the new beds which 
have been raised from seed or roots come into pro- 
ducing marketable roots the price of the article will 
no doubt fall largely. The only people in the world 
who have any use for Ginseng are the Chinese and 
whether when they become more enlightened they 
will want it remains to be seen. The best soil for 
Ginseng is a good loam, not too light and not too 
heavy. The best aspect for a bed is a Northern one 
and shade and moisture is most desirable, indeed 
esential to success. The soil should be full of vege- 
table matter like the forest lands in which the roots 
grow wild. It should be free from stones and other 
obstructions so that the roots may grow straight and 
be deep and without a hard clay subsoil. — Ed. 



Draining Land. 

Could I make a successful drain with thin pine 
poles, then sawdust before putting back the soil ? 

Princess Anne Co., Ya. P. H. Stone. 

Yes, it is possible to make a drain with three pine 
poles which will be effective for some time. Unless, 
however, the poles are kept continuously under water 
they will rot in a few years and the drain will cease 
to act. Do not use saw dust on the poles. Fill in 
first the clay from the bottom of the drain and pack 
this tight on the poles. The more perfectly the tiles 
or other drain medium are embedded in clay the bet- 
ter the drain will draw and the wider the area it will 
clear from water. For a perfect and permanent sys- 
tem of drainage tiles should always be used. — Ed. 



Dorset Sheep. 

1. Please give description of the Dorset sheep, and 
how they compare with other breeds as to hardiness, 
size, quality and quantity of wool, and quality of 
mutton, 

2. Also give description of large Yorkshire hogs, 
claimed, I believe, to be the coming bacon hog of the 
country, giving size, color, hardiness and prolificness, 
as compared to other breeds. W. L. Richards. 

Fauquier Co., Ya. - - 

1. The Dorset sheep is a white medium sized horn- 
ed sheep with a loose medium quality fleece. The 
great characteristic of the Dorset is its prolificacy and 
capability of producing lambs early in the winter to 
supply the demand for early lamb. In this they excel 
> all other breeds. Indeed they may be said to be all 
the year round producers of lambs. These lambs 
they feed well and quickly as they are great milkers. 
The breed has proved itself thoroughly hardy and 



easily acclimated in the South. They are not the best 
of mutton sheep as the Downs excel them in this re- 
spect, still they will make good marketable mutton. 
2. The large Yorkshire hogs are a white breed of 
pigs noted as bacon hogs. They are long deep bodied 
bogs and the sows are excellent breeders, bringing 
large litters and milking well. The only drawback 
to the breed for the South is their white skins, which 
are easily sunburnt, and then they are apt to become 
covered with a thick scurf. They should have plenty 
of shade when kept in the South. A black hog, like a 
black man, stands the hot Southern sun the best. 
Apart from this we think the Yorkshire hogs most 
desirable as they make the bacon the market calls 
for at the present time. — Ed. 



Corn for Hog Feeding— Cow Peas, Chufas and 
Rape for Hog Pastures. 

^ I want to fatten some hogs for the August or first 
beptember market, on green feed as much as possible. 

1. What is the earliest corn I can plant to feed in 
the green state before the ears get too hard for table 
use? 

2. Would it pay to plant sugar corn for this pur- 
pose or is there an early variety of corn that I could 
get that would serve me for this purposes by the first 
of July ? 

3. Will it pay to plant Spanish chufas for hogs 
to graze hogs on in fall * 

4. Is there an early cow pea that would come in 
time for hogs this fall by plowing up a wheat stubble 
after harvest the last of June ? 

5. Which variety of the cow pea is the quickest to 
mature ? 

6. Could I sow rape on this land for pasture for 
hogs this fall, say in June ? 

7. I see the Spanish chufas or nut grass highly 
spoken of by seedsmen as a hog pasture, but have not 
seen anything of them in the farm papers. 

Albemarle Co., Va. A New Enquires. 

In this issue you will find a very interesting and 
instructive article on the subject of pasturage for 
bogs from Prof. Newman, of South Carolina, which 
will no doubt help you. - 

1. Southern White Showflake, Blount's Prolific, 
Learning and Golden Dent are about the earliest 
corns grown. 

2. Tn many sections the sugar corn, like Adam's 
early and Trucker's Favorite are planted when for 
some reason a special early corn is required, but their 
yield is small compared with the field varieties and 
.t is doubtful whether it would pay to grow them for 
Uog feed. We know of no corn that will give you 
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spring and the land is warm enough to plant corn in 
the beginning of April, which is rarely the case. 

3. Chufas are largely used for hog pasture in the 
States bordering on the Gulf, but have not been much 
tried in this State. You might experiment with the 
crop, but do not plant largely until tested in your 
section. 

4. The New Era Cow Pea is the earliest variety 
and grows and yields well here. Red Ripper is also 
an early variety. Both these varieties will mature 
planted after the wheat crop is harvested. The Black 
Cow Pea is the next quickest to mature and will 
usually do so planted in June. 

5. See reply to 4. 

6. Rape should not be sown for fall pasturage be- 
fore August or September. 

7. Chufas are grown for hog feed in the Gulf 
States, but we do not know that they have been tried 
in this State. We are not much impressed with their 
value from what we have learned from one or two of 
our friends in South Carolina. — Ed. 



Tomato Rot— Potato Bugs— Nitrate of Soda for 
Irish Potatoes, Etc.— Gad Fly. 

1. What will prevent tomatoes from decaying be- 
fore maturing? 

2. Is Bordeaux mixture the best preparation to 
use as an exterminator of "potato bugs, also a small 
bug that is very destructive to young cucumber 
plants ? 

3. For a prolific crop of sweet and Irish potatoes 
would you advise to use nitrate of soda ? 

4. The gastrophilus equi (gad fly) which annoys 
the horse very much during the summer months, de- 
positing its eggs upon the horse's knee, shoulder, or 
fore legs. After the eggs have hatched, are the larva 
more or less apt to produce some disease of the horse ? 
If so, what, and is it internal or external ? 

Bristol, Va.-Tenn. J. Kent Kjnzer. 

1. The best thing to use is Bordeaux mixture, but 
this is not a certain preventive. In some years and 
on some lands nothing will check the disease. Land 
on which tomatoes have developed this disease ought 
not again to be used for growing them for .several 
years and all vines and decayed fruits should be de- 
stroyed by burning. The land also should be given 
a dressing of lime. It is a fungoid disease of obscure 
origin and the remedy for or prevention of which has 
not yet been discovered. . 

2. The best exterminator of "potato bugs is Paris 
green applied either as a spray or in powder formv 
The bugs infesting cucumbers and melons icaniiOt be- 
easily controlled or kept from doing injua?yi. vMgny 



large growers protect the young plants by covering 
them with muslin stretched on frames and this is 
most certain in its effect. Others dust the plants with 
bone meal when moist with dew. 

3. An excess of nitrogen is not advisable for the 
Irish or sweet potato crop. It causes them to run to 
vine instead of tubers. A fertilizer having 5 Or 6 
per cent, of ammonia is rich enough in this element 
for Irish potatoes, whilst for sweet potatoes half this 
quantity is enough. Nitrate of soda may be used to 
supply this in part. We would not advise more than 
75 pounds of nitrate of soda to the acre for Irish po- 
tatoes and half this quantity for sweet ones. . 

4. This fly, the common gad fly, is the progenitor 
of the bot worm which infests the stomach of most 
horses. The eggs or larva are taken into the mouth 
of the horse from the legs by the horse biting, at.- the 
places where the eggs are laid. These then pass on 
into the stomach and there attach themselves to the 
lining of the stomach by the mouth. They so. remain 
until fully grown and then let go and pass out mthe 
dung. It is no use trying to dislodge them, as no -med- 
icine has any effect upon them. They do. not cause 
any injury or damage to the horse. — Ed. 



Profitable Sheep and Hogs— Fertilizer for Peanuts. 

1. What breed of sheep is most profitable for fleece 
and early lambs? 

2. What breed of hogs would you advise for pork 
raising ? 

3. I am a new subscriber to the Southern Plant- 
er, seeing you do not favor the use of commercial 
fertilizer, which is extensively used here, what for- 
mula, or what ingredients, and in what proportion 
per acre should be used for Virginia peanuts here in 
Tidewater Virginia? 0. M. Cockes. 

Stirry Co., Va. 

1. This depends much on the climate and charac- 
ter of the country where they are to be kept. The 
heavy long woolled breeds are not adapted to be kept 
in a hot climate, where heavy drenching rains are 
common or where the land is semi-mountainous. They 
do not do well, as a rule, in the South.. Eor this 
State and those immediately adjoining we think any 
of the Down breeds or the Dorsets the best. 

2. Either Berkshires or Large Yorkshires. ! The 
Essex is also a good hog for this purpose, and some 
speak highly of the Duroc Jerseys. 

3. A crop of 60 bushels of peanuts to 'the acre 
contains in nuts and berries 84 pounds of nitrogen, 
14 pounds of phosphoric acid, 32 pounds of potash, 
and 46 pounds of lirnfe. Part of this nitrogen is ob- 
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legume. 



A proper fertilizer for supplying sufficient 
nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash can be made 
up of 300 pounds of cotton seed meal, 80 pounds of 
acid phosphate, and 24 pounds of kainit. Lime 
should be applied to the la ml growing peanuts every 
two or three years, say at the rate of 20 bushels to 
the acre. — Ed. 



Breeding Hares— Johnson Grass—Grasses. 

1. Do you think it would be a good investment to 
fence in, say 10 acres of land with poultry wire close 
enough to prevent a rabbit from getting through and 
devote it to raising the old field hare ? Do you know 
of a farm that is raising them at present? How 
many young does one female have a year ? 

2. Do you think that Johnson grass will do well 
as far north as Amherst county ? 

3. Will it do well sown in spring with oats ? Will 
it grow on thiner land than timothy? 

4. Please mention some good hay grasses that will 
take better on thin land than timothy_. H. J. 

Amherst Co., Va. 

1. We are unable to give any reliable advice on 
breeding "old field hares." We have never heard of 
any one carrying on this business. If you want to 
breed hares the Belgian hare is the one to use. Whilst 
the "old field" hare only produces two young ones at 
a time and does not often have more than one or two 
litters in the year, the Belgian hare produces from 
two to six at a litter and breeds all the year round. 

2. Yes, Johnson grass will grow in Amherst coun- 
ty, Va. 

3. As it is really a sorghum and not a grass 
spring is the proper time to sow it. It should be 
sown alone and not with grain. Sow from a bushel 
to a bushel and a half of seed per acre. It will grow 
on any fairly fertile land but the better the land the 
better the yield. 

4. If the land be dry orchard grass and tall mead- 
ow oat grass should succeed. On damp or wet land 
sow red top. — Ed. 



Potash— Fertilizer for Cotton— Clover in Cotton. 

Please tell me how much potash clay land contains 
to the acre, and tell me how much fertilizer is needed 
per acre to grow from V} to 3 bales to the acre, and 
how to apply it ? I saw last year that you advised to 
sow clover in cotton at ihe last working. I did so', 
and it came up pretty well, but it did not stand. 

Camden Co., N. C. J. B. Elliott. 

All clay land has usually a sufficient supply of 
potash in it for all ordinary crops. How much it eon 
tains can only be determined by analysis, i <LE(^>ei«ops 



like tobacco and Irish potatoes which are great con- 
sumers of potash, it is, however, usually necessary to 
supplement the natural supply by some form of pot- 
ash salts. In cotton growing it is also well to add 
some potash in the form of Kainit as this has the 
effect of checking rust in the crop. It is impossible 
for any one to say what quantity of fertilizer to apply 
per acre in order to produce a given quantity of cot- 
ton or any other crop, as this depends more on the 
mechanical and physical condition of the soil than 
the quantity of plant food actually present in the 
soil. Nearly all the cotton lands of the South need 
vegetable matter more than they need fertilizer in 
order to become thoroughly productive. Grow cow 
peas and clover on them and turn them under until 
the lands are rich in vegetable matter and then a 
small quantity of fertilizer will make a large yield 
of cotton. In our article, Work for the Month, you 
will find advice as to the quantity and kind of fer- 
tilizer to use on the cotton crop. Try the clover 
I crimson) in the cotton again. It probably died out 
from climatic causes. — Ed. 



Sheep Troughs and- Racks— Preventing Sheep 
Jumping— Castrating Lambs. 

Will you please answer the following or get some 
of your readers to do so : 

1. Give plans for feeding troughs and racks for 
sheep that are convenient, prevent waste and keep 
the lambs and sheep out of the feed ? 

2. Some device (if any) to prevent sheep from 
jumping fences of ordinary height. 

3. The easiest way to castrate lambs, at what time 
the best. Is it safe to cut testicles and bag at the 
same time ? B. L. Amblee. 

Amherst Co., Va. 

1. The best sheep rack and trough we have ever 
seen is one we used regularly. It is a combination 
of rack and trough together. The rack is a V-shaped 
one with the bottom set in the middle of a trough 
about a foot wide and six inches deep. This trough 
is set on four or six legs raising it about nine inches 
from the ground. The space in the trough on each 
side of the bottom of the rack is so narrow that the 
lambs cannot Avell get into it, and especially so as the 
staves of the rack project over it on account of the 
V form of the rack. The top of the V should have a 
lid on it to keep out the rain. This should be hung 
on hinges so that it can be lifted easily to fill the rack 
with hay. 

2. In the North of England sheep on the Moors 
are often coupled together in pairs by collars round 
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3. The easiest way to castrate lambs is to cut off 
the bag and testicles together. This should be done 
as early as possible after the testicles are well formed 
in the bag. It is not safe to castrate in this way after 
the testicles are large. Then the bag must be slit and 
the testicles be withdrawn. — Ed. 



Crimson Clover. 

The first of October last I had some crimson clover 
sowed on pea stubble, having prepared the ground 
with a disc harrow. I secured a fine stand which 
only lasted a few weeks and before cold weather ar- 
rived it had all disappeared and left the ground bar- 
ren. Please advise what you think the trouble was. 
There were some flies to be seen on the land. Do you 
think they destroyed it ? Is there any chance for it 
to come out in the spring? A Subsceibee. 

Hamilton Co., Term. 

Climatic causes no doubt caused the death of the 
clover. This is one of the weaknesses of this valua- 
ble crop, that it is very apt to be killed soon after 
germination by hot dry weather, or by a sudden cold 
spell before it has made good root hold. It is not at 
all likely to come out again this spring. The only 
way to certainly secure a stand of crimson clover is 
to commence sowing in August and seed part only 
of the lot and then to seed other part later in the 
month and in September and October. If the first 
is killed out before October reseed. — Ed. 



Pedigree Seed Corn. 

I am contemplating buying some pedigreed seed 
corn this spring, what variety is best for general pur- 
poses, and where should 1 buy to get corn suited to 
this climate, being unable to find it here ? Would it 
be advisable to plant any considerable quantity of 
corn grown in different soil and climate ? 

Russell Co., Va. Subsceibee. 

We are not conversant with the varieties of corn 
which have been made the subject of breeding in the 
West and therefore cannot say what you should ask 
for. We noticed recently that a Corn Breeding So- 
ciety has been established in Maryland. We think 
that you would be likely to do better with a variety 
from' that State than from the West. Wriie the Di- 
rector of the Maryland Experiment Station, College 
Park, Md., for information as to the varieties being 
bred and where you can procure some. We would 
not advise the planting of more than an experimental 
plot of any variety. — Ed. 



and how many can I expect from one dozen plants? 
Suppose I buy six different varieties, one dozen 
plants each, this spring and set them out, how many 
plants can I get from the 72, one year hence? 

Appomattox Co., Va. J. W. Gilliam. 

If you buy and set out 72 plants of different varie- 
ties this spring, setting them out in rows two feet 
apart and one foot apart in the rows, you will next 
spring have plants enough to set an acre of land, or 
possibly more, if the season be a normal one. Each 
plant will make a number of runners varying from 
two to half a dozen and on each runner you will have 
two or three plants. — Ed. 



Tobacco and Cow Peas— Pine Tags. 

1. Why is it that tobacco does not do well after 
cow peas ? 

2. Have pine beards any value as a fertilizer? 
Brunswick Co., Va. A. C. B. 

1. This is a question to which we can give no defi- 
nite reply. Investigation has not yet settled the 
cause, but it -is recognized by tobacco growers as an 
established fact. In many cases it may be from the 
peas being turned under too green and causing a sour- 
ing of the land. In other cases it may be because of 
the peas being great consumers of the mineral fer- 
tilizers, especially potash, which is very essential to 
tobacco, and thus unbalancing the plant food content 
of the soil. 

2. Pine tags have little true fertilizing value yet 
they often appear to help a crop. This arises from 
their mechanical effect on the soil and when used as a 
mulch from the shade given. — Ed. 



Lice on Musk Melons— Tobacco Dust. 

1. Will you please tell me some remedy to destroy 
plant lice on musk melons ? 

2. Is tobacco dust a good insecticide with a little 
sulphur ? If so, how much of it would you apply ? 

Madison Co., III. Subsceibee. 

1. Spray with kerosene emulsion. 

2. Tobacco dust alone is a good insecticide. The 
sulphur will not help it Dust the plants freely, it 
will never hurt them. — Ed. 



Larva for Name. 

Find enclosed larva. Give name, and whether de- 
structive. Pound on apple tree. 

Charles City Co., Va. Nedvidek Beos. 

We are unable to identify the larva. It is always 
difficult to give the name of insects from the larval 
forms, as there are so many of them so much alike. 
Look out for the insect itself when it hatches out and 



Strawberry Plants. 

Please tell us how to propagate strawberry plants | ^nd it sad we will endeavor to name it. — Ed 



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Trucking, Garden and Orchard. 



WORK FOR THE MONTH. 

The continuance of severe wintery weather dur- 
ing nearly the whole of February has prevented the 
doing of most of the work which we suggested for 
that month in our last issue. Even in the Tidewater 
sections of this State and in Eastern North Carolina 
the weather has been too severe for any material pro- 
gress to have been made with the planting of crops. 
The crowding of the work usually done in the late 
fall and midwinter months into the spring months is 
going to cause serious inconvenience and in all prob- 
ability a curtailment of crops. It will also, we fear, 
be found that considerable injury has been done to 
fall planted cabbage, kale and spinach crops. Those 
who had cabbage plants in cold frames or where 
they could be protected with mats or brush will hnd 
these plants very useful now to fill in where the fall 
planted ones have been killed. This work should be 
done as soon as the ground is dry enough to work. 
When setting out these plants freshen up the soil by 
lifting and breaking it with a fork before setting the 
new plants. 



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The planting of the Irish potato and English pea 
crop should have the very earliest attention possible. 
It is getting late even now for English peas, as they 
suffer immediately the hot weather sets in. In our 
last issue we wrote fully on the preparation for and 
fertilizing of the land for these crops and refer our 
readers to that issue. For the benefit of the hundreds 
of new subscribers who have come onto our list since 
that issue was mailed we will repeat what we said as 
to the fertilizer to be used with the Irish potato crop. 
Mix 

300 ^pounds of nitrate of soda. 

600 pounds of cotton seed meal or fish scrap. 

800 pounds of acid phosphate (12 per cent.). 

300 pounds of muriate of potash, 
to make a ton and apply at lie rate of from 500 to 
1,000 pounds to the acre. In our replies to enquirers 
will be found a formula for an even more concen- 
trated fertilizer for this crop than the above. In 
using these two mixtures it should be the rule to mix 
them very completely with the soil before dropping 
the sets or they may cause injury to the sprouts. 

Although late do not be tempted to work land 
until it is dry enough to leave the plow and the other 
implements clean. Land worked too wet is worse 
than land not worked at all until late. Instead of 



working too wet land get out the compost and farm 
yard manure and mix the mineral fertilizers, phos- 
phate and potash, with them and in this way econo- 
mise time. 

As soon as the land is dry enough cultivate the fall 
planted cabbages and thus encourage them to grow 
and as soon as growth has started give them a dress- 
ing of 100 pounds of nitrate of soda to the acre. This 
will stimulate them and enable the roots to get hold 
of the fertility in the land. 



Make up hot beds for striking sweet potato slips 
and raising tomato plants, egg plants, peppers and 
early canteloupes. The beds should be made up of 
good fresh horse manure which should be well forked 
over and put up in a solid mass the size of the bed re- 
quired. Let lay for a few days until nicely heated 
and then turn over and make up again. After this 
let alone until heated up again and the heat has begun 
to fall and then cover with three or four inches of 
good woods mould or rich soil. Then cover 'with 
sash or mats and the bed is ready for use. If the 
heat is slow in coming up water the bed so as to make 
it fairly damp and it will soon heat up. Too much 
water, however, will check heating. Tomato seed 
should be sown in the fore part of this month to se- 
cure plants for early setting and a later seeding 
should be made for the main crop. 



Lettuce in frames should have plenty of air in all 
mild weather and the plants in the open ground be 
encouraged to grow by cultivation. Spring salads of 
all kinds should be sown in small plots in sheltered 
places for the earliest crop. April is soon enough to 
sow for main crop. 



Strawberry and other small fruit beds should have ' 
cultivation as soon as the ground is dry enough to 
work, to encourage growth, and if the strawberries are 
not looking thrifty should have a mixture of nitrate 
of soda, potash and acid phosphate sown on the bed 
when the plants are dry and be worked in. Use 100 
pounds of nitrate of soda 150 pounds of muriate of 
potash and 300 pounds of acid phosphate to, the acre. 



The pruning of grape vines and all other fruit 
trees and shrubs should be completed as soon as pos- 
sible b efore. the sap commences to run. Tie up vines 
and canes to stakes or trellises when the pruning, is 
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FORMULA FOR SPRAY MIXTURES. 



COPPER SULFATE SOLUTION. 

Copper Sulfate (Bluestone) 1 pound 

Water 15 gallons 

Dissolve the copper sulfate in a bucket of hot 
water, as it dissolves more quickly in hot water ; and 
dilute to the desired quantity. Use wooden or earth- 
en vessels for copper sulfate solution. This solution 
is to be used on dormant plants, before the leaves 
have expanded. 



BORDEAUX MIXTURE. 

Copper Sulfate 4 pounds 

Unslaked Lime 6 pounds 

Water 40 gallons 

Dissolve the copper sulfate as mentioned above, 
slake the lime in a bucket of water and dilute with 
several gallons of water and strain through a coarse 
cloth to free the mixture of the small lumps. They 
interfere with the free flow of the mixture through 
the spray nozzles. Mix the two solutions together 
and add water to make 40 gallons." Use this for rots, 
molds, mildews and all fungus diseases. For. potato 
hlight add two pounds more of copper sulfate. 

A combined fungicide and insecticide for biting in- 
sects may be made by adding 4 ounces of either Paris 
Green or London Purple to the above. 



AMMOXIACAL COPPER CARBONATE SOLU- 
TION. 

Copper Carbonate 6 ounces 

Ammonia About 3 pints 

Water 50 gallons 

Dissolve the copper carbonate in ammonia in a 
closed wooden or earthen vessel and add to it the 
required quantity of water when ready to apply. As 
ammonia varies in strength, some care is necessary to 
use no more than is needed to dissolve the copper 
carbonate. This preparation is used for the same 
purpose as Bordeaux, but is intended to be used only 
when fruit is nearly grown, as Bordeaux sometimes 
affects the skin of ripening fruit. 



KEROSENE EMULSION. 

Hard Soap ^ pound 

Boiling Water 1 gallon 

Kerosene 2 gallons 

Use "soft water" (preferably cistern water.) Dis- 
solve the soap in the boiling water; add the kerosene 
and churn violently until the mixture becomes like 
buttermilk — not less than five or ten minutes. Dilute 
with water ten to fifteen times before using. 

For sucking insects. For scale insects use strong 
emulsion. For plant lice, mealy bugs, red spider, 



etc., the weaker solution may be used. Soft bodied 
insects like the cabbage worm may be destroyed with 
this solution. 

Special machines are now on the market that mix 
the water and kerosene directly, and at most any pro- 
portion desired, and are recommended wherever 
scale insects are to be destroyed. When buds are dor- 
mant use a mixture of kerosene one part, water three 
parts. 



LIME, SULPHUR AND SALT MIXTURE. 

Lime, 30 pounds (unslaked), Sulphur (flowers) 
30 pounds, salt 10 pounds, water 100 gallons. Put 
four or five gallons of hot water in an iron kettle 
(20 gallons capacity), add 15 pounds lime. Stir with 
wooden paddle so as to spread it about, then as soon 
as in full boiling from slaking add 15 pounds sul- 
phur and mix briskly with lime, adding boiling water 
as needed to bring the whole mass into a thick paste, 
then add water enough to make 10 or 12 gallons and 
boil for 30 to 40 minutes. Add the salt when the 
paste is diluted. When the wash is cooked strain 
and dilute to 100 gallons. 



PARIS GREEN. 

Paris Green 1 pound 

Water 175 to 200 gallons 

When this mixture is used by itself add one pound 
of quick lime to prevent it injuring the foliage. See 
under Bordeaux mixture. 

Paris Green is sometimes mixed with flour and 
dusted over the plants when dew is on, in proportion 
of one pound of poison to ten pounds of flour. 



LONDON PURPLE. 
Use in the same way and in the same proportions 
as Paris Green, but use more lime to neutralize its 
caustic properties. It is best not to use this on the 
peach at 11. 



PERSIAN INSECT POWDER. 

Fresh Powder 1 ounce 

Water 2 gallons 

Spray on plants for soft bodied insects. The pow- 
der is frequently dusted on plants while the dew is on. 
The material is not poisonous to man, hence can be 
used in dwelling house to kill house flies and mosqui- 
toes. For such cases, first close all doors and win- 
dows and dust the room well with the powder (usu- 
ally at night) and leave it so for several hours. It is 
a good idea to burn a spoonful or two on hot embers 
so that the fumes may fill the room. Be sure that 
the powder is fresh, because when old it often fails to 
kill. 



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MARK HANNA STRAWBERRY. 

The accompanying illustration is a single cluster 
of Mark Hanna strawberry originated by Mark T. 
Thompson, of Rio Vista, Va., ten years ago. It is a 
seedling of Bubach Wo.' 5 which it resembles, but is 
much more productive and claimed by some to ' be 
larger, finer and of better quality, very long season 
and holds over much better than most varieties. It 
resists drought much better than most varieties. Tak- 
ing it altogether it promises to be one of the most 
promising varieties introduced for many years. The 
accompanying illustration shows a plant with 95 
fully developed berries and Mr. Thompson thinks it 
the largest cluster of berries ever produced by one 
plant. In productiveness it is simply wonderful. 

We can recommend the above berry ; as we have 
seen it fruiting and tasted it, and ! we congratulate 
Mr. Thompson upon his success in producing such a 
valuable variety; 



A Bloomington, 111., paper says: "Central Illinois 
farmers -in totalizing their profits for the year just 
closed say that the growth of sweet corn for the can- 
ning factories has been unusually profitable, and as 
much as $60 has been realized in some '-cases for- the 
product of a single acre, while in additiqu a-;quan'tity 
of valuable forage was left for the dairy cows." 



GRAFTING AND BUDDING THE TOPS OF OR- 
CHARD TREES. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

On most farms there are found unprofitable fruit 
trees growing. Also in many orchards unprofitable 
varieties have been planted. The farmer hesitates 
to cut them down because they are thrifty looking 
trees. Often times to cut them down would make an 
orchard look scattering. Such trees may often be 
changed to profitable ones by top working. The 
farmer often thinks of doing this but in the rush of 
spring work it is put off too late. Make preparations 
now for such work. Cut the scions now and put them 
away in a cool place to hold the buds back till the 
foliage begins to push out on the trees then commence 
grafting. Often times the farmer does not know ex- 
actly how to do this work and hesitates to undertake 
it. It is the simplest kind of thing. The .desire for 
experimenting and finding out the secrets nature has 
m store for us is often most pronounced in the young. 
Let the boy on the farm undertake this work after he 
understands it thoroughly. Tell him that a whole 
miniature orchard of various varieties can be pro- 
duced on one tree. The fruit will be like that grown 
on the tree from which the scion is taken and not like 
that grown upon the tree upon which the grafting is 



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done. Explain all this carefully to the young man 
to thoroughly arouse his interest. 

HOW TO TOP GRAFT. 

■ J will explain and illustrate only two methods. 
One known as whip and tongue graft, 
and the other as crown graft. The 
tongue graft methods is best used on 
limbs less than one half inch in diam- 
eter and the crown method is best 
used on limbs from one-half inch in 
diameter up to two and a half inches 
in diameter. 

The greatest point to observe close- 
ly in either grafting or budding is 
Whip or Tongue that of having the cambium (inner 
Grafting. bark) of both stock and scion fit 
evenly together. If they do not fit water and air 
will get in and induce decay. 

For crown grafting, cut off the limbs with a fine 
tooth saw, then split the crown with 
a knife or wedge. Sharpen the scion 
to fit evenly. Open the stock with 
some sharp wedges and insert the 
scions. It is best to have the last or 
upper buds on the scions project from 
the outside so that the limbs will 
branch out and not crowd each other 
so much. Cover the crown carefully 
with good grafting wax to keep out 
the water. 

Perhaps waxed bands of cloth are 
best to tie a whip and tongue graft, 
since the scions are easily misplaced. 
This method is often used by nursery 
men and, in top working, it is best Crown Grafting. 

used on small side branches. .. 

Some eare should be exercised in the arrangement 
of- these grafts on the tree, as the tops, might be very 
uneven. . Not all, the tops should be cut off at once 
even in ■ small .orchard trees. One to three.- years 
should be taken to change the entire top. Care should 
be taken in removing water sprouts which will great- 
ly injure the graft later on, if left alone. 

A good grafting wax for out door work is made by 
melting together one pound of tallow, two pounds of 
beeswax, and four pounds of English resin. Stir 
well and then pour the mixture into cold water, then 
pull it till it becomes somewhat white. Then it may 
be rolled in oiled paper and be kept some time. Oiled 
cloth is made by cutting strips of the desired width 
and making a ball of it and soak it in the wax while 
it is hot. 




SPRING BUDDING. 

In all the text books on horticulture that I have 
seen where budding is described it is recommended 
that this operation 
be performed in 
the summer when 
the sap is active 
and the "bark 
slips. '* In a State 
further South we 
have had budding 
done successfully 
in January by 
what might b e 
called the attach- 
ment method. T 
believe the method 
would be success- 
ful if used in this 
State early in the 
spring. If so, it 
would prove verv 
useful, especially 
to nurserymen 
when used on all 
stock that failed to Budding, 

"take" during the summer. These buds could be 
forced out in the summer just the same as those that 
were put in last summer and the nurserymen would 
not lose any stock. Let the nurserymen try it this 
spring and report on it in the Planter. The farmer 
may also try it on his fruit trees to make limbs grow 
out where they may be wanted. 

The method simply consists in cutting a piece of 
bark with some wood attached, down about one inch 
en the tree, leaving it still attached at the lower end. 
Then use the knife transversely to cut off about two- 
thirds of this slip. Cut off a bud with some : wOod at- 
tached to fit this cut place. Insert the lower end of 
•the bud between- this slip and the stock, as shown in 
the drawing. Tie it tightly with raffia • or ■ soft corn 
shuck. • The. tie may be cut loose" after the 'bud has 
become securely attached. The limb may then be 
cut off above the bud in order to force the bud out. 

In all cases, care should be taken to select leaf buds 
and not fruit buds. R. H. Price. 

Montgomery county, Va. 




When corresponding with advertisers, say you saw 
their advertisement in The Southern Planter. 



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[March, 



Live Stock and Dairy. 



THE HANDLING OF EWES IN MARCH. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

More mistakes are made in the management of a 
ewe flock in Virginia in the month of March than at 
any other time of the year. It is a most trying pe- 
ri or] and the man who gets his ewes through this 
month without loss may well feel that he is fortun- 
ate. 

In Virginia the lambs have all come by the first of 
March. Many of them are two months old and are 
pulling on their mothers as only such chaps can pull. 
Grass has not come yet or it is just beginning to show 
green and is sappyy watery, and weak in nourishment. 
The ewes are crazy for it and will work themselves 
to death to get their fill of it only to be poorly satis- 
fied with nourishment. The man who has been feed- 
ing his ewes on dry feed alone can hear them gritting 
their teeth when he walks among them, can see some 
of them looking pale and haggard, can see the wool 
of his flock looking harsh and dry, can observe the 
best ewes falling off in their milk and many not feed- 
ing their lambs at all. He knows full well that his 
sheep are not doing right and he longs for the grass 
to come to save his sheep. He will be very lucky, if 
he gets through without loss of life, for before the 
month is gone he will find ewes 'with swellings under 
the jaw and others that have "gone off feed," while 
pome have dwindled in strength, until they can barely 
follow the flock. 

Have I overdrawn the picture ? T have seen too 
many such flocks to be mistaken in mv observations. 
I will say that I have described conditions that are 
to be found in a number of the Virginia flocks. Some 
flocks are different. In these the lambs are fat. the 
ewes strong and healthy. There is abundance of 
milk: the wool is smooth and lustrous: the skin is as 
pink as a cherry, there is no gritting of teeth or other 
symntoms <*>f indigestion. 

What makes the difference? T beg to tell how T 
think this last flock was managed through the winter 
and bow the owner has planned to carry it through 
March. 

These ewes were given a. good grain ration through 
the winter, beginning with one small feed a day be- 
fore Christmas. The grain ration was first corn and 
oats, but in a few weeks the corn is dropped and oats 
substituted. When the lambs begin to come in Jan- 
uary the ewes are getting a ration of oats and bran 
in equal parts by weight twice a day with a little lin- 



seed meal once a clay. They have had clover hay or 
cow pea hay freely from the time the grass began to 
fail. Bright corn fodder is put before them every 
morning now and as soon as the winter gets under 
way one good feed of roots is given them. Nothing 
is better than Swedish turnips (rutabagas). "When 
the lambs get about two weeks old the oats in the 
grain diet is increased to about two-thirds and the 
roots are increased. A field of fall rye furnished 
grazing in the fall and through December. The fail- 
ing of this was indication of time for root feeding. 
Either this rye or wheat is to furnish grazing through 
March, and even in February in the milder portions 
of the State the ewes could pick up plenty of feed on 
the wheat fields. 

Now that March has arrived the flock is found in 
prime condition and there is nothing to fear. The 
flock is now kept on the rye and wheat most of the 
day, but the oats and bran are fed morning and even- 
ing and the roots in diminishing quantity. By the 
middle of the month the ^oots may be abandoned and 
the grain ration, reduced graditally, may by the end 
of the month be about two-thirds of the maximum. 
The grass has started by this time. If one is so for 
tunate as to have orchard grass, there will be good 
gi'azing by the first, of April in most parts of Vir- 
ginia. I have never known sheep to hurt wheat by 
grazing it as late as April first. In fact, it seems to 
make it stool out more and make a more even growth. 
It, might cut down the amount of straw, but the wheat 
yield would not be affected, unless improved. Since 
this is true, it is best to keep sheep from the grass 
pastures, as the grass during March is short and not 
nutritious as described above. During March the 
flock should have constant access to pure, clean water 
and it is best to keep salt where the sheep can get it 
as they need it. If you intend to feed worm pow- 
ders to your flock, now is the time to begin. If you 
have suffered from parasites in the past, such as 
stomach worms and hang worms, it would be well to 
give the ewes a good dose of benzine or gasoline about 
the end of the month, being sure to get full directions 
if you don't know how to do it 

This kind of management of a flock will bring it 
up to spring grazing in fine shape and there will be 
no worrying over sick ewes, poor lambs, and un- 
profitable sheep. It is largely a matter of feed. 



MavweUon, W , Va, 



H, B. AfcBUOKLE. 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



1904.] 

THE SOUTHERN CATTLE MAN'S OPPORTUNITY. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

Those who have kept in touch with the great cat- 
tle business of the United States will have observed 
a note of discouragement running through the writ- 
ings and talks of our Northern and Western friends 
for the past year and especially during the latter 
months of the year. The ranges and feed lots have 
thrown onto an already overstocked market, thou- 
sands upon thousands of cattle good, had and indif- 
ferent. The principal reasons for this suicidal pol- 
icy have been a gradual increase of land values mak- 
ing the cost of beef growing through the corn belt 
greater, the rise in the price of corn the staple feeding 
product of that section, the high price of farm labor, 
and the natural tendency of mankind to follow the 
crowd like a flock of sheep. Whatever the reason the 
fact is a glutted market, with continually falling 
pricas and this in the face of the farther fact of there 
being — according to our most reliable information 
— a less number of cattle produced in proportion to 
population than several years ago when prices were 
much higher than to-day. Tn the writer's opinion 
only one result can follow this foolish scramble to 
knock out all present profits in cattle feeding and 
that is a short supply of good cattle in the near fu- 
ture, and a consequent stiff rise in prices. 

To-day the Southeast is not figured upon at all as 
a cattle producing section. Now, how could the 
farmers of our section display better judgment than 
to go quietly to work breeding really first class cat- 
tle and be ready for the good prices that are sure to 
be paid for top cattle within the next two years. We 
have — or can have if we will — as good pastures as the 
Northern and Western stockmen can boast, can grow 
corn and other grain as cheaply as can our neighbors, 
and have right at our doors cotton seed meal, one of 
the very best feeds for beef production. The tmth 
is corn silage and cotton seed meal are a hard combi- 
nation to beat in the feeding of beef cattle. And 
then we can grow the best rouarh feed of any section 
of the country. Cow peas, soja* beans, vetch, crim- 
son clover, etc., are ours for the planting. With all 
our natural advantages it would seem to the writer 
that there must be something wrong with us if we do 
not avail ourselves of this onportunitv offered, and 
prepare ourselves to put on the market thousands of 
car loads of first class cattle when the market calls 
for them, which it is sure to do by the time we can get 
them ready. And in this connection T want to in- 
sist that the cattle must be Al if we are to reap the 
reward that should be ours. No warmed up scrub 



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steers will do. We must have good, well bred beef 
cattle, 20 to 30 months of age, that will weigh from 
1,200 to 1,500 pounds. 

Brother farmers, is not this matter worthy of our 
attention along with the cotton and tobacco? 

Rockingham Co., N. C. A. L. French. 



HARDINESS OF JERSEYS. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

T note in a recent issue of your paper a letter from 
Mr. Gardner on the subject of "The Large versus the 
Small Dairy Cow." He says. "The Jersey list reads 
like an obituary column, etc.," giving a list of casual- 
ties among this portion of the herd which would cer- 
tainly indicate that the Wisconsin station had been 
unfortunate enough to select for this test a lot of 
Thoroughly unsound cattle. It is, therefore, no won- 
der that they made no better showing in butter pro- 
duction. 

Mv own experience with Jerseys has been very dif- 
ferent from this. About 1890 I begun the formation 
of a herd with five registered cows and heifers and 
a few high grades. They were moved to mv farm 
some fifty miles from here in 1897 and reached the 
maximum number which the farm will carry (twenty 
milk cows with their growing calves') in 1901. Since 
then we have had eight or ten cows for sale each year. 

During this time the only sickness which has 
caused anv cessation of milk production has been one 
case of garget which recovered with the loss of one 
quarter and subsequently produced 28 pounds of 
milk daily from the remaining onarters. and one cow 
who had two or three attacks of something like ery- 
sipelas when, as a matter of precaution, the milk was 
thrown away. Calves have all been carried full time 
and onlv one was still born. Twq heifers died of 
hoven from something obtained in the woods in the 
late fall. Some ten or twelve calves died of indiges- 
tion, nearly all during the incumbency of a careless 
and indolent dairyman. 

There are now on the place twentv cow? in milk 
and twenty-seven heifers of various ages with not one 
unthrifty animal in the lot. Male calves are sold for 
veal. 

During the time they have been on the farm they 
have had six different men in charge, all common 
farm hands who had served as helpers and been pro- 
moted. 

They run out all summer and. during the winter 
spend the day in the yard when the weather is good, 
being housed at night and on rough days. They have 
no hav over them in the barn, nothing; between them 
and the corrugated iron roof. They now have long 
coats of hair like the pictures we see of Highland 



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cattle, but are making over five pounds of butter per 
week as an average, though the majority of them 
calved last summer and there has been only one calf 
since the middle of November. 

As will be seen from the above, they have had 
neither coddling nor even what might be called 
skilled attention but simply average farm conditions. 
There is certainly no lack of hardiness here, and as 
many other Jersey herds are fully their equals the 
conclusion naturally follows that, the animals men- 
tioned by Mr. Gardner were in no condition to enter 
a competitive or any other kind of a test. 

Alleghany Co., Md. B. S. Randolph. 



IN-BREEDING. 

A subscriber from King William county, Ya., 
sends us an extract from the Baltimore American's 
"Practical Farm Notes" in which the writer strongly 
condemns the crossing of pure breeds of cattle and 
urges the importance of always sticking to one breed 
if good results are to be assured and then goes on to 
advocate in-breeding in the following terms : 

"Wherein could a betterment be made in our breed- 
ing better and purer types of cattle, especially dairy 
cattle ? 

Stop the promiscuous breeding of all kinds and 
breeds of cattle in one herd. Select some breed best 
adapted to the conditions which exist, and get a sire 
of the best dairy breeding possible^ and use this same 
sire for at least three generations. The first heifers 
will be 50 per cent, of the desired blood and influence. 
Breed them back to their own sire. The second gen- 
eration will be 75 per cent, of dairy influence, and 
75 per cent, of the relationship with their mixed in- 
fluences and weakness will have disappeared, 
"crossed out," and if the second generation is again 
bred in line, the needed blood will be as 87 to 100. 
Then another sire of the same family blood, and as 
far removed from kinship as possible, is secured for 
the fourth generation, and the herd' is freshened with: 
new blood and not weakened. If the first sire is of 
strong vitality, there is not a reason in the world but 
that health, vigor and strong influence will be begot- 
ten each time — far more possible than it would be to 
introduce a new sire each generation, and with him 
introduce a new line of family faults and frailties, 
not to mention new heredities ; while in the other case 
it would be a matter of confirming and making strong- 
er the lines of the strongest and most desirable char- 
acteristics." 

Our correspondent asks us to give our views on 
these breeding problems. We are heartily with the 



writer on the subject of crossing different breeds. In 
this issue we have written a note on this subject to 
an article on crossing breeds of hogs in which we have 
expressed our views and refer our readers to it. On 
the inbreeding problem we are entirely opposed to 
the writer of the article. We believe that such in- 
breeding as is advised is bound to result sooner or 
later in unsound stock and often in barren stock. In 
the human race intermarriage in families has proved 
a prolific source of insanity, disease and sterility. 
Amongst cattle, the Jersey breed is the one in which 
this practice has been most persistently followed, and 
Jerseys are the one breed of cattle in which tubercu- 
losis is most prevalent. It is true that inbreeding has 
resulted in the Jerseys in intensifying the power to 
produce milk and butter records, but we believe this 
has been wholly at the expense of the vitality and ro- 
bustness of the breed. Breed to pure animals always, 
but use strains of blood not akin if strength and vi- 
tality is to be maintained. Our corespondent asks us 
also to explain about "wolves" in cattle. These so- 
called "wolves" — warbles is the correct name — are the 
grubs of a fly which lays its egg on the hair of the 
cattle and from thence the eggs are licked and pass 
into the stomach where they are transformed into 
grubs which make their way to the backs, usually 
about the loins of the cattle, and there remain bur- 
rowed under the skin until full grown, when they 
pass out through a small hole which they ma^e 
through the hide and drop onto the ground, where 
after a time they hatch as flies to repeat their life his- 
tory. The warbles do no harm to the health of the 
cattle but seriously damage the value of the hides. 
The grubs should be squeezed out of the small holes 
in the hides before they naturally pass out, and be 
killed by being crushed, and in this way the number 
of flies can be materially reduced each year.. They 
may be killed by applying turpentine or kerosene in 
or on the opening in the hide without squeezing th«n 
out, but we ppefer to squeeze them .out and end their 
life history. The cattle should be examined in Feb- 
ruary and March and the work of destruction be 
then done. If deferred later many of the grubs will 
have escaped. 



GRAZING HOGS. 



We have repeatedly been asked recently how many 
hogs an acre of land will carry and have had to con- 
fess our inability to answer this question satisfacto- 
rily as it entirely depends on the size of the hogs, the 



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season and the crops grown. Discussing this ques- 
tion in a recent issue of the Breeders* Gazette Prof. 
Soule thus replies: 

As to the number of hogs one can maintain on the 
land, that depends a good deal on the crops grown 
and on the season. Sometimes an acre of land will 
carry as many as ten good-sized hogs. In another 
season it may not carry more than five or six hogs. 
Then the number of hogs that an acre of land will 
carry depends very much on their size when put on 
the land. If put on shortly after weaning in the 
early spring fifteen or twenty hogs might be carried 
to the acre from 30 to 60 days, but if weighing from 
100 to 150 pounds probably not more than six hogs 
could be carried for the same time. It is impossible 
for the writer to state except in the most general 
terms the number of hogs he can carry on this land. 
If he had 30 acres divided into five-acre lots, as in 
plan No. 2, there is no good reason why he should 
n ot be able to graze from 150 to 200 hogs, especially 
if he feeds them a small grain supplement and gives 
them the benefit of the fifteen-acre Bermuda lot and 
the large 85-acre wood-lot. 

While plan No. 2 involves considerable fencing 
it presents the most satisfactory arrangement of the 
land to secure a good succession of crops. It is also 
desirable where hogs are to be grazed to erect perma- 
nent fences. Hurdles are all right except it takes 
too much time to move them about and when the hogs 
get a good size they are more likely to break them 
down. A good strong fence around the grazing lot 
in the beginning is the best policy. 

A great variety of crops mav be grown on these 
lots. For example, Nos. 1 and 2 might be seeded to 
winter oats this fall, No. 1 to be grazed through the 
late fall and winter and No. 2 when the crop begins 
to head out next spring. Nos. 3 and 4 could be plant- 
ed to sorghum as early as possible in the spring. Nos. 
5 and 6 might be given to two varieties of cow peas, 
say Warren's Extra Early and Whippoorwill, Black 
or Clay. Nos. 7 and 8 could be devoted to soy beans, 
using an early-maturing and a late-maturing variety. 
One or more of the lots might be put in sweet pota- 
toes, peanuts or chufas. Cow peas, soy beans and 
peanuts are the three most satisfactory fall-grazing 
crops for hogs and possibly the easiest to cultivate 
and most likely to produce a good yield. 

Of course where one desires to produce a good firm 
pork and to properly fatten the animals it is well 
to feed a little corn along throughout the year. A 
small amount, however, will be sufficient. From 10 
to 15 bushels per animal with the grazing crops sug- 
gested should make good hogs weighing from 250 to 
300 pounds at the end of six to eight months' grazing 
and feeding as suggested. There is no reason why 
every planter in the South should not grow all the 



pork he needs and it will be a splendid thing when 
the practice becomes more general. 



CROSS BREEDING OF PURE BRED HOGS. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

I would like to have your opinion in regard to the 
crossing of these two famous breeds of swine — the 
Berkshire and the Poland-China. 

I have in many instances read, and also have been 
told by noted stock men that any cross of pure-bred 
animals would result in injury to the good qualities 
of both breeds. 

But, nevertheless, I believe the said cross to be a 
desirable one, having last year raised a very fine hog 
of this cross. The cross produces an animal in many 
respects similar to the Berkshire. 

It has the Berkshire's broad back and shoulders 
and the larger frame of the Poland-China. 

Its ears are flopped a little but not quite so much 
as those of the Poland-China, thereby making an an- 
imal of a better appearance than the pure bred of 
either breed, and I think a more prolific one. 

However, the one experiment is not sufficient proof 
to make firm my belief. 

I have two pure bred Poland-China sows and also 
a registered Berkshire boar and sow. They are all 
about the same age. I will cross the Berkshire boar 
on Poland-China sows and also breed the Berkshire 
sow to him, trying to make them farrow as near the 
same time as possible. 

As the result of this experiment I will know ex- 
actly which will be the most profitable, and later will 
report the result of the experiment through the col- 
umns of this most valuable journal. 

If you consider this of enough interest I would be 
glad if you would devote a little space in the Plant- 
er to its discussion, and if any of your readers have 
experimented with the said cross I will be glad to 
hear from them. G. E. A. 

Amelia Co., Va. 

'Whilst it is possible that crosses of different pure 
bred animals may at times result satisfactorily yet 
the business is as a rule disappointing. We are en- 
tirely opposed to the practise as no man following 
such a method of breeding can ever tell what the re- 
sult is going to be. It may be a good formed animal 
of good feeding or breeding character or it may be 
the rankest "scrub" ever bred. We have seen both 
results from one litter of pigs, and the like results 
with cattle and sheep. The more highly bred the pa- 
rents and the longer their pedigrees in one line of 
breeding and therefore the more prepotent their 
blood the greater the chances are that the progeny 



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[March, 



will be unsatisfactory. The long time which it takes 
to establish the type of a new breed which can be re- 
lied on to reproduce itself certainly is abundant evi- 
dence of the uncertainty which results from the inter- 
breeding of pure bred animals of any kind. In the 
conflict which necessarily arises between the prepo- 
tency of the different blood lines the outcome is just 
as likely to be a reversion to an original type as to be 
a desirable animal. Select the breed you like the best 
and then interbreed the best lines of blood in that 
particular breed, and you may rely on getting a good 
animal, though some lines of blood in all breeds seem 
to "nick" better than others. Or if you are unable 
to indulge in the luxury of keeping all pure bred ani- 
mals keep a pure bred male and breed him onto the 
best type of grades and you will certainly improve 
them as the sire's prepotent blood will assert itself. 
—Ed. 



BREEDING AND FEFDING PROPERLY WILL PRO- 
DUCE GOOD COLTS. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

Now that he spring of the year is approaching, 
and the time for selecting a stallion to breed to is 
here, see that you select a good one. The first thing: 
to consider is the breeding of the stallion. Do not 
waste time and money breeding to "scrub" stallions 
Tf you do you will, as a rule, raise nothing but 
"scrub" colts, which will be an expense from birth, 
and never make saleable horses. Breed to a regis- 
tered sire ffor if he is registered you know that, his 
breeding is what it should be for his class). Then 
breed for a purpose — that is to say, if vou want to 
produce a draft animal, select a pure breed Perche- 
ron or other draft sire. Tf you want a coach horse, 
either the Hackney or French Coach Stallion will do. 
If your idea is to get something fast in harness for 
road or track, then breed to a Standard bred trotting 
stallion. If the desire is a gaited saddle, animal, then 
the registered Kentucky Saddle Stallion, is what you 
want. Last, but not least, if you want to produce a 
hunter, a horse that can gallop and jump day after 
day, let the sire be a Thoroughbred (running horse). 
I After selecting: the breed, being sure that you have 
a registered animal, then first of all be satisfied that 
the stallion is absolutely constitutionally sound — has 
good eyes, good bone, no splints or spavin, side bone 
or ring bone. He should be well shaped — that is, of 
good conformation for his class, and should certainly 
have good manners, and be easy to handle, consider- 
ing his sex and breeding. 

LET YOUR BROOD MARE BE A GOOD INDIVIDUAL ALWAYS. 

Having been careful in selecting a good, well bred 



sire, then support his good qualities and show your 
good judgment by breeding a good mare. Unless 
you want to sell registered stock, or want to produce 
a track animal for speed, I should not advise going 
to the expense of only breeding registered mares, as 
they are hard to get. But always pick out mares 
individually good when selecting for breeders. The 
stallion cannot do it all. Let your brood mare be 
well shaped, constitutionally sound, have good eyes, 
good joints, free from spavin, ring bone, etc. She 
should have good, all-round action, and be attractive 
in ber class. ^ And, above all things, should have a 
good disposition, and be thoroughly gentle. Never 
breed a mare until she has been carefully handled 
and is quiet. Treat every horse as gently as you 
would your pet dog, and especially should this applv 
to the treatment of the brood mare at all times, 
though more so when she is carrying the foal. Re- 
member that she is about to be a mother, and has to 
suffer enough for her young's sake naturally, there- 
fore her owner ought to always see that she is well 
cared for and kindly treated. 

CARE FOR THE FOAL FROM BIRTH. 

Never fail to care for the foal, simply because it is 
with its mother. The mother is caring for two the 
best she can, but you must help her by giving her the 
best of attention and all the good nourishing food 
that she will eat, besides plentv of grass in season. 
The colt will fully pay you for all this feed by con- 
verting it into bone and muscle, and thus making 
you a well formed, good sized, early matured animal, 
for which the demand is greater than the supply. 

Teach the foal to eat earlv bv giving the mother 
oats and bran in a box that the little one can reach. 
Keep the foal with its mother on a good pasture ; have 
a shelter that will protect the two from the cold 
rains. If you will put some ^ood hay under this 
shelter on a rainy night, though it be summer, the 
two will eat and enjoy the hay. Do not let your 
colts wear themselves out trotting after their mothers 
either in the field or on the road. Never let a foal 
under two months old go longer than two hours with- 
out being with its mother, for at, least ten minutes. 
Do not let a mare that is giving milk get overheated, 
and never let the foal nurse when the mare is hot. 
Remember that fresh drinking water is the life of the 
mother as well as her young. 

Never frighten a foal, but tame it from birth, and 
you will not have to break a three year old. 

The breeding makes the foal. 

That's pleasing to our eves ; 
While feeding makes the bone, 

The height, the muscle and size. 



BUckshurg, Va, 



J, G. Ferneyhough, 
State Veterinarian. 



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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



183 



The Poultry Yard 



MANAGEMENT OF DUCKS. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

Prior to 1800 the duck was not considered a pro- 
fitable fowl to raise. Tt was allowed free access to 
waterways or marshes,' feeding mostly on fish and 
water insects. This food imparted to the flesh a 
strong flavor, makiiig it objectionable, except to a 
few. As a matter of fact it is not at all necessary 
that the birds have access to water to be raised suc- 
cessfully. The only noticeable difference between 
"upland" and "water" ducks is that the latter are of 
prettier and cleaner plumage than the former. 

The Standard recognizes ten breeds, as follows: 
The White Pekin, Colored Kouen, White Aylesbury, 
White Muscovy, Colored Muscovy, Black Cayuga, 
Cray Call, White Call, Black East Indian, and the 
Crested White. Of the breeds, the first six are con- 
sidered profitable: the two breeds of Calls and the 
Black East Indian are bantams; and the Crested 
White are almost purely ornamental. The Pekins 
are the most valuable, being good foragers, quite 
hardy, large and maturing early. The standard 
weight of the adult drake is 8 pounds ; adult duck, 
7 pounds. The ducklings feather rapidly and weigh 
from 12 to 14 pounds per pair the first year without 
much fattening. As layers they excel, averaging 
from 100 to 130 eggs each season. 

The Colored Rouen in deservedlv popular through- 
out the country, ranking next to the Pekin. It is a 
fine market bird but does not mature as early as does 
the Pekin. The flesh is very delicate. The eggs are 
not as large as those of the Pekin, and are diverse in 
color. The standard weight of the ad nit drake is 9 
pounds : adult dxick, 8 pounds. 

BREEOIXO STOCK. 

The proportion of the sexes should be about one 
drake to five or six ducks. Late in the season, when 
many of the ducks are broody, the proportion should 
be about one to ten. Be particular about this, as the 
eggs will be more fertile if a part of the drakes are 
removed. 

A house 12x14 feet will accommodate- nicely a 
flock of a dozen. The floor should he well covered 
with straw or leaves, as the ducks will lay at night 
or very early in the morning. By feeding only at 
night and morning, regularly, and always at the pen, 
the ducks can be easilv shut up for the night. Nests 
are often made of 1-inch boards, 6 inches wide, 16 
inches long, set 14 inches apart^ and nailed to the 
back of the house. An inclosure should be given the 
breeding ducks as they do better confined. Give 
plenty of room and inclose the run with a 2-foot 
fence, 



No description of poultry will devour so much, or 
feed so greedily. The troughs should be long and 
roomy, otherwise some will gorge themselves, while 
others will get but little. Do not keep food by them, 
as that will clog their appetites, and always affects 
the egg production, as well as the condition of the 
birds. Another essential point is that ducks will not 
produce their proper quota of fertile eggs on hard 
food alone. The natural food of the duck is princi- 
pally vegetable and animal food obtained in streams 
and marshes. The passage leading from the throat 
to the gizzard direct is very small, making it impos- 
sible for the bird to assimilate or thrive on hard food. 
Eeed a mixture of cornmeal, bran, cooked vegetables, 
roots, grain, grit, etc. Have a trough of water near 
by and never shut the birds up without permitting 
them to drink. 

INCUBATION. 

Collect the eggs early each morning to avoid 
chilling them. If any are. soiled so that they must, 
be cleaned, hold with the thumb and finger and rinse 
gently in water that has the chill removed but is not 
warm, let them drain but do not rub or you will re- 
move the oily coat covering the shell and then they 
will fail to hatch. The germ seems capable of sur- 
viving 1 a lower temperature than that of hens' eggs, 
but 55 or fiO degrees is safe, if the eggs are turned 
dailv. 

Eresh eggs give better results making it necessarv 
to set the first laid eggs under hens. Eive to seven 
are sufficient, according to the size of the fowl. Un- 
less the nest is on the ground, particular attention 
must be paid to sprinkle the eggs daily with tepid 
water during the last two weeks of incubation. Twen- 
ty-eight days are generallv required for hatching. 

Because the eg^s require much oxvgen and give 
off so great a quantitv of carbon dioxide it is essen- 
tial to test thoroughlv during incubation. An un- 
fertilized duck P2S is harmless, but if a fertilized egg 
dies in the nroees^ of incubation and is not removed 
it is likelv to exolode and cau?e annovance. A de- 
composing egg is mottled or speckled with little 
points where the contents are oozing through the 
uores of the shell. Handle most tenderlv in remov- 
ing for it is more likelv to explode than dynamite. 

R.VTPIXO THE DFCKXIXOS. 

The season for raising duck" lasts from JTebniary 
to July. When the little fellows pip the shell they 
do not emerge as promptlv as normal chicks, but stav 
quiet for nerhaps twenty-four hours. On hatching 
let, the mother retain her young upon the nest her own 
time, as they are very susceptible to change of temper- 
ature. Indeed, during the first turee weeks of a duck- 



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ling's life, it is as tender as a little turkey, and should 
not be allowed to get wet. Prepare a coop and pen 
upon the short grass if the weather is fine, or under 
shelter if stormy. Here the duck and brood may be 
kept until the young are six or seven weeks old, when 
they are transferred to the growing houses. 

FEEDING. 

The three different methods are as follows: (1) 
Feeding for market (ten weeks old) ; (2) feeding 
young to be kept as breeders ; (3) feeding for winter 
market 

The first feed should be cracker or bread crumbs 
and corn meal equal parts, hard boiled eggs and sand 
moistened with milk. After five or six days add 
wheat bran, meat scraps or meal and chopped greens. 
A. breeder on Long Island recommends for the first 
feed corn meal, bran, coarse flour and sand. The 
hours for feeding are 6 and 10 A. M. and 2 and 6 
P. M. 

When ducks are raised for breeders they are forced 
less, and the corn meal is reduced. In summer only 
one meal a day is necessary, composed of cooked veg- 
etables or roots, thickened with bran and ground 
gram. , g % 

SUPPLYING WATEE. 

A young duck will sometimes choke if it has no 
water when eating. It cleans its bill with each 
mouthful. Tepid water is a preventive of cramps 
but no water should be provided for swimming until 
the birds are reasonably well feathered. Besides the 
sand used in the feed place a small quantity in the 
drinking vessels, also a box of grit and crushed char- 
coal in the pens. W. 



MISTAKES WE MAKE. 

In every vocation of life mistakes are made, and 
will be to the end of the chapter, and it is well that 
it is so for our mistakes help us to better things if 
only we recount them and aim each time to get a lit- 
tle nearer perfection. 

As this is intended to help in the poultry business, 
I shall mention a few mistakes, made along that line. 
We keep too many fowls -through the winter to. de- 
rive- most, profit from eggs, when they are highest. 
An over-crowded hen-house means an empty egg 
basket. 

We do not buy our neAV stock in the fall when we 
could get them at small cost compared with the late 
spring. The first hatched fowls are best, and those 
offered in the fall are earliest hatched. 

We do not begin feeding for eggs in time to have 
large returns when most in demand. A few hens 
well cared for do better than twice their number left 
to care for themselves. 

We blame the hens, while we fail to shidy their 
needs and supply in winter what they can get for 



themselves in summer. A busy, happy hen pays her 
owner well for every extra attention. 

We do not keep nice, attractive nests in cold 
weather, nor warm water these cold mornings to warm 
the hens. They must sit on their feet till next feed 
hour, which is possibly overlooked if trusted to the 
hired boy. 

No grit is supplied for cold, frozen days, when 
they must be housed for a long spell of cold. No 
meat, grass, oyster shells, nor anything more pala- 
table than corn is offered for this stay indoors. If 
very long sickness results, then we wonder what is 
wrong with our chickens. 

"Eternal vigilance is the price of care." No busi- 
ness prospers without a study of that business in its 
every detail. "Experience is a dear school," but it 
pays to know from experience what results we may 
expect from our treatment of stock in hand. 

Let us be thorough and painstaking, putting forth 
our best effort, and thus have the approval of our 
own conscience, though the world should not approve. 

Mrs. John F. Payne. 



EGG-PRODUCING STRAINS. 

Among poultry fanciers much has been done to 
develop particular strains of fowls inside the estab- 
lished breeds. Por the most part, these strains have 
had reference more to form and color than egg pro- 
duction. So far as is publicly known, there are few 
strains that are developed along the egg-laying lines, 
though some breeders insist they have this object 
"partly" in view. 

It takes generations of selection and breeding to 
make a really valuable strain, but the result would 
pay well in the production of eggs. We think the 
average fowl of any breed is a poor egg producer, but 
in every breed there are possibilities of very great im- 
provement. It is frequently stated that a Plymouth 
Rock will lay 150 eggs a year: yet the result, if ac- 
curately counted, will come far, very far, short' of this 
number, and that on. farms where poultry is intelli- 
gently and properly cared for. 

On the other hand, individual Plymouth Rocks 
have been known to. lay 23S eggs .in a year, and re- 
cently a breeder from Californiaa claims that 75 
hens laid 17,400 eggs in 12 months, and 25 hens 
0,251, an average of 231 in the first lot and of 250 in 
the second, which is, of course, phenomenal. With 
+ his breed, as well as with some others, it would be 
possible to devlop a strain that would lay on an aver- 
age 200 eggs per bird annually. As these extra 
eggs would be practically all profit, one can easily see 
the advantage of handling such a strain of birds, and 
the desirability of procuring such foundation stock 
as would help towards such a strain. 



1904.] 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



185 



The Horse. 



BREED FOR SIZE. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

Gentlemen, — I am a subscriber to your invaluable 
paper, and enjoy everything I find within its covers. 
T wish it was a weekly paper instead of a monthly. 
I would gladly pay four times the amount charged 
for the monthly to receive it four times a month. 
Why don't you make it a weekly and charge accord- 
ingly ? _ 

Having been breeding horses of various breeds for 
sixteen years in a small way, the Horse column, 
edited by "Broad Rock," is particularly interesting 
reading to me, and yet it was not until your issue of 
September, 1903, on page 579, at the bottom of the 
page, that I found in Broad Rock's note about the 
stallion Russell Rex exactly the keynote, according 
to my ear, of the proper tune. to sing in praise of the 
(rotting stallions offered in Virginia for the patron- 
age of the public, and that keynote was slurred and 
softened, until a careless listener to the song of 
praise might fail to catch it. The words are : 
"Though a mastodon in size, being 16.3 in height and 
weighing close to 1,400 pounds," etc., and the writer 
goes on to say he is of symmetrical proportions and 
a very handsome horse, the writer had already credit- 
ed him with the ability to trot close to 2 :20. 

Now, in few descriptions of trotting stallions in 
Virginia has Broad Rock given any emphasis to 
size. The readers of your journal can only con- 
clude that the reason for the omission was due to the 
fact that of none of them was the size sufficiently 
great to justify comment, which brings me to the 
point I wish to emphasize. The little stumpy, 
trotting pony, or the bigger trotting slob, who can 
trot a mile in 2 :00 minutes or thereabouts may do 
for the trotting race horsemen, who live and move 
and have their being in trotting training stables or 
tracks, but it has never struck me that those horses 
were the ones the farmers of Virginia ought to pa- 
tronize, with the expectation of getting any money 
out of the sale of their colts. If you get a trotter, 
and this is a very uncertain "if," by breeding to the 
small trotting stud, and want to sell him, you are apt 
to be tempted to train him, or have him trained. If 
you undertake to train him yourself, whether you 
know anything about the business or not, the Avork 
with the horse will take you away from other work, 
or superintendence, and your other business will be 
sacrificed in your endeavor to "develop" your trot- 
ter, -who may develop or not. If not, then you have 
drawn a blank' in the horse line, and other things 
have gone to smash. If be does learn to go a few 
seconds faster, after months of work and worry, then 



to sell him he must be taken to some city livery sta- 
ble or track and there be shown and tried, and prob- 
ably finally a purchaser found at a satisfactory 
price for the horse, but all this time the farm is going 
back. All this if you train him yourself. On the 
other hand, if you put him in the hands of a profes- 
sional trainer, even an honest one, you never know 
when the bills will stop coming in for boots, shoeing, 
veterinary attention, etc. I have been there. 

Again, when a farmer has a well bred large mare 
or two, and can find a big trotting stallion, the big- 
ger the better, that can trot in 2 :30 or better, and 
can breed his mares to such a horse, he may rest as- 
sured that with good feed and care, and such hand- 
ling as he can give his colts, at five years old he can 
sell every one of them in Richmond, Washington, 
Baltimore, or any good market, quickly and at little 
cost, and will realize more profit from such a course 
of breeding than by gambling for speed. I never 
had any difficulty in selling at a good price a big 
horse of some beauty and style, and have often found 
and seen much faster but small horses hang on like 
a toe plaster. 

For the farmers of Virginia, give us big sires to 
get big colts, to make sure some profit, sometimes- a 
handsome one. In the cities of the United States 
there are always buyers looking for fine, large car- 
riage horses, with some trotting action, and if you 
have such stock you can always sell it, and at a good 
price. It is needless to try to show that for his own 
use the farmer has absolutely no use for a small, fast 
trotter, and if the small, fast bred trotters can't trot, 
the farmer is "in the soup." I wish there were some 
such horses as I have described offered for public 
patronage in my neighborhood, but there are none. 
Why is it that size is subordinated too much to speed 
in the manufacture of the trotting breed of horses, 
essentially an American invention ? W. R. C. 

Westmorejand Co., Va. 



SADDLE HORSES. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

"Broad Rock" gives us much information about 
the thoroughbred horses of Virginia, also the trotter, 
once in a while the Hackney, to which, by the way, 
I am not very partial, but that is immaterial, and 
sometimes he mentions jumpers, but he has nothing 
to say about a class of horses as beautiful as any, as 
intelligent as any, and as useful, the class known as 
gaited saddle horses. Not the walk, trot, gallop and 
jump favorites of the New York Horse Shows, but 
the American saddle horses, on whose back a man can 



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ride and attend to business for six days in the week, 
and when Saturday night comes be no more tired, 
if as much, as if he had covered the same distance in 
a rubber tired buggy. I have ridden these horses, 
but don't own one now. W. R, C. 



NOTES. 

Not a month passes but testimonials are received 
regarding the value of the Planteb as an advertising 
medium. We are deeply appreciative of all such. 



We take pleasure in publishing the following inter- 
esting communication from Mr. Percival Hicks, 
whose farm is near North P. O., Mathews county, 
Va.: 

"I have recently sold to E. R. Rajnoldo, 79 Victoria 
street. Toronto, Canada, the bay stallion Bloscellus, 
25401, by Blosceps, son of Orange Blossom, dam 
Marcella, by Sir Walkill. He is ten years old, and 
stands 16.2, while built in proportion. He will be 
used by his new owner as a sire of coach horses, for 
which, on account of his fine size, rich color and even 
temper, he seems admirably fitted. Indeed, it seems 
a pity that such a horse should leave this country, and 
not find ready sale at home at a profitable figure, but 
Mathews is distinctly a race horse county ; then, too, 
in competition with such trotting sires as Letcher, 
2:18£, by Dictator; Bedworth, 2 :22 ; Pilot Medium, 
Jr., 2 :09f ; Edworth, 2 :20£, and Sable Rock, by Sa- 
ble Wilkes, he had little opportunity in the stud, and 
I did not find him a profitable investment, hence the 
sale of this son of Blosceps. I now have in stable 
Kisses, holder of the track record at Newport News 
at three-quarter mile heats, and the black mare Al- 
verna, by Cuthbert, son of Cuylerdam by Frank 
Morgan. This mare can show a 2:10 gait pacing, 
and is in foal to Pilot Medium, Jr., 2 :09|, and the 
prospective foal is nominated in the Western Horse- 
man Futurity for foals of 1904, value $6,000. I am 
hoping that this foal may place Virginia in the front 
rank as a producer of early speed, an honor that her 
mild climate and short winters entitles her to try for. 
Indeed, no State this side of the Rocky Mountains 
has a better winter climate for growing stock, and 
we have the stallions, but as yet nothing like so many 
approved mares as I should like to see." 

Dr. James Kerr, prominent in professional and 
other circles in Washington, D. C, and proprietor of 
the Antrim stud, Warrenton, Virginia, writes me that 
his horses are wintering finely. The former good 
race horse Chorister heads the stud, and the brood 
mares number about a dozen head, all bred in lines 
likely to produce winners. Chorister, the son of 
Falsetto and Addie C, is a bay horse of splendid 
physique, standing 16.2 in height and weighing 1,300 



pounds. Formerly, in the noted Castleton stud, Lex- 
ington, Ky., he sired while there a number of good 
ones, among them Whitechapel, a horse known on 
both continents. The returns are not all in for 1903, 
but during the previous year his get won over $28,000 
on Jockey Club tracks, and with $1,500 won by Ma- 
ria Bolton at Charleston, S. C, a track not recog- 
nized, swells the total to something more than $30,- 
000. This was some $15,000 more than was credited 
to any other Virginia thoroughbred sire. Young 
Dion Kerr, one of the crack gentleman riders of the 
South, has charge of affairs at Antrim, and the five 
yearlings on the place by Chorister from the farm 
mares, he thinks will compare favorably with many 
seen in the Blue Grass region of Kentucky. 

%e& t5* t&* 

The advertisement of Wealth, 2 :10, which appears 
in this issue is decidedly interesting, as it refers to a 
harness horse with a faster record than any other 
stallion kept for service in the State. Wealth is in 
the stud at Gordonsville, Va., in charge of S. F. 
Chapman, whose father. Col. W. H. Chapman, pur- 
chased the handsome son of Gambetta Wilkes and 
Magnolia, by Norfolk, when a suckling by his dam's 
side, and has seen him develop grand individuality 
along with speed of a sensational order. Gambetta 
Wilkes is one of the handsomest and most successful 
sons of the immortal George Wilkes. His get have 
proven winners on all the big tracks, and he is the 
leading sire of 2 :10 performers now, and promises at 
no distant date to lead all sires of standard perform- 
ers that has ever lived. On his maternal side Wealth 
gets the potent blood of Nutwood, as his dam was sired 
by Norfolk, a son of that illustrious sire, and back of 
that comes more trotting and thoroughbred blood. 
Write Mr. Chapman for the stud circular of his horse 

and studv his blood lines. 

JC J* J* 

The brown colt Featherbone, by Whalebone, dam 
Alcyrene, a daughter of the famous dead Alcyone, 
which I sold last fall through an advertisement in the 
Peantee to D. C. Lester, of Hatfield, Ark., is doing 
nicely in his Southern home, and promises to de- 
velop both speed and race horse quality. He is now 
two years old. His dam, Alcyrene, I sold to M. W. 
Savage, of the International Stock Farm, Minneapo- 
lis, Minn., and she has been mated with Directum, 
2 :05^, regarded as one of the greatest sires alive to- 
day. M.T. Lester formerly bred trotters in Idaho 
and sold several for good figures, but now his time is 
taken up with duties connected with his office of 
sheriff of Polk county, Ark., still he devotes his spare 
time to breeding fine horses and fancy live stock, for 
which he is well fitted on account of a practical knowl- 
edge of pedigrees and blood lines. Featherbone will 
be developed by Mr. Lester and then placed in the 
stud. Broad Rook. 



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187 



Miscellaneous. 



VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, BLACKS- 
BURG. 

(Agbicultukal and Mechanical College.) 

The great increase in the number of students at the 
college, and the constant applications made for ad- 
mission from all parts of the State, has produced such 
congestion in the class rooms, dining hall and dor- 
mitories that the Board of Visitors have been com- 
pelled to apply to the Legislature of the State for a 
special appropriation to enable them to meet the re- 
quirements and to obviate the necessity for refusing 
admission of students. They desire also to bring the 
agricultural side of the college into due proportion 
with the mechanical side. In the past few students 
applied to take the agricultural course. jSTow farm- 
ers are appreciating the value of science as an ad- 
junct to their calling, and are asking that their sons 
shall have scientific training at the college. There 
are to-day more students taking the agricultural 
course than ever before in the history of the college. 
This and the probability of still more students de- 
siring such instruction next term imposes upon the 
Board the duty of supplying the necessary facilities 
in the way of buildings and equipment. In compari- 
son with the agricultural colleges of many of the 
other States, the buildings and equipment of our 
college for the teaching of scientific agriculture are 
most meagre and insufficient. We have been unpleas- 
antly reminded of this in articles in several of the 
agricultural journals recently. The standing which 
the college has attained as a training place for young 
men in the mechanical arts has brought it into promi- 
nent notice in other States. This has led to special 
investigation by journalists of those States of the 
status of the college, and its equipment. Whilst one 
and all praise the mechanical side of the college and 
the work it has done and is doing as evidenced by the 
large number of graduates holding responsible posi- 
tions in this and other countries, there is an equal 
unanimity in lamenting the facilities afforded by the 
agricultural department of the college. This should 
not be allowed to continue, and will not, if the Legis- 
lature will only find the money wherewith to remedy 
it If the appropriation now asked of $200,000 be 
granted not only will this deficiency be made good, 
but accommodations will be provided for further stu- 
dents in all departments. To-day there are nearly 700 
of the sons of Virginia receiving instruction at the 



college, a large number of them the sons of farmers. 
If the necessary buildings are provided, not less than 
1,000 young men of the State will in all probability 
next session be learning how to do in the best way 
something to earn a good living, and not merely how 
to talk. We have talkers in excess already, we want 
doers. Let the members of the Legislature hear from 
every farmer in the State at once, urging the making 
of the appropriation asked. The college is the farm- 
ers college ; let it be made the greatest institution in 
the State, as they are the greatest factor in the State's 
progress. 



BIRDS AND THE FARMERS. 

We notice that some wiseacre in the Legislature 
wants to place a price on the scalp of the crow and 
the poor hawks are already in many counties thus 
handicapped. We desire to protest against such leg- 
islation, and would ask our farmer friends to support 
us in this matter by writing their representatives on 
the subject Investigation by a large number of au- 
thorities has settled the question that the crow is the 
farmer's friend, and not his enemy. His diet is al- 
most wholly insectivorous at all times, and certainly 
so during the breeding season. We knew a case where 
a farmer was very wroth with a flock of crows for 
frequenting his newly seeded wheat He was satis- 
fied that they were eating the seed and pulling it up 
as it germinated. One was shot, and examination 
of this crow showed not a single grain of wheat, but 
a crawful of wire worms and grubs. This man was 
ever after a friend of the crow. In like manner the 
hawk is a much maligned bird. Whilst it is true 
that some members of the hawk family kill chickens, 
yet it is equally true that nearly all the hawks are 
great destroyers of mice, rats and other small ani- 
mals of various kinds, which are destructive of cropa 
A few years ago in the South of Scotland hawks and 
owls were nearly exterminated by the game keepers. 
As a result the whole section was infested with a 
plague of rats and mice, which consumed an immense 
amount of grain and fodder before they could be 
destroyed. If our legislators must do something in 
the way of legislating as to the birds we would strong- 
ly urge that they repeal the legislation protecting the 
Turkey Buzzard and in the place of protection offer 
a good reward for the destruction of these 
birds. They are the great means whereby hog chol- 



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era and other infectious and contagious diseases of 
animals are spread over the State. It should be 
made a penal offence for any one to throw out a dead 
animal to he consumed by buzzards. Make it im- 
perative that all dead animals be either burnt or 
buried deeply ; get rid of the buzzards and we will 
soon be rid of hog cholera and other infectious and 
contagious diseases of animals, or shall have them 
confined to the limited areas, where outbreaks may 
occur. 



POLYGONUM SACCHALINENSE; SACHALIEN 
BUCKWHEAT. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

Replying to an enquiry in the last issue, polygo- 
num sacchalinense is as the Latin name indicates, not 
a clover, but a buckwheat. It is a perennial grow- 
ing wild on the desert island of Sachalien, in the Sea 
of Okhotsk, on the east coast of Siberia. 

The plant was for the first time advertised for 
sale about four years ago in Germany and Russia. 
A photograph shows that it grows from 7 to 8 feet 
high, resembling tobacco. It is claimed that this 
sachalien buckwheat grows on all kinds of soil, even 
on sandy and gravely soils, and that it withstands the 
hardest winters as well as the hottest summers. When 
the plants are well established, they should last 20 
years with little care. The young shoots are juicy 
and tender, and should be cut when about 4 feet high. 
From 2 to 3 crops may be harvested every year, or 
one crop, if the plants are allowed to grow to the 
full height of seven or eight feet. It is said that it 
is not advisable to buy the seed, as it is difficult to 
get it pure. The seed firm of Ernest Bahlsen, Wein- 
berge, Prague, Bohemia, offers seedlings for sale: 
1,000 plants, $47; 100, $5; 25, $1.50; 10, 75 cents. 
If the seed or the plants can be bought here I am not 
aware of it. H. Winkelman. 

District of Columbia. 



REMEDY FOR LICE ON CATTLE. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

In reply to J. D. H. for a remedy for lice on cat- 
tle I will give my remedy which has proved very 
effective. I had several heifers that were looking 
badly notwithstanding they were well fed and housed. 
I had never had a lousy cow and felt rather insulted 
when told they were lousy and paid no attention to 
them, but soon one of them got so weak she could not 
walk a hundred yards. I became alarmed and con- 
descended to examine her, and to my horror, I think 
there was a louse for every hair. 

It was a cold February day, but a sunny day. I 
knew she would die if not relieved at once. I made 



a tea from a bundle of tobacco to two gallons of water 
and put in enough kerosene to make it smell strong. 
I took the leaves and rubbed the tea thoroughly all 
over her. This was early in the morning. By night 
every louse seemed to be dead, but in a few days I 
saw others. I washed her the second time and got 
rid of all the brood. I never saw any bad effects from 
it. I treated all the others with like success and have 
never had a louse since. N. S. Watexns. 

Goochland Co., Va. 

We can endorse this remedy from personal expe- 
rience. — Ed. 



HOG RAISING. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

Years ago after I had lost nearly a hundred hogs 
and dispaired of raising hogs, having only seven left, 

1 accidentally saw in an agricultural paper an arti- 
cle on hog cholera and was so much impressed with 
the same that 1 at once tried the preventive sug- 
gested and as a result had no more disease. The rem- 
edy was nothing but plenty of wood ashes where the 
hogs could get them. 

Before this time I always had great trouble to get 
my hogs to fatten. Now 1 would as soon try to raise 
chickens without Polk Miller's Victory Chicken 

Powhatan Co., Va. W. W. Hobsom. 

Pood as not to give my hogs plenty of ashes. As the 
result of eating the ashes they had no bowel worms or 
boils on their livers whilst before they were full. 

A better preventive of disease than wood ashes 
alone is wood charcoal 1 pound, sulphur 1 pound, so- 
dium chloride (salt) 2 pounds, sodium bicarbonate 

2 pounds, sodium hyposulphite 2 pounds, sodium 
sulphate 1 pound, antimony sulphide (black anti- 
mony) 1 pound. Pulverize and thoroughly mix. 
Give a large tablespoonful for each 200 pounds 
weight of hogs once a day. Mix with the slop food 
and the hogs will eat it readily. — Ed. 



FOREST HOME FARM, LOUDOUN CO., VA. 

The proprietor of this farm writes us that during 
the last year he sold over 250,000 pounds of 4.7 per 
cent, milk and 130 hogs and pigs. Since November 
1st last the farmers delivering milk to his creamery 
(about 3,000 pounds per day) have received for their 
product 30 cents per pound for their butter fat and 
have had the skim milk returned to feed to their own 
stock. Such a record must be very gratifying to the 
farmers of that section and shows what may be done 
to improve the condition of the farmers by the estab- 
lishment of a creamery in almost any county of the 
South. 



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advertisers the necessity of hav- 
ing all advertisements, no matter 
whether new or change of copy, 
in our office by the 24th of each 
month. Advertising forms close 
on the 25th. We are compelled to 
leave a number of advertisements 
out of each issue because they are 
received too late. 



DETAIL INDEX TO ENQUIRER'S 

COLUMN. 

Tomato Growing— Potato (Irish) 166 
Improving Land — Sec ling to 

Grass and Clover 166 

Alfalfa — Pig Trees — Bermuda 

Grass 166 

Tomato Blight— Winter Cabbage. 167 

Specking of Tobacco 167 

Grass Seeding 167 

Sweet Potato Growing 167 

Strawberries — Raspberries 168 

Irish Potato Growing 168 

Whitewash for Fruit Trees — 

Wormy Apples 168 

Preserving Skins of Animals — 
Horses Rubbing Tails — Vetch 

Seed 168 

Ginseng 168 

Draining Land 169 

Dorset Sheep . . .• 169 

Corn for Hog Feeding — Cow Peas, 
Chufas and Rape for Hog Pas- 
tures 169 

Tomato Rot— Potato Bugs — Ni- 
trate of Soda for Irish Potatoes, 

Etc.— Gas Fly 170 

Profitable Sheep and Hogs — Fer- 
tilizer for Peanuts 1"0 

Breeding Hares — Johnson Grass. 

Grasses 171 

Potash — Fertilizer for Cotton — 

Clover in Cotton 171 

Sheep Troughs and Racks — Pre- 
venting Sheep Jumping — Cas- 
trating Lambs 171 

Crimson Clover 172 

Pedigree Seed Corn 172 

Strawberry Plants 172 

Tobacco and Cow Peas — Pine Tags 172 
Lice on Musk Melons — Tobacco 

Dust 172 

Larva for Name 172 



WITH THE ADVERTISERS. 

The Majestic Rotary Washer is ad- 
vertised in this issue by the Richmond 
Cedar Works. 

Mr. Percv L. Banks has a card on 
another page offering "Bug Death," an 
insecticide, which is rapidly coming 
to the front. 

Messrs. Shannon B«os. have an at- 
tractive ad in another column. They 
can handle commission orders for pure 
bred stock on short notice. 

Agricultural lime can be had of 
Messrs. T. C. Andrews & Co. Look 
up their card. 

Mr. H. C. Ward who has the largest 
broiler plant in this section, is offer- 
ing some of his well known stock, 
from which he makes his celebrated 
broilers. 

The Park Poultry Yards is a new 
advertiser in this issue. 

"M. D. L." desires t>. purchase a 
flock of common goats. 

Choice nursery stock, ornamental 
trees, etc.. can be had of the Murrell 
Orchard & Nursery Co. 

A new Berkshire advertiser in this 
issue is Mr. John Calhoun. He has 
the right foundation stock. Better 
get his prices. 

The Monarch Grubber & Stump Pul- 
ler is offered by the agent for this 
State, Mr. J. W. Ritchie. 

The Risdon Seed Co. has a card in 
another column, to which we invite 
attention. 

The Virginia Hill Poultry Farm is 
offering first class stock and eggs from 
the most popular strains. 

The Granite Poultry Yards are of- 
fering eggs and choice stock of Wyan- 
dottes and Barred Plymouth Rocks. 
Look un their ad and write for prices. 
The Norfolk Farm Supply Co. has 
an attractive card on another page. 
Farmers who are needing any farm 
tools or supplies, should get in corre- 
spondence with this firm. 

The Chicago House Wrecking Co. 
has several attractive ads in this issue. 
Zenoleum, the well known sheep 
dip and disinfectant, is offered to our 
readers for the first time in this issue. 
Kindly refer to the ad nnd write for 
some further information in regard to 
this successful dip. 



If you want Clean Fields 
and Clean Crops, Sow J* 

Wood's Trade Mark 

Clover and 
Grass Seeds. 

They are the best and cleanest 
qualities that it is possible to pro- 
cure — free from plantain, daisy, 
wild carrot and other objectionable 
weed seeds, often found in ordi- 
nary clover and grass Heeds. 

Wood's Seed Book for 1904 

gives the most complete informa- 
tion and up-to-date expedience 
about all Grasses and Clovers. 
Mailed free on request. Write for 
Seed Book and special Price List 
of Grass and Clover Seeds. 

T. W. WOOD & SONS, Seedsmen, 



RICHMOND, 



VIRGINIA. 



THE IMPROVED 

SCREWSTUMPPDLLEB 

Write for Prices. 




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




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




Stump Pullers 



grubbing - machines, 
DERRICKS to handle 
cane, cotton and tobacco. 
Derricks to load manure. 
., ^ 'Derricks for all purposes. 

Dept. L. NATIONAL H0I5T & AACHINB 

CO., Chicago. HI. 



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[March, 



State of Ohio, City of Toledo, Lucas 

County, ss. 

Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he 
is senior partner of the firm of F. J. 
Cheney & Co.. doing business in the 
city of Toledo, County and State 
aforesaid, and that said firm will pay 
the sum of one hundred dollars for 
each and every case of Catarrh that 
cannot be cured by the use of Hall's 
Catarrh Cure. 

FRANK J. CHENEY. 

Sworn to before me and subscribed 
in my presence, this 6th day of De- 
cember, A. D. 1886. 

(Seal.) A. W. GLEASON, 

Notary Public. 

Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken inter- 
nally, and acts directly on the blood 
and mucous surfaces of the system. 
Send for testimonials, free 

F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. 

Sold by all Druggists, 75c. 

Hall's Family Pills are the best. 

Kemp & Burpee Mfg. Co. are offer- 
ing their up-to-date Manure Spreader. 

The Belcher & Taylor A. T. Co. have 
a couple of ads in this issue, one of 
their corn planter and the other of a 
fertilizer distributor. We have fre- 
quent inauiries for the latter and beg 
to suggest that this is the place to 
get it. 

Curry Bros., seedsmen, have an in- 
teresting ad in another column. 

The Hench & Dromgold Co. resume 
their spring advertising in this issue. 
Their Daisy Corn Planter is the of- 
fering this month. 

The B. F. Baker Co. are advertising 
their traceless harness. Look up the 
ad. 

The International Harvester Co. has 
several ads in this issue giving infor- 
mation in regard to their various 
branches. Kindly look up these ads, 
so you will know where to apply for 
repairs as well as new machines. 

Parties desiring to purchase eggs, 
poultry, poultry supplies, or incubar 
tors, should look through this issue 
carefully. There will be found scores 
of ads of prominent dealers and our 
readers should have no difficulty in 
being accommodated. 

The real estate men always find the 
Southern Planter a profitable adver- 
tising medium. We suggest, there- 
fore, that any one desiring to buy, sell 
or exchange a farm should look 
through our columns before placing 
their property in the hands of an 
agent. 

The Electric Wheel Co. is using en- 
larged space in this issue to exploit its 
Low-down Handy Wagon and metal 
wheels. 

Dr. Jos. Haas would like to send 
every hog raiser and breeder a copy 
of his book entitled "Hogology." Look 
up his ad and send for the book. 

Mr. A. Pollard has two ads in this 
issue which will interest all horesmen. 

H. Armstrong is offering seme bar- 
gains in Herefords and Dorsets. We 
invite attention to the : d. 



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CATALOGUES. 
The annual catalogue of The Watt 
Plow Co., Richmond, Va., is before us. 
We are not auite sure, but we think 
this company has surpassed all pre- 
vious efforts in getting up a thor- 
oughly attractive and interesting cat- 
alogue. It is chock full of illustra- 
tions, descriptions and prices of every 
implement and appliance used on or 
about the farm: Carriages, harness, 
threshers, engines, saw mills, evapo- 
rators, harvesting machinery, all of 
the latest patterns. All farmers are 
invited to send for a copy. 

The Reliable Incubator & Brooder 
Co., Quincy, 111., have just issued 
their 20th annual catalogue, and as 
usual with this company, "it is a most 
elaborate one. The Reliable people 
are nothing if not unselfish. They do, 
not believe their yearly catalogue 
should be entirelv taken up by them- 
selves in advertising their goods, but 
sufficient space is given to the de- 
scription of their incubators, brood- 
ers and supplies, and the remainder 
devoted to general information on 
poultry subjects, making it a most val- 
uable book for anyone who raises poul- 
try. It gives many practical pointers 
that would require years of experi- 
ence to acquire. Every reader of this 
paper should have a copy. Write for 
one. Mention this paper when writ- 
ing. 

The Electric Wheel Co., Quincy, 111., 
send us its latest catalogue. It is a 
beauty. It deals, of course, with the 
Electric Low Down Wagons and metal 
wheels. This company, in introducing 
its broad tire wheels, is doing more 
for the good roads movement, than 
nine-tenths of the legislatures in the 
country. As to the Low Down Wagon, 
anyone who has ever used one or seen 
one, knows the enormous amount of 
labor they save. The matter is treat- 
ed fully and illustrated aptly in the 
catalogue. Send for it. Address, Box 
146, Quincy, 111. 

One of the most striking catalogues 
that has reached our table this sea- 
son is that of the Ohio Carriage Man- 
ufacturing Co.. Cincinnati, 0. It is a 
splendid example of the printer's art 
and is filled with interesting descrip- 
tive matter and illustrations of this 
company's celebrated Split Hickory 
vehicles. This company has another 
booklet, "Good Buggies and how they 
are made," which will be mailed to 
anyone for the asking, regardless of 
whether he wants to buy a buggy or 
not. Be sure and get both the cata- 
logue and booklet. Address the com- 
pany at Station 41. Cincinnati, O. 

The B.P . Baker Co.. Burnt Hills, 
N. Y., is a new advertiser in this issue. 
We hope you have seen their ad and 
I will write for a catalogue. This com- 
f pany is advertising Traceless Har- 
ness. Did you ever hear of or see a 
set? Probably not. The catalogue 
gives full information and testimo- 
nials from orchardists and others who 
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144 large size pages, and is in every respect and without exception the 
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Annuals. We will mail it EREE. 

Market Gardeners 

are invited to send for our special price list of high-class vegetable seeds 
for truckers and large market growers. It contains all sorts of ap- 
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Apples, Peaches, Pears, Cherries, Plums, Apricots, Necta- 
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an extra fine lot Raspberries. Splendid assortment Ornamental and Shade 
Trees, Ornamental Shrubs and Hedge Plants. 

BOOS from B. P. ROCK and BROWN LEGHORN FOWLS at fl.00 per It. 
Also a few pullets and cockerels of these breeds at $1.00 each for immediate de- 
livery. Write for Catalogue to 

J. B. W ATKINS & BRO., Hallsboro, Va. 



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[March", 



The LANSING" 
PERFECT TUBULAR SILO 

is the Best Silo Made. 






A. M. D. HOLLOWAY, 

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

Write for Catalogue and Prices. 

Clark's Tools for Large Hay Crops 

e;"-=X • Clark ' 8 Rev - Busb p ' ow and Harrow 

Ss?i9*CMLsa^! cuts a track 5 ft. wide, 1 ft. 
'^i.lrW"*l' ■; --"t. deep. Connects the sub- 
ECSamrarfffiM Sl "' water. It is an ex- 
m $nHl$l1tt oellent machine for 
ttUJiSJ, Mi Vcovering in sugar cane. 
Wi/WC Wffl ( Strength guaranteed. 
» Can plow a newly cut 
forest, stump, bush, or 
bog land, leaves land true, clean for any crop. 

Clark's Double Action Cutaway ^^^I^Spl 
Harrow moves 15,000 tons 0, jSfSnpi%^f itf^ 
•arth in a day. 'rWRHrlKl 

Send for Circulars. ""»/ wa 

Clark's Rev. Sulky Disc Plow 

r* a Made single or double. 
LrwiJ^gj one or two furrows five 
Si . 1/, /W? to ten inches deep; 14 
!ij*\f jl inches wide. For two or 
y four horses. Light draft. 
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, morningglory, 
Russian thistle or any other foul plant that 
grows, or money refunded. Now is the time to 
commence work for next year's seeding to grass. 

THE CUTAWAY HARROW CO., 

Higganum, Ct., U. S. A. 

WITH HUSKS OH 

or off, cob corn or shelled, all 
grains. It will not choke. 
There's speed and fine or 
Coarse grinding with 

Kelly 

DUPLEX 
Grinding Mills. 

Steady force feed. Doub- 
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^ Little power, any kind, runs 
BBthem. 1 sizes. Catalog ft—. 





The O. S. Keily Co., Springfield, Ohio. 



GOOD HOUSEKEEPING. 

CREAM OF TOMATO SOUP. 

Put one can of tomatoes and half 
of an onion chopped fine in a pan to 
stew for twenty minutes, till they can 
be passed through a seive. Then put 
them in a boiler and add half a tea- 
spoon of soda, a tablespoon of sugar, 
a teaspoon of salt, black pepper and 
a pinch of parsley. Keep this at the 
boiling point. Rub two large table- 
spoons of flour into two tablespoons 
of butter until smooth, and pour slow- 
ly over them a quart of scalding milk. 
Let it cook until it is creamy, then 
just before serving pour the tomatoes 
and milk together very slowly, and 
put on the table at once. Do not cook 
at all after they are mixed as there 
is great danger of the milk curdling. 
Have small squares of toast to eat 
with this, putting a handfull into each 
plate and pouring the soup over. 

CREAM OF CELERY SOUP. 

In the spring as the celery is hard 
to get and is rarely as tender as 
would like to have it, it is a very good 
plan to make soup of it, and if you 
have your own celery bed the short 
rough pieces and the roots can be used 
and they are really better than the 
long tender pieces, as they have more 
of the celery taste. 

Chop up enough to measure one 
quart, in small pieces, add to it one 
quart of boiling water and let it cook 
until thoroughly tender. Mash it and 
rub it all through a seive, allowing as 
much of the pulp to go through as pos- 
sible. Melt two large spoons of but- 
ter and stir into it two heaping table- 
spoons of flour, when well blended, 
not browned, add slowly one quart of 
scalding milk, stir until smooth and 
creamy and then put in the prepared 
celery, half a teaspoon of onion juice, 
salt and pepper to taste. Add half 
cup of whipped cream just before serv- 
ing. 

STUFFED BEEF STEAK. 

Select three nice pieces of round 
steak. Lay one in the bottom of a 
pan and make a stuffing just as for 
turkey, with the addition of some 
small pieces of chopped onion or on- 
ion juice Spread this evenly over 
the steak and put on the next piece 
treating as before and then put on the 
top piece, sprinkling some of the 
dressing over it. Pour about three 
cups of boiling water in which you 
have melted two tablespoons of butter 
over this. Pin it all together with 
sharp pieces of wood, if you have no 
skewers, and bake slowly for two 
hours, basting several times. Serve 
hot, slicing through all three pieces. 

BAKED BEEF. 

Buy a cheap cut, the neck, or any of 
the odds and ends, without much 
bone. Run it through the meat chop- 
per, or sausage grinder. To about 
two quarts put a pint of stale bread 
crumbs, three raw eggs, salt, pepper, 
and a half cup of melted butter, half 
cup of tomato catsup, or soup mix- 



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Easy to handle, a model for accuracy and 
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front can be raisedor lowered for deep or shallow planting 
Extra rinerscan be supplied for dropping or drilling peas, beans, 
< nviU^e corn, etc, W rife for Catalogue 

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STEWART BROS. 
Columbus, Ohio, 17. S. A. 



1904.] 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER 



193 



b t e h s e t SPRAY PUMP 



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 moat 
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 iQanufac- 
tured by LATHAM & CO., 

Sandusky, O. Send for Catalogue. 





Spray Apple 

There's no other way to cet right fruitage. Its mounted 

barrel tank, sul>mere<-(l brass cylinder, bronze ball 

valves and automatic agitation make the 

CENTURY SPRAYER 

theide.il for all orchard operations. All kinds sprayers 
for all purposes. 20 styles. Hand, Bucket, Knapsack, 
Barrel, Field, Power. Special needs all met. Catalog 
free. Booklet oninsectsand fruit diseases 10c. 

THE DEMINC CO., SALEM, OHIO. 
Henlon & Hubbeil, Western Agents, Chicago, Ills. 



Get the Best 

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

THE ECLIPSE \ 

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

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

MOKR1XI. & MORT.EY, Benton Ilarbor. Mich. 

m m im j i u mb^—m ■■■iii w w wh ibi k 





est and 
best. All size?. Throws 9 kinds 
spray irnm i-arae nozzle. Agents wanted. 

$20.00 A DAY 

been made by live agents. Showing i"ti: 
selling it. First community order (whole- 
sale price) ! ets permanent local agency. 
Write for terms and free circulars. 

ROCHESTER SPRAY PUMP CO., 
21 East Avenue, Rochester, N. Y 




FORCE PUMP 
HAS NO EQUAL 

PRICE REASONABLE 

CATALOGUE FREE 

AGENTS WANTED 

THEH01LMFG.C0. 

353 MAIN ST. 
BUFFALO. N.Y. 




ture. Mix all together well with a 
fork and put it into a pudding disk, 
bake slowly or steam. This makes a 
good dinner dish. It looks better 
made into a mound or pone and baked, 
garnishing with celery tops or pars- 
ley, and served either hot or cold for 
tea. 

TOMATO SALAD. 

Scald one can of tomatoes until 
tender, rub them through a seive, let- 
ting the seed and pulp go through too. 
Season with salt, pepper, a teaspoon 
of onion juice and while hot pour into 
it four tablespoons of gelatine, which 
has been soaked in a half cup of cold 
water for two hours. Pour it into a 
mold and let it stand till the next day. 
Serve on lettuce leaves with mayon- 
naise. 

BAKED EGGS. 

Boil your eggs twenty minutes. A 
dozen will make a good dish. Take 
off the shells, and when cold slice 
them in thin slices, put a layer into 
the bottom of the pudding dish, and 
over this a layer of fine crumbs of 
stale bread, salt, peper and dabs of 
butter. Repeat the operation till the 
dish full, having the crumbs on top. 
Over this pour a pint of sweet milk 
and bake twenty minutes. 

PINE APPLE PIE. 

One can of grated pineapple,, or a 
pint of grated fresh pineappel. One 
and a half cups of sugar, three heap- 
ing tablespoons of butter, five eggs, 
whites and yolks beaten separately, 
very light. Cream the butter and 
sugar, add the yolks, and then a cup 
of rich cream, then the fruit and last- 
ly the whites. Mix all well together 
and bake in pans lined with rich pas- 
try. Good hot or cold, but better cold. 

SOFT GINGER BREAD. 

One-half cup of butter, two cups of 
good Porto Rico molasses. One cup 
of sugar, four cups of flour, one tea- 
spoon of soda and a cup of sour milk, 
three tablespoons of powdered ginger, 
and half teaspoon of cloves. Serve 
hot or cold. 

PRUNE CAKE. 

One cup of butter, one cup of milk, 
two cups of sugar, creamed into the 
butter, three cups of flour and four 
eggs, beaten separately, one teaspoon 
of baking powder. Bake in layers 
and spread between them a filling 
made with: One-half pound of the 
best prunes soaked in water all night 
and allowed to steam until the stones 
can be removed easily, when cold add 
one quarter of a pound of chopped 
almonds, and one Quarter of a pound 
of chopped pecans, chopping the fruit 
and nuts together until they are al- 
most a paste, then stir them into an 
icing made with the whites of three 
eggs and six tablespoons of powdered 
sugar beaten very light. 

QUEEN OF PUDDINGS. 

Two and a half cups of bread 
crumbs. Over them pour a quart of 
scalding milk, beat the yolks of four 




We have sold up to date more 
than a million and a quarter light 
draft, wide tire, low steel wheels. 
We are making more of them than 
any two other factories. 

Several hundred thousand farm- 
ers whoare using them say theyare 
the best by every lest. Does that 
mean anything? It means just this: 

ELECTRIC 

Steel Wheels 

and the 

ELECTRIC 

Handy Wagon 

have proved themselves to he superior 
to any other. No living man ran build 
a better. We make them ourselves, by 
our patented process. They are made 
right. Wo tfive them the strongest pos- 
sible guaranty. You run no" risk in 
buying them. The spokes are united 
with the hub and simply can't work 
loose. They last a lifetime without 
repairs. Don't go on breaking your 
back loading high wagons and rutting 
your fields with narrow tires. Don't 
be persuaded into buying a makeshift. 
Get the best while you're at it. It costs 
no more. Send for tree catalogue and 
use your own judgment. 

ELECTRIC WHEEL COMPANY, 
Box 146 Qulncy, III. 





ij CLEAN.SAFE, 
_^s^« COMFORTABLE. 

MFDBYWBIRUMB.F.-restvilleCoKN 



Defender 
Sprayer 




All brass, easiest work* 
ing, most powerful, auto* 
matic mixer, cxpaniioB 
valves, double strainer. 
Catalogue of Pumps and' 
Treatise on Spraying fxe*. 
Agents Wanteds 
J. F. Qaylwd, Bex H'2 CataailL H. t 



E3SHE 



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194 



THE BOUTHEEN PLANTER 



[March, 




Farmers Having Stumps 




$$k 



to pull or land to clear, will do well to 
investigate 

The Monarch Grubber 
and Stump Puller. 

It is the best on earth; you make no mis- 
take in buying of a man of 5 years' ex- 
perience in pulling stumps. We set up the 
Puller and guarantee satisfaction before we 
want your money. 5 sizes. Write for cata- 
logue and prices. JOS. W. RITCHIE, State 
Agent, R. P. D. No. 39. Grottoes, Va. 

What About Your Drinking Water? 

Are you satisfied with it? Do you have 

enough? 

1 SINK ARTESIAN WELLS 

WITH THE MOST MODERN IMPRROVED 

MACHINERY. 
Sparkling Artesian Well Water Possible. You 
can have it Absolutely Pure and Your Own. 
Surface and Reservoir Water is 
more or less polluted. 
I Guarantee First Class Work and Rapid Ex- 
ecution of Contract. 

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

Correspondence solicited. 



Uf C M DRILLING 



MACHINES 



The moat successful money-maklns ma- 
chines ever made. Also machine* tor baring 
wells with augers by horse power. Write 
ws If you mean business. 
Loomis Machine Co., Tiffin, Ohio. 



eggs with one cup of sugar and stir 
into this while it is hot. Let it cool 
and put into a pudding dish with a 
half pound of seeded raisins, season 
with nutmeg and bake slowly until it 
is well set, then take it out and 
spread ever the top a layer of acid 
jelly or iam and the whites of the eggs 
beaten light with six tablespoons of 
sugar, let it brown and set aside to 
get cold. Serve with cream seasoned 
with vanilla. Cabaven. 



THE GOOD OLD TIME PIECES OF 
OUR GRANDFATHER'S DAYS. 

How well we remember the old fash- 
ioned clocks of our grandfather's 
days. They were from six to ten feet 
tall, eighteen inches wide and stood 
up against the wall, generally in the 
dining room, and were wound up once 
a week. 

They were a slow, solemn, dignified 
set — those old fashioned clocks. They 
generally stood in a corner of the din- 
ing room and solemnly, soberly, and 
sedately marked off the time; and the 
monotonous "tick-tock. tick-tock, tick- 
tock" sounds in our ears after forty 
years wanderings from the old home 
and the old clock. 

There was no intimation of flying 
seconds in those old clocks. It was a 
slow steady, solemn noting of the 
passing minutes. The "tick-tocks" 
were not rapid enough to catch and 
note the seconds. 

How oft in the silent watches of the 
still midnight; and in the almost op- 
pressive stillness of the Holy Sab- 
bath, have we heard that solemn in- 
junction "don't hurry," "don't hur- 
ry," "don't hurry" and everybody in 
the good old times of our grandfath- 
er's days and clocks heeded this in- 
junction; and they "didn't hurry," 
"didn't hurry," "didn't hurry," "didn't 
worry;" but took things easily, then. 
There was no hustle, bustle, worry 
and drive. But those old clocks; those 
old times; and those old fashioned 
people have all passed away. 

Time now is marked by "fractions 
of seconds" upon the little spasmodic 
clocks of the present. The old clock 
said Dlainly "don't hurry;" the mod- 
ern clock says "you get." The very 
clocks of the Dresent exert a quicken- 
ing nervous influence upon our steps; 
our thoughts and our actions. We 
think quickly — speak quickly — and 
act quickly. We are compelled to do 
so. If we do not act quickly, promptly 
and intelligently, the very time pieces 
say "got left," "got left," "got left." 
The old clock said "don't hurry," the 
new one says "you get" and even the 
Virginia farmer has "to get" or "get 
left." A. Jeffees. 



"Your Plant Setter is the best thing 
that ever struck the tobacco, tomato 
and cabbage sections." Read Masters 
Planter Co.'s ad. in another column. 



UNION LOCK POULTRY FENCING 

HAS BEEN FULLY 

TESTED AND FOUND 

SUPERIOR TO ALL 

OTHERS. 

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

CASE BROS., Box 340, Colchester, Conn. 




♦" T T 



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WIRE • FENCE 

Heavy lateral wires, heavy bard steel stays, coil" 
ed spring wire, Sure Grip Lock. In strength, 
appearance and durability, the Hard Steel can- 
not be excelled. Write for catalogue and prices- 
THE HARD STEEL FENCE CO., Cuyahoga Falls, 0- 




IRE $1.40 



PER 
1O0 
LBS. 

SMOOTH GALVANIZED WIRE 

pu t u p 100 ibs. to a bale , gauges from 
11 to 1 i inclusive. Lengths running up 
to 250 ft. Per 100 lbs. J1.40. Fence 
Staples, all sizes, per 100 lbs. 12.00. 
Wire Nails, assorted in a keg, per 
100 lbs. 81.70. Barbed Wire, per 
100 lbs. 82.60. Poultry Netting;. Field Fence, etc., at 
low prices. Ask for free catalogue No. (* , on 
merchandise of all kinds from Sheriffs and Receivers sales 
CHICAGO HOUSE WRECKING CO. , 3dth & Iron Sts, Chicago. 




Genuine Spiral Spring Wiie 

FENCES BKD GBTES 

If your dealer does not have our 

goods in stock you can buy direct 

"ZU at Manufacturers' Price. Write 

for Catalogue and secure agency. 



INTERNATIONAL FENCE AND F. 
Columbus, Ohio. 



CO. 



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IF A HEAVY HORSE 

should run into Page 23-Bar Poultry Fence it 
would stop him, and not damage horse or fence. 
PAGE WOVEN WIRE FENCE CO., Adrian, Michigan. 

GATE 



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nfrij \-;)\\(\ni<,\:/. rxaxxmrnsmmmmiiig \i\\ w u |m!u 
the "Wire Board fencing carefully ; compare it with 
others, then buy ■which you think strongest, most 
durable andficonomieal If you do this we are will- 
ing to abid* 1 by your decision. Write for free sample. 
The Truss & Cable Fence Co., f;]0 Cuvahuga Kldg.,Uevel&nd,0. 



fWLAWN FENCE 






Many designs. Cheap i 
wood. 32 page Catalogue 
free. Spectal Prices to Ceme> 
terles and Churches. Address 
COILED SPRING FENCE «0. 
Box Q Winchester, Ind. 



IPM^B? We ' n teU y° u ,uo cheapest 
. — lfcl^**it» and best way to build it. Of 
fjaBjl any kind of wire, for any requirement, 
Rilf with cheap labor, no machine and we'll tell 
\ yon how Infix yonrold fences too. Write 
B. B. FENCE CO., 142 W. 3rd St., foru, lnd. 



1004.] 



(THE SOUTHERN PLANTER 



196 



In Advance 




We will si'iid any i 
sponsible farmer 



Tr &?, G B S, FEED MDER 

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

G. HI. DITTO, Box 48 Jotiet, Ills. 



.FEED MILLS. 

Every Man His Own Miller. 

The latest improved. Does all kinds 
of work. Most durable; has ground 
over 15,000 bushels without repair or 
expense. The fastest grinder; has 
ground 300 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. 



Make Your Own Fertilizer 

at Small Cost with 

Wilson's Phosi 




From 1 to 40 H. P. Also Bone Out- 
terft. hand and power, for the poul- 
trymen; Isanti a-'cecl X131U, <Jra- 
hum 1'loiir II, ii.l Mills, Mrit and 
Shell Mills. Send for catalogue. 
WILSON BROS., Sole Jit'ro., 
Easton, I'ii. 



S3 9 13 t- Good second-hand Wrought Iron 

■ ^ 1 a^ d ■ Steam, Gas or Water Pipe, in 

sizes from one half to twelve inches diameter. 

It is complete with threads and couplings. 

llnch. per foot, 8 1-4 eta. IV Inch, per foot, 41-4 ots. 

We handle all kinds of well casing:. Write us your 

wants in the pipe line. We have all kinds of supplies of 

this character. Write for Free Catalogue No. 166. 

CHICAGO HOUSE WRECKING CO., 

West 85th and Iron Street. Chicago. 



^SENT M TRIAL 



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

AT ACTUAL COST OF WIRE 

HmM>-IiiL:li, Biill-strorjt;, Pig and Chicken-tlghtv 
Wire at Wholesale Prices. Catalogue Free 

KUselman Bros. Box 165 Muncie, Ind 





FENCE! 



MADE. Ball 
etrong. ChJckeo 
tight. Sold to the Farmer at Wholeaah 
Prices. Folly Warranted. Catalog Free 

COILKU SPRING FKNGS CO., 
Bo» '* KlE^nUr. tadlanx. C. 8. a 




WE'LL PAY THE FREIGHT 

and send 4 Buggy Wheels, si,,- 1 Tire on, . * 7.25 
Wiih Rubbtr Tires, $15.00. I mf;. wheels % to4in. 
tread. Top Buggies, $2S.75 ; Harness. $3.60. Write for 
catalogue. Learn how to buy vehicles nnd partsdirect. 
Wagon Umbrella KUEE. W . V. BOOB,Cincinnatl,0. 



A. D. REYNOLDS, Bristol, Tenn., 

Will consider the purchase of a good, second- 
hand STUMP PULLER, if the right make. 



A STUDY IN MONEY ORDERS. 

Sixth Auditor Castle Shows a Group 
of Congressmen the Complexities of 
the System. Instructive Object Les- 
son. Post Check Currency Would 
Give Better Satisfaction With no 
Cost to the Government. 
An object lesson, showing the ef- 
fects and expensiveness of the postal 
money order system, was given a few 
days ago to several members of the 
House Post-office Committee by Cap- 
tain Henry A. Castle, Auditor for the 
Post-office Department. 

Mr. Castle first conducted his visi- 
tors to the "Auditor's library," as it 
called. Here are 7,000 loose-leaved 
binders each making a volume larger 
than the largest counting-house ledg- 
er, and weighing fifteen pounds. 
These 7,000 binders are filled an- 
nually with postmaster's statements of 
money orders issued and paid, which 
are sent to the Auditor's office with 
the 4G, 000,000 money orders issued an- 
nually, as vouchers. 

The party next visited the "Machine 
room," where scores of high-salaried 
clerks were operating adding ma- 
chines which verified the additions of 
the money order statements sent in by 
postmasters. More than 150,000 or- 
ders are daily handled in this room. 

The visitors then went to the 
"Round table" room where other 
clerks were distributing an average 
of 150,000 money orders daily. The 
orders are thence taken (and the party 
followed them) to forty desks where 
nimble-fingered operators, mostly 
young women, separate them by towns 
in each State, arranged alphabeti- 
cally. 

The money order vouchers are now 
ready to be checked with the ac- 
counts of the issuing postmaster, and 
thirty-five expert clerks were found 
doing this. From the checkers, the 
money orders are tied in bundles, pro- 
perly labelled and filed in tLe archives 
of the Auditor's office for seven years, 
as reauired by law. The postmasters' 
statements, constituting the accounts, 
are filed in the loose-leaf binders as 
described, and are ready for entry in 
the ledgers of the Bureau where the 
accounts are kept. The 7,000 volumes 
of the statements are preserved also 
for a term of seven years. 

The effect on the visiting Congress- 
men was startling. They learned also 
that the majority of orders are for less 
than $2.50 each. For their issue 3rd 
and 4th class postmasters get the en- 
tire fee of three cents. First and sec- 
ond class postmasters employ high- 
salaried clerks for this work, and the 
cost to the service is still greater. The 
paying of the orders, the bookkeeping, 
and the transmitting of them to Wash- 
ington, entail a heavy outlay for sala- 
ries, without a penny of compensat- 
ing revenue; so that, in addition to 
the loss of time, in going to the post- 
office, applying for money orders, and 
awaiting their issue, is this additional 



I 



THE YORK 

Improved Weeder 




the Important point In 
•<l \\ eider has teeth ;t 
nd point*. The.c teeth 
in the boaj Lhej 

hi! plant* ai iiat t.i ih do. 
clearance and prevenu cle-g- 
glug. Ouraquare teeth 
do not break. The frame 
Is made of strong flexi- 
ble angle HLeel , and han- 
i, .mid iDafu are adjtut- 

|i . Bond Inr freeclreular. 
Spaugler Corn Planter! 

Orn lUs are the beat 

KPANCLEK 
MI •'«;. CO., 

601 queen SI., 
'' York, Pa. 



It's the Saving 

of cream, ease of runnin e and easy 
I cleaning that people are looking 
for in Cream Separators. These 
are strong points with the 

American 

For the proof try it on your own 
premises before buying. We rely 

on its work to sell it to all. 

Everybody likes its popular 
price. Catalog free for the asking. 
AMERICAN SEPARATOR CO., Bo* 107S, Bainbridr>, N. Y. 





Waste 
Your 

Strength. 
^Use 



BAKER'S ™™^£? HESS . 

No whiffletrees— no traces. Fine for farm \v<Tk. Has no 
equal for use in orchard, vineyard, garden, lumbering, etc. 
Easier on team. Writeus now. Catalog free. Agents wanted. 
B " F " BAKER C °i 236 Main g*M Burnt Hills, N. Y. 




T YOUR IDEAS 



_ 1 00,000 offered for one in. 

vention; $8,500 for another. 

Book "How to Obtain a Patent" 
and "What to Invent "sent free. Send 
rough sketch for free report as to 
patentability. We advertise your 
patent for sale at our expense. 
CHANDLEE & CHANDLEE, Patent Attorney* 
976 F Street, Washington, D. C. 

/\IS INSTANT'S PAIN 

and the dehorning job is smoothly done, no 
crushing or bruising if the 

KEYSTONE 

Dehorning K.nlfe> 

is used. Easy, sure and most speedy 
in operation. No evil results can fol- 
low. Cuts from four sides at once. En- 
dorsed by veterinarians. Guaranteed. 

M.T. Phillips, Box 4S,Pomeroy,Pa. 




iATEST 




CHewton's Patent.) 

Every 

Dehornei* 

Guaranteed 



IMPROVED 

THOUSANDS IN USE. 

Ask your hardware dealer for them or write 
D. II. BROWN MFG. CO.. - • DECATUR, 114. 

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



196 



THE SOtTTHEKN PLANTER. 



[March, 






A man in Virginia whose tobacco crop 
astonished his neighbors sent us a photo* 
graph that shows how it was done. This 
tobacco was all planted the same day and 
fertilized alike except that that on the left 
received a Top Dressing of 

Nitrate of Soda 

(THE STANDARD AMMONIATE) 

ioo pounds to the acre, and that on the 
right received none. Any eye can see if 
it was profitable. Any one interested in 
getting the best crops from his land will 
find information worth reading in the Bul- 
letins which I send free to farmers. 
Actual results, from the trial grounds of 
Agricultural Experiment Stations with all 
sorts of crops are given, together with all 
information on the use and value of Nitrate 
in fertilizing. Send name and complete 
address on Post Card. 

WILLIAM S. MYERS, Director, 
12-16 John St., New York. 



SAN JUSt SCALE SSvS 

GOOD'S CAUSTIC POTASH 

WHALE OIL SOAP. No. 3. 

It also prevents Cur) Leaf. Endorsed by en- 
tomologists. This soap is a fertilizer as well as 
Insecticide 60 lb. kegs, 52.50; 100 lb. kegs, $4 50. 
Half barrels, 270 lbs., at 3>£c. per lb.; barrels, 
425 lbs., at %%c- Large quantities, special rates. 
Send for circular. 

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



FRAZER 

Axle Grease ^x 

Its wearing qualities are unsurpassed, ac- 
tually outlasting 3 bxs. any other brand, 
Not affected by heat. #3" Get the Genuine. 
FOR RALE BY ALL DEALERS. 



AGRICULTURAL 
AND BUILDERS' 



LIME 



Send for Circulars and Price-List 

FELLSWORTH LIME WORKS, 

REEVES CATT, Agent, 

Staunton, Virginia. 

j& ROOFING TIN j& 

Iron and paper roofing, nails, builder'i hard 
ware, Bash, doors, etc., carriage and wagoti 
goods, paints and oils, cook and heating stoves 
guns, pistols, rifleB, "Robin Hood" loaded shells 
Do you use any of the above? Write ub. 

HARRIS HARDWARE CO., gjg 

Mention the Southern Planteb in 
writing. 



pecuniary loss to the government. 
* When the tour of the office had been 
ended the visitors asserted that Con- 
gress should, without delay, adopt 
some plan whereby this expensive and 
burdensome work could be reduced, 
or, at least, its enormous growth dis- 
couraged. 

The remedv for much of this evil 
lies in the adoption of the post check 
plan, as post check currency would re- 
quire no auditing. The bill embody- 
ing this plan is now before the House 
Committee on Post-offices. A favora- 
ble report on it is expected at an early 
day, and it is hoped that favorable 
action by the House will not long be 
delayed. Urge your representatives 
at Washington to support the bill. 



HIGH BRED ENGLISH SETTERS. 

Mr. William G. Owens, of Midlo- 
thian, owner of The Cedars poultry 
and stock farm, has just added to his 
collection of high breds, a pair of Eng- 
lish Setter Gips that are entirely 
worthy to join the colony of blue 
blooded bird dogs of Virginia and they 
will no doubt be heard of in the Vir- 
ginia Field Trials Association meet- 
ings in the future. The most noted 
of the two dogs is Miss Cambria A. 
K. C. No. 30064, by Manitoba Glad- 
stone dam the blue belted imported 
field trial winner Jeannie Deans, 
said to be the fastest dog ever seen 
in America. Manitoba Gladstone A. 
K. C. No. 7157, also a blue belted one, is 
by Mark J. dam Cambria, a grand 
daughter of Champion Gladstone, who 
won four field trials and sired twen- 
ty-five winners who won forty-nine 
trials and great grand daughter of 
Champion Leicester, sire of six field 
trial winners who won seventeen 
trials. Miss Cambria is a beautiful 
black and white and a great field dog. 

The very worthy sister mate of Miss 
Cambria is the bench winner Doning- 
tons Song, A. K. C. No. 78574, black 
white and tan by Larry Noble, he by 
Ezra Noble dam Cornelia G, she by 
Champion Gladstone dam Cornelia by 
Champion Leicester. Ezra Noble is 
by Imported Champion Count Noble 
who won four trials and sired twenty- 
nine winners who won fifty-four field 
trial purses. Song is not only a splen- 
didly bred dog. but is very handsome 
and stylish with a powerful well 
knit symmetrical frame and in show 
conditions weighs fifty-five pounds. 

Both dogs have been sent to Mr. 
Owens' country home at Midlothian, 
Va., and will be bred during the com- 
ing spring. Song will be entered in 
all the kennel shows in this locality 
next fall and winter and it is possible 
that Miss Cambria may be seen in the 
field trials at Chase City next fall. 



A receipt for making Liquid Fertil- 
izer goes free with every Setter. Read 
Masters Planter Co.'s ad. on another 
page. 



LAMP-FITS. 

How do you know what 
chimney fits your lamp ? 

Your grocer tells you. 

How does he know ? 

He don't. 

Do you then ? 

That's about how lamps 
are fitted with chimneys by 
people who don't use my 
Index; and they complain 
of bad chimneys ! Lamp- 
Fits indeed ! Do you want 
the Index? Free. 

Macbeth, Pittsburgh. 

LATE - POPULAR ■ MUSIC. 

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Box 763 PHILADELPHIA, PA". 



HOME WORK for WOMEN 

Our book "Practical Ideas for Profitable 
Home Work" teaches women how to become 
independent without leaving home. It is 
clear and practical, covering many lines of 
work. The finding of a market for your 
goods in thoroughly discussed, and valuable 
suggestions are given. Book sent on receipt 
of postal order for 55 cents 
Woman's Work Pub. Co., Amer. Tract Bldo., 
New York City. 



POSITION WANTED 

As farm manager, by a thoroughly competent 
man. Have had large experience and can 
furnish best of references. Apply to W. H. 
ELLER1NGTON, Naples. N. Y. 



SECRET 

BENEVOLENT SOCIETY FOR FARMERS 
AND THEIR WIVES. Pays $10 weekly sick, 
$20 weekly accident and $2,000 death benefit, 
and $50 old age pension. Organizers wanted; 
good pay. KNIGHTS OF AGRICULTURE,' 
Washington, D. C. 



WARNER'S 

CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL, at Bradford, 
Pa., teaches Shorthand, Bookkeeping and 
Penmanship by mail. Write now. 

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



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197 




Bone Spavin, Bok Spavin, BlnRboneor 
any kind Ol IiIoiuIhIi— we have what you 
need to make aceitaln cure. Guaranteed 
always-money right back If Jt ever falls. 

Fleming's Spavin Cure (Liquid) 

for the soft bunches— Paste for the hard 
ones. A 45-mlnute application and the 
lameness goes. Lots of blemish Infor- 
mation in the free book we send. 

Fistula. 

arvd 

Foil Evil 

Do yourself what horse doctors 
charge big prices for trying to do. 
Cure Fistula or Poll Evil In fifteen 
to thirty days. 

Fleming's Fistula & Poll Evil Cure 

is a wonder— guaranteed to cure any 
case— money back if it falls. Nocuttlng— 
no scar. Leaves the horse sound and 
smooth. Write for our free book on 
diseases and blemishes of horses. 

FLEMINC BROS., Chemists, 
280 I n Ion Stock Yards, Chicago, III. 



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MEDICATED 
SALT BRI 



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The only ffaar&nteed Tonic, Blood Pnrf- 
fler, Kidney and Liver Regulator and 
aider of Digestion for all stock. A 
euro hit on worms. Ticks cannot live. 
No dosing, no drenching, and nowasta 
of feed. Yonr horse his own doctor. 
Endorsed _hy thousands 



full descriptive circulars, testimonials, 
etc.' addTess 

Blackmail Stock Remedy Co. 

030 HighlandPark, Chattanooga, Tenn. 



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cattle; 

POWDER 



A medicine which makes 
sick animals well, the diseased 
whole, the weak strong and the 
thin fat. It will restore lost Appetite, 
expel Worms and cure Chronic Cough, 
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kulency and all Stomach and Bowel 
trouble. ^^ 

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NEWTON'S llea.o, Congh, ni«- 

temper and Indigestion Cure. 

A veterinary spuciric lur wind) 
i»"„throut and stomach troubles. 
11 Strong recommends. J1.00 per 

can. Dealers. Mail or Kx. paid. 

The Newton Remedy Co., 
Toledo, Ohio. 



THE AMERICAN CREAM SEPARA- 
TOR. 

One of the most profitable invest- 
ments that can be made by a farmer 
is the purchase of a hand Cream Sep- 
arator. The only question to-day is, 
which machine is most efficient and 
durable, and reasonable enoueh in 
price to make it a good investment 
for the man with only two or three 
cows. 

The makers of the American Cream 
Separator, the American Separator 
Company, of Bainbridge, N. Y., have, 
we believe, met with all these require- 
ments and possibly many more, but 
we cannot use the space here to 
enumerate all the admirable qualities 
of their machine. 

They are also the makers of the 
American Treadle Power which re- 
duces one-half the arm power other- 
wise required and can be adjusted to 
fit any make of Hand Separators and 
other machines operated by hand, 
such as churns, fanning mills, feed 
cutters, etc. 

(See ad. page 195.) 

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We are showing herewith a cut of 
the Separator with the Treadle Power 
attached as it appears in use. The 
Separator is advertised regularly in 
our columns. No adequate idea of the 
merits of the machine can be gath- 
ered without a study of the catalogue; 
and when prices are quoted, it becomes 
all the more persuasive. It must not 
be forgotten that the American is 
sold freely on trial. Every purchaser 
has the opportunity to test fully and 
prove for himself befv:e completing 
a bargain. We urge readers who ar? 
in need of a Separator to send for the 
American catalogue, and investigate 
fully before placing an order. 



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



Warranted 
to give satisfaction. 




GOMBAULT'S 

CAUSTIC BALSAM 

A safe, speedy and 
positive cure for 

Curb, Splint, Sweeny, Capped Hock, 
Strained Tendons, Founder, Wind Puffs, 
and all lameness from Spavin, Ringbone 
and other bony tumors. Cures all skin 
diseases or Parasites, Thrush, Diphtheria. 
Removes all Bunches from Horses or 
Cattle. 

As a HUMAN KI!MKI»V' for Rhen- 
matiam, Sprains, Sore Throat, etc., it 
is invaluable. 

Every bottle of Canxtic Hainan! sold Is 
Warranted to qrive satisfaction. Price $1.50 
per bottle. Sold by drufrjristsj or sent by ex- 
press, charges paid, with full directions for its 
use. Send for descriptive circulars, testimo- 
nials, etc. Address 

THE LAWRENCE- WILLIAM COMPANY, Cleveland, Ohio. 



HOW TO FEED AND BREED HOGS 

is of importance to swine growers. _ A. 

practical, clean, common-sense swine 
iper for farmers can be had from now 
i January, 1905, by sending 10 Cent* 
la Stiver at once to 

BLOODED STOCK,. 
Oxford, Pa. 




WANTED! 

ALL KINDS OF 

LIVE WiLD BIRDS AND ANIMALS 

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

CECIL FRENCH, 
T 718 Twelfth St. N. W., Washington D. C. 




GREENSBORO, N.C. 

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other Drug Addictions. TheTobbacco Habit, Nerve Exhaustion 




1 

Krausers' Liquid 

Extract of Smoke 

.Smokes meat perfectly In a 

few hours. Made from hickory wood. 

Delicious flavor. Cleaner, cheaper. No 

smokehouse needed. Send toreircular. 

E. KKAUSKR A IS !{«>., Miilun. fa. 



NO MORE BLIND HORSES— For Sped' 
Ophthalmia, Moon Blindness and other f 
Eyas. BARRY CO., Iowa City, la., hav. 
emr*. 



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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[March, 



^SAlZERS 
^ FARM 

SEEtHOVflJiES: 



Salzer's National Oats. 

Most prolific Oats on earth. The 
V. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Wash- 
ington, says: "Salzer's Oats are the 
best out of over four hundred sorts 

I tested by us." This grand Oat 
yielded in Wisconsin 156 bu., Ohio 
187 bu., Michigan 231 bu., Missouri 
255 bu., and North Dakota 31u bu. per 

\ acre, and will positively do as well by 
you. Try it, sir, and be convinced. 

A Few Swora to Yields. 
Salzer's Beardless Barley, 121 bu. per A. 

Salzer's lloiuelmilder Corn, 304 l>u. per A. 
Salzer's Big Four (hits, 25» bu. per A. 
Salzer's Hew Sati«nal»ats, 319 bn. per A. 
Salzer's Potatoes. 736 bi. per A. 
Salzer's Onions, 1,©$» bu. per A. 
All of our Farm and Vegetable Seeds are 
pedigree stock, bred right up to big yields. 

Salzer's Speltz (Emmer). 

Greatest cereal wonder of the age. It is 
not corn nor wheat, nor rye, nor barley, nor 
oats, but a golden combination of them all, 
yielding 80 bu. of grain and 4 tons of rich 
straw liny per acre. Greatest stock food on 
earth. l>oes well everywhere. 

Salzer's Million Dollar Grass. 

Most talked of grass on earth. Editors and 
College Professors and Agricultural Lecturers 
praise it without stint; yields 14 tons of rich 
hay and lots of pasture besides, per acre. 

Salzer's Teosinte. 

Salzer's Teosinte produces 113 rich, juicy, 
sweet, leafy stocks from one kernel of seed, 14 
feet high in 90 days; yielding fully 60 ^_ 
tons of green fodder per acre, doing fi&tfz] 
well everywhere, East, West, .South l«M?J 
or North. j>"^vA 

Grasses and Clovers. 

Only large growers of grasses and 
clovers for seed in America. , 
Operate over 6,000 acres. Our 
seeds are warranted. We make 
a great specialty of Grasses and 
Clovers, Fodder Plants, Corn, Po- 
tatoes, Onions, Cabbage, and all ^'l[//i w.w? 
sorts of Vegetable Seeds. fSSlllLf \lUs 

For 10c in Stamps 

and the name of this paper, we 
will send you a lot of farm 
seed samples, including some 
of above, together with our 
mammoth 140 page lllus- _^^ 
trated catalogue, for /SsJy^ 
but 10c in postage t^svi^ 
stamps. ,^^^c 

Send for same V?S?rd'A- 
to-day. \HEifegj 



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R 



ATE KINS' 
SEEDS 

ALWAYS RELIABLE AND BEST 

Because they are fresh and NEW. Strictly Iowa 
grown and Sure to Grow. Our big Twentieth 
Annual Illustrated Catalog tells you all about 
every Farm and Garden Seed and crop that 
prows, It's Free if you mention this paper. N» 
Fakes; Free Seeds; Trash and other Schemes; 
but good reliable Seeds cheaper than others sell 
>it wholesale. If in want of Seeds send for our 
Catalog to-day. RATEKINS' SEED HOUSE, 

.Shenandoah, Iowa. 



WASHINGTON NOTES. 

No better five and three quarter mil- 
lion dollars can be appropriated by 
the government than that carried by 
the agricultural appropriation bill as 
it passed the House, although this ac- 
tion does not mean that it may not be 
largely increased or decreased in the 
Senate and in conference before it be- 
comes a law. There may be some 
things in it which could be eliminat- 
ed, without great harm to the country, 
and there are certainly some sections 
where additional appropriations 
would be highly advantageous. Those 
Congressmen who need help for re- 
election will doubtless vote with avid- 
ity for the $290,000 appropriation for 
seed distribution. And right here in 
this section of the bill is a proviso, 
which, did the majority of Congress 
possess the statesmanship to grasp its 
possibilities, points the way to an op- 
portunity to put America head and 
shoulders above other countries, agri- 
culturally, now and forever. This 
proviso sets aside $40,000 to be used 
in agricultural exploration in foreign 
lands and the procurement and test m 
this country of "rare and valuable 
seeds, bulbs, trees, shrubs, vines, cut- 
tings and plants with reference to 
their introduction into this country." 
With a similar pittance during the 
last two or three years the explorers 
of the Department, have brought into 
the United States new and improved 
species and varieties which are cer- 
tain to bring us millions of dollars 
annually. Macaroni wheat is a single 
instance. This can be grown over a 
belt of millions of acres, too dry for 
producing ordinary wheat. 

Two hundred and ninety thousand 
dollars! An annual sum sufficient to 
equip the present little section of 
Plant Introduction of the Department 
with machinery which would reach 
every corner of the globe and search 
out every growing thing which might 
be raised in this country and test it 
thoroughly for a series of years in 
every section where it would be likely 
to thrive. Then, as such introduction 
were found to be useful they could be 
distributed in sufficient quantities 
among farmers, through the campaign- 
ing Congressmen, if you will, so as 
to be of some real benefit to the farm- 
er and to the nation. Most certain it 
is too that the distribution of such 
things of real value would assist the 
re-election of statesmen much more 
than the distribution of the seeds 
which, as a matter of fact, will result 
from this appropriation. 

The Bureau of Animal Industry gets 
$1,287,680, of the agricultural appro- 
priation bill. An interesting proviso 
of this section of the bill is the in- 
spection by the Department of butter, 
cheese and other dairy products in- 
tended for exportation to any foreign 
country, after the methods employed 
in meat shipments. The Bureau is to 
ascertain the "purity and quality of 



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 most productive 
Blackberry variety. Very large, jet 
black, firm and solid. Crop ripens rap- 
idly. This ia the berry to plant for 
profit. Write atonce for prices and particulars. 
Myer«S: Son, BrldBCvllle Nurseries, 
Bridseville, l>el. 



w 



Peach and Apple Trees, 

BONAVISTA NURSERIES, Greenwood, Va. 

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

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

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

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

CHAS. F HACKETT, Manager. 



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. Ewell's, Tenn. 
from a plot showing nodules in great abundance. 

Address QEO. CAMPBELL BROWN, 

EWELL FARM. ... Spring Mill, Tenn. 

HO/M FOR LARGEST 

gJB*IW WATERMELONS 

After 40 years of experimenting and testing all notable 
varieties of wa termelons, u e now recommend, especiaUy, 
"Tenderaweet" for home use and "Emerald" for both 
home and market. We think they are the best obtainable. 
Seeds loo a paper in silver. 24.000 papers. The purchaser 
who grows the largest melon of either variety will post. 
tivelv receive one tenth of our gross sales of seedsof that 
Variety. Caution: Wrap your silver in a little paper. 
and write your name and P. O. Address plainly. 
LEE SEED CO., Burnt Corn, Ala. 



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199 



CLOVER 

To the Acre. 



«T0NS 
Egyptian Clover — Direct from the 
Nile Valley. 
Imported by us into the United States for the 
first time. Ready to cut 48 days after sow- 
ing. First cutting- 14 tons, second cutting 15 
tons, third, 13 tons of preen forage per acre, 
all in one season. The Dcpt. of Agriculture 
at Washington publishes a special bulletin 
endorsing it. The supply of seed is limited. 
Write at once if interested. Price per lb, 
by mail 40c; 10 lbs. $1.75; 100 lbs. $25.00. 

LARGE ILLUSTRATED CATALOG 

describing this wonderful Clover and a thou- 
sand other things of great rjalue to the 
Farmer or Gardener, mailed free. Write now. 

CURRIEBR0S. C0„%_M_rWJ: 



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, 
firmer, 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. 

We offer all kinds of : 



..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 

EflPORIA, VA. 

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

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. 

Strawberries p 

300 Choice Plants, Ex- 
press Prepaid lor 9 1 .60. 

100 each of early, medium and 
late, None stronger or better. 
Offer good to any express office in 
V. S. It pays to pet the best. Beauti- 
ful Strawberry Catalogue Free. 

W. F„ Allen, Salisbury, Md. 




such dairy products, and may cause 
the same to be so marked, stamped 
or labelled as to secure their identity 
and make known in the markets of 
foreign countries to which they may 
be sent, their purity, quality and 
grade." 

The Secretary of Agriculture is al- 
lowed $15,000 to improve and continue 
the Arlington experimental farm, 
which in many ways is to be the 
This tract of about 400 acres of gov- 
ernment land, a part of the old Rob 
model experiment farm in the country, 
ert E Lee estate, is well situated for 
a farm and allows the scientists of the 
Department at Washington who are 
likewise practical agriculturists, an 
excellent opportunity for carrying out 
tests and experiments. 

The a err i cultural bill carries $10,000 
"tc enable the Secretary of Agricul- 
ture to investigate and report on the 
cost of "making" tea and the best 
method of cultivating and preparing 
the same for market, so as to demon- 
- + >-ate whether it is practicable to in- 
ii,..lnce its culture in the Southern 
States as a profitable industry." 
Judging from the wording of this sec- 
tion of the bill the Department is like- 
ly to be required to establish tea sa- 
loons where the practical cost "of 
making tea" may be demonstrated, 
unless "making" tea can be construed 
into growing that article, which is no 
doubt the Intention of the appropria- 
tion. 

No work of the Department of Ag- 
riculture has increaased with greater 
rapidity than forestry. From an in- 
significant appropriation of $30 000, a=t 
I remember, six or seven years ago 
the present agricultural bill apnropri- 
ates $400,000 for its Forestry Bureau. 
Not only this but a special bill will 
doubtless pass Congress transferring 
the sixty odd million acres of forest 
reserves to this bureau. 

The agricultural bill specifically au- 
thorizes the Chemist of the Depart- 
ment to inspect importations of goods 
which may be adulterated and danger- 
ous to health, the Secretary of thf 
Treasury furnishing samples from 
original packages of such importations 
for inspection and analysis. Broad j 
authority is given the two depart- 1 
ments to restrict and refuse the ad- j 
mission of deTeterious foods, or those ! 
falsely or incompletely labelled. 

Anthrax spores are very tenacious 
of life and will remain dormant for 
years; in certain cases on record soil 
has remained infected for twelve 
years. The spores are also readily 
transmitted and one instance is known , 
where the disease was carried some 
distance on the boots and clothing of 
a person who had been aiding in a 
post mortem examination. Hides and 
wool are probably the most important I 
factor in the spread of the disease. ! 
Nearly all the domestic animals are ' 
subject to it — horses, mules, cattle, | 
sheep, swine, goats, cats, dogs and 




; THE NEW STRAWBERRY 

that I Introduced last season has 
again proved a wonder beat 
cropper, bept seller of them all. 
40 other kinds to offer; bealtby, 
heavy rooted; true to name. My plants 
pleaao all that plant them. They grow large 
crops of fine berries, and price low. The 
best hand fertilizer sower ever used. Ply- 
mouth Rock eggs, etc. Write to-day for fre« 
catalogue. J. W. HALL, Mar lon Sta., Md. 

SAFONI coSS 

A beautiful white variety and a wonderful 
yielder : 2 to 4 large ears to a stalk ; don t Jail 
to try it. 

HIOH ORADE RED POLL and Aberdeen- 
Ansrus Cattle, both sexes.— Address, 
LOUIS B. QILLILAND, Jr., Clarksville, Va. 



Seed Corn! Seed Corn! 

BIG SHIVERY. 

One of the best field varieties In cultiva- 
tion. Large, long grains and very small 
cob. Pure white and makes the best bread 
meal of any corn grown. An Immense 
yielder on good land. One trial will con- 
vince any one of the merits of this popular 
variety Price, 35c. peck: 60c. half bushel; 
$1 per bushel. H. J. CONRAD. Thomaa- 
ville, N. C. 

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, $120 per bush., f. o. b. 
Normandy. PROGRESS FARM, 

Box 52. Normandy, Tenn. 



-FOR SALE' 



Selected Pride of York Seed Corn. 

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



SEED CORN FOR SALE. 

I have a nice lot of Hickory King Seed 
Corn for sale. Large deep grains. The corn 
for thin lands and droughty weather. 90c. 
per bushel here, sacks extra. C. S. TOWN- 
LEY, Red Hill. Va. 



AGENT = WANTED 

Good man in every county to sell 

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 selling machinery and 
implements Fine catalogue. No samples 
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. Largest makers of Farm Scales in this 
country. 



FOR SALE. 

A Dederick Steel Belt Hay Press, 

In good order. Will sell at $150 — 
a bargain for cash. 

J. M. STEGER, Hatton, Va. 



200 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[March, 



FARMS FOR SALE! 

No. 27. 

Seventy-five acres of fine Blue Grass 
Land, in Rockbridge county, Va., sit- 
uated one and a half miles from B. & 
0. R. R. station, near Lexington, Va., 
in a progressive and refined neighbor- 
hood. Twenty-five acresisseeded to 
wheat and grass, and the balance is in 
grass; 2 acres in orchard consisting 
of apples, pears and peaches, age of 
trees 2 to 15 years old, all selected 
fruit. This farm is rolling and all the 
land faces the south and east. Beauti- 
ful large spring in a few yards of the 
house, also good cistern. One-half 
acre in strawberries. The improve- 
ments consist of a 9-room, 2-story 
brick house, a large barn, 55x70, with 
all other necessary outbuilding, all in 
excellent repair. The land is smooth 
and rich and well fenced. There is 
23 ewes and over 30 lambs on this 
farm and if the farm is sold before 
March 24th the sheep and lambs and 
wheat crop with the farm can be 
bought for $2,500 — one-half cash, bal- 
ance on five years time. If not sold 
before the 24th the farm and per- 
sonal property will be sold at public 
sale on the 24th of March. Write quick 
for further information and a more 
detailed description. 



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. 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 splendir" 
dairy farm. Price, $2,000. 

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 Herndon 
Station. Fronts on pike. Comfort- 
able 4-room house and all building 
Farm watered by large branches. 
Price, $20.00 per acre. Terms, to suit 
purchaser. 



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. B. MILLER, Herndon, Va. 



even man. Sheep are believed to be 
the most susceptible. 

Another good roads bill has been in- 
troduced by Representative Aiken, of 
South Carolina, which in common 
with most of the other good roads 
measures creates a Bureau of Public 
Highways and appropriates $24,000,000 
of Uncle Sam's hard earned cash. 

Senator Teller, of Colorado, has in- 
troduced a bill o*f importance to the 
West authorizing the Secretary of Ag- 
riculture to conduct and carry on a 
series of experiments, in conjunction 
with the experiment stations, in the 
non-corn growing States and Territo- 
ries, in the breeding, rearing and fin- 
ishing of live stock for market; in the 
introduceion and development of 
breeds of horses, cattle, sheep and 
swine, suitable for such regions and 
conditions, and also in the introduc- 
tion and cultivation of crops and for- 
age plants, other than Indian corn 
which may prove of value to those 
States. The bill appropriates $50,000 
for the coming fiscal year and $50,000 
each for the four succeeding fiscal 
years. The money received by the de- 
partment from the sale of stock 
raised is to be used over again in con- 
tinued experiments. 

A good practice with fowls seems to 
be to throw them, early in the morn- 
ing, a few handsfull of small grain, 
or cracked wheat, or cracked corn 
among a large amount of trash. After 
they have searched and exercised dili- 
gently for a half hour they will be In 
fine form for breakfast, to get which, 
however, should require some exer- 
cise. 

It is always a good idea to make a 
small bed and sow a dozen short rows 
of onion seed for growing "sets" for 
next year. The largest of these sets 
will make fine little pickling onions. 
Sets sell at 20 to 25 cents a quart and 
it is more of a pleasure than a trouble 
to raise a neck of them from such a 
little bed as above noted. 

The exports of bread Luffs since the 
beginning of the fiscal year July 1, are 
much the lowest of any seven months 
period during the last six years, being 
only $103,000,000, against $129,000,000 
a year ago and $168,000,000 for the 
corresponding seven months of 1899. 
The exports for January were $13,- 
000,000 against $19,000,000 January a 
year ago and against $16,000,000 in De- 
cember, 1903. 

Exports of cattle, hogs and sheep 
have been large during January, being 
$4,055,000, being the only $4,000,000 
mark reached in any month during 
the last four years. The exports for 
the fiscal year, thus far, have been 
$23,000,000 against $14,000,000 for 
1903 and $19,000,000 for 1902. 

Exports of cotton for December 
and January, so far as value is con- 
cerned, have been record breakers as 
compared with those months of others 
years. December exports were $72,- 
000,000 and January $46,000,000 



You get full face 
value, every time 
you buy 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. 



• **-• VIRGINIA- FARMS • <•*-• 

Nice little poultry farm, 100 acres, good house 
and orchard, 8500.00. Blue Grass, Stock and 
Fruit Farms. Address PORTER & GATES, 

Louisa, Va. 

VIRGINIA FARMS 

S3 PER ACRE AND UPWARDS. 

EASY PAYMENTS. CATALOGUE FRITH. 

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

Established 1875. 



Go South. 



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



VIRGINIA FARMS 

All prices and sizes. Free list on appllcatlea. 
WM.B. P1ZZINI CO., Richmond. V*. 



"In the Green Fields of Virginia." 

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

MACON & CO., Orange, Va. 



riUP rinUO in the great fruit grain and 
Hilt rArmO stock section of VIRGINIA. 

Best climate and water in the U. 8. Near great 
markets, with best educational advantages. 
For further information, address 

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

/ Can Sell Your Farm.... 

If located la ene of these Virginia counties: 
Prince George, Chesterfield, King William, 
Gloucester, New Kent, King and Queen, 
Hanover. Send description, stating price. 

JOHN JELINEK, 1111 Pine Alley, 
Braddock, Pa. 



♦♦To Homeseekers~ 

"THE BUSINESS OF FARMING 
IN VIRGINIA." 

Is the title of a new pamphlet Issued by the 
Norfolk and Western Railway Company. We 
will gladly mail you a copy. 
W. B. BEVILXi, PAUL SCHERER, AgU 
G. P. A., Lands and Immlgratio», 
Roanoke, Va. 



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INCUBATORS ~- ON - 30 - DAYS - TRIAL. 







A certain and never failing Business Hatcher. 
Reasonable in price: best in quality, and always 
reliable. Thousands of these machines are in 
successful operation here at home and abroad. 

Our handsome catalogue is free fof the asking, 
send for a copy at once, before you select a ma- 
chine and make a mistake. Address The Stand- 
ard F. C. Incubator Co., Dept. 23, Rochester, N. Y. 

Mention this Journal. 



Genuine OYPSlERS Patented 

INCUBATORS 

ARE GUARANTEED 

To hatch a larper percentage of fertile *%£$* 
To produce larger and more vigorous chicks, 
To operate with less oil and expense. 
To require no supplied moisture, 

To be self-ventilating, flator. 

To have a more sensitive, accurate and durable regu* 
To maintain a more even temperature. 
To be more strictly automatic in action and 
Togivebetter results in your hands than any other 
make or style incubator in the world. 

Seven yearn test bw proved our alaJnia W« 
back above guarantee bj ever; dollar we pos- 
BeBB. If the Ciphers does notdoeatUfaotorv 
work iD your hands, you get your money 
baok. Endorsed and adopted by 3C Govern- 
ment Experiment Stations and used by a 
arge majority of the leading poultry men 
Catalog for 1904 free If you came thl* paper. 
AddreBB nearefltoffloa. 




STRICTLY 
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THROUGHOUT 



Cyphers Incubator Co, , Buffalo, Chicago, jjtl York. Boston. 




IT IS A FACT 



that poultry pays a larger profit 
for the money invested than any 
I other business; that anybody may 
make a success of it without long 
training or previous experience; 
that the Reliable Incubator* and Brooders will give 
the best resultsinallcases. OurSSOth Century Poultry 
Book tells just why, and a hundred other things you 
•hould know. We mail the book for 10 cents. Write 
to-day. We have 115 yards of thoroughbred poultry. 
IEUABLE INCUBATOR & BROODER CO., Boi 3-11 Quincy, III. 



BVILT TO LAST 




Never outclassed— Sure Hatch 
Incubators. Built better than 
your house. No hot centers; no 
chilling draughts on sensitive 
eggs. Every cubic inch in egg 
chamber at uniform, blood tem- 
perature of fowl. It's acontinual 
pleasure to hatch nearly every 
fertile egg with a Sure Hatch. 
Free catalogue , D 3» with pictures tells lively utorr. 

8TJKE HATCH INCUBATOR CO. 
•Cloy Center, Neb. Indianapolis, Ind, 



VICTOR BOOK 

tells why our machine is preferred 
by users and all about artificial in- 
cubation. There's pointers that may 
mean dollars to you. We pay freight. 
Guarantee goods as described or 
money back. The book is free. 
Write for it to-day. Postal will do. 

GEO. ERTEL CO , Quincy! 111. 




SPECIAL OFFER StegE 

We will St 11 a Hundred and Ten Egg 

MICHICANDER" 

Hot Water Incubator only SlO 

and allow you to try it for 30 Days Free.Tried 
and known to be perfect. Get a Catalog Free. 
(MSH 81 PPLV & MKOIO. Dr-pt. bb, K l till* /,<><>. ■ICH. 




SURE OUARANTRRP CURE FOR GRAN- 
ul.ted Eyes. My remedy will make weak 
eye. strong. Write for particular.. Address 
L. A. MILLS, Emporia, Kansas. 



against $46,000,000 for December and 
$39,000,000 for January a year ago and 
$43,000,000 for December and $40,000,- 
000 for January two years ago. The 
total exports of cotton since July 1, 
1903, seven months, were $275,000,000 
against $206,000,000 in the correspond- 
ing seven months of both 1903 and 
1902, against $215,000,000 in 1901 and 
only $133,000,000 in 1900. 

Guy E. Mitchell. 



NEW UNIVERSAL GARDEN TOOLS. 

By way of calling attention to the 
euxcellent line of hand garden tools 
manufactured by our advertising pa- 
tron, the Ames Plow Company, of 
Boston, we are producing herewith a 
cut of their Matthews' New Universal 




Sped Drill. The Seeder drops so the 
operator can see the seed in the 
ground before the action of covering 
and rolling attachments. The Garden 
Drill might be termed the ui.it of the 
famous Matthews group of all purpose 
tools. The plow for furrowing and 
ridging is one of them. The wide and 
narrow tooth cultivator is still an- 
other, followed by the hoe for weed 
cutting and top soil stirring, and rake 
for pulverizing and smoothing. The 
Seeder may be purchased alone, or for 
a small amount a combination tool, 
combining all the above in one may be 
had. Wheel Hoes are made for both 
straddle row and between row culti- 
vation. Whatever the special need of 
the gardener, it is admirably met by 
one or another of the tools in this line. 
The Ames Company catalogue illus- 
trates and describes each in detail. 
The company is a good one to look to 
for anything in the line of plow, har- 
rows, cultivators, corn planters, hay 
tedders and a long line of other up-to- 
date implements and machinery. 



Some fools and their money are parted 
only at death. 

"How did I look when you proposed 
to me?" 

"You looked as though you were 
taking your first ride in an automo- 
bile." 



"You are in my pew, sir," said Mr. 
Upjohn, stiffly. 

"Then I am s:'Uing in the seat of 
the scornful!" replied the stranger, 
getting out of it with alacrity and tak- 
ing a seat further back in the church. 



If? 


EA5YM0NEY 


Is made by installing a Hnwkcye- 
Incubator. Littlo cost. IlMji tare, 
results furej profits larpo. 80 Duya' 
Fre« Trial. tatab-Kuo free. Mention 
(hit paper.— HuwLt > e Iiu-ubutor 
Co., Bos li». Newton, Iowa* 




BUILD YOUR OWN INCUBATOR 

You can do this easily with common tools and 
Buve Mure Than Hull: > Our Complete 

Book of l'laus instructs fully. We sell you at 
cost all fixtures like Tank, Lamp. Regulator, 
etc. No Experiment. Handsome Catalog Free. 
1 11A.VMIV, SNOW A CO., Dept. ] > <Ju.... , , III. 



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. 



A FARMER. . . 

WANTED TO WORK ON SHARES, all 
team and tools furnished; a good thing for 
the right party (two men, or a man with 
boys would suit better), good land and plenty 
of it. Address "J," care Postmaster, Green 
Bay, Va. 



OR EXCHANGE 

180 acres im- 



WANTED TO SELL 

proved land Powhatan Co., Virginia. Particulars 
from M. M. PRESCOTT, Elizabeth, Penn. 

I HAVE A LARGE LIST OF 

FRUIT, POULTRY and TRUCK FARMS 

Tea, Fifty and One Hundred Acres each, with 

good buildings, close to steam and trolley 

lines, easy access to the city. Also, 

GRAIN AND STOCK FARMS 

From 100 to 1,000 acre, at low price. — all the 

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

Catalogue. 

J. R. HOCKADAY, Richmond, Va. 

Box 257. 




CASH 

FOU IOCE 

OR ANY REAL ESTATE. 



No matter where located. Send 
description and lowest cash price. 
I succeed bj giving personal at- 
tention. Interesting and valuable 
particular* FREE. Write to- 
day. Bank refereucee. 
iriLLIAH T. BROWN, 1 14 Biwa Law B'ld'g, Lancaster, Pa. 

UflMCQ AND THE PLACE TO 
nUMtO FIND THEM. . . 

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

W. A. PARSONS, Vinlta, Va. 

C &OMain St. Depot, Richmond, Va. 



Mention The Southern Plants* 
when corresponding with adTerti«er*. 



202 



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[March, 



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




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

At the Great Richmond Shows of 1902 and 
1A03, our stock won THIRTY-FOUR PRIZES, 
TEN OF 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 me 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. 

EGGS f rom Fine Fowls. 

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

♦♦♦♦ 15 FOR $1.00 ♦♦♦♦ 
except the Wyandojtes w ch are $2.00 for 15 

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



EGGS! 

Barred Plymouth Rocks 

ONE DOLLAR FOR 15, 

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

BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS 

: EXCLUSIVELY : 

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



THE PRINCE HAD A BUSINESS 
MIND. 

The late Queen Victoria seems to 
have exercised a suzerainty over the 
pocket money of her grandchildren. 
She held them tr a strict accounting 
in the matter of expenditure, and if 
they did not make their allowances 
last over a SDecifled period, she stern- 
ly called them to account. One week 
when the present Prince of Wales was 
at Eion, candy, tarts, and other school- 
boy delights, proved his financial un- 
doing. He had spent a month's allow- 
ance in one week. With impecunios- 
ity and indigestion came repentance. 
Accordingly he wrote a long mea 
culpa to his grandmother, confessing 
his fault, and asking for an advance 
on account of the next instalment of 
pocket money. In reply he received 
a long letter of admonition from the 
queen, refusing his request. The let- 
ter closed with a sentence in which 
the writer expressed the pain that it 
gave her in having so to write to him. 

A few days later. Her Majesty re- 
ceived another letter from the future 
heir to the British throne. It ran 
much like this: 

"Dear Grandmother: — Yours re- 
ceived. Please don't bother any more 
about me. I'm all right now. I sold 
your letter for thirty shillings to one 
of our fellows here, who is collecting 
the letters of notable people." — Joel 
Coates, in Success. 



RAISE WATERMELONS SUCCESS- 
FULLY. 

Doubtless many of the readers of the 
Southern Planter have had unsatis- 
factory experiences in the growing of 
watermelons. An old and very suc- 
cessful grower has kindly furnished 
some points of practical value on the 
cultivation of this luscious fruit. He 
advises that the best results are ob- 
tained with a rich, fresh, sandy soil, 
using well-rotted horse stable manure 
and wood ashes liberally. Plow deep- 
ly and pulverize soil finely. Do not 
cultivate while the dew is on, nor just 
after a rain. Cultivate rapidly and 
shallow, especially near the plants, 
until the melons begin to set. He has 
had the greatest success with and ad- 
vises the planting of "Tendersweet" 
and "Emerald" seed — the first-named 
variety for family use, the latter for 
market. This seed may be obtained 
from Lee Seed Co., Burnt Corn, Ala., 
at 10c per package, and the company 
makes a bona fide offer of one-tenth 
their gross seed sales to the growers 
of the largest melon of either variety. 
Order seeds early and ask for full par- 
ticulars regarding this prize offer. 



A little bird sat on a telegraph wire 
And said to his mates, "I declare, 

If wireless telegraphy comes into 
vogue, 
We'll all have to sit on the air." 



HOLLYBROOK FARM. 

..EGOS for SITTING.. 

From Pure-bred Poultry. 

In our poultry yards we have the following 
thoroughbred poultry, all first-class stock, 
originally 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 
young cockerels of BARRED PLYMOUTH 
ROCKS, 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. 



SILVER-LACED 

WYANDOTTES. 

a Egg's For Hatching. 

i Sl.OOper 15 from strong and 
healthy birds of lending 
strains. A few choice pullets 
at 81 each. Pure-bred Poland 
China Pigs at $5.00 each. 

Dr.H. H LEE, 

R.F.D. 2. Lexington, Va. 




a a, 



BUFF ORPINGTON EGGS. 

POLAND-CHINA PIGS. 

Book your orders early for eggs from our 
solid Buff Orpingtons. Orders can only be 
filled in turn. Sold out on cockerels long 
ago, and no stock till fall. Eggs, $1 per 15. 
Orpingtons only. Poland China pigs, $7 for 
pair; $3.75 for one. 

OCCONEECHEE FARM, 
Mecklenburg; Co. JEFFRESS, VA. 

Barred Plymouth Rocks 
For Sale. 

Farm raised Poultry, tine, healthy; both 
sexes. 

Eggs $1.00 per setting of IS. 

M. E. ANDREWS, Hurt, Va. 




SILVER LACED AND WHITE WYAN- 
DOTTES, NICE BIRDS AND PINE 
LAYERS. 
All letters and ORDERS WILL RECEIVE 
OUR personal and PROMPT ATTENTION. 
GRANITE POULTRY YARDS. R. P. D. No. 
3, Salisbury. N. C. 

YOU CAN MAkT$3TO$10A DAY 

fitting glasses for us. Bier profits. 
Oar 24-page FREE EYE BOOK 
tells how. Write for it today. 

JACKSONIAN OPTICAL COLLEGE, Dept. 2098, 
Jackson, Mich. 



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203 



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, $1.60 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 
•a the best at cut-throat prices. BARRED P. 
ROCKS, WHITE WYANDOTTES, LIGHT 
BRAHMAS, WHITE and BUFF ORPING 
TONS. A number of Cockerels for sale. 

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



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 
(ought 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. 

H ^ HM _^MWMHM^S^SMSBBBBBSBBBMSaHMSSMSaSBS«aiKV 

EGGS for HATCHING. 

75c. Per Sitting of 15. 
Light Brahmas, Black Mlnorcas, 
S. L. Wyandottes, Barred and W. 
Rocks, Brown Leghdrns S. and R. C; 
White Leghorns 5. C. 

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

Mention The Southern Planter 
when corresponding with advertisers. 



WHY THEY ARE POOR. 

Their ideas are larger than their 
purses. 

They think the world owes them a 
living. 

They do not keep account of their 
expenditures. 

They are easy dupes of schemers 
and promoters. 

They reverse the maxim — "Duty 
before pleasure." 

They have too many and too expen- 
sive amusements. 

They do not think it worth while to 
save nickels and dimes. 

They have risked a competence in 
trying to get rich quickly. 

They allow friends to impose upon 
their good nature and generosity. 

They try to do what others expect of 
them, not what they can afford. 

The parents are economical, but the 
children have extravagant ideas. 

They do not do to-day what they can 
possibly put off until to-morrow. 

They do not think it worth while to 
put contracts or agreements in writ- 
ing. 

They prefer to incur debt rather 
than to do work which they consider 
beneath them. 

They do not dream that little mort- 
gages on their homes can ever turn 
them out of doors. 

They have indorsed their friends' 
notes or guaranteed payment just for 
accommodation. 

They risk all their eggs in one 
basket when they are not in a posi- 
tion to watch or control it. 

They think it will be time enough 
to begin to save for a rainy day when 
the rainy day comes. 

The head of the house is a good 
man, but he has not learned to do 
business in a businesslike way. 

The only thing the daughters ac- 
complish is to develop fondness for 
smart clothes and expensive jewelry. 

They do not realize that one ex- 
pensive habit may introduce them to 
a whole family of extravagant habits. 

They do not know that giving a full 
power-of-attorney to an agent or law- 
yer puts their property at his mercy. 

On a six-hundred-dollar income, they 
try to compete in appearance with a 
two-thousand-dollar-a-year neighbor. 

They subscribe for everything that 
comes along — organs, lightning rods, 
subscription books, pictures, bric-a- 
brac,— anything they can pay for on 
the installment plan. 

They have not been able to make 
much in the business they understand 
best, but have thought that they could 
make a fortune by investing in some- 
thing they know nothing about. — Ori- 
son Sweet Marden. in Success. 



Address 



^ S. C. White Leghorns 

After improving this 
variety for 20 years, ac- 
knowledged the leading 
strain of highbred. prize 
winners in north Virgin- 
ia. Large, vigorous and 
handsome. Largest 
white eggs, 'ihe tfreat 
winter money makers. 
Prices reasonable. Kggs, 
breeding pens and a lot 
of very handHome se- 
lected cockerels for sale. 

J. B. HUNTER, 

Bothwell Farm, Vienna, va. 




The trouble with some people is 
that they allow themselves to he dis- 
couraged by criticism, and the trouble 
I with others is that they do not. 



Barred P. Rock 

From Sunnyside winter lay- 
Ringlet Strain $1.50 
15. 
From good thoroughbred 

Barred P. Rocks 75c for 



Incubator Eggs Moderate Price. 
SPLENDID COCKERELS (Ringlet), $2.50. 
If upon receipt of these birds you do not 
think they as good as you can get elsewhere 
for twice the money we charge, you can re- 
turn them and we will refund the purchase 
price in full. No C. O. D. SHIPMENTS TO 
ANY ONE. SUNNYSIDE POULTRY FARM. 
Christiansburg, Va. Reference: Bank of 
Christiansburg, Va. 

^j«40 VARIETIES*^ 

BEST POULTRY. 

Fine large Poultry Guide, 6c. You 
cannot aflord 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, 



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 16; 
$2.00 per 40. 

White Plymouth Rock Eggs $1.50 per 15. 
Mrs. LIZZie OYER. Versailles, Teas. 

OAKSHADE II. B. Turkeys 
and Huguenot W. Wyandottes, 

: FOR SALE : 

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



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* 



...FEEDING OUR. 



BABY CHICK FOOD 

PRODUCES 

HEALTHY CHICKS. 

SAMPLE FOR THE ASKING. 
INCUBATORS, :=: :=: 
BROODERS AND 

POULTRY SUPPLIES, 

ALWAYS IN STOCK. 

BIRDS, PET STOCK, GOLD FISH 

EVERYTHING FOR THE FANCIER. 

CATALOGUE FREE. 

Having made a change in manage- 
ment we are better than ever, prepared 
to make prompt shipment. 

FANCIERS' SUPPLY CO., 

S17-519 West Broad St., 

Richmond, Va. 



Kum C for Yosef 

This may not be pure Turk, but you will find 
PURE STOCK AT THE CEDARS POULTRY 

AND STOCK FARM 
Most fashionable strains JERSEY CATTLE, 
DUROC JERSEY AND POLAND CHINA 
Swine, B. P. R. Fowls, M. B. Turkeys, Eng- 
lish Setters and Beagle Hounds. 

Egg season is here; fanciers* stock, farm- 
er's prices. 

WM, G. OWENS, Midlothian, Va. 

EGGS FOR SALE . 

MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEYS and 
BARRED PLYHOUTH ROCKS, are my special- 
ties. Mv flocks of both are derived from "prize 
winners" of the best strains in the world. 

Pens No. 1.— Turkey eggs per 15. $4.00. Bar- 
red Plymouth Rock eggs per 15, $2.00. 

Pens No. 2.— Turkey eggs per 15, $3.50. Bar- 
red Plymouth Rock eggs per 15. $1.50. 

if you wish to secure eggs, file your orders 
at once. 

PIRDMONT POULTRY PLACF, 
Miss E. Callle Oiles, Prop. ■ Whittle's Depot, Va. 



From my S. C. Black 
Minorcas and S. C. 
White Leghorns of the 

ii m. i very best strains. 

These breeds are raised on separate farms, and 

have free range. Eggs, $1 00 per 15; $2.00 per 35; 

$5.00 per 100. I guarantee two-thirds hatch, or 

replace at half price. 

J. MILTON GARNETT, Prop., 
Mitchell's, Va. 

EGGS FOR HATCH'NG 

From WHITE WYANDOTTES, SINGLE 
COMB and BROWN LEGHORNS and PEKIN 
DUCKS. We breed only layers from layers, 
and get layers that commence eaity said keep 
at it. Vigorous stock, fertile eggs, asil^aae- 
ful packing is our way. Eggs, 15 for ^leSO. 
DIXIE POULTRY COMPANY, R. R. No. 4, 
Richmond, Va. 



Barred Plymouth Rocks 

PRIZE WINNERS, THOROUGHBRED. 
The matchless F. F. V. strain founded on 
Bradley Bros., Thompson and others Ply- 
mouth Rocks, are recognized as the best 
general purpose fowl. Improve your stock 
by new blood. Fancy stock for show room. 
Large, vigorous birds for farm. Eggs, $1.50 
to $3 for 15. Circular free. VIRGINIA HILL 
POULTRY FARM. Bristol, Va.-Tenn. 



A DEFERRED RESTITUTION. 
A pig belonging to a widow nam^d 
Murphy mysteriously vanished one 
night, and Pat Hennessy, a ne'er-do- 
well was suspected of having had 
something to do with its disappear- 
ance. He denied all knowledge of the 
pig, however, and as there was no evi- 
dence against him he was allowed to 
go free; but at Mrs. Murphy's insti- 
gation the priest went to see him. 

"Pat," said the priest, "if you've no 
fear of the law in this world, at least 
give a thought to the hereafter. When 
you're before the Judgment Seat, 
what are you going to say about that 
pig?" 

"Shure, I dunno," replied Pat. "Will 
they be after askin' about th' pig in 
Purgatory, yer Riverince?" 

"They will," said the priest. 

"Will Mrs. Murphy be then., yer 
Riverince?" 

"Yes Pat." 

"An' th' pig?" 

"Yes, Pat" 

"Shure, I'll wait an' give it to her 
thin, yer Riverince." — February Wo- 
man's Home Companion. 



THE IRISHMAN HAD HIS DOUBTS. 

As is well known. Rev. Robert Coll- 
yer, of New York city, was a black- 
smith in Germantown, Pa., before he 
became a preacher. Once, when theie 
was little work at hand, he asked a 
builder in his neighborhood for some- 
thing to do. The latter replied that 
all he could give him would be a job 
cariying a hod. 

"I'm your man," replied the black- 
smith promptly. 

Years afterwards, while ah impos- 
ing edifice was being erected in Cni- 
cago for Dr. Collyer, he was standing 
among the beams, watching the pro- 
gress of the work, when an Irishman 
came along with a hod of bricks. Dr. 
Collyer scoke to him and he pausjd. 

"This is har'-rd work, soir." said 
the Irismman. 

"1 know that well." answered Dr. 
ColJyer; "in my day, I've carried the 
hod myself." 

"The Irisman stared at me an in- 
stant,' said Dr. Collyer, in relating 
the incident, "and went on his way 
mumbling something that sounded 
like, 'I wouldn't 'a' belaved th' parson 
was such a liar.' " — From Success. 



A YOUNG BUSINESS MAN. 

The Cohenstein family, loudly weep- 
ing, were gathered around the grave. 
As the coffin containing all the earth- 
ly remains of husband and father was 
being slowly lowered into its last rest- 
ing-place, little Ikey spoke up. 

"Ach," he said, "papa owed me a 
nickel." 

The weeping Mrs. Cohenstein dried 
her tears, and, gazing proudly at the 
mourners the while she patted Ikey 
on the head, she said, — 

"Ain't he the business man?" — Feb- 
ruary LIppincott's. 




KEEPS ECC8 FRESH 

UNTIL THCY ARC USED. 

ZINKET SYSTEM . 

* FILLER. PRESERVER, TESTER 
JANO CARRIER. INDE- 
JSTRUCTIBLE IN FIRE 
OR WATER. TESTIMON- 
IALS AND BOOKLET 
FREE. CHEAPER THAN •Tfi«WBO«B& 

National Egg Carrier Co. 

SCRANTON. PA 

LIVE AGENTS WANTED. 



Do You Want Layers? 

If you do, get your eggs for hatching from our 
Utility Strain of 

Barred Plymouth Rocks 

$1. 00 for 15. 
D. N. McLEAN, Maxton, N. C. 



FOR SALE 

At Coggins Point Farm, 25 P. B. PLYMOUTH 
ROCK COCKERELS of Biltmore strain. En- 
tire stock purchased last spring from Bilt- 
more of prize winners. Price, $2. Address, 
DAVID DUNLOP, Westover, Va. 



BROWN LEGHORNS. 

Eggs for hatching from splendid layers, $1 
per setting. Pens mated for best results. A 
few White P. Rock Cockerels at $1 each. 

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



BUFF LEGHORNS 

and Fancy Stock, progeny of New York win- 
ners for ten generations. Hens last year 
averaged 220 eggs. Excellent utility birds. 
Eggs. $2 per 15. Order now to avoid disap- 
pointment. A. R. VENABLE, JR.. Box 147, 
Milnwood Dairy Farm and Poultry Yards, 
Farmville, Va. 

EGGS FOR HATCHING 

From finest strains in America. White Wjan. 
dottes, Barred Plymouth Rocks, 8100 per 18. 

PENN LAIRD POULTRY CO., - Penn Laird, Va. 

S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS. 

Fine Cockerels, Wyckofl 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, Christiansburg, Va. 

Pure-Bred Eags 

for Hatching. BARRED PLYMOUTH 

ROCKS. S. C BROWN and S. C. WHITES 
LEGHORNS, BLACK LANGSHANS. $1 for 
15; $5 for 100. 400 hens. PARK POULTRY 
YARDS, Harrisonburg, Va. 



BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS 

and BLACK MINORCA eggs for sitting at 
75c. for 15 eggs; $1.26 for 30; and $3.60 for 100. 
Apply to Mrs. N. T. GARTH, Ellisville, Va., 
Louisa county. 



STEPMOTHER He 

New Idea Brooders 

More good polou tbu bo y other. Rftleei 1 i*0 pr. oezii 
ofbethhj ohlcke. Complete filtureacoet cm lj$ . ir 
You mall* woodwork And MH heavj freight w.13 
' Free CsUlofut Ulll til »boo tUlete * New ldw loc'btn 
CILlNHOn7"sSOW * COBPAJVY, BOX 16b«)UUCY, IJXUOIS. 




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Ji. XT R XT S 

FOR SALE. 

Black horse, foaled JS95, by Eolus (sire of 
Eole, St. Saviour, Eon, Morello, Russell 
Diablo, Eurus, Eollan, Elkwood, Knight of 
Ellerslle, etc.). Dam Sample by Imp. Rother- 
hlll (son of Lord Cllfden); 2d dam Satllla by 
Imp. Buckdeu (son of Lord Cllfden) ; 3d dam 
Matilda, by Imp. Sovereign (6on of Emllius); 
4th dam Ruby Mare, by Imp. Ruby (son of 
Emllius); 5th dam Peytona, by Imp. Glen- 
ooe; 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 Fashiou four mile heats, who 
beat Boston the same distance. Apply to 

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



FOR SALE 

TWO COLTS 

by "Whitby," 2:18%, get of "Kittle B.," 
2:24%. 

Bay filly, 15% hands, 4 years old, high 
gaited, up headed, light mouthed, handsome. 
As 2 year old. 3 months from time of first 
bitting, trotted auarter In 40 seconds; at 
second time of asking. An "A-l" race pros- 
pect. 

Chestnut stallion colt, 2 years old 
handsomer than his sire, much stouter and 
smother made; shows duality all over; bro- 
ken last fall. "Nervy," clean gaited, level 
headed; will make a race horse, if "here- 
dity" counts. The dam of these colts was 
the gamest race horse, In 18 years driving, I. 
ever raced. Won two 7 heat races, two 
weeks in succession, and after breaking down 
trotted Pimlico track a trial in 2:18, half in 
1:08. Price of colts. $500, or would exchange 
for a fine team of 3 heavy farm mules, 4 to 
7 years old. Both colts are "double gaited" 
and the stud will make a fine "saddle horse" 
sire, as he goes "all the gaits" in the pad- 
dock barefooted, and all the "Whitbys" 
have "velvet mouths." Address 

T. WM. HEWITT, Weyanoke, Va. 



"JAVANAI5" 

IMPORTED FRENCH 
COACH STALLION. 

Will be In the stud at Mr. A. Pollard's 
"Dunraven Farm," three miles below Rich- 
mond, on New Market Road. 

Javanals Is large, handsome, and of idea 
carriage conformation, and has proved 
himself a sire of carriage horses. Pedigree 
on application. Fee, $20. 

HORSES BOARDED winter or summer; 
horses fitted for market. Colts broken to 
harness or saddle. A. POLLARD, R. F. D. 
No. 6 Richmond, Va. 

FOR SALE,--My Trotting-bred Stallion 

GEORGE BURNS, foaled May 14. UN. Ma- 
hogany bay, itar In face, left hind foot whits. 
of good atyle, easy to handle; will make good 
breeder. Write for his breeding. 
J. TABB JANNHT, Van CleTesyille, W. Va, 



EMILY'S CHARGE. 
A Serial Tale by Mary Washington. 

CHAPTER IX. 

But it is now time we were return- 
ing to the orphans wlnin we have 
already left too long. Veil it as she 
might from the outside world, and 
even from her own brother and sister, 
Emily had become a changed crea- 
ture from the time she had known 
Ellis Gordon, and since he had gone 
away, though she had busied herself 
as actively as ever about her employ- 
ments, still the spring seemed to have 
gone out of her life which a little time 
before seemed to have blossomed with 
such brightness and fulness of beau- 
ty as she had never known before 
The years of her early womanhood had 
been so wholly given up to Alice and 
Walter, and so filled with exertion and 
responsibility that she scarce had 
room in her heart or life for the ro- 
mance of youth, so different had her 
lot been from that of most young girls. 
Love did not come to her till late, 
when her feelings, though as fresh as 
ever, had gained a depth and strength 
unknown in early girlhood. She had 
had, as all young girls do, vague, 
sweet dreams and fancies, about an 
ideal hero, a mingling of King Ar- 
thur, Sir Galahad, and all other noble 
and heroic characters, but never until 
now had the person presented him- 
self who could raise the slumbering 
Princess. 

By this time. Alice was eighteen, in 
the exquisite bloom of early woman- 
hood, though Walter thought (and 
some one else agreed with him) that 
Emily's ripened loveliness was even 
more attractive. Alice, however, was 
more striking in appearance. She 
was very tall, and her eyes were large 
and of a brilliant brown, whilst her 
hair was a bright chestnut, and her 
complexion of creamy white, with a 
delicate rose tinge on her cheeks. In 
looking at her, Emily would often re- 
peat to herself the lines from Tenny- 
son's "May Queen," 

"There's Margaret and there's Mary, 

there's Kate and Caroline, 
But none so fair as little Alice in all 
the land, they say." 

Alice was not an accomplished 
young lady in the ordinary ucceptation 
of the term, but she was a cultivated 
one, and in knowledge of history and 
store of general information, would 
have borne off the palm from the 
common run of school girls, bhe had 
also acquired a good knowledge of 
French and German from Emily. 
Above all. she had grown up to be a 
useful woman, helpful and kind to 
every one around her, and after all, 
this is the true end of education. 

Every one in that community had 
become interested in the orphans and 
attached to them. The proprietor of 
the Springs and his wife who had 
taken a great fancy to them, would 



<^FOR SALE^* 

A HANDSOME DAKK HAY HALF BRED HACK 

NEY MARE. NINE YEARS OLD, IN 

FOAL TO "CHERRYWOOD." 

She Is a mare of magnificent carriage type, 

standing 16 hands high, and sound, with good 

action. Has been a winner at Toronto and 

Ottawa, Canada, where she won the gold 

medal for best mare. Her progeny can be 

seen on the farm, which will prove her 

ability to produce high class stock. Apply to 

MR. A. POLLARD, New Market Road, three 

miles below Richmond (R. F. D. 5.), Va. 

FOR SALE. 

FTNE TROTTING STALLION, 
WOOLFORD, 25539, by Judge Salisbury, 
son of Nutwood; dam Norma Sprague, by 
Geo. Sprague. etc. He is young, sound, hand- 
some and Impressive as a sire. Offered solely 
for want of use. Address W. V. THRAVES, 
Belona, Va. 



JACKS AND JENNETS. 

FOR SALE. The finest lot of Span- 
ish Jacks and Jennets that lever 
owned In my 20 yeHrs' experience. 
I defy competition as to quality and 
price. Twenty - five 
reasons why the far- 
mer should rnWe mules 
| Call on or addre»s, 

BAKER'S JACK FARM, 

Lawrence, Ind. 

Free telephone connection from Indianapolis. 



Knight & Jetton, 

Breeders of and Dealers it 

Jacks, Jennets, Stallions. 

Durham and Hereford 

YEARLINGS. 

Send stamp for Catalogue. 

Murfreesboro, Tenn. 





J3 



Jacks, Jennets and Stallions 

FOR SALE. Fine Jacks a 
Specialty. Wh n writing 
state exactly what you want 
or come and see our Btock. 

W. E. KNIOHT & CO., 
Route 5. Nasbvllle, Tenn. 



SALE OR EXCHANQF 

1 Maltese and 1 Spanish Jack, found a*d 
sure, for good sheep or heavy stallion. Young 
slock preferred. W. S. MOTT, Dixondale, 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. 

AMPDDA PflATC » re handsome, hardy and 
ANllUnA UUA I O profitable For large cir- 
cular address E. W. COLE & CO.. Big Cliftv. Ky. 



GOATS ! 



Wanted a flock of good common breed 
goats, not exceeding In number twenty year- 
ling females and two bucks. Answer M. D. 
L., Southern Planter, Richmond, Va. 



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WANTED 

A. second-hand DRILL, one that will plant, 
peas, oats, etc. C. P. HODGMAN, Water- 
way, Va. 



WANTED 

to buy (In lots of 25 and up to 200) nice 
young Leghorn Pullets— any color. P. J. 
H OLMES, Ivor Va. 

EGGS ! EGGS !! 

Barred Plymouth Rocks, White Wyandotte 
and S C. B. Leghorn, M. Bronze Turkeys, 
crossed with wild. Book your orders now. 
Miss CLARA L. SMITH, Croxton, Caroline 
county, Va. _________ 

BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS, 

BUFF COCHINS, CORNISH INDIAN GAMES 
and PEKIN DUCKS. Stock and eggs for 
sale. Satisfaction guaranteed. Prices low. 
Rev J. W. HECKMAN, Cascade. Va. 



COLLIE PUPS 



By Imported Sires. Sable and white and tri 
colors. Prices. 88 to $15. Older ones correspond- 
lnelv low- Book on Training, 50 cents: Free II 
you buy a Collie. MAPLEMONT STOCK FARM, 
3 ' Albany, Vermonl. 



WANTED 

One or two medium sized horses for country 
place in Virginia. Must be young, sound, of 
good appearance, broken to saddle, buggy and 
light farm work, moderate in price and gen- 
tle enough for a lady to handle. Mares pre- 
ferred Address with full particulars. Dr. 
THOMAS W. KAY, 345 Wyoming Ave., Scran- 
ton, Pa. 

DAIRY HfcRDS 

Put in order; men trained to take care of 
them. Large experience. Highest references. 
Agricultural College graduate, with years of 
practical experience in the dairy barn. Ad- 
dress, WALTER A. CONANT, Van Tassel 
Dairy Farm, Du Bois. Pa. 

ORCHARD HILL PURE BRED 

Poland Chinas ! 

A few pigs, brood sows, and boars for sale; 
also some S. C. B. LEGHORN Cockerels. 
F. M. SMITH, JR., Charlottesville, Va. 
R. F. D. No. 4. 



Hawksley Stock Farm 

offers some extra fine 

BERKSHIRES. 

A top lot ot pigs not akin, ready for April 
delivery, „ _ . 

B P. Rock and 9. C B. Leghorn eggs at 
81.00 per 15. J. T. OLI VER, Aliens Level, Va. 

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. 



send them invitations whenever any- 
thing especially pleasant or entertain- 
ing was going on, and in this way, 
many social pleasures were placed 
within their reach, during the season. 
As Alice was lust budding into wo- 
manhood, Emily thought it right to 
accept all suitable invitations for her, 
and accordingly they attended this 
summer a tournament and a ball given 
at the Springs. The former did not 
quite come up to the lists at Camelot 
or Ashby de la Zouche, still Alice en- 
joyed it vastly, and amongst the 
throng of fair and elegantly dressed 
women present, none was more beau- 
tiful than herself, nor more lovely 
than Emily. On this occasion, an old 
friend came up and accosted them, 
Allan Crawford, now at thirty, a far 
finer looking and more interesting 
man than he had been in his early j 
youth. The next day he called at the 
cottage, and after that, he came daily. 

It soon became evident that Allan 
had changed his allegiance, and that 
Alice, the little pet and plaything of 
former days had become "the rare and 
radiant maiden" of his choice. Be- 
fore the summer was over, he had of- 
fered her his heart and hand, and 
during the autumn and winter, he 
pressed his suit with such zeal that 
before another springtime came round, 
Alice had capitulated and Allan was 
the blissful fiance of this lovely young 
creature. 

Emily said it seemed like a proph- 
ecy of this event that she had always 
had a sisterly feeling for Allan, and 
that there was no one in the world to 
whom she would be so willing to en- 
trust "her dear child" as she called 
Alice. Still it was a hard ordeal for 
her to give up Alice, and she looked 
forward to the marriage with that 
mingling of pain and pleasure which 
seems to attach itself to all mortal 
affairs. 

"It reminds me." said she, "of the 
Oriental proverb, 'Do not seek thy 
fate; thy fate is seeking thee.' "When 
I brought Alice to these mountain 
fastnesses, it seemed as if I were cut- 
ting her off from society and from 
every worldly advantage, and yet her 
fate has sought her in this remote 
situation. She is marrying a man up- 
right, honorable, intelligent, well edu- 
cated, moreover in enjoyment of an 
ample competence. And the crowning 
blessing of her lot is that she loves 
him as well as he loves her. Without 
this, all the rest would count for noth- 
ing, for 'if a man would give all the 
substance of his house for love, it 
would be utterly contemned.' " 

The ensuing few months were very 
busy ones at the cottage, Emily and 
Alice being diligently at work on the 
trousseau, a task dear to the feminine 
heart. Though they did not aim at an 
expensive one, they had skilful, taste- 
ful fingers which could impart grace 
and beauty even to garments of simple 
materials. 



Berkshire Hogs! 




Sires in service, Rockland Majestic 
of New Era; his sire Rockland Gen- 
try, champion of Americain 1903; grand 
sire, Baron Lee IV, Hodel Lee IX, 
sire Gov. Lee, champion of America in 
1589, Sows of EQUALLY NOTED 
Strains. A few nice pigs for sale. 
Write for prices 

JNO. CALHOUN, Clio, S. C. 



I B ERKSHIRE ^ 

ANNEFIELD HERD 

Contains the 

Finest Blood Lines 

in England and America. 



Young Stock for Sale. 

Inquiries cheerfully answered. 



SPECIAL: A few extra 6-months old pigs, 
either sex. 

EDW. G. BUTLER, Annefield Farms, 

Briggs, Clarke Co., 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. 



HOLLYBROOK FARM. 

Berkshire Pigs^v 

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

HENRY W. WOOD, 

Box 330. RICHMOND, VA. 



"Feeds and Feeding' 

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

Delivered anywhere for - - $2.00 
With the SOUTHERN PLANTER, 2.25 



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2 WE HAVE THE BEST, fc 

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3 MINIBORYA FARM, fc 

3& Box 901. RICHflOND, VA. & 

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. 

Registered jJSE 

C. Whites. Fine large 

strains. All ages, mated 

not a in, 8 week, pigs. 

Bred sows. Service boars ~93BM*MN*V?'M^'-? f & 

and Poultry. Write for prices and free circular. 

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

______ 

_■__* FROn REO. STOCK. 
EOR SALE. PRICES RIGHT. 
F. S. M1CHIE, Charlottesville, Va. 

Choice Poland Chinas 

Of all ages, bred out of old parents of popular 
breeding; also BARRED PLYnOUTH ROCK 
BOGS, 15 for $1.00; 30 for $1.50; 100 for $5 00. 
THOMAS R. SMITH, 
Lincoln, Loudoun Co., Va. 

WM. T. THRASHER, Springwood, Virginia, 

BREEDER OP PURE BRED 

SHort Horn Cattle and 
Poland-CHina Hog's. 

FOR S » LE : 2 yearling bulls, good ones, ready 
for service, sired by Verbena's Champion No. 
1298S1; some younger bulls, sired by Royal Chief 
No.;i85432; also some Fall Poland China shoats 
of both sexes. Come or write. 

VIRGINIA DIVISION. 

FARMER'S MUTUAL BENEFIT ASSOCIATION. 

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

Kastern 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, Genera- 
Agent, Chester, Va. 




Alice had one advantage over 
wealthy girls who merely order their 
trousseaus, the making of which is 
only a matter of dollars and cents be- 
tween themselves and their dress- 
makers. Every article that Alice did 
not make herself was made by Emily, 
and thus served as a token and re- 
minder of her love. Yet though there 
is a vast amount of shoddyism dis- 
played in trousseaus, nowadays, still 
the principle is right, and is dictated 
by a sense cf "the eternal fitness of 
things." It is appropriate that we 
should clothe ourselves with new and 
diverse garments as we enter on new 
eras of life. It is suitable that a bride 
should have fresh and beautiful cloth- 
ing. Every lovely tint und fabric and 
ornament seem fitting cymbols of the 
new era on which sh<j is entering 
which, if she truly loves and is 
worthily beloved, will open to her a 
world of bloom, beauty and happiness 
far beyond any other tie or phase of 
life can offer. 

During the time of Alice's betrothal, 
Emily strove by close occupation, and 
by sympathy with her sister's happi- 
ness to forget the void and disquiet in 
her own heart, but she could not. Love 
had st olen in softly and impercepti- 
bly, but he had enshrined himself so 
deeply in her heart that it seemed 
impossible for one of her earnest and 
steadfast nature to drive him out. 
Dearly as she loved her brother and 
sister, and warmly as they recipro- 
cated her affection, she had become 
conscious of a sense of loneliness and 
isolation which must come, at times, 
to every woman, until she has found 
that "dearer life in life" by which 
alone her own can be rounded and 
completed. 

Late in the spring the marriage was 
quietly celebrated, their good friend, 
the Episcopal clergyman performing 
the ceremony. With heartfelt earnest- 
ness, he went through the beautiful 
prayer (touching the true and heav- 
enly keynote of marriage) that the 
young couple might "so live together 
in this world that in the world to come 
they might have everlasting life." 

When the spring flowers bloomed 
that year, in the old garden at "Sol- 
dier's Joy," a fairer flower bent over 
them, inhaling their old familiar fra- 
grance with delight, Alice, the lovely 
young bride whom Allan had carried 
back to her old home. 



Cattle, Horses and Sheep 

From Blue-Grass, Va. 
Boughton Commission 

We can furnish grade Shorthorn, Hereford 
and angus steers, from L to 8 years old. 

High grade, and pure-bred, heifers and 
young bulls at low prices. 

Grade ewes, and purebred, rams, of Shrop- 
shire, Hampshire, Southdown and Suffolk 
breeds. 

SADDLE, HEAVY-DRAFT and DRIVING 
HORSES. Write us your wants. 

SHANNON BROS., 

POPLAR HILL, VA., Giles Co. 
Telegraph Office and Station, 

Dublin, Va,. N. & W. Railroad 



An obedient husband up in Frank- 
lin county, Me., was cr.-iccting to df> 
ing certain work about the house, and 
he quoted Scripture to his wife,, show- 
ing that the household duties should 
properly be assigned to the woman. 
The good wife replied # by reading to 
her astonished liege II. Kings xxi., 13, 
"I will wipe Jerusalem as a man 
wipeth a dish, wiping It and turning 
it upside down." That husband has 
wiped the dishes ever since. — Zion's 
Herald. 



GREENFIELD HERD OF 

Aberdeen Angus Cattle. 

Baron Ida, 20184 (Champion yearling, 18 
firsts, 17 times in 1st prize herd, 4 firsts on 
produce of sire and 3 times at head of grand 
sweepstakes herd) at head of herd. 

The females in this herd are prize winners 
or the Immediate descendants of prize win- 
ners sired by such noted bulls as Champion 
Lord Hillhurst, Beau Forbes H., by Beau 
Bill (champion of the West for two years); 
Cham. Baron Ida, Ludolph 4th, Rustler 2d. 

Choice calves from the above cows sired 
by Baron Ida, Encouragement 46382. and 
Erard 55380. 

WARREN RICE, Winchester, Va. 

H. F. COLEMAN & SONS, 

MULBERRY GAP, TENN., 

—BREEDERS OF— 

ABERDEEN=ANGUS CATTLE. 

JANNET'S KING, 482; 1, greatest 
son of Valiant Knight II., 29331, first 
prize bull at all three of the Interna- 
tional shows, heads the herd Visitor! 
and correspondence invited. Young 
things for sale. 



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. 

Aberdeen Angus Cattle! 

FAME OF WOODLAWN. 

1st in class of 22 at the 
International Show. 14 
>\ -Ancettral Champions. 
Write your wants and 
lor prices of heads for 
he'd!. 

JOHN T. and Q. B. 

V MANLOVE. Hilton 

Indiana. 

- ROSEDALE HERD 

Aberdeen-Angus Cattle* 

C holce 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, JeffersonUm. 
Va. 




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THE SOTJTHEKN PLANTER 



[March, 



REG ISTER-ED] 

SHORTHORNS. 

Our old, established herd of about 
forty good milking cows is headed by 
imported SIR WILFRED LAURIER, 
144766 (a son of the great English 
champion Marengo); CEDRIC, 12608S 
(a grandson of William of Orange, of 
Marr Farm), and FRANTIS LAD, 
210443 (a winner of second prize in 
senior bull calves at 1903 International 
Young stock for sale, 

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

ELLERSLIE FARM^- 
Tiioronghbred Horses 

AND SHORTHORN CATTLE, 

Pure Southdown Sheep 
and Berks aire Pigs. 

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



COOK'S CREEK HERD 



THE No. 6 IRON AGE COMBINED 
DOUBLE AND SINGLE WHEEL 
HOE, HILL AND DRILL SEEDER. 





Scotch-Topped 
Shorthorns ^ 



Herd Headed by Governor Tyler, 158.5 48. 
Young Bulls for sale. Inspection and corres- 
pondence invited. 

HEATWOLE & SUTER, Dale Enterprise, Va. 

MEADOW BROOK 
SHORTHORNS, ae 

I have several very fine Shorthorn Red Bull 
Calves 6 to 10 months old, and several very 
nice yearling Shorthorn Heifers for sale at 
farmer's prices. C. A. SAUNDERS, Meadow 
Brook Stock Farm, Culpeper, Va. 



FOR SALE OR TRADE 

1 Registered Shorthorn Bull, 

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 Pigs, 3 to 

4 months old. 
J. H. BOELTE & SONS, - News Ferry, Va 
West. 



Trip cut shows the tool ready for 
sowing garden seeds in continuous 
rows or in hills at four, six, eight, 
twelve or twenty-four inches apart. 
The change from sowing in contin- 
uous rows to that of dropping in hills 
can be instantly made, or the reverse. 
The seed sowing device 's very simple 
and can he removed quickly, and the 
tool changed into a complete single or 
double wheel hoe by making use of the 
small working tools, extra wheel, etc., 
shown in the cut about the machine. 

In designing the seed sowing device 
simplicity of construction, conven- 
ience of adjustment and perfection of 
work were kept constantly in mind. 
The agitator is simply a revolving 
brush of selected bristles, which abso- 
lutely will not injure the seed. The 
seed hopper holds two quarts. The 
light weight of this tool, combined 
with the remarkable strength of same, 
cannot help but appeal to you as hav- 
ing excellent advantages, especially 
since this is a tool that is to be pushed 
solely by hand. 

This implement, as well as a com- 
plete line of garden tools, horse hoes 
and cultivators, riding cultivators, 
two-horse walking cultivators, special 
trucking tools, potato planters, etc., 
are made by the Bateman Mfg. Co., 
Box 167, Grenlock, N. J., who guaran- 
tee their implements to be as repre- 
sented, and will be pleased to send 
their catalogue free to all who make 
inquiry for same. 



I OFFER' 



2 Reg. Ayrshire Bulls, 

OnelOuio*. old PRICK, $40.00. 

One coming A y rs. old P R I OB, $65.00. 

Low considering Quality. 
Registered and high grade HAMPSHIREDOWN 
SHEBP of best breeding. Ram*. Ewes and 
Lambs for sale. Stock and Prices will suit. 

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



GOVT 



AUCTION SALE 
CATALOGUE GUNS 

Pistols, Military Goods(lllustrated) 
15c, mailed 6c stamps. P. Ban nerman , 579 Broadway, N. V. 



A JOKE FROM ENGLAND. 

At a recent Chamber of Commerce 
dinner the following story was told: 
"At the time of King Edward's re- 
covery from appendicitis, thanksgiving 
services were held all over the British 
dominions. The services were con- 
cluded at a certain place by the sing- 
ing of a well-known hymn, which hap- 
pened to be in the back of the book. 

" 'Let us close the services," the rec- 
tor said, 'by singing the hymn, 'Peace, 
Perfect Peace' — in the appendix.' " 



Angus Cattle For Sale Low. 



TWO TOO MANY. 
"Triplets," said wee Willie Winkle- 
top with a very knowing air, "always 
come to poor ' families. It's when 
God sends them a whole line of sam- 
ples to pick from, and they hasn't 
enough money to pay the expressman 
to take two of 'em back." — February 
Lippincott'B. 




One 5 year old bay mare with black 
points, 16 hands, weight 1,150. Fine 
family mare and a nice driver. Lot of 
7-8 grade Angus bull calves. Lot of 
15 16 grade Angus bull calves. These 
grade calves look like thoroughbred 
Angus, and will please the most fas- 
tidious. 1 five year old Shrothorn 
cow with bull calf at foot, by our Reg. 
Angus Bull, a fine family milk cow; 
quality's perfect. A splendid 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. 



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. 
Bl acksburg, Va. 

Swift Creek Stock and Dairy Farm 

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






JERSEY BULLS 
AND HEIFERS. 



None better bred In the South. Combining 
closely the most noted and up-to-date blood 
In America. Bulls 4 to 6 months old, $25; 
Heifers, same age, $35. POLAND CHINA 
PIGS, $5 each. Send check and get what 
you want. 

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

REGISTERED 

Guernsey Cattle 

Of all ages, for sale, including a 2-year 
old Bull, from a tested dam. 

G. M. WALLACE, 

FALMOUTH, VA. 

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



1904.] 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



209 




EDGtWOOD STOCK FARM, 

DORSETS 
Fall lambs now 
ready. Now Is time 
to order Dorset 
rams. Write for 
circulars and photos. 
Come to see our 
DorBets. J. D. & H. 

B. ARBUCKLB, Greenbrier Co., Maxwelton, 

W. Va. 

...Woodland Farm. 

DORSET SHEEP, 

Beardless Spring Barley, 

Choice Alfalfa Seed. 

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

....BARGAINS.... 

DORSETS AND 
HEREFORDS 

H. ARMSTRONG, LANTZ MILLS, VA. 



AT FARMER'S PRICES. 

S. M. WISECARVER, - - Rustburg. Va. 
Aryshires, Berkshires and Oxford-Downs. 

Ayrshire Calve* of both seres, Berkshire 
Pigs and Boar and 2 Oxford- Down Rams for 
■ale. MELROSE CASTLE FARM, 

Bnos H. Hess, Manager, Casanova, Va. 

for sale. 

3 Aberdeen-Angus Heifers, 

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

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



your Buggy Catalog is Ready 

The Ohio Carriage Mfg. Co., 10 Sixth St., 
Cincinnati, Ohio, H. C. Phelps, President, 
desires to announce to our readers that the new 
and attractive 1904 catalogue of Split Hickory 
Vehicles and Harness is now ready for free 
distribution, and will bo promptly sent, pre- 
paid, to all who request it. 

As is well known to most of our readers, many 
of them regular customers of this great buggy 
concern, the Ohio Carriago Mfg. Co. is the sole 
manufacturer of the Split Hickory line of 
vehicles, all of which thoy sell direct to the user 
at factory price, affording a great saving over 
other methods. 



m 



ANGUS & HOLSTEIN CATTLE. 

I Registered and grades, of all ages 

I ind sexes, and of champion blond 

orthebeel and milk strains and 

it moderate prices Also Nursery 

-tock of all descriptions 

MYER & SON, Brldgcville, Delaware. 



I O E 



Gibson 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. i 

GIBSON & LAMB, West Alexander, Pa. ! 



CORN PLANTING 8& CS 

gest crop you want 

a planter that will do the work right. "The 
Hamilton" Corn Planter is the best machine 
on earth for insuring increased corn crop. 
Write for catalogue and price ft~- ~ 

«*> ITHE rl. P. DEUSCHER C0.,H30C 
Hamilton, Ohio, Manufacturers. g^ 



Mention the Southebn Planteb in 
writing. 




Cincinnati - Ohio 



The beauty of the cover of the 1904 catalogue, 
with its seven colors and artistic design, is but 
feebly portrayed above in the small reduced 
illustration. The catalogue is a work of art and 
its contents are complete and authoritative. It 
lays special stress, very properly, upon the 1904 
Split Hickory Special Top Buggy, priced at $50, 
the wonder and pride of the buggy user, the 
envy of buggy makers universally. 

This Split Hickory Special has one hundred 
points of merit. These points comprise every 
late feature known in the manufacture of a 
strictly high-grade buggy. 

We ask our readers in sending for this 1904 cata- 
logue to use the following coupon and to fill out 
the blanks carefully, and mail it direct to The 
Ohio Carriage Mfg. Co., 10 Sixth St , Cincin- 
nati, O. 



Name. 



Address 



"THE SURE HATCH IN ALASKA." 
Minto, Yukon, Jan. 7, 1904.— Seattle 
Produce Co., Eugene, Oregon. Gentle- 
men, — Enclosed please find eighteen 
dollars ($18) for another 150 egg size 
incubator. Please send it as soon as 
possible as I want to set it in the fore 
part of March. The one you sent me 
last fall is all right and I want to set 
two in March, or sooner if the hens 
begin to lay. I will want some more 
later. 1 enclose 20 cents for exchange 
of Canadian greenbacks. On my first 
hatch I got 85 per cent, and have not 
got less than 95 per cent, since that 
time. Ship the machine to Mrs. John 
Fussell, Minto, Yukon, care of Mr. 
Wheeler, Royal Mail Service, White 
Horse. 



From barred buff and white 
I lymouth Hocks ; bufl Or- 
pingtons and Mammoth 

bronze turkeys, [scoring^ to 96 points, at lar- 

mers. "irlces. 



EGGS 



I BOOKINO ORDERS^FOR 

POLAND -CHINA PIGS* 

I have a herd from the greatest breeders in 
the world,— the best that money ran buy I 
treat buyers as I wi«h to be trMited. Write for 
prices and free circular. 15 years a breede- 

J.JB. BEAMER, Pickaway, W. Va 



EGOS for sale. 

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

MISS JULIA P. JONES, 

Bethanla, N. C. 

"WALSH'S 

Barred PlymoutH RocKs 

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

L. W. WALSH, 

Box 194. Lynchburg, Va. 

Silver l.pced Vyar»d«rit« *». 

No finer general purpose (owl in America. 
Bred for beauty and utility. Eggs from choice 
and pure bred stuck, $1.25 per IS; 82.00 per 30 
Twenty-three years a breeder and shipper. 

S. P. YOi'ER, Denbigh, Va. 
~ " ' ' »~ ^ — » 

BfcST STRAIN 

BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS. 

The ideal farmer's fowl. Eggs, 50c 
per setting of 15 F. O. B. hpre. Mrs. 
WM. P. Bueks, R. F D. 1. Bedford City, 
Va^ 

—FOR PURE-BRED— 

WHITE LEGHORN 

eggs at 75c per sitting, address, 

Mss. W. P. ALLEN, Walnut Hill, Va. 



FOR SALE A I 



A BARGAIN 



2 pure-bred Holstein Friesian 

Bull calves two months old. 
Address, H. W MANbON, Crewe, Va, 

. . .5 PURE-BRED. . . 

BERKSHIRE BOARS 

for saie, 2 months old, $5.00 each ~~~f 
H. SWLNEFOKD, Richmond^Va. 



SPECIAL NOTICE. 

Our new invention, used on every farm every 
day, sells on sight, and is guaranteed for ,ten 
years. A great opportunity to make money for 
parlies 'able to invest $500 to 51,500 for territory 
lor thebaleof thislnvention. Kaiiroad Fare will 
be paid one way to responsible men who come 
prei ai d to do business, whether they decide or 
not. Write for particulars to H. AOULPIf 
MULLER, Eastern Agt., box552, Richmond, Va. 



210 



THE SOUTHEKJST PLANTER 



[March, 



WASHINGTON'S REVERENCE. 

An Anecdote of the Father of His 
Country and of His Mother. 

Much of George Washington's firm 
strength of character was due to his 
splendid ancestry, as the following lit- 
tle anecdote will testify: 

While reconnoitering in Westmore- 
land county, Va., one of General Wash- 
ington's officers chanced upon a fine 
team of horses driven before a plow 
by a burly slave. Finer animals he 
had never seen. When his eyes had 
feasted on their beauty, he cried to 
the driver: 

"Hello, good fellow! I must have 
those horses. They are just such ani- 
mals as I have been looking for." 

The black man grinned, rolled up the 
whites of his eyes, put the lash to the 
horses' flanks, and turned up another 
furrow in the rich soil. The officer 
waited until he had finished the row; 
then, throwing back his cavalier cloak, 
the ensign of rank dazzled the slave's 
eyes. 

"Better see missis! Better see mis- 
sis!" he cried, waiving his hand to the 
south, where, above the cedar growth, 
rose the towers of a fine old Virginia 
mansion. The officer turned up the 
carriage road, and soon was rapping 
the great brass knocker of the front 
door. Quickly the door swung on its 
ponderous hinges, and a grave, ma- 
jestic-looking woman confronted the 
visitor with an air of inquiry. 

"Madame," said the officer, doffing 
his cap, and overcome by her dignity, 
"I have come to claim your horses in 
the name of the Government." 

"My horses?" said she, bending upon 
him a pair of eyes born to command. 
"Sir, you cannot have them. My crops 
are out and I need my horses in the 
field." 

"I am sorry," said the officer, "but I 
must have them, madame. Such are 
the orders of my chief." 

"Your chief? Who is your chief, 
pray?" she demanded, with restrained 
warmth. 

"The commander of the American 
army — General George Washington," 
replied the other, squaring his shoul- 
ders and swelling with pride. A smile 
of triumph softened the sternness of 
the woman's handsome features. "Tell 
George Washington," said she, "that 
his mother says he cannot have her 
horses." 

With a humble apology, the officer 
turned away, convinced that he had 
found the source of his chief's decision 
and self-command. 

And did Washington order his officer 
to return and make his mother give up 
her horses? No; he listened to the 
report in silence, then, with one of his 
rare smiles, he bowed his head. — Feb- 
ruary St. Nicholas. 



&*3dr*8- 



No Trace of Disease 

any one of the three years, 1901, 1902 or 1903 at or follow- 
ing th> International Live Stock Exposition at Chicago. 
Is'it remarkable? If you saw the shows you know the 
countless thousands in value assembled. There was 
anxiety among breeders. T" ey had to be assured against 
the spread of contagious diseases. The management met 
the demand each year by disinfecting with famous 

ZENOLEUM 

Zenoleum exclusively. That's high, reliable testimony. Do yon nse 

' Zenoleum? It destroys disease germs, avoids contagion, cures scab, 

cholera and skin diseases, kills lice, removes stomach and intestinal 

worms, establishes and maintains for live stock ideal sanitary conditions. 

"The Great Coal Tar Carbolic Disinfectant Dip." 

Sample gallon of Zenoleum $1.50, express prepaid. 5 gallons $6.25, 
freight prepaid. If you breed live stock you should learn what Zenoleum 
will do for you. Ask for free Zenoleum handbooks, "Veterinary Ad- 
viser" and "Piggie's Troubles." A postal will bring them. • 

iZenner* Disinfectant Co., 93 Bates St., Detroit, Mich. 



* 



BIG BARGAINS 



'IN< 



ABERDEEN-ANGUS BULL CALVES. 

For prompt sale we offer as follows! 

1 YEARLING BULL FOR $75.00 

2 8 MOS. CALVES, EACH $50.00 l ...": 
2 6" " " E $40.00 

These calves are sired by our Bull Marvil, No. 40591, (direct descendent of the world-famous 
Gay Blackbird) out of as pure blooded cows as are to be found anywhere. These calves are in good 
condition, and fine specimens as to form, color, etc. Remember the bull i» half the herd — therefore 
get the best. Come and see them or write. 



WILSON BROS. & CO., 



News Ferry, Va. 



Mention the Southebn Planter in 
writing. 



BERKSHIRE BOARS 



6 months old, right in every way. 
JERSEY BULL CALVES, 

from superior cows. 

Forest Home Farm, 



Purcellville, 



Virginia. 



THE. - OAI1S - STOCK - FARM. 

A. W. HARMAN, Jr.. Prop., 

We breed and ship the beu strains of 

Lars* ENGLISH BERKSHIRES 



Send us your order and get the best. 

A Large Registered English Berkshire Boar, 

1/i years old, extra fine specimen FOR SALE. 

None better bred In this country. 6 coming 

2 year old JERSEY HEIFERS for sale; also 

2 fine Jersey Cows; 1 yearling heifer, a per 

feet beauty. Write for price. 

ALEX. HARMAN, Mgr.,LexIa(ton, Va. 




When corresponding with our advertisers always mention the 
Southern Planter. 



1904.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER 211 

BILTMORE FARMS, « Biltmore, N. C. 

Headquarters for GOLDENLAD JEESEYS, 

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

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

Biltmore Jerseys are a combination of large and persistent milking qualities with an in dividuality 
that wins iu the show rinp. 

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

* ^ BILTMORE POULTRY YARDS. J>%J>1 

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

Headquarters for the best IMPORTED ENGLISH BERKSHIRES. 



******•*■* 


apply to BILTMORE FARMS, biltmore, n. c 


E< 


SGS FOR 


HATCHING 


The 


Imperial Fruit 


and Poultry Farm 



^* ^a Is now booking orders for eggs for hatching from strictly pure, high-class ^a ^a 
^ ^ poultry, at $1.00 for 15 eggs, except duck eggs, which are $1.00 for 13. ^ ^ 

BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS, WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS, 

SINGLE COMB WHITE AND S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS, 

SILVER LACED AND WHITE WYANDOTTE, 
MAMMOTH PEKIN DUCKS. 



Satisfaction Guaranteed. Write your name and address plainly. 

P. M. HEYDENREICH, Prop., .• .' .' Staunton, Va. 



212 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[March, 



MR. YERKES' FIRST DEAL IN SOAP 

Charles T. Yerkes, who is now busy 
supplying London with an adequate 
rapid-transit system, began his busi- 
ness career with a successful specula- 
tion that did not involve the outlay of 
a dollar. It was a Saturday afternoon, 
and he was strolling along a wharf in 
Philadelphia, when he came to a store 
where an auction sale was in progress. 

"How much am I offered for this 
box of soap?" asked the auctioneer. 

The thirteen-year-old boy looked at 
the brand and saw that it was the 
same soap as that used in his home. 
He knew what his mother paid for it 
at retail, and so he made a bid. The 
auctioneer smiled at him, cried the bid 
once, and said: "Sold to — what's your 
name, bub?" 

"Charley Yerkes." 

"Sold to Charley Yerkes for ." 

Then another box was put up and 
bid in by the boy, and this was con- 
tinued until fifty boxes had been 
struck off to him. He had a deposit 
of five dollars in a savings bank, which 
had been there for some months. He 
showed the auctioneer his certificate of 
deposit, and said he would soon return 
and pay for the soap. 

He went to the grocer with whom 
his family traded, and asked him if he 
wanted to buy some soap. The grocer 
asked how much he had and what it 
was worth. The lad replied that he 
had fifty boxes, and that he would sell 
the lot for a certain sum, naming an 
amount double that which the soap 
had cost him at the auction house. 
The deal was closed, and then the 
storekeeper asked the lad how we had 
come by»it. When young Yerkes told 
him, the man opened his eyes and 
said: "I had intended to go to that 
auction, but forgot it." The boy did 
not draw his five dollars from the 
bank, and thereafter it was his great 
pride to add to it. "It is surprising," 
said he, not long ago, in telling the 
story of his first money-making effort, 
"how it grew from year to year. When 
I was twenty-one years of age the 
money of which this was the founda- 
tion amounted to several thousand 
dollars." — Success. 



WHAT, INDEED? 

The physicians were holding a con- 
sultation beside the cot of the man sup- 
posed to have appendicitis concealed 
about his person. 

"I believe," said one of the surgeons, 
"that we should wait and let him get 
stronger before cutting into him." 

Before the other prospective ope- 
rators could reply, the patient turned 
his head and remarked, feebly: 

"What do you take me for — a 
cheese?" 



"Some men," said Uncle Eben, "will 
put in weeks prayin' for rain, an' den 
kick cos' dey happens to git deir feet 
wet." 



Local agencies and complete repair stocks everywhere 



MCCORMICK 

HARVESTERS 



International Harvester Co. of America, Chicago, U. S. A. 



JLARGE YORKSHIRE HOGS 

THE COMING BACON BREED— 
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. 




HILL TOP STOCK FARM. 



A SPECIALTY' 



A. 8. 



S. Brown Allen, who succeeds H. 
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 cost, 
from the purest and most royal strains of imported blood. 

My BERKSHIRE 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 show 
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.) 



ALL THE OfiRDEN TOOLS 

needed by the home or mar- fffffp '^rxr\ 
ket gardener. A special tool (((ill J J) J/J 
for every purpose. 




SsJSsh: New Universal 



Hand Seeders and Cultivators. 

For every condition of truck growing from seeding to 
last cultivation. Most valuable combination tools. Widely 
adjustable, best made. Get free late catalog. 

AMES PLOW COMPANY. SB MARKET 

For S«l» by CRIFFITH * TURNER CO 



Planter and Fertilizer 



Star Pattern 

Billings 

for corn, beans, peas, beets, etc. One 
operation. Seed and fertilizer dropped,, 
in hills any dis- 
tance apart. 

Trip and marker, 
attachments for 
planting in rows 
both ways if want- 
ed. 




It 

Makes 
Things 
Grow: 



Hand Wheel Plows 

(Matthews* New Universal) 

Hoe, cultivator and rake attachments. 

A combination lndispcnsible on farm. 
Ask for orr free late catalogue of all garden tools. The up- 
to-date gardener's practice, line. 

STRFEY, BOSTON, MASS. 

, Baltl noro, Md 



1904.] 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



21: 



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 on 
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 is 
'•urs. 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 you 
will have the best plow 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 
reduced price. 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. 

SPECI A L. 



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 Janesville, 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. 



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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[March, 



IF YOU ARE WELL-BRED 

You will be kind. 

You will not use slang. 

You will try to make others happy. 

You will not be shy or self-conscious. 

You will never indulge in ill-natured 
gossip. 

You will never forget the respect due 
to age. 

You will not swagger or boast of 
your achievements. 

You will think of others before you 
think of yourself. 

You will be scrupulous in your re- 
gard for the rights of others. 

You will not measure your civility 
by people's bank accounts. 

You will not forget engagements, 
promises, or obligations of any kind. 

In conversation you will not be argu- 
mentative or contradictory. 

You will never make fun of the pecu- 
liarities or idiosyncracies of others. 

You will not bore people by con- 
stantly talking of yourself and your 
affairs. 

You will never under any circum- 
stances cause another pain, if you can 
help it. 

You will not think that "good inten 
tions" compensate for rude or gruff 
manners. 

You will be as agreeable to your 
social inferiors as to your equals and 
superiors. 

You will not sulk or feel neglected 
if others receive more attention than 
you do. 

You will not have two sets of man- 
ners — one for "company" and one for 
home use. 

You will never remind a cripple of 
his deformity, or probe the sore spots 
of a sensitive soul. 

You will not gulp down your soup 
so audibly that you can be heard across 
the room, nor sop up the sauce in your 
plate with bits of bread. 

You will let a refined manner and 
superior intelligence show that you 
have traveled, instead of constantly 
talking of the different countries you 
have visited. 

You will not remark, while a guest, 
that you do not like the food which 
has been served to you. 

You will not attract attention by 
either your loud talk or laughter, or 
show your egotism by trying to absorb 
conversation. — February Success. 



CAR LOAD OF PURE BRED HERE- 
FORDS AT FOREST DEPOT, VA. 
A car load of pure bred Hereford 
Heifers from Kentucky have arrived 
at. Forest Depot, consigned to the 
Elgton Stock Farm. They are said to 
be the pick of Kentucky's pure bred 
cattle, and will ,no doubt, be heard 
from in the show ring next fall. 

This addition to their already large 
herd of pure bred Herefords will, no 
doubt, make this one of the best and 
largest herds of white-faces in this 
section of the country. 




PATCH 1:56*4 
THE FASTEST HARNESS HORSE in the WORLD 

BE HOLDS THE FOLLOWING WORLD RECORDS: 

Bile Record, 1 ::.(!•, Half-mile Record 0:56 

Mile Record to Wagon, - ■ - 1:57k mile Record on Half-MUe Track, • 2:03k 

mile Record t» High Wheel Sulky, ■ S:04Ji Tno-Bile Record 1:17 

DAN PATCH HOLDS MORE WORLD RECORDS THAN ANY HORSE THAT HAS EVER LIVED. 

IN TWO YEARS DAN PATCH HAS PACED TEN MILES FROM 2:00 FLAT TO 1:56X. 

IK TWO YEARS DAN PATCH HAS PACED TWENTY-TWO MILES IN 2:01^ TO 1:S6X. 

DAN PATCH PACED BLKV1.N MILES IN 1903 THAT AVERAGED 1:59 4-11 AND WAS 

SHIPPED 10,000 MILES DURING THIS TIME FROM JUNE TO DEC. 

t^-DAN PATCH SOLD FOR »60,000 IN 1902 AND IS NOW VALUED AT $150,000. 

HIS BEAUTIFUL co^oRio PICTURE FREE 

PRINTED IIN SIX BRILLIANT COLORS 

DESCRIPTION. We are owners of this World -Famous Stallion and have gotten out a Magnificent Colored 
Lithograph of Dan Patch 1 :b&H, printed in W Six Brllllaot Colors and Size 21 by 28. Dan Patch is universally 

acknowledged to be a most wonderful horse, and with his combined qualities of champion speed, good breading, 
conformation and very kind disposition the opinion ie freely expressed by horsemen that trlle Is The Greatest Stal- 
lion That lias Ever Appeared On Earth. Agricultural Colleges send to us for his pictures to use in their college work. 
This Beautiful Picture Contains a Complete Record of AH 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 colored 
picture we will send you Is a large reproduction of the above engraving and everyone pronounces it the moit life- 
like hone picture ever published of a marvelous horse. Every lover of a horse ought to have one ef these pictures. 
The demand is tremendous and oTer Two Million Copies will be sent out to farmers and horsemen. 

IT WILL be MAILED to YOU FREE »~Postage Prepaid 

IF YOU ANSWER THESE 8 QTJESTIONS--AT ONCE. 

O l8t.— How Mueh Slock Of All Eladf Do Yon Own! 2nd.— Nam. Paper In Which Ton Saw Thl« Offer. 

O eV*Pictnro will Not be mailed unlets you answer questions '%& 

S 1 ^^^'CiZ&Zr'" 7 ] "*— INTERNATIONAL STOCK FOOD CO., SInn^s 1 ! 8 

>J DAN PATCH 1:58V, DIRECTTH 2:05«, ROY WILKES 2:06j£ Are Owned By INTERNATIONAL STOCK FOOD CO. 
Onr SUllloes, Brood Mares, Colls, Cattle, Hege, Etc., Eat "Ioernational Stock K.od" Every Day. 



Jersey, Guernsey and Shorthorn 

CATTLE 

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. 



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plit 

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Special 

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9$ a Guarantee that Backs up Our 




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That we make to 
order and sell on 
30BA1N FREE 



SPLIT 

SPECIAL BUCCY 

TRIAL with a Two-Yea* Iron-Clad Guarantee. We make only 

Split Hickory vehicles. Expert workmen and 

modern machinery and methods are employed 

the year round by us making nothing' else but 

Split Hickory vehicles to be sold direct to 

users. Back of every Split Hickory Buggy 

stands this great factory, with its years of 

successful operation, constantly increasing 

output; progressive, up to the times in 

every particular. We will ship promptly, 

will allow you to use It 30 days before you 

decide whether to keep it or not, and will 

p^ive Two Years Guarantee 

Every Split Hickory Special Buggy is furn- 
ished complete with good. High Padded Leather 
Dash, Fine Quality full length Carpet. Side Cur- 
tains, Storm Apron, Quick Shifting Shaft Coup- 
lings. Full Leathered Shafts with 39- inch Point 
Leathers, Special Heel Braces and Corner Braces. Full 
description of this Special Bargain Buggy at $50. Send for our Free 136-Page Catalogue of Split Hickory Vehicles and Harness. 
NOTE.— We manufacture a full line of high grade Harness, sold direct to the user at Wholesale Prices. 

THE OHIO CARRIAGE MFG. C0.(H.C. Phelps, President), I8I0SIXTH ST., CINCINNATI, OHIO. 



TWO MODEL HUSBANDS. 

Two colored women sitting on their 
front steps were overheard boasting 
of the many lovable traits and manly 
virtues of their husbands. 

"Gawge sutainly is a good man to 
me," said Mrs. Jackson with feeling 
In her voice. "Ah have nevah been 
without a day's wash sence Ah mahied 
dat man. He gits me all the wasnin's 
Ah can do." 

"Well, Ah has this to say foah 
Ezra," declared Mrs. Jackson with 
satisfaction; "when Ezra gits drunk 
he gits drunk like a perfec' gennel- 
man." — Caroline Lockhart, February 
Lippincott's. 



I am now prepared to book orders for 
pigs from imported Kingstone Poetoss, 
bred by C.C. Smith, Kingstone Commons, 
England. Also from Queen of '-assifern , 
bred by James Lawrence, of Shrivenham, 
England. Also from Queen Alfreda, 
from imported Loyal Mason, imported 
Loyal Berks, imported PriDcess Alfreda, 
Prince Alfred, etc. These are as fine as the world can produce, though I cannot 
expect fancy prices for them like some breeders get. Bacon your mongsels and 
start aright in the hog business. Remember me when pricing shorthorns (Durhams). 

THOS. S. WHITE, Fassifern Stock Farm, LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA, 




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THE SOUTHERN" PLANTER. 



[March, 



HE TOOK IT IN. 

Father B was a very popular 

man in the old border town, W , up 

in Northern New York. Beloved by 
Protestant and Catholic alike, he lived 
a contented life among his people and 
his books. 

At the time of the miners' strike, 
when the price of coal was soaring, the 
good Father discovered that the coal 
supply of the church was practically 
exhausted and there was no money 
in the treasury to purchase more. Ac- 
cordingly he announced that he in- 
tended taking up a collection for this 
purpose, and taking a plate, after his 
sermon, he went up and down the 
aisles, giving every one a chance to 
contribute. 

Much to his surprise, as he extend- 
ed the plate towards one "old son of 
the sod" he was given a shrewd smile 
and wink instead of money. The 
Father, however, thought this meant 
that Patrick was not prepared to give 
that day and would do so later. 

Not securing enough money at this 
time, the following Sunday he made 
another collection, paying particular 
attention to those who had not given 
the previous time. Coming again to 
Patrick, he was greeted in the same 
manner. Meeting him on the street 
a day or two later, the Father said, 
"Patrick, why did you not help us last 
Sunday?" 

"Ah, that's alright, Father, it's al- 
right, an' I niver'll say wan wurd." 

"Why, Patrick," said the mystified 
priest, "you'll not say a word " 

"It's alright " 

"What do you mean?" 

"Ha, Father," said Patrick, pulling 
his forelock, "beggin' yer pardin', sor, 
but don't yer think I know that th' 
church air het be stame?" — February 
Lippincott's. 



FOR 30c AND THIS NOTICE 

The John A. Salzer Seed Co., La- 
Crosse, Wis., send free 

1 pkg. May 1st Carrot ,10c. 

1 pkg. Earliest Green Eating On- 
ion 10c. 

1 pkg. Peep of Day Tomato 20c. 

1 pkg. Salzer's Flash Light Rad- 
ish 10c. 

1 pkg. Salzer's Long Quick, Quick 

Radish 10c. 

1 pkg. Salzer's Queen of All Rad- 
ish 10c. 

Above six rare novelties, the choic- 
est and finest of their kind, have a re- 
tail value of 70 cents, but they are 
mailed to you free, together with 
Salzer's big catalogue, well worth 
$100 to every wide-awake gardener, all 
upon receipt of but 30c in postage. 



BERMUDA GRASS ROOTS. 

60c per bu.; 10 bug. and over, 37Jc 
P. N. LITTLE, Bold Spring, Ga. 



Local agencies and complete repair stocks everywhere 




DEERING 

ARVESTERS 



Internationa! Harvester Co. of America, Chicago, V. S. A. 



— 



Reg. HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN 

CATTLE of the Netherland, De Kol, Clothilde, Pietertje 

and Artis families. Heavy milkers aud rich in butter 

fat. Stock of all ages for sale. 

Ree. BERKSHIRES From noted strains. Imported Headlight, Lord 
** Bighclere and Sunrise. 

DORSET SHEEP= 



B. PLYMOUTH ROCK CHICKENS, 



N. & W. and Southern R. R. 



T. O. SANDY, Burkevllle, Va. 



SUNNY HOME HERD OF 



ABERDEEN-ANGUS CATTLE. 



BARON ROSEBOY 57666 by the world famous 
QAY BLACKBIRD heads the herd. 



CJU 



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 13G37 (champion of the West for two years), Baron Ida 
20184 (champion at N. Y. State Fair 1898), Baronet of Advla 1226 (by the 
"Judge" chan<pion 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 Tiew. Come and see, or write 
your order and let us guarantee a first-class animal. 

Shipping point and depot, Fitzgerald, N. C, on D. k W., 24 miles S.-W. of 
Danville, Va. 

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




ABERDEEN ANGUS BULLS 

AT A BARGAIN. 

For the Dext 30 days, you can buy Registered 
Bulls low, Herd headed by Allenhurst King IV, 
47199, greatest son of McHenry Blackbird 20, 32499. 
Pan American champion. Come and see or 
Addrrss W. P. ALLEN, Prop, of Cilen Allen Stock 
Farm, Walnut Hill, Va. 



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



Address 



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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



217 



MAGAZINES. 

The highlights of the March Cen- 
tury are fiction, personal interest and 
topics relating to trade. 

There is a bit of tragedy in "Anto- 
nio's Last Stake." a story of Mexico, 
by Caroline Abbott Stanley, which is 
abundantly offset by several humorous 
stories. Maurice F. Egan's pictur- 
esque Sexton Maginnis, "the biggest 
liar in America," and his mother-in- 
law, "Herself." characters in "The 
Valet of the Pastor," reappear in a new 
story of this group entitled "The 
Warning of Sexton Maginnis," which 
makes appeal to all lovers of human 
nature as well as to the Catholic cir- 
cles with which it deals. Albert Bige- 
low Paine contributes a story with a 
novel motive in "The United Work- 
man," dealing with labor troubles, and 
Mr. Robert Haven Schauffler a numer- 
ous story of an orchestra in "The 
Man Behind the Drums." 

The personal interest begins with 
the frontispiece of the number, which 
is a portrait in color of the present 
Pope. Accompanying it is a paper of 
anecdotes of the Pope written from re- 
cent personal investigation in north- 
ern Italy by W. J. D. Croke. Bismarck, 
whose personality is of perennial in- 
terest. Is the subject of a paper by the 
late Henry Villard. descriptive of his 
visit to the Chancellor in 1890, just 
after the Prince's retirement. 

There are three articles in the in- 
dustrial and commercial field: "The 
Paris Bourse," by Cleveland Moffett, 
elaborately pictured by Andre Cas- 
taigne; "Economic Changes in Asia," 
by the Rev. Dr. Arthur Judson Brown, 
setting forth trade tendencies as ob- 
served by the writer in a recent ex- 
tensive trip in Asia; and "The Eye of 
Fear," being a downright considera- 
tion of labor unions by a stone-cutter, 
Mr. Robert Bruce Grant. 



The March St. Nicholas opens 
charmingly with a full-page reproduc- 
tion of a pastel portrait of Miss 
Baillie by J. Wells Champney, after 
Gainsborough, a sweet girl's figure and 
face with deep, thoughtful eyes. The 
first story is of "Two Lads of Old Ken- 
tucky," by Virginia Yeaman Remnitz. 
Herbert Baird Stimson tells an inter- 
esting and true "Tale of the Cannibal 
Islands." F. M. Jessup relates "Three 
Little Stories of Jehee," a queer old 
Syrian humorist. "Lazy Coomaras- 
awmy" is an East Indian fairy tale re- 
lated by George Sylva. "How Proby 
Saved the Woods" is a brave story of 
•a brave boy; and "A Comedy in Wax" 
develops most exciting interest. 

In other fields the March St. Nicho- 
las seems more than usually rich. 
There is a pretty description of "How 
Daubigny Decorated His Little Daugh- 
ter's Room." George Ethelbert Walsh 
tells the wonderful story of "Cutting 
a Hemisphere in Two," the fascinat- 
ing history and possibilities of the 
Panama and Nicaragua canals. 





Had Plenty of Help 

almost any kind of implement would do. He could plant by hand and 

CU i \l !, by b ?t U mlght be good work ; " would ""wely be expensive 

work. W theood help scarce and all help high, the farmer or gardener who wins 

must equip himself with the implements that make his help the most productive. 

IRON A6£ 

Implements 

The No. 6 Iron Age Combined Double Wheel Hoe, nil! and Drill Seeder com. 
bines ten tools in one ; a daily necessity from April to October. oeeQer c °m- 

■A^Sahni/! I , r , on , Afc ' e , Ho r se Iloe , and Cultivator has a range of adjustment and 
adaptability that makes it earn its cost time and again in the field or track fa?m 

^3 e u" pr f I ed " Robbina Po *ato Planter -nill plant from four to seven acres per 
day. Has fertilizer attachment, and will drop loo per cent, of the seed correcSy 

rfP e ^°iV A8 f m 1 '? 1 Whe ^' 1 Cultivator is built correctly in material and princi, 
pie. Fme f or hillsides, plains, straight or crooked rows. praxa, 

°K^L e ' w ' Iro » A S e Bool » describes a line of Implements that are backed 
by ht 8 ,E«f^ f / epUtation ;^ heir Promise for the future can bejud«* 
by their performance of the past. Bend for the book. It's free. 



Improved Bobbins' 
Potato Planter. 



fit. 00 Iron Age Phut 
Wheel Cultivator* 




X 
X 
X 
X 
X 



ClSMONT DORSETS 



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



X 
X 
X 
X 

X 
X 
X 



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



X 



X 



THE OAKS: 



OFFERS FOR SALE AT LOW PRICES 



2 SHORTHORN 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. 



218 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[March, 



A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS. 

Is the Lord & Thomas Advertising 

Agency the Head of Which Retired 

February 1st. 

Possibly there is no line of industry 
in the United States that has grown in 
such proportion in recent years as that 
of general advertising, which includes 
publicity in newspapers and maga- 
zines and outdoor display advertising, 
and through its tremendous force the 
entire basis of modern merchandising 
has been revolutionized. 

The Chicago papers of the current 
week devote much space and time to 
the wonderful growth of the advertis- 
ing business as a whole, and that of 
Lord & Thomas in particular, owing 
to the retirement of Mr. D. M. Lord, 
the senior member of the firm, who 
leaves active business life with a rich 
competence. 

The business of Lord & Thomas has 
been one of the most aggressive and 
progressive of its kind in the country, 
having in recent years been under the 
active management of Mr. A. L. 
Thomas, whose judgment on advertis- 
ing matters is considered as authorita- 
tive by the vast body of publicity 
users. Mr. Thomas has succeeded Mr. 
Lord in the presidency and will con- 
tinue at the head of the firm. 

Mr. C. R. Erwin, the new Vice-Presi- 
dent, has been connected with the com- 
pany for 20 years and is therefore a 
veteran in the field; associated with 
him and Mr. Thomas is Mr. A. D. 
Lasker, the Secretary and Treasurer. 

To give some idea to the public of 
the growth of advertising as a whole, 
it might be stated that in two years 
the business of Lord & Thomas alone 
has increased one million dollars in 
the billing, and in the one month of 
January in 1904 this house has booked 
$750,000 in advertising contracts from 
the following concerns, whose names 
are household words in the United 
States: Anheuser-Busch Brewing 
Ass'n, St. Louis; Siegel, Cooper Com- 
pany, New York; Woolson Spice Com- 
pany (Lion Coffee) Toledo. Ohio; 
Hamilton-Brown Shoe Company. St. 
Louis, Mo.; Sterling Remedy Com- 
pany, (Cascarets), Chicago and New 
York; The Woman's Magazine, St. 
Louis, Mo.; Armour & Co.. Chicago; 
Michigan Stove Co., Detroit and Chi- 
cago; Union Pacific Railroad Co., Oma- 
ha; Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul 
Ry. Chicago; Rock Island R. R. Sys- 
tem. 

Thirty-five years of wide experience 
in handling the publicity of a large 
proportion of America's most success- 
ful advertisers have fitted Lord & 
Thomas to give most judicious and 
piofltable service to enterprising busi- 
ness firms in every line. 

The main offices of Lord & Thomas 
Are in the Trude Building, Chicago, 
and its Eastern Branch is in the 
American Tract Society Building, New 
York. 



Local agencies and complete repair stocks everywhere 



CHAMPION 

HARVESTERS 



International Harvester Co. of America, Chicago, U. S. A. 






MEAT AND EGGS 

DO YOU WANT THEn NEXT WINTER AND SPRINd? 

Then why not get eggs from probably the largest egg and broiler plant in the state. 

My stock is thoroughbred Barred Plymouth Rocks, bred to lay. The 

broilers of this breed are given a strong 

preference on the Richmond 

market. 

Eggs $1.00 per 15; $2.00 per 40; $4.00 per 100. 



, DDRE ss h. C. WARD, 



East Richmond P. O. 
R. F. D. No. 3, Va. 



— 



JBarr Gd Ply mouth Rocks / 
V "Pope & Pope ;:l 

II Proprietors — Coiy NooK Poultry Fa^m. U 



.EGGS FOR HATCHING. 

Our yards are noted for the size, vigor and health of the birds. They are big fellows, prize winners 
and heavy layers. Our matings for this season are especially fine, and, if you want ribbon winners, 
it will pay you to order eggs from us. Cozy Nook Farm is one of the most perfectly equipped 
plants of its size in America. Headed by birds scoring 92 1-2 to 94 1-2. We cull our eggs closely. 
They will give you fine, sturdy chicks. Price, J2.00 per setting of 15 packed in our special baskets. 

POPE & POPE, - LOUISVILLE, KY. 



S. O. WHITE LEGHORNS 



■IIIIWIW 



Of fine quality. Great laying strain. Prices very reasonable. Satisfaction guaranteed. Write 
for prices before buying elsewhere. C. O. fl. FINK, R. P. D. 2, Richmond Va. 



ASSETS, $900,000. 

Virginia Fire and Marine 

Insurance Company, of Richmond, Va. 

Insures Against Fire and Lightning. 

All descriptions of property in country and town, private 
or public, insured at fair rates, on accommodating terms. 

AGENCIES IN EVERY TOWN AND COUNTY. 

W. H. PALflER, President. W. H. ilcCARTHY, Secretary. 



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219 



REPORTS. 



U. 



of Agriculture, 

C. Bureau of 

12. Reclamation 

near Salt Lake 



Information 
Mexican Cotton 

The Cotton 



S. Department 
Washington, D 
Soils. Circular 
of Alkali Land 
City, Utah. 
Bureau of Statistics. Circular 15. 
Foreign trade in Farm and Forest 
Products. 
Office of Experiment Stations. Bulle- 
tin 39. Special and short courses 
in Agricultural Colleges. 
Office of Experiment Stations. Ex- 
periment Station Record, Vol. 
XV., No. 1. 
Farmers Bulletin 55. The Dairy 
Herd. Its formation and manage- 
ment. 
Farmers' Bulletin 185. Beautifying 

the home grounds. 
Farmers' Bulletin 186. Experiment 
Station work. Losses in manure. 
Rations for laying hens, etc. 
Farmers' Bulletin 187. Drainage of 

farm lands. 
Farmers' Bulletin 189. 
concerning the 
Boll Weevil. 
Farmers' Bulletin 191. 
Boll Worm. 

Arizona Experiment Station, Tuczon, 
Ari. Fourteenth annual report 
year ending June 20, 1903. 

Cornell Experiment Station, Ithaca. 
N. Y. Bulletin 214. The ribbed 
cocoon maker of the apple. 

Kansas Experiment Station, Manhat- 
tan, Kas. Bulletin 120. Tests of for- 
est trees. 

New Hampshire Experiment Station, 
Durham, N. H. Bulletin 103. 
Standard milk. 

Ohio Experiment Station, Wooster, O. 
Bulletin 142. Clover and alfalfa 
seeds. 
Bulletin 144. Experiments with 
sulphur sprays for the fall treat- 
ment of San Jose scale. 
Bulletin 145. Studies in Potato ro- 
sette. 

Pennsylvania Experiment Station, 
State College, Pa. , Bulletin 64. 
Methods of steer feeding. 

Virginia Department of Agriculture, 

Richmond. Va. Annual report of the 
Department for 1903. 

Virginia (Hampton Institute.) Na- 
ture study leaflet No. 3. How to 
know trees by their bark. 

Virginia Weather Service, Richmond, 
Va. Report for January, 1904. 

West Virginia Experiment Station, 
Morgantown, W. Va. Bulletin 89. 
Rural water supply. 
Bulletin 90. Sheep feeding experi- 
ments. Notes on parasites. 

Imperial Department of Agriculture 
for the West Indies, Barbados, W. 
I. Barbados and Porto Rico mo- 
lasses. 



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



Almost at Butchers Price, Fancy Herd of 

POLAND-CHINAS 

We sold 20 pigs, boars and gilts at $8 eaeh. We still have 
a lot of the same size at the same price. 

We have some smaller, about 60 to 80 pounds, at $7 each. 

We offer 7 fine brood sows and 10 gilts (150 to 200 pounds), 
at 7 cents per pound, live weight, f. o. b. Doswell. 

These prices just about pay crating and other expenses above 
butchers' prices. All stock not sold March 20th will go to the 
butcher. 

Here is a chance for starting pure bred P. C. herds at small 
cost — the very best strain. 

We do not furnish pedigree, though all our stock is eligible 
to registration. All stock offered, with the exception of the 
seven sows, are by our herd boar, a son of Proud Perfection. 
The seven sows were bought of reliable breeders. Five are of 
Tecumseh B. strain. 

Mr. W. J. Longan, Dunreath, Va., writes: "Am very much 
pleased, more than I expected." He ordered another pig for a 
neighbor, Mr. W. J. Crank. Mr. J. W. Nunn, of Louisa, Va., 
saw the pig and ordered another. 

Mr. W. S. Eaton, Morehead City, K C, writes: "I am 
happy when dealing with such men." Address, 

BULLFIELD FARMS. Dosweli. Va. 



We positively guarantee to breed 
and ship the \ EKY BEtT strains of 
thoroughbred registered LARGE 
ENGLISH BERKSHIRE 

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

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




SPECIAL BARGAINS IN HOLSTEIN=FRESIANS. 

From a few months to 1 year old, from dams t ) 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. 

LARGE ENGLISH BERKSHIRES, by such sires as Manor Faithful imp., Esau Princess 
of Kilston, by Esau imp., Fancy Duke, a double G. son of Loyal Berks. Address 

ury bTOCK farm, TH0S. FASSIT & SONS, Sylmar, Md. 




CHESTER WHITES. 

Registered herd— First Premium Stock ; largest 
and most prolific hog on record : 3 Sows 41 Pigs 
breeding stock 400 to 700 pounds', easy feeders; ser- 
vice boars; sows bred. Fancy Pigs for sale. My 
time to this breed for 9 years. The best money can 
buy and feed pro luce. 

P. M. FUNKHOUSBR, Winchester, Va. 

References: Farmers and Merchants National 
Bank, Winchester, Va. 



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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[March, 



MR. CARNEGIE WAS BUSY WITH 
AFRICA. 

A crank of the gentler sort recently 
wrote to Andrew Carnegie, calling his 
attention to the fact that the Esqui- 
meaux could not advance morally and 
intellectually so long as they had to 
expend all their energy in keeping 
warm and seeking food; therefore it 
was the clear duty of their neighbors 
further south to aid them in overcom- 
ing the disadvantages of their habitat. 
To this end the writer proposed that 
Mr. Carnegie equip a fleet of coal-laden 
steamers, which, during the summer 
months, should cruise along the Green- 
land coast, leaving supplies of coal 
wherever needed for winter consump- 
tion. Stoves, cooking utensils, etc., 
were also to be given to the natives. 

Mr. Carnegie, it is said, dictated the 
following letter to his secretary: 

"Dear Sir, — Yours is received. I 
am considering a plan to supply the 
natives of equatorial Africa with ice 
cream and electric fans; hence I can- 
not entertain your excellent proposi- 
tion just now." — Success. 



CHEERING THE INVALID. 

Mrs. Barr, an elderly Scotchwoman, 
had been seriously ill for weeks, dur- 
ing which time even the members of 
her immediate family had been ex- 
cluded from the sickroom. At last, 
however, she so longed to see her rela- 
tive that it was deemed advisable to 
admit them, one at a time. When the 
moment for Mr. Barr's visit arrived 
the trained nurse cautioned him 
against showing too much emotion 
over his wife's changed appearance. 

"What you must do," said the nurse, 
"is to cheer her up. You must tell her 
how much better she is looking, what 
a nice color she has in her cheeks, and 
how bright her eyes are. Above all 
things, you must be cheerful." 

Mr. Barr promised faithfully to say 
the proper things; but when he ap- 
proached the bedside and beheld the 
pitiful ravages that illness had made 
in Mrs. Barr's once plump counte- 
nance, he became so agitated that he 
forgot the nurse's caution and ex- 
claimed, in the rich Scotch brogue 
that strong emotion always called 
forth: 

"Oh Maggie, Maggie, woman! whaur 
wad ye like to be burrit?" 

"Ye'll no get a chance to bury me 
this time. William Barr," returned the 
Invalid, with unexpected spirit. 
"You're altogether too anxious." 

It was afterwards said that Mrs. 
Barr's rapid recovery dated from that 
moment—Carroll Watson Rankin, 
February Lippincott's. 



Flo. — You don't seem to be at all 
nervous about going to ask papa for 
me, she said. 

Fred. — Oh, no! I've had experience 
both as an advertising solicitor and an 
insurance agent. This'll be easy. 



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the treatment of their diseases, are treated in 
a thorough and practical manner in my book, 
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nounce the best book of the kind published. 
One hundred pages, fully illustrated. FREE 
if you mention this paper when asking for it. 

CASH FOR ALL HOGS THAT DIE 

When my remedy is fed as a preventive. Write for plan. This is a bona fide offer and you 
should consider the difference between it and the "would-be guarantee" whereby you are 
"promised" a refund of the cost of the preparation if results are not as claimed. A guarantee 
that does not put the value of the animal in your pocket, in case of loss, is unfair to you. 

PRICES FOR REMEDY: 25-lb. can, $12.50: 12%-lb. can, $6.50, prepaid. Packages, $2.50, 
$1.25 and 50 cents. None genuine without my signature on package or can label. 




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Can save you Money, save your Horse, 
save your Mule or save your Cow. jftjt 

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Book for the asking of your druggist or dealer, or send to 

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i Pigs from 4 to 6 months old. Boars ready for service, andfyoung sows 
svith pigs. ~~ Tarn worth pigs 8 wks. old $5. Prices Reasonable. Apply to 

J. C. GRAVES, Barboursville, Va. 



For a fine assortment of Apple Trees, a bargain in Plum 
Trees, fine lot of extra sized Ro*e Bvsbes, choice varieties, Hardy 
Ornamentals, specimen shaped bushes, Spireas, Weigelias, Deutzias, Hy- 
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Send tor our Descriptive Catalogue— IT'S FREE. Fontella, Virginia. 



1904.] 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



221 



THE BEST IN TWENTY. 

"I should like to call attention to 
the merits of the Southern Planter. 
It is a paper that truly espouses the 
cause of the farmer. A young farmer 
of this vicinity, after examining sam- 
ple copies of over twenty agricultural 
journals published in the Middle and 
South Atlantic States, decided that it 
•was unequaled for the farmers of this 
section. It advocates improved stock, 
Intelligent fertilizing, cropping, etc., 
giving hints and advice on all perti- 
nent subjects that are invaluable. This 
journal has been a great factor in de- 
veloping the agricultural interests ot 
the South." 

We clip the above from the Virginia 
Citizen, published at Irvington, Va. We 
can assure the publishers and their 
correspondent, unknown to us, that 
we appreciate very highly this compli- 
ment. We shall always try to de- 
serve It. 



THE LIVE LIST FOR 1904. 

We are in receipt of a very neat and 
handy booklet of the above title from 
the International Stock Food Co., 
Minneapolis, Minn. This booklet in- 
cludes all trotters and pacers marked 
in 2:20 or better in 1903 and liable to 
race in 1904. It strikes us that all 
horsemen will want this book at once. 
It is certainly a compact and handy 
reference and we invite all interested 
to send for it. This live, progressive 
and aggressive company is always 
doing something worth while and we 
never see anything from their presses 
that is not well worth having. This 
company manufactures the well known 
International Stock Food and adver- 
tises with us regularly. They have a 
cord in this issue, to which we invite 
attention. 



MONEY FOR SPRAYER SELLERS. 

.As a money making proposition, 
there is attractive reading in the lit- 
tle advertisement elsewhere of the 
Compressed Air Kant-Klog Sprayer 
of the Rochester Spray Pump Com- 
pany of Rochester, N. Y. The basis of 
this proposition is the best all pur- 
pose sprayer made. It mixes the 
liquid, throws nine different kinds of 
spray from the same nozzle and is 
perfect working and perfectly adapted 
to all uses. It is a marked improve- 
ment on anything in the compressed 
air type of sprayer heretofore made. 
Because of its nice adaptability to 
everybody's use, it sells on sight. A 
good many agents are reaping a har- 
vest from handling it. Through the 
terms offered by the manufacturer, 
they are able to make a nice thing in 
a legitimate way, furnishing to buy- 
ers an article of constant great service 
for everyone who raises trees, shrubs 
and vines. Any of our readers inter- 
ested should look up this little ad and 
write the manufacturer for terms. 




How To Test Coiled Spring Wire. 

Take apiece of No. 12 wire and coll It firmly around an Inch rod of Iron, an shown In 
liKnu's t or 2. Try to pulJ the coil out of it. You may think you have done ho, but upon 
r eleasint;. It will a- unit- -Impr hhown In Il(£iire3. Then look along the wire as you would 

a gun barrel; It will appear ae Bhown in no i no 2 

11 sure 4— lias the apptaiance of a tube. (Ml |[[|[|fll[!lll!|rV tf\ ff\ ff\ ff< (f\ /F\ 

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Kreitfht prepaid. Please wri taut. We want to send you our Catalogue it in free. 
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Every twist is an expi 



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ROSEMONT HEREFORDS. 

?hS°f e a d mS5 s ACROBAT 68460, 

SPECIAL NOTICE ! 10 nice, well-bred heifers, safe in calf 
to Acrobat, will De sold at very reasonable figures. 

ROSEHONT FARM. Berryville, Clarke Co., Va. & 




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Registered « Herefords, 

Herd headed by the Grand Champion 

PRINCE RUPERT, 79539. 

FOR SALE: 4 Bull calves, 8 to 12 mos. old. 
All enquiries cheerfully Answered. 

EDWARD G. BUTLER, 

Annefield Farms. BRIGGS, Clarke Co., Va. 




PRINCE RUPERT, 79539. 



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Bacon Hall Farm. 

Hereford Cattle -:- Berkshire Hogs 

REGISTERED-ALL AGES. 

Toulouse Geese, Huscovy Ducks. 

MOTTO! Satisfaction or no sale. 

E. M. GILLET & SON, - Glencoe, Haryland. 

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BEG-ISTEEJED 

.HEREFORD CATTLE. 

Service Bulls; Imported Salisbury 76059 (19083), a grand- 1 
son <>f the famous Grove 3d 2490, and a descendant of the] 
world renowned Lord Wilton 4057 from the 4th generation. 

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

Lars, Jr., is by Lars of Western fame and his dam is Judy out r>f 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 br-tter breeding in the world today, 

FOR HALE— 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. SSSSSSS^Bb 




222 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER 



[March, 



DB LOACH SAW MILL. 

The saw mill plant of the De Loach 
Mill Manufacturing Company, of At- 
lanta, Ga. who are regular advertisers 
of ours is said to be the largest of the 
kind in the world. They not only 
have size to their credit, but have 
every other advantage, such as cheap 
labor, and an abundance of the best 
lumber, steel and iron at hand to turn 
out a superior product. They thus 
have every facility for making good 
their claims of making the best saw 
mills in the world for the money. Up- 
wards of twelve thousand of the De 
Loach Mills are now in use in all sec- 
tions of the country. This fact alone 
is strong evidence of the high charac- 
ter thev bear. 

The same concern makes a long line 
of machinery closely related to the 
saw mill, such as lath mills, shingle 
mills, edgers, planers, etc. Also 
grinding mills, water wheels, gearing, 
pulleys, shafting, etc. 

The De Loach catalogue is a valua 
ble machinery book for any one in- 
terested. It is mailed free. 



VIGOROUS PIGS. 



The health and vigor of the new- 
born pig is an important factor, de- 
termining as it. does in most cases, 
the profit or loss on that particular 
animal for its owner in bringing it to 
maturity. It would be impossible to 
avoid all such losses but the number 
can be reduced to the minimum if 
proper attention is given to the breed- 
ing stock and this refers especially to 
the care of the sow from the time she 
is bred until her pigs are weaned. 
This important subject is thoroughly 
discussed in "Hogology" a most val- 
uable treatise on hog raising, by that 
eminent swine specialist, Dr. Jos. 
Haas, V. S., of Indianapolis, Ind. This 
book will be sent free to any of our 
readers who will mention this paper 
when asking the Doctor for it. It is 
well worth the time of any hog raiser 
to read it. 



We have just received a beautiful 
lithographed hanger or poster printed 
in ten colors, sent out by the manufac- 
turers of the "Iron Age" Farm and 
Garden Implements, Bateman Manu- 
facturing Company, Box 167, Gren- 
loch, N. J. Many thousands of these 
are being hung up throughout the 
country in conspicuous places, where 
farmers and gardeners cannot help 
but notice them. Besides showing 
clearly several of their leading "Iron 
Age" tools in operation in the field, it 
shows the factories of this company. 
We wish to here give the assurance to 
our readers, that the tools as offered 
by this company are thoroughly up- 
to-date and all implements manufac- 
tured by them, whether bought direct 
or indirect, are guaranteed to be as 
represented. Their 48-page "Iron 
Age" catalogue is sent free upon ap- 
plication. 



SEED POTATO ES= 




DIGGS AND BEADLES, 



We have a select stock 
of Maine grown and sec- 
ond crop Virginia grown 
seed potatoes of all the 
best and standard varie- 
ties. We have also a 
nice stock of grass and 
clover seed, seed grain, 
onion sets and all veg- 
etable and flower seed 
^of the highest quality 
. and germination; ferti- 
lizers for all crops, write 
us for prices. 
Catalog Mailed Free. 

J 709 East Franklin Street. 

RICHMOND, VA. 



Sparks' Earliana -Tomato 

Pays big — earliest large smooth tomato ever grown. Uniform 
size; beautiful color ; three times as pioduc- 
tive as any other. 

15c pkt.; 40c l / 2 oz.; 80c oz.; $2.50 K lb -: $° lb. 

Quick=Cash Cabbage 

Well named. Yields more to the acro,and earlier than 
any other cabbage. Its solid flat heads can be market- 
ed before fully grown. Most profitable and desirable 
early cabbage ever offered. 

15c pkt.; 30c y 2 oz.; 60c oz.; $2 U lb. 

Garden and Farm Manual — Free 

JOHNSON & STOKES Department A 4 

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217-219 Market Street Philadelphia 




1,000 BOYS WANTED 

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OUR BIG TWENTIETH Annual Illustrated Catalog tells you all about It. It also 
gives you full and accurate descriptions o£ 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. 

RATERINS' SEED HOUSE. Shenandoah. Iowa. 




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ALL you have to do Is send us your name and address. We send 
you 30 packets FRESH SEEU.eell '.hern at 3 cts. each return 
90 cents to us, and we send you at once, postpaid, this Sterling 
Silver Finish Purse.wlth 4 ft. chain; this base hall, or any of 
50 articles described in our large premium list sent with SEEDS. 
BIG CASH COMMISSION TO AGENTS. Write today 
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R. B. CHAFFIN & CO., 



If so, list it with us. No sale, no charge. 

Largest list of farms for sale in Virginia. 

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Southern Planter 



1904.] 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



223 





if 

rom 

Seed -Time 

Until Harvest 

every growing plant takes its 
food from the soil and exhausts it. 
Restore this loss by using a fertil 'jt^ 
izer containing eight per cent, of 



Potash 

or Fruits. Grain, Grass or Roots 

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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. 
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. 



224 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[March, 



A MERE MATTER OF CURIOSITY. 

He was a long, lank countryman. He 
entered the car. and took his seat next 
to a well-dressed man of middle age, 
•who sat evidently absorbed in his 
morning paper. Immediately he had 
seated himself he began a rapid Are of 
questions directed at the gentleman 
with the newspaper. 

He asked him how many miles an 
hour he thought the train could go at 
its full speed; and if he didn't like 
the looks of the country they were 
passing through; and what he thought 
of the chances for crops down his way; 
and if he didn't think the trusts were 
bleeding the country; and wasn't he 
of the opinion that politics had gone 
to the dogs, anyway, and the whole 
land going to ruin; and didn't he think 
that Grover Cleveland was the great- 
est man that ever lived; and what was 
his opinion in regard to the Spanish 
war. At last the man with the news- 
paper grew impatient. 

"My friend," he said. " T 've answered 
a number of your questions, and now, 
if you have no objections, I'd like to 
have a chance to read my paper." 

"Sure." his interrogator replied. "I 
won't bother you any more; but 
stranger, there's just one more ques- 
tion I'd like to ask. Just answer me 
this one, and I'll shut right up. I see 
you've got just one leg. How'd the 
other one come to be off?" 

"If I answer this, you'll promise not 
to ask another auestion?" 

"Sure." replied the countryman, 
with an emphatic nod of the head. 

"Well, then. I'll tell you. It was 
hit off." 

The recipient of this piece of infor- 
mation stared hard at the gentleman 
with the newspaper, but he made no 
comment. Finally the situation be- 
came unendurable; he shifted rest- 
lessly in his seat, and his breath came 
hard. At length he rose, and started 
down the aisle. 

"I've given my word for it," he 
said, "and I'm not the man as goes 
hack on his promise; but I'll be gol- 
damed if I wouldn't give a peck of the 
best potatoes on my place to know 
what it was this side of Perdition that 
could have hit that man's leg off." — 
March Woman's Home Companion. 



REMUNERATIVE. 

"Well. Bobby, how do you like 
church?" asked his father as they 
walked homeward from the sanctuary, 
to which Bobby had just paid his first 
visit. 

"It's fine!" ejaculated the young 
man. "How much did you get, 
father?" 

"How much did I get? Why, what 
do vou mean? how much what?" asked 
the astonished parent at this evident 
irreverence. 

"Why, don't you remember when the 
funny old man passed the money 
around? I only got ten cents."— 
March Llppincott's. 



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Shown below on the left. It is an outfit which every gardener ought to have. It is a seederwhich 
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the other and there's hardly a limit to its separate duties, such as opening seed trench, dropping 
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Beater Gear, Speed Regulation and Automatic Return of Apron. Positive and dependable in all movements. Sim- 
plest in gear, lightest in draft, least chance for breakage. The driver never dismounts for any purpose but con- 
trols everything from his seat. Made in four sizes and sold under strongest guarantee as to materials, workman- 
ship and duty. Investigate fully before During. Catalogue with valuable chapter on farm fertilizing mailed free- 

KEMP & BURPEE MANUFACTURING CO. BOX 205. SYRACUSE. N. Y 




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WILKES. 



NUTWOOD. 



WEALTH, 29579 -RECORD 2.10 

Sire Gambetta Wilkes, 2 :1Q$, the leading sire of 2 :10 performers, leading sire of new standard per- 
formers for 1902 and 1903, with total of 147 in 2:80 list, one of the best sons of the immortal George 
Wilkes, one of the founders of the American trotter. 

Dam, Magnolia, by Norfolk, he by Nutwood, 2 :18f , sire of 178 
and of dams of 170. The founder of one of the best families of 
trotting bred horses, 2nd dam Beck Collins, dam of Choctaw, 2.30, 
by Woodburn Ilambletonian, 1639, 3rd dam, Rebecca (thorough- 
bred), by Blucher. Wealth, 2:10, foaled 1897, is dark bay, 16 
hands, weight 1,200 pounds, of beautiful shape, style and finish, 
good disposition and commanding appearance. His breeding rep- 
resents the cream of trotting families, he being a cross of the Wilkes 
on Nutwood blood, with a strong thoroughbred foundation. His 
record, 2 :10, is not his speed limit, as he has gone quarters and 
even halves at a 2 minute gait. 1903 was his first season in the 
stud, though he has sired a filly which trotted in 2:25 in her 2 
year old form. Wealth will transmit his speed and style to his off- 
spring. Mr. Cecil, owner of Gambetta Wilkes, in a letter dated January 14, 1904, says: "Wealth, 2:10, 
is as sure to be a very great sire as we both live." Breed to him. Mares bred at $20. the season, with 
usual return privilege, 
at actual cost. 




Mares sent me will receive best of care at $1.50 per month on grass, or if on grain 



S. F. CHAPMAN, 



CLIFTON FARM, 



GORDONSVILLE, VA, 




Pat. Mch. 16 and Nov. 9, 
W)7. Put. In Canada, 
Nov. 2, 1897, and Jan.. 25, 
19U0. 



SIXTEEN PAGE 
BOOKLET 
MAILED 
FREE. 



BUG DEATH PA YS!!! 

12^1-2 lb. Box $1.00; lOO lb. Keg $7.00.j 
DUSTER FOR APPLYING DRY, 25 cts. I 

Extra yield more than pays entire cost. Prevents blight, produces 
better quality. CONTAINS NO ARSENIC— KILLS THE BUGS on 
potato, squash and cucumber vines. 

Kills current, gooseberry and tomato worms, and all bugs that eat 
the leaves of plants, trees or vines. 



HORSE POWER^SPRAYER $65 00 

FOR APPLYING IN WATER 



HAND^SPRAYER $15.0< 



DanfortK CHemical Co., 

Manufacturers, Leominster, Mass.1 



o 
o 



PERCY JL. BA.NK.S, Manager NorfolK Branch, 41 Union St., NorfolK, Va. 



AGRICULTURAL LIME • • Car Lots or 

PARIS GREEN ANY SIZE PACKAGE. 

LAND PLASTER, BUILDING LIME, SPRAYERS. 
write for prices. FERTILIZERS AND SEED POTATOES. 

T, C ANDREWS & CO., farm supplies, Norfolk, Virginia. 



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BOBBY'S BARGAIN. 

Henry and Bobby, ages eight and ten 
respectively, were little boys who 
thought and had tendencies. In con- 
sequence of which, at times, they were 
a source of great embarrassment to 
their mother. Bobby, in particular, 
had the moneymaking propensity. He 
saved his pennies religiously, and his 
eye was keen for a bargain. 

One evening at dinner their father 
had as a guest a gentleman who was a 
great horseman. The boys listened at- 
tentively to the conversation for 
awhile, then Bobby opened fire with, — 

"Say, Mr. Smith, can you buy a 
horse for a hundred dollars?" 

"Yes, Bobby," said Mr. Smith, 'you 
can." 

"Can you get one for fifty dollars?" 

"Yes." 

"For twenty-five dollars?" 

"Yes." 

"For ten dollars?" 

"Yes." 

"For seven dollars?" 

"Perhaps." 

"Seven dollars, really?" said Bobby 
wonderingly. "Would the horse be 
awfully fast?" 

"Well," said Mr. Smith, smiling, 
"you would not be likely to get a Lou 
Dillon or a Dan Patch, but the crea- 
ture might be able to pull a plough." 

Bobby thought for a moment; then, 
"But, Mr. Smith, could a horse you 
paid seven dollars for have a colt?" 

"Possibly," said Mr. Smith gravely. 

"I have seven dollars in the bank," 
continued Bobby; "I guess I'll get a 
horse. For if a seven-dollar horse 
could have a colt, and that colt have a 
colt, and that colt have a — " 

Bobby's mother and father and Mr. 
Smith became seriously interested in 
the salad; the youthful Henry began 
to fidget; the embryo stock farm con- 
tinued to grow — "and that colt have 
a colt, and that colt have a colt, and 
that colt — " 

Henry could stand it no longer. 
Turning to Bobby, he remarked in 
a tone of impatience, "Say, as soon as 
you think you have the worth of your 
money would you mind passing the 
bread?" — March Lippincott's. 



GOT WHAT THEY WANTED. 

Over in the mosnuito country an 
old farmer died. He was reputed to 
be rich. After his death, however, it 
was found that he died penniless. His 
will was very brief. It ran as fol- 
lows: 

"In the name of God, Amen. There's 
only one thing I leave. I leave the 
earth. My relatives have always 
wanted that. They can have it. 

"Bill L. Indner." 
— March Lippincott's. 

"After all," suggested the cheerful 
one, "it may be a blessing in disguise." 
"If so," returned the disgruntled one, 
"I may say that I never saw a more 
perfect disguise." — Washington Post. 



GENUINE OLIVER CHILLED 
BEAM 




PLOWS 



RS. 



This far-famed and world- 
renowned Plow we guaran- 
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is said in praise of it. Wood 
Beam also furnished. Write 
for large Illustrated Cata- 
logue. 

We are general distribu- 
tors of the GENUINE ONLY. 



Farm Tools and Supplies 

Large Illustrated Catalogue fop 
1904 just issued, embracing 
Hand, Horse and Power Labor- 
Saving Implements. 

You must save as well as make money. 

Write for this FREE catalogue 
at once. 

NORFOLK FARM SUPPLY CO. 



Implements 
Poultry Supplies 



Fertilizers 
Wheel Material 



41 to 51 Union Street, NORFOLK, VA. 



INCUBATORS 

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Most durable and economical roof covering made for houses, stores, barns, sheds, cribs, 
«S poultry houses, etc., and a h'indred other purposes for inside or outside use; cheaper and I 
will last longer than any other covering. Sheets are 6 and 8 feet long. 



We Pay 



to all points east of Colorado. This roofing at $2.00 persquare is our No. 10 prade, semi-hardened. Very easy ! 
to lay; requires no experience; hatchet or hammer the only tool needed. Comes in Flat. Corrugated, V ' 
Crimped, Brick Siding and Headed Gelling: or Siding. Prices on apnlio!Ui<in. Send us your order today 
for immediate shipment. Write for our catalogue No. h on furniture, building materials, wire, ] 
plum bin cr macerinlg aid supplies of all kinds. We buy at sheriffs' and receivers' pale*. 

CHICAGO HOUSE WRECKING CO. ,35th and Iron Sts., Chicago 




TWO CROP ESSENTIALS 

are cultivation and keeping down weeds. 
More important than deep cultivation is 
keeping 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. 
I .. For doing just these things the ideal imple- 
ment is the 

M ITVCT^I RJ ET Adjustable Weeder 
BlLI^IPBlL. and Shallow Cultivator 

It kill? the weeds at first showing, the top soil is pulverized and kept mellow, the plant roots are not 
disturbed and the moibt soil is not brought up to dry in the sun. Adjustable in width. Narrows lo 30 
Inches, widens to 7', foot. Strong and steady running. Furnished either with round teeth or with flat 
to suit different soils, as we are licensed to manufacture the famous Hallock flat tooth. Write today for 
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., 1554 N. Beaver St., York, Pa. 



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ESTABLISHED 1840. 



INCORPORATED 1893. 



A. C. SINTON. President, R. R. GWATHMEY. Vice-President, j. J. SUTTON. Secretary. 

The WATT PLOW CO., 

15th & Franklin and 14th & Main Sis.. Richmond, Va 

Agricultural Implements, 
Machinery, Vehicles and 







BUCKEYE COMBINED MILL AND POWER. 




RODERICK LEAN LAND ROLLER. 




Harness. «£«£<£<£ 



A full stock always on hand, and prompt 
shipments guaranteed. South Bend, Dixie 
and Farmer's Friend Plows and repairs. The 
Hancock Rotary Disc Plow, warranted to go 
in the ground where all others fail. 

Hocking Valley Feed Cutters, Cyclone 
Shredders, Smalley Feed Cutters, Dain Corn 
Cutters. Equal to any made. Staver Buck- 
eye Feed Mill and Horse Power Combined. 

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 Minnich Brand Baling Presses. 

Hocking Valley Wine and Cider Mills. 
Hard wood rollers. The best mill made. 

Hocking Valley Corn Shellers. for hand or 
power. Smalley Electric Pole and Wood 
Saws, for steam or horse power. Peerless 
Engines and Saw Mills always in stock. 
Several good second-hand Engines and other 
second-hand machinery for sale. "Pittsburgh 
Perfect" fencing, electrically welded. Barb 
Wire, Plain Galvanized Wire, Baling Wire, 
and Bale Ties. Continental Disc Harrows, 
Buffalo Pitts and Lean Spike Harrows. 

John Deere and Continental Disc Cultiva- 
tors, Corn Planters, etc.RA full line of Plant, 
Jr., Garden Tools. Your correspondence is 
solicited. We ■will mail copy of our new 
catalogue upon application. 




GEISER SAW MILL. 



ALL STYLES OFBUGGIES. 




If I , > ( >| l | 

SPIKE HARROW. 




EXTENSION TOP SURREY. 




WEBER WAGONS. 




FIREFLY GARDEN PLOW. 





With and Without Fertilizer Attachment 

The Spangler Planter has a side gear which 
convenient and practical. The quantity of 
corn to be dropped can be regulated instantly 
without changing the quantity of the fertil- 
izer sown, or the quantity of the fertilizer 
can be changed without affecting the corn 
dropping, and either can be Aiseontinued in 
an instant and not sow at all. 

Hoosier Single and Double Row Planter, 
made entirely of steel, exceut handles— a very 
durable machine — Black Hawk, and John 
Deere single and double row planters. 



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[March, 



DON'T BUY GASOLINE ENGINES 



UNTIL YOU HAVE INVESTIGATED 

"THE MASTER WORKMAN" 



A two-cylinder gasoline engine: superior to all one-cylinder engines. Costs less to buy and 1> ss to run. Quicker and easier started. Has a wider 
Bphere of usefulness. Has no vibration; can be mounted on any light wagon an a portable. Weighs less than half of one-cylinder engines. Give 9ize 
of engine required. Pizes 1H, 2, 2%, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10 and 15 horse power. Mention this paper. Send for catalogue. THE TEMPLE PUMP CO., Meagh«r 
and 15th fits.. CHICAGO. 



UNDECIDED. 

One day a certain Professor of Math- 
ematics at O. University prepared to 
set out on a short journey on horse- 
back. He was an absent-minded per- 
son, and while saddling the animal 
was thinking out some intricate prob- 
lem. Some students stood near and 
watched him abstractedly place the 
saddle on hind-part-before. 

"Oh Professor." exclaimed one of 
the group, "you are putting the wrong 
end of your saddle foremost." 

"Young man," replied the Professor 
with some tartness, "you are entirely 
too smart. How do you know it is 
wrong, when I have not yet told you 
in which direction I intend to go?" — 
March Lippincott's. 



HIS FATHER WOULDN'T LIKE IT. 

"Mister," said the little boy t.o the 
fanner leaning over the fence, "the 
mule has run away and spilt my load 
o' hay. Won't you come and help me 
put it on the wagon again?" 

"I will," said the farmer, "if you 
will come over here fuss an' he'p me 
git my cows out o' the pastur'." 

"Oh," said the little boy, "I'm afraid 
father wouldn't like that?" 

"Why wouldn't he?" growled the 
farmer. 

"Because," said the little boy, "he 
always taught me to look out for him 
first." 

"Where is your father?" asked the 
farmer. 

"Please, sir," said the little boy, "he's 
under the hay."— Silas Xavier Floyd, 
in March Lippincott's. 



A COLORED HIBERNIAN. 

"Private" John Allen says that an 
old darky preacher in Mississippi was 
recently approached by a deason in 
the church, who desired to gain the 
reverend gentleman's consent to his 
daughter's marriage with him, the 
deacon. 

"I doan' know 'buot dis," said the 
preacher, dubiously. "You ain'st sech 
a young man, deacon. I ain't shore 
dat you kin support mah chile!" 

The deacon bridled. "Dere won't 
be no trouble 'bout dat, sah!" he as- 
serted, warmly. "I kin support her all 
right!" 

The minister reflected for a moment 
"Has you eber seen my Chloe eat?" 
he finally asked. 

"I has. sah!" came from the suitor. 

"But, sah!" exclaimed the old 
preacher, impressively, "has you eber 
seen her eat when nobody was 
a-watchin' her?" — March Woman's 
Home Companion. 



GRINDS SIMAPCORN 



Corn in the ear and al? grains, any sort of chop mixture. For 

speedy and perfect work, saving feed and labor, the 

all-purpose grinding mill is the 



Fine 



SCIENTIFIC 



Quick 



Made in a variety of styles, including Power Mills, Sweep Mills, 
flill 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. 

TH£ FOOS MFG. CO.. Springfield, Ohio. 



RICHMOND ATLANTA-NASHVILLE- NEW ORLEANS 



Established in 1866. 



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, BrooK Road Half Mile from City, and Hanover Co. 
Wholesale and Retail Growers of J^jg^ Q^rjg f| UrSer y StOCk, 

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 grounds 
when desired. Shade Trees a Specialty. Catalogues Hailed on Application. 

AGENTS WANTED, Write for Terms. Liberal Commissions. (Mention this Paper.) 



SPRAY 

of all Kinds 



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 99£ 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 6t WELL CO., (incorporated^ 

Box 949. ^ RICHMOND, VIRQ1H1A. 



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THE CRESCENT PLOW. 



Perfected 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 slanting 
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- 
tiliser 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 DOU- 
IMPERIAL ONE HORSE WAGON. BLE SHOVEL PLOWS. THE NEW MOL1NE. 

WEEDERS, FERTILIZER DISTRIBUTORS, FIELD ROLLERS with solid Steel Heads, BALING PRESSES for Hand or 
Power, GRAIN DRILLS, FEED CUTTERS,: PEA HULLERS, THRESHERS, ENGINES, SAW MILLS, GRINDING 
MILLS, &C, &C. Write for Prices. 




SINGLE ROW PLANTER. 





13 So. Fifteenth Street, 
Between Main and Cary, 

Established by 
GEO. WATT, 1840. 



THE CALL-WATT CO., 

MANFRED CALL, Gen'l Manager. 

RICHMOND, VA. 



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[March, 




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Times-Dispatch, Richmond, Va $5 00)5 00 

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The Sun, Baltimore, Md 3 00 3 40 

News-Leader, Richmond, Va 3 00 3 00 

THI-WEEKLY. 
The World (thrice-a-week), N. Y... 1 00 1 25 

WEEKLIES. 

Harper's Wepkly 4 00 

Harper's Bazaar 100 

Montgomery Advertiser 100 

Nashville American 50 

The Baltimore Sun 1 00 

Breeder's Gazette 2 00 

Heard's Dairyman 100 

Country Gentleman 150 

Religious Herald, Richmond, Va.... 2 00 

Times-Dispatch, Richmond, Va 100 

Central Presbyterian, " " 2 00 

Horseman 3 oo 

MONTHLIES. 

Wool Markets and Sheep 50 

Dairy and Creamery 50 

. Commercial Poultry 50 

All three 150 

North American Review 5 00 

The Century Magazine 4 00 

St. Nicholas Magazine 3 00 

Llppincott's Magazine 2 50 

Harper's Magazine 4 oo 

Forum Magazine 3 00 

Scribner's Magazine 3 00 

Prank Leslie's Magazine 100 

Cosmopolitan Magazine 100 

Everybody's Magazine 1 00 

Munsey Magazine 100 

Strand Magazine 125 

McClure's Magazine 100 

Argosy Magazine 1 00 

Review of Reviews 2 50 

Blooded Stock 50 

Successful Farming 100 

Southern Fruit Grower 50 

Where you desire to subscribe to two or 
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Seed House of the South. 



RED 

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riAMMOTH 

CLOVER, 

CRiriSON 

CLOVER, 

WHITE 

CLOVER, 

LUCERNE 

CLOVER, 

ALSYKE 

CLOVER, 

BOKHARA 

CLOVER, 

JAPAN 



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TIHOTHY, 

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RED TOP or 

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KENTUCKY 

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RANDALL 

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TALL MEADOW 

OAT GRASS, 

JOHNSON 

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GERriAN 

MILLET, 

BUCKWHEAT, 

OATS and 

CANE SEED. 



"Whatsoever One Soweth, That Shall He Reap/' 

We sell strictly reliable FIELD AND GARDEN SEEDS of every 
variety at Lowest Market rates, included in which are 

RAGLAND'S PEDIGREE TOBACCO SEEDS. 

^ .©• & WE ALSO SELL 

Our Own Brands of Fertilizers 

For Tobacco, Corn, Wheat, Potatoes, &c. 

Pure Raw-Bone Meal, Nova Scotia and Virginia Plaster and 
Fertilizing Materials generally. 

Parties wishing to purchase will find it to their interest to price our goods. 
Samples sent by mail when desired. 



Wm. 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, 
Pears, 
Peach, 
Plum, 
Apricots, 
CALIFORNIA PRIVET, tor Hedging. 

. . AGENTS WANTED. . . T 

4-« FRANKLIN DAVIS NURSERY CO., Baltimore, Md. <£ 



Nectarines, 


Pecans, 


Ornamental and 


Cherry, 


Chestnuts, 


Shade Trees, 


Quinces, 


Walnuts, 


Evergreens, 


Almonds, 


Small Fruits, 


Roses, Etc 



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TRAIN-LOAD OP MANURE SPREADERS— 40 CARS. 

On the last day of the old year, December 31st, 1903, there was made 
from the city of Syracuse, N. Y., the largest individual shipment ever 
made from that city, and the largest shipment of manure spreaders ever 
made in the world. It was a train load of 40 cars, 1,800 feet long, of "Suc- 
cess" Spreaders, the new machine of the Kemp & Burpee Mfg. Co., of Syra- 
cuse. The photograph from which the above half-tone was made was taken 
just west of Syracuse, when the train had got under way on its journey 
into the Great West. The train of 40 cars, containing 500 Spreaders, and 
moved by three engines, ran solid over the Lackawanna, Nickel Plate and 
St. Paul railroads to the Mississippi river, where it was divided, part going 
to the John Deere Plow Company, at Omaha, and the remainder to the 
Deere & Webber Co., at Minneapolis. The train was bannered from end to 
end, and ran only in the daytime. Great interest was manifested in the 
unique shipment all along the route. The value of the load was given as 
155,000; the freight bill was $5,400. The Success Spreader is a distinct im- 
provement in several particulars on the celebrated Kemp Spreader, manu- 
factured by the same Company, and which has become a familiar sight on 
farms in nearly every section of the country. The shipment marks the limit 
of capacity of the enlarged Kemp & Burpee factories for fifteen days. The 
signal apreciation of the new Success Spreader, wherever its advantages are 
known, is shewn by the fact that another shipment of like character to 
other western points is to be made the latter part of this month. 



PASSIVE CHRISTIANITY. 

"Little boy," inquired the minister, 

who had called to see the man of the 

house, "is your father a Christian?" 

"Yes," replied the boy, "I think he 

is, but I don't believe he is working at 

it these days." — March Lippincott's. 

— — ^— — — ^^^^^— 

"Crop Growing 
and Crop Feeding." 

By Prof. W. f. MASSEY. 
383 Pp. Cloth, $1.00; Paper, 60c. 

We offer this splendid work In connec- 
tion with the SOUTHERN PLANTER 
at the following prices: 
Southern Planter and Cloth 

Bound Volume, $1.26. 
Southern Planter and Paper 

Bound Volume, 90c. 
Old *r i™ »uh»rrlr Mnn« 




THE CHAMPION 

saw eaves backache and doubles tbe output. 
I ONE man cud saw over ONE cord per b our. Weight of 
I operator furnishes bulk of power. Cute my site tim- 
ber, standing or flown. Weighs 45 lbo. Fine steel 
|' blade; ash frame. Saves money — tabor. Circular free. 

FAMOUS MFG CO 

122 Railroad Ava 

EAST CHICAGO 

INDIANA 




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J. S. MOORE'S SONS, i«. 



WHOLESALE 
AND 



TELEPHONE 507. 

reta.l Grocers, Feed and Liquor Dealers, 

1724 E. MAIN STREET, RICHMOND, VA. 



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Best Timothy Hay, per hundred 90c. 

No. 1 Mixed Hay, per hundred 90c. 

Good Corn, per bushel 60c. 

Good Oats, per bushel 52c. 

Best Meal, 18c. peck; or, per bushel 70c. 

Ship Stuff, $24 per ton ; or, per hundred $1.25 

Bran, $23 ton; or, per hundred 1.20 

Pride of Richmond Flour, per barrel 5.75 

Daisy Flour, per barrel 5.50 

Silver Leaf Lard, Piire, per pound lie. 

New Cut Herrings, 3 dozen for 25c. 

Lake Fish, 2 dozen for 25c. 

Good Salt Pork, per pound 8c. and 9c. 

Large Cans Peaches, per can 12c. 

Large Cans Tomatoes, per can 7c. 



Small Cans Tomatoes, per can 6c. 

o Plugs of Grape, Peach, Plum, Apple, Rey- 
nold, S. C. Tobaccos for 25c. 

Old Crown Rye, per gallon $3.00 

Old Keystone Rye, per gallon 2.50 

Old Excelsior Rve^ per gallon 2.00 

Old Capitol Rye, per gallon 1.50 

Duffy's Malt Whiskey, per bottle 80c. 

Pure 1ST. C. Corn Whiskey, per gallon 2.00 

We have a full line of Groceries, Wines, Liquors 
and Feed. If you don't see what you want, write for 
prices. Jugs, 10c. extra per gal. These prices are 
subject to market changes, and cash in advance be- 
fore goods are shipped. 



232 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER, 



[March, 



WHEN MANDY STARTS TO WASH. 

When Mandy sets the b'iler on, 

An' hustles up th' Are, 
An' starts a-stirrin' up of starch 

An' hists 'er sleeves up higher, , 
W'y, then you know th' war is on. 

It ain't no time to josh, 
Th' on'y thing to do is — git, 

When Mandy starts to wash. 

Cold beans an' bread an' coffee's all 

I'll git to eat that day. 
An' 'tain't no use to stay eround 

An' git in Mandy's way, 
Fer then she'll set me hard at work 

A-rinsin' out — kersplosh 
Ye can't stay round th' house an' shirk 

When Mandy starts to wash. 

An' so I kinder hem eround 

'At my terbaccer's out, 
Fer clown at Job's (th' corner-store) 

Th' boys all set about 
A-lookin' jest as sheepish-like 

An' chawin' crackers — Gosh! 
I ain't the on'y shiftless one 

When Mandy starts to wash. 

'Nen I go amblin' down th' road, 

A-feelin' sneaky-like, 
To jine in with th' other boys 

'At's sorter out on strike; 
A feller can't help feelin' mean 

'S long 's he can't josh, 
Th' on'y thing to do is — git, 

When Mandy starts to wash. 
Grace G. Bostwick, in March Lippin- 

cott's Magazine. 



The strongest magazine novel of the 
month is by all odds that published in 
Lippincott's called "A Provident Wo- 
man." This is written by Neith 
Boyce, author of "The orerunner," 
and it opens in a New York business 
office at a critical time for Cecilia 
Clayber. Her beauty and undeviating 
calmness in all circumstances so com- 
pel the admiration of her employer, 
Frederick Hawley, widower and mil- 
lionaire merchant, that he asks her to 
become his wife. His doctor has im- 
parted to him the information that he 
may drop dead at any time, which 
news naturally shatters his nerves and 
makes him feel that Cecilia is a veri- 
table rock on which to lean. She ac- 
cepts her new role characteristically 
and they spend the honeymoon in Eu- 
rope. There had been a budding love- 
affair between Cecilia and one of her 
mother's boarders, and when she re- 
turns to New York the erstwhile lover 
reappears unrle r other conditions 
which add zest to the tale. 

The March number contains eight 
short stories. Baroness von Hutten 
has never been more charming than 
in her contribution entitled "Accord- 
ing to Ladv Movie: About Jessica Win- 
nock." "Mrs. McOstrich Gives a 
Party," by J. J. Bell, equals in humor 
— and perhaps surpasses — anything 
which has yet been told about "Wee 
Macgreegor." 



Uncle Sam says it's 
all right 

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

Direct from our distillery to YOU 

Saves Dealers' Profits I Prevents Adulteration I " 

HAYNER WHISKEY 

PURE SEVEN-YEAR-OLD RYE 

4 FULL $*&-M EXPRESS 
QUARTS O PREPAID 

We will send you FOUR FULL QUART BOTTLES of HAYNER'S SEVEN- 
YEAR-OLD RYE for J3.20, and we will pay the express charges. Try it and 
if you don't find it all right and as good as you ever used or can buy from 
anybody else at any price, send it back at our expense, and your $3.20 will be 
returned to you by next mail. Just think that offer over. How could it be 
fairer? If you are not perfectly satisfied, you are not out a cent. Better let 
us send you a trial order. If you don't want four quarts yourself, get a 
friend to join you. We ship in a plain sealed case, no marks to show what's 
inside. 

Orders for Ariz., Cal., Col., Idaho, Mont., Nev., N. Mex., Ore., Utan, Wash, 
or Wyo. must be on the basis of 4 Quarts for S4.00 by Express 
Prepaid or 20 Quarts for S1G.OO by Freight Prepaid. 

Write our nearest office and do it NOW. 

THE HAYNER DISTILLING COMPANY 

A.lANTA, GA. OAYT0N, OHIO ST. LOUIS, MO, ST. PAUL, MINN. 

153 Distillery. Tkot, O. Established 1866 




The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway 

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

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

Sandusky and Cleveland ; 
THE OHIO CENTRAL LINES, from Toledo and Columbus; 
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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



233 



NOT THE LIMIT. 

SIgnor Zanetti, the magician, had 
been displaying his dexterity to an in- 
terested crowd of spectators in a Ken- 
tucky town. Stepping forward, he 
said: 

"For my next trick I will require 
a small flask of whiskey. Will some 
gentleman in the audience accommo- 
date me with the loan of a pint flask?" 

No one stirred. The magician was 
plainly nonplussed. With an appeal- 
ing gesture he said: 

"I had received a different impres- 
sion than this as to Kentucky customs. 
Perhaps you did not understand me? 
Will some gentleman kindly loan me 
a pint flask of whiskey?" 

Again there was no response, and, 
briefly apologizing, the magacian said 
he would be compelled to omit this 
from his repertory for that night. He 
was turning again to his table when 
a tall, lank man In the rear of the hall 
rose. 

"Mistah," said he, "would a quart 
flask do as well?" producing a bottle 
of that capacity. 

"Just as well, sir," replied Zanetti. 

And every gentleman in the house 
rose with that size flask extended — 
H. I. Dobbins, in March Lippincott's. 



GOT HIS SHARE. 

Back in the seventies, when Dewey 
had command of a ship of the old 
Hartford type, he was lying in the 
harbor off Oenoa. Visitors were al- 
lowed on board at all times except 
Sunday morning, at which time in- 
spection took place. One Snndav a 
well-known American millionaire 
steamed out with a party of friends in 
his private yacht and succeeded in 
getting on deck, where he was met by 
Captain Dewey, who asked him to 
leave. Mr. Money remonstrated, and, 
finally, exasperated by the cool firm- 
ness of the officer, he burst out: 

"No, sir. I won't leave. I am an 
American citizen, and have a perfect 
right on this vessel. I pay taxes in 
America; I am on my own property; 
part of this ship belongs to me!" 

Calmly Dewey opened his pen-knife, 
stooped down, and snlit off a piece of 
the deck flooring. Handing it to the 
incensed American citizen he re- 
plied— 

"There's about what you own, and 
there's the ladder — now git!" 

And he got. — March Lippincott's. 



"I suppose," said the condoling 
neighbor, "that you will erect a hand- 
some monument to your husband's 
memory?" 

"To his memory!" echoes the tear- 
ful widow. "Why, poor John hadn't 
any. I was sorting over some of the 
clothes he left to-day and found the 
pockets full of letters I had given him 
to mail." 




A Washing Machine is as great a necessity in the house as a wringer 

The Majestic Rotary Washer 

has too many good points for explanation in an 
advertisement. Yourname on a postal card will 
bring our booklet, with full particulars of our 
six different machines and how to get them. One 
of them will certainly please you. All are made 
with electrically welded wire hoops sunk in 
grooves — our patent. Being the largest manufac- 
turers of woodenware in the world, we can make 
better machines for the money than any one else. 
If you want a machine that washes, buy one of 
ours. 

THE RICHMOND CEDAR WORKS, Richmond, Va. 



CHARTERED 1870. 



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OF RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. 
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Being the Largest Depository for Banks between Baltimore and New Orleans, this 
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JOHN F.GLENN, 

Cashier 



Farms Steadily Improved and Crops Doubled 

is the verdict of customers who use 

MAPES MANURES. 

MAPES MANURES are made from Animal Bone and other 
High Grade Materials and not only increase the crops, but 
improve the 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. See page 76 of Wood's Seed Book, or send 
for special circular about Mapes Manures. Prices quoted on request. 

T. W. WOOD & SONS, Seedsmen, Richmond, Va. 



There is an old negro living in Car- 
rollton who was taken ill several days 
ago and called in a physician of his 
race to prescribe for him. But the old 
man did not seem to be getting any 
better and finally a white physician 
was called. Soon after arriving, Dr. 
S felt the negro's pulse for a mo- 
ment and then examined his tongue. 
"Did your other doctor take your tem- 
perature?" he asked. "I don't know, 
sah," he answered feebly. "I hain't 
missed anything but my watch as yit, 
boss." 



A Christian Scientist, a friend of 
Dr. Herbert W. Spencer, used to scoff 
at medicine. "You're convinced that 
you can do anything through faith," 
said Dr. Spencer. "Yes," he replied, 
"faith will remove mountains." A 
week later, with a swollen face and in 
great suffering from the toothache, he 
entered the doctor's office and asked 
for relief. "Have you tried faith?" 
said Dr. Spencer. "You know faith 
will remove mountains." "Oh. but 
this is a cavity, doctor, this is a cav- 
ity." 



234 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[March, 



HAWKEYE INCUBATOR FACTS. 

Among the many incubators on the 
market to-day the Hawkeye, manufac- 
tured by the Hawkeye Incubator Com- 
pany at Newton, la., is certainly very 
popular. This machine counts its suc- 
cess from the beginning, and the rea- 
son is apparent. None but the best 
material is used in the construction; 
skilled workmen are employed in 
every department; one part of the 
machine is made as carefully as an- 
other; and no expense is spared to 
keep it at the high standard it has 
attained through its excellence and 
superiority. The hatching record of 
the Hawkeye stands out unparalleled 
by anv other machine. 

This company aims to be always 
fair and just toward its patrons. This 
is evident in. their trial plan, in which 
they offer to send an incubator and 
allow the customer to test it thorough- 
ly 30 days. If not satisfied at the end 
of that time, their money is refund- 
ed. However, it is a rare thing for a 
customer to ask this, simply because 
all their goods are first-class. This is 
an unequaled record. 

The Hawkeye Incubator Company is 
doing a larger business this season 
than ever before, which attests the 
popularity of their machines. Any 
reader of the Southern Planter who 
has not received a copy of their hand- 
some catalogue, should write for it — 
it is free. 



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AN INFERENCE. 
"She is extremely intellectual!" 
"Great Scott! is she as thin as all 
that?*' — March Woman's Home Com- 
panion. 

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W. P TAYLOR. Traffic Manazpr. 



THE LOST "H's" BEWILDERED 
HIM. 

A member of the Bar of Great 
Britain, with a pronounced Cockney 
accent, once appeared before Justice 
Lawrence, of the Criminal Court. In 
the course of his remarks the advocate, 
who was appearing for the prosecution 
in a case evolving the theft of a 
halter, constantly alluded to the article 
of equine equipment as an 'alter. Jus- 
tice Lawrence, unable to stand it fur- 
ther, called before him the clerk of 
assize and asked, in perfectly serious 
tones, albeit with a certain twinkle of 
his eye: 

"Is this the Crown court?" 

"Why, yes, my lord," answered the 
bewildered officer. 

"Thank you; I am right, after all. I 
thought, perhaps, I had found my way 
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"Who's the slowest man you ever 
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of a third-story window and did not 
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BY 

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"One of the handsomest thoroughbreds in America and 
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Standing 16X and weighs 1,300 lbs. He held the world's 
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All possible care taken to prevent accidents or escapes 
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KELLY, 22283* Record, 2:27. 
Sire of McChesney, 2:\6% f 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. 

GREAT STAKES, 25521. 

Record, 2:20. 

Sire of Captain. 2.161; Foxhall, 2.191, etc. Bay horse, 
by Billy Thornhill. 2.24, dam Sweetstakes, by Sweep Stakes, 
293. Fee, $25.00 the season. 

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BURLINGAME 26235, Record, 2:18^. 

Brown horse, by Guy Wilkes, 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, 2:143. 

FEE, $15.00. Address, 

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Cool Well, P. O.. Amherst Co., Va., or 

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