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5. 



CONTENTS. 



FARM MANAGEMENT: 

Editorial — Work for the Month 314 

Some Thoughts on the April Planter 317 

Sorghum as a Forage Crop 318 

Cow Peas as a Hay Crop 319 

Enquirers' Column (Detail Index, page 345).. 320 

TRUCKING, GARDEN AND ORCHARD: 

Editorial— Work for the Month 329 

Tomato Growing for the Canneries. 330 

Cultivating and Manuring Orchards 331 

Fighting Plant Diseases and Injurious Insects. 332 

Combining Poultry and Fruit 332 

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THE POULTRY YARD: 

Brooding and Care of Brooder Chicks 336 

Chicks Need Ash and Grit 336 



THE HORSE: 



Notes 337 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Levees and Irrigation 338 

Birds and the Farmers 338 

LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY: 8t K *srj£ ajjooy 3sal of the Bodies of Dead Animals 339 

Sheep Dipping at Edgewood 333 



Always Two Sides to a Question 334 

Texas Fever 335 

Hay Substitutes for Stock Feeding 335 

A Few Live Stock Remedies from Practical 

Stockmen 335 



Good Roads 340 

Bone Meal as a Fertilizer 340 

Preserving Eggs in Water Glass 341 

To Keep Insects from Meat 341 

What Have Clubs and Institutes Done For Us?. 342 



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No. 5. 



Farm Management. 



WORK FOR THE MONTH. 

The cold, ungenial weather which has character- 
ized the past six months all over the South, and in- 
deed to a great extent all the country, still continues. 
Up to this writings (20th April) we have had really 
no Southern spring weather. The wind persistently 
stays in the northwest, north or northeast, and feels 
all the time as though it came over the snow and ice, 
and the sun with all its acquired power can do little 
more than moderate this iceness, it cannot overcome 
it so as to give us genial growing weather. Added 
to this condition we have a continuance of the ab- 
normal dryness which has now lasted for five months. 
As a result of these conditions, fall sown crops and 
grass have made but little growth, and but slow pro- 
gress has been made in fitting and preparing the land 
and in planting spring crops. The Government re- 
port on the condition of the winter wheat crop is dis- 
tinctly discouraging, showing that the South has not 
been alone in having a hard winter. The average 
condition of the crop for the whole country is only 
76.5 per cent, as against 97.3 per cent, at the same 
time last year, and 84.1 per cent., the average for ten 
years. In Virginia the condition is 69, as against 
103 last year. In North Carolina 84, as against 100 
last year. In Maryland 71, as against 99 last year, 
and in South Carolina 82, as against 93 last year. 
The reports we receive as to the winter oat crop in the 
South are also very unsatisfactory. Much of the 
crop has been killed outright, whilst a large propor- 
tion of the remainder is seriously damaged. Spring 
oats are making but slow growth, and we are of opin- 



ion from reports made to us that the crop will be a 
small one in the South, and that the farmers will 
have to look to summer forage crops for feed for the 

stock. 



In our last issue we wrote fully on the subject of 
the preparation of the land for the corn crop, and as 
to the food requirements of the crop, and to that issue 
we refer our readers. We would again emphasize 
the point there made that the yield of the crop will 
depend much more on the perfect preparation of the 
land than upon any fertilizer that may be used. 
What the land of the South most needs is humus 
(vegetable matter) and deep and perfect prepara- 
tion before the planting of the crop. This makes it 
retentive of moisture, prevents baking and crusting 
of the soil, and if these conditions are maintained, 
the corn crop, with its immense root system, will 
forage for food and secure it although no commer- 
cial fertilizer be applied. Wherever peas or any 
other of the leguminous crops have been grown last 
year the effect on the corn crop will be very appar- 
ent. We have known a single crop of cow peas grown 
and plowed under to increase the yield of the corn 
crop following from 10 to 20 bushels to the acre. 
In one case within our experience where a crop of cow 
peas was grown and plowed down in the fall and the 
land dressed with 25 bushels of lime to the acre, the 
yield of the corn crop the following year was 36 
bushels to the acre, as against a previous yield of 10 
bushels to the acre. Deep and perfect cultivation of 
the soil and the application of lime will make avail- 



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able the great natural stores of phosphoric acid and 
potash in the soil even of old cultivated land, and the 
only other requisite then needed for a good crop is 
retention of moisture. Do not be in too great haste in 
planting the crop, but devote the time until the soil is 
warmed by the sun to making the seed bed more per- 
fect. Corn will not germinate and grow off well in 
cold land, and the corn crop that does not grow off 
right away from the day it is planted is not going to 
make a great yield. Better wait a week or ten days 
and have the land warm and in fine condition before 
planting. Co not plant a greater area than you can 
find time and team to cultivate well and frequently 
throughout the growing season. We have seen many 
a promising crop lost from want of frequent cultiva- 
tion. 



The cultivation of the corn crop is a subject that 
does not usually receive half of the attention it de- 
serves. Many farmers altogether miss the great ob- 
ject of cultivation. They regard the killing of weeds 
as the prime object. This is not so. Whilst the kill- 
ing of weeds is important, it is much more important 
that the soil should be so frequently stirred as to pre- 
vent their growth, and to so thoroughly serate it as to 
render available the plant food in the soil and per- 
mit of the fine rootlets of the plants permeating every 
foot of the land and gathering from it the food need- 
ed for the growth of the crop. It is much easier 
to prevent the growth of weeds than to destroy them 
after they are grown. When the soil is so frequently 
stirred as to prevent a growth of weeds the germi- 
nating weed seeds are killed before there is time for 
the weeds to rob the corn plants of food and moisture. 
Every day weeds are permitted to grow they are rob- 
bing the soil of food and moisture and decreasing the 
supply for the corn crop. Cultivation, when prop- 
erly done, conserves moisture and prevents weed 
growth. The cultivation which meets these require- ' braced in 
ments is not deep plowing with a turn plow — plowing 
off the soil from the plant and then turning it back 
again at the next working. A turning plow has no 
place in a corn field after the crop has been planted. 
All its work should have been done before the plant- 
ing of the crop. Its use afterwards simply means 
the tearing of the fine rootlets of the plants and in- 
jury to the crop. The implement needed is a harrow 
or weeder for the first two or three workings, and a 
cultivator for the later workings, and these should 
not be set to disturb more than the top three inches of 
soil. Land cultivated in this way, kept level, and 
covered with a fine mulch of soil, will retain moisture 



to the surface and thus conduce to the rapid growth 
of the crop. Let the first cultivation be given with 
the harrow or weeder, running the same over all the 
land and not merely between the rows, before the 
plants break through the soil or immediately they 
have begun to appear, and especially is this import- 
ant when a rain has fallen after the seed has been 
planted, but before it has had time to break through 
the surface. This system of cultivation with the 
weeder or harrow can, with advantage, be continued 
until the plants are six or eight inches high. Deep 
cultivation with the plow as compared with shallow, 
level cultivation with a cultivator has been tested at 
many of the Experiment Stations, and the results 
have been invariably in favor of shallow, level culti- 
vation. At the Illinois Station in 1893 the yield per 
acre of corn on land cultivated shallow and with a 
careful avoidance of root injury or disturbance was 
100 bushels to the acre, as against 78 bushels per acre 
on land where the roots were disturbed and pruned 
by deep cultivation. Let the cultivation of the crop 
be continued as long as it is practicable to go through 
the rows without doing injury to the stalks, and pre- 
vious to the last cultivation sow either cow peas, 
crimson clover or sapling clover broadcast and work 
in with the cultivator. Do not follow the old prac- , 
tice of throwing a hill to the corn at this last work- 
ing. It only tends to reduce the moisture content 
of the soil by leaving a larger surface exposed to the 
sun's rays. It is of importance to conserve this mois- 
ture and not to waste it. The idea that a furrow 
thrown to the row will hold up the corn is a fal- 
lacious one. It might have been true, when under 
the old system of cultivation with a plow, the roots 
had been badly cut off in the working of the crop, but 
under a system of shallow, level cultivation the roots 
of the crop will be so widely extended as to run across 
from row to row, and the stalks are sufficiently 
all directions as to need no support from 
soil thrown to them. 



The cultivation of the cotton crop should be on the 
same general lines laid down for the corn crop, except 
that we would not use a harrow or weeder for the first 
two cultivations. Cotton plants are too tender to be 
treated in this way. The cultivation should be done 
by a weeder or cultivator running only between the 
rows. The cultivation in the rows is done by the 
hoe when chopping the crop to a stand. The import- 
ance of shallow, frequent cultivation is as great for 
the cotton crop as for the corn crop. At the last 
working sow crimson clover in the cotton. This will 



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make a cover for the land in the winter and thus im- 
prove it by supplying humus making matter, besides 



making some feed for stock. 



The preparation of the land for the planting of the 
tobacco crop should have attention, as the plants 
should be set out in the latter part of the month or the 
first week in June. The late cold spring has caused 
much delay in raising plants, and we hear that they 
are still very small, and will not be ready to set out 
as early as usual. Let the land be well and finely 
broken, and especially well fitted so that the small 
plants may have a chance to immediately take hold 
and commence growth. In our last issue we gave 
advice as to the fertilizer to use on this crop, and to 
that issue we refer our readers. We would like to 
see Virginia tobacco growers make an effort to pro- 
duce a particularly good crop this year, as we believe 
that it will pay them to do so. The high price of 
cotton will cause many tobacco growers in the Caro- 
linas to abandon the crop and plant cotton in its 
place. This will make a better market for our to- 
bacco, and if the quality made is only good we are of 
opinion that it will sell for a paying price. To make 
a heavy crop of good tobacco calls for plenty of rich 
fertilizer in the soil and a well prepared soil. In the 
Northern tobacco sections it is quite a common prac- 
tice to apply from 1,000 to 1,500 pounds of a high 
grade tobacco fertilizer to the acre, and from snch 
fertilizing heavy crops of fine tobacco are made. We 
would like to see experiments made on this line here. 
We believe that it would pay upon the dark heavy 
shipping types of tobacco. Let the fertilizer used 
be rich in potash and nitrogen, so as to give quality 
and size to the leaf, but keep down the phosphoric 
acid so as to avoid coarseness. 



The peanut crop is becoming one of increasing 
importance in the South, and especially in this State. 
The average crop grown here is over 3,000,000 bush- 
els every year, and this is also the case in North 
Carolina. The consumption of nuts is constantly 
increasing, and last year's crop failed to meet the 
market's requirement, and prices have advanced all 
through the winter and spring, and the market is re- 
ported bare of stock. With more attention given to 
the preparation of the land and the adoption of a 
system of rotation by which the crop shall only come 
\ on the land every three or four years instead of 
every year or every other year, as has been the case 
in the past, we believe that the growing of peanuts 
can be made a profitable business in our light Tide- 



water section soils. The average crop made is only 
about 30 bushels to the acre. This should be doubled, 
and can be easily done with a proper system of rota- 
tion by which the soil shall be kept filled with humus, 
and the use of lime to render the plant food in the 
soil available and to keep the soil free from acidity, 
and cause the nuts to fill well. In our March issue, 
in reply to an enquirer, we gave advice as to a proper 
fertilizer to use for the crop. Unfortunately by a 
printer's error a cypher was left off one of the con- 
stituents, and this was not detected until too late to 
correct the same in the April issue. The fertilizer 
advised should read 300 pounds cotton seed meal, 
80 pounds acid phosphate, and 240 pounds of kainit 
per acre. If cow peas or crimson clover have been 
grown on the land, the quantity of cotton seed meal 
may be reduced to 150 pounds. The nuts should be 
planted this month. 



When the staple crops — corn, cotton and tobacco- 
have been planted and started on their growth time 
should be taken to plant forage crops to supplement 
the pastures and to make feed for stock during the 
winter. The importance of these crops has been em- 
phasized by the long winter through which we have 
just passed. On hundreds of farms throughout the 
South where no special provision had been made by 
means of forage crops for the feeding of the stock, 
but the old custom of relying on the fodder from the 
corn crops and such hay as had been saved had been 
followed, the stock have had to go short of feed and 
have come through the winter in worse condition 
and are worth less money now than when they went 
into winter quarters. This is poor farming and bad 
economy. To keep stock without its constantly im- 
proving in weight and value is a waste of food and 
time and a loss of interest on the money invested in 
the animals. To merely keep them to make manure 
is not sufficient, especially when that manure is made 
only from shortened rations of no high nutritive 
value. It cannot under such circumstances be of 
anything like the value for the improvement of the 
land which it ought to be. Where stock are well fed 
on rations rich in protein and carbohydrates the ma- 
nure made will largely pay for the cost of keeping 
the animals, and will with the increase in weight of 
the animals make stock keeping a profitable business, 
and result in a farm highly improved in productive 
capacity by the application of the manure to the land. 
Such manure will return to the soil not merely the 
vegetable refuse which makes humus, but will also 
return to the soil something like 75 per cent, of the 



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nitrogen and mineral fertility contained in the food. 
Now that the South is becoming so much more largely 
a stock keeping country the necessity for the making 
of forage crops is a subject demanding attention. 
There is no section of the whole country where for- 
age crops of so great variety and of such great lux- 
uriance of growth can be made as in the South. 
Whilst some other sections can make as fine hay 
crops, nowhere else can such enormous yields of for- 
age and so many crops be made in the time as in the 
South. In making choice of the crops to be grown, 
attention should be given to the feeding value of the 
same. Some are rich in protein, the muscle and 
flesh forming elements, whilst others are rich in the 
carbo-hydrates, the makers of fat and heat. There 
should be selection made from both types, so that the 
animals may be fed a balanced ration, and thus be 
enabled to make growth and fat. Feeding only one 
kind cannot result in that success which ought to be 
secured. Amongst the most valuable protein crops 
are cow peas and soy beans, amongst the carbo-hy- 
drate crops are corn fodder, sorghum, Kaffir corn, 
teocinte and the millets. In addition to these strictly 
forage crops, crimson clover, red and sapling clover 
and alfalfa, vetches and rape can be grown to supple- 
ment the pastures or provide winter and spring graz- 
ing. Where all these crops receive that attention 
which they ought to have, and are some or all of them 
produced on the farm, stock can be kept in growing 
and feeding condition without much, if any, recourse 
to the corn crib. A ton of cow pea hay is worth as 
much as a stock food as a ton of ivheat bran, and 
more if a fair quantity of peas are saved with the 
bay. The clovers, alfalfa, vetches and rape being 
strictly crops for fall seeding, we do not propose now 
to say more about them, but invite attention to the 
others we have named. Let land be well prepared 
for cow peas, soy beans, sorghum, Kaffir corn, and 
corn for fodder and the silo, and also for some of the 
millets for cutting for green feed to supplement the 
pastures and for hay. All the leguminous crops like 
bow peas and soy beans are great consumers of the 
mineral fertilizers, phosphates and potash, and 
should, unless the land is fertile, have the help of 200 
or 300 pounds to the acre of acid phosphate at least, 
and on light, sandy land of 50 pounds of muriate of 
potash per acre. They will well pay for this outlay, 
as it enables them to make a quick, luxuriant growth, 
and thus become so much better able to gather nitro- 
gen from the atmosphere for the enrichment of the 
c-rop and the soil. Whilst all these crops may be 
sown broadcast with a considerable degree of success, 



yet experiments have conclusively proved that they 
make a better return when planted in rows and culti- 
vated once or twice. Cow peas which are usually 
very largely grown sown broadcast are this year high 
in price, and we would therefore suggest that this 
practice be not followed, but that they be drilled in 
rows 2 feet or 2 feet. 6 inches apart. Planted in this 
way a peck or a peck and a half will plant an acre 
and a better crop be made than with a bushel or a 
bushel and a half sown broadcast. We are strongly 
in favor of mixing cow peas and sorghum together, 
using say a peck of cow peas and half a peck of sor- 
ghum seed per acre. This makes an excellent, well- 
balanced feed for stock, and the hay is easier to cure 
than that of cow peas alone. Talking a few days ago 
with the owner of a large plantation, who keeps a 
heavy head of stock, on this subject of forage crops, 
he remarked that after making experiments with 
nearly every variety of them he had concluded that 
cow peas and sorghum sown together made the best 
crop and the finest feed of any, and that he grew a 
large acreage of this every year, upon which his stock 
always did well in winter. Sorghum, of which the 
Early Amber and Early Orange are the best varie- 
ties, may be sown either in drill or broadcast. If in- 
tended for hay, it should be sown thickly broadcast, 
so that the stalks may be small, say at the rate of one 
bushel to the acre. We prefer, however, to grow it, 
in rows 2 feet 6 inches apart, and let it stand two or 
three inches apart in the rows. A peck of seed will 
sow an acre in this way. It should then be har- 
vested like corn, and be set up in shocks to cure. 
Kaffir corn is a non-saccharine sorghum, and whilst 
not so valuable as a feed as the saccharine sorghums, 
ought not to be overlooked, as it stands a drouth bet- 
ter than any other variety. Sow like sorghum. Soy 
beans may be sown either broadcast or in rows, but 
we advise that they be planted in rows 2 feet 6 
inches apart, and be cultivated like corn. A peck of 
seed will sow an acre in this way. They will in 
good land meet in the rows and make a fine crop for 
winter feeding cut when the earliest pods are just 
ripening, or they may be allowed to ripen the seed 
and be threshed for the peas, and the stock will eat up 
the stalks and hulls clean. South of the James river 
teocinte may be sown for forage. It will not ma- 
ture seed in this State, but makes an immense growth 
of forage, which will spring up again from the stocks 
after being cut off once or twice. It is valuable to 
use as a green forage crop, and makes fair dry feed, 
though not so nutritous as corn or sorghum. Oat 
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the hay crop or for green feed. Sow broadcast at 
i the rate of a bushel per acre on finely prepared land. 

Corn for the silo should be planted not later than 
the end of June. Plant in rows 3 feet apart, leaving 
the stalks 6 inches apart in the rows. Planted in 
this way the crop will make a fair proportion of ears, 
and the stalks will mature well and' make good, sweet 
silage. On good land from 10 to 15 tons to the acre 
can be made in this way, and as a feed for stock of all 
kinds nothing can excel it in winter, as it retains its 
succulency and palatability. It is a great milk 
making food. As a feed, it may be greatly improved 
by growing cow peas in the rows along with the corn. 
The peas, either the Clay or Whippoorwill, are best, 
as they keep closer to the corn stalks and are less 
troublesome to harvest than the Black or other ram- 
pant vine makers, should be planted alongside the 
corn rows at the second cultivation, and will then 
sufficiently mature at the same time as the corn. 
This combination makes a better balanced silage than 
corn alone, and a greater weight of feed can be put 
into the silo in the same space. 



When planting the corn, don't forget to sow some 
pumpkin seeds along with it. They will grow to- 
gether without injury to each other, and the pump- 
kins are good feed for cattle and hogs in the winter. 
Sow a couple of pounds of the Virginia Mammoth to 
the acre. They can be mixed with the corn in the 
drill. 



SOME THOUGHTS ON THE APRIL PLANTER. 

DRAINING WITH POXES. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

What Mr. Thomas says in regard to pine pole 
drains is perfectly correct. Over sixteen years ago 
I drained a cove in a river bottom in Albemarle, 
which was surrounded by high hills and covered with 
bunches of willow. Water formerly stood over it all 
winter, and ice was cut from it. I cut a ditch around 
next the hills to cut off the springs, and from this 
ditches parallel to each other and straight to the 
branch. All the ditches were laid with skinned pine 
poles covered with pine straw and filled up. Poles 
were laid on each side the ditch bottom and another 
made the cover between them, being larger than the 
others. The next season I had fine clover on the 
ground, having, of course, cleared off the willows. 
I saw that piece of land two years ago, and the pole 
drains were still working all right. 



LIME. 

Mr. Hull is evidently an enthusiast in lime. 
Doubtless in the red clay lands of the Piedmont sec- 
tion lime has a great value even as a mechanical 
agent in the mellowing of the soil, and a fine action 
also in sweetening the soil for clover. Lime is a 
great aid in the improvement of the soil when prop- 
erly used, but the man who thinks that, because he 
gets good results at once from an application of 
lime, lime is a manure, and that all that is necessary to 
make his land rich and richer is to keep putting lime 
on it, will find after a while that lime has helped him 
to reduce the plant food in the soil, and will have to 
go to work to replace it. Lime in connection with 
clover can be made the most efficient agent in the res- 
toration of the old red hills. I formerly used a great 
deal of lime in Virginia (Piedmont), but I prac- 
ticed a different method from that Mr. Hull uses, 
and I think a better one. I bought fresh, unslaked 
lime in carload lots. Hauled it and piled it in a 
heap, and then slaked it at once with water to a fine 
powder. This was hauled and spread from the 
wagon direct, and there were no overlimed spots as 
there will be where it is left weeks in piles, and it is 
far easier to spread from the wagon after measuring 
the wagon box and laying off the land in acres. Lime. 
is a great aid in an improving rotation, but used with 
the notion that it will make poor land rich of itself 
will lead to exhaustion. In Dr. Fisher's experience 
it is shown that lime helped, but he got a great deal 
of humus making material on the land before mak- 
ing the big crop of corn. Keep up the humus and 
lime will help very greatly in its nitrification. 

SACCHARINE. 

Mr. Rice is mistaken in saying that this plant is 
no relation to buckwheat. It belongs to the same 
botanical family as buckwheat, and is no sort of a 
relative to dock, though somewhat similar in its 
growth to dock. But it is not worth any more than 
dock, and we hope that we are not going to have a 
revival of it. 

NITROGEN" IN LEGUMES. 

N says that a ton of green pea vines contain five 
pounds of nitrogen. The best analysis I have at 
hand makes a ton of green pea vines contain between 
29 and 30 pounds of nitrogen and a ton of green 
alfalfa 45 pounds. I am glad to see that he is fig- 
uring on the feeding value of these things. I have 
no objection to alfalfa, and every one should have a 
piece. But the peas will come into the regular farm 
rotation while the alfalfa will not, and therefore both 
are needed for feeding and soil improvement. But 



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the one who supposes that a plot of alfalfa can be kept 
producing large crops without fertilization will soon 
find that he is mistaken. Lime every five or six 
years and phosphate and potash every year will pay 
well on the alfalfa. 

ROOT GRAFTED TREES. 

The talk that has been made by many nurserymen 
in regard to the greater value of whole roots in graft- 
ing trees is largely an advertising dodge, for no one 
ever uses really the whole root. The seedlings come 
with roots, straight tap roots over a foot long. Now, 
as the graft must be set just below the surface of the 
soil, what are you going to do with that long root ? 
It simply must be shortened for planting. It may 
be that the graft on the crowu of the root is best, but it 
is entirely impracticable to use the whole root, and 
in my experience the piece cut off will make just as 
good a graft as any, and I have so used it. 

JAPAN CLOVER AND BROOMSEDGE. 

You say that it will not destroy broomsedge. It 
certainly did for me, and it is doing it in large sec- 
tions of Western North Carolina and here. 

ARTICHOKES FOR HOGS. 

Doubtless the hogs will like the artichokes, but I 
do not think the man who plants them will like them 
long. I tried once to get rid of them in a piece of 
strong limestone clay loam many years ago, and I be- 
lieve they are there yet. There are so many things 
we can plant for the hogs that are not vile weeds that 
I never advise the artichokes. Hogs may get them 
out of sandy soil, but never from a clay one. 

VELVET BEANS. 

These are being found valuable in sanely soil in the 
far southeast corner of this State, but are worthless 
from the middle section north, especially on a clay 
soil. About the town of Magnolia on the Atlantic 
Coast Line E. E. they are using them in preference 
to peas. 

ASHES AND GUANO. 

I would like to add to what you say to Mr. Spen- 
cer, as I am writing to numerous correspondents who 
ask the same question, that mixing ashes with fer- 
tilizers will injure the fertilizer by driving off the 
ammonia and reverting the phosphoric acid through 
l Ik- action of the lime in the ashes. There is no one 
question that comes up more frequently than this 
from people who happen to have some ashes, and 
imagine that they can be used in a mixed fertilizer 
with commercial fertilizers or home made manures, 
and no matter how often we tell them of the risk the 
next day some one else comes with the same query, 
though reading the same paper where the previous 



reply was given. The fact is that few farmers seem 
to read their papers carefully or listen and take in 
what is told by Institute lectures. 

ASPARAGUS FROM SEED. 

I am gad to find that Mr. Allen has found out the 
advantage of sowing the seed of asparagus where it is 
to stand. I have been advocating this plan for thirty 
years, and you will find my method fully detailed in 
the recent bulletin of the Department of Agriculture 
of North Carolina on garden vegetables, which I pre- 
pared. But the making of trenches three feet deep is 
needless, for manure packed down that deep will 
never be used by the plants. A deeply prepared soil 
well filled with manure is all that is needed. I pre- 
fer to cut my asparagus at the surface and get all 
tender. The new Columbian asparagus, which keeps 
white till several inches high, will please those who 
want it white. I have sown asparagus seed and cut 
good asparagus from it the following spring. The 
thinnings can be transplanted like cabbage plants. 
W. F. Massey, Editor of Practical Farmer. 
Whilst our own experience has not convinced us 
that Japan clover will destroy broomsedge, a friend 
of ours confirms what Prof. Massey says. He has 
killed out the broomsedge on part of his farm with 
Japan clover. He says also that by heavily manur- 
ing the land with barnyard manure he has killed it 
out. — Ed 



SORGHUM AS A FORAGE CROP. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

As May is the time to plant sorghum, I will give 
the readers of the Planter the benefit of what I 
have seen and heard about this crop in the States 
west and south of Virginia. While travelling in 
Kentucky several years ago I found field after field 
of it shocked up as other corn, and upon inquiry I 
was told it was to feed horses, cattle, hogs, etc. Whilst 
• in North Carolina this winter I spent several days 
with a stock dealer, and I noticed that he fed his 
horses and mules (which he handled by the car load) 
on sorghum cane which was given them just as it 
came from the shocks in the field. It was five or six 
feet tall, and the stalks were the size of your fingers, 
and perhaps a little larger. It was bright, sweet, 
and in perfect keeping order, and relished heartily 
by all stock, they frequently leaving grain untouched 
to eat it, I went to the twelve acre lot where it was 
grown and found the shocks just as they had been 
set up after the crop had been cut by the corn har- 
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I found it had been sown in rows about four feet 
apart and cultivated as we do corn. It stood thick in 
the drill, which is necessary to keep the stalks from 
growing too large. I talked with half a dozen or 
more farmers in the neighborhood, and they all 
agreed that it was the greatest forage crop that could 
be raised, and that one acre of it was worth more 
than four acres in corn on the same character of 
land. It should not be harvested until it heads out, 
and the seed is pretty well matured. It has then 
reached the point of its highest value. It will keep 
all winter in perfect condition in shocks of three to 
four feet in diameter, but will mould and sour if 
packed away in the house in a horizontal position. 
As Virginia is rapidly becoming a stock raising State, 
and as forage for winter is a vital question, I believe 
that stock men will find in sorghum cane just the 
thing for their horses, cattle, hogs and sheep, for it 
not only furnishes a large yield per acre, but is very 
nutritious. 

I found in Georgia this winter that sorghum hay 
was raised by sowing two bushels and a half of seed 
to the acre, which made it very thick on the land and 
the stalks were very little larger than wheat straws. 
It was cut with the mower after heading and allowed 
to lie on the ground for ten days. Rain will not 
hurt it. It is then raked up and stored away with 
perfect safety in the barn or in stacks. One other 
advantage it has is the second crop which will come 
immediately from the stubble, and I was told that 
this is more valuable as feed than the first. 

I shall plant about ten acres of sorghum in rows 
to be cultivated, and will sow broadcast about two 
acres this year as an experiment. C. Gr. Snead. 

Fluvanna Co., Va. 



COW PEAS AS A HAY CROP. 

We take the following from a bulletin just issued 
by the Arkansas Experiment Station : 

The intelligent production of bay is a profitable 
industry in many localities of the State. According 
to the 17. S. Census report the average hay yield of 
the United States for the past ten years has been 1.32 
tons per acre, and for Arkansas the same report gives 
a ten years' average of 1.35 tons per acre, of .03 
above the average for the wbole country. Exclusive 
of peas and hulls cow pea hay grown on the station 
grounds the past five years has ranged from .37 of a 
ton to 4 tons per acre, the average of all plots of all 
varieties being 1.58 tons per acre. The above refers 
to cow peas grown principally for experimental pur- 
poses. On larger areas and where the hay was 



grown primarily for feed and from varieties well 
suited to the production of hay, the average yield has 
been well above two tons per acre, not including peas 
or hulls, and when the peas were harvested with the 
vines the average has been approximately three tons 
per acre. 

In 1902 and again in 1903, more than 300 plots of 
cow peas were grown and harvested under field con- 
ditions. In 1902 the yield of hay from 141 plots 
was recorded and from 153 plots in 1903. Of these 
294 plots only eleven gave less than 1,000 pounds of 
hay per acre (exclusive of peas), 87 plots gave be- 
tween one and two thousand pounds per acre, 108 
gave between two and four thousand pounds per acre, 
and 88 plots more than four thousand pounds. The 
average yields of cow pea hay for the past five years 
as computed from all plots of all varieties of which 
a record was made, are as follows : 

lbs. hay per acre. 

1899 3,183 

1900 2,773 

1901 3,369 

1902 3,609 

1903 2,913 



Five years' average 3,169.4 

With the exception of a very few cases these aver- 
ages do not include the weight of either peas or hulls. 
When the pods were harvested with the hay the yield 
of peas was light. Usually the harvesting of the 
hay was delayed until the peas could be gathered. 
In many cases this necessarily reduced the yield of 
hay, many leaves having fallen from a number of 
varieties before all the peas were sufficiently ripe to 
be gathered. 

In 1902, sixteen plots produced more than 6,000 
pounds of hay per acre, eight of which ripened no 
peas, or so small a quantity that they were not worth 
the gathering. The highest acreage yield recorded 
in 1902 was 8,750 pounds made by the variety Clay. 
This 8,750 pounds of hay bore only 2.9 bushels of 
shelled peas. The lowest yield of hay was 750 
pounds per acre produced by one plot each of New 
Era and Extra Early Black Eye. These two plots 
yielded respectively 1,337.5 and 1,025 pounds of 
shelled peas per acre. The weight of the peas and 
hulls produced by these two varieties in this instance 
was double the weight of the cured vines that bore 
the peas and hulls. One plot of Wonderful (or Un- 
known) yielded 8,350 pounds of hay per acre and 
no blossoms had appeared upon the vines when har- 
vested in October. Two other plots of this variety 
ripened no peas. Two plots of Clay produced 8,250 
and 7,540 pounds of hay per acre and no peas worth 
gathering. 

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ant bearing upon the selection of varieties to be 
grown for whatever purpose, and particularly when 
the prime object of their culture is the production of 
hay. Lack of recognition of these differences in the 
habits of varieties is a fruitful source of failure, or 
of at least unsatisfactory results and of disappoint- 
ment. On the other hand, a due consideration of 
these varietal variations will enable the grower to 
select varieties well suited to each of the various pur- 
poses for which the cow pea is grown. 

Since the summer of 1898 more than 550 plots of 
cow pea vines have been cut for hay, including about 
50 varieties. A number of these varieties, and par- 
ticularly those of dissimilar characters, were grown 
in multiple plots, cut at various degrees of maturity 
and under a variety of weather conditions. The re- 
sults of attempts to cure these various lots of hay 
range from perfect success to complete failure. A 
review of the results of these tests extending through 
five years seems to warrant these conclusions : 

(a) Cow peas of any variety harvested while young 
or in vigorous growth are difficult to cure into hay 
no matter how favorable the weather conditions. 

(b) Mature vines are cured with little difficulty in 
favorable weather, and usually cure in fair to ex- 
cellent condition after an exposure of two to four 
days of rain and cloudy weather. 

(c) Varieties producing the heaviest yield of peas 
are most easily cured into hay, while those produc- 
ing a few peas, or none at all, were the most difficult 
to cure, since they habitually continue in vigorous 
growth until checked by frost. 

(d) Late, shallow cultivation prolongs the period 
of growth and makes the vines more difficult to cure. 
Cultivation should cease when the first pods appear 
if the crop is intended for hay. 

(e) Vines bearing a fair or full crop of peas that 
ripen well together are easily cured when one-fourth 
or more of the peas are thoroughly ripe and no second 
growth of vine has been induced by excessive mois- 
ture. 

(f) Vines bearing a fair or full crop of peas ripen- 
ing through a prolonged period through which the 
plants continue in vigorous growth are usually diffi- 
cult to cure in other than the most favorable weather. 

The numerous varieties of cow peas differ so widely 
in various respects that their peculiarities must be 
considered when the crop is grown for hay and the 
time of mowing, treatment while in the swathe, in 
wind-rows and in cocks adjusted not only to the con- 
dition of the weather, but also the peculiarities of the 
variety, and to variations due to climate and soil. 



ENQUIRERS' COLUMN. 



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tion the SouTirr:i{\ Planter. 



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



Duroc Hogs. 

Please give your opinion on the Duroc hogs. Are 
they as good or better for this section than Poland- 
Chinas or Berkshires ? How would they cross on 
either of these breeds ? W. S. D. 

Lancaster Co., Va. 

The Duroc Jersey Hogs are an improved breed of 
the old Jersey Red Hogs, and are a good breed of 
bacon hogs. They are very largely bred in some of 
the Western States, and highly spoken of as p.ofi- 
table hogs. We doubt, however, whether they are 
equal to the Berkshires for the South. We would 
not advise crossing them on either of the breeds 
named. In our last issue we gave our opinion on 
this question of crossing pure bred hogs. — We are 
decidedly against it. — Ed. 



Pip in Chickens. 

What can you give young chicks when first hatched 
to prevent them from having pip on the tongue, as T 
have lost several from it. 

Caroline Co., Va. A Subscriber. 

We often hear of this supposed disease, but do not 
believe in it. We have kept chickens all our lives 
and never were troubled with it. When a boy we re- 
member to have seen old farmers' wives scraping 
off the tips of the tongues of chickens to cure pip, so 
they said, but we never did so, and lost no more 
chickens than they did. We can find no mention of 
any such disease in our books. The chickens die 
from some other cause than that named. Eeed them 
on dry grits and bread soaked in milk and squeezed 
dry, and let them have fine, sharp grit to pick and a 
little bone meal in their food once or twice a week. 
Soft food is the cause of more dead chickens than any 
disease. — Ed. 



Improving Land. 

1. Most of my land is a sandy loam, and my neigh- 
bor has black loamy land that is always light and 
never bakes, but in winter it will put up icicles that 
are six inches long, and it raises anything planted 
out of the ground. I have four fields that join him. 
They have been rented, or rather sub-rented, for a 
number of years, and the ditches are stopped and the 
soil is dark and sticky. The soil can be worked like 
putty. I have opened the ditches and the land is 
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that were 7 or 8 feet high and sowed crimson clover, 
but failed to get a stand on account of late seeding. 

2. I have a quantity of pine sawdust on hand, and 
thought of putting it on the land to lighten it. 
Neighbors say it will ruin the land. Some do not 
know why, and some say there is too much acid. I 
have tested sawdust for acid and can't find any. 
Please advise me as to this land. 

Princess Anne Co., Ya. K. P. Grant. 

1. The land requires thorough drainage, and then 
to be filled with vegetable matter by the growing of 
humus making crops, the stubble of which should be 
plowed down. It is very probable that the land will 
be too sour to grow crops well until it has been limed. 
Plow it and apply 25 bushels of lime to the acre, and 
work in. This will not only sweeten the land, but 
will change the physical and mechanical condition of 
the soil. Recent experiments made in Illinois have 
proven that an application of potash to soils of this 
character is very beneficial. We would apply 50 
pounds of muriate of potash to the acre before seed- 
ing a crop. 

2. Sawdust is of no benefit whatever to land. It 
contains no plant food. Its application to wet land 
is also to be deprecated for the reason that it absorbs 
and holds moisture which the land does not need. 
Burn the sawdust and apply the ashes. These will 
help by supplying some potash. — Ed. 



Improving Land. 

I have some stiff places on my farm. The land is 
high land. Would sowing grain crops like peas and 
turning down do my land good ? J. G. L. 

Accomac Co., Ya. 

Plow the land deep, work fine and sow cow peas or 
cow peas and sorghum, applying 200 pounds of acid 
phosphate to the acre. Mow the peas for hay, leav- 
ing a tall stubble. Plow this down and apply 25 
bushels of lime to the acre, and then sow crimson 
clover and a mixture of wheat, oats and rye. This 
will make a winter cover, and should be plowed down 
in the spring, and the land will then be lightened. If 
necessary, repeat again next year. — -Ed. 



Alfalfa. 

Please advise me what to do with an acre of 
alfalfa that I put in September 15th last year. I 
have a good stand, but the plants seem to be weak, 
occasionally a plant looks thrifty, but the majority 
of it doe3 not. Land was inoculated and 500 pounds 
of a 10-2 fertilizer harrowed in before seeding. 

Gloucester Co., Ya. C. M. S. 

Apply 75 to 100 pounds of nitrate of soda broad- 



cast per acre. It is probable that the bacteria has 
not yet sufficiently inoculated the soil. Warmer 
weather will cause this to spread and the nitrate of 
soda will help the crop until this occurs. — Ed. 



Fertilizing Land for Bright Tobacco. 

Can't you devote a little more space to the prepara- 
tion and fertilizing of land for bright tobacco and its 
cultivation ? It is the most important industry in 
this part of the State. A. H. Zollinger. 

Charlotte Co., Ya. 

In our last issue we devoted considerable space to 
the question of the proper fertilizer to use for tobacco, 
and we refer the enquirer to that issue. The per- 
centage of nitrogen and phosphoric acid in the fer- 
tilizer ought not to be so large for bright tobacco as 
for the dark, heavy shipping types, but otherwise the 
requirements of the crops are the same. — Ed. 



Scours in Calves. 

Will you please publish a cure for scours in calves 
and young pigs ? A Subscriber. 

Feed a tablespoonful of blood meal in each feed of 
milk and give a like quantity to the pigs in their food. 
Blood meal can be had from the Armour Co. and 
their agents. — Ed. 



Diseased Apple Tree. 

I enclose apple tree twig for inspection and advice. 
It has a scale on the bark, as you may see, and is in- 
fected from the ground to the top of the tree. 

Accomac Co., Ya. A Subscriber. 

The tree is infested with San Jose scale. Dig it 
up and burn it, and do the same with others as badly 
infested. Spray the rest of the orchard with the 
lime, sulphur and salt wash advised in recent issues 
of the Planter. — Ed. 



Grass for Name. 

Will you please tell me what you think of this 
grass which I send by mail ? Our lawn is lovely, 
but I find this grass coming in spots, and I don't 
know what to think of it. In winter it looks dead. 
I have asked many, and they do not know if it will 
do well for our stock. Hoggard. 

The grass sent being unknown to us, we referred 
the same to the Agrostologist of the Department of 
Agriculture. The following is his reply : 

I have in hand yours of the 6th instant, referred to 
this office for attention. The grass you have sent is 
a grass found not uncommonly along the coast region 
of Florida, and there known as St. Augustine grass. 



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Stenotaphrum dimidiatum. In that latitude this has 
a considerable value for lawns on account of its strong 
creeping habit and rapid growth, which enables it to 
successfully withstand considerable adverse condi- 
tions, such as weeds and some drought. I do not 
know whether this would be sufficiently hardy to 
stand our extremes of cold as far north as Princess 
Anne county or not. Carlton R. Ball. 



Ginseng. 

Please advise in your next issue what character 
of soil and climate is best adapted to growth of 
"ginseng," and where I will be able to purchase the 
seed or the roots, as I would like to try its cultivation 
in Texas, and oblige an old subscriber. 

Texas. A. B. Hitt. 

On page 168 of the March issue you will find in- 
formation as to growing ginseng. The Commercial 
Ginseng Co., of Crozet, Va., will very likely be able 
to supply seed or roots. — Ed. 



Alfalfa Bacteria— Bermuda Grass— Soy Beans— 
StockPea— Berkshires— German Clover- 
Hog House. 

1. "What is the cost of alfalfa bacteria procured 
from the Department of Agriculture ? 

2. Will Bermuda grass grow in Norfolk county, 
and what soil is best ? 

3. Is there any difference between the soy and the 
soja bean? 

4. Also, is there any between them and the stock 
pea ? 

5. Is there any difference in the size of the Ameri- 
can and English Berkshire hogs, and which would 
you advise me to buy for breeding purposes. 

6. Will German clover grow as far South as this ? 
Ts it good for hogs? 

7. Please give plan for cheap hog house. 
Norfolk Co., Va. R. N. 
The Department of Agriculture supplies the bac- 
teria free, we believe. 

2. Yes ; a light loam soil. 

3. No. Soy bean is the correct name. 

4. Yes. The Stock pea is more correctly called 
cow pea. The two plants (soy bean and cow pea) 
are botanically two distinct families of plants. 

5. No. The breed is an English breed, and all 
Berkshires are either English bred or descended from 
imported hogs. 

6. Yes; German clover (crimson clover more com- 
monly called) grows well all over the South. 

7. In the Planter for November, 1903, will be 
found a detailed description of a good hog house, 



from which any good carpenter can erect the build- 
ing. — Ed. 



Grain Crops for Hay. 

1. Please tell me the best time to cut wheat, oats 
and rye for hay. Is it best to cut rye in the boot so 
it will not be so tough. 

2. How long will herds grass and German clover 
come up well ? 

3. At what stage is it best to plow under German 
clover ? Old Subscriber. 

Louisa Co., Va. 

1. The grain crops are best cut for hay when the 
grain is in the milk state — that is, just after it has 
formed well. 

2. We do not clearly understand this question. 
Herds grass is a perennial grass, and will continue 
to grow from year to year. German clover is only 
an annual, and must be reseeded every year. If al- 
lowed to mature its seed before being cut it will re- 
seed itself and come up each year if the land is in fair 
state of fertility. 

3. German clover should be plowed under when in 
bloom. It is then in its greatest vigor. — Ed. 



Peanut Pickers. 

Will some reader, or the Editor of the Southern 
Planter, please inform me about a peanut picker. 
What he thinks of them as to doing good and satis- 
factory work. Where are they made, and are there 
different makes. If a man has a machine, will it 
pay to go around among farmers and thresh them ? 
What is the price per bushel for thrashing, and how 
many can be thrashed in one day? Can one horse 
run the machine ? A Subscriber. 

Surry Co., Va. 

The Cardwell Machine Co., Richmond, and Strat- 
ton & Bragg Co., Petersburg, make and sell a peanut 
picker. Write them for information on the subject. 
—Ed. 



Alfalfa. 

I have a piece of land, about one-half an acre I 
suppose that I wish to put in alfalfa. The land has 
never been in cultivation — in fact there are seven 
white oak trees standing on the piece that I shall not 
cut. I have put 14 loads of stable manure on the 
same. Now, what must I do next. How much fer- 
tilizer and what kind ? Can I get bacteria from the 
Agricultural Department (free), and how much will 
it take for one-half an acre ? G. G. Taylor. 

We assume that you have already plowed the land 
lief ore applying the manure. Work the manure into 
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of cow peas. These will make a heavy shade for the 
land, and smother out the weeds. In July cut these 
for hay and work the land with a disc harrow or 
cultivator, but do not plow again. In August sow 
15 pounds of alfalfa seed inoculated with bacteria 
and harrow in lightly and roll. The bacteria can 
be had free from the Department of Agriculture. 
It is supplied in cakes to infect each so many pounds 
of seed. It is too late now to sow alfalfa this spring, 
nor do we advise the seeding in spring at all. — Ed. 



Millet Hay. 

Is there any risk in feeding millet hay to horses 
that was fully ripe when cut ? The heads and blades 
brown. Please answer in your next issue. 

Albemarle Co., Va. S. C. W. 

Some horses are quickly affected by millet seed, 
whilst others eat it apparently without injury. It 
has an effect on the kidneys. Millet hay to be safe 
for all horses ought to be cut before the seed forms. 
Cut when just coming into bloom. — Ed. 



the year, but even this breed will not accept service 
immediately the lambs are weaned. We have known 
grade Merinos to take the buck in a month or six 
weeks after the lambs were weaned, but in this case 
they were kept in a fine clover pasture and fed some 
grain, peas and oats. — Ed. 



Ewes Breeding. 

Will you inform me how to manage sheep so as to 
get the ewes to drop their lambs in January. I keep 
my ewes and bucks together all the time, but the 
ewes never drop lambs before March, and often in 
April. Subscriber. 

Isle of Wight Co., Va. 

This cannot be done all at once, but has to be grad- 
ually brought about by putting the lambing time back 
a little each year. Take the lambs off as soon as pos- 
sible this year, and then put the ewes on a thin pas- 
ture until they have lost their milk. Then put them 
on a better pasture and get them into good breeding 
condition. In August put them on to a piece of good 
clover or pea pasture and feed them a few peas and 
oats every day, and after they have been there a week 
turn the buck to them at nights only. The buck 
should have been got into good condition previous to 
being turned to the ewes. He should not be allowed 
to run with them regularly. When he is turned to 
the ewes rub his breast with red chalk or a piece of 
ochre, so that the ewes will show which he has served. 
The habit of early breeding is an acquired one, and 
depends largely upon the condition of the ewe. If 
ewes are expected to accept service of the buck in 
August or September the lambs should be taken from 
them not later than May. The earlier the lambs are 
taken off the sooner the ewes are likely to be in con- 
dition to breed again. Dorset sheep are the only 
ones which will take the buck at almost any season of ' 



Grass for Hill Side for Pasture. 

Will you kindly tell me the best grass to put on 
bill side that is badly washed in gullies. The soil is 
red and poor. I wish it for permanent pasture for 
horses and cattle, and am anxious to get something 
that will hold the land together, and also prove not a 
nuisance to the adjoining fields, as I cultivate them 
in a three-year rotation. I wish to sow in fall. Would 
it be necessary to plow this land this summer and 
kill out other grasses, or to simply fallow in fall and 
sow grass ? Would you apply fertilizer ; if so, what 
kind and how much per acre ? Micheaux. 

Pittsylvania Co., Va. 

We should plow this land deeply at once and work 
it fine and sow in cow peas or cow peas and sorghum. 
This will level down the gullies and kill out some of 
the weeds. Graze the crop off with stock and then in 
August work the surface fine with a disc harrow or 
cultivator and sow with a mixture of orchard grass, 
Tall meadow oat grass, Virginia blue grass, Meadow 
Fescue and two or three pounds of Alsike clover. 
Top dress in the late fall with barn yard manure. 
If the land is not rich it should have 200 or 300 
pounds of acid phosphate to the acre before sowing 
the peas and 300 or 400 pounds of bone meal to the 
acre before sowing the grass seeds. — Ed. 



Minks and Weasels and Chickens. 

I am very much troubled with minks and weasels. 
Last fall I had thirty young chickens killed. 

Roclcingham Co., N. C. L. A. Thokp. 

Open a trench all round your chicken house close 
to the walls and let it be three feet deep at the least. 
Then buy sufficient fine meshed wire netting, say one- 
fourth inch mesh, 3 feet or more wide and fix this 
against the side of the building and ground under it, 
all round the building, and fill the trench with the 
soil taken out. This will prevent the vermin from 
burrowing under the building. If they then attempt 
to get through the walls above ground fix similar wire 
netting against the sides of the building. — Ed. 



Brick Making. 

Please give in your valuable paper the method of 
making bricks which our fathers used in making 
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now cheaper than the bricks can be bought from a 
manufacturer after paying freight and the time and 
trouble to haul them from railroad depot ? 

Sussex Co., Va. P. L. Graves. 

The old bricks were made simply with well temper- 
ed clay very often worked with the feet to temper it, 
moulded in wooden moulds, dried and then well 
burnt with wood in clamps built out of the bricks 
themselves. The bricks can be made now as easily 
as in the old days, but whether it will be cheaper to 
make them than to buy them from the large makers 
depends on the cost of labor. We apprehend that you 
would have difficulty in getting brick makers willing 
to work without machinery now-a-days. — En. 



Cultivation of Corn— Applying Fertilizer— Lime- 
Dwarf Essex Rape— Pruning Fruit Trees. 

1. In the level cultivation of corn we are told to 
harrow the corn till it is 5 or 6 inches high. Does 
that mean that we must ignore the row as if there 
were no corn there, or take out some of the teeth and 
straddle the row ? After the corn is 5 or 6 inches 
high, what would be the best cultivator to use in 
rocky, stumpy land ? Could we use any ordinary 
harrow in the first workings ? Could we use the 
popular weeders, such as the Hallock, Keystone Ad- 
justable, etc., in rough land ? 

2. Can we use a disk harrow in rocky land ? 

3. What sort of grass would be best for thin, gray 
uplands ? It is sandy. Clover will not grow to do 
any good on such land. 

4. Can I apply acid phosphate, nitrate of soda, 
and lime without a drill, and how ? 

5. Is there a low grade of lime we can use for 
fertilizing purposes ? 

6. Can I pasture dwarf Essex rape with milk 
cows ? 

7. How would you prune young fruit trees planted 
last fall ? 

8. Where can I get pure Western alfalfa seed ? 
Franklin Co., Va. W. T. Wade. 

1. Yes, ignore 1he rows until the corn is so tall as 
to bo broken down by the harrow. In this and the 
last issue of Tub Planter you will find a large num- 
ber of cultivators by different makers advertised. 
Any of the=e will do good work in a corn crop if 
properly handled, though in rocky ground we should 
not advise the use of a disc cultivator. An ordinary 
harrow may be used for the first two or three work- 
ings or any of the weeders advertised, but none of the 
weeders will work in rocky ground with any satis- 
faction. 

2. No; not with any degree of satisfaction. 

3. Tall meadow oat grass and orchard grass mixed. 



4. Yes. The acid phosphate and nitrate of soda 
can be sown broadcast with the hand and the lime be 
spread broadcast with a shovel. 

5. You will find agricultural lime advertised in 
this issue by two or three firms. 

6. Dwarf Essex Rape is not a proper pasture for 
milk cows, as it will taint the milk. Young cattle, 
sheep and hogs do well on it. 

7. If the trees were properly cut back as advised 
in the February issue of The Planter when set 
they should need no pruning this year. If not then 
cut back they should be so cut at once before any new 
growth is made. — Er>. 



Diseased Tobacco — Lime for Tobacco — Sow 
Eating Pigs. 

1. I enclose you a leaf of tobacco, desiring you to 
tell me what is the cause of those white specks on the 
leaf. There is considerable of it in my crop of last 
year. I have noticed some little of it before. Ad- 
vise me whether you think it is a disease or some- 
thing lacking in the soil. If either one, can you 
prescribe a remedy ? 

2. Would you advise the use of lime on land which 
I expect to plant in tobacco this spring? Would it 
injure the quality of the tobacco in any way, the land 
having been in tobacco, wheat and clover previous to 
this, and the clover not cut last year ? 

3. Can you tell me the cause and give me any 
remedy for a brood sow eating her young. I have a 
good brood sow that has had three litters, the last one 
in January, thirteen in number. She ate all but 
four of them ; would have eaten them if I had not 
taken them away from her. I do not like to kill her 
if there is anything I could feed her to prevent it. 

Dinividdie Co., Va. A Subscriber. 

As we were unable to decide what was the cause 
of the speckled tobacco, we sent the leaf to the Bureau 
of Plant Industry of the Department of Agriculture 
and asked for a report on the subject. The patholo- 
gist of the Bureau replied as follows : 

"This disease which you report as appearing in 
Dinwiddie county, is one which we have known for a 
couple of years as occurring in Prince Edward and 
adjoining counties. It has also been reported from 
one or two places in jSTorth Carolina. »It does not 
appear to be caused either by a fungus or any other 
parasite. So far as my studies go, I am inclined to 
believe that it is the result of certain cultural condi- 
tions. As these studies have not yet been completed, 
I do not care to make any definite statements as to 
what may be wrong with the method of treatment in 
this particular case, but I shall be glad to do so as 
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glad if you can ascertain for me the following infor- 
mation with regard to the tobacco which you sent 
here: 

"1. On what kind of soil was it grown ? 

"2. How much and what kind of fertilizer was 
used %■ 

"3. How long has this particular field been plant- 
ed with tobacco ? 

"4. To what extent have legumes been grown on 
the same field ?" 

On receipt of this reply we sent same to our en- 
quirer and asked for reply to the questions asked. 
These we have received and sent to the pathologist, 
and are now waiting further information on the 
subject. 

2. We do not advise the use of lime on the land 
intended to be planted in tobacco at this time of the 
year. Tobacco is a crop not calling specially for 
lime in its growth, and as one effect of lime is to re- 
lease and make available more fertility in the soil 
after it has had time to act, the effect of using it 
might be to prolong the growing period of the to- 
bacco too late and result in a coarse, unripe product. 

3. When a sow has once begun the practice of eat- 
ing her pigs it is practically impossible to break her 
of it, and the wisest course is to fatten and kill her. 
Whilst it is impossible to say positively what causes 
sows to adopt this practice, yet it is undoubtedly 
certain that it is more frequent with young sows 
which have been kept on a grain ration up to the time 
of farrowing. They are in a fevered and excited 
condition, and probably the smell of the blood about 
the young pigs incites them to eating them, a rever- 
sion to the natural appetite of the wild animal, which 
is partially carnivorous in its habits. Having once 
tasted they cannot further resist. A hog which be- 
gins to eat chickens can rarely be broken of the prac- 
tice. The best preventative is to keep the sows on a 
vegetable and cooling diet up to the time of farrow- 
ing, and to keep the bowels open with bran slop. — Ed. 



Preserving Eggs for Winter. 

Can you give any successful method of preserving 
fresh hen eggs during the summer so they may be 
kept until winter ? Jno. A. Bbockenbkough. 

Lancaster Co., Va. 

Eggs may be successfully preserved in several 
ways. The oldest method and one which even yet 
comes up to nearly the best of the modern methods is 
to pack them away in lime water in stone jars or 
casks and keep in a cool place. The newest method, 
and which has given good results, is to pack them 



away in jars in a solution of water glass (sodium 
silicate), 1 of silicate to 5 of water. The eggs should 
be gathered as soon as laid and be put away at once 
without longer exposure to the atmosphere than ne- 
cessary. — Ed. 



Fertilizing for Cow Peas. 

I wish to put peas in the land now in wheat, just 
as soon as the wheat is cut. Is it necessary to use 
more fertilizer than was put on the land when the 
wheat was sown, and how many peas (Shinney) to 
the acre ? M. C. 

Northumberland Co., Va. 

If the land is good and the wheat was liberally 
fertilized it will grow peas without further help. It 
is, however, always good policy to help a pea crop as 
the more luxuriant it is the more nitrogen it gathers 
and the more it enriches the land. The best fertil- 
izer to use is acid phosphate, 200 or 300 pounds to 
the acre. Sow 1 bushel broadcast, or a peck if 
drilled. — Ed. 



Angora Goats. 

1. What sort of fence and how high is needed for 
Angora goats ? 

2. Do they make good and prolific mothers % 

3. What food or care would they require in the 
mountains of Southwest Virginia during winter ? 

4. Are they cross or gentle and docile ? 

5. When should the wool be clipped ? 

6. I have always used small sweet potatoes for 
seed, but a neighbor claims large ones should be 
chosen. Is he correct? Roanoke. 

1. A woven wire fence 4 feet or 4 feet 6 inches 
high is the best fence for keeping goats confined, 
though a plain wire fence that height with the strands 
of wire 6 inches apart will suffice. A plank or rail 
fence will also be sufficient if it is kept perfectly 
erect. If it leans at all they will climb over it. 

2. Yes. 

3. They would need a shed for protection against 
Ihe winter storms and hay for feeding during stormy 
weather. 

4. They are docile and gentle. 

5. In the spring or early summer. 

6. Neither the smallest nor the largest should be 
used. A size a little below the medium will usually 
make the most and strongest sprouts. — Ed. 

rr/oq 

Cold Water Paint. 

In your April issue I noticed a subscriber makes 
inquiry about "cold water paint." I bought some 
last year from the Chicago House Wrecking Co., and 



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applied it to a high board fence to test it. It seems 
to be as good to-day as then, and I would say that it 
was all they claim for it, making a cheap, lasting 
paint for fences and outbuildings. It is quickly 
prepared, easily applied, comes in a variety of colors. 
In ordering one must state whether wanted for in- 
side or outside use. A. H. Lang. 

Ohio. 

Another subscriber tells us that he has tested it 
and does not find it durable. — Er». 



Chickens Eating Feathers. 

My chickens are given to picking and eating their 
feathers. Would be much pleased to know the reason 
and what will be the best way to stop them. 

Alexandria Co., Va. A. E. Smoot. 

Idle hens confined in coops or yards are usually 
the ones that acquire this nasty habit, and when once 
acquired it is almost impossible to break it. The 
best way is to turn them loose and compel them to 
rustle and work for their living. Keep them on 
short rations and compel them to forage for them- 
selves. If unable to do this, then spread plenty of 
short litter in the yards and feed all grain in this 
litter, thus compelling them to scratch for it, and 
thus find them something else to do than pick each 
other naked. We have heard of fanciers filing off 
the point of the beak, and thus making it difficult for 
the fowls to hold on to the feathers. — Ed. 



Green Fallows for Tobacco. 

I have four acres in German clover, two of them 
have been top dressed with manure, and two of them 
are fresh ground, which I had tobacco on last year, 
which I top dressed with nitrate of soda, 100 pounds 
to the acre. The land is chocolate loam. 

1. I want to fallow this and put it in tobacco this 
year. What time should I fallow it? 

2. What kind of fertilizer to use on the two pieces ? 

3. Will it be calculated to sour the land or not ? 

I will give my experience with German clover and 
pea fallows for tobacco, and if you have room you 
can publish it. I had a piece of land of six acres — 
three and a half acres was in clover. This I fallow- 
ed when the clover was in full bloom, dragged twice 
and rolled with a heavy roller. In two weeks I bed- 
ded up my land and planted tobacco on the 25th of 
May and cut it the first week in September. It was 
a dark green and ripened up green. I got 3,700 
pounds, which averaged 10c. per pound. Balance of 
the land was in peas. These I fallowed after frost, 
planted the piece in tobacco at the same time as the 
other lot, and cut both together. It ripened up yellow, 
and only weighed 2,200 pounds, which averaged 5c. 



per pound. The land was the same and I used a 
fertilizer 2, 9, 2, 800 pounds to the acre, on both lots. 
I sowed the land in wheat and the clover part is 
much the better. I don't know whether this was luck 
or whether it is that the German clover is a better 
fallow. I would like to have your idea on the mat- 
ter. E. C. Spain. 
Dinwiddie Co., Va. 

1. Turn the clover under when coming into bloom. 

2. In our last issue, page 239, you will find our 
advice as to a proper fertilizer to use for the tobacco 
crop. The German clover will, however, in your 
case supply much of the nitrogen needed, and there 
advised to be supplied, and you can therefore safely 
reduce the quantity of dried blood recommended to 
be used. 

3. No. The land is not yet warm enough to cause 
this. 

Your experience with German clover and cow peas 
is interesting. Whilst it is not easy to explain the 
different results reached as both the crops supply 
nearly the same quantity of nitrogen to the soil, 
though the clover supplies somewhat more potash, 
yet we think that the most probable cause of the 
difference in yield in tobacco was that the German 
clover covered the land all winter and up to the time 
when the tobacco was planted, and in this way con- 
served fertility and added to it, whilst the cow pea 
crop was plowed down in the fall and the land left 
bare and wasting fertility during the winter. — Ed. 



Rotation of Crops. 

I have thirty acres that I would like to divide into 
three lots of ten acres each and crop them so I could 
get the most feed and keep up the fertility of the 
land. How would the following three years' rota- 
tion succeed on our land, that produces about ten 
barrels of com per acre ? 

First Year — Manure and sow corn for silo. Sow 
crimson clover at last working of corn. 

Second Year-^Plow down the crimson clover and 
sow cow peas with 300 pounds of acid fertilizer per 
acre for hay. After hay is cut disk and sow hairy 
vetch and rye. 

Third Year — Cut vetch and rye for hay, cover 
with manure, to be followed by corn the next year. 

Would a little red clover sowed with the rye and 
vetch be any advantage? E. Thos. Massey. 

Kent Co., Md. 

The rotation suggested would appear to be a proper 
one for securing the purpose aimed at, and would, we 
think also maintain the fertility of the land. It 
would no doubt be desirable to secure a cover for the 
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June, until the following spring, and this would be 
attained if red clover could be successfully sown with 
the vetches and rye. We have known this practice 
to succeed, but it is not always certain. If the vetches 
and rye make a heavy crop it is apt to smother out the 
clover, but the experiment is worth trying. — Ed. 



Bermuda Grass. 

I came here last spring from Colorado, and have 
read several articles about Bermuda grass as a valu- 
able pasture grass. Have asked several people 
around here about it, and some say it is the so-called 
wire grass. Please give me an answer whether this 
is so or not. Have also read in your valuable paper 
of planting Bermuda grass roots, how many bushels 
per acre would it take and what would be the best 
time for planting? John Guenther. 

Halifax Co., Va. 

Bermuda grass is commonly called wire grass in 
the South, but this grass is not what is known as wire 
grass or twitch grass in the North and West. A few 
bushels, probably 4 or 5, would plant an acre, as the 
roots should be cut up into short lengths with a feed 
cutter before being planted, and only a few of these 
be dropped in the furrow as the land is plowed, say 
every foot or fifteen inches. The grass should be 
planted in the spring — Ed. 



Rotation of Crops— Lime. 

I have ninety acres of land which is enclosed with 
woven wire fence and divided into three lots of thirty 
acres each. I have adopted the following rotation : 

Lot No. 1 — Was in cotton last year, sown to an- 
nual clover at last cultivating, clover to be plowed 
down in May, and land planted to corn. 

Lot No. 2 — Was in corn last year and sown to 
wheat and oats last fall, followed with peas after har- 
vesting wheat and oats. Peas allowed to mature and 
cut with rake raper and threshed with shredder. 

Lot No. 3 — Was in wheat and oats, followed with 
peas, then deeply broken and subsoiled in fall and 
winter and will be planted to cotton this year, and so 
on until rotation is complete. 

My soil is a heavy, gravely red clay loam, with 
red clay subsoil. I apply four hundred pounds of 
14 per cent, acid phosphate per acre to the clover, and 
peas, and the manure from fifty head of stock, with 
nitrate of soda or cottonseed maal on wheat and oats 
during the winter and spring. I have read a great 
deal in your journal about lime. Would it pay me 
' to buy it and haul it, my farm being fifteen miles 
from the railroad ? Is there no other substitute 
which can be used in a less bulky form, which would 
reduce the freight and hauling? I would appre- 



ciate any information you would give in regard to 
my rotation and the fertilizers used. I am always 
glad to get the Planter. W. A. McConneel. 

Warren Co., Va. 

You have adopted a rotation and a system of fer- 
tilization which is bound to result in improving the 
fertility of your farm, and will result in good crops. 
We are of opinion that a dressing of 25 bushels of 
lime to the acre once in each rotation would be found 
beneficial, as it would tend to correct any tendency to 
acidity and insure better stands of clover and finer 
wheat. There is no substitute for lime for the pur- 
poses for which it is beneficial, correcting acidity and 
making available inert fertility in the soil. — Ed. 



Navy Beans— Velvet Beans. 

1. What kind of soil suits them? 

2. How to fertilize ? 

3. How far to plant in rows ? 

4. How to harvest ? 

5. What is yield on good soil? 

6. Do velvet beans make good hay cured like raw 



peas 



P. E. GaRRETT. 



King and Queen Co., Va. 

1. In the North, where the Navy bean is largely 
grown, it is usually said that it will grow on almost 
any kind of soil, even on that too poor to grow other 
crops, but a good loamy soil not overrich is the best. 
When the soil is too rich the crop runs more to vine 
than to beans. 

2. If the soil is thin and poor, give a complete fer- 
tilizer having about 2 per cent, ammonia, 7 per cent, 
phosphoric acid, and 6 or 7 per cent, potash. Mix 
1,200 pounds acid phosphate, 500 pounds cotton seed 
meal, and 25 pounds muriate of potash, and apply 
at the rate of 300 or 400 pounds to the acre. 

3. Plant in rows 2 feet 6 inches apart and 8 or 10 
inches apart in the row. 

4. A small crop is usually pulled or cut with a 
scythe or mower, and cured in ricks like peanuts. 
There is a bean harvester made and sold in the North 
specially for harvesting this crop. 

5. From 20 to 40 bushels to the acre. This crop 
can be grown successfully in the South. It should 
not be planted before June. Cultivate the crop two 
or three times, but never when the vines are wet with 
rain or dew, or they will mildew. The most difficult 
business is the harvesting of it, as the beans are then 
so easily spoilt by rain, being discolored quickly and 
then have to be sold at a low price comparatively. 

6. Velvet beans are not a desirable crop to make 
into hay. They make such an enormous tangled 
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them. They are fit only to use as an improver of 
the soil — Ed. 



Buckwheat and Clover. 

I notice in an agricultural paper a writer recom- 
mends the sowing in July of red clover and buck- 
wheat to obtain a stand of clover. Would you ad- 
vise the sowing together of these two crops in this 
section ? Oscar Justice. 

Rutherford Co., N. C. 

We know one or two farmers in Middle Virginia 
who sow buckwheat and crimson clover together in 
July, and speak well of the practice. They say that 
the buckwheat shades the clover and protects it from 
the hot sun, and that after the buckwheat is cut the 
clover makes rapid growth. We think the practice 
is worth testing with red clover as well as with the 
crimson. — Ed. 



Diseased Plum Tree. 

Find enclosed a knot or growth that is ruining my 
blue plum trees. What is the name of disease and 
what is remedy for same ? H. Godwin. 

Worcester Co., Md. 

The disease affecting the tree is the Black Knot. 
The only remedy is to cut out all parts of the trees 
affected. If the knots are not carefully cut out from 
every tree on which they appear the disease will 
spread and kill all the trees. — Ed. 



Barreness of Fig Trees. 

Noting the enquiry in a recent issue as to a cure 
for a barren fig tree, our subscriber, Mr. C. De Bruyn 
Kops, of Wake, Va., kindly sends us the following 
letter on the subject, which he received from Prof. 
Massey, of the North Carolina Experiment Station, 
in response to an enquiry, with permission to publish 
the same. — Ed: 

Tn reply to yours of the 27th, it is probable that 
the fig you have is a seedling from one of the im- 
ported dried figs, for the seed when scattered grow 
freely. Seedlings of the Smyrna fig will never hold 
their fruit here, as we have not the little wasp or 
Blastophaga which is used for setting the fruit in 
the son tli of Europe. Recently the Government has 
succeeded in introducing this insect into California, 
with the wild Capri fig, on which it mainly lives, and 
the California folks are growing the Smyrna fig for 
drying. T have grown many seedlings from the 
Smyrna fig here, but never had one to hold its fruit. 
The figs we grow here are of a different class, and 
are self fertile. T had at one time nearly 100 varie- 



ties of figs, but many of the best ones are too tender 
for any location north of the orange belt, and I have 
run down to a few varieties. The Celestial or Chi- 
nese fig is a small and very hardy fig, which can be 
eaten out of hand, skin and all, when ripe, while 
others have an acrid juice in the skin. Of the larger 
figs, I find the Brunswick the best for our use, though 
the Brown Turkey is grown here more than any other, 
and there is a large black fig grown in the eastern 
part of this State which is quite hardy, but of very 
poor quality. I received from the Department of 
Agriculture this spring cuttings of several new figs 
that are said to be fine and hardy. They are all 
rooted and doing well. It is useless to try to do any- 
thing with a fig that drops its fruit. Better buy 
trees of reliable sorts. You can get the plants in the 
spring from P. J. Berckmans Co., Augusta, Ga. 

W. F. Massey. 



Disease of Sheep. 

I have lost several sheep this spring. They would 
first get poor and droopy and then die, though well 
fed all winter with corn and fodder. When opened, 
1 found their intestines covered all over on the out- 
side with little hard knots or lumps, from the size of 
a large shot to a pea. Can you give me the cause of 
this intestinal disease and the remedy ? 

Spotsylvania Co., Va. D. J. Waller. 

The disease affecting the sheep is a parasitic one, 
technically called GSsophagostoma, but commonly 
known as the "nodular disease" or "knotty guts." 
The parasite is encysted in the little nodules and 
tfannot therefore be reached by any treatment. It 
is probable that the whole flock will be more or less 
affected with it, and the safest course is to feed them 
and send to the butcher. It is believed that the para- 
site, or its embryo, is taken in by the sheep when 
grazing on low, wet land. Sheep should be kept off 
these lands to be kept healthy. — Ed. 



Drying a Cow. 

Please tell me how to dry a cow that is giving 
milk, especially if she is fresh to the pail. 

Chesterfield Co., Va. A. S. Collier. 

A cow may soon be dried by only partially milking 
her for a few days, and by only milking her every 
other day for a time, and later by milking her only 
once a week just to strip out the bag for a few times. 
Of course a cow fresh to the pail will require more 
care in drying than one which has been long milking 
or her udder may become caked and ruined. Whilst 
drying her keep her on a poor pasture or dry feed 
and without grain feed. — Ed. 



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Trucking, Garden and Orchard. 



WORK FOR THE MONTH. 

The long continued cold dry weather has caused 
such crops as have been already planted to make very 
slow germination and growth, and it is well that this 
has been the case, as the frosts of the last few days 
(18th to 21st April) have been so sharp and general 
from the East to the West of the tier of Southern At- 
lantic States as to cause great destruction of such 
growth as had broken through the ground. Even in 
Tidewater Virginia close to the ocean, beans, peas, 
Irish potatoes and strawberries have been badly cut 
down, and further inland everything growing has 
been badly injured. Fortunately the actual amount 
of damage done has not been so great as would have 
been the case had we had a normal spring. Its late- 
ness prevented the planting and growing of crops, 
and this has been the salvation of the truckers. The 
dry weather has, however, been of great service, as it 
has permitted a fine preparation of the land, and 
crops will now go into seed beds which will ensure 
early germination and quick growth as soon as the 
normal warmth of the season sets in. It is to be 
hoped that this will not now be longer delayed. 

Every effort sbould now be made to get the crops 
planted as quickly as possible, and this will mean 
constant work from sun up to dark, in order that ar- 
rears may be caught up. Snap beans, lima and but- 
ter beans, pole beans, cucumbers, squashes, sweet 
corn, melons, and cucumbers may be planted and set 
out as the ground is got ready. Care should be taken 
to have all plants which have been raised in the hot 
beds well hardened off before they are set out or they 
are certain to suffer. 



and they make a good yield, but not so heavy as the 
climbing varieties. 

Irish potatoes may still be planted for a succes- 
sional crop, and sweet potatoes may be set out towards 
the end of the month. In planting sweet potatoes, 
select good, light, loamy land in a good state of fer- 
tility, but not over rich, as this has a tendency to 
cause the crop to make too much vine. If the land 
is not sufficiently fertile to supply the needed food 
which is mainly nitrogen and potash, a fertilizer 
made up of 150 pounds of muriate of soda or 350 
pounds of cotton seed meal or partly of the nitrate 
and partly of the meal, which is better than either 
alone, 100 pounds of acid phosphate and 100 pounds 
of muriate of potash, or 350 pounds of kainit should 
be applied per acre, and be well worked into the land 
before setting out the slips. Do not be in too great 
a hurry to set out the slips, as they never do much 
growing until the ground becomes well warmed. 



Successional crops of sweet corn should be planted 
every week or ten days up to the end of July in order 
to secure a succession of ears into the fall. 



Beans and peas should not be planted in very rich 
ground, as such land has a tendency to cause them to 
run to vine instead of seed. It should be in a state of 
good fertility sufficient to cause moderate growth of 
vine. Successional crops of English peas should be 
planted as soon as possible in order that they may 
make their growth and seed before the hot weather 
sets in, as this is very liable to cause mildew in this 
crop. Plant all these crops in long, straight rows 
wide enough apart so that they can be worked with 
j^ horse power. In planting lima, butter and pole beans 
see that the poles are well set in the ground, so that 
they will not be easily blown over. Dwarf lima 
beans will save the cost and trouble of setting poles, 



Cucumbers, canteloupes and melons should be 
planted as soon as the ground is warm. Have the 
land well prepared and lay off so that the hills of 
canteloupes and cucumbers shall be 4 feet 6 inches or 
5 feet apart each way, and melons be twice this dis- 
tance apart. Put a good shovelful of rotted manure 
or compost into each hill and add a handful of high 
grade fertilizer having an analysis of 6 or 7 per cent. 
of ammonia, 4 per cent, of phosphoric acid, and 7 
per cent, of potash, and work this into the compost 
and cover with 3 or 4 inches of nice light soil which 
make compact, and then plant 4 or 5 seeds in each 
hill. After the plants have got into the rough leaf 
thin out to two plants in each hill. Keep well culti- 
vated until the vines begin to run. Keep a sharp 
look out for melon bugs. To ensure protection from 
these pests, the plants should be covered with plant 
bed muslin stretched over light frames. Dusting the 
plants with bone meal when wet with dew will often 
prevent the bugs from hurting the plants if they are 
not in great numbers. 



Egg plants require rich, light land and a warm 
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handful of good fertilizer to each plant. Look out 
for potato bugs on these plants. They are as de- 
structive to them as to Irish potatoes. Paris green 
should he applied to both this crop and the Irish po- 
tato crop as soon as the bugs are seen. It may be 
applied either as powder or in water- — one pound of 
Paris green to ten pounds of flour, or one pound of 
Paris green to 175 gallons of water, is about the right 
proportion. 



Tomato plants should be hardened off and set out 
as soon as the ground is ready. Set in rows 3 feet 
apart and 3 feet apart in the rows. A light sandy 
loam high and well drained is the ideal land for to- 
matoes, and this should then have the proper plant 
food supplied in close touch with the plants, though 
well mixed with the soil. It is not desirable to en- 
courage wide root growth of tomatoes as this tends to 
over-production of vines and light fruiting. The use 
of rotted barnyard manure is very conducive to the 
good growth of tomatoes, especially where the soil 
lacks vegetable matter in its composition. A com- 
bination of manure and fertilizer usually does best 
as the manure lacks sufficient nitrogen to meet the 
needs of the crop, which, in this respect, are large. 
A proper fertilizer may be made for using along with 
the manure of 300 pounds of acid phosphate and 150 
pounds of muriate of potash, using this at the rate of 
500 pounds to the acre, and mixing same with the 
manure and soil, and then apply 100 pounds of ni- 
trate of soda to the acre by sprinkling a handful on 
each hill at the time of setting the plants. After the 
plants have commenced to grow freely a further ap- 
plication of 50 pounds of nitrate of soda to the acre 
on the hills may be made with advantage. Do not 
let the nitrate come in contact with the leaves of the 
plants or with the roots or it will injure them. In 
the foregoing we have had in mind the tomato crop in 
the garden for home use, and not the commercial 
crop as grown for the canneries. In an article in 
this issue we deal with this crop and refer our readers 
interested in the subject thereto. 



Keep the cultivator running in all growing crops 
at every opportunity to force growth and keep down 
weeds. 



See that crates and baskets are on hand for ship- 
ping the strawberry, dewberry and blackberry crops 
as they ripen, and have all arrangements made with 
express companies and commission men for handling 
the same, so that when the crops are ready for pick- 



ing they may be quickly put on the markets. Ship 
everything in new, clean baskets and crates, and see 
that only the best are shipped as "prime." Let the 
others go plainly marked "seconds." This will en- 
sure the best prices all round. 



TOMATO GROWING FOR THE CANNERIES. 

In many counties of this State and Maryland the 
business of canning tomatoes is becoming a large one, 
with the result that farmers are finding it to their 
advantage to give more attention to the production 
of the tomato than when it was grown simply for the 
supply of the markets as a vegetable. Whilst in pro- 
ducing the crop as a vegetable the first necessity is to 
secure an early fruiting so as to obtain the high prices 
of the early market, in producing for the canneries 
the prime object is to secure a large yield of mature 
fruit, ripening well all the fruit before the advent of 
frost. The points to be observed in raising this crop 
are : 1. The selection of the variety. 2. The growing 
of the plants. 3. The selection and preparation of the 
soil. 4. The fertilizing and cultivating of the crop. 
The first two points should already have received at- 
tention. The variety selected should be a one that 
produces a large smooth solid fruit though often more 
attention is paid to size than solidity or smoothness. 
Very frequently local varieties are preferred to those 
offered by the seedsmen as being acclimated and 
adapted to local conditions. The plants are raised in 
the same way as for the market or home crop in cool 
frames or in a sheltered place protected from the 
north and northwest winds. Care should be taken not 
to sow the seed too thickly so that the plants may not 
be drawn or spindling but have good fibrous roots. 
The young plants should be encouraged to grow by 
frequent cultivation so that they may be ready to set 
out in this and the following month. Any good soil 
adapted to the growth of Irish potatoes will grow to- 
matoes but if possible a clover sod or pea fallow 
should be selected as these crops will have enriched 
the soil with nitrogen and made it retentive of mois- 
ture. Deep and frequent cultivation should be given 
before the crop is set out in order to render available 
the plant food in the soil and to permit of the easy 
permeation of the fine rootlets of the plants. The 
fertilization of the land should be of such a character 
as will furnish an abundance of all the elements of 
plant food and especially of potash. A crop of 10 
tons of tomatoes with the accompanying vines wil] 
contain 57 pounds of nitrogen, 16 pounds of phos- 
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soil will in a favourable season without the applica- 
tion of any fertilizer produce 5 or 6 tons to the acre 
and therefore to secure a maximum production an 
application of 500 pounds to the acre of a mixture 
made up of nitrate of soda 400 pounds, hone tankage 
700 pounds, acid phosphate 400 pounds, and muriate 
of potash 500 pounds, should he made. This appli- 
cation will provide about one-half of the nitrogen, 
two-thirds as much potash and all the phosphoric acid 
called for by a 10-ton crop. For a poor soil 500 
pounds of nitrate of soda, 500 pounds of bone tank- 
age, 400 pounds of acid phosphate and 600 pounds of 
potash should be mixed and applied at the rate of 
from 750 pounds to 1,000 pounds to the acre. The 
use of nitrate of soda as the source of the nitrogen 
secures a quick growth of the plant and prevents a 
too late growth because of the exhaustion of the nitro- 
gen from its rapid availability. If the crop is planted 
on a clover sod or on a pea fallow the amount of 
nitrate of soda used may be considerably reduced 
without risk to the crop. The fertilizer should be ap- 
plied in the rows and be well mixed with the soil by 
running a cultivator through each row. The plants 
should be set out four feet apart each way and cultiva- 
tion should begin at once and be frequent but shal- 
low. Twenty tons to the acre have been frequently 
grown but the average yield is usually from 8 to 10 
tons. 



CULTIVATING AND MANURING ORCHARDS. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

Of our many sins of omission there are few that 
the average man is more persistent in than in neg- 
lecting his orchard. Even when the orchard is 
planted with the view of selling the fruit it is ex- 
pected, in farm language, to find itself and give big 
returns or get big abuse. That is, to bear heavily 
without either cultivation or manuring to speak of. 

Nevertheless attention given fruit trees pays 'as 
well as attention to any other part of the farm, pro- 
vided always that it is judiciously given. And when 
it is remembered that fruit is almost, and probably 
equally as essential to health as meat, it will be seen 
that attention sufficient to keep up the orchard pays 
well if there is no intention of selling the fruit. 

When orchards are manured, which is rarely, it is 
nearly always illy proportioned manure or fertilizer. 
Stable manure alone is most frequently used. Stable 
manure being rich in ammonia and comparatively 
poor in potash and phosphoric acid the result is much 
wood and little fruit or fruit that is apt to rot. That 



is, I mean when the manure is liberally used which 
is not often the case. For rarely is any kind of 
manure used in sufficient quantities to affect the trees 
to any great extent. Still even these small applica- 
tions will be profitable in proportion to their quantity 
by seeing that they contain in the right proportions 
the essential fertilizing properties of ammonia, pot- 
ash and phosphoric acid. The stable manure could be 
most profitably used elsewhere. A crop of cow peas 
can be grown in the orchard sufficient to afford all 
the ammonia the trees will need to grow fruit well. 
This pea crop will need no fertilizing except potash 
and phosphoric acid, both of which are much cheaper 
than ammonia costing only about one-third as much 
per pound. These two are also most essential to get 
a crop of fine fruit. 

A good plan would be to broadcast 100 pounds of 
sulphate of potash and 300 pounds of acid phosphate 
or dissolved bone to the acre, distributing them evenly 
over the whole ground. The land should then be 
broken up and cow peas sown in drills about three 
feet apart. It will take one bushel of peas to the 
acre. They will need no cultivation with the hoe and 
only two or three plowings with a small tooth culti- 
vator. 

While sulphate of potash is more expensive than 
ordinary fertilizer it is exceedingly rich in potash 
(about 50 per cent.) and as only a small quantity of 
it is to be used it is not expensive considering the 
splendid results it gives. It is decidedly the best 
form in which to apply potash to any kind of fruit, 
giving fine size and color. Acid phosphate or dis- 
solved bone while not as rich in phosphoric acid as 
sulphate of potash is in potash is much cheaper, 
making the cost per pound about the same. 

The peas can be saved and the vines cut for forage 
which should fully pay the expense of the crop. The 
pea stubble, which is rich in ammonia, can then be 
turned under, affording all the ammonia needed and 
also leaving the soil in most excellent mechanical con- 
dition. When the trees grow very large they will to 
some extent overshadow and lessen the pea crop, but 
if the above plan is persisted in by that time the or- 
chard will be bearing such a fine crop of handsome 
fruit as to well repay all cost of manuring, etc. 

Whether the orchard contains 10 trees or 10,000 
it will pay to cultivate and manure it as above de- 
scribed. The cultivation should be shallow the plow- 
ing in the peas being done with a light, small tooth 
cultivator. This cultivating, if properly and timely 
done, will also have a wonderfully beneficial effect 
in conserving the moisture. An orchard of fruit in 



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which the crust is kept broken in a drought retains an 
amount of moisture above that of an uncultivated 
piece of ground that is simply astonishing and would 
be incredible if it was not an established fact proven 
by the most authentic tests. However, any man can 
establish this fact by taking the trouble during a 
drought to dig into a cultivated field and compare that 
with one on which the crust has been allowed to 
liar den and remain unbroken. 

0. W. Blacknall. 
Kittrell, N. C. 



FIGHTING PLANT DISEASES AND INJURIOUS IN- 
SECTS. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

During this month many of the plant parasites will 
begin their work of destruction upon the crops of the 
farmer and horticulturist. Those who have not pre- 
pared to fight these parasites will nearly always come 
out losers. Spraying machines should be kept in 
order and a supply of paris green, blue stone and 
lime kept on hand. Of course, for plant diseases, 
one or two sprayings should have been given the trees 
before the leaves come out, but for bitter rot of the 
apple, which is about the most serious disease of this 
fruit in the State, it may be best to wait till the fruit 
is well formed before spraying begins. However, it 
is not known yet what is the best method of treat- 
ment for this disease. The Virginia Experiment Sta- 
tion has just issued a good bulletin upon the subject 
which should be in the hands of all those who own 
orchards. 

While pruning a neighbor's orchard recently I no- 
ticed many instances of twig blight and cankered 
places on young trees that had just begun to bear. 
All snch diseased parts should be carefully taken out 
and burned. If this be not done and we should have 
anything like a wet season much of the fruit in the 
orchard would be damaged by bitter rot and many 
limbs would blight. 

Twig blight of pear, apple and quince will make its 
appearance this month. All blighted twigs should be 
kept cut out some twelve inches below the diseased 
areas. 

The tent caterpillar often does much damage to 
orchards. These insects can be easily destroyed if 
taken while very small. Early in the morning while 
it is cool, the insects will usually be found "at home" 
and can easily be "twisted out" by use of a small 
switch or limb and then all can then be crushed 
under the foot. These insects are often found in 



large numbers upon wild cherry trees and scattered 
apple trees over the farm. These should be destroyed 
with as much care as those that appear in the orchard 
to lessen the number of "tents" that would appear in 
the orchard next year. 

Cedar trees should be noticed for "cedar balls" 
which will have gummy exudations on them during 
damp weather in this month. Spores come from these 
balls to the foliage of the apple trees and cause a 
leaf blight. The leaves turn yellow and fall off. 
These "cedar balls" should be destroyed. Large 
knots occur on limbs of plum and cherry trees. Spores 
come out from them and infect other trees, frequent- 
ly killing the trees entirely. These should be cut out 
at once and burned. 

The woolly aphis is frequently found around the 
roots of apple trees and sometimes whole orchards 
are seriously affected by this insect. Tobacco dust is 
one of the best things to spread around the trunks of 
trees for this insect. If the tops of the trees have 
been sprayed for scale insects all forms of the woolly 
aphis that may have occurred in the tops of the trees 
were destroyed. It is very difficult to fight San 
Jose scale after the trees have leafed out. So much 
has been written about this insect that it is not nec- 
essary to write more at this time. 

The roots of apple and peach trees should be ex- 
amined carefully for borers. Later on borers may 
eat around the trees and cause them to die suddenly 
without warning to the orchardist. 

A small sharp pointed knife is a good tool for this 
work. Look for saw-dust like particles or gummy 
exudations on the ground at the base of the trees 
caused by the borers. 

For information concerning the preparation and 
application of fungicides and insecticides, the reader 
is referred to the spray calendar published in the 
March issue of the Planter this year and last year. 

Montgomery Co. R. H. Price. 



COMBINING POULTRY AND FRUIT. 

The combining of poultry and fruit raising is 
doubly advantageous; the poultry keeping down in- 
sects, grubs, worms that injure either the trees or the 
fruit, or both, and the trees furnishing much needed 
shade for the poultry. In the apple, pear and peach 
orchard the advantages gained from having the poul- 
try run in it are very great. Not only do the fowls 
keep insects and worms in subjection, but the scratch- 
ing and wallowing in the freshly cultivated soil keeps 
the droppings stirred in and mixed with the soil so 
the feeding roots can reach them, and it will be 
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Live Stock and Dairy. 



SHEEP DIPPING AT EDGEW00D. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

It is dreadful to think of the suffering that sheep 
endure from scab, ticks and lice. When it is possible 
to eradicate these pests it seems strange that flock 
owners will allow their flocks to suffer thus. Besides, 
it is a big expense to feed these parasites, to say noth- 
ing of losses through the poor appearance of the 
flock. Scab is the worst form of parasite, but for- 
tunately it is not common in the South. The sheep 
tick is our most common parasite and it is the easiest 
to destroy. When this number of the Southern 
Planter reaches you, you will be ready to shear 
your sheep. When the fleece is taken off the old sheep, 
the ticks go to the lambs and by dipping the lambs 
the day after shearing you will kill nearly every 
tick and prepare the lambs for putting on better gains 
for the last month before marketing. Some prefer 
dipping the whole flock to make sure of the thing and 
I am inclined to think it is best and the plan I pro- 
pose is so simple that it adds very little to the labor 
to put the whole flock through. In my opinion one 
dipping a year only holds ticks in check, as there 
must always be a large number of eggs present at 
the time of dipping. To satisfy myself on this point 
I took a lamb that had been dipped and examined it 
with the greatest care. I found on this lamb twenty 
eggs or tick cocoons. I may have overlooked some. 
These ticks are hatched out within ten days, so that a 
second dipping after ten days will get all of these 
young ticks. A third dipping in the fall will help 
clean out these pests. There remains much to be 
learned about the sheep tick. I have noticed one 
sheep in a large flock that had been the year before 
cleaned of the ticks, which was literally covered with 
ticks, while the rest of the flock seemed about free 
of them. Where did these ticks come from and why 
did they single out this particular sheep? I have 
known the same thing to be true in regard to chicken 
lice. This one sheep must be choice tick mutton. 

I will describe our dipping outfit for the benefit of 
those who desire to dip their flocks this spring. This 
outfit has no patent on it, can be made by any good 
carpenter for the sum of $12, and is very simple in 
the working. 

I would, however, recommend that the tank that 
goes in the ground be ordered from some firm that 
manufactures galvanized troughs and tanks. It 
should be four feet deep, sixteen inches wide, and 
should have one side sloping at an agle of 60 degrees. 



The reason I suggest the galvanized tank is that we 
found it very difficult to keep the wooden tank from 
leaking. We had our tank made of tongued and 
grooved stuff, but the swelling and shrinking opened 
the joints and we were forced to use paraffin for stop- 
ping leaks the second year. The metal tank increases 
the first cost, but it will save in the end and it will 
make an outfit that will last for years. 

If you get the metal tank, the frame work over the 
tank, which has the trap-doors attached to it can be 
easily fitted right over the metal tank and the drain- 
ing pen can be made to fit into the mouth of the tank. 
A board with cleets nailed to it can be slipped down 
the mouth of the tank to enable the sheep to walk out. 




Referring to figure 1, you will see general plan. 
The offset shown in figure is not necessary, as the 
metal tank can slope up from the bottom. The dis- 
tance from A to B is four feet. The posts A and B 
need be only about three feet, just high enough to 
keep a sheep from undertaking a jump. The trap- 
doors are made of inch oak and hinged with three 
strong hinges on each side, so that they naturally 
fall down on the inside of the tank. As -the tank is 
just sixteen inches wide, the trapdoors make the open- 
ing through which the sheep drops only fourteen 
inches. It will take a good sheep to wedge in that 
opening. The tank should be narrow to prevent old 
sheep turning in it. 

The trapdoors are 
shown in one part of 
figure 2 at E and E. 
These trapdoors are 
only eight inches wide, 
and are pulled up by a 
rope that divides and is 
fastened to the far end 
of the doors. The rope 
runs over a pulley above 
and is worked by the 
man who controls the 
trapdoors. The trap- 
doors are held up by 
an iron plate four inches wide by six inches long, 
which is welded on an iron rod, which runs through 





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post B and the one opposite. The rod is turned by an 
old crank. When the trapdoors are down, the opera- 
tor first lifts them into position with the rope, then 
with a turn of the crank brings the iron plate up 
under the doors. With the lever power at his dis- 
posal the operator can easily hold the weight of a 
one hundred and fifty pound sheep up, so he needs to 
hold the doors until the sheep walks on them and then 
by releasing the crank, the sheep takes the plunge. 
As is shown in figure 2 there is a sliding door, which" 
we may call G that is held up by a rope while the 
sheep walks on the trapdoors and is dropped as the 
sheep drops to prevent him from walking right out of 
the tank. This should be a closed door instead of an 
open one, so as to prevent the sheep from putting its 
feet through the slats in its efforts to climb out. The 
draining pen is eight feet long and the bottom of it is 
made of tongued and grooved lumber. It is well to 
have this a little wider than the tank, so that a large 
sheep will not waste so much dip by squeezing up 
against the sides. In this case the end next to the 
tank should be narrowed down to fit the tank exactly 
and care must be taken to keep this draining pen 
nearly level, or the stream of dip rushing back to- 
wards the tank will overflow on the low side. This 
draining pen is a great saving of dip. By this simple 
arrangement it is possible to dip 200 head of sheep 
without refilling the tank. At the far end of the 
draining pen is a sliding door, which keeps the sheep 
in the pen for a few minutes. The man who works 
the trapdoors can let them out, when the pen gets full. 
It is a fine idea to squeeze the wool of the sheep that 
have heavy fleece, as you can thus save a large quan- 
tity of dip. 

This tank should be sunk into the ground within 
one foot of the top and placed just outside the door 
of the sheep shed, where the sheep are in the habit 
of leaving the shed. A chute should be built in the 
shed to direct the sheep to the exit. 

Eill tank to within eighteen inches of the top and 
get ready for business. 

Fifty sheep are forced into a pen leading into the 
chute. A boy is needed to keep them crowded up to- 
wards the chute. A man stands just inside the chute 
near the door to work the sliding door that keeps 
sheep in the tank and to make the sheep come towards 
the tank one by one. Another man works the trap- 
doors and the door at end of draining pen. When 
a sheep walks on the trapdoors, the crank is released 
and the sheep takes a dive, generally head first, disap- 
pearing from view and rising on the swim, before it 
can say b-a-a. In dipping for ticks and lice the sheep 



should be allowed to remain swimming in the tank for 
one minute. In case of scab the sheep should be rub- 
bed with a stick or brush for three minutes before it 
is allowed to leave tank. The sheep go upon the trap- 
doors easily when they see their companions mount- 
ing to the draining pen beyond. Sometimes a sheep 
is ready to plunge into the foaming bath after the 
leader, before the trapdoors are raised. It is not 
hard work. In fact, we had much fun watching the 
different ways the sheep took the dive. It was as 
much fun as watching a lot of boys jumping from a 
spring board into the surf. 

There are many good dips which mix with cold 
water readily, such as Daytholeum, Zenoleum, Chlor- 
onaptholeum. These dips, especially the first, will 
not stain the wool and will not cause the ewes to wean 
their lambs. Any of them will send the tick to his 
eternal resting place in a few minutes, if mixed ac- 
cording to directions. H. B. Arbuckle. 

Maxwelton, W. Va. 

In this issue will be found advertisements of Sheep 
Dips which we know to be thoroughly effective. — Ed. 



ALWAYS TWO SIDES TO A QUESTION. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

In the February Planter appears an article, en- 
titled "The Large Versus the Small Dairy Cow." In 
this, the writer concludes that the Holstein cow is 
much superior to the Jersey. He quotes at some 
length the result of a test made by the Wisconsin 
Experiment Station, in which the Holstein came out 
with flying colors. He gives a table of figures show- 
ing the result of the test from which I take the fol- 
lowing : 

Holstein. Jersey. 

Annual cost of food $46.46 $35.22 

Annual net profit 48.47 41.88 

Thus the Holstein cost annually $11.24 more than 
the Jersey. 

Now, Mr. Editor, it occurred to me that the Jer- 
sey was not fairly treated in this test, and I set out 
to work out the problem in this way. I assumed that 
my neighbor had three Holstein cows, each of which 
cost him for their annual keep $46.46, making for the 
three $139.38. Each of these cows gave him a net 
profit over expenses of $48.47, making for the three 
$145.41. 

Now, I take four small Jerseys, which nearly bal- 
ance the three Holsteins in weight, and they cost me 
for their annual keep, according to this test, $35.22 
each, making $140.88 for the four, $1.50 more than 



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the three Holstein. They give me in net profit 
$41.88 each, making for the four $167.52. Now to 
recapitulate : 

3 Holsteins cost for keep $139.38 

4 Jerseys cost for keep 140.88 

3 Holsteins make net profit 145.57 

4 Jerseys make net profit 167.52 

Which shows that while the Jerseys only cost $1.50 
more to keep, they made $22.11 more profit. Its 
only a question as to which give the most work, tak- 
ing care of three big Holsteins or four small Jerseys. 
As for the hardiness of the Jerseys, I think they are 
all right in this State, though they may not be able 
to stand the cold of "Wisconsin and other Northwest- 
ern States. I do not blame them for that, I had to 
leave that climate myself on account of the cold. 
Respectfully submitted, 

I. St. Pierre. 
Amelia Co., Va. 



TEXAS FEVER. 

In our last issue we published on page 264 a com- 
munication from Mr. Cobbs, of Orange county, Va., 
giving a receipt for the prevention of Texas fever. 
By some carelessness in the printing office this be- 
came so mixed up in the "make up" as to be unintel- 
ligible. It should read as follows: Salt 5 quarts, 
slaked lime 1 quart, sulphur 5 tablespoonsful, pul- 
verized saltpeter 3 tablespoonsful. Mix thoroughly 
and give in place of salt to the cattle at least twice a 
week. Mr. Cobbs says that using this he never had 
a case of Texas fever amongst his cattle. 



HAY SUBSTITUTES FOR STOCK FEEDING. 

In our March issue we published the first part of 
an article on this subject from Prof. Nourse, of 
Blacksburg Experiment Station, in which was in- 
cluded a table giving the yield of milk at the begin- 
ning and end of the period of feeding. Unfortu- 
nately a mistake was made in the captions at the head 
of the columns to which our attention has been called 
by a subscriber. The yield is described as "per day." 
This should read "per week/' The figures them- 
selves are sufficient to show the existence of an error 
somewhere in the table, as cows giving 247 pounds 
of milk per day, as there recorded, are unknown. 
We regret that we overlooked the error in the hurry 
of correcting the proofs. 



A FEW LIVE STOCK REMEDIES FROM PRACTI- 
CAL STOCKMEN. 

Mr. J. 0. Thomas, of Isle of Wight county, Va., 
the well-known curer of the celebrated Smithfield 
Hams, and himself an old farmer and hog keeper, 
says that he gets so much valuable information from 
the Planter that he feels it only right that he should 
contribute something that may be of service to other 
farmers. 

FOR DISEASED HOGS. 

Arsenic, he says, is one of the best medicines for 
hogs when threatened with cholera or when a sow is 
weak in the loins or cannot walk from diseased kid- 
neys, or when she has been served and not proved 
with pig. He gives the arsenic in doses of a tea- 
spoonful for a grown hog every other day until they 
have had three doses. He gives the arsenic on a 
piece of meat, buttered bread, or anything you can 
get the hogs to take. 

FOR SCOURS IN HORSES. 

Take a small bunch of sweet mint, such as you use 
in a julep and cut it fine on a plate, and then sprinkle 
it on a feed of bran, meal or oats. If given to a 
mare suckling a colt, it will have the desired effect 
on the colt, or the juice may be given with milk to a 
colt which is being hand raised. 

Another subscriber gives the following remedies : 

FOR GRUBS IN THE BACKS OF CATTLE. 

Moisten a cloth with coal oil and rub every other 
day on the backs of the cattle, being careful to touch 
each place where there is a grub. This will kill all 
the grubs, and they can then be squeezed out with the 
thumb and finger. Two or three applications are 
sufficient. 

WARTS ON HORSES. 

Pure hog lard applied twice a week will remove 
all seed warts from horses. 

SCRATCHES. 

Horses suffering from scratches should have the 
legs washed with warm soap suds, then be rinsed with 
clean water and be rubbed dry. Then apply pure 
white lead ground in oil. Wherever the lead gets 
rubbed off apply again each night. Keep the horses 
out of mud and water and the scratches will soon dis- 
appear. 

FOR REMOVING A FOREIGN SUBSTANCE FROM THE EYE 
OF A HORSE. 

Mr. J. M. Hughes, of Surry county, says that if 
the depression over the eye is filled with pure hog 
lard at night the foreign substance in the eye will 
usually be released before morning, though some- 
times two or three applications are needed. 



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The Poultry Yard. 



BROODING AND CARE OF BROODER CHICKS. 

Experience has taught me that common sense and 
judgment play an important part in the care and 
feeding of chicks to promote health and growth. I 
believe it would be a hard task to find two experi- 
enced poultrymen who care for chicks the same. I 
will give you a few words on my work with them. 
On taking the chicks from the incubators I place 
seventy-five in number under each hover in my hot 
water brooder house, the temperature in the hover 
being about 90 degrees. After twenty-four hours I 
feed them a little bread moistened with milk ; at the 
same time a little B grade Steelcut Oat Meal (known 
as pinhead). They have access to sand, fine grit, 
charcoal and oyster shell from the start. 

The first few days I feed very light; commence 
placing fine, dry, ground chick feed, such as oats, 
wheat, millet, sunflower seed, barley, corn, etc., in the 
litter of the pens, which is chaff about two inches 
deep. I follow nature as closely as possible — make 
the chicks work for their feed; they need the exer- 
cise. Feed four to five times daily the first two 
weeks, but sparingly during the day, giving them all 
they will eat for their supper. I feed very little soft 
feed. Occasionally a mash composed of fine oat- 
meal, corn-meal, charcoal and a little cayenne pepper. 
If they show any signs of bowel trouble, I substitute 
black pepper. 

The second week I commence giving them, along 
with their other feed, a little green stuff, such as 
turnip tops, clover, cabbage, horseradish leaves, etc. ; 
also, occasionally, fresh ground meat straps. 

When the chicks are two and a half to three weeks 
old, I let them in their outdoor runs a few hours each 
day, the weather permitting. They have access to 
dust boxes. The temperature under the hovers, 
started at 90 the first week, is gradually reduced to 
85 the second week, then to about 80 the third week. 
Continued extreme heat causes them to feather out 
too soon, which weakens them. The hovers are con- 
structed so the chicks can go out and in at will, the 
same as under a hen. My hovers have ventilators in 
the top. When chicks are too cold, they will crowd ; 
when too warm, they will be restless and pant. At 
night, when you find them scattered under the hovers, 
lying on their little bellies, with necks stretched, you 
can rest assured they are comfortable and contented. 
After one has had a little experience with brooder 
chicks, he can almost tell by looking at the chicks if 
the temperature is about right. 

Give the chicks plenty of fresh air and sunshine; 
also, keep fresh water before them in suitable foun- 
tains, which will prevent them getting damp. Clean 



pens several times a week. Cleanliness is an abso- 
lute necessity. 

I usually keep the chicks in the brooder seven 
weeks, the temperature having been reduced to about 
75 degrees. At this time, I place them in outside 
houses, where they are allowed to run at will in nice 
weather. Their feed from this time on consists of 
hulled oats, whole wheat, cracked corn, etc. They 
get plenty of green food and bugs by having free 
range. These outside houses are built large enough 
to accommodate fifty chicks. In bad weather they 
are shut in and fed inside. Chicks and fowls need 
plenty of room. These houses are used during the 
summer, and until time to place the chickens in 
winter quarters. 

Look out for lice and mites from the start. While 
incubator chicks do not have them to start with, there 
are many ways in which they get them. An ounce 
of preventative is worth a pound of cure. Lice put 
a stop to growth. 

It is important to have chicks that are hatched 
from eggs laid by good, healthy stock. It is impos- 
sible to have strong chicks from weak stock. The 
best of food and care will not remedy this fault. — 
II. Heath, in Poultry Success. 

(Mr. Heath raises from 3,000 to 5,000 chickens 
every year. — Ed.) 



CHICKS NEED ASH AND GRIT. 

The importance of animal matter and the value of 
grit for growing chicks has been thoroughly investi- 
gated by W. P. Wheeler, of the ISTew York Experi- 
ment Station, and the results published in a recent 
bulletin. As chicks often show a gain of 1,500 per 
cent, in weight in ten weeks, and ducks may add from 
50 to 100 per cent, to their weight weekly, it is pat- 
ent to every one that they need the proper kinds of 
food in order to develop properly. Something like 
10 per cent, of the body of an average fowl is made 
up of mineral matter or "ash." Grain foods do not 
supply more than 3 to 6 per cent, of ash, hence the 
needed amount must come from other sources. 

The test shows that unless sufficient bone-making 
material is 'provided, the bones will be small, soft and 
weak, resulting often in lameness and deformity, or 
the development will be slow. The necessary amount 
of bone-building material is easiest supplied in fine 
raw or cooked bone. Clean grit and sharp sand are 
also very useful and should always be provided in 
abundance. For ducks, the fastest and most profit- 
able gains can only be made where animal matter is 
supplied in addition to grain. 



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The Horse. 



NOTES. 

Scarcely a day passes but that I am in receipt of 
evidence as to the pronounced value of The 
Planter as an advertising medium from patrons and 
subscribers alike. This applies to all classes of live 
stock, and includes the stallions whose names appear 
in the advertising colums. More mares are being 
bred this season than during any previous vear that I 
recall. The Spring Garden stallions, Burlingame 
and Lissak, are receiving patronage, as is Great 
Stakes, 2 :20 ; Chorister, son of Falsetto ; Kelly, 
2 :27, and Wealth, 2 :10. Concerning the latter, Mr. 
Chapman writes that he has received a number of 
inquiries and the outlook is bright, and the same pre- 
vails in the instance of Kelly. The latter, a son of 
Electioneer and famous Esther, is doing a rushing 
business, and high class matrons are being sent to his 
court from various sections. 

(5* *5* v* 

Lepanto, 577, the big, fine, standard and registered 
son of Petosky and a mare by Hunter's Lexington, is 
doing well in the stud of his owners, Rodes & Ban- 
nister, Roanoke, Ya. Through his sire he gets the 
potent blood of George Wilkes, and with that backed 
up by a rich thoroughbred strain on the maternal 
side his pedigree is an attractive one. Lepanto stands 
close to 16 hands high, and weighs over 1,200 pounds. 
He has sired Wilkie O'Neill, 2 :24|, and King 
O'Neill, 2 :31, at two years old. As a yearling Le- 
panto swept the show ring in Kentucky, and in his 
maturer years the son of Petoskey is an attractive 
borse to look upon, while his manners and disposition 
are bevond criticism. 

J* & S 

The Virginia bred trotter, Traveller, bay gelding, 
5, by Sidney Prince, dam Miss Clay, by Clay, son of 
Walker Morrill, is doing well in the stable of his 
owner, S. E. McCargo, of Philadelphia. Traveller 
worked a mile in 2 :21^ last season, and his owner 
looks for the son of Sidney Prince to trot in 2:12 or 
better this one. 

&3* *2& *2& 

Hall & Warthen, of Warren, recently shipped a 
carload of Virginia bred hunters, jumpers and saddle 
horses to Boston, where orders were received for most 
of them. Tbese horses are described as a choice lot. 
Most of them are by thoroughbred sires from general 
purpose mares, and were bred in Warren and the 
adjoining counties. 

S * S 

Happy Tie, 2 :25|-, the bay mare, by Happy Rus- 
sell, dam Blanche F., dam of Bursary, 2 :24|, by 
Walker Morrill, is owned by General Nelson A. 
Miles, of Washington, D. C, who will drive her on 



the new speedway at the National Capital. Happy 
Tie was bred by the late Captain Orris A. Browne, 
Cape Charles, Va. The daughter of Happy Russell 
is, however, much faster than her record indicates, 
as I have seen Capt. Browne drive her at a fearful 
clip on a trot hooked beside a runner to pole. Happy 
Tie is now eleven years old. 

*&rt *&* <<?* 

Virginia Jim, 2 :12^, the fast bay trotting gelding, 
by Leewood, dam the famous brood mare, Remem- 
brance, dam El Banecia, 2 :17^ : , etc., by George 
Wilkes, who was sold recently by New York parties 
for export to Switzerland, is giving perfect satisfac- 
tion in that distant land. The son of Leewood is 
eight years old, and was bred by James A. Graham, 
the owner of Gould Hill Farm, Hanover C. H, Va. 

»5* «5* J* 

Dart, bay gelding by John R. Gentry, who paced 
to a record of 2 :08^ last season, has been purchased 
by William J. Andrews. This horse was brought 
here during 1901 by the late George D. Bennett 
from East St. Louis, who raced him one season down 
the line of North Carolina fairs. Later the gelding 
passed to James Stackhouse, Marion, S. C, and from 
him to John Kinney, Hornellsville, N Y., and from 
him to Andrews. Now that Dart is looked upon as 
the making of a real crack performer, there is some 
desire manifested to learn the breeding of his dam, 
which is in doubt. I applied to Mr. Bennett before 
his death for the information, and he was unable to 
furnish it. John R. Gentry, the reputed sire of 
Dart, was purchased by Holt & Scott, of Graham. 
N. C, during the progress of the Grand Circuit meet- 
ings of 1894, but served no mares for them until the 
fore part of 1905, when M. E. McHenry had him at 
Freeport, 111. The famous son of Ashland Wilkes 
was returned to Graham after the racing season of 
that year had closed, and got a couple of foals, but 
Dart was not among them, as I understand it, so it is 
likely that the bay gelding was bred somewhere in 
the West. <* •** & 

July 27th and 28th are the dates fixed for the 
Orange Horse Show, to be held at Orange, Va. The 
affairs of this association are in a most prosperous 
condition, and a number of improvements will be 
made on the buildings and grounds. It has been de- 
cided to build a new judge's stand, and the seating 
capacity of the grand stand will be increased. 

v* *5* <£• 

Rdbert Bradley, of Wilcox Wharf, Va., figured 
among the largest winning owners at the recent Wash- 
ington Jockey Club meeting. With a stable of home 
bred horses, most of them by Aloha, Mr. Bradley 
won $3,135. Broad Rock. 



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[May, 



Miscellaneous. 



LEVEES AND IRRIGATION. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

Why should the Government spend millions of dol- 
lars annually in the effort to control the lower Mis- 
sissippi river in order that a few people, compara- 
tively speaking, may be benefited thereby ? A care- 
ful, thoughtful examination of the subject will con- 
vince almost any one that the cultivation of large 
areas of bottom lands in the valley of the Missis- 
sippi was begun a thousand years or more before 
nature had properly fitted and prepared the same for 
its successful, profitable and healthful occupation by 
man. 

The "levee" was a French idea. In purchasing the 
French claim to this country in 1803, the "levee" — 
the French idea — was one of the assets. The "levee 
system" — whereby it is attempted to confine the 
river, and prevent damage by overflow — was a pre- 
mature French idea, and has cost the United States 
Government a few hundred millions already, with 
much more to follow. 

If land was a scarce commodity and high in price 
and really needed for use, then it would pay to re- 
claim low lands, just as in the case of the low lands 
reclaimed by Holland, and other old sections of coun- 
try where the population is dense and land high in 
price and all occupied and tilled. 

But as long as there are millions upon millions of 
acres of low priced lands uncultivated, and yet lo- 
cated within easy reach of markets, it does not seem 
practicable, feasible or sensible to line the lower 
Mississippi with expensive "levees" in order that the 
lower bottom lands may be protected from overflow. 

It is truly a "Government contract," which the 
Government has undertaken when it attempts to 
build a dam on each side of that unruly stream in 
order to get the surplus waters of a continent off into 
the sea, without overflowing the adjacent bottom 
lands. Man proposes, but the Mississippi river dis- 
poses. 

On the other hand, the same Government is asked 
to spend other millions to dam the Western and 
Southwestern streams, so that the surplus waters can 
be diverted and used for "irrigation" purposes. 

Now why this apparent inconsistency and this 
great haste to reclaim "swamp" lands, on the one 
hand, and arid lands, on the other, as long as they 
are not realy needed? Spending millions to keep 
the Mississippi vnthin its banks; and spending other 
millions to get the waters of other streams out of 
their banks, does not seem to be good political econo- 
my, seeing that there are millions of acres of tillable 
iirable lands yet lying uncultivated. 



If we are to dam the Mississippi and portions of 
other streams in, and dam other streams out, in or- 
der to reclaim lands not really needed, where, may 
we ask, are the dam schemes and plans to end ? 

Such work, on the part of the Government, should 
not be carried on, except in compliance with the law 
of "supply and demand." If lands are needed, then 
dam the rivers and reclaim the lands ; if not needed 
we had better dam (restrict) Congressional appro- 
priations therefor. A Jeffers. 

Nor folic, Va. 



BIRDS AND THE FARMERS. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

On page 187 (March issue, Southern Planter), I 
notice, under headline, "Birds and the Farmer," the 
following: "Some wiseacre of the Legislature wants 
to place a price on the scalp of the crow, and the poor 
hawks are already in many counties thus handi- 
capped." 

Now, Mr. Editor, I have been reading practical 
lessons from your pen for a quarter of a century, and 
at all times, with few exceptions, your views have 
coincided with those of practical agricultural people. 
This last fling, however, at the agricultural element 
of the Legislature, I think, demands some defense. 

The farmer to whom you refer as having killed a 
crow, and on examination of the crop (craw) found 
only insects and worms, was exceedingly fortunate 
not to find in the same receptable a reasonable pro- 
portion of spring chicken, raw eggs, and a gill or 
more of Adams Extra Early plucked in all its juicy 
fragrance from the growing ear. 

I have observed recently a fast growing tendency 
for the protection of insectiverous and game birds. 
In this sentiment I indulge myself to some extent, 
but I sincerely hope that no tidal wave of sentiment 
will ever sweep me off of my feet and land me so high 
and dry in the realms of sentiment that I cannot 
crawl back to practicability and justice to the strug- 
gling agriculturist ! Some birds are both insectiv- 
erous and pestiverous. If the pestiverous elements 
of the bird dominate, then he can be no longer a close 
friend of the farmer. The crow and the hawk is 
considered in the county of Princess Anne by both 
agriculturists and agriculturists' wives as being the 
most pestiverous of the winged species. They both 
are carnivorous at all seasons, and each of them roll 
the little chick as a sweet morsel under their tongue 



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against the earnest and fitful protest of mother hen. 
I The crow is an adept at finding a nest of eggs which 
some capricious hen has deposited without the pre- 
scribed confines for her fruitful deposit. 

The above observations are solely of rural expe- 
rience, and will doubtless be vouched for by many 
farmers and farmers' wives. 

Your suggestion as to the burial or creation of all 
animal carcasses is, I think, an eminently proper one, 
and although the scavengers of the air may be placed 
for a time on reduced rations, yet it will be infi- 
nitely better for the purification of the atmosphere 
and destruction of unhealthy germs. 

During the legislative session of 189 5-' 6 a bill was 
introduced in the Senate of Virginia to provide this 
course and sent to the Committee on Agriculture (of 
which I was a member). My recollections are that 
the bill passed the Senate, but failed to pass the 
House. 

I hope that your suggestions will be impressed on 
the next Legislature, and that some bill will be per- 
fected looking to results which you desire. 

Geo T. Snead. 

Princess Anne Co., Va. 



In justification of what we wrote with reference to 
hawks and crows in the article referred to by Dr. 
Snead, we append the following reported results of 
the examinations of the stomachs of predatory birds 
by the agents of the United States Department of 
Agriculture : 

Of 107 stomachs of the long-eared marsh owl ex- 
amined, one contained a game bird ; fifteen, other 
birds ; eighty -four, field mice ; five, other mammals ; 
one, insects, and fifteen were empty. 

Of 101 stomachs of the short-eared marsh owls, 
eleven contained small birds ; seven, field mice ; 
seven, other mammals; seven, insects, and fourteen 
were empty. 

Of 109 stomachs of the barred owl, five contained 
poultry or game ; thirteen, other birds ; forty-six, 
mice ; eighteen, other mammals ; four, frogs ; one, a 
lizzard ; two, fish ; fourteen, insects ; two, spiders ; 
nine, crayfish, and twenty were empty. 

Of 255 stomachs of the screech owl, one contained 
poultry; thirty-eight, other birds; ninety-one, mice; 
eleven, other mammals ; two, lizards ; four, frogs or 
toads ; one, fish ; one hundred, insects ; five, spiders ; 
nine, crayfish; seven, miscellaneous material; two, 
scorpions; two, earth-worms, and forty-three wer,e 
empty. 

Of 127 stomachs of the great horned owl, thirty- 



one contained poultry or game birds; eight, other 
birds; thirteen, mice; sixty-five, other mammals; 
one, a scorpion; one, a fish; ten, insects, and seven- 
teen were empty. 

Of 320 stomachs of the sparrow hawk, one contain- 
ed a game bird ; fifty-three, other birds ; eighty-nine, 
mice ; twelve, other mammals ; twelve, reptiles, or 
Amphibians; 215, insects; twenty-nine, spiders, and 
twenty-nine were empty. 

Of 562 stomachs of the red-tailed hawk, fifty-four 
were found on examination to contain poultry and 
game birds ; fifty-one, other birds ; 278, mice ; 131, 
other mammals ; thirty-seven, Amphibia, or reptiles ; 
forty-seven, insects ; eight, crayfish ; one, a centipede ; 
thirteen, offal, and eighty-nine were empty. 

Of 220 stomachs of red-shouldered hawk examined, 
three contained poultry ; 102, mice ; forty, other 
mammals (shrews, opossum, skunk, chipmunk, mole, 
rabbit, squirrel, etc. ) ; twenty, reptiles ; thirty-nine, 
Amphibia ; ninety-two, insects ; sixteen, spiders ; 
seven, crayfish; one, earthworms; two, offal; three, 
fish, and fourteen were empty. 

Out of 103 stomachs of Cooper's hawk, thirty-four 
contained poultry or game birds ; fifty-two, other 
birds ; eleven, mammals ; one, a frog ; three, lizards ; 
two, insects, and thirty-nine were empty. 

The last three hawks are commonly spoken of as 
chicken hawks. 

Similar examinations have been made of the stom- 
achs of crows by agents of the Department and by 
officers of different States, and these all go to show 
that though he is sometimes guilty of committing 
murder and depredation upon chickens and eggs, yet 
that his food is largely confined to injurious grubs 
and insects, small mammals, with some grain, and 
that upon the whole is more beneficial than injurious 
to the farmer. — Ed. 



DISPOSAL OF THE BODIES OF DEAD ANIMALS. 

Since we received the article "Birds and the 
Farmers," by Dr. Geo. T. Snead, in which the ques- 
tion of the disposal of the bodies of dead animals is 
discussed, he has sent us an advance copy of a law 
passed at the last sitting of the Legislature, which he 
has received providing for the burning of the bodies 
of dead animals, of which the following is a copy : 

Chap. 252. — An ACT to amend and re-enact section 
2197, chapter 99, of the Code of Virginia, in rela- 
tion to burial of hogs that died from disease, as 
amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 
30, 1890, and by an act approved February 14, 



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[May, 



1896, so as to require the cremation or burial of 
all animals or fowls that die from contagious or 
infectious diseases, and fixing the penalties for 
violation thereof. 

Approved March 15, 1904. 

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Vir- 
ginia, That section twenty-one hundred and ninety- 
seven of the Code of Virginia, edition of eighteen 
hundred and eighty-seven, as amended and re-enacted 
by an act approved March thirtieth, eighteen hun- 
dred and ninety, and by an act approved February 
fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, be 
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows : 

Sec. 2197. The owner of any animal or grown 
fowl which has died from any contagious or 
infectious disease, knowing of such death from 
such disease, shall forthwith cremate or cause to 
be cremated, or bury or cause to be buried, the body 
of such animal or grown fowl, and if he fails to do so, 
any justice, after notice to the owner, if he can be 
ascertained, shall cause any such dead animal or 
fowl to be cremated or buried by a constable, or other 
person designated for the purpose, and the constable 
or other person shall be entitled to recover of the 
owner of every such animal so cremated or buried a 
fee of five dollars, and of the owner of every such fowl 
so cremated or buried a fee of one dollar, to be re- 
covered in the same manner as officers' fees are re- 
covered, free from all exemptions in favor of such 
owner. Any person violating the provisions of this 
act shall be subject to a fine not exceeding twenty 
dollars for each offence. 

2. This act shall not apply to any county until the 
board of supervisors thereof shall adopt the same. 

3. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act 
are hereby repealed. 

We are glad to know that the Legislature adopted 
our views on this matter, though we regret to see that 
the laAv is inoperative unless adopted by the super- 
visors of a county. This is a most pernicious system 
of legislation. If a law is good for the community 
it ought to be operative when enacted by the Legis 
lature, and should not depend on consent or adoption 
by any one. If the question sought to be legislated 
upon is of doubtful expediency, then no legislation 
should be enacted. Laws which may be made opera- 
tive or inoperative at the discretion of individual 
members of a community leave open too great a door 
for fraud and manipulation ever to be desirable. — 
Ed. 



GOOD ROADS. 

Another good roads bill has been introduced, this 
time by Senator Latimer, of South Carolina, appro- 
priating $24,000,000 for co-operative road construc- 
tion by the general government and the various 
States. 

The bill provides for a Commission of Highways, 
under the Department of Agriculture, composed of 
two presidential appointees, at $5,000 each per an- 
num, one from each great political party and an 
officer from the Army Engineer Corps. The road 
building features are similar to those of the Brown- 
low bill and other "good roads" measures, and are 
in effect that any State desiring to co-operate with the 
general government in road building within its bor- 
ders, can have federal assistance to the extent of one- 
half the cost of the construction, the State agreeing 
to keep the road in repair. There is no question but 
that the good roads propaganda is making itself felt 
in Congress, and if the agitation is continued by the 
farm and other newspapers, an entering wedge in 
road legislation, it is believed, can be secured com- 
paratively soon. Last Congress the Brownlow bill 
Avas introduced and received widespread and fre- 
que nt notice by the papers ; the result is that half a 
dozen road bills have been introduced in this session. 
Like all such new legislation involving large appro- 
priations, Congress will put it off as long as possible, 
until the demand becomes insistent and widespread. 
The objection raised by some that the work would be 
paternalistic would apply with fully as much force 
to the operations of the Post-office Department with 
its annual appropriation of about $140,000,000, or 
the Weather Bureau, or half a dozen other govern- 
ment institutions. Eederal "good roads" are com- 
ing, if the pounding upon the Congressional door is 
kept up with sufficient earnestness. 



When corresponding with advertisers, kindly men- 
tion the Southeen Planteb. 



BONE MEAL AS A FERTILIZER, 

One of our subscribers, Mr. Groome, of Warren- 
ton, recently wrote the Bureau of Soils at Washing- 
ton for an explanation of the reason for the long con- 
tinued appreciable benefit derived from the appli- 
cation of raw bone meal as a fertilizer. The follow- 
ing is the reply received from the Soil Chemist and 
will no doubt be read with interest. We thank Mr. 
Groome for favoring us with this letter. j 

"In reply to your favor of the 12th inst., I would 
say that we recognize that such fertilizers as bone 
meal will continue to exercise an influence over crops 
for a considerable length of time. But taking fer- 



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tilizers in general and especially the more soluble 
ones, it seems to be a general law that they prove 
most beneficial in the initial stages of plant growth 
before the plants have developed a large and vigorous 
root system and are, in a sense, better adapted to 
looking out for their own food supplies. 

Raw bone meal is essentially calcium phosphate 
and is slightly soluble itself. But it is one of a class 
of substances which is readily acted upon and de- 
composed by water, forming, in this case, lime and 
phosphoric acid; and while the lime goes into solu- 
tion to but a very slight extent, a fairly large amount 
of phosphoric acid is dissolved. The amount that 
will be dissolved depends largely on the proportion 
of solid phosphate to the volume of water, as will be 
seen from the accompanying table. While it takes 
some days for the solution to dissolve all the phos- 
phoric acid it can, the larger part is taken up in a few 
hours. Carbon dioxide, which is always present in 
the soil and soil moisture, helps to dissolve phos- 
phoric acid from calcium, although this would not 
be expected on the basis of current theories. In rive 
hours, at ordinary room temperature, we have found 
that a mixture of equal parts of lime phosphate and 
lime carbonate when treated with 250 times its mass 
of water gave about two parts per million of phos- 
phoric acid to the water, but when carbon dioxide 
was also passed through the solution, about 42 parts 
per million, or 20 times as much, was given. There- 
fore, on account of the slight solubility of lime phos- 
phate on the one hand, and its decomposition by 
water on the other hand, a substance containing it 
will yield a comparatively steady, small supply of 
phosphoric acid for a relatively long time, that is, 
until all the phosphoric acid has gradually gone into 
solution. 

I think the above statements meet your inquiries, 
and I shall be glad to assist you further if you may 
require it. 

By order of Chief of Bureau. 

Feank K. Cameron, Soil Chemist. 



Solubility of Calcium Phosphate (Ca 3 ) P 4 2 ) in 
water free from Carbon Dioxide (C0 2 ). 

Parts Calcium Phosphate Parts Phosph. Acid (P 2 3 ) 

per 1000 of water. dissolved per 1000 of water 

400 0.9183 

400 6760 

100 5083 

► 50 2857 

25 1615 

16.66 1246 

12.5 0982 



10 0845 

5 0507 

2.5 0318 



PRESERVING EGGS IN WATER GLASS. 

The most simple and efficient method of preserving 
eggs for several months is by covering them with a 
solution of water glass. This preparation has been 
tested by various experiment stations and has proved 
to be the best of any methods yet discovered, except 
artificial cold storage. It is being used to some ex- 
tent in a commercial way, as well as by many farmers 
and housekeepers who wish to pack away eggs in 
spring when they are cheap and plentiful for use dur- 
ing the fall and winter months. 

Strictly fresh, clean eggs are necessary to put down. 
Stale or dirty eggs will not keep well. Eggs should 
not be washed. They should be packed, preferably 
small end down, in a stone jar or other suitable ves- 
sel, which should be placed in a cool, dark place. 
To ten or fifteen quarts of water, which has been 
boiled and cooled, add one quart water glass (sodium 
silicate), which may be obtained of most druggists. 
A good grade of water glass should be used. The 
vessel should be kept tightly covered to prevent evap- 
oration. If the eggs are kept in too warm a place 
the silicate is deposited and the eggs are not properly 
protected. The solution may be prepared, placed in 
the jar and fresh eggs added from time to time until 
the jar is full, but be sure that there is fully 2 inches 
of the solution covering the eggs. 

The eggs may be taken out from time to time as 
needed. They will be covered with a jelly-like solu- 
tion, which is easily washed off. All packed eggs 
contain a little gas and in boiling the shell will crack. 
This may be prevented by making a pinhole in the 
large end of the egg before cooking. One farmer in 
Maine reports preserving 6,000 dozen eggs last sea- 
son by this method. He sold them in December and 
January and received the same price that strictly 
fresh eggs sold for. While eggs preserved in this 
way are not as good as new-laid eggs, they are better 
than the usual run of fresh stock to be had at the 
stores. 



TO KEEP INSECTS FROM MEAT. 

When meat has been in salt long enough, and is 
ready to be smoked. Wash nicely in a tub of hot 
water, using corn shucks or coarse rag. When the 
water becomes too greasy throw it out and put in 
clean. As soon as a piece is washed, sprinkle it 



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[May, 



lightly with borax and sift on black pepper before the 
meat is dry, and hang it up for smoking. 

J. O. Thomas. 
Isle of Wight Co., Va. 



WHAT HAVE CLUBS AND INSTITUTES DONE 
FOR US? 

AN ESSAY BEAD AT A FAKMEEs' INSTITUTE IN FRED- 
ERICKSBURG, VA., MARCH 19, 1904, BY DR. AUG. 
STABLER, OF MARYLAND. 

After being invited to present this subject, I made 
a pilgrimage to the house of the venerable secretary 
of our club in order to extract from the most com- 
plete and systematic records in his possession a few 
items of interest to other agricultural communities. 

The first minute was made in 1844, as follows: 
"We propose forming an association for improve- 
ment in agriculture upon the sociable principle of 
mutual interchange of visits. For this purpose we 
agree to meet in the afternoon, once a month, taking 
each member's house in alphabetical rotation. When 
assembled we shall proceed to inspect the crops, stock, 
farm implements and contrivances, and inquire into 
the modes of culture and system of arrangement gen- 
erally pursued by the member at whose house we may 
be. A free interchange of ideas upon agricultural 
subjects will be expected upon the part of all, and if 
any member is making experiments which are likely 
to prove useful or interesting we shall take especial 
care to notice their progress and results." 

"We adopt for our government no rules or regula- 
tions other than those which should always prevail in 
good society, with the single exception that it shall be 
both the privilege and the duty of each member to 
criticize freely the arrangements that may come un- 
der his examination." This club has never changed 
its constitution and by-laws in sixty years, and is still 
as vigorous as ever. Many other similar organiza- 
tions in our county and other parts of the State have 
been formed on the same broad lines. In the sixty 
years tbere have Tint been six meetings missed. Death 
or sickness being the only reason for passing a meet- 
ing. At the first meeting of this club the attention 
of the members was called to tbe effect of bone dust 
in causing a luxuriant growth of grass on a poor 
field. In the same year another member of the club 
tried the first experiment in Maryland with Peruvian 
Guano. Eighteen bills of corn treated with guano 
produced nineteen and one-half pounds of oars, while 
eighteen similar hills without guano produced seven 
and one-quorter pounds of ears. About the same 
time experiments with lime were in progress by the 
members, which produced good results on some farms 
and not so good on others. 

In those days, before commercial fertilizers were 



obtainable, or their use known, our country was very 
poor. Worn out fields, covered with sedge, briars, 



scrub 



flint 



pine, 
Overgrown fence 



stone and gullies were the rule, 
rows, razor back hogs, cows that 



made two pounds of butter a week, and corn fields 
that made eight barrels of corn on seven acres. This 
same year my father, who was a druggist in Alexan- 
dria, Va., and whose health had failed in that busi- 
ness, moved on to the farm where I now reside, and 
joined the club at its first meeting. When he took 
the farm there was nothing on it but an old tumble- 
down log cabin, no grass, no trees, nothing but sedge, 
briars, flint stones and gullies. 

His brother, from Alexandria, came out to see 
him, stayed three days, and never smiled while he 
was there. He saw nothing but starvation ahead. 
Within my recollection on this same farm, father 
raised 40 bushels of wheat to the acre, 2-J tons of 
hay, 335 bushels of potatoes, and one year he ob- 
tained 750 bushels of splendid peaches from one 
acre, and sold them for $2 a bushel at home. This 
yield of $1,500 from one acre in a single season has 
so far as I know never been exceeded in our State. 
These maximum yields, however, have not been re- 
peated many times on any one farm in our section, 
but the testimony of many impartial judges who have 
frequently visited our section from all parts of the 
country is to the effect that taking into consideration 
the intelligence and probity of the people the orderly 
well kept farms, the quantity of stock kept, and the 
general attractiveness of the neighborhood, the region 
covered by the club, and the other organizations grow- 
ing out of it will compare favorably with any similar 
section of the United States. Last summer Mr. A. 
D. Shamel, of Illonois, who gave us one of his most 
valuable talks on corn, was surprised and charmed 
with the delightful social atmosphere which he found 
pervading the whole community. It was for many 
years plainly marked as an oasis in the desert. 

There are now four clubs and two granges in the 
county, and for the last thirty-one years these organi- 
zations have joined together once a year and held a 
Farmer's Convention in the Lyceum at Sandy 
Spring. These meetings are always largely attended 
by old and young from far and near and bring out a 
large number of short, spirited talks from the many 
learned, practical men who are always present. On 
several occasions we have received the aid of experts 
on special subjects, but local talent is always abun- 
dant. These meetings exert a powerful uplift not 
only by making friends of men who did not pre- 
viously know each other, and by disseminating agri- 
cultural information and the conclusions of the doc- 
tors on mooted points, but also in securing united 
action upon matters needing legislation. In short, 
here is a neighborhood where farmers have been ac- 
customed to come together and work together on all 



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matters concerning their mutual interests. There is 
a mutual fire insurance company, the oldest and 
largest in the State that was wise enough to stick to 
country property and did not lose one dollar in the 
Baltimore fire. There is a savings bank that is ex- 
ceedingly well conducted and flourishing, a national 
hank that is equally successful, and two turnpike 
companies that nave built three parallel lines of good 
road to Washington. When Farmer's Institutes 
were started by the State about six years ago it was 
thought by the director that we who had so many 
organizations and ways of obtaining information 
did not need the Institutes as much as other parts of 
the county that had no clubs or granges. He tried 
hard successive years to get up meetings at other 
points, but his lecturers always had to talk to very 
small audiences. Without the clubs to pave the way 
and awaken a desire for up-to-date, progressive ideas 
no amount of advertising would bring the farmers 
together. Without some dry wood it is very hard to 
kindle a fire. No local organization, no successful 
institute, has been the invariable experience. When 
the Institute was held in or near Sandy Springs, how- 
ever, we always had not only a good sized crowd, but 
a highly interesting, instructive meeting. Intelli- 
gent, practical questions from the audience kept the 
speakers busy, and the practical information ob- 
tained from these experts has in many cases resulted 
in far-reaching improvements in our farming meth- 
ods. At the first Institute held here it was clearly 
proven as the result of a warm discussion between 
certain old and successful dairymen and the speaker 
from another State that the dairymen of this com- 
munity were missing a great opportunity by not 
having silage. Silos of the old-fashioned type had 
been built years ago and abandoned as unsatisfac- 
tory. It was shown just where the trouble was, and 
the following year witnessed a general building of 
silos and a correspondingly great increase in the pro- 
duction of milk. We are now thoroughly convinced 
that four acres of corn in the silo will produce more 
milk and butter than five acres of the same corn field 
cured, and the work of harvesting and preparing the 
crop is all done in two or three days, instead of being 
strung out over two or three months. When we add 
to these advantage? the fact that more forage can be 
produced on an acre intended for silage than on a 
similar acre intended for grain because thicker 
planted, and that we can grow cow peas and corn to- 
gether and harvest the combined crop with the corn 
hinder fast enough to keep a big engine and cutter 
busy putting it into the silo, it is evident we have 
made a step forward. Crimson clover is another 
crop which for many years was only experimentally 
grown by most of us, with frequent failure to secure 
a stand, but has now come to be one of the most valu- 
able of onr forage crops since we have learned, after 



many trials, how best to manage it. To our State 
Experiment Station is due the credit of keeping up 
the cultivation of it, and repeatedly demonstrating its 
value. On our dry, hilly lands Ave frequently failed 
to secure good stands of it when seeded as a catch 
crop in growing corn. Not until we learned that it 
will pay to prepare land specially for it in order to 
get the very valuable crop of hay which, on good 
land, it is capable of producing, did we make a place 
for it in our system of forage crop rotation. With 
us, it is the only leguminous hay crop which can be 
harvested in May in time to plow and fit the land for 
another crop. 

This second crop may be either corn and cow peas 
for silage or sorghum and cow peas for hay, or millet 
and peas, or sweet com and peas, or peas alone. Thus 
on our valuable, rich land, which is close to the silo 
and convenient to manure from the barn, we can 
grow four crops in two years, all of which are fed to 
the cows, except the wheat, the straw of which is 
needed to bed them. The wheat is sold and the pro- 
ceeds used to buy concentrated feeds to balance the 
ration. These four crops are corn and cow peas, 
wheat, turnips and crimson clover. The wheat stub- 
ble is plowed as soon as possible after harvest, rub- 
bing down each afternoon what is plowed up in the 
morning, and harrowing when in good condition after 
rains till the middle of August. Then it should be 
fine level and solid, ready for the seed. Put on 20 
pounds crimson clover seed and one-half pound Globe 
turnip seed to the acre. The two kinds are carefully 
mixed together and may be scattered with a broad- 
cast seeder and harrowed in or it may be put in with 
a wheat drill. The latter method is best where fer- 
tilizer is needed, but where barn manure is applied 
the phosphate, preferably dissolved rock, should be 
mixed with the manure before it is hauled out. The 
turnips are harvested about December 1st, as follows : 
They are pulled up, thrown into piles on the ground 
and allowed to wither for two or three days, then 
when dry haul them to a convenient place near the 
barn and pile them, tops and all, in a long, narrow 
rick on both sides of a fence and cover with corn 
fodder. In handling the turnips we use a broad, 
short handled fork such as is used for moving coke, 
potatoes, stones, etc. They are thus forked up from 
the piles in the fields into a dump cart and hauled to 
the rick, where they are dumped and forked up into 
place. When feeding them to cows in winter the 
turnips are forked from the rick into the cart and 
hauled out onto a blue grass sod where they are scat- 
tered for the cows to eat in the middle of the day. 
It is found that even when a cow is getting every- 
thing else she needs, turnips will increase the milk. 
They do this not by the actual nourishment in the 
turnips, but by some undiscovered vital principle 
which aids the digestion of other food. It has long 



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been known that plants of the turnip family have the 
power of digesting the crude elements of fertility in 
the soil, which are made available by certain secre- 
tions of their roots, and it is probable that a similar 
digesting process occurs when the turnips are brought 
in contact with coarse fodder in the cow's milk fac- 
tory, her stomach. 

By making the very best use of all the home raised 
feeds and raising as much as possible of them we are 
certain that it is possible to make a herd of cows 
fresh in the fall, give more milk in the year than if 
fresh in the spring. A cow that is made comfortable 
in a warm, clean, well ventilated, well lighted stable, 
with water and salt before her, fed on corn and cow 
pea silage mixed with bran and cotton seed meal 
twice a day and with a little crimson clover hay and 
turnips for the noon feed, will give as much milk in 
January as the same cow would on the best of blue 
grass in June. She needs no exercise. That should 
be taken by the man who milks and feeds her. Some 
of us are trying alfalfa, but so far with rather poor 
success. The success with it at the Experiment Sta- 
tion is very encouraging. We hope that when our 
soils become sufficiently clean, rich and properly 
stocked with the right bacteria, this crop will enable 
us to farm with fewer horses to do the plowing, and 
will also enable us to avoid that other heavy expense, 
the buying of protein feeds." 

A very lively interest was manifested on the part 
of the practical farmers present at the Institute, in 
the subjects of soil improvement and forage crops as 
presented by the lecturer, and man}- questions were 
asked, among which were the following: "At what 
stage of growth do you cut crimson clover, and how 
do you cure and handle the crop ?" Cut it when the 
lower two-thirds of the flower head is dead, leaving 
tke top third still bright red. It is harder to cure 
than mixed hay, and requires more time in the field 
and in shock before storing. When putting it into 
the barn it is important not to tramp or pack it. Let 
it lie as loosely as possible and not over eight or ten 
feet deep in one place. There are always plenty of 
empty mows at this season, and it is better to dis- 
tribute it around to avoid the danger of mow burning. 
When cured it is worth $20 a ton to the dairyman, 
for it has 16 per cent, protein and is just as good as 
bran. 

How do you harvest cow pea hay? Prof. Mas- 
Bey's plan seldom succeeds with us, though we have 
frequently tried it. We reluctantly conclude that 
cow pea hay alone is very difficult to cure in our 
damp climate, though by the following method we 
can always save it in fair condition. Remove the 
track clearer from the mowing machine, and cut the 
peas down, tben when withered and before the leaves 
dry enougb to shatter put it together by hand into 
small piles. Tf the crop is heavy it is better not to 



use a horse rake. When the top of the pile dries 
turn it over, but do not shake it out. This turning 
may be repeated as often as necessary till the whole 
is thoroughly cured, and then haul in and store as 
crimson clover, not more than eight feet thick, and 
avoid packing. I prefer to mix cow peas and sor- 
ghum together on good land, because of the greatly 
increased yield per acre, and the greater ease of cur- 
ing the crop. This crop may be handled with as 
much certainty of results as mixed hay. The sor- 
ghum stalks prevent packing and heating in shock 
and stack, and when stored in small stacks, ten feet 
in diameter and twelve feet high, is certain to keep 
and prove a palatable, nutritious feed for cattle, 
sheep, horses and hogs. I fork it into small piles by 
hand, and when these are partially cured I combine 
them into large shocks and let stand about a week till 
well cured. Then make a long, low rack of poles on 
a four wheeled wagon and haul the shocks to the stack. 
"How did your father improve his run-down 
farm ?" He always wore a smile on his face and had 
lots of friends, especially among the laboring class. 
He used bone dust, guano, thorough cultivation, barn 
yard manure and brains. 

"How would he do it now ?" Probably with South 
Carolina rock, cow peas, crimson clover and stock. 

You said that you were in the habit of buying 
concentrated feed, such as bran, linseed meal, cotton 
seed meal, etc., and also that crimson clover, cow 
peas, and alfalfa would take their place. Why do 
you not raise enough legumes to do without the con- 
centrates ? We ought to, but we have not always 
done it. Red clover, on which we formerly depend- 
ed, has very generally failed of late years. Alfalfa 
is only in the experimental stage on our farms. Cow 
pea hay is hard to cure, also crimson clover. Cotton 
seed meal is what we buy most of. That has a de- 
cided effect in stimulating the secretion of milk, be- 
sides furnishing the protein and phosphates to bal- 
ance the ration. Physicians are now successfully 
using it in very small quantities to increase the secre- 
tion in nursing mothers, who have not enough for 
their babies. 

How do you plant corn and cow peas together so 
that they can be harvested with the corn binder? 
Use Wonderful Peas and White Corn. Mix together 
half and half and plant with a two-horse corn planter 
in rows four feet apart, and so that the corn plants 
stand eight or ten inches apart in the row. If the 
rows are closer than four feet, the pea vines reach 
across from row to row and make it somewhat harder 
to harvest, but with the Deering corn binder we find 
little trouble in cutting it fast enough. We like 
planting the corn and peas in the same row better 
than to plant the peas alongside the corn. 



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Duroc Hogs 320 

Pip in Chickens 320 

Improving Land 320 

Improving Land 321 

Alfalfa 321 

Fertilizing Land for Bright To- 
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Scours in Calves 321 

Diseased Apple Tree 321 

Grass for Name 321 

Ginseng 322 

Alfalfa Bacteria — Bermuda Grass 
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Grain Crops for Hay 322 

Peanut Pickers 322 

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Grass for Hill Side for Pasture. . . 323 
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Brick Making 323 

Cultivation of Corn — Applying 
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Diseased Tobacco — Lime for To- 
bacco — Sow Eating Pigs... 324 

Preserving Eggs for Winter 325 

Fertilizing for Cow Peas 325 

Angora Goats 325 

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Chickens Eating Feathers 326 

Green Fallows for Tobacco 326 

Rotation of Crops 326 

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Rotation of Crops— Lime 327 

Navy Beans— Velvet Beans 327 

Buckwheat and Clover 328 

Diseased Plum Tree 328 

Barreness of Fig Trees 328 

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Drying a Cow 328 



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a Made single or double. 
'fjS t ^ i One or two furrows five 
it^_,--^ -••''/, S§f=>to ten inches deep; 14 
l&akir^GT** T ') Inches wide. For two or 
~~~%J four horses. Light draft. 
/ ^ ~\-._r^r"^ No side draft. No similar 
plow made. When Clark's grass tools are used 
aB directed in his grass circular, we, the C.H. Co., 
guarantee them to kill wild mustard, charlock, 
hard hack, sunflower, milkweed, morning glory, 
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 MARROW CO., 

Higganum, Ct., U. S. A. 



SILOS 

And the only Patent Roof 

THE -PHILADELPHIA" 

E. F. SCHLIOHTER 

1910 Market St. PHILADELPHIA, PA. 
Also made by the Duplex Manufactur- 
ing Co., South Superior, Wis. 




Defender 
Sprayer 

All brass, easiest wort 
ing, most powerful, aut* 
matic mixer, expantios 
valves, double strainer 
Catalogue of Pumps and 
Treatise on Spraying fre». 
Agents Wanted: 
J. F. Oaylord, Box 82 Cat skill, K. t. 




AbkYour F SPRAY PUMPS. 
DEALER Doable-Acting Lift, 

R Power, lanH and Spr.j.7 

PUMPE 

Store Ladders, Etc. 
Barn Door Hangers 
Aluminum Finished 

HAY TOOLF 

of nil kinds. Writ* f<v 
Cirenjare and Pr ic<- 
: ;'. Itp < .'.- lirn.AnhI»- ' 



CHAMPION<»s^sa« 

an D HAY PRESS 

At it for 30 years and right up-to-date. 

Presses of every style and for every pur- 

\ posf. If wanting a Baling Press write to 

FAMOUS MFB, GO. east chicaco, i'nd. 

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



Cooper, and delighted to fina the hated 
keeper off his guard, suddenly swung 
her trunk around and felled Mooney to 
the ground. The next moment the ele- 
phant man would have been crushed 
under the feet of the brute, but in 
some way Babe discovered her mis- 
take, and, instead of further injuring 
the favorite keeper, gently turned 
him over with her trunk and sought 
in her dumb way to revive him. 

Mooney was only half conscious of 
all this, and the idea was probably 
evolved to some extent from his 
knowledge of the elephant and her 
character; but a few minutes later, 
when he had sufficiently recovered 
from the blow he had received, he 
walked up to Babe, spoke soothingly 
to her, and put his arms around her 
trunk. And the way that old elephant 
responded to his caresses was beauti- 
ful to see. She was all contrition for 
what she had done — any one with half 
an eye could see that, while the gen 
uine affection she had for Mooney and 
the delight she felt over his providen- 
tial escape was evident in every move- 
ment of her great body. Just a week 
from that night Babe actually caught 
Cooper in the same way, knocked him 
down and nearly crushed out his life 
under the weight of her body. Here 
you have the entire gamut of human 
passions and emotions — love, hate, 
memory, calculation, regret, contrition, 
atonement, revenge. Absolutely noth- 
ing lacking but speech — and who ever 
claimed that the power to articulate 
was a pre-requisite to the possession 
of a soul? — Country Gentleman. 



SCIENCE IN FARMING. 
Good, hard, clear thinking is essen- 
tial to success in any business and as 
applied to farming must go hand in 
hand with hard work. That the 
American farmer is grasping every op- 
portunity to acquire scientific knowl- 
edge that will enable him to meet and 
solve the problems which every day 
come up in the successful operation 
of his farm, is a matter of note. We 
find several indications of it. A few 
years ago at the farmers' institutes, 
occasions on which the farmer would 
closely follow the lecturer with a 
series of searching questions were 
rare; to-day on the other hand, it is 
a common experience to hear a farmer 
thoroughly question the lecturer and 
even offer the result of his experi- 
ments. But this is not the only fact 
which demonstrates that the farmer is 
doing hard thinking. Equally as note- 
worthy as the above is the fact that 
more farmers every year realize the 
vast saving in time and labor that re- 
sults from the use of the Champion 
harvesting machines. The progres- 
sive farmer knows that the Champion 
machines are an essential element in 
successful farming and consequently 
buys them, and the increasing num- 
ber of these machines bought each 
year is an encouraging indication of 
the rapid progression of our farmers. 



YOU 



Can Save a Lot of Work! 
Can Save a Lot of Mone y! 

Can Increase Your Comforts! 
Can Increase Your Profits! 

If you are interested in those things if* 
' \ I II A. we ' lllike to send you ournew book about 

ELECTRIC Wheels 

and the 

ELECTRIC Han Wagon 

^k More than a million and a quarter of them are 
in use and several hundred thousand farmers say 
that they are the best investment they ever made. 
They'll save you more money, more work, give bet- 
ter service and greater satisfaction than any other 
metal wheel made— because They're Made Better. 
By every test they are the best. Spokes united to 
the hub. If they work loose, your money back. 
Don't buy wheels nor wagon until you read our 
book. It may save you many dollars and it's free. 

ELECTRIC WHEEL CO., 

Box 146 Quincy, Ills. 






GOOD TOP BUG. 
GIES $28.35. 

Two Years Guarantee 

COLUMBUS QUEEN 
$49.50. 

On 30 Days Free Trial I 
Catalogue Free. 

THE OHIO VEHICLE & HARNESS CO., Columbus, 0. 




WE'LL PAY THE FREIGHT 

and send 4 Buggy Wheels, Steel Tire on, . $ 7.25 
With Rubber Tires, $15.00. I mfg. wheels % to4in. 
tread. Top Buggies, $28.75 ; Harness. 5360. Write for 
catalogue. Learn hnw to buy vehicles ^nd parts direct. 
Wagon Umbrella FREE. W. F. KOU U, Cincinnati, O. 



FARMERS 

THE FONTAINE SHOCK BINDER is used 
and recommended on the Test Farms of the 
United States, Virginia, North Carolina, and 
Illinois. It is a strong windlass, weighing 
three pounds. Saves labor. Prevents shocks 
tailing. Keeps shocks dry inside. Sent by 
express prepaid for $1.50. Write for free 
circular with testimonials and directions for 
cutting and shocking corn. Agents wanted. 
FONTAINE SHOCK BINDER CO., Christie, 
Va. 




T YOUR IDEAS 

00,000 offered for one in- 

vention; $8,500 for another. 

Book "How to Obtain a Patent" 

__ "Whattolnvenfsentfree. Send 

roug-h sketch for free report as tc 

patentability. We advertise yon* 

patent for sale at our expense. 

CHANDLEE & CHANDLEE, Patent Attorney* 

976 F Street, Washington, D. C 

j& ROOFING TIN j& 

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

HARRIS HARDWARE CO., *»**<* 



Richm'd.Va. 



YOU CAN MAKE S3 TO $10 A DAY 

Fitting glasses for us. Big profit* 
Our 24-page FREE EYE BOOK 
tells how. Write for it today. 

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



548 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[May, 



CREAM 

Separators 

have been sold too much on talk. 

We sell ours on trial. Try it on 

your own farm. The America.iv 

will pay for itself even though you 

have but a few cows. The price 

is remarkably low. The machine 

is a money maker. Write for 

separator book. Mailed free. 

American Separator Co., 

Box 1076 Baonbridge, N.Y. 

Won Medal at Paris Exposition. 




If You Have Not Been Able to Get a 

Hydraulic Pump or Ram 

and are in need of one, we are just Introducing 
our new standand HYDRAULIC PUMPS, the 
simplest, best, cheapest and most convenient in 
every way, and you can secure one at cost by 
writing the 

STANDARD HYDRAULIC PUHP CO., 
Roanoke, Ya. 



RIFE HYDRAULIC ENGINE 



Try it 30 Days Free. 

| Constant water supply in your home 

• buildinprsany height above stream. 

I Water power does it. Keeps £oing 

and night with no attention or 

running expense. Get 

our free catalogue. 

RIFE ENGINE CO., 

[ 126 Liberty *t. Hen Yort. 



VIRGINIA DIVISION. 

FARMER'S MUTUAL BENEFIT ASSOCIATION. 

Chartered by State of Vlrgiala. 
A fire Insurance Association for farmer! «f 

Eastern Virginia. 
Organized January 9, 18 9; amount lm- 
gured January 9, 1904, $370,000; policies se- 
cured by real and personal property, esti- 
mated value, $1,000,000. For further Informa- 
tion address CHAS. N. FRIEND, General 
Agent, Cheater, Va. 

llftfiiTE 

GREENSBORO, N.C. 

For the treatment of THE LIQUOR, OPIUM, MORPHINE «\< 
other Drug Addictions. The Tobbacco Habit, Nerve Exhaustiur 

WANTED 

A single white man to take charge of the 
grounds of the Virginia Club, and to live on 
the premises. He should know something of 
flowers, shrubs, etc. Apply to JAS. Mc- 
GRAW, 1323 E. Main street, Richmond, Va. 



WORKING 



MANAGER 



Wanted on a farm 40 miles from Richmond; 
must work as well as manage farm; good 
offer to right man; no drinking man need 
apply. Address Box 485, Richmond. Va. 

NO fflOfG BllflO HOrSGS Moon Blndness and other 
sore eyes, Harry Co., Iowa City, la, have a sure 
eure. 



THE HARVEST. 

The most vital work of the nation is 
that of gathering the grain. At the 
same time it is one of the hardest 
tasks as well as one of the severest 
tests of endurance; and strange to say 
the world pays little attention to this 
important work, for the man on the 
binder is a man worthy of his rank 
among men. 

In the heated days of a long, dry 
summer the harvest of grain becomes 
a siege of endurance, which muscles 
cannot always withstand. With heat 
ranging from 80 degrees to 110 degrees 
the farmer steadfastly sticks to his 
binder day after day and never wavers, 
cutting away the sheaves of golden 
grain. 

And what is the essential feature of 
this great work? Could it be done 
without a binder? And can it be done 
with a poor one? McCormick binders 
were made especially to meet the 
severe conditions just spoken of. 
Things always seem to go witmg when 
the mind and body are straining every 
nerve to accomplish a certain purpose 
under adverse circumstances, but the 
user of the McCormick binder may rest 
assured that trouble will never come 
to him when using one of these ma- 
chines, no matter how hot the sun, or 
how tangled and heavy the grain may 
be, for his binder is a binder with a 
record. 



HANDSOME HORSE PICTURE 
FREE. 

In order to ascertain how many per- 
sons read the advertisements of the 
Studebaker wagons, carriages and har- 
ness, if you will write us a letter of 
not more than 100 words, telling us 
how many of our advertisements you 
have read, where you saw them and 
what you think of them, we will send 
you absolutely free, our beautiful 
water color lithograph, "Typical 
American Show Horses," 12x27 inches, 
printed in seven colors. 

To the six persons sending the best 
letters, we will send this picture hand- 
somely framed. All others will re- 
ceive the picture ready for framing. 
Contest closes June 1st, when pic- 
tures will be awarded. We know you 
will be glad to have it. Send to-day 
while you think of it. Address, Stude- 
baker Bros. Mfg. Co., South Bend, Ind. 



A SHOCK BINDER. 
Among the new advertisements in 
this issue, is that of the Fontaine 
Shock Binder Co. This firm is offer- 
ing what seems to us to be a very 
useful device in the shape of a Corn 
Shock Binder. It is a small windlass. 
weighing 3 pounds, and is operated by 
a simple pressure of the hand which 
will tighten the shock so it will not 
fall or be blown down. The shock thus 
tightened will turn water a great deal 
better than one bound by the hand 
only. Look up the ad and send for a 
descriptive circular and testimonials. 



UNION LOCK POULTRY FENCING 

HAS BEEN FULLY 

TESTED AND FOUND 

SUPERIOR TO ALL 

OTHERS. 

Will fit uneven 
ground without 
cutting. Every part 
can be stretched 
perfectly. Made of 
high grade galvanized steel wire. All horizontal 
lines are cables, making it stronger. Has fine mesh 
at the bottom for small chicks. We also make 
extra heavy for gardens, lawns, etc. The largest 

Eoultry farms are using this fence — over 700 rods 
y 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, Law n and Poultry Fencing. 
CASE BROS., Box 340, Colchester, Conn.* ► 





WIRE • FENCE 

Heavy lateral wires, heavy hard steel stays, coll- 
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. 

Gequiqe Spiral Spring Wiie 

FENCES HMD GATES 

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

INTERNATIONAL FENCE AND F. CO. 
Columbus, Ohio. 

THE WIRE BOARD FENCING 





Strongest, most durable and economical fencing 
on the market. This is a strong statement, but is 
based on actual experience, and absolute facts. We 
have the proof. Write forfree sample and circulars. 
Tke Truss tt Cable Fence Co., 610 Cuyahoga Bldg., Cleveland, O. 




IF YOU USE 

Page Stock and Farm Fence It don't matter what 
kind of Btock you keep, they'll all be fenced. 

PAGE WOVEN WIRE FENCE CO., Box 57, Adrian, Mick. 

fr ta/Q^ieM. jfiy* LAWN FENCE 



mrMwm.\wm 



Many designs. Cheap as 
wood. 32 page Catalogue 
free. Special Prices to Come* 
terles and Churches. Address 
CO I LED SPRING FENCE SO. 
Box Q Winchester, Ind. 



IKUAr We ' u tell yon the cheapest 
IfcrSWt andbestwaytobuildit. Of 



HP 

HngVj any kind ol wire, for any requirement, 

WatWT with cheap labor, no machine and we'll tell 
Bob you how to fix yourold fences too. Write 
■■ B B. FENCE CO., 142 W. 3rd St., Peru, Ind 




FENCE! 



STROMGESt 
MADE. Bun 

strong. Chlekenv 
tight. Sold to the Farmer at Wholesale 

Price*. Full j Warranted. Catalog FTM 

COLLED SPUING FENCE CO., 
Box «v» Winchester. Indiana. U. 8. 1 



Mention The SotmiEBN Planteb 
when corresponding with advertisers. 



1904.] 



THE SOUTHEEN PLANTER. 



349 



Corn 

must have a sufficient supply of 

Potash 

in order to develop into a crop. 
No amount of Phosphoric 
Acid or Nitrogen can compen- 
sate for a lack of potash in 
\ as fertilizers [for 

'|("Pwi&/ grain and all 
other crops]. 



We shall be glad 
io send free to any 
farmer ourlittlebook 
which contains valu- 
able information 
about soil culture. 

GERHAN KALI WORKS, 





RELIABLE SEED 



FOR THE FARM AND GARDEN. 

Cow Peas, Soja Beans, Sorghums, 
Millets, Teosinte, Kaffir Corn, Field 
Corns, Buckwheat and all varieties of 
Field and Garden Seeds of the highest 
quality and germination. Fertilizers for 
all crops. Write us for quotations. 



CATALOG MAILED FREE. 



DIGGS & BEADLES, 

1709 East Franklin Street, 
RICHMOND, VA. 



Pumpkin Seed. 

VIRGINIA MAMMOTH, largest and most 
productive variety for table and stock. Cost 
nothing to grow in corn field, but price of 
seed, and greatly benefits corn by shading 
the roots. Splendid keeper. Fresh selected 
seed. 35c. pound delivered; 5 pounds or over, 
at 30c. E. C. BELLWOOD, R. P. D., No. 1, 
Manchester, Va. 



SEED 
CORN 



SAFONI 

A beautiful white variety and a wonderful 
ylelder: 2 to 4 large ears to a stalk ; don't fail 
to try It. 

HIGH GRADE RED POLL and Aberdeen- 
Angus Cattle, both sexes.— Address, 

LOUIS B. QILLILAND, Jr., Clarksville, Va. 

BERMUDA GRASS ROOTS. 

50c per bu.; 10 bus. and over, 37 Jc 
P. N. LITTLE, Bold Spring, Ga. 



'Golden Seal" 



as a money crop ; 
Its commercial 
value, cultivation 
and profits. Attractive booklet 25 cents. 

J. HOAQ, Jr., Tomhannock, N. Y. 



NOVEL UNDERTAKING. 

When it comes to novel and difficult 
feats in the engineering line, Pitts- 
burgh easily takes the lead over any 
city in the country. Only a little more 
than a year ago the young firm of 
Kress-Hanlon Company successfully 
performed the arduous undertaking of 
moving one of the Standard Oil Com- 
pany's great steel tanks by boats on 
the Allegheny river, attracting to 
themselves thereby the notice of en- 
gineers and of the scientific press all 
over the country. 

The latest undertaking of this char- 
acter and probably the most difficult 
and perilous so far attempted, will be 
the removal by river next week of a 
large two story brick building, weigh- 
ing over 160 tons, from Sharpsburg, 
Pa., to Allegheny. 

Actuated by sentimental reasons, 
Mr. H. J. Heinz, the founder and pres 
ent head of the great Pickling and 
Preserving Company bearing his 
name, has for many years desired to 
bring into the midst of the company's 
handsome group of buildings in Alle- 
gheny, the old place built by his 
father fifty years ago — the building 
in which thirty-five years ago the busi- 
ness of H. J. Heinz Company was 
started, and there convert it into a 
museum for the preservation of relics 
and curios; but the obstacles in the 
way of moving it by road were insur- 
mountable. 

Mr. Heinz was unwilling to tear the 
building down and reconstruct it, pre- 
ferring if possible, to preserve the 
original building intact, and various 
building movers were consulted as tu 
the practicability of moving the house 
by river; but the difficulty of hand- 
ling a brick structure safely on a 
swaying boat in the swift current of 
the Allegheny river made the risk of 
disaster seem too great, and nothing 
was done in the matter until the pres- 
ent spring, when the Kres-Hanlon 
Company, encouraged by their pre- 
vious successful accomplishment, 
agreed to undertake the task, using 
the river as a highway, and about a 
month ago the building was lifted 
from its foundations and started on 
its journey to the river bank. 

The trip down the river will be full 
of exciting interest, as several bridges 
must be passed, one of which is so low 
that the boats will have to be lowered 
several feet by scuttling, and then 
pumped out after the bridge is passed. 
Many representatives of the press will 
be on the tow boat as guests of the 
H. J. Heinz Company, when the trip 
is made, which if no mishap occurs, 
will probably require something more 
than half a day, including the passage 
of the locks just above the Heinz 
Plant. — Pittsburgh Press. 



Daughter — Are all men bad, papa? 

Father — No-no, my child; you will 
always be safe with your grandpa and 
me. 



LICE. 

KILL THE LICE AND MITES on your 
fowls and chicks with GIBSON'S LIQUID 
LICE KILLER, and GIBSON'S INSECT 
POWDER. Paint the Liquid on the roosts 
and bottom of Coops, and dust the Powder In 
the nest boxes. Both guaranteed or money 
refunded. 

Liquid Lice Killer, $1.00 per gallon; one- 
half gallon, 60c. Insect Powder, 5 oz. box, 
15c. ; and 16 oz. box, 40c. postpaid. 

Agents wanted. Liberal terms. 
GIBSON & LAMB, Wext Alexander, Pa. 

Poultry House Swarming with Lice. 

GIBSON & LAMB: 

Gentlemen,— The can of liquid louse killer 
I obtained from you did the work most effec- 
tually. The poultry house was fairly swarm- 
ing with lice, as well as the fowls. I painted 
the roosts and dropping boards thoroughly 
with the liquid, and have been unable to dis- 
cover a louse since. It not only kills lice, 
but I consider it a disinfectant and preven- 
tive of disease. They should erect a monu- 
ment in "Hen Heaven" to Gibson as being 
the discoverer of the greatest boon to poultry 
in existence. EDWIN B. COLLINS, 

Pequot Poultry Yards, Mystic, Conn. 



Oh, when you want the business done 
By play that's strong and steady, 

Just take a look at old SLUG SHOT, 
For that's the stuff that's ready. 




TRADE MARK- 

SOLD BY THE SEED DEALERS. 
For pamphlet on Bugs and Blights, 
address, Bepj. Hammond, Fishkill-on- 
Hudsou, N. Y. 




The Only Cow Food 

Which removes Garlic, 
Onion and Weed Taint 
from Milk. Sendforch"- 
cular to 

, VA. CATTLE FO^D CO. 

'iiiV WWBBtjXIj." .J 

l ' U 'SMllHANDein : 'WI* sintB ' DANVILLE. VIRGINIA. 

FOR SALE BY 

E. B. McGeorge, Richmond, Va. 

W. H. Harrison Co., Petersburg, Va. 

W. A. Miller & Son, T. A. Jennings & Co., 
Lynchburg, Va. 

R. G. Hiatt, L. Richardson Drug Co., 
Greensboro, N. C. 

Raleigh Milling Co., Raleigh, N. C. 

J. M. Starr & Co., Yorkville, S. C. 

T. J. Wills & Co., Charlottesville, Va. 

Dr. L. S. Ricketts, Orange, Va. 



MODERN CANNER FOR $25 

Complete farm canning plant, including 
cans, tools, etc. Write to-day. MODERN 
CANNER CO.. Bridgeport, Alabama. 



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



350 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[May, 



Northern Virginia 



Grain, Fruit, Dairy and Blue 
Grass Farms of Every Class within 
one hour of Washington, D. C. 

LOUDOUN COUNTY 
Farms a Specialty... 

Catalogue on application. 

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

Herndon, Fairfax Co., Va. 



HOMES* 



FIND THEM. 



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

W. A. PARSONS, Vinita, Va. 

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



.♦To Homeseekers- 

"THE BUSINESS OF FARMING 
IN VIRGINIA." 

Ia the title of a new pamphlet Issued by the 
Norfolk and Western Railway Company. We 
will gladly mall you a copy. 
W. B. BEVILL, PAUL SCHERER, AgL, 
G. P. A., Lands and Immlgratloio 
Roanoke, Va. 



. .. FOR SALE... 

FARMS AND SUBURBAN HOMES OF 
EVERY DESCRIPTION. 

25, 50. 100. 500, 1,000 and 2,000 acre tracts. 
Some of these highly improved and conve- 
nient to schools, churches, steam and trolley 
lines. If you want to buy or sell a Virginia 
farm, see Hockaday & Casselman. Richmond, 
Va. 

J. R. HOCKADAY, Richmond, Va. : LAW- 
RENCE CASSELMAN, Ex-Auditor McLaine 
Co., N. Dakota. 



/ Can Sell Your Farm.... 

If located In one of these Virginia counties 
Prtace George, Chesterfield, King William 
Gloucester, New Kent, King and Queen 
Hanover. Send description, stating price. 

JOHN JELINEK, 1116 Pine Alley, 
Braddock, Pa. 

Cultivation and Storage 
of Sweet Potatoes. 

Instructions from start to finish thorough 

Plans hold good the your round 

By mall (preferably by M. O.), 50 cents. 
If you register, deduct fee. BRYAN TYSON. 
Box, 210, Carthage, N. C. 



THE BUSINESS PARMER. 
It is generally conceded to-day that 
the successful farmer is the business 
farmer, the one who runs his farm on 
strictly business principles. He keeps 
careful account each year of what 
every department has cost him and 
what returns it has brought, and if 
the balance is not on the right side he 
immediately investigates. If the dairy 
department, for instance, does not pay 
he locates the leak. It may be that 
he has not been feeding his cattle to 
secure the greatest amount of butter 
fat in the cream, so he immediately 
proceeds to remedy this defect. Per- 
haps he has not secured the net profit 
which the size of his crops warranted 
him in expecting. This may be due ] 
to the fact that labor cost him too 
much or that his binder was old or 
too flimsy to do the work quickly and 
thoroughly. In the latter case he 
needs a new machine and the busi- 
ness farmer immediately proceeds to 
buy a Deering binder, because it is 
constructed to give satisfaction to the 
farmer. Deering harvesting machines 
make money for the farmer because 
they are durable and wear well, and 
consequently require few repairs, and 
because they are constructed on prin- 
ciples that are mechanically correct. 
Deering Ideal machines are known 
the world over for these sterling qual- 
ities, and they are an essential part 
of the farm equipment of every prac- 
tical business farmer. 



A PUMP A MINUTE. 
The 500 expert mechanics employed 
by F. E. Myers & Bro., Ashland, Ohio, 
turn out one Myers Pump every min- 
ute of the working day, besides Myers 
Hay Carriers and other articles in 
like proportion. This is the largest 
plant in the United States, manufac- 
turing pumps and hay tools exclusive- 
ly, and during the twenty-five years 
that the co-partnership has existed its 
record has been most enviable in re- 
spect to the quality of its goods and 
the integrity of its business dealings. 
In soliciting the patronage of our read- 
ers, F. E. Myers & Bro. do so on the 
merits of their goods. "Take off your 
hat to the Myers" has become a phrase 
of more than ordinary purport to both 
the trade and the retail customer, and 
its association with the Myers pumps 
is immediate in every mind. Their 
newest catalogue of pumps and hay 
tools can be had for the asking. 



HAMMOND'S SLUG SHOT. 
Elsewhere in this issue, will be 
found the advertisement of B. Ham- 
mond, Fishkill, N. Y. For a great 
number of years, he has advertised 
Slug Shot in the Southern Planter 
as hundreds of our readers know. This 
well known insecticide has found 
favor with farmers, truckers and mar- 
ket-gardeners for about 25 years, and 
the army of users grows steadily each 
year. Write to Mr. Hammond for a 
free pamphlet on "Bugs and Blights." 



Make Your Idle Money 
Earn You Interest. 



Write the FIRST NATIONAL BANK 
of RICHMOND, VIRGINIA for infor- 
mation concerning Us certificate of 
deposit, so arranged that one per 
cent, may be collected every FOUR 
MONTHS through your nearest bank 
or store. 

Our experience proves this form for 
savings to be the most satisfactory 
plan yet devised for deposits of $100 00 
or more. 

Our Cap tal and Surplus is 

ONE MILLION DOLLARS. 

VIRGINIUS NEWTON, President. 

JNO. M. MILLER, Jr., Vice-Pres. & Cashier. 
CHAS. R. BURNETT, Assistant Cashier. 
J. C. JOPLIN, Assistant Cashier. 

"In the Green Fields of Virginia." 

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

MACON & CO., Orange, Va. 

• -**• 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. 



So South. 



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



PMC EADMC ln the Sre&t fruit grain and 
rlllL rHnlllO stock section of VIRGINIA. 

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

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

VIRGINIA FARMS 

•II prices and sizes. Free Hat on application. 
WM.B. PIZZINI CO.. Richmond. Va. 

VIRGINIA FARMS 

$3 PER ACRE AND UPWARDS. 

SAST PAYMENTS. CATALOGUE FRHB. 

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

Established 1875. 

BACK NUMBERS 

WANTED. We will pay 10 cents a copy for 
all of last year's numbers. We have several 
subscribers who want various issues, and 
others who want the entire volume. Drop us 
a postal stating what numbers you are willing 
to dispose of. Will pay cash or credit your 
subscription. 

SOUTHERN PLANTER, Richmond, Va. 



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351 



GREAT BARGAINS IN 



VIRGINIA 




Below i give a few of the many choice offerings I have of Virginia Real Estate ; fuller particulars, if desired. 



No. 6. 

Contains 163 acres; one-half under 
cultivation; balance in second-growth 
timber. Good seven-room dwelling and 
necessary outbuildings; good orchard 
in fine fruit section. Farm lies near 
Southern railroad, twenty miles from 
Washington; well watered; a splend 
dairy farm. Price, $2,000. 

No. 16. 

130 acres — 20 acres hardwood, bal- 
ance in good state of improvement, and 
a splendid quality of red clay subsoil; 
50 acres in wheat and timotby; 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 hi"' 
Farm watered by large branches. 
Price. $20.00 per acre. Terms, to suit 
purchaser 

No. 17. 

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

No. 22. 

225 acres in Loudoun county, 2 1-2 
miles from railroad station, 40 acres 
in oak and hickory timber, soil ma- 
hogany clay, stiff clay subsoil, fine 
grain and grass land, all level and 
well drained, one to two miles from 
three churches and post-office. Run- 
ning water in every field. Land in 
good state of production, free from 
stones. A good seven-room dwelling, 
dry cellar, shady lawn, a large barn, 
complete with stalls, grain room and 
driveway. Water in barn yard, double 
corn crib, meat and poultry house, all 
in good repair. Deep well at kitchen 
door. Situated in refined neighbor- 
hood. Price, $20 per acre. 

No. 23. 
50 acres in Fairfax county, 2 miles 
from town, 10 acres in timber, 3 acres 
in apples, peaches, pears and cherries. 
Situated 13 miles from Washington, 
high state of cultivation. Operated 
now as a plant and market garden. 
Improvements, a nice two-story seven- 
room dwelling, barn 40x50, work shop, 
hog, poultry and meat houses, all in 



excellent repair. Situated on macadam 
road. Price, $2,650. 

No. 25. 

175 acres in Rockbridge county, 1 1-2 
miles from Buena Vista, Va. 120 acres 
in blue grass, 10 acres in wheat, 15 
acres for corn, balance in timber. Soil 
lime stone clay, high state of improve- 
ment. Land gently rolling and well 
fenced. New 10-room dwelling, two 
large porches, good 5-room tenant 
house and other small outbuildings, 
barn was burned, stone foundation 
37x50 in good repair. Good spring in 
every field. Price $5,300. 

No. 28. 

516 acres in Rockbridge county, 1 1-2 
miles from town, near railroad; 300 
acres of cleared land, 70 acres in 
wheat, 26 acres in white oak and hick- 
ory timber, 230 acres in blue grass and 
timothy sod, 190 acres of mineral land, 
1 mile from railroad, cleared land in 
high state of cultivation, excellent 
fences. Improvements — new 10-room 
brick dwelling with three cellars, hot 
and cold water in house, telephone 
connections with county and long dis- 
tance phones, barn 44x60, stable 30x45, 
sheep barn 24x15, double corn crib 
and granary 25x30, machine, car- 
riage, ice and poultry houses, two 5 
room tenant houses. Price, $16,000; 
one-third cash and balance on 10 year 
time if desired. 

No. 31. 

2 acre lot, situated at intersection 
of three public highways, in a prosper- 
ous and thickly settled neighborhood. 
Improvements — a 2-story 6-room dwell- 
ing, a large store house, 5 rooms over j 
the store, a feed stable 18x40, 20 f eet | 
high, blacksmith shop, wheelwright 
shop, and 4-room tenant house, all oc- j 
cupied and in excellent repair. Price, 
$1,500. Fine business stand. 
No. 34. 

50 acres — Truck and fruit farm in 
Virginia, near steam and electric rail- 
road, 12 miles from Washington, 10 
acres in timber. This farm is almost 
covered with fruit trees, namuly, 
peaches, pears, plums, cherries, apples, 
crab apples and berries. Land is 
smooth and gently rolling, watered by 
several springs. Improvements — 5- j 
room frame dwelling, barn 30x35, corn 
crib, granary, wagon and wood shed, ! 
hog, poultry and meat houses, all in 



good repair. In excellent neighbor- 
hood. Price, $5,000. 

No. 30. 

50 acres in Loudoun county, 3 1-2 
miles from railroad. Land chocolate 
clay; 5 acres in timber, 3 acres in 
apple orchard 10 years old. Land in 
good condition. Improvements — a new 
6-room dwelling not quite finished, a 
large stable, and other small farm 
buildings in fair condition. Price, 
$1,600. 

No. 33. 

400 acres in Loudoun county, con- 
venient to railroad, level road, 40 
acres in timber, balance cleared, di- 
vided into eight fields, running water 
in all, good fence. Land well set in 
timothy and clover. Soil mahogany 
clay and some yellow loam, fine grain 
and grass land. Situated in pleasant 
neighborhood, 24 miles from Washing- 
ton. Improvements — 7-room dwelling, 
1 1-2 story, new sheep barn and new 
cow barn, large stable for 9 horses, 
machine sheds, granary, corn crib, 
poultry house, fine spring house with 
large spring at edge of lawn. This 
farm is smooth and level. There are 
about 300 sheep and lambs on nis 
farm. If farm is sold by May 20th, 
1904, the farm and sheep and one-htuf 
of the lambs can be bought for $8,500 
on easy terms. 

No. 35. 

400 acres in Loudoun county, 26 
miles from Washington, 60 acres in 
timber, balance cleared, smooth and 
just a little rolling, divided into seven 
fields, excellent fences, running water 
in all, 50 acres in wheat, 230 acres of 
orchard grass, blue grass, , timothy 
and clover. Any of this land will 
grow from 40 to 50 bushels of corn to 
the acre without fertilizer. Improve- 
ments — handsome 8-room dwelling 
with closets, pantry and cellar, two 
long porches, new barn 30x100 feet, 
stalls for 12 horses and 50 big cattle, 
4-room tenant house, granary and all 
other necessary small farm houses in 
excellent repair, large store house 
near dwelling, post-office in store, tele- 
phone in house. There are 30 thre« 
year old cattle on this farm. If farm is 
sold by the 20th of May, 1904. the farm 
and 30 cattle can be bought for 
$9,000; one-third cash, balance to suit 
the purchaser. 



I have a number of other good farms for sale, both large and small, Write me description of 
wha t you want, and I shall be more than pleased to serve you. 

W. E. MILLER, Herndon, Va. 



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[May, 




All Sheep 

i are a prey to scab, lice, ticks, etc. 

I You should act promptly with the 
sovereign remedy. Don't experi- 
ment; others have done it for you. 
The result is they all endorse 




Used exclusively by Government 
Experiment Stations, Agricultural 
Colleges and leading 6heep men 
everywhere. Relieves from ticks, 
red lice, and maggots, removes 
intestinal worms, heala wounds 
and sores, and prevents contagion 
among all animals. 

"The Great Coal Tar Carbolic 
Disinfectant Dip." 

Mixed with water only, requires 

no chemicals. One gallon makes 

100 gallons or dip. 

Sample pal., express prepaid, 61.50. 

Five gallons, 1'reight prepaid, 80.25. 
Send for booldets,"VeterinaryAdviser" 
and 'Tiggie's Troubles." Both free. 

Zennei* Disinfectant Go. 
S3 Bates St. 
Detroit, Michigan. 







COOPER 

4 SHEEP DIP 



Standard of the World 

for 60 years. Used on 250 millions an- 
nually. One dipping kills Ticks, Lice 
and Nits. No smell. Keeps flock clean a 
long time. Increases growth of woo). 
Dipping Tanks at cost. 
Send for Pamphlet to Chicflgo. 
If local druggists cannot supply, send 
$1.75 for $2.00 ( I 00 gal.) pkt. to 
JOHNSON & STOKES, Philadelphia, Pa. 
O. A. KELLY & CO., Pittsburg, Pa. 
WM. COOPER & NEPHEWS, Chicago, III. 



SECRET 

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



THE ADVANTAGES OF A WATER 
TELEGRAPH. 

MABY WASHINGTON. 

Nothing is more essential to the 
comfort and well-being of a household 
than an abundant supply of water, 
fresh, pure water, but it is often quite 
a serious problem to country people 
how they are to get this* Most per- 
sons living in the country build (or 
inherit from their ancestors) their 
dwelling house on a hill, partly for the 
sake of health, and partly for the sake 
of the view, and as springs have a 
perverse way of having a low location, 
it is often a perplexing matter to us 
how we are to get an unstinted sup- 
ply of water for drinking, cooking and 
bathing purposes. In slavery times, 
we had relays of little negroes, whose 
chief duty in life was to "tote" fresh 
water from the spring, and this they 
did, at short intervals throughout the 
day, so we were not subjected to any 
stint or inconvenience about our wa- 
ter supply, no matter how far off the 
spring might be. The little negroes 
who used to be such good water car- 
riers are now turned into poor schol- 
ars, staggering under the weight of 
their school books, or else they are 
scattered far and wide by the migra- 
tions of their parents, or even if at 
hand, they are no longer available to 
us. 

In view of the changed condition of 
things, we are compelled to call in the 
aid of machinery of some kind to make 
good the shortage in our water sup- 
ply. There are several expedients to 
which we may resort. In the first 
place, we may dig a well, but in some 
localities, this is very difficult and ex- 
pensive, owing to the nature of the 
soil and in some cases it is almost im- 
posible to strike water. Again, if a 
person is in easy circumstances, not 
hampered by a mortgage or any press- 
ing debt, it is an excellent plan to have 
a wind milk if we have a favorable 
location for one. A wind mill is un- 
doubtedly a great boon to a household, 
and it is also of the greatest utility 
about the flower garden, vegetable 
garden, lawn and stables, if you have 
pipes laid to convey the water to these 
different points. I have seen it tried 
with signal success; the vegetables 
throve, the flowers flourished luxu- 
riantly, the grass kept green through- 
out the heat and drought of summer, 
and moreover, the family could in- 
dulge in unlimited bathing by means 
of the water conveyed into their 
dwelling whenever the wind blew, en- 
abling them vividly to appreciate the 
force of the proverb that "it is an ill 
wind that blows no good." 

But the drawback about a wind mill 
is that it is not within the compass of 
every one's means, especially when 
you add the adjunct of piping, and 
therefore I have an alternative to pro- 
pose; a water telegraph. This is really 
the most feasible and practicable 
scheme I have seen proposed. It is so 
simple and inexpensive that it is eas- 



No good 
grocer sells a 
lamp-chim- 
ney without 
Macbeth on it 



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

Macbeth, Pittsburgh. 








eath 

owder 



< 4 



..AAAAAAAAAAAAAAJ 
NOT A POISON, but a remarkable discov- 
ery which is very effective in causing stupe- 
faction and death to all kinds of Insects In- 
fecting Poultry, Animals, Plants and Houses. 
Put up in a box ingeniously arranged for con- 
veniently dusting or blowing the powder 
where wanted. 

Send 25c. to MAGIC FOOD CO., Chatta- 
nooga, Tenn., and get a book by mail. A 
beautiful picture in colors suitable for fram- 
ing given FREE with each order during the 
next 30 days. Rid your Chickens of Lice, 
Pet Animals of Fleas, etc. Your House of 
Bed Bugs Flies and Mosquitoes, by the use 
of MAGIC DEATH POWDER. 

200,000 

Cabbage Plants. 

ALL HEAD, SUCCESSION, and CHARLES- 
TON, nice stalky outdoor grown, 25c. per 100; 
$1.50 per 1,000. Now is the time to plant my fine 
collection of mixed Dahlias, 75c. per 12; 85.00 per 
100; $40 per M. Yellow Cannas, 50c. per 12; $4.00 
per 100, all by express. By mall, 4 of my best 
varieties of Hardy Chrysanthemums 50c. per 12 
Strawberry plants. Mark T. Thompson, Rio 
Vista Va. 



WANTED! 

ALL KINDS OF 

LIVE WILD BIRDS AND ANIMALS 

Particularly Deer, Wild Turkey*, WMU 
Squirrels, Ducks, Swans, Bob White Qmafi, 
Grey Squirrels, Bear, Htc. 

CECIL FRENCH, 
718 Twelfth St. N.SW., Washington, D. C. 



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353 




Spaviif 

Bone Spavin, Bog Spavin, Ringbone or 
any kind of blemish— we have what you 
need to make a certain cure. Guaranteed 
always— money right back if It ever falls. 

Fleming's Spavin Cure (Liquid) 

for the soft bunches— Paste for the hard 
ones. A lo-minu'-e application and the 
lameness goes. Lots of blemish infor- 
mation in the free book we 6end. 

Fistula. 

arvd 

►Poll Evil 

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

: leming's Fistula & Poll Evil Cure 

Is a wonder— guaranteed to cure any 
case— money back if it fails. No cutting- 
no scar. Leaves the horse sound and 
smooth. Write for our free book on 
diseases and blemishes of horses. 

PLEMINC BROS., Chemists, 
250 Colon Stock Yards, Chicago, 111. 




s 



For every horse, cow, hog 
or sheep, and it is the only 
remedy which they take 
voluntarily and relish, 

Biackman's 
Medicated 
Salt Brick 

is the best stock remedy 
made (being the formula 
of a celebrated veterina- 
rian) and being so picas 
ant to take, on account of the salt taste, does 
awav with all trouble of dosing, drenching 
and mixing with feed. Itis unequaled as a 
blood purifier, aider o[ digestion andgenerai 
system regulator. Thousands endorse it. 
Jpeci.' i Offe- — V e will send four 
brick, pre-paid to any address upon 
receipt of $1 I 0. which will be cheei 
fully refunded if yon are not 
in every way pleased. 
Sold by dealers. BLACKMAN 
STOCK REMEDY CO.. 927 High- 
land Park, Chattanooga, T<:nn. 




FOUTZ'Si 

HORSE 

AND 

CATTLE 
"POWDER 



DAVID E.F0UTZ 

BALT/MOff£,MD. 



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

Tht finest of all animal JSQ^rV 
vitalizes and tonics ar 



>KG.5.*I°°V 



.9EATH TO HEAVES 
(iaftrftDteed 




NEWTON'S Jlmt, Cough, IJ!j. 

temper and indigestion Care. 

A veterinary specific for wind, 
• ^^^.throat and stomach troubles. 
^5^*^ Strong recommends, jl.00 per 

can. Dealers. Mail or Kx. paid. 

The Newton Remedy Co., 
Toledo, Ohio. 



ily within the reach of persons of 
moderate, or even small means. Ten 
dollars will cover every expense con- 
nected with putting up one, nor is its 
cheapness its chief, or only desidera- 
tum. It is extremely useful and effica- 
cious, and its working is so easy and 
simple that a child of ten years old can 
readily draw water by means of it. It 
is an inestimable treasure to a person 
whose house is perched on a high hill, 
with the spring at the foot of it; es- 
pecially in winter when the hill is fre- 
quently cased in ice, snow or sleet, or 
else miry from long rainy spells. You 
build a little lodge on the brow of the 
hill exactly opposite to the spring, so 
as to have a place to put the windlass 
and other fixtures needed for the water 
telegraph, and to enable persons to 
draw water under shelter when it is 
raining or snowing. Of course, you 
have an opening on the side through 
which the bucket has to pass. Then 
you have a row of posts about 12 feet 
high and 20 yards apart, extending 
between the little lodge and the spring. 
An iron bracket hook is inserted in 
the right side of each of these posts, 
and over these is tightly stretched the 
wire cable over which the bucket 
passes. The bracket hook is placed 
lower in each successive post so as 
to gradually bring the wire low 
enough as it approaches the spring for 
the bucket to dip in the water. Final- 
ly the wire after crossing the spring 
finds its terminus in the ground a lit- 
tle farther on. The bucket is lowered 
and drawn up by means of a rope. It 
should be of block tin, holding from 
two to three gallons. About once a 
month, it is well to apply machine oil 
to the machinery of the water tele- 
graph to keep it from creaking and 
working stiffly. Your correspondent 
has been using one of these water tel- 
egraphs for three years, so she is in 
a position to judge of their merits and 
great utility. I believe it would be im- 
possible to get any other contrivance 
at once so simple and inexpensive, 
and yet so efficacious and useful. They 
are not new fangled inventions. 1 
have a distinct recollection of seeing 
one of them in use in my early child- 
hood, before the war. 



The commencement exercises of Lit- 
tleton Female College, Littleton, N. C, 
will begin on Sunday, May the 22d, 
with a sermon before the faculty and 
students of the College, by Rev. G. F. 
Smith, Presiding Elder of the Warren- 
ron District. On Wednesday, the 25th, 
Dr. C. W. Byrd, of Atlanta, will preach 
the annual sermon in the College 
chapel. The commencement address 
will be delivered on Thursday the 26th, 
by Rev. R. D. Smart, D. D., of Norfolk, 
Va. In place of the usual annual ad- 
dress on missions before the Y. M. C. 
A., there will be, this year, a series of 
three addresses on missions. These 
will be delivered by Bishop A. W. Wil- 
son, of Baltimore, Md., on the evenings 
of April 12th, 13th and 14th. 



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 HITMAN REMEDY for Rben- 
niaiir.cn. Sprains, Sore Throat, etc., it 

is invaluable. 

Every bottle of Caustic ISalsam sold iB 
Warranted to give satisfaction. Price 961. 5© 
per bottle. Sold by druggists, or sent by ex- 
press, charges paid, with full directions for its 
use. Send for descriptive circulars, testimo- 
nials, etc. Address 
THE LAWRENCE-WILLIAMS COMPANY, Cleveland, Ohio. 



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 abread. 

Our handsome catalogue is free for 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. 



"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 Bew tubccriptloBi. 

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



354 



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[May, 



Get the shaving 
habit and use 
Williams' Shav- 
ing Soap. It pays. 

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 




SILVER-LACED 

WYANDOTTES. 

Eggs For Hatching. 

81.00 per 15 from strong and 
healthy birds of leading 
strains. A few choice pullete 
at 81 each. Pure-bred Poland 
China Pigs at $5.00 each. 

Dr. H. H. LEE, 

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



WALSH'S 

Barred PlymoutH RocKs 

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

L. W. WALSH, 

Box 194. Lynchburg, Va. 



CHOICE 




Of 40 Varieties Best Poultry. Fine, large il- 
lustrated descriptive Poultry Book postpaid, 
only 6c. Price list FREE. Write now. 
JOHN E. HEATWOLE, Prop. Valley Foultry 
Farms, Harrisonburg, Va. 



Partridge Cochins, 

BLACK BREASTED RED GAMES, S. C. 
RHODE ISLAND REDS, S. C. WHITE LEG- 
HORNS. 

Eggs, $1.25 per 15; $2.00 per 30. If we do 
not have what you want, write us and we 
will tell you where to get it. RIVERSIDE 
POULTRY FARM, J. B. COFFMAN & SONS, 
Dayton, 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 
genera! purpose fowl. Improve your stock 
by new blood. Fancy stock for show room. 
Large, vigorous birds for farm. Eggs, $1.50 
U $3 for 15. Circular free. VIRGINIA HILL 
POULTRY FARM, Bristol. Va.-Tenn. 



for HATCHING, carefully packed for $1 per 
setting of 15. Reduction on large orders. 
M. H. ROWE & CO., Fredericksburg, Va. 



JOE CHAMBERLAIN'S PLAN. 
England seems to listen witb rapt 
attention to Mr. Chamberlain's argu- 
ments in favor of a protective tariff 
which will mean, among other things, 
discrimination against American food 
stuffs in favor of those of the British 
colonies. Should Mr. Chamberlain 
ultimately win out, as it seems prob- 
able that he will, American food stuffs 
must find another market; so we have 
been turning our eyes toward Asia. 
The possibilities of our Asiatic trade 
are stupendous, and it seems only rea- 
sonable to presume that the Orient 
will gladly receive all the American 
farmer can produce. Wheat and flour 
have been shipped from Minneapolis 
to Hong Kong for approximately $8 
per ton, the cheapest rate known in 
the history of transportation. Cheap 
rates coupled with the determined 
Asiatic policy of our government, 
which insures a free field and equal 
opportunities to all, will stimulate the 
American farmer to increase the pro- 
ductive capacity of his land. No sin- 
gle circumstance affects this condition 
as much as improved labor saving 
farm machinery. Save time, save 
labor, save products by using the Mil- 
waukee machines. Constructed to en- 
dure and give satisfaction, Milwaukee 
machines will be found to meet every 
requirement of the farmer, and en- 
able him to supply the increasing de- 
mand for American products. 



FARMING IN THEODOSIA. 

A competent authority in Theodosia 
writes to a prominent English agri- 
cultural journal regarding the condi- 
tion of agriculture and the sale of 
agricultural implements as follows: 

"American makers of harevsting 
machines are fast monopolizing this 
branch; their machines, being much 
lighter than British makes, are more 
suitable to the country and the small 
breed of horses. Most American 
farms have their own depots in Rus- 
sia and their own people to manage 
them; these central depots appoint 
agents in different towns, and they 
also have travellers and specialists 
travelling to find out in what way 
their machines require altering to suit 
the country. If British makers wish 
to compete and get a firm hold of this 
market, they must adopt some of the 
ways of their rivals, otherwise I am 
afraid British machines in a few years 
will be completely ousted from this 
country." 

The above opinion illustrates the 
thoroughness with which the Ameri- 
can manufacturer carries out an un- 
dertaking, sparing no expense to pro- 
duce a perfect product. The farmer 
in Theodosia. where Piano harvesting 
machines at work in the field are a 
common sight, like the farmer in this 
country points to his Piano binder as 
an example of American ingenuity 
and progressiveness, which the au- 
thority says above, is rapidly ousting 
English machines in Russia. 



White Leghorns. 




Eggs $2.00 per 15 ; §5.00 per 60 ; $7.50 
Der 100. Circular shows winnings. 
C. G. M. Fink, R. F. D. 2, 

Richmond, Va. 

WINTER LAYERS 

for Southern farmers. Ten years' experience 
with fowls has taught me that WYAN- 
DOTTES and BUFF ORPINGTONS excel in 
winter laying. Blue grass S. C. ORi J ING- 
TONS (from imported stock). Eggs, $1.50 per 
13. First class BUFF and WHITE WYAN- 
DOTTE. Eggs, $1.00 per 13. M. B. TURK- 
EYS IN FALL. HUGUENOT POULTRY 
YARDS, Dublin, Va. 

BUFF ORPINGTON EGGS. 
POLAND-CHINA PIGS. 

Book your orders early for eggs from our 
solid Buff Orpingtons. Orders can only be 
tilled In turn. Sold out on cockerels long 
ago, and no stock till fall. Eggs, $1.50 per 15. 
Orpingtons only. Poland China pigs, $7 for 
pair; $3.75 for one. 

OCCONEECHEE FARM, 
Mecklenburg Co. JEFFR, VA:ESS 

PEKIN DUCK, S. C. B. LEGHORN, 
and B. P. ROCK Eggs $1.00 per 20. 

Scotch Collie Pups, 

Pedigreed, $5.00 each. 

C. H. BENNETT, Goodman, Va. 

PIT GAMES 

Black Devils and Red Cubans. 

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

For Pure-bred 
WHITE LEGHORN 

Eggs at 75c. per sitting and Cockerels at $1 
each, Address MRS. W. P. ALLEN, Walnut 
Hill, Va. 



Fresh Laid Eggs 

of Mammoth Bronze Turkeys, Barred Ply- 
mouth Rock, White Wyandotte and S. C. B. 
Leghorn Chickens. Safe delivery insured. 
Prices reasonable. MISS CLARA L. SMITH, 
Croxton, Caroline Co., Va. 



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355 



LEGHORN POULTRY FARM 




Has for sale a limited number of S. C. 
BROWN and S. C. WHITE LEGHORN 
Pullets and Roosters. Best layers known, 
Prize Winning Stock. Price, $1.00, $1.50 each. 
Eggs in season at $1.00 for 16; $2.50 for 50; 
$E.0O per 100. Satisfaction guaranteed. 

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



EGGS from Fine Fowls. 

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

♦♦♦♦ 15 FOR $1.00 ♦♦♦♦ 
except the Wyandoites w ch are 82.00 for 15 

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



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 EGG8. 
PROGRESS FARM, Boz 52, Normandy, Tenn 



EGGS for HATCHING. 

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

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



Racket Farms, Parksley, Va. 

A. S. JOHNSON, Mgr. 

Toulouse Qeese, Pekin Ducks, 

OP LARGEST STRAINS. 

RHODE ISLAND REDS WYANDOTTES, 
BROWN LEGHORNS. Can furnish Leghorn 
birds of best quality by the hundred. Geese 
eggs, 6 for $1; all others, $1 per sitting, or 
$5 per 100. 

Rhode Island Reds and water fowl a spe- 
ciality. Belgian Hares cheap. Satisfaction 
guaranteed. 



INTERNATIONAL STOCK FOOD 
BOOMING. 

Under date of April 6th, the Inter- 
national Stock Food Co. writes us as 
follows: "We have just closed the 
largest month in the history of our 
business. The year 1904 promises to 
be a record breaker for 'International 
Stock Food' as our trade is rapidly in- 
creasing from month to month. Ow- 
ing to the great increase in our busi- 
ness, we have been compelled to put 
39 additional typewriters in our office 
since January 1st, making a total of 
106. Our office force now numbers 
over 200 people." 

This is certainly a record of which 
any concern would be justly proud. 
There is not one concern in a thou- 
sand which uses 39 typewriters all to- 
gether much less an office force of 200 
people. There must be some very good 
reason for this very great evidence of 
the prosperity of the International 
Stock Food Co. We take it that it has 
a very meritorious article and that the 
farmers are finding it out by the thou- 
sands. 

An interesting ad of this company 
appears on another page. Refer to it. 
answer the questions and send for a 
valuable book. 



A prize of $5 is offered the readers 
of the Southern Planter who have 
been mail order buyers during the past 
year. A large number of letters have 
been sent out by the Long-Critchfield 
Corporation, the special Agricultural 
Advertising Agency, to persons whose 
names appear in catalogues with testi- 
monials, asking them what induced 
tbem to buy. 

Was it the advertisements? 

Was it the catalogues? 

Did they make you a special offer? 

Was it the first or second or subse- 
quent letter you received from the 
firm after receiving a catalogue? 

What is your opinion of follow-up 
letters? Do they interest you, or do 
you feel that you do not want to be 
urged to buy an article? 

Would you prefer to make up your 
mind without such urging? 

For the best answer, a prize of $5 
is to be given. While the Long-Critch- 
field Corporation can write only to a 
limited number of mail order buyers, 
a letter from that firm states that this 
announcement may be regarded as a 
letter to subscribers of the Southern 
Planter, and that they are eligible to 
compete for the prize. The onl> con- 
dition is that the letters be sent before 
May 10th. They should be addressed 
Long-Critchfield Corporation, Powers 
Building, Chicago. 



A lady, having sent an order for a 
joint of mutton to the butcher who 
usually supplied the wants of her 
household, received the following note 
in reply: "Dear Mem, — I am sorry I 
have not killed myself this week, but 
you can have a leg off my brother.— 
Your affectionate Butcher." 



...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 PANC1ER. 

CATALOGUE FREE. 

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

FANCIERS' SUPPLY CO., 

517-519'West Broad St., 

Richmond, Va. 



■ WJ 

Edgewood Stock Farm. 

WHITE WYANDOTTES. 
This month your last chance to get cock- 
erels. Special price for three. Chickens 
have run of large farm, so cockerels are sure 
breeders. Eggs for sale at $1 dozen. H. B. 
ARBUCKLE, Maxwelton, W. Va. 

NOW IS THE TIME, 

to set eggs. My eggs are pro- 
duced from some of the best 
stock in the country, and will 
give satisfaction. Prices rea- 
sonable. G. P. POINDEXTER, 
Breeder of WHITE WYAN- 
DOTTES and PEKIN DUCKS, 
BROOK MOUND FARM, 
Greenlee, Rockbridge Co., Va. 



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

■ n — i^^— very best strains. 

These breeds are raised on separate farms, and 

have free range. Eggs, 75c. per 15; 81-50 per 35; 

$4.00 per 100. I guarantee two-thirds hatch, or 

replace at half price. 




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



BROWN LEGHORNS. 



Eggs for hatching from splendid lay- 
ers, $1.00 per sitting. Pens mated for 
best results. 



R. W. HAW, Jr. 



Centralia, Va. 



Edgemont Poultry Yards, 
Liberty Mills, Va. 

WHITE WYANDOTTES 

and BUFF P, ROCKS. 

Stock and Eggs for sale. Choice lot of Cock- 
erels from $1 up; eggs, $1 for 15, or $5 per 
100. JOHN A. REEDY, Prop. 

Mention The Southebn Planteb 
when corresponding with advertisers. 



356 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[May, 



PURE-BRED Barred Plymouth Rock Eggs, 
from beautiful, well bred birds, at $1.00 per 15. 
P. Haxwell Conner, P O. Box 3 16, Richmond, Va. 

Pure-bred Eggs 

for Hatching. BARRED PLYMOUTH 

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

BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCK 

Eggs, 15 for 85c; 30 for $1.50; Buff Cochin, 
15 for $1. Few pairs low. PEKIN DUCK 
EGGS 12 for $1. One trio cheap. Incubators 
low. Rev. J. W. HECKMAN, Cascade, Va. 



Silver ««ced Wyandotte*. 

No finer general purpose fowl in America. 
Bred for beauty and utility. Eggs from choice 
and pure bred stock, Sl-25 per 13; 82.00 per 80. 
Twentv-three years a breeder and shipper. 

S. P. YOuER, Denbigh, Va. 

WWite Minorcas, 

Large well shaped birds. Prize winners 
and the best of Layers. Eggs supplied from 
the best of matings. Shipped safely any- 
where. Catalog free. F. S. BULLINGTON, 
Box P, Richmond, Va. 



I BEST STRAIN 



%$?"'■ 



BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS. 

The ideal farmer's fowl. Eggs, 50c 
per setting of 15 F. O. B. here. Mrs. 
WM. P. Buhks, R. F. D. 1. Bedford City, 
Va. 



^ FOR SALE *%. 

Bn r%r\r , \/ r e ss s S2.00 per 15. No 
r l\l ILvK better blooded stock. 
• ft * ivvwiv My nlghest aim ia t0 

treat my customers right and retain their pat- 
ronage. 
CHARLIE BROWN, R. F. D. 1 . Cartersville, Va. 

EQQS FOR HATCHING 

From finest strains in America. White Wyan- 
dottes, Barred Plymouth Rocks, 8100 per 13. 

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



COLLIE PUPS 



By Imported Sires. Sable and white and tri 
colors. Prices. $8 to $15. Older ones correspond 
ingly low- Book on Training, 50 cents: Freb 1' 
you buy a Collie. MAPLEMONT STOCK FARM 
Albany, Vermont 



A UPDO A Pfl ATC are nandsome , nar( ly and 
ANuUnA UUA I O profitable. For large clr 
cular address E. W. COLE & CO., Big Clifty, Ky. 

ANGORA GOATS 

For Sale. 

I can furnish bucks and does of these LAND 
CLEANING animals at moderate prices. 

Julian H. Ruffln, Old Church, Va. 



Piedmont Poultry Place, 

"Handles nothing but the best." 

We now offer Purebred POLAND-CHINA 
Pigs for sale. We will not sell under 8 weeks 
old. Hlngle pig SO; per pair glO; per trio, $14. 
Some ready for shipment May 15th. First or- 
ders get best pigs. 

Miss E. Callle Ollcs. Prop., 
Whittles Depot. Va. 



Mention the Southern Planter in 
■writing. 



WASHINGTON NOTES. 

A timely farmers' bulletin of the De- 
partment of Agriculture — No. 193^ — 
contains notes on selection of seed 
corn, citing experiments from State 
experiment stations widely distrib- 
uted. Although corn culture in the 
United States is practically as old as 
American agriculture itself, it is of 
comparatively recent date that any 
scientific systems of corn judging have 
been devised, and it is stated that the 
general employment of such methods 
will add enormously to our annual 
corn yield. The average corn yield is 
only about twenty-seven bushels per 
acre. Next to the better cultivation of 
the soil the proper selection and pro- 
duction of seed corn is perhaps the 
strongest factor in increasing the 
yield. 

Corn is readily affected by changes 
of soil and climate, and in obtaining 
a variety perhaps from a very different 
latitude its excellence is likely to be 
impaired until the variety, after two 
or three years of growth under the 
new environments has become accli- 
mated. 

Instances: The North Carolina 
Board of Agriculture obtained from 
the Illinois station seed of Learning 
corn, one of the best varieties in Illi- 
nois, but under North Carolina condi- 
tions this corn ranked last in a test 
of thirteen varieties. It was the un- 
fortunate thirteenth. 

The Arkansas station made exten- 
sive tests of this character and con- 
cludes that "the results of the two 
years experimentation indicated that 
seed corn grown in the same or nearly 
the same latitude as that in which it 
is to be planted will give the best re- 
sults." 

The North Dakota station says that 
the best seed corn is usually a variety 
wheh has grown and ripened seed for 
the longest period of years in that lo- 
cality providing it has been kept pure 
and true to type. 

As an improvement on simple field 
selection the Illinois station among 
others recommends a special breeding 
field or plat, which should be sur- 
rounded by a number of rows of the 
same corn to prevent the plat corn 
becoming pollenated from outside 
sources. An interesting detailed de- 
scription is given by the Department 
of Agriculture of the method of carry- 
ing out this special seed plat scheme 
with a view to getting only the very 
finest seed corn, something well worth 
reading by every farmer who plants 
corn. 

The Illinois station has made a spe- 
cial effort and with some success of 
securing corn with high percentages 
of protein, through selection. 

Seed corn should germinate at least 
ninety-five per cent. The vitality of 
corn is frequently greatly injured by 
improper storage. Blotting or other 
absorbent paper, a cigar box with a 
cover to keep in moisture and fifty 



'fttstiri {(iAAi*> 



Products Are Good. 



English Berkshires 

The breeding of Berkshires is one of the 
most important departments of the farm, 
and one of the most successful. Imported 
boars. Manor Faithful, winner of six 
firsts In England, and Esau II., half 
brother of great champion Manor Hercu- 
les. Also Loyal Berks II. and Loyal Berks 
III.; from last litter by great imported 
champion Loyal Berks, dam Her Majesty. 

The Filston herd contains thirty strains 
of the most celebrated Berkshire blood in 
England. Some well-grown fall pigs still 
in the herd. Orders for spring pigs now 
being booked. 

Filston. Collie Kennels 

Stud dogs. Lord Tweedmouth, by Ch. 
Ormskirk Emerald, ex Ch. Barwell Mys- 
tery; Filston's Galopin, by Ch. Ormskirk 
Galopin, ex Newburgh Gem, and others. 

Records prove conclusively the superior- 
ity of these strains for producing' prize 
winners. Circular with pedigrees and win- 
nings on application. 

On hand, females bred to our best sires, 
and young puppies. 

Filston Poultry 

Eggs of the following varieties can be 
obtained: Buff and White Wyandottes, 
Barred and White Plymouth Rocks. Light 
and Dark Brahmas, White and Brown 
Leghorns, Mammoth Bronze and Holland 
White Turkeys. Toulouse Geese and Pe- 
kin Ducks. 

Send for price list. 

GEO. A. SWARTWOUT, Manager, 
Glencoe, Maryland. 




KENTUCKY JACK'FARM 

A fine lot of KEN- 
TUCKY bred and big 
BLACK SPANISH 

Jacks and Jennets; 
also 1 and 2 year old 
Jacks; young stock for 
sale at all times. 
Write or see me be- 
fore you buy. Come to Kentucky if you 
want a good Jack. JOE E. WRIGHT, Junc- 
tion City, Ky. 

SPECIAL BARGAIN SALE 
OF JACKS. 

For the next 60 days, I will sell 
some fine Jacks at ONE- HALF 
their value, in order 
to make room for the 
coming importation. 
I will also pay the R. 
R. fare of buyers dur- 
ing this time. Come 
at once for a bargain. 
BAKER'S JACK FARM, 
Lawrence, Ind. 




Jacks, Jennets and Stallions 

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



W. E, 

Route 5. 



KNIGHT & CO., 
Nashville, Tenn. 



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357 



Berkshire Hogs! 




Sires in service, Rockland Majestic 
of New Era ; his sire Rockland Gen- 
try, champion of America in 1903; grand 
sire, Baron Lee IV, flodel Lee IX, 
sireGov. 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. 



RERKSHIRES 



ANNEFIELD HERD 

Contains the 



Finest Blood Lines \\ 



in England and America. 

Young Stock for Sale. 

Inquiries cheerfully answered. 



i 

t 
f 

i 

i 

<[ SPECIAL: A few extra 6-months old pigs, 

' either sex. j. 

i 

»' EDW. G. BUTLER, Annefieid Farms, i 

[ Brians, Clarke Co., Va. { 

t V 



Pure Bred 

|| Berkshire Pigs. 

OA fine lot of young Pigs ready now, six to 
eight weeks old Price for either boar or sow 
pigs, 85 each, crated and delivered t» express 
company here. 

HENRY W. WOOD, 

Hollybrook Farm. 
P. 0. BOX 330, - - - RICHMOND, VA. 

Big Spring Stock Farm 

Pure bred LARGE ENG- 

Ij, LISH BERKSHIRES and 

DUROC JERSEYS. 

March and April pigs sired by best Imported 
stock. Nothing but the best offered, and 
satisfaction guaranteed. B. E. WATSON, 
I'ulaski, Va. 

Registered 
BERKSHIRES For Sale. 

Boar and Sow, price, $25 each. Trio MAM. 
BRONZE TURKEYS, pure bred, $10. 15 pure 
bred PLYMOUTH ROCK hens and roosters 
for $20. J. G. HARGRAVE, Oliver, Va. 




kernels of corn with a few ounces of 
water is all the test apparatus neces- 
sary. Five days' time will determine 
the matter. 

The Bureau of Animal industry is 
preparing an instructive exhibit for 
the St. Louis Exposition of the ren- 
ovated butter industry. Firkins, tubs 
and pound packages of renovated but- 
ter are being prepared in wax imita- 
tion and also various samples of the 
10 pound packages used by the manu- 
facturers for exportation, each pack- 
age containing ten little pound pack- 
ages. These as a rule are put up very 
attractively by the sixty odd reno- 
vated butter concerns operating 
throughout the country. The law re- 
quires the words "renovated butter" 
shall appear upon each package in 
square block letters no smaller than 
any other lettering upon the package. 
The packages are made up of card 
board enclosing the butter wrapped in 
tissue paper. Some very ingenious 
brands have been adopted by the mak- 
ers of this renovated butter which of 
themselves, without the government 
requirement of the word "renovated" 
would indicate anything but a process 
butter, manufactured from all sorts 
of rancid and spoiled stock. 

The renovated butter law is un- 
doubtedly a little weak. To strictly 
enforce the law as regards sanitation, 
the Department of Agriculture must 
lean upon the internal revenue branch 
cf the Treasury Department. A par- 
ticular case came before Major Al- 
vord the chief of the Dairy Division, 
while I was talking with him. A cer- 
tain renovated butter factory has been 
conducting its manufacturing in a 
very slovenly, filthy and unsanitary 
manner. It has been warned several 
times by the government dairy inspec- 
tor to "reform" but has taken this out 
in promises. A telegram came to 
Major Alvord asking for instructions 
as there was no question in the mind 
of the inspector that the product of the 
factory was unsanitary. The question 
now is what to do. If the Depart- 
ment of Agriculture recommends that 
the internal revenue office take away 
the license to manufacture, the com- 
pany would doubtless seek redress 
through the local court to determine 
whether its product was actually un- 
sanitary. "It might be a difficult mat- 
ter," said Major Alvord, "to clearly 
and conclusively prove this to a jury." 
Not all men have very clear ideas ,#s 
to the importance of a cleanliness and 
sanitation in such matters. With any 
question as to the outcome the De- 
partment of Agriculture hesitates to 
embroil the internal revenue office in 
such a fight. At the same time if in- 
spectors are to exert any influence in 
remedying unsanitary conditions, they 
must be backed up by the government. 

The most brazen and barefaced 
methods have been employed in Con- 
gress this year to prevent any revis- 
ion of the land laws which would 
head off speculation in the public do- 



... 40 PURE-BRED . . . 

POLAND CHINA 

pigs, some ready for immediate 
delivery. My hogs are sired by 
such prize winners as PER- 
FECT I KNOW, CORRECTOR, 
CHIEF PERFECTION, LOOK 
ME OVER, ETC. 

8 RED POLL bu J cal 7 es 

, and a few 



heifers. Several ready for ship- 
ment. All stock registered. 

PRICES REASONABLE. 

S. B. WOODS, 

ARROWHEAD 810CK FARM ^VfiJteBL"*- 



Poland Chinas ! 

I do not believe that anybody has 
any finer bred or better individuals of 
the breed than I am offering. It will 
be hard to duplicate my prices, too. 
Eight months old Boars and Open 
Gilts, crated and f. o. b. Enfield, at 
$15; 2 beautiful Boar Pigs, now 5 
weeks old, at $10 when 10 or 12 weeks 
old. Your order will have to come 
quick for one of them; you never saw 
as pretty pigs. Also one full blood 
O. I. C. Boar, farrowed last July, $20; 
8 Sows and 3 Boars, of O. I. C. and P. 
C. and P. C. and O. I. C. cross at $15 
per pair, 12 weeks old. C. A. WIL- 
LIAMS, Ringwood, N. C. 



ORCHARD HILL PURE-BRED 

POLAND CHINA 

Pigs and brood sows for sale. Also a 
fine Guernsey Bull Calf and S. C. B. 
Leghorn Eggs. F. M. SMITH. JR., 
R. F. D., 4, Charlottesville, Va. 



BERKSHIRES. 

I offer some very pretty pigs from Register- 
ed sows, farrowed February and March, 1904, 
8 weeks old, at $6 f. o. b. my express office. 
Nothing but Biltmore blood in my herd. 
ROBERT HIBBERT, Charlottesville, Va. 



Hawks ley Stock Farm 

has a lot of 
BERKSHIRE PIGS 

ready for shipment. They are good as the 
best. Also young Boars ready for service. 
B. P. ROCKS and S. C. B. LEGHORN Eggs, 
$1 for 13. J. T. OLIVER, Aliens Level, Va. 



WARNER'S 

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



358 



THE SOUTHEKN PLANTER 



[May, 



The Kind You Ought To Have 

Is the kind that is bred at THE CEDARS 
P. & S. FARM, where the fashionables of the 
400 in Poultry and Stockdom can always be 
found, and where farmers' prices get fan- 
ciers' stock. JERSEY CATTLE, DUROC 
JERSEYS, and POLAND CHINA SWINE, 
B. P. R. FOWLS, M. B. TURKEYS, ENG- 
LISH SETTERS and BEAGLE HOUNDS. 
WM. G. OWENS, Midlothian, Va., The Cedars 
P. & S. Farm. 

,FINE POLAND-CHINAS. 

The kind that GROW LARGE— from some 
of the best blood in the U. S. I have a 
choice lot of Spring Pigs, both sexes; also a 
Yi Hereford Bull Calf, well marked. If you 
want high class stock at farmer's prices, 
write me before placing your orders else- 
where. W. B. PAYNE, Crofton, Va. 

(Mention Southern Planter.) 

ESSEX PIGS. 

Some tine ones, 3 
months old, not re- 
lated ; from recorded 
stock, also South- 
down and Hampshire = 
Address, 




down Lambs 



L. Q. JONES, Tobaccovllle, N. C. 



"PIGS" - "PIGS" 

Registered O-l-C Swine 
-:-for sale-:- 

WM. E. HAMMOND, 

Mansfield Farm, Goochland C. H„ Va. 

Ready tor 
| Service; 

Bred from Registered Stock, Imported 

from Canada. 

I. H. LARE W, Ne wbern.Va. 

Registered LfiSK 

C. Whites. Fine large 

(trains. All ages, mated 

not a in, 8 week, pigs. 

Bred sows. Service boars 

and Poultry. Write for prices and free circular. 

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





AT FARMER'S PRICES. 

S. M. WISECARVER, - - Rustburg. Va. 

Woodland Farm 

offers the best lot of October dropped 
Dorset Ram lambs which 
it has ever raised. 

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

....BARGAINS.... 

DORSETS AND 
HEREFORDS 

H. ARMSTRONG, LANTZ MILLS, VA. 

Mention the Southern Planter when 
corresponding with advertisers. 



main. Take for instance the speeches 
of Representative Williamson and Rep- 
re sentative and ex-Commissioner Her- 
mann, both of Oregon, before the Pub- 
lic Lands and Irrigation Committees 
of the House. Both these men stated 
that the present land laws were high- 
ly beneficent, and an absolute neces- 
sity to the homemaking and develop- 
ment of the West and that the cry of 
fraud was false, that ther^e were no 
frauds under them any more than an 
occasional instance such as is found 
under any law. The conditions of land 
law fraud in some of the Western 
States is not only notorious, but it is 
a coincidence that at the very time 
that these two hypocrites were mis- 
leading their colleagues in Congress, 
on April 2 the seventeen members of 
the Federal grand jury of the distriw 
of Oregon, chosen by lot from all por- 
tions of that State, forwarded a state- 
ment to Washington reciting the most 
abnormal and vicious conditions of 
public land affairs in Oregon resulting 
from the present land laws. The 
timber and stone act, the desert land 
act, and the commutation clause of the 
homestead act. The report is volun- 
tarily presented as the result of the 
enormous amount of crime which has 
come before the grand jury in connec- 
tion with these land laws. Perjury 
and subornation of perjury, it is stated, 
have become fine arts. Speaking of 
the commutation clause of the home- 
stead law the report says that "this is 
another law that masquerades under 
the thin disguise of a boon to honest 
entrymen" and "the desert land law 
is and has been used chiefly for secur- 
ing large tracts for grazing purposes. 
It is often more of a burlesque than 
the old timber culture law." 

Guy E. Mitchell. 



THE NEW LEFFEL CATALOG. 

The new catalog of James Leffel & 
Company, of Springfield, Ohio, who 
are advertising the famous Leffel en- 
gines and boilers in our columns, is 
a book that will interest many of our 
readers. It should interest any one 
who has to do with steam power. The 
Leffel engines are a type that is pecu- 
liarly adapted to farmers' uses. This 
book goes into the matter of their 
making and shows on what their supe 
riority is based. The book is well got- 
ten up, printed on heavy enameled 
paper, has numerous full page and 
many smaller illustrations and is 
filled with just such detailed informa- 
tion about engines and boilers as to 
make it truly valuable to engine 
users. 

The book will be mailed free to all 
writing the Leffel Company for it. 



Old Gentleman — And what does papa 
call you, Elizabeth? 

Precious Infant — Papa calls me Pwe- 
cious. 

O. G. — And what does he call mam- 
ma? 

P. I. — Oh, Darling and Fool. 



V.P.I. 

Farm Bulletin 

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

Shorthorn, Hereford, Aberdeen-Angus. 

Write at once for pedigrees and prices. 

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

WM. T. THRASHER, Springwood, Virginia, 

BREEDER OF PURE BRED 

Short Horn Cattle and 
Poland-CHina Hog's. 

FOR SALE: 2 yearling bulls, good ones, ready 
for service, sired by Verbena's Champion No. 
129881; some younger bulls, sired by Royal Chief 
No. 185432; also some Fall Poland China shoats 
of both sexes. Come or write. 



COOK'SCREEK HERD 

SCOTCH -TOPPED 
SHORTHORNS . . . 

Herd Headed by Governor 
Tyler, 158548, 1st prize aged bull at Radford Fair, 
Young Bulls and heifers for sale. Inspection 
and correspondence invited. 

HEATWOLE & SUTER, Dale Enterprise, Va. 

ELLERSLIE FARM^- 
Thoroughbred Horses 

AND SHORTHORN CATTLE, 

Pure Southdown Sheep 
and Berkshire Pigs. 

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



WANTED 



20 VIRGINIA or NORTH 
CAROLINA GRADE 
SHORTHORN 

heifers, 2 to 3 years old, bred to Registered Bull, 
and to calve from August to January. Address, 
stating price, breeding on both sides, weight 
and age. JANNEY BROS., Gloucester, Va. 



I OFFER' 



2 Reg. Ayrshire Bulls, 

One 10 mos. old PRICE, $40.00. 

One coming 3 yrs. old PRICE, $65.00. 

Low considering Quality. 
Registered and high grade HAMPSHIREDOWN 
S HE E P of best breeding. Rams, Ewes and 
Lambs for sale. Stock and Prices will suit. 

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



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THE SOUTHEKN PLANTER. 



359 



Angus Cattle for Sale 

LOW. 

1 Reg. Bull Calf. 8 mos. old. 
1 Reg. Heifer Calf 4 mos. old. 
3 % Grade Angus Bull Calves. 
3 15-16 Grade Angus Bull Calves. 

1 Bull Calf out of a fine Short Horn Cow by 

our Angus Bull. 
1 15-16 Grade Angus Heifer Calf. 
These grades calves look like thoroughbreds, 
and will please the most fastidious. 

2 First Class Family Milk Cows, fresh, 5 gal- 
ona per day. 

W. M. Watkins & Sons, 

Saxe, Charlotte Co., Va. 



GREENFIELD HERD OF 

Aberdeen Angus Cattle. 

Baron Ida, 20184 (Champion yearling, II 
firsts, 17 times in 1st prize herd, 4 flrsta ea 
produce of sire and 3 times at head of gramd 
sweepstakes herd) at head of herd. 

The females in this herd are prize winnen 
or the immediate descendants of prize wis- 
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, asd 
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. 

MONTE.BEXLO HERD 

ABERDEEN-ANGUS CATTLE 

FOR 8ALE— 2 Registered Bulls, calved 
Dec. 17th, 1902, and Aug. 28th, 1903. 

BerKsHire Pigs, 

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

L. H. GRAY, Orange, Va. 



ROSEDALE HERD 



Aberdeen-Angus Cattle. 

C hoice bulla, 4 mos. to 4 yrs. old. Prices a» 
low as good breeding will permit. Inspee 
tion of herd and correspondence Invited. 

ROSEDALE STOCK FARM, Jeflersont«« 
Va. 



WITH THE ADVERTISERS. 

Our old friends, Wm. Cooper & 
Nephews, are advertising Cooper Sheep 
Dip again this season. 

Alfalfa Bacteria, in the shape of in- 
oculated soil, can be had of the Ewell 
Farm, at reasonable prices. 

Last year's numbers of the Southern 
Planter are wanted by our Business 
Office. See the ad. elsewhere. 

Finely bred Poland Chinas can be 
had of Mr. W. B. Payne. Look up his 
ad. 

Mr. Joe E. Wright, Prop, of the Ken- 
tucky Jack Farm, is offering some 
choice Kentucky bred Jacks. 

The O. K. Harry Steel Works has an 
ad. on another page of Steel Tanks. 
etc., all necessary and useful adjuncts 
to a progressive farmer. 

Hydraulic Pumps are offered by the 
Standard Hydraulic Pump Co.. Roan- 
oke. Va. 

A working Farm Manager is wanted 
by Box 185, Richmond, Va. 

A fine lot of O. I. C. pigs at right 
prices can be had of the Mansfield 
Farm. 

Parties needing all kinds of fruit 
and vegetable carriers, will do well to 
consult the advertisement of the South 
Side Mfg. Co. 

Tamworths, the "lean bacon" hogs, 
are offered in another column by Mr. 
I. H. Larew. 

The Wallerstein Produce Co. are 
after your wool. Look up the ad. on 
another page. 

The Richmond Buggy & Wagon Co. 
are making a "Special Drive" this 
month in their $50 buggy — made in 
Virginia. 

If you need anything in the heavy 
machinery line, such as Threshers, 
Hullers, Peanut or Tobacco Machinery, 
better consult the Cardwell Machine 
Co.'s ad . 

The Famous Mfg. Co. is advertising 
its Champion Hay Press with us again 
this season. We invite attention to 
the ad. 

The Filston Farm has an attractive 
card in another column. Berkshires. 
Collies and Poultry are the offering 
under the legend that "Filston pro- 
ducts are good." 

The Rife Engine Co. start the sea- 
son's advertising with this issue. The 
Hydraulic Ram of this Company is 
known the world over. 

F. E. Myers & Bro., the well-known 
pump men, have a card in another 
column. 

Dederick's Hay Presses have been 
offered our readers for generations. 
Look up the ad. elsewhere. 

Notice the change in the ad. of the 
Blackman Stock Remedy Co. 



Louisburg, N. C, Mar. 31, 1904. 
Jos. Haas, V. 8., Indianapolis, Ind. 

Dear Sir, — You will please ship me 
at once one can of your Hog Remedy. 
I can certainly recommend it to be as 
you represent. Yours truly, 

J. P. TlMBERLAKE. 



JERSEY BARGAINS. 

10 HEIFERS out of cows from the best in 
my herd, which I have been 30 years in 
building. They are the prettiest I ever saw. 
Price, $30 each. 

2 Reg. Bull Calves 

6 wks. and 6 mos. old. Each out of a cow 
giving 2 pounds of butter per day, and by 

Coquette's John Bull. 

he out of a cow with a record of 18 pounds 
butter per week. Price, $50 each. Also a 
V. S. SEPARATOR for sale at $40; in good 
repair and cost $125 new. 

A. R. VENABLE Jr., 

Farmville, Va. 

Swift Creek Stock and Dairy Farm 

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

JERSEY BULLS 
AND HEIFERS. 

None better bred in the South. ComblniM 
closely the most noted and up-to-date blood 
in America. Bulls 4 to 6 months old $25- 
Heifers, same age. $36. POLAND CHINA 
PIGS, $5 each. Send check and get what 
you want. 

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




THOROUGH-BRED. . 

Berkshire Boars, 
Dorset Buck Lambs, 
Jersey Bull Calves. 

All stock in best of condition aid 
guaranteed as represented. 
F. T. ENGLISH, Centreville. Md. 

Pure-bred 

Red Poll Bull 

For sale, or will exchange him for 
first-class pure bred Jersey Heifers or 
good grade Ewes. Dr. F. E. WIL- 
LIAMS, R. F. D., Charlottesville, Va. 






ANGUS & HOLSTEIN CATTLE. 

I Registered and grades, of all ages 
land sexes, and of champion blood 
Ifor the beef and milk strains and 
lat moderate prices Also Nursery 
Jstock of all descriptions. 
MYER & SON, Bridgeville, Delaware. 



FOR SALE 

2 ABERDEEN=ANQUS HEIFERS, 

Bred from "Hero of Bunker Hill," 31462, at 
farmer's prices. They are blocky, good bone, 
mealy coats, and WIDE AS A CART. J. 
TABB JANNF.Y, Van Clevesville. W. Va. 

NOTICE! 

S. C. Brown Leghorn Eggs for Hatching, 76c 
per 15, $4.50 per 100. 

W. B. GATES, 

Rice's Depot, Va. 



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THE SOUTHEEN PLANTER. 



[May, 




IS A 

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HOUSEHOLD 

Remedy 



%^C fe^6 «£§• 

LaGrippe, 
Pneumonia, 
Croup, 
Influenza. 

fc$* «c§5 tsS* 

GIVES 

PERMANENT 

RELIEF. 

«£§• «^5 <£§* 

The Radia Company 

^^Manufacturing Chemists, 
Dept. K. DURHAM, N. C. 



HELPS TO KEEP WELL. 

Lettuce and celery help nervous peo- 
ple. 

Visit your dentist every six months. 

Eat tomatoes, which are good for 
the liver. 

All varieties of the onion tribe help 
digestion. 

Don't worry unless you really en- 
joy worrying. 

Rest for half an hour, anyway, in 
the middle of the day. 

Spend at least an hour outdoors 
every day — more if possible. 

Never drink water which has stood 
in a sleeping room all night. 

Peas, beans and lentils are a very 
economical food, and also nourishing. 

Eat an orange or an apple — two of 
them are better — every morning be- 
fore breakfast. 

Eat always less than satisfies you to 
repletion. Drink two quarts of water 
a day — eight glasses. 

Don't have a light in your room at 
night of any kind. It takes up the 
oxygen of the air, and is irritating to 
the eyes. 

The paper handkerchief is suggest- 
ed by a hospital magazine as more 
sanitary in some kinds of contagious 
diseases than the linen one. It can be 
destroyed at once. 

Air out your house thoroughly twice j 
a day — early in the morning and be- 
fore you go to bed. Then sleep with a 
current of air through the room. Pile 
on the bedding if you need it. 

These few rules, observed faith- 
fully, will make you healthy, wealthy 
and wise — for is not a healthy man 
always rich? — and his health is a sign 
of his wisdom. Try these for the first 
half of 1904, and you will need no 
other New Year's resolutions. — Cana- 
dian Thresherman. 



EWELL FARM SALE. 
The 30th Annual Sale of Ewell Farm 
will be held at Spring Hill, Tenn., on 
Friday, June 3rd. About 60 head of 
horses and 30 head of Jerseys will be 
sold. Among the sires represented 
will be John R. Gentry, 2:00J; Brown 
Hal, 2:12];; Re-Election. 2:27; 
McEwen, 2: 18 J, and other horses of 
note. The popular strains of Jerseys 
Included in this sale, will be hard to 
beat. Capt. Geo. Campbell Brown, 
proprietor of Ewell Farm, is going to 
make this his best sale, and parties 
looking for bargains will do well to at- 
tend. 



CORRECTION. 



In our last issue, we made an error 
in the advertisement of Hon. G. M. 
Wallace, Falmouth, Va. The wording 
appeared as "2 Grade Cows" whereas 
it should have been "2 Fresh Cows." 
Mr. Wallace raises only pure-bred 
Guernseys and has not a grade on his 
place. We make this correction in 
justice to him. 



THE ROCKER CHURN. 
Among the new advertisers in our 
columns this season, is the Rocker 
Churn Mfg. Co., of Forsyth, Ga. As 
its name implies, this company makes 
a churn, and from the descriptive cir- 
cular before us, we might say a very 
good and useful churn — one that saves 
a good deal of time and labor. It is 
handy, easy to operate, easy to clean 
and has numerous other points of 
merit fully described in a circular 
which will be sent free to all inquir- 
ers. Look up the ad and send for it. 



The Zenner Disinfectant Co., which 
is advertising its well known disin- 
fectant, dip and lice killer in another 
column, sends us the following letter 
recently received from Mr. Glen Flem- 
ing, Arcadia, La.: 

"I have used Zenoleum Disinfectant 
for the past two years and find it the 
best thing I can get for my hogs. I 
find it will kill lice, ticks and fleas 
on my hogs and dogs. I have cured 
several cases of mange with it. My 
pointer dog had a very severe case of 
mange and I cured him well and clean 
with it. I can truly recommenc 1 it to 
every one to have on the place for a 
general disinfectant." 

TFwantedTT 

25 to 50 GRADE DORSET EWES, medium 
price; also 1 each, good yearling DORSET 
and SOUTHDOWN Rams, registered.. 

GRIMBS, BROS., Lexington, N. C. 

"Feeds and Feeding' 

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

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

The RICHMOND. FREDERICKSBURG 

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

THE RICHMOND-WASHINGTON 

LINE. 

The Link Connecting the 

Atlantic Coast Line R. R., 
Baltimore and Ohio R. R., 
Chesapeake and Ohio R'y, 
Pennsylvania R. R., 
Seaboard Air Line R'y 
and Southern R'y. 

Between all Points via Richmond, Va. 

Fast Mail, Passenger, Express and 
Freight Route between Richmond, 
Fredericksburg, Alexandria, Washing- 
ton, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New 
York, Boston, Pittsburg, Buffalo, and 
all points North, South, East and 
West. 

W. D. DUKE, C. W. CULP, 

General Manager. Asst. Gen'l Man. 

W. P TAYLOR. Trafflo Manager. 



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361 




A PLEASED BUYER IS THE BEST ADVERTISEMENT. 



The imported Jersey Cattle sold at our May, 1903, Auction Sale have given universal satisfac- 
tion. Aty most sanguine expectations have been more than realized. How could it be otherwise % 
Individually, they were strictly FIRST-CLASS. 

BEST OF ALL, they were bred on both dam and sire's side from animals that have made the 
Island cattle so famous — the blood that wins at the churn and in the show-ring. 

Catalogues ready for distribution May 1, and owing to great cost publishing same, they will 
only be sent on application. Address 

T. S. COOPER, "Linden Grove," Coopersburg, Pa. 

P. S. — Would respectfully request parties who are in want of an extra fine bull calf, or a few 
fine heifer calves, that they send for a catalogue, which will give them full particulars, and if they 
are not able to attend the sale in person, that they send in their bids, and they will receive the same 
attention as if the buyer was a bidder himself. It is with pride that we refer to parties that have 
entrusted such orders to us. This will be a rare chance to get calves out of the very best cows the 
Island can furnish, and sired by prize winning bulls, and they will not cost you more than others 
that have no breeding. — T. S. C. 



»* ■ VI 1 * 1 *! 



KELLY, 22283, Record, 2:27- 
Sire of McChesney, 2:16%, Etc. 

Bay horse, by Electioneer 125, first dam Esther, dam of 
Expressive 3, 2:12i; Express, 2:21, etc.; by Express, sec- 
ond dam, Colisseum, by Colossus. 

Kelly represents the highest type of a trotter, having 
fine size and the form and finish of a thoroughbred. 

For terms of service and keep of mare address 

W. J. CARTER, Richmond, Va. 

Kelly will serve at my private stables, 1102 Hull St., 
Manchester, Va. 

GREAT STAKES, 2552 J. 

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. 

W. H. NELSON, 1428 East Franklin St., Richmond, Va. 
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, hay horse, by Burlingame, dam Helice, dam of 
Clarion, 2:151, by Norval, 2:14!. 
FEE, $15.00. Address, 

SPRING GARDEN FARM, 
Cool Well, P. O., Amherst Co., Va., or 

ROBT. TAIT Norfolk Va. 



XV. J. CARTER, ["BROAD ROCK.'"\ 

TURF JOURNALIST. 



Address P. O. Box 929, - - = Richmond, Va, 

Pedigrees of thoroughbred and trotting horses traced, regis- 
tration matters attended to, and stallion circulars and cards 
prepared. 

Representing the Times-Dispatch and Southern Planter, 
Richmond, Va.; Sports of the Times, New York; Kentucky 
Stock Farm, California Breeder and Sportsman, etc. 

CHORISTER 

FALSETTO-ADDIE C. 

"One of the handsomest thoroughbreds in America and 
a sure success as a getter of race horses." — Major Dainger- 
field. 

Standing 16# and weighs 1,300 lbs. He held the world's 
record for a mile as a 3 year old and is the sire of "Corrus- 
cate" who holds the mile record for Canada 1.38>£. All his 
get win and are racing up to 8, 9 and 11 years of age, and 
won $30,000 in 1902. 

Fee $50 00 cash, approved half bred mares $20.00 

All possible care taken to prevent accidents or escapes 
but no responsibility assumed for any that may occur. 

For further particulars apply to D. K. KERR, Manager 
Antrim Stock Farm, Warrenton, Va. 

Fine Horses and Mules for Sale. & 



I am offering the best lot of mules ever seen on the 
Richmond market. Write for prices or call at my stables. 



J. S. 



WHALEY, 
Salesman. 



S. P. CLAY, 

1917 E. Franklin St., Richmond, Va. 



362 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[May, 



MAGAZINES. 

The May number of Lippincott's is 
notably stirring and strong from the 
opening page of its novelette through 
to the close of the last short story. 
"Figs from Thistles" makes Frederic 
Reddale's third appearance through 
the medium of a long tale in this mag- 
azine, and his work may be honestly 
described as good, better, and best. 
This last shows maturity in both the 
plot and the handling of it. Its hero- 
ine, Janet Persis, is young and pretty, 
yet too prudent to marry for love 
alone, after an apprenticeship to pov- 
erty as one of seven daughters of a 
country clergyman. For this reason 
she falls an easy prey to the plans of 
an anxious mother in regard to her 
son, a Baronet, of splendid physique 
but of infantile mentality. The wed- 
ding takes place and then the real tale 
begins and the reader is devoured with 
desire to know in a hurry whether the 
mother's amazing scheme is to thrive 
or to come to naught. 

Heading the list of seven short sto- 
ries is "In the Springtime," by Henry 
Wysham Lanier, a happy mingling of 
spring rain and loving. A rousing sea- 
story by Patrick Vaux is entitled 
"Grit: A Tale of the Next War." 
"Lavender," by Lizette Woodworth 
Reese, is a touching story of an erring 
girl and a mother's faith rewarded. 
This is remarkably well told. Another 
one of Ella Middleton Tybout's para- 
bles is called "The Blast of the Trum- 
pet," and sustains her reputation for 
humor. 

One of the stories in the May St. 
Nicholas will be "The Hero of San 
Benito," by Rev. Charles M. Sheldon, 
author of the world-famous "In His 
Steps," telling of a lad's bravery in 
a theater fire and panic. The story, 
now made public for the first time in 
this country, was related to Mr. Shel- 
don by an Italian lady who was in the 
theater at the time of the fire. The 
young Rudolph Cluny is a real hero of 
flesh and blood, although he is known 
by another name. 

The May St. Nich -las on its stamp 
page notes a growing difficulty in se- 
curing fine copies of the early issues 
of United States stamps. Poor mak- 
ing, careless handling, and laxness in 
collecting are counted the main causes 
of the increasing difficulty in securing 
these stamps in condition acceptable 
to careful collectors. Young collectors 
are advised to take special care in gath- 
ering and preserving specimens of 
these early United States stamps. 

Additional interest is given to the 
entertaining account in the May St. 
Nicholas by Helen Dawes Brown of 
"Magdalen Tower and May Morning" 
when it is known that there is in this 
country a church that has not only 
copied the beautiful Magdalen Tower 
of Oxford, but for a quarter of a cen- 
tury has borrowed its mid-air sunrise 
service. There is this difference, how- 
ever: the Chapel of the Good Shepherd 
in Chelsea Square, New York City, 



Local agencies and complete repair stocks everywhere 



MCCORMICK 

HARVESTERS 



International Harvester Co. of America, Chicago, TJ. S. A. 




Large ENGLISH BERKSHI 

BOARS ready for service. 
Pigs ready to ship. Bred Gilts. 

Forest Home Farm, 

P\jrcellville,Va, 




HILL TOP STOCK FARM. 

BerKsKire Hogs 



A SPECIALTY' 



S. Brown Allen, who succeeds H. A. 8. 
Hamilton & Co. in the ownership and man- 
agement of this celebrated Stock Farm, 
with increased facilities, will make a 

specialty of breeding Berkshire Hogs, without regard to cost, from the purest and 

most royal strains of imported blood. 

My BEBKSHIEE PIC&S 

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 
hogp 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 ALL EN, Staunton, Vi rginia, (Successor to H. A. S. Hamilton & Co.) 

LARGE YORKSHIRE HOGS 

THE COMING BACON BREED- 
THE MOST PROLIFIC BREED— 

48 pigs from four litters. Pigs ready for delivery. Our 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. 



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363 




PATCH 1:5674 

Fastest Harness Horse t B n e World 

HOLDS FOLLOWING WORLD RECORDS: 

Mile Record, 1:56X 

Half-Mile Record, = 0:56 

Mile Record on Half-Mile Track, 2:03X 
Mile Record to Wagon, • - 1:57X 
Mile Record to High Wheel Sulky, 2:04?i 
Two-Mile Record, .... 4:17 

HIS BEAUTIFUL color?" PICTURE FREE 

PRINTED IN SIX BRILLIANT COLORS 
Size 21 by 28 Inches 

We own the World-Famous, Champion Fac- 
ing Stallion, Dan Patch, and have Fine Litho- 
graphs of him. They give a complete record 
of all his Races and Fast Miles and are Free 
of Advertising. The fine, large Colored 
Lithograph shows Dan hitched to sulky just 
as you see him in this engraving. 

IT WILL BE MAILED TO YOU FREE 

Postage Prepaid 

IF YOU ANSWER THESE TWO QUESTIONS— AT ONCE 

1st How Much Stock Of All Kinds Do Y«u Own? 

2nd Name Paper In Which You Saw This Offer. 

Write to 

International Stock Food Co. 

Minneapolis, Minn., V. S. A. 



holds its service on Easter morning, 
while that of Magdalen College takes 
place on the first of May. It is pre- 
dicted that other American churches 
may. if their architecture makes it 
possible, adopt some form of Oxford's 
beautiful annual service. 

The present critical condition in 
British politics gives special timeliness 
to the glimpse of life in the English 
House of Commons announced as the 
subject matter of the May Century's 
leading article. "The Mother of Par- 
liaments." Under this title Henry Nor- 
man, M. P., has written at length of 
this "place of quaint ceremonial and 
queer habits"; and numerous drawings 
by Andre Castaigne will add to the 
vividness of the sketch. 

There will be two portraits of un- 
usual interest in the May Century, 
one of Tolstoi, another of President 
Roosevelt. The Tolstoi likeness is 
from a drawing made by George T. 
Tobin from a photograph, and shows 
Tolstoi at twenty-nine, as an officer in 
the Crimean War. The President's 
portrait, in tint, will be the frontis- 
piece of the issue, and is from a photo- 
graph taken by Arthur Hewitt at the 
White House, January 20, 1904. 



PERFECT SATISFACTION FOR 
WIND GALLS. 
Weems, Va., Jan. 30, 1904. 
The Lawrence-Williams Co., Cleve- 
land, O.: 

I used your Gombault's Caustic Bal- 
sam for reducing wind galls and got 
perfect satisfaction. L. T. Buck. 



EWELL FARM. 

30th ANNUAL SALE OF TROTTING AND PACING 

HORSES AND JERSEY CATTLE, 

FRIDAY, JUNE 3RD. 1904, AT EWELL FARM, EW LL'S STATION, 
(SPRING HILL P. O.,) HAURY CO , TENNESSEE 

Fifty horses from Bwell Farm, Piedmont Farm (W. F. Garth, Propr.), Huntsville, 
Ala., and Cleburne Farm (M. C. Campbell, Propr), Spring Hill, Tenn., including young- 
sters with speed, and horses of suitable ages for racing, driving or riding. By such sires 
as JOHN R. GENTRY, 2.00%; BROWN HAL, 2.12%; RE-ELECTION, 2.23%; McEWEN, 
2.18%; SENTINEL WILKES, DUPLEX, 2.17%; ACTON WARD 2.15%; HAL BROWN, 
son of BROWN HAL, ALMONT, JR., etc. 

THIRTY JERSEYS, consigned by M. C. CAMPBELL, SPRING HILL. TENN., and M. 
M. GARDNER, NASHVILLE, TENN. All useful young animals of the best Tenessee and 
Imported Strains. Both of thase herds are ably represented at the St. Louis Exposition. 

Write for catalogue to GEO. CAMPBELL BROWN, Ewell Rarm, Box L, Spring Hill, 
Maury county, Tenn. 



We positively guarantee to breed 
and ship the "VERY BEST strains of 
thoroughbred registered LARGE 

ENGLISH BERKSHIRE 

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




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




THE. - OAKS - STOCK - FARM. 

A. W. HARMAN, Jr., Prop., 

We breed and ship the best strains of 

La^ ENGLISH BERKSHIRES 

Send us your order and get the best. 

6 coming 2 year old JERSEY HEIFERS for 
sale; also 2 fine Jersey Cows; 1 yearling heifer, 
a perfect beauty. Write for price. 

ALEX. HARMAN, Mgr.,Uxlojton, Va. 



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[May, 



REPORTS. 
U. S. Department of Agriculture, Wash- 
ington, D. C. Office of Secretary. 
Circular 11. Methods and benefits 
of growing sugar beets. 

Office of Experiment Stations. Ex- 
periment Station Record, Vol. XV, 
No. 8. 

Bureau of Animal Industry. Circu- 
lar 44. Officials, associations and 
educational institutions connected 
with the dairy interest for the 
year 1904. 

Bureau of Forestry. Circular 27. 
Reclamation of flood damaged 
lands in the Kansas River Valley 
by forest planting. 
Forest Fires in the Adirondack^ 
in 1903. 

Bureau of Plant Industry. Bulletin 
51, Part III. Fruit trees frozen in 
1904. 

Division of Foreign Markets. Bulle- 
tin 35. Foreign import tariffs on 
meat and meat products. 

Division of Foreign Markets. Bulle- 
tin 36. Foreign import tariffs on 
fruits and nuts. 

Division of Foreign Markets. Bulle- 
tin 37. Foreign import tariffs on 
grain and grain products. 

Office of Public Road Inquiries. Cir- 
cular 37. The railroad and wagon 
roads. 

Bureau of Soils. Circular 13. The 
work of the Bureau of Soils. 

Farmers' Bulletin No. 194. Alfalfa 
seed. 

Farmers' Bulletin No. 195. Annual 
flowering plants. 
Arkansas Experiment Station, Fayette- 
ville, Ark. Bulletin 77. Cow pea 
experiments. 

Bulletin 79. Peach growing in Ar- 
kansas. 

Bulletin 80. Cow pea hay. 
Cornell Experiment Station, Ithaca, N. 
Y. Bulletin 216. Spraying ex- 
periments. 
Illinois Experiment Station, Urbana, 
111. Bulletin 93. Soil treatment 
for peaty swamp lands. 

Bulletin 94. Nitrogen bacteria and 
legumes. 
Kansas State Board of Agriculture, To- 
peka, Kas. Report for quarter 
ending March, 1904. 
Maryland Agricultural College, Col- 
lege Park, Md. Quarterly, Feb- 
ruary, 1904, Fertilizer analyses. 
New York Experiment Station, Geneva, 
N. Y. Bulletin 242. Ash and grit 
for growing chickens. 

Bulletin 247. Sulphur sprays for or- 
chard trees. 
Columbus Horticultural Society, Co- 
lumbus, O. Journal of the Society, 
March, 1904. 
Pennsylvania Experiment Station, 
State College, Pa. Bulletin 65. 
Forage and soiling experiments, 
1902. 
Virginia Experiment Station, Blacks- 
burg, Va. Bulletin 142. Orchard 
Studies XV. The Bitter rot of ap- 
ples. 

Fourth report of State Entomologist 



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of these bulls has 24 of his nearest ancestors that gave 21 lbs. of 
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in December. 

One cross will bring results. Try a Dorset ram. Our fall 
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365 



and Plant Pathologist on the San 
Jose scale. 

Virginia Weather Service, Richmond, 
Va. Annual summary 1903. 
Report for February, 1904. 
Report for March, 1904. 

West Virginia Experiment Station, 
Morgantown, W. Va. Bulletin 91. 
Commercial fertilizers. Report 
for 1903. 

Report of hearing before the Commit- 
tee on Agriculture and Forestry, 
United States Senate, January, 
1904, on the Latimer and Brown- 
low Good roads bills. 



CATALOGUES. 
A. B. Farquhar Co., York, Pa. Far- 
quhar Machinery Catalogue, 1904. This 
is a beautiful catalogue of the well 
known implements and machines made 
by this house. 

Studebaker Bros. Mfg. Co., South 
Bend, Ind. A personal talk to the 
dealer by the Studebaker man. This 
is a very interesting pamphlet on the 
vehicles made by the well known 
house. 

Peter Henderson & Co., New York. 
Implement catalogue for the garden, 
farm and lawn. 

Percy L. Banks, Union St., Norfolk, 
Va. The Watson four row potato 
sprayer. 

Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Con- 
vention of the National Nut Grow- 
ers Association held at New Or- 
leans, La., October, 1903. J. F. 
Wilson, secretary, Ponlan, Ga. 
Golden seal as a money crop. Its his- 
tory, use and cultivation by Jno. 
Hoag, Jr. 



A VISIBLE OBJECT. 

A testy old gentleman forced to lay 
over an hour in Dull Town was curs- 
ing his fate, when a mild-mannered 
citizen strolled into the station and 
essayed conversation. Taking the 
many labels on the visitor's bag as a 
leader, he said — 

"You've travelled about quite a bit?" 

"Yes." 

"Ever see a' Injun?" 

"Many a one." 

"Ever seen a Chinese?" 

"Thousands of them." 

"Ever seen a Jap?" 

"Yes." 

"Ever seen a Jew?" 

"Yes. D " 

"Ever seen a " 

The testy old gentleman could stand 
it no longer, and, rising to his full 
height, shouted in stentorian tones, 
"Did you ever see a fool?" 

The milrl-natured citizen let his mild 
blue eye rest on the irate traveller a 
moment, then in a sweet, low voice re- 
plied, — 

"Yes, I hev."— May Lippineott's. 

Nell: Why does she consider her 
marriage a failure? 

Belle: Well, when she threatens to 
leave him he never seems to raise any 
sort of fuss. 




Studebaker Bros. Mfg. Co., South Bend, Ind. 

Branches— New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Portland, Ore., Kansas City, Salt Lake City, Denver. Dallas. 
When you go to the St. Louis Fair be sure to see the big Studebaker Exhibit in Transportation Building. 



I am now prepared to book orders for 
pigs from imported Kingstone Poetess, 
bred by C.C. Smith, Kingstone Commons, 
England. Also from Queen of Massif era, 

bred by James Lawrence, of Shrivenham, 
England. Also from Queen Alfreda, 
from imported Loyal Mason, imported 
Loyal Berks, imported Princess Alfreda, 
Prince Alfred, etc. These areas finejas|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. 




...Jersey and Guernsey Heifers... 

FOR SALE 

Berkshire sows due to farrow in April and May, several boars large enough for 
service, pigs in pairs or trios not akin. 

EGGS FOR HATCHING from Bronze turkeys, Pekin ducks, B. P. Rock 
and Brown Leghorn fowls. A few trios for sale, also a fine lot of Fox Terrier 
puppies by imported Rozanne. 

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



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[May, 



GOOD HOUSEKEEPING. 

TO BOIL A HAM. 

Wash the ham and put it to soak 
in clear cold water for some hours, or 
over night. Scrape it thoroughly and 
put into the ham boiler covered with 
cold water and let it come slowly to a 
boil. This takes from one to two 
hours, then it should boil very slowly 
fifteen minutes for each pound. When 
it is done let it cool and then take off 
the skin, brush with beaten white of 
egg, dust with cracker crumbs and let 
it bake slowly for an hour. Do not 
cut until perfectly cold. The main 
thing in cooking a ham is to have it 
done slowly, and never boil hard. That 
makes it tough. 

HAM SALAD. 

When you have used all the ham but 
the scraps, collect these and with about 
a fourth as much stale bread run it 
through the meat grinder. With this 
mix an equal quantity of finely chopped 
cabbage, or celery, pour over a dress- 
ing and serve for tea. 

DRESSING. 

Mix two teaspoons of ground mus- 
tard with one teaspoon of salt, one of 
black pepper, three tablespoons of 
sugar, one teaspoon of celery seed. 
Cream two tablespoons of butter and 
beat two eggs. Mix all this together 
and pour over it two cups of boiling 
vinegar, return it to the stove and let 
it thicken. When cold, thin out with 
rich cream. Pour over the ham and 
cabbage and you will find it a delight- 
ful relish for tea. 

BAKED FISH. 

Boil a Rock or Sheepshead, when 
well done, pick it to pieces with a fork, 
take out all the bones and the skin, 
butter a macaroni dish and arrange a 
layer of stale bread crumbs in the bot- 
tom, then put a thick layer of the fish, 
with pepper and salt and little pieces 
of butter about on it, then another 
layer of the crumbs and another layer 
of fish until the dish is full. Let the 
crumbs come last. Scald a pint of fresh 
milk with a small onion in it and sea- 
son it slightly with pepper and salt. 
Pour this over the dish and let it bake 
slowly for a half hour or more. 

BREAD AND MILK OMELET. 

Soak a cup of stale bread crumbs in 
a cup of fresh milk for more than an 
hour. Beat eight eggs separately. 
Just before breakfast stir the bread 
and milk into the yolks and then fold 
in the whites. Heat the skillet and 
put a large spoon of butter in it, as 
soon as it melts add the eggs and let 
them cook a few minutes before touch- 
ing them. Stir from the bottom to pre- 
vent browning but try not to break 
them up more than is necessary. 

MEAT PIES. 

You may use beef, veal, mutton or 
chicken for these and they are always 
good. Line the pans with a rich bis- 
cuit dough. Chop three cups of meat 
fine removing all gristly pieces and 
bones, lay it in the bottom of the pan 
and slice four hard boiled eggs over it, 




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SPECIAL BUGGY ANNOUNCE 



This is Our Celebrated 

lit 

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Special 

It is the King of a 
Buggies. It is made 
that skilled labor a 
can make it. We sem 
it anywhere on 

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A similar buggy 
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Our $50 Splat Hickory Special 




We have so 
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and it has had such a wonderful sale everywhere that we find, from our mail, 
some people seem to be under the impression we only make this one particu- 
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put t^v-o good tablespoons of butter, one 
teaspoon of mustard, pepper and salt 
to taste with a dash of red pepper, 
pour over this enough of the water in 
which the meat was boiled to about 
cover and sprinkle flour over it and 
put on the top crust, bake to a nice 
brown and serve hot. 

BAKED CUSTARD. 

Six eggs beaten very light, separat- 
ing the whites from the yolks. Scald 
one quart of new milk and put six 
tablespoons of sugar in it and a pinch 
of salt, pour it over the yolks of the 
eggs and set it aside to cool. Season 
with nutmeg and put it into cups or a 
dish and set them in a pan of water 
and put in the stove to bake slowly 
until the custard is well set, then take 
it out and spread the meringue made 
of the whites of the eggs and five table- 
spoons of sugar and seasoned with bit- 
ter almond or vanilla over it and 
brown slightly. 

BOILED CTJSTABD. 

Eight eggs, save five of the whites 
and beat the others with the yolks. 
Scald two quarts of milk, sweeten 
with eight tablespoons of sugar, pour 
it over the yolks and return it to the 
fire (put a few blades of mace in the 
milk when you first put it on the fire.) 
Return this to the kettle and let it 
come to a boil. I sometimes put in 
about three teaspoons of arrow root or 
corn starch to make it thicker. While 
it is boiling hot beat the five whites 
which you saved, add a little sugar", 
and a few drops of seasoning and drop 
them in spoonsful over the custard. 
When it is all thoroughly cold put a 



sunny home: herd or — — — ' 

ABERDEEN-ANGUS CATTLE. 

BARON ROSEBOY 57666 by the world famous 
GAY BLACKBIRD heads the herd. 

Females by such noted sirefl as Gay Blackbird, 14443, (sire of the highest 
priced American bred Angus bull), Ernen 18171, (by the champion sire of 
females Royal Eric), Eulalies Eric li568, (2nd prize yearling bull at World's 
Columbian), Beau Bill 13637 (champion of tke West for two yeans), Baron Ida 
20184 (ckampion at N. Y. State Fair 1898), Baronet of Adria 1226 (by th« 
"Judge" champion of the world). 

Families represented in the herd are Coquette, Queen Mother, Nosegay, 
Westertown Rose, Old Rose of Advia, Violet, etc. We claim for our herd *« 
good breeding as any herd in America. The Individual animals In the herd 
have been selected with the one aim "quality" in view. Come and see, or write 
your order and let us guarantee a first-class animal. 

Shipping point and depot, Fitzgerald, N. C, en D. k W., 24 miles S.-W. of 
Danville, Va. 

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




. . . REGISTERED. . . 

ABERDEEN ANGUS BULLS 

of servicable age at a bargain. 

QhanharH Duno *^ e best of the breed 
O 1 1 C P 1 1 C I U lUpSat $2.50 each. Coma 
and see or write. W. P. ALLEN, Prop, of Glen 
Allen Stock Farm, Walnut Hill, Va 



SPECIAL BARGAINS in HOLSTEIN-rRESIANS. 

From a few months to 1 year old, from damsthat are large producers, and with strong, 
official backing on both sides. The sire la 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 Princes* 
of Fllston, by Esau imp.. Fancy Duke, a double G. son of Leyal Berks. Address 

ury stock farm, TH0S. FASSIT & SONS, Sylmar, ffld. 



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[May, 



preserved cherry, or a dab of fruit 
jelly on each spoon of the whites. Eat 
with sponge cake. 

FROZEN CUSTARD. 

Scald four quarts of fresh milk and 
pour it over the well beaten yolks of 
six eggs. Sweaten with four cups of 
sugar in which you have rubbed two 
tablespoons of corn starch. Return it 
to the fire and let it cook thoroughly. 
It is always best to cook milk in a 
double boiler. I have no double boiler 
so I set the bucket in a pan of water 
and it does just as wel. Beat the 
whites very light and pour the boiling 
hot milk over them and put it into the 
freezer. Season with vanilla or lemon 
and freeze. When it is so hard the 
dasher will not move take the dasher 
out and put the top back and continue 
to turn it for ten minutes more, then 
pack and let it set for an hour or two 
to ripen. 

LEMON OR ORANGE EXTRACT. 

I have found that the lemon and 
orange seasoning is much better when 
made at home and it is easily done. 
Have bottle with a tight fitting stopper 
and keep it half full of alcohol, into 
this put the thin outside rind of the 
oranges just whenever you eat one. Be 
careful not to shave off any of the 
white inside skin, this is bitter. When 
you get into the habit you will find it 
easy and that your extract bottle is 
never empty. So when you make lem- 
onade you will save the yellow rind of 
the lemons and put them into another 
bottle of alcohol. This keeps perfect- 
ly and is pure, stronger and better 
than anything you can buy. 

Caravan. 



POCKET MANUAL OP PLANT DIS- 
EASES. 
Our well known advertiser. Mr. 
James Good, of Philadelphia, issues a 
very handy little pamphlet of the above 
title, and is circulating it free. It is 
gotten up primarily in the interest of 
his celebrated Whale Oil Soap, but the 
information given about the various 
diseases of fruit trees, etc., make it 
well worth having. 



ALL ABOUT DUST SPRAY. 
This is a comprehensive treatise on 
the subject from both a practical and 
scientific standpoint, and is issued by 
the Dust Sprayer Mfg. Co., of Kansas 
City, Mo., who are advertising their 
machine in this paper. Our orchard- 
ists and fruit men are invited to look 
up this ad and send for the pamphlet 
and see the advantages accruing from 
dust spraying. 



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EGGS from B. P. ROCK and BROWN LEGHORN FOWLS at $1.00 per II 
Also a few pallet* and cockerels of these breeds at $1.00 each for Immediate de- 
livery. Write for Catalogue to 

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— REGISTERED 

Pigs from 4 to 6 months old. Boars ready for service, and young sows 
(vith pigs. Tamworth pigs 8 wks. old $5. Prices Reasonable. Apply to 

J. C. GRAVES, Barboursville, Va. 



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Reg. MORGAN STALLION 

Rising 2 years old, mahogany bay, white hind feet, diamond between nos- 
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Shipley, breeder of pure bred Here- 
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EWELL FARM SALE. 

The attention of our readers is 
called to the thirtieth annual sale of 
trotting and pacing horses, and Jersey 
cattle, which is to oe held at Ewell 
Farm, on Friday, June 3rd. This is an 
annual breeders sale and is held joint- 
ly by the Ewell Farm, of which Geo. 
Campbell Brown is che manager, The 
Piedmont Stock Farm, of Huntsville, 
Ala... property of W. F. Garth, and the 
Cleburne Farm, of Capt. M. C. Camp- 
bell, Spring Hill, Tenn. Capt. Camp- 
bell also contributes a number of 
young Jersey cattle representative of 
his herd and about 20 of the cattle that 
will be offered, come from the magnifi- 
cent herd of Mr. M. M. Gardner, at 
Nashville, Tenn. The fame of Ewell 
Farm which is now the home of Jno. 
R. Gentry, 2:001, and of Tennessee 
"Wilkes, 2:27, the only son of Geo. 
Wilkes, that has sired two better than 
2:05, and McEwen, 2: 18 J, and Hal 
Brown, the promising young son of 
Brown Hal has been maintained 
throughout thirty odd years, by these 
annual sales and through the distribu- 
tion of Tenessee pacing bred horses 
throughout all the United States and 
Canada. Mr. W. F. Garth, of the Pied- 
mont Farm at Huntsville, is gaining 
in reputation every season through the 
many speedy young horses emanating 
from that source. Mr. Garth himself 
is a horseman of superior judgment, 
and his consignment to this sale con- 
tains some of the best on his farm. 
Some of his colts can now show a gait 
of 2:20 of trotting and pacing, and it 
is a fair prediction that they will by 
the time of the sale be able to show 
that they are of 2:10 calibre. The 
greatest sire of pacers in the world, 
Brown Hal is owned at Cleburne Farm 
and a number of his get are offered by 
this establishment. The get of Brown 
Hal won more money on the turf last 
year than any other set of pacers, and 
he has founded a family which is sec- 
ond only to that of Geo. Wilkes. The 
high character of sales always held at 
Ewell Farm will be maintained by the 
gentlemen interested in this one, and 
the general feeling of prejudice against 
auction sales need not be considered in 
this case as every one will be treated 
exactly alike, and there will be abso- 
lute freedom from any suspicion even 
of bybidding or reserving any of the 
animals catalogued. 

The Jerseys which will be offered at 
this sale consist of animals bred on 
Tennessee foundation crossed with the 
most recent importations and are of 
the kind that will make high class 
dairy animals. Tennessee Jerseys have 
been leaders all over the United States 
for 20 years or more and some of the 
animals here offered will be of pure 
Tennessee breeding. For Southern 
buyers these cattle will be kept until 
October 1st, free of charge and placed 
on the cars without extra cost. 

For catalogue of this sale write to 
Geo. Campbell Brown, Box L, Spring 
Hill, Maury county, Tenn. 



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NO. 194 — 600 acres, about 2 miles East of Wytheville, on Pepper's Ferry 
road, 560 acres cleared, 40 acres in original growth timber, mostly white 
oak, never been culled; 440 acres in grass and meadow; land slightly 
rolling just enough to afford fine drainage, no steep hillsides or high 
hills, considerable portion comparatively level; has excellent water fa- 
cilities, two large springs and two branches running through the place, 
one very bold spring at the barn. Good, substantial dwelling, frame 
building, 2 stories, 9 rooms, solid stone foundation, house in good con- 
dition, lately remodeled. Two large barns, cattle barn with capacity of 
100 head, and horse barn capacity 16 head, all necessary outbuildings 
on place. 3 tenant houses, frame, 3 rooms each, spring at each house. 
Fine young orchard of between 800 and 1,000 trees, about two-thirds 
bearing. Farm in good condition and well fenced. One of the most 
desirably located and best lying farms in the county. Price $50 per acre. 
NO. 230. — Building and lot on east Main street, in Wytheville, Va. Lot 
on corner of 3rd and Main streets, fronting about 45 feet on Main St., 
and running back with east side of 3rd St. 300 feet to Monroe St. 
Frame building, 9 rooms and brick basement with two store rooms in 
basement. All necessary outbuildings. Good business corner. Prop- 
ery will rent for $240 per year. Price $3,000. 

All we ask is to have you look over our properties and always con- 
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SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA LAND AGENCY, 

wytheville:, va., 

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For Strawberries, Peaches, Beans, Lettuce, Cukes, Grapes, Apples, etc., send 
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[May, 



THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK, 
RICHMOND, VA. 

Among the new advertisements to be 
found in this issue, is that of the "old 
First National" of Richmond, Va. We 
take pleasure in calling the attention 
of our readers to this advertisement as 
an opportunity is offered by which they 
can get the "saving habit" and draw 
interest on their deposits in a very 
convenient and novel way. With a 
million dollars capital and surplus, 
this bank is a veritable Gibraltar 
among Southern banks. Look up the 
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It may seem rather trite to go back 
to Civil War times for a story, but all 
the tales of that memorable time have 
not been told, and as this one was a 
personal experience of a relative of 
mine I can vouch for it. I have never 
seen it in print nor heard anyone else 
tell it. 

My uncle, Major Thomas Ridgely 
was a surgeon attached to General 
Grant's staff. It was after the surren- 
der of Vicksburg. The Union forces 
had entered the city and much merry- 
making and entertaining were going 
on. One right a dinner was in pro- 
gress at which many Northern officers 
and a large number of Southern ladies 
were present. Many toasts had been 
proposed and drunk, all of them prac- 
tically in honor of the successes of the 
Union army and the men responsible 
for them. 

Finally one of the Southern ladies, 
a great beauty and noted for her in- 
tense partisan feeling for the South, 
arose and said, "Gentlemen, may I pro- 
pose a toast?" 

With natural gallantry and a little 
trepidation the ranking officer said, 
"Certainly." 

"Well, then, gentlemen, I give you, 
'The Southern Confederacy.' " 

It was an embarrassing situation. 
But with hardly a moment's hesitation 
one of the Northern officers relieved 
the tension. 

"Down with it, gentlemen," he cried; 
and the glasses were drained without 
embarrassment and without disloyalty. 
— Francis H. Lee, in May Lippincott's. 



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Insures Against Fire and Lightning. 

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1904.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 371 

BILTMORE FARMS, - Biltmore, N. C. 

Headquarters for GOLDENLAD JERSEYS, 

Also Get of TREVARTH and GEN. MARIGO LD. * ^ J 

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

Biltmore Jerseys are a combination of large and persistent milking qualities with an individuality 
that wins in the show rinc 

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

^ ^ BILTMORE POULTRY YARDS. * * 

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

Headquarters for the best IMPORTED ENGLISH BERKSHIRES. 

apply to BILTMORE FARMS, biltmore, n. c. 



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The Imperial Fruit and Poultry Farm 

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372 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[May, 



COW GIVES A HUNDRED POUNDS 

OF MILK A DAY. 
A Herd of Holsteins at the World's 

Fair Out for a Record. 
Average Holstein Weighs 3,000 Pounds 

One Cow's Record for a Year is 30,- 

182 Pounds— Calf Sells for $4,000. 

The Breed's Historv Dates Back 

2,000 Years. 

St. Louis. — Calmly chewing their 
cuds in comfortable stalls in a model 
barn on the World's Fair grounds at 
St. Louis are 15 big Holstein cows on 
which the Holstein Friesian Associa- 
tion pin their faith and are confident 
that they will demonstrate the supe- 
riority over all other breeds of cattle. 

In other stables near by are repre- 
sentative herds of Jerseys, Devons, 
Brown Swiss and Shorthorns and the 
same degree of confidence is evinced 
among the followers of each breed. 

E. B. Von Heyne, who has earned 
an enviable reputation as a developer 
of milch cows, is in charge of the Hol- 
steins at the World's Fair. He thinks 
this breed is the best in the world and 
he says that the present test will sure- 
ly settle the question and demonstrate 
that the Holstein as a dairy cow espe- 
cially, as well as for general pur- 
poses, has no equal. 

"Yes," said Mr. Von Heyne as some 
of the Jerseys were driven by, "the 
Jersey cows won in Chicago, but then 
they had no competition. The Hol- 
steins did not participate in that test 
but this time it will be different. We 
are here to win that prize," and the 
superintendent leaned back in a self- 
satisfied manner as though it were all 
over but the shouting. 

"The Holsteins," said Mr. Von 
Heyne, "have been bred in Holland and 
the Friesian Islands for more than 
2,000 years, and he thinks that in that 
country the science of dairying is as 
far advanced as in any other country 
of the world. 

The Holstein cow is angular of 
frame, rawboned and big. The aver- 
age weight is about 3,000 pounds. The 
Holstein colors are pronounced and 
unmistakable — the black and white 
mottled. The good cow is never fat. 
Mr. Von Heyne explains this by saying 
that the ideal cow is a machine and 
that her mission is to assimilate her 
food and convert it into milk. The 
milch cow is not bred for the flesh. 

"A good Holstein cow is never fat," 
said Mr. Von Heyne. "She is a ma- 
chine for the manufacture of milk — 
not tallow." 

The first importation of Holstein cat- 
tle to America was made in 1621. 
Other importations were made at later 
dates, but no attempt was made to 
keep the breed pure until 1861 when 
W. W. Chenery, of Belmont, Mass., 
brought over a herd. Since then 
many other herds have been imported 
and there are as many pure blood Hol- 
steins in the United States now as 
there are Jerseys. 

"While I confidently expect to tri- 
umph over the Jerseys and all other 



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373 



breeds here at the World's Fair, I want 
to say that we did not consider it nec- 
essary to go to the length that the 
Jersey people did. They selected the 
choicest specimens from all over the 
United States. They assembled their 
cows at Jerseyville, 111., near St. Louis 
and have kept them in training for a 
year. 

"When the Hols + ein Friesian Asso- 
ciation decided to enter the contest I 
went out into one county in New York 
State and bought some of the cows. 
The remainder will come from Wiscon- 
sin. They are just good, average, pure 
blooded Holsteins the same as may be 
found in any first-class dairy farm. 
There is no need to spend time in ac- 
climating Holsteins. They do well in 
Russia and equally as well in oouth 
Africa or any climate in the world. 

"The milk of the Holsteins is not 
quite as rich as the milk of the Jer- 
seys. But it more than makes it up 
in the quantity. A Holstein cow at 
the International Agricultural Exhi- 
bition at Amsterdam from oeptember 
7, 1883, to June 7, 1884, produced 
14.223 pounds of milk. The record of 
Pietertje II. for one year is 30,182 
pounds of milk. 

"Mercedes Julipes Pieterje, a cow I 
developed myself, produced as a six- 
year-old in an official seven-day test 
29 pounds and 3 ounces of butter. 

"Sadie Voll Concordia, the present 
world's champion, not alone among 
the Holsteins but of all breeds, pro- 
duced in an official test in seven days 
697 pounds of milk which yielded 30 
pounds and 10 ounces of butter. This 
test was made in New York State at 
the Cornell Experiment Station in 
1903. This cow at the age of 13 years 
sold for $2,300. A calf from this splen- 
did cow, at the age of four weeks, sold 
for $4,000. 

"Now the Holstein is not only a milk 
producer without an equal but she is 
a beef producer as well. We will com 
pete with the Short Horns on the beef 
production, a thing the Jerseys would 
never attempt. The Holstein is the 
practical and economical breed of cat- 
tle for the United States anu it will 
be proven at the test this summer." 



THE ANNUAL SALE OF JERSEYS 
AT "LINDEN GROVE." 

We take great pleasure in calling 
the attention of our readers and dairy- 
men especially to the advertisement 
of Mr. T. S. Cooper, Coopersburg, Pa., 
to be found on another page. As has 
been his custom for a number of years, 
Mr. Cooper will sell to the highest 
bidder. May 30th, his recent importa- 
tion of Jersey cattle. To describe 
these cattle is an impossible task on 
our part, as Jersey experts who have 
seen the herd and passed upon it seem 
at an utter loss for proper descriptive 
adjectives. It is needles to say, how- 
ever, that this sale will be equal to, if 
not surpassing, any of his previous 
efforts, and that is saying a great deal. 

Be sure and refer to the ad. and 
send for a catalogue. 



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THE SOUTHEKN PLANTER. 



[May, 



PLAOT INTRODUCTION GARDEN 
AND EXPERIMENT STATION. 

The United States Department of 
Agriculture has decided to establish 
a Plant Introduction Garden and Ex- 
periment Station at Chico, California- 
Contracts for the necessary land have 
been closed and work has been begun 
on what will undoubtedly be the great- 
est institution of its kind in America 
and perhaps in the world. A begin- 
ning will be made with ninety acres 
but it is the intention of the Depart- 
ment to extend the area as the needs 
of the institution require. The gar- 
den will be devoted to experimental 
culture of the plants introduced from 
various parts of the world and to a 
careful study of plant life. 

Such an institution has long been 
contemplated by the Agricultural De- 
partment. California was selected for 
its location on account of climatic con- 
ditions which admit of the culture of 
tender plants from the tropics and of 
Northern products as well. The ideal 
location for such an institution is that 
which admits of the successful cultiva- 
tion of the widest possible range of 
products and the committee entrusted 
with the duty of selecting the site be- 
lieve they have found it at Chico. 

This committee was composed of 
Prof. P. H. Dorsett, Government Ex- 
pert, who will have charge of the in- 
stitution, and Prof. A. V. Stubenrauch, 
of the University of California, act- 
ing with Dr. A. J. Pieters, head of the 
division for seed and plant distribu- 
tion. Messrs. Dorsett and Stuben- 
rauch spent months in making a care- 
ful study of conditions affecting plant 
life in various portions of the State, 
visiting and carefully inspecting each 
locality likely to prove available. The 
decision in favor of Chico was reached 
sometime ago but the site selected 
could not be secured and another tract 
had to be chosen, which has now been 
done and the purchase consummated. 

Chico is situated near the eastern 
border of the great Sacramento Valley, 
seventy-five miles north of Sacramento, 
the State capital, and was the most 
northerly point considered by the com- 
mittee. Climatic conditions in Cali- 
fornia are affected but little if at all 
by conditions of latitude, the orange, 
the lemon and the olive being staple 
products of a district that measures 
fully five hundred miles north and 
south. 



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RICHMOND, VA. 
'Phone 507. 



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DON'T BUY GASOLINE ENGINES 



"THE MASTER WORHMAN 



A two-cylinder gasoline engine ; superior to all one-cylinder engines. Costs less to buy and less to run. Quicker and easier started. Has a wider 

B ? *, n8e,u ' n ess. Has no vibration; can be mounted on any light wagon aB a portable. Weighs less than half of one-cylinder engines. Give size 

dtttb sT CHICAGO* 2 ' 3 ^' 4 ' B ' 6 ' 8 ' 10 an<1 15 h ° rSe power - Mentlon tnlB Paper. Send for catalogue. THE TEMPLE PUMP CO., Meagh«r 



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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



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LAIDLAW'S 

Concentrated Tobacco Powder, 
Sheep Dip and Cattle Wash. 



A SURE CURE FOR THE EXTERMINATION OF 



Scab and Tick in Sheep. Lice on Horses and Cattle. 

Lice on Hogs. Mange on Dogs. 



Kills all vermin. Allays all irritation. Promotes growth of wool. Makes animal feel well and take on flesh. 

ABSOLUTELY NON-POISONOUS. 

PRICES: 5=lb.bag, 75c; 10-lb. bag, $1.25; 25=lb. bag, $2.60; 50=lb. bag, $5.00. 

One 50-lb. bag makes 500 gallons Dip for Scab, and 1000 gallons for Tick, etc. 

SOLE MANUFACTURERS, 

LAIDLAW, MACKILL & CO., Limited, Richmond, Va., U. S. A. 

To be Had at all Leading Drug Stores. 



A few articles quoted below will convince you that for cash you can live cheaply by dealing with us. 
We have a complete line of groceries, feed and liquors. Should you need anything not quoted here, 
write for prices. These prices are subject to changes in the market. We charge 10c. per gallon extra 
for jugs. Our goods guaranteed to be first-class. Goods delivered free of drayage to any depot. All 
prices f. o. b. here. 



Granulated Sugar, per lb 4Jc 

Arbuckle's Coffee, per lb lie. 

Best meal, per peck, 20c; or, per bushel 70c. 

Pride of Richmond Flour, per sack, 35c; or. per bbl. .$5.40 

Daisy- Flour, per sack, 33c; per bbl 5.25 

Good Green Coffee, per lb 9c 

Best Salt Pork, per lb 10c 

Good Salt Pork, per lb 7c & 9c 

Best Butcher's Lard, per lb 10c 

Good Lard, 3 lbs. for 25c 

Green, Black and Mixed Tea, per lb 35c, 40c. & 50c. 

Best Cheese, per lb 15c 

Best Cut Herrings, 3 dozen for 25c 

Best Roe Herrings, per dozen 18c 

Heavy Bright Syrup, per gallon 35c 

Best Genuine N. O. Molasses, per gallon 60c 

Good Dark Molasses, per gallon 25c. & 35c 

Soaps, 8, 7, 6, 10 and 11 bars for 25c 

Large Cans Tomatoes, per can 7c 

Large Cans Table Peaches, per can 12c. 

3 Plugs Grape, Peach, Apple, Plum, Reynolds' Sun 

Cured Tobacco for 25c. 

Eest Lemons, per dozen 12c. 

Good Corn, per bushel 65c. 

Send 



Remittance must accompany all orders. 

J. S. MOORE'S SONS, Inc., 



Good Oats, per bushel 50c 

Best Timothy Hay, per ton $19.00 

No. 1 Mixed Hay, per ton 18.00 

No. 1 Clover, per ton 16.00 

Bran, per ton 23.00 

Ship Stuff, per ton 24.00 

Old Crown Rye, 5 years old, per gallon 3.00 

Old Keystone Rye, 4 years old, per gallon 2.50 

Old Excelsior Rye, 3 years old, per gallon 2.00 

Old Capitol Rye, 2 years old, per gallon 1.50 

Pure N. C. Corn Whiskey, 2 years old, per gallon 2.00 

Pure N. C. Corn Whiskey, 5 years old, per gallon. . . . 2.50 

Duffy's Malt Whiskey, per bottle 80c 

O'Grady's Malt Whiskey, per bottle 75c 

Apple Brandy, 3 years old, per gallon 2.50 

Virginia Apple Brandy, 5 years old, per gallon 3.00 

Geneva Gin, 3 years old, per gallon 2.00 

London Dock Gin, 5 years old, per gallon 2.50 

Wilson Whiskey, per bottle 1.00 

Buchu Gin, for kidneys, per bottle 1.00 

Catawba Wine, per gallon 50c 

Blackberry Wine, per gallon 50c 

California Sherry Wine, per gallon 1.00 

(Sacks for corn and oats, 5c extra.) 

P. O. or Exp. Order, Keg. Letter, for what you want. 

No. 1724 East Main Street, 
RICHMOND, VA. 
'Phone 507. 



376 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[May, 



UTTERLY IMPOSSIBLE. 

Uncle Daniel Harmon's pastor was a 
vigorous temperance advocate. For 
years and years he had preached to the 
old man about the virtues of total ab- 
stinence, but had never succeeded in 
convincing his parishioner that it was 
wisest and best for him to part com- 
pany with the "cussid stuff." At last 
one day, after long persuasion, the 
minister managed to extract from the 
old man a promise that he would not 
drink another drop. The Saturday 
night following the day on which this 
promise was obtained the parson met 
Uncle Dan on the street with a basket 
of groceries in one hand and a tell- 
tale "little brown jug" in the other. 

"What you got in dat jug, Uncle 
Dan?" asked the parson. 

"It's liquor!" exclaimed the old 
man; "it's liquor. It sho' is liquor, 
an' I ain't gwinetah lie 'bout it." 

"Whose liquor is it?" inquired the 
minister. 

"It b'longs to me an' Deacon Walkah 
— me an' Deacon Walkah, sah," said 
Uncle Dan, looking the questioner 
straight in the eye. 

"Bruddah Harmon, you ain't forgot 
yo' promus so soon, is you?" asked 
Rev. Mickins. Uncle Dan made no re- 
ply- 

"Set dat jug down — set it right 
down," commanded the parson, "an' 
po' dat whiskey right out on de 
groun'!" 

The old man put the basket and the 
jug down. Then, straightening up, he 
said, — 

"Bruddah Pastah, you knows I tries 
to 'bey you in ev'yt'ing — I sho' do; but 
I don't think you'd want me to follah 
yo' ordahs in dis mattah ef I tol' you 
it would cause me to treat Deacon 
Walkah wrong." 

"I don't see," protested the preacher, 
"how you'd be treatin' Deacon Walkah 
wrong by po'in' out dat liquor." 

"Ain't 1 done tol' you," explained 
Uncle Dan, "dat me an' Deacon Walkah 
went 'in cahoots' in buyin' dis liquor 
— dat ha'f uv it b'longs to him an' de 
uddah ha'f b'longs to me?" 

"Dat's so," said Rev. Mickins, "dat's 
so, Uncle Dan; well, den, you po' out 
yo' ha'f— I reckin you kin do dat!" 

"Dat's onpossible," said Uncle Dan. 
"dat's onpossible; I can't po' out my 
ha'f 'dout po'in' out Deacon Walkah's 
ha'f." 

"How's dat? 
"How's dat?" 

"Cause," said the old man, "Deacon 
Walkah's ha'f's on top, an' mine at de 
bottom!" — Silas Xavier Floyd, in May 
Lippincott's. 



asked the preacher. 



Valuable pamphlet "Diseases of 
Sheep and How to Cure Them" sent 
free by mail to subscribers to this 
paper on receipt of twelve names of 
sheep-owners by William Cooper & 
Nephews, 142 Illinois street, Chicago, 
111. 



ROOFING 



OF ALL KINDS/ 



Painted Corrugated Roofing, Painted V. Crimp 
Roofing, Roofing Tin in boxes or rolls, Tarred 
Roofing Felt, Perfected Granite Roofing. V V 




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Inches 




Fill in the Dimensions in the diagram, cut it out, mail it to us and we will quote you price on a 
sufficient quantity of whichever kind of roofing you desire. 

We also carry a complete stock of Conductor Pipe and Gutter, Solders and Metals; Galvanized and 

1 Black Sheet Iron, etc. - 

Southern Railway Supply Company, 

1323 East Main Street, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. 



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DO YOUR TRADING 



Where an established reputation warrants continued confidence. The name of LUMSDEN 
on anything in the JEWELRY or SILVERWARE line is a standard of quality. 

FINE GOLD AND DIAMOND JEWELRY. 

STERLING SILVERWARE AND CUT GLASS. 

SIX SOLID STERLING SILVER TEA SPOONS, $3.30. Write for our catalogue; it contains 
many articles on which we can save you money. 

'i C. LUMSDEN & SON, Established I835, 73I East Main Street, Richmond, Va. I 



When corresponding with our advertisers always mention the 
Southern Planteb. 



1904.] 



THE SOUTHEEN PLANTER 



877 



ESTABLISHED 1840. 



INCORPORATED 1891. 



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 




PEERLESS ENGINE. 



THE BUFFALO PITTS M.L-STEEL, SPRING- 
FLEXIBLE, DISC HARROW. 




SPANGLER CORN PLANTER. 




ALL STYLES OF BUGGIES. 



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 Hand 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, BaliDg Wire, 
and Bale Ties. Continental Disc Harrows, 
Buffalo Pitts and Lean Spike Harrows. 

John Deere and Continental Disc Cultiva- 
tors, Corn Planters, etc. A full line of Planet 
Jr.. Garden Tools. Tour correspondence i« 
solicited. 

THE SPANGLER CORN PLANTER WITH 
AND WITHOUT FERTILIZER ATTACHMENT. 

The Spangler Planter has a side gear which 
is 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 auantity of the fertilizer 
can be changed without affecting the corn 
dropping, and either can be discontinued In 
an instant and not sow at all. 

Hoosier Single and Double Row Planter, 
made entirely of steel, except handles — a very 
durable machine — Black Hawk, and John 
Deere single and double row planters. 

We will mail copy of our new cat- 
alogue upon application. 




GEISER SAW MILL. 




EXTENSION TOP SURRBY. 




FISH and WBBER WAGON*. 




FIREFLY GARDEN PLOW. 




I P \ ' 
SPIKE TOOTH HARROW. 





BEMENT IMPROVED WEEDER. 



COMBINED CULTIVATOR, AND HORsE HOE. 



SOUTH BEND PLOW 



THE WATT PLOW CO., 

16th and Franklin and 14th and Main Streets, - - RICHMOND, VA. 



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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[May, 



FARQUHAR'S CATALOGUE. 
Our well-known advertisers, The A. 
B. Farquhar Co., York, Pa., send us 
their 1904 catalogue. This company 
was one of the victims of the Balti- 
more fire, inasmuch as all the first 
plates of the catalogue were destroy- 
ed. Hence the delay in getting it out. 
Of course, all of our readers should 
have this catalogue. It contains full 
description of all the implements 
made by this firm. Thousands of our 
readers are patrons of this firm, and 
thousands of others should be. Don't 
forget to send for the catalogue. It's 
well worth having. 



THE WELCOME WAG. 

A gentleman was walking with his 
youngest son at the close of the day 
and in passing the cottage of a German 
laborer the boy's attention was at- 
tracted to the dog. It was only a com- 
mon cur, but the boy took a fancy 
to him. and asked his parent to buy 
the animal for him, promising to take 
good care of it. 

Just then the owner of the dog came 
home and was demonstratively met by 
the dog. The gentleman said to the 
owner: 

"My little boy has taken a fancy to 
your dog and I should like to buy him. 
What do you ask for him?' 

"I can't sell dat dog," said the Ger- 
man. 

"Look here," said the gentleman, 
"that is a poor dog, but as my boy 
wants him I will give you a sovereign 
for him." 

"Yaas," said the German, "I knows 
he is very poor dog, and not vort much- 
but der ish van leetle ding mit dat dog 
I can't sell — I can't sell de vag of his 
tail ven I comes home at night." 



The May Century's features of war 
interest will be "Unhappy Korea" and 
"Korea, the Bone of Contention," both 
from authorities. The Rev. Arthur 
Jurlson Brown, D. D.. author of "The 
New Era in the Philippines," is secre- 
tary of the Board of Foreign Missions 
of the Presbyterian Church. He has 
traveled in Korea and knows the con- 
ditions whereof he writes, conditions 
which may well make Korea unhappy. 
Homer B. Hulbert. who contributes the 
account of "Korea, the Bone of Conten- 
tion." will be remembered as author 
of "The Sign of the Jumna" and nar- 
rator of "Tn Search of a Siberian Klon- 
dike." He has been editor of the 
Korea Review of Seoul for some years 
and has made a study of Korean his- 
tory, ethnology, etc. His article will 
discuss the probable fate of Korea in 
the event of either Russian or Japan- 
ese victory; and will touch upon how 
thp result of the war must affect 
America and American interests. 



Your money back 

Sf you are not satisfied 

DO YOU SUPPOSE that a company with a capital of $500,000.00, paid in full, and the 
proud reputation of 36 years of continuous success, would make such an offer and not carry 
it out to the letter? 

DO YOU SUPPOSE we would jeopardize our standing with the public and our chances 
Of still greater success by failing to fulfil any promise we make ? 

DO YOU SUPPOSE we would make such an offer if we did not have the utmost confi- 
dence in the satisfying quality of our goods ? 

WE KNOW we can please you and save you money, for HAYNER WHISKEY goes 
direct from our distillery to you, with all its original richness and flavor, carrying a UNITED 
STATES REGISTERED DISTILLER'S GUARANTEE of PURITY and AGE and saving 
you the big profits of the dealers. That's why it's best for medicinal purposes. That's why 
it's preferred for other uses. That's why we are regularly supplying over a quarter of a 
million satisfied customers. That's why YOU should try it. 

Direct from our distillery to YOU 

Saves Dealers' Profits ! Prevents Adulteration ! 

HAYNER WHISKEY 

PURE SEVEM*YEAR-OLD RYE 

4 FULL $$ JO EXPRESS 
QUARTS H PREPAID 

We will send you FOUR FULL QUARTS of HAYNER'S SEVEN-YEAR- 
OLD RYE for $3.30, and we will pay the express charges. When you receive 
the whiskey, try it and if you don't find it all right and as good as you ever 
drank or can buy from any body else at any price, then send it back at our 
expense and your $3.20 will be returned to you by next mail. How could 
an offer be fairer? We take all the risk and stand all the expense, if 
the goods do not please you. Won't you let us send you a trial order? We 
ship in a plain sealed case; no marks to show what's inside. 

Orders for Ariz., Cal., Col., Idaho, Mont., Nev., N. Mex., Ore., Utah, Wash. 
or Wyo., must be on the basis of 4 Quarts for WOO by Express 
Prepaid or 8© Quarts for $16.00 by Freight Prepaid. 

Write our nearest office and do it NOW. 

THE HAYNER DBSTILLING COMPANY 



ATLANTA, GA. DAYTON, OHIO 

156 DisTHiEBY, Troy. O. 



ST. LOUIS, MO. ST. PAUL, MINN. 

Established 1866. 




"Set 40 acres of cabbage plants last 
year with four of your setters — never 
had such a good stand before." Read 
Masters Planter Co.'b ad. 



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; 
THE CINCINNATI, HAMILTON & DAYTON, from Detroit, Toledo, Lima 
and Dayton — 

FORMS THE MOST DIRECT "taSrSES" ROUTE 

To STAUNTON, LYNCHBURG, CHARLOTTESVILLE, 
RICHMOND, PETERSBURG, NORFOLK, 
And Principal Virginia Points. 

H. W. FULLER, den. Pass. Agt. C. & 0. Ry., Washington, D. C. 



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THE SOUTHEKN PLANTER. 



379 



Farm Implements and Machinery. 




DOUBLE ROW PLANTER. 



THE BEST THRESHING OUT- 
FIT for a thresherman to buy is 
the Ajax Threshing Engine and 
Farquhar Separator Engines from 
4 h. p. up. Easy steamers develop 
more than rated horse power. 
Have driver's seat, foot brake and 
two injectors. Separators of all 
sizes with latest improvements, 
thresh and clean all kinds of grain 
perfectly. 

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- 
tilizer attachments. Adjustable in 
width, distance of drop and quantity. 

DISC CULTIVATORS and HAR- 
ROW combined. Made of steel and 
malleable iron. Light Draft, Qreat 
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 ehor- 
els and spring teeth. 




WALKING CULTIVATOR. 



THE MILWAUKEE LINE OF HARVESTING MACHINERY. Binders, Mowers and Rakes. Light Draft, with 
greatest strength, durability and perfection in work. 

THE NEW MOLINE AND IMPERIAL WAGONS. Bu ilt of air dried timber, and all material the best. 

IRON AGE PATTERN CULTIVATORS AND HARROWS. MALTA DOUBLE SHOVEL PLOWS, FIELD ROLL- 
ERS, with Solid Steel Head. BALING PRESSES for hand and power. 

GRAIN DRILLS, FERTILIZER DISTRIBUTORS, MANURE SPREADERS, FEED CUTTERS, PEA HULLERS, 
SAW MILLS, GRINDING MILLS, etc. Write for prices. 



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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[May, 




111 US 



The following Hat of paper* and periodical* 
are the most popular one* la this tectloa. 
We ca« SAVE TOU MONEY on whaterer 
journal you wlah: 



DAILIM. 

Price With 
Alone. Planter. 

Tlmes-Dlspatch, Richmond, Va $5 00(5 00 

The Post, Washington, D. C < 00 < 00 

The Sun, Baltimore, Md S 00 I 40 

Newi-Leader, Richmond, Va 3 00 8 00 

THI-WEEKLT. 

The World (thrice-a-week), N. T... 1 00 1 25 

WEEKLIES. 

Harper'a Weekly 4 00 4 00 

Harper's Bazaar 100 140 

Montgomery Advertiser 100 100 

Nashrllle American 50 76 

The Baltimore Sun 1 00 1 35 

Breeder's Gazette 2 00 1 75 

Heard'* Dairyman 1 00 1 35 

Country Gentleman 150 175 

Religious Herald, Richmond, Va. ... 2 00 2 25 

Tlmes-Dlspatch, Richmond, Va 100 125 

Central Pre*byteria*, " " 2 00 2 25 

Horseman t 00 3 00 

MONTHLIES. 

Wool Markets and Sheep 50 75 

Dairy and Creamery 60 76 

Commercial Poultry 50 76 

All three 1 60 1 15 

North American Review 600 500 

The Century Magazine 4 00 4 25 

St. Nicholas Magazine 3 00 3 25 

Llpplncott'* Magazine 2 50 2 50 

Harper'* Magazine 4 00 4 00 

Forum Magazine 3 00 3 25 

Scribner'n Magazine 3 00 3 25 

Frank Leslie's Magazine 100 135 

Cosmopolitan Magazine 100 136 

Everybody's Magazine 100 135 

Munsey Magazine 100 135 

Strand Magazine 126 166 

McClure's Magazine 100 135 

Argosy Magazine 100 135 

Review of Review* 2 60 2 76 

Poultry Success 1 00 75 

Rural Mechanics 1 09 55 

Blooded Stock 60 to 

Successful Farming 100 75 

Southern Fruit Grower 6t M 

Where you desire to subscribe to two or 
more of the publication* named, you can ar- 
rive at the n*t subscription price by deduct- 
ing 50 cent* from "our price with the 
PLANTER." If you desire to subscribe to 
any other publication* aot listed here, write 
os and we will cheerfully quote clubbing or 
net subscription rate*. 

Subscriber* who** time doe* not expire 
nntll later can take advantage of our club 
rate*, and have their subscription advanced 
on* year from date of expiration of their 
subscription to either the PLANTER or any 
of the other publication* mentioned. 

Don't hesitate to write us for any Informa- 
tion desired; w* will cheerfully anrwer any 
correspondence. 

We furnish NO SAMPLE COPIES ef ether 
periodical*. 




RED 

CLOVER, 

riAMMOTH 

CLOVER, 

CRIHSON 

CLOVER, 

WHITE 

CLOVER, 

LUCERNE 

CLOVER, 

ALSYKE 

CLOVER, 

BOKHARA 

CLOVER, 

JAPAN 



BUR 



CLOVER, 



CLOVER, 




the South. 



TiriOTHY, 

ORCHARD 

GRASS, 

RBD TOP or 

HERDS GRASS, 

KENTUCKY 

BLUB GRASS 

RANDALL 

GRASS, 

TALL MEADOW 

OAT GRASS, 

JOHNSON 

GRASS, 

GERHAN 

MILLET, 

BUCKWHEAT, 

OATS and 

CANE SEED. 



"Whatsoever One Soweth, That Shall He Reap." 

We sell strictly reliable FIELD AND GARDEN SEEDS of every 
variety at Lowest Market rates, included in which are 

RAGLAND'S PEDIGREE TOBACCO SEEDS. 

.*■ *■ £> WE ALSO SELL 

Our Own Brands of Fertilizers 

For Tobacco, Corn, Wheat, Potatoes, &c. 

Pure Raw-Bone Meal, Nova Scotia and Virginia Plaster and 
Fertilizing Materials generally. 

Parties wishing to purchase will find it to their interest to price our goods. 
Samples sent by mail when desired. 



Wm. A. Miller & Son, ■* 



1016 Main Street, 
LYNCHBURG, VA. 



Headquarters for 
Nursery Stock. 



WHOLESALE 

AND 

RETAIL. 



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We make a specialty of handling dealers' order*. 

ALL STOCK TRUE TO NAME. 

Pecans, Ornamental and 

Chestnuts, Shade Trees, 

Walnuts, Evergreens, 

Small Fruits, Roses, Etc. 



Nectarines, 
Cherry, 
Quinces, 
Almonds, 



Apples, 
Pears, 
Peach, 
Plum, 
Apricots, 
CALIFORNIA PRIVET, for Hedging. 

. . AGENTS WANTED. . . 
FRANKLIN DAVIS NURSERY CO., Baltimore, Md. 



WRITE FOR CATALOGUE. 



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TKE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



381 



HOW TO LIVE TO 100. 

I find that the information usually 
sought from me is as to my food and 
habits of life, that may show why my 
life has been extended beyond the 
usual span. As to food, I have been 
accustomed to eat oatmeal porridge 
and milk from my childhood, and I 
still use it for the principal part of my 
breakfast, with a single cup of black 
tea and a slice of plain bread after it. 
I consider it both wholesome and nu- 
tritious. Till quite late in life I ate 
butchers' meat. I did not care how 
fat, but the fat began to disagree with 
me, and I have made it a rule to eat 
nothing that disagrees with my diges- 
tion, no matter how palatable. I have, 
therefore, for many years, eaten neither 
beef or mutton or pork in any form. I 
take instead a little fowl or fish with 
my cup of tea at mid-day for dinner, 
and at six o'clock I find a cup of tea 
and a slice of bread is all I need. My 
cup of tea is my only dessert; I eat no 
pie or pudding, drink nothing stronger 
than tea, eat no suppers, go to bed at 
or before ten o'clock and rise these 
dark mornings about half past seven. 

I now ask my young readers to open 
their Bibles at the 25th chapter of 
Matthew, and read from the 31st verse 
\o the end, and learn that, whether life 
is long or short, the important point 
is to be prepared for its end. — Senator 
Wark. in the Globe. 



"Have you no pride?" "Naw," re- 
plied the street beggar. "But I'm goin' 
ter lay in er supply when it gits er 
trifle cheaper." "Gets cheaper!" "Yep, 
Pride, dey say, is bound ter have er 
fall." 



Men love women for what they lack, 
for the promises they break — and for 
the things they leave undone. 



REGISTERED 

Guernsey Cattle 

Of all ages, for sale, including a 2-year 
•Id Bull, from a tested dam. 

G. M. WALLACE, 

FALMOUTH, VA. 



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Howare Your Eyes? 



We are the largest optical establishment South, and give proper adjustment 
of SPECTACLES and EYE GLASSES . Complete manufacturing plant on the 
premises. Mail us the pieces and we will, from them, duplicate your Glasses. 
Glasses by mail our specialty. 



P 



is also complete with CAMERAS, KO- 
DAKS and PHOTO SUPPLIES, devel- 
oping and printing finely executed. 



Our line of OPERA GAUSSES, FIELD OLASSES, Incubator and Dairy 
THERMOMETERS, etc. , etc. , is also complete. Lowest charges in all cases. 

the I uleui OFiicii so., i m ii sis., iii i 




THE GREAT ROLLER SWING. 

A table may be placed on the foot platform and eating or games can be engaged in while you swing. The old 
lawn swing put out of business. 

A Joy In Hot Weather. 

Operates as easily as a rocking chair. Is an ornament 
to any lawn or porch, and with our handsome patented 
tilting CANOPY TOP you do not need a shady place. 
Very ornamental and makes a pretty effect. It is hand- 
some, strong, and well made, carrying four adult pas- 
sengers and all the kids in the neighborhood. 
First, there is a lower platform with two short concave tracks on each end, and on this is placed the foot platform 
which is hung on four flanged wheels. The upper platform carrying the seats has at each corner a curved steel 
track riding upon the circumference of the flange wheel of the foot platform, giving an easy motion like the ball bear- 
ings of a bicycle. The slightest movement of the feet swings the upper platform two feet each way. The motion is 
delightful. Old and young all enjoy it. Will not give you that uncomfsrtable sensation of sea sickness. Good-bye 
to the old style high swing with its squeaky noise, sea sickness, as big as all outdoors, and liable to catch the hand or 
arm when the body of the swing passes the upright frame. 

Big fun for children. Delightful and refreshing for the old folks. Keeps the children at home and brings them 
good company. Is as much fun as a merry-go-round or playing railroad train. The old folks enjoy it, the young 
folks are delighted with it. Children never tire of it, while the nurse and baby can use it all the time. Newest, 
Latest and Best. Delightful movement; easy, pleasant and cool. If you want to be certain of getting one of these 
swings this spring, place your order NOW. 

RICHMOND ENGINE & PUflP CO., 

1422 Main Street, - RICHMOND, VA. 



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Courtland, Ala., April 1, 1904. 
Jos. Haas, V. S., Indianapolis, Ind. 

Dear Sir, — I have been using your 
Hog Remedy for about two years, but 
will say I have not used enough, or 
not as much as I should. I have raised 
in the two years something near 75 
hogs, have bad verv few sick and only 
one to die. I think all swine raisers 
should use your Hog Remedy. En- 
closed please find postal money order 
for $6.50 for another half can. Ship 
by express. Yours very respectfully, 
¥m. Price. 



"We-ell, some ways I'd like to an' 
some ways I wouldn't," said Farmer 
Bentover, when the suave dispenser of 
encyclopedias had paused in his siren 
song. 

"You see, if I was to sign for that 
'ere cyclopedee in forty-seven parts, 
including the index and appendicitis, 
I'm sorter afraid I'd hev to work so 
hard to pay fer it thet I'd be too tired 
to enjoy readin' it; while if I read it 
at my leisure, as I ort to, in order to 
get the good of it, I wouldn't have 
time to ern the price. So, all things 
considered. I'll have to deny myself 
the privilege, as it were. Looks sorter 
like rain off to the sou'east. don't it?" 



Stop! Look!! Listen!!! 
Masters Planter Co.'s ad. 



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«$* THE «** 

SEABOARD 

AIR LINE RAILWAY 

OFFERS THE MANUFACTURER, 

THE STOCK RAISER, 
THE DAIRYMAN, 
THE FRUIT GROWER, 
THE TRUCKER. 



PROFITABLE 
INVESTMENTS 

TO~e 



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WHERE YOUR LABOR IS NOT IN VAIN. 

Would * country where work can be carried on the entire year and where 
large profits can be realized Interest youT 

The SEABOARD Air Line Railway traverses six Southern States and • 
region of this character. One two cent stamp will bring handsome illustrated 
literature descriptive of the section. 



J. B. WHITE, EOW. W. COST, 

Gen. Industrial Agt., Portsmouth, Va. Traffic Mgr. 



CHARLES B. RYAN, 
Gen. Pass. Agt., Portsmouth, Vi 



When corresponding with our advertisers always mention the 
Southern Planter. 



RICHMOND ENGINE &t PUMP CO., 

1422 MAIN STREET. 

MORE OF OUR ENGINE outfits in use to-day, than the combined output of any three 
of the largest concerns in existence : 

If you wish proof, write us for any number of names of those whom we have supplied 
in nearly every county in Virginia and North Carolina. 






Draws Water, 
| Saws Wood, O 
FShellsi Corn, W 
Cuts] Feed, 
Turns Grindstone. 

What other one 
thing can possibly 
take the place of 
labor to such great 
extent ? 




LABOR CAN BE COUNTED 
ON NO LONGER, don't rob your- 
self of all the pleasure of living by 
PUTTING OFF, PUTTING OFF 
that which is in your reach and will 
contribute so largely to the health 
and comfort, of those about you : 
Hot weather is coming and you 
will need water. Our's is NOT 
THE ENGINE WHICH IS 
EVER OUT OF ORDER, which 
requires a machine shop by it and 
that's the reason we are so far in 
the lead. 



WRITE FOR CATALOGUE, ETC. 



RICHMOND ENGINE &, PUMP CO., 



Richmond, Va. 



384 



THE SOTTTHEKN PLANTER. 



[May, 



Latest Improved FARM IMPLEMENTS. 



ANTI-DIRT MILK PAIL. 




Only pall made that prevents Dirt and Hair from 
dropping Into the Milk and STRAINS IT TWICE 
while milking. Aerates and cools it. 

Every Farmer and dairyman Shonld Have it. 




Kemp's Improved Manure Spreader. Three Sizes- 

i j. a m. 




TflUT rflDBCT I A11 tne rnerchants in town 
Dun I r'JHutl ! who claim to sell Oliver 
(Jhil led Plows and Repairs only sell the Imita- 
tion, Bogus, Cheap Goods. The only place in 
Richmond, Va., to buy Genuine Oliver Plows 
and Repairs is at 1436 and 1438 E. Main Street. 




Th. 

E Celebrated 



Plymouth 



Twine, <& 



Even, Smooth, 
Strong, - Full 
Length. Every 
Ball Warranted. 

IT DRAWS THE BAR- 
NO PUSH. 




IMC WHEELS WILL NOT LIFT fSOM THE QROUHO. 

CHAMPION Mowers, Reapers, Binders, Hay 
Rakes and Twine. 




TIGER Steel and Wood Self-Dump Rakes, 
GRANGER Steel and Wood Hand Dump Rakes, 
all sizes. 




Frick and Aultman and Taylor Engines. 

Saw Mills and Threshers. 

Special prices given on Studebaker and 

Brown Wagons, Buggies, and Carts. 

Superior Grain and Fertilizer Drills. 

Hoe and Disk. 




Michigan Wheelbarrow Sowar. 

Three Sizes, 
Cahoon Seed Sower. 




Tiger Disk Harrows. 

Plain and Lever Spring Tooth 

Harrows. AH Sizes. 




Bemeut Disc Cultivator, with 
6 or 8 Disc. 

Built entirely of steel, steel forgings and mal- 
leable iron. The imost Bimple and easiest ad- 
justed cultivator on ithe market to-day. Write 
for circulars and. testimonials. 




Genuine BROWN Walking and Riding 

Cultivator. All styles. Write for 

circular and prices. 



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HENING & NUCKOLS, 



One and Two- Horse Planter, Plain 
or with Fertilizer Attachment. 

Smith's EUREKA Corn Planters. 

FARMER'S FRIEND Plain and Fertilizer 

Planters. 

TIGER Double-Row Plain Planters. TIGER 

Double-Row Planters with Fertiliser and 

Check Rower Attachment. 




Hallock Flat Tooth Weeders. 
"Bement" Improved Duplex Tooth Weedere. 

Ross Ensilage Cutters, Fodder Cutteri, 

Fodder Shredders, Powers, all sizes. 

Write for circulars and prices. 



Successors to 

CHAS. E. HUNTER, 



1 436-38 [. Main I 



WHY USE DANGEROUS BARB WIRE 



WHEN AN 



55 INCH. 




ATTRACTIVE WOVEN 
WIRE FENCE 

CAN BE BOUGHT AT EVEN 
LESS COST? 

"["HE AMERICAN FIELDIFENCING Is made in many heights and styles for 
turning the smallest to the largest animal. Write for special catalogue and prices. 




We have a large stock of 
BARB WIRE, POULTRY 
NETTING, and V CRIMP 
ROOFING, and can fill orders 
promptly. 



STEEL FRAME LEVER 
SMOOTHING HARROWS. 

All sizes for one, two or 
three horses. 

WOOD FRAME SMOOTH- 
ING HARROW for one or 
two horses. 




THE EVANS STEEL FRAME CORN PLANTER 

•with hoe discs or runners, drops accurately any desired dis- 
tance. Furnished with or with- 
out fertilizer attachment. 

EVANS TWO ROW CHECK 
OR DRILL PLANTER has pos- 
itive force feed, and never misses 
a hill. Send for special catalogue 
and prices. 



Buggies, Carriages, Harness, Robes, Steel Skein Farm Wagons, Corn Shellers, Feed Cutters, 
Grain Drills, Wood Saws. All kinds of Agricultural Implements and machines. Catalogue 
on application. 

THE IMPLEMENT CO., 1302 and 1304 E^Main St, Richmond, Va. 





How is Your Wheat? 

ONE C ENT Invested ia >bostal card and addressed to 
====== THE CARDWELL MACHINE COM- 

PANY, Rchmond, Virginia, will frring you circulars regardmg 

Gardwell's Thresher and Cleaner 

They are SIMPLE, DURABLE and EASY TO WORK 
Capacity, 200 to 1,000 bushels of wheat per day, according to size 
and character of grain. 

THE CARDWELL MACHINE CO Ninete -«-»« can,*, 

■ •■■IUIIII1L \t\3.) RICHMOND VIRGINIA. 



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OUR $50 "KETOHFD - 



This name fits this 

Virginia Buggy 

admirably. It is a winner 
wherever used. 



Right up-to-the- 
minute in design, 
honestly and strong- 
ly built, very rea- 
sonable in price. 

We also build all 
other styles of light 
pleasure vehicles. 

Write for our in- 
teresting catalog. 



Having now gained the 

Leadership- 

in medium-priced work, 
we propose to give such 
values (as will keep it with 




RICHMOND, BUGGY AND WAGON CO., 1433 E. Main Street. Richmond, Va 



W. G. ADAMS Sales Manager.